Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1921 — Page 7

CONFERENCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT ENDS DISTRESS? Difficulties Between Capital and Labor Taboo at Meeting, Says Hoover. CONGRESS TO COOPERATE Special to Indiana Daily Timas and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—The national unemployment conference, plans for which are being worked out by Secretaries Hoover and Davi*. will concentrate upon the solution of the direct problem of obtaining work for the heads of families. Programs for industrial peace and discussions of points at Issue between capital and labor will be taboo. The personnel of the conference will be small, probably not more than twelve or fifteen delegates representing the various lnteresta and a thorough survey of the unemployment situation will be made with the single view to alleviating distress. Although figures compiled by the Department of Labor as of June, place the unemployment In the United States at more than five and a half million. Secretary Hoover is inclined to believe the situation is not as had as the figures indicate. The Job of the conference, he said, will be to get at the exact number of prime bread winners who are out of work as distinguished from he hundreds of thousands who took up Jobs during the war period or thereafter because of the increased demand for all forms of labor. Adoption by the conference of a definite program. Secretary Hoover believes, will go a long way toward quieting the situation. There is, he thinks, a great deal of “unwarranted fear'* that there will be unusual suffering because of the industrial situation. The duty of the Government. be contended today, is to get before the public a plan for unity of action. “The problems of tntermlttance and Irregularity of employment might be solved by the conference." said Mr. Hoover, "and In this manner something really constructive accomplished.'' The cooperation of Congress was promised the conference by Senator Walsh. Massachusetts, Democrat, and author of a resolution now pending which calls upon the Senate Committee on Education and Labor to investigate the causes of unemployment and recommend measures of relief. ••The unemployment situation in this country is very serious,” said Senator Walsh. “Before the winter Is passed I fear it will have reached the pathetic stage. We should do something to avert the possibility es such a condition which the present unemployment foreshadows. President Harding will have my hearties? support and that of all the members of Cong*s in the undertaking to find out the conditions and remedy them."— Copyright, 1921. by Public Ledger Cos. LABOR DEMANDS SEAT IN CONFERENCE WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. Organized labor leaders are preparing today to insist upon representation at the unemployment Congress to be called by President Harding in September. It was learned that Sam Gompers and other labor officials will ask President Harding to insure the presence ts their spokesman at the round table.

LIE IS PASSED AT HEARING ON STATE PLAZA (Continued From Tage One.) ment defending the good names of the men whom he said were behind the re monstrance and denouncing the opposl tion fn rhaving attempted to blacken their reputations by unfair, cowardly means. LIE IS PASSED; BLOWS THREATENED. The session grew tense when Dr. John N. Taylor charged Attorney Thompson had resorted to "dissimulation, the worst form of lying cowardice." Leaning across a table Mr. Thompson shook a long finger at the physician and shouted: “I'll meet you afterwards, but you tr.n't get away with that stuff with r.ie.” Dr. Furniss and President Russell Wlllaon of the council rapped for order and the two disputants were quieted. Testimony of the remonstrators and their agents was interpreted as indicattug they believed the large number of penciled signatures traced with ink were so doctored after the petition was filed. The pro-plaza forces combated this with much heat, it being contended the names today are Just as they were the day the document was left at the city clerk’s office. The remonstrators also brought out testimony to the effect the circulators were rery carefully instructed to get only valid signatures, that some of them were mbjected to beatings and other indig cities at the hands of members of the American Legion and that when Clgjide W. Miller and C. A. York, went to the office of Corporation CXmnsel Samuel Aahby In the city hall last Thursday morning and asked to see the evidence af fraud which the pro plaza forces claimed to have Mr. Ashby refused to let them see it, stating he understood It was to be exhibited only to Newton Harding, attorney for the remonstrators. In the first bearings. PRO-PLAZA PEOPLE MAKE DENIAL. The pro-plaza people denied this al-o. giving testimony to show that while Mr. Ashby denied the two remonstrators the right to see the actual evidence he offered to # get for them a copy of the answer filed at the first hearings which oet out in detail all of the signatures whose validity was attacked. William K Jcif, Jesse Ray, C. A. York. William Allen Judson, J. C. Fogle and Mr. Miller were among the men who passed the remonstrance and who testified that the signatures they got were valid. They told what they said when they asked voters to sign the paper, denying they misrepresented It in any nay. Kay declared that when pressed for his reasons for being against the plaza project he had on occasions asserted It was just for the benefit of one 'ity official and said “down deep in my heart 1 be’ieve that today.” Pressed by a councilman for the name of the official, Ray said he meant the mayor, of the solicitors said names might have been signed in the same handwriting as the pro-plaza people charge wheu persons took the remonstrance sheets inside homes to geP to pen and ink. leaving them (the circulators) on the trout porch. “If a soldier can't have a chance to vote, why should he fight for his country." said Judson. an ex-service man. tork told how Prosecuting 1 Attorney William P. Evans of Marion County had called him to the courthouse and h3d attempted to get h'itn to stop working for the remonstrance. York is a member of the American Legion and a paftially fiistbled veteran, it is said. He said the prosecutor overstepped ail bounds of propriety by "forgetting I wasn't on the witness stand." ROBERTS' NAME ENTERS TESTIMONY. The name of Donn Roberts crept into the bearing during York's testimony. The former soldier bad just finished telling how he had heard Dr. Keene at a meeting of the Marlon County council of the

