Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1921 — Page 5

POLLUTION OF STATE STREAMS REAL MENACE Fish Killed and Public Health Endangered, Declares Richard Lieber. PRESENT LAWS FUTILE [EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the second of a series of articles on State resources being written by Mr. Lieber.] By RrCHAED LIEBER, Director Indians Department of Conservation. Existing' lows against contamination of Streams and rivers are inadequate and in prostitution almost unenforceable. In providing new laws it is essential to guard against the danger of framing them too drastic, for we have a great deal to give and take, as can be founil In the experience of other States both in this and the old countries. There are always two conflicting interests that must be carefully considered. From the viewpoint expressed by officials of the fish and game division 'of the State conservation department, stream purity is paramount because aquatic life therein is dependent upon such a condition. But absolute stream purity is not always possible when we consider the industrial needs of the State, for then the cardinal interest presented is the neverending problem of preserving and Increasing the quantity of our water resources. It Is a well-known adage that “necessity is the mother of invention,” and in this connection it appears permissible to point out that in the process of manufacturing many undoubtedly valuable gnbstances are discharged into public streams In Indiana for want "fa better way of disposal. In fact, wastes from industrial plants are one of the chief sources of stream pollution In Indiana today. WASTE FROnrCTS WILL DECREASE. However, it is the history of industry that as time goes on the amount of waste products are constantly decreasing. Utilization of waste has become a matter of Industrial preservation in the present sharp competition as well as a sanitary necessity. The time is not long past When the removal of pea vines was a seasonal difficult problem. Today this same material forms a valuable material for feed and is easily and profitably disposed pt The methods of an up-to-date abattoir have become proverbial as “using everything but the squeal.” and yet there was a time not so far removed when conditions were vastly different. In this connection the story is recalled that there was once a great fire near the river in Indianapolis. The volunteer fire department appeared and rendered valiant service until suddenly the solitary engine went out' of commission. An investigation disclosed that the water supply coming from the river had carried with it some foreign substance and before the energetic fire fighters could proceed they were forced to remove from the nozzle a collection of pigtails. * Os course, this was many years ago and the city was in Its Infancy. The population was not large, consequently a few thousand pigtails more or less did not make very much difference either toward stream contamination nor the n. C. of L. Where there was one packing bouse or tannery or woolen mill to dump refuse into a stream there were many j miles of intervening water capable of cleansing and purifying itself of any adventitious matter dumped into it. Likewise there was considerable more water

LOTS OF FISH ONCE IN STREAM. Half a century ago our Indiana streams abounded in fish. They were a chief ar tide of diet. Now fish are so scarce it Is prohibited to catch them for market purposes. Their use on our tables in proportion to other food is very limited. Denser population with pollution are the causes of this aquatic shortage. Extensive catching is thoroughly prosecuted and practically controlled. Pollution, as yet, remains to be corrected. The two canses also differ largely In their effect. Removal of fish by catching is a temporary effect and hinders but little the breeding and living conditions. Pollution not only destroys tho fish, but affects the water so a* to prorent further propagation of aquatic life. We are all gniity and under the pressure and need of reconstruction and economic conditions, must take a surrey of the situation and accept a mode of action which is economically logical and true to the best Interests Os aIL It has long since become unlawfnl and insanitary to use the public highways as a depository of garbage and filth, for it is unsanitary, crude and wasteful. Yet, we continue to use the streams and waterways as a runoff for sewage and manufacturing offal to the detriment of public health and consequent loss of much valuable material. We must come to follow the example of our Old World neighbors, where stream pollution has practically been eliminated and factory waste has all but disappeared. Through utilization of these so-called wastes we must make up for the stupendous losses entailed during the World Wax.

