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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17
CALVIN COOLIDGE ON RENTS

xvi HEN Calvin Coolidge elected President of the United
~ States his legal residence onehaf double house
Northampton Mass He had lived there when Lieutenant
Governor and then Governor Massachusetts, The rent was
$50 month
AS President Mr.. Coolidge lives very nice house in
Washington for which he doesn't pay any rent he
forgotten the viewpoint of the 1t be said
the Coodge that they do not fail to appreciate their blessings
Probably the incest story that told Coolidge
do with the first of her residence White House
Asked she intended to spend the New England
she is said to have replied: SIS
NO. This the incest house which we ever have lived
and may not be here for longl"
perfect human expression entirely without pre-
tense.
The simplicity Colleges atti
ude toward the rent problem in the city of Washington Shown
that the thousands Of Government being
fully gouged by landlords he has taken hand the
He IS backing bill Congress abate Washington es
employees have place lv Remembering Northanlp
three and four-room flats.
of technical verbiage has been piled up by the OBJ
ponents Of control in Washington but an incident within
Coodges time in the capital has nghten him
Beyond danger of confusion One Government department. which
occupies rented building recently had its raised
$4,000 to $4,000 Litigation between the and
which had bought for him revealed pyramidng
the of three years from $550OOO $2500OOO
through of transfers and sales and
that sort Of thing The very prominent 1nance firm which
bundled the transaction has been dropped from
ship % the Washington real estate board
Coodges rent bill ism yet through Congress- there
evidence that he has started housecleaning real
tate buzin9Rs at the National Capitol
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Income Tax

There is no change in the exemp-
ton for single persons, which is ST.
900. Married persons living together
and heads Of families are allowed
by the revenue act of 1924 an ex-
emption of S2.500, regardless of the
amount OF net income. Under the
preceding act the exemption for mar
ried persons and heads of families
was $4,000 If the aggregate net in
come was $4,000 or less and 81, 900
If the net income exceeded $4,000. A
husband and wife living together
have but one personal exemption.
IF they make separate returns such
exemption may be taken by either
or divided between them.
The exemption of 81, 500 is allowed
married couples only If they live to-
gether. In the Absence of continu-
Gus actual residence together, the
exemption depends upon the charac-
ter of the separation. The new regu-
lations provide that If occasionally
and temporarily a wife is away on
a visit or a husband is away on
business, the joint home being main
tanned, the full exemption is allow
able. The unavoidable absence of
husband or wife at sanitarium
on account Of illness does not pre-
clude claiming the exemption. But
if continuously and voluntarily the
husband makes his residence at one
place and the wife at another, they
are not living together within the
eyes Of the income-tax law. Each
hurst fle return if his or her in
come was 81, O60 or more, and each
is allowed only the $1,000 exemption
granted single person.
No change is made in the pro-
vision allowing the taxpayer, in adj
dition to a personal exemption, a
credit of $400 for each person de-
pending upon him or her and re-
ceiving chief support, II such per-
son is under L 8 years of age or in
capable of self-support because men
tally or physically defective. The
term mentally or physically defec-
tive Includes not only cripples and
those mentally defective. but persons
in i'll health and the aged The $500
credit does not apply to the wife or
husband Of taxpayer. though one
may be totally dependent upon the
other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
Parking
By GAYLORD NELSON

Fl WO ordinances restricting
III automobile parking will be
presented to the city council
at its next meeting-one to abolish
center parking on Kentucky Ave,
the other TO prohibit daytime park
ing on several downtown blocks.
What to do with automobiles
downtown Is becoming every day a
more acute question. Parking them
at the curb In serried ranks is in
creasing the traffic congestion on the,
busiest blocks.
OF course no-parking rule will
result in hardship and incon-
venience.
Many business men, and their
henchmen, motor to work. During
their hours of toll their cars must
be left some place. They can't be
parked under chair seats like chew
ing gum temporarily in disuse.
Consequently. every available foot
of space on the busiest thorough
fares in town is pre-empted.
The condition is menacing to
moving vehicles, to pedestrians,
whose view is INSTRUCTED. and may
prevent effective fire fighting and
other emergency. demands.
Effective parking restrictions in
the most congested area would take
a large bite out Of the downtown
traffic problem. BY prohibition of
center parking on Kentucky Ave.
that thoroughfare might become a
useful member OF society instead of
a frowzy street without pride Of
ancestry or hope OF posterity.
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a By-Pr0duct of Hypocrisy

