Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times HOY W. HOWARD. President FELIX F. BRUNER. Editor. WM A. MAYBOBN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-TTowarrt Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the 1 nite-l Pres*. the Nl’A Service and the Seripps-l’alne Service. • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Futd shed <1 tilv evepr Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 \v. Maryland St. Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates. Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * • • PHONE—MA in 3500.
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS! EO one who has watched the deluge of calls from bighearted citizens of Indianapolis to The Times asking that they be put in touch with unfortunate families in order that these families may have a happy Christmas, there can be little doubt that Christmas spirit still exists to a remarkable degree. Each day The Times is printing a list of families who are desperately in need of help. Each family has been investigated thoroughly and found worthy. Without this help Christmas to them would mean just another day of poverty. The opportunties to help are almost inexhaustible. They are limited only by the bounds of the big-heartedness of the citizens of Indianapolis and that limit is wide. A good deed is its own reward. Making Christmas merry for some unfortunate family only helps to make Christmas a little merrier for the benefactor. This is the true spirit of giving. It is the spirit of Him in whose memory Christmas is observed. One cannot help recall the wonderful letter written by Francis P. Church of the old New York Sun to a little girl who asked if there really was a Santa Claus. He said, referring to Santa Claus: “Yes. Virginia, he exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” Os course, there is a Santa Claus!
YOUTH AND WAR AND PEACE IVSi UT THE WEST a man of peace has come forth with a 1U iplan to reduce the number of wars. He doesn’t claim his plan would end war. He merely says it would reduce the chances of war. It would make wars harder to start. The man is David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford University and former president of Indiana University. He has just been awarded the $25,000 prize offered by Raphael Herman through the World Federation of Educational Association.' for the best peace plan. Dr. Jordan’s plan was chosen from 5.000 because it was thought by the score or so judges to be practical and workable. That must amuse Dr. Jordan. All his life he has been assailed by his enemies as a dreamer, a visionary idealist, a man out of tune with the times. The big idea in Dr. Jordan’s proposal is that school books should teach that the real progress of nations is in science, art and intellectual development. He says that textbooks, the world over, glorify war and conquest and lead the minds of youth to believe that might makes right. He says that makes for more wars. Dr. Jordan is qualified to make this criticism. He knows about textbooks and has written more of them than most folks have read. Peace has been las hobby for the better part of a long lifetime. He came by that hobby in an unusual way. Asa scientist, he came constantly upon evidence of the results of war. War was thought to be a survival of the fittest. That may have been in the old days, when men fought like animals. Dr. Jordan’s studies satisfied him that modern machinemade war meant survival of the weakest in the nations that fought. The best of youth went out a*id died. Further study led him to believe that everybody lost, victor and vanquished alike. From results of war. Dr. Jordan turned to a study of causes, and from time to time he lias suggested means of reducing them. For his trouble, he has been branded a pacifist and subjected to mueh ridicule. At last, he has produced some ideas which the judges called practical, albeit others may not like them. They are worth considering: h irst, he would have a commission study textbooks of civilized countries to see if achievements of art and science and the mind eannot be glorified at least as much as the victories of war. Second, he would have another commission study the matter of teaching patriotism, to see if there is not something more to patriotism than willingness to fight a neighbor nation and kill its people. Third, he would have established in the State Department in Washington a Bureau of Peace, which would study the technique of being prepared for peace, evep as the Army General Staff and the Navy General Board constantly study the question of being prepared for war. Dr. Jordan would foster peaceful contests with other nations in debates and in athletics, to let some of the more energetic youths of each nation know that the equally energetic youths of other nations are capable of good sportsmanship and worth-while friendship. To some, this sort of a plan may seem visionary, but Dr. Jordan says that what the youth <*f the florid thinks this year is what the nations of the world will be doing in twenty-five years. What he suggests costs little in money and nothing in prestige, so why not give it a trial ? The old folks haven’t done much in the way of reducing the number of wars. Maybe the youngsters can.
