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their purchases for enough marks to
pay pay back their debts, retaining
the greater part of the real values
they had purchased. Hugo SHINES is
supposed to have built up much of
his great fortune by this method.
Other countries have plunged in
German marks. Spain is said to have
put 1000, 0O0,OO0 pesetas into marks
by the end Of 1920.
AS recently as last week an Italian
put $40 into German marks at the
rate of cents a hundred, receiving
100000 marks (Which before the war
wore worth $50,0O0). At the New
York bank where he bought them he
was warned that he might lose his
S140.
''Ahr' he exclaimed, grinning, but
l may make a Million
Owners of Millions
A small New York hotel has a
bellboy, an elevator operator and a
doorman who own several million
Polish marks. a million German marks
and several hundred thousand French
francs and italian lire.
Meanwhile reports from Germany
say that women there are protecting
their savings by putting doubtful pa
per money into silk stockings-some
thing they can sell later.
How widespread American speCula.
ton in German marks has become is
indicated by a letter received by a
New York bank from n small banker
in Texas asking whether marks We're
a good investment" He was told
they We're a long shot gamble"
Bankers believe, granting the i'm
possibility of a recovery in German
marks. that they viii either go so low
that they will cease to be used as a
means of barter. or else there will be
official Reputation.
In either case American spectators
will have one or two billion dollars
worth Of wall paper" on their hands
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RELIGIOUS SECTS
WRANCLE OVER
PALESTINE HEAD
Atheist or Free Thinker May Be
Chosen to Break Deadlock
in League Council.
BIZ United Netcs

DB CHtttu AtNS
GENEVA. Oct. 6.-The League of
Nations council is searching for either
an atheist or a free thinker to serve
as president of the commission
charged with custody and control over
places in Palestine.
Great Britain has been struggling
with this peculiar problem ever since
it was accorded a mandate, in its
effort to select a custodial commission.
Settlement Remote
Still a settlement seems more re-
mote than ever, for after discussing
the problem all day Tuesday, the
league council was unable to reach
a decision and was obliged to post
poEe the task until the next meeting,
which probably will be held in De-
cember.
On behalf Of the Roman Church,
Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secre-
tary of state. endeavored to obtain q
Catholic majority on the commission
through a proposal providing that the
governing body consist Of a permanent
resident head at Palestine and mem
bers representing each of the nations
in the league council. Six Catholic
nations Brazil, Uruguay, France,
Spain. Italy, and Belgium would thus
have been represented as against
China. Japan, Great Britain and
Sweden.
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Letters to the Editor

[ For n figure far below that of the av-
erage business house or residence. II
means that the company is saving
moro than one-half OF the amount its
sale price would earn in interest at ;
per cent. Five per cent would bring
the company more than $4,000 per
year, and interest rates are higher
than five per cent at the banks.
In other words the county is simply
making the Bobbs Merrill company a
present of more than $4,000 year,
after having paid far more than the
taxable value of the property taken
over for the War Memorial.
I think taxpayers Of the city have a
right to an explanation Of this remark
able gratuity.
Could politics have anything to do
with 1t!
TAX PAYER.
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BY CLAYTON WHITEHALL
TJuited Ne7ps star Corresnoodes,y

CHtOu1 NtWS SUN Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-This Gov
eminent is known to regard the con-
ference at Brussels on or about Dec. 1
to consider inter-allied debts and Ger
man reparations. as the first impor-
tant step in the direction of obtaining
American cooperation in the solution
of European economic problems.
Upon the success Of this conference
may hinge the decision by President
Harding as to whether the time is ripe
for active cooperation. The President.
in his message TO the American Bank
ers' Association convention in New
York, declared the increasing appeals
of the world for American cooperation
in solving the problem resulting from
the war cannot be denied" But. this
cooperation. the President believes,
according to White House advices,
should not be extended until the
European nations manifest a proper
attitude. susceptible Of cooperation.
Reduction Proposed
Financial experts in and out Of the
Government contend that new
European psychology IS the price Of
American participation in old world
affairs. Premier Poincare's present
plan is to propose reduction Of Ger
man reparations to 10000 600 600 or
$4,000, 100000 gold marks in return for
the cancellation Of Frances debt 10
Great Britain and the surrendering by
Great Britain OF her share in the rep
arat!ons which totals % per cent. This
plan. in the opinion Of these experts.
has fortunate possibilities. The rep
aration phase. II successfully carried
out. would partially fulfill one OF the
prerequisites of American particlpa-
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T. S. GAMBLERS IN MARKS TO
LOSE BILLIONS IN BUBBLE

