Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1921 — Page 4

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Jtttoana Sato SFimra INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. ... ... ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j j^ ew York. Boston, Payne, Bums & Smith, Inc. THE EFFORT to lay the abolishment of Pike Township by the county commssloners to Samuel Lewis Shank looks like an attempt to rob Leo K. Fesler of his glory l THOSE VISITORS who ran over the silent policeman at ThirtyEighth anTT Meridian streets simply followed out the inclinations of a lot of Indianapolis residents! AS WAS EXPECTED, the street car company showed no inclination to place its neck in the same noose afforded by the surrendered franchise! STRANGE, isn't It, that the chairman of the Republican party should have formed such an unfavorable opinion of the party's nominee for mayor without ever haring met him? BUT, would the county commissioners be sufficiently familiar with what constitutes a proper discharge of official duties to be able to tell whether the Judges are entitled to higher salaries or not? Mr. Lynn's Inconsistency Charles J. Lynn, who classes himself as a Republican, has declined to participate in the drafting of a municipal platform for his party except on the condition that the platform contain a plank repudiating Samuel Lewis Shank, the duly selected party nominee for mayor. Mr. Lynn takes the position that the municipal election Is a struggle between two Democrats and that Republicans should not he subjected to criticism if they decide to vote for Boyd M. Ralston, the nominee of the Democratic party. Mr. Lynn also expresses a personal leaning toward the candidacy of Mr. Ralston. There is considerable food for thought in the statement made publlo by Mr. Lynn and as his participation in the drafting of a platform was requested by others than Mr. Shank it appears possible to comment on his practical declination without undue reference to Shank. There is, in Indianapolis, a wing feeling that municipal elections are not party elections after aIL -Throughout the whole of the primary fight party loyalty was a moot question. Mr. Thomas C. Howe was accused of being "Irregular" by Caleb 9. Denny and he never denied the accusation. Mr. Shank openly admitted having bolted the party and defended his bolt on the grounds that It was entirely Justified. Mr. Robison, the only candidate whose regularity was not questioned, proved to be third In popularity with his party. Hence, it would appear that In municipal affairs party regularity is neither general nor does it command a reward. Mr. Lynn now suggested that the same disregard of party lines which he and those who are assopiated with him found satisfaction in denouncing when it contributed to the defeat of their favorite in the primaries be continued in the election. The Inconsistency of those who denounce party irregularity in one breath and advocate it In another continues to be an outstanding future of the local political situation. We rather question whether Mr. Lynn’s statement can be construed to the advantage of Mr. Ralston, whom he says he advocates for mayor of Indianapolis. If Republicans should not be subjected to criticism for deserting th°lr party nominee, then certainly Democrats should not be subjected to criticism for the same action. If there are in reality two Democrats nominated for mayor as Mr. Lynn would have us believe, then Democrats cannot be censured for exercising their personal choice at the polls in November, as Mr. Lynn declares Republicans must do. Mr. Shank, whom Mr. Lynn seems to think should be defeated in November, will gather his election strength from his personal following, horn “regular" Republicans and from the Democratic party. If It Is true, as Mr. Lynn asserts, that Shank was nominated by Democratic votes, then it is evident that the strategy of Mr. Lynns campaign against him involve* the alienation from him of a sufficient number of “regular" Republican voters to offset Mr. Shank's Democratic support. Just how this is to be accomplished by advancing an argument that makes it as easy for a Democrat to vote for Shank as for a Republican to vote for Ralston Is difficult to discern. Neither Mr. Irving Lemaux nor Mr. Charles Lynn, nor any of the other Republicans who advocate a repudiation of the choice of the primary in which they participated have as yet advanced any theory for the campaign to defeat Shank that takes Into consideration the personal following of the man. Yet, Shank’s pledge cards were signed before tho primaries by almost as many voters as eventually were counted as having voted for Mr. Thomas C. Howe. Again, it is difficult to discern Just how these public rebukes of the Republican party for having nominated Shank are going to be of benefit to Mr. Ralston as long as they are coupleU with public invitations to the Democratic supporters of Mr. Ralston to desert him.

