Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1926 — Page 6

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KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA, in the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, at the State Capitol, maintains the greatest memorial of its kind in the world. From an artistic, as well as a patriotic viewpoint, the monument stands incomparably fine. It was built in 1887 at a cost of approximately six hundred thousand dollars.

MAKE INDIANAPOLIS SAFE To make Indianapolis safe for industry is the purpose of The Times in presenting the amazing history of the treatment of one of the city’s big concerns. As long as machine politics levies, in any way, its tribute upon its city cannot grow to the size which its position and natural advantages entitle it. * .As long as projects can be delayed and hampered by the devious purposes of more devious politicians, industries will hesitate to establish their plants in this city. Asa general rule it may be said that the men who manage and direct factories, as well as the,men who are employed in them, want nothing from government but a fair and square deal and the decent treatment which communities are willing and wish to give. Not many want privileges. All want fairness and a chance to operate without being hampered by conditions or costs from which their competitors in other communities are free. Those who are seeking new locations, and the trend of modem industry is the establishment of branches located at advantageous centers, shy at cities in which it is recognized that it is essential to stand In with unofficial czars or official powers. , They avoid the city which is run by pull. They want the right to hire their own lawyers at regulation fees instead of suggested firms at outrageous prices. v In the case oi the Fairbanks-Morse concern, the facts are so apparently plain that there should not be a day’s hesitation in clearing the way for the extension of that industry. More Jobs mean more prosperity for every line of business. Larger factories mean a larger city and a greater margin of safety for all industries. Those concerns which have tolerated or submitted to the influences of machine politics should sign a declaration of independence. For every favor they think they are getting, they are decreasing their own chances of permanent prosperity. Let’s get rid of machine rule. Let’s make Indianapolis a safe place for honest industry. THE CASE OP BOGGS Not a very pleasant picture was that presented in the Federal Court when Harry Boggs was sent to Jail for contempt of court. No one will violently disagree with the Federal judge who believed that jail was the place for Boggs, although the reasons for such an opinion may vary. Boggs, according to his admission, was an employe of the street car company, not out in the open, but its secret spy among his fellow wcfkers. Boggs was more than that. He was one of the most ardent apostles of organization and assumed leadership of his fellow workers who wer so preposterous in their attitude that they believed 37 cehtS an hour is too low a wage upon which a head of a family may properly support a home. He won the confidence of those who believed in this protest and became the president Os thj union when it was organized. Each and every day, until he finally left the city - under that might invite further inquiry, he urged the members to stand firm and coon-' seled with them as to be best means of winning a i victory. , • And each week, according to Boggs and to an official of the company, he received SSO a week from the, company. *. \ The company has no public record of extravagant gifts. It is operated by very hard-headed men who understand finance and the value of a dollar. They can tell you What the difference between a 5;ent fare and one of 7 cents, with a 2-cent transfer, is to the smallest fraction. It is a fair presumption that they believed that Boggs, as union president, reporting to them, was worth much more than Boggs the motorman at 37 •ents an hour. It is a fair presumption that he earned h1%550 i w“eek by something else tliaq running a car, for 3oggs ran. no cars after the strike. There is something sinister in his reply to-the iudge thpt he never double-crossed the company. So it may be agreed that Boggs is- where he belongs and that any one who betrays a confidence won Jy professions of friendship has no place in our complex organization of society. Traitors have never >een idolized. * But are there not further questions which will in erest the citizen in thfs matter which was a public jne? The injunction under which Boggs was senenced, was issued on an application by the company, which asserted that various persons, known and unknown, were interfering with the operation of street :ars. The theory of that injunction was that the putv ic was to be protected in its rights to service and to safety from violence 'gnd outrage, and the company on its property. The process of contempt proceedings presumably Is sought when ordinary enforcement of the law and pf legal rights is not obtainable in courts of law. What is to be said of the attitude of the company in seeking such relief and failing to inform the jourt that the chief of strikers was its own secret igent? _ ’ Can it be said that such a disclosure will in:rease the confidence of the people In the agencies lor law and order and justice? Might it not be rfildly suggested that there are more inquiries which should be made and more facta which should be produced? v ffRY THO&E CASES If this newspaper had had the foresight to preserve its typo, it could hare saved considerable money in the new* it has printed concerning the

cases of the members of the highway commission and others indicted eighteen months ago on of theft and conspiracy. At every term of court it could have printed the same old story of delay and delay. For the story has been the same with a monotonous regularity and there has been no trial. In the meantime, the men charged with these frauds are always insisting that they want a trial. And always there seems to be a reason why they are not brought before a jury. When the Legislature was in session, it was explained that no probe should be made of highway affairs because it would interfere with local grand Juries and prosecutor from punishing fo* crimes. There are indictments against six men, two of them officials. The retort is that the indictments ■were inspired by the State board of accounts, with which the highway commission is at dai an. that they are innocent victims of political oppression. It ought to be an easy matter to settle. Twelve good men ought to listen to the evidence. They ought to listen to it before November when people will again elect public oflfcials. If these men are innocent they ought not to be under a cloud. * If they are guilty, the State has room for them nekr one D. C. St9phenson, who made the mistake of believing that he could murder girls for his break fast just because he happened to be able to run Leg islatures, elect Governors and appoint a United States Senator.

