Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1924 — Page 4

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IN IYHICH WE COMMIT HERESY lr_|HE professional politicians are not going to like this, but || 1 then they don't like anything that is going to hurt professional politicians. S Anyway, we believe the city of Indianapolis should be run lon a business basis. y Having made this startling and destined-to-be-called radical Istatement, we repeat our assertion that he city of Indianapolis ■should have anew charter. Going even farther, we believe ■the citizens of Indianapolis should be allowed to choose their ■form of government and that if tjjjey want a city manager ■they should be allowed to have one, What is more, we believe the Legislature should keep hands off of Indianapolis, so far as this can be done under the State Constitution. We might even add that the latter could be improved. Having committed heresy in this manner, we hasten to add that we do not approve of everything Mayor Shank says should be included in anew plan of city government. We would have some things that he has not mentioned. But we do believe, as we stated yesterday, that the mayor is on the right track. His proposal to employ attorneys to draft anew city ordiInance is a good one. But right at the start the best attorneys ■ available for the work should be obtained. • ■ When the attorneys are employed, their action should not Ibe hasty. They should study the situation carefully. They ■should learn in detail what other cities have done during recent ■years when enormous strides have been made in the progress ■of municipal affairs. f They should take the best of these things and write them into anew constitution for the city. Then the people of Indianapolis should get behind them and see that the Legislature allows the city to have what it wants. Indianapolis should not he intimidated by out-State legislators who have a paternal interest yi their capital city, an interest which usually takes the form of. removing from the people of Indianapolis the right to govern themselvifs. We don’t believe political parties should have anything to Ido with the management of a city. It does not make a particle ■of difference whether a mayor is a Republican or a Democrat | or a mugwump so long as he is a good mayor. I The party system may be all right nationally, but it has no ■place in local affairs. Nobody can define the difference between, la Republican mayor and a Democratic mayor except that one I belongs to one political machine and the other to another. I The government of a city is a business proposition. Qualification and not party is what counts. The police and fire departments are organized to protect the citizens of the city, not to participate in politics. The city controller and the various boards are supposed to attend to the business of the city and not to the business of an organization bearing a party label. 3 Party politics is so deeply imbedded in our municipal afIfairs that it is tocumuch to hope it can be entirely eradicated in la moment. But if Indianapolis can take a step in this direction |the city will have progressed. Now let the politicians howl.

“GO HIRE A HALL’—AND THEN SOME ‘<l rj-i|HE issue of this campaign.” says Mr. Coolidge, ‘‘is com--1 * 1 mon sense.” And he practices what he preaches. In days of yore when a man had something in his system that he wanted to say Common Sense told him to ‘‘Go Hire a Hall.” But suppose one hired a hall and nobody came? Common Sense tells us that that would be no good. ‘‘Go hire an audience.” says Common Sense. No sooner said than done. Mr. Coolidge wanted to make a Labor Day speech. He didn't have to hire a hall because he had the White House rent free. But he did need an audience. Go hire one. No sooner said than done. Mr. T. V. O’Connor, who was appointed chairman of the Shipping Board at $12,000 per annum, was appealed to. O’Connor used to be president of the Longshoremen's Union. Over in the Interstate Commerce Commission was Joe MacArdle, a government inspector with a card in the Railway Trainmen. Out in Sandusky. Ohio, was Mayor George F. Frietas, president of the Licensed Tuemen’s Protective Association, whose 800 members (all licensed captains or engineers—no sailors) were dropped from membership in the Longshoremen's Union, last January, for non-payment of per capita dues. Over in the White House was Bascom Slemp with his trusty mimeograph. Out in the country* were 112 others. Not 112 labor leaders, but 112. The stage was set. Slemp proudly passed out to the newspapermen a mimeographed manuscript giving the 115 names—including the addresses of thirty-four of them—and carefully prepared speeches that MacArdle and Frietas would make to the President. Also what Mr. Coolidge would say to the toilgrimed O’Connor and MacArdle and Frietas and the 112. Mr. O’Connor was asked if he paid the hotel bills of the 112. He said no, only for some of his friends. Chairman Butler was asked if the Republican National Committee had paid the car fare. He said it hadn’t. Being asked if it would pay he said he had made no promises. Slemp said the President didn’t know anything about the labor audience nor who they were nor where thev came from nor how. Slemp also said it was all a surprise to him. The inference is that he suddenly woke up with the mimeographed lists and Speeches in his hand and it was too near meeting time to stop and ask questions. Why. nobody even had time to dab grease on his nose or even slip into his dungarees or overalls. But there were represented unions that were never heard of and unions were represented by men they had never heard of and the speeches went off fine. It was such a success that MacArdle has taken leave of his government job and gone over to New York to be the head of the labor bureau of the Republican National Committee’s headquarters there. All in all it was a triumpji for Common Sense, the paramount issu* of the campaign. £ ‘‘lf ydu want to make a speech,sgtrhire an audience.” A new political maxim is thus bestoweav upon us.