but it is very serious Tor the United
States also. Germany has been one
of our best customers and a prosper
Gus Germany is needed to balance the
worlds economic life"
DR.. Anderson pointed out that while
Germany as whole has suffered very
greatly in the financial generalization,
a good many individual German
spectators have piled up immense
profits. Foreseeing the decline in the
mark, they borrowed marks on a
great scale and used them to buy
foreign currencies-dollars, sterling,
etc-or to buy goods, common stock
Of corporations, and other things
whose value would not decline with
the mark.
After the fall of the mark these
spectators could sell a small part Of
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GOUermn1entR Regards Brussels Conference
as Important MOJe for European Peace

lecting the 20, OOO, 600, 600 gold marks
represented by the &C" reparations
bonds, ana it is held doubtful whether
Germany can pay all Of the 12,00O,-
000,0 900 gold marks represented by the
A and B bonds. Until this reparations
tangle can be adjusted satisfactorily,
there can be no peace or economic
stability in Europe. it was said.
Should the Brussels conference sue
coed, there is still the problem OF
whether France is going to pay the
SO .0O0, 900, 900 debt she owes this coun-
try
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made better in Germany than in this
country" said DR.. B. M. Anderson,
Jr., economist of the Chase National
Bank. II have seen estimates rang
ing from $1,000, 100000 to 100000
900. Personally wouldn't know how
to guess.
Speculation in German marks has
been a big national loss, but 1t is so
diffused that no credit problem has
been created. I know Of no institu-
ton or Individual suffering a serious
Moss.
'The most serious thing about it is
the Generalization Of Germany which
the crash in marks indicates. Demon
alization in Germany is most serious
of course for her closer neighbors-
France, Great Britain, Holland Bel
GUM and the Scandinavian countries
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LABOR WILL FIGHT
COURT INJUNCTION
To LAST DITCH
Unions Preparing to Take
Oaugherty Order to Highest
Tribunal in Land.
BIZ United Ne,cs

BIZ United Netcs
WASHINGTON. Oct. 6.-The coun-
try apparently is to witness soon one
Of the greatest court ntigations in
its history-that Of organized labor
versus the Government.
The unions are preparing TO appeal
tho Chicago injunction against them
to higher tribunal. probably the Su-
preme Court, and both sides are max
ing ready for finish fight.
Following 4 series OF conferences
during the past two days between
Donald Richbert. chief counsel for the
unions. and officials of the Depart
ment Of Justice. Attorney General
Daugherty has addressed a letter to
the labor attorney outlining what CO.
operative steps the department will
take in getting the Chicago writ be
fore a higher court.
Daugherty VIII Assist
While Daugherty refused to make
the letter public. he declared that in
1t he pointed out the one practical
way in which the appealing Of the
case could be expedited. He reiterated
that he would not stand in the way
Of an appeal-that 1t was not per
sonal matter" with him and that
he gladly would assist the unions
"in a legitimate manner"
Some months ago just after the
calling of the coal strike and imme-
Giately prior to the rail walk out.
prominent official of the Department
Of Justice predicted in the near fu-
ture, possibly within the year, pos.
sibly within the next five" the coun-
try would stand witness to n great
court litigation between organized la.
Dor and the Government. Such a liti-
cation, in the public welfare, he in
timated was inevitable, as out of #
would come a decision as to just how
far. and in what direction. the unions
would exercise their rapidly increasing
powers.
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found by the hundreds of thousands
in raids by federal rum sleuths.
FRANCE
In France II now takes 1872 francs
to buy, on the average. the same
commodities that sold for 100 francs
before the war.
With cost Of living nearly four times
as high as it used to be normally, as
a penalty of war, it is hard to under
tsand how any Frenchman can be
militaristic Another big war would
double the burden.
The road to lasting peace is to make
all people in all countries realize that
war must be paid for to the last pen
ny. Dodging is impossible.
FEET
DR.. Charles Cross of San Francisco
tells a medical convention that a pain
>ful ailment known as Automobile
foot" is caused by motorists keeping
the foot on the accelerator. This
starts a diseased area, or lesion, at
the second toe.
A few more centuries of wearing
shoes will eliminate toes, make people
web-footed. Nature eliminates that
which is not used because no longer
needed. Even the brain must be ex-
ercised to ward off intellectual paraly-
sis
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Army Officers Credit Machine
With More Brains Than Humans

