Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1925 — Page 6

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Two Ways of Keeping Taxes Down EN spite of “economy” administrate-is the costs of government continue to soar year by year, and inevitably high taxes forge their way to the front as issues in every political campaign. What’s the answer? California’s experience in the last Inirteep years furnishes two suggestions which, short of some such radical reform as singletax, appear to point the way out. Since 1912 California’s population has increased 235 per cent, -yet the costs of state government have gone up in that time 455 per cent and those of county government 366 per cent. City government costs stayed normal, in spite of the fact that 70 per cent of California’s people live in cities. Why did state and county chsts mount skyward and city costs stay down? For two apparent reasons. 1. While state and county were being run by politicians the city governments were being taken over more and more by experts. In California are twenty-seven cities now run by city managers, whose first concern is a showing of efficiency. 2. While state and counties were taxing the people for “dead” improvements, like roads, bridges, poor-farms and jails, the cities were gradually getting hold of money-making 'utilities. The most profitable utility today is electricity, 'and nineteen cities in California own their own distribution systems. All but four show big net profits, and the four give extremely low rates. Los Angeles makes a net ‘ profit of $1,000,000. The little city of Gridley in the rice fields dispensed with a tax rate for ;ten years, and made her electric distribution profits pay for streets, fire protection and the .Avhole cost of city government 1 Common-sense economists are becoming .convinced that lower taxes are to be found not so. much in parsimonious government as, in efficient government. A Difference in Salaries OBERT T. KANE, moving picture pro- ___ ducer, offers some American university $5,000 a year to hire a professor to teach young men to earn $50,000 a year in the movies. One wonders, if any university can iind a man for the job, how long it can keep him at that salary. There is, of course, more cynicism than truth in the saying “those that can, do; those that Q#m’t, teach.” Plenty of men teach who can also do, and accept much less for teaching than they could get for doing. But the difference between $5,000 and $50,000 rather stretches the limit. ' v School board members opine they should push their own trays in high school cafeterias.

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You can jrrt an answer to auy question ot lact or information by writing • to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washlneton, D. C.. Inclosing il cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor < an extended research bo undertaken. All other ouestlona will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot .'Jab answered. All letters axe confidential. —Editor. Is hemlock good for making iow? No. Bows require a hard, elastic wood like ash or hickory. Where did the custom of sending people on bootless errands, of jnaking them victims of practical Jokes on April 1, originate? this custom has existed in European countries for many centuries. Various theories are held as to its origin. One writer traces the custom to the miracle play, formerly produced at Easter, which sometimes

Who Is Broadminded?

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson f<i —-—| CLAIM that man is .moader I minded than womr.n In il * I every Instance,” so ends a letter from a person who find* a lot of fault with any championship of the-feminine sex. ■ >{ow I am not denying tint the rpeh, as a whole, are a pretty good sort, and we could never in the world get along without them. And I am not denying that we women are petty and jealous and malicious and mercenary. Although, speaking of broadmindedness — The men are so broadminded that they will chuckle with glee when they hear anything or read anything about the faults of women, but Just let attention be called to some of their own shortcomings, and they will immediately yell that somebody is trying to start a sex war. They are so broadminded that they think it rather a clever little trick for them to have a flirtation or two with another woman, but when their wi\ es try the same thing, they howl about infidelity. They are so broadminded that it took them over nineteen hundred years to see the justice of allowing women to vote .upon laws which they had to obey. >

Remodeling the County Courthouse mT is questionable whether the Marion county commissioners have acted wisely in making plans for an elaborate remodeling of the court house, to cost from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Undoubtedly the court house was considered a beautiful example of some sort of architecture when it was erected. In design it can be designated as of the mid-Victorian or post-Civil War horror period. It is hard to see what can be done with the building by remodeling it. Os course, the plaster angels can bp removed and a lot of the accumulated dirt of years can be washed off. But to one who is not an architect it is hard to see h6w much more room can be found iu this monstrosity or how it can b? made much more convenient. It seems to us that it would be more sensible to sell a part of the court house grounds and erect a modern office building type of courthouse on the remainder. Os course, we realize that the present structure has not been paid for. An Orphan Hospital ppIHE Marion County hospital for the insane !A J at Julietta has become an orphan. The State has refused to take it over and tne county has refused to make an appropriation for further maintenance. Its future and that of its scores of patients is in doubt. Marion county pays its share of taxes for the operation of State hospitals the insane. The county probably has not a very much greater proportion of insanity as compared with the amount of taxes it pays than other counties. Despite these things, Marion county for some unexplained reason has long maintained a hospital of its own. In addition it has been sending patients to the Central hospital, a institution. The question arises of why Marion county should not derive the same benefits from the taxes it pays for maintenance of State aospitals as other counties. The county council believes it should. The State apparently believes something else. Brooklyn man is shot for saying an exsoldier looked like a clown in uniform. Germans who think of their former Kaiser are preserving discreet silence. # # • Press dispatches aver Lake Michigan is at its lowest level in fifty-five years. Proving the coming of E. C. Yellowley, district prohibition director, already has stimulated water drinking in that wet stionghold.

