Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1925 — Page 6
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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. . , FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • ♦ • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dallv except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis ; u r. subscription Rates: indlanapoiiß—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA in 3600.
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The Ridiculous Tax Law “f-Tj LSEWHERE on this page appears a letCj ter from Mr. Philip Zoercher, one of the three members of the State tax board, who K takes exception to our statement in an editorial several days ago that “'in a short time the city must go to the paternalistic tax board and, on bended knee, ask the three gentlemen in whose hands the ridiculous tax law places our destiny, for permission to erect some more school buildings.’ ’ He contends that we misrepresented the law. We contend that we did not. We still contend that within a short time ■ the people of Indianapolis WILL be before the paternalistic tax board on bended knee asking permission of those three gentlemen to spend : the people’s own money for new school buildings. Mr. Zoercher points out, correctly, that before the bond issue comes before the tax board it will be necessary for at least ten taxpayers to appeal to the board. “If taxpayers are satisfied the State board has nothing to do with bond issues; it is only when the taxpayers do not agree and ten or more file a petition requesting it that the bond issue or tax levy, as the case may be, is referred. to the State board of tax commissioners,” says Mr. Zoercher'. Mr. Zoercher would have been a little more accurate if he had said “It is only when TEN taxpayers do not agree.” There always has been a small element in Indianapolis opposed to maintenance of adequate school facilities for the children of Indianapolis. They have more consideration for their pocketbooks than they have for the : coming generations. That is why we have so many portable frame school buildings, that are entirely inadequate. These taxpayers do not by any means represent the attitude of the people of Indianapolis. They simply are a small minority of obstructionists. The ridiculous tax law—we still contend it is ridiculous—gives as few as ten taxpayers the right to tie up a much needed bond issue uhtil three men—only one of whom lives in Indianapolis—can decide how the people of Indianapolis shall spend their own money. Mr. Zoercher quotes the late Thomas R. Marshall as saying, “I recommend further that no bonds shall be issued until application made to the State board of tax commissioners asking for leave to issue the bonds and showing the purpose of the issue, is granted.” We always had the utmost respect for our
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
SUDDEN ATTACK OF ECONOMY IAYOR SHANK Instructed heads of municipal departments Tuesday to reduce the number of city employes to a minimum Oct. 1, and urged every possible reduction in purchase of supplies. "We want to turn over the city hall departments next Jan. 1, to
4h incoming administrati o n with all bills paid,” he declared. “There is no reason why we can not save some of the money now being spent in salaries.” All very interesting. But these sudden attack® of economy in the dying hours of a municipal administrat ion, while they read
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well, mean little. No real economy results from 'postponing purchase of necessary supplies or delaying necessary municipal projects. Elimination of unnecessary expenditures and waste Is the only way to effect a having In the cost of city govern- ; ment. If some of the money being 1 spent for salaries can be saved now, why couldn't it have been saved before? Yet it Is customary for city administrations to go daily down the /primrose path of easy spending "until nearly at the close of their ; terms. Then they break out all "over with economy. What the tax- . payer would like to see is an administration that tries as hard to .gave a dollar in January and June as in December. MEASURE^ SUCCESS *| HE will of Thomas R. Marshall, former Vice President of the United States, and distinguished Hoosier, whose recent death saddened the State, was probated Tuesday. The estate was valued %t $39,000. For forty years Mr. Marshall . practiced law successfully in In-
-By GAYLORD NELSON
diana. His intellects 1 ability and personal qualities won him high place in his profession. He served the State ably as its chief executive. Through a tryirg eight years—one of the most difficult periods In the history of the country—he was Vice President. In every position he acquitted himself with, honor. His keen intellect, pithy humor, and simple, unaffected manner endeared him to millions of his fellow citizens. Probably no public man in recent years was more greatly beloved by plain people. At the time of his death he was Indiana’s most distinguished citizen. His was a long and truly successful career—which any one might envy. But he only left a $39,000 estate. Many lawyers get more than that in single fees. That’s only a small fraction of what Calrence Darrow received for defending a couple of young murderers. Some men accumulate million-dollar estates before they are 30. Would such be rated more trully