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Palisadian., 1925-02-20
Mayors May Organize

The mayor of Englewood has sent
a communication to the officials of
every town in the county asking that
they join in forming an association OF
mayors and civic officials for the pur-
pose of exchanging ideas and discuss
'ng municipal problems.
The idea is being favorably receiv-
ed and it is believed that every town
in the county will be represented at
the organization meeting, which will
be held at the Englewood City Hall
on Friday evening, March 81.
Palisadian., 1925-02-20
HELP SWELL THE FT. LEE
FIRE RELIEF FUND!

Those who have not yet contrib
uted to the Fort Lee Fire Relief
Fund are urged to do so at once.
Money may be paid to the following
persons:
Palisade
Cashier of the Palisade National
Bank, Captain Harry Elkan or
Ralph Hacker.
Cliffside Park
Cashier of the Cliffside Park Ma
tional Bank
Fort Lee
Cashier of either the First Ma
tional Bank or the Fort Lee Trust
Company.
Coytesville
William J. Ryan.
Palisadian., 1925-02-20
Board of Trade Banquet

The annual banquet of the Fort
Lee Board of Trade will be held on
Hotel, in Fort Lee
program Of interesting speakers
has been arranged, and the banquet
will be a real worth while affair.
Palisadian., 1925-02-20
Of Vital Interest to
Cliffside Park Citizens

Attention of the property owners of
Cliffside Park is called to a notice of
the tax collector which appears on
page four relative to the forthcom-
ing tax sale.
Palisadian., 1925-02-20
FORT Lee FIRE RELIEF FUND CROWS
AS ORGANIZATIONS BRING IN CASH
and PLEDGES FROM The CITIZENS

American Legion Takes the Initiative in Palsade; About
$500 Reported So Far From Palisade Section; Est-
mated Total to Date at About $4,000; Other Boros
Helping; Grant-Lee Theatre to Give Benefit Per-
formances.
Palisadian., 1925-02-20

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-30
Another Investigation
Called For

1.-THE amazing Indictment brought against
United States Senator Burton K.
Wheeler in the District of Columbia has been
quashed by the Federal Court. This is prob
ably the end of the political Conspiracy against
the young man from Montana which began
when he took the lid off the United States
Department Of Justice and revealed the cor
ruption stewing therein.
The United States Senate investigated the
circumstances of the first Indictment against
Wheeler-the indictment that resulted in his
instant a~cquittal by the Federal Court jury liz
Montana when the case finally got to trial.
The Senate's investigation resulted in complete
generation of the Senator and raised a ques-
ton as to the motives of the Justice Depart
ment in causing the Indictment.
The second indictment was brought later
in Washington. One thing it was calculated
to do was to break Wheeler financially, while
still keeping his name under a cloud. Friends
came to his assistance with money, most of it
in sums of one dollar or less, and the general
public now sees no cloud above his name. So
Wheeler, personally, has escaped without real
injury. His reputation has been helped rather
than hurt.
But, now that this second Indictment has
been thrown out, ism a little deeper investiga-
ton by the Senate called fora Shouldn't there
be a examination of the circumstances under
which this indictment was broughtg For just
one example, shouldn't there be a record of the
part played by one George B. Hayes, ''star
witness Of the Montana trial and, admitted
ly, the principal witness before the District Of
Columbia grand juryi
This man had unsatisfed judgments for in
come tax, penalties totaling $S12,643 against
him, as well as other charges, when the Gov
eminent called him back from Cuba, slipped
him into the grand jury room in Washington
and then held him under cover in Montana
until he could tell his weird story to the jury
there.
The use of h isIwitness has had a very ugly
look 80 have many other aspects of the second
wheeler Indictment. The officials responsible
are still in the Justice Department. The Senate
should compel them to explain.
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ing determined to overcome your
weaknesses, to master your faults,
to live a better life. Perhaps you
have earnestly striven to make good
that determination, Yet, as you now
look back, you fail to see any strik-
ing signs of progress. You began
the year with the high resolve to
make your life count for more in
the way Of service and ~helpfulness
to your fellowmen, Looking back
and summing it all up, you feel
that what you have done amounts
to little.
AS you thus look back and view
your moral development and what
you have accomplished during the
year you become discouraged and
wonder whether it is worth while
to renew again the resolutions you
made a year ago. 1 can think of
no more fitting thing to ia to you
than this reassuring and heartening
word of the apostle Paul; BE not
weary in we'll doing, for In due sea
son you shall reap, If you faint not"
Character grows slowly. Your i'm
provement may not be perceptible
and yet real. The little you have
done for others may have counted
for more than you imagine. You
have no occasion 70 be discouraged.
Rather you should face the new year
with a renewed resolution to be your
best and do your best.
Copyright, 1925, by John r, Gunn]
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More Policemen

