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Jttttmta Sailst Einm INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 Soulh Meridian Street 5-’ Telephone—MA in 3500. !' * MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. i New Tork, Boston. Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices $ Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. J :! ■' ■ ■ . • 1 7~ \ HOW MANY stars on your employment flag? U * t. MISS SPRING may be here, but evidently she is traveling incognito. iIP SPEEDERS were going to jail instead of merely to police court perhaps they would stop. THE NEWS that flfty-doilar bills are being counterfeited will not interest many of ns. ' a. MAN paid $6,000 for an old watch; but that’* - , nothing the watch on the Rhine cost $240,000,000.WE OFTEN meet a man .whose home would be happier if his wife hadn't married such a cross husband. HAVING enjoyed a good rest -the President' will open the flower show in Indianapolis by pushing a putton. \ WILL HAYS has made things so quiet in Hollywood it Is said you can hear a wild party three blocks away. ; IT IS to be hoped that young Dodge will have a little more respect for the law when he completes his various court sessions. * A WASHINGTON dispatch says “10,000-mile wall will be built to keep out booze.” Now we may expect to hear of bootleggers going to the wall. Public Views Strike Confidently With the issuance of the actual order calling 600 ' u 0 miners to cease Work on April 1, the country once more Is face to ace wL i one of those industrial disputes such as have become more or less periodic in the last few yews. There Is leaven in the announcement, however, for the Government, on which a great responsibility is thus thrust, is not w ithout nope that the walkout still can be averted and It Is working on the theory that the contending elements can be brought together about the council table. , „ one of the wholesome aspects of the approaching crisis, also, Is the attitude with which the public has viewed the discussions leading up to the strike call. Business has refused to look with alarm upon the prospects of a mine shutdown and everywhete there is apparent confidence that the walkout will have little permanent effect In retarding the country’s ascent from depression to normal conditions. ’ Utilities are well supplied with fuel and statisticians figure that the wheels of industry can be kept turning at regular speed for a period of thirty to forty days, and even the pessimists do not believe the tie-up will survive that period. j Tfie eaimness with which the country faces the strike leads to a feeling of confidence in all quarters that a settlement will be reached long before the pinch of curbed production Is generally felt.

The Maine By-Election With the leaders of both parties claiming a moral victory In the Third Maine congressional district election the fact remains that the Democrats are entitled Hr-entertain the,%reatest degree of comfort The Republican candidate, as was to be expected, was elected, but his Democratic opponent qut the majority of 19,257 votes In 1920 down to approxlifaately 6,000 votes In Monday’s ballotting. This little by-election !n a rock-ribbed Republican State assumed a national aspect because the issues in the campaign dealt purely with national affairs and because it came after one year of the Harding Administration. The Republicans were hopeful that the high tide of % the landslide which swept them into office in 1920 could be retained, while the most the Democrats expected was to be able to trim that huge majority. They succeeded and if the voters in a small, out of the way congressic— il district are any criterion the Republican National Administration does not possess the almost unanimous mandate of the people that It enjoyed when it swept the Democrats from power a year and a half ago. Freeman Doesn't Explain Open paving specifications have been restored in Indianapolis by a decision of the board of public works after several weeks’ effort on the part of City Engineer John Lloyd Elliott. The action of the board ends what for a time appeared to be a growing tendency to grant preferential favors to a. qertain kind of paving material to the exclusion of others. The resolution calling for the restoration of the open specifications was signed by Charles E. Coffin and I r. .\Yj. Spencer, while William H. freeman, the third member of the board, declined to affix bis signature to the resolution. Mr. Freeman’s non-committal dismissal of the reasons that actuated him in refusing to collaborate with his colleagues undoubtedly will not answer the questions that naturally will be asked by citizens who have become intensely interested in the various phases of the paving situation in.'.his city. ' Mr. Freeman can expect some of these people to recall that he is aspiring to become chairman of th£ Marlon County Republican organization anc that .his campaign is being managed and taken care of by, William H. ArmUuge and he can expect interested parties to remember that Mr. Arm it age is the local agent for the Barber Asphalt Company, Which . • ... . 4$ *ould not be averse to receiving a lion’s share of the paving contracts in Indianapolis’ this summer.

