Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1922 — Page 4

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JtoMana fflaita Sfitneo INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 35G0; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. , ..... „ i New York. Boston. I'ayne, Burns A Smith, Inc. Advertising offices j Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Bayne Cos. EVEN A SANITARY board will improve if given time. SOME ARE ELECTED and others appoint themselves to the Senate. SOME ONE should organize a firebug prevention and extermination committee. WHY WILL a man spend ten times as much energy trying to get a political job as he will working at a real job? WITH ABOUT a million dollars’ worth of rental property now on its hands the city should give an exhibition of the model landloi and. NOR IS THERE any way of escaping being surfeited with the fulsome praise that' one-half of the old Jewett-News machine is now handing out to its other half! HOW LONG will it be before the plaza that was sought as a memorial to the world war veterans is publicly referred to as a memorial to the Jewett administration! Mr. Swift's Fall Sympathy for Lucius B. Swift in his sudden and summary tall from the chairmanship of the board of sanitary commissioners to a minority member thereof will be confined solely to that rather limited pat t. of Indianapolis’ citizenry which, along with Mr. Swift, has felt it an ordained duty to regulate the municipality. As chairman of the board Mr. Swift has given a great deal of his time and best efforts toward the solution of the biggest problem the city has. He has worked faithfully and with the highest type of integrity for what he deemed the best interests of the city. Could he have also been tolerant and exercised a reasonable amount of consideration for others who are also fond of Indianapolis there would have been some regret over his undoing. But Mr. Swift appears never to have read that part of the law establishing the commission which says that all its sessions shall be public. He appears never to have been impressed with the fact that as a public official he was the servant of the public. To him there was never any question of the absolute correctness of his position and he could brook no evidence of interest on the part of citizens in what his board was doing. This attitude, rather than a question of his ability, led to the memorable declaration by Father Weber that Mr. Swift ought to be run out of town." It further led to a great deal of resentment that was not deserved. Mr. Craven and Mr. Elliott are now in a position to revamp the sanitary board's affairs so that a mere citizen who has business to transact with it will not be subjected to insult for bis presumptuousness in approaching the members. They have started aright by declaring that all their sessions will be open to the public and that they want the public to know what they are doing. Under that kind of a policy the public will he in a position to protest against any such unusual affairs as the reletting of a contract at an increased figure to the bondsman of a contractor who fails to perform his Rority member of a board that proposes to digress so far from licies, doubtless the ex-chairman will feel ill at ease. But ;t that throughout the world there has been a great upheaval and the upheaval has been felt even in Indianapolis. rimination hank's order rescinding the “no parking zones” established ewett administration at the behest of merchants and others a delivery systems will probably have the desired effect of aerehants to the mayor for a “real traffic law.” no question as to the necessity of keeping part of the curb operation of some businesses. For example, it would be impossible for a wholesale grocer to effect deliveries if his trucks were compelled to give way to the auto driver who desires to leave his car parked in front of the business place even for the limit of one and onohalf hours. On the other hand, there can be no dispute over the statement of the mayor that these “no parking zones” constitute a special privilege of doubtful legality. The mayor’s order recalls the attitude of a bank president who arranged for a Vno parking zone” in front of his bank and became very indignant when a traffic officer ordered him into headquarters for parking his car in the center of the "no parking zone.” This man was under the impression that on the payment of a fee he could preserve a parking place in the street for his own car to the exclusion of the cars of others. Certainly, this parking question is one on which the business men of Ind'anapolis and the mayor must get together. It may not ho particularly pleasing to a lot of business men to he forced to go to the mayor to settle it. but on the other hand the mayor can hardly he expected to go to the business men for the purpose of arranging something that is as much desired by them as a proper parking ordinance. Take This, Philadelphial Claude G. Bowers, the editor of the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, is a former resident of Terre Haute and a loyal Indianian. He waxes more or less indignant over the provincialism of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and expresses himself as follows: “That certain condescension on the part, of Easterners toward the middle West may be forgiven as something of little consequence or as the inevitable result of ignorance. The average Philadelphian, that city of .brotherly love and ineffable corruption, can hardly be blamed for imagining that the buffalo still meanders through the crooked mud streets of Indianapolis. But take this from Jay E. House —whoever he may be — in the Philadelphia Public Ledger: “ ‘That Terre Haute gave Mr. Debs cordial and neighborly greeting is not surprising. He is town’s claim to distinction and fame. Were it not for Mr. Debs, one never would hear of Terre Haute. The impressive thing in connection with the Debs was the feat of legerdemain performed by the esteemed telegraph in providing accommodations for 50,000 persons. Terre Haute can take care of about 600 spectators; the telegraph forecast a crowd of 30,000 and found places for 50,000.’ “The idea that 50,000 people could be crowded into Terre Haute is grotesque. Indeed that city of 60,000 could not be expected to take care ofsmore than 600 spectators. And who would ever have heard of Terre Haute but for Debs? The fact that Abraham Lincoln heard about it and went there for a member of his Cabinet; that Hayes heard about it and went there for a member of his; that it was the home of Voorhees and Colonel Nelson could hardly be expected to come within the range of tiie Philadelphian’s information. He knows about Matt Quay and Boies Penrose —and there he stops. The fact that the Rose Polytechnic Institute has educated quite a number of Philadelphians could scarcely have reached Mr. House. But we are surprised that a Philadelphian is not familiar with the name of Champagne Velvet and the race track where so many records were made and so many Philadelphians were relieved of their money.” Fire Prevention That fire prevention work in Indianapolis resulted in the saving of a half million dollars appears from the records of the fire department for the year just ended. The gross loss from fires in 1921 was $1,262,750. as compared with $1,182,980 for 1920. The number of fire alarms for 1920 was 3,465, as compared with 3.108 for 1921, thus proving that the reduction in the fire loss was really due to fewer fires rather than to better control of those fires that occurred. Thus is it again demonstrated that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure, for in the accomplishment of that work which resulted in the saving of half a million, there were only a few thousand dollars expended. It is also significant that the movement for the prevention of fires was quasi official in its nature. There was ready and proper cooperation on the part of the city administration, but the real results were accomplished by citizens who gave of their time and ability without pay. Indianapolis citizens can accomplish much when they determine to face the few obstacles presented and work for a better city.

