Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 203, 7 July 1921 — Page 1

ABIUM VOL. XLVI., No. 203 Pa'.Udlum. Est. 1S31. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENINGJULY 7, 1921; SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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DIRECTED TO TAXMEUURE Progress Not Satisfactory Lower House Has Done Nothing Senate Hearings Futile. CONGRESS IS TIMID BV MARK StXLIVAX WASHINGTON, D. C. July 7. The Inquiries that come from the country to congressmen and senators indicate that the subject in which the people are most interested is taxation. Any inquiry as to how much progress has been made on this subject must be met with reply which will be only partially satisfactory to the country. The lower house has done sub stantially nothing about taxation. The ways and means committee has been steadily busy on the tariff. Whether the committee is to be blamed for this depends on whether their decision toj take up the tariff first, rather tha-i taxation, was wise. Having decided to consider the tariff first, the amount of time spent on it by the ways and means committees has been reasonable. Considering that the new bill is a document of approximately 80.000 words, considering its complexities, and considering the new aspects introduced into it b changed conditions, the amount of time devoted to it by the ways and means committee has not been excessive. Members Not Free From now on the ways and means committee is expected to devote itself to framing a new tax measure. Unhappily the members of the committee will not be as free to give all their time to this subject as they were to the tariff bill. Now that the tariff bill is on the Coor of the house much of the time of the more important members of the committees will necessarily be consumed in defensive debate. Under these circumstances the length of time that it will take the ways and means committee to consider the subject of taxation may turn out to be rather extended. In the senate the finance committee has given some attention to taxation. They held seme hearings, but these hearings were devoted chiefly to minute arguments on the part of special interests concerned with remote aspects of the existing law. It is no secret that some important members of the finance committee felt that thej hearings weren't getting very far aai regards fundamentals, and that the; termination of these sessions occurred; in an atmosphere of some disgust. All j in all, in neither the house nor the ; senate has much been done towards really framing a tax measure. j Saiec Tax Delays One fact which accounts for the de-'. lay is a certain amount of strain between those who believe that we j ought to add a sales tax to the ex-j isting measure and those who oppose It. The chief advocate of the sales tar as an nrlriitinn tn thf fvisrirel measure has hpn Senator R-ndril ot ' Utah. He and a few others believe in ; the theory of the sales tas. Even ; more do they believe lu the necessity : of it They think the amount of monev to hp. raised is so ereat that it! cannot be raised under the existing ' law. Burdensome as that is. Changed business conditions will make the

returns under the existing law much . i0Wing the disappearance of the child smaller, and it is asserted that thejan(j after a lively chase into 'Ohio sales tax would be needed as an addi-; learned that Behmar had taken a tion in order to bring in the requisite : 1 faction car from Westville to Dayton, revenue. j fne Dayton police were notified and Those who hold this belief feel that 1 arrested Behmar on his arrival there, the passage of time works in their Behmar was brought back to this favor and that in due courss it will city and placed in jail and the little be realized, even by those who strong-; gjri returned to the home of her aunt, ly oppose tb? sales tax on theory and j The little girl had lived at the Alexprinciple. That the country must;ander home for over a year and was

have tne additional revenue and tnat : given into their custody last Saturday RIGH, July 7. The program of tacthe sales tax is the best way to raise j bv the board of children's guardians. I tics formulated bv K TLadpk fnr tho

it. Undoubtedly up to the present the j According to the story told thei.Third Internationale of Moscow has majority opinion in both the house fheriff Behmar came to the Alexander j been adopted by that organization, and the senate has been opposed to 1 home Thursday evening and stated says the Rosta News agency, the offithe sales tax. j that he had been given permission tojcial Russian Soviet bureau here. Senate Is Timid tcke the child on a vacation by the Those opposing the program, while A good deal of the delay on taxation county board. While Mrs. Alexander agreeing with its general idea, con

