Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 159, 16 May 1921 — Page 1

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CARTER SAYS LIGHT PLANT IS IMPROVING . . . . - - , - . Public Service Commission Engineer Discourages Radical Change in OperationsSays Better Service Ahead. SUGGESTS FRANKNESS

URGES EXCESS PROFITS TAX BE RETAINED Revision Discussions Given New Twist When H. Archibald Harris, of Chicago, Reviews Situation.

Prominent Members in New German Cabinet A. R. HATTON TO DISCUSS HOME RULE Named Queen of Beauty

ASKS LIGHTER SURTAX (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 16. Tax revision discussions were given a new twist before the senate finance committee today by B. Archibald Harris, of Chicago, who took a positive stand for continuation of the excess profits

x and urged exemption of corpora' tion dividends from surtaxes. He was the first witness before any congressional committee at this ses-' sion to propose retention of the excess profits tax provisions of the present revenue laws. I The witness gave a broad review of the tax situation, discussing also its relation to present business conditions. He told the committee that in his opinion it should direct efforts toward reduction of tax free securities, he believed thatMf means were found to throttle the flotation of tax exempt obligations by federal, state and local governments, a long step would be taken toward drafting capital back into productive enterprises. Urges Lighter Surtax. In addition to the elimination of surtaxes on the dividends of corporations Mr. Harris suggested a reduction of the higher surtax rate3 on personal incomes and a differentiation in tax rates on "active and pancive" investments. He urged that there should be no tax on dividends but that corporate earnings should be made to bear sufficiently high levies to provide the federal needs from that source. "Release the tax on individuals even though you strike the corporations more heavily," the witnesa urged. "Then, tax the interest on bonds and preferred stocks and other issues of i passive income nature, by relieving the tax on dividends. We are going to have a great clamor for stocks of all kinds and the present bonds and preferred stocks will be converted into common stock, all of which will be active capital." Points Out Benefits The changes proposed, Mr. Harris believed would make active capital a better infestment than tying money in tax free bonds. He added that he telt the excess profits tax had not lost its productivity and believed strongly that the suggested elimination of corporation dividends from surtaxes would aid materially in restoring the country's industrial health. Fears of the treasury that it would not be able to meet its requirements if some substitute for the profits tax w ere not found, were declared by the witness to be unfounded. He asserted that the auditing of tax returns for the last three years would bring much more money into the federal chest than the most enthusiastic officials had hoped. Predicts Junto. fey sifting the 1917 returns, the treasury Is shaking out around $35.000.000 a month in extra taxes, Mr. Harris said, and predicted that when examination of the 1918 returns gets under way, the income from back taxes will jump to between $50,000,000 and $73,000,000 a month. "This will mean." he added, "that between $1,800,000,000 and $2,520,000.000 in additional taxes will be assessed in the next three years." Mr. Harris believed it Impossible for the treasury to complete the auditing of the 1918 returns under three years. His personal estimate of the added revenue from back taxes was higher than the treasury's figures, the witness said, for be held that penalties to he assessed would average 30 percent. In the next three years, he said, the government should receive between $2,340,000,000 and $3,276,000,000 from 1918, which treasury officials have not counted on as yet in any of their computations. Widespread or radical changes in the revenue-laws were opposed by Mr. Harris, who told the committee that the country had already suffered from too many switches in the federal taxation policy. SUN STORMS CAUSE AURORA BOREALIS

The aurora borealis. which has been visible for the last three nights and which was the cause of interrupted telegraph service throughout northern and central states, is due to storms on the sun, according to Weatherman Moore. These sun storms are caused by ' (' violent eruptions of internal gases. A black spot can be seen on the northeastern portion of the sun's disc through a piece of smoked glass. This spot constantly appears and disappears. The spot is 94,000 miles long and 21.000 miles wide. The great sun spot of 1915 had a diameter of more than 160.000 miles. It usually takes from 12 to 14 days for one of these sun storms to cross the entire face of the sun. A black spot appearing on the sun will produce a cooling of the earth's atmosphere. The sun spots have been ' noticed by astronomers for over 1,000 rears, but no special significance was attached to them until recently. CHILDREN SAVE. (By Associated Press! AKRON, O., May 16. In the first two weeks during which the school savings system has been in effect, Akron children have deposited $3,000. Nearly 13,000 children have started

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Above, Dr. Wirth, riQht, and Gustav Bauer at left. Below, Eugene Schiffer, left; Robert Schmidt, center, and Herr Geisberts. Five of the leading members of Germany's new cabinet are shown above. Dr. Wirth, who formed the cabinet, is chancellor and foreign minister. The other four members whose pictures appear and their posts are: Gustav Bauer, vice chancellor and minister of the treasury; Herr Schiffer, minister of justice; Robert Schmidt, minister of labor, and Herr Geisberts, minister of posts and telegraphs.

