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TAX ON INCOMES
Tax Plans of the New
Wirth Cabinet Lay Heavy
Burdens on People.
NEEDS LARGE TRADE.
Hard to Get Gold to Meed
Kcparation Payments
Without Trade Balance
BY GEORG BERNHARD,
Ed It or-in- Chief of Vossische Zeitung,
Berlin.
Copyright. 1921, by the United Pres3.
Berlin. Sept. 24. The tax plans of
the tfth Cabinet were made public a
few ds ago. They contain 15 new
nxc-3 which are either added to th
x ;?::ng ones or double to quadruple
them. There will be little in Germany
Mr-.raxed not even the air, for to en
ny that in purer form one must pay
transport taxes or taxes on shoe leather
to get where It is clearer.
The German citizen must at once
give up 10 per cent of his loan or
wage, and if he earns as many paper
marks as used to be a better middle
d;i?9 income in the old days of gold
r.-.arks, then he must pay as high ns
60 per cent income tax.
"Whether the ' chancellor's program
can be realized in its present form is
still a question. His plans have strong
opposition in the Reichstag. A portion
of the opponents especially the Volks
partei, successor of the kl conserva
tive party follows merely agitative
ends. They s. , happily, with little
success, to in:1, k- i masses believe
that without trvit;: to fulfill the (thc-y
say impossible) peace treaty, they
cou'.d come off without taxes. They
accuse Dr. "Wirth of proving to hax'e
the will to fulfill. The objective oppo
sition which will oppose the taxes in
the Reichstag is, however, in agree
ment with "Wirth as to fulfillment. Th-i
opposition here is directed against the
liv-th'uls of taxation.
Wirth's most serious opponents de
mand new tax forms to procure such
mi "diard sums. There is, however, mo
ilojl t that in one way or another the
fi' i-t will be made to secure the tre
r.i- mlous tax load to cover Germany's
requirements for reparation and the
der.cit in its own budget. This tax
burden amounts to more than 100 bil
lions paper marks per year. Of this
amount four billions gold are needeo
to cover reparations and occupation
cots. making on a basis of 60 marks
av rag" to the dollar, 60.000.000,000 pa-yei-
marks.
GOLD REAL PROBLEM.
This "golden" - reparations burden
r' presents the real problem which G?r
many has to solve. For it is easier to
gt-t this sum in paper than to convert
'he paper into gold. And in gold or
pold equivalents must the tribute be
;n to the victors. I recently point-
1 out in these columns one side of
this problem. A state can only pro
cure gold by selling its property or by
creating a favorable trading balance
uhrnvith to make payments. For the
1 ifs'nt, Germany must pay out of its
It-i-.ins because it imports more than
ji" exports, and because it could not,
I;: s.rr.rc. the wnr malr lin tViio rlif.
:"nrenee through the interest of its for-
:"n holdings.
Bat it cannot continue Its present
v.'stein indefinitely, since it would then
'.l out its means of production and
teae to be productive. It must ther2
:oie seek to create an excess of ox
T'.rts. To this end, all economic and
t;!te means of Germany are now on
'1. levari n irrn tax mans
jh'.rv to this end, for the high taxation
: or. sumption limits the internal us?
p:l the strong increase of customs de
i !-aes the imports of all not indispe.i-y-Ai'
foreign wares. One saves on the
jlr.tpr r' and seeks to release a greater
amount of manufactured goods th in
v.!rrv;oi;s!y. by checking the internal
! '.'nsumption.
) But this economy policy does not
u;r.ce to bring about the excess need
It -1 he G'-rman reparations economy. If
parations economy
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reckons that from the four mil-
i--ards cold which Germany has to de
P ''l'. about one and one-half milliards
';r. he covered by material deliveries,
1 s'ill remain two and one-ha'f
I'.lhrds gold over. In raw materials
f' -d manufactured goods (exclusive (f
1 d ar.ri cattle) Germany exported at
2'.-.f -;os of 1913 her high point 1,
l '-0. 000 gold marks more than ehe
:d'rrt-:d.
lhis active balance was,
more than offset through ne-.v
l -''.Vf.vrr
food irnpiortations. Thesefiguresf
'hat even if the German agricul
could hp so intensified that no
?'r-d imports were necessary and if the
jhdiiBtry reached its pre-war stand
a oSn. it would still be necessary to
'iK- he German export by one mil
u'fl fe'Oi'i marks per year.
