Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1925 — Page 6
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True Christmas Spirit "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” / than one hundred of the deserving iVI needy families of Indianapolis are having a merry Christmas toda ythrough the generosity of readers of The Indianapolis Times. About three Aveeks ago The Times began publishing descriptions of families who were in need. There were scores of little children whom Santa would not have remembered. There were old men and old''women, mothers and fathers who had been hurt in accidents and who were unable to work. All these were in need of food and clothing and the little extra luxuries that make Christmas something more than just a day in the calendar. The response was wonderful. There was a constant ringing of telephones and a constant stream of visitors to The Times office as the people of Indianapolis responded. They responded out of the goodness of their hearts, for there was no other reward than making someone a little happier. Neither the names of the families who Averc helped nor the names of the benefactors were printed. The Times did not Avish anybody to give who had any other motive than that of making Christmas brighter for some unfortunate. The Times has exercised every precaution to see that every family for Avhom this paper agreed to find a friend Avas adequately taken care of. It has been a big job, but we are sure that those who had charge of it Avill agree that it was very much Avorth while. I We heartily thank every man, woman and (child who contributed to the families and individuals listed. And Ave particularly thank the personnel of the Christmas clearing house for their cooperation. Merry Christmas!
Not Even a Marine Could Do It SEE honest burgers of Philadelphia may again sip their beer in peace and the thugs may come out of their holes. Gen. Smedley D. Butler is going and it will be long before Philadelphia sees another like him. He rode into the Quaker town on a high Avind and he rides out on a howling gale. Everybody’s blessing goes with him, but they aren t asking him to come back. Life has been too strenuous the past tAvo years to suit your average Philadelphian. Law enforcement has a beautiful sound and everybody, of course, believes in it, but there is such a thing as taking it too seriously. General Butler did that. He wasn’t content to enforce just those laws that Philadelphia likes; he wautecl to enforce them all. He tried to keep Philadelphians from having their drinks, just because the law said they shouldn’t have them. He had sworn his fidelity to the United States Constitution —and he didn’t mean maybe! There’s where the famous fightin’ marine made his great mistake. He didn’t mean maybe! v Before his two years had ended, he not only had the whole town in a stew, but he had the Governor of the State hopping Avith glee and the President of the United States stepping sidewise. Thus does a little pebble of law enforcement thrown into the national pond disturb the frogs on the outermost edges. In Philadelphia General Butler tried the experiment of divorcing the police from politics. That is, he tried the experiment of trying to divorce the police from politics. He came nearer succeeding than any one ever be-
A Sermon for Today •■By Rev. John R. Gunn
Text: “Unto you is bom a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11. SHERE are stories of whose telling we never tire. Let them be told as often as they may, they have a charm about them that always attracts and pleases us, and each time they are told they bring anew inspiration and hope to our hearts. Among these stories is that of the birth of Jesus. A soften as we have heard the story of His nativity we have never grown weary or tired of it. It retains its hold on our hearts and is ever fresh and sweet to our souls. Nineteen centuries ago, an angtel messenger appeared to some shepherds as they were minding their flocks by night out on the plains of Judea and said unto them: “Fear not, for, behold, I' bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to nil the people. For unto you Is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” Thrilled with this announcement, the shepherd’s went to Bethlehem, with wondering eyes and worshiping hearts, looked upon and saw the Christ Ohiid. and then returned,
fore had done and nearer than any one else probably ever will in Philadelphia. One thing defeated him: Beer. And by beer, in this case, is meant —human nature. Had Butler been called in in the days before prohibition it is almost a certainty that his efforts Avould have been marked by success. This despite the fact that Philadelphia wasn’t nicknamed Corrupt and Contented for nothing. The police Avere completely controlled by a notoriously vicious political machine. The police department Avas in an alliance Avith crime. Butler could have busted that alliance, in the old days. He came so near doing it under present conditions that there can be little doubt of this. The present condition is that Philadelphia has tens of thousands of good citizens Avho simply cannot understand that there is anything wrong in taking a. drink noAV and then. They’d have boon behind Butler to a man if it hadn’t meant the breaking of a lifelong habit in which they saAv nothing sinful. Eighteenth Amendment or no Eighteenth Amendment. They’d have cowed Philadelphia’s rubber mayor into keeping Butler; they’d have persuaded President Coolidge to let him remain, but for this one thing. In a way it’s a pity. It would have been a Avholesome thing for the country if General Butler had been allowed to see his experiment through. He. came so near divorcing the police from politics—he licked the local politicians in their oavu bailiAA r icks, he revealed who controlled the courts, he chilled the marroAv of eminent and respectable beneficiaries of the system, he restored their oavu souls to such police officers as Avanted them—but the nath'c thirst of the good citizens unejid him. It was a gallant attempt, General. We wish the familiar lines could he Avritten : “The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand.” But you can’t SAveep baek the tide with a broom.
