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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25,1917.

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Most of the universities, colleges and academies In Indiana are "doins? their bit” In aiding the government by training soldiers for the army or by engaging in Red Cross work. Patriotism is rife in ail fhe schools and almost every student is striving to do his share. Purdue university is a government land-grant college and military train-)

tivlty, as it does in the food increase and conservation movement. Purdue is providing expert agriculturists for all Indiana to aid the farmers in Increasing their crops, and its engineering schools are providing the expert mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, chemical engineers and civil engineers needed by the United States government. as well as an aviation corps. The big technical school has a cadet corps of more than 1,000 trained men, who are receiving instruction dally from a regular army officer and several assistants. Mimic battles are being fought twice a week, thus giving the me.i an idea of real war. The military sp»rlt also has affected the Purdue faculty and Its members are drilling when they have the opportunity. Notre Dame’* Fighters. Notre Dame university, with more than 600 trained cadets, comes next to Purdue in military activity. Notre Dame voluntarily has made military in struction compulsory and S5 per cent, of the students has Joined the colors and are now receiving instruction in field maneuvers. Notre Dame is noted for Us fighting spirit in athletics and it is showing the same spirit in military affaira. Its cadets are a fine looking body of men. The university has sometimes been termed a "school for Irish priests,” but if there are any priests in the cadet corps they are of the militant type. Notre Dame long had the distinction of having the only college G. A. R, post in the country. This post was composed of “fighting chaplains" and others who served with distinction in the civil war. It is expected several priests will volunteer as chaplains in the pres ent war, Indiana university, which recently adopted voluntary military training, already has 342 students taking instruction and drilling under a regular army i officer. Eighty more are expected to join soon. The students are making 1 rapid progress and are enthusiastic in their work. Members of the faculty have been active in patriotc demon Strattons, At Franklin college, where military training is voluntary, about 80 per cent, of the students has enrolled, and a company is drilling two hours each day. Work of the Little Giants. Wabash college, the home of the Little Giants, famous for their athletic victories, which recently added military training to Its curriculum, hopes to be made a training camp for the engineering corps of the Indiana national guard. Nearly all the 350 students are drilling under the direction of a Culver academy officer, and the men are fully I as enthusiastic in their military instruction as they have been in their athletics. Terre Haute’s three schools are engaged in wftr preparation. Military training Is compulsory at Rose Polytechnic institute, which in a technical school, and the students, are heartily engaged in the work at the State Normal school, military companies are being organized and units are drilling under a former member of the Rockville battery. The 750 girls at the State Normal have organized twenty-eight units of the Red Cross and are receiving instruction. At St.-Mary-of-the-Woods, the Sisters of Providence college, the girls have organized and are taking lessons in first aid work. Valparaiso university, with several thousand students, is preparing to give military instruction. The government has been asked to provide an army officer as Instructor. Concordia college, the German Lutheran institution, at Ft. Wayne, has an army officer who Is drilling the students. Culver a Great Military School. Culver academy Is a military and naval college combined. It Is perhaps doing the greatest work of any school In the state. The cadet corps Is composed of 500 young men. well trained In every department. One hundred and fifty more men arrived this week to receive Instruction as reserve officers, and KM) more are expected next week. Besides thl*, 500 high school boys will soon be in camp for two weeks' training. Culver is the home of the famous "Black Horse Troop,” an organization that has attracted much attention at two presidential inaugurationn. and at many other places. The summer naval school, conducted on Lake Maxlnkuckee, usually draws shout 500 students. Culver's graduates generally become officers in the regular

army.

