Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1923 — Page 4
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HOW TO j of the three boy bandits who robbed SQUELCH gJ the Mohawk bank should serve to discourBANDITRY '±_ ape any other ill-guided youths who may bo contemplating violation of the law. Here is the record: TUESDAY,2:3O P. M.—Robbed Mohawk bank. TUESDAY, 5:30 P. M.—First of three arrested. Others arrested shortly afterward. WEDNESDAY, 1 P. M.—Each sentenced to ten to twentyfive years in reformatory. THURSDAY—In jail ready to start to reformatory. Police and other officials who handlecl the case are to be commended for their efficiency. Nothing does so much to discourage crime as speedy justice. In this case there was no legal quibbling. The bandits were guilty and justice was prompt. The Indianapolis police did good york in apprehending the bandits. A “reception committee” was ready to meet them when they neared Indianapolis and that ‘‘committee,” reinforced by other policemen, worked efficiently in making arrests and obtaining confessions. If more cases were handled with this dispatch. ESPECIALLY IN' THE COURTS, there would be less crime. FRANCE *yERE’S a curious proposition! During the SELLS I—l major part of the war, French shipyards SHIPS Jl were almost entirely occupied in manufacturing war material. In March. 1918, the French government appropriated half a billion francs, later supplemented by 350.000.000 more francs, for the construction of a government merchant marine. The plan proved unsatisfactory and in August, 1921, a bill was passed directing the French shipping board to dispose of the entire fleet by July 31. 1923. And the other day, cable advices to the Department of Commerce stated- that the thing had been done and the entire fleet disposed of at a loss to the government of $135,000,000 for shipping of 950.000 tons dead weight! \et Chairman A1 Lasker says we can’t sell our ships at any price whatever, can’t even get a bid for ’em. Why not? Well. mat*be there’s too much junketing, for one thing. BIBLE AND "TN EAD the Bible, is the advice of the Rev. MAKERS I Taylor of Indianapolis to lawOF LAM S _A_ Vl makers. It is good advice in more ways than one. Legislators might derive from the Bible a little more consideration for their fellow men. Above all they might, if they read diligently, discover just what a law is. A few thousand years ago a man named Moses went to the | top oi a mountain and came back with some very excellent laws. These laws are supposed to be the basis for all subsequent statutes, but at times our Legislatures, drift far astray. It might be a good idea to threw away all the blundering of the last couple of thousand years or so and start over again with the laws of Moses as a foundation. They would be pasier t<> understand and a whole lot less expensive to enforce. Legislators should read the Bible by all means.
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You can gret an answer to -any question of fact or information writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, X. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. or papers, speeches, etc., be* prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive" personal replies.—Editor. What is the proper method of hanging Old Glory? I A SUBSCRIBER. The American flag should be hung with blue field in upper right hand corner to the North or East. Where can I buy one of the discarded automobiles built for war purposes? These are now being turned over to other departments of the Government as they have need for them, .and are seldom sold to the public.' For particulars of the few public auctions of cars that are held, write .the Director of Sales. War Department, Washington. D. C. How big are atoms? Four hundred million of the smallest of them, placed in a line, would measure one inch. How is it possible to measure the width of a river without actually taking measurements? Surveyors drive two flags at a given distance apart on one side of the river and one on the other side. By means of instruments for the purpose, the angles at these three points are determined. They then have a triangle with one Side and three angles given, and the distance of the other two sides can then easily be found by trignometry. What is it in lettuce that causes drowsiness? Lactucarium. a mild anodyne and narcotic, possessing in an inferior degree the properties of opium. Have any silver dollars been coined this year? No. Have any fossils of ape-men or very early cave-man type of human being ever been found in either North or South America? No. According to Scltmce Service, researches so far have yielded nothing either in North or South America which can be accepted as representing man of geological antiquity, comparable to early type discovered in t Europe and Asia. Were women forbidden to speak in the early Greek churches during the first centuries of (he Christian era? In St. Paul's first epistle to the j Corinthians, chapter 14, 34 and 35 i verses, he says: “Let your, women. keep silent in the churches: for it is
