Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1921 — Page 6

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3faMatta Sato SFituea * INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 23-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices } Ke w \- ork# BogtOß# p ayne , Burns & Smith, Inc. HO, HUM, another comet Is about to strike the earth. THE TRIAL of that ice trust case should make good summer reading. AND IT "WASN'T so long ago that Mayor Jewett was defending the public service commission. CONGRESS seems to be doing no better than it did before the election that was to save the nation. DAWES has the right idea. He plans to limit future expenditures Instead of crying about those already made. WHY doesn't the American Federation of Labor eliminate formalities and give Gompers his job for the remainder of his life? CONGRESSMAN VOLSTEAD is reported to be fond of chewing tobacco. Those who fear an anti-tobacco war must be greatly relieved. OTHERS besides the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Association of Engineers have been wondering just what the Taxpayers’ League is. IT IS a good thing that the laws do not permit the Taxpayers’ League to interfere with those plans for much needed additions to the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane. THE CITIZENS GAS COMPANY report shows that the money of gas users continues to be Invested in a coke pile which the company refuses to sell except at wartime price. THE OFFICES of the county and city treasurer has just received an installment of eight million dollars in taxes to operate the various government units here, but still the “Taxpayers’ League” can’t Why SBOO,OOO should be paid for school houses.

Levying Tribute Would it ndt be rather foolish for a business concern to require an employe to pay a tribute for the privilege of working for it and then pay him enough additional salary to enable him to pay the tribute? That is exactly what the city is attempting to do in the case of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The street railway company is nothing more nor less than a servant of the people who go to_ make up the city. A vast majority of the citizens of Indianapolis are Tegular users of street cars. All of them ride at some time or other. They pay for the service they receive from the company. Then why, in the name of common sense, should the city demand a tribute from the company for the privilege of rendering this, service? Such a tribute is nothing out of the pocket of the street railway company. The passengers who pay for riding on the cars must pay the tribute as well. The city is demanding this tribute in the form of a franchise tax, and in the form of pavement between the car tracks. The franchise tax Is simply an indirect tax on the people who ride the street cars. Why hot le;>y it directly? - The most foolish proposal, however, Is the one which' would require the car company to continue paving between its tracks. Can any one eugg any benefit the car company, or the persons who pay the extra fare to build them, derive from the pavements? Why not as well make the fcompany pave in the middle of streets where It does not have tracks? It would be just as reasonable. If the company tears up the pavements it should, of course, be made to repair them, but why should its obligations go further? There are any number of streets in Indianapolis where the jitney busses are following the street cars in swarms on the pavements laid by the car company, because the city pavements are not passable. It would be much more reasonable to demand that the owners of the jitney busses pave the streets. The sooner the officials of the city of Indianapolis and the citizenship generally understand that levying tribute on the street car company is nothing more nor less than levying tribute on the people who ride the street cars the better off will be every' one concerned.

Let the Public Know The Indianapolis Chapter of the American Association of Engineers is entitled to commendation for its effort to get before the public a real conception of what is now vaguely known as the Taxpayers' League of Indianapolis. The latter organization, which was sprung on the community in one day by a newspaper of doubtful ownership, is now demanding a “place in the sun” as a regulatory body in civic affairs. Insofar as the public has been advised it consists of Alfred Potts, an officer of the Citizens Gas Company; Alfred Potts, secretary of the league; Alfred Potts, lawyer, and Alfred Potts, exponent of the merits of the log cabin school house. There may be, and probably are, others besides Mr. Potts and the utility he represents, interested in the Taxpayers’ League, but the others have not seen lit to reveal their interest in a public way. Now the engineers have publicly called upon the league, to disclose Its membership, Its origin and purpose, and data as to how it reached its decision to oppose construction of school buildings f6r children and other necessary public improvements. The public is entitled to the Information that the engineers ara demanding. Before the citizens of this community can intelligently determine whether there is justification for the reactionary policies advocated by Mr. Potts through the columns, of the aforesaid newspaper; they ought to know who formulated these policies and how. Insomuch as a taxpayers’ league can exercise a restraining influence on officials, who are prone to spend public money because it is public money, such an organization is of benefit to a community. But, if the Taxpayers’ League is a league of taxpayers in name only, it Is very likely to be perverted into an instrument for the satisfaction of selfish purposes, such as is now being attempted relative to the school bonds, which the league is on record as opposing. The information demanded by the engineers is information which will help the citizens of Indianapolis to determine whether they have a Taxpayers’ League of the right or the wrong sort. Certainly nothing will be gained by a failure to answer the queries of the engineers.

