Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1924 — Page 8
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CALVIN COOLIDGE Boston Police Strike Was Turm'ng Point in Career — As Governor of Massachusetts, He Called Out Entire State Militia and Supported Commissioner, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRESIDENT
SYNOPSIS F PRECEDING CHAPTERS Calvin Coo l idee as born July 4, 1872. Hl9 early life, following the death of his mother, was spent on a farm. Asa boy he was quiet and shy. Coolidge attended Amherst. In 19-35 he married Grace Goodhue, a school teacher. He practiced law in Northampton, and later held ofTiees of councilman, representative. State senator, president of the Senate. Lieutenant Governdr and Governor. As Governor he "brought sweeping reforms to the State, cutting the departments and bureaus. He vetoed several bills, including one regulating the 6ale of wines and beers, giving as his reason that such a law would not \ give the people beer anyway and it • was up to the Supreme Court to act. CHAPTER V mHE Boston police strike is regarded, and hot incorrectly, as the critical point in , the “national” career of President Calvin Coolidge. Three men really figured in the strike. These men were the then police commissioner, Edwin U. Curtis, the, then mayor, Andrew J. Peters, and Governor Coolidge. The commissioffer of police of the city of Bostoi> is an appointee of the Governor. His term is five years and he can be removed only by consent of the Governor’s council and for good cause. The mayor, on the other hand, while holding no jurisdiction over the police commissioner, except in “case of tumult, riot or mob,” must see to It that the city furnishes accommodations and pay to the police. Police Unionize Some few years before September, 1919, -when the strike broke, an attempt had been made by the police to unionize and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. This move had been put down effectively. But now it was rearing ifs head again. Plans" for organization and affiliation had been carefully laid and before the surprised city knew it the police had unionized. The commissioner of police promptly called nineteen leaders on the “carpet” and preferred charges against them. By this time public interest was being aroused and excitement rar righ. Mayor Peters appointed a committee to try to reach some agreement that would prevent trouble and this committee reported a settlement could best be reached by recognizing a local union not connected in any way with the American Federation of Labor. Also, the nineteen leaders were to be reinstat 1. The mayor Indorsed this finding, bu£ the commissioner Youldn't exactly see it that way. He suspended the nineteen policemen. The mayor wrote to Coolidge urging him to accept the report of the committee, but Coolidge adopted a handsoff policy. v His letter to Mayor Peters was especially significant. “It seems to me.” he wrote, “that there has arisen a confusion which would be cleared up if each person undertakes to perform the duties imposed upon him by Utw. “There is no authority in the office of Governor for interference In the making of orders by the police commissioner or in the action of the mayor and the city. I am unable to discover any action tiiat I can take.” Strike Begins The strike came. Toward evening on Tuesday. SepJ. 9. 1919. 1,117 'patrolmen out of 1,544 walked out. The evening passed without disorder. But the next day the lawless element of the city awoke.' Street cars were stoned. Shop windows broken open. Dice games held openly on tire streets and crimes of violence recorded. The day following the mayor issued a proclamation taking charge of
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<,i-" i HORTY” MTEE, In jail I Q I at Frankfort on a liquor I I charge is too anxious to go to prison, says Sheriff oPwer. When the sheriff started for prison with two other prisoners. Me Fee got in the auto, too. “Hold on Shorty, I haven't got any papers for you.” Shorty went back to jail. Quarrel over a cow was unlucky for Charles N. Martuu of Decatur. He was fined sl3 for attacking John Marriman. * Mrs. George Bearson of Alexandria has a snow ball bush blooming the second time this year. ARTTNSVILLB firemen are going down the pole at alandon. They were treated to a squirrel' feast by J. E. Glvan. Schoolboys at Decatur have anew sport. It’B shooting out windows at the high school. Chief of Police Joel Reynolds is oh the war path. Anderson has an over supply of cobs. The Fame Canning Company haa packed 40,000 cases of sweet corn this year. mk-pi STEVENSON, agent for the Xickle Plate Railroad at Crdgvflle, lost a leg when run over by a freight train. Stevenson just grinned. It was his wooden leg. Sylvester Franks, farmer near Portland, is losing his faith in dogs. Wts pet collie got caught In a wire fence. While trying to rescue him the animal bit him badly ffn the hand. The pace of Michael Airran and John L. Carrau, Illinois University students from Chili, was too hot Jor roads near - Lebanon. They were arrested on speed charges. Miss Ella Brown, school teacher at Qreensburg, reports a talking machine and all the records stolen from her schoolroom. Music hath charm® for the savage thief. SIEYMOUR has a "belled buzzard." Martin Btorcher- ___] ding, farmer, reports seeing the bird. Says he heard the bell distinctly. It is bflleved has a cowbeU around Its neck. Page Irvin Cobb.