showed the sending of Christ from Annas to Caiphas and from Pilate to Herod. Another finds the origin in some ancient pagan festival such as the Huli festival held by the Hindus on March 31, or the feast of the fools celebrated by the Romans on Feb. 17. How should honeysuckle be pruned? Prune away the weaker branches and treat the roots with manure tn the fall and a layer of nitrate of soda in the spring. What is the derivation of the name of the Isle of Wight? The derivation of the name is uncertain. All seem agreed, however, that the word is of Celtic origin, possibly connected with the Celtic word ‘'gwyth,” meaning a channel.

They are so broadminded that the most of them still hold the opinion that the seventh commandment was written exclusively for us. They are so -broadminded that they will fight at the drop of a hat for a so-called pure woman, and ’et those whom they have made impure fend for themselves. They are so broadminded that they still believe it is woman’s place to set the moral standards for the country, while they work at making politics more rotten. They are so broadminded that they do not believe that women should be given the same wage for the same work done by men. They are so broadminded that when they gave us .ome legal rights they figured they would not need to be gallant any more. They are so broadminded that a good many of them still labor under the delusion that God is a male, who will allow them special privileges. They are so broadminded that when they can’t think of anything else to prove a contention, they wll 1 f°U back upj)n the ancient tale < f how Adam fell because Eve vamped him Into eatlnar the apple.

The Romans called it Vectis or Vecta; early Saxon writers speak of it as “wiht,” and the inhabitants as Wuhtgara, the Roman and Saxon names being probably both merely adaptations of the name given it by the ancient Britons. Has Estarto grass ever been grown in the United States? This grass has never oeen cultivated outside of northern Africa. It takes from ten to fifteen years to grow it from the seed and from four to five years to grow it from the root. It would not pay to grow it in the United States, as the process Is too slow and its use too limited. What is the width of the English Channel? From Cape Griz Nez to Dover it is twenty-one miles. Who was "Atlas?” According to the Greek legend, he was an enormous giant who carried the world on his shoulders. Can anybody file a voluntary petition in bankruptcy? Any person who owes a debt, however small in amount, may file a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. This term means demands or clainjs provable in bankruptcy. The debtor’s petition must state that he is unable to pay his debts and is willing to surrender all his property to the use of his creditors. A debtor owing but one debt and having no assets may be adjudged a voluntary bankrupt. Which is stronger, .steam or electricity? The question is quite too indefinite for a definite answer. A 10 horse power steam engine and a 10 horse power electric motor can do the same amount of work per hour. A large steam engine can do more work per unit time than a small electric motor and conversely a large electric motor can do more work per unit of time than a small steam engine. Motors and steam engines are rated in the same units horsepower. What Is the meaning of the Sioux Indian word, "Winona?" First-born daughter.

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FORD'S MECHANICAL COW STILL IS FAR DISTANT

By David Dietz XEA Service Writer ENRY FORD, It is reported, thinks that the cow must go i___J the way of the horse and that a machine manufacturing milk must replace “bossy" just as autos and tractors are replacing old “Dobbin." The research worker on the frontier of science is heartily In favor of the idea. But understanding, as he does, the difficulties of the problem, he has little hopes of realizing the desired end In the next twenty or thirty years. The scientist is already learning how to make foods synthetically. But milk is the most complete food which exists. Therefore the synthetic manufacture of milk is the most difficult problem of all. All thq others will have to be solved before this one can be tackled. On a scientific basis, foodstuffs can be divided into five general classes. They are salts, fats, carbodydrates, proteins and vitamins. And sad to relate, the chemist’s knowledge of these classes Is least where knowledge Is most vital. For example, the salts are the least Important Item In the diet. Only slight amounts of them are needed. The chemist knows exactly how to make salts in the laboratory and can furnish far greater quanitles of them than are ever needed. But his knowledge of the other substances is not so great.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

