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no pardon outside the organization be hired, and that a collective contract

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UNION OF TEAK HEMS IN APPEAL

Trustee Condemns the Action of

Instructors ia Asking Closed Shop for Public Schools.

PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE VOICE

Effort Being Made in Township Outside Linton to Fores Higher Salaries and Collective Contract.

„ rspeetal to The Indiana poll* New*} LINTON, Ind. August 18.—

Until Very Recently None Had Or-

dered Carloads of Surplus Food. (Speefel to Tb* ladianapoli* XewwJ WASHINGTON. Auroet ML—A state-

ment issued today hy the war department reveals that until very recently no Indiana city or town government had

NAMED BY WYCKOFF

Women, Laboring Men. Wholesalers and Retailers Represented—One Price, Not Two. Recommended.

■STSSS Letter to Be Sent by Food Ad-

ta^bui, or foodotorr. bold by th. doewt- minj#trator Outlining Duties The department has been offering . ys. „ r-»-+£.c •pecial inducements to communities to OT UOmmritee.

order carloads of foedstufls and has arranged to rush these orders through feting to be this week what they were buying and to save the -cost of postage for orders through the parcel post except that a small pro rata charge would be made for freight on the food shipped ^ It is the hope of the war department that many communities in the United States will take advantage of this op-

portunity to lower the cost of living. TRAFFIC FACILITIES

MARKEMNTIAL Location of Wholesale Terminal

Must Be Studied if Suc-

cess Is Expected.

CARTING COSTS BIG ITEM

Wisdom of Rebuilding Tomlinson Hall Market Doubted if Other Plan la Accepted.

The situation Is admittedly serious and ho progress has been made toward a solution since the question first came

A wholesale terminal market should be on the terminals of as many transit lines as possible so that it may be supplied with a full range of commodities, and it should be situated and constructeji with a view to reducing the cost of handling. These are fundamental conditions of success as found by those who have studied the wholesale terminal markets of Europe and the limited experiments in such markets mad*; in the United States. The essential aim of such markets is to reduce the cost of distribution and give the consumer the benef it of such saving. The cost of distribution is reduced in many ways. Situated on terminals, the wholesale terminal market does not have trucking charges to pay. Cars loaded with commodities are switched into the terminal buildings Where there is cold storage for such commodities as need it. Such a market reduces the

up «v«*mj weebp ago. Owing to the | cost of distribution by lessening the

an outtorak" occurred margin between prices received by

fact tha* Linton is a strong

center, and that

wv-n t.tiiktbreaking women tele-

e operator* were obtained from Inftpelis tilts summer, no effort has Hi made if obtain outside instructors.

'•tatomofit of Trustee.

James T. Roach, the trustee, today iasued a statement, addressed to the school tatra:* and taxpayer* of the

township. It follows:

•*l wlsi to make the following statement In regard to the controversy between the teachers who taught last winter in Stockton township and my-

self as trustee:

‘"The # Federation of Teachers refuses

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Continued on Page Twenty-six.

FI CHANCE, HE SAYS

J. Q. HAYES MAKES INSPECTION OF MARKET CONDITIONS.

WISHES SPACE FOR FARMERS

After a personal Inspection of market conditions Friday night and early Saturday morning, Joseph G. Hayes, county commissioner, who talked with many farmers bringing In wagonloada of foodstuffs, is convinced that the producers do not get a fair chance to dispose of their produce at retail on the market. ■ - -.v,. Mr. Hayea has proposed to the board of commissioners that they issue an order barring all persons except producers from doing business either in the courthouse yard next to the aidewalk or at the curb surrounding the courthouse, but he has not obtained the consent of his, ^leagues, Carlin H. Shank and Lewis W. George, for such an order.. Mr. Hayes holds that there is no official record at, the county commissioner’s office showing the granting of anv right for market standholdere to use the county property for their business. He also contends that the county commissioners have the legal right to assert their authority over the curb dealers and that they should do so for Continued on Page Twenty-six.

ICE COMPANY HEAD AND PACKER FORMALLY ACCUSED.

OHIO STATE LAW INVOKED

to the

CINCINNATI. August 18.—Thre^ warrants were sworn out in municipal court today against F. X. Krug, manof the Cincinnati Ice Manufacturt and Cold Storage Company, and land Meyer, general manager of the H. Meyer Packing Company, of this :y. charging them with having violated the state cold storage law. ‘""V" TO ASK FOOD ADMINISTRATOR.

