Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1925 — Page 4
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Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not he heard.—Prov. 21:13. A poor man serv’d by thee, shall make thee rich.—Mrs. Browning. Forced Labor Is Out “T"1 DECISION of the United States SuA prerne Court practically ends the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations. An interesting experiment has run its course. Led by Henry J. Allen, then Governor, the Kansas Legislature some years ago set up a court and gave it the power of compulsory arbitration in disputes between employers and employes. Exercise of this power was limited, of course, to situations in which the welfare of the public was affected. Well, the experiment hasn’t been successful. Readers are familiar with the turmoil that ensued in Kansas as the new court endeavored to carry out the work"assigned to it. Alex ITowat, miners’ leader, went to jail rather than comply with the law and—supreme tragedy!—William Allen White came mighty near doing the same for daring to say he believed the strikers in a certain case were nearer right than the employers. It was fortunate for the United States that Kansas, rather than one of the industrial States, elected to try the experiment; there might have been really serious consequences in a highly industrii|l State. Here is what was wrong with the Kansas theory: In principle it undertook to say that men can be compelled to work. (Oddly enough, the present Supreme Court decision resulted from a complaint that the Kansas court, was attempting to compel capital, as well as labor, to work.) Forced labor went out of the American scheme of things at the very beginning of the republic, and no State, not even self-righteous Kansas, can pnt it back. The Kansas idea never had but one leg to stand on. That was the rights of the public. More often than otherwise the public is a victim of labor disputes. The Kansas Court was launched just at the time when many men in national public life were declaiming the necessity for protecting the public against the hardships growing out of strikes. Now we are back just where we were. Kansas didn’t find the way. Probably no lawmaking body ever will find the way. It does not seem to be a job for government. Perhaps it is up to “the public itself. Cynical labor leaders have said things like this: “Sometimes when it is fighting for its existence, labor is abused for forgetting the public. But when did the public ever remember labor? The public buys the products of baby fingers that ought to be playing with kindergarten blocks. The public wears sweatshop clothes. The public heats its homes with coal dug by miners who haven’t coal to heat their own homes.” And so on. These labor leaders argue that the best
City Manager Plan Spreads Rapidly
Time* Washinnton Bureau, 1522 A 'ew York Avenue. [T=ra ASHINQTON, April 17. I yy I American cities are adopting t I the city manager form of government at the rate of forty a year. , TJi e Increasing interest manifested In the plan by cities In all parts of the United States seems likely to make It the predominating form of Government in our municipalities. When Kansas City, Mo., with 350,000 population, decided An February to adopt the city manager plan by a vote of nearly five to one. the number of cities so governed was increased to 353. In 1923, forty-nine cities adopted
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By M. K. Tracy fTT] INDENBURG has consented IJp-J | to be a presidential candidate The element of romance, of hero worship, of military glamour, lends him strength. The right, or conservative coalition, stands a far better chance of winning under his leadership than it did with Jarres. But a vote for Hlndenburg is not necessarily a vote for monarchy, or imperialism. He is a royalist, of course, and probably regrets the passing of the Hohenzollerns, but that is only part of the complex. The German people have made him something of an Idol, and a part of their idolatry Is that he will keep faith with them. Thousands of anti-monarchists will support him on this ground. The situation finds a parallel In France when MacMahon was elected president of that country more than half a century ago. MacMahon was a royalist, too, serving his master, the little Napoleon, with ardor and enthusiasm, but that did not prevent the French people from believing he would make them a good president, which he did. Both MacMahon and Hindenbutg led losing fights, but both came <ut of their defeats with immense popularity, pitied and forgiven became
way for the public to protect itself is to help labor protect itself. Capital by its complaint in the case just decided seems to have said he same thing in its own behalf. The problem isn’t a simple one, but the germ of the ultimate solution may be hidden in this suggestion. Government on the Job n " EPORTS from Great Falls, Moiiv, where _z_~J Senator Wheeler is on trial, state that from twenty to thirty Department of Justice detectives rtre on hand to “look after the Government’s interests.” The Government apparently intends to give itself a square deal in this case. . Senators Walsh and Wheeler v. ill not be permitted to drug the jury or otherwise tamper with the true course of justice. But it seems the Government is a little bit tardy in this zeal to look after its own interests. Would it not have been well for the Government to have had . ust two or three of those agents on the trail of Colonel Stewart of the Standard Oil and thus prevented his undignir J flight to Mexico just at the time the Government needed him at Cheyenne? And wouldn't it have been a splendid idetf for the Department of Justice to have guarded its own interests by making doubly sure that the indictments against Fall, Sinclair and the Dohenys were not jeopardized through error? But then maybe the Government attaches greater importance to the Wheeler case than to the alleged stealing of Teapot Dome and bribing a Secretary of the Interior. The ‘Old Guard’ Again \V7|E may now expect to hear a lot more ** about the “old guard” in connection with the public service commission. John W. McCardle, “old guard” leader, has been reappointed by Governor Jackson, much to the disgust of one of the publications that worked so hard to bring about the election of Jackson. After a brief period of control the “new guard” goes out and the “eld guard” again directs the commission. The “old guard” made the mistake of giving fine Indianapolis Water Company a small increase in rates. We never did think that even a small increase was justified, but the larger increase later granted by the “new guard” under pressure of a court order was even worse. Under any circumstances, the honors ara about even. The public can expect nothing more nor nothing less than it has been getting, regardless of who is in control of the public service commission. The consumer will always be required to pay increasingly mounting prices for public utility service until he takes the operation of the utilities into his own hands.