Community Effort The winter activities of community centers and tha recreational department of the city closed Friday and soon the summer work will be taken up. This activity, under direction of R. Walter Jarvis, assisted by Miss Alice Mescall, Is a unique part of the city’s development and has grown Into a very important branch of government In fact, It 13 a civic appeal to the intelligence of citizens. It tends to a better citizenship. The various entertainments, pageants and recreational features which this department conducts, summer and winter, bring citizens together as nothing else will. They enable a cooperation to exist or to be learned where it is sure to produce excellent results, for the spirit of unity and working together is but a development of the best that is in man. Recently New York City staged the biggest folk-dance party in the world in Central Park, where 8,000 little girls in white, all about the same age and size, participated. Members of the school board and distinguished visitors were present and the children had a half holiday through permisb!oi of school authorities. This kind of work contrasts markedly with * 4 day parades by those seeking to overthrow the Government It is directly in line with the activities, on a smaller scale, here. Years ago each cave dweller was unsocial. He did not care to associate with his neighbor until danger taught him to confederate with those about jhim. Even today, those who can mix, can give and take and can meet others really handicap the- average citizen. It is of value to a city to have people gather together in summer or winter, and to foster enterprise In them, for the Joy of participating in something beautiful or entertaining. After all, clubs are organized for the same purpose, some rich and others poor. The work of Mr. Jarvis Is to give to the citizens who desire it the benefit of all a city can bestow In amusement and recreation and tlie department gives this the year around. •

A Fair Offer! Even the most bitter opponents of the Citizens Gas Company will Pnd something to admire In the frank challenge of the gas company to any one to take over and Improve Its outlet for coke in the domestic market of Indianapolis. The company says: "It any friend of this company or well-wisher for the community thinks he could distribute our domestic coke better than some slxty-flve dealers are now doing—if he can show that he Is able to provide the capital and the organization to carry on the retail fuel business as he thinks we should do it, and furnish us a better local outlet for our coke than we now have—we will give him the exclusive agency to handle our product in this city for the benefit of the inhabitants and his own profit.” This Is, In efTect, a challenge to the citizens of Indianapolis to take over the domestic coke business and operate it themselves if they believe it can be operated to better advantage than the company is now operating. It is a fair proposition, fairly mads. And It has the added advantage of being susceptible to successful execution. There are a great many people in Indianapolis who believe that more than 40,000 tons of coke a year could be used to advantage by Indianapolis citizens. There are those who believe that this coke could be delivered to the consumer at a profit to the dealer and a price to the consumer that would be attractive. Here is the opportunity to demonstrate ;hat belief. And if none elects to himself of this chance none has a reasonable basis for complaint agaitnst the methods the gas company mayipursue in the future. *

Honor Quentin Roosevelt

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The Roosevelt family has erected a fountain at Chancery Aisne. the nearest village to the spot where Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of the late Theodore Roosevelt, fell during the world war.

ALICE BRADY HAS IMMIGRANT ROLE In ‘The Land of Hope? Now on View

Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote "The Land of Hops” In which Alice Erady la appearing at tho Alhambra today, Friday and Saturday. Tho picture present* Miss Brady in tho role of a Polish Immigrant girl, who with a group of humble folks from her native village, seeks her fortune In America. The girl Marya, and her lover Saseha. are both quaint figures. Tho pathetic youngster! think all their poverty and hardships will be at au end once they reach this country. They learn that tho Statue of Liberty is not mado of solid gold, and that the bustling new world neither needs nor heeds them. In the swift currents of Ufa In which they find themselves struggling they are soon swept apart, and almost submerged. Several of the most Interesting scenes in the production were Liken at Ellis Island, the famous immigrant gateway in Xew York harbor.

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of live, living in a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how the many present-day problems of the home ar solved bv working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally in an Interesting review- of their home life an I learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) THCRSDAT. When Mrs. Hooper had started ont to find Helen when she failed to return from school at her usual time, she blamed herself very definitely for having let the matter of the child's deceit run along until what seemed to bo tho psychological moment for correction and punishment. The lecturer who had spoken on the subject of children's natural tendency to tell untruths occasionally had warned mothers against baste and harshness in correcting them and had been emphatic in her advice that they study all the facts in the case and try to understand it from the child's point of view before they decided on the necessary discipline. This. Mrs. Hooper had been trying to do, and she had put oil her talk with Helen waiting for an opportune time for several days after she had known positively that the girl was not telling the truth when she said that she had spent two afternoons with Edna Jackson, the little daughter of the wealthiest family In town whose home on the hill was closed the greater part of the year. As tho anxious mother hurried along the street, she wondered ngain for the hundredth time what in the world could possess the child that slio should go to such strange lengths to bs deceitful. But her worry for the moment was where she would look for Helen. Her Information hal been positive that the Jacksons were not at home. The dancing school teacher had told her on Saturday that Mrs. Jackson was In Europe and that Edna was in boarding school. She decided to go to the Briggs' house in tlie next blo-k and see If she were playing with Alice. As she was about to turn the corner she met the bride hurrying toward home. Rhe stopped for a moment to greet her. "I thought I'd get back 1n time to

