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BULLETINS SENT
OUT OVER STATE
Proposed Amendments For
warded C. of c. Bodies.

A bulletin containing the proposed
amendments to the State constitution
that will be submitted to the voters Of
Indiana at a special election to be held
Sept. 6 is being sent to the members Of
the Indiana State Chamber Of Com
merce from headquarters OF the organiza-
ton in this city. The amendments will
be discussed at a State conference on
taxation in Indianapolis June Z.
Thirteen Of the original sixteen amend
ments adopted by the 1919 session OF the
legislature were approved by the 1921
session, and these thirteen proposed
amendments are being sent out in the
bulletin, without comment either for or
against them, to the members of the
chamber that they may be carefully con-
sidered in advance of the special cleo
ton in September.
The subjects ares Qualifications for
suffrage, registration of voters, enumera-
ton Of voters veto Of items in ap-
preparation bills, fixing the terms Of
State officers, fixing the terms of coun-
ty officers, fixing the terms of prosecut-
Ing attorneys, qualifications Of lawyers,
State superintendent Of public instruc-
ton. taxation. income tax. admitting ne
groes to the State militia, extension OF
term Of office or increase of salaries Of
public officials.
B. R. Inman, manager of the Indiana
State Chamber Of Comerce, addressed
the Hammond Chamber Of Commerce on
Functions Of the Modern Chamber Of
Commerce. at luncheon Thursday, and
has accepted an invitation to address the
Hammond Kiwanis Club at luncheon
next Tuesday on "Eiddlers and Fight
ers"
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the other side, 1 am confident that they
did not get any information from this
side of the Atlantic. The Navy had
control of all radio, every cable message
was scanned and even the destroyer and
transport captains did not know their
destination until they were well out at
sea. My own opinion is that the Ger
mans, who knew of General Pershings
arrival in England, which occurred the
day after our first conveys sailed, in
ferred that troops were being dispatched
and merely "doped out" the probable
route. The mine-laying at Queenstown
was, as likely as not. simply coinci-
dence.
And so l am satisfied in my own
mind that the missing plan, the prob
lem Solution, Black" will yet be found
carefully-too carefully-hidden away in
the Navy Department. l have never be-
lieved it was stolen, or that it In any
way fell into German hands.
The explanation of its vanishing,
think, will be found to be quite simple,
and will show that 1t was due to an
over-anxiety to preserve the plan in abb
solute secrecy.
AS | have said. but one copy was made
Of 1t. 1t was probably given into the
care Of Capt. yolney Chase. chief assistant
to Admiral Benson, and man to whom
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OFFER BOOKS ON
INCORPORATION
Library Aids Better Homes
Movement.

The art department Of the Indianapolis
public library has prepared an interests
ing list of books on home decoration fo1
the better homes institute. Those who
have had their interest more fully
aroused by the institute win be glad ia
know that the central library. furnishes
many very practical books along this
line.
The list includes: 1.-THE House, It's
Plan, Decoration and Care" by Bev.er;
'The Room Beautiful" by Clifford ard
Lawton; 1.-THE Furnishing of a Modest
Home" by Daniels; Practical Book Of
Interior Decoration" by EberleIn; The
Effective Small Home" by Green; Glow
to Select Furnishings for the Home" by
Jackson; House Furnishings and Deco
ration" by Mcclure; Interior Decora-
tion," by Parsons; planning and Fur
nishing the Home" by Quinn; Hand
book of Furiture Styles" by Dyer;
Decorative Textiles by Hunter; "In-
side the House of Good Taste" by,
Wright; Decorating and Furnishing Of
Apartments" by Herts; Book of Dis
1nctive Interiors;" by Vollmer; Fur
nishing the Home Of Good Taste" BY
Throop "Hints on House Furnishings"
by Sparrow; interior Decoration for The
Small Home" by Rolfe; ''Art and Econ
omy in Home Decoration" by Priestman;
Home Furnishings" by Hunter.
The library subscribes regularly to a
number of magazines dealing largely
with home decoration. Among them are
Arts and Decoration, Country Life, House
and Garden, House Beautiful, Touch
stone, American Architect, Architectural
Record and Architectural Review.