, m other words, as things now stano.
reparation problem can only be
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r 'o to two and one-half milliards more
: :".:ar.y than before. That this means
rs trrrif training of German :a
pf'Wer needs no discussion. But
Oermany by a mere increase of
UnK r ,,l i Tr
r-of the unemployed and part-time
t' orders now is not so great as th;
f Jir.hr-r ,,f ,jie standing army before thi
- me nours or laDor cannoi.
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eaocicii itrauit ul liic vjc:-
t'V(,iutlon the eight hour day
'rmot ,t. made retroactive, without
.rt'.':r ,vlo. The increased deliveries
: ''xr'ons must therefore be accom
' il.n.ugh better use of the work-
U:'e . through further intensiflca
' J"; : ionalization and mechaniza-
ef t;,r, (;erman work.
niii: PRODUCTION.
,Jll:t- would mean an increase of Ger
su.ihty, Kot that alone, but .1
oj r.-.uion of productjon must
. Jn'''rtaken. Such a process is ul-
:ary
occurring in the already im-
Made - In
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I Defends Ku Klux
!
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler of Atlanta,
Ga., prand chief of staff of the
women's division of the Ku Klux
Klan and head of the propaganda
department of the organization, de
fends the society, now under attack
of a New York newspaper. She
denies that it countenances either
violence or race hatred and that it
is a "grafting society."
SITUATION NOW
MUCH CONFUSED
Briand Represents Minority
in French Chamber Yet
Directs Government.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU,
Former French High Commissioner
To America.
Staff Correspondent of The Xews.
.Special Cable Dispatch to The Xevrs.
Copyright, 1921, by Xews Publishing Co.
Paris, Sept. 24. Parliamentary life
in France will be resumed October Is
and already there is activity in the
lobbies of botli Chambers.
To understand what may ensue whn
Parliament gets under way, to get tin
significance of certain moves that may
be made, a statement of the party line
up is necessary. The situation is likely
to become extremely confused because
the majority of the present members
of the Chamber are without political
training.
The chief feature of the 1919 elections
was a spontaneous demand for some
thing new. Probably the voters did not
know exactly what they sought. They
did want union. They were tired of
the old religious quarrels. Thoy
dreamed of a great national effort for
reconstruction and development of tho
resources of the country.
The result of this aspiration was a
severe setback to the pre-war po'I
ticians, notably the Radical Socialist
party, which, for 15 years, had govern
ed France, usually in coalition wih
the Socialists. The name "Radical So
cialist" is purely a party label. Tho
members of the party are neither very
radical nor very socialistically inclined,
but are Liberal and anti-Clerical. This
party was crushed at the elections for
the Chamber with universal suffrage
prevailing, but got revenge two months
later when tide Senatorial elections
were held under limited suffrage. Thus
it maintained a strong influence over
local administrations, which, for 15
years, had been recruited from among
its followers. I emphasize this fact be
cause it dominates the present situation
and explains the deep confusion.
NE IT 1 1 ER REPRESENTATIVE.
So, in the Chamber we have an anti
Socialist, religiously liberal and politi
cally moderate majority. But neither
the Government nor the local admin
istrations really represent this majority.-
By a strange paradox, our Min
isters of the Interior for the past two
years, formerly M. Steef and now M.
Marraud. have been taken from the
ranks of the Radical Socialists, who
were overwhelmed in 1919. The party's
satisfaction in this is shown by its
faithful support of Premier Briand and
its opposition to sending an .Ambassa
dor to the Vatican. The whole idea
of this defeated party is to prepare for
victory in the elections two and one
1 alf vears hence. For this it needs the
good will of the Minister of the In
terior -and his prefects, and these are
now secured.
"We have, therefore, the further par
adox of a parliamentary majority be
ing combatted all over the country by
agents of a Cabinet which that major
ity maintains in office. You may well
ask why it is that a majority upholds
with votes a Cabinet whose agents are
fighting it. The answer is that, being
composed politically of inexperience .1
men, the majority hesitates to assume
the responsibility of a ministerial crisis.
Moreover, on account of-tthis same In
experience, the majority Deputies are
highly susceptible to oratory and when
Briand. with his old-fashioned stump
style, explains the advantages of his
policies, they allow, themselves to be
charmed by his words. They realize
that for ten months, France has been
yielding on all sides' the rights she won
during the war. But these problems
are so complicated the majority can
not follow the details and. after spora
die outbursts of protest, it soon re
lapses into resignation.