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. Hr Havld Cory. • CHAPTER CCCLYIII. ■Welt, after Puss had said farewell to all the falrlea he marched quickly down thn forest path, for It was growing late and the shadows were creeping from tree to tree, and by and by be saw a light In the distance. It was a very little light, not much larger than a star, and at first l’uss didn't know whether It might he a giant firefly or a little candle In the window of some poor woodcutter's hut. However, he kept on, and after a while he came to a little cottage. So he knocked on the door and presently It was opened by a strange looking man. He had long hairy ears, like a donkey, and was dressed In the skins of wild animals. “Welcome, Sir Puss," he said, In a kindly voice, “I am Just preparing my evening meal. Come In and eat." So Puss followed the donkey-eared man Into the cottage and sat down at the rude wooden table on which were spread black bread and beans. "I have but humble fare to offer you." said the' donkey eared man, but his smile was a kind orm, as he helped Puss to the beans, with a large svooden spoon. "Hut as I Bee you aro a traveler you no doubt have fared worse at times,” and he smiled again In such a friendly way that little Puss Junior took a great lik lng to him. “ITes, I have heard of you," said the donkey-eared man, “even before my ears were changed Into those of a donkey. And then he sighed and looked quite mournful, for of course he didn’t like to wear donkey ears, and neither would I, and neither would you, I am sure. "Is there no magic charm which will remove thems” asked Puss, as he finished the last bean on his plate and wiped his whiskers carefully with the silk pockethandkerchief which his kind father had given him on leaving the castle of my Lord of Carabas. “None whatever,” answered the man, with a sigh. “There is no charm nor magic herb, but I have heard tell of a Magic Axe that- cut down a charmed onk tree that overshadowed a kings palace. But where to find that Magic Axe I know not.” Well, when Puss heard that he Jumped up and went behind the door where he had hung his knapsack, and in less timo than I can take to tell it he took out the Magic Axe—with which, you remember he had cut down that very oak trea some umpty-’leven stories ago—and laid it on the table in front of the donkey-eared man. And before he could speak a little bird In a cage that hung on the wall began to sing: “Oh, master dear, pray ask this cat Your donkey ears to sever: For then your own two ears Will grow Instead, as good as ever.” —Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.)

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921.

Jason Robards, who played Juvenile load with Frank Bacon lu "Lightnln' ” for two years, handles the role of Saseha and other members of the cast are Ben Hendricks, Jr : Larry Wheat, Schuyler Ladd, Betty Caradnle, Martha McGraw, Fuller Mellish and Bernard Siegel. A Vanity comedy entitled "Anna Did It," the Fox news weekly and the Miami Six, singing Instrumentalists, are added program features. -!- -I- -I----OX TOW TODAY. Other attractions on view today include: “A Prince There Was,” at English's; “The World ami His Wife," at the Murat; popular vaudeville, at the Lyric and B. F. Keith's; “Tho Traveling Salesman,” at the Isis; “Deception," at Loews State; “Sentimenlat Tommy,” at the Ohio; "The Fighting Stranger," at the Regent; "The Man of the Forest," at the Circle, anad ‘The Miracle of Manhattan,” at tho Colonial.

