Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1923 — Page 4

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NOW FOR RESULTS X THE eve of winter, when the smoke nuisance customarily becomes annoying, the smoke abatement ordinance will go into effect, following its signing by Mayor Shank. Citizens may well be hopeful. This time, however, there is more than hope. A systematic plan was adopted by the city to provide a competent inspector, chosen by an examination committee of technical men, to provide a reasonable salary" and teeth for enforcement. The Scientech Club, author of many of the present features in the ordinance, is planning a series of meetings at which experts will give tips and information on how results can be obtained in furnaces. The Chamber of Commerce smoke abatement committee is continuing its educational work by printing pamphlets on how smoke may be eliminated without new expense. The smoke ordinance is satisfactory. Results—that’s what is wanted next. BUT, WILL THEY? SEMPLETON, Governor of Connecticut, must have shocked that conference of Governors with a real idea, to-wit: “ Deprive \the rich man of his booze and the bootlegger will go out of business.” Tt is safe to say that very few of the workingmen who formerly drank liquor now do it. “The poor man’s club,” the saloon, is vanishing, the price of drink is high and the poor man knows that he risks life in consuming the ordinary bootlegger’s stock. Not so with the rich man. He can get liquor when he wants it, can afford to pay the price and knows that it is not fatal liquor. It is probable that 90 ‘per cent of the rich men who formerly had intoxicants still have them. If the Governors, including Pinchot of Pennsylvania, honestly intend a raid on booze, let them raid the lockers of country and golf clubs, the private dinners and other places where money removes all obstacles to getting booze in! Squelching the little Italian or Swiss raisin-grower and his cask of wine, jailing the street bootlegger, hauling the ten-gallon still in from the brush or canyon and smashing it will never abolish drink. Its roots are too deep. Governor Templeton of Connecticut has got an idea that is much nearer a cure. “Deprive the rich man of his boozed” Being in political jobs, the Governors will consider the large number of sensitive toes that would be trod on. OLD DAN’S DEFI rpTIAN O’LEARY, the famous long-distance walker, who often { U\ appears in Indianapolis, is 82 years old, but he challenges all comers, regardless of age, to walk 500 miles for a side bet of SI,OOO to $5,000. Dan’s certainly ambitious for his years. He has, of course, lived the life of a professional athlete, nevertheless his excellent condition in old age proves that most of us allow ourselves to become prematurely old by not keeping our bodies in proper physical training. At 82, the average man dreads walking farther than the corner. O’Leary’s greatest stunt, years ago, was walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. Doctors had claimed that such a feat was impossible, that no human body could stand the strain. Dan did it because he had the “nothing impossible” attitude. So have all people who accomplish great things. Our mental attitude toward an obstacle, when we fear it, is apt to hold us back more than the obstacle itself. All told, Dan O’Leary has walked more than 125,000 miles in contests. And 26,000 of these miles have been covered since 1908 when he passed his sixty-seventh birthday. You will travel a long way to find a more interesting character or one furnishing more food for thought. Old age comes to all of us, nearly always sooner than it should. We cannot all be Dan O’Leary’s. But we can keep our bodies in good physical trim by getting plenty of outside exercise and fresh air and living sanely. That is the only Fountain of Youth —sensible living.

