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Publication of Budget
Big Step Forward, but
Leaves Trap for Unwary
For citizens who take pride enough in
Indianapolis to consider now and then
how its municipal affairs are being run
by the present city administration, there
is food for abundant thought in the an
nual budget, published in the abbrevi
ated form of an appropriation ordinance,
proposed for 1921. *
The city council will hold a public
hearing upon the proposed budget and
tax levy at the city hall, at 7:30 o’clock
on the evening of Friday, Sept. 3. at
which time any taxpayer has the right
to ask questions or make his views
known.
Robert E. Tracy, director of the bureau
of municipal research of the Chamber
of Commerce, is urging each business
club of the city to send a five-man com
mittee to the public hearing.
The bureau is interested in the budget
because this year it embodies some of
the recommendations made after the sur
rey of Indianapolis governmental affairs
conducted under the auspices bu
reau three years ago.
This is the first time a budget, or even
8. condensed form of one, has ever been
officially published in Indianapolis.
Citizens would have kuown no more
About how the Jewett administration
proposes to spend the various funds un
der its supervision in 1921 than ever had
not a new law made publication in two
newspapers compulsory.
As a result taxpayers who are gen
uinely interested in what the Jewett
forces Intend to do with $1,500,000 more
money, than they asked for last year will
not have to hire a private detective and
B corps of lawyers to get figures out of
officials before the city council takes
Action.
The publication, as made early this
week by the city controller and heads
of other departments whose finances are
independent of the general city, is not
Ell that might be desired in the way of
real Information to the taxpayers, al
though It is better than the oldv method
of pushing things through without giv
ing the public more than a cursory
glimpse of what is going on.
The official publication gives the figures
only of the most general Items, not go
ing into such interesting details as ts
how much of a deficit the city expects'
to have to make up in the operation of
the garbage reduction plant, which Mayor
Jewett predicted several months ago
would pay for itself in five years.
calculated to wear
DOWN ENTHUSIASM.
To get hold of such highly colorful
figures as this one has to call repeatedly
at various offices, finally to learn that
they may be obtained from only one
of them and then to find the responsible
official who might permit examination
his records out and not expected to
ref*rn until morning.
A few experiences like this wear down
the eager desire to learn the truth in
most citizens, with the result that so
far the general public has been con
cerned in years gone by city officials,
and most other officials, for that matter
have done just about as they pleased
In financial matters.
The vast majority of taxpayers know
little of what the figures in a budget
stand for, much less how they can be
twisted and turned and manipulated to
suit the purpose of political office hold
ers.
Asa service to citizens who may
Want to attend the public hearing fin
the budget and tax levy The Times
presents in this article comparisons ot
the amounts asked for in various funds
for 1921 with the amounts asked to
run on this year.
There are plenty of opportunities for
finding things to ask the councilmen
and city officials about In the budget.
One that might be very properly pro
pounded is:
“Why is it that it is necessary to
ask for *48,83(5 more for lttt than in
1920 with which to pay salaries and
maintenance of the ash, street clean
ing and garbage hauling departments
when the board of public health is
asking *5465.27 less than last jear
with which to run the City hos
pital?’’
Tt is not likely that one could elicit a
direct and real answer to this query
from anybody in the Jewett administra
tion, since such an explanation would
necessarily involve the admission that
the sfreet cleaning, ash and garbage
hauling departments, under the personal
direction of Tommy Riley of the board
of works, bold many soft berths for po
litical workers picked with a view not
to their ability to administer the af
fairs of these departments cheaply and
adequately, but rather in consideration
of the number of votes they can hold true
to the Jewett machine.
FACT NOT GENERALLY
ADMITTED AT CITY HALL.
This is something nobody in the city
hall is in the habit of frankly admitting
Picked for political reasons?