THE Shank administration, during its last
hours, continues to stack the police de-
partment with men of its own choice. Recently
forty-eight policemen-some of whom have
since been suspended for misconduct = were
added to the force. Tuesday the Shank board
of safety named ffty-four more policemen.
This is an evident attempt to take care of
of the embarrassment it may cause Duvall. A
policeman is easy to appoint but mighty hard
to get rid off. AS usual, qualifications seem to
be the last thing considered in the appoint
ments.
In effect, the action of the board of safety
means that Duvall, when he becomes mayor,
must work with a police department largely of
Shank's choosing. Certainly Shank does not
expect to accomplish much with the new ap-
pointments during the few remaining days of
his administration.
There also is involved the question of
money. There is no provision for paying the
salaries Of all these additional policemen. 1t is
an old trick for an outgoing administration to
point to it's record for economy while at the
same time it does everything possible to en-
barrass the succeeding regime.
1t is only fair that so long as the merit
system does not prevail in the police depart
ment, the mayor should have the privilege of
appointing the policemen with whom he must
work. Shank's action is just another example
Of city politics as it is played.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-30
BUILDING IN
INDIANAPOLIS

@1RANCIS F. HAMILTON,
r city building commissioner,
- reports that building ac-
tivities in Indianapolis in 1925
totaled $26, 900, OOO-a substantial
increase oyer last year. More than
$40, 900, 900 went into new resi-
dences sufficient TO house 3,755
families.
A s26,O 900, 900 expenditure in
building projects may not
large to one accustomed to the
language of Florida real estate
promoters. But it represents
actual investment in brick, stone
and structural material, not paper
plans.
The value Of the new buildings
added to the city during the past
year exceeds the total property
valuation Of any Of twenty-five
Hoosier counties. The new struc-
lures erected would. in themselves,
suffice for a fair sized city.
And yet Indianapolis isn't In the
throes of a b%reathless boom. The
building program Is only keeping
pace with the needs Of a steady
growing, commercial and in
dustrial center that is plugging
ahead without much red fire and
ballyhoo.
indianapolis is not perfect. It
hasn't the equable climate of
Paradise; wealth can't be picked
up here inadvertently between
lunch and dinner. But it has ad-
vantages, and offers opportunities,
that are worth advertising to the
world at large. 1t is a city with a
substantial past, a prosperous
present and an assured future.
1t is the solidest fact in Hoosier-
dom-on which one can safely bet.
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CUPID FEARED
PUBLICITY

r11EONA KEACH, 20-year-old
Kentucky maid, and her
- swain eloped to Evansville,
Ind, recently to be married. 1t
was a beautiful romance, true love
surrounding obstacles and all that
sort Of thing.
They applied to the county clerk
for a license to wed, While the
document was being prepared the
maid was told that marriage IL
censes are public records and the
names of the parties to whom they
are issued mightibe published. She
refused the license and walked out.
Cupid got a jolt.
A secret marriage intrigued her;
1t was a delicious adventure. But
If all the world could wander into
the clerks office and learn about
the event Immediately what was
the use of a thrilling elopement?
The episode is enlightening.
If Cupid can't stand the pub
lefty incidental to the issuance of
a marriage license how is he like
ly to survive the wear and tear
of married life?
Nc wonder so many elupements
end up in the divorce courts and
in matrimonial shipwrecks. Strict
er marriage laws that would dis
courage hasty weddings would i'm
prove the state Of matrimony.
Many clippers are stirred less by
love than the thrill of secrecy.
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Mopping Up

