Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1927 — Page 4

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Back To Liberty H it were boldly announced that the State of Massachusetts has seceded from the Union, the news would be startling. When it is merely stated that one of its official bodies refuses to follow the Supreme Court of the United States in its decisions, there is no great alarm. This is what has happened and it happens on a matter that was decided for Indianapolis. The people of this city are now paying rates for water on a decision obtained in the Supreme Court of the United States to the effect that the company is entitled to a profit on the present cost of reproducing its plant. It is true that this is a very different figure from the investment in that plant. Most of its pipes were laid when labor was cheap and the cost of materials very low. The war came along and raised all prices or lowered the value of money or did something that made the values as measured in dollars very much more. No contention is made that investors or owners j|g.d to dig up more dollars because of this fact. The merely got lawyers to persuade the highest Hirt that in all justice the people of Indianapolis Hght to pay this war tribute into its coffers. Os course Indianapolis, being respectful of the Supreme Court, pays. Also, and of course, it has a ■ign respect for the opinion of Justice Brandeis, who Juled that the decision was all wrong and protested that such a decision robbed the people of this city and that there was no sense in forcing communities to pay interest to utilities on dollars the companies had never invested and to permit them to profiteer from the war. The people of Massachusetts, through its public service commission, have very frankly and openly declared that it will not follow the decision in the Indianapolis case. One of its utilities wants to collect interest on about thirty millions of increased value, the increase being in the changed conditions of labor and markets and not in improvements and extensions. It has seceded, to that extent and degree. It defies the high court and will make a fight to get a reversal if the company insists on getting its extra pound of flesh. There is a very close relation between this condition and the speech of Attorney General Gilliom to the Elks lodge in whcih he pleaded for a return of the government to localities. He told the members of that lodge that the people were losing their liberty through a surrender to the national Government of powers which should belong to States. He pleaded for a return to the old theory that the people of each community be permitted to rule themselves on matters that have no national import. Very many people are beginning to wonder where we are going in the tendency to put all power in the Government at Washington. No longer do we really control our public utilities. The Federal courts have become tribunals for the control of appetites and the police courts for bootleggers. Federal officers are now standing guard over homes to prevent what should be petty crimes. We are becoming accustomed rapidly to surrendering authority to the Government at Washington, which is very far away from the voter and most remote from their control. The way to liberty may be a return to the oldfashioned theory of the Constitution, which was designed to make individual liberty very precious and to jealously protect against invasion from a centralized authority. It means something when a staid Northern State of New England in reality secedes and a conservative like Gilliom preaches more State’s rights. A presidential campaign with this as the issue might show that the people have at last awakened to what has been happening in the past quarter of a century to their Government. Watch Your Trousers, Uncle Sam! Next Monday President Coolidge’s naval arms limitation conference begins at Geneva. What practical good it can accomplish is beyond our ken. Theoretically it can limit the cruiser, submarine and auxiliary strength of the participating nations, but the chances are slim indeed that it will actually do so. All sorts of difficulties are in the way. In the first place only three powers—the United States, Britain and Japan—will be present. France and Italy, the other two powers party to the original arms conference at Washington, will look on but take no active part. This means, right off, that Britain’s hands will be pretty much tied before the conference Is called to order. It is a foregone conclusion she will not agree to an absolute limit on auxiliary craft as long as Italy and France retain a free hand. Her trade route

The City Manager Plan Committee Says:

