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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
CAR SHORTAGE
HITS BUILDING
Situation Desperate - Truck
Shipments Being Made.

The tying up of several large bdild
ing operations IN Indianapolis because OF
the inability of building contractors to
obtain cement through car shortage has
resulted in the shipment of cement by
truck from Limedale to Indianapolis and
other points
1.-THE situation has been desperate"
said c. n. Elliott, local representative Of
the Limedale plant
''In the last few weeks We have been
compelled to turn down orders for thou
sands Of barrels from failure to get the
necessary cars, and we have been unable
to take care Of our open contracts.
''TheTe is plenty Of cement to be had
If we could secure the cars.
There must be 100000 or 100000 bar
rels IN the bins at Limedale, and proba-
bly, 10000 at the Burlington plant.
1--WE have been delivering cement by
truck to some points near Limedale for
re-shipment by rail-
&C. W. Sedwick has arranged for
shipment by truck from Limedale OF
several hundred barrels, to be used in
the erection of the plant for the United
Butchers association, and f. Rauh Is
arranging for q truck shipment from
Limedale to the stOckyards, arrangements
having been made through Tom Snyder
of the indianapolis Chamber of Com
MERGE"
Mr. Snyder said that the highway
transport division was also arranging
for a shipment by truck to go from
Limedale to Sheridan, Ind, to permit
Of a resumption of building operations
there, since Sheridan is entirely out OF
cement. He said shipments would also
be made by truck next week from Lime
Z~Ta 81 ri Go~
castle and other points.
I'VE are now in position to offer the
building contractors of Indiana almost
unlimited service in motor truck trans
fer" said Mr.. Snyder. 'Sinee the recent
congestion in freight traffic the cham
Der has been able TO render great as
sistance in moving goods in and out CT
Indianapolis by truck. averaging hun
dreds Of tons weekly"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Feightner Publicity
Man for Democrats

Harold c. Feightner. formerly a mem
Der Of the editorial staff OF the Indian
apolis Star, today assumed charge Of the
publicity bureau OF the democratic state
committee, having been appointed by
Benjamin Bosse, democratic state chair
man.
Feightner will attend a meeting OF the
democratic editors Of the Eleventh dis
trict at Wabash, Ind, Sunday.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Shelby County Will
Receive No More Fish

\ Unless Shelby county officials enforce
be fish protection laws Of Indiana, their
reams viii not be restocked from the
1 ate hatcheries-
II This was the ruling of the Indiana
Conservation commission, which met to-
|day.
'Inasmuch as sentiment in Shelby
county is against the enforcement Of the
state fish laws, no fish will be planted in
the streams of that county" the commits
sion declared.
1t was declared that dynamiting and
SEEMING of fish had been prevalent in
Shelby county.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
RECESS AFTER
EIGHTH BALLOT

headed by Senator wadsworth, who wore
a wide smile.
Lodge then announced that Secretary
Gleason Of the convention would make
an announcement.
Gleason, his arms folded across the
front Of his Palm Beach coat and the
sunlight from a crack in the roof CLINT
ing against his eyeglasses, waited pa
tiently for silence
The New York delegation was the
center Of inquisltive groups at once
Replying to questions Senator Wads-
worth said that "Lowden probably will
show . gain on the first ballot" He re-
fused to explain or amplify his state
ment
The delegates still milled about in the
aisles, while Lodge stood beside Gleason,
gaveling with rhythmic beats and in,
creasing noises assembled from the gal
leries
Quiet was finally restored.
Gleason's announcement was a word Of
advice to the delegates who had failed
to get their mail at the convention post
Office.
go get it," She said. at may be some
thing importanf.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Spaan to Discuss
G. o. p. League Plank

Henry N Span, candidate for the
democratic nomination for representative
in congress from the Seventh district, will
discuss the league of nations plank in the
republican national platform at Danville,
Ind, tonight.
The meeting will be held at the court
house there under the auspices Of the
Central Normal. College Democratic club.
Thomas Taggart, democratic nominee
for the senate, on brief visit to In
dianapohs, characterized the plank as
"the most cowardly, evasive, unprin-
cipled action that any respectable set of
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Here's O. Cop Who
Isn't Likely to
Die of SMALLPOX

An interurban conductor tele-
phoned police headquarters that
some boys at a greenhouse on Mar
tindale avenue, north OF Thirty third
street, had bombsrded his car with
rocks.
Patrolman Coleman was sent to in
Testigate.
operator and said: ST you want
that rock-throwing investigated send
some other policeman to do IT,"
What is the matter!" asked the
operator.
There are nine boys living at that
house." answered Coleman, ''and they
tell me every one of them has the
stallpox and / haven't been vac
ctated IN a long time"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
TO PLAN LEGION CONVENTION.

