Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1921 — Page 4

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JfoWana flatto QTimro INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. o trc*s | j; ew York, Boston, Payne, Burns A Jimth, Inc. _ RUSH Jimmie Carr’s State constabulary to Jasonville. At least three more "rioters” have broken loose! IT TOOK a long time to frame a connection between Mr. Shank and the plaza remonstrance, but "orders is orders,” you know! STRANGE, isn't it, how much can be proved about the traffic law through the simple expediency of omitting the qualifying proviso thereof! THE REAL STORY of the robbery of that Terre Haute distillery will be all the more interesting after a few more coats of whitewash are spread!

What Indianapolis Needs If either one of our present candidates for mayor desired to accept a limited platform possible of achievement and confine his campaign to a discussion of a constructive program he might consider these three planks: 1. A dollar’s worth of service for every dollar paid from the city treasury. 2. The immediate, persistent and permanent elimination of insanitary conditions in and about Indianapolis. 3. The unification of the various interests whose combined w illingness to improve Indianapolis is capable of doubling the city. Under these three headings subdivisions might be made to cover ail the things that have been discussed by either candidate. Under these three topics fall the minor differences which are now being lifted to the rank of issues in an effort to confuse the voters. For example, if a dollar's worth of service were received from each member of the police department there would be no question about an "open town.*’ If a dollar’s worth of service were received for each dollar expended in street repair and inspection work the streets would be well maintained. If a dollar’s worth of service were received for each dollar spent on the fire department there would be no spreading of residence fires. And Indianapolis would find that the cost of city government could easily be reduced a million and a half a year, instead of being increased by that much, as it has been recently. There is no problem before the public of as grave importance as the Insanitary condition? that exist in the city today. Open vaults menace the lives of our citizens. Insufferable inefficiency marks the handling of garbage. Our streams are open sewers and great accumulations of filth lie undisturbed because such Incompetents as Lucius B. Swift “have not been asked” to order them removed. Unless this insanitary condition of the city of Indianapolis receives vigorous attention during the next administration hundreds of citizens will succumb to the typhoid and other diseases which it breeds. Indianapolis possesses any number of relatively.minor organizations all working for a better city. They have their meeting places in the various hotels, at the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce buildings, in private homes and at the various club houses. They consist of men who will give willingly of their time and their money toward the improvement of the city.

But there is no agency through which their efforts can be united. There is no effort under way to transform the whole into one compact movement whose force would be irresistible. They constitute an army of workers without a board of strategy or a leader. Their influence is minimized because they do not pull together. In the civil government of Indianapolis there Is vested the power and the machinery by which these various influences might be co-ordinated, work laid out for each and the efforts of all made to conform to a de*nite program for a better Indianapolis. Here is an opportunity for a mayor with vision. To be the head of this municipality should imply more than merely being the director of a political machine. Which? Prosecutor William P. Evans expressed surprise when his attention was called to dozens of instances in which persons fined in the Criminal Court had stayed their fines and then neglected to pay them. Yet the only surprising feature of this is that the prosecutor should have been surprised. For every one else connected with the Criminal Court knew of the neglect, and Mr. Evans, by some unexplained process, found it out in the Haag case and insisted that the Haags pay up. For many years it has been the custom of the Criminal Court to neglect to enforce its judgments. Repeatedly, public attention has been called to the neglect. In some Instances the weight of condemnation has been bo great that immediate attention has been forced by the publicity given the neglect. But neither Mr. Evans nor any other officials appear to have been sufficiently interested in correcting the neglect to give the books in the clerk's office so much as a cursory examination. These books are open to the public. Whoever desires may run their pages and see who Is the recipient of special favor. Mr. Evans’ personal attention has been called to dozens of neglected judgments s{nce he discovered the neglect in the Haag case. Soon we will see whether his unusual action in compelling the Haags to live up to the letter of the law was prompted by the fact that it was the Haags who were delinquent or whether It was really & zealous attempt to enforce the Criminal Court’s Judgments. Merger Denied The action of the public commission in refusing to approve the proposed consolidation of a number of utilities under the name of Indiana Electric Corporation comes as a distinct surprise both to the promoters and their stanch friends in this community. The reasons assigned by the commission for the refusal are, however, exceedingly sound and analysis of the finding discloses nothing that could be interpreted as a ruling against a constructive enterprise. The commissioners decided that "there is rot enough fair value in the properties' sought to be purchased by the petitioner to warrant the assuming and the issue of that amount of securities bearing fixed charges which petitioner says are necessary to consummate the purchase.” In other words the commission rules that the cost of the properties that were to be merged is too high for practical purposes. Tht commiesion finds that the gross income from the properties would not be tufflcient to pay the interest on the investment, thereby justifying its rest sal to approve the consolidation on the theory that it would be over-capitalized. There iB approval expressed of a central power plant, although engineers of wide repute differ as to the practical benefits of such a project and the commission did not, in its hearing, gfy into that question. In effect, the order of the commission is a notice that it will not approve consolidation unless it is very plain that such consolidations will he able to earn sufficient revenue to take care of their fixed charges. It would be exceedingly difficult for any one to find fault with that Intention.

