Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1922 — Page 19

WETS’ PROTEST IS RIDICULED BY DRY ORATOR Stewart Declares Return of Saloon Would Mean Revival of Old Evils. Rt&lcnl# was beeped upon the assertion of the wets they “are not seeking to restore the saloon” by Oliver W. Stewart, former member of the Illinois Legislate re an address at the Roberts Park Methodist Church under the auspices of the Plying Squadron today. Mr. Stewart declared “If the drink traffic returns, drink traffickers will return and drink traffickers will v e distillers, brewers, saloonkeepers, bartenders, bummers, thugs, plug-nglies and all the rest of that procession. They all will come back If, and when, the drink traffic comes back.” He said, there are two lines of procedure upon which the opponents of prohibition are acting. The first is -violation of the law, their theory being if they bretak the law with sufficient persistency and for a sufficient length of time, they will wear out the dry people and break down their will and purpose to have the law enforced. ‘•PRACTICAL METHOD".. .. .. ~ .... USED BY WETS. .. .. The second codld be called a practical method work, he 6ald. It consists In the enrollment everywhere of every voter who is willing, by his signature, to declare he desires the restoration of beer and -wine, which is to be the entering wedge for the return of the liquor traffic. Prohibition opponents declare they are obtaining enrollments of 20,000 a day, he said, and added he himself had found the work going on from Massachusetts to California. Discussing the use of the signed cards, Mr. Stewart s..ld they go to Washington, where they are analyzed and classlBed for future service. He does not bePTere they will be used on this Congress, but are to serve as the foundation for the fight for the election of the next Congress. > la this connection, Mr. Stewart called attention to the widely-published assertion of the wets when their parade failed In New York City last summer, which was voiced by one of their number who said, “The fight begins today for the election and control of the next Congress.” Speaking for the Flying Squadron, Mr. Stewart declared It wouM go into the districts from one end of the couotry to the other where the wets hare selected dry men # or defeat and would make the fight on behalf of the congressional friends of prohibition. He said Indianapolis is the 102nd city visited by the Flying Squadron and It would push right on until the next election. “SO PLACE FOB ARBITRATE." Miss Norma C. Brown of Bloomington, HI, discussed questions relating to capital and labor and their influence upon the prohibition reform. She declared the modern industrial world require* high grade skill and not drunken Incompetence.

In Congress Today

gNp SENATE. Bootes today on four-power pact. BOISE, ' or, A: • y a-; -•>; .-'at:* OomnrAt-e hears testlCZM by Chief Examiner Bevlngton of on naturalization. IflEWbor Committee hearing on convict 7r bilL

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‘BONUS’ BILL NOW AWAITS SENATE FIRE (Continued From Page One.) contented themselves with answering “present.” They were Representative Merrill Moores of Indianapolis, and Representative Will R. Wood of tile Tenth Indiana District, The bill, as framed by the Republican leaders, was passed at a turbulent session, amid a deluge of oratory and to the accompaniament of the shrieks of indignation of the minority over the gag rule by which the Demo crats arid the farm bloc were prevented from offering amendments restoring the immediate full cash “bonus” payment financed by an excess profits tax. No method to provide the revnue for the “bonus” is specified in the bill. Nearly every member of the house was in his seat and the galleries were Jammed throughout the noisy ! session. ! House leaders insist that President | Harding will sign the bill if pres' ■ :ed |to him In its present form notwlt 1 ’ ,indi ing his declarations that all “bonus” legislation should be postponed unless Congress Is willing to finance It by [ means of a sales tax. Under the bill as passed cash bonuses should be given only to those veterans entitled to less than SSO under the scale of adjusted service compensation providing for $1 per day of home service and $1.25 per day of overseas service in excess of sixty days. Veterans who would be entitled to n greater sum have the option of four klnd3 of compensation—an adjusted service certificate, vocational training aid, farm or home aid and land settlement eld. LIKE TWENTY-VEATt ENDOWMENT POLICY. The chief feature of the MU Is the adjusted service certificate which Is the equivalent of a twenty-year endowment Insurance policy. Asa substitute for the cash “bonus” It is provided ‘hat,veterans may borrow from banks tmmediateiy up to 50 per cent of the original tcce value of the adjusted service certificates. Interest on these loans is limited to the Federal Reserve Bank rediscount rate plus 2 per cent. If the veterans default on the loans the bauka may collect the

