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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-03
DuvaII's Campaign Fund

HE surprising interest that gravel con-
Germ, an asphalt concern and street con-
tractors displayed in the campaign of John i.
Duvall, mayor-elect, is just being brought to
light by list of contributions filed by the Du-
vall-for-M Mayor Club with the city clerk. These
concerns were interested according to the re-
port, SO much that they contributed several
hundreds of dollars to the fund of the club.
Of course, there could be no connection be-
tween the fact that these concerns are in the
business of building streets and sidewalks and
the fact that the city administration lets con-
tracts for the construction of streets and side
walks.
The report of the Duvall-for- Mayor Club
is one OF the most brazen acts committed in de-
fiance of public opinion, if not of the law, that
we can remember. At least, Duvall's hackers
should be commended for their frankness in
telling where their campaign funds came from.
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Cruelties of the white" counter
revolution of Horthy we're a hun
dred times worse than those of the
reds. Prof. Oscar Jaszi, who is pro-
fessor of sociology at Oberlin Col
lege in. Ohio, and who is one Of the
greatest opponents of bolshevism,
says i'm his book Revolution and
Counter-R Revolution in Hungary
"The terrorist actions of the reds
usually revealed the cruelty Of coarse
and ignorant men; the whites
worked out a cold and defined sys-
tenn of vengeance and reprisals
which they applied with the cruelty
Of scoundrels nasquerading as gen
tlemen."
The present prime minister, Count
Bethlen.- declaims about democracy
before the League of Nations to gain
financial support Of the western
countries. But how can there be
democracy in a country where one
million and half people have been
deprived of the right of voting, and
where the ballot in the rural dis
tricts, whichTepresents three-fourths
of the couRtry, is an open one?
The pivot of the present internal
situation in Hungary is the land
question. The Inequality of distri-
button Of land must be changed. 1t
is typical of the present government
That whereas Hungary's neighbOrS
have gone into these reforms more
or less successfully. Hungary. the
most rural state of all, has not
moved a step in this direction, with
the result that, although she is now
underpopulated. the peasantry is
rapidly emigrating, and Count Beth
len himself admits that in the last
five years $4,000 people have emf
grated to France.
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A Sermon for Today


