Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 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 Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subecriotion Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in ‘.VmA
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Our Own Secret Police mNDIANA has a system of espionage and an organization of secret police that should make darkest Russia envious. The extent and scope of this system can not even be surmised, but more evidence of the extent to which, it operates is coming to light daily as the investigation of extra legal activities continues. The latest branch of the secret police to be revealed is a group, the size of which has not been disclosed, of “assistant secretaries of State,” equipped with “complimentary badges.” The secretary of State is the head of the State motor police department, a legally constituted group of paid State employes charged with the task of enforcing the State’s motor vehicle laws. But the fact has now been revealed that the secretary of State is the head of another group of officers, a group of secret police. These secret police, it is explained, are some of the' State officials and a group of “reputable citizens’’ given police powers. By what right the secretary of State makes policemen out of private citizens is not known. Nothing could be more dangerous to any community than the promiscuous granting of police powers. Nothing could be more dangerous than a secret police system such as that in existence in Indiana. The secret police department of the secretary of State is not the only one operating in Indiana. It is simply one of several such organizations. The primary duty of any police department is to protect innocent citizens. Basicly, that is the only duty of any police department. But things have come to such a pass in Indiana that law-abiding citizens actually are afraid of some of the branches of our so-called police system. Many innocent persons are afraid to drive on country roads at night, not because they are afraid of being molested by bandits but because they are afraid of being molested by someone wearing a badge! There is reason to believe that their fears are well founded. Let’s take a look at the police organization, secret and otherwise, that operates in Indiana. Here are some of the groups that are likely to stop your car and search it or possibly do worse: The horse thief detectives, a semi-secret organization reported to be composed of thousands of men. They are organized under an ancient and questionable law designed for the sole purpose of permitting farmers to protect themselves against horse thieves, who molested them in the old days The “deputy secretaries of state,” a secret organization of unknown strength, organized under no law at all. Sheriffs and their deputies. The deputies are reported to be numerous in Marion county and elsewhere. The public does not know who is a deputy sheriff. Constables and deputies. These are small-fry office holders whose chief activities consist of attempting to make fees for themselves and their bosses, the justices of the peace. Usually they have little or no regard for legal rights of citizens. The State motor police. This is a legally constituted organization whose sole duty is the enforcement of the State motor laws. The Federal prohibition department. This is a legally constituted organization charged with enforcement of Federal prohibition laws.
The city police. This organization is legally constituted and charged with enforcement of the laws and the protection of citizens. So far as we know at the present time, this list covers fairly well the police authorities of Indiana with the exception of game wardens, deputy fire marshalls, private detectives, merchant policemen, and minor groups of this type. Nothing could be designed that would result in more lawlessness than an array of official, semi-official and unofficial police such as we have in Indiana. Os course, police protection is needed in any civilizid community. But Indiana has gone far beyond the necessities of police protection and law enforcement. It has gone so far in this direction that no citizen is safe. It has gone so far that laws are constantly being violated in the name of law enforcement. It has imposed a system of abuse and tyranny that is almost unbelievable in a free State. Nothing is more dangerous than the promiscuous granting of police powers to per sons unused to authority, responsible to no one, unacquainted with or careless of the laAv, eager in many instances for self-gain, swaggering about bearing concealed firearms and
brutally interfering with the rights of innocent persons. If the regularly and legally constituted police authorities are unable to cope with law violation and unable to protect the‘rights of citizens, let us by all means strengthen their forces and increase their numbers until they are. But we must not turn Indiana into a Russia. Saving Babies ECRETARY OF LABOR JAMES J. DAVIS, just back from Europe, says there’s a very good reason why England saves more of her babies than we do in the United States. The reason is not smarter doctors, nor better health work in England. The reason is that the English—though poorer than we—spend five times as much money as we do for the purpose. Therefore they reach more mothers and babies. “Health visitors,” he says, “reach an estimated 89 per’cent of the children born in a year in England and Wales and 13 per cent of the expectant mothers. “With our larger population, greater distances and higher costs for both service and material, we are obviously able to do much less for mothers and babies than Great Britain. ’ England’s infant mortality rate was 69 per 1,000 in 1923. The United States rate was 77. Surely the United States of America—the richest nation on earth : —can afford to spend a little more money tq save our babies. We spend only about $900,000 per year now, compared to the British $4,500,000. The Uncle Nebo School SHE old fashioned southern darkey was absolutely without a peer as a diplomat. One of them once did us a slight service. “How much do we owe you, Uncle Nebo?” we inquired. “Whatevah y’all wanta gimme,” he answered with a courtly, bow and a smile that was irresistible. “Everybody knows what a gen’rous gen'man y’all is—spechly us cullud folks. Ah wouldn’t think of axin’ y’all to pay me fo’ what An done—’deed Ah wouldn't! Jes’ make me a Chris’mas gif’.” Os course he was paid ten times more than the service was worth. But what would you? * * * Joseph Caillaux, French Minister of Finance, is now on his way over here to settle \Vith Uncle Sam. As he left Paris he was all optimism. He would soon be back with generous terms in his pocket. “A gentleman’s offer to gentlemen,” is the way he smilingly but vaguely describes the proposition he intends to make us. Which sounds very much like he belongs to the Uncle Nebo School. He starts off with blarney behind which we somehow scent the expectation of a gentlemanly openhandedness on our part which we will find hard to disappoint. If we don’t live up to expectations, the inference is . . . well, we won’t be gentlemen.
