Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 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 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 Week • • • PHONE— MA in 3500.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re stricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution oi Indiana.

A Free Press SHIS is Constitution week. Various speakers are addressing the public on our fundamental law and the bill of rights that was intended to give us the privileges of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The purpose'of the week is to refresh our memories and recharge in us the spirit that was in our forefathers. "While public men are discussing other phases of the Constitution let us consider but one phase here—the one that guarantees freedom of the press—the one that gives newspapers the indisputable right to discuss public questions in a public way, with accountability in a broad sense to only one court—the court that is the public. We shall discuss the question from the viewpoint of the independent newspaper that owes tribute to no party and accepts reward from no party; that carries the banner of no clique; that speaks for the whole people rather than for mere faction of the people. The independent newspaper has become the auditor of public conduct, forever cheeking public accounts and demanding truthful public accountings of public affairs. It speaks for the public because there is none else to speak. No other voice is strong enough to be heard above the din in the market place that is the city. It speaks not without authority. The good will of its readers who stand behind it year after year and generation after generation is its authority. Without courageous newspapers that dare to say what they ought to say. systems of government would become the tools of political dictators, and autocracy would rule the land. That portion of the Constitution known as the hill of rights guarantees certain freedoms of thought and conduct, but without a free press there would he no medium powerful enough to preserve those rights against the onslaughts of the demagog and the traitor to public wellbeing. The free press of this city, this state, th;3 nation, is a watchdog that stands on guard day and night. It never rests. It never grows tired. Its representatives fall in step with men and women who aspire to high places in the councils of the people. It separates the weak from the strong, the honorable from the corrupt, the decent from the unclean, the faithful from the unfaithful. The road to fame is lighted by the torch of publicity. Those who traverse it to the end do so because they are worthy to stand in the light. Those who fall hv the way owe their failure to the fact that their deeds cannot bear the glare of the calcium. The free press is not interested in WHO are men and women who seek to enlist in public service. It is tremendously interested in WHAT they are, in what they have done, in what they are capable of doing, in their instincts, their dreams, their hopes in behalf of public welfare. How could you choose with intelligence your public stewards with no free press to check back on the records of those who seek your vote? How could you know when your public servants were betraying your confidence if newspapers were not free to tell you the truth about their conduct? Who could prevent the corrupt politician from entrenching himself and perpetuating liimfcelf in office if newspapers were denied the right to reveal his treason? The guarantees of freedom would be empty indeed, Mr. Citizen, were it not for the fact that a free press stands on guard twentyfour hours of the day and night to prevent invasion of your rights. Since the newspaper is the handiwork of men and women and siyee it is the fastest moving institution in the world, it makes its share of mistakes. But remember this, on this Constitution week: The free press, its errors and its shortcomings notwithstanding, is the personified, human engine of justice that preserves for you coveted privileges, dreams of which brought our forefathers from the old world and caused them, when freedom was in sight, to kneel in thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock.

The Churches’ Report on Sooze (?p0 our way of thinking the Federal Coun1. * cil of Churches should be awarded hero medals of this first class, all hands round. Hating the Demon Rum and all his works, it has set out to tell the truth about prohibition as it is and as it isn’t. And, after reading its 30,000 word report, compiled after months of painstaking investigation. one is left far from convinced that America’s greatest social venture —prohibition

—is the success some people would have us believe. Nor does the report seek to give that impression. Which is why we recommend its makers for medals ‘'Pour le Merite.” It simply sets forth the facts and leaves the reader to form his own concluisons. Thus, despite its sympathies being on the side of prohibition, the council’s report frankly admits an “unfavorable and disquieting" social trend since 1920 and that the great experiment is still on trial for its life. It warns that propaganda tabulating how business is better, savings bank deposits greater, the death rate lower, and so on, can not be relied upon to prove prohibition’s case. Many other factors make for prosperity, it observes, and generally higher standards of living make for longer lfie. . *lt says children find booze harder to get than before prohibition but confesses “that drinking has increase! among young people” just the same. And that while “the death rate from alcoholism fell lower proportionately prior to 1920,” it “has risen higher proportionately since.” “It is noteworthy,” says the report, “that a questionnaire sent as part of this investigation to a thousand or more business men, directors in important corporations selected at random, asking for their verdict as business men upon prohibition, yielded a predominantly ‘wet’ result.” We will not try to give a resume of the report. It would not be fair. We could not do it justice under several columns. Get it and read it for yourself. It contains facts no citizen should ignore, be he a “wet” or a “dry.” Physical bravery is common to most mortals, but moral courage—the courage to tell the unvarnished truth even if it hurts —is the rarest thing in this world. The Federal Council of Churches is to be commended.

