Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1924 — Page 4

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THE TELEPHONE CASE mHE PUBLIC service commission will meet Friday to discuss the question of whether the State should take an appeal from the decision of Federal Judge Page holding that telephone rates fixed by the commission are confiscatory, or whether it should go ahead and attempt to establish new rates in conformity with the court’s ideas. Our suggestion would be that the commission appeal the case and fight this business of Federal courts fixing utility rates to the limit. There* is no use of deluding ourselves. The people of Indiana DO NOT regulate public utilities. There was passed by the 1913 Legislature a law which had for its purpose the regulation of the concerns which supply to the people such necessities as water, light, gas, transportation and communication. The law provided for this regulation by a commission appointed by the Governor and responsible to the people. Things went along fairly well until some shrewd lawyer happened to turn to the Federal Constitution and discover an amendment which said that property should not be confiscated without due process of law. He argued that if a public utility was not granted the rates it asked for it could complain to the courts that its property was being confiscated The first Indiana concern so to appeal was the Home Telephone Company of Ft. Wayne. It was successful, and this encouraged other utilities to do the same thing. NOT ONE UTILITY THAT HAS APPEALED TO THE ; FEDERAL COURT HAS FAILED TO OBTAIN HIGHER RATES THAN THOSE GRANTED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. This condition has made a joke of State regulation. It has become so bad that not a case is heard by the commission any more during which there are not whispers to this effect: “Os course, if the commission does not give us what we want there is still the Federal Court.” It must be wonderful to be a member of the public service commission and try to serve the public under such conditions. The Indiana Bell Telephone Company has been given permission by the Federal Court to charge any rate it wishes pending settlement of its case. In other words, the law of the State of Indiana has been suspended. The public service commission should appeal the ca-w bv all means. It should determine once and for all just what the rights of the people are. If, when a final show-down comes, it is held that the Federal Court is a uitility regulatory body, then the public service law might just as well be repealed and the citizens of Indiana might just as well grin and bear it until such time as the users of utility service arise in their wrath and amend the Federal -Constitution to provide that the affairs of the people shall be governed by the people

WAR AND DAN CUPID “ p lIRISTIANITY, ” says former United States Supreme Court Justice John H. Clarke, “cannot survive another world war.” Divorce in the United States has been greatly on the increase since the war, due—in the opinion of bench and bar, pulpit and press—to an almost universal let-down in morals. “Increase of divorce in the United States alone means nothing,” you say. “It’s our lax laws. Easy divorces What about other countries—the European countries which really saw the war?” All right. Let’s have a look: In France divorces rose in one year, the year immediately following the war, from 7,851 to 11,514. In Germany they went from 13,344 in 1918 to 3,542 in 1920 —considerably more than doubled. In England—staid old England—they rocketed from 2,222 in 1918 to 7,044 in 1921—considerably more than trebled. In Switzerland they increased from 1.699 in 1918 to 2,241 in 1920; and in Sweden from 1,098 in 1918 to 1,455 two years later. And so on, all along the line. Only little Norway seems to have kept her head. She scored seven less divorces in 1920 than in 1918. So war does desolate the hearth. Our eyes fill with tears as we gaze upon the windrows of mothers’ boys mowed down in battle Pity fills our hearts nigh to bursting as we watch the cripples pass. But we forget the dead loves, the demolished firesides, the crippled souls, the havoc which war wreaks on that institution we call civilization—our homes, our morals, our passions, our ideals, our religion, our amusements, and our very habits of speech and thought. Think this over the next time you hear somebody argue against the most decent impulse the world has had in the last thousand, years—to form the world into a combine against another great war which would destroy the last vestige of good left in us. Think it over. ■■■■ ■■■■ “INSANITY in a large number of cases,” says Lord Sumner of England, “is a rich man’s defense.” True. Having the money, they can easily get that way. A SPORT authority says “prize fighters are very careful of their hands.” Otherwise, no doubt, they would find difficulty in operating their typewriters.

