Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1920 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATUEDAY, MAY 29, 1920,

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to the Washington politicians, who have opposed Wood from the start, and would be glad to supply a candidate of their own kind for the people to vote for. Probably the politicians are also chagrined because a half dozen or so widely known biographers hare written books dealing with the life and work of Wood and them books have been publirfied by reputable publishing companies, but they could hardly get at that

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POUT ICS ASD I RE LAS D The house foreign affairs committee yesterday by a vote of 11 to 7 adopted a resolution ‘Viewing with grave concern” conditions in Ireland, and “expressing sympathy with the aspirations of the Irish people for a government of their own choice.” Six Republicans and live Democrats voted for It. and five Republicans and two

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THE VETO BCBTAISED

The Knox resolution was yesterday dsfegtsd In tbs house through IU fsilurs to reeelte the two-tWrds vote necessary to pass ft over the veto of the President. There were fl* sy»* ** against 1IJ noss, and this was twentynine votes short of the required twothirds. Only two Republicans voted to uphold the veto «— Keeley, of Miehigan. and Puller, of Massachusdts. Heventesn Oomocrpta voted for the resolution — two Idea than supported It When drat presented. Of these seventeen Democrats, ten came from New York, and of these eight cam# from Oreater New York, Ohio fur- ~ niehed two votes to override the vets, ^ Massarhuselts three, Pennsylvania Jj: one and Louisiana one. Tammany **' was . evidently strongly against the

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Of course the action of the house means the death of the resolution, no matter what the senate may do. It ought not to have had even a majority, and probably would not If it had ** been considered solely on Its merits, ** for of merits it has singularly few. What was sought wa» a "record" for campaign purposes. Whether it will prove helpful, an asset or a liability, is yet ts he seen. Sooner or later, it ’ t is hoped, the country will wake up to **- the fact that the only way to make *r ! - peace Is by a treaty, and that this la x specially true in the present case. •cores of inter-related rights and duties are involved which must be defined. We can not out loose from them, san not, as Senator Lodge so well said, "make peace except in company with our ailies." Round as she is to ths aRied powers, and also Ao many neutrals, by the treaty of Versailles. Oermany Is not a frss agent to negotiate a separata treaty with ths United States. We should in that case be in no position to snforc# our rights as against Germany except by war, and li would be a war in which we •hould have no support from any

other nation,

Ths whole plan is preposterous — must have been felt to be so by many who voted for it. It would have Involved us in complications at least as formidable as those from which the support ere of the resolution professed to desire to free us. What Is needed, and should be Insistently demanded, is a ratification of the Versailles treaty with regaonable raasrvatlona. The country Will wait with great anxiety the promised statemsnt fiom ths President — It will also hope that e stats me nt will bs reasonable and sonciltatovy.

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angers the Wood opponent*. He has been a busy sad useful man and his Ufa Ip interesting. Anyhow. the politidal opponents are badly wrought up, b«t are their emotion* a thing the public should worry about

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PUBLIC RIGHTS In the course of the debate last night between Governor Allen, of Kansas, and Samuel Gompers. the Governor asked the following Question: When a dispute between capital and isibor brings on a strike affecting the production or distribution of ths necessaries ef Ilfs, thus threatening the public peace and impairing the public health, has the public any rights in such a controversy, or is it a private war between capital and labor? If you answer this question la ths afflrmativs, hour would you protect ths rights of the public? Mr. Gompers declined to answer, saying that It was a "catch question " Yet It goes to ths vary roots of the controversy. The principle suggested by It was directly Involved in the debate of last night which wa* over the Kansas industrial court law. Ihe sole purpose of which l* to protect the public under *uch condition* as those outlined In the question. The law is based on the theory that the public has rights. Kansas has decided that there shall be no "private way* In which those rights are sacrificed. Before it can be decided whether the Kansas plan la right, it must be decided whether the object which it seeks to effect is also right. And it is with this latter point that Governor Allen's question has to do. Gompers could not have said how he would “protect the rights of the public" — the second part of Governor AUen’s question — unless he first said whether there were any rights to protset. This he declined to do. and thus evaded the very issue on which the debate turned. If our state and national governments ever rease to protect ths citizen In his right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." or to "establish Justice, insure domestic tranquillity, • • • promote the general welfare." with the accent on the word "genera!." they will fall to fulfill the very law of their being. In such a controversy as that spoken of by Governor Alien, the public has, not only rights, but paramount rights They go back far beyond Constitution and statute, namely, to the fundamental law of self-preservation, The society that falls to enforce them commits suicide.

