Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1925 — Page 4

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Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, x and a tooth for a tooth.—Matt. 5:38. Good Christians should naver avenge injuries.—Cervantes. i y HIGHWAY MEN INDICTED EOLLOWING action of legislative investigating committees of two State departments, the Marion Coonty grand jury today took the highway department affairs, also investigated, into its own hands and charged six persons, including the director and a member of the commission, with conspiracy to embezzle and grand larceny. At last the public will have an opportunity to learn the truth concerning handling of used war material by the highway department and other activities of the highway body which friends of the commission have long attempted to obscure. It will be interesting to know what the committee investigating the highway commission will do now. The sensible procedure, in fairness both to the public and to the highway commission, would be to leave the whole matter to the courts. There the affairs of the department can be gone into in detail, free from political bias and influence, and justice dealt. The highway department investigation is of long standing. Mora than two years ago The Indianapolis Times told the public about the commission’s activities in handling used war material. At that time no official action was taken. The State board of accounts took up the investigation and returned one partial report. In connection with that- report a compartively small sum of money was returned to the State. The Marion County grand jury has been investigating the affairs of the department for several months. One grand jury adjourned without making a report, leaving the job to its successor, which-returned the present indictments. Where charges of the -kind made against tho highway department are involved, a court is the place to settle them. It is to be hoped that no effort will be spared in going into all the tacts. -

WHO’LL R JLE GERMANY NOW? * - y \ is just now beginning to realize what a tough Vj job she is going to have picking a man to fill the place left vacant by the death of President Fritz Ebert. Chancellor Luther, ex-Chancellor Marx, Gen. von Iliridenburg, Admiral von Tirpitz, Admiral Scheer, Captain Eckner, who brought the ZR-3 over to the United States; Prince von Buelow, Count Toerring, Count Lerchenfeld, and even former (Vown Prince himself, have all been mentioned. Not one of these is qualified for the immediate task of holding Germany true to her republican course as was Ebert, the saddle-maker president. It is probably true, as stated, that he could not have been re-elected at the end of his six-year terra of office soon to expire. If sp it is because he steadfastly refused to run Germany to suit ; any one of the big political parties or classes. When the Reds tried to Russianize Germany, Ebert sat on them. When the nationalists preached an uprising against allied demands, he sat on them. When the separatists tried to split up Germany to' avoid the consequences of the war, he sat on them. When the monarchists tried to restore the empire, he sat on them. When the fascisti engineered their little uprising, he sat on them. As hotheads of this group and that produced crisis after crisis, Ebert kept his head and held to a course of moderation and common sense. So Ebert made a lot of enemies. But way down in their hearts Germans held him in high esteem. They trusted him. His successor will have to start from the scratch and build up his prestige, for none in Germany aside from Ebert thus far has proved his ability to govern a republic. Germany is fortunate in one thing, however. She has np outstanding monarchist in the public mind at this time. Such a leader, one who had already publid sympathy in ,his favor, might see his chance now in the country’s dilemma. The nearest approach to this type, perhaps, is Gen. von Seeckt, commander of the Germany army. But he has kept his personality pretty much in the background. It is whispered, however, that whoever is elected must have his 0. K. Behind Von Seeckt—sleek, capable, typical monacled Prussian—is not merely the tiny army which the treaty of Versailles allows Germany, but, it is suspected, a mighty, if invisible and non-uniformed, host of trained shock troops ready for any eventuality. Whoever succeeds Ebert, therefore, Von Seeckt will bear watching. . *.

AVIATION

By M. B. TRACY RMIES work on land, navies at ea and airplanes In the laJ air. An airplane has no more to do with a ship than a ship has with a fort Necessity of co-operation did not prevent two separate departments for the Array and Navy. Why should It prevent a separate department for aviation? Does not the very quarrel now mglng between the Army and Navy show the wisdom of such a department? So long as either the Army or Navy control aviation or exercise a joint control, will not each try „o make capita,' of It? Aviation in not only new, hut It is of such character as to p-.omlse the abandonment of a lot of existing methods and equipment. Certain business interests have gotten used to these methods .and have made huge sums by furnishing’ this equipment. Naturally, there Is a lobby against aviation per se, A battleship costs many millions, an airplane only a few thousand. Those ipen who have made money out of the construction ,ot battleships are not going to sit silently i>y and see It give way to the construction of airplanes. There Is more to the row than merely military prejudice. The steel boys and the oil boys are also present, though not so noisily. Meanwhile, our friend. General Mitchell, to claim Ahs

