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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-08
Fight for the Party

The great constructive work per-
formed by the comrades in the Fin
nish Federation is known and appre-
c1ated by the Party. The organizing
genius of the Finnish Comrades is re-
sponsible for many achievements from
which the Party has much to learn.
We know that many of the greatest
undertakings of the Party, such as,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
VIII France Pay?

nothing but political hot air In those
hints of debt cancellation.
Some politicians are likely to have
hard time Of 1t when they do, but
beyond that nothing of serious i'm
portance will occur.
When the French people under.
stand the facts of the case they will
do the right thing. just as they
would have done long before this
IL they had not been misled.
The United States is not over.
charging them, or asking unreason'
able terms of settlement. In fact
the United States is prepared to &C
cept most any kind of ttums that
comprehend a definite settlement.
The United States is not insisting
on definite settlement because II
needs, the money. but because irreg.
ularities, or even cancellation, would
establish a dangerous precedent.
The United States INDUCED in no
haggling over the French claims
when they were presented. but paid
promptly and literally.
The United States realizes per-
fectly well that France ought not to
be pushed at this time, but she also
realizes that postponement Of def
mite action. especially since It Is
brought about by useless political
quibbling. does neither E.ition any
good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
PETITIONS

" GOOD Indication of the political nature of the Shank
la movement commission form Of city government is
contained mayors statement that if Ralph Lemcke his
particular favorte this time and his former political
his candidacy for he will not permit the
mission petitions to be circulated.
other words the mayor to be using the commission
petitions for the purpose of obtaining form Of gov
for Indianapolis but for the purpose of influencing
the candidacy of certain individuals in the primary.
But the mayor has made another statement since he made
his reference Lemcke He told the Indianapolis real estate
yesterday afternoon that city petit
ons circulated he will withdraw his commission petitions
is assured that city petitions will be crcu
circulation will start Saturday through the real
board and through other agencies Friends
Of the city manager form feel confident that sufficient signatures
to obtain referendum May be obtained in short time
But Mayor Shank be depended to withdraw his
mission petitions He has repeatedly declared he for the city
manager form Of government while at the time using the
police fire departments for the protection Of
the cy-n distribution Of commission petitions At least
twice before he has insisted that he would withdraw the
mission petitions but the petitions have not been withdrawn
Only time will tell whether he business after his
third promise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
PROTECTING THE JOB
third promise

y RESS reports tell that thorough investigation of
every phase of national defense result from the
in Washington aircraft
Fne This paper has been fighting for years to awaken
country Congress the need Of that very thing it
comes result Of the hulabaloo raised by Assistant
Chief Mitchell Of the Army Air Service then hswe let
say highly and charges will have been
ia vain.
Instead of stopping with report that controversy
and the relative merit of airpanes baeship is pro-
that Congress should undertake complete examination
Into the shortcomings and needs Of the Army Navy and
oree by special committee independent commission
such authorized board
Congress and the country cannot know too much about this
important single function of the National Government
defense nothing less than the protection Of your
life and the lives OF those dear you from foreign foes It
the protection Of your hearth and home from invasion
and the undurbed enjoyment Of the well known job and the
fruits thereof.
Oddly enough though selfpreservation first
nature it is the thing that Congress and the people
forget first We have averaged major every twenty
years since became nation yet after each have
always somehow for granted that there would
another.
fire department may absolutely bang-up every
spect but if the city tries to cut expenses by waiting until
there's fire before buying spark plugs filling the tanks
with that department will not be worth much when the
crisis The taxpayers money is wasted.
Our national defense machinery protection against
the confaaon of The machinery may be modern the
minute, for this that small detail yet fail when the
crisis comes-thanks to the missing details.
If national defense system lacks any of details
let 3 hAd them. But let's find them all.
Congress adjourns March g. 1t will not again
months Why In the meantime make full complete
study of the whole situation take testimony examine witnesses
body who throw the slightest light the subject
and THEN reportY
In this way when Congress again in the fall it
what is quite importanhe people of this country will be
position discuss the problem nteigenty the inn
portance of this that branch of the national defense and
efficiently what have discovered has to be DONE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

