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JtiMana §'dlk eimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone —MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . New York. Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices > Chicago Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos i— ■ 1 ONE WOULD RATHER that Frank Francis’ contempt of law is no • greater than his contempt of lawyers. THE SHANK administration should worry over the school board’s lack cf sympathy with the Jewett concert program. THE HIGHWAY commission evidently Intends to allow the cement producers another chance to treat the State right. A BOSTON MILLINER declares red hair Is usually accompanied by bow-legs. How does he manage to observe both? THAT TEXAS GIRL who killed her alleged assailant at his second trial was doubtless discouraged over the law’s delays. BUCKET SHOP operators are falling before indictments, and the business is being disrupted by lack of confidence which never should have extended to it. ‘Wlu.t Does Taggart Want?’ It is a remarkable tribute to Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis and French Lick that for weeks the Democratic party program in the senatorial contest has waited for word from him to stai t it. There has been a great deal of talk of this or that prospective candidate, but at no time has any one attempted to be definite, for the reason that M,. Taggart’s intentions have been kept strictly within the Taggart bosom. As the time for filing notices of candidacies approached nearer and nearer all eyes in the party turned toward the old-time leader and the current question in Democratic circles was “where is Taggart and what does he want?” Asa matter of fact, it is folly for any Democrat to attempt to run for office in Indiana without the indorsement of Mr. Taggart. That indorsement was given to Samuel M. Ralston as a senatorial candidate and straightway Mr. Ralston became the leading possibility. He removed himself from the race and immediate attention reverted to Mr. JI aggart, where it has remained ever since. Having made two unsuccessful races for the Senate at the demand of his party, Mr. Taggart is entitled to exercise his own will regarding a third. He is under no obligation to carry the Democratic banner, having through his own personality kept the party alive through a period when without him it would have sunk almost without traces. Nor, is any one in Indiana entitled to contest with him for a Democratic nomination. There are Democrats who do not adhere to his standard, who do not always agree with his programs, but they are not of such value to the party that they can insist on directing it, nor are they capable of rallying any such a following as Mr. Taggart. It may be said that it is not a desirable situation for a State political party to be so completely in the control of one man, but we are here confronted with existing facts rather than with desirabilities, and In reply thereto Mr. Taggart might, well say that he has no desire to control his party and is not dictating to it. In the matter of the senatorial contest, a.3 in almost every other matter of Democratic policy, the party is dependent on Mr. Taggart's direction. And it is likely to remain so as long as Mr. Taggart casts a vote.

