Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1932 — Page 11

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‘THRIFT’ MOVE SENDS POLICE COST SOARING Patrolman’s Widow Fired to Save $1,310; Successors Draw $8,105. CHIEF’S STORY RIDDLED Morrissey’s ‘Economy Act’ Explanation Not Upheld by Records. BY DICK MILLER The police department’s ‘‘economy’’ move, which caused discharge of a murdered policeman’s widow who drew $1,310 annually, has resulted in four officers recalled from patrol service, being paid $8,105 to hold her post in the filing department, it Was revealed today. Reorganization of the department to place all records in a central office recently was boosted as a money-saving move by Chief Mike Morrissey. The safety board approved the action. The new system became effective several days ago, but today a check of records shows that all other clerks have been retained, the patrolmen added to the office personnel, and several hundred dollars spent for equipment. Widow Only Target Mrs. Ruth E. Schoen, widow of Norman Schoen, victim of assassins' bullets four years ago, and mother of two children, so far, has been the economy program's only target. The .safety board has refused to reinstate her. * Morrissey has given several reasons for Mrs. Schoen's dismissal, stressing the act as “one of economy.” However, The Times today learned l hat a north side young woman was being groomed for Mrs. Schoen’s post several days before the widow was fired and before the economy proposal was in force. Following recent reopening of the investigation of Patrolman Schoen's unsolved murder, The Times published a series of stories and also printed the story of Mrs. Schoen's discharge. Wait for ‘Turning Off Heat’ It is reported that the young suc-cessor-to-be of Mrs. Schoen has been told she would not receive the appointment “until The Times turns off the heat.” The young woman, it is known, has support of a prominent member of the city administration in her attempt to obtain the post. In addition to recalling patrolmen from law enforcement duties, police department records show the total salary cost of operating the new central filing department is $23,225 annually. This cost is to cover duties of filing reports of fewer than 600 Indianapolis policemen, many of whom never submit written reports. Investigation also has revealed no increase in reports and, apparently the system is filled with duplications, according to persons in touch with its operations. Admits ‘Covering Up’ Morrissey has admitted that recent police reports on alleged misconduct of two patrolmen were concealed from newspapermen through use of the filing system. He admitted the reports existed, but said he did not believe reporters would have written the story had they been informed of the circumstances. The four officers brought from the field of law enforcement duties each receive $2,026.25 annually as clerks. They are Edward F. Moore. Richard Fogarty, Lawrence Fanning, and Russell Chatam. In addition to this move, Morrissey also admits $1,066 was spent for filing cases and a counter in the “economy” office. These figures are not on file with the safety board. No Other Cuts Since the discharge of Mrs. Schoen and grooming of her successor, no other clerks have been released to further Morrissey’s cost reduction program, it is shown. In the detective department, Sergeants Noble Allen, Harry Hillman and William Englebright still perform clerical duties at an annual salary of $2,292.50 each. Bert Pcrrott and John Thompson remain on the third floor handling Bertiilon work, while Mrs. Irene Byers, on the floor above the “central economy office,” receives $1,320 a year in the accident prevention department. Mrs. Byers said she has delivered 1932 cards to the “economy” office, but still retains the 1930 and 1931 records in her office. In addition to guarding these, Mrs. Byers js employed to index minor information. Perform ‘Heavy’ Duties Included in the “central” office personnel is Sergeant John (Jack) O’Neal, who is paid $2,292.50. O'Neal s duties are to issue the stencil fer the daily police bulletin, mimeograph copies of which are given officers at roll calls. An additional duty of O'Neal is to compile the police assignment slate once a month. Others in the "central office” are Arch Minch, secretary to Morrissey, ® nd *l~L chs stenographer, Miss Harriett Deer. Miss Elizabeth Quinn and Miss Ruth Haywood, a police woman, who handles missing persons reports, complete the personnel i ,“ econ <>niy” department, salaries of each exceeding SI,OOO, HOLD NEGRO IN HOLDUP Grocer Suffers Head Wound in Attempted Holdup. C7ie Negro la held and another ►ought following an attempt at robbery in the grocery of Howard McCalit, 730 West North street, early today, during which McCalit suffered out on an ear when he was ►truck with a piece of gas pipe. Floyd Collins, 23, is in custoclv tid police say McCalit has identi‘d him as his assailant.

