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G.O.P. OFFICIAL
ATTACKS CITY
MANAGERRULE
State Chairman Wasmuth
Brands Plan as Confis
cating Citizens’ Rights.
The opposition of at least a part of
the Republican State organization ha*
been thrown against the attempt of many
Indiana cities to discard their present
form of- government in faror of the city
commission manager system. The stand
of this formidable organization became
known when E. M. Wasmnfh. Republican
State chairman, yesterday Issued a state
ment protesting against the proposed
changes.
Mr. Wasmuth based his opposition on
the theory that the elimination of party
responsibility in cities would take away
from the people their right to rule.
The statement is expected to have a
bearing on the first election on the sub
ject. which will be held in Marion next
Tuesday. Mr. Wasmuth’s stand came
as somewhat of a surprise to the pro
ponents of the new system inasmuch as
the law making possible the changes
was passed by the last Legislature, which
was overwhelmingly Republican.
WILL NOT IMPROVE
CITT GOVERNMENT.
lfr. Wasmuth’s statement was as fol
lows:
“A number of Indiana cities will bold
elections shortly to decide Whether they
will abandon the present system of local
party government and, as State chair
man, I am personally very much opposed
on the merits of the commission and city
manager form of government, to their
establishment. If I honestly thought that
.the establishment of these new systems
of city government would improve local
government, I should favor them and say
so most emphatically. However, * I cm
conscientiously convinced that such is
not the case.
“The most important consideration of
all government is that it must be re
sponsible. A party is merely a group of
Individuals who, by their collective ac
tion, Insure party responsibility and in
which all classes of our citizenship have
their right to be heard and their inter
ests considered. Such is not the case
under the commission or city-manager
forms of government. The people should
always hold for themselves the right to
elect by direct vote their chief executive
on the basis of group responsibility so
that he may be responsible directly to
them, and it is not satisfactory to have
the chief executive responsible to an In
termediary body which would be. in this
Instance, the members of the commis
sion, under either of these plans.
GIVES DEFINITION OF
PARTY RESPONSIBILITY".
“Party responsibility means that all
classes of citizens, regardless of their
views on business, labor, religion and
kindred subjects, may find opportunity
to have their Interests considered and
represented in the composite organiza
tion of a political party, but under
either of these new systems the Indi
viduals In power may consciously or
unconsciously represent one or more of
these factors without representing the
others.
"The result Is that, under either of the
sew systems, we have minority rule with
one. or at least a few of the many In
terests of our complex American life rep
resented in a dominant way.
“It ia my honest opinion and best
Judgment, without regard to the impor
tance of political machinery, that we
may have a much more satisfactory form
of local government, baaed on political
parties, with a deflniate responsibility to
the people and representing all Interests,
than we may have by either of the pro
posed plans which may be controiled by
a minority, which may represent part of
our citizenship to the detriment of the
other interests and which have no fixed
responsibility
PAY ROLL PRUNING
STARTS AT ONCE
Harding Confident Movement
Will Be Approved.
WASHINGTON. May 25—President
Harding returns here from New York to
day confident that his program of prun
ing the Government pay roll Is backed
by popular approvaL
His declaration In New York that ruth
less economy must be enforced regard
less of the chances of offending some
politicians brought such Instantaneous
chorus of approval that he Is expected to
lose little time in applying the knife to
Washington red tape.
Harding's Cabinet is behind him to a
man in this measure which has been the
subject of discussion at several Cabinet
meetings.
The first result of the favorable re
action to hla economy promises Is ex
pected to be a speeding-up of the reor
ganization program now being mapped
out by a special congressional committee
which Is working under the direction of
Waiter F. Brown, Ohio, who Is acting at
personal representative of the President,
63 COMPLETE GRADES.
GREENSBURG, Ind.. May 25.—The
grade schools of this city announced to
day that sixty-three pupils were certified
to the high school this spring. An addi
tion io this list will be made by the St.
Mary’s parochial school within the next
ten days.
