Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1925 — Page 4

■ * - p ~ 7 .u The Indianapolis Times BOY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BIiUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of ths Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3600.

It is appointed unto men once to die.—Heb. 9:27. The relations of all living end in separation.—Mahabharata. - • GAS TAXES AND ROADS r"T| ONEY collected through the taxation on gasoline should be IVI used for roads. It is a special tax, and a peculiarly equitable one, originally designed to require those who use roads most to pay most for road construction and maintenance. On the other hand, the proposal tha£ aft departments, i including the highway department, should coe under a budget ' and that money for their operation should be appropriated for that purpose is fair and business-like, It is the conflict between these two cQnsiderations that must be ironed out. Experience has shown about what can be expected in the way of returns from a gasoline tax. Would it not be possible, if there are no constitutional obstructions, to put the gasoline tax in the general fund and then to appropriate approximately the amount of money thus obtained for road purposes! Certainy gasoline tax money should be used for no ether purpose than the maintenance and construction of roads. RUSS AND JAP NOW PALS mAPAN and Russia have kissed and made up. Russia gets recognition and Japan gets coal and oil and gas and food —coal for her industries, oil for her navy, gas for her airfleet and food for her population. * Which is all to the good, for Japan. It brings complete domination of the Orient a sfep nearer. It makes her more nearly self-sustaining. The “open door” in the Far East closes another inch and additional agreements between Russ and Jap are forecast—probably having to do with “spheres of influence” in Manchuria, Inner and Outer Mongolia. And so, while we persist in our refusal to recognize Russia, and our foreign policy generally remains at a standstill, the international procession moves on without us. FRANCE’S REAL TROUBLE El VERY once in a while the bottom drops out of the _____ French franc. Once worth 20 cents, it is now worth a nickel. And every time it happens, France sets up a howl. She it on an international plot, on New York, on London, on the Germans. France’s real enemy is herself. She owes a lot of money and she won’t pay. She owes us $4,000,000,000 and she threatens repudiation. Her budget doesn’t balance and she lacks the stamina to tax her citizens. ........ * Britain, across the Channel* likewise up to her ears in debt, is .doing everything France should do but refuses to do. Her debt to us of nearly $5,000,000,000 was refunded two years ago. She is sweating blood, but her money is back at par in United States postoffices. '* The business man who wriggles out of paying what he owes loses his credit. So does a nation. France’s real trouble is with herself. HE SOLD US ON FINLAND I p lAAVO NURMI, crack Finish track athlete, has by his exLEj ploits enhanced the value of the bonds of Finland on the market by at least ten millions of dollars. That figure comes from Chas. E. Mitchell, financier, president of the National City Company. Therefore it is worth considering. -Folks, reading daily of Nurmi’s exploits, inquired about Finland. Learning what kind of people Nurmi’s compatriots were, investors thought well of Finnish bonds, bought them,, and their value went up. That is bringing home the bacon, with the eggs alongside. In the line of selling nations abroad, Nurmistyle is something new. Every oody is familiar with the line handled by that ofi good will salesman, the Prince of Wales. He is alW'ays on the road, his sample case of personality and sportsmanship on display. He sells Great Britain abroad. A lot of jobless Russian nobles have been peddling over Here, without much luck. Blasco Ibanez has taken a whirl at Helling Spam to us. Mussolini has boomed the market value of gr talian securities, and they have Clemenceau and others have tried to sell France. And many another, with his wares. But no one has done a better job of it, in so short a time, than has this remarkable Finn, who haUs from an equally remarkable country. He has the goods.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

.. You can pet an answer to any oueafact or information by wntinir t? The Indianapolia Times Washington IgfiFv&ss y*aHj taSsyy^SSVfe requests cannot ” 1 Ail letters are confide*When was the pasteurization of milk first started? During the last half of the nineteenth century In France by Pasteur. What is the meaning of the word “Argo." . In Greek mythology it was the ship of the Argonauts. In astronomy It is the large southern constellation, called, "The Ship." What is a good formula for furniture polish? v */ Two parts turpentine and one part linseed oIL AU excess of oil should be removed with a clean soft cloth. How long does It take tulips, grown In water, to root? From eight to ten weeks, and then they grow very slowly. How and when was the District of Columbia formed? It was originally formed when Maryland in 1788 ceded Washington County, and Virginia, 1789,, Alexan- . t. 'r- .<1