is oue to a Kina or paralysis 01 maetiMuii, a. maio in mum eaMiy apt iu fall on men responsible for achieving the impossible. The country wants its taxes reduced. Responsible leaders of congress know that the amount of revenue needed to run the government, in spite of all that can be done in the way of economy will make it substantially impossible to reduce taxation materially. Tbe form of the tax bill can be changed. Parts of it can be clarified and simplified, but the rates of taxation cannot be substantially lowered; the truth is that congress can't do anything about taxation that will be widely popular and the hesitancy to do what must necessarily be unpopular is natural. No Republican leader has yet developed in congress with the personality to announce an unpopular program and go ahead with it firmly and ruthlessly. (Copyright 1921 by the New York Evening Post, Inc.) MOUSE STEALS $26. COLUMBUS. O.. July 7. Clerks in the registry division of the postoffice are searching for a mouse with expensive taste. Recently, Alfred B. McWhorter was short $G in his accounts. He made up tha shortage himself and tried to find out where the money had gone. Soon he missed a $20 bill. McWhorter was in despair, until someone suggested that a mouse might have carried oft the money. A piobe with a stick found a mouse hole .and the ?20 bill, but no trac? of the 6 has been found.

Washington Ancestral Home, England, Re-Dedicated

View of crowd outside Sulgrave Manor House during the dedication ceremony American citizens joined with English subjects recently in the reopening and dedication of Sulgrave Manor House, at Northampton, England, the ancestral home of George Washington.

FiVE INJURED, NONE SERIOUSLY, IN AUTO WRECK WEDNESDAY Four Richmond residents were injured, none seriously, when the closed car in which they were riding, collided with another machine near Union Citv, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The injured were: Mr. ana Airs. bert Nolan, and their two sons, Al bert, age 22, and a small son, James. Mrs. Elizabeth Brannon, Mr. Nolan's sister, of Eaton, who was riding in the car, was also injured. All were taken to the Union City hospital. Word from the hospital Thursday morning was to the effect that none of the occupants of the car was seriously injured, although all sustained bruises. No bones were broken. The accident occurred one mile south of Union City on the Jackson Pike. Mr. Nolan was returning from Union City where he had been visiting a sick friend. As he turned out to allow another car to pass, a machine came from behind, its rear fender struck the Nolan machine, whirling it around in the road. Mr. Nolan is employed at the International Harvester company plant in j this citv. His home is at 119 North Fifteenth street FATHER KIDNAPS CHILD; ARRESTED AT DAYTON AND RETURNED HERE Russell Behmar kidnapped his own daughter, II..;. t.m V,m nf her aunt. Mrs. ' Clyde Alexander, j National Road east, last Thursday

aflernoou ani was arrested as he gotiPeen discussed with President Hard-

I off a Dayton and Western Traction car m -Uayton a coupie 01 nours later, Sheriff Wadman and Prosecutor Beckett were notified immediately folwas caning to veniy tne statement ne miiimu up me vuiiu aiiu Jjai.ru il m a taxi and drove away. HEAT WAVE GRIPS MIDDLE WEST TODAY (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 7. Chicago and much of the middlewest today was still in the grip of a record breaking heat wave with the local weathr bureau announcing no relief in sight. The thermometer here, which registered 82 early this morning, was steadily rising after a sweltering night when thousands sought the beaches and parks which had been opened for sleeping purposes. The heat was held directly responsible for five deaths here yesterday. Dayton Ask Return to Five Cent Car Fare (By Associated Pressi DAYTON, O., July 7. With street car service still completely suspended Daytonians were being hauled to and from work in temporary taxicabs and large 20 passenger busses brought to the city overnight from Toledo and Columbus. Along with the strike has risen a demand for a return to the 5cent fare. Patrons, appealing to the city commission say that if the wage cut to 45 cents an hour, as the companies propose, they should themselves benefit. The commission has unofficially expressed itself in favor of a fare reduction.