IT'S THE CONDITION NGLAND has joined Franoe in worrying over the decrease in births, and there is talk of bribing folks by gifts of bonuses, prizes, exemptions, etc. There’s no visible decadence of the race. Simply women refuse to bear and rear children for war purposes, or to become paupers and idlers. We say visible decadence. There is decadence. Slaughter or maim millions of the best young males of a people, leaving the fatherhood of posterity largely to those who cannot stand an examination for physical and other defects, and there will be a decadence in a people, just as in the case of chickens, cattle, all other animals and even in plants. It is biological law and cannot be violated without penalty. England is confronted by a condition which she must relieve. Her potential mothers won’t do it. SPAIN reports a bumper crop of olives. The Old Soak says the news is unimportant, even if true, since Martinis are no more. UNCLE SAM’S attitude toward the “political prisoners’’ still in Federal prisons of the country is aptly illustrated by a window card in a Washington stationery store which reads: “Is someone you love ill? Step inside and look over our special ‘sympathy’ cards!” INTERNATIONAL situation is just as critical today as it was at any time during the World War. Myron T. Herrick, our ambassador to France, told friends just before he sailed for Paris. “But there is one big difference,” he added. “During the great war people knew they were in danger. Now they don’t.” That’s saying it in few words. ARTHUR P. DAVIS, veteran engineer head of the reclamation service, fired by Secretary Work because “a business man was needed for the job,” has been hired by Secretary of State Hughes to undertake a highly important Government mission in London dealing with large international financial claims. Guess that ought to give the reclamation fact finding commission some ligllt on Davis’ standing. >

REAL FIGHT ON TO CURB U. S. COURT Resentment of Public Now Directed Against Theory, Not Personnel. This is the last of a series of articles by Lowell Mellett, Os The Times Wash ingtun Bureau. on "The Supreme Court's Rise to Power." By LOWELL, MELLETT —“•"I T no time In American history, A perhaps, has there been such widespread study of the problem of the Supreme Court as now. There have been, of course, times of fiercer resentment and louder outcry against the court's arbitrary overruling of the people's purposes. When, by the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court set up the strange doctrine that the people by legislation could not control slavery, four years of civil war resulted. When, by the Legal Tender decision, the court held the currency authorized by Congress, while good enough for the soldiers fighting the country's battles, was not good enough for the bankers who were financing those battles at considerable profit to themselves, the people were again greatly aroused.

They- cheered Congress for changing the number of judges and President Grant for appointing two new members who, it was known in advance, would join in reversing the court’s decision. When, by the income tax decision the court held, in effect, there are some incomes in this country too large to be touched by taxation, the people patiently set about amending the Constitution so the Supreme Court could not possibly misinterpret it on that point. Personnel Is Resented But the resentment of the public in the cases cited was directed largely against the members of the Supreme Court. It was not directed so clearly as now against the theory under which the Supreme Court acts. The people have begun to understand that to obtain insu&ince against the court’s Abuse of they must wipe out this theory A reason for this may be found in the fact that in recent years the tendency of the court has been to use its power In this manner more and more. In the whole history of the United States Supreme Court, that body has undertaken to find only fifty acts of Congress unconstitutional, j But ten of those fifty decisions were tendered In the past five years! An j average of two such decisions a year j for five years, whereas from the time Chief Justice Marshall set up the pernicious theory in 1803 It wa* fortytight years before the Supreme Court made use of it again. Two Votes Unanimous In three of these cases, out of the ten, the vote in the Supreme Court was 5 to 4. In two others, It was 6 to 3. In two others It was 7 to 2. In only two was it unanimous, though It is the hoary tradition o' the court that no act of Congress should be declared unconstitutional unless it Is unconstitutional beyond reasonable doubt. You will find the court expressing this caution, gravely, solemnly in opinions to which only five sub-! scribe and against which the four others have written their firm dissent! The Increasing use of Its dubious—to say the least—power, probably Is responsible for the spreading of the opposition In quarters where formerly it did not show itself. Lawyers always are loath to criticise the courts. Lawyers make their living practicing before the courts, of course, but beyond that It Is part of their creed to believe In the court’s infallibility. Now, however, one finds many lawyers In the ranks of those seeking a remedy for the present situation. Real Rattle On That the defenders of the court's supreme power over the other branch os of the Government realize there is a battle on was Indicated In the recent observation of Constitution Week. They took the stump everywhere to cry down popular cWssatls faction with their own interpretation of the Constitution. Much propaganda is being disseminated to arouse the belief that the Constitution Itself Is being attacked, where as the movement to control Supreme Court Is primarily a Back-to-the Constitution movement. The nower of tho Supreme Court Is certain to be a big Issue in the com lng Congress. It will probably take, not to form of angry oratory, but of careful consideration of the manner in which the Constitution can be amended so the judiciary ’may be set back In the place Intended for it—just on* of the three coordinate branches of the Government.

