Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1921 — Page 4

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* * 3uMana flails kitties INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dal y Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Ralston Also Sacrificed Boyd M. Ralston, defeated Democratic nominee for mayor, yesterday took his place alongside of a long list of excellent men who have pinned their faith In the ability of the Indianapolis News to elect them to office and have found that this community will not accept the dictations of that newspaper and the bosses it represents. The experience of Mr. Ralston was the same as that of Leonard Wood, Will Fesler, Carlton McCulloch and Thomas Carr Howe. These gentlemen have, successively, seen it demonstrated: 1. That no campaign can be won in Indianapolis by villiflcation of political opponents. 2. That constant repetition of a falsehood does not always establis the falsehooa as truth in the minds of the voters. 3. That it is utterly impossible to divide this community into a class of "good people” and “hosts of darkness” and win the confidence of a majority of the voters to the candidate classified as "good. The success of Samuel Lewis Shank in amassing a majority greatar than that ever given a mayor before was a tremendous tribute to the personal popularity of the man, but it was a greater demonstration of the fact that this community is made up of citizens who think for themselves and decline to be coerced politically by any such propaganda as was floated in th- desperate effort to defeat Shank at any cost to Indianapolis. No one can accuse the Indianapolis News of having failed to go to the full length of its ability to turn the electorate against Mr. Shank. It spared neither his home life, his public life or his personal characteristics. It deliberately perverted history, misquoted speakers, misconstrued statements and ignored facts in a desperate effort to wreck the Republican party. Not content with its own efforts, it prevailed upon misguided citizens to flout the mandates of their party primary, bolt their party and become the mouthpieces of its propaganda. And twenty-four hours before the polls closed it was engaged in the very foolish occupation of trying to mislead the entire community into believing that public sentiment was against Shank by such falsehoods as were expressed in its headlines— "Sweeping Victory for Ralston is Predicted’ and “Thonsanda of Republicans Pledge Their Support” This community, yesterday, served fair notice on all political leaders that campaigns of abuse and villiflcation are no longer popular or possible of success. It gave to those citizens -who would "save Indianapolis” through the election of their favorite, a demonstration in political psychology that should not soon be forgotten. Just how much of the total vote for Mr. Shank was the result of the methods used by the opposition to him is impossible to ascertain. But the way in which he swept the various wards of Indianapolis is conclusive proof that he was not foisted upon the city by any “sinister influences or “hosts of darkness.” Yesterday’s election proved beyond all dispute the futility of such campaigns as we have just endured. It showed that the surest way to elect a man to office in Indianapolis is to subject him to abuse of the type that makes martyrs. Mr. Shank will doubtless proceed to administer the affairs of the city rs Indianapolis without regard tq the abuse he has endured. He is big hearted enough to do this, and it is sincerely to be hoped that those influences which sought by every reprehensible means to defeat him will show sufficient sense of loyalty to Indianapolis to bow gracefully to the will if the voters. No man has ever profited by defaming his neighbors. Indianapolis is made up of more than 300,000 good neighbors, and It certainly is time that a few self-willed and discredited political bosses realized the futility of trying to profit by poisoning neighbor against neighbor.

What of Democracy? In tendering its sincere congratulations to Samuel Lewis Shank on the occasion of his most remarkabla victory the Times wishes to express its deepest sympathy for Boyd M. Ralston and the true Democrats of Indianapolis, who, as Mr. Ralston says, "made a good fight, considering the handicaps." For, while Mr. Shank is to be congratulated on winning an election in the face of an array of the most powerful single influences that could have combined against a candidate, the far-thinking citizens of Indianapolis will regret that State, county and city have been lost to the Democratic party. This election marks the third successive defeat of local Democrats, and it is significant that each of the chairmen who led the party in these defeats has been closely allied with the Indianapolis News. Adolph Emhardt lost the county three yearß ago and was yesterday a favorite candidate of the News for the school board. Reginald Sullivan 10-t the county last year and was yesterday one of the sponsors for a News slate. Thomas Meeker ied the party to the worst defeat it has ever suffered yesterday, and now it will doubtless be recalled that he is the same Meeker who served the News as a catpaw when that newspaper was industriously trying to defeat Joseph E. Bell by running John W. Holtzinan against him eight years ago. In the face of Mr. Shank's success, regardless of the News’ opposition, it ought to be apparent to the Democrats of this community that their chances of success do not lie in any alliance they might be offered by the newspaper of doubtful ownership. In the face of the record of the last two years, it ought to be apparent to them that in adopting the campaign tactics of a newspaper that openly expresses its approval of mudslinging tactics and resorts to the sheerest falsehoods in its efforts to deceive the party is taking the surest road to defeat In common with a great many other Democrats whose sense of decency would not permit them to indulge In the vituperation and villiflcar tion that has marked this campaign, the Times has frequently been congratulated on its truthfulness and its fairness to its political opponents. These congratulations well serve to demonstrate that decency in politics is as much in favor as decency elsewhere. Perhaps the Democratic party of Indianapolis will realize some day hat it is absolutely necessary to its independence and its success that it eek divorce from those bi-partisan exploiters whose reprehensible tactics efe so thoroughly repudiated at the polls yesterday. When that time comes being a Democrat in Indianapolis will be a hole lot less unpopular and a much easier task.

