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EXISTING LAWS
CAN NOT HANDLE
ALIEN MENACE
More Legislation Needed to
Check Coming of Un
desirables.
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia I ablic Ledger.
■WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—While the
House has passed the resolution extend
ing- for a year the 3 per cent Immigra
tion law, officials of the Department of
are not satisfied that existing law
adequate to meet the situation.
Additional legislation should be en
acted, Secretary of Labor Davis said to
stop the menacing increase in the num
ber of undesirable immigrants now in
the country. He estimated that there
were between 5,000 and 25,000 such
aliens.
PROPOSES REGISTRATION
OF ALIENS.
Registration of all aliens was pro
posed by the Secretary of Labor to meet
the situation. There is no other means,
in his opinion, for getting track of the
undersirables, including persons disqual
ified for admittance into this country by
disease, immorality and for lack of tihe
proper mental equipment.
Mr, Davis, who conferred at length
with President Harding, said the de
partment had under consideration plans
for further assisting in the subsidy of
the American Merchant Marine by provid
ing half of the immigrants admissible
under the present law be transported to
this country in American ships. The
operation of such a plan would be of
great benefit to American passenger-car
rying vessels, according to the Secretary
of Labor, with 350.000 immigrants admis
sible to the country during the year.
SUGGESTS FINES FOR
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES.
Immigration officials favor strongly
the imposition of heavy fines on steam
ship companies bringing to this country
immigrants who are inadmissible. In
addition to this class of immigrant, they
are also faced with the presence In this
country of large numbers of Orientals
k'ho were permitted to land under the
rovisions of the La Follette seaman’s
law and either failed to return to their
ships or the ships were unable to proceed
further without any cargo.
Under the law Mr. Davis pointed out
seamen are permitted sixty days leave,
and, despite heavy bonds given for them
in many instances, they never retnrned
to their ships. There are in' New York
at the present time, he said, 8,000 Chi
nese who are being held for lack oi
funds to deport them.
The number of Chinese illegally in the
country now was estimated to be near
40,000 by the Secretary of Labor. The
Orientals had made their entrance in
many ways, he said, many of them on
the Southern coast.
They include “bootleg immigrants,” he
said, who had been smuggled in by rum
runners along the Florida coast. The
business of smuggling immigrants into
the country, he said, had become very
profitable, owing to the eonyuiratlvely
large amounts immigrants were ready to
pay to gain entrance here.—Copyright,
1922, by Public Ledger Company.
ARMENIANS SWAT
FLIES FOR PRIZES
Red Cross Nurse Offers Suits
of Clothes in Contest.
NEW YORK. Feb. 21.—There are many
ways of achieving greatness but a young
|jfled Cross nurse serving with the Near
T?ast Relief in Armenia, has hit upon the
novel one of winning fame through a
“Swat the Fly” campaign.
Her offer of a prize of a suit of Ameri
can clothes to the six ’boys catching the
largest number of flies for three months
made her famous throughout Armenia.
Why she wanted the flies was a puzzle
but several hundred ragged youngsters
proceeded to go after them. Miss Paul
ine Jordan of New York, the woman in
question, had very definite ideas of the
fly In spreading disease. The Orientals
did not share her ideas. To the masses
In the east vermin are a sign of good
health and why any one should object
to anything so harmless as a fly even in
one’s food, was to them unfathomable.
But a suit of clothes was a suit of clothes.
Hen -e the orphanage directors of Alex
andropol were considerably embarrassed
at the end of a few weeks to find stor
age room for the great hordes of dead
flies that the children brought in each
day. Fly swatting was the great sport
throughout the city.
Miss Jordan was beginning to feel
highly elated when her pride was con
siderably dashed when she overheard two
ragged youngsters, each bearing in his
thin little fists a handful of dead flies,
dls cussing her campaign.
“What does the lady do with them?”
questioned one boy. “Don’t see what
she wants with dead flies.”
“Aw, don’t you know?” replied the
other with scorn, “She makes medicine
out of ’em and it cures everything.”
The campaign was declared a success
in spreading the fame of the Ameri
can nurse but the relief directors owing
™o limitation of space have decided there
will be no revival of It next year.