“We Are
Very Much
PLEASED”
fa!d anew Sterling customer last week. "Our
Initial sendee of Finished Family Washing
was thoroughly satisfactory.”
/
Sterling Finished Family Washing is taking
. N the washday drudgery out of many an Indi
anapolis home. All the regular family washing
finished complete, ready for use.
20 .
Gents a
POlind Tour entire bundle is charged at the rate
of 20 cents a pound, as long as you have equal
quantities of flat work and wearing apparel;
minimum charge $2. Any additional pounds of
flat work over wearing apparel, 11 cents a
pound; any additional pounds of wearing ap
parel over flat work, 35 cents a pound. Cgll
lißeael 6300 or Automatic 51-348, and we will
give you complete details.
STERLING
LAUNDRY
Deliveries to All Parts of the City
a
Talent for Springtime Festival
' r ~-^F>c£y-i^feiifefiTL^rafcfcJ
"Fairy Pipes,” by girl* from the Greer street community center.
None of the beauty of pageants as given
out of doors by children and directors
of the city recreation department in the
past will be lost in the spring festival
to be given at Caleb Mills Hall Friday
evening because it is being staged in
doors. In fact, R. Walter Jarvis, direc
tor of recreation, and Miss Alice Mes
call, his assistant, state that Just as
beautiful Indoors effects as those ob
tained out of doors are being secured for
the coming pageant by the use of spe
cial background and lighting effects
The pageant, which marks the close
of the winter work in the community
centers and the recreational training
school at.the Lauter Memorial Building,
will consist of chorus and solo singing,
group and solo dance numbers. Girls
from Greer street, Brlghtwood and
Spades Park community centers will do
the dancing and young women from the
recreational school the singing.
Mr. Jarvis and Miss Mescail have gen
eral supervision of ythe festival with
Mrs. Carroll Carr of the training school,
Miss Clara Ledig, director of Greer
Street; Miss Mildred Burkhardt, from
the Lanter Memorial; Miss Ethel Hughes,
director of Spades Park, and Miss
Evelyn Cornell, director of Brlghtwood,
assisting. A rehearsal will be held at the
I.auter Memorial, Market and Greeley
streets, at 6 o’clock tonight, and the final
dress rehearsal at Caleb Mills Hall at
6 o'clock Thursday evening. The chil
dren who have parts are to be trans
ported to and from the rehearsals and
the pageant in motor trucks furnished
by several city departments.
Admission will be free, without tickets
and without reserved seats.
The stage at Caleb Mills Hail Is being
converted into a garden with lattice
backgrounds, interwoven with Imitation
emilax and peach blossoms. Large vases
filled with peach blossoms will flank the
stage. All of the background decorations
and the costumes of the dancers are be
ing made by the children In the com
munity centers. Park department work
men are constructing the scenery.
Dancing Instructions given In the com
munity centers this winter ,has been
broadened from that of last summer, Miss
SUES TO SET
ASIDE DEED
Action Centers on John
Wocher Estate
Suit to set aside a deed to property
said to be worth $25,000 and for an ac
counting from E. Bertha Wocher, ex
ecutrix of the estate of the late John
Wocher, who committed suicide Aug. 21,
1915, was filed yesterday in Federal
Court by Isaac C. Elstron Jr. of Chi
cago.
The complaint charges that prior to
Wocher’s death he and his wife executed
a mortgage to the Inßlanapolis Art As
sociation of Indianapolis on a number of
lots in this city. This mortgage later
was transferred to Henry Lane Wilson
and on Oct. 14, 1919. was ordered sold
on foreclosure proceedings. Elstron then
purchased a two-thirds Interest In the
property for $9,500.
It is charged that the Inventory of
the estate filed by Mrs. Wochfer In which
the value of the estate was given at $47,-
892.25, was excesssive, and that claims
against the estate, exceeding $17,000, were
filed by creditors.
About a year after Mr. Wocher’s death
it is charged that Mrs. Wocher filed a
deed to a portion of the property valued
at $25,000, and that this deed bore the
date of Oct. 4, 1905. It is alleged that
the deed was in reality made imme
diately before the death of Wocher and
was prepared to defeat creditors of the
estate.
