Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1923 — Page 2

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SNETHEN BRANDS INDIANAPOLIS ‘SMOKIER THAN PITTSBURGH’

BEVERIDGE DEFIES PARTY CHIEFS IN PRIMARY DEFENSE

Ex-Senator Tells Republican Editors They Must Trust People. INDORSE ADMINISTRATION Marion Publisher Elected President of State Association, A political party to be . successful must trust the people, Albert J. Beveridge declared in a speech at the banquet of the Republican Editorial Association at the Claypool Hotel last night. Facing, during most of his speech, Senator James E. Watson and Governor McCray, who have been active opponents of the primary law, the former Senator declared in no uncertain terms that the people must be allowed to choose their representatives. “The capital fact in the development of American institutions is the steady advance of the people in their determination to choose for themselves the representatives who conduct the people’s government for the people,” he said. “This evolution of popular rights and power has been as continuous, irL'esisuide aim impressive us the process of the seasons. It is inevitable that this should be so. since ours is a government of. for and by the people, as Lincoln said.” Watson Speaks Beveridge declared that the only ground for apprehension in this country is “that distrust of the people and anti public and repressive measures growing out of that distrust will strengthen the forces of eruption.” Beveridge warned against falling into the error of the old Federalist party, which “thought patriotism meant oppression, that the people were Inherently wrong-minded and that If the people were allowed to have their way the whole country would go to the devil.” Senator Watson, who followed Beveridge, replied his principles were based on those of Jesus of Nazareth, the Constitution of the I'nited States and the founders of the Republic. Officers Named Other speakers were Governor McCray, who reviewed some of the accomplishments of his administration; George B. Lockwood, editor of the National Republican, who defended Congress, the Harding Administration and the United States foreign policy, and Mrs. Florence Riddick Boys of Plymouth, who appealed to the women. At the session of the editorial association preceding the banquet, George D. Lindsay, publisher of the Marion Chronicle, was named president to succeed Jesse Pierce, editor of the Clinton Clintonian. George Elliott of the Newcastle Courier was made rice president; Herbert C. Willis of the Waterloo Press, treasurer, and Will O. Feurner of the Rushrille Republican was re-elected secretary. The editors adopted resolutions indorsing the Harding and the McCray Administrations.

DEATH OF BOARD ID SAVEEXPENSE City Attorney Gives Figures on Sanitary Commission, To substantiate the claim of the city administration that the city would save from $75,000 to >IOO.OOO by the abolishing of the board of sanitary commissioner® and transferring their work to the board of public works. James M. Ogd-n. city attorney, today announced a detailed report of the estimated saving. The report shows minimum estimated savings of $85,000. as follows: Commissioners’ salaries and office expenses. $5,000: overhead in ask and garbage collection; saving in duplication of equipment. $40,000; saving in engineering. $20,000, and saving in buildings, *slo,ooo. A bill to abolis hthe committee has been introduced in the House by Representative Russell B. Harrison and is at present in the hands of the committee on affairs of ’ the city of Indianapolis. James A. Cravens, president of the board, charged that the effort to abolish it is the work of politicians. CAREY FACES CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT WIFE Willie Carey, 29, of 329 Kentucky Ave., was arrested on the charge of shooting with intent to kill, and today Carey’s matrimonial troubles were to be discussed"" in city court. Carey, said by police to have been eften arrestee and seldom convicted, was alleged to have visited the home of his wife. .Mary Carey, 411 Douglak St., and following a quarrel fired one shot at her. He escaped before the police arrived and his wife swore out a warrant that caused his arrest. Carey said his wife invited him to call at her home. Receiver Is Appointed Charles Weiser of Vincennes has been appointed receiver for the estate of —Justus H. Henkes, Vincennes jeweler, following an involuntary petition in bankruptcy filed by Illinois corporations in Federal Court. The petition lists the assets of the estate at 415,000 and his liabilities at $60,000.