‘You Can’t Win’ SEAT’S the newest slogan in New York and, after a long diet of “You, too, can be successful’’ propaganda, it is something of a shock to find this message glaring down at one from street car and subway advertisement racks. But the gloomy new slogan does not mean that the spirit of Rotary and Kiwanis has broken and that America is becoming a nation of gloomy philosophers. It means only this: New York is trying the effect of moral suasion upon her criminals and would-be crooks. First “You can’t win’’ arrests the attention. Below it are a few statistics about the efficiency of the police department in always getting its man. Or else there is a picture of “you” behind the bars looking out at your starving dependents who wait outside. And you, if you are planning a bank robbery or a check fraud as you ride down toward Wall St., are supposed to stare at the cards, find your nerve broken, and then slink off the train and hunt an honest job. So far no statistics showing the number of times this has happened are available. Judging by the headlines of New i r ork newspapers, however, one would be inclined to think not often. • • • IF we’re to have bottle-neck annexation of Beech Grove like University Heights, why not take in Richmond with corporation lines extending along the National Road?
THE HISTORY OF A RACE ' IS UNEARTHED IN HILL
By David Dietz WEA Service Writer I 1 TOP a great precipice of bloodred rocks upon the northern L-.—J coast of Africa, looking down upon the azure Gulf of Tunis, a group of pioneers of the last frontier—scientific research workers —are at work. They are using powerful streams of water to wash away the sandy rock. Then they are passing the debris through sand sieves. Their hose Is washing away centuries of time. Their sieves are sorting out the records of past civilization. For the scientists, under the direction of Count Byron Da Prorok, are bringing to light the ancient city of Carthage. Count Prorok is carrying on. with intensified methods, the work in which Father Delattre, known as the dean of European archaeologists, has been engaged for fifty years. Legend has It, as all high school students of Latin know, that the Phoenicians under Queen Dido founded Carthage. The date is usually set at 822 B. C. Carthage figures prominently in the history of the ancient world. In the sixth century, B. C.. she dominated the Mediterranean. Then came the great wars with the Greeks. Centuries later the great wars between Carthage and Rome were fought, ending with the destruction of Carthage by the Romans in 146 B. C. The Romans rebuilt Carthage In 122 B. C. and eventually It became one of the great centers of Christianity. But in 968 A. D., the city
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
MAN ISN’T SO SMART 1 IT Riverside Park Tuesday night a stray carrier pigeon • alighted on the ferris wheel. The bird—bearing on one leg a band Inscribed “J. P. 25,
Buffalo. N. Y-, U. 8. P.”—was caught, fed. watered and the following morning released. When turned loose the pigeon circled In the air a moment and then headed due East. In that direction lies Buffalo — nearly 500 miles distant. What man, if turned loose In I ndl anapolis, could find his way to Buffalo
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under his own power without maps, road marks, or inquiring his way? A motorist driving across country must have a sheaf of road maps. Then if every inch of the highway isn’t well marked he ends up in a farmer’s tarnyard hopelessly lost. He may find his way to Florida by auricular sense—for listening Intently he can hear the sound of the boom. But that's exceptional. Civilized man has very little innate sense of direction. He may get lost In his own home town, sometimes can never find his polling place, and frequently crashes in ruin when he tries to traverse his own front hall In the dark. Carrier pigeons wing their way home unerringly from great distances. Other creatures likewise — dogs, horses, cats and trouble—possess a sense of direction seldom at fault. They find their way back, no matter how far the journey or how involved the route on which they are taken. Man thinks he has all the Intellect in creation. But he isn’t so smart as he thinks he is. He doesn’t know north, east, south or west—except in print—and can’t travel without a guide. Even a bird with less than a thimbleful of brains knows more than that.
