Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1920 — Page 6
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1920.
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the employea. One of the spenfcen At the local conference complimented the Indianapolis, Columbus Jk Southern Traction Company because It had spent only 12-100 of 1 per cent, of Its Orro« receipt* in paying for accident^. Thin line’* first ear wan run out of Indianapolis January 1. 1000. Since then 24,760,000 passengers hays been carried and not one killed.
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A tnamber of ths Japansse delegation to tbo league of nations said on Eaturday that Japan would be forced lo maintain powerful military and naval forces as long as the United States insists on increasing the size of its fighting mschins — a very natural conclusion. The whols program of reduction of armaments is being delayed by our faiiur* to participate. While it is being discussed we are rushing naval construction, and before long, at the present rats of progress, shall have the most powerful navy in ths world. Such is our answer to the efforts of tbs league to free the world from the terribts burden and menace of militarism. Fet only last week the ftrlttsh government announced that It would for the present refrain from making say Increase in the naval
strength of the empire.*
President Wilson was asked by the league to send a representative to deal solely with this armament question. H* declined on the ground that this country was not s member of the league, and that he had no pow?r to ait as requested. Last week a resolution was offered by Senator Walsh, of Montana, request I nu the President to send such representative. It did not, he thought, matter that we ware not a member of ths league, sines the American people art Interested—-certainly they ought to be — in any movement looking to world-wide disarmament. The senator said that ths "almost Inconceivable sum'’ of 61,100,000,000 is sought thi« year for ths army and navy, end that this had given rise to the unjust suspicion that America had imperialistic designs Whether this suspicion is unjust or not. it Is certainly true that our present policy is a serious obstacle to tho reduction of arm-
nments,
So we are imposing a crushing burden, not only on ourselves, but on other nations, which are much less
able to bsar it.
our influence Is evil, and is giving direct encouragement to the perpetustton of the old and wicked order under which the world was almost wrecked. Our people, who are demanding a reduction of takes, should steadily keep in mind the fact that but of every dollar of taxes taken from them 78 cents goes |o pay for past and future wars. Not so long ago ws wore all rather shocked to I ohm that we had a billion dollar congress — which meant that 61.600,606.000 was spent In two years. Then came congresses that spent 61.006,<160.000 in a single year. Now ws are proposing to spend 61,606.060,000 for Army and navy. In commenting on a recent speech of Senator Harding. 1 |n which he discussed unsympathetically the subject of disarmament, the New fork Evening Post said; Was it really the Intention of the American pooplo on election day that we should hold aloof from this great work? Mr. Harding. In the speech we have quoted, spoke of America as the great stabilising influence in the world, as the leader in the movement back to a "right order.” Is this the right order tho American people want — America uninvolved. "unmortgaged” and armed to the teeth? Here la a subject to which the wise minds,” among them that of the doughty militia colonel. George Harvey, might well give their atten-
tion. ■
POLICE POWER AND PROPERTY In a recent decision holding the New York rent laws to be constitutional. Justice Gtegerich laid down certain principles of the correctness of which there would seem to be little doubt. The questions arose in suits prosecuted by realty companies for the ejection of tenants, the claim being that the laws forbidding such action went beyond ths police power of the state, and also that their effect was to deprive persons of property without due process of Jaw. Justice Giegerleh held that the conditions which it was sought to cure or prevent had an important bearing on the legal question, 'There were many more people seeking homes than there were -houses,
and the result was that;
A panic fell upon the people because those threatened with eviction could find no other place to go, and there was danger that thousands of families should be turned into the Streets. At this Juncture the’ new
laws were passed
But tbe most important part of the opinion is the discusstop of the police power and the rights of property, and of the relation of the one to the other. "The meaning." said the court, "of the words police power and the meaning of the word property arc not and can not be fixed and unchanging." In times of emergency the police power must b« enlarged at the expense of property. The right of property "extends only so far as the welfare of the community permits it to extend,” and it must extend less far when the emergency is such a* to threaten the whole community. For then the rights of the individual are subordinate to the rights of the community, and muxt be so. Nor is the individual in such cases without compensation, for, as is pointed out, "whatever injuries he may suffer in the diminution of hts property rights are deemed to be made up to him by his sharlpg in the general benefits which t^e regulation secures to the community of which he is a member." In such cases the exercise of the police power Is nothing more than the assertion by the community of its superior right to
live in peace and safety.
Tbe question In this case was whether there was a public emergency. and Justice Giegerleh held that of thie there could be no doubt. “The statute," he said "recites that such was the case, and the facte abundantly sustain the recital." The legislature may have acted unwisely, but it acted within its powers. The principle applies generally, and it very clearly applies to our coal cases. There too, was an emergency, and one of the most serious character. Many more people were in danger of suffering than would have suffered from the exorbitant rents and the
In this particular; shortage of house* In New York.
Under such conditions the state it might have been thought, would have had the power to do many things, which It could not have been permitted to do, and would not have desired to do in normal time#. Under the New York ruling the property rights of the mine owners would have been forced to yield to the rights Of the people as .a result of the exercise of the police power. '
their business "A greater part of the tax," says the dispatch, "will come from the truck owners." This is la line with decisions reached by truck owners in other sections of Indiana. They Esse come to the conclusion that it Is unfair to ask the people to bear the burden of heavy taxes In order to provide roads where trucks may travel and their owners make money The highways are ©pen to all traffic, however, and the truck owners should not be asked to bear all the expense of improvements. At tbe same time if must be remembered that the heavy motor trucks are doing more damage to the roads than any other vehicle. The motor truck serves the people and should be encouraged, but the truck owners can not expect the people to build motor truck highways and then stand tbe expense of the damage done.
