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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05

State government. Consequently the
public is vitality concerned in the
exact status of highway operations.
Public interest is paramount to in
.dividuals or parties
For two years persistent rumors
of something rotten in the highway
department have circulated.
The State examiner investigated.
Only partial report was made pub
lie. The. Marion County grand jury
probed. Complete silence. Last week
a proposal in the House for a legis-
lative inquiry scarcely. tapped its
wings before it was summarily
choked. G
All Of which, instead of starving
rumor, feeds it to repletion- it
thrives prodigiously. Highway af.
fairs have been conducted either
properly or improperly. Which?
Investigations that. start with
brass bands and gorgeous red-fire
but end in abysmal silence don't al
lay suspicion. Rumor must be- killed
~ facts. It's time the naked high.
way facts capered forth.
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Dazcn
BY HAL COCHRAN

The sunrise announces another
night gone and all Of the world
comes to- life. There's much to be
done with the coming of dawn that
brings with it good things and
strife
Just how does the av'rage day
look to you, friend. when you've
hoped out Of bed and are dressing?
Your mind starts TO work and. Just
what is its trend, a gloomy outlook,
or a blessing?
A great deal depends on the day
just before. Did you finish the
work that you started? Whatever's
left over means just that much more
for new day, ere that days de-
parted.
The game you should play isn't
just to get by. but do every bit that
you can. A lot is accomplished by
people who try. It's true Of a WON
an or man.
/ Tomorrow's the day you can test
the thought out by getting today's
work all through. And then, when
you rise in the morning. no doubt.
the dawn will look brighter to you.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)
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The Case for Motor Bus

elusive rights for street railway
transportation, there is an out for
the cities if they keep bus systems
separate from old trolley systems.
Otherwise, bus riders in the future
will have to pay in high fares for
the tracks, trolleys and cars that
have been or will be junked.
Lack Imagination
AS a general thing the people in
cities lack the imagination that
enables them to see into the future;
and human nature is so set in its
habit that about ninety-nine of every
hundred don't think anything can
be done that hasn't been done before.
They have ridden on trolley cars so
long that they take it for granted
there never will be anything new
and they'll go on trolley-riding to the
end of their days.
The owners Of trolley systems
know better.
Yet everybody ought to be able
to see the difference Street car
tracks run along the middle OF the
street. Riders have to leave the
sidewalk, no matter what the
weather, and walk out to the car; or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
UNCLE SAM CAN BE KIND

HEN occasion offers your Sam can do the gener-
w thing, do it with magnificent gesture do without
waiting to be asked You have read good under
paid Government employees here the other of the pic
ture.
Twenycne charwomen employed in the Capitol build
ing At the end OF the day their pleasant task
scrub brushes and buckets in hand shine to the
marble corridors dmmed during the day by industrious
feet of statesmen and tourists the beautiful
halls gstenng for the admiration of horde of Wis
tors and the charomen retire rest happy thought
useful service done for their countrymen-
For this labor Of love- the charwomen have heretofore re-
eved $40 year AS instantly realize that
$685. week ct little less the final fraction being 40
instead OF u, but when dealing with matters big
scale, round fractions will do
Now, the charwomen more Without going
Oh strike without organizing lobby without presenting pc
hon to the President without lifting their handssave to
WELD their brooms brushes and mopsthey been given
increase How different from rapacious postal en-
ployes.
It happened this way The House Committee on Appropri
atoms ID fixing the total for the architect Capitol under
whose supervision the charwomen work had fig
ire st $3.50 deal with It made the arithmetic bother
genius the discovered that by adding
$3.50 to the salaries of the wenyone charwomen that
$3.50 would be absorbed and the arithmetic would become
easy was done Quietly without self praise without fan
fare Of pubicity this committee duty and done IT,
The charwomen Will receive 841 q year That in
their weekly salaries 1898 or roughly SIS
Who says this Government hasn got hearth
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
B GAYLORD NELSON
Miners


