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"Don't Talk Business Revival While Carrying About Catalog of Mail Order House."

JUDGMENT IS NEEDED

BY FRANK DUNING. Bud Fisher or Irvin Cobb, in quest of material, would have taken him seriously. No one of the "Y" lobby gathering of "Twelve-Sixers" did.. Despite the lapse of time, I still remember that effusion entitled, "If Richmond Would Grow, Let the City Take My Advice." In part, the self-styled reformer said : Ask What i Wrong. "What's wrong with the city? Everything. Richmond Is fast asleep, its civic organizations have been entangled in a mass of cob web. "The Commercial club is dead. Our factories are not progressive. This

"Twelve Six" club does nothing but participate In a noon lunch. What we need is a business and Industrial revival." Again, this time it was only a week ago, I get within range of the reformer. This time it was the $100,000 factory fund that was suffering. . "Let me say this much," he was saying as I hove within ear shot "This fund business is the biggest hoax that was ever inflicted upon the city. Now that they have the money what are they going to do with It. They don't know themselves. , Now when. J was chairman of the" and so on. Common Character About Here. ' You know this fellow. You meet him every day. No doubt he works in the same office with you. The fellow in question Is not entirely devoid of common sense. The trouble is he doesn't exercise what little be has. s You will, however, 'agree that some of the charges directed against Richmond's civic organizations are not without foundation. He was right when he said Richmond needed a business and industrial revival. The most optomistic Richmond booster will agree that something is lacking somewhere. A physician's decision however that you have a bad cold means little to you. What you are interested in is the remedy he is to propose. Not Interested In Symptoms. We are not Interested in Richmond's symptoms. They are self evident. The cure Is what we are looking for. Dont talk business revival when you are carrying in your hip pocket the catalog of a Chicago mail order house. Nobody respects the fellow who Bells neckties to his fellow citizens and then orders his lawn mower and automobile from an out-of-town mercantile establishment Benedict Arnold was that sort of fellow, and he had no wide circle of friends, either in his home or any other country. Get In and Get Busy. Dont criticise the Commercial club, rhere are no membership restrictions on that organization. If you have any suggestions to make don't waste your wisdom on the porter in the corner

tarbCT shop. Join the club and make yonr suggestions there. ' ' The same applies to any of Richmond's kindred business men's organizations. About this $100,000 Industrial fund. Don't become Impatient. Moses did, but he never reached the promised lard. The men in whose care Richmond's factors', fund has been Intrusted are in no hurry- There's sufficient time to Invest that money. Richmond is not and never was a boom town.

Its citizens don't believe in the city-over-night plan. It's a mighty fine

thing to be progressive, but Its best

to intermingle a material portion of

common sense with that forward moving spirit And a person with common sense, doesn't knock.

GOODRICH ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION ON TAX MEASURE

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 16. Governor Goodrich will address a joint session of the legislature in the House chamber at 2 o'clock this afternoon on behalf of the administrations excise tax bill. The bill would place a tax on all corporations doing business in the state.

Announcement of the joint session was made in the Senate shortly before noon. Arrangements also were announced for another joint session to be held in the Senate chamber immediately following the one in the house, for tao purpose of hearing former President Tuft. ''

County Deputies Are Indifferent Over Prospect of Getting Vote

Cleveland Bureau Throws Books Open to Public for Inspection; Richmond Holds Opposite View The first city in the United States, is a strictly private institution and

to federate its charitable and social service work was Cleveland. - The second was Dayton. The third was Richmond. In the first two cities the federated plan has succeeded beyond hopes. Each year has seen an expansion in service and contributions. In the last-named, Richmond, the federated plan has not been applied successfully to social problems. Each year has seen a contraction of service and shrinkage of funds. Reasons for Contrast. There are reasons for this contrast. Perhaps one of the outstanding reasons is the difference in the attitudes of the organizations toward the public. In Richmond the officers and paid workers of the Social Service Bureau maintain stoutly that it is a private institution, amendable to none by a contributor, and the public is not entitled to information concerning its affairs. The public is not taken into the confidence of the Richmond bureau. Secretary Melpolder says the bureau

SUSPECT FRAUDS IN COAL PROBE

(By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 16. The state pubic utilities commission is in possession of information that certain persona have been guilty of indictable offenses ,- in j connection with- - the coal shortage situation in Ohio, Judge O. H. Hughes, a member of the commission told railroad men here today at the opening of an investigation of coal shortage conditions.

