Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1918 — Page 6

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THE OKI MW ALB In Wn«htnirte>n t*uit ovr Join with tli* allloo In that th* fcaliior, tli* orown

publicity that rafuaad to pormit corruption to ram&in under oov«r. No public man dares be corrupt became

U lie bae any intelllthat before Ion* the

newspaper* will find him out and drfre him from the portion he occupies. As Bematorff ears, there la no reticence of that character In the United State*. He might have added that under our form of government and aa ‘

alder some plan for avoiding competition in armaments. For each competition would, after such a war aa that Juet ended, he more than ever ruinous to the people of the world. There

duly burdensome. Taxes now are a j burden and the burden wfll grow far j heavier unless the legislature can solve the problem That solution will be one of the moat Important things to come

la in this country no Jealousy whatever {before the general assembly when it

of the British fleet, and no fear of it. meets next month.

Mr. Churchill sums the case up thus:

long aa we possess our there never will be

ideals.

We are sincere advocate* of a league of nations. Every influence Britain can i

bring to bear wfll be used to make euch t a

a league a powerful reality. This fin* conception of President Wilson ha* been

SPEEDING

The man who steps into a public street

seapon |

pedestrians and pulls the trigger usu

warmly welcomed by Britiah democrm- Hr gets what he needs when taken

[Science]

The United States department of ag- j rteulture announces the promulgation of ‘ amendments and additions to the migratory bird-treaty act regulations

effective October 25. 1918.

Hereafter the open season for black- !

on a level with S 4111(1 * oiden Plovers and greater

>'£l°*3egs in Texas will be ;

from September 1 to I>ecember 15. An-

other change prescribes a dally bag Ilii

SSiT ^ - « - cn raa. « 1*. of ",i

of nations can | punishment adequate there ts good rea- hlt * of removing the limitation

™ ‘ ^ 5! “Stl *»» for complaint. The man who ^ts gaw^mthfo ^tatodurtog't£

MR. SCHWAB'S VIEWS

At the recent oonvention of the Cham

bar of Commerce of the United States, j frankly that a league

in Atlantic City. Mr. flchwab declared that the tonnage placed In commission by the fleet corporation would have been impossible had It not been for the! hearty co-operation of the laboring men. The time win come, he believes, j when the artstoeraey of America wfll I

b. eompoMd of m.n who, r^Oi— of 1“ , * t . ““» t ,7°™““*; »• *»>*" »

“•!' ■>’ **• '"rtO “ ,r * 1 “ K .how" ho uyh "thot

fore. 1 — ' • j y - i*uui a niate aunng himself to a motor car and drtvee the federal open season. The export of mi-

“«®»T kamc birds is limited to two ys bag limit during any one calendar

of the fed era f sea

must comply with state law, further

the shipment or transports- ?

. town. Judge Pritchard, to the city U®* 1 <* migratory birds,

we could not court, has announced that no mercy ntill|uUtl<m No. S.^which^of?^ 2 ° f T * S '

ish navy to any period that ws

see.

1 ear at an excessive rats of That Is precisely the position taken by

flerrstary Daniels when he advised tbs j M the fellow who seek# to shoot up the

continuance of our naval program, and said that

m i grate

car at an excessive rate of speed ts: days’

Just a* much a menace to life and limb ! fh* federmf season. Persons J

records

great Interest 1*1 • yci w*' I cr-pwi. Artswnar

whether they are rich or poor, can they have don* something for the good i

water

lers of game, permit* migratory fowl raised to domestication to

fend

of the country. In the past, he says, labor has not shared proportionately in the national distribution of wealth. In the future greater equality must be

brought about through mutual trust and ' mutual understanding These problems. ■ ■■

ter what happens, "the meteor flag

"The

for us to be ready to de- tim<M ^ demth , have

ourselves. Mr. Church,.; merely; ^ reckless auto drtv-! after March 's^ It£7 sL^iT wate’rfow’u taalst* that If there is ever to be a | ^ durUl * the year aa by murder and kl M hr "hooting, can not be sold or!

| ~ m a 1 _T, ' . . Purchased uniem each bird, before atviolence. These figure* make speeding tabling th* age of four weeks, shall have

had removed from fne web of one foot

substitute for th* British fleet It must be a real one. After all. It is not a

on* of the most

menaces to

a portion thereof in the form of a

human Ilf* with which th# authorities large enough to make a permanent wall have to contend. Tba spaed laws. In I whl ch shall be sufficient

of substitution, but of i

t and oo-ordinatlon But no .... ..

Mr. Schwab feels, will solve themsslvss j ^ w “ mi w | my opinion, should be strictly enforced ; tioatto^ U ** * t!rd rai#ed ln dome *- because of the-new spirit abroad to the; »• to be a Sequent ^ , intm6 to do ^ ln A^*r syMtoeirt thsdfoa

ssuss ssaa Aiuericazs* m^i— " ! birds legally killed mayo# pos

Mr. Schwab says that labor should not have It otherwlsa havs the fullest freedom of organiaa- J tion. He believe# that (belaboring men HEARST AND BOLD of any plant are to a better peeliion to j In Jhls testimony yesterday A.

tog them ”