RUTH AND ‘MARY ROSE’ WILL BE A REMINDER Os Spring and the Good Old Summer Time When Revealed at English’s ' ■ iim iill■ —imii.

IT TASKS ST I I)Y TO l* LAI \ BAKU IK HOLE. What preparation and theatrical education would seem necessary to make an actress a successful interpreter of the elusive .1. M. Barrie? The followers of (he little tseotch playwright are a clannish and porshipful lot and each individual has opinions of hi* own, firm and emphatic, concerning the varied qualities demanded of the player for the fitting portrayal of the unusual characters peopling the stories from the hands of their Idol. To face such a discriminating jury, rendering a first Barrie role, requires much courage, determination and painstaking preparation. The task is far from a simple or easy one. So. to Until Chatterton. row playing the heroine of Barrie's “Marj Hose," in which she is to he seen here at the English tomorrow, should go a generous amount of approbation and deserved credit for the degree in which she ha* satisfied even ttie most critical and particular of the Barrieltes. Throughout her portrayal of the picturesque ;t it -1 dainty girl who disappear* into the mysterious 'lsland that likes to be Visited'' to return a quarter of a century later to find those whom she loved all grown old while ‘•tie is as she was when sh disappeared, there are clear indications or the careful training and study to which she undoubtedly applied herseif before accepting wliat. to the confirmed Barrie following, is the greatest honor tnat ran come to a player anew Barrie role. And yet, among those playgoers who save been devoted to Both Chatterton since te r tirsi real success, with Henry Miller in "The Itainbow" at the Liberty Theater, in New York, there is no sur prise at the ease with which the chestnuthaired young actress look the transition from her previous school girl and sub deb roles to the more subtle task of picturing the most recent and most difficult of the Barrie heroines, ltuth Chatterton i so real student id' the theater, they said, and to her even the most hyper critical Barrie worshipper may entrust this task. Hasn't she been an indefatigable work i*r ever situ e she made her first professional appearance on the stage, as a resuit of a school girl "dare," with a stock company in Washington? The arduous task of anew role each week, endless rehearsing and study, she approached