structures 80 crowded are presumed
to be fire-Droof and thus safe from
catastrophe.
But no building, whatever its
construction, is panic-proof. Panic
is not in the building but is inner
ent in the crowd.
Every disaster in a packed audi
torium-and the list is appalling
proves that no building is safer than
it's exists. These must be convenient
and accessible Unless aisles and
passageways are kept clear a trif-
ling nlishap may precipitate panic
and catastrophe.
Turning away customers from a
gymnasium, while there is yet room
inside for sardine. may be a finan-
cial sacrifice. But It's better for bas-
ketball to have the result OF a game
announced by the referee rather
than by coroner's inquest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
BY NJ. e. TRACY

The question Is on too many lips
and is causing unnecessary excite
meDt. France will pay, but not I'M
til her politicians have done about
so much shadow boxing.
Our politicians would be doing the
same thing If we were in the same
kind of pickle.
The French people are not only
tired, but they have been gloriously
deceived. They have been promised
the impossible not only from their
enemies. but from their friends.
They came out OF the war believ-
Ing that Germany could and would
foot most OF their tlh.
Az that hope begsn to wane, the
politicians supplied new one by
limiting that America might cancel
the French debt, or. at all events.
good part of it.
1t took the French people several
years to realize that Germany
wouldn't pay, because she couldn't
They are not more exacting, or OBJ
stinate than other people, but they
had been lied to by those who were
supposed to know
II may not take as long, but It
will take. some time, for the Frepch
people IL find out that there xas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Income Tax

When by reason of illness or alb
sence from home, additional time
for fling an income tax return is
required, the taxpayer should ad-
dress to the Commissioner Of Inter
nal Revenue, Washington, d. c., a
request for an extension. Collectors
Of internal revenue are not, as un-
der preceding acts, permitted TO
grant such extensions. The request
must be made before the return is
due-March is, 1925, II made on the
calendar year basis-and must con-
tain full recital Of the causes for
the delay.
An extension Of time for filing the
return does not extend the time for
payment Of the tax or any install
ment thereof, unless so specified in
the extension. AS condition of
granting the extension, the COM
missioner may require the submits
sion of tentative return and esti-
mate of the amount of the tax, and
the payment Of at least one-fourth
OF the estimated amount.
A tentative return should be
made on the usual return form,
plainly marked tentative" at the
top, contain a statement OF the esti-
mated amount of tax believed to
be due. and be properly executed.
No other data need be given. Ten
tative returns will not be accepted,
unless permission is obtained pre-
vious to filing. A copy OF the au-
thority to file the tentative return
must be attached thereto.
When a taxpayer files tentative
return and fails to file complete
return within the period of the ex-
tension granted him. the complete
return when filed is subject to the
penalties prescribed for delinquency.
Except in the case Of taxpayer
who Is abroad, no extension will be
granted for more than six months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

chinery making one days labor as
productive as were ten a century or
so ago. But it has been said, and
think 1t is true, that all this wonder
full new productiveness has probably
not lightened the burden of labor In
the least. The reason is that through
the control of. natural opportunities
some men have been able to take
without labor this multiplication Of
the productiveness of all men.
Unless we recognize the truth that
the face Of nature belongs Of right
to all men, the production Of food
directly from the raw elements can
not emancipate man from the old
burden Of working for food. Some
men would monopolize the food
through their monopoly of the sites
where 1t could be produced. They
have done 1t with richer soil when
ever it has been found. They have
done 1t with oil. They have done 1t
as to access to the very sea which
battles the world. If the sky could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Jes' Settin'
By HAL COCHRAN

