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SMALL ATTACKS
CHARGES MADE
BY GRAND JURY
Governor Says Accusation
Against Him Inspired by
Enemies.
WAUKEGAN, 111., Dec. 6.—Governor
Len Small tdday continued his attack on
the Sangamon County grand Jury that
charged him 'with embezzling State funds
and demanded the indictments be killed.
Through his attorney, C. C. Laforge,
the Governor charged that the grand
Jury’s charges were inspired by his po
litical enemies who, he said, conducted a
campaign of hate against him in the pub
lic prints of Illinois.
The Governor was up and stirring early
and transacted some State business at
the temporary State capitol—the Salvation
Army hotel, after which he walked over
to court with his son, Lester.
Governor Small, so attired that he had
the mein of his former profession, that
of a country pedagogue—sat in court with
Vernon M. Curtis, Grant Park, banker
and codefendant. Governor Small fre
quently arose from his seat to whisper to
one of his counsel.
Laforgee who started the preliminaries
of the Governor's trial by charging that
the grand Jury at Springfield not only
vras Illegally chosen, but used unlawful
methods, expected to finish his argu
ments on his brief to quash the case to
day. When the Governor's side is pre
sented, C. Fred Mortimer, States Attorney
of Sagamon County, will argue the case
of the prosecution and insist that the
Indictments be declared valid and the
Governor brought to trial on them.
Laforge in his address to Judge Clair
C. Edwards of the Lake County Circuit
Court also was expected to state that
the counts brought out in the indictment
of the Governor and Curtis were not
offenses under the ’aws of Illinois.
Indications were that the trial of the
Governor, in event Judge Edwards re
fuses to quash the indictments, would
not start until after the first of the year.
Small is charged, with Curtis, of ap
propriating $500,000 interest on State
funds that should have been turned into
the exchequer when the Governor was
State Treasurer in 1916-IS. The two are
further charged with conspiracy to em
bezzle $2,000,000 more interest.
FAR EAST SNARLS
MAY YIELD IN END
TO PEACE SPIRIT
Bryan Sees Hope for Parley
Problems by Following
Cuban Example.
BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The recess
taken by the conference lessens the news
from that source and limits comments to
speculation upon that which has been
done, but the progress of the conference
continues to be entirely satisfactory.
The program of the Far East as yield
ing to the spirit of peace that pervaded
the conference. While the concessions
made to China are no more than Justice
to what that great republic requires still
1. would be unfair to withhold from Ja
pan, Great Britain and France full credit
for relinquishing leased territory in
China. It must be remembered that in
times past it wag customary for na
tions to take what they could and to 1
bold what they took. “Never haul down
the flag” hag been a very popular slo
gan with imperialists, and they have
been quicq to impute cowardice and lit
tleness to those who propose a restora
tion of territory taken.
But the world is entering upon a new
era and is destined to experience some
aev thrills. There were Americans wno
objected to hauling down the American
flag in Cuba, although our Congress had
promised by resolution not to hold Cuba
as a prize of war.
The United States, however, was true
to its pledge and it was amply repaid.
When the Stars and Stripes were hauled
down from Morro Castle in order that
the Cuban flag might be raised in its
place, the Cubans rushed forward and
caught up the American flag, saying, “It
must not be allowed to touch the ground.”
! The time is coming when it will be the
boast of nations that their flag is loved
instead of feared. The Japanese, the Brit
ish and the French will And that their
flags will be more secure in the Chinese
republic when they no longer float over
territory occupied against the wishes of
the people of China.
Every step taken by the conference to
ward the abandonment of forcible occu
pation of territory brings it nearer to
the establishment of some tribunal which
w*ll furnish a substitute for war. There
must besoms forum before which all in
ternational questions can be brought.
Public discussion then will come near
to removing the causes of war.—Copy
right, 1921, by United Press.
STATE POLICE
RECOVER CARS
Arrest Two Men as Auto Theft
Suspects.
The recovery of three stolen automo
biles and the arrest of two persons In
connection with their theft was reported
by the State automobile police today. The
persons arrested are Elzo Clevenger,
Muncie, charged with transporting stolen
automobiles between States, and Harold
.Gilbert, Brooklyn, charged with possess
ing an automobile without a certificate of
■tie. Both are out on bond, Clevenger
a Federal grand jury investiga
and Gilbert is to be tried in Indian
■blis city court.
department obtained its clew to the
Itheft of the cars when Gilbert is said to
'have attempted to sell one without pro
ducing a certificate of title. Gilbert pro
duced an affidavit signed by Clevenger,
swearing he had sold the car. On in
vestigation it was found that Clevenger
had two other automot'les, said to have
been stolen, in his possession.
According to the automobile depart
ment. the cars were stolen from James
Kennedy at Tulsa, OVla.; Louis Specht,
Cleveland, and J. Elliott Jenkins, Chi
cago.
Chicago Inspector
Shot by His Wife
CHICAGO, Dec. Walter F. Blake, 6a,
an arc light inspector for the city, was
shot and killed in his home today by his
wife, Mrs. Lucy Blake. Mrs. Blake told
the police she shot her husband during
a struggle for possession of a revolver
with which he had threatened to kill
her. Her husband had been drinking,
Mrs. Blake said.
‘Mule’ Served From
Teapot, Police Say
“Whit# mule" was served from a teapot
In a restaurant at 935 North Senate ave
nue, the police allege, and as a result
they have arrested the proprietor, Waiter
Malsh. When the officers raided the res
taurant they found a gallon of "mule” in
a teapot and fourteen bottles of home
brew, they reported.
