Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1922 — Page 4

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Jntoia Srnla Crimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone— MA in 3500. • N MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. S i I--i New York. Boston, Bayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices } Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis. O. Logan Payne Cos. “ROBBED in Spring House" —hea'-Uine. First spring house cleaning. NOTV they ear Harding has forty-seven instead of fifty pairs of trousers. Maybe he wore out three pairs waiting for the to bite. SENATOR FRANCE wants a motiop picture machine in Congress. The funny motions there would make an excellent comedy. NOW that the basket-ball tournament has been perhaps baseban can edge back on the front page once in awhile. IF A IjJSW more city officials would go on the “warpath" like City Engineer Elliott has, the cost of government might be reduced to a reasonable figure. . v “FASTEST humans are Paddock and Kirksey," say sport writers. We thought Polygamist Moore with his thirteen wives was about the fastest In the world. “ ' * The County and Its Wards The recommendations of an advisory committee urging that Marion County purchase a large tract of land to be used as an institution for orphans and other dependent wards merits careful consideration by the board of county commissioners. The feasibility of grouping the children in a single place should appeal strongly to the county afficials, but fcefore reaching a decision they should weigh carefully each suggested site, Its price as compared to others equally as practical, its proximity to transportation routes and its natural advantages. The plan was suggested by a committee made up of persons who have devoted much time to studying child welfare. It follows the line of reasoning frequently expressed by Judge J. Frank Lahr of juvenile court, who has long felt the need of such an institution. The county owes much to those unfortunate wards with whose care It is intrusted, often through no fault of their own. It owes It to society that when these children are turned out into life that they will devote themselves to useful pursuits and that they will not, in turn, bestow more wards upon the county. Only the other day an 18-year-okl boy was hanged for murder in Washington and before he died he uttered this indictment of the society that had doomed him to death: “They never gave me a chance here and I'm going to hell. * • • Maybe they know how to treat kids better in hell than they do here. It can’t be any worse than it is here.” Right now there is a 16-year-old boy serving a life sentence in the Michigan City penitentiary for the slaying of a woman. Both of these boys were adjudged sane before the penalty was affixed, yet they had been allowed to grow i;p with a perverted sense cf citizenship and of duty to their comnu ’ y a system ttxaf all too frequently fails to extend a helping hand to u.b slipping, wayward boy3 and girls. ' If Marion County can place these dependent wards on a farm where there is plenty of pure air, plenty of wholesome food, carefully supervised recreation and education it will have performed a distinct service not only to the youngsters but to those with whom they will be associated in later years. ' Talking Movies Coming Talking movies, anew invention with enormous possibilities, have just been successfully demonstrated in Chicago. By this invention the silent screen loses Its silence. You, out in the audience, watch the picture and hear the actors’ voices and all other sounds, the same as If you were actually seeing and hearing the thing occur In real life. The process differs from the combination of phonograph and movie film tried out by E. f. Albee in Keith vaudeville some years ago. The latest talking movie is an application of the wireless phone. The movie is produced in the studio, as usual. Then the films are sent out to movie theaters, where wireless phones and automatic moving picture machines are synchronized—that is, the outfits in each ..theater start at the same time and run at the same speed, regulated from the movie studio. The film has been made. Audiences are ready for the show. The picture starts in each theater. Simultaneously, the film is screened at the studio. actors, watching the picture closely ‘d “keep in step,” speak their lines, same as on a stage. The wirelesses riet, the words for reprodcution in the movie theaters. Other sounds also are sent out to be heard by the movie audiences —such as breaking glass, pistol shots, whistles. Audiences frequently comment that some of the great actors lose part of their effectiveness on the picture screen because their greatest histrionic ability—vocal genius—cannot be brought into play. A successful radio talking movie wovffd eliminate this handicap. In your day, you have seen the wireless and the movie develop from rather laughable laboratory experiments to practical devices, widely used and with tremendous possibilities. It is not straining the imagination to picture, a day when moving pictures themselves will be broadcasted into homes by wireless, the same as a photograph now can be cabled across the ocean.