Burning the Financial Moth Joseph Letter, wh6 cornered the wheat market in 1897, testifies in a New York City court that the collapse of tis corner left him $3,260,000 in the hole. That should interest the boys who, playing the grain market, wish they could engineer a Letter corner. Every one knows about that famous Letter corner. How It turned out for its operator will amaze many. Spectacular success appeals to the public imagination, sinks indelibly into memory. Too bad, the public doesn’t cqntinue watching gambling success until It collapses. It might teach many a valuable lesson. Mr. Letter is recognized as about as good a grain operator as ever lived. He was what business w riters call an “expert,” Gambling in stocks and grain—that is, plunging in speculation—gets them all. It’s only a matter of time. It gets you faster if you are an outsider, a financial moth. . . .. ... A good many people watch the stock market as-“a. barometer of general conditions.’’ Many believe that the stock market is a sort of supernatural ouija board with clairvoyant powers that foresee the future accurately. The market is supposed to go up or down, .about. three to five months ahead of general "Business The epidemic of failures among brokerage houses reveals that, in the long run and on the law of averages, the gambler’s guess is worth just about as much as the sheep’s—no more. The only real barometer .of business conditions isi production—such as output of steel ingots, bituminous coal, grain movement to primary enters, exports, domestic cot ton consumption and mail order sales. The Wall Street Journal says a speculative craze Is developing. The brighty the flame, the hotter and more “orching. Small Investors, who.cannot alfcrd to lose, had better keep their money in Liberty bonds.

RADIO TALKING PICTURES INVENTED BY POWERS Will Revolutionize the Movies and Popularize the Radiophone

. ***•• £ s *^ r *ir& j mbsa -■> - . * —ropyrlght, Rothvker Film Company. This picture shows Harry J. Powers, Jr., (left), Inventor of the movie-speakie, observing Watterson R. Rothacker direct Frank Bacon, noted actor in “Lightnln,’' In a short sketch for talking pictures by the means of the radiophone.

The movies and the speakies have at last b?en wedded. The radiophone was the minister. Through experiments conducted in Chicago it has been proven that talk- ‘ ing motion pictures are a practical possibility—not the “canned'’ talking pictures on the phonograph principle that have been tried, but talking pictures by means of the human voice transmitted by radiophone from a broadcasting station to as many theaters as are on the movie-speakie circuit. A devW has been perfected whereby any number of motion picture theater projection machines can be operated In j i perfect synchronization with a master projection machine at the radiophone ; broadcasting station. This master machine Itself projects a picture which furnishes cues to the actors who supply the sounds heard by the theater audience*. This Is the principle of the radio talking movie: A motion picture 1* produced in the studio, as usual, the scenario writer having supplied speaking lines and sound effects as though the produe- j tlon were to be given behind the foot- ] llguts. A number of theaters are equipped with radiophone receiving Instruments and projection machine synenronlzing ap , paratus. The movie company, possibly composed of the same persons who made the original film In the studio. Is assembled at the radiophone broaeasting . station. Out at the theaters the overture has overtured and the audience settles ba ,- k for the evening’s feature movie-speakie. j I’.uz-z-z goes the signal at the nroadcaatlng station and In all the theater pro- I Jeetion booths. The master projection | machine begins throwing the photoplay : upon the screen at the broadcasting sta- , tlon and slmultaenously, to a fraction of . a second, the silver-iheets at the various theaters are Illuminated with the shadow- j drama. And at the broadcasting station the j movie actors re enacting the drama, j speaking out their lines, word for word,, just ar though the many different ! audience were seated down front In- | stead of In many different theaters many miles apart. The actora watch the film being screened by the master projector very closely lest they supply the speakies I too swiftly or too slowly for the movies. I Thus when the Heroine screams for help the audience will hear her cries. They will hear the hero’s shout of en- | courageinent as he speeds to the rescue, j And when he fired the shot that puts an ; end to the villlan’s villainy the movie- | spetikle fans will hear the deafening, roar.

