Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 233, 11 August 1921 — Page 1

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HENRY FORD IS POTENTIAL INjWiCS Figure Looms Personality Injects Him into News Every Few Days Moves Commend Him to Public.

CAREER IS DRAMATIC BY MARK SCI.MVAV WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 11 Earring one or two handicaps. Henry Ford would be a serious political po tentiality. His figure is always among the shadows in the back ground of the Democratic party, and the quality of personality which injects him into the news every lew days, usually in a role that commends him to large I groups of the public causes him to have a frequent place in the future speculations of political managers. Of course, not all of the recent publicity about Mr. Ford is founded on facts. The dispatches from various points which represent him as having j made offers for many abandoned war plants, and as intending to use these plants to furnish the public with a large number of commodities at Ford prices, probably represent the hopes of local communities which would like to see these plants start up again rather than any definite action that Mr. Ford has taken. Doubtless a great many things are being offered to Mr. Ford, in these days of forced liquidation, but there is no authentic information that Mr. Ford is accepting them all. Muscle Shoal3 Offer The only war plant that Washington knows Mr. Ford to have made an offer for i3 the government project at Muscle Shoals, Ala. It is a fact that Mr. Ford is in cego tiation for that, although the initiative came not from Mr. Ford but from a government official seeking to salvage something, however little, out of the seventy millions which the govern ment has spent on a project still in complete. Mr. Ford has considered this sug gestion favorably, has made a tenta tive offer, and may go further, Whether he does or not, the wide pub licity given his announced purpose to use the plant, if he gets it. in order to make fertilizer for the farmers at very low prices has helped him as a public figure In the eyes of large groups of voters who have already been favorably impressed by his past performances in the same direction of furnishing standard commodities at low prices. Dramatic Career The picture which the public got of Mr. Ford last winter as being "in a hole financially," as being about to be trapped by Wall Street, as making a dramatic escape from his situation by sheer boldness and resourcefulness, was so likely to commend him to the political sentiment of large sections of the west that it might be suspected of being manufactured publicity if so many w!l informed persons did not! know the degree of truth in it. j The same might be said of the news1 which pictures Mr. Ford as a railroad owner, reducing freight rates so fast that the government machinery for registering the reductions can't keep up with him. Mr. Ford, as the builder and director of industrial plants, is a sheer individual genius. He does It all on a one-man basis. Power of Personality He does it through the power of his own personality in this line. If this method has its obvious advantages it has also its defects. Ford" personal achievements are in contrast with the building up of great institutions which will run regardless of any one presiding genius. In the respects other than his intense and narrow genius for individual management of industries. Ford is a simple and wholly uneducated child. It is his limitations outside his own field that cause him to do things that are absurd, wanton and grossly unfair. In the qualities ordinarily associated with a senator of the United States, Ford is almost wholly lacking. If Ford had come to the senate after his fight with Newberry four years ago, it is a guess what kind of public ficriii-a ha vmilH nut tnHav With equal ease he might have become abturd or might have increased the par- " ticular kind of stature that he has. There will be another senatorial election in Michigan next year. And with the lack of outstanding presidential material in the, Democratic party, Mr. Ford always has a tentative place in the speculations of party leaders. (Copyright, 1921, by the New York Evening Post, Inc.) SEVEN BIG ELECTRIC COMPANIES ANNOUNCE INTENTION TO MERGE INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11 Merger of seven big electric companies under a plan contemplating the future electrification of the greater industrial and agricultural part of Indiana., was announced hero today with the public service commission being asked to appear to approve the proposal, permitting the companies to combine.The companies Joining in the merger operate fn a score of counties and .... . t i j j ....i their total property nuiumss is ued at $18,250,000. ' The new company would be known as the Indiana Electric corporation, in which would be joined the Merchants' Heat and Light company, of "this city, the Indiana railway and Light company, the Elkhart Gas ani Fuel company, the. Valpariso Lighting company, the Wabash Valley Electric company, the Putnam Electric company and the Cuyuga Electric company.

