Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1924 — Page 4

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THE STATE TAX RATE SHE STATE tax board has reduced the State tax levy from 30 cents to 28 cents. Contentment should permeate Republican camps. Upon the altar of the party, approximately $200,000 in annual interest on the State debt is sacrificed to the Sacred Elephant at the expense of the taxpayers. The tax board says the debt will be paid at the end of the next fiscal year because of their providence. The State was out of debt earlier in this year. too. But it was out of debt only during 1 the week-end. It’s one thing or the other. Pay the State debt and have nothing left to run the government on or visa versa. Monstrous clever fellows, the tax commissioners. The tax rate is kept low because they say it would be illegal to fix a levy to care for the debt, since there was no legislative appropriation for it. Yet, what caused that debt in the first place 1 The all.vise legislature appropriates, for instance, $2,000,000 for anew 'eformatory at Pendleton and makes half available in April ind half in October, 1923. The tax board meets the following September and fixes a levy to take care of the appropriation. The money then begins to come in in May, 1924, and in Novem- | her, 1924. But since the money was made available and spent in April and October, 1923, the State has had to borrow it. In the interim come general operating expense demands averaging $625,000 a month, to say nothing of the interest on the borrowed money for which no appropriation was made. When, i of course, the State shows a debt at the end of the fiscal year, the tax board then back-tracks, blames it on the Legislature and says it can’t legally take care of the debt. The end of the fiscal year is Sept. 30. It’s a peculiar species of State department which hasn’t used the last penny in its budget on that date. What then is the State going to do for money until the following December when the next tax money comes in? The State tax board says it mustn’t violate the law ; by declaring a general fund levy big enough to take care of j those intervening three months at more than $600,000 a month.j The board savs it's illegal. Meanwhile, you and your neighbor are being mortgaged for the principal and interest on the State debt which will some day blow the State tax rate clear out of water. With the debt > attended to now. the rate would subsequently take a natural downward course. But the action of the tax board has been to : force it down with an old-fashioned political club. The trouble j will come when the swelling sets in.

SNEER THIS ONE OFF! "T"1 GREAT international conference on reduction of armsA ment is virtually assured for June 15. next year, at Geneva. Bravo! The League of Nations, under whose auspices the conference is to gather, is gaining in both prestige and power. Some fifty-four nations are already members of the league, and these, of course, may be counted on. in advance, to take part. In addition, the only great nation not in the league—the United States—together with the less important non-member countries, will receive very special and pressing invitations to come along. The news will be hailed by the present administration in Washington with all the joy and enthusiasm of a small boy welcoming a dose of castor oil. It wants another arms conference, but it wants the fifty-four nations to come to it rather tb&n to allow the hated league to get the credit. It looks as though the league had put the politicians in Washington in a place where they will either have to come in and help make the conference a success —and, Lord, how they will hate it! —or get in dutch with the American people by staying away and knocking. In the past, of course, that is precisely what they have been doing. Just sneering when asked to participate with the other nations to further world peace. But things have changed. Sentiment in this country, in Republican, as well as Democratic and Progressive, circles is overwhelmingly in favor of Uncle Sam doing his honest-to-John man's bit to help the world stave off war. Americans, regardless of party, want peace. And they are not so blamed particular, either, who gives it to them. They would just as lief accept it from the League of Nations as from anybody else, even if the league did stand to gain a little kudos from it. If the Geneva conference comes ofF. we must be there. Os course. We can’t continue forever to do as we have done in the past—stay away just to give the league a black eye. GLAD TIDINGS for Wall St. A foreign doc can double the fleeces of lambs by resort to gland treatments. A TURKISH court has decided that poker is not a game of chance, probably because life is not the stake. THE CHINESE WAR was caused by rival tuchuns. A tuchun is a touchy individual with walnus mustaches and a firm grip on his voting precinct. THE VEHEMENT and repeated demands of the Wichita Eagle that he state his position on Darwinism may be part of a scheme to get Brother Charlie up a tree.

