Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1920 — Page 4

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Jtttoatta &m?q INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising offices f Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Aa ' 8 * 0 ( New York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. THE EDITORIAL SHIFT from fault-finding with Harding to criticism of Cox in the News of yesterday was to be expected from a newspaper of unknown ownership. THE MUNCIE PRESS says that in a few weeks people will wonder why they were more interested in the League of Nations than in their coal pile. Hasn’t the Republican party promised to take care of both? / , -4 THE COMMERCIAL-REVIEW of Portland would not have dared to print the following before the armistice was signed: “When Secretary Baker asked for a standing army of 675,000 men he did so at the request of Woodrow Wilson, who wanted this force to be used in carrying out bis League of Nations nonsense. Can any one doubt it for a moment?’’ v Davis for Economy At the en<J of the fiscal year 1915 the Marion County debt was $3,856,985.36. For the year 1915 the amount of taxes collected from the taxpayers of Marion County was $6,361,585.25. For the fiscal year 1919 the county debt was $6,221,339. For the year 1919 the taxpayers of Marion County put up in taxes . $8,357,867.58. The amount of taxes that are assessed against the taxpayers for 1920 Is $10,740,927.38. The amount of taxes to be collected in the county as a result of the Increased valuation and increased levy for 1921 is estimated at $16,000,000. There is no plan to reduce the county indebtedness next year. In a period of four years of Republican mismanagement the taxpayers of Marion County have had their county debt increased approximately $4,000,000. And they have paid increased taxes each year until in 1921 they will be called on to pay approximately $10,000,000 more than they paid in 1915. An increase_in the annual amount of taxes of $10,000,000 and an increase in the county debt of approximately $4,000,000 is a tremendous price to pay for the privilege of Republican administration. Paul G. Davis, Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, pledges himself, if elected, to investigate this and prevent the illegal expenditures of public money that have made taxes so unbearably high in Marion County. t William P. Evans, the Republican candidate for prosecutor, says he is running on his record as chief deputy prosecutor during a period when this tax total took its biggest jump. Mr. Evans never prosecuted a case against a county official for illegal use of taxpayers' money. Instead, the office to which he is attached caused the taxpayers to pay out extra money to hire attorneys to do the work required of the prosecutor by law. •Mr. Evans now asks the taxpayers to approve this record. Mr. Davis declares the high taxes of Marton County are due to extravagance and illegal expenditures. Can the taxpayers of Marion County afford to pay $10,000,000 a year more than they paid in 1915 for the privilege of indorsing the record on which Mr. Evans is running? Is it not time to elect a prosecutor who will put a stop to the tremendous drains on the pocketbooks of property owners In Marion County?