Riley’s Home a Shrine Such a dear little street. It la nestled away From the'noise of the city and the heat '* of the day. , _ In the cool, shady coverts of whispering trees. With their leaves lifted up to shake hands with the breeeze, , Which In all Its wide wanderings never * may meet With a resting place fairer than Loekertie street. i Thfis sang James Whitcomb Riley if hi3 beloved Lockerbie street. Now the "gold and sunshine” of this* little thoroughfare will point the •wav to a shrine that is destined to live iorever in the memories of all Americans —the home of the famed Hoosier poet who lived and wrote his undying lyrics among the "rhyme-haunted raptures of Lockerbie street.” ' . x It Is well that the Riley Memorial Association has taken over the quaint old home and that henceforth it will be open to the public which has enshrined the poet in its heart. Even the broader aspect of the association's undertaking—the creation of a park about the house —Is laudable and should command the utmost cooperation from Indianian3 who are always proud to say that Riley was one of them. The Jitney Bus Elsewhere x Unrestrained jitney competition would be inimical not only to the street car system of Evansville but to the city and its people as well. . The car company represents a large investment. It is regulated by State law and city ordinance. It is amenable to the State puoM< ervb e commission, the city government and the courts. Its liability foi Bonal Injury and damage and for failure to perform its service b: fixed a <1 Inescapable. It pays taxes entitle it to reasonable public protection against unbridled and irresponsible competition. Conceivably such a demoralization of the car company’s - < i vice cop Id result from jitney competition as would inconvenience the \-o r -i business and hurt the whole city. Xot primarily to prole <?.. then, but to enable it as far as possible to give the service • i people are entitled by virture of its contracts, compeiitio . oi * should he regulated. But regulation does not mean prohibition. While trying to avoid an injustice to the car company we must he sure that we are not doing less than Justice to the jitney owners. To try to suppress them would aggravate antagonisms which need pnly slight fanning to kindle them into flame. Journal '

LET THE WOMEN WRITE AND DIRECT MOVIES Farnum Is Sad Again— ‘Stronghearf Is a Good Actor—Comedy Bill on View

TVomen,are accomplishing/worth while things on the screen. Fannie Hurst wrote t ‘Must Around the Corner"’ and Frances Marlon adopted th% story for screen use as well as directed the picture. The result is that these two have given the screen a mofie which is a real boon to the moving picture industry and a picture which any theater manager , 4 j can-present withLjpv t out nuking an {gpr I apology to anyKp' v 5 j body. “Just | iifry/vf * Around the Cor- ' -JT ] net” is a gem in "i" 4 -* >-. .yf A e reflecting the jp .. | honest emotions^ / I ®nd her two chil- '• < * ren —Jimmie, a messenger boy, '1 and Kssie. an ater. There is nh wild hurrah In Slgrld Uolmqulst. this movie, but lust the quiet unfolding of a story of mother love. It’s not too mushy. It's the realest thing we have hno since “Humoresque.” Ma Birdsong, a widow, roared her "two children in a tenement district around tho corner" In New York. * Her is the welfare of her two children. She knows that she is secretly nursing a heart ailment which will prove fatal some day. . Her big concern is over the “beau** that Essie has. Essie has elected to “pal" around with .Toe Ullman, one of those “wise birds"' who refers to his “best gal" as “chicken" .and “sweet old thing.” Fllmnn is about as real ns a counterfeit dollar bill. But Essie is unabli* to see her “beau" In his true light at first. Ma Birdsong was anxious to see the kind of "feller" that Essie was going around with Many a night she had prepared the sort of a meal which only a mother could cook, but Essie and her beau didn’t show up. Ma couldn't understand but Jimmie knew the sort of a “bird" Joe was. Ma's worry over Essie's beau caused

