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till fifteen days after : — and hew la one i for prompt aw. technically, the proviekma of the can compel them further atrocities. ctrU offlcers are . and win be up to the treaty is tn efthen they do not get be that we hare been troops home too rapidly, proposed by Senator Fall, his amendment depriving on the to make this govemthe treaty. For after of the Germans fifteen the treaty goes into effect, territory is to be governed by an which cowls to conduct the piebescite. ought to be an allied army in right now. Surely something 4 wm be done to prevent the toW

farmer to know current prices, and he generally demands them. Now and then he takes into consideration the saving he makes by selling direct from the farm, compared with the time, trouble and expense of hauling or shipping to the nearest market. Ths consumer, tn >H«t instance, gats the benefit of a lower price. Highway travel is not so heavy hi Indians that all farmers would be paid if they established roadside stores, but there are highways where traffic is enough to make such a venture profitable Along the National road, running east and west; along the highway from Indianapolis to Louisville, and in northern Indiana, ths motor car traffic is heavy throughout the day and well into the night. Getting money from these travelers or tourists would easy enough if an y attractive display were made of

something to eat.

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COtT OF LTVJVO

There are a great many people to the United States, by no means ail of them of labor organisation*, who got It firmly into their heads that their incomes are insufficient to their obligations the only thing to

nee those Incomes. That is ths pleasanter way. when

is feasible. But these people entirely overlook the fact that there are few incomes to ths country that can not, by wise economy and careful management, be made to go much further than they do. We are not now thinking of the exof those men who boast that they have lived on almost nothing, without being any the worse off. but rather of such economy as wilt insure reasonable comfort at a price that most

of us can afford to pay.

When we get into pecuniary difficult#* w# naturally conclude that our income is not sufficient —* and perhaps in many ft is not. It doe* not occur to us investigate our expense account. The

Is that what we are getitog

to the way of comforts and Juxurle* is what sr* are entitled to. and that it is a cruel hardship If we are asked to get along without some of them, Surely the wise man will scrutinise. In such as these, both sides of his ledger, t is ths duty of svery cltisen under conditions as they now are to make every dollar go as far as possible, to eut down (where possible) on his purchases, and to exercise a prudent self-restraint. The 1 practice will be good few us all, and will i greatly strengthen character. It will, too, do much to reduce the present high cost of living. Thsrefqfe ths duty is a public one. The American people can In their own home* fight a great battle against high prices ~ perhaps it Is only to the home that the battle can be won. If there are certain

ws have always had. and we can not now have them,

out learn to do without them. Such - will have’ a very powerful

prices. There are'few men

not, by prudence and economy,

reduce the cost of their

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COLLEGE BY-PBODUCTS

having been no denial from Prof, m, of DePauw university, that he wrote the now well-known letter to Protestor Zeuch, it Is well enough to consider the DePauw professor's attitude toward things in general and

the American Institutions in particular. One

falling of a few college men is that they feel It their duty to adopt a mental attitude that Is described as “high brow." They apparently , 4lae above their surroundings, above the common things of the workaday wotid and conwlth radicals In a newly made atmosphere of their own. Nobody would object to their, alienation from things distinctly American were. it not that these same high brows are called

1 upon to Instruct the young men and * young women. That being true, it is

time to bring the radicals back to earth or Separate them from their positions of responsibility. , * * . Professor Calhoun wondered, in 'his letter, Whether he did the thinking tbr his atpdent*. Others may aak the same question. The young men and women who go to college are possessed of common sense, as a rule, but they are at an impreesior^bie age and it la easy to lead them astray with new doctrines and vipious teachings. « Professor Calhoun speaks of the proletariat, Af the Left Wing, the revolution, the yellows and so on. •fhese are by-products of the social order. It may be permissible to speak of them In th« classroom because *he students are

al j studying current events and they must Wil- familiarise themselves with what is

happening. The harm comes in having a man who idsntlfies himself with the Left Wing, who lugs In the word "proletariat" and tries to make it fit in this country —who trtee to inculcate the spirit of revolution and confiscation in the minds of the boys and girls lidding up these things to a class a s intolerable and advising that they be shunned, is the duty of the modem teacher. Advocating their adoption is sufficient to make the whole state de-

mand a house cleaning.

