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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-31
Senatorial Humor

&C7ENATOR SHIPSTEAD, by way of hay
, ing a little fun and at the same time
binting a moral, has introduced a bill which
Eeats the farming industry exactly as the
- sch- Cummins law treats the railroad in
In fact, he has taken the latter act and
Iimply substituted the word farming for
Ene word railroad" throughout
When asked about it, he takes pleasure in
admitting that it is unsound economically.
THAT, he says, is because the Esch-Cummins law
IS unsound economically.
His bill would fix prices for farm products
in Just the manner that rates are fixed for the
Railroads. definite return on the valuation
Of the farm.
Shipstead ought to get a good speech out
of his bill, anyhow. He can say that the
valuation of a farm is easily ascertainable
from the county tax records. Prices then won't
be too high because the farmers don't make
their tax returns any higher than they have
to. The lower the farmer makes his tax re-
turn, the less return he'd get on his crops,
under this plan. The higher the price for
potatoes, asked by the farmer, the higher the
taxes he'd have to pay.
1t really sounds a whole lot sounder than
the Esch-C ummins act, as you study it. For,
after years and years Of expensive investiga-
ton, a fair valuation-to say nothing Of the
real value-of the railroads has not been found
yet.
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BARRING FROM
CITIZENSHIP

E7.C. MINTON, legal advisor
TX Of the Thirteenth prohi-
-J bition district, says steps
will be taken to bar the dozen
aliens, arrested in Tuesdays
spectacular liquor raid In Indian
apolis, from United States citizen
ship. The dozen have taken out
first papers only.
That may be a stern penalty to
inflict on booze law violators. But
it's about as effective in drying up
the Illicit liquor traffic as a shake
of the finger.
There is no provision in the law
whereby alien bootleggers and
blind tiger operators a be de
ported and kept out Of the country
because of anti-prohibition ac-
tivities. So barring them from
citizenship is at most a sensational
gesture that doesn't interfere with
their business.
There is much beer running,
mule making, and booze peddling
done by aliens, who care nothing
about the Federal Constitution or
the law Of the land. Probably
something ought to be done about
it.
However America wouldn't be
made dry If every ~law-breaking
alien was shot at sunrise. Most of
the alcoholic thirst in the coun-
try is American born-strictly a
native product. The chief prohi-
bition problem is that thirst, not
by whom or how it is gratifed.
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RI HE Charleston In all its glory
is really coming to town.
III 1t is going to be taught to
the readers of The Times in a way,
that is new and original, and no one
but the queen of the Charleston,
Miss Mildred Melrose, who is also
known as the Original Miss Person
atty" is going to explain and IL
lustrate each step.
Miss Melrose. who will be the
featured stage attraction at the Cir
Gle, starting Sunday, is coming TO In
dianapolis after a series of sensa-
tional engagements on the west
coast.
Through arrangements completed
with The Times and Managing 4 zee
tor Ace Berry of the Circle, the les
sons by Miss Melrose will appear
each day in The Times, until the en-
tire set Of nine lessons is published,
while, In addition to this, the Circle
Theater will inaugurate a Charleston
contest next week for cash prizes
OF such proportions that they are
worth fighting for.
The winner will also receive a trip
to Chicago, with all expenses paid.
for participation in the national
championship Charleston contest. to
be held in the Windy City later In
the season.
1t is planned to present contestants
at different performances each day,
and announcements regarding the ex.
act time will be made the next day
or so.
The entry list is still open for those
who wish to participate In the con
tests, and the Charleston Manager al
the Circle Theater awaits your name
as an entry.
Read Miss Melrose's lessons IN The
Times each day. learn how to dance
the Charleston. and then go down to
the Circle and leave your name and
address with the Charleston man
lager.
You will be notified when to APP
pear, and then you will have your
opportunity to carry away one Of the
big gold prizes. or in addition you
may be the fortunate one to make
that trip to Chicago.
Opportunity is knocking. The
Charleston has come to town.
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Highways and Politics