Where Ignorance Is Bliss . Comes now the Indianapolis News and makes a discovery that the holier-than-thou Republican administration of the State of Indiana, which it has so persistently protected throughout the administration of its friend, .Tim Goodrich, amended the election laws at the last special session so as to make it difficult for to scratch a ticket. The wonder is not that the Jim Goodrich Legislature sought to compel support of its entire ticket, including Ora Davies, the candidate for treasurer who went short as treasurer of Howard County, but that the “great institution for the moral uplift” failed to discern in the acts of the last special session the attempt to make it Impossible to scratch a ticket by cutting down the legal time i:s which a voter may vote. Perhaps the “fifth greatest newspaper in the world’' also overlooked the fact that this same special session legalized the horizontal increases made by the Goodrich tax board and declared illegal by the Supreme Court. Maybe it hasn’t found out yet that the last special session passed an act for the establishment of a war memorial and* so framed the act that headquarters for the American Legion cannof be started until seven years hence. By chance, it may be, this newspaper did not realize that the special session incorporated in its coal commission bill provisions by which Jim Goodrich and hi£ friends might ascertain just which coal properties in Indiana it would be most profitable for them to squeeze and buy in. There a r e a lot of things in the little book that contains the acts of the last special session of the Goodrich Legislature that really ought to have received attention from the newspaper that pretends to be always for the public interest. J And it is far more charitable to believe that the News didn’t know what the last special session did thafTthat it knew and regardless of the knowledge printed its fulsome eulogies of the acts of the special session. Where Does McCray Stand? On April 13, 1920, the Times asked these questions: If elected Governor of Indiana will Warren T. McCray 1. Parole more convicts than Goodrich? 2. Build more cement roads at an excess cost of $6,000 a mile than Goodrich? 3. Work State convicts on mines which his friends and relatives con. trol? 4. Sell garbage plants worth SIO,OOO to municipalities for $175,000? 5. Let coal contracts to his relatives and their coal companies? 6. Plug gas lines and buy up the stock in companies such as the Rock Oil Company? 7. Allow members of his family to hold a state license for an automobile that is not listed for taxation? 3. Have the State tax board allow his companies one valuation for taxes and the public service commission another for rates? 9. Permit the State board of charities and the State board of health to insult complainants concerning jail conditions while they 101 l in luxurious offices, too indolent to make inspections required by law? 10. In fact, will McCray give us any different sort of an administration than the "business-like’’ administration of James P. Goodrich? Neither Mr. McCray nor his friends have answered these questions. The plain facts are, of course, that Mr. McCray seeks the governorship only for the purpose of “applying his business methods” to the affairs of the State as J. P. Goodrich applied his business methods. And until a voter can convince himself that a McCray administration will not be worse than a Goodrich administration he has no moral justification for voting the Republican State ticket. Adams , the Betrayer Five days ago the Times called the attention of Prosecutor Adams to the fact that bootleggers were bootlegging and gamblers were gambling unmolested in Indianapolis. The Times offered him the evidence with which to proceed to the prosecution of these law violators and declared that if the officials cf this county were not more interested iu electing their favorites to office than keeping their oaths they would prosecute these known bootleggers and gamblers. Mr. Adams departed immediately on a "lecture tour.” Not a single officer of the law manifested a particle of interest in prosecuting these law violators who had been caught in the act of defying the statutes of Indiana. Yesterday Mr. Adams returned to the county which has enriched him and in response to a request for a statement concerning these gamblers and bootleggers said: “You tell your office I care to make no statement.” We are not surprised to hear that Mr. Adams “cares to make no statement.” / The only statement he could make would be an acknowledgment that he has deliberately betrayed the people who elected him to office in his desperate anxiety to see himself succeeded by the deputy with whom he arranged to trade places before the Republican

PROVIDING FOR WOOD

Could It have been the subdolous Republican chairman who started the story on Its rounds from Marion that Senator Harding, if elected, would take Major General Wood into his cabinet as Secretary of War? There is a large number of Republicans the country over who have never forgiven the Penroslan politicians for preventing the nomination of their hero: at Chicago and coercing the heat-oppressed and home-yearning delegates into nominating the candidate who had made such a sorry showing in the primaries. The adherents of the General have always maintained that he was the, real choice of and file of the Republican party. They point to the fact that even in the Ohio primary he made a close race with Senator Harding. Conciliation of the Wood Republicans has been much in the mind of Mr. Hays, who would feel personally humiliated as ! a strategist If Ohio’s “favorite son’’ lost the State to Governor Cox. And what of Indiana, where overconfidence is always to be guarded against? To throw a sop to the followers of General Wood, who are of*ihe same opinion still about his merits and about the mentality of War- | ren G. Harding, would be the part of i wisdom. Rivals hove often been provided for in the past by elected Presi- | dents. What so soothing to the emblt- j tered ones as a report, deftly put out, that their admired leader would be a member of a Harding cabinet? So In Marlon it is believed by “those ; close to the Republican candidate, in accordance with a tacit agreement said to have been reached in Chicago during the Republican convention," %iat General Wood is to| be Secretary of \vhr in the event of Senator Harding’s election. And there follows the plausible touch: “The agreement, It V 8 believed,

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life By Ann Lisle

CHAPTER LXXXVII. “You’re a‘ charter member of the earlybird family, Mrs. H.,” exclaimed Carlotta Sturges as she fastened the blue and red and gold service ribbon around m3* cap. "See, the other unit’s still cleaiß up for ns—so I've time to wise yotjf up to a trick or two.” She waa making It very evident that she'd elected herself guide and counsellor, and was going to “personally conduct” my first day at the I wasn't a bit sure, however, that I wants*! to appear under the auspices of this slangy young person who fairly pastdfi on the rouge- end who breezily assumed that friends of the same Pat were friends of each other.” But Miss Sturges rattled on: “You want to persuade our lieutenant —Tootle," we call her. 'cause she's such a stern old pirate—that you're as dove gray Jn manner as your uniform, and full of scarlet pepper when It comes to slinging manna at the boys. Get me?" “I'm not sure I do,” I replied faintly. “Sure you ddT Tot! speak English. Now pack what I'm going to tel! you In your gray storage warehouse and act enmprebendlngly when Lootle rattles it off In a minute or two. “Don't slush any silver around on the pristine whiteness of your table 'till there's a boy or so there to manipulate It. Make ’em figure out what they can afford off the old slates, and if jou sling ’em extras, remember that it goes

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. - By Oavld Corv.

