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Evening star., 1921-12-20
PARIS B0URSE FIRM.

PARIS, December 20.-Prices were
firm OH the bourse today. Three per
cent rentes, 81 francs IS centimes Ex-
change on London, 81 francs 95 CEN
times. Five per cent loan, so francs
20 centimes. The dollar was quoted at
IL francs 36 centimes
Evening star., 1921-12-20

From the Louisville Courier-Journnl.
Am the first girl you ever 1oved?'
mo, dearie. But came to this re-
sort with $500 saved up. I'll cheer
fully buy you ice cream and candy
until I've spent n.y. wad."
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Automobile Acce.serles.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, December 20
(SpeciaD.-Grsy & Davis. makers of
self-starting and lighting systems on
a percentage basis for the American
Bosch Magnetic Company. is doing a
larger business now than at any time
this year on rush orders.
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Tobacco.

RICHMOND. Va. December 20 (Spe-
cial).-The demand for medium and
hne grade tobacco continues excel
lent, but the poorer grades. which
comprised much Of this years Vir-
ginia and North Carolina crop, are
inactive.
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Hard ware.

CLEVELAND, December 20 (Spe-
ciaD.-Hardware manufacturers. job
bers and dealers in this city reported
today that their business had i'm
proved steadily since July.
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Tea.

NEW YORK. December 90 Especially.
The local tea market is more active
than at any time for months. A num-
hand stocks of Japan teas and dealers
are turning to young Hysons as sub
stitute.
Evening star., 1921-12-20
SYrun.

ATLANTA. December 20 tSpeciaD.-
Through the efforts of the Brooks
County Exchange. organized to pro-
vide markets for Georgia farm prod
ucts. farmers of that section have sold
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Hops.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 20
(SpeciaD.-The demand from Eng
land Is helping to move the old stock
Of hops. The market is steady but
somewhat inactive.
Evening star., 1921-12-20
Cotton.

LONDON, December 20 (SpeciaD.-
The cotton mills of Lancashire are grad.
ually increasing production. and 1t is
expected they will be working some-
where near full time before next March.
Evening star., 1921-12-20

ling material In order to improve the
amount Of business handled at this port.
Part of the day was spent in tour OF
the harbor and docks.
Evening star., 1921-12-20

Reauced Holiday Fares.
Atlantic Coast Line, 1418 n ut. - Ad-
vertisement.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27

purposes. This IS not true as land was
acquired for park purposes during tho
Callahan administra tion. 1t is true
that during the Callahan administra-
ton not much money was expended il
laying out parks or maintaining parks
This was en- account Of lack Of funds
John r. Farotid and other men who
served on the park board during IT,
Callahan administrator know ard can
tell t-hv more was not done fo- the
parks during the Callahan administra-
ton 1t was only after the large In
crease in valuation Of property in our
city in 1919 which greatly increased
the bonding power OF our city and
which made possible the collection of
more taxes for park purposes. that any
decided work was done as to enlarg-
ing our parks. 1t is a well known fact
that the park board which went out Of
office III May. 1920. let contracts
amounting TO about S150.O00.00 without
properly advertising for bids or hav-
ing plans ard specifications and that
MI Reppa and other city officials sup
porting him now knew of this and said
and did nothing
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27
THOUSAND
MEN YELL
HIS NAME

BY THE POLITICAL REPORTER.
Callahan. Callahan. Callahan"
A thousand throats yelled the name
Two thousand feet pounded the hoor-
one thousand. nine hundred and
ninety-nlne fsts were clenched- II
would have been an even 1000 but
there was a one-armed c1- soldier in
the hall.
1t was the greatest demonstration Of
the campaign and the largest meeting
NEWS INCITEs VOTERS.
The news in The Times that the cleo
| tion board-TJm Richards and ABE
Ottenhei1ner-had thrown Callahan or
the citizens ticket and given him the
Independent ticket III the city election.
aroused the anger OF the voters yes
terday.
The meeting last night was in the
! new hall Of All Nations at One Hun
dred and Thirty-nipth and Butternut
streets in Indiana Harbor it is the
most cornrnodious hall in East Chicago.
not excepting tho Masonic temple.
There were 400 seats in the center Of
the hall and around this group more
| than 500 men and women stood packed
like sardines in a box
A week ago the Reppa faction had d
meeting in that hall and by actual
count. forty-three persons were pres
Ell aside from candidates
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27
STREETS AND ALLEYS
CLEAN UNDER CALLAHAN
RS. Minor putting the cornerstone in place.

