Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1924 — Page 4

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DOLLARS, INFLATED AND OTHERWISE npIHE pampered and protected Indianapolis Water Company is planning to charge the consumers all the traffic can hear. The company is a monopoly and is guaranteed a high rate of income. We can either pay the high rate or we can me no water. The consumer has no choice in the matter. The Federal Court has ruled that the value of the water company property should be the amount it would cost to reproduce it new today. The court has not taken into consideration the amount of money the stockholders put into the property. It has considered only the inflated dollar. When the dollar is deflated will the water company stand for a valuation of property it is now adding to be made on the basis of the deflated dollar? Well bet a hat it won’t. It will go right into court with a demand that the property be valued on the basis of the inflated dollar that went into it. Then why not a valuation on the basis of the deflated dollar that went into it years ago? Let’s take a concrete example—one with which everybody is familiar. Supposing that in 1913, when a dollar was a dollar, you had put a “cartwheel” in a savings bank paying 4 per cent interest. You received 4 cents for the use of your dollar that year. This year you are receiving 4 cents for the nse of the same dollar. Your dollar is not two dollars or three dollars this year. It is the same old dollar. Now supposing that in 1913. when a dollar was a dollar, you had put a “cartwheel” into a public utility company. Perhaps that year you received 7 cents or 9 cents or 10 cents for the dollar's worth of property you bought. But what is the situation now? That dollar’s worth of property you bought in 1913 is now .$2 worth of property and the utility is askincr that you b: allowed to receive 7 cents or 9 cents or 10 cents for EACH of the two dollars. In other words, it is asking that two incomes be made to grow where one grew before. This water rate business is not a complicated affair. It is plain, simple, common sense. Complications are creations of attorneys who are employed to confuse the public mind. Higher water rates are not justified in Indianapolis. The water company has no more right to higher rates than you have to ask a savings bank to place two dollars to your eredit where p T ou had only qne before. I The water company says the present rates result in its property being confiscated. If anything is being confiscated it is wind that has been put into the valuation by the reproduction new theory. Certainly the stockholders are earning a ■ood return on the money they actually invested to build the property. SO FAR the political band wagons seem to have specialized “MA” FERGUSON says she will be boss as if she believes us married men doubt it. SPEAKING OF evolution, look at the way William Jennings Bryan is speeding along toward nowhere. A MINNESOTA minister is asking voters to defeat his son for office, and there it is again. There really is no place for a minister’s son. A SIAMESE princess has landed for the purp.oso of “studying our methods” and one wonders what she will do with all of them in a little place like Siam. OUTSIDE THE question of law, think of the deep humiliation of that representative Marylander who could only pull, off a hard cider party where once the succulept’.mint julep reigned and rained. ?. . - •v ■

IF THE coming women do grow “long, silken whiskers,” as is now predicted, it is likely they will boh them, too. Nothing will he permitted to obscure their ' other ' displays of pulchritude. CANDIDATE DAVIS demands law enforcement in one breath and howls for personal liberty and denounces the law of search and seizure in another, which appears to be political halitosis. A BRIDEGROOM, motoring rapidly to the church, struck a Kansas City man and laid him low. At the hospital the victim said to the police: “Let him go—he’s going to be married.” The vengeful cuss!

