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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATUBDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919.

URGED BY HOOSIER STATE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION NA A HAPPY CROSSING PLACE FOR AMERICAN MOTORISTS

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National Road, Begun Back in the Days of President Jefferson, Crosses Indiana From East to West, Running From Maryland to Missouri—The Dixie Highway, Only a Few Years Old, Is Being Worked on From Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to Miami, Fla.—The Lincoln Highway, Crossing Northern Indiana, Now in Bad Shape Because of Heavy Traffic—Other Roads in the State, Important in Locatidn, Must Be Made Travelable, the Association Insists — Maryland Trying a New Plan for Widening Roads.

A.K.-BEARDSLY, ELKHART

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SYSTEM OT IMPROVED) HIGHWAYS RECOMMENDED BY THE HOOSIER* STATE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

Terr* Haute. One of Indiana’* greatest problems has been to keep thl* thoroughfare in travelable shape. The use of the highway by heavy truck* makes it hard and costly to keep in repair. During the war thousands of automobile trucks belonging to the motor transport corps crossed Indiana by way of the National road and they contributed greatly to Its present bad condition. Were the National road in the 4 improved state in which it should be, no doubt all motorists running east or weet would make it their avenue of travel.

Dixie Highway.

The Dixie highway, which runs from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to Miami, Fla.. crosses the National rqad at Washington and Meridian streets. This long trail, much of which is now in good travelable shape, was projected in 1914 by Carl G. Fisher and a number of other men. The great problem seemed to be to get across the mountains of Tennessee, but that feat has been accomplished and the completed road soon will be in operation. The *tate of Michigan has appropriated 980.000,000 for good road* and the Michigan end of th* Dixie highway will be entirely paved within a few years. In Illinois the #ntire length of the Dixie highway is being paved. Kentucky is operating under a 20-cent tax law for roads and two sections of the Dixie highway are being resurfaced with hard material. Tennessee will complete the eastern division of the Dixie highway before winter and, in all probability, the western division by the same time. Georgia has voted 917,000,000 to the road and Florida ha* matched federal aid with a fund that will give that state a paved highway over practically its entire length. All of which prove* that if Indiana is to be a living link in the great north-and-south road it has much work to do. Lincoln Highway. x The Lincoln highway, which cross** the northern end of the state, .has, at many points, been seriously damaged by the army motor trucks and commercial trucks. Heavy passenger traffic also has contributed to the damage and Indiana will have to make this famous transcontinental road good within

Hoosler territory.

The Hoosler State Automobile Association is greatly 4nterested in an experiment now being tried in Maryland, that of building width extensions to narrow highways by bordering them

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gratify every in the last legislature of a law forbid- to direct the motorist in his detour, Journeys beyond ding the use of danger signals for ad- quite frequently it is about as full of now the roads vertising purposes. For instance, a information as a cantaloupe Is of fried

the drivers of automobiles all use some ton and Meridian street. Indianapolis, is row for safety. Indiana, in many cases,

iy: be adopted in order that the road ty- kind of lens or device that will diffuse the crossing of national trails to all the has done the same th'ng. Maryland is After Truck Road Hog. rant, with his bright lights, can not go or deflect the rays of the front head- cardinal points. There the famous old trying the widening idea >nd is proving

—... - „ , _ _ , The association Is going after the joyfully blinding every other motorist light artd not depend upon any device National road crosses the newer Dixie a success. Another Instance of ecobut poorly garage owner in Martinsville used the sausage. It was this condition that truck road hog, too. Complaints have in Indiana. As A. G. Batchelder, execu- controlled by the operator, such as highway. A pole in front of the Mer- nomical road building is being tried in familiar crossarms used at railroad moved the Randolph County Motor Club come to the association from all parts tive officer of the American Automobile turning on a dim light This would chants Heat and Light Company's build- Maryland and Other eastern states. The advertising mediums and to design a detour sign that would show of Indiana to the effect that heavily Association, said: mean that in the majority of instances, ing looks like a totem pole because of scheme is to build the center, or heav-

the motorist the way. The sign ti so loaded trucks, which constantly are in- “It is difficult to give the driver of an plain glass headlights would not be the numerous highway markings on it.