DEFER BONUS ACTION IS PLEA OF MELLON IN WARNING LETTER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 7. Congress has been asked to defer action on the soldiers' bonus bill by Secretary Mel lon, who in a letter read in the senate Ai-jiate yesterday issued a warning of the grave danger of an immediate government deficit. The letter was addressed to Senator Frelinhuysen, Republican. New Jersey, in response to a request for a statement as to the financial obligations of the bill, which has already passed the house, would place upon the government. "This is not a time to impose several billion dollars of new liabilities on an already overburdened treasury," Mr. Mellon wrote, adding that the bill would cut the country between a billion and a half and five and a quarter billion dollars. It would, he said 'swell the cost of government and virtually defeat the . administration's program of . retrenchment and economy." It alf would block all refunding operations on the national debt and he added depress further the prices of liberty bonds. Debate in Prospect, The letter was read as the bill was called up in the senate and was characterized in a speech by Senator Underwood, the Democratic leader, as "strong, forceful and to the point." Just what effect it would have was not indicated by leaders but it was said that protracted senate debate on the j bill was in prospect. There was a plan under discussion for an adjournment tonight until next Monday to provide a week-end recess -iin vipw (if the rtcfoat TntiHo "vovaj Ul a. DrODOFal for a virtual art-inurnmcnt fir four weeks. Bonus legislation was said to have ! 1115 jesteraay Dy senator LiOGge. o; .Massachusetts, and Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, the senate and house republican leaders, but the views of the president were not disclosed. LENINE DENIES RUSS SOVIET HOLDS POWER THOUGH IN MINORITY i tended it could not be applicable to their own countries, the agency states but a resolution proposed by Radek, making the program binding on all countries, was adopted. Premier Lenine, according to the agency, spoke in Radek's favor, declaring the fundamental rule of revolutionary struggles was winning over the masses. Up to the present, he said, not a single communist party in Europe had reached The state where it could truly be called the actual leader of the majority of the working classes. Replies to Critics Replying to critics who asserted that the Russian soviet held power although in the minority, Lenine said that in 1919 half of Russia's army of ten million was on the side of the Soviets; otherwise, he declared, the Soviets could not have kept their power two and one-half years. Lenine's big speech to the conference on the internal and external situation of Russia was made Tuesday, but the text, has not yet been received here. An official message from Moscow, however, says his position was sustained, notwithstanding some opposition. M. Bucharin, head of the left wing of the Soviet Central Committee, supported Lenine. Senate Committee Favors Regulating Grain Futures WASHINGTON, July 7. Favorable report on the Capper-Tincher bill to regulate future dealings on grain exchanges was ordered today by the senate agriculture committee by unanimous vote.

U.S. GUNBOAT IS ANCHORED AT TAMPICO Arrives in Mexican Waters as Result of Alarming Reports

Reaching Washington Calles Sees no Hostility. OBREGON SAYS NOTHING (By Associated Press! MEXICO CITY. Julv 7. The United

States gunboat Sacramento, sent to!be total appropriations for the mil-

Mexican waters as a result of alarming reports reaching Washington, arrived at Tampico yesterday and is anchored in the harbor there, it was said in advices received last night from that city. In view of the regulations of international law, which provida that foreign warships can enter the port of rny friendly nation and remain for 24 hours, the Mexican foreign office refused last night to comment upon the arrival of .the Sacramento at Tampico. "The Mexican government," said Elias P. Calles, secretary of the interior and chief of the cabinet, last night "does not see in the dispatch of ves sels to Tampico a show of naval strength on the part of the United States, inasmuch as there is no conflict at present which might cause the hostile presence of those ships." The secretary added he anticipated no naval demonstration by the United i States at any Mexican port. Obregon is Silent President Obregon refused to comment on the situation in the absence of official communication from Washington regarding the sending of war vessels into Mexican waters. The president declared the government did not intend to rescind the recent decree increasing the taxes on oil exported from the country, saying that every barrel of oil taken out of Mexico represented an exhaustion of the natural resources which could not be replaced. He asserted labor conditions in the Tampico district were not as bad as reported, asserting that at present not more than 5,000 men were out of employment. He said the government was aiding them in every way possible. T. COLEMAN DU PONT APPOINTED SENATOR (By Associated Prws') DOVER, Del.. July 7. General T. Coleman DuPont was today appointed United States senator from Delaware, by Governor Denny, to succeed Josiah Walcott, Democrat, who resigned last week to become chancellor of Delaware. The selection of General DuPont. who is Republican national committeeman for Delaware as another Republican to the senate. NEW BRIDGE IS ASKED AT CAMBRIDGE CITY A petition for a new bridge overi MarUndale creek at the east edge of Cambridge City is being circulated in Cambridge City and Jackson township and will be presented to the county commissioners at their meeting next Saturday. It is suggested that the county and traction company combine in building ; the bridge as it is. used by both. The present bridge is in bad condition, residents of Cambridge City state, and is dangerous for any kind of traffic. It would require a 125 foot bridge according to estimates. Howard Horton, county surveyor, looked over the bridge Wednesday, and probably will make a report to the commissioners Saturday. The question of ' the National road being .under the state highway commission j will probably be brought into the con sideration. The petition which was started Wed - nesday had approximately 350 signa tures on it Thursday noon. Mellon Announces Refund of $500,000,000 to Roads (By Associated Vress) WASHINGTON, July 7. Treasury Secretary Mellon announced today that under a provisional refunding arrangement made with the railroad executives the Carriers would receive approximately $500,000,000 in additional advances from the federal government in the next six months. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Hot and mostly fair, excepting for possible local thunderstorms. Tbe weather will continue warm for the next 36 hours and possibly longer. Local thunderstorms may de velop over portions of the county, but no general rams For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Friday; continued warm. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 95 Minimum 63 Today Noon 92 Weather Conditions The weather continues practically the same over most of the United States, excepting over the northwest, where it is getting warmer after a several days' period of cool weather. A small area of cool weather i3 over the far southwest. Temperatures range from 90 to 100 degrees as far north as Ontario, Canada

