Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1921 — Page 11

HARRISON RAPS RECORD ON ARMAMENTS Mississippian Renders Public Service in Suggesting Borah. OPEN SESSION WORRY By RICHARD UKIBICC3L WASHINGTON. Ail*. 25.—Senator Pat Harrison rendered a distinct public service when he suggested the appointment of Senator Borah to the disarmament conference and eulogized the Idaho Senator for hi* victory in passing the disarmament resolution against the prolonged opposition of his tthe Republican* party. While Senator Harrison complimented Senator Lodge, the Republican leader of the Senate, upon his apnointment aa a member of the disarmament conference, he also rasped the Republican Senator by an Inference to Senator Lodge's unfriendly attitude in the past toward disarmament. Desrite Senator Lodge's statement that he had not changed his views on the limitation of armament, but had always favored it, his entire record, especially on yo&my and Navy bills and his ventfmoaa opposition to the treaty of Versailles containing a scientific method for world disarmament justifies the remarks of Senator Harrison. The amendment favoring open sessions of the forthcoming disarmament conference la also likely to disturb the equanimity of the Massachusetts Senator in bis capacity as a member of the disarmament, conference as well as his colleagues who have been free in their criticism of al leged aecrecy at the Paris peace conference, but they have no word of pro-, test against the informal negotiations now being secretly conducted between thia country and Germany for a separate peace—the kind of peace against which Mr. Lodge has vehemently protested and which he declared would brand us with everlasting dishonor. Nothing, however, Is to be gained by accusing Senator Lodge of inconsistency in these matters because he has been on every aide of the questions of disarmament and the treaty making power. Recently, when Senator Lodge wn s accused by Senator Harrison of haring Insisted that the Senate had a right to have its say in advance of an actual signing of the peace treaty, the Massachusetts Senator replied: “That was not the case. I have said, and with some energy, that wo were entitled to have all the information about the negotiations (with Germany) after the treaty was presented.'' On March 19, 1919. Senator Lodge. In his debate with President Lowell of Harvard University, said: “If the President had laid that- draft before the Senate as other Presidents have done; if he had said to the Senate, ‘I submit this draft to you for your advice. I hope for your approval and for such suggestions as you may have to make,' he would haTe had the amendments laid before bim to present to the peace conference In Taris. The tattle would have been more than half won by the mere submission.'* This speech, made before the first draft of the treaty of Versailles was completed, psfeves the truth of Senator Harrison's charge and the falsity of Senator Lodge s denial. Senator Harrison's suggestion that Senator Borah should be named by President Harding as a member of the disarmament conference will doubtless meet with the hearty approval of the American people, because It was Senator Borab. supported by the Democrats of the Senate and the House and fortified and sustained by a democratic press that aroused public sentiment in favor of calling the conference to a point at which a Republican President a Re publican Congress did not dare longer to oppose it. „ _ - _ In commending Senator Borah "or a place at the disarmament conference table. Senator Harrison paid him the following tribute-: ■'But. Mr. President, whether people will agree with the appointment of the Secretary of State and the Senator riom Massachusetts or cot, I believe that the American people look to the President of the United States at this time to appoint one man above all others on this disarmament conference. He has been the commanding figure In the right for limitation of armaments since the third of last November. He has thrown his ►magnetic personality Into the right as no other man has. He has waged warfare on those who would bring the large Navy and Army appropriation bills, and be has won out. He has done more than anyone else In the last eight months to crystallize public sentiment In America for disarmament. You have not forgotten. Senator, that it was the distinguished senior Senator from Idaho (Mr. Borah) who offered his amendment to the naval bill months ago asking for a conference on disarmament. He received no sympathy from the other side of the aisle for his program, and not an iota of cooperation catr.e from the White Honse to help him in the great fight he was making for disarmament." The House of Representatives In all its history has rarely witnessed as sad and as disgraceful a spectacle as that made by Chairman Fordney of the great Ways and Means Committee of that body In presenting th* Tax Revision bill, which shonld be the greatest economic meesnre of all time*, but which. In Its preeert form. Is largely the handiwork of Jugglery and political trickery. Chairman Fcrdney's references to former President Wilson would\have been In bad taste even in the Republican cloakroom, but made upon the floor of the Honse they were positively offensive. He did not desist until appealed to by Representative Garner, the minority spokesman, to leave an IXI man alone end cease to “besmirch” hit character. ChnlrFordney spoke of former President Wilson “Strutting about Paris like a peacock," and gave an imitation of .how he imagined the former President looked there. He the former President took “two honeymoons" to Paris and attributed alleged war extravagance to Mr. Wilson's “desire for self-aggrandizement at the expense of the taxpayers.” He charged that Mr. Wilson put the railroads under Federal control for political purposes, appointing his son-in-law to run them. ‘•Was that the reason yon voted for the Government taking over the railroads?” asked Mr. Garner. “I voted to put the President in a hole, and we did." Mr. Fordney shouted. Whether at the prompting of conscience or at the suggestion* of colleagues. Mr Fordney later said he “was only Joking" when he made the remark about putting the President in a hole, from which the pnbUc can get Mr. Fordney s idea of a joke. As Mr. Gamer pointed ont. Chairman Fordney devoted about ten minutes of hi* speeeh to the revenue bill and the balance of his long harangue to abuse ofi the Democratic party and personal attacks upon former President Wilson. 4: was a humiliating scene both for the fonse and the country. Representative Garner of the Ways and Means Committee tfhe Democratic members were not allowed to take part !ik the making of the bill) epitomized the- iniquitous character of the tax rer‘tn mu when he said: “The whole bill la drawn in the interest of those who pay high taxes and against those who p- J. • tares ” B~ exposed the rocklea* character of

