Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1926 — Page 6
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Book Resigns mHE fact that William 11. Book found it necessary to resign as business manager of the Indianapolis school board is a matter for regret on the part of the friends of better schools in this city. Book served the school board and the city well in his capacity as business director and he has had much to do with the excellent record of the administration now leaving office. Book, in a statement accompanying his resignation, told of a conference attended by two of the new board members and by Clarence C. Shipp, dealer in ventilating devices, in which he was asked to cooperate in blocking the present school building program and in inaugurating anew program to suit the purposes of the new board. We share with Book his feeling of surprise that such a conference should be attended by a man whose principal interest is that of selling ventilators for new school buildings. As we have said repeatedly, we have no interest in the choice of architects or contractors for new school buildings so long as the taxpayers receive a dollar’s worth of building and of service for every dollar invested. Furthermore, we do not care whose ventilators are used so long as specifications arc open to all bidders and so long as the material purchased is adequate to serve the purpose for which it was intended. But we do not blame Book for his attitude. Certainly such a conference as he describes should have taken place between him and the school board members without outside interference. It is hard to understand how Shipp could have any proper place in such a meeting. The fact still remains that Indianapolis mbst have school buildings. Conditions can not be allowed, to continue as they are. It is to be hoped that the new school board, despite jecent activities of its members, will see fit to %o ahead with a complete building program, even though it does not go through with the one already started. Indianapolis must have school buildings, properly constructed at the lowest cost for which adequate buildings can be erected. Who does the building and who furnishes th'e supplies is of minor consideration so far as the taxpayers are concerned.
A Sermoh for Today —By Rev. John R. Gunn
Text: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”— Heb. 13:8. im jHE Hebrew Christians to j I whom these words were writI 1 I ten had recently witnessed the end of the life and ministry of gome one or more of their friends who had been their guides and teachers in the Christian life. While their hearts were sorrowing for these departed companions, Paul here directs their attention to Him who is the abiding Companion—the same yesterday, today and forever. This comforting thought is meant for us as well as for them. From our mortal friends and companions
Who’ll Pay the Taxes?
Editor’s Note: This Is the fifth of six articles by one of The Times’ Washington correspondents, designed to take the new Federal tax bill apart and show what it contains. The bill has passed the House and ia now before the Senate. By Roscoe B. Fleming irrra ASHINGTON, Jan. I.—The jVX/'i inside story of the passage of LIL /ftie House tax-reduction bill, ■with /its immense benefits to the wealthy, is interesting and significant. Congressmen say that the Republican leaders, assured of a clear majority in the House, came to determined to repeal Entirely the inheritance tax and gift tax on big estates, and to slash heavily the higher supertaxes, while maintaining most Os the war and sales taxes. Democrats were in a dilemma. They knew the forthcoming hill was to be bally-hoo’ed all over the country as a. tars-reduction bill, and with a Congressional election coming they did not want to make an open fight, believing the bill would pass anyway. ’ So'they traded. The Republicans on the Ways and Means committee, which framed the bill, agreed to cut the inheritance tax only from 40 to 20 per cent, and made other concessions, while the Democrats obtained the exemption from income tax of 2,300,000 small taxpayers and some cuts on war and sales taxes. Balance Is Lost The insurgents, who had the balance of poWer last year, had lost it this year and were counted out. Representative Frear of Wisconsin, their leader, was not notified when the ways and means committee, of which he was a member, met on Oct 19 to consider the tax bill before the House met. As he said, he “just dropped in and took a rear seat" When Congress convened, Frear was dropped from the committee. Committee assignments of Republicans were also held up for several days to see that there were no potential "bad boys" among Republican Congressmen. Assured of a dear majority, the Republicans made their committee assignments about A weekfGter the session began. V, (
The New Year SHE New Year has been born, among the blowing of whistles, the ringing of bells and—whisper it—not a little human gayety. It is a season for making and for planning ahead. It is a season during which all of us take stock and give some thought to progress and betterment. The old year has been one of accomplishment, but much remains to be, done. We are thinking now particularly of the city of Indianapolis. The old year saw a political election which contained much to be regretted, however unavoidable. John L. Duvall was elected mayor of Indianapolis. He will take office next Monday. He was elected under a political system and inevitably must be a political mayor. Much the same situation would have existed if his opponent had been elected. Among our New Year’s wishes is the sincere hope that Mayor Duvall will have a successful administration and that he will accomplish much for the city that placed him in charge of its affairs. The old year saw the beginning of the movement for a city manager form of government. This movement has gained considerable headway, but much remains to be done. It is to be hoped that the movement to take politics out of the business affairs of the city will go a long way toward success during the next twelve months. The old year saw the beginning of a real school' building program. It is unfortunate that it was impossible to'make further progress in this direction, but, nevertheless, much has been accomplished. It is to be hoped that the early months of the new year will see some kind of an adequate building program well on the way to completion. We wish the new school board all possible success in this direction. The old year also has been something else in Indianapolis—something perhaps more important than all the rest —hut something a little harder than the other things to express in concrete form. We refer to the feeling of mutual confidence among the people of the city, a feeling that every one of us has his place in the community, a feeling that in order to strive ahead all of us must pull together. May the new year see the growth and blossoming of this attitude, for only by pulling together do people in large groups, such as the citizenship of Indianapolis, forge ahead.