A UDIENCE NOT LABOR LEADERS President’s Crowd Merely Friends of GovernmentEmploye, Times 'Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are. J ASHINGTON, Sept. s.—That VX/ Labor day “audience,” addressed by President Cooh'dge | and represented in an official White /House news bulletin as a “delegation jof labor leaders who visited - the ! President,” was composed, not of labor leaders, but of the fi-iends of T. V. O’Connor, chairman of the I United States Shipping Hoard. ! O’Connor is authority for this i statement. “Did you pay the bills for the visitors?" Mr. O'Connor was asked. “Go ask the men themselves," he replied. The men had already left Washington. Pressed for a reply, O’Connor said angrily: “Well, what if I did pay their hotel bills and such? They are my friends. Haven’t Ia right to pay mv friends' bills If I feel like it?" He “Knows Nothing" While O’Connor was trying to justify the "free trip to Washington and return to hear President Coolidge," Chairman Butler of the Re publican national committee and Secretry Slemp were busily engaged in reviving the "Know-Nothing party.” “I know nothing about the whole proposition. It all happened so quickly that I didn’t know about it until It was all over," said Chair- ! man Butler. “I know nothing, absolutely nothj Ing. about the matter. It was all J handled by O'Connor,” said Seoj retary Slemp. Slemp said the President also knows nothing. leaders, however, know something. Tbe current issue of “I-abor." the organ of the .railroad brotherhoods, said: j “One of the rawest' political fake3 ever attempted in a presidenTbil cam- ! paign was staged In Washington on | Labor day. It was engineered by |l. V. O’Connor, chairman of the ! Shipping Board, with the coopera- ; tion and full approval of President Coolidge. "It is evident—although the White House statement eareftiUy avoided ■ ihis important point—that not one 4of the visitors was the official representative of his organization. Some on Pay Hell “Among them were a number who are on the pay roll of either the Government or the Republican national committee, including Joseph Mac Ardie. a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, but now head of the ‘labor bureau* in President Coolldge's Eastern headquarters. (Until Sunday, Aug 31, Mac Ardie was an employe in the Inters’ate Commerce Commission). “The object of th,- demonsijayim at the White House was.two-fold “First, President Coolidge's campaign mangers have become seriously alarmed over the wholesale defection of workers f rom the 1 Republican ranks. In the beginning of the campaign the Republican politicians were consoling themselves with the I thought that there is no such thing ! as the ‘labor vote.’ Now they are discovering that it is a very real influence and that the organized workers are supporting Da Follette and Wheeler as they never supported a presidential ticket In this country. "Second, the Coolidge managers wanted to crowd the opening speeches of Senator T/O. Follette and Wheeler off the first page of American newspapers. . . . When this fact trickled through to the .Republican managers they decided a ’labor party’ must he arranged for the President. "They soon found that none of the leaders of organized labor would participate in the affair, so they proj ceeded to bring to Washington and the White House any trade unionist In the Eastern tSates who could be induced to help out. “It was the first time a President of the United States found it necessary to hire an audience to listen to his views." ,

