Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1930 — Page 9

JAtf. 9, 1930.

STATE HAS PAID COUNTIES' DEBT, HOUGHJiSSERTS Not to Blame If School Aid Funds Are Squandered, Assessors Told. “There can be no deficit in the . tate aid fund and Indiana doesn't owe these southern county town;idpe a single cent. They have overspent their allowance with money that should have gone for the payment of teachers' salaries.” This was the view of the present state aid school crisis exponded before the annual conference of assessors and state tax board members by William A. Hough, former tax board member and attorney of Greenfield. It has been contended there is a $1,000,000 deficit in the state aid fund. Hough addressed the opening session Tuesday afternoon. Sessions were resumed today with addresses by Pliny H. Wolfard, state tax board member, and Clarence Ullum, state Inheritance tax collector. Traced Developments Hough traced the development of the state aid law. He pointed out that it was set at a certain percentage of the school funds of the state to be distributed to needy townships to pay teachers' salaries. "Then a strong lobby appeared at the next legislative session and got permission to use these funds for other expenditures,” the speaker explained. “The result has been that tire money has been spent for everything out teachers' salaries. It has been wasted buying books and supplies and paying parents for transporting their t wn children to school; “But when these over-expendi-tures are made there can be no deficit. The state made a voluntary contribution of a stated sum and when thin was paid not one cent more actually Is owed. Tax Burden Increased “There is no more reason why the state should cover the debts of these southern Indiana townships than that they should make up the $300,000 deficit that is owed by the schools of Gary.” Hough’s speech generally was devoted to the matter of property exemption. He asserted that every legislative session for the last twenty years has been removing property from the tax duplicate and thus increasing the tax burdens of that which remains. “These magnificent buildings that are tax exempt and yet not devoted to general public use should certainly be placed back on the tax duplicate,” he contended. Purchase of the Citizens Gas Company by the city of Indianapolis will take $20,000,000 from the taxables here, he pointed out. Exemption of the $175,000 Typographical Union headquarters by the court was cited as another Indianapolis example of tax loss. “Result of these exemptions Is an unjust and Inequitable tax burden,” the speaker concluded.

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY JUDITH CAMERON, typist In * N*w Tor* puolUfctng office, attract* the interest of ARTHUR KNIGHT, executive o t the ftrm. Knight is a reserved widower. lonely since his daughter, TONY. 18. and Msn. JUNIOR. 18. spend most of their time away from home. Judith fascinates Knight. H* take* her to dinners and concerts. Meanwhile the girl continues to keep mysterious appointments with a young man known onj as ' DAN.” KATHRYN TUPPER, office executive, has acquired a dislike lor the girl because of Knight's favor. Miss Tupper gives Judith the most distasteful tasks. At the end of a whirlwind courtship Knight asks Judith to marry him and she accepts. The next evening she Is nervous and distracted and tells him she has something to confess. He laughs and refuses to listen. They plan a six weeks’ honeymoon In Bermuda. Knight supplies the money for an elaborate trousseau They are married or a Saturday morning. When they hoard the liner to sail Judith la proud and thrilled. Suddenly in the crowd on the dock she sees Dan. Tears come Into her eves. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOfcY CHAPTER SIX SAILING down New York harbor was thrilling to Judith. She stood close to her husband, leaning against the rail. Sharp breezes buffeted her skirts and whipped crimson into her cheeks. Knight forwned (the sun shone in his eyes) as he pointed out familiar beacons of the skyline. The yellow light hit the water and sparkled back again. It caught up diamonds in the spray and flung long shadows on the ivory whitness of the decks. Lower Manhattan. Those amazing. pompous turrets. Telephone building, pyre-like Bankers' Trust .structure, Woolworth, Equitable Trust, a dozen others. How they glared down on the murky river with its pretentious ocean liners, snorting. wheeling little tugboats, ferries and freight barges! Past Brooklyn. Past the untiring Goddess, who symbolizes freedom. On past Staten island and then at last on to the gray Atlantic. Judith, long, long after, could shut her eyes and still see clearly the panorama of the harbor unfolding just as it had that morning. The morning of her marriage to Arthur Knight. He told her so much as they stood against the rail, anticipating questions before she asked them, delivering an elementary lecture on seamanship. The pair were among , the last to leave the deck and go in- , side. Judith was wearing her broadtad coat and the Agnes turban. She I looked Parisian with the added dash of independent American glrl- ; hood. From topmost tip of the turI ban to narrow black suede toes she was groomed smartly. Valley lilies \ poised upon her shoulder tied with | white ribbons. They were her wed- | ding bouquet. Arthur led the wav to their cabin. A bright-faced young steward obligingly assisted. A ship cabin? A veritable bower of baskets and boxes of roses instead. "Why—Arthur! ” He wheeled. Diplomatically the steward had ducked Into the corridor. Arthur Knight and his bride were alone at last. Judith found herself In her husband's arms, Arthur's shoulder so comforting, Arthur’s kisses ardent and comforting, too, Arthur roughing her hair with clumsy, caressing fingers, whispering his adoration.