WHO PAYS FOR THIS? An amazing bit of propaganda is now being circulated throughout the country by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company over the signature n? Haley Fiske, president. It is intended to check the movement in favor of publicly owned and operated- power and light plants. Fiske first declares that hi3 company now insures 24,000,000 individual lives, one-fifth of the population of the United States and Canada. “Its assets of over $1,854,000,000,” he says, "belong to its policy holders. This huge sum of money is their savings, held for protection.” Then he tells that over $75,000,000 of the pqjicy holders’ savings are invested by his company-in the securities of light and power companies. Therefore, he proceeds to argue, “When one of these companies is unfairly treated,” the policy holders of the Metropolitan are the victims. Just what Fiske means by unfair treatment, he does not explain, but he gives an indication of what is in his mind by the following paragraph:/ “Plans for municipal, State or Federal ownership of public utilities often sound well as presented by their advocates. But before assenting to them every policy holder should examine them carefully, asking himseif how political ownership can possibly give him results to compare with those attained through private ownership.” It is doubtful if Fiske really wants his policy holders to do this. If the policy holders should examine public ownership, as suggested, and compare results with private ownership, they would find that privately owned power and light plants are charging much higher prices than publicly owned plants—and giving no better service. They would find—and this is even more important—that private ownership, the country over, is more “political” than public .Ownership. Political scandals involving public plants in this country and Canada are practically unknown. Political scandals involving the private companies are too common for comment. The latest example is that in Illinois where Sam Insull, big private power fnagnate, spent his thousands to help nominate his avorite candidate for United States Senator in each of the party primaries. . Frankly, we don’t like to see Fiske spending the funds of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company—or his private funds, for the matter—in misleading propaganda of this kind. If it is the company’s funds, then it,, to use his own language, ‘‘belongs to its policy holders * • ♦ their savings, held for their protection.” Has any person taken out insurance with Fiske’s company with the idea that his money would be used in this manner? \ * The average ipan wears a size hat before making a good golf score. Time you get caught up with your work you need another vacation. Coolidge says cut expenses. But we all can’t live on fish we catch. OFF THAT PEDESTAL TO STAY “ By Mrs. Walter Ferguson However you may grumble at the women, you will make little impression upon them, because they are too busy having a good time to listen. And do you think that roars of protest from prudes will cause them to relinquish their happy existence? Women will nevej climb back to their Victorian pedestal, which was a very tiresome place to sit. All the praise they got for their angelic sweetness and purity did not compensate them tor a monotonous existence. Occupying a pedestal is a tesrible bore. There is nothing exciting in being a saint, as every one knows. I ' Looking back over a short span of years, it fairly takes your breath to observe the fun that women have now compared with the dull existence they once experienced. Think of them dressed in crinoline and three petticoats. Blushing at the sight of a man, fainting k couple of times a week, knitting mufflers, stupid, uninteresting antTignorant. * And look at them today. Afraid of nothing, alert, wise, athletic, capable. Sensible, sympathetic and helpful wives, sane, sweet mothers, or happy, busy spinsters asking no favors of the world. Surely the men themselves would not wish that these free and happy creatures should be returned to their former condition of economic slavery and domestic seclusion. No intelligent man voices such a desire. The world is a happier place with women free to live as they please. They give better service to their families and to humanity. Their love of lueir husbands and children is more beautiful because It Is not coerced but comes gushing from a happy heart. They have babies because they long for them and not because, they are expected to raise them as a duty. It is ridiculous, this eternal whine which goes up from cynics about how much worse the women are than they used to be. The American girl sets an example for her sex all over the world, an example of freedom and force which will work far more good than that established by the stodgy English Queen Victoria™ who put shackles upoq the womanhood of the eartn which are only today being cast soldo.