REACHING THE CON SUMER New England farms are not noted for their fertility, yet small truck farmers manage to make a comfortable living, and they produce a great amount of garden stuff annually. In many sections of the east thsy have adopted a method of going direct to the consumer, and in that manner the middleman’s profit is entirely eliminated. In New Jersey, for Instance, the farmers have stands along the main traveled highways, where traffic during the summer is heavy. In a shack that fronts the roadway the farmer or his wife will have green com, green peppers, peaches and other things for sale. The as a rule, are close to those demanded in the cities, although there slight difference, to attract trade, inducement is that the truck fresh from the fields Some of these are equipped with refrigerators proprietors can sell cold drinks

garden truck.

tr does not sell much under market price, whether the goes to the farm or buys from In the city. The telephone and page make It easy for the

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SENATOR MCUMBE&8 SPEECH The debate over the Shantung provision of the treaty was participated to only by Republicans — Senators McCumber, Borah and Watson. Senator McCumber argued that the Shantung amendment proposed by the foreign relations committee could have no effect other than to anger Japan and make her yielding

books of Btersry criticism. Is of the class of critics usually described as high-brow. He writes to polysyllable* and he condemn* often and virulently. Best-sellers, journalism, all the things that the proletariat Ukea. are»to him accursed. Regular perusal of his monthly contributions to the artistic uplift would indicate that America has Theodore Dreiser and that all else is a

wilderness.

However, lately he has given evidence that he does not really believe that things are as bad as an that. Severity and cynicism, it may be, are necessary to the estabftshment of a reputation for cleverness and mental superiority. Or it may be that the years which mellow the judgment bring decay to taste. At any rate, he ha* compiled a fiat of books by American novelists "of solid merit and valtm" published during the last decade, “none of which is not worth reading twice.** In the collection thus commended to imortality are — not one book, or two books, or at most ten boqk* — thirty-eight, and eighteen

of them are novels.

Not a bad ten years’ showing for a world reeking with commercialism, rent by a world war and dying of mental dry-rot. The Elizabethan age has not left to posterity many more than

Forests for Fuel

BERLIN. August 27 (by the Associated Press).—The government has decided to ask the national assembly to permit the felling of forests to meet the coal crisis in the coming winter.

Do Women Shun Red Heads?

ANOTHER HOLIDAY is another American holiday to come Into existence as a result of the great war? This question has been asked in several states, and at least one state has answered it In the affirmative. Soon after the armistice was signed, the Florida legislature met in special session and enacted a law fixing November 11 as a holidky to Florida, to' be known and observed a* “Liberty day," a day of rejoicing “with the free people of the earth.'.’ This adds another holiday, about midway between Columbus 'day and Thanksgiving, and since the character pf the celebration must In many respects resemble the Thanksgiving celebration, some states may com-

bine the two.

tt the signing of the treaty of peace is accepted as the real end of the war. and that date set aside as a legal holiday, it will fall within a week of. Independence day. And it la probable that many states will combine these two holidays, celebrating not only the political Independence of the United States from a European power, but also the liberation of the world from the threat of domination by an unmoral and wholly abandoned monarch. It is possible, also, that states which had many troops engaged as state units In some of the battles of the war will select another celebration date, and that many may deoide that the present Memorial day will suffice for all wars. In~vlew of the spirit of the covenant of the league of nations, however, it Is likely that in time a universal holiday will be established, a holiday to be celebrated 'for one reason and on‘the same day by all the nations of the world. Christmas day would not do, because it is not celebrated in China and Japan, and the Russian Christmas falls in January. But a compromise cdUld be reached and a day set apart to celebrate not only the victory of right over might, but also the beginning of a new world era of good feeling and peace.

THE AMERICAN NOVEL It is thoroughly understood by those who take their books seriously that the novel In America is in a bad way. On this point the Greenwich village radical and the reader of mature years and conservative taste are in substantial harmony. though they reach their common destination by oppoait* roads. The one derides the American-made literary product because it follows the ancient models too closely, reverencing convention in theme and treatment; the other, because it does not Especially is this the viewpoint of the professional readers of books, whether employed by the highbrow art-for-art’s-sake reviews or by tbe more human publicationa They cull through, year by year, the annual outpouring of novels, sniffing and patronising, finding little to praise and much to revile. Their work of reading and appraising the contemporary literary output apparently gives them so little pleasure and so much pain that one wonders why they stick to it year after year, endlessly submitting themselves to torture, when manual labor is_jso remunerative and so easy to obtain. Much more understandable and deserving of respect Is the other type of critic, the hack who works on the book-trade paper and praises everything he writes about because, like his employ era, he Is working for money, not for art. H. L. Mencken, the author of many

a constitutioaally bilious critic can find thirty-eight books of solid merit in a meager ten years the commonalty of the future ought to find to the. present literary epoch something to rave

about

difficult If not impossible, that it could ... , w w Jtgw her, and that the only thing to do j . f ... .. was to bring Japan into the oJ decade ^ known to iu nations Apparently he was supported j ^ ^ ^ of llteniture?

by Senators Nelson and jusnroot The . Jf former suggested that the United States could not neutralise or destroy tbe Shantung provision after me other powers had accepted It, and said that for the senate so to amend the treaty would be “like the pope’s bull against the comet." Senator Lenroot asked whether tbe proposed action would not be without effect, and was assured by McCumber that such was the case. There is, as we understand tt, no dispute as to the rights of China to the whole of Shantung. The question is as to how best to deal with the situation. Senator McCumber was confident that the United States would never go to war to enforce the rights of China, and held that it would be moet unfortunate to lead China to believe that we would. His great fear evidently is lest the treaty be destroyed indirectly through amendment. Senators Watson and Borah took the viey that the provision of the treaty was unconscionable, and they demanded that this government should wash its hands of the whole

matter.