‘Silent Orator’ Has
Legion Message
For the cause of the American Legion
auxiliary the “Silent Orator” on the Mer
chants Heat and Light Company building
will carry the following message begin
ning tonight:
“Wives —mothers—sisters and daugh
ters of the members of the American Le:
gion: Lest we forget the fields of Flan
ders where the poppies grow, let ns com
memorate the names of onr boys by join
ing the American Legion auxiliary. Mrs.
Morris E. Thornton, chairman.”
Movies Praised as
Aid in Church Work
Motion picture production is a “valua
ble and Important industry,” Dr. Worth
M. Tippy, executive secretary of the com
mission on social service of the Federal
Council of Church of America, declared in
addressing the Social Workers’ Club of
the All Souls Unitarian Church last night.
"It is an established fact the churches
ore going to nse motion pictures more
and more in their Sunday night sermons
and throughout the week In educational
work,” Dr. Tippy said.
No Gambling Edict
$ May Close Carnival
Ppedal to The Times.
MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Following the
no-gambling edict anounced by the pres
ent administration when it came into
power in January, Mayor J. C. Quick,
last night, ordered all gaming device*
removed from an indoor carnival opened
Monday night under the auspices ,of the
local building trades and labor unions.
Chances of groceries, furniture and
other articles, were being raffled off.
Such devices have always been the chief
source of revenue at indoor attractions
of this kind and the order will likely re
sult in the carnival being closed.
BENEFIT SOCIETY PLANS DANCE.
Marlon Council, 738, Security Benefit
Association, will give a dance Thursday
evening in Odd Fellow Hall, Hamilton
avenue and East Washington street.
Women to Have Lookout
Committee tor Congress
Bills Presented to Be Scrutinized for Bearing
on National Welfare .
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger
By CONSTANCE DREXEL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—A lookout
committee charged with scrutinizing all
bills in Congress is anew idea just
launched by the women’s joint congres
sional committee.
Mary Stewart, of the business and pro
fessional women’s clubs will serve as
chairman and Mrs. Samuel McClintock of
the National board of the Y. W. C. A.,
will be kept busy keeping tabs on legis
lation In the lookout committee. No one
else seemed willing to undertake the ar
duous task, but other members will be
needed. -They will report their findings
at each meeting of the joint committee.
WISH INTEREST OF
WOMEN BACK HOME.
However, it cannot be explained too
often for the benefit of the women back
home taking an interest In what Congress
Is doing that the members of the joint
committee can take no action and support
no bills in Congress without the indorse
ment of the organizations which they
represent.
“Safety first” is the motto. That is
to say, Mrs. Florence Kelley, for in
stance, representing the National Con
sumers' League on the women’s Joint
Congressional committee, does not pledge
the support of her organization unless
bills have received Indorsement at a
national convention or from the national
board of the Consumers’ League.
That Is an important point to the
women members back home who do not
want their support pledged to the equal
rights amendment, just to take one ex
ample, without their consent obtained
through a convention or meeting of of
ficers. Therefore, results from the wom
en’s joint Congressional committee seem
rather slow in coming, and it often
seem* a pity that there is no committee
of women here in Washington whom
the women back home could trust to use
their Judgment In situations as they arise
here.
FLOUNDERS AROUND
OYER "BONUS.”
For instance, many forward thinking
people now believe the soldier “bonus”
bill should be killed and that the treat
at the earliest possible date. All of
ies of the conference should be ratified
Washington is floundering around about
the “bonus.” It just seems as if the
weight of a few powerful groups thrown
into the balance might bring sanity into
the situation.
Yet the leaders on nine national organi
zations meeting in the committee which
MRS. SANGER SETS
SAIL IN FACE OF
JAP OPPOSITION
Birth Control Advocate Says
Misunderstanding Can Be
Overcome.
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Feb. 21.—Un
daunted by failure to secure a vise to her
; passport from the Japanese consul gen
eral here and undismayed by cabled
statements that, though permitted to land
in Japan, she could not talk on her mis
sion, Margaret Sanger, militant advocate
of birth control, sailed for the Orient on
the Haiyo Maru today.
“The entire thing is a misunderstand
ing which I am certain will be properly
overcome when I reach Yokohama,” she
said. _
The plans for Mrs. Sanger’s Oriental ’
tour call for lectures at flve of Japan's
leading universities, several In China,
and addresses in Manila, the trip requir
ing three months.
I “The younger members of the Japanese
i parliament believe birth control Is a
i question Japan can discuss for their
! good, but the older members are opposed
i to it,” said the lecturer.
