Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1919 — Page 6

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tgrooaatlPti Ititibia of tha Ctorv^aa goyammaat Wa akalt all hop* tkat hm agy ba aparad tha taak of aattikl IfgiTnn to iWkta, but it bagtoA to took as Ckotwh soma on* would have to undactaki it Wktia wa or# under no #QgatiOB, to bMtow good govammant o« ti^a paopto; wa can not bo to their sv^arlngs iqdor tha ragima. What they, naai mora UMBi anytokig tin la food. Tat whan °Hmi Amifiaan itod Croas want into tha epuatnr to faad them, it waa axpallad ^ (^^frasaa. It would ha a pity to ha ±|p89aiifd to maka war on an afliictad ^paogto bacauoa of tha aina of thair govarhramit. -Ha womt sins batag agalnet tb* people whose welfare and totarasta la wppooad to aarva and promote. B«t It may prove that there la no other way whitoi they can ba amaneipatod. HotoOvar, the only lob now under way la toat of punltoitng tha bandita guilty of toe iataat outrage agatnat tha United

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FMAKCETS JfMrAJ:i? Ilia Froneti people ara facing tha future with stout courage, aad ara prooaading on tha theory that tha bast help is p. Tha reports from that counaoam to show that thap la a growling'of unity anumg tha paopto tha eonditioaa ara Just now botthaa they art to Sagland. Prance has one groat advantage — namely, tha torga nuisbar of land ownwra. With this agmy W hardworkiag. thrifty and con■prvattvW oltlaana. devoted to thair eoiB^r, Franca ought to ba able — wHh Odiatavar help from outaMa may ba naadad —to work out bw problama. But to Ito war lagtelation tha Preach govammant made wia aarlous ralataka. la was auggaatad at tha time, and aa nMinr of tha French people now rMaisa. to an addraaa dalivarad a fOw days ago by Andre Tnrdlau. high commlaaionar for rraaco-Amarlean war aflktoa, la

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BvtoT one must to juatloa pay ao*' onrdkqr to hia anaana Wlmn tha big o«MW shall pay, aa they do to Amartcm, to aad to par cant, than tka small onaa will pay mora willingly, and If tha t-ponay cemaa, tha rato will ba alinplUlad, nainialy. tha conaolldatioa of the floating debt, raatriotioa of paper to etroutatlon. f-app^a to our natloniU eradit aad tka hato which wa must racaiva froni tor-

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Franca toiled to conseiipt her wealth, and raliad lacgaly oa leans aad traaaury aotaa. Tha result of* thia failure to uaa the taxing power is, says Mr. Vaaicrilp to his book antttlad. "What Happanad to Suropa,’* "a gap so great between present taoome and the buOget ttiamaada that It would need a truly heme ibuumo mtotater who will prtqmaa ^ffa thx wdmtm that wtU eloae the gap^

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Fmaca has lisen from AtoktoAOto francs to totoMSMtii wtto aa the IM- ^MBS aotaa are Irredeeamble, |Mid gold baa disappeared from ehronla-

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ry/OT TSACBEM8 Argntwanf has been preemtad. tka* and again, that tha sOhetd tOMher kca aa tmdk aOSaet tman tk* Idaala of yototo hoys and gMa as tkalr parents have, ikatiatg certain neawth* ■< tk* year tka yeuag foto apmd aaveml kaors a day wadar tka eyaa of to* taaaiiem. Aa a ml* Ik^ obey th* toaekam batter tkas tkahr parent* aad have a Idgkar regard tor a tcaeker's bMiato ikaa they hava tor those axpreased Ay tkalr totkers and matkara. It fragoantty kpepana tkat in the dlarwaaton of any goaatioB. ralsad at aakaot, tba child wBl laslat tkat the uackar's views ootdd aot poaalbty ba wrong, legsardle** of wbat tothar or aMtkar mtokt say, and retfdiaaa, aJao. af to* tontSfarlty of totkar ar mother wttk tka rnmiact Cenaaqwawtly H is aS th* more naeesaary tkat fks tnarher Miall imva tka rl^t attltada toward publle guastlona. Tha taaebars near Unton wbo formad a wrtm aad aarvad notfe* an tka townahlp trasCaa that tk* eleaai shop prfaalpla wfil ba adhaced to, hav# MttJe thongirt, parhapa, of what fka sebool> ehadren wlU think of tkalr attitnda. j Tat they ate axamplaa tor tka toilirM j to toaow and thair ooadnet. to a. conMdorablo extant wlO Be tb* aondnet of | tko ehOdfen aa wtdL j Tka law.to Indiana spsdflaa what| guallfleatloBS taashore titan hav* sad| It flxa* oartaJn salary standarda. It says Bottalag whatavnr about whotbar or not a taachar shall btiong to any a«wt of an organixatloo. Whanevar the taacboni of gtookton townahip tall thair towaabip truataa that non* but a union teacbar may work to that township they have oat thamsalvaa above the law; they have vUdatad th* law to «drlt If not ectuaJIy. Tba townahip truato* Inalata that pa Will daai with th* toachera Individually, but that ha will deal with them according to law aad not according to tk* union rulaa. In tbi* decision b* will hav# tha aupport of tha atat* aducatkmaJ authorltia* and of all right thinking paopt*. It should ba easy enough to raetrato th# union teacher# from Intarfarmc# .with the public schools and to prevent them from flouting toe law openly and wilfully.