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POUT I CAL IDEALISM

Chairman Hays, of ths Republican

^national committee, and others say

tat one trouble with pUbhc life is ihe lack of general Interest In polities. Professions 1 politicians are rmiUed to control policies and nations. Successful men and .women have been too buey with their own affairs to intersgt themasites in polttica. When things wrong they complained, only told that the fault was their

;©wo, Thhe demand was for men

of broad vision, men successful in tbelr own business to lay aside their work for a time and devote them- : selves to the nation's business. This year appeal reached a successful business man. W. C. Procter, of Cincinnati, a man without experience in politics, but nationally known aa a maker of soap, decided that Wood was for him the ideal type of man for PretfiAPt- He advanced IS00.000 to the Wood campaign fund, and he has testified that he did this with ths same idealism that impelled him ,to contribute to the Red Cross during the war. Another large contributor waa William Wrigley. a manufacturer of chewing gum. The special favors a President might give soap and chewing gum in return for preelection support have not been named

by any of the Wood critics.

Procter and Wrigley have made their business successful. They are known where newwpapera and magasinee are read because of their advertising. When they went to the support of Wood the only idea they had to bring Into the campaign was the idea they used In their private business. Hsre was a man of good quailtiss. but with no organisation to support him. Procter and Wrigley believed that the good qualities of Wood should be made known. So they started a publicity campaign; This

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* hr them and everybody else. They » thougM^W much of their candidate that they wer*; willing to promote I Ilia candidacy oU».^of their private !' means, Th ey called it practical ideal- £ lam. In fact, it waa an answer to £ the call for successful men to take » an interest in politics and assist in # party affairs. Yet the critics of the II Wood campaign see something si n - £ Ister In applying business methods ^ and publicity to politics rather than £ following the old cut and dried, star w chamber, back room plans. That X money for campaigns has grown to T* be an evil is now a commonplace. Bat Proctor •*»• Wrigley only fol-

S0UTHERS PORTS n«nefits should rssult to both ths middle western shippers and the representatives of southern seaport* as a result of ths recent visit of the southerners to Indianapolis. The Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade thought so well of the suggestion* made that they have adopted a resolution approving the campaign of the southern men. The plan is to educate middle western shippers away from the idea that all foreign shipments must be routed through

New York.

One of the visitors said that 10 per cent, of the export business on the eastern and southeastern seaboard is routed through New York. The south hat harbors, docks and other facilities to take Immediate care of business that plies up in New York and i* subject to delay. One of the visitors announced, after consultation with an Indianapolis commission merchant, that car load lots from Maine required about four times as long to reach Indianapolis as car load lots from Florida, although the dtetance frrom Florida la greater. At New York there are congestion and labor dlfflcultlea. Some sort of strike seems always to Interfere with the handling of freight and the terminal* are so clogged that normal working forces will not be able to clear the jam for some time to come. The south offers facilities practically as good as those in New York. Shipment* for Cuba, Central and South America should be routed that way. European business to a considerable extent must go through New York, but the other markets can be reached more quickly and to better advantage through southern ports.

COURT REPORTS

The latest volume of Indiana court reports now available does not include an appellate court decision since June, 1817. and the last supreme court decision included was made in December, 1*17. To be In a position to render the best service to his clients a lawyer must be informed of current decisions of the higher courts. He may get these, in printed form, from private companies in other state* and he has had to do this because of the unusual delay in getting out the state reports. Will H. Adams, reporter of the supreme court, says that reports of opinions issued by private concerns do nof always cover all the steps taken in a case, and that the Indiana reports give the action as finally adjudicated. This would account for some delay. Another explanation is that the printing company having the contract was delayed by war work. The cause far delay can hardly etxlst now. Privato individuals and concerns are having no difficulty getting printed matter. A flood of putStlelty in print, which burdens the mat la is evidence that somebody Is getting much printing done. The court reports are valuable

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presented as a substitute, for the original resolution waa a practical recognition of a non-exJetent Irish republic. But the one agreed to yesterday I* bad enough, since it relates to a subject with which our government. as a goverriment, ha* nothing whatever to do. 9uch action is a direct and impertinent interference with the interna; affair* of a friendly power, which has not asked and doe# not seek:— but properly resents — our ad-

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It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Moores saw flit to vote for this jution which can have no effect — tside of politics—except to cause Irritation between this government and the government of a friendly nation in associatioa with which we fought the great war that was supposed to be for the freedom and safety of the world. It is hard to understand how a member of congress can. with a straight face, vote for such a resolution. It has never occurred to * member of the British parliament to effer a resolution deploring conditions, even at their worst, in the Philippines, and "expressing sympathy with the aspirations of the Filipinos for a government of their own choice." If any such action should be proposed our people, and none ipore than those who have been asking for congressional action in this matter, would feel deeply aggrieved and bitterly resentful. Of course it Is nothing but politics, a mere bid for votes. But really we ought by this time to be able to manage our politics In such a way as not to smbarrass our foreign relations or to make mors difficult the conduct of our foreign affairs. Representative Connelly, a Democrat, and who seems to be an Irishman, who was paired against the resolution yesterday, has the right idea. For he is the author of a resolution declaring “the Irish question to be no concern of the United States.” That, we believe, is the view of an overwhelming majority of the American people, and it is. of course, the right view. This is. after all, America, and not Irish-America.

