Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 146, 30 April 1921 — Page 1

M.O'N 3 VOL. XLVI., No. 146 Palladium. Kst. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 30, 1921. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS 2,000,000 IDLE YET COUNTRY IS CHEERFUL RENT DECISION SAID TO SLICE CONSTITUTION Commander-in-Chief Harding Reviews Atlantic Battle Fleet TELL GERMANY UNPAID DEBTS GO ON TOTAL Congress "Baby"

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Prevails Despite Large Number of Unemployed When May Day Arrives. 250,000 HOOSTeRS LOAF (By Associated Tres9) CHICAGO, April 30. Slightly more than 2,000.000 men will be unemployed in 19 states of the Union when May day is ushered in tomorrow, according 1o estimates given to The Associated Press by Government, Labor, State and Industrial officials. A large percentage of those who are unable to obtain work are in the big industrial sections of the eastern and central states, included in these nineteen states from which unemployed figures could be obtained, but reports from the other 29 states where figures were unobtainable, all show that unemployment exists and the estimated unemployment of the country, made by experts including labor leaders, range from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 persons. Reports of much unemployment show up from New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio, while practicallv every state east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mason and Dixon line is seriously affected by the wave that has swept over the country during the last year. The reports indicate that the situation in these more densely populated states is growing more acute daily. Number Increases. The report of the United States government employment service showed that on January first of this year the leading cities of the country with a population of 32.560,953, had a total of 1.S02.755 unemployed and subsequent bulletins issued by this service indi -ate that this number has increased somewhat in these cities during the last, four months. While the unemployment extends to I he west -and south, yet in the reports from the former decided tone of optimism prevails for a resumption of business activity that would speedily do away with the unemployment, while in the south the situation dees not appear to bo of a serious nature and reports state that when the agricultural work is in full swing the surplus of labor will be small. New York City. Philadelphia, ChicagbTlSelroTl'and Cleveland stand out as the centers of the unemployment wave. N. Y. Number Large. Tn the country's largest city, reports from experts indicate "at approxi

mately 250,000 men ana women are out of work. On January 1, this year the government estimated that 234,--'43 were unemployed In Gotham and this has been increased during the four months, according to the monthly bulletins of the industrial service. The remainder of the rtate. however, has not gone unscathed by any means, for the reports from Albany show that 364,000 of the state's 1.500.000 factory workers including New York City are unemployed. Other NewYork state cities report unemployed on about the same scale. The United States employment serce figures for Illinois shows a somewhat like condition. While 86 000 were unemployed in the city of Chicago in January, yet the rate of increase in the last four months would indicate that this has been increased to more than 100,000 by today. In the state of Illinois, however, the figures move upward. The government puts them this way: On January 1, 1920, 1,424 concerns employed 943,400 persons. On January 1. 1921. these same firms employed 539.313. showing a reduction during that year of 414.087. Chicago firms were included in this survey. No figures for the next four months on these concerns is given but an estimate based on 107 concerns, each employing more than 500 men or women, show a decrease in employment of about 3 per cent, on April 1, as compared with January 1, 1921. Pennsylvania Next. Pennsylvania probably ranks next with an estimated number of unemployed placed at. 250.000 by the state oureau of employment. Members of the Philadelphia chamber of commerce recently issued a statement contending that this figure was too low. The estimates in the states where unemployment flourishes most at the present time show the number of employed to be New York 450.000 Illinois : 430,000 Pennsylvania 250,000 Indiana 250.000 Michigan 100,000 Ohio 210.000 Wisconsin 140.000 West Virginia 50,000 New Hampshire 35.000 California 30.000 Rhode Island 21.300 Washington 20,000 Oklahoma 18.000 Nebraska 12.000 Idaho 12,000 Oregon 11.000 Kentucky 10,000 Arizona 6.000 Utah 4.000 Estimates Lacking In a number of states the reports gave no estimate of the number of unemployed but the officials noted that the unemployment was large. In Massachusetts, for instance, the estimate was lacking although figures compiled vfrom two trades ran the total of unemployed in these up to 32.000. James II. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation -of Labor estimates that about 5.000.000 are unemployed in the United States, but government statistics and individual reports from almost, all states do (Continued on Page Fourteen)