VPBOljDna THE BOARD Soma time ago th* atata board of tax eoffimlesionars refused tha petition of the achooi board at Columbus for authority to toeu# bonds for a new gymnasium. Apparently to* effort to convince th# board that such parraiaalon should ba given waa made through both ordinary and political channels. Tha Columbus school board baeam* th# first oorporation to tha atata to taka advantage of toe provision of the new tax law which permits an appeal from th* atata hoard. * ^ Acting under th# new law th# C#lumbua board aakad for a epacial aleotton at which th* volars of to* city would havo an opportunity to express thsmsalvss for or agatoat tha propoaad gymnasium. Tha election was held a short time ago. and th* gymnasium was voted down by a count of approximately flv* to one. A few more than 100 favored tlip bond^ issue, while over 100 voted against it. Thus In tha flrat appeal from tha decision of the state board of tax oommissioners the board waa unmistakably upheld. Fault has bean found with th* provision of the new tax law that gava the state board the right to say whether stiiool and civil corporations might spend money for certain Improvaments.* The argument waa ad van tod that what to* cities and tosma naadad waa more hmna rule instead of a greater cantraltsatlon of power in the hands of a state board. Those who oppmad auoh centralisation toUed to notito to* rhtot of aig>aal, which, after all. glvea tha people toe chance to decide for thamselvaa whether their own money la to ba expended for propoaad Improvemanta. On the face of the returns It seems that toe people merely decided this waa no time to build a new gymnasium for the schools and they voted accordingly. The state board had voiced th^ same opinion When It rafuaad to sanction thi bond iMue.

WAR AND PROHIBITION ‘ Over two years ago, whan it bacama evident that th* United States must taka an active part ia the world war. tha Camagia Sndowment for International Paato turned its attention to certain aoonomie studies that were not prada^y connected with peace. In fact, they had in tome raapaeto a distinct war function. One of them, for instance. Professor Thomas N. CSarvsr*# "Oovarnmant Control of toe Liquor Business to Qraat Britain and the United States," sras dtolgned to help the United States to lumdle toe liquor businsas as British axpertenca had shown that It must ba handled. Almost before Professor Carver had ooUatoad his material to England, however, toe United States devtoed a drastic solution of the wartime liquor problem. Neverthelesa. toe completed study to a distinct contribution to toe subject, aad interesting as a comment on American life and methods. From toe facts set forth in Professor Carver's paper. It 1* likely that historians of ths future will attribute prohibition , to toe United States to the principle that an army that has unrestricted access to atores of liquor can aot do its beat. Russia, aa the r^rt redtaa, found this out and prohibited the manufacture or sale of vodka, not only to toe army, but alao to the civil populatloa. While bew was Issued to toe Oemum army, the sale of brandy to Germans to uxdferm was strictly jwohlbited. France likewise placed wartime ban on the stoonger drink, aad Great Britain cut doem the beer and ale ration of ito soldiwrs aad retiricted toe etvU traffic. The object to every oaae was not only to promote sobriety as a ifiaana of Ineraaatog afficteacy. but also to rtiaase foodstuffs entering into toe manutocture of liquor aad aleohtile bewages for the mcMre important use of eustaining lift, aad alao to releaaa workers for the munitions todostrias. In the face of this example among aU belligerents, friends and enemies alike, toe American government's course eras laid out to advance. By tiiaoce. this course was Imposed upon toe population at the very momeut th# wave of national profaibitfbn sentiment was gath-

erfag ita ftOI vohnaa. Tba two poUetas were mwcaallr aagportlag. Bat sritoaat th* jutrtilbitlan campaign, vrartime reacrlctioBa af tha ligsor tralBc would probably kavo bam Jwat as affiaettve. Great Britain proved tMa by leatncttng tha aala of bavatagea with anty a very faaMa prehibttim amthpant to balpmtt. But ft ia IflEtiy tkat wttlKiut wartkne prektoftfam ni^iooal prehtoitioB would havo baan delayed la the Uhltad Bute* tor aumy yaam. WRkaot tiie war. tii^ tone would probtitiy kava beemtw a vital potiticnl factor wftkia a farw yaara. but la wtita oC ita progrcaa in tka atatoa. tta easy vietary on a nattanal acala wooid bavw baan la^probabla. Tka war at the awne thne added to toe •tock of prahibitioB argamants. It enablod tha raformera to reaaoa aad axplain tkat if a nation could do its bast in nrar only by demaadtog sobrietir. It tiMndd do tta beat la paac* tmder the aama -conCBtioca. This argument ap- | paalad stroi^r to many pmwona wbo wwra uaeoBvteced by bupaaslettad reettals of tka whole tiuneadbare protaibitom argamant. At any rmta. the United Statas baa been swept teto prohlMtlon with BUtii ease and certainty aa to aw^l tha ambftioBS of the' protaibitionists. They mow taJk of world proklMthm; they who onty a few years ago rejoload ovar tka wtontng af a county to a reawto state. Already tbeto 1* tntmlbittoo aantimaat to tiia mtitii Itias mtaglad with a fsaltog that tka Amerteaa prahlbttloBlats do not undarataad BritMk ooaffitkms and had batter stay out The inohltotiooiata win have t# work fast to taka full adraataga of the war axperkmca, hut they have learned the power of laaderahlp aad organlxation in thair American campaign.

