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; c-v. ... i ; rSTrTrm WIS I .1 I C THIRTY-SECOND YEAB, INC 40. SubscrlDtlon Rat. CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JUiY'2, 1021. 12 Per Yw In A4vae. O0PT TITTTrkT TH VI -wr- an-n-M. - . . "Sli INDEPENDENT IN ALL TIimGS. IUTRXL IN NONE. Wr. EntZL? TZL? ta - ' , - Omc t CflM, tOwof. mutt AM f MQ Q, Mil Heads of the Most Important and Life : Sustaining Industry in the United - : States in Session Here Colonel B. A. Eckhart and Other Men of National Reputation Make Interesting Addresses Before Convention Thi3 has been Millers' week in Chi cago. The Western Corn Millers and the Corn Millers Federation met Tuesday and Wednesday at the Congress Hotel to discuss features of the corn milling industry. A three-day massmeeting of the wheat millers under the auspices of the Millers' National Federation was held at the Drake Hotel beginning Wednesday. The first day was con ference day, with a statement of A. L. Goetzmann, president of the Mil lers' National Federation, and the presentation of a new plan by B. A. Eckhart of Chicago. Secretary of Ag riculture H. C. Wallace gave the mil lers a talk on the United States gov ernment and the American wheat crop in the afternoon. The future status of the grain exchange was told ' of by H. L. Hargis, president of the Kansas City Board of Trade. Thursday was devoted largely to export discussions, the speakers being W. L. Sparks, president, of the - Mil lers' Export Association. Charles Cranston Bovey, export manager for Washburn-Crosby Company; R. F. Bausmann, Dr. Alfred P. Dennis, Uni ted States commercial attache; H. Lane, advertising manager for , Sa United States shipping board; A. G. King of Norfolk, Va., and It. A. Bar ber of the export department of the millers federation. George M. Reynolds, chairman of the Continental and Commercial Na tional Bank, entertained the millers at their dinner at the Drake Hotel, June 30 on "The World's Financial Situation," and Rear Admiral Ben son told of "The American Merchant Marine." 5,000 WOMEN TO SEE BIG FIGHT Three to Represent Roosevelt Family at Carpentier Dempsey Battle. 700 SCRIBES TO COYER BOUT Representatives of Reform Bureau Make Three Unsuccessful Attempts -in New Jersey Courts to Pre vent Contest July 2. New York, June SO. Five thousand women will be sprinkled among the spectators of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight at Jersey City Saturday, it was learned. Many of them r will have choice seats in boxes at the ringside. Three of the women will represent the Roosevelt family. Tex Rickards announced that reservations had been made for Theodore Roosevelt, assist ant secretary of the navy, and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Tex Rickard said that the big fight would start promptly at 3 p. m. Satur day. New Effort to Be Made. Representatives of the International Reform bureau made three unsuccess ful attempts in the courts of New Jer sey to prevent the Dempsey-Carpentier bout. Faffing In three separate courts in their efforts to obtain an injunction in civil proceedings, counsel for the bu reau decided to appear before Prosecu tor Garvan in Jersey City and present a complaint charging the promoter of the' match, the principals " and their managers with criminal conspiracy to conduct a prize fight in violation of theJewJersey la WsThe prosecutor FOUNDED 1889 will T5e asked to present Ehe complaint to the Hudson county grand jury, now in session, and to seek the indictment of those concerned. Failing in this, Herbert C. Gilson, attorney for the bureau, Intimates that further court action will be taken. Called "Blue Sunday', Move. Seagirt, N. J., June 30. Gov. Ed wards, in a statement, said individuals and organizations who were endeavor ing to prevent the Dempsey-Carpentier fight "are in a class with those who advocate the 'blue Sunday' and whose professional activities are a matter of deep concern to liberty loving Ameri cans." Probably more newspaper corre spondents than were employed on the battlefields of France during the World war will be on hand to report on the Dempsey-Carpentier fistic encounter at Jersey City Saturday. , Ike Dorgan, who has charge of the press arrangements, said there would be 700 newspaper men at the ringside, 200 of whom would be dictating to telegraph operators while the bout was in progress and the remainder would be encircling the area directly in front of the holders of $50 tickets. Wants Fight Stopped. Jersey City, June 30. Rev. H. B. Wyatt, representing the Jersey City ministerial league, . appeared before Prosecutor Garwin with a bill of com plaint, asking him to stop the Dempsey-Carpentier fight here Saturday. Here s a real good' man. Ernest H. Lyons, one of the three real estate experts being investigated with two building experts by the city council, offered in a letter to Mayor Thompson and the council to pay back any portion of his fees that the council considers unwarranted. He said he has received $577,426.41 since 1920 and the city still owes him $60,917.78. He added he accomplished in two years what ordinarily would require five years and to do so had to keep a staff of assistants. His net profit amounted to $395,000, or at the rate, he computed, of $80,000 a year for five years. He said he could have . collected $800,000 from the city if he had charged regular rates. Following quo warranto proceedings against the Checker Taxi Company, instituted by the attorney general and now pending before; Judge Hopkins, the company will completely reorgan ize its business, according to an an nouncement made today by the at torney general's office. The statement says: "As a result of quo warranto pro ceedings instituted by the attorney general against the Checker Taxi Company and pending before Judge Hopkins, this company will be com pelled to completely reorganize its business. The ownership of taxicabs charged to have been in the drivers will now be absolutely in the com pany, the drivers being merely em