AUTOMOBILES AN DEDUCATION A r—AUTHORITIES at Purdue University will frown on -I automobiles. who, like Mary’s little lamb, follow their owners to school this year. Only such student automobiles as really assist their owners in getting their university work done will be permitted. Investigation revealed that almost two-thirds of the 180 students with cars at Purdue last year had one or more conditions in their studies. Apparently the modern bran<j of midnight oil doesn’t help education. Probably the edict will grate harshly on the ears of some stu- ' dents, who have maintained snorting gas chariots, but it is a ruling that has been adopted by many colleges in the interest of education and discipline. College authorities haven’t been bribed by cobblers or chiropodists. The student automobile has become a problem. Unless restrictions are placed on it some institutions of learning will have to raze libraries, dormitories, chapels and classrooms to make room for it. Perhaps in the future an up-to-date educational plant will consist of a stadium and garage. Education has been successfully pursued afoot. Fathers and grandfathers of these modern youths, who wear Oxford bags and pieeyed Fords, sometimes trudged miles to school without permanent ill effects. Compelling a Purdue student to walk a little will break neither the State's nor his constitution. Probably it will be just as well for him to learn to walk while he is young and supple. Motorcar builders, aircraft manufacturers and reckless drivers will see that he never gets another chance to acquire the art.
was destroyed by the Arabs, never to be rebuilt. ftjfNßl *•* ■ i cessive layers of civilization OUNT PROROK’S excavations are revealing the sucin Carthage. The first excavations revealed Arab tombs. Below them, a Christian chapel was found. Then Roman cisterns. And still deeper, Phoenician tombs that are thought to date back to 700 B. C. Running the sand through sieves has yielded hundreds of coins, beads and other small objects. The streams of water have uncovered many monuments. Among them are the Temple of Baal Ammon where m thers sacrificed their children. Prorok expects to prove that the Egyptians had a colony upon the site of Carthage long before the Phoenicians arrived. Future excavations will, of course, put this theory to the test. • • * HE excavations show how i I little there is new under the ■' sun. Prorok has found eyebrow penc Is and lipsticks, stone boxes containing powder and rouge, perfume bottles and hairpins. Eyeglasses have also been found Frorrt certain inscriptions, Prorok believes that both paper money and check books existed in ancient Carthage. As Prorok himself points out, only fountain pens have yet to be found to give a picture of the business man of Carthage adjusting his eyeglasses and writing a check. And probably as he wrote it, he shook his head, meditating upon the high cost of living and the styles of women’s clothes.
COOPERATIVE MINING VENTURE SHE Eas' Side Coal Company, of Bicknell (Ind.), a cooperative venture of miners. has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition. Liabilities are listed at $9,621.68 and assets amount to. $663.86. Thus ends a scheme of a group of miners to operate a coal mine by themselves for their own profit. They couldn’t even pay themselves the union scale of wages. Os course, 'he Indiana coal Industry has been for months a victim of sleeping sickness. Many of the mines have been shut down. However, even in that trying period the mines managed by < apital. paying union wages, have opereted more successfully than those under miner management. The result rather gives the socialistic theory that capitalistic management is an Industrial a dirty dig. The present industrial system may be all wrong and the profits split unequally between the toiler who contributes his muscle and the jnvesto: - who contributes his dollar to industry. But the sue
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cess of the Russian and other experiments that try to elim inate the latter arc not flalter'ng. Apparently industry requires a judicious mixture of brawn, brain and bonds, if it is to be conducted with profit and benefit to all. Headwork and handwork must combine to produce satisfactory results. Their differences should be settled within the family without recourse to the divorce court. Neither will gain anything by obliterating the other. FEDERAL TAX REDUCTION OOOSIERS contributed only $38,446,429 to the support of the Federal Government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1525. according to figures just released from Washington. That’s a decrease of approximately $7,000,000 from the amount paid by Indiana taxpayers the previous year. The shrinkage is gratifying. There must be something to the vociferously avowed policy of Federal tax reduction. Economy, the fair haired child of the Coolidge administration, perhaps is really beginning to toddle. Still the cost of maintaining the national government has not exactly dwindled to the vanishing
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point. During the past year, internal revenue collections totaled $2,584,140,268. That’s a fairly interesting sum—an average of about $25 for every person in the country. The Federal Government has some distance yet to go before It gets back to a state of Jeffersonian simplicity. Its annual expenditures in these piping days of peace equal the total debt incurred during the Civil War, when for four years the country's resources were strained to the utmost. We in Indianapolis are mightily concerned over the cost of educating the children of the city. The school system Is regarded as our most expensive public luxury, as It consumes nearly half of the money raised by the general property tax. So the school budget Is subjected to much discussion, scanning and pruning. But the Federal Government ts a greater luxury than the school system. Even at the highest school levy proposed In Indianapolis, the per capita cost, of public education would be less than the per capita cost of maintaining the national government way off yonder in Washington. The Federal Government, can screw down considerably tighter on expenditures before It hurts.
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