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Retires Nearly 100 years of service in the navy by members of one family ended when Rear Admiral Edward Simpson, U. S. N 7 ., retired on reaching the age limit. Admiral Simpson was born at the naval academy in Annapolis while his father was an instructor there. He commanded the forward turret of Admiral Schley's flagship Brooklyn in the battle of Santiago Bay in the Spanish-American-War. PROGRESSIVE VOTE TO BE BIG IN OHIO Independents Expected to Carry Some of Bigger Cities, p.v LOWELL MEL/LETT CINCINNATI. Sept. 23.—Prospects in Ohio look extraordinarily good for the La 1-'ollette-Wheeler ticket. Progressive workers who had been talking of piling up a vote that would be an “impressive demonstration" are now talking of nothing hut ways and means of carrying the State. In the November election they are determined not only to get the vote out, but to get it counted. Two important members of the Republican State organization have made private predictions in the past few days. One is that La Kollette and Wheeler will carry Cleveland. The other is that La Kollette and Wheeler will carry every important city in the State except Cincinnati. Farmers for I.a Kollette There is reason to believe, furthermore. that the Progressive vote is not confined to the cities. Men who have been among the farmers in recent weeks report an amazing amount of sentiment for the ticket. On,' Cleveland man who had sperr. two weeks resting at his farm hone in a northeastern county said that he had devoted much of the time to circulating by automobile among the farmers of his own and an adjoining county. Seven out of ten of the farmers, mostly Republican, he said, had told him they intend to vote for La Kollette.

Draws From Both Sides That the Independent.vote is coming out of both parties equally seems to be indicated by tht? response given to Wheeler’s criticisms >f the two old parties. Attacks on the Democratic platform and ticket teceived as hearty applause as .attacks on the Republican administration. A longtime politician watching the crowd of 6,000 at Columbus and hearing the outburst of applause when Wheeler suggested that it wasn't worth while kicking the Deni oeratie party when it was down, remarked. "There must be a 'ot of Republicans here.” And then w hen there was a roar of cheers at Wheeler's condemnation "f Coolidge's silence. he added, “There certainly are a lot of Democrats." Tom Sims Says Savings deposits are inereasing in the United States, perhaps because you must pay some down on the auto. Fourteen Indian nations held a dance in Mexico; tafn*-, no doubt, when compared with a debutante's dance. Evolution is always mistaken for revolution. The price of raw sugar is up, perhape due to some raw deai. Radio is becoming popular in Russia, and it doesn’t matter, but many a whisker will get hung in the wires. Anyway, most of those Russians were named for a few radio stations. Everywhere you hear arguments over parking limits while you find just parking at all is the limit. The swimming pool is mightier than the Kelly pool. Americans are doing everything possible to entertain the Prince of Wales; somebody robbed his party. And some crook stole SIOO,OOO from a New York oil man w r ho may have worked so hard for it. Five were shot at an election in Louisiana, instead of Mexico. Lack of feed has hit the cattle business; also the human business. It was a mean trick making those round-the-world fliers go to banquets after the other hardships were over. In a few years airships will cease to be considered hardships. r The ship of state is a hardship to steer. Also, some seem to think the ship of state is a hot-air ship. Anyway, it's something all up in the air. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Cease froth anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. —Ps. 37:8. Keep cool and you command everybody.—St. Just.

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LADY LUCK OLD FRIEND OF AIRMAN Lieut, Smith, World Flier, Once Fought With General Villa, I Ttu .VBA Service | I —EW YORK, Sept. 23.—“ Lady V Luck” has been a passenger Il x v I on the plane of Lieut. Lowell Smith for a long, Jong time. She sat beside him when he piloted his airplane around the world, and, with his comrades, won fame. And, back in 1915, the Lady was his constant companion, and he needed her then, for he was flying a plane for Pancho Villa, Mexican rebel leader. It was when Smith was a carefree adventurer with the Mexican that I first met him. for I was with the Villa forces myself. Later I saw him return to the American continent, completing the first trip by airplane around the world. How different were the planes he flew then from the up-to-date one that carried him around the world. Junk Planes The planes that Villa had were a bunch of junk that some salesman with a plausible tongue and an eye for a big profit, had unloaded on the Mexican leader. They only flew after constant tinkering with th'eir engines. And even after they were in the air, it was almost impossible to gain an altitude greater than 500 feet, due to the already high altitude of I,eon, where the decisive battle with Obregon, Carranza's leader, was fought. But Smith showed then the same qualities of endurance and pluck that have just carried him around the world. What mattered to him that among his companions, Mays was killed in taking oft because his decrepit plane refused to rise quickly onongli to I clear an adobe wall: that McGuire! fell to his death when his engine 1 stalled: that Fish, unable to get alt! tude, nevertheless bombed the Car- i ranoista line from 500 feet, and; came hack with a bullet-riddled plHre and a cockpit stained a bright red from the blood that flowed from his bullet punctured leg and nrtn? All this waa part of the day's work. Smith took his turn at the daily j raids over the enemy lines. Daily j his plane came back with added bul-let-holes until the wings looked lik ' sieves. Lady Luck was with him. Rut Smith would take off with a j grin an 1 return with a wider one. Counts Bullet Holes Gleefully he would count the bullet holes in his plane “just to see how many more close ones the Car- i rancists scored today.” The heat was intense. When lie was not flying. Smith with his companions was generally to he found in their private railroad car—a box car equipped in one end with hunks for sleeping, and in the other with a kitchen, where a Chinese cook hold forth.