Rep. B. Carroll Recce. Representative B. Caroll Reece of Tennessee, 31, is the youngest member of the Sixty-seventh congress. He succeeds, as baby member of the national legislature, Representative McLeod of Michigan, who was 25 when he entered the previous congress last year. INSURE PROPER CARE FOR MEMORIAL TREES SAYS MRS. A. ROACH Tree planting in memory of soldiers, sailors and marines who served during the World war is endorsed by Mrs. A. W. Roach, president of the Service Star unit, auxiliary to the local American legion post. Mrs. Roach, however, looks past the planting ceremony, and urges that provision be made for tending them. "I heartily approve of the plan if the right kind of trees are planted and then proper care be given them. Everyone knows that a dead tree is not a fit memorial for any one, so I would like to see some provision made toward their perpetuation. "While I was president of the national organization of the Service Star legion, which was at that time composed of 11 different bodies, we began planting trees as memorials in the fall of 1919. At Druid HIIL Baltimore, Md., there was a tree planted for the ex-service boys of each state. Speeches were made on that occasion by the governor of Maryland, and by Cardinal Gibbons. "If trees are planted along our national highways as memorials, it should be arranged that should any die, that it be removed without delay, and another tree planted in its place. With these matters taken care of, I believe the plan an excellent one." Erroneous Belief. "The old feeling that dirt, roads do not dry if trees are planted beside them is erroneous," states a prominent Illinois forester. "The wind dries the roads more than the sun does. The trees along the highways should be i trained high, then there will not be an I over-amount of shade. I think there can be no better tree than the walnut for this part of the countrv They I grow high and there is that added" at - traction that people going into the I country can stop and gather nuts. Wal-1 nut trees in a yard or nurserv are ! what mieht bo oallPfl mpcsv hnt"ti..! is nothing finer on roads Trees Do Not Cut Crops. "Farmers, you Dnd, complain that trees shade the soil. Now, here is a practical experiment that shows they are wrong in any objection they make. A farmer in Iowa claimed not long Ego that the trees ruined several rows of his corn. He removed them. It was pctually shown that allowing for the few rows that were too well shaded the hind bore more to the acre when the trees had been there, than it bore without them. Without trees agriculture Is a failure. TWO PERSONS INJURED, ONE MAY DIE, RESULT OVERTURNING OF AUTO Margaret E. Glendening. 40 years old. of Rushville, Is expected to die, and A. W. Reppert. also of Rushville, is in a serious condition at Reid Memorial hospital, the result of injuries received when the automobile in which they were riding upset a short distance east of Pennville at 12:30 p. m. Friday. Mrs. Glendening, who was driving the car, swerved her car to avoid hitting another automobile coming from the south and slid into the ditch upsetting her car and pinning herself and Mr. Reppert under the wreckage. The ambulance from the C. T. Wright company in Cambridge City was called and brought both the people to Richmond. Woman Unconscious The woman was badly bruised about the head and body, and did not regain consciousness during the trip to the hospital. Mr. Reppert hn.d a leg and hip broken. Miss Glendening was driving her car east along the National road. The car said to have caused her to swerve was coming from the south on the road one mile east of Pennville. The machine turned over completely and is a total wreck. The names of the occupants of the car coming from the south could not be learned.