several familiar crowarms used at

important crossings as

marked, placed them along the roads of Morgan

to see that county. The result was that motorists neatly designed that the Hoosler State creasing in number, persist in refusing automobile sufficient light to see by and used. Some tilting reflected devices are adequately were constantly being brought to a halt, Automobile Association is planning to to permit passenger cars to pass them then chloroform it down enough so as also considered good, in all th# locall- thinking they were approaching a dan- adopt it for general distribution to coun- from the rear. This Is in direct viola- not to blind the driver of a passing aucommlsslon- geroua railroad crossing. Naturally ty commissioners throughout the state, tion of the road law and unless the tomoblie.” The state law says that the . Chisf Ambition. will co- they soon began to think that the real The association would provide the signs truckmen change their attitude toward front light must be sufficiently strong The Hoosier State Automobile Assodone. The danger sign* merely were advertlflng and expect the county commissioners to the passenger cars the association will for the driver to discern clearly any elation has as its chief ambition the proat signposts and reports of narrow escapes see that they were properly placed. take steps to proceed against the offen- approaching vehicle or other substantial motion of good roads that will make the City and at actual raUroad crossings came to the Another project that is being put for- ders. object at a distance of 150 feet ahead, name of Indiana reflect happiness in the at about two- attention of M. E. Noblet, the secretary- ward by the association, and which Automobile headlights constitute an- On the other hand, the law says that heart of every motor visitor to the state.

ily traveled part of the road, with the

The National road was authorized by best of material and use a cheaper act of the congress and approved by grade at the edges. The edges get so President Jefferson, March 26, 1K06. Its little use under normal conditions that first unit was to run from a hoint on it is regarded a great stroke of economy the Potomac river, near Cumberland, to use the cheaper grades of material Md., to Steubenville, O., and later the as border for highways. The Indiana continuance was authorized to <he association Is now getting all available Mississippi river at St. Louis. It enter# information regprding this new move la Indiana near Richmond and, passing highway construction. It is probable

by commercial manager of the Hoosier State Auomo- would be greatly appreciated by motor- other problem that confronts the or-, some lens or device must be used that The fact that Indiana is the center of through, Indianapolis enters Illinois that phases of It will-be shown at th# to a bile Association. This led to the abate- ists, is that of painting white all ganization. Thla is indeed a difficult will prevent blinding the driver of an population of the United States natur- at a point a short distance west of forthcoming road show at the state fair.

:d BIG SHOW

>THERS AND BARA BAILEY CIRCUS COMING.

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————— PARADE TO BE SEEN 1 the circus! will not begin to arrive and not exhibit to the sensitive ear boy the tojting of the the trumpeting of the elealready detected in the disaggregation which the preparing to greet is and Barnum & #, coming here it concludes a nine afternoon. to the small boy will '• “-ssrasss lh M ^ .* WCC * , » to Ameriare of the will open afterwill last is as ** Its p. m. and 8