'uard the Mails Throughout a long period of years this Nation succeeded in protecting Us mails from marauders through the prestige of the government which had been built up In the early days when mails were carried through dangerous teivitory by pioneers who were as speedy with their weapons and as determined as any of the lawless. As civilization extended its borders the carrying of the mails became less hazardous and the mail service invited into itself men whose training was less hardy. Concurrently, preparations for the defense of the mails grew less thorough and safety was measured in a w%y by the reputation the Government had for swiftly punishing those persons who interferred with the postoffice functions. Gradually the postoffice authorities and the Federal courts were submerged in the handling of law violations of lesser importance than mail robberies and the popular estimate of their efficiency was weakened. Ten years ago, a criminal hesitated to violate a Federal statute, while he had little compunction about trespassing on State laws. He believed, and had good grounds to believe, that he could not with impunity risk offending the Government. Today, he knows that there is less likelihood of swift punishment for violation of Federal laws and in his desperation he is willing to "take a chance" against the Federal authorities as well as those of the States. The result is a large number of mail robberies which have reached such serious proportions as to justify consideration by the Cabinet of the United States. United States mails must be protected at all costs. No longer does it appear that they are exempt from raids meraly because they are United States mails. The situation calls for drastic steps, not only to guard the mail*, but also to make It apparent to those who are lawlessly inclined that the United States will never falter in its efforts to bring swift and summary punishment on those who do not respect iA insignia^

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living in a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Dally Times how the many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally in an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high Cost of living with them.] WEDNESDAY. Helen Could talk of nothing but the forthcoming birthday party at the breakfast table until her mother had to caU a halt by saying: "I wish you wouldn’t say anything about your party to the girls for a few days until we really make some plans about it, and then you can Invite them at once without having talked so much about It beforehand.” "Oh, mother,” replied Helen dejectedly, “I don't see how I'll ever remember to keep still about it, you see I’m so surprised because I didn’t expect It this year.” “Well, you have to learn to be more restrained Helen,” said her mother, "you te.lk far too much for a small girl, and this will be a good thing for you to practice on. When you feel most like talking about the party Just make yourself remember that you mustn’t do It.” "Ofc, mother!” exclaimed Helen, forlornly. “Helen really doesn’t talk as much as a lot of the girls,” said Roger, coming gallantly to the rescue of his small sister, with whom he was usually finding fault. “Most of them chatter their heads off. It’s the stylei” • Well, it wont be the style by the time Helen is grown up.” said Mrs. Hooper confidently, as she poured Mr. Hooper’s second cup of coffee, “and I don't want her to have the chattering habit whe" she is a woman.” "I’ll try and remember mother.” said Helen meekly. "Another thing,” resumed Mrs. Hooper. "when we are ready for you to invite the girls you are not to say that it is vour birthday. We will ask them to coma to a little party on Saturday afternoon and after they are here you can tell them how old you are end why you are having a celebration.” "Oh why do I have to do that mother? asked Helen In consternation, “isn't it all right to have a birthday party?” "Certainly it Is ell righA” answered

I Ve TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star Company.

By K. C. B.

