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Jtjtoatta flatly Samcs INDIANAFOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 8500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ < Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising off.ces j j^ ew Y o rt, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. HO! HUM! The shipping hoard is to undergo another investigation at the hands of Congress! THE CRIMINAL COURT appears to be maintaining its average number of reversals of the findings of the city court! ISN'T the shrinkage in the value of taxables an Indication that those horizontal increases did not always produce a true valuation? JUDGE THORNTON says the pay check often regulates the amount of happiness in the home. Absence of It has been known to wreck many homes. BUT HOW are the police to question the loafers in Bill Armitage’s poolroom if they are in danger of losing their Jobs through visits to that place? OF COURSE, it is a “small minority'’ that causes reflection on the motion picture colony, but what has the “great majority” ever done to prevent it? Poisoning a Community Regardless of the promises of the secretary of the city board of health and of the State board of agriculture, the steps that were presumed to prevent the fly nuisance following the State fair have not been carried out. Garbage has not been collected in receptacles as the law and common decency demands. It has not been hauled away from the fairground as it should have been hauled away. Asa result, the State fairground is a dump, reeking in filth, and the equal, if not the superior, of Sellers’ farm as a fly breeding place. All this insures to the residents in the vicinity a menace to health and comfort that can be attributed to nothing so much as the official neglect of the municipality. The city board of health has authority to compel the immediate cleaning up of the fairground. The State board of agriculture has the ability to clean it up at once. The sanitary board has the equipment and the men to haul away the garbage. But the State board of agriculture is apparently too busy with other affairs to attend to this. And the secretary cf the city board of health is too busy with other affairs to attend to the enforcement of the law he is charged with enforcing. And the head of the sanitary Ward “knows nothing about it,” although he has been unofficially informed repeatedly of the conditions as they exist. While these three governmental agencies are busy "passing the buck” flies breed in millions in accumulations of filth, that are a disgrace to the community. They invade the homes of persons who have invested in land and attempted to improve Indianapolis. They leave in their wake the germs of disease and death. The neglect of the sanitary conditions of the State fairground is criminal. There is, indeed, very little difference between a man, or a government, that wilfully maintains a hatchery for typhoid fever germs and the man who deliberately places poison in his neighbor’s well.