No, the Jewett henchmen cry in hor
ror, forgetting perhaps, that the Inter
rogator may know about several such
circumstantial little incidents as the one
involving a certain official In the voting
of repeaters in a negro preelnrt. In the
election in which Charles W. Jewett was
ostensibly named mayor.
Well, anyway, whether the administra
tion will or will not admit that it has
the wrong men hauling ashes and gar
bage, the fact remains as follows:
The budget compiled last fall shows
that a total of #322,494 was needed
this year to pay salaries and main
tenanre In the street cleuning, ash
and garbage hauling departments,
while the budget for next year calls
for #371.33(1 for the same work.
Contrasted with this increase of “young
fortune” scope Is what the hoard of pub
lic health and charities proposes to do
at the City hospital.
The budget for this year called for
$527,435.27 for the operation of the hos
pital, while for next year only $322,270
Is asked.
How the hospital authorities hope to
batter down the high cost of living so
as to live on less than this year's income
is a question the wide world would like
to have answered and an accomplishment
■yhlch few would lament.
One factor in the answer may lie in
LIBERTY SIX
STlie Liberty is really a different ear,
because it is thoroughly line in every
part and detail of the WHOLE car.
We invite you to examine and ride in
the Liberty.
DISTRIBUTORS OF LIBERTY AND COLE MOTOR CARS.
418-424 NORTH CAPITOL AVENUE. INDIANAPOLIS.
these figures: Where $99,713.60 was ap
propriated for provisions for the hospi
tal last year only $75,000 is asked for this
year.
TWO POSSIBLE
INTERPRETATIONS.
Either the hospital has found out where
to buy food cheaper or patients are not
going to be fed so well next year.
Time and the number of letters sim
ilar to those received by The Times from
starving county jail patients, which
Plight be written by City hospital pa
tients next year, alone will tell.
Before leaving the hospital figures it is
well also to point out that where $lB,-
174.20 was appropriated for drugs for
this year, $12,0u0 is asked for next year.
Medicine will either come down in
price or amount.
Some important and higher appropria
tions asked for in the new budget are
compared with the figures for last year
in the following tabulation: *
DEPARTMENT"OF FINANCE.
1921. 1920.
i Salaries, mayor’s office.s 11,780 $ 11,720
! Salaries, city clerk’s of
fice 8,500 6,000
; Salaries, city council and
employes 5,920 5,800
Expenses, council inves
tigations 500
Salaries controller’s of
fice 16,960 15,220
Special city judges 400 3<K)
Memorial day expenses.. 3l)0 235
Primary election, regis
tration and election
expenses 60,000
Temporary loan and in
terest 639,000
STREET COMMISSIONER’S DEPART
MENT.
1921 1920.
Office force sainries.... 12,020 11,510
Office' department equip
ment and supply 40S 340
Salaries and wages un-
I improved street de
partment 75,341 55,173
Equipment and supplies,
unimproved street de
partment 16,884 10,523
Sprinkling department
salaries ' 3,201 1,848
Sprlnlfling department
equipment and supply 68.000 55,449
Sewer department sala
ries 31,182 24,464
Sewer department equip
ment and supply 8,526 3,807
Carpenter dapartment
salaries 25,285 17,372
Carpenter department.
equipment and supply. 12,570 9,434
Weed cutting depart
ment salaries 2.580 2,304
Weed cutting depart
ment equipment and
supply 72.50 53.58
Asphalt repair depart
ment salaries 60,572 47,788
Brick and block street
department salaries.. 9,020 7,552
Brick and block street
department equipment
and supplies 14,266 11,116
Walk and curb depart
ment salaries 5,098 5,112
City yard department
salaries 10,97,8 9.766
City yard department
equipment and sup
plies 20.264 12.212
Asphalt plant depart
ment salaries 15.0M7 13,564
Asphalt plant depart
ment equipment and
supplies 36.105 30.700
DEPARTMENT OF PI BI.IC SAFETY.
1921. 1620.