NORTHWESTERN SCHEDULE.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. —Negotiations have
been opened for a football game between
Centre College and Northwestern Uni
versity in 1922, it waa announced today.
Itotae Dome also may be listed.
Text of President's Address
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. —President Harding's message to Congress to
day was as follows: .
“Mr. Speaker and Members of the Con
gress—lt is a very gratifying privilege
to come to the Congress with the Re
public at peace with all the nations of
the world. More, it is equally gratifying
to report that our country is not only
free from every impending menace of
war, but there are growing assurances
of the permanency of the peace which we
so deeply cherish.
“For approximately ten years we have
dwelt amidst menaces of wars, or as par
ticipants in war’s actualities, and the in
evitable aftermath, with its disordered
conditions, has added to the difficulties
of government which adequately cannot
be appraised except by those who are in
immediate contact and know the respon
sibilities. Our task would be less diffi
cult if we had only ourselves to consider,
but so much of the world was involved,
the disordered conditions are so well nigh
universal, even among nations not en
gaged in actual warfare, that no perma
nent readjustments can be effected with
out consideration of our inescapable re
lationship to world affairs in finance aud
trade. Indeed, we should be unworthy
of our best traditions if we were un
mindful of social, moral and political
conditions which are not of direct con
cern to us. but which do appeal to the
human sympathies and the very becoming
interest of a people blest with our na
tional good fortune. *
“It was not my purpose to. bring to
you a program of world restoration. In
the main such a program must be worked
out by the nations more directly con
cerned. They must themselves turn to
the heroic remedies for the menacing
conditions under which they are strug
gling ; then we can help, and we mean
to help. We shall do so unselfishly be
cause there is compensation in conscious
ness of assisting, selfishly because the
commerce and international exchange* in
trade, which mark our high tide of for
tunate advancement, are possible only
when the nations of all continents are
restored to stable order and normal re
lationships.
MAINLY TASK FOR
EXECUTIVE TASK FOR
“In the main, the contribution of this
Republic to restored ’normalcy' in the
world must come through the Initiative
of the executive branch of the Govern
ment, but the best of intentions and
most carefully considered purposes
would fail utterly if the sanction and the
co-operation of Congress were not cheer
fully accorded.
“I am very sure we shall have no con
flict of opinion about constitutional du
ties or authority. During the anxieties
of war, when necessities seemed compell
ing. there were excessive grants of au
thority and an extraordinary concentra
tion of powers in the chief executive. The
repeal of war-time legislation and the au
tomatic expirations which attend the
peace proclamations, have put an end to
these emergencies excesses, but I have
the wish to go further than that. I want
to Join you in restoring, In the most
cordial way, the spirit of coordination
and cooperation, and that mutuality of
confidence and respect wdich is necessary
in representative popular government.
"Encroachment upon the functions of
Congress or attempted dictation of its
policy are not to be thought of, much
less atempted, but there is an insistent
call for harmony of purpose and concord
of action to speed the solution of the
difficult problems confronting both the
legislative and executive branches of the
Government.
•‘lt Is worth while to make allusion
here to the character of our Gove-nment,
mindful as one must be that an address
to you Is no less a message to all our
people, for whom you speak most inti
matelv. Ours is a popular Government
through political parties. We divide
along political lines, and I would ever
have it so. 1 do not meaa that partisan
preferences should hinder a public ser
vant in the performance of a conscienti
ous and patriotic official duty. We saw
partisan lines utterly obliterated when
war imperiled and our faith in the Re
public was riveted anew. We ought not
find these partisan lines obstructing the
expeditious solution of the urgent prob
lems of peace.
"Granting that we are fundamentally
a representative popular Government,
with political parties the Governing
agencies. 1 believe the political party in
power should assume responsibility, de
termine upon policies in conference
which supplements conventions and elec
tion campaigns and then strive for
achievement through adherence to the ac
cepted policy.
PARTY DIVISION
WORKS FOR GOOD.
“There is vastly greater security, im
mensely more of the national viewpoint,
much larger and prompter accomplish
ment where our divisions are along party
lines, in the broad and loftier sense, than
to divide geographically or according to
pursuits or personal following. For a
century and a third parties have been
charged with responsibility and held to
strict accounting. When they fail they
are relieved of authority and the system
has brought us to a national eminence
no less than a world example.
“Necessarily legislation is a matter of
compromise. ' The full ideal is seldom
attained. In that meeting of minds
necessary to insure results, there must
and will be accommodations and com
promises, but in the estimate of con
victions and sincere purposes, the su
preme responsibility to national interest
must not bo ignored. The shield to the
high-minded public servant who adheres
to a party policy is manifest, but the
higher purpose is the good of the re
public as a whole.
“It would be ungracious to withhold
acknowledgment of the really large vol
ume and excellent quality of work ac
complished b Tthe extraordinary session
of Congress which so recently adjourned.
I am not unmindful of the very difficult
tasks with which you were called to deal,
and no one can ignore the insistent con
ditions which, during recent years, have
called for the continued and almost ex
clusive attention of your membership to
fiublic work. It would Suggest insefner
ty If I expressed complete nccord with
every expression recorded in your roll
calls, but we are all agreed about the
difficulties and the inevitable divergence
of opinion in seeking the reduction,
amelioration and readjustment of the
burdens of taxation. Later on, whether
other problt -.5 are solved, I shall make
some recommendations about renewed
consideration of our tax program, but
for the immediate time before us we
be content with the billion dollar
reduction in the tax .draft upon the peo
ple, and diminished irritations, banished
uncertainty and improved methods of
collection. By your sustainment of the
rigid economies already Inaugurated,
with hoped-for extension of these econo
mies and added efficiencies in adminis
tration, I believe such reductions may be
enacted and hindering burdens abolished.