Presidential Elections Since 1789

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Speaks Chinese ww '' \ ' : :> • • V* fV. : t : v: •> •■>. ' - m Helen Louise Zumbrun, 4, ot Pekin, China, met so many nabobs of the old Chinese regime that she learned to speak “mandarin” with a perfect accent. Now, visiting this country for the first time, she's having her troubles, ns she speaks Chinese more readily an 3 fluently than American. Her father is John D. Zumbrun, proprietor of the Camera Craft Company in Pekin, and has done much photography for high Chinese officials, including the ex- ! emperor. SILENCE IS PUZZLE TO POLITICIANS Not Enough Talk to Satisfy the Professional Dopesters, Times Washington Burt nit. til! Xr\r York Are. TXra ALDINGTON, Oct Hi.—-The VU low-down on the presidential campaign Is that the politicians don't know any more about how the people are going to vote than they did a month ago. And the newspapers don’t know any more about it than the politicians do. Oorrespo- dents sent into the West by caster newspapers in attempting to go t.ehind the varying claims of rival political managers and get at the truth, don't appear to find much but uncertainty. What bothers hoth politicians | and correspondents is the terrifying silence of the great mass of voters. Very few voters are advertising j *heir preference by wearing buttons. Most of them refuse to get excited over the campaign. They seem to know how they are going to vote, and to feel, rightfully, that it Is nobody’s business but their own. Four years ago any observer could ! find evidence everywhere that a Rej publican landslide was on. Party Lines Shot ' This year, however, party bnes are | shot to fragments. In many States | candid.-ftes for Congress are looking | after their own fences and letting I the presidential fight take care of | itself. The tactics of the barkers of the j La Foilettc-Wheeler ticket in putting ' up no State or congressional candidates, but in supporting their friends whether Derncorats or Republicans. have made candidates timid about flouting the Progressive j voters. i The bacl/crs of Ooolidge and Davis have not been able to agree on which candidate all conservatives should support in order to beat La Follette. j Coolidge backers urge Democratic I conservatives to drop Davis and get | hack of Coolidge, but Davis backers | with equal earnestness urge that the j surest way to prevent “chaos” is for Rf publican conservatives to go over to Davis. The Democratic argument Is that with the solid South Davis has more to start with than Coolidge has, and that all of the States where La Follette Is strong enough to win are Re. publican States. Daves Disappointing Dawes has been a disappointment. He was expected to start a forest j fire for the G. O. P. ticket in the West so that Coolidge could sit quietly In the White House and let the Coolidge myth work while he slept. But the expose of the Dawes connection with the IvOrimer bank scan- | dal has set old ’’Hollenmaria” back ion his haunches. The fact that ; Dmw\s has Ignored the charge of | complicity in the bank deal, which j finally resulted in Lorimer's bank ! going busted and leaving some 4.000 depositors in the lurch, hasn't, helped him any. The truth is, of course, that the records of the Supremo Court of Illinois prove the charge is true. Much of the Republican strategy ■ lias failed. Those Republicans who I were outraged and shocked by the exploits of Fall, Den by, Doheny, Sinclair, Daugherty, Burns, Forbes, and all the rest of the gang that cut loose as soon as the Republican Administration got into power have not been reassured by the selection of a Dawes for Vice President and Teapot Teddy for Governor of New York. Progressives Strong While stupid and absurd claims ‘are being sent out. from Republican ! headquarters giving nearly every | northern and western State to CoolI idge, there Is actual fear among the I managers that tho Progressive ! movement may develop into a land- | slide that come from the West and sweep over Illinois, Ohio and Michigan and wind up by taking In j some of the eastern' States. | The confidential reports brought back Fast by correspondents sent j West by strong eastern Republican papers Is causing some of them to soft-pedal the gush sent them by headquarters publicity sharks. In fact, newspapers are paying little attention now to the ridiculous claims and are trying to find out something for themselves. There is real fear among the politicians that the silent vote, including the 50 per cent who didn’t vote in 1910, is going to La Follette. They don't know, but they fear. If it does, the country is in for the biggest surprise party in the history of American _ politics.

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I T-Toosierisms J BY GAYLORD NELSON