Board of safety office
salaries $ 12.164 $ 11.424
Safety office materials
and supplies 1.650 1,500
Safety office contrac
tural service 6.222 6,655
Safety office new equip
ment 300
Building depa rtme nt.
material and supplies. 2,338 1.650
j East market salaries.... 14,120 12.620
East market materials... 900 M)0
East market contrac
turnl service 2,500 2,000
East market land, build
ing and structures.... 1,000
(Last year $2,000 was
appropriated for re
pair to market build
ings. there being no
fund in this year's •
budget, which exactly
corresponds.)
Electrical depar t tu e n t,
salaries 53,376
Electrical depart men t,
materials and supplies • 15,006
Electrical depart men t,
contractu ral service .. CO
Electrical depart in eti t,
new equipment 26,224
(The electrical depurt-,
ment was not pro-'
vided for in last year's
budget, its work be
ing done under an
other de partm en t.
hence there are no '
exact lignres for this
year corres ponding
with the estimates for
next year.
Fire department salaries 879,149 611.610
Fire department equip
ment 27.310 9.630
(Because lire and police
department funds last
year included part of
the funds this year
under tile electrical de
pnrtment, there is no
fair and accurate basis
in the advertised bud
get for a comparison
| of the amounts the fire *
| and police departments
ask for contractual
! service and material
I and supplies.)
S Police department sal
aries 906,353 709,068
j Police department equip
ment 17,140 9.120
Weights and measures
department, salaries . 8,400 7,200
Weights and measures
department, equipment
and supplies 1,186 307
BOARD OF HEALTH.
1921. 1920.
Health office salaries and
maintenance $113,200 $ 98,536
CITY HOSPITAL.
1921. 1920.
Drugs 12.000 18.174
Engine room 22,000 16.351
Fuel 31.000 28.706
Garage supplies 12.000 17,929
■Household supplies .... 25,000 26,175
■ Incidentals 8,000 7,427
Laundry supplies .’ 4,000 3,809
Nurses’ salaries and sup
plies 20,000 16.757
Provisions 75,000 99.713
Repairs to buildings.... 4,000 3,833
Salaries 85,000 74,592
Surgical supplies 8.000 5,251
X-ray 1,500 472
Total City hospital 322,270 327.435
Tuberculosis find 30,126 55,000
School health fund 30,128 55,000
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
1921. 1920.
Judgments, compromises
and costs 10,000 5,000
Compensation injured
city employes 3,500 2,500
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
PURCHASE.
1921. 1920.
! Printing, stationery,
j postage, material, sup
: plies, miscellaneous ex
pense 2,460 2,000
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC W’ORKS.
1921. 1920.
Salaries, assessment bu
reau $ 10,200 $ 8,800
Office expense, assess
ment bureau 1,225 1,100
Salaries, custodian city
hall and employes .... 19.440 16,540
City hall maintenance... 11,085 10,730
Salaries, Tomlinson hall
' custodian and em
ployes 4,740 3,900
Maintenance, Tomlinson
ball 5,211 2,600
Salaries, board of works
and office force 14.200 13,500
Blank books, printing
and advertising 6,000 5,000
Fire insurance on public
buildings 2,500 1,500
Water rental ...'. 170,000 166,400
Salaries, ashes removal
and street cleaning ... 206.130
Maintenance of equip
-1 and supplies, street
cleaning and removal
of ashes 95,940
Salaries, garbage col
lection 43,000
Maintenance garbage col
lection 28,260
(Comparison of the
four items above with
1920 figures is diffi
cult, for the reason
that In 1920 appropria
tion ordinance expense
of collection of ashes and
garbageand street clean
| ing was grouped In one
1 fund, as was the main
tenance expense for all
these departments. The
appropriation for sal
aries for “ashes, sweep
ings, garbage, removal
of.” in 1920 was $245,234,
while maintenance of
the departments spend
ing this sum cost
$77,260.)