Soma of the minor colleges in the state, though not giving military instruction, are supporting the enlistment movement. Winona College of Liberal Arts is planning to give its students military training. Huntington col

PENNSYLVANIA LEADS. WASHISGTftX, April IS.— sylvanla took flret place In re«nlar army recruiting yesterday, the day’s total beiag 23* mm aceepted, Illinois, with 221, -was second, after haviag maintained the lead ever since the war department began issuing daily bulletins. All stations reported a total of 1,91W» men accepted yesterday, making 32,108 recruits obtained stare April 1.

preparations at Purdue is the intensive training of the 1,000 cadets now |n prog ress. Under the system at Purdue every student must take militarv dril‘. for two years. At the end of that time the men that show the greatest aptitude for the work and who desire to continue military training are permitted to do sc on recommendation of the commandant They then serve two years as officers in the cadet corps and at the end of four years are in good condition to apply for admission to the officers' reserve corps. Some of them are even ready to enter the army from civil life and be examined for a commission. The cadets twice a week devote an afternoon to combat problems. That is, they are divided into Red and Blue armies to work out combat problems. The cadet officers are permitted to conduct the exercises, which are in the nature of a mimic battle. The commandant supervises the work and acts as umpire. He tells each army the mistakes it has made and coaches the cadet officers in military strategy. This work is regarded as very valuable. Nearly 100 Purdue men have applied for admission to the aviation corps, some of them having had actual experience in this work; Many students have already enlisted in the regular army and some in the national guard. But the greater number are waiting for congress to act before determining just what course to pursue. Another important branch of military preparation at Purdue is the intercollegiate intelligence bureau conducted by Lieutenant Donaldson. Here is being compiled a complete record of Purdue alumni and former students, the statistics collected by mail, notin the particular qualifications of eac man. Already several hundred Purdue alumni have sent in reports on them selves, telling what branch of government service they are best qualified for. This will give the war department valuable information. For instance, if the government needs twenty-five mechanical engineers for some particular work the statistics will show Just vfrhere they can be obtained. If the government needs a number of civil or electrical engineers, marine engineers or other specialists they can be obtained by referring to the list compiled by Lieutenant Donaldson. The girls at Purdue are Just as busy as the men. Under the direction of Dr. O. P. Terry, university physician, they are enlisted in Red Cross work. Some are learning to make bandages and dress wounds and others are learning other branches of Red Cross work. Some are almost qualified to go into the field as nurses. The classes in this work are very large and they are meet

in* regularly.

Eight hundred men attended the mass meeting called last night by President' E. Stone to discuss the officers’ reserve corps. President Stone said Purdue university had discouraged hasty action, but now said Purdue men owed their services to the country. President Stone in his call for the meeting said; "The time has come for Purdue men to act.” After a detailed explanation of the work and organization of the officers’ reserve corps, Lieutenant Donaldson called for a show of hands of the men who intended spending the summer at the training camp to be held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. More than half of the men present indicated their intention in this manner of attending the training camp.

BATTALION AT WABASH.

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lege, at Huntington, and Taylor university, at Upland, are "doing their bit” In the patriotic movement. The coeds at all the big schools are actively working

for the Red Cross.

Quaker* Are Drilling.

The students of Earlham college, the Quaker institution at Richmond, are getting ready for a call to arms. The men are drilling and the girls are taking up athletics with the view of bettering

their health.

Hanover college has taken up war service work and three-fodrth* of the students are drilling daily. Vincennes university is directing most of Us efforts toward food preparedness and many of its students will work on

the farms.

North Manchester college, at North Manchester, and St Meinrad's college, at St Meinrad, are showing their patriotism. but have not yet engaged in military work. This also is true of St Joseph’s college, at Collegeville, Jasper county. The normal colleges at Muncie and Marion are contributing men to

both the army and the navy.

Tri-State college, at Angola, has already raised a company of 100 students who are drilling each day with govern-

ment rifles.

Three Companies Already Organized

and Receiving Instruction. [Special to The Indianapolis News]

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., April 25.Wabash college may be made a training camp for the engineering corps of the Indiana national guard if plans of Lieutenant Ward of the United States army are realized. Lieutenant Ward has promised that the camp will he established if twenty Wabash men enlist in the Indiana battalion of the engineering corps. If this score of men can be obtained, suits and army supplies wil be issued to the recruits here and a commissioned officer* sent here to give instruction. Extra college credits will be given the men who enlist in this corps. Men who have had plain trigonometery, chemistry, mechanical drawing or surveying are eligible

Join.