FIREMAN AND POLICEMAN, TOO rprURE CHIEF O'BRIEN has r* I requested the board of L J safety to rescind all police powers conferred on a number of Indianapolis firemen. "It’s a nuisance." quoth the Chief. "The | men become otthe force/’ | 1 lls h was at its lice badges were men. was planned to have Nelson ' a fireman, thus equipped on duty at each fire station all the time to act as a peace officer in emergencies. Theoretically it was a good scheme. It presumably increased the effectiveness of the police force without Increasing the expense, and placed a policeman subject to call in every neighborhood all the time. A citizen who is being murdered can’t spare the time just then to run all over town looking for a regular policeman. An auxiliary policeman at the nearest fire station, subject to Immediate call, greatly simplifies his problem of keeping body and soul Intact. But in practice the scheme, like those for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, developed flaws. Fire fighting and policing are jobs requiring special fitness and special training. In neither is a jack-of-all-trades more efficient than -in other vocations. Anyone ■who observed the firemen attempting to direct downtown traffic during the greater Indianapolis parade will admit that as traffic cops they are good firemen. Probably departments will work more efficiently if divorced—if Indianapolis hires such full-time Peace officers as It needs for its protection and lets the fireman stick-to his mutton. NATIONAL ANTHEM AND PATRIOTISM I rpjHE Indiana Ancient Order I I I of Hibernians, in convention in Anderson recently, adopted a resolution calling for regular daily singing of "The StarSpangled Banner" in all schools, and the inclusion of the national anthem In the program at all public entertainments. The resolution was prompted, of course, by desire to promote patriotism—and eventually perhaps turn out a generation that actually knows the words of the song. All very laudable. The anthem is a noble piece of music—which thrills when properly executed. But when sung by a gathering of ordinary citzens it isn’t executed, but murdered. Its proper rendition is a feat for trained voices, beyond the vocal cords of the masses. American audiences rise and respect "The Star-Spangled Banner." If requested they will even essay to sing it. They start out bravely, but along about the time the "dawn’s early light” breaks on them they begin to gargle and break down. That proves no lack of patriotism but of musical skill. Probably if school children were compelled to practice on it every day they would become sufficiently proficient to render It acceptably. But would they become more patriotic? Patriotism is based on something more than agility in climbing up and down the harmonic scale. Men have fought and died, have written imperishable epics by their valor, for America,. who didn’t know a word or note of the national anthem. • They proved their love for their country by their deeds. Learning the song; by endless repetition won’t promote patriotism. . The same tinpe devoted to teaching what America is and 1 I what the song stands for will make better future citizens.

SHE chemist can also make edible fats in his laboratory’. He not only can make fats which are found in nature, but he can also make a number of fats which were not in existence previously. But the process Is so slow and expensive that it is not of any commercial Importance at the present time. The chemist has even more trouble, when he tries to make carbohydrates. The sugars are among the This writer, while In Paris, was shown by Professor Berthelot the apparatus with which he had been able to make minute quantities of sugars through the action of ultraviolet rays i|\ the proper chemical substances. But this process is only In an experimental stage. • * • SHE last two substances, proteins and vitamins, have the chemist completely baffled at present. He knows that proteins are mixtures of substances called aminoacids and he has succeeded In making a few of the amino-acids In the laboratory. And about all he knows about vitamins Is that they exist. He has yet to isolate and identify the vitamins before he can even begin to think about making them himself.