Drivers of motor oars in Indiana-

polis frequently violate th* law street cars that have been

Bruce j stopped to permit passengers to get on

_ iruty be possesw;

m!t t ^OTtoion d |a W alao Ul * r * danU t> * r ' by j suance of special permits authorising taxidermists to pooasss, buy. sell and

taxidermists to p«ae***, t transport migratory bird* Two new regulations hav

know thslr problems and needs than , BMaakL chief of the bureau of invest!- or off. They oometimes drive on th#

prince. Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Tlrpfts, 0M who (* f*r awny and who i gatlon of the department of Juatlce. said wrong side of a standing street car

be tried and punished for their | theoretical lines Consequently he beTher# are, of course, others, h***, i n treating with the mon or with immediate perpetrators of atrocities, ;thslr representative*, rather than with should b# dealt with to the same officials of A trad# organ! tat Ion that By no means should Von Hauber- ma y not be so closely in touch with the th* man directly responsible for truth or who may not have as keen a rder of Bdlth Cavall, be forgot* desire Jo see exact justice done, would to* a crime against civil- j i n the matter of operating the counff such men wars allowed ts try's merchant marine -and Mr Schwab j-— H#f* Is a chance for a says th# need of a Mg fleet of commerleague of nations, representing the c lal ships 1* vltal-h* come# out demand executing Its deers*. Wheth- nitely for privet# ownership, defying men should b# tried for their s * ny 0 ne to show him a single Instance crimes, or on the charge of bav- | 0 f commercial success in this country

that ha* not been won through private

the United States th* Hearst organs j to the speed laws. If th* city could “were the meet pronounced in favor of spare a policeman to stand at East Germany/' and of Hearst himself he Washington street and Audubon road said that “there la no other newspaper he would find that about nine out of man who#* attitude waa so friendly to every ten drivers are exceeding the Germany.*' Even after w* entered the speed limit. If another could be spared war, th# man’s “attitude continued very to stand in-North Meridian street he questionable,** and Mr Bielaskl says would find the seme conditions, that “many articles published to his pa- Accidents multiply and many of them pers, if published after the passage of result fatally. The reckless speeder is the espionage act aa amended, would j a constant menace and should be pun-

trampled on International law. Is not of much importance. The ns to b# the view of Asa Bird former professor of law at United State* Military academy. His in the New York Time# of last la worthy of careful reading, that the offenses were sgainat taw that binds all nations, and that they were so flagrant as In this it la impoaaibl# to Ignore them trial, ha thlhka, ahould be before great International tribunal 9f Ha kaiser, Mr Gardner Th# lata Gsrman emperor was war and commander-ih-chief of all the armies and constantly mspectt and followed their advances Belgium and France, He witnessed i awful ravages they committed, withmliitary necessity, which h« could prevented, but apparently; in hie declaration, gloated over them, can be no permanent peace for the ages to come until all th* great criminal violators of the lawe of war In this war ahall, as an object laaaon, b* brought to th# bar of military Justice befofe a military commission, and, if found guilty, duly hanged. ^ There are, of courts, aentimentaiuits. Who wilt aay that now that th* war is ovar ws ought all to “come In and be good fejiowa together." The answer la easy It ia that there can be no fellowship between self-respecting men and thou*, guilty of the awful crime of atartftg this war, and of the atrocities that disgraced the conduct of U- For years tha men whom It la proposed to py have been a law unto themselves. They no allsgtaitop to any The type ^a aa old as Nebuchad- , of whom* the prophet Daniel ng to hla son and successor. Bei-

said: t

All people, nations and languages

Initiative. He argues that If subsidies aw needed to place th# country on a proper commercial shipping footing the people will have to pay th* bills. If the government operates the ships th# people pay the same subsidies, in another form. The d^y will come, or at least ahould come, when no subsidies or special favors are needed for the ahlpe that fly the American flag. Just now shipping must be encouraged because without foreign commerce there will be a stump In business. Mr. Schwab’s views ers sound and reasonable. He demands that Industry be fair with labor and that labor be fair with Industry. Patience and common sense, he says, will surmount all the present

difficulties.

GOVERNMENT AND EMPLOYES To those who, with sincerity or otherwise, connect government ownership with tha advance of labor la commended th* action of the war labor board on the petition of Omaha city firemen for the tight to organise. The board held that Its principle that employes may organise and bargain collectively does not apply to employs* of municipalities. Presumably, the view was taken that municipal employes are public servants and that the interests of th# public could not, therefore, and because of the nature of the firemen’s work, be subjected to the danger of a strike. The same reasoning certainly applies to the railroads, the telegraph, the telephone and the cables. If taken over by th* government, the thousands of employes of these Utilities would be public servants whose work Is as important and Incapable of being disturbed by a strike without Irreparable public harm

trembled and feared before him; whom i resulting as Is the work of murtlcipal 5; om h i u it, » w * r '•'■o'- "o'"' 1 * h ‘ >uw

eel up; down -

he would he put

It Is Urn# that th# world should see ni*n of this‘class held to answer to the law which they havs despised. What Is dsmanded is simple Justice. There can be no Isagu* of nations, and no effective agreements among them baged on anything else. That mer* revenge Is not sought Is proved every day by th* conduct of our soldiers and those of the allies In Germany, 'if vengeance were th* animating principl# the smoke of burning Gsrman ettiee and villages would even now be ascending to heaven. Nor are we looking for victims. It is ■imply a question of punishing adequately representative and reaponalbile criminals. Theyfkrlll have a scrupulously fair trial, which Is a good deal more than Edith CavpU or Captain Fryatt hsd. We can not afford to lose the chance of emphasising the contrast between true v Justice and th* “justlcg’ administered by the kaiser and his mlnlona We can not honestly and to good | faith say “never again’' and yet refuse or fall to bring these criminals to trial. Every American soldier killed to Franc*

was a victim

follow the attltudo taken In the Omaha oaae to Its logical conclusion the pov/srful railroad unions would have to be disrupted on the coming of government, ownership and the advantage* of col-

lective bargaining surrendered.