The chief advantage of the city manager plan is the complete sepal'p /ion of policy execution and policy determining functions, thus remedying the fatal mistake which had crept into the commission plan under which, in order to secure a satisfactory administration of the city departments, the voters must elect some business man with expert knowledge who may not, however, represent the viewpoint of other groups as to how the city should be run. v Under the city manager plan, however, all groups can be represented in the city’s governing body (■since administrative duties de■kgdmg the attention of an expert , and have a voice ' all the policies of the •• the appointment and iPk the manager who ■s'?? This also makes ' ■>*' plan more demofeature oi

to India and the Far East lies through the Mediterranean, where Italy and France are inclined to dispute sway, and she has not the remotest intention of leaving this route at the mercy of any non-British power or powers. Secondly, Britain has served notice on the world that she does not intend to scrap any of her cruisers, albeit she has approximately three cruisers to our one. So, if we are to maintain equality with her in this respect, the Geneva conference, instead of being an economy for us, may actually cost us money and a lot of it. We can not triple our cruiser strength for nothing. Again, as forecast in these columns when the conference was first broached, Japan is headed for Switzerland primed to demand equality in auxiliary tonnage with the United States and Great Britain. Naively enough, it seems Japan will argue that in reality she is entitled to more cruisers than the United States because of her island position and h/r extended trade routes. Also, we are told, she will try to prove that an equal number of cruisers would not constitute a menace, either to Britain or America, because cruisers have only a limited radius of action. These arguments, of course, are childish. Equal cruiser and submarine strength for the Japanese, considering their position on the map, would simply mean placing all Asia and the islands adjacent thereto, in the lap of Japan. Japan could swallow the Orient whole and Great Britain and America combined would not be able to stop her. While as for the contention that a cruiser’s radius of action is limited, that is all very true, a fact which has already placed the United States in a very inferior position when it comes to safeguarding the Philippine Islands, Guam, Panama, Alaska and its other outlying possessions. In addition we pretend to have interests in China, which we can defend only by maintaining our open door policy; a Monroe doctrine, which implies a defense of the independence of the entire western hemisphere from the Aleutian Islands to Cape Horn, and other items, including some trade routes of our own to protect. These ai;e just a few of the differences between American, British and Japanese points of view which will be hard to reconcile at Geneva. After all sea power is what counts in naval warfare, not just battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and submarines. And in sea power the United States already comes third after Great Britain and Japan. Japanese interests are bunched almost altogether around her group of islands and opposite them on the Asiatic mainland. While Great Britain, far flung though her possessions are, has a chain of great naval bases stretching from the tight little isle past Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, Colombo and Singapore, to Hong Kong. We, on our side, are without bases, so to speak, save in what might be called home waters, having, at Japan’s request, agreed not to fortify the Philippine Islands, Guam or the Aleutian Islands. As Britain and Japan do not seem to be exactly rushing to Geneva to curtail their sea power, it is difficult to foresee at this Juncture what good can be accomplished there, unless Uncle Sam, already stripped to the waist, removes his nether garments and stands exposed four ways to the breezes. Don’t Be Doubtful Canvasses by those interested in the change to a city manager form of government indicate that many people are still doubtful on this question. The election will be held on June 21, one week away. On that date the politicians will know whether they have succeeded in scattering enough suspicion to permit them to keep the present archaic system. While it is difficult to understand why there should be any hesitation on the part of any votor over making this change, it is more difficult to understand why there should be any doutful attitude. It is a matter on which every one can easily make up his mind. Experience in other cities and the testimony of residents of those cities which have adopted it prove that the city manager system has brought many benefits and no evils. Experience with the system in this city has shown that it has resulted only in a succession of scandals. But It has given the politicians very great power in State and national elections. The question would seem to be very simple. If you like the kind of city government you have, vote against the city manager system. If you think that Indianapolis deserves something better than government by the forces which have controlled under succeeding administrations and are now in power, get out of the doubtful class and vote for the change. There are those who believe, with good reason, that no change could be worse than what we have at present.

the city manager plan is the conexecutive body is not to do the work, but to see that it is properly done.” The manager can not levy a tax, award a contract or grant a franchise. In all matters, he acts in accordance with the policies of the council. A manager who ignored this principle would be discharged by the council. If the manager is to be held responsible for operating results, he must have the necessary trolled executive. As John Stuart

IMPORTANT You do not have to register to vote June 21. You must cast your vote in person. You cannot vote by absent voter ballot.

