Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1925 — Page 4

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Give diligence to make your calling and election Bure. —2 Pet. 1:10. It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. —Alfred Mercier. THE SORROW OF SULLIVAN SHE sympathy of Indiana and of the country is being extended to the Sorrowing families of the fifty-one miners who lost their lives in the explosion last Friday and who are going to their last resting places today. • It takes a tragedy of this kind to bring home to most of us the story of the struggle with nature necessary to produce the coal that we shovel in our furnaces and use to produce our power and operate our railroads. It is seldom that we think of the miner as a hero. More often we are inclined to think of him as something entirely different, for we seldom hear of him except in connection with strikes and labor disturbances. But nevertheless the miner is a hero, although he probably would be the last to admit it. To him it is pretty much all in a day’s work. Miners live in constant dread of something of the nature of the Sullivan tragedy. Every day when they go dov n into the dark shafts they know that in their battle against natural forces and against conditions underground they may lose. Hundreds of coal diggers from the Indiana field volunteered for the work of bringing up the bodies of their dead comrades. They knew that their efforts would be hazardous in a mine where one explosion occurred and where there was every possibility of cave-ins and more explosions. But they served gladly, waiting for hours in the pouring rain until their turn should couxe to go down into the earth and bring back their burdens of human elay. We can do little mui'e for their families than give to them of our means and extend to them our sympathy. Their losses, of course, can never be replaced. The miner who digs our coal is a hero, deserving much credit and receiving little. THE RABBIT—OR THE DOG? chances favor another Washington arms conference. A J President Coolidge wants to call one, the British favor and the Japanese are said to he not entirely opposed to the idea . '* Anything, say we, that will reduce the danger of our boys being turned into cannon-fodder, or strangled to death in a fog of poison gas, is all to the good. But let’s not begin to pat ourselves on the back too soon. Such a conference is not necessarily and of itself aD ujimixed blessing. It is but an instrument. Good will come of it only if wisely used. Not infrequently the hunter shoots at & rabbit and kills his dog. Which is pretty muqfc what happened at the first Washington conference. We aimed at establishing equality in the Atlantic with the British, and came out second best. We contemplated equality in the western Pacific with the Japanese and got undisputed inferiority. Insofar as the first Washington conference lessened the tension in the Pacific, removed the. menace of an Ahglo-Japanese alliance and put a stop to the race between the great powers to ses which could build the most battleships the quickest, it was & success. But such is the effect of some of the other accomplishments of that conference that naval officers, and Army men, too, charged with our national defense, quote the classics by saying that another such victory and we’re undone. If reports are borne out and a second conference does meet in Washington, we must watch our step much more closely than we did the last time. We must hit the rabbit, not the drg. EXPENSES EIGHT is thrown on Americas requirements and tastes by Business Bourse, International, which figures out the nation’s expense account in per capita terms for a year. For diamonds the American spends annually $2.58. He spends 22 oents for dentrifices and $1.30 on pickles. He puts oat $4.15 for near beer and 6 cents for ink. x Three dollars is spent for ice cream and 90 cents for eggs; $3.75 for toilet soap and sl.lO for books; $27 for joy riding and $1.29 for the work of religion. Five dollars go for jewelry and 15 cents for art works; 11 cents for health service and 65 cents for coffins; $lO for public schools and $1.86 for shirts; luxurious foods, $45, and 8 cents for salaries of professors. Our daily plaint has been, “Where does the money got” Now we know.

Tom Sims Says When will prohibition be old enough to do without Its bottle? There’s a fortune for the man wLo can make two autos park where only one parked before. Crying over spilt milk only helps to ourdle it. It takes a b' uity doctor to make a mountain r of a mole spot. Here and there you see a man worrying himself to death over his A doctor has discovered people hare a sixth sense. Then that explains why so few husbands get away with their lies. Quite a few young men are following in Edison's steps when it oomws to work. We predict the .tottest summer ever. We always do. 'And our guess always seems to be correct. We know a man who worried so muah about his hair turning gray that he grew bald headed Instead. Couples onoe claimed they never spoke cross words to each other. 1% they claim thly never shoot at each other . , Inc.,