Movie Scandal Hushed by Sale of Film Paper

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RAYMOND G. CARROLL. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. —One of the dormant scandals of the motion picture business, after having been the subject of gossip for several weeks, has finally found Its way into the office of the district attorney of New York County. It concerns the love affairs of the head of one of the largest motion picture houses and goes something like this: A, young woman writer of scenario having lost the affections being transferred to a motion picture actress, committed suicide. Now. tt appears one of the many film publications of the country arranged for an exposure of the whole affair, but a widely known theatrical manager, said to be a close friend of the involved motion picture king, intervened and negotiated for $20,000 a change in ownership of the magazine that had the details of the affair. Just where a crime has been committed doe* not appear at thus writing, although the scandal in the light of the recent Boston roadhouse exposure reflects somewhat unfavorably on film land. In the event Gen. Leonard Wooa accepts the appointment of Governor General of the Philippines for the limited term of one year, under a compromise that will allow him to’ remain on the active list of the Army, it was reported in New York he may be succeeded after one year by Horace M. Towner, chairman of the Congressional Committee on Insular Affairs. Representative Towner is from lowa. “Ten rubles for a nickel. A bargain," shouted a walking bank In Madison Square. He was a young Russian Jew from the lower East Side. “People buy them for curiosities,” he said, "and the market always rises when Russia is in

Chairman Fordney's statement that tho railroads had cost the Government under Federal control $4,000,000,000 by stating that the total appropriations for the roads bad been $2,600,000,000. Mr. Garner also called attention to the fact that the express companies bad been relieved of $17,000,000 In taxes, but that no taxes had been taken off the parcels post. In line with the policy of the Democratic rarty to be constructive. Representative Garner submitted his plan for taxation, which. In a nutshell, Is that he would employ Inheritance, personal and corporation Income and tobacco taxes. The excess profits tax would be the last he would repeal. Following Mr. Garner's speech, a Republican congressman said to the writer: If someone on our Bide doesn't answer Garner's speech we will be In a hole when It comes to explaining this bill to our constituents.” "Why don't you have somebody answer it?” I asked. "I don't know whether we've got anybody on our side that can answer it," he replied. Bungling and lack of a program have been charged against Republicans in the making of both tho tariff and tax revision bills by Democratic spokesmen and In this correspondence, and the charge is now supported by an editorial in the Washington paper alleged to be owned and controlled in part by Herbert Hoover, who, perhaps, is the best author, ity In such matters In the present Cabinet. But Mr. Hoover evidently is not consulted about such things, and If be is consulted.he is not heeded. Here Is what his paper has to say about the bungling methods of making thia tax bill and the confusion It will cause, especially to business men: “The one extreme fault of the new revenue bill, as the Herald sees It, Is the fact that it is not a bill for anew law. but a series of amendments of JO.OOO words In the total. To make the law, one law, these two will have to be real studied and construed together ljjgtndf simplifying, this will greatly complicate the law as a -hole and make Its construction more the work of a 'Philadelphia lawyer' and Impossible to the average business man. ! "Why the committee choose this method rather than rewriting and making one complete act, is beyond any but congressional ken. It should not be made m*re ! necessary than before to hire a lawyer to find what the tax Is, even by a man of moderate Income. It should not be made : necessary to read the two laws together when they could be easily combined in one. Reference to sections, subdivisions of sections and the fact of amendment,