He Died Poor! It is found that the estate of ex-Chief Justice White, of the Supreme Court of the United States is less than $60,000. In this age when yearly salaries of more than that amount are paid presidents of corporations, it seems almost improbable that the head of the most powerful court on earth, exercising the greatest power of any organiza ion, should leave so little of the world’s goods. The justices of the United States courts, Including the Supreme Court, receive only a small salary, considering the responsibilities they assume, but they are provided a pension in old age, so that the necessity for accumulating much money for declining years is removed. Too, they hold office during good behavior and cases of impeachment may be counted on the fingers of one hand, through the entire century and a half the Federal judiciary. The ever present tendancy among lawyers—do live well and die poor—may, in a measure, account for the small estate of the jurist He did five well and it is seen he died poor. The justices In Washington occupy a unique position, soeialy. All the lawyers do, for they are ranked above the Army and.Navy—in receptions at the White House they follow the members of Congress. To be a Justice of the Supreme vourt is indeed a great honor. To die poor, as have so many Judges, avoids all suspicion of corruption. Justice White was a member of the Supreme Court for many years and during a time when suits of magnitude were decided, involving even the existence of great corporations. There was never a breath of scandal against him —he died poor. Surely here was a truly great character.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B I DOX’T know. • • IF THEY’RE excursion boats. * * * OR WHAT they are. * * • BUT ANYWAY. . • • • THEY’RE TERRIBLY crowded. • • • AND AFFECTIONATE. ** * i AND WHY I got on one. * * * I DON’T know. • • • BUT I did. * • AND THE boat left. • • * AND IT was windy. • * • AND I grew tired. • • • HOLDING MY hat. • • And sought a seat. • • • IX A sheltered place. * • * BETWEEN A portly woman. * * * OF MIDDLE AGE. • • • AND A young woman. * • • WHO WAS quite pretty. V * • • AND HEED in her lap. * • * A LITTLE girl. • • • WHO ASKED questions. • * ♦ AND RIGHT away. * • • WE BECAME friends. • • * THE THREE of US. • • • AND AFTER a while. * • • THE TITTLE girl. * * t WENT OFF to sleep. • • • AND THEN I noticed. • • • THAT THE portly woman. • • •• ON THE other side. • • • WAS BREATHING heavily. • * * AND BEGINNING to sag. ' * * * IN y.Y direction. • it AND I moved a little. * * • AND snE sagged some more. • * * AND WE laughed about It. * • * THE YOUNG woman and I. * • • AND THEN she admitted. THAT SHE felt sleepy. • • • AND I should have gone. • • • FOR RIGHT away. •• • - I SAW her head. • • • BEGIN TO nod. • • * AND COME up with a jerk. ... AND NOD again. ... AND THEN lesn over. IN MY direction. v ... AND VERY soon. SHE HAD snuggled down. • It WITH HER dark brown hair. ... AGAINST MY neck. ... AND I didn't dare move. FOR I was the pillar. • • • THAT HELD them both. ... I THANK yon.

SHELBY FARMERS ENTER PROTEST Say $1 for Bushel of Wheat Unfair Price. SHELBYVILLE. Ind., June 28.—Member* of the Shelby County Farmers' Association have been advised by tho directors to Insist that grain dealers of Shelby County handle the wheat crop this year on a margaln in comparison with what the farmer Is receiving for producing it This action was taken as a result of the quotation of, wheat at $1 on the local market last week. The following statement was issued by the directors: “In view of the fact that Shelby County grain dealers today were offered sl.lO per bushel for No. 2 wheat f. o. b. their own shipping point for July delivery with a 2-cent premium if delivered the first half of July, we suggest to our members that an offer of $1 per bushel for the same grade of wheat is not a fair price. “During the war the Government stated that 8 cents per bushel was a fair price for handling wheat, therefore, with conditions as they are today, we believe the farmer is not being treated justly when the same grain dealer is trying to take 19 to 21 cents for the' same service that he received 8 cents for under much more unfavorable conditions.” Charges that the members of the Shelby County Thrashermens’ Association failed to keep an agreement made with the farmers of Shelby County were made by the directors of the Farmers’ Association, ijvho went on record as opposed to the price of 8 cents a bushel for the thrashing of wheat this year., It was stated that iu a joint session of farmers and thrashermen several weeks ago it was agreed the maximum rate for thrashing this year would be 7 cents. Soldier Holds Lucky Number; Wins $20,000 PARIS, June 28.--Andre Sibelle of an artillery regiment, won a $20,000 prize with a lottery ticket which had cost him $4. Before leaving to collect the money he bought a barrel of wine for his regiment to celebrate the event.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 28,1921.