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Tracy Sesquicentennial Has a Few Unheralded Features,

By M. E. Tracy We are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of this republic with some features not on the bill. For the first time in history, an ex-Cabinet member is on trial Aarged with the commission of jcrime during his term in office. The Government is spending SIOO,000 for the employment of special counsel to bring another ex-Cabinet member to trial on similar charges. The use of money ih connection with nominations to the Senate has broken all^records. The dismissal and conviction of members of the coast guard for conniving to violate the prohibition law have reached alarming proportions. To cap the climax, those in charge of the Sesquicentennial Exposition have welcomed the Dempsey-Tunney fight as a sideshow. -I- ’l' -ISynthetic Hopes Meanwhile, the chemists console us with prophecy. Synthetic grass, synthetic milk, synthetic gold, synthetic character and synthetic wakefulness are but a few of the possibilities they hold out. What need of honest politics if we can make men good w-ith pills, or of law if we can stay awake all night to guard the premises against burglary. % . And if our currency Is headed for the scrap heap why worry about the existing economic system, or its problems* Science Is a wonderful thing, but we shall have trj>ehave ourselves a little while longer In the good old fashioned way to keep society right side up. •!■ -!- -ISparta Trieyd It Lots of queer ideas are making their appearance In these hectic days of test-tube and microscope, and lots of people think they can invent without study. You hear all sorts of theories for regenerating humanity without the exercise of self-control or discipline. Comes a social worker to suggest that the home may go out of date and that experts, chosen with a due regard to their fitness, may rear better'children than the old-time mother ever did. Plato, borrowing from Socrates, had same notion, and Sparta tried it. -|- -I- -IOn Guardi Harry' Boggs, president of the Indianapolis Street Carmen's Union, admits that he reecived SSO a week from the company while he was supposed to be conducting a strike. If, at the same time, he had not violated an injunction by encouraging the men to interfere with the operation of company cars, it is doubtful whether the law could have puhished Boggs for his double dealing. - There are a lot of things that the

DO YOU VOTE? The League of Women Voters Is trying to find out why 40 per cent of the qualified voters of Indianapolis stayed away from the polls last spring. Times readersare Invited to help out the League, a non-partisan organizatioa which Is trying to get out a bigger vote In the November election in the Interest of better Government. Fill out the coupon below and mall as directed. Do you usually go to the polls on election day? Yes ( ). No ( ). If you do take the trouble to vote, please check whichever of the / following reasons Impels you: Do you vote as a patriotic duty? ( ) Because of interest in public affairs? ( ) Because you hold a public job? ( ) Because you want to help your political party? ( ) Because you know one of the candidates personally? ( ) If you do not bother to vote, which of the following is' the reason for your failure: Because you do not know any of the candidates? ( ) Because you think elections are “cut and dried” by the politicians beforehand? ( ) Because politics is "rotten to the core” and one vote will not change that condition? ( ) Because you are entirely eatisfled with the way the government Is run and do not want to change anything? ( ) Because your personal affairs take all your time, making and spending your. Income, and you do not see how an interest in your government will profit your material affairs? ( ) Please check below the degree with which your answer represents you. This opinion Is given indifferently ( ). Thle opinion represents moderate personal Interest ( ). I feel very etrongly upon this subject ( ). Signed , ' , Address Bend to the Indianapolis League of Women Voters Vote Campaign. Mrs. W. 75. Barnes, chairman. 25 W. Michigan St.

law canryjt punish directly, though they go right to the bowelts of social uprightness. Because a thing Is wfthin the law, it Is not necessarily straight. Vare may have been within the law when he used SBOO,OOO to win the Republican nomination for Senator in Pennsylvania. Smith may have l>d(p within the law when he took money from public utility magnates to help him win the Republican Senatorial nomination in Illinois, though he was a member of the public utilities commission at the time. The Senate may punish both men by unseating them if they are elected. The safest thing, however, is for the people to be on guard, to repudiate all such activities, to refuse public office to men who can’t, or won’t stay within the bounds of decency. , x, . , ■l"*!* 'l* , A Nation's Foundation Mri and Mrs. David W. Davis of Danville, Ind., have Just celebrated their sixty-eighth wedding ' anniversary. Making allowance for the three years Mr. Davis served in the Union army during the Civil War, they have looked across the table at each other more than 20,000 times. That takes patience—the kind of patience that has made this country what it is. -I- -|- -!- Take a Broader Look Young folks should look at their elders once in a while, and not so constantly at each other. It is the end of the game that really counts, and not what you get this week or the next. Old people who come through all right are worth consulting and patterning after. - ,|. -1Things Irreplacable There are some things a generation can do differently from its forebearers without harm. There are some things, indeed, It must do differently for the sake of-progress. Take the matter of dress, for instance. and who will diny that a man cap be just as honest in pants as he fcould in a Roman toga, or that alwoman can be just as virtuous in a short skirt as her grandmother could in one that dragged on the ground? When it comes to honor and virtue, however, there are no substitutes. PLAN VOTE CAMPAIGN I>egion to Start Drive Over Country at Meetings, Sept. 21. Mayor Walker of New York and Col. Millard D. Brown, manufacturer and prominent clubman of Philadelphia, were among public leaders, who today accepted invitations from The American Legion to at nonpartisan political meetings to be held under the auspices of the Legion in various cities the afternoon of Sept. 21. The city council chambers was designated as ■ the place of holding the meeting In New York. In Philadelphia the Army and Navy Club will be used. The meetings will be attended by representatives of civic, patriotic, professional and education organizations, who will form committees to devise Ways and means of getting out the dormant vote at the general election to'be Nov. 2.