the plan and thirty-eight did the same In 1024. 8o extensively has the plan been taken up since Staunton, Va., made the first experiment In 1908 that now all but thirteen States have cities using the plan. Since the war 237 cities have adopted the plan. Included in this total are five cities of more than 100,000 population which, with Uayton, make six large cities having city managers and seeming to dispel the criticism of opponents who once branded the plan as Impracticable or at best workable in only extremely small towns. The 353 cities which have adopted the plan range in size from McCracken, Kan., with 491 population,
they were regarded as the victims of mad, ambitious sovereigns. If republican France could trust MacMahon, the nobleman, the courtier, the servant of a throne, why should we be surprised if republican Germany trusts Hindenburfg, the military instrument of kaiserism. and why should we look for any different result if she does? History Is merely repeating itself, displaying a similar reaction under similar circumstances. The Germans are falling back on a war hero, Just as the French did, and in spite of his previous associations. They are trusting him to keep faith with them, even though It may involve the suppression of his own views. Rightly or wrongly, they think, or a vast number of them do, that if he takes an oath to uphold the republic, he will abide by it. These are the considerations which make his election quite probable, and that rob It of significance. Hlndenburg Is one of those war leaders to whom people turn when they don’t know what else to do, and whom they are willing to trust in spite of his beliefs, because he has been a fighter, not a theorist. The sad thing about a good memory is when you see a movie you know what the plot was called last time. The moon makes a single man see things in a differenft'dight.
to Cleveland, Ohio, with a population of nearly a million. In adulMon to Kansas City, Cleveland and Dayton, the other cities of more than 100,000 population which now have city managers are Cincinnati, Ft. Worth and Norfolk. Seventeen other cities having populations of more than 60,000 have adopted the plan. Only one large city, Seattle, Wash., has voted against adopting the plan in the past year, and It is located in one of the States where the plan has not been tried in a single city. The States having one or more cities employing the city manager form of government were Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico. New York, North Carolina. Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee. Texas, Utah, VlrIndianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, N. Y.; Omaha, Galveston, Guthrie and Chattanooga, Teim., are large cities actively discussing adoption of the plan. The Vendor By Hal Cochran "Here you are, folks—some swell little toys! Now watch, and you’ll see how they run. Buy ’em from me for your girls and your boys. Come on, let the kiddles have fun. "Ya hold ’em like this, and ya wind ’em up tight, and ya set ’em right down and let go. Bring ’em right back if they're not running right. They're swell, and they don’t cost much dough. “A quarter a piece—or perhaps ya want two. Well, two for a half Is my price. Made for a child, and they're easy to do. All buyers admit that they’re nice. "The newest creation I’m selling today. It's a wonder surprise for a tot. Hand me the dough and Just take one away. A dozen is all that I’ve got." The cry of the highway! You’ve heard it, no doubt, from the man whom the kids like to meet. It gives them a thrill as they list to his shout, of the toys that he sells on the 8 tree t.
