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THE interest requires regulated monopolies PUBLIC’S \-J instead of unrestricted competition, an atsh>e torney arguing a local utility case asserted It all depends on who regulates the monopolies. There is too much of a tendency for monopolies to regulate themselves through well-meaning public officials who are helpless or almost helpless. A utility company—and it was a utility company to which the attorney referred—goes before the public service commission asking increased rates. It has a carefully prepared case and presents that case through the best legal talent obtainable. When the case of the utility is completed the commission asks for the case of the public and sometimes there is a half-hearted presentation and sometimes there is none. There will be such a thing a6 regulated monopolies when the public gets busy and participates in the regulation. A demonstration of what can be done when the public or someone representing the interests of the public takes a hand is the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission not to increase petroleum rates from Oklahoma to Indianapolis. Chambers of commerce and interested shippers presented their sides and impressed it on the commission. THAT A MERICANS are spending nearly a billion dolRUBBER [\ lars a year for tires and other things made CORNER 1V of rubber, says A. L. Viles. big man in the rubber industry. This reveals the importance of the move to free us from England’s virtual corner on the world’s rubber production. Brazil, through its government, announces that it’ll gladly cooperate with our manufacturers to develop a big American-owned rubber industry down there. ' Whether Americans will he benevolent enough to shade the price England will demand, remains to be seen. Price of everything usually is as much as the holder can get. KEPT 1923 volume of acts of *the Legislature THIN I just published is one of the thinnest similar WISELY _L volumes published by the State in years. That is a good sign. Things are sufficiently complicated without the enactment of a lot of new laws. There is really not a notable act in the entire volume. A few laws cutting State expenditures might not have been amiss. Otherwise, the late lamented Legislature acted wisely in keeping down the volume of such legislation as was proposed CITY'S T~ T took ten years for citizens of southeastern PLAY I Indianapolis to obtain a playground, but a GROUNDS good playground in a community where it is needed is worth ten years of effort. Playgrounds are one of the best investments a city can make. They mean a healthy citizenship in the future and they keep children off the streets, where their lives are constantly in danger. The city, of course, should not pay exhorbitant prices for playground property, for the city has ways of obtaining land without being held up. Let’s have more playgrounds in congested districts.

MARKET "11 AYOR Shank is right when he savs the eitv HOUSE . \/l should not spend $1,000,000 for anew marPLANS IVI ket house at this time. Indianapolis, according to census figures, pays the third highest per capita tax in the country. That is too high already and no unnecessary burdens should be added. The market in its present condition has some bad features, but with the expenditure of much less than is proposed for anew market, the present plant could be made more sanitary and the features which arc now an eyesore could be eliminated. The outside market is really the more objectionable. Staudholders should be forced to keep the premises sightly and sanitary. The practice of filling the streets with refuse should be stopped. MONEY county auditor’s report for the first quarSAVED. ter of 1923 shows a saving of $15,000 in PERHAPS X county pay roils over a similar period last year. That looks good. Courthouse employes drew about half the sum they did last year, which is surely commendable. Not a court was forced to close on account of cold, as has happened aforetime. However. SII,OOO of the saving was effected in the road repair department. At the same time a letter from the Portland Cement Association, which keeps an eye on roads it has helped build, warns the commissioners that a dozen roads in the county are in bad shape, and need much attention immediately. Ditches standing full of water along thp Pendleton pike and the Speedway road will undermine them, it is said. Real economy is commendable, hut cutting too deep for the sake of a record or juggling figures is not.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Wash ington. D. C.. enclosing 2 <-ent in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor con extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned iettrrs cannot he answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. —EDlTOß What is the largest coke plant in the world? One being built at CJlairton. Pa., which when finished will be the largest in the world. They have 720 ovens completed at the present time—capacity of ovens thirteen tons in elgh teen hours Where is the U. S. Von Steuben now and how was it used dining the war? It is now retired at Ahe Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pa. The Von Steuben was in U. S. Navy service until Oct. 14. 1917. when it was turned over to the War Department and was used as a transport vessel until Nov. 24, 1916. What is the electric eel? A fish found in the shallow parts of the Orinoco. Amazon, and associated rivers and in the marshes nearby This fish is able to stunt a beast of burden. It may attain a length of eight feet and weight of fifty pounds. About four-fifths of the length is tail, and on each side of this there ties a huge electric organ.