■ ■ —— Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1922, by Star Comnsny, Bv K. C. B THREE LITTLE boys. • • • ON A city corner. • • • ALONG ABOUT 10. • • • ANIJ THEY waved their hands. '• • • AND MADE believe * • • THEY WERE traffic cops. • • • AND SO I stopped * • • AND TOOK them in. • • • AND THE three of them. • • • ALL WANTED to sit. * • IN FRONT with me. * • • AND BECAUSE they were smalL • * * AND THE seat was wide. • • • I CROWDED them in • • • AND ALL of them • • * WERE BRIGHT young lads. • • • WITH SHINING faces. * • • AND CLEAN little hands. • • • AND WELL brushed clothes. • • • AND WHEN I suggested. • • • THAT THE day wps fine ' • • • THEY., THOUGHT it was. • • • AND SWITCHED fmra that s • • • TO ANOTHER fopl<\ • • * THAT HAD to do * • • WITH A game of ball. • • • AND THE three of them * • • VIED WITH each other. s • • IN A verbal effort. • • • • TO ENLIGHTEN m. • • I AS TO something or other. TnAT ONE of them did. • * AND WHATEVER it was * • • I COULDN’T tell. * • • AND I don't know now • • • A>*D IN their excitement. • • • THEY CROWDED me so. • • • I COULD hardly drive. ♦ * • AND FINALLY. • • • 1 ASKED of them. * • * WHERE THEY wanted to go ♦ • • AND ALL three said. ** * * TO WHEREVER 1t was. • • TIIE HEALTH Office was. * * * AND I was alarmed. * • • AND ASKED them why. , •• • . AND THEY told me fran’ly. ♦ * • THAT THEY'D been exposed. • • * TO SOMETHING or other. * • * AND COULDN’T go to school. • ♦ • TILL THEY got a permit. r* * ♦ AND THERE was 1. AND THE three of them. • * * ALMOST CROWDING me out.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1922.

WRITES HIS OWV

WILLIAM 8. HART. Bill Hart is writlqg hJa. own stories. That is, when Bill wants a story for a picture he writes if himself. That is what Bill did in “Trawlin' On,” his latest, picture which la now on view at the Isis. Os course it is a Western story and Hart lias given It a different twist. Ethel Gray Terry and James Farley are in the cast.

the fatal stroke. Ma wanted to see Joe before she passed away. Mu wanted to see if Essie's beau was a “good stronglooking feller.” Joe flatly refused. Then Essie discovered how "yellow" Joe’s skin really was. Essie chanced to meet n real fellow and she begged him to impersonate Joe so that Ma s last wish might bo gratified. And Ma goes to that great beyond happy that Essio would bo taken care of by a real man. The chance meeting of Essie and the real man gave Cupid a chance to furnish a happy ending. The story may seem simple and plain. That’s what it is and that is its true value. The cast is as real ns the story. It is a pleasure to print the cast in full. Here it is: M i Birds mg Margaret Seildon Jimmie Dirdsmig Lewis Sargent Essie Birdsong Rigrid -Heiinquist J"e I ilmau Edward Phillips The Real Man Fred C. Thomson Lulu l’ope Peggy I'arr Mrs. Finshrelber....Mme. Ilose Kosonovn Mr. Bia'shy Nally Margaret Reddon is wonderfully effective as Ma Birdsong. Lewis Sargent is glorious!, real as Jimmie Birdsong. Just to look at liis fa is enough to make one want to shake the lad s hand, lie is a real sort.,of a chap. Sigrid ITolmqnist handies the role of Essie in a splendid manner. The truth ts, 1 am quite enthusiastic over this picture. At the Ohio all week.—W. D. 11. -|- -|. -|- OH, MR. PROllft EK. GIVE - BILL A POLL VAN N A PLAY. 1 feel like “taking my pen in hand” and writing Mr William Fox a letter. This Is what I feel like writing: “My Dear Mr. F6x, Ain't you got a movie play with a smile InMt that you would let Bill Farnum net in? Ain't you? (Oh, such grammar). BUI has had | , „ on prison stripes ~ once t*■ o many times. Can't you .a t Kiv * him “ ' cow- ' * J" * 9n ***. f could rlc'e a hors* W*! in the sunshine. ms Bill lias been so <*** j|[| sad of I#i. and he I t' .jy Seems to ,be old —y -3jy limn • m hims7 < ' self in •perjury.' i JT Oh.' Mr. I’ox, I . grant that till* so sail, l Ju*t let Bill Farnum be William I arniim happy again. Let Bill play in the sunshine again.’’ That would end the letter Now tills Is not hinting tint "Perjury” is a bad picture. It. is not. but it is so full of tears, sadness, mystery and melodramatic stuff which nuikps our Bill appear even more sad than ever. “Perjury” has been cleverly directed and the element of suspense has been carefully maintained. Os course, the director has been sensible enough to give tho picture a happy eliding. Now, I ask yon—wouldn't it be gae.it to see Farnum in a movie of the ocean or the great out of doors? Farnum is too good an actor nyl too much of A real favorite to inule- Jilm suffer so much. This is not*, knocking “Perjury," tint I do love the sunshine. Tlie east of “Perjury" is ns follows: Robert M' ore William Farnum Martha -Moore Sally Crute John Gibson Wallace Krsklne District Attorney Choate (inter judge* John Webb Dillion Phil Rourke Frank Shannon Edward Williams Frank Joyner Ralph Mills James W. Orano Mira (Moore's housekeeper* .-...Grace Ln Yell Jimmy Moore Gilbert Rooney Helen Moore Alice Mann At Loew s State all week.—W. D. 11. -I- -I- -IMR. WOODS MIGHT HAVE PRODUCED THIS ONE. In watching “Marry the Poor Girl,” I had the hunch that Mr. A. H. Woods, who is responsible for tho garter and female on the stage, might have produced this movie. On the stage Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven have been identified with the bedroom farce, and it is not surprising to see “bedroom” manners and situations