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Rev. Dr. James Moffatt of Glasgow, Scotland. ha arrived In New York for an American- - lecture tour on the explanation and defense of his recently completed translations of the Bible.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
TOKENS OF AFFECTION IRS. ANNA CUNNINGHAM of Gary confessed yesterL__J day to poisoning four of her five children. Three of them died and the fourth Is in a hospital critically ill from the effects of her efforts. It was an amazing story she coolly related of doling out death over years. She made away with her victims singly, with months intervening be-
tween cases. And the reason for It all was perfectly logical—to her. She poisoned the children she loved best. With her. arsenic was only a token of affection. If her plan Is widely adopted, whenever a wife evinces fondness for her husband or his
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life insurance he may begin to look for ground glass in his coffee and for a pair of well fitting wings. The adept poisoner In the days of the Borgias practiced, with a few rare and mysterious concoctions. among princes and blue bloods. I’nmraon people knew nothing of his art. Now, however, many substances of everyday use have lethal qualities when introduced Into the human system —and can be procured by any one without question. Yet In spite of the ’* with which poisons may r be procured, poisoning hs become a more precarious pro slon than ever. Chemists can always detect lethal substances by an autopsy That doesn’t particularly benefit tho person who Is exhumed and analyzed, but it prevents poisoning from becoming a common pastime. MARKING CITY STREETS SHE board of public safety —at the suggestion of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Association, of Engineers —will immediately start tho work of marking city Btreets with new signs. No one can quarrel with that decision. While most Indianapolis thoroughfares are labeled so that he who runs may read, on many the street markings are more illeg"ible than those of Pompeii. And Vesuvius chased the last city administration of Pompeii out of office nineteen hundred years ago. Os course to a native street signs are not of vital importance. He would not mistake the stockyards section for Golden Hill, even cn a dark night. His olfactory nerves are delicately attuned to the local atmosphere. But strangers and casual visitors are not so gifted. To them legible labels on all streets are exceedingly convenient. They can’t find their way to points of Interest by folllowing their noses. Unless the thoroughfares are plainly marked sightseers may start to the Central Library and stray to the city dump. Probably they can read the history of the community from the latter civic monument, but the view isn’t thrilling. As important as legible marking of streets is uniformity. We have many street signs high up on buildings Rnd otherwise in hiding. They should all be placed where they will guide strangers and not crack their necks.
CHUNKS OF BLUE SKY EEW WALLACE, temporary receiver for the Hawkins Mortgage Company, recently filed his final report before the referee In bankruptcy. He turned over approximately $lO, 000, the total cash assets of the defunct corporation. That Is all that remains of the enterprise purporting to have assets of $9,000,000, and in which Hoosiers invested millions. It impressively demon strates the lack of substance In blue sky. It caused loss of life savings and made old people paupers. Fourteen officials of the company face prison terms, while the president and chief promoter Is In Ohio fighting extradition to Indiana for trial. Yet the securities peddled so energetically—and responsible for all this disaster —were as handsome and well printed as any ever marketed. Artistically and In quality of paper and Ink, a Rtock certificate of the Hawkins Mortgage Company Is the equal of a stock certificate of the Dodge Brothers Automobile Company. However, the two widows who held the latter securities sold them the other day for $150,000,000. The widows who hold Hawkins Mortgage stock are taking in washings. One concern made and sold mo--1 tor cars, the other manufactured
One European Star Who Spurns Our Gold Has Good Reasons for Staying Home
By Walter D. Hickman * Y/| hat sort of a man Is this Emil Jannings? l -l Since the Circle presented Jannings In “Quo Vadls’’ as Nero and the Colonial has booked .Tannings In “The East Baugh’’ lor next week, I have been asked that question many times. Some weeks ago before, the Colonial booked this picture, I made a plea for a showing of it In this The Colonial now has the right to announce It for next week.
hot air and sold chunks of blue sky. Blue sky is an attractive and useful commodity when nailed to the vault of heaven. When purchased In chunks It sours rapidly and turns an occasional rainy day into a lifelong drizzle. VALUL OF~ A DIPLOMA r-ix IWELVK seniors in the I Clark township high school, - Johnson county, have completed the work, but will not graduate this spring. There will be no diplomas, valedictories or embarrassing public exercises for them. A diploma publicly presented is as neccess-ry a finish to a high school education as his eloquent shoes are to Charlie Chaplin. Consequently the twelve seniors and their doting parents are indignant. The township trustee is blamed. He failed to Install telephone, lights and clean up the school as ordered by the State school Inspector. So the high school lost Its license, and can’t be reinstated until after the close of the school year. Probably the action of the State authorities was Justified. Only by revoking licenses of schools can they enforce sanitary regulations and keep schools up to proper physical standards. However, diplomas are awarded pupils of schools for scholastic accomplishments, not for sanitation. One completing the course Is entitled to the croix de guerre, a diploma, whether the school building is aseptic or Infested with moribund trutees and other rubbish. The State should recognize educational attainments of pupils as much as dilapidation of buildings. Still the Clark township seniors have their education. The State can’t revoke that. Probably In the long run it will be as valuable as n diploma, although It can’t be framed.
