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INDIANAFOLIS, INDIANA.
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Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351.
MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos.
Advertising offices } N - ew y or t Boston. Payne. Burns A- Smith, Inc.
• SOME o? the members of the Senate appear to bo pleased only with
the prospect of a perpetual state of war with Germany.
CONGRESS apparently can not devise sufficient mean3 to spend tlio
publlo money during the day, so It is planning night sessions.
ll’ the national Administration would call a tax reduction conference
and then do something about It there would be no need for au unemploy
ment conference.
THE MINERS are to be complimented on not following the lead of
persona who deliberately court jail and prison sentences-in order to assume
the role of martyr3.
CAPTAIN Clara Burnside rises to remark that dance halls need regu
lating, and we had thought all the time that one of the principal purposes
of the woman’s police department was to regulate them!
IT IS A SAFE bet that some of the corner loafers and lounge lizards
haven’t enough energy to march half as far as the boys in blue did yester
day, and still they talk about "steps lacking firmness.”
Mr. Barry*s Candidacy
"With the filing of a petition by Charles L. Barry for re-election to the
school board there Is chance that an expression of public opinion on the
controversy over our school system will be obtained at the November
election.
Mr. Barry has been, throughout the most of his present term on the
board, the willing tool of the coterie of obstructionists who are responsible
for the increased use of portable school buildings in Indianapolis. He has
been the spokesman for the crowd who insisted that no more school build
ings be erected until they had obtained control of the school system and
he has never failed to do the bidding of the newspaper which for so mrny
years did not know who owned it,
Opposed to Mr. Barry there are the three members of the school board
who have been subjected to every possible abuse and harassment because
they refusedto allow these outside Interests to interfere with a program
of school building that was comprehensive enough eventually to meet the
needs of the children of this city.
The crowd of obstructionists for whom Mr. Barry has been spokesman
are loud In their protestations that they represent the "people of Indian
apolis.”
The vote which Mr. Barry obtains in the coming election will demon
strate just who these "people” fire.
Above the Law?
It must be evident to the people of Indiana by this time that the au
thorities of the Indiana Medical College propose to keep up their open
defiance of the State law by conducting experimental operations on dogs.
It also must be apparent that the college authorities are not particularly
concerned as to whether the dogs they obtain for their illegal operations
are friendless strays or valued pets.
W. B. Goss discovered the pet dog of a Martinsville family in the
death kennels at the college and no explanation was given him of its pres
ence there. He also found approximately twenty animals there awaiting
death on the opc.sting table at the hands of men who believe themselves
superior to the stzu.tes made by the State.
This is certainly a'condition of affairs that requires attention from the
proper authorities. An institution largely maintained by the State is en
gaged in a violation of the laws of the State. Surreptitiously, its pro
curers prey upon the pets of the citizens of the State. Behind barred doors
they conduct "operations” that are repulsive both to laymen and the best
surgeons of the community.
When confronted with the evidence of their law violations they peek,
through effrontery and bluff, to create the impression that they are grossly
maligned, that indisputable evidence is “exaggeration.”
Pending before the city council at the present time is an ordinance
designed to declare a nuisance such places as the college maintains for its
illegal and wholly unnecessary operations on dogs. The only public op
position to this ordinance is that of a newspaper which declares in its .de
fense that such matters should be left to the medical school without inter
ference by mere public officials.
If there is no reason why the medical college should obey the State law
covering the mutilation of dumb animals, is there any reason why it should
respect laws designed to safeguard human life? *
The Public Dance
Parents who have lured into a false sense of security by much un
warranted boasting of the efficiency of our 'women police might do well
to reflect on the complete failure of the department to control conditions
at public dances which was disclosed by the narrow” escape from death
of Mrs. Rose Goetz.
This young woman went to a public dance at Thirtieth and Illinois
streets, where she Joined a party of six who spent the night Joy-rldlng In
auto, from which she was taken unconscious as a result of acute
aloWiolic poison.
Investigation discloses that this public dance was attended by a 16-
y ear-oVi girl, who was one of the party of joy-riders.
Thev dance was supervised by a policewoman. A regular permit was
issued fob it. The records disclose that on this particular night there
were seven public dances and the captain of the women’s police depart
ment says they were sixteen women policemen available for supervision
of dances.
But the dance was not properly supervised and A. L. Taggart, head
of the board of indicates his lack of belief In dance supervision
when he says he favors elimination of them.
