Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1921 — Page 4
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Jtoifcma fflatki E\vm INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ 4 New York, Boston, Tayne, Burna & Smith. Ine. Advertising office* j Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Q. Logan Payne Cos. have you forgotten? WHAT was Christmas before the parcel post system was organized? THE SMAL<L BOY ctu break loose and be natural again after tomorrow. YOU CAN’T exchange your gifts until Tuesday. The stores w ill be closed Monday. SOME of the weather that has been out lately could hardly be called rough, in one sense at least CENSUS statistics are hardly necessary to convince the average citizen that the number of book agents in Indianapolis has increased. PRESIDENT HARDING apparently is beginning to realize that he started something when he called the disarmament conference. WHAT WE can’t understand is how a township ever had as much money as the sums involved in that board of accounts report. THER ARE now lift only a few places in the State that have not recently come to the attention of the board of accounts or the Federal Court and some of them have had both honors. Solve It Yourself In one hour, following the sleet storm Thursday night there were sixteen disabled automobiles on North Meridian street at different places between the Circle and Maple road boulevard. They gave mute testimony of the difficult driving conditions, but they also spoke eloquently of poor driving and carelessness, to say * othing of inadequate policing of the thoroughfare. fl A survey of the traffic in Meridian street during the evening rush which was recently made discloses that the number of vehicles passing a given point in a given time is far less than the number that pass given points on boulevards no wider in other cities. It also disclosed that the of speed with which the vehicles moved was considerably less than is -yarded as normal in other cities. The data collected on this point indicates that much of the congestion is due to lack of proper driving. Failure to take into consideration the rights of the driver behind is possibly the gravest error. When an icy street adds to the difficulties the result is a long line of smashed cars—cars that have been needlessly smashed. Certainly, this traffic condition presents a big problem to the authorities, but it is a problem that will not be rightly solved until actual drivers give it their attention and proceed practically to solve it themselves.
Looking Forward Not the least of the things for which Indianapolis and Marion County will be grateful this year is the evident intention of county officials to proceed, at the earliest possible date to better the county institutions, concerning which there has been so much criticism. Throughout a long period of yeers there has been neglect of county institutions, neglect brought about by the failure of the community to realize the steady transition of the community from nty with an overgrown town in its midst to a county that is alnics city. Institutions that served very well before Indianapol.s grew to its present size became inadequate and conditions that might have passed a few years ago became “deplorable,” as the county grand jury reported. In a word, the county government has failed to keep pace with the growth of the territory it governed and now it is necessary that it take some vigorous strides in order to meet the demands upon it. None of the proposed improvements for which the county commissioners desire to issue $450,000 of bonds is such as to merit opposition. There may be differences of opinion as to the best way to improve the condition existing, but these differences should not be permitted to stand in the way of the objective. Better institutions for a better county are a necessity and the sooner they are obtained the better. Merry Christmas! There never was a time in the world's history when the return of the season wherein the Christmas spirit predominates was more auspicious. No great wars threaten civilization. Nations are getting together and adjusting grievances and apparent misunderstandings by common sense and a respect of the rights of the minority. Great persecutions have ceased and little ones exist only because some individuals are small. Honesty in government is in demand and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for each individual is conceded in an ever enlarging area of the earth's surface. Two thousand years ago no one would have thought, much less admitted. that the kindly influence of a lowly voice, born in a village which was the subject of derision, would some day stretch over the entire world. The progress of the spirit of the angels’ song of peace on earth, good will to men, has often been clouded and doubts have arisen as to the reality of the vision. Somehow, in ways beyond explanation, the thought has survived and some day it promises to become an ever-present fact in the conduct of men. The gentle insistence of the golden rule, echoing from a carpenter’s life through cenDiries, touches the heart today as never before. Our own rich land, blessed by a Washington and a Lincol.i and containing millions of souls anxious to emulate them, certainly has contributed Us share toward human development. Though the future may contain problems to be met, thongh the present may seem hard and unsympathetic to some, the Christmas spirit prevails. No man’s hand need be lifted today against his brother, excepting in benediction. A merry Christmas to all is the wish of this paper.
