Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1925 — Page 6
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What’s to Be Dane? “T”! bread trust is with us. The penny or two /\ or three of profit on each loaf of bread pou buy will eventually reach the same pocket that received the pennies from bread buyers in nost other American cities. Converging floods of pennies from all corners of the country into the coffers of the General Baking Company will mark the arrival of the day long preiicted by opponents of Big Business. Twenty years ago a bread trust was held up as the ultimate of monopoly. Today it is here. There is no mystery about it. By merger and absorption the big baking companies have been drifting into the hands of one set of owners. The General Baking Company will operate 157 bai-ories and these are bakeries of enormous size, really immense industrial plants, each capable of supplying the staff of life to the population of a large territory. What is to be done about it? Well, nothing will be done about it immediately, if the established policy of the national Government is followed. The very fact of the new trust’s arrival would have been suppressed by -the Federal Trade Commission had not two minority members defied the commission’s rule and announced the fact. As for the Department of Justice, it has not yet taken official cognizance of the existence of the aluminum trust, controlled by the head of the United States Treasury. What can be done about it? Should this new trust be busted and the companies forming it be forced to complete with one arffTther? Is there any agency of the Government sufficiently clever, sufficiently powerful and sufficiently determined to compel competition? Probably not. Mellon, if he ever makes a success of prohibition enforcement, might be the man to undertake it. lie knows the ins and outs of corporation practices and he might have real incentive in this case, for the more the b .king business is monopolized the fewer of his, alumnium pans will he sell. Seriously, it is yet to be shown that business B'en who do not wish to compete with one another can be compelled to do so. What then? None will deny that having the one most important element of life, aside from a ; r, in the complete control of one group of men is not an encouraging situation from the standpoint of national welfare. The price of bread may show no change—for the moment, at least. But it is in the power of chis small group to make the price what it pleases eventually. The men in the merger already have taken large paper profits and some cash profit out of the transaction. Only the price of bread can finally make their paper profits good. Bread consumers will some day have something to think about in this connection. Another interested party is the farmer who raises the raw material of which bread is made. With one customer taking the place of many, who will dictate the price of wheat? What is to be done ? The country in general and the Administration in particular is not in a trust-busting mood. Has either the country or the Government any other means in mind for protecting our one hundred million bread eaters?
The Case of Miss Whitney SHE Supreme Court, in deciding the Charlotte Anita Whitney case argued before it this week, may determine the future of criminal syndicalism laws in the United States. The case involves the right of a State to
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penalize mere membership in an organization which advocates “forbidden” doctrines. It comes to the court from California. Miss Whitney was a member of the Oakland (Cal.) branch of the Socialist party in 1919, and voted by ballot for delegates sent to the Socialist national convention in Chicago in that year. At that convention, a number of delegates were ejected and formed the Communist Labor Party of America. Later a convention was called in Oakland to organize a branch of this, the Communist Labor Party of California, and Miss Whitney took part in the convention, as did other members of the Oakland Socialist branch, which had not yet decided whether or not to affiliate with the Communist group. Miss Whitney submitted a resolution to the convention which outlined a perfectly legal program for the party. The convention rejected this resolution and adopted instead a declaration that “the ballot is worthless.” In spite of the fact that after this declaration of principle Miss Whitney never attended another meeting of the Communist Labor Party of California, she was arrested soon after and indicted on five counts. Eventually she was convicted on one count, charged with organizing and belonging to an organization assembled to advocate, teach, aid and abet crimina l syndicalism. In appealing to the Supreme Court., her defense argues mat Miss Whitney’s act in attending the Oakland convention cannot be punishable by reason of a subsequent event brought about against her will. Capper and Jardine "qTIENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of Kansas refuses to be cheerful. Statistics of increased exports of agricultural products are no balm to his troubled mind. He points to increasing agricultural productive power in Europe, coupled with very low wages, which, he says, will limit the market for products of American farms. Convinced that there will be a shortage of customers for our agricultural products, resulting in lower prices, he occupies his mind in devising v r ays by which the Government can avert the impending disaster. His answer to the problem, which he insists will arise, seems to be an indirect subsidy to American Agricultural interests through the creation of a Government corporation to dispose of surplus products. While Senator Capper goes his way, depressed by forebodings of dark days ahead, his neighbor from M mhattan, Kansas, Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine, is the soul of Cheerfulness. He seems to rest comfortably in the faith that the farmers can take care of themselves w r ith little more than a friendly suggestion from the Government now and then about cooperative marketing, diversified crop planting, or some such relatively innocuous procedure. In his hands, the office of Secretary of Agriculture is a benign and peaceful post of Government. In the two Republican neighbors from Kansas just about the extremes of political and economic philosophy are represented. Senator Capper would have the Government a leader and an active participant in the agricultural industry. Secretary Jardine, as near as can be determined, will a program of mild counsel, and the ancient doctrine of “laissez faire.” By watching how the tides of political fortune favor these two Kansans, one can conveniently follow the progress of two almost diametrically opposed theories of government. BEECH GROVE, like opportunity, may fail to knock repeatedly at our door.
