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BACK YARDS.

The country town and the smaller City where real estate demands have not as yet encroached on the size of back yard/?, can commiserate with the more metropolitan community on the many fine things of life of which the big city l4 deprived. The Terre Haute boy with lots of room between the kitchen and the alley fence can pity Jjls cousin In the larger city, reared In avjfiyor.s brick and stone and whose ^eet ver touch anything but hardwood floors and concrete pavements.

The People's Institute, New York, has inaugurated an experiment In the line of encouraging healthful play. It has set aside "play streets" for children of the congested districts, bidding traffic detour by other thoroughfares In order to give childhood an opportunity to exercise its Inalienable right to frolic.

Few cities have playgrouiids enough of the regulation type, ?md the larger the city the more marked appears the shortage. New York is notably lacking In this respect, particularly as it relates to those congested districts where playgrounds are most needed.

So children are to be turned into the streets and vehicular traffic is to be Iturned out. The rights of childhood are to be recognized as at least paramount with the rights of trade. "It is an interesting experiment," says the

Tribune, "and If streets enough can be turned to account It may prove of Inestimable value."

It took the world a long time to conclude that children have rights in the direction of physical development along animal lines which their elders deny at their own peril. But the truth dawned at last, and with It comes a tremendous endealvor to atone for the shortfllght^dness of the past "Play streets" are one manifestation of the effort to atone for the error.

THE WAR TRUST.

Mr. Travenner, one of our congressmen, gets a good deal of exercise trying to make congress see that there is a world-wide war strust. Among other things, he charges that the several leading powers aim to increase their naval strength in the same proportion. If one of the powers can be induced to take on an additional superdreadnaught it 1s used as an argument as to why the other leading powers should do the Same. It works as an endless chain, with the war burden ever and ever increasing on the backs of the taxpayers of the world.

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If a new design can be worked out, that, too, means more grist for the shipbuilders. It calls for the speedy "scrapping" of the tvessels already on hand as "obsolete," "scrapping" meaning throwing on the scrap heap as old Junk. So the life of the battleship is ever lessening.

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ner, in the trade of the war traders pa which is obviously profitable, otherwise theit would not be continued, is the hiring fjP'sf retired army and navy officials and x-members of congress by the powder, armor, and shipbuilding concerns

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LOOSEN UP.

.[ Chances to do a real good turn do $ot come along Very often. In the iurly-burly of events and the hustle for the "kale-eeed" humanity withers. It seems that next Friday la the date jfor the annual baseball game between city- and county officiate to raise funds for the Poor Kids' picnic, a name Which seems harsh and Inconsiderate, •but that is juBt what It is. Nothing else would properly classify it. It Is a Poor Kids' picnic In every sense of the word,' and the grown-upe who through the pinch of circumstances have little acquaintance with summer outings, are Invited to share the occasion. Other cities have similar philanthropies, but the Poor Kldef picnic is original with Terre Haute, and it is doubtful if there is any other occasion just like it in the country. It ha# the merit of being wholly legitimate. There are no salaries or "expense aocounts" saddled onto this charity, and every dollar started in the direction of the poor kids gets there. The men who give their time to the event deserve the gratitude of the poor. They have the appreciation of the public. If you haven't bought any tickets for the Poor Kidfli' ball game, put It down as your first duty of the week. The bigger the ball game, the bigger the picnic.

ings of the military branches of the government, know the personnel In an Intimate way, and by private conversation, by correspondence^ and In various ways are In a position to obtain much useful information. They know how to go about things for results. Through these ex-offlclals the war trust has become thoroughly at home in Washington

There seems to be no limit to the extremes to which the war traders are willing to go for business. Although scarcely believable, It Is the proven fact that British and German -war trusts many years ago actually set about to represent to their respective home governments that their rivals were planning to build and building great armadas of giant fighting craft, which have since been proven absolutely to have been figments of the Imagination pure and simple. The same character of campaigns has been going on between France and Germany, between the countries In the triple alllanoe and the triple entente, and It Is yet to be established whether the United States of America has not also been the victim of a similar brand of commercialism, in which patriotism is the means and profit the end.

THE JITNEY RAIDER.