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American Legion assert he wanted 200 volunteers to help find the names of “dead men" and other Invalid s guatures to the petition, in case It was filed, when he spoke of having been practically threatened by a man whom be understood was from the prosecutor's office, that there was to be a grand jury investigation of the remonstrance. He said this man was Donn Roberts. “Os Terre Haute?" he was asked. "No. but he claims to be a cousin of that one," replied York. He said Roberts was “very insistent to know how much I was going to get out of this and what he’d get out of it.’ The uext time Donn Roberts came into the limelights was when Claude W. Miller testified. He said that two days before the remonstrance was Hied Roberts came to him and grew inquisitive. He said he knew Roberts through having been associated with him In the World War veterans' membership drive a year and a half ago. Roberts told him, he said, “any time there’s any big business up you cut me out." "He was referring to a circus we had at Tomlinson hall, I think,' said-Miller. MILLER TURNS DOWN" PROPOSITION. The chief remonstrance circulator went on to say Roberts kept hinting that, being a married man he (Miller) might be able, to use some extra money and that SI,OOO ought to look pretty good to him. He told Roberts nothing to do with such a scheme, that he wouldn't sell out, but the alleged “go-between" told him to think it over and at least hold off the petition for a day or two and he would, be ba'-k. The next time he came back Miller said he had his brother pres ent as a witness and that when Roberts asked him "Miller, what's your prjee?” be replied. "Roberts my price is to see that peti tion filed down at the city clerk's office." An argument ensued. Miller said, in which Roberts asked him if he would not feel better if in years to come when his son walked out Pennsylvania street be could proudly saj of the gr<at plaza: "My father helped build this?” Miller said he answered he would not feel very good if his son would have to go out Pennsylvania street and say “they were able to spend these millions of dollars of the people's money because my father sold himself out." It was not more than forty five minutes after Roberts had told Miller to think the matter over for a while, the chief of the remonstrance agents testified, until he got a call from a newspaper reporter, telling him that an American Legion of floial had just eal!e*|_ at the editorial department and stated “Miller is about to sell out." The reporter, according to Miller, said he told the legion man that he did not believe Miller wqitld .sell ■ out aDd thereupon the legionnairi* slfitl:

SAID INFORMER WAS DR. KEENE. "Yon needn't bo too cocksure of that.” Miller said the reporter finally told him the legion man was I>r. Keene. Turning to Dr. Keene. Miller asked if the doctor would mind telling him how he got information that he was staling out. “You'll know, my boy, if you'll wait around a while.'' replied Dr. Keene. Mr. Thompson Interposed a statement to the effect that the American Legion had received a number of offers that certain things would happen if money were forthcoming. Dr. Keene wa® sworn later and testified Roberts came to his office and "in timated rather broadly” he could get hold of the remonstrance, although he did not mention any specific names. "You turned his proposition down?" asked Mr. Thompson. “Cold,” replied the doctor LEGION GIVES ROBERTS SETBACK. That Roberts came to his office also was testified by Mr. Cantwell. He said the deputy prosecutor said he thought “these boys” were hard up and that he could deliver the remonstrance for about S2OO, or words to that effect. The chairman of the Marion County Council of the American I.egion said he told Roberts the legion was not in that kind of business, that if citizens were signing the remon strance in good faith then the legion was for them. He said Rober's told him to think it over, that he would be back and added lr did come back, only to get the same refusal. Mr. Waddell argued the remonstrance was sufficient, the pro-plaza evidence against It entirely incompetent and the council could do nothing but call a special election. Mr. Thompson °nded the hearing with a brief summary of the pro-plaza posl tion, namely, that the harden of proving there were enough uignatures on the re monstrance to fill the required number of 8,500 rested upon the remonstrafors sinV 5.000 names bad been challenged, and that such proof had not been made STATEMENT READY BY DR. TAYLOR. The statement, which was signed l.y Dr. James H. Taylor and W. B. Wad dell, and which was read by Dr. Taylor, Is as follows: “In view of the numerous statements derogatory to tHe character and motives of those who have espoused the referendum cause, we deem it timely to make some detailed observations upon several features pertaining to the question. “As the term American Legion will bp frequently mentioned, and as no refleetion is meant against that institution; and in order that we may not be misunderstood. we shall preface this communication with the remark that we honor the American Legion, indorse its patriotic purposes, and heartily commend its earrest endeavor to promulgate the prin ciples embodied in the preamble of its constitution. “We heartily faror the World War memorial provided for by the General Assembly In August. 1920 Out opinions may differ as to the propriety of securing a plaza for the World War memorial, but we am unaniinoivOy in favor of the petition whb-h mentis, let rh> question of spending millions of dollars for a plaza be submitted to the qualified voters of our city for th"ir approval or rejection “Further, this is our unanimous dictum: If the people vote in favor of the plaza, we will accept the verdict with graceful contentment. “At the public hearing' July 27. when the unwarranted attack was madp upon the remonstrance for referendum—a re monstrance. In fact, against the declaratory resolution passed by the city council it was not a surprise, because from the Incipleney of the movement, there was evidence of intentional unfair methods. “Even when it was rumored that s remonstrance was being considered, long before It was drafted, a self-appointed leader of the American Legion, ai an indignation' uieetlug, intent upon thro rtling his neighbors (Indianapolis citizens! in their endeavor to exercise a

legal right (granted by the Indiana General Assembly), is known to have made threats in substance us follows: " 'Boys, whenever a petition Is found in circulation, it must be destroyed,' and as soon as a petition Is filed (thev will be sharp enough not to file It until the last minute) we must have two hundred of our men ready to get the signer* to withdraw their names, and we will inspect the dead men's names and wrong addresses on the petition.’ “SANCTUARY OF BALLOT INVADED." “Not only were the threats to cause the destruction of petitions and the effort to have signers withdraw, put into execution, hut the same Self-appointed leaders of the American Legion, entered the sacred depository of the ballot, on a Sab bath day and without right removed the same to private quarters. This action i* an unpardonable offense, and who knows but that the dead mens names and wrong addresses were placed there by their own handg "Again, shortly after the petition was filed, an effort was made to boycott the business of a prominent signer. This public spirited citizen, suffering a financial loss, was much perturbed at first, but upon reflection, and out of the charitableness of his magnanimous nature, refused to resent the matter. “Later, the letter and card were mailed to all signers gs the remonstrance These letters and cards are ambiguous and misleading, and show an intent to Intimidate those who simply exercised tbeir legal rights Have we degenerated into a Soviet America? “Are the champions of the measure to be permitted to continue their activities in a spirit of derision and ridicule and suppress the rights of citizenship? "It sLould be observed Unit a majority of the solicitors were well known, successful and respected citizens, and that they represented many walks in life manufacturers. merchants. minister*, bankers, lawyers, physicians, capitalist*. State officials, heads of financial institutions, clerks, cx service men. and others, all of whom are held in high esteem in this community. Members of the Amer lean Legion, in fact, every body knows that the plaza hill was killed at the ape elal session in August, 1920; that it was voted on in 1921. and again met its death Everybody knows, too. that the Indiana General \ssembly, late In the session of 1921. at the urgent request of self constituted spokesmen of the Amor icaii Legion, and others, who promised that if the Assembly would pass the bill, they (members of the American Legion and others) would welcome it with a referendum with open arm* "What right hare they to impugn the motives of the signers? Tills is neither fair nor honest. The real question Is, arw there sufficient signatures to comply with the law? “The referendum and remonstrances were conceived In the minds of the friends of the bill, and the General Assembly made provision for them at their solicitation. PETITION WAS SCRUTINIZED CAREFULLY. “And yet. before the ink with which the law was printed had dried, these friends of the measure branded the re monstrance (their own creation) as in famous anil unpatriotic. "These self j-nnstif ut?d leaders do not voice the sentiment of all members of the American Legion, nor do all mem hers of the legion approve the methods adopted against those who only exercised their legal rights Those wtio drafter the remonstrance, as well as those who aigned it. are loyal and patriotic. "A spontaneously organized effort to obtain so many signatures (nearly thir teen thousand) In such a brief period itwenty six days), might result In some irregularities "The eommlttoe In charge of the petition. in order to satisfy itself that it was regular and the signatures genu'ne. ev a mined every page with great care, with tiie assistance of a well-known handwriting expert. "The eimimittee acted under the legal right of referendum conferred in the law. and it was cognizant of the fact that one of the basic principles of our Government Is to give an opportunity to those who are raxed, to express themselves in the matter "The Legislature, In passing this act, does not say the people shall have a plaza. The act merely says one may be secured under the terms ami provisions named. Among these is the provision to