In New York By JAMES W. NHW YORK, Feb. 23.—There are l-ise stogies, cheap Filipino cigars and 6-cent ropes sold in the negro section of Harlem than in any other section of New York, a manager of a chain tobacco shop tells me. “The boys in Harlem usually smoke two-for-a-quarter brands,” he says, “and there Is big demand for higher grades.” • * • Because of the great shopping public here there are many stores that specialize in Just one line of merchandise. Probably the most unusual of these lea furniture store of Fifth Ave that sells only furniture for children, handling miniature beds, chairs, dressers and even dwarf pianos costing hundreds of dollars. • * * Stepped off Fifth Ave. into one of the Thirties the other day to buy some socks In a haberdashery. Seeing some that struck my fancy, I inquired the price. “Our socks are as low as $5 the pair.” the clerk answered After I realized that he wasn’t joking I wended my way out, telUn'j him that I -rould call again. Both of us knew that I didn’t

NAVAL STUDENTS CHARGE DISCRIMINATION BY OFFICERS

Members of 1927 Class Insist They Are ‘Freeze Out’ Victims, By CHARLES P. STEWART NBA Serviee Writer CEThASHI NOTON. Feb. 23.—AlJVY/| though Rear Admiral Henry I ” j B. Wilson answered “Ridiculous!” when asked if the authorities at Annapolis, where he is naval academy superintendent, really are trying to “freeze out" as many as they can of the 1927 class of midshipmen, nevertheless the feeling among the midshipmen themselves is that those of their number who finally get their commissions certainly will have earned them. The 1927 class of “middles” had the bad luck, as they see it, to enter the academy in 1923, Just after naval armament reduction had become a national policy. There were nearly 1.000 of them. Obviously, however, If the Navy was going to be cut down, fewer officers would be needed. Work Made Harder Congress saw this, and before the end of 1923 so drastically reduced the number of appointments of new midshipmen that the 1928 class, entering In 1924, numbered less than 400. So here was the 1927 class more than twice as large as It ought to have been—or so the "middles” think the academy authorities look at It. With the Idea of getting It down to reasonable proportions, according to the embryo naval officers, their instructors have made their work so difficult that men have been dropping out at a rate never before heard of in the academy's history. At any rate, it is a fact that, by the January examinations this year, the class had been reduced to about 675, and In tbe January examinations approximately 100 more were "bilged”—that is, failed to pass. Record, Say Middies Upon three successive failures of this sort In the regular monthly examinations midshipmen are dropped, or “permitted to resign,” which Is the more euphonious official way of expressing It. Admiral Wilson's version Is that 1927 class failures have not been especially numerous, considering the class’ size, but he admits he doesn’t know Just what the figures are.* The “midd'es” assert that If he’ll look them up, he’ll And they constitute a record by a wide margin.

Ask The Times Tou can set an anewer to any question pf fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Wanhlnirton Bureau. 1822 Nsw York Ave.. \Va*hlnrton. D. C.. inclosing- 3 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 Ual—^Editor' lettrra arß conflcl*’o- - is Mon to Carlo and for what Is It noted? It Is a small town In the principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean. It Is noted for Its gaming tables and handsome casino and gardens and Its charming climate. The population is about 4,000. Wh .t does the name Marie mean? It is the French form of Mary and meanß “bitter.” What is the average height of a oocoanut tree? The average height of a full grown tree is from fifty to sixty feet. What are the dimensions of ths President’s yacht, the Mayflower? Length, 728 feet; beam, 36 feet; mean draft, 17 feet 4 inches; displacement, 2,690. Can you suggest the best manner of restoring whiteness to clothes that have become gray in color from poor laundering? Repeated boilings, and hanging them out in the strong sunlight Is perhaps the best method. It will take time, however, even with this method. What is ths longest tunnel in the United States? The Shandaken tunnel, eighteen miles long, which delivers dally 300,000,000 gallons of pure water from the great Asho n dam to New York City. What is the irlze and population of the Isle of Han? Extreme length is 32 miles, with an Irregular breadth varying from six to twelve miles. Area. 227 square miles. Population, 54,758.

