Indiana daily times. [volume], August 26, 1920, Home Edition, Page 6, Image 6

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3hthtana Satin STimrs
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351.
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
Advertising Offices I Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos.
I New York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc.
A local newspaper suggests that the front page campaign is all over
but the shouting and a correspondent suggests Mayor Jewett as the
yell leader.
MAYOR JEWETT pompously proclaims that gambling in negro pool
rooms must stop. Goosie Lee says "we have and we will.” Who Is
entitled to the most confidence?
THE STEADY PROGRESS toward guaranteed dividends on street
car stock through the “service at cost” scheme indicates that the bulk of
it has gravitated toward the “proper” safe deposit vaults. .
Admitted by a Republican
One of the peculiar things about this campaign, nationally, state and
locally, Is that the democrats are able to prove their contentions wholly
by reference to the words of republicans.
Witness of this fact is the recent pronouncement of Will N. Craig,
former editor and publicity manager of the republican state committee,
regarding the league of nations. Mr. Craig expresses the hope that the
republican party will not continue "to poison the minds of the people by
false statements.” He says: •
“The senate charged Mr. Wilson with defeating the treaty by insisting
on its ratification without the dotting of an i or the crossing of t. That
is not true. The president insisted that only ‘nullifying’ reservations
should be cut out, but did not object to ‘interpretative’ reservations. He
did not object to the Taft reservations, which the democratic senators
agreed to vote for, and which the republican senators turned down.
“Lodge once said that he was not against the treaty but against Wil
son. High-minded Senator Lodge also said that to make a separate treaty
with Germany would ‘disgrace and dishonor our country.' Now Candidate
Harding says that it is his policy, and Lodge, Johnson and the other irrec
oncilables say ‘Amen.’
“I heard Senator New at Turkey Run and read the speech of an Irish
orator at Turner park Sunday. Both stated that England had six votes
in the council of the league of nations to one for the United States. This
is not true. There are only nine votes in this council. England has one
and the United States has one.
“However, the assembly has as many votes as there are members of
nations in the league—sonfe forty. In this assembly members of the Brit
ish empire have votes, such as Canada. India, etc. So has Cuba, Panama
and other dependencies of the United States. If Cuba is allowed a vote
in the assembly should not Canada, and if Panama why not India? The
assembly has no vote in the final analysis of world questions, hut is of an
advisory character. All final votes are left to the council, where nine lead
ing nations have one vote each.
“Another ‘bogy’ that is worked to the limit is the howl about sending
onr boys abroad to fight in foreign wars. Now how could the league ‘force
us’ to do.this when it is provided that all action of the council, to be
binding, must be unanimous, including, of course, the vote of the United
States ?
"And further, no war can be declared by the government without the
act of congress. That Is proved by our constitution, which is above and
superior to all laws or treaties.
"In fact all the arguments of the enemies of the league fall to the
ground if put to the test of fact and law.”
The Cost of Goodrichism
The recent announcement from Auditor Fesler that the combined tax
levies in Indianapolis will reach $2.30 this year ought to be sufficient to
demonstrate to every taxpayer in Indianapolis the extent to which he has
been buncoed by the pledges of the republican party as to taxes under the
Goodrich law.
A tax rate of $2.30 is only 14 per cent less than the tax rate of $2.68,
which prevailed in 1918, before the Goodrich legislature enacted what the
republican state committee choose to pronounce “the best tax law pos
sible under our constitution.”
The total value of all the taxables in Indianapolis in 1918 was
$276,592,380.
The valuation on which It is now proposed to place the $2.30 tax
levy is $602,525,000, or an increase over 1918 of 54 per cent
In the second year of the Goodrich tax law the people of Indianapolis
are confronted with a tax levy only 14 per cent less than under the old law
regardless of the increase of 54 per cent in the valuation of their property.
The enormity of this increase in taxes and the utter disregard of
pledges made when the Goodrich law was under consideration can be
better realized after perusual of these parallel columns from the editorial
pages of the Indianapolis News, which has at all times approved the Good
rich tax law:
August 27, 1919.
“Thosp who are disposed to get
excited over the great increases
made by the state tax board in the
valuation of property would do well
to wait for the fixing of the levies.
Perhaps when they get their tax
statement they will find that it is
lower than last year. The law re
quires that no more money shall be
raised than under the old iaw, ex
cept under certain specified condi
tions. therefore the levy must be re
duced as the appraisement is in
creased."
