Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1924 — Page 10

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SPEED ARRESTS TAKE INCREASE Seven Motorists Slated Over Night, Speed arrests took an upward trend Thursday night when seven were arrested after a week of apparently little speeding. In spite of the slight increase Police Chief Herman Rikhoff raid he thought the week would show the smallest amount of arrests since the drive began. It was also noted that many of the arrests were made In the early hours of the morning and motorcycle officers say that the excuse mostly given was that the drivers were anxious to get home. Those arrested Thursday night on the charge of speeding were: Alford Reed. 23, of 2235 Kenwood Ave.; Fay O. Ellis, 24, of 1120 TV. Thirty-Fourth St.; Fred Schowengerdt, 19, of 131 Kemp St.; Lawrence Phillips,' 22. of 837 Middle Drive. ■Woodruff Place; Jess Morgan, 24, of 2050 X. Dearborn St.; John 1L Hogan, 24. of 183S X. Capitol Ave.; John Hembright, 34, colored, of 316 W. Michigan St. Tim Gallawa:, 24, of 2435 Station St., is charged with driving while intoxicated and transporting liquor. George Davis, 33, of 937 X. Meridna St., Is also charged with driving while Intoxicated, and Harley Lang, 30, of the same address, who was with him, is charged with intoxication. Eivin Smith. 19. colored, of R. R. C, box 274, is charged with malicious trespass and driving on the left side of the street. HEADS FUND QORPS Alfred O. Kauffmann to Direct 2,000 Fund Workers. Pledges for the thirty-nine local social organizations will be gathered into the Community Fund by an army of 2,000 workers under direction of an executive committee, headed by Alfred O. Kauffmann, president of the Link Belt Company. The executive committee includes Arthur Baxter, Almus G. Ruddell, Xicholas H. Xoyes, William J. Mooney, Sr., Edward A. Kahn and A. L. Taggart. Those willing to serve as workers are asked to report to the Community Fund headquarters, third floor of the Chapiber of Commerce building.

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FIGHT FOR TIME TO PROBE FINANCE BILLS IN SENATE By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE

“MY OWN STORY” Is an exclusive newspaper version of one of the gTeat autobiographies of modern times; La Foliette* own story of adventures in politics as written by himself in 1912. together with an authorized narrative of his experiences in the years since then. (SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS IN- * STALLMEN’TS) After years spent in fighting the political bosses in the House of Representatives and later as Governor of Wisconsin. La Foliette is elected to the Senate in 1905. In the Senate he realizes th.lt he is regarded as a crank and disturber of the peace. With the support of Presient Roosevelt he draws up a bill providing that all coal lands shall be reserved by the general government and shall not be sold. Later the President notifies him that the provisions of the bill are too drastic and that a compromise measure will have to be agreed upon. La Foliette, believes, however, that this would mean a sacrifice of the basic principles involved. Roosevelt was the keenest and ablest living interpreter of what I would call the superficial public sentiment of a given time, and he was spontaneous in his response to 1 it; but he did not distinguish be--1 tween that which is a mere surface indication of a sentiment and the j building up by a long process of I education of a public opinion which , is as deep-rooted as life. Had Roosevelt, for example, when j he came to consider railroad rate regulation, estimated correctly the value of public opinion that had been created upon that subject through -a space of nine years, Le would have Jcnown to a certainty that it lay in his power to secure legislation which should effectually control the great transportation companies of the country. But either through a desire to get immediate results, or through a misunderstanding of really profound depth of that public sentiment, he chose to get what little he could i then, rather than to take a temporary defeat and go on fighting at the succeeding session of Congress for legislation that would be fundamen- • tally sound. To get back to the coal mat‘er. | I knew Instinctively what had taken place immediately after the Introduction of my bill. Representatives of the railroads and of the corporations, both inside and outside of Congress, probably had swarmed to j the White House, denounced the j bill, denounced me and told the ! President that the plan I had of- • sered was socialistic and that the , committe would not tolerate it. Well, after the President decided j he could not support the hill which ! I had introduced, it had no chance ! of passing the Committee on Public I Lands. Ends Legislation And no other measure proposed received the support of the people • of the country who a. ere in favor of genuine conservation. That ended.