r7-77 OR the most part, we agree with the In
diana Farm Bureau Federation in it's
statement concerning the State highway COM
mission. Certainly the highway commission
should not be controlled by any political group
andi If a movement to bring about such control
is in progress, the citizens Of Indiana should
see that it does not succeed. The federation
says the movement to control the commission
was brought about by D. G. Stephenson. OF
that we know nothing. If it is true, it is
mighty serious. No one now wants the affairs
of any State department controlled by Stephen
son. 1t is unfortunate that this feeling did
not always exist.
The Farm Bureau Federation points out
>that various charges have been made against
some of the highway department, particularly
against John Williams and Earl Crawford. It
points out that these charges have not been
proved. That is true. They have not been
proved. Neither has it been shown that the
State board of accounts and the Marion County
grand jury were wrong when they made the
charges. No opportunity has been given for
anybody to prove anything.
We sincerely hope that the charges against
the highway department cannot be substan-
tiated. We hope that there is an adequate ex-
PLANTATION of the action of the commission In
obtaining and selling without competitive bids
thousands Of dollars worth of abandoned war
material sE9We would like to lear the explana-
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Who'll Pay the Taxes?

come and Inheritance taxes were
lowered. They were defeated.
They argued that the action Of the
bill in cutting off from direct income
taxation some 1900, 900 persons was
a mistake, because If direct taxes are
imposed, all citizens should pay
something, no matter how little, to
their government.
The opposing theory. which seemed
to be held by Administration leaders
who framed the tax bill, favors the
sales tax or other taxes which would
bear more or less fatty on all alike,
but which the taxpayer would not
realize he was paying.
1t is interesting in this light to
review the cuts in income and in
heritance taxes given by the House
bin, compared with those in war and
sales taxes.
The bill will eventually reduce
Government revenues about $685.
600. 900. The figure Of 1926, 900, 900.
which was generally used, is the loss
in next years revenue alone. In
heritance tax cuts, estimated ulti-
mately to be at least $55, 900, 900, and
gift tax cuts, estimated at 1000. 900,
will become effective later.
Setting the figure at 1886, 900, 900,
the cuts can be divided as follows:
Loss in income, super and inherit
ance taxes, which, as has been
shown, relieve the very rich more
than any other class--$253, SIS, 900.
Loss in indirect and sales" taxes
and war taxes-$132, 261, 900.
And these latter include the re-
peals Of the taxes on jewelry, works
of art and yachts, which relieve only
the wealthy.
Cordell Hull of Tennessee also
points out that the Fordney tariff
tax of 2,5G0, 600. 900. which he says
bears more heavily on the poor than
on the rich, is absolutely unchanged.
He argued effectively against the ex-
emption of 1900, 900 taxpayers dur
ing debate on the bill, as follows:
"All disinterested economic writ
ers who. are friends Of graduated in
come taxation favor h theory that
exemption should be at a point near
the minimum OF subsistence.
Many persons seem to imagine
that the Federal income tax is the
only tax in existence. and that their
removal from the roll leaves them
free of all taxation. This, of course,
Is hopelessly erroneous.
"A scientific, logical income tax
structure always includes some of
those with relatively small incomes,
but Only at nominal rates. 1t Is
dangerous to the permanency of the
system to offer excessive exemptions.
"Our present law exempts oyer
10. 900, 900 from the tax. Is it not
folly, therefore. to divide in half the
small remainder"
Hull argued that all var taxes
ought to be removed. including that
on autos, before income taxes were
lowered materially. He argued for
a super-tax and inheritance tax rate
of at least 25 per cent.
But the bipartisan steam roller
rode over him.
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A. D. 1925

