Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1925 — Page 4

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Mopping Up mNDIANAPOLIS is experiencing for the first time a concerted police and Federal mopping up process similar to those that have been staged in other cities in Indiana and elsewhere. Federal agents and police, after spending weeks in gathering evidence, have swooped flown on the den of the terrible bootlegger and have carted him to jail. Probably more good, of a temporary nature, has been accomplished by this one grand Bwoop than has been accomplished in several months of raiding private homes, many of them homes of innocent individuals. Indianapolis, as a result, undoubtedly will experience a rather dry New Year’s eve—among those who depend on the type of bootlegger caught in the raids for their corn licker. However, the convivial celebrator with the price probably will be just as tipsy as ever. If the booze traffic can be stopped at all — which is, doubtful in view of the present state •;bf public opinion—it must be stopped at the source. The source is not the private home, nor is it necessarily the bootlegger. It is rather that the officers did not haul truck lloads of stills from the places raided to the\ Mail. Most of those captured undoubtedly ■were not manufacturers in the sense that they ■produced the alcohol from which their booze ■vas concocted. They are merely retailers. They Obtained the alcohol, or the corn liquor, somewhere. It would help enforcement considerably to plug up the leak from whence this supply of alcohol is trickling. f Undoubtedly many places will be padlocked as a result of the raids. Liquor may not be sold in these particular places for some time. But is there anyone who doubts that it will continue to be sold next door or around the comer? There is a public demand for the stuff, vile as most,of it is nowadays. So long as this demand exists, it will be supplied. The seffects of the spectacular raids of Tuesday can be little more than temporary. It takes more * than a law to compel obedience to the law. There must be a will to obey. It is evident that ; the will to obey the prohibition law does not exist among a great many people. After all, , the people who want liquor badly enough to ’ buy it are the real source of the troubles of the ; prohibitionists.

That Little Red School House IEPRESENT ATIVE WILL R. WOOD of congressional campaign committee, raises an Interesting question in a recent statement. He presents figures to show how much more money is now being spent for rural roads, schools, county courthouses, jails and other conveniences of modern life than used to be the case in the old days. The farmers, he finds, bear the greater part of the tax burden for these improvements and he wants to know whether or not they are worth the cost. “For example,” says Mr. Wood, “the little red schoolhouse has either disappeared from the rural landscape or remains deserted, dilapidated and degenerated into an implement shed or shelter for cattle. In its place we have erected a consolidated school at great expense and then in order that it may be attended we have established, at additional expense, school bus lines.” A lot of sentiment naturally clings around the little red schoolhouse of American tradition. But this isn't due to the fact that it was little or the fact that it was red. Indeed, a lot of us remember rural schoolhouses that were not red, that were unpainted and barren, and were dilapidated long before they degenerated into sheds for cattle. They did possess the joy of a box stove, however, that roasted the fortunate pupils sitting nearest and froze those farthest away. In fact, they resembled very closely the shacks in which hundreds of Indianapolis children still are attending classes. They did possess the most uncertain sort of teachers, for ithe most part entirely untrained for the profession. They had, in brief, a lot of shortcomings that Mr. Wood himself realizes. But their presence on the rural landscape was a proper cause for pride. They represented the determination of our pioneer parents that their children should have an education, no master what the sacrifice. And the sacrifice to maintain them was as real as the present sacrifice to maintain modern township grade and high schools. In their day there

Doesn’t Like Us To the Editor of The Times: mOUK editorial in Saturday’s paper, vl?: "Mr. Slattery la Out" ig so misleading: as to make people think that you are really tellipg the truth when you know that it is anything but the truth in this case. Your editorial via: “That Hpng-the-Kaiser Complex" is also another pf your - Scripps-Howard eruptions Which h.s made the ***

