Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1921 — Page 3

SPOKANE NOT HIT HARD BY j DEPRESSION r V (Continued From Fage One.) are on the ere of a big prosperous business In lumber, he believes. John W. Graham of John W. Graham & Cos., the largest concern in the book, stationery and sporting goods lines in this part of the country, says every branch of his business is picking up and looking much better. Every month since February has shown improvement and this September Is better than September. 1020. A. F. Lindsay, president‘of the Fidelity National Bank, said it would take several crops to get some of the farmers out of debt. As against that, he said, savings banks deposits were about the same as last year's total at this date. Goerge Greenwood, vice president of the old National Bank, said the credit position has been improved measurably as In the more favored agricultural dis trlcts there has been substantial liquidation. Koy Gill, president of the Holley Mason Hardware Company, reported his concern doing 65 to 70 per cent of normal busi ness. "YYe are from three to four years behind in dwelling construction." he said, “and there is a great shortage of houses. Heavy hardware is particularly slow. Kail road rates are discriminative. The charge, Pittsburgh to Spokane ! s the same pas Pittsburgh to Seattle. Hardware dealers have considerable stocks." Spokane men say !be~e Is a bigger output from Cuoer D'Alene mines now than usual. That territory produces from 35 to 49 per cant of all the lead in the I'. 8. Various Spokane men are owners of large mining properties in that belt. Locally, the labor market was not considered satisfactory. There would be more construction if wages and materials were reduced. Common labor was $4.50 a day and has not been below $4. Brick lay ers commanded $S a day nud carpenters $6 to $7 for a seven and one half hour day. Rents were said to be low. despite the shortage of houses, and living costs probably lower than In the vast majority of other cities of the size of Spokane. There were more electric ranges pereapita In Spokane than elsewhere in America, and light and power were low in price. Practically everybody seen in Spokane was pretty well satisfied that conditions were much Improved. At the same time everybody talked of the remarkable opportunities for Improving the whole situation in tho Northwest if the vast irrigation project for Idaho and Washington were put through. Nowhere on earth was there so much land so easy to transform to fruitful farm purposes and so much surplus water going to waste. The production of the Northwest could he doubled, it was declared, if the water wag turned upon the thirsty soil. Together with this failure to employ the excess water for the farm, they declared. there was a waste of potential energy that was shocking. Today there is potential power in the streams of Washington equal to 9,100.000 hors power tsr.d only 341,400 horse power are emfployed. or little more than 2 per cent, while California has 10 per cent of its h.vdro-electrie power harnessed and profits greatly thereby, and Montana has ft per cent of its water energy working. The needs of the world for more foodstuffs. the ever rising cost of coal and the requirements of industry in the Northwest, they declare, make necessary the earnest attention of the people to this subject. They say it is the concern of the East just as it is of the West, for the' food problem is national, not sectional, and the utilization of these natural water resources Is a thing for Federal development and not for private enterprise. They say the addition to the national wealth through the crops, through taxation and through lessened cost of food would cover the costs within a measurable period and the country cannot long delay the reclamation of the arid stretches of the West or the low lands of the Mississippi water shed or the other districts in which great areas now are national waste spots. These people of the interior of the North west are not al' content either with the present rates of the railroads. They think tbpy are both too high and discriminatory. They want a readjustment. They complain also of the wastes in distribution which make costs to the consumer so high as to restrict consumption curtailing tho profits of the producer. They want the people of the East to come In larger numbers and see the Northwest. What they are doing to promote tourist traffic Is so big ns to lift that work Into the line of an industry. They have s.-enery that surpasses anything else in the Republica. they believe, anti they have excellent roads which they propose to make better until they are ideal. Any one who thinks those people in (his far corner of the Republic are not for-word-looking citizens had l etter come and see them.—Copyright. 1921. by Public Ledger Company.

