Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1923 — Page 4

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SCHOOLS AND TAXATION TJIOOSIERS complaining of high taxes, soaring State debt and Jj other burdens may greet an appeal of Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public instruction, with another grumble. Burris voiced the sentiment of many citizens, however, when he declared at Terre Haute recently that a property tax is not sufficient to meet the growing needs of Indiana’s school education. Mr. Prosperous Citizens, if he is fortunate in business, may accumulate considerable savings from his salary, although he possesses small property value. Lo, the tax fire escape. Mr. P. C. sometimes buys tax-free securities and thus escapes paying his share of the community’s burdens. The property owner is the goat. Os course, school buildings are needed. Indianapolis has recognized this by adopting this year a fine program for new school construction. But to hear many folk grumble about the taxation on school buildings you might come to the conclusion it was a big item in Mr. P. C’s. pocketbook drain. The average family in Indianapolis spends more than fifteen times as much money for pleasures and luxuries than it does for the whole school expenses of the family. American people—according to the last census figures—spend more than $17,000,000 every year for candy, cigars and cigarettes, soft drinks, theater tickets, at race tracks, for paint, powder and jierfume, etc. The amount spent for schools, however, was just a trifle more than $1,000,000,000. Yet how often the person who thus spends $l7O a year laments when he is assessed $lO for school taxes! ♦ CHILD LABOR PROTECTION |r-p | HE Congress shall have power concurrent with that of 1 * l the several States to limit or to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age.” This is the child labor amendment proposed for passage by Congress indorsed in Indianapolis by practically every women’s club and organization. Need has long existed for constitutional means by which child labor could be abolished throughout the Nation. A decision by the United States Supreme Court declaring to be unconstitutional a tax on manufactured articles upon which child labor is used, | has squarely brought the need for a national amendment to the present Congress. Indiana's child labor regulation is remedying much of the evils which formerly existed in the State until recent years. Foremost among the improvements noted is that of the condition in the canneries of the State. In 1922 State inspectors found canneries employing 760 children between ages of 14 and 18 in excess of the legal eight hours a day. This year only thirtyfour worked more than the legal maximum. Os the 141 canneries inspected in 1922. only twenty were found to be obeying provisions of the law. This year the 80 per cent were visited. Out of ninety-one plants, fifty were found, obeying all requirements of the State as to child labor. The child must be safeguarded. A national child labor amendment will help to do it.

AN HONORABLE MAN SHE attitude of William P. Evans, who has resigned as prosecutor, is not difficult to understand. He has been a victim of circumstances and he did an honorable thing when he stepped out of office. Evans always had and still has the respect of the community. As prosecutor he worked hard and struggled against difficult odds in the performance of his duty. He has enemies, as has ever}' man in politics, but even his foes have found little to criticise. Evans resigned his office because he did not feel he could hold it while his father-in-law, Governor McCray, is facing trial. No one would expect him to prosecute McCray. His action in resigning is to be commended. CIVIC PRIDE TO FORE C r ~~ m IVIC pride does as much as anything else to further the progress of a city. Indianapolis owes much to this quality of community citizenship for the success of its fine parks, streets and homes. The donation of land valued at $350,000 by owners on the west end of Kessler Blvd. to the city for the boulevard project is sufficient proof. The actual cost of acquiring a strip of land 100 feet wide starting at Fifty-Sixth and Meridian Sts., and running west around Sunset Ave. to the Cooper Rd., a distance of 7.2 miles, was only $14,000 the actual cost of moving houses and preparing the right of way. What’s wrong with Indianapolis? Certainly not our civic pride. OF COURSE, Secretary Mellon, pushing his new tax reduction plan, doubtless wishes to be known as the man who put the “ax” in “tax.” POOR Comptroller Craig. He’s pardoned by the President, and can’t spend Christmas in jail, like the rest of the political prisoners. Trouble with Craig was that he was too prominent to make a good prisoner. THEY WANT to give the United States shipping board to Secretary af the Navy Denby, but he doesn’t want it, or to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, but he doesn’t want it. Looks like the merchant fleet’s all at sea—or ought to be. SENATOR JIM WATSON may run for President just to keep the Indiana delegation from going to Johnson. Nice for Jim’s feelings that he’s not running with any idea of becoming President. H. FOSTER BAIN, director of the United States bureau of mines, who was also a visitor at Secretary Fall’s New Mexico ranch when Harry Sinclair was there in 1921, testified Fall and Sinclair discussed primarily leases of Osage Indian lands, “touching on Teapot Dome only incident ally A Poor Los

