Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1925 — Page 4

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The soul that sinneth, it shall die.—Ezek. 18:4. -< # ' m Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.—Hazlitt. JACKSON’S MESSAGE rpnOVERNOR ED JACKSON got away to a good start with 1 his message to the Legislature. It was short, to the point and for the most part sensible. Particularly pleasing was his defense of the primary law. “To change the law so that delegates may be elected by primary, or in any other manner,” he said, “would result in fewer voters participating in the nomination than under the present system.” 0 ' And when we do this we take away a part of the power of the people to govern themselves. It is to be hoped that the Governor’s defense of the primary will result in the retention of the present system. Another point in which we are thoroughly in accord with the Governor is the one he made in regard to strengthening the blue sky law. Jackson probably knows as much about the operation of this law as any other man in Indiana, because as secretary of State he was more or less in direct charge of its operation. He has reason to know considerable about its failures, and some of these failures have been particularly bad ones. The law should be strengthened at once and it is hoped that the Governor will bring all his influence to bear in this matter. ' \ The Governor also advocates a strengthening of the budget law to bring all departments under the budget. Indiana has been operating recently under a half-way budget system, which is as bad as no system at aIL Every state activity should be placed under a, strictly enforced* budget. This is one of the principal problems before the Legislature. \ Regulation of motor busses by the public service commission also was advocated. The busses certainly are in need of regulation and we are inclined to agree that the proper regulatory body is the public service commission and not the highway commission, as advocated by bus owners. Os course this assumes that the public service commission will give bus owners, a square deal, as well as giving the same kind of deal to traction lines. These things appear to be the principal points of Jackson’s message. On the whole, his program is reasonable and well worth careful consideration by the Assembly.

BORAH: FOREIGN MINISTER jYyIJITH the resignation of Secretary of State Charles Evans IW | Hughes to take effect March 4, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho becomes America’s minister of foreign affairs. Naturally that is not the way it was announced at the White House. There it was stated that former Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, now ambassador to London, would take Secretary Hughes’ place.- And so he will, too, officially, but it will be Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who will wield the influence. So a number of changes in our foreign relations may be expected. With Hughes and Borah it was a case of an impenetrable wall and the irresistible bullet, for each had his ideas and on them was adamant. With Kellogg and Borah, however, it will be different—insofar, at least, as concerns the wall. Senator Borah wants another world conference on disarmament and will probably get it. He favors joining the World Court, provided a way can be found to detach it from the League of Nations against which he is irreconcilable, and on that, too, he will have much to say. Other policies he may be expected to foster are less dollar diplomacy in Central and South America and the West Indies and the recognition of Russia. Hughes saw red every time he heard the name of Moscow and honestly believed the Communists were plotting in the shadow of the National Capitol to plant their flag on the White House. What Ambassador Kellogg thinks about it is not definitely known, but Borah wants recognition and that ought to settle that. * Which might be a good thing. We recognize China, despite her kaleidoscopic procession of corrupt president, bandit outrages, civil wars, revolutions and unspeakably chaos. We do it because, the State Department feels we must, at all costs, keep official contact with that unfortunate country. The China policy rings true, but it might just as sensibly be applied to Russia. The passing of Secretary Hughes from the Slate Department and the coming of Ambassador Kellogg not only means that tjie Senate, henceforth more than ever, will decide our foreign policy, but in the Senate, Borah. * YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO BILL mT BEATS all how some folks keep their names in the newspapers ! There’s Bill Bryan, for instance. Sitting quietly in the sunshine at -Miami, Fla., his home, Bryan finds his name blazoned in the headlines in newspapers everywhere, just because a gathering of scientists in Washington chose to denounce him for his opposition to the theory of evolution. The scientists contend that Bryan is a menace to education because he persuades State Legislatures to prohibit teach ing of evolution in schools, and say that he knows nothing about science, which is probably the case, or he would not try seriously to do a Don Quixote against the scientists in their own field. Queer, isn’t it, that the men of science would take Bryan so seriously. The publicity they gave him last week was worth a million dollars, more or less, to Bryan, who makes his living and performs his public services largely through the medium of publicity., .Jackie Coogan’s press agent, or Mary Pickford’s, and lots of others, would give that much if some scientific congress would denounce them as menaces and put their names on page one.