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~ HRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
The Garden Spot of New Zealand"
is what they call Christchurch and
the Canterbury Plains in which it is sit
uated. The plains, $50 miles long and at
their widest spot fifty miles wide, are the
only extensive level spaces in either the
North or South Island, and it is on the
3,0OO,0O acres there that fiat land New
Zealand farming is to be seen at it's
best
Christchurch, with a population of
10000, including suburbs, is in the
South Island. 1t was founded by a col
ony OF men and women sent out by the
Church Of England, hence its religious
and staid sounding name. You get to
it from Wellington, the capital, by an
all night boat run OF IT'S miles, then
seven miles by train from Port Lyttle-
ton.
1 found Christchurch the best laid out
city in New Zealand. Its streets are
level and wide and clean and run at
right angles to each other, in marked
contrast to the mazes Of hills, streets
and lanes and alleys which are to be
found in Auckland, Wellington and
Dunedin. The buildings, unlike those of
the cities just named, are mostly stone
or brick. Streets and sidewalks are
paved Of the same material-crushed
stone and tar-and where the curbing
should be runs constantly in gutter a
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stream OF water from srtesian wells.
Through the very heart OF the town runs
a placid little stream, the Avon lined
deeply on both sides by beautiful trees
and we'll kept shrubbery, while at every
street 1t is crossed by quaint wide
bridges.
Christchurch is a little bit Of Southern
England transplanted halfway around
the world. 1t is, too, the Boston OF New
Zealand, for the forefathers who founded
the Province of Canterbury made wise
provision for educational purposes, pri-
mary, secondary and university and
also included a plan for agricultural
education for those of the future geLera-
tons who might wish 20 farm the land
scientifically.
Thus it happens that a few miles out
Of Christchurch 1 found Lincoln Agri-
cultural College, founded in the late
seventies. Its buildings, which can care
for a maximum OF fifty-one students.
are set in the midst of $40 acres Of what
we in the United States would call prime
bottom land. The land belongs to the
province Of Canterbury and is admins
tered by a special board. Until two years
ago 1t was entirely self sustaining for,
while It is educational. it likewise does
it's farming on a commercial basis. The
government now gives 1t a subsidy in
order that greater time may be devoted
to It's experiments.
had heard OF Lincoln College
throughout the Dominion, OF the won
derful wheat yields that it produces, of
its prize fat lambs and l asked Mr.. f. w.
Jones, a Chicagoan, who represents the
International Harvester Company in
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Dorothy Troutman, Josephine Turney,
Lucille Tyner, Willard Ulrich, Kearsley
Urich, Jean Velsey, Ward Vickery, Bertha
Wagner Darris Walsh, Edith Washing
ton, Charles Watkins, Dorothy Watkins,
Margaret Welch, Claudia Wyant, Lisadel
Whiting, Dorothy Wilhelm, Salena Will
liams, Margaret Wingfield, Grace Wise,
Lois Wishard, Elmer Wohlfeld, Edison
Wood, Homer Woods, Orla Woody,
Willetta Work, Beulah Wright Dorothy
Wright, Nellie Wurtz, Esther Yancy,
Paul hartman, Vetha Ziegler, Elizabeth
Zimmerman and Katherine Zwicker.
MANUAL.
The third advance marks come out
Monday.
meeting Of all cadet commissioned
officers was held at roll call Thursday.
The 4futurity track meet will be run
Off again at Willard PARK at the close of
school Thursday, May II. Medals will
be presented to the winners by Mr.. Nc
Comb.
Results of the first round Of the tennis
tournament should be reported to Mr..
Moffat at session period Monday
The Roines Club met in Room II at
the close Of school yesterday.
The Short Story Club met at the close
of school Thursday. A picnic Will be
given by the members of this club on
May 90.
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economy of ground space. Christ
church boasts that 1t has the finest
street car service of the four big
cities of New Zealand. Cheap cleo
trio power has given it the only
general 2-cent fare In the dominion.
Some eighty miles from Christchurch,
at Lake Coleridge, is the biggest hydro
electric development in the southern
hemisphere, the thing that makes pos
sible the supplying to the city OF better
electric service than any other city ana
which is attracting to Christchurch many
industries. This natural lake, located
back in the hills, was considered so valu-
able a water power that the Dominion
government itself took control Of 1t. and,
seeing the vast possibilities Of which the
Lake Coleridge project is the forerunner,
prohibits by law the acquisition OF water
power by any corporation or private in
dividual The project is under the su-
pervision of a board.