There is evidently a serious difference atoong the Republicans over this question, and other questions of a similar nature. . It is not important that there be unity on either side as long as the right thing is done. On such issues as those raised by this treaty there are bound to be differences of opinion that will traverse party lines. There ls,no on* who likes the Shantung provision of the treaty —not even the President. Whatever is done eventually with it, the committee’s action should mark the dis&proval of thi^i country and reflect its moral sentiment in opposition to the wrong that had been done China.. *

TAX VALUATIONS

Those who are disposed to get excited over the great Increase* made by the state tax board in tibe valuation of property, would do well to wait for the fixing of the levies. Perhaps when they get their tax statement they will find that It is lower than last year. The law requires that no more money shall be raised than under the old law, except under certain specified conditions, therefore the levy must be reduced as the appraisement is increased. It may be that some will have to pay more taxes, but they would have been required to do so under old law. The board has been trying to make fair and impartial appraisements, and will exercise the same care to the supervision of levies. If there are any increases in tax bills they will not be due to the new law, but to the increase to expenses, and these would have had to be met in any event. The new law gives the state board authority to force Impartial appraisements, and the provision for appraisement at full valuation was kept in the law in order to facilitate that work. The old law required full-value appraisements, but there never were such, and the result was gross inequality in taxation. As it is now each taxpayer will pay on the same valuation — the full value of his taxable property. Thus ws get equality, honest appraisement, and greatly lower levies. That there are -strenuous efforts to discredit the law is a matter of common knowledge. It is Important, therefore, that the people should refuse to make up t^eir minds about It till they get all the facts. All that they know now is that there has been a great increase in the valuation of property. Nothing is yet known of the levies as determined by the tax board, or of the amount of money that the people will be compelled to p%y. UntU these latter are known ft is manifestly impossible to form any trustworthy judgment as to

Ihe operation of the law.

The plan to make a list of the producers who offer *their wares on the market, and to keep automobiles away from the spaces reserved for such producers, is a further step in the direction of market reform. It is important that consumers should know whom they are dealing with. This is not at all evident from appearance or utterance as the advantage of posing as a producer is understood by other dealers. There also should be a place for the producer whenever he t arrives at the market. The certainty of this should do much to’encourage him, Just as the chapce of not finding such a place has

done much to discourage him.

Apparently there are more difficulties in the way of making fair price lists than there are in the way of making

unfair prices.

To the Editor at The News: Sir—Do all red-headed men have the same experience with the fair sex as the writer of this article? My experience has been that women, as a rule, shun red-headed men. In Spokane, Wash., a red-headed doctor, knowing the position on* with a red head is placed in, has organised a red-haired club, going so far as to organise a Boy Scout organisation composed of red head*. But the ladies Invariably shun a redheaded man. The writer has on several occasions given the matrimonial question serious consideration, but in each instance be has met with anything but encouragement from the opposite sex. In fact, he has met with rebuffs. AH of which is blamed on a red head. Personally, I fail to see the difference between' those of red hair and those of other shadea But the fair sex see differently. Why? H. E. STONE.

Carlinville, TIL

PLAYS AND PLAYERS

TERMINAL MARKET GREATEST FACTOR IN LOWER FOOD COST

AT THE THEATERS TODAY. Murat—* ‘Piccadilly Jim”..—At *:3B and *:» B. F. Keith’s—Vaudeville..At 3:». 7:» »nd * Notes of the Stage. “Piccadilly Jim.” the new comedy by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, playing at the Murat, is illustrating the old saw that the last is not always the least Audiences greeting the play, which is to close Stuart Walker s summer season in Indianapolis, are unmistakable -in their approval of the piece. It is filled with good lines and gives Gregory Kelly one of the beat parts he has had this season. ,,, “Sunshine," the attraction for next week at the Murat, recently closed an engagement at the Studebaker theater. Chicago. Richard Carl Is the leading player. The music is by Alexander Johnstone and the book by William

Carey Duncan.

MEN REMOVED FROM SHIP. Federal Action Unexplained in J. H.

Maurer-A. Epstein Case.

New York, August 27.—Federal officials here today refused to comment on the removal from the steamship Lapland yesterday of James H._ Maurer,

of Reading '

stein, of

Pa., chairman, and A. EpHarrisburg, director of the

Pennsylvania old age pension commis-

sion. The

minutes

y were taken off the ship three Wore she sailed and their

passports cancelled, it ia said, on orders night, declaring that he would demand action In the matter by the Pennsylvania congressional delegation. ' Maurer and Epeteln were authorized by Governor Sproule to go to Europe to make a study of the pension systems The expenses were to be paid out of a

The expenses were to d< “usss’inssssrof th .

vania State Federation of Labor. He is prominent In the Socialist party and was three times elected a member of the Pennsylvania legislature by that party. During the war Maurer several times

e In

No Explanation Is Given.

