Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1922 — Page 17

GREAT SUM IN FINES LEVIED IN LIQUOR CASES Collection of $3,000,000 Out of $57,500,000 Show Collections Drag. BIG CUT IN DRINK BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—How profits; file Is prohibition, from the standpoint of operating law enforcement organizations? This absorbing query asked by those who sometimes doubt the claim that it is profitable—although admitting freely that prohibition prohibits—ls answered by prohibition officials. Figures that speak for themselves, and were obtained from the official record of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, showed disappointment on this point: Earlier forecasts were that prohibition enforcement costs would be offset by tax collections or other sources of revenue from violators. In truth, the estimated amont of assessments, taxes and penalties imposed In 40,000 cases amounted to $57,500,000. Os this sum only $3,000,000 has actually been collected by the Government. MANY CASKS ON DOCKETS. It Is not possible for officials to estl mate the costs to the Government in prosecuting cases, hung up in courts all over the United States, and which are stubbornly contested by bootleggers, Illicit distillers and others charged with infractions of the Volstead law. The cost of this long drawn-out litlga: -in, however, runs into a large sum and can only be figured perhaps In the heavier financial burdens shown In operating the Departmeit of Justice, its various Federal District attorney’s offices and in the added costs to the other ends of the Government's legal machinery. The policy of the prohibition enforcement unit has called for the destruction of most of the 950.000 gallons of whisky and other spirits and wine seized during the year, so this, as a possible source of revenue to offset heavy operating costs, does not enter into the calculation as an asset. HIUIOKB IN BOOZE SEIZED. The estimated value of property seized or destroyed is $12,907,000. Most of this was distillery apparatus and liquors. How much real effort was made to discover among the liquors seized good whisky that might have been turned into legitimate medicinal channels for use of hospitals or other institutions probably never will be known. Records on this score have either not been complied or If obtained in any manner have been carefully concealed by prohibition officials. As against these figures Commissioner Haynes estimates that the Nation’s drink bill has decreased $2,000,000,000. He maintains that the costs of enforcement, whatever they may be, are Justified. On this argument he expects to spend about $2,000,000 more this year, his total expenditures running about $9,000,000.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2„. —It is the estimate of leading bankers of the Middle West that the horde of swindlers who swept over the agricultural belt in the flush days of 1919-20 selling stock In oil wells that never produced oil, packing house projects that never operated, phonograph concerns that never made phonographs, and all kinds of other fly-by-night affairs robbed the farmers of $2,000,000,000.

Never before was there so great a fleecing of the farmers. The conditions were most favorable for the schemers. The men of the soil had made fine profits In the war period out of the high prices they received for their wheat and their corn, their hogs, their beeves, and all their products. Some country bankers are said to have aided the plunderers, giving information to them of the financial condition of “prospects,” acting as “bird dogs” to flush the game for the hunters in search of gullible victims. Persons in cities and industrial districts who read of these swindles probably remarked contemptuously "the poor rubes” and thought no more of it, not thinking it concerned them. But It did, and it does concern them. No people in America can suffer or be plundered without the people of all other parts of America being affected to some degree. AGRICULTURAL Implement makers today have small sales of their machines because the farmers have little buying power. If the farmers had not been robbed they would be in position to purchase some of the machinery they need urgently and more men would be working in agricultural machinery plants. The worker in shoe factory, cotton mill, woolen mill or automobile plant may not see how the fleecing of the farmers concerned him but $2,000,000,000 taken from the agriculturalists hag impaired the buying power of the farm people in the purchasing of shoes, of clothes, of motor cars and a thousand other things. Not only that but the man in the coal mine has less work and earns lesa wages when the factories are Idle or operating less than full time and the men in the steel industry have less employment when the needs of general business are reduced. The railroads have less traffic. The Jobbers, commission men, retailers and bankers, big and little, have fewer items to handle. TO carry the Illustration further the butcher, the grocer, ard every supplier In every city, town and villagp feels it In his purse when anything happens to reduce the buying power of any one branch of the American people. It is not th© “poor rubes” alone who are plundered when any swindle of considerable sire is perpetrated on the people. All the people are robbed. Not until this fact sinks into the consciousness of the public will effective measures be taken to stop this great evil. The American people need nothing so much as economic education. TVOES quality pay? XJ There is not a commercial or manufacturing establishment of age in America the success of which is not based on quality. No one can measure the worth of quality. Dr. Gustavo Munizaga Varela, Chilean consul general in New York, visited Philadelphia recently. He told with pride of having bought in Buenos Aires in 1903 an American hat which he wore for ten years. “I wore that all over the world,” he said. “When I was consul general in Belgium that hat won the admiration of various men and I told them it was made in Philadelphia. I do not know how many persons took the name of the maker and said they would write to America and get their hats from the same concern.” Charles S. Caldwell, president of a Philadelphia bank, suggested the consul general visit the plant where the hat wag made. Senor Varela did so. When he was about to leave, a hat, just like the one he bought In Buenos Aires, was presented to him with the compliments of Mr. Caldwell. IN 1851 an American made locomotive was sent to Chile. It was a small affair mafic by hanfi. it want la a arty

