Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1921 — Page 5

REJECTS PLEA GERMANY CAN NOT MEET BILL Reparations Body Sends Note Refusing to Accept Excuse for Delay. WILL TIGHTEN SCREWS PARIS, March 24.—The interallied reparations commission today handed to the German embassy a note refusing to accept the German contention that Germany is incapable of paying the indemnity demanded by the entente under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. . The allies sent a note to Germany demanding one billion gold marks before March 24. At the same time the allies contended that Germany still owes 12,000.000,000 gold marks of the 20,000.000.000 gold marks she was to pay to the allies before May 1, 1921, under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Dr. Walter Simons, the German foreign minister, declared at the London indemnity conference that Germany had already paid this twenty-billion gold marks in money and goods. The reparations commission has sent a long communication to the allied governments containing recommendations and further sanctions or penalties. “The moment has come for new and decisive sanctions," said Matin, in discussing the new indemnity situation. k “Pertlnax,” political editor of the Echo De Paris, understands that decisive, conversations are about to be opened betweeen Germany and the allies, wherein the allies will announce new sanctions. SCHOOL BANDS PLAY TONIGHT Joint Concert at Caleb Mills Halk Lovers of band music will have their Inning this evening when the combined high school bands of Indianapolis will give a concert at Caleb Mills Hall under the auspices of the board of school commissioners and board of park commissioners. The concert is one of the free municipal series given by the two boards. The program is as follows: 1. (a) Fidelity March King (b) White Rose Overture Beyer Directed by Mr. Claude Palmer 2. Piano Solos—(a) Juba Dance Dett .(b) Witches' Dance MacDowell Kelton Whetstine, from Shortridge 8. (a) Salute to Washington March v Kiefer (b) March —Fellcitas Hall (c) Selection —Royal Decree... English Directed by Mr. Frank Percival 4. Soprano Solos — (a) 'Neath the Autumn Moon Yanderpool (b) My Little Sun Flower..Yanderpool (c) Spring's Awakening Sanderson Miss Mary Homhurg, from Manual Miss Hilda Kirkman at the piano 5. (a) Liberty Beil March Sousa (b) Serenade—Blushing Rose. .Johnson 6. (a) The Lost Chord Sullivan (b) Barcarolle—Tales of Hoffman Offenbach Girls’ Glee Club from Arsenal Tech Directed by Miss Elizabeth Kaitz 7. (a) The Commander March Hall (b) March—Lights Out McCoy Directed by Mr. J. B. Yandaworker 8. America— Audience and Band Coming events on the municipal concert program are as follows: Mabel Garrison, Murat Theater. 3 p. in., April 3: Municipal Symphony Orchestra, presenting Ottilie Schllleg. soprano. Cal?b Mills Hall, evening of April 6; Harmonle Club, open night, Caleb Mills Hail, evening of April 7; Women's Chorus, presenting John Quine, Caleb Mills Hall, evening of April 15; “Elijah," oratorio by Indianapolis Community Chorus, Tomlinson Hall, evening of April 20.

TAKE UP NEW LIMITS SOON City Boundaries Ordinance Up This Week. The ordinance revising the precinct boundaries of the city of Indianapolis cannot be prepared and presented to the city council before late this week. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashbv said today. The ordinance, to be effective, must be passed and published not later than April 2. Mr. Ashby said thßt he is receiving considerable information from precinct committeemen about Individual precinct situations which must be cleared up when the new boundaries are fixed and that this makes the Job of preparing the ordinance long and tedious. The boundaries, he said, will conform to the present county precinct lines, wherever this is possible without establishing a district in which there are more than 1,000 voters, which, he says, is the limit allowed by the law applying to the present situation. CALL ISSUED FOR PLOWING Gardeners Seeking Plowmen for Spring Work. Hear ye! Trusty plowmen! The Patriotic Gardeners’ Association hna a job for you to do and wants to know if you will do it. Harry Miesse. secretary of the association, announced today that many amateur gardeners desire to have their lots plowed and that the association will act aa an agent to bring the gardeners and plowmen together again this year. Persons with teams and plows who want to work should come to the garden office on the third floor of the city hall and leave their name and address immediately, Mr. Miesse said. BOOZE OFFICERS AT GREENFIELD. GREENFIELD. Ind., March 24.—Federal officers were here Wednesday investigating bootlegging and moonshine reports. Several barrels of mash and some whisky were found in the basement of a farmhouse occupied by Russel] Gant. No further evidence was discovered. The “find” was brought to the mayor's office.