*18 PCT. SAVING BY TERMINAL MARKET, COMMISSION ESTIMATES

The Chicago municipal market eommlstion. which reported to favor of the eatahHtitmaat of whoteaale terminal markets as an effective means of hreaktog the hold and gettfag rid of some of toe ntiddlmnen and reducing the cant of living, fomsd that toe avenge family of that <^ty spmt tor food to mi ti per cent, of its tnemne. Since tint time the cost of food has toersaaad probabty 1* or li per cent Incotnee have to many caaea Increaaed.

too. though not Hkely ta proportion to the advance in coti of food, ao it is 'j Prealdent'a urgent desire to have peace

probable that the average family now spends for food more than 41 per cent.

KESPIN0 STREETS BAD It to a singular sort of civic pride that toads Some members of tha city council to us* their tofiuence aad votm to keep toe city streets In their present condition of extreme dtorepair. Two memben of th* body this weak were able unaided to kill four measures for imprevemaata Mr. Pnka. th* president of the council, has voted against every street Improvement ordinanoe toat baa been presented. Counctlmen Csrneflx. Schmidt, Ktrach and Pettijohn hav* also mora or leas eonaitiently opposed tha program for gatttog the streets into decent condition. How their attitude can ba made to consist with tha civic M>irtt that men ataetad to municipal office ar* supposed to have, or even how it can be defended from the standpoint of pbliUcal expediency, it is not easy to understand. Street improvements coat money and there ara soma voters who dislike to spmid money for a^y public improvement. no matter how badly needed. These, aurely. are not to the majority. The stireets of the city are to very baA condition. Any citlsen with the faintest spark of civic pride does not wish them to continue in that condition. Already they have cost the public thousands of dollars by the dlfflciiltiea they impose on traffic, and this burdm ia not. borne alone by automobile owner*, but by all who make us* of delivery vehicles, praotltaUly every family. Eventually, the streets will have to be put into good condition. Neglect carried over a period of years has now enormously Increased the blU to be paid. Further neglect will'^add still mora to toe cost of toe improvements that Anally will have to be made. The councilmen who are opposing the present re.* pair program are going to cost taxpayers a large sum of money and they are giving the city adverttalng of a aort It would be better off without. In Addition, they are helping to aggravate the ineonventances of vehicular traffic and adding* to thr groceryman’a and other dealers' cost of doing business, which cost ia |>aid by the consumer. These are mk desirable ends, particularly at this time, even for poUUca^playing councilnton.

It the board of public safety Includes among the slow-moving commercial vehicles that are to keep close to the jurb the light automobiles that deliver groceries and such things In residence districts^ the people who live in such districts would like to know where It gets that "slow moving" stuff. If there to anything in the streets faster, noisier or more recklessly driven than some of these delivery automobiles it has been overlooked, and it to not a thing that could be easily overlooked, either.

The department of labor again announce* that the cost of living has Increased 80 per cent, since 1914. Well, think what would have happened if everybody had known that to 1914 imd worried all this time about it!

In referring to the league of nations without Article H) as “hardly more than an influential debating society” it is possible that President Wilson’s mind was not wholly free from thoughts of certain well-known tendencies of the senate. , Former Emperor William having bought a farm to Holland there ought to be a few vacant palaces in Germany where American food profiteers can find refuge to congenial surroundinga Nebraska voters are to have an opportunity to vote on th* prohibition amendment, but no one ever heard of the “wets" winning a “dry" prohibition election contest. * •

The British seem to be having their own way in demonstrating to the Bolshevlkl that to planning a naval battle a little Intelligence is not a bad thing to have around.

The frurmer down near Vincennes who found a 1900 pearl probably figures that he can take the rest of the week off without declaring a strike.

In spite of the high cost of living. Indianapolis turned out a record circus crowd, but tomi of course the governaaeot needs the amusenoent tax.

However. It to hardly likely toat the tto cavalry will stop short and demand a S9 per cent, increase in pay aad a third Interest to th* country.

It begins to look as if the motorist stiio hasn't time to learn the new traffic regulationa wlU have to take on a pilot when he approaches the business district. Every individual entitled to strike ouitof to havo don* so by January 1, and then maybe we can settle down to mudoess. _________ Nor waa the White Houm conference nearly so animated aa some of the similar discussions on the back platform of a strest car. •

