Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1922 — Page 4

Jtttata Satin (Limes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. ■— , , _. New York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, nc. Advertising offices { Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ought to Insure a fairly go t crop ot Democratic candidates for County offices! SPEEDING traffic men to other f elds appears to have been adopted as a method of speeding up traffic in the heart of Indianapolis. MR RALSTON says he has formulated no plans for his race for Senator. If the Republicans continue at the present pace he will not need a plan to be elected. ENGINEER ELLIOTT can take some solace In the fact that whether It is appreciated or not, his effort to get paving at less cost is In the Interests of the poor taxpayer! Sacrificed to Machine Politics There are women an-i children in Indianapolis today, defrauded of their livelihood, who are goiog hungry while money paid to a public official in accordance with the orders of the courts for their support is resting in the pockets of political leeches who form as powerful and ruthless a political machine as ever fastened its tentacles on a community. These women and children have been deprived of their means of support through the merciless milking of the county clerk's trust funcfh In the support of the political organization. The money that should have gone to buy them bread has been diverted to the benefit of those who essay to make our nominations and to fill our public offices. The hunger of the innocents Is the price that Is being exacted for our Indifference to political debauchery, to the machinations of a group of schemers whose program for control of our government rests on their ability to make the community finance their organizations. Richard V. Sipe, county clerk, Is the latest sacrifice to the gods of politics and he has taken with him into the corroding pit more than SIOO,OOO of fund 6 paid Into his hands as support money for children, as restitution to the innocent, as protection against poverty for loved ones. Mr. Sipe went wrong under the tremendous pressure of the political crowd who knew he controlled funds and cared not whose funds supplied their itching fingers. With money that was sacred, paid to him under duress for specified purposes, he helped maintain the political organization in this county of which he was an important part and the maintenance of which has brought and is bringing untold misery to those who are caught in Its merciless grind. None of the money he embezzled went to the personal use of Dick Sipe; thousands of it went into the hands of politicians, big and little, to sustain them in the various enterprises that make it possible for them to live in ease while they devote days and weeks to the task of nominating and electing other members of their organization to offices where they, too, will be in a position to handle taxpayers’ and others’ money. This machine, in the County of Marion, is a fearful thing. It makes and breaks men of prominence and men of obscurity, it has its seat in the courthouse and it reaches out to control the city hall, the police force, the school system and all governmental agencies. The administration of Samuel Lewis Shank is about to be blighted by its influences. Governor Warren ‘T. McCray is having the fight of his life to keep it from engulfing and directing his administration. The utilities of Indianapolis are helpless before it. It has its favorite newspapers and through them it feeds Its pap to an unsophisticated public that supinely pays the bills and writhes under the burden of taxes, an enormous percentage of which are levied to finance the organization. Never before has Indiana seen such a splendid example of the working of an insidious machine as in the Sipe episode. Never before has the machine reached out and grabbed funds that belonged to so many different persons. Seldom, if ever, has there been so complete a breakdown in the safeguards of trust funds as is here disclosed. As the custodian of money for the courts, Mr. Sipe received the satisfaction of judgment of all kinds. There is a statute that requires a checking up of his stewardship ten months in the year. But, the machine, through another minion, did away with this safeguard of the trust fund. Then, through other tools, coming from the Statehouse and Indiana avenue and all the walks between, the machine looted the find.