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submit the question to a vote of the people. The petition on file asks that this be done, and the wHI of the peußde be ascertained. This 1b -i common right of American citizenship. Our constitution recognizes it, our statutes declare it, every citizen is entitled to it. And we stoutly insist upon its observance. Thank God our legislative and judicial bodies have never limited this right to Influential groups or minorities. Therefore, we pray y< u in the name of justice and fair dealing. don’t rob the people of their rights.” EIGHT STUDENTS OF NAVY RESIGN Hoosier Included in List Preferring Civil Life. ANNAPOLIS. Md., Aug. 30.—Eight midshipmen, six of the second class and two of the third, who recently returned to Annapolis from the annual summer practice cruise, have resigned from the Navy and their resignations have been accepted. Because they preferred a career In civil life to the service was the reason assigned for the resignations. Those who resigned are: Edgar Lewis and William A. Schaeffer. Jr, of Illinois; John P. Alee, Indiana; Miles W. Pennybgker. West Virginia; Alfred W. Schneider, Wisconsin, and William A. L. Sibley, Georgia, of the second class, and George E. Barnett, Tennessee, and Harold G. Daniels. At least 215, and possibly more, midshipmen will be deprived of all or part of their September vacations, according to announcement made by authorities of the academy today, because of minor breaches of regulations during the practice cruise or for dellquenej in studies. Those who Will be held l ack for the latter season will receive re-examinations, and continuance with their respective class will lie dependent upor. the result of these teals.

PROHI AGENTS UNDER ARREST Charged With Extortion— More Arrests Are Expected. CHICAGO. Aug. 30 James Haggerty nnd Clay Wilson, former prohibition agents, are under arrest here today charged’with extortion. They are al leged to have obtained approximately SIOO,OOO from saloonkeepers in Chicago suburbs. At least five other arrests to tie made, two of them saloonkeepers. Their plan of operation, according to the intelligence agents, was such that they could repeat It a number of times. Two of the hand would enter a saloon and offer to sell whisky to the saloon keefer. The saloon mail would purchase the whisky and the sellers would depart. Two or three more of the gang then would enter the place and, posing as Government agents, place the saloon keener under arrest and seize the whisky, to be used at the next stopping place. One of the raiders would tell the sa loon keeper they would let him go for a consideration. It Is known definitely, acording to the intelligence agents, that one man paid $2,100 for his freedom and that another proffered SSOO. When this was refused he raised the price to SI,OOO, which was accepted.

