Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1926 — Page 6

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Memorial Location ryjj ITH the persistent refusal of the county W commissioners to buy the two churches on the War Memorial Plaza site, the question of the location of the main shrine again arises. x Certainly from every standpoint, the block containing the churches is the logical place'to put the bujlding. But it can not be erected there if the churches are to stand. It would mean that the shrine would be only a matter of inches away from the church buildings. The next best choice, possibly, is the center block. The difficulty in locating the new building arises from the fact that one structure already has been erected on the extreme north end-of the plaza site and another similar building is to be erected in the same block. Placing the main shrine,too close to these buildings would throw the whole arrangement out of balance. Therefore, the main building should be erected as far south as practical. Certainly it should not be placed in the block now occupied by the State school for the blind. It is unfortunate that the county has not seen fit to buy the churches and it is to be hoped that some way yet be found to persuade the commissioners to take them over. The war memorial structures will endure for generations and every possible effort should be made to have their arrangement as nearly ideal as possible. Police and Booze pjp| ROSECUTOR WILLIAM H. REMY has I * 1 discovered one of the reasons why the liquor laws are not better enforced. Some of the police officers don’t want to enforce them. Remy says he has information from persons arrested on booze law violations and from Federal agents to the effect that raids were “tipped off’’ in advance and to the effect that in return for bottles of liquor and other merchandise some policemen permitted the law to be violated. Immediate action should be brought against these policemen and if the charges are proved they should be removed from the force. t One law should not be ; picked out for enforcement to the exclusion of others. At the same time, policemen should not permit violation of'one law because they don’t happen to believe in it. It seems that there are examples of both extremes fn Indianapolis. Remy’s revelations should not be taken as a reflection on the whole police force. The majority of the policemen undoubtedly are conscientiously trying to do their duty. This Man Is Remarkable Ip jOUND: A Federal official who recom1* j mends his own separation from the Federal pay roll 1 The rare individual is Tariff Commissioner 0. P. Costigan, Bull Moose Republican, who has been on the tariff commission since it was founded. | | In a recent speech in New York, he said: “Until adequate assurances are given that the membership of the tariff commission will be safeguarded by law, and will conform to the standards of disinterested public service, it is fair to ask that no further appropriation for

MR. FIXIT Prunes and Lettuce Must Go In Garbage Cans. Let Mr. Tlxlt N olva your troubles with with city officials. He Is The Times’ representative at the city hall. JVrite him at The Times. Casting the unused prunes and stray bits of lettuce In the alley must cease Is the word Mr. Fixit received from the board of health today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Can we stop people from dumping garbage and tin cans and all sorts of rubbish In the alley north of the railroad Tn the 2600 block between School and Wood Sts. It is an awful sight and the smell la terrible. FOR A CLEAN NEIGHBORHOOD. DEAR MR. FIXIT—You seem to be able to get things done that 50body can for that* reason am writing about the alley between Nineteenth and Twentieth Sts. and Ruckle St. and Park Ave. It a disgrace near Twentieth St. Ashes, tin cans and garbage are strewn about. \ R. A. D. Miss Blanche Wirlck, of the board of health office, will send Inspectors to the scenes of these complaints at once. .. t ; W. P. Ilargon, who survived successfully th*3 change of administration as clerk of the street - *"-lntendent’s department, promAt