consisting of transformed muscular tissue supplied by numerous nerves from the spinal cord. The anterior and posterior ends of the Jongitudi nally disposed muscle columns become oppositely electrified, and the current passes from the tail to the head. When the electric eel bends its body so that the head and tail touch different parts of the same fish a very strong shock ie given. Repeated discharges, which may be reflex or voluntary. weaken the strength of the shocks, but the strongest are sufficient to kill the prey. What are the advantages mules have over horses in the military serviee? They are more sure-footed, and, in proportion to their size, are stronger and more enduring than horses. They thrive on poorer fodder and are less liable to disease, and they are said to be longer lived. Which of the Great Lakes Is the deepest? Lake Superior. What are the five fundamental sciences? Sociology. phychoiogv. biology, physics and chemistry. At wliat rale does the common seal swim? About ten mile* an hour.

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TIMES CORRESPONDENT WRITES STORY WHILE HE FLIES ACROSS CHANNEL

Luxury and Safety of Air • Travel Shown in Trip, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Special Cable to NEA Service and Indianapolis Times. Aboard an airplane over THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. April 14.—Sitting in a comfortable armchair I am pounding out this story on a typewriter perched on my knees. Three-quarters of a mile below me I can see the English Channel. Rather rough, for quite a gale is blowing. To right and left the great silvery-blue wings of the Handley Page. And on either side a roaring ltollsRoy.se twin-six. throttled down to carry us on schedule time, about eighty miles an hour according to the speedometer in front of me. Cotton-wool is in my ears to drown the noise. Vet that is not disagreeable. for we are inside a sort of parlor car" with seven chairs on either side of an aisle, and there are glass windows. Schedule Is Exact Overhead, on the ceiling. Is a map of our route —London to Paris, via Ashford, Hythe, Boulogne. Moritreuil (Sir Douglas Haig's old headquarters), Amiens and Beauvais. The time of our arrival at each of these places Is printed opposite the name For. you see, this is just the new way to travel. T have only two large suiti ases with me. but In The baggage compartment to the rear there are several trunks belonging to another passenger. One of the mechanics has just come in fi-om the outside He has taken the chair in front of mine and is readj ing—from the rack overhead —a copy !of “John O'London " Far down a bisr liner is heading toward Boulogne A voung Englishman takes his pasteboard lunch box from the rack and begins to eat. His drink Is whisky and soda. Cheese, tongue and ham sandwiches, fruit cake and chocolate for dessert, comprise his victuals. We are skirting the shore line now. a bit out to sea. For below I can plainly make out the beach at Etaples arid the hotel where, when things were quiet on the British front, 1 used to go for a fancy feed. Twelve years ago. Blerlot broke his monoplane’s back crossing this same English Channel. And Count Do Lambert’s feat, flying aroun ! Eiffel Tower in a Wright machine, breaking the record for lx>tli height and distance in (hat one flight. International Rare On i Here comes the tag Britain is I leaving America 'way behind In this flying game—a game which Amerii-a I began. Britain cut down her navy pwtiI mates, thanks to the Washington oon- ; ferenee. But she boosted her air ; force estimates by more than 5,000,000, ! and may spend more to keep France ! from leaving her in the shade. America's very existence may some day depend on her strength in the clourls. She'd hotter get busy.

WESTERNER SAYS M’ADOO’S THE MAN Kansas City Democrat Declares Ford Is Formidable. B !/ Timek Special OKLAHOMA OTTY, April 14 -The same man to whom William O. MeAdoo appealed to stop his presidential boom in 1920 is now expecting that Me Adoo will be a candidate two years hence and that success will result. He is Jouett Shouse, Kansas City (Mo.) lawyer, who has been visiting In Oklahoma City. "Do not permit my name to be presented before the Democratic convention in San Francisco." was the effect of McAdoo’s telegram to Shouse—the message that blasted the boom. “I am not authorized by- MoAdoo to announce his candidacy,” Shouse said, "but the Democratic nominee must be a progressive man and MoAdoo fills the bill.” Shouse, former assistant secretary of the treasury, is a close observer of national politics and his analysis does not overlook the boom for Henry Ford. “Ford has a large following in cer tain sections," he said. "He must be regarded as a formidable candidate If he gets into the race, and T believe he will.”

