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THE LAfiT WEEK

On# week from tomorrow tho RopubUenns of Indiana will ho cal 1*4 on to express their preference ns to preeldentia) candidates. General Wood comet into the etat* today to plead, not for himself, hat for sound policies, law and order, and settled govern* ment. Later will come Senator John* eon to epealt for policlee which he will urge as sound, but which have the approval of William Randolph who is vtoleat in support of Jobaeon in his California campaign. Senator Harding and Governor towden will aiao be heard from. Thee# men. of court#, have nothing in com-

mon with J oh noon

But the beet chance of rebuking and defeating this Hearst invasion is by voting for General Wood. It la hard to think that tha Republicans of Indiana will follow the leadership of Heartt, a Democrat, and give their indorsement to a candidate favored by him. That would be something decidedly novel in Republican politics. It should «*t ho forgotten that a rote for Johnson Is a vote for class hatred and race antagonism, a vote against the poeition assumed by a large majority of Republican senator* on the peace treaty, which they voted to ratify, but wbleh Johnson and a few other bitter-enders voted to reThe m«it who have boon using tho California senator to defeat Wood must by this lime realise that they are playing a very dangerous and desparat# gam#. It is easy to let loose th# forces of unrest, but not so easy to restrain them. A vote fer J'.hnoon would be a vote against Taft, Hughes. Root aad Indeed against all the truly representative itrpublicans, who are for the treaty with moderate remrvfU^a. m <i tn

favor of

Theodore Roosevelt,

tfllha Root, with being g«*y largely responsible for inflaming the mind of the assassin of President McKinley. When th# Republicans of Indiana go to the polls on May 4 they should remember that Hiram Johnson Is the candidate of William Randolph Hearst, Nothing more than that should be needed to decide them

against him. ; i Otn AGE VlRViEftTASCF.B

One of the reasons the switchmen gave for needing more money referred to the necessity flnr putting by something for the time when paying work Is no longer possible on account of old age. Many railroads have retirement pension systems under which old employee are taken oaro of. but othsrs have not. and practically all wage earners are

old ago ao

a matter of personal business, and to make such provision foe it as they

Associ-

ation hso published tho result of a light on the widelean tendency to lot the itself, to live only

are just beginning to realise that their lives are well over half gone and that their active earning power is approaching its maximum. Fortunate, indeed, ia the man who at that age can show substantial provision for his later days and who has had to work so hard for his reserve that he can nof* be persuaded to part with

It. To active but improvident men of ju , tice to acflon> * lthoa g h it was an-

forty-five, who still have ample time to provide for the future, this report should carry a very profitable lesson.

J0HX80X IX NEBRASKA

If the matter of choosing a presidential candidate is ultimately In the hands of the majority who hold their Americanism above class prejudice or alien sympathy. Senator Johnson's victory in Nebraska should not help hie candidacy. As the returns are analyzed it becomes more apparent that his success was due to the votes of that sort of radical represented by the Nonpartisan League, and to the numerically* large pro-German element. He had the backing of the organised radicals in the campaign and bis vote was heaviest where that group had shown evidence of strength Tbs German vote, apparently, went to him aotldly. Some precincts known to be German he carried without an opposing vote. Ordingrily, this support would have gone to Hitchcock and had eo gone for years. Johnaon made enough of an appeal to draw the German element from its traditional and

closely held party allegiance

A primary success made possible by 8 o n*P*n>' had increased its earnings ! who anything less than a real

the votes of those who are not in eymimthy with the spirit and the institutions of the country whoreln they live and have their being may be gratifying to Senator Johnson, but it will not further his candidacy with the body of the peopie. The majority, we esy with Vice-President Marshall, ar# not primarily members of factions, alien sympathiser* or Reds, but Americans who approve of the institutions under which they live and who hold no allegiance except to the country that shelters and supports them. This majority can not be kept by all the trickery of politics from exercising a controlling influence In the primary and the election. It will not give Its support to any candidate who appeals directly or indirectly to alien or ciaee prejudice, and it will b^yispielous of any candidate who. whether he makes any appeal or not. draws the votes of professed anti-Amer-

icans of any stripe.

The situation in Montana emphasises Senator Johnson s attraction for the radical mind. The Nonpartisan League is making headway m that state, its leading afeirft and political adviser is Wellington Rankin, who is also a zealous Johnson worker and creditfd with conceiving a bit of tricky political strategy that may be an important factor in turning the state for th# California senator. Primary victories obtained by such means and with such sVpport are not without significance but they do not, if wil*** r * ,B fcn i r V ,,n * ^.'democracy, sigJ A|fy suce#es4for U»e candidate who “ ] temporarily benefits by them.

The ends of justice must. as. far as i average daily tip of a hotel bellman possible, be met. But it is necessary is fl.4? and the highest tor one day that peace be established everywhere, j amounted to I2.C7. Hotel maids averand that men get back to work. age daily only 14 cents. Omaha -with ■U”,, 1 i 1 !;".! 1 , 1 "■=; 1 11 cents is the only city with a lower