ARMY MEASURE COMES BEFORE LOWER HOUSE

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 The $247,C00.000 army appropriation bill was taken up today in the House with prospects of a vote early next week. Chairman Dent of the military affairs committee, at the instance of the war department, moved to increase from $1,000,000 to $4,500,000 the amount which may be used tor aviation schools out of the unexpended balance of appropriations provided by tha current army bill. The pending bill provides, in addition to that, $8,000,000 for aviation. Secretary Baker has asked Chairman Dent for numerous increases to the committee bill but the committee's attitude is to deny them.

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fully shields the books, records and affairs of the institution, from the calcium glare of publicity. Advises Frank Action. Secretary Sherman Kingsley, of the Cleveland Federation f6r Charity and Philanthropy, takes the opposite Continued On Page Two.

LONGSCAR SENT DOWN

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 16. Lloyds announces that the British steamer Longscar, 2,777 tons, the sailing ship Percy Roy, 110 tons, and a trawler, have been sunk.

Women holding Important public offices in Wayne county are not enthusiastic over the prospect that the present legislature will give women the right to vote. Miss Alice Griffin, deputy auditor, said: "I doubt whether I shall use the right unless some issue arises which I believe it is a woman's duty to take a hand in." Miss Grace Smith, deputy clerk, said: "I have paid little attention to the affair. It makes little difference whether we get to vote or not." , Miss Nora Holthouse, deputy recorder, said: "I believe that every women who holds property should be given the right to vote." Miss Harriet Dickinson, an account-

AMERICA ASKS WHY GERMANY DELAYS TRAIN

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Inquiry has been sent to Germany through the Spanish embassy at Berlin regarding the delay in the departure of the second train load of former American officials from Germany for Switzerland, it was announced officially today. The train should have left Munich early this week carrying 86 former consuls and their families and an" unknown number of other Americans.

ant in the county treasurer's office, said: "Sure I'm, going to vote." Miss Olive Bowman, deputy auditor, said: "I shall not exercise my right to vote." Miss Grace L. King, county domestic science supervisor, said: "As a matter of fact, I believe women should be given the right to vote. If they want to exercise that right, all right and if

not, all right I am not every enthus lastic over the proposition, myself."

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CAVALRY AWAITS ORDERS TO GET BANDITS WHO KILLED COWBOYS

FIND CHICAGO GIRL

(By Associated Press) DETROIT, Feb. 16. Marjorie Delbridge, the 14-year-old white girl from Chicago, who disappeared Jan. 26, and was found here on Wednesday night, will be taken back to Chicago this evening. Circuit Judge Alfred H. Murphy today dismissed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the child from being returned to the custody of the Chicago juvenile court.

CONSERVATIVES HE1D

(By Associated Press) SANTIAGO, Feb. 16. The military governor has ordered the detention of prominent conservatives on the charge that they were engaged in a conspiracy against the defacto authorities. Governor Rodriguez Fuentas and other officials of the civil regime who had been allowed to return to their homes under guard, have been taken to the military barracks.

STEAMER IS SUNK (By Associated Prosa) LONDON, Feb. 16. Ttc British steamer Kyunstl haa been sunk, says another Lloyd announcement. Availi able shipping records do not list the Kyuneti,

Weather Forecast

For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight Probably snow flurries north portion. . Warmer In east and south portions. Saturday rain or snow. Colder by night. Temperature Today

Noon r 21 Yesterday. Maximum 33 Minimum 29 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Mostly fair this afternoon and tonight, somewhat warmer. Probably snow or rain Saturday. Westerly winds will shift to southwest. General Conditions The southern storm is moving out to sea and has caused heavy rains over the southern staes and a heavy snow In West Virginia four and one-half inches at Huntington. The snow flurries of this morning were caused by a storm over the great lakes. The weather is fair over the plain states but a storm over the southwest will cause unsettled weather here Saturday. It is much warmer , in Alaska, the temperature being above freezing. It was fifty below zero in Alaska, two weeks ago.