Chicago Bureau Representatives Go to See Secretary Houston. CHICAGO, August 18.-R«presentc-tives of the feg#~al bureau of markets

for Washington to rv nf Agriculture

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obtain the ap-

istrator for announcement

t Attorney Charles F. that thgra was great an administrator here to aid t distribution of food supplies and to cut off supplies where or hoarding was Pound. The declared that federal on Page Twenty-six.

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producers And those paid by consumers, which often runs above TOO per cent . „ Question of Rebuilding. If Indianapolis ia to establish a wholesale terminal market, doubt has been expressed as to the wisdom of expending the large sum that would be involved In carrying out those recommendations relating to new construction of buildings outlined by the advisory committee which reported to the board of public safety Saturday. Some of the members of the committee, in answer to a question *f Mayor Jewett, expressed the opinion that a wholesale terminal market would result in more benefits to the people than would the improved market at Tomlinson hall discussed in the committee's report. It Is conceded that the Tomlinsen hall market is not adapted to wholesale terminal market uses because no railroad switches run into it. Plan In Vogue in Europe. European wholesale terminal markets either h«,ye retail departments or they sell commodities in small enough wholesale quantities to enable an individual consumer or a club of consumers to buy at a price which includes a small margin over the cost to the market This acts for moderation in profits of retailers, breaks the commission merchants’ hold on food supplies and tends Continued on Page Twenty-eix.

INTO H.C.L. DELAYED

COMMISSION SALESMAN EXCUSED BY JUDGE COLLINS.

SESSION TUESDAY MORNING

TRINIDAD CASE UP AUGUST 20

A fair price committee for Marion county was appointed today by Stanley Wyckoff, federal food administrator for the county, in keeping with a request made a few days ago hy A. Mitchell Palmer, attorneygeneral of the United States. Mr. Wyckoff will send a letter to the members outlining the duties of the committee and suggesting that a meeting be held Wednesday or Thursday. It is hoped that the committee will be t able to publish a list of fair prices An time to inform consumers before next Saturday’s mar-

keting.

On the committee are retailers and wholesalers of ahoeos and clothing, as well as of food, representative women, representatives of labor and a mail carrier. The committee is made up as fol-

lows:

H. M. Trlmpe, 1338 Brookaide avenue, a mail carrier, who served on the fair price committee during the war and who has been active in cooperative buying by postofflee em-

ployes.

Mrs. W. H. Hart, Woodruff Place, president of the new Housewives’ League. Mrs. Minnie Bronson, Eagle drive. West Indianapolis. Mrs. H. H. Monger, 1802 Lexington avenue. Boy L. Davidson, M. O’Connor & Co., president of the Indiana Wholesale Grocers’ Association, who served on the price, committee during the war. _ L. A. Jackson, president of the Standard Grocery Company, which has a chain of retail stores. Claude H. Crowder, president of the Crowder-Coo per Shoe Company, wholesaler. , Edward E. Stout, president of Stouts Factory Shoe Company, re-

tailer.

E. M. Wiles, secretary of HtbbenHollweg, wholesale dry gooda Victor O. Kendall, secretary of L. S. Ayres & Co., retail dry goods. Sol Schlose, of Schlpss Brothers, retail clothiers. George A. Barkham. of Beech Grove, machinist at the Beech Grove railroad shops. Frank G. Ankenbrock, 847 High street, chairman of the legislative committee of the Central Labor Union of Indianapolis. — • - looking after Sana takes up asked John r\ White to assist Him In looking after the work of the Marion county fair price committee. Mr. White probably will be added to the committee. He was a member of the market advisory committee that submitted a report to the board of ^public safety Saturday. / One Pride. Not Two. ' In his letter to the committee, Mr. W’yckoff will recommend that It report one fair price, and not two prices, a "high” and a ’’low,” as the committee which served during the war reported. Hif idea is that the price list for groceries, for example, should be made on a basis of cash payment, and a footnote should be attached to the list saying that retail grocers who extend credit and deliver are entitled to a reasonable additional price. t The “high” and ’‘low’’ prices used in the lists published during the war were sometimes discredited because some dealers sold lower than the list figures. While this may happen sometimes under the proposed plan for the new committee, Mr. Wyckoff thinks it will not be so frequent. ' . _ „ Mr. Wyckoff, in telephone talks with members of the committee, told them that facts, and not wild statements, are desired because the public is entitled to know the facts.

