Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1925 — Page 4
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Not a War Tax srpp-j HE inheritance tax was a war measure } 1 ) and the emergency is now past.” You hear this assertion frequently from the forces who are working for the repeal of the estate tax law. The truth is that the inheritance tax law was passed by Congress September 8, 1916. We were not at war then. Two months later we re-elected Woodrow Wilson on the ground that he had kept us out of war. It was seven months preceding our entry into the/war; the country in general and Congress in particular did not then anticipate our entry. Wo were waxing fat and prosperous. The War in Europe was making a fine new crop of millionaires in America. No emergency had arrived—or, at least, none that was officially recognized. The inheritance tax was not the outgrowth of an immediate necessity. It was the result of a steady, development of taxation intelligence over many years; it resulted from the same process *o£ thinking that had brought about the income tax after wearing down decades of opposition on the part of the very wealthy. Disinterested students of taxation had long been practically unanimous that the fairest of all taxes would be an inheritance tax. In university class rooms it was so taught. Congress happened to catch up with the idea seven months before we got into the Great War; it wasn’t seeking money to carry on our part in the war. Nothing, indeed, could be more ridiculous than an inheritance tax for emergency purposes. Its collection depends on the death of persons possessing wealth. That is no way in which to meet an emergency. With dire disaster confronting us, we couldn’t sit arotind waiting for John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W. Mellon and our other wealthiest citizens to die. No matter how patriotic they are they probably would fail to die in time. The value of the inheritance tax is only realized over the years. As one generation succeeds another this tax returns to the whole country a small part of the great accumulations of wealth that have come into a few hands. It is effective and fair. But it is a peacetime tax, not a war emergency measure.
Church Loyalty Sunday SHE churches of Indianapolis are fostering a “Church Loyalty Sunday,” tomorrow. They are suggesting that the people of Indianapolis go to church. It’s not a bad idea. At least, it is worth trying. Seriously, the most impressive part about this church loyalty movement is that the Indianapolis Church Federation, which is back of it, is pointing out that there are 257 churches in Indianapolis, all deserving of support. A little research will reveal the fact that the 257 churches referred to include churches of all denominations and faiths. The Federation is not leaving anybody out. Their principal idea is that the people of Indianapolis should go to church. It is a splendid indication of our growing spirit of tolerance —and this spirit is growing •—that ALL the-ehurches of the city are pulling together in this movement. Nobody is asking anybody to agree with his neighbor’s religious beliefs. That would be too much to expect. The Church Federation merely is pointing out, in effect, that all the churches are trying to guide their members to the same ultimate destination. It is not asking everybody to go by the same road. Why not try going to church Sunday? Philadelphia wTj HILE President Coolidge at the White VVj House was dictating his letter refusing to extend the leave of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler for another year in order that he might continue his “clean up” of Philadelphia, the Republican organization which dominates that city was demonstrating why the God-fearing people of Pennsylvania thought it necessary for Butler to continue. Philadelphia is ruled by the machine hodd-
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You can get an answer to any queslion of fact or information hj writing to The Incliananolis Times Washinitnn Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washne'.on. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In •‘tamps for reply. Medica'. legal and marital advice cannot, he given nor can extended research be undertaken. MI other nucst.ons will receive a personal reply. Unsigned refinests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editt* What are the main sources of commercial rubber and from where Is most of It obtained? Plantations in the Malay States, Java and Ceylon monopolize the famous "Para” type of rubber. "Para” rubber (originally a gum Introduced to the world from the Brazilian port of that name, is now
ed by Congressman William S. Vare. The Vare organization is hard-boiled, resourceful, cold--blooded. It knows nothing of sentiment. John M. Patterson, a popular jurist, had been nominated for district attorney. He was taken ill a few days before the election and on election day he took a sudden turn for the worse. He died that night. When the news of his sinking spread over Philadelphia on Tuesday, there were general sorrow. But not at the Vare headquarters. There, Vare and his associates were issuing orders to carry out a piece of cold, carefully considered political business. Death threatened their control of the district attorney’s office and it was necessary foF-heroic measures. It was no time for tears. Messengers were rushed from headquarters with bundles of stickers containing the name of another candidate. While Patterson was dying the machine was making a last minute effort to elect a live man in his stead. Death was to be cheated. It was a grim job—and Shoyer stickers were pasted on ballots by the thousands. Had the news spread earlier in the day, he would have been overwhelmingly elected. In his work at Philadelphia, General Butler time and again stepped on the toes of the Vare forces. He fired their personal policemen and broke their control over the police department. The politicians want the police back in their hands. President Coolidge’s action will serve their purpose.