(By Associated Press) V HACHITA, N. M., Feb. 16. Two troops of the Twelfth Cavalry, under Col. J. O. Waterman, today patrolled the international .prdjer,. in he vicin

ity of Corner Ranch, where last Monday three American cowboys were seized, carried away and murdered by Mexican bandits. Whether the American troops would cross into Mexico, Col. Waterman said depended on instructions from army headquarters. The bodies of Andrew Peterson. Burton Jensen and Hugh 'Acord, the murdered cowboys, were found late yesterday three miles over the Mexican line by'a party of searchers headed by Lent Spillsbury, Mormon scout, with General Pershing's expedition in Mexico. Men Wounded Several Times Each had been shot several times, the bodies bad been badly mutilated and the clothing removed. Spillsbury and companions had spent three days searching for the Americans and just as they were about to abandon hope of success, discovered the thiee bodies in a clump of cactus. The ground near where the bodies were found indicated that a desperate struggle had taken place between the captors and the captives. Appear at Corner Ranch When the Mexican bandits appeared at the Corner Ranch last Monday, most of the employes took flight, but

GERMANS MAKE HALF MILE GAIN

(By Associated Press) BERLIN, Via London, Feb. 16. The Germans began an attack in the Champagne yesterday. The war office announces that they captured ground half a mile deep over a front of one and one-half miles and took 858 prisoners.. -

INDIANA PEACE APPEALS POUR INTO WASHINGTON

the three cowboys who had been rounding up stray cattle on the border stopped at the ranch house, not knowing the Mexican band was there. They were seized by ihebandits and takeh awaytdgether withV number" of horses and supplies - ' Fearing that Jose Ynez Salazar, Villa leader, would carry out his threat to attack some border town, American women, and children today are being taken to places of safety at interior points. Cowboys have threatened to seek revenge for the murder of their companions, but the fact that Salazar is reported to have a force of 500 well armed and mounted men, it is said, has deterred them from attempting to carry out their threats.

Conservation .of leather is the principal idea carried out In spring styles of shoes. Local merchants are receiving advance shipments. Extra large stocks of canvas shoes with rubber soles have been ordered. Practically all shoes have cloth tops. Women's shoes are designed with high tops. Local dealers eald today that leather products have advanced between fifty and seventy-five per cent. In price during the past year. Half soles which cost forty cents last summer cost eighty cents now, leather heels have advanced from twenty-five to thirtyfive cents. Shoe repair work in general has advanced about seventy-five per; cent, s Rubber heels; are the only things which do not cost more, they

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Clothes have also advanced in price. Tailors and retail merchants report that prices on spring clothes will be about twenty-five per cent higher.

AMERICAN COLONY ARRIVES AT BERNE ENRGUTE TO U, S.

(B7 Associated Press) BERNE, Switzerland, Via Paris. Feb. 16. The last contigent of the American colony arri7log here from Germany left tonight for Pari3 on their way to Spain and home. Comparatively few left on the regular evening train as most of those who failed to depart last night got s.way during the day after a rumor that entry into France would be refused after Friday.1 A report was widely circulated during the last twenty-four hours that Americans would be required to leave Faris almost as soon as they arrived and this hastened the exodus. The arrival of an additional number of Americans from Germany, including American consuls has "not occurred and in consequence reports are rife that they are being detained by the German government.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. Indiana senators continue to receive many telegrams from the state in opposition to war. State Senator A. O. Reser wires to Senator Kern: , "Indiana is not for peace at any price, but is willing to pay a mighty big price for peace." Timothy Nicholson and twenty-three others of Richmond, Ind., sent a telegram to the Indiana senators saying: "We . urge your support of every measure which looks toward a just settlement of questions at issue between our government and other nations without recourse to war."