day work they will strike. Their demands are supported by reports showing that the breweries of Scranton ar# doing more business than ever before and that the city is the most wide open town between Havana and Tokio. Owing to the failure of neighboring dtieji to wink at the Eighteenth amendment, the inflow of Sunday excursionists is large and the Sunday business In some of the 286 hotels, which are reported aa running their bars wide open, is said to be greater than the other six days of the week. Considering the probability that the federal authorities are likely to step in and stop the liquor business In Scranton, thus compelling the bartenders, if they insist upon following their calling, to work in dark back rooms and damp cellars, their case *s a good one. The saloon keepers get $20 for a gallon of whisky, but that is hardly compensation for a penal record. If the Scranton trouble is not adjusted, there may be a general etrike of bartenders in all parts of the country, and that would give the world an entirely wrong impression of the status of prohibition in the United States, but Incidentally would release a lot of men for employment In better business

PESSELL ON BILLBOARDS Joseph Pennell has many of the qualities of Whistler, not alone as an artist of the first order, but as a wit. While Whistler's wit was keen and steel-true, Pennell's runs in somewhat more sa^Ags channels. He was in fine fettle when he rose to address the annual convention of the American Federation of Arts on the subject of signboard art. but before he finished he was at his savage best, and the result was a wholesome and effective arraignment of American vulgarity which brought ths convention to its feet. Americans are not necessarily vulgar, but they have vulgar traits that should be eradicated. He referred to billboards as "shrieking from the roadside, the hillside, the housetop by day and by night, and each yells in the most blatant, crude, vulgar fashion." The billboard Itself, as Pennell might agree upon reflection, is not so bad as the American belief that it is necessary. The real trouble |s that American business men believe that in order to do business they have to flaunt brilliantly colored accounts of their aspirations and virtues in the face of people wherever they go. The practice evidently pays dividends, but it reveals an Indifferent sense of beauty in the public that stands for it, and a low estimate of the charms of natural sesnery. Mr. Pennell advocated the elimination of billboards by law. He added; It is useless to seek aid of the press. That Independent organ Is stifled, blackmailed and doesn't dare do anything. If billboards are attacked there will be no more ads in the papers. Scarce a dally will touch the subject. This remark rather weakens his argument, because if he has not read the newspapers enough to know that many of them have attacked the bill-j board, he has probably not studied the question of billboard prohibition and regulation well enough to know that in many cities much has been done to mitigate the evil and that in some states there are movements on foot to eliminate the billboard in country districts. The reason probably that newspapers have not said more about billboards is the thought tbat their motives may be attacked.

OTEJRVTORKED BARTENDERS The presumption that the Eighteenth amendment would put both the bartenders and the prohibition reformers out of a Job is now shown to have been erroneous. The reformers are busily engaged In plans to hold hardL won ground, and the discovery that under the amendment a certain degree of choice in the definition of what constitutes beer and wine is allowed, has kept many of them almost as busy as in the preprohibition days. The bartenders have for the most part become soft drink dispensers, but It appears from reports that in many localities the chief effect of prohibition is greatly to increase their hours of work and to

add to Its hasards.

In a special dispatch to the New York Tribune it is stated that the bartenders of Scranton. Pa., have Issued an ultimatum declaring that unless they receive a minimum wage of

THE GLASER CASE In federal court yesterday Judge Anderson canceled the citisenahip papers of Paul P. Glaser, Gary lawyer, because of radical activities. Glaser confessed himself a Bolshevist and indicated admiration for ths Red flag, although his understanding of the significance of both terms differed from that popularly held. His filing toward the Bolshevist idea was elicited when he told the court that he would be willing to give up valuable land to ths government should ths country decide on a Red regime. According to his further testimony Glaser came to this country fourteen years ago with $500 jin his pockets. Since that time he has accumulated at least 910,000. His property consists of a $20,000 home In Gary, a farm in Wisconsin, value about $4,000. a farm In Minnesota worth $10,000 and 128 acres of oil land In Wyoming that he estimated might be worth $200 an acre, but for which he was offered $1,000 an acre by the Standard Oil.no more than a year ago. Thus In fourteen years in this land of political and economic tyranny he has amassed an independent fortune. To the system of industry and gov'ernmeq* that made this possible he apparently prefers Bolshevism. As to conditions under that happy regime Colonel Edward W. Ryan. Red'Cross commissioner, who has Just returned from Russia, makes an Illuminative report Industry Is nearing a standstill, houses are falling to pieces, the people are In rags, cities are Indescribably filthy, transportation Is wholly inadequate, fuel can not be bought, death and starvation stalk abroad, blackness and despair are on all sides. The system that brought this about engages the sympathy of a man who has become wealthy In fourteen years in a democracy, who has never lacked for food, who Is able to enjoy all the comforts and luxuries of civilized life under an orderly government! In the humble opinion of the ordinary citizen, not Russia but the insane asylum Is the proper destination for a man so endowed mentally.