mOMORROW the teachers will flood the city. It is expected that approximately 15,000 of them will attend the convention ot the State Teachers' Association, Oct. 10-18. We will have an opportunity to dispense courtesy in wholesale lots. But tho teachers’ convention, while the biggest, is only one of many gatherings that the city entertains during a year. In the first nine months of this year 186 conventions were held here, with the probability that the year's total will exceed 229. An average of almost live a week. Some large, some small, some State, some national. But all desirable. It should nourish our robust civic pride to know this city is so favorably regarded as a suitable place in which to meet. Geography may bo an important factor in bringing them the first time, but courtesy brings them backAnd there is more than a glow' of pride in entertaining convention visitors. For each delegate and visitor must be accompanied by an easily opened bank roll. Attending a convention any place costs money. In hotel bills and necessary incidentals if nothing more. In Indianapolis it is estimated that these visitors leave from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 annually. So our convention business comes in the category of a major industry. Here civic courtesy pays, not only In pride, but in cash. Franchise Ts~ ■“] liii Indianapolis Motorbus Terminal Realty Company i___j seeks a franchise from the council granting It exclusive bus rights >n fifty-three streets. It also proposes the erection of a large bus terminal. The motorbus business is apparently rapidly growing up. For only a few days ago it was announced that the Union Bus Terminal Company—another organization —is to erect a $500,000 terminal on land recently acquired. The franchise, sought by Indianapolis Motorbus would only affect inter-city traffic. Lines operating wholly within the city would be ex empt from its provisions. There is sound reason for granting a street railway exclusive right to lay tracks on streets. A half dozen street car lines on one street would occupy the whole street and lap over into the bedrooms of our front families. The traffic cop would lead a gay life under such conditions. So would the pedestrian. But no reason for exclusiveness exists with the motorbus. It requires no steel rails—.ts only track is of scorched gasoline. The bus may he the youngest of the fair haired ehildia nos destiny in the transportation field. But an exclusive franchise to use the streets is not so young. It’s an ancient survival of tho days of special privilege when the pork barrel was conspicuous on our I municipal escutcheons. It's no ! longer fashionable.

Savagery C 1 IVII, IZED man looks back down the corridors of time, —__J to the pgo when his savage an •< Mors roamed the forests, and congratulates himself on the progress he has made. True lie no longer smears blue paint on his body or wears a ring in his nose. But he hasn’t progressed so far. For in the corner of a shooting gallery, not far from the Union Station, sits a skilled professor of the primitive art of tattooing. Surrounding him are his nodoles and the gaudy patterns he is prepared to cexeutP on short notice, j At av- -y modest xpendrture with :no professor a matt may enhance Ibis native beauty with tattooed flags, | floral wreaths, or strange boasts that \ never were on land or sea. A man may become a walking chromo If ho so desires. And many so desire, as the tattooer doesn’t lack customers. Almost any evening ho can be observed pricking a woman rampant, a lion couchant, or a Swiss sunset, on the arm of a young man. So in Indianapolis yot walk men wtlh more than a faint touch of savagery beneath their skins. Not far below the surface they have whole Indelible blotches of 't. Despite our progress, civilization land primitive savagery aren't so far j upart. T welve j.y J ITH the filing yesterday < f | yy the .Workers' party ticket ! 1 there are now an even dozen parties in tho field to annoy the Indiana voter three weeks hence. And the eleventh to file —the Farmer-Labor pa rty—achieves the dignity of a place on the ballot by virtue of petition bearing 724 names. Only seven hundred and twentyfour names from the whole State! A person of average family connections could form an Individual party and get his ticket on the ballot by securing the signatures of none but his cousins. Official brains were curdled when it seemed likely there would bo nine tickets —with voting machines only designed for seven. What will the official brains and the voting machines do with twelve tickets to handle? More than an attachment Is needed. It will take an amendment —to the law. The Indiana ballot is to be plagued with twelve tickets—while there were only ten plagues of Egypt in the days of the wicked Pharaoh. So the Indiana ballot can’t be so very righteous. With 191.944 voters registered in Marion County, and twelve tickets to handle, Nov. 4, will try the souls of the voting machine®. They will have nervous prostration . Not for VVifey “You ought to have a mirror on your car so you can see what's coming behind you.” “But then when my wife drives the car she won’t be able to see anything farther ahead than the mirror.”—Detroit News.

