Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1923 — Page 11

JAN. 17, 1923

GRAIN DEALERS’ •LEADER OPPOSES FIMHCIEDIT Watkins Warns of Inevitable Reckoning When Loans Must Be Paid. SEES HOPEFUL INDICATIONS Indiana Visitors Hear Optimistic Address by National President. Opposition to extending additional credit to the American farmer was voiced by F. E. Watkins of Cleveland, president of the National Grain Dealers’ Association, at the annual convention of Indiana, grain dealers at the Board of Trade building. The convention was in full swing today. Hopeful signs in, the producing and marketing of grain are indicated, said Watkins, who urged & readjustment to post-war conditions with a feeling cf cooperation between the • liter and the grain dealer. train dealers from all parts of the State are present at the convention, which is discussing phases of producing. grading and selling grain. Hi W, Riernann of Shelbyville Is presment, H. C. Scearce, Mooresvllle, vice president, and Bert A- Boyd. Indianapolis. treasurer. Praises System Watkins pointed in his address to the twenty-six years of service of the national association and asserted that “the customs and practices of the grain trail© have been molded along lines which have eliminated friction and produced and perfected a system whose dispatch and economy in the merchandising of grain and Its products is not equalled In the handling of any other commodity of like amount and of equal importance.” He announced that the association is seeking to have abolished taxes on telegrams and telephone messages, and to secure rate reductions by telegraph and telephone companies. An effort also is being made to abolish the “bulkhead charge” by railroads, he said. Turning to pending legislation., the speaker assailed the Norris bill, “introduced by one of the self-appointed champions of the farmers.” on the ground that it is “State socialism, pure and simple.” He said it would “plunge the Government into the grain business with a corporation capitalized at SIOO 000.000 capable of extension to $600,000,000 by means of bond issues ” • ‘Presented to Congress* Several bills for extending additional credit to the farmers have been presented in Congress and the Administration is reported to be working on its own farm credit bill.” Watkins

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said. “There is a grave question whether the farmer’s need is, to a great extent and m all cases, additional credit- He is a business man, and like other business men, he„was inclined to overextension or speculation during the boom times. If now he Is Induced to extend himself still further by the offer of easier money, will he not meet with the inevitable reckoning at some future date when these loans must be paid? "It seems scarcely necessary to say that we all want to see the farmer sharing equally in whatever measure of general prosperity the country is enjoying and we recognize that for some'two years his returns not been In right proportion to those from most other lines of endeavor. This maladjustment has been corrected to a considerable extent during recent weeks In which the values of agricultural products have increased until he Is from 25 to 30 per cent better off than last year, according to figures compiled by the American Farm Bureau statisticians. ‘ln Spile of Assurance’ “Tn spite of assurances by Dr. H. C. Taylor, chief of the bureau of ag ricultural economics and other officials of the bureau, that the policy of

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the Government functioning through this bureau was not to attack or injure the present system of distribution or discredit the middle man, a recent bulletin entitled ’The Marketing of Mill Feeds,' Issued by this bureau and aimed at the feed dealers, indicates the contrary. By Innuendo and direct statement and x’articularly by diagram accompanying this bulletin Is the feed dealer assailed as unnecessary and moreover dishonest, as a rule, and it Is urged by the author that he should be eliminated by cooperative effort working direct with feed manufacturers and mills. The Injustice Ues In misrepresentation and the withholding or juggling of facts. We know that the feed dealers as a class are not dishonest. Such misrepresentation should not go unheeded and unchallenged, and the employment of Government funds in efforts to d©**'rov legitimate business Interests should i he stopped.” LAD IS MISSING Oren Dorsett, 14, of 530 W. Morris l St., was reported missing from home j today. Dorsett is 5 feet 8 inches In I height and weighs 125 pounds. He 1 wore a brown suit and cap.

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01.1ASLEP PICKS HER COMMITTEES School Board Majority Faction Favored. Important committees of the board of school commissioners will be headed by members of the present majority faction during 1923. Appointments announced by Dr. Marie Haslep, president of the board, showed Adolph Emhardt as chairman of the buildings and grounds committee. Until the return of W. D. Allison from California, Emhardt also will act as chairman of the instruction committee. Bert S. Gadd was named chairman of the finance committee and Charles L. Barry, formerly president. was relegated to the chairmanships of the library and military Instruction committees. The citizens’ library committee was named as follows: Charles W. Moores, Monslgnor F. H. Gavisk, the Rev. F. S. C. Wicks, Meredith Nicholson, Kate Milner Rabb, W. M. Taylor, Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, the Rev. A. B. Phllputt, Theodore Stempfel, Evans Woollen, Mrs, Fred Gregory, Mrs. Perry H. Blue, Mrs. Agnes McCulloch Hanna, Mrs. Wllmer Christian and Mrs. Edward A. Brown. Austria’s note circulation for November amounted to 3,000,000,000.01*0 crowns, against 2,937,000,000,000 the preceding month.

