Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 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 Bcripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.
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Political Police rpn VERY policeman is trying to be a captain,” according to Chief of Police Herman F. RikhofE. Why not? Any policeman who is wise enough to be right politically has a chance of becoming a captain, or even an inspector. His record makes no difference. Politics is the only consideration. A man who has been discharged from the force might even become an inspector-elect for a day or two —until the mayor-elect Changes his mind. It is ridiculous to think of efficiency in connection with a police system where there Is no such thing as reward for merit and where the only possibility of reward lies in being in good with the particular political faction that happens at the moment to be in authority. We are told that because Chief of Police slapped the political policemen on the wrist, they went right out and boldly made fifty arrests. Os these, sixteen persons were charged with drunkenness and twenty-one with violation of the traffic laws. It is presumed that the other thirteen were bandits or possibly operators of gambling houses—if there are any gambling houses in Indianapolis. Seriously speaking, the situation is not the fault so much of the policemen themselves as of the system which makes possible the appointment of a tailor as chief of police or a criminal court investigator as head of the traffic department. Under civil service regulations these things couldn’t happen. One Dollar a Ballot mHE Indianapolis city election, including last spring’s primary, will cost city taxpayers $83,000, John E. Ambuhl, deputy city clerk estimates. Almost a dollar a vote as only about 94,000 votes were cast in the election of mayor. Was the election worth the money? Probably so to the successful candidates —-though the maycfr-elect may wonder as he Blips from hiding place to hiding place while his principal supporters clamor for pay day. He may think the days of a mayor are few and full of trouble. But it was an expensive exhibition of indifference—in which thoughtful citizens can take little pride. Only about half of the registered voters went to the polls. Disgust with political manipulation, gang rule and just plain indifference accounted for most of the stay-at-homes. “What’s the use, they will count our votes as they please,” was the general attitude. Yet nearly every voter who failed to cast a ballot in the recent municipal election would grab a musket and start a revolution if denied the right of suffrage. ITe wants the privileges but shucks the responsibilities of a sell' governing democracy. Indifference is the most serious ailment of popular government. Even in Australia, with a compulsory voting law in force, 300,000 voters failed to cast ballots in an election
LEGION CONSIDERS CLUBHOUSE SITE
■" SITE, only a stone’s throw from Ohio and Meridian Sts., mm Is being considered as a permament downtown clubhouse for Indianapolis Legionnaires. Prominent vetarans agree the great need of local ex-service men ios a center for ©recreation and a serious activities may bo concenSeventh district comm itteemanelect. Is investigating. “Hooray for the harmony meeting a week ago Sunday; it took us out of war,” is the way a Legion leader described Commander Jackeon’s session to unify the Indianapolis Legion posts. Don't forget each Legion post has a service officer who will help you adjust your claim with the Veterans' Bureau. Memorial Post, No. 3, the largest post In Indianapolis, will elect officers at 8 p. m. tonight on the seventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. “The post adjutant has the'l926 membership cards and is ready and willing to issue same at five bucks per copy,” Thomas J. Bates, post Rdjutant, reminds the gang In the formal notice. William P. Evans, former Marion County prosecutor, is post commander. OOM M’CONNELL, State commander, and Frank H. Henley, State adjutant, are busy lining up the posts for a flying start in 1926. Here’s the dopo they give them: 1. Send a statement of 1926 dues to every 1925 member. How many do you need? 2. Fill out and. send in to department headquarters the 1925 depart-
Saturday, though their failure makes them liable to fines. Indianapolis city government may be extravagant, inept, incompetent and smell to high heaven. Who is to blame? The city gets the sort of government the citizenship deserves —even if the election does cost the taxpayers $83,000. In any event nearly half the voters have no grounds for complaint—they merely stood on the side lines. Bark Worse Than Bite “| q j AY up, consarn ye, every last cent you I* | owe me, or by cracky, I’ll take it out of your hide I” To the European public such has seemed to he the attitude of Uncle Sam in dealing with his creditors. High officials in Washington have been pounding the table and thundering to the world that Europe would have to settle and settle in full. Not even capacity to pay would be taken into consideration. The result has been to get ourselves very much disliked abroad. We are everywhere popularly regarded as a Shylock, or as a monster utterly without human feeling coining dollars out of Europe’s life-blood. Moreover, in years to come, every new tax foreign peoples are made to pay and every financial difficulty these foreign nations get into, will be blamed on flinty America, no matter what the real cause may be. And what are the facts: Quietly, unobtrusively, almost as if we were afraid the world might get onto what we are doing, we are accepting virtually whatever the debtor nations want to pay. Italy owes ns today approximately $3,200,000,000. We let her off for what amounts to $520,000, or 25 cents on the dollar. That is to say $520,000,000 in cash today would be worth every cent we will ultimately receive from Italy. Similarly we accepted 45 cents on the dollar from Belgium, and about the same amount from Czechoslovakia. Even proud Britain who, as Editor John St. Loe Strachey, of the London “Spectator,” says, “is too proud to default,” in anything she has promised to do or pay—is paying ns qnly the equivalent of 76 cents on the dollar. With France, for some reason or other, we still keep up the farce. We refused her offer of 40 cents on the dollar, but, after advertising the fact for awhile, likely enough we will quietly accept the 40 cents, or less, and lend her another hundred millions or so into the bargain. Meantime does the world know anything of our generosity? It does not. It thinks we are the old skinflint we ourselves say we ar6. It thinks everybody is being forced to pay up and in full. A small matter? To the contrary. National prestige is a stupendous asset in this world and national prestige depends almost exclusively on what others think of us.