open, he must experience a better
reception when the lights go out.
Otherwise, how could there be so
many Of him?
I am told that it takes aboalt 100
customers to support bootlegger in
decent shape. I am told that he
is not an tnfrequent sojourner at
State capitals when the Legislature
assemblies. am told that he has
even been discovered in Washing.
ton.
He has certainly caused a great
increase in the number OF law
enforcing officers, and has thus
helped quite a few people to estab-
fish contact with the public treasury.
He has become the commonest
defendant at the bar of Justice
cornmoner than the thief, forger,
embezzler or murderer,
T1IS ubiquity, variety and
1H multiplicity are astounding,
E-I yet for each one Of him there
are 100 or so respectable citizens to
back up the trade.
q EtoW many OF this 100 would con-
Wet him If on a jury? How many
advocate laws that make his traffic
a penitentiary offense? How many
keep up an appearance that denies
their connection with his business?
I am one Of those who believe
that crime doesn't flourish where
people are against it, but that lip
music is never a sure sign that they
are against it.
a We are fine prohibitionists by
word Of mouth, and even finer by
acts entitled acts, but somehow the
thing is not working out consist
emily.
| don't say that it won't, but if it
does, there will have to come a
change. For one thing, the army
of bootleggers will have to diminish,
and that is impossible so long as
customers are so numerous and SO
free with their cash.
The bootlegger is not q fool, in the
business sense of the word. He
knows the risk, and he wouldn't be
taking it without substantial hope
of reward. He is not supported by
men OF small means. by the reds
from Russia. the agitators, or soap
box orators. They haven't the
money to spare.
His snsrenance obviously comes
from places where bank rolls are
fat, and where opulencet becomes a
substitute for character in creating
an atmosphere Of respectaPility.
Let the bootlegger take his medi-
cine, even as he, takes his chance.
but give a thought now and then to
the people that keep him going. It
will make the problem easier to
soNe.
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ter, were assessed ST. each,
The motorcycle policeman, who
made one arrest, testified he had to
do fifty miles an hour to overhaul
the offender. Nevertheless that de-
PENDANT was discharged he
has large family to support,
Perhaps the motorist who slaugh-
tered Miss Whitaker the other night
also supports large family. She
was killed. Did it make any differ
ence to her whether the fatal auto
mobile was driven by a family man
or a bachelor2
1t is the actin all law violations
that harms society. Punishment
should be based on that act, not on
the offenders marital responsible
ties.
Sympathy is a great human quail
ity, but 1t is over-worked. Less
sympathy for offenders and quicker
sympathy for outraged law would
look well in court.
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Wealth

~ 1HE wealth OF Indiana is esti-
mated by the United States
~ Census Bureau, in recent
report. to be $S,S2s. 10000. The
wealth of the State as assessed for
tax purposes is $3.50. 900. 900.
Why the discrepancy?
Property legally exempt from tax
alton is partly responsible. The val
ue of 81 900 200. 900 is placed on prop
erty in this class. Even taking this
into consideration the gap between
the two estimates is impressive
Failure to assess at true cash val.
ne and the faulty memory OF many
taxpayers-who misplay wealth that
is not nailed down in plain sight
while assessment is In progress, are
the chief factors causing the differ
ence.
Everyone comedies the necessity
of taxation, but wants the other fell
low to carry the heavy end Of the
load.
Wealth that is mobile hides out.
Wealth represented by real estate,
however. can't crawl out of sight in
the owners pocket to escape the as
SCISSOR. Consequently land bears a
disproportionate share OF the tax
burden.
No taxation system-until all tag
payers become scrupulously honest
CAN altogether prevent the heavier
burden on the more obvious forms Of
wealth. However. assessing all
property, of whatever nature, at full
cash value, would lessen the Unequal
tiles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17
Cookery