Jersey, then to Washington, and back along Washington. Many Animal Performers. The trained animal numbers embrace the “quarter of a million pound” elephant act; five troupes of performing seals; ten statue acts; Fallen s bears, and entire companies of educated horses and ponies. Pensions for Indianians. [Special to Tho Indianapolis News] WASHINGTON, August 1*.—Pensions of 135 a month have been granted to the following Indianians: Margaret A. Contrl, Newport; Elisa Stackhouse, Etna Green; Mary E. Baugh, Indianapolis; Zena Wendleman, Milan; Mary Ellen Seymour, South Whitley; Mary E. McElroy, Reeisville; Euphemla Clyon, Delphi; Enola L. Gardner, Bedford; Maria E. Dutton, Middletown; Elvira Gray and Cynthia J. Deeter, Terre Haute; Mary M. Carter, Twelve Mile; Sarah E. Tinder, Cortland; Mary C. Parks, Deputy; Emma E. Townsend. Peru; Davelta Taylor, Albion; Louisa Powell, Mt. Vernon; Otella Humbert, Ft, Wayne; Elisabeth M. Hamilton. Bloomfield; Eliza Eberts, Jeffersonville; Susan E. Carr, Clinton; Francis E. Carney, Evansville; Mary A. Rumpf. Marion; George A. Burroughes, Vevay; Louise Blub la um, Vincennes; Mary L. Hubbard. Carthage; Eliza M. Irwin. Frankfort; Dorcas Ridlen. Ladoga. Pensions of 912 a month have been granted the following: Carrie Edgar. Ft. Wayne; Margaret C. McGeth Indiminors minor OI narry aa. rveuu. xuatanapoua, Bessie B. Mooney, Ft. Wayne; minor of Charles R. Mills, Hartford City. A pension of 930 a month has been granted David A. Blake, Gary. Patents for Indiana Inventors. [Sped#] to The Indianapolis News] WASHINGTON. August 1«—Patents have* been granted to the following Indianians: Frederick C. Barton, Ft. Wayne, assignor to General Electric Companv, temperature compensator for electrical control devices; Walter C. Elv. Terre Haute fuel feeder and spreader for (uniaces: Chester I. Hall, " "••.••np. '••if! ’->or to General Electric Company, charging system for storage iiayes, Kien41 witch stand; William B. Herbst, * us. screen for inclosing autobodles; William N. Hettinger, wire cable; John Schies. Anfeed ing and dellver1 N. Smith, Evans1; Edward F. Steele. :ar and cigarette holder r; Louis C. Vanderlip, conveyor hopper; srre Haute, apparatus.

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

F I WERE a literary person instead of combination housekeeper. amateur gardener and “mother-at-large,” as one of my family expresses it, I’d have an “Author’s Foreword” precedthis story of Stephen Grant Just as these sketches were begun as a diary for all the folk who have lived In them, they have grown to be a record of these lives, as I have found them, piecemeal, in their letters—so they are only a sort of round-robin affair, foe. the purpose of “passing on” the news from overseas and from the boys who have returned. The Little Mother advises, smilingly, that I publish a series of “Letters to a Lonely Woman.” and I retort that a woman who receives letters is never lonely. Moreover, a book of that sort demands that the letters written shall be as interesting as those received, and mine would be foredoomed to failure on that score. “If you had the same luck that Betty Nelson had. Mother Machree, you might get,the basis for a real storytragedy at that!” she added with a smile. “Betty and Bobby Jackson wrote to one another all the time he was away at camp—very praiseworthy on Betty’s part, because he was so lonely and heartsick and a few other things like that And she used to bring her letters over and sit on father’s porch and read them to me, so she could have somebody to talk to and cry with over the pathos of them.” * I thought of ail the plucky, cheerful letters which had brought smiles along with the tears, from my big family, and I smiled at the make-believe tragedies of all the Bobby Jacksons, the big, spoiled youngsters who spent hours pouring out their troubles, and doubtless spent others in the guardhouse, because they ignored the stern realities of camp life and wrote letters when they were supposed to be doing something less, touching, but far more nec- * 1 “*Well,” continued the Little Mother,

