Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1916 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1916.

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NO BASMBAIL TttOST Jtidft Landii, of Cblc««o, who Mya that ha haa an ‘'axpart knowledga" of tha ^ma, hat dlamltaad tha ant!>tnjat tult which waa brought by tha Faderal Lea«ae againat '‘organiaad baaeball.”* January 6, IfMs 1^ action waa takan with tha approval of both plalnUff and defandant, and wag part of tha paaca agraement, reached aoma time ago. whereby tha Federal Lttgua went out of exiatence. The caae involve* thia country'a moat popular paatlme and moat powerful law— the Sherman antt-truat act Indianapolia haa more than ordinary tonoern In the matter, for the ortgfnal ault waa prepared by an Indianapolia promotar, on behalf of the Pedtt|l League. The complaint aiteged that tte ’*organtaed baaeball“ which had Mt tlie Fedarala waa a comblnaUon lg;.vlo!ation of the common law and tha SlNTuan airti-truat la»f. that "organlaed biiebair' held- ita plaj'era virtually aa kbves, tliat the "(ruat” mainmjned a blackllat with which to puniah the diaohedlent playera. and that II had nigde many attempta to ruin the buainesa o£ tha Federal League, with ita iS,^,oia ig^stment Ih playing grounds Players, •gulpmant, etc. In ordering the dlamlaaal tfw judge aaid: The court*! expert knowledge of baaeobtained by more than thirty yaara ©*■ observation of tha game aa a epactata$or convinceit^me that If an order tmjogctionj had been entered it w'ould hav# been. If not destructive, at least vitolly iwjuHoua to tha game of baaeball. No what declaion had been made oSBher aide would have emerged frwn ^^t victorious After taking counaer with m* own judgment I decided that the ^KTt had the right, or at least the diecretl«», to postpone decieion in the case and I thia was done. Evidently the judge acted not only as Interpreter of the law. but at the friend of baaeball in both he aeema to have been Juatmed. for the factions got togMher and all now aeema to be peaceful. Judge Landte regarda the eettlement aa aetlafactory from the standpoint of Judge and “fail." “I want to say,’* he added, "that In all the preliminary evidence and tha varloue arguments when the records were gone over with a fine tooth comb to find aomethlng injurloua to the other ltd*, not the slightest evidence was pre•ented to cause the meet auapicioua person to Impugn the honor of the game or of anv of the Individual playera." This la plainly a clean bill of health. In the Mttlement there hi only one poertWltty frir future trouble. The Baltimore P'Sdaintg. while not objecting to a disHUasal <lf the suit, reserve the rtght to set Dirtber. Thtra are indlcauona that thay will bo pacifled. and if not, there is ygl the aaytop law, suppismentary to tha Bbsrman act whfoh may be oppliad. SOPBIS IfOK^ SVCCSSS out of JDetroit there came a day or two •fp a brief announoamant tbM a publicMPiritad woman had deoded proparty asorth fSkMS to the city to ba uaei f«r tba pafpeaa of eetmbUabiiig a home where cb^ren of.ortminal tendencies might bs lecistined. The donor la Sophie Lyons, who waa known yeari ago as the shrewdeet and ableet woman criminal of modem timea Todsj, she Is wsvsnty ysara old and for a long time she haa led a life that has been above reproach. Three decades ago. Sophie Lvona's name was written large In the criminal reciffds at home and abroad. ParlA lAmdon. New Tortt were all the aame to

a thief, her husband was a bank burglar, Sophie, herself, was a pickpocket and. In addition, the head and brains of an organised gang of thieves as cosmopolitan In their operations as Sophie was In her own particular line of law breaking. In 1896. ahe committed her last theft When she emerged from prison, pennlieaii and broken In health, ehe told the police that they would have no more trouble with her. No one believed her. But Sophie meant what she eald. She disappeared from her old haunts "I esn make money honestly,” she had said, snd

set about it

It was probably not easy for the woman to break with the friends of former days, but break with them ahe did. Than, with years of experience behind her experience In the ways of the criminal and experience In the ways of honest folk she came out of her reUrement long enough to declare that crimf did not pay. ■Whoever can make a living by breaking the law," she said, “can make a fortune by keeping the law." She had proved it Penniless twenty years ago, today she Is worth MOO.AOO “Don’t preach sentimental reform at the

Show

him instead that he Is wasting hla time. Show him that crime does not pay." Lately, crlmlnologlata have agreed that Sophie's advice was sound. In New Tork the police commissioner is sending police olTlcera to the city prisons and reform schools to preach Sophie's doctrine It Is effective, they say- It Is making honest men out of thieves Sophie L#yons’s life ought to be worth study. For forty years she lived outside the law, and though she was known everywhere as the queen of crime she rounded that period In prison and bankrupt For twenty-five years she has lived honeMly; she is respected and

she Is woith half a million

and that the historical muckrakcr forgef* Of course, if Patrick H'^»nry was dishonest It Is nothing to his credit, but It should be remembered that Patrick Henry has lived lit histoiy for what he »a4d and not for what he did It is very poselhle that in making such remarks Professor Channing had no deeper purpose than to remind hla students that, like men todaj, the leaders during the countrj's early struggles were merely human beings responding aa best they could to what they conceived to be a noble work They fought not only the torles who opposed rebellion, but also their own personal weaknesses That they won and gave the country a good start is, therefore, the more to thalr credit

THE PRmDENf AND THE NAYK In his i5cenl speech at St Louis

President said thsk In his opinion th«{criminal," advised Sophie Lyons

American navy iiught to be "Incomparably the freateat navy In the world.” The enemies of a raktonal preparedness are making the most of thia extreme utter ance of the Presldesit It is for Mr. Wll son to Interpret his own words, but it may be suggested that "greatest" does not necessarily mean "largest," if it does In this ea»a the on^y possible thing to say In reply to the President is that the coun try needs no aueh thing. *’A navy that

' Wav "Incomparably the greatest in the

world" would be ao large aa to make the monster fleet of Orifiit Britain look small Such a proffram would manifestly be absued. If this la what the President haa In mind, he har departed entirely from the ftv*-year plan recommended by him to congress in his recent address, which was at the time generally believed to be adequate There was in that no provision for "incomparably the greatest navry in the world." To make that-our goal would surely provoke Oreat Britain to emulation, and we should have the same rivalry between the two powers that has been shown betweeiy Great Britain and Ger-

many.

