Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1924 — Page 5

THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1924

COURT REFORM , IN COUNT! AND CITY PROPOSED Judge Coliins Advocates Change at Bar Meeting, Abolition of justice of peace courts and the city court in Marion County and creation of three municipal courts aud a court of domestic relations to handle divorces where children are involved, is the gist of a plan before the Indianapolis Bar Association today. Criminal Judge James A. Collins broached the idea in the form of a motion Wednesday night at a dinner of the association in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Five prominent lawyers were placed on a committee to investigate the court sitvation in the county and propose some “definite legislation toward reorganizing the county judiciary system.” \ Collins said congestion In cue- j court is very bad. There are BSS j cases now pending in his court, of j which 508 were appealed from city j court. Creation of the three munici j pal courts, to have both criminal and ■ civil jurisdiction, and taking the | cases now tried in the justice of peace and city courts, will do away .with many appeals to Criminal Icourt, the judge believes, as defendants would get better and fairer trials in the lower courts.- Changes of venue from one municipal judge would be sent to another municipal j court, under the plan, ending the special judge situation now prevailing in city court. Congestion in city court is "intolerable,” the motion said. Louis B. Ewbank, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, and other prominent attorneys who went to Europe to attend the American Bar Association meetings in London, described experiences in England and on the continent. An insight into the dignity of English courts and the speed with which they move was given by the tourists. MAKES FAT PEOPLE SLIM New York Physician Perfects Harmless Method of Reducing Weight. The loss of as much as a-pound of excess fat a day with no harmful results is the record made by many patients of Dr. R. Newman, a licensed practicing physician of 286 Fifth Avenue, New York, who announces that he has perfected a treatment which has quickly r; i fat people of excess weight. What is more remarkable is the Doctor’s statement that he has successfully treated thousands of patients for fat | reduction without change jof diet or '.unnecessary exercise. It Is also said that fat people who suffer from chronic rheumatism and gout, obtain great relief from the reduction of' their superfluous flesh. Realizing tha; this sounds almost too good to be true, the Doctor has offered to send without charge to anyone who will write him a freer trial treatment to prove his claims, as well as his “Pay-when-reduced” plan. If you want to rid yourself of superfluous fat, w-rite him today, addressing Dr. R. Newman. 286 Fifth Avenue, New "Fork City, Dept. R. —Advertisement.

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LA FOLLETTE AIDS IN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF SAILORS

This Is the first of a series of ten articles dealing' with the outstanding events in the life of Senator La Foilette in the last twelve years. One morning in December, 1909, there came into my office in the capitol a tall, bony, slightly stooped man, with a face bespeaking superior intelligence and lofty character.'* It was Andrew Furuseth. He wanted to interest me in cause of the American sailor. He was a sailor himself, he said, and he wanted to “be free.” I did not know what he meant. Surely there were no slaves under the American ffag. Bondsmen there had been, but Lincoln changed that. And it had been written, by amendment, into the Constitution. “Yes,” he said, “but not for the sailor. All other men are free. But when the aamendmentts were framed they passed us by. The sailor was forgotten.” Sitting on the edge of the chair, his body th.ust forward, a great soul speaking through his face, the set purpose of his life shining in his eyes, he told me the story of the sailor's wrongs. Bom in Norway Bom in Norway, the rail of the sea came to him as a lad of sixteen. He stood upon the cliffs and looked out upon the infinite. The life of the sailor, like the ocean, must he wide and free. He sailed away, thrilled with the idea. His dream was shattered early by the hard realltes of life before the mast. He found himself owned by the master of the ship. “I saw men abused,” he said, “beaten into Insensibility. I saw sailors try' to escape from brutal masters and from unsepworthy vessels upon which they had been lured to serve. I saw them hunted down and thrown into ships’ holds in chains. 7. know the. bitterness of it all.” He had seen over-insured and un-der-manned ships go down at sea, with appalling loss of human life, because greedy owners would not furnish skilled seamen to sail them, or provide lifeboats for passengers and crew. He had witnessed the blighting effects of the worldwide shipping trust upon the sea power of the white race. He would not submit to slavery. Ills spirit asserted itself. He studied the history of the sea and he found he was arraying himself against the powerful Influence of those who I owned the ships and were masters i upon the water; and that behind them were the prejudice and public opinion of the world as to the status of the seamen. He chose the United States as his battleground and the Pacific coast ! as the piace to begin the work. Fifteen years before the day he entered my office, he had brought his cause to Washington. He had lived with it—waking and sleeping. In the corridors of the Capitol, in the committee rooms of Congress, about the hotels and on the streets of Washington, wherever he went, he carried his appeal for freedom. I Beaten again and again, like all I leaders who win final victories, he Lwas only stimulated to better fight Ting by defeat. In all the years of this historic ! struggle for human liberty, which | fnally culminated with President Wilson’s signing of the Seamen's law*, March 4, 1915, Andrew Furuseth was the one man who had the faith, the vision and the courage necessary to sustain the contest. He launched the movement. He kept it afloat. Yet in all those long, dis-