ployes, and qualifying under the work men's compensation law of Illinois. A complete appraisement of the cabs is being made, and steps necessary to remove all evidence of ownership in the drivers are being taken. Mort gages on the cabs will be assumed by the company. "The capital stock of the corpora tion will be increased, and will be issued without any restrictions as tc negotiability. Until, the requirements of the attorney general have been com pletely satisfied, the case will be held in abeyance by Judge Hopkins. Spe cial Assistant Attorney Generals George T. Buckingham and Matthew Mills are in charge of the litigation." A suit to collect $3,500,000 from the Chicago Surface lines for their use of the city's streets since Jan. 31, 1919, was filed in the Municipal Court by Corporation Counsel Ettelson. The amount sought by the city represents the 55 per cent of net profits the sur face lines are required in their fran chises to give to the city. Checks for $1,004,362, the amount claimed by the city to be due from the traction companies for the year, end ing Jan. 31, 1920, and for $1,401,356 due for theyear ending Jan. 31, 1921, were tendered the city by the surface lines last April. The city comptroller, on the advice of the corporation counsel, refused to accept the money without a stipulation which the trac tion companies refused to make, that their acceptance by the city would be construed as a recognition of the companies' right to charge more than 5-cent fares. The Municipal Court action was taken as a means of collecting the money as compensation for use of the streets without committing the city on the matter of rates of fare. Seaplane service from the Edgewa ter Beach Hotel to the new boulevard link bridge at a mile a minute was inaugurated Tuesday. The plane, 150 horsepower, a Curtiss Seaqull, was brought from Waukegan. It is owned and will be operated by Walter La Parle. The trip to the loop will cost, single face, $15; two persons, $25, and three for $35. Emergency trips to nearby lakes will be made. Eleven thousand five hundred flats and apartments are vacant in Chicago. You've got to hand it to the Repub licans. They have red blood in their veins. President Harding has started to kick Federal Democratic office holders out of their jobs. He has started with Frank J. Walsh, "naval officer" at Chicago. More, power to his foot. if We notice that General Le Roy T. Steward, who rendered such good ser vice as commander of a portion of the home guard during the war and who was loaned to the city to act as Chief of Police during Busse's administra tion, is still holding down a job in the post office. The Wrigley Clocks will be in op eration July 4. The clocks will be lighted at night by searchlights and will be electrically operated. They occupy two stories in the tower, the twenty-fifth and twenty sixth. Very little attention is paid to West Park Board President Wiehe's order by truck and other motor driv ers. This-order compelling drivers to stop at all boulevards is a good one and shoujfi be enforced strictly. The aldermen have an awful gall. They refused a raise of pay to every one else and boosted their own. It declined to allow increases in pay for policemen, firemen, clerks and stenographers, but it voted a secre tary at $1,500 a year for each of the . -4 - 1 i - 1 V ' 4 ' - v- . ' - ;.'4 ";. ..'x.' fc: . , ! ' v . v -v -v - ' C- ;W i , r- . - vN - 1 - ; . 'i - - v- r7 ;5:- h -V v V , , s : ' I - . - i ri ' COLONEL d. A. ECKHART. Merchant, Miller and Leading Financier whose plan presented at the Millers' National Convntion was able and timely. thirty-two aldermen who are to serve until 1923 at $3,500 a year, while their thirty-five colleagues who were elected lastSpring will, collect $5,000. It is reported the thirty-two will pocket the extra money without employing a'sec- retary so that their pay will equal that of their associates. . Plans for expenditure of $300,000 in improving boulevards were an nounced by Christian F. Wiehe, presi dent of West Park Commissioners. Boulevards to be improved include Austin a v., from Roosevelt rd. to W. North av.; Humboldt blvd., from W. North av. to Palmer sq.; Kedzie ar., from Logan sq. to Palmer sq.; Logan Square blvd., from N. Western av. to Logan blvd. ; and Oakley blvd., from Chicago av. to W. North av. Lights are to be placed along Oak ley blvd. and lawns and trees provided. LAJ Her iPamous rilled Aldermen Returning from Inspections in Other Cities Pronounce Chicago Fire Lads the Finest of All Chicago has the best Fire Depart ment in America. Members of the City Council wit nessed some wonderful tests of its efficiency during the week. The tests were made before Alder men Richert, Wallace, Woodhull, Clark Kostner, who were accompanied by Major James Miles, head of the Council Finance Committee's effici ency staff. Most of the aldermen had just com pleted a tour of inspection of the de partments of New York, Detroit, To ronto, Canada, Philadelphia, Cleve land, and Columbus, O., so they knew a good thing when they saw it. "Had I not lost good money betting that the Chicago department could not better some of the speed perform ances we saw in the east, I would not believe the speed records possible," one member of the committee said. In an eastern, city the committee saw a company of eight men slide down poles from their second story bunks, start their motor driven appar atus, drive it across the station threshold, place a ladder against their own station and have the eight men on the station roof in three minutes and two seconds. John F. Cullerton, business mana- Fire Department the Best and Most Efficient in the United States ager of the Chicago department, told the committee the time for the "stunt" could be cut in half by the average Chicago engine company. He backed his assertion with $100. En gine company No. 78, with headquar ters at Waveland avenue and Clark street, was selected for the trial. Without a warning that the test was to be made, it duplicated the eastern