“Militarism is a result of population
i pressure,” she continued. "If the popula
tion of a nation grows beyond its means
; of subsistence, then an explosion is cer
tain and Germany is the best illustration
of that fact. Japan’s birth rate Is so
far above its death rate there Is no com
parison. If the Japanese government
would endeavor to make its population
quality, rather than quantity, their na
tion would be better equipped to co
ordinate with the rest of the entire
world,” declared Mrs. Sanger.
t Mrs. Sanger hazarded the chance that
her tour through Japan will be halted
:by the Nippon government when she
| sailed today, but declined to permit this
I to interfere with her plans,
j After leaving China, Mrs. Sanger will
go to London, where she will attend
the international conference on birth con
trol. to be held in the English capital
next July.
THURMAN GIVES
ADVICE ON TAX
Revenue Collector Explains
Confusing Section of Act.
, Numerous inquiries have been received
regarding the proper interpretation of
section 223. of the Revenue Act of 1921,
which provides that each individual
whose gross income of 1921 was $5,000 or
over shall file a return, regardless of his
< - net income, according to M. Bert
Thurman, collector of internal revenue.
-ii:i*g to Collector Thurman:
Gross income means statutory gross
income, defined by the revenue act to in
elude “gains, profits and income derived
Irom salaries, wages . r ■ omp arion f<r
• ■ service * * * of whatever
“and in whatever form paid, or from
professions, vocations, trades. hsin"“R.
•r> e or sales or dealing in property,
whether real or personal, growing out of
the ownership or use of or interest in
such property: also from interest, rent,
eurities or the transaction
of any business carried for gain or profit
or gains or profits and income derived
from any source whatever.”
Gross income does not n-cessarily mean
gross receipts. A merchant, for instance,
in computing statutory gross income,
should deduct therefrom the cost of
goods sold. For example, a merchant
may have gross receipts amounting to
SIO,OOO. but the cost of goods sold
amounts to -$7,000, He has no other in
come. The statutory gross income would
be $3,000. In case the other deductions
allowed him for business expenses, taxes,
interest, bad debts, etc., amouDt to $2,500,
his net income would be SSOO. No return
of Income is required in this case.
A lawyer who is married and living
with his wife has gross receipts in the
form of fees amounting to SO,OOO and his
necessary business expenses amount to
$4,200, leaving a net income of only SI,BOO.
A return will be required in this case,
as taxpayer’s gross income as well as
gross receipts is SO,OOO.
Real Estate Men
Push Building Plans
A snbcommittee of the building com
mittee of the Indianapolis Real Estate
Board has been appointed to consider the
matter of financing the proposed new
building to house the offices of the board.
The building committee has expressed its
approval of the plan to construct a home
for the board. Both committees will
report at a meeting at the Chamber of
Commerce tomorrow.
is supposed to be the medium between
Congress and the women of the country
could not express themselves on the two
issues engrossing the attention of Con
gress at this moment because these is
sues had not been indorsed at conven
tions of their organizations.
However, in the, opinion of women who
have studied into the situation, no other
method is safe. It would not be fair
to speak for women of their organiza
tions without their consent.
So far this year no measure ha* de
veloped like the Sheppard-Towner ma
ternity and infancy bill ito win the sup
port of a majority of women’s organiza
tions. Asa matter of fact though that
bill has successfully passed Congress
after many months of arduous labors,
the task is not complete and, strange as
it may seem, this bill is still under dis
cussion because the appropriation has
not yet been made. The women have
had to transfer their efforts to the ap
propriations committee. Besides, reports
from various States accepting the provi
sions of the bill have to be dealt with.
Another measure under discussion is
one giving independent citizenship to
women which the League of Women Vot
ers and the General Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs has indorsed at their last
conventions. But no special drive is be
ing made for this bill, In view of the
complex situation in Congress.
Organizations represented were:
American Association University Wom
en, by Mrs. Raymond Morgan; Y. W. C.
A., by Mrs. Samuel McClintock and Mrs.
Alice S. Buell of New York; General
Federation of Clubs, by Miss Lida Haf
ford; League of Women Voters, by Mrs.
Maud Park and Miss Marion Parkhurst;
W. C. T. U„ by Mrs. Ellis Tost; Con
sumers League, by Mrs. Kelley and Mrs.