In New York By STEVE lIANNACAN NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Persona of all ages, walks of life and sections of the country write stage plays, but few of them are pvSr produced. Each day the office of a prominent producer is swamped with manuscripts. Miss Cello Houston, a talented play reader, relates that few manuscripts submitted do not have some point of unusual interest and originality, but that few of them maintain a sustained interest throughout. Even those penned by successful playwrights frequently have to be rewritten in many spots. Sex plays, the leading incidents undoubtedly taken from the lives of,the writers, predominate. Although many excellent ideas are suggested by unknowns, they fall short of production in that they have no definite plot and are not practical because the author knows nothing of the Intimate workings of the theater—the mechanics of the stage. Miss Houston reads between five and ten plays each day. Always she reads from the first word to the last no matter how uninteresting the subject matter may he. “T have been doing this for several years.” she says, “and I am thoroughly convinced that writing a gohd and successful play ts prohably the most difficult thing In the world to accomplish.” She is one of the very few people connected with the New York stage who has not written, tried to write or at least planned to write a play. A Thought Cast me not away from thy presence;- and take not thy holy spirit from me.—Ps. 51:11. • * • Purity in persons and In morals is true Godliness. —Hosea Ballou.

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Canning By HAL 1 COCHRAN Now comes an odor, a wonderful odor, that tickles your palate to death. It floats o’er the breezes and, oh, how it pleases! What pleasure to draw in each breath. The call’s from the kitchen; your appetite’s itchin’. Tou know what is stored on the shelf. The neighborhood smells it and cooking compels It to make you desire it yourself. The fresh touch Qf peaches and plums fairly screeches, and pineapple, too, fills the air. There’s essence. of cherries and all sorts of berries. What wonderful blending is there. A worthy old metal—that big bolting kettle that heats to the 'proper dpgree. Just think what it's doing, i what pleasure It’s brewing from | fruit stuffs for you and for me. And also remember, this coming j December, when canned things art J being enjoyed—the person who ] cooked 'em and ne’er overlooked ’em, 1 a lot of hard labor employed. . (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Ask The Times You can get an answer lo any quetion of iaet nr information by writing lo the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. inciosmg 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot fce given, nor van extended research be undertaken. All other Question* will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot ts answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor, How much is a dollar worth today, compared with its prewar purchasing power? In June. 1924 (latest compilation) it was worth 69 cents In purchasing power compared with Its averaging purchasing power in 1913. What is Tom Mix’s address? Fox Studios, Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. What does the term "evolution" , mean? In biology It moans either (1) the series of steps by which a germ or Ia rudimentary part become an adult j organism or a fully developed paid, | or (2) the doctrine of the derivation | of all forms of life by gradual mocliI ftcation from earlier and simpler | forms one rudimentary form. Is the earth smaller today than | It once was? j Undoubtedly the earth has diminished considerably in size since Its ' origin, assuming the nebula hypothesis to be the correct solution of the i origin of the earth and the solar ; and planetary system. Under this hypothesis the m iss of matter which now forms the earth was originally a mass of superheated gaseous mat ter. gradually cooling into a molten state, throwing off the mass which is now the moon, as It revolved, and finally cooling (and shrinking) to its present mass. Can a person send letters to Government, departments without j paying postage on them? No, the franking privilege applies I only to official letters sent from i Government department*. j Is Pearl White married now’ Is f-ahe 4lvorced? Who was her hus-band-if she is not married n<>w? She is not married at present; she has been divorced twice, and recently was reported engaged to the Due de Vailombrosa. Her former husj hands were Victor Sutherland and .Wallace McCutcheon. Which State in the Union produces the most cattle and which the most sheep? Texas produces more cattle than i any other: and Idaho mor< sheep. What can I do to keep weevils | out of popcorn? j put the corn cobs Into an oven at ft temperature of about 220 degrees Fahrenheit and heat It for half an j hour. Con you give the names of some 1 Jewish ring fighters besides Benny | Leonard? Lew Tendler. Ted Lwli, Danny ' Frush, Battling Levlnsky, Abe Gold stein, Sailor Freedman. How many foreign-horn persons are there In the United States? According to the 1920 census, 13.920,692.