Where was Billie Burke born, is she married and In what Is she now playing? She was bom in Washington, DC., Aug. 7, 1885. She is married and has one child, a girl named Patricia. She Is playing at present In & new muslcrj play, “Annabelle.** From what is the quotation “Brevity Is th© soul of wit” taken? From Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2. What makes my cakes of such coarse grain? It may be coarse sugar or perhaps the fault lies with the flour or perhaps you do not beat the batter enough. Try putting some com starch with the flour. How many violins did Jakob Stainer,'the German violin maker, make? His entire output would probably not number over two hundred. Who established the soldiers’ home in Washington, D. CL, and how is It supported? It was established by an act of Congress whereby the portion of a fund left from the tribute money paid by Mexico during the Mexloan War, with an additional appropriation * n Congress, was set aside for founding of a home for disabled soldiers of the Regular Army. At first the soldiers of the Regular Army paid a small monthly sum for the support of ths home. The fond has grown to such proportions, however, that this Is ed longer necessary. The home is now supported from Income from this money and from the farming and dairying oarrled on at the home. Tt le governed by a board of governors appointed by the President of the United States.

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MANAGER MAKES GOOD RECORD

By LOUIS B. SELZER Os the Cleveland Press C—“| LEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 23. —The first year of city manager operation in Cleveland was a precedent smasher in many respects so far as municipal government was concerned. Some of the things accomplished in this single year were; City operated within its income by $626,000. All services were expanded. Street paving records broken and unit costs lowered. Mali project—grouping of public buildings of similar architecture —brought near completion. Lakefront graded and eyesores removed. Adjustment of long-etanding legal tangles with railroads over lake front property put under way. Parks KeliablUtated Sell Old Buildings Old fire and police stations in terminal site sold for $1,700,000 and new buildings under way. Police force motorized and armed with new weapons; gambling stopped; traffic regulations put on a systematic basis. Women police organized in a separate bureau. Actual work of rehabilitating neglected city light plant, which sells electric current to Cleveland householders at cost, started. New Baldwin pumping station completed, construction of great new reservoir speeded. Phenol substance in drinking water supply, nuisance of many years standing due to pollution of lake by steel plants, stopped. Because the city has been steadily growing and Its original street system was not mapped out for such heavy traffio, the handling of traffic, both automobiles and street cars, was one of th© most important problems confronting the city manager when he took office a ? ear ago.

Have Traffic Head Since that time, however, a trafflo commissioner has been ©retted. The office Is filled by a former deputy police inspector who had specialized in handling traffic problems. With the cooperation of the manager, he has reduced traffic accidents to a minimum, accelerated traffic on the main thoroughfares, and devised a parking system that Is Just now being put into effect. Under leadership of the city manager steps are being taker* to revise the Tayler eost-at-servlc© franchise between the Cleveland Railway Uo., a private concern, and the city. - It Is through this grant that the street car passengers of Cleveland control the operation of the traction system. However, the grant has developed several major defect*. The manager's long experience In railroad and traction matters, together with h)s knowledge of the municipality's heeds, is being depended upon to help make the grant the workable document It was ten year* ago. Beautifying Washington The plan Is to have an avenue from the Capitol to the Potomac and In that avenue will stand only the towering shaft to Geo-ge Washington and the superb, matchless memorial to Abraham Lincoln. Beyond will otoe the Memorial bridge and then Arlington, where rest la dreamless sleep the soldier dead. The Capitol, Washington, Lincoln, the Memorial bridge and Arlington, the home of Lee? It is a glorious conception. —Rep. Cooper (R.), Wisconsin. V Star Fliers American aviators lead all countries In the possession of, 1 world aviation rjgorda. They have more than records to their credit. cover all ranges of ao-ghta.-~Rep. Colton (R.J,

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Income Tax Reductions Contemplated