stop in for a cup of tea, Mrs. Hooper,” the bride said, cheerily, "but it took me such endless ages to decide whether I'd havo my lamb chops -ut straight or oa t -e bias that the -est of my shopping was fearfully deiaved." "Did you happen to meet Helen anywhere since you left town?" asked Mrs Hooper, feeling .embarrassed at having to put such a question to her young neighbor. “Helen:” exclaimed the bride, "why, of course I did. I Just stopped at the library to turn i-i my book that was a week overdue, and I saw her sitting In one of the Alcove*.;' I hank you, said Mrs. nooper with great relief. "I'll go on and meet her." 1 suppose she Is interested in something she is reading and doesn't realise it Is ao late. Can't I go back for you, Mrs Hooper?” _ ■‘- Vo - R>*nk yon," rsplied Mrs, noorer "I 11 walk up to the library, now that I am out. 1 hope you are coming to the club tomorrow?" "Wouldn't miss It for the world ” laughed the bride. "Election of officers la always exciting ” When Mrs. Hooper walked down the length of the little Carnegie Library of which tho town boasted, she saw Helen sitting In an alcove looking dreamily out of the window. She had no book and evidently had not been reading, and when she looked up and saw her mother she began to cry. A "u and better come horn* now, Helen,” sa.d Mrs. Hooper quietly as she took her hand. Nothing further was said until they renche-' tho street, and then deciding that It wou.d be Impossible to walk for several blocks without saying something that would bring up the subject of Helen's mi. conduct, Mrs. .Hooper said; T think you’d better hurry on home first and clear away the tea things that I Dft or. the porch and I'll go 0 n and do a little marketing because I didn't go ia town this afternoon ’* BREAKFAST. Prunes and Lemon. Hash on Toast. CereaL Hot Biscuits. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Spanish Rice. Peanut Butter Sandwiches. Lemon Jelly, Cocoa. DINNER. Cream of Tomato Sonp, Stuffed Baked Fish. Browned Potatoes. Creamed Onions, Butterod Beets. Fruit Salad. (Copyright, 3921.)

HOROSCOPE “The star* Incline, but do not compel!"

FRIDAY, JUNE, 10. The eun and Venus dominate in benefic nspect today, according to astrology. Mercury and Saturn nra also friendly. Good luck should attend all lines of human activity that are concerned with artistic matters and thero will be a general Interest in architecture a3 well as music and the drama. Trade nnd employment are to be more promising although many persons will be out of work dt ring the remainder of the summer. Persons whose blrthdate It is have the augury of a year of great good fortune. Thoe who nra employed should benefit. Children born on this day aro likely to be generally successful in their undertakings These subjects of Gemini are often Inclined to worry over trifles. —Coyprlght, 1921.

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NAVY INSURES AGAINST WARROOSEVELT, JR. Assistant Secretary Addresses Indiana Manufacturers at Banquet. CORNWELL REVIEWS TAX