The complaint sets up that the pro
ceeds of this property rightfully belong
to the creditors .except that portion al
lowed the widow under Indiana law.
Judge Anderson Is
Expected Home Today
Judge Albert B. Anderson of the fed
eral district court, who was operated
on at the Mayo Hospital, Rochester,
Minn., several Weeks ago for kidney
stone, will return home today. The oper
ation was suceessfnl in every way and
his recovery was even faster than had
been hoped for by bis physicians.
Judge Anderson will* remain at home
for several weeks and will then go to
his summer home at Burt Lake, Mich.,
for the summer. It Is believed that he
will not undertake the active hearing of
cases until September.
Mescail announced.' The results of train
ing in Chalif and interpretative work will
be seen in several new numbers on the
pageant program. It is planned to carry
the advanced work onto the playgrounds
this summer. Instruction has been in
folk dancing almost exclusively hereto
fore.
Features of the pageant will be solo
dances by Miss Martha Doris Michaelis,
Bertha Otte, Thelma Richardson and
Veryl Holt. Miss Charlotte Chance, a
whistling soloist will provide a delight
ful novelty in a number imitating the
birds during the singing of "Down in the
Forest,” by the Recreational Training
School girls.
Miss Helen Bedell, a student at the
Training School, who had a prominent
part in the Shortridge High School play,
"Daddy Long Legs,” a few weeks ago,
will be the pageant announcer.
The program is as follows:
Opening chorus, “Rise Up” and "Morn
ing.” Recreational Training School girls.
Group dance, "Fairy ripen.” Greer
street girls.
Solo dance, "Narcissus.” Veryl Holt.
Solo dance, "Rose Waltz.” Lauter Me
morial girls.
.Group dance, "Fleur-de-Lis,” Greer
street girls.
Solo dance, "Blue Danube,” Bertha Ott.
Song, "Springtime,” Frieda Stelnman
Group dance, “Daffodils," Brlghtwood
girls.
Chorus. “Melody in F,” Recreational
Training School girls.
Solo danre, “Water Nymph,” Thelma
Richardson.
Group dance, "Flower Waltz,” Spades
Park girls.
Group dance* “Will o’ Wisp,” Bright
wood girls.
Chorus, "Down in the Forest,” Recre
ational Training School girls
Group dance, “Mendelssohn's Spring
Song,” Spades Park girls.
Solo dance, interpretative, Veryl Holt.
Group dance, “Bluebird,” Greer street
girls.
Group dance, “Wild Flowers," Spades
Park girls.
Closing chorus, “Springtime," Recrea
tional Training School girls, l
The recreation department urges par
ents particularly to attend in order that
thely may gain an idea of the instruc
tion being giveu to the children.
Gleane*s Hold Rally
At^Loffansport
Special to The Times.
LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 25 —The
Gleaners' rally for the Central Indiana
District opened in the Knights of Colum
bus home here Tuesday, 400 members
and their wifes being in attendance. One
of the big features of the initial session
was the initiation of a class of 100 can
didates.
The address of welcome was delivered
by R. C. Hulls, city attorney while re
sponse was given by Mrs. Emma Cole of
Lansing. Mich ; R. L. Holloway of De
troit, Mich.; supreme secretary of the or
der, was also among the speakers’ of the
afternoon session. L. B Campbell, State
manager, presided at the meeting. A
banquet was the final feature of the eve
ning session.
THE HURST BUILDING
Pennsylvania and Georgia Streets
We have Just completed moving our mammoth warehouse stock Into
our four large retail stores. Every available shelf, bin and floor space
has been stacked up and crowded with hundreds of bargains in all
kinds of good, clean, dependable merchitnd.se at prices that are not
only astonishing, but are In many cases wiry special and below today’s
replacement prices. ,
BARGAIN PRICES
| BIG SALE NOW GOING ON
Dry Goods —Groceries—Shoes Paints, Oils and Varnishes
Furniture—Electrical Goods Bicycles—Sporting Goods
Gents’ Furnishings—Hardware Stoves—Rugs—Woodenware
Auto Tires and Accessories V Tinware, Etc.