Supreme Court Ruling on

Laws Favoring Tenant His-, tory Making Effect Far Reaching, Say Lawyers. OPENS GREAT QUESTION nv MARK SI ,I,1V WASHINGTON, D. C. Anril 30. A rising tide of discussion about a decision handed down by the surname court last week has brought that deci sion to a point where it engages the attention nf rnnQi itiitlrol . . . ' "mi jnnjcis aiiu public men more fully than anv sub ject of mere legislation. Your correspondent is assured that the discussion will spread quickly throughout the country. Both those who like the dicision ana tnose who dislike it, intensely agreed that its importance is extreme. Apparently it was only because of accidental circumstances that the decision failed to make at the moment it was handed down the sensation which many serious lawyers say it will make as soon as the lawyers, judges, editors and other commentators of the country are aware of its direct present effects on the constitution and its implications as to the future. The assertion that the effect of the decision on the constitution of the United States is sensational does not rest mostly on the constitutional lawyers here in Washington who are now saying it. Grounds to justify their description or it as sensational are to be found in the words of one of the court itself. Justice MctC onnnspft tn th Hicinn k .wl majority of the court and who handed ' down the resenting opinion in that I Hientinr r.i).-vr. ot., ii.. a w-otvIo f ii.,- n f rtcr.ic.1 th .!. stitution and its imniiP.tinn, rnr future. That Justice McKenna was - . deeply moved is readily to be seen from an examination of his words. Effects Far Reaching. Several local students of the const! tution who are now discussing the decision that it ranks in fundamental importance with any decision ever handed down by the supreme court, and that its effects on the heart of the constitution, as written in the beginning areas far reaching as any of the court's most history-making de risions. . "-. c ' ' - -J Stated as simply as possible and with a due warning to the reader of the limitations involved in giving mere extracts from a decision, and paraphrasing its spirit, the case was this: Congress during the war passed a law applying to the District of Columbia, known as the rent law. Stated roughly, it provided that a landlord ! fannot get his property back from a tenant at the end of his lease if the tenant is willing to go on paying the same rent. A similar law was passed by New York state applicable to New York City. The laws were obviously contrary to the normal sanctity of contracts. How. ever, they passed and many tenantsboth in New York and Washington. ! k advantage of them. A multitude of suits arose. In the lower courts uie .f. aeciarea unconstitutional, but in due course, two of ih.e sui,V?' "e from New York anil one from Washington, wre united and arried up to the supreme court. It is the decison in fhese two cases which Is now described as so sensational. The present decision by the supreme court upholds the law and decided that the landlord cannot eject his tenant at the termination of the lease. Court is Divided. The court was divided on lines of five to four. The justices who decided in favor of the law are Holmes, Day, Pitney, Brandeis and Clark, the decision being written by Holmes. These include the justices who are commonly regarded as more sympathetic to liberal movements and to an elastic construction of the constitution. The dissenting justices were Chief Justice, Mr. White, together with Mckenna, Van Devanter, and McReynolds. Juslice McKenna wrote the dissent. With due regard to the danger of paraphrasing an opinion, it may be said that in essence Justice Holmes declared that congress or a legislature has a right to be the judge as to whether public conditions constitute, an emergency, and that congress or a legislature, having asserted that there is an emergency, then the supreme court has no right to overrule the legislative decree. The objections to the law were obviously that it is in conflict with thosa articles of the constitution which for bid the taking of private property without due process of law, and which forbid legislatures to pass laws iraparing the validity of contracts. On these points one lawyer in high position has said the present decision cuts a larger slice out of the constitution than any other single decision ever made. Justice McKenna quotes articles of the constitution which are menaced by the statute in question and says of the latter "this is contrary to every conception of leases that the world has ever entertained." Describing that act of congress. Justice McKenna says "if such exercise of governnment be legal what exercise of government is illegal." Sentence Thirteen Men For Express Robbery MACON, Ga.. April 30. Thirteen of the men convicted in federal court here for participation in the conspiracy to rob the American Railway Express company of . goods valued at more than $1,000,000. were sentenced to penitentiary terms today by Federal Judge Evans. In the cases of others, 28 fines ranging from' $300 to $3,000 were assessed.

President and Mrs. President Harding viewed for the first time as commander in chief of the nation's fighting forces the Atlantic fleet of the U. S. navy when it steamed home recently from spring maneuvers in Gautemala bay. From