Lake Coleridge is fringed by mountains
at ~ altitude Of 1000 feet. 1t is an
imAebse natural reservoir and by means
of a funnel less than a mile long a fall
of SOB feet was obtained and, the water
afterI being used Is turned into the
Rakaia River. The construction Of dam
and Intake was thus avoided. Today
enou eh power is being developed not
only for the light and power needed by
Christchurch, but also to supply much
of the neighboring country. When I'm
PROMINENT are completed not only the
Canterbury plains but faraway towns
and rural districts can be supplied from
Lake Coleridge.
In Christchurch I had the pleasure Of
meeting Mr.. Roberts Bell, managing dis
rector Of the Helton Times, one Of the
solid Jl6 newspapers of New Zealand,
and publisher Of the Guardian at Ash
burton. Mr.. Bell is a member Of the
New Zealand Parliament.
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Elizabeth O'Hara, Georgia Osborn,
Robert Parker, Mae Parsley. Eevs Pat
ton, Eileen Pegg, LarO Pierce, Alberta
Pellette, Florence Perkins, Clementina
Phares, Kendall Pierson. Dorothy POin-
dexter, Paul Pontius. Ella Pope, Vivian
Pollard, Dorothy Powell, Allan Power,
Rankin, Bernice Radcliffe, Silas Reagan,
Cleaner Reese, Wilma Reese, Francis
Reid, Robert Renick, Fred Richards,
Lucille Regis, Mary Raley, Henry Rich
ardson, Bonlwyn Roberts. Marie
Robinius, Pauline Roberts, Georgiana
Rockwell, Alta Rooney, Louise Rundell
Byron Rust, Benjamin Sagalosky, Sarah
Sagalosky, Hortense st. Lorenz, Beatrice
Schooner, George Schumacher, Daisy
Schulz, Catherine Seibert, Allen Sells
Irene Seuel, Francis Snearman, Elsie
Shelley, Marguerite Sherwood, Virginia
Showalter, Albert Schumacher, Edna
Simpson, Bertha Simons, Carroll Sipe,
Virginia Sines, Perle Small, Combie
Smith, Hunter Smith, Kenneth Smith,
La Vergne Smith, Make Smith, Temple
Smith, Thomas Smith, Walter Smith
Zelma Smith, Kennie Solar, Florence
Solomon, Lowell Sparkling, Charles
Stewart, Gaylord Stewart, Thelma Stock
man, Jack Street, Caleb Strickland
Margaret Strond, Francis Stull, Joseph
sullivan, Loretta Sweet, Albert Swift,
Alice Talbert. Esther Taudy, Grace Tay-
lor. 9eber Taylor, Marguerite Taylor,
Ruth Thomas, Lindabelle Thompson.
Mildred Thorntkn. Harry Thurman, On
ney Herman, J4hn Tindall. Merle Tor
f,sf a - - raj novo EInxaI nrabua
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clouds swirling close overhead and far
down beneath them the waters Of Akaroa
harbor famous in history as the site OF
a notable Maori battle. The odd tnlng
about the way cocksfoot came to New
Zealand is that a farmer sent back 10
England for clover. Instead he got otner
seed and In disgust, he cast 1t TO the
winds. when he saw wheat grew from
this seed he recognized 1t as cocKs4ooI
and thus was started a valuable crop
which now covers many thousand acres
each year. It does not need repIahI4ns'
The vast hills, denuded of the timber
which once covered them, today are
great grazing grounds for sheep ana
dairy herds. Nesting in the clefts OF
the hills are scores of farmhouses and
the vistas are so splendid that we grew
quite as enthusiastic as DIR. Henry L. D.
Thacker, the mayor Of Christchurch, who
was born on one of those back stations
and who was our host on the trip.
1T is ONE CITY
WITHOUT SLUMS.
DR.. Thacker is immensely proud of his
city, and he has a right to be- 1t Is
essentially city of small homes and II
has not a single apartment house or any
slums. Its gardens are among the most
magnificent in the Dominion. Its churches
are easily the finest, ranging from the
majestic Anglican Cathedral, located In
the square which is the heart OF the
CITY. down through the Roman Catholic
Cathedral to scores of smaller structures,
every one of them artistic to high de-
gree It's colleges and schools are I'M
surpassed in New Zealand and Christ
church is looked up to as the Dominion's
center of learning.