SMOKE NUISANCE IN SAME CLASS. The pollution of waterways has its coanter-paic in the smoke nnisanee of the larger cities. The laws made apiintt either are much the same character and the enforcement is generally directed in the helplessness of the situation against a few guilty individuals. We lose sight of the fact that the effect is entirely academic. The smoke nuisance In a city has as it guilty contributors, such as railroads, factories* and office buildings, but we tind that the chimneys of the schoolhouses, churches and of every householder smoke just as badly, and where their number is very great their contribution cannot be light in proportion. Considerable of this argument holds good wiih regard to stream pollution. If we possessed only one cannery in one county, one sugar factory in another, and a tannery In the third, the stream itself wouldn’t fare so bad. But the facts sre that population is becoming dpnser, factories along streams have multiplied, cities and towns are expanding and many of them using the public water courses as public sewers. And while industrial wastes form a major portion of the pollution In Indiana streams, the domestic ■wastes, even Individuals who use the water courses as conveniences of a sewer, are also largely responsible for the horrible condition of many of our streams and rivers. Muncie makes use of White river ns a sewer and Anderson, below, is dependent on the river as a water supply. Anderson repeats the bad example and passes its domestic tilth on to Noblesville, from where it comes on to Indianapolis. Below Indianapolis White river leaves a stench in tho nostrils of all comers. CONDITION Mr ST JiND SOME DAY. That this condition cannot exist indefinitely must be obvious, and circumpeot manufacturers or packers, as well as the citizenship generally, have realised that some time ago, yet action toward remedial measures is delayed. Today the fact stands out boldly that the condition of our streams as recipients of factory and municipal waste are deplorable, uneconomical, insanitary, and jnust be rectified if we are in the future .to escape serious epidemics and plagues.

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The major portion of manufacturing waste can be converted to some profitable product. Often it is not conserved because the manufacturer does not care to spend the energy, time nor capital necessary to its conversion. His sole object is to do the primary thing in hand and to rid his plant a seemingly unessential by-product a* easily and as conveniently a* possible. To reach the ideal state of stream purification there must be added to this work of waste removal a sense of obligation, an aevouufaldeness to act in the best interests of the public. We are informed it Is not profitable. Therefore, we must adopt anew system of accounting. The value of any waste product is its commercial value when properly recovered, plus the amount of loss It occasions when unrecoverej and unreclaimed. SOME WASTES ACTUALLY DEADLY. Thpre are wastes which are not e*pabl~ of conversion into marketable products, but which, nevertheless, are dangerous to the stream. The best method pursued I* treatment to remove the dangerous clc 1 merit so that it may be sent into the [ stream harmless. Here the main prob- i lem is economy of method so that it does not work a hardship upon the manufacturer. Our streams should be and are a source of constant food supply and great lnalth resort*. Tiie State spends thousands of dollars | each year to propagate fKh to stock public waters. When stream pollution continues, it is much the saute as trying to fill a funnel, to plant young risii at the most delicate age Into polluted streams and expect them to thrive and reproduce. Waste material damped Into streams does not always kill by direct pol-ouing. It may possess a component which removes the oxygen from the water, rendering it uninhabitable to aquatic life. It may destroy the plankton, the millions of minute bugs and worms and floating plants which constitute food for fish. It may be simply filth which settles to the bottom and covers the clean sand anil gravel in which are fashioned nests where fish eggs are deposited and hatched. If a clean bottom is not available the fish will migrate to other grounds In the spawning season. Many of our streams today are biological deserts due to pollution which has wiped out the water life which constitutes fish food. Fish may appear in such water and live, but they do not stay there, neither do they multiply. In the end they are forced to migrate or succumb for lack of sustenance. The conservation department docs not expect to return the streams and rivers to their former pristine purity. Members of the commission are of the opinion that the flowing water of a stream should be used by industries a* a most valuable asset and that impurities may be ruu into it to a not inconsiderable extent. These impurities, however, must never reach a point in volume where water taken from the stream cannot tie rendered potable through chemical or mechanical action. FISH KILLED BY POLLUTION. The idea that a stream cannot be polluted to an extent that fish could not live in it any longer is preposterous because such water, as shown by many