CThis IS the second Of a series Of
articles dissecting the Reppa platform.
-Editor.
The Reppa platform In East Chi
cago speaks OF better sanitary condi-
tons particularly as to streets. alleys
and garbage II is we'll known fact
that during the Callahan administra-
ton the streets and alleys of our city
were better kept than any other time
III the history OF our city; a garbage
crematory was erected during the Cal
Iahan administration near the Alder
Street Pumping Station 1T a cost Of
about s14,o00.o0. This was in 1915 and
this garbage crematory was operated as
garbage disposal plant UP to the
close Of the Callahan administration
when it's operation was discontinued
and it has remained closed and dis
continued since with the exception OF
a few weeks
The Reppa platform further charges
that during the Callahan administra-
ton no land was acquired for park
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27
MANY PROMISES

The Reppa platform states that 4
elected. appointees and employees viii
be selected upon an efficiency basis
1t fs we'll known fact that Reppa
fContinlef N pa &c fweivei
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27
Just Try q Times Want Ad
The Lost Needle

THERE'S an old English play known as "Gammei
Cartons Needle" Its plot is woven around the loss
of the family needle - riaing misfortune in the
days of old.
Today IN this era Of ours life rich In comforts that
we seldom wonder how folks got along in the ancient
world. And we sometimes forget what an important
role advertising has played in making life pleasant and
altogether Ivable.
Advertising has Of the leading parts in the eternal
drama Of dollars. To it is directly due much Of the
multiplication Of products and services which has
about during the last half century,
1t has smoothed the mechanics of existence made
life easier and more pleasant by bringing countless
necessities - once considered luxures = within our
easy reach and into continuous
Think of this when you read these columns You owe
much to advertising,
And you miss much tOhen you fail to read ii!
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-27

tEontinued On page tweIve.l
Evening star., 1921-04-24

camille transactions. to be paid by the last pur-
chaser. Representative Mondell, the republican
leader in the House, is opposed to sales tax,
and is for funding the floating debt of the
ton. Representative Fess, chairman of the re-
publican congressional campaign committee. is
for sales tax for year, and favors paying
the floating debt.
Then there is Chairman Fordney Of the ways
and means committee. and properly classed
a leader of the republican party in the House,
who is for a tax on manufactures and wholesale
transactions, payable at the source. He favors
the plan in vogue in Canada, tax of per cent.
Mr.. Fordney took the subject up with Treas
ury officials, who made some rough estimates
of the amount of taxes capable of being raised.
1t is calculated that a tax of / per cent
wholesale sales would bring in something like
s1.000.000,000, and the same rate levied on man.
ufactures would produce about $350,000000.
The total of these two amounts would fall far
short of providing the revenue demanded by
Uncle Sam. but would help some. The poll
ticians think that possibly the man in the street
would not feel the taxes keenly if they
were levied final sales. In the good old
days of the high protective tariffs the poll
ticians for a long time denied that under that
system the consumer paid the tax. but when
driven from their intrenchments behind that
claim, took comfort in the thought that the
consumer didn't know it when he did it,
X X X X
Nobody in Congress knows whether the sales
tax will go through not but legislation is be-
ing handled in way to give the proponents
of the sales tax good running start in propa-
sanda for their plan. The idea is this: After
the Senate has passed the emergency tariff act,
and while the House committee ways and
means is having hearings the permanent
tariff BILL it is proposed that the Senate COM
mittee on finance shall hold hearings Senator
Smoots bill for sales tax. He will himself
take the lead in the committee hearings. with
the result that they be directed to focus
attention the sales tax proposition. The
ways and means committee is to take the Sen
ate committees hearings as a basis of nforma-
tion when it gets down to the work of framing
tax BILL that measure must originate in
the House.
X X X X
Indications plain that campaign is un-
der way in the Senate, participated in by the
group which all along has been irreconcilable
to the Versailles treaty we'll to the league
Evening star., 1921-04-24

