Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1920 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATUBDAY. APRIL 24, 1920.

1920 Population Figures

GIVEN AS 314,194 Continued from Page One. pOlie wae not known to have had any

especial boom.

May Improve Standtn*.

The standing of Indianapolis aa the twenty-second largest city in the t'nlted States may be Improved by the showing of the city in this census- In IflO Kansas City. Mo . had 24S.JI1. as compared with 2Z3.CS0 for Indianapolis. and it Is possible that Indiana-

polls may go ahead of Kansas City ^ ^ Seattle had a popolation of MI.1»4<«•

in 1910 and it is also possible that In-i i 1 s i«*• increaa* dianapolis may go ahead of this «*tf 1f 1incr€a **

There is no chance for Indianapolis i 32^1?^ .

NEGRO’S MURDER TRIAL SET Fi NEXT MSDAY

Continued from Page One.

WASHINGTON. April 24—Populatien figures, announced today by the

census bureau, include:

Dixon. HL. 3.19i; “increase. 975. or lS.fr per cant. , l Portsmouth. N. H-. 1S.»«S; increase. 2.S00. .or 20.4 per cent If

Marion. O-. 2I.S91; increase. ie.Saf.! detectives. Detectives O. Simon, or 5«.t per cent. i Dugan. Sneed. Trabue and RadeCrockston. Minn.. «.«50: decrease.' macher. Patrolman Carter. Alvin 909. or 12 per cent. 1 Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Evanston. HL, 37.21®; increase. 12.-i Whittaker, of Salem Park; Edward

23?. or 49 per cent.

Covington. Ky.. 57.121;

3.031, or 7.2 per cent.

{Whittaker, of Salem Park;

I Weakley. 205 North Mount street: increase i William Johnson. 514 North Miley : street; Sarah Smock and Nora Smock

li.44<; increase.

11.000.000 to 030,000,000 giving its stockholders a stock dividend of 2.900

per cent.

Caady Com posy Earmlags. “The National Candy Company’s earnings last yaar showed an increase of 545 per cent, over 1915; Burns Brothers, the largest retail coal dealers in the United States, made a net profit of 40 cents a ton. against 214 cents in 1916: the earnings of the United Drug Company, doing a business of $50,000,000 annually, were 242 per cent, greater than 1916; the American Ice Company, which cuts ice by the millions, but not profits, has in the last four years increased its earnings 283 per cent.; the International

C&*«K!‘ 4.‘wt*y°L,ro«V: TV**?, j

Wintbrop,

5,114. or 52.4 per cent . iiti,™. 000 worth of business last year, made Irvington, N J^ increase ^* h ?- , d - wilt 39 per cent, more money, although it

STATE AND FEDERAL

THREE OPINIONS ON LEGAL EF FECT OF AMENDMENT.

VIEWS OF HUGHES QUOTED

12.599. or 114.4 per cent-*I I West New York. N. 4-. 29.926: increase 16.366. or 1*6.7 per cent. Santa Homes. Cal.. 15.252: increase.

i A? -x - tie 2

3515 West Washington

per cent, fewer goods; the mills' output of cotton and

worsted dress goods prod u cad 34 per

be-

ta pass any of the other cities which) are now ahead of I* in the list of ! Cities, the other seventeen being New ’ork. Chicago. Philadelphia. Boston,

Warrsn. Pa.. 14.256; increase. 3.176.

of for 3$-7 per cent

fronton. O.. 14.607. increase. 860.

fr.fr per cent.

Dodge City. Kas.. fr.Ofrl; increase

• treet ' . ; Pacific

Lend Talkers Arrested. worsts _ ^ ^ ^ -

i cent, more profit than in the year

Two men were taken into custody >f or e the war. and the excess profits by the pouce last night because of surplus of United Stste* Steel—the

boisterous remsrK, toads In crowd. |

that gathered in Washington street. |the last five years, although $315,000.between Delaware and New Jersey 000 sas spent on improvements.”

Upft,

Biu^VA nsviSSd-o;?ln^rWo 0 :|l.»*t. -or mImt «"■

D«lj Increase, il

*eV.s, Milwaukee,

New Or lea pa

Biffalo. I»s An-j Washing* on and

■ The belief is that Indianapolis wili Rochester. N. T., which had 219.149; Denver, which bad 2I9.191, and Portland. Ore, which had I67.J14. It is

Carnegie, Pa., 11,316: increase. 1.567,

r !*.! per east, V

Chicopee Falls. Wia., 5.1*0; increase.