My Dear K. C. B—l'm tn love end she isn't and you’re married and maybe you can help me. For two years have I seen her on the subway platform at exactly twenty-five minutes after elx. For two years hae she walked Into the see ond car from the end end occupied the third seat from the door. For two years have I eeen her read your “gossip” end smile Just a little; and for two years have I gotten op in the early morn Just to ride on the same train with her and yet I don’t Snow her! I've got It bad, K. C. B. What would you do In a ease of this kind? JOB. MTY DEAR Joe.* • • • 6HE'S GOING to look up. • • • WHEN SHE reads this. •• t IT'S A 1.1. about her. • • • BECAUSE SHE'LL know. • • • AND WHEN she does. •• • • IT’S UP to yon. • • • TO LET her know. • • • WHEN SHE gaaee about. • • • IN SEARCfI of you. • • • THAT YOU’KE the bjy. • • • WIIO PILLED tb*a off. 4 # AND SHE'LL probably smile. • • • JUST A little bit. • • • AND IF she does. • • • THEN I'LL suggest. THAT AT 8:25. • • • TOMORROW MORN. • • • AT THE subway station. • • • YOU WALK right up. • • • AND PATi "Good morn.” • • • AND IF she *%t* sore. • • • AND HAS you arrested. * * • WHY, THEN you'll know. • • • SHE’S UTTERLY larking. • • * IN A sense of humor. • • • AND YOU wouldn’t want to marry her. • • • ANYWAY. * * * BUT IF she smiles. • • • WHY THEN you’ll know. • • • SHE’S A pretty good fellow. 0 0 0 AND YOUR Judgment’s good 0 0 0 AND I’M assuming. * • • IN ADVISING you. 0 0 0 THAT SHE won’t get a shock. • • 0 WHEN SHE looks at you. • • • YOU MAY be a sight. 0 0 0 FOR ALL, I know. • • • I THANK yon.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9,1921.

Men Yon May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER

Has a man like this proposed to you? Bymptoms: This man is in his late fifties, talks like a young man of twenty-five. Has the enthusiasm and Interests of youth. Yet he has done everything without success since leaving school that any one could have done. Besides, he’s written good stories, and sailed before the mast, been married and divorced. Yet he never lost his pep. Now he has lit cm a successful thing and he Is making money and Is as generous as a child. IN FACT His only fault is his generosity. He takes as well as he gives. 7s/*) Prescription to hie bride: if. Keep him down. Be the banker. Absorb This: KEEPING IS A GREATER SCIENCE THAN GETTING. (Copyright, 1021.)

her mother, "bnt the birthday part of tt should be a family affair. The minute you say you are having a birthday party, the mothers of the girls who are coming will feel that each one of them should bring you a present of some kind In return for being asked and we wouldn’" want any one t 6 feel that obligation w,>uld we?” "Well #Mjry one does It,” again volunteered Roger. "I know It," replied’Mrs. Hooper, “and that lo why I realise exactly how mothers feel about It. Several times when it was not convenient and when I couldn’t quite afford it I htve gone tn town aDd bought a little gift for Roger to take to a party, when there was really no reason for my feeling that It was my duty to do so except that we knew It was a birthday and that every one going would bring something and I didn't want him to feel embarrassed about it when he went." "Tou're terribly particular Mary," Mr. Hooper intervened, "It seems to me to be part of the fun for all the children to have presents and nothing is ever expenstva enough to make any difference:. If Helen is to have a birthday party why not let her have the kind all the girls have or else have It some other time so It won't be a birthday party at all.” “That's what I say." exclaimed Roger “Presents were the biggest part of all the birthday parties I've bsen to In this town." “That's Just It and I don't like the spirit of obligation It Involves.” added Mrs. Hooper firmly, “and we don’t want to feel that all Helen’s little friends wiu pay for their entertainment by bringing her a gift Just because other people do It. Helen continued to look dejected bnt made no comment as her mother concluded : "We'll all give Helen a little present, and I’ll make her a birthday cake and then just have the birthday part of It a surprise for the girls when they come.” "Oh all tight,” agreed Helen none too graciously, "I don’t care much ae long as I have a party and of coarse I won’t say anything about It now." The menu for the three meala on Thursday is: BREAKFAST. Grape Juice. Cereal. Calves’ Liver Omelet. (Leftover slice of liver from dinner.) Biscuits. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Boiled Itlce and Milk. Preserved Fruit Bread and Butter. Cup Cakes Cocoa. DINNER. Puree of Split Pea Soup. Veal Pot Pie with Dumplings. Spinach. Celery. Preserved Peaches. Cake. —Copyright, 1021.