The period of enlistment is for the war. Four men enlisted last week, including Howard E. Plummer, of Wabash. a member of the senior class; Frank Jones, of McLallen, Tex., and Holst Nyce, of Peru, both sophomores, and Professor P. W. Hill, an instructor in chemistry in the college, who has seen military service with the national guard of Colorado. Lester Meadows, former captain of the Crawfordsville high school basketball team and later a member of the team at AmeA,college, la., also enlisted. Seven others enlisted Monday night. They were J. L. Parkins, Hugo Gersten, E. A. Rovenstjne, baseball captain of the Little Giants this year; Donald J. Cranston, Thomas W. Benham and Jefferson D. Petty, and Lawrence Greene, a Wabash man last year who is attending Purdue this year. Military drills are being conducted daily at Ingalls field under the direction of Cap ~ _ ‘ cept four or five of the 350 students are

technic institute, at the request of the students, and work has been in progress for several weeks under direction of Major H. E. Colee, a member of the faculty, who formerly held a commission In the Ohio national guard. Commissioned and noncommissioned officers received brief training, many of them being selected from the Junior and senior classes, with whom the compulsory feature does not apply. A group of sixteen candidates for noncommissioned officers for the military companies to be organized among the male students of the Indiana State Normal school is being trained by C. C. Connelly, registrar of the school, who had several years' experience as a member of the Rockville battery, once the most noted In the middle west The work is progressing satisfactorily and the candidates are picking up the rudiments of the drill regulations quickly. The girls of the State Normal school, not to be outdone by the male students, have voluntarily taken up military training, have organized twenty-eight Red Cross units, each being in charge ; of a member of the faculty. Seven hun-; dred and fifty young women have be-' come Interested in the work, and at present are engaged in sewing, as a

five hodrs are devoted to the work each week. The students of St Mary-of-the-Woods have become interested in the work of the local Red Cross, and two classes have been organized to take Instructions from Dr. A. H. Knoetfle, organizer of the local unit, and Miss Nellie Bu>ch. trained nurse, who is his assistant. Lessons in first aid work, and that allied to it are given at regular intervals each week, and It Is expected that additional units will be organized among the students of the institution. INSTRUCTOR AT I. U.

A POWDERLESS FOURTH.

KBW YORK. April 2S (hr movement tor safe and sane Fourths of July will reach Its senlth this year, for not one firecracker, piawheel, torpedo, skyrocket or even a cap pistol will be permitted on sale in New 1 ork e**y. Those who want Boise on their Fourth should Join the army. Fire Commissioner Adamson announces that he has not only derided not to license any shops to sell fireworks, but is considering snapending the manufacture of fireworks until after the war. The reasons are two: Alien enemies msy take advantage of the public sale to store explosives and the powder that goes into flreworka can be employed to better advantage in the army and navy.

More Than 300 Student* Receiving Military Inatruction. (Special to The Indianapolis News] BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 25.-With Captain Campbell King in charge of military training at Indiana, the 342 students who are taking the work are getting a taste of real military life for at least one hour a day five days a week. Military " instruction has been taken up enthusiast' -ally by the students. Not only on the drill ground are the military formations noticeable, but leisure hours are spent by men drilling of their own accord and perfecting the new commands. This attempt at military perfection Is especially noticeable among the fraternities and every organization has its flag and quota of soldiers who stands at parade rest while the colors are hauled down. Captain King expects to organize another company soon. This will add about eighty more men to the battalion. Captain King has repeatedly expressed himself as being pleased with the university companies and is urging that all men who are physically able and can pass the other regulations send In their application for the officers’ training camp. The noncommissioned officers for the university battalion have not yet been selected. Captain King belongs to the Seventh infantry. He is assisted in his work here by Sergeant Leudke. Along with the drill work of the men, the Red Cross classes have been enthusiastically supported by the women of the university. More than 450 coeds have signed In the different classes which meet at 7 o’clock in the morning. The women are divided Into three classes, which take up the various phases of the work. PATRIOTISM AT CONCORDIA.

W0 . rk un ^ er George L. Rider.