“after a time Betty cried herself to sleep so many times over him that she really thought she was in love with him, and Bobby graciously permitted himself to be adored by her little romantic, seven-teen-year-old self. And then, for some inexplicable reason, she changed her mind overnight, and ceased writing to ’Bobby, dear.' Moreover, she returned his letters and asked for her own. She got them, all right, but she received the surprise of her life along with them— for Bobby, in his hour of tragedy, gathered up a half dozen or so letters which had come from other sympathetic maidens. And poor little Betty lived to learn that her soul-starved correspondent was just a greedy little boy who devoured the sympathy of ‘Adeline’ and ‘Mignon’ and ‘Forever Thine’—and stretched out his hands for the sweet morsel of her love as an extra tidbit in his feast.” • • • A letter from' Stephen and one from his mother comes in the same mail, both of them announcing that he has landed and will come back to “our” camp, within an indefinite period. Stephen asks that I send for hi# mother and Agnes tells me that she's going to accept the invitation given on the steps of the little house, as we clung to one another, after the final farewell to our boys. Not a word in either letter concerning the little butterfly girl who bears Stephen’s name, and 1 am glad of it— glad that mother and son may have a few precious hours alone with each other. • • • Days of tremulous happiness, when Agnes and I waited together for further word from her boy; mornings when we told one another over the breakfast table that surely a wire or a letter would reach us today; evenings when Agnes asked me, invariably, if I would be sure to hear the doorbell if it should happen to ring after I had gone to bed, and nights when we tossed a bit restlessly on our pillows and recounted little happy incidents of the days when Stephen and the Boy were only so high.

and comrades-in-arms in all the mimic warfare and adventure that seven-year-old boys can plan. And, then, when my hands were deep in the dough of yesterday’s baking, the phone bell rang and I called to Agnes: “If that’s Emma, tell her she can go to Mrs. Bell’s tomorrow if she wants to—I’ll not need her till Monday.” After a moment; “Yes, this is—Why— Stephen!” and I stood in the doorway, with doughy hands uplifted, and shamelessly listened. It wasn’t so* much what she said. She denies that her second remark was to the effect that we’d been having dreadfully hot weather, but that it was getting cooler—didn’t he think so? But it just did my heart good to see the years sliding off her shoulders as she sat there. And I reflected, ruefully, that our boys weren’t likely to realize the strain we’ve all been living under, when they saw their mothers aglow with the radiance that shone on her face, as she listened to the beloved voice. Isn’t it queer what love does to a woman, so far as actual beauty is concerned? Who was it who first said, “For passion maketh a woman to blossom like the rose”? More than likely some pagan writer who doesn’t belong among the book friends of a respectable old woman, but I’ve seen motherhood bring with it a beauty so radiant that my throat fairly ached, and I had the feeling that I had stood in a sanctuary, and gazed upon a divine presence. • • « Then minutes later, Agnes was wiping her eyes on my apron, and I was wringing my dough-bedecked fingers, so I could perform the same office for myself, and Agnes had two floury smudges across the back of her fresh gingham frock. “He’s coming, Mary Ellen!” she exclaimed. “He thinks he can get away this afternoon, for a few minutes. Blessings on that Captain Reed—I hope be gets to see his own folks soon!” “Captain John Reed?” I asked. “The one who had Company I when the boys were here last year?” “Yes—I’m sure it is the same one,”

she answered. “Stephen was transferred to his outfit early last fall. Did you know him? Stephen’s letters have been so full of him that I feel as if I’d known him for years.” I answered her question with another: “I wonder If you remember a little chap whose mother used to sew for Margaret, when Elsie and Doris were little tads? She always brought him along, and he’d steal away in a corner and bury his nose in a book, while our youngsters were playing ball or pirate chief in the next lot—remember him?” “Was that—is this,” she began, and I answered her unfinished question: *Tt was and it is that little pale-faced youngster who was so painfully good, is now a warrior bold, and the idol of a hundred youngsters like Stephen— boys who would have called him Mollie twenty years ago, if they .had been aware of his existence.” Agnes protested against that. "Why, Ellen,” she said, "you know that Robert and Stephen weren’t the sort of youngsters who teased girls and tormented dogs and cats and—” “And you know, too, that It was Just because dogs and cats can't protect themselves, and girls won’t do it, that they didn’t!” I retorted, “but a boy who fails to live up to all the ideals of boyhood is legitimate prey for the wit and warfare of any real boy.” “Why, Mary Ellen, I hope you didn’t raise Robert that way! I’m sure I always told Stephen that such things were unspeakably rude. It’s terrible to think that we mothers train our boys to be meek and gentle and forbearing, and then Fate picks them up and heaves them Into the cauldron of war! Actually I shudder to think of how the last year has upset all our ideals!” “Possibly it has been good for us to have some of our so-called ideals upset, Agnes. If we sift right down to facts, however, I think we’ll have to admit that our ideals are about the same. The solid bulwark of convention la Contlnutd on Page Seventeen