Emma Would Return Dispatches from Riga, Latvia, bring the information that Emma GoKlman, arch anarchist, who was deported to Russia in 1919 because of her persistent efforts to hinder America’s preparations for the war against Germany, then in progress, Is now seeking permission to return to the United States. While Miss Goldman was permitted to remain in the United States she carried on a constant campaign of propaganda against our national institutions and day in and day out decried in her public utterances our "capitalistic Government.” Irk her letters, in newspaper articles contributed to the radical press and on the lecture platform she declared that this Government must be overthrown, by revolution if necessary, before the workers, the great proletariat, could come into their own. 'lt was a common utterance of hers that the American workers were more oppressed than the subjects of Russia under the worst Czarist regime. When Anally the soviet government came into power in Russia she pointed to it as the ideal government of the worker. The proletariat of America was adjured to rise and do likewise. Uncle Sam is a mighty tolerant uncle and he let Emma rave—that is, he let her rave until he found himself at war and her traitorous utterances were being used to obstruct the national defense. She was then imprisoned, found guilty and shipped to her dear Russia. But Russia as the promised land of her hopes (depicted from the lecture platform at so much per) and Russia 'as her own personal habitation were two separate and distinct things. Emma had never so much as a thought of going to her promised land until she found herself bundled off with Alexander Berkman and half a hundred other wild-eyed anarchists in the “soviet ark,” hound for Riga. Once in Russia, Emma found, as she should have known before she sailed, that Lenin was more of a Czar than Peter the Great had ever dared to be and the talk of a government by the people was the veriest sham. It is always so. No ruler is ever more a dictator than he who mounts the throne, at the head of the rabble. Emma soon found that her anarchistic beliefs clashed with those of the communist program. To while away her time and forget about her sad mistake in reviling the land that really afforded her an asylum, she began to write a history of the Russian revolution. Her attitude aroused the suspicions of the soviet officials and friction followed. Now Emma would return to America, But Emma will find the road back a difficult, if not an impossible one. Only a pardon_by the President of the United States will admit her. And it is exceedingly doubtful. In view of all that Emma has said, if Mr. Harding. will flfctend clemency.—Saturday Blade. ChSago.
IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS
Keeping House With the Hoopers
[The Hoopers, an average American family of fire, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell tbe readers of tbe Dally Times bow tne many present-day problems of tbe borne are solved Dy working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved at.d found practical. Follow them dally in an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet tbe conditions of tbe high cost of living with them.] SATURDAY. The day had been auch a busy one that Mrs. Hooper had less time than usual to worry over their troubles. She had persuaded Henry not to go to the city as she reasoned that It would be a useless waste of time to try to see any one about giving h._, a job on Saturday, and especially on the day before Christmas. A whole week had gone by and he had not had one sign of encouragement or the slightest indication that there was Any place for him anywhere in the city. He was so Impatient to be looking for something that it was with difficulty that Mrs. Hooper kept him home, but he finally gave In and he and Roger had spent the entire day doing odd jobs In the garden and tinkering about in the basement. Mre, Hooper put he house in its best company order as Belle was coming down from the city to spend the week-end; bty married brother and sister-in-law, who lived in the next town, a bachelor cousin of Henry’s, who always spent Christmas with them, her mother and the Bride and her husband were all to be with them for dinner tomorrow. After everything was in order, and all the extra linen and china sorted out, and the simple luncheon over, she set to work to prepare the Christmas meal. She had made up her mind that no fu-
