Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1924 — Page 7

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1924.

INDIANA AIMS AT TOP OF LIST IN VOTE CAMPAIGN Organization Committees Are Appointed to Cover Every District. “Indiana will head the list of States this year in the percentage of eligible voters who go to the polls in November,” says Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, chairman of the Get-out-the-Vote campaign of the Indiana League of Women Voters. “In 1320 Delaware cast the largest percentage of votes, just over 75 per cent and Indiana cast between 74 and 75 per cent. We have an excellent chance this year to show that Hoosiers are the most ardent politicians and the. most interested and patriotic citizens in the United States, and we mean to do so.” Assistants Named Tn order to bring out every possibh. voter, Mrs. Greenough and her executive committee have appointed these other committees: Executive —Mrs. 'V. T. Barnes. liulianapolii president of the Indiana I.easrjr: Mr- Richard E. Edwards. Peru: Mrs Al ee Rosier Mi: H' h’t. Wayne: Mrs. A. H. Reardslev Elkhart: Mrs Charles A. Carlisle. South Bend: Miss Adah Bush. Miss Sara Lauter. Mrs. Isaac Bom. India lapolis: Mrs Ora Thompson Ross. Renssalaer Mrs Frederick Lauenshdn. Evansville: Mrs Thomas Arthur Stuart. Lafayette, and Miss Helen C. Benhridae, Terre Haute. Information and Statistics —Miss Gertrude F. McHugh. Indianarolis. chairman; Mrs. A. C. Clauser. Delphi: Miss \ida Newsom. Columbus: Mrs. W. A. (I s : OP. Vincennes: Mrs. John Roush, Frankfort: Mrs Frederick Van Orman. Evansville: Mrs Thomas Ovhsbv. New Albany: Mrs. Arthur Cline: Miss Jessie Pierce. Stroh Mrs Fay Smith Knapp. Decatur: Mrs. Russell Bedgood. Lafayette: Mrs. C. A. Punkleburg. Ft. Wayne.

Special Features Planned Special Features—Mrs. Zeo-- M sener. Michigan City chairman: Miss Etc ha Rockenbach New Albany: Miss Julia Landers- Indianapolis: Mrs W H Myers. Hammond: Mrs David Ross Indianapolis: Miss Emma May Terre Haute: Mrs Lulu Halvorsen. Evansville: Mrs Beniamin J. Burris. Indianapolis Mr- G R Dou.-laa. Valparaiso: Mrs. Austin Stultz. it Wayne: Mrs Mildred Emerson Owensville Co-operation with Schools and Oo'leree —Mrs R. E Edwards Pen-, chairman: Mrs a try McMullen. Aurora Miss Elsa Huebne- Indianapolis: Mrs 3. B. White. Terre Haute: Mr-. J. A. Woodburn Bloomington: Mrs Nellie C Warren. Miss Georgia Alexander. Mis* Blanche Me-ry. Tud*anapol;s’ Mrs Virginia C. Mco-dith. Lafayette: Mrs Chester A Evan* Bloomington; Miss Laura Kent. Shelbyville Mrs Alice Waurh Tipton: Mrs Oscar Haas Princeton: Mrs. Anee Willett. Newburgh Co-operation with Clergy—Mrs. E”a B. Kehrer. Anderson chairman: Mrs. Homer McCray Kendallville: Mrs Guy Osbon. Jasonville: Mr*. Christine Cunningham Princeton Mrs. John Barnhill. Mrs. Winter Christian. Indianapolis: Mrs John Kissel. Brr-okville: Mrs H B. Sh>dd. New Carlis’e: Mrs Eugene Johnson Haubstadt Mrs. Walter Saxon. Falmouth; Mrs. Frank Crawford. Terre Haute. Pu licity Desired Publications—Miss Adah E. Bush. Indianapolis. chairman Mr- Mary - Stover Hay. Whiting: Mrs. H. F. Nos'-r. Ter’’- Haute; Mrs. Jessie F o-oan. Anderson: Mrs Margaret Hoop, Indianapolis: Dr. Mary Phi'rs. Newburgh: Miss Marguerite Kill. Richmond: Mrs W E. Daugherty Ft. Branch: Mrs Bianoise Small. Haj-rtown Mrs. W. H. Parninson Lafayette Speakers' Bureau—Mrs I E. May \nderson. chairman; Mrs. Thomas Artier Stuart. Lafayette: Mrs. j a. Neill. Bloomington' Mrs. Charles Teetor. Hagerstown Mrs D M Coppock. Peru: Mrs. L. ? Fiekensvh r. South IS- .and: Mrs John C. Boss Elkhart: Mrs Chr:-' an Eby Connersville: Mi- Betsy Edwards. Shc'byvi e ; Mrs. S. E. Perknis. Mrs A. T Fleming. Mrs F E. StreightofT Indianapolis Mrs. J H Neff. South Ber-d M— George Mullen Brookv-pe; M rs j H M mman B. ffton: Mrs. Eldora Raleizh. Newburgh- Mrs. Thomas Ewing Aurora Publicity Advisory—Mrs Grace Julian Clarke. Indianapolis, chairamn Mrs. Elizabeth Claypooi Earl. M r. ~ie Mrs C C Warratgton. Ft Wayne; Mrs John I Gwin. R ntatr; Mrs r r Sherburne. Valparaiso: Mrs. Isaac Bom. Mrs Frank Hatfield. Mrs. W O. Bare s . Indianapolis Mrs. N. C. Cia-baugh. Frankfort: Miss Edna Stembel Fowler. Finance —Mrs. Alice Foster Mullins Ft. Wayne, chairman: Mrs James Gamb-1. Prmeton Mrs. Wheeler Ashcraft Portland; Mrs James Findley Kendallville: Mrs. George Torrance Sheibyvi-le: Miss J-a-i Som-rs. Kokomo: Mrs C. B Stuart, Lafayette; Mrs Frederick Kelley Crown Point Mr. Thomas Ros J IJvansville: Mrs A. B. Tayior, Pendleton.