IN ES' settin' and fishin', and
fishin' and settin'-it's fun,
LIZ whether luck comes or not.
Jes' frettin' and wishin', and wish
in and frettin', Ger what you viii
get, or have got.
The call OF the stream kinda
makes living seem thing that's
worth while, after all. And wise is
the man who just does and who can
hustle out there and answer the
call.
Just who must we thank that
there's always a bank where a fell
low can loll at his ease? Just think
what it means when you loaf mid
the scenes where there's water and
grasses and trees.
A cricket may "crich" In a voice
that is thick, but 1t sounds like q
lullaby tune. And even the waves
any fellow enslaves for you'll bow
to their charms pretty soon.
Go on, little world. run along
while we're curled on a bank as
an open-air guest. We're as happy
and fra as a fellow can be-jes'
sestin' IA fishin'. at rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
Badges
" GAYLORD NELSON

I'M WO f1remen at each fire sta,
! ton in the city viii be given
1 police powers and regular po-
lice badges-and win become. in eff.
feet. emergency peace officers.
The plan-approved by both chiefs
seems to have real merit 1t will
increase the number of policemen
without additional expense. Also It
will provide policeman subject to
call in any section at all times.
A citizen who is being murdered
or held up can't spare the time, at
that interesting moment, to hunt for
a cop. 1t would greatly relieve his
distress II he knew he could sum-
mon help from the nearest fire sta
ton.
The first impulse in any neighbor.
hood emergency is to call the fire
department. With a fireman holding
police power always on duty each
station can answer any emergency
Of whatever nature.
However. the plan may develop
weaknesses not now perceptible.
The flremen wearing badges might
be called upon so frequently as to
take much of their time. They
would become both policemen and
firemen--sort of amphibious crea-
lures.
Both fire fighting and law enforc-
ing are best practiced by specialists.
A jack-of-all-trades is no more eff
cient in those vocations than else
where. So while reasonable co-ordi.
nation of the two departments is de-
sirable haphazard amalgamation is
not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Static

EPRE ENTATIVE FAR
XII RELL, of Hartford City, in
LII troduced a bill yesterday re-
quiring companies producing cleo
trical energy to maintain inspection
departments for detection and
elimination of current leaks on their
carrier lines.
The bill should have the support Of
the radio-fan lobby. 1t would
suppress, and remove from the land
scape. that incorrigible imp-static.
Perhaps static seems an incon-
sequential subject for confederation
by the General Assembly. However.
it's as vital to public welfare as cos.
metology. It's as great question Of
State as some others with which
giant legislative intellects wrestle.
To preserve unsullied Hoosier
family life static must be eliminated.
1t unsettles the citizen, expecting a
pleasant evening with KDKA or
PDG. to have his earGrums shattered
by load of bricks or the lost soul
OF boiler factory. He is likely to be-
come homicidal as result.
Probably no other measure in
troduced during this session more
clearly exemplifies the material pro-
gress of the age.
A radio bill five years ago would
have been howled out Of the State
house. Since then radio has grown
from nothing to a household
necessity.
1t demonstrates the world moves
at an accelerating pace. Perhaps In
the Eightieth General Assembly, a
bill dealing with static will be as out
OF date as a proposal to regulate
stage coaches would be today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

f~7 HE board of safety Tuesday
ordered one-way traffic on
III Meridian st. and Capitol Ave.
all day. Hot protests Immediately
exploded all over the place. Wednes-
day the rule was modified to apply
only to two hours morning and eve
ming.
That assuaged the shooting pains
of business men along the streets
who greeted one-way traffic with
strident anguish-but the modified
order hasn't stilled the tumult.
The board acted without reference
to the city council. and the latter
body claanors for vengeance. Prob
ably before the fratrfcidal strife
ends the English language will get
trounced.
IT object to the board OF safety
usurping the authority of the COM
mon council" declared one council
man emphatically. From now on
1 am against one-wway traffic
streets in Indianapolis"
Sooner or later Indianapolis will
nave one-Way streets, despite his OPP
position. other cities have adopted
the plan successfully. The logic Of
events will make 1t imperative here
for traffic continually grows dem
ser without any increase in avail
able thoroughfares
But the episode is an illuminating
example of how not to make traffic
regulations.
Rules promulgated on snap judg-
ments without studying the situa-
ton get nowhere except into trouble.
It's immaterial whether the author
ity for making regulations is vested
in council or board-but squabble
in city hall won't relieve a traffic
jam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Wars Aftermath