Mr. Ralston* 8 Criticism Boyd M. Ralston, Democratic candidate for mayor, unquestionably called the turn on Samuel Lewis Shank when he took the Republican candidate to task for what he termed an unreasonable amount of talk for the benefit of a doubtful ejeipent in this community. Mr. Shank should realize, if he does not, that the part of this community that desires lax law enforcement is a very negligible part of the whole, that it has never yet and never will elect a mayor. So far in this campaign much more has been made of an "open” town and of the manner in which the police force is to be operated than of any other one thing. This newspaper cannot admit that as enlightened a community as Indianapolis is now engaged or will hereafter be engaged in a campaign to determine whether the law will be enforced or not enforced. The assumption that there is any issue therein is childish. As we have said before, there are a great many more important munici- : pal problems to be decided than ther identity of the next chief of police. And there is a large element in Indianapolis that Is thoroughly disgusted with the recurrent efforts of certain influences to carry elections by raising of a "great moral Issue” whenever their control of the civil government is threatened. Strange as it may seem, it is a fact that all the morality in this community is not contained in a certain newspaper office, nor do ail the moral citizens of Indianapolis feed on the propaganda that issues from that office, i Mr. Ralston did right in pointing out the evil that follows a too liberal interpretation of loose talk from a candidate such as invariably brings applause from a few, but can never be interpreted as reflecting the real sentiments of the majority of any political party. Test Your Brakes The announced plan of the city administration to test the brakes of automobiles operating In the city of Indianapolis is a move In the right direction and one that ought to be welcomed ey all motorists, even if it does Involve a slight inconvenience. Automobiles are none too easily controlled even when they are maintained in the best of condition. When careless drivers and owners neglect brakes the auto becomes a menace to traffic and an engine of destruction equal to dynamite An investigator recently disclosed that on a railroad where traffic is the greatert In the country a time interval of twenty seconds is maintained between all trains. The local street car company insists on cars being operated a block apart in all the territory where they attain running speed. Day after day automobiliets drive, often at high speed, where only the fraction of a second intervenes between the danger points. No one has the right to operate a vehicle that is not subject to instant control. No one should resent demonstrating control of the vehicle he drives. The police will accomplish a great deal toward making the street safe when they Impress upon the Individual driver that it is not possible for him to avoid taking proper precautions for the safety of others. Pro-Farm Essayists There are many persons in cities, especially many men, who would like to live on farms, but who cannot afford to let farms live upon them They stay in town because they know they can make a living in town. Some of them would trek to the soil with their goods and chattels, in the event of their wives and children agreeing to the change of base, if they could be reasonably sure of doing as well as they are doing in town. They axe not the essayists, in a majority of cases. The essayists who tell the farmer, glibly, why he has the best of it, are, mainly, fellows who earn their living with their pens—more literally with their typewriters—and who keep agriculture on the shelf as a subject to tackle when out of other subjects. “Now that there is rural delivery of the mails, the telephone in the residence, central heat, private water works, the automobile,” say th 9 essayists, from time to time when other themes are scarce, “all that formerly made farm life lonely and hard is eliminated.” The farmer is told also that if his labor income is S3OO a year his milk and butter are free, as also is his soul; that he has a garden, which he may have observed when working it before sunrise, and that he is the most independent of men. Tolerancy causes the farmer to continue “tiking the paper,” but he does not take it seriout’y. A farmer would enjoy sitting on the fence watching 1,000,000 mahog any desk singers of the delights and advantages of farming trying to dig a living from the soil if they should be drafted and put to work on farms, but drafting them would not be as simple a. matter as drafting men for the recent world war. There is no considerable body of essayists devoted to telling groceryruen why the grocery business should be chosen above all others, and that if a groceryman does not make a handsome afinual profit on his investment he has barrels of pickles to eat. barrels of sugar, firkins of butter, tierces of lard, tin aof ready-made biscuits, tons of canned vegetables and fruits. That may be duo to the fact that the minds of eniie of the pro-farm essayists are as i'crllie as the 6oil they like to Louisville Courier-Journal.

The STORY of NINETTE v By RU BY M. AYRES

Who’s Who in the Story NINETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the light of day in cheap lodgings in a dull road in the worst part of Balham, is adopted by "JOSH” YVHEELER, who shared his meager earnings as a scribe on a London paper, with the friendless babe. Ninette meets PETER NOTHARD. an editor, who rescues her from sickness and poverty and takes her to his sister, MARGARET DELAY, who has a home in the country. Ninette is introduced to ARTHUR DELAY, Margaret s husband. DOROTHY MAN VERS, an old sweetheart of Nothard'*, is a guest at Margaret's house Ninette meets. RAJ* DALE CAVAN AG H. a wealthy man of London, who confesses that he is her father. Cavanagh contemplates a business trip to America and places Ninette under the chsperonage of MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. Ninette is surprised to learn that Mrs. Cranford is Peter Notbard’s aunt.. Margaret tells Ninette that her husband has left her. Ninette overhears someone telling Peter Nothard that Oaxauagb has paid Mrs. Crawford to keep her, hears them ridicule her extrnvagant dress and hint that her father had done something disgraceful and would leave England for a while. Much to Nothard's distress, Ninette angrily tells him that she overheard his conversation. Upon learning that Peter Nothard is to marry Dbrothy Manvers, Ninette sud denly realizes her owu ,ove for him. Ihe awakening startles her and she wishes her father would take her to America with him. In vain she waits for him and finally hears that he is dead. Nothard proposed his aunt to keep Ninette with her and insists that Ninette remain Ignorant of the fact that ho is supplyln the money. Mrs. Cranford suspects Ninette's fondness for Nothard. but he still thinks she dislikes him. Ninette now knows that Nothard loves her, and in her eyes he discerns her affection for him. Dorothy Is severely burned and it is thought her beauty Is permanently destroyed. Because of Dorothy s misfortune, Notbard realizes that their engagement tan nor be brokeu unless It is her desire. Ninette and Nothard quarrel when he obevs Dorothy’s request that he see her. While out for a walk, to quiet her troubled thoughts, Ninette meets Arthur Delay.