Traction officials throughout the country have deplored the inclination of the people to patronize the jitney bus, and they indulge In the prophecy that if the people keep on encouraging the Jitney, the traction financial conditions will become so unsettled that there will be no money to maintain or finance traction enterprises. Terre Haute is said to have developed the jitney habit to a greater degree than any city of Its size. The doleful View of the traction men Is reflected in the following in this week's issue of The Investor: "Evidence of the dtetaste for stock in the large traction companies operating in the principal cities of the United States, which is rapidly developing among Investors, is shown graphically by the market price of Boston Elevated, now quoted at 75, the lowest it has ever been, is a concrete expression of the various doubts which are influencing investors in the matter of traction stocks. The big traction companies all over the country are, for the most part, losing their prestige as investments. To say that they are now becoming speculative purchases would not be far from right. What are the causes, then, which have contributed to the demoralization of this class of securities, which have long been considered among the most conservative of investments? "The case of the Boston Elevated Is of a parallel, in its principal features, with the experience of the traction companies in other large cities. For this reason a consideration of the Boston Elevated, specifically, will furnish an illustration of the adverse factors bearing on these tractions generally, and vice versa. Roughly speaking, there are four factors bearing on the situation, any one of which is sufficient of itself to cause grave concern among the tractiog managers. "Of principal importance at the present time is the jitney bus. Disregarding for the moment the much-mooted-question as to .the longevity of this new movement, and considering it only In its present llgnt It must be admitted that it has an aspect that is threatening, to say the least. In practically every large city where the jitney has broken out several inroads on the gross earnings of traction companies have been made. To be sure, in Boston, the Jitney has not really arrived as yet. A few mediocre attempts have been made by ambitious individuals along this line, but the Jitney has not met with the hearty reception among conservative easterners that It has^mong the people of the west. It Is threatening, however, and undoubtedly this has a sentimental effect on the price obtaining for Boston Elevated at the present time."

THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

According to the farmers of western Indiana and eastern Illinois, the Hessian fly has caused comparatively little damage, and the outlook is for an enormous crop. Prices in the wheat market for the week closing Saturday afternoon indicate that the "war" price of $1.40 le not going to prevail. The government crop report of May 8 was surprisingly favorable. With the largest "acreage of winter wheat ever known, the crop condition had Improved radically during April, and the estimate of yield was for 693,000,000 bushels, breaking all records In our history. This surpassed expectations of the experts by about 20,000,000 bushels. Not only had the condition improved the lost acreage was the smallest since 1902. The spring wheat situation was most favorable, and there was a fair promise of the largest total wheat crop ever harvested In America. Spring plowing and planting were much farther advanced, under good conditions, than is usual excellent crops of rye and hay were indicated, and statisticians began to talk of a total value of farm products in 1915 of twellve billion dollars.

Wheat was, In the middle of May, still bringing the farmers about $1.40 per bushel, a price known only under war conditions^ or when stocks were in the way of being "cornered." It was noticeable, however, that speculative prices for wheat to be delivered next autumn, after the present erop is harvested, were nearly forty cents less,— an extraordinary difference which reflects tHe doubt of speculative dealers in grain on thr^e main points: whether the enormous production now promised will not ovj^rtake consumption whether

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"JKHhen It comes to interest in boys, there Is probably no man in Terre Haate more Interested in good clean young boys than Walter A. Haley, of the Thorman & Schloss clothing store. Mr. Haley is chief scout master of the hoy scouts in Terre Haute and has their gratitude for making the organization the type of efficiency. He loves nothlfig more than to 'be with the boys planning a camping trip or an outing for them. It was due to the careful training the boys received under Mr. Haley that they were accorded the highest praise when they were on duty during the international encampment of the Knights of Pythias in Terre Haute last July.

When seen by a Tribune reporter Mr. Haley explained how he earned his first dollar. Being a Terre Haute boy. Mr. Haley said, it was only natural that he should take an interest in Terre Haute boys. "The first motley I earned was at the Owen &. iPlxley stores as cash boy," he said "I was about 10 or 1/2 years old and worked after school hours and in the summer. I like the work so well that I started In the clothing business when I left the sixth grade and have been In It ever since." "When I was a boy I attended the old Fourth ward school which Is now the Voorhees school. This was the

the allies will not succeed in the Dardanells and open an outlet for Russia's stores of wheat to come frorfl the shores of the Black sea and whether peace will not come, this summer, to warring Europe and suddenly lessen the special demands of Europe for our foodstuffs. Competent authorities are inclined to the opinion that even If the Dardanelles are opened, Russia will be chary about letting her food supplies leave her shores under war condition® and until peace is declared they believe we are not likely to grow wheat crops so large as to leave an exportable surplus large enough to swamp Europe and radically reduce the high price now coming to our farmers.

