Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled, probably showers tonight or Friday; continued mild..

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G. 0. P. POLICY DESIGNATED TO ISOLATE U. S. McAdoo Reviews Six Months of New Ad ministration. TARIFF WAR STEP ' Tax Revision Helps Only Those Most Able to Pay. Special to The Times. NEWTON , Kan., Sept. B.—Six months of the Harding Administration point to the conclusion that its policies are “designated to secure the least possible political and commercial intercourse with the rest of the world," William Gibbs McAdoo, former director general of the United States Railroad Administration, declared here last night. Mr. McAdoo was the principal speaker at a semi-centennial celebration here last night. “Economic disaster will be the Inevitable consequence of such shortsighted policies.’’ Mr. McAdoo said. ‘ Already we sre feeling the effects. The gravest business depression In history is upon us, and It will grow more acute as the policies of international isolation are farther developed and enforced.” The speaker declared the Fordney tariff bill to be in effect a "declaration of economic wr.rfare on the rest of the world and a step toward physical war," and added that th “promised reduction in taxes cannot bo made because the principal part of our tax load is due to the wars we already have fought and to the preparations we are now making for the next war."* WHY GOVERNMENT CAN’T CIT EXPENSES. Only by dealing "vigorously with a re duction of our naval and military establishment," can we hope for any reducftfon in national expenses, Mr. McAdoo said, but this is a thjng we manifestly can not do if the policy of isolation ss against international cooperation be adhered -to. He paid his. respects to other portions of the proposed high tariff bill and the proposed tax revision measure, which has split even the majority members of the Congress. The tariff bill, he declared, gives to the trusts and the more favored intersets more complete control than ever before of the home market by shutting out imports or reducing them to negligibility, while he branded the tax bill a “fit companion-piece" for the tariff bill. “Ita underlying principle." said Mr. McAdoo of the tax revision measure, "is (Continued on Page Six.)

LEMAUX TAKES TIME OFF TO TALK POLITICS S. O. P City Chairman Holds Conference With His Lieutenants. Republican City Chairman Irving; W. Lenani seized an hour from the demands of his private business today and conferred with leaders at city headquarters. The chairman several weeks ago turned the city committee affairs over to Vice Chairman Ernest L. Kihgston because the heavy duties of his factory required his co istant attention. Mr. tiemaui discussed campaign plans •with the headquarters captains, and an nounced that he will attend a meeting of the finance committee tonight. He stated that although it will be impossible for him to get to headquarters during the day he intends to devote all the time he can spare to assisting in the election of the entire Republican ticket and will continue to keep in close touch with affairs at headquarters as he has in the past. Among those In the conference with the chairman was City Controller Robert H. Rryson. Mr. Bryson said he will spent* jiome time at headquarters each day from now until election. All Republican efforts are pointed toward completing registration plans and getting out a big attendance at the last lawn party at the residence of Samuel l,ewis Shank, nominee for mayor, tomorrow night. Democratic meetings art* to be held tonight In the Fourth precinct of the Fourteenth ward at, 1701 West Morris street; the Seventh precinct of the Fourteenth ward at 2120 West Morris street: fjae Ninth precinct of the Eleventh ward ill 019 South East street; th> Fourteenth RTecinct of the Fourth ward at SB3 West Twenfy-Klnth street.

MAID ACCUSED'*"” IN JEWEL THEFT J 57,000 in Gems Given Pals, Who Escape. Special to The Times. EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Sept. B.—Double crossed by her accomplices in the robbery of <7,000 worth of jewelry from the Morton Mannhelmer homo, 1123 Riverside avenue, Gladys Admire, 20. 521 Madison avenue. Is being held by the police here The Jewels were taken Monday night by Miss Admire, a maid in the home, and turned over to Tony Yerseiles and Jack Alien. The three arranged to meet Wednesday night and leave town. The men skipped before Wednesday. Suspicion was first turned on the maid Wednesday, when the jewels were missed She was arrested Wednesday night. Virgil Palmer, 21, of Terre Haute, Is being held in connection with the robbery. WEATHER ! Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.. Sept. 9. 1921: Unsettled weather, with probably local showers tonight or Friday; continued tflild temperature * HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a m 61 7 a. m 64 8 a. m 70 9 a. m 78 10 a. m 79 U a. m 80 IX (noon) 81 1 I, air 84

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Margaret Gorman is seventeen, gold en-haired and blue-eyed. She attends high school in Washington. D. C. When the capital was called upon to select its prettiest girl, to represent it in the g reat pageant at Atlantic City, Margaret was an easy winner from among hundreds of candidates.