The next President of the United States must be able, wise and wellinformed. of unquestioned honesty, morally and intellectually; eminently fair and impartial, frank and sincere, broad-minded, deeply sympa^ thetlc, courageous, sturdy and wellbalanced. and, above everything else, loyal to the Constitution and the law of the land.—Judge Gary. Why. sure, Judge! You couldn't throw a brick in any direction in Chicago without breaking a window in his headquarters. Admiral Sims should remember that he has tried the scheme of giving the navy secretary advice and found that it does not work out satisfactorily. So far no one has charged that Procter’s support of Wood is not 99 44-100 per cent. pure. Judging from the packed steamships sailing from New York, all who remained at home during ths war are now intent upon joining the so-this-ie-Paris class. Some of the critics seem to think that If a successful business man does not take an interest in politics he Is a slacker and if he does tgke an

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Interest in politics he Is a crc

Well, why not? Almost every one

they are ^ $35 a week and double pay for Sun- who really wants a drink does.

More home-comings are in prospect, as the pardon board is to me«t next month. Indianapolis should remembst that the speedway visitors offer an opportunity to practice some of that new brand of courtesy. It’s wonderful how nice a last year’s straw hat looks when you make up your mind to it. That Gary lawyer who admitted in court that he is a Bolshevist is evidently a good publicity seeker or a poor Bolshevist. , So far. however, the former kaiser has not sent to America for a volunteer to bring along a good pair of shears and teach him the tailor's trade. ♦With $800,000 available I for use. it appears that Grover C. Bergdoll can evade about anything, but his conscience—if any. The way some of the presidential aspirants are eliminating themselves from the list of possible candidates for the vice-presidency, it may be necessary to Invoke the selective service law to get somebody for this highly necessary office. There is no danger of a hard coal strike, that danger having evidently been eliminated at the expense of the dead certainty that the consumer will have to pay more for hard coal next winter. Hi Johnson is sure that his delegates will stand by him to the last ditbh. and probably they will consld* ering the fact that it is within their power to say which ditch they'll bury him in. The thief that stole forty phonograph records must be eager to add a prison record to his coilection. Republicans Expected to Ignore Prohibition.—Headline.

IWsa Street Journal] A friendly reader in Beatrice. Nebwhile agreeing with the principle so often expounded in these columns, that government price fixing, while perhaps a necessary evil in time of war. is a remedy which in practice becomes worse than the disease, still pleads for lower sugar prices through administration fiat. In all its price meddling the administration has been —to put It mildly—unfortunate. Not only did It refuse the entire Cuban crop at $)& cents a pound, it guaranteed every hoarder and profiteer something like three times that price net for his sugar. This was done through the department of justice, whose bowels of compassion were moved toward the sugar growers of Louisiana. They were guaranteed, in effect, the price of 17 cents a pound, in defiance of every free trade policy which the Democratic party has ever fathered. The result was to make the Cuban sugar grower rich beyond his wildest dreams at ths expense of the American consumer. In the old days of high protection, when the beet sugar growers could always count upon the sympathy of the tariff fixers in the United States senate, no such bald bounty as this was ever perpetrated. It remained for the Democratic attorney-general of the present administration to establish a new high record in protection. Heaven knows there was little enough principle in tariff making in times past. Scheduls K was but a sample of the whole, and Democratic tariffs have certainly not been for revenue only. But sugar today is dear because thsre Is not enough of it for our own luxury demands. There Is probably no real relief in sight before next September. We have our own sweet tooth to thank. No wonder we have the best dentlats in the world. We need them. Prohibition, moreover, has astonishingly increased the consumption of candy. There is a short supply of sugar St a high price to the consumer beoause the demand is measured not by our needs but by our wants. Ths remedy is squarely up to the consumer. If he will deny himself. for only three months, even 50 per cent of the candy he unnecessarily consumes, he can have all the sugar he wants for his coffee or his tea, or his rice pudding, at his own price. It must bs plain that there is nothing to be hoped from further government meddling. It has done incalculably more harm than good, and it is difficult to concede It in the case of sugar, to say nothing of coal and wheat, the credit for good intentions. We have all the politics we want or need in our morning newspaper. Spare us from that odious flavor imparted to everything else on the breakfast table.

TOUR OF THE WORLD ENDS Chare* of God Men Covered 48,080 Miles la (he Interest of Missions. [Special to The Indianapolis News] ANDERSON. Ind., May 29.—F. O. Smith, chairman of the missionary board of the general conference of the Church of God. and the Rev. E. A. Reardon, of Chicago, who left Anderson July 4, 1919, for a tour of the world in the interest of Church of God missions, returned here yesterday. Mr. Smith was one of the speakers at the annual commencement exercises of ths Anderson Bible Training School last evening when twenty-six students were graduated. Mr. Smith and Mr. Reardon are preparing their” report to be made at the annual international camp meeting of the Church of God In this city June 18 to 27. The report will show, Mr. Smith said, that they traveeld 48,000 miles without accident. They sailed from Vancouver. B. C., and visited Japan. China, the Philippines, Australia, India, Egypt. Syria, Palestine, the British Isles and France. Their nearest point to danger was in Jerusalem April 4 to 8. when Arabs massacred Jews, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Reardon had some difficulty in getting out of the trouble zone. They visited numerous missions of the Church of God. The trip required less than eleven months and they transacted much business for the church. Next Red Oom Roll Cell. WASHINGTON, May 29.—MsUonsl besdquartars of the American Red Cross notified Its divisional officers today thst the fourth Red Cross roll call would be held between Armistice day, November 11. and Thanksfivinr day. November 25. The Red Cross now has more than 10.000.000 members, or twenty times the prewar enrollment.

