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JnDiana ;paiUj aimcs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . ... _. New York. Boston, Payne. Burns Smith. Inc. Advertising offices Chicago. Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos Subscription Hates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25. 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1579. __ A WIFE'S affections are never stolen when kept where they belong. PERHAPS that St. Louis man named his baby Radio because you can hear it so far away. STORM Sweeps Atlantic City—Headline. But there isn t much to blow about on a bathing beach. THE IRISH thought they had a peaceful day when only a brigadier general and a sergeant were murdered. TWO MEN Robbed Across Street From City Hall —Headline. Sometimes they don’t get that far away. GRAVEL Truck Hit by Taxi and Arrest Follows—Slippery Pavement Blamed for Smashup—Headlines. Moral; Skid chains. WHAT WILL Alex Howat say about the Kansas Industrial Court s decision raising the minimum wage for women workers? PRESIDENT HARDING also might hear from Emma Goldman before he recommends recognition of the soviets. THE INDIANA Republican senatorial fight seems to be attracting more attention outside of Indiana than within the State. WHAT MORE could Mayor Shank ask than to have four rebellious councilmen tell him they will stand by him on "every good measure?" SOMETHING wrong! Arch M. Hall predicts Mr. Beveridge will be nominated by a majority of 50,000 and Asa J. Smith says Senator New will win by 50,000. IF THE Interstate commerce commission is In doubt whether freight cost reductions will boost business they should at least give the public the benefit of the doubt. ATTORNEY GENERAL Daugherty has discharged a subordinate who talked about him. Unfortunately, however, the same penalty cannot be stretched to cover congressional vociferations.

A Senator at Work It has remained for Claris Adams, formerly Marion County prosecutor and now one of the exuberant and youthful ora'ors attached to Senator New’s retinue, to impart to a O omewhat quizzical public the reasons so little has been heard of the Senator during his six years incarceration in Washington. At Princeton the other night Mr. Adams delivered himself of the following: “If mere volubility was the test of a Senator's se-vlce Borah, LaFollette and Reed would be the three outstanding figures over that augu. t body. President Harding himself was criticised during the last campaign by those ignorant of the real workings of the legislative body, because he infrequently took the floor of the Senate and, therefore, the uninformed argued, that he was not a dominant figure in that body. Someone, however, has to do the real work of the Senate in the committee rooms, where the real work is done.” It was extremely thoughtful of Mr. Adams to allow the public a glimpse of the real workings of a Republican Senate and no doubt it is a truthful portrayal, but at the risk of landing among “those ignorant of the real workings of the legislative body” we would hazard a guess that the people would have a higher regard for their representatives if more work was done in the open. The Curse of Ireland The curse of Ireland today is the armed bands roaming about the country, killing indiscriminately under the pretense of military necessity. Michael Collins, the sturdy proponent of the Free State, i3 performing a heroic duty in attempting to salvage the island’s new born liberties, but the mutinous Republican soldiers, inspired by De Valera’s fiery counsel, are doing their utmost to prevent Ireland from achieving her destiny. News dispatches carry the story o: the murder of Brigadier General Adamson of the regular Irish army In such a cold-blooded manner that its perpetration would have dene credit to the German soldiers before they learned the true value ol the cry, “Kamerad.” The general was ordered by rebel troops to throw up his hands and complying was shot down. No true soldier, no matter what Sag he was fighting under or what cause he was striving for, would have been guilty of such an atrocity. It was a thug act. Irish malcontents, having seen the withdrawal of the British and still thirsting for blood, are sacrificing their own countrymen. The island is on the verge of actual civil war and only the dispersal of the armed bands and the banishment or imprisonment of the rebellious leaders will bring the peace that all true Irishmen long for. Congress and the Reserves Secretary of War Weeks ha3 carried his fight for an adequate Army to the Senate Appropriations Committee and is asking for a force of 150,000 men and 13,000 officers. The Secretary told the Senators the House bill providing for a total Army strength of 155,000 men would seriously Injure me military establishment. The public in general unquestionably sanctions the war secretary’s stand and there is a prevailing opinion that Congress, in a mad effort to curtail expenditures on the eve of an election, has instituted a ffllse economy in seeking to trim the Nation’s armed forces. He pointed out one of the serious omissions that Congress after Congress has permitted to interfere with the proper development of a sound military system. That is the training of the organized reserves. He showed there are 65,000 reserve officers and explained that he is desirous or affording 20,000 of them training this summer. Only a very small per cent of these men who retired to the reserve at the close of the war and unless they are permitted to go into the field occasionally to assimilate new ideas in military strategy and to exercise their army training they will become as stale as a “rookie,” and of little actual benefit should they ever again be called upon to lead men into battle. Congress would do well to carry out the reserve program as it was originally planned—it is one of the important branches of defense and should not be allowed to die because of legislative inattention