POWERS INVENTED RADIO PICTURES. The radio talking picture Is the Invention of Harry J. Powers, Jr., connected with the Erlanger theatrical Interests with headquarters at the Colonial Theater. Chicago. The wedding of the movies and the speakies took place at the Chicago practical picture studio of the Rothacker Film Company, Frank Bacon, famous ns the star of “Lightnln’ ” was the best man. Bacon la a radiophone enthusiast and he found time between matinee and evening performances to enact the first scene of the historical experiment that proved the radio to talking picture possible. The Rothacker studio lights flashed on. Bacon took his position behind a tabie set In front of a black velvet curtain. Wa’terson R. Rothacker, president of the film company, shouted "Camera!" The cameraman began to crank and tho world’s first, radio talking picture was In tho making. ‘.‘Ladles nnd gentlemen,” began Bacon, accompanying his words with those Inimitable gestures of his, “It gives me groat pleasure to be the first to try to demonstrate something which will prove the most wonderful, the greatest amusement the world has ever known—the human voice synchronized with motion pictures through the radio telephone. We are living In a very rapid age In which nothing seems Impossible.” To one side of the studio a stenographer was tuning down Bacon’s wrrds

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In shorthand so that he could later give a precise repetition of them over the radiophone broadcasting apparatus. “Suppose that In a motion picture,” continued Bacon," the heroine Is In great temper: she sees a water glnss and, seizing it, she smashes It down upon the table thusly." Bacon smashed the glass. And o- nthrougb two hunted feet es film Bacon,- proceeded, ringing a dinner bell, blowing a whittle and finally firing a revolver at an imaginary abductor of the hanker's daughter, “And this,” he concluded, lifting a radio receiver to the table. “Is the receiving end of the wonderful radiophone which makes it possible for you to hear my voice—or any actor's voice. Upon this occasion I predict that the time la at hand when the radiophone will supply natural sounds In connection with motion pictures In theaters all over the world.” F.XPERIMF.NT WAS A BIG SUCCESS. Scene II of the experiment followed next day after the negative had been developed and two prints made. One print was placed In a projection’machine at the Rothacker laboratory, “and the other In a projector at the broadcasting station. The signal to start was received from the broadcasting station by the receiving Instrument beside the prelector at the Roihaeker plant. Both projectors started simultaneously. For a number of feet of film the two screens remained blank save for numbers Hashing up which ware to epable the two projector operators to get their widely separated machines into synchronization. How this was possible is perhaps the crux of the radio talking picture Invention The two projectors were and neck" when upon the two Bacon, the photographic Image, bu bow. At the broadcasting station Bacon, the actor, stood ready to repeat hlg word* of the day %efore to fit the action of ! Bacon, the Image, on the screen before j him. At the receiving end the lips of Bacon, the image, began moving and, right upon the dot. through the receiving Instrument came the words of Bacon, the actor. When the water glass was broken In the picture the sound of breaking glass was heard, and when the screen dinner bell rang the real bell rang. By the time the experiment progressed to the revolver shot one machine had gained In speed. This was becauso the, human element entered Into It; one operator ran his machine too fast.

POWERS’ DISCOVERY MAY REVOLUTIONIZE MOVIES. Harry J. Powers, Jr., has kept the radio talking picture experiments rather a secret pending patent matters. Powers is now ready to give a public demonstration In Chicago. He plans to equip a number of Chicago theaters with radiophone receiving Instruments and Frank Bacon will broadcast the speakies from a broadcasting station being installed In tbe Wrtgley building. Powers does not claim that all problems have been solved—merely that the practicability of the radio talking movie has been demonstrated. Fov example, there la the problem of applause. With the voice of the actors coming through the radio receiver the audience will be more liberal with applause. During the applause will the movie-speakie be temporarily shut off, or what? And different audiences will not applaud the same periods of time. The possibilities of the radio moviespeakie stimulate the Imagination. It has been said that a large part of an actor such as Otis Skinner —namely, the voice—ls lost upon the picture screen. Will tho time come when an actor like Skinner can stand at the radiophone broadcasting station and give a true performance before hundreds of audiences In all pnrts of the country? Is the radiophone to add . the final touch of realism to the shadow stage? -I- -I- -1ON TIIE STAGE AND SCREEN. Lionel Barrymore and Ireno Fenwick will open a throe-day engagement at the Murat Thursday night In "The Claw." j The editor of this department saw "The \ Claw" In Cincinnati, Ohio, some weeks j ago. Tile writer does not hesitate In ' recommending the acting of Mr. Barry- ' more as the finest character study seen 1