BIG BUSINESS GLOOMY, LITTLE FRY CHEERFUL (Continued From I'age One.) to tie, hut In times like the present It seems to me to he good policy to pro mote hi lldlng. Otherwise we will commit the same error wo have before and all want to go at It at the same time and drive costs up on ourselves " Toledo presents the same phenomena ns other cities visited industry lagging, but retail trade pretty good. The latent buying power of the public is remarkable evidence that with all the talk of wild extravagance there was a pretty fair measure of thrift with a goodly percentage of the people. With Improvement in (lie steel and automobile businesses, Toledo would change almost over night In Its view ns to general conditions The decline In lake traffic has affected the city measure tialy. There are more vessels operating now than a month ago, but that does not mean much for It was dreadfully dull in the ettrlv month? of navigation There are some big ore and coal ships In the Maumee, but not many and the ship meats of coal are better. Movement of ore is st a low ehb and [here Is no sign of betterment for the stack of ore now p led up or being unloaded is sufficient to keep the plants hereabout supplied for a year.—Copyright, 1921, by I’ublle Ledger Cos.

WOOD MATTER TO x>E DROPPED, WEEKS CLAIMS No Effort to Be Made to Have Decision Changed. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—Efforts to have the House Military Affairs Committee reconsider Its action lntabling the bill which would have permitted Gen. Leonard Wood to keep his active rank while serving as Governor General of the Philippines, will not be undertaken by the War Department, it is announced by John W. Weeks, Secretary of War. Mr. Weeks said he had heard nothing officially from General Wood since the House Committee acted, but his inference was. he believed General Wood would tak? the place without the sanctions sought under the bill. He characterized the opposition to the hill in the House first as "trivial" a statement which he afterwards qualified to “without foundation.” “The objections of the House to permitting General Wood to hold his active rank while serving as Governor Genera! of the Philippines appear to me to be without foundation," said Mr. Weeks. "The precedent which would be set would not be a harmful one. The measure provides that such exception should be shown in only three offices. 1 can see no reason why an officer of the Army should not be governor general of the Philippines. Vice governor there or governor of Porto Rico, In fact I think it might be very expedient to name an Army officer vice governor of the IJbilipplneg. He would, of course, be a younger officer, adapted peculiarly for the place and a man who might not want to sacrifice the remainder of his artny career to accept the appointment. I have no plans, however, to attempt to change the minds of the members of the house committee and have seen nothiug yet from General Wood as to how he feels.”— Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

WILL NOT HOLD JOINT SERVICES Joint Memorial FManned for Next Week in Abbey. LONDON, Aug. 30.—Joint funeral scrv ices for the English and American vie tiins of the ZR-2 disaster virtually have been abandoned. It was learned today. It Is considered likely, however.-a joint memorial service may be held in West minster Abbey early next week. Relatives of the English victims na turally are anxious for the speediest pos sthie return of the bodies and tills Is given as the main reason for the aban donment of the original plan to hold a monster Joint funeral service over all the recovered bodies. The royal air force Is arranging to give extraordinary military honor to the victims. Squads of airmen will escort each body to the victim'* re speettve homes and attend the funerals. British airmen algo will escort the bodies of the American victims to Plymouth.

TURK-GREEK WAR REACHES CRISIS Fiercest Fighting Rages Along; Entire Front. LONDON, Aug. 30.—The supreme crisis In the Torcn Greek war tn Asia Minor is at hand, the latest despatches rrotn the battle front show. The fiercest ftghttug is in prog-ess along the whole front today. acording to word from Constantinople. The Turkish nationalist forces under Mustapha Kemnl are using cavalry, /be Turkish losses are described ns heavy. The Greeks are bringing up reserves tn nn effort to turn the tide of battle which has been running against them the last few days. The latest Greek official report, received here from Athens, said violent fighting continues near Sangarium M. Ktrelt, head of the Greek delegation to the League of Nations meeting, has postponed his departure for Geneva, tc. await the outcome of the present battle. PRINTERS GO RACK to WORK. BLOOMINGTON, 111.. Aug 30 Printers who have been on strike here since July 1, returned to work today. The men were granted a forty-four hour week ; 52 cents per week increase In pay nnd $1 per week Increase starting Jan. 1

