Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1921 — Page 11

GEN. COXEY AT v MARION WITH WET PROPOSAL Tells Harding Petition by Million Should Be Referendum Forerunner. LOWDEN HINTED FOR JOB MARION. Oho. .Tsn. IT.—Twenty-five years ago Gon. Jacob S. Corey led an army of protest on foot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington. Today he came alone to Marion by rail to present a protest the continuation on th# statutes of th? eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. General Co.vey declared to Senator Hardin* that In Ids belief two-thirds of ih" dlizena of th-- United States are illy violating li-e Volstead art. He y, on petition of one illll :i < iti-eas, any Federal law would Iv submitted to a referendum of the people at an election at which the question Involved alone would be at issue. Such an act. he said, alone would suffice to make the voters themselves the final judges of any legislation affecting every citizen ar.d make State and national legislators truly responsible to their constituents. lOWUEX HIA’TEB FOR POSITION. * The future address of former Governor Frank O. Louden of Illinois may be determined by the conference he held with Senator Harding today. Senator Hitrding. it is known on the highest authority. is extremely anxious to induce his chief opponent for tie Republican nomination to enter the Federal service. The post which will be offered the former Governor has r.ot been indicated but the chief executive has indicated that Mr. Lowden may be asked to represent the Lnited States at the Court of St. James. Will 11. Hays, chairman of the Republican committee nd regarded by many as the most available man to reorganize the Postoffice Department, had bis final conference with the next 1 President today before Senator Harding's departure for the South. tVALTEK DIC KEY ALSO CALLER. Walter S. Hickey of Kansas City also j discussed party affairs front an authon- i tatlve standpoint. He has frequently ' been recommended as available material j for assistant to one of the chief Cabinet \ officers. The Russian situation, especially as it j bears on resumption of trade relations. j was discussed by Isaac Don Levine ox j Chicago, recently returned from Russia. I Irving H. Kriswold of Plattsburgh, N. j TANARUS., was called In to outline his views on j voluntary military training. ' l *s > Few of Senator Harding's visitors leave Marion with an accurate knowledge of whnt effect their representations have had on the President-elect "Tolating all the precepts of the efficieu y engineers. Senator Harding receives them in his j small office himself, sitting in the full glare of the window. Attentively he 11s- i tens, courteously he thanks them for their views, tactfully ha dismisses them. ■ COVERS IMPRESSION MADE BY VISITOR. They strive earnestly to read from his j expression what effect they have left , with him, but, from their own accounts, they can not tell whether they have impressed him favorably or unfavorably. Most of these conferences are in full view of the newspaper men who otiose to pass, and they also are unable to read the rid- : die of Senator Harding's expression. That is why the complete make-up of i the next Cabinet still is in doubt and ; probably will remain in doubt until a j final and authoritative anouncement \ comes from the President-elect.

