Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1925 — Page 6

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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.

Income-Tax Publicity . “IN Indianapolis newspaper, publishing anA other explanation of why it is wrong to print local income tax returns and right to print those of individuals living outside of Indiana, quotes M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue for Indiana, as saying that publicity has never helped in the collection of taxes and the prevention of tax dodging in Indiana. '/There is not one instance in this district, “Thurman is quoted as saying, “where publicity has helped the Government in collecting taxes.” Mr, Thurman, if he is quoted correctly, speaks out of a wide experience of two days. To be exact, he speaks out of an experience of about a day and a half, because it took a little time for our contemporary to get his statement and set in type. Before’ last year there was no income tax publicity. Last year there was very little, not because progressive newspapers thought it best to print only the taxes paid by persons who do not live in Indiana, but because the internal revenue department made it impossible to obtain more than a very little information. This year, acting under the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States, all but a very few American newspapers are printing income tax figures. It will be days before all the figures can be made public. It may be weeks or months before any one can honestly say publicity helped or did not help the revenue department in making its collections. Activities of the internal revenue department have, so far as the income tax is concerned, been shrouded in secrecy. The public had no way of knowing what was going on behind the scenes. It had no way of knowing whether every one was bearing his just share of the burden. The collection of the income tax is just as much the business of the public as the building of roads The public has a right to know how its public officials are functioning. The only practical way of throwing light into this uark corner of Government activity was through publication of tax figures. That is the reason Congress enacted a law making the figures public. It will take more than two days’ experienced to determine to what extent publication of tax figures actually has thrown light on this dark subject. The Other Fellow May Be Right H r ~“ OW often do you hear a man refer to the “right thinking’’ persons in the community ? What does he mean by right thinking? He means simply persons who think the way he does. , Usually the citizen who makes such an assertion in a smug individual who believes that his way of'thinking is the only right way. Another name for his attitude is intolerance. . Intolerance during the last few years has come to be applied almost entirely to the matter of religion. Most assuredly, there is too much religious intolerance. But intolerance can and does take many other forms. It is present in an individual when he is not willing to give the other fellow the benefit of the doubt, when he is not willing to admit there are two sides to a question, when he is not willing to admit the possibility that ho may be wrong in his opinions. Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State of the United States, in an address before the American Bar Association Wednesday said: “The most ominous sign of our time is the indication of the growth of an intolerant spirit which is armed with sincere conviction. “It is a spirit whose wrath must be turned away by the soft answers of sweet reasonableness. It can be exerted only by invoking the genius which watched over our infancy—a good genius still potent, let us believe—the American spirit of civil and religious liberty.” The same subject was discussed by Dr. Edward Albert Wiggam, one of the foremost scientists in America, in an address before the Indianapolis Rotary Club this week. Professor Wiggam said that this country can be saved—but that it can not be saved by the conservative who believes nothing should ever be done for the first time, nor by the radical who believes nothing ever should be done except for the first time, but by the liberal who goes into our social and governmental problems with the same lack of prejudice that a mechanic uses in repairing an automobile. Remember that the other fellow may be right. Whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them, This is not a nev philosophy It is as old as Christendom. It is called tolerance.