I - LADYS DAVIDSON of Craw-
H nj louisville was declared win
- ner in baking--in the girls
club work sectional the State agri.
cultural conference at Purdue Uni
versity, which closed yesterday.
To win this honor she made in the
past year 10s loaves of yeast bread.
ninety-four yeast rolls, 367 biscuits,
275 cookies, sixty-four pies and
twenty six. cakes.
Her year hasn't been given over
entirely to frivolity, that's sure.
Single-handed she has chased the
spector OF famine from one Hoosler
household.
Other State winners in girls club
work turned in equally remarkably
records Of industry. The canning
champion put up 1871 quarts of
fruits, vegetables and other com
estibles.
These Hoosier maids don't murder
their mothers in fretful moments.
They are too busy learning home
economics to crave pep, jazz and
GIN"
Nevertheless. they deserve notice.
Domestic happiness is more de-
pendent on cookery than on flasher
accomplishments. A good cook is a
greater family asset than a radio set
or a case of gin. Il - 81
When a girl wins. honors in bak-
ing it is assurance. that somewhere,
sometime, there viii he established
another solid home. Such a cham
pionship is not an empty honor for
the girl-or her future husband.
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One who married a man with a
past tells us now she doesn't expect
so much Of the future.
The hardest time for man to get
up In the world is every morning.
What makes us mad is man who
thinks he is as wise as an owl be-
cause he is always hooting some
thing.
Perhaps the funniest things on
earth are middle names.
New brooms sweep clean. New
dresses don't sweep at all.
Keeping your credit good costs
lot of money but is worth more.
Maybe we could get Congless to
abolish January and February.
Trouble with flying to pieces is.
getting yourself together correctly
again.
Marry perfect dream of "a girl
IL you wish, but remember dreams
usually go by contraries.
The road to success you hear so
much about never had been fully
mapped.
A man is not known so much by
the companss he keeps as he is by
the idea he keeps.
You can't keep a good man or a
good year down.
Be fair to the auto drivers. You
seldom see car go up on the side
walk after a victim.
4 Blessed are the poor in salary for
they shall pay no income tax.
If these big auto dealers keep on
cutting their prices it will be
cheaper o buy than to steal one.
Many permanent wave looks
like crime wave.
Copyright 1895. NEA Service. Inc.l
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Of speeding automobiles. This year
has already begun to take its toll.
We know the auto has come to stay,
but what a fearful price we are pay
ing. We scarcely pick up a paper
but what we see some life snuffed
out, and home made desolate.
My sympathy goes out to that
home where some reckless driver
snuffed out the life Of a beloved
daughter and brought grief and
deepest sorrow TO its inmates.
Can this be stopped? Yes. BY
speed laws? No, but by speed regu-
lators attached to every machine
That will prevent them running
faster than twelve miles per hour.
The driver would have better con
troll of his car, and a pedestrian
wou1d t-~--1 chance to escape.
Our Legislature is in session. What
are they going to do to lessen this
death toll, which is three-fourths
preventable.
Twenty-Five thousand, six hun
bred persons killed last year. What
will it be this year?
r u w
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He LOST, BUT IT WAS A. GOOD FIGHT