One day aa Pna* Junior was trudging along merrily whistling this little song: "T don’t rare if the winds blow chill. Nor fortune hides behind the hill, I keep merrily on each day. Over the hills ami far away. Sproe day I’ll be content at last. When my troubles are OTer and past, So I shall whistle and sing all day, Over the bills and far away ” And Jnat then a great, big, tremendoua fly flew up and said: HOROSCOPE "The stare Incline, but do not compel ” SI'XDAT, OCT. 24. Mercury rules powerfully for good today, according to nstrology. Although Saturn la in evil aspect early In the morning the friendly planetary Influences dominate. It Is a peculiarly auspicious day for setting out on Journeys, especially if tbeir aim Is altruistic. Whatever Is written under this rule should be especially fortunate In tta results. There Is a sign Indicating that political propaganda sent out at this time will be senaatlonally effective. Ireland continues subject to the most sinister Influences and will not emerge from Its period of unrest until in event of tremendous moment has taken place. Persons wnose birthdate It Is should watch the health. Business affairs may ho exiling dnrlng the coming year and should be carefully handled. Children born on this day are likely to be quick and clever., They sbouty have unusual gifts that will bring them Into great experiences. MONDAY, OCT. 25. Although Venus is in benefle aspect today, astrologers rend thnt Saturn and Mart) are strongly adverse. It appears that women are to gain great power under this rule of the stars and thus they will arouse the antagonism of men. This sway Is likely to affect political conditions. For persons past 50 the next few years will bring a completion of a circle of experience, astrologers foretell. This means that tney who have started with wealth return to It, and they who began in poverty lose property. Persons whose birth date it is have the augury of unexpected benefit*. legacies or help from friends seems to be foreshadowed Children born on this day will be high strung and nervous, bilt energetic and clever. Success In love as well as business 1$ foretold. —Copyright, 1920.

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was one of a few made for the sake of harmony within the party.” How pregnant that phrase, “one of a few"' Is Lowden to be provided for, and what is to be done for “Battling” Johnson?* No less than 156 delegates voted for him on the tenth ballot when the nomination of Senator Harding was effected. So far as General Wood was concerned, the agreement hint Sfresetary of War must have been extremely “tacit." He could hardly have been a party to it. It would seem to be beneath the dignity of an esteemed candidate who was so well supported and so near to snatching the prize. Soldiers are not in favor for the post of Secretary of War any more than Brilors are for the executive duties of the Navy Department. American tradition calls for the selection of civilians to conduct the affairs of the Army and Navy. If the officers of the two services were polled, they wofild be almost unanimous ngaiDst men own profession being put in charge of the departments. Even the great Kitchener was not completely u military administrator. The appointment of Gen. Leonard Wood, able- as he is, would arouse old Jealousies In the Army which he has lived down" by soldierly achievement and blameless deportment. To accept the honor he would have to resign from thg Army aj*l abandon the career which becomes him so well. He would never more command troops in the field, and a for distinction might arise. Gen* al Wood will not reach the retiring age until Jan. 5, 1924. Loving his profession and ‘ proud of his record in It, n Cabinet position would not be likely to attract him.—New York Times.

on your check when you snatch a bite later. Shine up to the dames at the counters who cut the cake and pie—but remember that no matter how fond they grow of filling your order*, a pie still has to make ten pieces. Andjjever for- ! get to write your 'kitchen cumber’ on your order slip, and if the fillings for your tray don't com© as fast as you like —why bo amiable, Annie, and remembeithere are twenty-five to a unit. I guess i that will be about all!” “I should hope so. Will the Lteuten ' ant tell me still more?" 4 gasped. “She'll tell you a whole bookful," declared Miss Sturges. “Yon listen with both your ears simultaneously. And then you keep your eyes and mind wide open. I’tl help out whenever I see you looking as if you’d mixed your signals. Come on, now—look demure —and I’ll present you to Lootle.” It seemed to me that no one could ever look demure enough to neutralize i tho fart that the flamboyant Carlotta Sturges was presenting her. Our lieutenant waved her aside and pounced upon me with the announcement that she had looked on my references thoroughly, and, both because of my husband's A-®? record, family position and my own standing at Haldane's, she waa going to give a real business woman’s Job first, thing. That •job' turned out to be acting as cashier In place of the worker who had disappointed the unit. —Copyright, 1020. (To Be Continued.)

