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3J uihana ilailii Slimes
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
Ad-ertislng Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos.
—“THIS IS THE YEAR”—
“WOOD’S name to to on Oregon ballot,” says, a headline. What for?
HENRY COUNTY REPUBLICANS have indorsed the tax law "with
reservations.”
DOC MORGAN says the health board wants complaints about insani
tary conditions. W T hy not investigate those already made about the county
Jail? !
THE TEACHERS want more pay, the children want more school build
ings and it begins to look more and more like the business heads the
school system want brains.
WHEN MR. ADAMS gets through managing J. W. Feeler’s campaign
will he give the taxpayers something in return for the thousands of dollars
ihey have paid him for ornamenting the prosecutor’s office?
NOTHING DOING, Mr. Barry. This community demands schools for
Its children as well a9 fair play for its teachers, and if you are unable to
see the necessity for both you have no business on the school board.
COUNTY AUTHORITIES sent a summons to the penal farm for Mc-
Nulty on the theory that he was serving a court sentence there. He could
not be found, and it’s a safe guess that the same thing would hold good in
hundreds of other cases
BETWEEN managing Fesler’s campaign, conducting a grand jury in
vestigation of Sheriff Miller's malfeasance and finding a good reason for
not bringing indicted members of the county administration to trial, Claris
Adams is the busiest little prosecutor we ever had.
McAdoo and Money
William G. McAdoo has contributed a few timely words on the subject
of pre-primary expenditures which are in marked contrast to the “expla
ntftions” which are being made by the Wood managers of the lavish use
of money in Gen. Wood’s interests.
Mr. McAdoo was asked two questions by Edward Keating, editor of
Labor, a magazine published in Washington. Mr. Keating assumed that
Mr. McAdoo was a candidate for the presidency and the assumption brings
the declaration from McAdoo that he is “not a candidate.” This declaration
is, of course, applicable only to the definition of a candidate as it is gen
erally accepted. In the sense that he is available as the democratic nomi
nee Mr. McAdoo must be regarded as in the lead of all democrats as possi
ble candidates. Mr. McAdoo writes to Mr. Keating as follows:
“My campaign” is not financed because there is no campaign for me.
Nothing whatever has been expended by me to dlte in connection with the
nomination for the presidency, nor do I expect to spend any money what
ever in connection therewith. There are no contributors to any campaign
fund for me and I know of no fund of any character which Is being used in
my behalf, or is to be used in my behalf, nor will there be any before the
next national convention, otherwise I should be perfectly willing to make
v sworn statement of such expenditures together with a list of contributors
and furnish same to the press. You know, of course, that I am not a can
didate.”
In answer to the question. “Are you willing to join in an appeal to
ongress to immediately enact legislation which will compel all candidates
for the presidency to make sworn returns to some official of the national
government, showing all moneys expended by the candidates, or any one
acting in their behalf, together with the names of all contributors to the
candidates’ c .mpaign fund, or to any fund which may be raised in their
behalf?" Mr. McAdoo says:
“Yes, emphatically.
“I think the corrupt use of money to nominate and elect candidates to
office is one of the most sinister and serious menaces to democratic insti
tutions. No corrupt practices act can be made too stringent to suit me"
The Carefree Driver
The orgy of disregard for traffic regulations and ordinary precautions
that has*b§en on in Indianapolis for the last few weeks culminated yes
terday in a particularly deplorable fatal accident in the very heart of
Indianapolis. •
The particular responsibility therefor remains to be fixed, but the
general responsibility for this and similar accidents is too apparent to be
much longer ignored in Indianapolis.
In no city in the United are irresponsible, untutored drivers
of motor vehicles permitted to menace the lives of others in such smug
complacency as is every day exhibited in Indianapolis.
The majority of the motor vehicle operators of Indianapolis would be
in trouble with traffic policemen five minutes after they entered any large
city of this country. The trouble would be developed Immediately by such
driving as can be attributed to the worst kind of incompetency or the most
reprehensible kind of selfish indifference.
The greater number of motor drivers in Indianapolis appear to feel
that the streets are maintained for their deliberate and exclusive use.
They amble through the most congested districts with the carefree attitude
that might govern a lonely rowboat in the center of a placid lake. They
know not or they care not for either the rights of other drtvers or the
rights of pedestrians.