Expect Annual Appropriations to be Fixed at $4,612,351,752 Naval Fund Bill Still in Conference Stage Steady Shrinkage Shown in Money Expended for Maintenance of Army and Navy Forces

PALLADIOT XEWS BUREAU WASHINGTON. July 7. Appropriations for the United States government for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1922, will total, approximately, $4,612,351,752. The annual naval appropriation bill has not reached the president, still be- ! ing in the conference stage, but it will approximate $414,000,000. Th,e appropriation for the army for the present 1 f ; l Li.t i iv. - a I"81" J"1- uegaa me ur&i ui I this month, amounts to $328,013,529. itary establishment, the army and the navy, will approximate $742,013,529, or less than 25 per cent of the total appropriations for the maintenance of the federal government for the current fiscal year. A United States senator, in address ing the senate recently made the statement that 85 per cent of the federal government's expenditures were to pay tbe cost of wars the country has engaged in or to protect itself against possible future wars. Remarks Misinterpreted. Apparently his remarks have been misinterpreted. Indiana members of congress have received letters from constituents inquiring if it is true that 85 per cent of the federal government's appropriations for the current SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHANGES CONSIDERED, IS REPORT THURSDAY Senior high school students who are to return to the school this fall again will have to learn the way to their rooms. Since the decision of the school board about a month ago, to make changes in the lunch room, machine shop, bench room, library, study hall on the second floor, and several other rooms and departments, work has progressed very rapidly. Completion of all changes, however, probably will take all summer. In addition to these changes, thej school auditorium woodwork is being enameled white, and the entire school interior is to be frescoed. This work has already gotten a good start on the fourth floor. Several changes contemplated, but not definitely decided, it is reported, are: 1 Move Bentley's Office The moving of Prof. Bentley's private office into the room in the old building formerly used by Miss Em-1 ma Bond as a fitting room. The room j used by the sewing department, ad-j joining the fitting room on the west. I would be. under this arrangement, be ' made the reception room to the superintendent's office. It would contain the desks of the four school supervisors. This would cause the room now j used by the superintendent to be used V.. . 1 .. . e 1 : 1 J : j i : -

u iu ourviBwr 01 uuuuiugn ana ni , clty prominent speakers on communassistant. They now occupy room in j -q the office of the vocational depart- i '

