Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1925 — Page 4

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He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.—Ps. 101:7. You should not live one way in private, another in public. -Syrus. y „WET AND DRY JUSTICE mUDICIAL positions are just as much the football of politics in Indiana as any other public job. Yet it is necessary—theoretically—for justice to be blind. Since -election day there has been a squabble over the question of whether Benjamin M. Willoughby, Republican, or George K. Denton, Democrat, was elected judge of the Indiana Supreme Court. The election board decided Willoughby was elected by one vote. Now the contest has been thrown into the Legislature, which is overwhelmingly Republican. But there is something else involved besides Democratic and Republican politics. There is wet and dry politics. Willoughby at one time handed down an opinion that was displeasing to the dry element. Therefore, the dry element is against him. The professional drys are the ones who are insisting that the Legislature decide the question. We know nothing of the merits of the wet and dry controversy so far as Willoughly is concerned. It was a legal-question and one for a lawyer and not a layman to determine. But we do know that dry pressureJs being brought to bear to force the election of Denton and that pressure from the other side is being brought to bear to force the retention of Willoughby. When the question is decided, legislators, regardless of the justice of the matter, will be branded either wet or dry, according to the way they voted. The actual vote 6f the electorate will have very little to do with it. ' Such is our procedure for selecting the men who must interpret our laws. \ AROUND THE WIDE WORLD ROUND the world and back again, the vacationists are go- _____ ing. That is, folks who can afford to take large vacations. Steamship companies, featuring around-the-world cruises, report heavier traffic each year by Americans who want to see how the other hemisphere lives. The habit of following the equator away from home and back again is growing. Now this is an interesting, albeit natural, post-war development in American taste for travel. The two million Americans who went abroad during the war came back and reported that folks who lived in that vague place known as Over There were good scouts and interesting and worth visiting. The families of some of these soldiers are now going Over There to see if what they heard is so_ It is the beginning of a new interest in world affairs. .* , Senators and publicists who claim that Americans are not interested in the affairs, of foreign nations could find much, to think about in this new wanderlust on the paj;t of Americans. In fact, they might catch it, and be pushed out of the rut, themselves. TIME, THE TREASURE TROVE mN the Kansas City Star Magazine, Meade Minnigerode, author, says: “I am extremely jealous of my time. My most valuable possession is the time at my disposal; I know that I shall not have time enough to write all the things that I should like to write, since there will be nt> end to them, and my allotted time is inevitably limited. “It may, indeed, turn out to be much more limited, even more than I normally would imagine. I am, therefore, selfish, close-fisted, miserly with my time. ... I have an instinctive reluctance to dispose in advance of my time.” Time, in other words, is a treasure trove, for those who have something in particular to do during their lives, be it writing stories, baking pies, or laying bricks. To others, time is just so many days, and weeks, and years.

Income Tax Salaries paid employes cosntltute one of the largest Items of business expenses In the returns of many taxpayers. To be allowed such a deduction must conform closely to the wording of the statute by which it is defined as “a reasonable allowance for salaries or .other compensation for personal services actually rendered.” The test of deductibility is whether the amounts paid are reasonable, and whether they are, in fact, purely for personal services. Amounts paid as compensation, but not in fact as the purchase price of services, are not deductible. For exemple, an ostensible salary paid by a corporation may be the distribution of a dividend on stock. This may be the procedure in the case of a corporation having few stockholders all of whom draw salaries. If in such a case the salaries are in excess of those ordinarily paid for similar services, and the excessive payments correspond or. bear close relationship to the stockholdings of the officers or employes, it would seem ljkely that s sch salaries are not wholly for services rendered, but that the excessive ■ayments are a distribution of earnupon stock and subject to treatment as a dividend. An ostensible salary may be in part payment of property, for exemple where & partnership sells out to a corporation, the former partners teTeeing to remain in the service of the corporation. In such -case it may be found that the salaries paid the former partners are not merely for rvices, but In part constitute payment for the transfer of their busin*M. The amount 'of the excess Quid be treated by the payor as a pita! expenditure, which is not demetible, and by the recipient as part of the purchase price. A person who claims a deduction aid report the amount as income.