Tbg British naval policy during the last score of years has been avowedly based on theenry that the United States was not t^ be considered as a possible foe. 'We shoi^ do nothing even to suggest the abandonment of It. But we do not need any guch navy as that favored — appar entll^ by tiie President We have com parilM^ few oversea engagements, whMe GBtot Britain has colonies scattered all over the'Wj^. We are self-support-ing, wbUi Greai^italn Js not. The cases of tb« two m^ns **«« entirely different The greatest navy In the world Is a neeasMty to GraatitiMtaln. With us It would be a costly and war-provoking luxury, and so, a piece of folly. Perhaps President got a little too warmed up, and allowed his enthusiasm to run away With him But the argument for a sober and adequate preparednesH, mlilch was so eoftsiouingly made by the President, Is strong as It svet a as-and that

strong.

THE BMNDEIS CASE

It was Intimated a few days ago in a New York newspaper that the fact that Mr. Brandels was a Jew would. In all likelihood, increase hla chances for confirmation. The theory, we auppose, was that there would be a campaign conducted for him on racial'lines, snd that many senators would not run the risk of offend ing and alienating the Jewish vote. It is to be hoped that the theory will prove to be false There is no reason v hy a Jewish appointee should not be subjected to the same testa that are applied to Gen-

tiles.

On the other hand, the man’s race stock should not be considered an obstacle. There la no reason why a Jew should not alt on the supreme bench, provided, of course, he is qualified both from the moral and professional point of view The case is so clear that It la hardly nec«sary to cite precedenta, though reference may be made to Lord Reading — a Jew — who is lord chief Justice of Sngland The question of race is wholly Irrelevant. All senators who think that Mr. Brandels is qualified should vote for him. and all who think he is not qualified should vote against him without any reference to the race question i The senate Judiciary comntittee will, we art sure, consider the appointment aoleiv on its merits. It Is well that there should be bearings, since there have been man> rumors Involving the professkmal character of Mr. Brandeis The country wants, and Is entitled to the truth Of the appointee’s legal ability there can. of coarse, be no question, for he la one of the most distinguished lawyers in the country. As might be expected, he Is strongly supported snd bitteriy opposed in his home city. It is nothing against him that be has had no experience on the bench, since some of our greatest justices have been without it, including such men as Chief Justice Marshall and Justice Miller. As far as chief justices arc concerned. this Is the rule. Of late the practice ihas. been to promote judges of Inferior tribunals, and there is a good deal to be said for IL But good may result from an occasional departure from It The sole question is as to the qualifications of Mr. Brandeis as a man. \ --5;-CE==-==s-======r mSTOmUL MHCKRAKING A few eastern newspapers seem to bo wrought up ov'or the way a Harvard professor, Edward Ctumning, has been casting reflecUoiia^upon the persona! honesty o* Pal^ek Hoorn, and referring openly to the etrcutoptance that u^n 'occasion George Washington was not above losing his temper and maklnf the fur fly, Profensor Chamdng. whose eohoiarohlp has for many jrqaia. becQ. cpnaidored abovk reproach, no doubt made some such reference to the men to question This is nothing new. Other historical characters have been referred to in the same spirit But the question is, is it not better to alio# the young mind to believe, for instance, that the Boston tea party waa composed of high-minded colonial patriots who looked with displeasure upon any liquid that savored of ram. than to believe that the whole affair was a lark participated In by a company of tavern rowdies who knew that public sentiment would be against thMr apprehenMon and punishment? One version of the episode may be as far from the actual truth as the other, but both are current, and sincp no member Uvea to defend himself, the two versions art likely to remain current for a good many years to come. Certainly the first is the one everybody would like to believe, and perhaps, therefore, it is the one which should be taught to children whose minds have not become mellow enough to make allowances, but the student of history who Investigates with a mature mind can hardly suffer from the truth aa the historical muckraker Insists upon stating it The student knows that it matters little whether John Adams was a rum seller. Some excellent men have been rum sellsfa Even the old inhabtlants h«reaboute can remember when the p^er. a teadUlg churchman and a thoroughly good man, dtspenscKl rum and was none the worse for It In the eyes of bis fellow-men The fact to that the harm cornea when shortaighted muckraketa twhleh Professor Ghsnnlng it not), Itft kistortcal characters out of their enviromnent add judge them by modem stasdarda Tbto to done by many In their thought of Bible characters What matters it whether George WaehingtiMi loet kie temper and. in profane words, accompanied, it to said, by a liberal Application of the fiat of his sword, froquentlj turned a company of frightened soldiers about and set them at the enemv again" In his wisdom he no doubt knew that tn the thick of a battle there Is no time for gentle persuasion If he had been a minister of the gospel in a g^em church, he might have been cen-

THE VON PA PEN CORRESPONDENCE The letteiw written to Von Papen. former German military attache at Washington which w'e are getting from London on the instalment plan, contain much that is Interesting to the people of this country. The foliowring undated note addressed to Von Papen is perhaps somewhat enlight-

ening;

A secret agent, who returned from Washington this evening, made the following statement: "The Washington people are very excited about Von Papen and are having a constant watch kept on him They are in possession of a w'hoie heap of Incriminating evidence They have no evidence against fount B and Captain B K" In this connection I would suggest with due diffidence that perhaps the first part of >our telegram Is worded too emphatlcaliy. Yours ever,