Th* thousands of post office employes have practically given up their right to bargain collectively In return for a government job. Th# policy of the govern, ment to th* one great Industry that It operates has always been, for reasons sufficiently plain, against labor organisation. Strikes of public servants are unthinkable. Extraordinary means te prevent them, for the protection of all, would have to be taken. The possibility ef a curtailment of labor's prerogatives Is not the least important thing to remember in connection with an exten-

sion of government ownership.

have subjected him to prosecution." It la certain that Berlio appreciated the services of these papers, which, it must be said in fairness, were not paid for. |f*ar*t did not know that hi# correspondent. William Bayard Hale, was a paid German agent Hla attitude is attributed solely to hi* hatred of England and his personal friendship for

Bernatorff.

Whether Hearst knew that Bolo was a traitor to France is not clear. The Frenchman was, said Bleiaski, brought to this country t>v a representative of Hearst, to whom he was later introduced. and by whom he waa entertained at lunch. There wer# many meetings between tha two men. Bolo. who has etoee been executed for treason, was In this country for the purpose of getting money to buy a paper in France, and In this he was succeasfuL Mr. Bielaskl said; There is one fact about Bolo which was never brought out before. That is that he was in touch with the German embassy her* shortly after war began In 1914. In a note book of Dr. Albert, which we have to our possession, this entry appears: "Prepare telegram to Pasha." That shows conclusively that th# enemy knew Intimately of Bolo and probably knew of his activities. The American editor was certainly in very bad company. Bemstorff was. during all this time, conspiring against this country, and Bolo was a traitor to his own country. It has been found that the German ambassador had 127,860,000 available for propaganda work in the United States, and of that amount more than 17,500,000 was actually spent. German consuls, acting under orders from Bernatorff, engaged In a campaign to Induce Germans and Austrians to withdraw from Industries making munitions and supplies for the allies, and they met with some measure of success. German agents and German money were back of the Laborers' National Peace Council, organized in Chicago In May. 1816, which might hawe succeeded, but for the vigorofis opposition of Samuel Gompers. Every possible effort waa made to rouse the colored people against the government, but in vain. The negroes, says Mr. Blslaxld, “were too loyal.” and "money spent to the south for propaganda was thrown away." Such was the gang with which Hearst was associated.

of the men who forced

war on the world.

MSRN8T0RFF8 TRIBUTE In trying to Justify his failure to make a better showing for German propaganda In this country, Bernatorff sent a message to his government to which

foot of an Anaerioan newspaper subsidised can never be kept » there is no reticence In ountry. It always ends with my held responsible for sll the of each newspaper. ambassador unconsciously paid a tribute to America when he said to subsidise a newskeep the matter secret bother* is no reticence in this counThere Is reticence to America, but hi* kind, A fsw papers were sabhut the American press In gensound at heart Regard!**# of md counter-charges that tanewspapers are representas or special the main body of Amort will be found to the Just whore they have been found will be fighting the Americanism and they The occasion is a publication has

by money.

THE BRITISH NAVY The American people and Winston Churchill, British minister of munitions, are not far apart on the question of Great Britain’s sea power. Nor do we believe that there will be any serious divergence of view between him and President Wilson. For any one can see that the British navy has for years been a moet effective marine pcllce force, maintained at the expense of the British taxpayer. It is perfectly e’ear, too. that but for this great navy Germany would have won the war. certainly as against France and Russia. There is no nation, except our own. whose defenses w* should more unwillingly see weakened There are peculiar conditions, and these are pointed out by Mr. Churchill, which make It necessary for Great Britain to have a great

navy.

Nevertheless, there was a time when the British government was willing to curtail construction. It proposed a naval holiday to Germany, during which there should be no additions to either fleet. Again it proposed that the ratio between the two fleets never be dis-turbed-that when Great Britain built ILT4.

TAX RATES

Tax rates Increase for two reasons. One is because of improvements of permanent character, which call for an outlay of money, which can only be raised through Increased taxation. The other reason is poor management. Generally speaking, the rates in Indiana are higher than they should be. One reason for this is highway construction done under the, three-mile road law. Under this law the streets of towns and cities have been hard paved at a great expense, and to order to meet the bills It was necessary to Issue bonds. In order to retire the bonds It became necessary to raise the tax rates. Another reason may be low appraisements. A high tax rate Is a poor advertisement for any community. One town in Indiana has a rate of $6-68 on each flOO worth of property. If a man in that town lends $1,000 at 6 per cent, interest and takes a mortgage note for his security ha must list this note with the assessor. He would receive an income from his loan of 6 per cent, and he would pay out €.68 per cent. Thus a loan at 6 per cent would b« a money loser for the holder of th* mortgage note. If the man placed his money In s savings bank and recalved 3 per cent. Interest his taxes would eat up the Interest and more than 3 per cant, of the capital. Thera are fourteen towns in Indiana that have a rate of 6 per cent, or higher and there are ninety-three towns with a tax rate between 4 and 5 per cent. Th* lowest town tax rates are Elisabethtown, $186, and Jonesville, Both of those towns are to

«f American Journal-

Amertea b«*

three ship* Germany should build two.

The theory wo# that as long as the

ratio was maintained th* six* of the respective fleets was a matter of less Importanca Finally, th# British government suggested that It might even be possible to enter Into an agreement providing for the safety of private prop, erty, whether neutral or belligerent, at sea. All these really generous advances were repelled by the Germans. Th* point Is that Great Britain was not than, and is not now unreasona-

ble. She would, no doubt, provided her •fl^gflfoty was assured, be prepared to cen-

Bartholomew county; the low rate to because each town gave up doing business as a school town and turned Its

schools over to the township.