the commission’s work be authorized by Congress.” Such a cutting off of appropriations would cut off Costigan’s pay, of course. And, of course, he had a compelling reason for his stand—that the commission has ceased to be a fact-finding scientific body, and has become a political adjunct of the high-tariff administration. “Within the last year the tariff commission, taken as a whole, has ceased to represent disinterested and non-partisan independence. A congressional investigation would appear to be in order and confirmation by the Senate of the new appointees, Commissioners Baldwin and Brossard, should be postponed pending such an investigation,” he added. I hdorses Tokio Suggestion EKE following editorial appears in the Dec. 31 issue of the Christian Cpntury, 1 published in Chicago; “It is a common fate of newspaper proposals that they receive little attention from other newspapers. For this reason, the suggestion of Mr. Hoy W. Howard that the proposed international disarmament conference, if it is held, be held in Tokio, has not been widely taken up by the press of America. Mr. Howard happens to be the chairman of the-board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. His proposal has been regarded, by his trade rivals, as a piece of indirect advertising for his chain of journals, and has accordingly been played down. It deserves a better fate. Without passing any judgment on the motives which have influenced Mr. Howard, it is unwise not to recognize the imagination and value of his suggestion. The Pacific basin ia the key to the disarmament problem, and will increasingly become so. The American battle fleet is now concentrated in Pacific waters; the Singapore base is the hottest spot in present British armament policy; Russian attention is being concentrated more and more the Asiatic arena; Japan knows no other world.-* Former conferences, held, in Washington, The Hague, Geneva, London, have made it appear that disarmament was a patter of the Occident. To be sure Japan has entered these conferences when invited, but she has come in diffidently, evidently ill at ease lest she find herself betrayed among strangers. If now, with European tension relaxed after Locarno, it becomes possible for the nations to hold another international conference to consider problems of it would be a master stroke of diplomacy to take that conference to Tokio. Not only would the attitude of Japan, so vital in matters of Pacific readjustment, be enormously affected, but the whole atmosphere of the conference would undergo a liberalizing change. The Washington conference proved that, when dealing with these questions, it pays to take the discussion out of Europe. But Washington left much still to be done. If it paid to come this far away from Europe, it will pay still more, m any conference now to be held, to travel still farther.” - IN OTHER words, the new school board proposes to hasten the erection of schools by delaying the erection of schools. V * • • THE STATE board of health is not In a particularly healthy condition.

ised his usual prompt attention to the following complaints: DEAR MR. FIXIT: The 2500 block on S. New Jersey St. Is axle deep In mud and there are no cinders or gravel. We south side property owners pay the same taxes as the north side. MRS. R. E. ARMOUR, 2505 S. New Jersey St. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Tho water stands on the street three hours after a rain. This has been reported three or four times. 11Q0 BLOCK KENTUCKY AVE. If the sewer is stopped, it will be repaired at once. However, If the street needs grading, It refquire longer. Investigation will be made at once. > 1 f • The - | SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great. By The Stoker ——' Of"""| NE of Washington's wealthy winter residents, Mrs. Palmer, prefers horsds to autos and rides aboVit the Capital’* streets in a horse-drawn vehicle used extensively thirty years ago in New York and London and known as a hansom cab. A recent ruling against heavy trucks or horse-drawn vehicles has barred Mrs. Palmer’s beautiful equipages from the boulevards. It was a hundred and twelve years ago that in England n at earn driven

Predecessor of the auto was barred from all horse roads by an act of Parliament that all such vehicles should be preceded by a man waving a red flag. _• • # We predict a lively demand In coming months for a little handbook about to be Issued by Lynn Haines, editor of The Searchlight on Congress. Thp book deals with the records of United States Senators, whose terms.expire next March and who will seek re-election. And it deals with other things as Indicated by its title, "Your servants in the Senate, the Story of Their Stewardship and That of the Harding-Cool-idge Regime.” We infer the book has nothing to say about Charles Mussolini Dawes, since no one could refer to him as a “servant.” • • • Ben Lindsay, famous juvenile court judge, has written an excellent book dealing with the problems of the young. The Judge does not agree that the present youngster Is exactly like her grandmother—at leaat not In environment. He puts his finger on two differences—the automobile and greater economic Independence If sister is holding a Job and earning enough to buy clothes (on the partial payment plan perhaps) and l>ays her own board, she can snap her Angers in the face of the old folks. And does. She keeps late hours and the auto takes her to the road-house or Its equivalent. And what are the oldsters going to do about it? The Judge tells what he says to the girl when she comes to him with the news that she is threatened with a baby and doss not want to marry her boy friend. IV Is good reading—few the young and ofiV

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IN INDIANA —By GAYLORD NELSON