the police force. He dispatched an immediate request to Governor Coolidge,, asking for “at least” three companies bf State militia, to repoiti in the city not later than 5 p. m. Instead of sending three companies, however, Coolidge personally took charge of the situation, issuing a proclamation announcing he had called out the entire State militia. Just before the Governor issued his proclamation he was visited by a delegation of union officials, who urged him in no uncertain language to reinstate the striking patrolmen and to settle the difficulty so as not to bring .harm to the strikers. But Coolidge merely silently until the delegation filed out of his office. The charge made by his enemies is that he didn’t move until he had ample time 1q see which way public sentiment was going. That he sat on the fence until he saw that his move would gain popular support. Coolidge never talks of the Boston strike. But in that he is merely being'characteristic of himself. Coolidge Replies Coolidge had a bitter exchange of telegrams with' Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, following re-establish-ment of normal conditions. Gompers asked Coolidge that action on the 1.117 striking policemen be held up until after President Wilson’s conference on Oct. 6. But Cqpjidge replied that it was not within the authority of the Governor to handle the question concerning the patrolmen, but was entirely up to the commissioner of police of Boston. Gompers replied and Coolidge came back with his famous answer that ‘there is no right to strike against the public safet}' by anybody, anywhere, any time.” He added he did not appoint th commissioner and had nointention of removing him. (More Next Issue.) M'CULLOCH ASKS BRANCH 10 ACT Seeks Decision in Highway Commission Squabble, By I'nitrd Prr TIPTON, Oct. 4.—Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor, in a speech here Friday- called on Governor Branch for a decision one way or another in the controversy between’ the State board of accounts and the private certified accountants employed the State highway commission. He said: “The State board of accounts, a Republican board, has made a scathing criticism of the State highway commission, which has shocked our citizens. The highway commission employed certified accountants, who brought in a report justifying in effect all that had been done. “These two report have been lying on the Governor’s desk for weeks awaiting action. I call upon him to let the public know which of these two reports in his opinion is correct.” '
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BEGIN HERE TODAY Robert Koran, newspaper correspondent. accompanies tho Tbeoaorc Roosevelt expedition into Afr; a in 1009. They arrive at Mom bass a.- fh<‘irateway to British East Africa." and then make/ the knfc ailroad journey to their first camp in the game-crowded Kapiti Plains. After a wonderfully' successful shooting trip in the Sotik country, the expedition camps for more hunting at a farm called Saigai-Sai. After several other trips they invade the Guaso Nyero elephant country. Th* Rooseevlts are the guest* of Lord Delamcre at Njoro and the 1 , are jrven a royal reception at Ent.rnc. When they set off for a long. junjJe-land journey through Uganda, Koran t#i lows them two days afterward. Koran lies at his first camp on Christinas night, and Roosevelt sends back word that he wants Koran to come on ahead and consult Dr. Mearns. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOKY J. _i ATURALLY, I was very glad I Ito avail myself of tljis L. generous offer, and T pushed on in my rickshaw to their camp, leaving a native on the roadway to order my porters to follow me there as quickly as possible. I arrived in their camp at noon and in time to join them at lunch-. T was most warmly greeted by ("olcne! Roosevelt and the rest of the party, and was much touched by the solicitous interest displayed by Roosevelt in regard to ,my illness. He left me in the care of Mearns, who made a thoroughexamination.. “I am ifedoubt as t? 5 what that swelling i?V said Mearns, thoughtfully. He had a pukzletf look fn his eyes. "Looks to me like a case of hernia, or else it’s an al>cess on the abdomitftl wall. One thing is certain I’ll have to operate: but it iR better to wait until we get to Hoima. I've got no anaesthetic in camp.” That vtas that! Later, when Colo-, nel Roosevelt heard that Mearns decided to operate, he offered to help in any way that he could. His interest in my welare touched me deeply, and I was very grateful for his insistence that I should remain under Mearns' wing until the operation could be performed. I found them all very delighted with their Uganda trip so far as it had gone, especially Colonel Roosevelt. "I am delighted.” he toldune, "at having bagggd so unexpectedly a bifll elephant here. Hip tusks
