Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1927 — Page 2

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MOTORISTS SEEK GREATER SAFETY ONJGHWAYS organization Protects Life by Education and Warnings. By Todd Stoops, Manager Hoosier Motor Club Safety on the public highways and the streets of Indianapolis has always been a problem which assumed major proportions in the work of the Hoosier Motor Club and the year 1926 has been marked by increased activities along that line. The club is always striving to work with other bodies and branches of municipal, township, and county

agencies whose w ork embodies safety on the streets, says Mr. Stoops, “and thousands of persons in the city and State were impressed with the /work of Art B. Hickox, that apostle of safety who worked in Indianapolis for one whole week, preaching safety in a rather- spectacular manner. On Saturday, Oct. 30, he sacrificed his life as a Jay

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Walter in monument circle and came tto life again preaching the message of safety to the thousands who had witnessed the hoax. It takes more than preaching, however, to bring about safety on the streets and the club has erected more than eight thousand danger signs in Marion County to give the motorist some visual means of protecting himself against hidden dangers. These signs are placed at dangerous street intersections, dead-end streets, streets which jog, railroad and interurban crossings and other places where the motorist should drive with ckrei. The danger or caution signs are in several designs and types. For especially dangerous places red mirror signs have been placed rendering the danger spot visible day or night. Many red flicker signs have been erected at railroad crossings which are very effective. These types of signs are expensive but the saving of human lives is a matter which requires the outlay of considerable money. Many Signs Erected Wooden signs erected by the club apprising the motorist of dangerous intersections, curves, and school houses are placed at the proper height and position to make them visible day or night. These signs are the most numerous and no one can drive many miles without seeing several of them. Dead-end streets offered a more serious problem for the club. With the progress of the town and its rapid expansion many streets were paved to the canal or Fall Creek. There the paving stopped, but the motorist who was unfamiliar with the street did not. He would plunge into the canal or creek and have to bo fished out. To protect the motorist from such deadly traps the club has erected large signboards and placed them exactly in the center of the street so that any motorist who desires to proceed must first knock down the sign, and some have. During the summer months when weeds and brush grew high and motorists would crash at street intersections the club hired a crew of men with gpythes to cut down the weeds and brush in order to give the motorist a clear view ahead. Such work ao this costs money, and more money than the average person might think. Some of the work is done because some officer or director of the club has reported some place of danger but most of the work is done after some member „ll£p .reported or some newspaper has announced some terrible accident at a particular spot. When this is done, the club sends out someone to view the place and make a report. If, from the report, the place is regarded as sufficiently dangerous to warrant a sign, it,is then up to the Huh to decide the best type of sign desirable to furnish adequate warning to the motorist. Children’s Safety Important Making the streets safe for school children has been a serious problem for the club, but with the cooperation of the accident prevention bureau of the Indianapolis police department and the vaxious school authorities, the school children seem to be safer on the streets than grown-ups, according to statistics. Monthly bulletins are sent to each school showing pictures along the line of safety and talks on the subject have been given in every school in the county. Police boys, armed with badges presented by the Hoosier Motor Club, and encouragement from members of the accident prevention bureau, guard hundreds of corners in the city to see that the little tots get to school safely and back home again. The cooperation of school No. 60 at Thirty-Third and Pennsylvania Sts. is a revelation in safety work and any one interested should make a trip to the locality during the opening and closing sessions. This school even prepared a pamphlet on safety and printed it in their own print shop. The erection of danger signs requires considerable thought. Too 1 many signs, or signs placed where I there is no dangor, will cause the Imotorist to disregard all of them. It ■has been the thought of the club to ■dace signs only where they are badly needed in order to make the motorist Bespect them and this has been done gftithout exception so that, whenever H danger sign is seen bearing the of the Hoosier Motor Club, ■■motorist may well use caution. have had many requests for from members and non-mem-who thought that a danger sign after an accident. the spot, if it was not danger

Witnesses Against ‘King Ben ’