PERMITTED, HE SAYS

STATEMENT BY HEAD OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE.

JOHN

RYAN MENTIONED

The Marion county stand Jury investigation of the causes of the high prices of foodstuffs was temporarily delayed today, on account of difficulty in obtaining a sixth member of the grand jury in the place of a grand juror who resigned last week on account of sickness. The inquiry will be resumed

Tuesday *

John T. Barnett, a salesman for a commission merchant, who was dravrn bv the jury commissioners last Saturday for service on the grand jury, was excused by Judge James A. Collins, of criminal court, when he appeared in criminal court and asked to be excused. Mr. BarUett pleaded that service on the grand jury wouldbe a financial lose to him. Judge Colims then suspended the grand jury sessions until Tuesday morning In order that a new grand juror might be obtained. The

^Manaaers^of *cofd swage warehouses the government bought. 82,758.600 pounds hud been called for examination con- were supplied by the Anaoonda comrernint the supplies of food at the ware- ; pany, of which Mr. Ryan is a large wmfw?and the manner of managing the ; shareholder and chairman of the board

storaure^business, as it might affect the jof directors.”

rise and fall of prices. They will be j * '

heard Tuesday afternoon. Claris Adams. county prosecutor, has sent out a large number of questionnaires, asking grocers to fill out the blanks showing the wholesale and retail prices of foodstuffs as indicated on the grocers books

during the last month.

WASHINGTON, August IS.-The cop-

per trust was permitted to make huge profits under the war industries board’s fixing of copper prices during the war. Representative Graham, Illinois, chairman of the special house committee investigating war department expendi-

tures, declared today. ^ “Large profits were realised for the

Anaconda Copper Company, in which John D. Rvan, who as aircraft administrator. ordered a large amount of the metal, has an interest,” Mr. Graham said. “The war industries board fixed the costs of production during May, 1918, a fair criterion, at 14.9*6 cents a pound for the Angconda company, 10.341 for Inspiration and 16.071 for Greehe-

Cananea.

“At the same time the government was ordered by the board to pay 23.5 cents and in July this price was raised

to 26 cents.

”Of the 152.000,000 pounds of copper

NOT ACCEPTED ANY MORE.

AMERICAN COMMANDER TO

So Jerry Kinney Telle Circus Man,

and Licenses Are Taken Out.

Ki '-y. ««« chief of police. | VISIT ITAL.AN BATTLEFIELDS.

Is adhering to the policy established by

g”cSSpiim c e& , ?s™^'' r T :mamy functions planned

A representative of the Ringhng Bros, j

and Barnum & Bailey combined shows tried to hand over a bunch of passes to

Kinney today, but was unsuccessful. “We don’t accept them down here any more." Kinney told the representative, who thereupon went immediately to the citv hail and took out licenses for every-

thing connected with the show.

In the "old days.” when passes were handed out in wholesale lots to the police department, circuses usually “got by” with only one license for the big* top. although the city license ordinance requires that licenses be obtained for all side attractions, peanut, sand-

wich and balloon venders.

ROME. August 18.—General John J. Pershing, the American commander-in-chief.' and his party arrived here at f o’clock this morning ready to begin his visit of three days. The program arranged for him includes many functions and a visit to Italian battlefields. King Victor Emmanuel conferred on General Pershing the grand cross of the military order of Savoy, the 1 highest Italian military honor. The only other men to receive this decoration have been Marshal Foch, Field Marshal Haig, General Diaz and General Cardona,

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Arguments to Be Heard to Restrain Work* Board Action. Wednesday, August Ml has been set to bear arguments in the Marion county circuit court In the suits of five property owners to restrain the city of Indianapolis and the boa#d of public works from executing contracts to the Mansfield Engineering Company for the paving of five streets to the city with Mexican asphalt. Counsel for the petitioners are favorable to TrinMad asphalt The board of public works bas been making determined efforts to make It possible to pave Indianapolis streets with any kind of asphalt which complies with the engineer's specifications.