IMMIGRANT ‘BOOTLEGGING’ ALONG BORDER IS GROWING

Handful of Men Guarding Mexican Line Are Worried —Landowners Colonizing With Japs and Chinese, Bv Times Bnecial SAN DIEGO, Jart. 14.—Bootlegging in Orientals and other forbidden immigrants is assuming proportions so big that the handful if immigration men guarding the Mexican line is worried. Into California come principally Chinese, Japanese and south Europeans. This traffic is complicated by the fact that south of the Imperial Valley at Mexicali big land owners are colonizing with Chinese and Japanese for cotton raising. There are between seven and eight thousand Orientals along the Mexican border there and many are able to slip across and make thel* home in America. It is also complicated by the growing Japanese Aching colonies along the coast of Baja California. ' Costs SSOO The prohibition law aids the trafAc, for rum smugglers And it doubly proAtable to deal in two lin js of contraband. A charge of SSOO Is usually made to bring immigrants across In autos or in boats. ‘"thousands of Europeans and Orientals are coming into Mexico via Tampico and Vera Cruz/’ said D. S. Kuykendall, district director of immigration service here. “Many, of course, settle in Mexico, but many are being smuggled across the line into America. The big leak was formerly at San Antonio, but now the bigger leaks are at Laredo and here. “On the Canadian line there is a reciprocal agreement allowing us to inspect and enforce our law at Canadian ports. Here there is no such agreement, and we are compelled to stop the traffic along the long frontier —a difficult task. “Since the new Immigration law went into effect our problem is more with Europeans than with Orientals. The Italians, Greeks, t Syrians and Near East immigrants are not so well organized as the Orientals, but they are more numerous.”

Every Avenue Smuggled human contraband is brought across’'the line in the backs of autos, in the bottoms of fishing craft, afoot and even in airplanes. At Tecate two roadsters were recently captured each containing three Chinese packed in their rear compartments. Steamers landed at Ensenada bringing between thirty and forty immigrants every month and nearly all get over the line in fishing boats. A month ago the Coast Guard cutter caught a fishing boat with nine Italians being smuggled tnto CaliforniaSome means of registering all noncitizens is being urged by immigration authorities. A law will probably be Introduced into this Congress providing for issuance of cards to foreigners showing that its holder is in the land legally. Tom Sims Says St. Louis woman who was given one dollar in a breach of promise suit found her promise wasn’t worth nMch - More than a thousand famines live in one New York apartment, so wouldn't you hate to be the janitor? One of the old Chris Columbus’ men shouted, “I see dry land.” That was back in 1492. The land hasn’t been dry since. The speedometer seldom tells a lie, yet it is called a liar almost as often as the cook book. Does money talk loud enough to drown the voice of the people? The differn,ces which cause the most trouble in most families are just their differences.

One college advises its girls to get Jobs as cooks. This would never do. There are not enough canned goods. Our radio kick is we never have been able to get one that wasn’t a party line. They have airplanes which go straight up now. Only thing wrong with them is they come straighter down. They say the movies "have been cleaning house. We knew they had been cleaning up at the box office* Model husbands, so a young lady tells us, are not built for speed. It often takes just a little knocking to drive home a point. The only real argument advanced against prohibition up to date Is it makes it so hard to get a decent drink. You must stay on your toes to keep others off of them. There is a silver lining to a cloud, but not to a bubble. When a mqn tries to rest on his laurels he finds his laurels droop. It is easy to catch up with a Lime excuse. Shut your mouth and open your eyes, if you would be healthy and wealthy and ivise. > ■ - Fall in love with yourself and you won’t have any rivals. Isn’t it funny when nothing seems funny? (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) The Pension Bill Os the War of 1812, at the close of this fiscal year thirty-three widows were still in receipt of pension. Os the War with Mexico, there were thirty-one soldiers and 1,437 widows on the roll June 30, 1924. There were on the roll at the end of the fiscal year 625,539 pensioners, a net loss to the roll of 14,217 from the total of 639,756 on the roll at the beginning of the year. The amount disbursed for pensions for the fiscal year 1924 wag 3229,994,777, as against 5263,012,600 for 1923. The total amount paid to pensioners from 1790 to 1924, inclusive, his * the