Fifteen Indian* cities have tax rates higher than 5 per cent, and fifty-seven cities have rates of more than « per cent. In practically all of these cities j and towns the financial problems ars pressing and plans are being considered for raising more money. The first requisite is boonomicsJ government with the elimination of all wasta. Th* n*xt to a system of tag*tion that will yield tba needed money without being un-

tohed. If fine# will what Is needed, jail well be added.

net accomplish Sentence# might

Perhaps most of the creamery butter, as it Is generally known. Is artificially colored. This does not affect its quality. The government charges a tax of 10 cents a pound on artificially colored oleomargarine and ons-fourth of a cent a pound on the uncolored. Dealers who handle the uncolored product usually supply a capsule of coloring matter with each pound, so the housewife can color it. In 1817 the total amount of colored oleom&rgine, taxed at 10 cents a pound, was 4,577,168 pounds; of uncolored, taxed at one-quarter cent a pound, 288,066,006 pounds Formerly attempts were made to sell the substitutes as butter. For that reason a tax was levied and substitute manufacturers wer© required to label their products. Butter substitutes, both those made partly of animal fats and. those mad© of vegetable oils, are coming Into: greater favor because of tne very high pile# of real butter. The housewife can color the substitute as well as the manufacturer can and thus have as attractive and as good a product at a savings of at least the 10 cents

a pound paid as a tax.

Many aliens may return to their native lands, now free, but they’ll soon be wishing they had round-trip tickets.

■■JHMBave been addled

Regulation No. 11 provides for th* tssuf snee of permits authorising persons to In rail migratory game birds lawfully ; killed and by them lawfully held in cold , storage on July 31, 1918. Such birds

* old und * r Permit until March

31, 1918.

Aonther new regulation is as follows: j Nothing in these regulations shall be ■ construed to permit the taking, posses- ! "’OP- purchase or transportation of j migratory birds, their nests and eggs contrary to the laws and regulations of any* state, territory or district made for the purpose of giving further protection to migratory bird* their nests and eggs when such lawe and regulation* are not inconsistent with the oonv#ntion between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1816, or th© migratory bird treaty act and do not extend th© open seasons for euch birds beyond the dates prescribed b v these

regulations."

This regulation is a restatement.of the substance of Section 7 of the migratory bird treaty act. and Is intended to remove the confusion and uncertainty that exist in regard to the effect of th© federal law and regulations on state game

laws.

The federal migratory bird treaty act regulations prohibit throughout the t nlted State* the killing at any time of the following birds: Band-tailed pigeon; common ground doves and scaled doves; little brown, sandhill and whooping cranes; wood ducks, swans, curlews, willet, upland plover, and all shore birds (except the black-hellled and golden plovers. Wilson snipe or Jacksntpe. woodcock and the greater and lesser yellowlegs); bobolinks, catbirds. chicadees, cuckoos, flickers,,' flycatchers, grossbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks, nighthawks or bull-hats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagors, titmice, thrushes, vtreos, warblers, waxings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, aqd wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects; and also auks, auklets. bitterns, fulmars, gannets. grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, pufflrs, shearwaters and terns.

But, of course. If you didn’t subscribe for the war chest it Isn't going to buy you * Red Cross membership. And If Thomas R. Marshall makes good’ In his role as social President, perhaps Mr. Wilson will let him handle the social portfolio hereafter. Still It would be Just like William, probably from fores of necessity, to appear as his own counsel.

But when the government buys wheat substitutes it Axes the price, something the dealer Is not In the habit of letting his customers do.

Killing off the Bolshevik! would be almost as difficult as weeding the dandelions out of the front lawn.

Nearly half of Canada's soldiers wish to farm. Their army life certainly taught them the value of digging. Indianapolis motormen daily demonstrate that a street car oan travel just as rapidly round a ourv# as on a straight traok.

And the speeder generally is a person who never really has to go anywhere and It wouldn’t make any difference when he got there. We can sympathise wtih Muncie over the flower shortage, but when Indianapolis had influenza It was the price of milk that went up.

If William had shown the same abandon as a cabaret manager that he displayed as emperor* his place would have been closed after ho and his actors had appeared In polic* court a few time*

Wall, th* task to pretty'big and almost hopeless, but tf anybody can bring down the cost of living it’s the house-

wives.

Bemstorff soema to have been another ready letter writer, Wilhelm ought to bo tickled to death

to get a trial first.

Maybe th* drop In the market value of the iron cross had something to do with the downfall of Germany’s "Iron king." There wasn’t oven a war substitute for the British navy. The American army may have had to get some of its ordnance and airplanes from the allies but It had Its own adequate supply of morale. Bernatorff’s files could not have been in better shape if they had been kept with this investigation in mind. Bolshevism is causing Germany mors trouble than some men have with their

dtvorcod wives.

In addition to being the best fighters, the Yankees don't havs to take second place as letter writer*, either. It's a wonder somebody hasn't figured up how much the President’s trip to Franco to going to cost. The Berlin Tageblatt speaks of the high esteem to which Washington holds Bemstorff. Bur# ws’ll hand it to him just the same as to the fellow who is smooth enough to rob a bank to daylight. Another reason, purely mercenary, for a peace loan to to make doubly secure the interest an the war loans.