Costlgan; Women's Trade Union League,
by Miss Mary Dewson of New York and
Miss Ethel Smith; Girl* Friendly So
ciety; Professional and Business Wom
en’s Clubs, by Miss May Stewart and
College Women’* Clubs.
After the meeting Mrs. Maud Wood
Park, who presided, left for Toronto,
Canada, where she has been invited to
form the first Canadian league of women
voters.
The Invitation to form a league along
American women's Ideas came through
the visit of Mrs. Sylney Small, a charm
ing woman of Toronto, who was here
during the early winter. Mrs. Small is
a member of the Toronto city council. —
Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Com
pany.
MARYLAND LAWS
GIVE WOMEN BUT
FEW PRIVILEGES
Statutes Are Unreasonable as
Regards Rights of
Weaker Sex.
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Investiga
tion by the National Woman’s party,
which Is seeking a constitutional amend
ment “to remove the legal disabilities of
women,” has convinced leaders of the
organization that Maryland is “one of the
worst States in the Union with regard to
its laws concerning women.”
Maryland laws, says a report of the
legal research department of the organi
zation, are wholly unfair in dealing with
the legal rights of mothers. Maryland
is one of the three States which gives the
father the right to will away from the
mother the guardianship of her minor
children without any restriction in fa
vor of the mother’s right to children of
tender age.
Among the discrimination against
women embodied in Maryland statutes,
which the woman’s party also Is attack
ing In the Maryland Legislature, are:
FATHER'S RIGHT
IS SUPERIOR.
! Mothers are not equal guardians of
I their children; the right of the father is
superior in every way to that of the
mother; he owns the children’s services
and earnings; he has a legal right to
control their upbringing; decide their re
ligion; their education; their work. A
! mother may not, unless the father Is
dead or a deserter, sue for an injury to
j her child not resulting in death. Usually,
only the father hag a right to sue for
the seduction of a daughter; only the
father may bind a child asap appren
| tice, this rigiit not being given even to
I widowed mothers.
I The wife’s services belong to her hus
• band; even her earnings belong to.him
| unless she can show that She has defini’e
j ly “elected” to work as an Independent
j person. This Is very difficult to prove to
the satisfaction of the court.
|HUSBAND CHOOSES
! LEGAL RESIDENCE,
j A married woman may not choose her
! legal residence; the husband alone has a
| right to choose the legal residence for
himself and for nig wife. Should she
; maintain a voting residence in another
! State while actually living in Maryland,
his wife would have to go to that other
State in order to vote. She would have
no vote in her home State.
Divorce laws are more liberal for the
husband than for the wife.
Inheritance laws discriminate against
women. In granting letters of an admin
istration for the estates of deceased
persons, men are preferred to women.
Wamen may not serve on Juries in
Maryland.
Women may not hold certain municipal
offices.
Penalties for sex offenses are not
equal.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger
Company.
Jenks Secretary
of Junior C. of C.
| J. F. Jenks, second vice president of
i the Junior Chamber of Commerce, has
been appointed secretary to succeed
Floyd Chafee, it was announced at a
meeting of the organization at the Cham
ber of Commerce last night. Mr. Chafee,
who has been secretary since January,
'921, will direct the intercollegiate bas
k t-ball tournament here next month,
i Fred Rakeman, secretary of the bureau
of industry of the Chamber of Commerce,
was named second vice president, to suc
ceed Mr. , Jenks. A. E. Roberts was
named chairman of a committee to have
i charge of the arrangements for the an
j nual convention of the United States Ju
nior Chamber of Commerce here June
I 15, 16 and 17.
Officers Find Clew
to Lost Diamond
Detectives who are investigating the
disappearance of a diamond stud valued
at SSOO belonging to Frank O'Toole, 826
North New Jersey street, arrested Helen
Lyke, 45. and Fred H. Phelps, 45, at
a rooming house at 1102 North Capitol
avenue last night. The conple Is charged
with vagrancy and with a statutory of
fense. O'Toole sent a shirt to a laundry
last Thursday and forgot to remove a
diamond stud. When he called at the
laundry the stud was not found but
the Lyke woman, an employe, had failed
to report for work since the shirt ar
rived at the^laundry.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.