WHO WILL SUCCEED S. E. MUDD? Answer to Question May Settle Presidential Election. Times Washington Bureau, JS22 \eio York Are. I7“yT] ASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Few IW people outside the Maryland 1 Fifth Congressional District ever heard of Sydney E. Mudd until after his death. Mudd was the Republican representative in Congress from that district. He attracted no attention in the House, never bothered to address the empty benches and galleries, and went about without gettting his name in the newspapers. His sudden death has made him a national figure. For the presidency may turn on whether Mudd's successor is a Republican or a Democrat. Maryland heretofore has been one of the five States which havo the same number of Republican and Democratic members of the House. The delegation being tied, these States would be excluded from voting for a President in case the election is thrown into the House. May Bo Tied If tho Democrats can now capture Mudd’s seat it will odd one more to the Democratic St/ttes. If Mudd's successor is a Republican, the State will remain In the tie-1 class. At present the Republicans control twenty-three Stales and the Democrats twenty. Four are tied—Montana. New Jersey, New Hampshire and Nebraska. Maryland will either return to r.he tied class or become Democratic. As It takes twenty-five votes in the House to eleect the President, everey vote is of the greatest importance. The Democrats, if they capture Maryland, will need four more votes to elect Davis. These will have to come from switches within the delegations from Republican or tied States. On paper the Republicans appear to need only two additional votes, as they control twenty-three States. But as a matter of fact, the Republicans are not as well off as the Democrats, for included in those twenty-three are Wiscconsln and other La Follette States. Recognizing the extreme importance of Mudd's seat, the national headquarters of hoth the Republican and Democratic parties have made plans to send “high powered” campaign speakers Into the district during the remaining weeks of the campaign. Within twenty-four hours after Mudd’s death, Maryland Republicans had called a special meeting at which it was tentatively decided to nominate Mudd's brother. Thomas Mudd, as the Republican candidate. Name Prominent "This,” one Republican newspaper explained, "would be wise politics, as it would keep the name of Mudd before the voters. For more than thirty years the name of Mudd in the Fifth district has been an open sesame to Congress. Mr. Mudd's father having controlled th" district for more than twenty years, while ■Sydney Mudd represented It in Con gross for about ten years." At the last election. Mudd's Democratic opponent gave him a close contest. The election figures were 23.764 for Mudd and 21.112 for durance M. Roberts, Democrat. There were more than 2,0<0 scattering votes, largely cast for labor and independent candidates. The Democrats think they have a good chance of getting those extra votes and thus capturing Mudd’s seat for the remainder of the Sixty-eighth Congress as well as for the Sixty-ninth. Neglect By HAL COCHRAN It. Isn’t so easy to do little things at the time when they ought to bo done. And it Isn’t, so hard, as experience sings, a/er doing Is really begun. Too often we’re willing to wait till tomorrow; too often we simply neglect. In putting things off It is trouble we borrow, ’cause waiting means doing is wrecked. A rung in a rocker has worked Itself loose and it ought to be fixed right away. You realize that, but you feel what’s the use, when tho job can lie done any day. The lock In tho door doesn’t work Ins It should and the tap has a leak that Is slow. How easy to fix them if only you would, but how easy to Just let them go. You’ll find you will kill off much sorrow and stew and you’ll find that such killing will pay, if you just don’t put off till tomorrow what you j could easily fix up today. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Son’s New Girl "That anew girl you’re paying attention to?” “No. dad—just the old one repainted.”—Bulletin (Sydney).