IS IT RIGHT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE HUN LEADERS AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE? IBy the Rev. Newell Dwljtht Hllti*] During these eager and tumultuous days the American people are looking anxiously for light upon the character of the German people. For several years public men have insisted that the kaiser and the war party represented militarism, but that the good people of Germany wer© gentle, industrious, kind, and honest. But with peace has come light upon many dark problems. Thousands and tens of thousands of letters and war Journals hav© been taken from the bodies of German soldiers left lying upon the battlefield. Peace has brought an opportunity for translating these letters, and giving them out to the people. The following letter was found on a German officer captured by the French troops: Mansbach. July 3. I have safely received th* twenty-on* parcels, and many thanks for them. I wish you could have been there on Saturday at the unpacking of the five parcels, which I received together, to hear the remarks made, at the sight of the thirty drawers, th* petticoat, the shirt, the little bonnet and the shirt waists. One could see that they came from well-to-do people. It would b« beat If you could go back to such places you might find more things Everything to useful to us. YOUR MOTHER. Her* is another letter. Given out by the h**d of the French high commission. Stephen Lausanne: _ Grte-Mitschau. Saxony. August 11. 1818. I am very glad that you can send m* th# parcels of linen, for I could use everything. Send me what you can, for there la nothing left here. I hop* you can send me thread for stocking*. Send nothing to any one but me, for no on* thinks of m*. Since four years of war, I hav# received nothing from my children All the others are receiving thingsTimes are growing harder and harder. Couldn't you send m* some chocolate, if you find some? Loot with seal I would prefer to go there myself, with my big sack, to collect everything that I could a*#. Have you got some good soap? If you can And me some underwear, send it to me: Any way, send me anything you can steal, for I can use everything. MOTHER. Now the young soldiers to whom thes* two mothers wrot* these letters. had ruined 350.000 houses and left 1.000,000. French men,- women and children without roof, without bed. without clothing. And yet today their mothers, wives and sweethearts are crying and pleading to hav# the armistice softened, so that they can keep their stolen linen, their fumituro, the beds and all their loot But th* German women . incited the German thieves toward loot Th* Huns dynamited or filled with water the French coal mines, and now that the French are beginning to take coal from the German mine* on the Rhine th# Hun women and m*n shriek that this is continuing th# war after the war is over, and the women whine more loudly than the Hun men themselves. In 1914 the Huns looted Belgium and France of their locomotives, freight cars and passenger cars, and now that the armistice requires their return, Solf. the foreign minister, has telegraphed from Berlin that the German locomotives and cars have been worn out by four years, and that unless they are allowed to keep the locomotive# and oars stolen from th# French and Belgians that their German people will starve to death! For sheer impudence, for cunning lies and for hypoertey, commend me to these Prussians! It seems, therefore, that it was & German criminal who first murdered hi# father and mother, and then asked mercy at the hands of the court because 41© was a poor orphan! [Copyright toll]

A Child of Today , O child, hsd I thy !ea#e of time! such uatm* I sginsd thing* Are waiting for that soul of thine te spread it* untried wing*! _ Shalt thou not speak th# *t*r*. and go on j , Journeying# through the eky? And read the eoui of man aa clear aa new we read the eye? Who knows if science may not find eom# art to make thee, new.— To mend th* garment# of thy fleeh when ih«u heat worn them through?

*Tta fearful, aye. and

that may be.

How atrange!—perhap* deeth’a alta amiling on my knee!

beautiful, thy future

conqueror

—.Tamo* rJuckham

SCRAPS

INDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF

Pershing’s Report

[New York Timea] This narrative of the American commander will be treaaured by our people. They can not be too proud of the deeds there recited. It Is the preface to the history of the wonderful campaign to which General Pershing will contribute with the greatest authority, but which his lieutenants and regimental officers will illuminate with experiences. To understand what the Americans achieved and suffered in France it will be necessary first to master the details of different movements as presented by the commander-in-chief. One thing will never be challenged, and that Is the proposition stated by General Pershing that, the Germans tenaciously retaining their hold upon the soil of France and Belgium, "It was necessary to plan, for an American force adequate enough to turn the scale in favor of the allies.” It Is a fine thing for Gan<*al Pershing to acknowledge his indebtedness "to the French general staff And the experiences of the British,"' and it may be assumed that he improved on both, a test of capacity. U’hat he owed to French and British methods of training, to loans of French artillery and other equipment, and to the supplying of his deficiencies In aviation, he seta forth with an honest soldier’s frankness and gratitude. But what would it all have availed if Pershing had not dispayed a genius for organization and an unfailing skill in selecting his lieutenants?

place obscurities know just what the American armies had to do, and how they did it, all through the exacting and critical campaign that ended with the forcing of the Argonne forest and the cutting of the enemy's main line of communications. “Nothing but surrender or an armistice could save his army from complete disaster,” says the American general. However brilliant and successful were the thrusts of Petain and Haig in tha center and north, the American army under Pershing contributed as much to the final victory. The supreme credit belongs, as of right, to Marshal Foch, whose minute and masterly strategy made triumph possible. INDIANAPOLIS SCHOOL NOTES

Shortridg#. In the class of typewriting a war work club has been organized and Milton Kurrock was chosen president. An exhibition of mats, trayx. necklace* and toys Is in Room 70. These articles were made in the claasee of Mias Roda Sellick. The sale of Christmaa Echo#* has been completed and John Eyrnm, who has had charge of the subscriptions, has announced that 2,000 subscription* were turned in. More than 200 pound" °f nut shells and fruit pits have been collected at Sbartridge. Hiss Adelaide Smith, who was in charge of the campaign. announced that the leading session room was Room 17, captained by Klehlahiro Takaku. Miss Ruth Allerdlce has announced that there will be a picture contest epen to all botany students. The pictures are to be of various types of freak shrubbery and also of beautiful and well arranged gardens. Each contestant Is permitted to turn In three photographs. The second meeting of the class of WIT-was held yesterday afternoon in the auditorium of the school. Elixabeth Fisher was elected vice-president, defeating Josephine Brown. Mildred Seibert. Dorothy Weiss. Lola Noble send Margaret Lee Brown The new officers of the class of 19 formally took their positions. Each made a speech of ac«rtanc*. It was decided that the senior prom would be held about February 1 It was also decided that th# senior play. Which is usually givso to June, will this year be gi v «n the middle ef M*T. Arsenal Technical School* The school orchestra will hold Ita first rehearsal Wednesday. A meeting ef all histera teeehers was held at the close of school. Monday, in

Room 49-

Roll call was extended fifteen minutes Monday for the purpose of filling out program cards. H H Anderson, former mathematic# and civics teacher and track coach, ia with the »th division, which is believed to be in

Germany.