U. S. UNEMPLOYMENT CONGRESS TO BE HELD WITHIN TWO WEEKS WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —President. Harding’s unemployment congress will be held within the next two weeks, Secretary of Commerce Hoover announced today. He indicated that it will be composed of about thirty delegates. .Whether agriculture will be represented was discussed today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace with the President.

‘Children Protected ’ Is Chief Note in New Slogan Miss Peshakova Appeals t o Women to Support She par d-Towner Bill .

“ ‘Cattle Inspected, forests protected and children neglected,’ long has been a current saying concerning the leglsla lion of the Cnited States, but now the women have their .opportunity and are go ing to change it to ‘Children protected, cattle inspected. nothing neglected.' said Miss Elba Peshakova of Chicago, field director of the National League of Wnmea Voters, in her talk in support of the Shepard Towner -bill for protection of maternity aDd infancy, at the League of Women Voters' luncheon held today at "Uhristion Park." Miss Sara and Eldena La uter acting as hostesses. "Before legislation of any sort can be passed by Congress, there must be two prime requisites." he said first, the need SPLIT ON SALES TAX PROPOSAL Senate Committee Members Hold Session With Mellon.

WASHINGTON, Sept. B—The sales tax as a practical method of simplifying the complicated and burdensome taxation system imposed upon the American people by the World War. was one of a series of revenue revision proposals on which (he Senate Tlnanre Committee split today when Secretary of the Treasury Mellon appeared before it in closed executive session. Mellon previously expressed himself to Republican members of the committee as inclined favoraoly toward the sales tax plMn suggested by Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, but opposed its adoption at this time. It is known both. Mellon and House Republican Leader Mondell have nrged upon President Harding that the sales tax be withheld until next year, when they suggested it might be used to finance the service men's pension plan the Administration is planning to advance prior to the Congressional election next fall ns a substitute for the so called soldiers' bonus. Mellon went before the committee again to urge that the proposed repeal at the excess profits and higher surtaxes be made retroactive to Jan. i, 1921. The house fixed Jan. 1, 1922. for the expiration of both excess profits and surtaxes. Harding Plans to Get in Week’s Cruise WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. President Harding is planning to take a week’s vacation before Congress resumes its ses sion, if official business will permit, it was learned today. It is probable that the President will make a long cruise on the Mayflower.

All-Night Rain Quenches Fire in Minnesota Forest Three Villages Threatened by Flames Can Be Saved —Troops on Guard.

McGRATH, Minn., Sept. B.—Drenching rains fell throughout the night over the entire forest fire area of northern Minnesota gave definite assurance today that the threatened villages of Onamta, Hillman and Johnsdaie had been saved. Troops and volunteer fire fighters will be retained, however, to guard all of tile fires in the stricken terrieory uniil the last stump or smoldering log has been extinguished, declured State Forester Cor. During the four days that Area have raged no fatalities have been reported. and only the town of White Pine, eight

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for su b legislation and ’secondly, the demand. In speaking of the need, th< Shep..rd Towner l ilt , stho direct outgrowth of invest I gal ions made by the National Bureau that exposed th* dire need for legislation in regard to women and Infants. They have found that 23.000 mothers die annually in childbirth, from preventable rouse*. These fuels show plainly and pathetically the need. . S. PROTEC TION OK MOTHERS, BABIES LOW. “United States ranks seventeenth among the nations of the world in regard to protection for mothers ami babies, ranking with Kanin, in fact. New Zea land holds the weld's record in regard to prevention of infant mortality. Women ha'e been voting for twenty-five years in that country,and for nlneteten years a bill similar to the Shepard Taylor bill has been in effect with this low death rate as the result. "Private organizations in New York and Los Angeles have demonstrated what can be done on a smaller scale. "The fact that the Shepard-Towner bill first was Introduced •by Jeanette Rankin, our first congresswoman, shows plainly that women are needed in the government. This bill failed to pass the Sixty fifth and Sixty sixth Senates, but (Continued on Page Seven.)