Rdinding lip the Lawless Every person who believes in respect for the law and its enforcement should be applauding the efforts of a Kentucky mountain judge to rid his circuit of feudists and “moonshiners.” That his own people, too, have caught the spirit that actuated the jurist is evidenced by the fact that ex-feudists are listed among the posses that are scouring the hills for the law breakers. The judge, Hiram J. Johnson of Clay County, has ordered the Mill Creek district, a rendezvous for “moonshiners” and “killers,” cleaned up and to bring i about he has adopted a novel but nevertheless effective system. He has issued warrants for the arrest of every one in the district over 12 years old and has instructed his deputies to confiscate all of the high-powered rifles and large caliber revolvers they can find. Some of the mountaineers have already voluntarily surrendered. Others have fled from their mountain homes, while others are reported to be preparing to defend themselves against the officers. It is said they have made a compact to kill all who oppose their lawless tactics. The spirit of this judge, who lone-handed has ordered 200 of his guntoting neighbors under arrest, should be a wholesome* example to some officers who profess their inability to er. orce the lavf fe more advanced

SANTREY AND BAND TO GIVE DANCE New Municipal Band to Make Debut Thursday

The actors and entertainers who have done so much for charities throughout the land at various times, who have entertained clubs and societies without charge at their functions and who did so much to make life happier for the soldiers during the late war, now have something of their own to ask from their friends outside of the profession. They are willing to give full value for what they ask however. The vaudeville artists have an organization known as the National Vaudeville Artists’ Association. They have established a sick fund, to help Indigent players who may become ill and they are trying to raise money to augument this fund. Henry Santrey, who is appearing at B. I<\ Keith's this week with his symphonic orchestra, is one of the most active in this effort to swell this sick fund. As a means of raising money, here where actors have always been most generous in their free work, appearing for clubs, charities and at private entertainments, Santrey and his band will give a dance at the Casino Gardens Thursday evening after their appearance on the bill at Keith’s. The dam j will start about 10 o’clock and last till 2 a. m. Other artists on the bill will be on hands to help put the affair over and help swell the rand, every cent of which will go to the N. V. A. sick benefit fund. - - -I- -I----MV NIC IP AX, BAND TO MAKE DEBUT. Music lovers and the public in general will have the opportunity Thursday noou at B. F. Keith's of hearing for the first time the Indianapolis Municipal Band, when they will appear In a concert that will be free to the public. This organization dispels the general Impression that an organization of this kind was impossible. Under the leadership of Louis F Ruth the organization was put together and rehearsed, and Its appearance Thursday at Keith's will mark Us initial bow before an .Indianapolis audience. The band numbers sixty pieces. The program is as follows: March—"Hostrauser". W. Paris Chambers Overture—“ Raymond” Thomas Suite (Sweet) Anthony and Cleopatra Greenwald Depicting the following: (a) In the arbor. (b| Dance of the Nubians.

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(c) Solo dance. (and) Anthony’s victory. Finale —“The'* Star-Spangled Banner.” - - -I- -I----ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today; Third of a century anniversary bill at Keith’s, Spring festival bill at the Lyric, “His Night Out” at the Rialto, "Foolish Wives” at the Ohio, “Doubling for Romeo,” at the Circle, “A Doll's House” at Loew’s State, “Little Lord Fauntleroy” at Mister Smith's, “Ten Nights in a Barroom” at the Isis” and “Find the Woman” at the Alhambra. Washington Briefs WASHINGTON. April 20—Dawdle, dllly and dally continue to be the invincible aspects of things on Capitol Hill. Optimists who were predicting adjournment of Congress by July 1, with the tariff- and tax bills and lesser woes signed, sealed and delivered, are revising their prognostications. With a sigh of lament, statesmen now talk of Sept. 1 as a far more likely date for the expiry of the Sixty-Seventh Congress. It is a dreary outlook with a Washington summer in prospect. The least enamored of the outlook is President Harding who sees his second annual hope of an expedition to Alaska gone glimmering, for he will not leave the helm while Congress is 1n session. The approach of the congressional campaign Is bound to spur members of both Houses Into action, for re-election fences will be clamoring Insistently for repair as the ides of autumn approach, and Washington is no place for that kind of work. Another goad to action Is the business world's Impatience with delay on the tariff bill.