Today, this powerful political organization is striving with all Its resources to "cover up." Here, there and the other place, It has members who have profited directly from the diversion of the money that belonged to women and children. In the various offices of the county and State government it has its members on whom will fall the task of tracing these trust funds to their Illegal resting places and recovering them for their rightful owners. But any such a course will disclose the cupidity of the men who ruined Dick Sipe. It will disclose the interlocking relations between the officials and the politicians, the leeches and their bosses, and the only chance of successful prosecution for the recovery of this money and the punishment of those who got it lies in a political uprising of outraged citizens. In a month or a week from now the machine will have accomplished its necessities. An “agreeable" substitute has already been installed in the clerk's office and there will continue the long delays of the law, such as marked the county jail scandal. In time, all, excepting perhaps poor Dick Sipe, will forget. But what of the women and children who must go hungry that the political leeches and bosses may prosper? An Unfortunate Choice The lengths to which the Republican political machine will go In its efforts to retain control of the affairs of Marion County was demonstrated yesterday when Carlin Shank and Harry Tutewiler, members of the board of County commissioners, appointed George Y. Coffin to succeed Richard V, Sipe as County clerk. Here is the spectacle of a man who retired as chief of police rather than face an expose of his conduct being selected to succeed a defaulter by the vote of another official who has been accused of making illegal claims against the county *3y still another set of officials who are now under suspicion of having been lax in their examination of the affairs of the defaulter. Coffin should not have been selected because of his past failure in public office. Tutewiler should never have been in a position to have selected him, and back of it all Is the fact that no selection would ever have been necessary had not the .machine to which ail owe allegiance wrecked Sipe. It is quite evident that in selecting Mr. Si iVs successor, the two County commissioners were moved more by a desire to have a “friend” in an active capacity in the coming primaries than to fill an office with a qualified citizen. Politically speaking, the appointment of Coffin means that the Samuel Lewis Shank organization headed by William H. Armitage has received a severe blow, the effects of which may be far reaching. For Coffin and one other can control the primary election board and none will be able to overbalance this advantage if It is pressed. Where Is the Reduction? Those merchants who have combined to demand reduced insurance rates for certain risks in Indianapolis appear to be he only parties who have not forgotten that the taxpayers of Indianapolis gave their approval to the fire department motorization schemes of the Jewett administration in the belief that there would be lower insurance rates in Indianapolis whea the fire department was improved. The city bought a lot more fire apparatus than the underwriters specified and the taxpayers paid the bill in the expectation that there would be a better classification of the city as a part recompense for the outlay. But for some reasons that do not appear at present there has been no change in the costs of insurance and the subject nc longer seems to be a matter of interest to our public officials. Perhfps the petition of business men for a read.ustment will bring out the whys and wherefores of the continuances of the old insurance rates. Perhaps It will even demonstrate that although the necessary mooney was provided by the taxpayers It was not expended in a manner that Insured the promised results.

SHU BERTS PROMISE VAUDEVILLE Os the French Variety at the Murat

“The coming of Sbubert vaudeville to Indianapolis for a week's visit at the Rhubert-Murat Theater, beginning next Monday afternoon, not only heralds a new departure for this house—even though for only a week —but also marks the first presentation In Indianapolis of vaudeville as the F>vneh apply that term to the particular brand of entertainment created by ' m," says Frank Cruikshank, general field representative of the Shubert vaudeville enterprises. “In th* old days, when the form of amusement which has now become so popular under the name of •vaudeville’ had not attained its present high standing with the theater-going public," continued Mr. Cruikshank, “it was known as “variety’ and its patrons were practically all males, there being a sort of feeling of aloofness felt toward any woman who would attend a performance of this kind—ln fact, It was as much of an aspersion as to be seen going to ‘Tie Black Crook’ or ‘The Devil's Auction,’ famous form-displaying* plays of those days. “These companies came under the heading of 'variety shows,’ or ‘specialty shows,' being made up of acts similar to those of present day vaudeville. Then came Herrmann, the Great, with a company of noted European variety headliners—although he himself did not appear in the company—ui.der the name of 'Herrmann's Trans-Atla ltlcs,' with such stars as Carmencita, Herr Tholen and others, playing the first-class theaters—and the divorce of the varitties from the men-only class was begun. John Hopkins, noted American manager and promoter, followed with ‘Hopkins' TransOceanlcs'—and the lee was forever melted. “Thereafter the varieties became popular and open to both sexes, the continuous performances were established and flourished—and variety became vaudeville," he states. The vaudeville consists of a semi-con-nected musical creation, offering fairly good and sufficient r-msons for the Introduction of choruses, dances, scenery costumes and such other adjuncts as one expects—and sometimes finds—in the more pretentious musical comedies, (if course, the featured players, Lew Fields and Lulu McConnell, In the case of the local debut of Shubert vaudeville—breeze through the entire performance. They are not on for a short period and then whisked off to reappear no more. -i- -1- -|. “LINCOLN” PLAT DUE MONDAY AT ENGLISH’S. On Monday night at English's, Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln,” open* a week's engagement. It has been recommended by Journalists at schools and by Instructors in English as an example of exceptional worth. In the art of dramatlco-journaiistlo art of condensation, selection and eiiminaiion. This work stands high indeed in a world much run to words. Within the brief stage traffic of a single evening there must be set forth truly and with emotional power the portrait of one cl the greatest of all world figures—Lincoln And there must be pictured ns truly a group of other men and women of more than passing greatness—Grant and I.ee and Seward and Mrs. Lincoln among the many. To give an evening to each one would be scanty time. And yet, looking on “Abraham Lincoln" the spectator feels that he has not only seen, but has not met and known each one of tliefjjj. The gr-at figure of Robert E I.ee. for instance This character Is onr the stage for less

