Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 192

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH INDIANAPOLIS?

TyTIE ARE ASKING this question in all seriousness. What is ” the matter with Indianapolis? Your first impulse will be to become indignant and to reply: •'Nothing. It is a wonderful city and a good place to live.” And our answer will be that you are right about it being a wonderful city and a good place to live. But after a little thought you will agree that even Indianapolis is not perfect. It does an individual or a city a of good to pause once in a while and size himself or itself up. That is what we are planning to do in this editorial. mllE OTHER NIGHT there was held at the Chamber of Commerce a meeting attended by twenty-five or'thirty men. They represented a part of the leadership of Indianapolis affairs. Their number included bankers, manufacturers and merchants. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss what could be done to care efficiently and humaneiy for the needs of the unfortunates of Indianapolis. To an outsider the tone of this meeting would have been surprising. To an Indianapolis citizen it was all too painfully a matter of course. The interest of every one of these men is in Indianapolis. They are absolutely sincere in their attitude and in their efforts for the good of the city. Many of them spend an enormous percentage of their extremely valuable time in their work for the city. —o —o— SET NEARLY EVERY man at that meeting agreed that Indianapolis lacks a proper civic spirit. Every one agreed that it has been extremely hard to raise the annual Community Fund, which is considerably smaller in proportion to population than that raised in many other cities. It was almost the unanimous agreement of the meeting that if money is raised by taxation to take care of the needy it would be impossible to raise money for welfare ami uplift organi/a tions through a Community Fund. The statement was made that a Community Fund is needed to keep up a community spirit. —o — —o—j * T SEEMS THAT it is necessary to keep community spirit | 1 alive in Indianapolis by means of artificial respiration. This is brutal, but the evidence points in that direction. Too many of us are repeating like parrots the slogans, “ Indianapolis, a good town.” or “Indianapolis, no mean city.” We are not stopping to get next to ourselves. We are too self satisfied. Let us repeat: Indianapolis IS a good town. But Indianapolis can be made a BETTER town.

UR MUNICIPAL government is not the best municipal government possible. Other eities have made progress far m advance of Indianapolis. Indianapolis has a wonderful opportunity to become an even grea f er convention city than it. is today. Yet repeated efforts to bring about the erection of a large municipal auditorium. such as those possessed by other cities, have failed. They have failed because civic spirit was not strong enough to put them over. There are scores of thing- that can be accomplished for the good of Indianapolis if EVERYBODY will put his shoulder to the wheel and push. —o — —o — AND MIGHT HEME we may have come to the reason for the lack of civic spirit in Indianapolis. EVERYBODY is not pushing together. The pushing is left to a few—to the men who met at the Chamber of Commerce on the Community Fund matter and to their immediate associates. They, as we said before, are sincere and are jjoing their best, but they represent only a part of Indianapolis, and a small part, at that. They are the “Georges” who are permitted 1o “do it.” —o — —o — TjHEME IS A certain spirit of distrust evident in Indian- _ apolis. The employe does not thoroughly trust his employer and the employe*- does not thoroughly trust his employe. We are speaking now in the mass and not of individual eases. Civic organizations do not always work well together. Charitable organizations are having similar difficulties. There is a tendency to shift the burden from one group so another or for one group to look upon another as a rival A load cannot be moved even by a twenty-mule team if each mule pulls in a different direction. —o — ——o — iV7 HAT INDIANAPOLIS needs is mutual confidence. It ** needs a pulling together of every element in the city. It needs a direction of civic affairs by a CROSS-SECTION f city interests sitting together around the table. When this comes about we shall have true civic spirit, a true awakening of which Indianapolis is sorely in need. Then we may truthfully answer that there is nothing the matter with Indianapolis.