Congress Could Save
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson YY/ HILE Senator Curtis is advocating the ** lopping off of all useless offices, to save taxes, we might put again to the men who make our laws, the question of why they have always found it necessary to convene the first of December for three weeks and then collect mileage back home to spend ChristmasV To the housewife this seems a foolish as well as an extravagant custom. While the item may be small when compared to the huge sums spent, yet a lone taxpayer can soon figure that this money uselessly thrown away year after year, will finally make a vast amount. The records show that no important legislation is ever enacted during the short session of Congress, just before the holidays. Thousands of minor and uttferly insignificant bills are merely introduced—propaganda for the folks back hetme—but little of consequence can be accomplished. Every Senator and Congressman collects a nice sum for mileage which is allowed him by the Government over the Christmas vacation, and the Representative from the far south and west can hardly get settled for the beginning of the term until he must needs go home for Christmas or stay in Washington and collect his money for mileage anyway. Nobody blames him for this. Every one of us would probably take all we could get under the circumstances, but why does not some brave and energetic “savior of his country” take steps to abolish this foolish custom and let us have Congress meet when it normally and sensibly should, upon the first of the year when Christmas is well over and merry making is done? This is one example that the power of custom has over our common sense. We will work our brains to madness devising ways and means of cutting expense, but we seldom decide to change a simple habit to our advantage. To men, of course, who deal in millions, this small item of extra rhileage probably seems very trivial, but the woman in the American home who goes to the bargain basement for her hats and to the cash and carry grocery for her prunes knows better. She understands that it is the small items like this which, when saved, pay off the mortgage and buy the new car, and swell the family savings account. Congress needs some feminine economy to counter balance its masculine extravagance. WHEN experts disagree, what can one expect of a jury?
an orchard crop. Other commercial rubbers, gutta percha, balata and chicle come from the wilds and jungles of South America. Indians gather It In Central and South America and natives do it in the Par Past. Singapore is now the woA market for gutta percha. The gutta percha trees that the natives slash for gutta (gym) grow in jungle forests of Indo-China, Siam, The Malay States and adjacent Islands. Balata a heavy stiff rubber, is obtained from the bully tree along the Amazon River. Chile, found in Yucatan and British Honduras is a species closely related to balata. In
the main these are the commercial rubbers There are many others that give more or less good rubber. Among them may be mentioned Latex plants, milkweeds, Indian hemp, bell flower and sow thistle. It was from the sow thistle Giat Germany extracted some rubber during her war-time isolation. Are women students admitted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton? Women are admitted to some of the schools of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is entirely for men. Which are the leading wealthiest States? New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts.