BAIL ASKED FOR MRS. OBENCHAIN District Attorney to Oppose Freeing Divorcee. I,OS ANGELS, Sept. 8. —Application for the release on bail of Mrs. Madalynne Obencbain, Indicted with Arthur C. Burch for the murder of .1. Belton Kennedy, was postponed today until next week when Paul W. Schenck, chief of defense counsel, left for Arizona on another case. Schenck and his partner. Richard Klttrellc, planned to apply for hail for Mrs. Obenchaln today but Sclienck’s departure from thb city Interfered. Deputy District Attorney Asa Keyes has officially announced his intention of strenuously opposing the request for bail for .Mrs. Obenchaln. He said lie had not been formally notified that the defense plans making the application. Has Proposal for Shantung Settlement TOKIO, Sept. B.—Japan has forwarded to Pekin a proposal for the settlement of the Shantung eontroversy, according to statements published in Tokio papers today. The papers said the approval of the proposal by Secretary of State Hughes of the United States had been obtained by Japanese Ambassador Shidchara, before it was forwarded to Pekin.

miles norteast of here, has been destroyed together with a lumber settlement of a dozen residences, a sawmill, a store sohoolbouse and about 50,000 .ice's of underbrush and second growth timber. At times the tire wall extended over a six to ten mile front, and only .1 blanket of rain of several hours’ duration con'd have smothered it. Fresh men are being rushed nto the various fire zones to take advantage of the rain’s help and General Hbtnow, in charge of. State troops, declared every precautionV.il 1 b* taken in the threatened districts tc> prevent a re-kindling of the fires. , )

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921.

FINE CATTLE SHOWN TODAY AT STATE FAIR Judges Give Decision on Hereford and Jersey Contestants. PURDUJS REUNION Gov. McCray Speaks to Graduates —30,971 at Fair Yesterday. By FRED 8. KNODLE. The showing of Herefords and assays, in the coliseum, was one of the big attractions on today’s program for the Indiana State Fair. There were twenty-three contests for Herefords in addition to thirty in the Indiana futurity for Herefords. and for the Jerseys twenty-two contes sand four in the Indiana futurity. Tba judge for the Herefords is F. C. Giltner of Eminence, Ky., and for the Jerseys J. S. Gillette of Fostoria, lowa. Another feature of the program was a reunion. In the Purdue annex building, of former agricultural students of Purdue University, with addresses Jiy Governor Warren T. McCray, M. H. Overton Perry Crane, Prof. G. 1. Christie and Prof. ,T. 11. Skinner. Today was known as "Governor’s day’ at the fair in honor of Governor McCray, who was to spend the entire day and evening inspecting the exhibits. During his v'sit he was to familiarize himself with the housing conditions of the cattle, as well as inspect the new horticultural aud agricultural bnildlug. For a number of years be was a member of the State board of agriculture, during which time he served as a member of the cattle department and for two terms was president of the board. For fifteen years he has been an exhibitor of cattle at the fair (Continued on Page T VO.)

VOTERS MUST REGISTER FOR CITY ELECTION First Opportunity Mill He Offered in Wards Saturday. If you don ! register you can’t vote. There's no political buncombe In that, but politicians find lhat a very small percentage of the eleetorote knows It must register all over again In order to participate in the municipal election this fall. The first of two registration days will be Saturday. Registration places will be open from 8 o’clock In the morning until 9 o’clock at night in each of the IC*> city precinct*. , At each place there will be a board composed of a Republican Inspector and elerk and a Democratic clerk utiles there were more than 000 votes east In the precinct in the Inst election, in which case there will be two clerks representing each party. PARTY WORKERS SUPPLY NOTARIES. For those who fail to register on the first day there will be a second opportunity on Oct. 10. Meanwhile It 1* permlssable for any one to register him self or be registered with the assistance of the notaries which the Democratic and Republican city committees have In the field. Registration in this man ner may be done either before or after Sept. 10. but not later than Oct. 10. In registering himself a voter may have his application signed by two other voters. If before a notary the notary's seal Is sufficient Applications made at times other than on the two registration days should be filed with the city clerk. On the regular days the registration boards will accept applications properly made out at home and brought to the registration place. Republicans have a strong registration organization at work and the Democrats are swiftly pertectiug orte. Republican headquarters claims that it has 3(10 notaries at work, n ore than 200 of whom are women. While thousands of voters (Continued on Page Seven.)