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the newspapers, like now, with people over there starving." Hi stock consisted of one ruble notes, which before the fall of the Imperial government were worth 61 cents each. The Russian monetary unit Is now worth even less than nothing in actuality, but intrinsically the value is whatever paper money collectors choose to make it. Louis Morgan, winner of tho Paris prize of the Eoole Des Beaux arts, came within an ace of going on the concert stage two and one half years ago, when Ko failed in his first attempt to capture the prize with its money equivalent of $3,000 net, payable quarterly. His friends and relatives dissuaded him and he set his mind and hands anew to ths task of a second attempt. The test in which he wns the victor was the planning of a great municipal building for an imaginary city. He is 20 years old and a wounded war veteran, who started his career as office boy with a firm of architects in Lexington avenue. The Japanese ere masters at tennis and they could best ns at baseball, Is the oj inion of two authorities. Vincent Richards, a tennis expert, has picked the Japanese contestants as the probable winners over the Australians in the deciding series for the Davis cup. Mischa Elman, the violinist, who has Jist returned from tho Orient, says be was most impressed In Japan by the way baseball was being played there. “The young Japanese play the game." he said, "with such expertness and abandon that I could see them as dangerous competitors to any of the best American teams. They can hit a ball, let me tell you."—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.

which are all mystifying, would not appear and only the one document would have to be consulted. "The amendments ss offered by the committee, were published by the New York Times and fill eleven columns of small type set solid. To piece these amendments Into the present law will make an oid-fashloned New England latch work quilt. In Its form as amendments the bill will create a temper among taxpayers not favorable to the congressional majority. The mere convolutions created will arouse hostility and profanity. AIT of this can be avoided by merely rewriting the law ns a whole, really simplifying It as promised and not making It vastly more complex, as is now proposed." CITY MAT HAVE BRIDLE PATHS. Bridie paths will be established In Indianapolis shortly If the plans advanced by the civic committee of the Lions Club are carried out. The Idea was Indorsed at a meeting of the club yesterday and Dr. Edward A. Willis, chairman of the civic committhee. was directed to take the matter tip with the Chamber of Commerce.

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POTTERS NOT CONTENT WITH NEW PAY RATE Latest Wage Scale Subject of Controversy by Workers. BAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio.. Aug. 25 Workers seemingly are not satisfied with the wage agreements signed between the labor committee representing the United States Potters' Association and the Executive Board of the Nationnl Brotherhood of Operative Potters, which authorized a wage reduction of 10 por cent, effective as of Aug. 3 last, and an additional reduction of 7 per cent, effective as of Nov. 1 next. Th* conservative element, however, has admitted that the representative* of obtained an equitable adjustment. Other*, however, maintain that old *cale* should have remained intact

It Is rather early for the wage reduction* to have any effect on buying, as the manufacturers do propose to revise their selling lists and give the distributor*, both department-store buyers and Jobbers, th* benefit of any reductions that may be obtained In overhead and manufacturing costs. There has been a noticeable increase In the number of buyers In th# market during the last fortnight and since the adjustment of the wage discussions Thess buyers admit they have littlb stocks on hand and that they have been holding off buying until revisions were announced. Some of th# general ware pottery manufacturers have anticipated the result of the recent wage conference and prepared new selling lists, which are mow In the hands of customers. Wage costs are the same in every pottery In the United State*, especially those manufacturing dinner ware. Because of the Inactivity In the pottery Industry during the last eight weeks, stocks In warehouses been reduind. The decorating shops have been employed, while the manufacturing departments have been idle. Warehouse stocks In many Instances are rather uneven and broken. One healthful sign in the pottery In dustry Is tho character of the mails many manufacturers are receiving Not a few buyer* are asking that "held up" orders be started through the shops and shipped early. Cancellations are very few. The business situation In the stoneware pottery industry Is somewhat reversed to that of the white ware industry The nine stone ware potteries In the Crooksvllie, (Ohio) district are Idle because the workers there refused to accept a wage reduction as suggested by the employers— Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.

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