Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 182

‘FRENCH POLICY MEANS WAR’

TIGER'STOUR OF AMERICA FAILS IN OBJECTIVES Only Time and Events Can Change Nation’s Attitude Toward France. ARGUMENTS FALL FLAT Suestlon of U. S. Foreign Policy Has Been Debated for Four Years.

Clemenceau Has New Proposai By Vnitri Pres PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 9. Georges Clemenceau, thè "Tiger” wir premier of France, today proposed thè immediate opening of negotlations at 'Washington for an agreement between thè United States and thè other natlons of thè world to talea tne place of thè league of nations and return this country to thè co lincila of Europe. The old Frencta statesman made this statement to a great atfdlence In thè Academy of Music here. His recommendatlon was baaed on Presldent Hardlng’s statement In his address to Congresa yesterday. "Yen have heard of thè leag-ue of nations.” said thè Tiger. “I don’t beli ere that !t can ever brlng about an end of war. At thè sa me Urne I be lieve that any effort to that end is good.”

By WILLIAM PHILIP BTMMS. WASHINGTON, Dee. 9.—Gauged by hls owti standard*, thè American tour of Georges Clemenceau, forraer premier of Prance. is a failure. Having achieved thè gre&test “success of esteem" of any foreign visitor to thè United States since lafayette—with thè possible exccption of Mare hai Foch —thè distinguisked Frenchman wlll return homo without havlng accoinpllshed what he rame here to do. As one of thè world's "grand old men,” as a figure destined to loom iarge In hlstory: as a personage greatly esteemed of Americans; as a fighter and hero of thè war: as personlfylng a race for which folk In this country ha ve always had a weakness. Clemenceau wis everywhere greeted by admlrlng inultlf udes. But hls comlng has not changed Amerlca’s attitude toward France one iota. Had Three Objects Clemenceau had three Principal objeets In mlnd when he set out for thè United States: 1. He hoped to prove to Americans that France is not mllitaristic, but deserted by her allles, is merely actlng ir. eelf-defense. 2. He wished to inforni Americans that Europe is on thè brink of another war. more terrible than thè last. 3. He wished to convince Americana that they left Europe too soon aster thè armlstice, and to urge them for their own good, and France’s good. and thè world’s good, to do something —through thè League of Nations or otherwlse—to save clvilization from catastrophe. A dispassionate ehecking up on resulta Indicates: 1. Those who took thè posltion that France has become mllitaristic lnsist it was Clemenceau who made her so So hls arguments failed utterly to convince these. As for those who hold that France is merely acting in self-defense they did not need to be converted. 2. It seems already an accepted fact in this country—among Wilsonites and Lodgeites. Democrats and Republicans. pro-leaguers and lrreconcllables aiike—that Europe is on thè verge of another disaster. Debafed Wlthout Derision S. Whèther America left Europe too soon, or not soon enough; whether America should join thè league or association of nations, or ofìer any guarantees whatsoever to any' outside nation —all these questiona have been debated in this country' conslstently for four Bolld years wlthout deeision. So no forelgner, however brilliant, need feel any mortiflcation because with a bare half-dozen speeches he did not tum upside down Nation wide fcellefs and prejudices of fairly long standing. THIEF FILLS LARDER A burglar entered thè grocery of W. W. Snyder, 402 W. Twenty-Fifth St-. last night and stole ?25 worth of! groceries.