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a former state militia man. 1 S ' wor h if h n 0 U J n i ber of !T e .2 takin * the drill work has increased 20 per cent, in the Iasi week, and at present more than

of J th « mal « students are ^ a( l uad - A » eoon as the funof the drlil are Iear ned the

work v, ill assume an even more pracimo fh£ e hms n thC t0rm ° f weekly alkes A number of young women students have signified their intentions of Joining the national order of the Red Cross Society and are learning the essentials of nursing under Mrs. George L. Rider. The college authorities have made arrangements whereby any student enlisting in the army or in the navy will receive a full term credit for this spring. ..I c ? lle 8:« has also identifled Itself with the collegiate intelligence bureau. Professor Arthur Heath Woodworth, of the social science department: Professor Leonard L. Huber, of the German department, and Dr. Carl Henning, a graduate of Hanover and of Purdue,

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AT TRISTATE COLLEGE.

Students of College Drilled by Offfcer Who Praise* Hi* Cadets. [Special to The Indianapolis News] FT. WAYNE,. Ind., April 25.-One of the busiest places in FL Wayne in preparation for service to the country is the Concordia college gymnasium. This school is maintained by the Missouri synod for the training of future ministers of the German Lutheran church, and there are more than 200 young men and boys in the college. All of them who are physically able are In the battalion, of which Captain Byroade, United States army, is drillmaster. The ages of the students run from fourteen to twenty, and the older students are daily offering their services and are seeking opportunity to take examinations to become officers in the United

States reserve.

The Rev. Martin Luecke, president of the college, has written his own two unmarried sons, who have been graduated and are in other cities, that the time had come for. them to serve their country and he wished them to enlist. The college board has offered in cases where the expenses of the students had been provided by the board to waive their claims so that the dependent students could be free to enlist without feeling that the debt ret0 mained against them. The cadets take part in every public demonstration. One day Captain Byroade received eight requests for the presence of the battalion to assist in flag raisings. The captain expresses great pride in the battalion and says the military d ill has worked wonders for the boys both in mind and body, and that no more

Company of 100 Student* Drilling on the Campu*. [Special to The Indianapolis New*] ANGOLA, Ind., April 25.—A company of 100 Tristate college students is drilling each afternoon under the command of Captain Roy P. Griffin, who has Served in the regular army, although now a student in the college. First Lieutenant Roderick Johnson served five years in the navy, and Second Lieutenant Edwin A. Carver was with the local Company B, of the Indiana national guard, on the Mexican border last summer and fall. The young men are using the Springfield rifles which the government sent to the college a few years ago when a military department was a part of the college work. Lists of the students of the engineering departments have been sent to the government at its request, and many of the men, especially in the depart ments of electrical and of civil engi neering, 'are receiving inquiries as to their fitness and willingness to serve the country in technical capacities. The college authorities are lending their support to the efforts of the young men to prepare themselves. Arrangements are being made to give credits on their courses for drills as well as credits for absence when called. The young women of the college are also anxious to help, and are considering the organization of a branch bf the Red Cross as a means of making themselves useful. They are now seeking information as to proper methods to pursue.

WISHES DRILL OFFICER.

patriotic lads can be found In any city

in the country.

FRANKLIN MEN DRILL.

Valparaiso University to Begin Military Preparation*. [Special to The Indianapolis New*] VALPARAISO. Ind., April 25.-No military work has yet been done by Valparaiso university, which has several thousand students, but the government has been asked to send an army officer here to conduct drills. Students have been urged to remain in school until the country calls for their services “The army needs men of trained Intellect as well as those trained in arms,” O. P Kinsey, vice-president, declared in a recent speech before a mass meeting of students. All seniors will receive their degrees at the time they enlist, and those of other grades will get credit for what they have accomplished In their studies. About 200 young men, most of whom belonged to guard companies, have been excused from school that they may join their companies. Young worhen of the institution have, preferred to affiliate with the Valparaiso chapter of the Red Cross, which now has more than 200 members. The officers of the chapter say they will make it

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participating. Army rifles are expected to arrive late this week. The first practical training of the Wabash battalion, as the three companies drilling are designated, will be given Just as soon as the rifles arrive. Senior Captain Denny, of Culver military academy, is here to assist in the drilling. Captain Harney expects to give the men their first taste of guard mount Friday and Saturday of

this week.

ACTIVITY

NOTRE DAME.

PURDUE A TRAINING CAMP.