United States Army Small in Comparison By Titmu Special WASHINGTON, April 14.—1n pro portion to national wealth, which armies are expected to protect, the United States has by far the smallest army of the five great powers, according to Secretary of War Weeks, who gives these figures on the national wealth per active army soldier; United States, $2,560,000; Great Britain. $245,000; France, $133,000; Italy, $120,000: Japan, $90,000. The number of men constituting the active armies is given as: Russia, 928,600; France, 760,000; Japan, 275,00; Great Britain, 270,000; Italy, 250,000; United States, 136,619; Germany, 100,000. Autos Damaged; None Hurt Two automobiles were damaged, but the drivers uninjured, when a truck owned by the O. B. Howard Company, 16 E. Washington St., driven by Cecil Freeman, 232 N. Oriental St., collided with a car driven by Charles Bauman, 909 College Ave., at Alabama St. and BA. Wayne Ave. late Friday.

May Be Named Head of D. A. R . , — v f* • v&zzr*' ‘ v—.- -, ■BraHjgV • a*. vC# Mrs. ( t Wh I lace Hunger, wifs of the vice chairman of rite Railroad Labor Board, may be elected presi-dent-general of tho Daughters of the American Revolution at their Washington (D. C.) convention.

Cost of Government in Indianapolis Is Favorable Compared With Other Cities By JOHN CARSON departments of government as made that is, the salaries paid job holders Times Staff Correspondent public by the census bureau. Indian- in tho city hall—-Indianapolis again a ia apolls did not suffer in tho compart- had good rating. Only Columbus and VIT Vu"! ' , , ~ HOns - Th ‘ > 0031 to wh Person in the Providence made a better showing of W th * T V mdianapo- e, ty ln 1921 wafl $26 .55. Compared econo,ny in administration. lis is carrying a very heavv , with ten other cities which rank near- The accompanying tai-le shows what o'! hli :r compared with other j est ln population, only New Orleans, it cost each peraon in Indianapolis cities, the cost of government pre Columbus and Providence had leas and comparative cities for their gov sents no unfavorable comparison. | cost emmen tin 1321 and where the money In the expenditures for all general ' In the expense* of government— wont , _ O " T ’ ri '' n . „,, „ Saal- Charity School*. Roerraftty Rank dratu sort. Police i-ire Health Utlon. HUrhwava. hospital* library .loti Woe ,inner, . 14 SO* 04 82 18 $8 BJ> J 2 l 2 $ *8 84 1 U SBBS SA 34 *re? S i Cincinnati lfi ft! Prt 41? 810 2.82 88 u.i 2 flu o2* , , ? * 22 New Orleans . 1? 17 01 134 Ihi 118 65 373 232 rt;; 4x4 37 Minneapolis is 211.83 2 80 I 83 2 58 1.04 i.5l ft 2° 17, 1 ■> , •> , Seattle 20 .38 22 SHP 3.C4 4.28 1.24 285 3 P 2 170 li'o 7“ Indianapolis ... 21 SO 53 2 07 2.3? 2.87 .40 Lot 4.20 1.80 8.88 1.05

Parks, Roads, Stadiums and More Taxes By Ttmct Special WASHINGTON. April 14 —Stadiums, Mine parks, lino roads, fine feathers • and silk shirts, and then taxes. There you have the complete story’ of your tax burden today, according to M. A. Hole, econ omiKt In the • census bureau. Hole says we have all been living like spendthrifts and we must take the cum Ho is now making a survey nation al wealth, ae he did in 1912. "Where do we tend today?" he was asked. "To national bankruptcy, unless we apply common eon so," he said. "We’ve got to handle our governmental finances Just Uke a man would handle his household and his own pocketbook.” The census bureau is endeavoring now to got figures in every city and State which will show the tax burden. It will be a startling picture.