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Marion Anderson, above, of Michigan City, Ind., daughter of Sherwood Anderson, internationally known novelist and author, is one of the social world's first spring brides. She was married to Russell Mayo Spear, son of Henry A. Spear, at North Amherst, Mass., and the Rev. Byron Spear, uncle of the bridegroom, officiated. Spear is a graduate of Amherst college and an insurance broker.

BOW OF CIRCUS MERELY A NOD Glamour of Past Years Is Missing in Gotham. Bjf f nited Pres* NEW YORK. April 6.—Spring has been ushered into New York City officially by Abigail in her debut as pilot elephant to 1,800 circus ani- i mals, but her premiere parade from Harlem to Madison Square Garden was deadly in its tameness. Old John, a leading character: among American circus elephants, J was not there; he died in Florida 1 a few months ago. There were no calliopes; there were no dancing, ! spangled performers; there? were no sleek white horses and beautiful lad.es, no frolicking clowns, no brass bands. Abilgail led her herd down First avenue in the early morning dawn j in a parade that really was nothing I more than a stroll which seemed to! reflect circus sorrow in the death route of Fritz, the giraffe, who died of a broken neck somewhere between Florence, s. C., and Washington. “Fritz,” according to Dexter Fellowes, “public relations counsel” for the circus, “stood up instead of sitting down, and that is a dangerous thing for a nti-foct giraffe to do! in a box nine feet high. Another great disappointment was I the fact police prevented youngsters | from helping in the unloading after : school. Boys who once carried water! for thirsting mastodons found that, tossing stones at policemen from the nearby bridge was just as much fun, and not such hard work.

FINISH FLOOD WORK White River’s Channel Is Widened, Dredged. Completion of the flood prevention project on the southwest side of the city was announced today by the works board. The White river channel, from a point 775 feet south of the center line of Raymond street on the west side of the river, to the north line of Morris street, has been changed entirely, widened and dredged. Total cost of the project was $519,902.48. The original lump sum bid was $497,390.05. The city now owes a balance of $77,985.37 and the county owes $25,995.13. The course of the river has been straightened and the old channel now is being filled. New bridges have been placed across the new river channel. The project also included construction of levees, roadways and other appurtenances for flood prevention. CLAIM CONFESSIONS TO CLOTHING THEFTS Police Assert Pair Rifled House One of Them Visited. Rudy Frederick, 18. and his brother-in-law, Earl Kennedy, 30, both of 1035 Ashland avenue, have admitted theft of women's clothing valued at $330, according to detectives. The clothing was removed Sunday from the home of Miss. Margaret Sheely, 718 East Eleventh street. Frederick, it is said, has made a statement that he went to the address in search of his sister's young son. believed to be playing there with other children. The rear door of the place was unlocked and he entered and went upstairs. He noticed a closet filled with clothing and, returning home, told Kennedy about it, it was said. According to detectives, both admit Frederick returned to the place and took the clothing, which was placed in a garage at the rear of Kennedy’s home.

HISTORIC PLANTATIONS ON BLOCK IN GIGANTIC MISSISSIPPI TAX SALE

ly United Prcaa JACKSON, Miss.. April 6. Proud plantations where "Old Black Joe" once hummed his plaintive tunes, where pickaninnies still revel in the moonlight, are going on the auction block at sheriff’s sales for taxes—more than 50,000 acres a the state may sell its bonds. v * The state already has more than one million acres on its hands, so acquired. In another eighteen months, with the rate of acquisition increasing, it will have