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W. Mott of Harrisburg. 111., may lose the distinction of being the laziest man In Illinois if the claim made by a Chicagoan is substantiated. A contest- is being arranged by the challenger's friends, but Mr. Mott, pictured above? is said to have remarked that anything in the nature of a contest sounds too much like work to him.

tests, is not only unfit for any uso by man or animal, but is a tremendous danger and a constant menace to everybody and everything in the community within range of contact. It is an accepted fact that the majority of cur manufacturers on their own initiative aro using the groat fund of information already available on waste utilization, and it is further encouraging that they are almost Invariably willing when their attention is called to It to place chemists and engineers to work on the subject instead of their attorney*. The increasing density of population changes our mode of living considerably. What was permissible years ago cannot bo permissible today as a matter of public safety. What can be done in the rural districts is out of the question in the cities. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century the mayor of New York City was the executive hend of more people than the first President of the Republic. The city became the second largest in size In the world within 100 years. Its total annual expenditures are $110,000,000, against the entire Jap atiese Empire’s $120.000.0.X) (pre-war figures i, and Holland's and Switzerland's combined $50,000,000. The density of population in certain part* of Manhattan is so great that if it were continued throughout the city it would give New York a total of 290,000,000 Inhabitants.

RESULTS SOUGHT TO TAKE TIME. The result* w are seeking cannot be accomplished at once, but must be tlie work of several year* of sustained effort. The problem is exceedingly complex. Alanufacturera, biologist*, engineers, the Legislature, the public and the conservation department must got together to reduce the situation to a sane working bash and function along businessiiko line*. This department L* the logical clearing house for pollution matters, for developing cooperation among Industrie* concerned. The department desires to cooperate and aid in tins reclamation rather than to adopt a drastic campaign of prosecution. The tenel!t* are many. f'*r tlie saving of great quantities of food fish, millions In by-product utilization and o;>en waterways with increased public health are the results. In the beginning Indiana streams were the highways of pioneer life. Early records state that at least a thousand flat boats were floated down the Waba.nh and White rivers and their tributaries each spring. These carried pork, lard, live stock, wheat, oats and. corn, and iloosler exports as early as 1820 had an annual vaiufion of $1,000,000. The LcgisHtiipes from 1820 to 1836 declared about forty strenms public highways and these were worked much the same as roads of today are worked. Drifts mere cleared and no obstruction to flat boat traffic on spring high waters permitted. The advent of railroads, the improvement and opening up of new overland roods caused river traffic to fall *uto disuse as a means of transpo rtatic.i Aside from any (*ontiruental reason that urges that Indiana streams be restored as nearly as possible to their former purity and beauty and made replete with fish because of the latter's food value, the time is not distant. It is believed, when transportation problems augmented by density of population will demand they be utilized.

ST. LAWRENCE PROJECT GROWS. The project to open up the St. Lawrence Itiver to ocean going bottoms and finish the lakes project to fi# gulf waterway already is making some headway. It is possible that this generation will see Michigan City a seaport where goods will be loaded for the Atlantic trade. With tho development of our trad" with South America, New Orleans again be comes a port of shipping for Hoosier gooods down the White and Wabash Rivers. Just as we learned to keep our streets and highways free of rubbish and filth for sanitary and aesthetic reasons, so must we come to thing of our streams as something better than a dumping ground for factory and municipal wastes The fishing waters of the Hoosier State attract great numbers of office and factory workers. These waters may be maiie more attractive to interstate and transcontinental tourists who would annually spend many thousands of dollars within Indiana. Love of fishing takes the toiler from shop, office and factory into the open air and sunshine—nature's great agencies for storing up a reserve of physical energy needed for the return to business life. It is such recration which the day laborer, the man of small income may enjoy. And he is the man who most needs it and for whom it Is most difficult these pleasures to obtain. Such aid to public health, obtainable only through recreation and relaxation in God's great outdoors, is incalculable. We cannot afford to have these conditions disappear. It is sound economics to conserve and augment them. So in all steps for the utilization of our natural resources consideration of public health and contentment should always be kept in view, and at no point in the movement of Indiana should this fact be given more emphasis than in connection with stream purification.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921.