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The Chicago commtosioB estimated that whtiesale terminal markets operated <Mi the plan of tboae ttiat hav* proved succeasfui fa Europe would Mve n per Mat. of th* cost of food. Thto savtog would be atoieved chiefly through cutting ast some of the middlemen's predits and lowering the margin betwe«i prices received by producers and those paid by consumera It to potntad out that society would also benefit by the rtiease of middlemen from largely unswodoctiva employment and by making them producers. Under toe prevaJlins sytiem of distribution, which was condemned by the Chicago commission aa “moribund." there are toe many agencies tiiking profit akmg the way between producer and consumer. Exra A. TuttJ*. a member of to* New York food investigation commission in 1912, saM of the present system of distribution: "Th* stuff is often carted from th" terminals to toe various places of th* commistion men and toe receivers. Then It is sofil to wholesalers, speculators and jobbers and to carted to their ren>ectlve places. There It is often sold to other Jobbers sitd speculators and storage men and is again carted. It may then b* sold to the retailer an 1 again carted, aad then it is finally rold to the c<HiBumer and deHvered." The Chleago commtosion traced th* price* of nine table necessities for one week of February, ifll, and found that between the producer and th* eoBsomar there wma a margin of tifi per cent, of which railroad transpertation represented only 1 per cent. Of course, a part of this large margin W9M legitimate. Some of tl» necessities had gone through manufacturing proeesaes as wen as through toe haadq of overnumeroua middlemen. Tlmough whtriasal* terminal markets it to proposed to get rid of antiquated distribution maehtoery. It to th* opinion §t those who have studied the question that tbM* would still ba a proper function for retailers . Their number might be fewer, and it to conceded that there would be fewer commkMoa merchants. The retaMer would buy his supplies largely at toe wholesale terminal market, and even if such a wholesale market did not handle the larger part of the business, it is agreed that it would exert a corriwUv* Influence over the entire business by forcing other wholesalers to adopt more economic methods to the advantage of toe consumer.

Th« PrraicNint’s StatemBnt

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The President's statement to th* senate committee on foreign affairs. H seems to the Tribune, adds nothing to the argument already presented on behalf of adoption without reaervatlon, and in no degree weakens the argument <m behalf of reservationa W# are hakrtUy In accord with th#

HALF A STRAW BETTER THAN NONE SERVED TEACHER’S PURPOSE. TOO

The extreme limit of conservation was reached last winter by OUm Schellschmidt. principal of Washington school No. K, when to the interest of economy for the recess luncheons she had the

Divorces in America

[Scribner’s Haguiae] The consciousness of the courts which sees in the ref\»al of the church to countenance divorce except for a single cause. If any, only a losing battle that grows more hopeless every year, is not on the other hand, blind to a tendency among the people of the United States, to substitute incompatibility for graver grounds and thus to make to* dissolution of marriage hinge on caprice instead of some tangible grtevsnek. The latest report of the national census bureau once more discloses not only an increaso In the ratio of divorce to marriage. but In the radio of divorce to growth of population—112 divorces to every 100,000 people in 1919. as against eighty-four In 1906, and seventy-three in 1900. There were 112,036 divorces granted in the country in 1916, concerning 101,702 of which there are exact statistics: of these. ^,990. more than a third, were for desertion, with cruelty second, the two combined accounting for nearly twothirds («,1 per ceht.) of all the divored* granted In that year, adultery figuring far behind, and drunkenness lagging in the rear. While these causes Viraaerve the same order a* to the two previous ceniuses of twenty year* apart, and are deceptive *0 fkr as they may sometimes conceal the real reason for separation, they serve notice on their face that one or the other spouse had wearied of tha association—a decision, the social morality of which rests on the Individual conscience. Once more, too, it appears that the proportion of divorces granted to th* wife-in comparison with the husband has not stood still, the 66.6 per cent, deterrotoed by the twenty-year investigation from 1887 to 1906 having risen to 68.9 per cent, of the whole. While a p^Ion of this discrepancy between the sexes 1* explicable on the ground that the wife has a legal cause for divorce more frequently than th# husband, and that certain grievances such as failure to support and cruelty are more peculiar to the wife, the assumption that married life in this country continues to be purer than elsewhere In the world must face the dual knowledge that more people rontlnue to obtain divorces in the United State* than ever before and that a large number of the applicants are women.

children drink their milk through straws that were cut in half. This bit of economy is cited in a report submitted to E. U. Graff, superintendent of rohools, by Mr*. E. Jordan, 5721 Oak avenue, on the work of those Interested liwt winter in providing recess luncheons of milk for the pupils in eighteen schooto Although much of th* milk was given by milk companies and a charge was made to some pupils, yet th^ was a de^flclt. Th# principal of School 66 had the pupils who could af- * half-pint of milk and bring their own bread or crackers. Further to reduce the expense she had the straws cut in half. Mr*. Jordan wa* chairman of the amemney committee of the Federation of Parent-Teacher Association*, under whose auspices an average of 1,800 recess lunches of milk were served in eighteen schools between February 9 and June 10. Mrs. Jordan submits a detailed report showing the coat of tha luncheons and to what extant they proved beneficial to undernourished and backward children. The report is to be given careful attention by Mr. Graff to preparation for the organisation of a school luncheon organisation which it is propped to form this year for the purpose of handling all the school luncheon cluba

rmtified at the earliest possible moment consistent with the Interests and security of the United Statas. W* are confident thero ia no difference b^wemi him and the moat radtoat reaarvationists OB this point, althouito there ta considerable difference aa to responsibility for the already protracts and eoetly delay in ratification. That, it seems to us. we must In candor assert, arises primarily out of the President's expressed determination to make the world covenant of the leagtie and th* peace tr^ty with Germany Inextricable. Another source of delay prior even to thto policy, undoubtedly, was the curiously personal and partisan course followed by Mr. Wilson in his exclusion of representative, autlioritatlve, and nonluirtisan counsel and his peremptory attitude toward the co-ordinate agency

in trMity making.

