Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1922 — Page 4

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3ttMatta Haifa Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advcrtisimr office* I New Tork, Boston, Tayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Ad ertislng offices j (jhicago, Detroit, &t. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. \ THE CITY government also turned over anew leaf today. THE WORLD should be better today than any day in the year. THIS YEAR will be a great year if it half meets all those New Year proclamations. A LOT of people favor prohibition when they remember the morning after the old-time New Year’s eve.

THE FIRE PREVENTION committee didn’t know what odds it was , working against until the police got on the job. qJ The JAPANESE minister of foreign affairs expresses the opinion tt/ at the four-power agreement opens anew era. Has he discovered wha/ '*• means? /

The Governor Takes a Hand / The declaration of Governor Warren T. McCray that he in/ ends the State highway commission shall not, through unfair specifica/ ions a: 7ord the proponents of any road building material an improper adv/* nta * e /over their competitors is both characteristic and reassuring. / / The specifications adopted by the Goodrich wer y so unfair to both brick and asphalt interests that it was impossi^ e them to compete with the cement concrete road builde~s. The resu/ t was £hat since the inception of the commission cement concrete roads/ ia ' e ybeen buiit almost without exception. / , Recently, at the Insistence of the Governor, these /unfair/specifications were changed and the general impression seems iP be brick and asphalt were placed on a footing more nearly equay ‘ '’ement concrete than heretofore. / However, it is asserted both by some brie # jsome asphalt contractors that the changes made in the specif / atlons were not such as would remove the great advantage which the .V^ient,contractors have enjoyed for so long a time over their competitt*' 6 - Governor McCray now proposes to find miether there is a basis for this further criticism of the commissio:'J^ nd n/ has asked it for an investigation and a report. m J In taking this action the Governoy Pres/ another evidence of his determination to be fair to every one ?M CJ ' to /onduct the business of the State of Indiana in a manner that wi / mak* criticism impossible. |fc The obviously unfair advantage /fforde/l the cement interests by the highway commission was/a blaick spot on the record of the administratioiur which! Governor McCray is entitled to lHs®W|2Wtetempting to eliminate/ T '?.</ specifications for State highways the Goodrich commission provided for cement concrete roads WTa type known to engineers /s almost the cheapest that could be built. The specifications for brick highways provided for a foundation that was almost the equivalent of cement concrete roads and for the most expensive type of brick sis Taces. No contractor could build the specified brick highways at much /ess than $20,000 a mile more than he could build ve cement concrete r/adwayU- The result was that when bids were K>ened for highways tJRe cement concrete bids were invariably the lowest Hd with a great sho of virtue the Goodrich commission let the contracts Hthc low bidders—/he ceir-ent concrete contractors. K When the spe/ificatic -is were revised recently it was publicly anBunced that they /were pow such as to eliminate the wide differences be■veen the two t>/pes of roads and the consequent wide differences in the Ids. J ■ This annot/nceroent has since been challenged and the determination If the Goveri/or to reopen the matter is an assurance of his intent that ■iere shall bL competition in the bidding for road contracts.

* iftai'Vnfc Pjryll ! -'- 'i.r f, orfK rat it ti in the of the indiar.t gfingn;.' which asking for iiK-rrasod rates pt. direct|v telephone situation The;- are questions that the ta answer fully and frankly and at the sanv 1 some is to be secured. j^®sylK^sfS^S®!- ror!,r ‘t r,: ‘ r ' s f !ue--.ions got at the relat'onsl.in > !f ‘ ,::! “ relationship may be entirely proper, is breed in-- in the company. The public and intelligent explanation. I;; wishes to know services received or whether it is paying money 5 return. :eßti ° na haVG t 0 (1 ° wlth thfi operating costs of the asks if labor and material costs have been reshould answer these questions in detail. The public Wh> ’ the company must have higher rates now when cheaper than it has been for six or seven years. aISO brsngs up the interesting question of how many expects to lose through increased rates. This It is contended by some that the losses will be enortrue, higher rates may not be justified. The telephone utilities in that the less business it does the less valuable to the individual consumer. a whole > Mr - Groninger’s questions cover most of the essential telephone rate case. If they are all answered truthfully and not be so hard to determine the justice of the company’s demands. ■I or Criminalit y? ' J< Wm confessions of Gmee youths that they are responsible for fire losses [-'^^^ygP°ii 3 amounting to nearly half a million dollars are apalling. The the minds of such individuals is beyond the ordinary concepis a case for psychologists. that there is such a thing as a mania for fire hat there is ?lity that causes a person 30 afflicted to set liras merely for ?^ , \.:^'l^!|| ? eing the flames. This may account for one individual, but perSODS C ° Uld get together ls b '°yond understanding, of course, the motive of robbery, and the three young men ■n mat this was their theory in the case of a few of the smaller fires, Bthe cases of the larger ones they admit they set them merely for te of excitement. Such an explanation calls for an alienist more than ourL