What’s SIOB,OOO to the City? Controller Hogue s “discovery” that the Jewett administration made no provisions in the tax budget for the payment of Interest on the $1,600,000 bond issue for the war memorial plaza is in no sense startling io those who followed the desperate last minute efforts of the Jewett regime to issue and sell these bhnds. It mutt be recalled that the Jewett administration wanted very badly to do something by which it could be recalled in future years and as the time cf its demise approached there was danger that it would not succeed. Consequently, its members bent all their endeavors toward the flotation of this debt, even accepting a disadvantageous bid for the bonds in order that the issue could be sold before the clock sounded the deathknell of the reign of extravagance. That there was no provision for payment of the interest on the bonds was well known and understood by the outgoing administration. That there was no real reason for the Issuance of the bonds at that time was equally well known. But the Jewett administration was determined, as a last act, to saddle a debt of $1,600,000, plus interest, on the community and its members knew that none of them would he required to worry about the payment of the interest when It fell due. If Mr. Hogue will now investigate further Into the tax budget he l will find that Its adoption was not legally done and as a matter of fact Ithere is no tax budget governing the Shank administration this year. V The law requires that the budget be advertised prior to its adoption "in order that the taxpayers may have an opportunity to scan its several items and remonstrate against those which are not desired. The Jewett administration never advertised the budget. In fact, its members placed 'ev%ry possible obstacle in the way of public Investigation of the budget their efforts to keep it a secret they invalidated it. Tine law further defines the exact use of every cent that is raised by taxations It does not afford a general fund from which the council can appropriate money at will, but it does provide a method of caring for emergencies such as might be created by the laxity of the budget makers. Perhaps, if the attention of the legal department of the city is centered for a brief space on the tax law it will not be necessary for the city to default in the payment of the SIOB,OOO interest which it was obligated to pay by premature passage of the bond ordinance. Harvey Talks Again George Harvey, Harding ambassador to England, who raised somewhat of a furore by declaring the United States entered the world's war merely to “save its own skin,” is now telling England that the American brand of prohibition must be modified before it can be “reconciled with American public opinion.” As usual, Mr. Harvey is wrong, but recollections of a visit he once made to Indianapolis lead to the reflection that he has the strength of his convictions, especially in the matter of modifying prohibition. John C. Ruckelshaus, who entertained him on that visit, will testify as to Mr. Harvey’s sincerity. The ambassador is further quoted in admiration of the English system of dealing with intoxicants, as was to be expected from such an admirer of everything English, but his interview is somewhat tamed by his declaration that he would not vote for the repeal of prohibition and he believes that eventually prohibition will be established as a principle of American Government. Boiled down, the Harvey interview is as devoid of being expressive of American sentiment regarding prohibition as any other expression from him is devoid of reflecting Americanism. The Thirst for Amusement Conditions among the poor of Austria are so deplorable that officials of the city government are using the castle Belvidere, former home of Archduke Ferdinand, for a soup kitchen to accommodate the needy. Despite this pitiable condition, there seems to be plenty of money in Austria to spend for amusement considering the fact that an Austrian motion picture company has made a contract with Miss Lucy Doraine, well known British actress, to appear in three spectacular films to be manufactured by them and for which they are to pay her a salary of a half million crowns, or what would be $8,000,000 in pre-war times. Miss Doraine claims to have the biggest salary of any artist in the world. Nothing would be thought of a similar occurrence In America, hut for a firm operating in a country which professes to be in such difficult financial straits as Austria to put a great deal of money into a project for which it expects to receive ample return from the “amusement budget” of a pauper country causes us to hesitate and wonder. But the world will ever be seeking amusement regardless of poverty. It causes them temporarily to forget their own troubles. It is a sort of stimulus and in many instances higher aspirations and ideals are planted. |

GOVERNMENT ‘Of the People, by the People, for the People ’

