Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1925 — Page 3
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AMERICAN ENVOY CENSURES BRITISH FOR DRUGCHARGES Attacks Statement That * U, S. Consumes More Opium Than China. Bu United Press GENEVA, Jan. 20.—Congressman Stephen Porter, head of the American delegation to the League of Nations anti-drug conference, today charged Viscount Cecil with a “vile slander upon the American people, a calumny unsupported by statistics.” He referred to Lord Cecil’s statement Monday that opium consumption in the United States Mas greater per capita than in India. Viscount Cecil rose and asked permission to withdraw his statement, but Congressman Porter interrupted, declaring “it would be highly regretful if this calumny should be repeated in this assembly.” The American spokesman went on to say that "Lord Cecil’s vile slander on the American people” was based on old statistics, which indicated consumpiton of opium in the United States was thirty-six grains per capita annually. Correct statistics, he said, show only eight grains —“the same as England.” He declared tlYe American delegation, after two months and three days at Geneva, still is faced with the necessity of demanding a hearing on the most vital points of its program. He thanked Japan for its support and congratulated Japan upon its system of suppressing the drug evil M-hich was based upon one of the most important principles, namely a suppression without consideration of diminished revenue. “For the last time the United States demands a hearing before this conference,” Porter said. “The United States merely asks a solemn pledge that all nations will wipe out drugs, leaving each nation free to use its own methods.”
REPORT SHOWS U. SM LOSS Net Amount- Said to Total $1,674,500,000,* Bv United Prea WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Government operation of railroads during the war caused the Nation a net loss o's $1,674,500,000, Director General of Railroads Davis reported to President Coolidge today in a final summary of the financial results of the experiment. The Government Incurred & flat operation loss of $1,130,500,000 during the sixteen months of Government control, an additional cost of $536,000,000 during the ensuing six months of guaranty period and finally reimbursed small connecting roads at a cost of $15,000,000. The director general was enabled to balance the Government’s railroad books only after five years of adjustment of claims presented by the railroads Involving alleged loss not only of revenue during the actual Government operation, but immense depreciation of equipment and deteiioration of property. Rotarians Hear Congressman Congressman Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts addressed the Rotary Club on “Various Forms of Insurance” today at luncheon at the ClaypooL Ernest Palmer, general counsel, Chicago Board of Underwriters, also spoke. QUICK REUEF FROM ' CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That la the Joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, th* substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician for IT yearn and calomel’s old-time enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for chronic constipation and torpid livers. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets do not contain calomel, but a healing, soothing vegetable laxative. No griping is the “keynote" of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets. They cause the bowels and liver to act normally. They never force them to unnatural action. If you have a “dark brown month"— bad breath —a dull, tired feeling—sick headache torpid llver-7-eon*tipation, you’ll find quick, sure and pleasant results from one or two of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets at bedtime. Thousands takeuhem every night Just to keep right. Try them. 15c and 30c. —Advertisement.
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BY HAROLD MATSON • NEA Service Writer —IAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. Q 20.—" Blood, though it sleep a time, never dies”— That unexplainable something something which unites and holds us to those we love is being exemplified in the case of Dorothy Ellingson. Dorothy killed her mother so she would be free to lead a life of Jazz and hilarity—her father and brother spurned her. “She should hang!”, the brother said as he and his father turned their backs on Dorothy at the coroner’s inquest. But bloody runs thicker than water —and Dorothy has been reunited with • her father and brother —all because the mother spirit returned to the dreams of her son, and pleaded for kindness for the daughter who had killed her. The reconciliation of Dorothy with her father and brother was one of the most dramatic in police annals. Her brother Earl, a 6-foot Viking, picked Dorothy up in his arms, and rocked her as a baby, while father, unable to speak, clung to her arms. “At first I hated her,” Earl said, “but mother came to me like a vision and asked pity for her. Father and I will do everything possible for her defense.” Another man and a girl were under arrest here today in connection with the mad career of Dorothy. . Emil Kreuter, trap drunVmer, and Catherine Mossman, friend of Dorothy and Ward of the juvenile court, wore held after they told police a story of a party they attended with Dorothy twelve hours after she killed her mother. Kreuter is charged with con-