put a new thrill of hope in his life.
When Jesus saw a Peter in the
rough Simon before Him, Simon be-
gan to see the Peter too.
There is no greater service you
can render man than to help him
discover his possibilities. If you
see in a man a capacity for some
thing worthwhile and get him to
see what you see, you have started
that man on the road to success.
That was what Jesus did for Simon
of the fishing boats. Thou art
Simon-thou shalt be. Peter"
There is many a Simon today, fill
ing now only a little place, not do
ing much good. and yet having In
him splendid capacities for service
and usefulness, If only somebody
would come along and help him to
find himself. 1t is unfortunate when
man thinks he can not make much
out of his life and is surrounded by
friends who think so too. There Is
many a man living his life through
in just that position, and yet hav
ing in him qualities and POSSIBLE
ties, which If found and brought out
would make him a great blessing tc
the world. Maybe you are in thai
position, and maybe this little ser
mon is the Masters voice saying t.
you. Thou art Simon-thou shall
be Peter"
Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gum
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Let Mr.. Fixit solve your troubles with
cdty officials. He is Tho Times repre-
sentative at the city hall. Write him
at The Times.
A plea from an humble pedestrian,
who is forced to walk along the
street car tracks because building
materials have been piled on the
sidewalks, was In Mr.. Exits mail
pouch today.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: It is very
disagreeable for any one who is
compelled to walk on S. Delaware
st. and McCarty st. On the east
side of the street a large building
is under construction and for a
square building materials are
stacked along the sidewalk and
street. forcing a person to walk
along the car track.
On the west side a tunnel is be-
ing dug. On neither side has there
been any provision for a temporary
sidewalk.
SOUTH DELAWARE PEDESTRI-
ANS.
The building commissioners de-
partment will investigate at once.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: When will we
have the new street signs? Strangers
are lost in this fair city.
INDIANAPOLIS BOOSTER.
The Merchants Heat and Light
Company told Mr.. Fixit Athe sign
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remotely menacing the American republic !?
We're you inspired by what she said to rush
out and march on Washington to plant the
Red flag on top of the White House?. Did she
make Bolshevist of you? Or Communist?
Or an Anarchist? Have you started any revo-
luton or thrown any bombs?
No? Then what could have thrown Sec
rotary Kellogg into such stew?
Could it have been that he feared to have a
foreign lady to go about this country telling
American audiences that she believes in re-
publican form of governments
Could it have been that she was barred be-
cause of her open admission that she is fol-
lower of the doctrines of that ny-handed,
farm-born rail-splitter Abe Lincoln?
Or was it because of some other radical,
not to say revolutionary, belief of hers-like
free Speech free press and the right Of adult
citizens to vote-that caused her to be regarded
as dangerous?
But wait Maybe this is it.: Remember,
gentle reader, Countess Karolyi's description
of the Charity BallY Remember her telling
how the mere, common trades person borrowed
the Duchess handkerchief and blew his nose
Perhaps the Secretary saw some subtle propa-
ganda in that, Communizing the pocket hand
kerchief is, we confess, something our aristoc-
racy must be guarded against. We've an un-
commonly large number of trades persons in
this country and the habit if popularized
might quite conceivably prove to be just that
sort of boring from within that would wreck
some OF our most exclusive social institutions
particularly in the hay-fever season
Now if none of these was what worried
Secretary Kellogg, we give up We'll let you
make guess. What do you think upset him
500 We'd sincerely like to have your opinion
for, admit it we must, we are downright
puzzled.
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Merrill organization as assistant to
w. G. Bobbs, the president. This
connection was made in 1903. In
1907 he became a member of the
firm and in 1921 he was elected a
vice president.
Well7Known Editor
Mr.. Chambers Is editor. with
Henry Van Dyke, of Poems of Ten
nyson" and is vice president and a
director Of the National Association
OF Book Publishers. He was born
In Washington, D. c., and was
graduated from Princeton in 1900.
He distinguished himself as an I'm.
dergraduate in tho university and
numerous honors were conferred
upon him, among them the fresh
men first honor prize, the class Of
1870 sophomore prize, the Junior
prize In English literature and the
Nassau Lit Oratorical prize. He was
a fellow in English literature and
received his masters degree a year
after his graduation.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

some Julietta. though there are
two or three details to be adjusted
before the change can be effected.
What's to be done with the un<
fortunate inmates now housed at
Julietta? II the county can't find
money to operate Julietta az an in
sane hospital how will 1t find
money 10 run the institution as a
county orphanage?
No doubt the present system of
sending orphans and other depend
ent children to institutions scat
tered throughout the State to be
maintained at the cost of Marion
County is expensive and perhaps
unsatisfactory in some ways.
Theoretically a county home for
them would be cheaper.
However. the county made any
thing but brilliant record in oper-
ating Julietta as an insane hos
pital. Money was wasted on the
institution. 1t isn't likely that the
county administration would be
more successful operating an or
phanage.
To the Marion County taxpayer
Julietta is a white elephant call it
hospital, orphanage. or what have
you?
AS far as he is concerned he
would be well satisfied If county
officials would steal forth some
dark night and slip Julietta into
the pocket OF the State or of some
unsuspecting private benevolent
organization.
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WAS THERE ANY
REAL SAVING?

@0HE Indiana State tax COM
mission, according to its
- annual report just COM
piled. during the last fiscal year
reviewed tax levies Of 113 taxing
units and made reductions amount
ing to S1,554.O04.
Apparently it saved Hoosier
taxpayers a lot of money-so its
report may be a signal for ZAP
plause from John ]. Citizen. But
was there any real saving?
Among the Ievies, reduced last
year was that for the Indianapolis
schools. The tax commission pared
that rate to S1s cents below what
even the local demonstrators asked
and then patted itself on the
back for its accomplishment.
But the action didn't save the
Indianapolis taxpayer a dime-ex-
cept temporarily. 1t merely post
poned needed new school buildings
and school expansion, which must
come sooner or later and for which
the taxpayer must eventually pro-
duce the money.
The chickens are already begin
ming to come home to roost. The
indianapolis school rate fixed this
fall. after school board, citizens
committees and civic organizations
had sweated every superfluous
item from the 1926 budget, is 171s
cents higher than last years
school levy established by the
State tax commission.
Quite. likely the review Of levies
by the commission has a salutary
effect in some instances in curb
ing extravaganza by some local
government units. However the
taxpayers of a locality are as
capable Of determining what
should be spent for their local pur-
poses as three distant and austere
dignitaries sitting in the State
house.
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THE CHARLESTON
AND HEALTH

