Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1924 — Page 4

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THE BATTLE IS ON HE fight against exorbitant telephone rates is on. The public service commission is battling in the interest of the people against a corporation seeking to squeeze two profits from the business concerns and private telephone users of Indianapolis. Business men are up in arms The Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association are in the fight in the interest of all the people. This fight should continue until a showdown is reached. It should continue until we know once and for all whether the public has -any control over a monopoly dealing in a necessity, or whether such a concern, having eliminated competition and the ordinary control of duly constituted officials, can rule according to its own sweet will. The public service commission is planning an order to reduce the new measured service rate. The company probably will combat such an order From this fight should develop a definite showdown. Nothing should be left undone in carrying on the fight in behalf of the public The commission, if its orders are not permitted to stick, should not hesitate to appeal its case to the Supreme Court of the United States Money spent in such a fight is money well spent. Thousands for the establishment of the rights of the people, but not one cent for double profits for the telephone trust.

ANOTHER FOURTH OF JULY ■priNE HUNDRED and forty-eight years ago today a group of kJ men who believed, what Woodrow Wilson later uttered, that “the right is more precious than p°ace" signed a document defying King George of England to do his worst and started this country on its way as an independent nation It was an sxperiment in independence It was followed some years later by the Constitution, an experiment in self-government. We wonder today, as we again celebrate the signing of that impudent document, what the fathers of our country would think if they could see us today. Would they be proud of the manner in which their ideas and ideals have been carried out. or would they be grieved at our perversion of their original intentions. We wonder. Recently in Cleveland there was a demonstration of the self-governim-nt that they planned. A candidate picked by a few men in a baclp room because he represented their partciular ideas of a man who would give them what they wanted wa> nominated. In NewtVork we have a political convention turned into a war betweeiy religions. What would the signers of the Declaration of Independence have thought of a religious fight in American politics? What would they have thought of such a controversy in a country the very foundations of which rest on the right of freedom Worship? f The American Government is an accumulation rather than a growth. It has become all cluttered up with selfish interests We know that this is not making the eagle scream in the accepted Fourth of July manner. But what is an anniversary if not a time to pause and take stock? Perhaps we need anew Declaration of Independence, declaring that we will be free from all the rubbish that has accumulated in our national home since the original Declaration was ■dgned Let’s get back to fundamentals.

808 WILL BE WELCOME TTfIITH a middle of the road platform and convention on dead W center, the Democrats offer little hope of an open door to the host of American voters who seek to get definitely away —far away —from colorless, machine-ridden, so-called two-party politics Two distinct parties, with definite and opposite theories of government are normal and necessary. So far, they do nos exist. The two old parties are as like as peas in a pod. But there must be. and will be a whole-hearted liberal and idealistic protest vote no matter who is for it, no matter who is against it. This is an outstanding fact of this campaign year. Under the circumstances, the expected La Follette candidacy is certain to be welcomed by the disgusted independent voters of both old parties with an enthusiasm that will keep the professional politicians guessing hard between now and election day—and maybe guessing harder afteward Senator La Follette needs no introduction, no ponderous convention to nominate him, no formally written platform to set forth his views. After his years of a fearless and consistent service at Washington he himself needs nothing. It is a large body of the American people who need and look forward to an opportunity of voting for him, and the things he stands for. Considering the situation that this country is in today, considering the low ebb to which their job-holding leaders and campaign contributors have brought the honor and reputations of the two major parties this newspaper recognizes the need of a new party such as would be crystalized in the La Follette candidacy This newspaper is not afraid of a single one of the planks in the Wisconsin La Follette platform. At least we do know that not one of them was dictated or revised by Wall Street or any other form of invisible government. AN EASTERN song writer has been sent to jail, but it wasn’t justice, for he was not the yes-banana fellow.

