Indiana daily times. [volume], September 30, 1920, Home Edition, Page 11, Image 11

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WANT NEW LAWS
ON HOTEL PRICES
Charge Indianapolis ‘Gouges’
Convention Visitors.
The need of a hotel license law !n
the State of Indiana, such as Is In force
In a number of States with large cities
within their borders, has been evidenced
Bgatn by an investigation which the
Better Business Bureau has been con
ducting* into the local hotel situation for
several days.
Such State regulation is needed not
only for the purpose of curbing unfair
practices, such as price raising in times
when rooms are in abnormal demand but
plso for the protection of the good name
of reputable hotel keepers and of Indi
anapolis itself, persons familiar with the
situation point out.
For some time the Better Business Bu
reau has been receiving hints that trav
eling salesmen and other out-of-town
business men who come here frequently
have been spreading broadcast word that
they have been "the victims of unfair
treatment at various hotels.
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT
ECLIPSED ALL “PROFITS."
These reports became serious enough
to receive real consideration during the
national encampment of the G. R„
with the result that officials of the Bet
ter Business Bureau felt that it was time
to investigate.
Os more immediate interest to the busi
ness bouses of the city, was the fact
that in many cities throughout Indiana
school, teachers have been threatening to
refuse to attend the coming annual con
vention of the Indiana State Teacher-.'
Federation because of the abnormal liv
ing expenses which they feared, they
would have to meet.
While some of these criticisms are
Justified in a measure the great majority
are not, G. F. Olwln, secretary manager
of the bureau said he discovered.
"These complaints on the whole are
not Justified,” he said.
SAYS RATES HERE ARB
BELOW THOSE ELSEWHERE.
“The rates of Indianapolis hotels, on
the whole, are a whole lot lower than
those of hotels of similar rating in other
cities.
“This will be verfied by any Indian
apolis business man who has occasion to
go to other cities and stop at good ho
tels."
Investigation of reports of overcharg
ing during the G. A. R. convention has
revealed the fact that hotels here have
one scale of rates for convention weeks
and another in ordinary times.
Since they are called upon to handle
many more people than usual they ar
range their rooms so as to care for as
high as three and four in each during
conventions.
The charge assessed each patron who
doubles, triples or quadruples up with
others during crowded times Is. in most
“ases, at the principal hotels less than
during normal times, but the hotel makes
much more out of the room as a whole.
For "instance, one prominent hotel
charges $3.50 for certain rooms ordi
narily.
During conventions they can get four
persons In these rooms.
The charge, per person, is lowered to
$2.50, but even then the hotel gets $lO
per day, as against $3.50 per day for
the room.
This, the hotel managers insist, is not
profiteering, for they are put to much
extra expense by reason of extra cleaning
and extra help required to handle the
increased number of guests.
Privately, the hotel men feel that it is
nobody's business if they make a little
extra profit out of conventions, pointing
sut that merchants benefit greatly in in
creased business during such times.
However, at a conference with the di
rectors of the Merchants' Association and
officials of the Better Business Bureau
the hotel keepers announoed a scale of
definite prices, as announced vesteTdny.
wht.*li they will charge during the teach
prs*.convention, none of which are con
sidered excessive by other business men.
SOSfK STATES REQUIRE
HOTEL RATES BE POSTED.
Til ■ hotel licensing laws of several
States require that there be posted in
rooms an established scale of rates.
In some States commissions have the
power to revoke the license and close up
hotels which violate any of the numer
ous regulations.
These commissions in most cases work
Just ns the public service commission does
with the utilities, it being the Intent of
.the [law tfcat all fair provision be made
HMfe;ranting the hotel keepers the righr
in :*• pr. ■ - v. u
■t only do the be*. Sr s : :iv
over rates. I>.it ul* > over moral
conditions.
|He Better T* isint-ss Bureau Ims
into tint matter of prices chnr;;-
at the hotel cases on the the..;--
this is the duty of the fair pric
tnd the Federal authori
proprietors of large restaurant-
have noticed the fair
that, beginning Oct. 1,
BHH will reduce prices from 10 to 1.1
H^Bet. t on meats, fruits and vegetables.