A great many tax cases which
arose out of the business prosperity
of the war era have furnished and
are still furnishing quite a volume
tax litigation. These cases involv'
not only large sums of money bur
extremely important principles.-Rs
port Of the Attorney General.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
BY HERBERT QUICK

"7 E are animals. Whether we
lIWl are anything more than that
III or not is the great nys-
terry of existence; but so far as that
life is concerned upon which every.
thing spiritual depends, all will
agree that we are merely animals.
We exist only by taking food, just
as do the other animals, from the
amoeba to man.
Most of our food we obtain from
other organisms which possess life.
Plants do the work, in the main, of
changing the dead matter of the
earth into forms which our bodies
can use. Some of it we eat in the
form of vegetable food. Much of our
sustenance, however, we must have
further changed over by plant-eat-
ing animals into forms of meatfood
better adapted to our uses. We be-
gin life on milk, which is food part
ly maze over in the maternal body.
And man has always been a carni-
vorous animal, eating the bodies of
other animals. The cycle of food is.
from earth to plant, from plant to
flesh. and much of 1t from flesh to
other tiesh-and to nerve, brain,
family. society and all that is COM
prised in human history.
Food From Elements
Science has the vision of cutting
out the whole cycle and making food
directly from the elements. 1t has
done little in that direction, but give
science a fulcrum on which to rest
it's lever and 1t is quite likely to
move the world. 1t is getting the
point of its lever under the great
weight of making raw matter into
food. A scientist has succeeded in
making sugar by using just what
the cane or sugar-beet uses--carbon,
water and Hight. He made only q
little and 1t was found mixed with a
lot OF other things which were made
at the same time-but he made It..
He made a very important food
from things found everywhere.
I do not remember anything more
startling in all my observations
of what science is doing or has
done. 1t surpasses in significance
the achievement of a few years ago
when science made indigo, which up
to that time had always been made
by a plant. It short-circuits the
roundabout cycle and creates some
thing from raw elements for the hui
man diet.
Made I'm Laboratories
We may expect more of these
things as time passes, If science is
given a society in which 1t can free
ly think and work. We may ex-
poet that the time will come when
the burden of grubbing most OF our
foods from the earth will cease.
Food will be laboratory product,
clothing also.
VIII this make life easier for the
masses7
1t should, any one would say: but
it. must be remembered that this
triumph of making food and clothing
from the earth under our feet. the
air about us. and the water which
falls from heaven, is only carrying
further the magnificent work science
has already done, by giving us ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

at the mouth and
rolling its eyes
in it's an n u a l
frenzy every night
h alt the gym
nasiums in t h Q
State are jammed.
1t would take
only a very insig-
nifcant panic at
one Of a dozen Of
the games held
nightly to wipe
out the population
of a small town. OF
nnr1 Pon M q N "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

The Government itself, through
an investigation commission, has an
nounced that 1900 is the minimum
salary on which a man with fam
lily can live. Yet this same Govern
ment pays It's postal employees 4
maximum of $1,S00.-Rep. AlmoI
CD. Alabama
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Grounding

- HE State Industrial Board
IL has warned school authori-
IL ties against overcrowding
gymnasiums and auditoriums at bas-
ketball games. Particular emphasis
is placed en- the blocking Of aisles
and steps which would hinder
speedy egress.
The warning is needed. With the
Hoosier basketball season frothing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
FOOD FROM LIFELESS NATTER

be reaped Of harvests of food by thu
use of airplanes, the monopoly Of thu
earth's surface from which the ain
planes must start would give TIN
same result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20
Tom Sims Says

