Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1924 — Page 7

THURSDAY, OCT. 30,1924

BACON SI. HO* ‘OUTSIDE’ OF CITY, READER IS 10 Mr, Fixit Looks Into Relief for Muddy and Impassable Road, If you hove any kick agrainst the city administration. get it out of your system through Mr. Fixit. Complaints will be taken up immediately through proper channels. RITE your complaints to Mr. Fixit. Don’t telephone. Complaints must be In written form, so city officials can have a record of them. Times readers are finding many objectionable conditions, which they could get along much better without. And city officials agree with them. They have promised relief. Here are today's letters: MR. FlXlT—Bacon St., between Madison Ave. and Stanley St., is muddy and impassable in bad weather. Could we get some gravel or cinders? There are no sidewalks. Lester Coy, 521 Bacon St. Investigation disclosed that you are not living inside the city limits, so city officials can not do anything for you. • • • TO COMPLAINT of tramps sleeping in vacant houses on Henry St., west of Meridian St. Tour letter has been turned over to the police department, and officers will make investigation. A complaint has also been registered with the board of health. • • • MR. FIXIT —A year ago we asked 1 the board of works for street lights i at Berwyn and Manker Sts. and! Berwyn and Shelby Sts. This street is so dark it is unsafe for women and children at night. The board promised us they would put in the lights. We can’t pay taxes by promises. 11. L. Your letter has been referred to the board of works, and immediate investigation will be made. Funds are exhausted in street lighting budget this year, but board members promised to look up your case. • * * TO COMPLAINT of Times reader regarding filthy conditions of grocery: Your complaint has been referred to the board of health, and inspectors will order a clean-up. Federal Co-Op Aid Chris L. Christensen, co-operative marketing authority, is in charge of the new division of agricultural cooperation of the United States De-! partment of Agriculture, organized to give Federal aid to farmers, co- ! operatives. Practical Information | will be given farmers on all phases i of this subject.

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Lawnmower Is Dead, Long Live Ye Rake, Cry as Leaves Wither

JOSEPHINE (LEFT) AND EDNA WILLOUGHBY.

m3SEPHINE, 3, and Edna. Willoughby, fi, 1304 Blaine Ave., were helping their mother rake leaves when The Times photographer happened along. The lawn mower stowed away for the winter, many Indianapolis youngsters are taking up the rake under Dad’s orders.

SCRIPPS-HOWARD STAND ON LISTS (Continued From Page 1) possible for every citizen to go to a court or to a legislature hall or to the Capitol at Washington, or to a revenue collector’s office and find out personally what is going on in public affairs. “And they believe that when a newspaper ceases to function as a service by which the public is thus informed, the newspaper as an institution becomes impotent and that some other medium for quick and convenient transmission of public information should take its place. Newspaper's Duty “It is not, therefore, as a newspaper privilege but as a newspaper duty that the Seripps-lioward newspapers view their action in this matter. “Accordingly, publicity of income tax payments through the ScrippsHoward newspapers will be contin-

The city street cleaning department has annonuced the ordinance prohibiting dumping of leaves In streets will not be enforced until Nov. 10. Citizens may clean up their premises and dump the loaves in gutters for the street cleaners to cart away. City ordinance prohibits burning leaves. After Nov. 10 those who put leaves in streets will be arrested.