A SOAP SAVEM.LOYD FROM A WHIPPIN’ New Favorites Bid Favor on Screen This Week

Welcome to a P’ t Mߧosij^/ rl^r ‘ V soap. Greet Inin. An ordinary soap saves our friend from getting- the beating CSSRsjpMr This happens st comedy. "A Sailor Math AlnMPsffi-‘ soap • p:*odwiilie r >l l of eonrset is ••hatnpion lighter of the Vnvy takes place on a ’Aoyd had Joined the Navy .’liomurc papa of tiie girl he Jm£SKp 1(1 Harold to "get a job.” On £WBSnB,a s.ern papa in question. e rich young man. sees a • -1, ic 1 1 read : Men Wanted.iCHWHPliice turn-d out lo b* a Navy r-.SSB. Wstation. Lloyd signed a pap. r JESBHNwoind himself in the Navy for t!:JPMRkjpf LI<#BGHSr on the "loves and in a s(rn|Bi£pS!Bnor gets mix*.,] up with the ch: r of the ship. As they box. a jHaPra|fass. sa ml Lb.yd saint'-* v, i h mSSSBt rl?ht Th> ‘ •'hamp: , "t t'KMS&Epttos not and slams Lloyd it' JpHPSBnt every salute. of Lloyd is washing the deck • and 0 f aonj) slips from his hand, p glides 4-ight under Lloyd’s heel The soap k cauß s Lloyd to Itirch forward with all H fnight and he accidentally admlnis- | * eri ? a knock-out blow to the champion i never knew that a piece of laundry ®iiap possessed such a “kick” before, ifarpentier should have discovered that on /a certain hot duv last July in Jersey \ City.

| This new Lloyd comedy is jammed full | of comedy stunts never before used on j the screen to my knowledge. I consider I this new Lloyd comedy the king bee of i all Lloyd comedies because he has I escaped from his habit of obtaining | laughs through mechanical devices us noticed in several of his sky scraper movies of late. “A Sailor Made Man” is Lloyd at his funniest and It marks the departure <1 a new line of comedy work for Lloyd. This Lloyd picture jammed them in yesterday at the Alhambra and if I am not mistaken this theater will bo packed all week. There is another picture on the bill at the Al-icmbra which Is called “Tropical Love." Here is a picture so strange, so | unusual and so splendidly acted that its j appeal is tremendous. The audience yesterday when I reviewed the show ap plauded "Tropical Love.” The direction is splendid and the photography is of the finest. The Alhambra is sheltering th“ biggest i kind of a bill this week.—W. I). 11. SECOND THOXT.HTS ON’ “WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME.” In my remarks last week on “Why Girls Leave Home,” I considered chiefly the work of Miss Mnuriue Powers, a little Terre Haute girl, who entered the movies without a blast of trumpets and made good by fiOlr sln<v re work and Kjpjfe study. Anna y fw‘ m Nil I son is the sea; ureil member or j : borne oulj to find ’ jjH| clgar.-tte parties. %|k f g men past fifty j|P T ;%jp Mm real tilings in life. of the picture \Nj[ that there is noth- * lng sweeter than Anna Q. Nlllson. home-sw"ot - home. The work, of Miss Ntllson 1 r gratifying In this movie. She sustains the characterization to the end and Is convincing as the little shop girl who longs for pretty clothes all hough she possess the poeketbook which a soda fountain rlerk would blush to own. When Anna parades forth In a gown and furs, which would do credit to any member of the 4PO her dad decides that she either stole the stuff or that a Johnny obtained it for her. He works on the theory that pretty gowns and late i parties are the curse of the nation. So the foolish father orders his daughter from the house. Daughter Is more than willing to go but as I have Raid. she Is more than willing to return when she has paid the price. Her dad also Is more than happy to have her return. It Is something these days for any picture to he held over for a two weeks' run. “Why Girls Leave Home” 1s able to do this because parents and even their daughters see a real moral lesson. Anyway, the picture speaks in the language of every home. “Why Girls Leave Home” Is on view all week at the Ohio.— VV. It 11.

