Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times BOY. W. HOWARD, President. • FELIX T. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps- Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv 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 3500.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.—Prov. 21:5. * • # ' ( ■ r’ ' ■ ■ . > Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.: —Lavater. WHERE YOUR INCOME TAX MONEY GOES [VERY year about this time we are beset by our two pet abominations: The income tax dun and the statistical bug who insists upon telling us how little of what we pay goes for anything useful. “Just think!” chortles the latter. “During 1924, only 14.2 per cent of the money you paid in Federal taxes was spent on purely civil work—like legislation, public works, etc. The rest, or 85.8 per cent, went to pay for war—past, present and future.” - ; This year, it so happens, we have our answer ready-made for us. It is in the form of a letter from Robert P. Scripps, of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Though it was intended neither for publication nor to serve ns in this, our hour of need, it answers the statistical shark so well, well print it, at least in part. “I never fail to note,” he says, “with a feeling of disgust at its specioosness, a chief argument of American pacifists and disarmament people which stresses the fact that a large percentage of the total expenditure of our Federal Government is devoted to paying ‘the cost of*wars—past, present and future.’ “The answer to this argument can best be put in the form of a question: What is the Federal Government so what ©ther fundamental purpose was it created and is it maintained —except for the purpose of national defense t “The people of the various States do not need a Federal Government to enforce their laws and police regulations and, as a matter of fact, the Federal Government plays a small part in such activities. They do not need a Federal Government to build school houses or highways for them; they can and do build these things for themselves. But the people of California, for instance, could not have protected themselves against Mexican aggression during the middle years of the last century, or effectively taken part in the recent great war in Europe without a Federal Government. “They probably never conld have lived in California at all, except as Mexican citizens, if there had not been a Federal Government at Washington and a Federal military force in existence. " ' “To say that it is foolish, and that there is something wrong with our national scheme of things because the Federal Government spends a large percentage of its revenues to pay for war-like activities, either past or contemplated, is as about as pertinent as it would be to say that there is something wrong with the Scripps-Howardi Publishing Company, and' that its management is incompetent, because a large part of the revenues of the company are spent on producing and distributing a newspaper, instead of on some other sdrt of activity.” Without federated effort, the Colonies would never have become the United States at all, but remained an English possession. Without a Federal Army and Navy, we would have lost our new-won independence in 1812 and gone back under the British flag. Without a Federal Army and Navy we would not now have Texas, and New Mexico, and Nevada and California and other territory which came to us in the forties. Without a Federal Army and Navy our country would have been broken up into two counrties in 1861, after which each part would have had to shoulder, alone, the whole burden of its national defense, its citizens paying twice as much per capita—for less security—than they now have to pay. Os course past wars, pensions, etc, cost a lot. And insurance against future wars eats np approximately 20 per cent of our present Federal income. But that is what our federation is for: Defense. At that, the average American citizen pays less per year for the priceless privilege of living in security in this staunchest and safest °f all countries than he spends in the same period for his tobacco or on movies. We call it mighty cheap insurance.

UNCLE SAM CAN BE KIND (YYtIHEN occasion offers your Uncle Sam can do the gener--I*7 1 ous thing, do it with a magnificent gesture, do it without waiting to be asked. You have read a good deal about underpaid Government employes; here is the other side of the picture. Twenty-one charwomen are employed in the Capitol building. At the end of the day it is their pleasant task to take their scrub brushes and buckets in hand and restore the shine to the haarble corridors, dimmed during the day by the industrious feet of statesmen and tourists. Each morn finds the beautiful halls glistening anew for the admiration of anew horde of visitors and the charwomen retire to rest, happy in the thought of a useful service done for their countrymen. For this labor of love, the charwomen have, heretofore received $4lO a year. As you ean instantly realize that is almost $7-8814 a week. (It is a little less, the final fraction being 4-10 instead of 14, but when you are dealing with matters on a big scale, round fractions will do.) Now, the charwomen are to receive more. Without going on strike, without organizing a lobby, without presenting a petition to the President, without lifting their hands—save to tvield their brooms, brushes and mopsi—they have, been given a pay increase. How different from the rapacious postal employes. It happened this way .* The House Committee on Appropriations in fixing the total for the architect of the Capitol, under whose supervision the charwomen work, had an awkward figure'of $58.80 to deal with. It made the arithmetic- very bothersome. A genius on the committee discovered that by adding $2.80 a year to the salaries of the twenty-one charwomen that $58.80 wonld be absorbed, and the arithmetic would become easy. It was done. Quietly, without self-praise, without a faniare of publicity, this commit* ee seen its duty and done it. The charwomen will now receive $412.80 a year. That increases their weekly salaries to $7.03 8-10, or, roughly $7.94. Who says this Government hasn’t got a heart!