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PUBLICATION OF FIFTY YEARS AGO INDEX TO GROWTH Letter Carriers Annual of 1871 Provides Data for Contrast in Postal Service. Memories of days gone by when Indianapolis was a thriving, husky, growing, immature youngster of a city are recalled by a booklet entitled “Second Annual Address of the Letter Carriers of the City of Indianapolis,” dated Jan. 1, 1871, which has been loaned to Postmaster R. E. Springsteen by Mrs. Jessie Marney. Mrs. Marney is a daughter of the late Capt. John B. Wirt, one of the most picturesque characters ever connected with the Indianapolis postnl service. Captain Wirt died in the service three years ago at the age of S3 years. At the time of his death he was the oldest letter carrier in the United States. Cuptuin Wirt, with long, flowing white hair that reached to his shoulders, was for many years one of the most striking figures in Indianapolis. BOOKLET FORMERLY ANNUAL FEATURE. The booklet was issued in the days before carriers were forbidden to offer anything for sale and was annual feature for many years. Every New Year's day the carriers would distribute copies to all residents along their routes and it was a generally accepted practice for citizens to pay for them rather handsomely. The cover is ornate and glistens with gold Ink and elaborate designs. On the back is an outstretched hand bearing the words “Compliments of John B. Wirt, Carrier.” A long, rambling poem, mostly devoted to ridicule of Napoleon 111, who had Just been dethroned in France following his defeat at Sedan, occupies the first few pages of the back, and seems to have no bearing on the rest of the contents. It is written in labored lmmitatlon of the satires of Dryden and Pope. FIGURES HOLD INTEREST. Once past this formidable barrier, however, the reader finds some interesting figures that, compared to present day statistics, speak volumes for the growth of Indianapolis in the past fifty years, and the tremendous increase in business done by the postoffice department. For example, in 1870 there were nineteen carriers as against 262 regular carriers and twenty-seven substitutes now in service. During the year 1870. 4,150.045 pieces of mail were collected and distributed by the carriers, and Mr. Springsteen estimates that about as many more were deposited in the postoffice, bringing the total amount of mail handled to about 9.000.000 pieces. The postoffice now handles about 15.000,000 pieces of mail a month, so it becomes apparent that the Indianapolis postoffice of 1921 handles as much mail In two w r eeks as went thiough the office in an entire year fifty years ago. Os the nineteen carriers listed all are now ont of service, the last one to go being George F. who retired on .a pension last August, after more than fiftv years of service. When the book was Issued W. R. Holloway was postmaster. John F. Wood, assistant postmaster, nnd H. C. Holloway was superintendent of mails.