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Mrs. Ella Arlene Bull, wife of a banker; Ellanore Bull, their 7-year-old daughter, and Ralph Coata, family chauffeur, have been missing since Dec. 31 from the Bull home in Ridgewood, N. J. Their disappearance first became known a few days ago when Mr. Bull appealed for aid in tracing his wife and child. On Dec. 31 Mrs. Bull drew SI,OOO from a Ridgewood bank and told her maid that she and her daughter were going to the city. She is believed to have been met at the station by Costa in the car. After Mrs. Bull's disappearance it was discovered that a trunk was missing from the home. Costa is the son of a well-to-do family. The disappearance of the three is a complete mystery.

ing vessel. It still Is In use after seventy years of service. Does quality tn a locomotive, even In a small engine that cost perhaps only SI,OOO or so, pay 7 It does. From Chile the people who made that engine recently received a $7,000,000 order l'or locomotives. The quality of that little bit of machinery that has served its buyers fpr seventy years helps a lot In selling the products of that plant In Chile today.— Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

Creosoting Company Awarded Judgment A verdict for judgment In the amount of $1,298.63 was returned by a Jury In the Circuit Court Thursday in favor of the Republic Creosotlng Company against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company and Thomas L. New. The suit grew out of the Fidelity and Guaranty Company being bondsmen for New when the latter made a contract with the commissioners of Clinton County for repairing some bridges. It was alleged by the creosotlng company that New purchased supplies from them to be used in this work to the amount of $2,240 arid that he paid thereon the sum of SI,OOO only, leaving a balance due. They sued the bondsmen for $1,400. The jury awarded a verdict of $1,298.63. Rabbi Feuerlicht Speaks at Temple Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht will deliver a sermon on “Reason and Faith in Religion’’ at the Temple of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, at Tenth and Delaware streets, at 8 o’clock tonight. The public Is Invited to attend.

Interest is Income Income is Money in Your Pocket Why have any of your money idle, when it can all be made to work for you, earning interest—income—more money in your pocket? We pay 3% interest on checking accounts on average daily balance of S4OO or more. We pay 4interest on savings accounts on all deposits of SI.OO and upward. Are you doing as well! We will appreciate your account. Come in and see us. J. F.Wild 6 Co.State Bank 123 E. Market St.