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COOLIDGE ON SIDEUNES IN SIOO,OOO SUIT St. Louis Insurance Man to Ask Balm of Company, Despite Apology. TESTS ‘TERM’ POLICIES Salesman Fights for Right to Sell Replacement Life Risk. By Bcripps-Hoicard Xetcspapcr Alliance ST. LOUIS, April 6. Calvin Coolidge’s apology and his $2,500 check will not halt the plans of Lewis B. Tebbetts, St. Louis insurance man, to justify in the courts his advocacy of “term” insurance to replace present ordinary life and endowment policies. Tebbetts. through his lawyer, j Thursday is scheduled to open for- j maliy his suit against the New York | Life Insurance Company, Coolidge's ; employer, in Coolidge’s home town j of Northampton, Mass., by filing a bill of complaint asking SIOO,OOO | damages. In consequence of Coolidge’s j apology for his radio speech on “twister” insurance salesmen, which Tebbetts took to apply to him, although he was not named, the suit will be modified to eliminate the former President as a defendant. Summons were made on both Coolidge and the company after the speech. Knew Nothing of Controversy “I had no knowledge of the controversy relating to the plan of insurance you are advocating,” Coolidge said in his letter. In his radio speech of last October, which led to the filing of the original suit, Coolidge was quoted as saying: “Beware of the so-callled ‘twister’ and ‘abstractor’ or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company.” As far as Tebbetts is concerned, however, the insurance controversy is a fight against the present policies of insurance companies. He has filed a number of other law suits which explain his contention. One suit, against the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind., for which he was a sub-agent until 1929, charges that company with refusing to write more than $1,000,000 in “emancipator” policies, a form of ‘‘term insurance,” which Tebbetts had sold. Cheaper Form of Insurance “Term insurance” is cheaper than other forms, because it carries no investment or endowment feature. Tebbetts asked $5,000 damages and $14,800 alleged commissions on these sales. In 1930, the following year, he brought suit against thirty-one insurance companies operating in St. Louis, asking $200,000 damages, and charging the companies rejected business offered by him. His contention, as brought out in pamphlets cited in this suit, was that term policies and annuity policies were separately more desirable than the endowment policies, which combine features of protection and investment. He asserted also that the United States Chamber of Commerce insurance committee joined in the attack upon him, through a bulletin entitled “Shall I Exchange My Old Life Insurance for New?” He did not name the chamber as a defendant. Upholds His Practices Stratford L. Morton, St. Louis insurance man, in a statement, denied allegations of this suit, asserting that a committee of insurance men, after investigation, found Tebbetts’ methods of selling, rather than the “term insurance” policies he proposed, were objectionable. Then Tebbetts filed another suit against seven insurance companies, asking SIOO,OOO damages and alleging they caused him to lose his means of livelihood through branding him a “twister.” His contention on so-called “twisting” is that it is not unethical to persuade policy-holders to exchange old policies for new ones, provided there is no misrepresentation. Glad to Aid Coolidge The state insurance department has a rule against “twisting,” but in the case of Ray Prewitt last year, in which misrepresentation was not involved, Circuit Judge Stillwell of Cole county directed that his license be restored. This virtually overturned the rule in cases not involving misrepresentation. As to Coolidge’s radio talk, Tebbetts said the ex-President’s action is “justification for me.” He said he understood Coolidge had nothing to do with writing of the speech. “I was glad to let him off because he had been President and because he wrote me such a gentlemanly letter,” Tebbetts said. “But I'll go ahead against the company on the merits of the thing.” In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: East wind. 14 miles an hour; temperature, 50; barometric pressure, 30.24 at sea level; ceiling, thin clouds, overcast, hazy, estimated 5,000 feet; visibility, 6 miles; field good.

more than three million acres of farmers’ lands. One-fourth .of the entire area of the state went under the auctioneers’ hammers Monday. That land included 20 per cent of all farms and 12 to 15 per cent of all town property. Sales conducted by seventy-four sheriffs affected 39,699 farms. Os the land sold Monday, about 400,000 acres went to the state. The remainder went to insurance companies, loan agencies and mortgage holders to protect loans. A type of lawyer making a specialty ofqrbuying in tax sale