Book Lovers at Technical High School Get Good Start on ‘Five Foot Shelf;’ Volumes Are Given as Prizes

They have not gone through Dr. Eliot's “five-foot shelf.” but two Technical High School students have a good start toward it. Albert C. Brethauer, 1015 N Gale St., and Helen Amthor, 1037 E. Ohio St., Tech seniors, won prizes for having the best "outside reading” lists for the four years they were in the school. Each book is given points in accordance with difficulty of reading it. The two prize winners did not select easy books, because Brethauer won 211 points on the thirty-three books he read, while Miss Amthor earned 169 points on twenty-five books. Prize Books Awarded Brethauer received an illustrated bock on Belgium and Miss Amthor a book about England as prizes, presented by Miss Mabel Goddard, head of the English department. Here are the books Brethauer read: “Penrod.” by Booth Tarkington; “Huckleberry Finn,” Mark

BOY VICW IS WHIPPED BY MOB Tells Powers of Flogging While Bound to Post, By Ini ted Press LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Jan. 27. Wounds of a boy victim of the mob which ruled northern Arkansas, lynching K. C. Gragor and floggftig ethers, were exhibited last night to the State legislative committee probing the vigilantes reign. “I was whipped by nine men. earh striking me twice with a heavy lash after they had bound me to a post,” Dewey Webb, 18 years old. declared as he exhibited his body, striped with huge red welts. “A heavy piece of barbed wire was wrapped a round my head and fastened to the post to which I was tied. One of the men wore a black mask, but I knew his voice.” Webb named three members of the mob and declared he was deported because he would not tell who committed alleged depredations on railroad property.

No Bobbed Hair Seen in Offices at Butler

The second semester at Butler College will begin Monday with the official recistr. tion day. Classes will begin Tuesday morning. Many students registered In January and especially during the past week. Miss Sarah Cotton, registrar, has been very busy. About five hundred students had registered Friday evening, 100 o? these being new students. Eight students are helping Miss Cotton with the registration work. No bobbed hair girls are employed in the offices at Butler College, a recent canvas has disclosed. The clerical work is done by both blondes and brunettes, with the latter predominating. Several are taking college work along with their other duties. The seniors will make their initial appearance in cap and gown at the chapel exercises on Founder’s day. Feb. 7. Thereafter, as is the custom, the seniors will wear their special garb one day each week. The class of 102.'? has chosen Wednesday as its day. Dr. George William Brown spoke at a meeting of the T. W. C. A. forum Friday afternoon at the College of Missions. Dr. Brown’s subject was "Evolution and Religion.” Miss Catherine Riley, of the class of 1917, has been appointed assistant to Miss Sarah Cotton, registrar. The members of the faculty will have their annual frolic Saturday evening, Feb. 3. at the home of Miss Katharine Graydon. Miss Ida B. Wilhite has charge of the refreshments Evelyn Butler is chairman of the entertainment committee. Others helping with the entertainment plans are Prof. Rollo A. Tallcott, and .Prof. Jabez Hall. Two charades wUI bo presented by mem-

LEFT, ALBERT C. BRETHAUER; RIGHT, HELEN AMTHOR.

Twain; “Oliver Twist,” Dickens; “Last of the Mohicans,” Cooper; “Treasure Island,” Stevenson; "The Spy,” Cooper; “The Talisman,” Scott: “Bob, Son of Battle," Ollivant: “Seventeen.” Tarklngton: “The Pioneers,” Cooper; “Tr.Ul of theLonesome Pine,” John Fox, Jr.; “Captains Courageous.” Kipling; “Old Curiosity Shop,” Dickens: “The Call of the Wild," Jack London; “David Copperfield,” Dickens; “Henry Esmond,” Thackeray; “The Vicar of Wakefield,” Goldsmith; “The Iron Woman,” Deland; “Westward. Ho,” Charles Kingsley; “Sense and Sensibility,” Austen; "Vanity Fair,” Thackeray: “The Lady or the Tiger." Stockton; “A Certain Rich Man,” W. A. White: “Ben-Hur,” Lew Wallace:. “Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe;” “Best Short Stories of 1917." edited by O'Brien: “Count of Monte Cristo,” Dumas; “Last Days of Pompeii,” Bulwer Lytton; “Hypatia." Kingsley; "Uncle Tom's Cabin,” Stowe; "Kenilworth," Scott;

Local Reader Will Give Radio Program

wvv ' V s : vN V >;-;vLTv7'i iSililil MISS LOIS GILBERT A program of four numbers will be given by Miss Lois Gilbert, 1117 W. Thirty-Seventh St., reader, at a local radio station Sunday evening.