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weighed fifty-five pounds each —not a big one, but in-line condition.” CHAPTER XXV Among the (ow People of l njoro After lunch. Colonel Roosevelt was persuaded to tell me about thq killing of his first elephant in ( ganda.
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tives arrived and begged us to rid them of four elephants who had been ruining their.crops. They told me that one of the bulls h!P4 killed a villager a few days previously, while he was working in his banana .plantation. They then told us that the four elephants had been seen, an hour earlier, at a spot only a few miles from our camp. "Kermit, Cunningham© find I started off at once, and less than two miles from our camp we saw the four elephants. The* biggest bull * barged me at sight, but I managed t > bow l him over with only one shot. The others then made off. All ihe time this was going on, we could hear the noise made by our porters I itching cajup- So, I can claim that I killed my first elephant in Uganda on the very threshold of my camp." And that was the first—and only—elephant they killed In Uganda, for they had secured all the specimens they desired. We had been traveling through the country, whose people have cattle with immense horns. No cattle in the world possess bigger horns than these sleek and healthylooking cattle, with /coats as glossy as satin. Colonel Roosevelt had been much interested in these cattle, and Kermit. hail made a number of fine pictoral records of them. I shall always remember Kisingo camp for the reason that there T first, tasted e/ephant trunk soup. It was one of the delicacies provided at dinner that, night. It was very rich and palatable, being not unlike oxtail Soup, but very much thicker and strongerAi flavor. Six spoonfuls of this soup was a regular m The Roosevelts always samp ed dishes made from the differenCTii. asts they bad killed, but they decided that elephant trunk soup and nippipotamus tongue were (he most delicious of all their strange meals. We struck camp at dawn and continued our march to Hoirra,. We were now entering the country of the Unyoro people. The roads were very muddy and sticky, for there had been a deluge of rain in the night, but we made very good speed, notwithstanding. The whole nature of the country changed here. We now clim#ed up, by easy stages, through regular elephant country tu the top of a nar-, row ridge of rocky hills, fronv the summit of which we obtained our first distant view of the hills surrounding Albert Nyanza. Kermit was the first to arrive in the new camp, and I was a good second in my rickshaw. When I halted at the camp, I found al the local Banyoro chiefs assembled, wait*
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ing at the entranace to the compound of the camp to do honor to Colonel Roosevelt. When he appeared in sight, headed by the American flag, a man beating a* drum, and a small escort of the Uganda police, they all raised their hands above their heads in salutation and then dapped hands vigorously—which latter is their usual form of salutation to a distinguished stranger. \ The native tom-toms beat a vigorous tatoo until such time as Colonel Roosevelt had actually taken his seat under the shady banda; then the drums ceased, and the ceremony had concluded. Inside of the messroom, these natives had spread a white cloth* under the grass thatch, and this made it very cool. As in all other camps, we found everything spotlessly clean. The next night in camp we celebrated the dawn of anew year. We had marched at dawn, as had halted at midday at Yaile—nin-ty-seven miles from Kanyiala. Only one more camp now intervened between us and. Hoima, ar.d there I hoped to obtain relief from the great pain after Mearns fiad operated upon me. The Banyoro people are among the most curious races in tTie whole of equatorial Africa. They are generally spoken as the "cow people,” for they are powerful clansmen whose wealth and religion and health Is all Intimately connected with