GREED AXD PRICES

Senator Capper, of Kansas, by his speech in the senate Saturday, seems to have stirred the department of

nounced last week that the campaign against extortionate prices had been abandoned. The senator said that conclusive proof of profiteering on a large scale could be found In the margin of profit of great corporations, and declared that it was notorious that the profits of these corporations had never been larger or their “greed more insatiable.” He charged that the speculation in cotton and cotton goods had been “open, flagrant and notorious” The spread, he said, between the price of cotton goods to the consumer and the farm price of cotton had been shown to be 1.800 per cent. In one year alone, according to this authority, the gross income of American corporations rose from 835.000.000,650 to 8«4,000.000,000. Of these corporations some are earning anywhere from 2# to 200 per cent. The papers have printed announcements of stock dividends running as as high aa TOO per cent- Senator Capper said that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana had increased its capital from 81.900.000 to $20,000,000. and had declared a stock dividend of 2,900 per cent. The Natkmel Candy

average. The highest daily average was 20 cents. Porters had an average of 13 cents here. Waiters showed an average of $1.46, the high point being $2.8$. Bellmen receive in wages an average wage of $5 cents a day; maids, 84 cents; porters, 11.27, and waiters, 6L17, all with meals and lodgings. The bureau concludes that the public is paying about two-thirds of the salaries of these hotel and restaurant employes through tips, except the] maids whose tips make up at least half of their earnings.

Ten $1,000 Scholarships Offered by Red Cross

THE HYPHEN AGAJX

•The audience applauded the speaker's denunciation of England." Thus closes a dispatch from Terre Haute, telling of an address made by ' Patrick H. O'Donnell in behalf of ! th# candidacy of Hiram Johnson. There was a war, although many seem to have forgotten it, during which America and England were associated together in the job of whipping the Germans. Before America saw fit to enter the war as a belligerent England's navy was all that kept German warships away from American shores. England and France fought our war for a time. Out of that war came the belief that the

GENEVA, April 2«.—Tea $1,000 sehetor•hips la public health nunking will be offered by the League of Bed Croo* Soeletieo oa the saggeotloa of Henry P. Davtoon, chairman of the board ef governors, to the Bed Croes membership of stricken countries or to nations with inefficient Bed Cross organizations.. The coarse of study will bo carried out at King's College, women's department. University of London, and will begin next October. Traveling expenses to London and return will be provided.

IFMARE UNOPPOSED

RULING OF KOSCIUSKO COURT IN ELECTION CASE.

FIRST AID TO GARDEN LANDS

[United States Department of Agriculture 1 If your thrift garden plot was worked as a. garden last year, Us preparation for this year’s planting will be comparatively easy, according to United States department of agriculture specialists. First, any remains of last year’s crops should either be burned or hauled away. They have a slight value as manure, but often are carriers of disease, and it is best to destroy them. The next Step will be to give the land a thorough coating of manure »f it can be procured. It is then ready for plowing or spading.

In case the land was not planted i last year, but is what mlgfikl, be termed new land, the first step will be to remove any weeds or trash thai would interfere with plowing or spading. Sometimes the land is covered with stones or broken brick#, and these necessarily must either be hauled off or piled to one side or one end of the plot. In some cases, good substantial stone fences have been built along the sides of the plots from the stones picked from the land. In the war-devastated zones of France, gardens ar* now growing Inside the foundations of ruined, houses. Every foot of ground is being utilized by these people for producing something to eat.

New Is the Cherry Blossom Tfsto Now is the cherry is blossom. Love. Love of sty heart, with the apple to fellow . Over the village gt nightfall now Merrill/ veers sad darts the swallow At nightfall now tn the dark msrsit gram Awakes the ..korus that sings okl sorrow The evening star It dSm for the dew And the apple and UJae will bloom tomorrow. The honeysuckle is red on the rock The willow floats over the brook like a feather: In every shadow some love lie* hid. And you and I in th* world together. _—Mary Eleanor Wilkin*.

Derailed Truck Crosses Bridge; Jumps on Again

Federal Charges Upheld in 49 Out of 50 Cases

COURTY BOARD SUSTAINED

[Special to The Indianapolis News) WARSAW, Ind.. April 2«.->Judge F.

E. Bowser, in the Kosciusko circuit court Saturday afternoon, upheld the action of the Kosciusko county board of election commissioners in omitting from Indiana primary election ballots the names of all candidates who are unopposed. This ruling was given in sustaining a demurrer in the action of thirty Democratic candidates against the election board to mandate

hyphen must go. that there was no the board to have th# ballots reprtntnjpi * * e< i an< i t0 have the names of all can-

room in this country for arvy man

over 191$ by 54S per cent. Burns Brothers, the largest retail coal dealers in the country, had increased their profits from 2ffe cents a ton in 1918 to 40 cents a ton. And th* earnings of the American Ice Company had increased 282 per cent, in th* lost four years. " . | There have been many attempts to explain the'high price of shoes. Senator Capper showed that th# American Hide and Leather Company had earned three and one-haif times as much as in 1914; that the profits of the Central Leather Company last yt ar were double those for the same months in the year preceding, and that the profits of the EndicottJ< l.nson Shoe Manufacturing Corpora!!or rose from $2,114,430 in .1015 to 19,791.580 in 1919. These ar* but a few specimens. But sugar should not be overlooked. The senator said: At this moment the most brasen challenge we have had in this saturnalia of greed comes from the gamble rs in sugar. A dbrner has evidently been formed right under the eyes of the department of justice. The canning season raid is on. For years the sugar Interests have annually and openly and shamelessly robbed American housewives during the canning

season.