Ve TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, IMI. hr Star Compear. HE HAD asked me. , 0 ft 0 TO GO to tm* country. • • • AND I said I would. 000 BECAUSE I knew. • • • HE HAD a sedan. ... WITH A heater in It. ... AND WHEN it's cold. ... I LIKE sedans. ... WITH HEATERS in them. • •- . AND HE drove around. ... • AND TELEPHONED. HE WAS down stairs. ... AND I went down. . ... AND THE car he had. WAS A touring car. AND the top was down. AND HE was bragging. ... ABOUT THE air. ... AND HOW grand it was. AND 1 Suggested. WE MIGHT be cold". • • • \ND HE laughed at me. • r • AND I got In. t • • AND SAT wl(h him. . • . IN THE tonneau seat. ... AND THE driver drove. ... AND I envied him. HIS NICE warm engine JUST AHEAD. AND MV healthy friend KEPT SAYING, “Ah!” ... AND: “ISN’T it grand ... AND I pretended. I THOUGHT it was ANO BEGAN to freeze. AND STRAIGHTENED my legs. ... SO I could stand np. • • • WHEN THEY lifted me out. • * • AND LOOKED through windows. INTO NICE warm rooms. ... AND SAW some boys. ... WITn BUCKETS of fire. ... AND A lucky workman. ... BURNING BRUSH. ... AND LISTENED to the chatter. • • • OF MY red-faced friend. ... AND HATED him. ... AND REACHED his house. ... AND THAWED myself. ... AT A fireplace. ... WHILE HE went upstairs. ... TO REMOVE his flannels. ... AND ALL I had. ... WERE B. V. D.'s. ... AND WHEN he came down. ... HE SAID: “This Is the life!” THE GREAT big stiff. ... I THANK you.
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FORTY-THIRD WEEK. WEEKLY STATEMENT FROM MRS. HOJFER/S ACCOUNT BOOK. Received Henry’s salary $50.00 Budget. Paid Week’s & out. balance. Shelter $6.00 Nothing SO.OO Food 20.00 Meat (including turkey) $7.50 Dairy supplies 3.50 Fruit and vegetables 1.75 Fish 50 Groceries 2.75 Ice 1.00 Henry’s luncheon 2.50 Clothing 7.00 Henry’s necktie $ .75 (Christmas) v Roger’s necktie 50 Helen’s gloves 75 Operating exp. 9.00 Thirty-second payment on washing machine $2.50 House supplies 3.00 Advancement... 3.00 Newspapers $ -25 Church 25 Stationery 50 Savings 5.00 Nothing 5.00 $50.00 $28.00 $2200 $50.00 —Copyright, 1921.
ture calamity that had not yet materialized was to be permitted to cast a shadow on Christmas day, and that aside from the fact that there would be very little display of preseuts, nothing should seem out of the ordinary. It was much easier to keep up her own spirits than to be certain that Henry would act naturally. He was keen for talking the whole matter over with the family when they were all together and getting their advice as to what was best to be done. While she felt there wbb no necessity to bring up the subject in any greater detail than was neeesary or to indicate to any of them that there was occasion for serious worry yet. She dreaded Belle’s comments and her brother's suggestions that would help them not a particle, and would probably only result In plunging Henry Into deeper gloom. Helen and Roger were puzzled at their mother's abstraction and their father’s worried face; something entirely new in their young lives. Only Betty romped and shouted with glee because Daddy didn’t have to go to the office. The Bride had made great preparations for the Christmas tree party which was to come right after dinner was over at the Hoopers. Auntie Belle, who begged off from going because her head ached a little after the trip down from the city, volunteered to wash the dishes so that they could start at once for the scene of festivity. A gayly decorated tree, laden with candy and small gifts tor the children, and blazing with colored lights, greeted them as soon S3 they entered the Bride's cheery living room. It had been set up in an alcove and she had put much loving thought iuto every detail of its decoration. Helen and Betty were noisy in their expression of delight and eved Roger was moved to enthusiasm as they circled about the tree. Mrs. Hooper made uo effort to restrain the tears that came to her eyes. After the strain of the week, and the feeling she had in her heart that there were stormy and troublous times ahead for them with the coming of the new year, she welcomed the relaxation of weeping at tho sight of the children's pleasure. Whatever came they would have the memory of this jolly Christmas. Instead of being gloomy as sbe and Henry might have made it for them had they been alone, it would be cue of the most spectacular or any they had ever had, thanks to the Bride and her gene-ous young hushaud.—Copyright, 1921. CLAM COCKTAILS. Put a dozen small clams in an icecold bowl and pour over them a half teaspoouful each of Worcestershire shucc, vinegar, leiuon Juice and tomato catsup, a teaspoouful of horseradish and a teaspoonful, each, of salt and tabasco ~auce. Mix and bury in ice for an hour before serving in two small glasses. • -—— SPLIT PEA SOUP. One cup split peas; live pints of water; two cups milk; one small onion; three tablespoonfuls of butter; two tablespoons of Hour; one teaspoon of salt; one-fourth teaspoon of pepper. Souk peas overnight, drain and add tbe five pints of cold water. Simmer until soft enough to run through a sieve; put in the onion when they are about
