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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Moridian Street.
Telephones —Main 3500, New 28-351 ,
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—“THIS IS THE YEAR”—
HOW does the proposed erection of that Elks home affect the pros
pects of the mayor's coliseum and plaza dream?
RAIsPH lantQKß has put Leonard Quill in charge of his headquar
ters and his Mends say he is devoting all his attention to the Measurer’s
office* Will this affect the amount of illegal fees collected from delinquents?
HOWEVER HARD they try, the Wood managers in Indiana do not
appear able to bring themselves to the point of offering to show their
check stubs.
McAdoo and Unrest
William Gibbs McAdoo, the man who is capable and willing to lead
the democratic party to success at the November election, has some very'
pronounced ideas on the subject of industrial unrest
They are ideas that have been gathered by the closest kind of con
tact with industry and they are ideas that can not be disputed.
Mr. McAdoo doee not cloak them in a haze of references to this kind
of democracy and that kind of democracy when he sets them out. He
speaks a language that everybody can understand when he says:
"The right of workers to organize for collective bargaining and to quit
work to enforce their demands must be unquestioned.
“Enlightened effort should be made to establish legal agencies through
which differences between labor and capital may be heard, and, if pos
sible, composed,” but he points out that no law can be passed which will
make a man an effective worker if he does not choose to be one.
“Efficiency rests on co-operation and contentment; it can not be pro
duced by compulsion," he says.
“There is no power which can make a man work if he doesn't want to.
We might as well face that fact first as last. In the future It must be the
test of statesmanship that It shall bring about social Justioe and make
unnecessary violent paroxysms within the industrial fabric. It is the
bitter truth that in the past labor has rarely, If ever, secured any improve
ment without the strike. The fact that labor has this power makes its
just exercise a matter of supreme importance. It should never be exer
cised in 6uch a tyrannical way as to imperil the life and health of the
community, and resort to it should always be deferred where it affects
those vital industries on which the life and health of the community de
pend, until every effort has been exhausted through instrumentalities
created voluntarily or by law to satisfy the situation.
“The starvation wages paid to teachers by rich states and municipal
ities is a striking case of injustice. A proper wage is not paid because
taxes would have to be increased to a small extent. We can not get a
sufficient number of competent teachers to conduct our schools, and we
are imperilling the education of our children through a policy which is as
unwise as it is indefensibly parsimonious.
"No organization of society can be enlightened or tolerable which
does not provide adequate opportunity for men and their families through
thrift and industry to be decently fed, clad, and housed, and to earn a
sufficient surplus to enable them to provide against misfortune and old age.
"A strike among policemen, firemen, or other civil servants is a matter
on a peculiar footing. These men are sworn to uphold the law. When
they break faith it is as reprehensible as when a soldier refuses to obey,
orders. They can not defy the 6tate. The paramount rights of the com
munity must always be inflexibly upheld. This very fact, however, im
poses upon government a high duty to deal justly with them. It is no
torious that public servants are underpaid. As they can not be permitted
to strike for higher wages, government must not take advantage of their
helplessness by refusing adequate pay or forcing injustice upon them.”
“This Is the Year ”
Democrats of Marion county have awakened to the fact that they
never had a better chance to win an election than Is presented to then}
light now by the absolute demoralization that prevails tn what was once
a republican party and which is now divided in a conglomeration of
than fifty-seven varieties of republicans.
They have also awakened to the fact that ia order to carry Indiana
they must have a good organization and ticket in Marion county.
The ticket will take care of itself. There are already a lot of mighty
good democrats ready to make the race for county offices.
Consequently, the democrats who have the interest of their party at
heart are now turning their attention to the organization.
They are looking over the field and sizing up the candidates for pre
cinct committeemen with a View to getting men on the Job who will not
be induced to lie down at the last minute and allow the republicans to
"put a Newberry over” in Marion county. They have not forgotten that
Thoma* Taggart lost to Jim Watson simply because three democrats in
each precinct failed to go to the polls.
"This Is the year.”