PLAZA RENTALS PUT NEAT SUM IN CUT PURSE Figures Show Annual Gross Returns to Be 4.4 Per Cent. Property bought for war memorial purposes Jan. 2, is bringing the city a gross return of 4.4 per cent annual in rentals, figures on the collections from tenants for January stow. The city bought all but three pieces of property in the block bounded by North, Michigan, Meridian and Pennsylvania streets a ta total cost of $950.$17.60. The others are to be acquired later, condemnation proceedings being required upon two. George O. Hutsell, clerk of the board of public works, in charge of the collections from the city’s tenants, announced that to date a total of $3,305.81 has been taken In for January rentals of the plaza property. Between S2OO and S3OO more is due, making the approximate monthly return $3,500. For a year the receipts will be approximately $44,000, which is 4.4 per cent of the total amount invested, he estimated. The city has yet to acquire the properties of Mrs. Alice D. Dlsette and the Atlas Investment Company on the Meridian street side of the block and of the Indianapolis Propylaenm in North street The total appraised value of these holdings is $260,500. Mrs. Dlsette and the Atlas Inveatment Company were unwilling to accept the city’s appraisal and It will be necessary for the board of public works to resort to condemnation proceedings, it is understood. Action by the board of directors Is necessary before the transfer of the Propylaenm can be completed. The city has left in the $1,600,000 bond issue, gold late in December for plaza purchase purposes, $719,142.50. After the remaining property is paid for the residue will be applied on the sinking fund for the retirement of and interest on the bonds. The bonds run for five years and bear 6 per cent interest. Whatever is left of the $42,000 rental return, which will be greater when the other property is acquired, after upkeep expenses are paid will go into the sinking fund. Egypt Riot Report Lacks Confirmation LONDON, Jan. 27.—Official confirmation of the report that 190 persons had been killed and 1,000 wounded in disorders at Cairo. Egypt, was lacking this afternoon. Field Marshal Allenby, British high commissioner in Egypt, has made no mention of the casualties, nor of any serious new disorders In his latest dispatches. The cabinet discussed the report of heavy casualties in fresh Egyptian disorders, but no public statement has been made. Forms for Revenue Reports Received A supply of form No. 1040 for reporting individual Incomes of more than $5,000 has been received by M. Bert Thurman, collector of Internal revenue, and are ready for distribution. The form contains six pages, two of which are devoted to the return, two to a duplicate of the return to fie retained by the taxpayer and two to Instructions. The form will be sent to persona who filed similar returns last, year, but failure to receive a form doesc not relieve the taxpayer of his obligation to file on time, on or before March 15, 1922, if the return is made on a calendar year basis. Forms 1040A for reporting Incomes of $5,000 or less also are available at the offices of the collector.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27,'1922.

Navy French SERGE $1.48 64 Inches Wide All wool, rich deep shade navy blue for dresses; yard ...$1.48 —Bargain Tables, Illinois Street Aisle.

NEW VEILING Up to SI.OO Yard qP* Quality jDC —Black dots on flesh mesh —Copen dots on white mesh —Copen dots on brown mesh —Red dots on black mesh —Jade dots on black mesh —Copen dots on navy‘ mesh —Henna dots on brown mesh Also black, brown, navy and taupe in fancy and plain meshes with various sizes of chenille dots, SI.OO qualities, yard 354 PATTERN VEILS Up to $5.00 qualities . ...*/0C All the season’s newest styles and colors; plain and fancy meshes of black, brown, navy and taupe with combinations of red, henna, jade, Copenhagen and sand; embroidered borders, also large chenile dots; up to $5.00 qualities, each 98$ $1.50 Georgette Crepe, 89£ All silk. 40 inches wide. In all the beautiful colors suitable for blouses, dresses and undergarments— Pink Turquoise Light blue Violet Orchid Copenhagen Tan Wisteria Brown White Peach Navy Nile American Henna Beauty Gray Reseda $1.50 quality, yard 89$ —First Floor, Northeast.

Boys’ Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws JANUARY (JQ AQ SALE PRICE BOVS’ SUITS, 7 BOYS’ COR DUto 17 year sizes; full ROY ® UIT S* 7to 17- .... , . year sizes, full lined xAjnkj&M lined trousers, dark troußer s, narrow tT tl mixtures; QQ wale corduroy; | j fn Bale price. sale qq BOYS’ OVER- P rtce OD.I/O COATS, 2to 6-year BOYS’ MACK I- g sizes, button-to-thfe- NAWS, Bto 16-year H 40 neck style, dark col- sizes, best plaids; JB r, ors; sale QQ sale QO QQ price price BOYS’ FLEECE LINED BOYS’ TROUSERS, corTJNION SUITS, sizes 6 to duroy and dark mixtures; 14; SI.OO £Q. sizes 6 to 10; CQ quality ..OUC sale price OVC BOYS’ TAN RAINCOATS, hat to match. Belt all around, plain back; sizes 6 to 14; in special vfct'YU