Men You May M^rry By ETHEL R. PEYSER Has a man like this proposed *o you? Symptoms: Always sputtering about something. You want to say, as the cop did when the judge asked the stutterer ‘what are you charged with,’ “Fizz water, I think. ’ Any calm ha always breaks up. You wait for him like a ship awaitng a storm. He says you’re the only one who will hear his troubles. IN FACT That’s why he likes you. Prescription to his bride: jry Have a set time for confessionals, then slowly %J ys give them up. Feed him, soothe him, mother him. Absorb This: SOOTHING SYRUP IS THE LUBRICATOR OF MARRIED LIFE. (Copyright, USD
1 half done. Rub all through a sieve, and bind with butter and Hour, and dilute with the milk that is heated to the scald in the double boiler. Add more milk if necessary, as this milk soup should be about as thick as cream. ROASTED QUAIL. | Clean and wash In two waters. The second should have a teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in it. Rinse With clear water and wipe the inside of each bird with a soft linen cloth. Put within the body of each raw oysters, bind legs and wings down with fine soft cotton. Have ready thin slices of fat salt pork, two .’or each bird. Cover the breasts with these, binding with soft string; lay upon the grating of the roaster, pour a little boiling water from the kettle upon each, and roast from twenty to twenty-five tnltiutes. Five minutes before you take them up, remove the pork, wash with butter, dredge with flour and brown. Cut rounds of stale bread, toast and butter them; soak with gravy from the pan, and lay a bird upon each. You may omit the oysters and fill the birds Instead With a forcemeat of seasoned crumbs. Chopped oysters also make a good stuffing, while some prefer to roast them uncovered and without the pork covering. ■y SWEET POTATO FRITTERS. Boil, skin and dry in an open oven. Mash while wurm, and rub through a colander of vegetable press. Stir iuto a pint of potutoes a cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of butter, a little salt and two tablespoonfuls of sugar; finally, the yolks of two beaten eggs. With floured hands shape into flat cakes, dip into the frothed whites, then in cracker crumbs, repeating the process. Leave upon Ice two hours and fry in deep fat, to a golden brown. Eat with lemon sauce. ASPARAGUS. The asparagus is a salt water plant and the finest we have on the market is that which is washed by tbe sea every •lay. Fresh cut and tender it will cook in about twenty minutes (treat care should be taken not to cook It too long). The tips cook much quicker than the stalk and for that reason it should be tied in a bunch and stood In the stewpan heads up, so the steam cooks them while the staJsk are boiling in the salted boiling water. The tough end of the stalk should be peeled. If this is done earefully, it makes the entire stalk edible. Pour melted butter over and serve. SAVORY POTATOES. Heat in a double boiler a quart of milk and pnt into it three sliced onions. Boil for ten minutes. strain out the onions, return the milk to the fire, and stir into it two teaßpoonfuls of butter nibbed into two of flour, and two teaspoonfuls of minted parsley. When the milk is as thick as cream, add to it iwo j cupfuls of sliced cold boiled potatoes. ! Season with pepper and salt, and as soon us the potatoes are hot, pour all Into a greased pudding dish, sprinkle bread crumbs over the top and bake until i brown. RUE CUSTARD. Cream a tablespoonful of butter-with two of powdered and gradually work iu three beaten eggs. Add two