PISH CHOWDER. Three and one half pound* of cod or haddock, four caps potatoes cut !n fourthinch squares, one onion sliced, four cups scalded milk, eight common crackers soaked In milk to molaten, one and onehalf cubes of salt pork, one tablespoonful of salt, one-fourth teaepoonful of pepper, four tablespoonful* of butter. Hare fish skinned leaving on bead and tall. Cut off head and tail, remove fish from back bone, cut fish In nice pieces about two Inches In size, and set aside. Put on In snucepan thi bones, head and tall, with two and one-half cups of water, and simmer for about thirty minutes Cut pork Into small thin pieces, and try out In frying pan ; In the fat of the pork put slices of onion and cook for live minutes, but do not let them brown. Strain fat into saucepan. Parboil the potatoes for five minutes; drain and turn into saucepan with onion and fat pork, then add two cups of boiling water and cook for five minutes. Add liquor drained from bones of fish, cover and simmer twelve or fifteen minutes; add scalded inllk butter, salt, pepper, and a dash of cayenne, and the crackers split and moist ened In the cold milk. SCALLOPED lAMB. Use cold roast lamb. First remove all the outside and cut In small pieces. Cover the bottom of a well buttered baking dish with buttered cracker crumbs, then a layer of the meat with some boiled maca ronl or spaghetti; then another layer of the meat and macaroni, and pour over all a lightly seasoned tomato aauca, with

on* sweet pepper minced and added tr It Cover the bottom with buttered crumbs, and bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. OYSTER PLANT FRITTERS. Grate the oyster plant, using a little lemon Juice on It an you grate It to keep It from discoloring. Season wlih salt and pepper and moisten with egg to bind it. Shape in small flat cakes, dredgt with flour and saute In hot butter. These are fine and not unlike an oyster In taste. Some bo’.l the plants, then mash, but they are much finer flavor when made from the raw plants. EGG SALAD. Use six hard boiled eggs cut In halves lengthwts*. Remove the yolks. Put through a potato ricer, season highly with mustard, salt and pepper and moisten With olive oil until they can be formed info balls the size of the original yolk. Refill white*, and dress with French dressing, with onion Juice added. APPLE CUSTARD PIE. Pare, core, cook and strain tart apples having one and one half cups of the strained applet. Add on*-third cup sugar yolk* three eggs and two tablcspoonfuls of cream. Fill ple-tln with paste, add enstard, place rim around edge one half inch wide, and bake until a nice brown With white* beaten until stiff and dry

Daily Fashion Hints

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My AGNK9 AYI.ES. Star In Paramount Pictures. Along with scarce*, fans and other trinkets, we are going In deeply for bags, especially elaborate affairs for evening use, three of which are shown In the Sketch. The evening bags are small af course, large enough only for a handkerchief nnd the Indispensable powder puff and mirror, but If they lack In size they make It up In the elaboration of their trimming or the unukualness of their fabrics. The upper one, for Instance, la made entirely, except for Its gold frame, of carefully arranged brown ostrich plumes. The handlo of braided brown grosgrain ribbon, Balcw it Is a lonely little bag of soft red reive;, with a top of the finest gold filigree and with a filigree catch and ends on its loop handle. Hast Is an odd, flat, rectangular bag for either afternoon or evening use. It is made of * lustreless black silk, brocaded with littlo black satin elephant*, for luck, and sporting a narrow strip of gold down Us centre. The clasp and pendant are of Jet aet In rhinestones and silver. Another very Interesting model I found, but which Is not shown In the sketch, Is made entirely of celluloid, elaborately carved and beautifully stained. It Is small and spherical, opening like a cut pomegranate. Has a chain of celluloid and sometimes a huge silk tassel as a pendant