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MY OWN STORY SHIPPERS, PUBLIC IN STORM OF PROTEST AG A INST ROADS By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE

"MY OWN STORY" is an exclusive newspaper version of one of the great autobiographies of modern times: La Follette's own story of adventures in politics as written by himself in 1912. together with an authorized narrative of his experience* in the years since then. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOCS INSTALLMENTS After years spent in fighting the political bosses in the House of Representatives and later as Governor of Wisconsin. La Follette is elected to th- Senate in 1905. In the Senate he realizes that he Is regarded as a crank and disturber of the peace. He expresses a preference for assignment to the Committee on Interstate Commerce, but rceivs no response to his letter. Hpre. as in Wisconsin, he discovers the political bosses fighting progressive legislation. When he comes to the Senate he finds the interstate commerce act still the most important legislation penduig. the Hepburn bill, amending this act. has passed the House and is before the Senate. There are just three principal purposes in the. governmental regulation of railroad rates: The first, to prevent unjust and extortionate rates from being imposed upon the country: the second, to prevent discriminations between shippers, or localities, or commodities; the third, to enforce and regulate an adequate service. The primary purpose in the enactment of the interstate commerce act in ISS7 —I recall clearly the arguments and hearings—was to prevent the imposition of unreasonable and unjust rates. It passed in response to a demand of the public which had been growing in volume ever since the days of Granger legislation. In saying this I do not wish to belittle the abuses arising from discriminations of which rebates furnish one example. They have been most serious in their consequences; but the early advocates of railroad regulation saw clearly that the subject of deepest importance was not discriminations but unreasonable rates. One school of advocates of railway regulation has adopted as its platform the prevention of discrimination. because it is the least difficult of the two branches of tjie subject to deal with. It provokes the least opposition from the railroads, and it is always backed by pt werful organizations of shippers.

True Again and again President Roosevelt laid it down in his message and public addresses that there was very iittle complaint that rates were unreasonable, but that there was much complaint against discriminations. And that statement was true. It was true for this reason. The shippers can easily organize and can make themselves heard and felt. The thing in which the shipper is vitally interested is that his competitor shall r.ot have a better rate or better facilities than he has. But he is not concerned as to whether that rate is high or low. He always charges the rate in as a part of th“ cost to the consumer, who is the real freight payer the country over. Now. the consumer is primarily in terested in unreasonable rates. Nor has ho the means of knowing when he buys his coal, his supplies, his food, his lumber, bis hardware, how much of the price he has to pay is due to excessive freight charges. He realizes that year by year it cost s more for everything he mu> buy, but he is not able to put his linger upon the particular amount of that excessive cost which is due P freight charges made in the sh.p ment of raw material to the factoi in the shipment of the partially fi i ished product to some other factory and in the further shipment of th finished product to the wholesale or jobber, and in the final shipmen' to the retailer, from whom h buys it. He cannot organize and come be