That the Navy is the first line of defense, and that while the primary duty of the fleet is Insurance against war, during times of peace it is carrying on in many different ways, was pointed out by Theodore Roosevelt, assistant Secretary of the Navy, in his talk at tho annual banquet of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association, at the Claypool Hotel last evening. Senator Harry S. New, In his address, In which he touched upon features of the tax system, said that in his Judgment the first step taken in bringing about a revision of the tax system, should be tho repeal of the “so-called excess profits tax.” Various features of the Federal tax were touched upon In the address by William C. Cornwell of New York of J. S. Bache & Cos., whose subject was "Sales Tax the Best and Only Solution.” lie declared that “the business mans way, and the sound, sensible, non-politi-cal way, is to abolish all those destructive taxes and to put In operation the tax on turnover or gross sales." SENATOR NEW PRESIDES. Governor McCray was called upon lor j n sow remarks by Senntor New, who presided and who was Introduced by J. L. Kimbrough, president of the association. The Governor to< k tho opportunity to pay tribute to the manufacturers for tie manner in which they had aided the Government during tho war. In touhelug upon the matter a strong, well equipped Navy, and th- matter of its mrlntenanee, Mr. Roosevelt said ; that many people do not realize h w great the difference is between a modern bat- ! tie ship and one of fifteen years ago. He said that tha Nation must have a proper complement of dirigibles, or aircraft and submarines. PERSONNEL COUNTS IN LAST ANALYSIS. Material is Important, he said, hut personnel is even more Important, and that In the last analysis it Is personnel that counts, and in order to give properly trained crews to man the fleet the country should have an enlisted personnel of 120,000 men. In speaking of some of the ways In which the Navy carries on In times of peace, he said that where the feet cruises there traders follow. The furnishing of | foreign charts to sailing vessels by the ■ Navy, and the furnishing of radio re- ! ports to all commercial ships, which give them their bearings off the coast, were among the features enumerated by him, as was the excellent training given the mn In tha Navy. He said that the pacifists in this 1 country are everywhere pushing forward under one guise or another. "In company with them,” hj added, "are many others who are upholding their doctrines for various reasons Banyan furnishes tho parallel In 'Pilgrim’s progress.' CHRISTIAN MEETS THREE IN PILGRIMAGE. "Christian comes on his pilgrimage to I three men fettered and asleep, and the name of one was Simple, the other Sloth ard the third Presumption. Christian told them 'lf he that goeth about iiko a roaring ilon comes by, you will certainly become a prey to his teeth.' With that they looked upon him ana began to reply in this sort. Simple said. '1 see no danger,' Sloth said, 'Vet a little mors sleep.' and Presumptiofi said, 'Every tub must stand on its own bottom,’ and so they lay down to sleep again.” "All thre of these men are with us today in the country. Simplo says. 'T.et ns have a League of Nations and there will b* no more wars.' Sloth says. 'Let Us lighten the burden of taxation which rests on the neck of our people,' and Presumption Suva, ‘A million men will spring up over night tor push the Invader from our sacred soil.’ QUESTION OK ARM \ MINTS. 'This country," be said. “Is now engaged in considering the queg*ion of the limitation of armaments. Both House and Senate bare passed resolutions with this In view. It Is a most worthy subject to consider. I am heartily in s m pathy with such an attempt, as all rightthinking people should be. We must, however, realise Just what we are doing. It is dangerous In the extreme unless wo understand exactly what Is proposed." Ho Rdded that “We must never put ourselves in tho position of blandly disarming and then, in innocent defeuselessness, await the dellberatlona of tho other armed nations. On this question of tho limitation of armaments, we most realize that possibilities are not probabilities or actualities. We must deal with facts, not fancies. There Is one standard w hich must be applied to all questions which come before us: 'ls it lu tho interest of the United States?’ If this is not answered satisfactorily, there is no need to inquire further." Mr. Roosevelt also in his address touched upon tho matter of "paternalism” and its real meaning; the matter of “home rule in cities,” and an attempt to crush labor unions, which, he said, is "often carried on under the guise of a crusade against Bolshevism." REASONS FOR CHANGE IN TAXING SYSTEM. "There are three important reasons why the present taxing system must be radically changed," said Mr. Cornwell In his address. “First: Because the revenue department is bopeslessly congested with work, is three years behind, and can not possibly administer the present taxes. ‘■Rpcoud: Because the business of the country is disastrously held up through confiscation of capital by taxes. "Third: Because the Government can not derive revenue enough to meet its yearly expenses either under the present tax provisions or under the substitutes oflered by the treasury, which merely ex-

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tend and shift the obnoxious methods already In use. “The reason you are here, Interested In the tax question, is because the present system of taxation has done incalculable harm to the United States. The taxmakers started out with the avowed Intention of making the rich pay for the war. MONEY DRIVEN FROM BUSINESS. "Income-tax payers took to the woods, and through investment In tax-exempt securities have deprived the country of funds for industrial development. The courage to undertake business enterprises was destroyed because profits would be largely absorbed by the Government, and losses would have to be borne individually. Money for business enterprise has vanished. "Excess profits taxes absorbed by the Government, have dried up the industrial reserves depended upon, normally, to bridge over depressed periods like this. Thousands of concerns are crippled, and i unemployment is widespread. "In its direct bearing upon each in- ! dividual In the United States, it should j ba understood at tha outset that all these heavy taxes have been, as far as possible, pyramided and passed on to the consumer, and you and I and everybody are today, paying, according to an estimate of the Department of Justice, 23 per cent j more for commodities than we would be doing if there were no such taxes.