Do you discriminate at the dining table —or are you thoughtless? In thousands of homes, a “line” is drawn at the breakfast table. Tea or coffee is served for “grown-ups” and Postum for children But some parents do not discriminate. Caffeine and tannin, the injurious contents of coffee and tea, seriously retard the development of the delicate nerve tissues in children. Consequently, instead of rich, satisfying Postum. children are over stimulated by the drugs in tea and coffee; and so may grow up irritable and nervous. Any doctor can tell you that this is a great evil and should be corrected. Although some parents feel a certain justifi- - for the personal indulgence in coffee, yet the harm to them may be equally serious. It may take a little while longer for the drugs in coffee and tea to affect an older person, but in many cases the nervous system and allied bodily functions will become weakened. The surest way to avoid such possibilities is to quit coffee entirely and drink Postum instead. The change permits vou to get sound, restful sleep. Postum is the well-known, meal-time beverage. Like thousands of others you will like it because, in flavor, it is much like a high-grade coffee. Do away with the distictkm at the table. Serve delicious Postum, piping hot, to all the family. One week’s trial and it is likely that you'll never return to tea and coffee. Postnm comes in two forms: Instant Postum (in tins) made instantly in the cup by the addition of boiling water. Poe turn Cereal (in packages of larger bulk, for those who prefer to make the drink while the meal is being prepared) made by boiling for 20 minutes.

Postum /or Health l "There's a Reason”

/. O. O. F.-REBEKAH STATION POPULAR Rest station of the Marion County Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, on the Federal building lawn. Meridian and New York streets, which has proved to be one of the most popular rest stations in the city with the G. A. R. veterans.

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A book called "On the Des Moines" has come to hand. The title apparently refers to the river by that name and has nothing to do with the city without street car service. ' At first glance the book looks as if It might contain verse of the free variety, for each line of the reading matter begins with a capital letter and the lines are of indiscriminate length. On read ing some of It, however, it appears that the author has taken very few liberties with the language and that the text Is rather ordinary prose, broken Jerktlly up like that of K. C. 8., only not so clever. For instance, would any one ever sus pect that the following was written with poetic intent: "How is business this season?" 1 lure him from his fishing. "Slow; the trusts and the unions make the contractor's Job impossible; one can't do a thing. Building materials are cornered by the trusts. The war has given them the chance to rob with greater ease; labor is controlled by the unions; one might just as well give the men what they ask; to fume and sweat about it only gets one In bad, gets one boycotted. The thing to do is to charge it up to the landlord.’’ Doesut that sound like the very prosaic wall of a disgusted building contractor? t here is (he way It appears in tlie book: "How is business this season?" I lure him away from his fishing. 1 "Slow; the trusts and the unions "Make the contractor's Job impossitde; one can't do a thing "Building materials are cornered by the trusts. "The war has given them the chance to rob with greater ease; Tsibor is controlled by the unions; "One might, just as well give rle tne i what they ask; “To fume and sweat about it, only gets one in bad; "Gets one boycotted. “Thing to do is charge it up to the landlord." If that stuff is poetry, Shakespeare was a plumber. Bnt then, the thing iso t labeled poetry and maybe we're so dense we don't appreciate what it's supposed to be. .Tames Cloyd Bowman claims t!i“ responsibility, and the book is published by the vrnhill Company, Boston. Indianapolis has another distinction. :It has more distinctive undertaking shops than other cities. At least that's the opinion of Robert Fortes Hollbl ty who has just published another volume of his delightful essays about everything In general which he calls "Turns About I Town.” Listen to this; •Queer thing, that, about undertakers' shops! I don't remember to have been struck by undertakers' shops in San ; Francisco. Maybe they have none there—i because, as you'll see, it's a queer thing about them. "Now In Indianapolis undertaking Is a very fashionable affair. People there, apparently, want "class" in the matter of being finally disposed of. They believe with the author of the popular little idyl, "fm Burial," that "man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the tomb.” He goes on to tell of some "f tlie Indianapolis undertaking establishments and then compares them with those of New York, much to the advantage of those in Indianapolis. : Whoever would have thought of writ-