ribie destruction wrought by the huge
shells when they strike the enemy's
ships. But, he asks, how can the
gunners tell where to aim?
The new invention. by means of
hand-controIIed levers and dials, au-
tomatically makes the calculations
that gunners now figure out with
paper and pencil.
The machine. it is claimed. will au-
tomatically add, subtract divide, null
tirly and integrate, give almost in.
Simultaneous computations. reduce the
hazard Of error and make fire much
more rapid. Two men, it is said. can
operate it. Eight men usually are
required.
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Q.-Does an automobile consume
more gasoline running over the same
distance at a high or at a low rate
Of speed?
A car operating over a given
distance at a low rate of speed as
compared with a car running at high
speed over the same distance will
probably consume more gasoline at
the low rate of speed, due TO the small
throttle opening at low speed. Car
buretor adjustment and engine con-
dltions would enter into the problem
No actual comparative tests of this
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BIZ ROBERT TALLEY

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a ma
chine with more brains than most hui
mans" is the way Army officers view
a remarkable range-finding invention
for big guns of the coast artillery
which has been placed on display at
the War Department here prepare
tory to shipment TO the Panama Canal
Eventually the new system may be
extended to other important coast de-
lenses.
The great guns, some of them
seventy feet long and capable of
shooting a six-foot projectile thirty
miles, give a feeling of security to
the layrnan when he pictures the ter.
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By EDWARD M. THIERRY

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Gambling in
German marks has cost Americans
from a billion to two billion dollars.
People are still buying marks and
other foreign paper money" but the
big flood of speculation suddenly
stopped few weeks ago.
Bankers report that buying was
going on in large amounts in spite of
their warnings that purchase of Ger
man marks was a speculation and not
an investment. It is believed that
even the widest spectators have
now reached the conclusion that the
bubble has burst, wiping out dreams
of immense profits.
Estimates Of the amount of Amer
lean money spent for marks can be
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IF YOU ARE\WELL BRED

You do not pick up when at a
hotel, the fork or knife you may drop
at the table. You ignore the Incl
dent and ask the waiter tC bring you
another
When you hive finished a course
you place your knife and fox side by
side, resting securely on the plate
not carelessly draped about the edge.
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ton that the German indemnity be re-
duced by 6 per cent
The other two prerequisites are, vir-
tual demilitarization; and abandon
-ment of grasping imperialistic aspira-
tions which make for unsettlement and
lead to war.
France COnciliatOry
The conciliatory spirit Of France as
revealed in the Poincare tentative pro
posal is particularly welcome, it was
said, because France holds the key to
the reparations tangle. Experts agree
that France must give up hope Of col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-06
INQUIRY is MADE
Taxpayer Asks Questions About BObbs-
Merrill Rental Contract.