“King Ben” Purnell maintained a regular lutrciu al Benton Harbor, Mich., according to Michigan authorities—and these girls are the State witnesses who will tell about it when the cult leader comes up for trial. In the picture, left to right, are Prosecuting Attorney Walter Brookwalter, Hazel Wuerth, Bessie Woodworth, Gladys Hubei, and Gladys’ sister, Ruth Rett

for every danger sign erected by the club must mean danger. Common Senses Needed Our danger signs are erected for motorists who believe in signs and who use care in driving. Nothing will take the place of common sense In the operation of a motor car. During ihe present driving season when fog obscures the vision and slippery streets makes stopping a work of art, there is nothing which will protect the careless motorist from the result of his own careless driving. A speed limit of twenty-five miles an hour in the residential see tion means' nothing to the careful driver when the streets are slick. He will not try to make the legal speed limit, but will slow down to the rule of common sense. After all, safety on the streets and highways is a matter of education. The careful driver will .avoid all but the unusual dangers and that is the province of the Hoosier Motor Club to protect the careful driver from the unusual. Making the streets safe for the motorist and pedestrians means a lot of restrictions but not too many. It has been a problem with the club to fight irksome restrictions and to advocate reasonable limitations, which would promote safety. Sometimes, the club has been ahead of the motorist and has advocated restrictions which caused/ it to be condemned. At othe- timds it has fought certain rules and regulations and has likewise been condemned. During Its entire history twenty-five years in making the /streets and highways safe for motftrlsts and pedestrians, the club has praised and condemned but always has forged ahead In volume of membership and has generally been right in the final anyalisis. Births Girin John ami Frankie Krause 070 Udell. Phillip and Marie Hawkins. Methodist Hoepltaf. Daniel and Elizabeth Wilson. Methodist Hospital. Walter and Mary Dance. Methodist Hospital. George and Nettie Tutrow, Methodist Hospital. Louis and Emma Klymen, Methodist Hospital. Dwight and Mae Lackey. Methodist Hospital. william and Iris Donlan. 010 Oxford. , Boys George and Josephine Stone. Methodist Hospital. Harold and Luclle Crowe. 1037 E. Raymond. John and Estella Bright. 103 E. Minnesota. Charles and Susie Tewcll, 918 E. Twen-ty-Fifth. Maurice and Edithh Conley, 3210 Hovcy. Frank and Anna Schaffer. 708 Haugh. Deaths Violet Williams, 13. city hospital, appendicitis. Lunar Merrick. 14 days, 3827 Hoyt, broncho pneumonia. Henry R. Lennard. 73. 623 N. Central Ct.. arteriosclerosis. Harriet Ann Gardner, 6 days. Christian Hospital, atelectasis. Jessie A. Louis. 63. Methodist Hospital, toxic goitre. William Albert Ferrell. 65. 1134 Udell, chronic myocarditis. Almet Wilson, 79, 1716 Brookslde. carcinoma. Jennie Perry, 66. 2243 Wheeler, cerebral hemorrhage Elizabeth Bryce Armstrong. 72, 1115 Madison, uremia Elizabeth Wheeler, 60, 1521 Deloss, cerebral hemorrhage Mary Keating Holloran. 57, St’Vincent Hospital, carcinoma Jennec Gamble. 49, 2121 Bcllefontaine. chronic myocarditis Hlllis A. Wheeler, 76. 812 E. ThirtyFourth, pneumonia.

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This is the mountain lioine at Jutland, N. J,, of James and Timothy Meeney and their sister, .Beatrice. They were beleaguered there half a day by State police, who came to arrest them for alleged cruelty to their cows. After a prolonged interchange of bullets, In which the woman and two of the troopers were wounded, the officers crashed through the door with tering-rani. The sister died of wotuun. TiruoHurMeeney

TAKES COLLECTED NEXT YEAR TO BE $1,589,000 LESS Orgy of Expenditures Over and Reason Prevails. By ,1. .1. Brown. State Tax Board Chairman The coming year, 1927, will see a reduction in the money collected for taxation purposes throughout Indiana to the extent of $1,589,000 as compared with 1926. This is the first actual reduction in taxes In many years as the constant demands of the people for increase expenditures for more modern improvements have been such as to cause a constant increase In taxes. Taxation has become the country’s greatest economic problem. It has grown to a point where, while seemingly simple of solution, it is most difficult of administration. Ignorant of Fundamentals The failure of the public Konerally to take sufficient interest in the problem to properly inform themselves as to its fundamentals, is one of the many contributing causes to the difficulty in its solution. There seems to be a failure on the part of the public generally to understand that for every dollar expended for public purposes either through tax levies or the issuance of interest bearing obligations In the form of bonds, the people themselves must pay the bill —each individual paying his part in proportion to the amount of property owned by them, or of which they are custodians, as in this State, owing to our constitutional restriction, we are confined to a property tax. People, generally speaking, are inclined to make demands upon the various public treasuries, just as though there were some mysterious force somewhere, somehow, that will take care of the obligations without fully realizing that they themselves, or their descendants must pay the bill. Within a comparatively few years, a survey shows that for all governmental purposes in Indiana, including the State and all its subdivisions, our tax burdens have Increased from $21,000,000 to $134,000,000 in the year 1926. Debts Arc $182,000,000 The outstanding indebtedness, including all units or sub-divisions of government within this State, now amounts to approximately $182,000,000. A survey of conditions generally throughout the country discloses