CHAPTER XLII. Ninette Becomes Angry. She looked away from him. toward n ! belt of trees from which the last few leaves were shivering earthward. ! "Forgive you! It's for Margaret to do that.” she said harshly. He made a swift movement. “Margaret! She doesn't understand what it is to care for any one as I do for you." Hi s eyes sought l\er pale face hungrily. “What have you been doing with yourself, Ninette? Have you been 111? You look different, somehow." “I have been 111.” "1 heard about your father, of course, and I wanted to write, but—’’ She looked up angrily. “I never wish to see or hear from you e gain—l told you that. I won-Vr you dare to speak to me. Please let me pass. Her dark eyes met his and for the first time she'saw the lino of unhappl ness t n his face, and a faint pity warmed her heart. Was nohody really happy In all this world? He saw the softening in her eyes and he broke out quickly: "If you'll Just say you'll forgive me! Perhaps some day yon 11 suffer as 1 have, and then you’ll understand." Ninette turned angrily. “Suffer— as you have! Why, all my life seems to have been made up of trouble and tears " She waited a moment, then, with an Impulse one could not understand, she held out hor hand. “Good-by—and, If lt’a any help—l forglv* yotf-* r n took hand and rAlaod 1t to hf* lips. "And if you cyor want me—" Ninette laughed bitterly as she drew her hand away "I'm afraid that is not at sll likely, she said. But she looked back at him after he had left her, and again that swift pang of pity smote her heart. He was unhappy, even as sh was! Why was life so full of sadness? For the next few days nothing particular happened. Ninette stayed on In Mrs. Cranford's house, and upstairs Dorothy Man vers recovered from her shock and began to get well. Peter Nothard cnnv to the house daily. He paid more duty visits', whieb lasted ns short a time as possible and ho went away as quickly as h* could, with n srrim face and unhappy eyes. He and Ninette never met either. If she heard hi* step In the hall or on the stairs she flow to her own room and locked the door, standing ‘here with pale face and fast beating pulse till she know he had gone. CHAPTER XUII. •Do You Still Want Me to Marry YouT They were days of torture for them both and Mrs. Cranford looked on hopelessly, not knowing how to help. And then on day Dorothy spoke to Teier about Ninette. She was propped up in a chair by the tiro then, the room still darkened, by her own wish -for, although as yet Dorothy bad not been allowed to see_the disfigurement to bet- face, she bad a morbid idea that, in spite of her carefully adjusted bandages, other people might see the change already. In vain Mrs. Cranford and the nurses tried to persuade her that the change was but slight; she only turned her faee away, frowning. "That's what you say,” she said, 'Hint I am not a child, and 1 know.” To Peter she hud never spoken of the accident at all; she took his daily visits calmly, and accepted such protestations of affection ns he felt bound to give her with Indifference. But, lying alone as she did through the long days, her mind was busily at work, seeking round nnd round for some explanalion of the intangible change which she felt in him. This was not the headlong, passionate lover who had been almost distacted with grief years ago when they had quarreled: this was a quiet. Bane man of the world, whom she felt was marrying her for some reason of his own.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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and not because he felt life would be impossible without her. Aud her searchings and jealousy had brought her to Ninette. Her mind fastened upon the girl with sure pertinacity. It was Ninette, with her strange, dark eyes and pale face, who had changed him! Ninette who, perhaps, was still trying to take him from her, while she lay helplessly up here, her one faultless asset gone! And so, when Peter came, she spoke of Ninette to him. “Is she still in the house?" She was quick to notice the way he averted his face as he answered: "I believe so. I have not seen her tree nearly a fortnight. She seems to do having a gay time just now.” He knew she was not, but he had to make some sort of an answer. Dorothy's face grew bitter. "A gay time!” she echoed. "I shall never have that any more!" He put out his hand quickly and laid it on hers, trying to see her face In the darkened room. “Don't say that! Tou know that 1 shall do everything In my power to make you happy.” “If 1 am a sight to look at, I shall never be happy again!” she broke In passionately and then came a storm of tea is. They were only tears of bitterest anger at what she chose to consider th injustice of life, but they melted Peter Nothard. He put an arm round her and begged her not to cry. It cut him to th* heart, he said. Wasn’t he enough to make up to her for my little loss she had suffered. “Little loss" she echoedT sobbing. "I know my face is dreadful to look at, or else they would let me see It." She turned, and caught him by the lapels of his coat pleading. “Peter! You might tell me the truth, at least. What did the doctor say." They had had a famous surgeon down to look at Dorothy's scars, but he had made but little comment. “We must wait until later on," he