MAJORITY SPINELESS.
This odd combination of testiness at
one moment and resignation the next
is the first- thing that strikes one :n
the lobbies today. , The majority recog
nizes that a change is necessary, but
this same majority is not resolved U
- Caarolinas ExpositEIoo Closes TIhiOTdlay9
RUSSIA IS LAND
OF JAILED SAYS
FREED AMERICAN
Experience Few Russians
Escape; Regarded as of
No Importance at All.
MANYORDERED KILLED
But Not All the Sentences
Are Carried Out, Says
Captain Kilpatrick.
By WILLIAM BIRD.
Staff Correspondent of The Kern,
Special Cable Dispatch to The News.
Copyright, 1921, by News Publishing Co.
Paris, Sept. 11. "There .are just
three classes of people in the Russian
cities today these who have been In
jail, those who are in jail, and those
who are going to be in jail."
The speaker was Captain . Emmett
Kilpatrick, one of the Americans re
cently released from a Moscow prison
as a result of the Hoover bargain with
the Bolshevists.
I did not ask Captain Kilpatrick
much about the terror and bloodshed
in Russia. As he said himself, why
talk about it? There would be many
stories written that were untrue, so
many lies spread broadcast over the
world by rumor mongers in Stockholm,
Helsingfors and other propaganda sta
tions, that nobody will believe the
truth if it is told.
Going to jail, however, is an inci
dent of small importance. Being sen
tenced to death is a formality that
most prisoners go threfhgh. Not all
the sentences are carried out not a
majority of them, perhaps. But there
are executions, nightly. Every prison
er in the Moscow jails soon gets
accustomed to a rattle of musketry
outside his cell window every night
He gets used to having, the guards
come and take one of his celmates
out from time to time. After a
while, he ceases to be curious when
the guard's step is heard at the door,
as to whether, it is his turn this time
COMMUNISM DEAD.
Is Bolshevik power waning? No!
Communism is dead, but the Commun
ists will hang on a long time. Their
organization, politically, is admirable
They have trusted agents everywhere
but not too much trusted. Generally
they go in pairs, each to watch the
other. TfLs was true, for instance, in
the case of Budenny's army. Captain
Kilpatrick visited Budenny on his way
to Moscow where he expected to get
his release' mstead of a prison sen
tence. Budenny is not sole commander
of his wonderful mounted army. He
has a joint commander Boroscheloff.
No order is valid unless signed by
both of them. If they disagree, the
matter is referred to Moscow.
In fact, there are three commanders,
for, besides these two, there is Menir.
at Moscow. He is the so-called political
commander. He does not go to the
front or among the troops, but has
charge of propaganda and the surveil
lance of the, army's morale. He is a
Communist- through and through. He
was thrice imprisoned in Siberia under
the Czar and declared that he had
no respect for any Russian who had
not been sent to Siberia at least
twice.
Budenny can read, but does not.
Asked what boks he liked best, he
said he never read any. Boroscheloff,
his colleague, however, reads vora
ciously and said his favorite works
were those dealing with the camnaisms
of Stonewall Jackson. He admired
Jackson's strategy, and had employed
it extensively in his own campaigns.
Capain Kilpatrick laid no emphasis
on the reasons for his arrest. Rea
sons are hardly necessary, he 6ays,
although it is sometimes difficult to
understand the motives. In his own
case, he was a Red Cross worker
with "Wrangel's army. The pretext for
his arrest, after traveling practically
unguarded to Moscow, was a telegram
from the State Department asking if
"our attache with General Wrangel,
Captain Kilpatrick" had been shot.
This proved, said the authorities, that
he was a military spy. The wording
of the telegrams calls for an explan
ation, for Kilpatrick was never an
attache.
CAN'T HELP COMPANIONS.
The greatest regret Kilpatrick has
is that he can now do nothing for
his former companions in prison, who
begged him, when he was released,
not to forget them. Many were Hun
garians, captured during the war, who
have been imprisoned since 1914 and
1915. He showed me a hand-made
wooden cigarette case, bearing the
autographs of many well-known Hun
garina officers and this inscription:
"May the true love of your Hungarian
friends be in your remembrance for
ever. Moscow, Andronlefsky, hard la
bor camp, March 4, 1921."
I smoked one of the cigarettes,
which bore the arms of the Soviet
Republic. It was surprisingly good.
There are twenty thousand Hun
garians slowly dying off n, the Moscow
jails. But then, there are one hundred
and fifty thousand prisoners in Mos
cow altogether.