CHICAGO OPERA
LOVERS WORRY
Show Deep Concern Over
Mary Garden’s Future
Plans.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21. —The future opera
plans of Mary Garden, director and
prima donna of the Chicago Opera Com
pany, were matters of deep concern for
opera lovers here today. Reports from
Philadelphia, where the Chicago com
pany is now appearing, indicate that
MUs Garden may quit her post as ar
tistic head of the company.
Miss Garden, according to Philadel
phia dispatches, has declared she will
make known her plan* within two weeks
It 1* understood a contract has been ten
dered her, conditional upon the success
of the endowment fund now being raised
for the opera organization. Mias Garden
is still undecided, it is believed, regard
ing acceptance of this contract.
One report here said Miss Garden
might transfe'r her allegiance to the Met
ropolitan Opera Company of New York,
taking the place vacated by Geraldine
Farrar.
GROCERS WILL
DISCUSS SHOW
Exposition to Display Goods
Made in Indianapolis.
A meeting of Indianapolis retail gro
cers will be held tonight at the Chamber
of Commerce to complete plans for the
cooperation of grocers and manufactur
er* at the Pure Food Exhibition to be
held at Tomlinson Hall commencing
April 19. R. S. Dean, manager of the
exposition said special efforts were be
ing made to Interest local food manufac
turers in the show and to obtain a bet
ter food products distribution to local
grocers.
Mr. Dean said a majority of food pro
ducer* in Indianapolis had reserved space
for the show.
The program committee announced It
had obtained the Keith sißters’ orchesi ra
and “Izette,” the accordionist, who is
heralded as an entire orchestra by her
self.
Asa feature of the show the commit
tee will erect a special dancing pavilion
where the public can dance without
charge.
“Indianapolis is going to have one of
the classiest food expositions ever held
here,” Mr. Dean said. “There will be
more Indlanapolls-made food products on
exhibition than ever were shown here
before. It will be a show the women of
the city will be vitally Interested in
and efforts are being made to have the
housewives attend.”
Central Avenue Home
Is Damaged by Fire
Loss estimated at $1,500 was caused by
a fire In a two-story frame apartment
building at 1957 Centra] avenue today. I.
Skinner was the occupant of the apart
ment where the fire started. Defective
wiring is believed to have been the cause.
THE EQUITABLE
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U. S.
120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
THE EQUITABLE’S 62nd Annual Statement, from which the
following figures are taken, and which records substantial gains
in Assets, Surplus, Outstanding Insurance, Income, and Payments
to Policyholders, will be sent to any address on request.
OUTSTANDING INSURANCE, Dec. 31, 1921... .$2,817,970,732
NEW INSURANCE issued and paid for in 1921.... $427,193,301
Exclusive of $30,114,408 of Group Insurance.
PAID TO POLICYHOLDERS in 1921 $83,678,000
PAID POLICYHOLDERS Since Organisation $1,458,650,000
Over 98% of the domestic death claims paid in 1921 were settled withfn twenty
four hours after receipt of due proofs of death.
The rate of mortality among' Equitable policyholders for the year was the low
est in the history of the Society.
During the year over $75,000,000 was invested for Policyholders at an average
yield of 5.88%.
ASSETS, December 31, 1921 $655,301,018
INSURANCE RESERVE $536,872,300
other liabilities 20,173,737 557,046,037
SURPLUS RESERVES:
For distribution in 1922 —
On Annual Dividend Policies $13,900,000
On Deferred Dividend Policies 12,248,772 26,148,772
Awaiting apportionment on deferred dividend policies 36,400,411
For Contingencies 35,705,798
$655,301,018
TH$ EQUITABLE Issues all forms of Life Insurance
and Annuities, including:
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under which the beneficiary receives a monthly income for life—the safest and
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A GROUP POLICY
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A CORPORATE POLICY
to safeguard business interests.
A CONVERTIBLE POLICY.
which can be modified to meet changing conditions.
AN INCOME BOND
to provide for the declining years of the purchaser.
AN ENDOWMENT ANNUITY POLICY
providing an income for life after age 65.
AN EDUCATIONAL POLICY
providing a fund for the college training of a son or daughter.
A POLICY TO PAY INHERITANCE TAXES
Full information regarding any of these forms will be sent on request.
W. A. DAY
President
FRANK L. JONES, Agency Manager
342 Lemcke Annex. 115 North Pennsylvania Street.
U INDIANAPOLIS.