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KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income will tell the readers of the Dally Times how the many present-dav problems of the home are solved by wokring on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally In an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) TUESDAY. The warm weather having really set in, Mrs. Hooper readjusted her weekly expenditure for food so that the greater part of her budget went for fruit and vegetables and dairy products and less and less each day for meat and fish. She would cut down the meat supply for the family even more if Henry were not still possessed with the old fashioned notion that a “meal was not really a meal” without a meat dish. She had gone through many arguments with him,to prove thqf there was a much greater amount of food value in many substitutes but he still persisted in wanting meat as often as possible at dinner. Still on very hot days he acknowledged that a meat diet was really too heavy and that they all felt very much better without it. The vegetable garden had begun to yield lettuce and radishes, and cucumbers and on occasional “mess” of early vegetables and In a few weeks promised to be supplying all the family would need for dally consumption leaving the “vegetable allowance” of money free to be expended for material to be canned for tho winter. In the garden they had planted tomatoes, cabbages and peppers in the first three long rows that stretches! across the back yard, then there were several rows of swlss chard, wax beans, green beans, sweet peas and along the fence was a bed of parsley On the other side were flourishing rows of green corn, beets, squash and melons, and tho lettuce bed occupied a place by Itself in the corner of the garden. Roger had persuaded his father to try some okra and a long row of it had been planted lasi Saturday. This vegetable Is not grown so much in the North as it is in the South, but is should be cultivated more because of its food value and the ease wltn which it Is ratsod. The half matured seed pod. nre th. portion of the plant used and it is delicious for soups though it is also relished by many when it is cooked ns a vegetable after th. manner of summer squash. Mrs. Hooper had ■own th. seeds of her annual flowers early in th* season and her perennials were also in. but until today she had neglected to plant the dahlkt, cannas and gladlolas which If she were to hav. a succession of blooms must be in the ground by .Tu!y 1. so as the sun went down she planned to go out and plant those seeds in tho beds Roger had prepared for them. The last of the bedroom rugs had been washed and put on the line after the regular laundry work was done, and when luncheon wan Mrs. Hooper stitched Helen's dress and bat on the sewing machine and set them aside to finish later when she sat down to tee The Bride had decided to bring her yellow organdie over this afternoon and consult Mrs. Hooper about th. alterations that she wanted to make iu the gown but which she was afraid to try alone for fear of spoiling it. “I’ve only worn this dress once,” said the Bride after she and Mrs. Hooper had at dress, “because I look perfectly huge In it, and I know Just some little thing done to it would make it all right but what it la I can’t tell.

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“Well, In the first place,” Bald Mrs. Hooper looking at It critically, “thes< lines about tb hips are all wrong for you and those gathered paniers will have to be ripped off.” “And with them will go every bit of style that the dress has,” wailed the Bride. ( “Not at all,” persisted Mrs. Hooper; “we’ll Just change that bulgy panier effect to a straight line tunic, and when you let it down you will have enough material .to make one of those zlg-zig uneven hems below the under skirt that they are wearing so much now and that will give you your style at the bottom Instead of tat the top where It makes you look so thick around the waist.” “I do believe that will do the trick,” exclaimed the Bride enthusiastically. “Then 1 can add a black velvet ribbon belt for a finish.” “Well, If you want to preserve your slim lines,” said Mrs, Hooper, “you’d better make a crush girdle of the material and then use your black velvet ribon as a bow with streamers.” “That’s as simple as can be,” said the Brid* as she began to rio her skirt as Mrs. Hooper had suggested. “Then I'll put somo black velvet ribbon streamers on my yellow organdie shade hat, with a big knot of flowers, and wear long black silk gloves and gold color stockings nad black low shoes, and be all dressed np for the party without having to go near a dressmaker or a shop. Won't Bob b< surprised? Because I know he's waiting for me to spring the price of anew dress on him." The menus for the three meals on Wednesday is: BREAKFAST Orange Juice Cereal Shirred Eggs Popovers Biscuits Coffee LUNCHEON. Vegetable Hash Peanut Butter Sandwiches Cold Fruit Juice Radishes DINNER. Creamed Salmon in Green Pepper Bojled Potatoes Buttered Beets Radishes Lettuce Strawberry Short Cak. Copyright, 1921. HOROSCOPE “The stars Incline, but and. net compel!” Wednesday, june **. While Jupiter is In benefic aspect today, according to astrology, Saturn, Mercury and Uranus are sil adverse. It is a day fairly promlsirg far all lines of business and there will bo more recruits from the professions to th-_- ranks of trade, than ever before, tne seers prophesy. Persons whose birth date t is shonld be careful to guard against accidents in the coming year. There may be seme annoyance through letters or writings, but there should be happiness and prosperity in the next twelve months. Children born on this day may have many dramatic Incidents in their lives They should be watched carefully for they may meet with falls or other injuries. Thes subjects of Cancer should be very bright and successful. Copyright, 1921.