City Plans
SNight School Class
SBB Special to The Times.
CITY, I ml.. Sept. 30.—A
school is to be established in Mnrt-
by the Chjmiier of Commerce.
service men _wili be admitted
subjects wl!l be taught
SMB
ENTS.
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LAST FOLK TIMES
i Si RAT KNIGHT
I R: 15 O’clock
Matinee Saturday. 2:15 I
Sauciest .Musicornedy j
■ Little Blue Dsvii
mVith MABEL McCANK £
KSflV' Pock end tile Svelte Imp Chorus I
agiS— Tonight, 50c. SI, *1.50, *2, *2.50. I
Matinee. 50e, St. 51.50. $2. j?
Shafts Now Selling
For Next
Week's Big
Wir.tf? Garden's
Los 1919
Largest Organization
of Mirth-Makers Now
on Tour
f ’rice*j Wednesday Matinee. sl. $1.60.
'rttnrday Mctinee. gi, St.so. *■. g“. 50.
fcighU, $1.09, SIAO, $2.00, $2.50, SS.OO.
3 Charsred ,
With Stealing Coal
I
Three negroes were arrested early to
day by Big Four railroad detectives who
charged them with petit larceny, alleg
ing they had been stealing coal frftm
hte railroad.
Tbe men gave their names as William
Abrad, 24, of 3906 East Twenty-Sixth
street; Jaeolb Alcorn, 32, of 452 West
Seventeenth street, and Ed Dye, 46, of
1506 North Missouri street..
Exchange Club to Hear
Convention Report
At the Exchange Club luncheon at the
Lincoln Hotel tomorrow a report will
be made of the recent convention of
Exchange Clubs at Columbus, Ohio and
an address on "Brendenwood Homes,” by
Montgomery S. Lewis.
Following the luncheon there will be
an eight-minute meeting of the board
of control. *
her husband like a girl of
the harem! Her only solace
■fifivfli** her baby—and the memory
IjplPJ °f a great, pure love.
1 But w ** en f° r the “°ther
I \ woman’s” sake, even her
■ 1 yv- nj, > child was taken away—
fir Come see a romance athrob
By if Vv with all that woman’s heart
has known! Flooded with
n splendor and the spell of
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(X paramount Qicbuz
t
Balance of Glance cf
the Week * Uie Week
flCfiamfta
Dorothy Dalton
“Guilty of Love”
Culvers 1 Comedy
. Fox News Weekly.
AMUSEMENTS.
ENGLISH’S llir
Eves. and Sat. Mat. 60c to $1.50.
BALANCE OF WEEK
Annual T n
srasr
Fe tival With Zalna Curzon
ALL NEXT WEEK ASSSI
The Sweet Musical Comedy,
MAID ° LOVE
Chic Chorus—Broadway Cast.
Orchestra Augmented
Exes., *2.50 to 60c i Sat. Mat., $2.00
to 60c. Popular Matinee Wednesday,
lower Floor. $1.60; balcony, SI.OO.
Seats Today.
J FF MEALY & 10.
THOMPaOH-BiRHIT. 10
Other Entertaining
Features
Dancing In the Lyric Ball Room
Afternoon and Evening
LAND LAW MEETS
J4P OPPOSITION
Agitation Against U. S. Seen-
I in Mikado Land Politics.
! WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Differences
between the United States and Japan over
the proposed discriminatory land law in
California against Japanese are being ag
j gravated by Japanese politics, it was
| authoritatively said today.
| ’ Political considerations arising In the
American presidential campaign are also
tending to make a solution of the prob
lem more difficult, it was Indicated in
; quarters close to the administration.
