Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1925 — Page 4

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Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand,— Matt. 12:25. By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.—John Dickinson. ___ A CHIP ON HER SHOULDER PyTJ HIS spring the United States plans naval maneuvers in the 1 Pacific. The fleet will cruise to Hawaii. Later part of it may proceed to Australia and New Zealand. The idea is obviously to test the capabilities of the fleet on long cruises, as well as to test the hitherto untested facilities of our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ‘The whole show was decided on and announced long ago. It is well to remember that Hawaii is a territory of the United States, on the same basis that Oklahoma was a few years ago, with representatives in Congress. Also that the islands are about 2,000 miles west of San Francisco and about 3,300 miles east of Japan. They are about the same steaming distance from Australia as from Japan. Now comes Mr. Teiichi Sugita, of the Japanese House of Peers, with what appears to be a widespread appeal, by letter, to the editors of American newspapers, requesting them “to exert their utmost to persuade the American Government to abandon the naval maneuvers.' * He encloses the text of a resolution by a Japanese society, of whose meeting he was chairman, to this effect. On their face this Japanese letter and the enclosure are a simple attempt at international propaganda through publicity in American newspapers. Behind them, though, something sinister may well be suspected. Is his real hope to accomplish something in America, or is it to stir up feeling in Japan? It is ridiculous to hold that American naval maneuvers in the waters of an American territory, within five days’ steaming of the American coast, have anything to do with either “world peace” or “international morality.” Since when have the Hawaiian Islands been internationalized? All South and Central America might much better consider it a threat every time an American war-vessel went to Panama. In this particular case the Hawaiian maneuvers might more logically be considered a threat by the British in Fiji and Australia and New Zealand, and the French at Tahiti, than by the Japanese. We ourselves might much more logically launch a jingo'propaganda whenever Japanese warships moved to Formosa, only a few hundred miles from the Philippines, or whenever Japanese vessels maneuvered near the Japanese naval base in the Ladrone Islands, which is nearr to Hawaii thanks our own naval coaling station of Guam. For all we know Sugita and his society may be sincere, if silly. If so he has his publicity—his enclosure is printed elsewhere in this paper. , * But itifc evident that Japan has what we call “a chip on her shoulder” such as is worn by no other nation of the world. And in this particular matter of the American naval maneuvers off Hawaii, it looks at this distance as if the efforts of Messrs. Sugita, Toyama, et al., were aimed primarily at keeping Japanese attention concentrated on the chip.

TWO KINDS OF ECONOMY

SHIS being the season of the income tax report, it is likewise the season of grumbling and growling and talking and shouting about Federal Government economy. • The taxpayer is now for economy, Congress is for economy, and the President has passed the word down to chiefs of Government bureaus and departments that economy must be not only the word, but also the practice. But anew note has been injected into this Government economy talk by reports from two of the President’s Cabinet '3eretarie. One, Mr. Hughes, announced his resignation as Secretary of State recently, giving as the excuse the fact that public service had so depleted his bankroll that he found it necessary to retire to private life to repair said bankroll. Just as folks were working up a good shame over the fact that so rich a Government as theirs did not pay good public officials better, it became known that another Cabinet officer had depleted his, private funds to the extent of SIOO,OOO during the past four years to further the good work of his office. This officer was Secretary Hoover, and though he denied that he spent his money paying public employes, it is well known that he has spent much money hiring private assistants to help him with certain work of his office .not provided for in the Department of Commerce budget. * Not many public officials would do that. The President, for one, would not. In the first place, it would not square with the President’s New England idea of economy. The President’s idea .of economy is that money not spent is saved, saved for the taxpayers. Mr. Hoover sees it otherwise. He sees economy in terms, ot production *ar waste. He sees manufacturers of screws, and of plumbing, and of mattresses, and what not, wasting what he estimates to be twenty-five to thirty per cent of our national productive wealth by duplication, overproduction in certain lines and underproduction in others. To Mr. Hoover, Government economy is spending some money gathering statistics and proving to producers that this wsjste exists and showing them how it can be eliminated. When Congress fails to provide him with enough • money for surveys, he provides it from his own pockets, and forgets about it. What is economy f Is the President s non-spending thrift campaign economy ? Is Hoover s spending campaign to eliminate unseen waste economy? . .k ' Both are, in their places. The President’s kind of economy an be a good tonic to established Government bureaus, .where jobholders have been “keeping on keeping on” ioften merely because back in some past era some Congress authorized something to be done. k But in the process of weeding out useless bureaucrats, let’s ; t stifle the kind of expenditures that public officials of the pe of Secretary Hoover want to make to save millions, just for the sake of saving a few dollars. ■ There are two kinds of economy. _ - V jv j -