spotlight, at the ris)? of reprimands and the loss of his job. He seems to be playing a lon* hand so far as official Washington is concerned, but he is playing it to thp satisfaction of a constantly growing audience. His arguments are such as us plain folks can understand. . 1 The fact that the Navy hesitates to accept some of his challenges can hardly be construed otherwise than as lack of faith in its own oaae. If the Navy la. so sure it has played square and that Mitchell car.’t do what he sayß, why not try the thing over again, and under conditions that will guarantee fair Play? But this, important thought it may be, is outside the question of whether a department of aviation ought to be established. That question seems to/ be answered not only by the unnm cessary rumpus which Joint control Involves, but by another question—Why not? Fanner's Road to Success The sooner we quit going through the wretched pantomime of legislating the farmer Into prosperity the sooner the farmer will prosper. The sooner the' farmer realizes that that can not be done, the sooner he will set In motion those activities which will enable him through and In hlm : self to acquire prosperity,—Senator Glass (DeouJ, Virginia.

ARMY AND NAVY BUZZ OVER NEW LIQUOR SCANDAL

Large Quantity of Booze is Found on U, S, Transport, By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer r ASHINGTON, March 4.—The YY/ Beaufort liquor scandal xreW ates one of the most difficult situations the Army, and Navy qper had to deal with. That a large quantity of whisky was found by rasters who searched the transport on her arrival at Norfolk from the We&t Indies, there is no 'mention. At least forty cases are accounted for definitely, not to mention some which is believed to have been smuggled ashore during the excitement and still more which the owners managed to heave overboard. What makes the case so hard to handle is that the intoxicants were found in the staterooms of Army and perhaps Navy officers who were returning on the transport from duty in the West Indies, so that the board of inquiry cannot very convincingly report inability to determine responsibility. This was what happened whe . a similar discovery was made on the Beaufort once before and several months earlier on the naval collier Kittery. The authorities also managed to hush these two previous affairs up at the time, as many have been done on still other occasions which have not even yet come to light.

Court-Martial Unlikely In the present inutance publicity forces action am l a whitewash, if one is attempted, will be sc, obvious that a tremendous outcry is sure to be raised. On the other hand, it promises to be almost impossible to get a courtmartial together which will penalize an offense recognized as almost universal in both the army and navy commissioned personnels. The board of inquiry appointed by Rear Admiral Roger Welles, commandant of the Fifth Naval District, to investigate the Beaufort case, is a mixed body composed of both Army and Navy officers, since both services are involved. It will impose no punishments but simply return a finding of facts. Then it will be the business of the Army and Navy respectively to take up the individual cases of such offl-ers of each service as the report poi its to. If ,ine consequences of conviction were trifling the matter would not be the subject of so much of a flutter In military circles, but they may be very serious professionally. The unauthorized presence of liquor on a naval vessel Is prohibited by definite regulations and Navy officers who disregard It automatically subject themselves to discipline Army Man Different An Army officer’s position is different. Not being subject to naval rtiles, he can take liquor from a wet, foreign port on board a transport without laying himself open to any specific accusation, though the transport’s officers would be bound to prevent it if aware he was doing so. In the Beaufort case, however, all appearances are that ah attempt at smuggling the wet goods aSnore was being made. This, if proved, will be a dvll not a military offense, but the military authorities certainly will have to take measures against any officer who may be -civilly convicted of rum smuggling, as guilty of conduct unbecoming his uniform. The cashiering of anybody convicted thus is not beyond the bounds of possibility. In Army and Navy circles Interest in the fate of those caught in the raid is at least equaled by curiosity concerning the Identity of the "squealer" who furnished the Information which led to It. If discovered, and a member of either service, his relations with his fellow officers will be far from pleasant henceforth.

Waltz Days By HAL COCHRAN. There once was the day when the music we’d play was mostly all ballad and such. ’ Your grandma would know how those old-timers go, though today they're not sung very much. The love songs of old, when the lovers were bold, were sweet both In music and word. The tales they’d unfold little heart feelings told and the lyrics were never absurd. It was waltz music time that was built to rhyme. There was sway that was sweet as could be. The dances of old, so I’ve often been told, were affairs of Just feweet ecstacy. Today? Well, how changed, with the tunes rearranged, till the best that the modern youth has is some lines, from the old Into new meter scrolled. And today we are calling it jazz. The sweetness and tenderness seems to have slipped, as our pres-ent-day orcbestrd plays. Os old ’twas the lovers’ sweet waltz that they tripped. ’Twould be sun to go back to those days. . Watch Our Oil! It seems to me that our experience In transferring oil domes from the/ Navy to the Interior Department ought to be a warning to us against transferring any more of the essentials of our fleet and craft to the Interior Department.—Senator Aahurst (Dem.) Arizona. H Schools Vital The American public school la the great vital agency of democracy. Give us good schools and we will preserve forever the institutions, the traditions and the ideals of our fathers, and shape ar.d influence the destinies of .mankind everywhere,— Representative Gibson (Rep.), Ver-> mont. Carpetbaggers N. G. We must depend for the future development of Alaska tipon the people who are Alaskans and not upon the people who go there and simply seek a profit.—Representative Maccciifornia~