IN common honesty. common sense
Ahd common restraint Of my .eoun-
trymen. It does not, seem to me
quite eight 70 readiust in a period
OF seneral readjustrnent either BY
groups or by businesses; 1t seems
to me as though the Duck" should
b thrown out Of the window. and
thsk eur sense Of fair dealing
should be called into play to the
end that when we settle down to a
noynal condition Of peace and
prosperity we all shall settle to-
Ee4her.
No one during the war stood off
and refused to do his duty until
sonse other man had first done his.
Wartime patriotism II a hollow
moekery if it cannot be carried
into the hours of peace. The man
who wears out the knees of his
trousers getting religion in the
wintertime and the seat of his
trousers baek-sliding in tho sum-
me1tfMe 10 not much Of an orna-
ment to tho church. The man who
balieves that democracy is only
for wartime purposes Is q Door
democrat Tho real test Of demoe-
racy Is this: When loss must be
sustained, whether In peace or
war. are We willing to Sustain ours
without waiting for others to sus-
tain theirs? Lot us not now mar
the record Of tho great war. We
must get back to ''normalcy." Let
him who makes, him who distrib-
utes and him who buys take at
onoe tho inevitable beek-value
loss. Let tho self- control of our
people and the golden rule-which
Is tho only sure foundation of a
peoples government. and the only
known principle in life which en-
ahles men to live together in con-
tentment and prosperity-supplan
legislative schemes in the solution
Of our great internal problems.
Let's have done with the passing
Of tho buck" We can reach mu-
tually satisfactory conditions in
this way. It will be highly worth
while, for thus democracy, having
justified itself by common serv-
Ice and sacrifice, will inevitably ap-
peal to all peoples less fortunate
than ourselves as tho surest and
best form Of government to guar
antae to man his asd-given right
to fife. liberty and tho pursuit Of
happiness,
fOspgxigAt, fsu,, b. Thsass b. Nanhnll.)
Evening star., 1921-04-24
Revision Of Tax Laws Is Hardest
Problem Before Congress Majority

of nations contained In it, to prevent that treaty
coming up. even in amended form. for ratih-
cation. Propaganda is afoot to create senti-
ment among senator's which will enable them
to say to the President that he might as we'll
abandon the plan which Secretary Of State
Hughes is expected to formulate to revise and
modify the Versailles treaty SO its ratification
may be way for this government to partici-
pate in the after-war settlement in Europe.
President Harding. in his address to Con-
gress, hinted at the possible utilization of the
Versailles treaty saying THE situation is so
involved that our peace engagements cannot
ignore the old world relationship and the settle
ments already effected nor is it desirable to do
so in preserving our own rights and contracting
our future relationships"
THE wiser course" he said, would seem
to be the acceptance Of the confirmation of our
rights and interests already provided, and to
engage under the existing treaty, assuming, OF
course. that this be satisfactorily accom-
plished by such explicit reservations and modi-
fcations as will secure our absolute freedom
from inadvisable commitments and safeguard
our essential interests"
. 1t is known that Secretary Of State Hughes
is in agreement with the President this
declaration, and other members Of the cabinet
also in line, notably Secretary Herbert
Hoover. This knowledge has caused perturba-
tion among the irreconcilables. who want the
Versailles treaty to follow the league of nations
to the scrap heap. They realize that they con-
front difficult situation, with the President
and probably more than majority of his cabi
net in accord opposite idea.
They are. therefore, building back-fire in
the Senate. creating opposition which they
hope will assume such proportions that they can
quietly intimate to the President the unaccepta-
bility of the plan to a goodly number of
tors, and dissuade the President from continu-
ing urging it.
\ X X
This is being done very adroitly and without
any brass-band accompaniments 1t is not de-
sired to create situation showing the admin
istration and an important group of senators
to be at loggerheads over the foreign policy. for
party reasons.
Neither is 1t considered desirable, for per-
sona1 reasons. for republican senators to be dis
closed at feud. in the very outset of the new
lease Of republican party. with the President
Copyright, 1871. by The Washington star.)
Evening star., 1921-04-24
WILL PROBE ELLIS ISLAND
CHARGES That Weman Died There
Rrsm Kxussurs Starts Inquiry.