introduced in "Marry the Poor Girl,” wh!es is the latest movie vehicle for this couple. This farce comes under the head of “wise” entertainment, not meaning that anybody could claim, super-knowledge after seeing this affair. It is “rapid" but not too naughty. It smacks of possibilities ii the situations, but never quite lands in the desert of bad manners. The De Havens possess a sure farcical touch. Both know how to express twenty typewritten pages of words in a nod of the head or a wink of the right eye. The situations run like this: Mrs. De Haven plays the role of a rich man’s daughter. Her mother is giving a house pariy. Two of the guests drink too freely of the prohibited juice. De Haven, one of the “soused” members of the house party,enters the bedroom of the daughter of the house. He spends the night in a imthtub in a room adjoining the young'indy. When the effects of the night uefore wears off, be is discovered in the bathtub. Mamma’s idea seems to be—“ Mary the Poor Girl.” I was in hopes that the bedroom and bathroom farce would never land on the screen. But it is here, and “Marry the Poor Girl” is on view at the Alhambra all week. The bill includes a Mack Rennett comedy called “By Heck.” It is hoakum humor, but the kind that makes one laugh and like it. —W. D. H. -I- -I- -lEVEN A DOG HAS HIS ACTING DAYS. A genuine movie novelty Is on view at the Circle this week. * The principal role ln “The Silent Call" Is qft’ted by a dog, called Strongheart. And Strongheart is some dog. This movie breathes of the great-out-of-doors. The call of the West is heard in this movie. The spell of the snow capped mountains is felt here. t Nature has been marvelous photographed in “The Silent Call." Am sure y6u will be Interested In Strongheart. litre da an animal that talks with his ej es. He seems to know what he Is -doing all the time. Strongheart is the hero of this movie. He rescues the heroine and in so doing stages a real fight. Just how the movie director accomplished this fight scene is beyond me, but it sure is a dandy. “The Silent Call'' Is taken from a story which recently appeared ln a popular magazine under the title of “The Cross Pull" by 11. G. Evarts. I am not going to tell you the Mory of “The Silent Call" because I had a wonderful time wutchlng the Story unfolded at tho Circle. , “The Silent Call" belongs to that group of pictures which make the screen worth while and even a better entertaining medium, t am sure that the unusual charm of the story and work of Stronghenrt will be a cherished memory. I would suggest that when a father and a mother plan a trip to the Circle this weeds that “Johnny" and ' Mildred" will not be forgotten., "The Silent Call" is a picture for tho whole family. It 1s entertaining, c^an — in fact it is the right sort of a picture for the whole family to see. Rlght-O. I recommend "The Silent Call." At the Circle all week.—W. D. H. -I- -I- -IDOUBLE BILL ON VIEW AT MISTER SMITH’S.