a parent to a minor child who has not been emancipated—allowed control of his earnings—whether in consideration of services or otherwise are not allowable deductions. Tom Sims Says Bad Michigan news today. Jackson courthouse burned, probably catching from a heated argument. Cincinnati (Ohio) roadhouse In trouble. Let girls under 18 dance incorrectly. Little girls mustn’t think they are grown. Woman bootlegger sentenced in Adrian, Mich. Had hauled 5,b00 cases of beer in one year. Working too hard will ruin her health. . I New Paris bob shows the left ear, perhaps so they can hear dinner Invitations more easily. What’s in a name? Nothing. In New Ytr.-c City, Colonel Silliman is 93 and a.i usher at his church. There is a very strong resemblance between a radio hook-up diagram and a puzzle. Our big guns, it seems, will not go very far because they have not been raised properly, due, perhaps, to other big gunr who were not. Before you hear about what has happened in Russia something else has happened there. They claim Philadelphia bootleggers made only $100,000,000 last year, but then,'it was a presidential year. \ Headline says consumption of cigarets is increasing. And, we guess, cigarets are increasing consumption. The quaint old custom of having a miners’ strike every year may be resumed this spring. St. Louis man stole $25,000 from the postoffice. They should sentence him to write with a postoffice pen. (Copyright, $925, NEA Bervice, Inc.)

ISLE OF PINES ROW IMPERILS LATIN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

Quarrel Is Between President and Members of # Congress. ISZt New York Apmue. Time* Wathinaton Bureau, Jan. 28. \JU Friendly relations between '...1 the United States and Latin America are threatened with a serious set-back as a result Os the row between the United States and Cuba over the Isle of Pines, a grapefruitbearing island eighty miles south of the Cuban mainland. The Cuban claim to the island has been upheld by the last fly© American Presidents in succession—-Roose-velt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge—and by every American Secretary of State since John Hay. But for twenty-two years a small bloc of United States Senators lias stood in the way, refusing to allow the two-thirds vote necessary to rat ify the treaty recognizing that claim. The quarrel, therefore, Is really between the White House and Capitol Hill, In Washington, and not between Cuba and America. For weeks. President Coolidge, the last to take up the fight, has been trying to get favorable action by the Senate. But congressional opposition, now beaded by Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the upper house, continues to block "the road. And, barring some sudden turn of events, the battle is likely to go on. Part of Cuba The Isle of Pines, about the size of Rhode Island and with a poplatlon of' 4,500 of whom approximately 700 are Americans, has always been considered as much a part of Cuba as Long Island or Santa Catalina is a part of the United States. It was so administered in the days of Spanish rule. In 1902, after the Spanish-Amerl-can War. the Cubans adopted, as part of their constitution, what is known as the Platt amendment. Part of that amendment provides “that the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty.” In 1903, John Hay and the Cuban minister to Washington, Gonzalo de Quesada, signed a treaty whereby the island went to Cuba. In 1904 we acquired from Cuba the right to establish a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, in southeastern Cuba, as part of a second Hay-Qucsada treaty, which again yielded all claim to the Isle of Pines “In consideration of the grants of coaling stations heretofore made." Row in Earnest

The row between the White House and the Senate now began in earnest. Despite President Roosevelt’s efforts to secure ratification, the Senate ratified only the Guantanamo half of the treaty, passing up the part referring to the home of the grapefruit. Since then, each President has tackled the problem only to go dawn in defeat. Federal courts have upheld Cuba’s claim to the island. Even the Supreme Court of the United States—-infallible according to most of the Senators now blocking recognition of the treaty—has confirmed that decision, and still It hangs fire. A blunder somewhere In the Administration of President McKinley seems to provide the only ground the treaty opposition has to stand on. While John Hay, then ambassador to London, was telling Europe the Spanish War was “from/the highest motives of humanity and in no sense a war conquest,” a statement was issued by the War Department saying the island was American territory. Root Disavowed Act Elihu Root was then Secretary of War. Soon after that he became Secretary of State and did everything in Ills power to have the treaty ratified, saying the Island was Cuba’s by international rights and justice. He even disavowed the act of the War Department saying the assistant secretary .had Issued the . document on his own authority. Meantime, however, American speculators had taken advantage of the situation thus created and swarmed to the island. Most of the land was bought up by them and resold at a profit, in many cases doubtlessly to confiding Americans, some of whom still hold title. Is Uncle Sai[n responsible for this blunder? Cuba now administers the Isle, of Pines, and there is some friction . between Americans and Cubans there, but would the Americans be ruined, as they claim, if the Hay-Quesada treaty were ratified? Whether or not such would be the case is beside the mark, so far as Cuba and the rest of Latin-America are concerned. ' To hold the island now would be taken by them as proof of an already too-widespre&d suspicion in that part of the world that the powerful Uncle Sam fosters a Monroe Doctrine to keep other powers away from the Americas so that he, himself, may have more land to gobble. Shoppin’ By HAL COCHRAN It’s fun to go shoppin' on Saturday night for things that will Jest over Sunday. The eats that you buy pack a basket up tight, 'cause the stores won’t be open till Monday. So mother starts out with her basket in tow and a list of the eats she must get. Poor dad’s at her heels —he must furnish the dough. No wonder he’s startin’ to fret. They’re down to the corner and, not far behind, a youngster is trailing their track. He wants to jgo 'long; his excuse, you will find. Is an offer to carry things back. The buying is started and up goes the sum that’s put Into ’taters and beans. While mother is purchasing, father stands dumb, prepared to dig down in his jeans. Poor dad may complain when the shopping is done, too much of his coin has been spent. But then, SuntZ Xn on 6 het