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Lloyd George, Replying to Clemenceau, Denies England Broke Pact Against German Aggression. By RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, 0. M., M. P. Copyright. 1922, by United Feature Syndieate. Copyright in firent Britain by London Chronide. Exclusive World Rights Held by United Feature Syndieate. LONDON, Dee. 9.—M. Clemenceau, in thè remarkable series of speeelies he has been delivering in thè United States of America, implies a breach of faith on thè part of Great Britain in reference to thè pact for thè guarantee of France against thè possibilitv of German aggression. England has no better friend in thè whole of Frauce than M. Clemenceau. Throughout a strenuous, but consistent career, he has never varied in his friendship for England. Many a time has he been bittcrly assailed for that friendship. French journalists are not sparing of inuendo against those thev hate. They hate fiercely and they hit recklessly, and M. Clemenceau, a man of scrupulous integrity, atone period in his stormy politicai iife, was charged by certain organs of thè Paris press with being in thè pay of England. If, therefore, he now does an injustiee to Britain. I am convinced it is not from blind hatred of our country, but from temporary forgetfulness of faet. He States thè fact with referencc to thè originai pact. quite fairiv. It was proffered as an answer to those who claimed that thè left bank of thè Rhine should be annexed to France. "Rhine as Naturai Frontier” Therc was a strong party in France whieh urged M. Clemenceau to demand that thè Rhine should be treated as thè naturai frontier of their country and that advantage should be taken of thè overwhelming defeat of Gerraanv to extend thè boundaries of

CITY’S GOAL BINS WOULD HOLD OUT FOR THREEWEEKS Reports Indicate Threatened State Mine Strlke May Not Be General. * Coal supplice In Indianapolis are suffldent to last three weeks to one month In thè event of a strlke of Indiana coal minerß, aecordlng to locai coal dealers. This supply would be augmented conslderably by ooal from other States In thè event of a strlke. i they said today. The strlke la set for next Saturday In thè event operatore do not agree to a "check-off” of unlon assessments. Reports received late today from coal centera of thè State were to thè effect that no coal company had officlally agreed to making thè "checkoff,” although current rumors were to thè effect that some of thè smaller mine companica had made thè checkoff. Time la Mark ed Clinton reported that many of thè minerà In that fleld would qult work Monday unless their assessment was "checked-off” from thè pay they received today. It was further stated however, that other mlners in that fleld would wait until thè 16th when thè strlke is to become effectlve. That thè Vandalla mino at Linton whlch was said to have made thè "check-off" would stand pat with thè decision of thè operatore' assoclation, was declared by Presldent. Ogle of thè company today. The Knox County Consolidated Coal Company of Bicknell, whlch is considered to be one of thè largest oompar.ies in thè State, officially declared today that they would abide by thè rullng of thè operatore’ associai ion in refusine to make thè “check-off.” The figurea of locai dealers cover-1 ing the r coal supply did not take into I consideration thè possibflity of a cold , wave brlnging excessively low tem-pi-rat urea. A sudden cold wave, ac- : companied by zero temperature, would quickly oxhaust thè coal stock, dealers said. Depends on Weather “I believe there is a falrly large supply o£ Indiana coal on hand,” Oliver A. De Loste, vice presldent of thè Indianapolis Coal Company, said. “Our stock ls large at present, and unless there ls extreme cold weather I beUeve there ls enough coal in Indianapolis to last about a month. In thè event of a strike, of couree, efforta to lncrease thè supply coming in from other States would be made.” “The whole situation depends upon thè weather,” E. E. Heller, president of thè E. E. Heller Coal Company said. “Under ordinary conditions thè supply probably would last three weeks or a little longer. Siero weather would brlng a shortage in a hurry. It also would retard shipments from outside States. At present there ls considerando coal coming In from Illinois, but shipments of eastem coal are limited.” AUTOMOBILE STRUCK BY STOCK YARDS CAR Paul Reddy Slightly Hurt in Street Misliap. While turning an automobile around at South and West Sts.. last night, Paul Reddy, 28, of 442 Chadwick St.. drove thè car in front of a Stock Yards Street car in charge of Motorman Otls Jones, 36. of 1247 Lawton St. Reddy was slightly injured and thè automobile was badly damaged.

On Our Brain From Now On

WHEELER TO HEAD LOCAL OHIO STATE U. ALUMNI Associatici! Celebraios University Day at Meeting. Clark S. Wheeler, 3335 N. Meridian St., Is the new president of the Ohio State University Alumnl Association of Indianapolis. C. B. Durham ls secretary. Fifty-five members attended a meeting in Lincoln Hotel last night to celebrate naUonal Ohio State University day. Thoniàs E. French, professor of mechanical drawing at the university and presldent of the Big Ten Association of Faculty Representatives, talked. Mr. French was the “father” of the new stadium at Columbus, Ohio. Moving pictures of the dedication of thè stadium were shown.