B E

Thus wrote Captain Boy-Ed, for we suppose the initial* bis "When he admit# the W’ashington authorities had "a whole heap of-incriminating evidence" agaii St Von Papen we think it fair to say that the government was none too haatv In sending Von Papen out of the country. But the secret agent could not find that the W'ashington authorities had any evidence against Count Von Bernstorff or Boy-Ed He aeema to have been mistaken about Boy-Ed. since his recall was also asked for. There seems to have been some trouble within the inner circle. George von Skal. former commissioner of accounts in New York city, snd a newspaper correspondent, praises the German ambassador for his great work, performed under the most unfavorable conditions. In a letter to Maximilian Harden be sajs; He well deserves kind words once In a while as there are still Influences at work on your side who wish to decry his services One of the foremost of these is the widow of Von Sternburg [former ambassador!. The fact that for a time B could accomplish but little wwa mainly due to the presence of your friend B D [Dernburg!, who, I may remark In parenthesis. Is verj fond of speaking of that “Punchinello Harden " •11118 man was regarded by many Americans, even by many Germana as the real ambassador. His immense vanit), his desire to come to the front, his tactlessness did verv great harm. It seems further that this man Von Skal drew a salary of $24S a month, as shown by Von Pspen's bank accounL Evidently there was great activity centering around Boy-Ed and Von Papen But Dernburg was a little too much He was recalled, it will be remembered, shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania The comments on this man and the statement that the American govern merit has much incriminating evidence are perhaps the roost interesting parts of the correspondence The good opinion expressed of Huerta, and the extremely unfavorable Jodgmenf passed on the American people are not of special importance We suppose that the government is stni in possession of the incriminating’evidence. We think that our people will be glad to know that their government was so keen In Its pursuit of wrong-doers, and so completely abreast of the game that was being played

the German and Austrian submarines in these waters do not come from the Dardanelles, BS wras first supposed but from Gattaro, Some may have their base in Turkish waters t’attaro on the Dalmatian coast is possible the strongest naval position in the Adriatic It includes three large bays lying one behind the other and communicating by a narrow opening. The first two the Prenta d Ostro and the Cambur are the vestibules of the third, the Cateno The channels which connect with the Adriatic are commanded bv rocky hights on which Austria has constructed batterle** Cattaro was thus practically invincible from the sea But to the cast, only a short distance, and at a much greater hlght, was the fortress of Mt. l.K>vcen. Not until this menace was destroyed was Austria able to operate from Cattaro. The French critic regrets that a military operation was not carried out by the allied fleets, the Montenegrin troops, and, if necessary, an expeditionary corps supplied with heavy siege guns The capture of the Cattaro naval base —at least from the land —ought not to have presented very serious obstacles It has never been explained why Italy failed to go to Montenegro’s aid, when it would have been a very simple matter to land troops Now the situation is changed. The Adriatic is no longer an Italian sea. If it to, not wholly Austrian, Austria at least commands its navigation It appears that Italv, Judged only hy standards of safety and ambition, made a grave error in permitting Montenegro to be overrun

CHARLOTTE AND EUGENIE In a recent number of the Belgian sup-

CAN.VDIAN ANNUITIES Among the reports presented at a recent meeting of the National Civic As»ociation which met to determine on a plan for a fair and actuarlally safe pension system for recommendation to state or private employer, was one concerning the operation of the Canadian annuity system In the I’nlted States the most common form of old age pension is that provided by the employer who pavs annuities to employes, usually after long and meritorious service In European countries the burden of caring for old workers often rests upon the state The Canadian system was devised to make it ea«y for the worker to take the responsibility of providing for old age upon himself The individual purchases annuities directly from the government for amounts and under plans of payment varying with the circumstances of the investor The act waa passed by the Ca-

nadian parliament !n 1908 The annuities i doctors who attend her and the lackey

THE PASSING LANDMARK The snow fell silently and covered up

William r. Hepburn, who, for twenty years, was a member of cQiigress from Iowa, had an active life He was born In Ghio In 1833. but had lived In Iowa from «atly chlldhdod His educatlOH was the product of Industry and persistent attention to study In 185* he began the practice of iavv. He fought through the civil war. entering as a captajii of volunteers and retiring as lloutenant-colonel. Shortly

department was at first attached to the department of trade and commerce, but later transferred to the postofflee department All of the 5 (1^ money order postoffices in the Dominion are authorized to receive pavments on annuities, and posteis advertising the benefits of the annuity plan are displayed Solicitors were employed at first to obtain subscriptions, but now the work is conducted directly from the main office by the distribution of leaflets and pictorial posters Annuities purchased from the government are exempt from operation of the bankiuptcv and Insolvency laws and can not lie levied on by any process of court unless it can be shown that the annuity was purchased with intent to defraud creditors Any person living in Canada whose intention Is to remain there per manentlv may purchase an annuity. Employers of labor may contract for annul ties for their employes or aid them in the purchase thereof. Fraternal and rellglmia organisations may also thus provide for their members No medteal examination is required. The annuity may be purchased on the deferred or Immediate payment plan In no case doe.s it begin payment before the age of fifty-five unless by accident or disease the bene-

after the war his congiesslonal*career

began He Is remembered chiefly for his 1** incapacitated Payments on the

connection with the Hepburn rate act

LAND IN GREAT BRITAIN For the four or five years preceding the war three problems pressed closely upon the British government — Irish home rule, woman suffrage and land distribution. Much bitterness was displayed In each of these movements The w’orld has heard nothing of the suffragists for so long that their former acts have almost been forgotten Ireland remains troublous, and it mav require more than the passage of home rule bill to quiet It The land problem Is 'becoming insistent ^ England's sqH to not broken up into small holdings, as In many of the French provinces, or as la most of the American states. Great ariifl are held In single families, and these oitproductive estates coaeUtuta a doubto drain upon the country- It requires large sums of money to keep up ancestral parks for sporting purposes, and from which agriculture is baiTSd The aggressive radicals in Great Britain have long chafed under this arrangement They saw the Increase In the cost of food, and argued that living could be made cheaper were park land to be cultivated In parliamentary debates of H12 and IfH British agriculture was compared unfavorably with that of France and Germany. The connection between "land hunger" and social unrest was too apparent to permit neglect by the government, and it is probable that a scheme for the division of control would have been presented had not the war Inter-

fered.

The government has now been compelled to take up the land question again. There la a scarcity of food such as has never before been experienced. Soldiers are being discharged as incapacitated and these

This jaw, with the Elkins act. was designed to improve the interstate commerce law' so ns to guard against railway rate discriminations, rebates, etc. It waa as chairman of the house committee on Interstate commerce that Mr. Hepburn made hl» record. He was an earnest debater, and a close student of the Intricate problems which were presented during the man.v years of railway regulation agitation He wa.«i a Republican aud during the Harrison administration he waa solicitor

of the treasury department

Dr. E W. Anderson, who died suddenly last night, was widely and most favorably' known In Indianapolis. There are many who will remember him os student and assistant In the office of Dr. Graham ■Wells, to whose practice he succeeded. Dr. Wells has been dead for years, and the building in which he had his office has disappeared. Dr. Anderson, therefore, though not an old man, was one of the oldest dentists In the city. He was skilled in his profession and conscientious In its practice Dowered with great good sense, a cheery disposition and a kindly and friendly nature, he made friends easily and held tlicm flrmlv. It must be further, said that there was not the slightest taint of commercialism about him Dr. Anderson was a lover of golf, and he will be greatly missed by the little group of men bound to hhn both by their admiration of him and their common passion for the game There are many people In Indianapolis to w'hom this man’s death will come

as a personal bereavement.