WASHINGTON, August 27.-Other than to announce that their passports had been recAllsd, state department officials would give no explanation, today of the remr.va! of James A. Maurer and A. Ei stein of the Pennsylvania old age peusl> n commission, from the steamer LapLmrt yesterday at ew York. The men were ta^en from the steamer by customs agents Just before the Lapland sailed for Uurope. Reports that the department’s order recalling the passports has been Issued at .the request of (he British government were denied.

WASHINGTON, August 37.—Person* desiring to go traveling on Labor day were warmed today by DireetorGeneral Hines to make arrangements, including the purchase of tickets and sleeping car reservattoas, as far tn advance as possible. Arrival within tbe next week of tbo 1st and Sd army divisions from Franco aad other troop movements will require a large number of ears, but all possible equipment will be made available for the

holiday traffic.

And again, if all th* folks who hold railroad passes were to pay fare the government might not be face to face with such a big deficit in Its railroad business.

The state board of tax commissioners seems to have a thorough understanding of how to revise things upward. Let’s be thankful we don’t have to eat clover seed, at the present price. ^California Trainmen Ignore Work Order.—Headline. Many of us would like to Ignore work orders, but the alternative is starving to death.

It's about time to store your last year’s straw hat where you can find it in time for next summer.

If the weather man continues to hand out temperatures of 60 degrees and thereabouts there will be some excuse for summer furs. The new traffic rules do not make any changes in the regulations for parking chewing gum. ' But why does McAdoo need a Pullman pass when he is supposed to be riding bad horses for a motion picture company? Probably McA$po also would be willing to have a pass on the Democratic band wagon. ~ ■ Twenty persons were arrested in a "dry” town on charges of intoxication, but the "dry” town was Muncle and that makes a big difference.

A labor day proclamation has more than ordinary significance these days.

CULVER SCHOOLS END. i Extensive Program Brings Summer

Sessions to a Close. .

. [Special to The Indianapolis News] CULVER, Ind., August 27.-The Cul-

ver Summer Schools which have' been in session since the first of July ended today after a closing program lasting several days and attended by hundreds of persons. Captain Crawley’s dramatic claH presented "Vice Versk,” a comedy Of school life, as a part of • the pro-

gram with two performances. On Monday night the Woodcraft

school held Its last Council fire and Dillon Wallace, chief of the council, gave out the last long list of medals and boy scout honors which his boys had gained. At the same time the seventh naval company under the direction of Major Yatea was entertaining the other schools and the visitors with a minstrel show ^hich they staged In

the : gymnasium. 1

Hundreds followed the daily drills and military exercises which ended in the last parade Tuesday afternoon. The cavalry troops under LieutenantColonel Rosso w supplemented their other drills with a complicated music ride which proved a favorite with the spectators. The bail Tuesday night marked the close of the social features and the formal dismissal and the award of medals were the final events

of today's program.

SPARTACANS ON TREATY.

Plot of Bourgsosie Against Proletariat Seen in One Clause. RERUN, August 27. (by the Associated Press).—A circular* letter from the leaders of the Spartacus party has fallen into the hands of tbe League for the Protection of German Kulture. It states the party opposes the clause in the peace treaty relative to labor by German workmen in the rehabilitation of devastated districts In France and Belgium, stating the pact was "signed by bourgeoisie with bourgeoisie, which the party does not recognize.” The letter states that the Spartacan organization will not send its laborers to France and declares the manner of transporting workers, their separation from their families and their quarters in barracks is reminiscent of bodily slavery. "The picture,” the letter continues, “is made prettier by negotiations between the Germans i(nd French as to the part German industry will play in the work of reconstruction. Labor by the proletariat is the price with which the bourgeoisie purchases the continued existence of the fatherland whereas the sense of the evolution was to cease the performance of bloody slave service for this fatherland. The German proletariat will not perform this service In some other form.”

