Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1921 — Page 11

SET OFFICIAL FOR P. 0. EXAMINATION Candidates for Postmaster’s Job Busy Extolling T’.ieir Virtues. FIVE NAMES MENTIONED Official announcement that examinations for the Indianapolis postmastership will be held Sept. 20, was received in this city from the Civil Sen Ice Commission at Washington today. The announcement gives the date of the vacancy as July 21, at which time the term of Robert B. Springsteen, expired. Mr. Spricg■teen, of course will hold over until lilt successor has been definitely selected. Tdie position carries with it a salary of? 6,000 a year. Five names have been mentioned moat frequently In connection with the position. William F. Cleary, clerk of the board of public works, has been making an active campaign among business men throughout the city under the theory that In the selection of tho postmaster, Washington will give far more attention to the iclnands of the business Interests of th city than to those of the professional politicians.

Robert H. Bryson, city controller, who was postmaster for four years immediately preceding the appointment of Mr Springsteen, present Incumbent. He is being backed by all the leaders of the old regular Republican machine and in addition has been getting a great deal of support lately from members of the Shank organization. At one time the entire Shank strength was thrown behind I'd J. Robison for the position, but he was removed from consideration by the executive or ler of May 10, 1921, which provided that no person who has passed his sixty-fifth birthday is elegible for the off ice. Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of the Republican State central committee and former secretary to Senator Harry S, New, Is also being discussed. Vhen Sir. Schortemeier was In Washington recently his name jumped into prominence ad a possibility for the office. He hae never made any announcement of his candidacy and has refused to either affirm or deny that he would accept the position if offered it. His friends seem to have been active on Ms behalf, au l there Is a strong probability that should It become necessary to name a Compromise candidate that Mr. Schortemeier would be the logical man under those circumstances. Richard Lowther, Probate Court reporter, and a strong Shank supporter, announced his candidacy some time ago. but It seems to have made little headway.

John T. Saulter, Investment broker. 8353 North Meridian street, was mentioned frequently for the position during the mayoralty primary race, and it was believed generally that in case Mr. Robinson obtained the nomination he would throw his support to Saulter. After Shank's nomination nothing further was heard of the Saulter candidacy until Mr. Robison was rerouted from consideration by the age limit rule. Since then his name has been mentioned frequently, but he has no strong organised support. From present indications Bryson has the inside track, with Schortemeier next in line in the event it becomes necessary to select a compromise man acceptable to all factions. METHOD OF EXAMINATION. Candidates will not be required to report for examination at any place but their applications will be carefully considered and the records gone into by postoffice inspectors. The announcement says they will be graded as follows. Education and training. 20 per cent, business experience and fitness SO per cent. The civil service rules do not require that the position be given to the candidate making the highest grade, but selection must come from among the throe highest.

QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY. AII applications must be filed ■with the Civil Service Commission at Washington not later than Sept. 20. Shortly after that it is understood that postoffice inspectors will visit Indianapolis to go into the records of the candidates carefully and at length. The rating on education and training and on business experience will be determined from information furnished in reply to the following questions: “Question 21. —With respect to both your general and technical or profession'll education, state fully and in detail the names and locations of the schools or colleges you have attended and the courses of study pursued by you in each, naming any degree or degrees received by you, date conferred, and the institution by which conferred. Ts you have pursued any postgraduate courses of study, state fully what studies and when, where, and what length of time they were pursued. (The answer to this question should be accurate and complte.)’* plete.)” and fitness will b determined by the character and extent of the business experience of the candidate as shown, first, by his answer to Question 23 of the application, which reads as follows: "Question 2S—State fully and in detail all the practical experience you have had in the profession, occupation, or business in which you seek employment, or in professions or occupations of a similar character or of a character to fit you for the position sought. State (a) when, gtving dates, (b) where, and (e) by whom you were employed; (and) the salary or compensation received; (e) the specific nature of your duties in each case. (The answer to this question should be accurate and complete.) If there are any branches of a profession or occupation in which you regard yourself • especially expert, state what branc.iie.” “In addition to the full and detailed information railed by Questions 21 and ►23 of Form 2241, the candidates are required to furnish the following in connection with each responsible position held by them: “(b) The number of persons under their supervision. "(b) The character of tha business done by the person, firm, or corporation. “(c) Tho volume of business done annually. "(d) The commercial rating of each person, firm, or corporation.” It also has been announced by the civil service commission that the postmastership at Bloomington, which pays 3,3C0 annually, will be filled by examination Sept. 20. MAT BE SETTLED BY OCTOBER 1. Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster, •aid today that it would be possible for tho appointment to fce decided upon and confirmed by Oct. 1, although it seamed Improbable that the matter would be disposed at that quickly. "If there are not too many applications end if the postoffice inspectors should get to work on the case Immediately," he said, "it would be possible to have the entire matter settled by Oct. I. However, because of the large number of examinations to be held hand the great number of applicants to fca considered throughout the country It Is not probable In my opinion that any •uch Immediate action will bo taken.” TO CLEANSE BOTTLES. To cleanse bottles that have held oil place ashes In each bottle cover with cold water and heat gradually. Let water boil about an tour, then allow It to stand nntil cold. Then wash and rinse in fo\S7 wet**,