Salaries, comfort station
employes 3,120 2,880
Maintenance municipal
garage, including pur
chase and repair ot
automobiles 85,000 66,600
Salaries municipal ga
rage 27,700 15,760
CITY CIVIL ENGINEER.
1921. 1920. j
Office salaries $ 50.600 $ 41,640
Office maintenance 2,500 1,800
City civil engineer main
tenance account 940 800
Electric, gas and vapor
lights 225,735 186.685
i BOARD SANITARY COMMISSION Kits.
1921 1920
Total interest on bonds
and temporary loans. .$110,900 $112,0.50
Sewage disposal loading
station 6,640
Sewage disposal mainte
nance and salaries .... 88,250
(Since the sewage dis
posal plant has not been
in operation this year
i there is no basis for com
j paring the sewage dis
! posal expense figures).
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, j
1621 1920 ‘
Administration and office $14,720 $13,500:
Assessment bureau 3,42<> 3,000
Engineering 12.000 9,660
Horticulture 7.20< 7,080
I Foremen 8.222 7.320
! Custodians 22,350 20.550
General Maintenance ... 204,880 ]68,5.50
; Supplies and equipment 84.950 07,294
RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
1921 1920 |
Administration and office $8,290 SO,OOO
Const ruction and muin-
J tenanee 14,108 8.308
r I nlr action, matrons,
j guards, etc 48,500 31,690
j Winter work 6,300 ids
I Apparatus for play
grounds 11,909 9,190
; Materials, supplies, etc.. 1.4(H) 1.000
•M 1 s c ellaneouw • mainte
nance . .P. 17.825 12,01*8
i Additional life guards
for swimming p 0015... 0.400
Training school for in
structors 1,414 1* 1
(The two preceding
items are for work which
has not been
by the recreation depart
ment heretofore!.
Total recreation depart
ment estimate 114.782 68.191
Arkansas Governor
Greeted by Hoosiers
Special to The Times,
j SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Aug. 26. -Gov.
| Charles H. Brough, Arkansas, opened the
j democratic campaign in Scott county on
, Wednesday evening, when an enthustas- 1
tic audience greeted him at the court
house.
Tile audience was composed of men j
and women, democrats and republicans,
and ail shades of political faith.
Gov. Brough defended the league of
! nations and said the present industrial
I unrest is due to the fact that the United
i -States has not ratified the league cov- j
enant and maintained Its Just place as
tbo moral lender of the world.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,1920.
GOV. COX’S TWO
TALKS IN STATE
INSPIRE FAITH
(Continued From Page One.)
a splendid sight to see men and women
go together to the meetings for a definite
purpose—-to become better acquainted
with the campaign issues as presented
by Gov. Cox.
GOVERNOR GAINS
INTEREST WITH EASE.
The ease with which the governor ob
! tains the undivided interest of his hear
| era is one of the most astonishing ele
i ments of his meetings,
j “And there is a little thing which may
. ( interest you voters,” said Gov. Cox in a
!, sort of Impersonal wny.
j' “I was asked to speak in the great au
ditorium at the Ohio state fair grounds
during the fair.
i "I accepted, and it was planned to bave
| both candidates of the two leading par
i ties speak, but the senatorial oligarchy
asked the republican nominee on what he
was going to talk.
“lie said he was going to speak on
the great moral and political questions of
the campaign, but the oligarchy said
there would be no political questions dis
cussed at the fair grounds.
“I offered to speak first so Senator
i Harding could answer me and it was
| then proposed when I finished speaking
that a phonograph record of one of Sen
ator Harding's speeches was to be
brought in."
The Evansville audience broke into
such a gale of laughter that proceedings
I were held up for several seconds.
I “I bring my message to you and I do
not ask you to come to my front porch,”
' said Gov. Cox.
COMES IN CLOSE
PERSONAL TOUCH.