A CLOUD IN THE ‘BLUE SKY’ EHE Indiana securities commission approved stock issues of a total par value of $53,000,000 for sale to Hoosler investors last year, according to David H. Jennings, commissioner. During the same period it rejected securities amounting to $3,589,000 par value. Apparently the commission cramped the style of the Wallingfords who would sell worthless stock to suckers —and is a cloud lO the “blue sky” of Hoosierdom. Hoosiers have fallen hard for fraudulent stock promotions In recent years. Hawkins Mortgage Company, the DoUlngs blue sky enterprises, the more recent Consolidated Realty, and similar fakes have , squeezed millions out of Indiana stockings. The blue sky Jaw now in effect and the securities commjssion can candle out such obviously bad investment eggs—thoso that are certainly dead In ths shell. - But *ven the approval of the securities commission does not guarantee that a stock is a lossproof investment. The securities that it passes It believes have a fighting chance. That Is all. So “Investigate before you Invest” Is ctlll a good motto to observe. All stock certificates look equally pompous. And the careless buyer still has a fifty-fifty chance of acquiring an Investment funeral with his savings. MOTOR LAW - VIOLATIONS iOBERT T. HUMES, chief D gt the State motor police, I* states In his annual report Just compiled, that more than 13,000 motor law violations were reported by his highway cops during the past year. And his officers made 6,932 arrests—speeding being the most popular offense. Thirteen thousand is a > fat, round number. Plenty large enough when It is remembered that It refers to the Infractions of a single statute. Still there are nearly three-quarters of a million automobiles operating on Hooeler highways. So the percentage of violations doesn’t seem so large. However, there are only thirtytwo highway policemen patrolling the entire State, and they are not on the Job twenty-four liom-ip-a day. So there are many miles of road and countless thousands of motorists utter strangers to the motor cops. * The policemen, covering so much territory and being so few, their discovery of law violations is due more to chance than design. They catch only a minute fraction of ths violators. In spite of nil this thev apprehended 13,000 offenders last year. If all the offenders had been sent to Jail they would have Jammed every Jail and penal Institution In Indiana to more than capacity. Then add to that all the speeders, etc., Arrested by city police forces, constables, and deputy sheriffs over the State. Truly no onq takes the motor vehicle law very seriously. THE FEE SYSTEM f-r-IUGUST A. BREMER, proseiJk I cutlng attorney of Lake 11.-J County, collected more than $27,000 In fees from the Gary city court In 1925, accord lng to the annual report of the city clerk. Out of that sum he paid one deputy—the remainder is velvet. He Is expected to receive an equally large sum from ths Lake County Criminal Court, besides pleasing collections from the city courts of three other Lake County municipalities.

The Lake ’ County prosecutor should be able to view the high cost of living and the rigors of a hard winter 'with equanimity. He has a fair defense against the wolf. No doubt his duties are arduous. The office of prosecuting attorney of Lake County requires an Incumbent of ability, high legal attainments and all that—for the county Is populous, wealthy and of great industrial Importance. Naturally In such a county the prosecutor Is a busy official. But who believes that he actually earns $27,000 to $50,000 a year as a public official? Is any public official In any county In Indiana actually worth a remuneration that compares favorably with the salary paid the President of the United States? William H, Taft, /Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, receives $17,500 a year for pjresiding over the most august tribunal in the world. August Bremer gets $27,000 a yqpr for prosecuting blind tigers, bootleggers and petty liquor violators in Gary city court. The archaic fee system that still survives In spots Is absurd. A JUDGE WHO JUDGES mUDGE ROBERT C, BALTZELL, of Federal Court In Indianapolis, has aroused the Ire of Congressman Dyer of St Louis, because of the dispatch with which the Judge tried, sentenced and sent to prison some of the Congressman’s constituents—the Jack Damiol distillery conspirators. "In these cases,” said the Congressman, "he practically took the case from the hands of the Jury In his comments upon the evidence and credibility of the witnesses.’’ He is also incensed because the Jutjge would not release the conspirators on bonds pending their appeals, but bundled them off to the penitentiary instanter. "Should the Court of Appeals reverse the verdict tiieae man will wrobabl^

all ha vs served their entire sentences before a decision,” he says. In consequence he has Introduced a bill to curb the power of Federal Judges to comment on the credibility of witnesses or the weight of testimony and otherwise reduce them to the role of spectators In the trials before them. Judge Baltzell Is accused of being a judge wso judges. He assisted In the administration of justice. He wasn’t merely an umpire in a technical battle between attorneys for the prosecution and defense He sent the oonvicted to prison Instead of submitting gracefully to the dilate tactics of their counsel. Isn’t that awful? Some Federal Judges are arbitrary. But by their/fective participation In the cases before them they speed trials and fewer guilty persons beet the game In Fetjeral Courts than In State courts. Other Judges might profitably emulate them—notwithstanding Congressman Dyer's peeve.