successful than Mr. Marshall? Despite its frequent use for the purpose the dollar sign is an un satisfactory yard stick for measuring success. PURPOSE 0F _ EDUCATION AjNOTHER commencement week. From Indiana colleges and schools thousands of young people are marching out into the world loaded with good advice and ambition. They are educated—and have the diplomas to prove it. But are they reallly educated? "The aim of education" —Dr. of the University of Chicago told the graduating class of Manual Training High School the other night—"is' to make the individual understand the world and behave in the world as he ought." Much of the education in American public school Bystems does neither. In Tennessee a student In the public schools must not be taught anything about the biological doctrine of evolution. Independent thinking on the question of the creation of the world is discouraged by law. Probably ai State has a right to teaching of music, art, logarithms, t*o theory of quad-
good friend Mr. Marshall. But we contend that in this instance he was wrong. One- of the members of the tax board — not Mr. Zoercher —Recently summed the whole thing up when he said: “Os course, we must control the expenditures of cities. Supposing you had an 18-vear- ( old boy and this boy was left a fortune by his grandfather. Would you permit him to spend his money without any supervision or direction?” The feeling back of the tax law appears to be that cities and counties are in a class with minors and spendthrifts and that these three men in the Statehouse are employed in the capacity of guardians. We have the utmost respect for these three men personally. But we do contend that xhe law is wrong. We resent being looked upon as incapable of handling our own affairs. The Kentucky Ave. Jam has become of the ordinance designed W to open Kentucky Ave. to traffic? Some time ago a movement was started to open up this main thoroughfare to the southwest s’de, but nothing has been heard of it for some time. There is a real need for opening up this street. Business in the southwestern part of the city is growing rapidly and this thoroughfare is needed. At the present time Kentucky Ave. is being used for everything from private business to public parking. Frequently it is all but impossible to drive through it. The principal difficulty is the use of the street by motor busses for the purpose of loaaing and unloading passengers. This practice, coupled with the practice of parking automobiles in the middle of the street, effectively prevents its usefulness as a thoroughfare. The busses should not be allowed to use Kentucky Ave. for a terminal. They should be compelled to permit the use of the street for the purpose for which it was intended. This might mean that the bus people would be under the necessity of providing terminal facilities at a place other than in a street, but this is no more than the interurbans and some of the bus lines already have done. When the busses are removed the same parking regulations for other vehicles should be enforced as are in effect on other downtown streets.
ratics or evolution in its public schools. But do such bans make the individual understand the w'orld? To understand the world means more than the acquisition of carefullly filtered facts by a system of mental gymnastics. Ability to think clearly and independently Is required. In many school • systems students are not trained to think but to accept blindly. The result Is that a good deal of our public education is just a thin intellectual veneer. lits aim is the perpetuation of hoary prejudices, not development of intellectual powers. RAIDS WITHOUT WARRANTS npri RANK A. SYMMES, spap I cial judge in a liquor case 11— J appealed to Criminal Court from Indianapolis city court, recently discharged the defendant because police searched and arrested him without warrant or information. Without a warrant the officers raided a poolroom, lined the patrons up against the wall and “frisked" them. A half pint of mule was found on one. He was immediately arrested. charged with everything from transporting liquor to possession of a still. In the zeal to enforce prohibition police raids and searches on suspicion and hearsay are becoming common. It is quite the fashion to kick in front doors of private homes—without reading and even without possessing search warrants —and turn the house topsy-turvy. If a householder objects to such highhanded procedure he is "bawled out” by the raiders. Perhaps th£t’s commendable police zeal. Reading search warrants and writs may be archaic legal tape. Inviolability of per- , son and home of private citizens from unauthorized search and seizure, though, is a fundamental principle of American law, liberty and justice Louis NIV and other absolute monarchs could smash down doors and haul subjects off to dungeons or to be boiled in oil with no more justification than a royal whim. Anglo-Saxon nations, however, have not countenanced such procedure since the days of Runnymede and the Magna Charta. True in these later days an American’s home is frequently his blind tiger instead of his castle. Nevertheless, it seems hardly worth while to throw the private citizen’s old safeguards into the ash can and permit raids and searches without warrant just to suppress liquor violations. Such police activity is more damaging to society, than the trickle of white mule it dams.