SHANTONG CLAUSE

Thomas F. Millard Says American Delegates to Versailles Realized It Must Cause Strife.

Elevated and Subway Strike Drives 2,000,000 to Other Transportation Means.

SURFACE CARS ARE PACKED

Hope Expressed That Interborough and Brotherhood Will Get Together on Agreement to End Tieup.

NEW YORK, August 18.—More than 2,000,000 persons who ordinarily travel daily oveg the Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s subway and elevated lines in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, today either took slow moving surface cars and improvised conveyances or walked to their work, as a result of the strike of the company’s 14,000 employes for a 60 per cent increase in wages. As on Sunday, when the strike became effective, not a wheel turned on the company’s 250 miles of trackage. Heavy Rainstorm Interfere*. New Yorkers were forced to reach their offices by devious routes in a heavy rainstorm. Residents of upper Manhattan and the Bronx suffered most. Many, despairing of ever reaching the financial tip of the island by other than extraordinary means, twice crossed the Hudson to a three-hour trip to their offices. Ferrying from One-hundred-anfi-twenty - ninth street to Ft. Lee, they made their way down the Jersey side to the Hudson tubes, and thence recrossed to Manhat-

tan.

Offices and Stores Open Late. Many offices and stores were late in opening. Almost every employe was late and it was not until 10 o’clock that lower Broadway took on Its usual business day appearance. The first disorder occurred this morning at the Interborough power house at Seventy-fourth street and the East river, when two Italians leaving the building were surrounded by 100 strikers who demanded to know whether they haU been working there. Police with drawn clubs dispersed the crowd. The stoppage of the main arteries of travel caused the worst traffic snarl in the history of the city. The narrow downtown streets were fairly congested during the early morning hours. A pouring rain added to the discomfort. Thoroughfares Were Clogged. Thousands of jitneys ani buses, operated by the otiy. filled beyond capacity with workers, clogged the thoroughfares. Thousands fought in vain for standing room on each overloaded trolley car. Trolleys and other vehicles moved at a snail’s pace. Residents on the outer fringe of the citv were unable to reach their places of employment until many hours after their usual time and industrial New York was crippled in consequence. The New York Central railroad operated twenty-six special trains of ten cars each between Hudson and Harlem river points to the Grand Central station. The 90,000 extra passengers carried on these trains, in addition to the regular traffic, caused an unprecedented congestion at the great terminal. Fleet* of Ferrlee U#ed. Fleets of ferries and o(per craft, pressed hurriedly into service, plied the North and East rivers, carrying passengers between the upper and lower ends of Manhattan island for the first time in many years. More than 6,000 policemen guarded

Continued on Page Twenty-eix.

SUSPENDED FOR HOURS

EMPLOYES AT. T. H„ I. A E. POWER HOUSE GO ON STRIKE.

OUTSIDE

LABOR —

OBTAINED

irpectal to The Indiana poll* Newil . GSREENFIELf), Ind., August 18.— After suspension of traffic on the eastern division at 11 .o’clock Saturday morning, when fourteen men employed at the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company’s power house at Philadelphia, threw on the brakes and left the power house, cars were again started at 8 o’clock Saturday night. The places of the strikers were filled by twentyfour men brought here from Mooresville, Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, and the schedule has been maintained in a fair way since. F. H. Warner, of this o4ty. superintendent of the eastern division, which runs between Indianapolis and Richmond. said today that the service was improving. The men who left their work included seven firemen, three coal passers and four extra men. The strikers are asking for an increase In wages and shorter hours. They said Continued on Page Twenty-eix.

POSITION OF THE JAPANESE

Mikado’s Government Said to Have Gone Beyond Rights Under the Lansing-lshli Treaty.

S3 Wyatt Building.