A prayer at that instant arose from the Inmost center of Judith Knight’s heart. “Dear God,” the prayer said, "teach me to love my husband.” She wanted to love Arthur Knight. With all her soul the girl wanted to love him. She raised her blue eyes then to the fervent brown ones. “Dearest!” said Judith. She was quite unaware that this was the first time she had ever addressed Arthur Knight with a term of affection. a m • JUDITH and Knight were both delighted to discover, as the trip wore on, that the girl was a natural sailor. There were stiff winds before the ship reached the gulf stream. The sea became so rough that portholes had to be closed. Sea legs were as natural as land ones to Arthur Knight. Now he found that, no matter how the sea might pitch and roar, Judith was good for five times around the sun deck each morning. She enjoyed lazy afternoons in her steamer chair, well tucked up in blankets. Sometimes they braved the gale along the ship's railing and tried to count the flying fish. It was a game in which the one who counted the most fish could decide whether they should go into the lounge and have tea there or hunt up another couple for bridge. When Knight won he said "bridge.” When Judith was arbiter she voted "tea.” They had their meals at the captain’s table and Judith thought the slim, sharp-featured officer unusually interesting. He had so little to say but his words had such point. She was equally attracted by the ruddy, weather-stained bronze of his face. Arthur Knight picked up acquaintances. He knew the ship’s officers, found one or two men with whom he had had business relations. and he brought them all to Judith. Knight fairly radiated pride : when other men paid his pretty | young bride compliments. The : fact that Mrs. Knight was so constantly surrounded by masculine attention set tongues going in many a strictly feminine circle of busybodies. nun THERE were several other honeymooners on board. There was : one other couple just married who \ sat at the captain's table. Then there were two middle-aged sisters i there who affected the brightest of sport clothes. There was a solitary elderly gentleman whom no one seemed to know much about. There was a 1 Germanic young man who said he ; was enjoying his first vacation in seven years. There was the very attractive Mrs. Franklin Monroe West and her less obtrusive husband. Mrs. West was a flamboyant brunet, probably 35, though looking nearly ten years less. Her gowns were as perfect as Judith Knight’s i and she wore far more jewelry.

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Mrs. West was vivacious, generally popular, and she urged her friendship upon Judith. The middle-aged sisters were snobbish. The young brides with their youthful husbands somehow looked askance at Judith (or so she thought). She turned to Mrs. West gratefully. “My dear,” the older woman said to her the second evening, “since it’s your first trip you really must let me take you about. It’s so fearfully important meeting the right people. Do you know, actually I have a friend who came down alone last season who had the most awful experience! “She didn’t know any one on the ship and picked up an acquaintance with a young girl who seemed very attractive. Imagine how she felt after they had reached Hamilton and she learned the girl was a hotel employe! Others who had known it all the while cut her utterly. “Mildred stayed four days and took the boat back. Nowadays you simply can’t avoid them. These shop girls and stenographers are everywhere!” Judith started to speak, then caught her lip. “I promised to meet my husband,” she said. “Heavens!—l’m so late he’ll be turning in a report. Sorry to dash off, Mrs. West—” Though she tried very hard to be friendly and sociable, Judith liked that part of each day best when she and her husband strolled together or sat side by side on the sun deck. Then she could slip her hand slyly under his heavier one and they could have long, sober talks. There were many things to talk about. The house on Long Island, for instance, was to be opened again upon their return. Arthur had asked Judith if she waited to look it over and set a decorator at work before they sailed. The girl was awed by the suggestion, told him she was much too busy assembling her trousseau to commute to Long Island. Besides, hadn’t he liked the place just as it was? Yes, Arthur Knight liked it all right but if there were any changes | at all his wife wanted, they should Ibe made. Very well, until she had t seen the place it should remain unI changed. Then there were the children— Tony and Arthur Junior. Their father spoke of them repeatedly. Judith was convinced there never had been a more devoted parent. As yet Knight had not even confided to them his marriage. He was gay and careless in explaining this: “You see, Judith,” he said, “the kids are going to be crazy about you. How do I know that? Because they’re smart kids. And because I’m looking at you this instant, girl. They’ll fall for you just like their l daddy. I want them, to. Only for ! six weeks I want to forget everything else in the world except just you and me and happiness. I’m not willing to share you even with the i Hoodlums.” ! "The Hoodlums” was a name Tony

