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The Indianapolis Times BOX W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrippg-Howard Newspaper Alliance f • • Client af the United Press, the NBA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of tne Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Ipdianapolla • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500. Be courteous: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing.—l Pet. 3:8-9. There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.—Goethe. LISTENING IN ON THE PUBLIC ITT] AYOR SHANK did well to ask the citizens of Indianapolis iy*i for suggestions as to what could be done during the last year of his administration for the good of the city. Now that he is receiving, the suggestions, he would do well to consider them carefully. All of them, obviously, can not be carried out, nor would it be advisable to carry all of them out. But some of them could be put into effect greatly to the advantage of the city. One writer to the mayor suggests a department of municipal publicity. He would have this department see to it that Indianapolis is appreciated by the outside world and by the citizens of Indianapolis themselves. Certainly the city would benefit by such publicity, but it is doubtful whether it should be accomplished through a municipal department. It seems that it could better be conducted through the Chamber of Commerce or some other group of public-spirited citizens. Edgar H. Evans makes some very pertinent suggestions. Perhaps the most important is that all department;? be operated under the civil service or merit system. This is particularly imperative in the police and fire departments—especially in the former, where politics continues to be the controlling factor. If the Shank administration should accomplish nothing else, it would long be remembered as a great administration if it takes steps to remove politics from the police department. He also suggests, among other things, that boards be not disturbed with changing administrations except for cause. We doubt the advisability of this. Certainly board appointments, if the best interests of the city are to be served, should not be matters of political reward, but every administration has its policies and every incoming mayor is entitled to carry out his ideas at least to some extent in his own way. Then there are suggestions as to the regulation of traffic. This is an ever-increasing problem about which Indianapolis has done little. There have been surveys by experts, surveys by boards, surveys by commissions, and surveys by just ordinary individuals, but the traffic problem goes right on. One of these days it is going to become so serious that a city administration will be compelled to. leave off making surveys and start in making improvements: It is being done in other eities and it can be done in Indianapolis. A mayor with his ear to the ground is to be commended. But it is just as necessary to act as to listen.

| BEAUTY j f D I-SRFUMES, cosmetics and toilet preparations cost this [£& country more than $117,000,000 a year. This is shown a check-up on the part of Unde Sam. Soon you’ll find critics using this figure, along with the cost of such things as movies and tobacco, as an indication of America’s gigantic spending for luxuries. Asa matter of fact, I it amounts to about a dollar a year for every man, woman and child. Beauty and deanliness are cheap at any price. And do not charge it all to woman’s vanity. A lot of these perfumes, cosmetics and toilet preparations are used by men and babes. NEW YEAR’S BOOZE pT?"| HERE are those who say there is even more drinking on L■ J New Year’s eve—and at other times—then there was before prohibition. There are others, mostly enforcement officers, who say there was almost no drinking in Indianapolis New Year’s eve. The answer .probably lies between the two extremes, perhaps nearer to the latter. We perhaps hear more stories of drinking on New Year’s eve now than we used to. There is a reason for this. Drinking, or at least transportation and sale of booze, is illegal. Therefore it is smart. Therefore, we talk about it. The chances are that those who talk most now about New Year s drinking were so pie-eyed in the old days that they didn’t know how much was going on. i Then, too, it was so usual in those days that it did not excite comment. Prohibition hasn’t up to the present time prohibited. But anyone who says it has not had a restraining influence doesn’t know what he is talking about.

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QUICK ASKS POSTAL USERS PAY FOR BAD ADDRESII

Writer Continues Discussion <f ' . r . ■ . • •* *7 4 ■:.1 rj of Way to Make Post, office Pay. By HERBERT .QUICK 1 mHAVE suggested in these columns that, instead of taxing the newspapers andmagazines with higher postal rates, the Postoffice Department might earn enough to wipe out its deficit if it would cut down the weight of a first-class letter to be carried for two cents to about a third of its present weight, and still accommodate business just as well. We should do as the foreigners and lighter paper and envelopes. The Government is too liberal in the weight it carries for two cents. It could carry the same business with less tonnage and get money for it if it would demand the extra two cents per letter" on those which weigh more than about a third of the maximum size now. But this is no. thfr only possible way to get more money out of carrying the mails, without taxing business or doing any one any injustice. Take the abuse of bad or imperfect or illegible addresses, for instance. Our news columns tell us that the dead letter office states that people are getting more and more careless in the way they address their letters. Dead letter business increased more than 12 per cent last year. There were 21,618,168 undeliverable letters mailed last year. Add to these the huge numbers which were sent to wrong addresses and which the admirable detectives of the postoffices finally after much trouble succeeded in delivering by ferreting out the addresses, and the aggregate of 'carelessness and error becomes enormous. Blame Is Divided Now this is partly the fault of the people and partly that of the Postofßce Department itself. All my life I have reed the boasts of the department as to its ingenuity in finding addresses. Any one who receives a large mail occasionally receives a letter which on form ought not to have reached him at all. I got one last week addressed to me at a town in Vermont, a State in which I never had even a temporary address. I have had letters forwarded to me from places like Richmond, where I never stopped off even over night. I have had letters addressed to Hubert Quirk sent me from places I left thirty years ago. All this is quite creditable to the postoffice people and it Is what they should do. But ought not this incorrectly addressed mail pay something tor the trouble It causes? I think it should. I suggest to the Postmaster General, then, that as a beginning all letters addressed to people in cities of over, say, 10,000 population should bear the correct street address or carry 4 cents in stamps.