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Dally Time* and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. March 2.—Prognostication is geue-iSI that the ship subsidy bill is destined t-> be- with us indefinitely as a theme of controversial discussion, in Congress, press and public, the pros and the cons will have the floor-for many a day. President Harding, of course, sprang no surprise when he submitted his program. From the hour of his inauguration and before, he has unfailingly and consistency declared the American Merchant Marine to be one of the Republican Administration’s primary concerns. Ship-subsidy projects in Congress are almost as old as Congress Itself. Opposition t" them, too, Is traditional, amt failure hitherto universal. Mr. Harding broke new ice in boldly calling his proposition by its real name instead of courting favor for it under sweeter-smelling disguises. The President is under no illusions ns the rocky course that will need to be steered before his plan can be taken Into harbor. We are in the midst of the last week of the Harding Administration's first yea’. That is why there is sui cractlvlty by and on behalf of the Administration In Congress this week. Senator Lodge ia pressing for decisive action on the conference treaties and the President himself had his heart set on submitting ship subsidy plan before March 4. The G. O. P. wints to make persuasive showing to the electorate during the 1922 congressional campaign on the score of constructive legislation initiated. If not actually enacted, by the Harding Administration during the initial twelvemonth of its existence. His friends know that Representative Julius Kahn of California is filled with deep satisfaction that Henry Ford, a rich foe of Mr. Kahn's coreligionists, should be pleading anont Muscle Shoals before the one committee of Congress headed by a Jew. It Is In the House Committee on Military Affairs, which the “member for the Golden Gate” Is chairman, that the Muscle Shoals discussion Is now proceeding. Let no one think it Is Mr. Kahn’s purpose to utilize the opportunity for revenge on the DeI troit anti-srmite. Indeed, the Califor'nta Congressman Is represented by his friends to rejoice at the chance to show Henry Ford that a square deal is as easily obtainable under Jewish auspices ;. . under any other with which the ■ Michigan motor king Is familiar. I Former Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon has exercised his floor privileges ns a one-time member of the Senute by sitting among his colleagues of the Sixty-Fifth and Sixty-Sixth Con-

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MR. LEO PITRICHSTETN. There is no cud of fuu in the Jealousies, superstitions and the vanities of operatic folks revealed in “The Great Lover,” the romantic comedy in which Leo Dltriehsteln will appear at the Murat Friday and Saturday. “The Great Lover,” written by Mr. Ditrlchstein and Frederick and Fanny Batton. Is the play In which the distinguished star has attained one of his greatest successes. It s an intimate view of lifo back stage in grand opera that “The Great Lover” presents. i‘ou see all sorts of characters from the wildly exuberant Italian eondncteor who kisses the office boy on both cheeks without a tremor to the prima donna who trails clouds of glory in the shape of passionate newspaper criticisms. than three minutes and speaks not mors than a few dozen words. Nevertheless, his image is so forcefully and cleirly impressed upon the heart and mind that one feels that he has met and talked with him. So with Mrs Othcrlv of the few and halting syllables: with William Scott, the tragic youth from Vermont; with Stanton: with Salmon P. Chaso, with the sclntillant Seward. •I- -I- -I----ON VIEW TODAY. Thurston, a magician, at English's: Eddie Leonard, at It. F Keith's; “Pardon Me." at the Lyric: “London Bellos." at the I’ark; “The Swamp.” at the Alhambra: “Her Mad Bargain," at the Circle; "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court." at Loew’s State; "Penrod,” at Mister Smith’s; “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." at tho Ohio, and “Over the Hill," at the Isis.