Elevator Company
to Erect Building
The Reedy Elevator Company will oc
cupy anew factory building at 520-22
South New Jersey street, tbe permit for
vhich has been taken out at the office
of the city controller by the D. V. Reedy
Realty Company. The building will cost
$21,000. It will be two stories high and
will measure forty-four by 202 feet.
REPORT REVOLT
OF REGIMENTS
Portuguese Soldiers Said to
Be in State of Re- |
bellion.
LONDON, Feb. 21.—Several Portuguese
regiments have revolted according to a
Lisbon dispatch to the Evening Standard |
today. The situation there is uncertain, |
but is said to depend on what action the
rest of the army takes.
The government has been In a critical
situation several months, due to the ac
tivities of Bolshevist groups on one hand
and monarchists on the other.
News Agency dispatches say Lisbon Is
quiet, due chiefly to the fact troops are i
patrollng the streets. Similar precau- !
tlons were taken at Oporto.
A revolutionary, nation-wide, strike is j
scheduled for tomorrow in Portugal.
CAR ON WALK;
DRIVER HELD
Three Motor Accidents Are
Reported to Police.
An automobile that failed to turn the
corner at Twenty Seventh and Clifton
streets last night halted on the sidewalk
with two wheels broken. The polico went
to the home of the owner of the car,
Loyd Pruitt, 2735 Burton avenue, and ,
arrested him on tne charge of operating j
an automobile while under the Influence
of liquor.
11. C. Tutt, 2310 Beliefontaine street,
was injured when he was struck by an
automobile while erossirg the street at
Ashland avenue and Twei'ty-Thlrd street.
Tbe driver of the automobile did not'
stop. Tutt, who is * cripple, was
bruised severely.
William Douglas, 1938 College avenue,
was arrested on the charge of assault
and battery after his automobile truck
backed into -a touring car, driven by
John Williams, 23 North Randolph
street. The accident occurred In front of
316 East North street.
Work of Wrecking
Is Begun at Fort
Buyers of the 169 cantonment build
ings at Ft Benjamin Harrison sold at
public auction last week have begun the
work of wrecking them The buyer* have
sixty days to wreck the buildings, which
they bought for a total of $22,090. Some
of the buildings will be retained by the
Government and remodeled for the use
of noncommissioned officers and their
families.
U.S. WOULD NOT
TAKE PART IN
LEAGUE EVENT
Prospects for Joining Genoa
Conference Also Grow
Dimmer.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.—The dim
prospects of the United State* actively j
participating in the Genoa economic con- j
ference became still dimmer today upon
receipts of informal advices from Paris
and London that France and Great Brit- !
ain look with favor upon a conference ,
sponsored by the League of Nations.
There was a tendency in Administra- I
tion quarters to regard the questions as
tentative, even though they apparently
emanated from high official sources. It
was made clear, however, that if the al
lied premiers are not bluffing and really
intend to stage a conference unaer league
mi hi Ices, the Harding Administration will
have nothing to do with It.
Belief that Poincare and Lloyd George
are bluffing is based upon the con Ti- j
tion that both thoso statesmen appreciate I
the futility of seeking a permanent set- |
lement of European economic if
the United States is not to be a party to
the settlement. With the increased power i
placed in the hands of the executive by !
the debt funding legislation, it is pointed
out, the American State Department is in
n posiion to wield a much stronger In
fluence than heretofore in matters affect
ing the economic policies of European
nations and few officials can see just
how Poincare and Lloyd George can
afford to take a step to exclude the
United States from the conference. The
hesitancy shown by the United States in
the matter of occeptlng the Genoa in- i
vitatlon is known to have caused consid
erable pique in a number of European
capitals and those who are watching the (
moves closely believe tie League of Na- ;
tlous report may havt, been thrown out |
with the idea of Intimating to Washing- j
ton that Europe cap get along very well j
by herself.
Local Musician
Honored at Purdue
i• - - ■■
Special to The Time*
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 2L—J. P.
Thompson of Indianapolis has been hon
ored oy the Purdue Military Band, re
ceiving a title >f “Principal Musician."
This recognition Is given only to those
who acquire a high degree of proficiency
on their instrument and but few bafid
men receive this honor. Thompson has
been playing with this organization dur
ing the three years he has been in Pur
due studying mechanical engineering.