cupfuls of milk, and when you have a smooth mixture, two capfuls of cold, boiled rice. Beat until free from lumps, add a pinch of salt, and turn Into a greased pudding-dish. Set in the oven in a pan of boiling water, and bake, covered, until the custard Is set. Uncover and brown. Eat cold with sugar and cream. MINT PUNCH. Put into your punch bowl a cupful of granulated sugar; add the juice of six lemons, and stir until the sugar melts. Put in three peeled lemons, sliced very thin, and leave in the ice until' you are ready to use it. Add, then, a dozen sprays of green mint and a quart, at least, of pounded ice. Stir for a minute and pour from a height into it, two or three bottles of imported ginger ale. POPCORN BALLS. Make molasses candy, and Just before removing from the fire, stir in enough popcorn to thicken it. Take the mixture out by the spoonful and roll, as soon ns it can be handled, into balls, then roll these over and over In kernels of popcorn until no more will adhere to the balls. MOLASSES CANDY FOR POPCORN BALLS. Boil together a cupful, each, of molasses and brown sugar, a tablespoonful of vinegar and two of butter. When a little dropped into cold water is brittle It is ready to use. I PUSS IN BOOTS JR By David Crr It was still raining when Puss Junior and Torn Thumb awoke. They had spent a comfortable night at the Hot-1 Ark and felt much refreshed. After a hearty breakfast they again looked out of the window. The rain was still coming down in torrents. The water lay inches deep upon the street. The Hotel Ark was surrounded by a shallow lake which, however, was growing deeper every minute. Puss Junior and Tom Thumb stepped out upon the veranda and looked over the village square. Through the rain they could make out the outlines of the Ark. And just then a voice began to sing: “He built it high, he built It strong, He built It wide, he built it long, To hold a Jolly, motley throng." And pretty soon Noah himself came splashing through the water toward the hotel. “There Is no time to lose.” he cried, the Ark will soon be afloat Mother, make haste. Tell the girls to come along. We've no time to lose." Mrs Noah appeared almost immediately, follow-cd by the wives of her three sons. Lifting up their skirts, they waded after Noah Puss Junior picked up Tam Thumb and placed him on his shoulder. From far and near, from the forest and the plain, from everywhere, the animals came hurrying up. “There were the Elephant and 11*-e. The Hippopotamus and Flea. The tall Giraffe ami Chiek-a-dee. The Cock a-doodle and the Ass, And three years men, each with his lass, Shem, Ham and Japbet had a pass! Noah of old, and Noah’s dame, I think I never heard her name. But she went in tho’ all the same.” “This reminds me of the circus," laughed Puss Junior. “I once was with a circus; three days or so; whenever I see nn elephant I think of my circus days.” "Let down the gangplank," commanded Noah, and then the long process!! nos animals began to enter the Ark. The rain kept up its heavy downpour and by noon the water was waist deep. AH the smaller animals had come aboard and Captain Noah las he was now called! felt certain by evening he would be able to start on his voyage.—Copy-' righted, 1921. (To Be Continued.) HARDING GREETS LEGION HEAD
IVlacNider Receives Letters of Felicitation. Christmas erect Ings from President Warren Harding have been received by Fmford MacNidcr. national commander of the American Legion. The message says; ‘ Many thanks for your message of Christmas greeting and good wishes. In turn, let me express to you, and through you to the members of the American Legion, my earnest hope for the prosperity and good fortune of them all, and the wish that the New Year may be laden wl(h blessings for those who so splendidly served their country.” Commander MacNlder nlso received the following message from John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross: ’ I’eii :e on earth Is nearer because of what ,ion and your comrades did and dared. To those who sleep—our homage. To those who live—our gratitude, and to all those who have need of service, our pledge that in peace, as in the days of conflict, the American Red Cross will continue Its devotion and Its service.” Arrest Three Negroes for Moy Ride’ on Train A "joy ride” caused the arrest of three negroes early today at Fifteenth street and the Lake Erie & Western railroad tracks. The men, James Roberts, 3}, Eddie Lowe, 21, and Joe Roberts, 20, gave their address as 1306 Yanrtes street. Railroad detectives Adams and Culbert, said the three negroes were stealing coal from a freight train at the time of their arrest. The negroes denied stealing coal but explained they “just started for a joy ride on the train,” when they were arrested. >
By GEORGE McMANUS.