Mill said, “The business of the power. For this reason, councils are commonly forbidden by the charter to dictate appointments or dismissals or deal with the administrative service except through the manager. This, together with the fact that there is a single head to the administrative Service, makes the line of authority and responsibility unmistakable. If the departments fail to give service to thft citizens, the latter know that the manager is to blame for not correcting the condition and that final responsibility rests with the council for not discharging an incompetent manager. Since no matters of opinion or policy are involved, the council is more fitted to select the manager than the voters. It can investigate his references, look up his record in detail, interview him and even visit cities he has formerly managed —things which the voters could not do. , ,■ ■ >

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M. E. TRACY SAYS The W. C. T. U. Is Right in Asking That Governor Jackson and Attorney General Gilliom of Indiana Be Prosecuted.

The W. C. T. U. is right jn asking that Governor Jackson and Attorney General Gilliom of Indiana be prosecuted. They clearly violated the law, obedience to which demanded that they let their relatives die rather than use whisky. They would have been unnatural and inhuman if they had. but that is precisely what the Indiana law calls for. Russia Answers Russia answers the British raid with wholesale executions of alleged spies and revolutionists. This is a vivid admission of weakness. The soviet government is showing an even more hysterical alarm over its enemies at home than other countries have shown toward fed propaganda. The, outside world has a right to believe that the Moscow government feels desperately insecure. Prospects of Peace But for Russia and Italy, the world could settle down to good prospects of peace for a generation or two at least. Though traveling in opposite directions. these two countries have one thing in common, and that is abandonment of a political and social order which the rest of the civilized world has come to regard as best. Russia sponsors tyranny from the bottom, while Italy sponsors it from the top, but both have set aside the basic idea of personal liberty on which modern republicanism is formed. Bolshevism Destructive The civilized world recognizes the destructive influence of Bolshevism, but for some inscrutable reason it fails to see the equally destructive influence of Fascism. Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this day and generation is the popularity which Benito Mussolini enjoys, not only in Italy, but in countries whose traditions, laws and political systems are utterly opposed to his theory of government. Asa matter of common sense, his efforts are bent toward setting the clock back five centuries. He already has done more to destroy the guarantees of constitutional liberty which were developed through the British, French and American revolutions than any living man. Racism Pictured H. G. Wells draws a bitter but all too faithful word picture of Fascism in current History Magazine when he says: “Italy is now the sick land of Europe, a fever patient, flushed with hectic resemblance of health and still capable of convulsive but not of sustained violence.” Fear of Communism Fear of Communism has caused many people to look with favor on Fascism. That, and that alone, is the only logical explanation of the favor with which Fascism has been treated, especially in other countries. It is the worst kind of illusionment, however, to suppose that one extreme cures another. The idea that dictatorship represents the best way to overcome radical tendencies is just as absurd as was the idea that Napoleon represented a wholesome remedy for the French revolution. Coolidge Starts West President Coolidge has started west with a cat. a raccoon and entourage of eighty-five persons and the hope that his summer sojourn among them will have a good effect on the farriers. The chances are that it will. Whether as farmers or city dwellers, we have cultivated the art of being impressed by gestures. Thinking Out of Fashion The habit of thinking appears to have gone out 6f fashion, especially in terms of principle. One hears nothing so common as the opinion that while a third term might be undesirable! there doesn’t seem to be any one available who can take Coolidge’s place. This republic was founded on the idea not only that people were capable of selecting • their leaders, but there always would be plenty of capable leaders to select. If that idea is wrong, we might as well abandon the republican form of Government. If, on the other hand, it is right, we ought to quit imagining that out of a nation of 110,000,000 people there is only one man fit to be President. May Discover Leader Six months ago nobody supposed that Charles A. Lindbergh would try to fly from New York to Paris, much less than he could do it. All of us can recognize him as a hero now, but that is of no greater significance than is the fact that none of us could recognize him as a hero then.. Six months hence we may discover an able and courageous political leader whom we know nothing about today, but who is with us, Just the same as Lindbergh was with us last fall. How can mussel shells be cleaned and polished? First rub the shells with the finest i powder, on a piece of wet flannel, then polish with oxide of tin or putty powder, and finally with whiting, applied by the ball of the thumb without a cloth,

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AUCTION BRIDGE by MILTON C. WORK Bid No Trump to Partner's Informatory Double if - Suit's Stopped.