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LIEUTENANT SMITH (INSET) FLEW THE PLANE PR TUKKI) ABOVE AROUND THE WORLD AND IN THE OTHER FOUGHT WITH VII.LA IN MEXICO.

Because By HAL COCHRAN There's always a reason for everything, yet there’s one satisfaction we never can get. The womenfolk gather and chatter and buzz. You ask why they do it—the answer's ‘‘because." The Missus refuses to join you at lunch and what Is the reason? You haven't a hunch! You wonder and fret like the av’rage man does. You say, "please explain,” and she answers, "because.” A dapper young fellow' will grow a mustache though he knows that the thing will look perfectly rash. Politiely you ask him the cause of the fuzz. But he just doesn’t know, so he answers "because.” Whenever you're stuck on a question folks ask, don’t feel that answer’s a terrible task. When quizzed as to why—well, just take it from me. just answer "because” and you're safe as can be. Perhaps you will wonder, with reason enough, just why a man writeth this, lingo of stuff. The answer should clear me—l hope that it does —and the honest reply to the question's "because.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Sister's Cure “Let me kiss those tears away, sweetheart,” he begged tenderly. She fell into his arms and he was very busy for a few minutes. But the tears flowed on. “Can nothing stop them?” ho asked breathlessly. “No,” she murmured; “it's hay fever, but go on with the treatment.”—Candy Factory.

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WILL ‘AL’ RUN FOR GOVERNOR? New York Governorship Big Question in National Election, By C. A. RAN PA I' TT1 EW YORI< - •- M „ the lican and Democratic campaigns, are more interested just row In the result nt the New York State Democratic convention Sept. 25 than In any other forthcoming political event. What the managers want to know is: Will AJ Smith accept renomination for the ofllo< of Governor of New York? If Smith accepts the nomination, which will be his for the taking, the

Democrats believe New York's allimportant forty-five electoral votes can he won for Davis. May Help Republicans If Smith refuses to run again, the Republican managers claim the O. O. P. will make a clean sweep of the Empire State. The Progressive vote, though it will he affected by the Smith nomination. will still ho much less influenced by the action of the New York Governor than will that of either of the old parties. The greatest possible pressure is being brought to bear on Governor Smith to run again for the office he has twice held. Tammany Hall leaders have practically demanded that ”A1” now repay the organization for its part in “making” him a national figure. The primary consideration of the mmany leaders is that of carrying the New York City local ticket. To get out the voters from the East Side, the West Side, and from ail about the town, they feel they must have the magic appeal of Governor Al. Understanding Reached It is generally believed that Tammany has come to a very satisfactory understanding with Presidential Candidate Davis, and that success of the Davis ticket will give the New York machine a “look-in” in national patronage. This, however, is a secondary consideration to the matter of electing municipal officials, but as it is now felt that neither the national Democratic ticket nor the New York City Democratic slate will have a chance of election unless Smith is at the head of the State ticket, the Governor is being made to feel that his refusal to run will amount to desertion of the party in a time of crisis.