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‘THE WORLD BELONGS TO EVERY ONE’ Herman L, Ekern, Progressive Leader, Enunciates f ' . Policy, By GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer ADISON, Wis.. June 26.—The great Wisconsin legislative battle to regulate the old-line insurance companies was fought and won hack in 1906 by an inexperienced, smiling, red headed young lawyer from Trempealeau County by the name of Herman L. Ekern. Ekern's youthfulness contrasted with his veteran opponents and gave a dramatic twist to the fight. And today, when he has matured into an attorney general with great auguries for his political future, his most im-

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pressive and winning- quality is that same youthfulness. Held Office by Force The incident which put his name on newspaper front pages the country over eleven years ago was a : rough and tumble scrap, which i must have delighted the boy within I him. Ekera then was State insur- ; ance commissioner. Governor McGovern sought to remove him summarily on an hour’s notice, and he i refused to submit. Locking himself In his office, he | ate and slept there for twelve days. When the opposition attacked the door by force, he barricaded it with ■ desks and then obtained an injunction to prevent molestation. The Supreme Court finally settled the dispute and Ekern still was in possession and a winner. Ekern is chief medicine man In the inner councils of Senator La Fallotte. He is no boy at politics, but an exceptionally shrewd and tactful man. Except for an occasional exuberent flash of the spirit, he has not appeared on the band wagon but has pulled the strings from back stage. Just now he Is emerging into greater public realization of his power. For more than twenty years he has been a La Follette leader. In 1908 he was secretary of the first La Follette for president movement, and he was a member of the recalcitrant Wisconsin delegation which held out for La Follette at the Cleveland convention this summer. Returning from hearing himself and his cause denounced as radical, he said he had ‘‘had great fun.” Defines Progressive “A progressive isn’t a radical,” he says. “He is simply one who recognizes a distinction between liberty and license to exploit. “He knows the world does not rightfully belong to the strongest, but to everybody. “When they say progressives will run the country and wreck business, they are just kidding as they used to do here in Wisconsin.”

Tongue Tips Rachel Crothers. playwright: “Men are more successful at telling good stories than women, because they have so much more opportunity to practice.” Rev. E. B. Shively-, Kansas City: "Any individual who makes non-re-sistance a law of his life is headed j straight for the poorhouse. It would | be absurd to observe literally Jesus’ I admonition to turn the other cheek when somebody smites you.” Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal, Massachusetts: “Why are people In jail, in prison v in the schools for the feeble-minded, in reformatories? Who knows? Who is trying to know? The rescue of the lost is an essential of the gospel; no less is the care of the 90 and 9.” General Leonard Wood, Governor of Philippines: “I feel now that the house of the Filipinos is being put in order. It will not be difficult to keep it so. They are a tractable people.” Bishop W. M, Brown, Episcopal, declared a heretic: “My purpose has been only to bring religion to a basis where belief was a possibility to every one.”