The pointer for today is: Bid no Trump in answers to your partner’s informatory double of a suit-bid, if you have the suit stopped and no attractive MajorSuit Declaration. Yesterday’s Hands South one Spade, West double, North pass; what should East declare, holding:

NO. 1 NO. S 4 A-Q-7 ft J-9-7-2 9 K -10-8-4 f 9-6-2 4 J-6-1 4 8-7-4 4 10-7-5 4 >4-2 NO. 2 NO. 4 4 A-9-6-3 4 6-6-.V2 9 74-2 9 9-6-3 4 8-5-3 4 8-74 4 94 7 4 54-2

My answer slip reads: No. 1. East- should bid two Hearts. No. 2. East should bid one No Trump. No. 3. East should bid one No Trump. No. 4. East should bid two Clubs. My reasons in support of these declarations are: No. 1. A Heart answer is better than a No Trump as it probably will fit with the partner's hand. South, lacking Ace-Queen of his suit, may not open it at No Trump; and in that event East would win only one Spade trick. No. 2. The adverse suit is stopped safely and the hand contains no other four-card suit. No. 3. A most unattractive situation. A Business Pass should never be made with weakness; a bid is essential and the choice is between one No Trump and two Clubs. The adverse suit probably is stopped and the No Trump declaration is a contract to take only seven tricks, whereas the two-Club declaration calls for eight. Also, the Club bid would deceive the partner concerning the number of Clubs; so No Trump seems to be the lesser of the two evils. No. 4. Just as in No. 3, a bid is essential. The choice, as in No. 3, is between No Trump and Clubs; but here there is little hope that the Spades will be stopped. Therefore, the two-Club bid, although it indicates four Clubs, will not convey as serious misinformation as the No Trump which indicates a stopped suit. In this case two Clubs is the lesser evil. Today’s Hands South one Spade. West double, North pass; what should East declare, holding:

NO. 5 NO. 7 4 K-Q-8-3-2 4 64 9 7-5 9 Q-9-8-5 4 64-2 A-10-6-3 4 7-54 4 7-5-2 NO. 6 NO. 8 4 K-Q-8-3-2 4 7 4 64-2 4 A-Q-J-10 4 7-54 4 K-10-8-3

Bridge Answer Slip of June 14th No. 5. East should.... No. 6. East should No. 7. East should No. 8. East should Are the national banks and trust companies going to close June 21. election day? No.

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: Bringing it right down to brass tacks, whose business Is it, anyway, if a reputable physician prescribes whisky in cases of serious illness? For the life of me I cannot understand why a man like E. S. Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League should object and undertake to stick his nose in other people's business, law or no law. If a practicing t physician and the patient's family | led that doses of whisky are bene-x ficial to a sick man. w-oman or child, why should it not be administered? Dozens of different kinds of habitj forming narcotics and drugs are given sick people without the least protest on the part of men like Shumaker or any attempt to prohibit them by a foolish law. It seems to me that when any man or woman gets the prohibition bug in their brain or bonnet, it destroys every element of common sense and common fairness these people would ordinarily be expected to exercise. They become obses.sed with a fanaticism that borders on madness, and which apparently renders them incapable of functioning rationally. There is no occasion for all this long-winded argument pro and con ; over the necessity or non-necessity of medicinal whisky. It is an individual matter for each and every physician to decide for himself, based upon the desire of the patient or those of his family who are supposed to be in charge of the sick room. It is truly amazing that in the light of this so-called twentieth century intelligence the people of a State like Indiana would so far i forget even the commonest elements ; of tolerance and decency as to permit a State Legislature to prohibit the prescribing of whisky in cases where a reputable practicing physician deems such remedy as neces- ; sary to the patient's well-being. U TELLEM. i To the Editor: Your editorial, “Market Cussedness,” came to my attention last night. From this it appears that the corn belt farmer is the victim of a comedy of errors,” “Market Cusssedness.” It is to laugh. Let us say rather that It is a lack of independent thinking. “Grandpap made a living from corn and hogs, and so can I,” says the corn belt farmer. Also, he votes the I straight Republican ticket, because grandpap did! Mr. Armour and Mr. Swift can put their feet up on their mahoga- | ny desks, tilt their two-bit cigar to an angle of forty-five degrees and tell you with absolute certainty Just ! what the composite John Farmer