Agitation against the United States has
been noticed largely from the two oppo
sition political parties in Japan, it was
pointed out.
These parties are the Kenseikai and the
Kokmninto, opposing the Selyukai party,
of which the present Mikado’s govern
ment is made up.
it was exuphasixed by Japanese here,
j however, that beneuth the artificial agi-
MOTION PICTURES.
#WILL ROGERS
and Harrold Lloyd
“SOME PAIR” ALL WEEK
” AMUSEMENTS.
- Cooper’s
BEAUTY REVUE
AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD SHOW
U* u | This Coupon and ten cents with
JTippS, reaches, 3c war tax entitles lady to choice
Comedy and Melody SS ln ~alcon, ** !
I ALL STAR SHOW— ||
The Roly Poly One Iffj* J?
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M. S. DEMAREST & COLLETTE
A Ha* O’ New Tricks CON LIN & GLASS
GREE^DiAN
Her Latest HUGO RIO
One Girl Revue KINOGRAMS & DIGEST TOPICS j
RIALTO
Let’s Go—lt’s Continuous
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SPECIAL PHOTOPLAY
SINS OF THE CHILDREN
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1920.
t .tion there is a real feeling of resent
ment on the part of the people of Japan
because of the California measure.
Vague hints from Toklo that there
may be a break between the two coun
tries over the California lssne were not
credited either by the State Department
here or in responsible Japanese quar
ters.
While Japanese here believe a satis
factory agreement will be reached in the
negotiations between Ambassador Shlre
hara and tbe State Department it was
not thought Japan will take drastic ac
tion against the United States should
the negotiations fall.
Japan believes friendly relations with
the United States- more Important than |
the California Issue, it was said.
CRANBERRY CROP 18 LIGHT.
CARVER, Mass., Sept. 30.—The yield
on some of the cranberry bogs in this
section is destined to be so light this
season that the harvest will fail to pay
expenses, leading growers assert.
With the damp weather which has re
tarded picking and the early frosts the
cost 'of the luscious berry is bound to
go sky-rocketing.
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CONTXNCOrS _
NOW SHOWING
8 VAUDEVILLE A PTS
10 BIG FEATURES
raffles
THE MAN OF MYSTERY
Reduction of Prices
in Ford Products
/ V.
The war is over and war prices must go
Effective at once Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors will be sold
F. O, B. Detroit at the following prices:
* > >
Model T Chassis -.... $360 Model T Touring, with starter * .$5lO
Model T Runabout, without starter.... $395 Coupelet, with demountable runs..... .$745
Model T Touring, without starter $440 Sedan, with demountable rims *5795
Model T Ruinabout, with starter $465 Ton Truck Pneumatic $545
Ford Tractor ...’ $790
#
Thy Ford Motor Company makes this
reduction in face of the fact that they
have on hand immediate orders for one
hundred forty-six thousand and sixty
five cars and tractors.
The company will suffer temporary loss while using up the mate
rial bought at high prices. They are willing to make the sacri
fice in order to bring business back to a going condition as
quickly as possible and maintain the momentum of buying
power of the country.
Henry Ford says:
“The war is over and it is time war prices were over. There Ifr
no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artificial standard
of values. For the best interests of all it is time a real practical
effort was made to bring the business of the country and life of
' the country down to regular pre-war standards.”
We are at your command with regular Ford Efficiency
in Service and eagerness to fill your orders
* Wangelin-Shirp Company A. W. Bowen
459 Virginia Avenue. 945 Ft. Wayne Avenue.
Prospect 360 s Main 6913 "
Carr Auto Sales Company Barber-Warnock Company
5436 E. Washington Street. 819 E. Washington Street.
Irvington 1124 ' Prospect 6977
The Frank Hatfield Cos. Olin Sales Company
535 N. Capitol Avenue. 515 N. Meridian Street. *
Main 4250 # Main 4486 ~ >
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