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Winnie Ha-Ha •' By HAL COCHRAN There’s a girl in our office who plays quite a part in keeping us all in good spirit. She knows how to laugh and It’s right from the heart. I honestly wish you could hear it. You don’t dare be grouchy when she is around and she sets an example that’s rare. It seems that her judgment on living is sound when the facts in the case are laid bare. There’s always a way out of fixes you’re in, but you'll never get out if you worry. Perhaps that’s the way that her theory'd begin and she spreads it around without flurry. The world, as a whole, would be better by far if w6’d keep optimism in style. It’s really too bad how few people there are who can constantly keep up a smile. From the time we arrive, the yv ung lady in mind, is bright till we bid her ta, ta. She can smile, she can laugh; we need more of her kind. Oh, I love to hear Winnie ha, ha. (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York | Xfey STEVE HANXAGAX XEW YORK, June 26.-—This is i one of those tragedies if Broadway that can't he told with names. A broken old woman totter* and into the lobby of one of those exclusive hotels on the upper reaches of the famous thoroughfare of broken promises and broken hearts. In her raiment makeup was a iash of the styles of many periods of the past. It included bright green hose. With toothless Interest she gaped at a wedding reception, looking long ir.gly at a flower-like girl receiving the congratulations of scores of fashionably-dressed y uests A bellboy snickered. “They say she’s her daughter," he confided pointing toward the hag and the bride-to-be. Inquiry revealed the story. The old woman was once the pampered darling of a wealthy man. He sent her child to France to be educated and brought her home only wnen a husband had been chosen for her. Meanwhile the mother, ruined by drugs and urinks, was cast aside, forgotten even by the daughter, who never really knew her. The beauty of yesteryear stared dully from her background seat awhile—then slipped unobtrusively away. The daughter never will know. She thinks her mother died years ago. * * * Westover Court is an apartment building between Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Sts. on Broadway that rarely is noticed. Yet there are 104 apartments in the building and in them have lived numerous prominent authors and actors. The entrance is on the side streets and there is a complete air.of dignified mystery about the place which Is for men only. Men have written great books and composed songs and music that made them wealthy in this haven in the midst of Broadway’s glitter—yet completely apart from It. Harry Bruno, a publicist, lives there. Often I visit him. The place is so quaint and old-fashioned I always feel like Romeo must have felt the night he throw stones at Juliet’s balcony. Nature The little gray bug known as sowbug, or pill-bug, to be found in greenhouses, under boards, or in damp places in or near houses, is not an insect at all. It belongs to the same family as do lobsters, crabs or other shellfish, and breathes by means of gills. They are not particularly harmful, although they do often eat growth of violets or other low growing plants under which they hide. Night-time finds them full of pep and they may be seen scampering in numbers about the damp places they inhabit. Somebody’ll Speak “If Bill Shrinker asks you to marry him tonight, tell him to come and speak to me.” “And if he does not ask me?” “Then tell him I am coming to speak to him.”—Detroit News.

MEXICO IS EXPECTING HOT TIME Strikes, Revolution and Civil War Prevail as Date of Election Nears, Bn Times Special EXICO CITY. June 26 WI Strikes, revolutions, civil war and a suggestion of communism prevail in Mexico as July 6, date of the bullet-spattered presidential election, approaches. Organized labor is supporting Gen. Plutaroo Calles, while the so-called “conservative liberal’’ elements appear to be backing Gen. Angel Flores. These are the two principal candidates. While General Calles has adopted as his own the agrarian, revolutionary platform of the late lamented Emiliano Zapata, he has denied he favors bolshevism in any shape or form but stands fairly on the constitution respecting labor. General Calles has been called the Mexican La Follette, denouncing the bolshevists, but with the support of the Farmer-Labor party. Bomb Explodes A bomb recently exploded in front of the hotel where General Flores was stopping at Guardajajara. Recently there were indications of a swing toward Flores on the part of people alarmed at the growing power of labor and of those who were fearful of Calles’ alleged radicalism. The latter’s disavowal of bolshevist sympathies, however, has strengthened his candidacy of late. President Ohregon is quoted as having stated that, organized labor in Mexico today has the power to maka or unmake presidents. I’ndoub*edly it wields a big and growing influence. The revolution, announced as put down on an average of once a week, is still going strong, though in spots. Perhaps guerilla warfare would be a better term. Drastic punishment is being meted out to the rebels when caught, however a number of brilliant generals, governors of States and other officers, officials and men being summarily executed in • the past few weeks. Against Communism President Ohregon, like General Calles, has put himself on record against communistic activities. A labor convention here. having threatened’ to seize certain cotton mills whose owners refused to com pose their differences with strikers, were informed by Ohregon that the government would not permit such action. On the other hand when H. V. Tompkins, representing the American Oil Men’s Association, asked the Mexican government to furnish troops to break a strike at the Agutin Petroleum Company in the Tampico district, he was met with a flat refusal. Ho was told that the Mexican constitution sanctions the right of workers to strike. It Is believed here that many of Mexico's troubles will disappear after July 6. For the civil war, which has kept the country in a hullabaloo for the past eight months, has been primarily only a presidential campaign. Mexican style.