THE INDIAN’AROLIS TIMES

I RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

Opinion Ar— -IRTHUR L. GILLIOM, attorney general, in an official opinion delivered Monday, held that the Legislature has power to- place in one fund all tho State’s revenues received from taxes or fees. Probably now proponents of the single fund plan and defenders of the present system—with its multi-

plicity of funds and numerous disbursing agencies—will battle in earnest. Some claim the gasoline tax, and sundry inspection and license fees, now collected and spent for specific purposes by the departments, can’t be handled satisfactorily under the proposed one fund and budget scheme. Transcendentleg-

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islative talent wouldn’t be required to adjust the difficulties arising from the diversion of these special receipts to a single State purse. The advantages would outweigh the disadvantages. Recently the State had .:o borrow $2,500,000 to resuscitate the general fund. Yet at that time the State had idle money in other funds. That was about as business-like as a man hocking his watch for street car sere because his money is In his left-hand pocket instead of his right. One fund would obviate such loans and save needless expense. In other ways State finances would be simplified and better controlled If all the cash was carried in one pocket—and a safety pin put on that pocket.

Telling It to Congress

Alibi .Artists Many crimes have been committed in the name of "humanity,” and high altruistic motives have often been urged as an excuse for tyrannous and oppressive acts. Many of the most tyrannical acts recorded in history have had a .multitude of apologists, and plausible reasons have been submitted in justification. -—Senator King (Democrat), Utah. • * • A Big Wind The November-December industrial stock boom was without industrial foundation. It was financial wind, Inflation and speculative gam-bling.-—Senator Shi'pstead (FarmerLabor), Minnesota. * e • The Best Governtnent The more I read the history my country the more I am convinced that popular government, among a people of our blood and race, is the nearest approach to ideal government, in its safety, its perpetuity, its beneficenses which the mind of man has yet conceived.— Representative Garrett (Democrat), Tennessee. /• • • A Calamity The depression in agriculture which began in 1920 was not merely a stretch of lean years, such as farmers have had to go through before. It was a financial catastrophe, the full effect of which cannot yet be measured. —Report of the Secretary of Agriculture. Ask The Times You esn ret an answer to any question of fact or information by wntinc to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washinrton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a pergonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor Could the insurance paid on account of the Federal bonus be made out to an aunt or did it have to be a nearer relative? These insurance policies may be made out to .any person, not necessarily a relative. How deep can a submarine go? This depends entirely upon the size and the make of the submarine. The United State Navy has had submarines submerged to a depth of 296 feet. Who was the map who played the part of the father of the drunken son in "The Only Woman,” featuring Norma Talmadge, and what is his address? Edward Davis. Address, the United Studios, Hollywood, Cal. Where is the shrine of St. Ann* de Beaupre? * Montmorency County, Quebec, Canada. The rector is Rev. C. Lederc, C. S. S. R. What was the official popular vote for Coolldge, Davis and LaFollette in the recent election? Coolldge, 16,718.789; Davis 8,378,962; La Follette, 4,822,319. Why is the head of the halibut never marketed with the fish? Because of its bulkiness and the space required sh packing for shipment. The head is very large. What Is the value of flying eagle nickel cents dated 1857 and 1858? From 1 cent to 6 cents each. : How should club sandwiches be eaten? They should be eaten as daintily as possible with a fork. It is not prpper to eat them with the fingers, as other sandwiches are eaten. Do officers of the Army and Navy have a vote in presidential and tSate elections? Yes, but comparatively few of