not permitted unto them to speak; tut they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” What year is locust year? Do they do much harm? Locust year does not occur at the stme time all over the United States. Locusts are very disastrous. The insects increase in numbers during favorable seasons: then one year, when they have not enough food, they collect in large numbers and travel long distances, devouring every green thing in sight. The most disastrous locust year ever known was 1874, when enormous swarms invaded Colorado, Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming. North and South Dakota, Min. nesota, lowa. Missouri, New' Mexico, Indian Territory and Texas. The actual loss in the destruction of crops amounted to 550,000,000. What is the proper wedding gift for (he groom to give the bride? Some handsome piece of jewelry is in good taste. This depends, however, upon the financial circumstances of the man. How is the Republic of Poland governed? Under a constitution adopted March li. 1921, which calls for a two-chamber legislative body. Senate and House, elected by universal suffrage. Freedom of press, religion, etc., is guaranteed. The President of the Republic is to be chosen by Parliament for a seven years’ tenure, and appoints a cabinet of ministers responsible to Parliament. What does the English expression “Dower House” mean? The house where the widow resides when the manor-house and estate pass to the eldest son and heir. What is (he object of the Kiwanis Club? A business men’s club for the purpose of promoting good fellowship and good feeling among business men, thus benefiting trade and promoting civic pride. On what, day of the week did Oct. 15, 1908, come? Thursday. What does saute mean? To fry lightly in hot fat or butter, not deep enough to cover the thing cooked. What can be done for slightly tainted meat during the hot weather? If one must use it. give it a bath of soda and water well rubbed in. A roast thus treated may be rubbed, in addition, with vinegar or lemon juicer.^
PLEA FOR HONEST AMERICAN HISTORY
By ARTHUR G. GRESHAM Chairman Americanization Committee, Department of Indiana, Veterans of Foreign Wars. IN the June 12th edition of The Times you comment editorially on American school histories and make light of a report by Commissioner David Hifschfield of New York on school histories. You say he found exactly what he started out to find in 1921 British propaganda in American school histories. Your editorial goes on to say Hirsehfield would strike from American histories every favorable mention of
FORD IS HOLDING BIG LEAD Collier Straw Vote Shows Auto King’s Majority Increases, Bp United Net ca NEW YORK, June 21.—Henry Ford continues to increase hi 9 lead over all comers in the Colliers’ Weekly face-to face straw vote on possible presidential aspirants. Os 164.514 -voters questioned as to their preference, 54.257, according to the current issue of the weekly, voted for Ford, while President Harding drew the second largest vote with 32,924, and W. G. McAdoo was in third place with 13,023. The poll reveals some curious rc suits. In Ohio, the home of Harding and James W. Cox, nearly two thousand more votes were given Ford than Harding, and the auto king's advantage over Cox was nearly three to one. In Alabama, home of Senator Underwood, the vote for Ford was 35 per cent greater than for Underwood. In New York State, home of two potential candidates. Harding led. with Governor Smith second. Ford third and Hughes fourth. New Jersey, home of Senator Edwards, mentioned as a possible candidate, gave Ford five votes to Edwards' one. California voters, accustomed to giving Senator Johnson enormous majorities. are found to be voting a preference thus far in the poll, for Ford. He held a still further advantage over Hoover and McAdoo. who now are also Californian prospects. In Idaho, home State of Senator Borah. Ford leads the senator Ford also leads La Follette In the latter’s home bailiwick—Wisconsin—by a few score votes. The only major State in which Harding was shown to lead the Dearborn manufacturer was New York.
Indiana Sunshine
When you grumble about your next move just think of the job ahead of members of the conservation depart merit. They are going to move all the fish from an old quarry near Huntington to other quarries and rivers. Another drawback to summer. At torney Dickey of Marion missed his straw hat, so lie went to buy another. Shortly afterward another attorney discovered he was wearing Dickey's hat. Maybe pigs is pigs, but forty-six kiddies in the vicinity of Kendallville don’t agree. They received pigs from •.he Noble County Pig Club and will try to produce the super pig that will grunt his way into the first prize. Tipton children are hoping for cool weather. The Chamber of Commerce called a. meeting to discuss plans for the Fourth of July • celebration, hut didn't meet. Members said it was too hot. _ ... After five years of detouring on the read from Indianapolis to Noblesvilie. motorists will be mighty glad to hear that the last foot of cement will be laid this week. The road will be open in about fourteen days. ‘ Bent on seeing a Ford car parade, Ray May arrived in Columbus several hours early and established himself in a chair in the window of a local store. Waiting got tiresome. When he came abruptly out of his peaceful slumbers the parade had passed. Albert Blum, Huntington, isn't a carpenter, hut he did a neat job of taking out the rear of his garage. His only tool was a flivver.