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932

‘LAW’ CRUSHES HUNGRY MINERS

Iron Hand Beats Down Kentucky Workers' Uprising

BY ROBERT TALLEY NBA Service Writer (Coovristht. 1932. NBA Service. Inc.) PINEVILLE, Ky., April 6.—That there is a trying and difficult economic problem facing coal operators in this Kentucky area today is as clear as the fact that the families of jobless miners are near the hunger line, and employed miners are working only part time, at far less wages than formerly received. Collapse of the coal business is as clear as the manner in which the coal operators, business men and law-enforcement officials of Bell and Harlan counties are trying to solve their problem. Their method is one of complete suppression of human rights and civil liberties. Such interests in these communities have banded together to crush unionism among the miners. They have used every means at their command—the power of the law, deportation of unwelcome visitors—they even have taken a monopoly on food relief, refusing unions and their sympathizers permission to send any food in here for the jobless miners. In Harlan county things are being run by Sheriff John Henry Blair and County Judge D. C. Jones, who recently have drifted apart politically. but not on this subject. In Bell county, County Prosecutor Walter B. Smith, only 29 years old. is the one-man dictator. a a BOTH Sheriff Blair and Prosecutor Smith tell are defending the mine region from Communists, bent upon overthrowing established government with a revolution, and Smith explains it this w T ay: “Kentucky is a state of pioneers and we Kentuckians are pioneering here today against a Communistic menace that, if permitted to take root here, may flourish and spread until it engulfs and wrecks our nation. The National Mine Workers is a Communistic union. “We are engaged in choking a well-organized movement that aims at the destruction of our government, our homes, our courts, our industries, and everything else that is American. “In the wake of these Bolsheviks, feeding upon the publicity attendant to the furore they have created, have come a lot of halfbaked emigres from New York who call themselves journalists and novelists. "They say they came here to help the miners; the truth is that they came here to get publicity for themselves, or for the red publications they represent or for books they plan to write. Theodore Dreiser, for example, made a lot of noise, but never until this day has he aided anybody in Kentucky.” That explains the situation as mine operators and public officials j here would like to have it ex- | plained—that they are fighting a | red menace. u n THE grave economic problems that face the coal operators i in these days of depression were ! outlined to me by operators whom ! I interviewed, and the high | points in their statements were: -J— Ninety per cent of the coal j -L operators here have gone broke, or are as good as broke. (I saw | stocks of commissaries of bank- ! rupt coal companies being aucI tioned at sheriff’s sale in front of i the courthouse at Pineville.) 2— They are trying to sell coal that costs $1.25 a ton to produce on a flooded market where it is going begging at $1 a ton, as against $lO for this same coal a few years ago. 3— The independent' operators not only are fighting the depressed market, but they also are engaging in cut-throat competition to get what little business there is in sight. They can’t make

RECTOR M DELAY Alleged Playboy Needs to Collect Defense Funds. By United Press LONDON, April 6—The diocese of Norwich agreed today to adjourn the trial of the Rev. Harold Francis Davidson, 60-year-old rector of Stiffkey, accused of misbehaving himself with young girls, to enable the rector to collect funds for his defense. R. F. Levy, counsel for the rector, announced that within “a day or so” Dr. Davidson’s legal advisers would be unable to find the money for their ordinary daily expenses, and, therefore, would withdraw. Chancellor F. K. North agreed that as soon as the prosecution had finished its case, the court would adjourn until May 19. to enable the rector to collect funds for his defense. JEAN AEETS~PRESIbENT Miss Harlow Reports She Found Hoover “Very Charming.” By United Press WASHINGTON. April 6.—Jean Harlow, platinum blond actress, met President Hoover today. She found him “very charming.” “We just shook hands and said 'How do you do’ and that was all,” she said.

land for a gamble or investment, with interest charges assured, took some of the property. There is a dearth of cash, however, even for such investment. a a a may retain possession of land sold for taxes, however, and have two years in which to redeem them. A United Press survey today showed that farmers and townsfolk alike, burdened with high taxes and cheap cotton, are letting their lands revert to the state. v