Preliminary plans for the second ma
tional convention Of $he American legion
IN Cleveland next September win be taken
UP next week, when Lemuel Bolles. ma
tional adjutant; George II. Rennick, as
slstaut national adjutant, and II. II. Up
degrafF Of the publicity division confer in
New York City with Franklin D'olier,
national commander.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Man Bound Over a
Result of Fig

As the result of fight which occur
several weeks ego, Manual MargendolaV
living at the Denison hotel. has been
bound over to the grand jury under q
$500 bond.
Mergendolar, the evidence showed. had
a quarrel with Hubert McGinnis. 20 Eas,
Michigan street, about room rent which
McGinnis claimed Mergendoler owed him.
The trouble resulted in McGfnnis be-
ing cut on the back.
McGinnis is better known as Hugh
McGann, the boxer
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
Sorority to Take
Care of Children

Psi Iota xi sorority girls of Muncie
viii see that children of that city are
taken care Of
Articles of Incorporation we fled
with the secretary of state tods5 by the
Psi Iota XII day nursery.
The girls will care for children whose
mothers are forced to work, as well as
operate a dispensary for babies.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12

men ever attempted to put over on the
people,"
Mr.. Taggart returned to French Lick
for conference with Gov. Smith and
Charles F. Murphy OF New York.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
NEW YORKER GUEST or HONOR.

NEW YORKER GUEST OF HONOR.
Speaking on Chemistry and Clyiiiza-
ton" Ellwood Hendrick Of New York
was the guest OF honor and principal
speaker before the Indiana section OF the
American Chemical society at the Cham
Der of Commerce yesterday.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
SHADOW WOULD
FOLLOW EITHER.

II either Wood or Lowden were to be
nominated by the convention there would
be an Interrogation point placed opposite
either OF them in the mind Of every voter
in the United States as to how be got
his nomination.
IL is simply Tnconceivable to me that
with number Of men OF high standing
either Of whom would make a clean
candidate-from which the convention
may choose there should be a determina-
ton apparently in certain quarters with
which we arc all too familiar TO put over
men like Lowden and Wood who are al
ready under investigation by a senate
committee and who VIII still be under
investigation when the committee re-
sumes its hearing az Chicago in July.
What a pitlable miserable mess It
would be for the republican party to be
asked TO stand behind a man TO whom
has been traced the use Of money to
buy the nomination for president Of the
United States?
1t is a condition about which good
American citizens can not be too much
concerned and to which the convention
must pay heed unless II wishes 20 in
vite defeat for the republican party in
November.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
BRYAN THINKS
SPROUL LIKELY

CONTINUED From Page one.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
WIN
WITH WOOD OR
LOWDEN-BORAH
Idaho Senator Asserts Dark
Shadow of Big Money
Will Trail Either.
MUST BE HI, HE WRITES
BY WILLIAM e. BORAH,
United States Senator from Idaho.
downright. 1920)

CHICAGO. June 12.-The balloting yes
terday disclosed Enthusiastically no en-
thusiasm but rather on the other hand,
a great reluctance upon the part of the
delegates 10 accept either Wood or Low
den as their candidate
Both of these candidates have been in
the field for year
Each has made a thorough campaign
in many respects.
One OF them--W ood-has made a
thorough canvass of forty-seven states.
And yet there was no enthusiasm
among the delegates for either Wood or
for Lowden
Today-as the convention assembled
again-you hear upon every hand, "We
ought to name another candidate-we
ought not to name Wood or Lowden-we
ought to nominate Mr.. Johnson" whose
election, in my judgment, is already as
sured.
The thought seems to haunt the minds
OF the delegates who are voting for either
Wood or Lowden that they may be carry
ing the republican party TO disaster and
defeat in November.
DOUBT IF EITHER
COULD BE ELECTED.
1t does not require much trouble to
find a supporter of either Wood or Low
den-I mean a supporter in the sense
that he is voting for one or the other OF
them at the present time-who viii re-
fuse to say that ne seriously doubts II
either can be nominated, or IL either were
nominated, he could be elected.
No candidate and no supporter of any
candidate has right to demand-unless
be desires his loyalty TO the republican
party to be questioned-that his par
hA fnA as
inee Of the convention.
But every republican and every good
citizen has a right to demand that who
ever be the choice Of the convention
for president shall be a man whose In
tegrity and honesty, and the manner in
which he secured his nomination, can
not be questioned.
The republican party-every good re-
publican and every good American eid-
zen-has a right to demand that who
ever the convention names for president
is q man who is clean.
1t isn't enough that he be individually
clean.
The method by which he secured his
nomination must be clean.
The perfectly brutal and shameless
use Of money which characterized the
pre-convention campaign-and which is,
for that matter. still eharacterizing the
campaign Notwithstanding the startling
disclosures Of the lavish use of money
before the senate committee appointed
to investigate preconyention campaign
expenditures and contributions makes Il
imperative that when the convention
ends the questionable employment of
"slush funds" shall have been so con
demned once and for all by the charac-
ter Of the nominee that II cannot be
raised again during the campaign-at
least so far as the republican party is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
LITTLE BEANY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE.