WASHINGTON, August 18.— Thomas F. MHlard, an American writer who was attached to the Chinese peace delegation, who testified before the committee on foreign relations today, traced the history of Shantung from the time Germany plotted to obtain a foothold in the far east, and gave from first-hand information a graphic view of the situation in China and $n intimate account of Japan's course in dealing with the Chinese question. It was the unanimous opinion of American experts on far eastern affairs at Versailles that war muat result from the peace treaty provision giving Japan control in the Chinese province of Shantung. tho committee was told by Mr. Summary of Statements. Mr. Millard’s statements may be summed up as follows: 1. Japan, one of the "principal allied powers,” consistently tried to keep China out of the war. even after the United States was exerting every influence to get China to break diplomatic relations with Germany. t China’s entrance into the war without specific promises from the allies in regard to Shantung might have been problematical had China and the United States known of the existence of the socalled secret agreements by Japan with Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia. 3. When China entered the war, the American minister at, Peking, Dr. Paul F. Relntsch, gave verbal assurances, being unable to communicate with the state department, that the United States would. In the peace conference, protect China’s territorial Integrity. 4. Japan is the only nation in the world that construes the Lansing-Iahii agreement as a recognition by the United States of Japan's paramountcy in China and all other nations translate the agreement as meaning only a special interest, as was originally intended by this government Parmountcy Assured. 5. Japan, despite this construction of the agreement by all the nations, has acted on her own interpretation by assuming a position of paramountcy in China to the extent of instituting civil governments In the Chinese territory

under her control.

6. Japan, according to common newspaper reports i# China, bought the Chinese minister at Toklo to sign an agreement permuting Japan to represent China at the peace conference and aiso to sign an agreement giving Japan rights in Shantung over and above those held by Germany, the acts of this minister never having been approved by

the Chinese government.

7. Japan does not Intend to act in good faith on the recent assurance in regard* to the return of Shantung as Is evidenced by the fact that she refused to permit to be incorporated in the peace treaty a compromise offered by China containing many of the things

offering Informally

3700 FOR A SUIT CASE. [Special to Tbe Indianapolis News] HAMMOND, lad.. Aocwst 1&— Paja Xikaltehaa. at ladiaaa Barber, a steel worker, has provided tbe police department with as almaomt hopeleao task. Mtkallekaa paid #700, Saturday, to two well dreoood a*ea, wko •aid they were free* Chicago, for the privilege of dUtrthotiag *18.000 to the poor of his city. He was eajoytag a holiday la the city park whea he a*et the aiea with a oalt eaoe. Some hills were ahowiag oat of Ha holgtog otdeo a ad the a*ea laformed Mlkallehaa that they asast have aaaaraaeeo of his hoaooty before the chsreh orgaateatioa they represeated weald permit them to tara over the meaey. Mlkallehaa aoM he had *700. He weat home aad got the meaey aed to rated It over far the salt ease, which he afterward foaad was filled with paper. Fear #1 hills had bees cleverly area aged to make It look as If the salt ease woo packed with theai.

that Japan

to do voluntarily.

Is now

informally

See China Isolated.

Closing a detailed story of the Shantung negitoatlons, that he said came direct from delegates to the conference,

Mr. Millard said:

"In my opinion if a marplot had set out deliberately to put China in an embarrassing position, the outcome could not have been more unfavorable. China has lost out entirely on her Shantung claim. By reason of advice given her by the United States, she did not raise at all other questions in which she was interested. And by reason of her refusal to sign the treaty under those circumstances, she is completely Isolated. "When Professor E. T. Williams, for years head of the state department division of far eastern affairs, heard of the Shantung agreement he said ‘This means war,’ and every American expert there felt the same way. I have heard, but do pot know whether It Is true, that General Bliss’s letter to Continued on Page Twenty-six.

BECOMES MDREACD1E

NOT ENOUGH STOCK IN SIGHT ' - TO SUPPLY DEALERS. _

WYCKOFF ISSUES WARNING

RGHT FOR EJDSIENCE

HERMAN J. ARENS THREATENS TO SHOW IT IS NOT TOWN.

ACTION FOLLOWS ARREST

The recently incorporated town of Ravenswood, north of Broad Ripple, may have to fight for its existence before the courts If Herman J. Arens, the owner of a dance hall, who was arrested Sunday afternoon on a charge of desecrating the Sabbath, carries out his threat to prove that It is not a town. Arens was arrested late Sunday afternoon by Frank C. Schmelz, the newly Continued on Page Twenty-eix. Jf

The sugar situation in Indiana is even worse than it was last week and worse than It was at any time during the war, according to Stanley Wyckoff, federal

sugar distributer for Indiana, be that many persons will without sugar in their coffee

shortage is relieved. The supplies of re tall dealers are rfinning low and there is not enough sugar in sight to replen-

ish them.

