Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER. Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howavd Newspaper Alliance • • “ Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos ‘ > l4-2°o W Maryland St.. Indianapolis * Subscription Kates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * • * PHONE—MA in 3500.

HERE ARE SOME FACTS * —rt ERE are some facts: ! 1. The United States Constitution directs that presidential electors shall be chosen in each State “in such manner as the Legislature shall direct.” 2. The California Legislature separated certain nonpartisan offices (such as school officials, city commissioners, etc.) into a group and applied its election and primary law to “all other officials” and provided for nomination by primary, or bv convention, or by petition. 3. The Republicans and Democrats chose the primary, the •Socialists chose convention and the La Follette people chose the petition method. 4. The California Legislature directed that its election and primary law “shall be construed liberally (by the courts) so that the real will of the people shall not be defeated.” 5. The law authorized nominations after election day if 1 per cent of the voters should sign a petition and if such signers had not voted at the primary. 6. In a single day over 50,000 people each signed fourteen separate elector's petitions—a total of 700,000 signatures on the petitions to put the La Follette electors on the California ballot. 7. The California Supreme Court by a vote of four judges against three, has ruled these electors off the ballot on the ground that they are not officials, but are merely messengers, and hence do not come under the provisions of the primary law. 8. Os the four judges who voted to knock La Follette off the ballot, three, Myers, Shenk and Richards, were never elected by the people, but are the political appointees of the hardboiled, reactionary Republican Governor, Richardson. 9. The fourth judge, Waste,, is a politician who was in the Legislature away back in the smelly days of the Southern Pacific domination of California. He, too, first got on the bench by appointment instead of election. 10. Os the three judges who voted in favor of the La Follette electors one, Lawler, was elected by the largest vote ever given in California; another. Sewell, got more votes than any one running for any State office in 1922, and the third, Lennon, holds his seat by vote of the people. 11. Two of the judges who twisted the law, Myers and bhenk, are running for re-election this year and are both on both the Republican and Democratic tickets running against the Follette ticket. (Another pair of Gold Dust Twins.) 12. Four of the majority judges are Coolidge Republicans. Two of the minority are Democrats and one is a Progressive Re>ublican. > 13- The dissenting judges spoke as follows: Lennon: “To onstrue this statute when it itself directs a liberal construction lefeats not only the will of the Legislature but also the will of he people. Sewell: “To unduly obstruct the independent loters is contrary to the principles of Republican government.” iawler: “The rule of construction in the primary law places he duty of the court to interpret the law so that one group of litizens may not be denied rights enjoyed by others.” 14. Senator Hiram Johnson says that this decision of the •ourt is “unjustified by law. contrary to public policy and of he most harmful consequences,” and that “it is such decisions s this that undermino public confidence in the courts.” The net result is: I L That the La Follette California electors must run as Socialists, thus inviting fresh rushes of red to the heads of 2 awes, Davis, Daugherty. Detective Burns and Coolidge. I 2. If the State law does not apply to nomination of presidential electors by petition because they are not officials, but are liere messengers, then how does the same law apply to the nomination of electors by primary or convention? I 3. That Californians are fighting mad and are setting out ■> recall the four judges. W 4. That this is a beautiful illustration that courts are finnan and that they can and do twist the Constitution and the itatutes to fit emergencies in politics and in big business. | IT MAXES A DIFFERENCE f r t w ith one another for positions of vanaj* l‘ a S e > says the dispatch, “and .Jackie was extricated |°m the melee with great difficulty by his father.” g Jackie Coogan had arrived in London and was in front of James Palace, one of the homes of the Prince of Wales. The dispatch goes on to say that there were “exciting scenes” there trhen “thousands of persons,” chiefly women and children, ‘stormed his car in an effort to see him.” Dear old Lunnon had been severely critical of the “pursuit rJ the Prince of Wales by the uncontrolled and vulgar crowds” n the vicinity of New York. Indeed, the papers of that city profess astonishment at our lack of decorum, and volunteer the information that “nothing so shocking could possibly happen in any other civilized country.” But, you see, it makes a difference whose kid is being shown off and where he is being shown. BY NAMING a native of Massachusetts as a candidate for [governor, it appears that Vermont has returned the compliment, or something.