The driver who attempts to travel Washington or Meridian street in
strict compliance with the rules of traffic could not cover a city block
without smashing at least one automobile whose driver exhibits no com
prehension of traffic regulations.
Accidents occur hourly due to nothing except the failure of drivers to
exercise those ordinary precautions that ought to govern progress whether
behind a motor or on the sidewalks of a busy street.
Driving a car in Indianapolis is a nightmare. Safe driving depends on
ability to calculate what fool thing the nearest driver will do and expert
ress in dodging the menace that is constantly presented by the ignorant,
the foolhardy and the self-satisfied.
There is no real traffic problem in this city.
The problem is what to do with the driver who fails to exercise his
trains.
Frequent fatal accidents that are wholly unnecessary and often crimi
al are the price Iridianapolis pays for failure to compel its motorists to
loam to drive.
Common Sense Needed
The position assumed by the teachers the Indianapolis schools rela
ive to the failure of the school authorities to meet their demands for
additional compensation is wholly justified.
The particular process of reasoning by which Albert Baker, attorney
for the Indianapolis Water Company, George Hitt and a long string of other
clients whose interests are inimicable to the school affairs, arrive at the
conclusion that a bonus can not be paid is little short of silly.
The financial condition of the school city may preclude the payment
of the bonus requested, but there is no reason in the world to base a declina
tion of the request on the ground that a bonus is a gift and the board has
no right to give away school funds. Other school cities have not been
estopped by such sophistry and Indianapolis is not likely to be halted by
such advice.
This kind of an opinion is in line with the foolishness that character
izes the present business administration of the schools. It is designed to
protect the lack of good business judgment that has resulted in the waste
of hundreds of thousands of dollars of school money in the past. It is one
method of covering up the lack of business sense that has brought the
school city to a point where it has no money for the proper operation of
the schools or the continuation of a building program.
It is not surprising that the school teachers declare they have assumed
the attitude of pupils to their teacher in their relationship with the school
board for too long a period.
It is time some sense was injected into the management of Indian
apolis’ schools.
NIBLACK’S SUIT MAY UPSET
INDIANA POLITICAL SITUATION
When Mason J. Niblack, candidate for
the democratic nomination for governor,
filed an attack on the republican board
of election commissioners' interpretation
of the primary raw ne pulled the pin of
a grenade, the explosion of which may
upset the fondest hopes of the manipu
lators of the republican camp.
If Nlblack's suit results in the injec
tion of the second choice vote into the
governorship race it will result in the in
jection of the second choice vote into
the presidential preference contest which
is confined wholly to the republican party
in Indiana.
Whom will the' primary support for
president on the republican ticket in
event the choice •is left wholly tet the
voters ?
The success of the Niblack suit would
raeau an instructed'delegation from In
diana to the Chicago convention. Wood,
Johnson, Lowden or Harding would
ecptnro Indiana's delegation and the best
observers believe that Gov. Lowden of
Illinois will be the victor in a primary
fight of this kind.
Supporters of Wood could hardly be
expected to select Johnson as their sec
ond choice nfter Johnson gave their fa
vorite such a drubbing in Michigan.
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On the Spur Os
The Moment
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She was apparently a lady of refine
ment. Sbe had all the hallmarks of the
elect. Her clothing was faultless and
there was a look of keen lntelleetualltt
in her face. With her was a beautiful
tittle boy—-not exactly a Little Lord
Tauntleroy, but a little chap with bis
l eyes and u wealth of tousled hair.
I noticed them, the Udy for her dig
rifled hearing and the l>oy for his bright
i face, as I sat down Just In front of
; them on the suburban train Pretty
; coon I hoßrd the little boy say. evl
| dently referring to me:
I “Ain't that a funny hat that man hus
got on? Ain't it an old hat, mom!"
No reply.
: “Ain't he a funny looking man, mom?
I Ain't he?"
No Vepiy.
j “Ain't it funny when a man has got
n boll on the back of his neck. .mom.
i ain't It? (We happened to have one
! that morning.)
, No reply.
“Ain't there nothing to do about boll*
on the back of the neck, morn, niu't
| there?”
“Shut upl” came the voice of the lady
“If you use that word 'ain’t' again I
1 am going to soak you on the bugle, now
take it from me. How often have I
got to tell you not to use that word
I'ain't V "
“HOLD THE POSE."
: So Douglas and Mary are married.