I on the stage in the last five years. : The attractions on view today Include, i "Zlegfeld Follies" at English's; Tom Wise In "Memories’’ at Keith's: Ruth Rage and i Adolph Bolrn at the Murat; Bob Findley at the Lyric; "Gambols of 1921" at the Rialto; “Jingle Jingle" at the Rark f “Marry the Poor Girl" at the Alham bra; “The Silent Call” at the Circle; j “Jtist Around the Corner” at the Ohio; j “Perjury" at Loew's State; "Traveiin’ 1 On" at the Isis and "Love’s Penalty” at | Mister Smith’s. , ' Washington Briefs iJ ■ Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public I/'dg^r. WASHINGTON, March 22.—Sir William A. M. Goode, K. B E. of London, president of the British section of the Austrian reparation commission, is In Washington and lias conferred at the Capitol I with Senator Lodge. Ills call upon the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee concerned last week * rote In the i Senate to relinquish America’s hold on Austria's asset* for twenty five years. ; The British knight expressed gratificaatlon over the Senate’s action and assured Mr, Lodge It would conduce effectively to the rehabilitation of the Impoverished Danube nation. Sir William Goods Is half American hy early environment and professional career. A New Foundiander by birth, he was once a trooper In the United Stales *th Cavalry, a New York newspaper man and later on a press correspondent In London. Ills war work on Belgian re lief and later as British llatsoh officer with the American food administration won him a knighthood. He was a correspondent on Sampson's flagship during the Spanish- American war. He Is a ••bncldle’ of Sir Thomas Upton, the British cup-chnser. • • • Chesterfield House, In Mayfair. London, which Is to be the town residence <>f Princess Mary, Viscountess Laßcclles. ami her consort, was the headquarters of Colonel House as chief of the first American War Mission that visited Great Britain In November, 11*17. It was turned over to the mission by the American mis tress of the mansion, the Duchess of Roxburghe, formerly Miss May Goelet. Chesterfield House Is In tho heart of ultra fashionable Mayfair. It looks out upon Hyde Park and Is surrounded by ihs homes of Imndon's noblest und rich est.

President nardtng made the acquaintance of one of the up and coming young men of tho Republican party when he received the American Legion delegation on hospitalization affairs. The ei Issary in question is Brigadier General Abel Davis of Chicago, whom the G. O. of Illinois and tho Middle West are grooming for future hlg events. Already the possessor of a fine record In city and county politics. General Davis’ friends say he Is headed straight for tho Illinois Governorship, with limitless possibilities beyond Springfield. Still on tn sunny side of forty, General Davis had a brilliant war experience In France. Ho went overseas as a major In an lllnols national guard regiment, later commanded the regiment, finally led a brigade and emerged from the fray a full fledged brigadier general. His troops wore “dlvlsloned" with the,British that conducted the bloody defense about Albert In the black week of March, 191S. and later Davis’ own regiment formed tho extreme right pivot of the American Army that was holding "the Verdun front. Washington’s diplomatic corps, which remained intact and continuosly on Its responsible Job throughput the armament conference, Is a somewhat decimated aggregation at the moment. Sir Auckland Geddeß Is In the Far West; Prince Lubomlrskl, minister of Poland, has just arrived in Europe; Baron Shidehara. ambassador of Japan, Is about to sail for Yokohama, and Senor Pezet, ambassador of Peru, has left for a two months’ trip to his far-off country. There is no reliable news In Washington of any Impending recall of Ambassador Jussdraiul of France. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

Rasputin, Russian Fiend, Declared Evil in Youth Newspaper Man Delves Into Early Life of Monk Who Ruled Czar .