Don’t forget about the birds W’ith snow all over the ground things to eat are mighty scarce just now. and they need help. Almost anything will do Crumbs from the table are accepted eagerly, and a bone with a little meat left on it will be picked clean if this can be done (.before It freezes too hard for pecking. Com meal is a gt*od thing, and warming — though It must be pretty slow eating. Stale bread broken into crumbs can much better be disposed of this way than In the garbage can. Remember that the birds are too hungry to be choosy, and that nearly everybody can help them

some, *

When a bill to Increase the number of midshipmen passes the house by a vote of ITa to 0, one would be surprised at the number of longressmen who did not take enough interest In the question to vote at ail were it not. for the fart that a congressional election is approaching, and dodging is now one of the most popular political pastimes, / After crying “Peace, peace'" for so long. David Starr Jordan now declares that "there are too many lowbrows In colleges,'* which, in Itself, Is enough to start, a bran’ neqr row. Judge Landis has dismissed the baseball trust suit, and now nobody has to

disavow anything.

And isn't Mr. Rink just having the awful time getting his street widened?

The cultivated German, from the moment he lands on the quay of New York until he leaves It again, feels himself under an unwonted sense of oppression, the yoke of “public opinion," which is exercised not only by the press and bv pollttcians, but atoo through all the forma of social life —Dr Eduard Meyer, of the University of Berlin. And yet there are many highly cultivated Germans who feel perfectly at home in this country and W'ho do not show the slightest inclination to return to their native land for permanent residence

After waiting for some time on a corner in the gray dawn of these zero days even an early morning car seems almost warm

l.yon«. hunted the world over. Her

Csthtof WMSkMaoEmatteiv liWisfidJUK for such oonfitict, but he was not.

The [street carj crews have often endangered the lives of the students, and when W'e complain they say at the main

lA jt * , offices that the trouble w'ill be looked into, must be provided for. It is said that and it never to — President Cavanaugh, some of these veterans, although unable N’otre Dame university.

But. »ir. don’t you understand that that

to continue longer in the military service, are fit to do some work on tlie land According to a recent dispatch from London, a special parliamentary committee is at work on a plan that provides for the purchase of land, the development of cooperative marketing and teiylng. and the establishment of rural credit banks

THE SITUATION iN THE ADRIATIC Early this year a strong Austrian forpt captured Ml Lovccn. Montenegro 9 chieff stronghold Thto fort commanded both the Montenegrin capital and Cattaro, an Auatrfan settlement in Dalmatian teirttory. which at this point shuts Montenegro from the sea Cattaro harbor haa long been regarded as an Austrian naval base, but during this war it could not be fully utilised owing to the menace of Mt ijovcen It was doubtless Austria's chief deeign to crush Montenegro in order to obtain complete' control of Cattaro aqd the smell strip of Montenegrin seacoasj to the south This has been accomplished MTltbin the last three or four weeks there has been Imreaaed naval activity In the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. Commandant de Civrieux, writing In the Faxte Matin, exiiresseii tb* oidAtoR tbftt

Is a street car company s regular way of doing business’ The senate committee that to considering the national prohibition amendment to proceeding very slowly; for, you know^ it is awful hard to tell what to do so as not to be sorry for It afterward No part of the country Is neglected Yesterday's DuPont powder mill explosion waa in Tacoma. But suppose mme of the tea policemen on tho acere made any effort to find out If that boy really did get drunk at Farber’s sMoort? Can people never understand that a policeman to likely to get into trouble officiadly by finding out too much? Tlie old telephone company’s explanation that it Is behind m ita orders, and, therefore, could not put in that Weat Fortv-first street telephone, sounds reasonable but how about that |4 it collected m advance and is sttil bolding •while the depositor >a without telephone service? And in addition to the occupants of those twenty rooms engaged bv Mr. Taggart at the Planters hotel, St. Louis there will b« many more of tha trouly hssElag rovE* ib« efigsfs

purchase of the annuity can begin at any

age after five years

There are three distinct classes of annuities In two of them, in vase of death before the maturity of the annuity, all of the money paid in, together with.3 per cent compound interest added, goes to the heirs of the beneficiary In the other class nothing Is returned to the heirs, but the annuitant receives a much larger compensation In ratio to the amount paid. In every case the payment on the annuities continues during the life of the holder. Under the ten-year guaranteed plan If the holder dies within ten years after payment on the annuities is scheduled to begin the payment Is continued to the heirs of the holder. In this W’ay provision is made for a surviving husband or wife. Two persons, also, can be Insurqd together, the annuity to go to the person surviving The mavimum income under any annuity is $1,000 Payments on the_ purchase may be hiade weekly, monthibr. quarterly or yearly, or

In irregular lump sums

FARMERS IN DEMAND

Dheveland I.,f>adei)

The announcement by the director of public welfare that the city has a lob mving *2 000 a year with a good home and boani thrown in. for which no qualined appPeant hiva yet offered himself Is more significant than It Is novel The unfilled place Is that of manager of th« city’s S.lOO-acre. farm at WareenwIUe The successful applicant, it la said need not be a resident of the city or state, but must be an able farmer, having an agricultural college education, practical experience'in farming and buslnesB knowledge qualifying him to get results from the city's large investment The persons to whom this state of affairs' should carry an important meaning are the boys who are now, or ought to l>e, considering the botherseme question of their future occiqiations—boys in a position to obtain the benefit of technical education of some sort, but undecided as to what sort best fits their needs Though very good Indeed as such things go an Income of f2.000 a year with living expenses paid may not seem irresistibly attractive to apibltlous boys, particularly when coupled with the uncertalriUes of public employment [But the lesson of the situation Is not BO much that an accep^le place should go unfilled as that there is evidently a snortage of men qualified to fill it. 'fhe need of sefertifle farmers to manage big farms has not gone unforeseen. The agricultural colleges of the countjy are fllleti e^«n now with shrewd young men leanilng a pro fesslnn sure to come Inti gimter ami gieater demand Theie Is foom for more Voting men still debating their futures should give attention to agrictillure'a yioseiblllttea particularly If their tastes He In any such dlreition Su^h callings as the laW, medicine or engineering may be overcrowded, but there is no likelihood that agriculture will be fur many years, If ever. Private, as well as public farms of large size are already bidding for capable superintendants and it may be taken for granted that the demand will Increase as the financial posalbllltles of farm efficiency become

more adequately realized.