One of the society fads popularized, of all times, during the recent Lenten season was pugilism, with the debutantes of Washington ts Its most ardent devotees. Prize fights are banned in the District of Columbia, but are legal across the Potomac, so the younger society set flocked between Ash Wednesday and Easter to Ft. Myer, Va. There, under the auspices of the Army post, soldiers staged semi-weekly contests with Washington upper-tendom as onlookers. The bouts were conducted to raise funds for post benefits and were ns friendly as eight-ounce gloves permit, but capital beauties thrilled over their first chance to see the manly art under Queensberry rules. Sinclair Lewis, newest recruit to Washington's ever growing colony of residential llteratr, will return to America in May from an all-winter sojourn In England. He is bringing with him the manuscript of a ‘sequel to Main Street." It Is called “Babbitt," and will blossom forth in the autumn. Somebody asked Mrs. Harding not long ago what her chief ambition In life Is. She I-* reported to have replied: “To be president of some organization dealing with kindness to animals," The 'first lady' shares that predilection with the President, whose fondness for dogs, horses and birds Is proverbial. Elephants are Included among Mr. Harding's animal fancies—a liking dating from the time he had an eider sister working as a missionary in Ilurmah and who nsc 1 to spin tales at Marlon of the loyalty of elephants as beasts of burden and the affection their masters boro them. An unheralded act of graciousness sttributed to Mrs. Harding is her recent Intercession on behalf of an Italian boy held at Ellis Island because hts entry would have Just tipped the Immigration quota scales the wrong way. “Behind the Mirrors," by the enony mens author of a bestseller with a somewhat similar title, will come forth from the publishers press at the outset of summer. It will deal as Its prototype did, with Washington, but In a less personal sense, though !t Is a composite of present-hour Ilf** and times here. Guessing as to the Identity of the original mirror-duster continues to be a pastime in the capital with many wlseacros claiming positively to hold the secret, the name differing In each case. Washington is the most studious community In the republic. That at least is the deduction of n statistician who has ascertained that there are more librarians employed In the capital of tho Nation than in any other city of equal size in the United States. From that fact the specialist In question draws the Inference that “the ratio of knowledge per capfla outranks that of all other American communities."

Unusual Folk

OLATHE, Kas., April 20.—Though deaf and sightless twenty-five years, Miss Helen May Murilu has astonished critics

by her art os a pianist and has received many offers for concert work. Before a large audleuce In her musical debut, her rhythm was pronounced perfect. And all that time she was not hearing hoc own music 1 Her explanation is that stie keeps in touch with it by a sense of feeling she keeps one foot in touch with t lie body of the piano.

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WHEN WOMEN RULE. BEDFORD, England, April 26.—Mrs. Mary Barber’s first official act when elected a member of the board of guardians was to introduce a resolution forbidding smoking at the meetings. It was adopted 1

NEW DRIVE FOR $500,000 FUND FOR MEMORIAL Jefferson Association Has Indorsement of Prominent Citizens. NEW YORK, April 28.—Marking the 179th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, Inc., founded last year In Richmond, Va., inaugurated a nation-wide campaign to obtain $500,000 with which to purchase jJontlcello, Jefferson’s historic estate, ns a gift to the Nation. Miss Ruth Reed Cunningham, secretary and treasure of the association, which Is composed of women, arrived here to organize this section of the country for the drive. She said the South and the West lxad been organized. Miss Cunningham has letters of Indorsement of the project from former Presidents Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft, Governor E. Lee TrinMe of Virginia, William Gibbs McAdoo and Dr. Henry Van Dyke. In his letter addreßßed to Mrs. E. D. Hotchkiss, president of the association, Mr. Wilson wrote. "I have Just heard with the greatest Interest of the formation and object of ‘The Thomas Jefferson National Memorial Association, Inc.,’ and I take the liberty of writing to you to express my warm sympathy with that object. I hope that the efforts of the association will meet with complete puccess. Montieello ought long ago to have become public property.” NChief Justice Taft expressed regret that hts many duties kept him from accepting a place on one of the committees, but he assured the association of his Interest In the Idea of purchasing Montieello. ExSecretary McAdoo thought the campaign "a most worthy object.” "Jefferson M. Levy, the owner of t'ue estate, Is willing to sell only if Monticello Is mado a public memorial," said Miss Cunningham. “He has kept the historic mansion and the C9O acres of land In first-class condition. The Jefferson relics in the mansion alone have been appraised at $292,000. These will be included In the sale of the estate.” Several efforts in the past to get congressional appropriations or raise public subscriptions to purchase Montieello have failed. In December, 1921. Thomns F. Ryan was reported to hnvo offered Mr. Levy $750,000 for the estate. In the same year Mrs. Martin W. Littleton headed n movement which agitated for congressoinal approplratlons for the purpose. President Wilson In 1915 also recommended Government purchase of the Jefferson home.

