Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1926 — Page 6

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Well, We’re in the World Court TyTI HEN the Senate, after three and one-half W years of skirmishes and battles over the World Court, voted by sixteen more than The necessary two-thirds majority to limit further firing, it was all over but the shouting. So, throughout the camp of the isolationists there is great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Senators Reed, Borah, Johnson, et al., insist we are entering the League of Nations via the coal chute and that as an independent x Nation we arevloomed. From the opposing trenches rise paeans of joy as a few pro-world court extremists, ideal-' ists and dreamers see the dawn of a promised millennium. Both arc wrong, as the bulk of the. people of this country no doubt are aware. Joining the World Court neither dooms us nor saves us. It is not a magic bridge spanning, with one Vast sweep, the chasm between earth and heaven. It is merely a step in the right direction. Hitherto, when nations have disagreed, they automatically went to war. The side that killed the most boys won. And the side that was always right, even when it was wrong. The World Court—and for that matter, the League of Nations—is an attempt to substitute law and right for war and might. It may succeed and it may not. But if it prevents one war in twenty, or even one in a hundred, it is a success. Even to try and fail altogether is better than not to try at all. “But it will involve us with Europe!” its opponents claim. Nonsense. The World Court already exists. All the great powers are already in it. It will go right on functioning—and having its effect upon us—whether we are in it or out of it. If it is a good thing, there is no need to worry. If it is a bad thing, then the quicker we put ourselves in a position to make it a good thing, or to nullify the bad it might do, the better it will be for us. It’s a cinch we cannot influence it, either for good or bad, by standing off on the sidelines and making faces. Any way you look at it—save through the tinted spectacles of politics or prejudice—we have nothing to lose by going in. Any gain at all will he velvet.

Five Million Horses rFIIVE million horses. How much work 1 F 1 could the'nags do? A herd that size probably wpukl represent the ultimate power potentiality of the Tennessee River, a stream which the private poVer interests are trying now to take at one snatch from the American people. What the grabbers would get, if successful, rather staggers the imagination. The 1923 national manufacturing census, just released by the Department of Commerce, helps give some idea. Five million horse-power, the census indicates, is equal to almost one-sixth of the total primary power used by all American industries. Industries used 33,094,228 primary horse-power in 1923. . Five million horse-power, would operate

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COMMUTER m LIVED In the city’s dust and smoke, and I says to myself, says I, why, this Is no place for a healthy bloke. A guy is a foolish guy to breathe the stuff that’s afloatln’ 'round, and fillin' his lungs with muck. I know where there’s plenty of country ground, so I I'll try my luck. I hie to the open, wide and free, an* through suburb street I roam. I find just the place for my wife and three. It’s the country type of home. We pack our things and we move right in, and we notice right away the lack of the city’s smudge and din. It’s the place for kids to play. A runnin’ wild are the tots I own, ’cause they’re living mid nature’s touch. Their mother can let them run alone, and she doesn’t worry—much. I always laughed at commuter folk till the time my own turn came. Commutln,’ I’ll still admit’s no Joke— but lt’sr worth it, just the samcfc • * • Almost every old maid wishes God had made her a man. • * * Santa Claus did a dern good job if he filled all the stockings we’ve seen lately. • • * Laziness, loafing and shirking are what makes the world go round—in circles. And ya don't get any place. • • • A petty thief once stole a watch Therein a story lurks. A lawyer fella got Ihe* case. The thief just got the works. • * * It's a good thing they don’t judge doctors by the company they keep. The worse people are, the more they are with them. i

