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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
LeUies

.7 ENAToR BAIT Of Terre
Il III Haute mas introduced a bill
III TO lirait tax levies for local
purposes in any taxing unit in the
State. Under its terms the maxi
mum school levy would be 81; town.
ship or city. 81; county, 40 cents;
gravel roads, 10 cents.
1t sounds encouraging, for the bur
den of taxation has become oppres-
tslve. The taxpayer anxiously scans
the horizon for relief galloping in
bis direction.
However, it is doubtful if. state
imposed limit on local levies would
rescue hin1-while the measure
would increase Capitalization and
drive another nail In the coffin of
local self government 80
People Of local taxing units know
their local needs better than b state
law. II local levies become unbear.
able the people have relief in their
own hands.
Indiana once successfully limited
local taxation.
Al Supreme Court Interpretation OF
the constitution Of 1S50srequired uni
form school expenditures throughout
the State. As result publk schools
In Indiana practically ceased to ex.
list for many years.
A maximum for all taxation would
be desirable. perhaps. Until the to.
tai-local State and nationals linn
h'd, liking maximum for local taxes
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BY HERBERT QUICK

Ir~7 RANCE is taking 1.-THE
r poison Of progress. She is
IL going the way Of old New
England. France has always re-
sisted the mania for manufacturing
at the expense of agriculture. The
war has infected her. In fact, she
waged the war more largely for the
purpose OF getting at this poison
than for self-defense. She wanted
Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar so she
could take the place in the indus
tries from which Germany was to be
pushed
Now her creditors are assn I'd by
economists that France will come
through to solvency by the develop.
tment of her manufactures and
mines. She is converting herself
from a self-supporting largely
agricultural nation to a status like
that of Great Britain ana Germany.
There now appears in France that
most ominous Of all signs, the
abandoned farm. Think Of aband-
oned farms in France! But there
was a time when one would have
exclaimed at them in New Eng
land. where enc now finds the old
stone walls and the foundations of
houses Of our forefathers buried in
the forest which has crept back to
mask the failure Of our civilization
to resist disease.
For the mania for manufacturing
is a disease. To be sure, as the
wants of mankind grow more OF the
energy OF the race must be expended
In mining and manufacturing. The
agricultural needs of man increase
with social advancement by addition
only. His manufactured necessaries
grow by multiplication up to a Ger:
tain point. So far the increased EN-
phasis on making things is justified
For all that, however, the in
lection which has mastered Britain
decades ago, which has got America
in its grip, and which has now in
famed the veins Of France, is dis
| ease.
Dependence upon manufacturing
is justified In any people when the
rest OF the world is largely agrtenl-
tural. and then only. A hundred
years ago Britain had certain mar.
Kets in the great peoples which did
not manufacture for themselves
Now, however, all the nations are
striving to manufacture all they
need. All Of them see future
| when they will not only make all
they need but send SURPRISES to the
rest Of the world. India, China
all Asiais now the last of the great
markets. But 1t win probably not
be twenty live years before the Ash
| atics win be competitors Of the great
manufacturing nations.
When 5ais time comss, the great
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What Do Newspapers OzCe the Public?

