Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1923 — Page 4
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FORD’S GIFT TO COOLIDGE jENRY FORD says he is for Coolidge for President, and now ___ there is great discussion among the politicians of both parties as to the final effect of such announcement. There are some optimistic Republicans who feel that Henry has delivered to the President as a Christmas gift the entire Ford following among the voters. That is preposterous. There is no denying the fact that Ford has materially aided Coolidge. But he can no more deliver the potential voters behind the Ford boom to Coolidge than his ill-fated peace ship could deliver Europe from war. The Ford boom was more than a personal following of Henry Ford’s. It was made up of citizens who were perplexed and disgusted with professional politicians and their ways. These folks turned to Ford because he had displayed greet originality in his industrial methods. Ford, they said, is a man who has fresh ideas, who will try new tilings, and one who can put them over successfully. A lot of people thought Henry Ford would be as original, as open-mirded. as radical—using the word in ihc sense that he would delve to the bottom of things—in public affairs as he was in industry. A lot of other people said he wouldn’t. Evidently these people were right. In making automobiles and money. Ford may be abic to out-think the best of them. But when he says that 90 per cent of the people of the United States are for Coolidge for President, be is savin? what no one else in the country—not even the President himself —believes, and it is evidently that in politics Ford's thinking is scrambled. And the citizens who are perplexed and disgusted with professional politicians will have to look elsewhere for a leader. “TOM AND JERRY” ANY old-timers in Indianapolis are recalling the bowl j}f _“Tom and Jerry” that used to appear in the center of the bar at the corner saloon, along about this time of year, back yonder before Volstead became famous. That bowl of “Tom and Jerry” was as symbolic of the holiday season as the holly wreath and the Santa Claus ringing a bell at the curb. It arrived shortly before Christmas and seemed always to be filled, though it was emptied many times before New Year. Won’t be many more years until no one will be able to remember the recipe for “Tom and Jerry.” Customers in the old days had a hazy notion that it was concocted from white of egg. nutmeg, cinnamon, frosting sugar and the fluid that is scheduled to become as scarce as radium or hen’s teeth. Another seasonal reminder of the holidays was the half-pint of Kentucky bourbon that the fat and genial saloonkeeper handed out with the compliments of the house. Now and then someone tries to tell us there’s as much drink ing as ever. But we don't notice any “Tom and Jerry” lurking in the background. We don’t observe any fat and genial proprietors passing out half-pints of mountain dew. We don’t see people walking into a liquor shop with an empty suitcase and walking out with it bulging with quart bottles—as used to be common, stocking up for New Year. Yes, there are a good many drunks these days, that’s true. But do you remember the wild times the rum hounds used to have on New Year’s eve? Half tip* town seemed to be lit up to usher in the new year. * * * Ah. we haven't the heart to torture the thirsty with further reminiscences. But don't let any one fool you. that there’s as much drinking as ever.
TAXES ON LARGE INCOMES m ELIES BARNES, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Enited States, gives us a sincere and truthful view of the fight to reduce the income taxes on large incomes. We must not “overlook that those incomes will not venture into productive industry on a taxation policy which is manifestly unjust and unfair.” Barnes insists. Congress should reduce the taxes on greater incomes because the taxes are “manifestly unjust or unfair,” Barnes says. Secretary Mellon and all other advocates of lowering the taxes have insisted only that it was impossible to apply and collect a high tax on large incomes. That the tax was “unjust or unfair,” they never asserted and no man in official life ever will. Our tax policy has been based on the ability to earn. If we do not accept that, then there is only one fair basis or fairer basis, the theory of the single tax. The ability to earn is best measured by income. Under any scheme of reasoning, then, the larger incomes should pay the larger tax. The rich should bear the burden because the rich have reaped the benefits of the country, have capitalized its opportunities, and they demand a greater share of its protection. It is “manifestly” fair and just they should pay. However, many of them will not. Some of the men for whom Barnes speaks do everything possible to avoid paying their fair and just burden. They are not shamed by their course. Tney glory in it. They evade this law and organize their security leagues to demand “law enforcement” or the enforcement, of those laws affecting the wage earner. And they justify their course by the conviction that making them pay their share of the burden is “manifestly unjust and unfair.” It is to laugh. JAPAN has an insurance trust which has been refusing to pay claims on recent earthquake losses. Now the trust offers to pay 10 per cent, if the government will help. Trusts seem to be able to pass the buck in any language. SPEAKING of his proposal for a billion-dollar revolving fund for German industry. Representative Victor L. Berger says he “cannot see any reason why it should not be adopted” promptly. And to think that he has served in Congress before! ECONOMIST Babson is worrying because folks are buying autos instead of homes. Homes should come first, he says. Maybe they would if some production genius would make it as easy to buy homes as to buy autos. WITH an air of benignity Judge U. S. Steel Gary comments on the unprecedented prosperity of American workingmen Simultaneously, the United States children’s bureau finds that “less than half of 1 per cent of the children examined in Gary. Ind.jobtain sufficient food.” .