dria County, forming a district ten miles square. The territory selected included the site of Powhatan’s village, Anacostan or Nacochank, also the existent villlage of Georgetown, both on the Maryland side, and on the Virginia side Alexandria, foemerly Belhaven. In 1846. no Federal buildings having been erected on the Virginia side, Alexandria County was retroceded to that State upon the petition of the inhabitants. An Airplane Flying With the Sun Through a regrettable error in the Question column,, It was stated recently In answer to the question, “How fast would an airplane have to fly in order to keep up with the sun?" that Its speed would be approximately 830 miles per hour. This figure should have been approximately 1,040 miles per hour at the equator. decreasing constantly at Doints toward the poles. What is the best method of treating ropes to make them resist decay. when exposed to the weather? Perhaps the time honored method of tarring them. For this purpose pine tar pitch is used. It is swabbed

STREET CAR COMPANIES OPERATING MOTOR BUS LINES

Motor Routes Take Place of Track Extensions In Cities, Times Washington Bureau. ISKi New T,ork Ave. CZTjI ASHINOTON, Jan, 26.—One IWI hundred and seventy street L TT ,) car companies are now operating piotor busses and “jitneys” to supplement their electric* line services, the American Electric Railway Association reports. The dreaded “menace” of bug competition, so feared by street car magnates a year or two ago has vanished. It was "gobbled up” by the street car systems and was found to aid rather than hinder digestion. Addition of bus lines to existing electric lines enabled the car companies to add more than 2,700 miles of extensions during 1924, whereas construction of new tracks added only 300 miles. Altogether, over 2,600 motor busses are now being operated by street car companies, and of the $342,000,000 which the car lines will spend during 1926 for new equipment and maintenance, an Important part will go to the purchase of still more busses. Income Increases Though passing through a period of industrial depression during a great part of 1924, the total gross Income of all street car lines in 1924 was greater than during any previous year. The figure is approximately $1,175,000,000. The total number of passengers carried was' 16,700,000,000, a decrease of about 2 per cent from the 1923 figures when the total touched sixteen billions. Average fares increased about 2% per cent, or from 7:31 cents to 7.49 cents, and this increase more than offset the decrease in number of passengers. At the present time the trend in passenger carrying is upward and 1925 is expected to break all records. Up to the present the 1923 figures are the highest, and the 1924 figures are a good second. In 1922 approximately fifteen billion people rode in the cars. That street car lines have definitely turned the comer from their era of receiverships during and following the war, Is indicated by the fact that only thirteen lines representing about 1.000 miles of tracks, went • into receivership during 1924, whereas twenty-two companies owning 1,600 miles, were discharged from tontrol by receivers. Bus Vs. Street Car A feV years ago there was a heated debate between thoee who expected street cars to disappar from downtown streets and those who maintained that busses could at best only supplement the cars. If the present trend is a true criterion, the experts who insisted street cars could not be completely relegated to the suburban lines have the best of the argument. Despite the ever-growing number of privately owned autos, which increase amounted to over 2,000,000 during th© past year, the number of street car ridexfc does not seem to be seriously affected: Expert* are of the opinion that Americans are becoming more and more addicted to the riding habit and that possibly the auto helps to make street car business. People are less and less inclined to remain 'at home and when the auto is not available at the moment, the street cars get the benefit of the “go somewhere” habit, i ■ Tom Sims Says There is no hope in seeking happiness unless you are happy in the seeking. Good tjmes are bad times unless youjio more than have a. good time. The only thing worse than being in a rut is being on no road at all. Popularity leaves very little time for steady thinking. We all do things without thinking, and one is being bored with life. Life's amusing. People save so many things to see even though there isn’t any return trip. The importance of things close to you are magnified, like a cinder In your eye. Today is what we were all looking forward to yesterday. It makes a man mad to be dunned for a bill, because he knows he may have to pay the thing. Patience is considered a virtue when it often is merely a case of not knowing what to do. You can only make interesting friends by being interested. Tell others everything you know and they soon will find you don't know anything they don’t. (Copyright. 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

on warm and allowed to soak into the rope. Although the pitch does not absolutely waterproof the rope. Its properties prevent decay. The treatment should be repeated from time to time. What is the size of Ireland and how does it compare with England and Wales? \ Ireland is rather more than half the size of England and Wales. Its area, including the adjacent islands, is 82,606 square miles. Does a boy under twenty-one years of age have to have the consent of his parents to enlist In the Navy? Yea. If he enlists without their consent, they can have him discharged by applying within sixty days after the date of his enlistment, otherwise, he can t*B held for a fouryear enlistment period. What is the remainder of the quotation, "A thing of beauty is a Joy forever” and by whom was it written? , The quotation is: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it Will never pass into nothingness." It is from "Endymion” by John

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

.By GAYLORD NELSON.