MR. GRIFFITH'S HOMESPUN j MOVIE CLASSIC AGAIN ON VIEW. j Glad to see you again. That's the feeling one has on entering [Mister Smith's this week where I>. W. [Griffith's "Way Down East” Is being ! revealed nt the regular movie prices This picture was recently presented at n legitimate playhouse at standard theatre prices. Smith's is offering this rural classic drama at the regulation film prices. I hive spoken at length of this movie at various times but today we will consider the mechanical and scenic side of tlt Is picture. It will do well at • to remember that Mr. Griffith a-__ bled su.-h conipt ■ | layers for this as Lillian Gish, Richard Bnrthelmes. .. no i now a star In his own right,, Mary Hay, Burr Mclntosh, Lowell Sherman, Mrs. Morgan Belmont of real society fame, Vlvla Ogden, Kate Bruce as the mother and many others. Mr. Griffith’s big punch in “Way Down East” of course Is the Ice scene. It is my opinion that Mr. Griffith never has been more realistic than when he trained his camera on an Ice covered river prior to the breaking of the ice. It Is there where Barthelmess accomplishes his thrilling rescue of Lillian Gish who Is unconscious on a large piece of ice which Is drifting nearer and nearer to a dangerous dam. By clever photography and direction, Barthelmess rescues Lillian just in time. It is sure a thrilling scene. Os a more quiet nature are the old New England farm scenes. Griffith has created a natural and livable New Eng-

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land home presided over by a strict but kindly man and a lovely woman. There are many fine touches in these scenes. Griffith also has handled In a masterful manner the love scenes placed in these quiet surroundings but no place is too quiet for a vllllan. There always must be a villian. lour movie education is not complete unless yon see “Way Down East.” The Griffith ruovie remains on view all week at Mister Smith’s.—W. IX H. -I- -I- -IMARY IS HANGING l'P NEW RECORDS AT LOEWS. As you read this, Mary Piekford Is in the second day of the second week of her engagement at Loew’s State In a movie version of “Little Ford Fauntleroy.” According to Manager Walter David, this

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Piekford picture Is establishing new box ' off lee records. According lo Mr. David it is attracting some of the largest and lences which have ever visited Loew s. This story makes ideal movie material. In book form it has been universally read and enjoyed by many people. Let me make this point clear. “Little Lord Fauntleroy" as u movie entertainment Is not css'ntlnlty a children's movie. It Is adult entertainment with a strong appeal to the children. The picture has been made for adult consideration, but it is not above the hca 1 of any child. Do not miss this beautiful picture If you sh, have tlie misconception that it Is only a picture for children. The work "f 1 hiii.de Gilllncwnter as the gouty old Earl will rank for months to come as one of the most finished and vivid characterizations on the screen. The arrival of Mr. OUllngwater Ip filmland is one of the events of the lut year. I do not know a happier p!ac,> to start the New Year than at I.new's State where Mary Piekford is being presented in “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” At Loew’s State till week.—-W. D, H.