Under this slogan the democrats of Marion county are preparing to
forget a lot of differences and work for the best interests of their party,
supporting those men for organization jobs about whom all can rally. They
are freely expressing a desire to stand for men that the other fellow can
also stand for and the result predicted is that the democrats will have an
organization in Marion county after May 4 that will be equal to the task
of giving the voters of the county aset of officers who can roust out the
machine that enacted the tax law, invented "skip-stop” highways of ce
ment concrete, worked the convicts ©a privately owned coal mines and
made paroles more popular than flivvers.
The Susstnan Case
The criminal courts of Marion county continue to function in a man
ner most pleasing to those politicians who regard the enforcement of
criminal laws as their own particular province. The recent case of
Elmer Sussman is an excellent example.
Sussman was arrested on a warrant charging a criminal assault on a
girl whom he escorted home from a dance licensed by the city adminis
tration. He was taken into city court, where Ralph Spann, city court fee
grabber for Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney, refused to prosecute the
case. Spann declared there might have been an assault, but not criminal
in its nature and having usurped the function of the court by deciding the
case before it was presented, he so far neglected his oath of office as to
compel a brother Qf the attacked girl to conduct the only case which was
presented to Judge Walter Pritchard.
Instead of realizing immediately that the prosecutor was failing to do
his duty and assigning a prosecutor to prosecute the case on its merits,
Jiylge Pritchard fell into the same trough with the prosecutor and refused
t 6 bind Sussman over to the grand jury, declaring that the evidence
which was not properly presented because the prosecutor sworn to present
it refused, did not warrant holding Sussman to the grand jury.
Friends and relatives of the injured girl were not satisfied with this
miscarriage of justice in Judge Pritchard s court and took the case directly
to the grand jury itself.
The grand jury heard the evidence which Spann refused to present in
city court and found that there was justification for a trial of Sussman in
criminal court. It returned an indictment charging criminal assault.
Sussman was released on his own recognizance by Judge Collins in
criminal court, without apparent rhyme or reason.
Eventually Sussman came to trial on the charge Spann had refused
to prosecute.
Sussman was found guilty in criminal court.
But has he been punished?
He has not.
Judge James A. Collins is "withholding judgment pending good be
havior" by Sussman.
There never was a case on the dockets of the Marion county courts
that cried to heaven so loudly for a complete investigation of the rotten
influences that have moved the officials sworn to enforce the law in the
case of Elmer Sussman.
It should never be forgotten that Alvah J. Rucker, "ex-good govern
ment prosecutor," appeared as the attorney for Sussman.
Wood Neglects What He
Is Preaching
Wood Neglects What He
Is Preaching
Gen. Wood la a great apostle of ef
ficiency. One of the reasons for his dis
tress over a democratic administration
In Washington is that It Is so inept and
wasteful and inefficient.
Asa candidate and spending his own
money or the money of*his friends, It
would seem that the general would set
an example of economical use of funds.
The exact opposite is true. Democratic
newspaper offices are flooded with ex
pensive pictures of the great military
hero showing his smile In Boston or his
frovrn in Schenectady. What could bo
more inept, inefficient, wasteful and ex
travagant than for a republican candi
date to tend his expensive propaganda to
democratic editors who wouldn’t be al
lowed to poke their noses Into a repub
lican primary.
With spot paper selling up to about 12
cents a pound, the envy of the democratic
press Is aroused at an organization that
can use bales of it for propaganda sent
Into their office and which they can not
possibly make use of. While the poor
democratic publisher is groaning under
the burden of securing paper at the pre
vailing price, the Wood organization goes
into the market and buys recklessly eveu
from the scanty store.
Funny, Isn’t It, that the people who
are so censorious of the extravagances of
others never apply their precepts to their
own conduct. —Evansville Courier.
Says We Are Too Harsh
With Wood
Editor The Times—You are unneces
sarily harsh and cruel In dealing with
the candidacy of Gen. Wood. Your ef
forts are sadly wasted, because Col. Wil
liam C. Proctor, who has underwritten
the Wood candidacy, will see that "it
floats" Into the whitehouse. And why
not? His candidacy is “W\i P er ceut
pure.’*
The general can not be blamed If his
candidacy la unanimously supported by
the Plattaburg pouter pigeons. He must
get support from somewhere, and sup
port gilded with the gold of the allk
•tocklng soldier Is a very valuable aaset
In any political campaign.