A GOOD PLACE TO BUY EVERYTHING
FINAL CLEAN UP SALE TO BE HELD AT
OUR WAREHOUSE, 323 W. 15TH STREET
Odds and ends to be sold at public auction Thursday and Friday after
noon and evening.
Bicycles, farm gates, wagon beds, dinner bells, screen doors, Insecti
cide and many new items In hardware, groceries and auto accessories.
Also a lot of automobile oils and greases, some good lumber, some
scrap lumber and many other Items too numerous to mention. A
large quantity" of Sum-Mo syrup by the case. Also 100 bins 6 ft. by
6 ft. 18 ins. to 36 ins. deep, some adjustable shelves, some stationary—
new, clean and in first-class condition. Several lots good and some
scrap lumber. Many other items, new and slightly used.
Auction sale to be held only at our warehouse, 323 W. Fifteenth street,
Thursday and Friday afternoon and evening. Don’t forget the address
—323 W. Fifteenth street. You are also Invited to visit our big retail
store at Pennsylvania and Georgia streets, and become one of our sat
isfied customers. We are out of the high rent district. We own our
own building. We sell for less because we sell for cash only. We can
save you money on your everyday purchases.
UI!D6T 9 AA Retail Store
STsliiW 1 €X vy. Penn. & Georgia Sts.
FREE DELIVERY ,%!
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1921.
HAVANA SPEAKS
TO HOOSIERLAND
Gov. McCray, at Local Smoker,
Extends Greetings ‘Via
Telephone.’
Governor Warren T. McCray extended
greetings to Havana last night. The Gov
ernor was at the smoker given bv the
Electric Club at the Chamber of Com
merce building, while the recipient of the
greeting was in Havana.
In Its journey the .Governor’s voice
traveled about 2,900 miles by wire on
land and about 115 miles by submarine
cable.
A number of those at the smoker
talked with C. W. Ricker of the Havana
Electric Railway, Light and Power Com
pany and J. T. Andrews of the Cuban
Telephone Company, in Havana.
Among those who talked with Havana,
in addition to Governor McCray, were
Charles F. Coffin, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce; Charles O'Brien Mur
phy, Wallace O. Lee, W. E. Balch and
Frank Wampler.
Governor McCray talked with Mr. An
drews, and after extending the greetings
of Indiana, which Avere suitably ac
knowledged by Mr. Andrews, he touched
upon the matter of the weather In Ha
vana and asked horn hot it was down
there. Mr. Androws said It was quite
pleasant—about 84 degrees, aud in re
sponse to a suggestion by the Governor
that we could beat that up here, replied
tha the had been in Indianapolis and
knew it was a hot place.
One of the interesting features was
the “calling of the roll,” before the
talks with Havana were commenced, dur
ing which men in charge at Chicago,
Beaver Dam, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Har
risburg, Pa.; New York City, Philadel
phia, Richmond, Va .; Selma, N. C.; Den
mark, 8. C.; Jacksonville, Fla.; West
Palm Beach, Key West find then Havana
were called, and responded with a clear
ness that was almost a bit startling to
the average layman who had not yet
realized how distance could thus be put
aside.
The talks with Havana were made pos
sible through the courtesy of Frank
Wampler, vice president and general man
ager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany, who had arranged for a special
long distance wire and 320 sets of re
ceivers so that all the guests at the
smoker could hear all the conversations
that passed between the speakers and Ha
vana. Wilbur Roadhouse of the trans
mission engineering department of the
A. T. ft T. Cos., at Chicago, was engineer
in charge of the demonstration.
Congratulations on the demonstration
were made to Mr. Wampler by Governor
McCray, Mr. Coffin and othersr and Mr.
Wampler introduced Mr. Roadhouse as
the man who was really responsible for
tha demonstration.