Washington Officials Regret Term 'Slacker List' is Used

PALLADIUM SES BUREAU WASHINGTON, May 1C There are many men in official circles who are now expressing regret that the lists of men who are carried on the rolls of the war department as draft evaders have been generally referred to as "slacker list3." . A more fortunate and also a more appropriate title would , have been "defective record lists," is' the opinion of these officials. . It has been pointed out that many of the men who have been advertised as "slackers" actually rendered splendid service with the colors. Quite a few of these men were in military service before the operation of the draft and were not in a position to indicate the fact to draft board officials, and as a result were listed as draft evaders. Had the 6o-called "slacker lists" been designated "defective record lists," it is contended, no stigma would have been attached to those men who loyally answered their country's call to arms but who are officially listed as selective service evaders because of mistakes in the draft records. Such men would have had the opportunity of having their records corrected officially without embarrassment to themselves. Later it would have been possible to have published an almost 100 per cent accurate list of men who were actually "slackers," it is pointed out. Need Safeguards Discussion of the so-called "slacker" lists has also brought to light the fact that there is urgent necessity for congress to make provision for the safe BURY PAUL M. HUNT WITH MILITARY RITES CENTERVTLLE. Ind.. May 16. A j full military funeral was given the jbody of Paul Hunt of this city, Sunof the Paul Hunt post of the American Legion, assisted by Hagerstown legionfiires. The funeral was held in the Christian church, Rev. McCormick officiating. Pall bearers were, sailors, William Fisher, Edward Neff, and Robert Land; soldiers: Frank Ryan, Marion Weiser, and William Conkle. Guard of honor was Peter Daugherty, Jesse Matthews, Charles Daugherty, Wayne Duff, Glen Black, Horace Bowman, Walter Renfrew and Julian Dunbar, with Paul Matthews as commander of the guard. Roger Druley was the bugler, and Keith Hatfield color bearer. Color guards were: Earl Duff, marine, and John Moulton, soldier. CAMBRIDGE WOMAN SUCCUMBS IN CHURCH CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind.. May 16. Death interrupted the services of the 10 o'clock mass in St. Elizabeth's church in Cambridge City Sunday when Mrs. Martin Kennedy succumbed to heart disease during the singing of "Gloria." Mrs. Kennedy was an old resident of the city, having lived here continuously, so far as known, since she came to the United States. She came when still a girl, marrying after her arrival. She leaves two children of a large family. Martin, a clerk in a Cambridge City business house, and an unmarried daughter. Margaret with whom the deceased made her home. There is also a brother, John Dillon, of this city. Burial will be Wednesday at 9:00 o'clock. The services will be conducted from the church.

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guarding of its selective service records. The war department has in its Need Large Facilities, men who were of military age at the time of the late war, between the ages ofjJ8 a-Bd 45 years. , These records are now stored in over 15 buildings jn ,. Washington. Many of 'the buildings are not fireproof. Quite a few of them are- damp and In poor state of repair. The records are stored In various kinds of file cases, the majority of them being made of wood. A former official of the war department, who held an important post in the selective service division during the war, estimates that to properly j preserve the draft records a fireproof building occupying 15 acres would be required "The record of each of the 28,000,000 men who were called before the draft boards during the war averages 40 pages." he said. custody the draft records of 2S,000,000 "These records should be placed in steel file cases, and I have figured that 7,000 four drawer cases would be required. Stood side by side these cases would extend for a mile and three-quarters." "I think the great majority of the men who were subject to selective service call during the late war are interested in the proper preservation of their individual selective service records. In many instances those who were included on the nation's roll of its man power will have need to refer to their selective service records to establish certain facts. The way the records are now kept it is next to impossible to get at them," the former draft official stated. He further pointed out that in a number of states a state bonus has been provided for former service men, but before any state makes a bonus award its adjutant general must refer to the selective service record of the applicant. This work has been greatly impeded because draft records are not readily accessible. OFFICIALS CONFER ON WEST VIRGINIA RIOTS (Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. May 16. Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, called in Secretary Weeks today to urge bim to promulgate the proclamations signeo by President Harding declaring martial law in the strike area in West Virginia and Kentucky. Secretary Weeks and Senator Sutherland called on President Harding at the White House to lay the situation before him. and later Secretary Weeks called Governor Morgan on the long distance telephone to discuss the situation with him. The secretary said MajorGeneral Read, commanding the fifth army corps area did not see a present necessity for sending federal troops to the strike district. Daughter of James Cox Dies Suddenly at Home (By Associated Press) DAYTON. O.. May 16. Mrs. Helen Cox Mahoney, 25 years old, daughter of former Governor James M. Cox, Democratic presidential candidate last fall, died suddenly at her home in Oakwood, a suburb, early this morning. She apparently had been in good health, and her death came without a moment's warning. Her husband, D. J. Mahoney, is general manager of the ex-governor's newspaper in this city. Mrs. Mahoney passed through a serious illness a few months ago, but apparently had fully recovered.