Good Will RANK N. WAMPLER, of the public service commission, In response to a query, expressed the opinion that public utilities may properly include reasonable charges for advertising in operating expenses. The opinion itself Is reasonable. Advertising is primarily ths cultivation of good will. owas their motto. .Consequently they public relations predated the value of good will then NELSON probably much governmental regulation—they now find irksome—would not have been proposed or needed. The value of good will In’business has been startling demonstrated by Henry Ford. From the* very inception of the flivver enterprise the kindly regard of the public was .assiduously sought. No method to attain it was overlooked. Today the Ford Motor Company practically holds a monopoly In its field—yet it isn’t considered a menace. Twenty years of building good will renders It immune from attack. If public utilities can cultivate public good will now by Judicious advertising, it will benefit them and the people they serve. The public would rather have thut included In operating expenses than to have high-priced lobbyists hired out of net profits.

Levies ENATOR BATT of Terre I iD I Haute naa introduced a bill L__J to limit tax levies for local purposes in any taxing unit in the State. Under its terms the rpaxlmum school levy would be $1; township or city, $1; county, 40 cents; gravel roads, 10 cents. It sounds encouraging, for the burden of taxation has become oppressive. The taxpayer anxiously scans th* horizon for relief galloping in bis direction. However, it Is doubtful if. a State Imposed limit on local levies would rescue him—while the measure would increase centralization and drive another nail in the coffin of local ; self-govern men t. People of local taxing unit's know theft local needs better thfux fc mats law. If local levies become unbearable the people have relief iq their own hands. Indiana onoe succesfully limited local taxation. A Supreme Court interpretation of the constitution of 1860. required uniform school throughout [the State. Asa result public schools In Indiana practically ceased to exist for many years. A maximum for,all taxation would b© desirable, perhaps. Until the total—local, Ste.te and national—ls limb'd. fixing a maximum for local taxes

POISON OF PROGRESS

By HERBERT QUICK F r-, ~1 RANGE Is taking It —the poison of progress. She is going the way of -old "New England. France has always resisted the mania for manufacturing at the expense of agriculture. The war has infected her.. In fact, she waged the war more largely for the purpose of getting at this poison than for self-defense. She wanted Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar so she could take the place In the Industries from which Germany was to be pushed. Now her creditors are assu id by, economists that France will come through to solvency by the development of her manufactures and mines. She is converting herself from a self-supporting, largely agricultural nation to a status like that of Great Britain and Germany. There now appears in France that most ominous of all signs, * the abandoned farm. Think of abandoned farms In France! But there was a time when one would have exclaimed at them in New England, where me now finds the old stone walls and the foundations of houses of our forefathers buried In the forest which has crept back to mask the failure of our civilization to resist disease. For the mania for manufacturing is a disease. To be sure, as the wants of mankind grow more of the energy of the race must be expended In mining and manufacturing. The agricultural needs of man Increase with social advancement by addition only. His manufactured necessaries grow by multiplication up to a certain point. So far the Increased emphasis on making things is justified. For all that, however, the infection which has mastered Britain decades ago, which has got America in Its grip, and- which has now inflamed the veins of France, is a disease. Dependence upon manufacturing is justified in any people when the rest of the world is largely agricultural, and then only. A hundred years ago Britain had certain markets in the great peoples which did not manufacture for themselves. Now, however, all the nations are striving to manufacture all they need. All of them see a future wtien they will not only make all they need but send surpluses tb the rest of the Tfrorld. India, China—all Asia—is now the last of the great markets. But it will probably not be twenty-five years before the Asiatics will be competitors of the great manufacturing nations. When (jfils time comets, the great