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\ typical example of what can be bought with the $2 weekly food allowance now being given the families of jobless Kentucky miners by local relief forces is shown above. Below is the interior of the relief headquarters operated by the Pineville Welfare League, while at the left is Sheriff John Henry Blair of Harlan.

price agreements to stabilize their business because of the Sherman anti-trust law. —The rapidly increasing use of hydro-electric power, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas has played havoc with the coal market in recent years. —High freight rates on coal have encouraged this and killed the export market for coal; the railroads are now getting more than the mine owners with such rates from here as $1.75 a ton to Louisville, $1.95 a ton to Cincinnati, $1.41 to Knoxville, and $2.26 to Atlanta. ana “T'M 68 years old,” said R. W. A Liddle, one of the oldest operators in the Pineville area, “and I’ve lived just ten years too long. Had I died ten years ago, I would have left the coal industry at its pea Tc. "Today we can produce more coal than the market will take at any price. Our mines are overdeveloped. Under present conditions, we have from three to five times as many coal mines and coal miners as we need.” The operators are hanging on, hoping for better times. They say they can’t close completely, because there are certain items of overhead expense, like pumping, that must continue at all times. If pumping is stopped, they say. mines will fill with water. The operators admit they are depending a lot on the profits of their commissaries, or company stores, in these times when they are losing money on coal production. Employers insist that miners trade at company stores instead of at independent stores, claiming they are entitled to this trade. They admit their prices are higher than those charged by

Firing of First U. S. Shot in World War Described

America declared war aeainsi the central powers fifteen Tears ato today. A detailed account of the first shot fired by the Yankees was (tiven to the United Press today by a member of the min trew. BY CAPTAIN R. L. WARE Written for the United Press tCopyrieht. 1932. by United Press) HONOLULU, April 6.—The “inside story” of the first American shot fired in the World war was revealed at Schofield barracks today by Staff Sergeant Thomas L. Wurster, who directed the French “75” field gun that sent a deadly missle screaming over German lines. This shell was fired at 6:05 a. m., Oct. 23. 1917, and landed behind enemy intrenchments on the outskirts of Rechicourt. But not uptil today did Wurster, now a staff sergeant in the Thirteenth field artillery here, relate the details of that exciting race between American army units to be the first engaged in actual combat. The wet and rainy night of Oct. 19 saw Wurster’s outfit started on its last lap to the front. They marched to Barthelemont, where the battery commander. Captain Idus R. McClendon and Ser-

Included in the farms were historic “Hollywood” and “Clover Hill” plantations in Adams county and “Richland” and “Mounds,” down old Natchez way. “Richland” stretches over 3,500 acres; “Mounds” covers 4,000. They are vast enterprises, fully improved, yet still untouched with urban Babbitry. Some of the richest lands in the south have gone, lands that but a few years ago commanded from $lO to SIOO an acre, lands that in .some cases, bought at these prices, paid for themselves in two

merchants, but explain that this is unavoidable, because they can not buy in such quantities as do the chain stores. a a a THE same forces that are running everything else- in the coal area, also are running the relief program, and refuse to permit any outside aid from unions or union sympathizers on the ground they are “Reds.” The only outsiders permitted to operate here are the Quakers, who are conducting soup kitchens. One union soup kitchen was dynamited; at another, two men were killed outright by a deputy sheriff and one wounded. Union sympathizers, like Waldo Frank, have been arrested after bringing food in here by truck. At least 10,000 men, women and children are on the relief lists in Bell and Harlan counties today. Local agencies have raised this year $32,000 in the two counties— Pineville, with a population of 3,600, raised $6,000 —and are being helped indirectly by the Red Cross. Red Cross chapters in various cities make up carloads of provisions and ship them in here, independent of the national organization. Roughly, each family gets $2 worth of food a week. The average family numbers five. If there is an able-bodied man in the family, he is required to work for it—usually on a public road or at some odd job that a church, welfare club, or civic club makes possible—at $1 a day. If there is no man in the family able to work, or if work is not available, relief is donated outright, officials say. “We try to find work for them because we don’t want to pauperize them,” said Rev. L. C. Kelly, one of the leaders. “Men with large families get more work.”