The attorney-general has, said the senator, been setting mousetraps, when he should have used beartraps. And In «he face of this showing congress Is proposing to put s tax on sales to raise a bonus that should not be granted — thus still further widening th* margin within which these men may operate. Perhaps one ought not to be surprised at this exhibition of greed, but it is surprising that supposedly shrewd and able business men should not realise that this is ths worst sort of business. Men of their class talk much of the dangers of inflated credit, enor-

THE EUROPE AX PROBLEM

Gradually th# European problem is being worked out. It is announced that the British and French pre-

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poUoy to be pursued toward

Germany, end that, they will shortly make public a declaration on the subject which, as Mr. Lloyd George says, "covers everything.*’ These conclusions wilL it t* believed, be approved by the Italian premier. Also the premiere have agreed to establish the Independent republic of Armenia, which th# United State* on Saturday very promptly recognised. Th* new etat# include* all of the present Armenia, and extends some distance east into th* Caucasus, Including

parts of th* provinces of Kars, Eri-

vsa and Klisabethpol. and the southern part of th* province of Tiflis. Rrivan is to be th* capita!, and it Is in that city that the present do facto government is established. The Armenian republic will contain *$,000 square miles of territory aad n population of about 2,000,060. Whether Armenia Is as targe as H should be.

pinched iy things. > cover the idle-

w

u U.,, for th.tr ohiIdr.n* Ctthlhly a j man ha. d.votbd hi. .a.r«l« aad mon.y to «<T1n, a tood .tart In life to four children may not be said to hev# mad* no investment to insure him against want in old age. The discovery that at the age of for-ty-five approximately six men in every ten are self-supporting but without resources ia however, not far from th* conclusion of almost any man who will take the trouble to go over the career# of men with whose lives he is familiar. At this age men

that wh * , ber its boundaries are at rate-

‘ gicaiiy sound, and whether it has sufficient access to the sea is by no means clear. It is admitted that the lory is rather constricted, but theory was that it was as largo as th# people were capable of administering and defending.. But the stnte might have been more easy to

10 ars defend had It been made larger. Hownrestm. this question doos not soom to

have been definitely answered, as President Wilson hss boon asked to

b ' lt arbitrate the difference as to boun-

daries, and to accept a mandate. Armenia. It should be added, will have support of the league of nations. . some progress is being made, slow, it may be, but perhaps as rapid as could be expected. With the Flume problem about to be solved. Armenia established and the allies tn agreement — when they seemed likely to fail out — as to Germany, there la some reason to be encouraged. W* think that there will be gendraJ approval of the following statement

made by Premier Nitti:

Peace must be brought back to all Europe and Europe given back to work. We must make peace at once and ovary where, or we are fated to th* direat catastrophes. Thera is only one means to attain this result — conquered and conquerors must be

made one.

W# aay that there will be general approval of this statement, but only on the understanding that conquerors are not to be converted into conquered. a* such men as Keynes propose. To make conquered and conquerors one on th* basis of injustice might bring a temporary and fevered peace. But no peace can have any of tho elements of permanence that is not founded on justice and righteousness. If Germany can not pay all that she ought to pay. and ft ia admitted— eras admitted In the treaty — that she can not make compensation for all the wrong she has done and the loss which she has Inflicted, then there must be a reduction of th* bill against her. But there should ho no presumption indulged in her favor.

ail they can tp hinder the process of adjustment, aad to perpetuate the unrest of which they talk so fearsomely.

THE IXTERCBURCH DRIVE Thirty co-operating Protestant denominations began a financial drive yesterday and will conclude next Sundsy. An attempt will he mad* to pledge $3$6,?77,5?2. ' This is th* financial aim of the interchurch world movement, which is described as one of the churches, by the churches and for the churches. “Its object is to enabio the Protestant churches of the United States to contribute their due share toward the evangelism of the world by means of co-operation,” says an official announcement. Under its constitution the movement can not have anything to do with any movement to promote organic unton among the churches For the present those who are behind this campaign ar* content to let each denomination exercia* control over Its own policy. But there Is a feeling that whii* the churches may retain their individuality. they can work fa harmony to reach the goal to which ail aspire. The $210,777^72 will be spent on home and foreign missions, education. Sunday schools, ministerial salaries and pensions, aad hospitals and homes. The average annual wage paid ministers ts $*3T. so It ts small wonder young men are not entering th* ministry. They may be consecrated to th* cause, but they can not live without means. Th* appeal Is being made to nonchurch members on a business baai*. An eastern authority recently declared that the greatest factor in business life today ia religion aad that the business man's rest security is the righteous*ees of the people of his community. People who have made advancement have been Christian In faith. On* medical missionary ia India or Chinn may be the means of saving thousands of liven tn America by checking a disease at its scarce. The interchurch world drive appeals to church members because they believe fa religion. It may appeal to the nonchurch member because he will decide It Is good hustneas.

American. Comes now Patrick H. O’Donnell aad seeks to advance the candidacy of Johnson by denouncing England. O'Donnell spoke once before at Tomlinson hall, on the night of May 21. 191$, before the United States entered tho war. Whit* th* meeting was getting under way somebody shouted “hurrah for the kaiser.” Among other things he said: Recently I addressed another meeting where the Irish faces looked as German as they do here tonight. I am an Iriah-Aip«**lc*n hyphenated, I suppose. If you want to know what you are ask the howling dervish of Sagamore Hill. He will tell you. Later on he said: *T would be disloyal to humanity and to my people if I did not wish that the enemies of Great Britain should be supremely successful.” That was another way of saying that he hoped Germany would win the war. When America and England fought side' by side the tongues of such men as Patrick H. O'Donnell were stilled. They did not say openly that they hoped the enemies of England would win because England's defeat meant America's defeat. The war Is over now. The hyphenate has come back and with his coming he seeks’ the support of those who hate England and love Germany, and that Johnson may become President. Shameful is a method of campaigning that feeds the fires of race hatred, that hunts the votes among those who are for the fatherland first and the adopted land second. Let him and those who believe with him go to France and see the cemeteriea where thousands and thousands of American soldiers lie buried. *

