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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-19
Kellogg Clears Up
Mystery!

TNT1OW we know why Secretary of State Kel-
w logg barred Countess Karolyi from the
United States
A Washington dispatch the other day said
the exclusion of the countess was "closed in
cident,," and that Secretary Kellogg refused to
give her attorney any information as to the
why's and wherefores.
The news proved premature else the Sec
rotary of State has relented, for now her attor-
ney, James Freeman Curtis of New York, has
been told And here S the secret:
She was excluded from the United States
under "the act of May 90 1913 as extended
by the act of March 2, 1921, and the act of Oc-
tober 16, 1913 as amended by the act of June
5, 192O''
Yes, sir, that is what W. R. Castle Jr,
chief OF the western European division Of the
State Department, says about it. He is han
ding the case for Secretary Kellogg and he
ought to know.
The first act provides for the exclusion Of
dangerous radicals. Countess Karolyi is not
one of these-her attorney says, her friends
say and she says. And all the evidence sup
ports their statement.
The second act is wartime measure which
gives the President sweeping power to exclude
undesirable aliens. 1t is held to be discretion.
airy and to permit the President pretty wide
latitude.
Now you know all about the dangerous
countess and why she was barred NoY Well,
you haven't got anything on her attorney. He
doesn't know, either
We are as much in the dark as ever" he
said In statement given out in New York.
I'VE are without any information as to wheth-
er Countess Karolyi is being excluded because
it is being claimed she is an anarchist or com
munist, or because of some other mysterious,
but undisclosed reason.
THE department is still evading the is
sue. Its position is that the countess is barred
under some law or Their, but it refuses to say
what, which or why"
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T. R., Jr.

News Item-Theodore and Kermit
Roosevelt, following in the footsteps
Of the mighty hunter, who was their
father, have found the ancestor of
the sheep. known as the ovLs-pon.
and are looking for an armored rhi-
noceros with one horn.
with apologies to "Jaberwockie. y
Beware the armored rhino. son.
With jaws that bite and horn that
blows;
Look out for ovis-poli, shun
The ferocious battered nose.
He took his heavy grip in hand
Long time the curious foe he
sought;
He rested by the tum-tum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in oilish thought he stood,
The rhinocero, with eyes of flame.
Came whifling through the dusky
wood
And burbled as he came.
one-two. one-two. and through and
through,
He shot the rhino in the back;
He left it dead and with it's head
He went gaIumphing back,
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Dodging the
Stockholders

"a AN you imagine the newly elected head
" of a $600000,000 corporation running
away from town and hiding from the stock
holders of the corporation Immediately after
bis election because he does not dare be pres
ent when he names the principal employees who
are to serve the corporationf Such move GER
0tainly would not inspire confidence on the part
q of the stockholders in their new executive. 1t
would be more likely to inspire receivership
action.
" Yet that Is exactly what the head Of the
A$60o, o0o 900 corporation known as the city of
\ Indianapolis has done. John L. Duvall Is
< lodging around in Illinois because he does not
care to face the men who elected him mayor
y Of indianapolis. This is not so much an indica
tion Of weakness on the part of Duvan as it is
an indication Of the deplorable state Of af-
Sfairs into which Indianapolis has been allowed
Ito drift
Party politics has failed as a means of in
Asuring competent city government. The sys-
ITEM has been given fair trial and it does not
work. No man can be a good mayor if he has
hanging around his neck milestone of cam
#paign promise and obligations. He can not
Sbe his own master.
Indianapolis deserves more than it is get
ting in the way of city government. 1t de-
serves to have its municipal affairs conducted
Gunder the direction Of the best available man,
sunencumbered by political obligations, and free
ito use his own best judgment in the admins
Qtration of affairs which should be surely bust
mess.
Other cities are pulling themselves out Of
THE political mud by means of the city manager
form Of government. This form has been tried
long enough that we KNOW it works. The po-
|litical form has been tried long enough that
I've KNOW 1t DOESN'T work Indianapolis
has the same opportunity and the same ability
las other cities to right the wrongs that exist
lin Its government.
We hear much about boosting Indianapo-
lis. The biggest boost that could be given the
lefty would be sound and sensible city gov
|ernment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-19
Will Submarines Be
OutIaWed?