ing an essay about undertakers' shops or about a haircut, or traffic cops, or a lot of other things that the Irrepressible Mr. Holliday has chospn for subjects? Don’t get the idea because an undertaking shop essay is chosen that Mr. Holliday's thoughts are gloomy. Quite the contrary. In fact, even his under takers' essay is cheerful, and he has the most delightful habit of interrupting him self and writing off at a tangent, per haps to return to the subject eventually or perhaps not at all Where such a practice would detract from another s writing, it adds to his. In fact, the cs | says are worth anybody's time to read. Mr. Holliday will be remembered as the author of "Walking-Stick Papers," "Men ami Books ami Cities,” "Broome Streets Straws,” and other books The publishers are George 11 Doran Company New York. A fight underground in a mine, an attempted assassination on a public street, a train robbery, marked hills, a cub r porter who is at the same time an atna teur detective, and all the other com ponent parts necessary to a "thriller’ are found in Berton Braley's "The Sheriff of Silver Bow," r* leased by the Robbs-Mer rill Company, Indianapolis. The book opens with a poker game and ends wiih bringing the rillians to tune and the engagement of the fair heroine and the brave hero. i„ between is a fee regulation business that eould be expected. In fad. one cannot help hut bar- the suspicion that if th book had been pub j ishf '‘' a f, ' w Tears ago it would have had I paper covers and would have been j classed by little Willie with corn silk cigarettes, only f, be indulged in behind 'he barn when nobody was looking And |l' wo " 1 ' 1 have been about a- harmful as Dm corn silk ' However, it is enjoyable reading and ■ is guaranteed not to require anv notice ; 'ible exercise of the brain. j po von remember Cornelius Vander- ■ Vou know h “ ls ,h at voung millionaire who decided he should' do a mans job. an 1 so he became a cub re porter. YVeli, Cornelius is writing book reviews, too A review 0 f about a I thousand words or so of Peter Ft. Kvpc s "Pride of Palomar.” signed by young anderfoilt. lias been with arc quest to bullish 'this fact should not , bo held against the book, a- it reallv Is a good one. Here are about two hundred words of whot Cornelius has tn pay: "For years the Pa, ific coast s Japanese question lias bcu little more than a ; scare headline to most of the country, i 1 hrough spending considerable time in j the West some of Us from other parts of i file country hare come to understand the | real objections to the Jap invasion, but i for a mnjorlty It has remained an tin convincing scarecrow which might : frighten others, but really should not be I taken too seriously, j “This new novel, without the custom

We Believe in Indianapolis Canning Industry MORE than half a million dollars a week is the retail vaiue of Indian-apolis-made canned goods (exclusive of canned meats) —or a yearly volume of $27,500,000. Included are many varieties of canned vegetables, fruit jams and jellies, soups, relishes, hominy, olives, peanut butter, etc. Indianapolis is one of the largest pork and beans packing centers in the country. It3 six canning companies number several that are recognized as model institutions. These plants produce enough cases of canned goods to extend in an unbroken line from Indianapolis to New York, with enough left over to reach 300 miles out into the Atlantic ocean. 4,500 acres of land in the immediate vicinity . of Indianapolis are devoted exclusively to the production of foods that are canned here, while a far greater acreage at distant points ships its product here for canning. These include beans from Michigan, peanuts from Virginia, mustard seed from California, chili beans from Mexico, corn from Illinois and Missouri and soup vegetables from Washington, Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin and Louisiana.