MOVIES CLOSE; 1 LIBRARY BOOMS 520 New Borrowers During Hot Month. Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Tnd.. .Tuly 23.—Movie fans of the city, who have been deprived of their usual evening's amusement by the closing of the motion picture theaters for the summer, are patronizing the public library in great numbers Lenore Bonham, city librarian, report; that there has been a remarkable increase in the library patronage since the closing of the movie houses. Children ns well as grownups flock to tho library in the evenings and search for the thrills of the flickering film on tho printed pages of the books. Space is In demand at the formerly deserted reading room tables and the report of the librarian, giv'-n out yesterday, shows 520 new borrowers of books. The cinema enthusiasts retain their movie mania in their selection of literature, declares Miss Bonham. They are continually demanding books about motion picture production and books of plays. A volume of biographies of motion picture actors and actresses is now tho most popular circulator in the library, it is stated. Adventure books which have thrilling plots similar to those of the serial films, are much sought after by the younger readers. FIRST RAID ON COUNTY STILLS Home Enveloped in Cloud of Vapor. Special to Th Time*. KENDALVILLE, Ind., July 23.—For the first time since national prohibition became efective, officials conducted a raid In Noble County last night on tho homes of Jacob Oreenwait and William Hickman here and placed them tinier arrest while they were making moonshine whisky. The first raid was conducted at the Creenwalt home which was enveloped in a cloud of vapor from the operating still. The moonshiners were taken unaware and made no effort to escape. The authorities confiscated twenty-five gallons of mash, tlire Improvised stills and a large quality of liquor.

FARMERS EYE COWS TENDERLY Gentle Bovine May Prove Real Life Saver. Special to The Time*. COLUMBUS. Ind., July 23,-Tho dairy cow ha* suddenly returned to popularity among the f irmer* of Bartholomew County. A few week* ago the dairy cow wasn't u vary popular beast on most farms of the country, but now, with the wheat crop a disappointment and the corn crop burning up, the farmers are turning to their dairy herds as the one profit-making department of their food factories. The price of butterfat inis risen sharply 'ln the last week and a satisfactory return Is now being realized from ths rale of cream. If the dry spell continues a number of farmers any that they will cut up their entire corp crop sml put it into silos for dairy cow feed Some of the beat-killed corn lias already been cut out for fodder and the los |* being turned into gain by feeding it to milkproducers. A number of farmers in the county who had dairy cows for sale a few weeks ago urn trying to buy uioro at the present. Thief Gets slls Worth of Automobile Tires Robert Morse, Slit North Meridian street, told Motor Policemen Hague and Heller that n thief broke Into his garage today and took three automobile tires valued at slls. While the families of Louis Taylor and Gerald Hoefling, 13,15 Jackson s:reot, were eway last night thieves entered their home. The police were told clothing worth $lO7 and Jewelry valued at $35 was missing. Charles Treadway's home. 2SB North I’crshing avenue, was entered. A revolver worth $25 and a diamond pin valued at SOO was stolen. M \ KIRK nOMAN DIM* HARTFORD Cl TV, Ind.. July 25. MU* Hl'du Maynard. 25. daughter of Mr. and Mrs 1. It. Maynard, of Dunkirk, is dead ut Russwell, N. M. The body will be returned to Dunkirk for burial. TO ERECT MEMORIAL STATUE. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 25 The Service Star Legion of this city decided Friday to erect a statue of a doughboy in the public square as a memorial to former service men and women of the county. The names of 500 men will lie engraved on the base.

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Mme. Margarete Matzenauer, leading contralto at the Metropolitan Opera K >use, whose marriage to Floyd Glotzbach has just been announced. Mme. Matzenauer was married in Buenos Aires in 1912 to Eduardo FerrarJ-Fontani, an Italian tenor. She obtained a cuvorce from him in 1919. She Is regarded ty many as the greatest contralto In the wor Id today.