Besides, the general will get the “sol
dier vote,” because the Plattsburg pouter
pigeons will command It Just as they
ccmanded the “bucks” in the recent war.
And they are born, commanders. Ask
any "buck” if they are not. The pouter
pigeons will make the “bucks" fall In
and support the general.
So please be kind and merciful to the
general. He and his "Plattsburg pouter
pigeons” have a lot to learn. They will
find that the "bucks” 'are no longer in
the army and will not be “disciplined”
Into support of the general or any one
else. A HOUGH NECK “VET.”
Pittsburg, Pa.
Making the Home Garden
a Beauty Spot
Beds of the lower growing annuals
should be made along the walks, around
foundations of houses, In corners and In
some cases around the outer edge of the
front yard lawn: never make formal beds
In the center of a .greensward, or small
yard, as this has a tendency to show
overcrowding and makes your yard ap
pear smaller than It Is, while an open
yard, nicely surrounded, appears larger
than it Is.
Where many flowers are wanted for
cutting. It Is well to set aside a part of
the regular back yard garden, supplying
rich soil and giving samo cultivation as
the vegetable garden.
Where a large, fast growing vine Is
wanted, plant the Moonflower, .Japanese
or Brazilian morning-glories; and where
a delicate, medium climber i* desired,
plant cypress vines, which has red. white
and rose-colored, star-shaped flowers.
Then there Is the Cardinal climber wltlr-
Its bright array of red, star-shaped
flowers, offset by a dense mass of me
(Hum, flne-cut, dark-green foliage.
A bed of pansies along the walk or on
the out< Ide of the house foundaiion
flower bed always is effective and can be
made more so by giving It a back
ground of popples. Which can be followed
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920.
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The Young Lady
Across the Way
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The young lady across the way says
she understands Liberty bonds may be
bought now at about 00, but that seems
rather high for a SOO bond and not
everyone can afford the larger ones.
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with asters, zinnias, petunias where these
plants have been grown In a reserve bed,
and are moved into the poppy bed as soon
as these drop their petals.
For a border or clump of yellow and
orange-colored profusion, there is noth
ing as satisfactory as calendulas, and, If
kept cut, they will flower profusely all
season.
For a white border, edging and also
massing, sweet mignonette and sweet
alyssum, and for blue, ageratum should
be uaed. These are aleo excellent for
cutting for boquota. Other well-known
flowers that can be made to do excellent
decorative service are lark-spur, cox
cumb, corn-flower, phlox, tall and dwarf
marigolds, dwarf zinnias, etc. Those who
are not familiar with these need but ask
someone of the older neighbor women,
most of whom remember tho lovely beds
of these plants from the old home place.
Says Committee’s Work
Meets Approval
The decision of Tbomss Taggart not
to withdraw his name as candidate for j
the democratic nomination for United
States senator will meet with general
approval. Mr. Taggart’s record while In
the senate was one which commanded
the admiration of members of all par- j
ties. Being strletly a business man he
refused to be bound by antiquated sen- ;
ate rules, and voted according to hlr
own conscientious beliefs giving n<-
heed even to party regularity, it wll. ■ j
be recalled that Mr. Taggart state*
when first going to Washington that
he entered the senate with much ttn
eastness, not being an orator, but that
he M#>n discovered that there was ample |
room In the highest law- making body
of the nation for a plain business man
Mr. Taggart will he elected this fall
over Senator' Watson by an overwhelm |
lng vote. The voters arc sink and tired
of sending to office men who think
only in terms of party polities, and Mr, j
Taggart’s senate record Is such as to 1
assure the Toters that he will look aftes j
their Interests first and all the time.
Mayor Hotse, Evansville, who wns ac- j
!ectc4 by the state committee ns suc
cessor to A. C. Sallee ns state chairman, I
Is reputed to be aa active, hard-working. I
<;>nl>le man. Mr. Sallee was compelled
• . n’t ire to look after bis personal f- I
fairs. All lu all she meeting of the
state committee turned out satisfactorily .
and will meet with hearty approval.—i|
Hnnfington Press.
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