Tom Sims Says One look at a pessimist and you can’t blame him for being one. The bath tub will not take its vacation until winter. The greatest surprise so far this summer came from a mosquito who broke his bill on a man's wooden leg. A shark is a big fish. So are most men who think they are shai ks. Choosing picnic weather is simple. Pick the day you want, then postpone it until the following day. Our stand on the marrying question is that a man who can’t stay at home should stay single. We like winter better thrg i summer because getting cold doesn't wilt your collar. After forty or fifty years' eating practice some rryrn still never know when they have' had enough. In V. P. Race A forceful young man is Carl Vrooman, who is in the race for vice presidential nomination with both He comes from Illinois and arrived at the Democratic convention with the Brennan delegation.

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IRELAND HAS MANY IN CONFAB Cressy Finds Many Macs and Pats in Convention — He's Newspaper Man, By WILL M. CRESSY Illustrated by George Storm ’■* EW YORK, June 26.—1n [\ looking over the names __J “Among Those Present’’ at the Donnybrook fair I can readily see why Ireland gained her freedom—McAdoo—Brennan—Walsh —Phelan—Bryan—Mack—Pat Neff— Pat Sullivan—Pat Harrison —Martie MoCue and Mrs. O'Day. It is great to be able to sit on the sidelines and say in the words of one of our New Hampshire poets: "Fight dog. fight bear. My dug ain't there.” And it is a great study to sit here and watch the procession. These political delegates are certainly great. I don’t believe one out of ten of

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them has the slightest idea what it is all about. They just sort of mill around waiting orders to do something. Vote, cheer, parade, it seems to make no particular difference to them One old deaf fellow from New Hampshire has voted right straight through for Andrew Jackson. Hundreds of the delegates are uninstructed. Some of them are so uninstructed that it is appalling. One of them asked me this morning if I thought Henry Ford stood a change of being nominated. And I don’t know as he was far out of the "ay at that. Up to date he stands as good a chance as anybody. I told this old chap I was not a politician. “What are ye?" he asked. “Newspaper man.” (I have got now so that I can say it without blushing). The old man looked at me sort of pityingly for a moment. sighed, and said: “Weil, I s'pose somebody has to do it.” With McAdoo too dry, Smith too wet, Ralston too old, Houston too cold —what can you expect these poor Uninstructed Delegates from Hawaii, Porte Rico and the Canal Zone to do? Then to further complicate matters there are 18 Arkansas delegates instructed for Robinson, 6 from Delaware for Saulsbury, 20 from Kansas for Davis, 28 from New Jersoy for Silzer, 48 from Ohio for Cox, besides the 330 uninstructed. And with Newton Baker and William Bryan and Charlie Bryan and William Hearst, Doctor Munyon—er —no —Doctor Copeland, Senator Edwards—but the list is too long. I did not know there were so many Democrats in the world as are here willing to be the next President. Before and After “Before we were married you called me an angel.” “I know it.” “But now you don’t call me anything." “That shows my self-control.” — London Opinion.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New Y'ork Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned reques.s cannot be answered. All letters are coundentiai.—Editor. Y\ hat wns it Roosevelt said to the genera! effect that religion should not influence votes —that is. that Jews, Catholics, etc., should he elected to public office? In his book “True Americanism.” he sail: "YYe maintain that it is an outrage, in-.voting for a man for any position, whether State or National, to take into account his religious faith, provided only he is a good American.” What do the letters H. R. H. stand for? His (or Her) Royal Highness. YYhat is a creole? The name given in the southern United States and in Latin America to designate she pure-blooded descendants of original French, Spanish or Portuguese stock. By English writers it has sometimes been incorrectly supposed to mean mulatto, but it cannot properly be