Eyesight By HAL COCHRAN Two little peepers are working for you whenever your eyelids are open. They show you the way to the things that you do. Forever they're searching an’ gropin’. Nature is wonderful. How do you know? Only because you have seen. Eyes let you have what the world has to show, with vision that ought to be keen. Look to your friends, as the old saying goes, and look is what each person tries. But friends can't be seen, as a man surely knows, except through the help of your eyes. No matter what trouble may come in your way, you always can find that there’s cheer in knowing it fades out from day unto day. Your eyes let you sec your way clear. And. how are you treatin’ these peepers, ol’ man? Consider it now. ere time flies. You'd best always give them the best that you can. Take a tip, and take care of yoyr eyes. (■Copyright, 1924, NEA Service Inc.)
Tom Sims Says A crossword puzzle a day will not keep insanity away. What does a farmer raise when lie goes to town to pay his taxes? Five letters beginning with “and." Maybe this Salem man who hiccoughed threo days mistook himself for a flivver trying to start on a cold morning. Ft. Worth, Tex ts, auto victim was pvt fn an ambulance and it wrecked. The only safe place Is home. Here's news that wrill tickle the wild ducks. Staten Island duck-hun-ter had his feet frozen. Must be nice to be a duck and go in wading without galoshes. News from Paris. Prize is offered for the funniest clown. Nobody barred, not even French politicians. • They sent a picture of the Prince of Wales by wireless, but those with ordinary receiving seta only got the prince of wails.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
Recreation DWARD M’BRIDE, director of recreation —in his report just compiled—states that nearly two million persons visited Indianapolis public recreation centers the past season. 0 Which is an increase over 1923. The attendance at thirty-four children's playgrounds, and Brookside and G a r ti e 1 and theaters, made up threepublie grouncis, not eident occurred durGAY LAIRD Ing the season. NELSON Which is a medal on the chest of city playgrounds adequately supervised. For. during the same peri-id, children elsewhere were bruised, fractured ;-nd dismembered. By trying to insert pastime into street traffic. Such attempts dislocate play more than traffic However play is an inherent right, or childhood. And should be ericouraged. For children must manufacture agile and sturdy red corpuscles. That’s an open air business. And the product is ton valuable to scat t-r indi- -riminately on city streets. As sonn-times happens when a child upholds hi- right to play In debate with a five ton truck. The operation of parks and recreation centers is costly. But probably ro other municipal activity gives greater returns to more people. Because outdoor recreation makes happy adults and healthy children. Reputation jrpl HE Indiaua Supreme Court, in ; I I t recent decision, held that. J * valence of tlm reputation of a house, where it is alleged liquor i“ s'dd, is ikhAUiipeten* in proving maintenance of a nuisance. And there is consternation among prohibition enforcement tigence - For the reputation of the house has been one of their big mops In closing liouer joints. They f-e] the decision forces them to mop with f*-ather dusters. Probably it Is good lew. Perhaps t o lnar.in.at ol et —with neither life nor soul—possesses tangible reputation !• the narrow, legal sense. Nevertheless houses are living things with actual personality. T'.i-y b -come good or evil depending lon a.ss o;-ins. And their reputations .fie<-t their neighborhoods. Just as 1- re: .;*! ions Ilf people. No f udlv would care to live next I door to Po-’s “House of Usher." [They wouldn’t fear that the actual edition vd uid sneak over and bite ! flu- n. But the reputation of tho i place would be too forbidding. A house has life and character. And it r>. st take care —Just like hunrms — of its company For lta r> putation can make or break It.