Yestidday befire suppir 1 went in
the dining room closet dare ma
keeps the jam and things. me not be-
ing allowed in there but Jest going in
to look GROUND like. and all of a sud
din the door went shut, me thinking,
G, holey smoaks, / Amt allowed in
heer and I'm in here.
Wich jest then Nora rang the bell
for suppir and pop and ma anne down,
pop saying, Wares Benny. late agen?
He was jest GROUND heer few
minnits ago, sed ma, and pop sed,
That boy has 10 more ideer OF time
than a munkey in the zoo.
Me thinking. Gosh, I'm getting hum
cry WITCH I was, and afl-of a suddin
had a ideer how to get out without
enybody knowing I had bin in, being
to make a noise like a cat and then
hide in the back of the closet wen
sumbody opened the door and then
sneek out on my hands neez in case
they forgot to shut it agen.
WITCH 1 started to do, moking
noise like a small cat, which after L
had did il about times, ma sed, VIII
lyun, do you heer that? and pop sed,
It's in that closet, izzent il? and ma
sed, I'm going to look and see, any
way: WITCH I quick took apron off
of a hook and got doTn on the floor
under it, and ma opened the closet
door, saying. don't see enything, we'll
I declare I bleeve its under that apron,
I'm going to take a broom and poke it,
there must be sumthing under there.
No there amt, ma 1 sed. Still sound
ing like cat, and ma sed. Still sound
come rite out of there, do you wunt to
brighten a person to deth?
No mann, sed coming out from UNI
derneeth of the apron and ma sed,
Haven't I told you 100 times to keep
out of that closet? and sed, I jest
went in to look GROUND, ma, and ma
sed, have a good mind to make your
father punish you for this, wat are
you laffing at, Wiilyum?
I'm not laffing. sed pop, Benny, sit
down and eat your suppir:
Wich 1 did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
CoNrRoL or PRICEs.

A dispatch from Washin gton an
nounces that curbing of shoe profiteers
is sought thru a bill which has been
introduced in the senate by Senaz
tor McNary, Oregon. McNary's bill
provides manufacturers of shoes shall
stamp on the sole the price for which
shoes are sold to retailers.
If the McNary bill should become a
law and operate successfully. it might
easily be extended to any or all arti-
cles Of commerce. In that case we
should have an end to reduction of
prices and bargain sales.
The cry of 'profiteering" has led
to much foolish talk and numerous
absurd actions and it seems the end is
not yet in sight. When goods are
plentiful and supply equals demand, If
a man make or purchases at a low
price and sell at high price he is
making a profit. If he make or buy
patented or protected goods at a low
price and sell at a very high price
comparatively-he is making a big
profit. If he make or buy at low
price and sell at a very high price
protected or unprotected goods when
the supply is abnormally lower than
the demand and the people suffer for
the lack, then, and only then, he is
rightfully termed a profiteer.
In the multifariousness of commod-
tiles with their countless sellers, prof
iteers will continue and increase with
out much hindrance-unti1 production
shall ultimately equal supply. 1t is
difficult to force man to speed up in
his production unless we pay him his
price.
THE continual higher labor costs
with the rise in fabric costs" says a
writer in Leslie's, necessarily move
along the line to the pocket-book of
Mr.. Ultimate onsumer-Goat. who will
consume up to the point OF acute in
digestion and then will perform his
rearing and butting act-but, when he
butts, he butts hard enough to knock
initiation into deflation. That will
mean the beginning of the end of alb
normal high costs and high wages. 1t
will also mean a time of bitter discon-
tent and depression which will render
US almost as unhappy as we now are"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
Ouesfions-Answers

0. How did Mount Vernon come into
the possession Of the Ladies Mount Vernon
association ?-G. l. T.
A. A group of public spirited women
determined to acquire Mount Vernon, with
the purpose of restoring and preserving it.
They banded together as the Ladies Mount
Vernon association and purchased the
property from John A. Washington in
1865. He had inherited it from his uncle,
Bushrod Washington, to whom it was be-
queathed by George Washington.
Q. Does the government supervise the
manufacture of candy IL. NJ
A. The department. of agriculture warns
candy manufacturers that candy in Inter
state commerce must be pure, and must
carry a label that tells the truth. 1t must
set forth the net weight of contents. and
name of manufacturer, and the candy must
be made In accordance with the principles
laid down in the federal food and drugs
act applying to confectionery.
(Any reader can get the answer to amy
question by writing The Topeka State
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26