ouble feature program is being presented at Mister Smith's all this week. Hope Hampton in “Love’s Penalty" ami a Mack Bennett comedy featuring Ben Turpin, are the contributing factors to the double headline bill. H'.pe Hnmpton, who was in our city all last week in person, la seen as .a girl with one purpose—to avenge tho death of mot^or an( l 1 now referring to jjFc, and in an effort v’d-. % erase the stain, jiP* <•. -.'*“••s ttie sister takes S . poison. The |2A', mother dies of a |jfa(S*i JBm I'Tuk.-ir-heart. It --dnNI Wouldn't be fair to toil tho story a " t, “' vall “ 3 <>f 1 ■ usual dim ax . Hope HampUm. We can'say there 4 Is romance and beatity, heart interest and ‘splendid photography in “Love's Penalty." Wo rather think you will like this’ one. especially since you have met Miss Hampton in person. + The other feature on the bill 1b Ben Turplrs. the gentleman who looks in ot,u direction anj walks In the other. In “Home Talent." Ben is see* first taking part In an amateur rehearsal. There are ancient Itoman scenes, snaky dances, and between rehearsals there is a poker game where Turpin admits that “I dg not make a good looking poker playr"' Turpin then opens his first professional engagement—Jin acrobatic turn ln a cabaret. These are only a few of the high spots of a typical Seunett comedy. At Mister Smith’s all week -I- -J- -JO.V THE STAGE. Ziogfeld Follies open a week's engagement tonight at English’s. The cast includes Kaymond Hitchcock, Fanny Brice, Ray Dooley, W. C. Fields, Mary Milburn, Van and Sehenck, Florence O’Denlshawn and many others. On Tuesday night at the Murat, Miss Hester Bailey and her ballet will be on view. On Wednesday night, Adolph -Holm and Ituth Page will appear with tho Ballet Intime. On Thursday night Lionel Barrymore in “The Claw" will Open a three-day engagement. Turn Wise ln “Memories" is the featured offering at B. F. Keith’s this week. . Bob Finley appears In the chief offering at the Lyric this week. “Gambols of 1021” is being presented at the Rlaito ail week. “Jingle Jingle" is the current attraction at the Park. , , '