rTIdE year 1890 III America was as Hleu
with interesting events as there were
days in the calendar.
Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated Presi-
dent of the United States.
Four great Americans died Robert M.
La Toilette, William Jennings Bryan, Samuel
Gompers, Thomas r. Marshall.
The giant dirigible Shenandoah collapsed
with great loss of life. A Navy squadron
failed in a brave attempt to fly to Hawaii. Col.
William Mitchell was court-martialed for in
subordination.
Secretary of State Kellogg enforced new
and un-American regulations against the visit
of distinguished foreigners to this country and
gave the world an unnecessary scare con-
corning Mexico.
Mcmillan attempted to explore the polar
regions by a~irplane. A tornado devastated the
lower Ohio Valley. A crime wave swept the
cities and caused eminent citizens to join anti
crime organizations. Florida real e~staters ran
amuck. Dempsey signed to fight Wills at a
distant date and Pittsburgh took the world
championship away from Washington.
Bob La Toilette, Jr., was elected to succeed
his father and Jimmy Walker was appointed
mayor by AL Smith. John. w. Weeks resigned
as Secretary of War.
A baby was born to Alice Longworth.
Red Grange left school to make his for
Senator Burton K. Wheeler was acquitted
in ten minutes of charges on which the Justice
Department had worked a year. Then the
charges brought against him in Washington
were quashed.
Wayne B. Wheeler publicly thanked God
on Thanksgiving day for prosperity under
prohibition. The coast guard went to war on
the rum fleet; some Of The rum-runners lost
their booze and some of the coast guard their
regulations. Prices remained stationary.
All these were interesting and some were
important, but the one outstanding event re-
mains to be mentioned:
A young teacher named Scopes was put on
trial at Dayton, Tenn, for violating a State
law against teaching the theory Of evolution.
Nothing much happened to the young man
and the statute still remains on Tennessee s
books, but the trial and the discussion it
evoked throughout America, it seems to us,
formed the outstanding occurrence of the year
1925.
The trial didn't prove that the theory of
evolution is correct, nor did it establish the
Book Of Genesis as the one accurate account Of
mundane beginnings. 1t didn't even reconcile,
in all minds, these two stories of creation. But
it did do this, 1t sounded an alarm that awoke
millions of Americans to the dangerous tend
ency Of the times. 1t revealed the degree to-
which bigotry and intolerance were fastening
themselves on our national institutions. 1t re-
newed the determination that the mind and the
spirit Of the people shall be kept free. 1t struck
a needed blow for liberty Of opinion and con-
science.
True, the country court at Dayton found
young John Scopes guilty, but there is reason
to believe that its action was one of the last
little triumphs Of our American intolerants.
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CHOOSE A SHREWD
GREAT -GRANDAD