Largest Gates in the World

fWall Street JouinalJ

The Canadian government Is spending a sum equal to double the coet of the original Wellend canal in reconstructing the waterway 'fhe old canal had twenty-five locks, each m feet long, the new will have erven locka, each 800 feet In length Each wll! have a lift <jf 4«V» feet making a total lift of 325Vi feet In tho length of the canal. The gates will bo of the elngle-leaf pattern only one gate being required at each end of the lock At Panama j the lock gates miter, two gates being required i at each end of a lock The Panama gates weigh 750 tons each The Welland canal gales— of structural steel—will weigh 1,180 tons each They will not stand squarely acroas the channel. but will slam Into the opposite wall, the length of the gate being three feet more than the width of the canal The lower gates will be eighty-five feet high ninety feet long and ten feet thick A better understanding of theae dimensions may be had by the statement that each gate will be about the hlght of an eightstory building and the thteknose will provide a driveway for automobile and other vehicles as well as foot passenger way The lower gates of the Welland canal are said to be the largest

and heaviest In the world

French’s French Ancestry

|Ij» Crl de Paris!

As the mother of Field Marshal 81r John French waa a French woman, his prefereittei are for Normandy. The forest of LalAinde In the lower Seine has no secrets from him. Many a time after his campalgii* In the colonies he came to rest himself in the neighborhood of Mollneaux and Malson-Brules One may believe that the name •’Frenc.h" is a sobriquet formerly given to am ancestor of the marshal, as we In Francs have given the name L'Anglols to some descendants of the Anglais (Engllshl during the wars of the middle ages This, however, is not the opinion of Marshal French According to- him, bis name Is an English alteration of the name of Frern, which was borne by one of the companions of William the Conqueror and that the Freynes that yet remain in .Normandy have become Fresnea A daughter of the marshal Is the wtfs of a Frenchman a captain of Infantry,

named Quonlam

Rat Tail Contest (Ofrenri'oro <ky i Messengerl 'The rat tail" contest ongtnated hy Mavor Hlckinsn J« bringing "rauHs Boys are e'llcrIng Into the contest with coneiderahU anlwation and as a consequence there has been a hlf decrease Hi the rat familv in Owet shoro The mavor is now offering two pennira for'every rat tail dellv'red to police heaJquarters Some of the “iiddtos" are tajTung •‘MpwwiUic mofiax" hyr iuUtoc ratSi '

plement to London Everyman is a chapter many of the (tears made by the building telling of two empresses Gne of these is ' wreckers but it could not entirely connow sev«ntv-fl\e and wore a crown for * ceal the devastetion left bv the itlck. onlv tw o veare The other is mnelv and for j the ax an* the shovel The old building nearlv seventeen years shared one of the j had been doomed for months and. only most brilliant thrones of Europe The j awaited the expiration of the tenants' first iw rharlotte, widow of Maximilian, or leases to be torn down The dav had Iflexico The other is Eugenie, widow of | come and with it the wreckers, like Napoieon HI. that sad lonely old woman * wolves. it prohahlv seemed to the old at Farnborough, England »building, ••eady to spring at It and rend Charlotte to a daughter of Leopold h of j It. now that it could not protect Itself Belgium She became deranged soon aft-, Time, was when the building was the er the execution of Maximilian, who w'as jmost Imposing ip the square It had been shot to death in Mexico In ISfiS this crazy jthe aristocrat and had put on. aire, lurnwoman arrived at the Chateau of Tervu- j Ing up Us nose—If buildings mav be aald eren, Belgium and there ahe will remain | to do such an ungentlemanly and unladyuntll her death «ne to »tni an empres*- 1 like thing—at the humbler buildings In Its She still waits for Maximilian whom she i neighborhood But It had not reckoned believes js leading hla armies fighting j on the march of time. It knew not that conquering and dispersing the rebel troops ! the very’ circumstance that In the olden of Benito Juarez. She imagines that the ! days had put It above ita fellows would

act to put It where it would be sneered at hy Its modern neighbors Tho time came But the old building did not mind it so much, for like all old age. It did not value the opinion of youth as highly as youth Imagined that It should. The old building had rendered service to mankind It was a part of the oast regime. Like the elderly citizens it dwelt on the glorv that once was To these citizens It partook of the rich color of old ivory*, and as a result It did not lose taste in their eyes It no longer towered high above its surroundings. Indeed, like other old age. It was cramped often for breath In a few days now It would be no more A blast of wintry wind caused the dingy wall paper clinging to its partition walls to flap. Oldfashioned lath bared their sides to the wind A brick, loosened the day* beforo bv a workman's pick, fell from the topmost part of the wall It bounded harmlessly into the cellar and fell among the [debris Night came on and lent its softening touch to the snow on the building. If one were not too much of a materialist he might half-close his eyes and Imagine that he were looking at some old-world ruin , A fiercer blast smote the building and more plastering and brick came rattling down. The moon shone full on the tall white building Just across the way. Was the white building, which had just been completed, laughing at the old wreck’' Maybe so But it. too. must at last feel the destroying touch of time and progress The old landmark was so near gone that it no longer cared Snow was falling again By morning the rough out4 lines had all been obliterated But the wreckecs would soon be at work And hy night the building would be leveled and Its ancient glory only a memory.

In her service are her mintoters, high dignitaries, and generals to whom ah® graciously distributes honor? She knows nothing of all that has happened In the world for a half century. Since the 22d of August, 1914 her chateau, which she has not left for thirty y'ears. has been guarded by* German soldiers and the German gov ernor of Belgium has received orders to treat her as the sister-in-law of the Emperor Francis Joseph An Austrian

flag floats above her roof.