Railway Labor Board to Go tq AI LAYAY presidents and railway workers are reaching'an agreement that is expected to result in abolishing the United States railAvay labor board. In its stead it is expected that machinery of adjustment and concilation, under the sanction of Congress, will be set up, approximating to ,some extent the plan proposed by the Howell-Barkley bill. The picture of management and men getting together is encouraging. It offers hope for continually improving relations, even though it by no means eliminates the possibility of labor difficulties. The railway labor board has hardly been a success. It has been a source of irritation rather than good Avill in the transportation field. The men led the attack on the board, but management has noAV joined in the assault and Avith assurances from the Administration that it Avould look kindly on any proposal that had the indorsement of both sides, elimination of this irritant appears certain. A weakness of the labor board has been its inability to obtain obedience to its orders. The railroads were first to flout it, Atterbury of the Pennsylvania taking the lead. When it became clear that the board would or could do nothing to discipline the railroads, its influence over the men rapidly passed. Daugherty, as Attorney General, obtained his famous Wilkerson injunction in an effort to force the men to accept the board’s findings. But the Governrnent having shown no such disposition to enforce the board’s decisions on the railroads, the Avorkers ignored the court’s injunction as Avell as the board’s ruling. This state of affairs could not last. The present moA-e is in the direction of a better way.
"glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen.” As proclaimed by the angel, it was, indeed, an hour of glad tidings and great joy. The thrill of that hour has not spent itself yet, but is still vibrating in human hearts the world over. Today we unite with these shepherds of old in glorifying and praising our heavenly Father for this great gift of His love —the gift of His only begotten Son. With them ■we worship the sweet Babe, born unto us as a Savior, Christ our Lord. We crown and worship Him as the Lord from heaven. And, believing that He is worthy to be universally crowned and worshipped, we lift our voices In the presence of all heaven and earth and sing unto Him our coronation hymn: “All hail the power of Jesus* name. Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem. And crown Him Lofd of all. Let ev’ry kindred, ov’ry tribe On this terrestrial ball To Him all majesty ascribe, And crown Him Loi|l of all.** (Copyright, 1923, by Jyhn R. GunnJ
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
AN OLD SETTLER - mACKSON EVANS, 0-year-old Civil War veteran and pioneer settler of northern Indiana, died in South Send the other day. He Is Faid to haA'e been the first white man to build a house in Riverpark, now a part of the city of South Bend. He settled In a primeval wilderness. In his lifetime he saw civilization, commerce, industry and agriculture grow up around him and transform the region. During the span of his life South Bend grew from nothing to a commercial and industrial center, a community of JvO.OOO people, from which manufactured products are shipped all over the world. We think of Indiana as an old, long settled State. Compared with some newer parts of the country it is old. But Indiana is still so new that it creaks. The development and progress now evident in the State have been accomplished in a period no longer than a human life. What changes will the next fifty or seventy-five years bring about? The truth is the Hoosier pioneer epoch is barely past and the State is just beginning to grow up. Get hold of a piece of Indiana and hold on. Time will do the rest. BONDS FOR POOLROOMS mUDGE COLLINS of Criminal Court, suggests high bonds for Indianapolis poolroom proprietors, to be forfeited when law violations are permitted in their places, as an effective method of cleaning up poolrooms and reducing juvenile crime. The proposal sounds all right. Theoretically the requirement of high bonds would limit poolroom proprietorship to reputable, responsible persons. Fear of forfeiture would make them operate law-abiding establishments. But in practice the plan might not work so brilliantly. In the old. wicked days when the brass rail, the swinging door and the foaming seidel legally adorned municipal landscapes, high license fees and large bonds were frequently prescribed for saloon regulation. Some saloonkeepers ran decent, lawful places; other did not. The character of the proprietor, not the size of the bond, determined the sort of saloon operated. Putting poolrom owners under heavy bonds would be a sort of law-enforcing bark without much bite. Bonds are scraps of paper, easily given hut seldom collected on. How many forfeited bonds have actually been collected by Marion County, and Indianapolis city, courts in the past year? Frequent and unexpected inspections of poolrooms by patrolmen and other police officials will do more to keep the proprietors of such places in the straight and narrow path and more effectively discourage them front running crime schools than a high bond, of uncertain value, gathering dust in the archives at city hall.
SENTENCED TO CHURCH fpriONALD BLACKBURN. 24, |U | of South Bend, was ordered L_—l to prison the other day to serve a two to' fourteen-year term because he failed to attend church. Some time ago the young man was convicted on a forgery charge. The judge before whorif he was tried, in a moment of soft-hearted-ness, suspended sentence during gqpd behavior and on condition that the culprit regularly attend church The latter failed to perform that simple penance. Regular church attendance is a molder of character —a crime preventative. To be veffective the habit must be acquired young. To impose it as a penalty on a fullgrown miscreant is a silly judicial performance. Nevertheless, judges continue to impose such sentences on offenders under the delusion that compulsory church attendance will work miracles and will automatically regild human nature. Usually the one so sentenced never sprouts human nature Usually the one so sentenced never sprouts a moral pinfeather as a result. AVrongdoers frequently reform, discard their wicked ways and become pious. But it is in response to an inward urge, not forced church attendance or external compulsion. A mature, convicted criminal might as well be sentenced to stand on a prominent street corner and chew gum eight hours a day as to be sentenced to attend church regularly, so far as the moral effect of the punishment Is concerned.