“Beware of the Great Big Spider that ■pins her web not far from here.” “I have met spiders before,” replied little Puss Junior, “so I have no fear," and he went on bravely and pretty soon he saw the great spider sitting In one corner of her web. •’Good day my little cat,” said the great black Insect, and then she crawled down from her web and stood before him. And, oh, dear tit-, she was almost as big as a dog and she looked very fierce, let me tell you. But Pus* wasn't afraid. Oh my, no! lie Just pulled out his sword and said: “I'm not afraid of the biggest spider that grows!” and this made that big black Insect dreadfully angry; for she didn't grow, you know, like a beet or a turnip. And then she threw a web around Puss—Just like a net. you know —and the first thing he knew he couldn’t move “Now, I’ll teach yon to talk in this way to ine'.'' said the great black spider, and she winked her little black eyes and stretched out her hairy feet; and if a big fly hadn't Jnat at that moment flown into her I don’t kuow what she might have done to Puss. You seff she wound her threads around that poor fly as quick as a wink, and then she ate him up, and Puss didn’t have time to do anything, even if he were free. Bc, 'Siting sway hie own bonds he set ptT again on bis Journey; for what was the use of talking to thnt ugly old spider, I should like to know; and by and by he came to a queer little house which stood closo by a brook. “Who lives here 7” he asked, after knocking several times on the front door." And when If. was opened he was as surprised ns you will be, and may be more, for whom should ho see but the Fairy Queon who had given him her little gold ring. “Welcome, little Puss Junior’.” Raid the Queen of the Fairies. "llow have you fared in Fairy Land 7” and abe Invited Puss to come In and sit down in her little fairy house, which was made of rose leaves and ferns. So Puss went inside, and Just ns he was going to tell her what had happaned to him while traveling through Fairy Land, a deep, gruff voice called out, “I shall break down your house if you don’t let me In I” And la the next story I’ll tell you what happened after that. —Copyright, 1920. (To Be Continued.) BIIBNI.NO COAL MINES. Q. Did a coal mine ever catch on jlro und burn for years? A. M. P, A. The Bureau of Mines statps that there have been saveral Instances of coal mines catching Are and burning for several years. *

REAL ESTATE GOSSIP By REALTOR “AL” EVANS

No I don’t have any stock at all in the Realtor. Just received a boost for what every realtor who has the good of the board In mind would do, a little work to put the local board ahead of every other board In the country. Maurice Tibbs Is over In Illinois this week hunting prairie chickens. We hope he remembers his good friends-when he gets home. Don Prentiss sure has a large Vocabulary and a full store of discriptive stories. Realtor A. ,T. Huqber moved his office force into their new home yesterday. They stand, out In that half of the square like a rose in a ,thorn bush. Their address is now-144 North Delaware street. Tom Carson’s face is now hanging in the rogues’ gallery (presidents’ row in the real Estate board’s offices). Our good Secretary Temp has the honor of being director of the Marlon County branch of the Purdue union memorial committee. Os course, all honor of that kind has with It an unlimltoa amount of work and his big Job is to raise SIOO,OOO. among the 800 some Purdue alumna of this county. This is the largest Purdue union in the country. Someone must have given Poorhonse George Lucas the key to room 68 of the Delaware on Wednesday of this week, according to his actions. If you'll* re member, the key to that room was lost during the the convention. Speaking of the lighting kitten story told by Don PrentlsCjust remember that Ken Badger has been doing his fighting to increase business. The Washington Bank and Trust Company celebrated the opening of their enlarged quarters last Wednesday by having open bouse. Cigars and carnations were distributed to the visitors. A member of the Bose family had an accident this week and now Don Is chief cook and bottle washer at the Bose ranch. Sorry to hear of the accident, but Don's new work will be good experience for him. The cooperative advertising campaign of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board will posolutely-—absotlvdy start Immediately after the election. Merle Sidener of Sidener-Van Riper Advertising Agency wll give this campaign his personal attention. You tell 'em old steel, You got the temper. The MacLeod was thinking about selling his automobile after he got that little hoarse at Muncle, but, due to poor food and other .poor care, be has lost that hoarse and now has to use his again.