SUPREME COURT

Abstracts of Opinions Announctd May 28, 1920.

CRIMINAL LAW—ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL. 23659. William A. Hamke vs. State of Indiana. Knox C. C. Reversed. Myers, C. J. The appellant was convicted of the crime of arson. After the close of the evidence the state made its openlnc argument whereupon the appellee waived argument and requested the court to proceed with the Instructions. but the state insisted on additional argument and by permission of ths court made further argument in the cause. This was error, requiring a reversal of the Judgment. ALTERATIONS OF BUILDINGS—LOSS TO LESSEE. 23214. Independent Five and Ten-Cent Stores vs. Adolph Heller. Affirmed. Harvey. J. (1) The appellant was the lessee of the street floors of two adjoining buildings and * * ~ —iant

nga. ppellant, by the consent ot his lessors, removed the partition wall between the two storerooms on the street floor and substituted iron columns. When the work was practically completed it gave way and precipitated the appellee's property on the upper floors into a general chaos in the basement. “From these facts it follows that when defendant undertook to so change said wail, defendant did so at his own risk, and if injury to plaintiff’s rights and possession and to his property on the npper floors, proximately resulted therefrom, defendant was chargeable therewith. This is the law. though defendant may have exercised due care in so doing." The fact that the work was done by an "independent contractor, whose fault caused the damage, does not relieve the appellant, nor does the fact that appellant used the utmost care in the selection of the architects and contractor for the work. (2) The fact that the complaint altered that the work waa negligently done and that much time on the trial was given to the question of negligence, does not change the rights of the parties, as the law made the appellant a trespasser on the rights of the appellee. The appellant could not escape the results of the negligence of the contractor in the fact that appellant had exercised care in his selection. (3) The fact S£f ^ answers of the jury showed that thM-s was "no evidence” as to the value of the appellee's goods destroyed, does not come the general verdict, as th ^ e , J* eI l® r« elements of damage to Prevent the from overcoming the verdict. 11 not error to Instruct that the appellee could rirr rent interest on the loss suffered. the amount of the loss ^wmpuUUo^rjaoviag^^ the^rute *3l“be allowed in actions ex delicto - appellate court. CARRIERS OF LIVE STOCK—SPECIAL AGREEMENTS. 10421 Baltimore 8 Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company vs. John C. Bower. Clara C C Affirmed. Remy, J. The appellee used the a P{**J“* o^rttSe am for the delay of a shipment of cattle tfcteSiid from Marysville, Ind. it being alleged that the appellant took sixty hours in delivenag the shipment white reasonable care would deliver m thirty hour*. The usual form of bill of lading was executed and filed as an exhibit to the complaint, and it is alleged that the appellee signed an agreement giving permission to the appellant to keep the cattle on the cars for thirty-six hours without feed, water or rest. The appellant demurred to the complaint, and as grounds for demurrer contends that the alleged contract of shipment waa a special contract and for that reason unenforcible. as not being available to all atrip pent. The court eays there wae nothing in the alleged contract other than ae provided by law for carriers and shippers, and tbat it does not come within the rule that a carrier can not be held upon a special contract making ■pedal agreements to the advantage of the plaintiff shipper. DRAINS — INJUNCTIONS — HLE WATERING PLACES. 10374. Hal Green vs. William Cross et al. Rush C. C. Affirmed. McMahan, C. J. Ealoe. P. J. not participating. The appellant ie the owner of a farm crossed by an eighteen-inch public tile drain and the appellees are owners of farms drained by the tile above appellant's lands. The appellees sued to enjoin the appellant from maintaining a watering place in the tile ditch, or from constructing another wa-

