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Jtteia Saihi Slimee INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA- S Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 35C0, New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, , , i New York, Boston, .'tyne, Burns & Bmltk, Inc. Advertising offices } Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. AFTER Willie Carey gets through with the Supreme Court there Is still the pardon board. APPARENTLY no neighborhood Is immune from the establishment of bootlegging joints. DOUBTLESS, those fervent love letters were inspired by the fervent love scenes for which the movies are noted. THE WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT CLUB seems to have verified some heretofore published statements about the city market. THERE IS a rapidly growing impression that John J. Jones, former mayor of Brazil, is a little bit particular about the kind of a public office he will fill. DETECTIVES are reported to be “off on anew clew in the Taj lor murder case,” thereby tending to prove that they were also “off” on some previous clews. MR. BARRY might, however, realize that the absence of civil service rules does'not necessarily preclude the use of common sense in the selection of school board employes. HAVING WORN OUT in three years the $175,000 garbage plant that was to “pay for itself in seven years,” the city is now about to build a new plant for considerably less money. Politics and School Ch ildren In support of Mr. Rickes, the superintendent of buildings and grounds, President Barry of the school board announces that there is nothing in school board regulations that compels the board to review the justice of a dismissal of an employe. Mr. Barry says: ‘‘There is nothing in the rules of this board that suggests civil service. The board recognizes the right of a head of a department to make such changes as he may deem advisable. He is accountab.e to no one. Herein we have enunciated anew principle of school control which Is a vast departure from that heretofore existing and foretells an administrative policy that will eventually affect every parent of a school child. For, if the school board recognizes the right of a head of a department to make such changes as he may deem advisable and does not feel it incumbent on the board to review such actions on appeal, then there i3 not a teacher in the public schools whose employment does not depend wholly on the whim of the school superintendent. It has been rumored for some time that the teaching staff of the schools was to be subjected to a pruning process which vyould leave only those who opposed the old school hoard on the pay rolls. I lie way is now open for this practice. The superintendent, himself dependent on the will of the majority of the school board for his position, is empowered to remove whom he “deems advisable” and the safeguard of an appeal to the hoard with a guaranty of a public hearing is wiped out by Barry et al. This has not heretofore been the situation in our public schools and we do not think it will long remain the situation. For, by elimination of the “suggestion of civil service,” which :as heretofore taken the form of the right of appeal to the board and the right of a public hearing the triumvirate now' in control of the sc-.ools has opened the school city to the formation of the greatest political machine possible In the county. This means, of course, that in order to hold jobs as school teachers, men and women will be compelled to line up politically as the school board directs, through the head of the department. It means that our school children will he subjected to the influences which a teacher may be coerced into exercising in political matters. In short, it means that the political liberty of this generation and the political tendencies of generations to come depend entirely on the whim of the majority of the school board, control of which thus becomes the greatest influence in our civic life.