SENATOR LA FOLLETTE IN A PENSIVE MOOD. fore a legislative committee and make himself heard. Furthermore, Congress has taken care that no body of men, no commission created anywhere, should have either the authority or the instrumentalities through which it could ascertain what was really a reasonable freight rate. It is true that the Interstate Commerce Commission has assumed from time to time to say that rates were reasonable or unreasonable, but it has based its decisions, in that regard, merely upon comparisons of one rate with another, both of which may be wholly unreasonable. For ten year after its organization in 1887 the commission did assume the right to fix rates; then in 1857 came a crushing decision of the Supreme Court which robbed it of this power and, indeed, left It worse than helpless. During the next nine years, down to 1906, when the Hepburn bill, to which I have referred,,was introduced, the committees were so organized in both Senate and House and so dominated by railroad and other corporation interests that it was impossible to get any real reform measures reported out. During all the eyars from 1897 to 1906 the commission, which was a very able one, kept calling the attention of Congress and the country to its utter helplessness and urging legislation. Pleas Repeated Year after year It repeated Its pleas, it appeared before committees, it showed how the railroads were rapidly combining in enormous monopolies. It showed in 1905 that unwarranted increases in transportation rates amounting to more than 5100,000,000 a year hail been levied upon the people since the commision lost its power in 1397—but Congress would not move. All this time, however, the clamor of both the shippers and the public had been increasing in volume and intensity. In 1903 Congress passed he Elkins law which dealt with re•ates and discriminations —for the ■ilroads by that time had grown veary of paying rebates, and wei-e ot unfavorable to having the prac ce forbidden But nothing was done >r the people. By 1906 the railroad situation had -■‘come so unbearable and centers of reduction throughout the countryid suffered to such an extent that here arose a great outcry of pro st. Organized bodies of men were nt to Washington to appear before he committees and attempt to rouse them to a sense of their re uonsibillty to the public, and finally he railroads, realizinig that someiiing must he done to quiet the pubMOTION PICTURES

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lie clamor, loosened their hold sufficiently to permit a bill to be reportetd out from the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the House of Representatives, known as the Hepburn bill. It passed the House and came to the Senate, and there it fell into the hands of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, a majority of which was absolutely opposed to any legislation restoring any power to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finally .however, through an alliance of Dolliver and Clapp with the Democrats, the bill was reported out, and the debate began. But incredible as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that the bill did not include in its terms the recommendations which the Interstate Commerce Commission had urged as necessary to make it a workable statute the amendments which, through these years, it had been pleading with Congress to enact into j law. It never touched the heft.rt of | the matter, namely, whether the I commission should he given the ! power to determine what was area- : sonable rate, and to enforce its dej visions. Real Question For months I sat through these debates waiting for someone to raise I the real question. I had studied the 1 hill with great care. There was just ! one portion of it which was im--1 portant and did really improve the ! law, that was the amendment empowering the Interstate Commerce ! Commission to require all railroads [ engaged in interstate commerce to t adopt a uniform system of bookkeepI ing, and authorizing the commission through Us examiners and accountants to examine the books at ail : times. The value of that provision could not he overestimated. But that was about all there was of a vital character to the act of 1906. I was very loath to see the bill pass in its imperfect form, but I was anew man in the Senate, without inIluence with the members. I felt [Strongly that If President Roosevelt rightly estimated the strength of the public sentiment in favor of effective legislation, and would exert his influence upon the Senate, that legislation which would really count could be secured. I believed I knew exactly what was required to meet the necessities of the situation, but I did not feel that I could thrust my views upon the President. I had known him for fifteen years, but 1 was conscious that he had been warned that I was dangerous and extreme in my views. Lincoln Steffens was in Washington during that winter, on one creation he asked me why I lid not go to tee the President and warn him of the defects in the hiii. "I have been seeing the President," he said, “and 1 am going *o suggest to him that you have gone all over this question in Wisconsin, that you have been at it for years up there, imi it will do no harm for ldm to talk with you about it.” This he did, with the result that 1 < calved an invitation to go to the White House and see the President one Sunday evening at 10 o'clock. It was at a time when newspaper reporters were not about, and thero was no one to take note of the tart or publish to the country that the President was conferring with so langerous a person. lie was alone, and after chatting with me a few moments, ho said: "Senator La Follette, I sent for you o come and talk with me about the rate bill.” Then he said that the most needful thing to be done In the way of