17. or 2.7 pot cent.

was required for the payment of

not believed that any cities other salaries and wagek leaving $19,921,666 than those In this list have s chance , for rentals, interest and overhead exlo pass Indianapolis Providence, with! pensee. and the payment of dividends its manufacturing boom during the to tba «*1 employers and Arm mem

or * streets. Ora Runyon, giving his address as 12( East Michigan street, was slated on a charge of disorderly conduct, and a soldier from the aviation repair depot at the speedway, who was found wearing his side arms was turned over to the military authorities. Runyon was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to serve two days in lail by Judge Walter Prit-

chard. in city court today.

A few hundred persons, apparently attracted by curloaity. gathered in Washington street for a time during the night, but they were not permitted to congregate. Jerry Kinney.

war, has the best chance of the

group to pass Indian* polls

The population of other Indiana cities glvsn out by tbs ceaaus burasu. with tha percentage of increase of population ov«r the popula-

tion for 1916. waa;

Kokomo. 96,667. an Incraaae of 7fr.9. Dscatur. ATfrl. an increase of fr.fr. Portland. an Increase of lfr.1. Batesville. *.3«1. an increase of 9-9. uffton, 1,191: increase 464, or 8 1

-i

Great City, flnya Mayor. “The naw census rsport marks Indianapolis as a real large eitJ^ >, said Mayor Charles W, Jewett. "While the per cent, of Increaso Is not as great as it has been in other ten-year pe- ■ riode, nevertheless the actual increase I is the greatest In the history of the

city.

' r W* are on the threshold of a great and rapid growth. If we had now a • unlctent number of houses to taks rare of the people now living here and those who during the last f#w yssrs

come, w# would havs a Sr population. Indianaalone in Its lack of hous_a, as all large eltiee are

ng from this condition, completion of our track

rstem, Indianapolis will

ss' the greatest inland

esntsr la tha country, thus K nsw industries and nsw busito locate here. Our cltlsens “ i that it is good buatneae

and stimulate In every our home industries,

intents to nsw inhere The mors the mors business tors labor ws *mws pay and the r to the city, the

a graat

every branch Ife. No more

American

is. Our* is

In which

and be a wars missed

it, according

V* flwkljheauai isus bureau

1 per cent, of

hers, sad other stockholders. This is mors than 25 par cent, of the capitalised value of the industries, given as

«7«.497.666.

to he

1 per < missed

. , Whlla

JlhaMsss than .S

£opu!atiaa of

iy race after 1

.irr;:

the site for the

L and built

banka of

records show, in Indiana-

rare 786 and In ion was announced

fewma la IMS.

In IIS! Georgs Lockerbie, county

assessor, announced the cltr*6 population aa i,M*. Tha Amt government census of which thsre is any record

waa mads is 1146, when Sadi

was accredited tents. The ee

anapoli* 1 lahabt-

Attacks Beams Sales Tax.

“These patriotic melon raisers who have made th^ir millions and billions during and since the war,” said Senator Capper, “now are urging that the soldiers' bonus be raised by a 1 per cent, tax on sales to be paid on every dollar spent by every man, woman and child in the country, including the ex-aervice men themselvea. Mr. President. I shall favor placing this tax right where it belongs—on war

chief of police, has established a xoms i profits—-and takingfrora these hugs

around the county Jaii and intends to *tock dividends, fro

Judge f Write

EASTERN STRIKERS SEEK ASSISTANCE Continued from Page Ona.

branding aa “maliciously false” an j assertion that the Columbus yard- | "The men left the service of the railroads William "due to a desire to formulate one big union, or. in other words. Join the I.

W. W. movement.”

The statement places entire blame for the railroad strike on W. G. Lee, president of the Railway Trainmen, and aay “our high salaried president fLee) slept at the ewitcb while we sad our families were crying for

bread.”