E1NITA OSER, a tiny Swiss
"A maid, is occupying much of
IL the attention of Federal
Court IN indianapolis this week.
There her grandparents, H. F. Nc
Cormick and Edith Rockefeller Nc
Cormick, battle for control Of an
$4,000, 900 trust fund that will go
to the little girl.
The trust fund is invested in
shares of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana-and was created
by John D.. Rockefeller, Anita's
great-grandfather.
Anita has never lived In the
United States-may never enter
the Hoosier State. She hasn't done
and probably will not do, os much
for the prosperity and upbuilding
of Indiana as any tattered news
boy on a downtown corner in In
dianapolis. She isn't a producer
hasn't added a nickel to our real
wealth.
Yet this foreign maid-daughter
of a Swiss riding master-will
some day own a large slice of one
of the greatest Hoosier industrial
enterprises. Every fiivver that
barks on Hoosier highways will
pay her something for the privi-
lege.
All because Anita has a shrewd
and acquisitive great-grandfather.
There's fuel to kindle Socialists
into a blaze.
It's fine to be self-made-to ac-
quire a fortune and fight your
way to the top by sheer ability
and hard work. But one of the
~pleasantest ways to get on easy
street is to be careful in choosing
your great-granddad.
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-
Sheffield Ave. from washington to
Ohio SITS, may be a perfect lovers
lane. but citizens would prefer illu-
mination, Mr.. F1xit learned today.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: Please see
what can be done for a light on Shelf
field Ave. There are none between
Washington and Ohio SITS. AS the
trees are so large and numerous. 1t
makes the street a very unpleasant
one in the evening. c. M. H.
]. w. Hensley, engineer in
charge of street lighting. will rec
ommend to the board OF works
that a light be installed.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: Why is It so
easy for Federal officers to arrest
~bootleggers and the policemen fail
to see them on their beats?
CITIZEN.
In justice to the district police
men, prohibition agents without
uniforms. unknown to the liquor
sellers, find it easier to buy booze
thansthe man in uniform who
passes several times a day. How
ever, it's certain there is consider
able winking on the beats.
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SIVu 1HY,' asks a concerned young
IAI husband. "do so many mar
L ried these days carry.
on clandestine hirtations with other
menu"
Largely, we would imagine, be-
cause their husbands won't 1irt
with them. f
One thing which we are too In
clined TO overlook in our estimate OF
the changes wrought by the Jazz
age is the radical transformation in
the status OF the married m
Her horizon has widened perhaps
more than that OF any other indi-
vidual.
1t is no longer possible for a
man to marry a woman. incase her
within his four walls and then step
in to see her only when the notion
strikes him. The twentieth cen
tury wife simply does not "stay
put" any more, and the quicker the
men find this out the easier will be
their job and the lighter their even
tual grief.
Most of these eager young mar
ried women who still go about with
that come hither" look in their
eyes, are merely full OF the Joy OF
living. Many Of them Go not have
enough to keep them busy they have
long hours of leisure. Their imag-
nations IRE full grown and flourish
ing, and their love Of attention and
romance just as intense as it was
before they became brides. The
most Of them start out their lives
honestly wanting to do the right
thing ana to fulfil their marital OBJ
legations.
But what the husbands of these
women too soon forget, alas. is that
their wives are still and will ever
continue to be hungry for love.
They have not forgotten the de
lights OF being wooed just because
they T wed. They have, too, a
constitutional horror OF SETTLING
down" into commonplace matrimo-
NAL life. for this is the giant bug
bear about which they have 50 often
been warned.
And so what is more natural If
the husband forgets to bestow low
ing little attentions upon them, than
that they should accept them from
other sources II they are offered7
And many a poor little girl wife
gets scorched and SCARED when she
starts what is at first her innocent
little game with fire, and many a
man remembers too late that love
Is "woman's whole existence"
For the Jazz ago is quite as up
setting for husbands as It Is for
wives, you may be sure OF that.
What is sauce for the gander IL
sauce for the goose also in these
enlightened days. and II It has be
come necessary that we women
watch and pray increasingly to keep
lifes romance, this labor does not
devolve exclusively upon us as many
a husband has already found to his
sorrow.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

ideal in that respect. The tracks
are already there. To open every
north and south street traversed
by them would involve prohlbitive
expense. The best that can be
done Is a compromise providing
for the opening Of some streets
and the closing OF others.
White the opposition hauls the
program this way and that all the
streets will remain closed in
definitely and the whole elevation
project will sit on its launches.
They can't eat their cake and
have 1t too.
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A Thought

And the second is like, namely
this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself. There is none other COM
mandment greater than these
Mark 1881.
Love and you shall be loved. All
love is mathematically Just. as much
as the two sides of an algebraic equa-
tion.-Emerson-
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BY Roscoe b. Fleming