Timet Washintjton Bureau. IS** New York Avenue. Feb. 28. InVJU come taxes are to be reduced Plans are now well under way toward the formulation of’, a new tax schedule which contemplates reducing the maximum tax on large incomes from the present rata of 40 per cent to 20 per oent, or possibly even to 15 per cent. The revenue being received under the Fordney-McCumber tariff added to that obtained under the present scale of Income taxes Is more than the Government requires for running expenses. In the plans for lower taxes chief consideration is to be given to the taxes on Incomes of SIO,OOO ‘and over. Those who have tax legislation in charge, both In Congress and In the Treasury, are of the opinion that the man of moderate means reaped the chief benefit from the tax reduotions made last year, and that It will be the rich man's turn to get the next reduction. Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, as well as some of the liberal Republican members, have stated that If the taxes on large Incomes can be cut so drastically, It will also be possible to Increase the exemption granted men of small Incomes. Consequently, a counter proposition is

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being prepared to raise the exemption from Jjncomo taxes for married men from the present $2,500 to $5,000. The exact details of the new plan, already dubbed “the new Mellon plan” by members of Congress, will not be formulated until after next June 80, when the exact amount of government surplus will be known. Though advocates of last year’s Mellon plan have tried to convince many men of moderate means that

DISARMAMENT

BY M. E. TRACY "8 E have had one disarmament \]U pow-wtrw, and we shall soon have another. The Idea Is too appealing to be laid aside without further effort. The first conference was not entirely reassuring. It resulted In an agreement to sorap a few battleships and to curtail their production In the future. It got nowhere, however, with reference to the reduction of land forces, or ths output of more novel and supposedly more deadly instru-

RIGHT HERE

IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

Strike r_JJI UPILS of the Jefferson High | P | School, in Lafayette, walked I * I out the other day and left education flat on its back. Resigna tion of a popular athletic director, because school authorities assumed supervision of athletics, precipitated the strike. Doubtless a great principle is at stake. The suffering of downtrodden school children, when school authorities control athletics, must be terrible. Perhaps It should arouse indignation. But probably it won’t. The strikers. instead of receiving public sympathy and crowns of martyrdom, will only be ridiculed. Even the school authorities won’t bother to Import strike breakers. The incident, though, has a serious aspect. It reveals an attitude frequently affected by pupils. They seem to feel they confer, instead of receiving, benefits by attending—that they- slave for the profit of cruel school boards and heartless teachers. . Nothing oould be farther from the fact. Free schools and willingness to submit to onerous taxation to bring them within reach of the whole population have been America’s outstanding contribution to civilization. Despite the obvious advantages of school there are some who attend reluctantly and refuse education As much as possible. These individual cases can not be reached. But when an entire student body strikes the parents of the recalcitrants should use both hands and a club. If necessary, to break the strike.

they would have fared better under the Mellon plan than under the tax plan which was finally agreed upon ae a compromise between the Mellon plan and the Democratic plan a schedule prepared by the Ways and Means Committee of the House shows that Is not the case. Even incomes up to $15,000 per year are being taxed less under ths present law than they would have been charged under the Mellon rates.

ments, such as airplanes, dirigibles and poison gases. The boys were prepared to go a little way, but no farther. They were ready to Junk what might be obsolete, but not to prevent more devllsh substitutes. Asa matter of foot, the world is just as adequately prepared to engage In wholesale murder a* It waa before the conference. One kind of engine has merely given place to another. If there are fewer battleships, there are vastly more aircraft. That unrestrained rivalry of whloh we oomplalned so bitterly, and which we thought to check, has merely been forced into new channels. But the thought has been planted. The fact that the ndtlons were willing to sit down around a common table and talk the thing over represents a real beginning. The next conference will show whether human mentality Is equal to ths proposition, or whether it Is only soothing Itself with pretenses. If we can’t agree to ourtall the whole fabrio of artificial strife, to lnciude every sort of weapon and ©very character of force, we shall be compelled to admit that the Ideal in premature and that the nations are not ready to accept It sincerely. This la one case where exceptions do not prove the rule, hut destroy It. and where the program must be all-embracing to succeed. If Europe is to remain at*' armed camp and If nations are allowed to go a* far & they like In the production of submarines, bombers and other devices, where la the situation helped by the destruction of a few capital shins? *