JAPANESE WANT U. S. NAVAL MANEUVERS CALLED OFF

Editors Are Asked to Use Influence to Stop Navy Movement. Times Washinaton Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue. r=-a ABHINGTON, Feb. 3.—What on the surface appears to be TT a nation-wide attempt by the Japanese to bring pressure to bear on the Vnited States to have the naval maneuvers in the Pacific next April called off, has come to light here. Newspaper editors, apparently ail over the country, have been appealed to individually, by letter, with the request “that you will exert your utmost to persuade the American Government to abandon the naval maneuvers.” The letter is dated from Tokio and is hand-signed by Teiiche Sugita, a member of the house of peers. Enclosed is a resolution adopted at a mass meeting, held under the auspices of the Tal Bei Mondai Yushi association, "representing all classes of the Japanese people.” Resolution Text The resolution read: WHEREAS, America has decided to concentrate her whole Navy in the Pacific for the purpose of holding grand naval maneuvers with Hawaii as the central base of operations, extending over a period of nine months from January next; WHEREAS, America intends to invite Australia and New Zealand to participate in the said maneuvers; WHEREAS, the above action of America tends to disregard completely the spirit of the Washington Conference and to menace the pea6e of the Far East* WE, Mitsuru Toyama and the members of the Tai Bel Mondai Yushi Taikai, representing all classes of the Japense people and all political parties, publicly assembled today, 21st December, 1924, dp hereby earnestly hope that the American Government, out of due regard to international morality and the cause of world-peace, will immediately abandon the disquieting plan. (Signed) Teiichi Sugita, Member of the House of Peers, and Chairman of the Meeting. Tokio, Japan. Thus what at first appeared to be only a short-lived outburst on the part of a group of Japanese jingoes, now seems to have developed into a sort of nation-wide and nationalistic drive. Nor is it without other surprising features. President’s Assurance First, it comes after President Coolidge went out es his way to assure Japan, without mentioning any names, that the naval maneuvers off Hawaii in April, are merely part and parcel of the Navy’s regular annual training; and, second, the man who apparently is at the head of the movement ia not usually classed' among Japan’s jingoes. Teiichi Sugita is one of the few surviving old Liberals who, in 1881, obtained from the Japanese emperor, Meiji Tenno, the promise of a constitution within the following ten years. He was an associate of the late “Grand Old Man of Japan,” the Marquis Okuma, also' of the late founder of the Seuku-kai, or present Liberal party, Prince Ito. Sugita is no leader of this party. In his early years Sugita was really a radical. Now close on to 75 years of age, he Is a moderate, having accepted at the hands of the emperor in 1912 the honor of becoming a non-titled "crown member” for life of the House of Peers.

Home Consumption It is considered significant, however, that the agitation in Japan has now reached the stage where such an anti-imperialist and anti-militar-ist as Sugita not only works for but assumes the leadership of, a movement which Includes his old enemies, the war-makers.of Nippon. The resolution enclosed In the Sugita letter, full of inaccuracies as It is, is interpreted here as being primarily for home consumption. The Hawaiian maneuvers, decided upon as far back as three years ago, will not last nine months but only a few weeks. Afterward the fleet will break up Into units, each going its own way. Australia and New Zealland, of course, will not be Invited to participate. Our battle fleet plans to visit Australasian waters in much the same way that several Japanese warships recently visited American ports, combining courtesy calls with naval training. The 1926 .maneuvers will take place off the western entrance to Panama Canal, after which the combined fleet will proceed to ports in Peru and Chile for practice going and coming. No Central or South American country has offered any objections or is expected to. Torn Sims Says An attractive costume for. a cold night Is a bunch of blankets thrown oTer a bed and tucked In. ' * The United States has about 26,000 miles of concrete road, but It seldom reaches to where you are going. Even though New Orleans Is rated our second largest port it Is, not a second-rate port. Just to prove that the world improves, men of the fifteenth century wore rings on their thumbs. Every State has a college of pharmacy, which teaches more than putting oil of juniper in alcohoL , Feeding your goldfish on metal polish will not improve their complexion. An atom Is so small it cannot be measured, and more than likely thinks germs are elephants. The United States has more than 15,000,000 telephones, and enough wrong numbers to last for years. Most of the new spring styles wil! have very simple figures except on their price tags. The Government spends mere than ten millions yearly. Or about $lO per bootlegger, to enforce prohibition.