OWSLEY ASKS FOR FAITH IN LEGION Declares Veterans' Bureau Will Be Investigated, * By United XeiCH CHICAGO, April 14. —Declaring that the American Legion will continue its Insistence on an investigation of the United States War Veterans' Bureau. Alvin M. Owsley, national legion commander, appealed to Chicago business men Friday to retain their faith in the legion as being the rightful ex-service man’s organization, and to keep the veterans fighting "In peace as they- did in war times.” Owsley declared the veterans' bureau must be investigated from top to bottom and that “politics must be stamped out of it." "Congress created the veterans’ bureau as a channel through which to care for disabled service men,” said Owsley. "And any politician who takes advantage of the wealth spent in sustaining the bureau to find a soft berth for some friend is not worthy of the name American. He should never be re-elected.” Owsley, who recently returned from a trip along the Panama Canal declared the land defenses of the costly canal are “inadequate and almost obsolete." Auto Disappears Edward Jeffries, 251 S. Temple Ave., parked his car in front of 41 W. Pearl St. A thief took it.

BRITISH DOMINIONS SEEKING GREATER FREEDOM IN ROLE Canada and Australia Encumbered by Imperial Tendencies. (Copyright, b;i Lnited Sews) LONDON, April 1 t—New arrangement which will mark an historic advance in England’s attitude toward her overseas dominions probably will be the outcome of the controversy, growing out of the dominions’ demand for greater freedom in settling their own problems. When the Canadian representative in Washington dropped over to the State Department and signed a tisheries treaty which concerned only Canada and the United States, he started something. By neglecting to get the permission of London, he raised the whole issue of how far a British dominion can go in controlling its own affairs, and still remain an integral j part of that vast domain loosely known as the British empire. The incident at Washington has already brought up for serious consideration a proposal that frequent persona! consultation be arranged between the home government and the common wealths. It is felt that meetings must he provided to span the Intervals between the conferences of prime ministers, which are often dangerously long. The United States has a direct and vital interest ln this evolution of British imperial tendencies. There are countless questions which arise between the United States and Australia, which have not the remotest actual connection with England. American settlement of questions relating to Australian wool, or Canadian fish, may be hopelessly delayed because of the present cumbersome imperial machinery.

VICTIM’S WIDOW TELLS HOW MOB KILLED HUSBAND • - -■■■-■ ■ Woman in Arkansas Town Describes Rule of Vigilantes. BY MRS. E. C. GREGOR A FREIGHT train on the Missouri & North Arkansas pulled into our town about 7 o’clock ! Monday morning, Jan. 15, and a mob | of armed men got off. My husband was at home, and he I stayed with the baby while I went | downtown to see the mob. From the : postoffice I saw them take a union ! man named Tom Phifer and hurry ; him across the street to a telephone I pole. They shot down under his feet and then hit him over the head with a gun. I saw him stagger. I heard the gunshots and saw the smoke. I hurried home, but as I approached I saw a pa rt of the mob was already there and T heard one man say: "We have sent for the dynamite and we will blow it to atoms, and then burn it down. Wo will get him out of there.” "That is my house and my baby in there,” I shouted to him. "You stop that mob from shooting my house.” The mob started to yell "Crowd in on her, crowd in on her,” all the while shots being fired into the house. 1 recognized a number of Harrison business and professional men in the mob. I finally got to the porch and dashed into t.he kitchen. The kitchen glass door was shot. out. We counted ■ nineteen bullet holes in the door besides what had gone through the glass. They had also shot through the be.lroorn windows and through the side wall. Mr. Gregor was in the kitchen. The leader of the mob came to the door and said: “Mrs. Gregor, this mob has come after your husband. The best thing he can do is to surrender and go with us. I will see that no harm comes to him. If he does, I will die first." My husband and I talked it over. 1 said to him; "1 think the best thing is for you to go with them. They will get you anyhow, because they are going to dynamite the house.” When a deputy sheriff, who was with the mob, promised on his honor that no harm would come to my husbany, the latter put on his coat and hat and went with the mob. They then searched our house. Then I heard one of the leaders read off a list of union men and sympathizers that they intended to get. One of the marked men was J. L. Clute, mayor of our town. It was next morning before I learned of the terrible crime the mob perpetrated In banging Mr. Gregor.