Time to Speak Up!
The Hoosier State Automobile association is causing to be circulated ;
in Indiana a "warning” to autoists against other associations of automobil- <
ists w'hich it asserts are represented in Indiana with "the usual result that
the motoring public is relieved of thousands of dollars for which they get
no good.”
The Hoosier association’s “warning” also says that “each year, be
cause of misuse of mails or by simply disbanding, a number of such asso
ciations disappear from public view. Some of these associations are now'
represented in Indiana. They are privately owned organizations—for
profit.”
If the Hoosier State Automobile association has any evidence in its
possession to prove that any organization for profit is by “misuse of mails”
relieving “the motoring public of thousands of dollars for which they get
no good,” it is the duty of the association to lay its evidence before the
United States postal authorities where it will receive quick and careful
attention.
The Times does not know' whether or not there is any association of
motorists operating in Indiana in an illegal manner. The Hoosier asso
ciation attempts in its warning to class any and all other associations as
frauds.
Yet it does not appear to have the moral courage to name the associa
tions which it declares are “misusing the mails” and relieving “motorists
of thousands of dollars for which they get no good.”
The Negro Menace
Just for the purpose of showing its leaders that its position relative
to the menace of the negro vote in Indianapolis is not based on race or
political prejudice, The Times herewith reproduces an editorial from the
republican Chicago Tribune which applies with equal force to the condi
tions existing in Chicago and in Indianapolis:
“Political manipulation of the negro vote has given privileges just as
the manipulation of any vote usually involves permitted evasions. The
mayor benefits from the vote and must take responsibility for the existence
of disorderly places conducted in violation not only of law but of funda
mental decency.
“He not only is mayor but he is the particular political boss of the
negro vote. A crime ring w r ith a mixture of races i3 a dangerous organi
zation. Something may start in it which may go far beyond the natural
horizon of a disorderly resort. Booze, black and white women, black and
whiter gamblers and politicians make an unhealthy combination for any city.”
August 25, 1920.
"Though the average man takes;
no great delight in paying taxes, he
will be glad to know just what
taxes he is expected to pay. Every
ono must realize that tbe expenses
of government, as of everything else,
have increased. That being the
case, more money will, ot course, be
needed. The trouble is that the
people were led to believe that
under the new law no more taxes
would be collected than before.
THAT WAS A FOOLISH STATE
MENT TO MAKE—AND YET IT
WAS MADE”
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Is there an Invention to enable the
blind to read? When was the first high
school established? This department of
The Times will tell you. If you have
a question to nsk send with a 2-cent
stamp to The Bally Times Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. C. The answer will be
sent direct to you.
BLIND CAN READ.
Q. Is there anew invention to eu
able the blind to read? It. E. L.
A. The optophone, a recent Invention
now being manufactured in England,
reads aloud from the printed page, some
thing after the manner of a phonograph,
and can be manipulated by au ordinarily
Intelligent blind person. It is run by
electricity.
“E PLURIBUS UNUM.”
Q. What Is the origin of “EJjPlurlbus
Unum?” C. N.
A. Tho motto ‘‘E Plurtbns Unum”
occurs originally in a Latin poem “Mo
retum,” attributed to Vergil.
GREATEST PARACHUTE DROP.
Q. What is the greatest height from
which a parachute drop has been made?
F. ATM.
A. The present record of 19,800 feet,
or slightly more than three and one-half
tulles, was made last dune at a Texas
flying field by an officer of the United
States air service.
“SKILL OF OKAWA”
Q. What is meant by the “Skull of
Okawa” In the peace treaty with Ger
many? L. V. S.
A. This has reference to former Ger
man possessions in Africa. The skull is
to the natives a symbol of sovereignty.
The territory involved is nearly twice
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jobbery Travel More Than 1.000 ihlesmerw
the size of Germany. This territory lies
northeast of Lake Xyassa. When a
chief dies his son keeps Uls skull as a
symbol of kingship. When the Germans
defeated the natlres they obtained pos
session of the skull and It helped in the
colonization of German East Africa.
ORIGIN OF MUSIC.
Q. Who originated mi's’e ns we know
It? M. W.
A. Palestrina, who lived during the
eighteenth century, is the recognized
father of modern music.
HAROLD LOCKWOODS DEMISE.