Discipline -=r-7EPRESENTAT I V E J. FRANK SMITH, of Lafay- —— ette, yesterday Introduced a bill which would require school teachers before punishing pupils to notify parents of the time and placed— geographically not anatomically—so they mar attend if they desire. That should win him the school boy vote. The average obstreperous youngster is no friend of corporal punishment. • Theoretically the bill doesn't limit the teacher’s right to administer a licking, but in practice it would. It’s- easy for parents to concede that their errant offspring needs punishment, but it’s hard to sit by coldly while an alien hand performs the operation. At the first whimper she teacher probably would have to lick the parents. Spare the rpd and spoil the child is a maxim that has been badly overworked. It is doubtful If a youngster who is knocked lop-sided for every innocent peccadillo is improved in character. However, discipline must be learned by children in school. To inculcate It teachers should be allowed to choose unhesitatingly methods suitable to Individual cases as they arise, not later. Usually teachers don’t whip for exercise, but for cause. If they have enough judgment to teach they have enough judgmfent to handle the disciplinary reins:

Plots B 4 '—-] OOTH TARKINGTON, Indianapolis author, was awarded a i—— verdict in California the other day In a $500,000 damage suit brought against him by a woman who charged he had stolen her plot for one or his movie scenarios. He didn’t appear in court. One of the penalties of successful authorship or playwriting is the frequent charge of plagiarism. Perhaps this is natural. Only abcut a dozen fundamental plots exist, and they have been used from the beginning of time. The eternal triankle, love, hate, revenge, the conflict between good and evil, triumph over obstacles, these have been the themes of all writers. One man takes brick and stone and can build nothing lovelier than a pigsty or a hovel. From the same materials another builds a Taj Mahal or a Marion County courthouse. The secret is not in the brick or stone, but in the builder. So it is with literary artisans. It’s not their plots, but what they do with them. Shakespeare’s immortal tragedies were embroidered on the gaunt framework of musty chroniclw.s*kM*e framework is forgotten, but the embroidery has not lost its brilliance with the centuries. That’s genius. If one has genius, it is not necessary jko file a damage suit to enforce recognition. The world will acclaim it and pay gladly without the prod of a court judgment. Farmers mHERE ore 7,600 women farmers in Indiana, according to a recent investigation by the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. Women cultivate 3.1 per cent of all the farms in the State. It is not surprising to learn that women successfully manage and operate farms on their own account. Why not? They boss the cfcher 96.9 per cent of Hoosier farms through their men folks. Women can run farms without masculine assistance, but men can t succeed agriculturally without the help of women. Some try it, but they merely batch precariously, while cultivating ingrowing dispositions and dyspepsia. Agriculture more than any other vocation requires an intelligent partnership of husband and wife. A city woman may know nothing of her husband’s business except that he goes to an office in the morning, presumably to chase an agile dollar, and returns at night. The home and business are separate. A farm home, however, is not a thing apart and aloof from business. It is the office, heart, and center from which radiates all the ~c-tivities tivities of a productive Industry. No wonder women are successful agriculturists—either singly or in double harness. They have learned farming/ not from hearsay or a correspondence school but by living with it twenty-four hours a day.

In New York By JAtKES W. DEAN NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—A new office building going up on Times Square will be open day and night The owners ask prospective tenants to consider the possibilities of doing business twenty-four hours a day, pointing out that many out-of-town people combine business and pleasure and that they could go direct from the theater to offices in the new building for all-night conferences. The most elegant wraps in town are worn to the opera. Last night I saw women and girls leaving the Met in white ermine, silver cloth, gold cloth, red plush, Spanish shawls and Russian sables. The cost of any one of those cloaks would keep any family living one block In the rear of the opera house for two years. When Louis Judd graduated frr n Amherstf in 1884 he hid not decided on a career. Seeing that the Astor Library wanted an assistant he . applied. When it was one of the units amalgamated fourteen years ago to form the New York public library, Judd moved uptown and has been there since. Now at 66 he is known by hundreds of readers, many of

Today’s Little Worry—Reparations

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Reason for Fight on Stone and Warren

Times Washinaton Bureau, 1321 New York Arenue. era ASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—1f •Yly President Coolidge had anticiLIU pated the opposition to the Supreme Court and Charles B. Warren to succeed Stone, ht doubtless would have waited a few weeks so have avoided it. The Lenate will be called In extra session March 4 for confirmation .of executive appointments, according to custom, and it will be anew Senate, one with a workable Republican majority. This Senate can be expected to confirm both men without a great deal of delay—as part of the wholesale Job of confirming Cabinet and other appointments. Os course, if there is anything in the report that the President intends to keep Frank B. Kellogg in the of-' flee of Secretary of State only till the beginning of the new Administration