For Service or Lame Ducks? The •women of the south side are protesting against the proposed installation of a political lame duck as the secretary of the city planning commission, which is now being organized after months of delay on the part of Mayor Jewett They cannot understand why Claude S. Wallin should be paid more for services as secretary of the commission than he is now being paid as secretary to the mayor. They cannot understand why a city planning commission should not employ as a secretary someone who has had some experience in city planning and is really capable of being of some benefit to the commission. They cahnot understand why it should be necessary to begin, practically at the inception of the city planning program to load the commission with political dead weight that eventually will pervert what should be a civic enterprise into another political machine. And the women of the south side are right, as usual. The city planning commission will never amount to a hill of beans in Indianapolis if it is to become the haven of rest for administration pets out with the change of elected itfjinlcipal officers.

The STORY of NINETTE By RUBY M. AYRES

Who’s Who in the Story NINETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the ligh f 0 f day in cheap lodgings in a dull road in the worst part of Balham, ia adopted by , "JOSH” WHEELER, who shared his meager earnings as a Bcribe on a London paper, with the friendless babe. Ninette meets PETEK NOTHARD. an editor, who rescues her from sickness and poverty and takes her to his sister, MARGARET DELAY, who has a home to the country. Ninette is introduced to ARTHUR DELAY, Margaret a husbaud. DOROTHY MANVERS. an oid sweetheart of Nothard’s, is a guest at Margaret's bouse Ninette meets. RANDALL CAVANAGH, a wealthy man of London, who confesses that, he is her father. \ Cavatiigh contemplates a business trip to America and places Ninette under tne chaperonage ct MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. Ninette is surprised to learn that Mrs. Cranford is Peter Nothard's aunt. Margaret tells Ninette that her husband has left her. Ninette overhears someone telling Peter Nothard that Cavanagh has paid Mrs. Crawford to keep her, hears them ridicule her extravagant dress and hint that her father had done something disgraceful and would leave England for a while. Much to Nt shard’s distress, Ninette angrily teilu him inat she overheard his conversat on. Upon learning that Peter Nothard is to marry Dorothy Manvers, Ninette suddenly realizes her own love for him. 1 he awakening startles her er.d 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 to pay his aunt to keep Ninette with her and Insists that Ninette remain ignorant of the fact that he is supplyln the money. Mrs. Cranford suspects Ninette’s fondues* 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, Nothard realizes that their engagement ran not be broken unless it is her Geetre. Ninette and Nothard quarrel when he obeys Dorothy's request that he see her. While out for a walk, to quiet her ti on bled thoughts. Ninette meets Arthur Delay. . ... Nothard reluctantly tells Dorothy that he intends to marry her in spite of her disfigurement.