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NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—ln Japan thus far sperts have remained untainted by professionalism, all those who participate in athletics being amateurs in the fullest sense of the term. This, In a people noted for their endurance and genius for detail, m.ik.-s them dangerous opponents in international sporting contests. For Instance, the challenge round tennis matches for the Davis cup offers a study of the challengers. Both cf the challengers are unma-ried young men, who learned the game of tennis in their college days in Tokio, and have kept in training in the course of their commercial journeylngs out from Nippon. lehiva Kumagae was gradutetd from the Tokio higher commercial colllege and became connected with the Mitsubishi Bank, which has a branch at 120 Eroadway, where for flTe years he has been a modest clerk in the foreign exchange department. Zenzo Shimidzu took his degree from a Japanese university and entered the exporting house

of Mitsui A Company, which has a branch at C." Broadway, where it was said Mr. Shimidzu was assistant manager of the Calcutta branch office. The Japanese have suffered so much from a misunderstanding of their motives, feelings and ideas that it is fitting to chronicle their desires, above ell. not to be classed as Orientals with other peoples of the East, but to be known and judged on their own account. Hence, their desire to become cosmopolitan in the play of the western world, tennis, baseball, billiards, golf, and even bridge. WORKS ON REFORM OK JAPANESE ALPHABET. Dr. Tanakadate, one of the leading scientists of Japan, now at the Hotel Pennsylvania, told me he was on his way to Paris to attend the world conference on the metric system. Japan has adopted the metric system. The distinguished visitor also told of the campaign for reform of the Japanese alphabet. He is a native in the fight for the adoption by the Japanese of Roman letters. At present the Japanese use forty-seven characters, the construction being unlike that of an European lan- ! guage. In the Japanese language, all qualifiers | precede the words they qualify, except prepositions, which become post-posi- ! tlons. Thus, instead of writing ‘ the house of Mr. Smith in that street,” a Jap>anese not only writes, but says, | “Smith Mr. of house that street in is.’ In reality, there are three Japanese lan-

WAR VETERAN HIT BY RACING AUTO Driver Is Arrested in Petersburg Race. Special to The Times. PETERSBURG, Ind., Sept. 6.—While crossing the race track at -the fairground here Monday evening Isaac Higgins. 77, a veteran of the Civil War, was run down by a racing car driven by Raymond Pickle of Vincennes and instantly killed. Mr. Higgins, wt < was slightly deaf, did not hear or seo the car until it was on him. Both legs were broken and his body badly crushed. He was dead when picked up from the track. Pickle was arrested on a charge of manslaughter and released under $1,009 bond to appear at tha September term of tha Pike County Court. His car, handled by another driver, was demolished, when it left the track in tho twentieth lap of the race. Hens Lay Two Eggs on Airplane Flight LONDON, Sept. o.—Two crates of valuable chickens, leaving Orpington Saterday, were rushed to tha air station at Croydon to catch the 10 a. m. air express to Amsterdam. At Amsterdam it was found that two eggs had been laid during the journey, the first time on record of eggs having been laid in tha aiz.