Tax Collections and Tax Publicity P r "““ CBLICITY of income tax returns has not boosted internal revenue collections, say opponents of publicity. Publication of the comparative collections mrde by the Treasury during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1925, and June 30. 1924, fail to reveal the basis for these assertions. Total collections of income taxes have fallen off. They have not, however, fallen off anywhere near as drastically as tax rates were cut last year. Income taxes fell from $1,841,759,316 during the year ending June 30, 1924, to $1,761, 659.049 during the past fiscal year. This constitutes a reduction of $80,100,267. The percentage of loss is approximately per cent. Tax rates in the meantime were reduced 25 per cent, and more. For the three months ending March 31, 1924, the collections were $65,000,000 greater than during the first three months of 1925. In the meantime Congress twice reduced the rates, first making a 25 per cent refund on 1923 taxes and then the sharp cuts which mark the revenue bill of 1924. We make no claim that publicity has as yet increased tax collections. We do not believe there is sufficient evidence to make out a case. Bu„ we also deny that evidence exists to show that revenues have decreased. On the face of the figures just released by the Treasury it is evident that collections have not decreased as sharply as the rates were cut. That is all that can be drawn from the present figures. What's a few records of search warrants between friends? • • • I 4 you’re badly bent financially, think of the fellow who’s broke. • • • Gardeners should approve the appointment of J. W. Parsley as custodian of the city hall. • • • The French intend to make Bibane the bane of the Riffs’ life. • • • But if the police chased bandits, they wouldn't have so much fun stopping automobiles. • • • Evidently John F. White, president of the Southeastern Civic Improvement Club, believes its heads you win, tails I under the present system of city government. # # * Old John is a merry old bo And a merry old bo is he. Raiders use hfs name To win great fame And tne search warrant costs no fee.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WOMEN ‘CARRY ON’ AFTER THEIR HUSBANDS’ DEATHS

By David Dietz Btf NEA Service mHE political world Is witnessing at the present time a number of women who are carrying on the work which was left uncompleted to some extent by their husbands when they died. The same thing happens In the world of science . The outstanding eiample Is that of Madame Curie who discovered radium by carrying on the researches which her husband had been engaged in up until the time he was killed by a Paris auto. Now a similar Incident comes to the attention of the world. It is announced that Madam Gabrielle Flarnmarion will carry on the work left unfinished by the death of he husband, the great French astronomer, Camille Flammarion. She has taken over the post which he formerly held, that of director of the great Juvlsy observatory. In addition she has been elected secretary general of the Astronomical Society of France. Ten volumes which her husband had planned to publish will be completed and published by Madame Flammarion. Like Madame Curie, Madame Flammarion was unheard of until the death of her husband, hut like Madame Curie she was also the collaborator in all her husband's scientific work during his life.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE FLAP OF WINGS ENDIANAPOLIS will soon he on an air mail route if the bids opened by Postmaster General New Tuesday are accepted. Ten commercial aircraft

companies submitted seventeen proposals to carry mail on the eight new lines the department hopes to establish. The eight routes proposed ■wall serve t w e n t y-nine cities already on air mail lines and will link up all the most important commercial centers in the country. The interest taken by private

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flying concerns in these air mail contracts is significant. Commercial aviation begins to show signs of life. Equally significant is the commercial airplane reliability tour through the Middle West late this month which is being sponsored by the Ford Interests. The pathfinding plane which is laying out the route for this test is expected to arrive in Indianapolis Friday. The adventures of the Shenandoah tnd PN 9-3, with their byproducts of tragedy and heroism, have centered attention on the use of aircraft in national defense. Army, Navy and Colonel Mitchell are kicking up dust as to development of aircraft for war use. Ponderous investigating committees will study the whole subject. But, though the Government air policy is important, it is not vital to the future of aviation in this country. Neither Army nor Navy ever perfected a peaceful tool. If the airplane Is to be improved and the flap of mechanical wings Is heard In the land, it will be the result of private enterprise and commercial flying.