were some to begrudge the expense of the present schools. • If Mr. Wood still inclines toward the little red schoolhouse, we’d hate to be his little boy. We’d hate to find our six-year-old self stumbling over the frozen ipud ruts to that windy little red box on the hill, v/hile our playmates were riding on rubber tires over a smooth road to a comfortable school with modern equipment. Heaven knows the farmers are having a hard time, but giving up what they have gained is not calculated to bring them Telief. More Policemen SHE Shank administration, during its last hours, continues to stack the police department with men of its own choice. Recently forty-eight policemen—some of whom have since been suspended for misconduct were added to the force. Tuesday the Shank board of safety named fifty-four more policemen. This is an evident attempt to take care of friends of the Shank administration regardless of the embarrassment it may cause Duvall. A policeman is easy to appoint but mighty hard to get rid off. As usual, qualifications seem to be the last thing considered in the appointments. In effect, the action of the board of safety means that Duvall, when he becomes mayor, must work with a police department largely of Shank’s choosing. Certainly Shank does not expect to accomplish much with the new appointments during the few remaining days of his administration. There also is involved the question of money. There is no provision for paying the salaries of all these additional policemen. It is an old trick for an outgoing administration to point to its record for economy while at the same time it does everything possible to embarrass the succeeding regime. It is only fair that so long as the merit system does not prevail in the police department, the mayor should have the privilege of appointing the policemen with whom he must work. Shank’s action is just another example of city politics as it is played.

Another Investigation Called For SHE amazing indictment brought against United States Senator Burton K. W heeler in the District of Columbia has been quashed by the Federal Cqurt. This is probably the end of the political conspiracy against the young man from Montana which began when he took the lid oif the United States Department of Justice and revealed the corruption stewing therein. The United States Senate investigated the circumstances of the first indictment against Wheeler —the indictment that resulted in his instant acquittal by the Federal Court jury in Montana when the case finally got to trial. The Senate’s investigation resulted in complete exoneration of the Senator and raised a question as to the motives of the Justice Depart ment in causing the indictment. The second indictment was brought later in Washington. One thing it was calculated to do was to break Wheeler financially, while still keeping his name under a cloud. Friends came to his assistance with money, most of it in sums of one dollar or less, and the general public now sees no cloud above his naqie. So Wheeler, personally, has escaped without real injury. His reputation has been helped rather than hurt. - But, now that this second indiotment has been thrown out, isn’t a little deeper investigation by the Senate called for? Shouldn’t there be an examination of the circumstances under whjch this indictment was brought? For just one example, shouldn’t there be a record of the part played by one George B. Hayes, “star witness” of the Montana trial and, admittedly, the principal witness beforq the District of Columbia grand jury? This man had unsatisfied judgments for income tax penalties totaling $312,643 against him, as well $s other charges, when the Government called him back from Cuba, slipped him into the grand jury room in Washington and then held him under cover fin Montana Ufitii he could tell his weird story t<Tthe jury there. The use of this (witness has had a very ugly Jpok. Go have many other aspects of the second Wheeler indictment. The officials responsible are still in the Justice Department. The Senate should compel them to explain.

people who know anything at all disgusted with your rottep policy that throughout the ramifications of yopr and the Scripps-Mc-Rae outfits. You haye not the honesty of purpose such as even the News sometimes exhibits in editorial writing. Yop have pot even thp honesty of purpose,that you pretend to have as having the privilege that a paper does in this country. You abuse the sanctity of the privilege. • lilal/OT SLHREMBS.

How many buffalo are there In the United Stgtea? The latest figures estimate the pqmber at 4,298, including those in national parks, private reserves and at larger These figures are for 1924. What is the length at life of a capary? They have been known to live to be 34 ypars of age. Tpe average longevity is about ten /ears.

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A Sermon for Today ■ Qy j o h n r, Gunn

Text: “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’’—Gal. 6:9. EHIS text has sometimes teen misinterpreted, making It equivalent to the old saying, “Let well enough alone." There is a sense in which at times we should he content to let well enough alone, bht that Is not the thought Paul has in mind here. What he means is, if we are doing well, we should not become weary or discouraged, but. with tireless persistence and patience, keep on with our well-doing. “For," says he, "in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Conditions may sometimes be very disheartening. Results may not ac cumulate as fast as But we should remember there Is no royal road to any given goal In life. We should realize this and never become wearied, although at times the road may be steep and rugged. If we go on with our well-doing, never tiring, never fainting, In due time the goal will be reached and the prize won. This is an appropriate lesson to consider at this season of the year, when most of us pause to take a retrospective and prospective view of our lives and the affairs in which we are concerned. You started the year Just pass-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON- *

