Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1921 — Page 6

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SMALL ATTACKS CHARGES MADE BY GRAND JURY Governor Says Accusation Against Him Inspired by Enemies. WAUKEGAN, 111., Dec. 6.—Governor Len Small tdday continued his attack on the Sangamon County grand Jury that charged him 'with embezzling State funds and demanded the indictments be killed. Through his attorney, C. C. Laforge, the Governor charged that the grand Jury’s charges were inspired by his political enemies who, he said, conducted a campaign of hate against him in the public prints of Illinois. The Governor was up and stirring early and transacted some State business at the temporary State capitol—the Salvation Army hotel, after which he walked over to court with his son, Lester. Governor Small, so attired that he had the mein of his former profession, that of a country pedagogue—sat in court with Vernon M. Curtis, Grant Park, banker and codefendant. Governor Small frequently arose from his seat to whisper to one of his counsel. Laforgee who started the preliminaries of the Governor's trial by charging that the grand Jury at Springfield not only vras Illegally chosen, but used unlawful methods, expected to finish his arguments on his brief to quash the case today. When the Governor's side is presented, C. Fred Mortimer, States Attorney of Sagamon County, will argue the case of the prosecution and insist that the Indictments be declared valid and the Governor brought to trial on them. Laforge in his address to Judge Clair C. Edwards of the Lake County Circuit Court also was expected to state that the counts brought out in the indictment of the Governor and Curtis were not offenses under the ’aws of Illinois. Indications were that the trial of the Governor, in event Judge Edwards refuses to quash the indictments, would not start until after the first of the year. Small is charged, with Curtis, of appropriating $500,000 interest on State funds that should have been turned into the exchequer when the Governor was State Treasurer in 1916-IS. The two are further charged with conspiracy to embezzle $2,000,000 more interest. FAR EAST SNARLS MAY YIELD IN END TO PEACE SPIRIT Bryan Sees Hope for Parley Problems by Following Cuban Example. BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The recess taken by the conference lessens the news from that source and limits comments to speculation upon that which has been done, but the progress of the conference continues to be entirely satisfactory. The program of the Far East as yielding to the spirit of peace that pervaded the conference. While the concessions made to China are no more than Justice to what that great republic requires still 1. would be unfair to withhold from Japan, Great Britain and France full credit for relinquishing leased territory in China. It must be remembered that in times past it wag customary for nations to take what they could and to 1 bold what they took. “Never haul down the flag” hag been a very popular slogan with imperialists, and they have been quicq to impute cowardice and littleness to those who propose a restoration of territory taken. But the world is entering upon a new era and is destined to experience some aev thrills. There were Americans wno objected to hauling down the American flag in Cuba, although our Congress had promised by resolution not to hold Cuba as a prize of war. The United States, however, was true to its pledge and it was amply repaid. When the Stars and Stripes were hauled down from Morro Castle in order that the Cuban flag might be raised in its place, the Cubans rushed forward and caught up the American flag, saying, “It must not be allowed to touch the ground.” ! The time is coming when it will be the boast of nations that their flag is loved instead of feared. The Japanese, the British and the French will And that their flags will be more secure in the Chinese republic when they no longer float over territory occupied against the wishes of the people of China. Every step taken by the conference toward the abandonment of forcible occupation of territory brings it nearer to the establishment of some tribunal which w*ll furnish a substitute for war. There must besoms forum before which all international questions can be brought. Public discussion then will come near to removing the causes of war.—Copyright, 1921, by United Press.

STATE POLICE RECOVER CARS Arrest Two Men as Auto Theft Suspects. The recovery of three stolen automobiles and the arrest of two persons In connection with their theft was reported by the State automobile police today. The persons arrested are Elzo Clevenger, Muncie, charged with transporting stolen automobiles between States, and Harold .Gilbert, Brooklyn, charged with possessing an automobile without a certificate of ■tie. Both are out on bond, Clevenger a Federal grand jury investigaand Gilbert is to be tried in Indian■blis city court. department obtained its clew to the Itheft of the cars when Gilbert is said to 'have attempted to sell one without producing a certificate of title. Gilbert produced an affidavit signed by Clevenger, swearing he had sold the car. On investigation it was found that Clevenger had two other automot'les, said to have been stolen, in his possession. According to the automobile department. the cars were stolen from James Kennedy at Tulsa, OVla.; Louis Specht, Cleveland, and J. Elliott Jenkins, Chicago. Chicago Inspector Shot by His Wife CHICAGO, Dec. Walter F. Blake, 6a, an arc light inspector for the city, was shot and killed in his home today by his wife, Mrs. Lucy Blake. Mrs. Blake told the police she shot her husband during a struggle for possession of a revolver with which he had threatened to kill her. Her husband had been drinking, Mrs. Blake said. ‘Mule’ Served From Teapot, Police Say “Whit# mule" was served from a teapot In a restaurant at 935 North Senate avenue, the police allege, and as a result they have arrested the proprietor, Waiter Malsh. When the officers raided the restaurant they found a gallon of "mule” in a teapot and fourteen bottles of home brew, they reported. NORTHWESTERN SCHEDULE. CHICAGO, Dec. 8. —Negotiations have been opened for a football game between Centre College and Northwestern University in 1922, it waa announced today. Itotae Dome also may be listed.

