Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. ■ £>, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. / WSI. A. MAYBORW Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Ah. / • • Client of the United Press and Hu- NEA Service * • • Member of the Audit Bureau or CirculafloL Published daily except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. .Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • * • PUONE—MA in 3500.
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The Big Business of . Farming jTyjjIEET the latest Big Business Man, the 'jVJ| American farmer. Acting through his own cooperative organizations he will have dene $2,500,000,000 worth of business during 1925, or one-fifth all the business done by the farmers, according to Secretary Walton Peteet of the National Council of Farmers’ Cooperative Associations. This council, which embraces most of the larger cooperatives, which do $1,000,000,000 worth, of business annually on an invested capital of $15,000,000,000, will hold its annual meeting in Washington Jan. 12 to 15. If you buy cotton clothing, or tobacco, or wheat bread, or fruit, particularly oranges or lemons, it is almost certain you are buying from the organized farmers. If you buy milk, butter, eggs or chickens, or meat, it is almost a 50-50 chance. And the immense amount of business is being handled in “big business” fashion. Last summer the organized cotton growers walked into a New York bank and arranged to borrow up to $100,000,000 to finance their crop. A far cry from the old days! The Burley Tobacco Growers’ Association, which has 107,000 members, did $60,000,000 worth of business last year. The Texas cotton growers did $37,000,000 worth, and one month’s division of receipts from sales to the members of the Oklahoma association was $2,278,000. Although cooperative organizations in a small way have been numerous among farmers for many years, the rise of the great regional associations, each marketing only a single commodity, such as tobacco or cotton, has been the feature of the last five years. They are organized along “big business” lines.There are now about the same number of ooperatives in the United States as there were m 1915, Peteet says, about 12,000, but they now have 2,500,000 members against 650,000 in 1915, and do $2,500,000,000 worth of business against $637,000,000 worth. The “big” cooperatives, of which there are about 150, are strongest in Kentucky, Virginia, New York, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas sind California. The old-fashioned smaller coops, each consisting of from a score to a thousand farmers who both sell many of their crops and buy much of their supplies, are strongest in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Aside from cutting out part of the chain of middlemen, insuring the farmer a higher price and enabling him to hold h%s goods for a better market, the co-ops have done much to insure standard grading and better quality of their products. THE theory of the public service Commission seems to be that there is no objection to additional motor bus lines so long as they are operated by the street railway company.
Countess Karolyi’s Own Stofy
Editor's Note: Barred from the United States, presumably because of somethinsr she might tell Americans, Countess Karolyi was invited to write her story im The Indianapolis Times and other SerippsHoward newspapers, so their readers might judge for themselves whether Secretary of State Kellogg's ban was justified. Here is a further installment of the Countess' narrative. By Countess Karolyi (Copyright, 1925, by The ScrippssHoward Newspapers.) P , " ,f AltlS, Nov. 30 (By Cable).— By a strange coincidence 1 l— —I am writing this article on the sixth anniversary of the day on which broke out the revolution which founded the first Republic of Hungary, of which my husband became president. r Our enemies are doing us too great an honor by repeating continually that we made the revolution. It was not we, but the defeat of the central powers in the World War which made it. My husband was the only man of his class, who opposed the war from the first, and when the complete military and economic collapse of the Central Powers came in October, 1918, those same people who, in the early days of the war in 1914, had stood outside the palace shaking their fists and throwing stones, now came to cheer before my husband’s windows, and to shout: -"We want to hear Karolyi!” "Ho shall be our leader!” “The war must end!" Hungry Soldiers I will never forget those days in October, 1918. The streets of Budapest were full of soldiers In shabby uniforms, their faces grey with hunger. There was an atmosphere of hopeful expectation, for it seemed at jast as though something must have happened which would end this terrible, murderous, everlasting war. I remember the words of one of our party as we stood at the window looking out upon the crowds which burned with the fever of revolution. “The stone has started to roll," he whispered in my ear. King Charles, under the pressure of these events, decided to nominate my husband premier, but, weak and vacillating as always, and under the influence of court circles, he changed