D. L. B. He’s a rip- roarin' rustler, An athelete ' a star. 0f Dare-Devil driver. A salesman of Vim; He’d sell coal In Hades, With Satan he'd spar. In the race for a prospect you’ll never lose him. But he's not on the Job when there's work to bo don* For the real estate hoard, where honor's the pay. He's out for the dough and to him It’s no fun To aerve on committees. Nothin' doin’ he'll say. Then he pause* the back to those who will work For the good of the whole and In service fqpl paid In doing real things. Men who know that to shirk Is the re reants way of upsetting plans made. Now the moral is this “GBOKGB CAN'T DO IT ALL” It’s your duty to help In the work to be done. Don’t stand on the side lines and “knock” big and small. Get busy and “Boost,*’ It’s a whole lot more fun. A. K. M. COUNTY GRAFT IS EXPOSED IN PARTY BOOKLET (Continue,) from Page One.) elnred illegal you would get credit on your last half of the amount yon had overpaid the first half, but this Is not true, for you will have to pay the horizontal Increase In spite of the fact that the Supreme Court declared It illegal. TAXES INCREASED 800 PER CENT AND DEBT 800 PER CENT WITHIN A FEW YEARS. In the face of a steadily Increasing revenue In the form of taxes paid by County eltlsens the present Republican administration has fixed tbo tax levy this year at approximately 50 per rent higher than the levy for last year. RATES SET OCT FOR TWO YEARS. Following are the tax rates for Marlon County as established for the various townships; 1919 1920. Indianapolis, Center Tp.,.51.00 $2.42 Indianapolis, Perry Tp 1.77 2.56 Indianapolis, Wayne Tp.. 1.02 2.4S IndianupoPs, Waren Tp... 1.82 2.74 Indianapolis, Wash. Tp... 1.66 2.64 Beech Grove, Franklin Tp. 1.62 2.16 Beech Grove, Perry Tp... 1.56 9.10 Beech Grove. lVarreu Tp.. t.flt 2.28 Beech Grove, Center Tp.. 1.39 1.95 Broad Ripple 1.32 2.18 Caatleton 1.32 1.54 Clermont 1 1.18 1.45 llavenawood No Kale Southport 1.54 2.00 University Heights 1.4s 2.04 Woodruff Place .{Vs 1,56 Center Township .92 1.50 Decatur Township ........ 93 1.14 Lawrence Township 1.12 1.84 Franklin Township 1.20 1.54 Perry Township 1.18 1.64 Pike Township .81 1.16 Washington Township 72 1.08 Warrer. Township.... 99 1.28 Wayne Township 73 1.00 This levy Is to be collected on a valuation of property that Is higher

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MRS. GRACE JULIAN CLARKE. Two Democratic women’s rallies In Ohio will be addressed by Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, prominent author, clubwoman, and speaker, who la atumplng for the Democratic party this year. On Oct. 25 she will speak at Ottawa, and on Oct. 26 at St. Marys.