In that way Gov. Cox takes every
member of his audience into his con
-1 fldence and even went to the extent last
night to slate that he did not consider
it' Insulting for members of his audience
to rise' to their feet and ask him face
to face any question.
Those are but a few of the things
which give Gov. Cox that close and
very personal touch with those who
hear him.
“I feel Just like I have had a pri
vate talk with the governor," said a
man after hearing the governor at
Princeton yesterday.
That is the secret of it all.
The democratic nominee Is "Jimmy”
Cox to all those with whom he comes in
contact.
The voters of Imlluna have indicated
by turning out In numbers that they de
sire to hear at first hand the leaders of
both parties discuss the league of nations.
Gov. Cox la discussing the league first
in his talks on this present tour and
he calls It the "greatest moral question."
■'Shortly after my nomination at San
Francisco the question was raised by
some people how I stood on the league
of nations,” said the governor.
“Every boy and girl of school age and
every man and woman now knows where
I stand on the league of nations."
SEPARATE PEACE W I Til
GERMANY DISHONEST.
Continuing, lie said: ‘Every service
boy would regard a separate peace with
Germany as a perfectly dishonest trans
action.
“Believe this, the man who promises to
make a separate peace with Germany wiil
never have a • hance to make it."
The Prince ton audience received that
statement with much approval.
Gov. Cox called upon the voters of In
diana to finish up the work so nobly
done by the soldiers Hnd asked them “to
leave Mr. Watson at home arci send Tag
gart to the senate.”
Continuing he said: "The league of na
tions is functioning now, but Russia,
Germany. Turkey, Mexico, the I'ntfed
States and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
are on the outside.
“When the league Is finally completed
I am In favor of admitting Germany, and
even Turkey, when she has gone through
a complete sanitary reorganizing.”
HAYS LEAGUE WILL
Itl SI LT IN DISARMING.
“We not only want to make a better
civilisation than it was yesterday, but
we want to tie up all the great na
tlons together In an effort to make war
Improbable,
“We do not want to starve Germany
and Turkey, but we want the greatest
prosperity that the governments can give
to the people.
“I give you tnv pledge not a single
American soldier will leave our shores
without your consent," s ild the governor.
The governor contended that the league
of nations will cause “the nations to lay
their pistols down on the table and stop
the carrying of concealed weapona.”
Gov. Cqx, at Princeton, took occasion
to speak In the interest of Dr. ('arleton
B. McCulloch, democratic nominee for
governor, who made a short address be
fore the presidential candidate spoke.
“I have lieen sincerely Impressed with
the ability and the seriousness of Dr.
McCulloch, ttie democratic nominee for
governor, and he has dismissed with me
the rural school s* stem for iudiana, said
the governor.
Gov. Cox discussed at length the mod
ern rural school system which is being
used in Ohio.
"You can't keep the people on the farm
unless you give them the opportunities of
! the city,” said thp governor.
He pointed out that the people can be
' given opportunities of the city by build
j ing good roads and by a modern educa
-1 tional system.
Gov. Cox pleaded with the farmers
i ‘‘to make out of farming a business,”
| unji to operate as individual groups, by
, having group granaries, where the grain
| can be stored and not sold directly
| from the field.
! He stated he was in favor of a fed
j eral coal storage act, and declared that
I this would be one way of lowering
prices.
| “My quarrel is not with the rank and
j file of the republican party, but with
! the leaders who have stolen your prl
: mady machinery,” said Cox.
“You here in ludiana had absolutely
• nothing to do with nominating the re
i publican nominee, but Senator Watson
saw that it was made pleasing to the
senatorial oligarchy," he said.
• HOOSIERS WELCOME
; ytsit from nominee.
Gov. Cox, in his closing remarks at
i Princeton, said :
“If, by any chance, the front porch
‘ embargo is lifted and the policies of the
United States senate are explained, I
urge you to hear the nominee on the
other side.
“This is not a campaign between par
ties, but it is a question whether we
; have war or peace, and whether you
want the world to remain in armament
or enjoy International peace.”