! The program committee of the club,
j having charge of the evening’s program,
i was composed of M. K. Foxworthy,
IF YOUR EARS RING
WITH HEAD NOISES
If you htve roaring, buzzing
noises In your cars, are getting
hard of hearing and fear Catarrhal
Deafness, go to your druggist and
get 1 ounce of Parmint (double
strength), and add to it Vi pint °f
hot water and a little granulated
sugar. Take 1 tables.ioonful four
times a day.
This will often bring quick relief
from the distressing head noise*.
Clogged nostrils should open,
breathing becomes easy and the
murua atop dropping Into the
:hroat. It 1* easy to prepare, costs
lttle and Is pleasant to take. Any
one who hes Catarrhal trouble of
th** ears, Is hard of het.rlng or has
bead noises should give this pre
scription a trial. —Advertisement.
chairman; T. N. Wynne and Wallace O.
Lee.
In addition to the long-distance talks,
there were musical numbers on the pro
gram and a demonstration of fire mak
ing by Boy Scouts, the event being won
by Edwin Houseman, of Troop 21,0f the
Broadway M. E. Church. \
SENTENCES NEGRO
IN AUTO CRASH
As Result of Collision Chauf
feur Must Serve Time.
Fred Prince, negro, 359 West Twenty-
Fifth street, a chauffeur, was found
guilty of two charges, assault and battery
and speeding, in city court yesterday
afternoon, Thomas C. Wbalon, Judge pro
tern, fined him SSO and costs and sen
tenced him to ninety days on the Indi
ana State Farm on the assault charge
and fined him $25 and costs on the speed
ing charge.
Prince was arrested March 30 by Lieu
tenant White as e result of an accident
at Illinois street and Fall Creek. Two
men were seriously Injured In the acci -
dent.
According to the testimony in court,
Prince was driving his employer's ma
chine north on Illinois street, and Mar
tin Lloyd, “city,” was driving west on
Fall Creek boulevard with Theodore
Walker, 350 Grace street* formerly a mo
torcycle policeman. Prince's machine
struck Lloyd's machine and the force of
the high-power car knocked it about
thirty feet. Lloyd suffered a broken hip
bone and Walker received a broken rib
and several bruises. Prince was unin
jured. Witnesses testified that Prince
was driving his machine at a high rate
of speed, possibly thirty-five miles an
hour, when the accident occurred. Both
machines were badly damaged.
HONOR RULES UERITAOE.
KOKOMO, Ind., May 25—That the
name of the Goyer family for honor may
be preserved, John R. Goyer left the
inheritance of his son, Walter Goyer, 1n
trust for ten years, that his debts might
be paid. Mr. Goyer's family was wiped
out several months ago when the farm
home burned, his children and wife dy
ing from the effects gif that happening,
and Mr. Goyer ‘himself nearly lost his
life. Mr. Goyer became Involved finan
cially and was compelled to take the
benefit of the bankrupt law, a proceeding
distasteful to his father, who stipulates
that the Goyer famjly name must he
maintained.
Three
Motors
to a
Mile of
Road
2457
JAYHAWKERS SAY
WHEAT CROP FINE
Deny Large Amount Grain Is
Destroyed.
TOPEKA, Kan., May 25.—Kansas is
still optimistic about its wheat crop.
Wheat growers of the Jayhawker State
declare they are used to having a “total
crop failure” at this time of the year,
but harvest a bumper crop in June and
“July.
Grain quotations advanced sharply on
the Chicago Board of Trade the last few
days due to reports of a drought in
Kansas and Nebraska.
The wheat crop was still looking good
In the State today, J. C. Mohler, secre
tary of the department of agriculture,
announced, although he said considerable
damage had been done in a few of the
smaller wheat producing counties.
Mohler denied the report circulated on
! leading markets that five million acres
of Kansas wheat had “gone to pieces.”
Indications today were that showers
would fall over the State within the next
twenty-four hours and relieve the situa
tion, according to the weather bureau
here.