Sailing' vessels are coming back, It is said, to help meet the demand for Oversea tonnage caused by the war. The figure "three sheets In the wind," then, should be re-established in the best society.

North Carolina is putting into effect a plan to pay schoolboys to keep the highways In order. Some cities one might mention look as if the same plan had been In effect for a good while.

Licorice growing is a new California Industry. Doesn't that sound strange? The impression exists that licorice had been supplanted by spearmint and crackerjack many years ago.

Now that the little Syracuse Armareddonian fracas is over, the contrlbItlng colonel will doubtless have time to study out some serious flaws In the president's note to Germany.

Now that Kitchener has been elected Winston Churchill's associate goat what will become of his terrible dignity? A dignified goat seems to be a contradiction In terms.

Reform methods in education even go so far in one mid-western university that students are voluntarily giving up the practice of "cribbing" at examinations.

I^efty Gilbert had better understand that the people expect him to begin that June "drive" right away.

Mr. Toner dotibtless Is surprised that the bull moose funeral notice did not appear In yesterday's papers.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.

June 6, 1905.

R. Rochester was appointed principal assistant engineer of the Vandalia railroad. He will take charge of his work Immediately.

Wellington O'Conner, president of the Mine Workers' union, was called to the Ayrshire mine today to settle a dispute between the operators and the miners.1

Congressman Holliday was in the city making plans for the coming competitive examination for the appointment to West Point from this district.

A special meeting of the school hoard will Je held tonight at which the matter of the new teachers to be appointed for the next school year will be taken up.

BOOKS WOETH WHILE.

A series ef suggestive titles furnished to The Tribune by the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial library.

Army Stories.

Jas. Barnes—"Unpardonable War." Clara Louis'* feurnham—"West Point Wooing "Mliss Bagg's Secretary."

Joseph Conrad—"Point of Honor." Lionel Decle—"Trooper 3809." Alexandre Dumas—'Captain Paul." George C. Eggleston—"Southern Soldier Stories."

Capt. Charles King—"Colonel's Daughter "Kitty's Conquest "Marion's Raith ''Between the Lines "Laram'ie."

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A hungry man can't see much to a fruit sa.ifid.-.—Mew York Heraldt

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WALTER A. HALEY.

only school I attended except a short term at the commercial college." Mr. Haley lives at 213 Gilbert avenue. He has two boys who are interested in the Boy Scouts and hope some day to be scout masters.

HOROSCOPE.

"Tke fetara Incline, bat &» not compel." Copyright, 1916, by the McClare

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Monday, June 7, 1915,

This is an exceedingly fortunate day, according to the interpretation of astrologers, since the sun, Uranus and Venus are all In beneflc aspect.

While Venus, the planet supposed to rule the destinies of women,' is in a good place, success in business or social enterprises is supposed to be facilitated.

A London astrologer prophesies that all the ambitions of the feminists will be realized within two years "through many tribulations." This is believed to mean that, In Europe, the war will assure a new status for women, bringing them many new responsibilities.

The extraordinary increase in me birth rate prognosticated for this month will not be so apparent in this country as In Europe, but an ungual number of males will be born In the United States.

The rule today is believed to be helpful to inventors and scientific investigators.

Work for social reforms, charities and philanthropies Is well aspects!. The need of aid for the unemployed in large cities, particularly those of the sea coast towns of the United States, will become more serious this month than at any previous time In 1915.

Agriculture has an encouraging sign, but serious sftorms and unusual heat will damage cirops in certain sections of the country. Corn will bring unusual profits, It Is foretold.

Persons whose blrthdate It Is have the augury of a successful yeaf. Those who are employed, will prosper. Young women probably will receive offers in marriage.

Children born on this day have the omen of good luck through life. These subjects of Gemini often have much charm and personality.

Opportunity Calls.

"Opportunity is at your door." "What is It?" Inquired, the pessimistic citizen. "Opportunity *o subscribe to some worthy cause, or a chance to invest?"—Louisville Times.

Again, let us not dwell altogether on David's sin, but also spend a good proportion of the time, on the greatness of hi6 repentance, which is bo often lacking in sinners. Sin is sin, and God is holy!

Furthermore, let us not be led astray into a discussion of "war talk." War was a medium for the carrying out the scheme and design of David upon the life of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba We cannot quickly decide the rights and wrongs of war. However, if it is easy for vou to decide and render judgment, do so with a few brief sentences and refrain from consuming time in argument.