EXTRA SESSION SET FOR APRIL 4 WASHINGTON. Jnn. 17.—rresident- | let j htlll call an extra session nt Congress April 4, Representative Fordney (Mich.), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said today. S Fordney, -who has just returned from Marion, said he had discussed the time cf calling the extra session with the President-elect because of its relation to revision of the tariff and revenue laws. Several members of Congress, it 1 known, advised the President-elect not to call the extra session for at least a month after the Inauguration. Some time is needed, they said, to effect the mange from i>emoeratio to Republican in tbe Government departments. It was pointed out that the session should be deferred until after the F.aster holidays so as not to be interrupted in its work shortly after it would convene. DIG FOR MONEY BURIED IN 1812 Hundreds Scramble for Jobs in Old Cemetery. ST. CATHERINES, Ont., Jan. 17 A lost treasure romance has thrown this peaceful little city, embowered among orchards and vineyards on the <rand Trunk Railway, into a furore of excitement. Since tbe war of 1812 a tradition has lingered that a large hum i:i gold lies burled In a cemetery at the edge of town and certain superstitions folk have averred that in the midnight watches a ghost in the cocked hit and regimentals of a soldier of a bygone era stands ; guard above the treasure. The old graveyard recently was Included in a residence subdivision and It became necessary to disinter tbe ashes of the pioneers. When an advertisement for workmen appeared hundreds who had never done manual labor in their lives rushed to secure piek-and-sliovel Jobs. The legend goes that when the Ameriean troops under Geu. Winfield Scott crossed the Niagara frontier into Can•sada a paymaster of the British forces ■ buried the Army payroll in the ceme- ; tery and to mark the spot carved his initials on a beech tree. He fell soon after at the battle of Lundy Lane and carried his secret to tbe grave. How the cemetery became identified as the burying place of the treasure is a story of lost origin, but by the time the legend arose the Initialed beech tree had been chopped down for fire wood. Estimates have placed the buried payroll at $50.0n0 or SIOOOOO, but though the digging has now been ia feverish progress for some time, not a single gold coin so far bss been unearthed. Hiccough Epidemic Still Grips Paris PARIS. Jan. 17. —The curious epidemic of hiccoughs is still raging throughout Franee. Persons have been known to khave hiccoughs for five days and nights Consecutively. W Doctors are divided as to the causes ■'or this strange illness. Some say it Is r a mild form of sleeping sickness; others attribute it to a complication of flu, of which there has been a recurrence of late. So far hiccoughs presents no danger, though medieal authorities say it might easily develop into something more dangerous unless it is carefully treated and attempts made to stop it. Anemia might be one of the causes of hiccoughs. The sickness is to be discussed at the next meeting of the French Academy of Med- , Irina.

Daughter of Senator to Wed MISS EMILT JOHNSON.

Miss Emily Johnson, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Edwin S. Johnson of South Dakota, whose engagement to Alfred F. Oxtoby of Wheeling, W. Ya., was recently announced, has set Feb. " as her wed-

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ding date. marriage will take place at noon at the Willard Hotel in Washington. Miss Johnson is known as one of the most popular girls in congressional circles.

New dials are appearing on all the Automatic telephones in Indianapolis just as quickly as our installers can make the rounds. These new dials are a vital necessity in the weaving together of the Manual (Old) telephone system and the Automatic, but, for the time being, they are to be used in exactly the same manner as the former dials. In plenty of time you will be notified through the newspapers and otherwise as to when and how to place the dials to their new use, BUT OPERATE THE DIAL AS USUAL IN CALLING YOUR PARTY until that notification reaches you. It will be impossible to use the Automatic telephone in calling a Manual (old) number for several months, but we are working steadily and with the utmost care to join the two systems, and we truly hope that you will have good cause to share in our gratification when the task has bden successfully completed.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1921.

PRIEST SLAPS AT BLUE LAWS Cites Pilgrim History as Proof of Failure. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. IT.—“Blue law legislation is wrong in theory and fatal in practice.’’ declares the Rev. J. L. J. , Corrigan, S. J., professor of social ethics at Boston College. He said: These “blue law” proposals remind us of Pilgrim days, if we may judge from I the evil results of sueh laws in the early days, as witnessed to by no less an authority than Governor Bradford himself, nothing of good, but, on the contrary, much of harm may be expected if such laws are written again upon the statute bocks. History is against the hopes and theories of the Lord’s Day Leaguers. The Lord’s Dav Leaguers might profltablv read eaTlv Pilgrim history to learn how futile it is to try to legislate people into moral living. The intolerable effrontery and assumed superiority of these latter-day advocates >f Puritanic observance is in line with dozens other iuvaiions of personal I liberty of late, where a determined and i well-organized minorby have imposed j their will upon a majority, thus undermining and subverting the very fundamentals of democratic government and imperiling American freedom itself. Fanatical minorities are always dangerous, but never more so than when they fancy that they are doing the will of the Lord. It is a fact of human history and experience, explain it how yon please, that extremes provoke extremes. The rule Is inevitable. When restraints become In tolerable, reaction, like the swing of a pendulum, seta in. The reul dange.r from such restrictive and repressive leglsla tlon, apart from its injustice, is the fact that'it gives rise to contempt for all law. When there are upon the statute books measures which are not sustained bjr popular sentiment and public opintou. ad law loses respect, and comes into con tempt. It Is the same when laws are not enforced save to the extent of causing irritation and resentment, law suf ferx in the respect of the community and the iesult is a reaction of crime. Manv keen stu ients of onr social problems think that tho present crime wave In the country la due, In large measure, to this verv defect In the Volstead prohibition law. Sabbatarian Sunday regulations would certainly provoke violent disobedience arid cynical disregard for the law. It would be fanatical Idiocy to enact them. If tht ministry of our Babbnlariau clergy has broken down, a little soul I searching probably will reveal that the true cause of tint defection among tbeli flocks is that the preaching of religion