Highways and By-Ways '. of LiF OF Flew s York

(Copyright, 1922, by the Public Ledger Company.) By RAYMOND CARROLL,

NEW YORK,'March 20.—Nothing sinews the armistice has caused such a flutter among financiers at the gold center of tho world —Wall atrceL=-as the disdain of our allies of the late war-with respect to our bill covering a portion of the cost of maintaining American troops on the Rhine since peace was declared. In these trying income tax-paying days auy suggestion that European sharps are seeking to jockey the poor old United States out of $241,000,000, provokes such sputters or rage and such outbursts as the following: “What kind of a contract have we on file over there in the chanceries of Europe?” “Are we going to lose the $211,000,000 owed, and the balance of our bill for the keeping of American soldiers on the Rhine to protect Belgium and France?" “Was Uncle Ram asleep at the peace conference?" This $24l,O0O;jo may be ‘*chicken feed" compared with, the great $10,000,000,000 (ten billions) war debt owed us by the allies for what we advanced them during the war, but all Americans want it paid, every red cent of it. It is pay for the policemen hired after the-.war and has nothing whatever to do with the cost <*t the .war itself. However, acting for the United States on this subject of payment for post-war police work we had Norman H. Davis and Albert Rtrauss. both bankers and experts on finance, with Jeremikh Smith of Boston, for their Yegal Adviser. Then on the reparation cominlssjon was Bernard M Baruch who certainly is wide awake. Others of tho Wall Street district active at ike time whom we recall were Thomas W. I.nmont and Edward It. Rtettinius of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Cos., John Foster Dulles, lawyer; Herman Cook, now vice president of the Equitable Trust'Conjpany and Jerome Greene of Lee Higginson & Cos. Mr. Davis when found at his office frankly acknowledged his share in the Paris responsibility. Concerning the matters now under dispute he said: “The financial chapters of the treaty of Versailles specifically protfided that the cost of the armies of occupation in the. Rhine province should be a first charge against Germany and payable ahead of reparations. It was logical for the payment of the police force to have priority over reparations, and it was a vise prwevlsion thus to discourage the maintenance of unnecessarily large armies because, to the extent that costs are incurred for such purposes, that much less will be collected on reparations. If the allies claim that our failure to ratify the treaty of Versailles has deprived us of a first lien for the s'2!l,000,000 which otherwise we undoubtedly would have had, a question is raised more or less legal which must be determined and settled by the United States Government with the allies.” • Mr. Baruch was not at his office in Fait Fifty. Seventh street, but bis book, “The Making of the Reparation and Economic Sections of the Treaty.” on page* s*l, 02 and 74, not only clearly established the American position, but goes further and points out' what particular German money “might be used to pay for the expenses of the armies of occupation." The treaty of Versailles provides that tuere shall te paid by the German government the total cost of “all armies of the allies and associated governments in occupied German territory.”

CHINESE FOES PREPARE FOR SPRING DRIVE Chang Declares General Wu Must Fight or Get Out of Way. SHANGHAI. March 20.—The spring campaign In China's impending civil war Is near at hana. Military preparations at Mukden are being pushed with energy, according to reports received here from persons In the confidence of Marshal Chang Tso-I.ln, who says It Is the Intention of the war lord of Manchuria to make Gen. Wu IVI Fu either fight or get off politic* In the near future. The troops controlled by Marshal Chang Tso-Ltn have been paid In full to date and are being equipped and trained to the minute with the possibility of a spring campaign In view. Also, Chang Tso-I.ln Is detaining railway cars at Mukden whenever possible, and Is gradually acquiring a supply of rolling stock sufficient to transport his first detaehxnents and their equipment south when the time comes. f The new arsenal at Mukden, which recently was completed for Chang Tso-Lln hy Chinese-Panlsh engineers and contractors, with largely Danish equipment, Is working day and night making ammunttion%uid guns Everything, In fact. Is being done at Mukden to prepare the Manchurian armies for a spring or summer campaign on a large scale, and no pains are being spared to make this campaign a success. LOW PRICE LEVEL GETS BUSINESS Public Responds to Pre-War Quotations in Art Work. The public never really became reconciled to the high level of prices prevailing during the world war and the period Immediately following, and although It did little more than make an occasional grumble it was very quick to take advantage of any drop lu prices, Is the opinion expressed by an official of the Fine Arts Framing Company, 343 Massachusetts avenue. "Firms and business houses who were wise enough to see this and to Reduce

By GEOP.GE McMANTTS.