HOT LOVE B VKING TII It I\ IS I \E\ IN JANUARY. What cares the movie man If It Is cold January V Not a bit does he care because ‘The Sheik” was made months ago. ■'The Sheik." with Agues Ayres and Rudolph Valentino, lg on view at the Isis ' warm Jove to : pMoU • • ’ ■MB Agnes A\ res. Tt j. •■§£ 19 not until the Very ‘*" <l of t!lr py ; . 'aJaagl picture that Miss | v J&'hjt&L Ayres exhibits any l Tit Dikiis that she a : \ f YJ loves this cave man , • • ‘ lot. making, 1 • Pul <', * she divers tha: It' ' ■, Ji • Rudolph as the ;rt s’ ■Vi | t?helk is the one ft.. V • -X & j Ulan In the world isy "y-S JBy * for her. One can fCs sit In the steamAgnes Ayres. heated Isis theater this week unconscious of January winds and witness Valentino muke cave-man love to AgueAy res. ‘The Bheik” has been carefully photographed and well directed on the whole. The rescue scene of Agnes by Valentino is well Staged. There is enough action In this movie to keep the movie fan Interested all the time. The hill also include "The Trail,” a movie filmed In the Northwest. At the Iris all week. at the colonial. The feature film nt the Colonial this week Is Doris May in “Foolish Matrons ” Hobart. Bosworth also Is in the cast. This picture toasts of having three heroines. The program Includes the regular supplementary subjects and special music. -I- -I- -I----AT THE REGENT. “Blue Blazes,” a Western movie featuring Lester Cufieo, Is the chief offering j at the Recent this week. The story con I corns a prize fighter who gives up a j vaudeville tour to seek romance In the West. Francelia Bllllngton Is In the j cast. The bill Includes a Charlie Chap lin comedy. -I- -|- -|- ON THE STAGE. “Mecca,” said to be one of the largest spectacles ever staged at the Murat, opens

a week's engagement there this afternoon. The Irish Players in “The WhiteHeaded Boy” will open a three.-day engagement tonight at English’s. On Thurs- ■ day night at English's Ruth Chatterton will open a three-day engagement in the latest Barrie play, “Mary Rose.” The headliner at B. F. Keith's this week is William Rock, who Is well known on the stage. The featured offering at the Lyric this week Is a rural comedy called “The Corner Store.” The Park this week Is offering a mu- ; sical extravaganza called “‘The Passing I Review,” with Jim Bennett, Ada hum and numerous others.

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l pper—Harold Lloyd and some bits from the motion plctnres which hate nmd him one of the highest paid screen comedians. If the drawing was strletly up to the minute It would contain the ” sailor” face of I.loyd. In ”.Y Suitor Made Alan” nt the Alhambra this week, Llo.vd is a merry, merry "gob.” This is hi* latest comedy. Verily, Harold doth wear his "specks,” although he Is a sailor. Lower —Couldn’t help running this picture of Alary Piekford as ‘‘Little Lord Fauntleroy," her latest movie which is now In Its second week ut Loew’s State. Alary makes good use of her curls In this movie.

Freak Answers to Exam. Questions WOOSTER, Ohio, Jan. 2.—lrvin Cobb is a baseball player and Dewey defeated ihe Spanish fleet In Boston Harbor, according to answers made !n a “nut” test for freshmen at Wooster College Other students gave ont the information that a piccolo is “something used by bookbinders,’' that young men enter the naval academy at West Point, that Kipling wrote “The Scarlet Letter,” and that “arson” ls a “term In theology."