They Dwelt Together Mayor Cryer of Los Angeles says: “I am persuaded that there are hundreds of clean, law-abiding men and women engaged in the making of motion pictures, and in their behalf I ask the open-minded judgment and the even-minded justice characteristic of our American people." Just what “persuaded" Mayor Cryer to believe what all the rest of the world has long known is not set forth in his statement. Certainly it was not the revelations of the Arbuekle debauch, nor yet the love letters of the film stars that were found among the possessions cZ the murdered director with an alias and a past. But it is not with the “hundreds of clean, law-abiding men and women" that public sentiment is now' concerned. It is with the exceptions who appear to have been allowed such freedom in Mayor fryer's bailiwick that the country is now dealing. And if the good are injured because of the actions of the bad, they should not overlook the fact that -Mayor Cryer appears to have extended equal privileges to both in the California city. Interesting , if True The desperate effoits of certain Washington correspondents to write political stories that will please the editors of the newspapers they serve not infrequently become ludicrous when the correspondent’s productions are delayed a few days before publication. For example, a local newspaper, under a Washington date line, informs its readers that Indiana Democrats are claiming that “no matter whether Beveridge or New is nominated, the race on election day will be won by Thomas R. Marshall, ex-Vice President of the United States, who is being urged to take the nomination. His inclination is to remain out of public life, but if he does accept a nomination, even the Republicans admit that his popularity in Indiana, coupled with the disaffection in the Republican ranks, no matter whether Beveridge or New is nominated, will make the contest a close one.” Which, coupled with the recent announcement of Mr. Marshall that he will be in Europe on primary day and will not participate in the senatorial fight, certainly makes entertaining reading. What Remains to Be Done? In his consideration of the bids of several cement producers for State highway contracts, Governor McCray is confronted with the facts that a number of companies submitted identical bids, that they offer no denial of the charge that the price of cement is fixed by one company and followed by others, and there seems to be no way by which the State can obtain cement except through the payment of these prices. Naturally, the question that arises in the public mind is whether or not this situation is one that is to bo reached, through the law's of the State against combinations that restrict competition in trade. That is a question for the legal department of the State and will doubtless be carefully examined by the Attorney General. But, assuming that there exists among the cement producers a combination that regulates prices, what remains for the State officials to do? The anti-trust law' of this State is without teeth. The processes of the courts are long and torturous. In the meanwhile the demand for cement is strong and growing stronger. Strange as it may seem, no one is able to find any other immediate solution than to buy the cement at the price asked.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Publlo Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9. —The head of an industrial establishment ir the Philadelphia district got a telephone message from a man ol national prominence saying he was In Philadelphia with a party ol friends and would like to take them through the industrialist’s plant “We have an engagement-40 play some golf on the Merlon Club links,’ said the visitor* “and can stop at your place on the way out or the waj back. Which would be most convenient for you?” “You are as welcome as the flowers In May,” replied the industrial ist, “but don’t come in your golf togs ang don’t bring your golf clubs.” “Why not?” demanded the man of national prominence. “1 don’t think my men would like it,” the industrialist explained. “Your men wouldn’t like it!” exclaimed the man of prominence. “I never heard of such a thing. I have a mind not to go near youi

place.” BUT HE did, and he had his party of friends with him. They were not In golf garb and did not have their golf clubs with them. After they had In spected the establishment the man of prominence asked the industrialist to explain his objection, or rather, his men's objection. "I couldn’t afford to let you and yotir party go through my works in sport clothes or with some of you possibly with a golf club in your hand,” said the industrialist. “Three men out of five in the plant would think you were a lot ot rich idlers just going through the place as a matter of curiosity. That's conducive to discontent. "I'm asking my men to give to me the best they can in the way of production. I know yoai work like a galley slave. But they don't. I know the worth of the game of golf. I doubt whether they do. I’m not going to run the risk of making them discontented to the slighest degree if I can avoid It. Labor is sensitive, very sensitive in some respects and we who are large employers would do welJ to take this into account. Conditions are very different now from what they were in our fathers’ and grandfathers’ time. Then the boss got down at the same time as the men and not frequently before them and stayed in the shop or office later. Now the boss comes to the office late and usually departs early. The men have an idea he has a soft job. They don’t know how much of his work is done out of his office; they don't know of the hundred and one things that have developed that require him to go here and there, travel up and down the land, work early and late, study and plan. “I have put in ten years getting a first-class organization in my establisb-

' Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copvrtght, 1922, by Star Company. 1 - By k. C. B Bear K. C. B. —I wish that this might be read by the society woman whose husband accused her of “spending a small fortune on fancy footwear.” Every morning at 5 o'clock, winter and summer alike, a working man passes by my window. He is Swedish, about S3 years old, shabby, stoop shouldered and wears spectacles. And always as he hurries along he sings * * * Late in the afternoon four little girls come and stand on the corner by my house. They art* sweet, pink faced little things with long blornl curls and they range in height like stair-steps. They look eagerly up the street. Soon they hear the thin, tenor voice and run, In great excitement to see who can reach daddy first, lie kisses them—one. two, three, four, on th-ir little red mouths, lifts the litll os t girl high up on his shoulder and they disappear in a happy group down the street. I have never sen the mother, but I have a vision of lo r. patiently twining pale, straight hair into smooth curls around her fingers. Or laundering little checked gingham frocks. In the 5 o'clock blackness of the chill winter mornings I sometimes frown when my sleep is disturbed by a pene trating tenor voice humming the Missouri Waltz. Then 1 smile, turn over and go ot sleep again, thinking of the four littl stair-steps and ail the Simple kindly folk who serve as ballast to keep the poor old worid from being turned topsy-turvy these "Godless’’ days. For ail tie- moments of pleasure you have given, and will give, I and my family most sin*- rely thank you. VIRGINIA ROSE SMITH, Santa Barbara, Cal. MY DEAR Virginia. WHEN YOU look out. WHERE THE corner is. WHERE THE four UttJe girls WAIT ANXIOUSLY. I OR THE shabby man. WITH HIS shoulders stooped AND SPECTACLES. • • • AND YOl'R heart is warm. .• 1 I WONDER. * * * IF YOU'VE ever thought. WHEN YOU look out. ON SCENES like that. * • • AND SEE beyond. INTO THE home. AND SEE the love. * • • THAT MUST live there. AND FEEL a thrill. THAT SUCH things are. I WONDER. i IF YOU’VE ever thought. • • THAT AFTER all. j IT'S FOLK like you. i* • : WIIO SEE these things. * * * , AND SEE beyond. • • * WHO REALLY are. • * TOE BALANCE wheel. THAT KEEPS the world. FROM RUNNING wild. I THANK you.

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merit. I've been telling lity hoys thnt the bosses work more than they know. I'm not going to make them think otherwise if I can help it. I'm not going to take people In golf clothes, or uuy other kind of sport clothes, through the plant. That's why I spoke to you as I did." "Good boy," said the man of national prominence as he shook hands with the industrialist. "I wish there were more like you. I was thoughtless. Lot<j of us are in this matter of labor." k VX7.LLIAM FEATHER, who In recent v* years hriß written much that has been helpful in increasing sales and production, has a lot of clever epigrams in his little volume, “As We Were Saying." Here are some of them: iou can't let business Interfere with goif if you expect to win the championship. iou can't beat the combination of enthusiasm and common sense. " hen a man telis you be cun do something which you have been trying to do yourself and can't, put him on a commission basis. A man is what his ideas are worth. No one can learn to assume responsibility unless he (s made to assume the consequence of tils acts. A innn begins to make progress when he has so many troubles that nothing worries him. A few dollars turned frequently will do the work of many dollars that more slowly. A particularly good workman always seem* to have u particularly good job.— Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. FARMERS MAY ASK ABOLITION OF TAX BOARD Marion County Farm Bureau Worries Over Burdens of Taxation. Abolition of the State hoard of tax commissioners will be demanded from the next Legislature by farmers' organizations If the burden of tmrs is not made lighter In the near future, was the opinion expressed by William Ifosson. president of the Marlon County Farm Bureau at a meeting of Washington Township taxpayers s j the Broad Itlpple high school last night. Mr. Besson declared that the Bt.Jfe tax board has b*s-n responsible for the high rate of taxation levied upon property owners of Washington Township. Public utilities also came in for a share of the speaker's attention, and his denunciation of them met with nti outburst of applause from the 200 taxpayers who attended the meeting.-' I’hiiip Zoereher, member of the Ftnfe hoard of tax commissioners, made a brief talk In which he said tho State board merely was doing its duty in enforcing the law. He recommended the curtailment of public expenses in order that taxes may tic lowered. A suggestion made by the Itev J. F. Rainier that a committee of taxpayers meet with William Daxvson, township assessor, was approved by Mr. Dawson. Lon K. rosier, county auditor, said that Washington township is paying taxes on a bond. Issue of $7+5.000 for roads built under the three mile road law and on $131,000 for schools. DANCE DENIED; TAKES POISON Girl Swallows Strychnine as Result of Discipline. When John Woods, 248 North Elder avenue, told his daughter Nelly, 20. she could not go to a dance with a strange man last evening, she went to her room ayd took strychnine, the police say. She died in the city hospital ten minutes after she xvas taken there. After she xvent to her room she called her father. She refused to talk to him, pointing to an envelope on her bosom marked "poison.” A brother, Jesse Woods, said there had been a number of arguments over his sister’s frequent attendance at .lances. Willie Carey’s Fate Discourages Bisesi Mike Bisesi left today for a visit of six months at tho Indiana State Farm. Mike frequently lias been a visitor in city court, where various officers of .the city police department requested he hold Interviews with the city judge. .Mike’s last interview with the court cost him SSOO in fines and the stay at the State farm on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Mike decided he did not like Judge p ,Wilmoth’s invitation and appealed to Criminal Court. Evidently he saw the •results of the recent appeal of Willie Carey, who received a double portion of 1 the dose administered by Judge Wilmoth, for later Mike appeared before Judge James A. Collins and announced he wished to withdraw his appeal.