Christchurch boasts that it has the
finest street car service Of the four big
cities, in spite of the demands made upon
it by the fact that the citys people find
their greatest amusements and sports
away from the city itself in the marine
suburbs beyond the hills or in the rural
district served by the cars. Cheap
electric power has given Christchurch the
only general 2-cent street car fare in New
Zealand.
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COED SHOOTING
CASE NEARS END
Closing Arguments Made i'm
Sackett Trial.
snecial to The Tin1aa.

GREENCAsTLE, Ind, May Closing
arguments were made today in the cass
of William Sackett, charged with shoots
ing with intent to kill Miss Hilda VAR
ney, pretty DePauw University coed.
of Maiden, Mass.
Evidence was completed fats yester-
day, but If the fur coat Miss VaTney
wore when she was shot Dec arrives
In time 1t will be exhibited to the jury.
The courtroom began to fill earlier
than usual. Farmers wives from the
surrounding country driving in to DO
their trading threw an extra snack
in their lunch baskets and prepared to
sit in court well into the afternoon until
the case reaches the jury.
Sackett is charged with shooting Miss
varney as she was standing with Mark
Bills, a fellow student, near the Sackett
garage. Sackett went on to his back
porch and fred a revolver, the shot
lodging in Miss Varney's shoulder. The
defense contended Sackett thought heA
heard burglars.
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LOSS OF NAVAL
PLAN is GREAT.
WAR MYSTERY
CONTINUED From gage ons.>

eral boards Solution of Problem,
Black" was gone!
The mese thorough search failed to
find airy trace Of 1t.
How long had it been missing No
ono could answer.
NOT STOLEN BY
GERMAN SPY.
The newspapers limited that it had been
stolen by some German spy. Such was
the obvious suspicion. The suggestion
that 1t might have been stolen by some
German spy was given no credence in
the department. Nothing is so carefully
guarded as war plans, and so far as we
know the Germans never got hold of
any Of ours, although early In the war
a number Of things occurred which
made US wonder how much they did
know. For example,
Movements Of vessels and orders re-
lating thereto were known only to the
few officials in the Navy Department
who issued the orders and to the men
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Ing some Of the boys, or cadets. as they
are called.
Intensive wheat raising started abopt
ten years ago, when the farmers voiced
a cry for new type Of wheat" he said.
They were then using Hunters, the
wheat brought out by some Of the
pioneers In the sixties; but they We're
not getting the yield they believed they
should. 1t was an easy problem to solve,
being merely a question of selecting the
best heads of the same wheat, counting
the grains, weighing them and saving for
planting only the topnOtch. In 1910 we
had only a few rows grown from this
selected seed. The following year we
had a very small plot and in 1912 several
half-acre plots. Today we have enough
OF this good seed wheat to plant the
whole Of New Zealand twice over. It
Is hard winter wheat and weighs sixty
four to sixty six pounds a bushel.
Seventy five bushels has been done
on several farms hereabouts, and on one
twenty acre piece, the yield was ninety
bushels. That 10 exceptional, however.
Here at the college our average is forty
six bushels, which is just 80 per cent
higher than the thirty two bushel aver
age of all New Zealand"
AS is true of all land south Of the
equator, the land in New Zealand is not
rich and in order to make it produce big
crops, fertilizer Is much used generally.
Not much is required, the average
amount used being q hundred pounds to
the acre Many of the Canterbury
farmers have let down on the use Of
fertilizer in the last few years, Mr..
Alexander said. as a result Of the war,
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frequently committed. Captain Chase
was an exceedingly able and unsparingly
devoted officer. 1t is not unlikely that
he put the BLACK plan" problem away
in some secret drawer or cabinet, con-
fding in NO one as to it's whereabouts.
TOOK SECRET
TO GRAVE.
Then in June, 1917, worn out with al
most ceaseless work, he died-died sud-
denly. So far as we know, the BLACK
plan" problem was never seen by any one
after the death of Captain Chase. He
probably took the secret of its hiding
place with him. Certainly, no enemy
learned it as long as it was locked in
his brain.
One of our latest destroyers is named
after him-the Chase" He merited the
honor, snd was glad to pay that tribute
to his memory.
Copyright, 1921. by John f. Ollie. Copy
right by National Newspaper Service.