The American consumer pays on the average about 12.25 for the same foods for which the fanner receives *1. according to Morris L. Cooke, formerly director of public works of Philadelphia, to his book "Our Cities Awake.” He finds this large margin between producer and consumer to be due to the high cost of distribution. He puts it this way: "Our job has grown more rapidly than our facilities.” One of the facilities he specially recommends Is the wholesale terminal market Such an institution is needed, he finds, because the food of city dwellers must now come largely to carload lots. Philadelphia uses from twenty-five to fifty carloads of potatoes a day, and the problem of that city and other citlea of large PpP^totton is to “provide adequate facilities for handling its foodstuffs by the car lot’* "Other countries,” says Mr. Cooke, have brought about lower food costs by definitely planning for them. If our manufacturers and other employers of labor could really see what c»n be done for real wages as distinct, from money wages, and hence .^“* t be done for an even better labor situation in Philadelphia and in every large city of the land, by adopting even fairly modem and only thoroughly tried methods for reducing food costs, they, not the housewives. would be planning demonstrations — polite demonstrations, of course—but effective nevertheless. A stable industrial center can 2®* k® built up on temporary expedients such as sales of food at cost, va i u *?, 1 * the8 « expedients may be as charity measures in times of emergency. For these temporary , only un <l*rmtne permanent agencies. food machinery must be big enough and planned on a large enough scale to Influence prices not only for the hundreds of thousands within the .cities, but also for the millions in metropolitan areas. Moreover, this machinery must be comprehensive enough and stable enough and reliable enough to affect prices for 365 days a year.” Outline of Market. He goes on to say that the central part of the food receiving and distributing machinery “must be a large wholesale terminal market.” He outlines what such a market should be as follows: "This market must be situated in the present wholesale district, for business can not be pulled up and planted elsewhere at will. This terminal market, moreover, must be on the Belt line with easy access to all railroads and all water lines. It must be large enough so that cars can be run into the bfiildtog and unloaded to save the expense of trucking. It must have ample coldstorage facilities. Chilled rooms must be provided. Into which perishable produce can be unloaded

from the cars and repacked to suit th* trade without deterioration inevitably resulting from unloading In a warm atmosphere. There must be really adequate transhipping machinery. In short, this plan must be big enough to make for real economies in large-scale receiving and distributing of foodstuffs.” He refers to the "well-adminis-tered wholesale terminal markets characteristic of every European

city."

“But can

plant ample for the

business be made an assurance of lower food coats to the city dwell-

er?" he asks and answers thus:

"It can be, has been and la. Moreover, tt is now In many places an assurance of fair prices to the farmer as well. How can this be done? The plan must include provision for a public licensed auctioneer, who will sell foodstuffs in relatively small quantities. The commission to be charged by these bonded licensed auctioneers must be fixed and care be taken to see that they are not directly or indirectly interested In the trade of the market wares of any kind. In European terminal markets these commissions

average about 2 per cent’

Objection Discussed.

The writer then take* up th# objection that the wholesale terminal market would destroy the business of our food jobbers and wholesale merchants, the objectors often saying that there should be a "constructive

plan.”

“Well, what are the facts?” he asks. "The chain stores buy and sell considerably more than one-half the food consumed in Philadelphia^ The organized retail grocers—1,250 of them or thereabouts—who do, say. another 26 per cent, of our food business, buy collectively. In order to meet this chain store competition, through the Girard Grocery Company, and this company Is doing business for these grocers, It is stated, at a cost (including delivery to the grocers) of about 2.86 per cent. That is, just a little above the percentage allowed public auctioneers in

European cities.

That is. of the foodstuffs consumed In Philadelphia, but a scant

10 or 16 per cent, is handled by our

food jobbers. The big business of our jobbers and wholesale merchants Is the supplying of outlying districts. An adequate terminal market system would make of Philadelphia the* primary market center for a large and ever-growing territory. The jobbing and wholesale business will accordingly be expanded, not curtailed, by a proper system of wholesale terminal markets.” Dollars are involved in food where nickels are involved In rapid transit, the writer says, and just as rapid transit needs a plan big enough for a big city, so do food costs need a plan big enough to get really effective results. Other plans are needed to solve the food cost problem. Mr. Cooke thinks, "but certainly for any large city of this day the first step is the terminal market.”

Nightingales Beautiful must be the mountain# whence you come. And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your aong: Where are those starry weeds? O might I wander there Among^ the flower*, which in that heavenly Bloom the yew long! NSy. barren are those mountains and spent ths streams: Our song te the voice of deatre that haunts our dreams, A throe of th* heart, Whoee pining visions dim. forbidden hopes profound, No dying cadence nor long sigh can eound. For all our art. Alone, aloud in the enraptured ear ef men We pour our dark nocturnal secret: and then. As night is withdrawn From these sweet springing meads and bursting boughs of May, Dream, while the innumerable choir of day Welcome the dawn. —Robert Bridges.

SCRAPS

For Labor Day Travelers

R. W. McBride's Answer

To-the Editor of Th* News: Sir:—In your editorial columns of today you give what purports to be the vote of the Indiana Council of the National Economic League, on the question as to whether “the United States should ratify th* treaty with Germany, including'th* league of nations covenant, without complicating, delaying or invalidating reservations,” and number me as among those voting “yea." This stattment Is erroneous. My answer to this question was as follows, “The senate'should so act as to make the peace treaty with Germany immediately effective. This can be done with certain reservations or Interpretations that will not affect the validity of the ratification. * The league of nations covenant, however, is the mere dream of visionaries who Imagine they see prophesy In the matchless satire and irony of Isaiah. The impossibility of eradicating those passions of men that make wars Inevitable, is as certain as is the impossibility of changing the carnivorous Hon to an herbivorous ruminant capable of feeding On straw with the ox. The league of nations to abolish death would be quite as ef-

fective.”