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS The report of the number of industrial accidents in Indiana for ths fiscal year ending September SO shows that Insufficient attention is given to safsty In Industry. A total of 42,614 employes were injured, 261 of the accidents resulting fatally, and 619 workmen suffered dismemberments. The total is an increase over the* previous year and this, it is explained, is due partly to the fact that coal mining came under the scope of the law for the first time. There were 4. ISS accidents in coal mines and seventy-oight_ jit them caused death. Most of the workmen included in the general list were hurt by the falling of material, machinery or other objects; being caught between objects came next, and bums from spilling bet substances rank third. Eye injuries were numerous, resulting chiefly from flying bits of emery and steel-; There is need for a safety campaign that will protect the men from hurt. Safety appliances are required fa every factory, mill and mine. Machinery in motion must be guarded so that the workman is not likely to be caught by it. Progress has been made, but when 42.664 employes of industry are hurt In one year It Is seen that the safety campaign has not progressed as far as it might. Some of the fault rests with careless workmen and some with the em pioyert. The traction lines have safety com mitteea and regular meetings are held. The result has been a reduction It. the number of accidents. Protec is afforded both the public and
WATER POWER It is probable that the short session of the congress will not be able to reach a decision on the bill designed to make possible the utilization of more undeveloped water power in the country, but certainly the next congress can not allow the need for legislation to remain unfilled. The question is not political, but one of economic common sense. Thera is a general demand for some relief from the country's dependence upon coal when less than 10 per cent, of its water power is utilized, and when 60 per cent of the coal used in the United States could be saved by the employment of water power. In an article in the September bulletin of the National Electric Light association, Henry J. Pierce, a reclamation expert, points out that the paper Industry has reached the point where It must depend upon water power or increase the price of paper to suoh an extent that many publications will not be able to stand the pace, that cheap hydro-electric power can be used to pump water to irrigate 16,000,600 acres of arid western land and that the chief benefit of water power development is the certainty that through the use of electricity so generated the country can go forward toward doubling the productive capacity of farm land by producing fertilisers so that the land can be made to yield crop* comparable in also to those produced in Europe. where 806 pounds of fertiliser are used on an acre ax against twen-ty-eight pounds in the United States. The law passed last June has resulted in applications for permits tq develop about 2,600,000-horse power, but this is only a small part of the wasted power. Not Only must more be developed to conserve the coal, but the fuel oil situation is becoming acute, and. as far as this country is concerned. is not likely to improve under the policy which allows foreign powers an almost free hand in getting hold of the great pools outside the United States. The country appears to be awake to the worth of Its water power, but a new water power law is badly needed.
HIGHWAY USB
Motor truck owners of northern Indiana are quoted in a South Bend dispatch as saying that special legislation will be sought for additional taxation in behalf of better roads. Naturally the truck owners wish roads with surfaces sufficiently hard to make them passable in all kinds of weatber because a bad road hurts}
eliding tbe protestant bishop and the town clerk, has requested the officer In command to take steps to prevent further damage to property. He has promised to send out additional military patrols. Tbe true appeal is to the British government, and to the people of England, for both are disgraced by what is being done in Ireland. The people of England bare not lost their old love of liberty and they will be heard from.
THE VICE-PRESIDENCY It is a remarkable national electio* that is not followed by suggestione looking to the establishment of closer relations between the administration and the Vice-President. Eight years ago it was intimated that Mr. Marshall might be invited to participate In cabinet meetings, and now It is said that Mr, Coolidge will be asked to do so. Nothing has thus far ever come of these proposala and perhaps it will again be found that they are without much merit. In a recent statement in the New York Times Vice-President Marshall declared himself strongly opposed to making the Vice-President even an informal member of the cabinet. He said: The Constitution of the United States Intended that the Vice-Presi-dent should be the presiding officer of the senate and nothing else. To be a presiding officer It is necessary that the Vice-President shall have the entire confidence of all the senators. If a Vice-President should attend meetings of the cabinet practically as a member, it would tend to arouse suspicion. and senators of the minority party might not trust him. This would make the path of the VicePresident in the senate a rough one. All of which is more plausible than convincing. The only confidence that the senate needs to have in the VicePresident is as presiding officer; and this he can win by tbe Impartiality of hia rulings, by his patience and courtesy, his good nature and firmness. He is known to be a Democrat or Republican, as the case may be. and it ought to be expected, by the senate, and every one else, that his relations with tbe President and administration will be close, cordial and sympathetic. If the fact that they are of this kind "would tend to arouse suspicion" in the senate, the fault is that of ths senate. The VicePresident. too, is a member of the executive, and not the legislative branch of the government. We do not believe that there is rnttch merit in the ptan to have the Vice-Presi-dent attend cabinet meetings, for his position would be wholly anomalous he would, even when present, be an outsider.. The relations between the President and the department heads are clearly defined; the former is responsible to the people for good administration. and the latter are responsible to the President. The Vice-President is responsible to no one. and no one would be responsible to him. But it ought to be possible for the Vice-President to confer every day with the President, whether in cabinet meetings or not, w ithout losing the confidence of any senator, or rousing suspicion in any senatorial bosom. As presiding officer of the senate he is not expected to be uninterested in the principles or policies of his party, or to be detached from them. The senate, it should be added, is whopy its own master, and there is little or nothing that the Vice-President can do to influence its deliberations. There is. on the other hand, some danger that a Vice-Presi-dent may become a member of the senate oligarchy.