Without intending to discredit the work which has been done by the
policewomen of Indianapolis, one may point out that it is folly to deceive
this community into the belief that the department is a protection against
immorality originating with the public dance.
The facts are that supervision of public dance halls by the women
police is more nearly protection of immorality than a preventive.
The Truck Man's Troubles
The recent arrest of a large number of truck owners and drivers in
Indianapolis on charges of operating trucks without licenses has served
to call public attention to the stand of the truckmen in a manner that
perhaps nothing else would have done.
The truckmen have failed to obey the mandate of the State which re
quires them to register their trucks and pay a fee, which fee goes into the
State highway funds for use on State highways.
The truckmen contend that they operate only in Indianapolis and do
not profit by reason of the improvement of State highways, that they are
taxed because of their ownership of the trucks and again taxed by the
city, which also licenses them. They assert a willingness to pay a special
tax levied by the city if the money derived therefrom is used in the
maintenance of the city streets over which they operate. They profess a
willingness to-register their trucks with the State in order that they may
be properly identified, but they violently oppose paying a special license
tax to the State for the improvement of highways in which they are not
concerned.
‘ Litigation has been under w'av over the State vehicle tax for some time
afld a test case is now pending before ihe Supreme Court. In the mean
while the local State authorities have begun punishing the owners and
drivers who have not paid the State license fees.
In theory, the truckmen are opposing a law which they declare to he
unjust, and in their opposition to it they are openly defying the State of
Indiana. Asa result, considerable of the sympathy which might otherwise
attach to their assertions of injustice is lost.
; But whether the attitude of the truck men ls proper or not, there cer
tainly is some basis for their objection to the present State laws which
tax them for a purpose that does not benefit them and prevent them from
contributing to a purpose which would benefit them.
It w ould appear that the State, in enforcing its present statute is doing
only a partial duty—the adjustment of the special license tax
phase which ought to receive proper consideration. ■Hk
PAT HARRISON
ANALYZES NOTE
OF PRESIDENT
“Monumental Accomplish
ments’ Revived by Demo
cratic Senator.
B.vUUC'HARI) LINTHICCM.
WASHINGTON, g e pt. 29.—The Mav
flower brought President Having home
from his latest vacation just m time for
the reassembling of Congress, which Is
again in session, the House, metaphori
cally, with Its feet on the desk, taking
three days* adjournments while waiting
for the Senate to determine in what
order it will take up legislation which
Includes tax revision, tariff and prac
tically everything for which It was
called into special session.
Senator I’at Harrison (Dem., Miss )
took occasion on the opening day to
analyze President Harding's letter to
Senator McCormick, making claims of
"monumental accomplishments” for his
admlntetratten. His analysis of the
“monumental accomplishments’ devel
oped the following telling points:
That while the Democrats considered
politics adjourned to give the Adminis
tration a chance to enact relief measures
for the country, the President had writ
ten a political letter magnifying his so
called "accomplishments’’ to be used for
partisan purposes in the election of a
United States Seuator.
That a little while after the President
expressed the hope that both., the tariff
and tax bills will be passed at this ex
traordinary session, the Postmaster Gen- 1
eral was telling the country “that con
ditions are in such a turmoil that in all
probability no tariff revision legislation
will be further attempted until next
year.”
That the amendments incorporated in I
the so-called packers control bill, a bill
claimed as one of the "monumental ae
complishnienfs," were In the handwriting
of the attorney for the packers.
That the bill regulating the grain ex- ]
change, another "monumental accemnllsh
lucnt.” contained practically every rfeom- |
mtndaflon made by the grain exchanges.
That Senator Watson, who It is thought
will succeed Senator Lodge as Repub
lican leader, a member of tbo Finance
Committee of the Senate, had written a
letter pleading for funds for the Re
publican national committee, with which
to combat Democratic publicity.
That for the fiscal year 19!t>17 a Demo
cratic Administration expended only sl,-
114,000,000.
That for the current year a Republican
Administration is expending $4,600,000,000,
which, when the interest ou the war debt
is deducted, is $2,500,000,000 more than
in 101S.
That the appropriation for the employ
ment bnreau in the Department of La
bor, which ask-'d for $1,600,000, was cut
down to $225,000, the only actual en
trenchment so far.
That “the courts for generations to
Highways By-Ways
of Lif OF New York
Copyright, 1321, by Public Ledger Cos.