ROBERT W. McBRIDE. August 26, 1818.

The Family Man

[Muncle Evening Press]

Here’s 'to the family man. the kindfaced, happy and chirruping family man! He’s the fellow that holds up the world and keeps It from streaking off Into space after false planets and giddy planetesses. He is hot only the salt of the earth, but the pepper and vinegar and horseradish and mustard. Without him there would be no churohhs, no schools, no lodges, no heated political

dlsqjjssiona, no children, no newspapers,

no anything worth mentioning. You may see him, if you wish to see

nything worth mentionin u may see him, if you

him, any evening now, out sprinkling the front lawn or the street or the i den, or r maybe ht) will be trimming

The President’s Warning

M-

rag,

lUgrr

rakish, he'll have an old pipe In his mouth and a battered old straw hat on hi# head and he’ll be In his shirt sleeves. And lots of- times he wears glasses, too. The really good family man of sorts, has beefri kept so busy all his life looking for enough dollars to make both ends meet for the missus and the kids that he’s just naturally Injured his sight, that’s all, and he has to wear “specs” or not be able to see much of anything. But he beams through ’em. lor’ bless you, like the benefleient old owl that he Is. and his eyes with funny little wrinkle* at the corners,’laugh through these ’specs and make you laugh book at him as you inqutrd. “Heard anything 'bodt when the boy's going to get back from

France?”

And then maybe the family man’s face

hopes. It all goes a

have the t boy back home with him again

will sober a little but not for long as he tells you he hopes. If all goes well to have the .boy back home with him again

years when the lad gets ring Germany and sleepk A M I V". <*v,4*3 « V*

In a few’short years when the lad gets ing In the former kaiser’s bed* and

through occi

and with

INDIANA DEATHS

Another indication of the demand for luxuries is the Indiana divorce total If there is anything more badly needed than increased production it's decreased consumption. However, prohibition has not yet been accused of sending up the price of buttermilk. The state tax board must have heard about the increase the railroad men got

Judging by the number of life oertifl-

ztes, poor pay in the teachini Mon 1* apt always considered.

BEDFORD. Ind.. August J7.—William T. Mark, ago seventy-nine, a pioneer farmer, living east of the city, is dead of complications due to old age. Three daughters and two eons survive. Timothy Mark, ot near Indianapolis, ia a brother. HUNTINGTON, Ind.. August 27—Mr*. William McClure, age fifty-seven, died at her home her* Monday evening, after an illness of fifteen years. Donald McClure, a eon, who was men-Ing oversea* with the marines .arrived home about two weeks ago. William McClure, an Indianapolis newspaper man: Clinton McClure, of this city; Ethel and Dorothy and Mrs. Ralph Morgan, of this city, and Mrs. C. A. Willson, of Albany, N. Y . all of whom are children of Mrs. Mc-

Clure, survive.

WINCHESTER. Ind., August 87.—Mrs. 8u•anah A. Veal, age eighty-seven, is dead at her home here of tnftrmitie* of age. She we* widow of George W. Veal, a pioneer of

md former treasurer of Rf

by

tbe this

dolph county. Mrs. Veal is survived Mrs. Cora Reynard, a daughter. ANDERSON, Ind., August 27.—Mrs. Esther Haines, age fifty-two. wife of Frank M. Haines, of Anderson, died Tuesday afternoon in a local hospital, where she had undergone an operation. She is survived by her husband

and two daughters

ALEXANDRIA, Ind., August 27.—George

of Alexandria, is dead of ingflrml-

W. Green, .

tie* of age. The funeral will be in charge

r, mv of the Masonic lodge and the funeral and

cats*, poor pay in the teaching profee- burial will take place on Friday at Milton, which

[Chicago Tribune] The President’s appeal for a cessation of industrial warfare, though rather tardy, we trust comes In time to save the country from a grave it not disastrous crisis. It ought to have especial weight with railroad workers, for from the forced enactment of the Adamson law down to the present moment Mr. Wilson has studiously withheld the restraint of his influence where labor has been carried beyond the limits of legitimate demand. If Mr. Wilson, therefore, at last speaks In warning the Intelligent and responsible wage earner must realize that the situation is serious and that it is time foe self-control and foresight. J „ .. The President doe* well to call the attention of the whole pedple, and especially of organized labor, to the gravity of our economic conditions and to warn against the catastrophe which persistent Industrial Conflict, with us huge waste, is preparing for us all. The multiplication of excessive demands and the reckless resort to strikes are piling upon the heavy and unescapable burdens of wartime another burden which all must carry forward. The gains won by labor, if forced without consideration of the general conditions of industry or of the urgent need of ourselves and of the world for increased production, will most certainly be lost when the accounting comes; when busln'iw weakened, reserves reduced, credit strained beyond endurance, culminate in a misfortune felt throughout tne world and by the wage earner first and

foremost.