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. I’VE THREE straw bats. • • AGAIN THIS year. TWO DIRTY straw hats • * • AND ANOTHER one. THAT OCOHT to be dirty. BY THURSDAY next. AND ON that day. I’M GOING to take. • • The THREE of them • • • IN MY auto car. * AND WHEN lunch time comaa. • * I KNOW a place. WHERE THEY have "a boy. • * . WHO GOES insane. AT THE sight of a hat. AND RUSHES at you. • • AND TAKES It away. • . • OB IF by chance • • • HE MISSES you. ♦ AND YOU hide your hat. • • IN AN empty chair • • . HE COMES snoop!ug la. • • * AND TAKES it away • * • AN’D LEAVES ft check. . see AVI' I’LL go there * • • AND CHECK a hat. • * • THE DIRTIEST hat. • • • AND I’LL leave It there. • ♦ * AND THEY can bury It. • • • OR BURN it UP OR ANY’ old thing. AND THE other bats WILL GO likewise. THE ONE at dinner. * • AND I’LL go to a show. • • • AND AFTER the show. • • ♦ I’LL LEAVE the third. • • • ON THE Waldorf roof. • • • THEY’VE BEEN cood list* *OO AND SERVED me welt ♦ • • AND IIOW much* It cost. 0 0 0 TO IJFY them back • • • FROM HAT ehecl^>oys. * • • AND HAT chock frtrls • • * I'LL NEVER kno*. • * • BUT ON Thursday nl*rht. • * • THE WORM will tuna. • * • AND AT closing' time. • * • IN THE, roßtaurant*. WHERE I have been. THE MAT check boy*. • * * WILL HE heard to any. • • "THERE'S a guy in here. • • * "THAT HASN’T gone out. "FOR HERE’S his hat.” * * • I THANK you.

had said, “and then we will seo. Another operation, perhaps, might Improve things; but—” And he shoofcch s head. Peter answered evasively now that nothing definite had been said. He tried gently to soothe her. “Does beauty mean so much to you, Dorothy?' You forget that some day you would have lost It—when you grew old—” “Old!” She .shivered. “I never want to grow old! I always hoped l should die while I was young, and people would be sorry for me.” She sat staring before her, biting her handkerchief, an infinitely pathetic little figure in her silk morning wrapper, and with the disfiguring bandage half covering her face and pretty hair. Then suddenly she asked her question : “Do you still want to marry me?” Nothard was so taken by surprise that the blood rushed to his face In a hot wave, and for a moment ho could not answer; then he stammered out: "Why, what a question! Aren t wo engaged? Os course 1 want to marry you! Do you think It was only your face I wanted 7” But she would not smile. “Mother has said over and over again that It was the only thing anyone would ever want me for,” she said bitterly. Nothard had not heard of her apeak of her mother for years, but he had once seen Mrs. Manvers, long ago. when he first fail In love with Dorothy, and ho remembered her as i homely, klndfcced woman, whom he- daughter considered Infinitely beneath her, and whom she snubbed on every possible occasion. (To Be Continued.)