to whom we become attached with many endearing ties, but who are here today and gone tomorrow, the apostle bids us turn to think of Him who lives forever and who walks with us through all the years as a continuing Companion. It is a sad fact that all human ties, however sweet and tender and previous, are destined sooner or later to be broken. Most of us have experienced the breaking up of many such ties. We know what it is to feel a vacancy left by the passing out of some friend or dear one. Some of you who read these lines are doubtless now thinking back through the years, and many sad but tender
A soon as the committee met a strong propaganda, apparently issuing from some central source, was heard for repeal of the inheritance tax. "Tax elubs” from several States came all the way to Washington to argue for the repeal. Strangely enough, the most vocal of them were from Texas, the State of Representative Garner, Demo-1 cratic leader on the committee, and j lowa, the home of Chairman Green. Florida Interferes Had it not been for Florida’s action in barring all inheritance taxes a few years ago, the Federal tax might have been repealed at that. Its opponents argued that inheritance taxes belonged to States, ignoring the fact that most large estates are built up in the country at large. As it was, the States were given a credit up to 80 per cent of the new Federal tax. If an estate in lowa, for example, should be assessed SIOO,OOO by the Federal law, lowa might .pass a law which would permit collection of SBO,OOO of it. The total tax on the estate would remain the same, but Uncle Sam would get only IfO.OOO. Leadem of the bipartisan combine were twittted unmercifullly on the floor by opponents of the bill. After speaking of the successful fight of two years ago against just such a bill, Represenntative Rainey, Illinois, Democrat, said: “These gentlemen (Garner and Greene) are now together in the Elysian fields of the very lch. Arm in arm, their locks flying in the wind and their dimpled knees bare, they dance in ambrosial meadows to the tune played by the very rich in New York City. I am not sure about the tresses, now that, I look at them, but I am sure about the dimpled knees.” , Frear described the tax clubs as follows: "In the case of the lowa club, fifteen out of forty-five members were newspaper men. These forty-five ‘clubbers’ came here to ‘get’ two members of the lowa delegation, and their methods were as gentle as those of highwaymen with blackjacks.’' }
memories crowd into your mind. You think of chums and comrades once your intimates, but long ago they have gone out of your life. You think of some who worked by your side in the store,, shop,* office or factory, but now their places are filled by others You think of loved ones—perhaps a darling baby, perhaps a brother or sister, perhaps a husband or wife, perhaps a father or mother —who awhile ago formed a part of your home circle but now the little empty shoe, or the vacant chair, or some keepsake associated with the memory of the one gone, serves to remind you of the sacred tie that used to be. And so in all the walks of life, in every sphere in which we live, forms and faces once familiar are now missing and we see them no more in the places where we used to see them. These changes will continue to take place as long as we continue our sojourn on earth. Changes that are not made by our shifting about will sooner or later be made by death. Time or d'-tlh breaks up all earthly ties and endearing relations. We are eontinually giving orte another up. But, thank God, there is Orte we never have to give up. Many will be the broken ties before another year goes by, but there is one tie that need never be broken. Some of us will doubtless say a last good-by to the rest of us. But there is One who never says good-by. He never goes away. He was here yesterday. He is here today. He will be here tomorrow. Jesus Christ, our Abiding Companion. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn)
The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great. By The Stoker Speaking of registering aliens, Representative Johnson says it is “ridiculous to talk of deporting a million people.” It didn’t seem ridiculous to A. Mitchell Palmer. • • • There is a steady encroachment of the executive on the legislative department of Government. The latest is the propasal that Congress shall appropriate for postoffices and public buildings; and the President's Cabinet shall designate the beneficiaries of the buildings and spend the money. • • • Since 1915, says a government official report, the tribe of Osage Indians received royalties for gas and oil in the Oklahoma anda enough money to give each member of tWfe tribe SB,OOO a year for ten years. So much remaining after the stealings! Was it Warren Hastings who exclaimed, “Gentlemen, I am amazed at my own moderation?”