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guages in one, tha ordinary colloquial, the polite colloquial and written with the Romanizing of the Japanese script by substitution of the Roman letters for ideographic characters, is a task of the first magnitude, for it involves making j over an ancient language, which has from its infancy been adapted to the ideographic characters. This difference In language fundamentals between the East ar.d the West, 1* wail to consider, Dr. Tanakadate said, when an American reads a Japanase document of international importance. Ther6 are often many shadings of meaning which are lost In translation. A Japanese never can say in his own language, “the person killed him.” but instead “he died on account of the person.” CHINESE FARMERS NEAR NEW YORK. Early the other morning along ThirtyFourth street curled several market wagons loaded with queer locking produce and driven by Chinese. They had crossed from Long Island by ferry. One of the drivers told me his wagon was loaded with special vegetables used in Chinese cooking, such as bamboo and bean sprouls, oriental squashes, soy beans and Chinese kale. “I am a firmer,’’ he said, “and I have truck farm to raise vegetables for Chinese chop suey restaurants in New York.” There are a dozen or more of these Chinese farms in the outlying areas. The farm hands are all Chinese and exceedingly industrious, working without eonI cern or regard for the eight-hour law. | There are a dozen different kinds of chop su p y and a hundred or more Chinese res | t&urants in New York where it can be 1 obtained. No army of middlemen exists between the grower and the consumer, and probably that is wt y tho prices ai- ! ways seem so reasonable in a Chinese ' restaurant.

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NAVY BOARD, IN MEETING, BACKS HARDING TALK Believes Conferences Can Not End Wars and Navy Must Be Strong. ALL FOR LIMITATIONS Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. WASHINGTON, Sept. Under whav conditions can the United States curtail navy expenditure was the subject of protracted discussion by the General Board of the Navy In Washington last week. The board was assembled In special conclave for the first time since the calling of the forthcoming international conference on limitation of armament. Its deliberations and eventual recommendations will go far toward determining the policy to be advocated by America when the conference-agenda reaches the all-important topic of naval reduction.

The sessions of the general board are, of course, confidential In character. Its findings are reported exclusively to the Secretary of the Navy. So much can be revealed without violating official secrecy—that the board subscribes unreservedly to tha theory enunciated by President Harding at the war college on Sept. 1, viz., that conferences are not going to end war. Sharing that view, the general board holds that the United States must continue to remain strong enough at sea to meet every conceivable emergency. Naval leaders are grateful to the President for what they call his timely Intervention in tha pre-confer-ence campaign. They feel such a blast from exalted quarters was necessary to remove much publia apprehension From the misuse of the term "disarmament,” Instead of limitation of armament, many Americans were beginning to think the Washington conference would wipe out armies and navies at one full sweep, and forthwith reduce Uncle Sam’s annual budget by six or seven hundred million dollars a year.

The General Board of the Navy consists of Admiral R. E. Coontz, chief of operations, Rear Admiral W. L. Rodgers, former commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet; Rear Admiral William S. Sims president of the Naval War College; Maj Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps; Rear Admiral N. A McCully, late commander-ln-chief In Russian waters; Rear Admiral Andrew T Long, formerly chief of Naval Intelligence; Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson special representative of the United States at the French Ministry of Marine during tha war; Col. L. C. Lucas of the Marine Corps, and Commander Foide A Todde, United Suites Navy. NOT AGAINST LIMITATION'S. Contrary to common belief American Naval leaders are not enemies of arms meat limitation. They recognize it lni evitable under the ‘'staggering” conditions of the world upon all the great mill tary nations. Our naval authorities arc interested only in seeing that curtailment of seas power by international agreement does not leave the United States at any time anywhere fully able ito take care of itself. American Navy

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men are not bent upon building and maintaining the mightiest fleet that ever sailed the seas—despite Uncle Sam's financial ability to create such an annada. But because we have the w herewithal to do so, our Naval advisors urge that we declare our determination at least to possess such strength at sea as will make the United States Navy literally second to none. Any standard below that, they declare, would not be a margin of national safety. We should always be in danger from a power that marshalled a bigger force in battleships and big guns. Great Britain’s program of a “one-power-standard”—l. e., a British navy equal to that of the United States, no greater and no not unacceptable to American naval authorities. If the British proffer, which has been made officially, were accompanied by guarantees that Great Britain is prepared to extend au absolutely “square deal” to American oversea commerce and trade

throughout the world, American naval men probably would be found heartily In favor of a cordial and definite understanding with the British navy. Our naval authorities lays great stress on that point. They say the American fleet's function is to safeguard American maritime Interests no less than to protect our shores from invasion or devastation by enemy forces. There is a feeling in American naval quarters that here and there, there Is a tendency on the part of British authorities and business men to “double cross'* American rivals and monopolize certain facilities like cables, wireless, shipping insurance, oil, banking and other competitive acttlvitles. The view of the Amerioan naval man is that no American-Briti&b naval understanding would be worth while that did not Insure the United States full and unmolested equality of opportunity in the maritime trade of the world and in all its varied ramifications. With Great Britain and the United States in agreement respecting armaments at sea, our naval authorities are inc>’ned to think there would be little difficulty in effecting a curtailment of naval expenditure by other powers.