CHORUS GIRLS ARE KISS EXPERTS And They Are Coming to Town With *Broadway WhirV

The divorce case of the Chicagoan who has filed suit against hor husband because she says the ardor and frequency of his obsculatory activities caused her to lose forty-four pounds, almost disrupted the teamwork of the "Millionaires Chorus" in the Broadway Wbiri of 1021 dnring the engagement of that company at the Illinois Theater in that city. Three kisses a day argued the legal sharps from any husband to his wife sre enough, That number, no more—no less—is recommended to maintain happiness In the home and a proper amont of avoirdupois on the wife so say the legal ones. How many kisses are too many,? Jean Barrett was asked. t "Depends some on temperament," answered Miss Barrett." Three a day i the right amount, l belfere. once in the morning, once before dinner and once at bedtime. Oscillatory neglect Is bad,

KISS EXPERTS Li / 1 j-1 :

Top—Carol Soldier. Middle—Jean Barrett. Lower-—Dolly Casner. all of whom aro members of “Tho Broadway Whirl,” coming to English's next week.

but too much kissing is even worse. It, strikes into the subsoonsclous mind, and affects the health. A nervous breakdown from too much kissing Is quite possible.” How many kisses are too many? was gsked Mildred Brown.

In tlbe World of Books

j Romance is perennial in Indiana. It j comes from the cities and from the fields. It blooms from the most unexpected places and it blooms luxuriantly. The latest addition to Indiana's output of romantic literature comes from the *pen of Miss Grace Alexander, a teacher of English at the Ralph Waldo Emerson school. The book is "Prince Cinderella.." It is being released today by the BobbsMerrill Company of Indianapolis. The story has to do with a 22-year-old heiress who has Inherited millions made by her father in the manufacture of tin cans. After completing her education she rents a large estate with a rambling old house in New England. With the lack of judgment of heT Sender years she sots about employing what she terms a collection. The collection consists of a woman who represents herself to be a widowed cousin (and who does. In fact, prove to be a distant cousin by marriage), a broken down parson, who proves to be something quite different; an Oriental rug salesman, who is employed as a chauffeur .and who plays a large part In subsequent affairs; a butler, who confesses his “character” Is forged, and sundry other lesser beings, including a parrot which swears, the property of the parson. HF. RIDER IN AN UP-TO-DATE CAR After Introducing her characters one by one (the book is written in the first person) the author plunges into her story. Prince Cinderella appesrs unexpectedly, In a yellow limousine, not s

"No such thing as too many," reI spondod Miss Brown. | “Kisses are the essence of life I \ certainly envy the wife who lost forty | pounds •in such a wonderful way. I i find the more I am kissed the stouter 1 get. but that won't make m* cut down on tbs kisses " "How many kisses are too many?" "1 don't know how many are too many,” said Agnes Morrissey, who although still In the flapper age boasts of a husband, "but 1 do know that one or ! two or three is not enough. You sea I , am still in love with a y husband, and 1 have never started to count the kisses. When I feel like kissing, I Just do It." “How many kisses are too many?" "I don't know." said Dolly Casner, "there aro no kisses, or even a love scene In the 'Broadway Whirl,' therefore 'is girls don't have time to think of kjssinp. Os course three kisses are too many for some of the men who run after the girls, even if they have money, I i don't believe that kisses should be j bought and paid for. I know this, If ever I really aDd truly fall in love, my sweetie, if he hasn't got a dime, will j have to keep busy; one kiss won't do . at all.” "How many kisses are too many 7" "That's a leading (Uiestlon," said Carol Soldier t "The question of kisses was responsible for my going on the stage It was an tm-.iffprent lover that disappointed me. I believe he did kißs me often enough : it isn t the number of kisses your sweetheart gives you. it's the thrill that goes with them, aud the wife who was kissed ! too much certainly proved the exceptionto the rule. From what 1 am told wives ; are not kissed very often; it is the sweeties who get the affection." W E. Gorman, press agent for "The Broadway Whirl,'' which comes to Eng- | fish's next Monday night for a week's ! engagement, is the author of this yarn, j Gorman claims that chorus girls of the “YYbirl" show- have fixed ideas on the proper amount of kissing "KISSING TIME" ARRIVES THURSDAY. Opening at the Murat on Thursday i ni/ht for a three-days' engagement will b* "Kissing Time." a musical comedy. The outline of the story has been taken from a French farce and from that source George V. Hobart has written the story. The lyrics have been furnished by Philander Johusou and Irving Caesar. The story deal* with the romantic es capade of "Polydone Cliquot," a Parisian banker, who Insists that his clerks must be married before they ran earn promotion and gives an annual dinner in order that they may present their wives. : The clerks, finding It convenient to have a wife only on this yearly occasion, eu gage girls of their acquaintance to as such and fool M. Cliquot. Tho complications are created when the banker falls In love with the supposed gvlfu of Robert Perronet, who turns out to be girl that his parent! had arranged for him to marry and whom he has never sesn. The cast consists of Dan Marble as Cliquot, Eve Lynn as Clarice, Murrav Stephens as Kobe.-* Perronet, Mabel FreUyear as Mini!, Charles Horn as Moulanger, Mabel Gould as Tashl aud Josse Willing’ ham as Kuitle. -J- -!- -1ON YIEYT TODAY. The following attraction* are on view today; Singer's Midgets at B. F. Keiths, "Three Live Ghosts" at the Murat. "Abe Martin" at English's. "Pearls of Pekin" at the Lyric, "Miss New Y'ork Jr." at the I’ark, "Too Many Wives" at the Broadway. s!x act vaudeville bill at the 1 Rialto nnd pictures. "Way Down East" at Loews State, "After the Show" at tlie Ohio, “Experience” at the Circle.' ; "One Wild at the Alhambra, "The ! Primal Law" at the Isis, "Skirts" at Mister Smith's, “Get Y'our Man" at tlie Regent, and "The Old Nest" at the ! Colonial. Venizelos Coming to U. S. on Honeymoon LONDON. Sept. 14 Ex Premier Elentherios Venizelos, of Greece, was married at the St. Pancras registry of fi'-e here today to Miss Helena Sehilizzi. ;. They were friends of long stand. The groom gave his age as 07 and the bride as 47. M. Venizelos said they would visit , America ou their honeymoou.