By Hal Cochran

NOW, HONESTLY— You go home to meals that your good wife has prepared for you. She’s been planning all day long. What do you like best? That’s what she’s constantly figuring out. And you sit down to supper—not a bit hungry. / Why? Because you’ve been piecemealing ail day. ’Tisn’t fair to the wife. She likes to see you enjoy what she has cooked. Piecing isn’t good for her, when you do it —and it isn’t good for your health. * • • Here’s a good tip. A piece of brown paper under the upper Up, held in place with the tongue, is good for nosebleed, hiccoughs or sneezing—I forgjt which. i A blooming idiot soon goes to seed. • * • Anybody—Why does Mrs. Whatzername cook her own meals? Anybody Else—Because her* husband eats at a restaurant. • • • FABLES IN FACT SOMETIMES COMMA WJffilN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT COMMA SORROW TURNS TO JOT PERIOD I HAVE IN MIND THE • MAN WHO HAD HAD TROUBLE WITH CORNS FOR YEARS PERIOD MAYBE HE WORE SHOES THAT WERE TOO TIGHT PERIOD WHO CAN TELL QUESTION MARK ANYWAY HIS FEET ALWAYS HURT PERIOD AND THEN COMMA ONE DAY COMMA FOR A SOLID WEEK HE HADN’T HAD A BIT OK CORN TROUBLE PERIOD WHICH PROVED TO HIM THAT COMMA EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SjCK IN BED COMMA THERE WAS A BRIGHT SIDE TO IT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE TO WEAR ANY SHOES PERIOD. (Copyright. 1920. ,NKA Service. Inc.)

every food factory, packing house, canning plant, flour mill, sugar refinery, dairy, bakery, and so forth, in America, and still there would be enough power left to supply the Nation % with all its iron and steel products exclusive of machinery and crude or rolled products. The manufacturing census shows Jhafc’sl,B47 food manufacturing a $9,534,051,000 output, used only 3,723,025 primary horsepower in 1923, and that 5,700 iron and steel plants, with a $2,666,903,000 output, used only 1,259;334 'horse-power. Five million horse-power would run every lumber mill and furniture or cabinet factory in [he country and there would be sufficient power left to manufacture all transportation equipment,‘air, land and water. The lumber and allied products industry used only 3,336,133 primary hffrs'e-power 141 1923. The transporta' tion equipment factories used only 1,624,468 horse-power. But let’s get to something even more concrete. The ultimate generation at Musele Shoals has been estimated at 840,000 horsepower by Maj. H. C. Fiskc, army engineer. That is enough power Ao supply the Nation each year with $761,000,000 in silk goods, $364,288,000 in woolen goods, $75,000,000 in fur-felt hats, in men’s'shirts, $78,048,000 in women’s corsets, $297,505,000 in millinery, $366,256,000 in candy, $259,967,000 in ice cream, $1,000,078,000 in shoes, and still there would be a little power left. American factories in 1923 manufactured the foregoing stuffs in the quantities indicated, and factories used a total of only 830,512 primary horse-power. All of which indicates why the private power interests are so anxious to grab while the grabbing is good. v

, ‘A Little Courtesy’ mHE board of public safety has allowed four policemen, accused of drinking, to return to duty, after fining them the amount of their pay during the time they were suspended. We do not know whether the policemen were guilty or innocent, but the questioning of John George, member of the board, had a peculiar sound, to say the least. Two men who admitted they were bootleggers told of giving drinks to policemen. “Now you didn’t give that liquor in a spirit of bribing an officer, did you I” George is quoted as asking one of the witnesses. “You just extended a little courtesy as you would to any friend and thosp officers didn’t accept those favors as bribes, did they?” Apparently it makes a difference whether policemen accept drinks as bribes or simply as a “little courtesy.” Judging from George’s questioning there would be little wrong about a policeman accepting a drink as a “little uourtesy.’’ The fact that a policeman knew the law was being violatsd and took no action —the fact that he himself assisted iq violating the law—apparently has little influence on the board of safety. The board also questioned the credibility of the witness because they were bootleggers. Does the board expect the director of the AntiSaloon League or the president of the W. O. T. U. to testify they gave booze to policetnen?

