Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1925 — Page 6

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The French Debt eAVE you bought an au-omobile tire recently? We have. It cost us $5 more than the same tire cost five months ago. The full set cost us S2O more. Who got the extra money? The British. How? By levying an export duty on crude rubber which they control. Why? They need the money to pay her war debt of $4,600,000,000 to the United States. Will Britain get away with it? Senator Howell of Nebraska estimates that we pay the British $380,000,000 a year more for our tires than we would otherwise need to. And as the British are paying us only some $170,000,000 a year on their debt, it looks as though we are not only paying the whole British debt to ourselves, but turning over to them an extra $210,000,000 besides! Not that we blame the British. Not at all. We’d probably do the same thing were the shoe on the other foot and we had the gumption. • Now comes Senator Borah urging us not to treat the French more kindly than we are treating the British. Which reminds us of the little boy the calf ran away with. “Don’t you hurt that calf!’’ the father yelled as the lad was whisked away. “Don’t tell me,’’ his voice trailed back out of a cloud of dust, “tell the calf!” The French are not in a position to run away with us as Britain has. She has no monopoly on rubber If she could still send us champagne, by duplicating the British rubber trick, she could pay us off in short order. Ditto if she could tax American women per square foot of person exposed in Paris gowns, or charge American tourists a sufficiently large admission fee upon landing on French soil. * As f.hose things will not work, for one reason or another, Messrs. Mellon, Caillaux et al. will have to seek a basis of settlement elsewhere. The most sensible one, of course, is capacity to pay. Germany was let off, under the American plan, at her estimated capacity to pay. So was Belgium. So was Britain. France should be treated no better and no worse. To that extent Borah is right. But he and the rest of us should remember that what would be easy terms for one nation might very well spell ruin for another. To settle thus with each debtor nation in its turn —without regard to the terms granted any of the rest—is treating them all alike, even if one is required to pay every last sou and another is let off scot-free. Coliseums A MERICA is to have a coliseum larger ■**•l than the famous structure of Rome. San Antonio, Texas, has found an abandoned rock quarry which will make an ideal coliseum after the bottom of the pit is smoothed over and seats are chiseled in the rocks. It will be another great monument to the American desire for great sport events and mammoth spectacles. Ancient Rome boasted of one coliseum, devoted to spectacles of cruelty and barbarism. This country now has scores of stadiums rivaling the coliseum in size, but devoted to vffiolesome sport and community service. HELEN MARIA DAM ES is going to talk at the Chamber of Commerce in favor of reforming Senate rules. Tne Chamber of Commerce should invite Albert J. Beveridge and make a debate of it.

HILL REVEALS MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE OF ANCIENT TIMES

By David Dietz -YEA Service Writer f"i—i j IFTY miles north of JerusaA I a malaria swamp 1 4 where the River Jalud makes its sluggish way toward the Jordan, stands a hill overgrown with a tangle of weeds and bushes. The hill is about 250 feet high and a half mile In circumference. From the interior of that hill, the pioneers of science are bringing forth the story of thirty-two centuries. Before they finish, they expect to solve many of the problems perplexing the students of ancient history. A party of scientists, headed by Dr. Clarence S. Fisher of the University of Pennsylvania, Is carrying on ths work. They have been at work since the end of the World war. They have gone down twenty feet, and in that distance uncovered the records of eight civilizations. The hill is the Hill of Beisan. Biblical students have known for a long time that this was the site of the Biblical city of Bethshean—the city before which Saul died In battle and which David burned in revenge. They have also known that in later years this was the site of the