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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
REMONSTRANCE AND INJUNCTION mU DOE LEATHERS, in Superior Court Thursday, Issued a temporary injunction at the request of an aggrieved Indianapolis taxpayer against the board of works, preventing that body from letdngSeontract for the Morris St. bridge over White River —part of the proposed flood prevention program. The start of the Belt Line track elevation work depends on this flood prevention project. So this whole vital public improvement program faces further delay, injunctions, hearings and court jjtcion. A couple of days ago another aggrieved citizen hung an injunction on the board of works halting the Cruse St. widening and opening plan. That seems to be the usual exi perience of every public improvement project undertaken in the city. Schools, bridges, track elevation, flood prevention, memorial plaza and whatnot go through the same process. They progress from remonstrance to Injunction and back again—even when favored by an overwhelming majority of the citizens and taxpayers without getting ahead very fast. Perhaps In every case opposition is justifiable. But remonstrating against and enjoying every proposed public improvement won’t make Indianapolis bigger and better In fact as well as in fancy. No great city was sucessfully built on injunctions. A 1 MEAN TRICK
OF FORTUNE HILLIP KALEU, 23, who stole from the Indianapolis u. postofHce thirty money order blanks, which he forged and passed in Illinois towns, has been arrested with his 17-year-old bride i in Laredo, Texas. On the eve of his departure to stand trial in Federal Court in Illinois for his crime, with Ithe prospect of a Federal penitentiary at the end of the trail, he falls heir to a quarter of, a million dollar estato in Portland, Maine. Fortune played him a mean trick. He wanted easy money to finance his honeymoon. - Why earn it slowly and methodically by way of small weekly wages in honest employment when one could get from S3O to SIOO by filling in a purloined money order blank? So he took the short-cut to fortune and landed in a cell. And all the time just around the corner was a legitimate fortune just ready to plump into his lap and afford him the means to gratify his taste for travel, matrimony and easy living and easy spending. All he had to do was to plug along in any prosaic, honest manner for a little while and the world was his oyster. But in his haste to find Easy Street he reached the rock pile. You can write your own sermon. However, the episode shows that the old copybook maxim of “houesty is the best policy” still has a kick in it. CHARITY PAID THE MORTGAGE |RS. CHARLES HAMMOND. widow of the Muskegon -I (Mich.) policeman. who slew and was slain by Dutch Anderson, gunman and supercriminal, wanted at Muncle for murder, has been presented with a purse of $2,411 subscribed by postal inspectors. Now, thanks to charity, she can pay the mortgage on her little home. Then all she has to do Is to “get a job in the flve-and-ten Or take in washings to support her fatherless children. Columns of slush have been written abeut Dutch Anderson. He has been pictured as a cultured, chivalrous gentleman, scion of a noble Danish family. His daring, his nerve, and his exploits have been played up, until his career . took on a romantic glamour. ThaCs the way we do with our great gunmen and super-criminals —glorify them. Nothing much has neen said about Mrs. Hammond—she Is quickly forgotten. But every notch on a super-gun-man’s gat means that some innocent woman may face a future of drudgery or dependence on charity and fatherless children suffer. The effect of a murder is not buried with the victim. The family and loved ones of the victim live on and suffer, perhaps face actual want. There is something for juries, courts, pardon boards and Governors to think about when they are asked in the names of humanity to be merciful and lenient w T ith killers. THEORY AND PRACTICE fT“TjAYOR LEW SHANK. In [yj one of his numerous valev. ..j dictories, said adoption of the system of police supervision now in effect in Cleveland would improve the Indianapolis force. "In Cleveland," he explains, "they promote cops because they are efficient, net because they have a political drag.” As Lew’s term draws to its end, and he prepares for his ascension to the ranks of the blest, either as a vaudeville performer or a private citizen, he feels free to express his honest opinion that politics and police efficiency do not mix. - He knows. J No one has more thoroughly tried out the scheme of using the police department to play partisan politics. Theory and practice haven’t been within speaking distance of each other. j Almost with its last gasp his Administration loaded the police