- By RAYMOND CARROLL -
NTW YORK, Sept 23. —The richness
of a police official and manner in which
his fortune is obtain.-d has permanent
first page reseruvtlon in Turk Row. No
legislative investigation of affairs In New
York City would be complete without
uncovering some sort of a hidden chain
between police headquarters and Wall
street. This year tlio Meyer legislative
committee has not disappointed ns, for
we have the announcement that Richard
E. Enright, police commissioner, in
dulged in a little speculation—" Som
ething worth while"— that Allan A. Ryan,
a special depmy commissioner without
pay, took him Into and which netted
him $12,C00 ahead of the game.
Years pass by and the names of dif
ferent men come to the surface of the
golden pond, but always the details are
strangely familiar. The meeting be
tween the police official and the financier
Is invariably in the line of duly. A
favor is done the ricn man, who, fooling
the obligation, puts the donor In the
way of turning an "honest penny in tho
market.”
"Inspector” Thomas Byrnes half a cen
tury ago was well known to such famoiiJ
Wall Street m~n as Jay Gould, "Jim"
Fiske, Frank Work and James !! Keene,
and when he died his safety dap. .sit box
was filled with choice sl.-.ks, and tho
walls of his residence piaslore-1 with oil
paintings hung in gorgeous gilt, frames
Then there was Inspector Alec Williams
"Czar" of the old tenderloin, who tol l
the Lexow committee of the profitable
outcome of investments that he had made
in lots In Japan. When Inspector George
McClusky, the "Beau Brummol of head
quarters,” d'ed, his sisters held the deed
of a fine residence on tho West Side la
the Seventies. Both Inspectors William
McLaughlin and Adam Cross, who retired
to head private detective agencies, made
money on tips from Wall Street.
Bnt probably the most thrilling uncov
ering of a policeman’s fortune was the
unexpected discovery of the richness of
Capt. John J. Donahue. It was among
the first big police stories I worked on
ns a New York reporter. Captain Dono
hue was in command of the West Forty-
Seventh street police station, then the
heart of new tenderloin. One bright
morning in October, 1902, Captain Dcfno
hue did r.ot come out of his room In the
station house, and when tho lieutenant
entered to rouse him, Captain Dono
hue’s body was there, bat his spirit had
flown some time in the night. HU death
wus from heart disease.
The captain's desk was found locked.
It. was n simple roll top affair of the
regulation issue from headquarters. It
whs forced open and there expos,-1 to
view was a young fortune $54.00') In
cash snd T'nlted States Steel. Metropoli
tan Railway and other sto-ks. Jewels and
hank books. The surprising feature of
the discovery was that Captain Dominie
was supposed to be a comparatively poor
man. After his death there was never a
dearth of applicants for the Forty-
Seventh street berth.
For once in his natural life the aver
age New York baseball fan is Inclined to
BRINGING UP FATHER.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Z'i, 1921.
come will have to consider and to work
upon the intricate proposition of whether
or not by striking from the Versailles
Treaty the League of Nations covenant
there has not been eliminated with it all
the mandatory rights that the United
States has in that treaty.”
That the legislation which has been
passed would have been improved if the
suggestions made and amendments of
fered by Democrats had been.* accepted
and adopted.
Senator Harrison, commenting upon
Senator Smoot's reported statement that
the Government will expend $5,000,000,000
a year, drew from Senator Smoot the
statement “that if the savings that are
promised us by the departments are
made I shall be Tory well satisfied this
year. The only thing I fear is that they
cannot be made.” '
Tho Mississippi Senator’s adventure In
the elephant's compound was both di
verting and instructive.
Anorher evidence that the Democrats
are trying to be helpful by suggesting
and shaping constructive legislation is
shown in an amendment to the revenue
bill, and Joint recommendation of Sen
ator Gerry (Dem., R. I.) and Senator
’Walsh (Dem., Mas!..) reducing the tax of
4 per cent upon net incomes under $4,000
and 8 per cent upon all above, to 2 per
cent upon incomes under $5,000, 4 pnr
vent on Incomes between $3,000 and
SIO,OOO and 6 per rent upon incomes be
tween SIO,OOO and $15,000.
Another amendment by Senator Walsh
seeks to change the uniform tax of 15
per cent upon the net incomes of cor
porations as agreed upon by the Senate
Finance Committee by providing a grad
uate tax applied to the net income of
corporations, beginning with lO p>'r
cent tax upon a net income of SIOO 000.