MY OWN STORY

By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE

ANDREW FURUSETH heartening years he so effaced himself that the public had little opportunity to know th# man. Even the measure that represents his great life work, the Seamen’s Act. bears, by Congressional usage, not the name of Furuseth, but of—La Foilette! Trailed by Police When Furuseth first came to Washington, the police, inspired by Pacific coast shipowners, dogged his every move He had been reported as dangerous as an anarchist. Detectives were detailed to shadow hints It wits several years before he lived down the slanders and was permitted to pursue his fight free from espionage. , For a quarter of a century', while secretary of the Pacific Coast Seamen’s Union and president of the International Seamen's Union, serving them before the California I.egilature and before committees of Congress, and In trips over the world, advising with foreign seamen, interviewing shipowners, investigating economic conditions in the ports of j other lands, he lived on the wages of a seaman. He would accept no ! larger compensation. He lived in sailors’ boarding houses; In Washington In a shack beside the river. Never until appointed by President Wilon as a representative of the United States in 1913 to the London conference on safety at sea, .had he traveled as a first-class passenger. It Is no longer nebessary tp defend the seamen’s, act. It if* accepted by the world. Much remains yet to be done tot Increase its es fectiveness and the honesty of its administration in this and other countries. But Andrew Furuseth has done a great work. At the time he came to see me, hearing a letter from Francis Honey, he had been see sawing -back and forth between the House and the Senate for many years. Six years more were required to pass the bill. The opposition, led In the Senate by Theodore Burton of Ohio, was strong 4ind resourceful. In the House Furuseth had the able, Intelligent aid of William R, Wilson, then •t Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, later secretary of the United Mine Workers, and for eight years a member of President Wilson’s Cabinet.

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No little contribution to cause of the seamen was the series of marine disasters in the years preceding 1915, grimmest of them all, the sinking of the Titanic. In the case of the Titanic there was a lack of Sufficient lifeboats. In the case of other vessels there was inability of the crew to understand the language of the officers. In other instances there had been little, if any, lifeboat ’drill —all shortcomings covered by the seamen's bill. The bill went to President Wilson for his signature a few days before the close of the session. Since it necessitated changes in commercial treaties with many nations, -it was sent by the White House to the State Department. With Senator Owen of Oklahoma and Furuseth, I went to call on Secretary of State Bryan. He told us that it was then in ihe hands of Robert D. Lansing, the: counsellor of the State Department, and sent us to him. We felt that Lansing was distinctly unfriendly and, after a brief talk with hifn, to Bryan telling him he would have to hear us himself. I talked and Owen talked. Then, for fifteen minutes, Andrew Furuseth talked. I won't say as to the effect upon myself, hut before Furuseth finished, the Secretary of State and the Sena tor from Oklahoma were choking and wiping tears from their eyes. Talks to Wilson The night of March 3, during an all-night session. 1 learned the bill had been returned to the White House and I arranged to see President Wilson at 11 p. m. I took Furuseth with me and he waited in the ante-room. Aasked th-- President If he would hear Furuseth for ten minutes on the economic features of the bill. He said he would be glad to do so and Furuseth made the final presentation of his ease. Returning to the Senate chamber, I was tailed by telephone by Secretary Tumulty early the next morning. He told m-; the President had phoned to irm at midnight, saying, "Tumulty, I have just experienced a great half-hour, the tensest since I came to the White House. That man La Foilette pushed me over tonight on the seamen's bill." During the day the President cam*to the Capitol to sign bills passed in the hours of the session. As 1 shook hands with him in his room [ across from the chamber, he leaned .•lose and whispered. “It's all right, i think you'll be satisfied.” I was. He signed the bill. Gopuriuht. t'Jt J. NLA Service