Q. When did'Harold Lockwood, the
movie actor, die aud where was he
burled? C. H. T.
A. Harold Lockwood died in Now
York City. Oct. 10, 1918, and was burled
in Woodlawn cemetery, New York City.
PARTNERSHIP TAX.
Q. How Is a firm which is a partner
ship taxed under the present Income
tax law? D. B.
A. Under the revenue act of 1918, a
partnership is not taxed as an entity as
in the case of a corporation, but the in
dividual members of the partnership are
taxed on their respective shares of the
annual earnings of the partnership
whether distributed or not. An annunl
return of Income must tie made by the
partnership, however, on form 1065.
FIRST HIGH SCHOOL.
Q When was the first high school es- 1
tabltshed In the United States? I. L.
A Thu first school of this character
was established in Boston In 1821.
MOST POW ERFUL TELESCOPE.
Q Where is the most powerful telo- ;
scope In the United States? M. E. K. j
A. The new telescope of the Mount I
Wilson observatory In California has j
this rank and is 250,000 times as powerful s
as the human eye.
SILVER PRODUCTION.
Q. Which country has produced the
most silver? E - r> . |
A. In the last .VO years Mexico has
produced more silver than any other
country In the world.
branding horses.
Q How are government horses
branded? * •
A. The Remount division of the quar
termaster corps says that the horses nr.-
branded in the following manner: ill
"V S is branded on the left shoulder
when purchased. (21 “S" Is branded on
left shoulder when sold. (31 “I. C." is
branded on the neck when the animal is
found unsound, and means “Inspected
and condemned.”
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
Q. WN*t Is the cost of publishing the
Congressional Record? k. L. It.
A The cost of publishing the Con
gressional Record, the government pub
lication recording daily every thing that
is said and done in congress, was $537, •
040 last year, and practically the same In
1918.
WOMAN HAMMER THROWER.
Q. Who Is the champion woman ham
mer thrower of England? J. L. G.
A. The champion woman hammer
thrower of England Is Miss M. Young,
who has thrown the eight-pound hammer
a distance of 30 feet, 7 Inches.
HOLD THE FORT.
Q. What Is the origin of the phrase, |
“Hold the fort for I am coming"?
G. H. J.
A. The message, “Hold the fort! I j
am coming!” was signalled by Gen. Wll-|
11am T. Sherman to Gen. Corse in Al- |
toona from tbe top of the Kenesaw
Mountain, Oct. 5, 1864.
hold friendship party.
Wednesday evening was spent by the
employes of Krause Brothers Men's
Furnishings store at the home of E. L.
Booth, 145 West Thirtieth Rtreet. This
was the first of a series of “friendship
parties” planned by the employes. An
Informal lunch was served.
BRINGING UP FATHER.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,1920.
T one of the streets in beautiful Rainbow Annex has
Slßn l no name. Were going to pay somebody S3OO for a
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a mighty big christening party the day the name is an-
We want you to * n on party *
x Here’s all you need to do.
•flBj * Think up the most attractive name for a street that
you can imagine. Write that name on the coupon in
this ad. Then sign your own name and mail or bring
\ the coupon to our office.
Here are the iciiies We w jH exchange it for tickets entitling you to free
Any white person may enter this contest—and any number <* transportation to and from the party, as well as a ticket
Jlf pa people in the same family may compete. Hut only one name will be . r , .
& jt accepted from any ono contestant tO the DarOeCUe.
n Write your suggested name for the street in the spare provided for _ • i*ji i
Hq3k* // it on the coupon. Then your own name, cut out th coupon and Don t fail to get your name in early, as the number
/ corner"\va*-'uingt!m andtieridiarstreei; Merchanu Hank Huil,llng - we can accommodate* is limited—you’re liable to see an
WI S? “” d ,d ' announcement any day that the lists are full. And you
gW S Awards will be made on the grounds at the Barbecue by the follow- DO Want tO be present On the big day Ot JOlilflCatlOn.
HE $ ing judges: 11. H. Prescott, Howard Young and C. A. Bookwalter. . . . . . , i • o
The winner mu t be present when his name is called or tho money YOU Ve nO Idea the pi’OVlSlOn We re making lOr yOUT
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9 No employee or relative of an employee of the Homeseekers’ •
JH Realty Company may compete. \
NOW, MAGGIE, YOU’VE DONE IT.