Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1925 — Page 6
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‘Politics!’ :r-.’ ORETTY soon virtuous voices wilj be heard ©ailing on Congress to quit playing politics with the tax program. This will have a proper sound and you ni doubt will Heel like joining the caorus. Before doing so it may be worth your while to (OMisider the kinds of politics that axe likely to ibe played. A Congressman is said to play politics when he advocates or votiis for a measure in order to help himself politically. If he votes foir a certain kind of tax bill because he thinks it will make him or his par,fcy popular with the majority of voters, that’s politics. If he votes fox another kind of tax bill! because he thinks it will make him or his i>n*rty popular with large campaign contribute!ds, that, likewise, is politics. The man of the first description calls the man of the second description a tool of the interests. The second calh> the first a demagogue. Os course, if the first man is ac;ing solely on the conviction that whi it the people want nrust he given to them, he can’t be called a demagogue; and if the second man honestly believes the way to benefit the average man is to benefit the big first, he can t be called anybody’s tool. Broadly, the political divisions in the coming session will result from the two tendencies described. The last tax reduction was the work, largely, of Democrat/s and independent Republicans, in Congress. They took the vastly advertised Mellon tax ] ilan and remodeled it until Mr. Mellon didn’t recognize it. His aim had been to reduce the: taxes of the little folks a little and the taxes of the big fellows a lot. Congress turned the around, reducing the little fellows a ,llut and the big fellows a little. ' Now the best of motives moved Congress in that, but, just the same, th ere was some politics in it. Indeed, it looked like the slickest kind of politics. There wasi President Coolidge, angry as a Vermont farmer finding a tramp in his haymow. Ills tV* plan was busted and one likely to please tl ve great majority of voters had been passed over his protest. He let it be known that he’d li ko to veto it, and then he signed on the dotted '.iSne. What happened? The country gave him, not Congress, the credit for the tax reductioi i! The country wouldn’t believe that anybody -could be more economical than Coolidge. Congress is going up againsj .another Mellon tax plan this session, although his name is being kept remote from the bill. Again the Mellon aim is primarily to reducie the big fellows’ taxes. Congress may succeed in improving this program as much as it dud the other, but at this moment it appears to. be a harder job. t . The Federal taxes of the little fellows are almost at the vanishing point. Reduce them any further and the little fellows, cease to be taxpayers—direct taxpayers, that is to say; for they will continue to pay the hidden in rents and the prices of things t hey buy. It may not be wise to break this dirt wt taxpaying connection between millions of citizens and their government. It would sei m better to have every citizen contribute to tl tie cost of his government, if only a little, and tl kat he should know how much he is contribul ting. Nevertheless there will be much suppor t in Congress for a plan to take the little fello*. off the income tax books entirely. Mellon’s idea is to make a coi tsiderable reduction in the surtax of the big ta ixpayers. He would leave the little fellows j laying about what they now pay, in order to di > this. Entering into the problem is the question of what to do with the leftover vj ar taxes, the taxes on automobiles, theater tick*. ts, club dues and so forth. The Administration ’s hope is to crowd through a bill this session without removing the tax on automobiles atvd then, two years later, just preceding the 192 y election, to sponsor the elimination of the auto tax. There would be a lot of votes in that. Everybody who buys an automobile would ap|| ireciate the removal from the automobile ads of those italic lines—“f. o. b. Detroit—plus tax.’ ’ The tax amounts to 5 per cent of the mana ufacturer’s price. Well, there are some of the fundamental differences that Congress has to deal with. So, unless you want Congress lo shut it eyes and pass the first bill the Administration hands it, regardless of what it contains, d< >n’t start shouting “Politics” too soon. in a Class Apart "rT ACK in 1777, the Marquis de Li Fayette JP and eleven men presented themselves before the Continental Congress at Philadelphia ahd offered their services to the Amt\ri*ucan colonies. then fighting for independence. You knpw the story. With an American commission in his pocket, La Fayett e won pi *i versa 1 undying glory. He was lighting