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MOTHERS PROTEST SCHOOLTRANSFER, BOT PLEA DENIED Poor Condition of Tenth St, Fails to Move Weir —See City, He Says, , Protests of twenty-three indignant mothers, whose children have been transferred from School No. 58, Linwood and New York Sts., to No. ,62, Tenth and Wallace Sts., made before D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent of Indianapolis public schools Wednesday were in vain. The delegations arrive at the school office at 2 p. m. and waited until 4 to see Weir. Weir said the children were transferred because it made possible elimination of half-day schools at No. 58. a policy followed by the administation. Irate mothers declared that they would not permit their children to attend school as long as it was necessary to send them over E. Tenth St., which is unimproved. They said the street is impassable. Children living on Colorado and Euclid Aves. would have to go to Michigan St. and back on Wallace St., they said. “If you have settled it, then I have nothing to say,” said Weir. “It is not our business to build side walks and streets. We have furnished you a school, so go and see the city about the streets” Weir said. Mrs. P. L. Day, 700 N. Gladstone Ave., said her son J'red, 6, would have to walk a mile and a half to school No. 62. Mrs. Orville Gill, 700 Chester St., said her child would have to go nineteen blocks. MURDER CHARGES FILED \ll>ert Hamel Alleged so Have Shot Frank Moore. Albert “Pete’’ Hamel, 25. colored, 1303 Massachusetts Ave., was slated at the city prison Tate Wednesday, charged with murder. Police allege he shot Frank Moore, colored, 1526 Lewis St., who died at the city hospital Wednesday. Witnesses, according to the police, say Hamel shot Moore Tuesday when he entered his home.

SOCIETIES TO GATHER More Than 2,000 Delegates Expected ♦ at M. E. Missionary Meet. Approximately 2,000 delegates from ihe northwestern branch Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church are expected to attend the convention of representatives from five middle western States Oct. 7-9 at Central Avenue M. B. Church. Representatives of the society In Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin will bo present. Prominent missidnary leaders are scheduled to speak. Mrs. Hattie Asburn of Indianapolis, sdfcretary of the Indiana conference; Mrs. Anna B. Adams, Bloomington, treasurer Indiana conference, and Mrs. O. K. Young, president Indianapolis Society, and Mrs. Ewing Shields of Indianapolis comprise the arrangements committee. AIR BOMB FALLS ' THROJJGHHOUSE Sam Ewbank Will Not Forget - Plane Circus, It will be a long time before Sam Ewbanks. colored, 706 N. West St., forgets a visit made to Indianapolis Wednesday night by an aerial circus, consisting of tlirep electrically Illuminated planes and a trick plane, from McCook field, Dayton, Ohio. A five-pound revolving bomb, dropped by one of the planes, smashed through the roof of the house where Ewbanks was napping, tore a hole In the attic floor and stopped in the floor beneath. Ewbank halted seven squares away at Fourteenth and N. West Sts. The planes, advertising the international air races at Dayton. Oet. 2-4, were piloted by Lieuts. Harold Karris, Harry Johnson, D. L. Bruner and Eugene Battes. all Arm> aviators from McCook Field. During the circus. downtown | traffic was badly crippled as motori ists an.l pedestrians stopped to see Iho firewoi ks dropped from the planes. i Army trucks froln Ft. Harrison ! Trained searchlights on the planes Stop Rheumatism in 48 Hours If you rheumatism, sciatica, neuritis. K" it or swollen joints to prove voa can qun hlv b- ml of these troubles I will send you a 5-1 box of my famous Anll-Kumatix treatment, postpaid and without cost or obligation. If it cures you tell your friends and pay me what you think is fair, otherwise the loss is mine. Merely s> ml your name today for this lib- ■ ral introductory offer Eyssell Labors lories. Kept .'ill! HI3 brand. Kansas City, y,i —Advertisement.

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