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m (JURISTS are dodging Ko;omo because of an ordinance prohibiting all-night parking, according to Maurice O’Rourke, hotel man. Logansport is suggesting dynamiting ice in Eel River, frozen over, to prevent a flood when a thaw comes. w - “It’s up to the ooming citizens to do their ppj-t in the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment, because the amendment cannot be enforced Itself,” Prof. A Jones, dean of the normal Bchool at Marlon College, told Marlon High School students. Taxes in Jay County for 1925 will be $49,282 less than in 1924, deputy county auditor Fred Bain estimates at Portland. E. J. Barker, recently elected secretary of the State board of agriculture, is moving his family from Thomtown to Indianapolis, i-~-iHARGING he told her he . I I had auto and when she 1 married him she found he didn’t, Mrs. Lova Forest of Marion has sued her husband William for divorce. Miss Mary Branson is president of the newly formed Pan-Hellenio association at Lebanon. Marian Williams of Yorktown has been elected president of the Indiana Sheep Breeder’s Association. Dr. Charles E. Moss of Shirley, 111.,' is the new pastor of the Christ Christian Church at Attica, August Arndt of Oxford has killed his seventh fox since Christmas. I’m EORGE FRANCIS of LaIV XI has his 25 cents I V> 1 back. He mailed it to a restaurant man at Grand Island, Neb., to pay for a meal he ate there twenty-flve years ago. The restaurant man is dead and police there sent back the money. Church Funds Sought Ladies Aid Society of First Moravian Episcopal Church will # hold an all-day meetidg Wednesday at 658 E. Twenty-Fifth St., Mrs. Oliver Hllkrwell, president, said. A drive to - raise funds for ’the new church building is planned. Suicide Attempt Fails Mrs. Elizabeth Ogle, 57, of 320 Beecher St., was said to be recovering today at city hospital from poison taken Monday -night, police said, with suicidal attempt. Police Ogle had|trouble with
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SOUTH SUFFERS HEAVILY FROM FLOQOWATERS Scores of Villages Inundated —Many Forced to Flee From Homes. Bn United Preit ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 20.—The South .was flood swept today, continued rains*> sending rivers and streams on fresh rampages in half a dozen States. More than a score of villages were inundated and other towns and cities isolated by the flood waters which have taken a toll of ten lives. Property damage mounted hourly and the number of refugees increased as river bottom homes were flooded or swept away by rising waters. Farmers throughout the South suffered heavily. Floods were general throughout lower Georgia, South Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and portions of Northern Flo Ida, Train service was demoralized and many highways impassable. Thou'' sanda of travelers were marooned in isolated villages. Many Floridabound tourists we re stranded in Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina. Many villages in Georgia were' submerged by the high waters, residents taking to boats. In southern Alabama, where persons were drowned Monday, the crest of the flood wds believed past. ' High water still prevailed throughout southern Louisiana, where four persons were drowned Monday, but the crest of the flood had passed today, both in this State and Mississippi. REPUBLICAN WAR CALMS DOWN TD SNIPING STAGE Attorneys Do Not Verify Report of Contempt Proceedings.
Warfare between forces of George V. Coffin and Ralph Lemcke, rival Republican city chairman, settled down to a guerrila sniping of precinct committeemen today. Lemcke adherents declared they have had a majority all the time and that their number is increasing steadily. gi “They can not hold out against us,” a Shank-Jewett-Lemcke leader said. “With the city administration lined up with us we have the jobs to offer, and jobs are what count. We already are sure of about 115 committeemen.” Following action of Judge Sidney J. Miller in Superior Court Three, Monday in reinstating the* &stralning order saving the seats of tWentysix committeemen "removed” by Coffin, following the election last November, rumors were thick that attorneys of the Jewett-Shank-Lemcke faction would file contempt Information before Miller against persons Instrumental In hav Ing the order dissolved before Judge Clinton H. Givan, Superior Court Four, Saturday. Verification of this report could not be obtained from attorneys. In reinstating the Injunction Judge Miller criticised attorneys representing Coffin In the hearing before Judge Givan. Fine for Lumbago Musterole drives pain away and brings in Its place, delicious, soothing comfort. Just rub it In gently. It is a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard. It will not blister like the old-fashioned mustard plaster. TO MOTHERS: Musterole Is also made in milder form for babies and small children. Ask for Children’s Musterole. 35 & 65c in jars & tubes; hospital size, $3.