A Sermon for Today

Texti "Be patient toward all.”— 1 Thess. 5:14. mN "The Poet at the Breakfast Table,” the author confesses there are some people he does not like. 'He then goes on to enumerate them—five separata kinds of them. There are the people who know everything. "They are,” he says, “far too intelligent for my liking. They are masters of all knowledge and a good deal besides; they have read all the books I have rea£ and In later editions: they have had all the experiences I have been t%rough and more too. In my opinion every mother’s son of them will lie at any time rather than confess Ignorance.” There are the loud people. “I have a kind of dread/’ he tells us, “of persons with a large excess of vitality: great feeders, great laughers, great story tellers, who come sweeping over the company with a huge tidal wave of* animal spirits and boisterous merriment. I have pretty good spirits myself, and enjoy a little pleasantry, but I am opposed and extinguished by these great lusty, noisy creatures, and feel as If I were a mute at a funeral when they get In full blast.” There are the people who go about advertising their aliments. They talk of their and pains, and make you feel that your health and gladness are a positive affront to them. There are the people who affect the grand manner. “Some family tradition of wealth or distinction Is at the bottom of It, and It survives all the advantages that used to set it off. I like family pride- as well

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THE VERY IDEA! ■ By Hal Cochran 11

Wanderlust little scamp, with the J I heart of a tramp, was acoldL£2J ed one day by “his mother. He wasn’t Jee bad, but the troublesome lad was constantly teasin’ his brother. When his maw threw a fit —well, It rubbed him a bit, and he pouted an’ fretted all day. ’Twas Just the same story. Said he, “They’ll be sorry, ’cause now I’m fer runnln* away.” The thought of It thrilled him. The wanderlust filled him with craving to hie down the road. He packed up a lunch that —while hiking he'd munch, and a broomstick completed his load. “Gee, maw’s gonna miss me,” thought he. "She can’t klos me tonight when I crawl lnta bed.” He planned to run far, where all runaways are, but he sat on the curbstone, Instead. A thlnkln’ an’ thlnkln*, with eyes klnda blinkin', he Jumped at the first supper call. The runaway threat was the kind all kids get—and his folks never knew It at all. '*• • , HUMANITY’S BROMIDEB “Yes, sir, I been achewln’ terbaccy fer fifty years, and I’m high onto 90 yars old.”

as my neighbors, and respeot, as much as I ought to, the high-born fellow-citizen whose progenitors have not worked In their shirt-sleeves for the last two generations. But I have no liking for these grand kind of people I have Just described.” There are the people who fawn and gush. "They are always too glad to see me when we meet by accident; they discover all at once that they have a vast deal of which to unbosom themselves to me.” I do not wonder that the author does not like such people. None of us like them. At least we do not like their ways. Yet, we should cultivate a Christian feeling toward them and exercise Christian patience toward their annoying traits and manners. We are to “be patient toward all,” no matter how trying and vexing they may# be to us. By so doing, we may in time help to correct their faulty dispositions. Besides, we should examine ourselves. W may have some unlikable svays of our own that need to be corrected. (Copyright, 192 , by John R. Gunn) Who was Sidney Carton? The principal character in Dickens’ historical romance of the French Revolution, “A Tale of Two Cities:. ’’ A young lawyer, he wasted his talents In bohemian dissipation. His one redeeming trait is his pure and unselfish love for Lucie Manette, who marries Charles Darnay. Taking advantaage of his resemblance to Darnay he substitutes himself for the latter In prison and dies for him on the guillotine. ✓