As to the fiood situation at Moscow,
Captain Kilpatrick told me today
that he will never feel the same again
towards lard. A year ago he regarded
it as possibly a disagreeable necessity
in the kitchen, a thing that, used
sparingly and skilfully, might go into
the making of many wholesome dishes,
but which certainly he could not con
sider in itself as a good product.
Today, after six months of Russian
prison . life, he considers lard one
of the blessings of the human race.
Smuggle a pail of it into any Moscow
jail, and be hailed as deliverer by the
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Three Women To Take Part In Unemployment Conference
Left to right, above: John T. Connery, James J. Davis, Samuel Gompers,
Center: Miss Elizabeth Christman and J. H. Defrees. Below: E.
James Couzens.
Here are some of the more
prominent persons named by
President Harding to discuss the
unemployment problem at a con
ference in Washington. The list
includes three women: Elizabeth
Christman of Chicago, secretary
treasurer of the National Wom
an's Trade Union League: Mary
FARMER BLOC IS
YET AGGRESSIVE
Vigorous Campaign Planned
for Legislation Helpful to
the Farmers.
BY RALPH BURTON.
Staff Correspondent of The Xews,
Copyright. 1921, by News Publishins Co.
Washington, Sept. 24. The farmer
"bloc" in Congress has already, in the
few days that have elapsed since the
sessions were resumed, shown that it
has lost none of the spirit of aggressive
ness that characterized it during the
Spring and Summer despite Administra
tion condemnation of "government by
group, ' and, from tomorrow until the I
end of the present session, its members
intend to carry on vigorously their cam
paign for legislation, of which, they as
sert, the farmers of the nation are urg
ently in need.
First on the program, perhaps, in im
portance, is the proposed co-operative
marketing measure, 'strongly advocated'
ior many months Dy senator Arthur
Capper, of Kansas. A tremendous sen
timent has grown up among the far
mers of the Middle-West in favor of leg
islation which will permit co-operative
marketing, for railroad rates, grain ex
change activities, and the large expense
incidental to present distributing ar
rangements have been perhaps more
keenlv felt than anywhere else. The 1
pronounced opposition that has develop
ed in seme states, notably Indiana and
Illinois, to plans for marketing grain 1
co-operatively has tended to make the j
farmers all the more militant, for they j
have come to believe that big business
interests are trying to halt them in or
der that the present toll of the middle
man may be maintained.
CONSPICUOUSLY SUCCESSFUL.
The farmer "bloc" is small, but it has
been rather conspicuously successful.
It has put through the packer control
act and the Capper-Tincher bill regulat
ing the sale of futures on grain ex
changes and, although methods of evad
ing this second act are already coming
to light, according to reports from theJ
rarming centers, tne legislation un
doubtedly represents a real gain to ag
riculturists as a class.
To the criticism levelled against it,
the members of. ihe "bloc" reply that
they are only interested in getting a
square deal for the farmer, something
tat e as not always ad in te past.
Senators Heflin. Alabama: Fletcer.
Florida: Ransdell, Louisiana: Smith, j
South Carolina, and Sheppard, Texas,
make up the South's reprnesaetvseit
make up the South's representation in
the Upper House "bloc." The West is
represented by Gooding, Idaho; Kenyon,
Iowa; Capper, Kansas; Norris, Nebras
ka; Ladd, North Dakota; LaFollette,
Wisconsin, and Kendrick, Wyoming.
There are. then, in the bloc members
of both parties; there are the occasion
ally conflicting economic interests of
two sections and of the growers of dif
ferent crops to be considered. Yet on
the whole the bloc has worked with 'sur
prising unity, and results in the Lower
House have been about as satisfactory.
' The success of the farmer group is
suggested by some labor men as point-
(Continued on Paee Five.)
Van Kleeck of New York, di
rector of the Women in Industry
Service of the U. and Ida M.
Tarbell of New York, writer.
Other noted figures at the confer
ence wil be-President Gompers
of the American Federation of
Labor; Secretary of Labor -James
J. Davis; President Joseph . II.
Seven Days InLi'lOl'N'York
By JESSIE HENDERSON
Stalf Correspondent of The News.
Copyright, 1921, by News Publishing Co.
New York, Sept. 24. New Yorkers
are a simple, childlike people, easily
amused. The other afternoon five hun
dred motorists and a thousand pedes
trians halted 'on their homeward way
to play tag with a squirrel.