Memorial Day

Perhaps with Memorial day falling on Sunday it may be easier for our people to think of it in its spiritual i aspect, and thus to SaeriSee draw from it those lessons which it preaches with such moving eloquence. There i* only one reason for honoring the men who are kept In mind on that day. and that is the sacrifice that they made. They are revered not so much as soldiers, as citizens who in the hour of national peril counted nothing dear except the life of ths nation. Parents, children, brethren, wife, houses and lands—they left all that they might serve a great cause; and they “were a people that Jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.” What does it all mean if not that life itself, which men prize as something beyond price, weighs as nothing in the scale with honor and duty? Y’et life i* the greatest gift of God to man. else the sacrifice of it—or the willingnejss to sacrifice it—would count for little. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" —that is the test or proof of perfect love. So the world honors, and the American people honor, those who gave the best—indeed all—that they had in the service of the nation, and who recognized that it was their duty to do this. Complete sacrifice, absolute self-renunciation, and the willingness on the part of the soldier "to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as *twere a careless trifle”—it is because of these that the American people tenderly cherish the memory of the soldiers. The day. therefore, is fundamentally a religious day, since the root principle of religion is sacrifice, which is also the corner stone of the Christian faith. Patriotism implies and involves it, and in times of peace as well as of war. If men had not felt this in their hearts Memorial day would long since have ceased to be celebrated. Where there i# no faith or love there can be no such thing as sacriflco, which Is love—in this case love of country—in action, and the fruit of that inspiration which faith, and faith alone can give. It is a great thing to have such a demonstration as this of the capacity of men for sacrifice, for it makes us think better of our Hums* Kind kind. The soldiers in all our wars were in no way different from their friends and neighbors. Drawn from the great masses of our,people they were representative of them. More broadly, they were representatives of humanity—that humanity of which so many seem to despair. Heroism is no unusual thing in the life of man, and in great crises it is the rule. The world war furnished a new proof of this to the generation that hae grown up since our civil struggle, and that knows it only as a great historical event. There ought to be a renewal and strengthening of faith in man. and a new birth of optimism. America is the one country above ail others In which there should be no place for doubters and whiners. Rather the feeling should be that what men have done men can do, and that there is no task beyond the powers of Americans, nor any sacrifice which they will not make at the call of duty. The heroic strain in the blood has not died out—as we have learned during the last three years. The problem is one of making effective the great qualities and applying them to life. And the problem Is by no means easy. The proper and reverent observance of Memorial day will help toward a solution. Gratitude there must always be to the men who saved the Union, and laid anew the foundations for a greater and nobler national life. Though our gratitude can not profit those who were killed in the war, or have died since, grateful hearts have a beneficial effect on those who possess them. Ingratitude, oh the other hand, is one of the basest of sins. And nothing can be more destructive than selfishness, which is the antithesis of sacrifice. The moral value of the teaching of the day Is of enormous value. It is the day of men who preferred national well-being and safety to personal ease and pleasure—to life itself. It Is through that spirit only that the land can be redeemed, and kept true to the great ideals in behalf of which brave men have glauly

given their lives.

There should also be a renewal of consecration to a country that hat cost so much in treasure and blood, and to institutions Coas«cratioii which are the fruit of the most painful toil and sacrifice. What we need is a higher patriotism, a love of our country, not simply because it is ours, but because it is worthy of our love. The men of 1861 and those of 1917 were deeply convinced that America and American Institutions were worth dying for. One may well say in the words of the old prophecy: "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?” There is a wave of depreciation passing over the land. It is assumed that, because certain men in public life have failed to rise to a great opportunity for service, the nation has lost its soul. How often we heard those words in the days preceding the war! But we later learned that the nation had a strong and clean soul. So It will be now. It may be that we have no friends in Europe, though this broad statement may be doubted. Undoubtedly there ha* been a falling away from the exalted level that we lived on in the war days, but this was inevitable. But; we know that the old stock is still sound, a* sound as it ever was; that this Is the land of freedom and equal opportunity, and that there have been few peoples in the history of the world more easily moved and swayed by Idealistic impulses. The sacrifices .that are now being recalled, and dwelt on. were made for a land that was worthy of them, and for causes which one could not embrace without a feeling of exaltation. It is very doubtful whether even the most “practical’' men can rob America of the moral leadership of the world. It all depends on the people themselves. If they are true to the nation's Ideals, and continue to walk in the old paths, they need never despair of the republic. There need be no fear of those who speak and think with contempt of a country for which brave men proudly died, and who valued it far above life itself. The country of Washington and Lincoln is safe as against any attacks from that source. Its only danger comes from the carelessness, selfishness and faithlessness of those who

profess to love It.

Patriotism of Peace It is a curious fact, though often noted, that men have always been more ready to make great than small sacrifices, and find It The Easy easier to die for a naWay. tion and cause than to live for them. So it is easier to be patriots in war than in peaceful days. Men who would not hesitate to lay down their lives for their country will fight to the last ditch over wages and profits. They will volunteer for the most arduous and perilous service, and yet will not take the trouble to vote. They condemn the slacker unmercifully and yet they will cheat when it comes to paying taxes. It is apparently less difficult to give one’s life than to part with a few dollars. What this country needs more than anything else is a carrying over into these peaceful day*, and into the ordinary life, the great and heroic virtues that shone forth so brilliantly on the battlefields ot France. Much is being said just now of the necessity of returning to the normal, and of course there is such a necessity. But it is to be feared that many give the words far too wide an application. In the moral and political world we can well afford, if we can manage it, to be supernormal. There are still sacrifices to be made, and services to be performed, though no glory, and perhaps not even credit will eome from them. But glory and credit may be left to take care of themselves— they are unimportant. And sacrifices are being made and services rendered. If it were not so life could not goon. No man can play his part in the world, no matter what it is, without making sacrifices. Society is organized on that basis. This is true also of family and business life. Often the sacrifices are gladly and uncomplainingly made—but often not. There is always the temptation to choose the easiest way, even if it be not the way of honor. People do their duty when it costs them little. But when it involves even slight hardships or the sacrifice of mere ease, or when something else seems pleasanter, they shrink from the test. Laziness and love of luxury are great weakenera

of character.