III IXSON H. BYNUM, chairman
lfI of the State industrial board,
has arranged Tor employment
for idle coal miners in the southwest
ern part Of the State in Lake County
steel mills.
There are approximately 1900
idle coal miners in the Indiana fields.
Diverting these to the steel mills
which need men-seems feasible, on
paper. But is may be difficult-fer
once a miner always miner is more
than a figure Of speech.
Unemployment in Hoosier coal
fields is no new condition. It's chron-
ic-and is getting worse. Except
for Intervention of a miracle the
mining industry in this State viii
soon perish.
Yet coal is a most useful mineral.
Because of it civilization isn't tied
to the Tropic of Cancer but ranges
to the Arctic Circle.
Being so necessary one would ex-
peel the coal mining industry to be
most stable. Instead no other major
industry in the country experiences
such depressions, irregular work, and
chronic unrest. Not only is this true
in Indiana but in other coal states.
There just isn't enough coal min
ing pie to feed the hungry mouths.
There are too many mines and too
many miners. Perhaps if many
miners seek. other employment they
will better themselve sand cure the
mining industry.
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Income Tax

Losses arising from fires, storm,
shipwreck. or other casualty or from
theft. are ded1lctible whether or not
connected with the taxpayers trade
or business. The term "other casu-
atty" within the meaning of the
revenue act of 1924, is one arising
through the action Of a physical
force. of nature; for example flood
or frost.
II a taxpayers home or auto
mobile is destroyed by fire, or, if'his
summer bungalow is damaged .byta
storm he may claim a deduction for
the loss sustained. Allowances, of
course, must be made for any In
surance or other compensation re-
ceived. In event of collision be-
tween a truck and an automobile
used for pleasure or convenience, the
owner of the truck may claim a de-
duction for damages, provided at the
time the truck was being used for
business purposes. No deduction is
allowed the owner of the automobile
because the car was not being used
for business purposes, neither is il
a casualty as defined above.
Loss of property by theft or bur.
glary Is an allowable deduction, and
need not be incurred in trade or bust.
ness.
As a. general rule. deductions for
losses are allowed for the year in
which sustained. Al taxpayer may
ascertain the amount Of loss sus
tanned during prior taxable year
which he had not deducted from
gross income for that year. He may
render an amended return for such
preceding year including such
amount OF loss in the deductions
from gross income, and may file
with the Bureau of Internal Revenue
a claim for refund of the excess tar
paid by reason Of failure to deduct
the loss in his original return. "A
loss from theft or embezzlement
occurring in one year and discovered
In another is ordinarily deductibIe
for TIVE year in which sustained.
Losses in illegal transactions are
not deductible.
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BN Tlmes SpeciaT

BR Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-within
a few weeks, the United States pub.
lie health service will be able to an
nounce whether or not the oyster is
carrier Of typhoid fever.
If it is able to give the oyster a
clean bill of health and to get this
message over to the public, a $13,-
100000 industry may be saved. II
it is not, there will be grave suffer
ing along the Atlantic seaboard this
winter.
Thousands Of idle fishing boats
now line Chesapeake Bay, and the
situation is growing more serious
daily. New York and Chicago have
not lifted the bans they placed, on
eating Of raw oysters, and public
oyster parties staged here, with dem
onstrations by fishermen that they
are not afraid to eat their own catch,
have failed to restore public conf
dence.
The public health service is trac-
ing sources Of all typhoid cases re-
ported in cities where an epidemic
has appeared, and it's report, when
it comes, will be authoritative.
Until the present typhoid alarm
wrecked the business, the United
States was producing 1880, 900 bush
els of oysters annually, 70 per cent
of the crop of the entire world. OF
this, 7,750,000 bushels were pro-
duced in the Chesapeake Bay. The
country's oyster crop was valued at
$12, 600 900.
The United States produces most
Of the worlds oysters. and the
States Of Maryland, Virginia, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, New York,
Mississipri and Louisiana produce
most Of Americas crop.
Oysters have been the worlds
most popular shellfsh, and per
capita consumption has been greater
in the United States than anywhere
else.
There are at least a hundred va
rieties of oyster. living all the way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
Language