15 per cent between SIOO,OOO and $500,000
and 20 per cent in excess of $300,000
For the loss in revenues estimated at
$105,000,000 on individual incomes ns pro
vided for by the amendment, it is pro
posed as an illustration to put a 1 cent
per gallon tax upon gasoline, collected
at the source, which is estimated to
produce from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000.
It is also proposed to restore tho tax
on corporation capital stock which pro
duces .1 revenue of $80,000,000. the ma
jority having stricken that provision from
the bill.
These amendments if adopted would
reduce tho income tax bills of over
5.000 000 individual taxpayers and 195,000
corporations.
The adoption of these amendments
would prtvent the proposed shift of tho
higher surtaxes to the backs of the
people.
All unprejudiced persons regard taxa
tlon r,s an economic subject and one In
which no partisan politics nhou’d enter.
The Republicans, ho far, bavo made the
tax bill not only a parry but a partisan
matter, but they have pretended to be
favorable to Constructive suggestion*.
It remains no.v to be seen in what man
n<>jt the Senate Republican majority will
rccc.ve tip -e helpful constructiv* amend
ments in view of the fact that it has
uprated no fur under the policy of uti
taxiug the rich and overraxing 'he poor.
he mildly satisfied. Cause—the bright
outiook in tho two major league pen
nant fights for a realization of ills
dreams—an all-Naw York world's aeries
in Urn home of Abe AttelL Seated 1n lh
grand stund at the Polo Grounds during
the Little World’s S-ries," one conid not
out marvel at tho good-natured tolerance
of the strangers present. Listen to tho
i'vcal wiseacres, those lads who think
Grace Church and Marlon, Ohio, ara a
couple of girls.
"I tell you, they ain't no team can
touch the Giants," a!d ones "7-Msy
pickings for the tanks, '* said another.
"'Those bush teams are a bunch of
dumbbells,” sneered a third.
OughtcT organize a world league with
London an] Paris those guys from the
sticks can t play ball,” commented
another.
Back of the Cleveland dugout sat a
big man with a chilled steel look in his
eye. He arose at the dose of Monday's
crucial game and growled aloud:
"Fui just thinking. Babe Ruth was
•>p four times. Connecting for a homer
on tils fir-.; trijj to the plate, bitting
the left field fence tor a long double next
time u id scored the man ahead, and th<*n
himself on Pipp'a single His second
homer brought in two more runs -total
five runs to his credit. After nil this'
five runs out of eight, the Indians let
him , all It a day by walking him. Why
w.is-i’t he walked before? Think it over.”
Os course one did think it over all
the way to tli- “L." No, wo had no bets
on the game. Yes, this i s New York.
MIX FINDS TIME TO COMPOSE MUSIC
And A me liids for Additional Favor
Tom Mix, the favorite cowboy motion
picture star, has added one more to fcls
many accomplishments. The versatile
Tom has sat his talents to composing
music.
A phonograph corporation of New York
his Just released two of Mix’s musical
compositions. One is called the "Brineo
Trot" and Is a cowboy's Idea of a jazz
number. It Is said
to boa distinct,
novelty in musical
compositions. "Old
Blue" is a plaintive
set of waltzes, that
Mr. Mix composed
and dedicated to his
faithful old “stunt”
horse—“ Old Blue,”
who met death acci
dentally, after carry
ing his master
through perilous
situations for a score
of years.
Mix's latest movie,
“The Night Horse
man,” Is the current
Suk ■£ i §6
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Tom Mix.
offering at the Isis.
; WATSON, CURTIS
DEPENDED ON TO
LINE UP SENATE
Problem to Hold Republican
Members in Line on
Tax Bill.
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By ROBERT BARRY.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The farmer
"bloc" in the Senate will make an effort
to tear the Administration tax bill to
pieces. It is opposed to the continuance
of the transportation tax. It does not
want tho excess profits levies repealed
nor the higher brackets on individual in
comes touched. It might even go so far
as to support the radical amendments
proposed by Democratic members of the
Finance Committee.