Labor may well be asked now to consider first that it takes time for industry to adjust itself to new conditions, and second, that, while wage advances will not be lost If industry is enabled to prosper, th* cost of living will recede with the disappearance of the abnormal condition® of wartime u

production Is not hampered-

The most serious phase of our eltuation today is that the radical agitator and extremist, who is either selfishly Intent upon making himself look like a leader or is honestly of opinion that the present system of society should be overturned, is making use of the disturbed conditions of the world to stampede labor. We are certain the real leaders of American labor will be able to defeat thia but they must be suported courageously by the think-

ing rank and file.

American labor has heard the appeal of the President-for Mr. Wilson s words were not merely aimed at the railwav shopmen. American labor ought' also to give hed to a solemn warning not intended for them but none the less worth their attention. Great Britain has been pasting through the same trial as America and still hangs on the brink of disaster. Industrial warfare ha* been waged ^o the point

thinks like that. And then thp family man is off to tell you about his flowers his garden.- And his face glows th pride as he refers to his daughter ju*t home from boarding school to spend her vacation, or maybe just going away to college. But always the children of the family man seem about to do something rather wonderful or hay* .just done something rather wonderful and he likes to tell about it, whatever

tt Is.

And he’s not ashamed, the family man is not, if occasion require, to don a gingham apron and help with the dishes nor sweep, nor stay at home and care for the children while the tired wife and mother goes to a party or a movie or on a visit to her folks to a distant town. He’s that way. He’s never had the tftne nor the inclination to be selfish. He’s beer, too busily occupied

MMi JPVpl with seeing that his wood is kept comfortable and happy to gat ahead much, as a rule. Almost never is he rich but pretty' often he ia in what is known a* “comfortable circumstances." which in these days means that he ha* his home paid for and is a,ble to own a light, cheap, automobile of popular make . which he uses for the purpose of taking the family long excursions into the country where there are many flowers and growing things and brooks and rivers and green meadows. And he always seems to have money enough to allow the folk* to go to the movies. So here, again. i« to the family man in a hearty bumper of grape Juice, and may his tribe Increase until, like the meek, they shall Inherit the earth!

Camera Club Contest

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Members of the Camera Club of Indianapolis will have a contest from the last of August until the middle of January, 1920. A subject In or about the city has bee* Chosen for *ach week. Photographs entered In the contest will be displayed later in the

John Herron Art Institute.

Members of the club are making pictures of the historical places about the city. Duplicates are to be placed

in the state and city librariea

Subjects for the contest are: “DePew Fountain,” August 31; “Sunken Gardens, at Garfield Park,” September 7; 'Memorial Arch/’ September 14; “Eddy Streqt Ghetto" (genre). September 2.1; “Federal Building,” September 28; “Cana! between Fairview and Riverside Parks,” Octobers; “City Hair (front), October 12; "Ellenberger’* Woods.” October 19; “Indiana Avenue” (genre study), October 26; ’’Riverside Park” (south of Thirtieth street), November 2; “Fall Creek Boulevard.” November 9; Interior of New Library,” November 16; “Shoestrinsr Vender” (Vonnegut’s corner). Novelrtber 23: “Art Institute,” November SO; ’’Traffic Cop at Market and Pennsylvania Streets,” December 7; ’’Brookside Park," December 14; “Front of New Library,” December 21; ’Keep Pot Bolling” (genre). December 2A; "City Market” (genre), January 4, 1920, and “Monument Place"

(night), January 11, 1920.