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Carl Enna of Kansas City, Mo., is a freshman in the Manual Training High School there at the age of 10. He graduated from ward school with high honors at the age of 9. Enna's father is a railroad laborer. WHY COURTS ARE IN NEED OF CURBING La Follette Gives reasons for His Stand on Judiciary. By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE Progressive Candidate for President l' ist years, the Federal Courts, par- . J ticularly the Supreme Court, have declared unconstitutional or otherwise nullified the most important legislation enacted by the law making branch of the Government. For instance, in August, 1894, Congress passed an act which provided in substance for an income tax on net incomes above $4,000. Such a tax had previously been upheld by the court. When it came before the Supreme Court under the act of 1894, the principal features of the law were again -held valid by the Supreme Court, though by a majority of one vote. On a re-argument of the case one of the justices changed his vote, though neither he nor any one else has ever given any explanation of the change, and the whole law was declared null and void as being in conflict with the Federal Constitution. That the decision was based on the economic view of the judges composing the majority of the court was plainly apparent from both the majority and minority opinions. Notes Opinion Os the majority opinion, Mr. Justice Harlan, one of the dissenting judges, said: “The decree now passed dislocates —principally for reasons of an economic nature —a sovereign power expressly granted to tho gen eral Government and long recognized and fully established by judicial decisions and legislative action.” After nearly twenty years of protracted struggle an amendment to the Constitution was finally adopted which was intended to jneet the objection of the majority of the court to the constitutionality of an income tax law. The effect of th\,s derision for the first thirteen years after the eourt had nullified the ] aw was thus stated by the Chief .lustier Clarke of the Supreme Court of North Carolina: ‘‘One man nullifies the action of Congress and the President and 75,009,900 of living people and in thirteen years since, h is taxed the property and labor of the country by bis sole vote one billion three million dollars which Congress, in cornpli. ance with the public will and relying upon previous decisions of the court had decreed should he paid out. of the excessive incomes of the rich.” In the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Trust cases which came before the Supreme Court a few years ago, the court by another five to four decision overruled a number of carefully considered previous decisions and in effect rewrote the antitrust act.

Struck Down Law In the recent cases of Hammer against Dangehart, the Supreme Court, by a bare majority of one, struck down one of the best laws ever enacted by Congress, which is commony referred to as the. child labor law. By this act Congress sought to prevent employment of children in factories and mills under unhealthy and improper conditions by excluding from interstate commerce products of such labor. The opinion of Mr. Justice Holmes in that case, in which Justices McKenna, Brandeis and Clarke concurred, demonstrates beyond the possibility of a doubt that the law was plainly constitutional, and that it was beyond any legitimate function of the court to invalidate it. The Congress shortly thereafter passed another law on the subject of child labor to meet the objection of the court and this law was also | nullified by a dvided court. The wealthy miU and factory ■ owners employing child labor under | the shameful conditions shown to exist along profited as a result of this judicial legislation, while the will of Congress and of the people has been defeated and countless thousands of children have as a result of the court’s action been condemned to unwholesome labor, which has stunned their bodies, dwarfed their minds and made many of them public charges. These are only a very few of the cases wherein during the last few years the court, by usurping legislative power, has nullified acts of Congress. The Difference The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is quite droit. The o. t. sees the doughnut: the p. t, sees the hole.—Scripps-Paine Service.

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U. S. WANTS ‘GIFT FLEET RETURNED Fights to Regain Barges Built at Cost of $3,000,000, /?>/ XEA Service .—J ASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—That well-known ditty, ‘‘You Didn't ___ Want Me Wien You Had Me; Why Do You Want Me Now?” might well be adopted as the official anthem of the so-called “Goltra fleet” on the Mississippi River. The Government built the fleet at a cost of more than $3,000 000 —then turned it over to Edward F. Goltra, St. Louis iron manufacturer, and former Democratic national committeeman, for nothing. Now the government is fighting to get it back. Through its Inland Waterways Corporation, the Government has of sered Goltra SS,OOO a month rental for use of the craft until the legal controversy is settled. §2,000,000 Asked Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, Waterways Corporation chairman, declares Goltra has refused this offer and has asked the equivalent of $2,000 000 for the return of the boats and barges he got free of charge. Meantime, according to Ashburn, tons of freight are piling up on tho St. Louis levee; the Government can’t use its fleet to haul them away, and Goltra won't. The fleet consists of nineteen barges and four towboats. Goltra bases his claim to it on a contract signed by Newton D. Baker, as Sec rotary of War —a document which has been subject to a storm of criticism. Under terms of the contract Goltra obtained use of the fleet for five years after date of delivery to him. That was July, 1922. Deducting all operating expenses, he was to turn the net profits over to the Secretary of War. to he placed in a special fund. But he was given the option of purchasing the fleet an,l of using these profits to apply on the purchase price-—with all profits in excess of the cost of the fleet to be returned to him. When this contract was made public it was announced that the fleet was to be used on the upper Mississippi, between St. Louis and St. Paul. It was later discovered, howi ever, that Goltra was soliciting freight trade, on the lower river, where the Government was already operating one barge the Missia-sippi-Warrior Service. The Government, fearful its own barge line would be put out of business discussed a plan by which Goltra would handle freight which the Mississippi-Warrior line was unable to handle. Boats Tied-I'p At this point Goltra tied up his boats. Early In 3923, at the Insistence of Ashburn and Congressman Newton of St. Igmls, Weeks took legal action to annul Goltra's contract. Since then battle for the fleet has been waged in various courts. Supreme Court order gave the Government use of the boats for awhile, but later a point of jurisdiction was decided In Goltra's favor and the boats returned to him.