The minister's words have been said.
Let the pres* agent* rattle
Their type mills and prattle
For Mary and Douglas are wed.
A marriage these days is a venture
Financially, it may go wrong
But when each <au clear
Five millions year
They ought to, somehow, get along
If in need of entertainment and can't
afford the theater, the next best thing
Is to sit at home and read Col. George
Harvey's opinion of Woodrow Wilson.
I Charles M Schwab tells us to laugh
lat present day troubles. All rlglitf Char
; lie, but If we bust a gallus or anything,
j you'll have to pay for It.
When Eve held fortlfi In Paradise
She found much pleasure In it.
For when she did her Monday wash
It only took a minute.
•
Columbus discovered America and he
died Balboa discovered the Pacific anff
he died. DeSoto discovered the Missis
sippi and lie d'ed. “Now," asks Frank
Cleary, “what is going to happen to the
man who is going in a rocket to dis
cover Mars?”
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1920.
They have already gone on record in
Indiana against Senator Harding, who
has been denounced so vigorously as the
stalking horse for the old guard Inter
ests.
Lowden has £one nbout his campaign
on a constructive basis and has made no
enemies in Indiana. He is the logical sec
ond choice of the Wood faction.
Second choice of the Lowden voters
would probnbly be Harding, as they are
not generally of a class that can be
stampeded t by any such a radical' and
spectacular*, campaign as Johnson has
been making and they are not at all
fond of the Wood campaign methods or
the supporters of Wood in Indiana.
Harding’s supporters could reasonably
be expected to go to Lowden as the only
candidate who has not in sonip way
antagonized them to the boiling point.
LOWDEN MADE
GOOD IMPRESSION.
Lowden made an excellent Impression
In Indiana recently. He talked business
and he let ioose of no fireworks that
would in any way drive votes from him.
He made what Is likely to become the
best bid for second choice votes that has
yet been made and there is no reason to
believe that if the primary is to settle
Indiana's preference for the presidency
on the combination of first and second
choice votes, Lowden will be that choice.
If Niblack wins his suit he will prob
ably have the distinction not only of
having bettered his own chances of
nomination, but nlso of having forced a
republican preference and upset tile
fondest hopes of the Watson-New com
bination to iusure uninstructed delegates
from Indiana.
The democratic party will not be af
fected in thu presidential situation by
the Niblack suit for the teason llmt there
are no candidates for tl*e preferential
race.
in the governorship fight the situ
-1 atlon is different.
, Mr. Niblack could reasonably' expect
second choice votes from John Isen
, barger, James K. Klsk and Carleton B.
McCulloch. In event Niblack and Mo
Culloch were the leaders In the first
choice vote,. Niblack would win wltb the
second choice. In event Klsk and Mc-
Culloch were the first choice leaders,
neither would profit much by the second
The Young Lady
A cross the Wa y
ilk
The young lady across the way says
she doesn't see why people with in
somnia worry so much about it and
she'd adivse them to try getting a little
inor * sleep and see if that wouldn't help.
Hold Your Nose
The garbage plant'at Indianapolis.
The Globe Mining Company and Its
convict laborers.
The coal contract—so strangely can
celled when discovered.
The wholesale dismissal of convicts
from prison.
The murderer chauffeur —out on
parole.
The tax law.
The Marion county jail scandal.
Goodrich.
Goodrlchisin.
Indiana republicanism.
It Is to hold one's nose —anH await
the opening of the polls.—Ft. Wayne
Journal-Gazette.
choice of Isenbarger or Niblack sup
porters for the reason that the second
choice vote would be scattering.
It is generally conceded that Dr. Mc-
Culloch will be either first or second in
the first choice vote. Whether risk or
Niblack will be the contender is more of
a problem but the present indications
are that the first choice will lie between
Niblack and McCulloch and will be rea
sonably close.
With Isenbarger eliminated, neither is
likely to show any great gain as a re
sult of his second choice. With Risk
eliminated, Niblack will probably obtain
a great many second'choice votes for it
is hardly likely that after the Ft. Wayne
flnreup the Risk supporters will give
their second choice votes to McCulloch.
MAKES McCULLOCH’B
TASK DIFFICULT.
With the second choice votes under con
sideration Dr. McCulloch has a much
harder task before him to capture this
nomination than any other candidate,
regardless of ’whether he obtains a plur
ality of the democratic first choice votes.