Text of President's Address

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. —President Harding's message to Congress today was as follows: .

“Mr. Speaker and Members of the Congress—lt is a very gratifying privilege to come to the Congress with the Republic at peace with all the nations of the world. More, it is equally gratifying to report that our country is not only free from every impending menace of war, but there are growing assurances of the permanency of the peace which we so deeply cherish. “For approximately ten years we have dwelt amidst menaces of wars, or as participants in war’s actualities, and the inevitable aftermath, with its disordered conditions, has added to the difficulties of government which adequately cannot be appraised except by those who are in immediate contact and know the responsibilities. Our task would be less difficult if we had only ourselves to consider, but so much of the world was involved, the disordered conditions are so well nigh universal, even among nations not engaged in actual warfare, that no permanent readjustments can be effected without consideration of our inescapable relationship to world affairs in finance aud trade. Indeed, we should be unworthy of our best traditions if we were unmindful of social, moral and political conditions which are not of direct concern to us. but which do appeal to the human sympathies and the very becoming interest of a people blest with our national good fortune. * “It was not my purpose to. bring to you a program of world restoration. In the main such a program must be worked out by the nations more directly concerned. They must themselves turn to the heroic remedies for the menacing conditions under which they are struggling ; then we can help, and we mean to help. We shall do so unselfishly because there is compensation in consciousness of assisting, selfishly because the commerce and international exchange* in trade, which mark our high tide of fortunate advancement, are possible only when the nations of all continents are restored to stable order and normal relationships.

MAINLY TASK FOR EXECUTIVE TASK FOR “In the main, the contribution of this Republic to restored ’normalcy' in the world must come through the Initiative of the executive branch of the Government, but the best of intentions and most carefully considered purposes would fail utterly if the sanction and the co-operation of Congress were not cheerfully accorded. “I am very sure we shall have no conflict of opinion about constitutional duties or authority. During the anxieties of war, when necessities seemed compelling. there were excessive grants of authority and an extraordinary concentration of powers in the chief executive. The repeal of war-time legislation and the automatic expirations which attend the peace proclamations, have put an end to these emergencies excesses, but I have the wish to go further than that. I want to Join you in restoring, In the most cordial way, the spirit of coordination and cooperation, and that mutuality of confidence and respect wdich is necessary in representative popular government. "Encroachment upon the functions of Congress or attempted dictation of its policy are not to be thought of, much less atempted, but there is an insistent call for harmony of purpose and concord of action to speed the solution of the difficult problems confronting both the legislative and executive branches of the Government. •‘lt Is worth while to make allusion here to the character of our Gove-nment, mindful as one must be that an address to you Is no less a message to all our people, for whom you speak most intimatelv. Ours is a popular Government through political parties. We divide along political lines, and I would ever have it so. 1 do not meaa that partisan preferences should hinder a public servant in the performance of a conscientious and patriotic official duty. We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew. We ought not find these partisan lines obstructing the expeditious solution of the urgent problems of peace. "Granting that we are fundamentally a representative popular Government, with political parties the Governing agencies. 1 believe the political party in power should assume responsibility, determine upon policies in conference which supplements conventions and election campaigns and then strive for achievement through adherence to the accepted policy. PARTY DIVISION WORKS FOR GOOD.