Airs. F, A. Mitchell of Milwaukee, will come Monday to spend several days with Mrs. Stanley Turner, 2022 Park avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Tomerlin, formerly of the Kenilworth apartment, have gone to New York City for permanent residence. • • • Mrs. Mary Ogden of Delaware, Ohio, Is spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. James M. Ogden, 3322 North Pennsylvania street. • * • Miss Lucille Bridge and Mr*. U. S. A. Bridge of Fort Wayne, aro house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Donald U. Bridge, 634 East Seventeenth street. Air. and Airs. Volney Fowler, 1226 North Illinois street, departed today for Lake Webster for a week's stay. Airs. Edward Rosenberg, 4451 Broadway, entertained this afternoon in honor of the birthday of her niece. Alias Avaneile Thorpe. The guests at the party, which was a surprise for Miss Thorpe, included former members of the Euvola Club. Air. Newton Dodge, formerly of this city, who has been visiting friends here will leave tomorrow for Boston, Aiass., where he now makes his residence. Airs. John F. Barnhill, 1933 North Delaware street, will be hostess for the July meeting of the executive board of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters, to bo held at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon. • • • Miss Ooradel Wade of Terre Hsnte Is the bouse guest of Allss NeUe Taylor, 1015 North New Jersey street. Alembers of the Good Times Club will go tomorrow to Lake Wawngee for a fortnight's stay. The party will include Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bixler. Air. and Airs. John Nelan, Mr. amKAlrs. Charles McCann, Mr. and Mrs Joseph Koesch, Mr. and Mrs. George Bills, Mr. mud .Mrs. Joseph Swallow, Mrs. Frank Kurtz, Samuel McCann, Charles Nelan and George MolJ.es. ♦ • • I*r. and Mrs. George McCaskcy, of West Newton, formerly of this city have returned to Indianapolis and will make their home here. Dr. George McCaskey is the brother of Dr. C. 11. McCaskey, 4C53 North Pennsylvania street. • • • Aliss Vesta Wilson, 3020 North Canlto! avenue, is spending several weeks In Portland, fire., and other Western cities. Airs. N. O. Sparks of Marion. TIL, is the guest of her son, G. AI. Sparks, 3008 Park avenue. • • • Mrs. U. F. Kummer and son, Edwin, of ( f Mrs, W. C. Richter, 2900 North Delaware j str*-t. Miss Alary George of Balmoral Court has return'd from a visit with relatives in Pittsburgh, Pu.

Airs. M. A. Jensen, 296 R Central avenue, is spending a few weeks in northern Wisconsin She will go from there to Muskegon, Allot*., where she will be Joined by Dr. Jensen. Mrs. Max Wall and son, Max, Jr., of Boyle, Allss., are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Washburn, 3236 North Capitol avenue. Air. Wall will Join Mrs. Wall in August. • • • Mr. and Airs. John Gray. 49 West Fall Creek Boulevard, accompanied by Mrs. It. A. Dubois, 3001 Graoelaud avenue, have gone for u trip on Lake Champlain. Mrs. S. Wathan and daughter. Miss Mary Towles of Henderson, Ky„ are • pending a few days with Mrs. C. A. Willingham, 3163 Gruceland avenue. Mr. and Airs. William E. RaMiffe, 29.7.) North Now Jersey street, are spending a month at Turkey Run. Miss Wllna D. Beaver, 1622 East Washington street, accompanied by Florence E. Thompson of Greenwood, have gone to Buffalo, N. Y., for a ten days' stay. On their return they will stop with relatives In Detroit. Air. and Mrs. Gordon Grtffln, .3607 Balsam avenue, will go the first of August to Huron, Mich., for a short stay. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J Moore, 2537 South Eastern avenue, will leave tonight f..r Chicago where they will spend five or six days as Ihe guests of their daughter Mrs Ch trie Danlxan. From there they will go to Fox Lake, 111., for a two weeks' visit before returning home. OLD LAB is NOT REPEALED. KOKOMO, Ind., July 25—Judge Lloyd McClure has decided in the ease of Reese Walton, charged with unlawful possession of liquor, that the old law permitting h limited amount of intoxicants, specified by law, in tlie homo for personal use, was not repealed by tlie enactment o ftlie last lifglsluturn, making mere possession a crime.