It is hard. too. to realize that the nation suffers from what we think of as small failures in individual lives. But it is so. Small Failure* Indeed, considered from thl* point of view, there are no small failure*. The nation ought to be as able to count on the devotion of it* oitlsens in what are supposed to be the dull days of peace, as In time of war. The best that is in them is none too good to give to a country to virhlch other men have given their lives —“the last full measure of devotion." Except In times of great and manifest danger little thought is given tp the relation between the state and the citisen, or to the state’s dspsndencs on the citisen. Yet ths rslation Is real and vital, and ths dspsndsnos absolute. Americana can not value their citizenship too highly —and yet it is of no value at all unless its obligations ars fully met. When war comes we think proudly of ths nation, its flag, its Constitution and its government. But when peace returns, these seem to go Into retirement. This, it is feared, Is what sCm# mean when they talk about returning to normal. They demand that wartime restrictions be rerry&ved — as they should be — not beoause they object to the principle on which they are based, but because they interfere with the making of money. What is wanted is freedom to go th*. old careless, selfish gait, and to charge whatever prices people can be made to pay. There is, of course. In all this nothing of the spirit of sacrifice and no glimmer of heroism or devotion. Some of the bitterest sacrifices that men make are of ths higher for the lower, as when they devote all their energy and ability to the accumulation of a fortune. Friends, leisure, family life, harmless plsasure, culture, books and religion are all put to one side In the pursuit of material gain. This Is very much as it would have been if the Irish soldiers held as prisoners in Germany had accepted their release on condition that they should renounce their allegiance and not be called on again to fight. Loyalty to the lower Is vsry obviously treason to the higher. There is too much of this treason in the life of the world. So war has Its Inspiration and les. son, as Memorial day should remind us. No program of Americanization will be of any considerAmerican!- able value that does not satlon. make provision even for those whose Americanism runs back to Jamestown and Plymouth. AH alike need to be instructed In the patriotism of peace. It does not consist In boasting about our country, or even in knowing about it, but rather In the willingness to serve it and make sacrifices for it. One, too, can serve the country without ever holding office. There can be no such thing as self-govern-ment in a land in which there is not individual self-government or selfcontrol. The ability of a man to say no to himself and his desires is one of the finest fruits of discipline. Life Itself imposes limitations on the individual life, and the civilized man recognizes them and submits to them cheerfully. In this particular the life of the soldier is not essentially different from the life of the civilian. Both are under orders, both are called on to face responsibilities. And both must submit to discipline, whether Imposed by others or by oneself. Of both sacrifice is required. Americans assuredly have a great inheritance, and of it nothing is more precious than “the good examples of all those • • • who. having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors." It la of them that the nation will think tomorrow, think lovingly and with the deepest gratitude. If the people think to any purpose they will get an inspiration from the mighty sacrifice which will at least lift them a little above the plane on which the average man moves, and create in them a desire and longing to be worthy of the men to whom they owe the country which so many of them take as a matter of course, and selfishly enjoy. The Roman captain said: “With a great price obtained I this freedom.” Though we, as the apostle, were "free born,” our freedom nevertheless was maintained at great cost, as the cemeteries scattered all over the country, and those new ones In France, most eloquently prove. The only way we can pay th* debt is by showing ourselves worthy

of the sacrifics.

Decoration "Manibus O date libs pienis.** Mid the flower-wreathed tomb# I stand Bcannr lilies in my hand. Comrades in what soldier grave Sleeps the bravest ot the brave? Is it he who #ank to rest With his colors round his breast? Friendship makes hi# tomb a shrine; Garlands-veil it; ask not mine.' One low grave, yon tree# beneath. Bears no rose*, wears no wreath: Yet no heart more high and warm Ever dared the battle storm. Never gleamed a prouder eye In the front of victory. Never foot had firmer tread On the field where hope lay dead. Than are hid within this tomb. Where the untended grasses bloom. And no stone with feigned distress Mocks the sacred loneliness. Youth and beauty, dauntless will. Dreams that life could ne'er fulfill. Here lie buried; here in peace Wrongs and woes have found release. Turning from my comrades' eyes. Kneeling where a woman lies. I strew flowers on the grave Of the bravest of the brave. —Thomas Wentworth Higginata*