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ZERO GRIP OVER SUNDAY SEER W WEATHER BUREAU No Immediate Break in Frigid Spell in Sight— Mercury Sinks to One Above, 1,200 TELEPHONES OUT Sun Biings Brief Respite at Noon—Flood Danger Is Nipped, Temperatures Midnight .... 6 6:30 ft. m.... 1 1 a. in 4 7 a. in 2 2 a. m 3 8 a. m 2 3 a. m 3 9 a. in 2 4 a. m 2 10 a in 3 6 a. m 2 11 a. m 6 6 a. rn 2 12 (noon) .... 7 1 p. m 3 All of Indiana today shivered in zero or near zero weather with no relief promised over the week-end. according to ,1. |H. Armington. (iovernment ! meterologist. Fair and continued cold tonight 'and Sunday is the forecast uoii low jest temperature tonight about above zero. • The thermometer dropped ste:nhl> Jam night reaching the lowest point ; 1 above zero at 8:30 a. in. Th> net j cur} - jumped back to 2 at 7. holdiiiK ; that point until 9. A warm sun brouKht a rise of 5 decrees at noon. The coldest point recorded in In- , diana was at Ft. Wayne, where zero i was registered. The extreme cold extends into the i southern part of the State, accord.ng ; to the weather bureau and streams In southern Indians are rising. Cold I weather has nipped flood danget [ White River was reported falling' <it I Noblesvilie. All points north of a line from Michigan to the Texas Panhandle reported below zero weather. ; Some of the coldest points were: lender, Wyo., 3*l below. Devils Lake, iN. D., 34 below; Duluth. Minn.. 2i> | below; Charles City, lowa, It* below | Peoria. 111., 4 below. Trains from the West were run- ; ning from five to nine hours late It (Turn to Paco 13)

lAX CUT COSES U. S. $100,000,000 Revenue Reduced That Amount in Five Months, By Vn’trrl Prrm WASHINGTON'. Dec CO —Reduction of income and war taxes by | Congress last spring: cost the Government nearly $100,000,000 In revenue during the first five months of the operation of the new law, the Internal Revenue Bureau reported today. Income taxes collected In the j period July 1 to Dec. 1 totaled $453,•758,074. decrease of $31,000,000 as ; compared with the same period last j year. Miscellaneous taxes, formerly In- ! eluding many war-time taxes, abolished by the new law. totaled $375,|818,311, decrease of $67,000,000. ■ Only sizeable Increase was in collection of taxes on dues of athletic, social and sporting organizations, which Jumped $277,000 to a total of $3,000,000. HEAVY TOLL OF DEATH Family All Gone, Son Hit's Shortly After Birth i By Timm Special j NOBLESVIEfJS, Ind.. Dec. 20, — j Death has taken usual toll from | Mrs. Darkln ,T. Brown, j A posthumous son horn this week died shortly after hirth. East May her husband was killed, j Her mother died last month, shortly j after her father. < OLIVER COBEY SET FREE Jury Acquits Prisoner Held on Charge of Man’s Heath. Oliver Cobey. 43. of 1110 S. Belmont Ave., who has been in jail since July 3 charged with the death of Bud Willoughby, 37, of S5-1 Pershing Ave., will spend Christmas at home, free. A criminal court ! jury’ found Cobey not guilty of manj slaughter charges in a verdict Friday. Cobe.v shot the other man in a poolroom fight In self defense. He was defended by C. S. Cameron, county attorney for the poor, as he had rio funds to provide bond or hire a lawyer.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1924

BETHLEHEM IS BUSY CITY * • • • • ••• Radio and Flivvers Invade Birth Place of Christ —Spacious Hotels Replace Old Inns —Persons From Every Corner of the Globe Band Together to Make Palestine Independent State,

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l i 'id lit I .MKT- Till-; COMING OF THE MAGI. UPPER RIGHT—A MODERN FACTORY NEAR BETH LEI IKM TODAY. IIKLoW—A RESIDENT OK THE TWENTIETH CEXTKRV BETHLEHEM AT WORK IN HIS GARDEN NOTE THE KP TO-DATE HOMES IN THE BACKGROUND.

'Here’s a Tip From Santa Answers Queries as to What Food Should Be Included in Christmas Baskets for Poor, tin page 10 there is a list of needy families. What should you put into the Christmas baskets you give to famines on the Times Santa Claus list? This question was answered for the Times Santa and his helpers today by 11 S King. chairman of the Christmas Clearing lb,use. which Is furnishing names of families for the first annual Times Santa Claus list. lb* suggested contents for several different kinds of baskets. Substantial Food "The Family Welfare Society say* a basket for a needy family should contain beef roast, potatoes, rice, bread, oleomargarine or buttor, canned vegetables. fruit, sugar, coffee and cranberries," King said. "If something special Is added, the society recommends dried fruit, Hour bacon and dried beans. “One organization, at the suggestion of experienced workers, last year distributed baskets containing 1R pound t,ng of flour, five jsiunds of eornmeal, one piece of meat, one pound of coffee, one pound of oleo. (Turn to Page 13) STORES REMAIN OPEN Extra Half Hour Is Given Downtown Christmas Shoppers. A number of downtown stores will remain open until 6 p. m. from today until Christmas eve. The stores regularly close at 5:30 p. m. Blocks’, Ayres', Goldstein's, Pettis. Rink's and Wasson’s will closo at 6 o’clock. Schloss, Rubens. Strauss, Ilauger and Miller-Wohl stores will be open until 9 o’clock tonight and some will be open later than 6 p. m. next week. Merchants Association today urged members to advertise their Christmas closing hours. GOMPERS’ WILL FILED Labor licader leaves Minimum Amount to Wife By United Preen WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.—Will of theh • late Samuel Gompers. labor leader, probated here today left the bulk of his estate to his three sons and allotted to his wife the minimum amount required by law. The will, drawn Nov. 8, this year, to supersede one made in 1921 when he married his second wife, leaving his entire property to her, said: "If Gertrude A. Gompers shall not be my lawfully wedded wife at the time of my death she shall not re celve any part of my estate and the whole shall be divided among my other heirs.” Amount of (ho estate was not revealed.