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WASHINGTON, April lA—Govern-

[ Special to The IAdi

Apr

bound Baltimore A Ohio freight train! pure food laws were upheld in fortynarrowly escaped a wreck here Sat-(nine out of fifty cases recently deurday night when a car truck Jumped elded In federal courts, it was anthe track about 200 feet west of the nounced today by th* bureau of bridge across White river. Th* truck chemistry, department of agrlcul-

splintered ties, tore out th# west end puj#of the guard rail and cut every tic]

in the fridge, and when it rescs id the frog of the sidetrack at the local station, about 200 feet east of the

SCRAPS

Ten actions were based on the adulteration of tomato products, including catsup. The most frequent

_ _ charge was that of the use of moldy

bridge! remounted the rails. or rotten tomatoes is preparing the } 0n ^ n romInYnt* n7riodicaTdevo’ted”#*-

The train crew had no knowledge products. ^ to

- - . .... - --- Stock feed made from cottonseed j cluslvely to th# interest of women.

meal or cake was the basis of eleven • Xear i y 250.000 persons use Charing

Heal velvet is made entirely of silk. George Eliot realized only $50 from the sale of her first novel. The Highland clan Campbell wears the sweet gale as its family badge. Indians mix blueberries with dried buffalo meat in preparing peramlcan. In the days of the Pharaohs eoro* of the most sacred religious offices

were held by women,

Louisiana hss nlnteen registered

women statisticians, which exceeds

the record of any other state. There are enough babies born in

New York city every year to popu-

late four cities like Roanoke. Va. As late as 1880 England had only

of the accident, and it Is not yet known definitely what train had the narrow escape. When it struck the switch at th# west end of the station track. Just before climbing back on the rails, the truck cut off every bolt holding the switch rail to the switch stand, snd railroad men are surprised that it did not force the siding open and pile up the train.

TIPS

Some time ago the United States department of labor conducted an Investigation Hi twenty-six cities aad twenty states to determine tit* average amounts given in tips to hotel and restaurant employes daily. Data j were supplied fey 182 hotels and 252 restaurants. The government does not vouch for the correctness of th# figures ns it is believed that the estimates are too low. In Chicago the hotel and restaurant association declined to give any information. This led the bureau representatives to suspect that the tipping evil is worse in Chicago than In New York. In Indianapolis It is shown that the

Terre Haute reports twenty-seven building permits issued for garages in March and nineteen for homes. The housing shortage as it affects automobiles seems .in a fair way to being supplied. People seem to think that the new csr must have a home whether people do or not. Indianapolis is expected to manufacture about 96,500 motor care this year, valued at 5167,000,000. This makes Indianapolis a close second to Detroit snd the claim is mad* that it makes mere high-priced cars. Th* prediction of 50~c*nt gasoline has no effect on the demand. Although foreign tiade was still hampered last year, 15.285 commercial cars, valued at $35,425,437, and 67.145 pleasure cars, valued st $7$,700,627, were exported. The export business tn auto parts amounted to $42,581,186 and in tires to 828.924.659. Canada was America’s biggest customer, with England second, then Australia. Other countries ti> which over 2,000 pleasure cars were shipped were Brasil, Mexico, Cuba, Denmark. Argentina. British India. Japan. New Zealand. British South Africa and the Philippine islands. France bought 866 pleasure car* and 2,521 commercial cars in Amestca last year. If Indianapolis makes 96.500 automobiles this year the pedestrian will have to do eome additional dodging. If the cost of living went down as rapidly as the swollen streams the peopie would not have so much to worry about — Pat O'Donnell says he Is going to earv* hts way to liberty and there stands Hiram Johnson waiting for the second joint. It would be fine if arrangements oould be made to have the weather man celebrate May day. Doubtless the corporations that are declaring snob big dividends can explain how such things In nowise increase the cost of Hvtng. People have been expected to believe other explanations that were quite as difficult. But until the weather man can get the weather under control again, not a© many people will be interested in overalls as in overcoats. Now that New York has its 2.75 per cent, beer law. it isn’t clear what It is going to do with it. Samuel Gompars'# criticism of the labor nonpartisan movement in Colorado adds another to the reasons why wage earners are likely to vote as they think and not as they are told. Th* break in clothing prices in New York helps some, but after paying car far# from Indiana to New York a man won't save much, at that. The firemen who would rather go to jail than work might look at the proposition from another angle If they found they had to do both. It appears that a good many of the Striking railroad employes would like to go back to work, but hesitate for fear cf be : ng regarded as quitters for the second time within a few weeks < "" \ * There's no praise for th# police department tike a check to the pension

fund.

Carranza ts probably glad to know that Buck Pershing is not on one of those warships.

didates placed on the ballots. Based on Primary Law. Judge Dowser's ruling was based on a proviso in the state primary election law. which sets out that whenever candidates in any political subdivision are unopposed for any office there shall be no primary, and the names of such candidates shall be certified as though an election had In fact been held. A contention between Democrats and Republicans of Kosciusko opunty on th# matter of election of a county council also was decided by judge Bowser, who held that there can be no election of councllmen this

year.

Both parties have a full list of candidates in the field, the Republicans, however, having contended that there should be no election. By an overeight of both parties in 1918 no county councllmen were elected and th* members elected in 1914 remain in office. Democratic leaders said that new councllmen should he elected this

year to replace th# holdovers Rales in Councllmen Case.