principles is not so, generally I'M
derstoo6. The newspaper which
can be bludgeoned into accepting
editorial ideas merely because they
happen to be in accord with the
ideas of advertisers is already
victim Of Journalistic anaemia and
doomed to brief existence
Must Cover News
Next to its obligtion Of good citi-
zenship a. newspaper owes its Glen
tele a complete and intelligently Sc
-iected coverage Of local, national
and world news.
The newspaper owes its readers
a clearly defined editorial policy ap-
spearing in and confined to its ed
itoriaf columns. Unfortunately, the
recent tendency of all American
journalism has been to overlook
this obligation. With the decline
of the personal and partisan journal
ism of generation ago the star re-
porter has not only fallen heir to
the place in the spotlight formerly
occupied by editors Of the Henry
Watterson type, but he has usurped
the prerogatives. The result has
been an interlarding Of the news
columns with the opinions and view
points Of the star reporter. Even
with this DEPRESSION the in6epen-
dent newspaper of today, taken as g.
whole, is a truer mirror of events
than any Of its predecessors.
Metropolitan journalism, like big
city life in general, is more inn
PERSONAL and, outwardly at least,
more cold and thoughtless than life
in smaller cities. believe, how
ever, that even metropolitan jour
nalisrn owes to itself a kindlier and
more generous attitude toward those
involved in stories affecting young
people and children. No news story,
however interesting, is worth to
newspaper what 1t costs in sacrificed
goodwill and reader respect, If pub
LEFTY Of the story puts criminal
brand on some young person in con-
sequence OF first misstep which
might have been retraced and atoned
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on warm and allowed to soak into
the rope. Although the pitch does
not absolutely waterproof the rope,
It's properties prevent decay. The
treatment should be repeated from
time to time.
What Is the size of Ireland and
how does 1t compare with Eng
land and Wales?
Ireland is rather more than half
the size Of England and Wales. It's
area. including the adjacent islands,
is S2,6o6 square miles.
Does boy under twenty-one
years Of age have to have the con-
sent Of his parents to enlist in the
Navy7
Yes. If he enlists without their
consent, they can have him dis.
charged by applying within sixty
days after the date of his enlistment.
otherwise. he can be held for a four
year enlistment period.
What is the remainder OF the
quotation, A thing Of beauty is
joy forever and by whom was 1t
written?
The quotation is:
"A thing OF beauty is a joy forever;
It's loneliness increases; it viii never
pass into nothingness.
It is from ~Endymion" BY John
$500 -
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Yourself
BY HAL COCHRAN

HAT do you think of yourself.
IWI old top? What are you real
0 ly worth? You're success
or near-to flop in the part that you
play on earth.
Many the men who depend on pull
many who travel alone. Say, is
YOUR cheerful cup real full cause
your working is all your own?
God gave you two feet to stand
upon, and you never were meant to
lean on some other man. Say, why
not don thinking cap that's keen?
The road to success Is an open
path. It's a place where man can
speed. It's up to each man what it
is he hath. Things are his If he
takes the lead.
How easy it is to, find the kind
who wish for, but never work.
You're not up in front wien you
trail behind, and you trail when
you'd rather shirk
Consider yourself. as you really
are Are you making the best of
your job2 THE biggest success, I
guess. by far, is the man who's
ahead Of the mob.
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HE SOLD US ON FINLAND

IDlAAVO NUR crack Finish track athlete has by his ex
PLOTS enhanced the value bonds of Finland on the
market by at least ten millions of dollars
That figure from Chas E. Mitchell fnancer presi-
dent of the National City Company Therefore it is worth
sidering.
Folks reading daily of Nurmis exploits inquired about
Learning what kind of people Nurms compatros
were investors thought well of Finnish bonds bought them
and their value went up.
mat Is bringing home the bacon with the eggs alongside
In the line OF selling nations abroad Nurm style is some
ng new familiar with the line handled by that
"aro Oh good VIII salesman the Prince of Wales He is al
on the road his sample personality and sports
ansnlp on display He sells Great Britain abroad
lot OF jobess Russian mobiles have been peddlinp
WITHOUT much luck Blasco Ibanez has taken whirl at
elng Spain to Mussolni doomed the market vaue
taan securities and they have sumped Clemencean and
others nave tried to sell France And many another with his
Du no ore mas done better job of it. in SO short time
than has this remarkable Finn who halls fro ~ a1, e
markable country. He has the goods
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It is appointed unto men once to die-Heb 9:27.
The relations of all living end in ahabharat
GAS TAXES AND ROADS