Other Activities Overshadowed by

the Military Preparations. [Special to The Indian*poll* N«w#]

LAFAYETTE. Ind.. April 25—Purdue university has been transformed into a military training camp, the preparations for war service having overshadowed all other activities. Lieutenant Robert S. Donaldson U. S. A., commandant and chief of the military’ de-

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are unanimously in fsvor of universal military service and have notified President Wilson, the war department and

congress of that fact.

In the event that congress decides to call for volunteers Purdue will offer a regiment of field artillery. There are about 150 Students in the university who have seen service on the Mexican border as members of the field artillery of the Indiana national guard. Many of these men would make competent field artillery officers with a ilttle training camp drill Then there are faculty members who would volunteer for this regiment and many alumni and residents of Lafayette outside the university who are ready to enUst with the PreP°3<?d Purdue regiment. Many of the l,©w members of the Purdue cadet regiment probably would enlist in the field

artillery.

One phase of the work of military

Eighty-five Per Cent, of the Student* Training for War. (Special to The Indianapolis News] NOTRE DAME, Ind., April 25.-Elghty-flVe per cent of the entire student body of the University of Notrs Dame la now enlisted in the university military organization. The six companies of trained cadets are receiving instructions in field maneuvers, and are engaging In strategic operations three days a week. Blank cartridges are being used in the sham battles. These companies have mastered close order and parade movements. The newly-formed hospital corps, containing forty students of the schools of pharmacy, biology and chemistry, is drilling daily. Dr. O. H. GHmatedt, of South Bend, an expert in Red Cross work, has delivered several lectures, and a Red Cross ambulance has been obtained for practical work. The athletes, who are new to the training, have been drilling twice every day since their organization, and Sergeant Campbell, director of military training at the university, declares they will be fit to go to the front within a month. The units of day students, engineers and extra men who have been exempt from drill are now progressing rapidly under the tutorship of Colonel Leo Vogel and Lieutenant-Colonel John IJ Riley, The entire regiment took part in a mammoth patriotic parade in South Bend last Saturday. When fully trained the Notre Dame boys wil! send a substantial unit to the colors If conscrip tlon does not hasten matters. . No definite action has been taken by the congregation of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame to send priests, brothers or nuns to the front, but it is expected that several priests will volunteer as chaplains. while all nuns who can be spared from St. Mary's college will join the ranks of the Red Cross nurses. Four hundred girls, students of St. Mary''* college and academy, have organized under the supervision of Mrs. D L. Gullfoyle, of South Bend, to assist that city’s Red Cross society by sewing bandages and by money contributions

About 80 Per Cent, of Student* En* rolled in Military Company. [Special to The Indianapolis New*} FRANKLIN. Ind., April 25,-The’ men of Franklin college have entered heart ily into the work of dail» military drill. The acting president. Professor A. T. Belknap put the matter up to the men as a voluntary affair and about 80 per cent, of the men enrolled, responded. The college, In line with other institution* submitted information to be used in the national intelligence bureau. Will Burton, treasurer, has been ap pointed adjutant of Franklin branch of this government auxiliary which gathers information regarding the faculties and experience of college trained men which might be useful to the United States army. Elmer Dils, of Gary, has been appointed sergeant of the military company and more than eighty men are enrolled. A veteran officer of the army. Captain Charles Bowen, is drillmaster and he gives two hours each day to the work of training the college rookies. The girls of the college are assisting through the alumnee organizations and Sunday school classes of the town to further the work of the Red Cross units. The city of Franklin Is said to have more units than any oriier Indiana town or city in proportion To its population. The work here was started by the Franklin college alumnae chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

QUAKER SCHOOL ACTIVE.

“DOING THEIR BIT.”

Rose, State Normal and St.-Mary-of-the-Woods Making Preparations. (Special to The IndlsnspoSI* News] TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 2S.-The three colleges here—Rose Polytechnic. Indiana State Normal and St Mary-of-the-Woods—are all “doing their bit” in preparation for the war. Compulsory military training was adopted by the faculty of Rosa Pwiy-

Men Are Drilling and the Girl* Tak-

_ ing Athletic Work.