PART OF THE GOLTRA FLEET WHICH THE GOVERNMENT GAVE AWAY AND CAN'T GET BACK.

Know Indiana What was “land script?’’ If a purchaser failed to make full payment on Sta:e land purchased, he was given credit for what he had paid in “land script,” exchangeable as cash for other lands. What was the State’s bonded debt before the Civil War? Available figures give the debt at $11,048,000 on July 1, 1847. Six years’ accrued interest brought it to $13,120,692. What was "the internal improvement bill?” The most important measure ever signed by an Indiana Governor, it is said. In 1836 $13,000,000 was appropriated for internal improvements and the bill signed by Governor Noah Noble. The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Blondy, the manicure, says she hasn’t had a corn since she started to buy her shoes to fit her feet, instead of her head. A woman in the end chair this morning remarked that the only thing about female clothes a man should have anything to say about >h the price. Whiskers do not justify their existence as wind-brakes. Speaking of spicy shows, an advance agent in the shop this morning advertised, “Twenty as pretty girls as were ever mustard in a chorus.” NEXT!’

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Science One of the newest of sciences is that devoted to lighting. In this field there are enormous possibilitee for making living and even working conditions more che* rful. Light has been-used for many years in theaters, artistically. It is beginning to be used in this way in dining-rooms, ballrooms and other places. But it is in the home that it has the greatest opportunities. Most persons light their homes merely for Illumination. Light, used for that purpose primarily, still can be made to Introduce beauty, che-r----fulnes3, coolness, warmth and so on. Most persons know they are keenly susceptible to light conditions. In cold, rainy or gloomy weather, lighting effects, through properly arranged equipment, may be chang'd to counteract the depression of the day. For Instance, an orange light is a mentally stimulating color. Yellow is a cheerful color. Green is neutral. Red is exciting. Proper use of a certain number of colors for lighting will have a great effect upon a person In causing rest, health and ; energy. Economy of Labor "What's the idea of washing only one Huger?" "Jimmy Smith h;is asked me over to his home to feel his baby brother's new tooth.”—Goblin.

Tongue Tips George M. Cohan, ' actor-play-wright: “Most actors read; some of them read and write.” * • • Peter McArthur, Toronto writer: “I never noticed until the other night that crickets and other insects keep up their music when it is raining. The crickets were even noisier than they are on still, warm autumn nights.” * • * Arthur E. Bostwick, St. Louis, public librarian: “He who complains that ho has no time to read is one • ;-.o does not fundamentally care for that method of making contact with the minds of others.” * * A. L. Harris, writer: “Today nearly one-half of the American population lives in places of over 2,f>00 inhabitants, a tenth in villages and hardly more than two-fifths in the open country.” * * • Dr. John H. Ritson, secretary British and Foreign Bible Society: “The Bible must be translated into 1,000 more languages before it can be said to be available to all the peoples of the world.” A Thought The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plentenousness; but of every one that is hdsty only to want. — Prov. 21:5. • * * Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. —Samuel Smiles.