ment record cards and the Legion Weekly cards at least once a week. 3. Make a list of all service men in your community and have it ready for your membership campaign. 4. Challenge some post In the department to a battle for members for 1926, or let one team in your own post challenge the other—the losers to feed the winners or give a prize of some kind. Competition adds zest to a campaign. 5. Help in way possible to make your post 190 per cent before Jan. 1, “Start 1926 with 1925 Strength.” 5. Remember, the quantity of 1926 cards sent you is the minimum number of members expected from your post. More cards will be forwarded at once on request. Two posts have already called for an additional supply. '• The emblem division has some fine slides for use in movie theaters for membership campaigns. They also have a pamphlet “Why I Should Join The American Legion,” at 60 cents per hundred. 8. Study tho membership manual carefully and form your plans completely before your campaign Is started. These are .the fundamentals In member-getting: Preparation, organization, publicity, competition and personal solicitation. 9. Send In promptly the names of your 1926 post' officers. 10. Send in the unused 1925 cards and stubs to be credited to your post’s acocunt. 11. Don’t overlook American Education Week, Nov. 16-22. 12. Again remember, that Indiana is out to make a record In membership for 1926. What are you going to do to help? i r-jr-Tj HE Times announces official | I indorsement of its American ——i Legion column from C. A. Jackson, State commander, in the -foliowink letter: “I want to express to you the appreciation of the Department of in-
liana for the Legion news you are featuring In The Times. “The Legion has arrived. Its men, after seven years, now have a feeling of confidence. They are confident of their own ability to be of super-service and they have the confidence of the public. “In the future the activities of this great organization will furnish many big news stories. “The Legion is developing a code of ethics, a standard of truth, that is much talked about In many organizations, but practiced little. Legionnaires worthy of the name are ‘square shooters.’ They keep their promises, they do the Job they accept the responsibility for and look for no personal reward. “I am sure the readers of The Times will welcome this new department and the over 100,000 service men in Indiana and their thousands of friends and relatives will appreciate the recognition you have given them in your columns. Members of the John H. Holliday Jr. Post took a flying start for membership when a meeting to plan a drive for that post was held Wednesday night at State headquarters. All of the 1925 and 1926 erecutive committee members will direct the campaign. A move by prominent business men, who realize the stabilizing influence of the Legion, to underwrite tile indebtedness contracted by the old Marion County Council is In the air. Establishment of financial solidity is recognized as a necessity, in the rejuvenation of the local organization. Nineteen Legion members were initiated into the Forty and Eight, while more than one hundred voy-' ageurs surveyed the show at the Severln Inn,Tuesday night. There were seventeen visiting box car riders from Bloomington. Legion Commander McQuigg and National Chef de Chemin de Fer Larry Doyle, spoke. A State Promenade of the Forty and Eight will be held In Indianapolis Jan. 11, In conjunction w>th the next meeting of the Legion’s national executive-xxuaniUfMt..-and department adjutants.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn
Text: “The soul of the diligent shall be made fat.”—l’rov. 13:4. Most of us are moved to work by necessity or by ambition. When we undertako any kind of work we us ually have an eye on the prize, the thing we are to get or achieve. We think of work as a means to an end, and not as an end in itself. Man works to make a living or to gain success; very seldom does he consider its effect upon hirnself. And yet. the most important re suit of work is its effect upon one’s character. What we get or achieve through our labor may be very important, but even more so is the refining, enlarging and uplifting effect it has upon our lives. It is this reflex influence of work upon character to which our attention Is directed by the text. “The
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
-By GAYLORD NELSON