~1R. HERMAN G. MORGAN,
secretary of the Indianapo-
LII lis board of health, thinks
that excessive dancing of the
Charleston likely to result in dam
age to the heart muscles. Along
with other i'll effects on the
dancers health.
Just as we expected. Every new
diversion or Fad taken up by the
younger generation is usually pro-
nounced by their elders and
medical gentlemen as detrimental
to youths soul, liver or lights.
Back in the days of leg o'mutton
sleeves when a lady's ankle was a
crime, bicycling was the rage.
Eminent medical gents inveighed
against the pastime as deleterious
to health and morals. Dire things
would happen tc those who
pedalled enthusiastically. Nothing
did. The craze ran its course and
died out without causing anything
more serious physically than a few
skinned noses.
So with the new dances from the
tango to the fiea-hop. Each has
been criticised as injurious to
health. Probably IL the minuet is
ever revived-which heaven for
bid-it will be charged with
causing ossified joints and
rheumatism.
AS for the Charleston there is
no proof that its dangers are
physical. If any Charlestoner has
dropped dead on the floor it hasn't
been from overexertton, but from
homicide-the result of kicking
another Charlestoner on the shins.
The Charleston spectator is more
likely to burst a blood vessel than
the dancers.
OF course the Charleston shakes
up the internal economy of its
devotees. So does horseback riding
so frequently prescribed by learned
physicians for fat and fiabby
gentlemen OF ample ,girth and
purse.
BY shaking a wicked, exhilarat-
ing hoof now the younger genera
ton may not have to do so much
jolting along bride paths on the
angular hurricane deck OF a hexse
of old Gothic architecture-under
the Doctors orders--in their old
age.
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Now What Do You
Think Scared KELLOGG?

EO7 course you have been reading Countess
VI Karolyi's own story running for the past
week in The Times.
But did you solve the mystery9
The Countess had intended coming over
mere from France to do little lecturing. Sud-
denly, however, Secretary of State Kellogg
slammed the door in her face and would not
let her come in. Why?
We figured the answer would surely be
found in what the Countess had intended TO tell
American audiences So we cabled her to tell
YOU through our columns, what was on her
mind-just what she would have said had Kel-
log allowed her to come and say it herself.
Well, now that she has said it, what do
you think of ito Did you discover ANYTHING
that frightened you? Did you see ANYTHING
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Building Material on Walk
BY Mr.. Fixit

plates VIII arrive about the middle
Of December.
Mr.. Fixit suffered a test for
versatility when letter drifted in
seeking data on shoe repair
schools.
DEAR MR.. FEXIT. You may be
surprised to get such letter as this
but what want Is a little informa-
ton. Do you know OF any shoe re-
pairing school in Indianapolis? I
have a. son who wishes to learn the
NJ l. B.
II there's anything Mr.. F1xit
didn't know, it was this, but the
Indianapolis school board informed
Mr.. Fixit you probably could OBJ
tain the necessary information
from Hermon P. Knecht, 5S06
Beechwood Ave., who has taught
classes in shoe repairing. The
Chamber of Commerce knows of
no school Suggest you confer
with Knecht.
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The Highway Case