Would End Deficit . This in itself would bring in enough more money the first year to wipe out the so-called deficit. Then I should suggest tentatively that when letters are sent to wrong addresses it would be no more than fair to make a ‘postage due” charge on delivery for the trouble of looking up the correct address. This might be 2 cents. I know the objections to adding postage in cases where the person sending the letter can not provide himself—-but all this dependence upon the post offices to supply our own lack of effort or knowledge should be paid for where possible. Under such a penalty, people would look more carefully after their addresses. Addresses woujd be on their minds. We should become educated in the matter of care In addresses. This would be good for us. Next year we should almost certainly see a decrease in dead letter business. And the Postoffice Department would have an increased revenue for doing less work >er letter. What objection to that? I see none. Tom Sims Says A million dollars’ worth of matches is a nice gift for a man who tries to smoke a pipe. Tour luck may not be bad, but in Georgia a policeman has been shot in the neck, again. Chicago medium got a spirit message for r rich man. Must have come a long distance, the charges being $3,000. The Turk’s Sunday comes on Friday, so by the time we are having Sunday he knows who was killed on his. There are only fifteen million phone numbers in the United States, so we can’t understand how they get the wrong one so often. About ten millions are spent yearly to keep us dry and ae much spent daily to keep us wet. Talk about hard luck; in Akron, Ohio, a man lost his false teeth the day before Chriatn as. Alabama farmer went to jail for bringing home the bacon. Got into a market and stole a whole side of it. Twelve people were killed in Mexico. Being in a hurry we didn’t read to see w hat the election was about. Man got arrested in Chicago for teaching how to make booze, so must hold his graduation exercises at the Jail. The sidewalk Jumped up and hit quite a few folks during the holidays because they thought bootleggers were honest. It is estimated the average man could learn to beat a drum with ■ the energy he uses scratching his head. Better make a resolution to k* t' your resolutions. That.’s why pipes are better than cigarettes. They go out so often you don’t get much smoke. Many a man keeps his nose to. the grindstone so he can turn it up at the .bill collectors. (Copyright* 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) , .ness

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Requests Tr— ■■ * HE State budget committee < Wednesday made public the requests for appropriations filed by State institutions and departments. The list makes heavy reading. And is no 0 comic strip for the seven institutions ask more money for And this in a year NELSON dedicated to official worship of economy! Probably, however, the budget committee will give the estimates a good sweating. In order to squeeze them into the State’s financial clothes. Nevertheless the requests reveal why public' economy is so warmly commended officially, but is so rarely attained. Every institution and department favors economy for others. But it feels public service would be hamstrung if any decrease should be made in its own expend! tures. So that in practice there is more smoke than fire in the talk of reducing governmental costs. 1 Before there can be any real economy, State institutions and departments must experience a change of They must base their requests not on desires —or ambition to enlarge their service—but on actual, frugal needs.

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Can any variety of whale swallow a man or a man-sized object without masticating it? Yes, a sperm whale has a throat large enough ho admit swallowing a man-sized object whole. How many chickens are there in the average carload? Approximately 4,600. Why does a cat’s fur crackle when rubbed? Static or frictional electricity is produced by the rubbing. What is meant by the sword of Damocles? Damocles, the courtier of Diionysius the elder, envied the condition of his master; he was invited by his master to assume the position he so much envied. Accordingly he was set down before a gorgeous banquet, but In mid-air above his seat was a glittering sword suspended by a hair. Afraid to move lost the slightest jar should cause It to fall, Damocles passed the allotted time in a torment of fear. The phrase is now used to denote impending disaster. What is meant by the displacement of a ehlp? The weight of the water displaced by the vessel. What is spontaneous combustion? The oxidation of a substance with such rapidity as to engender heat sufficient to ignite it, as masses of oiled rags, pyritous ores, coal and certain metals. In what year was the first American railroad completed? In 1830. Where were Agnes Ayres, Mabel Normand, Ruth Roland and Mil- . dred Harris bom? Agnes Ayres was born in Carbondale, 111.; Mabel Normand In Boston, Mass.; Ruth Roland In San Francisco, Cal., and Mildred Harris in Cheyenne, Wyo. 'What does “spiegel” mean? 0 A mineral—a vitreous red, green, blue, brown or black, transpart to near opaque magnesium aluminate. When were monasteries founded? Apparently about the beginning of the fourth century monks began to live together under a common roof, and bfiildings began to be erected as monasteries. Previously, hermits had lived in separate cells. Pachomius founded an Immense monastery about 340 A. D. on the island of Tabennae in the Nile. This is the earliest monastery of which there appears to be a record. At what temperature will a battery kept fully charged freeze? At from 40 to 50 degrees below zero. Science The semi-arid and treeless sections of the United States may be planted to eucalyptus, If experiments now being made by the United States Forestry Service prove successful.