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ROMANCE IS TAKEN OUT OF RIVER Modern Methods Replace Picturesque Steamboat Transportation, By GEORGE BRITT yFA Service Writer IT. LOUIS, July 4.—“ There ain’t no such animal,” was __ the attitude of the Mark Twain school of old-time Mississippi River pilots when they first saw the smallish, ugly, oil-burning, tunneltype, screw-propelled power boats of the Federal barge line. And the ghostly timbers of the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez probably shiver to this day In their muddy graves when the newcomers puff up and down their river. But romance is not so apparent as when planters from broad verandas used to watch slim, white packet boats come racing ’round the bend. “What is being done now on the Mississippi River,” says Theodore Brent, manager of the barge line, "is as romantic as railroading—and no more so. “Its facilities are as practical as those of the best organized railroad. Its methods are aimed at applying the best in railroad practice to transportation by water.” * Cranes Replace Stevedores The picturesque crews of stevedores and deckhands which used to put color and song into the landigs along the river have been crowded out. too. In their places are gian* concrete wharf barges or permanent docks, equipped with cranes and tracks, for quick, mechanical loading and unloading. In exchange for the traditional picturesqueness, the Federal barge line gives efficient, businesslike common carrier service. It has recon* verted the river from a mere drainage ditch into a highway. Even old “Steamboat Bill” and his mates warmed up to the newcomers when they saw them get behind a fleet of steel barges and walk off with them, 7,000 tons upstream or 15.000 tons downstream. 0 The Federal barge line was con-

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MODERN TOWBOAT AND ITS STRING OF BARGES IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT MEMPHIS.

ceived as a war measure and started in September, 1918, with a makeshift lleet. Now it is operatii/j about ten towboats, two self-pro-pelling barges and more than fifty cargo barges, most of them of 2,000 tons and some of 3,000 tons capacity. It maintains a year-around schedule between Orleans and Cairo, 111., and between St. Louis and Cairo except during the frozen-up months. Cooperation with hostile railroads has been effected to obtain a •connecting, feeder service. Boats leaving St. Louis on Friday evenings reach New Orleans, 1,154 miles by water, on the following Wednesday night. Dispatching is by wireless, each towboat reporting its position every three hours. Big Saving to Shipper Last year the barge line carried 327.511 tons of freight southbound, and 2*57.504 tons northbound. The charge is approximately 80 per cent of railroad rates. Saving to the | shipper is estimated at an average of $1.35 a ton. Three principles have guided the ' promoters of the barge line: That rail and highway facilities | are insufficient to meet transportation ne 'ds. That water-borne commerce is ; cheaper, as dependable and more de- ; sirable for certain commodities. That as the whole people pay taxes for the waterways, all are entitled to the cheaper transportation whether they live on the river bank or inland. It was an experiment on the start, according to Col. T. Q. Ashburn, chief of the inland and coastwise waterways service. But it has proved that millions spent to make the lower Mississippi navigable were not wasted.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, July 4.—There is a touch of the open spaces in the pitiful summer life of better-living New Yorkers, who crowd into apartments like bees In a hive. It is to be seen in their “back yards,” the valleys buried deep in the recesses of their sky-shooting abodes. As I write thi3 I am overlooking the large court of an entire city block composed of hotels and large apartment buildings. Checker-boarded below are grass plots, a few feet wide, separated by high board fences. There is one tree synthetically green in the sunless life it leads. The ground floor pati-ons of these buildings also have the use of the “back yard.” They vie in decorating them and * in keeping flowers in bloom during the warm months. Patrons on floors higher up beg for the opportunity to go below and dabble pale and anaemic hands in mother earth’s garden. On each landing of the . stairstep array of buildings there aro roof gardens, oftentimes only a few feet in length and breadth. Flower boxes and summer furniture decorate them. Lucky tenants occupying apartments adjoining them, spend much of their spare time there, envied by luckless tenants who have a seat at an open window as a summer porch. The tenants higher up watch with interest the progress of vegetation in the “hack yards” below. There Is wistfulness in the gaze.,of many as they look upon the scene —• a wistfulness caused by reminiscences of this beautiful season in Indiana. lowa, Ohio, and other open States, from where the majority of these folks came. A Thought It is more biassed to give than to receive.—Acts 20.35. i In this world, it is not what wb | take up. but what we give up, that I makes us rich. —Beecher. One for the Collector “Look ’ere, sir, I’m tin I .’climbI in' up all these stairs week after week to collect this hill." “Well. I’ve good news tor you— I'm moving down to the basement tomorrow!” —Punch.

Sensitive A young woman of heroic build met a man who had known her father and mother. As he gazed at this plump Juno the light of memory’ came into his eyes. “Let me see,” he mused, “which side of the house do you resemble most?” “Sir,” she cried, “I don't resemble the side of any house.” —Ex. Mother's Shoe Dealer “This shoe pinches my joint." “Sorry, madam, but all the joints in town are pinched,”—American Legion Weekly.