CHILDREN AND MATRINMONY Me— J RS. FRED ZIMMERMAN, a 14 year-old wife of Oaku_J land City. Ind., had her right leg amputated Monday in consequence of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Little hope for her recovery. She shot herself because her 17-year-old husband teased her and stayed away from home the night previous. There is the beautiful fruit of a youthful romance that culminated in marriage seven months ago. \Here's another. Tuesday a 16-year-old Arderson (Ind.) wife filed suit for divorce from her husband, a boy of 17, charging non-support. The couple was married at Newcastle July 27, following an elopement. Their Juvenile matrimonial bark was sunk without a trace in less than two months after It was launched. Perhaps once marriages were made in heaven. Apparently some modern nuptials were not. The child marriages permitted by the lax laws of Indiana and other States show few' traces of divine carpentry. It is about as easy for a boy and girl. In search of a momentary thrill, to step out casually and be wed with full formality and legality as it is for them to draw their breaths. The Institution of W'edlock is ostensibly for the stability and wellbeing of society. Child marriages do society about as much good as a handful of poison ivy or delirium tremens. TRIAL BY JURY ALTER DREWS, of I* Porte, is a Juror. Fbr I V V J eight weeks he has sat in La Porte County Circuit Court while the Drusilla Carr land case has slowly unwound—with prospects of another month of service before the case is finished. Meanwhile he has lost his Job in a factory. And yesterday he .had to apply to the county for $25 for the support of his family. At the conclusion of the case the munificent State of Indiana will pay him $2.50 a day for his jury service, and turn him loose to rustle a job. Trial by jury is proclaimed , the foundation of our liberties. Dis-

Madame Flammarion is the descendant of Theophraste Renaudot, known in France as "the father of French journalism.'* mHE temperature on the planet Venus never rises above zero. This Is the opinion of Dr. C. E. St. John of the Mt. Wilson observatory. Dr. St. John has just completed a lengthy study of the planet, using the Mt. Wilson 100-lnch telescope, the largest telescope in the world. During the day time, the temperature of Venus just rises to about the freezing point, Dr. St. John says, while at night, it falls below that point. S' - ““ CIENTISTS have known for a long time that sunspots affect by the sun, the radiation increasing with an increase in sunspots. However, Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the astrophysical observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, calls attention to a recent discovery of a surprising nature. Work at the Smithsonian observing stations shows that when a sunspot moves across the center of the sun, the radiation is diminished for a brief period. Further study is needed to explain the phenomenon.

Inclination of substantial and busy citizens to perform Jury duty, however, is disturbing to legal lights and students of American institutions. They complain that Juries too often consist of professional loafers and court files. There are ample reasons why respectable citizens dodge Jury service. Long drawn out trials, inadequate compensation, and disruption of private affairs. A case before a Massachusetts court a couple of years ago dragged out for 180 days. Only a special act of the Legislature, providing special remuneration for those jurors, prevented several of them from going from the Jury box to the poorhouse at the conclusion of the case. Probably in any case the essential evidence can he presented to the jury in a week or two at most. Only the dilatory tactics of lawyers, quibbling over inconsequential matters, are responsible for trials lasting many weeks and months. Such lawyers are responsible for any breakdown in our jury system. They have reduced trial by Jury to trial of Jurors.