I using two tablespoonfuls powdered su- | gar, make a meringue. Spread on pie, | and place in a slow oven well puffed and j a light brown. Helpful Household Hints j Wooden ware should be scrubbed with a clean, stiff brush, and soda-and-water, rinsed well, and wiped and dried near the fire or in the open window. Buy three qualities of dish-towels—the finest for glass, silver and china; the second best for crockery used In kitchen work; the third for heavy kettles, griddles, etc., and have them washed every dny. Even when no grease adheres to them, they have a musty odor if used several times without washing. ■ Rub gridirons and griddles with salt each time before using, wiping It off with a clean towel. ; j Never undertake to polish your stove until It is quite cold, and do not use *tove too soon after polishing is done. j The waste pipe of the kitchen sink should oe flushed each day when the water Is hottest. Two tablespoonfuls of strong nmmonla should be poured down the grating. Once a week in summer add a handful of crushed washing goda. Keep the sink. Itself, clean all the time! Grease should never accumulate on the sideß and in the corners; tea leaves and other debris never clotted over the vent. A stout whisk-brush must hang over | the sink and be used freely in scruhi blng it. ' When the whisk become* stained and flabby, bnni it up and get j another. A dirty brush, mop or dishcloth makes—not removes—dirt. | Follow these directions, and if outer drain-pipes are properly built, you will have no occasion to employ disinfectant and deodorizers.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

By David Oorr

Well, after Puss Junior left the County Fair where the Little Gray Mouse almost frightened the fat lady to death as I told you in tha last story, he rode off on his Good Gray Horse and then, all of a sudden: Dr. Auston went to Boston In the bright sunshine; He slipped his heel on an orange peel And nearly broke his spine. And then of conrse he couldn’t walk, so Puss Junior helped him on his Good Gray Horse and took him to Boston, New Mother Goose Land, of course, and not the big U. S. A. "How do you feel, doctor?” asked our little traveler as they entered the city. “Well, Just middling." replied the good man, “I feel sort of queer and strange noises I hear, and I very much fear I’ll be laid up in bed I” It Is quite remarkable that being as ill as he was he should be able to talk in rhyme, bnt of course everybody, more or less, and I really think a good deal more, talks poetry In Mother Goose Lnnd, don't you? "Where shall I take you?” asked Pnss. “Up Bean street till you come to Browubrcad avenue,” replied Doctor Auston, So Puss follow and his directions snd pretty soon they came to a nice little bouse and as soon as they stopped a* the gate a motherly woman came out of the front door. And, oh, dear me, she was frightened when she saw how lame the good doctor was. He could hardly walk, you see, and If the Good Gray Horse hadn't knelt down, Just like a camel, he never would have been able to get off the saddle. “Lean on me.” said the old lady, and she helped the good man into the house and made him lie down on the couch In the sitting-room, where two big seashell* looked down at you from the mantelpiece and the peacock feathers winked at you from a tall vase and the tidies on the backs of the chairs seemed to say. “Come, lay your head against ns and well put you to sleep.” Well, anyway, if they didn’t exactly say that, they seemed to Invite you to sft down, and so Puss, who was quite tired with his ride, jumped up ou a chair, and would you believe tt, he fill fast asleep In a few minute*! That's Just what he did, for he was all faggeti out holding the doctor on the Good Gray Horse. So when the old lady *aw him asleep she sent her hired man out to the front gate where the Good Gray Horse was tied to the hitching post, and he took Puss Junior's faithful steed to the barn, where ho had a good supper of oals. And then the old lady went into the kitchen and made some tea biscuits for supper and stewed some apples. And then she set the table and put on the frosted cake and when Puss Junior woke tip supper was ready. But you will have to wait until the next story to hear more, for this is all I may write for today.— Copyright, 1021. (To Be Continued.)

Age 147, Wants Work; Says Idleness Is Bad CONSTANTINOPLE, NovN Zera, the "human pack horse,” who claims to bo 147 years old and can still carry 200 pounds with ease, attributes his long life and health to hard work and proper diet. He has always been a carrier of heavy burdens. His rules of health are: Hard work, sleep, cold baths at night no tobacco, no alcohol, no coffee, no meat, no oils, no butter, no drinking water, but plently of hot tea, honey, Sugar, enkes, bread and cheese. Every five years he takes three months’ rest. He says he wants work as “idleness will ruin my health.” Children Condemned HELSINGFORS, Nov. 9.—Judgment has been passed on twenty-seven school pupils In Orel. Middle Russia, who were accused >f working for a revolution against Soviet rule and of carrying on speculative trade. Five of the children, of whom the oldest is 17, and the others about 14, have been sentenced to death; the others to varying terms of Imprisonment.