than any ever made in Marlon County. In the last two years the valuation of property in the city of Indianapolis ha a been increased 54 per cent. Instead of keeping Its pledge to reduce the tax levies as the_valuat!on increased and thereby savfT the taxpayer's money under the new tax law, the Republican administration first Increased the value of the property for taxing purposes 54 per cent in two years, and now proposes to collect taxes In Indianapolis on this increased valuation In accordance with a levy that is 50 per cent higher than the levy of last year. STEADY INCREASES SINCE 1904. Since 19*>4 the city and county revenue from taxes In Marlon County has been steadily Increased and in spite of this fact the county indebtedness has also steadily Increased, and not one dollar has been paid on the bonds Issued for the construction of tho '-ourthouse, which was built nearly fifty years ago. In 1904 the city and county revenue from taxes was $3,303,545 and the county debt $1,990,000. In 1920 the city and county revenue from taxes will be $10,740,927 and the county debt st the beginning of the year was $6,221,330. Thus it will be seen that the taxes collected In 1920 will be more than three times the revenue needed In 1904 and at the same time the County debt has been trebled. Y'et these tremendous Increases In the burden of taxation ere not sufficient to meet tbs demands of the administration and It Is now proposed < to Increase the revenue taken from the taxpayers by collecting a levy Increased 60 per cent over the last levy on a valuation of property that has bee rs Increased 54 per cent In the last two years. The tax you will pay In the spring and fall of 1921 will be enormously greater than the burdensome tax you paid In 1920. The taxes to be collected In 1921 under the new tax levy will be approximately $16,(100.000, and this Is five times the revenue needed a few years sgo. A few concrete Illustrations taken at random from the records In the offices of .treasurer and assessor show ln*jAs* Increases In Marlon County are set forth In an appendix found In the back of this pamphlet. Mr. Taxpayer: Figure for yourself whnt your taxes will be In 1921 at the new rate. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS not a SAFE GUIDE. Q. Is appetite a safe guide to follow as to Quality and kind of food? P. T. B. A. The Department of Agriculture aayr that appetite Is not always A safe guide. A child's appetite might be satllsfled with a diet of sugar, but this w< aid not be good for him. Likewise hunger is not an infallible guide. A bulky diet such as potatoes or bananas would soon satisfy hunger, but would uot furnish a satisfactory ration. CABLE TRANSMISSIONS. Q. How long does It take a message to cross the Atlantia cable? J. S. A. While the coding and decoding of messages, transmission and delivery of cable messages make it necessary to set the time of a cable message at from three to five hours, the actual time that It takes for the current to cross the ocean is scarcely to be reckoned, since It travels at the velocity of light, 186,000 miles a second, REDEMPTION OF BILL. Q. Will the United States Treasury replace a paper 10 cents that Is not in good condition? V. N. L. A. If your 10-cent bill (United States fractional currency) Is in good enough condition to be Identified, the Treasury Department will redeem it for you at its face value. NEW SUBMARINE GUN. Q. What Is tho new submarine gun that has been adopted by tho New York police department? C. C. H. A. This Is a gun of. great power In the form of a largo pistol that' can be carried under the coat. It weighs only seven pounds and fires pistol balls or buckshot cartridges, caliber .45, and can be made to tire from one to 1,500 shots per minute at will. It is a simple gun, consisting of only eleven parts, and is said to be unequalled for use in riots or for chasing lawbreakers escaping in automobiles. MIXTURE OF SUBSTANCE. Q. What is lignin? E. K. B. A. Lignin is a substance or mixture of substances which, with cellulose, constitutes the essential part of woody tissue.

Wedding Price Up! GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 23. The agitation against high living costs has not served to lower the cost of “loving” here. Marriage license fees have been increased from $1 to $2.