EXCESS PROFITS YIELD CUT IN HALF. ‘ Th.it is one reason why we are Interested in having a change, hut the reason the Government is interested is because excess profits and all profits are dwindling out of sight under the present depression. For the year ending .Tuna 30, 3020, the yield from excess profits and income taxes wns nearly 5i,000,000,000. The yield this year will cut this in half, and probably much less than half." "Incomes have been steadily seeking tax-exempt bond Investment, and tho returns to the Government grow smaller and smaller. "Abuse of taxation has arrested tha flow of capital and dried up its sources. The political substitutes offered even if the most destructive taxes are abolished, sr- weakly inefficient for producing the funds and will positively continue the pressure against capital outflow. "The Government has got to find some new way of rairing the money, M OULD PUT TAX ON GROSS SALES. “The business man's way, and the sound, sensible, non-political way. is to abolish all these destructive taxes and to put in operation tho tux on turnover or gross pales." Mr Cornwall said that the tax on turnover, or sales tax, would yield anywhere frein a billion and a half up to probably four or five billions, depending upon the extension of its Incidence. “Under the Smoot bill,” he added, “it Is estimated to yield $1,500,000,000 now, and more In active business years.” Ho said that “the contention that In adopting the turnover tax, which is a consumption tax, the burden Is taken off the rich and put upon those of moderate means, Is a fallacy, because the burden la already on consumption.” Carefully-worked -out statistics, he said, show that the 1 per cent turnover tax. from raw material to consumer, would add only 2'j to 3 per cent to average retail costs. "The turnover tax," he said, “Is so simple In Its computation that It can be figured out by a schoolboy who has had no education other than a lesson in decimal fractions. This v.-ry simplicity would beau amazing relief to the whole country—not only from the mental point of view, but from the economic side of saving enormous foes every year that aro now being paid to exports to compute tax returns.”

N I.VV lot ( IIE#S ON TAXATION QUESTION. In touching upon the matter of taxation Senator Now said: "Every business man, and particularly you manufn. turers. feels the weight of taxation that Lie waste of war has enhi. The present system, adopted in uiito or less liiipto dur.ni; the war, when time was pr.- biug and deliberation Uiftl' iilt, is unwisely burden ome and should be-n.ust be substantial y changed. It has become a drag upo.i industry. In iny Judgment the first s en taken should bo tho repeal of the so-called excess profits tax. I can th nk of no cause that so operate* to ret id business development. Nobodv with lutellienge enough to sracceasfully conduct u business is going to expand it while all the risk is bis and nil the profit goes to another, even though that other bo tho Government. "It Is a mathematical certainty that during tho next year, nnd probably for several years thereafter, the Government will require f<>r current necessities an lueiuiic approximating $1.0n0.0n0.000 and this being the oit-e, the questions that naturally arise are. -can the exc.-ss profits tax ho repealed, and. If so, must thero boa substitute* for it? 1 am Inclined to think it can be cut off and no 'direct substitute provided, If this is to bo done, tho expenses of the Government must be cut to tho bone, but this Is a tlmo for Just that kfnd of cutting. I believe, with certain other members of Congress, Including Chairman Good, of tho House Committee on Appropriations, that tho money required can bo raised from the following sources: "Customs $ 400,000,000 “Income and Corporation Taxes 3,500,000,000 "Miscellaneous Taxes 1,250.000,000 "Miscellaneous Receipts.... 500.000,000 “Postal Receipts 500.000,000 $1,150,000,000 CITES FACT THET ARE ONLY ESTIMATES. “Os course, these are estimates of the anticipated receipts, but 1 think they will bo found reasonably accurate. To this thero may bo added somethisig in the way of payment of interest ou the debts owing by our lute associates in the war, but It wore wiser not to count on this. Last year tho treasury receipts were n little over seven billion dollars, almost four billion dollars of which was derived from income and excess profits. In the $500,000,000 estimate of miscellaneous receipts. I include the proceeds of the sale of what remains of a great surplus acquired during tho war, Including many wooden ships and equipment, most of which will go to waste unless quickly dispose*! of. The abolition of the excess profits tax will itself result In a largo increase from Incomes. “Last year the Secretary of the Treasury retired almost a billion dollars in Liberty bonds and Victory notes drawing 4>d per cent interest. I think this was a mistake nnd that instead he should have applied the proceeds of the sinking fund, amounting to about $250,000,000 to tho retirement of our short time notes, drawing 5% and 0 per cent. Within the next three years Government loans will