Senator Kenyon, Republican, lowa,
chairman of the agrarian group 1n the
Senate, has issued a call for a confer
ence on Saturday. An effort will be
made there to ' obtain agreement for
unity of action ou the tax bill. Senti
ment was said to be all but unanimous
in support of the Mo Nary amendment to
repeal all transportation taxes. The
leaders of the "bloc" believe every pos
sible reduction of freight and passenger
rates should be made. The Secretary of
the Treasury and the Administration
force* in Congress were no less eager to
repeal the taxes on travel and shipping,
but were unable to recommend a loss of
$130,000,000 in revenue.
WEST AGAINST REPEAL
OF EXCESS PROFITS TAX.
If the Democrats repudiate the recom
mendations of the Wilson Administration
and stand in opposition to repeal of the
excess profits taxes, the farmer “bloc**
would be urged to support an amendment
to continue that form of taxation. There
has been an insistent clamor in the West
against the repeal of the tax. The Mid
western group in the House forced the
Republican caucus to abandon its plan
of making the repeal retroactive to Jan.
1, 1921. Republican Senators from the
same section would go much farther
Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wiscon
sin. is not a member of the agarlan group,
but in the matter of tax revision he finds
himself in close accord with them. They
are inclined to support his amendment
which would tear to shreds the Adminis
tration program for repeal of surtaxes
above 82 per cent on industrial incomes.
He would provide graduated levies up tc
50 per cent on personal incomes of SIOO,
000 or more.
"COLLECTION POINT”
ON INCOMES REACHED.
Decision to repeal surtaxes above 32 p*r
! cent —affecting only income* of JfiS 000 a
year or more—was suggested by Burr*
tary Mellln after prolonged consideration
of the whole question by experts of the
Treasury Department. Tho higher sur
taxes wore not yielding revenue. The
treasury authorities learned from aetuad
conditions that there was after ail a
"collection point” in Income taxes, beyond
which it was not possible to go with any
reasonable hope of gaining revenue.
Instead of turning over 40 to 60 per
cent of their Incomes to the Government,
rich man made heavy investments of tax
exempt securities issued by State, county
and municipal officers. The repealer was
defeated as not being in any rense a lift
ing of the rich man's burden the
$10,000,(>X>.000 of tax exempt securities
now in circulation already had offered a
ready method of avoiding the tax,
PROBLEM TO HOLD
LEADERS IN LINE.
There is considerable radical thought
In tiie Scuate on the tax question. Af
fecting as it does the purses of so many
voters it is not difficult to gain strength
for vote-getting amendments. It is tho
problem of the Administration leaders
to hold a majority of the Republicans lu
line for the bill as it came from the
Finance Committee. Senator Penrose,
Penn*} Ivan la. did nor aid the bill any
by his brusque announcement that no
changes would be tolerated. He whs
directing his remarks against the In
come and corporation tax amendments
proposed by Senator (Jerry, Rhode
Island, and Walsh, Masaachuisetts. Now
he has a Republican break on his hands.
In this, as in ail recent fights lu the
Senate, the Administration Is relying on
tha two nsr hors *s of the Republican
organization. Senator Watson, Indiana,
and Curtis. Kansas, —to whip tjenfltoVs
into line. They have a hard task, but
with many Republican Senators asking
favor* for thc'.r constituencies in the
tariff bill, the Administration force* have
strong 'Urdu to play Copyright, 1921, by
Public Ledger Company.
MOULD GETTING LAZY.
HOVE, England, Sept- 29. —Alderman
John Bulmar, re-elected at 92, walks five
miles every day. Ho declares people
nowadays era pleasure-mud and are
getting lazier all the time*
; ON VIEW TODAY.
j Tho famous Georgia Minstrels open a
| threo dny engagement at English's this
i afternoon. Matinee and night perform
|unco will bo given dully during the en
i gagemeut.
! “Honeydew” continues on its musical
way at tho Murat where largo audiences
are prevailing. The local engagement
closes Suturday night.
Toto, famous ciown, is tho headliner a*
B. F. Keith's this week. Popular vaude
ville Is ou view at the Lyrlo and family
vaudeville is being offend at the Broad
way.
"Abe Martin,” a musical comedy, is
being presented at the Rialto.
| "Little 80-Peep" is the current ex
travaganza offering at the Park.
1 The movies on view include: “Mother
i O’Mine” at the Alhambra; “Over the
,11111” at Loew’s State:” “The Affairs of
j Anatoi” at tho Ohio; “The Night Horse
man” at the Isis; “The Love Special” at
Mister Smith’s; “Outlawed” at the Re
gent and “After Midnight” at the Co
lonial.