The New Abolitionists N intrepid little band is this League for __ the Abolition of Capital Punishment. They are setting out on the arduous adventure of combating the giants of ignorance, habit and hate, and propose to abolish by law 7 the electric chair, the gallows and all other forms of “legal murder” in the forty States where it still remains. Fortunately for America this new crusade is sure to win. It is as certain of ultimate victory as were <ll the other abolitionis" movements of history that were founded on righteousness and common sense. Eight States ha e done away with capital punishment and a half dozen nations, including “barbarous Mexico,” have found a better way. In the thirty States in which juries are given power to determine the punishment for first degree murder, men and women are refusing to enforce the death penalty and the records show that only one guilty person is eighty homicides suffers death for the crime. No surer sign of the doom of capital punishment in America is there than that the scientists and students of crime, instead of the “sob sisters,’’ are leading the fight against it.. Listen to two of the leading penologists of the United States: “The death penalty rests upon wrong basic principles,” says Wafden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing. “It conforms to none of our modern ideas of criminology. It is impossible to apply it scientifically or with any degree of certainty, and it fails as a deterrent measure.” “I have been opposed to capital punishment for many years.” says Dean George W. Kirchwey, ex-warden of Sing Sing and professor of law at Columbia University. “The arguments for it have narrowed down to one—its deterrent effect, and there is not a shred of evidence to show that it deters. The guillotine, the hangman’s rope, the electric chair, the lethal chamber, are all equally revolting to human feeling. The primitive method of striking blindly in impotent rage at the life of the offender has had its day. It is time now for a concerted drive to/wipe capital punishment from our statutes.” Gambling SHE Better Business Bureau estimates at least a billion dollars of fake securities will be foisted on the American public this year. All of them will be sold to people who are trying to get rich faster and easier than it can be done. And all of them could be prevented by following one simple rule: ASK YOUR BANKER! Your banker knows, or has means of finding out. Or, if you won’t take your banker’s advice, and absolutely must gamble on the other fellow’s game—borrow the price of a thirdclass steamboat ticket and go to Monte Carlo. There you will at least know what you are up against. ATHLETICS may not injure the health of high school boys, as claimed, but think of all the cases of sunburn suffered by the rooters who attended that football game last Saturday. ** • ' IT is too bad the Kaiser didn’t consult a fortune teller before all the trouble started. Maybe there would have been no need of Caillaux consulting one now. * * • NATIONS are different from people. It doesn’t do most of us any good to argue when we receive the monthly batch of “please remits.”

city of Scythopolis, eighteen miles west of which was Nazareth, where Jesus was born. The hill la so important because the main road from Egypt to Syria and Babylonia ran by It. Therefore this hill was a Gibraltar of the ancient world. Whoever held the hill commanded the commercial and military route from Egypt to Mesopotamia, from Jerusalem to Damascus. * * • D r “""" — R. FISHER felt therefore that here was the place to hunt l —— for a continuous record of the activities of man. The work so far has justified his belief. What appeared to be native stone cropping out of the top of the hill turned out to be a fortress built by the Crusaders in the twelfth century unde’ Adam, Lord of Bethune, an ancer.jr of King George V. of England. When the heavy stones of the fortress had been removed, the remains of an Araby village built five centuries previously were disclosed. The Saracens had held Besan in G 32 A. D. Below this, Dr. Fisher found tho remains of Scythopolis. This city

had flourished from the third century B. C. until the seventh century A. D. In this strata. Dr. Fisher found first the ruins of Christian churches and digging underneath them, the ruins of Greek temples which had been built hundreds of years before the churches. Tom Sims Says Our idea of a man who doesn’t know where to go is one who sits through a movie twice. The most peculiar thing about women wearing knickers Is they button them below tho knee. Being stung by a bee Is considered good for rheumatism. But it is bad for the disposition. Once they married in haste and repented at leisure; now they marry in haste and repent at work. An old-timer's objection to the smart set is all they do is set and act smart. Every summer we think we will save money in the winter. And every winter we think we will save it in the summer. (popyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)