company's performance in fifty-six seconds. The Chicago public has a chance to show its appreciation of its firemen because at present the energies of the department, when not fighting fires, is bent toward raising a $100,000 re serve fund for the Firemen's Mutual Aid and Benefit Association, which provides for widows and dependents of deceased firemen. The fund is being raised through the sale of tickets for a series of ball games to be played between the Chi cago and New York department teams on August 10 and 12. Practically every bank in the loop has contributed to the Mutual Aid and Benefit Association of the fire depart ment, John Cullerton, president of the association and manager of properties of the department, announced. Checks were received in his office to day from the Continental & Commer cial National Bank, the Fort Dear born National Bank, the Standard Trust & Savings Bank, the State Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Montreal, Swift & Co. and J. Ogden Armour. HARDING OPENS BUDGET PARLEY Promises New Era of Economy in Expenditures of Pub lic Funds. IS NATION'S GREATEST NEED President Flays Extravagance, Declar ing That Public Debt Is Menace Dawes and Other High Gov ernment Officials Present. Washington, June SO. President Harding pledged his administration to a new era of economy and efficiency in opening a first budget conference of cabinet and other high officers of the government He told his auditors there was no menace in the . world to day like the tendency of extravagant public expenditures. President Harding was accompanied to the budget conference by Attorney General Daugherty and George B. Christian, the executive's secretary. Vice President Coolidge arrived a few minutes before, the President Dawes Tells Policy. The President presided. Charles G. Dawes, the new budget director, out lined the policies of his office and said It was the purpose of the new govern ment agency "to give the President an opportunity to become, in fact as he has been in theory, the head of the business administration of the United States government." Mr. Harding addressed the several hundred bureau heads as "fellow work ers," and outlined in a short address the purposes he hoped would be at tained through the budget system. T do not know," said the President, "that there hasever been a meeting like this in the history of the govern ment of the United States." I am very glad to come before you and stand sponsor for this meeting. The pres ent administration of the federal gov ernment is committed to a period of economy and efficiency In government. This statement is not made with any thought of criticizing what has gone before. It Is made In a new realiza tion of the necessity of driving at the loose, ' unscientific" expenditures "of government. "There Is not a menace In the world today like the growing public indebt edness and mounting public expendi tures. There has seemingly grown up a conviction that public treasuries are inexhaustible. We want to reverse this. Congress has provided for a bu reau " of the budget, and It has been my privilege and my responsibility to choose the director of the budget. "After a conference with him it was decided that the way 1 begin was to look to those who are In fact respon sible for government economy and ef ficiency. Sometimes4 we oveilook those who really do things in the world. In the public service there are tens of thousands who are giving their best of whom the -public never knows. Depends on Basic Principles. "And so today with the heads of the various departments of the govern ment I have asked you to assemble to present to you the new director of the budget and to say to you that every resolution, every commitment of the administration is to join with you and to have you join with us In Inaugurat ing a new era, of efficiency and econ omy in the United States." '"The permanent success of the bud get system In the United States," Mr. Dawes said, "depends upon certain basic principles which at Its inception must be so firmly established both as to concept and rules of action that they never hereafter will be ques tioned. , "The budget bureau must be Impar tial, impersonal and nonpolitical. "The director of the budget In the matter of governmental business ad ministration has no responsibility un der the laws save in the administra tion of his own bureau. He simply is an adviser of the President and of congress in the matter of correcting business administration. "The director of the budget, in gath ering information for the use of the President, acts for the President and his calls upon chiefs and bureaus and other administrative officers for pur poses of consultation or information takes precedence over the cabinet head of the department, or any head of an independent organization. "The budget representative in each department being appointed by the cabinet head will present to the di rector the views of the cabinet head, upon the wisdom of conclusions drawn by the director of the budget, for the use of the chief executive and con gress, but as in the case of bureau chiefs and other officers, the call of the director of the .budget for their presence and advice takes precedence over the cabinet head." The City council enacted five ordi nances Tuesday in an effort to pre vent repetition of war between drivers of rival taxicab companies. They provide: All cabs must file an indemnify ing bond of $10,000 or liability insur ance with the vehicle commission to protect passengers agains-t acci dents ; Neither drivers nor cars may carry concealed or deadly weapons; Cabs must have a permit before using public cab stands and no com pany or garage may employ drivers or helpers who have been convicted of a felony within two years. Judge David M. Brothers has been elected chief justice of the Circuit Court by his fellow members of that bench. He succeeds Judge Oscar M. Torrison. Judge Francis S. Wilson was elected acting chief justice to succeed Judge Frank. Johnston, Jr. FOUNDED 1880