Making love is about like learning
to drive an auto. You never will
learn just by watching some one
else.
Working for what you get is more
important than getting what you
work for.
Keep too many irons in the fire
and one of them will burn you.
The lazy mans ambition Is a coal
and ice business. AS an ice man he
could loaf I'm winter and as a coal
man he could loaf summers.
All work and no bootleg makes
Jack rich boy.
Many good argument is knocked
down and run over by progress.
Being poor is sometimes more Of
habit than anything else.
Money talks, and time will tell.
but they don't always say what we
like to hear.
Be good. II you get sent to jail
for three months now you will be
there during April and May.
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

tlhl--EulbOE.
Was Christopher Columbus the
first European to visit the shores
of the western continent?
No. There are records of dozen
or so pre-Columbian voyages across
the Atlantic by Arabians, Japanese.
Welchmen, Irishmen and French
men; besides the visits of Eric, 'The
Red" and Left, 1.-THE Lucky" ia
nous Norsemen. Denmark being a
seafaring country undoubtedly sent
out expeditions along with other
countries, for there are records of
the Norsemen's coming to the west
ern shores az early as the 1000 and.
beyond a doubt, 1t Is probable that a
Dane was here as early as 1460.
What was the original name of
the Hawaiian Islands, and why
was the group to which they be-
long called the Sandwich Is
lands7"
The original name was "Owyhee."
The group was named by Captain
Cook in honor of Lord Sandwich of
the British admiralty.
Were any medals awarded to
nurses In the Spanish-American
War?
Not at that time. Since the war,
however, awards have been institut.
ed which are retroactive, and the
old files have been reviewed for the
names Of persons deserving these
medals.
What Is the circumference of
the earth in nautical miles at the
sixtieth parallel?
1t is 1o,S39.S miles.
How many ribs have men and
women?
Twenty-four each.
What does Aud Lang Syne"
mean?
This is Scottish for "oId long
since" or days gone by"
n What does the German prefix
won" mean?
"Of." This dates from the days
when a man was designated by the
house or family to which he be-
longed. Hence. Won Hindenburg
means ''of the house Of linden
burg"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

Be good. II you get sent to jail
for three months now you will be
there during April and May.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Ine.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

The poor useth entreaties but the rich answereth
roughly.-Prov. 823.
Poverty often deprives man of all spirit and virtue
Benjamin Franklin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-20

Money talks, and time will tell.
but they don't always say what we
like to hear.
Evening star., 1925-05-01
Waiter Is Captured
In S68,O55 Hold-Up
ByGridirOr Tackle
Messenger Makes Flying
Plunge and Brings Flee
ing Ma1. DOiun.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May IA foot ball
tackle prevented the escape of Otto
Schmidt, 3S-year-old German waiter,
after he had robbed a brokers' mes
senger of securities worth $6S,055 in
a lower Broadway building Yesterday.
schmidt waylaid Joseph keough, the
messenger, and knocked him down as
he stepped from an elevator on the
fifth floor. Selling the young mans
satchel, Schmidt ran downstairs, with
keough in pursuit, yelling stop
thief On the third floor another
messenger, Joseph Kress, 10. tackled
Schmidt, foot ball style, and brought
him down. The two messengers held
their man until a policeman arrived.
Schmidt was held in bail of 900
for hearing Monday.
He pleaded loss of memory and said
he had been under a doctors care
recently. He said he was out of work
and wanted money to go back to Ger
many.
Four young men entered the jew
elry store of John Mistretta, on the
East Side, yesterday afternoon, black
lacked the proprietor and locked him
in a back room, robbed the showcase
of jewelry valued at about $4,000,
padlocked the store from the outside
and escaped.
A customer entering while the rob.
berry was in progress was bound and
left in the store.