Only in The Times LLOYD GEORGE will write exclusively during the next twelve months for the Indianapolis Times and a small group of newspapers in this country, thè London Chronicle and representativ’e Continental papere ab road. Don’t miss Lloyd George'a writlngs. You won't if you recelve the Times regularly. The flrst article, printed in this issue and entitled "Our Pact With France,” takes up and answers thè charges hurled by Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger of France” in his recent American speeches. Today's article will be followed at weekly intervals by six articles dealing successively with: The British debt to America, the Irisb question, treaty reparations, the Socialist menace, prohibition relations between Great Britain and the United States, and the Turkish treaty. The remaining twenty-four articles of the series will appear at intervals of two weeks, covering a period of fifty-four weeks, and will take up present day world problema. Become a regular reader of the Times.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1922

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France for that fateful river. For unknown centuries, it has been fought over and across —a veritable river of blood. If French cliauvinism had its way this time, thè Rhine would, within a generation, once more overflow its banks and devastate Europe. The most moderate and insidious form this demand took was a proposai that thè German provinces on thè left bank of thè Rhine

SIXTY-FIFTH DEATH George Perkins, 41, of 241 Parkview Ave., died at St. Francis Hospital today as a result of injuries ho received Dee. 1, when the automobile in which he was riding ran from an embankment on W. Tenth St. just west of the city hospital. His death was the sixty-flrst from automobile accidents in Marion County this year. PAY PHONE LOOTED A thlef broke into the office of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company at Indiana Ave. and Tenth St. last night. A pay telephone containing $5 was stolen. Overroat Stoien From College A thlef stole thè S4O overcoat of Max Gordan, 1764 Park Ave. yesterday.

TRIAL ‘INCONVENIENCES’ WITNESS FOR STATE Special Sununons Finally Brings \Voman te Court* Mrs. Ernest Bross, Stratford Apts.. wltness for the State against Helen Blackwell, tried today on a charge of buying goods at the H. P. Wasson Btore under Mre. Bross’ name, required special summons by telephone from Deputy Prosecutor William Remy before the trial could start. It was too great an inconvenience to come to court, she told the prosecutor. Couldn’t she teli him what. she knew and let hlm deliver It to the court? Mrs. Bross flnally decided to appear to prosecute the wltness aster Remy convinced her that the Criminal Court had no intention of taking a day off beoause a witness sound it too lnconvenlent to appear when summoned.

RELIEF PROGRESSES IN FIRE-SWEPT CITY Food and Supplire Rushed loto Astoria, Oregon. By United Prt** ASTORIA, Oregon, Dee. 9.—Relief work was progressi ng rapidly today' among thè two thousand l'esidents of thè section swept by yestvrday's $12,000,000 sire which deslroyed twen-ty-four blocks In thè downtown district. Food and othar supplies arrived hourly from Portland and other communities. Every undamaged house was thrown open and beds wereeprovlded for all of thè homeless laet'Àight.

should remain in French occupation until thè treaty had been fulfilled. That meant forever. The reparations alone—skilfully handled by thè Quai d’Orsay —would preclude thè possibility of ever witnessing fulfìllment of thè treaty. The argument by which they supported their claim was thè defenselessness of thè French frontier without some naturai barrier. France had been twice invaded and overrun within living memory by ber formidable neighbors. The German militarv power was now crushed and provinces of thè German Empire had been restored to France and Poland, but thè population of Germany was stili 50 per cent greater than that of France and it was growing at an alarming rate, while French population was at a stancatili. German towns and villages were choked with sturdy cbildren. ‘‘Specter Intimidates Judgment’’ You cannot talk long to a Frenchman without realizing how this specter of German childhood haunts France and intimidates ber judgment. These children, it is said, are nourished on vengeance and one day thè struggle will be resumed. And France has no naturai defense against thè avenging hordes that are now playing on thè German streets, and with thè hum of whose voices German kindergartens resound. The Rhine is thè only possible line of resistance. Providence meant it to play that part and it is only the sinister interference of statesmen who love not France that deprives Frenchmen of this seeurity for peace which a farseeing nature has provided. The fact that this involved subjection to a foreign yoke of millions of men of Gerritan blood. history and sympathies, and that the incorporation of so large an alien element. hostile in everv fiber to French ride, would be a Constant source of trouble and anxiety to the French government whilst it would not merelv provide an incentive to Germany to renew war. but would justify and dignify the attack by converting it into a war of liberation—all (Tum to Page 2)