and the charity of Christ have been supplanted in their pulpits by social uplift and civic harangues. Says Lloyd George Seems Too English LONDON, Jan. 17.—Lord Derby, who has just returned to England after resigning his post as Ambassador to France, paints the following picture of Lloyd George: "If I do make one criticism on the Pence conference and Mr. I.loyd George, it is I am not sure that he was not a little too English, He was described rather humorously to me in I’aris as a sort of man who hangs about and picks up any unconsidered trifle —wrist watches or anything else—and as soon as he gets them says: ‘That’s English; it belongs to me.’ Whenever there wms a question of a mandate to be given or whether j it should be .this or that nation which I should have the guidance of a particular; part of the world, Mr. Lloyd George had | always a P"t of red paint beside him, ! and he splashed that spot and said, j •That's English.’ 1 am not quite sure, J though, that sometimes, to use an Americanism. wo do tot take off a little more than wo -an chew.’’ ■■ A Nervous "Woman I Frankfort, Ind.— “When living in Kirkersville, Ohio, I took I)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I was always complaining. Nervousness troubled me, caused, 1 think, by woman’s weakness. This medicine was recommended to me and I thought 1 would try it, I found results good; it certainly helped me.”—Mrs. Carrie Heaulee, 1203 Oak St.

Sale! —Two Hundred For Women and Misses %

Savings of near one-half and more than half. Our former prices were $65.00, $75.00 and $85.00. Sale price—- / Profits and part of the original cost are cast to the winds for the sake of a merchandising principle. Stocks must be lowered greatly prior to inventory.

—SEAL PLUSH COATS -SALTS' PECO PLUSH —ESQUIMETTE PLUSH COATS —BAFFIN SEAL PLUSH COATS They are silk and brocade lined

The coats themselves do not merit such pitiless price slashing, hut our January Reduction Sale is sweeping through the store, and these coats are in its path. In addition to the reductions prompted by the sale are additional reductions suggested by the nearness of our inventory—and our desire to lower stocks.

Our January Reduction Sale of DOMESTICS and BEDDING Brings Values Such as Women Have Not Known for Years

Muslin and longcloth i: NB LE ACHED SHEETING MUSLIN, yard wide, for general use; 2oc 1 quality AUG UNBLEACHED SHEETING MUSLIN, 40 inches wide, heavy round thread, for sheets, bolsters and j q cases, 35c quality 1 V/C UNBLEACHED MUSLIN, 33 inches wide, fine thread for inexpensive curtains, linings, etc.; 1 yard IOL BLEACHED MUSLIN, yard wide, perfect weave and finish (no phone 4 pr orders); 25c quality.. lOC BL E A CHED MUSLIN, yard wide, soft, even thread, suitable for gen- | A eral use X V/C FINE CAMBRIC MUSLIN, yard wide, perfect weave and finish, launders beautifully; excellent for nightgowns and undergarments, ()f) . 39c quality t-dCu\ INDIAN HEAD, soft finish, thoroughly shrunk, for nurses’ uniforms, jackets* skirts, art needlework, etc., inches wide, i Qa yard 1 OC LONGCLOTH, 36 inches wide, chamois finish, each piece put up in individual packages, clean and Sanitary; extra special; 10* g. 6011 $1.65 LONGCLOTH, yard wide, soft nainsook finish, for underwear and general use. (No phone orders.) A Q Extra special, yard... IOG LONGCLOTH, yard wide, soft firm thread, launders nicely; suitable for women’s and children's undergarments. (No phone rt j orders) CJ 1 G

THE Wm. H. BLOCK CO.