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Newsboys and Millionaires Give to Episcopalian Cathedral, JEW YORK, Feb. s.—From the purses of Magdalen and i___J millionaire, agnostic and devout believer, Jew and Christian are coming the dollars that will build America’s most magnificent church. "A shrine of worship for all people!”—that will be the cornerstone for the Cathedral of St- John the Divine, destined to rank with Cathedrals of St. Peter, Seville, Notre Dame, Rheims, Canterbury and Westminster Abbey. High above the roaring, scurrying city will stand this sacrament in stone to remind the feverish, milling hordes of the goals higher than their daily ambition. At a- cost of $15,000,000 is to be built this most democratic of cathedrals. No Rentals There will be no rentals, no locked doors, no reserved rights of caste or rank, no denominational demands. "Our democratic age demands a place of worship that will not disregard the teachings of the Founder of Christianity.” declares Bishop William Thomas Manning, head of the New York Episcopal diocese who now is leading the financial drive to make possible this combination of the grandeur of the old world and the democracy of the new. "In that section-of the church already built there have been services in Italian and Spanish; occasional services in Armenian, Japanese, Chinese and even Welsh. On Kossovol day, a Serbian Archimandrite celebrated the liturgy of the Holy Orthodox Church at the cathedral’s high altar an da choir of Russians and Jugo-Slavs sang the response—such are the cosmopolitan influences of a city such as New York.” 500 Feet High When. the end of ten years, this great shrine is completed the cathedral will be one-tenth of a mile long, the sides will be ribbed with spired buttresses and spire upon spire will rise to a central tower 500 feet above the foundations. "The spiritual Imagination of the people will be aroused,” the bishop continues. “In the old days church towers' and spires were conspicuously in view, Today they have disappeared. We have hidden them behind our great buildings and apartment houses. “The cathedral will bring the church once more into view. Standing on the heights, where nothingcan obscure or hide it, this great building will bring the church back into the place which belongs to it in the sight of the people.” French Gothic architecture will be used in its building. The plan is cruciform. From the apse radiate seven chapels, known as the "chapels of the tongues.” In area it will he the third largest in the world, St. Peter’s at Rome being the largest. Probably ap church in . the world is built on such a varied collection of donations—three hotel bellhops, an organization of reformed gunmen, a newsboy, a Wall Street millionaire of International repute, a 'school teacher supporting an invalid 'mother, a street walker, a lady of society, all the elements of a great city’s society go Into the stones and columns. - -