ALASKA AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOURS Make your vacation trip this summer in some of the wonderfully interoatlnj? places in the United States and Alaska and the Canadian Rockies. C anadian Rookies * atifornln Glacier Parks . . Colorado AlttKkn Yellowstone Grand Canyon Pacific Northwest Great I,akes Yoh emit* Ask Us About the Above Tours and Others We Mill Re Glud to Explain to You MAin 1576 FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MAin 1576 t RICHARD A. KURTZ., Manager *2O East Market Street

AMERICANS AT MERCY OF CABLES Activities in This Country Garbled in Eastern Papers, Bv WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. ASHINGTON, July 4.—Astounding as it may seem, >___! Americans are absolutely | without means of their own to communicate with the people of the Far East —now when peace or war in the Pacific is being decided. The United States Government can communicate with Peking, of course, over its own radio. But we must depend almost exclusively on crafty foreign powers to Interpret and present America’s side of the story to the oriental public. Dangerously distorted news is being circulated by foreign subsidized news agencies throughout China and other parts of the Far East bearing on Japanese exclusion and other acts of the United States. Because there is no American-con-trolled facility for the quick transmission of American news, England. Japan, France and Italy beat us to the spot with their versions of everything that happens, so by the time our own version arrives it is generally “old stuff" and is not printed. Incident Is Cited But there is danger in the situation. One incident, which I personally watched, will show what I mean. In China just before the Washington Conference of 1921. the whole country was inflamed over a Japanese press association report to the I effect that President Harding’s Cab- : inet had discussed the “internationilzaticn” of China-—in plain English. international receivership anl control. The second-day story had it thaf Secretary Hoover had been the one to propose this thing, though he had not lone so officially at a cabinet meeting. A third-day story was lhat Scorej ’ary Hoover had suggested a receivership for China, not officially. | but at a luncheon where he had |spoken. The fourth-dav admitted it wa> not Secretary Hoover, hut a “high official” who had suggested the thing j informally and privately. Damage Is Done Then came . denial from America that anybody had offered such , ' sugges- 1. ~ But the damage was done. Few saw- the denial. Million-* head the scare head items which had come first. Reuters cables from Tendon columns of world news .aily for distribution throughout the Far East Through nn arrangement with the British government these < '!•!••* cos? R-uters litt!. or nothing Th-y serve to keep Britain prominently before ! the pub in that part of the world and in j,r* ois-ly the light site wishes jto appear. | These rahi-s contain much American news particularly what the Govert.it ent in Washington is do ing. and of course with a British slant. Havas is doing precisely the same I thing f r France. Kok tsai for Japan and Stefanl for Italy. AmeVira rightly refuses to have a i subsidized press association. But | neither is a means provided for in i dependent news agencies in the Unit' and states, at their own expense, to tell Uncle Ibni's story to orientals. v et when relations between this routnry and the Far East are as delicate as they are now, a few incidents. highly colored to suit sinister foreign purposes and craftily circulated, might well plunge us into war.

Our Heritage By HAL COCHRAN. Out in the open, today folks are gropin’ For sunshine and fresh air and rest. A picnic affray is the call of the day And with freedom we all appear blest. Our spirit ncreases and worrytime ceases: We leisurely turn out to play. And, just ’cause we dare to, we do what we care to, For that is the call of the day. Through long years of schooling, we've conquered self ruling: Old Glory is boldly unfurled. The free breezes blow it and how well we know it Has gained the respect of the world. It isn’t surprising that we're realiz ing, From cities 'way out to the sticks The world can’t enslave us; 'twa? freedom it gave us. In Seventeen Seventy-Six. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc/ Sounding Her Dad “I do not require that the mar who marries my daughter shall hr rich. All I aslc is that he be able to keen out of debt." “Would you consider a man lr tie!)* who borrows money from his father-in-law?” —Boston Transcrip.