Fletcher American National Bank of INDIANAPOLIS Capital and Surplus, $3,000,000.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1921.

| ary devices of exaggeration and distorj tion, draws a graphic picture which will. I at least, enable the rest of the country ! to understand why the West has been so persistent In its outcries. There have been other books on the subject, just as there had been other novels centered alout the French Revolution before Charles Dickens wrote ‘A Tale 't Two Cities.’ But for multitudes it remained for that epic of an earlier genueratlon to Interpret the gigantic problem with which It dealt. It Is, no doubt, largely because the author of this new novel has become such a master story teller that ’The r*ride of Paloiuar’ succeeds splendidly in interpreting what must be conceded as one of America's greatest problems of today. If It were not a towering story —considered alone as a story, and regardless of the things with which it dea's it would not have the power to hold Its audience as it does. The same must j have been said of the great stories of j other generations, for it is true of all of them, and one reads this new book with the feeling that it, too, will go down on through the years as one of the really important 'interpretations’ of today." It is admitted that this is somewhat uuintelligtble, but it must be remembered j that young Vanderbilt is only a cub. He j will learn some day to say just what he , means. The Cosmopolitan Book Corpora i tion is tho publisher. T\e forthcoming disarmament conference is responsible for the publication hr the Cornhill Publishing Company. Bos- ; ton, of hook by William H. Ulyiner •ailed “The Isolation Plan." It discusses tho problems to be met aud contains the : i covenant and the constitution of the league of Nations and other documents. A guide booh could scarcely he classed as literature, but an American guide bonk is so unusual as to deserve a place in a column of this kind. Tho particular hook referred to is being distributed by , the New Y'ork Central railroad. It gives detailed information of interest concerning the territory passed through on a trip from New York to Chicago. Some thing of interest ks told of every city and town through which the road passes Tt Is in ru> way a railroad advertisement but a volume of useful Information. The facts are taken from the Encyclopaedia : Britnnuiea.

SHIPPING BOARD REDUCES FORCE; SAVES BIG SUM Spe. U! to Indiana Dally Tlinas and Phl'adelphla Public Ledger WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 The taxpayer is to be saved another $50,000,(X)0 expend! ture to meet deficiencies of the 1 nited Btatcs Shipping Board. The officials of ! the board have told Representative Mar I t;ti B. Madden of. Illinois, chairman of j the House Appropriations Committee, he ! said, that they will not ask for another deficiency appropriation. When the board asked for more than SlOo tkO.OD* n few months ago to meet de flclencies. Congress responded by appro | priating $4b.5000C0 to cover a period ending pe,- 31 They anticipated that s' j that time the board would ask for the f-tnalnder of tjjc sum. Since that appropriation was made the j board has discharged 2,500 employes and j within the next thirty days will dtnp i another 2.000, according to Mr Madden’s ! Information The officials who four j j months ago said the board was operating at a loss of $200,000,000 a year, now t'’ | Mr. Madden that loss has been reduced to | an average of $00,000,000 a vear and will be further reduced to $.",7,000,000 ’ The officials said to Mr Madden thn* there were twenty seven ships now opera j ting on the trade routes established by , ! order of the Jones art While they are now losing an amount aggregating $4. f 000.000 the board officials. Mr Madden said. Justified Oils loss on the grounds that the enterprbe was young. They told him the estaolishment of these lines would enable them to turn them over to ! private enterprise At least two de fieiency appropriations arc anticipated In ithis session of Congress, according to Mr. j ! Madden The Y'etersns' Bureau probably will need $130,000,000 owing to the j Increased number of ex soldiers coming j under Its care. The Railroad Adminlstra- j ; tion is expected to require between S2OO. j ; 000,000 and $3004100.000 for the settlement | jof claims —Copyright, 1921, by Public j i Ledger Company.

Men’s Corduroy Pants One Extra $ Pair GaA Pair for J One-pair is well worth the price we are asking for both on this Special Day—Don't miss this Bargain.

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We're Going to Sell Women’s SWEATERS for $ 1 .00 Those very poplar ones with the lace vestee in them and ribbon tie. All the popular colors in this very extraordinary offering. Slipover styles, In all the popular colors. A most extraordinary offering.

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