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A Sermon for Today
Text: "Now men see not the bright light which Is in the clouds.”—Job 37:21. HE sky is not always clear; I not all our days are days of J sunshine. Sometimes the skies are overcast with clouds. Often these clouds are dark and threatening. And when that Is true some of us allow ourselves to become possessed with a feeling of melancholy and despondency. That ought not to be, for, as suggested in my text, there Is a bright light la every cloud. There is the cloud of sin; and what a black cloud It Is. The bright light In this cloud Is divine grace— God's forgiving love and mercy. "I will blot out your transgressions as a thick cloud.” There are days which are overcast with the cloud of disappointment. Disappointment crosses my path. My ambitions are checked. My plans are halted. I regard It as an evil day. And yet, after all, It turns out to be not such an evil day. Disappointment makes me think. And through my thinking I attain to a wider and wiser discernment. My disappointment proves to be but "the shadow of the Almighty.” Misfortune comes. Most of us regard It as a dark day in our lives.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
INDUSTRY AND FATAL ACCIDENTS EH KE E HUNDRED AND SEVEN workmen In Hoosier industries died during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1925, as the result of accidents occurring In the course of their employment —according to the annual report of the State industrial board. The Sullivan mine disaster, which occurred during the year, alone snuffed out flfty-one lives. But even with that wholesale tragedy deaths from industrial accidents in the State last year only numbered a few more than ten years ago. Indiana is an industrial State. Tts principal Industries—in the number of workmen employed—are steel making, coal mining, and stone quarrying. All hazardous occupations. Yet the annual Industrial death toll of the State is less than onelialf the number of auto deaths in Chicago during a year. And even Indianapolis street traffic takes one-quarter as many lives as all the mines, quarries, mills and factories In Indiana combined. Safety campaigns, the cooperation of Industrial boards, employers and workmen in recent years have materially reduced industrial hazards. Industry isn't in the same class with the automobile as a cause of fatal accidents. A person is safer in a Hoosier coal mine or quarry, handling dynamite and high explosives, , than lie Is crossing a Hoosier street with a load of bread under his arm. Some of the safety measures, proved efficacious in industry, ought to be turned loose on the streets where the jaywalkers and reckless drivers are thinning out the population.
SKIRTS AND CAR STEPS SHK New Century Club—an organization affiliated with the Local Council of Women—ls petitioning the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to lower its car steps. Boarding street cars is too much of an acrobatic feat, complain the ladies. Quite likely the suggestion will not toe heeded—although it is as difficult for active citizens, male or female, to mount some Indianapolis street cars of an early vintage as for an old soak to clamber on the water wagon. On several city lines the patrons ought to be crossed with the kangaroo. But the principal impediment to the easy Ingress and egress of feminine passengers is not that car steps are too high but skirts are too scant both in latitude and longitude. The situation can be remedied as easily by the feminine passengers as by the railway company. If the street car company tried to alter its car architecture to fit the changes in women's fashions . all its energies would be absorbed in the task. It wouldn’t have time to worry about its deficit or operating problems. About the time it fixed its car steps to sweep the ground skirts might be gone entirely from the landscape—and the ladles be clad in knickers or gooseflesh from the waist down. As long as the present style of feminine apparel persists, probably feminine passengers will have to get on and off street cars as best they can. They may be subjected to some inconvenience—but they should be consoled by the thought that knees are no longer the treat to motormen, conductors and general public that they were in the plush-and-bustle Victorian age. SALARY AND SOCIAL POSITION B r " ICFORE Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Federal Court in i___ Indianapolis Wednesday an embezzling bank cashier pleaded that the salary of $175 a month paid him by the bank was too small for him to maintain the social position expected of a bank cashier. So he dipped into the bank's funds to the extent of SIO,OOO Perhaps the culprit’s plaint was justified. Certainly the salaries paid eip’’oyes of small-town banks are generally inadequate—considering their responsibilities and temptations. ThejV are put in close proximity to large bundles of money and are expected to lead moral, inspiring lives, sing in the church choir and generally conduct themselves as
By Rev. John R. Gunn