BUREAUCRACY. It Is strange, but true, that, many times Intelligent people Innocently lend themselves to an undesirable thing' and unthinkingly aid In perpetuating it. The tendency seems to be along the line of least resistance and consequently clever propagandists are leading a free people Into the yoke of bureaucracy under the cloak of ‘ efficiency” in government. Even though the dangers of such a method he shouted from the housetops and proclaimed throughout the land through every channel of publicity, many men and women will continue blindly to follow the lead of the bureaucrat. This condition Is due tththe clever work of the bureaucratic propagandist. He is wise enough to evade the undesirable phases of bureaucracy and camatiouges them when they threaten to embarrass or retard his work. These departures from the principles of American Government rarely are attempted openly, as for the purpose of control, but usually through roundabout faiethods and in “scattered” attacks, later to be coordinated or consolidated. History shows that bureaucracy has made Its first Inroads and greatest development almost universally under the guise of public “welfare.”. Thus. It secures attention and by this means establishes control of the public thought—for real welfare is of vital Import to all citizens. It is a subject by which the propagandist easily nrouses fear and Induces action No thinking person would criticize the proper safeguarding of public welfare and what Is said here Is not In criticism of any work that is sane and reasonable along' that line. The danger lies In the fact that the scheme does not end there but leads into every phase of existence. It touches Industry, education, social life, religion and the home. It grows from a few “regulators” into a hungry hoard of parasites without regard to the rights of others. The birthplace of bureaucratic rule was middle Europe. The best illustration of its effect and evils upon a government and a people Is Russia. One of the richest domains In natural resources In the world possessed of unlimited man power for Its development, If wn* despoiled, robbed, starved and kicked about by opportunists. Years of rotten-to-the-eofe bureaucracy, administered under the graft rule of officialism destroyed individualism. killed Initiative and produced ruinous taxation. Shall we repent the experiment In America? The tentacles of bureaucracy are already fastened upon onr country and the system Is growing by leaps and bounds. It Is a menace to our Government, the greatest and best ever devised by man. and It must be destroyed. The principles of American Government are not mere historical Ideals. These principles are clearly stated In the Constitution and they arc practical and living applications of politics truths However, they are In grave danger of being Ignored by the bureaucratic tendencies of the present day, for the growth of a svstem of government by bureaus has Invariably marked the eginnlng of the decadence of the na ion which permits this system, with Us resultant evils. We seed 1 to be living In an age In which the opportunist thrives. The opportunist Is that individual who makes the most out of a present condition wl-h no regard to the lessons of the past or the ultimate effect of his action on the future He is responsible for sotue of the most blatant evils of the bureaucratic system and is aided in his propaganda and progress by b’ind enthusiasts and multitudes of persistent seekers for public patronage. This disregard of all real knowledge of government leads to the re-delegatlon of law making powers, tue multiplication of offl'ials and petty offices and into the complicated overlapping of bureaus. The New York Evening Vost stated: “In one way or another eleven different bureaus have something to do with foreign commerce, seven with mestic commerce, fifteen to education of one sort or another, ten engaged lr. public health work, sixteen In chemical research. seven are concerned with disabled soldiers, fourteen with public lands, twenty-four do surveying and mapping, twenty-two do engineering and research, sixteen are engaged In road construction, twenty-five direct or supervise buildings and grounds, nine are concerned with aeronautics, seven with Alaskan affairs, nine with navigation and mcr chant seamen, fifteen with rivers and harbors, nineteen with • hydraulic construction,” and so on. Indefinitely. Since that quotation was wrlfen the list has had many more bureaus aided to it with ramifications Into hundreds of smaller boards. The overlapping. InterfortMice and bungling: which goes on because of this system, would years ago, have wrecked any country except this—the richest country in the world. It has been only because of our reckless spending of onr principal, tthe natural resources) that we have been able to bear the burden. This condition not only exists and Increases In Washington but also in every State of the Union State governments are rapidly becoming centralized In bureaus and commissions, operated through re-delegation of legislative power. Unless checked, many of the State bureaus evidently are destined to become a part of the National scheme. The will furnish ready-made organizations to tit Into the enlarging centralized bureaucratic control of Government In Washington. People have not the faintest conception of the tremendous propaganda that la being waged In Washington and, In fact, everywhere and through every knowffi channel, by various organizations, under the leadership of bureaucrats to Increase their power and create more “easy Jobs." These bureaucrats seem to be endowed with the belief that they are Infallible, possessed of superior knowledge, gifted with buslnass acumen beyond that of other men and, because of their position as Government employes, are qualified to teach all others how to operate to best advantage. In other words, they are growing under the firm conviction thnt thev are of the ruling class and must govern the rest of the people Instead of serve them. \ Government control of business and Its bunglesome Interference wllh it, has grown to such large proportions that men and institutions an* compelled to employ large forces of clerks and operate under heavy expense In order to get out the reports and keep the records required by the Government. There Is too little efficient business In government

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922.

and too much government In business. It is this state of affairs which bears a direct and most important relation to the return of business to normal. In 1921 the governmental expenses were 126 per cent higher than they were In 1918. The Government will take In direct taxation this year “twice the amount which has been carefully estimated as the total personal savings of the peopb of the whole community. The actual expenditures will reach about $l7B per fain ily.’’ The costs have been largely Increased because of the paternalistic attitude of the Government, and the consequent necessity to meet the expenses of over seventy important commissions, bureaus and boards and other "soft positions” for superannuated ex-Senators and Congressmen and their friends. In addition to these important bureaus there are many more of smaller fame but large expense, and the public pays the bill. Some of these bureaus are most energetic spenders and In some instances have increased the costs of their maintenance over 500 per cent. Federal employes have donbled since 1913. There are 614.000 of them outside of Washington and 68,000 in Washington —a vnst army of citizens held In nonprofit "live positions which lower their effl ciency if It does not wholly disqualify them for productive work In commercial lines. The editor of Colliers says, “Our na tioi t! and local governments have steadily taken away men and women from productive Industry to hold down wasteful and useless public Jobs.” There would be some encouragement if this condition were improving, but It Is not. Since the above figures were prepared there have been passed legislative acts which greatly Increase the number of employes on the Federal and State pay rolls and there Is a continual effort further to increase the number by other bureaucratic legislation. It Is ridiculous and against all human