THE IN Hi AN AEOJLxb TiMEB

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Hostess Mr— iRS. MAX C. MURRAY has been selected for the post of hostess in the Indiana House of Representatives. This is the first appointment of the kind in Hbuse history. How Uncle Joe Cannon, and other exponents of wicked he-man politics and steam-roller tac- * These be degenerate bacco with masterNELSON ful conviction —the appointment will be greeted with horror. Nevertheless even there rebellion will not ilame. We have become a supine people. The Legislature may safely have its hostess, but if it begins to wear spats, and balance a cup of tea on its knee, liberty 'will squawk and die in convulsions. However the action of the House is not so decadent as it sounds. Technically the hostess is only a doorkeeper with special duties. Her Job is to look after delegations of school children and women visitors who come to the sessions. The idea has merit. Dally, troops school children visit the Legislature. They should be shown every consideration—for they may carry away an Impression that will make them better citizens in future years. Protection \ ■ V.'liU |rp jHE school 'building at ClarksI burg—a suburb of JeffersonI- ville—tjurned Saturday night with a loss of $30,000. The town has no fire protection and it is alleged the Jeffersonville fire department refused to send aid. n that charge is true, the episode seems to reveal callous indifference to a neighbor’s distress that’s unusual. American cities seldom pass distress by on the other side — there are more Samaritans than Levites among them. However, there is another aide to this particular picture. The unfortunate suburb has resisted annexation, and has refused to pay the larger municipality for fire protection. In view of that why should it expect any consideration when threatened with disaster? The situation is similar to that ground many fast growing cities. Frequently cities expand to or around smaller towns. Often the latter thus enjoy all the advantages of being part of the metropolis, but stubbornly refuse annexation to evade city taxes. They intentionally shirk their share of the common burden. Such cbntlguous suburbs find theif position very pleasing. They have metropolitan advantages and protection without cos.t When a calamity overtakes them they cease tp e nicker and realize that they can’t feat their cake and have it, too.

Ask The Times You can gret an answer to any questt°n or fact or information by writinir to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. p. 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 personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot tial—Editor' AU letterß 403 confldenNams the members of the school •board? ' Charles R. Yoke, president; Chas. L. Barry, Fred Bates Johnson, Adolph Emhardt, Dr. Marie Haslep. Have any bonus certificates been sent out yet? How many have been received In the Veterans Bureau? How many are being sent out each day and how many are received each day? Approximately 700,000 bonus certificates have been sent dut to World War veterans and about 1,750,000 applications have been received. About 20,000 certificates are being mailed out daily, and 9,700 applications are being received -daily. Did Anatole France leave much of a fortune and how was It willed? Press reports say that he left over one million at present exchange rates, amassed solely through his books. Half his estate goes to his widow and half to bis grandson. He left nothing to charity. Who was the breeder of ‘‘Laddie Boy,” the dog owned by the late President Harding? Marshall Sheppy, 641 W. Woodruff Ave., Toledo, Ohio. Who was ‘‘Bloody Mary,” and why was she so called? .She was Queen Mary of England, daughter of Henry VIII, and elder half sister of Queen Elizabeth. She was so called on account of the persecutions carried on by her against the Protestants of the time. How ar.e Postoffice Inspectors appointed? From men already In the postal service. Civil Service examinations for this position are given to postal employes upon the request of t.he Postmaster General. What Is the longest railway In the world? .The Trans-Siberian Hallway. It has 6,435 miles of single line main track. The line is from Leningrad to Vladivostok. What is ihe area of the Sahara Desert? It is estimated at over three and Ouo-half million square miles. Was there ever a Secretary of the Navy killed on a war ship? Yes. On Feb. 28, 1844, Thomas Walker Gilmer was killed on, the U. S. 8. PrJaceton ta the Potomac

