Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis "Times ROT W. HOWARD, rrwddent. , FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Nirfrspp*r Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. * Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Timet Publishing Cos.. 214 220 W. Mary’and St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. * * • PHONE—MA In 3600.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.—Acts 16:31. Faith lights us through the dark to victory.—Sir W. Davenant. • ,*. ■’ d —. :—• . BOOZE’S WOOZY FIGURES pnpTJ HE mails bring us a report from the office of prohibition in J 1 1 Washington. The figures it contains make us tfaozy The New York-New Jersey diviisidn alone, /-during 1934, seized bootleg property valued at more than $2,016,000, including 640,000 gallons of illicit booze, 247 distilleries, 87 plain stills, 1,019 fermenters, 1,400 automobiles, 34 boats and 1 seaplane. During the ty-one working days of February alone,, ■, The liquor seized was enough to provide'eVery adult man and woman in New York with a pint. And; if prohibition agents actually SEIZED that much, we’ll leave you to guess the extent of the trade that bootleggers got away with. Then, there’s the rest of the country to be heard from. The figures seem to keep on mounting, mounting, mounting! We are certainly on our wayl But^where? THE NEW RADIO STATION : mNDTANAPOLIS at last takes its place among the cities of America in the field,of radio. The new station just opened by the Merchants Heat and Light Company will go a long way to keep the city “on the map.Tfeffe are few better forms of advertising for a city than a first-class radio broadcasting station. Radio enthusiasm In Indianapolis undoubtedly Is growing rapidly and the new station should go a long way in stimulating this growth. Radio has ceased to be an experiment and has become a vital factor in the lives of most of us. Its great possibilities are indicated by the fact that hundreds of thousands of persons actually sat in- on the inauguration of President Coolidge. ‘ The new station certainly starts with the best wishes of every radio fan in Indianapolis and Indiana. ANOTHER REASON FOR TRAQK ELEVATION JNOTHER argument for eventual elimination of all grade ___ crossings in the city through elevation of railroad tracks is presented in the report of. an ambulance being held up twentyfour minutes at a Belt Railroad crossing because a train was stalled. This is just one of many similar reports that have been made during the last few years of trains delaying ambulances and other traffic at various crossings.- , 1 Indianapolis already has progressed a long way with track elevation, but much still renjains to be done. Sometimes these delays are unavoidable. At other times they have been caused by negligence of train crews. But the fact remains that there would be no occurrwMfcs of this kind if there" were no* grade* crossings. The element of safety to pedestrians and traffic, of course, remains the principal argument cfor elevation. Elevation is extremely expensive, as the city, Marion County and the railroads have learned, but in the long run it is worth every cent of the money spent.

, QUIT QUIBBLING! n A. MAJORITY of more than ten to the National House of Representatives has voted its approval of the World Court and our “early adherence” thereto. Thus have they put to shame the small band of quibblers in the Senate. For years this little coterie of senatorial mossbaekt* has been blocking American participation in world reconstruction. And they have done it by splitting hairc, petty fault-find-ing and magnifying flyspecks into sinister clouds on the international horizon. - v v , We hope these little fellows will come to their senses during the long vacation just beginning. We trust they will take President Coolidge’s advice, namely, that they will no longer stall by “refinements of logic/sophistries and subterfuges” once they getvback.pn tho job in Washington. , ; It’s up to you, folks. While they are home, visiting among you, tell them to stop their quibbling and hemming and hawing and do what the country quite obviously wants them to do by a majority of at least ten to one. * • ii •, •, >,

Illinois St. at Night

To the Editor of The Timet mJUST ■wonder if the newspapers and the decent people of Indianapolis realize the all-night condition into which the downtown districts of Indianapolis are drifting? From midnight until morning on Illinois St. north of Ohio St. gangs of drunken rowdies and Immoral girls congregate and celebrate. Taxis and automobiles load and unload crowds of young fellows and young girls, some of the veryyoung, every half hour after midnight. and the swearing and vile language used by them is such as a few years ago was only heard in saloons or the lowest of brothels. Saturday and Sunday night fights have become a regular occurrence on the sidewalks and rtreets in this neighborhood. They Can’t Sleep There are living apartments over this section, wthore, working people live in moderate-priced t partmonts: They are all decent people who want to live downtown In steamheated apartments for the convenience of being their employment, These people must have their sleep, but it is getting Impossible for them to get their rest on account of the extreme rowdiness of the streets outside. If jt is bad now, what will it be for them in the summer time, when of necessity they must leave their windows wide open for ventilation? A few yeoxs ago, I may say not over two years ago, this was one of the quietest and most orderly neighborhoods in the city. There are