SCRAPS

Nearly 15.000.000 acres In Canada are devoted to wheat growing. Nearly all Japanese soldiers are expert gymnasts and every barrack has a gymnasium. There are ten times as many Jaws in the United States as there are in Great Britain. Greater New York’s daily consumption of water amounts to nearly 800,000,000 gallone. The police force in Great Britain Is practically the only one In ths world that is not armed. The island of Java is of about the - same area as Ireland, but Its population is six times greater. Spain is building the largest concrete ships in the world, one of 6,000 tons having been launched recently. The first five Presidents of the United States ended their terms of service each in the sixty-sixth year of .his age. the world’s principal jade mine is in Burma, where the privilege of mining the stone has been In the possession of one tribe for many generations. To encourage cotton raising in Spain the government will give cash prises to the foreman and laborers who most distinguish themselves In its cultivation. So that a motorist can asa that the tail light on his car is burning without leaving his seat, an Englishman has patented a series of suitably mounted mirrors. Dr. Kate J. Horner, of Sioux City, claims to have been the first woman coroner in the United States. In 1894 she was elected to the office in Thurston county, Nebraska. Miss Florence Johnson, teacher of the Rocky Glen district school, southeast of Elmdale, Kao,, has had only two pupils the last term, but she has been getting a salary of $70 a month. The richest part of Caucasian Armenia is the valley of Arax, which, with artifioial Irrigation, produces excellent grapes and other fruit and vegetables, as well as rice, cotton and corn. It is estimated that a difference of one inch in the rainfall occurring in July in the six chief corn-growing states makes a difference of more than $800,000,000 In the value of the corn crop. Hogs have supplanted the elty garbage works at Akron, O. The old system was never satisfactory ami always had a deficit. But the hogs "dispose" of the garbage easily—and pork is profitable. The arts of printing and writing were introduced Into Japan from China In the year 284. In 67$ the Emperor Temmu directed the pul.., catton of the firat Japanese books. "Kojjiki," or Ancient Legaada The Argentine government has appointed a technical committee to atudy the contemplated distillation on a large scale of crude petroleum from state-owned wells for the production of light oils for industrial uses. Probably ths only woman in North America engaged In the manufacture of nitroglycerin is Mrs. Clairs VV. Blokes, of Petrolia, Ontario, whose factory turns out large quantities of ths material, used principally In torpedoing oil wells. In England no legal formalities are necessary for a change of nams. a person may cull himself by any name he pleases, and may change hl8 name as often as he likes, provided such changes are not made from fraudulent or improper motives. The only beauty show for man on record was one held in Vienna some years ago, at which the judges were fourteen ladles. Ths first priss went to a wine merchant with a long nose, and the second to a man with a mustache twenty inches long. Measured in terms of mile* according to a calculation of Director James L. WUlmeth, of the government printing office, the daily output of holes perforated from stamps when placed side by sido and edge to edge would extend in single file a distance of 868ft miles. The first Japanese woman to edit a woman’s page in her country, Miyo Kohashi, Is studying journalism at Columbia University in "preparation for teaching journalism In tho Tokyo Union College next year. A decade ago women journalist* were unheard of and unthought of in Japan. Now many women are growing interested in the profession, but very few of them have had special training for the work. That is why Miss Kohashi is preparing to teach tho subject "Women in Japan are liking the newspaper profession,’' say* Miss Kohashi, "and already In Tokyo we have a club of twenty women Journalists." Miss Kohashi is the Japanese representative of an interesting group of women students of thirty-three nationalities who form the International Foyer of the Y. W. C. A. at Columbia Unlveroity.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

terin* place in a new and different manner, on the ground that it interfered with the flow of the water in the tile. The appellant contends that the evidence doe# not sustain the judgment aa to the injunction afainrt the construction of the new and different

watering place. The court bolds that the evidence is sufficient. OPINION IN FULL. 10389. James M. Brite va. William C. Hastings. Spencer C. C. “Per curiam. Judgment affirmed."

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p. S. and L. W.—What is meant by a “183-cubic-inch motor" ?—That the combined displacement of the pistons is 188 cubic indies. Curious—Who is governor of the Virgin islands, which were recently purchased by the United States?—Rear-Admiral Joseph W. Oman, United States navy. Psychological—Are there any authenticated case# of dual personality of the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" type in Indianapolis or elsewhere?—Yes; me books on criminology and psychopathology St the City Llbragy. Republican—Please give the total vote (ra»t in Indiana at presidential elections ainos 1888?—536.949 votes were cast in 1888; 553 813 in 1392 : 637.184 in 1898: 083.840 in 1900 ; 681.934 in 1904; 721.196 in 1908; 654.474 in. 1912 and 718.848 in 1918. (31 What waa the total vote for Dreetdential electors in 1916?—18,328,743. ' Old Soldier and Subscriber—Under ths new pension law I am entitled to $72 a month. Please inform me of the necessary action on my part to obtain the increase.—Tbs *73 rating is under Clsuse 7 of the Fuller pension btlt and in order to get an Increase under this clause you must file a new declaration. Th* pension bureau does not recognise claim agents or attorney* under this clause, but merely requires the filing of a dsdaration by the pensioner. Declarations may he had on application to the pension bureau. Wash*

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