WHY THEY EMIGRATE The report made by seventeen transAtlantic steamship companies that 16,666,966 people representing every nationality in Europe are fighting for an opportunity to Join tbe stream of immigrants daily flowing into tbe United States is. as the commissioner of immigration at Eli is island remarked. amazing. About 6,666 aliens are being admitted to thin country every day, hence at tbe present rate tbe people who hare sold their possessions and huddled in some European port to await their turn for passage may keep up tbe rate for an indefinite period unless congress does what it failed to do at the last session. A good many of these people wish to come to the United States to Join relatives, a good many desire to carry out pUns made before tbe war. but it is probable that most of them desire to emigrate to escape the neces sity of bearing their share of the burden of building up their native country after the war. In normal times these people would be satisfied to stay. Better living conditions and better pay In tbe United SUtes would not appeal to them. But their loyalty to their country and their courage are not equal to the post-war strain. They are. In effect seeking to escape the consequences of their political mistakes. The sturdy, honest and adventurous European who seeks a better life in America Is not a failure, but a success, his Journey to the great, rich land beyond the sea being regarded as conclusive evidence that he has energy, good judgment and ambition. In such blood is the making of a good American. But these new immigrants are not of this type. If they were, they would stay at home and help to build up the countries which they now seek to desert. The United States does not want that kind of people. Slaving failed their native land in a crisis. It is probable that they will fall their adopted land. They should be kept out of the United States, not only for the good of the country, but also for the good of the European nations which now stand so much in need of help. Rigid selection is the key to the immigration problem.
THE CORK A TROClTIES Though the city of Cork is now. by the proclamation of the government, under martial law. there is no authority in that city strong enough, or if strong enough, willing to protect the
Millions of dollars of property have been destroyed by way of leprisal for the murders committed by the Sinn Felners. The terrible conflagration of Sunday. follow r ed an attack on a party of auxiliary police, known as "black and tans,” in which twelve men were hurt, three seriously. The method of enforcing martial law is thus described in the dispatches. When citizens of the city were hurrying home to escape the 10 o’clock curfew "black and tans” appeared on the streets and immediately began to attack pedestrians with butts of rifles. Calls were sent for city ambulances and the injured were sent to hospitals in such large numbers that the ambulances were unable to cope with the situation and many men had to be left to die in the streets. The electric light, gas and power stations were ord.red to cease working, and the whole city waq plunged into darkness until it was lit up by the frightful conflagration, when the orgy of property destruction was begun early today
Sunday.
The dispatches otherwise are not clear as to where the responsibility for yesterday’s crimes should be lodged, but instead of a reign <A law, the people of Cork seem to be subject to a reign of anarchy and terrorism. The theory of the Lloyd George government is that the Sinn Feiners ire few in number, and that icy do not represent the Irish people. n tbe
There Is tension In the sir at Athens, but as long as no bullets are flying Constantine may contrive some way to accept his position. Governor Coolidge is going to Marlon to Join the procession of best minds, but he is not on the program
with Sam Oompers.
In all probability the International cable dispute will be settled without resort to submarine warfare. Judging by the testimony introduced in the New York building scandal. the police have been looking in the wrong place for the hold-up men said «o be responsible for New York’s triennial unprecedented crime wave. Th«' proposal to require glass partitions in restaurants so the diners can see the kitchen ought to encourage matrimony and discourage divorce. Just what does former King Constantine mean when he says that he feels like the President of the
United States?
The South Bend woman alleged by the -police to have nine living husbands has at least succeeded in reducing the probability that she will
die an old maid.
If Mexico sends a trainload of observers to Harding s nomination they will probaly remember to bring along what many American visitors to the Mexican inauguration went for. The foreign relations committee, in preparing a substitute for the* league, may well recall that the American
property and lives of the citizens people have been educated to demand
the original article.
Maybe the restaurant cleanup will stop the feeders from cleaning their silver on napkins before beginning to eat. Disarmament plans never will amount to anything until they are extended to include the gun toters. The woman who shot at the stars may have been no more Xoolish than the scientist who propos/d sending a torpedo to the moon. Two can live cheaper than one year ago. If dairymen insist on watering the milk the health officisix should insist that only pure water is used. Dancing is said to be the chief diversion of Washington society folk, and paying the fiddler is the chief diversion of the rest of the people. We went over the whole gamut of world and national troubles, and we solved none of them.——Mr. Hoover at Marion. That’s more discouraging than surprising. Cork burnt? That looks black.
It isn’t much more difficult to grab a little limelight by being mentioned for a cabinet Job than It was last spring to do so by being mentioned for a presidential nomination; and
statement of the prime minister last th * chances are almost as good
week it was announced that martial law was declared only against the
“criminal Sinn Feiners.” and that the way would be left open to neg. tir.te with all the others, and'with the people of Ireland as a whole. Ynd /e,t agents of that government ;©e*a to have visited indiscriminate vengianee on the people — vengeance for crimes iir which apparently nny uad ro share, and with which, according to the theory on which the government is acting, they did not sympathize. The policy is. therefore, as stupid as it is criminal and wicked. Its only possible effect will be to embitter all classes, and unite them in opposition to a government that permits such
atrocities. '-'V. : -r]'
A deputation of Cork citizens, in-
Are the Leeds dollars paying the excess baggage on Constantine’s 220
trunks?
After masked bandits had held up two card games and raked in 66,060. the Cleveland police must have been pretty sore at what they missed by not being on the job. It cost the government $9,406,060 franked mail last year, but what do the congressmen care? It’s merely government money. When an automobile running at "a moderate rate of speed” strikes an obstacle, the resulting wreck is snre to be pretty serious.
What a man out of a job wishes is not a congressional Investigation but
a job. ^ * Ba*»villa.
Among Thos$ Present
IVem York Eremaz Post] Yesterday Mr. Hughes visited Marion and discussed foreign relations with Senator Harding. Tomorrow Herbert Hoover is to meet Mr. Harding in counsel. Colonel Harvey is a visitor at Marion. Others will come and go with the days—friends of the league and enemies of the league and middle-of-the-road men. After the great and solemn referendum of early November a second referendum, not so great ia numbers, but perhaps more solemn in its consequences, is now under way. Yet the list of visitors to Marion will not be exhausted by the names which the newspaper correspondents send over the wire. There will be present around Mr. Harding’s round table visitors whom the reporters will not even see. whom Mr. Harding will not see with the corporeal eye. but of whose presence he will be acutely
aware.