Regarded aa Oat #f Hervler. 1 Special to The Indianapolis New*]

ANDERBON. lnd„ April 24,—In the railroad yards here today it waa said that none of the switchmen who have been out since April 11 had returned to work and they are now regarded aa entirety out of the service. The Big Four yards la operating seven craws with five anginas and tha Penneylvaaia will put on two crews Monday. Kune of tha switchmen who are on strike have Indicated an intention

of applying for the positions. Vote Agalost Retaralag to Work. I •pedal to The ladianapob* Newel

TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April. 24.— Thirty-five Big Four railroad switchmen here, who are on strike, decided at a meeting held Friday afternoon not to return to work unless their seniority rights are restared. The railroad company had announced that the men would be required to make out new applications for employment and that they would

Tor employment and that lose ail seniority rights.

INDIANA TO TAKE I

CENTER OF STAGE

shut off traffic within a radius of a

block.

BwwUn Are Redwerd.

Sixteen persons, who were arrested Thursday night when police and detectives broke up crowds that gathered in that vicinity, appeared before e Walter Pritchard in city court ay afternoon. Their' cases were continued until April 27. Judge Pritchard reduced their bonds from 95.666 to 9256 each on their promise to remain away from crowds in that

! territory in the future. Statement by Mayor.

apprehension and arrest of Ray. accomplished with

great dispatch by our police department, is a splendid achievement for the department." aaid Mayor Charles W. Jewett. “The police deeerve the commendation of the entire community. It is unfortunate that In this day of schools and gdbd environment, such debased criminals should exist, but it is good to know that we have agencies of government that can protect the community from their

viciousness.

“the hfe of this self-confessed criminal belongs to the stats of Indiana, and will be protected at any cost and delivered to the state for disposition by it under due process of law and justice. We have insisted that the man be indicted and arraigned without delay and that his trial ne held at once, and justice be meted out to him by the state. Such atrocious' crimes should be dealt with, with dispatch and precision. I am confident that the state's authorities will discharge their duty without one minute of unnecessary delay In order that the ends of Justice may be accomplished and society fully

protected.

“These unfortunate occurrences happen and a few debased persons of this nature etill exist among all races of people. I am sure every oitisens of Indianapolis, white and black alike, regrets this unfortunate occurrence. For the most part the oitisens of Indianapolis have been very thoughtful and cautious in assisting the officials in the execution of their duty in this matter."

Poller Department Commended. John B. Reynolds, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, has written a letter to J. K. Kinney, chief of police, commending the department on the

.capture of Ray.

Continusd from Pag* On*. paraiso la tha morning. Laporta at noon and Gary at night. The Friday. Saturday and Monday. May I. schedules will Include central

northwestern and

Indiana and the northern countie*

with only 3.699 bureau ten year*

*6ve tha ally a population of inhabitants. In 1176

to 46,246, tha next » 166,000

1«9« eh owed

Steady. rly government estimates, which baaed on actual counting frtian, shows how steady In Indiana poll* has bees, tha government estimated tha at 191,416. an Incraaae of throe yonra. In 1964 the Sevan m.Tfrfr, and la 196*. tha , .tm: la 1966, and «{• zx

Other Candidate*.

Governor Lowden who canceled on-

nta la northorn Indiana this bocaueo of a sore throat, win at Marion and Muncle Monday daytime and at Anderson at

night. He will go by automobile from Anderson to Richmond Tuesday,

■■■M briefly at Newcastle an i e City and win speak at

i Tuesday night. Wednesdiy ha will apeak at noon at Oreencasttc and at nlflrht at Torre Haute; Thursday night at Evansville; Friday pro I I

abiv st South *

fbubly I

Bend; and Saturday

Lake county.

Johnson will apeak Wednesday at

Richmond;

at Kokomo in

*T V W * * «* u* A y

the morning. Logan sport at noon and South Band at night; Friday, Michigan CHy In the morning, two speeches at Gary and Hammond at night; Saturday, a day speech at Terre Haute and a night epeeoh In Indianapolis; Monday noon. May 9, at Lafayette and night at fterioa. Harding will spank nt Crawfordsvllle Monday afternoon: night at Lafayette; Tuesday. Graonoastle at noon and Torre Haute night; Wednesday, Vincennes noon and Evansville night; Thursday. Radford noon and Now Albany night; Friday. North Voraon in the morning. Madison noon and Columbua night: Saturday, probably Ruahvllla. Shelby villa and Indianapon*. ;

»e (Ttalleaged.