ONEY collected through the taxation gasoline should be
Vl roads 1t is special tax and peculiarly eq
one originally designed require those who roads
most to pay most construction
On other hand the proposal that all State departments
including the highway department. should under budget
and money their operation should be appropriated for
that purpose is fair and busnesslike
conflict between these considerations that must
be roned Experience has shown about what be
pected the way of returns from gasoline tax Would
be possible there constitutional distractions put the
gasoline general fund and then appropriate ap
proxmaey the amount of thus obtained for road
posesY
Certainly gasoline tax money should be used for ether
purpose than the maintenance and construction of roads
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FRANCES REAL TROUBLE

r. VERY in while the bottom drops out Of the
E French franc worth 20 cents it is now worth
nickel
And every time it happens, France sets up howl She
Dlames it international plot New York on London
the Germans
France real enemy herself She lot money and
she won't pay She 81 100000 she threatens
population Her budget doesn't balance lacks the
stamina to tax her citizens {.
Britain the Channel likewise up ears III debt
doing everything France should do but refuses do Her
debt of nearly refunded two years ago
She sweating blood but her money par United
States postoffces.
The business who wggles of paying what he owes
loses his credit. So does nation.
Frances real trouble is with herself
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Conversion

n n EN- are easier to convert than
IM women. So asserted an
IL evangelist-conducting serv-
ices at the Meridian Heights Pres
byterian Church--the other night
in his sermon.
The staterlent is interestingly
true.
Perhaps the difference is due to
the relative wickedness Of the sexes.
Men plunge into the sea of iniquity
over their heads. They are easily
persuaded to accept a life preserver.
Women. generally, don't immense
themselves all over in wickednet,s is.
They only dabble In it close to shore
and get thteir feet wet. Perhaps they
don't feel SO acutely their imminent
peril.
Husbands, however, will say that
women are less easily converted be-
cause of their stubbornness. When
a, woman refuses to believe he was
detained adozFntown by business,
what chance has an exfiorter to
convines her of her souls. danger?
ask the. experienced husband.
Generalizations on the difference
in mental and spiritual qualities of
men and women are unsatisfactory.
Women are this or that positively
declares some learned gentleman
Then events, and women, inme-
diately prove him wrong.
The difference between the sexes
is primarily physical. Intellectually
and spiritually men and women are
cut off the same piece-with i'm
projections quite evenly distributed.
They are both quite human.
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Income Tax

The revenue act Of 1924 provides
fer certain specified deductions from
gross income in determining net in
come, among which are business ex-
penses, interest on indebtedness,
taxes. losses, bad debts, depreciation,
depletion and contributions and
gifts. Each will be treated separate
ly. "a
Deductions for business expenses
form the largest claim in the re-
turns Of many taxpayers. All the
ordinary and necessary expenses Of
a trade or business or profession
paid or incurred during the year
for which the return Is made are al
lowableN deductions.
A taxpayer in trade or business
may claim as deductions frc.n gross
income a reasonable allowance for
salaries paid employees, amounts
spent for advertising, premium for
insurance against fire or other bust
ness losses, rent paid for store or
warehouse, the cost Of fuel. light,
water, telephone, stationery. etc,
used in his place Of business, dray-
age ard freight bills and the cost
Of operation and repair Of delivery
wagons and trucks. A professional
man may claim as deductions the
cost OF supplies used in. his practice,
expenses paid in the operation and
repair of an automobile used for pro-
fessional calls, dues to professional
societies, subscriptions to profess
.sional journals, Office rent, the cost
Of fuel, light, heat and water used
in such office and the hire Of assist
ants.
The farmer who operates q farm
for profit may deduct all amounts
paid in the production and harvest
ing Of his crops. including labor,
cost Of seed and fertilizer used, cost
OF minor repairs to farm buildings
Cbut not the dweIling) and cost of
small tools used up in the course
of year or two.
Deductions for business expenses
must have certain qualities to be
allowed. They must relate to a
business, trade, profession or voca-
ton in which taxpayer has invest
ed time and money for the purpose
of a livelihood or profit. A tax
payer may conduct more than one
business and claim 4 deduction for
the business expenses Of each, pro-
vided. he devotes sufficient time and
attention to each.
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for If publication had not made the
stain indelible.
Sex Stories Problem
How sex matters should be
treated by newspapers raises a
question that never has and prob
ably never will be finally answered.
No subject has SO great or so
general an appeal. Due to greater
liberalism in schools, the teaching
of sex hygiene and the more liberal
trend of all current literature.
matter which would have been
taboo in newspapers of genera
ton ago excites no criticism what
ever today. No newspaper seeking
to reflect everyday life, as any
successful newspaper must, can
ignore sex or human interest
stories involving the subject. At
the same time, the best and most
representative newspapers in the
country lag behind rather than run
ahead Of the public interest in sex
stories.
I think the public has a right to
demand Of newspaper editors that
no story shall be printed apt to
raise any question on the part Of a
clean-minded boy or girl Of twelve
or fourteen which cannot readily
he answered or explained by any
parent who has acquainted his chill
dren with the normal realities OF
life.
One hears much talk these days
Of the waning influence Of news
papers in public affairs The indict-
ment must be brought against In
dividual newspapers and not against
journalism as whole. Where
editors and publishers have kept
abreast Of their communities and
have readjusted their viewpoints
with the changing thoughts and
aspirations OF their readers, the in
huence Of the individual newspaper
in any cause in which public well
fare is involved is as great as
at any time in the history Of
journalism.
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There is no hope in seeking happi
ness unless you are happy in the
seeking.
Good times are bad times unless
you do more than have a. good time.
The only thing worse than being
In rut is being on no road at all.
Popularity leaves very little time
for steady thinking.
We all do things without think
ing, and one is being bored with life.
LIES amusing. People save SO
many things to see even though
there isn't any return trip.
The importance Of things close to
you are magnified, like a cinder in
your eye.
Today is what we were all look.
ing forward to yesterday.
It makes man mad to be dunned
for bill, because he knows he may
have to pay the thing.
Patience is considered a virtue
when 1t often is merely a case OF
not knowing what to do.
You can only make interesting
friends by being interested.
Tell others everything you know
and they soon will find you dont
know anything they don't.
Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc,
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Motor Routes Take Place
Of Track Extensions
In Cities.
Times Washington Bureau.