MILTON NOBLES WILL APPEAR AS ‘LIG HTNIN” HERE Before Going to London to Present the Stage’s Greatest Success

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Here nre three pictures f Milton Nobles a* Lightln’ Dill, the central character in “Lightnin’, ’* which opens at English’s Monday night fur n weeks eng agoment.

NOBLES TO HEAD LONDON CAST OF "LIGHTNIN." Milton Nobles, who will play the central character In "Llghtnln’ ” to be at English’s next week, xvitl head the company which will present this play in London, England, soon. The cast Is headed by Milton Nobles in the role of Llghtnln’ Bill Jones and Bessie Eicon as the vaudeville actress. The production was staged under the personal direction of the co-author, Winch!! Smith. * * principal character, christened William Jones, but nicknamed "Lightniu’ ’’ Bill, because he never moves fast. Shiftless, good-natured, braggart and chronic Inebriate, LVghtnln’ Is yet a figure to be loved and to bo admired. Around his vagaries Is built the pleasant love story of an honest young law student who, by defeating the seln :n-s of a crooked lawyer and ills clients, saves the property t' Mrs. Jones, assures the happiness ot Llghtnln’ and wins his girl. The play starts with a prologue iu the backwoods

Conference Notes by the Observer Special to Indiana Daily Times and Ft’.ilad.optUa Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. Fob. it. Genoa’s fate, as far as American participation in tlio European economic conference Is concerned, will i>e made/know n tomorrow. Presumably its verbatim text will lie brought to the Ci,' luet by Secretary Hugh--, formally approved, dispatched to the Italian government at Komi-—which ic tin. inviting paw r and then Issued in Washington. Ignorance as to the nature of the Administration’s decision remains profound. There are tho**' who think we are going to Genoa and those who hold it out ot the question. A theory that enjoys sum* popularity Is that Uncle Sum will toil Europe c> put it* economic house in order, hold a conference after that is done and Invite us again. President Harding inn in a Jocular mood when Information was sought at the White House its to whether the five member of the Amor! an foreign-debt funding Commission will all be Republicans The question is superfluous as to three fifths of the commission, for it is provided in the act of Congress that they shall be members of the Cabinet. There la no authority to quote the President’s rejoinder ns to tho political complexion of the commission, but it cun be usseierat' and that any doubt as to its orthodox G. O. P. make-up was effectually removed. Secretary Hughes did not come to the State Department Tuesday for the first time in many months. He remained at home, far from the maddening throng, to work quietly In his study on the American d<d potion's report to the I’restdent on the work of the Washington conference. Mr. Harding is waiting for this full and formal account of the dele gatlons stewardship before preparing his message to Congress at the time of tho submission of the conference treaties. Japan's most Indefatigable representative in Washington is Mazanao Hauihara, vice minister of foreign affairs at Tokio and a Nipponese delegate in the latot stages of the conference. The conference Is over, but Mr. Hauihara is still at Work. His duties concern his hobby a'utograph-collccting. lie carries a pocket edition album, producible on strategic occasions whenever Mr. Hariihara encounters a dignitary worthy of Inclusion. As goon us the farewell session was oyer, the smiling lUtla Japanese statesman was here, there ami everywhere in Continental Memorial Hall hailing notables before they got away. He aspires to a complete collection of imposing Washington signature before quitting the Capital. Washington's very latest extra territorial quip : Diplomatic establishments here are divided into two classes—embassies and boot-legations. Mrs. Maud Wood Bark, president of the National League of Women Voters, has issued Invitations in faultless Spanish to the Italian-American sisters expected at thp conference of l'an-Amerlcnn Women in Baltimore in April. "La Liga Naclonal do Mujor-s Votnntofc,” is the imposing title of Mrs Park's organization in tho musical language of the Senoras. They are felling a belated story on Lord Riddell In Washington. He undertook while here to fulfill a speaking en-