HAS GOOD WORD
FOR BUDGET SYSTEM.
“In these urgent economies we shall
be lmmansely assisted by the budget sys
tem for which you made provision in the
extraordinary session. The first budget is
before you.. Its preparation is a signal
achievement, and the perfection of the
system, a thing impossible in the few
months available for its initial trial, will
mark its enactment as the beginning of
the greatest reformation in governmental
practice* since the beginning of the Re
public.
“There is pending a grant of author
ity to the administrative branch of the
Government for the funding and settle
ment of our vast foreign loans growing
out of our grant of war credits. With
the hands of the executive branch held
Impotent to deal with these debts, we
are hindering urgent readjustments
among our debtors and accomplishing
nothing for ourselves. I think it is fair
for the Congress to assume that the ex
ecutive branch of the Government would
adopt no major policy In dealing with
these matters wh:ch would conflict with
the purpose of Cingress in authorising
the loan*; certainly not without asking
congressional approval, but there are
minor problem* Incident to prudent loan
transactions and the safeguarding of our
Interests which cannot even be attempt
ed without thi* authorization. It will oe
helpful to ourselTes and It will improve
conditions among our debtors if funding
and tho settlement of defaulted Interest
ma v be negotiated.
"The previous Congress, deeply con
cerned in behalf of our Merchant Ma
rine, in 1920 enacted the existing ship
ping laws, designed for the upbuilding of
the American Merchant Marine. Among
other things provided to encourage our
shipping on the world’s seas, the execu
tive was directed to give notice of the
termination of all existing commercial
treaties in order to admit of reduced
duties ou imports carried in American
bottoms. During the life of the act, no
Executive has complied with this order
of the Congress. When the present Ad
ministration came Into responsibility, it
began an early inquiry into the failure
to execute the proposed purpose of the
Jones act. Only one conclusion has been
possible. Frankly, members of House
and Senate, eager as I am to Join you
in the ma'-ing of an American Merchant
Marine commensurate with our com
merce, the denouncement of our com
mercial treaties would involve us in a
chaos of trade relationships and add in
describably to the confusion of the al
ready disordered commercial world.
NO INTENTION TO TAKE
UP PROBLEMS IN DETAIL.
“Our power to do so is not disputed,
but power and ships, without comity of
relationship, will not give us the ex
panded trade which is inseparably linked
with a great merchant marine.* More
over, the applied reduction of duty for
which the treaty denouncements were
necessary, encouraged only the carrying
of dutiable imports to our shores, while
the tohnage which unfurls the flag on
the seas is both free and dutiable, and the
cargoes which make a national eminent
in trade are outgdlcg rather than In
coming.
“It is not my thought to lay the prob
lem in detail before you today. It Is
desired only to say to you that the exec
utive branch of the Government, un
influenced by the protest of any nation,
for none has been made, is well convinced
that your proposal, highly intended and
heartily supported here, is so fraught
with diff culties and so marked by ten
dencies t) discourage trade expansion,
that I invite your tolerance of noncom
pliance for a very few weeks until a plan
may he presented, which contemplates no
greater draft upon the public treasury
and which, though yet too crude to
offer it today, gives such promise of
expanding our merchant marine that it
will argue its own approval. It Is
enough to say today that we are so pos
sessed of ships, and the American inten
tion to establish a merchant marine is so
unalterable that a plan of reimburse
ment, at no other cost than is contem
plated in the existing act, will appeal
to the pride and encourage the hope of
all the American people.
“There is before yt>u the completion of
the enactment of what has been termed a
■permanent’ tariff law, the word 'perma
nent' being used to distinguish it from
the emergency act which is the law to
day. I cannot too strongly urge an early
completion of this necessary legislation.
It is needed to stabilize our industry at
home; it is essential to make more defi
nite our trade relations abroad. More,
it is vital to the preservation of many
of olir own industries which contribute
so notably to the very life blood of our
nation.
‘‘There is now, and there always will be
a storm of conflicting opinion about any
tariff revision. We cannot go far wrong
when we base our tariff's on the policy
of preserving the productive activities
which enhance emplorment and add to
our national prosperity.
AGAIN REMINDER
OF WIRLD’B AFFAIRS.
“Again comes the reminder that we
must not be unmindful of world con
ditions. that peoples are struggling for
industrial rehabilitation and that we can
not dwell In Industrial and commercial
exclusion and at the same time do the
Just thing in aiding world reconstruc
tion and readjustment. We do not seek
a selfish aloofness and we could not
profit by it, were it possible. We recog
nize the necessity of buying wherever we
sell, and the permanency of trade lies
in its acceptable exchanges. We cannot
sell to others who do not produce, nor
can we buy unless we produce at home.
"Everything relating to trade, among
ourselves and among nations, has been
expanded, excessive, inflated, abnormal,
and there is a madness in finance which
no American policy alone will cure. We
are n creditor Nation, not by normal
processes, but made so by war. It is 1
not an unworthy selfishness to seek to
save ourselves when the processes of
that salvation are not only not denied
to others, hut commended to them.