TT INDIANAPOLIS is experiencing for the
Il first time a concerted police and Federal
mopping up process similar to those that have
been staged in other cities in Indiana and else
where. Federal agents and police, after spend
ing weeks in gathering evidence, have swooped
down on the den of the terrible bootlegger and
have carted him to jail.
m Probably more good, of a temporary ma
ture, has been accomplished by this one grand
swoop than has been accomplished in several
months of raiding private homes, many of them
homes Of innocent individuals. Indianapolis, as
a result, undoubtedly will experience a rather
dry New Years eve-among those who depend
on the type Of bootlegger caught in the raids
for their corn Ticker. However, the c~onvivial
celebrator with the price probably will be just
as tipsy as ever.
If the booze traffic can be stopped at ALL
which is, doubtful in view of the present state
sof public opinion-it must be stopped at the
source. The source is not the private home, nor
lis it necessarily the bootlegger. 1t is ratler
Insignificant that the officers did not haul truck
Heads of stills from the places raided to theN
jail. Most of those captured undoubtedly
4were not manufacturers in the sense that they
Xproduced the alcohol from which their booze
was concocted. They are merely retailers. They
obtained the alcohol, or the corn liquor, some
where. 1t would help enforcement consider
ably to plug up the leak from whence this sup
ply of alcohol is trickling.
Undoubtedly many places will be pad
locked as a result of the raids. Liquor may
not be sold in these particular places for some
time. But is there anyone who doubts that it
will continue to be sold next door or around
the corner9 There is a public demand for the
stuff, vile as most of it is nowadays. So long as
this demand exists, it will be supplied. The
effects Of the spectacular raids of Tuesday can
be little more than temporary. 1t takes more
than a law to compel obedience to the law.
There must be a will to obey. 1t is evident that
the will to obey the prohibition law does not
exist among a great many people. After all,
the people who want liquor badly enough to
buy it are the real source Of the troubles of the
prohibitionists.
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Wonan'S
Viewpoint
More Good Jurors Needed
By Ms. Walter Terguson

BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson
(r,1HE one thing this country
needs, even more than a good
- fiye-cent cigar, is some COT
scientlous jury service. II may DO
true that Anglo-Saxon system
Of justice is the best that has aver
been devised, but at present It does
not seem to be in very good WORK
ing order. Year by year our juries
become Intellectual and the YER
diets Of twelve good men and true"
grow more erratic and unreasonable.
This Is because, In so many cases,
the majority Of the twelve are not
qualified either by nature or eduoa-
ton to weigh evidence and judge It
lntelligently.
1t has become the custom for busiV
ness men, scholars and professional
men as we'll as farmers and laborers
to plead for u and obtain them
when called upon for this unpleasant
duty. All are much too busy making
a living to help dispense justice and
stamp out crime.
In many places the women are be-
ing called upon to serve and very
few OF them are possessed of enough
logical reasoning 10 perform this
work in any able fashion. Women
are too much inclined toward mercy
to make first-class jurors; they are
too easily swayed by sentiment and
too handicapped by the natural soft
ness of their hearts toward those in
trouble.
But heaven knows we do need the
services Of thoughtful, intelligent
and straight thinking men, men who
are accustomed to making clear de-
cisions and who are capable Of
grasping big issues and their con
sequences.
Perhaps because I am a woman
and have therefore less than no
logical sense, is the reason why I
never could see just why a lawyer
might not be permitted to serve his
country now and then In the jury
box as we'll as on the bench. l know
that the bare suggestion is greeted
with a loud ha-ha from legal and
masculine lights, but Just the same
it looks as If lawyers should be
better fitted by education than any
other class Of men for such service.
If anybody on earth should be ablal
to weigh evidence presented and "a
abide by that alone in rendering a
verdict, 1t should be a lawyer.
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That Little Red School
House