“There is vastly greater security, immensely more of the national viewpoint, much larger and prompter accomplishment where our divisions are along party lines, in the broad and loftier sense, than to divide geographically or according to pursuits or personal following. For a century and a third parties have been charged with responsibility and held to strict accounting. When they fail they are relieved of authority and the system has brought us to a national eminence no less than a world example. “Necessarily legislation is a matter of compromise. ' The full ideal is seldom attained. In that meeting of minds necessary to insure results, there must and will be accommodations and compromises, but in the estimate of convictions and sincere purposes, the supreme responsibility to national interest must not bo ignored. The shield to the high-minded public servant who adheres to a party policy is manifest, but the higher purpose is the good of the republic as a whole. “It would be ungracious to withhold acknowledgment of the really large volume and excellent quality of work accomplished b Tthe extraordinary session of Congress which so recently adjourned. I am not unmindful of the very difficult tasks with which you were called to deal, and no one can ignore the insistent conditions which, during recent years, have called for the continued and almost exclusive attention of your membership to fiublic work. It would Suggest insefnerty If I expressed complete nccord with every expression recorded in your roll calls, but we are all agreed about the difficulties and the inevitable divergence of opinion in seeking the reduction, amelioration and readjustment of the burdens of taxation. Later on, whether other problt -.5 are solved, I shall make some recommendations about renewed consideration of our tax program, but for the immediate time before us we be content with the billion dollar reduction in the tax .draft upon the people, and diminished irritations, banished uncertainty and improved methods of collection. By your sustainment of the rigid economies already Inaugurated, with hoped-for extension of these economies and added efficiencies in administration, I believe such reductions may be enacted and hindering burdens abolished. HAS GOOD WORD FOR BUDGET SYSTEM. “In these urgent economies we shall be lmmansely assisted by the budget system for which you made provision in the extraordinary session. The first budget is before you.. Its preparation is a signal achievement, and the perfection of the system, a thing impossible in the few months available for its initial trial, will mark its enactment as the beginning of the greatest reformation in governmental practice* since the beginning of the Republic. “There is pending a grant of authority to the administrative branch of the Government for the funding and settlement of our vast foreign loans growing out of our grant of war credits. With the hands of the executive branch held Impotent to deal with these debts, we are hindering urgent readjustments among our debtors and accomplishing nothing for ourselves. I think it is fair for the Congress to assume that the executive branch of the Government would adopt no major policy In dealing with these matters wh:ch would conflict with the purpose of Cingress in authorising the loan*; certainly not without asking congressional approval, but there are minor problem* Incident to prudent loan transactions and the safeguarding of our Interests which cannot even be attempted without thi* authorization. It will oe helpful to ourselTes and It will improve conditions among our debtors if funding and tho settlement of defaulted Interest ma v be negotiated. "The previous Congress, deeply concerned in behalf of our Merchant Marine, in 1920 enacted the existing shipping laws, designed for the upbuilding of the American Merchant Marine. Among other things provided to encourage our shipping on the world’s seas, the executive was directed to give notice of the termination of all existing commercial treaties in order to admit of reduced duties ou imports carried in American bottoms. During the life of the act, no Executive has complied with this order of the Congress. When the present Administration came Into responsibility, it began an early inquiry into the failure