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Bus Control mHE Moorhead Senate bill, giving the public service commission jurisidictlon over motor bus lines, passed the House the other day. Thus ends one of the hottest fights Bof the session. Deeply Involved in the issue was public interest, measure, the lit ite’s prosperity depends on its tr an sp o r tation agencies. So, presumably, the Legislature, after mature deliberation, took the action it believed would NELSON best serve public interest. On that same day the United States Supreme Court In two decisions denied the right of States to interfere writh interstate commerce over their highwt ys. So to evade any State regulation. a bus operator need only project his line across a State llpe. Already one Indiana bus operator has announced that he will extend three of his lines to Ohio, Michigan and Illinois points. Others may be expected to do likewise. With an airy wave of the hand, the Supreme Court renders futile the attempt of the Legislature to provide for bus regulation that would best serve the needs of Indiana. Probably the court was moved by sound law in this instance — hut it reveals how little real power to regulate its own Internal affairs is left to the States. The "sovereign State” Is a mouth-filling phrase, but It doesn’t mean anything. It’s nine-tenths histcry and one-tenth myth. Celerity PjTIHE Indiana Senate Monday i I evening—at the end of a L J day’s consideration —peaked the State budget hill substantially as it was received from the House. Several individual items were changed, but these not greatly alter thE total. The Senate's action was a noteworthy exhibition of legislative celerity. No other measure before the Legislature can compare with the general appropriation bill In Importance Upon it depends the operation of State government, support of State institutions, and the tax rate which affects every citizen in the State. It was the one 'essential piece of business before the General Assembly. Yet this important bit of legislation required only a week —including a two-day strike In the Senate —to pass both chambers. Probably it could have been passed In three days—-with ample consideration—without legislators dropping dead from over-exertion or mental exhaustion. The celsrity of action on the budget bill proves the absurdity, the waste of time and money, of a sixty-one-day session. All matters really vital and necessary for

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Who were the parents of the King James of England, under whose supervision the translation of the Bible was made? Queen Mary of Scots and her cousin and second husband, .Henry Stuart. / Who was the first movie actress? Cissy Fitzgerald, who danced for the first strip of test film with a living model at Edison studios, In 1897, may probably claim the honor. She Is still In the movies. WWat are the largest snakes known? The reticulated pythons In the Philippine Islands, which measure a little over thirty feet in length and fifteen Inches in diameter, on the average. Where and by whom were the first watches made? The first watches were made very early In t?.e sixteenth century. Peter Hale, a clock maker of Nuremberg. Germany, Is usually credited with the invention. What is the salary of the two highest paid Governors in the United States? Pennsylvania pays her Governor 818,000 a year, and Illinois $12,000. What was the •‘‘Petition of Rlghti”? The arbitrary course of King Charles I of England, led Parliament in 1682 to draw up a “Petition of Rights,” which demanded that the King should not levy taxea without the consent of Parliament, try the people by court-martial imprison any one without due process of aw, nor Interfere with popular rights in other important matters. What is the proper dress to wear when traveling on & large steamer? For dinner'everyone dresses, the ladies in dinner dresses without hats and the gentlemen usually in dinner coats. At other times tha ladies usually wear street clothes or semi-sport costumes. The dress depends a good deal on tha time of the year and the tr,p - i ' - ;