COLD WAVE AND FIRES SWENTY -THREE fires In the city Monday kept the Indianapolis Fire Department on the run. Most of the blazes were inconsequential, but some resulted In sizable losses and one was a $40,000 affair. There has been a veritable epidemic of fires, large and small, throughout Indiana the past two or three days. Several places, like the nearby town of Mooresvllle, have experienced serious conflagrations. The wailing sirens of speeding fire trucks usually mark the advent of a cold wave. When the mercury goes down, property goes up—in smoke. Indiana has suffered greater Are loss in the past three days than In the previous month. Most of the loss was preventable —as in the majority of cases carelessness was the only Incendiary. Overexcited heating plants and defective flues were chiefly responsible. Os course when the mercury curls up and congeals a householder likes to see his heating plant do ltß stuff. That’s why he has a heating plant—to chase the cold wave out of his house and make it perspire. But there isn’t much satisfaction in chasing the cold wave out if It leaves the house in ashes, as is liable to happen if heating plants are carelessly forced to their utmost. CUPID FEARED PUBLICITY OEONA REACH, 20-year-old Kentucky maid, and her swain doped to Evansville, Ind., recently to be married: It was a beautiful romance, true love surmounting obstacles and aJI that sort of thing. They applied to the county clerk for a license to wed, While the document was betng prepared the maid was told that marriage licenses are public records and the names of the parties to whom they are issued might’be published. She refused the license and walked out. Cupid got a jolt. A secret marriage intrigued her; it was a delicious adventure. But If all the world could wander into the clerk’s office and learn about the event immediately what was the use of a thrilling elopement? The episode is enlightening, i If Cupid can’t stand the publicity incidental to the issuance of a marriage license how is he likely to survive the wear and tear of married life? No wonder so many elupempnts end up in the divorce courts 4 and in matrimonial shipwrecks. Strict er marriage laws that would discourage hasty weddings would Improve the state of matrimony. Many elopers are stirred less by love than the thrill of secrecy.

CHANGE OF VENUE mOHN DORSEY, Su, is oil trial today at Greenfield, Ind., Jp the Jlancock County Circuit Cpurt, charged with murder. The crime of which he Is accused was committed in Marion County. As Is usual with Indianapolis murder cases, the trial was taken to a neighboring county on a change of venue plea. It is quite the custom for the defendant’s lawyers in such cases to claim that popular prejudice and passion preclude a fair trial for their client In Marion County. Who is John Dorsey? When, where and under what circumstances did the alleged murder with which he is charged, take place? Probably not one Marion County resident out of a thousand could answer those questions. They have long since forgotten about him and the killing. For a brief day, more thpn a year ago, when he shot his estranged wife, his name was in the papers. Just an ordinary item of news that excited passing aim-, mept, po mpre- The next day he’ was out of the headUpes and out of the minds of most Indianapolis citizens. It Is preposterous to believe that in such a case twelve qpprejudiced Jurors could not be found in Marion County to assure the defendant fair trial. It is preposterous to believe that a local judge would be so swayed by populaj|'cliuiior— Where no clamor existed--*that the

ing determined to overcome your weaknesses, to master your faults, to live a better life. Perhaps you have earnestly striven to make good that determination. Yet, as you now look back, you fail to sse any striking signs of progress. You began the year with the high resolve to make your life count for more in the way of service and helpfulness to your fellowmen, Looking back and summing it all up, you feel that what you have done amounts to little. As you thue look back and view your moral development and what you have accomplished during the year you become discouraged and wonder whether it is worth while to renew again the resolutions you made a year ago. I can think of no more fitting thing to say to you than this reassuring and heartening word of the apostle Paul: “Be not weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap, if you faint not.” Character grows slowly. Your improvement may not be perceptible and yet real. The little you have done for others may have counted for more than you imagine. You have no occasion to be discouraged. Rather you Should face the new year with a renewed resolution to be your best and do your hest. (copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