Charges .That Weman Died There
From Exposure Starts Inquiry.
Investigation Of charges OF Gov.
Kendall Of Jews that Mrs. Lucia Leo,
wife Of Frank, Lao OF Des Moines,
died N \ reeult Of exposure and neg
lect, to which she was subjected at
the ElLs Island immigration station
altar her &xsivsl pocoatly from Eu-
rope q to b Rsde BY ascFetary Davis
snd Oonmisionsr Geaeraa OF Immi-
ssstioa Husband, It was. announced
ysUesedxy 1t the Department Of Labor.
The >1sieetary and oommissionor are
now IN NSw York and. It 10 undor-
stood, Wi make full inquiry into
oondIitoas s&. the station.
Gox. KendAfrs charges Uere made
IN lst&srs to Senator Ksuyen and
Rspsusvuts&3Ss Ds1eu Of Iowa, and
twS da1D1Gp: the lsster 4xHed on tho
hoor ,4sf the HouSe ,tlaat the immdEra-
tion committee conduct an investiga-
tion
Evening star., 1921-04-24
How National Tendency to "Pass the Buck
Holds Back the Resumption of Prosperity
THOMAS n. llARSHALL
orner Vice Pre.t1ssf u f1< u5ls.

THOMAS n. MARSHALL
'oraer Vice Presfassf II f6k HSifei
States.
WATCHED the Senate Of the
United States in action for
eight long years. Notwithstand-
ing the numerous jokes which
have sought IN a good-hunorsd
way and without any malice to crack
at its expense. can truthfuliy say.
coming down to q sober statemant Of
facts. that it IL a high-grade body Of
intelligent and patriotic Americans
It is not criticism TO state that its
human beings, not only by their own
peculiar mental makeup and educa-
tion, but also by the environment d
their home lives.
Much criticism is indulged in over
the patent fact that when local in
terests come in contact with princiS
pies It is local interests that survive.
In such q conflict only the utmost
fortituds will enable the very best Of
men b stand by principle, regardless
Of the effect their conduct may have
upon their personal popularity and
immediate political prospects.
Most men are human and II IL
quite easy for tho man with no re-
sponsibility upon his shoulders to say
that he would not have done as the
legislator he criticises did. He who 80
states is a bad logician and a worse
psychologist. The utmost that any
man truthfully can say is that he
thinks he would not have so acted.
1 think that had I been in tho
Garden Of Eden, I would not have
eaten the apple-but I don't know.
/ never saw Eve. and for aught I
really know she might have induced
me to cat It Let US be fair with our
senator's and representatives. In our
disagreements with them let US be-
come absolutely certain that their
action was inspired by base or
ulterior motives before we say so.
During the eight years I pre-
sided over the Senate. I observed
what seemed to me to be a peculiar
state of mind on the part Of the
public which found expression in
the Congress. I can best define 1t
as q national mental tendency to
be doing something In . legislative
way. rather than to do something.
Once we have enacted into .
statute the thing We Immediately
desire done. we straiEhtway forget
all about It. We keep the promise
to the ear, to break It to the hope.
We assume that all that 10 re-
auired 10 the enactment Of the
statute. thst It will enforce itself,
Vr II It docs not little 10 tho differ.
ence. ~ it 10 there for any one Who
Nsy desire to make uss Of It.
There 10 this ADVANTAGE In for.
getting It: We can start upon the
doing Of something else, perhaps
turn around and reverse our astien
% we'll a. cursstvss and do exactly
the opposite without inviting the
charge OF ineonsistsnoy because Of
our prior accomplishment, Surface
Indications OF social and economic
life a.s tho things which really
attract our attention and Il II fov
their sectlaeatioa that Ws insist
emily demand action q Shs hsnd1
Of the CongPess. q
The Dsn at WAshia4taR 80 men
Of lfks passisas 10 suyssivsu, I
found that they really desivs to
r">-~tw-: tut go. 80, -.,.s IN
Evening star., 1921-04-24
U. S. FIRM WITH PANAMA.
Will Insist On White Award In
Fixing Costa Rica Boundary. =.

Fixing Costa Rica Boundary. ..
The reply Of the United States gov.
ernment to the recent protest Of Pan.
ANA against accepting the White
award as the basis Of settling her
boundary dispute with Costa Rica has
been completed and will be dispatched
at once. Its text is withheld. The
American position. however. is known
to be unchanged in its inststence
that the White award be accepted In
defining the boundary. =
The present note IL one Of a series
arising from the armed conflict sew
eral weeks ago between Costa Rica
and Panama, resulting from dissatis-
faction by Panama with the White
award as affecting territory on the
Pacific slope. The hostilities were
checked as one OF the FIRST acts Of
the Harding administration. although
Panama has not formally consented
to aerss 20 ths svlese award in ds.
aains the boundary. -
Evening star., 1921-04-24