Senator Watson Will Address London Methodist Conference

FAIJMDII'M SFWS BtREAU WASHINGTON, Apvil 30. Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, has been appointed one of the speaking mem bers of the delegation which is to represent the United States at the Fifth Ecumenical Methodist conferf,nce- l? bfcne,t in Lndon' England. cePiemuer , : , , j Senator Watson will address the conierence on ine cnurcn ana inn Peace of the World." He was select pd as a speaking delegate by the American bishops There will be 550 delegates from all parts of the world at the conference. The western section of the church, which includes the United States, will be represented by o50 delegates. In addition to Senator Watson, Indiana will be represented by four other delegates, none of whom is on the speaking program. They include Bishop V. D. Leete, of Indianapolis: George R. Grose, president of De Pauw university; W. E. Carpenter.of Brazil, n banker, and Charles F.Coffin, of Indianapolis, an attorney. - v. " . The American delegates will bo mostly manufacturers, bankers, toatesmen and college presidents. The Methodist Ecumenical conference meets every 10 years. At ihu meeting next September the principal topics of discussion will be internaJESSE BAILEY HEADS CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO PUSH HOME RULE Jesse Bailey, formerly chief of police and now prominent insurance ' man, was elected to head the citv cen tral committee favoring the adoption of a city manager form of government at a meeting held in the K or r. building Friday night. He was the unanimous choice of the representatives at the meeting, being elected without opposition. A complete organization of the city in every ward, precinct, and city' block, was announced as the policy of the new city chairman. Mr. Baileystated that he realized that he was entering on a tremendous task. That on. the surface there seemed to be a sentiment for a change, but that progress into the campaign would show that there is strong opposition to the proposed inent. change in municipal govern"The only way to nut thH campaign ecross is '.o organise and to work. Everybody must work, and sacriflee both time and money to assure the adoption of this business plan of government in Richmond," Mr. Bailey stated. To Select Committees. Power to select an executive com mittee was uiven the nw chairman. This committee then -will select a nerraanent secretary and treasurer. A finance committee al?o will be selected by Mr. Bailey. Three representatives from each of the eight wards of the city, and three representatives from six civic organizations wore present at the meeting Friday. The ward chairmen were instructed to look to the organization of their wards by the appointment of precinct committeemen and assistants. A vote of appreciation was extended to Benjamin Johnson, Jr., for the organization of the city which was perfected under his direction securing the filing of the petition for a city manaper form of government. Rev. Charles Woodman addressed the meeting. He stated that the biggest thing now facing Richmond was an economic and moral uplift. "The municipal government of the cities of the United States has the. reputation of being the worst in the civilized world. The acknowledged best plan in the United States is the city manager plan," Mr. Woodman said. The speaker urged that every citizen get into the campaign and emphasized the fact that it was a big thing that was being started at the meeting Friday. Announcements of the personnel of the various committees to have the campaign in charge will be made by Mr. Bailey within the next few days.

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Harding on the deck of the Mayflower

the deck of the Mayflower he and Mrs. i fleet. After receiving Admiral Henry Harding reviewed the three score j B. Wilson, commander of the fleet, on fighting ships of Uncle Sam'e forces, board the presidential yacht Mayheard the presidential sa'ute of , flower. President Harding boarded Ad-twenty-one guns fired repeatedly in I miral Wilson's flagship, Pennsylvania, his honor, and met the officers of the and addressed the officers of the fleet.

tional disarmament, humanisms, universal brotherhood and church betterments. In making a general appeal for popular support of a bill which has just been introduced in th house of repre-j,J f-entatives for the re-organization of ; J ihe United States Patent Otlice. the Federated American Engineering Societies asks particularly that the American farmers j:et behind the measure. The engineering organization states that the farmers have in the past (Continued on Page Fourteen) GERMAN PEACE PACT WILL FOLLOW KNOX MEASURE SAYS LODGE - ' Tty .Aioeiatd Preps) WASHINGTON, April 30. A. treaty

with Germany probably will follow en-j,)roken (he sririt of communist workactment of the Knox peace resolution, j (-rs who expected to brine about a Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, Re-j demonstration tomorrow. These men publican leader, said today in the j charged by the police with having senate in supporting the measure, several wagon loads of radical litera-

Senator Lodge declared that the President and state department had mads it clear that the United Slates did not intend to "abandon" the allies. Debate in the senate' on the resolu-

tion entered the final stage today with 'custody in th apartment of Mrs. Helen Republican and Democratic leaders j Ware, daughter of Mrs. Eila Reeves agreed on a final vote before over- j Bloor. national organiser of the CornSunday adjournment is taken. Op-:rJunist party in this country, ponents of the resolution conceded ita i One of the trunks, police said, was adoption. j filled with maps of the United States, It was exrected however, hat on ' containing statistics of the strength the final roll call one or two Repub-iof the various revolutionary groups