to execute the proposed purpose of the Jones act. Only one conclusion has been possible. Frankly, members of House and Senate, eager as I am to Join you in the ma'-ing of an American Merchant Marine commensurate with our commerce, the denouncement of our commercial treaties would involve us in a chaos of trade relationships and add indescribably to the confusion of the already disordered commercial world. NO INTENTION TO TAKE UP PROBLEMS IN DETAIL. “Our power to do so is not disputed, but power and ships, without comity of relationship, will not give us the expanded trade which is inseparably linked with a great merchant marine.* Moreover, the applied reduction of duty for which the treaty denouncements were necessary, encouraged only the carrying of dutiable imports to our shores, while the tohnage which unfurls the flag on the seas is both free and dutiable, and the cargoes which make a national eminent in trade are outgdlcg rather than Incoming. “It is not my thought to lay the problem in detail before you today. It Is desired only to say to you that the executive branch of the Government, uninfluenced by the protest of any nation, for none has been made, is well convinced that your proposal, highly intended and heartily supported here, is so fraught with diff culties and so marked by tendencies t) discourage trade expansion, that I invite your tolerance of noncompliance for a very few weeks until a plan may he presented, which contemplates no greater draft upon the public treasury and which, though yet too crude to offer it today, gives such promise of expanding our merchant marine that it will argue its own approval. It Is enough to say today that we are so possessed of ships, and the American intention to establish a merchant marine is so unalterable that a plan of reimbursement, at no other cost than is contemplated in the existing act, will appeal to the pride and encourage the hope of all the American people. “There is before yt>u the completion of the enactment of what has been termed a ■permanent’ tariff law, the word 'permanent' being used to distinguish it from the emergency act which is the law today. I cannot too strongly urge an early completion of this necessary legislation. It is needed to stabilize our industry at home; it is essential to make more definite our trade relations abroad. More, it is vital to the preservation of many of olir own industries which contribute so notably to the very life blood of our nation. ‘‘There is now, and there always will be a storm of conflicting opinion about any tariff revision. We cannot go far wrong when we base our tariff's on the policy of preserving the productive activities which enhance emplorment and add to our national prosperity. AGAIN REMINDER OF WIRLD’B AFFAIRS. “Again comes the reminder that we must not be unmindful of world conditions. that peoples are struggling for industrial rehabilitation and that we cannot dwell In Industrial and commercial exclusion and at the same time do the Just thing in aiding world reconstruction and readjustment. We do not seek a selfish aloofness and we could not profit by it, were it possible. We recognize the necessity of buying wherever we sell, and the permanency of trade lies in its acceptable exchanges. We cannot sell to others who do not produce, nor can we buy unless we produce at home. "Everything relating to trade, among ourselves and among nations, has been expanded, excessive, inflated, abnormal, and there is a madness in finance which no American policy alone will cure. We are n creditor Nation, not by normal processes, but made so by war. It is 1 not an unworthy selfishness to seek to save ourselves when the processes of that salvation are not only not denied to others, hut commended to them.

"We seek to undermine for others by authority by which they exist; we sre obligated to permit the undermining of none I of our own which make for employment I and maintained activities. ! “Every contemplation magnifies the dif- | Acuity of tariff legislation, but the nej eessity of the revision is magnified with | it. Doubtless we are justified in seeking j a more flexible policy than we have proi vlded heretofore. I hope a wav will be i found to make for flexibility and elasticity, so that rates may be adjusted to meet 1 unusual and changing conditions which cannot be acu’-ately anticipated. I know of no manner it, which to effect this flexibility other than the extension of the powers of the tariff commission so thnt it can adapt itself to a scientific and wholly Just administration of the law. "I am not unmindful of the constitutional difficulties. These can be met by giving authority to the Chief Executive, who could proclaim additional duties to meet conditions which the Congress may designate. “At this point I must disavow any desire to enlarge the Executive’s powers or add to the responsibilities of the office. They are already too large. If there were any other plan. I should prefer it. MANIFEST DIFFERENCES ON MERITS OF VALUATION. "There is a manifest difference of opinion about the merits of American valuation. Many nations have adopted delivery valuation as the valuation for collecting duties; that is, they take the cost of imports delivered at this port of entry as the tasis for levying duty. It is not radical departure, in view of varying conditions, and the disordered state of money values to provide for American valuation, but there can not be ignored the danger of such a valuation, brought to the level of our own production costs, making our tariffs prohibitive. It might do so in many instances where Imports ought to be encouraged. I believe Congress ought well consider the desirability of the only promising alternative, namely, a provision authorizing proclaimed American valuation, under prescribed conditions, on any given list of articles Imported. “In this proposed flexibility, authorizing increases to meet conditions so likely to chanqe, there also should be provisions for decrease. A rate may be Just todav and entirely out of proportion six months from today. If our tariffs are to be made equitable, not necessarily burdensome on imports and hinder our trade abroad, froquent adjustment will be necessary tor years to come. Knowing the impossibility of modification by act of Congress for any one of a score of lines without involving a long array of schedules. I think we shall go n long ways toward stabilization, if there is recognition of the tariff commission's fitness to recommend 'urgent changes by proclamation. CERTAIN ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION ON TARIFF. "I am sure about public opinion favoring the early determination of our tariff poliev. There haVo been reassuring signs of a ’business revival from the deep slump which all the world has been experiencing. Our unemployment, which gave us grave concern only a few weeks ago, has grown encouragingly less, and new assurances and renewed confidence will attend the congressional declaration that American Industry will be held secure. "Much has been said about the protective policy for ourselves, making It impossible for our debtors to discharge their obligations to us. This is a contention not now pressing for decision. If we must choose between a people in idleness pressing for the payment of indebtedness, or a people resuming the normal ways of employment and carrying the credit, let us choose the latter. Sometimes we appraise largest the human 111 most vivid in our minds. We have been giving and are giving now of our influence and appeals to minimize the likelihood of war and throw off the crushing burdens of armament. It is all very earnest, with a national soul Impelling. But a people unemployed and gaunt with hungtr, face a situation quite as disheartening as war and our greater obligation today is to the Government’s part toward resuming productivity and promoting fortunate and remunerative employment. “Something more than tariff protection is required by American agriculture. To the farmer has come the earlier and the heavier burdens of readjustment. There is actual depression in our agricultural industry, while agricultural prosperity is absolutely essential to the general prosperity of the country." GIVES CONGRESS ITS DUE CREDIT. “Congress has sought very earnestly to provide relief. It has promptly, given such temporary relief as has been possible, but the call is insistent for the permanent solution. It is inevitable that large crops lower the price and short crops auvan"e it . No legislation can cure that fundamental law. But there juuet be some ecomomla eolation foe the