Noted Authority on Municipal Government To Speak at High School Auditorium at 7:30 Tonight. BIG CROWDlXPEGTED

William Dudley Foulke will preside at th public meet in ir. the high school auditorium at 730 o'clock Monday night, when Prof. A. R. Hatton, professor of political science in Western Reserve university, Cleveland, O., is to speak on municipal government. Mr. Foulke and Prof. Hatton are members of the National Municipal league and warm nersonal friend". Professor Hatton will be entertained by Mr. Fouike during his visit here. An impartial discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the manager form of city provernment will be presented by Professor Hatton. He will be pleased to answer all questions pertinent to the subject under discussion. Regarded as Authority. Professor holds degrees from Franlin College and the University of Chicago, is field director of the National Short Ballot organ'zation : director of service in the National Municipal league and author of "Digest of City Charters," and many other articles on city government. During the past four years he has devoted his time to giving consultations on city and state government. , Every man and woman in Richmond who expects to vote at the special city election on June 14. is urged to attend the meeting. Preceding the speaking, several numbers will be given by the high school orchestra. Professor Hatton was to have addressed the classes of H. F. Taggart and S. D. Neff of the local high school, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Both teachers are instructors in social science. SCHOOL CHILDREN TO PARADE JUNE 15 FOR 'ALL SCHOOL' DAY Botween 4,000 and 5,000 Richmond public' school children will parade from a point in town yet to- be designated, to "Glen Miller park, on fc All School" day, tp be observed by all public schools on Wednesday, June 15, according to present plans by the general committee in charge. It will be the first time such an event, with all public school pupils from the first grade to the graduating class of high school, has ever planned a concerted program for a given day. Last year the local high school held a school day which was pronouncfd very successful. This year plans are being made to include all schools in the day's program. N. F. Fultz, of the vocational department, is chairman of a general committee, making arrangements for the events of the day. He is being assisted by representatives from other schools. Four committees remain to be appointed. They are parade committee, park committee, athletic committee and a pageant committee. It is probable, however, that the high school pageant committee, headed by. Mr. Donaker, will be permitted to continue its work in preparing a pageant. Schools Remain Apart. Each school will remain apart for its program features, in some instances, according to a policy which it is believed will be followed. Luncheon will be arranged for by each school according to a p'ay decided upon by each. During the morning, games pnd athletic events wi'l predominate. The afternoon is veserved for the presentation of the paseant. Complete details for the day's outing is still to be. formed. Lloyd George Offers to Meet De Valera DUBLIN. Mav 16 Premier Lloyd George, says the Freeman's Journal today, has offered to meet Kaswon de Valera, or other Irish leaders, with out conditions. Mr. do Valera. adds the newspaper, replied that if the pre- j mier made such a statement public he; (de Valera) would give a public reply. J MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Fair; continued cool tonight with Frost. The weather will continue cool tonight and Tuesday with frost again tonight, due to a persistent area of high barometric pressure over the north and central states. For Indiana by the United Statec Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday; frost tonight in north and central portions; no change in temperatures. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum ' 61 Minimum 44 Today. Noon 56 Weather Conditions Fair and abnormally cool weather continues from the Great Lakes southward to the Southern states, but rains were general along the Gulf and Middle Atlantic coast. , The storm over the Rocky mountains is already causing cloudy local rains in the western states. Barometric Pressure. 7 a. m : 30.28 10:00 a. m ..30.28 I Noon ,..30.2t:

