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Juifiana Uaitß STitties , INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J Daily Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, O. Logan Payne Cos. Entered as eecond-class matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, lad., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates —By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mail, 60c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. THE TAX LAW is coming in for some long-needed explaining. PREPARE for an exciting summer. Outdoor checker games at the city parks: AS COMPARED with wood alcohol and ripe olives the flu seems to be an also-ran. DR. ABBOT says Venns may be sending us wireless messages. Very likely. This is leap year. WHERE IS THE MALE of the species going to come out with a binatlon of leap year and the high cost of living? THE POLITICIAN who intends to go through the campaign standing up for the tax law will have to be a glutton for punishment. THE SIMS FAMILY is getting a lot of publicity. Fred Sims defends the tax law, Dan Simms attacks it and Admiral Sims is raising Ned down in Washington. FRED SIMS’ ALIBI for the state tax board’s increasing of taxes that it was the “only way out” doesn’t do much good for the candidate who wants to find the way in. CHARLES C. ORBISON, prohibition director for Indiana, says there are not as many bootleggers in Indiana as formerly. Maybe the wood alcohol scare had something to do with their disappearance. A “SPONTANEOUS BOOM” for Senator James Eli Watson for the presidency has been started in Rush county. If all reports are true It is hard to see where any more “spontaneous signers” of presidential petitions can be found unless some of them sign two petitions. Assessing Personal Property County assessors at their annual meeting laid special stress, as they always do, on the necessity for Improved methods of valuing personal property, especially household goods. The practice in Marion county has been simply to leave a blank at the home or place of business of each taxpayer, trusting him to fill it out, and then to collect the blank later. This method trusts to the taxpayer’s honesty for a full and correct report of his property. The trouble with this method is that not all taxpayers are as honest as they might be. There is especially a tendency to “fudge” a little in the matter of taxes, for undoubtedly there are many persons who omit a part of their property or who place ridiculously low valuations on It year after year who would not under any circumstances think or making dishonest statements concerning other matters. In fact, ihere are many persons who do not consider the making of a false tax statement in the same light they would the making of a false statement concerning any other matter. It is generally the rule for assessors, when they know statement* to be incorrect, to increase them, but this is at best only guess work. In Marion county, at least, there Is little effort made to determine the amount of a taxpayer’s personal property. The law requires the taxpayer to make an affidavit that his list is correct, but the administering of an oath is generally dispensed with. It would appear that this simple formality would have considerable effect, because it would call attention to the fact that the statement is an affidavit and there are few persons who would deliberately make a false affidavit. The new arrangement whereby more detailed lists of personal property are to be made out would help matters considerably. Assessors themselves could help improve conditions if they would refuse to accept valuations of personal property which are obviously low. As the result of the common practice of taxpayers in valuing their property too low, taxpayers who place correct valuations on their property must suffer. In the first place, a low total of valuation makes necessary a high rate and obviously the taxpayer with the highest value on his property must pay more taxes than the one whose valuation low, although the property of the latter may be worth more than that of the former. Again, with the tendency of the state tax board to order horizontal increases on the least provocation, the assessment of the property of the taxpayer who gives in correct valuations is far above what it should be and he is compelled to bear an unjust share of the burden of taxation.

Talking to Mars Scientists who are experimenting with wireless telegraphy are reporting what apparently are communications, the source of which can not be determined. They say the communications either may or may rot come from another planet. Whtte this sort of thing seems fanciful, so many fanciful ideas have become practical In the last decade that the public is no longer inclined to scoff but rather to take things for granted and wonder what will happen next. No one is ready any more to say anything is impossible. If Venus or Mars or some other planet actually is signalling the earth, there are infinite possibilities. The strange inhabitants of the other planet must live in a state of progress that has not been reached upon the earth. At least Inventive genius must have reached a higher point to make simple communications possible. If at some future time there should be actual intelligible communication between the earth and another planet, What might not be the results? The civilization of the earth is built up on long centuries of tradition. Even the red men, who Inhabited the Americas when Columbus arrived, showed signs of having at some remote period been connected with the people of the eastern hemisphere. But If human beings or creatures resembling the human animals of the earth really inhabit some other planet ft is natural to suppose that the scheme of things is entirely different from that on the earth. It is hard to conceive many possible resemblances. This leads to the question of what the earth might learn from another planet and what another planet may learn from the earth. Communication of an intelligible nature could conceivably bring about changes which might alter the entire life of the world. Mechanical and scientific discoveries as yet undreamed of among the nations of men might be transmitted and put into effect with results that can not even be made the subject of speculation. Who can say but what our grandchildren may live In a world so different from this that It would not he recognizable as the same? These are dreams which stagger the imagination, but dreams have been knofm to come true. Woods “ Qualifications ” The prevailing pastime of many Indiana republicans, it seems, is pointing out, in the public prints, the qualifications Leonard Wood is supposed to possess that make him the ideal candidate for the presidency. Mr. Bookwalter, for instance, declares that "Wood’s election, which beyond question would follow his nomination, would be notice to the world that red-blocded Americanism still lives." Dr. Jameson goes so far as to say that "perhaps there has never been a candidate for the presidency who Is as many-sided, with all good sides, as Leonard Wood.” Others explain how “practical” and “far seeing” Is the general. But really how "far seeing” was this "sore thumb candidate,” as Gov. Cox termed him at a banquet in Indianapolis the other night. * It will be recalled that, though it had been proved In England that all the German merchant shipping could only transport 80,000 soldiers for an invasion of England, only 300 miles away, Gen. Wood, out o£ sublime ignorance, committed himself to the statement in 1916 that America was open to attack; it would be easy, he said, for some power or other to put "400,000 men on our shores within three months,” a statement which shows the utter incompetence of the man whom our republican friends now insist is the "practical” man of the hour.

