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THE POST-DEMOCRAT

THURSDAY, APRIL 29,192&.

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SOUTH SIDE, FORT CHILD INDENTURE

WAYNE, SUSPENDED FOR WHOLE YEAR

Czar Trester Punishes the High School Because of Expense Bill.

Ft. Wayne, Ind., April 29—A climax iti the relations between South Side high school and the Indiana high school athletic association was reached yesterday morning when Robert C. Harris, principal of 'South Side, was informed by a letter from A. L. Trester, permanent secretary of the Indiana High School Athletic association, that South Side had been expelled from the association for one year. The period of suspension started April 24, 1926. and will be in force until April 24, 1927. The reason given by the boanf of control for this action was that a bill submitted by Mr. Harris for personal service in the sectional and regional basketball tournaments did not conform to the rules of the association. Following the close of the tournament Mr. Harris allowed $25 for his work in the sectional and $50 for his services in the regional tournament. Mr. Harris stated last night that the action was “perfectly ridiculous.” He added: “South Side has nothing to do with the item on personal service and this action is only in keeping with Trester’s unfair attitude toward South Side.” The decision means that South Side will be forced to cancel all games with high school teams belonging to the I. H. S. A. A., and that all games during this period will be played with teams that are not members of the.association. The baseball and track- schedules ■will of course be almost entirely disrupted. In regard to the football and basketball schedules for next year, Mr. Harris said, last night, that no action will be taken immediately toward rearranging them, in view of the possibility that some means of settling the difficulty might arise and expressed the hope that the acton of the board might be represented and reconsidered. Mr. Harrs stated that he considered it unfair that the school itself should be penalized because of the fact that he submitted a bill for services and that if the board and the secretary considered this irregular it should have been settled betw-aon him and the board and made a matter of court action if necessary. The principal stated that other schools ordinarily include services which he had rendered under items such as •bills for doorkeepers, ticket sellers, janitors, etc., and the only difference was that he had rendered his bill as a personal one. Among South Side officials there is a feeling that Secretary Trester has been in an antagontistic mood toward South Side for some time and that he has taken this method to express his enmity toward the school. Coach Ward Hilbert stated last "bight that the baseball team would continue with practice but that all games scheduled with teams in the association would be canceled. Coach Gilbert added that games would be booked with nonassociation teams having open dates and that it was probable that some Ohio teams would be added to the schedule. Secretary Trester was reached over the long-distance telephone last night. Ho stated that the penalty for South Sicit had been decided upon at the meeting of the board of control last Saturday, and insisted that the decision had been left entirely up to the board. Trester declared that it was unusual and contrary to the rules for a principal to render a bill for services. One other principal, C. 'E. Beyers, of Huntington, had rendered a similiar bill, he said, but it was afterward withdrawn. Asked whether the fact that South Side was on probation at the time had influenced the decision, Mr. Trester declared that this had made no difference and that the school, would have been given the severe penalty regardless. He added, however, that this fact ‘‘had not helped the matter any.”

LAW IS UPHELD

Federal Children’s Bureau Charges of Evil Results from System Refuted. CHICAGO—'Criticism of the child indenture system of placing state wards in foster homtc by the federal children’s bureau hue drawn to the defense of the system public welfare officials of half a dozen mC die western states, where children are still being placed in private homes under indenture laws fifty

or more years old.

The conditions in Wisconsin, which were the special target of the children’s bureau comment, do not now exist there, state officials assert, and in the opinion of Governor Blaine and others, the indenture of dependent children to prospective foster homes is the most satisfactory arrangement for their care. Wisconsin, however, has only 420 “indentured” children, compared with nearly 2,000 in Michigan, 2,700 in Indiana, 329 in Illinois, and smaller numbers in other states. The modern application of the an- j cient custom of indenture makes the ' state an offical supervisor of the I practice, since the indenture is now 5 confined almost entirely to orphans or dependent children coming under -the care of the state, and the term “indenture” has disappeared. The Michigan children placed in foster homes receive three visits a year from an agent of the state welfare board. In Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois the condition of the indentured child is inspected once or twice a year. In Illinois the state retains control of money earned by the girl or boy wards, paying the sum back when discharged from state supervision at the age of 18. The last half of 1925. the 329 state wards in Illinois earned $9,553.54. One child received $437. 22 on his

eighteenth birthday.

The Wisconsin indentur& system originated with the founding of the state public schools at Sparta in 1886, but of the 394 children there only 47 are eligible for home placing. The others include mostly mentally and physically unfit. Illinois and Indiana also have licensed child placing agencies.

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President Coolidge has given final instructions insisting upon a sweeping reduction of military forces by the nations of the world, - to the American mission which will attend the league of nations disarmament conference at Geneva. They will sail from New York on Friday of this week and the conference will open at Geneva, May 16th.