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1922, by Star Company. By K. C. B Dear K. C. B. —Every morning, w’hlle delivering my mall, I see Jimmy, a railroad clerk. He is slowly making his way through the traffic. Walking back of him or sometimes in front of him, comes George, who stops the traffic and guards every inch of Jimmy’s way. Jim was once a powerful man, but for years has been paralyzed. He refuses to stay home and mope, and every day, rain or shins, he drags himself, with the aid of crutches, to the office. George Is just a fellow clerk and his duty to Jimmy Is selfimposed. I have a feeling you'd like to know about the two of them. HARRY GOLDBERG. HEAR GEORGE. • • • THE LETTER man. • • • WHO EVERY day. • • • GOES ON his way. • • • WIIULE YOU guide Jim. • • • BRINGS US the proof. • • • THAT KINDLY acts. • • * ARE GROWING things. • ♦ THAT SCATTER seeds. • • * IN HUMAN hearts. * • AND GROW again. • • • TO KINDLY acts. • • • ANI) IN your case. • • • THE SEED you dropped. v * FOUND LODGING place. • • • AND GREW these lines, • • • THE LETTER man. • • • n.AS WRITTEN me. • • • AND NOW It Is. • • • THE PLANTED seed. • • • HAS GROWN again • • • AND IN my turn. • • • I SPA'D It out. • • • TO BLOSSOM forth. • • • AND C AST more sce-l. • • • AND TWIT S the way. * • • THAT GOADNESS grows. • • • AND EVIL grows. * • * IN THIS olt world. • * AND IF It WHS. • • • THE WORLD guild know. • • • MORE OF the good. * • AND LESS Os ill. • • I'M VERY sure. • • t TnAT IT would be. • • A BETTER world. • * • THAN IT has teen. • * • BUT SAD It Is. •• • * THAT SOME one says. • * • IT IS the crime. • • • AND EVIL things. • • • THAT PEOPLE want. • • • TO READ about. • • s AND 80 It Is. • • • THEY GIVE It tbem. • • • AND PLANT strange seeds. • • • THAT GROW to weeds. • • AND CHOKE the growth. • • • OF KINDLY act*. • • • I THANK yotl.

nature to suppose that this situation will be remedied by those already on the Federal pay roll; they aro to busy further entrenching themselves. The reform must come from those outside. It will come when people take a little more Interest In politics, and above all, study the words, “bureaucracy and paternalism,” and realize what they mean to Individual citizens. The everlasting pounding away of every citizen on these evil* will grad ually break down their entrenchments and free us from tho greatest danger now confronting us—officialism, which really means autocracy and old world evils brought Into our own Government Demobilize Washington and deereasi (axes—that Is the quickest and surest method. In 1787 a group of real statesmen possessed of great courage, extraordinary mental capacity, keen vision, prae tical common sense and a thorough knowledge of the faults of past governments in Europe, met In Philadelphia and, after careful consideration, drew up the Constitution of the United States. With unusual foresight they endeavored through the Bill of Rights, to safeguard this country against a repetition of this old world tyranny and bureau' ratio system which had marked the decadence of the nations of Europe. To this ideal, the country must return for safety and to preserv# Individual liberty. HILLMAN SEEKS . TO BE AUDITOR Wayne Township Trustee Announces Candidacy. Joseph M. Hillman, trustee of Wayne Township, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Auditor of Marlon County. Mr. Hillman has been active In Republican politics and Is serving his second term as Wayne Township trustee. Joseph H. Ingling of Ben Davis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Wayne Township trustee. Mr. Ingling alwuys has Uvea in Wayne Township. He was engaged In the mercantile business with his father at Bridgeport for a number of years, after which he was district manager for the Armour Fertilizer Company for a period of seven years. In recent years he has been engaged In the real estate and broke.rgae business, and has never held a political office or been a candidate.