bet-s of the faculty and four students will give Howell’s “The Mouse Trap.” There will be forty-one members of the faculty the second semester of this year, and 166 courses are offered. The growth of the college in the past few years may be estimated by the fact that in 1914 there were only twentyfive faculty members and about three hundred and fifty students, as against more than one thousand students last semester. The budget committee will reopen its drive next week for subscriptions. The student body will be canvassed as it Is necessary to raise SI,OOO this semester in order to make the year .a success. The budget takes care of all appeals for financial aid made to the stunents. ‘COURTESY TRIPS’ REVIVED Local Wholesalers Will Visit I-ogans-port Feb. 14. The first of anew series of monthly “courtesy trips" to be conducted by the wholesale trade division of the Chamber of Commerce will be taken Feb. 14, when about seventy-five Indianapolis wholesalers will make an all-day visit to Logansport. No effort will be made to place orders, but the visitors will seek to become better acquainted with the retailers. Several such trips were highly successful last year. Geographers End Conference Uy United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 27.—The second annual meeting of the State geographical society, composed of geography teachers from all parts of Indiana closed here today. Instructors from several colleges were the principal speakers.

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“Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare, and "The Three Musketeers,” Dumas. A girl makes quite a different selection. Those that Helen Amthor reads, were: “Oliver Twist," by Dickens; "Old Curiosity Shop,” Dickens; “Little Dorrlt,” Rickens; “Ivanhoe,” Scott; "Henry Esmond." Thackeray; “Jane Eyre,” Brortto; "The Vicar of Wakefield,” Goldsmith; “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen; "The Little Minister,” Barrie: “Mary Lynn," Gilchrist; “Vanity Fair,” Thackeray: "Alice of Old Vincennes," Thompson: “Hugh Aynne.” Mitchell; "S< rise and Sensibility," Austen; “Scenes From Clerical Life.” Eliot; “I/orna Donne, ’ Eliot; “The Inside of the Cup.” Churchill: “The Woman in White,’ and "The Count of Monte Cristo,” Dumas; "Cranford," Haskell; "Portrait of a l.,ndy," Henry James: “Middlemarch,” Eliot; “Westward Ho,” Kingsley; "Mr. Rritling Sees It Through," If. G. Wells, and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Blasco Ibanez.

HELP FOR MENIAL DEFEGTjVES URGED Social Workers Indorse Plans, The department of the city hospital is on record today as favoring efforts being made to establish •some means to take care of patients wth incipient mental and nervous diseases. The board is not so much Interested In the location of such a ward or hospital as It is with the importance of adequate provisions for this Important type of cases, Mrs. Joseph B. Kcaling, chairman, said. Miss Margaret E. Bloor is director of the department. Other members are I’aul L. Benjamin, Mrs. G. Julia Clark. Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Mrs. G. L. Dunlap, Mrs. J. A. Davies, Dr. F. G. Earp, Father Francis Ouvisk. Dr. G. E. Hodgin, Mrs. Henry Hayward. Prof. Howard Jensen, L. B. Joeb, Mrs. Paul Kirby. Mrs. Richard Lieber, Mrs. Mary Meyer. Miss Josephine Mulville, Dr. Clem Nafe, Mrs. Don Pullls, Leo Rappaport, George Ravenlnoff, Miss Mary Riggs, Miss Edna Shover. the Rev. W. O. Trueblood, Mrs, Henry Talbott, the Rev. F. B. C. Wicks and the Rev. D. H. Winders. CHEVROLET CO. PAPERS Manufacturing Company Is Capitalized at SIOO,OOO.

Articles of incorporation for the Chevrolet Brothers Manufacturing Company, capitalized for SIOO,OOO, of which $25,000 is represented by preferred stock and the remainder by ! common, have been filed with the Sec- , retary of Stat% The incorporation effects a con- | solidation of the Chevrolet Brothers ; Manufacturing Company and Arthur | Chevrolet, manufacturer of ring gears, i the plant will be located tat 410 W. Tenth St. The officers of the new company I will be Arthur Chevrolet, president; I Louis Chevrolet, vice president: Wil- | 11am H. Faust, secretary, and Fred i L. Tompkins, treasurer. FOUR CASES CONTINUED 1 Altsence of Detectives Given as Cause of Postponement. Due to the absence of Detectives ! McMurtrie and Glen in New Jersey, | four cases, involving six men and one j woman, were continued In Criminal | Court today by Judge James A. Collins. They were the cases of Robert Pra- ' ter. indicted on a charge of receiving j stolen goods: Mamie Isley, Alfred Isj ley. Charles Perdu, Walter Perdu and i Do Witt-Parker, who are suspected of | complicity in the robbery of the Alert j State Bank. Tho five held on this j charge are said by police to be memi bers of the Sonny Dunn gang. Inspector Mullin of the police de- | partment and Judge Collins held a | conference Friday and the continuance ;of these cases is supposed to have been an outgrowth of this conference. Butcher Shop Robbed. The butcher shop of Henry Woesner, 1755 Howard St., was entered Friday night and a cleaver and some meat, valued at $3.50, were stolen, Woesner told 'police today.