Mr. Baruch explains: “Tho experts of the allied and associated powers were in substantial agreement that _ the quick reasonable surplus assets of Germany amounted to about $5,000,000,000. Os that amount part might be used to pay for the expenses of the armies of occupation and part for essential food and raw material imports.” In our subsequent separate treaty with Germany the United States expressly retained all the rights and benefits we enjoyed under the treaty of Versailles in which Germany and the allied governments made a contract to pay “the allied and associated governments” for certain police work to be done and which was done. 1 \ i Reduced to simple business terms, this is what fiag_ happened: Smith and Jones enter into a contract under which Smith shall pay over a sum of money which shall be divided between Jones and Brown. That is, a "complete contract. ISow then, Smith pays the money under this contract and Jones refuses to divide H With Brown under the specific terms of the contract on the ground that although Brown did the work. Brown did not sign the contract. Brown is the United States and we are being, as the saying is, "done brown.” There is. just one thing else to write on the subject. It concerns the very .latest outgivings/ of John Maynard , Keynes, chief representative of the British treasury at the Paris peace conferi ence. Mr. Keynes has already given the lease to us. Through the 'courtesy of i Harcourt, Thrace and Company, publishj ers, your correspondent is enabled to ■ quote from "A Revision of the Treat} | his new book fresh from tfie press in i which Mr. Keynes says: “The cost of the armies of occupation rank ln priority ahead of reparations.” Mr. Keynes does not mince words with regard to the matter. “Under the Spa agreement,” he says, "sums received from Germany in cash, and credits In respect of deliveries i-i kind, were to be applied ln dißiHarge of her obligations ln the following order: | (lj The cost of tho armies of oc- ' cupatioa, estimated at $750,000,000 up to May 1, 1921. (2) Advance to Germany for food purchases under the Spa agreement, say $90,000,000. (3) Belgian priority of• $500,000,000. (4* Repavmen' of allied advance to Belgian, say $1,500,000,000, This amounts to about $2.-'.'>o,Uoo- - altogether, of which I estimate -that about $750,000,000 is due to France; SSSO,000,000 to Great Britain; $550,000,000 to Belgium and $700,000,000 to the United States." In eonclnslon, Mr. Keynes argues our case as follows: “Very few persons, I think have appreciated how large a sum is due to the United States under the strict letter of the agreement, since France has already received almost two-thirds of her share as above, while Belgium has had about one-third, Great Britain less than onethird and tho United States nothing, it follows that, even on the most favorable hypothesis as to Germany's Impending payments, comparatively small sums are strictly due to France In the near future." A Wall street friend with a fine sense of humor remarked: “How nice it would be if they would only send us a littie on account, an earnest of their good Intentions."

prices voluntarily before being forced to do so by pressure of economic conditions reaped far more than even they had figured on ln appreciation of the part of the public,' he ad'ded. “The public never accepted these high prices in its own mind and certain}* never approved of them, but under the condition existing at the time they were accepted stoically because there was not’.lnjr else to do. “Consequently, when our company a little more than a year ago, with the very definite Intention ffif selling picture frames, framed decorative mirrors, paintings, pictures, greeting cards, photographic finishing work, art novelties, etc., at Just as near a pre-war price level ns It was possible to seel them, the public was quick to patronize' our store. This prov*nl to us conclusively that we had been right ln every particular when we laid ou* our original plans and then stuck to them. “When our low prices were first announced they wye received with no littie amount of skepticism and few believed that we would be able to maintain quality of the highest type and stick to the prices announced by us. They seemed to feel that there just had to be a catch ln it somewhere. “However, after a trial we had the great 'satisfaction of seeing our customers’ faces light up with a ‘worth the money’ smile that proved better than nny words Just how satisfied they were with our service. “We have been featuring decorative mirrors in burnished antique and polychrome styles and also have added a ■splendid selection of ladies’ leather handbags which have been selling with a surprising readiness. Our motto of ‘factory prices to you’ made possible by economical conduct of business ana scientific and careful buying have resulted in s large number of more satisfied customers and a demand for our goods that is steadily increasing. t “Our framing department Is proving very popular, and this too is doing a business which has kept the department working to capacity a large portion of the time.” BOY, 13. REMAINED BABY. HUNTINGTON, Mass., March 20. A case unusual in medical annals was brought to light here in the death of Caralton Weatherwax. Although the boy was 16 years old, he never outgrew his babyhood, could never talk or walk and was confined to his cradle. During the later years of his life the boy’s face assumed mannish proportions, but otherwise he was an infant.