patent and process. By accident one day Goodyear dropped upon a hot stove some of the mixeture and found, to his astonishment, that the heat did not melt it. He next placed it in extreme cold, and its texture still remained unchanged. Thus after years of patient experimenting, the process of vulcanizing was accidentally discovered. I have a pet monkey. Can you give me some directions for housing and feeding it? Monkeys are natives of a warm climate and can not endure a low temperature; therefore they should be provided with heated quarters, at least during cold weather. If the animal is to be confined continually, the cage should not be less than four feet in each dimension. The cage should be entirely tight with only the front wired —thus preventing draughts, which are fatal to these animals. The following is prescribed as a diet: Vegetables, raw or cooked; bailed rice, ripe fruit—bananas, oranges, sweet apples; stale bread, occasionally a bit of wellcooked chicken, fresh milk, to which a raw egg has been added. Water should be provided at all times. Is rubber a conductor of electricity? No. It la a posit!, s non-conductor.
Tom Sims Says Count your legs after doing the Charleston. See that they are all there, you should have two. And, after doing the Charleston see that you get your right feet back. You may have your partner’s. Ever stand on a red hot stove with a dozen eggs in either hand? It is a Charleston step. He who dances must pay the fiddler, and he who does the Charleston must pay the shoemaker. In the Charleston, a step in time is too late. Don’t worry if this stuff fails to amuse you. New Jersey man broke his Jaw laughing at a friend's joke. Kellogg has barred Saklatvala from America. But he might slip in disguised as a radio station. Pullman porters say they don’t want to be called George. We find they don’t want to be called at all. When a man is kicking about something he Is usually kicking him self about. Another evil of prohibition is it keeps the weather from being the world's most discussed subject. Bad news from Albuquerque, N. M., is that a movie star has won the right to remarry.