W# do not find our mind much imprtttoed. moreover, with some of the most salient reaaons seleand by the President for ungiag haste at tots tinm For example, the following: “Our mllltarv plans, of course, wait upon it (formal ratification). W* can not totelllgentlv or wisely dedd# how laorge a naval or mlittary force w* shall maintain or what our policy with regard to ndlltary training la to be until wa have pears, not only, but also until we know how peace to to bo sustsdned, whether by the arms of single nation* or by th* consent of all the greot peoples” I Now this to an assertion that must {seriously be challenged, not only aa an tneffaettva argument for ratification without reaervatlon, but also and atol more aariouaiy aa a statement of admtajatratlon defense policy. It ^traya In th# flrat place, toat undue rallanc* upon the force and effect of the league covenant which Mr. Wtleon has £*v*al*d to his whole dtocueition of It. The lea^e can not.prove itself for a conaldereble time orfwlthout the test of expartenoo The signature* of th* powers will not give it life. W* must wait to find out bow It work* and whether it will work * Hw then can th# United State# ^ord to withhold defense plan* through the period of doubt, experiment and consequent danger through which the league must passoiMore It proves Itself? • * • Mr. Wilson also urges littmedlat* ratification without reaarv* on the ground that rival nations that iAtify^“will be In a position to lay their plans f« controlling the markets of Central ShiroM without competition from na.tf we do

not presently act.’’

* • 4 • The rival nations, h* ought to be informed at once, have not been waiting upon tba rmtiflctotlon of the treaty eithef to formiilate or to carry out ener-^ getlcally their plans for th* invasion and capture of the markets of central—and eastern—Europe. It is our traders who have been held back by government

policy,

The Ih^sident’s discussion of the problem of reservations to quite as unss

unsatis-

fying and contains nothing novB] either In substance or emphasis. The gist of his argument to already familiar. It is that the proposed reservation* are securely covered in th* phraseology of the covenant, and that the marnbers of th* conference have accepted the interprs-

tatlons they convey!

CONINGSBY DAWSON FINDS GERMAISIY SMUG AND SMILING

Lteuten^t Conlngsby Dawson, C. F. has an Interesting article to last fw “^^£.4 ,^hlch he describe* a trip to Germany alnoa the amistic* was sighed. In liW4, when th# war broke out. young Dawson was Hying with his parents In America and immediately Joined the Cana-

overseas. HI* letters home to Ms nimilY wars pub-

jifbad to ‘Carry On,’’ and other volume* were "The Test of ^artet” and ^Living Ba^roneta.' lieutenant Itotwa<^’s description of his trip back to

PLAYS AND PLAYERS

AT THE THEATERS TODAY. B. F.’ Keith’#—Vaudeville .At 2.30, ?.»> and »

The Bill at B. F. Keith'a

There’s an entertaining assortment of summer vaudeville at B. F. Keith’s this week with comedy prodomlnaliog throughout. The most unusual act m provided by an English pair. Eadle and Ramsden. The woman of the team has a voice and manner good enough for high-class musical comedy and the man to a comedian of quiet method* who makes good use of his physical pwuliarttlea With some new matwlal their act would be a riot, and it’s funny with nothing much to work on exce^ the personality of the actors Earljj, Laight A Company present a skit which

answers the question

hibitlon Is going to do to the toeater. Their skit picture# the effects of h-urn-made stuff in S* culty, which is ended when the prohibition wife take# several drafts by mistake. Young and Wheeler, two men, play the piano and the violin agreeably and without the usual comedy acrompanlment. Wilbur and Lyke combine singing and comedy with f^to on the trampoline, and the Trennel Trio en^r tains with athletic# and comedy ”**-*

usual picture# are shown

The

Note* of the Stage. Jldward Wever, who I# combining the jobs of actor and press agent in the Stuart Walker Company, ha# an important part this week as th* flashy small-town sport in “The Fortune Hunter.” He hit# It off pretty well. “The Fortune Hunter” Is proving as popular as ever with Murat audiences despite the fact that It has been seen In Indianapolis several time# previously. It gives Gregory Kelly an opportunity of which he takes full advantage

INDIANA DEATHS

BltOOKVlIA£. iBd., Atsgtwt 2i —Samuel Garriaon. ags a#T#tity-flva, of thIa city, is dead of kidney disease He leaves a widow, one daughter and four sons. nwritff jrvvTlXJ; Ind., August 20—Oemg* T. Kendrlckeon, age sixty-aevem. died yaetw^ay at his home in Noble township. Shelby county He Is survived by one brother and two sistara COI4XJMBU8. Ind . August 20,—Henry Lee Brown, age sixty-five, died suddenly at his home here Monday evening Ha waa apnarsntly in good beaith and was ending a tant In the yard of his iKnaa when he toll, a -vtctiin ot baart disease. Five etiairen sunivsJEFFEBSONVILUE. Ind„ Augues 2#.—William Ktnsaird, age sixty-two, a Eiemoeratle leader ta thie county for many years, died at hie bente at Memphis Ind., after three days’ illnes# indirectly due to an attack of influenxa last winter. A widow aad a son. Hmry S Kinnatrd. wbo is in France, survive. W1NC3IESTER. Ind, August 20 —Mrs. Eleanor Beale, age Mventy-nlne, is dead at her home hare, after an illness ^ five weeka She was born end reared Just east of Winchester aad was a? lifelong member of the Friends church. Surviving ars two sons. Dr J. H Beato and Wtlliatn H. Beals. boUi of this city.