~AA& -
BY Roscoe b. Fleming
i--SASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Analy-
i\N/I sis of the House tax reduction
LII bill, which will be taken up
soon by the Senate. has shown that
the bill is immensely favorable to
the larger incomes and fortunes, and
does little for the small taxpayer.
Just as significant IS the figures.
however. is the struggle between op-
posing theories Of taxation, and the
victory Of one Of them.
One theory, held generally by pro-
gressive students OF taxation, Is that
taxes should be graded according to
ability to pay them, and should be
imposed directly, giving the taxpayer
"a direct interest and stake in his
government.
The income taxes and inheritance
taxes are good examples.
Persons who believe thus hold that
sales taxes and indirect fiat taxes in
general are to be used only in an
emergency. such as war. Holders of
this theory fought in the House for
removal of all war taxes before in
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be answered. All letters are coniden-
tial.-Editor.
When a man is accused Of crime
In England and Canada is he held
guilty until proved innocent?
Both English and Canadian jul
risprudence presume a man accused
of crime to be innocent until he is
proved guilty. and in criminal cases,
the guilt Of the defendant must be
established beyond a reasonable
doubt. The accused, according to
that system of Jurisprudence. is
clothed with the presumption of In
nocence which abides with him
throughout the trial.
What is sienna" and "um-
ber"?
Sienna Is a ferruginous scherous
substance, fine and smooth, used as
a pigment IN both oil and water
color painting. The finest is OBJ
tanned from Italy. TIMBER IS a nat
ural pigment somewhat resembling
an ocher, but darker and browner,
due to the presence Of oxide Of man.
ganese. Raw lumber yields a brown
paint, while burnt lumber has a red
der tinge.
What was the first name of the
General Putnam Of Bunker Hill
fame7 Was 1t Israel or Rufus7
Israel Putoam won fame at Bun
ker Hill. His cousin, Rufus Putnam,
was also an officer in the American
Revolution.
Who invented the cream sepa-
rator?
The invention is credited to Carl
Gustaf Patrik De Laval. a Swedish
inventor and engineer, who, in 1873.
patented a cream SKINNER. the fore
runner OF the modern centrifugal
al separator.
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Position No. 3
The knee step: Right
hand on left knee and
left on right knee,
pushing knees out and
in.
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Ask the Times

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tion of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
ington. D.. c.. inclosing . cents in
stamps fov- reply. Medical. legal and
martial advice cannot be given nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will received a per
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered. All letters are confiden-
tial.-Editor.
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MR. FIXIT
Street Lights Are Desired
on Sheffield
Ave.

Let Mr.. Fixtt solve your troubles
with city officials. He is The Times
representative az the city hall. Write
him at The Times.
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~ shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re-
he right to speak, write. or print freely o n any subject MISREPRESENTATION of
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Editors Note: This is the fourth of six
articles by one of The Times Washington
correspondents. designed to take the new
federal tax bill apart and show what 1t
contains. The bill has passed the House
and is now before the Senate.
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Position No. 1 Position No. 2
Put right foot In
front and step forward
oi risn'' men pun with left. twisting on
right back of left. ball Of left.
Another lesson tomorrow.
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WOman'S

Should Married Women Flirtq
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

asks a concerned young
IWI husband. do so many mar
LII ried women these days carry
Milford chronicle., 1925-11-06
Frankford

The senior class of the high school
gave their play "The Hoodoo," in
Jones Hall on Friday evening to an
appreciative audience. The play was
well rendered and although the ev-
ening was very stormy, the audience
was large.
Mrs. Perina Townsend and her mo-
ther, Mrs. Lizzie Bennett mOtored to
Ohio where they are spending some
time visiting Rev. Rollin Bennett
and family and Rev. Geo. Burke
Townsend and family.
Miss Edna Hudson gave a Hal
lowe'en party to a number of her
young friends on Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. R. ]. McAllen of Bridgeville
spent part of last week here. Mrs.
McAllen was formerly Miss Villa
Morgan, a popular music teacher
here some years ago.
The sewing circle met at the home
of Mrs. Ward Dasey on Tuesday and
the Missionary Society met at the
home of Mrs. R. P. Long on Wednes-
day afternoon.
Paul Long of the University of
Delaware spent the weekend here.
The farmers are digging their late
crop of potatoes. The crop is very
short owing to the very dry weather.
The potatoes are bringing S10O per
SIS basket in the local market. This
is considered very high for this time
of the year.
Eggs are bringing SOC per dozen
in our local markets.
Mrs. NJ. E. Coffin has been very
sick. but at this writing she is some
what improved, but is still under
the care of DR.. Robert Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Wiley and |
children. Austin and Grace of Do
yer were visiting their mother on
Mrs. NJ. E. Coffin who is
quite i'll.