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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
RILEY HOSPITAL ANNIVERSARY HE Riley Memorial Hospital l|| for children 'was one year !■! old Wednesday, the sev-enty-sixth anniversary of the birth of the beloved Hoosier poet whose memory the institution perpetuates. The occasion was observed with appropriate exercises. In the year that has passed since it opened its doors, 878 patients have been admitted to the hospital 878 little children with twisted, crippled, diseased bodies, facing
forlorn, dependent futures. In addition, the hospital service was extended to 340 outside children. The youngsters caipe from eighty-two of the ninety-two counties in Indiana. Os course, not all the patients treated by the institution during the year were cured. Many have infirmities incurable. But a sur-
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prisingly large percentage have been made sound and whole, white an even greater number have shown improvement and their cases are less hopeless than when they entered the hospital. These are the accomplishments of only its first year. Steadily year after year tho Riley Hospital will continue to mend the broken, deformed bodies of suffering little Hoosiers so that they may take their rightful places in society—become assets not liabilities to their generation. From the hospital may come a President of the United States, or a genius who will revolutionize human thought, who otherwise might go through life pleadingly extending a tin cup to compassionate patsersby at a street corner. The Riley Hospital has taken large sums of money from the State and from individual Hoosiers. Is it worth the cost? Ask a child who has been there. VALUATION OF RAILROADS mHK Interstate Commerce Commission has completed the valuation for rate making purposes of the Anderson & Lapel Railroad—an Indiana line. The total of this transportation property is placed at f 108,910 as of June 30, 1916. Now that this vast undertaking is completed life in Indiana will doubtless be purer and sweeter. Most Hoosiers haven’t been able to sleep o’nights worrying about the valuation of the Anderson & Lapel Railroad. For fifteen years the Interstate Commerce Ojmmission has been engaged In railroad appraisal work. This was the water to be squeezed out of our predatory transportation systems. Thus was the public to be protected from excessive rates. Rates were to be based on the actual cash value of the roads. It was a beautiful dream. Since the valuation work was started the Government has spent countless millions of dollars to cav-ry on the work. It Is no nearer completion than a dozen years ago. About the only rood for which final figures are available is tho Anderson & Lapel line, which operates a mile and onehalf of main track. And the valuation figures of that road—computed on the basis of 1916—are now out of date. They are no more valuable to the railroad business of today than cuneiform inscriptions on sunbaked Babylonian bricks. jThe practical good accomplished
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by the millions spent by the Federal Government in railroad valuation projects could be put In a citizen’s eye without causing discomfort. Transportation rates rise and fall regardless Federal bureaus, no matter how much money they are given, don’t usher in the millennium all out of breath. THE RUSH~ OF COLLEGE jp. j JTH Indiana and Purdue I K I Universities have this year I 1 the largest enrollments in their history. According to the figures of the registrars 6.460 students are now attending these two institutions. All the other colleges, universities und normal schools In the State report similar) gains. One out of every ICO persons in the State is attending college. In other States conditions are similar. Throughout the country there is a veritable rush to college. There are three-fourths as many students now enrolled in American colleges as have graduated from all the institutions of higher learning in the country In the 300 years since Harvard, the first American college, opened its doors. College gjaduates used to be about as scarce as dinosaurs. They were creatures read about, but seldom seen browsing over the local landscape. People in many villages almost doubted the existence of a Bachelor of Arts—they never saw one. Now strings of collegiate degrees are becoming as common as freight cars. ’ Instead of being a vain hope and a wild dream with most youth now going to college Is a matter of course. Everybody’s doing It. What does it all mean? Is it thirst for education or desire to loaf four pleasant years at dad’s expense? Some thoughtful educators declare that only a small fraction of those entering college are likely to receive any intellectual stimulus from their courses. Certainly all graduates turned out In the next few years can not automatically live on their sheepskins. or brilliantly adorn learned profession. Rome of them will have to he plain rank and file—hewers of wood and drawers of water. Their status will depend on their inherent qualities, not on their degrees. * KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE ~-|R. EDWARD R. BART[J I LETT of De Pauw Uni- . I verslty told the Marion County Sunday School Council of Religious Education, Tuesday, that answers to one-fourth of the Bible questionnaires distributed to classes In the university Indicated the student were utterly devoid of biblical knowledge. Answers revealed that some students couldn't tell anything about such biblical characters as David, Peter, Barnabus, Gideon and Cornelius. Other speakers have said the same thing about the lamentable ignorance of the Bible exhibited by young people. Average high school students have a 10-year-old's knowledge of the Bible, quoth one. Probably It Is all true. But why blame the young people? In a previous generation many homes contained little reading matter besides a Bible and an almanac. Family prayers and dally Scripture reading were common. Often children were required to read the book through from cover to cover In dally stints, and had a copy given them as a reward for their perseverance. In how many families today do such customs survive? The family altar today Is likely to hold a radio set and the the family circle Is a balloon tire.
