Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1921 — Page 3

SUIT REVEALS LUXURY IN LIFE OF MRS. GATES Wealthy Widow Had Fortune in Art, China, Jewelry and Clothing. INCOME TAX DISPUTED NEW YORK, June 23. —Argument as to whether the estate of the late Mrs. Delora R Gates, widow of John W. Gates, shall pay the State of New York Inheritance taxes on $1,000,000 or on $16,000,000 to $17,000,000 will >e heard tomorrow. Mrs. Gates died in New York Nov. 28, 1918. Executors of the will insist her home was in Port Arthur, Texas, and that most of the estate, to almost *17,000,000, is subject to taxation there. Only $1,000,000, representing her property in New York, should be taxed here, they contend. The controller demands payment on the larger sum. saying Mrs. Gates resided in New York. Papers filed in the ease present a graphic picture of the luxuries alleged to Lave been enjoyed by Mrs. Gates. Her apartment in the Plaza was an assembly of costly,things, it is charged. HAS FORTUNE IN PAINTINGS. Her paintings were worth a fortune. In her library Mrs. Gates and her guests viewed paintings va'ued at $21,923. Even more valuable were those in the drawing room, totaling $153,503. In the living room Mrs. Gates was wont to point out paintings aggregating in value $83,771, rod in tae dining room the oils represented an investment of $49,730. Hung on the walls of one of the halls were frames containing works worth $14,430. Magnificent furnishings in the four bedrooms had cost Mrs. Gates $8,852. When Mrs. Gates called In friends for dinner she had a vast array of exquisite china ta choosp from and a handsome collection of cut glass and silverware and gold, totaling In value with linen, $15,425. ITER JEWELRY VALUABLE. TOO. Preparing for the opera or a drive, Mrs. Gates could select innumerable sets cf finest Jewelry, set with splendidly wrought gems. Sh“ could drape her neck with a pearl string that had cost SIIO,OOO. and cr.nlii choose between a pearl necklace worth $23,000 and one of 210 pearls that represented $38,000. Or she could substitute a pearl and diamond collar that had meant an outlay of $13,000. Or she could wear a diamond necklace containing twenty emeralds, valued at $.10,000, or another diamond necklace werth 520.000. From her ears dangled pearl studs that came to $25,000. and among her many rings was one of black pearl that was appraised at $5,000. In winter Mrs Gates had ample and luxurious protection against the wind Masts, for she conld don a $10,090 Russian sable fur coat or an ermine coat worth $1,500 and could piclf from a $1,500 Alaska seal coat, a baby lamb cape of eight skins worth $1,500. Russian sable muff and scarf worth $2,000 and $3,000, respectively, two natural black fox scarfs worth $12150 each, and many other furs.

SUMMER MISSION TO OPEN SEASON Care Will Be Provided for Sick Children. The Summer Mission for sick children, located on the White river, just south of Fairview Park, will open its season on June 27. Already many children and mothers have made application for privilege of outing at the Mission this year, and from now on the number of applications probably will increase. The unusual heat has led many from the more crowded sections of the city to seek relief at the Mission. Every year, for more than thirty years, the / Mission has received tired mothers and sickly children from the crowded homes cf the city and each year splendid service has been rendered in building health and renewing hope and courage among the less fortunate. In connection with the Mission and on the same grounds is a hospital for babies which U In charge of a graduate nurse and under the daily supervision of a physician. Those who have ailing babies and pbyictans vbo have title patients whom they would like to send outside the city into the fresh air, end to be under a nurse’s care, may make application at the office of the Children’s Aid Association, 88 Baldwin block. Any mother or child who wishes to go to the Mission this summer should also make application at the same address. The privileges of the Mission are absolutely free. There is a playground in charge of a playground director, and the children are assured of careful supervision both day and night. There are little single cottages for mothers and their children; dormitories being provided for children who go unaccompanied by the mother. Good, wholesome food and fresh air are the potent factors in building health at the Mission.

VETERANS OPEN HEADQUARTERS Downtown Booth Center of Membership Drive.