The Tractor By BERTON BRALEY I am not a thing of beauty or of charm, I am ugly, I am noisy, but I’m strong. I am built for heavy duty on the farm And I can do heavy duty right along. I can yank a bunch of gang-plows through the sod, I can pull a dozen binders through the wheat; Is it labor you are needing, plowing, harvesting or seeding? Give me gas and put a driver on my seat! I am not the sort of thing that artists paint, I don't add much pretty color to the scene, And you cou’dn’t call me picturesque or quaint And I sincil of oil and grease and gasoline. I am clumsy, but I’m tireless in my might And I’m busier than all the bees that buzz, And I have more vital forces than a score or two of horses, So I reckon handsome is as handsome does! It is mine to help the farmer at his work, I'm a giant—at your service, here and now! Who will save you from the weariness and irk And the sweat that blinds the eyes and beads the brow! Im am ugly, but I'm willing and I’m strong With an endless store of energy athrob; Want a task done? I can Uo it, give me gas and steer me to it. I'm the slave of modern .progress—on..the job . (Copyright,'l923, NBA Servics; lije.) ' ~ 7
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Britain and every reference to the human weaknesses of the founding fathers. You further state Mr. Hirsehfield would take issue with a score of recognized American historians. Nothing could be farther from the truth This editorial is a mis-state-ment of facts and Is-misleading from beginning to end. “Started by Veterans” In the first place this investigation was not started by Mr. Hirsehfield, but by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, with a membership of more than 150,000 foreign service men. Charles Grant Miller of New York City was appointed chairman of the investigation committee. The report was submitted - to Mr. Hirsehfield, who
If Town of 14,000 V 7 WERE you ever in Huntington, Jnd.? If not, you may have heard something about this town. Suppose, when you picked up today’s newspaper, you read that the more than 14,000 people who live in Huntington had been killed overnight, every one of them. A sensation? Decidedly. People would talk about it for generations. Auto traffic accidents in 1922 killed as many Americans as the total population of Huntington—over 14,000. The auto victims were killed gradually, one by one, ahout thirty-nine a day. That’s why the year’s death toll creates less excitement than if the same number of people were killed simultaneously in one community. JF the entire population of Huntington, lnd. were killed off overnight or in a year, by any means entirely or even partly preventable, there’d be a great public reaction to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe. Spurred bv the disaster, even Congress would speed up to pass any necessary measures. For years the National Safety Council and other organizations have been trying to get established a uniform traffic code, or national traffic code, hut without success. Con-
STREET CAR QUESTION WILL NEVER BE SETTLED UNTIL VALUATION OF LINES IS DETERMINED IN SATISFACTORY WAY
Investor Unlikely to Risk Money in Home Town Company, This is flu* thirrl of a srrirs of articles on "What's the matter with the street car system." written by f A Flanrinu of the Times' Wsshw non bureau. By C. A. RAN'DAU. A PROPHET is not without honor, save in his own country. The same applies to traction companies, which today must do their financing away from home, A Kansas City investor may own stock in the car lines of Pittsburgh, but he's unlikely to risk h!s money on securities offered by his home city company. “The electric railway Industry as it now exists is without financial credit and is not properly performing its public function. This condition is th result of early financial misman agement.” it was in these words the Federal Electric Railways Commission reported on the fiscal difficulties of car lines. Seek Good Name Street car officials are making a concerted effort to win a good name at home. Companies are trying to float their loans in the communities where they operate and are trying so popularize the Idea of owned lines." But so hedged about with confusing tables of statistics, conflicting statements and biased reports is the question of street car operation that many people are Inclined to distrust traction officials. High salaries for traction executives were formerly the rule. Bonuses for pushing franchises through city councils were distributed with careless case by grateful boards of directors. The case of the late Theodore P. Shonts of the New York lines is typical. So pleased were Ids employers when Shonts signed a longtime contract with the oity authorities for supplying rapid transit on the basis of a 5-cesnt fare that they voted him a $25,000 bonus."
has only verified and given his approval to recommendations of this committee- The histories referred to were condemned not because they made favorable mention of Great Britain, but because they were antiAmerican. The committee found no fault with these histories as English history, but reported they were very bad American histories. ThC charges made have been indorsed and the accused books condemned in formal resolution unanimously adopted in their national convention by these great patriotic organizations: THE AMERICAN LEGION. DESCENDANTS OF THE SIGN ERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS.
Were Destroyed gresf, isn't enough interested. Neither are the people. Such a code wouldn’t prevent all the auto fatalities. But it. would help mightily. Keep this in mind. Back it. Tell your friends. VT/TIILE we are on the subject, it'd be an ▼ * excellent thing for every auto driver to keep in mind that the auto in America yearly kills as many people as live in Huntington, Tnd. More than 14,000! Will your car kill one of this year’s 14,000? Or will you be one of the 14,000 victims? Drive carefully, remembering that constant and personal caution is the greatest safety device. Pedestrians should exercise the same alertness in crossing the streets. Everything you do to help hold down the auto accident toll protects YOUR life as well as others. And if we don’t check this rapidly growing evil, it’ll wind up in a characteristically American reaction of extreme severity. If indifferent about your life, jav-walk. If indifferent whether you kill someone else drive recklesslv.