Civic Forces Marshaled in Crusade to Banish Overhanging Screen —Officials Wait Chance to Enforce Law, “The smoke nuisance in Indianapolis at present is worse than that of Pittsburgh and is a disgrace and a shame to the city,” Edward O. Snethen, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs and chairman of the smoke abatement committee of the Chamber of Commerce, declared today. “Nothing too strong can be said against this evil and nothing should he stopped at until it is eliminated,” Snethen asserted. “I can speak for the federation and say that since we have started this

campaign we are going to stand by until some definite results are gained.” An Economic Issue “Whenever the people of Indianapolis wake up to the fact that the proposition is an economic measure and not merely a civic one. then some definite thiryrs can be accomplished," he said. "I do not see how any plant owner can watch thousands of dollars wasted every year in the form of unburned coal and gas. And there is no one that this does not apply to." At the request of Mayor Shank on i ecommendation of his smoke abatement committee, Francis F. Hamilton,'city building commissioner, has formally requested Purdue University engineers to aid in solving the problem. It has been impossible for Fred S. Beck, city smoke inspector, to on force the city smoke ordinance when city and State buildings were the worst offenders. A step toward eliminating this evil was taken when Mayor Shank ordered smoke consumers installed at the city hall. Must Clean Own House “If those consumers are successful ! offenders will l>e notified and given a certain time in which to clean house. Hamilton stated. “We want to be i sure and clean our own house first. While we are waiting for results we ■ are going ahead and taking pictures of smoke stacks, hut only in a few cases have we notified offenders. “The department is handicapped

CONGRESS READY TO FARE ACM ON WORLD PEACE Borah and Chalmers Ask Harding to Call Conference of Nations, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON. Jan. 27 Both houses of Congress today are unlim boring their guns preparatory to a I combined assault to force the Admini istratlon to take action against the ] imminent danger of anew world war. Senator William E. Borah, Republican, of Idaho, following Congressman William VV. Chalmers, also a Republican, of Ohio, now Is at work on ! a resolution which he will Introduce \ in the Senate the coming week. Borah will urge upon President Harding the necessity for calling an international conference to bring about world rehabilitation and peace, ar, suggested by the Times and Si:ripps-Howard newspapers. The first shoot in the new battle for American aid in helping restore Europe and the world to normal was fired in Congress Friday when Representative Chalmers Introduced In the lowep house his tesolutlon asking the President t call a conference “to consider and work out a specific plan for world stabilization.” Senator Borah's resolution Is not completed, but In its broad lines will call for virtually the same thing he once before offered in a similar resolution. BROOKHART AND LOWDEN SUGGEST PEACE PLANS Hu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Senator Smith Brookhart of lowa and former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois suggested panacea for world ills before International statesemen and bankers at the council on froeign relations gathering last night. While Brookhart addressed a world-wide cooperation of producers and consumers. Lowden said the time to end our “isolation” had come. Lowden declared for abandonment of the Administration’s present policy of abstension from European affairs. Brookhart recommended an international co-operative agency, including In Its scope hanking, interstate and foreign commerce, and farming. TEMPER OF PEOPLE ON DEBT WILL BE DISCUSSED : lilt United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —The tern j per of the American people regarding partial cancellation of Europe’s war debt, as a means of giving the United States Government power to bring about settlement of the reparations question will be brought up In the Senate. This will come during discussion of a proposed economic conference and the reparations question. The public will be asked to consider j whether it were better to insist on an attempt to collect the French debt, which all official Washington is convinced is uncollectable now or in the future, or to mark it off, as the price ■ of an agreement by France in a sensible world economic program. BOYS’ AUTHORITY TO TALK Y. M. C. A. Small Town Worker To Speak Sunday. E. A. Roberts of New York City, dii rector of county Y. M. C. A. work in i America and a recognized authority jon boys' life in small towns, will speak at a boys’ meeting in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. Boys from 10 to 18 are invited. A musical program will include a “drum special" by Russell Birk, a whistling solo by Jesse Hall and selections by the Y. M. C. A. orchestra.