Who are those unseen guests? In great part they are of the same type that sat around the peace table in Paris and shaped the treaty through the hands of Wilson. Lloyd George and Clemeneeau. Their name was Facta Russia was not present in the body at the treaty table, but Lenlne s Russia helped to write the treaty. Germany was not present in the body, but Germany helped to write the treaty. The havoc of war, the hopes of nations, the fears of nations, the
RIGA, PEARL OF THE BALTIC, NOW SAD MONUMENT OF WAR
RIGA, Latvia, December IS.—Riga, which was known •before the war as the pearl of the Baltic and ranked as Russia’s second port, is one of the saddest monuments to the destruction wrought by six years of ceaseless fighting, much of which took place on the soil of the new republic of Latvia, erected on the ruins of the old Russian governments of Livonia
and Courland.
Half a million persons lived at Riga before the war and more than 466 large factories kept it busy and j?rospvrous. Now there are only about 200.060 inhabitants and less than a score of factories are operating. The empty shells of various industries stand awaiting the return of machinery which the Russians shipped eastward before the German advance. Lenine and Trotsky have promised to return all the machinery which belonged to Russian subjects. But many of the factories were owned by foreign capitalists and consequently can not hope to recover their plants.
Great Mills Are Idle.
Great rubber plants, car shops wood working shops and sawmills stand idle awaiting capital to buy machinery. The River Dvina and va^
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wounds of victory, the stupor of de- H 1,1.-. . . „ .
no ships to carry them into foreign markets. The docks are idle. Few trains operate and those are fired
with wood
Of the 1.500.000 persons in the new republic, nearly aU are dependent on agriculture for a living. The crops were a failure this year and consequently the outlook is dark for the new government headed by Ulmanis, the American-trained minister-presi-dent. But the Letts have learned the
80 at Marion Mr. Harding will consult with men. but before he is through he will have consulted with facts. He will have taken counsel with a war exhausted world in need of all the co-operative forces it can rally; with the starving populations of Europe who can not rescued without our aid; with industry lagging and commerce crippled; with American business men who voted not to b« involved in Europe and now find their interests largely dependent upon a revived Europe; with American fa-mers who voted against involvement and now clamor for European markets; with many other men and groups who voted no to the
hard yea of fact.
Mr, Harding mov have a hard time with the irreconcilable senators. He Is sure to have a hard—and instructive—time with the Irreconcilable
facts.
joy of freedom in their few months of independence. They fought bravely against the Boisheviki and later against the Baltic barons who tried to enslave them under General Ber-
mondl. And they are courageously building up a national life and a national consciousness in. the face of terrible odds. Education I* General. v Unlike most parts of Russia. Latvia was a country where education was general and only a small proportion of its population was unable to read and write. It had been well in the line of European culture. Its ports of Riga. Libau and Windau always had attracted many foreign traders. The country had been so attractive to German business men that German culture was firmly embedded in the leading cities. Riga is more German than Russian in appearance. Its broad streets, magnificent parks and dignified public buildings give it the air of a German city. Its numerous Lithuanian churches are similar to those found In any of the Hanseatic league cities. Its university is organised along German lines. But the great majority of its people have no sympathy with Germany’s effort to continue its influence in Latvia through the German barons, whose estates have been confiscated. Opera** Strong Foothold. The opera in Riga includes all the standard German. French and Italian operas in the Lettish language. Its schools teach Lettish. The state theater gives plays in Lettish, chiefly translation of the great English. Scandinavian and German masters. One of the new plays recently produced in Riga was written by a Lett about the lire of Weesters, a Lettish knight of the fourteenth century who attempted to resist the German domination of LettlamL It is bitter in its denunciation of German methods and has been well received by a public which seems thoroughly determined to maintain its independence at any cost.
The New Voyac* Look up and on. O soul! Across the dunes I hear the buakjr brezthinf of the sea. be fierce-mouthed sea. aiuHn* Tun** canticle In vague and mystic words of prophecy Brightly the beach is fr?tted with whits loam And on the rleaminf bosom of the sand The sun. half-heaven high, hangs promises 0 soul! With faith and hope I take thy hand Come; Let us man our galley and put forth With youth s bright pennon streaming at our mast I Let us look back no more, but forge ahead And pray to God the aea be wild and vast! The siren voices of sweet song are mute. Our canvas flaps impatient in the gale. Shove from the shore. O soul, and let us fate Thou at the helm, and 1 to tend the sail i Straight be our course away from glamoured dreams. And false fair promisee, on to our goal! Blow winds thetr challenge on my glftdeyed face. 1 glory in thy guidance. O my soul i —Raymond Peck ham Holden. — y:.-
NDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF
Federal Aid Necessary
small balance due on the par^hial school building erected eight years ago at a coot of S50.000. and enters the new year without
any indebtedness.
FT. WAYNE—Mrs. Marie Leeser. age sev-enty-two. died Saturday night aa a result of
that the department of conservation* tnjunes suffered when an automobile struck
To the .Editor of The News :
Sir—I see by your paper you
will ask the incoming legislature for 61.606.000 to help buy the dunes. This ia an error, aa the department has never taken any actl«n and given no ordera looking for auch an appropriation. The department is interested in the preservation of the dunes an# personally I feel that as Illinois will be benefltted as much and more than Indiana in their preservation, that it should be made a federal rather than •tate affair. The price mentioned is so unreasonable I personally shall oppose asking the legislature to appropriate the money- It would take considerable more money to buy and keep this up after it Is bought, therefore It should be a government park. W. A GUTHRIE. Chairman Department of Conservation, December 11, 1920. CITY TO ESTABLISH SCALES
Greexfteld Coal Retailers Refuse to
Aid Munleipal Hale. Alleged. (Special to The Indianapolis News]
GREENFIELD, Ind., December 13. —Because It waa alleged that retail coal dealers in this city had refused to weigh coal sold by the city, the council will have municipal truck
scales established at once.