WALSH TELLS WHY HE FA VORS TAX PUBLICITY
By THOMAS J. WALSH 11. S Svn.itor from Montana \TJT -'I 1 Nf* i ON, 1 *ec. 10, —To Yy any one possessing any degroe of familiarity with the taxing systems of the various States of th<- Union, the furor which has t ' en aroused by the publicity provision of the income tax law enacted at the last nest-ion of Congress must seem strangely belated. In the fit nzy which It has excited the idea is conveyed that it constitutes an Innovation undermining the 100-; sa-a-ed rights of the citizen —an assault upon the Institution of private property, a pestiferous triumph of Bolshevism. Communism, or some .k< Ism coming out of tho Infected West. There is nothing now or startling about the principle of the law under (■• ■ deration. It is an essential i art of tho system of property taxa- : in v, ; gue in this country, !•••. h i;s universally pursued by The - rod dating fioin >hr begin ; of organized government, that ■ ••• y individual, natural or corporate, is -equired by law to schedule his pr | rty for assessment, a refpiir< 10-nt frequently >nf need by severe penaities. Asa rule the assessing officer is further authorized, in tho absence of a detailed statement from tho taxpayer, to list His property upon tho liest Information available, In either case tho original return, as well as its substance transferred to the assessment roll, becoming a public record to which any one moved by curiosity or interest may have access. Burden on Taxpayer Thus, under the law of Montana, the assessor “must require from each person a statement, under oath setting forth specifically all the real and personal property owned by such person, or in his possession, or under his control, at 12 o’clock on the first Monday In March.” The law of the State of New York requires the assessor to “ascertain by diligent inquiry all the property and tho names of all persons ‘taxable’ In his district, the result of which he Is to set out in the assessment roll, specifying not only the real property of the taxpayer but hla ‘personal property’ as well.” To accept without question and as a matter of course, a statute in compliance with which every last item of props rty owned by any one is listed and his ownership made public, and yet to arraign another by which the bare total of his Income is made available to those Interested, is Just a little Inconsistent, to say the least. Still there are not a few people who habitually strain at a gnat, but who find no difficulty in swallowing a camel. Effect is Starting Some of the revelations made by the publicity which has been the subject "f so much adverse comment are of the most startling character. Persons popularly believed to be tho fortunate or unfortunate recipient of huge incomes appear to have escaped with a tax perfectly trifling in
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Reform Mr m TTCHKI,L HEATH of Princeton, Ind., was hauled before —a magistrate In that city for a misdemeanor. And Was ordered to accompany his honor to Sunday school the next day. Which he failed .to do So terday he was committed to jail for contempt. No doubt incarceration in jail will regenerate the wayward young man as much as one obligatory church attendance. There would be much less moral obliquity abroad if more people visited Sunday school regularly—in person and in spirit. But a single eoer civa plunge into sanctity won’t metamorphose an old wicked weed into a rugged moral oak. Yet occasionally some miscreant is sentenced to a couple of church appearances. Under tho judicial hallucination that thus can be cured any two-legged incorrigibility. Usually the offenders so sentenced don’t germinate a moral pin feather. Probably their wings would sprout as rapidly if sentenced to stand on one foot and wiggle their ears. Reform can’t be planted in perverse subjects by forced feeding or hypodermic injections of moral precepts. Character reform must com.-, from Internal desire—not external compulsion. Humane OLIVER HOLMES. .Senator from Rake County, in In I* dianapi id h< would introduce a bill in:i> tin- n- \t Legislature to proven: confinement in county jails of persons held for sanity hearings. The same day the Indiana Society for Mental Hvgiene urged a S ~!■ psychiatric hospital for treatment of curable i: ont.il disorders. Both would be humane .-tops. Fur one hint on society has been heartless treatment of mental defectives They were long treated little better than wild animal.-. Mental derangement is not. a crime —lt's an aff:l tion. And sufferers don’t li'se rvo t > bo jab- 1 km- felons. (>f course the violent mu - > he r* strained But not in jail. Wh ais no more suit due detention plan., for them than for consumptives awaiting removal to a snnitorium. llumanitariaidstn w uM howl if an innocent, h-dples* tubercular was confined in jail. Yet vie-it us of mental disc-sp-.- are sunj-i-.-.i to ti: •• Indignity with scarcely the mild Bicker of an eyelash in prot* ' But humane methods b-gin to triumph. Another stain will tie re moved from !!.- spotty if mental defeutives are s-pr-rated In theory and in fact ft ru the soiiai scum ttccumiafvd in jails. Ily Sister's Chum "Tiie man 1 marry must be ' rave ' “Don't he sucli a ..doom, dea: :• you’re not bo terribly homely.“ American legion Weekly.