Keeping House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Dally Times how the many present-da, problems of the home are solved by working ■< the budget that Mrs. Hoop--evolved and found practical. them daily In an interesting reviv. of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of Living with them.] MONDAY. Borrowing a thousand dollars seemed an appalling thing to Airs. Hooper. Buc she realized the necessity of getting money from some source in order that they might continue to pay their living expenses In Mayfield during the few weeks that they have to remain before moving to the distant city that was to be their future home. For the first time in eighteen years there would be no pay envelope containing Henry’s weekly salary of fifty dollars when Sat urday night came round, and it was with a feeling of dismay that Mrs. Hooper contemplated the possibility of haviug to manage without it. At first she had protested against borrowing as much as a thousand dollars and it was only after much argument that Henry persuaded her that it would be the wise thing for them to do as long as mortgaging the house was necessary. Her idea vas that if they borrowed only five bundled dollars It would be more quickly saved to pay back and the interest would be so much less, but he reminded her t£at his salary would not begin on his iew job until Feb. 1, and that in the meantime they would have to live and added to that would be the expenses of getting moved and settled In anew place. The railroad fare alone was staggering, and as they would have to take their household goods the packing and crating of their furniture and th? freight would make their move run up into several hundred of dollars. Henry finally had convinced her and immediately after breakfast had gone down to the Mayfield bank to negotiate the loan. While he was away Mrs. Hooper went about ibe house like one In a daze. For the sake of the children and Henry she had tried to recover her old steadiness and nerve In this emergency but the thought of leaving the home on which she had expended practically a life time of devoted attention was almost more than she could bear. She had seen It grow under her hands from a lumbering old-fashioned house with little to recommend it except that It was well built, into a delightful artistic home, containing every comfort that h'-r family needed. To go abont the rooms, pulling apart everything that she had •■> carefully placed just where it would he most effectlve made her feel physically 111. She sat for a long time on the comfortable couch In the Mvlng-room trying to make up her mind how and when she would begin.

She wondered why such a calamity had never suggested itself to her. As she looked at It now Henry's losing his position had always been within the renlm of possibility, but because it had never seemed inevitable as they had figured his death would be. she had never made any provision for just what had happened. But jus’ what could she have done after all. Living on her Jet) a week lneome for all these years and providing her family with the essentials of a good living had left her no margin from which to evolve an emergency fund. When Henry returned before lunch eon she was still staring at the empty fireplace with no plan as to what she would do first definitely formulated. The menu for the three meals on Tuesday were: BREAKFAST. Apple Ranee Cereal Waffles and Syrup Coffee LT'.NCHEON Stuffed Green peppers with Itice and Tomato Bread and Butter Stewed Fruit Cocoa DINNER Vegetable Soup Beef Loaf Brown Gravy Baked Potatoes String Beans Lettuce Salad Tapioca Pudding CHICKEN CREAM SOI P, ENGLISH STYLE. One cupful of cold roast chicken, chopped ns fine its powder, a pint of strong chicken broth, a cupful of sweet cream, half a cupful of bread or cracker crumbs. ,1 yolks of eggs, l tcaspoonful of salt. t*t tcaspoonful of pepper. Soak the crumbs In a little of the cream. Bring the broth to the boiling point, and add the meat. Break the eggs, separating the yolks and whites. Drop the yolks carefully Into helling water and boll hard then rub to a pow dor and add to the soup with th cream anti seasoning. Simmer ten minutes and serve hot.

VEAL STEAK*I WITH Ml SH ROOM SAI'CE. Broil the steaks slowly over a clear Are, turning often, that they may not scorch. When done keep the treat hot on a platter 1n the oven while you make the following sauce: Drain the liquor from a can of mushrooms and cut the mushrooms in halves Cook together a tablespoonful of butter and one of browned flour until they are dark brown in color. Pour upon them the mushroom liquor anil a cupful of beef stock. Stir to a smooth sauce, season with a dash of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, and add the halved mushrooms. Cook for two minutes, stirring cnstantly, then pour over ami around the veßl steaks. NET SALAD. h almond kernels and when cold sp shred Into shavings. Mix with equal quantity of English waln . broken into bits, ami pecan kernels. Stir a good mayonnaise dressing into the mixture and heaped within curled lettuce leaves. BAKED ONIONS. Cook onions tender In boiling water, changed once after fifteen minutes: drain and arrange slds by side In a baking dish. Melt a tablespoonful of butter In a cupful of hot soup stock, season with salt awl pepper awl pour oyer the onions Cook in a hot oven until the onions are brown, when they may be lifted with a

