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Jn&iana ;paUij (Times INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos, Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates—3y carrier, Indianapolis, 10; per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall. Me a month. $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5 00 a year. WHY DOESN’T Mayor Jewett come to the assistance of the police by revoking Rufe Page's poolroom license? IT IS HARD to be sympathetic when a man wearing a silk shirt complains that he can’t make ends meet on his present pay. BUT WHAT’S THE USE of arresting a man for stealing an auto? It only makes more wor# for the parole clerk in the governor’s office. THIS PLAN to consolidate war debts and trade balances of all nations is international socialism with Uncle Sam in the role of goat. GERMAN MOUNTAINEERS have formed an association to pray for the Hohenzollerns. This beats the old practice of preying for Hohenzollerns. A DAYTON WOMAN charged with killing her husband says she did it because she loved him. A woman should learn to control her affections. EX-GOV. RALSTON says he "could think about seeking’’ the presidency. Some of the gentlemen who are so industriously trying to use his name to cover other purposes do not seem to be able to think at all THOSE TRAVELING MEN who wanted a seat on an interurban before paying their fares apparently have not yet got used to the transportation situation exists under the Goodrich and Jewett administrations. The Republican Split As the political campaign gets under way it is becoming more and more apparent that the desperate efforts made by the republican organization and press to show splits in the democratic ranks have been prompted by an overwhelming desire to detract attention from the lack of harmony between the progressive and the standpat republicans.* Gradually the democrats of this country are coming together on party issues over which they can have no differences of opinion. Rapidly the republicans are splitting apart over the same issues on which they can not find a common ground. This is due largely to the fact that the republicans are wholly in the position of obstructionists, although pledged to constructive measures. It now appears certain that the question of peace with Europe can not be determined until after the November election has brought to the congress men with different ideas than those for which the standpatters are so willing to sacrifice the peace of the world. ' The democrats in congress have steadfastly held to the one idea concerning the peace treaty. They are determined that it be ratified without reservations that will destroy Its substance. The republicans have been divided in their attitude toward it. The standpatters are willing to ratify the treaty w'hen they have succeeded n cutting tho heart out of it. The “defeatists" are determined that it shall not be ratified at all. It is hot unnatural that as the fight continues the breach in the republican ranks should grow wider. The position of the standpat crowd, which includes our Indiana senators, is an elastic one. They can, and have, changed face overnight several times. They have no real convictions. They know that their constituents want the treaty ratified and they have hoped that they might satisfy this demand from the people and at the same time emasculate the treaty to an extent that their ratification would he merely a formality without a stand for principle. As they gathered their strength for their final effort they drove the more progressive members of their party from them.- They demonstrated that they would rule, not only in the treaty fight, but in the republican party. Their driving went too far. It eventually aligned the progressives with the democrats. For the progressives have been shown that while they are much desired by the old line republicans when needed to carry - & standpat program, their counsels are not wanted in the affairs of the party which pretends to have a place for them.

Track Elevation Resumption of the work of elevating the railroad tracks in Indianapolis following a brief delay due to differences between the workingmen and th contractors is a source of considerable satisfaction to those people in Indianapolis who realize what the completion of this task means to Indianapolis. With the grade crossing drawing a line through the heart of this city Indianapolis really consisted of two communities. When elevation work was started the difficulties of congested thoroughfares was augmented by the closing of several streets. This made it all the more apparent that Indianapolis could not hope to expand until the normal traffic from the north to the south-was free to flow undisturbed. As the work progresses and transportation avenues are opened, one after another, It is not difficult to visualize the benefits that will accrue to the whole city when the work is completed. Indianapolis citizens, and the taxpayers of all Marion county, should not lose sight of the fact that William G. McAdoo is responsible for the present progress of this work. Had McAdoo not ordered the work to proceed during the time he was director of the railroads, Indianapolis would now Be in that serious condition that confronted it more than two years ago when street car service to the south was impossible and vehicle traffic was subjected to long detours and almost forbidding congestion. When Mr. McAdoo decided that the benefits to be gained by delay of this work during the war were wholly overshadowed by the necessities of Indianapolis and the railroads, he saved the taxpayers of this community thousands of dollars. Had the work been delayed until the present era of high prices came upon us the cost of elevating the tracks would have been tremendously increased. As the city and county share with the railroads in the expense of this work, delay would have been a direct tax on them. Not only would Indianapolis have been the loser in the way of a city divided for years, but it would also have suffered much owing to the increased cost of labor and material. Indianapolis owes Mr. McAdoo a great deal for £is foresight ip determining to allow this track elevation work to continue. His decision was all the more valuable to Indianapolis because it was not sought by the agencies that should have been most active in obtaining it, but was the re suit of clear judgment, based on fact's presented from an unofficial Bource. Mr. McAdoo demonstrated an ability to recognize a good cause when he saw it, even though the presentation, of it did not come from the expected sources. Homeseekers It is reported that in some cities moving van drivers are being stopped on the streets by home-hunters who demand to know where the load of furniture they are hauling came from. Upon receiving the desired information, they hurry to the vacated house to make first claim on it. I And more than that: Homeless folks are watching the divorce court news in the papers, and homes that about to be broken up by divorce are besieged in advance by persons eager to move in as soon as the unhappy families move out. t It is a mystery to many that there is shortage of homes today when before the war there was some sort of a place for everybody to live in. To some extent the shortage can be ascribed to the immigration of country folks into the cities. To a much greater extent it reflects a rising standard of living in the new America. ' The new America demands bathtubs and electric lights. It regards ’resji air and sunlight as the natural right of every child in every home. It calls for sanitary plumbing and other conditions that make for good health. It demands a strip of backyard with every home and a bit of lawn in front. Always honoring its women, it asks for homes so arranged as to free the housewife from the old drudgery. (That is what the great hunt for homes means. It is a crusade for health, for decent living, for wholesome comfojt, for cleanliness for better j panflyUfe. j j