Means would vote "no". Several Democrats is was predicted, would join the ranks of the measure's proponents. . . . . i a : . . . j. S(.yera senators were prepart-d to offer Fubstitute resolutions. Senators King, Democrat. Utah, and France, Refublican, Maryland, both having alternatives to offer, whils Senator Sterling, Republican. South Dakota, was expected to proprse a substitute dealing with the German reparations question. Senator Lodge, of Massachnssetts, Republican leader, and Senators Borah, Idaho, and McCormick, Illinois, loth Republicans, planned to speak in support of the resolution, while it was expected that the last minute attack on the measure would be conducted by Senators Poraerenp. Ohio. Robinson, Arkansas, and King, all Democrats. Senator Pomrene yesterday filed a minority report, signed by all present Democratic members of the foreign relations committee that asserted the Knox resolution was an attempt to "usurn," the treaty making powers of the President and predicted it would "prove a disappointment." Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Fa'r Sunday; Rain by Monday or Tuesday. Fair weather will continue tonight with temperature below normal. Fail with rising temperature on Sundav followed by increasing cloudiness and rain by Monday or Tuesday preceded by a shift in the wind from a northerly direction to southeast and south as the Rocky mountain storm advances 'eastward across the Plain states. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and continued cool tonight; probably light frost in northeast portion; Sunday fair and somewhat warmer. - Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum 5fMinimum 38 Today. Noon 56 Weather Conditions An extensive extensive area of high barometric pressure has built up over the region of the Great Lakes and states to the east and south resulting in 'fair and! cool weather over a cast area this morning. A warm wave is overspreading the western Plain states due. to a general fall in the barometric pressure from western Canada, southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Barometric PYessure. 7 a. m. ..; 30.05 10 a. m. 30.10 Noon 30.12

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GOTHAM ON GUARD AGAINST SCHEDULED OUTBREAK OF REDS (Br Associated Pressl NEW YORK. April HO. New York's entire police force of 11,000 men today was ordered to remain on duty continually until Monday morning a neasure of precaution against possible May Day violence or radical demonstrations. Blue coats were detailed to guard the city's churches, public buildings end meeting places while others were as-signed to protect private residences end individuals believed to be in danger. Many others were held in the station houses for emergency calls. Assignments of police to various auditoriums and halls tomorrow May Day were announced and members of the bomb squad, augmented by regulars, were st today to ferret out a number" of radicals believed to be active in the attempt to cause a great demonstration here. Leaders Arrested. Police today declared that the arrest late last night of ASrara Jakira and Jacob Amter, who were held on charges of criminal anarchy, had jure in their possession, were said to have been officers of the Third Inter nationale in constant communication v iih Moscow. Jakjra and Amter were taken into here These maps revealed the total membership of the groups in every city of any si?e throughout the United States, and disclosed that more than 95 per cent of the members of the radical organizations were foreigners. Foreign Element Large. Russians. Poles and Italians were found to be in the majority in the membership of the red organizations with which Jakira and Amter were affiliated, the police claimed and statistics revealed that in the mining districts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, as well as in several other states east of Chicago, the percentage of radicals was very high. To offset expected red activities, the American defense society will hold a mass meeting tomorrow in Carnegie hall, Newton W. Gilbert, former vice-governor of the Philippines, presiding. Among the speakers will be Representative Albert Johnson of Washington. PRINTERS' STRIKES AVERTED, IS CLAIM fBv A !or Iatd Prcs) INDIANAPOLIS. April 30. Negotiations over institution of the 44 hour week in job arid book printing offices are continuing in a number of cities in which the employers have not yet p.greed to the shorter work week. Walter W. Barrett, vice-president of the International Typographical Union announced here today. In cities where the 4 hour week is not made effective by Monday, the local unions have authority to call strikes, Mr. Barrett said, except in cases where the unions have contracts extending beyond May 1. At the present time about 230 subordinate unions including those in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, have agreements with local employers" associations for the establishment of the 44 hour wek. Mr. Earrett said. He predicted that many others will conclude agreement without strikes being called. Officers of the International Typogrophical Union, who have been conferring in Washington with Secretary of Labor Davis, and employing printers, will return to the headquarters here Monday. Word received from them indicated that the conference at Washington produced no results inasmuch as the settlement of the dispute between the printing employers and the unions must bo adjusted by local agreement rather than by a national agreement.