INDIANA DEATHS
HUNTINGBURG. Ind.. December 13 —Funeral services lor William H. Bath, age thirty-five, who died of pm-umon.a, were held Saturday at the home here. He is survived by a widow and two children, his par-
ents and two brother*
GREENSBURG. Ind.. D •oe.mber 13.—Mr*. Ruth Gaunt, age seventy-eight, died Saturday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. John Alvin Ryan, eaal of Sanduahy Three, other daughters and a son survive. . . Mrs. Nathaniel Gentry, age fifty-two died Saturday at her home here. She is survived by three
eons
sisters.
ELWOOD—St. Joseph’s congregation at Sunday services raised by collection the
her. The ear was driven by Henry Haeimier, who said that she stepped in the way just as he turned the corner at Broadway Stophlet streets. The coroner is investigat-
ing.
KOKOMO—Two youths, masked in white handkerchiefs, entered the hardware store of Bohn Brothers, at Walton Saturday evening. held up the two proprietors and two customers and escaped with 3268. One of the customers was slow in obeying the orders to “stick 'em qp" and the b.iu<
at his feet.
MARION—As
calf of hia leg and traveled
ikte Sheriff Males
“stick 'em up ' and the | The men escaped.
result of
effect in the
along the bone to the aaiL... found the man too ill to be moved here Saturday. Wilhite told the sheriff that hi* home was in Salma. Ky. He now ia in a hospital in New Albany. Sheriff Males says in hi* opinion. WtUute will not be able to come to Evansville for another week The Rev. E. E Coleman, of Murphresboro. Ky . has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Jefferson Avenue Cumberland church in this city. The church has been without a pastor
for several months.
VALPARAISO—K. C. Worman. formerly of this city, who was seriously injured in an accident last October in India, will return to America in January, according to a totter received here by fnends. He ha* so far recovered from the accident, when he was , riding with a British officer on a motorcycle
Ifriita n_d i in Madras and ran into an iron bar placed 0(1 1 across the street, that he will be able to
resume his work in the religious program
Young Men's Christian
, .. B xmpaign 0 f the International against careless drivers oeing waged by tho police department, fifty-four automobile owners, charged with violating the motor lighting law, appeared in city court Monday. Many prominent citizens were among the number. Nine drivers appeared in court Saturday, but were discharged after a severe
reprimand by Mayor HuHey.
GREENCASTLE—The condition of Miss Hilda Varney, the DvPauw University aoror.ty gpi who was shot a week afo by
Association. Mr. Wormau is now director of the religious work in India under tbe auspice* of the International Y. M. C. A. ... Robert Hecht. age sixty, was sentenced to thirty days in tbe county jail and fined $100 and coat# by Judge Loring in the Porter circuit court Saturai H
of operating s still on hia farm northeast of the city. He pleaded guilty Gary
Johnson, age seventeen, and v.. stone, age sixteen, both of this
ng in
Hecht was accused
arm. ik
guilty b?.
Feather pleaded
William V Sackett. who mistook her for an guilty to a charge of larceny in the Porter automobile thief, is improving daily. It is; circuit court here Saturday. The young men. likely she will be abte to give her sto’-v of | it is said, robbed about a dozen buaines# the affair to the officials soon. . . F. S. Ham- j houses in the dty. obtaining goods estiUton. county prosecutor, has announced he mated at $2,000. They will be mmmiUed to
the Indiana Reformatory a Jefferswrilto.
will call the grand jury within a few days
to investigate the case.
HUNTINGBURG—The Dubois County Sunday School Associations’ annual convention was held Sunday in Uuntingburg. E. T. Albertson, of Indiana pons, state secretary, was the principal speaker at the three sessions. A feature of the convention was the union Sunday school service held at Salem Evangelical church in which all the city Sunday schools participated. Henry Warnaman. county chairman, presided at the ses-
sions.
COLUMBUS—A thief who operated in East Columbus, a suburb of this city, a few nights ago believes in doing what he does with thoroughness, it is evident He entered the back yard of a home where a washing Was hanging 011 the line and stole not on’x the clothes, but the pins and the lino..., Mr*. Paul Reed, of St. Louis Crossing, suf fi red serious intcrnsil injuries Saturday when she fell from a step! adder at the home of Mrs. David Marr. where she was helping Mrs Marr hang curtains. She fell across a
chair.