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excessive variation in return for agricultural production. “It is rather shocking to be told that 9,000,000 bales of cotton raised on American plantations in a given year will actually be worth more to the producers than 13,000,000 bales would have been. Equally shocking is the statement that 500,000,000 bushels of wheat raised by American farmers would bring them more money than 1,000,000,000 bushels. Yet these are not exaggerated statements. In a world where there are tens of millions who need food and clothing which they cannot get, such a condition is sure to indict the social system which makes it possible. "In the main the remedy lies in the distribution and marketing. Every proper encouragement should be given to the cooperative marketing programs. These have proven very helpful 'te cooperating communities in Hurt. in Russia the cooperative community has become the recognized bulwark of law and order, and saved individualising from engulfment in social paralysis. Ultimately they will be accredited with the salvation of the Russian state. “There is the appeal for this experiment. Why not try it? No one challenges the right of the farmer to a larger share of the consumers' pay for his product; no one disputes that we cannot live without the farmer. He is Justified in rebelling against the transportation cost. Given a fair return for his labor, he will have less occasion to appeal for financial aid, and given assurance that his labors shall not be in vain, we reassure all the people of a production sufficient to meet our national requirement and guard against disaster. "The base of the pyramid of civilization which rests upon the soil is shrinking through the drift of population from farm to city. For a generation we have been evpressing more or less concern about this tendency. SHOULD FIND LESS DRASTIC REMEDY.

“Economists have warned and statesmen have deplored. We thought for a time that modern conveniences and the more Intimate contact would halt the movement, but It has gone steadily on. Perhaps only grim necessity will correct it, but we ought to flud a less drastic remedy. “The existing scheme of adjusting freight rates has been favoring the basing points until Industries are attracted to some center* and repelled from others. A great volume of uneconomic and wasteful transportation has attended, and the cost Increased accordingly. The grain milling and meat packing industries afford ample illustration, and the attending concentration is readily apparent. The menaces in concentration are not limited to the retarding influences on agriculture. Manifestly the conditions and terms of railway transportation ought not be permittted to increase this undesirable tendency. We have a Just pride in our great cities, but we shall find a greater pride in the nation which has a larger distribution of Its population into the country, where comparatively self-suffi-cient smaller communities may biend agricultural and manufacturing interests in harmonious helpfulness and enhanced good fortune. Such a movement contemplates no destruction of things wrought, of investments made, or wealth Involved. It looks only to a general policy of trail portatlon of distrit ttted industry, and of highway construction to encourage the spread of our population and restore the proper balance between city and country*. The problem may well have your earnest attention. “It has been 'rhaps the proudest claim of our A ?rican civilization that in dealing with human relationships it his constantly moved toward such justice in distributing the products of human energy that it has improved continuously the economic status of the mass of people. Ours has been a highly productive social organization. Gn the wayup from the elemental stages of society we have eliminated slavery and serfdom and are now far on the way to the elimination of poverty. 9 APPROXIMATES

