Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1925 — Page 6
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If The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. VTM. A - MAYBORX, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of ft© United Press and the NBA Sendee * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St. Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a W eek * * * PHONE—MA in 3500. L - No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.
The City Government System Breaks Down Again mHE city council has “rebelled.” It is refusing to authorize an emergency loan of $500,000 and as a result 2,500 city employes may go unpaid for two months, and the city already is unable to pay its bills. The city hall is in a turmoil. Officials frankly admit they do not know where to turn. The “rebellion** has been brought about because a majority of themembers of the council—representatives elected by the people—have not been able to obtain from Mayor Shank and his numerous and various boards, over which the council has no control, improvements the council believes the city needs. Therefore, . ffairs are deadlocked and it looks as if the er tire city government is facing dissolution unless something is done. Os course, something will be done—it always is.. Probably there will be a compromise. • * # AN you imagine any such situation occuring in a business institution? Supposing the president of a manufacturing concern should bluntly refuse to carry out the dictates of a board of directors elected by the stockholders. The solution in such a case would be simple. There would be anew president. * # # pp]HERE has been a tendency to make light 1 1 of the present situation at the city hall. Asa matter of fact, it is a serious matter. Not only is the affair serious because of the immediate situation it brings about, but because it is just another illustration of the failure of the present form of city government. As we have said many times before, the government of Indianapolis is—or, rather, should be—simply a business institution. There is no reason why it should ever be anything else. The taxpayers pay their money into the treasury and they expect service in return. Someone must designate what this service shall be and how the people shall be served. The present deadlock has been brought about over the question of who shall say what shall be done and what shall not be done. Involved in the controversy are political questions and campaign promises. It is charged that Mayor Shank and his boards are serving one part of the city to the exclusion of another. Political reasons, of course, are responsible. • • • mHE people of Indianapolis are sick and tired of this kind of controversy. They want a change and there are reasons to believe that a change will be brought about. Changing administrations will not help. Anew administration will not mean anew SYSTEM. It makes little difference who is elected mayor three or four months from now; The SYSTEM will remain until the voters rise up and change it. Hundreds of cities have changed their system and solved many of their problems. They have made impossible such controversies as the one now upsetting the city government. They have done this* by adopting the CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT. There is nothing strange or new about city manager government. It is simply a straight out business proposition. Indianapolis is certain to come to it. The present controversy simply is speeding the day.
Editor Held as ‘Gossip’
Btl Times Svecial OVINGTON, Ky., July 22. Should an editor be sent to jail for printing- the following: "Those who have held positions in the city financial department say that, insofar as they can remember, this is the first time in history that city wrs broke within" a month after the June taxes had been collected.” Whether or not he should be, one editor is soon to learn if he can be. Bruce I. Susong, managing editor of the Kentucgy Post, a ScrippsHoward newspaper, faces: the court on a warrant sworn to by Mayor Daniel A. O’Donovan. O’Donovan charges that Susong “wilfully, knowingly and maliciously caused to be publihsed and circulated” the gbove quoted statement-, which he says slandered himself and Griffin Murphy, city auditor. It was part of an article describing a private meeting of city commissioners at, which it was decided the city should borrow $50,000. The statemenet may seem mild enough to newspaper readers in other States, but the mayor is bringing his action under anew- Kentucky statute, popularly known as the “gossip law.” This statute provides “that any person who shall wilfully, knowingly or maliciously repeat or communicate to any person or persons fL false rumoa or report of a slander-
The Tennessee Verdict SHE jury before whom John Thomas Scopes was tried has found him guilty. No other verdict was expected by any person participating in the trial. The storm and fury having come to an end 'he case will now proceed to higher courts fox determination of the basic issue involved. This is whether or not the law under which Scopes was tried violates the spirit and intent of the Constitution of Tennessee and the Constitution of the United States. The welfare of the people of this country is deeply involved in the final decision. One of two things must happen. The higher courts must find the Tennessee statutes unconstitutional or the people of Tennessee must undertake the slow processes of education that will bring them into harmony with the world. Tennessee cannot stand still and escape the consequences. Nor can any other State or community. Prohibition Facts O ESPONSIBLE officials of the Federal Government at last are willing to admit that prohibition enforcement, State and national, is accompanied by appalling graft and corruption. In place of the absurd assertions of hired press agents of reform societies that prohibition is being efficiently and honestly enforced, we get some cold, hard facts. The facts were collected by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general. She sent questionnaires to all United States attorneys, asking each for a frank and accurate picture of conditions in the areas in which he has jurisdiction. The replies showed the enforcement machinery is honeycombed with dishonesty, and that the condition is general and not confined to any particular localities. Some of the information was described as “startling.” A similar investigation by Attorney General Gilliom of Indiana indicates failure of some public officials to enforce the law. Many •replies stressed the fact that the public does not appear interested in prohibition law enforcement. A current statement from the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals becomes little less than ridiculous, in light of Mrs. Willebrandt’s revelation. Says the statement, “We have turned the corner in prohibition enforcement and may expect steady improvement until a satisfactory condition is established. ” Asa matter of fact, prohibition enforcement today is a bigger problem than it ever has been. The law is evaded, often openly, in many communities. Bribery and corruption are common among both Federal and State authorities. Prohibition cases have clogged court dockets. Local authorities flatly refuse to aid Federal agents. Zealots go to dangerous extremes in using the injunction, depriving accused persons of the right of trial. The established rights of citizens with regard to search and seizure are ignored. The enforcement act has taught disrespect for law and constituted authority. Many believe it lias increased drunkenness and moral laxity among the young. Vby not admit the facts! Surely nothing can be gained by Minding ourselves to a situation that may well challenge the attention and thought of the country’s leaders. Lincoln ( . Andrews, new head of the prohibit ion forces, may be able to make enforcement real and drive out the grafters. The information collected by Mrs. Willebrandt will servo t° guide him in the reorganization he has undertaken. If he fails, what then? Certainly present conditions are intolerable.