The officers ef the Girls* Glee Club are: President. Her tha Sehotters; vice-president. Bemad in g Towle*; secretary - treasurer. MSyme dark. The club will meet on Mooday and Thursday of each week until the work is thoroughly erganlzed. Later a tceeuag frill be held eolp

CONNERSWILLE—The Connersvllle chapter of the Red Cross has re-elected Its former officers—Thomas C. Bryson, president; J. H. Fearis, secretary, and L A. Frasee. treasurer. A membership campaign will begin next Sunday. COLL'MBUS—A petition has been filed in the circuit court by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Talley for the adoption of Harley Earl Evans, age twentv-one. The young man haa been in the Talley home sines he was. eight months old. In the petition it is set out that the whereabouts of the young man’s father Is unknown, and that his mother Is married again and living in another state. MUNCIE—The effect of the world war on religious movements and the attitude of the returning soldiers toward churches, church work and religious institutions and practices were discussed Tuesday by speakers before the Sunday school training Conference of the Muncie rtietrict. North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference. The meeting began Monday afternoon and ended Tuesday night RUSHVTLLE—Fred Clevenger, Jr., age nineteen, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in connection with robbery at the E. E. Folk hardware store last Thursday night, when arraigned before Judge Sparks in circuit court Monday afternoon. Sentence was withheld pending developments in the case which may implicate Guy Newman and Delbert Newman, who are held in Jail as suspsets in the case. CRAWFORD8VILLE—Samuel Shaver a farmer, living east of Crawfordsvtlle, has been re-elected president of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society for the coming year. Other officers elected ar«:W- ‘ Breaks, vice-president; Ward McCksllstid. secretary, and L. W. Walter Breaks treasurer. John B. Line is named general superintendent: Thomas W. Rice, chief marshal David W. Willis, superintendent of floral hall, and Robert McClamroch. superintendent

of halls.

FRANKFORT—Representatives from the ten counties of the presbytery of Cra wf ®' d *‘

ville met here Momltv with

ter W. Wharton, of CrewfonftvfUs. modsr ator, presiding. Address^, by the Rev^ B. W. Tyler. Logansport; the Rev. 8. W. Wler. D. D.. of Wooster. O,. u' ^e of Delphi, were made du £ n * ‘ h *f£*£i a y „ mallon of the Rev. D. W. Barclay a* jSSTof th? Geetingsvllle church was accepted. No arrangements were made for fill

ing the vacancy.

DECATUR—Walter Rnop, age nineteen, and Forest Davis, age twenty, of near Bobo, and Theodore Bent*, age nineteen, are under arrest here, charged with the robbery of th© Mver-Datley clothing store a week ago Saturday night. Roop and Davis who are said to have confessed, were bound over to tba circuit court, under $1,000 bond. They said Bentz stood guard while they robbed the store Bentz will receive a hearing. The goods, valued at |!»0, were found hidden about the Roop and Davis homes. RENSSELAER-Bert Uewellen. superintendent of schools at DeMotta, Jasper county. was found guilty Saturday by S. C Irwin, a Justice of th# peace, of ametult and battery en Orvel Russell, age fourteen, one of his pupils, and fined $1 and costs, the full amount being $60.79. The complaint was filed by James Russell, fsther of the boy. Uewellen, according to the evidence, repeatedly beat the boy in the face with his fist when th© later, it is said, used profane language after a ecuffie with other boy# on the school ground. The trouble took place November M The case haa been appealed to th© otieult court. C, M. Sands, deputy prosecutor, was assisted by attorney Abraham Halleek. Llewellen was represented by attorney Moses

Leopold.

SHELBTVTLLK—Zenor Vernon, a youth living near here, was filed $10© and costa and sentenced to serve 1M days at the state farm In police court her# after he had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of petit larceny. Vernon was charged with entererating between the two points were without and taking $17.80 from the cash register.... Communication on the telegraph and telephone lines of the Big Four railroad, between Hhelbyville and Greensburg. was out for several hours early Monday. Trains opeating between the two points wenr without orders after they left Greensburg and Shelbyvtlle. Apart of Joy riders ran an automobile against an electric light pole, breaking it off and allowing the live electric wires to fall against the telegraph and telephone

wires, burning them out.