HE United States Senate after doing circles around the
Muscle Shoals question has finally settled the Under
wood BILL providing for the leasing of that great power
private concern within six months.
The matter conference of Senate and House
committees from which, in all probability, win bill not
very different from the Underwood measure.
Thus ends the greatest ghts retain greatpubc
resource in public hands with the champion public
on Senator Norris of Nebraska going down to defeat
Norris made brilliant and almost single handed fight
against the organized forces only of the Administration bE
of large Fart of the Democratic party as well
lost that which fighting specifically the
public operation Of Muscle Shoals.
But he something
He caused his opponents to put their leasing act better
safeguards for the interests of the public He turned the aen
ton of the public the value of greatest
water He made folks think little about
their resources made them understand little
have them exhausted There other still greater
water power sites the public hands, the
and the Colorado Rivers for example When the fights for the
disposition of these sites take place. the public will
little earlier in the game what it Is all aboutthanks the
courage of George W. Norris of Nebraska.
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LET'S PRoTEcT OURSELVES

T1REAT BRITAIN'S government is continuing with
her naval building program which calls for total of fifty
seven light cruisers
There nothing in the limitation treaties to curta such
program in the least Any nation build many light
cruisers under 10000 TONS chooses build pay
for These light cruisers the most effective of mod
fighting ships Three four Of them be built for the
price of fair battleship.
President Coolidge has mad clear that he is not at all
perurbed by Great Brtan program That good Nothing
is to be gained by being perturbed.
of the interpreters of the White House attitude
have informed the world that President Coolidge looks
large additions British feet just much potec
ton for the United States without cost National
Treasury.
It is difficult believe that any American statesman
view growing foreign navy this way 1t likely that the
President is being misinterpreted.
The American people do to depend upon for
egn navy protect them They have desire become
British proectorat however much our interests and those
of Great Britain may chance coincide at this time.
There but safe program for American National de-
Tense:
LET'S PROTECT OURSELVES
Only thus be reasonably that the protection is
entirely the interests of the United States and its people
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Would Check Speeding

To the Editor OF The Times
~ UR new Governor. Ed Jack
IL ] son, in his message to the
u Legislature. spoke of per-
manent license plates and bus regu-
lations, but he failed to speak of
speed regulation.
Watch the cars on Madison Ave.
Not one driver has control OF his
car in sudden emergency, and a
pedestrian has hardly chance to
escape.
Twenty-Five thousand, six hundred
persons were killed last year because
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17
Equal to the JOB

This fiscal year marks the first
occasion since long before the war
when our railway facilities have
been completely equal to the demand
OF the country. There were no car
shortages Of any consequence. There
was a speeding up of delivery of all
ds.-Report Of the Secretary of
Commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17
The New Route

With the development of any
agency of civilization it becomes
used by the lawbreaker about the
same time that civilization begins
to use it. We feel that smuggling
by air win be a problem that. we will
have to face very shortly -Iieu-
tenant Commander Yeandle OF the
Coast Guard Services. before House
COMMITTEES.
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Telling 1t
to Congress.
A Banking Trust

Wherever branch banking has
been permitted monopoly has
ultimately been the result. Take
England; in 1912 she had 429 banks
and in 1922 only twenty banks,
and of these twenty we are told that
five control 81 per cent of all the
banking of the acknowledgements
tive johnson Dem.l, Texas.
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Service First

AS gratifying as this reduction in.
operating deficit is. it is not the
prime confederation in the Admins
tration of the postal service, which
is that of rendering the best service
to the public consistent with due re-
gard for cost.-Report of the Post
master General.
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etc. are situated. First so applied
by Police Captain Alexander VIII
liams of New York to a region lying
between W. Twenty-Third and w.
Thirty Fourth 5ts., of that city. Z
What is an omnibus bill?
One in which a large number OF
individual bills on the same subjec.
are united into a single measure.
What is the composition Of
potato?
In round numbers, the potato
contains 2 to 2.5 per. cent of protein:
IS to 20 per cent of carbohydrates,
chiefly starch; almost no fat; about
/ per cent of ash, and IS to 70 per
cent of water.
Who originated the phrase 1.-THE
White Mans Burden" and what
does It mean?
Apparently Kipling originated the
phrase In poem by this title. 1t
means the responsibility for the
moral and physical. welfare of the
dark races, according to the British
and American imperialists, as voiced
by Kipling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-17