rights of the accused would be imperiled. The change cf .venue is worked to death in Marion County criminal cases. In most instances it merely clogs judicial machinery without helping justice. BUILDING IN INDIANAPOLIS EKANCIS F. HAMILTON, city building commissioner, reports that building activities in Indianapolis in 1925 totaled $26,000,000—a substantial Increase over la3t year. More than $10,000,000 went Into new residences sufficient to house 3,755 families. A $26,000,000 expenditure in building projects may not seem large to one acustomed to the language of Florida real estate promoters. But it represents actual Investment in brick, stone and structural material, not paper plans. The value of the new buildings added to the city during the past year exceeds the total property valuation of any of twenty-five Hoosier counties. The new structures erected would, in themselves, suffice for a fair sized city. And yet Indianapolis isn’t in the throes of a breathless boom. The building program Is only keeping pace with the needs of a steady growing. commercial and industrial center that is plugging ahead without much red fire and ballyhoo. Indianapolis is not perfect. It hasn’t the equable climate of Paradise; wealth can't be picked up here inadvertently between lunch and dinner. But it has advantages, and offers opportunities, that are worth advertising to the world at large. It is a city with a substantial past, a prosperous present and an assured future. It is the solidest fact in Hoosierdom—on which one can safely bet.

MR. FIXIT Dusty Streets, Smoky Atmosphere Draw Complaint.

Let Mr. Visit solve your troubles with isty olltU;sJs. H Is The Times' representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Dusty streets and smoky atmosphere plague the lives of Indianapolis citizens, a writer informed Mr. Fixlt today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Dr. King of the State board of health did not think much about the death period Jn Indianapolis until now. I see he Just has completed a report on the city’s health Doesn’t he remember our streets have not been swept since late in the summer and we have lived In a constant dust cloud from automobiles, to say nothing of the coal smoke we contend with? I am a taxpayer in the downtown district and wish you would do your best to give us clean streets. S. R. H. Street cleaning was suspended for a time because of insufficient funds. However, the next administration will be able to take care of the thoroughfares In good shkpe, let us hope. With passage of the new building code, more stringent smoke prevention restrictions are provided. The condition should be Improved. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Please have two limbs removed from a tree at 1688 Union St. They are broken off and hanging over the sidewalk and street. X RESIDENT. Police will order their removal at once. Cap a Japanese be a citizen of the United States? Japanese cannot become American citizens by naturalization, but Japanese bom In the United States are citizens of this country, and as such are entitled to the sapie rights and privileges as any other natural born citizen. Is it proper to give an engagement ring as a Christmas gift? That is a question for the individual to decide. It is correct so far as etiquette is concerned.

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great. By The Stoker - The Russian crown jewels are to lie offered for sale at an appraised value of 253 million dollars. Pooh, the dividends of the Standard Oil Company for a year and four months would buy them! “Enter without knocking” is the sign over the door of the French fascist! headquarters. That’s what they do. When the Soviet Trading Union came to New York with some 40 millions of gold in its pants pocket with which to buy cotton and textile machinery, it found that money talks a language that the Chase National Bank could understand and which has since been learned by Charles Schwab and a number of other financial royalties. Secretary Kellogg take notice. When it is discovered that the Anaconda Copper Company luts done the government out of 82,500,000 taxes it is "an error in the audit." It is officially announced that the Standard Oil Trust has broken all records for the size of dividends declared by distributing during 1925 no less than 153 million dollars. In view of the fact that the Standard Oil Trust was •’dissolved" in 1912 by a decree of the United States Supreme Court, that body ought to be proud and happy in conntemplating its work. And it is a pleasure to recall that it was Frank Kellogg who prosecuted the Standard. President Coolidge Is said to have urged Senator Borah to take a trip to Europe last summer to learn at fii-8t hand aboyt foreign conditions. And that’s one of the many places Cal never has been. Our astute friend Nicholas Murray Butler is convinced that the Volstead prohibition evils are soon to be corrected. l)r Butler must not be too sanguine. He must remember that the bootleggers and the good people are non lined up on the same side. Both, for different reasons, want the present order continued. If the United States Senate passes a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the bread trust and the Federal Trade Commission by a vote of a majority of its members decides to ignore the Senate resolution, what’s the answer? Ask the Senate. We have just read a long article telling how college students are in revolt against military training and other things, and .wondering why, Jo one sentence we would express our personal opinion that the college (or other) boy is in revolt because he is being asked to fight other people's wars. The instinct "to fight” is the Instinct to fight our own fights.

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Who’ll Pay the Taxes?