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This is the tenth of a series by Babcock on Mah Jonrir rules. Clip each one ami have a complete rule book free. No. 10—Scoring and Paying S' -- CORES are computed and dis ferencea settled after each hand. When a player declares Mah Jongg, he exposes the hitherto concealed portion of his hand, being careful not to confuse it with his already exposed tiles. His score for both concealed and exposed combinations is then totaled, including all doubles. If the winnning player is other than East, he collects an amount In counters from two of the players equal to his points, and twice this amount from East. If the winner is East, he collects double from each of the other three players. Paying Up When the winner has been paid the other three players total their scores and each pays or collects from the other two (except in case of a tie) on the basis of the difference in their scores. Thus, A scores 20, B 25 and C 35. A pays B 5 and C 15. B pays C 33. In case either A. B or C had been East, he would have paid or collected just double these amounts, as East always pays or collects double. In scoring, tiles can be used in one combination only, and the exposed snd concealed hands cannot be mixed. All ties in the exposed hand must be left in the combinations In which they were declared. The following model hands will help you fix in your mind methods of scoring: If on Table If in Hand For three 3s 2 4
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KI.KPHONE service in the J I Canadian hotels is not quite I—as complete in its equipment as it is on this side of the line.” said the traveling man in the smoker of an Adirondack train going south. “They don't have as many booths as we do and sometimes there is a rush that is annoying to fellows who have tc hustle. T was in a Toronto hotel the other day and it was necessary for me to telephone to parties and make appointments. I hurried to the telephone booth and found a crowd gathered around it and apparently waiting with more or less disgust. I joined them. Inside the booth we could see a man with the receiver tc his ear and looking disconsolately or sadly at the floor. He wasn’t saving a word. For a half-hour we w. trhed him anxious'y. but be did not move nor did he send a word over the wire—just sat there and li t>ked at the floor. Finally one of
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For Mah Jongg (or winning)... .20 20 22 24 To this total of 22 (or 24) would be added: If winning tile was drawn from wall, 2 points. If winning piece was only possible piece to complete hand, 2 points. In this hand you would score for only possible place to win if the last tile obtained was the 2 Character, the 3 Character, the 6 Character, the 2 Bamboo, the 3 Bamboo or the 7 Bamboo. Lowest Score Twenty-two is the lowest scoring combination fJr a winning hand. In the above hand had the three of i kind in Dots been replaced by another sequence the above hand would have scored the consolation bonus of 10. If on Table If in Hand For three 45.. .• • 2 4 For 3 Dragons. 4 8 For Mah Jongg..2o . 20 26 32 Doubling for 3 Dragons 52 64 Doubling for nil of one suit (except honors) ..104 128 Ts winner were West in above hand two more would be added before doubling for "pair of own winds.” If on Table If in Hand For three Is 4 8 For three 6s 2 4 For Mah Jongg..2o 20 26 32 Doubling 3 times for all of one euit -308 256 Next Article: The Seasons.
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mOHNNV WEISMULLER. the champion swimmer, who has been sic. is back In the swim again. The baseball season will open April | 26, but April Fool s day would be more appropriate. Caterpillars ar so foolish. Now they have invaded Germany. They will starve to death. Philadelphia man stole to buy Christmas presents so will find Santa Claus is barred. They jailed four poets in Moscow, | proving that even the Russians have j fun at time* ; A doctor leads a hard life Every holiday he rushes around to people j who have eaten too much The prince of swindlers has been arrested in Chicago. Strange, but he was not a coal dealer. i Man making a mountain out of a ; mole-hill thinks others are making a ! mole hill out of his mountain. ; What would you do If you met a I robber? Loudest talkers are the ones , who grab for the stars. Every* winter everybody is surprised at the w’eather. Women are nice people, but would be better if they didn’t mistake sal ads for food. "Furs.” s Christmas shopper tells us, "do not grow on fir trees." Volstead could he elected President quickly by the bootleggers. A Thought I know that my redeemer llveth, i and that he shall stand at the latter ! (lay upon the earth. —Job 19:25. * • • C"1 >NFIDENCE imparts a won derful inspiration to its posI v__J sessor.—Milton.
our waiting party, bolder and probably more anxious than the rest of us. opened the booth door and asked the sad-visaged man If he was talking to anybody. ” ‘Yes,’ replied said-eyes, dolefully, 'ln. speaking to my wife.’"