Indiana Toters appear to welcome a
discussion of the league of nations in’
their own towns instead of visiting a
front porch at Marion, O.
The enormous crowds at Princeton and
Evansville prove that Indiana is willing
to listen to the presidential nominees.
Newspaper men from all parts of the
country admitted they were interested in
the way Indiana women attended the
meetings and especially the way they
welcomed a discussion of tho league of
nations.
It was stated at Evansville that the
audience that attended the Cox meeting
was much larger than Gen. Wood's meet
ing, which was held prior to the spring
primary.
Got. Cox Is scheduled to return to
Indiana later on In the campaign, speak
ing at Indianapolis and Terre Haute.
DR. MTULLOCH MAKES
GOOD IMPRESSION
By Staff Correspondent.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 26.—South
ern Indiana was not too absorbed In Gov.
Cox yesterday to forget others who are
candidates, for a very hearty and sin
cere welcome was given Dr. Carleton Mc-
Culloch of Indianapolis, democratic
nominee for governor.
Dr. McCulloch made a brief address
at Princeton, and about a thirty-minute
talk preceding Gov. Cox's address at
Evansville.
McCulloch was applauded every time
he attacked the Goodrich tax legislation,
and was cheered when he demanded the
return of all home rule functions to the
cities and towns.
He declared that Warren McCray, the
republican nominee for the governor
ship, belongs to the same “outfit” as
Goodrich does.
He contended that the taxpayers had
to pay about $30,000 for a special session
“to correct the mistakes of Goodrlch
lsm.”
Dr. McCulloch maintained thst the sc
tlons of Got. Goodrich in calling a
special session to “validate” the hori
zontal Increases, after the supreme court
had declared the increases Illegal, re
sults In “subordinating the Judiciary to
the chief executive of the state.”
Announcement was made In Princeton
that Dr McCulloch will return to south- '
ern Indiana taler on In the campaign
to discuss state Issues.
CHAR*.ED WITH HTABBIIN'G SON.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind . Aug 26—The
trial of Joseph Crabtree, charged with
stabbing fils step-son, Everett Nelson,
with a pen knife, has been set In city
court for Sept. 1. He has been released
under bond of ss(>o.
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• i
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Our service department
was swamped.
The “stroke of Nine”
? Half-Price Sale took us by
* storm.
Therefore, excuse us—we /
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Veterans Are to Be
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& y jJ
✓ J. I. HOLCOMB.
Due to the advanced age of the veter
ans of the Civil war who will come here
next month for the annual national en
campment of the G. A. K., no elaborate
entertalnnpmt is being planned by the
committee iii charge, of which J. 1. llol
com bis chairman.
However, no effort will he spared to
make the old veterans comfortable.
According to preliminary plans, the
old veterans probably will be taken' on
an automobile trip around the city, end
| Ing at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.
Mr. Holcomb has pointed out that hun
dreds of automobiles will be needed If
the veterans are entertained properly.
4 STERN NOTES
SENT TO POLES
TO EASE UP WAR
(Continued From Page One.)
' *
don even before expiration of the time
limit set in the Balfour note.
Kameneff was credited with saying
that his departure would be equivalent
to a declaration of war against Great
' Britain.
—s
ITALY SEEKING
RUSS POWWOW
PAIUS, Aug. 26.—Italy has sent a note
to the Italian ambassador at Washington
i for transmission to Secretary of State
■ Colby, asking the opening of relations
with sorlef Russia, according to an
Agence radio dispatch from I.ugano
today.
The opening of relations with Russia
would be tantamount to recognition of
the soviet government at Moscow.
In his recent note to Italy, President
Wilson refused to recognize the soviet.
FOCH SEES WRECK
OF SOVIET ARMY
PARIS. Aug. 26 The military power
of soviet Russia apparently has cot- .
lapsed, nccordlng to Marshal Foch.