FOODSTUFFS SEIZED

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 16. A Stockholm dispatch to Reuter's says that the Swedish government has decided to take possession of all stocks throughout the country of barley, oats and cereals products. The use of potatoes for feeding animals has also been prohibited. .

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 Proposed increased postage rates on newspapers and magazines and provisions for 1 cent postage on drop letters finally were eliminated from the postal bill today on a point of order by Senator Lodge that they had no place on such a measure under the senate rules. This action is expected to end the fight at this session for the provisions.

Lucky Adam Escaped High Clothes Cost

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16. Governor James P. Goodrich in his address at the joint session of the legislature, charged that a powerful lobby was working to defeat the administration's legislative program. "From the very beginning," the governor said, "there has been a determined effort on the part of certain special interests to block the legislative program. This effort has grown bolder as the lobbyists in charge of the movement have felt that they have the situation in hand." Just before the governor started to speak, the House considered the excise tax bill, which was the subject of Governor Goodrich's address. A number of amendments were offered pending mostly to reduce the rate of taxes provided in the bill. The bill in its amended form was ordered printed.

EMBARGO ON SHIPMENTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES EASES CAR SHORTAGE

RAILROAD BILLS NOW IN SENATE

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Railroad labor bills similar to those pending in the House were reported to the Senate today by the Interstate commerce committee. They proposed to add a representative of the railroads and a representative of the employes to the Federal board of mediation for investigations of railroad labor disputes but do not provide against strikes or lockouts durthe period of investigation as was first asked by President Wilson.

Richmond business men were pleased today over the prospect of a

decided improvement in the local in

dustrial situation, as a result of the action of practically all the great seaboard railroad systems establishing an embargo on export shipments. They believe that by reason of this latest railroad embargo there will soon be . enough cars available to handle domestic ehipments. ; . ",. A few local manufacturies'have 'suffered no appreciable inconvenience as a result of the various embargoes and the general car shortage of the past few months. Included in this list were the Starr Piano company and the American SeedingMachine company. Most Factories Hard Hit. The majority of the Richmond factories have been hard hit by embargoes and the car shortage, notably the. automobile manufacturing concerns. The Davis Motor Car company at

FLOAT CREDIT BILL

(By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, Via London, Feb. 16. A new German war credit bill, which will be introduced in the coming session of Reichstag, will probably call for a greater amount than the 12,000,000,000 marks raised by the last levy, according to the Berlin Vorwaerts. The Reichstag will convene on Feb. 22.

WOLF HUNT BREAKS UP SKIRMISH; RUSSIANS AND FOEMEN JOIN CHASE

COLONEL GRIGSBY DIES

(By Associated Press) SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 16. ColMelvin E. Grigsby of Sioux Falls, pioneer of South Dakota and members of the Rough Rider regiment in the Spanish-American war died last night at Birmingham, Ala., occording to word received by relatives here.

FAMOUS WOMAN DIES

(By Associated Press) PARIS, Feb. 16. The Petite Journal reports the death at Meudon, after a long and painful illness, of Madame Auguste Bodin, the wife of the famous sculptor. Madame Bodin, whose maiden name was Rose Beurre, was married on January 29 To the sculptor,

ERECT NEW TEMPLE

(By Associated Press) PETROGRAD, Feb. 16. A wolf hunt in which both Russian and German soldiers joined Is described in correspondence from the Polish front. Parties of Russian and German scouts net recently and were hotly engaged in a skirmish when a large pack of wolves dashed on the scene and attacked the wounded. Hostilities were at once suspended and Germans and Russians instinc

tively attacked the pack, killing about 50 of the wolves. After the hunt, the soldiers separated, each party returning unmolested to its own trench. Along some sections of this front hungry wolves have been particularly

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind.. Feb. 16. The building committee of Cambridge Ctiy lodge. No. 5, F. & A. M., have completed arrangements for the erection of a new Temple, the new building to be . erected on the site where the old building now stands. The work of dismantling the old structure, which was built more than a half century ago, will begin as soon as the weather is favorable.