FOLLOWING the tragedy Of the MI, lost
off the English coast with all on board,
the British are again agitating for the aboli-
1tion Of subs
Now if you didn't know the British you
might be inclined to call them cutters. But
1you know better. They are not cutters. They
are not afraid to die. Then why the move to
1outlaw submarines on the ground that they are
1dangerousf
The answer is very simple Britain has
never got over the scare the German U-boats
gave her during the World War. She came
within an ace of being starved into submis-
sion. 1t was mighty close shave and the
ever-present thought that the next time the
enemy might turn the trick is a constant night
mare to her.
Britain today fears two weapons of war:
the submarine and the airplane Her "splen-
did isolation" has gone forever thanks to air
craft, while powerful enemy with enough
subs could quickly bring her to her knees by
starvation. She would joyously see both these
instruments Of war outlawed and admits it,
But will they beY Hardly Aircraft is
destined to serve in the future as peacetime
common carriers-instrument Of commerce.
They will not be outlawed any more than auto
mobiles. Yet overnight these commercial ships
or the air can be turned into devastating en-
gines OF war. While as to submarines there are
certain countries to which they offer very posi-
tive advantages. France, Italy Germany Rus
sia and Japan, for example
Japan, though an island like England, con-
siders the submarine one of her most effeo.
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Nv wIIiam PhiIIp sImms


EV7 ASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-About
.IW the head OF Secretary %
L. State Frank d. Kellogg q
storm is brewing which. scheduled
to break about the time Congress
convenes next month, may blow him
out OF the Cabinet.
In office a bare eight months,
Secretary Kellogg has been the
center OF four international incidents
which brought down upon this coun.
try mach criticism and rldicule.
Which constitutes nearly, II not
quite. a record: One major blunder
for every sixty days.
Incident No. l was the gagging
Of Count Michael Karolyi, former
president Of the Hungarian Republic,
whose published program and whose
struggle to free his people from the
Hapsburg yoke entitle him to be
called the George Washington Of
his country. First applied by Secre-
tary of State Hughes, the muzzle
was kept in place by Secretary KEEL
logg in the face Of nationwide pro
tests.
The Mexico Affair
Incident No. was Kelloe's threat
to Mexico. This gesture interpreted
by the Medcans as "a thinly yelled
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tive arms. England is close to the European
continent and could be quickly encircled by
these invisible boats. But Japan is too far
from any great sea power greatly to fear subs
while, for Observation-Disclosures purposes, she
could have no better weapon than these, espe-
cially when used in conjunction with aircraft
No, the British have not suddenly contracted
a case of cold feet because some sixty lives
were lost in the MI. They have always been
willing to risk their necks for anything they
deemed worth while It's the other fellow s
submarine that frightens them, not their own.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

ton as readily as the self-styled
Ihasterful sex.
Pious Bishop Denny, in North
Carolina, who the other day ad-
vised men to wear mustaches as
their badge Of masculinity knew
what he was talking about. Grow
ing whiskers is about the only way
men have left of asserting their SUI
periority over women.
For some thousands Of years
women were successfully held in
subsection. Some races even
barred them from their heaven
and hope of future bliss. A girl
was just an overgrown rib-use-
full but not worth educating.
That attitude has died, but not
all over-its tail still wiggles.
Now women vote, manage busi-
nesses, shine athletically. attain
eminence ia professions, smoke
cigarets, and encroach more and
more on masculine preserves. De-
spite croaking of pessimists the
world hasn't gone to smash as a
result. Which proves that girls
are human beings equipped with
brains and usual human abilities
and blemishes.
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TWO CENTS FOR
TRANSFERS