"We may expect sensational results
from the outcome of the Russo-Polish
fighting,” declared Marshal Foch today.
“The bolshevik army appears to have
been broken up completely. However,
the finale waa foreseen.”
COLBY SIGNS;
SUFFRAGE NOW
AN ACTUALITY
(Continued From rage One.)
opponents could put In our wny, women
have won the fight to an equal voice
in the affairs of this government.
“Unceasing vigilance has been neces
sary at every point in the suffrage fight
and never more so than during the last
week.
“Unwilling to accept the mandate of
the congress of the United States, and
the legislatures of thirty-six states, our
opponents have attempted by every sort
of legal subtertuge to render null and
void the decision- of representatives of
78.000,000 people.
"Their attempts have been unsuccess
ful and the fight is now over.
WOMAN'S PARTY WILL
NOT RELAX VIGILANCE.
"Thp woman's party will not relax its
vigilance, however, until it is satisfied
tlmt no further attempt would be made
to wrest from the women of the United
Stutes the political equality which they
have gon.”
Miss Paul will leave for New York
today to call a meeting of the executive
committee of the national woman's party
to decide the date for the party conven
tion, when its future policy will be de
cided.
Suffrage leaders asked Secretary Colby
to repeat the signature of the proclama
tion for the camera and he stated that
he might so later.
The proclamation of the nineteenth
amendment having been issued, the
amendment will nqw be deposited in the
state department vaults with the consti
tution of the United States.
SAYS SECRETARY’S
ACT FULL OF PERIL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Declaring
the action of Secretary of State Colby
in promulgating ratification of the suf
frage amendment as full of peril and
a menace to the peace of the nation,
Hannis Taylor, author of “The Oiigin
and Growth of the American Constitu
tion," today gave the opinion that the
presidential diction in November, which
ever candidtae wins, might be set aside
'Bk4l legal because of the votes cast by
women.
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WILL CITE WORK
OF CONSERVATION
Special Exhibit Planned for
State Fair.
Announcement was made today by offi
cials of the state department of conser
vation that an exhibit representing the
five main divisions of the department
will be made ci the state fair.
Work of preparing the display is under
the supervision of Frank N. Wallace,
state entomologist, and the exhibit will
be so arranged as to give a comprehen
sive idea of the character of the work
this department is doing.
The division of entomology will show
a hundred cr so mounted insects that
prey on the farmers’ fruit and cereal
crops, together with speciments of their
ravages and the best known methods of
control and eradication.
In the geological division will be sam
ples of oil-bearing shales, materials for
the manufacture of sement, clay* used in
tbe ceramic industry, kaolin for a dozen
manufacturing enterprises. et cetera,
while in the forestry division tbe ex
hibit will consist of the various woods
grown in the state.
Indiana once was nationally known for
the superiority of its hardwoods.
Today the state is nearly denuded of
first-class virgin timber.
Land erasion, washed and barren hill
sides, unfertile soil and no protection ot
the headwaters of streams resulting in
lack of control over devastating floods
have followed in the wake of the van
ishing timber.
This exhibit will endeavor to impres*
the importance of a constructive forestry
policy to Insure a future timber supply.
The division of fish and game will ex
hibit baby fish propagated at the four
state hatcheries and of which nearly
three-quarters of a million were planted
this season to restock streams and lakes
in the state.
There also will be young quail,
pheasants, wild turkeys, Canada • wild
geese, skunk, ’possum, muskrat, etc.,
raised at the state game experiment sta
tion in Montgomery county.
The display of the division of lands
and waters will demonstrate the need of
keep ng our streams open and free of
pollution and protecting water levels to
insure an adequate water supply for the
future.
The need of state parks will be shown
as recreational centers and playgrounds,
and it will be further demonstrated that
state-owned parks are paying financial
investments.
Competent persons will be in charge to
explain in detail and give information de
sired from each of the divisions.