E-VENING UP IN TAXES

(Kanraa City Star]

Tho propoBci iiicroaiie in iho income tax hs- been attacked on the ground that It Impooes a govornmefitai burden on one particular claoB and to the exclusion of the bulk of the people But the fact la that up to this time moat of the huge coat of conducting the government has been paid by people of amatl meoiie The tariff and excise taxei have ''ome out «f Ihe pocketi of the consumer He may not have known it, for the taxes have been added to the coet of the goods he bujs But he has paid them Just the same In Uiii sort of taxation the family of amall means jmya far more In projiortloip to its ability than th4 family of wealth 'Hie tax on sugar, for instance, amounta to several dollara a year fo>- the ordinary family. The mttllonafre'a family juiya comparatively little more. Thle sort of diacrimlnatlon haa gone on for yiara About the only way to even Up Is to give til* family of large income atchance to pay a direct tax to the government. No matter h'lvv large thle tax may be made it w!M not take so large a thare of the poastble eavlnga In the case o| tho wealthy family aa the existing tariff and excise duties now consume in the else of a family with an income

of. *aj. |1 200 a year

All other cmtsideratlona aside, the increase In the In ome tax to cover the cost of additional deftnse will merely help to even things up and correct an Injustice of long standing

Radium Market Destroyed [•Vletal Mining JournalJ The ladium-bearing Oree found their mark« practically destroyed when war was de dared and when the people of Europe turned their attention from curing the sick to killing off the most fit In thS Paradox valley much prostiectlng has been done, aesesement work completed at^^d concenltwtloiv plants finished Gilpin county, the high-grade uranium field, has a new compati} in control of the chief producers, while the Jo Reynold# mine Clear Creek county, has *258,«» worth of uranium ore sacked and ready to ship The federal plant ln_ Eienver—which ha* turned Out some niedmm-grade radlom salts—pm chased some camotite ore iq the San Miguel field With peace conditions restored, and at from $37,600 to 1120,000 for a single gram of radium salts Colorado’s output Of radhim ores might swiftIv adv ance from the 1100 000 of 1915 to million* of dollars ' In this estin^ato ferrovanadium mote or less figures The automobUe trade gives that important rare metal a status of its own.

Panama Canal Bonds INew York 'Times] General Goethals arrives to gsk for III.W.OOO for the Panama canal's constructive needs just ai the time that it Is proposed to Issue Panama canal bonds under the government shipping ncheme Inasmuch as the Panama canal Is stilt a source of expcBBc, there Is a suggestion that any Panama bonds Issued at this time of a treasury deficit might well be issued on Panama -canal account There is no fltneis in proposing the issue of Panama bonds for shipping The proposal to issue a mortgage upon a property which la not finished and does not earn expenses adds nothing to the'credll of the United States If there are to be bonds issued for ihlpping-ea It is not necessary to admit— It would be better to make a new issue of bonds and charge them to the shipping enterprise mil the book* of the treasury. At least ti would be better to make an Issue of straight siiipplng bonds Issued against the shipping provided with the proceeds, wUh provision for amo-tl/atlon from Jhe profits which are to be gathered frinn the pse of the ship*

TELEPHONE SWEARING ■>* II ■■ [Toronto .Mail and Empire] The fining of a Toronto man for using objectionable language over the telephone ought to be a salutary warning to men with had tongues The using -yf foul language is always despicable, but is peculiarly vile and cowardly in teiepbono communications. Many men feel themselves privileged to curse and swear over the telephone in a fesnion they would never dream of if talking face to face with the persons addressed The young ladles of the telephone office have to bear d.lsagrceRbto aiM’’t3(ngentlemiinly remarks from cranks ©vary day, and they are at least cntlt1e<l to protection from ihoae whoe© churlish language parses the bounds of deccncv Too many pconle, aggravated by delav# or mistakes In the service 'take it out" on “central,*’ no’er stopping to asK theitiseiv's how they would like their daughters or sister* to have to endure vuch coarseness The only proteclloti the operators have had heretofore has consisted In reporting the telephone usir to headquaiter* Occasionally telephones have been taken out e« punishment But there has been no protectior against the casual user of a telephone The conviction in the iHillce court is said to be th* first in Ontario, and it yught not to be the last. The law deems the using of obscene lantuage on the street to be a mtsdemeanor. end certainly it is equally so over the telephone. If th* case lead* to Improvement In the manners of boorish telephone user# it will have a«rved well

Waiting Serene 1 fold my arms and wail Nor care for wind, or tide, or ««a I 'gainst time or fate' For lo* my own shall come to ma I stay nij haste, I make delaya. For what availe thle eager pace-^ 1 stand amid tho etornol ways. And what Is mine shat! kttow n^ faeo. «toht or day, Tbe friends I seek ore osteing me; Nor wtM can drive my bark astray. Nor change lb* tide of dsetinj*. What matter If I stand alone* I wait with Joy the coming yetra: My wart »liaU reap whore It ho* sown. And garner up ita fruit of tear* The water* know their own and draw The brook that spring* in yonder bight j So flow* the goM Fllh equal law Lftio the Boul of pure delight. The floweret nodding In ih* wind I* ready pilghtod to the be*. And. maiden, why that took unkind* For to* thy lover soeketh thee star* cm# nightly to th* sky. The tidal wave unto the sea, Nw time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Cmn keep my own away from me —John Burcougho.

A Little Way A little way w walk with you, my own— Only ■ little way, Then one of ue must weep and walk alono Until God'* dav A little way* It i* »o •weot to live Together, that 1 know. Life would not have on# withered lo** to glv* If one of us should go And if TKeie lipe should ever learn to smlto. With thv heart far from mine. 'TwouSd be for jov that In a little while They would be kissed bj thine* —Frank L Stanton.