[Special to The IndUnapoli* News] RICHMOND. Ind., April 25.-One hun-

dred men of Earlham college took their first workout In military drill last night on Reid field under the direction of coach Horace E. Whiteside. The college faculty has consented to a rearrangement of the dally class schedule in order that the students may give ample time to the new program. Ten minutes have been cut off of each recitation period, so that all classes are ended by 2:45 and the men drill from 3 to 5:30 every day, The hundred men have been divided into four companies of twentyfive men each. The captain* of these companies are: Company A. W. Harold Brown, of Richmond; Company B Donald B Snyder, of Wabash; Company C. S Janney Hutton, of Brighton. Md.; Company D. Donald R Kellum of Plainfield. Coach Whiteside plans to give a varied program of work tc the men. the main object being to put every, man in first class physical condition so = he will b« ready to answer his country’s!

call should that cal! come

Nearly all the dormitory girls

At Other College*.

SPICELAND—The academy here 1* a Quaker initKutlon, and, except for athletic training, nothing has yet been done in military work. The girl* are discussing the question of taking up Red Cross work. GOSHEN—fJoshen college, which la now quarantined on’account of smallpox, is doing nothing in the way of military preparation*. The college is controlled by a religious denomination that 4 » opposed to war. OAKLAND CITY—Oakland City college Is watting tc sec what the congress does In regard to conscription before 'beginning military training. Some of the students wish military Instruction. President Dearlng is devoting much of his time to making patriotic addresses in southwestern Indiana. MOORES HILL-Many of the Moores Hill college boys have enlisted or are planning to enlist soon. Robert Reynolds, Ray Sturm and Price Thompson have iotned the navy. Efforts are being made to get a sufficient number of students and boys of the surrounding territory to form a company for the army. WINONA—Winona College of Liberal Arts ta planning to emphasize military training and Red Cross work. These courses will be taught by competent persons', a retired army officer will give instruction to the men in military tactics and drill, and a physician of note and a Red Cross nurse as well as the instructors of the home economics department will offer complete and thorough course* In fact, according to a statement recently issued by Dean H. G. Lawranee, every department of the Institution will be placed at the disposal of the government. as far as that is possible. HUNTINGTON—Huntington college will give her quota of men to the various branches of the service, as already Indicated by the enlistments from the utudenr body. More than a year ago several students enrolled from Canada returned to their homes and have been with the Canadian colors. Last wevk five of the young men enlisted ijL, Battery B. The school has no military training course, but liberally supports all patriotic movements. No separate Red Cross unit has been attempted by the “co-eds," but a number of the young women are | member* of th# Huntington organization. UPLAND—The 300 students at Taylor university are imbued with the war spirit. Foi-

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man. in which she advised the “brains of l

This company will put into effect on May 1, 1917, a schedule of rates and charges, copies of which are now on file with the Board of Public Works of the City of Indianapolis and the Public Service Commission of Indiana. The schedule calls for the same rates and charges which were agreed upon between the City of Indianapolis and the company in a contract entered into June 2£, 1916, and which were adopted by the Public Service Commission of Indiana in an order made by it under date of March 15, 1917. The contract above referred to was for a term of twelve years and the rates and charges were fixed upon the basis of the then operating expenses and taxes of the company, the normal increases that could be anticipated in the twelve year period and with a view of returning to the company a fair income averaged over the period. Counsel for the company advised us that the contract was legal and enforceable and was within the power of the city and the company. Shortly after this execution the taxing authorities increased the assessment of the company’s property which resulted in increasing the taxes of the company $53,473.57 per year, and fixing such taxes at 16% of its gross revenues. Based upon the business of 1916, the new rates and charges would have reduced the income for the year $79,830, and* the total decrease in revenue due to this and increased taxes would have been $133,303.57 or a reduction in net income of twenty-five per cent. This contract is not in effect. Its provisions were not approved by the Public Service Commission of Indiana. After a full investigation of the property and accounts of the company extending over a period of two years and an open hearing for over a month the Public Service Commission of Indiana found that it would cost at least $12,500,000 to reproduce the property of the company and that the value of the property for rate making purposes upon which the company is entitled to an adequate return is $9,500,000. The commission in its findings expressly states that the new rates and charges will not bring to the company the revenues to which it is entitled but insists that as the company agreed with the city upon such rates and charges it should put them into effect, and it holds out the hope to the company that increased business’in future years may make up the losses. Counsel for the company have advised us that our charter and the ordinance of the City of Indianapolis under which we are operating constitute a contract which is under the protection of the Constitution of the United States, that we are further protected by Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution which prohibits the taking of property without due process of law and guarantees the full protection of the laws, but thht until a fair trial of the new rates has been made it is only speculation as to whether the obligation of our contract has been impaired or our property confiscated through deprivation of adequate returns, and that, if a fair trial of the rates should show a loss, we can at any time thereafter invoke the jurisdiction of the courts on the above grounds. We will, of course, follow the advice of our counsel and give the new rates and charges a fair trial, and while we are morally certain they will not bring us a legally adequate return on our property value, it is our hope that they will approximate this, so that we may be rid of litigation and can devote all of our energies to the service of our consumers and to the betterment of our property to keep pace with the growing needs of the community. Respectfully,