ous or harmful nature or which may be detrimental to the character or standing or\ such other person or persons, whether such person is a private citizen or officer or candidate for office,(shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction -shall be fined not less than $lO or Imprisoned not less than ten days or more than fifty days, or both so fined and imprisoned for each offense. And the persons so repeating or scattering such report or reports shall be deemed "guilty unless he or she is able to prove to the satisfaction of the court or jury hearing the case that he or she has carefully, investigated the source and foundation of such reports and that there were reasonable grounds for repeating same, and in order that such defense shall be available the person or persons repeating or scattering said rumors or report or reports must be able to give the names of the persons furnishing the information upon which said rumor or report was based.” The news story complained of was printed after The Kentucky Post had learned of the meeting at which the resolution to borrow $&•'),000 was adopted. Owing to the fav.c that taxes for the first half of the year had been collected ip June, it was unusual for the city to borrow in July to meet curreiTt bills and the story commented upjbn this feet.
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WORLD WAR SAW END OF CAVALRY, SCIENTISTS ASSER T
By David Dietz XEA Service Writer TiHE cavalry is doomed. So believe pioneers on the last frontier, the frontier of science. These mer. have made many changes in the style of war. Armor gave way to gunpowder. Each war saw innovations. The World War brought airplanes and tanks and poison gas. The cavalry survived the last war. But many authorities think it must go now. They point out that the horse is too slow, requires too much food, is too easy a mark for an enemy’s bullet and doesn't have enough staying power. The horse’s great asset was his ability to get over rough ground which could not be traveled by motor vehicles. Tanks with caterpillar treads, however, can negotiate any sort of ground. ~ Scientists believe a light auto could be built with some sort of similar tread to replace the cavalry horse. They believp It should be of narrow beam so as to go through wood-
The World Over By Chester H. Rowell
SHIS Is ritten abroad the *ood ship Maul, on the Pacific, between San Francisco and Honolulu. On board, besides the usual contingent men, returning students, commuters between Hawaii and the mainland, and world-travelers generally, are also the members of the American and Canadian groups of the Institute of Pacific Relations authors, journalists, university presidents, scientists, publicists, business men and experts on international affairs, es-, pecially in the Pacific area. It is an interesting, useful group, to whose members is committed the responsibility of speaking unofficially, and therefore freely, the voice of America, in free conference with like groups from the other Pacific countries. They will obviously not settle, nor try to settle, anything. But they will learn a lot. FIROM China come those who see the vision of a possible China, against the background of present chaos, and who face, with the rest of us, the problem of an international treatment of China which shall deal with the necessities of the present without jeopardizing the ideals of the future. From Australia come, among others, representatives of the “White Australia’’ movement. From Japan come able men who will have opportunity to express, without either the restraint of officialdom or the recklessness of jingoism, the true voice of Japan. And from all the countries come men who understand each other in the less controversial common purposes of science, commerce, education and the arts of government. CHALLENGE CLAIM TO MORAL LEADERSHIP lOES the Christian world understand that the whole Orient is challenging, if not Christianity, at least Christendom, to justify Its claims of moral leadership? The Christianity of Christ, the Orient understands, and might accept. But It denies that this Is the Christianity of Christendom, and it arraigns Christendom on the charge that It is not Christian. Was the war in Europe, between Chrlstiah Nations, a Christian . war? Was the God to -whom each side prayed .to destroy the other, the heavenly Father of Christ? Is the fierce greed of the white man to exploit the yellow and brown and man, of the Occident to dominate the Orient, a reflection of the Sermon on the Mount 7 And by what title shall the Occident send missionaries to Christian./e the Orient until it becomes ( i.ristian Itself? HESE, be it remembered, are no longer mere aca- '■' demlo queries of querulous crlti^ , . The.v are the aroused challenge of a race and an ancient culture, revolting against the long assumption of superiority of European-
Tom Sims Says These a- e the days when the boss gets mad when he finds things went
better while he was away. Some people who think they are being agreeable are being hypocrits. What is so rare as a June day in July or August? Half of our lives are spent talking to people about other people. World’s greatest shoe value is
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when you shoo flies off the dinner. The world could.be worse. Suppose every auto you see was a motorcycle? The weather always seems to be worse than it was or not so bad as It was way back yonder. Now and then you read about a movie star who hasn't been married again yet. Snakes have longer wheel bases than any other known living animal, including hot dogs. Lots of your enemies would be your friends if you were the man you would like to be. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ino.)
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American races and civilization ove- the rest of mankind. Tile major half of the earth is aroused to see anew self-consc'ous-tiess, anew pride and anew sense of equality. It both denies the white man’s right to lead and defies his power to rule. Os all th 4 consequences of the great war this, no doubt, the most far-reaching. The white man’s guns may still cow those who have not equal gun3 to meet them, but the white man’s spiritual dominance is gone. If he is to regain it, he must earn it. ROYALTY TUNES IN The Japanese emperor and empress are confirmed radio fans, desplte their disappointment in a regetting a better instrument from America and are promised good reception. Loafing is light work but it doesn’t pay very well.
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his system play its part. ‘Tis easy said—yet mighty hard to do it. You crawl beneath the covers, and your paradise is found. In nothing, flat, you drift away to dreaming. At 6 o’clock you still are lost, and sleepin’ good and sound, despite the fact the blamed alarm is screaming. The missus, maybe, calls you when the hands get ’round to eight. You haven’t time to take your morning shave. You dress, and miss your breakfast so you won’t be quite
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