Tn7OLITICIANS again are coming to the de-
II tense of the State highway commission,
which four years ago sold thousands OF dollars
worth of used war material without COMPETE
tive bids.
On March Of this year, John D Williams,
superintendent of the highway department;
Bari Crawford, who now holds two State jobs
as member Of the commission and superin-
tendent of the garage; George Barley, former
superintendent of the garage and Moses Gold
berg, Victor Goldberg and G. William Whaley,
Junk dealers, were indicted. Indictments
charged conspiracy and the last three named
were charged with grand larceny.
Why have not these persons been brought
to triali
Assuredly, Prosecutor Remy has been busy
since these indictments were returned, but this
case is one Of vital Importance to the whole
State of Indiana and one which should be dis
posed of.
A report on the conduct of the highway
department was made a year ago by the State
board of accounts. That report was impound-
ed by the Criminal Court. The public would
like to know and should have the right to know
what is in that report. 1t concerns the con-
duct Of State department that is handling
millions of dollars of the taxpayers money.
Prosecutor Remy is quoted as saying:
This is one of those cases that can run along
without any material difference 1t will not
make any difference when the defendants are
tried since the status Of things in which they
are concerned will not CHANGE
We have great respect for Mr.. Remy as
public official, but we differ with him decidedly
in this case.
Doesn't it make difference, Mr. Remy,
whether millions of dollars in State funds are
being handled by men who are under indict-
ment~ charged with conspiracy to embezzle?
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The Peacock Throne was brought
from India to Persia.
Where was the land located that
was given to Lafayette by the
Government Of the United States
in 1924? Did he ever live on it?
When Lafayette visited the United
States in 1S24-1S25 Congress award.
ed him q. township in Florida and a
sum of money in recognition of his
services during the War of the
Revolution. The land was in Jeffer.
son County, east of the capital. Tai.
lahassee. Lafayette was never able
to visit the region himself. but on
his return to France he sent out a
number of his fellow countryYnen to
settle on his land.
What is done to aliens who
enter this country in violation of
the immigration laws and regula-
tons?
If found they are taken into Gus
tody and deported.
What is Gen. j. J. Pershing's
full name? What is the highest
rank he has attained?
John Joseph Pershing. General.
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In due time the manuscript was
returned by Dr. Van Dyke with a re-
port on 1t and note saying he had
been unable to give time to the work
out had turned it over to his Sec
rotary, whom he regarded we'll
equipped to pass on It.
The report by the secretary was
considered an especially fine piece
OF literary criticism and so i'm.
pressed the Bobbs-Merrill executives
that they wrote DR.. Van Dyke ask.
ing for his secretary's name.
The secretary was Mr.. Chambers
then recent Princeton graduate
Chambers was invited to come out
TO indianapolis to take a. place in
the Bobbs-Merrill organization, but
1t SO happened that he had Just &C.
copied new position as assistant
to the managing editor of the Ladies
Home Journal.
After few weeks with the Jour.
nal he was persuaded to relinquish
that position and join the Bobbs.
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EDITORS NOTE Barred from the
Unite Estates presumably because Of some
thing she might tell Americans. Countess
k for The was 1sdisnapos rmes and other
Scripps-Howard newspapers. SO their. read
ers might Judge for themselves whether
fed. Here e. is further instaiirzent Of the
Countess narrative.
By Countess Karolyi
tCOpyright,N 1925; by the scripps- Howard
ARTS, Dec. 3. (By Cable)-
~ Seventy years ago Louis Kos
suth, the greatest statesman
Of Hungary. arrived in America to
plead the cause of the Hungarian
democracy.
He arrived on an American battle
cruiser, which had been sent to
Constantinople to fetch him, and he
got the greatest reception ever ac-
corded an European in the United
States.
KoSSuth also was a revolutionary
"a revolutionary against the Haps-
burg dynasty-who had to flee 2rom
his country, and who had to live as
an exile until his death. The Ameri-
can republic was not at that time
afraid of those who made republics
in other countries.
The Austrian Government against
whom Kossuth led his revolution
was friendly to America, and al
though it was a powerful state. the
American Government had no
scruples against giving refuge to
the great exile.
What is this present Hungarian
Government which is treated with
much more diplomatic courtesy than
the powerful Austro-Hungarian en-
pire Of 1S49, so that we exiles Of
the similar revolution of 191S-also
against the Hapsburg dynasty-can
not enjoy the hospitality Of your
shores?
Who is the man at the head OF
the Hungarian State who enjoys
such influence IN Washington?
Governor Horthy, who for six
years has been the regent of Hun
gary. and who is in reality no more
than an agent Of the Hapsburg fam
fly, and admiral of the Austro-Iun-
garian fleet, which he surren-
dered to Jugo-Slavia in October, 1918.
At the subsequent treaty of Yer
saiiles he was on the official list OF
criminals for his outrageous cruelty
toward Jugo-Slav sailors at Cattaro,
and should have been delivered to
the Italians in accordance with the
terms of the treaty.
1t was not he who banished the
bolsheviks from Hungary. The boil
shevik army had been defeated in
August, 1919, by the Roumanians,
who invaded the country. Horthy
at that time was nowhere to be
seen in Hungary. When the Rou-
manians were victorious Horthy
marched in at the head of band OF
counter-revolutionary ex-service men
which he had recruited outside Of
Hungary in territory then occupied
by the allies.
This detachment, headed by Hor-
thy, introduced a system of mass
murders, internments, cancellations.
pogroms and tortures. While the
revolution of 1918, headed by my
husband, is called even today in Hun
gary "the bloodless revolution" due
to the fact that no blood was shed
at the time OF the outbreak, Admiral
Horthys regime is known as a
bloody unter-revolution, stained
with the lives of 5000 innocents.
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|JULTETTA AN
|0RPHANAGE