CHAPTER XLIV Peter Burns His Boat. “You know.” Dorothy said suddenly, "since this happened, and I’ve been up here all aiono, I've thought what beasts children are sometimes to their mothers. Ibey do everything for us when were little, and when we grow up we think they are old-fashioned and silly, and get ashamed of them. I got ashamed of mother.” Then suddenly she laughed. "That sounds like a death-bed repentance, doesn't it?” she said flippantly. “Well, it's not. I’m not sorry for anything I've done. I’m only sorry I didn't do more, and have a better time when I had the chance.” "Yon'll have the chance again—all the rest of your life.” She did not answer for a moment; then she said, in a slow, tense voice. “If, when they take these off—and sl\ touched the bandages with the tlpß of her fingers—”lf l look frightful. I'll kill myself: Nothard rose to bis feet. “You're talking nonsense,” he said ongrily. “Cowardly nonsense How do you suppose other people manage? And there are thousands of people terribly disfigured in the world who lead perfectly happy, normal Urea, and you are only going to be slightly scarred. Dorothy, I’m ashamed of you!” She seemed hardly to hear him; her eyes were fixed on the fire, with a faraway expression in them, as she said painfully: "I remember once sitting down to lunch at a table with a man who had a terrible sac I suppose, like mine. Ho had nice eves, and I think he must hate been good-looking once upon a time. But I couldn't bear to look at him, and I think be knew It. I got up and walked away to another table. Horrid of me, wasn't it? Well, I shall bo paid out, because that’s what people will be doing to me. soon!” Nothard turned to the door. There was something tragic about her today that jarred on him, all the more because he did not care sufficiently for her to bo able to soothe her or comfort her. “You're morbid, and it's wrong to encourage yourself in euch thoughts,” he said sternly. "You seem to forgot that you might hove lost your life. You ought to be thankful you are safe and well.”

"I would rather have died!" she answered him harshly. Nothard walked out of the room without another word, and shut the door. He was angry with her end with himself; and yet before he had got. half way downstairs he was sorry. Bhe was only a butterfly, after all. with the soul of a butterfly, and he knew well enough that her face had been her religion. Nothard was palrifully conscious of h!s own helplessness. Hs knew that he was no help to her—that he was powerless to shield her against the dread that was making life hideous to her, and he realised how different things would have been had Ninette been in Dorothy's place. He could have helped Ninette, he knew; his love would have been a harrier between her and the future; his love would have fenced her round, and made her happy. So he went back to where Dorothy sat biting her handkerchief and staring into the fire, and out of his pity for her ho knelt down beside her and took her in his arms. "I am sorry I went away like that,” he said. "It was selfish pf me, Dorothy. Will you- when will you marry me. dear?” He had tried to say It every time he had seen her since the accident, but somehow the words always refused to pass his lips. And he held his breath now. waiting for her to speak, a horrible feeling in his heart tbat he had Just signed his own death warrant. But he was not prepared for the fresh storm of sobbing which broke from her, or the pitiful way in which her arms suddenly clung about his neck. "Do you mean it? Do you mean it? I thought you didn't really want me

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any more. I thought It was only out of a sense of duty. I thought—” But the rest was lost as she hid her face on his shoulder. Nothard held her with stiff arms. Did she, then, love him, after all? he was wondering helplessly. For a moment he could find no words; then he said again. "Well, when will you marry me?" “When you like. As soon as I am well enough." For the moment, at least, she felt some affection for him, arid was really grateful. She kissed him warmly enough from between her bandages. “And you’ll take me away—abroad, somewhere? And perhaps I”i get quite well again—my face, I mea i?" she asked eagerly. “Yes, we’ll' go anywhere you like,” he answered desperately. He may as well burn his boats once and for all, he knew. Ninette was as lost to him as If he and she were in different worlds. Why think of what might have been ? But, presently, whei she was soothed and comforted, and seemed almost happy, and he went downstairs again to find Mrs. Cranford, he came x’r.fe to face with Ninette in the hall. (To be continued.)

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1921. by Star Company.

By K. C. B.