David's sin was committed in secret, but it could not be kept secret. Whereever you go, east or west, or north or south, "be sure your sin will find you out.''—Numbers' 32:23.

David's confession was an open confession Who would think, nowadays, of writing a psalm like the fifty-flrSt, exposing his own sins, confessing before God and man. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: "A broken and a contrite heart. O God, thou wilt not despise." "Create in me a clean heart O God," for thou alone canst do it, I cannot by my own power or "goodness."

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ways: and sinners shall t-e converted unto thee." Verse 7—"Wash me a.nc3| I shall be whiter than snow." How the children delight to sing that song! But, oerhaps. not until some time later in life deeper significance comes home to them.

David was truly a great kincr, nut how quickly cr-n a "(treat man" generate into a verv small man.. 'There was a sound of revelry by niglut" and then the great Napoleon was floomed

disposition .to deny him credit for the wonderful work he was doing or the wonderful manner In which he was doing it. Then the opposition, the reactionaries awoke to a pitiful realization of the president's strength and a conspiracy was set on foot to undermine his strength with the people. The vast majority of the metropolitan newspapers and magazines being owned, controlled, and dominated in every way' by the reactionary crowd, the poisoned pen of the liar

Sunday School Lesson for June 6

BY REV. KWAUD SOMMEItLAT TK, ZIOK REFORMED CHURCH.

NATHAN REBUKES DAVID. Golden text: Psalm 51:10—"Create in me a clean heart. O God." I

Lesson: II Samuel, 11:1 to chapter 12:7a. (Compare Psalm 51.) What: A parable sermon.

Why: Because the king had sinned. Where: Jerusalem. When: B. C. 1034 or 1041 (?). Who: David, messengers, Nathan the prophet.

THE STORY OF A GREAT SIN. The Lord sent Nathan unto David. That is the province of the messengers of God, to expose and rebuke sin. How else will men feel the need of- a Savior if they do not have a real sense of the awfulness of sin? We may have patience with almost any other sect or individual, but the ones who persistently deny sin and the hldeousness of

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Right at the oi.tset let us guard certain danger? in this lesson, Let ua nut consume all the time discussing and emphasizing the various steps and stasrea and conditions surrounding David's sin, and omit to apply the lesson to our own particular sins.

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to exile! So with the individual, be he Icing or peasant. Don't be too cocksure of your strong points, for the devil grins and shows you up on just that "strong feature" Of your career. "The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children" is St natural law as Well as a moral law. This same woman, Batli-sheba, was {he mother of Solomon, and he was not content until he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, and the ignominious decline of his illustrious career was caused by these heathens.—I Kings, 3.

David was quick in Judging the rich man who had taken from his poor neighbor the one ewe lamb and spared his own flock when he wished to entertain his company. David's judgment was—"he shall surely die." What if the Lord had judged him out of his own mouth? But God is rich in mercy unto all. "Thou art the man," has often been used very effectively. It also applies when it reads "Thou art the woman," as in the case 'of John Knox before Marv queen of S'cots. It was told of a minister that he had a sermon prepaied on this text, and when he arrived at the church there were no men, bul all women there, except for the lanitT- i"ut the sermon was delivered^ and the janitor, who was an unsaved man. was converted in that service.

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was set to work and with a persistency that wore itself out. It had its effect for the time, and there is ao doubt but that Wilson reiached the low tide of his popularity about last November and this continued until about the first of March.

The reactionaries were stronger with the people as a result during those four months than they will be again. So strong indeed were they that some forty members of the congress in both branches of the democratic persuasion thought i$ a popular thing to line up with Boot, Penrose, Smoot', and Lippltt in opposition to the president1 on the ship purchase bill. But times have ohanged again and where Wilson was weakest three months ago he is strongest now. And his strength will henceforth Increase with a growing realization on the part of* the people that during the last two years more delicate and dangerous international problems effecting the fate olf our people have confronted the president than have ever confronted the people before In our national history. ,L

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Only once before in our history have we been faced by difficulties approaching the magnitude of those that face us now and that was during the civil war, when In the midst of our struggle for national existence, Great Britain and France took advantage of our extremity to trample upon our rights and run a sword through the Monroe doctrine in Mexico. The bold position taken at that time by Seward as secretary of state and by Lincoln cannot be too strongly

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WASHINGTON, D. C. June 5.—More and more the American people are beginning to appreciate the importance to the nation, of Woodrow Wilson, who stands today*, higher in th^fr estimation than ever before. The exceptional popularity of WilScm during the first fifteen months of his administration was so patent as to be felt and visible. With 9. campaign for the presidency far. in the future there was

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then we were not up against a stronger proposition than that whioh now confronts us. Mexico, Japan, because of California, and now the world war and all within two years. Think of that. And through it all we have preserved peace, protected our rights, maintained our doctrines, and commanded the profound respect of the world.