geant Wurster went on a reconnaissance tour. “We found we had a chance to fire the American army’s first shot and we wasted no time,” says Wurster. Forty picked men hauled the heavy gun through mud to an emplacement three-quarters of a mile forward. “Then anew obstacle arose. We must first obtain permission from the French commander. Finally he agreed, although French and Germans had maintained this section without unnecessary hostilities. “With great care the firing data was worked out. Twenty-four shells were stacked beside the gun carriages. All was ready. “Captain McClendon ordered ‘Fire,’ the lanyard was yanked and the gun shivered in recoil as a deafening report broke the morning stillness. The first American shot was fired!” City Is Given Fire Award. Second place in Class 2 in the 1931 fire waste contest has been awarded to Indianapolis, according to word rec Jived by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce from the national chamber at Washington.

or three years of good cotton crops and good prices. a a a THERE is but one reason for the seizures. Mississippians can not pay their taxes. Flood and drought, boll weevil and falling crop prices have combined in the last few years to reduce their resources to almost naughty Country banks have tried to help. They cared for as many property owners as possible without endangering their institutions with too many loans. The legislatuifc has aided to

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FROM Mrs. Antoinette Low Hutchinson, in direct charge of distribution at the Pineville relief station, I obtained an estimate of what a $2 weekly food allowance will buy; One twenty-five-pound sack of meal, 45 cents; one twenty-four-pound sack of flour, 55 cents; two pounds lard, 20 cents; two pounds side meat, 20 cents; five pounds beans, 25 cents; two pounds sugar, 12 cents; one pound coffee, 15 cents. “Os course,” said Mrs. Hutchinson, “this is varied according to requirements. A family does not need a sack of flour and a sack of meal every week, so they get other things instead—potatoes, oatmeal, canned milk and the like.” ■ That the local relief agencies which have attempted to carry the load, with the unofficial assistance of the Red Cross, are finding their task a heavy one is admitted. “The peak has just about been reached,” said Herndon Bell, Red Cross chairman for Bell county. I don’t know where we are going to get it, but we must have more outside aid soon. “We have been hoping every day that conditions would get better. If any community wants to send us provisions, it would be a godsend and a real service.” Both Harlan and Bell counties are looking forward eagerly to the approaching distribution of free flour milled from surplus government wheat. The Harlan Relief Association hopes to get a twelve-pound bag of flour for each of 1,500 families for twelve weeks; the Pineville Welfare League has applied for several car loads. THE END.

DEBATE GUARD POST Democrat, Republican Vie for Healey’s Command. Indiana national guard politics are rampant again regarding a successor to Brigadier-General George H. Healey as commander of the Seventy-sixth infantry brigade. Choice lies between Colonel D. Wray De Prez, Democrat of Shelbyville, commander of the One hundred fifty-first infantry regiment, and Colonel Walter H. Unversaw, Republican of Kokomo, commander of the One hundred fiftieth field artillery. Adjutant-General Paul E. Tombaugh refused to declare which of the colonels he recommended for promotion at a conference on the subject with Governor Harry G. Leslie Tuesday. General Healey, who had a limb amputated at the United States veterans hospital at Hines, 111., two weeks ago, may remain in the service until the guard goes to camp Aug. 15, Tombaugh said. “Therefore it is too early to speculate on his successor,” he concluded, after admitting he was talking about it with the Governor.

some extent. Last week it passed an act reducing penalties in redeeming lands sold for taxes. The old penalty was 30 per cent of the taxes. The new is 5 per cent, plus 1 per cent a month, until redeemed. It was proposed even in the legislature that tax sales should be postponed. But lawmakers in this last stronghold of frontierday politics decided against such a drastic step. They claimed it would hurt sales of state bonds. So the state’s prestige, remains, and the lands go. v