iTHEY DON’T HAVE jTO RUN ’EM . mHE Interstate Public Service Company has lost $43,519.53 on its operation of motor busses in the past fifteen months, representatives of the company told the public service commission In pleading for higher fares on the bus routes between Indianapolis and Louisville. Very sad, indeed. Perhaps the public feels like taking up a collection for the poor stockholders of the Interstate Company. Os coui"se, the public cannot expect to get transportation below cost—transportation lines are not benevolent enterprises. But if their motor busses are operated at a loss why do the owners of the Interstate Company continue them? They don’t "have to run ’em. The Interstate Company owns a perfectly good traction line which Its own bus lines parallel and with which they compete for traffic. It entered the bus field of its own free will and accord. One by one it bought out the independent bus operators with routes competing with Us lines. Now that it has eliminated Independent competition it asks higher rates, to enable It to run busses at a profit. Apparently If the bus lines taken over are now losing ventures they must have been unprofitable ventures in the hands of the former Independent owners, and ultimately In the natural course of events would have busted. So the traction company made a bad Investment in buri n * them. If the public service commission, by granting rate Increases, attempts to pull the investment chestnuts —good, bad and indifferent—of every puhlio utility out of the fire It will have a strenuous time. So will the public. AFTER THE ACCIDENT nRONER PATTI.. F. ROBINSON declared —following the accident Wednesday In which a woman was killed and her husband seriously Injured—the crossing at Sixty-Third St, and the Moncn tracks. Broad Rlpplo, to be | one of the most dangerous In the city, because of a jog in the street. Removal of which he will recommend. That ought to be good news to the victim of Wednesday’s accident. Only she is dead. Making the crossing safe now can’t change her status. The crossing where the tragedy occurrred may or may not be the most dangerous In Indianapolis. Probably not, as such an assertion takes in a good deal of territory. There are many other crossings in the city whose failure to score fatalities la tre result of miracle, not design. But whatever the relative rank In deadliness of tho Broad Ripple crossing that intersection has remained as is for a, long time. It isn’t anew horn danger. Its lethal character could have been discerned by the authorities and steps taken to correct it as easily last year or the year before as yesterday, today or tomorrow. Public authorities never seem to get very excited about the dangers of a crossing until after a tragedy has occurred. Then they hustle. The system seems to be that a j crossing must claim a victim before it is worthy of official attention. That may be a sure method hut It Is rough on the victims. WHAT IS A PRIZE FIGHT? TTORNEY GENERAL GILA LIOM, in an opinion **•l Wednesday to Governor Jackson, put cracked ice on the feverish promotion of a championship bout in Indiana between the fistic prima doimas —J- pempsey, the valorous Nordic, tind H. Wills, who is of neither Nordic. Neanderthal nor Cro-Magnon extraction. Such a meeting would violate the Indiana prize fight law, points out the opinion. Probably the opinion of the State's legal department Is not needed to prevent the fight on Hoosier soil. Not as long as we have liorsethief detectives and other embattled forces of righteousness to safeguard Hoosier morals. If the fight ever takes place, which is unlikely, It will not be in the corn belt provinces. Only In New York is the crop of boobs sufficiently lush to supply a mil-lion-dollar gate. But what is a prize fight in the meaning of the Indiana statute? The attorpey general says a boxing match in which the contestants merely demonstrate their skill before a either gifinx a larger percentage of the gate receipts through a referee's decision, the applause of the crowd or other means, it is illegal. They can’t exchange blows calculated to determine their su-
soul of the >liligent shall be made fat.” It may be good to have a fat pocketbook, but it is better to have a fat soul. The soul value of work, therefore, should be of more concern to us than Its pocketbook value. Work develops a man’s qualities and enlarges his manhood. Though he should fall to accomplish the end for which he is working, he gains a command over his desires, a discipline of thought, a power of patient application, a steadiness of will and purpose, a deeper strength of soul and wider range of wisdom. And this is the really true gain. If we would learn to make this gain an object of our work, the result would more than compensate us for any disap polntment we might suffer as to other results. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)
perlority in their chosen profession.