Chairman Green Answers SIIERE have been criticisms of the tax bill prepared by the House Ways and Means Committee, in conjunction with Secretary Mellon. Chief of these is that it benefits the very -wealthy proportionately more than it does small taxpayers. Chairman Green has answered the critics. He says: “It is true that those having incomes above $1,000,000 got nearly a 50 per cent reduction, but this was inevitable when the maximum surtax was reduced to 20 per cent. If such a reduction had been made in the lower brackets, we would not have had sufficient revenue to carry on the Government.” In other words if Mr. Mellon’s plan, cut the average man’s rate as much as it cuts Mr. Mellon’s rate, “we would not have sufficient revenue to carry on the Government.” That is Chairman Green’s “answer.” Enforcing Speed Laws SHE purpose of speed laws is to prevent dangerous driving." The law will have served its purpose when dangerous driving is prevented or reduced to a minimum. Increasing number of speed arrests does not necessarily mean that the purpose of the law is being served. This is true as well of other laws. The American Automobile Association is protesting against speed traps and roadside courts. Recently a complaint was made in Indiana against speed cops appearing in civilian clothes. The motorist hai* no way of knowing whether riders of motorcycles on the roads are officers. The roads should be adequately patrolled by uniformed policemen. Their mere presence tends to reduce speeding much more effectively than numerous arrests of motorists caught in speed traps After all, the end sought is careful driving and not a record for arrests. THE snow is just another reminder that it is time to do your Christmas shopping. IT’S a poor player who isn’t on somebody’s all-something football team. EVERY day we hear of another woman taking over a man’s work. The Chicago police have caught a woman bomber. IT is safe to say that not one of the sAaall boys who skidded about the city on sleds Sunday thinks much of the Florida boom. THE world progresses. The French government falls a little more frequently nowadays, but at least they don’t chop off the heads of the fallen officials. MA FERGUSON offers SSOO for the arrest and conviction of liquor law violators who have property valued at $5,000 or more. This should include all the successful bootleggers.
his mind at the last moment and withdrew his nomination. This act caused -the enthusiasm of the .people for my husband to flare up to fantastic heights. They unharnessed the horses from his carriage and pulled it through the streets shouting: "If thou are not nominated premier by the king, thou shall be by the will of the people!” Mission Falls In that most critical moment my husband decided to try his last chance upon the enlightened mind of Vienna, and, fully aware of the danger in a country rushing as It was headlong into a revoluticn, he sent me to Vienna to speak to my father, Count Julius Andrassy, minister of foreign affairs of the AustroHungarian monarchy. But my mission was a failure. My father refused to believe we were on the eve of revolution. Immediately upon my return to Budapest I lay down, most exhausted, to sleep. In the middle of the night my husband ran in, exclaiming breathlessly: “The troops which were to have started ~to the front tonight have mutinied and tunned back in order to give us their allegiance. , This means the outbreak of revolution, and I am going to the commander of the town and him resign." Suddenly the sound of machine guns aWoke me fully. It sounded as though a battle were going on in the garden whifch surrounded our house. I hurried into the streets to see if I could give assistance to the wounded. I reached a square. Two shadows emerged. Were they friends or foes? I asked them where the shooting was going on and got* the answer that they were shooting at Karolyi’s car! Revolution Wins 1 returned to telephone to the commander of the town and asked if my husband had arrived. "Not yet. but we expect him every moment,” was the answer. Images of that other revolution of 1848 assaulted my fancy. In this
same Karolyi house seventy years ago, similar things happened at the time when the Hungarion nation, led by Louis Kossuth, attempted to take the welfare of Its country into Its own hands, and when Louis Batthyany, grand-uncle of my husband, the first parliamentary prime minister of Hungary, was taken prisoner by soldiers of the Hapsburgs and executed. News that the heaquarters commander already had been seized and taken prisoner by the revolting troops; that the general postofflee was being besieged, interrupted my thoughts. At this moment my husband appeared at the head of a few armed men, whom he proceeded to place on guard at the front door of the house to defend it in case of attack by imperial troops. But these preparations were unnecessary, for victory was ours and the Hapsburg dynasty began negotions with my husband. King Charles appointed him for the second time Prime Minister. Next: “Why I Am An Exile.”