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SCHOOL NOTES

ARSENAL TECHNICAL. A contest was recently held in Miss Burnside’s first hour English class, to determine how many lines of poetry a student could memorize in one hour. John Whltsitt won the first prize with 140 lines to his credit. Kathryn Nunlist was second with 130 lines. The Cooking IV class has posted a list of special cakes and candies that they will make for private orders. Tho list includes branberry tarts, chocolate cream pie, devil's food cakes, cocoanut, gold, nut. Lady Baltimore, sunshine and angel food cakes; doughnuts, cream puffs, all kinds of fancy small cakes; sandwiches, baked beans and salads. These can be secured by leaving the order one day previous to the day you wish theip. The Outside Music Club, composed of students who take outside music, has elected the following officers for this semester: President, Arnold Shultz; vice president, Margaret McLaughlin; secretary, Elsie Milner; chairman program committee, Mary Kessler. The next regular meeting of the club will be held the second Monday in April, instead of the first Monday as previously announced. In the speed test of the commercial department, typewriter section, those receiving rewards were Frances Thurn, gold medal; Freda Love, second award, and Margaret Van Ness, third award. To inspire more consistent study on tlie part of her English. II students, Miss Mary Bowen has started a "Preparedness Race” between her seventh and ninth hour classes. The amount of time spent in daily study is an important factor of the contest, although the consistency with which the work is done is taken into consideration. Col. E. A. Roacne, commanding the Indianapolis li. O. T. C. unit has Issued the following order; All members of the R. O. T. C. are authorized to wear a shoulder patch on the left shoulder of the uniform coat, or on the right shoulder if already wearing an authorized patch on the left. The patch will be of felt, wedge shaped, two Inches at the base and four Inches long pointing downward, tlie base being at the Junction of shoulder and arm seam. It will he sewed on with an over and over stitch of white yarn all around the edges. The color of the wedge will he green for Technical, red for Manual and blue for Shortridge, the patch thus being in accord with the respective school colors. The Science Club held a meeting In Room 67, the ninth period last week Gerrltt Bates, the president, gave a discussion of the experimentations of the Navy Department with air guns. At a meeting held Monday In room 60, the following members of D. C. Park’s public speaking class were elected: Arnold Shultz, president; Raye Greathatch, vice president; Mary MePhetridge, secretary, and Eugene Hartman, ser-geant-at arms. The following members were elected to form a program committee that will formulate a program for each meeting of the club; Addison King, chairman; Elmer McGilllum uud Edgar Klckler. The third hour public speaking class held a debate Tuesday in room 45. The subject was. ‘'Resolved, that compulsory military training should be put into the schools." The affirmative side was composed of Hughes i'pdegraph, captain; Clarence Cochran, Sherman Jones and Karl \V. Fischer, alternate. The negative arguments were advanced by Anton Johnson, captain: Warren Fawcett, George White and Jack Jones, alternate. The negative side was given the most votes in a poll of the class after tj>e debate.

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DEFENDS CREW IN DISASTER Attorney Attacks Verdict in Porter Wreck. Special to The Times. LA PORTE, I ml.. March 24.-—R. N. Smith, attorney for Engineer William Long and Fireman George Block, who are charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Porter wreck in which thirty-seven people were killed, has issued a vigorous protest to the report of the Interstate commerce commission, which placed the blame on Engineer Long for the wrick. Mr. Smith declares the blame should be plnced on the railroads, which scheduled two of their fastest trains at a crossing within two minutes of each ether. , Tbe attorney said he believed the railroads are trying to shift responsibility, or that the interstate commerce commission did not take time to ascertain all the facts In the case. He also declares that it was impossible for the engine crew to see the signal at the crossing in time, for there is a sharp curve at that point, which shuts off the view until within 800 feet of the crossing, and in addition there is a water tank that aids in obstructing the view. The trains are still running on the same schedule, he stated, and eventually there will be another wreck at this point, unless these dangerous conditions are removed. The commission failed to make a thorough investigation of the cause of the wreck, charges Smith. No emphasis was placed on the fact that a green man was operating in the tower at the time of the wreck. Mr. Smith believes that when Long and Block have bad a fair and Impartial trial the public will understand that they are not to blame for the wreck.

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HOROSCOPE “The stars incline, but do not compel!” FRIDAY, MARCH 25. This la not a fortunate day, according to astrology. Although Jupiter and Mercury are in benefle aspect, Uranus dominates with evilpporer,w r er, while Mercury and Mars are adverse. Business Judgment is not to be trusted at this time, for conditions will change so that promising investments made today will be unlucky. Reaction In regard to divorces will be apparent in public sentiment. which will cease to be lenient in judging men and

AMERICAN COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN LEGION Presents Season’s Greatest Concert Giovanni Vasa MARTINELLI and PRIHODA Metropolitan Tenor Wonder Violinist Murat Theatre—Easter Sunday—3:3o P. M. Seats at 909 Lemcke Bldg., or Theater Box Office Prices: 1)13.00, $12.50, $3.00, $1.50 and SI.OO, plus tax.

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON World-Renowned Humorist and Philosopher At Masonic Temple Auditorium, Tonight at 8:30 P. M, Lecture Subject—“ The Ignorance of the Educated” The Hon. Albert J. Beveridge will Preside. “Whether Chesterton speaks on prohibition, ping-pong or the Pentateuch he has always something to say.”—Bostou Herald. Tickets—sl.oo, $1.50 and $2.00, Plus War Tax—At W. K. Stewart Cos.

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