Domestic Relations Court Favored by Hay to Combat Prevailing Divorce Evil

(Editor’s Note—This Is the fourth of a series of articles (leullng with the divorce evil. Its problem and Its remedy as reflected In the official records and opinions of the local judges.) by Walter i>. hickman. The divorce evil In Indianapolis amt Marlon County could be greatly reduced and In many cases prevented by the establishment of a court of domestic relations with authority to pass upon and investigate all applications for marrlago tieenses, according to Judge Linn D. Hay, of Superior Court, Room 2. Jdge Hay after years of experience dealing with the divorce problem as a Jurist, has attempted in the past to have a domestic relations court established in Marion County. FAVORS THIRTY DAYS’ LICENSE NOTICE. “I feel that a great deal of the divorce litigation could be reduced by the establishment of a domestic relations court for the purpose of granting marriage licenses," said Judge Hay. "I favor law which would require a thirty day notice to be given for application for marriage license. Thirty days may be too long, but there should he sufficient time given to an officer of the court to investigate conditions surrounding the application for a marriage license. If the court should have any doubt as to the ability of the Contracting parties to fulfil the marriage agreement, the court should have the means to send an Investigation officer to determine tne facts. “I feel that if there had been some supervision over the determining of qualification for marriages in the <past that

Friday at Fair The following features are on the program for tomorrow at the State Fair: Shows of fat barrow swine. Judging concluded In all departments. And In addition wUI be tho following features which are on the program for every day at the fair: Btate Fair opens at 8 a. m. Features for each day: Concert* by Purdue University, Indianapolis Newsboys and All-American bands; trotting and pacing races each afternoon, open-air vaudeville; automobile and machinery shows; passenger airplane flights; attractions on the "Joy Plaza." Dally Features at Women's Building: Fall style show by living models; "Better Babies” contest; “open house" of girls’ school of home economics: displays of pictures, sculpture, needlework, culinary product's and flowers. Afternoon concerts by the Orloff Trio of Indianapolis. Night Shows—Hippodrome In tho coliseum, consisting of concert by Purdue Band and Murat Chanters, parades of livestock, twenty circus and vaudeville acts, auto polo. "Siege of the Dardanelles,” a World War naval spectacle of fireworks, on race track Infield. Automobile show. Attractions on the midway.

Root’s Call at White House Is ‘Personal’ G. O. P. Leader Admits He Talked With President of *Cabbages and Kings’ WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Elihu Root, the "elder statesman’’ of the Republican party, whose name frequently has been mentioned as a possible representative of the United Slates at the coming armament conference, was an unexpected caller at the White House today. Root pledged the complete cooperation of the Carnegie peace foundation to the Government during the disarmament conference, it was learned. The offer was accepted by President Harding. Details as to how the Information now contained by the foundation can be placed before tho conference were discussed. It was said Root arrived at the executive offices a few minutes after President Harding had reached his desk, soon after 9 o’clock, and for more than an hour the two were closeted tu conference. It was the first time the former Secretary of State has been at the White House since President Harding has been in office. DECLINES TO DIVI LGE PI RPOSE OF VISIT. Root war in r. JovUt humor after his lengthy conference with the President. He joked with newspaper correspondents, t tit steadfastly declined to divulge the purpose of his visit or what was discussed with the President. "It was a personal call," he said when he emerged. “Rather a long personal rail, an hour and a half, Isn't it, Senator?" asked a reporter. "Oh. well," replied Root, smiling, "we lalkcd about cabbages and kings ' Hi* declined to reveal, however, the identity of the possible cabbages amt kings discussed He said the coming armament conference bad not entered the discussion. "Politics, taxations and flip qualities of the present Administration" were questions tabooed by the former Secretary of State. “Those are three matters I never dis cuss,’’ he said. ACCOMPLISHED LIAR IN GENEVA. Root was informed by one reporter that a dispatch hail just been received from Geneva saying he had accepted a seat on the International Court of Justice. organized under the League of Nations. “You have an accomplished liar over (Continued on Page Seven.)