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON ;

Message OVERNOR' JACKSON recommended in his message that all money received from any source by State boards, commissions and departments be paid into the general fund. He would have all dep a r tmental needs met by appropriations. Onfy thus, he argued, can the budget system for controlling expenditures be made aji effective' instrument It sounds reason- • able. There will be opposition to the plan, however. Several departments and many NELSON boards collect fees from various sources, which they expend for some departmental ( e r-.tivlty without reference to the budget. To turn these fees into the gerteral fund and trust to appropriations might distress them. Nevertheless, funds so collected take on the character of “velvet.” A department’s tendency is to spend them—like all easy money—for desires not actual needs. A State dollar Is a dollar whether sweated from a tolling agriculturist in taxes or derived from the sale Ask Thf Times Tou can (ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 132 b New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in •tamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended r- search be undertaken. All other quest-ons will receive a oersonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor.

How are stage lightning and thunder produced? How are windy snowstorms produced? Stage lightning- is produced by flashing on and off electrld lights; thunder by beating a bass drum or by shaking a urge piece of sheet metal. A windy snowstorm can be produced by usin x paper cut up in small pieces, or confetti, with electric fans placed in the proper place to blow the paper in the right direction. Between what hours are morning, afternoon, evening and night? In popular usage, morning is the period between break of day and 12 noon; noon is from 12 to 1 p. m.; evening, strictly speaking, is from sunset to dark, and night is the period of darkness. I . ■ —— • By what process is crudd rubber dissolved? The usual commer'ial solvents of crude rubber are benzene or gasoline. The rubber should be masticated in a rubber mill and stirred in the solvent in order that it may dissolve quickly. A 5 per cent solution is ordinarily U3ed. Can the coating of a kodak film be rubbed off the celluloid? Yes, if the film is treated first with hot water. How was Stonewall Jackson killed? Shortly after the battle of Chancellorville, as he was returning from a reconnaissance, his party was mistaken for Federal cavalry, and wns fired upon by the Confederates. He was severely wounded in the left arm and right hand. The following day his left arm was amputated, and he seemed in a fair way to recover, but pneumonia set in, and he died May 10, 1863. What are the Fauna of South America? The fauna include the prehensiletailed monkeys, marmosets, bloodsuckirig bats, coatimondis, pecc-rie| llamas, alpacas, chinchillas, agouti | toucans, puff-birds, jaeamars, todies, motmots, humming birds, macaws, sun-bitterns, vultures' jaguars and pumas.

JEIow can a small quantity ofgold be melted? A Ji reclay crucible, made especially for*The purpose, may be used. The dirt should be fluxed to a slag by mixing with crystalline borax and litharge, and possibly sodium carbonate/ If the melt is a large one, it is performed In a graphite crucible. Gold is not difficult to melt, and the pot can be heated sufficiently with coke or charcoal provided the draft is right to assure gooci combustion. The pot may be set down with the glowing coke around it. What is the value of a silver three-cent piece dated 18687 From 20 to 60 cents. What was the first American city to establish the commission form of Government? Galveston, Texas.