THE GOODRICH PREDICAMENT Indiana Publitty Bureau.

It is the almost unanimous opinion of political observets in Indiana today that the republican state committee threw away its only chance of carrying the state next fall when it went on record, jy unanimous vote, against the calling of a special session of the Indiana legislature to amend the tax law and transact such other business as is necessary. The effect of the action of the state committee was not long fn being felt in Indianapolis. Little groups of disconsolate republicans gathered about tie re publican headquarters and the Claypool Miotel a few hours after the committee adjourned and acted like they were on their way to attend the funeral of an old friend. The committee members be gan to bear from home by telephone within an hour after they refused to attend the conferenee called by Gov. Goodrich and the information they got was not reassuring. The position in which Gov. Goodrich has been placed by the action of the committee Is moat embarrassing. He must repudiate bis promises of a session to transact general business, made iu private, repeated in public, and printed everywhere, or he must take the bull by the horns and call a special session, regardless of the opposition of the state committee of the republican party. If he calls a special session lie will not be able to control it without the assistance of the state committee. If the state committee's wishes are not respected it ia unlikely that it will give Goodrich any material assistance in carrying out a legislative program. Goodrich undoubtedly realized this when he issued a call for a conference between the members of the committee and the candidates and himself for the purpose of outlining a program for a special sesslou. He hoped to arrange at this conference a program ,hat would have the backing of the candidates, the committee and himself and thereby carry with It sufficient weight to make it a reality. The first break in the Goodrich plan came when Ed Toner, candidate for governor, failed to attend tho meeting. The second arrived when the members of the state committee deckled they would not attend and sent word to the governor to that effect. The final collapse of the Goodrich structure for another gagged session followed the Introduction of a motion by John G. Bryson that the state chairman inform Mr. Goodrich It was the sentiment of the committee that a special session was not advisable. Gov. Goodrich is now making a desperate effort to save his face bv pretend lng that the conference was for the purpose of determining whether or not a special session would bo called and the decision of the committee against it was the committee's prerogative. The attempt falls for the reason that the committee did not go into the conference, and the special session was promised before the conferenee was held. How the republican party is going to reconcile the position of its committee with the many promises of amendment of the tax law that have been made re centl.v is the all question among the politicians. <>f course, it 1s realized that without a special session there can be no amendment before the election. And now there can be no spe elal session without going absolutely contrary to the wishes of the state com mittoe. Old line republicans who hfcve been accustomed to watching the state or One Horrible Example Even McAdoo is beginning to realize the fallacy of that no dotting of an i and no crossing of a t attitude Indian spoils Star. Referring of course to MoAdon's willingness to accept reservations. That Is precisely the position the president has always taken provided the reservations were not amendments that destroy The Star does Itself a grave Injustice when It InGmate* but doesn’t dare say—that President Wilson ever said that the treaty had to be accepted without the crossing of a t or the dotting of an 1. But of such Is the stuff of the opposl tlon. —Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 2,1920.