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that Indiana holds a unique and enviable position in this respect, as our indebtedness is much less than other States, comparing the wealth of Indiana with such other States as are properly comparable. This is due in a large measure to the fact that Indiana has become the leader In legislation, extending to taxpayers some voice in the expenditure of public funds, and it is graitfying to know that economists and students of taxation generally are showing an intense interest in’ this feature of our law, with a view to its adoption in other States. In a government such as ours. It is fundamental that you cannot raise to a higher level Its standard than its source. The people themselves aro the standard and source by which we must measure governmental efficiency. The people have a right to and should demand that there be employed in the administration of all governmental affairs, the same standards of efficiency In Its administration that is employed in any well regulated and successful private enterprises—selecting only such men for public administration as are prompted by purity of purpose and an earnest desire to raise to the highest possible level our standards of governmental efficiency. Danger of High Taxes The State of Indiana generally, and the city of Indianapolis especialJy, has many natural advantages which should appeal to those seeking location for new industrial, commercial and financial activities. One of the very first inquiries made by those representing such interests, is, “What is your tax rate?" and It is incumbent upon every city that Is making an effort to expand and progress, to see to it that for every dollar expended for public purposes there is a dollar value received, and thereby keep down to the lowest possible minimum consistent with the real requirements of the community, the tax rate, as, unless such tax rates are kept at the lowest possible point consistent with efficient government, we aro working at a very great disadvantage In the acquirement of additional capital and Industrial expansion so essential to the proper development of our State. There are cities In Indiana with a There are cities In Indiana with a tax rate of less than $2.00, while the city of Indianapolis has a tax rate of $2.60 on the hundred dollars. The time is here when an honest effort must be made upon the part of public officials and those charged with the responsibilities of public affairs, to secure, if possible, greater returns for the money expended for public purposes, in place of, as is far too often the case, an effort to create new positions as a reward for fluiitir.nl henchmen %vhose principal purpose Is to get their hands into the pockets of the public treasuries, and are prompted many times by purely mercenary motives. The true public servant have as hls motto “How great a service can I render my community?” and will increase hls value to the public, if need be, through sacrifice. Unless a community is blessed with some extraordinary natural resources to attract capital and industrial developments, it is my opinion that excessive tax rates will bo the means of percludlng the possibility of proper progress and legiti mate growth. Ignore Yniuc Received The experience of this department in the review of tax rates and bond Issues proposed in local communities far too often disclose an inclination on the part of the public generally, and officials especially, to expend public money without due regard for the value to be received for such expenditures. Every citizen, as well as all organizations, should realize and appreciate the fact that whenever any improvements arc proposed of whatever kind or character, even those that are most essential to the progress of the community, is their business, anil they should In every way possible manifest sufficient interest In public welfare to cooperate In securing for their community the improvements so needed, at a reasonable and legitimate cost to the public. It is essential that public officials realize that they are the servants rather than the masters of the people, and it should be their ambition to render such service as will reflect the greatest possible credit upon them and the community, whose interests they represent. We should all join hands in an earnest effort to make Indiana an outstanding example of governmental efficiency in all its departments and municipalities, and thereby Insure our further development and greater progress.