‘Daddy’ Yule u t% ADDY” YULE is dead. To thousands of men and boys this means that a friend is gone. “Daddy” Yule was for thirty years a teacher at Manual Training High School. His name was James Yule, but he was known to the boys who were his pupils as “Daddy.” The mere fact that the boys called their teacher “Daddy” is in itself descriptive of the character of James Yule. This friend of the boys taught forging. He lined them up at their anvils and instructed them first in pounding soft lead, to limber up their arms and wear callouses on their hands. Then he taught them to work in iron and other metals. No one seemed to know just why the boys studied forging. Certainly few, if any, of them ever intended to work in metals. But this fact did not detract from the benefits of the course. An hour and a half a day spent with “Daddy” Yule was worth more than all the instruction in pounding metal His was a rare philosophy and his humor was keen. He didn’t always talk about forging. He talked about things in general, and from listening to “Daddy” Yule many a boy learned more than he did in some of his more academic classes. Damaging Prohibition ERE is a tip to all who sincerely believe in prohibition. The present activity of enforcement officers in invading homes of innocent individuals, in frightening women and children, in violating the basic law of the land which guarantees the sanctity of the home, is doing more damage to the cause of prohibition than all the activities of the wets. This newspaper has never fought prohibition and it is not doing so now. But it is fighting the gross violation of the law on the part of prohibition enforcement officers. It is fighting the sort of thing that occurred north of the city where nine men routed an innocent family out of bed in the early hours of the morning and searched their home. The men found no i liquor because there had been none there. This sort of high-handed activity is becoming in the public mind inseparable with the prohibition law. If anything brings about the repeal of the law this kind of activity will do it. And the prohibitionists who tolerate and even back up this kind of activity will have only themselves to blame. County Roads ff fl NLESS the county and the State get to--IUI gether in the matter of road construction it appears that no more roads may be built fur some time. One of the arguments seems to be over the question of whether .Marion County roads should be eighteen or twenty feet wide. The State specifications call for eighteen-foot roads. The county wishes to build twenty-foot roads. The width of its own roads is a detail that should be decided by the county building them. In fact, there is no reason why the State should interfere with the construction of county roads. Assuredly, the taxpayers should be protected to the extent that there may be open competition in bidding on contracts and to the extent that they receive a dollar’s worth of road for every dollar spent. But the question of width is one which should be determined by local conditions. Traffic conditions in Marion County are heavier than in any county in the State. Automobile traffic is growing daily and no one can foresee to what extent it will increase in the future. This would seem to be a better argument for a twenty-foot road than for an eighteen-foot road in Marion County. INDIANA has had another earthquake. This probably was big news in Florida. • • • A BUMPER corn crop means a bumper crop of income tax payments. • • • THE weeds in the Courthouse lawn have been cut. Now any one so desiring can actually get a view of the Courthouse. We don't know whether things have been improved very much or not. • ■ • • There is one nice thing about the fall season. It puts an end to the bathing beauty contests. • • • THE street car company can see no demand for bus lines—until it checks up its income figure. • • • SOME of our public officials and police officers make their own laws as they go along—until they pick up a citizen who knows what the law is.

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CITY LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BA Y OF NAPLES

By David Dietz XU.4 Sen - tee Writer T the bottom of the Bay of Naples lies a city. Archaeologists have christened It Paleopolis. It is belived to have been the earliest Grfeek colony In Italy. Now Dr. Hans Hartman plans to explore Paleopolis with the aid of a great steel diving bell which has been built for him at the Krupp steel works In Essen, Germany. The bell Is a great steel cylinder with a heavy glass window in it and is designed to withstand the pressure of the water at a depth of 15,000 feet. Divers cannot descend more than 200 feet because of the Increase In pressure. But Dr. Hartman has already descended 3,000 feet In a diving bell. The new diving bell Is equipped with powerful searchlights for Illuminating the water around it. Dr. Hartman will take a motion picture camera with him when he has his diving bell lowered Into the water filled streets of Paleopolis.

' RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

MEMORIAL FOR MARSHALL Jrn RIEN, r>S of Thomas R. MarI£* I shall propose erection of a i suitable tomb In Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, as a fitting memorial and the final resting place for the all over the Nelson country. Mr. Marshall, according to close friends, had a horror of being burled in the ground. In view of his personal, preference to sleep above the soil of the Hoosler State that gave him birth, erection of a tomb, a mausoleum, to receive his body by friends who loved him and cherish his menyry seems particularly appropriate. But he would not sleep comfortable In an Egyptian pyramid, tomb of Hadrian, or in any imposing, ornate sepulcher. He was a plain man, with his feet planted firmly on the ground and unobsessed with delusions grandeur. Pomp and ceremony never appealed to him. Humanizing the vice presidency was one of his contributions to the public life of his times. The very qualities that endeared him to the people of Indiana and the nation should be perpetuated In the stones that mark his resting place. Unpretentious and solid was he; unpretentious and solid should be his memorial. slivering The FAMILY TREE ORTHUR HANNA Is held by Federal authorities In Cincinnati under charge of violating the Mann act. He Is said to have eloped with hla 16-year old niece—an Oaklandon (Ind.) girl. They were married at Newport, Ky.. two days later. Tying an uncle and niece In wedlock practically slivers a family tree into kindling wood. Even nations low In the scale of civilization oppose mating within that degree of consanguinity. But In these enlightened United States any determined couple, regardless of age or relationship, can buy a regular marriage with little trouble. A Jaunt over a State line, a little high lying and simple perjury and the deed Is done. An Indiana couple, uncle and niece, are married In Kentucky. Several months ago an old man from Kentucky almost married his grand daughter in Indiana. He had a perfectly regular Indiana license and a Hoosler Justice was ready to perform the ceremony when protesting relatives intervened. The laxity and diversity of our marriage laws encourage fraud and matrimonial ventures contrary to public policy. It would help If the contracting parties were required to furnish more substantial proof of residence, age and other matrimonial qualifications than their mere word. A prospective bridegroom should be given at least as searching an examination as a prospective Juror. POOR LO COMES BACK fT-71 hies eagle feather. lan Oklahoma Indian, has ‘-—■■l purchased a tract of land In Brown County, and). He intends to stock it with elk and deer, build log cabins and trails, and convert the tract into a high class tourist camp, like the “dude” ranches of the West. The Chief’s wife Is a graduate of an lowa university. Such commercial enterprise In an Indian Is contrary to the popular conception of the noble Red Man. Youths fed on he-man fiction and plctues believe the warwhoop and tomahawk still abound In the West. Every now and then some Indianapolis lad, with a dime and high courage, starts West to fight Indians. On the other hand many sentimental adults believe Poor Lo is extinct and bemoans his passing. Both are wrong. The Indian is neither on the war-path nor extinct. Instead of being exterminated. Poor L<* Is coming back. There axe tnore persona with Indian

Next. Dr. Hartman plans to explore the sections of ancient Carthage which now lie on the floor of the Mediterranean off the coast of Africa. If he Is successful, he plans to have a diving bell which will permit him to go even deeper into the mysterious regions of the deep ocean. • * * | 1"1 N electrical apparatus inI vented by Phillip P. Quale of the U. S. Bureau of Standards makes It possible r m take pictures of bullets as they leave the mouths of guns. Pictures taken so far upset one of the theories which has been held. This is that the gases which leaVe the muzzle of the gun after the bullet follow closely behind and help increase the Initial velocity of the bullet. The photographs show that the gasses lag far behind the bullet almost Immediately and so cannot contribute anything to the velocity of the bullet once it leaves the mqzzle of the gun.