department with a hundred new cops for no apparent reason except that it wanted to take care of the “boys” while there was yet time. And the merit system and police efficiency jump out the window together. Nevertheless, in his valedictory he utters words of wisdom. No one in a rational moment denies that the Indianapolis political system as practiced on the police department is destructive to the force’s morale, discipline and effectiveness —and a wrong to the taxpayer who foots the bjll. There is nothing revolutionary about the merit system of police supervision—only like Christianity, it has never been tried in Indianapolis. Please try it, Mr. Duvall. Do as Lew says, not as he did. It might work.
A Woman’s Viewpoint
Repressions By Mrs Walter Ferguson MERICA is suffering from A sex repression,” says John i*~l Cowper Powys, brilliant English writer and lecturer who is now touring this country. You may be surprised to hear that. From the general appearance of things, a native born citizen would never think that we were suffering from any sort of repression just now. What a pity that so many of the brightest minds of the century should preach such doctrines! What a pity that the protests against Puritanism need run to such extremes! For, while we are able to see ‘the evils of the stem, cold and often cruel mandates of the early radical churchmen, surely we have not so lost our sense of proportion that wc cannot also see the good with which they wei-e Imbued. Puritanism may have bequeathed us mental and moral handicaps—lndeed, we may be certain that It did so—but it also left us much that is fine and splendid. The propaganda of radicals, scholars and thinkers though they may be, for less sex or any other sort of repression, is far worse influence upon the youth of the land than any traits we may have in dented from Puritan ancestor/. This Idea that we should open the doors of our natures to every possible evil experience, succumb to every mood, give full sway to every desire, is doing a great deal to make weaklings and criminals of the present generation. Those learned men who shudder at the idea of sex repression must surely be troubled with what Brown
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Miss Melrose Shows ’Em How to Step the Charleston
The second day’s Illustrated and they are following her lessons The Circle Charleston contest w Charleston lessons by Mies Mildred each day. also tako place during Miss M Melrose, the original “Miss Personal- ..nm-i. rose’s engagement at the Clro ity” and queen of the Charleston. r- -sfe- '"lfr" ,—\ w,th contestants participating at who is coming to the Circle Theater - o’clock In the afternoon and at for one week starting Sunday, is P- ** A * o'clock nt night, two steps that are just a little bit - . At each performance one couj harder than the steps she explained s ßßp or 8,n K le dancer will bo selected t in the first lesson. ' ♦ participation in the grand flm The Times readers are enthused 1 t I j m " v which will be held the last day over Miss Melrose’s method of dem- \ the week, at which times prizes onstrating the latest dunce stens, r much value will be presented to t y* \ / three lucky winners. Mr The entry list 1s still open, a ¥ *ll one haß t 0 <l ° to enter w * tost ,q c;t " the Charleston O V -and secure .4^ y will plainly at what day and hour to appear. f • pfipyii Ir the lessons Illustrated ab<. Miss Melrose shows In position nu the ** iSr this put the left foot ba - and bring it on level with the oth ’/,{?// Mmw then put right hack. For posit! yf jfl W number live she shows a return fri the backaway. J/ HH AKkjm You swing the body around tfj ON S' face forward and bring the left f< m A No 5 BBBBa up as shown in illustration, wh you turn body by bringing right f( Posit \on JH Tj Income Tax Report V,, ~ Mgm Ton can get an answer to any ques- citizens, on account of these 4l . to°Th2 Indianapolis r T&MM > wLhtngton ages. Up to 1905, $4,000,000 1 Ll - TANARUS: *1 & u - fndoL# been *PP r <>Priated by Congress , f/v. xf/wTu.V iiwr.i rv anv hiinnrftn H.alma utais* matt
The second day's Illustrated Charleston lessons by Miss Mildred Melrose, the original "Miss Personality” and queen of the Charleston, who is coming to the Circle Theater for one week starting Sunday, is two steps that are Just a little bit harder than the steps she explained ill the first lesson. The Times readers are enthused over Miss Melrose’s method of demonstrating the latest dunce stens,
Mbs Mildred Melrose showing other steps of the popular Charleston for Times readers.