a large nutnber of these tenants, enough to populate a large section of the dty if each tenant were to occupy a separate house. Why cannot the right of having a peaceable living of these citizens of Indian&po-. lis be protected? If conditions , remain the- same or get worse, which'they undoubtedly these people will have to vacate, and the owners of .these ■properties will bos.forced to turn their apartments Into office buildInga.' ■ ; . ,*f > ’/ A*‘‘ ‘J ' Against Lawlessness 1, 1 as one of these citizens' of Indlahapolls, appeal to the newspapers of *• Indianapolis to t&kp a stand against this lawlessness/ When the city authorities fail fn the proper conducting of the city morals, then the newspapers or s the only ones who can be relied upon to help better the conditions. •• I■* have applied to the police authorities of .'lndianapolis, but it has had no effect. There have .been raids and airests have been made. These fellows have been cautht “with the goodS.'UW being lntoxidated and-.V In possession of illegal liquor, '. and, fighting and strtjetwalking ore 1 any longer an offense against the laws of Irtdlankpo11s. But when thdyhave brought before the Judge they have been dismissed with the advice to leave “white mile” alone hereafter. Why this only encourages them. Better that no arrests be made at all than for them to learn that there wni be po punishment meted out to thSm. They are really worse after the arrests. ' j ONE OF THE TENANTS.

FATE OF TEA POT DOME RESERVE STILL REMAINS IN DOUBT

Answer to Question of Dis-* position Is Before Federal Court. • v Timet fVathinnton Bureau, till New York Avenue. CTTaASHINGTON, March 6.—Shall \U Jlarry F. Sinclair be permitYT ted to continue exploitation of tbo Teapot Dorhe naval oil reserve? Shall the reserve be sealed until such time as the Navy really needs the oil? In Federal Court at Cheyenne, Wyo., the answers to fhose questions are to be rendered. Beginning next Monday, the Government, represented by Special Attorneys Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, and Harry Sinclair, represented by a bevy of lawyers headed by Martin Littleton of New York, will present reasons why these questions should be answered In directly opposite ways. The Government will contend that the answer to the first question must be no. In that case the answer to the second question will automatically be yes., Sinclair and his lawyers will insist that the lease which former Secretary Fall granted on Teapot Dome is valid, and that in consequence the exploitation of the reserve should be permitted to continue. , Bribery Involved The most effective method of overthrowing the Sinclair arguments is the presenting of proof that the lease was obtained through bribery. If that can be established to the satisfaction of the court, answers to the questions can not but be decided in the Government’s favor. Though much of the testimony taken during the Senate investigation a year ago will be reintroduced during the triaL the Government’s most important evidence pointing .toward bribery concerns the activities of the Continental Trading Company, a Canadian organization. -. It was to permit the Government an opportunity to gather additional evidence that the request was made that the trial be postponed for sixty days. This plea was overruled and the Government must now begin the presentation of its case before the testimony of three Important witnesses, now living in Europe and Africa, is obtained. Act With Sinclair These witnesses, H. 8. Osier, late president of the now defunct Continental Trading Company; James O’Neil, 1 former president of the Prairie Oil ai-d Gas Company, and H. M. Blackner. former chairman of the Midwest Refining Company, acted in harmony with Sinclair in the setting up of the Canadian company. The Government expects to prove that this company was merely a dummy established for the express purpose of accumulating profits, a part of which could be used for purposes of bribery of Government officials. The trial in Cheyenne is strictly a civil proceeding and involves simply the question of whether or not Sinclair is to be allowed to ofierate under the lease granted by Fall. The criminal charges nowpending against Sinclair, as well as against Fall and Doheny, will not be brought to trial until the civil suit in Wyoming, as well as the civil suit against Doheny, has been disposed of. The Government’s arguments against the continuation of the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills oil reserve in California have already been made, but Judgment has not been rendered by the trial judge, Federal Judge McCormick of Los Angeles.

Tom Sims Says Some people save up for a rainy day. Others Just figure thafl when it does come they’ll borrow an umbrella. We don’t know how March will go tout. But ftt came In like >t Summer comes in like a dirh of ice crean and I goer out like a ' cup • hot <*of. comes In like an ice man and goes out like a SIMS _ * . Congress has adjourned. Cuss its work If you please. We are saving our cuss words for when the fish won’t bite. Indiana mayor arrested for bootlegging. West Virginia jailer arrested for bootlegging. Wonder why? Another incomp tax cut Is proposed. If they put It over we’ll start predicting the end of the world again. A whittling contest was held In Chicago recently. Its winner should have been given a small town postoffice. A great gang of German reds jailed probably feel blue now. Coovrioht. 19ts. NKA. Service