The squirrel, which had wandered in
to Columbus Circle from its rooftree in
Central Park, enjoyed the fun as much
as did traffic policemen, motor drivers
and innocent bystanders. Young. Fuz
zytail started across the circle, straight
for Broadway, but got confused and
ran beneath a limousine. If the average
New Yorker were the ruthless speed
maniac which outsiders think him, the
driver would have rolled squarely over
the squirrel.
The driver jammed on his brakes. 0
did the drivers of a throng of other
cars. For fifteen minutes half the
crowd chased Fuzzytail while the other
half, weak with laughter, leaned from
its motors and cheered encouragement.
Fifteen minutes is a long, time any
where in New York when traffic is
blocked. It is-especially long in Col
umbus Circle, where Broadway flows
into several other roaring thorougn
fares. But not till Fuzzytail was safe
under somebody's hat and in process
of transit back to the park did the
massed cars and people begin to -move
away. By 'the time the circle olearrd,
the Gotham tradition of coldeartcdness
was badly dented.
You can't tell Alice Bloom, anything,
however about the cute ways of. ani
mals. Miss Bloom met the cunnngest
little doggie and the result was the
loss of her hair and the acquisition of
a lawsuit. The terrier belonged to
some people who invited Miss Bloom
for a yachting trip up the Hudson. Mis-3
Bloom had a $125 wig to cover hpr
bobbed head. When the trip began, the
wig was inside her cabin an-!,- whi-n
the trip ended, the wig was" inside the
dog. Miss, Bloom wrathfully brought
suit and the terrier's sense of humor
cost his owner fifty dollars.
GENEROSITY COSTLY.
It was a burst of generosity wh'th
cost Abe Goldstein one thousand dollars
in bail. And, as a result of everything,
Herman Schwartz doesn't believe in
human nature any more. Herman
bought a brown suit as a birthday gift
for himself. When he woke on the
festive morning, he found a ragged
gray suit draped over the chair where
his new trousers had hung. His cigars
and purse also were gone. Herman don
ned the tattered suit and went forth de
jectedly. As he scuffed along the
Bowery, a kindly faced man handed
him a dime. Herman glanced up. In
to the kindin face was thrust a birth
day cigar5 and below the kindly fave ex
tended the new brown suit. Hrnmr
laid hold on suit and cigar and hung cn
till the police arrived.
"A whale of a note," said Herman;
Ida Tarbell and Julius Barnes.
E. Gark, Mary Van Kleeck and
Defrees of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce; Julius H. Barnes,
former president of the U. S.
Grain Corporation; Mayor Couz
ens of Detroit; E. E. Clark, for
merly a member of the inter
state commerce commission, and
John T. Connery, president of
the Miami Coal Company of Chi
.cago. "a burglar tips me with my own cash,
from my own pocket."
Dazzled by the prosperity of local
thieves, Angelo and Joseph de 'idod to
adopt burglary, as 11 career. Angelo
Ballefa, 11, and Joseph Menzacapp.i, 9.
accordingly secured a screw d i .er ard
glass cutter with which tln-y tried their
luck on the show window of a toy shop.
Their luck was so bad , that 't landed
them in the Bronx children's court and
added two more,tb the surprisingly long
list of youngsters who have lato'y set
out to make a dishonest Mving.
DOC'S LUCK ALSO BAD.
"Doc" Crrtwright played in hard
luck too, though he has long since
graduated from the ranks of juveriie
crime.
The Doc, when the judge asked his
profession, said he was horseshoer. De
tectives said he at least was a clever
workman at the forge. Doc is accused
of forging a check for one hu-iclred tit 1
lars, he has served time for an earlier
forgery, and Under many an alias, he
is wanted . for many a misstup. He
came Into court in frayed shoes and
farm-hand make up; busted ::uspf lidora,
straggly beard and all. But wlu n he
forges checks, instead f hor.se shoes,
: ,
(Continued on Page Five.)
. "I passed you three times this morn
in an' you never looked up either
time," said Miss Tawney Apple t' a
gentleman friend t'day. Mrs. Tilford
Moots has got a brother that's almost
rich enough t' lose ever'thing.
DiS
TRIBUTION OF
AVAILABLE JOBS
MAJOR SUBJECT
Intelligent Action Hoped
for Following Survey of
American Industry.
MANY EXPERIMENTS;
Tried Out in 30 States tot
Be Made Available to
Those in Attendance.