Gas River Thirty gallons of gasoline flowed over the roarl in front of a filling station at 6136 Brookvj Ile road today. Mrs. Edith Sparks. operator of the station, told polle® thdt during the night some one unlocked the pumps and pumped the gasoline into the road.

OPPOSES POLITICI) IN LEGION RAIUKS State Adjutant of North Dakota Addresses Gathering. The American Legion must be kept entlrely out of polities, Jack Williams, State adjutant from North Dakota, declared in a talk before the American Legion Adjutants ccnvention today at the Hotel Washington. “We should support legion men running for, or holding office, but no candidate should go out with the Mtamp of approvai of the legion,” said Brown. Harold W. Ross, editor of the American Legion weekly, said a committee of three of the board of directors of the legion publishing company were working on a report eonceming moving the pulication from New York to Indianapolis and would report to the directors at the February meeting. Mr. Ross expressed thè opinion that some definite action would be taken at that time. Problema of Americanization and the organization of locai posta were discussed. ‘la>cal poste must provide Service to the ex-service men and to the community,” said Morgan Keaton adjutant from California. He urged that all State organizations take this stand as a working basis. German lecturers, reds, proflteers and paclftsts were the object of scathing critlcisir. by Alvin M. Owsley In his address before American Legion adjutants at u banquet at the First Prcsbyterian Church last night. “I was told,” said Commander Owsley. “that the ex-crown prlnce of Oermany is planning a visit to this country within the next six months. We would be entlrely In our rlghts to bar from this country all those who made war against us until our own war problema were settled.” Individuala and firma who extorted great sums from the Government on wartime contracts were scored. A warning was sounded for the

Boys Win First Fight for Lower Bicycle Fee

POLITICIANS grow young in Indiana, City Councilman Otto Raj was ready to testify today. Far weeks & froup of boys at the Calvin Fletcher publlc school. Virginia and Lexington Aves., has been urging Ray to introduce an ordinance reducing the city bicycle license fee from $2 to sl. It is hard for a youngster going to school and running errands or earrying papere to se rape $2 to gether all atone time, they argued. They cailed at Ray's house. They bombarded hln with petitlons.

Entered as Si-cond-class Matter at Bostoffice, Indianapolis- Published Daily Except Sunday.

SPEEQERSISI Gl UP CARS FOR MORIR OR PAI FINES IH TRAFFIC COURT With Autoists Calmed Down, Mayor Says “Jay-Walkers” Are to Observe Rules or Ride in Patrol Wagon. Autoists facing speeding charges in city court today were given the option of surrendering their license plates for a month or paying heavy fines. Surrender nf thè license piate would prevent drivers from using their c-ars while the plates are in the hands of the court. With the court earrying on in the drive against speeders and with speeding alraost stopped, Mayor Shank took up a war on “jaywalkers.” insi.sting he will have them taken to police headquarters