CROSSES FOR WARNINGS MA\OR SHANK proposes to paint w’hite crosses on Inl~ dianapolis streets to mark the scene., 0 f death from automobile accidents. The idea was adopted by the board of safety Tuesday. It is believed such signs, by their mute reminders of tragedy, will serve as warnings and will cool the ardor of reckless drivers. The plan has been treid In many places. In Oho w’hite crosses are erected at the sides of highways to mark fatalities. Perhaps they send chills down the backs of imaginative passershy, hut there is no definite proof that they discourage recklessness and reduce traffic accidents. It is only the rlow\ cauI tious drivers that have time to see the crosses. In the middle ages when human Justice was administered with calloused fists instead of lily hands it was quite the fashion to expose the severed heads of malefactors at city gates and other prominent vantage points ns warning to other incipient criminals. Real enterprising offenders were quartered, and hams and shoulders displayed In different places. Along the highways corpses of robbers and bandits dangled from trees until they rotted. But the grewsome displays didn’t extinguish crime. IVe still have a little in Indiana. Pmhafcly crosses marking traffic fa tallies will be no more effective. and streets are already too cluttered up with signs to catch the motorist's eye. To read them all drivers will have to grow eyes at every pore. Mortuary crosses would have to compete with road signs, billboards. "fresh eggs" placards, barbecue announcements, and so on, for attention. At an Interesting and fatal intersection before a motorist could peruse all the signs and inspect the warning crosses he would quite likely be in Jail or Heaven for breaking a traffic rule or his neck. Probably the most effective curb for reckless drivers is to revoke their automobile and driving licenses. Crossing them off the list of drivers will accomplish mNre than putting the crosses on the highways. After the Bawl By Hal Cochran And this is the tale of an every day dad who walketh the floor every night. His youngsters possesses a habit that’s bad. Perhaps it’s from colic—or fright. The moment the masculine parent turns in and plans on a snooze, with a sigh. He waits and he waits for what’s bound to begin. He knows that the baby will cry. He waiteth for minutes that seem just like years—then Anally he waiteth no more. A gurgle commences, and answers his fears. A cry! Then he’s walkin’ the floor. A lullaby's sung, that Is all out of tune. A grown-up would hear it, and w-eep. But baby appreciates. This, pretty soon, it quietly slips off to sleep. Ah, then is the moment when father feels good. He’s hearing his cozy bed call. He's done for the youngster the best that he could — and sleep cometh after the bawl.

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gines were submitted, but only one proved satisfactory. This was the "York,’* built by Davis A Gartner of York. Pa. This locomotive had to be considerably altered before It was really satisfactory, and was followed by the Atlantic, Indian Chief and Treveller. What is considered the greatest game fish and the hardest to land? Sportsmen consider the tarpon the greatest game fish and the hardest to land. What Is the largest dam in the world? Wilson dam, In Alabama, in the United States, is said to be the largest in the world. It contains 1,260,000 cubic yards of masonry. What is the size of Manhattan Island? Manhattan Island is about thirteen miles long by two and onefourth miles broad. Is Spanish language spoken in all South American countries? In all of them except Brazil, where the Portuguese Is spoken. Where was the Parthenon? The Parthenon was a celebrated temple of the virgin goddess Athena, on the Acropolis of Athens. It Is said to be the highest triumph of Greek architecture. Where was George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States? From 1785 to 1790. Congress met in New York In the old City Hall at the corner of Wall and” Nassau Sts., and here George Washington was Inaugurated April 30, 1789. A Thought Every man that strlveth for mastery is temperate In all things.— 1 Cor. 9:25. • • • Mt - TASTERS are mostly the greatest servants in the house.—

THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1925

Tom Sims Says Everybody on a political machine wants to blow the horn. And no-

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he thought they were Jazz bands. French scientist claims he has a medicine to cure drinking. If bootleg doesn’t stop It nothing will. Hardest thing in the world is working in a bank and counting so much money and getting so little of It. Another movies actress wants divorce and custody of the reputation. Pedestrians don’t make very good shock absorbers and besides the> spatter up your car something awful. Many fish would starve If It wasn't for the man who tries to catch them TVho has paid to hear a lecture and then gone away convinced we should have free speech. The average man’s idea of prosperity is when everybody <s so rich noboby has to do any work. If we profited by all our mistakes we soon would have enough of them to make us rich. Hunt the bright things. Suppose flies ate as much as cows? Among the things which run In all families are stockings. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Sendee, Inc.)

body wants to buy the gas. Being in love can take up almost as much time as regular loafing. Only trouble with the harvest moon Is you see su many autos parked by the road fixing punctures. Bad news from Florida. Man had a mania for shoot leg mules. Maybe