Cleveland utility rates are low be-
cause the city owns or controls the
utilities and the necessity for pri-
vate profits is thus eliminated. In
dianapolis should eventually catch
up In this respect too.-Editor.
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are engines Oh De-
struetion. /"
It IS natural to
suppose that, after
uttering such SEN
t.ments, 3s pro-
cseded 10 NOW
down the culprits
with sharp fines.
But not so.
Unusually light
penalties were in
fiicted. Nineteen
who turned loose
engines of de-
structt n" to
thirty miles an
-
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Sympathy

THE judge pro tenn. in traffic
1 court Thursday. lectured the
defendants. "rhis is the
orst time to speed" he said.
streets are covered with ice and
low. Cars turned loose on them
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In Nezc York
BY JAMES w. DEAN

T Ew YORK, Jan. 1.-THE
I'M most vulgar crowds in New
IL York are the f1rst-night
theater audiences, it seems to me.
Half of a f1rst-night audience
troops in after the curtain has gone
up. They talk and giggle as they
walk down the aisle. They stop to
greet acquaintance already seated
Many of them, especially when they
are in parties of four or more. keep
up a running conversation through
out the evening. There is little con
sideration for others intent on OBJ
serving the performance.
Admissions to first nights are
generally higher than for other per-
formances. That is particularly true
Of musical shows. This is so because
there Is certain clique which
thinks that it is the smart" thing to
attend opening nights.
First night vulgarity is also
displayed in dress. Last night I
saw a woman in a very .decollete :
SOWI III dn upper DO4 dI Tile 0Sit-
tury. The house was chilly and
drafty. While the show was on and
the house dark she put her wrap
about her, but when the lights went
on during intermission she laid aside
her wrap and began to fan herself
with an immense red ostrich fan.
And why is it that woman with
the ugliest bodies wear the scantiest
gowns? Most of the b1re backs I
see at first-nights remind me OF
nothing so much as great slabs Of
beef in butcher shops, decorated with
fringes of green or red.
Green. by the way. is far the most
popular color for evening gowns this
season.
These same people who 6lstlirb
others late arrivals
further disturbance by
partures. They must b
way to some cabaret or
night function. EvideH
to the theater simply
they have been there.
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BY M. e TRACY

In RIME can become an art, but
only where 1t is sustained, or
@ winlxed at, by large per
centage OF the people.
There was a time when smuggling
and outlawry furnished England
much of her romance.
The day may come when children
yet unborn will read about boot.
leggers, just as we read about Rob
Roy, Messieur C1ubin and the
Doons.
seolded and excortated in the
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I am glad to see The Times be
the booster, and hope you will stay
with 1t and make 1t strong.
ELMER J. RODENBERG.
1889 N. Talbot Ave.
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ings summon witnesses, etc They
may draw UP amendments and
changes, and the original bill with
the committee report and recon-
mendations, when reported out, is
placed on ths appropriate calendar
for future action. Sometimes COM
mittees are given special powers and
duties by a resolution, and some.
times special committees lin add.
ton to the standing committees are
created for particular purposes such
as congressional investigations.
What is a lame duck" Con-
gress?
This term is applied to a Con-
gress during the short session from
December to March 4, after the No
ven1ber elections, when number of
the members have been defeated for
reelection and when the Congress,
therefore, no longer completely rep
resents public opinion.
What is meant by "engrossing
a bill"?
Making a permanent copy Of a.
bill which has passed the second
reading in q legislative body, in
preparation for its final passage.
Who was known as the MAN
on Horseback?
Gen. Ernest Boulanger of France,
whose public appearances were
usually made when mounted on
horseback; hence, military dicta-
tor.
How did the expression Tender
loin," as applied to a police pre-
cinct in New York Sity, originate?
The tenderloin is a choice cut Of
beef next to the porterhouse; hence.
a police precinct in which most of
the hotels, theaters, gambling houses.
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All other questions will receive a per-
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Who were the knights of the
White Camelia?
This was one of the names by
which the Ku-Klux Khan was for
merly known.