LADDIE ROY. • • • WHITE HOUSE Kennels. • • 0 MY DEAR Laddie. • • • I’M WRITING yon. • * m ABOUT YOUR ilster. • • m TIP TOP Tattor* • • • WHO LII ES ax the horn**. • • • OF MARK A. Luescher. • • • FOR I surmise. • * • SHE'S BEEN so busy. * * * SHE HASN'T had tim*. TO SEND you \iord. • # • THAT THE other day. A STORK dropped In. • • • AND LEFT with her. • • • AN ENTIRE family. OF SEVEN * • AND ONE of them. * • • HAS ADOPTED me. • • FOR ITS foster dad. ‘• • * AND IS going to be mine. • • • IT’S big enough TO LEAVE Its heme. * • • AND ANYWAY. • ,e • THAT MAKES us cousins. v - * • * OR I’M your uncle. OR TIIE President's brother.' • • OR WHATEVER it is. ANT) I’M writing you. • • • TO ASK of you. • • THAT THE very next time. • • • YOU oo for a stroll. • • • WITH YOUR White House master. • • . YOU SAY to him. • • • YOU’VE Jt ST had word. • • • YOU’VE BECOME an uncle. • • • TO SEVEN pups. • • • AND THAT on© of thorn. * • • WILL MAKE its hom©. • * • WITH A friend of youri. • * • AND THAT this friend. • • * HAS ASKED of you. • • • YOU ASK your matter. • • • TO SELECT a ii|id§. * • • FOR YOUR friend’* pnp. • • • AND I know he't busy. • • • AND HAS !ott to do. • • • bi t NOW if© happened • • • THAT I’M his relatlr© • • • THROUGH TIP Top Titter*, f HAD An idea. • • HE WOULDN'T mind • • • AND I nearly forgot. t • • BE SURE and tell him. • • • IT’S A Jttl# boy pup. • • I THANK you.

Franklin College May Break Record Spe-lal to The Times. FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. JR.—lndications at tho end of the second day’s registration at Franklin College pointed to the largest enrollment In the history of the Institution. President Charles E. Goodell of the college said today that before the end of the week Franklin would go over the high water mark set last year, when the college registered its greatest student body up to that time. An Intensive publicity campaign conducted last year and the popularity of Will R Nelp, Franklin's new athletic director, are accredited with increasing the student body of the Baptist In stltution In the face of much-heralded hard times. FILE* DIVORCE SUIT. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Sept 14 Chris Gosnell. an inmate of the Jeffersonville Reformatory, scut up from this city several months ago for grand lnr ceny, was nam“d defendant in a divorce suit filed here Wednesday by Clara Gosnell.