With the erection end formal opening of headquarters by Ben Harrison Camp, Rons of Veterans, In a booth at the southeast corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, the camp's organized off rt to enlist 1,030 new members was reported today to be fairly started. F. C. Huston, the membership campaign manager, said that preliminary surreys Indicated that seme 30,000 to 40.000 citizens of Indianapolis are eligible to be members of the Sons of Veterans. An attempt will be made to reach these thousands with the suggestion that It is now up to the sons of Union soldiers to take over certain lines of patriotic service which for many years have been maintained by the Grand Army. ‘•The aged veterans are passing at the rate of 1,200 a day,” said Mr. Huston. “The call to their sons Is a direct and compelling one. We do not supplant the Union veteran but we duteously ‘cr.rry on' the torch he has been compelled to lay down.” , Former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who has written a letter strongly endorsing the Ben Harrison Camp membership drive, is announced as head of the advisory committee for the campaign, with Meredith Nicholson, Charles A.sßookwalter, Edward Jackson. Frank D. Stalnaker, Robert I. Todd and others as associates.

Yosemite Barred to Autos Until July 4 RAX FRANCISCO. Cal., June 23Motorists will not be permitted to visit Toaemite Valley until after July 4, unless they are provided with reservations at one of the hotels or tamps, or carry their own camping equipment, accordIng to an announcement by George R. Irycr. general anent of toe Yosemite Ational Park. Superintendent W. B. pwis placed the embargo in view of the [nprecedented motor travel to Yosemite ! ur*“7 *he tt w-lr.

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By W. D. BOYCE. THE New Zealanders are a pioneer race. They took :t wild country from a wild cannibal race and have made it the garden spot of the Pacific Ocean. When- the life and fire insurance companies formed combines, their government started companies for the benefit of the people. When the banks and trust companies began to assert the power of wealth the government started killing monopolies. When the owners of coal and mines—and there is lots of good coal in New Zealand —-combined and charged an unreasonable rate for coal, the government opened up mines in- competition. which kept the price of coal reasonable. When it looked like land was being held in too large tracts by foreign landlords, the government placed double taxes on absentee landlords and also passed laws enabling the government to buy back land and sell it in small farms to new settlers on long time. From the year one the governmert has owned the telegraphs and telephones and railroads and that settles that question early, a question which we are now facing in the United States. New Zealand has settled the question or hydro-electrical development—the making of electricity by water power—by reserving to itself the exclusive right to deveiope same, and then s“ll the current at cost to the people. Some day New Zeeland will be Independent of coal for light, heat and power. When she found a drift toward socialism among the workers of the country, the Government got busy and advanced people money to build homes ol their own so that they become independent and were interested in the welfare of the whole country. Wnen she found in the natural course of events that there were le widows and orphans whose husbands a J d fathers had not been able to provide for their future she established pensions of $5 a week for each widow and $2.30 for each child under 14. When men and women grow old they receive a pension un’ess they have an income above a certified amount. I met the editor of one of the country dailies in a town where I was surprised to find a daily at all and I asked" him how the proprietor could afford to get out a daily paper iu a town of that size, .sis answer was that it didn’t cost very r-> h as he edited the paper for a small amo' because he had his old age pension to fall back on.

102.000 SOLDIERS ANSWERED CALL. When the gr.*at World War came on the mother country called on her colonies to send their sons to the front New Zea’and sent 102,000 soldiers across the sea out of a population which then was I.JUO.OUO. or at least one man ont of every three between the ages of IS and 50. If the United States had done equally ns well we wou’d have furnished 10,000.000 men. The number of New Zealand *rs who were killed or died from sickness across the sea was 17.000. New Zealand furnished the largest percentage of soldiers for her population and had the largest casualty roll in proportion of any country In the world except France. Since the soldiers returned home this country has spent an average of SI,OOO apiece to aid and assist them. Had we done equally as well it vrotild have cost us three billion dollars ($.000,000,000). Instead of that we were niggardly enough to pay, as a national Government, only SCO a man when they were discharged which in many cases couldn't buy them civilian clothing. The Government of the United States hardly can expect loyalty and patriotism from these men and their relatives. When organ’zed labor and capital began to lock horns and a third party, the greet public, began to suffer, the j government of New Zealand duly passed laws and created a court of arbitration and, later, a conciliation commission. On this subject we will have more to say. I It is evident that New Zealand is head- ' ed right. The government and the peo- ; pie are working closely together, yet there are two prominent examples which so far they have been unable to cure, I and which they generally admit are bad j for the country. One Is booze and the other Is the Pacific and Oriental steam- ; ship monopoly. Tnls corporation, an English company, owns the Union Steam- 1 ship Company stock and nearly all the other steamship companies doing the i shipping business of New Zealand. ‘ Twenty-five per cent of the net profit . of all New Zealand is sucked into the treasury of this corporation through cx- | cesslve freight and passenger rates and, j In addition, the service on ships is bad; ! in fact, so bad that even the stewards \ were on strike all the time we were In 1 New Zealand because their living quar- I t°rs and conditions—not their wages and hours —were unbearable. Since this cor--! Duration got control prices have been ;