SCRAPS

Hides of se& Hong are helnfl used for leather by Canadians Hammers were fashioned orlgipally after the outstretched human hand and fist

Revenue From Garbage (Philadelphia linger] \ Phils ielphla would do well to take notice mat New York city has received an offer of $9U0 000 in hard cash for its garbsge acouniulatlons during the next five jeara !n the rJM New York hae been *one of the cities which lacked the foresight to see that the cotlectlon and removal of garbage might be n ade a source of revenue tnetead of an annual axpense The offer which has been made to New York Is ostensibly Inspired hi the prospect of grratey profits due to war comlltfcns but the posvlblflty of converting garbage from an Item of (•ipense to one of municipal Intome was known and diacussed long befoie the war beRan, aud a failure b> most elties to test ihe question Is metely s nteasure of current municipal nsgllgence and Inefficiency.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

J,; G —pieae# print tha poem "Forgot--It appeared In 'The News December fi.

C

ten 1916

O T, City—-'ciordlng to Ihe government census, what was the population of Terre Haute In lS8tl*-8.5M Ml# I M -M CUV—Please print s poem by Burroughs fntitled, ‘ Waiting "—It appears elsewhere on this page O C 'T, Mease print the poem "Evolution” by latngdon —It appeared in The News Saturday, Htptember 18, 1916. M. A K —Please print a little poem beginning, "k little way with you. my own" The title is "A Little waj "-It appears elsewhere on this page P D 8 , Upland—Does the Chicago automobile show succeeil the Indianapolia show’—fhe Chicago show was held during the last week In Januarj 'The Indianapolis show will be held th# week beginning February 2S 8ub*« rlber Woomlngdale-For information regarfilng the Initiation fee and duea in the Indlanapfdls lodge mentioned you will have to aadres# the lodge itself t2) What Is mvant by an 8 O 8 wireless cxll?-it 1# a general alarm call utsed by ship* at sea In time# of extreme

distress

W P, Inrtlanapolls-Can *a person In this state be'compelled to pay a grocerj bill contracted four year* ago in Nebroaka If he hes no property other than household furnitur* to the value of $JW’-Probably not A householder ha* an allowanc* of ItoO against contract debts but th^re i* no exemption whatever again#* damages for fraud or other wrong II J K , City—According to Indiana atate banking law#, what per cent of reserve against deposit* ttlme and demand) are State bank*, pilvate banks and trust companies required to (arrj *-Thefe Is no legal requirement epevtfyIng an amount to be kept alwaye on band, but the auditor ol state has made a ruling requiring 16 per tent to be kept on hand But this is not a strict ruie for the bank will be approved if, for anj reason, ft appear* sound,' but the reserve, for some good reason hsa

fallen below that amount,

\V M H , Petersburg—Pleaee give short biographies of Robert Dale Owen and Thomas A Hendricks-Robert Dale Owen wa# a Scotchman, bom in 1801, who came to this country with hie father in 181{5 to establish h co-npeiattve commintty at New Harmony.

Ind

U F , City-After a damage suit has been in court and an award made to tha Injured party, how long can the loeer welt before he nakee an appeal’-After the motlOrt -for a new trial to overruled, ItO daya Is allowed (or appeal Louise City—Please print a poem beginning' f'ome and sit by mj knee little children. I have a «tor> to tell you tonlglu t2> If the United State* glv## the Filipino* their independence, will the Flliplo# give back to the United States the l.-eotlOOOO which this country paid to Spain for the Philippine iMl.-ntJ#’ (I) Tho poem has not been found <.2) There lias t)een no talk of such an arrangw-

ment

A H. Middletown Are short stories paid for b> the number of word* or the number of line# or doe# the amount paid depend on the quaiitj of the story? (*j Ha-e Mr. Dooley s writing* ever appesred In book form’ <S) Whet other author has published euccessful work* (ontalning Jrtoli dialect?-<!) They are generally paid for by the word and th* rat* of rjuyment depend# largely on the circulation of the magazine and th# popularity of the writer It varies from Is#* than a tent a word to a dollar a word, -ihe latter price being paid to a few authors with an rataWlahed publie f.'i Since D»», Finley Peter Dunne, creator of ' Mr Dooley," ha# published seven book* of the sajing# of that amiable getiileman (8) See tome of the stories width Kipling tells in th* word# of Private MuKaney l„ 1. I <‘l»v~ Mease explain lo a mere woman who can get only vague Infoimatlon on such subltcts, but who like# to keep herROlf informed What i# meant bv p<)rk barrel" as applied Mo legtolatlon The pwk barrel to *he name appllfil to three large appropriation bills—pctsslon# river# am* hvrbor# and public building# I s'lally toward the end of a session, eonrre’W'en begin to negotiate for numej appropriations for fhelr disirict* and i-»metltqe* thete |a a scramble, accompanied by IT Itch V »t# trading and result!rig In a largo *nd frequently unneteaaary drain on the government ton*!# Ihe name ts said to have originated with rural congressmen who were reminded of the way farmer# kill their bogs In th# fa 1 and put the pork away in barrel# allowing their nrighbor* to come In for a little fre* lai’k on'*# In a while J M M, Harmony-Please print Robert G

He became a cltlxen of the United state#, end I ingeraoll * potm ‘The Decleratlon of the

was a member of tht lojlan* legtoiature (1833-JS) and of congresa He was a leader In the making of the Indiana Constitution of 18M and obtained iffoperty right# for married women and widow# For five ysara he repteoeuted thto country at Napiea He wrote several book# and, until his death In J877, he wan prcmlnently identified with many public movements and mstJtutton* *111010*# A Hendrick# was bom In Ohio 4n 1111, and came to Indian* at an early age Through

Free He wrote no peem of that name, but hta 'Individual deciaiaiton of Independeflce," uttered in 1177. to often quoted under that title It follows "1 hav# mod# up my mind to say tny say I shai* do it kindly, dlathtcily, bvii X am going to do it. I know there are tbouoends of men who aubatamlaliy agre« wRh n»e but who are not In * condition to expreo# their thought# They ere poor, they are tn boitoess and they know that ehould they iet| tlieir honest thovigbt, peraoos. wilt refuse to

out hi# life hi was an active Democrat, aerv- i p*troni*c them—to trade with them, they wish 8 tOAfi Jfts M uiwl jvt •..v U*M,a.A fftP' t hllll r . t fiJMj* miisK lev