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Let Mr. Pixit olve .vour troubles with city nfficia's. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. There’s no law to compel an owner to complete a building he has started, Mr. Fixit learned today at the building commissioner’s office. DEAR MR. FIXIT: There is a house built on Tuxedo St. that was started two years ago and never finished. What should we do to make them finish it? It is an eyesore. Could you get a street light at gt. Clair and Tuxedo Sts.? G. M. D. You're pdwerless to have the house finished. The request for the street light has been referred to the board of works. The need for a street light explained in the following also will be presented to the board DEAR M!R. FIXIT: We wrote you last summer in regard to a light
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn ■■■■■
Text: “A time to weep and a time to laugh.”—Ecc. 3:4. a HERE are times when we feel like weeping and times when we feel like laughing. Both have a large place In human experience. The sage of ancient Israel recognized this and said there was a time for both. But you will observe he never said anything about a time to frown. There is no place in this world for frowns. I do not know of any good that frowns can do. I admire a smiling face, but I don’t think anybody likes a frowning face. A frown never made anybody better looking. It rather has the opposite effect. If these frowning people knew how*ugiy they were they would Iron out the frowns from their faces. I never saw a face that a smile would not Improve. In fact, I think a real smile makes beautiful and attractive a face of the most Irregular features. You are always better looking when you smile; and not only do people admire you more but they like you better. Smile and the world will smile back at you. Frown and the world will frown back at you. There Is no society In which frowns will add to your welcome. But the smile of good cheer Is always welcomed, everywhere and by everybody, and Is always- a heavenly benediction There are different kinds of smiles. There is the Bmlle of motherhood.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
CHAPPIE MORAN IN AGAIN IHAPPIE MORAN. Internationally known confidence i___J man and swindler de luxe, was arrested by Federal officers in St. Louis the other day for mail fraud —in connection with a fake swindle through which four Illinois men lost $90,000 last summer. Moran has a record—his was not a sudden and unexpected fall from grace. He has been arrested for wire-tapping, swindling and similar unlawful activities in Detroit, Denver, Pittsburgh, New York. Chicago, Philadelphia, ~ Cincinnati. Louisville, Hot Springs and elsewhere. A year ago he was arrested in Indianapolis for attempting to work a $7,000 land swindle on an Elwood (Ind.) citizen. The case never came to trial. Instead, a few days after his arrest, he was taken to Gary, Ind., to answer a charge of fleecing a Danville (111.) man out of SII,OOO. He was positively Identified by the victim In that case. But despite such Identification and the swindler's known record he was released on a SO,OOO bond of questionable security. He promptly oozed out of the landscape and went his joyous, nefarious way In search of other credulous victims. He found them to the tune of $90,000. A couple of months ago an Indiana man, in w-hose home was found a half pint of liquor, was held under a bond of $4,500 pending trial. But a professional criminal with a record as long as your arm is released on a SII,OOO crime under a nominal $3,000 Straw bond. Is there anything more ridiculous than the vagaries of our bail bond system? FEDERAL TRUCK CONTROL fr-TI c. KELTING of the Ken--111 tuck y Motor Truck Club, l 1 1 1 in an address before the convention of the Indiana Transfer and Warehousemen’s Association, recently, opposed control Os interstate commercial trucking by the Federal Government through the interstate commerce commission- “ Motor truck transportation.” he said, “should be allowed to find its place among all transportation facilities of the country. It is only now In its infancy and any attempt to control or regulate this young industry would have disastrous results.” Porbably he is right. But it certainly makes a difference whose ox is gored. Wouldn’t truckmen have a fit if railroads and other existing transportation agencies now under the thumb of the interstate commerce commission should be released from hampering, res'rletlve Federal control? The truth is that Federal regu-. lation has not Justified itself by Its wx.rks. No one wants it except for the other fellow', for it is recognized as a kerious handicap to the logical development of an Industry. The interstate commerce commission exercises such control over the railroads that they can’t call their souls their own. The cripples are artificially kept alive, and the prosperous, efficient lines are denied the fruits of their efficiency. And all the public gets is higher rates. If all business and Industry Is to be nationalized, as the socialist
at Church and McCarty Sts., but it was not put in The Times. We have been accosted by men hanging around this corner as early as 6 p. m. It is so dark there you can see no one until you are almost on top of them. We came home from the show at 9 p. m. and had to walk four blocks out of *he way to get home, as there were two men standing behind a pole at this corner. ONE OF THE ACCOSTED GIRLS. You certainly need a light. Mr. Fixit will do £is best. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Who was the first mayor of Indianapolis? We were talking about it in class this afternoon and no one knew. STUDENT. Samuel Henderson, who served from 1847 to 1549.