frorn lack of funds with which to work,” Hamilton said. “There is no money appropriated by the city to tight the smoke evil and it is going to take money to make a success of the campaign. If I had twenty men assigned to this department I could get definite results within two years, but with our limited means it is necessary to proceed slowly.” Blames Boiler Types Mrs. John H. Judah, president of the Smoke Abatement League, an organization that was active in fighting the smoke nuisance in Indianapolis several years ago. stated before a meeting of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs that the only way to get results was through a wide educational campaign in which the people were shown the economic side ut the question. "There isn't such a thing as a successful smoke consumer on the market," Mrs. Judah said. “The whole question is a matter of the proper tiring of correct types of boilers.” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, executive secretary of the board of health, stated: “If the drinking water of the city was one-half as foul'and polluted and as dangerous to health as the smoke laden air that we breathe, the people of the city would be up In arms In the meantime we worry along with the smoke, breathing the foul air, burning up lots of good money every year, soiling nut clothes and watching the black smoke screen hang over the city day after day.”

Professor From China to Address Rotarians

| ; /ill '****’’ ' Af J' i Prof. William Hung of the history department of Pekin University, China, who will speak at the Rotary Club anniversary banquet Tuesday evening. ‘PRIVATELY WET’~ SOLONSCENSURED W, C. TANARUS, U, Raps Law Violation by Congressmen, Congresmen who publicly vote dry and privately act wet were under fire of the Central W. C. T. U. today. The union meeting at the home of Mrs. j. M. Dalrymplo, 1238 Park Ave., adopted a resolution declaring: “Whereas, the dry sentiment of the voters has been proved by the election of many men who publicly declared themselves In favor of prohibition: and “Whereas, reports are given in our newspapers and magazines of drinking by our Senators and Representatives and other officials in Washington. Therefore be it “Resolved. That Central W. C. T. U., consisting of over 300 women, mostly mothers, deplores the actions of lawmakers whose example is a detriment to law enforcement, and bo It further “Resolved, That officials who honestly represent their constituency and who may expect their future support most be personally and privately dry as well as publicly dry; that a copy of this resolution be presented to the Marion County W. C. T. U., representing over 1,500 women, for indorsement.” Governor McCray was commended “for his outstanding principle and plain speech asking for inforcement of prohibition at the Governors' conference in Washington." MANY ENTRIES FOR SHOW With the aristocracy of Hoosier poultry, rabbits and cats on exhibition, the fiftieth annual five-day poultry show will open in Tomlinson Hall Feb. 7, with prospects of the exhibition being the largest ever displayed. The doors will be open daily from 8:30 a. m. to 10 p. m. Scores of Indiana fanciers have made entries. Purdue University will be represented by an educational exhibit of poultry raising.

‘Cage ’em’ liy United Xeus NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—Increase in annulment suits instituted by girls who marry under age led to this proposal by Supreme Court Justice Ford: "Cage every girl when she gets to be 15 and keep her caged until she reaches 25-”

Fall Beneath Truck Is Fatal to Youth

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JOHN *HIGGINS ACCIDENT WLLS FATHEMLPER Victim Gave Up School to Support Family, | Friends today told of the struggle ! which John Higgins, 14, of 241 N. Richland Ave., who was fataliy injured by a truck at West and Henry Sts. Friday, made to help his father keep their little family together. The father, Arthur Higgins, is a truck driver for the Holt Ice Company. The mother is dead. Three children, besides John, made up the family. They are Venos, 16; Helen, 12, and Edna, 10. John worked as a messenger for the Lilly Varnish Company. He attended j school No. 12 before his mother’s j death. He quit school to work in or- | der to help his father. According to the best evidence ob- ! tainable by police and Dr. Paul Robinson. coroner, John, riding a bicycle, apparently was holding on s o the side of a truck driven by Ernest Eddleman, 901 Albany St. At West and Henry Sts.. Eddleman asserted, he felt a jar, as if the truck had run over a rock. Looking back, he saw ‘.he boy lying in the street. Eddleman said he was driving about six miles an hour. He carried the boy into the home of Mrs. Rose Phlffer. 432 S. West St. Higgins I died shortly Rfter reaching the city I hospital. Eddleman was not arrested.