PUSS IN BOOTS, JR. By DAVID CORY. “Look here, Mr. Drake,” cried Puss Junior, walking up to the brook, “the little man with hts gun Is coming back to take a shot at you. You had better swim away." “Thank you,” replied the drake. "I’ll keep my eyes open, never fear.” And just then the little man returned ii a great hurry, for his wife had already made a fire to roast the duck and he wanted to shoot the drake and get home again as soon as possible. He climbed over the fence and hurried toward the brook. Little Tom Thumb, who had crept out of Puss Junior’s pocket, sat down on a toadstool nearby to watch the fun. An t pretty soon the little man come up, nil out of breath, for his gun was very large.and his bullets were large, too, and heavy, for they were made of lead. I “The Drake was a swimming with his curly tall. The little man made it his mark, mark, mark; He let off hie gun, but he fired too soon. And the drake flew away with a quack, quack, quack.” I “Toe bad," cried the little man, end he looked very disappointed, “It would have been flue to have taken another duck hotne to my little old woman. Do you like yeast duck?” he asked, turning to Puss and Tom. “We do, indeed." they both answered at once, and In the very sumo word*, strange as It may seem. “Then come with me," said the little man, and he led them across the rond and down the lane to his house. And Just a* they entered the front gate the odor of roast duck came through the kitchen window, and all three smacked their Up* and said: “Doesn't It smell good?” which was stranger still, for one can lmttglne two people saying the same thing at the same time, but for three, well, It la queer, very queer 1 “Joan," said the little man, for this was his wife's name, you kuow, “I have brought these fine gentlemen k,me to lunch. Will there be duck enough to go 'round? I missed the drake, I’m sorry to say, so we shall have to be content with the dnek.” “Well," she replied, “the tittle fellow” ■—and she looked at Tom Thumb—“will not cat much, I'm sure. As for the booted cat, he seems to have the manners of a gentleman, and therefore will not ask for more than his share. We shall have enough and to spare, my good man." and then the old lady shook hands with Pnss and Tom Thumb And pretty soon, after that they all sat down to sat, and when the meal waa over Puss promised to tell them a story.—Copyright, 1922. (To Be Continued.) Forty Years a Hermit LISBON, Feb. 25.—-John Barnard, wb# claimed to be an American, lived the life of a hermit for forty years In a hovel a tew miles from Lisbon. He was found load on Sunday. Need Nurses in India CALCUTTA, Feb 25.—An urgent plea has been sent to London to furnish more nurses for service with British troops In India. MINISTER DEFIES FOES. OXFORD, Feb. 25.—The Rev E. D. A Major, principal of Ripon Hall, accused of heresy by the Bishop of Oxford, de dares he will clear himself of all charges, and has challenged his foes to give him a full trial. INVENTIVE WOMEN. LONDON, Feb. 25.—Official reports record ft large Increase in patent applications by women, particularly In connection with household articles.