form feats which professors Of
sn4tomy would say were impos-
sible. such as keeping both ears to
the ground at the same time in
order better to hear the discordant
voices coming from home and to
determine which group or faction
out there 10 not the louder but
the more numerous and powerful.
Such conduct is not a mark of dis
honesty; 1t is just the hallmark of
mortality.
May instance how changing con-
ditions at home change mental atti-
tudes in Washington? In the spring
Of 1920 the debates in the Senate
ragged around the imitation of our
currency and the attendant high cost
of living. Statesmen had not then
and have not yet been able to dis
tnguish between the high cost Of
living and the cost of high living, to
dinerentiate between the industrial
democrat and the industrious demo-
crat. Something was wrong, 30 they
were informed and believed, and the
country was looking to them as the
skilled mechanics to fix It. So
every view was expressed as to
how the currency might be Debated
and the cost Of living lowered.
The Congress adjourned: the Fed
eral Reserve Board instituted a
process of deflation: the bottom OF
things dropped out: the democratic
party went to its crucifixion; the
CongresA sAreconvened-and straight
way its members began to con-
slider means to enhance prices in
order to save groups Of people
from bankruptcy, If indeed not
from starvation.
was reminded Of the explana-
tion a young doctor in Indiana gave
me touching his first case. Find
ing his patient with a pulse Of $50,
he gave him a heart-depressant
and ran 1t down to 40: this
O6lNS lOO lOWt AiC ave mum q
heart stimulant and ran 1t up to
120; then he ran 1t back to 60 and up
again to 100; finally when he had
gotten it to 80 he left. confident that
II the patient could hold 1t there he
would recover.
Legislative remedy takes too
long. and Is too dangerous proc
ess to get tho economic pulse
right. Constant interference with
natures laws and reckless dis
regard Of common honesty will
keep our business life all the while
on the move between chill and
fever. We may not be willing to
admit 1t, but God made some laws
which. however seriously tho Con-
gress may interfere with their
workings. II cannot repeal. After
much trouble. the Congress can
punish a scoundrel, hut 1t cannst
make an honest man of him. It can
temporarily interfere with the
law Of supply and demand or with
tho principle Of compstition, but
It cannot permanently dispose Of
them,
We are passing through a great
economic crisis. such as invariably
follows every great war and every
period Of imitation and Wild spec
ulatioa. II used to be said that It
was enly thpes gsneratisns from
shirt sla60a9 70 shirt sisevesj
however mat may be, . period ct
thrift and prosperity has always
tnen fot'o~-rd hy perind Of ex-
:: ;,., nv <
Evening star., 1921-04-24
BY N. O. MESSENGER.

n T EXT Of the big problems for Congress
nj to solve, now that the emergency
u tarln bill is on its way and the per-
1 manent tariff law is to be taken up in
its preliminary stage in the ways and means
committee, is revision of the taxes. The solons
have saved the hardest for the last, because
passing tariff bills will be child's play COM
pared with working out a solution of this sum.
AS to this problem. the celebrated Mr.. Einstein's
theory is almost comparable to first-grade
arithmetic.
Outside of the farmers and few interests
demanding protective tariffs it is probable that
the rank and file of the peasantry and gentry
in the country. including the residents of the
twilight zone the bourgeoise of the land, would
have preferred to have taxes handled first But
as President Harding pointed out, the buying
power of the people is the thing to be looked
out for, and the statesmen appeared to think
that protecting home industries and products
was the first step to take to keep up the buy
ing power. so they put that best foot forward.
The congressman held that if there is
no buying power there will be similar lack of
ability to pay-and the people must pay taxes.
lot Of taxes, for several years to come.
How to lay the taxes is the question under
considerations; how to impose them SO as to
produce the maximum return of money with
the minimum Of Inconvenience to the people.
The party in power in government and Congress
has double incentive first, the patriotic mo-
tive which, fair play would accord to them as
lovers of their country and their fellow men.
and second. the political motive to avoid doing
anything which will bring down the wrath of
the electorate on the devoted heads of the re-
publicans in the congressional elections in the
fall OF 1922 and the presidential and congress
sional elections Of 1924.
X * X X
Now. it fails out that there are differences
of opinion among the republican statesmen and
politicians of acute nature on this very
question Of procedure OF course, the pride of
authorship In the plans proposed IS based
primarily on the welfare of the country while
the political consideration is secondary-but
important.
The most exfgent phase of the difference of
opinion relates to whether a sales tax shall be
imposed; small tax on the turnover of mer-