C. H. GEIST,

President

SERVICE UNIFORMS, NOW. WASHINGTON. April 25.—By ofrieiMl order today, the American army went Into service uniforms of field khaki and olive drab for the period of the war. Full dress uniforms with their wealth of «;old lace will be seen only at White House ceremonies at occasions specially designated. It I* the custom of armies to put aside full dress uniforms In war time.

States, will confer with President Wilson within the next few days on food conditions in Switzerland, which are understood to be serious, Switzerland, In common with other European neutrals, is fearful that In provisioning the entente allies the United States may divert food supplies now going to those countries. The policy of the American government, as explained to several of the neutrals, is not to interfere with the food supplies of these nations unless it is absolutely necessary. NEW HIGH RECORDS

NOT GOOD.REPORT SAYS

COMPLAINT ON SITUATION AT CITY MARKET.

DEPARTMENT CLUB AFFAIRS

t George F. Edenfiarter, superintendent i of the Central Hospital for the Insane, of Indianapolis; Dr. Samuel E. Smith, ! superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, of Richmond; Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the Indiana university school of medicine, of Indianapolis; Dr. W. C. Van Nuys, superintendent of th© Indiana Village for Epileptics, of Newcastle; Dr. George 8. Bliss, superintendent of the Stale’ School for Feeble-Minded, of Ft. Wayne; Robert Bracken, state senator, of Frankfort, and Charles A. McGonhgle, representative, of Muncie. These j appointments were made following a meeting of the state board of charities yesterday.

JUMPS TO .$2.52 ON CHICAGO BOARD.

OFFERINGS

CHICAGO, April 25.-Wheat shot past all previous high records today on a market bare of offerings. The May

Mrs. William H. Hart, chairman of a committee of the civics and social welfare department of the Woman’s Department Club, reported at a meeting held yesterday that sanitary conditions at the city market are not good. Sht complained the city fails to provide a sufficient number of janitors, four men being required to do all of the work. She said parts of the market house are not flushed oftener than once every three weeks. The sum of $38,000 a year is collected by the city from stand rentals, she said, and $10,000 represents the aggregate expenditures, showing the city gets a profit from the stands. She said more money should be spent

on market maintenance. Board of Health Statement

as clean as possible with the equipment j Unless the trouble i* due to some serious now provided. Members of the board j j nterna i con ditton, it quickly clear* away for several years hav* directed the at-j jjj traicc 0 f eczema, ringworm, pimples,

tention of othe| city employes to the fact that thousands of dollars should be expended tr| improve the market building. New* floors ahould be laid and walls should be constructed of tile. No complaint has been made concerning the manner in wfeich 'Michael F. Dalton,

Stops

that itching It is a positive fact that the moment Resinol touches any itching skin, tj% itching usually stops and healing begins.

market master,

ties.