if v SFA Srrrir** npCIFTHLEHEM, Dec. 20. L£A| And 3he brought forth her first-born Son, and wrapped Kim in swat* 'ing clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now, 2000 years later, the little "city of David” is crowded with pilgrims from every corner of the globe. Not here under decree from a ruler to be taxed, but here to re build Palestine Into an independent state. The inn—spacious hotels of nrdern accommodation. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass . . . Today chugging flivvers carry tourists and Inhabitants to and fro across the country. The long journeys of the camel are but biblical memories. And when they had seen It, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. Telephones, telegraph and radio are now commercial fixtures in the every-day life of persons living in Bethlehem. The word Is not passed from mouth to mouth. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh. |OLD, silver or mors lik®ly a check passed through a i complete banking Institution Is the twentieth century procedure. And such gifts are carried by a mailman.

Alcohol "U. PROPER proportions of alI cohol and water to make ture depend on the extremity of the weather. For this reason it le up to the Individual driver to determine how much alcohol to put Into his cooling system The following table, however, will help decide on the best proportion: Use Down to Parts Parts Deg. Fahr. Alcohol Water 30 5 95 25 10 90 20 15 85 15 20 80 10 15 76 xero 30 70 —lO 35 66 —2O 40 60 —BO 45 56 —4O 65 45

Christmas Programs ll'K.N to Page <> to see how Christmas Sunday will r>e observed in Indianapolis churches. Musical programs for Sunday services in the Protestant churches and the Christmas masses In Catholic churches are printed in full. Also topics of the ministers on Sunday anti the Sunday school lesson for tomorrow.

CLOTHING RETURN ORDER VIOLATED Dr. Morgan Asks Metchants to Cooperate. Tendency to disregard the city regulation prohibiting the return to stores of certain kind of clothing after purchase was reported to the Merchants' Association today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian. Dr. Morgan wrote: "I feel that this measure should be rigidly enforced inasmuch as quite a number of diseases, particularly those affecting the skin, may be transmitted through the exchange of certain kinds of wearing apparel, particularly that class of clothing which is worn next to the skin. "I trust that you will give this important public health matter your immediate attention and will request merchants to enforce it with the same diligence and that was generally used when the measure j was first adopted. BULLET THROUGH HAIR Woman Has Narrow Escape From Gun; Boy Held. Mrs. F. A. Faucett, 7>o, of Fishers, Ind., while visiting her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Max Faucett, 314 E. North St.. Apt. 16, was shot through the hair today but unhurt, when a small bullet from an air gun bored its way through the window of the apartment. Michael Klein, proprietor of a livery stable. 622 Ogden St., held Wilford Rollinson, 14, of 723 N. Delaware St., and Paul Schlapper, 10, of 818 E. North St., as the lads who wtelded the gun. The Rollinson lad was sent to the city detention home. PALATIAL SUBSTATION Shank Tunis Old Residence Over to District Police. Removal of the police substation at the fire station on Sherman Dr., north of New York St,, to Mayor Shank’s old residence at 3547 E. Washington St. W’as authorized by the mayor today. The fire station was declared crowded with the police located there. “My house Is well stocked with coal, and somebody might as well use it,” said the mayor. He, will charge the city no rent.