RECORDS CQ C _ * Latest hits and standard favorites two for gi.oo XaC J io-iNcii nornLF. face. f NKPI)I Es ’I TWO SELECTIONS ON EACH. Ii plages... .ZSC I H Tuck Me to Sleep. Remember the Rose, ywl Dapper Dan. When the Honeymoon Was Over. p, t „ O'NelL When Shall We Meet Again. T F Voo 1100 (A1 Jolson’s Song). *oKwk Wabash Blues. Everybody Step (Irving Berlin’*), jjjp Ten Little Fingers. I-eave Me with a Smile. My Suuny Tennessee. Blue Danube Blurs. Jjr IPiP|p3raH9i Ma. April Showers (Jolson’s Song). W ISgjSp Vjg&jl All My Myself. June Moon. I Wonder if You Still Care for Me. Silver Thread* Among the Gold. MSffl rail That’* How I Believe In You. Old Pal Why Don't You Answer. £[■s‘3 g am. Little Crumbs of Happiness. O Come All Ye Faithful. j tßjiPy Soy It with Mnsie. Joy to the World. m \ When Francis Dances with Me. The Rosary. Kitten on the Keys. The Holy C'lty. * why Dear. Mother’s Hands. Bimini Boy. Love’s Old Sweet Song. Just Like a Rainbow. Safe in the Arms of Jesus. I Want My Mammy. My Wild Irish Rose. Arkansas Bines. Mother Macxee. Another good “hit” on the reverse of each selection above. If you don't see what you want listed above, ask for It, as we have hundreds of other records. We also have a complete player roll and sheet music department. A Wonderful Assortment of Player Rolls (4 for $1.00), each 30£ YOU CAN TELEPHONE YOUR ORDERS. —MUSIC DEPT., BASEMENT.

New Spring HATS Os faille silk, ostrich and straw flower trimmed, and effectively \ beaded visca braid Specially Featured at — QC We have just received this collection of new spring / t|/ f$ m #§ hats by express, from New York makers of note. They f * M v are so chic, so youthful and so becoming that the price, > & —" $2.95, seems insufficient. / W Hats for both misses and matrons in a profusion of \ flflflS styles and colors herewith listed— J STYLES ’ COLORS Turbans Ouff brims Copen Pumpkin Black Roll brims Sailors Canna San Brown Mushrooms . Jade Gray And Navy Up to $5.00 Qualities , $2.95

HIE W?H. BLOCK C 8 Hart Sohaffner & Marx Guaranteed Clothes for Men, Young MBn and Boys, 8 to 18.

Women’s $7.00, SB.OO and $lO "fi High Shoes | | Quality shoes' of brown kid, I iJiliitilMk. ■ 1 black kid, tan calf, brown calf, (jj black calf. Military and walking heels. <£C| Af S’° iM *2.95 —Third Floor. Children’s, Misses’ and Growing Girls’ HIGH SHOES Black, gunmetal and tan calf high A lace shoes. Sizes BV2 to 11, 11*4 to 2 ▼w U K and 2 1 /o to 7. Special —Third Floor.

SPECIAL SELLING Two-Quart Wear-Ever Aluminum Double Boilers nno $335 .ye A most worthy util- p \ ity cooking utensil. / Rather a “three-in- m I ■|'L| one’’ cooker It not 11 I H only serves the pur- SKI B pose of a double boil- Sol er, but may be used IE | HI as three separate Hr utensils. The outside pan contains three quarts; Inside pan two full quarts. ‘just 175 of these double boilers, specially priced at $1.98 —Fifth Floor.

THE BASEMENT STORE

Women's Silk Hose PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN, black, fully reinforced, seamless foot, fashioned leg, all silk to the top, sizes B*4 to 10; but for slight imperfections they would sell at $2.00; extra special (3 pairs, . £Q $2.00), pair v/C PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN, seamless foot, fashioned leg, fully reinforced, plain black, brown and white; all sizes, slightly imperfect, otherwise these hose would sell at SI.OO and $1.50; extra special Tr%7c Stockings for Boys and Girls Medium and fine rib, reinforced roe and heel; black, brown and white; sizes 3 to 10; they buve slight flaws, otherwise would sell at 25c; extra special, $ £ pair 1 DC

In Our Model Grocery Quality — Service—Moderate Prices Exclusive distributors for Indianapolis and vicinity of Park & Tillford’s world’s best food products.

HMfUfk On sale only from 8:30 a. m. to ■■ K|#|a Hfl 11 a. m. Sunlit bread, hot 1/llLifsl/ from our ovens. All pan breads, including rye, graham and whole - llj wheat. One-pound loaves, while supply lasts, loaf.