PROBLEM OF RAILROADS IS MOST VITAL Will Collect $59,60 From Each Man, Woman and Child in U, S, This is the first of a series of articles on the railroad question by John Carson of the Indianapolis Times Washington staff. rrra ASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The railroads will collect this year YT in freight and passenger charges approximately $6,500,000,000, a billion dollars more than last year. Spread this over the country and each person in the United States would pay about $59.60. The average family of four persons would pay about $240 this year. Some place and somewhere and somehow, everyone pays. The railroad hill certainly is passed on to the consumer. In just one item, your coal hill, the railroad charge this year will be about $8 more than It was in 1913. Back In 1913, the railroads collected $33.10 for every person in the United States. In 1917, the charge Jumped to $39.30. In 1919, It was $48.90; In 1920, It was $58.40. And this year it will be increased to $59.60. Problem Is Important With all this talk about “the railroad problem,” one of the best ways to understand it and appreciate it is to resolve it down to dollars and cents and to see what It means in the cost of living. The realization that It means about $240 this year from each family of four persons. Is a pretty good index to the importance of the j problem. Tears of unrestricted operation with its stories of the Goulds and Harrim.an I and Vanderbilt and Morgan and Mellon and their exploitation of railroads—exploitation Is the polite word -—and we didn't pay much attention. We read the sensational stories with interested, hut Just as plassing stories. We had "two cent passenger fare” and low freight rates and we lived close to the farm, the factory and the coal mine and transportation costs were not so important. But today, with more than 60 per cent of our people living in the congested Area north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi and with the farm country miles away, the problem is with us. or. as Senator Sagnus Johnson says, "Is now.” The railroad executives contend today the people, as a whole, are satisfied with transportation conditions, and that only a few "demagogues" are causing trouble. Pledge Support to Roads Within the last few months organized business and organized finance have pledged their support to the rail- j roads. They will present a solid front to the opposition In Congress. They will tell this story: "We admit conditions were not so good a year or so ago, but that condition resulted from war operations and the necessity for reorganization. Now the road shave reorganized and they are more efficient than ever. They have carried record-brea.king loads of ljreight this year and there has been no car shortage. Give the roads a chance, kill off any new transportation legislation, and the roads promise service. And It is service the people want. “The farmer's problem Is greatest, hut it ha.s been exaggerated. The j railroad cost In the United States Is j less than in any other country. The ! railroad charge Is lower than the j general cost of living—that Is, the Increase since 1913 Is less. Give the roads a chance.” That the railroads’ story as it will he shouted to Congress. The story from the farmers and from ft good many shippers and from the consumer Is as follows: “Railroad costs must be reduced nr the country must he reorganized. The high cost of living is really the high cost of distribution and most of that is transportation. The farmer’s profits are taken and the earnings of the city man also. The railroads collect from both ends.”

Science

Today. In all vine-growing countries, is found the phylloxera, an insect enemy of man that causes appalling destruction. The phylloxera belongs to the family of aphides or plant lice and all members of this family wage an unceasing war against mankind by attacking trees, plants and various crops. The phylloxera attacks vines. It was discovered in the United States about 1850 and has spread to nearly all countries. In France alone, In the vineyard districts, it caused, in ten years, a far greater loss than the Franco-Prussian war. It has been difficult to fight the Insect without Injuring or destroying the vines. The only reason It has not conquered all vines Is that It has natural foes that have been encouraged. Plant lice are all very small and feeble insects individually. Their strength lies in the rapidity with which they increase In number. Kach female produces hundreds of young. They do not travel far front where they are horn and the leaves of a plant become densely crowded with them. They are equipped with sharp beaks which they insert, in the foliage. Their attacks absorb the sap and exhaust the plant until the roots and leaves cease to function and it dies. Family Fun Sister’s Watch “Brother, will you get my watch, it’s upstairs?” “Ah, wait a while and it’ll run down.”* “Oh, no, it won’t, my dear; ours is a winding staircase.”—Punch Bowl. When Mother Tripped “Why hasn’t Daddy much hair?” "Because he thinks a lot, darling!" “But why have you got such a lot, Mummie —?” "Get-on with-your-breakfast! ! I ! It's AH In the Doctor “Yes, Johnny, the doctor brought twins.” "Gee. That’s what w get for having a specialist,”—Mugwump.