changes in the law was to strengthen it, so that the injustice done to a great many shippers by discriminations would be made impossible. “Discrimination is important,” I said, “and should not be tolerated. “But the question, Mr. President, is very much bigger than that. To begin with, the first and th 6 vital thing in which the great body of the people of this country are interested is in having transportation charges reasonable.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) (Continued in Onr Next Issue.) GOVERNOR TALKS 111 MARTINSVILLE About 350 Morgan County Citizens at Homecoming, Approximately 350 citizens of Martinsville and Morgan County welcomed Governor and Mrs. Emmett F\ Branch and Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Republican national cotjimitieewoman from Indiana, in what was advertised as a mass meeting and some-coming for the three “favorite sons" at Martinsville Friday night. F'rank Singleton, Martinsville, member of the public service commission, presided. A cross on the speakers’ stand was draped in bunting. Branch was the principal speaker. He was given a hearty greeting when he and Mrs. Brancli were presented. The Governor apparently had recovered from the indisposition which kept him away from the Governor's day program at the State fair Thursday, and he spoke in a clear ringing voice. He paid high tribute to Calvin Coolidge and declared him honest. Branch declared Governor Ralston did not pay the State out of debt. “Ralston only paid the last Installment and 75 per cent of the debt was paid under Republican adminlstrai tlon.” "Ralston borrowed from two to ; three million dollars. He had to. It : was all right. It was good business, i We have done it and we’re going to 1 pay It all back before this adminis tratlon Is ended.” j "The State now has a cash balance jon deposit of $7,976,888.25. The I State debt is $2,340,565, leaving a balance on hand of more than $5,131,000. When this administration ends we will owe nobody," Branch said, j Other speakers included E l Jackson. G. O. P. candidate for Gov- ; ernor. SULLIVAN BOY IS SOUGHT Parents Making Frantic Search for Misusing Youth. |By T n i/eg Press SULLIVAN, Ind. Sept. 6.—Not a word or a trace has come to Mr. land Mrs. G. C. Richardson of the whereabouts of their son Robert, 14, j who has been missing since Aug 124, and for whom they were frantically searching today. The police an 1 sheriff are aiding Ip. every way possible to locate the hoy. but. thus fir efforts have been futile. The boy Was last seen near the Illinois Central depot at Bloomingj ton. Ind.. with an unknown man ■ whom he Is believed to have beaten | Ills way to that city. Worker Is Lucky j Ily flmcs Spc-ial ' HAMMOND. Ind.. Sept. 6.—Although he fell more than 150 feet when a scaffolding broke. Reuben I Wooten of Chicago, employed in repairing a Standard Oil Company smoke stack, was only slightly , bruised.

Churches Resume Full Schedule on Sunday

By THE VISITOR. r rT 7'j HE vacation schedule of Indianapolis churches is now a L- thing of the past, as all Protestant churches on Sunday will resume their full Sunday service programs. It was stated at the offices of the Church Federation that a few of the ministers have not returned from their vacations, but that the great majority are ready to retime their fall ancl winter schedules on Sun day. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, -pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, makes the following appeal for church attendance in this week’s Unitarian Bulletin: “It is to be hoped that the words of the Psalmist find an echo in our souls, ‘I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the House of the Lord.’ “We come because we wish to come. No force of habit brings us; we are not goaded by a sense of duty; we are lashed by no fear; we are moved by no selfish purpose. We come gladly. “We do not come because we think God will be angry' if we stay away; because we think it will give us a better standing in society or help us in business. Not because w r e believe God is to be found here as nowhere else. There are no sacred enclosures now. One spot does not differ from another because of the presence or absence of God. “All the divineness you find here you bring with you. It becomes a House of the Lord only as we bring here our best thought, our noblest aspirations, our finest devotions; because here we consecrate ourselves to th.at human service which is the only' way of serving the Lord. “All Souls Church is the embodiment of what we are, as large or email as we are large or small; broad or narrow as we are broad or narrow; good or bad according to our characters. “Let us, one and all, be present at the first service, next Sunday', and make this the best year in the history of our church.” • * DR. E. A. ROBERTSON of the East Park M. E. Church will preach Sunday on the following themes: "Are We on the Edge of a Revival?” and "Why Immortality Is Immeasurably Worth While.” * * • REV. PAUL W. EDDINGFIELD villi preach Sunday morning at the Broad Ripple Christian Church, giving first a children’s talk on "A Simplified Version of Macbeth." and after that the sermon proper. “The Reverence of Jesus.” At night. "The Man of Tomorrow.” * * AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH at 10:45 a. r.i Sunday Dr. M. B. Hyd" will preach on "The Hand and Wing in Religion." and at night on “The Four Judgments to Which Man Is Exposed.” • • • REV. PAUL JUDSON MORRIS