CHATTANOOGA ENJOYING ERA OF GOOD TIMES Southern City Has Many Business Interests. ALL DOING WELL Textile Industries Assume Lead Over Others. Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 9—Among the gentlemen who gathered at the Mountain City Club to report to your representative on conditions In Chattanooga, were C. W. Howard, Industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce; Charles Clark of E. W. Clark & Cos., bankers of Philadelphia, who control electric light, power and traction properties here, in addition to like enterprises on the Pacific coast and in nearly all of Michigan, exclusive of Detroit. Scott L. I’robaser, president Chamber of Commerce: W. A. Sadd, president Chattanooga Savings Bank; Senator Newel Sanders, agricultural implements; George F. Milton, editor Chttanooga News; H. S. Thatcher, Thatcher Spinning Company; Thomas R. Preston, Hanover National Bank; H. B. Whiteman, E. W. Clark & Cos.; Frederick Arn, J. M. Card Lumber Company; F. L. Miller, United flooslery Mills; Gaston Raoul, Tennessee Furniture Corporation; P. J. Kruest, Ferro Alleys Company; Garnett Andrews, Richmond Hosiery Company; C C. Nottingham, president First National Bank; George Smith, United Hosiery Company; S. R. Read, Chatham National Bank and proprietor Read Hotel.

There is little complaint in Chattanooga of business conditions. On the contrary in a large majority of the greatly diversified lines of Industry In the mountain city activity Is pronounced. INDUSTRIES OF various Sorts. Textiles predominate. Tb-2 three bleaching concerns, two clothing manufacturing establishments, sexenteen hosiery mills, four mattress plants, two shirt factories, six underwear houses, Tarious wolen manufacturers and three yarn mills. The Thatcher spinning mill, which is one of the best equipped in America, is owned largely by Philadelphians. The largest oil well machinery plant of the world is here There are a large lot of proprietary medicine houses whose stuff is sold the Nation over. There are nearly a score of lumber plants and five railroad shops. Various wood working establishments, limestone products concerns and other works too many to catalog. Mr Clark said while it was generally true there had been a decline of about 30 per cent in the consumption of electrical power, owing to the industrial decline, his property in Portland, Ore., had held its own until the present time. In Michigan there was a drop of 25 per cent, but in Chattanooga there had been a consumption In September substantially in excess of September of last year. The use of hydro-electric power was expanding here and he was looking to a far greater need. Power was supplied to large consumers on a basis of seventenths of a cent per kilowatt hour. In hig opinion Chattanooga was destined to be a big industrial center, as Us location was Ideal. BANK DEPOSITS AND LOANS. Mr. Preston said collections were good and there had been steady Improvement In the liquidation of loans. Rediscounts were on about same scale as for the last six months. Savings banks deposits were good, while Individual and bank deposits were low. County bank balances had declined two-thirds and their debts likewise. Country banks in the Cotton Belt were beginning to liquidate their obligations. Money rates probat ly will be reduced. Mr. Loveman, P. Loveman department store, said business had been fair and was Improving. In volume of goods It was about the same as last year but much less In money. Buyers were more discriminating In their purchases; women were willing to pay good prices for good articles. Men were poor Judges of quality. He found it difficult to reduce overhead. He was carrying little or no surplus stock. Mr. Miller and Mr. Andrews reported the hosiery business excellent where sales were made direct to tho retail trade. In units of goods sales were fully up to the best recorded excepting the two peak months of 1918, February and March; short skirts had been a blessing to the hosiery makers. EXPORT BUSINESS AT LOW EBB. Mr. Andrews said his shipments last month were the second largest in volume of goods but not In dollars. Export business had dwindled to nothing but recently he had Inquiries from Australia. Europe and South America. He didn't expect much business from abroad until the exchanges were adjusted. Mr. Thatcher said his mills, one here and one in Alabama, represented a specialized branch of supply to mills In the spinning and mercerizing of fine yarns this year for production had been the heaviest in their history. They had been working full time since January and steadily increasing production, that of October being the largest. He was sold up for 1921 and well into 1922. His production was for 500,000 to 000,000 pounds