ment. Miss Griffin, clerk to the school , board, would, under the proposed plan, j have her desk in the room which ! w.0Ul1 be usod bv tbe balding supervisor. With work well progressed, the bench room, tool room, model kitchen (Continued on Page Thirteen) WILLIAMS FORESEES CHANGE IN SCHOOLS, RESULT OF SURVEY Reorganization of the rural schools system of Indiana as a result of the survey which is to be conducted dur ing the coming year, is predicted by C. O. Williams, Wayne county sperintendent of schools and a member of the commission making the survey. i Tfie present system wnicn prevails in ! Indiana is too local although the tendency now is towards a more uniform system throughout the state, Mr. Williams states. Too great a variance in the number of months of school and courses of study is now in vogue, the local officer believes. With only five and one-half months of school in somu parts of the state and nine in others, tbe great'flexibility of the system i3 shown. First steps in the formation of a system to carry out the survey of the rural schools of the statei as provided in an act of the last state legislature will be taken Thursday afternoon with a meeting at Newcastle of representatives appointed by the county supeiintendent's association of Indiana. Helps Plan Survey C. O. Williams, of Wayne county; O. H. Greist, of Randolph county, and H. B. Roberts, of Henry county, were appointed by the state meeting of su perintendents to devise a system for i ha rrvho rmt rf th snrvev a tp. - j querted by the state commission appointed by Governor McCray after the adjournment of the legislature. An expert to conduct the survey over the state is to be employed by the commission, according to Mr. Williams, but before he can effectively carry out his work it will be necessary to perfect some kind of machinery. The report of the state commission is to be' ready for publication next April, Mr. Williams states, and the work of planning and carrying out the survey will have to be rushed in ori der to meet the state requirements. It is predicted that the report will lead to the adoption of some definite plan for putting the country schools on a more efficient basis in this state, I 1 1 1 wmJIa.. J HI V.

.vii. v uiia.ui- jjirujLi, axiu win ue it is itryui icu max ne ana maue neaaready for presentation at the next ( way in the negotiations that . may legislature. solve the poblems of Britain.

fiscal year are for the army and the navy. As a matter of fact, there never was

a time during the period of our war with Germany when appropriations for purely military requirements equaled 85 per cent of the total appropriations for the federal governments. It is true, however, that the govern ment is required to appropriate hun- j dreds of millions of dollars annually i to meet the cost of former wars, most of which is paid out in pensions, but (Continued on Page Fourteen) SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF MEMORIAL HIGHWAY Making of the National highway into a memorial road in honor of pioneers responsible for the making of the road, and of the soldiers, sailors and marines who served during the World war, was referred to the legislative, insurance and taxation division of the Chamber of Commerce, by the board of directors Wednesday afternoon. This committee will consider whether or not they will recommend to the state legislature the dedicating of the . highway in the honor of those named. In the meantime, however, the Chamber of Commerce has decided to call a, meeting later, at which time representatives from all local organizations be present to take definite steps toward the planting of trees along the highway, as memorials. i The secretary-manager of the organ ization said Thursday that an appeal may be made later to nurserymen to donate trees for the occasion. Arrangements, it is planned, would be made to have a concerted movement for the planting of the trees. Will Boost Trade Approval was voiced by the directors of the meeting of the retailers in the K. of P. building at 8 o'clock Friday night to consider methods for boosting trade during the summer months. It is through the efforts of the trade extension department of the Chamber of Commerce that the meetjDg jS fo be held Consideration of the and means of taking care of the 800 Mich-i igan farmers who have announced that they will tour to this city on their return from an eastern trip, and spend the night of Sunday, Aug. 21, here, will be considered by the conventions and special events division of the Chamber of Commerce. With the expiration of the first six ! months engagement between Secre tary-Manager F. P. Chaffee, and the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the directors Wednesday unanimously voted to retain Mr. Chaffee indefinitely. Mr. Chaffee has consented. . It is possible that a Chamber of Commerce day or session be held during the 1921 Chautauqua. Providing arrangements can be made, the local civil oragnization would bring to this $165,000 BOND ISSUE VOTED DOWN AT EATON EATON, O., July ".By a majority of 150 votes, a $165,000 bond issue for a new city building was defeated at a special election Wednesday. The proposal received a total of 305 votes, while 455 votes were recorded against it. In only ward, the Third, did the proposal carry. A two-thirds vote would have been necessary to carry the proposal. A trifle more than one-third of the total vote of the city was cast. The vote by wards: First, for 87; against 119; Second, 65 for, and 149 against; Third, 96 for; 86 against; fourth, 5. :or; 101 against rf 4 r x Gen. Jan Christian Smuts General Smuts, premier of South Africa, has returned to England following his visit to Ireland, where he conferred with Sinn Fein leaders over proposals to bring peace. As a reprej sentative of the British government !i - - 1L.1 , , J! 1