ganlzation dodge situations Ilka this for years are wondering what has become of the adroitness that used to direct the party affairs. Their only explanation of the blunder Is that in its zeal to show Jim Goodrich that it was tired of bis bulldozing of the whole party, including the legislature, the republican committee went too far and forced an unfortunate party issue. For Goodrich must now decide whether he keeps Goodrich’s promises and risks his own skin before the legislature or acquiesces with the republican committee and watches his party go down to defeat for upholding the laws he made and refused to amend iu the fact of an almost universal demand forvamendntent. Split in the G. O. P. While the republican party organs have been zealous in magnifying tbc least difference of opinion among democrats into “a party split,” this is largely only to distract attention from the breach in the G. O. I*. Iu 1912 that Instead of healing Is now as widely open as ever. This is the whole trouble with the Sixt.v-sixth congress. Although the republicans have a majority In the body, their views are so divergent that they are unable to do anything. They quarreled bitterly over the organization of congress, and they have been unable to agree even upon a program of action. Never wag bankruptcy In party leadership shown to a greater extent tl>an in the record of the republicans In this congress. Now comes Senator Borah, one of the defeatists who have been allowed by the republican majority to make an unholy spectacle of It In dealing with the pence treaty, with an expose of the emptlucsa of the harmony pretensions of t'lntlrinun Hays and some sharp observations on the pledge breaking of the party. He warns his colleagues thut the party's “special promise" of economy Is not be lng carried out. This reminds us not only that the republicans In congress have done nothing to decrease th* ordinary expenditures, but that they have been prolific In wastefulness by conducting scores of Investigations "to get something on the’ administration" which, unable to dig up a scandal, have resulted only In taking time from necessary work and In adding to unrest. Meanwhile the great majority of the democrats In the senate have acted unitedly for ratification of the treaty i without any weakening reservations. The unanimous Indorsement given to Presi- j dent Wilson’s work for peai-e and bis administration generally by the democratic national committee is further testimony to the solidarity of the party, which has proved alike Its progrfssivcnesa and its faithfulness to the people.— South Bend News Times. Os Course If Mr. Hoover really has decided that lie is a republican it surely is going to be mighty embarrassthg to the New York World to continue to support him, lint if it does likely it will be on Ihe theory of the man who was about to commit an offense against a lodge brother —"maybe he ain’t got his dues paid.”—Muncie Press. Chicago Laundries Increase Prices CHICAGO, March 2.—And now the lnundrh-s are going to raise the price j for doing up the shirts and coilars. This was the announcement made recently by President It. J. Elliot of the King's Model [.sundry Company here It will cost the public five cents to have its white collars done and shirts will be ft few eepts higher. Mr. Elliott said. "We can not secure help by offering low wages. Our payroll has been Increased greatly slnco Jan. 1 ud nil m can do Is make the public pay the advance,” Mr. Elliot snld. other laundries announced a similar Advancement.

EaDlHESEßcoks] Library | A fascinating story of the building of a city, of a guarded queen who must select a husband from more than ten thousand suitors, of the massacre of lazy drones, and of tho many other almost Incredible facta. Is toljd by Maurice Maeterlinck In “The Lift of the Bee." It is hard to realize that what is told is true and not an imaginative story. “Her faults were thos" of her race and her sex, her virtues were her own.’’ Thus Robert Louis Stevenson bewails the ; lo ss of Modestine, whom he thought he ! bated until he knew that she was Jos< jto him. For twelve days they had trav, j eled together and had been close eom- ! rades. Now she was gone! "Travels With a Donkey" will introduce you to this 1 patient, but rather perverse, female. “What Men Live By” is a series of reflections on work, play, love and worship by Richard C. Cabot. It gives in a charmingly easy style much that is suggestive in the attalrment of "real life.” The story of a life of real hardship I bravely met will make you forget your own troubles. Try "A Far Journey,” by Rihhnny”: “The Making of nn American," by Jacob RUs. or "The Story of My Life," by Helen Keller. i ** — "Tell us a story’’ said the three Lid dell children to their friend. Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, with whom they were boating one hot summer afternoon. Accordingly he began a tal* which so delighted them thnt on other occasions they persuaded him to add/to it. Sometimes he would stop and say, "And that’s all till the next time." “Ah. but it Is next time" would be the exclamation from Ills listeners. and, after some teasing, the story would start afresh. Finally lie promised to write It out. but he had no Idea of publishing It until he was persuaded by Mr. George MacDonald. This story became "Alice in Wonderland.” which has been a delight to young and old alike, and so good was Lewie Carroll’s memory that It Is almost word for word as he told It to the children. One who enjoys hunting out the old places near any city In which hft happens to he. will find helpful Information In the book “Historic Shrines of America,” by John Thomson Faria It tells of the tunny hnlldlngs and houses of the early days of America, and gives interesting glimpses of the events and of the p*o pie that made the places famous. "The Open Road" Is a small volume of poetry and prose selected by Kdward Verrall Lucas, with the idea of its fit ness to make folk desire to get Into the open and to help them enjoy the outof doors "Margn-et Ogiivy'' by James M. Harriw Is n book of rare charm In which the author gives hi* recollect lons of his mother who never grew old. who was always witty, bright and Intensely human. "The Duchess of Wrexe" by Hugh Walpole la a lever story of the struggle between two strong characters—the autocratic, indomitable duchess and her granddaughter. "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard" by Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, tells the experiences of a Chinese lody of rank accustomed to life under the old regime who finds herself In the midst of official life In the,new China. There Is eharm and amusement In tier quaint letters. "A Little Book of Modern Verse" by Jessie B. Rlttenhonse Is a small collection of contemporary American poetry selected to represent the twentieth con tury spirit. ' “The Wonders of Instinct" by Jean Fobre tells In fascinating style of the habits of Insects things so wonderful that the reader would think them fairy tales wre It not for the established scientific reputation of the author. New business branch hooks are "Man agement and Men." by Meyer Bloomfield; "Art of Handling Men.’’ by J. H Collins; "Organizing for Work." by H 1,. I Gantt; "How to Make and I'se Graph!Charts," by A. C Haskell, and "Filing Asa Profession for Women," by the Library Bureau. New fiction at th* central library In i elude* "The Blue Moon," by David An

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Wilds of South America,” by L. E. Miller. BTEADT FLOW. "Don’t you think Mrs. Gansslp has a liquid voice?" “Yes; # the trouble Is she neglects to turn off the tap."—Boston Transcript.