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WILLIAM GIBBS M ADOO

. Democrat. Lawyer. Son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. Born near Marietta, Ga., Oct. 31, 1863. Was president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, which in 1904 completed first tunnel under Hudson River. Vice chairman Democratic National Committee 1912. Ap pointed Secretary of Treasury In President Wilson's Cabinet March 6, 1913. Inaugurated Federal Reserve banking system. Appointed first director general of railroads in 1917. Resigned from Cabinet Dec. 16, 1918. Residence Los Angeles. '%C% OM SIMS - Says H, what do the cold waves say? Oh, they say, “Where’s the coal?” • What could be worse than being given the mumps for Christmas? Will you need a gift for an enemy of yours? Give him cheap cigars. If you don’t like sofne neighbor you can give his little boy a drum. What will you give father? Give him asbestos gloves to he worn while opening Christmas bills. A hot-water bottle makes a swell gift for a wife, fui besides it will keep her feet warm at night. Give her an imported hair brush if she wears imported hair. Umbrellas make good gifts because you can borrow them back. In giving a watch you can write “It's your time now,” or “Hope you have a good time.” A nice telephone stand for a Christmas gift may help some friend stand her telephone. Candlesticks make good Christmas gifts. The big. heavy- kind are better for chasing burglars. A rug as a gift makes a room as snug as a bug In a rug.

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, NE of the story-tellers quit m the midst of a very bad one, when there entered the smoking room a ministerial looking gent. In smooth b'ack suit. The newcomer smiled as he noticed the evidently respectful hush that fell upon the party, and at once got off this: “A colored clergyman friend of mine was rather unlearned but decidedly sincere and I once heard him deliver this sermon on a text that he announced as ‘Always Bet on the Lord:’ \ “ ‘Brethern, take the case of Dan'l. The heavenly King says, ‘Dan’l, doan you eat no meat. It ain’t clean. You eat unclean, Dan’l, and you lan standln’ up In hell, you hear me.’ “ ‘But de eartkly King says, ‘Dan’l,

RALSTON’S SILENCE IS BENEFICIAL New Indiana Senator Making Hit With Boosters, ' By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Senator Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana Is fitting nicely into the presidential niche his boosters created for him. The result is the Ralston boom has grown considerably in the last week. Ralston had two things to do when he came to Washington if he was to satisfy his friends who insist he must be the Democratic nominee. He had to remain as far away from the presidential race as possible and he had to develop the idea that he was sound and yet progressive. “Ralston has to come down here and keep quiet until he’s sure of himself and the cause on which he is to talk," was the constant declaration prior to the Senator’s arrival. Ralston has either accepted the advice or he naturally adopted the attitude wished for by his boosters. To Sit at Feet “I have come down here without any thought that I can reform the world, the United States, or even the United States Senate,” he said. "I’m here to sit at the feet of the wise men and learn.” He has done just that. He has had no important bills to offer. He has had nothing to say. He has been pleasant and friendly to all. And he has not been assertive In any ambition. “I told them I w-as Just here to serve and that any committee assignment they gave me, I'd do my best to fill,” he added. “I have not asked for any particular committee and will ask for none.” Witha loud clamor from incoming Senators for certain important committee assignments, the attitude pleased his associates. And with Sc-nator “Jim" Watson doing everything on the Republican side to push himself forward,' Ralston's suggestions were likely to gain applause In the contrast. “Please Standpatters” The next thing was on Coolidge's message. When a President speaks, the newspaper men impiediately try to learn the views of Senators and House members. They did this time. They met Ralston and for a time he tried to avoid any discussion. Then he said j quietly but with emphasis that Jthe : “message would certainly please the 1 standpatters." It was nothing unexpected, but It got over to carry out the general Impression that Ralston ! was progressive, even if conservatively progressive. Another thing Is that Ralston Is getting letters from voters all over i the country. Invariably they offer him advice and Invariably the advice is that he must not become a candidate and must be silent. One letter came the other day from Kansas and from a map who said he had never met the Senator and had never been in In diana. He was 'nterested particularly In the fact that Ralston had wiped out the State debt In Indiana and had reduced taxes.