HUNTINGTON—John Bckert. a farmer, living ecuthwest of this city, is suffering from a severe injury to his left leg ae a result of being caught between a tractor he was backing and a part of a building. The muscles on the back of his leg were cut to the bone. Eckert was rushed to a hospital, and surgeons say they believe the injury can he healed without leaving him a cripple..-.Totals

of figures of Christmas savings announced by banks and trust companies of the city show that the increase over last year is IlS.IWO

The total amount is $67,000. This ts regarded as exceptional, in view of the four Liberty loan campaigns -and the sale of War Savings stamps. ...The board of trustees of the Huntington county hospital failed to let a contract for a nurses home at a meeting Monday. because all of the seven bids offered were more than the appropriation. The

board haa an appropriation of *18.000. and the bids for the general contract ranged from $22,000 to $28,000. The facts will be told at a special meeting of the county council Thursday. ALEX A NURIA—Mrs J. H. O. Bryant had a narrow escape from death when she attempted to accelerate a fire In a kitchen stove with gasoline instead of kerosene A terrtfte exploelon was the result. Her clothes caught fire and the room was filled with emoae Mrs. O'Bryant extinguished the fire without much damage. TERRE HAUTE—C. J. Waits, superintendent of schools, plans to reopen the city schools following the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The schools have bean closed since October *, when the state Influenza closing ban became effective. School probably will continue far into the spring and summer to make up for lost time FT WAYNB-Beeause of th© falling off in the number of cases handled by the attorney for the poor of Allen county since the state went "dry.” th© salary of that official has been reduced from $70 to $S0 a month—The Rotary Club has announced it# Intention ot supporting any plan which may be decided on aa a permanent memorial for the Allen county men and women who have given their lives in the great war. A committee hss been appointed to co-operate with such other committees aa may he named to bring to completion a ^ fitting memorial. BRAZIL-—The city of Brasil has ffisd a petition with the Indiana public service commission asking that the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company be compelled to reduce Its present rate# 26 per cant, to the level of rates which the company is said to charge for current to Terre Haute. ..., Lawrence Akre, age eighteen, son of Mr. and Mrs Edward Akre. northeast pf Brasil, stood for two and ene-half hours Baturday afternoon with his left arm in a corn shredder while farmers gnd machinists from Brazil and Carbon dismantled the shredder, using acetylene gas to melt through some of the steel. Akre'a arm was caught when he tried to $ull out some corn husks that clogged the machine. The boy was rushed to a Terre Haute hospital, and doctors hope to save the badly mangled arm. ANDERSON-The Miller Dry Goods Company. of Anderson, managed by Kallman Miller, reoently of Louisville, Ky.. has made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of its creditors, and the Anderson Trust Company has been named as trustee. The liabilities approximate $20,000. The assets consist of merchandise and an automobile.... David O. Tipton, a grocer, of Anderson, was arrested Monday night on a charge of reckless driving. He ran down Mr. and Mrs. Simon Ronshsim, at a street crossing, and, according to the police, failed to assist In removing Mrs. Ronshelm from the street after «h© had been dragged twenty feet. Mm. Ronshelm’e skull was fractured and she suffered internal injuries. Her recovery I© doubtful. Mr. Ronshetm was bruised. The police say that Tipton was returning from Union City. O., and that he gave a fictitious name.

To Carry War Into Germany

WASHINGTON, December W.-More than half a million high capacity demolition bombs with which to carry the war into Germany, had been ordered for the air service before last June 30, and 1.028 had been delivered according to the first annual report of the bureau of aircraft production, made public here. Th© report, signed by Acting Director Potter, contained no recommendations. Actual orders for fighting aircraft placed in the United States up to June 30 totaled 12.500 and deliveries totaled 529 De Haviland and 24 Bristols, ail-day bombers. In addition, 600 Handley-Pag© and 1,090 Caproni night bombers were on order and 13.009 Se-5 pursuit monoplanes. The De Haviland orders totaled 8,000 and the Bristol contracts 2,000. Engine orders for servic# planes totaled $0,600 and deliveries, 2,882. More than 160.00$ machine gun# of various types also had been contracted for and 40,060 had been delivered. The enormous size of the air program is further shown in th* sprue* and fir shipments, a total of 65,600,000 feet -ot spruce and ^,000,000 of fir having been delivered for airplane construction during the period from May 24, 1817, to June 36. 1918, which the report covers. Director Potter shows that available appropriations for the air service for that period totaled $682,646,667, of which actual cash expenditures of $208,410 00ft had been made on material and $164, 898,494 on building and flying fields.

TRIBUTE TO MRS. STRAUSS The December number of the Ladle#’ Home Journal carries with the article on “The Ideas of a Plain Country Woman” a story of the author of these articles, which have been a recognized feature of the magazine for thirteen years, but whose identity has remained unknown. The editor of th© Journal reveals the fact that these articles wer© written by Mrs. Juliet V. Straus*, who died last May. His tribute to Mrs. Strauss continues: “It is hard to write the words—with this articl# the contributions of the Country Contributor cease. Their author passed away last May, hut her foresight in case of incapacity has made it possible, from the manuscripts by her to hand, for the Ladles' Home Journal to continue her contribution#^ until now. Our reader# will miss her as will we. They will miss her as a wise counselor, a kindly philosopher; we who know her will miss her not only as such but as a woman and friend. It may b* truthfully said of her work that its influence was unusually wide. Few writer# in this magazine hav# ever come so close to our readers as did the Country Contributor during her more than thirteen years of assoctotkm with it 8h© was unique in her gift of expression. Her place can not be filled, and this magazine will not attempt to fill it. "She lived amid the most simple surroundings, md »b* kept her life as simple and sweet as were her writings. She was intensely a home woman and her dominating passion was tb* glorification of the simplest home task. It is this message that she preached so consistently and so effectively to her writings, and the good that she did can not be estimated in words. "We part with her with a regret aa deop aa It to stnear*. But we are grateful that for so many years it was our privilege to give her helpful message# to so large a public.”