Ask The Times Yuii * ar. get an answer to any queatlon of fart or information by writing to tl.e ludiauapolu Times Washing too Bureau. J.t22 New York Aw., Washington. 11. C. Inclosing '1 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and BinrUal advice cannot be given, nor can extended rescar' !i be undertaken. a:: otl ei iu< st s ill rei eit e a persona! reply Unsigned requ< 9ts cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Since tho disarmament conference what is the strength of Japan's fleet United States and Great Britain? How does Japan compare with tho United States in the number of ships, and the whole fleet i-. general? Japan lias ten capital .-hips: highspeed oi uisers under ten ycirs old, 13, and building, 12; modem destroyers, f”l, and building, 31; long radius submarines above 1,000 tons, 2. and litiilq.inr 21! coast defense submarine.-. 31. building IS; Japan has no airplane carriers, but is building 2. United States has 7 highspeed cruisers ten years old and is building 3; modern destroyers, 274: long-radius submarines, above 1,000 tons, 5, and building 3; coast defense submarines 7, and blinding 15: airplane carriers 1, and building 2. Great Britain has 35 high-spee 1 i misers under ten years old, and building 4; modern destroyers, H-6, building 5: long radius submarine*, above 1.000 ton-. 10; coast defense submarines 22, building 5; airplane earners 3, and building 3. What nationality are Richard Loeb’s parents? What la their religion? Richard I/ieb’s father is a Jew and his mother a Christian. We do not know what church they attend. Is there a Commercial Art School in Indianapolis? If so, where is it located? Yes. Art Association of Indianapolis. Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. Give date World's Fair, held at St. Louis. In 1304. Since the flexible tariff has gone into effect, has tariff on any article been reduced by President Coolidge? Presi lent Coolidge has made four chanees in the taritf law. The duty on wheat, barium dioxide and sodium nitrate was raised: the duty on mill feeds was reduced. Did Senator La Folletto vote against prohibition? He voted for the submission of the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but voted against the Volstead act, as. In his opinion, poorly drawn. I enlisted under an assumed name; how can I get my name corrected in the Army records? Write to the Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., asking that the correction be made. Were the old or new style quarter dollars coined in 1916? Both the old and new; 8,325,500 of the old type and 52,000 of the new type. What is the amount of Indian blood in a person whose greatgrandmother was an Indian? One-eighth. , When did the war-time prohibition act go into effect? The war-time prohibition provision was signed by the President Nov. 21, lots, and went into effect July 1, 1919. t What is the, highest degree of heat that has been produced by man? The Unied States Bureau of Standards reports that temperatures of 10,000 to 11,000 dogrees Fahrenheit have been obtained in the electric furnace. What is the length of life of swans, squirrels, buffalo? Swans live 200 years, squirrels seven years, buffalo from fifteen to twenty years. What was the date of the presidential election twenty-one years ago? There was no presidential election twenty-one years ago this fall. There were presidential elections Nov. 6. 1900, and Nov. 8, 1904.

Tom Sims Says

South Dakota boy set the woods on fire. Almost as rash as candidates who burn their bridges before them. They caught a pearl thief in Paris. He thouught the world was his oyster, but it wasn't. I Finding pearls In oysters isn't a bit more difficult than finding oysI ters in case oyster stew. Hen’s teeth grow more scarce. Chicago dentists in session find more women wearing false teeth. That’s one punishment of a gosi sip. She wears out her teeth clicking them together. Life in the open is good for one. but don't keep your teeth out in the open all the time. Main building of the New Tork police recreation camp burned, because cops failed to catch the fire in time. What will you do with your old straw lid? Cut in pieces, roll in flour and fry. How about the summer underwear? Soak it in ink this winter and use it for a bathing suit next summer. Almost time to get all cleaned up for the winter so you can put coal in the bath tub. Anniston Star, in Alabama, calls bootleggers ‘‘liquorites,” but they are more often “llquorongs.” A man's rights to drink booze are fast becoming his funeral rites. There are American women -who have been married for years without seeing a clothes pin or rolling pin. And a debutante is disgraced if she can't hug or can cook. All the world's a stage on which comedies, have the longest run. Copyright, 191 4. XEA Service Plain Foolishness By HAL COCHRAN When the fall is In the ozone and the leaves are In the fall, and there’s cold within the air but not your head, it is nice to crank your auto, if the thing will start at all, and just ride to watch the green things turning red. You can ride the lovely highways where the mud is mucky thick; you can now and then get stuck up to the hub. But, on any of the ways someone will likely stick, so you'll know that you are not the only dub. You can catch the cut of autumn with its tingle in the air: you can deeply drink the chill in, brave and bold. You can catch the loss of summer which has gone, you know not where, and It’s likely, too, you’ll also catch a cold. Oh, I've met the folks who’ve done it and I’ll pass It on to you. It is mild to merely tell you they have raved. They have worn too little clothing, quite a foolish thing to do, and they’ve driven on the roads that are not paved. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