LOW FINES AND HIGH SPEED C'“““ HIEF RIKHOFF is peeved. A young speeder overfc- hauled by the chief himself In person—as the movies say —after an exciting chase of a mile through busy Washington St., during which t.he police car speedometer registered 70 miles per hour, drew only a sls fine in city court Tuesday. During the chase the culprit drove through an Intersection with the stop sign against, him without slackening. "If any one had stepped out In front of that fellow.” said the Chief, "it would ha.ve meant death. If he had tried to put on his brakes suddenly his car would have turned over.” And this law-breaking driver who endangered life and limb on one of the busiest streets in Indianapolis was only fined sl6. Perhaps the Judge also shook his finger at him. Yet we wonder Why we have three score deaths and hundreds of non-fatal accidents a year due to reckless autotnohUs driving in
Indianapolis. Low fines and high speeds are partly responsible. AVhat's the use of police attempting to suppress speeding by oft-proclaimed . war, if the city courts fail to get excited about speeding unless the guilty driver spatters a pedestrain over a mile of pavement or wraps himself about a light post? If the streets are to be made safe the heavy hand of the law must fall on the speeder while he is alive and regardless of ■whether or not his recklessness has caused an accident.
The SAFETY VALVE It Blow* When the Preaanre 1* Too Great. By The Stoker " a divinity that I'l {shapes our ends, rough-hew L-LJthem how we ♦trill.” So thinks Dr. S. M. .fohnson, general director of the Lee Highway Association. Dr. Johnson was born in India, lived in Tennessee, was educated in a western university; took post-graduate work in an eastern university, practiced Ills profession in Chicago, suffered a nervous breakdown and sought health and a living on a ranch in New Mexico. And that is how he became the most expert promoter of good roads in America. It was this way. On hts ranch In Emerson Hough’s “Land of Heart's Desire” Dr. Johnson grew apples—apples five Inches in diameter —apples like the apples of the Hesperides; but he had to feed them to his hogs. East of his ranch were unreclaimed * government desert lands; west were the lands of a huge Indian reservation. Only faint rough wagon trails to get out, to get to market. Dr. Johnson began to organize his community to get a road. But there was no money to build through Indian reservations and no money then to get roads built by the Federal Government. “There is a string hanging out somewhere in AVashington, D. C.,” somebody told Dr. Johnson, “which, if you can find and pull, you can get what you want.” I)r. Johnson came to AVasjilngton, found the string and pulled it. Now the Government spends millions on "arterial highways” across the continent and the I>ee Highway is one of them. It was Dr. Johnson who per. suaded Secretary of War Newton
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Baker to turn over 120 millions dol-' lars’ worth of auto trucks and road machinery after the war to the State road departments, instead of selling them, as old junk. The way he did it was to challenge the War Department to send a test expeditionary force'by motor from the East coast to the Pacific. The expeditionary force was two months behind its schedule and Dr. Johnson wired Secretary Baker: “The American Army which was victorious over all obstacles in the World War surrendered to mud and said. AVe must have better roads.” It was Dr. Johnson who is largely responsible for th $14,000,000 Memorial bridge now being built across the Potomac connecting the Lincoln Memorial and Arlingtorf Cemetery -(Robert E. Lee’s old home), and it is now Dr. Johnson who has undertaken to persuade Congress to
“appropriate for a grand memorial avenue between George AVashington’s home at Mt. Vernon and the Virginia terminal of the Memorial bridge. Dr. Johnson is an unimposing little scrap of a man, but he is a wiz. \ * * # Showing how good things often go to waste. It was only when n | sailor-man who had enjoyed hashish I smoking In Oriental ports, saw It I growing on the .lersey flats where j the ever-ready and Sherwin AATHiams | ply their trade that it was learned i that these Jersey flats were growI ing a fine crop of East Indian hemp | from which hashish is made—the same being accidentally sown by the rope factory which also does business in ' that vicinity. The hashish did not know that it was against the law to grow there.
FRIDAY, DEC. 25, 1925
FIRM GIVES DINNER Elt Lilly & Cos. gave a turfcey dinner for 1,000 employes Thursday. J. K. Lilly, president, personally passed out cigars. The cafeterias was decorated with holly and mistletoe. The employes ate In eight shifts at fifteen minute Intervals. Harry Noel, advertising manager, said it took 880 pounds of turkey to feed the crowd. A tend and choir furnished music. EARLY TEST Twenty years ago national interest was aroused by announcement that ari attempt would be made to drive autos to the summit of Pikes Peak. This was to demonstrate that a motor car could negotiate any road that a horse and wagon could travel.