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ZELDA AGNES BURNS. A charming young visitor In the city graduated from Montieello High School this week is Alisa Zeida Agnes Burns ol and has studied piano for several years. Montieello, who has been the house guest She is a'.so a talented violinist acd will of Miss Dorothy Wade, 146 West l.'igh- continue her musical study at St. Mary's teentk street. Miss Burns recently was of the Lake, South Bend, next season.

Garbage Left on Ground to Rot at Sellers Farm Former Resident of Place Tells of Waste Never Reduced at City Plant .

Much of the garbage tnken to the city's $175,000 garbage reduction plant never is reduced, but is dumped on tlie ground at Sellers farm and permitted to rut, breeding fl.es by the uncountable millions. declared John L. Miller, who formerly lived on the farm, at a meeting of the Enterprise Civic League in Assumption hall. 11(H) B!it!i e avenue. la>t night. Miller was driven from the farm by the 'city after his suit to quiet title on tho basis of adverse possession was lost. Solicitors aro covering West Indianapolis seeking funds for carrying on the campaign for disannexation led by the league. The financial campaign was endorsed by two hundred citizens who attended the special meeting. FARM PLACE OF CORK! I'TION. "Sellers farm is a place of corruption,” said Miller. "If filth would kill human beings, there wouldn't lie a person alive within ten miles of the farm. Twothirls of the tiles in Indianapolis are bred on Sellers farm. A load of filth is carted to the farm and a load of flies Is brought back to the city. “C)n a moonlight night I have sen one thousand ruts overrunning ti e dumps ami one night I killed ninety two with n rifle 1 havo seen the rats leave in squads. "No cars whatever is taken of the dumps. There is no one there to take care of them. And when the city gets through with the garbage out there it Is worse than when it gets It. Only the I grease is taken out and the residue is | dumped into Eagle creek. Much of the I garbage taken to the farm never finds its way to tho reduction plant. It is | dumped on the ground and left there !to ferment. Garbage from the city i market or from the commission houses (is not tanked. It is dumped on the j ground and left. Last year 1 saw seven or eight ear loads of condemned cabbage I dumped on the ground. It never was near the reduction plant. "The men who drive tho wagons which take the night soil to the farm are to be pitied. They have to drive through filth axle deep before they can dump. There Is not even a place to wash the hands, lot alone the wagons. “The polution of Engle Creek has been going on for many years, ever since Governor Goodrich's administration. The water Is so bad that a fish couldn't live In it fifteen minutes.” SANITARY MEMBERS BEAR OUT STATEMENT. Aliller*s statement that ail tho garhage is not reduced has been borne out a number of times in statements Issued by members of tho board of sanitary commissioners. Frequently tney have warned the public not to put corn husks in cans with other garbage, contending there is no profit In reducing corn husks and cobs because they soak up too much gasoline In the reduction process. It is understood the sanitary board tries to keep any garbage which does not contain grease from going through the plant. Those assigned to gathering funds in the disannexation oumpaign are: Frank Rathbun, George Fnversaw, Joe Butcher, j Frank Reese, Fred Cook, Jerry Dunn, A. : T. Scherer, Charles Dill, Mrs. Mayme Scherer, Noah Reek, Mrs. Eva Eve. Frank j

Meetings St. Anthony’s Social Club will entertain at cards on Tuesday afternoon at St. Anthony’s Hall on Warmau avenue. The hostesses will be Mrs. A. H. Shad, Mrs. E. 15. Steinhart, Mrs. S. Smock and Miss Sarah Spellman. Members of the Independent Order of Shepherds, Golden Rule No. 1, will be hostesses for a. dance this evening at Shepherds’ Hall, corner of Alabama and East Washington streets. The Patrol of the Shepherds will give a card party Thursday evening at their new home, 31214 East Washington street. KNECHT FUNERAL SUNDAY. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 2.3. - The body of Private Joseph ICne< ht, overseas veteran, arrived in this city Friday, night from Hobokfin. A military funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. SELLING BARGAIN LIQUOR. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 23.—A report that two men, drivine a touring car, are selling liquor at $2.50 a quart through the rural districts of the county is being investigated by the authorities.