Binding Pact to Prevent War Held Vital to Disarmament

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—A written, binding pact between the United States and-leadiiig nations to prevent wars of aggression and to compel arbitration of international disputes must precede any material reduction In military or naval armaments, Senator McCumber of North Dakota, ranking Republican member of the Senfte Foreign Relations Committee, declared today Unless the United States is willing and able to bring about a league or an association of the bigger nations to prohibit war and enforce peace, the approaching Washington conference on disarmament and kindred problems, will, in Senator MeCumber's judgment, fail to decrease the crushing burden of armaments. A mere agreement to reduce armaments is neither possible nor practicable, Senator McCumber believes. Neither Great Britain, France, Italy or Japuu would consent to one, he is certain, unless the United States were willing to go further and join

AMERICAN LEGION NOTES

The body of Frederick W. Galbraith. Jr., National commander of the American Legion at the time of his accidental death at Indianapolis, in June, will not be interred hi Arlington National Cemetery at Washington, D. C., according to advices from the widow and brother of the iate eoyamander. Burial will be made at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 0., where the body was placed In a temporary vault following the largest military funeral in America since the Civil Wur. With the practical closing of the har vest season, the employment office of ar, American Legion post at Aberdeen, S. D , where I. W. W.s tried to cause a general "strike" among farm hands, has closed. In three weeks tHe Legion nerved 1.017 free meals, found jobs for Hl7 men, gave 301 places to sleep, gave 373 free buths anil twelve treatments by the post physician. The city election iri Birmingham, Aia , may be postponed at the request of an American Legion post of that city. The service men want to vote. When a law exempting them from poll tax was declared unconstitutional recently, the men were disqualified as voters. Thirty thousand World War veterans of the State tire affected. Evidence of the plight of unemployed service men was carried to cultured Boston. Mass., last week when Armand T. Onudrean. University of Maine graduate, besought the American Legion Employment Bureau for any work that he <ouid do. Previously Gaudreau, dressed in his collegiate cap and gown, appeared in the streets of the banking section, selling newspapers A silver reproduction of the historic) statue atop Castle Kan Angeio. Italy, mounted on a pedestal ofriflone from Mt. Grappa, will ftp- brought to the American Legion by General Armando Diaz, cotu-mander-in-chief of the Italian armies when he attends the legion convention at Kansas City in October, cable dispatches declare. To send back to her home on the Rhine, the German widow of an American donghbov, wearer of five battle, clasps and cited fur valor, the American Legion „f New York is raising a fund of $250. The veteran met his bride while with the Army of Occupation and through illness left hpr practically penniless upon his recent death. Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy, and Charles It. Fori es, natiouul director of the Buraeu of War Risk Insurance, spoke on the same platform in addressing the State convention of the American Legion of North Carolina last week. The old Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago will be taken over by the American Legion of that city for the exclusive use of homeless and jobless service men iu plans now being worked out by the le-

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with them in a solemn, definite, cooperative understanding, set down in black and white and signed, that neither shall engage In a war of aggression nor refuse to arbitrate whatever contentions may arise between them. “Total disarmament is out of the question and will remain so,” Senator McCumber said, “until by mutual agreement between all nations capable of making war, war Is made an Impossibility. “And, Just to the extent President Harding is able to consummate such an agreement between the powerful mitious," he continued, “just to that extent will be be able to decrease the burden or armaments. “Such a compact must precede not only complete disarmament, but to my mind, it must precede any great or substantial reduction in military or naval armaments." It is Senator MeCumber’s opinion that Great Britain alone will not consent to the "scrapping’’ of her navy.

