Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1922 — Page 3

COUNCIL MAY CUT-COUNTY’S BONDED DEBT Commissioners Shank and Tutewiler Bid for Reelection. SPEND IMMENSE SUMS The program of County Commissioners Harry Tutewiler and Carlin Shank calling for an additional bonded indebtedness of over $2,000,000 probably will be greatly reduced by the Marion County Council at the February meeting. Since Commissioners Shank and Tutewiler have announced their intentions to be candidates for re-nomination as county commissioners at the coming primary on the Republican ticket, both commissioners have daily been busy making plans to spend large sums of money on county institutions. LIST OF EXPENSES. The program of the Tutewiler-Shank combination of the board is as follows: Improvements in the courthouse, estimated at $250,000. This is Tutewiler's pex scheme of improving the “fourth floor" of the courthouse. Indications are thnt the council will refuse to au. thoriae a bond Issue for that purpose. In orovements at Juliette, estimated at $l5O, >OO. These improvements are to consist of the building of two wings onto the present main building. This is deemed necessary and officials saj should have been done years ago. The re-locating of the Colored Orphans Home, which has been conducted by the Friends, but which is now turned over to the county. It will cost approximately SIOO,OOO to relocate this home. Mr. Shank ap<f, Mr. Tutewiler, since visiting Chicago, are enthusiastic over the Forest Pnwserves In Cook County and they hare plans of trying to do the same thisig here. Such a plan is considered not only impractical but illegal by County Auditor I.eo K. Fesler. Both commisisoners have discussed the establishing of a growers and gardeners market on the north half of the Courthouse yard. County Attorney Harry Hendrickson has rendered an opinion that such a plan Is illegal. 810 INCREASE IN BONDED DEBT. The commissioners last year increased the bonded indebtedness of Marion County by authorizing the sale of bonds totalling $1,300,000 for the county's share in the War Memorial Plaza. Also bonds totalling $250,000 have been authorized, but not sold for the improvement of Northwestern avenue as a county unft road. According to County Auditor Fesler the total bonded indebtedness of Marion County at the present time exceeds $4,168,000 and that the proposed improvement program of the commissioners, including the plaza, will Increase the bonded indebtedness to about S6,OCS),000 or a 50 per cent Increase in a year’s time, It Only Seems Longer PARIS, Feb. 1. —Married persons live longer than single persons, according to statistics for all France Just collected. These figures also show that bachelors, old maids, widowers and widows end their lives more frequently than jiersons who are married.

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Gives Nine Reasons Why Arms Parley Is Success National Council for Reduction of Armaments Will Issue Bulletin.

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY CONSTANCE DREXEL WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—ls the Washington conference a "success?” Well, rather, and the bulletin of the National Council for the Reduction of__Armaments proceeds to tabulate nine reasons why all the women belonging to the organizations affiliated with the council ought to give it a boost, especially, when it comes to getting the Senate to round out speedily what has been accomplished so as to go on to the next step. Are we not better off in reduction of armaments and with respect to peace iti the Pacific than we were Nov. 14? asks the bulletin which will be sent broadcast to the organizations affiliated with the council. The answer is yes, and the reasons given are: 1. Anew understanding has come between America aud Japan,* the two nations that were headed straight for war. Japanese Correspondents have reported from Washington America’s sincere desire for peace. The Japanese delegation has experienced America’s patience, justice and good will at the hands of Secretary Hushes. 2. The English-speaking nations are in closer sympathy than they have been since 1775. The opportune settlement of the Irish question only removed a cause of trouble; it was the Washington conference that brought to light our solidarity. FKANCK AND JAPAN SHOWN IF. 3. The extent and significance of militarism in France and Japan have been brought to the attention of their sister nations. Letting in light on an evil is a long step toward its abolition in the present state of world opinion. 4. China is several stages nearer justice than she was when* the conference opened. 5. The four-power pact is preferable to the Anglo-Japanese alliance from every point of view. 6. The limitation of the number of ••capital ships among the great naval powers has made a successful war of aggression on the part of any of them doubtful and difficult. 7. The naval holiday liberates great sums of money for constructive uses. At the Same time it removes fear measurably from the minds of the uations involved. Pear is the cause of war. 8. The limitation of submarines to ‘‘legitimate" warfare and the abolition of poison gas as a weapon of war are educative steps, and will lead to something more. 9. Open diplomacy and consultation of the people on measures proposed have, in so far ns they have been tried, proved their value for all time. Secret diplomacy, like secret treaties, will hardly te tolerated. \V*C AT WILT, SENATE 1)0? However, the bulletin points out very succinctly, will the Senate ratify or nullify the conference? This question Is as important to the American people who demanded the conference as the cbnferi enee itself. ' i “If you are disappointed that the con- | ference has not brought greater reduci tion of armaments and a great measure lof justice to China, that is no reason j for undoing what has been achieved. I Don’t permit partisan obstruction to