MONDAY, FEB. 23,1925

Coal | . | BLAST of gas in the City I I coal mine near Sullivan FriLiAJ day snuffed out fifty one lives. Tt was the greatest catastrophe in Indiana coal mining. A flash and death had struck. Yet, despite the suddenness and extent, there was no disorder. The work of clearing away other mine disaster seventy-six chllNKLSON dren of the victims. There la nothing dramatic about such a disaster to hold attention it’s just part of the price of coal. Friday It was flfty-one Indiana miners. Not long ago several hun* dred men were trapped In a Welsh coal mine — and paid the price. A few weeks before an explosion In a German mine killed hundreds. Yet arresting as these major disasters are they are but part of tha blood price of coal. Every yeas more miners lose their lives In single—generally unnoticed—accidents than In the ten greatest coal-mining disasters of the past fifty yearn, With all the Improvements ln> regulations and safeguards mining Is hazardous. Probably It will always remain so. But until every safety measure possible has been adopted, coal will cost too much In human lives. Pay SHE bill sponsored by Senator Perkins to increase the sab ary of Inldana’s legislators £fom $6 to $lO a day passed the 6an ate Friday. The new scale proposed Isn’t to be e Effective until 1989. Perhaps the boost Is only simple justice. At any rate its supporters can point to the date It becomes effective as evidence of the purity of their motives. The adequacy at the f 6-a-day legislative salary may be debatable. Some days the average citizen, watching legislative contortions, may feel tbe Legislature Is grossly overpaid if It gets a kind look. At other times he estimates its services more highly. For forty-four years, though, that salary has remained stationary. Probably now only the free dinners and cigars passed out by generous lobbyists knaps many a hand-pressed Solon from starving to death on the Statehonse steps. Despite all this self-imposed suffering in recent years no Legislature has had the hardihood to raise Its pay. Several times it has been proposed, but bad attacks of chilblains prevented action. If Legislatures weren’t always so afraid of political shadows they would face the salary Issue squarely and treat if like any other matter of routine business. Instead of Jumping for a bomb-proof whenever the subject la brought up. The laborer la worthy of his hire—whether he works for an individual or the State of Indiana. Board SHE Senate recently pasesd the bill abolishing the present State board of sducatlon and creating one composed of the State superintendent and four members not professional educators. The measure la now before tbe House, Its supporters charge the bonf ae now constituted, -easen of Whom are presidents of State cahoots of otty superintendents,—is run tt)T the benefit of the colleges. Too Httlp practical education Is they 1 say. Perhaps the charge !• trua ftoO often courses of study in oommoa schools have been designed to lit pupils for entronoe Into oollege, not Use. However, In reoent years the fallacy of that has been realized. Vocational and practical education is now being stressed. Probably thirteen members make the present board unwieldly. Ite session must more nearly resemble a convention than the deliberations of a compact working organisation. A smaller body might oonoentrate responsibility and promote efficiency. But why banish professional educators from It? That’s comparable to forbidding doctors on the State board of health or practioal farmers on the board of agriculture. Those actively identified with the State school system are better qualified to diagnose Its Ills than Interested amateurs. A board of education, on whloh they were not represented, would be as pointless ae a performance of Hamlet without the gloomy Dane. Lovely Lady By HAL COCHRAN I look on your wavy-llke glossy white halm, which surely command my respect. I wonder if each In an eoho of cares, or maybe of dreams that were wrecked. When age comes along, as It surely must do, and youth passes Idly away, I wonder Just what it Is bringing to you: what thoughts come a drifting your way. Each line in your face oould a story relate, yet that story ia lost In your mind. You keep It a secret; what’s happened to date, as each day after day fails behind. You feel there’s no interest In days that have been, to anyone else ’oept to you. The past Is a mem’ry. so why let folks in on the when they’re living the new. Old lady of gray, it’s a pleasure to say that, no matter just who you rtay be, I eye you with ease and reupect. If you please, and you're ju*t lovely lady to me.