a good meal for his wife and family any day In the week, except that, what do I want with another wife and family? •• • 1 Now we know where the still water* that run deep, run. Down In a lot ot basements. • * * He got a drum fer Christmas and He sure knew how to treat It. He made such noise around the house His maw told him to heat It. • • • NOW, HONESTLY— Who ever told you you could get by with very little sleep? Experience has taught a flock of people that the proper amount of snooze helps one. to be mors efficient. Aro you one of the flock? If not, why wait until It Is too late? Benefit by the experience of others. Get In your proper hours of sleep and you’ll be much more fit to grab hold of success and hang on, \* • • The farmer has his rye, the sailor his port; the cotton man his gin; the soldier his bar, and all of us are gonna have our bier. But don’t tell Mr. Volstead, see Sympathizer: You say you paid ten bucks for a pint of whisky—whatsa matter, bitten by a snake? Most anybody: Huh-uh, stung by a bo&tlegger. • e e “* There’s really nothing scarey about an automobile turning a cor ner But so dog-gone many people do It when there Isn't any corner there. • • • "Osteopathy” means "the science of the correct manipulation of the bones.” Think of the edge an osteopath has on the rest of us when the baby needs anew pair of shoes. • • • FABLES IN FACT Introducing the little mouse that lived In a cheese factory period every night It would start at the / buter edge of a whole cheese and nibble Its way to the middle period but comma alas comma one night It ate so much that when It reached the middle of the cheeqe It couldn’t turn around to crawl out period trapped comma by golly exclamation mark but comma Just then the cheese fell on the floor comma broke In two comma and saved the mouse’s life period and thus the mouse learned Its lesson colon every time It nibbled on a whole cheese thereafter comma it would start nibbling In the middle of the cheese and eat Us way out comma Instead of In period which leaves you to guess how said mouse got Into the middle of the cheese period Coo'/rioht. 1918. NEA BervU) How many Presidents of the JJnited States have been members of the Masonic order? Washington, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt., Taft and Harding were members of the Masonic order. FUmore was a Mason at one time, but recanted.

FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1928

Woman’s Viewpoint

By Mr*. Walter Ferguson SHE wealthiest people on forth are the Osage Indian* es Oklahoma. Do you know how' they got that way? Their hlatory : reads like some sort of fairy tale, for they aro the .Cinderella* ot humanity, Theirs Is & strange romance, a stupendous tale ot the' white man’s cupidity and the credulity of a small handful of red men, In the history of their race, the! Osage tribe la pictured as one of the least powerful, a people who! wens forever being driven from their' chosen habitation by stronger tribes, 1 Their wanderings over the continent' were almost perpetual for they were! forced ever Into smaller and smaller! areas of activity by the host* es In- 1 vadlng whites and by their own 1 people who were more warlike and! whose numbers far exceeded their 1 own, Hence In 1*25 we find them making a treaty at St. Louie, Mo,, giving, up all their lands In Kansas and! Arkansas for an annual payment of: seven thousand dollars for twentyl years and other small emoluments. So they drifted Into the Indian, country, where. In time, they wore allotted that portion of the territory, 1,500,000 acres, which was By far the most picturesque but the least promising of all the soli within that rhrtlle land. Their home was! wild and wooded, covered with rooks! and hills, and could never be called fit for agricultural purposes. It was' the poorest allotment In point or value, fit, so It was thought, for the smallest and least prosperous tribe of Indians. There the Osages ling- 1 ered for years, subsisting as best 1 they could, their number* diminishlg steadily, roaming over their almost Inaccessible crags, poor, happy and Ignorant of the future which fate had In store for them. And then came the magnificent) romance of the oil well, and today ofi the 2,229 enrolled members of the shattered Osage tribe, each Inst year received a, minimum payment of $13,600. Some members are enormously rich. Their wealth per capita Is something over two million dollars; that of the white man less than one thousand. And so to the .Indian, driven andj harassed and persecuted, to whom! was doled ’ the bit of ground considered the least valuable of all upon the continent, has come wealth Incomprehensible. The hills of thel nation hay© poured forth gold, beyond the wildest dreams of those white men who, seeking to taksi everything, let slip, after all, thel richest portion of Oklahoma earth. Can a pension check of the United States Government be sent to a pensioner If he resides In a foreign country? United States pension checks will be sent to any part of the world.

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