wouldn't take the crick out of the taxpayer’s back. He would just be fattened for a good killing by State and Federal levies. Waterways * R r “"“" r ICHARD LIEBER, speaking before the Indiana Water t— Works Association recently, suggested the possibility of developing waterways—canals and rivers—in the State as carriers of heavy freight. Water transportation has been a favorite theme in the States of the Ohio Valley for a century. Some way the dream fails to materialize. Theoretically development of inland waterways is feasible —and would, save vast sums In freight charges. Water transportation is cheap. Heavy traffic', doesn’t wear out water as its does highways oxsteel rails. However, despite the attractiveness of the theory, ther is a catch in it some place. The Federal Government has dumped million* into river improvement. The only visible results have been political, not economic. Indiana, between 1830-1840, embarked on :uj elaborate scheme to cover the State with a network of canals. The scheme covered the knee-deep in debt —but that was all. Today all tha't remains of. that great canal project is the open ditch from W. Washington fit. to Broad Ripple, the anemic ghost of the Central Canal. Inland waterways, though robust and vigorous, in the plan stage, always develop a fatal weakness whep constructed. They carry more enthusiasm than freight. Enthusiasm won’t pay interest charges on the bonds.

Conversion M r “~] EN are easier to convert than women. So asserted an 4——l evangelist—conducting services at the Meridian Heights Pres byterian Church —the other night in his sermon. The stater xent is interesting—if true. Perhaps the difference is due to the relative wickedness of the sexes. Men plunge Into the sea of Iniquity over their heads. They are easily persuaded, to accept a life preserver. Women, generally, don’t Immerse themselves all over In wickedness. They only dabble In it close to shore and get their feet wet. Perhaps they don’t feel so acutely their imminent peril. Husbands, however, will say that women are less easily converted because of their stubbornness. When a. woman refuse* to believe he wa* "detained downtown by business” what chance has arr exhorter to convinc* her of her soul’s danger? ask? r -'#te experienced husband. Generalizations on the difference in mental and spiritual qualities of. men and women are unsatisfactory. Women are this or that positively declares some learned gentleman Then events, and women, Immediately prove him wrong. - The difference between the sexes Is primarily physical. Intellectually and spiritually meri and women are cut off the same piece—with imperfections quite evenly distributed. They are both quite human.

game of making things for the world will be over. And the peoples will have forgotten how to farm. A people once weaned from the soil never goes back to It. France has a dearth of farm labor. Her people are flocking to the cities. In France, Britain, the United States, and the other factory-crazed nations, the time is coming when they must be satisfied with their particular shares of the factory capacity of a world filled with factories. The markets will fall. There will be that permanent unemployment which England has and which cannot be remedied save by puttipg back on the farms a people permanently unflted for farming. It will be some such crisis as that which always has occurred In every declining civilization. No civilization ha* yet found a remedy for such a disease. We have made immense progress in science and the artsf but It is impossible to see in our science any such competence in social organization as justifies the hope that we shall succeed others have failed. Our competence Is in the very things which make up our disease the atrophy of agriculture, the hypertrophy of manufacturing, the overbalancing of rural by urban life.

Yourself By HAL COCHRAN HAT do you think 7 of yourself, \v/| old top? What are you realIZU ly worth? You’re a success or a near-to flop In the part that you play on earth. Many the men who depend on pull —many who travel alone. Say, is YOUR cheerful cup real full ’cause .your working is all your own? God gave you two feet to stand upon, and you never were meant to lean oil some other man. Say, why not don a thinking cap that’s keen? The road to success is an open path. It’s a place where a man can speed. It’s up to each man what it is he hath. Things are his if he takes the lead. , How easy it is to, find the kind who wish for, but never work. You’re not up in front when you trail behind, and you trail when you’d rather shirk. Consider yourself, as you really are. Are you making the best of your job? The biggest success, I guess, by far, is the man who's ahead of the mob. - "*-'3

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What Do Newspapers Owe the Public?

By ROY W. HOWARD Chairman ot the Board, ScrippsHoward Newspapers. (Reprinted From Collier’s) L"ITJ HAT has the public a right X*/ to expect from its newsV papers? As I see it, first of all a newspaper must be a good citizen and a decent neighbor. It is our theory that newspapers* more nearly than most any other form of public service organization take on human attributes and characteristics. Sincerity is the foundation stone of Character and standing in the community. If its sincerity is above question the shade of its political and economidc opinions are of secondary importance. Our editors are urged to visualize their papers as upstanding redblooded citizens of their communities, possessing a sense of humor, a sense of proportion, a sense of decency, and a love of fair play. They are urged always to decry cynicism, to encourage tolerance and never to forget that a smile has an asset value even in the midst of a fight. That a newspaper mutt have courage and convictions is xinderstood and accepted, but that newspajxers must have the willlngnes: and the resources to make tremendous financial sacrifices for editorial