i ued, and in event of a refusal of the j lists to representatives of SrrippsHoward newspapers suitable action to compel publicity will be taken." The opinion from Baker, and Sidlo follows: “The statutes of the United States make a distinction between the kind of information relating to income tax whiejj may be published and that kind which may not be published. Section 3167 of the revised statutes I provides that it shall be “unlawful for any person to print nr publish In any manner whatever not provided by law any Income return, or any part thereon, nr source of income, profits, losses nr expenditures appearing in any income return. “This provision of the law has been cited by some internal revenue collectors as their authority in re-1 fusing to permit newspapers to pub- j lish the names nf income taxpayers and the amount of tax paid by them j “This attitude of the internal j revenue collectors results from their failure to take into consideration the distinction between 'returns’ and 'tax paid.’ ” “Section 257 of the Revenue Act of 11*21, provides that returns upon which the tax has been determined by the commissioner, shall constitute public records, but they shall be open to inspection only upon order of the President and under rules and regulations prescribed by the secretary and approved by the President. Must I*repare list "A further paragraph in that section, however, provides that the i commissioner 'em internal revenue I 'shall as soon as practicable in each | year cause to be prepared and made available to public Inspection in such manner as he may determine j in the office of the collector in each j internal revenue district and in any 'such other places as he may deter- ; mine, lists containing the names and I the postoffice addresses of each person making an income tax return such district together with the amount of the income tax paid by such person. Protect One Side “The reason for protecting one kind of information from publication ! and permitting the other kind to be ' published readily appears. If the | returns made by the taxpayer, that • is, the report as to his source of income, his profits, losses, etc., were to be made public, it might cause him serious injury and give to his competitors an undue advantage. But the publication of only the amount of tax paid could not cause any in jury to a person in his business. It would afford no information , which would boos any value to a | competitor. “These two positions of Section I 257 seem to make quite obvious the i distinction between ‘returns upon ] which the tax has been determined’ and ‘income tax paid.’ “Referring to Section 3167 of the ! Revised Statutes, it will he observed ! that the thing which the statute i makes unlawful is the publishing of j tho “rettirn” made by the income tax ! payer showing the source of his in- ; come, the profits, losses and expenj dltures. It dftes not by its lanj guage or by any fair inference make | it unlawful to publish the amount j of tax paid. “It must also be borne in mind | that there are no crimes excepting I such as are made so by law. Therej fore, when the law as laid down in ] section 3167 forbids publication of j a return on sources of income of | profits, losses or expenditures ap- ! pearing in any income return, there cannot be read into it also a proposi- | tion of the doing of a thing which I is not expressly named in the statute. “If it were the intention of the j statute to make it. unlawful to publish the amount of tax paid as obtained from the list which the commissioner is required to have j prepared, there wottld not be J slightest difficulty in Congress hav I ing included that provision in Seci tion 3167. “If collectors of internal revenue will simply have in mind the dif- | ference between the meaning of I the words, ‘income tax paid’ and ‘returns upon which the tax has been determined by the comrnis- | sioner,’ the difficulties under which | they appear to have been laboring will vanish.” Cooperatives Advance j Average business of co-operatives I In this country increased from SIOO,- ; 000 each in 1913 to $215,000 In 1922. j There hae been marked increases |ln the business o. cotton and tobacco associations.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

0. T. ANNOUNCES FAST SCHEDULE AND NEW TRAINS

Traction Company to Improve Long Haul Service in Indiana, Privately owned automobiles have taken the cream of local passenger business interurban lines, increasing importance of providing fast long-haul service, said F. D. Norvill, general passenger and freight agent of the Union Traction Company, today. Norvill announced some extensive changes to speed up and augment both passenger and freight service, effective Sunday morning. Sufficient local service to meet needs will be retained, Norvill said. Fifteen heavy type steel passenger cars have been ordered for delivery Jan. 1. These include four buffet-parlor-dining cars for use between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne, and possibly between Indianapolis and South Bend. Running Time to Be Cut The Wabash Valley Flyer, b'e~ tween Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne via Peru, will make three round trips daily instead of one. The Iloosierland, between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne, via Anderson and Muncie, will make three round trips daily instead of one. Running time of these trains will be cut to about four hours. Two round trips dally instead of one will be made by the Muncie Meteor, between Indianapolis and Muncie, via Newcastle. Two new trains a day between Indianapolis and South Bend daily will replace the present one-trip Winona Flyer, between Indianapolis and Goshen. Jjogansport Traveler The Kokomo Traveler will be changed to the Logansport Treveler and will operate between the latter city and Indianapolis instead of only from Kokomo. All present limited trains will be retained with schedules speeded up and the designation changed to “express trains." Express trains will be retsored to the Anderson-Wabash division. Two expresses a day will run from Wabash to Anderson and three round trip expresses a day will be provided between Anderson and Marion To expedite overnight and second night delivery between Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Lima, Toledo and Detroit, the Airplane Freight will leave Indianapolis at noon instead of 3 p. m. For the same reason tho Qannonball Freight to South Bend wiil leave Indianapolis at 6:30 instead of U p. m. Highball overnight service between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne will be continued. Local schedules all over the system will he correlated to connect with the | fast freights. STATE ASKED TO HELP Woman Writes Governor About Missies Daughter. Mrs. Leon Cantlin of Fillmore, N. Y., has written Governor Emmett F. Branch asking that State authorities try to locate her daughter, Bessie, 15, who left home Sept. 18. She wrote the girl has blue eyes, fair complexion, light auburn bobbed hair. Mrs. Mabel Serie, 41, is missing from her home in Lafayette, Ind., according to a letter received from her husband, Cornelius, by local police. Letter stated she Is mentally 111.