for an ideal, for the right ot a people to he free. # * * Some 140 years later, in 1914-15-1(3, many Americans went to Canada, or England or France and cast their lot with the allies to fight, as they believed, in a war to end war. They, too, were inspired by a high ideal, an ideal worthy of La Fayette. # # * A few weeks ago a group of Americans, headed by a Col. Sweeney, after being wined and dined and advertised and ballyhooed for all the publicity the stunt could get, left Paris for Morocco to drop bombs on the Riffians, a handful of natives fighting for their independence against the Spanish and the French. It now appears, according to a copyrighted cable published by the North American Newspaper Alliance, that these Americans have not joined the French army, nor the Foreign Legion nor anything of the kind, but are without any read military status. In which event they have just about the same right to kill the inhabitants of the Riff as you have to kill the first foreigners you meet on the sidewalk. Far be it from us to find fault with any American who wishes to become a La Fayette. In fact, we secretly admire the man who is ever ready to fight and die for his ideal—even when his ideal happens to be different from our own. But Americans who become freelance bombers of Moroccans who have no planes to strike back with and of defenseless villages crowded with helpless women and children, somehow do not fit in at all with our idea of La Fayette. They place themselves in a class apart. High officials quoted by the agency above referred to seem to share this view. Here is what some of them said: Senator Reed Smoot: “It is a dastardly thing.” Senator Lenroot: “They are potential killers.” Senator Harreld: “Thay are a disgrace to civilization.” Lieutenant Williams, United States aviation service officers’ reserve corps: “America’s reputation for fair play has been handed a jolt by Colonel Sweeney and his opera bouffe flyers.” Colonel Hartney, former oommander of the First Pursuit Squadron, A. E. F.: “A disgrace to aviation and un-American * * * Their best course is to stay out of this country henceforth.” A Hard Choice for Coolidge EN Philadelphia there is an earnest desire that Brigadier General Smedley D Butler continue his job of reforming the police administration. This is not so much because of his efforts to enforce prohibition as because of his success in reducing crime generally. Only about half as many Philadelphians are murdered each week, it seems, as used to be murdered; only half as many banks are robbed, only half as many citizens are held up at. night on the streets. Philadelphians, notoriously fond of peace, feel that the Fightin’ Marine is providing it. They ask the President to let him remain. The Republican organization in Philadelphia doesn’t care so much for Butler. It has sought to have him withdrawn ever since it found that political influence meant nothing in his life. It has been happy in the expectation that President Coolidge would refuse to extend the General’s leave beyond the first of January. It is prepared to give him a grand sendoff if he is ordered out to San Diego, Cal., to boss 400 marines, leaving the city machine to re-absorb Philadelphia’s eight or ten thousand policemen. But General Butler and Governor Pinchot, between them, have crossed up this pleasant prospect. Butler has said he is willing to remain if the people really want him. The people have declared they do and have made their wobbly mayor and their wobbly United States Senator, George Wharton Pepper, subscribe to their sentiments. Governor Pinchot has voluntarily carried the word to Washington that the orderly citizens of all Pennsylvania prefer to have their principal city honestly policed. There seems nothing for Coolidge to do but to let Butler stay. He doesn’t wish to do it. It may mean the election of Pinchot to the United States Senate next year. Controlling the police, the city organization has always done what itpleased in other years. Without the police participating, any candidate may win. Political observers say Pinchot can win against Pepper or Vare or whoever the organization candidate may be, if there is a fair count in Philadelphia. If Butler stays this will be the case. It’s a hard choice for President Coolidge.
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A Sermon for Today By Rev, John It. Gunn
Text: “Tliou art all fair, my love; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy looks; there is no spot in thee; thou hast ravished my heart.”—Song of Solomon 4:1, 7, 9. r. 11E text represents a husband * making love to his wife. In a succeeding verse he tolls her that she is like a garden full of fragrant and fruitful plants, and she resi>onds by saying “I jet iny beloved come Into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." This sermon was suggested to my mind by a little extract I recently read from Ahe biography of Thomas Carlylo, the great historian. Carlyle was devoted to his wife, but through the many years of their married life he was so absorbed in his work that he neglected to show her any of those little affectionate attentions which mean so much to a woman’s heart. After she was dead he wrote many beautiful reminiscences of her. With his features wrung with unavailing sorrow, he would often say to his friends, "Oh, if I could but see her five minutes, to assure her that I had really cared for her! But she never knew it, she never knew It!” Mi'S. Carlyle kept a diary In which she relates one instance when he became a little romantic and bought her “a very nice smelling bottle.”