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NINETEEN LOSE LIVES AS COLO WAVE SWEEPS OVER MIDDLE-WESTERN STATES Traffic Accidents, Fires and Privation Claim Victims—Wrecked Telephone and Telegraph Wires Disrupt Communications, Slow Up Travel. STORM CENTER, SHIFTING EASTWARD, NOW IN OHIO Property Damage Amounting to Millions Left in Wake Weather Bureau Promises Relief Within 36 Hours for Part of Section. liii ( nitert Prrnn CHICAGO, Dec. 20. —At least nineteen persons are dead us a result of the sub-zero weather centering over the Middle West. according to data obtainable today. Four were killed in Milwaukee, five in Oklahoma, two in St. Louis, two in Chicago, four in Michigan, one near Kansas City. Mo., and one in Kansas. The deaths were due to fires from overheated stoves, falls, ralfie tits and exhaustion from cold.

The polar weather should lift from o part of their territory within the t.ext thirty-six hours, the Weather Bureau stated. In the meantime the Middle West is- struggling with the gigantic task of clearing up the tangle of broken telephone and telegraph wires and poles sprawling over the countryside. disrupting communication and slowing up railroad and interurban service. Where snow and sleet covered rails do not slow down service to a snail s pace, lack of wire facili ties forces extreme caution. The storm has shifted to Ohio, where the temperature dropped forty degrees during the night. Zero weather is In prospect and more than 800 poles are down, dlsruptiig communication. Nearly all of Illinois, with the ex ceptlon of the northern portion is practically Isolated. Limited service is obtainable to St. Louis and other southeastern Missouri points. Several thousand persons are stranded In St. Louis because of slow train service Trains tire running from eight to twelve hours late Nearly all trains from the west are hours late, according to railroad dispatchers In Chicago. Property damage will run Into millions of dolllars. It was estimated. FIVE DIE IN OKLAHOMA Texas Bank Robbed—Relief Promised For Missouri District. E<! United Prrnn KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20. With rail and wire communication still badly demoralized a break in the (Turn to Page 13) FATHER TIME FROZEN Sudden Drop in Temperature Affects Downtown Clocks. Old Father Time was slowed today by the sudden drop of temperature in Indianapolis. Several downtown street clocks were stopped. "Sudden change In temperature affects street clocks.” said Leo Kra.uss, Jeweler, 43 N. Illinois St. “Probably some water got on the Inside during the recent rain and froze. Cold weather does not affect them if it does not some swiftly.” PICKPOCKET GETS s22s Passengor Touched as He Alights Front Interurban Car. Sam Stephenson of Centerville, Ind., told police that while he was alighting from an interurban car at the terminal station today a pickpocket took his bill fold containing $225. Mrs. Iva Lyons. 529 N. Pershing Ave., told police that while she was downtown shopping someone took her purse and sl3. AUTO MEN TO AID AGED Association to Supply Home With Christ mas Dinner Following their custom the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association will supply turkey, ice cream and cake, for the annual Christmas dinner to the forty-eight Inmates of the Indianapolis Home for Aged, 1735 N. Capitol Ave., It was announced today.

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Hope! Hopes for a ‘‘white Christmas’’ w-ere held out today by J. H. Armington, Government meteorologist. “There is probability of snow the middle of next week,” he suited. "Weather will be generally fair with that exception. Winter temperatures will prevail.” The United States weather bureau, in its forecast Issued at Washington, reported the probability of cold weather and snow In every portion of the United States, except the extreme South and West, next week.

BOOSE IN BREAD PRICE DISCUSSED One-Cent Increase May Be Made After Jan, 1, Indianapolis bakeries have been sounding out grocers upon the advisability of a 3-cent increase a loaf in bread prices after Jan. 1, It was learned today. Reading bakers denied that they have agreed upon any increase, but they willingly discussed the advance of $1.50 a bari ai in flour in the last quarter year and higher costs of other materials as factors which have caused them to consider a price boost. One big bakery Increased Its price recently 1 cent a loaf on bread for shipment to Kokomo and Newcastle. MAILING CROWDS GROW Rush Begins in Earnest at Indiannpolis Postoffice. The Christmas mall rush struck the Indianapolis postoffice in full proportions today. While mailing has been normally heavy for several days employes were not taxed to their full speed until today. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said his augmented force was keeping up with the demand, clearing parcels fast enough to avoid congestion. The crowd was so great at times that E. F. C. Bechard, station examiner, was on duty In the main corridor to direct traffic. SALE IS DISAPPROVED State Says Gelst Must Turn Over Reserve Fund. The public service commission today refused to approve a contract between East Chicago and the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Water Company for the sale of the water plant to the city for $1,998,000. The company's stock Is owned principally by C. H. Geist. Philadelphia, chief owner of the Indianapolis Water Company. The com mission approved the sale price, but declared that a depreciation reserve fund of $43,000 must be given to the city by the company in cash if the contract Is to be approved.