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One Just how the Irish people are enjoy'ing peace pending outcome of negotiations between Irish and English for permanent peace, is officials WORKS BOARD PLANS SYSTEM OF MARKING FOR PARKING SPACES Relief from the congestion cf traffic in the business section of the city is planned by marking spaces for automobiles to park. The board of public works will meet with the police commissioners Monday morning to work out details of the plan. .As outlined Thursday morning by the board of works large white lines will be drawn to provide direction for the placing of machines. On Main and Eighth streets all cars will be obliged to park parallel with the curb. On Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth streets provisions will be made for cars to park ai an angle of 45 degrees from the curb on one side and parallel with the curb on the other. A resolution favoring the paving of South F street from -Eighth to Ninth street, was passed by the board, and the city engineer ordered to prepare to advertise for bids. An investigation looking towards the installation of a city water supply at the pest house is to be made by the board. LEGION POST TO AID DISABLED VETERANS NEEDING MONEY A special meeting of all ex-service men who have claims for compensation pending, will be held in the American Legion club rooms Saturday evening for the purpose of obtaining data on these claims. Announcement of the meeting was made at the regular meeting of Harry Ray post, American Legion, Wednesday even ing. Communications received from the national headquarters at Indianapolis called attention to a "cloan-up" squad of compensation workers which is now touring the state, taking care of claims which have been settled unsatisfactorily. This squad is due to arrive in Richmond soon, and the local post has been asked to get in touch with dis abled veterans with a view to having) everything ready for the caring for them at that time. Must Spread Word Past. Commander George . B. Hunt, addressing .the organization, said: "This is where the legion can be of real service to ex-serviee , men. All the members can help by spreading the word of this Saturday night meeting. Help1 is not confined to legion members, as any man with an honorable discharge i3 entitled to help from us." Discharge papers or any papers relating to compensation which are in their possession should he brought by the men Saturday evening. B. A. Ball was elected treasurer to succeed H. G. Oliver, resigned. Prospects for the legion football and basketball teams were discussed.! Daily Interview Every dar reporter will Interview n prrxon, picked nt random, on what he resrnrri nn the moat tmportnnt anion to bring hark prosperity to the whole country. : "All we have to do for better business," said C. O. Carpenter, of the Richmond Roller Mills, Thursday, "is; to hang on and wait. If we do not: get discouraged too easily and kep going ahead, business soon will bo better. "The milling business already show.? improvement. ' Flour prices are half what they were, and the consuming public is beginning to buy more freely. Ouc costs have been cut some, though still not down to before-the-war costs. Our overhead is still high; ccal, particularly is twice what it was before the war, but it is lower than last year and will be still cheaper as soon as freight rate3 are reduced, as they must be. "It may be hard for a manufacturer or merchant with a large stock and no customers to be very optimistic, but our depression is largely psychological, and if we get into a different attitude we soon will find that business will be better."

.... Over Peace? Picture Answers Question

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Farm Federation is Sponsor For Furniture Industry Quiz

Senate Expected To Adopt Resolution Calling Upon Federal Trade Commission To Investigate Wholesale House Furnishing Trade Follows Vigorous Protest.

rtiLADiui xews b i re ait j wAaniAUTUN, Aug. 11 The sen ate i3 expected to adopt a resolution calling upon the federal trade commission to investigate and report why house furnishing goods reached a higher peak relative to prewar prices than any other class of commodities, and why, since May 1920, when prices of nearly all other commodities began to fall, the price of house furnishing goods continued to increase until the latter part of 1920, and then registered only -a gradual decline. The resolution, which was introduced by Senator Kenyon following a vigorous protest by the.-v&iueriean Farm Bureau federation on prevailing prices for house furnishings, directs tho federal trade commission to "investigate the cause of factory and wholesale price conditions in the principal branches' of the house furnishing goods industry, beginning with January, 1920." Vould Probe Practices . Senator Kenyon. would have the commission particularly to ascertain the organization and interrelations of corporations and firms engaged in the house furnishing industry, and whether there have been and are unfair practices or methods of competition, or restraints of trade, and if so, what effect the same have had on prices. J. R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, asserts that prevailing prices for house furnishing goods average 250 per cent in excess of average prices for PRESIDENT HARDING, AND HERBERT HOOVER LAUD FRIENDS' WORK Indiana Yearly meeting of Friends Thursday received the following message from President Harding extending greetings to the Friends assembled here: "I feel it both a pleasure and duty to extend greetings to the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. Your organization represents a splendid body of citizens that during the war and since has rendered especially useful aid to j a suffering world. "The humanitarian activities of the Friends have been examples to all sects and peoples. I hope your organization may enjoy the utmost measure of that prosperity which it has been so ready to share with all the less fortunate of human kind. (Signed) Warren G. Harding. The" following letter was received from Herbert C. Hoover, secretary of commerce, and himself a Friend: "I am very glad of the opportunity to say a word to Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends for in these times when th,e maintenance of great ideals is essential for the very safety of the world, the stand for peace and goodwill that the Friends have made for centuries and their traditional devotion to. all alleviations of the . miseries of war, are of the most vital consequence. "If we consider the comparatively microscopic numbers of Friends there are in the world, they have exerted a most extraordinary influence. "Yours faithfully," . Herbert Hoover." CHARGE POLICE WITH GAME LAW VIOLATION (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11. Seven members of the Indianapolis police department, including a lieutenant, a sergeant and fire patrolmen, and nine or 10 other persons were arrested last night on charges of. violation of the state game laws when a group of wardens interrupted a seining party at White Lake Creed in Morgan county. Twenty-two persons were in the party, but some escaped, the warden said. M