blind your eyes to the issue. The reduction of armaments and the progressive realization of world organization are issues above partisan it cautions. In addition to advising prompt ratification by the Senate, the bulletin, which is issued as a guide to the organizations affiliated with the council, contends Congress ought to cut the appropriations for the Army and Navy and thus prove, in concrete aud undeniable form, the sincerity of our motives. Whether this last piece of advice will meet With response from women's organizations, like the League of Women Voters or the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, remains to b@ seen. Anyhow, It is the general consensus the bulletin has boiled down the accomplishments of the conference in perhaps simpler form than has been presented anywhere else. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. BELIEVE LABOR DISPUTE ENDED Chicago Unions Expected to Accept New Landis Wage Scale. CHICAGO. Feb. I.—Building trades unions are expected to accept the newest wage award announced by Judge K. M. Landis, arbiter of the dispute between the unions and their employes that has hampered building operations here for more than a year. William A. Curran, president of the Building Trades Council, has announced he will recommend acceptance. The new scale, which replaces a' previous scale to which the unions objected, provides for wages ranging from 55 cents an hour for excavating laborers, to $1.12U, an hour for expert tile layers. The only obstacle to adoption of the scale is the insistence of unions that all nonunion men who have been employed |on building jobs be withdrawn. With the announcement of the award Judge Landis retires as arbiter of the building trades wage dispute. British 1922~ Army Less Than 235,000 LONDON, Feb. I.—The British army totals for next year will run below 235,000 men, according to a statement by the war office. The estimates for the current finacinl year gave the number of British troopers to be on tbe establishment of the army, exclusive of India, as 201.127, but the present strength is some 10.000 below that figure, and the colonial arid native Indian troops, which were shown in tiie estimates at 84,250 have been reduced by about one-half.