SAYS 75 PER CENT OF U. S. AREA NOW DRY AS DESERT Prohibition Leader Regards Report of Increase in Stills Propaganda.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Number of family washings done by laundries has increased as a direct result of prohibition. This is the result of a survey made in the United States by the AntlSaloon League of America. Housewives now send fiietr family washing to laundries instead of doing the work themselves.

CHICAGO. .Tan. 4.—Prohibition is effective in at least 75 per cent of the United States. Outside of the larger cities front 85 to 99 per cent of the area of the country is dry. This is the situation after two wears of national prohibition as pictured by Bishop Thomas Nicholson, president of the Anti-Saloon League of America, in an interview today. “Prohibition is rapidly gaining in the United States,” said Bishop Nicholson. Reports of operation of increased number of stills and of the increase in the manufacture of home brew, he stated, were propaganda spread by the wet interests in an effort to have the people rtpeal the act. "An investigation recently made shows the consumption of liquor is rapidly de creasing.” he said. “Outside of the larger cities we find very little effort to evade the law. “The action of Chicago police in cleaning up the sale of liquor is exactly in line with the trend all over the country, ’('he National Administration is making a consistent effort toward law enforcement.” According to the bishop reports from ail parts of the country since prohibition became effective indicate large increases in bank deposits and savings, shorter delinquent tax lists and a large decrease in arrests for drunkenness.

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Upper—A typical good old summer time scene in "Mary Hose,'* with Tern Nesbitt, t.uy Ifuckly ami Kutli Uhntterton in the boat. Two is company and three is a mob, you know. This new Barrie piny opens a three-day engagement at English's Thursday night. Lower—Miss Chatterton a* she appears in "Mary Hose." (tattler reminds one of Maude Attains, eh?

fearlessly anti with no tremors, to that kind rtf girl the labor of pleasing the enormous Barrie cbm would come only as a glorious new task, the hard work to tie repaid wonderfully whatever degree of success she might achieve. In Bath * liutteffort's earlier roles there may lie found tittle trace of the more serious feting qualities she displayed so generously in "Mar.v Bose." Surely, t here was a little of the subtle about tle> character she pictured in The Itainbow." And the saccharine "Daddy L ing Legs" delighted tit- prep set; and and debutant? following of tiic actress, but demanded little irom tier save the ordinary display of her natural young girl charm. The same tnav tie s ; .j,| for 'Come (>u* of the Kitchen" and "Moonlight and "Honeysuckle." All the more il-ar, then, is it. that with her promotion to stardom a few seasons ago. ltutli Chatterton did not cease to regard tier profession as real work, but continued to study and improve, that she might I— prepared for a more demanding “job.” And when that "Job" came, in the form of "Mary Rose," the actr>‘ss wa . imt found want ing. and cam- thr.-tgh the Barrie test with all colors bravely Hying, to find herself snugly and firmly etiseounced In the difficult es'eem of the .1, M. Barrie dan. "MK( < V" f'ONTIN l KS \T rill: Ml ItAT TIiKXTER. "Mecca." by far the most pleasing of the spectacles presented here, continues at the Murat today anil for the balance of the week. The music is by Percy Fletcher, the costumes were designed by Percy Anderson of London and Leon Bakst of Parts, the scenery is from the London studios of the famous Marker Brothers, while K. Lyall Syvete, who put on “The Blue Bird" in London, staged ttic production. “Mecca's" adoring. staging, costum ing and musical setting have been highly praised; tint the bail'd and llacchanale, devised and staged by the Incomparable Michel Fokino. creator of the Russian ballet, stand out as the culminating triumph of stage genius. The scene of the Siallot represents an old Egyptian palace, with a scries of stairs rising to distant heights. The dancers appear in old Egyptian costumes, and in the moonlight which filters through the decaying columns, dauco a ballet which Foklne has termed “Memories of the Past.” „ The story of “Mecca" concerns itself with the love of a snltan of ancient days for a beggar maid, the daughter of All Sliar. the wrestler and strong man from Bagdad. The wrestler is used as a pawn by conspirators who wish to overthrow the sultan and nt.duct the beggar maid, and the plot shows boyv their plans miscarry and love triumphs In the end. Before this happy ending, however, there is much singing arid dancing amid many beautiful stage pictures .which reveal hundreds of gorgeous and bizarre cos t u rues. The long east contains all the original players who participated in the sensa-