POLICEMAN QUITS; ENEMIESBLAMED Veteran Resigns When Chief Insists on Exams, Friends of Henry W. Sandman, who resigned as a member of the police department Friday, today declared he was a victim of a political ring that for personal reasons forced the veteran officer out of the department. | Sandman had been a policeman for | more than twenty-three years. He had been a lieutenant and a sergeant, and had made a record for many important arrests. There was not a black mark against his record on file in the board of safety's office. Sandman is a Democrat. He was reduced from sergeant of the police emergency squad to turnkey when Mayor Shank took office. During a campaign of the Indianapolis News to obtain new subscribers Sandman was said to have offended Otto Ray, city councilman and a winner in the subscription contest. Sandman’s reduction from turnkey to patrolman quickly followed. Then friends prevailed upon Sandman not to resign. He was assigned to duty at Substation No. 5, in Broad Ripple. Chief Rikhoff ordered Sandman to report for a physical examination not later than Saturday. Sandman said he had just had all his teeth extracted and was in no condition to take the examination. The chief refused to grant him more time and Sandman resigned. CHINAMAN TO GIVE TALK Dr. Hung to Addresss Rotary Club at Birthday Banquet. \ Dr. William Hung of the Department of History of Pekin University will speak at a banquet celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, to be held nnt Tuesday evening in the Riely room of the Claypool Hotel. “China as a Coming World Power” will be the subject of Dr. Hung's address. Charter members and past presidents of the club will lead the entertainment program. Members of the immediate families of Rotarians will be guests.

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CIVIC FEDERATION 4 OPPOSES CHANGE IN TEXTBOOK LAW Clubs Indorse Plan to Elevate Tracks of Belt Railroad, A resolution opposing any change in the present method of adopting textbooks in the State of Indiana was on the records of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs today. It was adopted at the monthly meeting Friday night at the Chamber of Comerce. A. Le Roy Portteus, vice president, said that under a bill presented in the Legislature the question would be left in the hands of the county or even township units. “This would mean a large number of different books would be chosen by unqualified persons, rather than by educator-s,” Portteus said. Bill to Be Drafted g A resolution indorsing the plan for elevation of the Belt Railroad tracks also was adopted. Edward O. Snethen, president, announced an attorney representing the city, another the Chamber of Commerce and one from the Indianapolis Union Railroad Company would meet today to draw up a bill to be introduced before the Legislature to allow the city to advance money to the railroad in order that would could be started on track elevation at once. T. A. Morgan, for eight years engineer at the Eli Lilly Company plan>, who was to tell how he solved the company's smoke problem, was unable to attend the meeting. Election Date Set The last Friday night in March was set as the date for the annual election of officers. A nominating committee consisting of Lewis Miller ot the McClainsville Improvement Association, George W. Beeman of the Mipleton Civic Association, C. H. Bird of the North Central Associaion, T. P. Woodson of the College Ave. Civic League, and Mrs. C. A. James of the Brookside Civic League was appoitned. Declaring that the sanitary commission was doing its work more cheaply than it could be done by the city and that statements to the contrary were made by persons who did not know the facts of ihe case, J. A. Cravens, chairman of the sanitary commission, struck at the bill recently introduced in the House for the abolition of the commission as a move by "local politicians." M

YICA WORKERS DISCUSS DUTIES 'Dad' Elliott Will Speak at Conference, The function and activities of the State Y. M. C. A. were discussed by Philo C. Dix, State secretary of Kentucky, at this morning's session of the fifty-second annual convention of the Indiana State Y. M. C. A. in the Second Presbyterian Church. The session was devoted primarily to business. Reports of the . State committee was given by S. B. Bechtel, Ft. Wayne. The treasurer’s report was submitted by W. H. Insley. ID E. Hudson. Anderson, reported on recommendations. The afternoon program was a series of group meetings. At the evening session “Dad” Elliott of Chicago, will address the convention on “The Challenge of Half a Million Hoosier Young Men and Boys.” PLAN NEW AUDITORIUM Sunday School Addition Also Sought by Central Church. , 45 Plans for construction of anew auditorium on the site of the present building of the Central Christian Church, Delaware St. and Ft. Wayne Ave., were announced today by the Rev. Allan B. Philputt, pastor. It is plaphed to erect the new auditorium as soon as the debt on the new educational building Is removed. More Sunday school Is needed and future plans call for an addition on the present Sunday school building. YOUNG MEN TO BANQUET Capital Council of Institute to Observe Anniversary. A banquet in celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of the Capital Council, 276, Young Men’s Institute, will be held Sunday evening, Feb. 18, at the Catholic Community Center, 124 W. Georgia St. Several speakers of note are being sought for the occasion by Leo X. Smith, chairman of the local committee.