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Christie Sets Complete Schedule for Short Comedies and Novelty Features
.' 1 L CHRISTIE has complete*' JjL the line-up of product whlcl - -1 ■win be made in his comed> studios this season, insuring not onlj an increased program of two-reel star series and Christie Comedies but also at least three full-length features to be completed during the summer months. The series of ten Christie Comedies are the first to go into production, the initial comedy in this series now being made under the direction of William Watson, recently signed by Christie to direct during the com ing year. In the Christie Comedies will be all star casts featuring such players as Eilly Dooley, just signed from the Orpheum circuit in which he appeared in the act called "The Misfit Sailor,” Neal Burns. Jack Duffy, Veia Steadman. Natalie Joyce, Bill Irving, Eddie Baker, Lincoln Piumer, Rpsa Gore, Bill Blaisdel and others. A group of new girls is being selected to appear in this series of pictures. Doris Wynn and Jean Lorraine are the first two selected for the beauty squad. Bobby Vernon (Remedies will have six pictures. Frances Lee. also from the Orpheum Circuit, has been signed as Vernon’? leading lady. She will appear in the first picture of the series. Hiers to Moke Six Walter Hiers will also make a series of six comedies. His first series last year Is said to have established records ,for booking, and Christie sometime ago exercised the option which he had on Hier?’ services as far as two-reel comedies are concerned. Hiers may poss.bly appear in several outside features, but the series of comedies will be his chief work for the year. Jimmie Adams has been elevated to the head of a comedy unit and will make six two-reel releases. Adams has been seen on the Christie program before, but this year will head a starring series for the first time. Molly Malone has been assigned as leading woman with the Jimmie Adams comedies. These four series will make twenty-eight comedfieg from the Christie studios, ail told, to be directed by Watson, Archie Mayo, Harold Beaudine and Walter Graham. Frank Roland Conklin. Hal Conklin, Raymond Ross, Robert Hall and Sigmund Herzig are writing the stories for these comedies. Arthur Forde has joined the Christie staff as stage director to collaborate with Thomas Btierly, art director, in creating sets and handling production details. The first oi rhe new A1 Christie features to be released will be “Seven Days,” from the Mary Roberts Rinehart book, and the Avery Hopwood stage play. This is being filmed by Scott Sidney, the Christie star director who shot "Charley’s Aunt” and other successes. The complete cast for “Seveh Days” includes Lillian Rich, Creighton Hale, Lilyan Tashman, Mabel Julienne Scott, Haliam Cooley, Eddie Gribbon, Tom Wilson, William Austin, Rosa Gore and Charles Clary. Eltinge Engaged "Madame Lucy,” production of which should start July 14, will have a big cast in addition to Julian Eltinge who has already been announced. Arm pennington, Lionel Belmore, Lilyan Tashman, Jack Duffy and Hallam Cooley are slated to appear in the picture. Work has already been started on the script of this French farce which will present Eltinge in skirts and be a requel to “Charley’s Aunt.” F. 1'?Grew Willis collaborating with Scott Sidney, who will probably direct and Norman McLeod, Christie gag artist, is working on the adaptation from Jean Arlette’s play. Christie will film another feature comedy during the late summer. He is now negotiating for the rights to another well known play for this special. The above will- make the largest hilarity program in the history of the Christie company.. “Seven Days” is scheduled release Aug. 13 and will be Christie’s piece de resistance sos greater movie season which starts^AuguSt
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBERT
GRAY PLAYERS TO PRESENT NEWSPAPER PLAY All the excitement, thrills, and mxiety that a newspaper reporter experiences in the handling of a icope are related in the comedy drama “The Scope” which the Ranee Gray players present at the Palace heater the last half of this week. The story deals with liquor runners on the Atlantic coast and takes place on an island in American waters. Adrian Ellsworth, Ben Laughlin, Mabel May, and Alice Delane are in the cast. Poodles Hanaford,' famous circus clown, and family, ride horses and perform daring equestrian feats in their whirlwind act. “Broomstick” Elliott and Babe La Tour set the top of fun spinning with their presentation of “My Daddy,” a skit replete with songs and talk. Jack McAuliffe is the only undefeated world's charrmion. He ijo-
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tired from the ring in 1897 lightweight champion. In vaudeville he reminisces and prophesies and pretents humorous entertainment. The Bento brothers are equilibrist* whose “Utmost in Equilibrism,” has daring as well as comical elements. “Is Love Everything?” is the photoplay with Alma Rubens, Frank Mayo, and H. B. Warner in the leading roles. Pathe News, a comedy, and a scenic complete the bill. -I* -I- -I* Other attractions on view today include: “So This Is London" at English’s: Raymond Wilbert at the Lyric; "Chickie” at the Circle; "The Crowded Hour” at the Apollo; complete new show at the Isis; “Grounds for Divorce” at the Ohio; “I’ll Show You the Town” at the Colonial, and swimming and other outdoor events at Broad Ripple Park. The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays this week recommend the features at the Apollo, Colonial and Crystal.