the peaceful domestic cow. They have many strange customs and beliefs. It is considere<Ka degradation for Banyoro men ttffdig or till the soil, so milk and meat are their most /staple forms of diet. A few days after we had entered the Unyoro country, we noticed a number of shrines in every direction. Our inquiries elicited the information they were ghost shrines. When sickness comes to the Banyoro people, they say that it is one of their enemies—the ghosts of their ancestors —who is attacking them, so they proceed to capture the evil spirit, ghosts, they believe, like liot. cooked meat. Therefore, meat is cooked in a large cooking pot near the dwelling hut of the sick man or woman. As soon as the pleasant aroma of the meal reaches the dwelling, the Ba nyoro believe/that the evil spirit enters the cooking pot to enjoy the feast. As soon as the food is cooked and ready, they seal it up. The potted ghost is then taken away from the village and buried in the ground, the place of interment being marked by the erection of a ghost shrine. Another quaint belief of the Banyoro is that once a man has been enthroned as kin® of that country* his
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person becomes sacred. His food Is restricted to milk and beef, which is obtained from a special and sacred herd of cows which are always kept apart from the other herds. The king of Unyoro never permits himself to grow old or his faculties to become impaired. When he thinks himself likely to become seriously ill, he calls together a council of state, arranges the affairs of the kingdom with the principal chiefs—without giving them any reason for thinking that he is about to die — and dismisses them to carry out his instructions. This important business safely accofnplished, the king returns to his royal palace and summons his chief queen—they have many queens in their harem —and orders her to bring him a cup of powerful native poison with the same grand manner as he might use in asking for ,a bottle of milk. Then he drinks the contents of the poison cup at a gulp, and In a few moments he is dead. When the reigning monarch Is comfortably dead by his own act,, the chief queen calls to the palace one or two of the cabinet ministers. It Is their duty to prepare the royal corpse for burial. For as long a period of. time as possible the death of the king Is kept secret. Each day the royal milk and royal beef are brought to the palace as custom ordains, and official callers are in-
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formed that the king has a slight cold In the head and can receive no one. In the meantime, the cabinet ministers and the council of state are making private arrangements to guard the king’s corpse and to protect the sacred cattle during the wars that are inevitable when the king's death is known. (Continued in Our Next Issue) High School Press Meeting Marion County high schools will bp represented at the convention of the J'. liana High School Press Associat on at Franklin College, Oct--24" and 25. Lectures, demonstrations and entertainment features are 1 planned. Franklin business clubs plan to assist in caring for the guests. AFTER AN OPERATION Mrs.Wilke Couldn't Get Back Her Strength Until She Took Lydia L Pinkbam’s Vegetable Compound “I had a very serious operation and seemed as If I could not get my _ health back after I lllllllilllllllllifl * suffered I l UfesMl Pain si | most constantly S5S '- er cainn KSILJdNi- ca - r ® ot me, and she was taking Lydia E. Pinkj ham’s Vegetable UKM compound for pHrap’c nervousness and a rundown con•';l dition. She had me try some of it, and In a very few days’ time I began to feel better. In two weeks I hardly knew myself and after taking a couple of bottles more I was up and helping around, and now I am strong and healthy a,vain and am still taking it. It Is a pleasure for me to write this to you, and I hope khat many other women who are suffering like I was will find out about your medicine., I will give any Information I pcesibly can.”— Mrs. James Wilke, 983 E. Center Street, Rochester, Minnesota. Remember, the Vegetable Compbund has a record otagfty years of success among American women. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Private TextBook will be sent you free upon request. Write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. —■AdxF,T-fiHf i m;in l t.
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