The eucalyptus tree is from Australia. There are more than 200 kinds of eucalyptus in Australia. One of these, the “snow eucalyptus,” was said to withstand a temperature of 20 degrees below zero. Experiments conducted by the forestry service at Aasheville, N. C., showed that It would not stand this much cold, but that it could stand at least 4 degrees below zero. The great advantage of the eucalyptus is that its growth is so rapidr it pays to raise it for firewood. Its shade and its picturesque appearance also made it of great advantage in a treeless section or in loggedoff lands where the landscape has been spoiled by the lumber- indue-

Union mHE International Typographical Union has purchased the Murdock home —2820 N. Meridian St, Which it will use for its offices, now located downtown. The printers tl.is acquire one of i the show places of the city. And a mansion built by Capital becomes the every-day home of Labor. There may be pathos in the descent of town houses from proud and luxurious homes to use in commerce or shirt-sleeved trade. But that is the inevitable consequence of city growth. However, when such a home becomes the property of a trade union the event isn’t depressing, but cheering. For it denotes social progress. And may reassure some. Who believe all unions are compounded of long-haired hate and dynamite. Anxiobs to fire the economic world and blow the ashes Into the Milky Way. There is no red-eyed radicalism in a warranty deed. So a union that buys valuable real estate isn’t in the business of destruction. Its interests are constructive—to build a more stable future. Which is the aim of most trade unions. There is a distinction, but little difference between Capital and Labor. In both is much plain human nature. Entertainment mT is estimated that Indianapolis spent approximately $40,000 in the principal dvntown clubs, hotels, and theater In celebrating New Year’s eve. Yet this is only a fraction of the total spent in the city. And as the old year died money flowed just as freely in other cities. From New York to Main streets wearing self-consciously brand new paving. For that is the custom. The national expense for greeting 1925 will run into stupendous figures. Which if devoted to charity would astound the woYld. Or if added to taxes would cause the citizenship U> writhe in anguish. However, devoted to New Year’s fun, the sum causes no commotion except blistered feet. And occasional alcoholic qualms. And Is quickly forgotten. Perhaps It’s a pity so much should be spent for so little. For the New Year wouldn’t be a minute late if no one spent a nickel on it. % Therefore In the cold light of reason the cash dumped into the hilarity is sheer economic waste. But people spend for what they want, not what they need. They want entertainment—and will pay for it. Such low tastes may be regrettable. But humanity is always discouraging to the uplifters.

Travel P r ~" RESIDENT W. B. HINER of the Red Ball Trtmsit Com- — pany, believes the next ten years will see radical changes in transportation. In which airplanes will play an important part. From lumbering stage coaches to winged mails shooting across the sky, is a far cry. But transportation has made that advance in a human life span. , 111 1935 man may stick spurs into a radio wave and shoot around the world. Man is proud of his mechanical transportation achievements. And properly so. For they have enabled him to spread over and conquer the earth. While he traveled on his own muscles he was just a slow, weak animal struggling to exist. But when he learned to ride, riot walk, he started on the road to civilization. The first man to mount a horse was the greatest inventor In transportation. He invented motive power. From that invention the Twentieth Century Limited and the air-mail are the legitimate offspring. But ability to travel far and fast is by itself an empty achievement. For it isn’t the celerity with which one travels from here to there that counts. The important thing is what he does after arriving there. Ufort unate “My boy grows more like me every day!” “Is -that so? Haven’t you done anything to prevent it?”—Experience. ' By Father's Jailor “What size should I make your hip pockets, Colonel, pint or quart?” Boy Knows “What else does sea water contain besides sodium chloride?” “Fish!”—John Hopkins Blue Jay.