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Zoercher Replies to Editorial
To the Editor of The Times: mN your issue of June 4, your paper, in discussing the subject of coliseums and schools says: “In a short time the city must go to the paternalistic tax board and, on bended knee, ask the three gentlemen in whose hands the ridiculous tax law places our destiny, for permission to erect some more school buildings.” This is so far from the truth that it should not go unchallenged. The law as enacted In 1919 did provide that all bond issues were to be submitted to the State board and that was the harmony with the recommendation of the late Thomas Riley Marshall, who in his last message to the Legislature In 1913 said: “I recommend further that no bonds shall be issued until application made to the State board of tax commissioners asking for leave to issue the bonds and showing the purpose of the issue, Is granted." The special session of the Legislature in June, 1920, took away the State board’s power over bond issues, but the next regular session in 1921, passed a law giving the State board of tax commissioners power to review bond Issues and tax levies on the petition of ten or more taxpayers. If taxpayers are satisfied the State board has nothing to do with bond issues, it is only when the taxpayers do not agree and ten or more file a petition requesting It that the bond issue or tax levy, as the case may be, is referred to the State board of tax commissioners. Right Strengthened This right of appeal haa not been disturbed since 1921, but has been strengthened and made more workable by the 1926 Legislature. The State board of tax commissioners has approved all bond issues for school purposes in the city of Indianapolis excepting an issue of $847,000 in 1921 for four school houses and
Mowin’ By Hal Cochran Ya have to keep mowin’, ’cause grass keeps on groovin'. Old nature has made it that way. ’Twas only last week that it looked pretty sleek, but it needs anew cuttin’ today. You get out the mower to trim it down lower. You work in the sun and the shade. The pushing you’re doing is constantly brewing a song in the grass cuttin’ blade. The mower's quite trusty, but often gets rusty. You halt, while the oil’s spread around. Again you are at it: you strongly combat it—the graas that has grown on the ground. In winter, I reckon, It’s summer you beckon, forgettin’ there’s mowin’ in store. But, now you have reason to wish for the season when you will be mowin’ no more. And yet, Mister Cutter, allovt me to mutter that mowing is really Just play. Just try and not mind it. I’ll bet that you’ll find it relief from the work of the day.
THURSDAY, .TUNE 11,1925
that was not denied until one year later and then on request of the school board tua then constituted. The State board had approved bonds for school buildings prior to j 1921 from which the taxpayers of this city did not receive the greatest benefit and taking advantage of its experience the State board Indicated to the school city in 1921 that the four school buildings pending at that time could be and should be erected for $660,000 and the State board was ready to approve an issue for that amount. Buildings Rrected Since that time and under the naxt j school board eight school buildings were erected for $1,214,000 which demonstrated that the State board was correct when it held that the j four buildings could be erected for $660,000. At the recent banquet of the State Chamber of Commerce, John E. Fredricks, the president of the organization. said that after two years of investigation it is practically admitted that the Indiana tax law is a good law and provides protection to the taxpayers not enjoyed in other States. Why continue this foolish misrepresentation of the law? Instead of designating it as a ridiculous law It' can be truthfully said that Indiana’s tax law is a model of Its kind. It enables the taxpayers themselves, If they are vigilant, to control their publio expenditures, something the taxpayers In other States are anxious to have Incorporated in their laws. Philip Zowcher, Commissioner
Tom Sims Says Love is blind. It lost Its eyesight overlooking things.
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Farmers leave the country) because they can’t stand their ground. A man who bought a car tells us he Is driving a bargain. Too few parents are on spanking terms with their children. The world owes you a living, but it pays on the installment plan. When some golf players put their mind on the ball it Just fits. Work, like all forms of amusement, can be carried to extremes. Keeping the bonds of matrimony pays dividends. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
It takes two to start a fight, but only one to finish It. Sense Is what gets you by when you don't know anything. A man Is known by the bills he keeps owing. A great many fishermen would play golf If you could sit on the bank and wait for a golf ball.