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SMALL CLAIMS COURTS G< lEORGE W. THOMPSON. law editor of the BobbsMerrill Company, suggests that a small claims court be established in Indianapolis in connection with the @new municipal are In successful to handle cases cause of the expense. Nelson Theoretically, every aggrieved citizen can appeal to the courts to right wrongs done him —justice is open. Practically, he can't. To hire a lawyer, clothe a case in the full panoply of legal procedure and take it into court costs money. In a disputed debt or similar matter a poor man is loath to set the ponderous judicial machinery in motion unless a considerable sum is at stake. Yet the question of abstract justice is the same whether it is over a matter of $2 or $2,000. One defrauded of a dime is as much entitled to judicial relief as one done out of a million. A tribunal, stripped of pomp, ceremony and expensive procedure, where small litigants can repair and have their disputes adjudicated without formalities, technicalities, lawyers and excessive fees, would do much to speed/up petty justice and remove from it the stigma of the dollar sign. HELPING NEEDY MOTHERS Hr 1 "’ \ ENTRY NEIL, formerly a judge in Chicago, and called i___J the father of the mothers’ pension plan, in Indianapolis recently criticised the Indiana system. operating through juvenile courts, which makes the pension purely a charity affair in his estimation. He believes the pension system should be a part of the public school system, and all needy mothers, whether widows or not, should be helped from the public treasury. The limit of 75 cents a day for each child allowed in Marlon County he considers inadequate. Forty-two of the forty-eight States have mothers’ pension laws. Most of them are similar to the Indiana law. restricting the benefits to widow’s who otherwise could not support their minor children and making the granting of pensions a function of juvenile courts. Probably there are flaws in the system. It is easy for an enthusiast to say the procedure of obtaining the pension should be simplified, the law broadened so that all needy children —whether their mothers are widowed or not — should receive the benefit, and the amounts granted increased. But, if the halter was taken off the system and it was allowed to soar, w’hat of the expense? There is a limit to the number of private families that can be supported at public expense. If every pair of parents can expect a State subsidy if they have larger families than they can support properly, there wouldn’t be much incentive for private efforts to support. Free corn turned a large part of the population of ancient Rome into an idle rabble. The unemployment dole that in recent years has proved so galling to English taxpayers has done more harm than good. The mothers’ pension law. with small benefits restricted to widows with small children whom they could not otherwise support, hedged about with rigid court procedure, may be a harsh charity. But it will prove more beneficial to society as a whole than a wideopen measure with the sky the limit. ATHLETICS” AND HEALTH , ,-pi HE Indiana State Medical I Association, in annual convention at Marion, has before it a resolution proposing a State wide investigation into high school athletics. It is believed that many boys in Indiana high schools engage in competitive contests under conditions detrimental to their present and future health. Perhaps the investigation is desirable. But it is unkind to propose it just now when the football season is prancing over the threshhold and the basketball campaign looms in the immediate background. High school athletics may be overdone at present. Many claim that the intense absorption in interscholastlc games is harmful to the boys mentally and physically. They would suppress them. Even college coaches complain that many promising athletes entering college are “burnt out” by their strenuous high school sports. Then frequently those who are not, are “burnt out" in college athletics; The ultimate effect' is the same. No doubt both high school and college athletics are conducted on too elaborate and strenuous scale. Physical development and health are lost sight of in the passion to win. But even high school boys must have some outlet for their physical energies. Supervised athletics and organized sports seem to offer the best outlet Despite occasional excesses high school athletics should be encouraged. It Is better for a boy to break a nose under the goal posts than & flask under the elms.

CITY TAX RATES It county audi--1-11 tor, has certified to the 1L...1 State tax board Marion County tax levies for 1926. With the fixing of the State rate at 28 cents, property owners in Indianapolis can estimate how badly their throats will he cut by the tax gatherers. In Indianapolis the rates will vary from 12.8325 per SIOO valuation for that part of the city lying in Center township to $3.0425 for the portion in Wayne township. While Woodruff 'Place, enjoying all the joys and sorrow’s of the metropolis— in but not of. the municipality—will have a rate of $2.32. Because the city of Indianapolis includes parts of five townships there are five different tax rates in effect. What more does the city resident in Wayne township get for his $3.04 than his neighbor in Center township for $2.83? They enjoy the same school advantages, the same police force, the antics of the same mayor. They are part and parcel of the same administra tive unit. By the overlapping of city and tow’nship lines an Indianapolis resident contributes to the support of two local governments. He maintains the municipal government, which—no matter how’ questionable - its values—directly concerns him, and contributes to the tow'nship .administration. The latter, be it as pure as a newborn babe, can’t possibly benefit him a nickel’s worth. The residents outside the city. In Center. Perry, Wayne, Warren and Washington townships, are only assessed for the expenses of one local government. If that Isn’t double taxation for Indianapolis citizens, what is it? The Boston Tea Party, Lexington Concord and Bunker Hill resulted from lesser fiscal impositions. Why should Indiana cities submit to being cluttered up with archaic township lines?

A Thought Behold also the ships, which though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.—James 3:4 • • • EIS skill, not strength, that govemeth a ship.—ltalian proverb.

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