MOVIELAND §L; Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER

The Story of Betty Compson Wonders do happen—even in the movies, in these days when most of us feel that the making of motion pictures, like other industries, has become a staid, mat-ter-of-fact thing. x Betty Compson’s career is one of the romantic ones of pictures, at least in me that’s the way It seems. You may remember her in the days when she was making Westerns, with her brown hair flying in curls over the silk handkerchief she wore around her neck, and nothing more delicate and exquisite than a divided skirt ever being Included in her eostume. Maybe you remember her even before that, when she was in vaudeville. She wore the clothes of a tattered little newsboy then, and played the violin. She began doing that when she was 14, when she had to earn money to help support her widowed mother. Then A1 Christie saw her. appreciated her beauty and ability, and gave her a Job in comedies. I wish I could remember seeing her In them—l must have seen her, because I used to go to the movies so often, but 1 don’t recall doing so. Gradually she worked Into doing Westerns—riding and shooting and swimming rapids and all that sort of thing. And then her big chance came, in a way that's rather nice to remember. It was on Christmas eve, In 1918. She had been working so hard all day that she was dog tired. And she got home

A BUILDING OR MONUMENT AS A WAR MEMORIAL? (Continued From Page One.) America should give with her head as well as her heart. Nothing will do which does not typify the idealism which carried the American soldier to France, but better yet if the gift may express the effort of America to carry that Idealism into practical effort. “And what of those who never come back? Can anything fit them better than some memorial which shall.be stamped all over with devotion to the common weal ? TYPIFY IDEALS OF NATION. “And those who come back, bni not as they went—who have left their youth and health on the other side and have re turned to. take up lifelong burdens and disabilltes? Perhaps, after all, these are the heroes calling for the deepest consideration. Their country has not Indeed taken their all, but while taking much has Imposed such liabilities on the other side of the account as often to leave a balance of less than nothing. Surely they deserve that what .America says in her memorials shall speak of reconstruction, wholesome and fruitful actlyitles and the progress of that civilization they havfc spent themselvjs for." fir an introduction to a bulletin on existing public auditoriums the same organization says: “The movement for the erection of buildings as memorials of tho World War, becoming as it has national In Us scope, is turning public attention toward the country’s bent examples of buildings having a community and civic aspect. An adequate auditorium, democratically managed, meets a great number of community needs. Such a common meeting place may afford recreation. Instruction and service, not to one class alone, but to all; old and young, educated and uneducated, the poor as well as the rich. “The great war was a war of democracy. Every class and creed, every stratum of society, helped to win It. Our Brink* were made up of men from evenwalk of life, and the civic, patriotic, and other organizations at home that contributed so much toward its successful conclusion, were in no less measure made np of men and women representative of every branch of society. “Nothing could therefore be a more fitting memorial to those who fought abroad and to those who toiled at home than a memorial dedicated to th£ service of all classes—democratic in it* every purpose, and with special provision for