London hospitals last year cost £1,719,030. There are said to be 2,600 establishment* manufacturing various kinds of beverages In Japan. Of this number 100 are located In Tokio. There are now 700.000 British war pensioner*, of whom 1,496 are blind. 10,000 deaf, 24*000 without a limb, and 128,000 with an injured limb. Clarke Strickland, who has been appointed public librarian of Dalton-ln-Furness, England, entered th* eervioe of the council five years ago as a lamplighter. The mining industry affords the largest market tn South Africa for heavy chemicala Before the war these goods were obtained In a large measurWrom Germany. An announcement ot the minister of Hacienda reports that the Spanish revenues collected In the first five Ynonths of 1919 exceeded those of a .similar period of 1918 by 87.726,066 pesetas, equivalent to $16,890,000. A man in London was hit by a taxicab carrying the bishop of Wakefield. After he had been taken home and his Injuries had been dressed he thanked the bishop, declaring. "You have done me a good turn. 1 was dumb before the accident” If England had as many picture theaters as America, in proportion to Its population, there would be 10.000 instead of 4,000 odd nourishing there today. If France had as many sha would have nearly the same number Instead of about 1,600. A profitable business is done in soms large English towns by lending turtles to restaurants. They are permitted to remain In the windows for a few days, and are then taken to different parts of the town as advertisements for other eating houses. t The Cuban people are very fond of music, and the market for phonographs in particular is excellent at this time. Sales depend solely on prices, terms and quality. Phonographs are selling In the local retail stores from |6 to $181. The most popular art those selling from $20 to $30. The owl has no motion In the eye, the globe of which is immovably fixed In its socket by a strong; elastic, hard, cartilaginous case: but, in order to compensate for the absence of motion to the eye, the owl is able to turn its head round to almost a complete circle without moving its body. It has been pointed out to the farmers that the growing of flax, when planted tn rotation with other crops, causes no more exhaustion of the sell than other cereals and not so much a* oats. Flax takes ccnslderably more nitrogen from the soil than wheat or Qfits, but that chemical property car be replaced by rotating the flax with clover. Th# general scheme, planned before th* war. of placing under ground all the wire* acquired frqm the National Telephone Company In 1912. has. according to the London, Times, been started to the Leeds (England) district. Plans also have been made and contracts placed for many other big eentersl A "twisted chimney” dietinguishe# an Elizabethan manor house in the ancient town of Buckingham, England, which is to be offered for sale shortly, and th* auctioneers assert that the secret of this mode of construction is lost, and that tbe only other "twisted chimney,’’ and that less perfect. Is at Hampton Court. The olive oil produced in the region of Bordeaux, France, has a lightness, a perfume, and a particularly delicate savor whidh have given it a worldwide reputation and made it an Important article of export and a source of wealth for Its producers. Most popular Is the Oil from Nice imported und#r the Bordeaux trade-mark. A new field for American tot/sic machines fs now open, as Is shown by a report from Valencia. Spain, that the player piano has met with a favorable reception in that market, and those chiefly in use are of American make, so that there is a growing demand there for music rolls. Musical instrument# used there have In the past been chiefly of French manufacture, and this is especially true of phonographs and similar inatrumenta A Liberty paper tells this story on pne of it# “best citizens,” who is an Inveterate smoker. He was to be married recently and asked his bosom friend to be his best man. The friend went to the preacher for Instructions about just what to do. “Oh,” said the preacher. “the last thing before I begin the marriage ceremony, you Just take his pipe from his mouth and see that It is all filled and ready to light again Just the minute the ceremony 1# ended.”— Kansas City Tlmea

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

It’s Just as Well

DETROIT, August 27 -The former

•’•iicl' 4 '*. ■'nd »>'» manage- tTount Johann ArVllhelm von Loewenel ment committee of the Federation o' Brandenburg Hqhenzollern. forty-nine in...vs » n.u.is has K« v »n warning that years old. a resident^ of Detroit since

“unless sanity returns and production 1311 and

in crease*' 1 suffering and disaster will

soon follow. -

Happily, our condition is not yet so serious as Great Britain. But we are following in her wake and a recklees persistence in industrial warfare will bring us general buslneee collapse in the gains of labor will soon be

•wallowed up*

g nephew of former Emperor ia now Mr. Vaughn Lionel!, ommand changed his name in

name in

Mr. Lionell

tvi[Ham. ...... «... .<* Judge Command changed probate court yesterday,

has his first naturalization papers and says he ‘ is through” with his European relatives. He first came to this country in WM to look after some inveetments for hit uncle. He came again eight

years ago and decided l* *U#«

Idena Hobeon—It depend* on th* contract. Both were need during the war. D. E. G-If the income of a peraon ow*lng 88.000 in Liberty bonds la not tfvor 11,000, are these bond* taxable?—No. V Brown, Hamilton, Ontario—Your 85 hilt IS worth 86 and will be accepted anywhere In the United State# If not muUlaUd. Q. A. M —Tbe two platoon eystem for firemen has been considered in connection with the city budget, which hae not yet been completed. . M. D.-The city library Is financed by public taxation. As to being “short of funds." It frequently feels that it is, as at! other public departments do. P. FenjendJI—It means that th* violin was made by Antonio Stradivariue, of Cremona. If genuine it would be of considerable value, but there are many counterfeit* of ouch

violins.

O. C. T.—General Pershing is no relation of President Wilson. <*) There were drafts during the civil war. <l) The naval fleet now in the Pacific is regarded as sufficient to protect the Pacific coast. G. C. B.—Understudies serving in a theatrical company are paid. There is no such thing as an “average” salary In the theatrical business: personality enter# too much into consideration. Subscriber, Monrovta-Between what ages ere children required by law to attend school?—Between seven and sixteen years unless th# child l# ragutorly employed during school hours, to which esse fourteen is th# limit. N. B —According to the latest army dictionary the 810th motor transport corps I# with the American force* to Germany and is assigned for early convoy;, no sailing date given. (J) Drafted men are generally released In a week or ten day# after returning to the United Stats*, but any drafted man, under the law, may be held for four month# after th# official declaration of peace. Mr. B.—The first Interest on Victory bond# is due December 16. This I* eomewhat more than atx month# from the date of issue, and consequently th# payment will be $311 en 8100, instead of 18.87. t*> Petty officers in the navy correspond to nonoommtaetoned officare In the army. A iiet of them with their .salaries and duties Is too long to be give*

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