gresses. As Mr Chamberlain represents the Pacific coast ou the United States Shipping Board, his presence during President Harding's delivery of the subsidy message wag especially appropriate. Messrs. Harding nml Chamberlain happen to he bosom friends. The Oregonian was the on,- Democratic lame duck deluged in the 1920 Republican landslide, whose re-election Mr. Harding conceded he would have something more than tolerated.—Copyright, 1922, by PuLltc Ledger Company. ILLINOIS MINERS GET PROPOSAL Operators Make Bid ' for Separate Wage Parley in Chicago March 8. CHICAGO, March 2.—lllinois coal operators have made a bid for a separate wage agreement with Illinois miners. A proposal for a joint conference between the United Mine Workers of Illinois and the Illinois coal operators Is contained in a letter written by the operators' association to Frank Farrington, district president of the United Mine Workers of America. Tito operators suggest the conference be held in Chicago, March 6. John L. Lewis, international president of the miners, had previously refused a request to meet with the individual States. Legion Notes A rofererdum on adjusted compensation taken by the Kansas City, Kan., post of the American Legion showed seventyfour In favor of paid-up insurance, fortyfive for farm and home aid, and twentynine for cash. Several thousand ex-service men who returned to “do Europe right" are stranded in the large cities -there. Posts of the American Legion in London and l’aris are helping them book imssage “back home again.” ! To Colorado alone 25,000 tubercular l ex soldierß have migrated. Only two per cent of ail hospital cases are Colorado citizens. The American Legion Is sending I he names of the service men to posts in their home States to set up linos of communication for them with friends and relatives.

GOVERNMENT TO TRAIN GUNS ON SWINDLE GAMES Federal Action Is Planned for Protection of Gullible Persons. WASHINGTON, March 2—Federal action to save the American people from “financial wizards,” confidence men, stock , salesmen and bunco operators, who are swindling them out of sums estimated ; by some experts to be close to SIOO,OOO 000 a year, was planned toaa,y by the Gov- ! ernment. The recent exposure of big swindles in New Y'ork and Chicago, the alleged bucket shop activities in New York and the numerous failures of brokerage houses have caused Government officials to hasten the framing of their proposed campaign against these swindlers. Legislative measures have been composed to enforce rigid enforcement of “blu sky" laws. They are being studied by the Federal Trade Commission and probably will be sanctioned and submitted to Congress. ! Fntil these laws can be put into nper--1 atlon. Attorney General Daugherty, who j has made a widespread investigation ot business schemes, has sent an appeal to Governors of States to use all their powers against the swindlers. Daugherty asks those States which have "blue sky" laws to make every effort to clean their areas of Illegitimate oil stock promoters, illicit “bucket stoop” operators, “I’onzls" aid other gct-rlch-qulek men. Estimates gathered by the Department | of Justice showed cases' of the get-rleh-i quick army now pending in Federal 1 courts throughout the country Involve ! approximately $150,000,000 of Improper i stock sales and confidence schemes. These \ have accumulated during the last few years and there are hundreds of other ! eases of swindling which never have | come before the Federal courts. Hundreds of these unscrupulous agent* have operated In the Middle West. The fraudulent financial transactions In Illinois, I\ansss and Texas—the three showing the greatest total—reach several millions each. The greatest loss is In oil stocks in these districts. BROAD RIPPLE WILL ASK DELAY IN ANNEXATION Desire to Locate Engine House Makes Postponement Desirable. Members of the Chamber of Commerce of Broad Ripple will nppesr before the city council In a body Monday night to ask that the proposed annexation of Broad Ripple bo postponed for six months. Meifibers of the Chamber of Commerce decided on this action last night. TTnTTrgani ration urged the town board to proceed with the construction of n modern fire engine house In the heart of j the town. It was staled that when the engine house 1* completed the Chamber of Commerce will be ready for the annexation. It Is feared that If the town Is annexed before an engine house is constructed the city will construct one considerably south of tho center of Broad Ripple. The Chamber of Commerce and tho town board have also decided to make April 1 to April 7 clean up week. All residents of Rroad Ripple will be urged to clean up their premises, and wagons will bo supplied to haul away the rubbish. Signs will be placed by the Chamber ,of Commerce on all roads entering Broad Ripple Informing tourists of the name of tho town. LLOYD GEORGE S FOES SUBSIDE Political Atmosphere Affecting Premier Reported to Re Clearing. LONDON, March 2 -While the political crisis involving th possihlo resignation of Premier Lloyd George has not been completely averted. It was declared lln Downing street today that the atmosphere has cleared. Adherents of the premier claimed his political foes within the coalition party were adopting a conciliatory attitude. Hitherto their hostility was so marked, I It gained for them the nickname of the | “Die-hards." j A. J. Balfour, diplomat, and one of the keenest statesmen In Great Brltlan, I and Austen Chamberlain, government | lender In the House of Commons, are lining up tho recalcitrants In the party. Both are members of the Unionist wing of the coalition. Conferences were held during the day In an attempt to effect n compromise. The opposition to the prouder is being directed by Sir George Younger, chairman of the united party. He was one of the mosl active opponents of a general election when it was proposed lo hold such an election In February. ! In Concrress Today BKN.VTE. Takes up four-power Pacific treaty. HOUSE. Military Affairs Committee hearing on Muscle Soals. Interstate Commerce Committee hearing on bill restoring Intrastate rate making to the State eoinmenees. AgrloiilMiral Committee heirs Secretary Wallace on departmental matters.