"We seek to undermine for others by
authority by which they exist; we sre ob
ligated to permit the undermining of none
I of our own which make for employment
I and maintained activities.
! “Every contemplation magnifies the dif
| Acuity of tariff legislation, but the ne
j eessity of the revision is magnified with
| it. Doubtless we are justified in seeking
j a more flexible policy than we have pro
i vlded heretofore. I hope a wav will be
i found to make for flexibility and elastic
ity, so that rates may be adjusted to
meet 1 unusual and changing conditions
which cannot be acu’-ately anticipated. I
know of no manner it, which to effect this
flexibility other than the extension of
the powers of the tariff commission so
thnt it can adapt itself to a scientific
and wholly Just administration of the
law.
"I am not unmindful of the constitu
tional difficulties. These can be met by
giving authority to the Chief Executive,
who could proclaim additional duties to
meet conditions which the Congress may
designate.
“At this point I must disavow any
desire to enlarge the Executive’s powers
or add to the responsibilities of the of
fice. They are already too large. If
there were any other plan. I should pre
fer it.
MANIFEST DIFFERENCES
ON MERITS OF VALUATION.
"There is a manifest difference of opin
ion about the merits of American valua
tion. Many nations have adopted deliv
ery valuation as the valuation for collect
ing duties; that is, they take the cost of
imports delivered at this port of entry
as the tasis for levying duty. It is not
radical departure, in view of varying con
ditions, and the disordered state of
money values to provide for American
valuation, but there can not be ignored
the danger of such a valuation, brought
to the level of our own production costs,
making our tariffs prohibitive. It might
do so in many instances where Imports
ought to be encouraged. I believe Con
gress ought well consider the desirability
of the only promising alternative, namely,
a provision authorizing proclaimed Amer
ican valuation, under prescribed condi
tions, on any given list of articles Im
ported.
“In this proposed flexibility, author
izing increases to meet conditions so
likely to chanqe, there also should be pro
visions for decrease. A rate may be Just
todav and entirely out of proportion six
months from today. If our tariffs are to
be made equitable, not necessarily
burdensome on imports and hinder our
trade abroad, froquent adjustment will be
necessary tor years to come. Knowing
the impossibility of modification by act
of Congress for any one of a score of
lines without involving a long array of
schedules. I think we shall go n long
ways toward stabilization, if there is
recognition of the tariff commission's fit
ness to recommend 'urgent changes by
proclamation.
CERTAIN ABOUT PUBLIC
OPINION ON TARIFF.
"I am sure about public opinion fa
voring the early determination of our
tariff poliev. There haVo been reassuring
signs of a ’business revival from the deep
slump which all the world has been ex
periencing. Our unemployment, which
gave us grave concern only a few weeks
ago, has grown encouragingly less, and
new assurances and renewed confidence
will attend the congressional declaration
that American Industry will be held se
cure.
"Much has been said about the pro
tective policy for ourselves, making It
impossible for our debtors to discharge
their obligations to us. This is a con
tention not now pressing for decision.
If we must choose between a people in
idleness pressing for the payment of in
debtedness, or a people resuming the
normal ways of employment and carry
ing the credit, let us choose the latter.
Sometimes we appraise largest the human
111 most vivid in our minds. We have
been giving and are giving now of our
influence and appeals to minimize the
likelihood of war and throw off the
crushing burdens of armament. It is all
very earnest, with a national soul Im
pelling. But a people unemployed and
gaunt with hungtr, face a situation quite
as disheartening as war and our greater
obligation today is to the Government’s
part toward resuming productivity and
promoting fortunate and remunerative
employment.
“Something more than tariff protec
tion is required by American agriculture.
To the farmer has come the earlier and
the heavier burdens of readjustment.
There is actual depression in our agri
cultural industry, while agricultural
prosperity is absolutely essential to the
general prosperity of the country."
GIVES CONGRESS
ITS DUE CREDIT.
“Congress has sought very earnestly to
provide relief. It has promptly, given
such temporary relief as has been possi
ble, but the call is insistent for the per
manent solution. It is inevitable that
large crops lower the price and short
crops auvan"e it . No legislation can
cure that fundamental law. But there
juuet be some ecomomla eolation foe the
iiN oiAiN A DAiLi ilivu&fc, iULifeDAY, DECEMBER 6,1921.
excessive variation in return for agri
cultural production.
“It is rather shocking to be told that
9,000,000 bales of cotton raised on Amer
ican plantations in a given year will ac
tually be worth more to the producers
than 13,000,000 bales would have been.
Equally shocking is the statement that
500,000,000 bushels of wheat raised by
American farmers would bring them
more money than 1,000,000,000 bushels.
Yet these are not exaggerated statements.
In a world where there are tens of mil
lions who need food and clothing which
they cannot get, such a condition is sure
to indict the social system which makes
it possible.
"In the main the remedy lies in the
distribution and marketing. Every
proper encouragement should be given to
the cooperative marketing programs.
These have proven very helpful 'te
cooperating communities in Hurt. in
Russia the cooperative community has
become the recognized bulwark of law
and order, and saved individualising from
engulfment in social paralysis. Ultimate
ly they will be accredited with the salva
tion of the Russian state.
“There is the appeal for this experi
ment. Why not try it? No one chal
lenges the right of the farmer to a larger
share of the consumers' pay for his prod
uct; no one disputes that we cannot live
without the farmer. He is Justified in
rebelling against the transportation cost.
Given a fair return for his labor, he will
have less occasion to appeal for financial
aid, and given assurance that his labors
shall not be in vain, we reassure all the
people of a production sufficient to meet
our national requirement and guard
against disaster.