Canneries Come First. The sugar equalization board policy is to distribute sugar in a way to keep canneries and other manufacturing industries from closing down and throwing labor out of work. Mr. Wyckoff is giving first consideration to the canneries because if they are not supplied much food will be lost Mr. Wyckoff was informed that the Van Camp canneries would have to close down tomorrow if sugar were not received. Three car loads reached Indianapolis today. Six car loads are somewhere on the way from Atlanta, from where they were shipped last Friday. They should reach Indianapolis Tuesday or Wednesday. ...... The sugar situation has been much aggravated, Mr. Wyckoff finds, as a result of the railroad labor troubles, which delay shipments. There is now great -difficulty in tracing cars. State Needs a Carload. Most of the three cars received will be apportioned to the canneries. Governor Goodrich has asked for one carload soon for the state institutions. Some of the jobbers are complaining that while they comply with the sugar equalization board regulations as to prices, two or three wholesalers of Indiana have been reaping a profit by selling above tbe regulation price. Mr. Wyckoff has turned over to the United States district attorney’s office evidence of violations and he hopes for prosecutions or revocations of government

licensee.

GET $4*000 PAY ROLL Automobile Bandits Hold Up Woman Bookkeppor In Cleveland. CLEVELAND, August 18.—Two automobile bandits this afternoon held up Miss Augusta K. Ltmack, bookkeeper for a fruit company here, and escaped with a $4*600 pay toil ahaeantod.

COST OF THE WAR

Premier Lloyd George Gives Figures in House of Commons Speech.

LARGELY FOR DESTRUCTION

Outstanding Fact Is Britain’s Adverse Trade Balance, Premier Say*— Nations Bdts Is $39,000,000,000.

IN SENATE’S VIEWS

Meeting With President Tuesday Not Expected to Alter Treaty Situation.

COUNTRY FAVORS ACTION

Ratification With Reservations Not Making New Negotiations Necessary Is Expected in the End.

LONDON, August 18.—The war cost 40,000,000,000 pounds ($200,000,000,000), Premier Lloyd George de declared in a. speech in the house of commons today on the financial and industrial situation. Most of this sum was spent for purposes of destruction. The house of commons was packed with persons to hear the premier’s speech and practically every member was in his seat. Mr. Lloyd George asserted that the change from war to peaoe conditions would take Just as long as the chance from peace to war. The first outstanding facts of the present situation was the alarming'adverse trade balance, he said. The Import restriction* Which will terminate September 1, he said, had given British manufacturers an opportunity of making a dealing in good* which otherwise would have been hurried here from foreiga countries. Increase in National Debt.' Tq# national debt, he declared, had grown from f641,000,000 to £7,800,000,000 (839,000,000,000). The premier said that before the war Imports halt, exceeded exports from the United Kingdom by £160,000,000 (1760, OOO.OCOI.t Receipts from foreign investments at present afe down £100,000,000 (3600,OoO,000), while Great Britain has lo pay back an adverse trade balance of *800,000,000 (34,000,000.000). Labor conditions to the United KingContinued on Page Twenty-eix.

DEPUTY COLLECTORS TO

NEW REVENUE RULE REORTED EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1.

TO PREVENT DUPLfCATION

The deputy collectors in the field force of the Internal revenue department are to be transferred to the revenue agent s force, according to Information wnioh has come unofficially from Washington. This change, it is rumored, is to be made September L and in the Indianapolis headquarters of the revenue department will place the deputy ccllectors In the field fffree under H. M. Tebak, chief field officer, under the direction of John Hulse, revenue agent. The contemplated change. It is understood, is to be made for the purpose of avoiding duplication and confusion In the work of the collector and the agent. Under the present arrangement the field force is split'so that some*of the field agents work under tl\p-revenue agent and some of them under the rev-

enue collector.

The work of the revenue agent is to investigate income tax returns while the work of the collector and his agents Is confined to making collections and'to work in connection therewith. Under this arrangement, field agents of the collector's department and field agents of the agent’s department often find

and

practically the same thing.

oix v icodtii ;or ifio si^oxii s GepartmeTiL onon ia. It may ; themselves making Investigations have to go , multaneously at the same place am i before the ‘ practically the same thing.