The first sight that greeted our eyes in this world was when in babyhood we looked up into the smiling face of mother. A mother's smile hovered over the cradle of our infancy, so that as we came into conscious being, our first impression was of something sweet and lovely. God forbid that I shall ever do anything to drive from mother’s face that happy smile that greeted me when I came into this world. Another smile we all like Is the smile of romance. What a beautiful sight it is when a young man smiles into the face of the first girl he ever fell In love with and she smiles back as "much as to say, "I trust you fully, for I am too Innocent to question what you say to me.” That is fine. It would be finer still If you keep on smiling at each other after the marriage altar. Os course you kept on for a while, at least during your honeymoon. But I wonder if some of you have not forgotten how to smile In that sweet, romantic fashion. In some cases where it used to be all smiles now it Is all frowns. And frowns never help to make a home happy. Frowns are never conducive to domestic tranquility. If you want to keep peace In the family, if you want to keep your home sweet as a garden of roses, don’t forget how to smile as you used to do in the days of your romance. (Coyprlght, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)
brethren hope, and everything to be under national control, even bearing the babies, Federal regulatory buieaus will have to acquire greater efficiency and ability than they have yet displayed. THE VICTIM v IS DEAD |RS. HELEN WHELCHEL, young Indianapolis widow, was murdered two years Friday night, and her lifeless body flung from a railroad bridge west of the city. Within a few days John Thomas Shaw was arrested and indicted for the crime. Twice he has been tried for the murder. A Marion County jury found him guilty. Then came the customary round of appeals. The Supreme Court ordered anew trial. The second trial at Martinsville last summer resulted in a hung jury. Now he awaits his third trial, scheduled to open Jan. 21, for a crime committed over two years ago. And he is no nearer the electric chair or freedom than he was when first arrested. Gerald Chapman, captured at M uncle nearly a year ago and taken to Connecticut to stand trial for the murder of a policeman, a few months previously, has been granted another reprieve. He was convicted of the murder and sentenced to be hanged last June. The execution was stayed until Dec. 3. Then a seqond reprieve while his case leisurely journeys up to the United States Supreme Court and back. Perhaps a couple of years after the crime was committed for which he was found guilty his fate will be decided. William H. Remy. Marlon County prosecutor, told a woman s club the other day that the crowded condition of our criminal courts Is a disgrace to the community. The real disgrace is not the number of criminals brought before the bar of justice, but the time consumed In disposing of cases. The finish of an ordinary murder case is likely to be death from old nge. Os Course it makes no difference to Mrs. Whelchel or the Connecticut policeman whether the trials of their alleged murderers drag out or forty years after the crime. In ..each case the victim is thoroughly dead. But what of justice? BETTER STREET CAR SERVICE SHE Indianapolis Street Railway Company operated a dally average of sixtoen more street cars during the first nine months of 1925, than during the corresponding period of 1924. It also put 21 motor busses in operation this year. Despite the increase in transportation service the operating expenses of the company were $40,834 less in the first threequarters of this year than for the corresponding fraction of last year. Apparently the street, car system is endeavoring to give Indianapolis more adequate transportation facilities with greater efficiency. Yet it Is losing money. Perhaps the street railway should be helped out of its financial slough being granted fare increases it asks and Dy being given preferential treatment in the establishment of new motor bus lines. For. after all, Indianapolis can’t get to and from work without the street 9am. Daily the Street Railway Company’s trolleys and busses carry over 300,000 passengers while the principal competing independent bus company carries only 10,000. The latter is a small factor in the city’s transit situation. But it is the competition of the independent bus lines that has instigated the street car company to better its service—run more cars and supplement its rail service with motor busses. Without that competition is it likely that Indianapolis would have better transit facilities in 1925 than in 1924? So far in applications before the public service commission for permits to start new bus lines In Indianapolis the Street Railway Company has been rather uniformly successful and the independent bus operators uniformly unsuccessful. That may be accident not design. Nevertheless the effect Is to pre vent the expansion of independent bus lines, whose competition is beneficial to Indianapolis straphangers