Tkiwn By Hal COCHRAN The Bunrise announces another night gone and all of the world comes tty life. There’s much to be done with- the coming of dawn that brings with it good things and strife. Just how does the av’rage day look to you, friend, when you’ve hopped out of bed and are dressing? Your mind starts to work and, just wha* is its trend, a gloomy outlook, or a blessing? A great deal depends on the day just before. Did you finish the work that you started? Whatever’s left over means Just that much more for anew day, ere that day’s departed. The game you should play isn’t just to get by, but do every bit that you can. A lot is accomplished by people who try. It’s true of a woman or man. Tomorrow’s the day you can test the thought out- by getting today’s work all through. And then, when you rise in the morning, no doubt, the dawn will look brighter to you. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.) Tom Sims Says A philosopher is one who can be modern with a clear conscience. There are many arguments in favor of matrimony, the best two being an old bachelor and an old maW - Some men talk so much they are effeminate. v ■ A sheik is a man whose coat lapels wear out first. Two can either live on love or soak their old love letters in water and sell it for syrup. It Is better to have had a platonic friendship than never to have loved at all. Once asbestos curtains were in case the theater caught fire; now in case the show is too hot. There are still mice, but you see silk stockings without them now. There are two side;* to every question, both of which may be wrong. A wise man never makes faces at red-headed girls or bites a mule on the ankle. Sometimes it is hest to be sure you are right and then stop. A girl usually closes her eyes when you kiss her because she likes to imagine you are someone else. (Copyright, 1925. NEA Service, Inc.)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA BV GAYLORD NELSON

Audit SHE State highway commission Tuesday arranged with the Governor for a thorough audit of its affairs at once by expert accountants. Private accountants prabably will make the investigation. Is It to be a real, disinterested audit with the findings promptly made public? Or is it intended to drag a red herfing across the trail? Most of the trail Most of the department’s friends and foes hope It will be the former. The funds expended by the commission exceded the combined disburseNELSON ments of all other branches of the State government. Consequently the public is vitally concerned in the exact status of highway operations. Public interest is paramount to individuals or parties. For two years persistent rumors of something rotten in the highway department have circulated. The State examiner investigated. Only a partial report was made public. The.Majrion County grand jury probed. Complete silence. Last week a proposal in the House for a legislative inquiry scarcely flapped its wings before it was summarily choked. All of which, Instead of starving rumor, feeds it to repletion—and it thrives prodigiously. Highway affairs have been conducted either property or improperly. Which? Investigations that start with brass bands and gorgeems red-fire but end in abysmal silence don’t allay suspicion. Rumor must be killed by facts. It’s time the naked highway facts capered forth. Beauty A 1 "" STATE board of examiners of cosmetology is proposed. A hill to establish it, to regulate and license -cosmetologists, is in the legislative hopper. If cosmetology Is pestilential the Governor ought to call ou the na tional guard Immediately to protect the public without Waiting for legislative action. But the word is not as horrendous as it sounds. A cosmetologist is just a beauty specialist —an artisan who cleans, dyes, upholsters and renovates human features. And this artisan seeks suppression of competition'of unscrupulous quacks by a license’Jaw. •Why net? Barbers, plumbers, 'electricians and corn doctors want boards of examiners and .State licenses. Isn’t the vocation of beauty specialist as dangerous to the peace, dignity and pulchritude of the State? Beauty is important. Its pursuit engages the attention of both sexes. Women want to wear It and men want to marry it; But a State law wouldn't make the pursuit of beauty any easier or surer. The board, of examiners couldn’t reach:—nor j prevent from practicing by withholding a license—the most careless and expert beauty specialist of them all—Divine Providence. Nevertheless If the proponents of examining boards and licenses keep trying they may yet evolve a scheme to license Diety.

Income Tax Losses arising 'from “fires, storm, shipwreck, or other casualty .or from theft’’ are deductible whether or not connected with the taxpayer's trade or business. * The term "other casualty” within the meaning of the revenue act of 1924, is one arising through the action of a physical force of nature* for example a flood or frost. If a taxpayer’s home or automobile is destroyed by flre, or if* his summer bungalow is damaged by 'a storm he may claim a deduction for the loss sustained. Allowance, of course, must be made for any Insurance or other compensation . received. v In event of a collision between a truck and an automobile used for pleasure or convenience, the owner of the truck may claim a deduction for damages, provided at the time the truck was being used for business purposes. No deduction is allowed the owner of the automobile because the car was not being used for business purposes, neither is it a “casualty” as defined above. Lops of property by theft or burglary is an allowable deduction, and need not be incurred in trade or business. Asa general rule deductions for losses are allowed for the year in which sustained. A taxpayer may ascertain the amount of a loss sustained during a prior taxable year which he had not deducted from gross income for that year. He may render an amended return for such preceding year including such amount of loss In' the deductions from gross income, and may file with the Bureau of Internal Revenue a claim for refund of the excess tax paid by reason of failure to deduct the loss in his original return. A loss from theft or embezzlement occurring in one year and discovered in another is ordinarily deductible for the year in which sustained. Losses in illegal transactions are not deductible.