coming to headquar-

WIH

Reports are

tare of Rapublfoan candidates for proaldanUal preference sad Republican candidates for the nomination for Governor that voter* who were not affiliated with the Republican party at tha last election, some of

them

There rsi

aad 117

to every ■ earlier, to 1966,

»oro ratio

I* laa* f foreign

whites

te.246,«

total capitalisation of the 855 was given as «t«.497,666. value of the product was raw material having leaving the added thisjincreaeed f valueua of the manufaeturipolis proper, $23,651,000

them Democrats and others independents or Socialist sympathisers, are planning to vote in the Republican primary, their purpose being to influence the Republican * nominations without intending to support the ticket when nominated. Steps will probably be tahaa to challenge such

persona

The law coatamplatea that the inattons of a party shall be made of that party. A Repubtad on the election law says ft provides that only these who voted for a majority of the nominees of the party at the last election or will make oath that they will mrt the nominee* at the aphtag election have a right to

at a party primary. Oeas*el**e«*»0« 9B8eeted.

At the prlsaary election precinct committeemen are elected, and they lr turn elect county chairmen who elect dlstrict chairman. It Is submitted that tha fight of a party to govern its own organisation a* wall aa' to nominate its own candidates

should be

Jamee fcamwia, Indiana WM for Governor Lowden. of Illinois, ear* ha baa informarion confirming a Chicago newspaper report that the Chicago delegates, said to be under the control of Mayor William Hale Thompson and his machine, will vote for Lowden. Baldwin says Lowden will get the entire Illinois delegation. Johnson having agreed that the one Chicago delegate elected on a Johnson declaration should vote for Low-

dan.

8PEAKS TO COLORED VOTERS. Feeler Addressee Large Crowd at Ck areh— MeCaHoeh at Sh*4hy-rillr. J. W. Fesler. candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, addressed a large audience of colored voters at the Bethel A. M E. church Friday night and was enthusiastically received. He discussed state issues and pledged a good business administration should he be nominated and

elected.

Dr. Carleton McCulloch, the Democratic candidate for Governor, went to Shelbyville in the afternoon, where he spoke to the Democratic precinct

workers. ^

Thomas Taggart arrived in Indianapolis and visited Democratic head-

quarters.

"Things are

Indiana Democrats

Tsggart said.

getting brighter

every day,”

e letter in part said:

"One of the greatest stabilizing influences of our social fabric is the speedy capture, immediate indictment and trial, and prompt execution of such criminals as these. I believe w« of Indianapolis have every reason to be proud of the record of oar police, force and I wl«h to take this nppor tuplty to extend congratulations through you to Detective* Sneed and Trabue and Patrolman Carter, who made the arrest and to any others who may have been personally concerned therein, as well as to the department

itaelf ”

Give Mono for gawck Family. Employes of the American Railway Express Company, through C. W. Latimer, agent in charge, and Miss Winifred Murphy, today collected $52 In the company s office for the use of the family of Hugh Smock, 426 Bank avenue. Mr. Smock is the stepfather and Mrs. Smock the mother of Martha Hdff, victim of William Ray. CAPPERAGAIN OPENS

Contimiad from Page One. alone during the war the gross income of American corporation# rose from thirty-five and one-third billions to eighty-four and one-half billions. He read to the senate a long list of corporations whose profits were placed at anywhere from *6 to 200 per cent. Wall Street Melon Patehea. y;- - A .V/ . .* '• 3 "Wall street’s melon patehea.” ha declared, "continue to be warmed r*y the sun of privilege, fertilised by the perspiration of labor, and watered by the tears of poverty, and this year will raise a record breaking crop free from the blight of income taxes while the people are being urged to buy their coal early and be robbed for leea to abstain from eteak ona day a week, and to purchase War Savings stamps that tha United States may live in nine billion style on a six billion <4noome. "At this moment the most brazen challenge Me have had In this saturnalia of greed comes from the gamblers in sugar. A corner has evidently been formed right under the eyes of the department of justice. The canning season raid i* on. For years the sugar interests have annually and openly and shamelessly robbed American housewives during the canning After reviewing the activities of flour, sugar and cotton mills, the recent supreme court decision holding stock dividends untaxable, and the department of justice’s campaign urging use of the -cheaper cuts" of meat—which he conoemned—Senator Capper presented a list of corporation* whose earning, he said, were scandsSoJ*? CtW,B ** ’‘ OI>e,l •

Lhste

The Hat with the percentage of earning*, aa given by Senator Cap-

per. Included:

"Continental OIL 266 per cent ; United Fuel Gas. 966 per cent.; Ohio Fuel Supply, 160 per cent.; Nonquit Spinning Company. 166 per cent.; Amoskeag Cotton Manufacturing Company, 1*6 per cent.; Stutx Motors. 166 per cent.; Nash a u Manufacturing Company, 166 per cent.; American Tobacco Securities Company. 75 per cent.; Manomet Mill*, frfr 2-5 per cent.; Hood Rubber. «« 2-3 per cent.; Crucible Steel, 56 per cent.; Cleveland Akron Bag. 56 per cent.; Union Bag and Paper. 56 percent.: Auto Car Company, 46 per cent.; John R. Thompson Company. S3 1-3 per cent.; St. Maurice Paper Company. 36 per cent.; F. W. Wooiworth, 26 per cent.; Electric Welding of Boston. 25 per cent.; Delaware and Cleveland, 25 per cent.; Hawaiian Pineapple Company. 25 per cent.; Electric welding Company, 25 per cent.; General Chemical. 26 per cent.; American Multigraph, 26 per cent.; Truscan Steel. 26 per cent. “The Standard Oil Company of InMr. diana,” the senator continued, “has recently increased its capital from

teen plants of the Standard Milling Company have been increased 100 per cent., but not because of increased wages and taxes. "The humble banana, controlled by the United Fruit Company with its fleet of twenty-three ships, has become a kingly profiteer. Ha net earnings for fifteen months, ending December last, equalled 40 per cent, on $50,000,060 of stock outstanding. “Our greatest Industry—agriculture. tied hand and foot—has been made the helpless victim of speculators and profiteers. “It is wrong to assume because extravagance flaunts itself In our cities that plenty exists In all the homes of the land. People who have never known want or privation are living today in tents instead of homes; thousands of men, women and children are compelled to do without necessary shoes and clothing, if not fuel, and certateAMtlcies of food. "l!v(*aead of drastic action by governmehtal agencies ^n the enforcement of the laws we now have has been increasingly evident for months. We already have laws against profiteering. If those -charged with enforcement of these laws will see that the profit hogs are sent to jail prices will soon tumble.”

YANKEES LOOKING TOIEONARPIOP Continuad from Page One. tumn that if I were elected a delegate to Chicago and he cared to have me do so, I would be very glad to present his name to the convention, and 1 need hardly say that this is a promise which I intend to fulfill if the Governor so desires." Craac aad GRIett. Crane and Gillette have, within the last few days, also* said that If Coolidge should b* a candidate they would support him. But as far as anybody can learn. Governor Coslidge has no thought of putting himself in the attitude of being a candidate. The prevailing view here ia that it is too late for him to enter the race aad expect the state delegation to be for him. One heart talk here to the effect that Senator Lodge believes tbe lightning might strike In his neighborhood. It seems that a few of his admirer* have bean putting the Idea into his head; they have been telling that he is to have the nomination as a reward for hla work on the treaty with, Germany. No one outside a amall coterie of Lodge admirers is taking such talk seriously. Theodore Roosevelt tried to make .Lodge the candidate four years ago, and soon ’• earned that thera were too many oejectlons to be over-

come.

New England wishes a change at Washington. It would like to see a clean swaap next November, a aweep that would not only put a Republican in tha Whits House but would also retire many of tha Unitad States senators and representatives. Conservettve at Heart. This part of the country is conservative at heart. Extrema radicalism Is to be fo&nd in the Industrial canters, but it ia far from being representative of the dominating thought and purpose of New England. If there shall be aay question at Chicago aa to whether the Republican party shall cater to Socialism or Commun-* lam under the guise of Socialism there will be no doubt about whore the New England delegates will stand. The safest guides la the Republican party up here were greatly impressed with the warning issued by Edward C. Stokes, former Governor of Now Jersey and chairman of the Jersey state committee, this week that Socialism and Communism loom large as a public menace and that the Republican party must .be on its guard last it fall lata the hands of mon who are preaching tha new doctrine.

INDIANA POLITICAL NOTES

Warren G. from Ohio

EVANSVILLE Ind.. April 34 Hardin*. United Steles ssnsfoi

and Republican candidate for the nomination for President, will arrive here' next Friday evening at 7:05 o'clock and win be tbe meet at an informal reception before delivering aa aStbess at Urn Soldiers' sad Satkn Coheenm The original plans for the Hardin* visit to mis city called for his arrival daring the earbr afternoon. Mr. Hardin* will leave immediately after the nnsrta* for Louisville.