Methods BY BERTON BRAIJ3Y My way of doing things seems queer, No doubt, to you; But your ways In my eyes appear Quite puzzling, too. And methods of some other cuss Are wholly strange to both of us. Yet I do fairly well what I Pet out to do. And your work well. I can’t deny You see It through. And, speaking of that other one, He also gets his labors done. If I tried working on your plan ‘ I’d go askew; If you tried mine—oh man. oh man! It wouldn’t do. Your way for you and mine for me Succeed the best, so let 'em be! (Copyright, 1923, NBA Servioe, Ino.) Z Animal Facts —— _ The river lamprey, salmon, herring, j tunny and others store their oil In i the flesh, while deeper sen fish like ! cod. dogfish and sharks store it in ; their livers. One shark thirty feet long will yield as much as thirty gallons of oil. Albert Ptoll, In the Detroit News, tells of aMempts to establish reindeer on Michigan’s cut-over lands. A herd ! of sixty Norwegian deer wore pur J chased and placed in the forest reserve in Luce County in March, 1922. To day the herd numbers forty and it Is not probable that over five members of the original herd are all A Some thirty-seven calves were born and It nppearS that nearly all of them have lived. Early in'the attempt pneumonia. warbly fly and unfavorable climatic conditions took toll of (he animals rapidly. It Is now hoped the Michigan-born members of the herd will form a nucleus for a larger development, for they find the moss of the jack pine plains, their only food, to be sustaining and abundant.

you eat meat as I say, or I make lion food of you.’ “ ‘Old Dan'l shore was up against trouble but he says to hisself, dey is some odds oil the Lord and his chile don’t molarize no meat no matter what no King says. So, dat earthly King puts Dan'l in the lion's den. But dem lions has no appetite left for colored folks and Dan'l just chases ’em ’round and’ roun de den till they s all tired out and has to lay down. Dan’l, he too, pretty tired, so, he lies down with his head on a big lion's soft belly and he reaches over and takes the lion’s tail and uses it to keep the flies off’n his face and he says, ‘Lord! this beats hell!’ ” “It's a story I heard.” added the narrator, “when I was tending bar down at Tia Juana race track last summer."

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To the, Cdit >r of The Timer I notice in Mr. Quick's article on the farmers' troubles that he advocates the tax of lands only as did Mr. I George of New York years ago. This looks like cheap propaganda to e-ase the minds of the farmers and at the same time relieve ail other property and money from taxation, a sop for the money power. While high land value Is against the farmer who works the land himself, that, is not the vampire that is sucking the life blood of the farmer, but the Invisible government that Is for the capitalist to profiteer on all commodities. The farmer has to buy at two and three times pre-war prices and his farm produce is as low or lower than pre-war prices. Thou Art a Jewel They tell us overproduction Is the reason for low price of farm products

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—and the old world starving. On the other hand they tell us overproduction Is the cause of high prices of coal —consistency, thou art a Jewel. Do they think the, farmer can be made to believe anything? How about getting 2 or 3 cents for a cowhide and paying S6 to $9 for shoes and about sl3 for a barrel of flour when he buys it In bread? The farmer or common laborer with team and wagon gets $4 a day and tho brick mason and plasterer gets $lO to sls a day with no capital invested. Is that right? Mr. Quick asks, "If you throw diamonds in the crowd who would soon have all of them?” Two to Three Times Under the present system of profiteering the profiteers would soon have all. Then, Mr. McCaslln says in a letter to you that Mr. Quick is all wrong and makes as grievous a mistake as he. He says the farmer is clamorous about good roads and first to “holler” when taxpaying time comee. Is it any wonder when under the present system of road building it costs him two to three times more

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than it did when he had the right to build his own road? Mayor Shank asks the question why it costs two or three times as much to build a mile on the State road" as it did about Indianapolis. He also says the farmer . s doing all right, and yet one of his own Senators said the middle western farmer is going bankrupt. S. W. SMELCER. A Thought He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. —Prov. 29:1. “T*T STUBBORN mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to x J knowledge as a stubborn temper to happiness.—Southey. Dad Keeps Out “Let's see—turkey, cranberries, celery, potatoes, pumpkin. I have forgotten something. It was for the children. I think.” “Castor oil!”—Judge.

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