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of a Chiropractic license. If the budget system is good business In the expenditure of the tax dollar, it is equally good business with every other State dollar. A budget system that does not apply to all receipts and expenditures Is only about as satisfactory as an almost good egg. Retirement executive of a great State. Today hp Is in the courtroom of a country town —a plain lawyer trying a prosaic country-town lawsuit That’s t"he change forty.-eight hours brought in the life of Emmett F. Branch. F*rc-m the pomp and power of official eminence he has descended to the quiet routine of private life. Before his elevation to the chair of authority he was a practicing attorney. He is again just a lawyer. The office was only an episode. During the past week similar dramas have been enacted in many American States. Governors have become private citizens, and private citizens have become Governors. The changes have occurred without fuss, turmoil or disturbance. We are so accustomed to this orderly transfer of the reins of government that we think nothing of it. It is just a natural act to be expected In the ordinary course of events. But back of that simple act of unquestioning acceptance of the will of the majority is the training of & thousand yeaxs in the art of selfgovernment. As dong as our public officials retire and * successors take their places in the midst of a- fusillade of handclapping instead of bullets there is no reason to fear the stability of our Institutions.

Widening T" 1 HE board of public works conducted a hearing Monday on the proposed removal of the esplanades from N. Delaware St., between Nineteenth and Twenty-Sec-ond. Many residents of the district protested against the plan. The hearing was just another skirmish in the old conflict between private inclination and public necessity. Before the completion oi[ the new Fall Creek bridge the section of N. Delaware St. affected by the project was just a comfortable, unhuiTying residential street. The roadway was sufficiently wide to accommodate the vehicles. Then the grass plots down the center did not conflict with utility, while adding greatly to the beauty and charm of the neighborhood. Naturally,, residents still regard them with affection. The old street died, however, the instant the first vehicle crossed the Fall Creek bridge. The thoroughfare Is now a main traffic artery to the constantly growing north side. Eventually evfery inch 'of roadway will be required for utilitarian purposes. Perhaps the project may be halted temporarily by the remonstrances of residents—but they are fighting a losing battle. Ultimately it must go through. The change may be regrettable, but it is inevitable. Public need always wins, in the end, over private sentiment. Exits V 1”"" " T. FUfeGASON, chief of the fire prevention bureau, " inspected Tomlinson Hall during a basketbail game the other night. He found everything set for a first-class disaster. The place was filled to capacity. The pressure locks on some emergency exits were out of repair. Some doors were barricaded with wooden bars. Chairs were stacked in the corridors. . -■ All that was lacking was a fire and the resultant panic. City officials immediately ordered conditions corrected. That Is well. Indianapolis is sufficiently renowned for street casualties without annexing the holocaust championship. Emergency exits are not much used. When they are wanted, however, the demand is acute. After a building becomes a funeral pyre it is too late to repair emergency doors frozen shut from neglect. The recent school disaster in Oklahoma proves—like many previous catastrophes—that any hall Is only as safe as Its exits. Timely inspection has made Tomlinson Hall exits safe—for the time being—but how about other frequently crowded hall# and auditoriums in the city? An investigation now might save a coroner’s inquest later.

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Cash Value to Bonus Is Planned

Time* Waehinoton Bureau, 1352 New York Avenue. TyTI ASHTNGTONV Jan. 14. \)y When Congress passed the ” soldiers’ bonus law providing only for endowment insurance. Senators and Representatives who favored a cash bonus promised they would persist In their attempts to obtain ft. Senator Jones of New Mexico (Dera.) has just taken the first step toward his pledge by introducing a bill which would give the bonus certificates a cash surrender value. The certificates now being sent out from the Veteran’s Bureau consist strictly of twenty-year endowment

Adequate Navy Needed to Guard International Trade

By HON. CTJEfTIS D. WILBUR, Secretary of the Navy. mT has been suggested thr.t the United States is self-sustain-ing and even though she be deprived of all sea power, our population would have sufficient food, clothing and necessities of life to maintain themselves. The United States is now an industrial nation. Its factories furnish gainful occupation to many million people. Its commerce and the interests of the United States in markets for goods extend to every part of the globe. It is true that continental United States could maintain 'itself without foreign cohunerce and without any international communications, just as it is true that a man could exist with his arms and legs amputated and his eyes blind, but It would not be the life to which he is accustomed and which he regards as essential to his happiness. To deprive the United States of its international relations, of its commerce and its contacts would be to destroy elements deemed essential to national prosperity. Unemployment and want and suffering would surely follow. We went to war with Germany