Brain Teasers

The first five of today’s questions relate to American Inventions and inventors. Answers to all the questions wiU be found on page 16: 1. What two men of the same last name were leaders in the invention of arms and munitions used in the World War? 2. With what invention is Samuel F. B. Morse credited? 3. What prominent Inventor is identified with the early development of the talking machine and moving pictures? 4. What machines in general use today were long manufactured under the Selden patents? 5. Who Invented the sewing machine? 6. What Is the approximate speed of light? 7. What is a “light year?” 8. What explorer sought the fountain of youth in Florida? 0. What name is given to a flying machine designed to rise from the ground vertically? 10. What Is the body of an airplane called? 11. Drawing horizontal and perpendicular lines through Indianapolis. what is the length and width of the State? 12. How many countries, townships, cities and unincorporated towns are there tp the State!

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of I-ow-e-ah or Illinois, is thinking at any hour of the day, or any day in the week, and make their plans accordingly, always one jump ahead of him. The corn belt farmer can solve his economic problem by getting out of the beaten track, produce something which his neighbors do not—specialize in it, produce the best; thereby getting out of the competitive field, and getting his own price. He can solve his political problem by organizing himself a nice lit - tie nonpartisan league ala North Dakota, thereby putting the fear of the Lord into the hearts of the politicians. The farmers do not have to elect a President to get what they want in the way of legislation. The place to start housecleaning is at their county courthouse, then on to the Legislature. The remedy is in their own hands. A READER.

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JUNE 15, 1927

Likes Change The Indianapolis Times; Gentlemen, I have noted with a great deal of satisfaction the new kind of type which you have used recently in your paper. It is a marked contrast to the black bold faced kind which is generally used, and is especially restful to the eyes. I am especially pleased to compliment you on this change and believe that your many readers dill gladly accept your improvement. Sincerely yours. DON HERR.

Mr. Fixit Aid in Cleaning Alley Is Sought.

A west side resident today sought the aid of Mr. Flxit in cleaning the alley in rear of his home in the 900 block Roach St. Dear Mr. Fixit; Try and intercede for the people living in 900 block Roach St. For goodness sake, get someone to try and clean up our alley. It is in a very bad condition and one can hardly drive to his garage for fear of ruining tires. Children have thrown everything imaginable, including fruit jars and doll baby carriages into the alley. There is a big hole in rear of 953. See if you can’t help us. HAWKEYE. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health secretary, ordered inspection of the alley. Relief will be givee if possible. The street commissioner already had the holes listed for repair. Dear Mr. Fixit; I wrote you about garbage collection and they collected it once. But they have not collected for three or four weeks. Can you help me again? MRS. C. W. H. 124 E. Southern Ave. Your case was presented to the garbage collection department. Questions and Answers What was the retail value of automobiles sold in 1926? The retail value of new cars sold in the year 1926 was 33,496,600,000; the value of used cars sold in the same year was $847,083,000. What is the meaning of the name* Hally and llerschei? “fialiy" is English and means “holy.” Herschel is from the German and means “ruler.” What is the weight of the biggest trout ever caught? The biggest ones of which we hava any record v.as a lake trout weighing 60 pounds. Which State has the greatest number of miles of surfaced roads? Indiana comes first with 48.125 miles. What is the largest bird? a The ostrich.