BY DAYIO X. BLUMENFELD. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) CHAPTER I. LONDON, March 22.—The little village of Prokrovskie, Siberia, was In a state of excitement. A son, after years of weary waiting, had beqn born to Efim end his wife. The little church blazed with candles. The child was intended to become a holy man. Novky, they called the child—Novky, the newcomer. In after years, people were to shudder at the mention of Novky's name, with this difference, /however, they were to know Novky as Rasputin—the evil, debauched libertine, the horror ofNßussia. The early years of Rasputin’s boyhood days are lost. We know only that he was evil, petty and vicious. Novky at eighteen years of age had earned the name Rasputnlk. which means the ‘‘debaucher.” Well had ho earned' It! At this age, so great was his fascination over the girls of the village, that mothers forbade their daughters to leave their homes alone, lest the "libertine” should pass their way. Already the eyes of tho debased one had begun their evil work. Before the boy Novky had barely earned his disgraceful name, he had established a “mystic harem in the neighboring village of Pornoff,” where he enticed his associates to bring their sisters. in order he might Initiate them Into hlg secret rites and mysteries whereby they might learn the “teachings of himself, the Heaven inspired.” < R WOES NAME AND DISAPPEARS. Prokrovskle became too hot for Rasputnlk, and, changing his name to Rasputin h.- decamped one night, a stowaway behind a noblesman’s sledge, whither he rode to a monastery (Greek) some eighty versts away. Here he posed as a young acolyte and for a year his repute was Irreproachable—until one day the mother superior of a nunnery (Greek) complained to the Abbot that ftasputin hnti malevolently Influenced the whole convent. Tho vicious monk was expelled only to return to his village again, this time under the guise of a holy man, completely reformed. As usual the simple peasants were his dupes until. In due course, the tales of ristTaught mothers were told to the headman of the village. • . Rasputin was bounded out with the knout. Prokovskle knew him no more. We next hear of the libertine in St. Petersburg, whither he had been taken by the Archimandrite Theopanes, whom ho had met while wandering homeless from his native village. Theopanes, too( had been completely wofl over and It was not long before the powerful prelate had given Rasputin tho much coveted introduction to the court of the Tsar.

Highways and By-Ways . of Lil’ Or New York By RAYMOND CARROLL (Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.) -

NEW YORK, March 22—Did you ever sit down and with a friend or two remake your home city? It does give one such u feelinig of pardonable, splendid importance to erecr clustering pinnacles and towers where they are not. For many years now, Walter J. Kingsley, the Broadway philosopher, along w-lth many lof us who have “castles In Spain,” have been casting envious eyes upon two superb pieces of real estate located In the heart of New York City—namely, the $0,000,000,, solid block bounded by Fiftieth street. Seventh avenue. Fifty First street and Sixth avenue, and the $2.000,000 half block rlmlfced by Forty-Ninth street. Eighth avenue and Fiftieth street. Unsightly ear barns occupy both tracts. To my Intense surprise. I discovered that Mr. Kingsley had gone ahead and supplied the two huge plots with mammoth sky-piercing structures, unique as to design and national In purpose. You must shake free from the complex of precedent and cast your mind a quarter of a century ahead to register the full complement and daring of hls vision. "At Fiftieth street and Seventh avenue I see the home of tho national drama anil the abode of the national opera," he said. “A monster edifice with underground moving sidewalks linking it to all the subways and with stations on the roof for the landing of aerial transportation trains. There are three auditoriums, each with a capacity of ten ordinary theaters. One Is used for the master productions of the screen, one for the spoken drama and one for music (home-brewed brand opera and tho best foreign works.) Chains of voice amplifiers are Installed in the auditoriums designed for drama and music. Before we, who listened could gasp our surprise, Mr. Kingsley Jumped our minds over to Eighth avenue and FortyNinth street. “Here I see the coliseum of the Western hemisphere,” he said, “with a gigantic arena for sporting events and the upper floors given over to a half dozen radio theaters, each with a capacity of five thousand, and carrying music generated In all parts of the world. One hoars the native Hawaiian* playing their ukuleles when seated under real eoconnut trees; Volga boatmen singing in far-distant Russia; Daughters of Egypt lifting their voices from the waters of the River Nile, and the songs of Paris direct from Montmartre. Upon the roof provision Is also made for the arrival and departure of Prince Shan, private nero-limouslnes aud public air busses, and great air races around the -world have it for a terminus.” All that the Kingsley visualization lacked was the of Louis Bledermnn, the artist, to make It into a picture for the double truck of a Sunday newspaper magazine. They are coming bark —the Lntln villains and fortune-hunters on the American stage. When the United States en-