SIMM BRINGS from THE POLITICAL POT

HAROLD C. FEIGIIf NER. i The mystery that has attached to the probahle platform that Albert ,1. Beveridge will elect to stand ou In bis attempt to wrest the Republican senatorial nomi-; nation from Senator Harry S. New was| somewhat lifted this week when his i State headquarters suddenly became ac- ; tively engaged in mailing out hundreds] of copies of the famous “business revival” address ho delivered on Nov. 17. last, before the New York Chamber oi Commerce. It now Is taken for granted by those acquainted with the former Senater'.campitlgn tactics that when he delivers his keynote speech in Ft. Wayne on the night of March 9, that the prinelpl ’ enunciated months ago will form the basis of his platform. Those Republicans who are looking with anything but joy on Mr. Beveridge's preparations to assault the party machinery now see a deeper s'srnlflcance than ever before in this paragraph of the Chamber of Commerce speech: “It Is, indeed, a time for p'ain speaking by men f who have graduated from ambition. It is a time for certainty and action regardless of the political effect on personal or party fortunes." It means, many of the standpatters believe, that Beveridge Is enough of an Iconoclast to smash Ills way through traditional party barriers to obtain the nomination and then, if successful this fall, to become a veritable bull In the Congressional china shop. It sounded a plain warning that the man who raised the Progressive standard of revolt In 1912 is again prepared to follow his Ideals, party regularity to the contrary notwithstanding. Aside from a few unveiled warnings that New Y’ork speech was devoted almost entirely to a plea “to strengthen business," and this cry, according to his friends, Is to form the central theme of his campaign. Some of the things Mr. Beveridge stood for then —and which he has not forsaken In the many public addresses made since —are well worth noting. For instance he advocated: 1. The repeal of the Adamson law. 2. Lower freight rates. 6 Reduction of wages for railway employes. 4. Consolidation of the Railway Labor Board with the Interstate Commerce Commission. 5. The repeal of the excess profits tax. 6. Excessive Income taxes, surtaxes, corporation taxes “and the whole pyramid of extortionate exactions now crushing business must he Immediately lightened nnd diminished: and provision must be made for the ultimate destruction of the whole uneconomic mass” • 7. Enactment of a eerie* tax. 8. Repeal of the Sherman and Clayton laws. 9. UnnctmentNef a national lncorporn tlon act. It will require a deal of cvtirage for the lone handed crusader to carry these doctrines Into the labor strongholds of Indiana and It Is a peculiar thing that his strength seems to lie In these very centers. Today Beveridge Is the most, popular of the two candidates In the Industrial centers of the Calumet region, Evansville, the Ninth district, with Kokomo taking the lend, and his cause la being well bolstered up in Indianapolis unib r the leadership of Mayor Samuel Lewis S' .ink. But despite the fact that the former Senator carries a panecra for the economic ills of the country and despite the fact that a certain glory always attaches to tho attacker the absence of a good po Utleal organization places him at a distinct dlsudvanttage. That 1s where Senator New Is playing a good game of politics. While he Is In Washington attending to hip duties as Senator and religions!y participating In all the activities of the tipper House a splendid machine, aided not a little by the Republican State committee. Is getting Into action. It will he surprising to Hoosler observers If the Beveridge organization ever even approaches the New outfit In point of well-known leaders, numbers and strategic distribution.

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Daily Tlmea and Phlladelphla Public Ledger. By WASHINGTON OBSERVER. WASHINGTON. Fell. 25.—An advocate of the soldier “bonus” bill has sent to the Washington Observer a photographic copy of the application made by Abraham Lincoln for hts laud bounty for military service. There was also a copy Os the request of Gen. U. S. Grant for his laud warrant." The originals are In the general land office. The Lincoln affidavit on a printed form filled In bis own hand writing bore date of Aug. 21. 185>, San* County, Illinois. Mr. Lincoln, described his service as captain of "Illinois Mounted Volunteers” in the war with the “British Band of Sacs and other tribes of Indians on our Northwestern frontier in A. D„ 1832 known as the •Black Hawk War'—that he volunteered at the State nnd county aforesaid on or about the 21st day of April, 1832, for no definite time • • • —There Is no opposition to land bounties for World War veterans. Threatening letters have reached Senator L. H. Ball of Delaware In such numbers as to give rise to serious concern for his personal safety The author of the Ball rent act which has saved thousands of Government workers and other residents of the National Capital from being turned Into the streets for refusal to pay extortionate rentals now has a body guard. About a year ago an unidentified assailant fired on him, hut he escaped injury. Recently Ms advocacy of an extension of the fair rents act has aroused another wave of landlord hatred. Representative Henry E. BsrbouT of California, believes the coast range mountains in his Stnte are moving northward. Urging a House committee to make an appropriation of $15,600 for “executing precise triangnlation nnd leveling regions subject Is earthquake,” Mr. Barbour said, coast and geodetic survey experts had

By GEORGE McMARUS.