ing down a main street In Dublin. Quite a change from the scenes of fighting and destruction which recently have been .common.

such commodities prevailing in 1913 He says that the prices for such goods are now in a "class by themselves the highest class." Have Little Success. "We have made," Mr. Howard adds, "some investigation, but with little success thus far, of the causes for the price increases which occurred in (Continued on Page Three) WOMAN WILL SERVE ON ADVISORY BOARD; GONTRAGTSAWARDED Contracts for the building of a nr.v grade and high school at Williamsburg, were let Wednesday night by the advisory board of Greene township. The cost of the new building will bo $58,460 according to the contracts. Application for the permission to Issue bonds to cover the cost of the new building will be made by Enos Veal, trustee, Thursday. George Duke, a member of the board resigned at the meeting, Wednesday end Mrs. Ethel Davis was appointed to the vacancy. She is the first woman in the county to serve on an advisory board. Mrs. Davis is president of the Greene township parentsteachers' association and was recommended by that organization for tho appointment. Gets Building Contract Ed Anderson, of Centerville, was given the contract for the building at $50,000. The R. J. Behringer company af Richmond, was given tit a contract for the heating plant at $3, 345, Stanley Plumbing company for plumbing $2,355, the Electrical service company for wiring at $760. The advisory board of Greene township advertised for bids last April for a new. school house, including an auditorium and gymnasium. These two features were eliminated in the contract at this time with a considerable reduction in bids as the result, tha bid then being $84,000. R. HARDING, FATHER OF PRESIDENT, WEDS HIS OFFICE NURSE fBy Associated Press) MONROE. Mich., Aug. 11. Dr. George T. Harding, 76 years old. father of President Harding, was married here today to Miss Alice Severns, 52, by the Rev. F. T. Knolls, pastor of the Monroe Presbyterian church. Miss Severns has been a nurse in the office of Dr. Harding at Marion for many years. The couple drove here in an automobile, obtained a marriage license and went to the home of Rev. Knolls, where the ceremony was performed. Immediately after the ceremony Dr. Harding and his bride left the city. Their destination was not. known. They were, accompanied here . by a younger couple from Marion. Their names were not revealed.- " " Upon his arrival at the county court house here, Dr. Harding obtained the marriage license and asked to be directed to a Baptist parsonage. As there is no Baptist minister here, he ; was directed to tne Home of Rev. Knolls. Dr. Harding made an ineffectual attempt to withhold announcement of his marriage. He refused to talk with newspaper men and when asked by Rev. Knolls if he was the father of the president-he declined to -answer. BABE GETS 43rd! (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11. "Babe" Ruth knocked out his 43rd home run in the fourth inning of the Yankees game with Philadelphia. Two men I were on base.

PHILIPPINES POST IS GIVEN TO GEiiWOOD Military Leader Authorita tively Stated To Have Been Selected and To Have Expressed Willingness. BARRIERSTREMOVED

fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. MajorGeneral Leonard Wood was authoritatively stated today to have been selected by President Harding for governor-general of the Philippines, . and to have expressed ht3 willingness to accept the post. A bill -designed to remove all doubt of eligibility of General Wood for the governorship was introduced by Chair man v ads worth of the senate military committee, and understood to have been suggested by the . administration. It provides that active army officers shall be eligible for "civil offices of the government in administering its territorial possessions." PENNSY TO EXPLAIN ACTION ON DECISION; GRANTED EXTENSION (Bv Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11 AsPennsylvania railroad of its position on the decision of the United Stat?s railroad labor board that it must hold a new election or snopmen committee was considered today. A brief statement commenting upon the labor board's action in granting a fifteen day extension to the roau to arrange conference with duly authorized representatives of the employes, was isued from the Pennsylvania ofices here late last night. The time limit expired yesterday. After explaining that President Rea upon authority of the board of directors had telegraphed a request for such extension yesterday afternoon. and that a message granting the request had been received in reply from B. W. Hooper, acting chairman of the board, the statement said: "The purpose of this request was to enable the company to take such steps as may be necessary in the interests of all of its employes." A meeting of all classes of employes of the Pennsylvania railroad system has been called for the purpose of considering the decision of the United States labor board ordering the Penn sylvania and System Federation No. 90 to hold a new election of committeemen to draw up new agreements on working schedules. The meeting probably will be held next week. EARLHAM TEACHINGS AGAIN QUESTIONED IN QUAKER MEETING Whether the teachings in the Earlnam college science department are "evolutionary" or "inspirational" .was the question raised in Indiana Yearly meeting Thursday morning by Truman C. Kenworthy, of this city.' Thi3 question was an issue of the yearly meeting last year. At that time a committee was appointed to investigate the teachings, and with the report of that committee Thursday morning, the question was re-opened. Mr. Kenworthy said: "As I see it I believe we have gone over the things which have distrubed us, and we are coming wonderfully near to each other. "Whether it's true or not, we all know there has been uneasiness about the teachings at Earlham college. Methods have not been as Friends would have them. Evolution is taught in the college. They admit that it i3 the basis of the science department. The question is this, do we want evolution or inspiration taught?" Says Question Closed At this point, the clerk, of the meet ing, S. Edgar Nicholson, said: "You are now discussing a question which was discussed last year and the committee appointed has made its report. As far as the committee is concerned the question is now closed. It can only be discussed as new business." It was ruled that the question did not belong in the discussion of the state of the church, set aside for the morning program, and if the matter is again to come before the yearly meeting it must come by request of the proper number of yearly meeting delegates. S. Adelbert Wood, of Fairmount, preceded Mr. Kenworthy by a brief speech in which he repudiated all charges that he was identified with any group or movement in the yearly meeting. "I positively assert that I have refused to be led." Mr. Wood said, "but as I believe the Book to be absolutely reliable, you'll find me present to dispute when any interpretation which throws out part of that Book is offered. As long as propaganda remains In this yearly meeting it will divide us into two parts and will sink Indiana Yearly meeting if not the entire Five Years meeting." Follow Report Both the speech by Mr. Wood and Mr. Kenworthy followed the reading of the report of the committee of five appointed by Indiana Yearly meeting to report on the state of the church. In part this report read: "Friend3 should be careful of the reputation of others. Instances have come to our attention of the circulation of statements which have brought disturbance of mind to certain people, only to find later on that the state(Continued on Page Three)

Husband's Political Ally

Mrs. Henry Curran. Henry Curran of New York Mrs. city is a great aid to her husband in his public career. Henry Curran Is president of Manhattan borough, N. Y. C, and is now being designated as the fusion candidate for the mayoralty of New York city. Mrs. Curran has watched him mount the political ladder since her marriage to him in 1905 and hag been his staunchest supporter. She Is familiar with politics, is a member of several political clubs and was engaged in government work during the war. PURCHASE OF BONDS BY BANK INSURES NEW PLANT TURBINE ;:rJ:?J:-J "r".1s; First National bank virtually were completed Thursday morning whereby the local bank will purchase $125,500 of the city light plant bonds. A. D. Gayle, president of the First National bank, stated that he had sent a communication to the Westinghouse company Thursday morning which would close the deal. Shipment of the 5,000 k.w. turbine ordered for the municipal light plant probably will be made immediately, it was predicted by light plant officials. The Westinghouse company . will take bonds in payment for the turbine and will in turn dispose of them to the bank. Negotiations between the bank and the electrical company were started last week when a representative from the company was in Richmond with the expressed purpose of helping the city place a part of the $171,000 worth of bonds still on its hands. Since that time communica tions have been carried on between the two parties. Iron Out Difficulties Some little hitch in the proceedings was thought to exist Wednesday over the question of accrued interest on the bonds but this has seemingly been ironed out a3 Mr. Gayle expressed confidence that the deal would be completed. The turbine for the local plant was to have been shipped last Monday. It has been held up by the company pending the sale of a sufficient amount of bonds to guarantee to them the original payment of 90 per cent contracted for. The turbine will cost the city $143,000. Superintendent J. P. Dillon, of the light plant, said that all preparations had been made to expedite the Installation of the new equipment. It is expected to have the new unit in operation before early fall. TAX BODY NEARS END OF LABORS ON LAW; SUMMARIZE CHANGE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Practically all the important changes proposed to be made in the 1918 tax laws have been agreed upon tentatively by the majority of the house ways and mean3 committee. Some minor revisions are in contemplation and when a final agreement is had on all the changes, the physical rewriting of the law will be taken up. When they assembled to(Continued on Page Ten) Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Occasional general rains and cooler followed by fair. Mostly cloudy weather with general rains at intervals Thursday afternoon i and night, followed by clearing by I Friday night if not sooner.