In the Realm W here Woman Reigns

Keeping House With the Hoopers

(The Hoopera, an average American family of eve, living in a suburban town, on a limited income will tell the readers of the Daily Time* how the many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an interesting review of their home lUe and learn to meet the conditions of the high coat of living with them.) Mrs. Hooper had waked from a long, heavy sleep. Induced by the potion which the doctor had given her to drink. She had opened her eyes a id lay for'a long time staring out into the darkness, trying to remember What nad happened before she had gone to sleep. That it was night and not morning she knew because of the quiet and darkness. Then Rhe recalled faintly tbat after the doctor had gone she had taken off her clothes and slipped on her kimono, drank the liquid he had left in tho glass and lain down on the conch to rest. She felt as If she had been asleep a long time. She got up and switched on the light and looked at the little clock ticking away 0:1 her desk It was half past twelve. She had gone to sleep without preparing dinner! Poor Miss Ring—she supposed Helen had given her something to eat out of the Ice box. but she felt very much ashamed of having neglected the woman upon whom she was co desperately depending to save Betty's life. She put on her slippers, fastened up her hair and hurried ont Into the hall. There was a strip of light under th* door of the sick room. She knocked lightly when she heard Mis* Ring moving about inside. ‘‘l'm bo sorry, Miss Ring,” she began, as the nurse opened a tiny crack in the door, "I went to sleep and you have had no dinner. Can I bring you something now?" “Why, I’ve had a lovely dinner, '• whispered the nurse Helen fixed it on the tray and left It on the kitchen table and I slipped down and brought it up The doctor told her he had put you to sleep and for her to put something on a tray for me to eat, but that she must not come upstairs with it. Bnt she gave me a hot dinner, not the cold lunch that the doctor said would be downstairs for me. So I don’t want anything, thank you.” The nurse shut the door quietly so as not to disturb her little patient. Mrs. Hooper continued on her way downstair* wondering if Helen had actually cooked that dinner that she had prepared before she went upstairs with the doctor. She and Roger were sound asleep. Tiptoeing through the dining room, *he found evidence of their having spent the evening there studying, but every sign of dinner had been carefully Cleared away. The dishes had all been washed and the kitchen was in perfect order. She proceeded to the pantry and opened the ice box. There was not the least doubt that the dinner had been cooked, served, eaten and everything put away after it, quit# as well apparently, as she could_Jiave done it herself. She poured out a glass of milk, aud put some bread and butter and Jam on a small trsy and carried it out to the kitchen table, feeling hungry enough to enjoy a light supper. She certainly felt a thrill of satisfaction at this evidence that Helen had met the emergency so well. She could very easily have side(tepped as Mrs Hooper herself had expected she had done, and have Just gathered some cold food from the ice box for herself and Roger and served Miss Ring likewise, as the doctor had told her to do. Instead of that some instinct of pride had moved her to carry out her mother’s program and prepare dinner quite as usual. It certainly looked as if Henry were wrong when he suggested that the children had no initiative, but she remembered that It was of Roger and not Helen that he complained most. It was Mrs. 1100 >r herself who believed that Helen would never be a good house keeper because she bated details, but she was so pleased with her evening's work that she was more inclined than ever to believe she had been doing her an injustice. After she had washsd up her dishes and put them, quietly, away so as not to disturb Roger snd Helen, who were sleeping r o near the kitchen. She went to the hack door and was surprised to find it unfaetened. She looked out into the yard and saw the long length of garden hose which should have been rolled up and put in the basement. The door from the yard into the laundry was wide open, snd the garden tools were stand ing In a careless knot agsinst the back stairs. Evidently Roger bad neglected to make his rounds and put things away for the night. She remembered with a

Do You Know Indianapolis?

This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterday’s picture was of the old abandoned waiting station for street car patrons at Emerson avenue and East Washington street.

Men You May Marry By E. R . PEYSER

Has a man like this proposed to you? Symptoms: Looks rather like a belted dumpling. Sunny Jim is gloomy by his side. Has a woman lashed to the mast with his love gags. He dogs you from Canada to Cape of Good Hope. He loves to think of himself as the ideal lover —but you can t w r eave romance about his tublike personality. His letters are gushing fountains. IN FACT, He is not the sought-for fountain of youth but of babble. 7<r?\ Prescription to his bride: /y Ear capacity tested regularly—Listen well. KJ yy Rest-cure when he's away—- * Hold him to the text of his song. Absorb This: SERENADES ARE BETTER THAN LEMONADES. Copyright, 1921, by Tho MsClnro Nowepopor Syndicate,

little feeling of guilt that she always asked him every night before he sat uown to study if the work had been done. If Helen had not needed her direction. Roger evidently had missed her reminder and fallen down on his Job. The menus for the three meals on Friday are: BREAKFAST Sliced Peachea Cereal Poached Eggs Coffee Muffins. LUNCHEON Hash on Toatt Sliced Tomatoes Stewed Fruit Cookies. DINNER Cream of Tomato Boup Broiled Spanish Mackerel Parsley Potatoes Beet Tops Cucumber Salad Peach Pie. —Copyright, 1921. CORN MEAL MUFFINS. One fall cup each of corn meal and white flour, 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs. 2 tablespoonfnls of melted butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar. 2 even teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 2 salt spoonfuls of salt. Sift meal and flour together three times with baking powder and salt. Add beaten yolks to the milk, then the butter and sugar beaten together, lastly the prepared meal and flour. If too stiff, thin with milk. Bake in hot muffin tins or in gem pans. HASH ON TOAST. Cut pieces of bread into uniform sizes, dip them into beaten egg. to which a little milk and a pinch of salt has been added. Fry to a light brown in hot butter. Make a highly seasoned hash of chopped meat and potatoes. Cook in stock until heated through. Arrange toast on platter, patting a spoonful of hash on each piece and covering with another piece of toast. POTATOES PARISIENNE. Parislenne potatoes are cut into small balls from raw potatoes with a French ■vegetable cutter or a round spoon. They may be either fripd or boiled and served with maitre d'hotel sauce. MAITRE D'HOTEL SAUCE. Beat 2 tablespoonful* soft butter to n cream with the Juice of half a lemon and a tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley. It should be a fine, pale green wheD done. Serve cold with hot potatoes. BEET TOPS. rick over the tops, rejecting all yellow or dried leaves. Wash in several waters, letting them soak in the last cold water for three quarters of an hour. Put Into a large pot over the fire with Just enough cold water to cover. Cook for twenty mlnutes or until tender. Drain in a colander, then turn into a wooden chopping dish or food chopper and chop very fine. Return to the saucepan, stir into