.ng in the indtona ierlstature tlMd tSi and In rongrevs (1851 'vSt Ito w«» <-ummi»*loRer of the general and office ftoSo 'Ai. tjnsut cessfn* candidate for Governor of Indiana *18#9), ocnator from Indtona CvS-V-#/.. *i"#ttcce#8ful candidate for Governor of Ipdiang Ga***! and sjctesaful andldatJ! foi Go, 'W' of Indiana In liiJ. In IfiS he waa «n unsuccessful candidate for Yl'e-Preeident op the ticket with Samuel J Dlden. and in 1*84 he was elected Vlcc.p esideiit tm the ticket with Grover CievetoBd. Ho diigi Ut November SS^^I8S6,

get bread for fhelr children, they wish to thke <«fe ol their wtvee, they wish to have homes and the comfort# of life Kvyrj #uth person Is « certiflrate of the rnearmeo# of the (ommunlty in which he reside# And >#t I do not blame the## people for not expressing ibstr thought I say to them Keep joui Idesa to yoarsehes, feed and clothe the one# vou love I will do jotir talking tar* you The churih tan not touch, can not 'crush can not staiYe, can not atop nor stay me, I wfU expreaa youi

theaghta* to

Th« Lakes of KlHarne> are thought tq have been once the site of a largt «afl populous city. I-ast season was the greatest tn th* history of the Yellowstone park, as 45.0fi0 visitors passed through the place. American films are more popular than ever tn the Leeds (England) motion piotiire theaters, especially the "comedy” pictures Before Lorraine was united with France, tn 173fi, it belonged to the dethroned king of Poland. Before that It belonged to Austria Paralvsls of the Belgian and German glass industries has resulted tn grcatlv ^ increasing business done bv the glass factories m Japan In proportion to population among cltiee in the United Rtates Cleveland Ivas the greatest number of telephones and New Orleans the fewest ' The negro population of thg United Rtatee is approximately 12,0CI0.(W0. the larger part (probably JO.OOfi.OflO) being in ^ the southern statea ^ The rivers of the earth carry S,3(W coble ^ miles of water Into the sea each year. This means a column ten miles squara ^ and sixty-five mile# high Aluminum production in the United qtatca totaled 80.0(»,iM)0 pounds last vear, against 16,000(100 pounds in 1800 and only eighty-Ihree pounds in 1883. ^ Cattle branding in the ^est is dying out and, like the cowboy and the thrttltng roundup. Is going to the scrap heap The fencing of land Js the cause The limit of the earning power of thunder is about fifteen miles, while Jhlfty miles is not regarded as fki* for the sound of a big battle to travel More than 10 000 mile# of macadam road# have been ordered built in Afghanistan since the ruler of that country became tlie owner of an autofnabUe Petltgraln, the essential oil extracted from the leaves of oranges, I# ua«d chtofly in perfume making. Seventy per cent, of the world's supply comes from Paraguay. The wood consumed in thle countrv In the manufacture of paper amounta annually to 4.800,<l<» cords, and every year the demand foe some eubatltute grows more urgent In the United State# census of l(f70. a rftcord was obtained of tho father of a family* who had named hSs five children Imprimis, Finis, Appendix, Addendum and Erratum, A grenade that can be fired from on k ordinary rifle held In any position four times as far as one oan b* thrown by hand haa been Invented by a United States soldier. The meeting house tn Boiten, Maas, is to be reshlngled for the flrst time since its erection In 1T93 Some of the shingles are etllf In a perfect state of preservatlop after 121 yei’Ni’ service. Lloyd’s, of I-ondon. have recentl.v Is* sned a form of insurance against appendlcitis The < lalms have become so nu* merouH that Llovd’s have found it necew sarj to donhlc their premiqm* Zinc leflnlng continues to he of |ir#p e«t In t’anada The Brltlfh Uolurnbla gov. ernment will give flnanUoi help to « Victoria reduction company for eatabilahlng a demonstration plant at Nelson The great war loan recently brought out by the German government w*e taken up bv 2.133,220 Individual subscribers. thousands of whom bought curtttcB to the amount of W or lew Hong-Kong reporta an Increasing denisnd for notions of all aorte to supply southern China Needles. plnA buttons, ribbons, safety pine, rubber end cell,ulold toilet articles and similar products are in great demand. A Bingle gallon of gaaollne will milk 900 cow*, l>ale four tons of hay. mix. thir-ty-five cubic yards of cement, move m ton truck fourteen miles, plow three-llfthe of an acre of land or generate sufficient electricity to Illuminate a farrohopse for thirty houre It to said that an organisation of women in Japan numbers W.OOO members, who have sworn never to marry unleae their prosptKih'e husbands agree to support m movement for obtaining for them equal treatment with men and an Improved economic position Herman Kimball, of Trevett, Me. has a curious carrot, thle carrot t* of th# large ' wedge-shaped variety', on one aide of ft = is the fsce of an old man, apparently asleep The akin is perfect around and over the »car, which looks as if it had been cut out of the vegetable. Pipelines #re now carrying natural gas a, d'stance of HO miles In Uallfornla, and from the Caddo field In Loulslana-one of the most productive fields #o far discovrer^^to conaumers in towns and ritiet.of Arkansas 300 mtlea away. I» DM the vabje of naiuml gas pioduced in thia country is estimated to have been nearly flOftOOl,OOO. or about eight times as much as twenty jears ago The extent of freight congestion on tha railways In the east Is evidenced in the statement that Prealdent Elliott, of the New Haven railroad, recently telegraphed to every railway head east of the Mississippi to ^rrow locomotives. He was. It is said, able to obtain only three freight locomotives as » reauit He has Row^ asked the Canadian Pacific railway for"^

help

In A recent test of speWng in the ton public schools says the Writer the words moet frequently miasi»|led were: rhanffeur, thermometer, auxlUarj. feminine. misceiiairaou*. Sion, similar, iteutenant and nuisance. And these words, of course, ere by no mean* as "hard” a« thoee favorite of the old-fashioned spelling beer, indelible, ecstaey, phthisis and mignonette The rotation period of Neptune le unknown. aa there are no visible ing* on its surface by means of which this period can be determined, However, as lohg ako a* 1*® Maxwell Hall, of Jamaica, oS>#©rved fiVKtuatlons In the brtghtueaa of the planet, *e compared with that of two sterli in the same fleid of the teleacope, end comparieone extending over a fortnight led hl»R to assign a period of atwmt seven hours ftltyHvt minutes as the Interval betwee* S|tP* cesstve maVlme of brightness, and hewsn presumably os the planet • rotetiiRl period.

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