tional run of “Mecca" tit (he Century Theater, New York, and Includes Gladys' Hanson. Lionel Brahani. Ida Mulle, Han . nalt Tohaek. Orville Caldwell, Thomas C. I. Harold Skinner, John Doran, <dg;i BorowsU), Audrey Anderson, Rita Hall. Dorothy Durland, Billie Wilcox. Gene vievc Dolaro. Margaret Brodn.ix, Dorn lity Johnston. Elizabeth Talma, John Pierson. Robert Rhodes. Basil Smith and Lionel Chalmers, together with Miss Martha Berber and Sergei Pernikoff, principal (lancers In the Foklne ballet. -I- -I- -IL\ UN Sll Ml s'lll.KP Tl lltS ON SI KIM. O’NEILL. Even the most enthusiastic admirer of George Bernard Shaw would have dis--11. ally hi imagining that Irreconcilable iuconoclast in lachrymose mood, hut that he can and has shed tears is the testimony of M lire O'Neill of th- Tri-'h Players fri'in Hie Abbey Cheater. Dublin, who is with "The White Headed Boy," now, at English'* To tv sure, a woman was at the Imt turn of it. and sin* was Miss. O'Neil; who tells about it like tins; "Many of George Bernard Shaw's plays were given tin ir premiere at the Abbey Theater, and I have played in a great number of them. 111 this wav 1 be acquainted him Jm ' JH among my sincere p friei ds for years. v&sa few r si, ago I :t| r> are.l in the .if the Jif'jH Woman in Mr A \ Shaw's great, play, 'Dlaaco Pus ffc- 1 11 London. He was ill the Midi ? and I no *ir g liced he follon. ij .J 'mb ll,r work verv jjT iB 1 '> <*>* , JLjtf A end nf the p r ' K i forma no- Mr **“ Ntepfifrit- Shaw made his way ‘buck stage’ Miss Maureen Delany n „,j InJ ,] r . ss ns Mr. Googbegan. ; lu - ril()tll •J greeted him with seme surprise. I t It is unusual for Mr Shaw t come back nt any time except at rehearsals, and was still further surprised to find him staring at me curiously. "Is there anything wrong?" 1 asked " 'N-t with | on, but possibly with me,' lie answer’d whimienlly. '[ wn* in front tonight.' "'I saw you,' 1 sad, mipli mystified by his manner. 'Did something to disturb you happen ?' “ 'Ye-, it did.' he retorted, frowning prodigiously. 'Young woman, vpu made me cry.' "And with this lm marched away as [ abruptly as he had come, leaving me gasping at ifro.n Mr Shawi so unusual a tribute," Miss O'Neill states. It is al> i to lie remembered that Maureen Delany is . ast as Mrs Geoshegan. Her work is excellent. The final two performances of "The White Headed Boy" will he given today at Lnglish's. - - -l- -;- XI,SO ON XILXV. Among file other atfra-tions on view to day are William Rock and his excellent .assistants at B. F. Keith's, "The Corner store" at the Lyric, "The Passing Review" at tile Park, "Little Lord Fount - leroy" at Loew's State, "A Sailor Made Man" at the Alhambra, "Way Down Fast” at Mister 'Smith's “The Sheik" at the Isis, "Why Girls Leave Home" at the Ohio, "The Foolish Matrons” at the Colonial, and “Blue Blazes" at the Regent. PARCEL POST TO HAVE NEW DEPOT Springsteen Announces Downtown Branch. After years of constant effort, Indianapolis Is assured or r parcel post station on South Illinois street near the Fnion Station, Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster, announced today. This will enable the postoffice to handle a vast amount of parcel post matter without having to take It to the main postoffice. According to Mr. Springsteen, the Posfofflce Department at Washington has accepted the proposal of Raymond D Brown to provide a site, erect a threestory building and supply necessary equipment, including a fireproof vault. The property is now occupied by the Illinois Hotel, and the Government wilt pay a rental of $41,000 a year for a period of twenty years. It probably will be six months before the new station can be put into service.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE -p* HILADELPHIA, Jan. 4,—There went out to the business men of FhiltT atleiphia the other day an inquiry: “Do you wish to subscribe to the foreign students’ dinner this year?” There was a unanimous “You bet” in reply. The dinner will be held in February. That it xvill be greater than tiie one of last year is certain. The question now is whether there is a banquet hall in the city capable of accommodating all wno will be eager to attend. Someone has said this foreign students’ dinner is a real league of nations. It is. Why other centers of learning have not followed the example of Philadelphia is difficult to understand. There are 6.000 toreign students in America. About 500 are at the universities, schools and colleges in the Philadelphia neighborhood. There are large groups of these bright young people from foreign lands attending Yale, Harvard. Cornell, the University of Chicago, the University of California and at other educational centers. They are the tlower of their lands. If they were not they would not be sent here to be educated. They will be among the leaders of thought, finance, industry, commerce and progress generally in their countries later on.