From now until the day when he met death, Rasputin led the court “by the nose.” The Tsarina used to call for him to comfort her son Alexis, the weakling child, whom Rasputin used, as will be shown, to Increase his growing power. Famous countesses, ladies of title with pedigrees going back almost to tConstantine the Great, all fell under the sinister influence of this debauched peasant. In appearance he was tall, with long red hair, a flowing beard, filthy and uncombed because no really holy man ever “defiled his body with water” and his eyes, gray and piercing “called women to him like doves to the feeding.” Ills relation with the Duchesses and ladies were such that even the licentious libertines of St. Petersburg were aghast at the tales. At length. In 1914, a religious monk whose daughter Rasputin had “converted,” Induced a peasant woman named Guseva to attempt the life of the lecherous monk. Her attempt failed and Guseva paid for her bravery with her life. She approached the monk as he walked along the Neva one morning and as ho paused to give the woman alms, believing her to be the beggar she portrayed, she stabbed him In the chest. Rasputin fell, coughing blood, but shouted: "The life of the Holy Mother’s protector has been taken. Avenge me!” Guseva was hacked to pieces by moujlcks. BUT. ALAS! HE RECQVERS. Unhappily for the Tsar and his family, Rasputin recovered. He “pilgrimaged” to Jerusalem and reappeared after an Interval of ten months having been "visited by the Virgin and the' angels.” Actually, reports written by trustworthy persons, prove his Journeyings in. the Holy Land were even more lecherous and evil than his performances In his native Russia. Once back at court, Rasputin gained dally In power. The xvar had been progressing for some little time and It was at this juncture Rasputin became the spy of Germany, using his Influence in the securing of appointments at the front of traitorous generals, undermining the Duma with evil ruiflors, at the same time making enormous sums of money out of blackmail, the securing of appointments for his duties and the procuring of military exemptions for those who could afford to pay. for the privilege of not fighting for their country. nis position, financially nnd otherwise, secure for the time, Rasputin now turned his attention to “healing” little Alexis, the Tsar’s son, and the procuring of further “Brides In Heaven" from the prettiest and highest of Russia's ancient aristocracy. (End Chapter One.)

; tered the World War almost by magic the French and Italian “villains” disappeared from the stage and works of fiction. In their stead we had ponderous Germans for the scoundrel roles, fat. spectacled and gloomy. But the Teutons made mighty poor stuff when written for parts that required cleverness, finesse and lively imaginations. So with the war three years behind us, we have the Latins once more to delight us In frantic pursuit of American heiresses, the latest to bring gales of laughter from the orchestra seats being Charles Judeles, the Italian count of “For Goodness Sake!" There Is something. aftpr all. In the old saying: “We like people for their weak rather than their strong points." Although there is a live demand for the girl with rolled stockings and bobbed hair who Is always Jazzy, who can drluk and smoke companlonably, there is still a warm welcome In the metropolis for the old-fashioned girl who does none of these “advanced” things—the normal. healthy, fond-of-the-outdoors girl who can be fonnd in legions at the V, W. C. A., of which there are a dozen branches In New York City. "To be exact, the feminine ‘Y’ has a membership of more than a’ million," said Miss Caroline Wlllyoung, of the Y. W. C. A., “and 000.000 of our members are American girls. At our coming national convention In Hot Springs, Ark., April 20 to 27, there will be 1,500 delegates from all parts of the United States and Europe, who will have something to say upon the habits, fashions and Influences which are seriously affecting American women.” The real American girl Is anything but selfish, brainless or vain, according to Miss Wlllyoung, who then proceeded to tell about the work of the various “Y” branches. Any young woman of good character arriving In New York on paying a $1 yearly membership fee can obtain a room, with breakfasts and dinners Included, at from $7 to sll a week. Thus with one swoop the pitfalls of a great city can be safely avoided, and what evil comes upon the girl from the country Is self-sought. , The Y. W. C. A. activities radiate out from the central branch at 610 Lexington avenue, which has a membership of fifteen thousand young women, mostly business girls, many of whom live at home with their parents. The Harlem branch In West One Hundred TwentyFourth street has more than seven thousand members, nearly all clerks, stenographers, cashiers ami waitresses. The next largest Is the West Side branch In West Fiftieth street near Tenth avenue, with three thousand members, a nearby hayen for the serious-minded of women workers of the Broadway district. The four branches In Brooklyn have a membership of 14.000 and the Bronx branch nearly one thousand. Cafeterias operate in connection with