It was said afl

las performed his

the instructor tn rw , . U was saiu tnc c avtsed the “hriunii option rose IMs cents, as compared with controller that Dalton

the counfry’’ to stay at home and i*t the | yesterday’s close, other* do th* fighting, the students made -a- -anta tn patriotic speeches. As & result four students I vanced cents t0 Immediately enlisted and two day* later tember advanced 7*,;

teen mere enlisted.

days later about the

*ame number were rejected Many have ip-\ irauera piled for service In the various departments, a prediction credited

Four student* have been called from school and are now In training. Sergeant Johnson. of Ambulance company No. 2. at Marlon. gives training to the students weekly The girls of the university are taking uo

Red Cross work.

RITTER TO SEE WILSON.

agreed to take five hours of athletic; work a week This consists of long distance walking, baseball, track, archery! and calesthenics. About fifty girls have! signed for baseball and four teams are! to be formed and a series played The total number of girls enrolled regularly for athletics is about 150. The annua) i tennis and golf tournaments will be held in addition to the other work. |

j HANOVER COLLEGE WORK.

Swiss Minister to Diacua* Food Con-

dition* In His Country.

WASHINGTON. April to.-Dr. Paul have 1 letter, Swiss minister to- the United

Military Drill Taken Up Under Athletic Director’* Supervision. [Special to The Indianapolis News] HANOVER. Ind.. April S.-Military drill is in full swing at Hanover. Sixtyfive men report on the athletic field every afternoon at 5 o'clock and for an hour £c through drill formations and

WOMEN IN R.

LORAIN, O.. April 25,—The Bnltimore <& Ohio railroad today made public appcnl for women to work in the division shops and terminals here aw car inspectors, crossing guards and cleaners. They will receive the same wages as men. -Women must take the places of men in railroad work should war eall the men Into army and navy service,” said F. W. Rhuacfc, master mechanic.

to $2.48; July ad-

3-4, and Sep-

to the minister of

agriculture of Ontario, that wheat would seil at $4 before it sold again

at $2.00,

Corn prices rose 2%c to 3%c.

Another milestone was reached in the afternoon when May wheat sold at $2.50

a bushel. Later $2.51*. was bid.

Prices of wheat, corn and oats were all on the highest level in the history of the Board of Trade. At St Louis another record was hung up in the sale of No. 2 red wheat for immediate deliv-

ery at $3 a bushel.

Just before the close, which was ac

|2.50%.#2-51, May sold at IJ.SJ. ROBBERS AT BEN DAVIS.

Enter Traction Company’s Office and

General Store.

Burglars entered two buildings in Ben Davis last night, but obtained only a small amount of loot. Although posses were organized early today, and investigations begun, no trace has been ob

tained of the burglars w ere sent for, but had

this afternoon. , : The Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern traction office was entered. Sixty cents was obtained by the buiglars. who pried open a window. At the W. L. Rhoades general store, aeros sthe street from the station, entrance was effected in the same v.sy, Th" sum of *2« was taken and some tobacco and clears carried away.

rs. Bloodhounds not arrived early!

one of the few city departments who has made an economy record. The total receipts of the market during 1916 were $43.95X30, and *15,960 was appropriated by the city council for the expenses of the market. Altnough $15,S60 was appropriated, Dalton held the expenses of

the market to $10,402.26.

Complete* Courae of Study. The civics and social welfare department concluded its course of study in city government yesterday, Frederick Melcher being the speaker, He substituted for Reginald Sullivan, city controller. Mr. Melcher talked of his experiences while connected with the administrative branch of a Massachusetts city and discussed the duty of voting. A report was made by the health committee, of w’hlch Mrs. Robert A. Buehl is chairman, on the work of the city board of health on tuberculosis condl-

all trace of eczema, ringworm, pimples, or similar tormenting, unsightly eruption, leaving the skin clear and healthy. Doctors have prescribed Resinol for over twenty years, so when you try it, fou are using a remedy of proven value

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FOR MENTAL DEFECTIVES.

Governor Goodrich Appoint* a New 1 Commission. Appointment of a new commission on mental-defectives to study the question of mental defectives in Indiana, wps announced today at' the office of Governor Goodrich. The commission succeeds the commission appointed by former Governor Ralston, which made a report to the state legislature at its last session. Its personnel is largely the same as that named by Ralston. The new commission is composed of the following: The Rev. Francis* H. Gavlsk, of Indianapolis, chairman; Dr.

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