Red Grange Is Now a Movie Player Well as a Very Famous Football Hero

"Has Bed Grange hurt college football by becoming.a professional? Nonsense!” That’s the way Neil O’Hara, noted sporting authority and humorist, sums up the recent agitation regarding the famous 'lllinois gridiron star and motion picture luminary. "If anything. Red’s action has increased interest in the college sport, by arousing interest in football generally,” says Mr. O’Hara. “No sport can possibly be Injured by receiving too much popular attention. Whether or not professional football will prove to be a continued success, is of course beside the matter. College baseball is and always will be a favorite sport, despite the huge popularity of the professional game. “Take men like Eddie Collins, the late Christy Methewson, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, George ijisler, and Frankie Frisch, for example. They, and dozens of others, were noted college baseball players who made good In the big leagues. But did anyone ever complain that they had hurt the academic sport by turning professional? Os course not. In fact, the universal popularity ,of baseball is one of the supporting factors that help the college game to hold its own. “Did you ever hear anyone howl that .amateur golf was endangered because there are professional golfers? Not a bit of it. But it probably would be endangered if there were no professionals. "Most of this hullabaloo about Grange turning professional is sheer foolishness, fostered largely by a few ultra-conservatives who like to see their names in print. The benefits of any sport, both to the players and to the spectators, are in direct proportion to that sport’s popularity. And Grange has done more than any ten men in this country to focus general Interest on football, and thereby assist every branch of the game.” T 'l' -ILOOKIXG OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE Good judgment in the selection of costumes, scenery, music and everything in the act characterizes the "Brewster Pomroy Revue” at the Palace todr y and tomorrow. r Act opens witth two women pianists playing the accompaniment to an introductory song by the two Rieman sisters, Desmondae and Wilhelmina, who were local girls before entering vaudeville. Are then given a specialty, a toe dance, by Miss Josephine Ehrlilh. The whole

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If you are well-educated you should have little difficulty in answering these questions. The correct answers are printed on page 28: 1. What playwright is shown in the accompanying picture? 2. Where was Charles Chaplin born? 3. What was Anatole France’s real name? 4. Who wrote the "Outline of H'story”? 5. Who wrote the novel, “The Heart of the Midlothian”? 6. Who was Epicurus? 7. Who wrote "Innocents Abroad”? 8. Who played with Norma Talmadge as her son in “The Lady”? 9. From whose drama was the opera, "FUgoletto,” adapted? 10. Wiio wrote the original story of "Carmen”?

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features provides some flashes !of real beauty. In an act containing all good things it is hard to pick out those on 4 likes best, but in the writers opinion the work of Miss Ehrlich in her dancing numbers and the Rieman Sisters in their song specialties were the outstanding bits. Oliver and Grabgle, a man and woman, have a well-balanced act in which we have an excellent plkno solo by the man, Liszt's “Second Hungarian Rhapsody,’ and several pleasing dance numbers by the woman. | Ward and Dooley seem to be proficient in about anything it enters their heads to do. They have the accepted song and dance numbers. They feature work on bicycles, do some clever with a rope and as a good flash for the end they do a fast little dance. Parish and Peru have much eccentric stuff in which the two of them, men, do some balancing and Jumping stunts and offer some music while doing some complicated tricks. Hart’s Hollanders close the bill with a tumbling act In which speed Is the main thing. Bill includes a photoplay, "Ladies of Leisure,” with Elaine Hammerstein, and a news reel. At the Palace today and tonjfSk row. (By John T. Hawkins.) mN -I- -IIndianapolis theaters today offer: “What's Your Husband Doing?” at English’s: "Revue Les Argentines,” at the Lyric; "Tin Gods,” at the Apollo; ‘‘Men of Steel,” at the Circle; "Silken Shackles,” at the Colonial; "The Son of a Sheik," at the Ohio; burlesque at the Broadway; “The Wilderness Woman,” at the Uptown, and anew show at the Isis. \ THE OXFORD OF SPAIN MADRID, Sept. 10.—South American students come to Madrid Just as Rhodes scholars go to Oxford. In Spain, all those who live south of the Rio Grande are called Americaios, and inhabltans of the United States are called “yanquis,” Spanish version of “Yankees.” Every academic activity is represented and the authorities maintain an unfailing courtesy toward students from foreign schols.