MINIMUM INCOME PLANNED

British Labor Party Leader Sponsors New Social Reform Scheme. LONDON, August 7 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).—The latest thing in the labor program of social reform is provision for a minimum income for every man, woman and child. Under the scheme, which is fathered by Arthur Henderson, secretary of the Labor party, and G. D. H. Cole, attached to the research department, 20 per cent, of all incomes would be nationalized at the source and paid in a pool which would be devoted solely to the provision of a permanent weekly income of $2.25 a week for everybody. In this way the sponsors of the plan say it is hoped not merely to free the country from the future payment of old age pensions, but of most, if not all, of th* national and private agencies for the distribution of relief. FUNERAL Of MRS. J. P, ESSEX Died in Cleveland When on Visit— Wae Accomplished Mueician. The funeral of Mrs. John P. Essex, 893 Fletcher avenue, who died at Cleveland Thursday morning, will be held Monday morning at Springfield, O., where the burial is to be. Mr. and Mrs. Essex and young son were visiting in Cleveland at the time of her death. She had been ill a year. Mrs. Essex was a member of Fletcher Place M. E. church. She was an accomplished musician and trained all her children in a thorough knowledge of music. Two of her daughters, Ruth and Louise, are in Chautauqua musical work In the west and have been called home. Her husband and three other children, Dorothy, Frances and John, survive. AIRPUME FALL KILLS TWO Army Lieutenant and Reporter Dead at Paducah, Ky. PADUCAH, Ky.. August 16.-Lleut James E. Stewart, of Park field, Memphis, and S. Reed Campbell, reporter. employed by the Commercial Appeal, were killed when the army airplane in which they were giving exhibition flights, fell near the Country Club, here, last night, at 7:30 o’clock. The pilot was attempting to make a third loop when he lost control of the machine. Both bodies were horribly battered.

FILES MON ASKING NEW lEEEPHONE RATES

EASTERN INDIANA COMPANY DESIRES CHANGE.

WISHES AUTHORITY TO ACT

The Eastern Indiana Telephone Company late Friday petitioned the public service commission for authority to put into effect a new schedule of rates to supplant federal established rates now in effect, and due to expire December L The petition asks that the sch-»dule be made effective at Winchester,* Lynn, Fountain City, Farmland, Red Key,' Fountain City, Farmland, Redkey, The proposed rates are: Business telephone, individual, 92.75; two-party, 82.25; residence telephone, individual, $2; two-party, 91.50; rural telephone, business. |2.?5; residence, 91.75. The Citizens Telephone Company, of Dunkirk, filed a petition to place in effect the following new rates: Busie. '

Both petitions are similar In form to

petitions presented earlier in the day by the Central Union Telephone Company for new rates in thirty-one In-

diana towns and cities.

Old Age ^Pension Bill. WASHINGTON, August 16.-Plans for old r ge pensions for persons more than sixty-five years old are proposed in a bill introduced by Senator McNary, Re* publican (Oregon), and referred to the pensions committee. Under Its provisions, persons with incomes of not more than 96 a week would receive a weekly pension of 94.

BRIEF WASHINGTON ITEMS

(Spectel to The IndUnapolis News] WASHINGTON. August 16.-Eldon L. Baringer has been appointed postmaster at Elkhart in the place of G» G. Tarman. resigned. The State Bank of Roanoke. Ind.. ha* been converted into th# Ftr*t National Bank of Roanoke. The capital stock will be 930,000. A Wnsmuth wiii be president and D, A. Wasmuth cashier.

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