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NEW YORK, March 2.—Up and down Fifth, avenue. Mayor Hyian, looking tanned and ruddy from his fortnight at Palm Beach, was observed crossing Thirty-Fourth street. Tennyson Cole, a celebrated painter, was seen near Forty-Second street with his step-daughter; Mr. Cole said best results in portrait painting came from rapid work on one sitting rather than many sitting's. Dlkran Kelekian, the Armenian art collector, who sold his private collection of paintings for $250,000, when talked with opposite the public library, said that rather than pay the taxes levied against art objects by the French government he would bring his private collection of ancient vases, now In London, to America and also dispose of them. One of the charter members of the Union League at Thirty-Ninth street recaHed that the clubhouse occupied the site of Dickers riding academy, the fashionable equestrian school of New York half a century ago. The new St. Patrick’s Cathedral at Fiftieth street and Fifth avenue, dedicated In 1879 by Cardinal McCloskey, contains seventy windows, of which forty-five are figured and fourteen of cathedral glass In geometric patterns, all of which were made In France, some by Henry Ely, of Nantes, and the others by Nicholas Lorln, of Chartres, a de scendant of the latter being on the prem-

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1922, by Star Company. Rv K. C. H : \ Deaf K. C. B.—ls the discharged soldier who Jumped on you for hiring a Jap to do the work no real red-blooded American wants to do would write to his Congressman and his Senator and ask why It is that the thousands of Jobs In Washington and other places where the Government hires men are filled by pets of Congressmen and Senators when they could be filled by ex-service men —If all of the ex-service men would do this there would be pretty nearly enough Jobs to go around, and an ex-service man wouldn't have to write to a private citizen criticising him for. hiring a Jap. •ANOTHER DISCHARGED SOLDIER." Washington, D. C. AND IF they did. • 0 • AND IF the men. WHO HAVE the Jobs. i THAT CONGRESSMEN. • • * I AND SENATORS. • • • HAVE GIVEN them. • • • SHOULD RE discharged • • • WHERE WOULD It help? • • • FOR THOUGH It s true. • • • WE OWE a lot. • • • TO SERVICE men. • • • WHO ARE worse off. • • • BECAUSE THEY served. • • • IT STILL Is true t • • THESE OTHER nun. • • • WHO HAVE thee Jobs. . • o MUST ALSO live. ... FOR THEY have wives. + • • A LOT of them. • • • AND CHILDREN, too. 000 AND l am sure. • • • NO SERVICE man. • • • WHO MAY be worthy. • • • j OF THE country's help. . . i WOULD WANT a job. • • • THAT TAKING it. * 0 0 WOULD BRING hardship. ... TO SOMEONE else • 0 • IT’* BETTER. *. * • THAT WE leave these men • * • JUST WHERE they are. ... AND PAY debt. IN GOLDEN coin. * * ... AND WHAT It Is. ... THAT I must give ... I'LL GLADLY give. ... UNTO THE end. . . . THAT I may pay. ... ALL THAT I owe. ... EXCEPT MY debt. ... OF GRATITUDE. ... WHICH MUST run on. • • * FOR THAT’S a debt. • • • THAT I must OW#V 0 0 0 AS LONG as time. ... ! SHALL LEAD me on. ... I THANK von. giant of the films. LONDON, March 2. —Zada. a Zulu giant, is the tallest and strongest moving picture actor in captivity. lie stands 7 feet 0 inches, and says he fears neither man nor beast. He looks It. SOVIET CREDIT IN IT. 5.7 BERLIN, March 2.—Private advices I'totn Silesia state that Soviet agents are ; buying large quantities of Iron there and making payment with cheeks on i American hanks.