He will come here from Vteaenam.

The Vaadsrtmr* County Democrat • Club is srrencin* a rally for its members aad guests for amt Friday nwfct at its euaittn m ths basement of the New Vendome hotel.

LAFAYETTE. Johnson. United

24.—Hi rare from Cafe

forma, candidate for the Republican presi ? mM seto have vRHod

dmtial nomination, who was

here Monday.

May S. mid will speak that mormn* In ths Fatally theater Senator Johnson will mmt bare from Indianapolis and win leave at noon for w*bash In the evening he will speak

at Marion.

By Ida Hants* Harper.

The attorney-general of Massachusetts comes to the fore this week with the ruling that its women can not vote even after the federal suffrage amendment is fully ratified until the state constitution is amended or an act is passed by the congress definitely conferring the suffrage on women. If there were any legal precedent or authority for such a ruling Massachusetts women would be in an unfortunati situation, having to stand back and see those of fortyseven states mbrehing to the ballot box next November while they alone awaited the pleasure of the legislature and the individual men of their state, or the members of the congress, who would be entirely too busy in the .campaign to remain in Washington and put a bill through both houses and up to the President merely to uphold the opinion of the attorney-gen-eral of Massachusetts. He should reach a hand across the border to Governor Clements, o of Vermont, and say: "Shake; we have discovered a constitutional mare's nest which has escape*! the attention of every other Governor and attorney-general in the United States!” If the constitutions of the various states still would have to be amended, where was the necessity of a federal amendment? The suffragists made the long struggle for It in order to avoid the labor, expense and delay of state campaigns, end this fact was universally recognised. In Massachusetts a state amendment has to pass two successive legislatures and then go to the voters. They could not possibly get this one before November, 1922. and women thus would be barred from the election at which Senator Lodge

m excess wav

profits, and from the profiteers all that is needful to compensate the men who sacrificed themselves instead of their country o» their coun-

trymen. in time of war.

“During the coal strike, while sero cold and privation threatened the people, the price of crude oil shot up nearly 500 per cent, and still is ris-

ing.

“The tobacco products corporation has a dividend balance showing a rise of 1,547 per cent, over its 1914

profits. ,

“The General Cigar Company, which in 1906 acquired .the property and business of the old United Cigar Company. amassed a net income of nearly 34 cents on each dollar of its sales in 1917, and In 1919 this had grown to

almost 38 cents, i

"Other upholders of government and befrienders of the poor are the American Hide and Leather Company, whose profits for 1919 were more than three and a half times larger than those it gained in 1914; the Central Leather Company, whose 1919 profile more than double those of the same months in 1918. and the Endicott Johnson 3hoe Manufacture Corporation. whose profits rose from $2,114,430 in 1915 to $9,791,580 in 1919. Fanners Net Profiteers. "Despite these swollen profits the public is being warned that shoes are going to cost more instead of

less.

"For four years wheat farmers, as a whole, have little more than broken

even. But the net profits of the flf-Tlimes that this federal amendment

Ml ■ 1J , J ■

but it is not to be—the attorneygeneral will have to guess again.M All That Is Claime* for It. | In his opinion he makes this very illogical assertion if hie ruling ia cor

rect: "In general the states may confer the right to vote as they see fit; only since the fifteenth amendment was adopted they may not deny the right to e man merely because he is black. If the proposed amendment is

ratified they may not deny it to women merely because they are women.’

Certainly; this is all that is claimed for it. Its advocates have pointed out thousands—or rather millions—of

left every state entirely free to im pose any requirementa for the exercise of the suffrage that it pleased, but they must apply them to women the same as to men. It reads as fol-

lows:

"Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America In congress assembled (two-thirds of each bouse concurring therein). That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threefourths of the said legislature be valid as part of said Const namely: “ARTICLE "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shell not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of

sex.