For La Follette By FRANK P. WALSH Famous Labor Lawyer and Former Joint Chairman, War Labor Board. Robert M. La Follette is In my opinion the greatest living American statesman. This judgment is based not only on his splendid abilities and the gi-eat fundamental principles for which he stands, but also on his achievements in the interests of the people. I would rather .have the gx-eat foi-ce of Senator La Follette behind any measure in which 1 was interested than that of any other man in Congress. I say this not oniy because he is one * of the few men in the Senate who can be absolutely trusted, but also because he is today the outstanding figure in that great deliberative body.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1924

T-Toosierisms f BY GAYLORD NELSON

AST night the electric sign, atop the Merchants Heat n- and Light Company Bldg., flashed this message: “Eye strain due to poor lighting is the subject of national attention this month.” This opens the education campaigr fox- better home lighting to be corn! icted during October by the Electrical Development Association of Indianapolis. From smoking pine knots to smoking tallow dips. That was all the pi-ogress the world made in lighting before 1782. In that year Argand invented a circular wick and the glass chimney. The flooding electric light commanded by a push of the finger is the logical result of that invention. Before Argand’s time poor lights restricted people’s activity largely to daytime. Our ancestors went to bed with the chickens. There was not much else to do. Today we use our eyes in the pursuit of business, pleasure and recreation as never before. All hours are daylight hours. Good lighting has made this possible. We take the command, “Let there be light,” literally, as cur streets, buildings and homes reveal nightly. Let there be plenty of light and no eye-strain. That’s the object of the better home lighting campaign. An Italian recently fasted ten days. A lot of Indianapolis people eat in lafeterias, too. Automobiles mHERE were 509,969 pleasure type automobiles registered in Indiana up to June 30, according to H. D. McClelland, manager of the State automobile license department. That’s a gain of approximately 20 per cent over the corresponding period in 1923. The country may be going to everlasting pei-dition, as the pessimists declare. But it isn’t galloping in that direction. It if riding smoothly, on rubber tires, lea sing a heavy reek of gasoline and dismembered pedestrians in its wake. At least in Indiana. Complaints are voiced of hard times, poor crops, and industrial stagnation. All of which may be the literal truth. But some have money or faith in their ability to grapple with the monthly payment plan. For the total value of the motor vehicles registered to June 30 is a tidy sum. Not the pocket change of a bankrupt. The increase in registration simply indicates that a car is now recognized as a family necessity, and, like taxes, is above economic depression. Yes, there are 509,969 automobilea in Indiana. And every evening they all try to cross the Meridian and Washington St. Intersection simultaneously. Someone took an 18-year-old hen from Mrs. Kate Grube, 833 N. Tacoma Ave. A collector of heirlooms, probably.

Office HOMAS R. MARSHALL, former vice president, has l opened a downtown office. “I’m not going to resume the practice of law until I get a. client,” he said. And it isn’t law practice or the need for clients that prompted his action. It’s the desire for an office —a place to hang his hat and visit with his friends. A man spends the greater part of his life in an office or place of business. For years he keeps the same hours and follows the same routine. Then he ostensibly retires. Soon he feels depressed and uncomfortable, -with languid pulse. He finds the office-going habit has become so ingrained in him that it is an essential part of his being. And when he resumes regular trips to his office he recovers his normal poise. His pulse beats with its usual authority. So with Mr. Marshall. He will, as he put it, continue to eke out a precarious existence from lectures and writing. Clients or no clients. They are not essential, but an office he can call hia own, is. Now inventors, who make infernal machines from old newspapers and shredded rubber —all steeped in prune juice —and labelled the “world's greatest 5-cent cigar,” will know where to find their patron saint. It will be a precarious existent for Mr. Marshall. W. Walnut St. grocer routed hoHfr up men with a dill pickle. They found themselves in an awful pickle. Readers mNDIANAPOLIS isn’t peopled exclusively by authors. It also contains an occasional reader. For the public library statistics, recently compiled, show that 1,552,551 books were circulated during the past year. And that’s a lot of books. But the most interesting fact disclosed by the figures is that more than 40 per cent of the books drawn out were of the non-fiction class. And there is a steady increase in the borrowing of this class. Which indicates that the library is more and more serving its purpose—as a place where people of all ages, classes and diversity of interests may go for recreation, reference or serious study. The public library is a free university at the elbow of every man. He can use it or leave it alone, as he chooses. The people of Indianapolis choose to use it —for they drew out more than a million and a half books last year. Yet, despite this impressive number, the circulation was only an average of four books to each person in the city. We are readers—but not bookworms. Not on four books a year.