EWa AS9INGTON, jan. 26.-One
|IWI hundred and seventy street
car companies are now oper.
ating motor buses and .'jitneys" to
supplement their electric line serv-
ices, the American Electric Railway
Association reports. The dreaded
menace" of bus competition, SO
feared by street car magnates a
year or two ago has vanished 1t
was "gobbled up by the street car
systems and was found to aid rather
than hinder digestion.
Addition of bus lines to existing
electric lines enabled the car com.
panies to add more than 2,700 miles
OF extensions during 1924. whereas
CONSTRUCTION of new tracks added
only 800 miles. Altogether, over
p 500 motor buses are now. being
operated by street car companies
and OF the $342, 100000 which the
car lines will spend during 1925 fol
new equipment and maintenance, ar
important part will go to the pur
chase of still more buses.
Income Increases
Though passing through a period
of industrial depression during a
great part of 1924, the total gross
income Of all street car lines in
1924 was greater than during any
previous year. The figure is approx
imately Sits, 100000. The total
number Of passengers carried was
Is, 700 ,000, 600, a decrease of about 2
per cent from the 1923 figures when
the total touched sixteen billions.
Average fares increased about 21s
per cent. or from 1871 cents to 7.4s
cents, and this increase more than
offset the decrease in number OF
passengers. At the present time the
trend in passenger carrying is up
ward and 1925 is expected to break
all records. Up to the present the
1923 figures are the highest. and the
1924 figures are a good second. In
1922 approximately fifteen billion
people rode in the cars.
That street car lines have def
nitely turned the corner from their
era of receiyerships during and
following the war, is indicated by
the fact that only thirteen lines
representing about 1000 miles OF
tracks, went into .receivarship dur
ing 1924, whereas twenty-five com.
panies owning 1000 miles, were dis
charged from control by receivers.
w
A few years ago there was a heat,
ed debate between those who expect.
ed street cars to disappear from
downtown streets and those VINO
maintained that busses could at best
only supplement the cars. II the
present trend is a true criterion. the
experts who insisted street cars
could not be completely relegated tc
the suburban lines have the best OF
the argument.
Despite the ever-growing mum
Der Of privately owned autos. which
| increase amounted to over 100000
during the past year, the number OF
street car. riders does not seem tc
be seriously affected
Experts are Of the opinion that
Americans are becoming more and
more addicted to the riding habit
and that possibly the auto helps to
make street car business. People
are less and less inclined to remain
at home and when the auto is not
available at the moment, the street
"a 70 oct ff1o loenaf7ff of fha ttcn
somewhere" habit.
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BY ROY w. HOWARD
Hartman OF the Board, scripps-
Howard Newspapers.
Reprinted From Collier'sy