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advanced 500 per cent. The shipping public states that 100 per cent would have been a proper Increase. BOATS VERITABLE FLOATING BARS. All over the world the Tactile and Oriental bouts resemble floating barrooms more than anything else. They are notorious for their poor food. Os course, during the war the company unleaded upon the British government a lot of its oli} and worthless vesels. If the New Zealand government would tax foreign owned corporations the same as she does absentee laud owners, she might force the shipping business back to her own country again. Prohibition was lost in New Zealand at the last election by only 3.000 votes Every saloon In New Zealand must pretend to !,e a hotel, or. in other words, run a pubi.e house, and the saloons are all called ’‘pubs." In the United States the saloons were so rotten that they were not permitted to combine rooms with them; in fact, in many cities not even low partitions, making stalls, were permitted to be set up. For sixty days before the last election in New Zealand nearly everybody in the country had free drinks. As it is necessary to have a room in the “pub” after 0 o'clock in the evening or on Sunday to get drinks, you can Ix'.sgine the drunken, as well as immcrul, conditions that existed.

The leaders in the labor unions now know that wages are as high as they can go, but high wages are doing thw. workingman little good as long as there are “pubs.” Therefore, the labor union leaders are Joining with the churches and the right thinking citizens and It Is generally conceded that prohibition will carry at the next election. The biggest backset t.-e booze element has had In this country was when the United States went dry. There are more lies told here In a day on liow prohibition Is working at home tbnn are told in the States in a month. It was published here that the prohibition amendment would be repealed In the United States at the next election, that there was more alcohol consumed since we got prohibition than there was beforefl that some doctors wore writing as high as four thousand prescriptions for booze ft month, that the consumption of drugs had Increased immensely, and that institutions that take care of these poor unfortunate were full, while we know the contrary to be true. The medical profession in New Zealand generally favors prohibition. The doctors say the increase In the number of insane persons through the use of alcohol Is alarming, that they are unable to cope with a lot of other diseases which have their origin In the use of alcohol. Every Judge 1 have talked to, from a Justice of the Supreme Court on down to a country magistrate, states that the increase in crime is due to the use of alcohol. New Zealand is going dry because the government of New Zealand Is of the people, from the people and for the people, and not for the few who make money out of the business. LABOR AND CAPITAL ISSUE HANDLED WELL. • Before I came to New Zealand I had heard that this Dominion was handling the capital and labor question better than any other government In the world. This no doubt is true. It Is a single blooded country without mixed races and the smallest percentage of yellow and black people In the world, not counting the native Maori. As these native Maori nearly all live from the soil and the men are inclined to be lazy, they complete very little with white labor. The immigra- j tlon laws of New Zealand are so rigid

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that very few from India, China or ? pan get into the country. Being single-blooded British white people, the New Zealander# have the same viewpoint of equity and Justice and the decisions of their courts are respected and observed. In 1894 there was established a court of arbitration, in which labor disputes are settled. Tne Judge was then appointed from the .Supreme Court. Now a Judge is appointed who is a lawypr with large business experl- ) enee. Any employer of labor who wishes i to have settled any demand on him for an increase in wages or desires a deel- i sion where he wishes to reduee wages can have cited and brought into court ; any union that is registered in the Do- J minion. The employe can have his em- j ployer brought into court. Tho Judge of the court of arbitration! has sitting with him a mm who !s selected to represent the employer and j one who is selected to represent labor, j 3 he finding of any two Is binding with out appeal. If a union refuses to accept a decision of the court its legal charter is taken away. If an employer, e'thor a corporation or an Individual, refuses to accept u decision of the court he is fined. The labor unions can force employers into court but a union cannot be forced into court unless it is registered for that purpose. So far there has been but little trouble in naving the decisions of the court carried Into effect because wage* have been on the increase | all over the world, as well aa in New Zealand, ever since the court was estab llshed. The teat of the efficiency of this arbitration court now Is about to be tried, as wages, which during the war went up ivitb everything else, now must go down with them or production Increase. The unions may temporarily block further results from this court by refusing to register but, Judging from the spirit of fairness demonstrated by the whole people of New Zealand, on Other questions, they will find a way of reaching this one. BUBIXE <S OF COURT GREW VERY FAST.