BASEMENT STORE New Spring Models in a SUIT, COAT and DRESS SALE

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amount from the Government at the end of three years. Those veterans who retain their certificates for the full twenty years' period will receive cash at the end of that time equal to about three times the original face value, the ultimate value representing an lucreaso of 25 per cent in the face value plus iYt per cent Interest compounded annually. Acocrding to the estimates of Representative Fordney, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, the “bonus” under this plan will cost the Government about $4,000,000,000 HOUSE PASSAGEONLY FIRST STEP. Passage of the bill by the House and its transmission to the Senate, however, is only one phase of the intensive battle to be fought out between now and next I November. The new fight has for its primary object a long delay that will enable the Administration to perfect other arrangements for the payment of the “bonus” than are contained in the certificate plan brought out by the House Ways and Means Committee. Republican senatorial leaders have not by any means abandoned the project of making the $11,000,000,000 foreign Indebtedness of the United States pay the adjusted compensation to World War veterans. Either through Interest payments or through some scheme of foreign bond Issuance, they believe the Nation can discharge Us obligation to the former soldiers and at the same time refrain from putting more burdens on the already overburdened taxpayer. President Harding and certain of his advisers who opposed the bill as It passed tho House, are known to look with favor upon a “bonus” bill (hat could be framed under these conditions. HOPE SEEN IN BRITISH PROMISE, The official announcement In the House of Commons, Great Britain will pay the United States six months' Interest this fall and thereafter wil make interest payments with some regularity, has given renewed hope to Administration leaders ultimately matters can be so arranged to let the foreign Indebtedness carry the “bonus’* load. In another few months the Administration's debt funding commission will be at work. Before fall It Is hoped the commission will have sot the foreign debt of the United States down to a solid basis upon which Treasury officials will be

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1922.

able to count upon certain fixed payments from abroad. It is then that President Harding and his Republican friends in the Senate believe a “bonus” bill should be drawn and passed, and not now, when conditions are uncertain, when the Treasury is faced wit ha halfbillion dollar deficit, and when business conditions are none too good anyway. “BONUS” HAS SOME STANCH FRIENDS. Whether the Administration’s policy of delaying matters can bo successfully pftt through is problematical. It is admitted. While it is doubtful whether the Senate would pass the "bonus” bill as the House passed It, there, nevertheless, are many sincere friends of the “bonus” in the Senate ,and It Is predicted it will be only a matter of days before these again begin agitating for senatorial action. The policy lor the time being, however, will be to give the “bonus” bill a good, long rest while the Senate disposes of tho balance of the conference treaties. BIG RAILROAD MERGERSEEN Purchase by N. Y., Chicago & St. Louis Held First Step. NEW YORK, March 24.—The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad has purchased control of the Toledo, St. Loots A Western for $3,500,000, It was learned here today. This Is tho first step toward a consoll- j datlon which, when finally completed, It ■ was stated, will merge the Delaware, Lackawanna ft Western, the New York, Chicago A St. Louis, the Toledo, St. Loulg ft Western, the Pere Marquette and the Ann Arbor. Such a combination is expected to rival all the New York Central or Pennsylvania systems. DARK YEAR FOR CHARLES. NEW VORK, March 24.—Charles LaDg. 22, mustn't Jazz or go near a dance hall for one year, the Judge ordered when Lang was accused of molesting a married woman.

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Plain Pumps Walking Oxfords Sports Oxfords Strap Pumps Black satin, patent kid, black kid, black suede, brown suede, gray suede, black calf, brown calf, tan calf. Sale prices, $3.95, $4.95 and $5.95. —Third fkxh.

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BEDSPREADS—ReguIar bed size, In neat allover patterns; (no phone orders); extra spe- <£i rr clal P 1 DD MOH A W K BLEACHED SHETS—--81x99 ....$1.55 80x90 .. ..$1.39 72x90 ....$1.25 BEAMLEBS BLEACHED SHEETS —Double bed size, neatly made with a deep hem (no phone orders), special 98C SEAMLESS BLEACHED SHEET S—Blx9o, made of heavy, firm thread sheeting, $1.35 quality, -j o each ipl.iO P I L L O WCASEStNeatly made of good quality muslin; assorted slz ea; up to 40c qualities, no each.— UUK

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Special Purchase and Sale Scuffer Oxfords and Shoes Sizes sto 8, 8% to 11, 11% to 2. To bay shoes of tills kind, sturdy and dependable, for a dollar bill, is an opportunity that the mother who prides herself on economy wil] not overlook. Every pair is brand new and perfect, made of solid leather throughout and sure to give satisfactory service. Os brown leather with extension soles, neat appearing and practical. Sale price, SI.OO. —Third Floor. In Our Model Grocery Quality—Service—Moderate Prices

BREAD—On sale only from 8:30 a. m. to 11 a. m. Sun-lit bread, hot from our ovens. Ail pan breads Including rye, graham and whole wheat. One-pound mm loaves, while supply lasts, loaf WW

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JELLY BLISTER EGGS—High grade assorted flavors | a (2 pounds, 35c), pound iOC —Basement Store.

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