Flood of Bills Keeps Up Pace in Assembly

SENATE These bills were Introduced in the Senate Tuesday: No. 101 (Batt) —Providing: for method of irenrral taxation. No. 103 (Clevcla wl-Perklna) —T > provide method of taklny and maintaining: school buildings In cities having population between 70.000 and 80,000. No. 103 (Brown-Hill) —To appropriate $500,000 to purchase territory in sand dune rejlon bordering Lake Mich lean to be known as Indiana Dune* Park No. 104 (Cieveland-Perkins)—Providin* for organization and government of schools tn cities of 70,000 lo 80,000 population!!. No 103 (Hays)—To simplify procedure in quletluf titles. No 100 (Hays)—To create a commission to act Jointly with Illinois commission to build Interstate harber on Lake MichIran, and appropriating $25,000 lor expense No 107 fllodre*) —Providing for work by the city when bids on Improvements are unsatisfactory from private contractors. No 108 (Hodres) —Authorizing city councils to regulate or prohibit soft drink parlors by license method, and providing penalties for violation. No JO!' (Holmes) —Provides penalties for corporations that fall to file reports with the secretary of Slato. No 110 (Ltndlcy)—To separate Benton and Warren Counties lnt.. Individual Judicial circuits. No. 11l (I.lndleyt—To legalise tlm sale of bonds providing for municipal light arid power plant at Kingman, bid. * Anew species of worm bears tho name “Golflngla Mclntoshil,” because the scientist who discovered It described It during a game of golf with his friend. Prof. Mclntosh.

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HOLD-MEN GET S4O ATGROCERT Police Work on Clews of Past Robberies. Two colored hold-up men, believed to be the same who robbed four grocery stores and also held up and robbed a colored man of S6OO, were busy again Tuesday night, according to reports to police today. A colored man walked into H. V. Warrall’s grocery at 127 W. Twelfth St., and asked for some apples. Warrail started to put some into a sack when the door opened and another colored man entered, pointing a revolver at him. The first man then walked behind the counter and took S4O from the cash register. The two ran from the store. The colored thief who first entered the store was about five feet ten Inches In height and weighed about 160 pounds, tho grocer said. He wore a dark cap and coat. The grocer could not describe the other robber. PRISONER ESCAPES While prisoners from the county jail were wrecking a building at the old county workhouse at Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave., Harry Sheets, colored, 19, of 1129 E. Nineteenth St., escaped. Sheets was serving a sentence of twenty-one days for petit larceny. His time would have been up Feb. 1.

HOUSE These bills were introduced in the House Tuesday: No. 95 (MeCutcheonl—Making It Impossible for non resident collection agencies to do business without a State license No. 90 (Thomas)—Providing that State agricultural property be held in trust. No 97 (Pittenger)—Permits revocation of t< arhers licenses for resignation without warning. No. 98 (Miller and Farley)—Amends law on salaries of circuit judges. No 99 (Myers)—Makes township trustee cx officio attendance officer. So 100 (Livingston and Johnson of Gibson >■—Provides for purchase and distribution of fn-e school books. No 101 (Bierly)—Provides plaints for payment of poll taxes. No. 102 (Lcveron)—Glvs township trustee supervision of hlghwavt No. 103 (Livingston)—Provides for reading of Bible in public schools No 104 (Hill and Brown)—Governing control of Slate parks. Withdrawn by consent of House. No. 105 (Ah’grenl—Regulates certain jurisdiction of judges of city courts No 10(1 (Hurty! Requires (ssuanco of medma! certificate prior to granting of marriage license. No 107 (Rainey)—Provlrta# for support by father of children born out of wedlock. No 108 (Wvsoug)—Require* thai county off' re-elect submit schedule of necessary officers and attaches prior to taking office. No. 10!) (Harrison)—Make* frequenting of houses of 111 fame punishable. No. 110 (Harrison)—Makes support of Indigent parents requisite of children. No. 11l (Hart)—Repeals protection law for fifth-rial)* cities. No. 112 (Kagin)—-Regulates road bond Issuance. No 113 (Butt) —Provides for establishment of pension fund In certain cities.

No. 6 of a Series POLICEMAN TELLS OF HIS NARROWEST ESCAPE

Sergt. Ralph Dean of the emergency squad holds a kindly attitude toward Fate, whose caprice once saved his life. Some time ago the booze squad, of which he was then a member, posted Itself on the National Rd., east of the city. Soon they sighted the automobile of Louis Engle, laden with liquor. Dean said. When he sighted the police In front of him Engle turned up a road, but only to find Dean on the running board. Engle drew his gun and. thrusting it In Dean’s side, pulled the trigger twice, according to Dean. The cartridge failed to explode and Engle was convicted both In county and Federal Courts and given heavy sentences. “That was my closest shave," said Dean.

ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES PAINTING TO INSTITUTE Valuable Canvas by Potter Sent From New York. An unusual and valuable painting, the “Vista Terreno-Palma DeMallorica,” by William J. Potter of New York, who for years has painted In Spain, has been accepted by the John Herron Art Institute as the gift of a wealthy New York collector. He has asked that his name be withheld. The canvas, which measures thir-ty-two by forty Inches, represents an old Spanish town falling into decay. Indianapolis art lovers first became familiar with the work of I’otter through three paintings sent from New York by Miss Lucy Taggart last March. BOOST IN DRUG PRICES DISCUSSED BY CHEMISTS Western Pharmaceutical Men Plan .Annual Meeting. Western Members of the American Pharmaceutical Chemists discussed the necessity for an upward revision of drug prices at a meeting at the Clavpool Hotel. Plans for tho annual meeting of the United States Pharmaceutical Association, March 29, at Altamonte Springs, Fla., were discussed. Dr. C. H. Searle of Chicago presided. The eighteen delegates attended the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool Hotel as the guests of Carl N Angst of tho Pittman-Moore Company. M’CORMICK SERVICES Funeral services of James McCormick, 88, who died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. L. Pauley. 1032 Olney St., were held at the Pauley residence at 10 o’clock this morning. Tho body will be sent to Mcchanicsburg for burial at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon. For many years Mi McCormick operated sawmills at Willow Branch and Kennard, Lad.

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BUILDING MATERIAL MEN RE-ELECT OLD OFFICERS J. Frank Smith of Lafayette Is President. Officers of the Indiana .Building Material Dealers’ Association were reelected at the closing session of the ; convention held In the Claypool Hotel. They are J. Frank Smith, Lafayette, president; T. H. Holdeman, Elkhart, first vice president; C. E. Ellenwood, Ft. Wayne; Ernest Ellis, Kokomo; Morris Clark. Liberty, and F. W. Cornelius, Indianapolis, second vice presidents; H. A. Rogers, Indianapolis, treasurer. R. H. Hildebrand, South Bend, secretary’, probably will be reappointed at the regular directors' meeting in February. Albert J. Beveridge was the principal speaker Tuesday night. He cautioned against any entangling Alliances with foreign states by this country. Dr. Edward W. Evans, Cleveland, educator, also spoke. MEDICAL CROUP HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING HERE Indiana Academy to Hear Series of Addresses. Tho opening session of the annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Larynology will be held tonight in the Claypool Hotel. Dr. John Green, Jr., of St. Louis will speak. A session will be held Thursday morning at the city dispensary, and a luncheon will be held at noon in the Indiana University School of Meii cine. Speakers in the afternoon will be Dr. D. O. Kearby, Indianapolis, president; Dr. C. Norman Howard. Warsaw; Dr. A. E. Bulson. Ft. Wayne; Dr. J. W. Hadley, Frankfort: Dr. W. A. Hollis, Hartford City; Dr. J. W. Reach. New Albany; Dr. J. R. Gillum. Terre Haute; Dr. C. W. Rutherford, Indianapolis: Dr. George Smith, Newcastle, and Dr. B. D. Ravdin, Evansville.

DEMOCRATS ARE organizing FDR CAMPAIGN II192! Secret Conferences Now Being Held in Washington on Policies. LEADERS VISIT CAPITAL Bryan and McAdoo Confer With Board of Directors of Party. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The scattered elements of the Democraticparty are being re-united through secret conferences now being held lh Washington. Definite congressional and popular policies are being decided upon so that a united program may be carried out between now and the 1924 presidential election. First William Jennings Bryan came to confer with the board of directors of the party: Senators Underwood, Harrison, Robinson and Simmons, who formulate the congressional policies of the minority. Now William G. McAdoo, who is visiting his father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson, has met these congressional leaders and attempted to sway them to concerted action, bringing the view of the Democrats from the far and middle western regions. Asa result, of these conferences two points are being considered: 1. Delaying legislation so as to make an extra session of the new and more progressive Congress possible. 2. Dropping the Harris bill, which would force appointment of three Democrats on the American debt commission which Is now negotiating with British representatives. McAdoo believes, it is learned, that if the Democrats allow Congress to adjourn In March they will lose their greatest public forum In which they can present their policies to the people until next December. ASSESSORS INSTRUCTED Indiana county assessors today continued their meeting with the tax board at the Statehouse. Addresses by taxing officials of the State were on the program. The meeting Is an annual affair called for the purpose of instructing assessors In tax matters. It will adjourn Thursday afternoon. Chrysanthemums measuring as much as thirteen inches across and others no larger than a dime were displayed recently at a London flower show. ~

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