"The base of the pyramid of civiliza
tion which rests upon the soil is shrink
ing through the drift of population from
farm to city. For a generation we have
been evpressing more or less concern
about this tendency.
SHOULD FIND LESS
DRASTIC REMEDY.
“Economists have warned and states
men have deplored. We thought for a
time that modern conveniences and the
more Intimate contact would halt the
movement, but It has gone steadily on.
Perhaps only grim necessity will correct
it, but we ought to flud a less drastic
remedy.
“The existing scheme of adjusting
freight rates has been favoring the bas
ing points until Industries are attracted
to some center* and repelled from others.
A great volume of uneconomic and waste
ful transportation has attended, and the
cost Increased accordingly. The grain
milling and meat packing industries af
ford ample illustration, and the attend
ing concentration is readily apparent. The
menaces in concentration are not lim
ited to the retarding influences on agri
culture. Manifestly the conditions and
terms of railway transportation ought not
be permittted to increase this undesirable
tendency. We have a Just pride in our
great cities, but we shall find a greater
pride in the nation which has a larger
distribution of Its population into the
country, where comparatively self-suffi
cient smaller communities may biend ag
ricultural and manufacturing interests in
harmonious helpfulness and enhanced good
fortune. Such a movement contemplates
no destruction of things wrought, of in
vestments made, or wealth Involved. It
looks only to a general policy of trail
portatlon of distrit ttted industry, and of
highway construction to encourage the
spread of our population and restore the
proper balance between city and coun
try*. The problem may well have your
earnest attention.
“It has been 'rhaps the proudest
claim of our A ?rican civilization that
in dealing with human relationships it
his constantly moved toward such jus
tice in distributing the products of hu
man energy that it has improved con
tinuously the economic status of the mass
of people. Ours has been a highly pro
ductive social organization. Gn the way
up from the elemental stages of society
we have eliminated slavery and serfdom
and are now far on the way to the elimi
nation of poverty.
9 APPROXIMATES
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY.
"Through the eradication of illiteracy
and the diffusion of education, mankind
has reached a stage where we may fairly
say that in the United States equality of
opportunity has been attained, though
all are not prepared to embrace it. There
is. ndeed, a too great divergence be
tween the economic conditions of the
most and least favored classes in the
community. But even that divergence
has now come to the point where we
bracket the very poor and the very rich
together as the least fortunate classes.
Our efforts may well be directed to im
proving the status of both.
“While this set of problems commonly
Is comprehended under the general
phrase, 'capital and labor,’ it is really
vastly broader. It is a question of so
cial and economic organization. Labor
has become a largo contributor, through
its savings, to the stock of capital, while
the people who own the largest individual
aggregates of capital are themselves often
hard and earnest laborers. Very often it
is extremely difficult to draw the line
of demarcation between tho two groups;
to determine whether a particular in
dividual is entitled to be set down as
a laborer or a capitalist. In a very large
proportion of cases he is both and when
he is both, he is the moat useful citizen.
“The right of labor to organise Is just
as fundamental and necessary u* Is the
right of capital to orgnnUe. The right
of labor to negotiate, to deal with and
solve its particular problems in an or
ganized way. through i!s chosen agents,
is Just as essential as is tho right of
capital to orguuizo to maintain corpora
tions, to limit the liabilities of stock
holders. Indeed, we have come to recog
nize that the limited liability of the citi
zen ns a member of a labor organization
closely parallels the limitation of lia
bility of the citizen as a stockholder in
a corporation for profit. Along this line
of reasoning,we shall make the greatest
progress toward solution of our problem
of capital and labor. • • •
“Just os It Is not desirable that a cor
poration shall be allowed to Impose un
duo exactions upon the public, so It is
not desirable that a labor organization
shall be permitted to exact unfair terms
of employment or subject the public to
actual distresses In order to enforce Its
terms. Finally, Just as we are earnestly
seeking for proceedures whereby to ad
just and settle political difficulties be
tween nations without resort to war. we
may well look about for means to settle
the differences between organized capital
and organlzd labor without resort to
those forms of procedure which we rec-
MRS. JOHNSON
STRONG AGAIN
t
After The Grippe She Took
Vinol Which Quickly Re
stored Her Strength
MANY SUCH CASES HERE
MRS. G. A. JOHNSON
Sullivan, Ohio—“ The grippe left me
weak, all run-down, no strength, and no
ambition, but as I am a farmer’s wife
and mother of eleven children, I had to
keep about,,although I was not fit to do
so for much of the time.
My doctor recommended Vinol for my
condition and it helped me right away,
Increased my appetite, built up my
strength, increased my weight, and my
cough disappeared.”—Mrs. G. A. John
son, Sullivan, Ohio. v
The reason physicians recommend Vinol
for such cases is because they know it
contains the healing curative elements of
old-fashioned cod liver oil (without oil),
also iron and beef peptones which are
the best blood and body building tonics
known. Price SI.OO per bottle, guaran
teed. Henry J. Huder, druggist, Indian
apolis.—xAdwrtisememC
Kidding Again?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 —Passage of
the soldier “bonus” law may be the
Senate's Christmas gift to former
service men, Senator McCumber, North
Dakota, chief Senate advocate of the
compensation measure, announced to
day. The increased compensation
measure likely will be considered im
mediately following enactment of the
Administration foreign debt refunding
bill, McComber said.
ognize under the name of strikes, lock
outs, boycotts and the like.