Judge Bowser, who is a Democrat, also ruled that the law specifically provides that councllmen be elected every four years and hold that there is no vacancy until 1922. In the mandamus action against Russell Butler, county clerk, to force hini to publish a new election notice giving the names of all candidates. Judge Bowser ruled that It is mandatory that the clerk place all names in the notice, but sustained the demurrer of the defendant because the list of plaintiffs included the names of seven candidates for county council for

which there is no election.

SHELBYVILLE MAN WRITES . OF CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Lieutenant W. W. Sedgwick, Member of Russian Railway Service Corps, Stationed In Maachurla. [Special to The Indianapolis News] SHELBYVILLE. Ind., April 16.— Lieutenant W. W. Sedgwick, of this elty. a member of the Russian railway service corps, stationed at Buchedu, Manchuria, in a letter to an uncle, Riley Sedgwick, of this county, tells of his observations of conditions in Russia. Lieutenant Sedgwick arrived at Vladivostok January 20, and now is train dispatcher on the Chinese Eastern Railway at Buchedu. which is in Chinese territory, 300 miles west of Harbin and 1,000 miles from Vladivostok. "The whole country is overstocked with productions which the people are unable to get to market.” Lieut. Sedgwick writes, "because of the military organizations using their cars for the transportation of supplies and ammunition. He says that the conditions exieting in that territory are indescribable, adding that Americans and others now are attempting to eliminate a practice of whipping railroad employes who make a mistake in their work. Employes are never discharged when mietakes are made, it is said, but are tied to a post and flogged. ‘’very strange to say,” he writes, “the poor devils seldom show any trace of appreciation for our having helped them. We have been able to do more good without the army than with it. and the Russians, almost to a man. are friendly toward the Americans at all times.” FUNERAL OF FORMER SLAVE

Mrs. MartaAa Howell Came to luaiana by Undergeonad Railroad. (Special to The Indianapolis News) ANDERSON, Ind., April 26.—Funeral services for Mrs. Marinda Howell, age ninety, a former slave, were attended by more than 200 white men and women Saturday at Pendleton, where Mrs. Howell lived since the civil war. The servic*, in the Methodist Episcopal church, was conducted by the Rev. J. E- Williams, of Indianapolis. In tho audienc* was the Pendleton poet of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr*. Howell was th* laet member of her family in Pendleton. With more than forty other colored persons, all of whom had been in slavery in the south, Mrs. Howell was brought to Pendleton by the so-called underground railroad near the close of th# civil war and at that time was the subject of much political discussion. Eventually all of the colored families except two left Pendleton. Mrs. Howell’s children were grsduated from the Pendleton schooL William Walker, a student In the University of Illinois, is a grandson of Mrs. HoweiL

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KIND WORD FOR WILLIAM. German Cfcareb Synod Thanks For-

mer K miser for Works.

BERLIN, April 26 (by th* Associated Press).—A vote of thanks to former Emperor William as the last temporal head of the Protestant state church, was given at tha closing session of the annual general synod. The synod paid a tribute to the former monarch and his consort for having "in many ways testified to their practical Christian spirit by works of love

toward their bretlfren.” »

The synod passed a resolution to the effect that th* future path of th* church lay in the direction of a state free church embracing all th* German peoplea. It added that while the church would welcome within its fold adherents of all political parties it would itself avoid all politics.

Plans For Corn Content.

[Special tc The Indianapolis Moos] HUNTINGTON. lad., April 26.—At

a meeting of the board of directors of the Huntington County Farmers' Federate Saturday afternoon plans were made for a five-acre corn contest, and a system of membership cards for th* federation was approved. The county federation will offer $2$ for prizes in the five-acre corn contest, in addition to the buttons awarded by the state for the heaviest productions. The cost of the corn will not count in the judging of the yield this year. It is announced. It was announced that women might join the federation, pay-

ing dues of $1 a mar.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

SHBLBYYILLB—Company I. Indians state rrulitis. of this city, after thirty months' service, has been mustered out. Frank W. Fagel was captain of the company. JEFFERSONVILLE—A meetin* for members of all women's dube of the city has been called to form s woman's civic dub. The primary purpose is to establish s restroom for women snd yirls. The Jeffersonville Young Business Men's Club is supporting the project. SOUTH BEND—Suit to set aside the will of Mrs. Catherine C. Wenger has been filed tn the St. Joseph superior court by Adah Hildebrand Bowman and others, who desire to obtain part of the $125,000 estate. Emma Studehaker Bowman is named as principal defendant. LAFAYETTE—Fifty angry men. women and children participated in the pursuit of a "Jack the peeper" Sunday night in the vicinity of Tenth and Cincinnati streets here. The chase led through yards and alleys for several blocks and a suapwet was rounded up, but later was released by the police. SEYMOUR—Out ief 509 votes cast in a special election here on the construction of a new sewer system at an estimated coat of $200,000. eighty-five were for th# improvement and 484 opposed it. The Chamber of Commerce opposed th project at this time because plans and specifications h&v* not been prepared. PRINCETON—After winning high favor in grand opera in New York. Crawford Noble declined an opportunity for a New York debut in concert, and sang his concert premiere in Princeton, his native city.