Synthetlc milk is being produced from peanuts by European chemists. Only otto-third of the world's population uses broad as a dally food. A mixture of two or more honeys always is darker than any of the original ones. A turtle weighing 800 pounds was taken to the fish nets at Point Judith. R. I.. recently. Russia ia estimated to have more than 4.006.000 acres of land which would produce cotton if irrigated. A Parts dentist has developed a method for bleaching and sterUsto* teeth with ultraviolet rays. X-ray apparatus has boon invented for killing th* tiny parasites that oat small holes in leaf tobacco. London hairdressers say there has been a great increase In gray-hatred young women, duo to the war. The frnowy top of Mt. Everest to India Is plainly visible to the unaided ey* from points 107 miles distant. r Thirty years ago the telephone list of New York city was printed on a small card and numbered 362 subscribers. For the protection of vehicles which strike signs placed in roadways, a now York majj. has invented a resilient post for the latter. Michael Cummings, who died reebntiy in Jackson, Mich., at the age of 166, never married, never used tobacco or liquor in any form. John Rum* has escorted 60.000 persona over the houses of parliament in London. This has entailed his delivering lecture# four hours a day. A. Rotherham (England] postman haa walked IBS.ooo miles during his fortyfive years of service, and recently celebrated hla golden wedding. A Wlnlock (Ore.) minister, prevented from preaching by the Influenza, had his Sunday sermon printed and mailed copies to the members of his flock. A statistician says that only three men out of every 160 leave at death $10.000 or mors; seventeen leave estatees of from 12.0)0 to $10,000; eighty leave no assets. Nemesis was a goddess of justice and retribution. In Greek mythology Nemesis was a goddess personifying allotment, of th# divine distribution to evsry man of the precis* share of fortune, good and bad. With the harvesting of a larger than usual potato crop in Denmark, the alcohol manufacturers are obtaining permission to r©*umo business on a somewhat larger oral©, and expect to mak© 800.000 gallons, compared with 600.000 last year. William Townsend, of Sanford, Me., seventy years old, says he can *kin a muskrat in forty seconds: and has skinned eight foxes in forty minutes. One night, h« says, he caught twenty muskrats, for which he was paid 11.10 each. The docks at Bristol ar* owned by the dty and administered by a committee appointed by the city council. They can accommodate the Isrgest steamers and are well equipped, being provided with storage and warehouses of all kinds. The fulmar, a sea bird common xm the island of St. Gllda. is so oily that when the natives kill on# they simply pass a wick through his body and use It as a lamp. In St. Hilda It to legal to kill the fulmars only during on* week In th# year, but during that week from 18,000 to 20,000 bird! are destroyed. Ireland grow# more food for Great Britain than for home consumption, even proportionately to the population, and is an essential base for th* British food supply. Although having only 10 per cent of the population, 40 per cent, of the cattl* and Cft uer cent, of the pig# of the United Kingdom are produced h*re. The production of manlla hemp In the Philippine Islands made substantial progress during th* fiscal year ending June $0,-1818, according to statistics rr.m~ piled by the bureau of insular affair# of the war department. The quantity was nearly 12 per cent, greater than in the preceding fiscal year and was the largest since 1911. The son of a French banker in Petrograd, allowed by the Botohevikt to take only 1,000 francs with him back to Francs, collected as many rare stamps as he could in a few days by exchanging his valuables and left Russia with 1.000 francs In money and a stamp album that h* has since sold to Part# for 80,000 franca ($16,006). A Washington man proposes that as the United States was In the war S84 days, a Liberty monument to th* members of our h*ro*s be erected gt th* capital, one foot In bight for each day, making It 584 fest high, with the names of all who gav* their lives engraved on brons* tablets, to be placed In the Interior of the monument Norwegian agriculture has undergone quit* a change during the war. Largo areas of new land have been tilled with a view of giving the country as much grain as possible. Thus Norway, which formerly waa obliged to Iqiport large quantities of foodstuffs. In the Juture will be able to taka a more Independent position with regard to theee Imports.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

S. R. B.-**rh# 169th infantry ts in the *0th

division.

E. M Reeker—The 1*4 division was at L* Mans at last accounts. S. H. M,—Address a letter to th© oommondlng officer. 11- Hancock. Go. - , J. B. Duckworth—The embarkation of the t&tb division has not been announced. A Reader, New Roao-Annual fees, Wabash. $80; Yaio. $126 to »1*9; Harvard, $200 F. D.—Writ* to Major-General Peter C Harris, adjutant-general, U. 8. A-, Wash but-

ton. D. C.

Esther. Urban, Ruth—Our class would like to know whether Napoleon was the greatest

general.-Opinions differ.

Dally Reader. Bedford—The MMh ammunition train Is in the 90th division. See an-

swer to Various Inquirers

H B —My parents cams from Germany ant ars unnaturalized. I was born In the United States. Am I on American cltlsen?—Yas Various Inquirers—W# ars unable to locate the 28th engineers, 76th artillery, 60th coast artillery, 64th Infantry, 2Wt engineers. 26tit infantry. U*th engineers. * . E. O. H.—Use answer to your former question printed Friday, November 28. Such toforraatUyi will be found In the books ob-

tainable at the puMio library.

Mrs. R. E. C.—The Uth infantry is In the 1st division. The transfer or reassignment of army units depends on the plans of com-

mandore and oan not be forecast.

A Reader, Glty-The mth engineer# regiment ts in the 16th division. (X) Books en Fletehrrism may be obtained at the city library. Consult the reference deck. ^ f B Freeman—The *08th ammunition train Is In the 8$d division. The Cth infantry to in tho 4th division, which la pari of the Id

army that ts marehing into Germany.

J. Waits©—Who par# the PreWdenfs ex-

Europe?—It has not been anKe special appropriation was (» Will Germany have a ptoe* *6 tha

tsMet—Tasti

pen see to