Col. Alibi in Washington

By n. and. Cochran OLONEL ALIBI had been reading the news of the embarrassment of dry Congressmen whose names had been dragged into the papers in articles telling of the gay parties in Washington and on congressional junkets. Believing that every story has two sides, Colonel Alibi tried to put himself in the place of a patriotic Cbngressihan who votes dry and drinks wet. “This is a representative Government, you know,” said the colonel, 4 “and afi honest Congressman must represent the will of his constituents, even if it Is at variance with his own. Being human most of the time a Congressman strong in spirit may be weak in the flesh. That is to say he may have! a dry conscience and a wet thirst. In his representa:ive capacity he may smite the demon Rum hip and thigh, while in his capacity as a private Ameiican citizen he may have a sneaking fondness for the jovial enemy, fit you know what I mean.” Stopping a moment to ruminate, the Colonel resumed: “You will remember that when we went into the big war our boys in khaki didn t hate the Germans. In fact they had found by long contact with many of them in this country that they were pretty good fellows, easjk going, liberal-minded and very companionable. So we had to teach the boys to hate the Kaiser and then the Germans. That was necessary as a war measure, for we were enlisted on the side of the allies and had to play the game, even if we did agree with old General Sherman that war is hell. And in time even t.’ j boys who liked Pilsener and Wurzburger learned to jab bayonets into the Innards of the Germans who made it.” Right here Colonel Alibi seemed to lick his chops in memory for a moment, and there was an indication of a slight watering of tho mouth. With a sigh he again took up Ills defense: “It’s like that with thesp Congressmen. Their constituents have “loans We lend on improved Indianapolis real estate. For those who desire loans not exceeding 65% of our appraisement, we offer our monthly payment plan. For those desiring 50% or less of our appraisement, our regular mortgage plan is * v offered at a lower rato. A small expense fee, but , no commission, is charged. jFlrtcfjer gating anil Crust £p IsiffHTSlsil Member Federal Eeserve-System ' O- 1 'sat?da

and proposes then to Supplant him with Charles B. Warren, it was necessary to make the nominations when he did. This rumor regarding the plan to put Warren in charge of foreign relations, incidentally, is partly responsible for the growing opposition to his confirmation as Attorney General. The Senate being divided into various camps on foreign policy, there is apt to be much consideration of Warren’s views on the subject. The basis of the fight to prevent his confirmation, however, will not be his attitude on foreign questions, but his alleged for-' mer connection with the Sugar Trust. It was the latter consideration that caused the Senate subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee to report his name back to the full committee without recommendation, leaving

enlisted in the war on the demon Rum, and while some cf the Congressmen didn’t hate beer, ale, wine or red licker any more than our soldier boys hated pre-war Germans, still there was nothing for them to do but charge bayonets on the brewery, the winery, the distillery and the saloon, and lick the stuffing out of Friend Booze. “That meant supporting the Eighteenth Amendment and voting for the Volstead Act. There was no chance to duck, dodge or desert In face of the enemy for Gen. Wayne Wheeler was in the rear, where he could kee> a parental eye on every dumed one of them. “What was a poor Congressman to do? Nothing but obey orders. He had to be either a live hypocrite or a politically dead martyr; and he well understood that a live hypocrite on earth is worth two dead martyrs in the grave; and a lame duck gathers no moss. So, being steeled to war, our hero publicly assaulted the enemy and, being privately fond of him, secretly* embraced him—or stowede him away In his bosom, if you understand what I mean.”

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disposal of Warren's nomination to the whole Senate for full debate. The sugar issue was first raised by Senator Couzens, with the backing of the entire Michigan delegation in the House. The House members joined Couzens in recommending Governor Groesbeck of Michigan for the post given to Warren. Backing Goesbeck was their mote or less delicate method of indicating that they didn’t want Warren. In this they were supported by the Republican State Committee, the Republican National committeeman and a large pkrt of the Michigan Legislature. Opposition to Warren, on the part of Couzens, did not rest, however, on this left-handed proceeding. He laid before President Coolidge Warren’s record in the sugar matter. This included the printed hearings of the House committee’s investigation thirteen years ago of the tariff on sugar. It was revealed that Warren had organized the Michigan Sugar Company, by consolidating the interests of ..the Michigan beet sugar growers, and that he held the largest single block of stock ih the company. The company .successfully urged a tariff to protect it against the sugar trust’s importations. After the secretary of the company had testified before the committee that there was no connection between the Michigan company and the sugar trust, Warren, put on the stand in a subsequent hearing, admitted that the stock held by himself actually was the property of Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust. There food for much oratory in these events, and confirmation of Warren will not be easy. However, the general belief now Is that, regardless of the new proceedings Instituted against Senator Wheeler by Stone and the growing antagonism to Warren, their confirmation can only be delayed until the new Senate meets in extra session March 4. The principal effect of the battle will be the forestalling of any hoped-for harmony ebtween the progressive Repulbicans and the regulars.