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lses looking over the Interior of the edifice. Thomas Fortune Ryan was along the avenue, hale and hearty in his late sixties, although his physicians predicted that he would uever pass three score. Some of the women fleeced by Alfred E. Lindsay present most pitiable positions, they having seen their best days. A friend of Mrs. Lillian N. Duke, former wife of James B. Duke, said; "I did my best to try and convince Lillian there was no such organization as the 'Domino Club,’ which was supposed to have for its members James A. Stillman, George F. Baker, Percy Rockefeller, Thomas W. Lament and Charles H. Sabiu, meeting secretly at the Ritz every twentyfour hours to plan stock market operations for the next day. But her faith in Lindsay was unshakable.” It Is estimated that at least 200,000 amateur radio sets are being operated in the metropolitan district around New York. “Ready-to-wear hair." Reads a sign in the window of one Fifth avenue shop. A hostess of a plaza bridge party, recently gave most unusual prizes, namely: Embroidered night gowns of daiuty sheer chiffon. A fancy garter worn below the knee is the latest addition to woman’s many other attractions. Many of these were visible, but they were garters In name only, being non-supporting. It is of garters and not wives this is written.

FRANCE, ITALY AND SPAIN IN WARFORTRADE High Duties, Surtaxes and New Charges Commercial Weapons. PARTS, March 2.—Commercial wars have succeeded the World War and France, Italy and Spain are engaged, so to speak, in a merry little game of trying to cut each other's economic throats. Independent of each other, for they are great competitors, Italy and Spain are waging a commercial war against France. The weapons of this post-war are high duties, surtaxes and new charges to make good the differences In the depreciated | currencies of the various countries. : Against these weapons France is raising an armament In the claim that she must have the position in her commercial deal- ; ings of “the most favored country." The Franco - Spanish commercial wrangle has become so acute that Italy Is beginning to ask If it wouldn't bo wiser for her to bury the hatchet and take advantage of Spain's being temporarily out of the French markets to enable the Italian exporters to get a firm hold on tho French buyers. Spain and Italy are competitors in France in t!h* sale of southern fruits and southern wines. A campaign is being waged in the Rome newspapers to arrange an immediate economic truce with France an dflood the French markets with Italian goods, so that when Spain •nd France ultimately come to a settlenent Italy will have a preferential posi;ion. ) The French-Italian trade treaty ha? been In operation on a year-to-year basis for the last twenty-three years. Before the war Italy Imported more from France than she sent to her; but since the armistice this rein*ion has been reversed. Italy feels that the old agreement Is now a burden ITALY PUTS UP TARIFF BARRIER. Under the trade treaty Italy was permitted to charge France whatever general duties she levied nr-sinst all countries, but was forbidden to levy any special ’nriffs. Last July Italy raised the general tariffs on goods, the majority of which come from France to about ten .lmes tbeir rpe-war rates While this Increase in the Italian customs was within the letter of the treaty France asserts that she is now in a po sition no tie l ter than Germany In her commerce with Italy. Paris took advantage of the cancellation clause In the igreement and notified Rome that the treaty would cease the end of January. There Is already an alrno?* impassable economic Chines,, wall along the Pyrenees which prevents the exchange of goods between France and Spain. At the end of Jauaurv the same condition innte tlie French market for years with tained Italy will be In a position to lomblockade the Italian-French frontier if Rome and Paris do not come to an agreement before. The orange and wine-exporting Interests in Italy are bringing pressure to bear to force the Italian government. They hope that If peace can be mainthese particular Imports. KETCHAM RITES TO BE HELD AT HOME Minister Served 68 Y r ears in M. E. Church. The funeral of the Rev. John IT. Keteham, who died at his home, 2." North Audubon road, yesterday afternoon, will he held at the home at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning. Rev. Mr. Kctcham was for sixty-eight years a pastor of the Methodist Church, having teen admitted to tTie ministry in 1554. He Is the last survivor of the seventeen men admitted to the ministry of the cfcurch of that year. | Mr. Ketcham was born near Blooming- ! ton in 1832. He was at one time pastor i of the California Street Methodist Church here, and later was presiding elder of the Indianapolis district. He retired from active church work some time ago. Surviving are the widow and a daughter, Mrs. Joseph W\ I’iercy of Bloomington.

