Petition Opposes New High School

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, February 18, 1924:  A suit seeking to prevent the Indianapolis board of school commissioners from building a separate high school for colored children was filed today in Superior Court, Room 5, by Archie Greathouse, an Indiana Avenue businessman and civic leader.  The school board plans building a new high school for white students costing $1,000,000 (2023:  $18,177,039) and a separate high school for colored students costing $150,000 (2023:  $2,726,556).  The suit filed by Greathouse alleges colored children cannot receive the same training in a separate school at the proposed sum as in one of the three other public high schools currently open to all students and that the school board has no legal right to expend taxpayers’ money in this way.  The suit asks for a temporary injunction pending a hearing on a permanent injunction.       

Federal Control of Schools Urge by Wizard of Klan

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, February 14, 1924:  Before a crowded Cadle Tabernacle last night, Hiram Evans, Ku Klux Klan emperor, urged creation of a cabinet level U. S. department of education, attacked the Catholic Church as an enemy of the public school system, and called for strict immigration laws.  “I advocate adequate education of our future citizenship through a free public school system [and] a rigidly enforced immigration adapted to our ideals and needs.  The two go together.  Neither alone can re-Americanize and safeguard our sacred institutions.  If this country continues to be flooded by inferior peoples whose assimilation is impossible the task of enlightened advancement will be hopeless.  Let immigration of every undesirable type be stopped until our own illiteracy and internal strifes can be superseded by a literacy based on unselfish, unshackled truth and patriotism, Evans said.” 

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All Around the Town

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, January 28, 1924:  A new automatic traffic signal has been installed at Meridian St and Maple Rd (38th St) which should be approached “with care and respect,” according to the Hoosier Motor Club, which explains, “This is no longer just a dummy marker, for it is constantly telling traffic just what to do.”  In the few days since the marker’s installation, motorists have been driving by, particularly in the daytime, without looking at the “Stop,” “Go” message contained in the flashing lights because the illumination is not strong enough to stand out in the bright sunlight.  In darkness, the warning red globe on the marker’s top and the changing “Stop, “Go” signals are too distinct to be overlooked.  The “Stop,” “Go” changes at regular intervals with a white light in the center announcing, “Traffic Change.”

“All Around the Town,” The Indianapolis News, 28 January 1924, p. 16:2