in patrol vragons. Three autoists convicted as speeders told Judge Wllmeth in city court they would rather stop driving their care than pay fines. They were Martin Evans. 1804 E. Maryland St.; Frank Gray, 228 W. Twenty-Eighth St., and David Terhune. 248 C Sherman Dr. Must Pay Costa In each case w'here license tags were csnflscated defendants were required to pay court costs of $lO. Among those who paid fines on speeding charges were: Martin Weber, University Heights, $100; Lloyd G. Ray, 2508 M: E- Tenth St-, $100; Charles Kittle, 1244 E. Washington St., sls: Archi® Greathouse, 2631 N. Capitol Ave., sls; Herman Kramer, 749 E. Market St., sls; Harold iloGowen, 335 Euclid Ave., sls; Bailhasar Roel, 116 E. Palmer St., $23; James McCord, 221 W. Twelfth St. $37; James Parker, 3818 N. Delaware St., S2O; Fred Schutte, 2305 N. New Jersey St., sls; Clarence D. Scott, 2621 N. Delaware St., $22: Irvin B. Smith, 1521 E. Nineteenth St, sls. Mayor Makes Threats “lf I flnd the city traffic, ordinance requires pedestrians to cross streets at intersections and makes lt an offense to cross elsewhere in the downtown district I am going to start a bunch of policewomen out,” the mayor said in oommenting on “Jay-walkere.” “They will drive the ‘jay-walkers’ to the curb and hold them until the wagon arrives and then we will take

Finally they interested some of their teachers. Ray capitulated and lnvited the boys to send a committee to the council. The council agreed to pass the desired leglslation. Ray “sold” the idea to City Controller Joseph L. Hogue, who likes to see the city lese money so well that he kicked about unnecessary use of 50 cents worth of posta ge stamps. Hogue today asked the city legai department to prepare the ordinance for introduction Dee, 18, jeducing the fee for all youngsters under 16 years old.

Forecast Fair tonight and Sunday. Colder tonight, with lowest temperature about 15 degrees.

TWO CENTS

War Premier Finds America With England “There are men in Germany who preach revenge. They must be told that a war of revenge will flnd the same allies side by side inflicting punishment on the peace breakers.” “There are men in France who counsel annexation of territory populated by another race. They must be war ned that such a, step will alienate the sympathies of Britain and America and that when the inevitable war of liberation comes the sympathies of America and Britain will be openly ranged on the side of those who are fighting for National freedom.” “The time has come for saying these things and if they are not said in high places, humanlty will one day cali those who occupy high plates to a reckoning.” “Clemenceau o ught to have made his complaint in Paris against men of his own race and not in New York against Englishmen.” “The pact (guarantee to France backed by England) lies for the moment in the waste paper basket. But we never flung it there.” “At Genoa there was passionate sincerity of desire for peace, but the European nations could not help seeing that one of the great powers was working for a failure." “Alas. Satan is not through with Europe.”

them down to headquarters just llks speeders. “I have been infomied thè prohibits jay-walking. If it doesn’t I’il think up something else. Tfcere’s al* ways a way to set ’em. Worse Tlian Speeder “Jay'-walkers are worse than tha speeders now. There are. far mora of them. I’ll bet you we could get a yvagon-load every half hour off of Washington St., alone. "If I have any law behind ma on it I'm going to put. thè hounds on tha law-hreaking- pedestrian. I'm goins to pick out some regular hounds e t cops to work with thè policewomen. I'm going to put thè policewomen on thè job because they haven’t gotten In on this speed crusade and I wanl them to earn their salaries. "You can't do any good just talking to thè jay-walkers, any r more than you canto spoeders. Why, look. Tha Times printed my firat warning to speeders all over thè front page, and thè next day thè police caught thirty* three. Grown-ups are just like chil* dren. They won’t listen to talk. You’ve gotto spank ’em. "We tried to stop jay'-walking by stretching a chain down thè middla of Washington St., between Meridian and Pennsyh-ania Sta., but they imé yvalked over it. "The only thing to do is to go t 9 locking ’em up. They' aren’t any bet* ter than speeders. There’s no usa monkeying with them.” SAYS MANY CHILDREN ARE NOT PRESENT AT SCHOOL Superintendent Orai! Asks for Abtendance Help. Many children are not attendine school, as required by law, accorda Ing to E. U. Graff, superintendent o| schools. The last Legislature raisej thè age at which working permita may be granted children from 14 to 18 y'ears. He asked for additional help in tha /.endance department in order to r medy this conditimi. MAILING CLERK ARRESTED Dillard Huber, mailing clerk at tha Shelbyville postofflce, was arrested to* day on a charge of ritiing thè mall3. He was released on bond of SI,OOO, The affidavit was swom to by A. S. Kelleyv postofflce inspeotor. f,