A great drama of a woman’s regeneration through a man’s 1 8 loyalty and sacrifice. A lavish production by the director of “Enemies of Women,” played against the backgrounds of fashionable Long Island ana the mystic Orient. I Imperial (Clyde Cook) Comedy, “The Pinhead" i EMIL SEIDEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA

will speak at the Communion Service of the Emerson Avenue Baptist Church Sunday morning on "The Things We Have Forgotten.” Sunday evening, “The Attractive Power of Christ.” * * • REV. GUY V. HARTMAN will hold comtnunion service at the Hall Place M. E. Church Sunday morning. His theme yvill be “In Remembrance of Me.” At night, “Right or Wrong.” * * * Sunday marks the beginning of fall activities for the Fairview Presbyterian Church with a sermon at 11 by Dr. Edward Haines Kistler on “The Beginning of a Golden Age." Thursday at 8, “Beginnings of the Prayer Meetings With Prayer” will be his theme. The church expects to transfer all its activities to the new chapel at Forty-Sixth and Capitol early in October. The September | meetings will be held in the old Fourth building at Nineteenth and Alabama Sts. The opening organization meetings will be held as folj lows: Sunday, 5, the session; Mon- | day, 7:30, the deacons; Tuesday, 2:30, I the W. M. S., with Mrs. William I Wasson, 3507 Kenwood Ave.; j Wednesday, 6, the Live Wires Class j supper at the church; Thursday, 6, j the Bible School Council at the j church; Friday, the New Era Club |at the church, when anew constij tution will be proposed to cover the ] enlarged activities of the church’s I young people. * * REV. J. L. THOMPSON will preach | Sunday morning at Capitol Avenue Christian Church, P'ortiethh St. and Capitol Ave., on “After Vacation— What?" and "Paul’s Platform vs. Political—l 924.” • • * “THE IMPORTANCE OF WORSHIP" will be the morning theme of | Or. Edwin Cunningham at Central Universalist Church. ♦ • • REV. EARL COBLE of Bethlehem Lutheran Church will preach Sunday' morning cn "The Satisfying Life." No night service. * * * HOME COMING SUNDAY will be observed at St. Paul M. E. Church Sunday. Dr. F'rank L. Hovis will preach in the morning on "The Value of the Church” and at night on "The Hidden Door.” ALLEGED THIEF NABBED Detectives Hold Man as Band of Auto Takers. Deteetiy'es Klaiber and Sullivan arrested George D. Wills, 25, Cicero, Ind., Friday as an alleged member of a band of automobile thieves J which have been operating in central Indiana during the last few months. Officers said Wills was the sixth member of the gang that has been arrested. It was charged that Wills stole a car belonging to J. M. Wetherhold, Thormown, Ind., stripped all of the loose parts from the machine. He was arrested at the stock yards. M?7tl ON PICT U RES

400 M. E. PASTORS TO ATTEND CHURCH CONFERENCE HERE Bishop Wilson of New York Will Preside at Meetings, More than 400 Methodist Episcopal ministers of this State will attend the annual meeting of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opening Tuesday for six days at the East Tenth Street M. E Church. This conference represents a membership of 110,000, and includes the entire Indianapolis district and ail of Indiana south of the National Road, with the exception of Terre Haute. While Bishop F. D. Leete of Indianapolis is presiding at the Ohio Conference, Bishop Luther B. Wilson of New York will preside at all sessions here. All sessions will be held at the East Tenth Street M. E. Church or the adjoining community house. All Methodist churches of the city will assist in entertaining visiting pastors and lay-men. Rev. George S. Henninger, pastor of the East Ten* i Street Church and members of the congregation will be host to the conference. On Friday' night either at the East Tenth Street Community House or Roberts Park Church Dr. Georgo R. Stuart, pastor of the First M. E. Church at Birmingham, Ala., will preach a conference sermon on “When the American Woman Becomes a Man —What Then?” The conference will get under way Tuesday night after the visiting min isters and laymen are registered and lodged In Methodise homes of the city'. Earl R. Conder, president of the Indianapolis Church Federation, will make the opening address of welcome Tuesday night. Response will be made by- the Rev. M. A. Farr of New Albany. On Wednesday morn ing at 8:30 o’clock, an annivesary service of the American University will be observed. At 4 o clock, an evangelistic service will bo heid. At night, the Rev. E. S. Shumaker will conduct an Anti-Saloon League service, followed by anni\-ersary service of the Preachers’ Aid Society, with Bishop Wilson in charge. A conference session will occupyall the time on Thursday morning. In the afternoon, the anniversary of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society will be observed. At the same hour, 2:30 p. m., the anniversary of the board of pensions and relief will be held at the community house. At 4 p. m. an evangelical service will be held. On Friday there will be more important conference sessions and addresses. On Sunday morning at J 1 o’clock, Bishop Wilson will preach the conference sermon.

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