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Miners IXSON H. BYNUM, chairman of the State industrial board, i- has arranged for employment for idle coal miners in the southwestern part of the State in Lake County steel mills. There are- approximately 17,000 idle coal miners in .the Indiana fields. Diverting these to the steel mills—which need men—seems feasible, on paper. But is may'he difficult —for once a miner always a miner is more than a. figure of speech. Unemployment in Hoosier coal fields is no new condition. It’s chronic—and is getting worse. Except for intervention of a miracle the mining industry in this State will soon perish. Yet coal is a most useful mineral. Because of it civilization isn’t tied to the Tronic of Cancer but ranges tc the Arctic Circle. Being so necessary one would expe<?t the coal mining industry to be most stable. Instead no other major industry in the country experiences such depressions, irregular work, and chronic unrest. Not only is this true in Indiana but in other coal states. There just isn’t enough coal mining pie to feed the hungry mouths. There are too many mines and too many miners. Perhaps if many miners seek other employment they will better themselve sand cure the mining industry. Language rpri ENATOR HARMON introI I a yesterday emLvT.J powering judges to order attorneys to rewrite pleadings, when confusing, in concise language “to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended.” Doubtless this is a much needed reform that will make life sweeter and purer for the toiling masses. Adjectives, adverbs, vagrant and mongrel parts of speech march across ordinary legal documents In disorderly mobs. Laymen are bewildered and quickly lose consciousness in the intricay of legal phraseology. The legal fraternity is not the only spendthrift! of language. Followers of other so-called learned professions love to parade every vehicle in their vocabulary at the least provocation. Os course, there’s a reason. If they used plain speech, easily understood, the fees they charge would seem disproportionate to the services rendered. An awesome vocabulary Is part of their stock in trade. Squandering; language is a common failing, although not as prevalent as formerly. A ten-word telegram now accomplishes the purpose as a ten-page letter ‘in grandfather’s time. A ' There A still room for improvemfenr.'fj’J The only purpose of language is to express ideas. Words aren’t idntended to be worn around the neck like rings of beads. More words than necessary are excess baggage. They obscure thought instead of revealing it.

Ask The Times You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. 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 personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. Is the Saxapbone easy to play? It Is generally considered one of the easiest of wind instruments to play. Has radio communication ever been established between the earth and any other planet? Nq. Which kind of parrot makes the best talker? The African gray parrot. What does Oklahoma mean? This Is a Choctaw Indian word meaning ‘‘red people.” When is Boy Scout week? From Feb. 8 to 14. ■ > ———• j What causes the tears to come when peeling onions, and is there any way to avoid it? It is the effect of the acrid volatile oil in the onions on the tear glands. Putting the onions under water while peeling them will help. Does enlistment in the Army make a non-citizen automatically a citizen of the United States? What are the qualifications for enlistment for a person not a citizen? In order to enlist in the Army an Alien must have taken out his first citizenship papers and must fulfill certain requirements in speaking and reading the English language. Enlistment does not automatically make him a citizen.

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The Case for Motor Bus

By N. D. COCHRAN | TREET railway owners knew J V long ago that the motor bus ( was overtaking the trolley car in the race for transportation supremacy. Several years ago the manufacturers of street cars saw what was coming and got busy on motorbus designs. Now the street railway magnates have quit building trolley extensions and are putting on busses. Among other things, this means that in municipalities where .he trolley lines are permitted to control the development of bus transportation, the people will pay a bus fare that will make good the old investment of the trolley company. For, where street railway companies put on busses instead of making extensions of their rail lines, cost of the busses will be additionalinvestment—added to* the old Divestment, however much or little that old Investment m&y have been watered in the old days of franchise grabbing and frenzied finance. Where cities are tied up with old franchises, practically granting ex-