LA PORTE—Harry L. Crum packer ha* been appointed special judge to hear the case against Christopher C. Carter, of Michigan City, a negro who is charged in Lake county courts with the murder of hia brother m-law and W. F. Cook, a former editor
. ... ^ , of the Editor and Sun. in Gary, who aiao is her mother, two brothers and four c ^i 0 r«d. Carter formerly served as minister
I of Mt. Q’ive Baptist ctmnjh in Michigan City
SHELBYV1LLE. Ind December 13.—Mrs. Carl Talbert, age thirty, died Saturday evening at her home in Morristown. Shelby county. She leaves her husband and two daughters — ANDERSON IndT December 13—Tbe funeral of Miss Josephine Jacobson, age eighty-two. was held here today at the home of her niece. Mr*. John R Stephens. She. died Saturday afternoon at St. Johns Hos-
pital
VALPARAISO Ind.. Deoembe- 13.—John W. Filby. age seventy-six. a veteran of the eiv-li war. fs dead at his home south of tlua city. A widow survives. ELWOOD Ind.. December 13—Tbe body of Christopher C. Kirkpatrick, age aeventyseven. who died of pneumonia at the home of his daughter at Kokomo, will he buried here Tnesday. He is survived by two sons and another daughter. MUNC1E. Ind. December 13—James Peary Garrett n?e fifty right of Oakville died here in a hosp.ial following an operation. He leave* a widow, two daughters and five tons....Mrs. Miriah Was»on, age eighty, is dead at her home here. She was born at Biountsville She is survived by
Deming and George Wasson.. .. A local post of the American Legion h id charge of tbe funeral today of James Boland MulboUand. who lost hi* life in an accident in a fence faetory here Friday. Mulholland leave* a widow.... Mr*. Rebecca Skinner, age sev-enty-nine. is dead here at the home of her daughter. Mrs. John R- Bartlett. A son. S. J ?kmner. of Mt. Pleasant. Mich., also sur-
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TERRE HAUTE Ind.. December 13.—Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Moore, age forty-five, died
MUNCIE—Herbert A. Clark, formerly assistant traffic manager for Bdil Brother# Glass Fruit Jar Manufacturing Company here, has been appointed traffic manager to succeed his father, L. A. Clark, who died a few weeks ago. L. A. Clark waa traffic manager for the firm for twenty year*, and waa widely known to railroad men in all parts of the United Statos, .. .Property valued at $1,350,000, which had not been given in tor taxation, has been discovered and placed on the tax duplicates of Delaware county by Elmer Ferguson, county assessor. Taxes on this sum at the present rate will amount to more than $21,000. The county board of review by an increase in appraisements this year, added $3,500,000 to property valuations here. The sources of the hidden taxes largely have been inheritances, real estate sales, contract*, mortgage notes and similar transactions Frank L. Htrber. Delaware county clerk, told the county commissioner* Saturday that, after paying the help of hi* office, hia salary amounts to $1.1 i0 a year or less and asked that it be advanced to $3,000 a year. The commissioner* to >k the request under advisement. LOGANSPORT—A. Easter Zachary, age twenty seven, waa armdod here Saturday on a bench warrent issued by the Casa county circuit court, charging him with grand larceny in connection with the theft of on automobile from the Elliott Wholesale Com puny, of this city, The machine was stolen several weeks ago ami ha* been recovered. The man wu# unable to give bond and is held in the Ca^a County jLl A human skeleton, buried beneath four feet of earth, we* uncovered at tho Burley gravel pit in Jefferson township Saturday by work-
Shane. sUperintsudent of city schools and w^' in ^^"^odbK' bm "XTa Samuel Sharp, superintendent of county I vT.J. t,ut .“ 00 « » ft «r r
schools, were appointed to represeu city and county w< bool* respectively.
o be held in jndianapohs
sti
but at the time of the alleged shooting was employed a* a mail carrier. He ha* been confined in Lake county jail at Crown Point
since the murder.
COLUMBUS—At a union institute of city ami county school teachers, held here Saturday at /Columbus High School. Donald DuShane, superintmident of city schools, and
Samuel Sharp, superintendent of county ( £ “J h^TVx Wiaed” to "the ITJ* «•«*«« •?..."r»“1 gjjrsjsr'ivmSUKtSssu*
at a next
that of an Indian,
making every effort to
Local official* are combat a wave of
meeting to
h t 1 a
mmmmimm
monlh to form a new constitution for the la- i Th.,T7 M I",” „ a w « v . c 0 disma State Teacher* Association. During ; ^i^Ve*^ n t # ly> 5 a . , l ,p . ort ^ the afternoon ses-ioo of the institute a Its*' to the fact that many
*•*-* Vv I -a eft ft I i Via tas taywY"! f V-it HI J lid 1*?
» charge of forgery Whitemsn has ; Saturday two holduim and ihLl
feesed to local officers here, authorities say.; a | tc ,^n t ; lo hty> k [ ot On June 17. he is said to have cashed • i w^™^portc<I Thc 1 n .^ f^ ^ »K Plat ? !<
draft for $290 70 on a Warsaw bank at the j bH b, reasT-d and ? ntETw Providert Trust Company here. The ! HotheT men^Ste f
was made payable to G H Whiteman end “ ! to drive o : « ffn w rt is said the defendant indorsed it O A Whit-;- ^ to J th ” man. when according to tbe indictment he! f .Jl . business house* knew there was no such person a* G. H. j roh^ric^ t nd P hnlinn 16n to Wami ofr
Whiteman and that he was not entitled t 0 j jobberies and holdup*.
the money. The ind ctment is in four count*. SHKLBYVILLE—Howard Little and H
The case has not been set for trial. HUNTINGTON—George M. F.berhart.
three daughters and a son. Mr-. Nettie i ud _ c of the Huntington circuit court, was Smith. Mrs. Emma McFarl ind, Mrs. Hettie - - ... - —- ---- -
puzzled by a petition presented Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Fredericks asking to be permitted to adopt their twenty-nine vear-old grandson. Erme Swafford, who mad" hid home with his grandparent*, until ho was
rp IS-
sault and battery charge*. They were ar-
nsif
:°“ h ;, ar'wyart ».**"*•
any deenuons of a higher <-ourt could Imi . ntQn /i**kened when the man grasped
found on the subject No action was given except that make him their legal ti-ir. 3
m*b.... ol Wot. ! {.„1f“Wg* iwo oauguiers. anu^ a T( ^ hrn| . Association Saturday. C. I circuit court. « aoeioy
C.