to learn that a man named George Loane Tucker wanted her to dine with him. She wanted nothing on earth but the luxury of a hot bath and her dinner in bed, but she didn’t dare refuse to see a director, so she dressed and dined with him. And came home later convinced than she'd made no impression at all, and that he’d never In the world cast her to play In a picture of his. And then, when she got home a few days later, her mother announced that Bhe had had another telephone message from Mr. ./Tucker, and that h wanted her to play the part of the heroine in “The Miracle Man.” Os course, she didn’t realize then what a wonderful thing that picture was going to be; nobody did, though Thomas Melghan, who had bought the screen rights to it after he saw it as a play, was pretty sure. But Bhe did know that it would be a way out of those everlasting westerns. She took the part, of course. She is very pretty, even prettier than she is on the screen, though she screens unusually well. She has gray eye*, red brown hair, a fascinating smile, and a charming, simple manner. She lives even more quietly than most school girls cio; goes tq bed early, rarely goes to parties, studies, works hard. She says that whenever she sees a picture of hers on the screen, she wishes she could go back and do her part all over again—not much conceit there, U there? And she has a big future ahead of her—there’a no question of that! Copyright, 1921. such organizations of returned soldiers as the American Legion.” Hundreds of cities and towns -and some States already have under way plans for the erection of utilitarian memorials, from the modest community house to buildings such as can be erected In Indianapolis. Here are some of the things that are being planned: A memorial historical buildng in Alabama. An auditorium at Dover, DeL A temple of Justice in lowa. An auditorium at Lexington, Ky. An auditorium at Trenton, N. J. An historical building in South Dakota. A large auditorium in Tennessee. An auditorium In Birmingham, Ala. An auditorium at Bridgeport, Conn. A victory hall at Fort Wayne, Ind. A memorial hall at Baltimore. An auditorium at Kansas City. A memorial hall at Toledo. An auditorium at Chattanooga, Tenn. An auditorium at Dallas, Texas. An auditorium and community house at Salt Lake City. v Ihese are Just a few of the examples.

CITIZENS FIGHT TAX LEAGUE FOR 4 NEW SCHOOLS (Continued From Page One.) right. Vie owe it to our children to giro them a decent place to go to school.” Here Mr. Gadd was Interrupted by loud and long applause. “You say ’stop until prices are lower.' It’s a crime to expect people tc send children to some of our schools and that Is what this waiting means.” Mr. Gadd also explained the contracts entered into by the board with SniderRots, consulting engineers. He said that Mr. Snider as a building advisor had saved the board $270,000 on the first contract entered Into by tie board after his appointment as advlzor. A number of questions concerning the percentage received by the company were nAked by various persons In the audience, which were answered by Mr. Gadd. Mrs. Martin L. Relffel, who Is president of the Original South Side Woman's club, asked if it was true that the board figured $20,000 a room and whether that did not seem high. “When we say eight-room building, that means eight sessions rooms, but you probably don't know that there are also rooms for vocational work, health rooms, rest rooms, offices and In many eases auditoriums. In fact including everything, the butldtug Is in reality about a twentyroom building. Let me s.’“ -xplaiu In the much abused auditorium. It Is used more for classrooms for relieving congestion than anything else;it is in fact used almost constantly. league tries TO BLOCK FLANS. "The Indianapolis Taxpayers’ league is trying to block our plans. We are leaving out the auditorium in many cases but we are building so that thex may be added late.r on. If we even talk of auditorium we are accused of ‘frills and follies’ so we are leaving out things that can be done without.” One man asked whether cities in general were delaying school building In response tq which Mr. Gadd read a list of reports from various cities showing that they were up and coming in school construction. A member of the delegation from School 38 talked, urging the south side delegation to aid in putting the building plan over and asking that they all unite in one big city organization to combat the Taxpayers’ League in Its effort to halt the building pianos the school board. An Informal round table followed Mr. Gadd’s speech. Miss Julia Landers made a brief talk saying that In her estimation the majority faction of the board was doing the right thing. Ed Wartel of the School 36 delegation told of tne conditions existing at that school and asked the aid of the delegation in supporting the board. John White of the McKinley school district In making a few remarks favoring the building plans said that the opposition must 'be purely selfish In their efforts to block the measure and lacking in the proper oivlc pride. |