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Family discussions are more likely to be about who shall have the car for the evening than about the Apostles. The burden of biblical teaching is shifted entirely to the Sunday School, where for an hour a week the Bible, the collection and the picnic are equally stressed. The Sunday School does its best but laying the foundations of biblical knowledge Is a home industry. * Candy By Hal Cochran Let's stand behind the counter In a little candy place, and wait upon the trade that comes each day. We'll see a heap of pleasure on each little youngster's face, who comes to let his pennies roll away. A ragged little fellow stands and gazes round and round. Just what he wants he’s not quite sure he knows. And then, a bit of something new in candy things Is found. He loudly shouts, ’’a penny’s wortha those.” A girl, with baby brother, tries to satisfy the tot and sweetly says, “now pick out what you'd like." The' brother picks a pound box. though a nickles all they’ve got. Now isn’t that exactly like a tike? A flock of little roughnecks come a racing in the store. They stall, and look, and wonder for a time. And then they frankly tell you that the thing they're looking for. is what they’ll get the most of for a dime. The little folks will come and go. They keep it up nil day. And. now and then an aged man will stop. You’d think he'd want tobacco, and you're shocked to hear him say, I wanna buy a lemon lohypop.” (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Also, that womeen adorn tliem-seh-es in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls or costly array.—l Tiin. 2:9. • • • Fond pride of dress Is sure a very curse; ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.—Franklin.
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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Ar— jN EMINENT English novelist in a recent issue of a popular u__ magazine has an article entitled, “All My Troubles Have Come From Women." It is a very lucid explanation of the evils which women work in the world. Starting out in the days of his callow youth, he flunks In a college examination because his mind was so occupied with some woman with whom he was having an affair. Then gaily down the primrose path he trips, enjoying all sorts of amorous adventures, sordid, sensual, vulgar. Until as years go on he tires of wild oat sowing and marries a good girl. But how could that last when marriage so takes away the independence of man and hampers the style of the genius? This poor thing was smothered with domesticity and his artistic career was on the verge of ruin, so after some time of oppression he simply made that large masculine gesture which Is called ‘‘obeying the urge for freedom,” and left his family, willy nilly, for twelve months. During this time, he naively tells ns, he "resound women” and his wild oat crop was a bumper. Now, after forty, this apostle of freedom who knows how wicked women are, is divorced from his first wife and married to the second edition of the "only woman whom he ever loved.” And he takes great delight in giving the general public his frank opinion of women, whom he calls Universal Vampires. He nas been sorely hampered by all those with whom he has come in contact. But the old dear, through this experience, modestly admits that he knows all about women—he understands them from A to Z, and after the hectic days during which he obtained copy for bis hooks and found out all about our sex, he is settling down with his excellent wife and we must infer that he intends to lead an exemplary life from this time forth. But we doubt It. Wild oat crops are not so easily gotten rid of as all that —they generally have to be harvested, and any man who has
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spent the best part of his life eating the husks of love seldom acquires a taste for more wholesome food. Going forth to And vampires, this man miraculously found them. Following after the lusts of the flesh, lie tasted the bitter apples of dead desire; pursuing the sexual, he naturally met rnagdalens and gold diggers. And he how boasts blandly that he thoroughly understands women. But If he does, can he explain what quality of fineness and love goes into the composition of that good woman who is his present wife and who Is trying to make him happy In spite of her knowledge of his dark brown ragt? No, for that is the quality in woman that no man is big enough to understand. What country exports the largest amount of sugar? Cuba exports about 4,250,000 tons annually as compared with 600,00(1 tons from Hawaii, the next largest exporting country. What are some of the products of corn? Among the products of corn might he mentioned starch, glucose, corn syrups, calluloso, whisky, varnish gun cotton and corncob pipes. How many coal mines are there in the United States and how many miners are employed in these mines? There are around 14,000 bituminous coal mines in the United States, of which there are about 9,000 commercial mines and 5,000 smell wagon mines. In addition there are 500 to 600 anthracite mines. In 1925 |! was estimated that there were 828,,237 men employed In the coal mines of the United States. How many permanent American cemeteries are there in Europe There are eight; one in England one in Belgium and six in France What Is the meaning of the name “Tlllie?” This is a contraction of Matilda and means "mighty in battle."