ASKS REGULATION FOR
LABOR CONTROVERSIES.
“As we have great bodies of law care
fully regulating the organization and op
eration of industrial and financial corpo
rations, so we might well have plans of
conference, of common counsel, of me
diation, arbitration and judicial deter
mination in controversies between labor
and capital. To accomplish this would
involve the necessity to develop a thor
ough-going code of practice in dealing
with such affairs. With rights, privileges,
immunities arid modes of organization
thus carefully defined, it should be pos
sible to set up judicial or quasi-judicial
tribunals for the consideration and de
termination of all disputes which menace
the public welfare.
“In an international society such as
ours, the strike, lockout and the boy
cott are as much out of place and dis
astrous in their results as is war or
armed revolution in the domain of
politics. The same disposition to reason
ableness, to conciliation, to recognition of
the other side’s point of view, the same
provision of fair and recognized tribunals
and processes ought to make it possible
to solve the one set of questions ns easily
as the other. I believe the solution is
possible.
“The consideration of such a policy
would necessitate the exercise of care
and deliberation in the construction of
a code and a charter of elemental rights,
dealing with tlie relations of employer
and employe. This foundation in the
law dealing with modern conditions of
social and economic life would hasten the
building of the temple Os peace in in
dustry which a rejoicing nation would
acclaim.
RECLAMATION OF LAM)
GOOD BUSINESS.
“After each war, until the last, the
Government has been able to give homes
to its returned soldiers and a large part
of our i settlement and development has
attended this generous provision of land
for the nation's defenders. ;
"There is yi t unreserved approximately
700.000.000 acres In tin? putille domain,
20,000.000 acres of which are known to
be susceptible of reclamation and made
tit for homes by provision for irrigation.
"The Government has been assisting in
the development of its remaining lauds
until the estimated Increase in land
values In the irrigated sections is fully
$500,000,000 and the crops of 1920 alone
on these lands are estimated to exceed
$100,000,000. Under the law authorizing
these expenditures for development, the
advances are to be returned, and It
would be good business for the Govern
ment lo provide for the reclamation of
the remaining 20,000,000 acres in addition
to expediting the completion of projects
long under way.
“Under what is known as the coal and
lease law, applicable also to deposits of
phosphates and other minerals on the
public domain, leases are now being made
on the royalty basis and are producing
large revenues to the Government. Un
der thi- legisla’iou R> por cent of ail
rovnlties is to bo paid directly to the
Federal treasury and the remainder o 0
per tent is to be. used for reclamation of
arid lands by irrigation and 40 per cent
is to be paid to ttie Spates in which the
operations nre located, to he used by
them for school and road purposes.
RESOURCES MAY ADD
1T NDS TO TREASURIES.
“These resources are so vast and the
development is affording so reliable a
basis of estimate that the Interior De
partment) expresses the belief that ulti
mately the present law will ndd in royal
ties and payments to the treasury of the
Federal Government and the States con
taining these public lauds a total of
twelve billion dollars. This means, of
course, tin added wealth of many times
that sum. These prospects seem to af
ford every justification of Government
advances in reclamation and irrigation.
• 'Contemplating the inevitable and de
sirable increase of population, there is
another phase of reclamation fully
worthy of consideration. There nre 79.-
000.000 acres of swamp and cut-over lands
which may be reclaimed and made as
valuable as nay farm lands wo possess.
The acres ar largely located in Southern
Stales and the greater proportion is
owned by the State* or by private citi
zens. Congress has a report of the sur
vey of this fielo for reclamation and the
feasibility is established. I gladly com
mend Federal aid, by way of advances,
where State and private participation is
assured."
FAVORS RELIEF FOR
STARVING RUSSIA.
“While we are thinking of promoting
tho fortunes of our own people, 1 am
sure there is room in tho sympathetic
thought of America for fellow human be
ings who are suffering and dying of star
vation in Russia. A severe drought in
the valley of Volga has plunged 15,000,-
000 people into grievous famine. Our
voluntary agencies are exerting them
selves to the utmost to save the lives of
children in this area, hut it is now evi
dent that unless relief is afforded, the
loss of life will extend into many mil
lions. America cannot bo deaf to such a
call as that.
"We do not recognize the government
of Russia, nor tolerate the propaganda
which emanates therefrom, but we do
not forget the traditions of Russian
friendship. We may put aside our con
sideration of all international politics and
fundamental differences in government.
The big thing is the call of the suffer
ing and the dying. Unreservedly I rec
ommend tho appropriation neoessr.rv to
supply the American relief administra
tion with 10.000.000 bushels of corn aiid
1,000,000 bushels of seed grains, not alone
Father
John**
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Bronchitis, Asthma and
all throat troubles.
Builds New Strength.
NO DANGEROUS DRUGS.
GUARANTEED.
to halt the wave of death through star
vation but to enable spring planting in
areas where the seed grains have been
exhausted temporarily to stem starva
tion.
“The American relief administration is
directed in Russia by former officers of
our own armies and has fully demon
strated its ability to transport and dis
tribute relief through American hands
without hindrance or loss. The time has
come to add the Government’s support to
the wonderful relief already wrought out
of the generosity of the American private
purse.
“I am not unaware that we have suffer
ing and privation at home. When it ex
ceeds the capacity for the relief within
the States concerned, it will have Federal
consideration. Jt seems to me we should
be indifferent to our own heart prompt
ings and out of accord with the spirit
which acclaims the Christmas tide, if we
do not give of our national abundance
to lighten this burden of woe upon a
people blameless and helpless in famine
peril.