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. "Through the eradication of illiteracy and the diffusion of education, mankind has reached a stage where we may fairly say that in the United States equality of opportunity has been attained, though all are not prepared to embrace it. There is. ndeed, a too great divergence between the economic conditions of the most and least favored classes in the community. But even that divergence has now come to the point where we bracket the very poor and the very rich together as the least fortunate classes. Our efforts may well be directed to improving the status of both. “While this set of problems commonly Is comprehended under the general phrase, 'capital and labor,’ it is really vastly broader. It is a question of social and economic organization. Labor has become a largo contributor, through its savings, to the stock of capital, while the people who own the largest individual aggregates of capital are themselves often hard and earnest laborers. Very often it is extremely difficult to draw the line of demarcation between tho two groups; to determine whether a particular individual is entitled to be set down as a laborer or a capitalist. In a very large proportion of cases he is both and when he is both, he is the moat useful citizen. “The right of labor to organise Is just as fundamental and necessary u* Is the right of capital to orgnnUe. The right of labor to negotiate, to deal with and solve its particular problems in an organized way. through i!s chosen agents, is Just as essential as is tho right of capital to orguuizo to maintain corporations, to limit the liabilities of stockholders. Indeed, we have come to recognize that the limited liability of the citizen ns a member of a labor organization closely parallels the limitation of liability of the citizen as a stockholder in a corporation for profit. Along this line of reasoning,we shall make the greatest progress toward solution of our problem of capital and labor. • • • “Just os It Is not desirable that a corporation shall be allowed to Impose unduo exactions upon the public, so It is not desirable that a labor organization shall be permitted to exact unfair terms of employment or subject the public to actual distresses In order to enforce Its terms. Finally, Just as we are earnestly seeking for proceedures whereby to adjust and settle political difficulties between nations without resort to war. we may well look about for means to settle the differences between organized capital and organlzd labor without resort to those forms of procedure which we rec-

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Kidding Again? WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 —Passage of the soldier “bonus” law may be the Senate's Christmas gift to former service men, Senator McCumber, North Dakota, chief Senate advocate of the compensation measure, announced today. The increased compensation measure likely will be considered immediately following enactment of the Administration foreign debt refunding bill, McComber said.

ognize under the name of strikes, lockouts, boycotts and the like. ASKS REGULATION FOR LABOR CONTROVERSIES. “As we have great bodies of law carefully regulating the organization and operation of industrial and financial corporations, so we might well have plans of conference, of common counsel, of mediation, arbitration and judicial determination in controversies between labor and capital. To accomplish this would involve the necessity to develop a thor-ough-going code of practice in dealing with such affairs. With rights, privileges, immunities arid modes of organization thus carefully defined, it should be possible to set up judicial or quasi-judicial tribunals for the consideration and determination of all disputes which menace the public welfare. “In an international society such as ours, the strike, lockout and the boycott are as much out of place and disastrous in their results as is war or armed revolution in the domain of politics. The same disposition to reasonableness, to conciliation, to recognition of the other side’s point of view, the same provision of fair and recognized tribunals and processes ought to make it possible to solve the one set of questions ns easily as the other. I believe the solution is possible. “The consideration of such a policy would necessitate the exercise of care and deliberation in the construction of a code and a charter of elemental rights, dealing with tlie relations of employer and employe. This foundation in the law dealing with modern conditions of social and economic life would hasten the building of the temple Os peace in industry which a rejoicing nation would acclaim. RECLAMATION OF LAM) GOOD BUSINESS. “After each war, until the last, the Government has been able to give homes to its returned soldiers and a large part of our i settlement and development has attended this generous provision of land for the nation's defenders. ; "There is yi t unreserved approximately 700.000.000 acres In tin? putille domain, 20,000.000 acres of which are known to be susceptible of reclamation and made tit for homes by provision for irrigation. "The Government has been assisting in the development of its remaining lauds until the estimated Increase in land values In the irrigated sections is fully $500,000,000 and the crops of 1920 alone on these lands are estimated to exceed $100,000,000. Under the law authorizing these expenditures for development, the advances are to be returned, and It would be good business for the Government lo provide for the reclamation of the remaining 20,000,000 acres in addition to expediting the completion of projects long under way. “Under what is known as the coal and lease law, applicable also to deposits of phosphates and other minerals on the public domain, leases are now being made on the royalty basis and are producing large revenues to the Government. Under thi- legisla’iou R> por cent of ail rovnlties is to bo paid directly to the Federal treasury and the remainder o 0 per tent is to be. used for reclamation of arid lands by irrigation and 40 per cent is to be paid to ttie Spates in which the operations nre located, to he used by them for school and road purposes.