pumpkin coach, and talks with an Irish idiom. He flashes a large blue diamoud and is gone. The next day the diamond appears in the mail. "Alien the Prince appears as a house party guest. Things begin to happen. The diamond Is stolen. The chauffeur, tho parson and the butler do strange things. There Is a shot in the night. There are mysterious lights in the hills In the distance. A face appears from an abandoned cottage next door. A knight in armor moves. In fact the story assumes all the aspects of a well regulated mystery story. When things reach their height the mystery suddenly Is solvod. Tho diamond 's discovered and obtained by its rightful owner. The “prince” and the “princess" come to an understanding and presumably every one lives happilly

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ever afterward, except the butler, who dies Just as he is about to be arrested as an escaped conTlct. The book is charmingly written and has all the attractions of the regulation mystery story in which romance plays a large part. * • • It is commonly said that every one in Indiana either is a writer or is attempting to becorno a writer. For this reason an article in the Yale Review on Novel Writing, by Sir Harry Johnston, should be particularly interesting. He discusses among other things, the ethics of writing a sequel to a novel by another author, and of putting one's contemporaries into a hook in so realistic a guise that they may be recognized. Even literary press agents use little tricks to "put their stuff over." Fcr example : "The Brimming Cup." Dorothy Canfield's latest book, seemed to be selling in unusually large numbers lu a town twenty miles south of the Canadian border. in the State of Washington. A book salesman with more than the ordinary percentage of curiosity, chancing into the town for a day’s stay, casually inquired the reason. The storekeeper smiled. "Oh, we're Just twenty miles from the source of ‘wet goods', you know,” he explained. “I didn't know how to account for the big sale myself at first, even though it Is an unusually good story. But finally I found out that most of Its purchasers, before they read it. were laboring und|r the impression that it was a book of receipts." • * • A. Clutton Brock's “Essays on Books." published by E. P. Dutton A Cos., is a collection of a dozen or more critical essays. He writes of Shakespeare and William Morris and Dickens and Swinburne. of Kents and Samuel Butler and the Brontes, of Dostoevsky and Turgenev and Solovyof. and each essay is pithy, discerning, full of penetrating thought on the book and the author he is discussing and on their relation to their time and to our own. Each one has rare charm, nlao, and beauty of diction, and as a whole the book Includes a treasury of literary interest. • • • “The Pacific Triangle." by Sydney Greenbie. Is scheduled for pubfic.it ion