blood In their veins in the country today than half a century ago. They have adopted the white man’s ways, Intermarried, and merged into the general population. Some of th eheaviest Income taxpayers—who measure their wealth in millions—in Oklahoma are Indians. The Osage tribe is the wealthiest people per capita in the world. Senator Curtis of Kansas, Ex-Senator Owens of Oklahoma and other members of Congress are proud of their Indian blood. The melting-pot, after four hundred troubled years, has pretty thoroughly assimilated the original Americans. Will It take that long to transform more recent racial Ingredients? NOSE DIVING FOR DEAFNESS C - —— •E. LANE. 68,’ of Indianapolis dropped 15,000 (feet ——l in an airplane over Schoen field the other day In an attempt to cure the deafness from which he has suffered for a dozen years. He believes the trip slightly benefited his hearing. Last week a little girl, deaf from birth, underwent the same treatment at Schoen field. It was not a complete success. Nose diving for deafness 1§ getting to be quite a fad here. In other places where it has been tried some startling cures have been effected. But to some of us timid individuals who swoon when we look down from a thirdstory window the cure seems worse than the disease. A drop In an airplane that failed to straighten out after a nose dive would end all of the occupants’ Ills and worries. It would cure deafness. Ingrowing nails, dementia praecox, and would convert the patient into hamburger seak Deafness is a great affliction, but of the five senses hearing is less necessary to man in establishing contact with the world In which he lives than sight or feeling. And tfce deaf have compensations. They sit at ease, escaping the surplus of sound waves that surge around and batter auditory nerves to a pulp. The city roars, clamors and chatters without dlsturb- , lng their thoughts. So unnecessary to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness Is so much of the sound that twitches ordinary ears that Thomas A. Edison, when assured that a very simple operation would restore his hearing, refused to undergo It. Hearing, he said, would Interfere with his thinking. Probably many persons would willingly trade perfectly good ears If they could become Edlsons thereby. But most people don’t like to be left too much with their own thoughts. Tom Sims Says French artist says American girls are Just dolls. We say you can’t stuff one with B Where are the old-fashioned girls? They arrested one In ' Arizona. She had stolen a Youth has Its has age. Older you easily you re member when the weather was Sims ny things happen. Chicago woman caught three robbers. And she’s 40, and hasn’t caught a husband yet. Education's great. Some people cuss and sweat. Educated ones perspire and use profanity. Imposters are terrible people. In Oklahoma, a bank was robbed by three men who didn’t work there. Detroit woman wants a divorce. Says he went out with another woman every night. And it’s hard to make money to stay at home on. More airplanes are being built. But we won’t have so many going up until their prices come down. Trouble with buying an auto is you run Into so many creditors. A pessimist is a man who buys a new summer suit now. Soon be time for the annual coal shortage to see Its shadow. A stitch In time saves wondering If the hole In your sock shows. Fastest way to hold your own Is by holding your own tongue. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Sendee, Inc.)

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Yesterday By Hal Cochran Yesterday's gone when today comes around. Passed with the days that are through. Nobody wonders or cares where it’s bound. We look to the day that Is new. Looking ahead’s been a habit for aye. We plan on tomorrow —and shirk. Time slips along till tomorrow’s today, and we’re etill facing yesterday's work. Better ’twould be if we all only dwelt with time that Is right here at hand. Better ’twould be if we constantly felt that today should be thoroughly spanned. Putting things off till tomorrow is wrong, when they’re things that you should do right now. Finishing tasks, as you travel along, always pulls you through better somehow. Yesterday turns out a day of regret when it's filled up with things left undone. Doing tasks now Is a much safer bet, and it makes life a whole lot more fun. (Copyright,, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

You can pet an answer to any question ot lari or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avc.. 'Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital rtlvioe cannot he given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other cuestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What was the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth of England? They were second cousins. What is the difference between an artisan and artist? An artisan, or artlzan, is onq who practices one of the lr.-.jstrial arts, a skilled mechanic, a trained workman. The word is distinguished from “artist” which is used of those pursuing the fine arts. What kind of stones axe “dicoldal stones?” As the name indicates, they are disk shaped. They are about one inch thick at the edge of the stone

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and taper down to a thin edge at a round hole In the center. This hole is used to grasp the atone when it is being hurled. The stone is used in playing some kinds of games. Where are the Bass Islands? These islands (North Bass, Middle Bass and South Bass) are three large Islands in Lake Erie off Scott's Point, north of Sandusky, Ohio. The islands are reached by boats from all important lake ports. They are sometimes known as Wine Islands, because of the extensive vineyards. The battle of Lake Erie was fought there Sept. 10, 1813, awith the victory of Commodore Perry. Can you mention a book that gives a good explanation of the flight and soaring of hawks and buzzards? A good explanation will he found in “Under the Maples” by John Burroughs, chapter on "The Flight of Birds.”