Home Rule 1 EPRESENTATIVE FRENCH CLEMENTS of Evansville l—__J will introduce a joint resolution this week providing for a larger measure of home rule for Indiana cities. May it soon become a reality! The present system, whereby city councils can’t wink their eyes without a State law, doesn’t promote administrative efficiency. Recently the Legislature wrestled with the question of salary increases for fire and police chiefs of Indianapolis. By what stretch of the imagination does that question affect the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana? This week it is expected a bill will be introduced making the two-pla-toon system for firemen optional in cities of the fourth class. It is now compulsory. What difference does it make to the State how such cities organize their fire departments? The people of a community—through the city council—can deal with such purely local problems more effectively than Jovians with cloud-encircled brows perched in the Statehouse. * Yet now tVie bulky State law-mak-ing machinery and one hundred and fifty men must do what a half-dozen city councilmen could do in five minutes. Municipal home rule would relieve L the Legislature of the flood of local measures. It would remove from city affairs the old curse of absenteelandlordism—and would effectively black one eye of paternalism. Courtship ADAL PLOVAN, a musician of Hammond, wooed ardently, expensively, and, alas! unsuccessfully. The parents of the damsel intervened and prevented the marriage. The other day he sued them to recovery SIO,OOO, which he alleges he spent in courting their daughter. Perhaps he’s a musician, but he proposes to thrum a discord on that family's bocketbook nerves. If he is successful his action may pave the way for more effective protection of frustrated Romeos in the future. Present game laws don't apply to them. At best Romeo embarks on a precarious career when he goes awooing. Ha alienates his masculine friends, spends time prodigally, and endures' large emotional and financial drain, on a blind gamble. Even if he wins he may lose. Something is needed to stabilize the trade. Perhaps it will help if a court holds that a Romeo, who has been squashed by a maiden or her family can recover from them his actual expenditures. A girl wouldn’t dare lightly, to dismiss a methodical wooer who cal led a memorandum book in which he entered; “flowers $1.50, candy SI.OO, car fare 7c.” That would be a reminder that she might have to pay the bill. The suit opens a field of interesting possibilities. However, courtship probably will continue uneconomic and inefficient. A peck of moonlight outweighs all the * gravity of the Supreme oCurt.

CITY MANAGER

To the Editor of The Times m would like to express my thoughts in regard to putting our city on a business basis. I agree with you on your past articles that were In your papers as to what city government should be like. I think this city should have a business manager for several reasons of my own. I also think the people of this city will agree with me on my subject. First, It would cut down a lot of Income Tax The revenue act of 1924 provides that losses not compensated for by insurance or otherwise are deductible if incurred in trade or business, in any transaction entered into for profit though not connected with the taxpayer’s trade or business or if arising from "fires, storms, shipwreck, or other casualty, or from theft.” ’ - • Losses connected with the purchase and sale of merchandise are ascertained by means of inventories, which are required whentever in the opinion of the commissioner of internal revenue, their use is necessary In order clearly to determine income of any taxpayer. A manufacturer may be compelled to scrap machinery beeause It has become Inadequate. He may deduct the loss sustained if he has sold or otherwise permanently abandoned the old machinery. If a taxpayer demolishes a building used in his trade or business and replaces It, he may deduct the loss sustained. But if he acquires as the site of anew building, land upon which is located an old building, demolition of the old building is not considered a loss, therefore not deductible. Losses connected with transactions "entered Into for profit” not connected with the taxpayer’s trade or business must conform closely to the wording of the statute to be allowed. For example, a lawyer may purchase an apaptment with the object of deriving an Income from tae rental. A physician buys shares ot stock on which he hopes to make a profit. Both sustain losses upon a subsequent sale which are deductible. But if either should sell his residence, Which, at the time of purchase was bought without the intention of resale, the loss, if any, is not deductible, because it was not a transaction “entered into for profit.” Similarly, a loss connected with the sale of an automobile bought for pleasure r.r

Is the Movie Business a Trust

Times Washinaton Bureau. 1322 Neu> York Avenue. ASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—After 'uu nearly five years of investiT _J gation and study, the Federal Trade Commission is is now drawing up its long-awaited answer to the question: Are the movies controlled by a trust? The commission's official examiner has about completed the compilation of the evidence gathered in a nation-wide survey. Presentation of this evidence to the commissioners themselves will be accompanied by the arguments of the Government attorneys who contend that a trust exists and by arguments of lawyers representing Will Hays' Motion Picture Producers, Inc., who deny there is a movie octopus. After a long preliminary study of the movie business, the Government two years x ago charged that the larger motion picture companies, headed by Famous Plaf ers-Lasky Company, had conspired to gain control of the motion picture industry of the country, from top to bottom, through unfair means and intimidation. The accused movie barons denied all the Government’s contentions. Thereupon the trade commission began a serie sos hearings which took the official examiner and the Gov-

expenses that are making this city destitute. Second*, there are men In offices of different branches that are incapable of the job; that Is, in business ability. Third, we have a city council that is run from the political standpoint, and pulls. Fourth, we have an ordinance that factories shall have smoke consumers. This smoke consumer business is all bunk. The people of our city would rather have smoke any day than have our factories silent. There Is no need for smoke consumers. Smoke means prosperity, and prosperity means full dinner pails. This town has more factories than any other on the globe-for an inland city. Look at Pittsburgh, for instance—ft is considered the town with the most smoke, and its people are not dead from smoke yet. Fifth, when we have a mayor that tells the city employes to vote for this or that man or hunt another job, that Is nothing but political graft. I think this is enough for one letter, as It may make some of our worthless city employes a little sore. GEORGE O. BRUNSON. 1325 W. Twenty-Third St.