. The Oyster on the Griddle

Bit Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Within a few weeks, the United States public health service will be able to announce whether or not the oyster is a carrier of typhoid fever. If it Is able to give the oyster a clean bill of health and to get this message over to the public, a $13,000,000 industry may be saved. If It is not, there will be grave suffering along the Atlantic seaboard this winter. Thousands of idle fishing boats now line Chesapeake Bay, and the situation is growing more serious dally. New York and Chicago have not lifted the bans they placed on eating of raw oysters, and public oyster parties staged here, with demonstrations by fishermen that they are not afraid to eat their own catch, have failed to restore public confidence. The public health service Is tracing sources of all typhoid cases reported in cities where an epidemic has appeared, and its report, when it comes, will be authoritative. Until the present typhoid alarm wrecked the business, the. United States was producing 17,380,000 bushels of oysters annually, 79 per cent of the crop of the entire world. Os this, 7,760,000 bushels were produced in the Chesapeake Bay. The country’s oyster crop was valued at $12,600,000. The United States produces most of the world’s oysters, and the States of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Mississippi and Louisiana produce most of America’s crop. Oysters have been the world’s most popular shellfish, and per capita consumption has been greater In the United States than anywhere else. There are at least a hundred varieties of oyster, living all the way

The Busy Man’s Newspaper

elusive rights for street railway transportation, there is an out for the cities if they keep bus systems separate from old trolley systems. Otherwise, bus riders in the future will have to pay In high fares for the tracks, trolleys and cars that have been or will be junked. Lack Imagination Asa general thing the people in cities lack the imagination that enables them to see into the future; and human nature is so set in its habit that about ninety-nine of every hundred don’t think anything can be done that hasn't been done before. They have ridden on trolley cars so long that they take it for granted there never will be anything new and they’ll go on trolley-riding to the end of their days. The owners of trolley systems know better. * Yet everybody ought to be able to see the difference. Street car tracks run along the middle of the street. Riders have to leave the sidewalk, no matter what the weather, and walk out to the car; or

from equatorial waters to the Gulf of St. Lawrence or southern Norway in the Atlantic, and to Puget Sound in the Pacific. But the oysters of the Atlantic Coast of America are the choicest. Oyster culture began years before Christ in China. It was known in Italy as early as 100 B. C. National Parks Travel to National parks and monuments showed a large increase dur ing 1924, in spite of adverse economic conditions in certain sections of the country. The travel increase was entirely ih motor travel, the train travel to the parks showing a slight decrease.—Report of the Secretary of the Interior.

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to the sidewalk from the car when alighting. In the meantime vehicular traffic is held up until the car unloads and loads. In New York, Chicago, Washington and other cities where motor* busses are operating, the busses stop* at the sidewalk to unload and load,* When the bus entirely supplant# the trolley car there will be no tracks in the street, busses will let off and take on passengers at the curb and vehicular traffic will move along the middle of the street without stopping as it does now for street cars. . , h Car Companies Fight The street railway companies will fight first to keep busses off the streets, making the argument that they are unfair competition and tend to increase car fares. In the mean-j time they will lay no more track* for crosstown lines and extensions, but will take care of that traffic with busses of their own. Only gradually will they push trolley cars out with their own busses. If they can unload their trolley systems on the municipalities through municipal ownership that will be one way out for them. They won’t object to muncipal ownership of trolley systems, but ' they’ll put up an awful fight against public owflership of motor busses. Judging the future by the past very few municipalities will find out until It is too late that the trolley car is headed for the junk pile, and that the city transportation system of the future will consist of motor busses. So it is a good thing for American cities that very few of them have taken over from private corporations their trolley systems at reproduction or any other valuation. But they won’t profit by that fact if' they permit the cost of a motor bus system to be added to the • valuation of trolley systems headed for the junk pile. For that will make for higher rather than for lower transportation fares.