To the Editor Of The Times
I have just read in your paper that
the county commissioners have en-.
tered into a contract with the Bobbs-
Merrill publishing company renting
the f. Vermont st. property to the oc-
cupants at $500 per month. This. the
Times says, is the same property for
which the county paid the company
100000. The lease, it is stated is to
continue until the war memorial board
demands the vacation Of the premises
Pretty soft for the Bobbs- Merrill
company, isn't it!
The rental, $500 per month, means
$4,000 per year. This is getting rent
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Gan you give me the Indian
words meaning noisy. gurgling, dash.
ing. tapping water2
A.-Following are the Indian
equivalents in the Usage language OF
the English phrases indicated:
" Neagabthi' means tapping water"
Negabehon" means "dashing water:
'Nehoe' means noisy water: New
aon' means singing water" Mega.
hushe, means "gurgling water"
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their odd customers who,
in many cases, only get
about 80 per cent of what
they order"
With genuine Scotch
whisky so scarce in the
British Isles, bootleggers
customers can understand
why counterfeit Scotch
labels are frequently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-06
WINS OWN CASE
Woman Lawyer Pleads Divorce Suit
for Herself.

for Herself.
MILWAUKEE,, Oct. 6.-Mrs. Rose
Pevar. a woman lawyer, had her first
taste of court procedure when she was
granted a divorce from Sam Pevar.
Mrs. Pevar passed the Ohio State
bar examination a little more than n
year ago. Shortly after she decided a
career in the home was better than
career as a Portia and was married.
Shortly after she had arrived in
Milwaukee from Cleveland she
changed her mind. Sam. she alleges
in her complaint, failed to supply her
with money, appropriated a check for
$500 which had been given her as a
wedding present, and even seized part
sf her $1,000 trousseau. which he re-
fused to release.
The divorce was granted on grounds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-06
Separate BlouSeS

Very coarse, square meshed laces
are mounted on chiffon, usually of a
blight color. and used for separate
blogses. They are usually worn over
the outside Of the skirt,> Russian
blouse fashion.
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QUEsTIONs ANsWEREn

You can get an answer TO any question OF
fact or information by writing to The Daily
Times Washington Bureau, 1922 New York
Ave. Washington. D. c. inclosing 2 cents
In stamps Medical, legal and love and mar
riage advice viii not be given. Unsigned
letters viii not be answered. but all letters
are confidential and receive personal replies.
Editor.
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NE W YORK WILL
PRESENT FAVOR|TE
son AS CHOICE
Either Alfred Smith or Nathan
L. Miller Being Groomed as
Presidential Candidate.
BIZ LEO r. SACK

WASHINGTON, Oct 6.-Alfred E.
Smith or Nathan L. Miller? New
York State is sure to present one or
the other as it's choice for President
in 1924.
"A" Smith, most popular executive
at Albany in a decade, has just re-
Gently been re-nominated as the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. Miller
also has been re-nominated for a
second term, as the Republican choice.
Each got his nomination by sheer
personal domination of their re-
spective conventions. Each went to
bat with the bosses and each gave
them a severe drubbing. So success
full was each that far.sighted~ Wash
ington politicians are linking them
with 1924.
If President Harding is not a
candidate for reelection. as many
folks believe, and Miller wins he is
sure to cause a lot of trouble for
Borah. Beveridge, La Toilette, Kenyon,
and all other prospective G. o. P.
candidates.
Warns Democrats
If Smith wins, James NJ. Cox,
former Associate Justice Clark. Sen
ator Atlee Pomerene-if he comes
from Ohio-and all other Democratic
possibilities are warned in advance.
Smith defied Mayor Hylan, Boss
Murphy Of Tammany and all the
other Tammany leaders and refused to
do business with William Randolph
Hearst, directly or indirectly. He
heat the bosses and Mr.. Hearst was
rot nominated for anything. His
name was not even presented. Gov
ernor Miller succeeded in repeating
New York's primary law
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Automobile Operated at High
Sbeed Consumes Less Gasoline

kind have been made by the United
States Bureau OF Standards.
Q-Can rubies be made artifcially?
Ayes, synthetic. or artificial
rubies are made by fusing pure alum
iEum oxide with a small amount Of
oxide of chromium. These synthetic
rubies. which are practically indis-
tingulshable from the natural gems.
are being put on the market gradual
ly, their great beauty and relative in
oXpensiveness having caused a grow
ing demand for them.
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Q.-What gifts are given on the
first wedding anniversary?
A.-The first wedding anniversary
is the cotton wedding Sheets. towels,
pillow cases, bungalow aprons, table
covers, tea towels; in fact any thing
inade of cotton or cotton thread are
suitable gifts.
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of non-sup2ort. Mrs. Pevar declares
she will return to Cleveland, there to
take up her law work.
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THE REFEREE
By ALBERT APPLE.