lng so aptly calls the "universal plague of squint.” For even they advise us to curb our appetite for food lest we die before our time, to restrain our longing for drink and drugs* lest, we destroy our mental abilities. Why then should we not strive also to curb an appetite which is as frankly animal? Is there not the same danger that If we do not we shall die and kill the spiritual beauties within our natures? The savants of the century may be able to theorize and philosophize about life, they may know more about the nature of the ingredients of existence, but the thing that counts about life for each of us is the way in which we live it. And we shaU never attain any spiritual heights, nor develop any sterling characters, nor know the sweet taste of heart's ease, unless we learn the first and hardest lesson of decent manhood and womanhood —restraint. Who and of what religious denomination are the Chaplains of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States? The Chaplain of the Senate is Rev. J. J. Muir, Baptist; and the Chaplain of the House of Representatives Is Rev. James Shera Montgomery, Methodist Episcopal.
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Must a person, who is single, and whose income is over SI,OOO, make a return to the Collector of Internal Rveneu, even though he does not have to pay any tax on account of exemptions? If your net income is over SI,OOO you will have to file an income tax return (under the law as now In the statute boooks), even though you pay no tax. What Is the largest attendance ever reported at an Army-Navy football game? Tho largest was on Nov. 29, 1924, when 80,000 persons witnessed the annual game between West Point and Annapolis. The game was played In Baltimore, Md. What is the largest race track In the United States? Belmont Park, Long Y., is the largest, with a grancr stand seating capacity of 17,500. What are the French Spoliation Claims? They are claims for damages incurred by American citizens by depredations from French privateers In the eighteenth century. After the treaty ( between France and the United States was signed, the United States asumed the obligations of the French government to reimburse Its
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The Circle Charleston contest will also tako place during Miss Melrose’s engagement at the Circle, with contestants participating at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 9 o’clock at night. a At each performance one couplel or single dancer will be selected for participation in the grand finals which will be held the last day of the week, at which times prizes of much value will be presented to the three lucky winners. The entry list la still open, and all one has tb do to enter the contest Is to call the Charleston Contest Manager at the Circle, cither by
phone or in person and secure an entry card, which will plainly state what day and hour to appear. Ir. the lessons Illustrated above Miss Melrose shows in position number four the "back away step.” For this step you put the left foot back and bring it on level with the other, then put right back. For position number live she shows a return from the backaway. You swing the body around to face forward and bring the left foot up as shown in illustration, while you turn body by bringing right foot around until toes are turned in.
citizens, on account of these daml ages. Up to 1905, $4,000,000 ha(T been appropriated by Congress and many hundred claims were settled, but no appropriations have been made since that year. There are still claims awaiting adjustment and appropriation by Congress. All records are now in the United States Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.
Are American Indians citizens of the United States? An act of Congress of June 2, 1924 authorized the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of citizen ship to Indians. The act provides that ail noncitizen Indians horn within the territorial limits of the United States shall be entitled to citizenship. Do figures show that the wage earner is really in a better position today as regards living wages than he was a decade ago? According to studios made by the National Industrial Conference Board, wages In the United States are now about six times as great as in 1840, three times as great as In 1873 and also three times as great as in 1900. Real wages, that Is, wages measured In terms of purchasing power, and taking Into consideration cost of living, have, according to this study risen about *5 per cent in 1923 as compared with 1914. Wage rates are about 100 per cent higher in 1925 than in 1914 and average living costs about 65 per cent higher; thus, according to this study, the. wage earner seems to be In a morql advantageous position at the closej of this decade than at the beginning.
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