TOBACCO FARMERS ARE FREED FROM SERFDOM BY COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

Another Italian Royal Wedding e \ 1 'C,. \ Engagement of Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the king of Italy, to the Duke of Brabant, crown prim e of Belgium, is soon to be announced, it is reported in Rome

High Coal Cost Due to Greed of Operators By Timet Special WASHINGTON. April 14, The Federal coal ‘‘factfinding commission has found those startling facts: That the present exorbitant prices for ooal are due almost entirely to the greed of coal operators. That the coal operators are “gouging" the public to the tune of at least $15,000,000 a week and have been doing it for many weeks past. Smokeless lump. Chicago market. March 27. 1922, $2.70 a ton; March 26. 1923, $6 to $6.75 a ton. West Virginia lump. Cincinnati market, March 27, 1922, $2.15 a ton; March 26, 1923, $3.25 to $4 a ton. Kanawa lump. Columbus market, March 27, 1922, a ton; March 26, 1923, $4 to $5 a ton. The evidence at hand shows that it is costing the coal operators no more to produce a ton of coal now than it did a year ago.

BUSINESS BOOM MAY LAST YEAR Hoad of National City Bank Warns of Future, However. By United Press C CHICAGO, April 14. —David R. Forgan, president of the Na- * tional City Bank, believes the present business boom may last a year more, but warned in a. statement Friday that everything that goes up must come down, "and that the safest policy for business is to keep its ’’feet on the ground.” “The boom cannot last more than a year, and we may be In another wax by that time,” Forgan said. Using as his subject “War and Credit," Forgan said France was making a big mistake by trying to get milk and meat from the same cow. He referred to the occupation of the Ruhr. “There is only oftc way she might get something to take home,” Forgan declared. "And that way is for her to take Berlin. The rich men have advanced their deposits abroad. If they coult.be compelled to turn them over to the government, the German government might be in a position to pay.” Thomas Everett Absent Police today were asked to search for Thomas Everett, 25. of 942 Park Ave. Mrs. Everett said her husband disappeared Friday. Ha baa been ILL

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Plan Did Away With Auction System in Selling Burley Crop. The author of this article, reprinted in part from "The Survey," is the San Francisco lawyer who has organized cooperatives for marketing among farmers all over the country, beginning with the. California fruit and nut growers, BY AARON SAPIRO FOR the five years ending with 1921, which included the high war-price years, the tenant farmer's tobacco income averaged for all districts the sum of $3lO per annum. This meant that frequently there were no shoes for the children’s feet. He lived on pork, “corn-pone,” “lasses"—and hopes. Came the astounding seasons ol 1918 and 1919 and, for the moment, what seemed to him unheard —of wealth stared him in the face. The farmer did not ask whether such affluence might last. He borrowed every new dollar he could—often mortgaged his crop—to raise plenty of the golden weed in 1920. Then, the gentlemen who bought his tobacco, to deliver it in turn to the other gentlemen who made it into cigars, cigarettes, smoking and chewing tobacco—all of which the public was buying at the same prices it had paid for them the year before—suddenly decided that his tobacco had overnight become a worthless commodity. The farmer was facing ruin. Put Plan across Thus starts another tale of. two years. In that brief time the tobacco growers “put across” one of the biggest and most daring cooperative marketing scheme of this day. The scheme proposed to do away with this auction system and to sign these fanners to an iron-clad contract which did not become effective until It had been signed by producers of 75 per cent of the entire Burley crop. This contract made the signer a member of a cooperative society to which he promised to pay an initial membership fee and to deliver for sale every leaf of tobacco that he pro- ; cluced for the next six years. It was the firm of Liggett and ; Myers who firat broke the ice by sending down its two vice-presidents and chief tobacco buyer. They came ir.to the office Lexington and told President Stone*they wanted to buy tobacco. “All right, what grade?" “We want so many hundred thousand pounds of Grade A 3, twelve hundred thousand of Grade D." and so forth, and gave an order for more than 22,000.000 pounds. They asked: “What are tho prices?” Prices Fair The association actually named the * prices—and the prices were fair, everybody admitted that. But the association made them. Other orders came ln. and the as- | sedation sold more tobacco. Then they realized that the crop was short and raised the prices. The buyer still | said it wa.e fair. And of over 60.000.I 000 pounds of green tobacco sold. | more than half was sold at the adI vaneed price. In re-dried tobacco, the association sold out the last of its holdings about the first of November. But the comparison is not with the outsider. The association raised the price-level for everyone. In and out. Some will stay outside and still get the benefit of the stable prices. But. significantly since January. 1921. over 21,000 outsiders have joined the ! association.