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It’s a Tough Neighborhood We Live In

By ALBERT APPLE

S*~l O the tax burden is getting lighter is it? Well, not that we want to make any disparaging coml___| parisons, but the American taxpayer reminds us of an over-burdened mule. Uncle Sam stands on one side, removing part of the mule’s load. This pleases the mule, but— While Uncle Sam takes off part of the burden from his side, State and local government keeps adding more fronj the other side. A survey by National Industrial Conference Board shows that national taxes decreased more than 27 per cent in the three years previous to 1924. In the same time, State and local taxes increased 15 per cent. Figures for 1924 have not been rounded up. But they’ll show the same tendency. * • • * • EHE total of all taxes has decreased, for national reductions have exceeded State and local increases. But there’s a very serious situation |n the fact that State and local taxes continue mounting steadily. In the great and well justified campaign for econ-

Justice McKenna of Supreme Court Has Resigning Record

By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Ctra ASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—When W Associate Justice Joseph Mel J Kenna of the United States Supreme Court resigns his seat on that high bench, as he is understood to be about to do, he will have set a record as the most resigned gentleman in high official circles. Back in the early ’Bos, after a couple of terms as prosecuting attorney of Solano county, California, and a brief period in the California Legislature, McKenna wa.i elected to Congress. In the midst of his fourth term he was offered appointment, by President Harrison, as United States circuit judge. Whereupon he resigned as member of Congress and mounted the bench. When McKinley was elected President he spotted McKenna as likely cabinet material and tendered him the post of attorney general. So McKenna resigned the judgeship and entered the cabinet. Within a year, however, Justice Field having retired from the Supreme bench, the little lawyer from the West was picked for the vacant seat, and so resigned his cabinetslip. i That was twenty-seven years ago. Since then he has served continuously on the Supreme bench, being now in point of service the oldest member of the court. Justice Holmes, who is two years older, is three years younger in service on the bench. Physically frail and now in his 82d year, McKenna has decided to resign once more, this time retiring to the quiet of private life for the few years that perhaps remain to him. t* • * mHE scrappin est member of the Supreme Court, however, is its oldest membeb Oliver Wendell Holmes. Justice Holmes, son of the Oliver Wendell who

omy in national Government, taxpayers have not been sufficiently'vigilant in watching the tax spenders closes at home. ■, : ’ So we have the farcia.l situation of tax burden being piled, on our backs from one side about aa fast, aa it Is improved from the other. • ■> • e mN 1912 the combined debts of American States and municipalities totaled less than four billion dollars. Today the figure is not far below eleven billions. Roughly, it is half as big as the national debt, which is so stupendous that it is beyond the imagina. tion of all except nrofessional mathematicians. Final corrected figures apparently will show that more State and local government long-term bonds were issued in 1924 than in any year of the past. Increased debt means increased interest to pay—and the only way to get it is by higher taxes. • We must have such improvements as are necessary. But it is perilous to mortgage the future more and more. - The day of reckoning cannot be indefinitely put off. And we will lose all the advantages of national Government economy unless similar cautlor. and thrift are exercised In State and local expenditures.

helped make Bostori the American literary center of the mid-Nineteenth century, is in his 84th year. And although rumor also has attached itself to him as about ready to resign the seat he has held for twenty-two years, it is now considered certain he will outlast McKenna on the court. • * * mUSTICE HOLMES has an enviable military as well as Judicial record behind him. Within a month after he was graduated from Harvard College in *6l, he had been commissioned first lieutenant in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and had started for the front. In October of that year, in the battle of Balls Bluff, he was shot through the breast. Recovering from this wound, and being promoted to a captaincy, he led his men into thte battle of Antietam in September, ’62, and got a bullet through the neck. Seemingly the rebels couldn’t entirely miss his long, lank form, for the following year at Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, he was shot through the heel. This latter wound, he has often said, might have been embarrassing had he not had two previous scars to attest his claim that he wasn’t running away. He wound up the

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was as aid to Gen. H. G. Wright, 4 having been breveted as major, lieutenant colonel and colonel. And immediately entered Taw school to prepare himself, as it afterward proved, for the Supreme bench. Window Faces By HAL COCHRAN Watchin’ and waitin’ for daddy to come; anxious to greet him again. Wee little tot with a heart all ahum —RC©, you’re a treat to the men. Daytime is closing and nighttime draws nigh. Time you are taking your place up at the window where dad passes by; where you. 1 show him your face. Funny pressed nose that to smudging the pane; cheeks that are flattened and red. Waitin’ and watchin’, but never in vain, but always rewarded instead. Warm, on the inside, you keenly peer out. Minutes make eagerness •strong. Daddy is cornin', there isn’t a doubt. You’ll soon see him walkin’ along. Daddy arrives and ycrtr’re thrilled all anew. You rush to the door, full of vim. Whatever the pleasure he’s giving to you. you're giving the same thing to him. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Tnr,) Johnny's Manners “Johnny, I wish you’d stop reaching for things. Haven’t you a { tongue?” ' “Sure, mom, but my arm's longer.”—S. Calif. Wamnus.