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RAILROAD FIGHTS 808 LA FOLLETTE f Supper Sermon’ Is Printed on Pennsylvania Menu Cards, Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are. iyj] ASHINGTON, Sept. s.—The Pennsylvania railroad has de--J vised a way to fight La Follette at the same time it fills the wants of hungry men and women. On menus now being used in the diners of that road, propaganda is neatly sandwiched between potatoes and pudding. Half of each card is devoted to food and the other half is devoted to "La Follette, the Labor Leaders, and 'the Farmers.” The article is a reprint from "The Railway Age” and it attacks La Follette and union labor jointly and impartially with interesting logic based on still more Interesting assumptions. At the bottom is a line inviting the reader to take the card with him. The supper-sermon says in part that: "The nomination and candidacy of Senator Da Follette for President are intended mainly to promote government ownership of railways. “The radicals who nominated Senator La Follette and the Socialists who indorsed him are relying upon him to get many thousands of votes from the Western and Northwestern farmers. So far as the railways are concerned, what the farmers want is lower freight rates.” Et cetera, et cetera! The Pennsylvania railroad. It will be recalled, is the one which is waging constant warfare, with the railroad brotherhoods. It has formed Us own company unfrms, officered by dummies approved by the management of the road, and refuses to recognize the legitimate unions. The Pennsylvania's fight against labor has been a long and costly one, in money, in accidents and in loss of patronage, particularly in the passenger field. Nature Ants, in themselves, are not harmful, even if some times annoying, but they protect and care for many plant lice which do gveftt damage to trees, shrubs and plants. The dicker or woodpecker s the ant's most persistent enemy. He has a long elastic tongue which is covered with a sticky saliva, and which he thrusts into crevices In search of insect? .\? many ns 6,000 ants and anUs eggs have been found in a single slicker’s Htomacii. The flicker will also dig In the earth for ants. Sister’s Hero "I would face death for you.” "Why didn't you face that bulldog then?" "He wasn't dead.”—Wesleyan

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The Bobber Shop By C. A. D Between learning to dance, working a nlayer-plano arid walking back from aut6 rides, Blondy the manicure gets plenty of foot work these days. • • • Friends who held a party on the father of Peter the porter gave him two pails of fine cut and a pitchfork. • • • Professor I )igge ndelvft,- in the shop this morning,-says the English sparrow gets along principally because its ideals aren't too high. • • “An incubator is all right in its way,” said a man in the enei chair this morning, "but it hasn't any mother love." • • Next! Hot One ' Stand on that dime a second. Now you represent Woolworth’s store.” * "Why Woolworth’s?’’ "Nothing over 10 cental"—Judge.

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Tom Sims Says A woman gagged at Palm Beach I was gagged by a robber instead of by her husband. Auto captured In Pennsylvania | was designed for rum running and i officers say It was about forty white i mule power. You can make money ot:t of any- [ thing if you do it well enough. Some j people even get paid for singing. t They build houses out of mud in fhlna, so what do the Chinese women kick about their husbands tracking in? General Pershing is retiring to private life, but this doesn't mean he will live the life of a private. Experience would be a better teacher if she stopped to explain things. Distance doesn't lend any enchantment when you are out of gas. You can keep a good man down if he is good for nothing.

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Tongue Tips Father Aloysius Cortie, British scholar and scientist:’ “Bun spots have no effect an local weather conditions, but it has been proved beyond doubt these spots do affect weather on the earth when considered in a thirty-five-year cycle." Samuel G. Inman, traveler, lecturer and writer: "In the smaller countries to the south of us controlled by our soldiers, our bankers and our oil kings, we are developing our Irelands, our Egypts and our Indias. The picture is -'dark. We are piling up hatreds for the future." Bernard Stieskin. German college graduate and confessed New York i tnief: "Why did I steal? Well, $lO j a month at washing restaurant i dishes /was not enough for me to live j on that's all.” Jor n Spargo, Socialist: “It is J strictly true to say that every adj vance of friendship made by other j governments has been followed by | increased arrogance on the part of i the Russian bolsheviki." * |