REPUBLICANS NOT SATISFIED WITH HARDING G. O. P. Publicity Chairman Not Enthused Over Hiis Task. BY RICHARD LIXTIIICUM. WASHINGTON, March 2.—The striking confession no Republican Is entirely satisfied with the results so far accomplished by the Harding Administration and that conflicting opinion and counsel in the party tends to confusion, delay, compromise and even failure, is contained in i he official literal ure appealing for funds sent out by the publicity committee of the Republlcaq Congressional Committee. President Harding may tell of governmental “savings,” which disappear upon examination of the official figures, and Senator Henry Lodge (Newberry Republican) may “keynote" to his heart’s content about what he calls the “remedial legislation enacted by the present Congress," which also disappears upon examination of the official record, but neither of them apparently are making sny any impression upon the chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Congressional Committee of their party. This official. Representative Car! W. Riddick of Montana, Is a practical man. He knows the party is not making good. He knows there Is confusion and compromise and even failure in what It does or is trying to do. He knows, too, In all the forty-eight States there is not a single Republican who is entirely satisfied with the resuiis so far accomplished by the Administration. DOESN’T LIKE IT AND ADMITS IT. Moreover, he has tho honesty ans the courage to say so, and he wants those who have not yet tost faith In the party to come across with so much per anum, payable quarterly on the Installment plan, in order to meet the “menace of radicalism, revolution, confiscation," and nl! those awful things that always menace the pure and noble party of Lodge and I.orimer ,of Du Pont and Newberry, et al. That no wrong Interpretation may be placed upon Chairman Riddick's statement, the following verbatim extracts from the letter he is sending out are given: “The Harding Administration Is obligated to carry out the Republican platform pledges * ent Interests and different sections come differences of opinion and counsel, that tend to confusion, delay, compromise, and even failure. The counsel and the misrepresentations in the so-called Independent press and in radical and opposition papers add to the confusion.” It may be pointed out Chairman Raddick's denunciation of the independent press for having published the facts concorning the Harrling Administration is Inconsistent in view of the confession he makes in the following paragraph: “No Republican Is entirely satisfied with results so far accomplished.” This confession, coming from such a high official source, means not only no Republican is entirely satisfied with the results accomplished so far. but the Republicans as a whole are keenly disappointed at the lack of results. MR. RIDDICK QUOTED AGAIN. To quote Chairman Riddick verbatim again “The only other alternative. If the people lose faith in the Republican party, is radicalism, revolutionary and confls catory. that will spread ruin and failure everywhere. That menace Is real and must be met.” Presumably this has some reference to the “agricultural bloc," although that bipartisan body of progressives is not mentioned by name. Those who remain true to the reactionary leadership of the Republican party as now constituted by contributing to the campaign chest are given the assurance their reply “will be brought to the attention of party leaders, who will be appreciative of the favorable response." Os course, contributors will know what this means without further explanation. It is simply another evidence of the barter and sale long existing between tho Republican party and tho special Interests in matters of legislation and between the reactionaries and the rank and file in the matter of offices. The stationery upon which the appeal for funds is sent out bears the title House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., but Chairman Riddick scrupulously adds this line; “Stationery used in this correspondence privately bought and paid for.” This statement, however. emphasizes the fact the letterhead bears no union label, nor does the printed contribution form which accompanies It. WHOLE TRAINS OF EVIDENCE Five Biggest Chicago Banks Must Bring Books to Small Trial. CHICAGO, March 2. —Five of the biggest banks in Chicago have been subpoeaned today to produce their books at the trial of Governor Len Small which starts at Waukegan Monday. The State's evidence to be used at tho trial is largely documentary and will take several railroad cars to transport it from Chicago and Springfield. Books of the five banks are alleged to show transactions whereby the Governor loaned State funds to the Grant I’ark State Bank and Chicago packers. Packers officials are also to be served with summons, it was said. COUNT’S SON WHIPS BURGLARS. PARIS, March 2.—Fighting with daggers and revolvers, Jean, 18-year-old son of Viscomte de Tholsy. whipped two burglars who had broken Into his father's home. One was captured.

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