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By GAYLORD NELSO
PANNING THE ADMINISTRATION —| HE city plan commission 1 I aroused the ire of IndianI x * apolis city councilmen at their last meeting. They charged It with everything from incompetence to sleeping sickness. They also threw a few turnips at the park, board and board of works. In fact they enthusiastically panned the Shank administration, from the modern Mikado himself down to the street cleaning department. That’s a favorite pastime with some councilmen. They count that day lost on which they don’t take their battleaxes and hack the cuticle off some municipal board or department. Not long ago they charged the board of works with all the old time-tried sins and a lot of new wickedness. For a week they fulminated. They swore they would investigate, expose and extirpate that body instantly. Members of the board almost felt their pelts and scalps being jerked from them. Then the councilmen mislaid their dictionaries or ran out of adjectives and the advertised obliteration of the board of works was indefinitely postponed. The investigation died before it was born. No one claims the present city administration is altogether pure and holy. Some of the boards and departments wear their tarnished halos askew. But if the Indianapolis city government is as inept and incompetent as anti-administration councilmen claim why don’t they do something about it? They are part of the municipal governmental machinery. The hurling of invectives at council meetings is entertaining but it doesn’t serve the public interest. A sharp inective never righted a blunt wrong. STATE LICENSES for Librarians EIBRARIANS from Ohio, 'Michigan and Indiana, in convention at Ft. Wayne Wednesday, adopted a resolution asking the next session of the State Legislature to establish a State board for examining, certifying and licensing public librarians. Such a measure, says the resolution, will “aim to elevate the profession and give it standards not now possessed.” Sure, why not State licenses for librarians? That seems to be the trend of the times with all professions, vocations and trades. In the last Indiana General Asesmbly there were bills providing examining boards and State license systems for barbers, cosmetologists, chiropractors, pediatrists and music teachers. A man can’t pull a tooth, practice medicine, or embalm a corpse without a license. Probably for the safety, health and happiness of the general public it is as im portant that librarians should be required to exhibit similar evidence of their professional qualifications. At least, librarians think so. Os course, it would be an awful blunder if an incompetent librarian handed out to an adolescent youth “Saphq” or “Moll Flanders” instead of "Pilgrim’s Progress” or “Molly Make-Believe.” llut the country and State will survive such shocks after a fashion. State supervision and license requirements in professions that affect the lives and health of the people are justified But when extended haphazardly to other vocations the system merely multiplies State boards without any corresponding service to the public. STATE ROAD WORK S'LE Indiana highway commission has paved 265 miles of I loonier roads during the past year, according to John D. Williams, director. It is exacted that approximately equal mileage will be |>aved next yenr. Two hundred and sixty-five miles is a lot of pavement to lay In one year. It would make a paved highway extending clear across the Ktate from the Ohio River t<> Lake Michigan, or two roads completely across the State east and west. Jlut. it does neither. In spite of the millions of dol lars sisnt and tjie tyundreds o miles of paving constructed b , the highway comm sslon there ir only one paved ruud across the Suite—tjie National road from
“I cannot tell you,” she goes on to say. "how happy his little gift made me." Here is Just a little hint which 1 would like to pass on to every husband: “If you love your wife as you do your life, It will keep her heart aglow. And make her feel your love is real, To often tell her so.” Something else. Every time you tell your wife you love her, it will help to keep your own heart aglow. A little child kept running to her mother one day and saying, "Mama, I love you.” Finally the mother dropped her work, took the child in her arms, affectionately kissed her and said, "My child, mama knows you love her; why d<> you keep telling her so?” “Because, mama,” she said, "every time I tell you thal T love you it makes me love you just that much more.” Love always becomes stronger when It declares itself. Remember, it is not a woman's nature to take love for granted. She wants' an expression of it. And usually she will reciprocate In kind. Tell your wife that she is the garden at your love, and she will say, “Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits.” (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)
Richmond to Terre Haute. Hardly any two of the larger Hoosier cities are yet linked together with pavement. One can’t drive from Indianapolis to South Bend, from South Bend to Ft. Wayne, from Evansville to Indianapolis or Terre Haute, without dropping off the pavement into rutty gravel and profanity. Other States, with highway programs no older, have linked up their important cities with paved roads. In Michigan there is a continuous pavement from Detroit west to Chicago, and from the Indiana line north almost to Mackinaw. Illinois has half a dozen roads across the State paved throughout their length. • Disjointed sections of pavement hither and yon in the State don’t make a State highway system. The highway commission, whether it lays one hundred or two hundred miles of pavement next year, should fill some of the unpaved gaps in important existing highways. That’s more important than the total mileage constructed. RELIEF OF THE POOR mOHN A. BROWN, secretary of the board of State charities, reports that the outdoor poor relief provided by Indiana townships in 1924 amounted to
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$G18,901.83. This wss distributed among 71,725 persons. More was spent in poor relief in 1924 than in the preceding year, but $120,000 less than in 1922. And it is a significant fact that expenditures for poor relief in Indiana in 1924 were less than they were thirty years ago, despite the increase in population in three decades. *‘Ye have the poor with you always,” said Jesus of Nazareth. And during much of His ministry the distribution of alms to the poor was stressed as a cardinal virtue. Apparently we still have the poor but not in such quantities as in past ages. Modern* civilization has made some advances in that respect. Three hundred years ago in England, then the most prosperous nation cf Europe, a large part of the revenues of local goi’ornments, both ecclesiastical and secular, were expended in doles to the indigents. Even today in England the problem of poor relief presses. In Indiana now poor relief absorbs only about 2 per cent of the township revenues. It is the small-
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est item of local government expenditures. Still it Is too much. Poverty may not be completely eradicable, but it is not an unalterable natural condition as once believed. It is the result of man-made economics not Divine dispensation. As long as we have Iloosiers who must seek public relief to keep body and soul together we are still some distance from an economic utopia. Tom Sims Says You don’t begin to enjoy an auto until after it has had a few fenders bent and paint scratched. Men are not polite. One will take a girl out and kiss her when she would lots rather have an Ice cream soda. Things could be worse. Some day they may be wanting permanent waves put In their toothbrushes. Sometimes a man doesn’t know which side his bread la buttered on because there is none on either side.
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