Weak, Thin Folks
. Need Phosphate
Says Dr. Nolle
Dr. Frederic S. Kolle, the New York
author of medical text boobs, whose
opinions are greatly valued, writes:
“When the nerve tissue begins to
lose its vitality, woman begins to lose
her youth and vtvaciousness. She be
comes irritable, moody and despondent.
It would be a godsend If more weak,
thin, nervous men and women were
aware of the efficacy of Bitro-Phos
phate.”
Thousands of thin, run-down people
whose nervous energy is nearly ex
hausted ars turning to Bltro-Pbosphat?
as dispensed by Haags Drug Stores and
other leading druggists, because It helps
to re vitalize the nerves, increase bodily
weight and bring back energy and
mental keenness.
CAUTION: Although Bitro-Phosphte
Is u excellent *ld In relieving weak*
nervons conditions. It* nse is not advised
unless Increased weight Is desired.—Ad
vertise tnent.
Culprit Clips Hair
From School Girl, 15
Genevtve Grim, 15, a student at Short
ridge High School, was robbed of her
long braid of brown hair Monday after
noon while on North Pennsylvania
street, on -her way home from high
school. She Is the granddaughter of Mr.
Almost as Easy asVishing
lour breakfast cup is ready
without trouble or delay when
Instant Postum
is the table beverage.
To a teaspoonful of
Instant Postum in the cup,
add hot T’/ater, stir, and you.
have a satisfying, comfort
ing drink,delightful in taste—
and with no harm to nerves or
digestion. As many cups as
you like, without regret.
“Thete’s a. Reasoxi’
Your grocer sells Postum in two forms,
Postum Cereal Un. packages)
made by boiling fall 20 minutes.
Instant Postum (in tins)
made instantly in the cup y y adding hotwatex
Hade by Postum Cereal Caine,Battle CreekHich.
✓
IN the United States there are three
motor vehicles for every mile of high
way, and this includes all our unim
proved roads.
The Federal Eureau of Public Roads
estimates that the vehicle use of the,
public roads in the agricultural districts
has increased 500 percent during the past
5 years; also that 15 percent of the main
highway traffic is carried by motor truck.
Roads built even 10 years ago were not
intended to withstand the impact of mod
ern motor vehicles passing in a steady
stream. The modem road must be built
to withstand this tremendous shock.
For years the Standard Oil Company
(Indiana) has been producing material
which has been used to provide many
miles of road throughout the Middle
West with cushion tops of -paving
asphalt protecting the highways of
town and country against the mighty
shocks of modern traffic.
Good roads are a prime essential to
national prosperity. The Standard Oil
Company (Indiana) in creating a road
covering of proved quality, is playing a
vital part in the development of the
Middle West
Stanolind Paving Asphalt is refined
from petroleum by distillation with
steam agitation. It is an asphaltic cement
of the very highest quality. It was
developed to conform to the needs of the
modern highway as determined by high
way engineers working under actual road
conditions in the Middle West
In working out problems of highway
construction to meet modern conditions,
the Company is prepared to cooperate
with any corporation, or engineer, en
gaged in road construction.
In the production of Stanolind Paving
Asphalt, the Standard Oil Company
(Indiana) has added one more useful prod
uct to the long list of its achievements.
Stanolind Paving Asphalt in itself is
essentially useful, and by reason of its
manufacture as a by-product of petro
leum, the Company has been able to
hold down the cost of manufacture of
lied Crown Gasoline, Perfection Kero
sene, Polarine Lubricating Oils, and
other major products, without disturb
ing their high quality, thereby exerting
a deterrent influence on increasing the
selling price of these products, which ac
crues directly to your individual benefit
Standard Oil Company
(Indiana )
910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago. EL
and Mrs. Louis Grim, 2734 North Station
street, with whom she lives.
Miss Grim had left the school and had
started home, walking south on Penn/ -
sylvania street, when she stopped to look
In a store window. Some woman spoke
to her saying, “You have got your hair
cut crooked,” and Miss Grim reaching
back discovered her haid had been cut
off. The girl's hair, was long- and hel
grandfather said she wore it in a braid