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K. K. WIZA RD SHUNS THE \ SPOTLIGHT Bossert of Indiana, However, Is Somewhat More Sociable. By HARRY B HUNT NEA S' t vice Writer rn NJ < ...rn -ntion vino .hint try to get bp'Cili pass, s to Mid.S, n Sc;. ,r Garden ~u who evad' and lather j than sought, the si - ight, w.s | Hiram W Evans, imperial wizard j . f the Ku K \ Klan Evans. \. .n-r th>- omen: c-, cry incognito, registering .is one of a “party withs nd- front Washing ->n. D. f . wis more completely shrouded from sight during the con- 1 vent an than be would have l--n wearing the p md gown of his nystk order But he k--pt in el se touch with ■lie proceeding* by rich. pi.ticuUrly during the fight to name the Klan ipecificaliy in th< platform denunciation of organizations fostering re Jigious and radical hatreds. Evans, who Is a dentist and once pulled teeth down in Texas for a living, occurled a suite of five rooms at an uptown skyscraper hotel close to the center of political activities. Not Exclusive Not so exclusive in his clannishness was Walter Bossert. Klan grand dragon of Indiana and imperial >rganizer for the Kluxers in twenty other States. While he didn’t attempt to get chummy with the A1 Smith delegates, nor even call on Pattangail of Maine nr Quigley 0 f Massachusetts to convert th. .1 to his opinion of the Klan as an institution, he did browse about a bit and give interested New Yorkers an opportunity to see just what a real live, flesh-and-blood Klar.sman looks like. They saw. in Bossert, a smiling.

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pleasant smooth-shaven gent of the traveling salesman type. A bit inclined to stoutness, he carries also an air of prosperity and success, .as though he had made a go at selling tiis iine and had c ished in a comfortable competence in so doing, lie Is Politician Re-fore lie took up his organizing labors for the Klan. Bossert was a small town lawyer in Ind n;i iiis first experience in or ganhafi >n work was in helping Will H Hays overhaul and get in runring order the t;. O. P. machine in the H State. Whet L.-r - was anything polit, ,1 iu p.ii-s*ti’s mind when he turtle i .q-g inizei for the Klan, per hips i.e himself doesn’t know. Many, however, believe he believed Klan offered a she t eat to poil..■a! inf; : e and power. At least .t has g ••.••n him that. Ask The Times Vou ■ in *ct ii s.aner U> any nue*nen o S iu> t or mlorujaiion by *mm| to the liMiatiapoii* limei Wa=iunclun B-.ir-'a I. 1322 New York Are , Wash* : Ke ll D C . inoio.-ins ~ ctiue in at imps nr repi.v Medical. >sal and ninr.ta! adve" cannot be given, nor ci-i *xp ndc* reach be undertaken. A other que-uers will receive a per- ► ot.a’ reply Unsigned requests cannot ! rn-wred. A l letters are conhdectin —Edttor When dll Harry Thaw shoot Stanford White? June 25, 1903. How many hones has the skeleton of a whale? About 200. What is the speed of an electric locomotive? In recent tests at Erie. Pa., an electric locomotive attained a speed of 105 miles an hour. Did George Washington have to take out naturalization papers? No. Asa matter of fact the first general immigration law was not enacted until ISS2, many years after the death of Washington, which occurred in 1799. How many miles of railroad are there in the United States? 235,234.

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Torn Sims Says Some men stay away so much that when t.uey do eat at home they look for the menu. No Fourth of July is complete without somebody .ailing our flag “The colors that never run.” Every auto accident is caused by jay walkers or .ay elrivers. We have our u -and downs. An cptinust looks forward to the ups trid a pessimist to the downs. Justice is blind, but most of us think we are eye doctors. ie college h.s been giving the herm an era few honorary degrees. Our idea of fun would be being I one of lii'so mammals frozen in the ! ice ten million years ago. Men are known by the company i they keep; women by the clothes I they keep on wearing. June is gone and those who managed to stay singl? through it are fairly safe for another eleven I months. Collectors usuall haunt a man when the ghost walks at the office A common dog is the safest watch ; dog. Get a good dog and some bur- , glar is liable to steal him. No matter how old a gas meter ! gets, it is always anxious to run. The demand for people who are ; polite exceeds the supply. Too many tired business men work themselves into heart failure trying to avoid business failure. They captured 300 barrels of beer in Philadelphia. Had barrels of fun. In Los Angeles, a man pawned his wife's gold teeth, and corn-on-the-cobb ripe, too. International Nickel Company says business is good, but our nickels don’t seem to be working very hard. The man who designed a New York pipe organ having 640 stops must have been an auto mechanic.

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