Lord Dewar, distiller of the ''rnoun-
tain dew" that bears his name, says:
Scotch whisky is so scarce now, and
so few in the business, that the ma
tority are ratiOning out orders to
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Q.--Is the word tote" good Eng
lish? What does It mean?
A.-"Tote" IS a colloquialism. that
il, it is used in spoken English in
some sections Of the country. especial
~ in the South and the West Of the
United States. The expression is not
correct English and is used largely by
uneducated persons. It means TO
hear" Ito carry" but Is never used
by good writer's and speakers.
Q.-When was the air pump for
COMPRISING air invented. and by
whom?
A.-The air pump was invented by
Otto Won Guericke OF Magdeburg,
Germany, about 1854 In 1853 Hon
Used an air engine for raising water
by air pressure on its surface, and in
1855 Smeaton invented a pump for
use with diving apparatus. In 1851
compressed air was used by William
Bubitt for bridge work.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-26

Left-THE YOUNG IDEA IN INDIA
"Prince George and "Prncess Mary" (their
other name is Scindia), aged six and seven
Of the 1st Infantry, Gwalior India, son and
daughter of the Maharajah of Gwalior stand
at attention in honor of the Prince of Wales
\vist to their city. Central Ne,os
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-09
WHAT OTHERS SAY
(From the Portland oregonian.'

(From the Portland Oregonian.)
Admittedly the last letters OF Jonn
Rathie to his mother were pathetic.
There are tears in them, for the man
was about to die. The Rev. Guy Fitch
Phelps, an opponent of capital pun
ishment. gives these missives to dhe
public, apparently with the thougAt
that they will inspire sentiment
against the hanging of murderers. He
declares that they show the doomed
slayer to have been Of tender ana
forgiving heart. Strange it is to 'op-
serve, in the record of Rathie's lite,
the utter absence of these attributes
until the moose had all but tightened
round his neck. The pathos of his
letters, it may safely be assumed, was
the pathos of hysteria.
Not long ago, and but a few days
after the executions of Pathie and
Kirby. the Rev. Mr.. Phelps expressed
his horror in print. His soul revolted
at the act of legal justice. He depict
ed the two murderers as guiltless
boys. against whom society had taken
a hideous and repellent revenge TO
this expression of personal opinion it
seemed peculiarly fitting that w. r.
Taylor, brother of the murdered sher-
i'll, should make reply Mr.. Taylor
possessed the facts-the only conclu-
sive evidence that not only convicted
Rathie and Kirby, but that forbade
any ameloration of their sentence.
Rathie had been a delinquent from
early youth, with a prison record.
Kirby was also an eX-convict, whose
imprisonment at Pendleton arose
from robbery and attempt to Kill.
These gentle spirits, the testimony
had borne witness, were parties to the
plot to escape, pledged to shoot their
way out if necessary.
Well, they shot their way out. 1t
matters little that the half-breed,
Hart. was fated to apeed the bullet
that killed Sheriff Taylor. But for
the plot in which they were equally
concerned, he had not died. More
over in proof of their desperate in
tent, each of the two was armed. They
were both potential and actual muir
derers. Neither pathos nor hysteria
should blind us to the facts. Rathie's
twilight letters to his mother so low
ingly phrased. were the letters he
should have written long years before,
under happier auspices, He had rea-
SON to regret that he did not stay at
home and give to the mother and his
brothers and sisters the love and aid
he so laggardly professed, BY his own
record Rathie was neither a dutiful
son nor good man-and his career
was crowned with murder.
1t is time that sentimentalsts wiped
the tears of a morbid compassion from
their eyes, and beheld crime in its
true light and criminals as they are.
The sentimentality of the Rev. Mr..
Phelps is of that sort which, We're the
death penalty to be replaced by life
imprisonment, speedily would unhar
the prison and restore to the most
callous and reprehensible murderer
his liberty.