A Grand Slam!

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A Kingdom for a Horse

erfiment lawyers first to New York, then to New Orleans, to Los Angeles and many other cities where evidence of movie domination was sought. The examination completed, final arguments before the commission are all that await the commission’s order that the alleged combine be broken up, or that, In case the evidence does not Indicate a trust, the complaint be dismissed. Though little evidence of the trouble comes to the surface, the movie industry is replete with charges and counter-charges of unfair business dealings. Independent companies engaged either in picture production or in the management of movie theaters assert that tribute is exacted from them by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, of America. This organization is the one presided over by Will Hays, more popularly known as the “head of the movies.” It is largely financed by Famous Players. • Finding It the easiest way, a large number of independent producers and exhibitors have joined with the Hays organization and thus gained comparative commercial security through regular payment of dues.

Love By HAL COCHRAN I often have wondered; do folks really know what love, In Its full measure, means. It’s something that comes to us all here below, in our youth, In our age, In our ’teens. The love of our kin is just born in the soul; a love that there’s nothing can sever. It’s naturally and deephearted and whole, and something that lives on forever. But what of the love that we give fellow men? ’Tls friendship that leads us to find it. It comes to us over and over again. There must be real reason behind it. Faith is the thing, when you add it to trust. When other men have that In you, their friendship fe something Immune from the rust that gathers when friendship’s not true. A man who is for you, in good luck or bad. and blots out your sorrow time scenes, Is likely the answer to feelings you’ve had—what fellow-man love really means. No Place for a Poor Man The costs of being elected to public office have multiplied tremendously, and it takes the wealth of a wealthy man to make an effective campaign. A poor man must put himself In the hands of wealthy men or moneyed Influences In order to make a thorough campaign.—Senator Walsh (Dem.), Massachusetts.

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Many of these Independents, however, have continued to harbor resentment against the organization which has forced them, they say, to pay tribute. Evidence of this hard feeling has broken out very violently in New York, where the Vitagraph Company always a reluctant supporter of the Hays’ overlordship, has resigned from the organization. Accompanied by a blare of trumpets, the Motion Picture Theater Owners Chamber of Commerce has announced its complete sympathy with the Vitagraph Company’s complaint of unfair competition, and has threatened to bring suit against Hays and his employers under the Sherman Anti-Trust law, unless the present practice of dictating terms is abandoned. Exhibitors charge that Famous Players have extended their field of operation so thoroughly Into the actual ownership of movie theaters that they can ruin independent exhibtors by withholding first-class reels or by demanding exorbitant rates for their rental. Meanwhile, the movie world Is rather impatiently awaiting the Trade Commission’s verdict.

Telling It ' to Congress

As It Was to Be! The original design was to make .Washington as distinguished from all other capitals of Government in the world purely a seat of Government, where the business of the Government would -be transacted. It was provided that instead of having a lot of ramshackle buildings between the Capitol/ and the White House, there should be nothing but official buildings. Representative Wood (Rep.), Indiana. The Safeguard From the days when Lincoln in this House opposed President Polk and the Mexican War during the war’s progress down to the days when, as President, he led the fight against human slavery, Independent thinking and uncontrolled legislsu tion have been the best safeguards of human rights.—Representative Frear (Rep.), Wisconsin, A Place for the Strong I never found a more highly developed civilization In all my rounds than we found In the Territory of Alaska. Strong men, courageous, intelligent, honest, and struggling there in that ungentle climate for a livelihood. Noble women, with their children around them, trying to make homes in Alaska. They say that the timid never start to Alaska and that the weak die on the way, and I am inclined to believe that Is true. —Representative Rankin (Dem.), Mississippi. Cooperatives It has been the department's view that the best remedy for the marketing evils lies in the extension of cooperative marketing and In the better organization of the distributors at the terminal markets. —Report of the Secretary of Commerce. Hard Fought liberty It is strange, but it Is true that almost every step which has been taken toward human liberty, apparently the natural state of man has been taken upon and over the pulseless forms of battle-slain dead, and blood-stained flags are almost the only symbols that signal across the ages the accomplishment of fundamental governmental things. To this latter our Constitution was the greatest and most notable exception. War, indeed, opened the way for its creation and acceptance,, but