GMttmany follows, to pfirt;

Several times that night as I roused and opened my eyes. I had to feel tnyself to make .aufii that I ■waa ’nbt ^Wounded. If 1 wa* not wounded, what waa I doing on a Red Cfoss train’ That I should . be traveling sound and well to Qarmany with the war ended, seemed the delirious optimism of ma enfevered brain. Eterybody knew that hospital tcalns tan forever In the one direction, homeward from the slaughter house of sacriflee lo the white-cliffed cleanness of Eng* land. And every one knew whit passmgers they carried—the bandaged mummies of a completed

heroism

Gradually, like * policeman rushing back the mob of terrors, reality reasserted Itself. It was all past, toat recent and yet ancient tragedy. The wire entanglements. In which ’#'• ^ nad snared one another, were rusting into nothingness. The tenantless, save for wild flowers. The cruel sport of killlng| and the bravado of bestialHy were ended. Soon, through the silences of the night, we should be rumbling across the forsaken Golgothwi of battlefields. Not a rifle jvould be flred, not a bomb hurled. Only the fallen would sit up in their narrow graves to watch the streaniIng ^ghte of the R^ Crpes train, which had not wait^ for them and Which would never fetch them now. Ovar the Devastated Area. Every few hour* we would Pbll np at some lonely station to allow one oh other of our number to alight. We had passed St. Pol and were traversing the ^Ide belt of the devastated area If one- peered out into the darkness, he saw nothing but shellplowed fields, blasted trees and ruined towns. It was famJHar ground, for I had marchea and fought over most of It. If It had seamed desolate then. It seemed ^uWy dreary now that ail toe flj|bting troops had vanished The officers who were still stationed there were either on police duty or In charge of salvage and burying imrties Though six months had elapsed since the armistice nad been declared, the ptunber of our dead had been so great that many of them still moldered above ground. The officers who boarded toe train during the night congratulated themselves on having gained appointments further up toe line. They said that the devastated area was too indecent for human habitation; it was dark and malodorous as a charnel house Every wood held its hidden bundles of putrescence 'The air was poisonous. toe vegetation rank. All th* secrets which earth should have covered. lay ashamed and naked beneath the naked sky. It was a home fit for rats and creeping things, but not for living men. We listened sleepily; then drew the blankets closer about our ears to shut such memories out. We had taken our chances with all those mighty armies, and we. by what process of selection we could not guess, had been chosen to survive. If war teaches a soldier one wisdom more than other it is to economize on his miseries by medns of forgetfulness. Across Pilfaged Belgium. In the towns and cities in B^gium at which we alighted lethargic men and women ssL AH of them were aged, even the children. Houses were tumbled Into the streets; their factorial and shops had been ransacked and gutted. Tne loot which it bad been impossibla for toe retreating invader to carry away had been burned and stood In charred heaps on the sidings. You may travel for miles along the railroads of Belgium and n to always the same scene that offends the eye— E illage and ruthlesa destruction. luge buildtoMi yawn like caverns beneath twisted glrdera Sontedmes their machinery has vanished .into Ch»rmany, at other times it has been ^dragged into the open and smashed to atoms Where theft has failed, spitefulness has come into play. The intention of the Hun was to cripple thto nation forever. Belgium kKtos like It bonfire burned out No one has as yet had the courage to attempt to repair to* damage—there is so little that can be repaired. The tato to too immense, li overwhelms the imagination. The Itolgtan. restored to freedom, sits wtto idle hands, hia shoulders

humped in dreary contemplation. He to a man the spine of whose ho^ ha# been broken Ha ataras and smokea but teito to no one tb* tooughto that shudder behind hto eyw. The rallroada are policed by poUui and British Tommie*. At Namur and some of the larger dIties Hun prisoners can ba aaen, Ilk* a

S ether, would

lyaa.