RUSSIA BEST U. S. MARKET, EXPERT SAYS Colonel Hugh Cooper, Head of Commerce Body, Offers Convincing Facts. CITES FOLLY OF BAN America Is Throwing Away Priceless Chance for Enormous Trade. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripos-Howard Foreirn Editor NEW YORK, April 6.—“ Beyond question, Russia today offers the biggest potential outlet for Americanmade goods of any country in the world. And to slam the door in the face of this market, when millions of anxious workers are looking for jobs, is nothing short of folly." So said Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, noted American engineer, conservative business man and president cf the American-Russian Chamber o r Commerce. I saw the famous dambuilder in his Park avenue office. He spoke with feeling. Few. if any. Americans know Russia as well as he. He has lived among them, worked with them and dealt with them for years. “Furthermore,” he said, “no successful program to bring about economic normalcy in the world can get very far toward a permanent; solution unless Russia is given major consideration in it. Os that, I am convinced. Government Is Stable “Let me give you some of the reasons why I believe in the Russian market: “1. The Soviets have a stable government, which repeated visits show me is becoming increasingly popular with the people. “2. There is a population of 160,000,000 whose standards of living formerly were very low compared to what unquestionably they soon will be. ‘‘3. The natural resources of the Soviet Union are greater than all the combined resources of the remainder of Europe. . “4. The Soviets are eager to have America guide them in development of these resources. If America can give them such guidance, the foundations will be laid for a continuing, ever-expanding business and friendship of enormous value for an indefinite time in the future. “5. We are a great new nation. Experience has shown them that we, therefore, understand their needs better than any other country. “6. They have no tariff walls to keep us out. Labor to Get More “7. Higher living standards result in higher returns to labor. Thus world economic stability will be strengthened by increasing their present low standard, and fears of future competition with cheap labor will be removed. “8. In the last eight years they have bought $2,500,000,000 worth cf goods from the outside world and paid for them without a penny lost. “9. Russia now imports some $400,000,000 worth of goods and services annually. If she eventually does even one-fifth as well as the per capita average among the thirty leading nations of the world—and surely that is not an extravagafit expectation—she will be buying $2.000,000,000 worth a year. U. S. Slipping "Yet Americans seem on the point of eliminating themselves from the picture. Two years ago Russia occupied sixth place on our list cf customers, having risen from eighteenth place in two years. Now we are slipping again, and slipping very fast. “Our foreign rivals are taking over our Russian trade. One reason is the matter of credits. They can offer better terms. Another, and in some ways a more important one, is the campaign in this country against Russian imports. “We never have bought much from Russia—about a fifth of what she buys from us. But I ventuie to say that the majority of Americans have an idea that the Soviets literally are flooding us with goods, so enormous has been the publicity which propagandists have given these limited imports. Politicians, and I am sorry to say, some business men with selfisn motives, have done their best s o convince the country that all Russian products entering this country were manufactured by convict labor. Failing utterly to make good any of these wild statements, they now are trying to interfere with thi3 trade by stating that all labor m Russia is ‘forced labor.’ “The American-Russian Chamber of Commerce has taken the pains to investigate these charges carefully. The investigations were carried out by some of the leading business men of the country. They now have put themselves on record refuting the ‘forced labor’ allegations. Moreover, the great turnover of labor all over Russia offers additional undeniable proof. “Today we are in need of some mighty straight thinking. We have tremendous production. We need the widest possible markets. Uppermost in the minds of American manufacturers is: ‘Where can I safely sell some goods and keep my employes at their jobs?’ Yet everywhere they look the way is blocked by tariff walls with signs blaring; Keep out!’ "Alone the Russian market beckons. Today it is our one best bet. Yet there are those who are trying to slam that door. If they succeed, time will prove beyond question that it was one of the most colossal follies of our times.” Signal Officer Transferred Transfer of Lieutenant Charles W. Van Way Jr., infantry signal school student-officer, from Ft. Mammoth, N. J., to Ft. Benjamin Harrison was announced today, s