ri ENAToR HARMON intro.
81 duced bill yesterday en-
@ towering judges to order at
torneys to rewrite pleadings, when
confusing, in concise language ito
enable person Of common under
standing to know what is intended. %
Doubtless this is much needed
reform that will make life sweeter
and purer for the toiling masses.
Adjectives. adverbs, vagrant and
mongrel parts Of speech march
across ordinary legal documents in
disorderly mobs. Laymen are be-
wildered and quickly lose conscious
ness in the intricay Of legal phra-
seology.
The legal fraternity is not the
only spendthriftI of language. Fol
lowers of other so-called learned pro-
LESSONS love to parade every We
hicle in their vocabulary at the
least provocation
OF course, there's a reason. If
they used plain speech, easily under
stood, the fees they charge would
seem disproportionate to the services
rendered. An awesome vocabulary
is part Of their stock in trade.
Squandering language is COM
mon failing, although not as prev
alent as formerly. A ten-word tele-
gram now accomplishes the same
purpose as a ten-page letter in
grandfather's time. - ~
/ THERE'S still room for improves
ment.isss The only purpose Of Ian
guage is to express ideas. Words
aren't idntended to be worn around
the neck like Strings Of beads, More
words. than necessary are excess
baggage. They obscure thought in
stead of revealing it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05

~ STATE board of examiners
TAI of cosmetology is proposed.
E A bill to establish it, to
regulate and license scosmetologists,
is in. the legislative heppeT:
If cosmetology is pestilenttals the
Governor ought to call GU the ma,
tional guard Immediately to protect
the public without waiting for Iegis-
lative action.
But the word is not as horrendous
as it sounds. A cosmetologist is just
beauty specialist - an artisan
who cleans, dyes, upholsters and
renovates human features. AID this
artisan seeks suppression Of COM
petition of INSCRIPTIONS quacks by
a license Jaw. ~
4 Why net?y BARRIERS, plumbers,
electricians and corn doctors want
boards of examiners and State
licenses. Isn't the vocation of beauty
specialist as dangerous to the peace,
dignity and pulchritude of the State?
Beauty is important. It's pursuit
engages the attention Of both sexes.
Women want to wear it and men
want to marry it, =
But a State law. wouldn't make the
pursuit OF beauty, any easier or
surer. The boardl of examiners
couldn't reach--nor prevent from
practicing by withholding a license
the most careless and expert Beauty
specialist of them all-Divine Provi-
dence.
Nevertheless If the proponents of
examining boards and licenses keep
trying they may yet evolve scheme
to license Diety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
Newsboys and MiIIionaires
Give to EpiscopaIian
Cathedral.