FOOLING INDIANA VOTERS No. 7. —The Public Voice. Copyright, 1920, I. P. B.

The republican state committee admits the right of the taxpayer to control bond issues and tax levies. It says: "No one will deny the inconvenience of a visit to Indianapolis to obtain permission to issue bonds to build a road or with respect to fixing of local tax levies. Most of these visits, however, are unnecessary. They are of no help to the tax board and the whole matter can more definitely and etfectlvely be presented In writing and by mail. Lawyers have learned this and personal visits are becoming less frequent. Finally, the taxpayers will have to decide whether they desire to avoid the inconvenience of whatever personal visits are necessary by vesting control over bond issues and tax levies in local authorities or endure the inconvenience for the sake of economical local government. It Is the taxpayer’s business and his voice should control.” It is refreshing to find that in this "best tax law that could be devised” the republican party finds that there are "inconveniences" that must be "endured.” One would naturally think that in the “greatest achievement since the Civil war” the administration had evolved a law that would not have to be “endured” but would be welcomed. However, the candid way In whteh the committee admits that the question of local or state control over bond Issues and tax levies is "the taxpayer’s business and his voice should control," is reassuring. The question now is in what manner the taxpayer’s voice may be heard and In what way he shall control. The republican committee declares that the taxpayers’ visits to the tax board in support of their right to be heard and to control are “unnecessary” and "inconvenient.” It suggests letters to the board as a much more efficient way to express the public opinion. Waiving the qnestion of whether a letter is a more desirable way of expressing desires than a face to face meeting, there remains to be considered the manner In which the letter will be received. There Is today nothing in the procedure of the state tax board to Indicate on what it bases fts decisions as to bond

JOY AND YOUR JOB Maybe you’re one of the famous few, Maybe you're one of the moiling mob, But It’s little difference what you do, If you put joy into your Job. And the joy comes back to others and you With a zest which shall long remain, For its quality lingers through and through Asa wood is marked of its grain. The rewards of the world are parceled out In a crude, rude way we may not trust. For we give a crown to a crazy lout While a shivering genius gnaws a crust. And the only wage which is safe and sure. The only reward which non© may rob, Is the everyday effort to make secure That joy goes into the job. No. I am not acclaiming a calm content For a pocketed, put-upon, pent-In- folk; I do not hold it a life well spent Which hardens its neck to the needless yoke But I say that a Shakespeare’s lines are lies And a Rafael’s colors a dreary daub, Unless in his effort the workman tries To put joy Into his job.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920.

Being an analysis of “The O p e r atlon of the 1918 Tax Law"—A Book, let in General Circulation Issued by the 1n and i ana Republican State Committee.

issues or tax levies. It may receive delegations and give no heed to their pleadings. It may formulate Its determination concerning a bond issue on the expression of one taxpayer or a thousand. No one knows what motive prompts Its decision. No one can understand the basis on which these three men, a hundred or more miles away, arrive at the conclusion that a taxing unit should or should not issue bonds. It is the taxpayer’s business and bis voice should control but the "best tax law that could be devised” provides no way by which the taxpayer may attend to his own business and It certainly can not be argued that “his voice controls” a board that thinks his visits to It for the purpose of expressing himself are “unnecessary and inconvenient.” Article No. 8, “An Open Confession.” High School to Hold Big Birthday Party The silver anniversary dinner of the Emmerich Manual Training High school will be held Wednesday evening, Fob. 18, in the Riley room of the Claypool hotel. Dinner will be served at 7 o’clock, followed by short talks, dancing and other nmusemeuts. Frederick E. !?chortemeler, acting secretary state republican committee; Supt. C. B. Dyer, C. E. Crippin, roesldent of the Indianapolis board of rehool commissioners; E. IT. McComb, principal of the school, and Milo H. Stuart, principal of the Arsenal Technical schools, will give short talks. C. B. Dyer, president of the Alumni association, will be the toastmaster. Many graduates of the school now living In other cities are expected© to attend the anniversary dinner. SWEDISH RAILROAD BRIDGE. A Swedish railroad has built a relnforeed # concrete bridge with fln arched span 'nearly 300 feet long, designed to cnrry trains at a speed of sixty miles an hour.