-1HE Indianapolis Street
Railway Company is petit
- tioning the public service
commission for authority to in
crease it's transfer charges from
! to cents. Failure to earn ex-
penses and fixed charges under
existing rates is the company's
plea.
over a year ago the company,
facing a mounting deficit. was
granted a fare increase. The rate
schedule then adopted was ex-
pected to fatten revenues 100000
annually.
It didn't. The higher fare only
produced an increase Of 500, 900 in
yearly revenue.
Income still fails to catch up
with outgo-for the first nine
months Of 1925 street car opera
ticns resulted in a deficit Of
$7,235.46 company officials say.
Hence the proposed doubling Of
transfer rate. 1t is estimated that
increase will boost receipts $780,
900 annually and win lead the har-
ried trolley system out of its
fiscal wilderness.
But will it?
Experience has shown that on
increase in fares is offset by de-
crease in customers. A sort of
squirrel-in-theAcage performance
that gets nowhere.
The plight of the street car line
doubtless should arouse sympathy.
Indianapolis can't dispense with
electric transportation. 1t would
be disastrous to have the system
starve to death on it's hands. And
since 1919 the company has not
paid dividend on common stock
and has passed seven quarterly
Inevitably leads to the junk pile.
The fundamental trouble is not
inadequate rates but too few pas
sengers. Henry Ford has demon
strated that the way to increase
profits is to lower prices and widen
the market. So while the Street
Railway Company might secure
temporary relief by doubling price
Of transfers there is little assur-
ance that relief would be perna-
nent. It's real problem is to WOO
back lost patrons. That can't be
done by sandbagging present
customers.
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THE TAXPAYER
TO SUE HIMSELF

WILLIAM BOSOM, city at
NV torney, will institute man.
0 damus proceedings, it is an
nounced, to compel Marion Coun-
ty to pay its share, according to
city officials. of the cost of the
Kentucky Ave. and oliver Ave.
b bridges over White River. These
are joint indianapolis and Marion
County enterprises.
You'll have to mandate us" re-
tort authorities def1antly.
So legal warfare impends, after
months of more or less frightful
combat, to determine the proper
apportionment of the cost of these
public improvements. Both parties
to the dispute purport to be in
terested in protecting the sacred
rights of their respective taxpay-
ers.
Where does the Indianapolis tax
payer get off when the wrangle is
settled? In the end he pays no
matter whether the county or city
is victorious.
Marion County and the City Of
Indianapolis are not separate
geographical entities; they are
pretty much off the same piece.
Six-sevenths of the taxable values
In Marion County are in Indian
apolis and the city has a larger
proportion Of the county's popula-
ton.
The taxpayers of both city and
county are practically Identical.
The resident of Indianapolis is the
fiddler for both governments.
So when city and county carry
their bridge dispute to the courts
the indianapolis taxpayer sues
himself to settle the vital question
whether he should pay for the
bridge out of his right hand pocket
or his left. And pays the cost of
prosecuting and defending the suit.
He doubles in brass and meets
himself coming and going.
Could anything be more absurd
than the continuance of the arch
ale city-county governmental sys-
TENS that imposes on the citizens
Of Indianapolis two OVERLAPPING
local governments?
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Don't Be a DumbbeIi

can not have and whining because
they are denied. 1t Is the dumbbells
who get married and divorced most
regularly. It Is the dumbbells who
go up and down the earth making
grief for themselves and others.
Brains are as great an asset for
women as for men. Only people of
intelligence get any true happiness
out of life. For unto them is given
a vision that the dumbells meyer
glimpse. And while women of force
and personality may not often grab
the millionaires, still in the last
analysis they get more richness out
of life than dollars can ever give.
We praise too highly the physical
loveliness which fades and think too
seldom Of the mental and spiritual
charm which vanisheth not
We women have come to believe
that our chief aim in life is to get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-19
FOR STRICT
ENFORCEME EMF