But oft-times misfortune proves to be but the shrine of a larger forttlhe. The day comes when we find ourselves under the cloud of sickness or physical infirmity. “Surely,” someone says, “there is no bright light in this cloud.” And yet, some of the biggest contributions to humanity have been made by men and women with weak bodies. The man who gave the world Its most marvelous music was deaf. Fanny Crosby, who gave to the church some of the sweetest and most soulstirring hymns we s*ng today, was blind. The man who perfected the telephone never heard a sound. Some of our most wonderful poetry was written by a man who was dead from his waist down. Some of the best Christians I have ever known have been the most afflicted people I have known. God often conceals His riches in the night. Sometimes the cloudy day Is our best friend. Even the cloud of death has its bright light. Death is not a terminus, but a thoroughfare: not a blank wall, but an open door.- Surely the pure heart can not fear the breaking down of the last barrier that stands between Itself and God. (Copyright, 1925, By John R. Gunn)
leading citizens of the community, all for less pay than a bricklayer. A small town cashier gets less for his year's work than Babe Ruth gets for a single home run, or than "limber-lunged may receive from a few weeks in vaudeville. Isn’t it surprising that more cashiers don't get myopic and mistake their bank's roll for their own? Still, $175 a month Is not a miscrospoic wage. It’s more than three-fourths of the wage earners in the country receive. A salary of that size will provide a man and his family with all the necessities of*life, if not with the luxuries his pride craves. Social position is, no doubt, important—but social position can be cut to fit the salary without causing any real suffering. It is hardly worth maintaining at the cost of a penitentiary sojourn. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Kv i.ILLIAM F. DAVIS of FounI tin City, Ind., last of the v..J. J conductors on the underground railroad that smuggled fugitive slaves from the South across Indiana to freedom in Canada in the abolition days preceding the Civil "War, is dead. . He was the last surviving active participant in one of the most stirring enterprises of practical idealism that this country has ever witnessed. Among the minor causes of the war between the States were the activities of the enthusiastic and
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devoted anti-slavery men who risked their lives and fortunes In helping slaves to escape from their masters. The underground railroad system, by which fugitives were received at a dozen points along the Ohio River, fed, clothed and transported in secrecy across Ohio and Indiana to freedom, goaded slave owners of the South to fury. Probably the actual extent of the underground railroad traffic was exaggerated. Speaking In Congress In 1860, Jones of Georgia said: "In the non-slavoholdlng States regularly organized societies —underground railroads—are established for the avowed purpose of stealing slaves from the border States and carrying them off the free States or Canada. The border States lose millions of dollars' worth of property by this system of larceny.” John T. Hanover, superintendent of the Anti-Slavery League In Indiana. and one of the founders of the underground railroad system, declared that for seven years an average of more than four thousand fugitive slaves a year were passed through his district. Yet the negro population of Canada. according to the Dominion census reports, only Increased approximately 3.500 between 1850 and 1860—the decade in which antislavery societies and the under-
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Tom Sims Says Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown of long hair and wishes it were bobbed. We all can’t go South for the winter, but the North wind seems to be on its way. Statistics show the weather man 80 per cent correct, leaving 20 per cent for holidays. Claim a Florida girl had three husbands, but this may be only talk started by the real estate men. Hypnotist put a woman to sleep in Superior, Wis. Couldn’t wake her up. Should have shown her a mouse.
FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1925
Old Timers By Hal Cochran There’s rhythm and rhyme In the jazz of today, and the lively songs fill you with pep. We’ll jump to our feet when they start In to play, end with vigor and vim keep In step. It’s good for the Bystera to keep up the spirit that comes from a modern day song. We bubble right over whenever we hear it, and likely go smiling along. But, nevertheless, it's a pretty safe guess, to remark that the songs of the old, still live in their part, pretty close to the heart, when the story is truthfully told. The jazz has Its place, but it ne’er can erase, all the love songs that folks used to play. There once came a thrill, and it lingers here still, through the songs of our grandmother’s day. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Ten members of the Polish Congress are touring America. One is over six feet. Regular telephone! Polo, 1 News says New York police are closing up more bootleg joints. It falls to say why. Cuba has about a million tons of surplus sugar on hand, but you’ll pay a aweet price just the same.
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