out-top tha

Into Unlnjurad Gtormany. No one need* to be told at what moment he crosses the frontier. A glance out of the window and the transition is obvious. Within a hundred yards the black smudge that was Belgium end# and th* graenneas that is Germany oommancat. One find* hlmaelf in a country not unlike Connecticut, rolling, pastoral and pr<»perou#. Rlalttg out of clumps of tree* are gayly painted towns, strop-roofed and timbered, with color-washed wall# and gimorack balconies, all built to a kind of doll’s bouse manner. Thair nrotneaa Impresses one first, than thair atmosphere of pretense and unrealitv. They look as though they had baen run up on exhibition grounds as examples of modern dwellings. They seem to be saying, "Don’t examine us too closely; we’re simply her* to give you an idea of what a modern German town should look like. We’re putting our best foot foremost and l^tatlng our ambition for what we should become.” 80 the weather«#«Jto,#Pln merrily In the breese and the silly stucco tower* on faked tfothic residences thrust themselves up proudly. In th* fields fat sheep are graxing, sleek cows and well-nourished horses, ^mehow one has the feeling that they do not “belong" but have been placed there.'like th* doll’s house towns, for the occasion. One saw no cattle among the cinder heaps of Belgium; probably these prosperous animals ar* a part of the loot carried off by the invaders Th* landscape ha# the, same air of insincerity, as though it had been brought up to scratch for an inspection; it look* burnished and scrubbed. It must have looked like this In 1913; war has not altered tu appearance of normal! ity. The occupiro portions of France and Belgium are haggard corpses, which the mailed fist first killed and then mutilated. But Germany retains toe unharassed complacence of one of her own frauleins Smug Smiling Face of Germany. Even England, barriered by th# sea against Armageddon, has suffered in comparison. Her field* have a lean, uncared-for aspect. Her children are stunted by reason of the rationing. Her villages teem with hospitals. Her men and women of alt classes are seedy and unfashionable in thair dress. Her buildlitos and roads cry out for repairs. Her valleys are black with camp* now abandoned, and her countryside is raw with military industries. Pry where yeu wilt, you ara confronted with proof# of her^ enoripous and exhausting effort One recants the smug, smiling face ot Germany, its plumpness is an insulL One knows how it ha# been acbleved—by worldwide cannibalism. She sucked the blood of tha peoples against whom she was the aggressor. She transfused their health as well aa their p<toseaai<ma While she has scarred and famtohad beyond recognition the bodies of toe nations whom she wilfully attacked, her'own body to vigorous and full of resources. This assertion will be and ha* been disputed. That she may evade the payment of tb* aHl**’ bill for damages. her government propagandists hav# represented her as sh^lshocked and bankrupt. Their eloquence has come near to convincing toe Bupro-humanltarfanB among Jier adversaries. But men who have visited her during the totting of the peace cwaferenca know for a fact that her vitality has suffered ies* proportionatoly than that of any of her major enemies, with toe exception of America. AU her cities, railrdad*. rolling stock, mines, machinery. industrial institution* are intact They are not only Intact, but thay have been added to by pillage and their efficiency has been Increased by trade secrets wrung from the captured cities ot tha occupied tarritorlM.

Aicyotta _ I. Anotif tb# thouased, tboomnd spbsies liat mil, Wheei wltbln whssl. throuab tiroar snilag A sad latorntlasbla tso#, T* J some Invisible oontrot ^d IM as to a sura sad sbiatng fosl. On# star aloaa, -srith »tUl, uachampag i PfPepial dwtottW f Of throe awift orbs tha centar sad to* Berood th# BMsm# tbst b«siB. th# atafs tbs* bias#, — ^st fltida ef «th«r, erimson. vlsist tees, yw* *tar-»Mdsft #f #twaHy, Bsholdt it shiiMs with li^t# isMiaaatoM inyVi Tte hesM sf pssoa ths ha^ #« rapsas. Tb# lotwi-flower of haavea, Ateyaaa

it

It t# th# plae# wbro# Ufa’s Mag dieaas SMMi

tni#;

Oa i^y saotber swift ai«l radlaaijMf Qathro tha fiamiag hosta et thorn wCwes With powers of darknosa; tboas atnm

anraphs. too.

who haston torth Ood’s miaistrlss to del Bot here ao sound of «sg#r truo^ato mar The mbtler apMI which calls ths BS«ifrM«

fsr.

Its wsMed rorings ^ glsthnss to laaaw. It Is tho moTBtag ^d of th* UsIA Where axaUes, tianafigured to th# tnitoBisi

slfht.

toy who## flittlro —bisnoo new we

Wh#r# w# ahsll know, as visihia sni ~

l|f#s d##i> wmirstioa. old yet la ths aky-aptoador of Alcyeaa.