Income Tax The revenue act of 1924 provides for certain.-specified deductions from gross income in determining net income, among which are business expenses, Interest on Indebtedness, taxes, losses, bad debts, depreciation, depletion and contributions and gifts. Each will be treated separately. Deductions for business expenses form the largest claim In the returns of many taxpayers. All the ordinary and necessary expenses of a trade or business or profession paid or incurred during the year for which the return is made are allowablex deductions. A taxpayer in trade or business may claim as deductions fre in gross Income a reasonable allowance for salaries paid employes, * amounts spent for advertising, premium for insurance against fire or other business losses, rent paid for store or warehouse, the cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, stationery, etc., used in his place of business, drayage and freight bills and the cost of operation and repair of delivery wagons and trucks. A professional man may claim as deductions the cost of supplies used in. his practice, expanses paid in the operation and repair of an automobile used for professional calls, dues to professional societies, subscriptions to profesjsional journals, office rent, the cost of fuel, light, heat and water used in such office and the hire of assistants. The fanner who operates a farm for profit may deduct all amounts paid In the production and harvesting •of his crops, including labor, cost of seed and fertilizer used, cost of minor repairs to farm buildings (but not the dwelling) and cost of small tools used up in the course of a year or two. Deductions for business expenses must have certain qualities to be allowed. They must relate to a business, trade, profession or vacation in which a taxpayer has invested time and money for the purpose of a livelihood or profit. A taxpayer may* conduct more than one business and claim a deduction for the business expenses of each, provided he devotes sufficient time and attention to each. — : Ijest We Forget It has somehow slipped our minds that it was the mothers of this land who furbished the millions of soldiers for the American battle line and that It was their contribution, their sacrifice, and their sorrow that made the Stars and Stripes triumphant.—Representative - ***

principles is not so generally understood. The newspaper which can be bludgeoned into accepting editorial ideas merely because they happen to be in accord with the ideas of advertisers Is already a victim of journalistic anaemia and doomed to a brief existence. Must Cover News Next to its obligtion of good citizenship a* newspaper owes its clientele a complete and intelligently selected coverage of local, national and world news. The newspaper owes its readers 5 clearly defined editorial policy appearing in and confined to its editorial columns. “ Unfortunately, the recent tendency of all American journalism has been to overlook this obligation. With the decline of tlxe personal and partisan journalism of a generation ago the star reporter has not only fallen heir to the place in the spotlight formerly occupied by editors of the Henry Watterson type, but he has usurped the prerogatives. The result has been an interlarding of the news columns witn the opinions and viewpoints of the star reporter. Even with this digression the Independent newspaper of today, taken as a whole, Is a truer mirror of events than any of its predecessors. Metropolitan journalism, like bigcity life in general, is more impersonal and, outwardly at least, more cold and thoughtless than life In smaller cities. I believe, however, that even metropolitan journalism owes to itself a kindlier and more generous attitude toward those involved In stories affecting young people and children. No news story, however interesting, is worth to a newspaper what It costs In sacrificed good-will and reader respect, if publicity of the story puts a criminal brand on some young person in consequence of a first misstep which might have been retraced and atoned

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for if publication had not made the stain indelible. Sex Stories Problem How sex matters should be treated by newspapers raises a question that never has and probably never will be finally answered. No subject has so great or so general an appeal. Due to greater liberalism in schools, the teaching of sex hygiene and riie more liberal trend of all current literature, matter which would have been taboo ’in newspapers of a generation ago excites no criticism whatever today. No newspeper seeking to reflect everyday life, as any successful 1 newspaper must, can ignore sex or human interest storiee involving the subject. At the same time, the best and most representative newspapers in the country lag behind rather than run ahead of the public interest in sex stories. I think the public has a right to demand of newspaper editors that no story shall be printed apt to raise any question on the part of a clean-minded boy or girl of twelve or fourte m which cannot readily be answered or explained by any parent who has acquainted his children with the normal realities of life.

One hears much talk these days of the waning influence of newspapers In public affairs. The indictment must be brought against individual newspapers and not against journalism as a whole. Where editors and publishers have kept, abreast of their communities and have readjusted their viewpoint* j with the changing thoughts and, aspirations of their readers, the in-, fluence of the individual newspaper In any cause in which publio welfare 1s Involved is a* great a* * at any time In the history of journalism.