HAUGEN MEASURE IS FAVORED BY WILLIAM SETTLE

Farm Bureau Head Says Indiana Vote Will Be Solid for Bills.

After more than a year’s litigation, Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, yesterday entered a decree in the United States District Court at Chicago, ordering the foreclosure and sale of the property of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, estimated to be worth $750,000,000.

The House late Tuesday evening by a vote of 196 to 4 passed the Green bill to establish a permanent bureau of prohibition in the Treasury department. This is the first of the important measures demanded to make prohibition enforcement more effective throughout the countr y- ,

Washington, April 29—William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, yesterday gave his unqualified indorsement to the Haugen bill, the operation of which he believes will solve the surplus crop problem for the farmer. He does not favor either the Tincher or the Aswell bills, which also were reported to the House today. Since the agricultural committee was divided in its support of the three proposals, all three bills will be considered by the House, with the Haugen bill first to be called upon the floor. Representative Purnell of Indiana, a member of the committee, has declared for the Haugen bill. He was one of the signers of the report recommending this measure and will be one of the leaders in the fight on the floor, expected eaily next

week.

Solid Support. Mr. Settle declared that all of the members of the Indiana delegation, the thirteen House members and Senators Watson and Robinson, will support the Haugen bill. He is much delighted that Indiana will have a solid vote for the measure which his farm federation favors. “The Haugen bill,” said Mr. Settle, “is the one bill that I think will solve our marketing problem. I am confident it will be very helpful and will pave the way for better days for the farmer. Favor Strongly. “Our farm bureau gives it unqualified indorsement. Both of our Indiana senators and all thirteen of our House members will be supporters of the Haugen bill because they consider it will bring the results that we all want to obtain. Representative Purnell of Indiana has been doing some fine work on the agriculture committee. I have been glad we have an Indiana congressman on that committee. I have been in conference with Senator Watson most of the day and I am glad to’ say that we are in perfect agreement on this farm legislation question and that he has done some effective work in our be-

half.”

o At a meeting of the Directors of Butler university, Indianapolis, held last Saturday, plans were made for the construction for the first unit of buildings to be built on the new site at Fairview park. The first unit of building will include the Arthur Jordan Memorial hall, which will give sufficient recitation room, and laboratory capacity for 2,500 students. John W. Atherton, finincial secretary of Butler reports that $1,000,000 is available at this time for the work. President Coolidge has accepted an invitation to attend and speak at the celebration at Williamsburg. Virginia, May 15th, of the 150th Anniversary of the Adoption by the Virginia Legislature of Revolutions looking to the independence of the colonies. This will be the first out-of-town address for President Coolidge since he spoke in Chicago last December.

Red Star Movement To “Clean” the Klan

Indianapolis, Ind., April 29.—A movement to clean house in the Marion county Ku Klux Klan was started today by an insurgent faction led by George Elliott, deposed cyclops. Elliott and his followers incorporated the “Red Star Movement,” which will be made a rival organization of the klan if a reconciliation is not effected with the existing order. Elliott was dismissed from office by Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard, for political activity.

A commission of four electrcal experts has arrived in Washington

from Russia for the purpose of mak-1 a re hoping to finish about the mid ing surveys of American power | die of May. The Belgian debt set-

Republican leaders in Congress will endeavor to speed things up somewhat to get the calendars cleared of important legislation so an early adjournment can be taken. They

plants after which to pattern a huge poAver plant to be erected in a thickly settled section of the Ukraine, which produces 75 percent of the coal, 70 percent of the iron and 40 per cent of the grain output of all Russia. Machinery for the gigantic hydro-electric power plant planned by the Russian Soviet Union on the Dnieper river at a cost of $75,000,000 will be purchased in the United

States.

Elbert H. Gary, head of the* United States Steel Corporation since it was founded in 1901, has been reelected chairman for another year. It was thought that possibly Mr. Gary would retire.

The Senate certainly worked fast Tuesday. They approved the war debt settlements with Latvia, Esthonia and Roumania in rapid succession. This cleared their calendar of all of the refunding agreements except that with Czecho-Slo\ r akia and this will be taken up today. In the

meantime the American and French administration’s farm relief debt commissioners marked time pi un; a g embodied in the Tincher bill, . , • f 11 ^ >_ « -a tii m tt rnu. ^ v»

tlement bill will be taken up Monday and Avill be followed by the legislative appropriation bill and the $165,000,000 public buildings bill. Farm relief legislation also still is pending and there will be a drive for

action before adjournment.

The sales for limestone for construction purposes by the quarrymen of the famous Bedford-Bloomington quavry district of Indiana last year aggregated 11,803-,890 cubic feet, valued at $14,203,120. This is an increase of 7 per cent in quantity produced over last year.