Unde AMD A Column Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue of U. S. Public Health Service. Uncle Sam, M. D., will answer, either in this column or by mail, questions oi general interest relating only to hygiene, sanitation and the prevention of disease. It will be impossible for him to answer questions.of a purely personal nature, or to prescribe for individual diseases. Address : INFORMATION EDITOR. U. S, Public Health Service, WASHINGTON, D. C. MALNUTRITION SHOULD BE - TREATED. Unless recognized early and measures are taken to remove it, the effects oi malnutrition in childhood may last to adult life. It may show itself as prolonged ill health and feeble resistance to disease; the individual may grow up undersized and underweight, not strong enough to do the average work of a man or woman. How common the condition of malnutrition is may be shown by the result of the selective draft, where nearly 40,000 of the young men examined were rejected because of developmental defects, principally underweight. Careful Investigations which have been made show that fully 20 per cent of the ehilren in our schools are at present suffering from malnutrition. Is your child one of this number? WHAT TO DO. In order to prevent malnutrition, or at least to recognize it before serious consequences have followed, the most important thing is, watch the child’s weight. This can best be done in school, where monthly weights of all children should be taken and recorded and special attention should be given to those who do not make a normal gain by the par ents, teacher or school nurse Op doctor if there Is one. It Is essential that every child of the school age should receive a full medical examination once a year. A child who Is suffering from malnu tritlon—that is, one who is much below normal weight or one who is steadily losing weight or one who is not making a normal gain—should at once be taken to a physician and examined to see if any disease is developing. In the case of children residing In areas in which malaria or hookworm prevail the physician should search for the purasites of these and similar diseases. The child’s whole daily life should be carefully gone into to see which of the rules of health he is violating, and whether this pertains to his food, his habits of eating, his hours of play, of school work, or of sleep. Malnutrition is cured by correcting the habits or removing the causes already j mentioned upon which it depends. Often it Is a matter of enforcing discipline in i home. Attention to diet Is, of course important. Rotarians Prepare for Ft. Wayne Trip Indianapolis Rotarians will hold a “pep" meeting tomorrow noon in preparation for their trip to Ft. Wayne to tbo Eleventh district convention, Wednesday and Thursday. The Rotnrtans will boost Waller Tittsford for the positiou of district governor. Several applications for membership also will be considered tomorrow, and the public affairs committee will make a report. Columbia Club Dues Boosted 20 Dollars An increase of from SOO tn SSO per year in dues of resident members of the Columbia rlu.h was placed into effect at a meeting of stockholders Saturday night. The increase will become effective March t. An initiation fee of SSO was also adopted. NEW KIND OF rEN-WIPER. An Englishman has Invented a penwiper consisting of a glass cup flj>i with a sponge saturated with glycerin! v. hich has a preservative effect on pens!

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Lingerie and Underthings Never have the styles seemed to us quite so pretty as in this 1920 showing, and the prices are so reasonable. SILK ENVELOPE CHEMISE, in flpsli or white, Ib.cg trimmed* some hand embroidered; $3.98 SEES §2.98 V-NECK OR SLIPOVER MUSLIN GOWNS, $l4B to $175 qualities, OC special A.ArfCJ MUSLIN SKIRTS, embroidery trimmed, regular and extra sizes, $1 98 to $2.50 quailties, special tl/JL* vJ EXTRA SIZE GOWNS, V-neck or slipover styles; $1.75 and f $1.48 MUSLIN SKIRTS, embroidery trimmed, regular and extra sizes; $2.98 04 Qfi quality JL *7 C 5 ENVELOPE CHEMISE, lace trimmed; $1.25 to AQp $1.48 qualities wuv MUSLIN DRAWERS, embroidery trimmed; $1.25 QCr, quality. vOt

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Domestic Specials r \ WINDOW SHADES, 3x7 feet, | mounted on strong spring rollers, dark only, opaque ! cloth, special, complete. .09 v J CRETONNEB, new patterns for draperies, box covers, comforts, etc.; regular 50c grade, 39c CHALLIS, full yard wide, assorted floral and scroll designs, for dressing sacques, kimonos, etc., regular 39c value, at COTTON BATTS, 72x90 Inch, 3pound rolls, pure white cotton, only one required for full size *7Q/ comfort, special I 9v BLEACHED MUBLIN, soft finish for general use; regular UNBLEACHED MUSLIN, yard wide, soft, round thread, |Qa regularly 25c, at ...... Xfv LONGCLOTH, yard wide, soft nainsook finish, for fine underwear, regular 35c grade, at.. AWv BLEACHED OUTING FLANNEL, double fleeced, for women’s and children’s gowns, regular A/I a 30c grade, at MTv ROMPER SUITING, 32 inches wide, assorted stripes for rompers, play Buits, women’s dresses, regular 50c value, at )#C CANTON FLANNELS, unbleached. heavy twilled and fleeced, A regular 30c value, at 44C

Bedding Os Known Merit at Savings FANCY PLAID BLANKETS, double bed size, heavy fleeced, fast colors, regular $4.00 An value, at COTTON BLANKETB, 66x80 inches, gray only, colored border, heavy fleeced, regular $3.48 ftA COMFORTS, full bed size, fancy figured silk, plain border to match, filled with pure white cotton, regular $7.00 value, 48 Bargain Table Special 15c AUDITORIUM BATH ft SOAP, special, a cake es C JAP ROSE SOAP, £1 - special, a cake C/3V