~1ASSTUS L. HOGLE, Marion
III L County commissioner after
~ Jan. L, proposes that the
grounds and buildings at Ju1ietta.
now occupied as a county insane
hospital. be converted into a home
for dependent children under the
county's care.
At first glance that seems like
an excellent disposition of trouble
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Can you give me description
of the Peacock Throne, the throne
chair of the Shah of Persia?
This gorgeous chair, of state is
encrusted with thousands Of pre-
cious jewels, rubies, diamonds, en-
eralds and SO many others that one
is almost blinded by it's coruscant
splendor. Emblazoned on the back
is a large peacock from which the
throne takes it's name, with it's tall
spread out in a magnificence no liv-
ing peacock ever attained. Taken as
one piece of furniture the Peacock
Throne might easily be called the
most expensive in the world, for it
is valued at $4,000 900. 1t was
brought to Teheran the capitaD by
Nadir. who was Shah from 1876 to
1747. 1t has been in the capital
since 1889. Shortly after Nadir was
crowned he invaded India, laid waste
to the country and sacked Delhi.
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Announcement was made today by
w. G. Bobbs, president of the Bobbs-
Merrill Company, Of changes in the
editorial staff Of the company's
trade department brought about by
the recent resignation Of Hewitt H.
Rowland. who has become editor of
the Century Magazine.
d. l.. Chambers, vice president Of
the company. has taken over the
literary advisory work of Mr.. How
land and becomes entirely RESPONSE
BILE for the acceptance Of manu-
scripts by the trade department.
Charles D. LaF'ollette, formerly as
sistant dean of the school of bust
ness administration of Harvard Uni
versity, has. been made assistant to
Mr.. Chambers.
Mr.. Howland's work in New York,
which concerned keeping in contact
with authors and the literary
market, has been assigned to two
members Of the Bobbs-Merrill New
York staff-Maxwell Alley and
Thomas R Coward. Mr.. Alley is the
son of the president of Butler Uni
versity and is a graduate of Indiana
University. He now-lectures on cur
rent literature at Columbia Uni
versity.
Mr.. Coward is a Yale graduate and
until three years ago. when he be-
came connected with the Indian
apolis house. he was a member of
the Yale University Press.
Chambers association with Bobbs-
Merrill Company came about through
the acceptance of Elizabeth Miller
Hacks manuscript for the novel,
1.-THE Yoke"
How 1t Started
When Mrs. Hack, then a young In
dianapolis girl. offered her man
uscript, which dealt intimately with
Egypt, she was unknown as an au-
thor. but the Bobbs-M Merrill readers
gave the story such praise that the
editorAn-chief read 1t at once.
He likewise was favorably i'm
pressed by 1t and decided on early
publication. Notification of the ac-
curacy Of the descriptive accounts in
the manuscript was deemed neces-
sary, and after considerable casting
about for an authority on the sub
ject, the manuscript was sent to DR..
Henry Van Dyke of Princeton Uni
versity, with the request that he
carefully examine 1t.
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You can get an answer to any ouea-
ton of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau 1922 New, York Ave. Wash
stamps for reply. Medical. legal and
martial advice cannot be given nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will received per-
be answered. All letters are confiden.
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me Peacock Throne was brought
from India to Persia.