—JVa&esa liseabisa^

*3?*

SCRAPS

Th* projeot tq of Belgium has bean mintotar ot zmllwn^ Mora than m.mm ta nwr hwamit to Amarloan aboamaldac anid ■MvaOunl 800.000 wage aaiaan ara aaglnrad. Wommt ot tha plilllK>lna tahHtota analM soma vary fine Imw froin atroag iSv, fiber Obtained from -ptnaaggi* laamm. Vermont's army ot vroaM wsiiw In industrial eatabiisltineato laaronaed lEI per cent during th* last six month* at 1918. Large rubtaa are rarer thai^ laitetolamonds, and bring almost fabuiotta frtoan when they are of a perfect ptgeon-hlood color, Polish women ar* renowiMd far the beauty of thair hand*; they iSaoe gMoafulneas ^f th* hands to^onr* all otlmr charm*. Balt to the extant of 6,tO(MXB aqmiw milaa. with a li^er one mil* in naaa. to th* eatimatad rsault of tlta aea drying up. Th* hermit toruah to declared to he the moat talented and brilltant aihgar to the world, not even excepting the nlghtinitolaTallyho waa originally a hunting atf, aqd ta now applied to a fotuNn-hiM plaaaura coach, probably from tha hwn blown on li British aetenttata to tha Weat Indian hav* baan axpartmanting with ooooan. trating raw lima juice by freesing out much of Ita watar to savo-hulk In shipPing. Alfonao XIII. poathu^ua nan af A1-* fonao XXL took th* oath of allaglana* to tha conatftutlon and asoandad tha throne of Spain on the annivareary of hta birth. May 17, m Slneo th* aala of vodka waa preffithttadT in Rosaia many lUlalt atfUh have boon unwrthad which hav* jboan angagad ta raCovoring th* alcohol In ahtolao. Th# ■hailao ta divested of Its alcohol by dtaUllation. Three former army offleora are driving a farm tractor with unoleated road ^ wheels from New York to Los Angalas, to demonstrate tha avaUabillty of auoh a machine for general transportation purpoae*. Before the war tha population of tho Oannan emplr* in Europe waa colonies in Africa. 11,419,600: oolontaa in Aaia, 168,800, not Including th* bag Mid neutral son*, with a population of 1,100,. 000; colonies in PaelAo, 16^800. Th* Russian empir* ambraoaa onesixth of toe land surface of the wqrld. It to more than fifty Umas larger than Japan and haa a total araa of I,ffi0.000 square miles. Half of Europe aad th* whole of northern Asia ara Included within its boundarlaa. Good authorltlea glv* the average duration of human life aa about ^rtytore* years. One-quarter of Uh* people on the earth die before th* age ef six, one-half bafore th* age of aixtaan, and only about on* person of rooh KB boro lives to the aye of sixty-five. The Geneva award waa tha tmma given to the amount‘(118,600.000) awarded by the tribunal of five arbltratora toat mat in Ganava, Bwttsarlaiid. ia 1871-1872, to aattl* tha claims made by tha Ufiited Statas for injuriea to Amarloan commarc* during the civil war, inflicted by tha Alabama and otoar Con* federate privateara bbHi in EngHah shipyards. In 1904 congress caufi*d’«to bn rapro* duced, in fihoto-Hthographto form, tb* so-called Jaffarson SIbla, or more oorreotly, “The Moral* and Life of Jasus of Nasarato," axtractad taxtually from toe gospais in Greek, Latin, French and Etogltoh, by Thomas Jeffenion. Texts ware cut by him out of printed copies of Greek, Latin, French and English Taatamants and pasted In four parallel columns on blank pages, which, later, were bound in rad morocco, ornamentad In gilt, and titled on tha back In gilt letters. “Tha Morato of Jaana" Th* original is to th* United States mustura at Washington and 9,000 dupllimta roptas for tha use of congress ware prlntad ia 1904. The Tarrant Aircraft Construction Company, of Parnborough. England, recently finished building th* biggest airplane in the world. It to a titplsaa. toe middle plane of which to 111 foot wide. Above and below thto are two planes, each nlnety-etght fast long. AH these planes ara fifteen feel two toehaa deep. The body to aaventy-slx feat long (twenty feet longer that toe biggest biplane). «nd the hifht to thirty-sevro feet. 'The pilot's seat juts out twelva feet beyond th* Una of toe planes. Tha body of the machine rasembta* a whala in length and girth, with a^graat bluntended noaa. Between tha planes ar* six Napler-Lion engines, each davaloplng eoo-horse power. Four of them oparata two-bladed tractor propallani, two at them four-bladed "puahar" propoUara

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

M. T.—BusincM addrrose# sr# net prtatad h«r«. Yeu can get in touch -with tteiutatars through the foreign language eaioota Itatad in the city directory. Herbert R. C,~-Do you know when th* UOth compaay, tranaportation corpa. will b# rvhMMcd’—Ko: it had not b##a r#1«aaafi a w##k ago, accordipg to an nsofflctol rtpart. o S F—Has Camp Hoopital Np. 16 r#turned or been reteroed for fe|«htiT—It returned end waa lent to Camp Dig, Ih J.. •bout fix week# ago. (2) Has th# MM repair unit, motor traaroort corpa, leturawit —T##. returned and d#mpbUts#d. M. C.-CMi I b# mada io pay tor a peinr nhich wsa sent to m# tor a year aftar my aubwniptlon expired and which I hav# n#C rrKWivsd ainc# last October?—Y«s. if y#«r contract «p#ctfi#d that paymaot waa t# h« mad# until th# •uhserfption waa oaaoetod and you failed to cancel it. A. B. J.—Where can I s#t th# namaa «t th# ptoyvrt on th# Indtonap#)!# Fedeanl UMgu# ball taam, atoo hooks aa hasiball. foetbail. boxing, rowing, etc. ?—Vattaus -y«ar hooka on nports and manual# of rui## and inatractlroa can bo houabt at any bock stmw or •porting goods store, fie# back anmber# for tb# Federal Laagu# twmA Reader—Haa evacnatfon homtial No, Wt bean releaaed for r#tum?-t##. fib Whan will It arriv#?—Do not know It la aa* mentioned oa recent ahlpidag Uata. 0> Hav# •il drafted men been reteaaad^Na. (4i When wui th#y b*?-Protoebly wtthl* toe aaxt aixty day# at moat. alUwugif th# war department haa not eat a definite data. B. O. H - How hmg wit) tho ffpirttaaMsuf camp near Anderaon be in eeaaionl—Until August St. tl) Spec# far a diecussloa of the ' meaiui of arrfvfeg at the atomto weight ff xenon ta tacking, but the lafromettett Ik •vallable In any aclentiflc libreiT. See EMSlt ■ay's dlacuaelmi of the propertiea'^ Mfkta i2) Where !a the 42d helloon ooaiinafbw,, Brotaa field, flea Antonie, Tex,