of Jam a month, mills selling to Jobbers do not seem to be so well supplied, .lie has not advanced prices te any degree commensurate with tho advance la cost. Senator Sanders put the sales of agricultural Implements at from 10 to 46 per cent of normal, depending on the Implements. There was little demand for tractors. Prices had been reduced materially. He did not look for Improvement until another crop was harvested. Hl* eetimate of business did not represent new Implements wholly, bat included repairs and spare parts. Boiler and tank people pnt their business at from 40 to 50 per cent of normaL One of the lumber men said ho had shipped recently for export for tho first time this year. Considerable demand had developed in the last sixty days and there had been a stiffening of prices. The mayor said Chattanooga unemployment figures were exceptionally favorable by comparison with other industrial cities and he did not think It would be necessary to take extraordinary steps to meet the situation this winter. He considered the government's estimate incorrect as to this city. CXTY as CONVENTION CENTER. Chattanooga Is quite a convention center. Recently it has had the Southern Baptists conference which brought 10,000 visitors. The gathering of the Knights of Kar, 5,000 and the Confederate Reunion 20,000 not to speak of many smaller organizations. There is quite a tourist traffic, but nothing to what there should be with such attractions ns Chickumauga battlefield. Lookout Mountain, Sig Dal Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The roads hereabout are fair, but the highways leading to the section are not above reproach. Some day the Dixie Highway will be whfit it Is designed to be a superb road and then the peop’e expect a great flow of visitors to the historic battlefield hereabout. Cbattapooga has a great asset and cheap power. The Anthony N. Brady hydro electric power plant, twenty miles up the Tennessee River generating 60.000 horse power Is but one of several furnishing current and the possibilities for industrial development In the valleys are big.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Dally Timea and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—'"Washinffteo the beautiful” Is the universal description applied to the capital by the army of distinguished strangers now within its gate. Frenchmen pay the city the superlative comment of saying Its public buildings and capacious open placee now and then remind them of Paris or, because Washington is a small city, of Versailles, The weather man 19 in hla best conference form. Certainly no more magnificent atmospheric welcome could be vouchsafed arrivals in anew climate than the balmy Indian summer temperature. Sightseeing Is In full blast among the conference folk already on the scene. If Philadelphia Is having Its troubles finding a brief and euphonious name for the sesqul-centennial of 1926. your Uncle Sam is at his wit's end to invent a short yet adequate title for the conference. “The conference on limitation of armament and the Far East," is the way It was officially christened. The Germans, urged by the longwindedness of their language and the long range of their words, circumvent such difficulties by mannacturlng a slogan, vowels permitting, out of the first lletters of the principal words. Thus the Herren professoren of Berlin tvould probably call the Washington conference the “Clufe,” which, though ugly and meaningless, would at least meet the need of brevity. “The Washington conference” meets with much favor as a solution of the name problem. The pine-board and the cheese-cloth “Arch of Jewels,” which Is being erected st the foot of Seventeenth street In honor of the opening of the conference evokes no enthusiasm from art connoisseurs at least in its chrysalisls stage. One feature of Washington’s decorative scheme, already complete, excites unstinted admiration. It Is the illumination at night of the dome of the Capitol, the Washington monument and the Lincoln memorial. In the “circles"—Dupont, Scott, Thomas and Sheridan—the statue* of the National heroes from which the circles derive their name also are allhoueted against the sky by delicate lighting effects. The Capitol dome Is entrancingly lovely and impressive In Its nocturnal adornment. It happens that most of our distinguished foreign visitors have come in at night. The dome bathed In electric glory, looms up like chiseled marble in the sky. Rapturous acclaim is always voiced as guests from abroad emerge from Union Station and catch their first glimpse of the traditional symbol of American power.

William Short, lately secretary of the league to enforce peace, has been named general secretary of the committee on limitation of armament. Mr. Short was closely associated with Chief Justice Taft and Oscar S. Straus in the work of the league to enforce peace. Massachusetts avenue, In the highly aristocratic sector that stretches between I)u Pont and Sheridan circles, has become the far east of Washington. Within three blocks of each other, respectively at numbers 2000 and 2315, are the conference delegation headquarters of Japan and China. Nowadays there are more men of the Bast in evidence in the region than of the West. They do not smile as they pass by. The Japanese have taken the old-fa hioned but impressivo red brick mansion intermittently occupied by great families like the Blaines, Leiters and Westinghouses. The Chinese are housed In an ultra-modern granite mansion loaned them by a Washington hostess, Mrs. Francois Berger Moran. Mr. Balfour will be the oldest'conference hand at the Washington parley. As a young diplomat of 30, he attended the famous congress of Berlin in 1878, in the capacity of secretary to Great Britain's famous statesman, the Marquis of Sails bury and Lord Beaeonsfield (Disraeli).— Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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