The fourth annual international trade balance statement made public Saturday by the Department of Commerce reveals that international transactions increased from about $6,000,000,000 in 1924 to near $6,800,000,000 last year. This was a gain of approximately $1,100,000,000 over the 1923 total, and nearly $5,000,000,000 more than the annual pre-

war average.

avvaiting further word from Paris before reneAving their negotiations.

New Life

Mother earth has just aAA’akened, From a slumber long and deep, With the spring comes life abundant, Early flowers begin to peep. By the wayside gently nodding, Golden daffodils are seen, While the earth in royal splendor Wears a robe of richest green. Glories of the springtime greet us, _ Everywhere so fresh and sweet,, Nature’s plan the earth to garnish, And thus make our joy complete. How our souls are thrilled with rapture, By the sights and sounds or spring, At this season, all about us. Happy birds their carols sing. O’er the earths so lately co\ T ered, With a shroud of ice and snow, Now behold a resurrection, By'this life, God’s power we know . Can we doubt the soul’s awakening? Man, tp God, is more than all, Trust our future to His goodness, He who notes the sparrows fall. Olrve Jones Waltz.

has been branded by Sam H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, as an empty pro-

Pardels post shipments abroad by j rosa i devoid of any real promise to

American wholesalers last yeaf were agriculture. valued in a report by the Depart- j —-

ment of Commerce Tuesday at $26,-1 Eraovy Buckner, United States 052.148. This was an increase °H attorney, makes an estimate that it

will cost $70,076,125 to enforce pro- ' bibition in New York state. If he

$4,632,606 OA'er the 1924 figure.

One thousand union workers were | wouW ma ke an estimate of the loss idle at Gary. Tuesday, as a result of of life> homes> character and morals

a lockout order issued by the officials of the Associated Building Contractors of Lake county in an attempt to force the glazers’ union to withdraw exorbitant demands that unglazed sash be provided on- all con-

struction work in the city.

Premier Mussolini is now taking concrete steps for the enlarging of his territorial power. He has order-

ed a grant of $4,000,000 by the Italian

gOA-ernment for the development of city anc j European residence are de

that would be sacrified as a result of failure to enforce prohibition he would see that seventy million Avould

be a small price to p^v.

The report comes from Calcutta, India, that the hospitals of that city are over-flowing Avith wounded Hindoos and Moslen rioters. The commenal riots which are taking place in all parts of the city, are interferring with the food supply of the

the Italian Colony in Tripolitania. ma nding that the police or military where the Premier recently visited. J forces, shall handle the situation.

The Johnson Deportation bill, under which alliens Avould be returned to their native lands if convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors, was passed Monday by the House Immigration 'Committee. This measure would abolish “Moral turpitude” as a ground for deporation.

Governor Austin Peay, of Tennessee, will be asked by O. D. Sherrod, Attorney-General, to send state troops to the vicinity of Paris, Tenn., ( at the first sign of trouble between | moon-shiners and citizens. An effort is being made to clean up the ! moon-shining business which is be- , ing carried on to a great extent in jthe hill country around Paris.

The traffic squad of the Indianapolis Police force are still active against traffic violators. Saturday afternoon and Sunday thirteen speeders Avere arrested.

Congress received Monday, a number of new administration bills designed to strengthen the Federal Arm of Prohibition. And besides the bills to strengthen the Volstead Act, there is also another bill pending to create a Prohibition Bureau in the Department of the Treasury under a Commissioner. Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews says that these supplement measures are essential to a full effort by the Government to dry up the liquor supply.

A youthful bandit not more than eighteen years of age entered the Golden Rule store owned by Samuel Cohen at Mishawaka, Indiana, Thursday night just as Mr. Cohen was closing for the day and after forcing the proprietor into the basement he grabbed the money bag containing $1,000 and made his escape.

Since the police of Indianapolis began a drive last Wednesday against traffic violations, a total of 173 motorists have appeared at traffice headquarters and paid fines.

Julian Sharpnack, judge of the Bartholomew circuit court, at Columbus, Ind., has adopted a policy by which parents who keep their children out of school without sufficient reason will be placed in the county jail, where they will remain one day for every day their children have been kept out of school.

John R. McQuigg, national commander of the American Legion, Is in Washington, D. C., arranging for the American tour of George R. Crosfield, London head of the Federation of World War Veterans of nine nations. Crosfield will land in the United States April 30th and the organization of which he is the head undertakes to speak for 10,000,000 men.

Motor car casualties In the United States this year are 593 less than at a similar time last year, according to figures made public Thursday by the national safety council. The only city with a population of 300,000 to 500,000 that reported no motor car fatalities in March was Louisville, Ky.