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Miss Sonia Shearer. Miss Sonia Shearer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Shearer, has been chosen queen of beauty for the humane educational parade to be held

soon in Washington. She will be attended by a court of honor of young i

society girls. County Cork Man Meets His Execution Bravely CORK. Ireland, May 16. Daniel O'Brien, of Knosbandbane. Lincarrol, county Cork, was tried by drambead court martial Saturday and executed in the Cork detention barracks at S o'clock this morning. 0,Brif' met death bravely, notwithstanding the attitude be displayed j;Wa . trial, when. . in answering thel.. request to lead, be replied? ; "I have no defense; I was caught as a soldier, and you can try me." A few home3 in the vicinity of the prison offered prayers as the execution was carried out. O'Brien was attended by a priest yesterday. SCHOOL ENUMERATION 11,566, IS INCREASE OF 661 OVER 1920 The final school enumeration for Wayne county shows an increase of 661 children over last year's enumeration. A part of this increase is due to a more careful enumeration, county officials state The city of Richmond has over half the children of school age within the county, having a total of 6.184 between the ages of six and 21 years of age, and 5,043 of these in school The total enumeration for the county 6hows 11.566 children between th ages of six and 21 years of age, 9,461 of these are in school, according to the report which was completed byCounty Superintendent C. O. Williams Monday morning. Township Figures. Enumeration by townships with the r gain or loss for each is as follows: Abington, 146. gain 18; Boston, 248, ; loss 9; Center, 469. gain 4; Clay. 237, gain 19; Dalton. 112, gain 2; Franklin, 278, gain 12; Greene, 273. gain 13; Harrison, 92, loss 9; Jackson, 285, gain 38; JefTerson, 284, gain 27; New Garden, 308, gain 12 Perry, 207. gain 6; Washington. 275. loss 39; Wayne. 1,199, gain 14; Webster, 124. gain 9. Towns were as follows: Cambridge ! City, 449, gain 6; Dublin 160. gain 33; Hagerstown. 263, gain 18; Richmond. i 6.184. eain 487 IJCDDCDT MAniim 1 A V ntHD-il I MUU I Lit lYIA I SPEAK HERE AUG. 15 An effort to secure Herbert Hoover. secretary of commerce, for an address on Monday, Aug. 15, in connection with Indiana Yearly meeting of Friends, is being made by the Indiana Yearly meeting centennial celebrations committee. Acceptance of the speaking date has not yet been received from Mr. Hoover. Providing Mr. Hoover is secured by the Indiana Yearly meeting committee, local organizations are planning to have him address a mass meeting, to be beld in the Coliseum on the night of the date stated. His subject would be "Child Welfare." Action was taken by the Minister ial association Monday morning authorizing the Rev. R. W. Stoakes. secretary of the association, to write Mr. Hoover, in care of S. Edgar Nicholson, now in Washington, urging Mr. Hoover to consider addressing such a meeting as planned. It is understood that other bodies in the city are also to urge Mr. Hoover's acceptance. FALL FROM BED FATAL MARIETTA, Pa., May 16. Mrs. Sarah M. Montgomery, 90 years old. of Octoraria, died as the result of a fall out of bed. Four generations survive.

iSILESIAN SITUATION

MAY COME BEFORE COUNCIL OF ALLIES fBy Associated Press LONDON May JS.--Tbr may be a full meeting of the supreme allied council for the purpose of discussing the situation which has arisen in Silesia as a result of the Polish re vols there. Dispatches from Paris Indicate that M. Briand intends too lay the situation before the French chamber of deputies when it meets Thursday. There has been an exchange of views between the British and French governments, but suggestioons that a meeting be held have been met with assertions in Paris that it would be impossible for the French premier to discuss the Silesian affair with Mr. Lloyd George until after Thursday. Premier Briand conferred with Prince Eugene Sapisha, Polish foreign minister, yesterday, and it is assumed they took up the Silesian situation. Says Poles Alarmed. M. Briand has recrived a note from the German government, which asserts that reports relative to the allocation of important districts in Silesia to the Germans were published in Polish papers, and could not be traced to Germans in any way. Assertion has been made that the poles in Upper Silesia became alarmed by these reports, and sought to take over districts that the supreme allied council was alleged to be planning to give to Germany. Advices over the week-end appeared to indicate a cessation of fighting in Upper Silesia, but there was nothing to show that the Poles were withdrawing from regions they occupied during the past two weeks. Newspaper comment here seemed to me more moderate and reflected a disposition to advise Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand to reach an amicable understanding. GARPENTIER ARRIVES FOR DEMPSEY BOUT fBy Associated Press.! NEW YORK, May 16. Georges Carpentier, European heavyweight champion, arrived here today to prepare for his international battle with Jack Dempsey at Jersey City, July 2. The P'rench pugilist with his party was the center of interest when the La Savoie docked. The challenger immediately was surrounded by a delegation of news paper men and photographers. Carpentier appeared to be in excellent con dition. Most of the question asked bim were answered by an interpreter, but occasionally Georges would inject a direct reply. This was the case when he was asked who would win the big fight Without a second's hesitation he replied with a smile, "I." German Papers Pleased by Lloyd George Speech (Ry Associated Press) BERLIN. May 16. German newspapers express pleasure over declarations made on Friday by Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain relative to the situation in Upper Silesia, but they give warning against a German march into Silesia, unless such a movement should be requested by the entente powers. They declare that such an advance would result in war with both, France and Poland. This view is voiced by the Lokal Anreiger, the -Vossische Rundschau, the Volks Zeltung, and Vorwaferts, the Freiheit and other journals.