A Thought

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about —Ps. 32:10. * • * -ryi°NE \ But such as are good men can can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite. —Milton. Brave (Lebanon Reporter) A Kokomo man is giving himself considerable credit for being “brave enough not to applaud a home talent show." He has his definitions badly twisted. A man who won’t applaud home talent effort isn’t brave, he s a grouch.

Heard in the Smoking Room

odd-looking funeral pa- ! i I rade we saw at that depot L- J back there,” said one of the smokers, "reminds me of a Chinese funeral in old Frisco, one time. The riatives of the deceased couldn’t scare up the right number of mourners and s hired two fellows from the water front who were to be hidden in white sheets, follow close behind the hearse and show signs of great grief, for $lO apiece. “Pat and Mike, under trial l ' sheets and shuffling along with bent beads

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/£JoM SIMS f | -/- -l- Says WHITE crow was captured in A Denver. Our theory is the *• bird had been smoking too many cirgarettes. ♦ * * The girls at California University may stay up until 2 o’clock, against the bedbugs' wishes. • * * A Chicago man named Nelson had two wives. It was discovered when one objected to a half-Nelson. * * * Case of home brew blew up in Seattle. Headline on report should have been “Liquor Case Heard." • • * An auto spotlight was stolen in Youngstown, 0., probably by a man who lost his collar button. * * • Corn thieves are active in Kansas. Farmers sleep with their shoes on to save their corn, not corns. * * * Indiana man is hunting his lost son who is six feet two and may be working as a telephone pole. • * * Here’s the news from Paris. High heels for men are stylish. We would hate to be in their shoes. • * * A deer, evidently thinking turnabout fair play, chased a hunter out of the Canadian woods. • • • Ohio farmers sell apples at 50 cents a bushel, but we refuse to say it isn’t enough apple jack. • • • Wisconsin onion crop this year is estimtaed at 407.000 bushels, or fifty times as many smells. • • • Letting your children hide under the bed is dangerous. They may grow up and be burglars. ♦ • • While a scientist says man is run by electricity, we know one who 1b run by his wife.

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In the annup.l disbursements of tho United States, what per cent Is expended for wars and other expenses? Statistics show that 87.81 per cent la expended for past wars; 25.02 per cent for plans for future wars; 8.19 per cent for legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Government; 1.01 per cent for public health and educaUon: 2.91 per cent for publlo works, including rivers and harbors, the Panama Canal and public buildings. Why did the Athenians adopt the violet as their floral emblem? Because of the mythological tale that when Io was changed into a white heifer and the grass was not good enough for hor to eat, violets were created for her so the Greeks named the flower “Ion” and consecrp-ted the flower to Jupiter. Hence the adoption of the violet as the naUonal emblem. What is dandruff? A form of eczema due to a parasite or germ. It la also caused sometimes hy an excess of acid In the system. What influenced the designs In the furniture of Chippendale? He was greatly Influenced by Oriental patterns and designs In carving. It Is know that he never visited China, and that some of his socalled Chinese furniture could hardly be called strictly Chinese, yet the influence Is decided. They are of an exceedingly decorative style, and In this way reminiscent of the East. What does the name Cohoes mean? It is an Indian word meaning “shipwrecked canoe;” also said to signify “great bendings.” On what day of the week did April 24, 1898. fall? Sunday. S How many men workers are In the United States? According to the 1920 Census, 38,064,737 men are "gainfully employed.” When and where was Booth Tarkington born. At Indianapolis. Ind., July 29. 1869. Who said: "He is the greatest artist who has embodied In the sum of Ills works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas." John Ruskln In “Modern Painters."