county
be arraigned in the ShHOy Negotiations have been be-
rmi Ut *urv.re hU3 Sbubars U D^^ e“^ty“ I CouW Tezchers’ Association Saturday
fine Uteri her« Sundav afternoon at tiie home ! Williams, superintendent of the cou,,.^ *•»>, «. v. me mugnis oi i"yuilas of hi* kop Dan D Davis Mr Davis who | school*: E. E- Rice, of the Richmond schools, , lodge* in this city, and at Marietta, for the of hik h lived irf Tcr-e and Miss- Eleanor Newman, of the Milton consolidation of the two. The Knightu of was a retired contractor, had lived m Terre , » -i-i—— .k„ . • Pythias hall at Marietta wa* destroyed by
Haute thirty years. Four brothers also tur . j school*. J«**I*<*«* deiega tc* to the gott^ body of Miss Cora E. Buckler. »tHutional c^vention of the Indiana State who died of pneumonia Sat- ■ Teachers Association to be held at Indfana-
vlve. . . .The
forty-fl
after coe dairyman refused to mamtain tbe Briggs has been commissioned first lieutenhigh price*. Hi« business increased at such; ant. General Smith will be the guest of D. a rate that the remaining four dairymen ■ Wray DePrez. lieutenant colonel, while here, were compelled to reduce, in order to relahi i ANDERSON—Mrs Zena Poor air* ssTTfew ,4*/ajK giwES T-BrJMk-
ANDERSON—Mr*. Zena Poor, age forty-
here a tew wees* h»u uj i*m»c..»» ; aJlerelv^'bMibld^awtl e^it^when *auJ gansport was closed without notice Satur- j s^e ^ ridins w^ ^ck^ hv * day. and Goshen police stopped the pro | . w f m ri J? Jt L«sTb, lh «5 qsrse ss*&y~ fMV>i£S3S*s’sss£i butiding* to a motor tru.ti. preparatory for j homeb^The^xiri 6 ^ 01 ' 1
shipment to Logatuport. Shohiii., ^ ll t ^ ln a ir nd bo ™^
, fire tin* week which leave# the lodge with-
ufdav 0l at jntfltmffi Hospits^halT been * poll*”'January 3. The Wayne county teach- ! tiffs are reported a* oppoaed^to^rebuiMfng .^n in wa^trV^ I em adopted » resolution urging that th- hall at this tune. The Marietta lodge .■ f°imh^T»nnlifimi^nrnnnnr 1 I Hate a** •<iat;on abolish tbe annual conven-j h “ a membership of 130. and the Shrlbyurer of Milk, Emulsion Company. . ^J^ubstitute three convention*, one for ! ▼*«<! lodge ha* foo members. . . Harry B.
EVANSVILLE. Ind. December 13.-Mrs.lthe north, central and sou^dismet*_oi; the j
. widow of the late ] of cerebral hemor-
.w ■ JSS i ^ ~ ^ 0 „„, a „ ^ here after a short illness. She wis a mem- j GOSHEN—Goshen dairymen reduced the < ter in the organization herd In January The her of the Trinity Lutheran church. retail price of milk Monday from 7 cents a I general will make a short talk to the men Pint and 13 cent* a quart to 0 cent* a pint: Carl Rokobrandt baa been commissioned as FRANKLIN. Ind.. December 13.—Funeral land 13 eeut* a quart The a;-Doe was take-»: cap Um of the local company, and James
aervioes for Thompson J timing* age eighty- after »iw riain
one. who died at Greenwood al the home of his sou William Jenning*. were held there today. Two other sons also »urv;/c. HUNTINGTON Ind.. December 13—William H. Young age. fifty-five. d;cd at hi* home in this city Saturday bight. He had been senously lO eight weeks and in poor health three years. Mr Young wa, born m Huntington county near Mt Etna, and lived there until January of this year, when he moved to this city and started a confectionery store. Surviving are a widow, one son. two brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at
the home of Ear! Buzzard
LOGANSPORT, Ind7 December II.—William Slagle, age sixty-three, bailiff of tbe Cass circuit court, died of cancer of the stomach at the St. Joseph Hospital ia this city Saturday. Four sons, ali of whom
live in this county, survive.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind December 13 — Wesley Walker, a civil war veteran, is dead. He leaves a large family Among the sons are Norman Walker, of the Associated
Press. El Paso. Tex.
GREENCASTLE, Ind.. December 13 — Funeral service* for Mrs. Charles L. Allen, age sixty three, who died Thurai ly. were held-yestirday in this city. Her death was due to tuberculosis, from which she suffered for twenty-five years, A husband
survives.
LEBANON. Ind.. December 13.—Butler B
Batts, age eighty-four, died Saturday night at h-s home near Elizaville. Boone county. E. M Bolts, a brother, is the only near relative surviving For twenty-five year* preceding the starting of the rural mail service. Mr. Batts was a star route earner.