Cotton Candy, Ancient Tunes and Potato Peelers Among Old-Time Favorites Found at the State Fair, But There Is a New One

By MABEL WHEELER “Hot dog,’’ Ice cold lemonade, peanuts, popcorn, cracker-jack -see the Princess Dagmar's head in the chest, a bodiless bead that speaks and eats; step this way ladies and get this complexion beautifler, makes the middle aged look like sixteen—see the seven foot woman who weighs but eighty-five pounds have your past, present and future told by the mysterious—buy your sweetie a running little playmate, a chameleon that will match tbut

many of the recent divorce cases In the last few years never would have occurred.” Judge Hay Is of the opinion that a notice of an application for marriage with a suffieleti lapse of time before the ceremoney would prevent “one day and one week acquaintance marriages.” RFC AI, I,K MA R RIAGES AT FIRST MEETING. Judge Hay recalled tbo fact that while he has been Judge of Superior Court, Room 2, that the evidence in several divorce cases show that the first meeting and the actual wedding ceremony took place on the same day or in a week's time. ‘‘The records show that one old man appeared before me lu a divorce suit and that he met his future wife on a train for the first time ohe morning and on the same day they were married,” said Judge Hay. “The man was 70 years of age. If they had given notice sueh a marriage never would have taken place.” * The Jurist is of the opinion that too hasty marriages result in fatal misunderstandings, often terminating in the divorce courts. 9.494 DIVORCE PETITIONS FILED SINCE JANUARY, 1917. A*survey of the attitude of Judge Hay on the bench during divorce hearings shows that the court for years has made a conscientious effort to solve the divorce problem. But In face of 'his, 9,494 divorce petitions have been filed in the six county courts hearing divorce petitions since Jan. 1, 1917, tp to Aug. 1 of this year. The court often has pointed out from the bench that one of the greatest mistakes that married couples are making is the development of the “petty quarreling habit” into a serta£s and sinister influence In the home, points out (Continued on Pr, Eleven.)

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UNIONS WANT REHEARING IN LABOR RULING Landis Decision Meets With Opposition in Labor Circles. CANT DRIVE MEN Council Head Asks Quick Decision — Probe Costs. CHICAGO, Sept. B.—A demand made by labor for a rehearing before Federal Judge K. M. Landis on the new building trades wage scale today threatened to delay plans for a $100,000,000 building revival. The judge’s arbitration decision, slashing wages approximately 12% per cent was meeting with opposition in all union circles today. “We are going to demand an immediate rehearing on the wage scale,” announced Thomas Kearney, president of the Chicago Building Trades Council. “Judge Landis must hear us at. once. It is getting Impossible to hold the union men in line,” Employers, however, pointed out that if men now working didn't like the new scale, they could quit and give the jobless a chance to work. Under Judge Landis' decision, men of one trade may work at another and sympathetic strikes are forbidden. The new wage scale goes into effect tomorrow. The chief point in favor of the new scale, according to employers, is that It will permit revival of ballding trades with continuous work instead of "long layoffs” at high wages. Anew campaign to probe* the cost of building materials. it was intimated, will next find attention from Judge Landis. Builders, meanwhile were to concentrate their efforts on reducing freight rates. Civic organizations were to campa'gn for lower rents. Three definite moves to reduce the cost of living and provide employment for thousands of Idle men are under way In Chicago. A delegation of representative citizens Is planning to call upon State and (Continued on Page Seven.)

LYDIA DECKER SERIOUSLY ILL Moman Charged as Accessory in Lovett Murder Reported Near Death. Special to The Time* ELKHART, Ind., Sept B.—Mrs. Lydia Decker. Indicted with her son Virgil Decker as an accessory to the murder of Lo Roy Lovett, lay In a hospital here today at tho point of death. She was suffering from a complication of diseases physicians said. Indictments against Mis. Decker are Still pending, although she was released without bail shortly after the conviction of Virgil Decker, who is serving a life sentence. Attorneys for Fred Decker, also charged with being an accessory to the murder, have filed motions for a change of venue In the Kosciusko County Court. Similar motions In the case of Calvin Decker will be filed soon, his counsel said.

bright red Jacket—" Ain’t We Got Fun”— ’ Wang Wang Aint it a grand and glorious melee of sounds, sights and smells, this annual big show of Indiana's, the State fair. And each season I feel it incumbent upon me to hiper along after the crowd that flocks along the boulevard, fairward. It isn’t the exhibit of batik, china, flowers, embroidery that draws me. though, no doubt, they have their charms for many; the races may lure some of the visitors; the airplanes bring forth a group who have their teu bucks ready for a flfteen-mlnute airy travel; more than likely tho Coliseum band has u sirens ound to many and there are flocks and flocks of folk who hang over the stalls of stock with fascinated gaze, but for none of these attractions do I visit the fair, nor is it to see the seven-foot lady or the tatooed man or the*wild west show, nor do_l pine for a dignified ride on the tel vet-footed elephant; the "midway” may have its lure for hundreds, but one may take In a circus and see all these and there eat ."hot dogs” and drink deeprose colored orangeade; chickens may be seen at the annual Tomlinson Hall show (olr elsewhere); for art there’s the Art Institute. Why go to the fair to see motor cars and planes when we have Capitol avenue to stroll up and down and an aviation field or two about town to be played around any old time? Not for any of these do I take a few hours off and toddle over to the fair.