gionnaires. Accommodations will be pro- ; vided for I,OUO men. j When President Harding visits BirmI inghatn, Ala., in October he will be at- : tended by an honor guard of 1,000 members of the American Legion, drawn from , each of the eighty posts of the State. ! The parents of Merle Hay, one of the three first Americans killed in the World War. will receive no Insurance because I their boy died before the war risk act became operative. The American Legion of lowa, Hay's home State, has petitioned for the parents’ relief and is seeking to fiuil any other parents whose sons “died too soon." Michael E. Cassidy, member of the American Legion post at Bisbee, Ariz., : and morale officer at Camp Cody, New [ Mexico, during the war, was last week appointed, appropriately enough, prohibition director for his arid State. 4 EX-GOVERNORS FOR AMENDMENT Marshall, Durbin, Ralston and Goodrich Sign Statement. The four living former Governors of Indiana and Governor Warren T. McCray have joined in a statement approving the proposed amendment to the State constitution which would give the chief executive power to veto separate items in appropriation bills. The former Governors are Thomas R. Marshall, Winfield T. Durbin, Samuel M. Ralston au-1 James P. Goodrich. The statement was given out at the office of Governor McCray, after Mr. Mai shall had telegraphed his approval. “The undersigned earnestly appeal to the voters of Indiana,” says the statement, “to support on Sept. 6 eonstitu- 1 tional amendment No. 5; this amend-j ment. If adopted, will make it possible for the Governor of this State to veto any item in the appropriation bill. "We believe this amendment to be in the interest of efficiency and economy. Under our constitution, as now, interpreted, the Governor must either approve, or disapprove, the appropriation bill in Its entirety; nearly always the general appropriation bill comes to the Governor in the closing hours of the General Assembly, and at a time when therp is a rush of other bills handed In for his consideration and he must choose the alternative of approving thff bill which frequently contains many items with which he has not had opportunity to acquaint himself and sometimes carries items of considerable magnitude which have no place in that bill, or veto the entire bill, which would re suit in an extra session of the Legis la lure. "Our experience justifies tis in the statement that the proper exercise of this power if given to the Governor would result In a large saving to the State of Indiana every session."

MAY SETTLE YAP DISPUTE PRIOR TO DISARM MEET All Nations Hope to Affect Agreement Between U. S. and Japan. AMERICA STANDS PAT Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Settlement of the issues in dispute between the United States and Japan over the Island of Y’ap —on which discussions are now in progress and an adjustment considered possible—will have to be passed on and approved by Great Britain. France and Italy also after Washington and Tokio compose their differences, according to information here. Extreme desire has been evinced by ail of tiie nations invited to sit as principals at the Washington conference to have this strenuous question disposed of. So strong is this feeling interchanges already''have been made relative to the final steps to be taken in the event an accord is reached between this country and Tokio. The plan most favored, It is understood, is for the two-powei agreement to be approved through diplomatic exchanges so the question may be omitted entirely from the agenda of the deliberations to be begun on Armistice day. This is the only one of the so-called "accomplished facts” that th Harding Administration is actively concerned with today. The others if they are to be presented by the Japanese, will be fought out at preliminary exchange of views before the coming conference. The United States, however, is perfectly willing to end the Yap matter, out without recession from its position of April 0. Nothing it has done since that time has weakened its stand. In fact, the attitude of the United States, as far as Yap was concerned, was strengthened by the signing of the German treaty. It provides that no action taken by the league should bind the United States without Its consent. The council of ths League of Nations acted once upon Yap, and although it afterward referred the issue back to the supreme council, the passage in the German treaty, which some of the irreeoncilables feared was a loophole for United States participation In the league, was really to strengthen the hold of the United States in ?ta rights at Yap and to prevent a recurrence of embarrassing action as far as the league is concerned. \ Another diplomatic step which th Harding Administration has decided upon, it has become known, is that In following the treaty signed with Germany no .consideration will be given to a treaty of amity and commerce until after ratification of the existing covenant by the Senate of the United State*. As far as this country is concerned, its rights are included in the Dresel-Rosen treaty, but many of its provisions are not reciprocal and the present Administration will have no objection to a treaty of definite terms wheu the Senate shall have acted—Copright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos. Alabama Farmers See Upward Trend BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 30.—There is cKT’nite evidence that business has started on the upward trend. The start comes from the logical, basic economic sourceagriculture. This was the prevailing thought today at the opening of the seventeenth annual convention of the Farmers’ Union of Alabama. These men. the primary producers of raw materials, believe that the general level of crop prices will probably be bettered during the remainder of the summer and full. Agriculture, they say, wag hit first when the decline came. The farmers were forced to take their losses immediately. They could not postpone the time as could men in other lines, but since the first shock came, have taken things philosophically and have set about to meet the new conditions.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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