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To answer the questions concerning Jannings, I am giving you an interview obtained by Milton Bronner, NEA writer for The Times, from Jannings in Eondon. Bron ner writes as follows from London: “I can’t eat two steaks, when one is all I can Comfortably digest. “I wouldn't want a flock of automobiles, when one good machine Is all I need. “I wouldn’t want two gold watches, when one Is enough to tell me the time of day. "And I wouldn’t care for bootleg liquor, thus breaking the laws of a country, when in my own land I can sip my wine and be a law-abiding citizen. “In other words, two American salaries won’t tempt me away from the one I am now earning.” It’s the quaint philosophy of the rarest “bird" in the art zoo—a European artist whom American dollars can’t tempt to live In America. His name is Emil Jannings, hailed In Germany as one of the greatest artists on her speaking stage and acclaimed In I-ondon newspapers as
Emil Jannings Off Stage and as He Appears in "The Last Laugh.”
the greatest artist that the films havo produced. He played the part of Nero in the film, "Quo Vadls.” Jannings could have claimed American citizenship had he wanted to. He was born in New York City. His father was born In America and was a manufacturer for years In New York. His grandfather was an American citizen, having migrated to the States from Germany. Jannings' people moved back to Germany when he was 4. and Emil doesn't speak a word of English. He told me he might possibly go to America this autumn for about five months to produce one picture If his concern, the Ufa, makes an arrangement with some big American picture producing firm. "But I would never stay for good, the way Ernest Lubltsch and Pola Negri are doing,” he said. “Oh yes, I could make more money, but that
Isn’t everything. I would have to work harder and quicker in America. In Germany I make two pictures a year and have three months left over to play comedy roles in plays by Shakespeare, our’ own Haupt n-ann and others on the Berlin stage. In America they would ex pect me to make six pictures a year at least. “That is one of the essential points of difference between film making in America and Germany. You do things in a hurry. We do them more leisurely. The dominant note of your pictures is optimism, the optimism of a young land. We often have a touch of pessimism, the pessimism of an old land that has known a sea of troubles. There Is room in the world of film art both for the German pictures and the American. We can’t make the kind of pictures you make. And you can’t make the kind that we turn out. We supplement each other. “Again In America you specialize. A man or woman either does comic or tragic roles. In Germany we do boih. Life is made up both of comedy and tragedy. An actor should, therefore, essay both kinds of roles.
I have tried them both on the speaking stage and in the films. And I am no exception, either. By doing this we may not get the Intensity that some of your artists achieve, but we certainly gain in versatility.” As you know I have seen “The Last Laugh” at a private showing. I know you will thank me for asking a public, showing of this comedy, as it is one of the funniest and greatest pictures ever made. Write and tell me what you think about it. Thanks. Indianapolis theaters today offer: N. V. A. week program at Keith's: Berkell Players at English’s In “The First Year:” Elsie Myerson's Californians at the Lyric; Lena Daley at the Capitol; “Wife of the Centaur” at the Apollo: “Sally'' at the Circle; “The Spaniard” at the Ohio and "Hooked” at the Isis.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17,1923
Tom Sims Says Tn Detroit a flivver hit a street cai\ reminding us that it is about timk to swat house flies. A New York man shot hlmaelff
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“dumb-bell” is one who talks too much. Isn’t it strange how a barber, whose head resembles a brush pile, can give you a good haircut? We would like a Government Job where, after you flnsh shaving ia the morning, you are through work for the day. Love increases the vocabulary. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Servlos, Inc.) Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fa<-l or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Timoe Waabington Bureau, 1322 Now York Ave., WashIn ton, D. C„ Inclosing 2 cants In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will reoelve a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What Is the average yield per acre of alfalfa in the United States? Two and two-tenths tons. What Is the meaning of White, yellow and blue Army discharges? A white discharge Is an honorable! discharge, a yellow discharge a diet honorable one, and a blue discharge a discharge without prejudice, tha| Is, one given on discharge on aos count of physical disability or somd other such reason. How should the President of an organization, who Is an unmarried woman, be addressed when mak- j lng a motion or otherwise addressing the chair? She should he addressed “Madam President.” Is there any law In Japan barring Americans from becoming Japanese citizens, and can Americans own land In the empire? There is no law In Japan barrinjg American from naturalization or becoming Japanese subjects. Accord* lng to Japanese law, foreigners ara not entitled to own and hold land iq that country, but they may acquire ownership of buildings. They caq acquire long building leases (period unlimited) called “superficies, ’’ which are valuable properties, If registered. At tne end of the lease the house* on the land do not vest In the landlord.
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heoauao he couldn’t get any beer, which only* proves he was lazy. The Washington news is m boy waiting to see Coolldga fainted, so maybe he thoughU he heard Cool* idge talking. Foreign erg have trouble with our language, but what could you expect when a