Hence, If a boxer merely fans an opponent's nose. It Is boxing, eminently proper and lawful. But If ho Bocks said nose and Bplashes It all over ringside seatholders, and the crowd yells In approval, It is a violation of the prize fight law. Isn’t law wonderful? Under the interpretation of tho attorney general, if she projected Dempsey-Wills scrap Is a prize tight, what are the affairs staged from time to time in Tomlinson hall, at Ft. Harrison, and In tho epen-air arena at Michigan City? Mah-Jongg parties?
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l*t Mr. Fixit help solve vrmr troublro with city officials. He is The Times repreaentatlye at the city hall. Write him at Tho Time*. Capt. Fred Drlnkut, a sure gogetter for air. Flxlt, today promised him to straighten two complaints concerning West Indianapolis that arrived In today’s mail. DEAR MR. FIXIT: What Is the matter with our police department? We citizens of West Indianapolis cannot have protection from motorist bootleggers and speeders who use Howard St. and S. Belmont Ave. as a race track. We have police out this way, but they hang In the pool halls a half hour at a time and I have seen them stagger along the sidewalk. They had a load of something. TAXPAYER. DEAR MR, FIXIT: Will you kindly see what can be done about sand trucks spilling sand and water? We are In the 1500 block on Relsner (West Indianapolis). The street Is newly paved, but one would never know It, with the muddy water and sand on It. In some places the wateris almost curb high. Also they run with their mufflers wide open, which Is nerve-wracking Indeed. Drlnkut will send motorcycle police to pursue the speeders and others to Investigate the other complaints.
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Snowin’ By Hal Cochran Oh, Pappy! I wish I wuz back, as a kid, and just could repeat all the things that I did. I’d like to live over those wonderful days, that only remain in a sort of a haze. I stop to think now, an’ I can’t understan’, when young how I wished I wuz grown, like a man. A kid doesn't know that the way's kinda rough with a grown-up, and always will come soon enough. I'd like to forget all my worries and frets, and live in the pleasure a young fellow gets. I’d like to wear sweaters and pants that are short, and pick up real health through some out-of-door sport. It’s funny how every one reaches the stage, where gladly they'd change to a much younger age. Some little things happens, and then comes tho dawn of wishln’ for days that have been here, and gone. For Instance, I gazed through a window, today. The snow-llakes were failin’ and kids were at play. A derby hat passed, and some snowballs were flung. No wonder I jes’ kinda wish I wuz young. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
Soldiers’ Compensation
, You can ft an answer to any qunetl°n °f (act or Information by writing to Th<j ImilariapoUe Timae Washington Bureau. 1322_ New York Ave.. Washington. I). C.. Inclosing 2 cent* in etampe for reply Medical, legal and martial advtoo cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will received a personal reply. Unslgmxt requesto cannot be answered. All letters are ccmfldenttaJ.—Editor. In paying compensation to dependents of ex-service men who fought in the World War. is It necessary that the death or disability be of service origin? How long does the payment to dependent parents continue? Compensation to dependents of men who served in the World War is paid upon the death of the veteran, and. In some cases, In the event of
lis Protests Fixit
DEAR MR. FlXlT—There Is a hole in front of 1327 Madison Ave. After one trip over It, your car has developed a wonderful case of squeaks and rattles. Tt seems ns though It Is Impossible to get this one taken care of. Do you think you can fix It? TIMES BOOSTER. In two days Harry Stevens of the Improved streets department will have a force of men there for repairs. ♦ DEAR MR. FIXIT—You published our letter about the condition of the alley between Villa Ave. and Harlan St., running from Orange St. north to the first alley south of Prespect St,, but that didn’t fix our alley. READER. Lack of funds has resulted In concentration upon streets and postponement of alley repairs. But W. P. Hargon. clerk of the street commissioner’s office, said there may be hope later.
Do You Know? Mora than one thousand people are expected to attend the dinner for municipal employes.