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Bold Rodents Get Society Fever and Rush Capital 9 s 400 Special to Indiana DaJly Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept 6.—GoTernment pied-pipers, minus tha sweet tune that the ancient rat-catcher used, but just as efficient, have rid a portion of Washington’s gold coast of a plague of rodents. Apartment houses skirting fashionable Rock Creek Bark, especially in the vicinity of the Washington Zoo, were being populated more thickly by rats than humans when experts of the Department of Agriculture were called in to prescribe a remedy. The troublo was easily traced to the Zoo. Grain placed promiscuously about to feed some of the animals sorveci.to draw the rats and the winter cages formed a habitation. Those comfortable quarters were speedily outgrown and the clifflike apartments that fringe tho park were infested with rats. Poison could not be used for fear the animals in the Zoo would fall victim to It as well as the rats, either by eating the poisoned food or the rats themselves after they had eaten the poison and died. Traps wers suggested and placed with tho result that several thousand rats have gone where all good rats go. One man has found employment doing nothing but taking care of rat traps and the smart ladies of Washington can now sit down for an afternoon of bridge without any soar of an unexpected and uninvited guest causing a stampede for the top of the piano.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

They think such curtailment would ensue automatically. Our naval experts are, of course, devoting tha deepest attention to the sub-

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ject of Japanese naval activities and ambitions. They regard it a masterstroke on the part of the United States to have included a general discussion of Pacific and Far Eastern questions In the conference on armaments. Fewer difficulties are expected with Japan on tho subject of naval curtailment than on the subject of tha mandates over the Caroline and Marshall Islands In the midPacific. The United States has never sanctioned the bestowal of a Japanese mandate over those former German possessions. The spokesmen of the United States Navy at the Washington conference are certain to submit a very definite settlement of the future status of the islands because they st&hd squarely across America’s sea route to Guam and the Philippines. One of the most eminent naval authorities in tha United States declares roundly that If the Caroline's and Marshalls continue to be held by Japan and are fortified sufficiently to prevent their being taken by a naval expedition, the United States never could carry out successful operations againgt Japan, no matter what the power of our fleet.

Sentiment In the American Navy appears to be that limitation of naval armaments must take place in terms or fleet units rather than by reductions of naval budgets. It Is described as impracticable, in other words, for nations to agree to cut down their annual expenditure by so-an-so much. There would be no feasible means of controlling naval bookkeeping and too much would have to be taken on faith. Figures can be hidden and Juggled, but, as an admiral said to the writer today. “You cant hide battleships, battle-cruisers or airplane-carriers.” American naval leaders are hopeful. If not over-confident, that substantial results will ensue from the Washington conference. They are under no illusions as to what may happen if the conference adjourns without accomplishing its mission—namely, that It will have a paved way for world conditions more menacing than those it now aspires to improve.— Copyright, 1921. by Public Ledger Cos.

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2 WOMEN, 3 MEN BADLY WOUNDED Two Unidentified Men Fire Shotguns at Victims in Lovers’ Lane. CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Two women and three men were wounded in a mysterious shooting in Lovers Lane, Evanston, shortly before midnight. The five were standing In front of a one-room bungalow occupied by tho two women when an auto roared by, the occupants discharging several shots from a | shotgun.

Miss G. B. Dow, a school teacher, and Miss Minnie Muheeek, an art studont, who were tho mest seriously wounded, stated they had been annoyed recently by two men, whose names they did not know. They had complained to tha Evanston police. The authorities advised the girls to arm themselves and they carried two loaded revolvers in their hand bags. As they neared their bungalow, which they used for a summer cottage, Miss Dow said she looked back and saw an auto occupied by two men coming after them. They ran to the gate of their bungalow, where William Hesketh, Harold and Henry Cohrs, friends of the two women, were standing. The women hid behind the three ;ten. As the auto passed by a man leaned forward and shot five times. The two wemen although wounded by the slug* from the shotgun, returned the fire at the fleeing auto. All of the injured were taken to the Evanston hospital. While their Injuries were pronounced serious by physicians, they said they would recover. NEW YORK LOST 4.182 MEN. New York suffered a loss of 4.782 men fn the World War, which was the greatest number of any State. Pennsylvania was second with 3,933.

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