IT IS not surprising I bat Philadelphians answered "you bet" to the question as to this year’s dinner. There never, perhaps, was a more colorful dinner la America than that one of last February at the Rollevue-Stratford. There were more than four hundred students —young men and young women. Many of them came in their native eostrumes. Each one was the guest of a citizen of protnlnence, and the citizens of prominence sat by the • side nf his gue3t. Fifty-eight nations were represented—fifty-seven foreign lands and these United States. The American ambassador to Japan, Roland S. Morris, who happened to be horns just then, presided. Each continent had its spokesman— Asia. Africa. Australia, Europe, South America, Central America anil the United States. There was more of a drawing together of the ends of the earth that night than perhaps at any other banquet in years. This year effort will be made to have every geographic! division of the world represented and to have all the flags of all the nations on view. And what is this banquet? Nothing but an expression of American hospitality and good wili. It Is appreciated, of course, that the rix thousand foreign students now in Araerlea will go back to (heir lands and remember the United States as they found them. It is the aim of Philadelphia's leading citizens to make those attending the universities and colleges of the Quaker City know tlimagnitude and the range ’of Philadelphia's industrial and business establishments. The object is to make them feel, too. that they are not “strangers In a strange land" while In this country. There may be a thought perhaps that in their homelands when they return to them the students of today may tie potential salesman for American goods through the knowledge they learned of products and American workmanship and American products and American workmanship and American ideals while in this ciyuntry. Ye TOVVNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. hy fltar Compfiay. By K. C. B HER EMPLOYER. II Xlt SAID to her. Til XT SHE might go back. TO HER Michigan home TOR HER holidays. AND she looked at her balance. IN A savings bank ANO THERE was enough. AMI A little left. FOR ANOTHER start XV HEN SHE got bark. • • • AND SHE hurried away. AND liREXX' the sum. • * THAT WOULD take her home. ANO ON the street IN' THE Christmas crowd. . . * sltE LOST it all ( ROM Ol T her bag. INI! DISCOVERED her loss. AN O STARTED back. * • • AND A traffic con. JOINED IN the search. AND BEFORE the two * • 4 HAD GONE a block. • • • TIIREE OTHER men. • • TOOK UP the hunt. AND THE poor girl cried. AND FINALLY. THE TRAFFIC cop. AND THE three other men. AND THE saddened girl HELD A conference. AND SHE told her tale. AND RIGHT out there. ON THE city street. • • * TIIE THREE other mon. • • • AND THE traffic cop. * • • MADE FT the sum. * # • THAT SHE had lost. * * . AND SHE protested. BUT TO no avail. • • • AND NOXV she’s back. AMI CAN'T tihd the cop. AND HAS written me. * * * 1 THANK you.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