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day and in west portion tonight. Temperatures for Yesterday Maximum 3 jiiuiuium Today Noon , weatner conditions The general rains which now cover the central states have reached as far east as central Ohio. Considerably cooler weather over the plain states this morning but it is getting considerably warmer again over British Columbia due to the falling barometric pressure over that region. Temperatures ranged Wednesday from 90 to 95 over whe southwestern states and 104 at Phoenix, and Yuma. Arizona.

QUERIES PUT TO OFFICIALS

RIMARY Many Questions Being Asked of Those in Charge of City Balloting in Richmond on August 23. ANSWERSTUBLISHED The following quesetions are pouring in thick and fast on all officials who are charged with duties in connection with the city primary to be held Aug. 23. 1. Does a voter have to be registered to be entitled to cast a ballot in the primary? 2. Will the Republican and Demo cratic tickets be on the same ballot or on separate ballots? 3. Will the ballots be in the same form as those used in general electionswith a square to the left of the name of each candidate? The answers to the three questions can be correctly and briefly stated as follows: 1. No registration is required for city elections or city primaries in Indiana, except in cities of the frst class. Richmond is a city of the third class. 2. The Republican and Democratic tickets will not be on the same ballot. There will be a Republican ballot and a Democratic ballot. The voter must ask for whichever he wants. 3. The ballots will not be in the same form as those used in general elections. There will be no squares on the left of the names of candidates. Instead, there will be a line on the right of the name of each candidate and the voter will make a cross on the line after the name of each candidate for whom he intends to vote. Rinht tn Vnfn The right to vote in the primary. I provided or course one Is "" Democrat, is determined wholly by the question whether one will be a legal voter in any precinct in Richmond in the city election to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8, for- which the primary is to be held. The registration books for the several precincts will be at the polling places on election day, but their use will be for the general information of the board as to who are legal voters in the precinct, not for the purpose of checking up voters and challenging those whose names do not happen to be included in the registered lists. While any legal voter in a precinct has the right under the law to challenge any individual suspected of not being a legal voter of that precinct, it is assumed that only Republican challengers will operate in the Republican branch of the primary and only Democratic challengers in the Democratic branch. In case an individual who knows himself or herself to be a legal voter is challenged, such person, upon making affidavit that he or fche is a legal voter, will be entitled to vote. The polls will open at 6 o'clock on the morning of primary day and close at 6 o'clock in the evening. All in(Continued on Page Four) CITY BUDGET, 1922, SUBJECT OF SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL A special meeting of city council will be held in the council chambers of the city hall Thursday night to discuss the appropriation ordinance for 1922. The fixed appropriations for the coming year have been prepared by the vaTious departments and turned in to Controller Bescher who will present these to the councilmen. Routine Expenses Only. No special appropriations have been hinted at by the councilmen and appears likely that ordinance for the coming year will be confined largely to the fixed expenditures in connection with the operation of the various departments. . .:-. The question of appropriating $2,500 for a free employment bureau wa3 presented to council at its last meeting and will be discussed with the appropriation ordinance Thursday night. Most of the councilmen were backward in expressing the position on this measure. Mayor Zimmerman i3 said to be opposed to the appropriating of any large sum for the employment bureau. FORMAL INVITATIONS SENT TO 5 NATIONS TO ATTEND PARLEY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. Formal iTtxHtotiTe will Ka cent Irtrlav tf CLrai at Washington, Nov. 11. The text of the invitations will not be available here before late in the o - ijday, it was announced at the state department. The invitations are un72jderstood to be indentical in brief. They will be sent directly to the foreign offices, and copies handed to ths diplomatic representatives of the powers here. Subjects relating to the disarmament negotiations were talked over for an hour today by President Harding and Senator Borah, author of the res olution requesting the executive to call a disarmament conference. The meeting was arranged at the president's request

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