SR1EPRESENTATIVE WILL r. WOOD of
In Indiana, chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign committee, raises an
interesting question in a recent statement. He
presents figures to show how much more money
is now being spent for rural roads, schools,
county courthouses, jails and other conven-
iences Of modern life than used to be the ease
in the old days The farmers, he finds, bear the
greater part of the tax burden for these i'm
provements and he wants to know whether or
not they are worth the cost.
."For example," says Mr.. Wood, "the lit
tie red schoolhouse has either disappeared from
the rural landscape or remains deserted, dilapi-
dated and degenerated into an implement shed
or shelter for cattle. In it's place we have
erected a consolidated school at great expense
and then in order that it may be attended we
have established, at additional expense, school
bus lines"
A lot OF sentiment naturally clings around
the little red schoolhouse Of American tradi-
ton. But this ism t due to the fact that it was
little or the fact that it was red. Indeed, a lot
Of us remember rural schoolhouses that were
not red, that were unpainted and barren, and
were dilapidated long before they degenerated
into sheds for cattle. They did possess the joy
Of q box stove, however, that roasted the fortu-
nate pupils sitting nearest and froze those far
thest away.
In fact, they resembled very closely the
shacks In which hundreds of Indianapolis chill
dren still are attending classes, They did pos
sess the most uncertain sort Of teachers, for
the most part entirely unframed for the pro-
~fession, They had, in brief, a lot of shortcom-
lngs that Mr.. Wood himself realizes.
But their presence on the rural landscape
was q proper cause for pride. They repre-
sented the determination Of our pioneer par
ents that their children should have an educa-
ton, no matter what the sacrifice. And the
sacrifice to maintain them was as real as the
present sacrifice to maintain modern township
grade and high schools. In their day there
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-30
COLD WAVE
AND FIRES

IT1WENTY-THREE fires in the
city Monday kept the In
~ dianapolis Fire Department
on the run. Most of the blazes
were inconsequential, but some re-
suited in stable losses and n was
a $40. 900 affair.
There has been a veritable
epidemic of fires, large and small,
throughout Indiana the past two or
three days. Several places, like
the nearby town of Mooresville,
have experienced serious conflagra-
tons.
The wailing sirens of speeding
fire trucks usually mark the ad-
vent of a cold wave. When the
mercury goes down. property goes
up-in smoke. Indiana has suffered
greater fire loss in the past three
days than in the previous month.
Most of the loss was pre-
ventable-as In the majority of
cases carelessness was the only
incendiary. Over-excited heating
plants and defective fiues we're
chiefly responsible,
OF course when the mercury
curls up and congeals a house
holder likes to see his heating plant
do it's stuff. That's why he has a
heating plant-to chase the cold
wave out of his house and make 1t
perspire. But there isn't much
satisfaction In chasing the cold
wave out il it leaves the house in
ashes, as is liable to happen IL
heating plants are carelessly
forced to their utmost.
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HIS text has sometimes been
misinterpreted, making it
- equivalent to the old saying,
LET well enough alone" There is
a sense in which at times we should
be content to let we'll enough alone,
but that is not the thought Paul has
in mind here. What he means is, If
we are doing well, we should not be-
come weary or discouraged. but, with
~tireless persistence and patience.
keep on with our weIl-doing. For"
says he, Gin due season we shall reap,
If we faint not"
Conditions may sometimes be very
di~sheartening. Results may not ac
.cumulate as fast as we wish. But
we should remember there Is no
royal road to any given goal in life.
We should realize this and never be-
come wearied, although at times the
road may be steep and rugged. If we
go on with our well-doing, tir-
ing, never fainting, In due time the
goal will be reached and the prize
won.
This is an appropriate lesson to
consider at this season of the year,
when most of IS pause to take a
retrospective and prospective view Of
our lives and the affairs in which we
are concerned,
You started the year just pass
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were some to begrudge the expense of the pres
ent schools.
If Mr.. Wood still inclines toward the little
red sehoolhouse, wee hate to be his little boy.
We'd hate to find our six-year-old self STUN
bling over the frozen mud ruts to that windy
little red box on the hill, while our ~playmates
were riding on rubber tires over a smooth road
to a comfortable school with modern equip
ment.
Heaven knows the farmers are having a
hard time, but giving up what they have
gained is not calculated to bring them relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-30
CHANGE OF
VENUE