Editors Note: This is the third of six articles by one of The Tlumss WashLntocn correspondents, dstifned to take the new i'ederal tax bill apart and show what it contains. The bill has passed the House and is no wbefore the Senate. By Rnscoe B. Fleming rrABHINGTOf*. Dec. 30.—Yes\U terday In The Times it was ’ shown that the $385,000 tax reduction bill recently passed by the House confers tremendous saving on the seventy four taxpayers who paid tax on a million dollars income or more a year. It has also been shown that the 2,300,000 small taxpayers who are relieved of Income taxes receive average benefits of less than flO each. Further analysis of the bill shows that the benefits, not only to the little taxpayer, but to the average successful business man, the leading citizens of thousands of American communities, are small. Such citizens get more benefits than the little taxpayer, but much less than the multimillionaires. Take the case of a man whose net income is >IOO,OOO a year. This year he is paying in income and supertaxes about >22,675. Under the proposed bill he will pay about >16,768 —a cut of >5,816, or about oneseventeenth of his income, as contrasted with the multimillionaire’s one-fifth and the little taxpayer’s saving of about one-seven hundredth. Suppose the >IOO,OOO taxpayer, dying under the present law, leaves an estate of $1,000,000. His estate would pay tq the Government $76,000. Under the proposed law it would pay about $48.000 —a saving of $28,000. A tidy paving, but not much compared with the $50,000,000, or one-sixth of the entire estate, proposed for an estate of $300,00(^000 The SIOO,OOO taxpayer, however, is also relieved of the gift tax and those on jewelry, works of art, and yachts, which mean nothing to the little taxpayer. Come down a step further, to the man making a net income of $40,000 a year. His income tax is cut slightly by the House bill, but his supertax remains exactly the same. Opponents of the bill questioned the justice of this in the House and were met by Chairman Green, of the House Ways t.nd Means Committee which framed the bill, with the tart reply that if the bill cut the supertax on big incomes from 40 to 20 per cent there was nothing left for the man making from SII,OOO to $44)000. This procedure was necessary to make a graduate supertax schedule with the top at 20 per cent, Green said: The $40,000 man paid this year about $3,995 in tax, or about onetenth of his income. If the House bill passes he will pay $3,428, or about one-eleventh of his Income—a saving of one-seventieth of his annual revenue. If he leaves an estate of $250,000 it would now pay Uncle Sam $5,000. Under the ’proposed law this payment would be $4,500 —a saving of S6OO, or one-fifth of 1 per cent of the estate. Let us take one step more down, to the man with an SII,OOO net income. This year he paid to the Gov-

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ernment an Income tax of >2lO and a supertax of $lO. Under the bill he would pay $123.75 income tax and $7.50 supertax. This saves him $94, which amounts to less than } per cent of his Income. *’ If, when he dies, he leaves >75,000 to his widow, the Federal Govern ment under the present law get $250 In Inheritance tax, and this I Is left unchanged by the House bill.

A i Woman’s 1 Viewpoint :| More Good Jurors Needed ™ By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mHE one thing this country needs, even more than a good five-cent cigar, is somo conscientious Jury service. It may be true that our Anglo-Saxon system of Justice is the hest that has ever been devised, hut at present it does not seem to he in very good wotjking order. Year by year our Juries becoms more ineffectual and the verdicts of "twelve good men and true" grow rrtore erratic and unreasonable. This is because, in so many cases, the majority of the twelve are not qualified either by naturo or tion to weigh evidence and judge lt intelligently. * It has become the custom for buslfl ness men, scholars and professional / men as well as farmers and laborers to plead for excuses and obtain them when called upon for this unpleasant duty. All are much too busy making a living to help dispense justice and stamp out crime. In many places the women are being called upon to serve and very few of them are possessed of enough logical reasoning to perform this work in any able fashion. Women are too much inclined toward mercy , to make first-class jurors; they are I too easily swayed by sentiment and j too handicapped by the natural soft- " ness of their hearts toward those,ln trouble. i But heaven knows we do nepd the ' services of thoughtful, intelligent and straight thinking men, men who are accustomed, to making clear decisions and who are capable of grasping big Issues and their ’ consequences. Perhaps because I am a woman and have therefore less than no logical sense, is the rauson why I. never could see Just why a lawyer might not l>e permitted to serve his country now urid then In .the jqj-y box as well as on the bench. I know that the Imre suggestion is greeted with a loud ha-ha from legal and masculine lights, hut just the same it looks as if lawyers should be better fitted by education than any other class of men for ruch service. If anybody on earth should be to weigh evidence presented and t(H abide by that alone in rendering a verdict, it should he a lawyer.