The Mistakes of Kellogg
ll—The Gagging of Karolyl By William Phipps SUiuus —-a AKHINOTON, Nov. 20.—The YY7 muzzling of Count Michael Karolyl, former president or Hungary, at the hands of the State Department remains one of the outstanding diplomatic mysteries of the year. But recent similar abuses make it virtually certain that Congress will hear of it again in December. , ... Tho episode marks one of the most amazing American developments since the ducking stool and pillory went out of style. 10 Countess Karolyl lay HI in * eW York. Her husband was in England. whore the Korolyis now make their' home. Cabled to come to bedside of his sick wife, the Count was not allowed to sail until he had been pledged to keep quiet during his stay in America. The gag was first applied by Se<> retary Hughes, then head of the State Department. But Secretary Kellogg succeeded. Hughes ant , when Karolyl arrived, kept tho gag n place. Thus was muzzled a com-
hls total disability. The death or disability must have been of service origin. A dependent father or mother receives compensation so long as dependency exists. It is also provided that ”no compensation shall be payable if the dependency arises more than five years after the death of .the person.” Has Thanksgiving day ever come before on Nov. 2(5, and will it come again on that same date within the next twenty-five years? It came on Nov. 20 in 1903, 1908, 1914. It will come again on this date In 1931, 1936, 1942 and 1953. Will painting a furnace with asphaltum black affect the heat radiation? No. Why do a person’s hands and feet “go to sleep”? On account of poor circulation. What Is the value of the Austrian kronen of 1902? It is now valued at the rate of 10,000 kronen to one Austrian shilling. The shilling Is worth about 14 cents In United States money. How is fur glazed and what effect does the process have on it? Qlazlng fur freshens It and brings it back to its original softness. To glaze fur. brush it well with a stiff brush slightly dampened with water. Be careful that none of the water reaches the pelt as that will tend to stiffen it. If it Is a fur coat, put It on a figure and do the brushing. Repeat the process and let the fur dry. The next day beat it thoroughly with bamboo sticks about one-half Inch wide and three feet long. Where can I sell gold and silver bullion? The United States assay office will buy gold and silver bullion In quantities not less than SIOO worth. Assay offices are located at New York City: Boise, Idaho’ Helena, Mont.; Deadwood, S. D.; Seattle. Wash., and Salt Lake City, Utah. The mint at Carson City, Nev., also being conducted as an assay office.
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patriot and disciple of Louis Kussuth, the Hungarian patriot whom Secretary of State Daniel Webster welcomed, wined and dined In 185 f 0 and introduced to Congress as a guest of the American Nation. Sacrifices for Republic Formerly one of the richest men In Hungary, and a member of one of its oldest and noblest families. Count Karolyl has Impoverished,himself by his advocacy of a republlo. And ho believes in farmers owning their own small farms Instead of working on 800,000 aero estates virtually an tho serfs of tho landlords. So when ho became president of Hungary following the World War, he began to put his ideas into practice. Naturally he was dubbed a “radical," u "holshevlst,” a ’’communist,’’ and worse. Nevertheless he was merely advocating a form of government which George Washington led a revolution to secure for us. and a land-reform such as David Lloyd George is now working out for Great Britain. Hungary today is In the hands of a dictator, the Admiral von Horthy. His official title is Regont, pending the selection of a king. Some say von Horthy secretly hopes to sit on the throne himself. Anyway he hates holy water, and the charge has been made that he hod something to do with tho Karolyl gag. Stands for Freedom “If I were president of Hungary." says the Count, "my platform would be democracy, freedom of speech and press, universal suffrage, equal ed-l uoationai advantages for all and land reform—by which I mean the buying of tho big estates by tho government for salo to the peasants.” Not so very bloodthirsty, that. Then why the muzzle? Said County Karolyl after he arrived In Canada and was free to speak his soul: "Horthy stands for the very Imperialistic policy against which the allies and the United States fought during the war. That Is what Americans must understand. That is what Horthy has done everything to prevent me from saying,’’ Continuing he said Hungary wanted to borrow money in the United States and too much talk might spoil the market. “The money that has gone Into Hungary," he continued, "Is being used to rebuild the oid Imperialistic machine—ths Austro-Hungary monarchy and the German Alliance—which, sooner or later, Is >)x>und to break out In a now war of aggression against ths Little Entente that will probably Involve the whole of Europe," Thus Karolyl had his say In spite of the Hughes-ICellogg gag. Canada did not hesitate to welcome the Count and allow him to talk until he had the speaker’s cramp. And nothing he said would have been out of place had It been uttered from the roof of the White House Itself. What salary Is paid a special agent of the Department of Ju*tlce? No stated amount, either maximum or minimum, can be given, since the salary of this class of employes depends upon the peculiar qualifications of the man and the particular work to which he Is assigned. The positions axe appointive.