of Nevada where Llghtnln’nnd the young lawyer seal their friendship. The first act shows the Jones hotel at Callvada, standing half in California and half in Nevada, which attracts would-be divorcees from all over the country. Lightnin’ is porter and “handy man” around the place. Litigation brings all the characters into the Superior Court at Keno in the second act. Lightnin’, evicted from the hotel months before and now a guest at the Soldiers’ Home, beats the schemers who have Inxluced his wife to sue him for a divorce, the divorce being part of a plot to fleece the family out of the hotel. Action reverts to the hotel in the third act, the old couple In each others arms; heir adopted daughter betrothed to John Marvin, the young forester and law student who has been Ligbtnin’s pal and ad- - riser through thick and thin, and the lieno judge happily mated with u fair divorcee. Besides Mr. Nobles and Miss Bacon, the cast includes Percy Winter, Stuart

gagement somewhere in Virginia. The conductor on th Southern Railway came along and nsked Kidd* '! for his ticket. The newspaper peer fumbled through his pockets in vain. The conductor suddenly recognized his distinguished passenger from n -wspaper pictures and courteously refrained from Insisting on the ticket's production or payment of a cash fare. "That's all very well,” said Lord Riddell, “and I thank you. But I'll be blowed if I know where I'm going.” Midshipmen to be graduated at Annapolis this year will experience the novelty of going from the Naval Academy into the Army. That, at least. Is understood to b • a cherished plan of Secretary Weeks ns rC satisfactory way of taking care of the ,3i> odd ’middies” who, owing to naval limitation, cannot, as expected, be assigned to the fleet Os the annual graduating class of 5(0. hardly more than 125 or 150 will Hctuaiiy enter the Navy. The Army is virtually without second lieutenants. Secretary Week* —himself incarnating the effectiveness of an Annapolis man in the military establishment—is of opinion a relatively short course of Army training will fit Naval Academy graduates for land service. So the prospect of a careerless future that stared the midshipmen in tho face is to be averted. “General” Jacob S. Coxey of Ohio, commander in-chlcf of "Coxcy's Army,” is assailing the heights of Washington Again, this time not ns the mnrshal of a hungry and Jobless horde, but ns a captain of Industry. “General” Coxey, long since become a prosperous business man in the stone anil slag trade, has nrrlr* and in Washington to induce the shipping board to approve what lie calls a scheme to create an American Merchant. Marine without raids on the public treasury. With nti associated capitalist, "General” Coxey has a plan to take no fewer than Cisi 000 tons of shipping board eraft, equip It with Diesel motors and put it in commission tinder the Stars and Stripes. D. C Collier, American commissioner general to the Brazilian Centennial, has left for Ulo de Janeiro to look over tho situation on behalf of the United States exhibit. Brazil is vastly pleased with the magnitude of onr plans as exemplified by th; $1,000,000 appropriation voted by Congress. The Hulk of the fnnds it is understood, will be spent upon a permanent building, which afterwards is to become the American embassy at Rio. Philadelphians ought to have a sentimental interest in Brazil's centennial, because their own centennial, forty-six years ago, was distinguished by the visit of the Emperor Dorn Pedro. Brazil's "Fourth of July,” is Sept. 7. Tho hundredth anniversary this year xvill find the Rio centennial in full blast. The great Amazon commonwealth, whose continental area, by the way. Is 500.000 square miles larger than that of the United States, has been a republic since 1880. President TTardtng has accepted the honorary presidency of Magna Chnrta Day Association, an Anglo-American organization which is crusading to have the third Sunday in June made "Magna Churta Sunday” through the seven nations constituting the English speaking world. ,T. W. Hamilton of St. Paul, Minn., is the executive secretary of the association and John Wanamaker of Philadelphia is a member of the national committee. Magna Charta, in ease anyone has forgotten. was signed June 15, 1215. Copyright, 1922. by Public Ledger Company.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Fox, Dolly W. Nobles, Nydia Westman, Frank Thornton. Barney Gilmore, Emory Blunkall, Felix Haney, Johnnie Lc Fevre, John Seymour, Helen Kutan, Milton Woolwine, John Bhaw, Pauline Moxon und Norma Farnsworth. ON VIEW TODAY The followihg attractions are on view today: “The Greenwich Village FoiMes” at the Murat; the Marcus show at English’s; Venita Gould at B. F. Keith’s; "Wit und Wisdom” at the Lyric; "Beauty Revue” at the Park; “Polly of the Follies” at the Circle; "Saturday Night” at Loew’s State; "My Boy” at Mister Smith’s; "The Ruse of the Rattler” at the Isis; “Her Own Money" at the Alhambra and “Conflict" at the Ohio. "FOUR HORSEMEN" BOOKED AT OHIO. "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with K'udolph Valentino in the leading role, xvill open a weeks engagement at the Ohio next Sunday afternoon. This is the first time that the picture has been shown here at popular prices.