THE BASEMENT STORE

$65 to SBS qualities... .$34.75

Sheetings BLEACHED SHEETING, extra good quality for home or hotel use—--7-4 width, 60c quality..4s? 8 4 width, 65c quality ~50? 9-4 width, 70c qaulity ...54? 104 width, 76c quality..sß? BLEACHED SHEETING, 9-4 width, heavy round thread, for home or hotel use; 70c AQ UNBLEACHED SHEETING, 9-4 width, extra good quality, 65c ,1 Qp UNBLEACHED SHEE TING. fine, even thread, easy to bleach — 7- width. 58c quality, yd. 43? 8- width, 60C quality, yd.4B? 9- width, 65c quality, yci.s3? 10- width. 70c qua!., yd. 56? Blankets WOOLEN FINISH BLANKETS, size 68x80 inches, assorted colors; y.r. l : $3.49 EXTRA HEAVY PLAIN COLOR BLANKETS, large double-bed size; tan or gray with neat color stripe borders; ribbon bound or whipped edges; Oft $7.50 quality &0.&0 PLAID BLANKETS, “Beacon” brand, beautiful patterns — $7.00 quality, each $4.98 SIO.OO quality, each... 57.75 $12.00 quality, each... 58.98 $13.00 quality, each... 59.75 Sheets, Pillowcases BLEACHED SHEETS, size 81x90 Inches. “Seamless.” fr.r': $1.49 BLEACHED SHEETS, size SBIX9O inches, “Seamless.” smooth even thread, launders nicely. (No phone orders.) Extra e | f)Q Special.. 1 .<iiU BLEACHED PILLOWCASES, size 42x26 inches, de*p hems, extra O I r* special, each ALi i. G

There are short coats, threequarter and full length coats. Plenty of extra large sizes. The plush is of fine, soft quality—so lustrous and beautiful that it can scarcely be distinguished from real fur. The coats have lovely large collars of moufflon, raccoon, black opossum, natural and Australian opossum.

BLEA CH ED PILLOWCASES, soft strong thread— Size 42x36 Inches, 460 quality 33 T Size 45x36 Inches, 59c quality 39? Staple Cotton FEATHER TICKING, absolutely featherproof, blue stripe, 59c quality, Qn rt yard UOC DRESS PERCALES, yard wide, full range of navy, cadet and light color effects, various stripes and C) £- figures, 39c quality.. ,^OC FAST COLOR APRON GINGHAMS, all size blue checks, even and broken designs, extra 4 a special, yard 1 4C COM FORT MATERIALS, yard wide; challis, cretonnes and silkolines; up to ar\ 39c qualities, yard.... X V/C DRESDEN VELOUR FLANNEL, 27 inches wide, for sacques, kimonos and house dresses, floral patterns in light and dark color effects, 49c a s\ quality IVC —— WHITE OUTING FLANNEL, soft and fleecy, former 25c qual- 4 A ity, yard 1 4C WHITE OUTING FLANNEL, close even nap, good weight, for children’s and infants’ wear, very 4 rv special, yard I V/C OUTING FLANNEL. 27 inches wide, good heavy weight, with light and dark grounds, checks, stripes, plaids, etc., 4 /~v 85c quality x V/C CALICO, best quality, with dark, medium and light grounds, plenty of blue included, large range of patterns. (No phone or* ders.) Special, j f)i A yard 1 4-12 C

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