LEAGUE WORLD DOCUMENT—COX (Continued From Page Or.e.) in their trenches to win this particular j war, ono hundred and fifty or more, ! who, for one reason oi another, could j not actually Join the fighting forces, worked Just as patriotically day and night for a period of nearly four years to develop a plan to mitigate the likelihood of future wars. And this Is absolutely and categorically correct. It is undeniably true. Rome of these men were member? of official stud*-groups: others were members of unofficial study groups. The exact date when each separate suggestion was made i* not so important os the fact that many public issues, scholars and Jurists contributed the results of their labors toward the final form of the covenant. Even if it were argued that the covenant, as first presented to the plenary session of the peace conference of Feb. 14, .1919, is based on a Wilson draft, plu the draft of a committee headed by Lora Phllmore, plus the proposals of General Smut, plus the proposals of committees appointed by the French and Italian - governments, plus tho League of Nations committee of the peace conference, that would make half a hundred persons. The truth of the matter is that the offl- | rial committee of nine, under Wilson j chairmanship, appointed by the peace conference, did not and could not have I completed its labors in the course of the ten meetings between Jan. >nd Feb. 14, 1919, If these men had not bullded on u foundation that builders had been constructing for a period of more than three years. ATTACHES LIST OF ACTUAL FRAMERS. That there may be no further question on this issue, I am attaching herewith a list that, while not exhaustive, #s sufficient to show that the figures I .have used (150) is correct Peace conference official committeemen: President Woodrow Wilson, chairman; Edward M. House, Lord Robert Cecil, General Smut. Leonard Bourgeons, Professor Lsranuade, Mr. Orlando, M. Solaloja, Baron Maklno, Viscount Chlnda, M. Hymans, M. Pessoa, Wellington Koo, Kayme Batalha, M. Vesnitch, M. Veniseios, Roman Dmowksl, M. Dlamandy and Charles Kramer. British government official commission: Lord Phllmore, chairman; Prof. A. F. Pollard, Sir Julian Corbett, J. Holland Rose, Sir Eric Rowe, Sir William Tyrral, C. J. B. Burst and A. R. Kennedy. Report presented March 20, 1918. French government official committee: Leon Bourgeous, Jean Jules, Vice Admiral La Case, Ganriel -Hanotaux, Ernest Lavlss, M. Appel and Jean Louis Renault. Report presented June 8, 1918. Italian Government official commission: A. Ricci Bussatl, Ansilotti et al. Report presented during peace conference. American unofficial group known as Mnrbourg study group, elaborated and printed first complete draft League of Nations, published early in 1919: Theodore Marbonrg, chairman; George Louis Beer, John Bigelow, Edwin M. Borchard. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, John Bales Clark, William Dennis, Samuel Dutton. I John Finley, Harry Garfield, Franklin I Glddlngs, Robert Goldsmith, George i Holt. Jeremiah Jenks, Leo Rowe, William H. Wadham. Eugene Wabaugh. Everett Wheeler, Thomas Rayburn, George Grafton Wilson. JUDGE TAFT HEADED I ANOTHER GROUP. j League to Enforce Peace study grqnp: : William Howard Taft, A. Lawrence Lowj oil, Oscar 8, Strauss, Theodore Marbourg. Hamilton Holt, Talcott Williams. William Short. George Graftem Wilson, Glenn Frank et si. Reported Nov. 23, 1918. English League of Nations society group: VV. H. Dickinson, Lord Parmoor. Sir Francis Younghusband. Raymond I Unwin, C. Loes Dickinson, r. N. Keen, Noel Buxton. Ernest Rhys. Answrlng Williams, Sid Edwin Fears, Sir George Gibb et al. French Association for a Society of Nations group: A. Mlllorand. Albert Thomas, Marcel Precost, Paul Renaulde, A. Fontaine et si. Viscount Bryce unofficial study group , of twelve or more. Swiss students group of at least a j dozen. This makes one hundred actually j named. In addition there were perhaps fifty expert* appointed by the central organization for a durable peace in the Netherlands to develops separate phases, such as disarmament, etc. Add to these the specialists connected with the so-called Colonel House Inquiry, who worked on the League ’f Nations problem under the section headed by Prof. James T. Shotwell and the names |of scores of prominent publicists and jurists whose advice was sought iu many | cases and accepted. | Refer to such men in this country us ; Judge Hughes, Ellhu Root and the members of both the Senate snd House committees on foreign matters; and such eminent English scholars as Sir Frederick Pollock. If to the above be the names of those who labored for many months to the exclusion of almost everything else under the distinguished leadership of H. G. Wells, the number would certainly be nearer two hundred than one hundred and fifty. Aud the half has not been told. JAMES M. COX. Mrs . David Ross Will President Luncheon A luncheon will be given at the Claypool Hotel Tuesday by tho motion picture committee of the State Federation of Clubs with Mrs. David Ross, chairman, presiding. ' Mrs. E. C. Rumpler will open the program following the luncheon, with a few words of greeting. Other talks will be made by Mrs. Grant C. Markle, first vice president of the endorsers of photoplays, David Selznick of the Selzniek Producing Company of New York; Frauk Rembnsch of Shelbyville representing tho national exhibitors; Clara Burnsides, policewoman; Mrs. Curtis Hodges, president of the Indianapolis Endorsers of Photoplay; Dr. Rollin D. Salisbury of Chicago University, president of the Society of Visual Education, whose talk will be illustrated with motion pictures. Reservations may be made through Mrs. O. C. Lukenbill, 1962 East Washington street.