mature amounting to something like seven billion dollars. Shall we provide for the payment of these by assessing taxes upon the Industries of the country or shall they be refinanced? In my opinion, the condition of business calls for the adoption of the refunding policy. SAYS TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM REAL ONE. “I think, too, we should repeal the taxes on transportation, both freight and passenger, out of which the Treasury received last year $230,0,0,000. There is no greater problem before the Congress than that of transportation. It Is hopelessly impossible, from the standpoints of the roads and the shippers alike, that present conditions shall long continue. The current rates for both freight and passengers are unendurable and, even as they are, the roads are not making ends meet. It has been charged in some quarters that the roads have been guilty of extravagance In management. There should be a rigid Investigation of this and if the charge be proved, they should be compelled to correct the abuse. Ou the other hand, railroad labor which formerly accounted for 50 per cent of operating cost now stands for 70 per cent of it. It is perfectly obvious that, this condition cannot permanently endure. “The Industrial world has been passing through its greatest crises, the end of which is, I hope, in sight. The unprecedented shrinkage in inventory values, the necessary conservatism of the banks, the enormous increase in labor costs and that of transportation have combined to arouse the gravest apprehension. There has been real bnsls for it, as every one knows, and to the cer-

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PROBLEMS OF The By-Producf Coking Business 12. Why We Do Not Go Into the Retail Coke Business I Continued) Yesterday we pave an a 11-sufficient reason for not going into the retail coke business—lack of money. No further discussion is necessary from a practical point of view. But for the further information of persons interested in this question we will give other reasons. Suppose we had ample capital, would it be wise to embark in this business ? No other objections are as weighty as the one we gave yesterday, but there are others that would be well worthy of consideration even if we had the necessary capital. COULD WE SELL MORE DOMESTIC COKE IN INDIANAPOLIS THAN EXISTING AGENCIES ARE DOING? Possibly we could. Our main interest being the development of our coke market, it is certain that we would push the retail coke business as no dealer now feels justified in pushing it. Although our retail fuel department would hnve other fuel to sell, it is not likely that we would ever let anything else interfere with, constant and consistent efforts to extend the use of coke. At the beginning, and perhaps for several years, it is probable that our local coke sales would not be greater than they would be under our present methods. Undoubtedly, more coke would be used in Indianapolis from tho very beginning, but the excess would probably not be our coke. We would not expect to be both wholesalers and retailers. Every one of the 65 dealers who now handle our coke would promptly secure some other coke to sell in competition with ours. We may not always be satisfied with the way the local dealers push our product; but substantially all of the coke sold in Indianapolis is our coke, except when supplies are cut down by conditions beyond our control. If we should retail the coke ourselves, none would be sold except what we could sell ourselves, while our own activities in popularizing coke would force the dealers to get other coke to compete with ours. This would be good for the coke business, but not good for OUR coke business. Our dozen or more yards with the best selling organization we could get would not be likely to sell as much coke in the first year or two as we are now selling through 65 dealers, some of whom maintain nearly as many yards as we would establish and most of whom have built up strong trade eonnectoins. Ultimately (if we had the ample capital which we are assuming) we could doubtless drive many of our competitors out of business and build up a larger local coke market than we could otherwise establish. But unless the coal dealers of the city should undertake to boycott our coke, we do not believe it would be sound business policy to attempt to extend tlie use of coke in this manner. CITIZENS GAS COMPANY

tninties of tha present have been added the uncertainties of the future. Nobody knows what his taxes are to be or on what assessed. We are still guessing as to the tariff schedules. There must be an answer to these riddles. It is up to this Congress to provide it. You can keep a business man scared for a long time, but you can't keep him seared always. Remove the uncertainties. Show him what his taxes are to be; what the tariff Is to be; remove the excess profits tax, and the manufacturer will have the confidence as well as tlie incentive to adopt the slogan of the President, ‘Full Speed Ahead.’ ” BLIND TIGER CHARGE) ARRESTED. Sixty-nine quarts of real bottled in bond whisky were found in a garage in the rear of the old American Brewery building on West Ohio street, near tjie canal last night. Lieutenant Jones and the squad who made the raid arrested Elmer Case, 217 West Pratt street, and Fred McKinney of the same address, on charges of operating a blind tiger. FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE. TERRE HAUTE, Jnd.. June 9.—Tgnes Torphy of this city has filed suit In the Circuit Court here asking a divorce from James Torphy, now a resident of Indianapolis. Mrs. Torphy asks SIO,OOO alimony and $2,000 attorney fees. She charges cruel treatment and failure to provide.