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to an> question of fai t or information by writing to The Indiauapoits Times Washington Bureau, 13 ’ N * Yo Ay < Wasnmirton. D C. Inclosing 2 rents tn stamps tor reply. Medical, h-gal and marital advice cannot be (riven nor ran extended research be undertaken. Ail Othi test ■ - will lv a persona: reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who was Fatima? (it The name of Mohammed’s favorite daughter; (21 A character in j the story of Aladdin in the "Arabian i Nights' , (ot Bluebeard’s last wife, I the only one nor murdered by him. What is th- difference between i a farce and a comedy? in farce the characters are wha‘ | they are because the working of the plot requires them to be this and j not something rise, \v bile in comely | tho plot is subordinated to the j characters. When was King Humbert of Italy assassiated? Sunday. July 29, 1900. F.y whom and when was the laccolltliio theory presented? By G, K. Gilbert, about 1877. What do the initials F. F. V. j mean? I First Families of Virginia? Will a steel range for home uso i last longer than an iron range; will it crack from heat as does tho Iron range is it considered a better investment for the home than an | iron range? Th*- relative lusting qualifies doj [iend upon (he conditions of use and the design of the range; a steel range will not crack so readily from heat las an iron range. It is Impossible ! jo compare the two types of ranges ! in general terms: either type may be well or poorly built, and this factor has as great a relation to the Initial cost and life of the range as the material used. On what day did April 17, 1905 come? Monday. Is it still possible to buy surplus wagons from the War Department? No, they have all been disposed of. Why do aviators bleed at the nose at high altitudes? Because the lessened atmospheric pressure at high altitudes results In added pressure on the valves, organs and blood vessels supplying and circulating the blood. Which is the best steel for gun barrels, Siemens Martin steel or Krupp fluid steel? Siemens Martin steel is the term used abroad for open-hearth steel. Krupp is a German steel maker and the term “Krupp steel” gives no information as to tMo melting process used. The suitability of a steel for gun barrels depends on its composition and on the care used in its manufacture. The two general terms “Siemens-Martin steel” and “Krupp steel” relate to neither of these factors, hence it !r impossible to answer the question. What is the botanical name of the “Mist” or "Smoke” tree? Cotin us.

The Dawn of a New Era

Know Indiana What was the “Medical Investigator?” A medical Journal published by Horace N. T. Benedict, botanic physician of Springfield, Lawrence County, In 1847. What' was the "Order of American Knights? ’ Alleged slackers in the Civil War, who Southern agents were said to have attempted to organize and arm. Th? other was prevalent n Indiana. Who was the leader? An Ohio congressman named Vallandighsm. Science Prof. Harlow Shapley ot Harvard Observatory finished calculations of the "lesser Magellanic Cloud” that bear out the theory of the existence of other and greater universes than the one in which the eartli is a mere speck. This cloud Is composed of a group of stars distant from the earth 100.000 light years. The cloud is 6,500 light years In diameter and depth. - lis brightest stars are 13.000,000 miles in diameter and therefore larger than the ones hitherto looked upon as the greatest. The Einstein theory of the limitation of the universe remains tenable, because it applies to what la commonly called “our universe," but there are evidences of the existence of other aggregations of plan's not only extending the bounds of .he unknown universe, but support ing the idea that there are others and leading to the theory that the association of all may he on the same order as that of molecules, atoms and electrons. A Thought A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it In till afterward.— I’rov. 29:11. * • • Like fragile ice. anger passes away in time.—Virgil.

The Tippecanoe The Business Man’s Train Chicago Leaves Indianapolis 4t30 P.M. Leaves Boulevard Station . 4:44 P.M. Arrives Chicago 9:10 P.M. CliEMfrtMim CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS RY. Automatic Block Signais All the Way 184

Tom Sims Says Well, the Prince of Wales had a picture made pitching hay, so he may be running for president. War brides have organized In Chicago These are real war brides, not just the fighting variety. Seattle man of 90 wants to fly to Ohio, and he'll be winking at the pretty girls next. Reno man of 84 tried to marry a girl of 60, the little devil. Some men never get old enough to learn better. An interesting campaign question Is, "La Follette, are you there?” It's a poor bootlegger who can’t sell enough to pay his fine. New Orleans has a law against o.ne-armed auto drivers, but we find it isn’t dangerous unless she struggles. Days are getting almost as short as ready cash. If these Chinese don’t quit fighting soon there will be nothing left, of China except chop suey. The fall dances have started, a lot of things. English duchess wants a divorce. Jjet her have it. Who would want a duchess loafing around the house? A streak of hard luck to a football player is when he doesn’t got hurt. Only a few more weeks in which to do something for which to be thankful this Thanksgiving. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) Flattery “Now, Bobby,” said hie mother sternly, ‘did you ask Mrs. White for that cookie?" “No, mother, I didn't. I Jos' saw a pi ate full of cookies In her kitchen and I said, 'You is sure some cook. Mrs. White, if I’s any judge.’ An’ she gimme one to see was I.”—Boston Transcript.