INDIANA G.O.P. LOSES OUT AS VOTING NEARS (Continued From Page One.) • ■ ■ , - ... - - ■ ■ —■— ment against Wilson In Indiana expressed by any others than the paid propagandists of the Republican party and the few persons of light mentality whom these propagandists have deceived. FIND IT SOURCE OF SATISFACTION. The program of abuse of Woodrow Wilsc n is viewed with a certain amount - of satisfaction by Democrats who realize that there are a very few votes that can be affected by it. Es-PTesldeiit Taft, at Bloomington, declared that a Democratic vote this year was a vote to indorse the Wilson administration. As the Wilson administration includes among its accomplishments the successful prosecution of the war and the origin of the League of Nations, both of which are supported by the majority of Republicans, as well as Democrats, the Democrats are not challenging that statement. However, Mr. Taft hurt the Republican campaign considerably, for if what he says is true It Is also true that AVote for tho Republican State ticket is a vote to indorse the unspeakable Goodrich administration. The achievements of the Goodr.ch administration were the Increase of taxes beyond n place where capital can obtain a fair return after deducting taxes snd the bankrupting of Jhe treasury by extravagance and waste. The indorsement of the Goodrich administration is not likely to extend the action of the Republican State convention in Incorporating it in the platform and emphasizing It by the nomination for State treasurer of Ora Davis, who went short in his accounts as treasurer of Howard County. Both Republicans and Democrats ara ready to concede that the women votera hold the election resulta in their hand*. The Democrats are elated over the fact that the women of this State are proponents of the League of Nations, that they never were influenced in the least by the anti-Wilson hzrangne, and that they registered in Democratic areas far more vigorously than in the known Republican communities. NOW GENERALLY LOOK TO MARION COUNTY. But the eyes of the politicians generally have at last been turned on Marlon County, where the final and real fight of the campaign in Indiana la to be made. As Marion County goes, so will go tfs State. Never before have the Republican# been so utterly without a county issue as this year. \ ' Their ticket is a reproduction of the administration which Includes such scenes as gambling In the county Jail, desecration of the pauper dead, eompro mlses with bootleggers, garbage plant deals, collapse of street and road improvement, Jail deliveries, election frauds, broken promises, nfgleet and extrsvg. gance, all topped off by the setting of a tax levy more than 60 per cent higher than last year on a valuation increased more than 54 per cent. Citizens of Marion County axe beginning to think seriously as to whether It Is really necessary to collect more than $6,000,006 a year additional taxes from them for the purposes of county government, and the State government has not helped matters a bit by insisting that the State administration Is “selfsupporting.” Republicans are ready to concede tbst , Thomas Taggart will carry Marion ! County by a big majority over the weakkneed James E. Watson. Political thinkers know that If Taggart goes over he will take the Marion j County ticket with him. On that basis of reasoning It is apparent that the State of Indiana is lost to the Republicans.

Chicago Teacher Is Shot by Mother of Fourth Grade Pupil CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—As a result of trouble over a pupil, Miss Rosalind Reynolds, 1433 West Fifteenth street, lies In the Frances Willard Hospital with three bullets in her body. Physicians expect her to recover. Miss Reynolds Is a teacher in the fourth and fifth grades of the McLaren School, Laflin and Flournoy streets. One of her fourth grade pupils is Her-' man Rlndoni, 11, 1537 West Polk street. BOY ABSENT FROM SCHOOL. Herman hasn't liked school. Frequently he has played truant. Miss Reynolds appealed to his mother, warning her three different times that Herman must go to school. The mother, Mrs. Camella Hindoni, paid no heed. Several weeks ago, the Juvenile Court authorities, on Miss Reynolds’ complaint, haled Mrs. Rlndoni into court. There she was fined SSO and costs. Neighbors say she promised that she “would get that teacher” yet. Thursday, Herman was sent horns by the teacher. She says he was Insolent. He told his mother that the teacher had pulled his hair. Friday Miss Reynolds, in room 408 of the school, was at the blackboard. She heard the door open. She turned. ■ There stood a woman. MOTHER DRAWS PISTOL AND SHOOTS. She cried something in Italian and drew a pistol from under her skirt. Three times she fired. Miss Reynolds, wounded in the leg. arm and shoulder, sank to the floor. Out ran Mrs. Rlndoni. In ran teachers, principal, engineer. Miss Reynolds was taken to the hospital. * The police immediately began to hunt for Mrs. Hindoni, but they couldn’t find her home, nor could they find Herman. The hunt Is still on. TO "PREACH" FROM CLOUDS. AURORA,, 111., Oct. 23.—The Rev. Harry von Bruch, preaching a series of sermonß at the Fourth Street M. E. Cburch, will “preach” from-the air tomorrow. He will fly over the city In an airplane, dropping thousands of copies of his %ermons.

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