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for the time being, any chance of legislation on that subject. The simple scheme of dominating the committees In the Senate and the House, as exemplified in the case of these coal land bills, is the familiar procedure of those private interests both inside and outside of Congress which seek to direct national legislation. Any attempt to bring about progressive reforms is' met by this entrenched opposition. Xow, I had grown tired of sitting in the Senate and seeing appropriation bills carrying hundreds of millions of dollars brought in, not reasonably early in the session, but held back, held back, until near its close. Such delay served two purposes: The appropriation bill having the right of way under the rules could be used to kill off any measure that the interests did not want passed. Furthermore, it could be urged that there was no time for full debate. One afternoon, therefore, when Mr. Hale arose and presented the naval appropriation bill, stating that he hoped the first readjing of the bill would be dispensed with, I said that I had had no opportunity to see what was in the bill; that I thought the time had come when the Senate should stop such proceedings; that my remarks were not intended as an affront to the committee, but that each of us had his personal responsibility to his State and to his country, and tliat the organization of the Senate contemplaed hat legislation should not be enacted by the fifteen or seventeen men who constituted the committee, about whose selection the Senate Itself had very little to say. Rebuked At once Mr. Hale started in to rebuke me. I told him that I was not accountable to him for the course that I was taking; that I stood ready to assume all the responsibility for any loss of time to the country on this important legislation; that appropriation bills, it seemed to me, should be reported early enough so that members of the Senate could have a few days at least in which to investigate them, and I asked that he defer pressing the bill for a day or two. But Hale made no response and the clerk started to read the bill. T had not studied the Naval Appropriation bill at all, but I began to send for documents and I determined to speak on the bill until adjournment for the day and thus gain time to study It. Hale saw that I was quite determined to prevent the passage of the bill that afternoon and so he rose and said that he wanted to be rea-

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sonable about these things, and the bill went over finally until the following Monday. I went home that night and immediately began getting telephone ohlls from naval officers here in Washington, who said they were gratified to see that there was to be fome discussion of the bill; that there were many things about it that were bad; that we were making expenditures wastefujly; that they had pride in the navy and that they wanted to see a navy built up for the ocean, and not for the land. I answered that I would be glad to have them meet me and certain of my associates who would be selected with the greatest care, and who would protect them absolutely.

MRS. LA FOLLETTE AT HER HOME. Then I called in Cummins, Borah and Dixon. I called Dixon because he had come to me after my tilt with Hale and expressed sympathy with the course I had taken. This was the first gathering of the group of so-called Progressives in the Senate for concerted action on legislation. We spent the entire Sunday on it, insisted by a number of naval ificers anil threshed out the whole 11. When we had determined on e items in the bill that should be •pposed, we shared them among us :md each one went to work. In the course of the debate on the naval appropriation bill which followed, the Senate bosses for the first time were vigorously attacked for the way they made up the committees. We did not get. any change in that particular biy, for they had a big majority and pa-ss'ed it in spite of us, hut. at the close of the debate I j offered a resolution ns fundameni tally important in principle as the resolution that I offered for the reservation of the coal Jands, wtth reference to naval appropriations In the futu re. That resolution provided that the President should appoint a board of naval experts to investigate all of the naval harbors, yards and drydpeks in the United States, and report to | the next Congress whether appropriations were being made in the best Interests of the service and whether appropriations for the future ought to be continued for these various purposes. They voted me down, hut a few weeks after this, Roosevelt, just before he went out of office, appointed just such a hoard, which Jater made a valuable report. I made a fight for time to investigate all Important appropriation bills during that session, and since then Immediate consideration is rarely asked upon the report of an appropriation bill. Reform Needed There Is indeed a gTeat field for reform, not only in the method of sejeeting the members of the various committees of the Senate, but in the principle that should control. I do not believe that any committee charged with the responsibility of