PLANS TO GET BOOZE GANGS BY RADIO TIPS Colorado Enforcement Officer After Liquor Cargoes From Canada. DENVER, April 26—The first “prohibition radio station” In the United States, it Is believed, will be erected here atop (he Federal customs building. Purchase and Installation of the plant will begin as soon as fonnal approval of the project Is received from Washington. E. II McClenahan. prohibition director and enforcement officer for the district of Oolorudo, announced that the radio system !s to be employed principally for the detection and capture of “booze runners.' “We are anticipating some bold at tempts to bring bonded liquor Into Denver this summer,” McClcnnban said. “There Is practically no bonded liquor In the city nt this time. liooze running in whiter from Canada Is almost Impossible because of tho heavy snows In Wyoming. When spring begins to open up the northern trails, however, there probably will be a rush of booze from Canada. "Tbe radio will enable us to get many 'titis' of impending excursions Into the United States and Into Colorado over the Wyoming lino from Canada.” Numerous prohibition agents scattered throughout Colorado will bo equipped with small, portable “radio stations" to keep In tauch with Denver headquarters.

Bottle Tossed in Sea in 1919 Brings Note WOOSTER, Ohio. April 20—While re turning home from overseas service aboard the George Washington, and while former President AVilson was addressing the men on board, Leonard Forrer, Orville, threw a bottle overboard on July 4, 1919. In the bottle was a note containing the request that tho finder “drop me a line." A few days ago Forrer received tho follow lug: “Wnkeley Hill, North Watrhampton, England: Dear sir—While walking on the sands of St. David's, a small city situated on the south coast of Wales, where I have been staying for a holiday, I found the enclosed letter in a bottle. I hope you had a pleasant voyage and renched homo quite safely. Hoping you ivlll receive this lotter from your friend of the ’sea,’ I am “Tours very truly, “KATHLEEN HANDLEY." A THOUGHT FOR TODAY And Up, bearing Ills crow*, went forth into h. pla-ee culled tile pbi-ce of u skull, which Is called In the Hebrew. Golgotha; whore they crucified Him. and two others with Him. one on either side of Him, and Jesus In the midst,—John 19:18. As Christ drew near to death. He trembled. It was an experience of His creation, but He himself had never felt It. 'To His humanity. Ills flesh, it seemed terrible. Gothsemnno bears witness how terrible It seemed. But Ho passed It for love of us.—Phillips Brooks.

Spectacular Contest for Republican Nomination

Indiana Republicans In a State-wide primary next Tuesday, will decide whether they want United States Senator Harry S. New to be a candidate for another six-year term, or whether former Senator Albert ,T. Beveridge shall be given an opportunity to regain a seat in the Upper House. The decision will be made following one of tbe bitterest factional struggles ever waged in a State wherein every citizen imagines himself a politician and it will be based not upon vital issues, but rather upon personalities. The average voter will be swityed by his personal attachment for the candidate of his choice and not by the things that candidate stand for. For that reason a rather light vote is expected. If the campaign has been devoid of Issues, that grip the popular mind, this void has been filled by vituperative attacks; denunciations, exposes and manipulations of such nature that it is easily the most spectacular political contest waged here in years. STANDPATTER VS. PROGRESSIVE. On the one side stands Harry S. New, the standpatter, who has never wavered in his allegiance to the Eagle, offering as the chief reason he should be re-nomi-nated tbe fust be has supported President Harding and has stood loyally by all of the measures designed to place the country back on its business feet. On the other side stands Albert J. Beveridge, twice elected Republican Senator and former Progressive leader and mandldute, basing his campaign on the cry “forward to prosperity" with a promise that he, too, will stick by President Harding. As far as the fundamental Issues are concerned there Is little cleveage, but there the similarity ceases. Senator New’s campaign has been conducted largely through a smoothly running political organization, recruited in the main from the Republican State organization and its minor branches. Practically every office holder in the State from the Governor on down is standing for the Senator's renominatlon. The Senator has remained on the Job In Washington, save for flying visits to the State and an occasional radio address, and hts organization has made much capital out of the fact that he would not desert his duties even to boost his own stock In a situation wherein his political future Is at stake.