RECOVERS 118 STOLEN AUTOS IN 6 MONTHS State Department Shows $392,528 Collected, $144,137 Spent in Theft Fund. A total of 11S stolen automobiles wore recovered and eighty-five arrests were made by the State automobile department between Ju.y 15 aid Dec. 31. 1921, according to a report made by Ed Jackson, secretary of S'ate. to Governor Warren T. McCray at the monthly State cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon. Total receipts of the automobile theft fund amounted to $392,528 and total expenses to $141,137.71, leaving n balance of $248,590.28, the report showed. Reports of activities were made by various departments, and William G. Oliver, auditor of State, reported that since the first cabinet meeting Nor. 10, when an appeal was made for a reduction of expenses, the expenditures of the various departments have been materially reduced. Members of the official family commended the Governor f*>r his attltud * In the recent demonstration against the public service commission. MEGREW CAMP PLANS DRIVE Spanish War Veterans to Recruit .Membership. The month beginning Feb. 9 nnd ending March 9 has been selected as membership campaign msnth by the Harold C. Megrew Camp f.’o. 1, United Spanish War Veterans and plans for a hard drivif are being made. Officers of the post say that in Marion County there nre about 5,(W0 veterans of the Spanish War. Philippine Insurrection, the China Relief Expedition and other wars of that period who are eligible to membership in the organization and that out of this number there are but 400 active members of the local post and the membership committees will begin a drive to bring these other veterans into the fold. Men who served in either the Army, Navy or Marines at any time during the period from April 2t>. 189S to July 2, 1902, are eligible to membership. The membership committee announces a big entertainment night to be held at the post hall, Eleventh street and College avenue, tonight at which time a big entertainment program of music, stunts, singing and speaking will be held and all veterans of the Spanish Wars and their families are invited to attend. The meeting will conclude with "an old fashioned army supper with plenty df seconds,” according to the announcement. Scranton, Pa., Suffers $250,000 Fire Loss SCRANTON, Fa., Feb. 9.—Two build ings were destroyed and two firemen were overcome by smoke during the fire which swept through the heart of the business district today. Firemen said the damage might reach $250,900.