Distorted, Starved Bodies Mute Evidence of Famine Russian Children Die by Hundreds as Parents Continually Seek Relief.

By BESSIE BEATTY. ASTRAKHAN, Russia, by courier, wireless and cable via Moscow, Berlin and London. Sept. B.—Here on the edge of the Caspian Sea, I have come to the end of the great Russian famine area on the Volga. I am beyond the sound of the heart rending plea of starving women for bread, even beyond the sight of children whom hunger has squeezed and twisted and bloated until they are distorted caricatures of flesh and bones. I left Moscow with the peasant president, M. Kalinin), on the first special

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Stork Aids Chicago Coroner to Evade Fine for Speeding EVANSTON. 111., Sept. B.—His only grand-daughter saved Coroner Peter M. Hoffman of Cook County from a fine today when he was arraigned on charges of violating the traffic laws and speeding. Appearing before Justice John Boyer, the coroner declared the laws couldn’t apply to a man just informed that his first grand daughter had entered this world. "Case dismissed," yawned the justice.

TAX BOARD YIELDS FOR PART OF SUM Would Permit Schools to Spend $660,000 for Buildings. STING IN With a mandamus suit by which the Indianapolis school board hoped to force the State board of tax commissioners to a decision in the long pending bond issue case, in the course of preparation, the tax board has broken Its policy of silence and has offered to allow the school board to spend $660,000 of the proposed $847,000 bond issue, for the erection of four badly needed school buildings in the city. The offer is made in a letter sent by the tax board to the school commissioners in which the former takes exception 10 the wording of the ultimatum gent by the school authorities last week. The tax

board Insists that it believes the structures are required, but "suggests" hat the building program should not be carried out unless outside organizations are called in "for a little fret* advice.’ A paragraph that is believed to refes to the battle put up by Alfred F, Potts' Indiana Taxpayers’ League to forestall approval of the bond issue Is included In the message. It is as follows: "We declllne to be bluffed into disapproving this bond issue which is of so much importance to the little school children of Indianapolis." The sending of the letter is one of countless written and verbal clashes that have taken up the time and attention of the two boards for months, ,and in the meantime no actual progress toward the erection of the urgently needed buildings ha* been made. The decision of the -tax board that $187,000 less is required to erect the proposed buildings is based on one or two inspection trips the State official* took to school buildings already built in the city. The school board insists that after careful study of all building forms and specifications and facts learned by inspection* in other cities that $847,000 is the lowest possible figure that can be used in order to carry out the program for greater educational facilities in Indianapolis. Tho letter from the tax board is as follows : "Your very remarkable set of resolutions, forwarded to the State board of tax commissioners ’as a reply to their communication,’ is before this board, although it was read in the newspapers before it was received from you. We wish again to call your attention to the (Continued on Page Eleven.)

But there is one thing that appears at Uhe fair each season, that appears only at the fair, the one thing that at no other tiufe or place is to be found, at east in my meanderiugs it can not be ound in Indianapolis and vicinity, for I have searched In vain between fairs. It is an airy fairy, short-lived dissipation, it Is the kind of thing that you eagerly grasp and in the twinkling of an eye it Isn’t. It’s very elusiveness captivates me and finds me year after year at the fair. Each season 1 unobtrusively edge up to the white' oilcloth counter and whisper in the ear of the blaekeyed gentleman with the apron front, "A nickel s worth please,” and from the seemingles empty shining pan in front of him, at the magic touch of his fingers that starts it whirling, a cloud of cobwebby something begins to arise like the mist from the ocean, and he gathers It up, soft waves of seeming snow, wraps it around a cornucopia of pasteboard and 1, hungrily after n year's famine, eat, or should oue say “lap" It .down —and the waves of cotton melt Into delicious nothingness like ice under a relentless sun. And then after that, with that happy don't care-what bappens-now feeling, 1 start a fleeting tour of the more ordinary details of the fair, and today I found the same old friends floating around, here and there, the old blind man fiddling all the snappy tunes of ,1865, keeping the passerby's feet skipping to the lively (Continued on Page Seven.)

train into the famine country. We traveled by railroad, steamer anil automobile. In the towns and villages, communes and childrens' homes we have seen what the war, the blockade, the revolution, and, worst of all, the drought, have done to the people of this great granary of the Russians. In one childrens' home the abandoned babies were so weak and sick when brought in that 300 out of 480 died* Driving across the plains, I met song lines of hungry people trekking from (Continued on Page Heven.)