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DO-NOTHING CONGRESS IS ON THE JOB Political Situation Harkens Back to Training Table’ Days of 1918, By JOHN CARSON, Times Staff Correspondent J ASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Con\)y gress adjourns over the Christ—mas holidays. Nothing can or will be done in the way of legislation until Jan. 3 and invariably after a recess, a day or two of additional delay is had while the members of the Senate and House renew friendships. Thus a month of this most important session of Congress will have passed without anything accomplished. More, because of the inability of the Republicans to get together, no attempt was made to accomplish anything. Hold! The Senate and House did one important thing. They passed a joint resolution providing officials and employes of each body with salaries for December. And again, they passed another joint resolution lo adjourn and then each body passed a resolution notifying the other body the organization was sufficient to permit President Coolidge to address a joint session. Not even the committees have accomplished the slightest work, a record which should go for some future time. Believe Voters Ignorant The boldness of the Congress in setting out to do nothing is born in the belief that the voters will never be informed. To fully undratand this, I refer back to 1917. The Republicans had cap tured control of the Senate and House. A President was to he elected in 1920, so the 1918 session of Congress became a training table for the presidential campaign. I was in New York then with one of the most astute members of the House And I was rather enthusiastic about the approaching session and the battles that would ensue. But I was given some education then in the game of Congress. "The Republicans will do nothing,” said my friend from the House "I know their plans, have discussed them with Mann and some of the others. They are just going to mark time so the campaign will he fought out entirely on the war. And it's what we would do if we were in control or the situation were reversed, you can be sure. That's good politics.” That Congress became known far and wide as the do-nothing Congress. Many of our tax problems and certainly much of our railroad problem might have been avoided, might not have been with us today had an attempt then been made to do something Another Training Table But the do-nothing Congress put the political game over and President
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j Harding was elected by a record I breaking plurality. Now tins Congress is another training table. Deliberately the Republican leaders have agreed to do only one thing—to revise the tax*laws. And why? The political theory in the Republican party is that if business is sustained on its present level, there is a chance the next President will lie a Republican. On t lie other hand, if business is in a depression the Republicans concede they cannot hope to win. We are going to wind up a record breaking year for business on Dec. 31. The foundation of this year of prosnerity we built on two things, a wonderful building boom throughout the country and n tremendous investment by the railroads. The building boom is sure to lesson a bit next year. The railroad buying may not he so heavy. In other words, we've passed over the peak. Secretary Mellon thinks reducing taxes will encourage further i/ivesf ment and will stimulate business. He honestly believes (he total yield of revenue from lower rates will be as great in a few veilrs at higher rates
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levied on poorer business conditions. That’s the entire argument behind the tax proposal and the demand for its passage by this Congress—that and the determination of Mellon to | kill the soldier bonus. Issue on Economy If the tax bill goes through. Presi I dent Coolidge will make his campaign ion one issue, reduced taxes or economy. That is, in case Coolidge is nominated and the word is out In the Old Guard ranks that Coolidge will be rammed down the throats of Republicans even if the party is choked by the ram. One time there was a lot of talk about substituting former Senator Kenyon of Towa for Coolidge. but the talk was ended at the meeting of the Republican national committee. And the cards were stacked in that meeting—by the apportionment of convention delegates for Southern States—to make Coolidge the nominee. With the Southern delegations—always handpicked and delivered to the Old Guard candidate —and the Eastern delegations from New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania and New Eng-
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land States, Coolidge is assured enough votes to win. That Hiram Johnson can beat the 1 game seems almost impossible. Teddy | Roosevelt could not beat it in 1912. It would mean the splitting of the i party to force Coolidge over in that way—you say—and the probable election of a Democratic candidate. The Old Guard knows that but to preserve the Old Guard a Democratic President would be preferred by the Old Guard to a Johnson or a Pinchot. Good Knight "Don’t you think that if I had lived In the olden days I would have made, ! a good knight?” asked the young i man who had bored her for hours de ; scribing a movie he'd seen. | "I don't care so much what you ! would have made then,” wearily replied the young woman, "hut you might see what kind of a good night you can make right now.” —Boston Transcript. Dad and the Barber "I want the part exactly in the middle.” "Yes, sir! Yes. sir! And where, ! sir. would you have me place the one ' hair that’s left over?”—Detroit New*.
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