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Ask The Times You ■ un xet an answer to any question of fa. t or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Ru."-au. 1d.:.: New York Ave . VY&shinxtoii. D. C. Inclosing 2 cents in •tamps for reply. Medical, legal and jisnul advice cannot bo given, nor can i xtend'-d research be undertaken. A' otliei questions will recsive a persona! reply Unsigned req.csts cannot he a Mur- 1 All i-Iters are confidential —Editor. Who originally invented the automatic car coupler? Maj K!i H .fanney of Alexandria, V. Iks invention of !873, however, was r.ot put info service. His design of IST? was later adopted by j the Master Car Builders’ Association. What are the civil service requirements for the appointment to position as assistant post mas- ; ter? Applicants must be in good physical condition, must reside within ihe delivery district of the office for [which the examination is held: apjili' ants must he between 21 and 65 years of age except only that the , letirement ate limit of 70 years ap-p'c-s to persons entitled to preference (.••cause of military or naval service. The examination consists of clerical j tests, accounts and arithmetic, pen- ! manship. and a rating on experif nee. For first-class postofflees, competitors mils show that they have 1 ad at least three years’ experience of a practical or supervisory or administrative character. What is best to use to prevent, lead front sticking to molds'* Powdered pumice, tale, mica, French chalk and lampblack are all : used. Where i the Moffat funnel he. ing built: where can detailed infor- ■ mation on It he found? It i*.- being constructed in the Coin, rade Rockies from a point Just west of Newcomb to a point within a mile 'southeast of Irving, Colo, on the Denver S Salt Luke Railroad. A | detailed account of the project will jbe found in Railway Review for ! .Tan. 26. 1!>24. What does s good Russian wolfI hound cost” Tito prices range now from ?50 i to $ 150. Did Magellan actually circumC navigate the globe? He did not personally live to the j end of the voyage in which his ship sailed around the globe, yet he did !circumnavigate the globe, for on his ; longest voyage eastward he had ! reached Banda Island at longitude 130 degrees east of Greenwich, and when lie w.-.s killed hv an at tack of natives at Mactan Island he had sailed westward to longitude 124 degrees east of Greenwich, thus by 6 degrees more than completing the circumnavigatiton. H<*w are plates for false teeth made? The process is a complicated one: the mold is made of plaster of Paris and wax poured over it: then the teeth are set in; the plate is then revered with dental rubber which has been vulcanized at 320 degrees for one hour and fifty minutes. What is Lois Wilson's address? Care of W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. 469 Fifth Ave., New York City. What are the meanings of the names Geraldine, Ruby and Robert? Geraldine, “strong with the spear”; Rubyf “red”; Robert, “bright in fame.” What is Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover’s home address? Twenty-three hundred S. St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Know Indiana 1. Who was Governor of Indiana when the territory became a State? General Thomas Posey, IT. S. Senator from Louisiana, who served from ISIS to 1816. 2. When did the Legislature first meet in Indiana? The first General Assembly met at Vincennes July 29, 1805. Governor Harrison's message was urgent in pointing out necessity of stopping sale of liquor to Indians. 3. Where were the first companies of regular soldiers in this State? Ft. Knox, near Vincennes, and Ft. Wayne each had a company of men in 1814. There were 5,010 men enrolled.

UNION HEAD DISCUSSES CONDITIONS IT, C, Cashen, Switchmen's i ! ! Official, Answers Cooiidge Labor Day Talk, By T. C. CASHEN President International Switchmen's Union. ASHINGTON, Sept. 23. j \ju President Cooiidge erred in ■I telling a selected group at 'the White House on Labor day that j wages ate higher today than in 1623 . and that living costs are on a toboggan. Figures compiled by the Depart- : ment of Labor itself indicate the , reverse of this condition. Labor Department experts after careful study find that there has been a sharp dec! ine in pay scales j jin thirty-two leading industries! ranging from 9.1 to 15.5 per cent during the past year, while food I prices have failed to drop per- ! ceptibiy. In six of the principal cities, food costs actually increased. But that doesn't tell the whole story. While on the one hand the laborer's pay kept shrinking, and liv- ! ing costs remained stationary, employers throughout the country laid off workers by the thousands. Many Out of Jobs In 6.057 establishments in fiftytwo leading industries averaged by ! the Labor Department 14.3 per cent of the workers were thrown out of • i jobs. T T sing this as an indx, more than 1.300,000 men and women in America are now jobless and a charge on those who are employed. This has enabled the employers to cut pa yrolls 19.3 per cent, the Labor Department states, at the same time reducing the per capita pay of those left on the job by 6.9 per cent. Those persons who have been obliged with a smallr wage to support. those who have been discharged will tell you how much truth lies In the President’s state- ! ment. They know, for instance, that ! for every five or six workmen, one | man is jobless and has to he taken | care of. If the President had inquired ! ; about conditions in his own State. ! he would have found that the work- | ers in the textile mills there suf- : sered a pay reduction of from 10 to 18.5 per cent and one out of every six persons was fired. Wages Reduced In the iron and steel industries, ' 19.11 per cent of the workers have i been dismissed and wages were cut i 7.3 per cent. Nor will money buy any more now I than it would a year ago. In Do- j j troit, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Cincinnati j and St. Louis living costs have ac- , ! tually risen. During March, Ajril j i and May the average decrease in I food costs for the entire country was j hut eight-tenths of 1 per cent. Boots and shoes remained at. a level 84 per cent higher than in 1913. Cotton goods manufacturers laid off thousands of workers and cut wages, but they boosted the price of their product 2 per cent to 94 per cent higher than in 1913 . If food, cotton cloth and shoes fail to drop in proportion to the average wage, then living costs are higher for the poor man today than in 1923. During the past three months the j toboggan of the pay roll has con- j tinue<j. Out of the fUty-two Indus- j tries the Labor Department uses as j the index to conditions, forty-four! made an average cut in pay of 4 per cent in July over June. The Bobber Shop The front window of our shop is jus' a little below the see level. An advertising man who was in the shop this morning says he never attends a full dress ball without noticing how much display space there is going to waste. When a man looks like sixty he usually feels like thirty cents. NEXT!

TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1.924

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON

Gardens r-pT-tHERIFF GEORGE SNIDER I J and Federal Prohibition DiI 1 rector Bert Morgan raided the Jack O'Lantern Gardens, near Millersville, Saturday night. Several plain and fancy drunks were in full bloom, and the raiders plucked 126 empty bottles from the shrubbery. All of which was an ordinary quiet evening in the prohibition enforcement trade. There are a number of such “gardens” in the vicinity of Indianapolis. Places where nature study is practiced by earnest students with capacious hip-pockets —where blossoms grow by cultivating a bootlegger, not the soil. The Jack O’Lantern was frequented by young sprigs and buds of well-known families. So much so that the raiders graciously refrained from making pubjic the names of those present at the time of their visit. And the eminent horticulturist operating. the place was shocked to find that his patrons had brought booze into the place. The operator of such a resort is always shocked at that. But what does he think the crowd comes for—to view the moonlight or drink the moonshine? The sooner such “gardens” are weeded out and padlocked the better it will he for many Indianapolis family trees. A certain eatery on Pennsylvania street bears this window motto: “A meal a minute.” Doctors say our graveyards are full of meal-a-minute fellows. Tower AYOR SHANK is seeking suggestions that will aid in II -1 solving the problem of downtown traffic congestion. One of the best so far is to remove the lonely traffic tower on Washington St. between Meridian and Pennsylvania. The tower is criticised as "aggravating congestion." It does that. It is no aid in traffic regulation. And it's no particular ornament to the street. It even lacks the long, racy lines of a telephone pole to recommend it to the esthetic eye. Its location, some distance from the intersection it Is designed to serve, may enhance its artistic setting, hut not its usefulness. Traffic is regulated at that intersection, but not by the tower. Three traffic officers and a hand “stop and go" standard do the work. Probably with two such towers in action on Washington St. at the same time, six traffic officers would he needed at this corner. And with three towers operating simultaneously it would be necessary to turn in a riot call or summon the national guard. The lone tower is no more usefut in traffic regulation than the Tower of Babel would he —and, architecturally, it is not so handsome. It might be moved to some sequestered spot and preserved. And perhaps an admission fee might be charged to see it—for it is certainly a rare bird. A German scientist predicts that men will live to be 1,000 years old. Try jay-walking in Indianapolis, professor. You’ll learn something, if you live'.

Home IVE of the children of Everett Lynn, 331 Koehne St., are in J the juvenile detention home, while the sixth —a 2-year-old cripple boy—is in the city hospital. Their father, after driving from, the house the mother, with a seventh baby in her arms, abandoned them. i . The affair is a matter of no particular importance. Merely the. smash of a sordid home. But home and family ties are. to most of us. matters of supreme importance. Home is something more than shelter, and family ties are the enduring bonds of love. So with ordinary people, the home and those in it —especially the little children—have always been cherished and protected with utmost devotion. Because of home and its spiritual significance humanity is a little nearer to the angels than to the beasts. Generally, but not always. There is Everett Lynn. Speed arrests in Indianapolis over tiie week end, twenty-six. In Chicago same period, 1,000. In* dianapolis is a slow town. Storms A*”” SEVERE wind and electrical storm swept Indiana Sunday J night. Much damage was done in cities in the northern port of the State. Indianapolis suffered little. v It was only the worn out fringe of a storm that devastated parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, with a loss of fifty-nine lives and property damage amounting to millions. Again the wind makes jest of man and his works. Y’esterday it was Minnesota and Wisconsin. Three months ago it was Lorain, Ohio. Tomorrow? Who knows? Man,' in his contest with Nature, has advanced far in the last few thousand years, but the wind and ' the lightning remain his masters Although we've had a weather bureau for years it hasn’t learned to subdue and bring to heel a single half-fed cyclone. It has only learned to cope with a congressional appropriation. It has also learned that terrific storms are due to areas of low barometric pressure. That sounds bad. and is. For barometric pressure may get low', but never sickly. It carries a wallop in either hand. Man still finds a convenient cellar and a spry pair of legs are the only arguments that win a joint debate with a cyclone. He may feel a marked mental tuperiorlty over a tornado —but W.e tornado doesn’t know It. And doesn't admit it.