RESOURCES MAY ADD 1T NDS TO TREASURIES. “These resources are so vast and the development is affording so reliable a basis of estimate that the Interior Department) expresses the belief that ultimately the present law will ndd in royalties and payments to the treasury of the Federal Government and the States containing these public lauds a total of twelve billion dollars. This means, of course, tin added wealth of many times that sum. These prospects seem to afford every justification of Government advances in reclamation and irrigation. • 'Contemplating the inevitable and desirable increase of population, there is another phase of reclamation fully worthy of consideration. There nre 79.000.000 acres of swamp and cut-over lands which may be reclaimed and made as valuable as nay farm lands wo possess. The acres ar largely located in Southern Stales and the greater proportion is owned by the State* or by private citizens. Congress has a report of the sur vey of this fielo for reclamation and the feasibility is established. I gladly commend Federal aid, by way of advances, where State and private participation is assured." FAVORS RELIEF FOR STARVING RUSSIA. “While we are thinking of promoting tho fortunes of our own people, 1 am sure there is room in tho sympathetic thought of America for fellow human beings who are suffering and dying of starvation in Russia. A severe drought in the valley of Volga has plunged 15,000,000 people into grievous famine. Our voluntary agencies are exerting themselves to the utmost to save the lives of children in this area, hut it is now evident that unless relief is afforded, the loss of life will extend into many millions. America cannot bo deaf to such a call as that. "We do not recognize the government of Russia, nor tolerate the propaganda which emanates therefrom, but we do not forget the traditions of Russian friendship. We may put aside our consideration of all international politics and fundamental differences in government. The big thing is the call of the suffering and the dying. Unreservedly I recommend tho appropriation neoessr.rv to supply the American relief administration with 10.000.000 bushels of corn aiid 1,000,000 bushels of seed grains, not alone

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to halt the wave of death through starvation but to enable spring planting in areas where the seed grains have been exhausted temporarily to stem starvation. “The American relief administration is directed in Russia by former officers of our own armies and has fully demonstrated its ability to transport and distribute relief through American hands without hindrance or loss. The time has come to add the Government’s support to the wonderful relief already wrought out of the generosity of the American private purse. “I am not unaware that we have suffering and privation at home. When it exceeds the capacity for the relief within the States concerned, it will have Federal consideration. Jt seems to me we should be indifferent to our own heart promptings and out of accord with the spirit which acclaims the Christmas tide, if we do not give of our national abundance to lighten this burden of woe upon a people blameless and helpless in famine peril. SUGGESTS CHANGE TO END NON-TAX ABLE BOND ISSUES. “There are a full score of topics concerning which it would be becoming to address you, and on which I hope to make report at a later time. I have alluded to the things requiring your earlier attention. However, I cannot end this limited address without a suggested amendment to the organic law. “Many of us belong to that school of thought which is hesitant about altering the fundamental law. I think our tax problems, the tendency of wealth to seek nontaxable investment and the menacing increase of public debt. Federal. State and municipal, all justify a proposal to change the Constitution so as to end the issue of nontaxable bonds. No action can change the status of the many billions outstanding, but we can guard against future encouragement of capital’s paralysis, while a halt in the growth of public indebtedness would be benencial throughout our whole land. "Such a change in the constitution must be very thoroughly considered before submission. I suggest the consideration because the drift of wealth into lion-taxable securities is hindering the flow of large capital to our industry, manufacturing, agricultural and tarrying, until we are discouraging the very activities which make our wealth "Agreeable to your expressed desire and in complete accord with the purposes of the executive branches of the Government, there is iri Washington, as you happily know, an international conference, most earnestly at work on plans for the limitation of armaments and a naval holiday and the just settlement of problems which might develop Into causes of international disagreement. “It is easy to believe a world hope is centered on this capital city. A most gratifying world accomplishment is not improbable.” Receiver Is Chosen for Hurst^Concern Joseph A. Naughton today was appointed receiver for Hurst & Go., by Judge Arthur R. Robinson of Superior Court, room 4. A receiver was asked yesterday for the concern by the Udell Works in behalf of numerous creditors. Hurst & Cos. formerly operated a mail order business in Indianapolis and has a department store at Pennsylvania and Georgia streets. Branch stores are maintained at Greoncastle, Marion and Logansport. Mr. Naughton. who was treasurer and general manager of the company, gave bond in the sum of $50,000. The Indianapolis store will be closed temporarily for invoice, it was said today. DR. ALLEY TO SPEAK. L>r. Robert J. Alley, president of Butler College, will speak on the subject of education th the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men at the Claypool Hotel Thursday.