T1oHN DORSEY, SO, is on
trial today at Greenfield,
LkJ Ind, IN the Hancock Coun-
ty Circuit Court, charged with
murder. The crime of which he Is
accused was committed in Marion
County.
As is usual with Indianapolis
murder cases, the trial was taken
to a neighboring county on a
change of venue plea. 1t is quite
the custom for the defendants
lawyers in such cases to claim that
popular prejudice and passion pre-
clude a fair trial for their client
in Marion County.
Who is John Dorsey? When,
where and under what circum-
stances did the alleged murder
with which he is charged, take
place?
Probably not one Marion County
resident out of a thousand could
answer those questions. They have
long since forgotten about him and
the killing. For a brief day, more
than a year ago, when he shot his
estranged wife, his name was in
the papers. Just an ordinary item
OF news that excited passing e2ms
ment, no more. The next day he
was cut OF the headlines and out
Of the minds Of most Indianapolis
citizens:
It is pr~eRosterous to believe that
in such a case twelve uHprejudiced
jurors could not be found in Mar
ion County to assure the defendant
fair trial. 1t is prepesterous to be-
heve that a local Judge would be
SO swayed by populaE 6ialpor=
where no clam0r existed -&fhaf The
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ak aritclss by one OF The Times Wash-
the new FEDERAL tax bin gRSrt and show
the House and Is no wbefore the Senate.
BY Roscoe b. Fleming
EU7 ASHINGTON, Dec. S0.-Yes-
I\MI terday In The Times It was
~ shown that the $3S5,000 tax
reduction bill recently passed by the
House confers tremendous saving on
the seventy-four taxpayers who paid
tax on a million dollars income or
more a year.
1t has also been shown that the
1900, 900 small taxpayers who are
relieved OF income taxes receive
average benefits Of less than $40
each.
Further analysis Of the bin shows
that the benefits, not only to the
little taxpayer, but to the average
successful business man, tho lead
ing citizens of thousands of Amer
lean communities, r small. Such
citizens get more benefits than the
little taxpayer, but much less than
the multimillionaires.
Take the case of a man whose net
income is 100000 a year. This year
he is paying in income and super
taxes about $22,575. Under the pro-
posed bill he will pay about $16,7b
Ia cut of $5,S16, or about one
seventeenth Of his income, as con-
trasted with the multimillionaire's
one-fifth and the little taxpayers
saving of about one-seven ~hundredth.
Suppose the 100000 taxpayer,
dying under the present law, leaves
an estate Of $1,O00,oOO. His estate
would pay to the Government
SIS, 900. Under the proposed law it
would pay about $4S, 000-a saving
Of $4,000. A tidy saving, but not
much compared with the $4,000, 900,
or one-sixth of the entire estate, pro-
posed for an estate of $500, 100000
The $780, 900 taxpayer, however, is
also relieved of the gift tax and those
on jewelry, works OF art, and yachts,
which mean nothing to the little AK
payer.
Come down a step further, to the
man making a net income of $40, 600
d year. His income tax is cut slight
ly by the House bill, but his super.
tax remains exactly the same.
Opponents Of the bill questioned
the justice of this in the House and
were met by Chairman Green, of the
House Ways and Means Committee
which framed the bill, with the tart
reply that If the bill cut the super
tax on big incomes from 40 to 20 per
eel there vas nothing left for the
man making from $1,000 to $4,000,
This procedure was necessary to
make a graduate supertax schedule
with the top at 20 per cent, Green
said.
The $40, 600 man paid this year
about 1895 in tax, or about one
tenth of his income. If the House
bill passes he will pay $3,42S, or
about on~e-eleventh of his income
a saving of one-seventieth OF his an
nual revenue.
If he leaves an estate of $3.50, 000
it would now pay Uncle Sam $4,000.
Under the proposed law this pay
ment would be s4,500-a saving OF
$500, or one-ffth of 1 per cent of
the estate.
Let us take n step o down,
to the man with an $1,000 net in
come. This year he paid to the Gov
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people who know anything at all
disguised with your rotten policy
that prevails throughout the ramif-
cations Of your and the Scripps-Mc-
Rae outfits. You have not the hon
esty Of purpose such as even the
News sometimes exhibits in editorial
writing. You have not even the hon
esty Of purpose that you pretend to
have as having the privilege that a
paper does In this country. You
abuse the sanctity Of the privilege.
fRESixaP SlHREMBS.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
GAYLORD NELSON

rights Of the accused would be I'M
periled.
The change Of venue is worked
to death in Marion County GRIM
inal S In most instances il
merely clogs judicial machinery
without helping justice.