VALUATION ON SALES FIGURES. HELD HARDSHIP Member State Tax Board Declares Farm Values Have Depreciated. Valuation for taxation purposes based on sales figures of 1920 and 1921 would work an interminable hardship on property owners of the State, and particularly farmers, acecording to John G. Brown, a member of the State boardvof tax commissioners. Although reports have been I received by the board as to actual price j brought by city real estate and farm ; property in various counties of the State, | this information merely is incidentaL I Many other factors are to be considered now ,In arriving at a true 100 per i cent cash value, he said. Asa general appraisement is being made now throughout the State, the tax board Is anxtWis a fair estimate of what , represents cash value be arrived at, according to Mr. Brown, v Since 1920 a tremendous decrease In the value of farm products has been evident, Mr. Brawn said, and the decrease in the value of produce has lowered the value of farm land to a great degree. No farm land Is’ selling now for a price brought formerly, and it is evident the revenue to be derived from a farm or any other business largely determines Its value. “The same thing would be true of city pr< .jerty,” Mr. Brown said, “If It were not for the fact that rents and Incomes from city property have not decreased in proportion.” In the. last two years appraisal for taxation is believed to have been at an average of about*7s per cent of the trua cash value. An increase of tax burden now with taxes already excessive, Is out of the question, although the State tax board Insists it Is carrying out only the State law in seeking to establish 100 per cent true cash value, whatever it may be. “Tbe matter of taxation has a direct bearing on the economic condition of the country.” Mr. Brown said. “I do inot see how we are going to hare any real prosperity with the farmer flat on his back. You can't take away 55 per cent of the buying power and expect to have good business. "I do not mean to be pessimistic nor optimistic but simply to look upon a situation as it is. How are we going to have good business when half of the buying power Is practically cut off?”

TO FACE THIRD MURDER COUNT Greenfield Woman Suspected of Poisoning Robert Gibson, Claim. Special to The Times. GREENFIELD, Ind., March 22.—Trace* !of arsenic found In the Intestines of ! Robert Gibson will lead to another | charge of murder being filed against his widow, Clara Carl, It was said today. I Mrs. Carl, alleged feminine “Bluebeard,” already Is charged with feeding arsenic to her second husband, Frank Carl, and his father, Alonzo. The bodies of the three men were exhumed, the two Carls at Kan., and that of Gibson at Nelsonville. Ohio, when similarity was noticed In the way i they died. Each case was diagnosed as : kidney anil liver trouble. Prosecutor Waldo C, Ging will try to prove In the trial that she killed the men to get their property and life insuranee, and that she killed her father- : in-law so his property would revert to Frank Carl and she would receive It latet when Frank died. Attorneys representing Mrs. Carl filed a motion asking a change of venue from Hancock County. Ging was absent from the courtroom, however, and Judge Jonas Walker withheld iullng. Injured in Bombing of Chicago Factory CHICAGO, March 22.—Refusal of A. | Edmunds, president of the Edmunds Manufacturing Company, to reinstate f carpenters who quit work rather than accept the recent Landis wage award, is believed by other officials of the company i to have been the cause of the bombing of the plant last night. Edmund Scharzsers, a night watchman, was seriously, perhaps fatally Injured. The plant had been working as an "open shop” and had been doing cabinet work for the new Federal Reserve Bank building here. Damage done by the bomb was estimated at $15,000. College Orators to Debate Open Shop Debating teams of Butler College and Occidental College of Los Angeles, Cal., will debate the question, “Resolved, that the open shop policy with wage agreement should prevail In Industry,” at the Butler College chapel Thursday evening. The Butler team, composed of Hsrold Kealing, David Dunlap and Howard Bates, with Truman Felts as alternate, will take the negative side of the question. The Occidental team is making s tour of the United States. all the branches. Last year 1,505,000 meals were served. The attendance at the various gymnasiums for the same period was 31,790, while 10,663 girls attended the educational classes. The “X” has a studio branch !n East Sixty-Second street with three hundred members, and a nurse’s branch In Forty-Fifth street with eight hundred members. So when yon read of the temptations besetting the girls In New Tork, please remember that a determined effort Is being made to give Miss America tho right sort of a living atmosphere among the tall buildings, the fas tmeter-wagons and the tall hats.