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‘NURSE’ MISSING AFTER CRASH OF AUTO B Y TRUCK Bottles of Gin Found Gets Druggist in Trouble With Law. “Miss Hill, the nurse at the Methodist Hospital," mysteriously disappeared after the accident in which an driven by Harvey Belton, 3024 Coliseum avenue, was wrecked by a city fire truck from headquarters at 10.50 o’clock last night. Belton was driving north on Pennsylvania street, and the heavy fire truck west bound in New York street and driven by Fred Fries, accompanied by Capt. M. J. Hyland, who was in charge of the truck, struck the side of the automobile. When the police emergency squad arrived they found Belton wa* uninjured, and also were told by the firemen that there had been a woman in the automobile. Belton admitted that a woman was in the car and explained she was “Miss Hill, a nurse at the Methodist Hospital.” She had hurried away from the scene of the accident. At the hospital the police were informed there was no nurse by tho name of “Miss Hill” there. Three bottles which the police allege contained a small amount of gin were found in Belton’s automobile by the firemen. Belton was arrested on the charge of violating traffic ordinance, improper driving and operating a blind tiger. He told the police he was the manager of the Stokes drug store and that he was on his way to the Methodist Hospital to deliver a prescription. He admitted he heard the fire truck approaching but said he thought he could beat it across. The heavy pumper struck the automobile squarely on the side and the automobile was shov'd west on New York street upon the curb. PIONEER WOMAN WAS WELL KNOWN Funeral of Mrs. Holliday to Be Held Wednesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Edmonia B. Holliday, 81, who died at the home of her son, Edward J. Holliday, 545 East FortySecond street, yesterday, will be held at the home tomorrow. Mrs. Holliday was the widow of John D. Holliday, a member of the firm of Holliday & Wyon Cos., and a captain in the Confederate Army. Mrs. Holliday was born near Fredericksburg, Va., In 1840. On a visit to Indianapolis in 18tn) she met Mr. Holliday and they were married the following year. Mr. Holliday was a member of the Tab-ei-naole Presbyterian Church and was an active church wmrker for several years. Surviving nre two sons, Edward J. Holliday and Duncan F. Holliday, and a granddaughter, Mary Jacqueline Holliday. GIVES FALSE ADDRESS. According to complaint made to the poflce today. Dart Keefe, who was summoned as a witness in the blind tiger case against Doda Esto, 128 South West street, gave a wrong address when he said that he lived at 725 Elm street. Jesse Brooking and Harry Barnes live at that address and declare they do not know Keefe, who is said by the police to have been one of Esto’s customers.

25 CASUALTIES REGISTERED IN P. & R. WRECK Expect to Find More Charred by Flames and Buried in Debris. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. A check-up today show's that twenty-five persons are known to have perished in the head-on collision of two Philadelphia and Reading Railway trains near Bryn® Athyn yesterday. According to a high official of the road, more bodies may be buried In the debris, charred to ashes by the flames which consumed tne wooden cars. Scenes of horror were enacted comparable to the recent St. Lazare tunnel disaster In Paris. More than a score of Injured have been accounted for while pieces of bodies are still being found. Because of the condition of a number of the dead, It Is probable a Joint funeral will be held over the bodies. FAIRGROUND FOR CITY PARK Proposal to Be Debated at Meeting of Local Civic Association. The advisability and feasibility of seeking legislation by which the city may use the State fairground as a city park, when it is not being used tho State fair or for other purposes by the State board of agriculture, will be one of the subjects taken up for discussion at a meeting of members of the Northeastern Improvement and Civic this evening at 8 o’clock, at the Calvin W. Prather Masoriic Temple at College avenue and Forty-Second street. Committees are to be appointed to take up arrangements for a municipal Christmas tree and a Christmas children's party at College avenue and Forty-Sec-ond street, the date for which has rot yet been decided upon. The Christmas tree would be in the vacant lot at the northeast corner of College ave.nue and Forty-Second street, and the children's party would be held in the Calvin W. Prather building. The association is composed of residents In the territory between Central avenue and the Monon tracks and ThirtyEighth and Fifty-Sixth streets. Its officers are : President, A. W. Eberhardt; vice president, Mrs. Roy Meyer; secre-tary-treasurer, Sumner Clancy. Fellow Patients Beat War Veteran to Death CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—An investigation 1* being made today of circumstances connected with the death of Henry Baird, a patient at the Hines Memorial Hospital for War Veterans. Baird was beaten to death with a chair in the hands of a fellow patient. Joseph Klein and George Nemee, fellow patients, are being held pending an investigation of their sanity. These two and Baird were patients in the ward for shellshock cases.