To be safe he would he compelled to
i obtain a majority of first choice votes,
! and that is generally conceded to be
jan impossibility.
| In the republican governorship contest
J. W. Fesler will be the better off with
second choice votes counting. He will
! doubtless be second on the first choice
count, while McCray has a wide lead.
But he ought to have the greater part
; of the Eh C. Toner vote on second choice
and there does not seem to be any rea
j sou in the world why he should not lie
| the republican nominee in event of the
j success of the Niblack suit.
[ There are several reasons why this suit
i Is likely to be sncce.ssfid. In the first
j place the attempt to amend the primary
j act was an admitted botch and lawyers
j generally agree that it is very doubtful
j whether the court will permit the amend
j ment to stand.
I In the second place, the suit has been
I brought in a hotbed of Fesler support
I and whatever influence the public mind
I might have on the decision Is sure to
| be a reflection of Fesler sentiment. —In-
| dlana I’ubllclty Bureau.
| ;
How McAdoo Handled Two
Big Jobs at Once
When Wlison announced Ms cabinet
k after his Inauguration in 1913. It In-
Minded the. name of William Gibb* Mc-
Adoo ns secretary of the treasury. Then
four years later when, as a war meas
ure. the government took over the rail
system of the country, it was on Mc-
Adoo's shoulders that fell the burden
of administering the lines,
“I thought I was pretty busy with
treasury affairs, but it was a man's
Job when I had to divide my time be
tween the treasury department and the
railroad administration,'' says McAdoo.
“The only wav I kept ray health wss
to force myself to stay in tied eight
hours every day, whether I slept or uot.
I usually spent sixteen hours a day at
work.
“I used to start the day at 8 o'clock
with a light breakfast with Mrs. Mc-
Adoo. Then I would walk to the treas
ury department, carrying with me tw
portfolios—one containing papers of th*
treasury and another for the railroads.
I spent the forenoon clearing away
business, conferring with heads of de
partments and talking to a d<>ien or ao
i visitor* who had business with tha
tro*ur;r.
“At 1 o’clock I usually walked back
| to my house for luncheon, and then I
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Hear Senor “Friscoe” at Keiths
Next Week
Senor “Friscoe,” the wizard of the xylophone, includes in his
act at Keith’s Theatre next week the most extraordinary' feature
of the whole program.
Friscoe accomplishes the unusual feat of playing a duet with
himself. You hear the living Friscoe and at the same time you
hear ThomasA. Edison’s Re-Creation of his playing.
This new marvel of music is made possible through that won
derful instrument—
THE NEW EDISON
—“ The Phonograph With a Soul ”
Go to Keith's and hear this most unusual act —let your own ears
prove to you that there is not the slightest difference between the
playing of the artist and the Re-Creation of it by the New Edison. Bear
in mind that this is not a stage "stunt,” but a scientific tone-test, just
like the 200 others that have been made by the leading artists of the
worid.
Hear Friscoe —then come here and let us show you the exquisite
“period" cabinets in which the New Edison is encased.
THE EDISON SHOP
Adsit Music Cos., Owners
122 North Pennsylvania St., Opposite Keith’s
would ride to the Interstate Comm e-re
building, where the rail administration
was housed. I rarely ever ‘.eft my of
fice there before 8 o’clock at night.
Then I went home, taking with me my
two faithful pottmanteaus of documents.
"As soon as I bad finished dinner—
which Mr* McAdoo usually saved for
me, even If I was late some night*—
t wept to ray bedroom, undressed and
Jumped into bed, and then on a little
writing set I began going over papers
1 had brought home with me in my
portfolios. On some I would check on
•O. K.' on others I would ask more
details, and so on. I tried to make
myself turn out tho light at midnlghv
every night.”
During the war McAdoo was rarely
seen at cabinet dinners. When he was
DINTY’S PARTY WILL HAVE TO CHANGE DATES.
HONESTY IS THE WORST POLICY.
not In Washington, everybody ’learned
to know he either vss on a tour of
inspection of the railroads or on a
speechmaking trip for Liberty loans.
Many a time, he said, he was gone for
two and three weeks at a time, sleeping
every night on the train, transacting
urgent business and keeping in daily
touch with his home bases at Washing
ton.
THAT “BOTANY” ALL RIGHT.