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perforated spoon and put into the dish in which they are to be served. Put the pan of gravy on the fire, thicken the contents with browned flour and pour over the onions. Serve very hot. SCALLOPED TOMATOES. If fresh tomatoes are used, prepare In the usual way, and slice in rather think slices. Put in a well-buttered bake dish a layer of buttered crumbs, then a layer of sliced tomato, sprinkled with salt, gepper and sugar, then a second layer i crumbs, the tomatoes seasoned. '-..Ashing with buttered crumbs. Cook In hot oven for thirty minutes. If canned tomatoes are used .drain them on a colander to free them from some of their juice, and proceed same as above. MUSHROOM AND TOMATO SAUCE. To a pint of brown tomato sauce add a half can of sliced mushrooms. AN OLD-FASHIONED BREAD PUDDING. Soak a pint nt fine crumbs in a quart of milk and when the" have soaked for two hours, stir in four-well beaten egg yolks, two tablespoonfnls of melted butter. a scant baif teaspoonful of soda dissolved In a little boiling water and a pinch of nutmeg. Last of all fold in lightly the stiffy beaten whites *f the eggs. Bake in a well greased pudding dish, cover for half an hour, then uncover and brown. Send to the tables as soon as done and serve with thin custard sauce or caramel sauce. Helpful Household Hints PERFUMED BATH BAGS. Perfumed bath bags are within the reach of all; they are made of cheesecloth, and loosely filled with this compound: Oatmeal, five pounds; powdered Florentine oris root, one pound : almond meal, one pound: pure castile soap scraped, one half pound. These little bags are tossed in the bath to any desirable number imparting a tnilkiness and delicious fragrance very satisfying. Baths of bran and carbonate of soda are healing to eruptive or irritable skins.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. I GOT the story. * • • FROM A blonde cashier. • • • IN A restaurant. * • * AND IT has to do. • • • WITH A taxi driver. • • * ONE OF those fellows. ♦ • • WHO OWN their cars. • • • AND CRUISE the streets. • • * IN SEARCH of fares • • • AND ON Christmas eve. • • • THIS TAXI driver. • * * HAPPENED IN. • • • TO THE restaurant. • • • WHERE THE blonde girl works V RESTAURANT. • • • \\ HERE A white garbed cook. • • • TURNS FANCY flips. • • • ! W ITH ( KIDDLE cakes. • • • AND WHILE he worked. I AND TIIE driver ate. V FACE peered in. FROM OFF the street. A HUNGRY face. • • • OF A half grown boy. "AND FIRST I knew.” • • * SAID THE blonde cashier. ‘THE TAXI driver “HAD DRAGGED him in” • • • AND ANY H AY. • • * THE HUNGRY face. * * • HAD DISAPPEARED. • * • WHEN THE taxi driver. PAID THE check. \M> THEY both wont out AND THAT was the eve. OF CHRISTMAS day AND ON Christmas day. * • ALONG ABOUT one. • * • TnE TAXI driver. • • CAME AGAIN • • AND DIDN’T order. • • * •TILL THE half grown boy GAZED THROUGH the window. AND SAW him there. * • • AND MADE his way. * * * THROUGH THE big glass door. AND AGAIN they ate. OF EVERYTHING. THAT ONE should eat. ON CHRISTMAS day • * • AND OUTSIDE. ON THE city street. * 0 • THEY SAID good-hr. * A AND THAT is the tale. • • * THE BLONDE girl told. * * • r THANK you.