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Indianapolis, Indiana, January 19, 1925. Dear Sir: Please allow me, as a taxpayer and a bus operator, to make an explanation of my position as a bus operator and commercial truck‘'operator. I believe that I have Just reasons to be heard, as my company’s investments in busses and bus terminals at this time probably equals, If not exceeds, all buses operated in the State of Indiana by other parties, which will be on the tax records of the State of Indiana this year. I, through my company, have worked with and through commissions for four years in trucking operations from Massachusetts to Missouri and I have positive proof that myself or my people I serve never were benefited one penny, but that our rates have had to be made much higher to take care of legal counsel which we were forced to constantly employ. It is my opinion that we have had about enough commissions and red tape control to stagnate all the good business in America today. The public certainly realized from the continued Increases in various rates by various utilities that are controlled by commission that costs have mounted under commission control. Our sister state, Ohio, has motor trucks and buses under commission control, and the records will show that they have expended twice as much money as they have collected np to this time and not half of the operators are complying with the law, because It Is Impossible. At this time I don’t believe it is possible to find five men who know enough about this new Industry to go out and regulate It for the common good; naturally, what would happen If placed in the hands of men who know very little about It? If you were a business man, what would you thfnk of putting your business under the power of a commission which know very little about Its operation, and isn’t that just what would happen If you placed the motor buses and trucks under S commission? As I have said before, I have had considerable experience with commissions—selfishness—hatred personal interests —and John Doe’s brother-in-law may want the very privilege which you have; naturally, John Doe being on the commission, or his friend — somebody suffers, or gets special privileges. • We believe that the public wants the cheapest rate and the best service possible to get—open competition among companies and men—we, as bus operators, are not afraid to be thrown into the bull pen with our enormous competitors, such as railroads and lnterurbans —If you’ll leave off the minimum rate which we can charge, we will take care of ourselves. Os course, If the public wants to pay a higher rate, set a minimum rate so that we will have to charge $2.20 between Indianapolis and Richmond instead of $1.20; possibly the lnterurban would get somo business along those lines, but at the expense of the public.
Why commission? If I, as a bus operator, can’t agree with commission you realize I would take it to court and the court would settle it anyhow; so why not write these laws, put them on record, and let our judicial machine settle it in the regular way. course, I’ll admit that won’t cost the public very much extra; neither will it supply an extra bunch of easy Jobs, but nevertheless, this “poor public” that they’re talking about* being oppressed would get the advantage of saving their own money. * Our United States Supreme Court has already In many instances, of which I would be glad to furnish you the records, said how far a State could go 4n Its law making, power and one of those decisions was just recently handed down which plainly shows that a State cannot legislate a private carrier into a common carrier list; that Is a power for our congress to enact The powers of a State, as shown by these decisions, is police power and taxing powers, and Justice Butler in commenting on one of the late decisions very plainly said that police powers could not be extended so far as to fetter or obstruct commerce. Now, with this being a Uhited States court record, what hope have you of accomplishing anything by putting us under the Public Service, or any commission? i We, as bus operators, do not resent police and safety ordinances, sttctly applied;,neither do we resent high taxes to pay for the damage which we do to the roads and for what more can the public ask, under the circumstances? The State of Michigan just got through getting defeated In trying to do the same thing that some of our opponents and people who are not well versed on the matter want to load us up with at this time. Now, lt<is my opinion as a bus operator, that the taxpayers of this state want to be relieved of all the burdens they can with reference to building roads and put the responsibility upon the ones who use them; that, as bus operators, we are willing to abide by. The public alsd is interested in Public Safety and police p&wer protection, and tha{, as bus operators, -we certainly approve of. But we don,’t aprove of this muddy water camouflage that is being saturated into our system under the disguise of Public Service, State Highway Commission or Utlites Commission control, because we know who stands behind that proposition and we also know that little publicity the public knows of today was sown by that same crowd. It is my opinion that the public is going to benefit by a little more free competition among our various businesses, instead of monopolizing it by tying our hands. As I said before, we are perfectly willing to abide by any fair law, but we are not willing to be thrown into a bull pen with a lot of bullii bigger than we are and have our hands and feet both tied, and we are not adverse to legislation, we are only writing as an explanation of what would happen. The whole taxing method from which we, as a State, will benefit, would be tied up in less than thirty days from the time this law went into effect, if It carried in it some of the restrictions and regulations that Jiave already been talked over and Introduced, and the State and the public would suffer for the want of the use of this tax money, you well know, for more than two years, until another legislature would meet.