Illinois Central System Calls State Control of Rates Backward Step There has been much discussion late y of bills introduced into Congress to take away from the Interstate Commerce Comm ssion all authority over state rates. The proposed legislation, we believe, is unprogr ssive, impracticable and illogical. Our Federal Constitution grew out of a generally accepted feeling on the part of the people that commerce among the .states should be free. Our forefathers were convinced that nothing but ruin and chaos would result from a system which allowed one state to put restrictions upon the commerce of another state. The Federal Government was founded upon the theory that commerce and trade were national subjects and should not be subjected to local conditions. To that end the Constitution confers the exclusive power upon Congress to regulate commerce among the states. By a long line of Supreme Court decisions it is now thoroughly settled that a state must not be permitted to make any rate or regulation which will interfere with interstate commerce. The power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to condemn such rates which do discriminate against interstate commerce has been repeatedly upheld. Asa practical matter, everyone knows that a railway system traversing a number of states is operated as a Unit. All its property is used in both interstate and intrastate commerce. Its rev.-guos from both arc commingl'd; its expenses as between the ttvb classes of commerce cannot be accurately separated. It ought not to maintain upon its line as many separate and distinct systems of rates as there are states which it traverses. In the case of the Illinois Central System, passing through and touching fourteen different states, it is obvious at a glance that it ought not to have fifteen systems of rates, one applicable to interstate commerce, and fourteen others applicable to the commerce of the different states which it serves. Ts such a theory is sound, so far as the practical effect is concerned, it would be equally sound to say that each county traversed by the railroad should have the right to make a separate system of rates. Os course, there is a political difference as between the relation of counties to states and states to nation, but, as a practical matter, the two situations are analogous. No one has ever been able to give any good reason why a passenger making an intrastate journey should pay a rate lower than or different from that of the passenger making an interstate journey, both occupying the same scat and receiving precisely the same accommodations. Railroads in the United States have for a long time struggled against this divided authority. They have been subjected to a number of conflicting regulations, and have been greatly embarrassed and inconvenienced by the necessity of obeying the mandates of various state' commissions on the subject of rates, many of which conflict with one another. Tn some instances state commissions have frankly announced their purpose to give to the people of their own state an advantage over the people of another state by making a discriminatory rate adjustment. In one western state, a state commission put out an order requiring the railroads to put up placards in their stations explaining how an interstate passenger can defeat the interstate rate by buying a ticket to a border lino point, getting off the train, and rebuying across the border. All these considerations induced Congress, in the Transportation Act, to provide more convenient machinery than had theretofore existed whereby discriminations against interstate commerce could bo removed, and whereby the states would be required to contribute their fair share toward the expense of maintaining the transportation machine. While present legislation does not go so far, yet it is recognized by all thoughtful students of the problem that there should be but one body with power to regulate rates, and that the national body. There would still be left to the state commissions many important duties in connection with their police power. Their jurisdiction would be unimpaired as to service matters, such as operation of intrastate trains, character of station facilities, crossings, etc. It is a great mistake to suppose that the control of rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission would make ijt more troublesome and expensive for patrons of the railroad to obtain relief. m he Interstate Commerce Commission has more, than a thousand expert employes, draw_ from every section of the country, thoroughly familiar with local problems and competent to assist in the solution of rate questions. A petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission will in nearly every case bring one of these examiners almost to the door of the petitioner, where the complaint can le -heard. The proceeding is informal, the expense is less, generally speaking, than us involved in going to the state capital to present a matter to the state commission, and no reason exists why the public generally should not look with favor upon a system which will insure fair, consistent and harmonious treatment of the rate structure of the country. ' The removal of the war tax January 1 has had the effect of making a substantial reduction in both freight and passenger rates, and the railroads have placed in effect reductions in freight rates on agricultural products. They will continuo to make reductions as often as they are able to do so without impairing their ability to serve the public. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. < 0. H. MARKHAM. President, Illinois Central System.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1922.

NEW APPEALS TO FARMERS FOR SUPPORT Senator Opens Campaign By Pointing to Record of Congress. CITES HELPFUL LA\^S Special to The Time*. TIPTON, Ind., Feb. I.—A direct appeal for the farmer vote was made by Senator Harry S. New here last night in the first speech of his campaign for the Republican nomination for the (Senate made outside of Indianapolis. Congress, he said, has done a great deal to assist the farmer. He said he realized i rosperlty cannot be brought about by legislation, but that legislation can help bring It about. He listed the following six measures which he said had been enacted by Congress f&r the benefit of the farmers; 1. The agricultural emergency tariff, which extends to farm products the protection that for years has been accorded to lilanufactured products. 2. The farm export credit measure, without which the prices of all grain would have sunk to lower levels. 3. The act placing the control of the packing industry' and the stockyards under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture. 4. The Capper-Tlneher Future Trading' Bill, for the regulation of the grain exchanges of the country. . 5 The Curtis Bill, appropriating $25.000.000 as n revolving fund for the Federal Farm Loan Bank 6. The Kenyon Bill Increasing the interest rate on .the bonds of Farm Loan Banks from_s to per cent with no increase to farmers. POINTS TO CURTIS 'AND KENYON BILLS. “The Curtis and Kenyon bills have for their purpose the better functioning of the Federal Farm Loan Bank

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