and Junior had acquired in their babyhood. * * * * r’ seemed such a short time until Monday morning when, with bands playing and flags flying, they docked at Hamilton. The day was warm, actually like summer. As the liner made its way slowly among the innumerable small islands, Judith hugged the ship’s rail, calling out excitedly to Arthur to look quickly at this and at that. There were merry salutes from the sailboats and launches which played and circled about the ship. From hilltops and all along the water front came waves and cheers. The lowness of the structures, their pastel coloring, in contrast with the gorgeous blueness of sky and sea, quite overpowered Judith Knight. It was almost no time before she and Arthur sat behind a pair of trotting houses hitched to an oldfashioned flat-topped carriage and were driven by a soft spoken Negro driver on their way to their hotel. What a drive! Overhanging tropical shade trees lined the chalky road. Everywhere giant oleanders seemed to be loaded with pink and white blossoms. Hibiscus, flowering as though with scarlet rosettes, were nearly as numerous. Rambling purple morning glories and a dozen kinds of wildflowers which Judith had never seen before added splashing color notes. “Arthur,” Judith spoke tremulously, “I’ve never, never, been so happy!” His eyes were her aswer. There was some delay about i reaching their room and getting the : baggage. Arthur returned downI stairs to consult the clerk and found himself forced to exchange pleas- ] antries with Mrs. Franklin Monroe j West. ! “Oh, Mr. Knight!” the woman 1 cried exuberantly. “I’ve got the most ridiculous thing to tell you. | Miss Squibbs—you remember Miss I Squibbs on shipboard?—well, guess ; what she said this morning!” i Without waiting for a reply Mrs. , West continued: “She pointed you and your wife out and said, I do think_t.hat_Mr Rent a Piano Terms -s Low as SI.OO A WEEK Pearson Piano Cos, 138-130 N. Pennsylvania Poor Teeth—Poor Health I Can Yon Afford to Negleet 'Poors? I Good Work —Moderate Prices The People’s Dentists 36 W 7 est Washington Street HOCBS—B a. m. to 6 p. m. Sundays—9 a. m. to 12 m. EVAN S' EtJSiKE AT ALL GROCERS

Knight and his daughter are so distinguished looking.’ Isn’t that delicious?” (To Be Continued.) BYRD GIVEN. MEDAL Explorer Gets Cuban Group Honor Third Time. Bv Vnited Press HAVANA, Jan. B.—For the third time Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd has been awarded the Cuban National Geographical Society medal for outstanding geographic achievement, the award for 1929 having been given him, it was announced today. Admiral Byrd’s flights in the Arctic and Antarctic were the basis for the award. The Cuban society also considered Captain Carl Ben Eielson for the award, but the fact he is missing in the vicinity of Alaska or northeast Siberia influenced the society to honor Byrd for the third time. The medal was given Colonel Charles Lindbergh once for his Latin-American good will flight. Sir Hubert Wilkins, the British explorer, received it last year. Blast Wrecks Plant pv Times Roecial SHERIDAN, Ind., Jan. B.—The generating plant of the Sheridan ! Gas Company is in ruins today with Ia loss of SIO,OOO as a result of an explosion believed to have been due I to gas which escaped from leaky ! valves. No one was injured.

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