Bear In mind, onr competitors, if you will note by the license record at the State House, can afford to have quite a large lobby with the hope of getting legislation that will put the motor trucks under the Public Service, so that the rates can be arranged and controlled for the benefit of the interurbans and the railroads at the expense of Mr. Public. And now, Mr. Farmer, and Mr. Business Man (who operates his own truckrf) don’t forget that this same lobby two years from now will he trying to get your Individual business, such as hauling your hogs to market and the movement of your own commodities under Public Service control.Os course, they will tell you that they don’t intend to do that, but they will do anything to get higher rates and will be like the camel —let him get his head within the tent an i he will crowd his master out with his whole body in less than two years. So, Mr. Farmer, bear in mind that this Public Service motor control is the final prelude of railroad monopolization at still higher rates than what you are paying. don’t need higher rates, but the public needs lower rates and these institutions could well Slford to give lower rates if they would put their stock In a cider press and press the water out of It Instead of having bond Issues at considerable more than the original cost of their property, on which they want the public to pay a reasonable rate of interest as an earning. Asa bus operator, I know and can prove to the legislature of the State of Indiana that one and one-half cents a mile 1b amply sufficient for the buses to make money and pay high and reasonable taxes within the State of Indiana, but If It goes under Public Service control or any other commission, in my opinion, It will be double that. % Outside of taxing the bvfs and truck operators, why regulate them by any commission? They have not dealt death at crossings like the interurbans have. Neither have they burned up whole carloads of people like our competitors have. While operating under the Public Service Commission with its wonderful regulations we have had our neighbors killed it? almost every county in the state. Bear in mind that buses have handled several million passengers In the state this year without killing any of them. Also, Mr. Public, bear In mind that the interurbans claimed fhey were not making any money before the bus entered into competition. ■ '. :f; I don’t want to see this control under the State Highway Commission or any other commission. Some of the things that happened under the State Highway Commission last year Indicate that they have about all they can handle and do It right, anyway, and quite a good many don’t think that some of the things they did were half handled. I know we couldn’t handle our garage as the garage for the State Highway Commission was handled and be successful business representatives, and there are a thousand good reasons why the motor bus and motor truck doesn’t want to be operated under any commission If the public expects to benefit thereby.
Our Idea of a Law With Reference to Motor Buses and Commercial Trucking First, the State Highway Commission should be vested with authority to stop any and all concerns from going on the roads in the soft and wet season of the year. This should be the limit of their authority. •We further believe that there should be a load limit of six tone on any Indiana roads and for any load of a larger weight a special permit with extra charges should be gotten from the State Highway Commission after all the conditions with reference to the movement of excess loads axe met, as it is impossible to build roads for less than fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars a mile that will carry ten to twenty-five ton loads and that we are coming to if limitation is not made. From personal experience, we know that commercial trucking can be made very profitable with a six-ton load limit, as it is hardly ever necessary to haul that much, only in extreme cases. Now, with reference to tax, we think that all commercial trucks should pay an extra gas tax of three cents per gallon over what they are already paying, leaving the license where it now is. This will raise quite a sum of money and pay for the extra damage they do, and if not enough money is raised at this rate make It higher. In other words we believe that property owners should quit building roads and let the users pay for them. We believe that the extra three-cent gas tax should he distributed among the counties in proportion to the miles of improved roads they have or their population. We further think that all trucks carrying a ton load should have fire-inch tires and the width of the tires graduated up to twelve-inch tires where they carry the load limit of six tons. No longer ago than yesterday I saw a truck loaded with possibly from four to four and one-half tons, coming into with four-inch tires and tills is where the great danger comes to our road building plans and what makes it so expensive to keep up roads, because the average truckman is using tires about half large enough. Every motor bus opertor in the State of Indiana should carry Public Liability Insurance of at least $25,000.00 for the protection of passengers and $2,000.00 for protection of property they might damage. We at this time ance on every bus we operate and $2,500.00 property damage. This should be for the protection of the public welfares, and they should hold a policy receipt before they would be allowed a license to operate. • Every driver of a motor should be required to have a physician’s certificate shoVlng that his hearing and eye sight Is good. This alone will prevent many bad accidents. If regulations as I have heretofore mentioned were put into effect in law, I believe this kind of a law would give the public what they are clamoring for. You will notice the laws already introduced —talk about putting them under Public Service, but they have none of the traits that a law. drawn along these lines has. The facts are, they are camouflages in disguise, wrlttefi and drawn for special interests which they serve; but a law drawn along the lines 1 have just related will protect the taxpayers’ pocketbooks, but it won’t provide hundreds of jobs for politicians such as now exists in many of our departments. * *“ Hoping this gives you some inside slants of the motor bus and motor trjick industry, we remain at your service.
RED BALL BUS TERMINAL COMPANY and , RED BALL TRANSIT COMPANY i and HINER’S REg BALL LINES, INCORPORATED, By W. B. HINER, President.
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