LOCAL COMPANY NOT ORGAMZEI TO MAKE GAB! Indianapolis Insurance Reports Steady Advanct fji ment. The Indianapolis Life Insurance puny is now in irs seventeenth year, a record "fa uniformly steady c’ fSigS The company i-, not organized for fc3||§ and has no stock. The own the company. fIpPM The ( "iiipany his ackaowledp- /slaS excellency es the Indiana insurai, and has on tile with the State "*ji mateiy $2.2.-iO.(XX) worth of securiyjpjf In addressing -be company’s and recur me ring. actuary of sura rev departm-a ~f -h- State wSJZjS? the co^^H|[ '••!■•• a S'.'—• . y.-ars ago. r] ~k- t happy -- curities, and received a license to begin business. Since then, each year It has filed a sworn statement of condition, ae required by law. Ever so often, as required by law. the department has sent examiners to look over its books; from time to time it has deposited securities, in accordance with the reserve deposit law, amounting now to over two million dollars; everything is of record that Is necessary to show that the company Is keep’ig faith with its members, and no' .mg more. There are no records of h rd fought arguments over legal technicalities. no record of hearings, no sheaves of complaints from policyholders or beneficiaries. The record is one of simple and decent relations, and a very brief one at that. "I am happy Indeed that I can say that the surplus of the Indianapolis Lifis only in small part entere don Its bal-i anee sheets. The securities it has are I safe arid sound, and count up to enough, dollars to make sure that its promise}! are wor,h one hundred cents on the dollar. but it has a large asset in the men uho compose it, in their fine integrity and loyalty to the interests of the policyholders. W hiie this asset cannot be put in figures upon paper, it can be carried always in our hearts.” For a number of years in Its early life the company operated only in Indiana. It has now broadened ont into Michigan. Illinois. Texas and Florida, with growing agencies in all of these States. The company is represented In its home city by an agency organization under th management of Joe C. Caperton.

| PUSS LN BOOTS JR, Hr David Cary —— ——— A flurry of snow made Puss Junior and Tom Thumb quicken their steps. It looked as if there was going to be a heavy snowfall. The sky was dark and lowering, and the North Wind played a wild tune on the bare branches of the trees. , Lif’lp Robin Red Breast hopped along as fast as he could “Don't yon want to get In my pocket?" said Pcss Junior. I our feet will be nice and warm—to wiil yon, too.” “Oh. I don’t really mind the snow" answered Robin Redbreast. “Too see 111 get used to it. But the cold North .ml Is wh.it all w e Hr tie birds fear the most. It’s not th soft warm snow.” I hat's the first rime I ever heard any one call snow warm,” 6aid Puss Junior with a grin. 'Ail the shrubs and grasses think so” said little Robin Redbreast. “The buds on the trees .the vines, the rosebushes—everything that grows thinks the snow is warm.” VI ell. by this time they had come to a tdg red bam. so our three small friends went inside, and just then a big gray horse looked up and neighed. And then he neighed again, so Puss Junior walked over to the stall and would you believe it—there stood his Good Gray Horse! I thought I had lost you forever,” cri-d Puss Junior, patting the head of his faithful steed. And then the Good (■ray Horse rubbed his cose affectionately on Puss Junior and answered, “Neigh ueighi You can't lose me,” which made little Tom Thumb laugh so hard that the good gray horse saw him for the the first time. "Hello I” he cried. “You baTe a comrade, my noble Sir Cat.”—Copyright, 19JL (To be continued.)

Tnemplo yment Leads Men to Nimrod Life •"I EKA, Kan., Jan. 2.—The unemployment situation throughout Kansas has forced numerous Idle men to adopt a nimrod's life, to earn their living. More than 75 000 hunting licenses have been Issued in the State this year, which ls double the number Issued last year, according to a recent announcement made by Alvo Clapp, State game warden. In some counties six times as many hunting licenses have been issued this year as last, Clapp said. Kansas to Support Wilson Memorial M ICHTTA. Kan., Jan. 2.—A drive for funds for the Woodrow Wilson memorial will be made throughout the State of Kansas during the week of Jan. Id. Plans for tho campaign have just been completed following a meeting of tLe Kansas advisory committee here. The purpose of the driv* ls to raise funds for perfecting a foundation which will lie pledged to carry forward Woodrow Wilson's work, particularly his Ideas for world-wide peace. BOY TRAIN BANDIT. PARIS. Jan. 2.—Jean Putre, 13 years old ls the youngest bandit ever arrested In Prance Entering a train, he threw I epper in a woman passenger's eyes, Huffed a handkerchief into her mouth and snatched her purse. Other passengers captured him.

KPUiIsrERED C. 8. PATENT OFfICI