Just Out! A New Novel By GRACE ALEXANDER of INDIANAPOLIS Prince Cinderella A little mystery, a little romance, and a little humor A little indoor sophistication and a little outdoor roughness A little cleverness and a little surprise Easy to read, modern, delightful and charming All classes of novel readers will enjoy it And none will deny it praise. At ail booksellers. The Robbs-Merrill Cos., Publishers

Sept. SO. the Century Company announce* The book, it Is said, is essentially travel material, but of a nature that wiii be exceptionally enlightening as lo the imsle conditions which hare given rise to the various Pacific problems. Mr. Greenbie, say his publishers, knows his Immense field as few men know It, this book being the fruit of over six years' residence la parts of the Pacific with w-hich his book deals. He Is the author of “Japan; Real and Imaginary" and "Pacific Pastels," a lecturer and a contributor to magazines. Frederick O'Brien, author of “White Shadows In the South Seas.” and "Mystic Isles of the South Seas," has said, “He has made a unique book, to honest as to shame the average author and so earnest as to win our confidence throughout" It brings Into focus, we are told, every one of the countries of the Pacific about which controversy surges. Washington Briefs l Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Washington hears that Robert Lansing, formerly Secretary of State has been retained to act as special counsel for the Chines* delegation at the confeienee on armaments aud the Far East. Mr. Lansing has not yet returned to his law offices here from his summer holidays and the report in the meantime cannot be verified. YVoodrow Wilson's second foreign minister would serve the government of China appropriately in an advisory capacity because he was closely associated with his distinguished father-in-law John W. Foster, who for years was China's chief counselor on foreign relations. Mr. Lansing strongly espoused the Chiuese position on Shantung at the Paris peace conference and in his recent book on the treaty of Versailles, criticized President Wilson for yielding to Japanese contentions. Japan and France have apprised th* United States they have no objection to the inclusion of Holland and Eelgium In that section of the YY'ashlngton eonfe*euce dealing with the Far East. If as assumed at the State Department presently will be the case. Great Britain, Italy and China also pronounce Holland and Belgium to be accplablo conferees the l nited States will formally invite rhern to be represented. They will like ( hina "sit in" only when "principles and policies" in the Pacific are under discussion. If each of them sends four delegates that will mean a total of thirtviour instead of twenty-five at the round table when the Far East is under discussion. Holland has vast interest in the Pacific through possession of the Dutch East Indies. She also owns part of one of the Yap cables. Belgium's interest in Asiatic affairs consists mainly / her heavy investment in the formerly Belgian s Russian railway from Hankow to Pekin. William J Morgan, attorney general of w lsb C °ti SiU ’r. S in Washin 8!ton to confer with the Department of Justice about the Badger States anti-price-fixing law. Mr. Morgan is responsible for passing the isn- on Wisconsin statute books. It comprises the prohibitory features of Federal acts concerning combinations in restraint of trade, but is distinguished from them by its penal provisions Fines ranging from SKY) to s*>.ooo can now be meted out in Wisconsin to price fixing profiteers. Mr. Morgan is one of tha coming young Republicans of Wisconsin politics. He led his State' ticket at the 1920 elections by a heavy majority. When Robert M. La Toilette tempts fate and aspires to re-election in 1920 the attorney general's friends intend pitting Mr. Morgan against him. It is understood that Joseph C. Grew is being transferred from the legation In Denmark to become minister to Switzerland because the United States wants a trained observer in the country which is the seat of the League of Nations. Mr. Grew* saw the league in the making as the secretary general the American mission at the Paris peace conference. He knows personally Lord Robert Cecil, M. YTviani, Arthur J. Balfour and other leading European statesmen who helped to form the league and who now direct Its destinies. The State Department feels there could have been no better choice for our “post" near Geneva.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. LIFT BAN ON GERMANS. LONDON, Sept. 14.—Many of the lesser London clubs have repealed the regulations against admission of German members.

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