Any radical change in the operation of the city light plant at this time U discouraged in the report of " Earl L. Carter, assistant chief "engineer, o the state public service commission, in bis report submitted to the commission last Saturday and a report of which was received by Mayor Zimmerman p.nd E. M. Campfleld Monday. The establishment of a spirit of cooperation between all parties concerned in the operation of the plant, and a frankness that would result in all parties getting the inform a tioon they. are entitlled to and should have, is recommended by the engineer. Sees Better Service. Mr. Carter states prospects for much better service from the plant is to be expected in the future, and adds that a great many repairs and improvements that should have been made in the past were not made and now necessitate large expenditures at this time than would have been necessary if the troubles had been taken care of as they developed or if they had been anticipated and remedied before they developed. The report in full follows: Mr. Fred Bates Johnson, Commissioner. Dear Sir: On May 12. 1921 I made a trip to Richmond, Indiana where I visited some members of the city council, city attorney, various officials of the light plant, public utilities committee of the Chamber of Commerce, consulting engineer for the city of Richmond "and various employes in the electric plant. Under date of December 10, 1921 I made a report to you covering the situation in regard to the electric plant in Richmond as I found it early in December of last year. I have not been in Richmond since early in December of last year and after making a general inspection of the electric light plant I find that several things have been done. - . 1. When I visited Richmond in December of last year I found tbat there was divided authority in regard to the management ot the electric utility. I found at that time tbat one man bad charge of the office and its management, and another man had charge

of the plant and its management and apparently at that time there was not the best of co-operation between these parties. I find that at the present time the office and plant are now under the management of one man and that the man directly in charge oi the plant is responsible to the man who has charge of the office. 2. When I was at the plant in De cember I found steam' leaks in the engine room and in the boiler room with great quantities of steam escaping. When I visited the plant May 12. 1921 I found that practically all of these steam leaks have been repaired and at the present time there are comparatively few leaks. 3. My original inspection developed the fact that there was no means of taking or keeping station records. I find now that one corner of the power plant has been partitioned off and an office with decent facilities has been established. 4. Up until the first of the present year practically no records were kept showing the plant operations. At pres ent time I find that a fairly satisfactory system of records are being kept. Such records consisting of engineers daily reports showing supplies consumed such as coal, steam, oil, waste. (Continued on Page Eleven.) - MUST DO BETTER fBy Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 16. "If American railroads cannot do better this year than last, they won't last very long," Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce committee told Julius Kruttscbnitt, chairman of the Southern Pacific board today when the senate's railroad investigation was resumed. The witness agreed. Senator Cummins endeavored to show that falling prices of materials used by railroads was reducing cost but Mr. Kruttschnitt said ho did not have statistics on the subject. Daniel Willard. president of the Baltimore and Ohio was called to the stand when Mr. Kruttscbnitt was excused temporarily. GOVERNMENT WINS SUIT ON TAX RULE fBy A"soclatd Press) WASHINGTON. May 16 The government won today in the supreme court, its contention that- increased value of any capital asset must b considered in a corporation profit when taxes are computed. The court's decision was given in the appeal of La Belle Iron works, from a ruling of the treasury that ore lands purchased for $190,000 in 1904 must be return-i; in the 1917 report at $10,000,000 and .t profits , tax paid on the difference. The opinion today sustained his ruling, o V RAILROAD DROPS. MEN. (Bv Associated Pril VAN WERT, O.. May 16. The Cincinnati Northern railroad has cut 14 men from its payroll. They were in the locomotive department.