"Sec. 2. The congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.” Clear aa* Explicit Declaration. There is no excuse for trying to obscure this clear and explicit declaration by legal interpretations. It eesertk emphatically that "when ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the several states it shell be valid as part of the Constifution of the United States.” This should end all talk of a referendum of either the ratification or the amendment itself to the voters. It declares that the “congress shall have power to enforce its provisions,” but does not give the congress authority for any other action on it. The opinion that, after it has been declared definitely by the secretary of state to be a valid part of the federal Constitution the congress mu*t keep on tinkering with it before it becomes effective Is an absurdity. If any state should refuse to observe the provisions of the amendment the congress can make use of the federal authorities to enforce them, but beyond this it has no cause for action and ail state authorities are without jurieldlction. No Basis for the Contention. There is even less basis for the contention that state constitutions must be changed to conform with this federal amendment. They could be changed only by amending them, and this would require tbe whole long process of one or two sessions of the legislature, a campaign and an election, consuming at least two years’ time. Suppose the voters refused to change the constitution, what then? No state constitution Is permitted to conflict with the federal Constitution. so this contention, as made by Governor Clement, for instance, is also reduced to an absurdity. When the fifteenth amend-

state constitution was necessary to enable negro men to vote. The word *4 w *• a m ** i«*i 1« H/vca f ir%n #*’**• er*A * { ev

ment was adopted, no change of any

men

white,” as a qualification for voting, was taken out of some of them from time to time, as they were being changed in other ways, but ig others it remains to this day. It was voted out of the Oregon constitution only two or three years ago. When a new constitution was submitted in Ohio In 1912, one clause in it provided for woman suffrage and one for eliminating the word ‘Vhlte.” Both were defeated by overwhelming majorities, the latter receiving more negative votss than the former; so the Ohio constitution still limits the franchise to "white, male citjseiw,” but tbe colored male citizens go right on voting under the fifteenth amendment to the federal Constitution. Just as they k*.**. 1 *** doing without the slight-

’’It 1

tenr to make effective the woman

suffrage amendment?

Tennessee Attnraey-GeaevaFs Opinion Frank M. Thompson, attorney-gen-eral of Tennessee, also has given an opinion on this question, saying that "under the rnles and holdings of the msnme court of the United States this woman suffrage amendment will ex propria vigor* <bv its o™ force) eliminate tbe words inale cltHsens’ in the constitution of every state in the union and permit every citisen, whether male or female, to vote, subject alone to such conditions as to quaHflcations as the states prescribe which do not pertain to sex.” He bases hi# conclusion on meny decisions of the United States supreme court in regard to federal amendments and says: “So far as Tennessee is concerned, this new amendment win require neither constitutional changes nor an extra session nor even additional legislation for aasessing a poll tax on women.” However, eiT minor opinions seem unnecessary after that of Charles K. Hughes, former justice of the supreme court, given at the request of Mrs. Chapman Catt. president of the Nations! Suffrage Association. He wrote: "If the amendment ts duly ratified so as to become a part of the federal Constitution. I am of the opinion that it will be immediately self-executing. and will render invalid and therefore ineffective any existing provision* in any state constitution or statute establishing a suffrage disqualification seloly on the ground of sex. Where either contains the word ‘male* in describing suffrage qualifications the effect of the federal amendment will be to strike It out snd leave the constitution or statute to operate as though the word ‘male* was not In it." Wish Father to the Thought. With ths anti-suffragists the wish is father to the thought that after the amendment Is officially adapted long litigation may be placed in the

way of its becoming operative. Unless a decision of the United States supreme court shall declare unconstitutional the Ohio law, requiring that the ratification of a federal amendment by its legislature must be approved by a majority of the voters, it will be advisable to have thirtyseven state* rafrify it, so that Ohio need not be counted. Then as soon as the secretary of state announces it to be incorporated in the federal Constitution the women of the entire United States are at once enfranchised on the same terms as men. In other worda universal suffrage will be established forevermore end this will be

a genuine republic.

Suffrage Action In Nebraska.

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more revenue by Increasing car fare* until it shall have obtained more revenue from the interurban companies for use of its tracka He pointed out that although the interurban companies have obtained permission to ( collect greater feres, they have not

The men of Nebraska are deter-; been required to pay the city comnuned that the women of thdt state ! ***1 *qrmal , .h.u ..nt* nr wk.t v.nn.n. i Mr 4* h ^ y * nd Mr Masson warmly snail vote regardless of what happens lthe attttud* that the city's to the federal amendment. Three | contract with the company was abroy«ars ago the legislature gave them | enactment of the public .ti th. it t*,A ** r vic# commission lew, as was conall the suffrage that it had the poser fended by the company. Mr. Ashby to bestow—the presidential, county i pointed out that the order of the suend municipal. The liquor interests ! the commis-

to hear the company s petition rgency relief a year or so It to the commission to de-

that the commissioner would eavc more than hie salary by the efficiency of operation b#~would bring about, and that the city has the right to know whether tbe plan is being car-

ried out in a proper manger. I ARMENIA IS RECOGNIZED.