WHY shouldn't Boston, New Haven, New York—every city iu America that has foreign students In number — do ns Philadelphia is doing? Why not capitalize the opportunity the presence of these bright, young men and young women presents? It is good business, besides being demanded bv the law of hospitality, to show welcome to the stranger witbiti your gates. IT IS not alone the ti.OOO now studying In America that are to be considered, but the 6,000 who will come after them and the others that will conic years later. Business concerns send representatives to study foreign markets, acquaint themselves with the needs, desires and customs of the people. Incidentally, their mission is !o cultivate good will, for good wUI is a big factor sometimes, in business. Foreign trade will play a larger and larger part in American comineris* after year. Because of that fact the example Philadelphia is giving In its For eign Students’ dinner is of national importance. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. Wasliington Briefs j Special to Indiana Daity Times end Philadelphia PutiH- Ledger. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 —Nipping cold, little tempered by brilliant sunshine, utterly failed to chill the enthusiasm of i the multitude that waited to say “Happy New Year" to the President and the tir-t lady of <he land Monday. Conference notables from abroad, viewing the unfamiliar spectacle in the streets leading to the White House, found it a graphic manifestation of American patriotism. Few capitals in the world know its like. Tn Europe and Asia it is the classes, not the masse:;, that on occasion are per mitted to brush shoulders and touch hands with the high and mighty. Democracy nowhere outside of the western hemisphere, not oven in France, has progressed so far. Statisticians reckon sh it the President and Mr*. Harditqi prol ably broke the uorid's handshaking record New Years day from the speed standpoint. On the bai-i* that five thousand of the "plain people" were received at the afternoon New Year's reception in two hours, the rate was a fraction over forty to the t irute. If that was- the percentage, tue White House callers on the average ha t noout 1 1 _. seconds per person with 'ne Piesident and the First Lady. The thing bad been systematized by the President hioissli and by hi* military and naval aides and secret service staff. Everybody !* wondering whether Will H. Hays will yield to the seductiveness of a JiiHl.ooo salary in the business end of Die movies, or stick with the Harding Administration. If the postmaster general is seriously considering leaving • fib e he has not communicated his !mentious (o the President. Mr. Hays is reported to have invited the magnates who are angling for Ills services to a conference in Washington, so the impression exists he may lie on the fence. The hustling postmaster general, ihe baby of the Obinet he was 42 in Novooher is believed to cherish political ambitions that reach to the highest within the Nation's grati•ticatlon. Perhaps In* conceives that the direction of the American motion picture industry would carry with it political possibilities as potent as any the Cabinet offers. A humble home in O street. No. 2016. suddenly has become the center of conference interest. There in an old-fash-ioned two-story red brick dwelling Is the headquarters of tbe delegation from the Far Eastern republic. A brass tablet proclaims thp Identity of the establishment. The' Chita delegation's chief spokesman, Boris Svirsky. speaks fluent English. Following the conference fashion, the delegation since it placed Chita on the map three days ago, receives correspondents daily at sp. m. It is supplied with maps, pamphlets, propaganda literature and all the other accoutrements of an up-to-date conference squad, and anybody that looks like a friend is warmly welcomed. A piquant note at the press receptions is the presence of Japanese journalists. American numismatists will be interested in the league of nations’ unique money token, the gold franc. It is the basis of all the monetary transactions of the league, but is solely an express'd! of values and does not exist as metal currency. Only a single coin to represent this monetary unit has been struck and it contains tho exact ingredients in value. It Is a small piece of gold about one-third of the size of an English farthing, octagonal In shape and very thin. It rests permanently in a small Jewel case at Geneva. Inscribed on one side appears "8 and N (Soelete des Nations) 1921.” On the reverse is “ 1 franc or" (one gold franc). The coin is 0.3225805 of a gram of gold, 90 per cent fine and worth 0.1925 of a dollar expressed iu American currency. All state contributions to the league treas- j ury and all payments by the league. Including salaries, are reckoned on gold- I franc value. The symbolical coin was designed as an octagon to represent the council's membership of eight.—Copy- I right, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. |