In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—More rescues at sea are credited' to the captains of the twenty-one freighters of the Luckenback line than to any other group of seamen. Recent rescues were those of the crew and passengers of the Glnyo Maru off the coast of Mexico and the S. S. Columbia, off Costa Rica; E. F. Luckenback founded the line when he started a towboat business on the Hudson at Rondout, N. Y., eighty years ago. The first lives saved were of boy swimmers. • • • Antonio Scottl requires an hour and a half to dress for his rble in “FalstalT.” He puts on thirty articles of clothing, Including an immense false stomach and leg pads to give him the proper rotundity. • • * ... One of the New York papers In-) vites readers to review shows. A weekly theatrical publication keeps a box score, showing the averages of tha newspaper critics their predictions of shows' successes. The paper that uses readers to review shows stands next to last in the list, while one of the best known crijtios in town tops the list. This, despite the fact that his estimate of a play entirely disregards the boxoffice angle. • • * A wealthy widow recently lost SBO,OOO backing a musical show that lasted only a week on Broadway. She was desirous of having her daughter appear to? prima donna and lost a big gamble. „Oh the other

insurance policies. After the end of the second year, these policies may be used as security for small loans. A policy for SI,OOO, payable in 1945, will have a loan value of approximately SBO in 1927; $126 In 1928; $350 in 1935 and so on to S9OO in 1944. Loans obtained on these policies will bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, and must be repaid before final settlement of the insurance is made. Senator Jones now proposes to amend the bonus law so that at any time after three years from the date of Issuance the bonus certificates may be surrendered for a flat cash settlement. He tyould add to the

not because she threatened to invade continental United States, £ut because she was determined to terminate temporarily our right to international exchange of commerce. If I may continue with the same figure of speech, she did not threaten to kill us, but merely to amputate an arm. We spent $40,000,000,000 to resist this invasion of our rights. The question we are confronted with now is whether we shall continue to maintain a navy adequate for the protection of our international lines of communication and of our great coastal and international commerce. A systematic adherence to the full treaty ratio not only with reference to the ships covered by the treaty, but with reference to all branches of the naval service will reasonably assure such protection.

“FRIVOLOUS SAL” Asa Movie—Has More Real Entertainment Than Half a Dozen Contemporary Pictures. If Yoa Like Action — Here You Have It—■ If You Want Scenic Grandeur This Picture \Was Made at Mt. Ranier. Nothing More Beautiful in the World. About the Story — It’s an Absorbing Love Tale With a Most Unusual Twist. And the Cat Look ’Em Over—s EUGENE O’BRIEN MAE BUSCH TOM SANTSCHI • BEN ALEXANDER MITCHELL LEWIS AND OTHERS J. K . McDonald Produced It It’s a First National Picture CIRCLE-SUNDAY

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bonus insurance the same provisions that apply to all fully paid-up endowment insurance policies issued by private companies. Under his plan, a veteran who has received a certificate for SI,OOO of insurance could obtain $550 in full settlement in three years, Instead of waiting twenty years for the larger amount. Senator Jones estimates that enactment would accomplish two desirable results: (1) Give the soldiers the bonus money when they really need it. (2) Cut the Government’s bonus bill in half.. Estimates as to the cost of the endowment insurance plan fix the •ultimate amount at approximately $3,500,000,000. If the Jones amendment were adopted, and all*veterans availed themselves of its privileges, the total bonus cost would be reduced to between $1,500,000,000 and $2,000,000,000. That the greater proportion of the war veterans lost Interest in the bonus when Congress failed to provide cash and offered instead longterm insurance, is indicated by the fact that less than one-third of the men who served in v.he army , have applied for their certificates. Friends of the cash bonus say this lack of response is what they expected, for the soldiers needed linemediate financial assistance, not promises of “tombstone insurance,** as Senator Jones designates the present law. The Jones amendment is bow be* fore the Senate Finance Committee for consideration. Whether it gets) further than the committee’s pigeonhole depends largely on the support that is given the measure by vet* erans and veterans' for only strong support from the soldiers can overcome the Adminis* tration opposition to the reopening of the bonus question.