It a large spoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Mound on a hot platter and garnish with slices of hard boLied eggs. Beet tops taste very sim liar to spinach and may be used in any recipe calling for spinach. SPINACH PUFF. Chop cooked spinach fine and beat in a tablespoonful of melted butu-r, salt and pepper to taste, and a pinch of nutmeg. Bet tbit mixture away to cool. When cold beat into It a gill of cream and the w-hipped yoke of two eggs and the stiffened whites of three. Beat bard and turn into a greased pudding dish. Bake for twenty• minutes and serve at once.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

Bjr David Cory'

“Now, good-by and Godspeed,” said the little bird when Puss and the lovely maiden were safely outalde the castle walls, “Take the road to your right and all will be well with you.” And then the little bird flew back to the castle, and Puss said ‘Gid ap’ to his Good Gray Horse and rode away. And by and by, as the morning sun awoke the little birds in the trees and the deer came down to the lake to drink, they saw a stately castle In the distance. “ ‘There is my home, good, kind little Sir Cat,” said the lovely maiden. And pretty soon after that they were at the gates, and the lovely maiden was once more safe with her father. But Puss didn't stop. He only bowed and told the lord that he was only too gird to he able to rescue his daughter, and then he rode away on his Good Gray Horse and, by-and by. after a while, he had another adventure. A man with a tame bear was seated beneath a tree close to the roadside, and when he saw Puss be stood up and began to laugh, and then he said: "Ho, ho, bir Kitten. Y'ou and I would make a merry pair. We could travel from town to town and give a fine show to all the little boys and girls. Think of the pennies we could get, for you are a good rider, and my bear can perform many tricks.” “ 'Tis a good idea, little Master,” said the Good Gray Horse; "let us join him.”

“Very well,” said Puss to the man. ”My Good Gray Horse and I will Journey with you, and when we reach the first town we will see what we can do.” So they all set out together, the man walking by the side of his trained bear and Puss on his Good Gray Horse, and by and by, after a while, they came to a little village In the middle of which was a park. So they stopped and looked about them. And just then the schoolhouse door opened and all the children came running out. And when they saw Puss on hia horse and the man with his bear, they shouted: "Here's the circus come to town!” and then they all stood- around and waited to see what would happen. Well, the man then said to his bear, “Dance, Bruno!" And the bear began to dance to the music which the man played, for he had a funny little fiddle, you know, and there were bells on his cap which he jingled by moving his head to the time of the song. "Jingle bells and fiddle dee dee. My dancing bear is a sight to see. He can dance on one leg at a time Keeping step to my music's rhyme. Fiddle dee dum and fiddle dee dee. I would go miles such a sight to see. ' "Hurrah!” cried all the little boys and girls, and in the next story you shall hear what Puss did on his Good Gray Horse. —.Copyright. 1921. (To Be Continued.)