M’CUMBER TO HAVE BATTLE FOR HIS JOB Penrose Successor on Senate Finance Committee Loses Favor. SMOOT MAY GET SHOES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 4— Porter J. McCumtier, senior Senator from North Dakota slated lo succeed Boies Penrose as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the most important position la that body, will become a national celebrity when he assumes tbe former Penrose role, but he will face a hard battle for re-election. Hit own conservative group in North Dakota is bitter against him because he refused to take the stump in the recent North Dakota recall election against Nonpartisan League candidates, when the Nonpartisan League Governor, attorney general and secretary of agriculture-were ousted from office by the Independent Voters Association. Till ! association asserts McCumber gave secret support to the league. At least he called upon his followers to defeat ten initiated laws which, if carried, would have ended the league program. The laws were beaten, although the Independent Voters’ Association pqt over its candidates by small margins. NORTH DAKOTA AGAIN TO 'FORE. McCumber*j elevation to the chairmanship of the Finance Committee, coming at a time when no faces tue crucial test of his political career, tmaga North Dakota politics again imo the natlona* limelight MeCum tier’s defeat next November at the general election or in tho June primaries would mean that Reed Smoot of Utah.- will take the position made vacant now by Senator Penrose'a death. It is believed in some circles here, however, that his elevation would be a strong factor in bringing victory to him. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee he is in a position to more ably combat Knufe Nelson, junior Mina*sota Senator, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who is reported to bo contesting President Harding's nomination of Andrew Miller as Federal Judge for North Dakota. Miller was recommended by McCumber. Nelson’s political protege in Minnesota, Governor J. O. Preus, ia confronted In this State by prospects of a Nonpartisan League victory next year and Preus went tmo North Dakota during the pre-recall campaign to fight the league program and candidates, which Mo-Cumber did not. Bad feeling between the two conservative Senators resulted. STEPPING STONE TO PRESIDENCY. Nelson wishes to put Prens Into th* Senate as his successor as a stepping stone to the presidency. He can’t do it with a strong Nonpartisan League. War on McCumber for his stand in the North Dakota re<all therefore, was necessary. ; Its first flare-up is predicted in the Judiciary Committee's rerusal to recommend Miller for uppointment. But aa chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. McCumber can exert influence to build his political fences back home. Conservatives in Minnesota and North I Dakota charge McCumber. a conservatl-- himself, will have the secret support of the Nonpartisan I-eague. He will h* 1 opposed by former Senator A. J. Gronna. I—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. |

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION MAKES RULING Department Refuses to Pay Cost of Bridges Over Ditches. The Slate highway commission will not use any of the funds at its disposal fog constructing bridges over new drainage ditches where they cross State roads. It lias also instructed the department director. Lawrence Lyons, that he shall not give permission to individuals or districts who construct such bridges at their own expense until after satisfactory arrangements have been made for replacing the highway in as good condition as previous to its disturbance. The ruling of the commission follow* the members' construction of the highway law. and in etfect is that no highway funds are available for such wor. However, the highway department will after ditch crossings are made on State roads, maintain such bridges and -go to any necessary expense to care for an excess of water. The ruling was prompted, Mr. Lyons says, In view of the many petitions from citizens and districts asking that the department pay the coat of constructing bridges over new drainage ditches under State highways. The ruling of the commission follow*: “It Is the belief of the State highway commission that Section 27, of the State highway law. makes it impossible for the State highways commission to spend any of the State highway funds for the removal, repair, enlarging, construction or reconstruction of any bridges or culvert, made necessary by the crossing or eneroach'ng upon the right of way of any State highway with dredge ditches or other public or private project*. That the director shall not give his permission for any such crossing or encroacnment until satisfactory arrangements have bee* made for replacing the highway in as good condition as previous to its being disturbed, which replacement shall he done at the expense of the persona in whose behalf such permit is given, and in accordance with the standards of the highway commission, under its superri* sion and without cost to it.”

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