SUGGESTS CHANGE TO END
NON-TAX ABLE BOND ISSUES.
“There are a full score of topics con
cerning which it would be becoming to
address you, and on which I hope to
make report at a later time. I have allu
ded to the things requiring your earlier
attention. However, I cannot end this
limited address without a suggested
amendment to the organic law.
“Many of us belong to that school of
thought which is hesitant about altering
the fundamental law. I think our tax
problems, the tendency of wealth to seek
nontaxable investment and the menacing
increase of public debt. Federal. State
and municipal, all justify a proposal to
change the Constitution so as to end the
issue of nontaxable bonds. No action can
change the status of the many billions
outstanding, but we can guard against
future encouragement of capital’s paral
ysis, while a halt in the growth of pub
lic indebtedness would be benencial
throughout our whole land.
"Such a change in the constitution
must be very thoroughly considered be
fore submission. I suggest the consider
ation because the drift of wealth into
lion-taxable securities is hindering the
flow of large capital to our industry,
manufacturing, agricultural and tarry
ing, until we are discouraging the very
activities which make our wealth
"Agreeable to your expressed desire
and in complete accord with the purposes
of the executive branches of the Gov
ernment, there is iri Washington, as you
happily know, an international confer
ence, most earnestly at work on plans
for the limitation of armaments and a
naval holiday and the just settlement of
problems which might develop Into causes
of international disagreement.
“It is easy to believe a world hope is
centered on this capital city. A most
gratifying world accomplishment is not
improbable.”
Receiver Is Chosen
for Hurst^Concern
Joseph A. Naughton today was ap
pointed receiver for Hurst & Go., by
Judge Arthur R. Robinson of Superior
Court, room 4. A receiver was asked
yesterday for the concern by the Udell
Works in behalf of numerous creditors.
Hurst & Cos. formerly operated a mail
order business in Indianapolis and has
a department store at Pennsylvania and
Georgia streets. Branch stores are main
tained at Greoncastle, Marion and Lo
gansport. Mr. Naughton. who was
treasurer and general manager of the
company, gave bond in the sum of $50,000.
The Indianapolis store will be closed
temporarily for invoice, it was said to
day.
DR. ALLEY TO SPEAK.
L>r. Robert J. Alley, president of But
ler College, will speak on the subject of
education th the weekly luncheon of the
Indianapolis Association of Credit Men
at the Claypool Hotel Thursday.
For Every Christmas Time is Slipper Time
* ’ | i.YSIIIONS in gifts come and go, but there’s one gift
I A I always in fashion—the gift of slippers. Wee slip-
Mfk iflMMbl P ers or wee ’ tt^e ee *” Dainty slippers for
jtWL ISSEf fastidious sister. “Homey” slippers for “Dad,”
ydSKfilk “Comfy” slippers for mother, sturdy roomy slippers for brother. As
sortmeuts were never more complete. Many styles not seen before have
come just in time for Christmas choosing. Every color, every possible
size, lots of novelties, and—
£ An all-inclusive lower-price range that should suggest to
you the advisability of buying now while our assortment
is complete and before the big rush, with its vexatious de-
Arß WLa For Women For Men For Men
Kelt Comfy slippers, in all ■.... -e Brown and black bid
Vv*i A ifiiflL the wanted colors; soft 1 pv JL Romeo Blippers, a pair,
AylsCm *l.7s ’Zf'. $2-25 j #3.00. *4.00
jEPwLflq *Felt Juliets, plush primmed, \J J
sorted colors. CO 7C / V A \ \ Cavaliers of brown mo
/LffilfiA 851.85 and SL.IO I \ V rocco, a d*7 pa
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fV* krown, wine and <£] Qcj Faust slippers, of brown
! X&3 s-m >!„;;** i„ . J ™ kid llned^ ou r f k
-3 A IOL I great variety of a a Brown and black kid slip- 0 a CC CD
J colors pers, Everett and opera P air
Quilted Satin Boudoir* with styleSi a pair, 83.00, vv a t
•Tit pompons, made of Skinners K , _ n ™ , j. _ relt COmtJS, EVBr 6t t
jwUsS'b!' I satin, in old rose, £0 7P fo-ou, H-vv (PC shape, padded innersoles,
fl 1,11115 and lavender ancl sizes, 6to 12, An np
Four-Buckle Ga- <£ Anr a pair ...JbZ.jD
/H \ WdJf' loshes, best quality... p 4. ID j\ . v
n 'mJ \ Vi!\ rTI Spat* in all tho wanted col- Felt Everetts with leather
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blue - soft soles - Sizcs AAUya
rPvk iwJL 1 v>’ to l •>*t* RO; 5i.65 Felt comfys, hylo style, Romeo, Everett and opera
uoT Veit JuileYs Plush with soft soles and {dipper*, Just like dad’., of,
rfSifiV AiV Fed belt Juliets, pjuMi . c _ _ brown kid, turned leather
trimmed, leather soles; sizes padded, sizes 6 (f0 r*A 80 i eSi B i 3es jj t 0 o at ooaa
,1m JfCi l&jiSk oto and 11 t 0 2 * Oft to 12 > a P a,r a pair. Sizes 2Mi (PO <)p
"th"’ft"oi s ’ UU t 0 at
4 /1/ ] in red ’or bl'ue, -with Felt Everett style
1 UlvfiSs XV leather solesandheel.;
’I'YW bHI blzcS . 11 , t 0 .2 $1 65 /
ac '' M , d a VamPS iI B SS I Storm King rubber
Pair • ..y I.OU boots, sizes 11 to 8,
Red Top Rubber at 8400, sizes 3
K? lift. $3.00 J i 0 ,..®- $4.50
j shoes at ■■ SKoe sS\ob ”s
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Store Hours—B a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Open Saturday Evening Until 9 o’Clock.