m OBERT T. HUMES, chief Of
Tx the State motor police, an
III nounced Monday that mi
nor infractions of the Indiana mo-
tor vehicle laws are to be watched
more carefully by State policemen.
Second offenders are to be arrest
ed. Is the order.
Sure, get after the violators.
That's proper. The law is the law
and should be observed in the mat
ter Of DINNERS and dirty license
plates as in its more vital pro-
visions.
However. the fact that special
and sporadic campaigns must be
instituted to enforce many of the
motor vehicle regulations and traf-
flc rules reveals the chief ailment
Of automobile and traffic law.
Regulations are so numerous
that even officers don't pretend to
enforce them all. Aside from the
more serious offenses they concen-
trate on such minor infrations as
are the subject of specific orders
from time TO time. Soon those are
neglected and others are pursued.
The conscientious motorist would
get no place but over the hills to
play with the daffodils in COM
pany with. other demented If he
tried to observe all the State and
local automobile regulations. He
falls an easy victim to every hick
constable and officer who has a
sudden rush to the head of minor
attractions.
For instance, Indianapolis has
an ordinance prohibiting more
than three persons in the drivers
seat. How much is that ordinance
enforced? Perhaps some day a
crusade will be ordered against
that particular sin-and the car
mage will be awful. Normally the
ordinance slumbers amid the cob
webs, along with a lots of other
forgotten traffic rules.
Fewer irritating. inconsequential
rules would simplify the problem
of automobile regulation from the
standpoint of enforcement and the
motorist would have greater re-
spect for the law.
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The Mistakes of Kellogg

threat to let revolutlonists work
their will on the Gales government
unless It treats Americans as Wash
ington wishes" aroused the animos-
ity and suspicion OF all Latin-Amer,
lean from the RIO Grande to Cape
| Horn.
Incident No. was Kellogg's ban
on Shapurn Saklatvala, British
Member OF Parliament, Just two days
before he was To have sailed for
Washington to be present at the
nterparllamentary Union confer
ence to which he was a bona fido
delegate. All his arrangements had
been made, includingS the American
visa to his passport, when Secretary
Kellogg suddenly ordered the visa
Cancelled presumably on the ground
that he is q communist.
Incident No. was Kellog's TO
fusal to allow the wife OF Count
Karolyi to come to this country,
even as the private guest OF Mrs.
Ralph Strassburger, wife of "a Penn
sylvania millionaire and as regular
a Republican as there Is in that en-
tire State OF rock-ribbed Repub-
leans. Why the countess was barred
remains a mystery, but 1t is assumed
she entertains Ideas similar to those
OF her husband.
What Does Coolidge Think
Exactly what President Coolidge
thinks Of all this is not known. APP
parently his attitude Is that as long
as Kellogg is Secretary OF State,
Kellogg must be given his head. He,
the President. VIII not interfere
That seems TO be the substance OF
what Ralph Strassburger learned
when he called at the White House
personally TO appeal the Kellogg ban
on Countess KArolyi.
Nevertheless Secretary Kellogg's
arbitrary slamming Of the door in
the face Of foreign visitors falls ut
terly to 1ibe with President Cool
idge's public utterances.
federation lin the broadcast and
most inclusive sense a liberality OF
mind which gives TO the opinions
and Judgment OF others the same
generous consideration that It asks
for It's own" the President said at
Omaha less than a month ago, is an
ideal which may not be given TO
finite beings to attain, but It IL none
the less one toward which we should
strive"
Conflict I'm Ideas
Many members of Congress view
| the gagging Of Karolyi, the big stick
method with Mexico, the barring OF
Salklatvala and the exclusion OF
Countess Karolyi as being in direct
conflict with Coolidge ideals and out
of all harmony with the Presidents
convictions expressed in the Omaha
| speech which the whole nation
warmly applauded.
It Is understood that Senator
Borah. Republican, of Idaho Will
push for the repeal Of the immigra-
ton law which gives one man, or n
handful of men, the power arbitrar-
lily to exclude foreign visitors mere
~ because 1t may be that they don't
think as we do. II is not n question
Of sympathy for communistic, so
cialistlc or any other shade OF po-
litical opinion, but Of the right OF
free speech and tolerance which
many feel endangered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-19
The Royal Hunt