Copyright in Great Britain, Canada and
throughout France. All rights reserved,
including translation into foreign Ian
guages, including the Scandinavian. I'm
authorized reprinting for any purpose
forbidden.
(Another article by former Secretary
Daniels iwu be printed Mondsy.)s
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Patch House With
HOnle-MQde Stone

Possibly you do not know how to put
on stone patch when the necessity
arises.
Well, our Washington Information
Bureau will give you this ito the
minute information.
1t has a recipe bulletin on the sub
ject, entitled How to Make and Use
Concrete"
Anybody with this bulletin in hand
can mix up a batch of fluid concrete.
1t may then be poured into a mold for
doorstep, decayed foundation,
rotted gate post, a garden wall. It
hardens, becomes stone, and viii endure
forever.
This bulletin is one of the series of
practical helps to the householder that
we offer for free distribution.
You should get every one of them as
they are advertised and file them away
against the time for need.
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which caused the price Of fertilizer to
jump from S25 a ton to $50 This has
shown in the yield of their crops too,
and he expressed a fear that the farm
ers who complained Of the price &C fer
tilizer and forgot the higher price they
received for wheat and the greater yield
would suffer If they let up on the use of
fertilizer.
at is almost essential that the ground
be fertilized, because we are unable to
pillow for autumn sowing before April
and the seed must be in the ground by
June, so that it should have every ad
vantage of as rich a soil as we can make
it." he said. "Our motto IS not to make
two blades of grass grow where one grew
before, but to make the second blade
twice as good as the first one. To do
that we give the boys who come to the
college for three years a turn at every
thing-sheep, cattle, the garden, the or
chard, mechanics and so on. They do
the work Of an ordinary farm hand, so
that when they go to farming for them
selves they will be competent to tell
those working for them how their work
should be done. They do four hours
work a day and spend an equal time at
lecture b. the instructors. The tuition
and board Is $3.50 a year"
Canterbury is not a great fruit grow
ing center. Two things are against or
chards there. One is the chances Of frost
a: night during al seasons OF the year
and the other is the high winds, which
frequently blow days at a time veering
from northeast to northwest and back
again. Mr. Jones told me that he had
seen Dakota winds at their worst and
that they were milder than those which
often sweep Canterbury. There are some
sections, further south, where the land
is high and no frosts are had where
fruit is grown In large quantities
Outside Of sheep the farmers of Can
terbury do not go In strongly for spe-
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packing companies put them to feed upon
rape or turnips until the killing house Is
ready for them. A lamb left unfed will
lose pound day, but If kept on green
stUf the shrinkage dwindles to about
fourth OF pound q day.
There are about forty packing plants
in the dominion At Islington, one Of the
six big plants Of the New Zealand re-
frigerating Company, near Christchurch,
1000 lambs a day are slaughtered when
he plant Is operating at full capacity.
The killers are all experts in killing,
skinning, trimming and dressing so that
one man alone handles a carcass from the
time the sheep Is killed until 1t is on its
way past the grader, tina weigher and
the government inspector to the chilling
room. In the American packing houses
each operation is handled by a different
man, which the New Zealanders claim,
makes the process slower. New Zealand
Killers easily handle 100 sheep a day and
II pushed, will make It 100. For this
they receive about $1,000 for each hun
dred head
In the chilling room the carcasses
spend from twenty -four to thirty six
hours In order to drive Of the animal
heat, then pass into the freezing plant to
stay until time to ship them. then are
loaded in air cooled cars and hauled to
the port, where they are taken aboard
refrigerating ships. Ice never Is used
for meat In transit because the weather
seldom gets so hot that meat is In dan
ger Of tainhng during the short rail
trip. I was informed at the Islington
plant that commercial e-making once
was in operation there, but that the
demand for ice In the city was so very
small that the company found it didn't
pay and closed down the plant
1t might be remarked here that the
nonuse Of ice has been one Of the many
surprising things | have found In New
Zealand. In the North Island very lit
tie is used except in freezing ice cream
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5th Nation Enters
Silesian Conflict

reported today to have added fuel to the
international confagration now raging in
upper Silesia. ~
A Vienna dispatch stated that Czecxz
Slovakian troops in great force
crossed the upper Silesian frontier, -
ing the fifth nation involved in Ex
struggle arising outof the recent
settle.