Reparations Coinmission Decides 12 Billion Marks Shall Be Paid by Sunday or Added Total Assessment. -

ADVOCATE ULTIMATUM (By Associated Press) PARIS, April SO. The reparations commission has decided to notify the German mission that the 12,000,000,000 gold marks remaining due on the 20,000,000,000 gold marks which th peace treaty provides shall be paid by tomorrow or be added to the total of 132,000.000,000 marks fixed by the commission as the amount of war damages assessed against Germany, thus making the grand total 144,000,000,000 gold nmrkm. In addition to this are the acts of restitution provided for by the treaty of Versailles. A communication informing the German mission to this affect was to be handed to it some time today. Reports which hare been circulated that the commission had decided that the non-payment of the 20,000,000,000 marks due tomorrow Were" not considered by it as justifying the application of penalty against Germany, were denied by the commission today. LONDON, April 30. The supreme allied council met here at four o'clock this afternoon to begin consideration of the measure to be adopted in connection with the German reparation situation. The meeting was held in the official residence of Mr. Lloyd George in Downing street. An ultimatum to Germany, giving her seven days from May 1 to comply with or refuse the allied reparations demands, was being advocated today by the British representatives to the allied conference here. This proposal was opposed by the French and the Belgians, on the ground that it was unnecessary as the Germans already had had sufficient time. The French held that the default of Germany in her treaty obligations, calls for immediate military and economic action, and that the note sending-conld be done afterward. It is understood the Belgian ministers also favored this course. Much Activity There was much activity among the various allied ministers this forenoon in preparation for the afternoon session of the supreme council, which was set for four o'clock. These activities included an early morning conference attended by M. Jaspar, the Belgian foreign minister, M. Theunys. Belgian minister of finance, Louio Loucheur, French minister for the devasted regions, and Premier Briand, of France. Later M. Briand went to Downing street for a preliminary conversation with Mr. Lloyd George. Hope for an adjustment of the present situation by common consent was expressed by Count Sferza, the Italian , forejgn minister vno arrived in Lc,n. don during the morning. WASHINGTON. April 30. Officials awaited with interest today word of discussions at the meeting of the allied supreme council at London in regard to German reparations. At the same time Secretary Hughes continued his study of the problem in the belief that the controversy between Germany and the allies can, still be adjusted by discussion. The fact that neither Great BritaiD nor Italy has definitely rejected- the German offer as a basis for possible discussion led to the belief to some , quarters here that the London confer ence would not result in an absolute rejection of the terms. It was pointed out in this connection that even should France begin her occupation of additional German territory tomorrow, this would not necessarily constitute an unsurmountable barrier to a final Folution of the question through discussion. Whether the United States would have a representative - at the meeting of the supreme council today 'was not indicated by officials, who continued their silence on the whole question of reparations. In case such a course should be taken it was expected that Roland W. Boyden, who formerly represented this country on the reparations commission, might be authorized to attend the meetings. STONECIPHER NAMED FOR HOOVER'S PLACE J. H. Stonecipher. of Hagerstows, was elected a member of the county council by the council in special session Saturday morning. Mr. Stonecipher is a druggist at Hagerstown. He will complete the unexpired term of David Hoover, of Hagerstown, who died recently. Ohio Phone Companies Ask Permission to Merge (By Associated Press r ' 1 " COLUMBUS. O.. April 80 Whether, there will be one or two telephone systems in Ohio practically was put up- to the state public utilities cotbmissioh by action of the Ohio Bell ' Telephone company today. It agreed ' to enter into a contract with the Ohio : State Telephone company - to merge the two lines if it can legally be accomplished. If the plan goes through ; practically 1,000,000' telephone stations in the state which received ser- ' vice through more than J.000 . ex-. changes, will have the -benefit of In--terchange of service. ?

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