public welfare could bS disposed of in a week. However, because a sixty-one-day session is permissible every Legislature totters through weeks of inconsequential loquacity with a final spectacular spurt. And always pre-session talk of a short session never materializes in anything but talk. Alms RHODA WELDING, the new secretary of the Family Welfare Society—with extensive experience in social service and welfare work—condemns indiscriminant and haphazard charity Upon her arrival in the city recently to assume her duties she said: "I believe In adequate relief. but not perpetual relief.” That’s the heart of the problem of charity— lo prevent relief from becoming a habit. Relief doled out, whenever requested, encourages mendicancy and by discouraging initiative defeats its own purpose. True charity lies not only In relieving temporary distress but in preventing recurrence of the necessity for relief. Any case of obvious distress stirs the emotions of generous individuals. whether it is a worthy case of temporary need or chronic mendicancy. Both classes look alike superficially, so frequently individual charity responds without investigation. Consequently street beggary is a lucrative vocation—and many benevolences of charitable individuals go astray. A person may drop a dime in a beggar’s hat, but the act isn’t benefiting either the beggar or society. That isn’t charity, it’s almsgiving. It is charity dispensed by social and welfare organizations that does the permanent good. Such organizations. by mixing soft-hearted impulses with cold-blooded investigations. have done more in a few yeau to better social conditions than all the haphazard almsgiving of the centuries. , Probes T*“ ” JHE legislative subcommittee which investigated the State J Reformatory’ submitted its report yesterday. It found nothing to criticise in the construction or management of that institution. Scandal-mongers will be disappointed. The subcommittee investigating the public service commission also reported yesterday. That body, likewise, according to the probers, is pure and undefiled.. In their report it was figuratively clothed in white samite and had a laurel wreath hung on its ear: Not lon^ago rumor worked herself into a lather galloping through legislative halls screaming Os rottenness in the reformatory, public service commission, and highway department. She promised disclosures that would blow off the St&tehouse dome. The Legislature immediately broke out all over with the Investigating rash —and started three probes. Two of them have been completed. Nothing reprehensible was uncovered. The third, that of the highway commission, is under way. Probably these, investigations were as impartial and thorough aa time permitted, though of course they were cursory. However, If they put rumor to sleep and allay irresponsible suspicions they have served some useful purpose. Which is more than can be said of most legislative investigations. If all the useless, unfinished probes undertaken by Congress and State legislatures in the past decade were piled in one heap It would top the Woolworth Building.

“Learning to Love” That’s Constance Talraadge’s Latest—- “ Learning to Love” Kisses and Laughs A Million of EJach “Learning to Love” - 7s the Story of , A Flapper-Vamp “Learning to Love” Is About a Lovfng Baby Mama, a Broken-Hearted Would-Be Divorcee Who Was Just Pestered to Death With Four Flghtlngi Fiances and an Iceberg Bridgegroom “Learning to Love” Ruilt for Laughing Purposes CONSTANCE TALMADGE Is at Her Funniest in “Learning to Love” A Real Laughing Comedy A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE STARTS SUNDAY CIRCLE

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MR. FIXIT GETTING CINDERS

City Working Up to Capacity to Do Away With Mud — Streets Given Preference,

By MR. FIXIT. Sti ets will be given preference when it comes to distribution of cinders, W. P. Hargan of the street commissioner’s office,

said today. "Our force is taking care of complaints as rapidly as possible. We are r mped with them and our men e doing their best to meet condi oni," Hargan said. MRH. HELEN NOLL, 1210 N. CONCORD, AVE.—Property owners Interested nhould obtain petitions for street lights, and ,for establishing a grade for your street, from the board of works office. These petitions, when signed, should be presented to the board. Under (he strict latter of the law the street commissioner is not permitted to put cinders on streets where no grade has been established. Hov. ever, tile case will be investigated and If possible cinders will be put on the street. MR. MIDDLETON, 2340 S. CALIFORNIA ST.—Property owners should petition the board of works to establish grade on S. Alabama St. Blank petitions may be obtained at the board office. W. fc. M.—lt will be necessary to petition the board of works for street lights. Blank petitions may be obtained at the board office. RESIDENT PROPERTY OWNERS, LIVINGSTON AVE.—Your

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Ever Onward and Upward

petition for cement sidewalks has been presented to the board of works. F. W. WILHELM, 1510 SAMOA ST.—Valley between Hamilton Ave. and Samoa St., from Brookslde Ave. north: CONSTANT READER, for W. Eleventh St., Bellevieu PI. to Mount St., A READER OF THE TIMES FOR YEARS, for alleys Laurel to Spruce Sts., between English Ave. and Deloss St. Cinders for these streets and alleys will be provided as soon as possible, preference being given streets. Bootlegged Aliens The deportation of aliens found to be unlawfully in the United States is rapidly becoming one of the most important functions of the immigration service, and as the laws governing the admission of aliens become more restrictive in character the deportation problem becomes more difficult and exacting.—Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration.

Tom Sims Says It's spring, beautiful spring, when you feel so datn lazy you don’t give a ding. The sap is flowing in the trees, f there is a weakknees, we’ve shed our heavy beeveedeeze. f nessee m o u ntains a dude is a man who gets March instead June? Our guess is a player piano In tune. An Alabama dude is a man who cuts a chew of tobacco with his knife instead of biting it off. In Mississippi, a lazy man is one who hasn’t energy enough to make his boys go to work. Weather statistics for this winter sow the mean temperature has been been even worse than that. And if you don’t know why one chages her mind it’s because ‘ because." (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service. Ino.)