applied to any person of mixed race, non-Latin stock, or of European birth. What are private and public corporations? Private corporations are those founded by and composed of private individuals, for private purposes, as distinguished from governmental purposes, and having no political or govex-nmental franchises or duties. For example, a chain of grocery stores may form a corporation. Public service corporations are those whose operations oerve the needs of an entire community, such as railroads, gas, waterand electric light companies. What is myrrh? What is it used for? A substanee which exudes from the bark of a gum resin tree known as the myrrh tree, which grows in Arabia and Eastern Africa. Its smell is balsamic, its taste aromatic and bitter. Myrrh was commonly used by the ancients for fumigation. Myrrh is used in medicine as a tonic and stimulant, in disorders of the digestive organs, excessive secretions from the mucous membranes. etc., also to cleanse foul ulcers and promote their healing, and as a mouth and throat gargle. What does the inscription “Mizpah” in rings mean? This inscription is based upon words occurring in connection with the setting up of a heap of stones by Jacob and his brethern as witness of the covenant between Jacob and Laban, and have the significance “The Lord watch between thee and me.” Genesis XXXI, 49. A Thought Let all bitterness, and wrath, and 5 anger, aid clamor, and evil speak- j ing, be put away from you, -with all | malice.—Eph. 4:31. * * * An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of oppor- j tunity.—Quintillian.

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QUESTION IS WHY CHANGE COOLIDGES? Quick Warns Against Nomination of Another Conservative, By HERBERT QUICK D l- " EMOCRATIC leaders in New York—some of them —urged the adoption of the La Follette ideas for the Democratic platform. Mighty interesting. If they believe in these ideas, very important. But if they adopt the progressive ideas in their platform and then use them to lure the progressives into voting for some standpat Democrat, I write this to give ! notice in advance that the trick will ! not work. It will not only not work, i but it will arouse a storm of injdignant revolt on the part of prog--1 ressives who would like to vote the j Democratic ticket. Why would they like to vote the ! Democratic ticket? Because they ! think it has a chance to win. But 'if its victory promises merely a | change from a Republican Coolidge j to a Democratic one, they will not . vote for the Democratic Coolidge, no | matter what platform he runs on. Why Not Vote G. 0. P.? If we are going to have a Cool- ; idge for President, why not vote the Republican ticket? Why cnange Coolidges? Even an extreme progressive would do better to vote for Cautious Cal than for any of his prototypes who are held in reserve by the big interests to be nominated when the break comes in the New York convention. We know where Cal stands. He is devoted heart and soul to the interests. He believes that they should rule. He has made the Republican parts consistently reactionary. If we are to have a reactionary President for the next four years, he should be chosen as the man. Deserves Punishment And if the Democratic party nominates a reactionary this year, as now looks probable, that party deserves punishment. It will have stood in the way of what this country needs, which is two major parties, one really conservative and one really progressive. It needs such an alignment so that conservatives and progressives may vote their opinions. I warn the Democrats that no larceny of the La Follette ideas will win for them if a reactionary Democrat is nominated. ( Hundreds of thousands of progressives will refuse to be bound by such action. They will vote for La Follette first. And in States where a vote for La Follette will do no good* they will vote for Coolidge. Their motto will be: “Why Chang© Coolidges?” Science Laplace, the great astronomer, developed the theory of the nebular hypothesis to answer the problem of how the solar system happened to be in -existence. The nebular hypothesis. however, has been failing rapidly of late years and has nowbeen destroyed by a mathematical process known as the angular momentum. According- to the latest theory, the solar system was born by chance. A passing star traveled close to the sun. The tides in the mass of the sun rose higher and higher as the intruder came nearer. Part of the sun's substance flowed out from the regions of high tide, as the attraction of the star became strong enough, and formed streams of gaseous material. Finally, as the star receded, this ejected matter was left moving around near the sun. Eventually it circulated about the sun and became a newly born planet. This theory has been worked out in detail by Jeffreys and Jean. English mathematicians. NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yourself—All Models .Vo Red Tape. New Central Station LINCOLN GARAGE <8 Kentucky Ave. Lincoln 7686