HARDING SAYS HE BELIEVES IN PREPAREDNESS But Safest Defense Lies in Public Mind and World Opinion. HALTS WORKS ON FORTS Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—President Harding is not a pacifist. Prompt occasion was taken at the White House to remove any salsa impressions that may have been aroused on that score by the I President’s statement at the close of the conference that he "once believed in armed preparedness” in his speech Monday at Continental Memorial Hall Mr. Harding voiced the belief there is “a i better preparedness in a public mind and ■ a world opinion." Lest dreamers who would "abolish war" should qjploit that observation for illusory propaganda, the President lost no time in taking the ground from under them. It was declared that bis utterance, "was not the statement of a pacifist.” The President is far from bej Bering in the complete abandonment of > armies or navies. He does not think any government in the world should neglect its defenses. All he meant to convey to the conference in discussing preparedness, was bis thought that the public mind and world opinion can be elevated to a point which would constitute a better guarantee of peace than "large armed preparedness.” PRESIDENT PLACES HIMSELF ON RECORD. President Harding seized the same ep- : portunlty once again to place htmaelf I squarely on record against cuts in naval j personnel that would upset the "relaj tivity” established by the Are power ! treaty. He pointed cut the United State* j could not maintain the 5-5-S ratio and "the treaty navy” it now has accepted ! if there is ai.y drastic reduction of perI sonnel. The White House is aware of ! differences of opinion as to Just how j many officers and men must be retained !to maintain "reasonable relativity” and \ the President expects Congress to proj pose "a very considerable reduction.” He hopes lu no event that it will go below HO.OtX) men. Naval experts have stated—"that the treaty navy" cannot be properly manned with fewer than the existing strength of 100.000 and some even assert it cannot be done with fewer than ! 120,000.

Meantime President Harding Is determined to give the promptest possible effect to the naval understandings Arnerj lea pledged herself to carry out. Ai commander in chief of the United States ' Army and Navy he ordered all pending ; work on new fortifications not very elab- ( orate in character, stopped in the Philippines and in Guam. Simultaneously, Secretary Weeks caused the War Department to hold up the shipment of twenty 155-rn guns to the Philippines. They were loaded on a transport reedy for dispatch to Manila. They now will be sent to Insular outposts not Included in tha fortifications status quo provision of the naval treaty. CHECKS BUILDING OF i OF BATTLESHIPS. j Presdent Hariding also has instructed i the Navy Department to stop all work os ! battleships and battle criusers under const ructicn, except the nearly-completed Colorado and Washington, which are to ! be completed ard retained as our quid i pro-quo for jFpan's Mutsu. The ships 1 thus "hcla i.p” Include the battleship West Virginia, launched in December; the six battleships of tne South Dakota class | (43.200 tons’, which, like the battle cruls- [ ers, are on the way but not launched, j They are in various stages of prelimU- : nary construction—none more than 25’or 30 per cent. It is those ships upon which | Uncle Sam has already spent $330,000,000 and which he stands ready to junk in the 1 cause.of naval limitation. The President emphasized that ne I American warship-, built or building will ■ be scrapped until the Senate has ratified the conference treaties. He seems su- ; premely confident ratification is in prospect, and in early prospect. The Presi- ! dent makes no bones about saying h* ■’expects" no delay. He has not yet made up his mind whether he will send the treaties to the Senate with a printed message or go there and present them In perj son. The Preshk-nt’s mind apparently 1 will not be madA ip on the score until ihe receives the official report of the American delegaMon on the work of the conference. That now is being "prepared by Secretary Hughes, who was the recipient of warm congratulations from his Cabinet colleagues today at their first gathering since the conference’s close. — Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Ccmpany. Engineers to View Pictures of Stoker The local branch of the National Association of Stationary Engineers and th* ! Indianapolis Light and Heat Company who use alarge number of Riley Underfeed Stockers will cooperate in present- ! ing a motion picture tomorrow night, at S o’clock In the Board of Trade building shoving this stoker in operation. This picture shows -among other views the interior of the fire box of the stoker under various load conditions. A lecture cn combustion xvill accompany the illustrations. All engineers and others interested are invited to attend. Goes to China for Biography Material Dr. George R. Grose, president of De Pauw University, is spending s four months’ leave of absence in China, where he is gathering material for a biography of Bishop Bashforl. Since the greater part of Bishop Bashford’s life was spent in China, it~was necessary for Dr. Grose to make the trip. He has had many interviews with statesmen and missionaries who knew J Bishop Bashford. and also has had the j opportunity of lecturing at Pekin Unii versity, the largest university in China.

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