Reprinted From Collier's)
HAT has the public a right
Wl to expect from its news
papers? AS / see it, first
Of all newspaper must be a good
citizen and a decent neighbor.
1t is our theory that newspapers
more nearly than most any other
form Of public service organization
take on human attributes and char
acteristics. Sincerity is the foun-
dalton stone OF character and stand
ing in the community. If its sin
cerity is above question the shade
OF its political and economidc opin-
ions are OF secondary Importance.
Our editors are urged to visualize
their papers as outstanding red
blooded citizens of their communi-
ties, possessing a sense of humor, a
sense of proportion. sense of de-
cency, and love of fair play. They
are urged always to decry cynicisn,
to encourage tolerance and never to
forget that smile has an asset
value even in the midst of fight.
That a newspaper must have
courage and convictions is under
stood and accepted, but that news
papers must have the Willingness
and the resources to make tremen.
dous financial sacrifices for editorial
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ulataon--they now dnd irksome-
would not have been proposed or
needed.
The value of good will in'business
has been startling demonstrated by
Henry Ford.
From the very inception OF the
fiivver enterprise the kindly regard
of the public was .assiduously
sought. No method to attain it
was overlooked. Today the Ford
Motor Company practically holds
a monopoly in its f1eld-yet it
isn't considered a menace. Twenty
years Of building good viii renders
1t immune from attack.
II public utilities can cultivate
public good will now by judicious
advertising, 1t will benefit them and
the people they serve. The public
would rather have that included in
operating expenses than to have
high-priced lobbyists hired out OF
net profits.
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Waterways

tn ICHARD LIEBER, speaking
Tx before the Indiana Water
El Works Association recently,
suggested the possibility Of develop.
ing waterways-canals and rivers
in the State as carriers Of heavy
freight.
Water transportation has been q
favorite theme in the States of the
Ohio Valley for a century. Some
way the dream fails to nlaterialize.
Theoretically development Of in
land waterways is feasible - and
would. save vast sums in freight
charges. Water transportation Is
cheap. Heavy traffic. doesn't wear
out water as its does highways or
steel rails.
However, despite the attractive
ness Of the theory, ther is a catch
in it some place. The Federal Gov.
ernment has dumped millions into
river Improvement. The only visible
results have been political, not eco
nonlic.
Indiana, between 1sSo-1S4o, EN-.
barked on M elaborate scheme to
cover the State with a network OF
canals. The scheme covered the
State knee-deep in debt but that
was all.
Today all that remains OF that
great canal project is the open
ditch from w. Washington St. to
Broad Ripple. the anemic ghost of
the Central Canal a
Inland waterways. though robust
and vigorous In the plan stage, al
ways develop a fatal weakness when
constructed. They carry more en-
thusiasm than freight. Enthusiasm
won't pay interest charges on the
bonds.
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RUSS AND JAP NOW PALS

APAN and Russia have kissed and made up Russia gets
recognition and japan gets coal and oil and gas and food
for her industries oil for her navy gas for her aret
and food for her population
Which is all to the good for Japan brings complete
domination Of the Orient step makes her
" sesusaing The open door, in the Far closes
other inch additional agreements Jap
forecasprobably having to do with spheres Of
fuence in Manchuria Inner and Outer Mongolia
And So while persist refusal recognize Russia
and foreign policy generally remains at stands the
ternational procession moves on without U.s.
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dria County, forming a district ten
miles square. The territory selected
included the site of Powhasan's Vii
iage. Anacostaa or Nacochank, also
the existent village Of Georgetown,
both on the Maryland side, and on
the Virginia side Alexandria, for
merry Belhaven. In 1886, no Fed
eral buildings having been erected
on the Virginia side, Alexandria
County was retroceded to that State
upon the petition Of the Inhabitants.