the mail between Lebanon and
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Artificial flower making; Is an art In which the Japanese exceL The straw hat is not so cool to wear as a soft felt of a light color. More than 1.700 locomotives were made in the Philadelphia district duriuff 161$. Oil production In the United States increased 26,000.060 barrels In the last year. Women’s arms are said to be growing longer owing to their taking part in sports. , The Mississippi valley is the greatest producer of agricultural implements in the world. Wedding gifts for dowerless brides are presented by the authorities of several towns in England. As early as 1770 a raft of timber was sent across the Atlantio from Massachusetts In twenty-six days. Magistratea in England in the sixteenth century had certain powers with regard to fixing wages and hours of labor. Three hundred and forty-three death sentences were carried out In the British army during the war. Of these. 366 were cases of desertion. The newest vault protection dovices for banks and auch institutions has an automatic door closer, whieh will trap thieves who might gain access to these storage places. Women were the recipients of a large number of the awards given last year by the Royal Life Saving Society of Great Britain for ability in saving the lives of persons in danger of drowning. Miss A. Viola Smith, who has been appointed secretary of the American commercial attache in Peking, is said to be the first woman to hoid an official post in the foreign trade service of the United States. It has been estimated that there are S.OflO.OOO acres of peat in the United States available for fuel aod industrial purposes. It la asserted that with the use of up-to-date machinery the peat can be prepared for the market at a coet of 61 a ton. Nineteen years ago, a Virginia civil war veteran, then fifty-seven years old, filled out an application blank asking for admission to the Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, in Riohmond. Now he has apparently decided to enter the home, since the application blank recently was received by the board of visitors. According to the census taken on January 61, 1920. Austria, In its present territorial limits, has a population of 6,067,430. Compared with the corresponding figure for 1610, the census of 1920 shows a loss of 327,669, or 3.6 per cent. The city of Vienna alone, with a population of 1,642,006 in 166#, shows a loss of 189,493, or 6.8 per cent. Lady Diana Manners, who has signed a contract to appear in a series of motion pictures, is the youngest of a trio of famous and talented beauties —daughters of the Duke of Rutland. Before he succeeded to the dukedom, her father, then Captain John Manners, spent a year or more in America with his family, and the oldest of the three daughters was born while the family was living at Las Vegas. S. M. Taking advantage of the Imitative faculty of song birds, a simple mechanism has now been contrived that actually teaches canaries and other pet warblers how to Increase their Kinging repertory, say Popular Mechanics Magazine. A portly watertilled cylindrical metal tank. In which a slightly smaller inverted tank slides up and down, provides enough air pressure for blowing a series of whistles of different tone. There are In all about fifty aoeeles of electrical fish, but the electrical properties of only five or six have been studied in detail. The Best known are various species of torpedo, belonging to the skale family, found in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas; the gymotus, an eel found in the region of the Orinoco In South America; the malanterurus. the raash or thunderer fish, of the Arabs, a.native of the Nile, and Niger, Senegal and other African rivers, and various species of skate found in the seas around Great Britain. The consumption of lumber during the war has been approximated at 6.500.000.000 feet board measure, >F the United States forestry service. Of this amount of lumber bought directly by the various government departments, the army consumption was nearly 5,500.000,006 feet, the navy consuming more than 120.000,000. During 1918 the Emergency Fleet Uorporation consumed for ship construction approximately 800,000,000 feet. Lumber needed for boxes and crates alone required approximately 3 000.000,000 feet. Structures for cantonments, hospitals, warehouses, etc., used approximately 3,000,000,066 feet.
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eight-year old niece were The girl leaped from the
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ha* been formed by represenUtives of seven l a few year# ago.... Two local bank* foe-parent-teacher associations of the city and R4fl tb , distribution Saturday of more than suburbs Mr*. J H- V.arder has been elect- : *253.000 by check# to members of Chmted chairman, and Mr* Frank Hay secretary. t ma; , c j u b? In one dub there were more Each member of the council will write to. «pOO rn»mhern. At the name time representative* in the congress and the gen-, three banks opened Christmas club-, for era! assembly relative to measures to be j ip-^j , . Stockho.der# ol the Tricoilnty backed by the teachers in the interest# o Agricultural Association, including Henry. education The farmers tsbort course held Madison and Delaware counties, met at by Purdue Umver».ty at Charlestown, under Middletown Saturday afternoon and elected the auspices of the Cbar^^n FZrawrs As- lhe fo i) 0 w.ng offio * “ “
soeiatioti came to an end Saturday, having lasted three days Demonstrations were made, with dairy cattle, scrub stock and pure bred animals being compared point by point. Lretures were made on soil production. The women s course ran concurrently with the men a. Miss Fl-wningham. W. A. Ostrander, and C. R George, were instructors. This was the first short course held in Clarke county. EVANSVILLE—John Wilhite, age twentyfour. who ia accused of the theft of an automobile belonging to William F. Laubscher living in the Kralsvxlle road near this city, was unable to be brought to Evansville Saturday although Herbert Males, sheriff, had expected to bring him here tote in the after noon. Wilhite wa* arrested recently near New Albany after he had been shot at several times by a posse. One bullet had taken
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Dale vi Ur. president: Edward Cooper. Mechanicsburg- vice-president; W. A. Marshall. Middletown, treasurer, and F. A. Wisehart. Middletown,. secretary. Mr Wisehart wished to retire after twenty-three year# as secretary of the M.ddietown fair, but was prevailed on lo continue another year. The first week in August was de cided on as the time for the fair at Middletown next year... ,A. M. George ha* been elected a member of the board of school trustees at Pendleton, succeeding Rich ml Lingentetter. who will move to a farm in Hancock county ...Dr. J. A. Long, secretary of the Anderson board of health, has requested a member of the Indiana state board of health to come here Tuesday for a conference aa to the cause of an untMUal
number of cases of typhoid fever
c w,—When waa the Lusitania sunk?
—May 7, 1015.
R. C, $.—Ptonae state where Camp Banning is—Columbus, Ge. A. S.—Questions regarding which is the best college can not be answered here. J. G.—Has the juvenile court prosecutor the right to set aa my husband s lawyer in that court?—No. not to defend him in a prosecution in the courtSubscriber—When did James J. Corbett knock out John L. Sullivan?—September 7 IHQU. i’ji Where can the poem “John Anderson, ky Jo" be found?—In Robert Burns* works in any library. jj p .—What is the altitude and name of the highest place in Indiana?—According to government reports. Crete, a town w Randolph county, about fifteen miles north of Richmond. Is the highest place in Indiana. iU altitude being 1.181 feet Jake—Following is an explanation of tbe abbreviation* asked about They were »uthortzed December IB, 1916: F. O. B„ free on board; F A 8 . free alongside; C A F . cost and freight: C I. F • cost, insurance and freight, and L. C. L.. less than car tot. Lite Reader—When and where does a person have to make out his income tax return?—Before March 15 to the collector of revenue for your district. <B) How can I get information about getting a copyright?—Write to the copyright division, library of congress. Washington. D. C.. for booklet on the subject. Edith M—Pleaee give statistics on the Indiana wheat crop in 1610.—According to the Indiana Year Book, Indiana had 2.802 000 acres of winter wheat in 1916. yielding an average of sixteen bushels an acre, at a prfc4 on December 1 of 92 10 making a total value of $00,163 000 or $33.BO an acre. In 1019 Indiana had 24 000 sires of spring wheat, yielding an average of 9.5 bushels an acre, at « pride on December 1. of $210. making a total