CREAMERY P U TTER, Sunlit, delicious, ' churned fresh pasteurized cream, pound J| C FRESH PORK LOINS, cut from choice young pigs; fine for roasting; while supply lasts, -l q pound IJ/C

COLD BOILED HAM, special sweet cured, machine sliced, pound ...450 DRi#b BEEF, freah machine chipped, pound 490 ROYAL LUNCHEON COFFEE, our own blend of the finest coffees; perfect iroma and flavor (3 pounds 95), pound 324 POTATO CHIPS, fresh and crisp; from our Sun-lit kitchen, pound 55c BONELESS SMOKED HERRING, very delicious for luncheon, pound -254

HOSIERY SPECIALS

SPORT WOOL HOSE FOR W r O M E N, smooth weave, brown or green heather mixtures; extra special (3 pairs, $2.50), pair 854 BUSTER BROWN STOCKINGS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, fine or heavy ribbed, medium weight, seamless, fully reinforced; the fine ribbed are in black, white and brown; the heavy ribbed are In black only. Special (6 pairs, $1.35), pair 250

$6.00, $7.00, SB.OO, $9 00 and SIO.OO MEN’S TROUSERS Tremendous Variety Makes It \ Sale price— Easy to Match Your Coat and Vest / SPECIAL PURCHASE AND SALE— / QJ Q Q THOUSANDS OF PAIRS, “BOLT ENDS” of \ suij patterns—fine all-wool fabrics. ■

Sale All-Wool Suits For Men and A AA Young Men 1 JJ.JJ TWO TROUSERS IN- ) CLUDED AT $25.00 New suits, the most desirable patterns and models. A real saving on suits men will be proud to own.

Six Hundred and Forty-two Coats for Women and Misses $25, S3O and $35 Qualities • n5- lit A recent large purchase for i j jk cash enabled us to secure coata /} IIK \ £'*“ *7 at a v fraction of their £ ’ j vAi—- 1 &■\ ' S former worth. To the spe- A, n /Bii .. y* clal purchase we added / / /( /II 1 j \ coats from our own high- / /py j H er priced stocks, making r / H a sale that will mark a / UX Ju new epoch in extraor- I J Hi dinary value giving of The Base- Ml * 1 1 ment Store. | V I | You can not Judge these coata | \ .1 by the price. The quality of the |l if! cloth, the beautiful tailoring, the ,'3 l *! rt smart becoming models and the IP | \ t i • handsome fur collars are so un- jjlui , \ ) I If. usual at the price that you’ll be •i WV amazed. * ] |-y—"Y —y* T h Every Coat Silk or Satin \ f \ V Styles Embrace JJ (\A —Hand-embroidered model* /■( —Wrappy models v —Full flare and semi-flare style* —Fancy stitching Materials -Belted and seml-belted models _ Buede velouPß Colors —Velours —Beaver —Deer —Harding Bollvias —Brown —Navy Blue. —Normandie

FREE INSTRUCTIONS IN KNITTING, CROCHETING AND LAMP SHADE MAKING. —Sixth Floor.

GINGER SNAPS, from our Sun lit ovens— or 2 pounds, <bDC FRESH OYSTERS, large select standards from Baltimore In full measure, sealed sanitary cans— Pint 354

FRESH NUT MEATS, especially priced for Saturday's selling— PECAN HALVES, sl.‘s quality, pound sl.lO BRAZIL NUT MEATS, 79c quality, pound 754 FANCT BLUB RIBBON EVAPOBAT E D PEACHES, peeled, pound.. 294 FLORIDA SWEET ORANGES. dozen .... 304 GRAPE FRUIT, fancy Florida*, priced according to alae. 15c, 10c and 84 —Fifth Floor,

WISCONSIN CREAM CHEESE, 39c quality, pound 284 K E NIL WORTH TUNA, In smoked oil; delicious for salads. sandwiches, etc.— %-pound 5i5*...264 pound sis*..-184 WRIGHT'S SUPREME SALAD DRESSING, 8-ounce jar, 35c quality. Jar 294 PEANUT BITTER, Sun-lit, fresh made at the counter, while you wait, t pounds 254 SANTA CLARA PRUNES, extra fancy, p0und...294

CLOCKED SILK AND WOOL SPORT HOSE FOR WOMEN, brown or green heather mixtures; purple, blue, green or gold clocks; extra special, pair $1.29 BUSTER BROWN PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN, seamless foot, fashioned leg, silk lisle garter tops; snug fitting ankles; black, white, cordovan, nut brown,. navy and gray; pair 954 —First Floor, Southwest,

Sale All-Wool Overcoats For Men and d* 1 A A A Young Men J) 1 4.JJU Fine all-wool back" fabrics In this season’s newest and smartest models. Sale price $14.90 [SHEEP-LINED COATS FOR MEN, $6.95 a

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