BEVERIDGE IN ROLE OF CRUSADES. Mr. Beveridge las appeared In the role of a crusader—a crusade carefully planned by months of speeches before lyceums and churches and business bodies. He has an lndlfferefit organization and seems to be depending almost entirely upon his powerful oratory to sway the votes. He took the offensive at the start, but lately has been forced upon the defensive by the attacks launched by the New organization, and the closing days of the campaign sees him defending himself against what he terms the “paid propagandists of the opposition.” So overwhelming and so sudden was the attack that it is doubtful if he can regain the offensive again, but his sponsors appear confident that there is no need for any more “shock” tactic*. Mr. Beveridge ushered in the campaign with a spectacular challenge to his opponent to limit their expanses by written agreement and when Senator New ignored the Invitation he hurled the charge of Newberrylsm at the opposition. Then to make his argument more effective he closed his State headquarters and published week!;- statements of his expenses. The New headquarters, apparently oblivious of the storm breaking about It, went serenely on, with practically an entire floor of an expensive hotel filled with workers, devoting themselves to further the Senator’s candidacy. That was Mr Beveridge’s big gun and If in* Is nominated It will share equal glory with his great oratorical ability. Then the “machinists,” as he eboses to call the organization workers, got In their handicraft. It began to be whis pored that Mr. Beveridge was pro-Ger-man during the war: that he had written a book, "What Is Back of the War.” In which he had lauded the Kaiser and the German cause, and had refused to make Liberty loan speeches The whisper grow Into a shout and Mr Beveridge was obliged to defend himself. While lie himself has steadfastly Ignored the insinuations his corps of speakers have devoted themselves almost entirely to showing the book, even though It was barred from the public llbarnrles during the war was written without bins and was a true necount of conditions In Europe In 1915. They niso have brought our proof to show that he made Liberty loan speches. SPECIAL APPEAL TO SOLDIER VOTE. The New people have directed n special appeal to the soldier vote, on tho ground that the Senator was a captain in the Spanish-American war. and In doing so they have seen that copies of Mr Beveridge's book havo beeD circulated nmong the former service men. Republican lenders, foreseeing a stiff fight this fail against a united democracy, hnvo become aroused during tho last few days over tho growing bitterness between the rival camps, and now almost dally aro pleading for caution and saneness in order that tbe party may present a solid front to the enemy. Need less to say. however, there will be a deal of hatred that will not disappear with the final count of the primary vote, and much valuable campaign material has been mado available to the Democrats by the Republicans themselves. The entire fight has centered in Marlon County. Here Mayor Shank, In an effort to repay a debt owed to a newspaper which supported him In the mayoralty campaign and which Is now supporting Mr. Revortdgo, has attempted to lead the entire city hall machine Into the former Senator's procession. Former Mayor Jewett’s organization, which apparently was wiped out by Shank last spring, his strangely come to life and is manipulating the New end in county affairs. Marlon Oonnfy undoubtedly Is the key to the enti re situation and whoever captures the vote here in all probability will be tho nominee. The primary also will determine whether Mayor Shank Is the

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Republican leader In this county or whether Mr. Jewett has come back. SHANK ZEALOUS FOR HIS FAVORITE. So zealous has Mayor Shank become In behalf of his favorite candidate that he has discharged city employes who have failed to go out and work for Mr. Beveridge, a procedure that unquestionably has hurt the latter, especially since the New orators have made much of it on the stump throughout the State. One thing that baa Injured Senator New, however, Is the unexplained absence of Senator James E. Watson, his colleague. Senator Watson has carefully avoided Indiana ever since the campaign started. The Beveridge people say that. Senator Watson is still rankled over the defeat bo suffered at the hands of Senator New In 1910 and the New people simply don’t talk about it at all. Little Interest 1a being manifested In the Democratic side of the primary, Former Governor M. Ralston seemingly having the Inside track. It may be, however, that his chief opponents, Dan W. Sims of Lafayette, and Dr. Sanders, a youth from Garrett, will poll enough votes to throw the choice Into the convention. All of these candidates have waged a friendly contest and Democrats as a rule have sat back and watched the Republican battle.