were doing a good Job of grieving, when Pat whispered: “ ‘Mike, the odor of our beloved corpse ahead is a killin’ of me.’ “ 'Kape tho sheet over your head, man. or yez loose ten bucks,’ warned Mike. "Pat followed along behind the hearse some farther, then yelled: ‘lt’s sir or me life!’ and threw off his sheet. Then with a roar: ‘Alike, yez idjut, quit weepin’. We’ve missed the hearse. It’s C\ garbage cart we’re trailin’! ’ ” „

OWNERSHIP OF WATER IS WITH LAND Few Private Concerns Successfully Carry Out Irrigation Projects in West. W. .11. Porterfield, of The Times ■Washington Bureau, ha* made a study of the rec'amation question, which ha* developed again into one of the burning political issues of th<- Natton. This is the third of a Beries of article* giving the background of the controversy now raging in Washington. By W. H. PORTERFIELD AT the time of the passage of the Newlands Government reclamatlon act in June ,1922, there had been reclaimed a grand total of 8,000,000 Teres of land scattered through the seventeen western States and territories. Now, inasmuch as prior to this date there was no such thing as Government reclamation, it might be assumed all this vast area had been “redeemed" by private enterprise, but such is very far from the truth. facts are, strictly private capital, invested on the theory of securing retu rue from the sale of water, had, with the exception of establishing city water plants, accomplished very little. Cooperative Effort The great bulk of that reclamation resulted from cooperative efforts participated in by the owners of the land who banded themselves together, levied assessments upon their land and with the money so obtained constructed reservoirs, ditches, pipe lines and laterals. They acted upon the principle that every acre of land Is entitled to a definite amount of water —thus indorsing the princlpale down later by President Roosevelt that ownership of water apart from the land is an economic crime. It Is true In some cases, notably of Judge J. G. North, father of the Riverside (Cal.) colony, the project began as a speculative enterprise. Judge North, who hailed from Knoxville, Tenn., issued his first prospectus in the spring of 1870, calling for 100 families who were able to invent *I.OOO each In the purchase of land, and also inviting “all, good, industrious people to Join us who can by investing a smaller amount contribute in any degree to the general prosperity." Became Stock Company

At the beginning the cooperative idea was stressed, but the project cost 1 more than was expected and before i the first ditch was completed the eni terprise had become a private stock j company, owning both land and water. But even here, under the most faj vocable drcumstances, the anu&l rental for water rose from $1 the acre I to $lO. The original sheep pasture pur- ; chased at 75 cents the acre, by being supplied with water. r*>se to the value jof SSOO the acre, unimproved! The | wildest speculation in land and water shares was the result. The Wright Irrigation act. adopted about. 1804 by the California Legislature. was an attempt to Introduce, this cooperative Idea Into the reclamation of arid lands throughout that State. Irrigation districts sprang up like mushrooms, covering In some cases, such as Alta In the Sar. Jaquin valley. 130,000 acres. Ronds were voted. Irrigation works were started and the boom was on. Similar laws were passed In other States. It looked for a tlmo as If the whole West was to be reclaimed through State immigration districts. Weak Enterprise*; Collapse Presently iJie weak enterprises began to collapse and even some of those organized under favorable conditions got very sick. What was the trouble? Poor administration. The Irrigation districts wore properly conceived and planned The law enunciated the joint ownership of land and water, absolutely forbade all private profit In the sale of either land or water and fixed the price at which water was to be so'd, based on maintenance costs. Under Federal Control Still, the cooperative Idea grew and enlarged because It was and Is sound. Today under Federal control, the water In every case Is apportioned and handled by cooperative land apd water association conducted In the common interest. All over the West these splendid cooperative colonies had be-n pointing the way to the new day. There were the wonderful Mormon development in the Salt Lake Valley, probably the | greatest example of cooperative water | development ever undertaken, the fa- ! mons Greeley Colo.) colony, and a | hundred others less famous. Plain Enough BY BERTON BRALEY Shall come back? This talk of “wines and beer" 'is hut a smoke screen. Under it appear I The old, old enemies we fought to Aiell. 1 The ugly emissaries out of hell, Who threatened all that made life clean and dear. ! Make no mistake, the issue stands forth clear! The grip of Drink is what we have to fear, Bhall we again yield to its evil spell? Shall booze come back? Shall youth be ruined, womanhood made drear. Manhood grow sodden? Shall we once more rear The shrines of booze ’mid which we used to dwell? Think straight about this! Weigh the question well! Advance* Retreat? We must decide it jere; j Shall booze come back? j (Copyright/ 1923. NEA Service, Inc.) Terrible 1 (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) On several Sunday ewnings the Rev. Arthur J. Folsom, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, has had to stop in the middle of his sermon and wait until the jazz In a nance hall across the street had subsided. Jazz at any time Is bad enough, but to go to church and have to listen to It Is simply terrible. There is plenty of time during the week for young folks to dance without dancing on the Sabbath. There is plenty of law on the subject and It should be rigidly enforced.