Turner, James Hardin, Luther Christie B. Well#, J L. Wheeler, Ben Bennett, Harry Edwards, Mrs. 11. Miller, Merritt Stipp. Lawrence Huddleson, Mrs. Frank Smithson, Gill Hodge, Airs. William J. Meyers, Mrs. Rebecca Oiler, Francis Krleg, AI. A. Godeeker and Mrs. Yost. Approximately SI,OOO will be needed to push tlie disannexation fight, officers of the league declared.

The Well Dressed Woman By GLORIA SWANSON, Star In I’aranioant I’ictares.

The strictly tailored Jacket and skirt seems to have been taken once more to tho American heart, rather to the surprise of both French and American fashion creators. However, suits which have a cape instead of a coat, and separate capes, are very good, indeed. And there are some of us, a temperamental few. perhaps, who have our days when a tailored suit is absolutely unthinkable, too uufeminine and brusque and business like for words. I hate them. I rush to the other extreme and if I must wear street clothes don this suit of dove gray and dark blue. I cal it my harem suit and add a silly long veil that falls from my dark blue and white turban Just over my eyes in front, lusciously and unnecessarily long in back. The skirt of my suit is a short edition of the harem, the -blouse a model you are all used to, square necked, loose, and tying well over the waist line on the side. The waist sash, lined with blue silk, makes up for any brevity in the skirt by hanging in a loop and ends that fall almost to my ankles, and add decidedly to the grace of the frock. Harem is the right word for the cape, which falls In a huge scallop in the hack, and is gathered full and caught underneath on the blue silk lining. There is a funny little circular collar of blue and gray, and long ends and loops of blue grosgrain ribbon on either side. The effect of the whole would perhaps be too demure if it were not for the tharnly contrasting blue. In fact, the popular grays would be rather difficult for most of us if they were not relieved by other and brilliant colors. Flame and gray is about the best combination, but It has been rather done to death.

SHANTUNG NOW LOOMS AS HARD EAST PROBLEM Point Must Be Cleared Away to Assure Success cf Disarmament Meeting. CHINA FEELING STRONG (NOTE —Unless settled prior to the ossemhlylng of Fresident Harding’s Far Eastern and disarmament conference in Washington in November the hliantnng question bids fair to be one of the knottiest problems to be settled. The following interview obtained before the conference invitation was sent Japan and China gives an insight into the feeling on the question In China and Japan.) By DUKE N. TARRY, I. X. 8. Staff Correspondent, TOKIO, July 23.—(8y Mall)—The que* tiom of the return of Shantung was discussed in an interview given the International News Service here today by Air. Hoo Tei-Teh, Chinese minister to Tokio. While emphasizing that he had received no formal Instructions from his home government on the mutter—and for thli reason feeling sure that no negotiations had begun—-Mr. Hoo stated he felt positive regarding public opinion on Shane tung in China.