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You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will received a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential.—Editor. Can yfni give me a description of the statue of Diana, the Greek goddess of hunting, in the palace of the Louvre In Paris? “Diana of the Hind” is a beautiful piece of sculpture and compares favorably with the Apollo Belvedere. The attitude of the figure much resembles that of the Apollo, and the two correspond in style and execution. While It is a work of the highest order, it does not equal the Apollo. The attitude Is one of 'hurried, eager motion; the face Indicates a huntress filled with excitement of the chase. The left hand extends over the forehead of a Hind that runs by her side, and the right arm reaches backward over her shoulder to draw an arrow from Us quiver. How many employes of the Federal government are there? On June 30, 1925 there were 03,766 Federal employes In the District of Columbia and 500,962 outside the District. How to pineapples grow? Plnesapple plants grow to a height of from 3 to 4 feet, bearing long, rough edged, ridged and sharp pointed leaves from the center of which springs the flower stem, that later turns to fruit. The fruit weighs on an average 3*4 to 4*4 pounds. Pineapples grow In a warm climate, the West Indies, Bahamas, Florida, Hawaii. What has become of the money realized from the sale of bonds of the Irish Republic? The funds received from the sale of bonds, amounting to over a million dollars, are held by the Harrlman National Bank and other New
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To th© Editor of The Times: mN an editorial in your paper of Nov. 24, under the caption “These Men Are Thinking,” you call Wayne B. Wheeler to task for stating that the Moderation League is an importaatton to the United States from Canada, and that It Is made up of wets interested in the return of booze to this country. You claim that Wayne B. Wheeler does not know what he is talking about, and further, find fault'' with me for saying that this so-called Moderation League is spreading wet propoganda. Then you cite the names of twelve of a number of six-ty-six directors and advisors of the Moderation League, and ask if those names sound like “a Canadian wet organization or an organization of liquor dealers and deluded wets.” The facts are that the Moderation League' led the fight In Canada for prohibition repeal. The wets there/ and also In Europe, as well as In the United States, Inspired by the success of this wet organization in Canada, lmi*orted the name, methods, form of organization and misleading propaganda Into the United States to destroy prohibition in this country. A Moderation lyeague leader from Canada attended the wet conference In January, 1924, In Washington to boost the Moderation League methods. A telegram to this office from Mr, Wheeler himself says: “We know of no officers In the Moderation League here who championed national prohibition.” One of the “sample dozen” of this Moderation League's officers named
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entitled to the money; the New York banks, also made defendants, claim that the Irish Republic no longer exists and therefore the money should be returned to the bondholders. No hearings on the merits of the ease have been held as yet.
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by you in your editorial Is Elihit Root. Elihu Root hus always been opposed to prohibition, and was the attorney of {he liquor interests of America In the effort to overturn the Jf.ighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law before the United States Supreme Court. Hermit Roosevelt, another one of the sample dozen named by you, has from the very start been a member of the “Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.” You speak of the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company as another ©tie of this “sample dozen.” Tho Western Union Telegraph Company has bee n reported from the start as unfriendly to prohibition. You do not name tho president of the board of trustees of Columbia University, who yoti say is another one of the “sample dozen. *,j However if he is like Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of this Institution, there is no surprise In his being a wet. Nearly every other person whom you mention among your "sample dozen” either lives in New York or is affected by the environment there. You Bay” These are some of tho men who are thinking seriously,” but they always have seriously been opposed to prohibition. This is simply another wet movement under the guise of "Moderation,” hence will deceive nobody outside of some persons evidently looking for a screen behind which to conceal their hostility to the prohibition cause. E. S. SHUMAKER, Superintendent, Indiana Anti Silicon League.
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