DEATH AT CROSSINGS Evo women were killed, and a third seriftusly injured, when the automobile in wmch they were riding was demolished by the Dixie Flyer of the Interstate Public Service Company at a crossing south of Indianapolis. Tuesday afternoon. In each direction from the scene of the tragedy the interurban tracks are in plain sight—neither curves nor obstructions cut off the view of approaching cars. Yet the automobile was driven directly on to the tracks in the path of the speeding traction cars. The previous day an automobile containing five boys was smashed by a Big Four passenger train at a crossing north of the city. The boys escaped with minor injuries. It Is not a dangerous, blind crossing. Approaching trains can be seen at a sufficient distance to insure safety. A few days before that a motoristl was killed at a ‘traction crossing southeast of the city. A lumbering freight train got him in broad dßylight. That is another open crossing, on level ground, with unobstructed view. Just a little flurry of crossing aocidents. But it proves that grade separation, watchmen and warning signals won’t eliminate crossing tragedies. The greatest danger to motorists at rail crossing is behind the driver’s wheel. CULTIVATING THE TOURIST CROP . D. STONE of the Hoosier l/xl State Auto Association L J urged State officials and leaders of civic organizations, at a luncheon Tuesday, to greater oultivation of the tourist crop rolling over Indiana highway.s Seventy thousand cars, bearing foreign license plates, pass through Indiana each week, he said. Statistics show that each car is worth 80 cents to a town through which it pusses; an average of $4 if the car stops and sl6 if the tourists remain over night. But if each such car is worth 80 cents to a town through which it passes, and $4 to a town where it stops, some must be more valuable than they appear. Half the cars on the roads are Fords. And a dust-bitten flivver tourist will rattle from coast to coast buying only a gallon of gas and a ham sandwich en route. Nevertheless it takes no Col. Mulberry Sellers to point out that there are potential millions in the Indiana tourist crop. Other states sell atmosphere, ad- ’ jectives and scenery in large quantities to visiting motorists with great prefit. Indiana can do likewise. It possesses beauty spots and attractions that will Induce the tourists to stop a while if generally know. What the State needs to realize on these resources is concerted publicity efforts of the right sort. Cultivating the tourist crop with speed traps, free but miasmic camping grounds, and similar devices is not profitable. To flower most luxuriantly, the tourist must be served not skinned. Gingham By Hal Cochran P_ ”1 ET’S take a stroll down a long j 1 winding lane, where nature l 1 has flourished at will. You ne’er seek for rest and for comfort in vain, for there’s rest in the peaceful and still. The path is a white road that leads to a farm. A country lass greets with a smile. She’s come from her milkin’, with pail on her arm. Mere gingham and bonnet’s her style. A breath of the old time —that’s Just what she seems. A maiden of old-fashioned ways. The girl man has pictured when lost in his dreams; in times when his sentiment plays. Ah, lass of the country, you’re looking so real; you’re just as God meant you to be. A look and a chat, and It’s easy to feel that there’s realness where i-eainess should be. Now turn to the modern, the fashion and style, and tell me your Candid belief. Is all cf the put-on and make-up worth while? Aren’t gingham and realness relief 9 (Copyright, 1925 NEA Service, Inc.)

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An Answer to Wiggam

To the Editor of The Times: Or N the recent visit of Albert Edward Wiggam I am reminded how easy it Is for an inconsistent theory of life, couched in popular phrases, to arouse cheers of enthusiasm. I agreed with the critic of this writer’s latest book, who said: “ ‘The Fruit of the Family Tree’ is a thoroughly bad book, which may do some good by making people think.” It may also do harm if read by the thoughtless. The fact is, that while making a plea for a scientific control of hereditary forces, the production of better people through taking thought as to parentage, this pseudo-scientist manages to imply that the true solution is not through science and intelligence, but through reinstating the law of the jungle, and he further Implies that all that is necessary to reinstate the law of the jungle is to abolish all charity of every kind, both the scientific kind and the unscientific kind, and allow the unfortunate to die of neglect. Now in the first place, it Is not alone the unfit who are unfortunate. Many splendid families have reverses. To keep them splendid and bring them out of their troubles requires the help of their neighbors, sympathetically and intelligently given. In the second place, even the unfit do not ordinarily die of neglect, even when organized social work Is absent from the picture. It is impossible to reinstate effectively the law of the jungle in a civilized coun-

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try. We won’t any of us stand for It In practice, even though we might try to favor it in theory. People will not stand by and see their neighbors, even feeble-minded and unprofitable neighbors, actually starve. And they are right. The same Instinctive repulsion that will not permit us to watch our neighbors starve springs from the same instinctive source as the desire to see the next generation fitter and happier. Kill one and you kill the other. Cultivate one and you cultivate the other. Modern social work is the foundation step for just the sort of intelligent social control that Wiggam wants, and he admits it in so many words in “The New Decalogue of Science.” Only after having admitted It he seems to find a peculiar satisfaction in implying the very reverse. Such implications may be pungent, and sensational, but they brand him a charlatan, and not a scientist. HOMER W. BORST, Executive Secretary Indianapolis Community Fund. A Thought Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth Instruction; but he that regardsh reproof sliall be honored. —Prov. 13:18. A”1 LLi is lost when the people fear death less than poverty. ■- —Chinese proverb.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1925

Tom Sims Says Pride may goeth before a fall, but it also cometh with a fall hat. All the good people are not dead. They are just quiet. Living a long tlme takeß a * reat many years and a \ i whole pile of B money and philosNever Judge the quality of a man’s religion by what he says when his wife is mad at We like summer better than winter because our radio works better Sims In winter. Dessert seems to be a food which comes and goes only with company. After you get to know the average man you find he is above the average. If you are dow-n now, it affords you a chance to be proud of the way you get up again. Summer’s about gone. That’s all right. Picnickers have done enough damage to last several months. Most people are either ahead with their work and behind with their worrying or Just the reverse. (Copyright, 1926 NEA Service, Inc.'