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•By GAYLORD NELSON

SUPPORTING THE PRES'UENT SENATOR ROBINSON In ‘diana’s Lew Senator, deL livered his maiden speech on the< floor of the Upper House \ Tuesday and jumped clear off the reservation. He opposed the World Court resolution which is being pressed as an administration ’measure. Asa result President Coolidge must scratch his head reflectively and ask himself if Re really understands this so-called English language. For Scnator*ltobinson's acts don't v jibe with his conversation. Immediately after his appointment he”~pubUcly declared with considerable em?>hasis that he would stand by .he President and the Administra ion policies. Then he hastened to Washington to convey the same glad tidings in person to Coolidge. The first question of importance that comes up after his appointment finds him tooth and nail among the Administration's opponents along with 'Cole Blease, Brbokhart et al. A few more such supporters and President Coolidge would have to hWe in the cellar. In Indiana :h world court plan may nut he regarded with favor — although probably it won’t make the slightest difference in the average Hoosier's life whether we join or don't join. But adherence to the court is a platform pledge of the Republican party made by the rarty in national convention. And redemption of that pledge is phoperly the policy of the Republican administration. So when a Senator declares he is a stalwart Republican, a faithful party man. a supporter of the Administration, and then opposes the world court, what does he mean? What Is his definition of Republican?

PIECEMEAL ROAD SYSTEM T"1(1E Indiana highway commission Wednesday reu_J ceived bids for paving 47.6 miles of State roads. There are five stretches, each approximately nine miles In length, included In the bids. These are the first projects of the 1926 construction program. The forty-seven miles of highway to he paved are scattered hither and thither over the State —in Steuben, Huntington, Vigo, Parke, Knox and Benton counties. A dab of concrete here and a dab there. A couple of sections to be improved Join —and are extensions of —existing paving. The others are just vagrant patches of paving, beginning in the mud and ending in the mud. That’s characteristic of our State highway building. Paving is spattered here and there over the State more or less haphazardly In accordance with the urgency of local pressure and are not connected up with one another. Eventually all the links will be filled in and there will be long continuous stretches of hard-surface roads. That's a long distance hence, present, though a vast sum has been spent on State highways, scarcely any two of the principal Jloosier cities are* linked together with pavement. Building roads piecemeal, on the Indiana pay-as-you-go plan, is economical and laudable. But when the pieces are scattered without much relation to each other in ninety-two counties they don’t make a.' State highway system.

BASIS OF INDUSTRY H““ —JARRY C. WILBUR of Chi cago. speaker on the third annual insurance day program in Indianapolis Tuesday, said: "Insurance is the golden thread on which all the jewels of finance and industry are strung.’’ Those be flowery words—but the sentiment is not exaggerated. Modern business is utterly de : pendent on insurance for its stability. A merchant with all his capital invested in goods liable to destruction by fire or other insurable hazards would not be able to obtain Credit if IQwasn’t for insurance. Who would leltd you money on a mortgage to build your home if yon didn't insure the place and thus protect the lender against loss? Shylock couldn’t have demanded the forfeit on his bond if Antonio, the Venetian merchant, had carried insurance on his cargoes lost at sea. Then the insurance company would have paid the grasping Jew the 3,000 ducadft —and Antonio with thumb to nose, could have twiddled his fingers at him. Insurance is just one of those littlo things of which we don’t think until something unforseen happens. But it helps man to beat the game of sate. And the insurance agent is a public benefactor; —though a private pest.

INSULL UTILITY • CONSOLIDATION ' r"7—INNOUNCEMENT of the plans to consolidate the T. —■ ■ H., I. &E. Traction (So., which in turn owns the common stock of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, with the Central Indiana Power Company, an Insull controlled utility, occasions no surprise. Such a move has been long forecast. By this consolidation Samuel Insull of Chicago wjll become the dominant factor in the electric light, power and traction field in Indiana. The Insull interests will control power and light facilities in 130 Hoosier cities, and a network of traction lines extending with short gaps from Chicago to Louisville. Quite a husky utility octopus is growing in our/midst, in con-

sequence of the Insult acquisitive activities. , And no one is much frightened at the prospect. In fact most persons, who have studied the situation probably favor the consolidations engineered by the Insuil % group. They have resulted in better service to the public at fair rates than was possible with small independently operated utilities that preceded them. A few years ago it was fashionable to lambast big business of whatever nature. Such a/ consolidation of utilities as just announced would have been greeted with yelps of disapprova’. If a business was big, naturally it was wicked and oppressive. That was the popular attitude. But now it is apparent, especially in the-electric utility field, that the public benefits insteud of loses by consolidation of independent, disjointed companies into a comprehensive system. The octopus frequently proves that he isn't as bad as he is painted.

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