~ ING GEORGE and group of the nobility,
IL the cable inform us, killed 1000 pheasants
and cartridges in the first day of three-day
hunt on the game preserves of Lord Iveagh.
The preserves Of his lordship, we are
further told, comprise thousands of acres Of
land
News of this slaughter will anger true
sportsmen. 1t will outrage persons who love
wild life.
But the most significant thing in the story
IS the statement that Iveagh s preserves include
thousands of acres of land.''
While the King and his mobiles amuse them
selves with slaughter, unemployment, misery.
poverty and hunger are creating for ENGLAND
one of the most serious problems with which
that country has been confronted in centuries
The Sums of London are crowded with idle
poor, who are able to keep soul and BODY TO-
gether only through the pittance doled out TO
them by the government
1t would be much better if KING Gaoroo
and his lordship amused themselves bv nlav;no
tiddle-de-winks, and put some of their hungry
subjects to raising food on those thousands of
acres of land
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Speed of a Baseball

might correspond with the event.
whatever the outcome might be.
According to the new immigra-
ton act how many aliens can be
admitted to the United States from
each country within a single
year?
The immigration act OF 1924 pro-
vided that the number Of aliens Of
any nationality who may be admitted
into the United States in any fiscal
year shall be limited to 2 per cent
of the number Of foreign horn per
sons Of such nationality resident III
the United States as shown by the
census of 1890; and not more than
20 per cent of the annual quota Of
any nationality may be admitted IN
any month.
What part did Theodore Roose-
welt and the Rough Riders play
len tn the charge Of San Juan hill
in the Spanish-American war?
CAROLS brigade took the lead in
the charge and the Rough Riders
supported him on the right, headed
by their Col Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the best method of TO-
moving clear glass letters that
have been affixed to plate glass
windows?
Clear glass letters are affixed to
plate glass with a rosinous cement,
applied hot. They can be removed
if they are first warmed. but there
is great danger OF breaking the let
ters and the plate glass. Slowly
wedging them off with a knife or
razor blade is about the safest way
to remove them, as far as. the plate
glass is concerned, but the letters
are almost sure to be broken.
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Tattered Flag at School
Mr.. Ffxit.

few bricks he could put in the holes
at Sanders and S. East SITS. Those
poor holes went through one winter
and the past summer and feel
sorry for them
OF course you know am speaking
two words for the holes and one
for my car.
HOOSIER TRAVELLING MAN.
Your letters always are welcome,
Mr.. Traveller. Harry Stevens OF
the improved streets department
promised an early investigation.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: How do I join
the Legion here? What post do I
look for?'
OVERSEAS VETERAN.
See Frank H. Henley, Indiana de-
partment adjutant. He win accept
your dues and assign you a post.
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a man-and perhaps it is-but we
should at least make it our ambition
10 get one>who is worth the getting
and certainly he who would marry
us for our face alone is not that
sort.
And the dumbbell who never gets
her man-sometimes that too
happens-is the most miserable of
human beings, while there are plenty
OF women with brains who can and
do live very comfortably and happily
without men.
Do not wish ever that your
daughter be beautiful and dumb. OF
that combination have come some
OF the worst fizzles OF human ex.
istence, Of such a partnership is
crime often born. Wish for beauty
If you will for your girl, but pray
God that He temper 1t with some
brainsl
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WBOn CITY
representative at the city hall. Write
him at The Times.
Another instance Of a tattered
American flag on display was re-
ported tc Mr.. F1xit today.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: 1 am stu
dent of the Arsenal Technical High
School and respect Old Glory.
On the fiagpole Of a school at Mar
ket ST. and Arsenal Ave. winds an
old, tattered American flag that is
in reality only, number of red,
white and blue threads. 1t is torn
to shreds and so dirty its colors are
hardly conceivable.
I would like TO know to whom /
should apply for a removal Of the
object and the replacing of an Ameri-
can flag. one not disgrace but an
honor.
MIDGE.
Mr.. F'ixit is sure a few words by
you to the pastor Of the church
that operates the school would re-
suit in action. Try 1t.
DEAR MR.. FTXIT: Please ask the
street commissioner If he hasn't a
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GIRLS AND
BRAINS

m 1AYMOND ANDERS
TX county attendance officer,
- says that in Marion County
schools outside of Indianapolis
girls make higher grades than
boys. And more girls than boys are
enrolled in the township high
schools while the reverse is true
In grade schools.
He has made no real discovery.
It has been quite generally SUI
spected in late years that girls
have brains and assimilate educa-