House Tries to Force
Cut in Navy Expenses
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Pubite Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Preparations
are under way in the House to force a
reduction in naval appropriations for the
approaching fiscal year despite the Navy
Department's apparently reluctant effort
to s bandon any of the accoutrements of
American sea power. To certain House
leaders It has become clear that drastic
legislative action alone will bring about
the economy in the Navy Department
Imperative to the relief of taxpayers.
They have been set to work by informa
tion that the estimates for the Navy De
partment during the coming fiscal year
have been placed at between $115,000,000
and $420,000,000 by Edwin H. Denby, Sec
retary of the Navy. The conference of
the limitation of armaments and Far
Eastern affairs side, House leaders, in
cluding Representative Mondell of Wy
oming, Republican leader, bare nourished
LSAyr§s&Co.
Downstairs Store
“iv v 40
In the
Downstairs
Store
End -of-the-Mon th
Come Early for These Bargains
,15 Silk Dresses Reduced to $3.95
25 Cotton Dresses Reduced to $3.95
30 All-Wool Pleated Skirts at $3.95
100 Sleeveless Gingham Dresses at 79c
5 Wool Knitted Capes Reduced to $6.95
15 Wash Skirts in the E. O. M. Sale at 39c
12 Women's Raincoats Reduced to $3.95
20 Women's Tailored Suits, Choice $6.95
5 Kit Coney Fur Chokers, Choice $2.50
Shoes!
High and low, for women
and girls. E. O. M. Sale
price—
siJ9
High and low heels, ail wanted
leathers, all sizes in the group,
but not In each style.
Early shoppers have best choice.
—Ayres—Downstairs store.
44 House Dresses E. O. M. Sale at $1.98
190 Bungalow Aprons E. O. M. Sale at 79c
72 Pairs Silk Stockings ( Seconds ) at 33c
102 Voile Waists, E. O. M. Sale Price, $1.49
48 Polly Prim E. O. M. Sale at 33c
36 House Dresses E. O. M. Sale at SI.OO
102 Voile Waists E. O. M. Sale Price, 50c
—Ayres—Downstairs Store.
hopes grown Into determination that the
expenditures for the naTal establishment
shall be reduced to around $300,000,000 at
the most. When Congress appropriated
about $417,000,000 for the naval estab
lishment during the present fiscal year,
they believed the last great navai appro
priation bill hud passed.
Mr. Denby is represented as "reason
ing" with bis bureau chiets to cut down
expenditures. Unless his "reasoning" re
sults in definite action, there is in pros
pect a reduction of What is understood
to be present estimates by around 26 per
cent. Tbe President, furthermore, is un
derstood to be in sympathy with such
action.
The situation has not been improved, in
the minds of leading advocates of econ
omy. as they see indications that a de
ficiency appropriation may be asked by
tbe Navy Department, to meet expenses
of tbe current fiscal year. They point
Rummage
Booths!
Nothing Over 89c
Nothing Under 15c
Several hundred ar
ticles of women’s
ready-to-wear.
Be Here Early!
Help Yourself!
Get the Cream!
out that of the more than $400,000,000 ap
propriated for the Navy, only $137,000,000
goes for the pay of its officers and men,
and $90,000,000 for construction of tha
1016 program. Where the remainder of
th# money goes they say will ba sub
ject to the most rigid examination by
the House Appropriations Committee. In
formation will be sought on why 62,000
civilian employes must be maintanied on
tbe Navy pay roll.
Like the father whose son, after rolling
in the lap of luxury all his days, was
unable to live a simple life until the
paternal judgment cut off the money at
the source, so Congress is preparing to
handle the Navy Department To some
members there are evidences of alleged
extravagances which they propose to
see stopped. They believe greater savings
could be effected in construction work
and munitions.
The fight on the Naval budget
promises to be tbe center of the battle
for economy. In view of the coming
conference particularly, ne nope3 of
leaders for a big saving in this direction
will be released in legislation under any
circumstances that will permit.—Copy
right, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.
In the
Downstairs
Store
Hats!
l ams for girls and trimmed
hats for women. E. O. M.
Sale price—
85c
Priscilla style cloth tarns—scar
let, Copen, jade, green and tan;
also a few trimmed hats of vari
ous kinds for women.
—Ayres—Downstairs store.
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