The lack of publicly noted men s keenly felt in the Beveridge camp while on the ether hand the New people seemingly have a corner on that particular species of politician so indigenous to the Hoosler State. And even if the Senator docs not have the active he at least has the passive support of such “regulars' as I’resldcnr Harding. Senntor James E. Watson. Governor Warm T. McCray and a host oi other smaller calibred guns. In addition tc the absence of satellites in the Beveridge camp he is further confounded by the unexplained silence of those well known former Progressives, 1 red Landis of Logansport and Edward C. Toner of Anderson. Whether these men later will take up the cudgel for Beveridge is not known, but rumor has it that they arc going to keep out of the fight by sticking to the middle of the road. At this stage of the contest, therefore, Mr. Beveridge Is preparing to enter the lists alone, but determined to carry the assault to his opponent, while Senator New will waee a long-distance campaign through a splendid organization bolstered up by some of the leading lights of his party. The Democrats, feeling that the Bev-eridge-New fight gives greater assurances of party success than has been their lot for years, still are easting about for a senatorial candidate. The party leaders, as has been their wont recently, have turned in desperation to Thomas Taggart and are daily expecting his reply to their plea that he once more become their standard bearer. Falling there It is practically certain that Walter Myers of Indianapolis x 11 announce bis candidacy and there 13 some talk that Dan Sims, a well-known attorney of Lafayette, will also seek the nomination.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. - _ . ,„ ■QHILA DELPHI A, Feb. 25.—1n 1921 the imports of machinery Into India a had a value of $68,000,000. This was more than twice the value of all the machinery exports of Great Britain and th nited States in 1370. In 1920 the imports of machinery into China' were $29,802,000 or nearly as much as the total machinery export of Great Britain and the United States to all countries in 1870. The tremendous industrial development throughout the world In the last fifty years, the change from agrarianism to industrialism, explains to a large degree how the world war dislocated every georgraph'cal division of the earth. Dependence upon machine power has greatly increased the interdependence of nations.

In Commercial America, the Journal of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. John J. MacFarlane traces the Industrial progress of the world In tl e last half j century. Up to 1870 Great Britain practically dominated the machine market. In that year her exports of machinery were $25,000,000 and those of the United States $3,000,000. By 1920 those of the United Kingdom had reached $305,0<10.000, or twelve times those of 1870. while the United States had vaulted to $530.(160,000, or 107 times greater than In 1870. Today the total machitie exports of the principal nations aggregate more than a billion dollars, with the United States ; commanding more than one-half of the ] total and apparently being destined to increase Us leadership. OF the $536 OOfi.OOO worth of machinery exported from the Unite! States in ’ 1920 Europe took *157.405,000. the various countries of North America, $154,517.000; Asia. *78.223.000: South .America. $48,087,000: Oceania, $14,440,000 and Africa. $11,419,0"0. Os American exports of textile machinery, Japan was the largest buyer. Canada second. Great Britain third and China fourth. Nearly one third of the general machinery, or $146,526,000 worth, jwas under the head of engines and parts

j convinced him “thpy have definitely de- ' termitied that section of the country Is i moving north at the rate of half a meter | a year and that this movement of the j earth Is the cause of earthquakes. | Admiral Hilery Jones, commander of ' the Atlantic fleet. will have to be content with a battleship ns his flagship. In the interest of economy, the Navy Department decided to abandon the plan of using a passenger liner for the admiral's flagship. Tho steamship Columbia, formerly the Groat Northern, which has been used by the Navy as a transport and was to have been assigned to Admiral Jones as his flagship, has been turned over to the shipping board. The vessel, which Is one of the fastest American ships afloat, probably will be allocated to the Admiral Line and operated from Seattle to Far Eastern ports. Postmaster General Hays has returned to Washington to bring to a close bis duties In the Cabinet prior to becoming affiliated with the moving picture industry. During tho next week, he will remain here ns the guest of Herbert Hoover. At the close of his year's service file will pack up and leave. His last days of official duty In Washington will be marked by a round of entertainment. He was a gueßt at the National Press Club last night.—Coyrlght, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. WIFE AIDS BLIND LAWYER. LONDON, Feb. 25.—Robert W. Bowen who was blinded in tho battle of Ypres has taken high honors at Cambridge and been called to the bar. His txlfe read to him the textbooks he had to master. HOW MANY HUSBANDS? NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Demands for officials who recently discharged a woman who married now announce they will receive applications for women “with dependent husbands.”