EW YORK, Feb. 5.-F'rom
lINI the purses of Magdalen and
millionaire, agnostic and de-
vout believer, Jew and Christian are
coming the dollars that will build
Americas most magnificent church.
"A shrine of worship for all peo-
ple!g-that will be the cornerstone
for the Cathedral of st. John the
Divine destined to rank with Cathe-
draIs Of st. Peter, Seville, Notre
Dame, Rheims, Canterbury and
Westminster Abbey.
High above the roaring, scurrying
city will stand this sacrament in
stone to remind the feverish, milling
hordes of the goals higher than their
daily ambition.
AT a. cost of SIS 100000 is to be
built this most democratic of cathe-
drals.
No Rentals
There will be no rentals, no locked
doors. no reserved rights of caste or
rank, no denominational demands.
"Our democratic age demands a
place of worship that will not dis
regard the teachings of the Founder
of Christianity" declares Bishop
William Thomas Manning, head of
the New York Episcopal diocese who
now is leading the financial drive to
make possible this combination of
the grandeur of the old world and
the democracy of the new.
I'm that. section of the church al
ready built there have been services
in italian and Spanish; occasional
services in Armenian, Japanese, Chi
nese and even Welsh On Kossoyol
day, Serbian Archimandrite cele-
brated the liturgy Of the Holy Or
thodox Church at the cathedral's
high altar an da choir of Russians
and Jugo-Slavs sang the response
such are the cosmopolitan influences
OLA city such as New York"
500 Feet High
When, at the end Of ten years
this great shrine is completed the
cathedral will be one-tenth of mile
long, the sides will be ribbed with
spired buttresses and spire upon
spire will rise to central tower SOC
feet above the foundations.
''The spiritual imagination of the
people will be aroused" the bishop
continues. I'm the old days church
towers and spires were conspicuous
ly in view, Today they have dis
appeared. We have hidden them be
hind our great buildings and apart
ment houses.
1.-THE cathedral will bring the
church once more into view. Stand
ing on the heights. where nothing
can obscure or hide it, this great
building will bring the church back
into the place which belongs to it in
the sight of the people,"
French Gothic architecture will be
used in its building The plan is
cruciform. From the apse radiate
seven chapels, known as the
"chapels of the tongues" In area
it will be the third largest in the
world, st. Peters at Rome being the
largest.
Probably no church in the world
is built on such a varied collection
OF donations--three hotel bellhops,
an organization Of reformed gunner,
newsbey, Wall Street millionaire
of international repute, a School
teacher supporting an invalid moth
er. 2 street walker, lady of so
ciety, all the elements of great
city's society go into the stones and
columns asyss, ~sss
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BY N. D. COCHRAN

RI TREET railway owners knew
long ago that the motor bus
was overtaking the trolley
car in the race for transportation
supremacy, Several years ago the
manufacturers Of street cars saw
what was coming and got busy on,
notorious designs. Now the street
railway magnates have quit build
ing trolley extensions and are put
ting on buses.
Among other things, this means.
that in municipalities where The
trolley lines are permitted to control
the development of bus transporta-
ton, the people will pay bus fare
that will make good the old invest
ment Of the trolley company.
For, where street railway COM
panies put on busses instead OF max
ing extensions of their rail lines, the.
cost of the busses will be additional,
.investment--added to the old invest
ment, however much or little that
old investment may have been.
watered in the old days Of franchise
grabbing and frenzied finance.
Where cities are tied up with old
franchises, practically granting ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
Tom Sims Says

A philosopher is one who can be
modern with a clear conscience.
There are many arguments in
favor of matrimony, the best two
being an old bachelor and an old
maid.
Some men talk so much they are
effeminate.
A sheix is a man whose coat lapels
wear out first.
Two can either live on love or soak
their old love letters in water and
sell it for syrup.
It is better to have had platonic
friendship than never to have loved
at all.
Once asbestos curtains were in
case the theater caught fire; now in
case the show is too hot.
There are still mice, but you see
silk stockings without them now.
There are two side, to every ques-
tom both os which may be wrong.
A wise man never makes faces at
red-headed girls or bites a mule on
the ankle.
Sometimes it is hest to be sure
you are right and then stop.
A girl usually closes her eyes
when you kiss her because she likes
to inaagine you are some one else
ACopyright. 1926 NEA Service, Inc.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
The Oyster on the Griddle