Seeks Irish Peace

HOUSE BEGINS ITS WORK ON NEW TARIFF

Reading of Lengthy Docu ment is Formal Beginning Democrats File Scathing Minority Report. DEBATE TO LAST WEEK fBy Associated Pres WASHINGTON. July 7. Consideration of the general tariff bill was formally begun today by the house with the actual reading of the 346page document. No discussion marked the opening of what is expected to be the heaviest task of the session. Reading clerks estimated it would take all day to read the bill, on which general debate is to last a full weak. Republican leaders changed their plan to ask for a special rule today covering the time of debate and other details of procedure, postponing the request until tomorrow. Chairman Campbell, of the rules committee, said the special rule would embrace the agreements reached at the party conference last night. Representative Garrett, of Tennesctix Democratic leader . ... n fan r anDemocratg wouM be hcld immediately adjourned today to de- , t fi h the bi,j Fj MVorlty Report : Democralic members of the ways . mOQn nTTimitt(Ml , a mvUv reftrt tnHv in th. hnnsA of renresentatives denounce the administra tion tariff bill as a "conspiracy to benefit a few favorites at the expense of all humanity." "Like every conspiracy it has been hatched in secrecy," the report says, adding: "We record our solemn judgment that this measure is a plan to plunder the people of our own country and to oppress the people of every country for the benefit of a few men who have succeeded in usurping for all practical purposes, the taxing power of this government, using it primarily to enrich themselves, and, secondarily, to finance the political party which tolerates, encourages and facilitates the usurpation." Scathing Attack The report declares the tariff was not an issue in the last campaign and that this is not the time to write a tariff law. They assert that the problems which "confront our people, cripple our Industry, stifle our commerce and perplex an amiable administration have nothing to do with the tariff." Emphasis is laid upon two things: the probable effect of the bill on American commerce and the world industrial situation generally, and upon the substitution of the system of American valuation as a basis for levying tariff duties. Asserting that it is proposed by this bill to "declare a savage commercial war upon the whole human family." the Democratic minority .says it is doubtful "if in the history of political affairs a measure so irredeemably and universally vicious has ever been submitted to the law-making power of a civilized society." Claim Boycott. "Its adoption," the report goes on to say, "will be establishment by the United States of an economic boycott against the civilized world. The countries that fought with us in the late war will be victims of its savagery in exactly the same degree as those who fought against us, while at the same time it will oppress grievously our own people, who would indeed be its chief victims, were it not that nations reduced to extremity of distress through the most destructive war ever waged will suffer still more severely from its operation because all efforts to restore their industrial life to normal conditions will be grievously impeded, if not wholly frustrated," by the drastic restrictions on trade which it inspires." Charging that the bill was prepared outside the ways and means committee, the minority report pays the manner of its making up "cannot be denied." PEACE PROCLAMATION TO BE RECOMMENDED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 7. Some of President Harding's advisors expect to recommend that a peace proclomation be issued to supplement the congressional resolution ending the state of war with Germany and Austria. These advisors are understood to hold that such a proclamation would tend to create a better feeling between the two countries and have a psychological effect at least on the resumption of trade. They are also said to believe that the general importance of the action of the American government would be better emphasized by proclamation. The president is understood, however, to have reached no decision pending receipt of a legal opinion from Attorney General Daugherty. HOT WEATHER THOUGHT "Say, listen young fellow, if people would cut out this line of 'gaff about being hot people wouldn't notice it so much. The most contemptible person I know of is the one who pipes out the trite expression, 'Hot enough to suit you today?' Every time I think of being a little warm I think of the fellow in Butte, Mont, last winter who stooped over to tie his shoe and froze to death, and they had to bury him in a bass drum," said a local sportsman Thursday.