critics. He is a son of E. B. Noble, now of New Albany. Miss. SOOTTSBURG—The question of a new building for the Lexington High school is agitating that community. Affidavits for the removal from office of members of the township advisory board were filed in the Scott circuit court here. The affidavits, however, were quashed on the ground of not being specific. Affidavit for the removal of the township trustee now has been filed. The hearing has been set for June 14. EVANSVILLE—Funkhouser Post of the American Legion here has decided to invite Theodore Roosevelt to come to Evansville and dedicate trees, which were planted recently in Sunset park here aa memorials to V&nderburg county soldiers who lost their lives in the world war. The exercises probably will be held Memorial day. Franklin D'Olier. national commander of the American Legion, also will be invited to make an address. CRAWFORDS VILI.E—V. D. Brammer. boys' work secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here, has resigned to accept a similar position with the Y. M. C. A. at Aurora. 111. He goes to Aurora May 1. Mr. Brammer. whose home Is in Richmond, has been boy’s work secretary here eighteen months. He was in Y. M. C A. work at Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss ., during the war.... George P. Stoddard, secretary of the association here for the last four yearn, leaves July 1 for France, where he will do Y. M. C. A. work. VINCENNES—James M. O’Donnell, local sewer contractor, has been named defendant

in

Surety

hains* tkat h ft# charBe ! Cross underground station, in London.

four leisures. . Spoilage was th* tlon.

char

arge made in each seisure. Other prosecutions and leisures In

eluded a shipment of sardines, which were destroyed, and three shipments

of olive oil adulterated with cotton- j the balls.

tlon.

An Indoor golf game that has been Invented Includes a plush mat for a tee and a targetlike pocket to catch

seed oil.

Seven actions were based on the charge of adulteration and milbranding of proprietary medicines.

INDIANA DEATHS

company alleges th O., forced it to pe inf the corporate

iay $17,411.68, indemnify-

■ corporation against losaea alleged to hare been incurred when O’Donnell and his partner. Charles O. Thorn berry, abandoned s sewer contract Job in that city in March. 1018. .. Sunday was s big day tor the Eagles of Vincennes, Blckncll and Washington when a joint Initiation was held here. Two hundred candidates were initiated. The work was given by William DeJean. of this city, district president of

the lodge.

KUNCIE—A campaign to obtain $65,000 In subscriptions with which to complete the amount necessary to buy the Home Hospital here, lor a coramunitv institution, will be pushed until Friday, when the option on the hospital expiree. The property will cost $105,000. and it ia estimated that Its true

value.

ia $350,000.

including equipment,

The 1 arrest subscriptions to the fund thus far are as follows: Amos Whitely, Sr.. $15,000: Dr. George Andrews, head of the hospital. $10,000, City of Muncie. $15,000; Elmer Whitely. $5,000: W. B. Stewart. $6,000. and Dr. C M. Mix $500 Commencement exercises will be held at the Matthews High School tn Grant county. Friday. and the baccalaureate sermon will be d-livgred Sunday, by the Rev. J. W., Mc-

Kinner.

COLUMBUS—The jury in the Taggart will case, aent on change of venue to the Bartholomew circuit court from the Brown circuit court, brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs Saturday. The suit was to set aside ths will of Evangeline Taggart, disposing of an estate valued at $6,000. Five of the never children wens ignored in the will. A motion will be made for e new trial... At a joint meeting of the commiseioners of Bartholomew, thclby Sod Johi

counties bare Saturday.

r and John th# boards $awin road

granted the petition for the

on the lines of the thro* counties. The following viewers were appointed: For Bartholomew. C. C. Millar; for Johnson, William A. Bridges, and for Shelby. S. P.

Harris.

LOGANSPORT—Mias Edna McCullough, s local young woman, haa been selected as

Cullough was graduated from

Me

the Illinois

Training School for Iterseg in Chicago in 1018. and since that time haa been engaged in health aervice work in the slums of Chicago. She will succeed Miee Gladys Brandt, and will take up her work May 1. Th# Federated Shop Crafts of Logans port have paeeed resolutions condemning overall clubs. The crafts contend that the clube will create a shortage of overall*, and that those who must wear them because of the nature of their work will be for.**! to

ANDERSON. Ind.. April 26/—The body of Henry H. Parker, age sixty-one. of Anderson. who died Sunday in a hospital st Lafayette. was brought to the home here. He was a native of England, but had lived here more than thirty years and was sin active member of the Seventh Day Adventist church. Surviving are a widow and eight children. Mrs. John Moose. Mrs. Edward Higgins, Mrs. Daniel Rigga, Miss Florence Parker, Miss Marie Parker, George Parker. William Parker and Ralph Parker, all of Anderson and vicinity.. . Daniel Stone, age sixty-one, proprietor of the Stone hotel at Summitville. is dead. He had been sick several weeks. A widow survives.... Edward Gourley, age twenty-alx. is dead at his home here. A widow and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jeese Gourley. survive. .. The body of Samuel Hanger, age seventy-four, formerly of Vn derson arrived hero from Los Angelas. Cm..

Sunday.

GRANDVIEW. Ind . April 26 John C. Beard, age seventy-three, father of G. A. Beard. Evansville sporting goods dealer, and otty garden supervisor. Is dead at his home here. He was a veteran of the rival war and was one of the pioneers of Spencer county. For many years he was engaged In the mercantile business in Grandview and served several years as postmaster here.

He ia aurvived by three eons.

EVANSVILLE. IndT^tpril 26.—Arad McCutchan, age eighty-aix, one of the pioneers of Scott township. Vanderburg county, is dead at his home near this city. He was prominent in politics in Scott township lor s number of years L. J. Butler, a civil war veteran and former resident of Evansville. is dead at his home at Henderson. Term The body will be brought here for bunal. He is survived by one son. 8. C. Butler, of Evansville. .. .William Buesirif, age forty-two. a printer, is dead at his home hero. A widow and his parents suryive. ...Mrs. S. T. Fuquay, age sixty-three, is head here. The body will be taken to Boon vine for burial. Two daughters sur-

vive.