Italy formally declared war on birth control last Aveek. Minister of the Interior Luigi Federzoni appointed a special commission to inA r estigale and present means of combating f birth control. Federzoni said, “large numbers of children in the families, AA-hich are the greatest riches of the Italian nation, offer the most poAverful instrument for Italy’s expansion in the world.”

Mrs. Robert E. Speer, New York, president of the national board, in speaking before 3,000 delegates to ninth annual convention of the Y. W. C. A. at Milwaukee, Wis., said: “Women must keep her home together by err*ploying her wisdom, love and spiritual influence against the speed of modern living. She must follow her children outside the home, if necessary, to keep up with their interests and guide their activities.”

Chauncey M. DepeAv celebrated his ninety-second birthday Friday. Mr. Depew is chairman of the New York' Central railroad. When reporters were interviewing him on the day before his birthday, evidence was manifested of his religious life when he said that he attributed to God, to the “just and loving God” all that he is and all that he has accomplished.

Howard Moy, 39, a Chinaman and head of the Chinese section of the Equitable Trust Company’s bank’s foreign exchange department in Chicago, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling about $31,000. He has admitted to Assistant State’s Attorney John Dempsey that he was short in his accounts about $30,000.

Forest fires have been raging in the east and the northwest. In Suffolk county, New York, thirty homes and several barns have been burned as a result of the forest fires in the Long Island pine belt and which was still burning Thursday over an area of more than 200 square miles. The village of Pleasant Plains, near Lakewood, N. J., was threatened with destruction Thursday when a destroyed 20 of the town’s 75 homes. Forest fires were also burning in three counties in Maryland.

The Senate Monday, gave overwhelming approv-al to the agreement with Belgium for the funding of its war obligation amounting to $417,790,000. It is expected that an early agreement relative to the French debt negotiations will soon be made.

The administration bill to bring about relief to the farmer, known as the Tincher Bill, receives both praise condemned by the American Farm Bureau association as inadequate to bring proper relief to the farmers’ marketing problems. Now the Cooperative Milk Producers’ association, have given their endorsement of this bill to President Coolidge. The Co-operative Milk Producers’ association has a constituency of 300,000 members.

WEIS TAKE FIGHT TO SENATE FLOOR Drys Are Challenged to National Referendum on Liquor Question.

Gerald Chapman, A\ T hose career ended with his execution April 6 for the murder of a Nesv Britain, Conn., policeman, cost the state of Connecticut, a grand total of $23-,799.66.

A report read at a meeting of the Southeastern Library Association in session at Signal Mountain, Tenn., it was stated that forty-five per cent of the total population of the United States and Canada is wihtout access to public libraries. The report stated expenditures per capita yearly for public libraries in the various states range from 1 cent in Mississippi to $1.08 in California, with a national average of 32 cents.

Friday marks the first of a series of formal meetings between the American debt commisison and Henri Berenger, ambasador from France, for the resuming of negotiations for the funding of the $4,000,000,000 French war debt to the United States.

Representative Roy O. Woodruff of Michigan, advocates the adoption by congress of reforestation program in a bill of which he is the author that proposes expenditure of $40,000,000 over a ten-year period for federal acquisition of lands in the eastern part of the country for this purpose.

The farm relief situation appeared to be more muddled than ever Friday, with increasing pressure for some action to solve the surplus problem before the congress adjourns. The house agricultural committee has practically decided to put the problem up to the house as a whole by reporting three different proposals without any recommendation.

Washington, April 30.—The wets again yesterday made the Senate floor their battleground. Reviewing the three weeks of hearings before the Senate prohibition committee, Senator Edge (Republican, Ncav Jersey) and Senator Bruce (Democrat, Maryland) declared that a case had been made for a modification of the Volstead act. 'Senator Edge challenged the drys to support a national referendum on the prohibition question, Avliile Senator Bruce predicted that the wets would be in a great majority in the Senate “before very long.” Evidence before the committee was that Volstead act violation is not sectional, but universal. Senator Edge declared. Senator Bruce asserted that the official records showed that drunkenness Avas mountingr “in all sections of' the country, North, South, East and West.” Hold Floor Two Hours. The two held the floor for nearly two hours, Senator Edge Avith a pre pared address and Mr. Bruce with an extemporaneous speech. There was no response from the dry leaders nor was either interrupted.

The Ward Baking company’s scheme for consolidation was not allowed to materialize jbut perhaps the Flour Mills will be more successful. The Flour Mills of America, Inc., was incorporated at Baltimore under the laws of Maryland with a capitalization of $60,500,000.

John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America has sent out a letter to all the members of that organization to the effect that any member who becomes associated with the Communist party and affiliated organization will be expelled from the union.

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