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REZONING ON MERIDIAN ST. mHE city plan commission has received a request to permit erection of a large hotel and garage on N. Meridian St. The proposed site U now zoned for resi- | ' *|jj structure will be sand rooms, ten |p/: Ik garage, for hotel KllPSt ‘ s ’ nuist collides with zonNELBON ing restrictions. Also the plan commission has under advisement request of a trade union to occupy for office purposes residential property, recently acquired, on N. Meridian St. It is in a section zoned for residences. Perhaps these requests should be granted. It can be convincingly argued that neither would blacken the character of the street. Recently the mayor proposed rezoning N. Meridian St. for business from the Circle to the north pole, and Washington St. for business purposes east to the rising sun. Possibly that would be wise. It may be necessary to give ample scope for future development of the city. But if the plan commission continually rezones, it defeats the only purpose for which it exists—logical and orderly city growth. A zoning plan can’t be continually stretched to accommodate mlllion-doHar projects here and filling stations there. Once adopted, to accomplish anything, it must stay put. WATER PRESSURE AND FIRES •'m AYOR SHANK declares the water pressure maintained by I the Indianapolis Water Company In its mains is Insufficient for Are protection. He has complained to the public service commission. The other day city officios tested the normal pressure at several hydrants. It was only about thirty pounds, and threw a stream fifteen feet high. That wouldn’t even quench an average still alarm unless the latter crawled right up and licked the nozzle. Yet this is all the pressure the fire department has in fighting still alarms. For more pompous bell alarms pressure Is temporarily increased to sixty-flve pounds. When

Ask The Times You can set in answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indiananolis Times Washington Bureau. 1i22 New York Ave , Wa-h inrtoti. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and mental advice cannot be given, nor <*n extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential—fcditor. 1. Is there any law which compels a person to testify on the witness stand? 2. Name letters of Greek alphabet. 8. Please name six prominent publishers of our country. 1. Tes. A wife is not required to testify against her husband, nor a defendant against himself. 2. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, lota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, omtenon, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upkilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. The alphabet originally introduced into Greece was said to consist of only sixteen letters. 3. Harper's, New York; Hough ton-Mifflin Cos., Boston, Mass.; MacMillan Cos., New York; Curtis Publishing Cos., Philadelphia; Dodd, Mead & 00., New York; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York; The Century 00., New York. Do the old salves that were in the Civil War get a pension? Pensions are paid by the Federal Govrnment only to persons who served ninety days or over in the armed forces of the United States during the Civil War. If the slaves so served they are entitled to a pension. What Is the value of a large copper cent dated 1896? With Liberty Cap, It is valued at from 26 cents to $1.60. How many persons took the examination for postoffice clerks and carriers; how many passed and how many were appointed last year? The figures for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1924, are: Examined, 77,862; passed, 52.675, or 66.1 per cent; appointed, 27,237, o- 62 per cent.

pumpers are used it can be brought up to 250 pounds. But there weie 2,882 still alarms !ast year and only 960 bell alarms. The hatful of smudge that constitutes the usual still alarm causes little damage. However, ir becomes an ambitious conflagration if there Is not sufficient water at hand to cool its fevered brow. A fire department may have brass buttons, gold braid and glittering apparatus, yet lack adequate fire-fight-ing facilities. The real basis of fire protection Is in the water mains, not in Are stations or swivel chairs. Probably if the Indianapolis Water Company would put as much kick behind its water as it does behind its rate valuation the pressure would be sufficient to quell all fires. WERE ALL OF US BORN CRIMINALS? R. ALBERT E. STERNE, in a tiik before the Indianapolis . Local Council of Women the other day, declared that people are all horn petty criminals. “Every child is a thief, like any other little animal"he said—“owing to one of the two greatest Instincts —self preservation and sustenance He has to be taught otherwise. The conscience is an acquisition.’* Probably he is right. Judging from the bandits, outlaws and malefactors that now riddle society It seems quite likely that criminal ability is an innate gift Instead of painfully acquired art like wiggling the ears or playing the saxophone. Perhaps humans are born with little besides vocal cords and appetites. Mental, ethical, spiritual and moral characteristics may be acquired ( later by precept and example. But man can’t altogether be the result of his teaching. Human lives are always defying logic. The lofty sense of right and wrong, the rugged moral grandeur, of Lincoln may have bepn the result of early teaching. But others undergoing the same early training and given the same lessons have turned out horse thieves and moral bank rupts. Even at birth, besides the appetite, there is a spark of immortal fire, a force, that drives man forward independently of—and often in spite of —teaching to good deeds or bad.

AMBULANCES AND THE RIGHT OF WAY Ar— IN AMBULANCE, rushing a desperately sick child to the city hospital Wednesday, was delayed thirty minutes by a freight train blocking the Belt line crossing at W. Washington St. Hospital authorities have complained to the board of safety. Such a delay is serious to an ambulance conveying a patient suffering with spinal meningitis and pneumonia. The bugs causing these diseases don’t fold their hands while waiting for a crossing to he( cleared. They keep right on devastating their victim. An ambulance Is not a pleasure vehicle. Its mission Is to respond to emergency calls. On Its speed and promptness frequently depends the issue of life or death. It should have the right of way at all times everywhere, even if by so doing it does discommode a railroad and delay delivery of a carload of nails for a few minutes. Freight trains can’t avoid occasional blocking of crossings for a few minutes. Then, perforce, other traffic must wait. Highway vehicles and pedestrians can’t dispute the right of way with them without be coming soiled and disheveled. But there is no reason why, just because they have physical prowess, freight trains should be permitted to slumber athwart crossings and block emergency traffic unreasonably—as they do so frequently. Freight isn’t more sacred 4han human lives—not yet.

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