20 PER CENT OF HOUSES IN CITY FIRE HAZARDS Inspection Shows Need of Cleaning Up Premises to Avert Disastrous Blaze. By LELA B. CHESLINE, Assistant Marshal. With the completion by Captain Martin P. Judd and twenty-two city firemen, of the special inspection of property for fire hazards, the city of Indianapolis Is brought face to face with the fact that one-fifth of the residenes are harboring trash and rubbish of such naturp as to make their premises not aipne unsightly, but unhealthly and highly Inflammable. Not all homea were entered*. as this would have buken more time nypft could be spared by the regular city firemen, but enough to give a very good idea ot the conditions to be met and oversome before the ambition of the Fire Preven- * tion Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce can be realized. 1 Captain Judd, whose men averaged 1,000 inspections a day, has turned over to Jacob H. Hilkene, chief of the Fire Pr-e ventlon Bureau, the number of inspections as 17,135 of which 3,881 were given cleanup orders. Some of these notices were necessary In order to call attention to the careless habit into which we have gotten and to sound the warning before the fire occurs. The inspectors were received with courtesy and vie have every reason to believe that further cooperation will follow. However the premises where orders were Issued will be reinspected at the end of the time allowance, which is thirty days In most cases, and if necessary in order to protect residents and their neighbors from fire, prosecutions will follow. When properly understood, the work of these men is invaluable and Is so considered by the greater number of Indianapolis citizens, or the other four-fifths who have gotten rid of their rubbish or better still have never allowed It to accumulate. But the need of continued effort along the line begun, Is apparent and*lt was never the intention of the committee to close the campaign until the goal is reached and Indianapolis is known near and far as a “clean, safe, healthy and beautiful city.” While Frank C. Jordan, chairman ©t the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee, was In the east recently, both the national board of underwriters of New York and the National Fire Protection Association of Boston, assured him they had never seen the work taken up in any better spirit than Is manifested hers in Indianapolis. notwithstanding that Detroit, Philadelphia and many other cities have inaugurated this cleau-np, flrj prevention campaign, and because we are alive on the subject and are doing our part, these two organizations are sending ont a bulletin citing Indianapolis as an example and a pace setter for other cities to follow, and are willing to spend their money to send men here, men who are thoroughly conversant with the subject, to give us the information that will not only help us to save ourselves but help to save our na'bton. The fire t£x of $1,000,000 per day, can only be reduced by the intelligent work of every citizen, as 97 per cent of all fires are doc to somebody's carelessness. W. E. Mallalleu in delivering m address recently In San Francisco said: '“Our citizens grow up with the smell of smoke in their nostrils and the clang of tho fire gong in their ears. We average practically one fire every minute, day and night, three hundred and sixtyfive days in the and take it m-ore ior less in a matter of course.” Then he 1 proceeded to point out the cause of this indifference. “The average citisen never thinks of fire at all, but merely thinks of fires” he said. “He remembers having Reena fire on his way to the office that morning and he reads of another fire in the paper but they seem to be individual and unconnected, things not to be an-) tlcipated or remembered for long. Fire is not Just fires; it is the sum total of all fires plus the conditions physical and psychological, which makes fires possible.’ | The Astuarial Bureau, a National Sta-I tistical Center gives out the loss estl-1 mated by comparing the complete records of the same twenty states for 1919 and 1920 ns $256,432,319 and- $404,377,588. W. must help to curb this drainage on our nation's wealth. There will be a fire prevention meeting for the public this evening on the eighth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building on Meridian street, when T. Alfred Fleming, supervisor of conservation department, of New York will speak. Mr. Fleming will stop on his way east from the National Fire Prevention'meeting in San Fran_isco and being a forceful speaker and having the latest word in fire prevention deserves a large audience. The public Is urged to attend.

Dog’s Tail Hits Trigger and Hunter Is Killed ALTON, Mo., June 28.—James Odem, e farmer of this county, met an unuaual death here recently. \ He was hunting and Jujt a few minutes before the tragedy had scared up a rabbit and raised; his gun with the Intention of shcotlng the bunny. He changed his mind and gun on the ground and was holding the barrel. Odom's dog came along, wagging Ms tall and ran up close to Odem. The tall struck the trigger and Odem fell to the ground with a full charge, in his head. Odem had moved to his farm a few years ago after following the trade of stonemason in Springfield, where he built the foundations of several of the largest buildings In that city. FINED SSO FOB CARRYING RAZOR James Yarbrough, 19, negro, 538 West New York street, was fined SSO and costs by Judge Walter Pritchard In city court yesterday afternoon for carrying . his favorite weapon—a razor. Yarbrough was nrested June 24 by oMtor Policemen Wilson and Maas at California and New York streets. “When I got out of the hospital a few days ago and heard about so many hold-ups I decided to supply myself with the needed article,” Yarbrough said In court.