By HARDEN COLFAX.
Staff Correspondent of The News.
Copyright, 1921, by News Publishing Co.
Washington, Sept. 24. When Presi
dent Harding's conference on unemploy
ment meets Monday at the Department
of Commerce, its prime attention will
be devoted not so much to increasing the
number of jobs for the jobless although
that phase also, will' be discussed and
efforts made to increase employment
as to distributing more equitable among
the workers of the country the pres
ent amount of work to be don.e
Employers will hot be asked, for sen
timental reasons, to increase their pay-
Visiles HP V a Ct-' ry-Y m or frta tiat in.
IWl lO. Xllb J V VJ. IHIlllL VI vv o not 111
tend to conduct the conference on sen
timental lines at all,v but along sound,
practical business methods. The Hoov
er luca ul engine ernijj win prevail.
That idea will be to take a survey of
American industry, as to where it
stands and what it faces, and then to
devote the best thought of the confer
ence to analyzing the situation and act
ing intelligently to relieve distress where
ever such action can be taken.
The task, therefore, is primarily one
of distribution of existing work- There
is a certain amount of work to be done.
There is a certain force to do it. Th"
force, at the present, ; is in excess of
the requirements of manpower ior Uic
job. How can the idle manpower be
given an opportunity to share, at least
to some extent, in the benefits of em
ployment? That is one of the main
questions the conference will seek to
answer.
STAGGERED HOURS
The device of '.'staggered working
hours" will be discussed. -Under this
plan, manufacturers, in certain suc
tions, unable to supply work to all the
workmen needing it, are working two
crews. One crew works one week and
the other the next. In effect, it amounts
to half-time work for all and give ev
eryone an opportunity to earn " ST part
of his normal pay, rather than giving
some workmen full time ( and others
none" at all. '
Surveys from thirty states, showing
experiments of that and other kinds
adopted by producers to relieve unem
ployment, will be available for the con
ference. A clearing house of informa
tion will be established. Where an ex
periment has worked out well in one
place, the results and the methods ap
plied will be available for representa
tives of all industries attending the con
ference so that, if desirable, they may.
recommend its adoption in their own
lines of business.
The conference is expected to last
two weeks- Afer the first few ses
sions, it probabry will be divided into
group meetings, each group representing
one or more industries. Each group
will study the situation in its industry
and the relief work being done in other
industries with a view to determining
whether such relief can be applied by
the group in question. Also the groups
will study a great volume of data
which the Government has been prepar
ing for the conference, chief of which
are recent and accurate figures as to
the extent of unemployment through- "
out the country.
SKELETON PROGRAM '
For the past ten days a group of econ
ofhic advisors has been at work in New
York preparing a skeleton program for
the conference. It will be presented at
the Monday meeting, but it will be only
a skeleton program, for the Administra
tion does not want to have a cut-and-dried
affair throughout in advance for
the delegates. Rather, it is seeking to
give the delegates the widest possible
latitude so that their Qwn ideas may
obtain the fullest expression. There
will be little program limitation to the
range of discussion or action.
One of the subjects down for discus
sion is the possibility of extending pub
lic works, such as roads and building
construction. There will be a survey
of such work, under actual develop
ment and projected, together witb. ao-
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AGED LOTHARIO IS
HELD INCOMPETENT
Chicago, Sept. 24. He was eighty
four but not too old to write love let
ters. Now he has a conservator, by
court appointment to see that he does
not employ checks on his $50,000 to "fol
low up" the amorous notes.
"Scraps of paper" pieced together,
told of the affection of Parker Weinman
who is past the four-score mark, for
Mrs. Lillian Beardsley, of Evanston, 111.
who is said to be about half his age.
"My dearest Lilly" one of the mis
sives began. "Dearer to me than all
humanity above earth."
The word "love" distinguishable in
the mutterings of the aged Lothario,
aroused the suspicions of his daughter,
Mrs. John Behee. Then.in his room,
she found the "scraps of paper."
Mrs. Behee, with another daughter,
Mrs. Jessie W. Barker, then began to
get busy and the court action result
ed. Mr. Weinman is mentally incompe
tent, the daughters said in court and
said that he had been "victimized" by
Mrs. Beardsley.
According to their story the aged
man drew $5,000 out of the bank and
gave it to Mrs. Beardsley on condition
that she provide a home, food and
pocket money for him the rest of his
life. It was also discovered that he had
deeded property to her.
Sept 29