‘NURSE’ MISSING
AFTER CRASH OF
AUTO B Y TRUCK
Bottles of Gin Found Gets
Druggist in Trouble
With Law.
“Miss Hill, the nurse at the Methodist
Hospital," mysteriously disappeared aft
er the accident in which an
driven by Harvey Belton, 3024 Coliseum
avenue, was wrecked by a city fire
truck from headquarters at 10.50 o’clock
last night. Belton was driving north on
Pennsylvania street, and the heavy fire
truck west bound in New York street and
driven by Fred Fries, accompanied by
Capt. M. J. Hyland, who was in charge
of the truck, struck the side of the auto
mobile.
When the police emergency squad ar
rived they found Belton wa* uninjured,
and also were told by the firemen that
there had been a woman in the automo
bile. Belton admitted that a woman was
in the car and explained she was “Miss
Hill, a nurse at the Methodist Hos
pital.” She had hurried away from the
scene of the accident. At the hospital the
police were informed there was no nurse
by tho name of “Miss Hill” there.
Three bottles which the police allege
contained a small amount of gin were
found in Belton’s automobile by the fire
men. Belton was arrested on the charge
of violating traffic ordinance, improper
driving and operating a blind tiger.
He told the police he was the manager
of the Stokes drug store and that he was
on his way to the Methodist Hospital to
deliver a prescription. He admitted he
heard the fire truck approaching but said
he thought he could beat it across. The
heavy pumper struck the automobile
squarely on the side and the automobile
was shov'd west on New York street upon
the curb.
PIONEER WOMAN
WAS WELL KNOWN
Funeral of Mrs. Holliday to
Be Held Wednesday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Edmonia B.
Holliday, 81, who died at the home of her
son, Edward J. Holliday, 545 East Forty-
Second street, yesterday, will be held at
the home tomorrow. Mrs. Holliday was
the widow of John D. Holliday, a mem
ber of the firm of Holliday & Wyon Cos.,
and a captain in the Confederate Army.
Mrs. Holliday was born near Fred
ericksburg, Va., In 1840. On a visit to
Indianapolis in 18tn) she met Mr. Holliday
and they were married the following year.
Mr. Holliday was a member of the Tab
ei-naole Presbyterian Church and was an
active church wmrker for several years.
Surviving nre two sons, Edward J. Hol
liday and Duncan F. Holliday, and a
granddaughter, Mary Jacqueline Holli
day.
GIVES FALSE ADDRESS.
According to complaint made to the
poflce today. Dart Keefe, who was sum
moned as a witness in the blind tiger
case against Doda Esto, 128 South West
street, gave a wrong address when he
said that he lived at 725 Elm street. Jesse
Brooking and Harry Barnes live at that
address and declare they do not know
Keefe, who is said by the police to have
been one of Esto’s customers.
25 CASUALTIES
REGISTERED IN
P. & R. WRECK
Expect to Find More
Charred by Flames and
Buried in Debris.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. A check-up
today show's that twenty-five persons are
known to have perished in the head-on
collision of two Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway trains near Bryn® Athyn
yesterday.
According to a high official of the road,
more bodies may be buried In the de
bris, charred to ashes by the flames
which consumed tne wooden cars. Scenes
of horror were enacted comparable to
the recent St. Lazare tunnel disaster In
Paris.
More than a score of Injured have been
accounted for while pieces of bodies are
still being found. Because of the condi
tion of a number of the dead, It Is prob
able a Joint funeral will be held over
the bodies.
FAIRGROUND
FOR CITY PARK
Proposal to Be Debated at
Meeting of Local Civic
Association.
The advisability and feasibility of
seeking legislation by which the city
may use the State fairground as a city
park, when it is not being used tho
State fair or for other purposes by the
State board of agriculture, will be one of
the subjects taken up for discussion at
a meeting of members of the Northeast
ern Improvement and Civic
this evening at 8 o’clock, at the Calvin
W. Prather Masoriic Temple at College
avenue and Forty-Second street.
Committees are to be appointed to take
up arrangements for a municipal Christ
mas tree and a Christmas children's
party at College avenue and Forty-Sec
ond street, the date for which has rot
yet been decided upon. The Christmas
tree would be in the vacant lot at the
northeast corner of College ave.nue and
Forty-Second street, and the children's
party would be held in the Calvin W.
Prather building.
The association is composed of resi
dents In the territory between Central
avenue and the Monon tracks and Thirty-
Eighth and Fifty-Sixth streets. Its of
ficers are : President, A. W. Eberhardt;
vice president, Mrs. Roy Meyer; secre
tary-treasurer, Sumner Clancy.
Fellow Patients Beat
War Veteran to Death
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—An investigation 1*
being made today of circumstances con
nected with the death of Henry Baird, a
patient at the Hines Memorial Hospital
for War Veterans. Baird was beaten to
death with a chair in the hands of a fel
low patient.
Joseph Klein and George Nemee, fellow
patients, are being held pending an in
vestigation of their sanity. These two
and Baird were patients in the ward for
shellshock cases.