immediately took advantage of the initiative and referendum in order to get this new law before the voters, where by methods which they knew how to employ they could get rid of it. The petitions were filed by the president of the Women’s Anti-Suf-frage Association. The suffragists carried them through the courts up to the state supreme court and in each they were thrown out because of fraud, and the "antis" were left with more than $5,060 coats to pay. Then a convention met to make a new constitution and included in it the complete enfranchisement of women. This will go to the electors in September. and In order to insure the success of this clause the convention made use of the power delegated to it by the legislature and provided that women should vote on the Constitution and that this especial clause should go into effect as soon as It was adopted, the others not till Jan-

uary 1.

NEW YORK MARCHES IN BIG H.C. OF [.PROTEST Continued from Page One. • magnitudes, brass bands and vaudeville comedians, tout to contribute a little "jass” to the occasion. . Stoves Break Price*. The power behind the overaJls and patches movement in New York was strikingly emphasised along the line of march by posters in clothing store windows inviting the public to come in and buy at prices from $5 to $26 lower than those that prevailed last week, posters that emphasised among other phrases the line “Why wear overalls?” More than a score of large stores have advertised price reductions in the newspapers, and A. W. Riley, heed of the department of justice’s “flying squadron," which has been doing missionary work among dealers here, predicts that the number will Increase rapidly. The line of march took the paraders down Eighth avenue from Columbus circle to West Twenty-third, through West Twenty-third to Broadway and back up Broadway to Co* lumbus circle. Kept Off Fifth Avenue. Although Fifth avenue was barred to the paraders by city officials after a protest from merchants, who declared the parade would interfere with business, the xfl>rd n as passed among the marchers to wander down the avenue singly or in small groups after the parade, carrying the protest into the district where high priced clothes are made and sold. A mass meeting also was to be held after the parade, at which the foundation for a permanent organisation of high price opponents waa to be laid. Cards were passed out to the marchers pledging them to inventory their sartorial possessions and plan their use so that only a minimum of new garments would have to be bought In 1920. Stadeat* Wearing Khaki. (Special to The Indiana poll* News) LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 24.— Khaki instead of overalls is the garment material chosen by Purdue students to fight the high cost of clothing. The sophomore class Is leading in the campaign of protestation. The members of the class say they will wear no other kind of clothing until the prices come dowp.

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termine the extent of the emergency. He believes the emergency will be at an end when it can be shown that the company can operate with profit under the franchise fare agreement.. Railway Cosemtesleaer Gaestfoa. The question of* a street railway commissioner and the possibility that he might draw the operation of the railway system deeper Into politics bobbed up again at the hearing today. Commissioner Glenn Van Auken and F. B. Johnson displayed a keen interest in this phase of the problem, as well as in the question of whether the railway company should be expected to pay for the services of-the cityappointed railway commissioner, who is to "have invasion powers" into the company’s affairs on behalf of the

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Unite* State* Acte Toward New Near East Hepnblte. WASHINGTON, April 24.—Armenia was formally recognised today ss »n independent republic by the United States. Similar action hex been decided on by the allied conference at San Rdmo The American recognition was in th* rorm of a note addressed by Secretary Colby to Mr. Pasdermadjlen. Washing ton representative of the Armenian republic. Not# of the recognition also was communicated formally to th«diplomatic corps abroad and to ‘the allied conference In Italy. This recognition makes no attemp' to establish boundaries for the ne* republic. This is left to be determine*! later by international action. Secretary Colby today said that no decision had been made regarding a diplomatic representative to be eem to Armenia from the United State*.

SECOND SUICIDE ATTEMPT Mnnele Woman. Despondent, Drink* Chloroform—Condition kerton*. (Special to Tbs Indiaaspolu New*] MUNCIK. ind., April 24.—The day after being discharged from' a hospital. where she was taken after attempting suicide by drinking chloroform. Mrs. Edith Beckman, age thir-ty-six, again drank chloroform last night. she is in a serious condition. Mrs. Beckman is said to have been despondent over domestic troubles.

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