Ti e Purdue band is a unit of over a j
hundred pieces and Is recognized as one i
of the best musical organizations in ti- |
country. It has been classed as one oi j
the finest parade bands in the Mi Idle i
West and makes frequent trips. This j
frganlzation plays for all big occasions
in Indianapolis, last fall leading the
parade for the national G. A. R. encamp- j
ment. It wa* the official band at the !
Indiana State fair, and was selected to
serve on the reception committee for the
Marshal Foch celebration at the eapltol
city. Amorg the equipment of the unit
Is the largest bass drum In the world.
In Our Model Grocery
Quality—Service—Moderate Prices
ON SALE ALL DAY
Sun-Lit Bread, hot from our mgg
yd wa fa II ovens at 8:30 a. m. and 2:30 1 _
llfcfll# p. m. All pan breads, including
rye, graham and whole wheat.
One-pound loaf, while supply lasts, loaf
LEMON CREAM
SPONGE CAKE, ifi
20c size, each IDC
COCOANUT MACA
ROONS, 40c quality, spe
cial, q
pound LtZfi.
THE BASEMENT STORE
Fifty Women Will Be Made Happy
in This Sale of
Fifty Plush COATS
Priced so low that the materials alone could
not be purchased for their sale price.
Yrp jE/
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this lot is a late season model which embodies the styles
of the next winter season.
Just 50 to sell Wednesday At 910.00
Startling Values and Sterling Qualities
in a Sale of
500 CORSETS
For Women and Misses
Corsets that would ordinarily
retail at $2.50, $2.00,
$1.50, special
—Brocades ■—Batistes —Drills
—Coutlls —Novelty Weaves
—Models for Slender Figures
—Models for Average Figures
—Front or Back Lace Models
These corsets are a special purchase of the broken
lots and salesman’s samples from one of the largest
manufacturers in America.
SPECIAL WEDNESDAY, 98<
Domestics and Beddings
ABSORBENT CHEESE
CLOTH. yard wide, in sani
tary bags—
-10-yard bolt f0r....69<*
5-yard boit for .. ..350
PERCALES, yard wide,
neat dress and apron pat
terns, light and dark colors.
Including the much wrnted
navy “blue; 25c g n
quality, yard 1 I C
ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, 27
inches wide, complete range
of checks, plaids, stripes and
plain colors; extra •* q
special, yard 1 JC
UNBLEACHED SHEET
ING, quality equal to “Pep
perell,’’ 2V* yards wide (lim
it 10 yards to a zq
customer), yard
BLEACHED SHEETS, Six
90 (limit 6 to a customer),
extra QQ _
BLEACHED SHEETING,
quality equal to ’Pepperell,”
2% yards wide (limit 10
yards to a customer), extra
49c
OUTING FLANNEL, 27
inches wide, heavy and
fleecy; good variety of color
stripes on light ground, 5 to
10-yard lengths; -J OIA
18c quality, yard ... Lr* /2C
The %i. H. BLOCK CO.
ASSORTED COOKIES,
15c quality, s *y
special, dozen IIC
GINGER SNAPS, 12%0
quality, special, Q
pound JC
$15.00, $18.50, $19.75, $22.50
qualities
—Pretty Linings of Duratex
Satin
—Made of Genuine Salts’ Plush
—Flare Styles, 38 Inches Long
—Belted Models
—Collars Trimmed with Fur
You have but to glance at the
soft, silky plushes to realize the
unusual quality. Every coat in
PILL O W CASES, 42x36,
deep hems; 35c on
quality, each uO C
UNBLEACHED MUSLIN,
yard wide, suitable for
aprons, spreads, matt: ess cov
ers, curtains, etc.; | q
25c quality, yard ICC
BLEACHED MUSLIN,
yard wide, heavy grade In ft
longcloth finish for under
wear and general use; 250
quality, if
yard lOC
NAINSOOK, yard wide,
launders perfectly; * /
22c quality IUC
PLAIN MARQUISETTE
CURTAINING, yard wide,
launders nicely; in white
and green; extra ■* *7
special, yard 1/C
MOHAWK SEAMLESS
BLEACHED SHEETS. 81x90
Inches; extra | *> C
special, each cpl.Jj
ALL-WOOL*PLAID BLAN
KETS, large double bed size,
70x80, steam shrunk, scoured,
genuine western made blan
kets; broken block plaid ef
fects; blue, pink, tan, gray,
yellow and lavender; weight,
5 pounds; g\n
Sale price <pU>7o
11
—Fifth Floor.