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the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars of the pubjic moneys should be composed of Senators or members of the House representing States within which such expenditures are made. Frye, I remember, picked me up in that debate, and asked me if I would apply that same rule to the Committee on Commerce, of which I was chairman. I answer£t£ “By all means.” I cj>ntende<s that the final exepnditure should be made with a single purpose in mind, and that was the public Interest,' their general good, and that could only be made by men who had no politiocal interest to serve. It Is a common thing for members and Senators to urge, as one of the arguments'in making their personal and semi-confidential appeal to their friends upon the various committees, that the expenditure of so many hundred of thousands of lollars in their districts or their States would materially help them in their coming election. 1 Senator Warren of Wyoming, in 1911, in a speech made to his constituents, compared the ambunt he and his colleague had obtained In the way of appropriations for Wyoming with what other Senators had been able to get for some of the most important States in our Union —and boasted of It as a meritorious achievement. x The most important thing of all is to send honest men to Washington —men in this time of stress who want to serve the public and nobody else. The abler these men are, the better, but above all the people should see to It that their representatives are honest —not merely money honest, but intellectually honest. 7 _ Jethro was a wise counsellor when he said to Moses, “Thou shalt provide out of all the people, able'men such as fear God, men of-truth, hating covetousness.” \ I have said that the legislation in which I took the greatest Interest as a member of the Ileuse of Representatives ’ as the enactment of the Interstate commerce act. And when I cam© to the Senate, nineteen years later, I found the 6ame subject as the most important legislation pending. The Hepburn bill, amending the interstate commerce act, had passed the House and was before the Senate. (Copyright. 1924, NKA Service, Inc.) (Continued In Our Next Issue) Boy’s Arm Broken in Play Ottis Mattox, 9, 1110 E. Georgia St., son of Mrs. Bessie Mattox, was in the city hospital today with a broken arm. which he received while playing across the street from his home. Police say another boy pushed him.

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NO OFFERS FOR DUESENBERG CO. Debt of $3,000,000 Slows Sale of Factory, The Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company, Inc., now' in receivership, will be sold as soon as possible. Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash said today. The plant is worth $400,000 he said, with a total debt of $3,210,000 against it. Although efforts have "been made by W. T. Rasmussen, receiver, to sell the factory, no offers have been received, Judge Bash said, because there is $3,000,000 in preferred stock out. “Re-organization is difficult, because nobody wants to put half a million dollars in the business to put it on a paying basis, and have to share with the old stockholders,” he said. “Os course, we can sell It out from tinder the stockholders to the highest \iflder. Imagine selling $3,000,000 worth of stock on assets worth one-sixth that amount!” Two -or three cars a week are being turned out tjy the receiver, Judge Bash said, because the plant would be worth little if junked. FORMER PRESIDENT DEAD S’ Services Here Saturday for William , Drapler. Funeral services for 'William Drapior, 55. formerly of Indianapolis, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at Harry D. Tutewiler funeral chapel, 1549 N. Meridian St. Burial to be in Crown Hill cemetery. , Mr. Drapler was a pioneer in the surety business in Indianapolis. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Marion Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Episcopal Church. Surviving are the widow, a sister, Mrs. Edward Itaub of Indianapolis, and an uncle, Charles Drapler of Mishawaka, Ind.

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PERSHING WON BY MERIT War Secretary Baker Has Article in Legion W r eekly. Fidelity to orders and his previous military record caused the selection of Gen. John J. Pershing to lead the A. E. F. in 1917, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary,of War, made public in an article in the American Legion Weekly today. General Pershing, who will retire from active service Sept. 12, was not known to Secretary Baker or President Wilson at the time of his appointment, but selection was based after a study of records by Gen. Hugh L. Scott, then chief of Staff. Sign Falls; Two Hurt M. C. Thomas, 38, of 535 E. Dr., Woodruff PI., and Peter Stoner, 50, of Denison Hotel, are recovering from slight cuts about the head and

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back received Thijrsday when a g/ass sign fell twenty-five feet from the balcony of the hotel and struck them on the head. NEW TRAGEDY IN DEATHS Mother Unable to Attend Funeral of Michaelis Children. Because of illness, Mrs. John Bertel, 2122 St., was unable to / attend the funeral of her three children, Marthadoris, William and Clyde Michaelis, killed in an automobile accident Tuesday near Lebanon, at Finn Brothers parlors this afternoon. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. William Cohen, 215 E. ThirtyFourth St., aunt of the children, who was injured in the accident, was unable to leave the hospital at Lebanon.