The business of the court of arbitration grew to such an extent that It wag found necessary to settle many cases before they reached the court, therefore in 1910 the government, through act of Parliament, created the board of conciliation commissioner, three In number, one selected by the employers, another by labor and the third, appointed by the government, representing the Interests of the people. 1 his board has been able to settle many disputes and relieve congestion In the court of arbitration. The net result of the decisions of the court of arbitration has been to fix a minimum wage for everybody employed for wages in the Dominion, whether they belonged to a union dr not. However, It must be admitted that the system has protected the weak, prevented unfair competition by unscrupulous employers, regulated, standardized and recorded" the wages and working conditions for particular Industries and districts and in a period of rising prices has tended to minimize the loss suffered by wage earners as a result of the decrease in the purchasing power of money. In this respect the arbitration laws hive been beneficial. The principles of nn eight-hoar working day was first adopted by general practice, and legislation in some cases. In New Zealand, and now no employer would think of returning to a longer (lay. It certainly has worked well and must have had its Influence on lengthening the life of people, as the whit© people of New Zealand live an average of nine years

longer than the white people of the United - States. In 1900 a workmen’s compensation act was passed, which insures workers’ lives i or against permanent disability for $3,- i 730. As tnis becomes the employers’ risk ' he not only insures against It, but is mighty careful that the conditions under which his employes work do not expose them to any extraordinary risk due to his negligence. For in that case, he can be sued for additional damages by the person injured or by the estate of the man or woman killed. We have similar laws in a few of our States. I look for the minimum trouble between employers and employes In New Zealand once the country becomes dry. The efficiency of labor will be greatly improved and the "go slow” policy, which was founded on the inability of the booze fighter to keep up, will disappear and the necessity for getting wages back to the old basis in order to reduee the cost of production will have solved itself. New Zealand is more universally unionized than any other country in the world. Even the reporters on the newspapers belong to a union and work only eight hours a day. The destiny of any country depends to a large extent upon the reliability of its press. Many misleading cables are published in New Zealand from the United States. This is not the fault of the local publisher or editor in New ZeaJond, whom I i have found most friendly and expressing the greatest desire to work with the United States, Just as if we still were a British colony. However, Washington is far away and New Zealanders are so little acquainted with the standing of our public men who introduce fool bills Into Congress that the editors are unable to cut out the unfavorable propaganda stuff which is included with the cables.

SOME SAMPLES OF THESE CABLES. I will give you the essence of three cables as samples of many that have appeared since I have been iu New Zealand. The biggest joke we have among the members of our lower house of Congress, a man who always is introducing some fool resolution or bill in order to get himself into the newspapers, introduced a bill to send a minister to the so-called "Irish republic.” The story was duly cabled and published hefe. Os course the publishers here did not know that nobody in the United States pays any attention to this Congressman and furthermore that all of our foreign relatioqg are handled by the Senate, our upper house, and not by the lower house. The correspondent who put this story on the cable knew better aud hurt his country. Another sample is a story that fre quently is cabled —that the United States is going to put an embargo or an export tax on someth'ng used in New Zealand that comes from the United States. In the first place, onr Constitution provides against an export tax and. in the second place, an embargo can be laid only in time of war. The cable editor In the United States who passed such a story as this either is densely ignorant of the laws of our country or has sel fish motives for reporting that which is untrue and impossible. Another cable from the United States, received and published by the newspapers In New Zealand while 1 was there, reported a British cabinet member had given out an Interview in London in

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which he stated that feeling between the United States and the British people was so bad and conditions were getting so serious he soon expected to see the two countries at war with each other. You can imagine the effect such a fool cable had on the unthinking public in a British colony and the effect it had on the sales of goods from the United States. I am told that for several days after this cable was received not a single American in New Zealand sold a single dollar's worth of American goods. The result of these misleading cables is that the' publishers, as well as the publie ,in New Zealand cannot understand why we should fight shoulder to shoulder with them and afterwards seem to be not sticking together. SIOO for 2 Gun Toters Otto Knuth and Carl Knuth, 3717 Hawthorne Lane, arrested by railroad officers on charges of operating a blind tiger and carrying concealed weapons, each were fined SICO and hosts on the weapon charge Jjy Judge Walter Pritchard in city court yesterday afternoon. When the Knuth brothers stated they had bought the quart of bonded whisky, which they had when arrested “for a consumptive cousin,” Judge Pritchard continued the charges indefinitely.

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