Great Market for Go-Getters, Despite Salemen, Credit Men and the Bosses, Spillane Says
By RICHARD SPILLANE. ■pa HILADELPHIA, Dec. 24. —Salesmen are not happy these days. Neither IT are credit men. And the bosses! Ugh! Salesmen say it’s tough work to get orders, and, when they get them, the credit man is overly doubtful of every new account. • The boss acts as if the salesmen were not on to their jobs and looks suspiciously at the credit man when collections are abominably slow. All three are inclined to inquire when you think business will improve. They want cheerful information, but, when they get it, they are likely to quote from their own experience to refute what you say.
It’s useless to explain that the processes of business revival must be low in the liquidation and reorganization due to the war and the wastes after the war. They listen, but what you saj- does not satisfy. They want business to improve and can't see why somebody doesn’t do something to bring it about. Usually the somebody is Congress or the railroads, or the bankers, or labor, or all four combined. Why not face the facts? This country is better situated financially, industrially and commercially than any other on earth. Conditions are improving. They are much better than six mouths ago. They w(ll be better six months hence. There have been adjustments or steps toward adjustment of tremendous importance. Tbe practical agreement on limitation of armaments means less, perhaps, in direct saving to the nations than la stabilizing the mind of the world. The promise of settlement of the Irish question is another. Added to these is a lessening of the tension between the European nutions and a prospect of approaching with more of sanity and le6s of passion the question of how to straighten out tbe financial mess abroad. r | HERE cannot be much of internai- tional trade until the exchanges ure rectified to some reasonable degree and domestic trade is certain to be somewhat restricted for half a year or more. One large element of the American population has a decidedly smaller buying power than normally. That is the farmer. Necessarily that affects many branches of business for the farmers and those direct-
Dailjf Fashion Hints By AGNES AYRES, , Star in Paramount Picture*. Paris is most enthusiastic anout velvet. Strangely enough, this mode started, not with the usual type of fashionable, French woman, the woman of 85 or thereabout, but with the jenet filet. Was the flapper, going to a party, in need of anew dance frock or invited to the opera? Straightway mamma goes out and buys her a simple little velvet evening frock. Thence U has spread rapidly until the majority of the evening wraps are ot velvet —I saw one yesterday, flame, with a huge fur collar and trimmed , with quantities of tubular velvet fringe—some of the afternoon coats, many of the evening frocks and even an occasional negligee or pair of evening slippers. The one realm that velvet has lost Us hold on is, strangely enough, the milliners. Felt, satin, lace and fur are, any of them, smarter than velvet here. In the sketch Is a matronly black velvet evening frock. With blissful Individuality, it quite ignores the penchant for high neck in evening frocks, though it is conventional enough in its other details. There are the übiquitous side trains failing from the shoulders, one of tulle and the other of velvet, absolutely sleeveless, after the accepted mode for evening; a rather longer skirt, draped, no waist line, and a suggestion of the very low girdle in the “bead embroidery. The huge rose on tho right hip is of C),i nese red bends, with a heart of rhinestones. From it branches out a wonderful Chinese tree, of silver embroidery, sparkling with blossoms of rhinestones.