amount, and In some instances have I*l-1 nothing at all. Ib it not perfectly chikl-hko innocence t>- in,a ;n----that tho t ixing ottl --rs in Washing ton and their repr- entativos in the field will diligently inquire into every one of such rases Without four or favor when the public generally is in no position to criticise, from on tire lack iif Information touch!: g 1 1.• ultimate facts or til- conditions upon which Immunity, -ith-r . 1.... -1 u t-> or relative, is claimed? Thcv may hindolent or neglectful. Worse still they may be, venal. Even with the widest publicity graft could not altogether !• < ihn inated, particularly as in the intri cate and Involved quest ion a ->f law an-i fact upon which the controver Kies turn the reviewing yfilc- r might easily justify himself with wh.itev . his decision might he. The risk ! rntiltipil- ! when no one has any op po-’tunity to know anything about tie* matter, save the taxpayer i mediately concerned, and *: -• mh--r ■rtieer througli whose hands the p lieu, pass, perfunctorily or uftieiw! - The publicity provision must literate, ns it seems to me, first, a constrain the taxpayer to trike a fuller disclosure of ids ineome s-■<• ond. to constrain the taxing otfi er rs to a more diligent inquiry intthe accuracy of th" return, and. third, to a more honest discharge of tho duties devolving upon them to exact from every man his just share of the burden of government impos- -1 upon him by the law.
Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by wrni>i;r *o The Indianapolis Tloh-h Washington Bureau. 132" New Yo Are V\ ington. I) C.. inclos'ng 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal mid marital advice cannot bo given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests eanriot be answered. All letters uro confidential —Editor. AVho was Pantagruel? The learned and mighty-stomached hero of Rabelais’ satire of that name. What fa the “Index Expurgatorlus? , A list of printed works, the reading of which is prohibited by (he Roman Catholic Church. It is published annually. What is Draehenfels? The word means Dragon Rock. This is the name of a castle on a mountain of the same name, high above the Rhine, not far from Bonn. Where did the comb originate? Probably in Egypt. Both wooden and Ivory combs, toothed on one side or on both sides, have been found in ancient Egyptian. Creek and Roman tombs. Why is navigation difficult in the Bay of Biscay? Because of the prevalence of northwest winds, and the existence I of the violent Kennel’s current. '
GROWERS OF WHEAT PROSPER
Government Figures Show Conditions Are Much Better, Times Washington Purenu, i.WZ Sew York Are. CTTa ASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—King V I Wheat, who occupcid most of L__J the spotlight in the Farmers’ IE view of 1924. will not be Kicked off the boards an inch during 1925. This is the prediction made in the yearly report of the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, just released by Seer- -t ary of Agriculture Howard M Gore. Farming as a business looks better than it has since 1920. The year 1924-25 may actually bring a r-burn on'invested capital of about 3 S per cent. This will be true if it doesn’t cost any more to produce tilings this year than last. Percentage Increases Between 3 and 4 per cent on your Harney may nut look very good to you, but to the f inner who got only six-tenths of 1 per cent in 1920-21, 1.4 per cent in 1921-22, and 3.1 per r at in 1922-23 and 1923-24, it seems like a ray of sunshine oil a day dark v. :; h clouds. •‘Grain producers,” says the report, “who had a cash income from sales in 1923 of about 1920.000.000, may earn this year approximately $! .210.000.000. ’< >f this prosjiective Increase of $:; iit•. i aio.ooo, the wheat growers s un| to gain by far the greater share. Wheat growers in hard winter and spring wheat areas will g.dn moia- than other wheat growers.” Supply Is lyess It is esflmub 1 that the total world's supply "f bread grains f<<r If’24-25 will probably be 10 per cent !-us than - hat of the preceding crop y .u . Europe, outside of Russia, Is ■ hurt p.i'.' rh.au 1 oa.ouo.ooti bushels < f } j, jj ;i> Ji;<i\!M:' l?* *V ] (1 0. i MlO, * (■ a bushels nf rye. North Africa and Russia are out of the market. I'ai.ada, most important com-p-titer, will have at least 150.000.000 bushels less wheat than last year. of ti... jr.iio.ooo,ooo more income
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Whose welfare is considered most often by a professional politician., in only one letter, beginning with ”1?’” (I’opyrisrht. 1924. XEA Service, Inc.)
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