FIFTY PERSON TO SAIL

(By Associated Press) IiONDON, Feb. 16. The American boat train left Londay today carrying about fifty passengers, mostly Americans, for the outgoing lines.

The foregoing dispatch was delayed in transmission in London and the name of the liner was apparently eliminated by the censor. .

ANTI-ALIEN BILL MAY BECOME LAW

(By Associated Press) BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 16. The antialien land ownership bill, rejected by the legislature a few weeks ago at the request of the state department, after representation from the Japanese embassy, may yet become a law, it is believed here today by its supporters. Their hopes have been revived by the publication today in the Idaho Daily Statesman of a dispatch from Washington which says affidavits filed with the state department show the protests against the proposed legislation to have originated, not at Tokio, but at Boise, Idaho, with the attorney ,of the Idaho Japanese Association.

bold this winter, constituting a real danger to outposts of both armies, and repeatedly the combatants have had to send out hunting parties against the common enemy. While at this sort of work sniping is suspended by a sort of tacit agreement among opposing forces.

the present time is utilizing all of the plant formerly occupied by the Westcott Motor Car company and a large part of its manufacturing plant for storage purposes. By reason of railroad conditions this company has been unable to ship the greater part of its output for some time. The Fry Brothers company, which holds the contract for manufac- " Continued on Page Two). RAILROADS PREDICT BLOCKADE RELIEF

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 16 While leading representatives of transportation lines, manufacture, and fnance, admitted that the embargo on freight and the congestion at railroad terminals in the east and the middle west, presented serious obstacles, they were optimistic today concerning the developments of the near future. The decision of the British admiralty to permit neutral vessels sailing from American ports for Europe to undergo examination at Halifax instead of Kirkwall, was pointed to as likely to bring relief from the congestion in a short time.

Close Schools To Save Fuel

(By Associated Press) LONDON. Feb. 16. Churches in Hamburg will not be heated after Feb. 17, according to a dispatch from that city to the Exchange Telegraph Co., by way of Rotterdam. Museums will be warmed only enough to prevent damage to collections and all schools, theatres and concert halls have been closed because they are forbidden to receive coal.

FREIGHT TANGLE CRIPPLES AUTO SALES SEASON

(By Associated Press) DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 16. Millions of dollars worth of automobiles are tied up in Detroit by railroad congestion according to statements made today by local manufacturers. It 13 claimed that the situation may become much more serious if transportation conditions are not - improved before the spring delivery season opens. Automobiles are now being driven by their own power to points as far east as New York and as far west as Kansas. Thousands of new machines are stored in and near DetroiL

WEDDING SOLEMNIZED

HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Feb. 16. The marriage of Miss Edna May Wilson and Mr. Clayton Souder was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wilson, Wednesday. The Rev. Morris Barrett, of Lewisvllle, performed the ceremony.

TAKES MONOGRAMED "NAILS" TO BARRACKS

V (By Associated Press) ' CHICAGO, Feb. 16. When Hyman Burman, who claims to be the son of a wealthy New York importer, started for Jefferson Barracks, Mo., today, as an armyjrecruit, he carried with him a box of 2,000 cigarettes bearing his monogram. : , ... ' "I'm afraid I'll be unable to get any of them in the army," said Burman, "and I want to be prepared." '

PAPER MAKERS OUTLINE WAYS TO GET SUPPLIES

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. It was authoritatively ' announced here today that a number of the largest print paper manufacturers have submitted to the Federal trade commission a. signed statement proposing that the commission take certain action which will be of the utmost importance to newspaper publishers and relieve the present situation of prohibitive prices. An official statement will be made, later today.' ' r . ' . : - The action of the manufacturers follows two days of conference with the commission - and -the proposal was submitted to Francis J. Heny, special council for the commission in Its print paper investigation.