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What Editors Are Saying

Halloween (Richmond Item) Halloween is the time for fun. but in oiy: fun we should have care and consideration of the rights of others. The police and city officials have not forgotten that they were once boy and glrjs and have so arranged that every boy and girl in the city may have a perfectly glorious time if they so choose. We have heard a great deal about a safe and sane Fourth of July—now let us have a safe and sane Halloween. Tired (Decatur Daily Democrat) One of Lew Shank's planks In his platform for Governor is a proposal that a few State roads be electrically lighted from border to border. The few will center In Indianapolis and the State is tired now of paying taxes to Improve the central part of the State. Parasitesl By all means, every free tourist camp should be equipped with a free golf course. We are fast becoming a nation of parasites.

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Sittin ’Pretty?

Family Fun

Change Fair Hiram Skinnum was the village tightwad. He walked on his neighbors front lawns to save his shoes. His wife had been ailing for years, and began growing weaker. There didn’t seem to be much wrong with her except living with Hiram, but she sank so that at last he called a doctor. After long examination the doctor told Hiram: “She needs a change of air. Send her away." Hiram thought over the expenses I awhile and said: “Doc. you say she S needs a change of air. I can’t afford ito send her away. But, I’ll tell ye what I’ll do. I’ll get her an electric I fan.”—Argonaut. Why He Was Mittened “So you’re going t’ break it off ' with th’ college boy, Maine! How j come?” “No tact, dearie. All th' time he insists on sittin' around and talkin’ about Themistocles and Atlantis and Catherine 11. when he knows how low I thing horse racing Is!”—Judge. Foolish, but Not Crazy “I wish to sue my husband for divorce on the ground of insanity.” “Will he contest?" “Oh, no: he's not as crazy as that.” —Boston Transcript.

WEbIMbSUAiJOUr. 31, 1923

Indiana Sunshine

Perpetrating what he thought a good Haijoween prank, Esta Sopher, 17, Wabash, stood in the midst of traffic unmindful. Several motorists almost struck him. Many times he tried the stunt. Police were called and as Sopher stood in front of the police car gazing heavenward they bumped him. He wasn’t hurt, but jarred enough that he doesn’t pull the stunt any more. Again Barnum was right. Fourteen miles of sandwiches have been sold by Asa Smallwood at his little street stand at Columbus In two years and a half. Smallwood claims he has made and dispensed 300,000 hamburgers. If placed on top of one another they would extend more than ten miles in the air or twice as high as Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Utilities * (Tipton Daily Times' The best test of the merits of pu; lie owned and operated public utili ties is the experience of cities trying ihe experiment. Barring water supply the verdict is unfavorable.