That has been the supreme test of statesmanship and leadership—and the test has been an acid test that has demonstrated to the American people the undisputable statesmanship and genius of Woodrow Wilson. It lbsignificant of the unique greatness of this man that whenever he sets his hand to the plow a comfortable feeling of absolute confidence spreads over the people.

During the week he has added to his prestige by his continued strong policy in Duropo and by his statement to the Mexican factions. It is impossible to expect the same generous commendation of his Mexican policy as of his European policy because we have too many interests in this country financially interested in Mexico and these have been in hearty favor of intervention right along. They will continue to be. The time may come when intervention may be necessary. But if intervention comes it will come in such a way and only after every resource of peaceful solution has been exhausted—only come when the historian of the future will find it had to come. The letter of Woodrow Wilson on the Mexican situation is characteristically masterful couched in the clear, beautiful prose of his pen and carrying sentiments of the utmost nobility. Some pretty peanut politician of the reactionary school will immediately insist that this prospective change ih policy is an admission that the policy hitherto pursued has been a mistake. That would be in harmony with tho mudSy thinking of the type. There is

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this difference—a difference of Incalculable importance to the future of the American people: had we Intervened two years ago we "would have Incurred the suspicion and the hatred of every oountry and ptfbllo man and newspaper In Central and South America should we intervene now it will be with the sympatheitc co-operation and confidence of every paper and public man in Latin-America. Indeed —something the muddy thinker will overlook—the possible new policy will be in strict harmony with the polioj? outlined by the A. B. C. mediators, tlie South American diplomats. Thus there will be no possibility of misunf derstandings with the Latln-Amefci-ca,ns—something that would have been inevitable had we intervened two years ago.

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Another event of the utmo«»t Importance to the American people which has been to thS fore quite recently Is the close commercial understanding that has been brought about by the Wilson administration with the conntries of Central and "South America. This movement reached its full flower In the Pan-American cconference held the other day In Washington. Such a thing would have been quite Impossible in the days of the dollar-diplomacy of Philander Knox. (By the way. what has become of that great secretary of state?) While the movement Is distinctly that of the president the man who engineered Is was Secretary McAdoo of the treasury.

It is doubtful if we have had a ger man at the head of the treasury, department in many years. He brought "the wealth of the Indlae" tn the Emersonian sense with him to the cabinet, While I have nothing but contempt for the Billy idea that a man who has been much in politics must necessarily be Ill-fitted for statesman*? ship—whicli is nothing but big politics—It is comforting to the element which holds this narrow and antihistoric view to know that McAdoo Is in no sense a professional politician. He is self-made and he made himself a success through his genius of which, he has an abundance^ The McAdoo tunnels give the lie to any intimation that McAdoo is not a big man in every sense. In that work alone he did, enough to give him a place In history* He had a career, a distinguished ca-. reer, before he turned actively to politics. And in the making of that career he came constantly into intimate re-, lations with the biggest and most vital men in the world of finance. Ha was sneered at while he was accomplishing his great feat with the tunnel —but he went ahead, caring nothing, for the carping critics. Critics of public men are much like critics of lltera-. ture or the stage-—the latter cannot write a book or create a role and the former seldom could do credit to a clerical position in the government service. And this no doubt has served: McAdoo well in his splendid work in the treasury where he has been intimat€l.v identified with some of the.. very greatest constructive work in the-' history of American statesmanships Time will probably demonstrate that his work In connection with the crea-. tlon of the federal reserve system will give him a position along..Yfith Alexander Hamilton.

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And yet there is nothing dashing or picturesque about him. He is the least prepossessing in appearance. of any of the cabinet officials. Seen at ppme distance on the streets he might be taken for a tourist from some little western town. He is slight, almost frail. He has features that are rather too boyish perhaps to suit the great class that associates heavy jaws and hanging cheeks with intellectual capacity. The romantic young lady has thought of him perhaps as some-:

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