ROCKFORT. ind.. April 36.—Mrs. Edna T. Medcajf. age forty-throe, is dead of paralysis here after an illness of more than

She is survived by one brother. . . . ana Goldman, age sixty-seven, is ok port. The body will be taken or burial. She is survived by

seven children,

a year. ■■■ Mrs. Georgia! near Bo ^ ■

to Eckerty for burial.

dead

southern part of this county, died Saturday

PV T*mu<>h'blri^r pri«.TThe ’mc^be^ FoWjhiMroiL Hawy Shsnnon. Morton

^GREENSBrRO, fln?*lgK" who died hero Friday,^was’ hek? today. He is survived by a widow, nine children and three brothers. MADISON. Ind.. Aoril 26—Peter Bonnett. axe sixty, died Saturday at his home at North Madison. He was injured a year ago in a runaway accident and never recovered. Three brothers and two sisters

survive.

GREENFIELD. IndTApril 26.-^Io*eph B, Thomas, age seventy-three, died Saturday at his home in this city PRINCETON. IpdTTpnl 26—Mrs. Ann Murphy, age eighty flye died of peritonitis st her home north of here Saturday. Seven children survive. RICHMdND, Ind.. April 26—Thomas G. Dunbar, age seventy-one. died of pneumonia Saturday at his home in Centerville. His wife died of the same disease last Monday. Mr, Dunbar had conducted a hardware and grocery store in Centerville for many years. Ha also was associated with a brother in th* coal business. Two children survive. . John Hallowel). age seventy-three, is dead at his home in this city after a long illness. He conducted a monument business here for thirty y*sro A. M. Burr, age eighty-two. died Saturday at his home in Dublin after an illness of several months. He was a printer and newspaper publisher and spent sixty years of his life at that business. Mr. Burr conducted the Wsyne Register at Dublin for more than forty years. KLWOOD. tod.. April 26—The body of WllBem J. EHerman, age sixty-two. who died at bis home here, was taken to Huntington county, where he formerly lived, for burial Sunday. A widow and five children survive. Mrs, Harry Honecker. of Indianapolls: Mrs. William Prifogle of Connersville, and Mrs. James Meyncke. of Tioton county, sre sisters, and Charles Ellerman. of Huntington, ia a brother. MUNCIE. Ind. April 26.—Mrs. Eliza Jane Jester age seventy-four, wife of Joshua Jester. Is deed at her home near Yorktown after an illness of ten days.* She was born in Delaware county and had spent her entire Ilf* hers. Besides the husband, a son Dora Manser, survives John Reea, Jr., of Delaware county, and member of a widely known family, died at Ms home near New BuruMrton. Saturday. He is survived by two stows*, Mrs. T. B. lorn* and Mra. Matilda

Addison.

NEW ALBANY. Ind April 20—The funeral of Charles A. Jones, eon of J. Evan Jones, of Temple, who died in a hospital in England of wounds received in Franc* and whom body was the first to be sent from overseas to this city, was held yesterday. Bennie Sloan Post No, 28. American Legion, acted »« report to the ^wmetery and a detachment from Camp Zackary Taylor. Louisville. Ky.. fired a salute at the grave. Th# service was conducted by the Rev. W. H. Hcwerton. pastor of Main Street Methodist

Episcopal church.

TIPTON. Ind.. April 26—John Cole, age twrnty-th—#. is dead of tuberculosis at his bom-! in this city. A widow and two small children survive.... Mrs. Angrline Hcnnold. age rtghty-four of near Atlanta, in the

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...... —. »-,•» and East Union and

'£-£ZS&£?!?Z2i

the new raiment.

TAX COLLECTION COST. Pat at 63 Cemim mu $16® by Bureau at Revenne. 'WASHINGTON. April 26.—Collection of the nation’# taxea laat year coat the government 62 cent# for each $160 in revenue, according to a statement by the bureau of internal revenue. Collection* for the year totaled $3 850.156,006, and exjenditures in collecting that amounted totaled $20,572,606. the statement said, adding Uxat report# that the bureau had expended aa high aa $0 per cent, of the Income tax collected for. adminiatmtive purpoaea were untrue.

at her home in Union City,

died a few month ago.

Bible Classes ctoas Campaizn. [Special to The Indianapolis Mews] NEW ALBANY. Ind., April 36.—A street parade yeeterday in which more than 1.200 men took part, closed a five weelu* membership campaign by the men # Bible classes of the Protestant churches her*. Two

than 1.000. The Glad Hand claaa. of Wesley Chapel Methodist church won a banner for the largest percentage gjUn in attendance and the live Wire Hass of DePauw Memcrial Methodist church received a banner for the largest numerical gain. The parade ended at Scribner park with a public mass meeting and an address by Dr. Ben H. Bruner, of Louisrilte, Ky.