from equatorial waters to the Gulf
Of St. Lawrence or southern Nor
way in the Atlantic, and to Puget
Sound in the Pacific. But the oysters
of the Atlantic Coast of America are
the choicest.
Oyster culture began years before
Christ in China. 1t was known in
Italy as early as 100 B. c.
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to the sidewalk from the car
when alighting. In the meantime
vehicular traffic is held up until the,
car unloads and loads.
In New York, Chicago, Washing
ton and other cities where motor
buses are operating, the buses stop.
at the sidewalk to unload and load
When the bus entirely supplants
the trolley car there will be no
tracks in the street, busses will let
off and take on passengers at the
curb and vehicular traffic will move
along the middle Of the street with
out stopping as it does now for street
cars. 81
Car Companies Fight
The street railway companies will
fight first to keep busses off the
streets, making the argument that
they are unfair competition and tend
to increase car fares. In the mean q
time they will lay no more tracks
for crosstown lines and extensions,
but will take care Of that traffic with
buses of their own. Only gradually
will they push trolley cars out with
their own buses. If they can I'M
load their trolley systems on the
municipalities through municipal
ownership that will be one way out
for them.
They won't object to municipal
ownership of trolley systems, but
they'll put up an awful fight against
public ownership of motor busses.
Judging the future by the past very
few municipalities win find out until
1t is too late that the trolley car is
headed for the junk pile, and that
the city transportation system Of
the future will consist Of motor
buses.
So it is a good thing for Ameri
can cities that very few Of them
have taken over from private cor
porations their trolley systems at
reproduction or any other valua-
ton. But they won't profit by that
fact if they permit the cost of
motor bus system to be added to the :
valuation of trolley systems headed
for the junk pile. For that will
make for higher rather than for
lower transportation fares.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
National Parks

Travel to National parks and mon.
uments showed a large increase dur.
ing 1924. in spite Of adverse economic
conditions in certain sections Of the
country. The travel increase was
entirely in motor travel, the train
travel to the parks showing slight
decrease.-Report of the Secretary
of the Interior
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-05
WHERE YOUR INCOME TAX MONEY GOES


TvERY year about this time beset by two pet
Il denominations The income tax dun and the statistical
bug who insists upon telling how little of what pay
for anything useful
'ust thnk' chortles the latter During 1924 only
per of the paid in Federal taxes spent
purely civil workke legislation public works etc The rest
858 per cent pay for warpast present and u
ture."
This year. it so happens have ready made
for is in the form of letter from Robert F. Scpp of
the newspapers Though intended Meth
for publication to this hour of need it
answers statistical WELL II print it. least
part
'I never fail to note says with feeling disgust
its specousne chief argument of American pacsts and
disarmament people stresses large per-
centage the expenditure Federal Government
devoted paying the of present and future
'The answer to argument put the form
of question: What the Federal Government for what
other fundamental purpose it created and maintained
except for the purpose of national defense2
1.-THE people of the various States Federal
Government their police regulations and
fact the Federal Government plays small part
such activities They do not need Federal Government to
build school houses highways for Them they and do
build these things for themselves But the people of California
for instance could have protected themselves against Mex
lean aggression during the middle of the last century
effectively taken part the recent great in Europe with
Federal Government. y
''They probably could lived California at
Washington Federal military
istence.
To say that it is foolish and that there is something
wrong with national scheme of things because the Federal
Government spends large percentage of pay
warke activities either past contemplated about
pertinent it would be that there something
with the Scrpps Howard Publishing Company and that its
management incompetent because large part Of the
of the company spent producing and distributing
newspaper instead of other sort Of activity
Without federated effort Colonies would never have
the United States all but English pos
session.
Without Federal Army and Navy would have lost
independence 1872 and gone back under the British
flag.
Without Federal Army and Navy would have
Texas and New Mexico and Nevada and California
territory which came to us in the forties.
Without Federal Army and Navy our country would
have been broken into countries 1861 after which
would have had shoulder alone the whole burden
national defense its citizens paying twice much per capita
for less security-than they now have to pay.
Of past wars, PENSIONS etc. cost lot nsur-
against future eats approximately 90 per
Federal income But that what federation is
for Defense At that the average American citizen pays
less per for the priceless privilege of living security
this aunchest and safest of all he spends in the
period for his tobacco on Che movies.
We call it mighty cheap insurance.
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made public? Or
is it intended to
drag a red her
ring across the
trail? Most Of the
trail Most of
the departments
friends and foes
hope it will be the
former.
The funds ex-
pended by the
commission ex-
coded the com
bined disburse-
ments of all other
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Audit

THE State highway commission
MI Tuesday arranged with the
Governor for a thorough au-
dit Of its affairs at once by expert
accountants. Private accountants
prababIy will make the investiga-
ton.
Is it to be real. disinterested
audit with the findings promptly