ily connected with the farm make up nearly one-fifth of the people. This does not mean the farmer will not be a purchaser. It does mean, however, that he will be able to buy less than he ordinarily would be hla proportion. To a lesser degree the buying power of the big group generally referred to as labor has been reduced. Wages have been cut. Rents, food costs and other items have not kept pace with the wage reduction, but inevitably they will come down. FROM the foregoing it would appear as if the outlook was rather bleak. It is not. One good crop will change the whole situation on the farm. The world must have food and fiber. It must eat and must be clothed. Next year’s crops will be raised at nearly the lowr st cost | of any crops in the last decade. The situation as to labor also is better. Whlabor's" wage has been reduced th re Is less of unemployment. Railroads ure getting a bit stronger financially and are beginning the large work of refurnishing their properties. Construction work generally, halted by high costs of material, labor and transportation is showing signs of recovery. The steel lndastry, copper industry and various other lines of major character are broadening gradually. It Is so, too, with many of the minor lines, even If conditions generally are spotted. ALL this does not satisfy the salesman or the credit man or the boss. The present is what disturbs them. They will, however, have to face the facts. The salesman from now on will have to be a salesman, not an order taker. He will have a test that will try his souL He has measured his success heretofore, and so has his boss, ty his sales. That is not the proper way. The salesman who succeeds In persuading a retailer of supplies into buying more than the distributor can sell, Is a bad salesman, for he loads his customer up with a certain amount of dead stock and impairs the purchasing power of the customer. No sale is a good sale that Is not of profit to the purchaser. The salesman from now on will have to sell goods and not conversation. Not all salesmen know the goods. AND the merchant will have to be a better merchant. The buying habits of the American people have changed. They are more careful as to the price and want to know what they are buying. You have to “sell" then now and not, as at one time, act as If they could take It or leave it, just as they pleased, and you didn’t care which. THESE are good times for good merchants and good salesmen and these are trying times for poor merchants and poor salesmen. They are the. sort of times that make for better business. And the market is tremendous, even If it is not of such bulging proportions as two years ago. No other section of the earth has 100,000,000 people speaking one language and having such purchasing power. No other section of the earth has such transportation systems or such mediums of national advantage. No other section of the earth has such a number of people who live so wfcll, have such desires for creature comforts and are so responsive when good goods are offered at the right price. Manufacturers, merchants and salesmen may be a bit soft from the days when It was a sellers' market. The market is still there, but It Is a buyers’ market. It's the biggest market in the world. It's a great market for a go-getter. FISH SEINING TRIAL DATE SET Beeler Case to Be Heard at Martinsville Jan. 12. The case of the State vs. Henry Beeler of this city, charged with the unlawful taking of fish, has, after repeated attempts of the State to get It to trial, been set for Jan. 12, In the Morgan County Circuit Court, conservation department officials were Informed today. It will be rtcalled that Beeler and a party which Included several Indianapolis policemen were arrested several months ago by State wardens, who charged they were seining a creek In the vicinity of Martinsville. In addition to the affidavit filed against Beeler, charging seining, affidavits also were filed against three members of the Indianapolis force. The State elected to try the Beeler case first. The conservation department has retaind Lieutenant Governor Emmet F. Branch to assist In the prosecution. FOUR YEARS FOR MOTOR THEFT, TOULOUSE, Dec. 24. —The police have the misfortune to steal a car at a time when frequent motor thefts were causing criticism of the police and courts. Asa result he was sent to prison for four years, the severest sentence ever meted out for this offense here. BEER THAT BURNS. LONDON, Dec. 24.—-Discovery that some of the beer now sold here has a burning action when spilt on wood has caused agitation for the Introduction and passage of a pure beer bill. It Is believed dangerous chemicals are being used as coloring matter. WORK fERU GOLDFIELDS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 24—A $20,000,000 corporation has been formed here to work the Peruvian goldfields.
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