are the children? Ny, that's a bad
age 1t must be understood that they
can't come into the kitchen. Do you
have plenty to eat-meat three times
a day? People as stands on their feet
all day long has got to have plenty of
meat. Wen, I don't think I'd suit"
Carmen Was Coy.
BY this. of course, Carmen meant
that We did not suit. So ran most of
the other interviews held thruout this
busy morning. After visiting six diff
fcrent agencies and meeting a dozen or
so royal nursemaids or cooks, We were
accepted only twice. And we were not
really on the hiring line; we were
merely investigating conditions How
much more terrible it must be for
those who go the rounds, armed not
with imaginary facts and figures, but
with grim realities.
Furthermore, most terrifying of all
is the fact that conditions are not
growing better but worse. Cooks are
more expensive this month than they
were last, and mattresses are willing to
so TO the seashore this summer for
twice as much as they received last
season. No relief is in sight. either
a couple of months ago. New Workers.
breathed a sigh of this order when
they read dispatch from the United
States labor department. saying that
domestic servants would now be given
free entrance to this country, but the
sigh proved to be premature.
The weeks have gone by, and but
few foreign domestics have reached
our shores. They no Pnger look to
this country as the land of opportun-
iry and self-eXpression. All they have
to do is TO stay home and let oppor-
tunity come to them, for domestic
service is now quite as remunerative
an occupation in Europe as it is here.
In some places even more so. Thus.
H." - L
servants held a mass meeting and de-
manded a fortnight's vacation each
year so that they might go to sea baths
at the expense of their employers, who
during this time must pay them double
wages, owing to the great expense at
tached to this sort of bathing. The
employers are said to have agreed
humbly to this; also to the additional
demand that the maids be furnished
two cigarets daily thruout the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26

There was never in the country's
history so great need of a budget
system as there is today. According
to the figures of Representative Mon
dell, the president and executives in
the cabinet want more than four times
as much money to spend next year as
was appropriated for the year prior to
the entrance OF the United States into
the war. The state department wants
more than twice as much as it got in
1915, then %s.444,59411. 1t requests
an appropriation OF $12,92o. 60o.91.
The department of agriculture re-
ceiYed $2s,oS1,54o.ss in 1918. Its es-
Inmates were $72,56s,1o2 this year.
The department of commerce esti-
mates show 500 per cent increase,
the department. of labor nearly 500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Modem sto:Z .! Home and Business
By JANE PHELPS

| back over our lives together. 1 could
not think of one thing 1 had done
without believing it was for the best,
and not one action but I had consid-
cred Roberts good as we'll as my own
advancement. Yet I realized that I
had done just exactly as that writer
had said had made everything sub
servient to my business even Roberts
happiness which. of course also meant
my own. For loving him as 1 did, I
was not happy-had not been for some
time, knowing him miserable and
fearing to lose him.
L thought of Gardner Kenyon, that
he had for a few short weeks ap-
pealed to me-not that 1 ever had a
disloyal thought toward my husband.
put L could see how Marion might
have appealed to Robert in the same
way. Then by my being so absorbed
in my affairs and talking of them con-
stantly, her influence had grown
perhaps imperceptibly at first, but be-
cause she had loved him.. and had no
outside interests, she had almost won
him from me.
came to no conclusion with all
this thinking. But things were grad
ualiy crystallizing in my mind, almost
unconsciously. Just now l was bent
upon helping Robert to get on. 1
still had nearly two weeks of my yaca-
ton left. BY the time had to return
to the shop, he would have become in
terested enough so that he would not
fall back again.
So l planned little knowing the hold
certain ideas had upon him.
Well here 1 amt I said that night
after waiting outside until I saw he
was alone in the store. Now we'll get
to work.
Robert cleared the window, then
selected the things I thought would
attract the most attention and at the
same time make an artistic showing.
We worked steadily for nearly two
hours. When We finished, / was de-
lighted. Sporting goods really lend
themselves easily TO decorative pur-
poses.
Il guess the Old Man will open his
eyes when he see what we have done"
Robert said, as we went home tired
but satisfied.
tTomorrow-Encour gement.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
JUST FOLKS

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

GENEROUS LIFE
have known the green trees and the skies
overhead
And the blossoms OF spring and the fra
GRANGE they shed;
have known the blue sea, and the noun
tain afar
And the song Of the pines and the light OF
a star;
And should 1 pass now. could say with
a smile
That my pilgrimage here has been much
worth my while.
have known the warm handclasp of
friends who were true
have shared in their pleasures and wept
with them too;
have heard the gay laughter which
sweeps away care
And none of the comrades I've made could
And should this be all, 1 could say ere
That life is worth while just such
friendships TO know.
have builded n home where we've loved
and been glad.
I have known the rich joy of girl and
lad;
thru shine.
And watched them grow lovely anc
claimed them as mine;
And I think as hold them at night on
my knee.
That life has been gioriously generous
to me.