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Mother Makes a Mistake

Mother Makes a Mistake She was one of those old-fashioned mothers, who knew little of politics, motor cars, and the more modern things. Her son and daughter were quite active in political circles and nightly after the evening meal the family gather about the fireside and discuss the chances of the presidential candidates for election. The daughter was a stanch supporter of Davis, the son of La Follette, and the father an old time Republican, The son was the favorite of his mother and his ideas were hers. A neighboring family caine over to visit one night and were talking of the respective merits of motor cars. “Well, I've had four or ttve machines in the last ten years,” said the neighbor, “but this machine called the Davis has been giving the best service of all.” The host turned to her son and said, “Imagine that, can you think of any one so bold as to have an automobile named after their candidate so long before the election.” Profits Returned Wool growers have so far received $444,574 returned to them from the excess profits collected by the I'nited States Department of Agriculture from dealers who handled the 1918 wool clip under Government regulations. Under these regulations the price of wool was fixed and the profits limited. Canada Wheat Falls Official forecast of the Canadian wheat crop for this year show's a reduction of almost 200,000,000 bushels, or 40.5 per cent, compared with the final estimates last year. The forecast for 1924 is 282,042,000 bushels, while the final estimate for last vear was 471,199,000 bushels.

“RINC” Lvenmgs gjm |g | \ % Evenings Down Goes the For the 3-Day Final Wind-up of BALDWIN’S Remarkable Summer Resort SALE W”%W ' Ipk If Q % Never in our history has a sale event j|*w-*#* /% §f%| k.. \ been so successful. Many homes in ML ii Jr \ Indianapolis are happy in the pos- \ session of a musical instrument jLJf 8 ill IgU iLsgP \ bought during this wonderful sale at M p JLiLfl \ unheard of bargain prices. Only Three Days Remain This Great Summer Resort Sale Positively Closes Monday Night

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FUNERAL IS SET FOR W. 0. BATES, HOOSIERAUTKOR Playwright, Critic and Former Newspaper Man Dies at Home Here, Funeral services of William O. Bates, 72, writer, who died Wednesday at his home, 756 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at the home. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. He had been in ill health two years, and seriously ill two weeks. Mr. Bates was a newspaper man, dramatic critic, playwright and artist. lie wrote the pageant which featured the celebration of Indianapolis’ centennial, in 1920. With his wife, he was one of the founders of the Little Theatre Society of Indianapolis. Attended Butler Born in Harrisburg, Ind., Mr. Bates spent a year at Butlc-r College and then went to Cornell University, 1 from which he received a Ph. B. in 1875. Following graduation, he spent a year abroad, studying art. From 1877 to 1899 Mr. Bates was coneeted with various newspapers, including the Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati News-Jourrjal, St. Paul Pioneer Press, New York World and I New York Commercial Advertiser. He married Clara Nixon, New York City, in 1893. After Mr. Bates left the New York Commercial Advertiser, in 1899. they went to Ft. Worth, Texas. Following the death

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of their son, John Nixon Bates there, in 1900, they came to Indianapolis. Plays Produced Here Several of Mr. Bates’ later plays were produced by the Indiana Little Theatre. His last play, "The Dryad and the Deacon,” appears in a high

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W. O. BATES school text book. It way produced in Indianapolis in 1920. He was a member of Ph! Beta Kappa, National Scholastic Fraternity, the Indiana Artists Club, .Art Institute, and Contemporary Club. Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Albert Dougherty of Muncie, Ind., and Miss Lydia Cresswell Bates, a Butler University student, and one grandchild, Joan Dougherty.

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AYRES EMPLOYES EILAT_E GOBLINS Halloween Frolic Is Held at Athenaeum. The annual Halloween frolic of L. S. Ayres & Cos. is over, and James Hurt has the prize for the most comical men’s costume at the ball for employes in the Athenaeum. He wore a barrel and union suit. Miss Damen Hilles won first prize for the most comical girl’s costume. She was dressed as an old man. Prizes for the most beautiful costumes were awarded Mrs. J. Phillips and Mrs. William Watts. More than 1,000 persons were entained with dancing, stunts by groups of employes, movies and professional acts. Miss Lena Fortney : led yells. j Seven Indianapolis Times carriers j interrupted the dance to distribute I copies of an “Extra Edition” dedicated to the Ayres employes. Mrs. F. M. Ayres, wife of the head j of the firm, and Mrs. T. B. Griffith, | wife of the general merchandise manager, were among those in costume. Farm Property Down Farm property in this country, within the last five years has gone from nearly $80,000,000,000 to less than $60,000,000,000, according to official Government estimate. The farmer’s own capital Investment has ■ gone down during the same time from 61 per cert to 56 per cent of ! the total property value.

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