RUSH IS MADE TO BUY

FORCE OF CLERKS AT OFFICE DOUBLED.

post-

many CITIZENS IN LINE

Buyers of surplus army food began to gather at the Federal building at 7 o’clock this morning. The taking of orders for the army commodities began at 8 o’clock and at that time 160 persons stood in a line that extended from the tables under the staircase in the east end of the corridor to the steps leading to the Ohio street entrance at the east end of the building. The first persons to get their orders in were J. F. Burns, 8936 Ruckle street, and V. Meredith, 2926 Meredith avenue. The orders were at first handled by four clerks, who wrote the orders, and one clerk who figured the amounts on a calculator. The waiting crowd increased In sire to such an extent during the first hour and a-half that it became necessary to double the force of clerks and to bring into use an addtog machine. Buyers grew impatient from time to time and attempted to crowd their way In at the head of the line. Robert Springsteen, postmaster, assisted in the work of keeping the Continued on Page Twenty-eix.

S3 W/a* Bsildlng

WASHINGTON, August 18.— Senators ere very generally of the opinion that the meeting of the committee on foreign relations with President Wilson tomorrow will not change the situation in the senate in

regard to the peace treaty.

It is a question whether any member of th« senate Is still undecided as to how he will vote on the various proposal* affecting the treaty that will be made sooner or later. It is assumed that tomorrow s conference will throw additional light on some of th# provisions of the treaty, and particularly certain provisions of the league of nations covenant, but senators are of on© mind on the point that the conference not likely to develop anything that will alter the determination of the senate to ratify the treaty, eventually, with certain reeervatione. If there Is any issue at all at stake at this time it is whether the senate shall make reservations of such character as would make necessary the sending of the treaty back to the peace conference. There are a few senators who would go to

that extreme.

Pressure It Felt.

The senate is beginning to feel th# pressure for early action on the treaty. The country has been patient with the

committee on foreign relations, for it i \

realised that the committee muat take a reasonable period of time in which to consider the treaty, but there are Indications from many quarters that unless th* committee reports th* treaty to the senate within the next week or ten days the country will begin to display impatience over the delay. The senate as a whole will, of course, be expected to devote a few weeks to the consideration of the treaty, but the attitude of the public as revealed In the communications that are beginning to reach senators evidently is, that as senators have made up their minds a* to how they will vote, there is no excuse for delaying action indefinitely. FVrsons who hav* recently visited th* northwest and the central west bring the information that the public has to a very large extent dismissed the treaty from its daily conversation on the theory that it is only a question of time until th* senate ratifies the Instrument with reservations that will go Just as far as is possible without requiring the treaty to go back to the peace conference. These person* who have been out among the people say that th# thought of th# people of all classes has

lOURht

of th# people of all classes na* within recent weeks turned to domestic problems and to the problem of th* ooet of living th. particular, gnd that the people

people

desire with retreaty and that rs

living In particular, a have only one positive spect to the peace

that the senate do — as possible, and in the proper way, toward getting the world hack to a per-

manent peace basis. *

Committee Not In Dark. The committee on foreign relations is not ignorant of this turn In public sentiment, member* of that commlte© aaid today, and it seems reasonably certain that after the committee has met with the President it vUI get down to the actual work of preparing th* report that will accompany the treaty Into the open senate. Doubtless there will be a good deal more Jockeying for political advantage before the treaty is reported and before It Is ratified. The general expectation Is that the President will at tomorrow’s conference Insist on ratification without any reservations. Members of the administration who are in positlen to know the trend of the Prealdent’s mind said today that the time has not yet come for hlrh to say that he is willing to accept reservations. It is evident, however, that persons in close touch with th* administration expect the President to subscribe to reservations In due time. If it is true, as reported, that eighteen Republican senators are willing to Join with the Democrats to a resolution of ratification making reservations so worded as not to send the treaty back to the peace conference, it would seem that the long-talked-of compromise might not be very far distant.

Hitchcock Protests.

Protest against alleged delay with th# treaty Is made by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, administration leader In the upper branch, in a statement wired here from the senator’s summer home at Swampscott, Mass., and made tublio through thejpeal office of the League to

Enforce Peace.

"Th* treaty ratification situation," the statement said, "changed somewhat during the last week. A new issue was raised’when I asked the chairman of the foreign relations committee and majority members when they proposed to

get action.

"I took this course after consulting with a number of senators. There has been a growing demand for action by Continued on Pag* Twenty-Six.

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