CHINESE FUELING HOSTILE TO JATAX. “The public of China is today flatly opposed to any sort of direct negotiation* with Japan,” • said Air. Hoo. “Whiia Chinese feeling toward Japan doe 6 not run as high aa it did some time ago, the people of the republic have a feeling that If they treat with Japan direct their Interests may not be served as well aa if the matter is taken before a group of nations. This may or may not be the attitude of the government. But I hav* no instructions regarding the negotiations.” Opinion in Japan has appearently run strongly in saver of negotiating directly with China, for some time. Experts on Far Eastern affairs have made it plain that Japan was hurting her case internationally by failing to act in the matter of the return of Shantung. Mr. Obata, Japanese minister to Peking, plainly ! stated that he had urged Japan to start negotiations. j Writers and authorities have added their plea that Japan save herseli from having the Shantung ca ;e aired—say before the League of Nations. CHINESE DO NOT LIKE JAPANESE. Mr. Hoo declared that he knew of na offers having been made to his government by Tokio ! “If they are made,” he added, “they j may or may not be aeepted. But I am j positive of the attitude of tlie people. The Chinese must be educated to like the Japanese; we are neighbors and i there are reasons as yet for our coi operation. But the work has not gotten far along enough as yet for our people to understand why we should negotiate directly with Japan on such a matter lus Shantung.”

TULSA CHIEF HELD GUILTY Failed to Take Proper Precaution for Public Safety During Riots, Jury Says. TULSA, Ok!., July 23.—John A. Gustafson, suspended chief of nolice, was to be sentenced today tor failure to do his duty during the Tulsa riots. Gustafson was found guilty by a Jury late last night of charges of ‘'failure to take proper precautions for pul lie safety during the recent race riots.” The chief was also declared guilty of conspiracy to free auto thieves aud collect rewards. Attorneys are preparing a motion for anew trial for Gustafson. The jury found Chief Gustafson guilty of failure to properly protect lives and property during the race rioting Alay 31 and June 1 and also guilty of conspiracy to free automobile thieves and collect rewards. Gustafson said he would take the case to the high'St courts. The verdiot carries no sentence, but automatically removes the chief from office.

Music Notes Miss Fleanora Beauchamp, student of Willoughby Boughton of the College of Music and Fine Arts, and member of the faculty, will be presented in piano recital Monday eevulng In the college hall. The program will include the following numbers. “Andante Con Yariazioni’’ (Ilaydu), “Sonata in C. Major” (Brahms*. “Prelude in A. Flat Major,” “Impromptu A. Flat” “Sposalizion), “The Fountain of the Aeqm 1’aola” (Grlffes), and “Etude de Concert” (MacDowell). • Arthur J. Berlault of the dramatic department of tlie Metropolitan School of Music has gone to Chatauqua, N. Y„ to enter classes being conducted by Prof. S. * H. Clark of Chicago University. Mr. Beriault will return for the opening of the fall term, Sept. 5. • • * The closing students’ recital of the summer term of the Metropolitan School of Music will be given Saturday afternoon in the Odeon. Those taking part Include Russell Bass, Thelma Skaggs, Rosemary Morrissey, Helen Palmer, Bertha Otte. Marcia Clapp, Wesley Williams, Blanche Steinmeier, Ida Helen Sullivan. Ruth Landers, Esther Steinmeier, Ethel May, Lowell Love, Inez Rnish, Helen Morman, Everett Hanks, Minnie Raplan, Wayne Van Sickle, Dorothy Anna Alien, Edna Moulton, Jessie fletherington, La Vella Van Lan--inghaxn, Margaret 81110, Cecil Thomas, Erwin Mubleubruch and Otis Pruitt. AGENT FOR HOWARD COUNTY. KOKOMO, Ind., July 23.—Friends of a county agent for Howard County won over a long-time opposition when the county council appropriated $1,500 to apply on the salary of an agent. The sum of s.">oo deposited by the county board of education will he used to equip an office anil to meet various expenses.

Clay Almost Turns to Ice in Frosty Cell of Storehouse Stv>r!al to The Times. LAFAYETTE. Inil., July 23.—1 t was a cold day in July for Davis Clay, brnkeman on a Monun sonth-bound train. This morning Clay became thirsty and ns the train pulled into the yards, he jumped from it and ran to the ice house to get a chunk to eat. Someone saw the door standing open, but failed to see the young man enter the ice house and he closed the door. Clay was unable to escape and he could not make himself heard. As the train was ready to pull out tho brakeman was missed and a search found him imprisoned in his frosty jail. Clay was almost turned to ice.

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