RECEIVING JESUS AS TOE SAVIOR OF ALLJE PEOPLE Dr. Gilroy Draws Interesting Thoughts Frcm First 1927 Lesson. The International Filiform Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 2. I! civin" Jesus as Savior and Lord. Mark 1:16-20; 2:13-17. By Win. E. Gilroy, D. !>.. Edito • of The I’ongregutionalist. From the Old Teslament period of ?loses to Samuel we now progress into the New Testament, and we come to its very heart in this story of ;hc relation of individual men to Jesus, their discovery of Him and their taking IJini into their lives as Lord and Master. It is the story of the calling of Peter and Andrew and Levi, or Matthew, to the inner circle of diseipleship.

We are so accustomed to think of these three men as among the "Twelve." and the Apostles th'-m selves stand forth so proinlrviHly among the g: - eat menr of history, that we are apt to miss the original significance of the call of these men and of their acceptance of Jesus. If we would understand the meaning of their response we must brush aside all these conceptions of greatness and fame that were not present at the time. It was/ the attractive power of Jesus Himself, as yet lowly and without world recognition, that led these men to Him. Men and Their leader One can form only a dim conception of the wondrous personality of this man who led men at his call to leave their particular jobs and follow him. But one should realize also the quality of the men who had in them the freedom and courage that mady them responsive. Most of us would find it hard, under ptieh circumstances, to see the vision that would move us to such cleavage with our environment. Vet Is it not true that Jesus comes to us In much the same way today? We can not always see Him any more than did many men. who were in the same community ki which Peter and Andrew and®Matthew lived, saw him long ago, nor is his call heard except to those whose hearts are attuned to hear. But when one sees Jesus and hears hls call, life takes on anew meaning. Inevitably the call is to newness of life and action. Rome who listened to Jesus in his earthly ministry said. “We never saw It after this fashion.” That is exactly' what Jesus does for us. He opens up for us anew world. The title of this lesson is “Receiving Jesus as Savior and Ixird." Does man need a Savior? Does he need a Master? Some say not. Some think that sin and salvation are old and exploded terms and some say that it is a man’s business to save himself. Rome rebel against the idea of any mastership. They' like to talk of themselves as the master of their own souls. But when we look Into our own hearts and lives, when we look into the lives around us. can we say that this Is so. that man does not need a Savior, and that he does not need a Master? Power Within It is not rather true that life becomes great only as a man feels within lilm the Influences of a power greater than himself? Is not all masterful living due to the fact that one has given his life to the power of overmastering ideals? It is the distinction of the great Christian that he has givch his life to the overmastering power of Jesus, who than Jesus? If It Is wealth he seeks, went about doing good. Can man have a greater Master or power, lie may give hls life over to some other great leader and to some other ideal. But, if, above all thirf?*, he wants to make his character sound and his life influential for good, he will seek not only a Master but a Savior, and in finding in Jesus of Nazareth a Savior and Master he will find also a companion and a friend. It was to these same disciples and to others in their group that Jesus said: “I have not called you servants, but I have called your friends.”

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' BY HAL COCHRAK

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Wee Scouty said, on New Tear’s eve, “Tomorrow's New Years, I believe, so we had better go to sloop. You know how tired we’ve been.” That's why eacli littlo sleepy head last night quite early went to bod. This morning they arose to see the brand new year come in. "Ah, nineteen twenty-seven! Gee," said Coppy, "this appeals to me. Just think, another year begins, perhaps a year of fun.” Then Clowny said, “.Old twenty-six saw me in many a funny fix. I surely feel real glad that now another year’s begun.” Then Carpy shouted, “Hey, be still. Who is that coming o'er the hill?” And everybody looked and saw a funny little tot. He seemed a very cheerful tad. Ho waved his hand and looked real glad. And all because he’d found the little Tlnles, like aS not. "Hello there,” shouted Scouty loud, "come on right up and join our crowd.” And then the little fellow

walked right up to Reouty’s side. I’m glad you welcome me like this, ’cause now no fun will go amiss. Know who I am? Why, Nineteen Twenty-Seven,” lie replied. So this was Master Brand New Year, who came to bring the Tinies cheer, and tell them that he hoped they’d have their share of all things grand. “Now, hero's a friendly tip,’ said he, "Just all be good as you cai he, and then I’ll help you all to trave all around the land.” “Oh, thank you,” said the Tiny mites, “We surely love to see the sffehts, and we will start our being good this very happy day.” Then Nineteen Twenty - Seven cried,) "That’s fine It’s easy, when it’s tried. And now I’ll have to say goodbye. I must be on my way.” (The snow man comes to life in the next story.) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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