Real Estate Dealer Refuses Belief in Race Suicide Theory MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Sepl. 13. Den E. I.ane, local real estate dealer, has reached the conclusion that there is no such thing as race suicide. He recently offered to cut SIOO off the price of anv heme he sold for every child in the family. P. R. Munse.i of St. Paul led twelve cihldren Into Mr. Lane's oltice. Munson saved $1,200 on his home.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. ON THE ROAD, Sept. 15. AMIDPLE-WESTERN banker sayg the losses some men suffered in the great decline never will be known. “One of our directors." he said, “is the head of an establishment that Is the largest of its character privately owned In the world. From activity it dropped suddenly to nothing. In six month* its losses, which ran Into millions, equaled the profits of the previous ten years. In the year of Its losses the owner had to pay a very heavy tax on the profits of the previous year. Sometimes a man. no matter how good his assets, has to make great sacrifices to obtain the money Decessary to meet his obligations. This was the case with this gentleman. “At one of our board meetings something was said about how heavy a burden he had been carrying. He smiled. Throughout the whole period of liquidation he never complained, but met conditions with calm and resolute composure. His great plant was closed at the time of our board meeting, and I remarked that I was proud to have a man on our directorate who could bear such a loss as he had sustained and was. sustaining He didn't say anything, but Just smiled. “Well, his business has rsvived to a fair degree. His plant is operating and he is making some profit again, not mack for such a great enterprise, but some. His fortune has been cut in half, hut you wouldn’t know it from his bearing. I believe he would have lost hie all without a whimper. He's game. Thera are men who are physlcallv brave who break under financial loss. He is not of that kind. Ha has both physical and financial courage, together with that scrupulous honesty of never evading an obligation, even if it takes the last dollar.” • • • CROSSING a street in some of the Middle Western and Northwestern cities Is more difficult, if such a thing is possible, than in the most congested sections of New Tork or Philadelphia. You certainly have to watch your step. Traffic regulations are not so weU observed as In the larger cities, and automobiles seem to come from all four points of the compass at the same time. Perforce, the person afoot gives more exercise to his neck muscles than ever before, turning his head this way and that to see where danger lurks and where opportunity appears. Then he steps lively and. not infrequently, does some artful dodging and gets across.

IT'* hard to tell where St Paul leaves off and Minneapolis begins. Some day. remote perhaps, the twin cities will be one physically if not actually. The great highway between the two' municipalities has a large volume of traffic and the residential and industrial development along it has been so pronounced in the last ten years as to leave no conspicuous break at any place along its length. Its a beautiful stretch of road. The Industrial structures are of the best type and there are few or no drab dwellings. i • * MINNEAPOLIS and St. Paul command the trade of the Dakotas and Montana. That doesn't seem so much when you say it, but yon can get an idea of the immensity of this territory when it is said that it is a shorter distance from Minneapolis to Tampa, Fla., than from Minneapolis (o westernmost Montana.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—1 tl* considered not Improbable that the British delegation to the Washington conference on armaments and the Far East may be made up as follows: David I.loyd George, prime minister, chief of delegation: Bonar Law, Lord Lee of Fairhara. first-lord of (he admiralty: Sir Laming Worthington Evans, seeretary of state for war. Bonar Law is leader of the Unionist party in Parliament and would be selected for the same reason that inspired' President Harding's appointment of ( Senator Underwood to the American delegation—he represents the political opposition. If Mr. Law is not appointed, or does not accept an appointment, it is considered certain another Unionist and a former prime minister. Arthur J. Balfour, will be named. If It Is determined to give the Liberal party representation of more pronounced fibre than Mr. Lloyd George represents, the names of Fjord, Grey and Dr, H. A. L. Fisher, minister of education, are mentioned as likelihoods. Dr. Fisher was prominently considered for the ambassadorship to Washington two years ago. President Harding has given his official b'essing and sanction to a slogan for Washington—'‘Heart of the Nation." originated by the Washington Advertising Club. It recently was submitted to the President for approval and now has been formally adopted by the organization. The club's hope is to induce all writers of letters in Washington. Specially business houses, to emblazon their stationery with the slogan and thus give it Nation wide circulation. The slogan is printed surrounding a heart, within which the dome and eat front of the cnpilol are pictured.—Copyright, 1921. by Ptthllc Ledger Company. RAVAGES BY GB 19SHOPPERS. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 15.—Big agricnl- - tural districts in Northern Mexico hare been ravaged by grasshoppers of a size nnd species never seen before.

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