Dust Collectors to Cut Price of Shaves INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., April 2f1.Strange are the workings of the old laws of economics. Witness: An improvement, to co*t $300,000, at the Buffington plant of a Portland cement company is to result In a reduction of the price of shaves In Indiana Harbor. Day In and day out dust from the cement factory overhangs this city like a pall, and because of this condition local barbers several years ago raised their prices, saying cement dust got Into the whiskers of their clientele, making the operation of shaving very difficult—not to mention wear and tear on razors. But the costly Improvement at the plant Is to do away with all this. Dust collecors are to be Installed, and no more will the “concrete chin" take the Joy from barbers' lives and the edge from their blades. WAITRESSES JOBLESS. LONDON, April 2tl. —Most of tho West End clubs have discharged their waitresses to make places for unemployed ex-soldlers. AERIAL whisky lunch. PARIS, April 26. —Luncheon boxes provided on one of the Parls-London aerial lines contain sandwiches, pastry, rult and a little nip of vhlsky.

We Believe in Indianapolis Food Stuffs The Food Show held at Tomlinson Kail this week has brought many interesting and important facts before the people of Ind’anapolis. There are 1,100 retail grocers in this city. They employ 3,300 people. The value of foodstuffs sold by them every twelve months has been estimated to be over $50,000,000. This means one grocery to every 320 people. f . Fourteen wholesale grocers located in Indianapolis distribute between seventy-five and one hundred million dollars’ worth of foodstuffs (retail value) over a territory covered by a crircle with a radius of 150 miles, having this city as a center. Three hundred people are employed in this branch of the business. One hundred firms in the city manufacture foodstuffs and their products are shipped all over the world. The yearly value of the manufactured products is many millions of dollars. Fletcher American National Bank of INDIANAPOLIS Capital and Surplus, $3,000,000.

APEiL 26, 1922.

VISION OF DAYS WHEN RALSTON SERVED STATE Correspondent Recalls Also Incident in His Earlier Experience. To the Editor: I sat, a little while ago, in the auldence, listening to the key-not* speech of Albert J. Beveridge, the silvertongued. I closed my eyes as I sat there, and there came to me the recollection, away back in Lebanon, Boone County, of Sam Ralston, tramping into the little mayor's court of that city, to defend some culprit for a minor violation of the law, with a cheery “I understand you’ve got an innocent man down here” to the group of bystanders. I saw the re-enactment of the tragedy in the Circuit Court room at Danville, Ind., when James Coley Brown lap prone upon the floor after fatally shooting Christian S. Wesner, and Wesner, a powerful man, bending over Brown wijh a dirk upraised, ready to plunge it into Brown. I saw Sam Ralston, the ex-cham-pion shotputter and hammer thrower at De Pauw, when he attended school there, grasp the wrist of Wesner, and shake the dirk from his hand, and unquestionably save the life of Brown. I saw Governor Ralston standing on the statehouse teps addressing the turbulent crowd at the time of the streetcar strike in Indianapolis, when Lew Shank, then mayor of the city, was crying and moaning, “Oh, what shall we do?” at which time Governor Ralston said: “It matters not what may happen to me. My duty is clear—that of preserving order, and I shall do that to the best of my ability,” the reference being to threatening letters he had received if he should call out the soldiery. I saw him tell the heads of the streetcar company, 'T have soldiers quartered here in the basement of the statehouse, but they are to preservo order, and not to run your cars with.” I have always been a Republican, having voted for one single Democrat In my life, and that Democrat was Sam Ralston for Governor. I am glad I did. He was one of the best Governors Indiana ever had, and that is saying a great deal. Many things can, and probably will be said of both Mr. New and Mr. Beveridge, but where can aught but ability, good old rugged honesty, and a disinclination to meddle be said of Sam Ralston? If he wants to go to tbe Senate, I hope he gets there, and I shall lend whatever humble assistance I can to put him there. WALTER H. ALEXANDER, 1923 Hillside avenue. SG,OOO FOR A LEG. CHESTER, England, April 20.—Oliver Drury, aged 23, was awarded $6,000 In his suit against a taxi driver whose carelessness cost him his leg

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