Federal Judge Fills Jails With ’Leggers—Quits Imposing Fines

By Times Special Minneapolis, April 14.—Prohibition leaders axe making much to-do over Federal Judge Page Morris of this town these days. Judge Morris is the hero of the hour among the Anti-Saloon League folks apd all the rest of the prohibitionists. He has quit fining bootleggers and is sentencing all the guilty ones to jail. Out of 320 bootlegger cases in his last session of court in Minneapolis not a bootlegger escaped!

League of Nations Issue Again Threatens Split in G. O. P. Ranks

By United Xrtre WASHINGTON, April 14.—1n the week which hat elapsed since President Harding, speaking at Augusta, Ga., declared that the country’s international relations were never better and that domestic affairs would now be the chief concern, the League of Nations issue has suddenly come to life and split the Republican party into three groups which are likely to engage in a bitter struggle for supremacy unless the White House can bring about harmony. These three factions axe taking shape as follows: 1. Extreme anti-leaguers. Borah. Johnson, McCormick and others of the old irreconcilable battalion have suddenly become alarmed and fear that President Harding has yielded to pro-league advisers and is proposing membership in the international court as a means of slipping into the league itself when the appropriate time comes. 2. Pro-league Republicans. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, John Hays Hammond, chairman of the coal commission; former Governor Henry' Allen of Kansas and a number of league reservationists who were formerly hostile in varying degrees to the league, now favor American participation if satisfactorychanges are made in the covenant. 3. Harding - Hughes international court advocates. Grouped with the President and the Secretary of State is a considerable section of the party which favors joining the international

TOM SIMS SAYS: HE who misses his train is slow. He who trains his Mrs. is not. * * * A reformer is a person who expects a girl in $5 stockings to sit down without crossing her knees. * * * People are kicking about dancing. Most of them can’t dance. ★ * * Figuring on your marrying is generally considered easier than marrying on your figuring. * * * Light heads are not bright. ♦ * * Never lose your health. It is so hard to find. • * * Easy street is usually uneasy. * * * Some men think they have no chance. This makes it true. * * * He who hesitates is delayed. * * * Similarity breeds contempt. * • * If you want a man to believe you, tell him what he thinks. * * * Bird in good is worth two in bad. * * * Never join the Chinese army. The Chinese do not build monuments to their military heroes. • • • Wouldn't it be great if as many cook books as novels were sold ? * * * -lumping from the frying pan into the fire isn’t so bad if a man keeps on jumping. * • * April is the last month for oysters. Ret they are tickled. * * * The hard thing about star iug anything is finishing it * ♦ * Sticking your nose into other people's business is an excellent way of getting it pushed out. * • * The will of the people leaves the politieians too much. * • * Never leave undone today what should have been buttoned. ♦ • * When you get “no” for an answer look at both sides. Reading from right to left it spells ; “on . ” * ♦ Some men need hair-cuts badly and others have them that way. * * * Few movie actresses are chosen for their faces. Usually, it is merely a matter of form. * * * People who say nothing do not always mean it.

Some months ago, Judge Morris came to the conclusion that assessing of fines on bootleggers, instead of decreasing the ‘traffic in booze, tended to stimulate it because It made the bootleggers hustle all the harder to make back the money they had paid out in fines. So he began giving them all jail sentences. He has filled the Ramsey, Wright, McLeod, Wabasha. Scott and Sibley County jails and the jail at Winona and is scanning the may for more jails to accommodate his guests.

court of justice on the ground that it is a step toward international cooperation which does not bind the United States in objectionable entanglements with the league. President Harding is known to be concerned about the situation within his party. His effort to steer it into the field of domestic questions appears to have come too late. High Gas Price Recalls First Profits Tax By Times Special WASHINGTON, April 14.—With recent jumps in gasoline prices, tax experts of Congress are recalling how the first excess profits tax originated in 1914. Here’s how; One day a Senator met one of the government tax experts. The solon was in high fury just then because he had been paying 12 cents a gallon for gasoline. ‘‘Can’t you devise some tax to reach these gougers?” he demanded. The tax expert said he could. He immediately suggested that the government determine a fair cost for gasoline and apply a tax of 100 per cant on all additional charges.