5 PERSONS HURT IN STREET AND AUTO MISHAPS Boys Riding Bicycles on Sidewalk Strike and Injure Woman. Joseph Schmidt, 1411 Sotith Alabama street, was injured Sunday when a motorcycle which he was riding was struck by an automobile driven by a person who escaped before his license numbers could be takqp. Schmidt's right arm wah broken. The accident occrred at Troy and Carson avenes. Eva Pyl#, 11, daughter ,of Mr. and J. L. Pyle, 852 North Tacoma avenue, was injured slightly when an automobile driven by her father collided with another car parked at the curb near Rural and Thirtieth streets. *The machine belonged to C. D. ErteJ, 3441 West Market street. Pyle said he.did not see Ertel's automobile because there was no tail light. Ertel was arrested by police officers who investigated the accident and charged With failure ffo have a tail light burning on his machine. Mrs. Eunice Dowies, 110 South Bradley street, was severely Injured when she was struck by a bicyle ridden by two boys. Mrs. Dowlen was struck from behind by the boys who were riding on the sidewalk. Police were unable to locate the boys. Stoughton A. Fletcher, president of the Fletcher American Bank, narrowly escaped serious injury Saturday night when an automobile which he was driving plunged over a fifteen-foot embankment on the Miilersvile Road near Laurel Hall, the Fletcher estate. Tho automobile turned over. Mr. Fletcher was thrown clear of the car. Michael Ryan, an attorney, 318ir4 East ‘Washington, seriously Injured Saturday night when he was struck by a taxicab driven by Joel H. Morris, 543 Massachusetts avenue. Ryan, who was Injured about the head and body, was sent to the city hospital and later removed to St. Vincent's Hospital. The taxi driver was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. MISSOUR} AND KANSAS ARE COMING BACK (Continued From Fage One.)

cance. Kansas always has been quick to seek a political panacea for economic and agricultural ills. The State was strong for greentaekisin, jstrong for Populism, and followed T. It. wh?h he became a Bull Mooser. It never has failed to win a third-party movement when'hard times came and a third party offered a cure. But not this time. During the black period of depression last year, when grain and cattle prices were falling and the future looked black, the Nonpartisan League made a determined effort to capture and organize Kansas. The essay failed. The farmers attended the meetings and heard the propaganda, but we r e not allured. Whether the arguments were not good or the period of depression too short is not for a restless analyst to determine: he can report only the fact. Instead of seeking tr political cure, there is some evidence the farmers are taking an interest In tax reduction and reforms cf the business administration of State governments. WHEN FEI.LER v ' NEEDS FRIEND. \ We heard of farmers in Nebraska who were so poor when times were bad last autumn if they had a “blow-out” when driving a big car they" were unable temporarily to pay S4O or SSO for anew tire. It was conceded these were exceptional cases, and no instance has been discovered where any farmer, no matter how harjl bit, even thought giving up his automobile. It seems fairly to be well established the farmer in this rich Mid Western country now looks upon his motor car as an essential past of his household equipment and one of the last things to be given up in any emergency that required a drastic reduction in his scale of living. The family car is taken for granted, with the family sewing machine, as a household necessity. Kansas roughly divides into two parts. The western half is a cattle-raising country and has its special problems, which may be reported later with more understanding after one penetrates deeper into the cattle This section of the State does not show the same degree of recovery as the eastern half, which produces hogs, corn and other grains. Missouri has a more diversified farming than Wansas, and its recovery is comparable with this eastern end of Kansas. The factor chiefly to be taken into account Is the new frame of mind of the farmer.' Every one this country bears witness he is a conservative fellow and does not betray any jubilation, even at the best of times, but he permits himself to smile these days as a relief from the state of depression and black slough of despondency he was in when the new year began.—Copyright, 1922, bjr Public Ledged Company. Negro Tries Escape in Garbage Wagon KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20—William Leary, a negro serving a ten-year stretch for robbery ln the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City, never want to look at a garbage can again. Leary, after a bath, is quite willing, also, to serve out his prison sentence "as is." This of ideas came after Leary conceived the bright idea of escaping from prison in the penitentiary garbage wagon. He hid himself in the wagon and allowed himself too be covered with a large pile of garbage. Out he went with the garhage, but it was too much. With garbage dripping from his clothes, the negro finally jumped from the wagon. Officers, following the smell Lesry le<t in his fleeing wake, quickly captured him. Willigly they led him to the bUtu.

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