Her husband

If everybody gives a thread, the naked will have a ahirt,” ia a Ruasian proverb illustrating their belief in co-operation. Alabama's ftr*t woman notary public was a Miss Feeble*, of Birmingham. who waa commissioned by the Governor in 1892. The cord front hundred# of thohaanda of discarded life preervera in England is being removed to he manufactured Into linoleum. An electric Implement for retouching photographic negatives enables a user to do more than twice aa much work as with hand tools. Th# One-hundred-and-nlneteenth Psalm was written aa an acrostic poem, a form of poetry common among tne ancient Hebrew*. Women are th* real purchasing agents of the United State*—they buy 90 per cent, of the commodities used in the American home. Norwegian interests will conduct an alrplai e freight and passenger service between points in their own country and to neighboring countries. A vessel Is being built for the French government at New Orleans of structural shapes consisting of twn huge metal cylinders side by side. Tf either Is damaged the other side* will keep the boat afloat. Wine-grape growers of California are proceeding to cultivate the'r vines as though nothing happened. They declare they will continue to do so until the eighteenth addition to the Constitution, of the United States is fought to the last ditch. It is stated that the German libraries are greatly handicapped by the lack of money to maintain the Institution*. German tcientlflc publications are going out of business and the scientific books of German origin ar* being bought for the libraries of other countries. With the elimination of German competition every cutler in Sheffield. England, is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Fiv* hundred new cutlery firm# sprung into existence at Sheffield recently In a few days. Every cutler who can get the necessary machinery Is starting in buslnefs for himself. The paper currency of thirty principal countries of the world at th* beginning of the war aggregated a little over $7,000,000,000. at the end of the war. November, 1918, it was 140,000.000,000. and in December, 1919, it totalled 151,000.000,000. thea# figure* being in round terms and exclusive of th# currency issues of the Bolshevik government, which alone ar* estimated at $34,000,000,000. • According to American Art New*, the sculptor# complain that there is little work at present in their line of endeavor, afld even the loading men ar* ‘‘waiting.’* The commemorative war statues and patriotio groups that were to decorate cities, towns and oemstertes, have not thus far materialized. Th# unsettled condition# of the country, they contend, which are holding up building, are accountable for the preaent ‘do'drums." .In the early days of its hl'atevv the earth grew rapidly by th* addition of meteoric matter. It ia ati’l growing in the same manner, though scarcely to an appreciable extent, for the mass of meteoric matter added yearly ia recokened to be only 20,000 tons. In the courss of ages th* larger planets have swept no practically all the fragments of t - original disruption, and the only available source of aupnly of meteoric matter seems to be that brought by comets. An English scientist haa, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine, worked out a method of taking exact measurement of color. Black, white and gray are photometrically compared with standard white, and their compoultton expressed in percentage of black or whit*. A color, such aa red, is compared with a whit* surface in a pure red tight. If th# red app«®rs darker, it le matched with a gray surface under a red tight, the percentage of black then being the earn* in both. Assigning th* number 25 to red, such a composition aa cinnabar would be signified by the figure* 25 .04 18, meaning red with 4 per cent, of whit# and 18 per cent. ®f

black.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

F. D.-—How can I ret in touch with the .tale bee inspector nearest ray hom*’Wrlt* to th* state entims ertrt. SUtehou*Indianapolis, who is also chief iaapector of

apiaries.

E. v. H.—I have just finished roedtnr ••The Mystery of the Yrlio* Room.*’ by Gaston Lsroux. and would Ilk* to know

PERU Ind-. April 26 —Funeral services .

tor RiW Redmon. axe sixty-fire, who was j about other books by the same author found dead aittine under a tree on the farm Wrtlw to hlt pub Usher ■ ■ |

of Geor-o E. Redmon Friday, wer* h*'d to- > day The coroner pronounced death due

to heart disease.

HUNTINGTON, tod J Hardman, age serenfr-three. died of para 1 /- sis at h 5 * h*me in Lancaster township Sat urday afternoon. Surrtring are two daugh-

ters and two sons.

AURORA. Ind.. April 26.—Mrs. Maty A. hChipper Wridner. age sixty-throe widow of William C. Weidner. is dead of drepsr and heart disease st her home here. She ts survived by a daughter. Mias Elizabeth A. Weidner. deputy under the county treasurer. LAWRENCEBURG Ind . April 26—Mr*. Mmnle Henke Schnaman. as# fifty-nine, wife of Henry F. Schnaman. a cement contractor. died of cancer in th!* dtr yesterday. Brrdes her husband, throe brothers

and a sister survive.

R£NDALLYILLE tod . April 'JO.--Era*-tus Jeremiah Grate, age seventy-five, a rtvtl war veteran, died of parm’yal* at hi* home near South Milford yesterday He waa the son of John J and Elizabeth Grate and was bem in Lagrange county A

widow and five children survive.

Busy Ufe.

[Washington Siarl "YOu think eight hour# a day is enough work for any ntanF’ “Plenty." answered Cactus Jo*. That leaves him only sixteen hours to pity poker and get ai title sleep.''

W W—To whom should I write about

ML,

it. will help to obtain his release R E.—Can s widow of a civil war veteran who ha* been married again and divorced obtain a pension*—Probably <2* Whom should she see about it *—Make application through a pension claim agent. W. D. D —Plea** print or tell m# where I can find a poem entitled "When the Mn> tatar’e Coming to Dine. "--We know of no poem of this tife, but Joseph C, Lincoln wrote a poem 'When the Minister Come* to Tea," which may be seen in any bbra y having » collection of popular verse. 8. G L-—How can I get an article pat ented with least cost *—Ibmptoy a patent attorney, who will vdvise at to the probable cost of the process, which depends some what upon the chaiactc# of the search and who is skilled in making the most of tus patentable feature* of th# coutnvaacs you

have tn mind.

C. E. H —Where there la a joint deed tc propertv held by parents of «o# child. »h*t part of the property would go to th* eh.le who i# of age, in the event one parrot d***? —None all of it goes to the surviving parrot. t'D OouM on* of three parent* make * will ao that one-half of th* property gore to the child?——No.

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