WOMEN TO BE ADMITTED TO BIG MEETING ‘Real League of Nations, Uncle Sam and John Bull,* Speaker’s Subject. Capt. Stanley Nelson Daneey, world traveler, soldier and orator, wiil be the speaker at the Big Meeting in English's Theater tomorrow afternoon. His subject will be the “Real League of Nations, Uncle Sam and John Bull.” Tomorrow’s meeting will bring the eighteenth year of the Big Meeting to a elo>e. The theater will be open on this occasion to women as well as to men. Daneey. who is still under 30 years of age, was born IP Canada of Irish parentage. At the age of 20 be was editor-in-chief of an Important daily in Western Canada. Following this he toured European and South American countries and returned when war broke out, when he enlisted in the Canadian army. He rose from the ranks and became captain in the famous “Princess I’at” regiment. He was wounded and captured by the Germans and was held six months as a prisoner. After the armistice he was engaged to combat German propaganda among the soldiers. He spoke to more than a million tneu still In arms and was personally commended by Field Marshal Joffre. When the doors open at 3 o'clock the Big Meeting orchestra, under the direction of L. A. Von Staden. will begin a thirty-minute concert. The following program is announced: March, “Stars and Stripes Forever"— Sousa. Overture, ’ Poet and Peasant”—SnppL Toreador Song from “Carmen" —Bizet. Priest's March from “AThalla." Selections from “II Trnvatore” —YerdL ! The Young Men's Christian Association male quartette will furnish the special musical number. The meeting Is open to , men and women alike without charge.

’of which steam engines and parts amounted to $62,668,600; boilers and parts. $36.242,000; gasoline engines, $33,930.000, and kerosene engines $10,388,000. , Os the steam engines $53,629,000 was the xalue of the locomotives and the principal buyers of these were Belgium, SB,700.000; Cuba, SS.300,000; Poland and Danzig, $6,500,000; Brazil, $4,200,000; Brazil, $4,200,000: Italy $4,100,000; France, $8,800,000: China. $3,360,000. i Metal working machinery, Inc’udlng machine tools, amount to $44,311,000. The exports of sewing machines were $15,581,000 or more than three times the total of all machinery exports In 1870 arid the exports of typewriters had a value of $25,041,600 or five times as much ' as the value of all machinery exports fifty years ago. The mining machinery export aggregated $15,289,000: pumps and pumping machinery $13,684,000; adding and calculating machines $6,790,000; cash registers $5.941 000; air compressors $5,490,000. typesetting ma'-hlnes, $4,958,000 and so on down through a great variety of articles. MR. MacFARLANE is deeply impressed by the fact that Asia ranks second among the continents in machinery importations. He does not . ascribe this altogether to native Inltla- ; five but is inclined to think It due In part to a disposition on the part of manufacturing corporations of Europe and America to establish branches in the ] Orient where they can produce much more economically because of low wages than they can at home and thus be able to supply the eastern markets white larger profits accrue go to the corporations. “Whether this Is wisdom or not," h says, “time only will tell. With automatic machinery today it only takes a short time for anyone to learn how to work with the machinery in the various industries. If the millions of Asia ever acquire facility along this line and, likes the manufacturing countries of tho West, produce more than they can consume, it may not be well for the West for the low wages will enable the East to compete successfully In any part of the world with the United States and Europe." However that may be, the fact remains that the revolution of the last fifty years, making the world-wide spread of Industrialism, has been one of the greatest In history in its material effects even If it has occasioned little attention in that regard. And It is only In its early stages.— Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. Marks Place of First Automobile Trip Dne to the activity of the Hoosler State Auto Association tho “Punklnvlne pike” outside of Kokomo now bears a distinctive marker, designating this place at the starting point for the first trial trip of America’s first automobile. Until now there has been nothing to mark the place where America's automotive history began. The marker Is of sheet metal in wooden frame, nicely painted and lettered as follows: “On this road America’s first automobile, designed by Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, made Its first trip in 3894., This marker erected by the Hoosler State Automotive Association."

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