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AMENDMENT 1 ONLY IS GIVEN O.K. BY VOTERS Requires Full Citizenship to Exercise Franchise. YES, 11,309; NO, 2,271 Provides for Recognition of Woman Ballot. Marion County*s |i Official Totals | The complete official returns of tha special amendment election In MkriOH County follow: M P Amendment. Te. No. 1 11.399 2;27l 2 8,9*6 3.547 3 *6,79t 4,778 4 8,076 3,389 5 *6,345 4,557 6 *6.673 4,929 7 *6,392 5,003 8 *7.219 4,645 9 4,588 6,889 10 2,548 9,029 11 3.078 8,421 12 4,860 7,774 13 8,108 4,195 •Lost for want of a majority of all the votes cast In the county. The official figures show 14,558 votes cast, thus requiring a total of 7,279 for a majority neceasary to carry.

One new amendment will be added to the constitution of Indiana as a result of the special election Tuesday, according to returns from every section of the State and complete returns from Marion County. The only amendment to be adopted is No. 1, which amends Section 2 of Article 2, and which reads as follows: "In all elections not otherwise provided for In this oonstituion, every citizen of the United States, at tho age of 21 years and upward, who shall have resided in the State during tho six month*, and in the township sixty day*, and in the ward or precinct thirty days Immediately preceding such election, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he or sha may reside.'* The force of this amendment is to require all voters to be citizens and to recognize the woman voter. In Marion County on tba basis of official tabulations, only fonr amendment* carried. These were the first, the second, which provides classification for registration, the fourth which provides the Governor may veto separate items in appropriation bills, and the thirteenth, which prohibits the Legislature from increasing salaries or the length of the term of any official while he is in office. lIRST AMENDMENT HELD MOST INTEREST. The Marion County official tabulation bore out tho unofficial tabulation except as applied to the amendment that would give the Legislature power to prescribe qualifications for lawyers. This failed for want of a majority of all votes cast. The ‘her amendments which similarly fallq are the apportionment amendment and the three amendments which would make the terms of county and State officers and prosecutors four years Instead of two, The official tabulation also bore out tha unofficial returns by showing that th two taxation amendments, the amendment which would make the office ol State superintendent of public instruction appointive Instead of elective and the amendment which would admit negroes to the militia were decisively defeated. Returns from over the State indicated the few voters interested sufficiently to (Continued on Page Seven.)

WISH TO AVOID PARIS ERRORS London Times Announces Preliminary to Arms Parley. LONDON, Sept. 8. —Despite a denial by the British government, the Ijondon Times announced today that an informal conference preliminary to the Far East and disarmament conference in Washington In November will be held In London “forthwith.” There was considerable comment over the unofficial announcement that a preliminary conference would be held and the general opinion was that “oldtime diplomacy" had won Us first victory In connection with President Harding's conference. For weeks prominent government officials in Whitehall and especially those of the “old school” have been predicting frankly that, unless the subject matter of* the Washington conference was restricted, by a preliminary international caucus th®. great disarmament conference would bo sterile of results. After pointing out that the Washington Government had loversed its previous refusal for a preliminary meeting, the London Times said editorially: “It must be confessed that the conference lately has been regarded with some little anxiety. “Old diplomacy, through its ordinary channels, Is to piepare'the way for the' triumph of anew kind of diplomacyt and the worst errors of the Paris peace conference will be avoided.” WASHINGTON STILL AGAINST PROPOSAL WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—The United States has not given Its approval of & preliminary conference in London to discuss the program of the November arma-j rnent conference, it was said officially at) the States Department today. Some weeks ago the United States declined to approve the British suggestion for a preliminary conference and that decision remains unchanged, it was said. Officials were at a loss to explain tba announcement of the London Time* that the Washington Government had reverse® Its previous refusal for a preliminary meeting. There has been no was s'—ted.