INDIANA EDITORS’ OPINIONS
Beveridge (South Bend News-Times.) The speech of former Senator Beveridge. denouncing the Harding plan ; for entrance to the international I court, may l>e taken as a sort of Indiana salute as the President leaves for his Alaska vacation. From a party standpoint, Mr. Beveridge is on very safe ground. One of the significant things about tne recent gathering here of Republican editors was the care and obvious effort made by Senator Watson to assure tlie rank and file that the Harding court would be so denatured as to be harmless. The address of Mr Beveridge differs. He coniCß out boldly and openly against any entanglement or any alliance with Europe or Asia in a permanent liody that would deal witn the question of territorial limits This country would still be a colony of Britain, had the matter been set.tied by the international court. Is the ; argument of Senator Beveridge. • • • Church (Lebanon Reporter) The relation of newspapers to the church is a topic of general discussion the country over, having now reached Indiana, at the capital city. One of the churches at. Indianapolis hod some newspaper men discuss this question. But, in the frank discussion it. was said that, the average newspaper is always ready to do its part In advancing the community, and this, likely, will be admitted. So. why should not the newspaper help the church work? The average newspaper man understands that the greatest force in the world is the church, most newspaper men belong to some church, and they want to see the church built, tip In every wav. m m + Taggart (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Thomas Taggart, the uncrowned king of Hoosier democracy, has given Governor A1 Smith to understand that no party can win by championing the cause of the wets. And those who know Mr. Taggart: have a high regard for his political sagacity.
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. Mathew Page Andrews is author of three American school histories which teach that our Civil War was caused by perfidy and broken promises of Lincoln. Not only this hostile theory, but almost the identical words Andrews has taken from Percy Greg's British “History of the United States,” published in London in 1887, and which is so bitterly anti-Anieri-can that it. never has been offered for sale in our North. Andrews, bold transplanter of bitterly anti-American history and defamation of Lincoln into our school histories, is a director of the English speaking union, one of the many British propaganda agencies busily operating in our country. Your editorial referred to recognized American historians. In this case they play the part of revisionists, for
GUESTS ON LEVIATHAN GET ‘LIT’ UP Thta is th third of a ai*n*a of daily ex | elusive wireless dispatches from Congress 1 man Whazzisname. leader of the Junket Bloc in Congress, who is aciximpanring the Joy rtdinr iunketcers on the Leviathan. !By CONG)' <MAN WHAZZISNAME Leader of ilie Junket Bloc AT SEA. ON THE LEVIATHAN, June 21 (via wireless.) —“Oh, a carefree bunch are we as vve sail on the deep, blue sea: Vo ho! and three cheers for the tax collector”—Old Sea Chanty. “Why ail this ribald noise?" I in quired from ex Chairman Lasker last night as th* song was wafted Into my cabin. "The boys are all steamed tip on grapejuice and are feeling happy," ho explained. “But one cannot get drunk on grapejuice.” I countered. “Ah,” chided “you betray your Ignorance of psychology—the power of mind over matter. Those hoys earnestly believe this voyage Is necessary to test out the ship: is it not possible, then, that they could believe grapejuice lias a kick??" “Oh, I see." was my response. “I. O. U.,” Lasker corrected ab-sent-mindedly, thinking perhaps of what the taxpayers will have to hand over/ More tomorrow. Editor’s Mail Shooting by Polh'cnien To the Editor of The Timet Your editorial expressing the opinion that the great majority of policemen do not use their pistols unless they must protect their own lives reminds me of a tragedy in Ohio, my former home. A policeman killed a burglar suspect who refused io halt. A neighbor “gadded" that, he had taken human life without t cause "just because he wore a blue suit." At the coroner’s Inquest, the officer approached the mother of the dead man and told her he had not fired at. her son until duty forced him to. The mother said: “You did your duty. My boy had strayed. He was arrested often. And now—now we know where he is. He will get into no more trouble.” Don’t you think this young fellow had evil In his head when he ran from arrest? M. C. B.
in the prefix of each history the committee found American school history “Revised.” “I Do Not Presume” Professor Van Tyne and Ward, two of the revisionists complained against, made reply in the New York Times. Professor Ward made this following statement: "I do not presume to teach your Americans my own interpretations of history; I present to them only what Lecky and Trevelyan wrote before 1914; what a score of Englishmen said in commons before the revolution, and Burk’s stirring analysis in his ‘Present Discontents,’ which has been undisputed for 150 years.” All these authorities are British. Here, then is a complete confession of teaching to young Americans the principles and purposes of the American Revolution, not as presented by
BOOTLEG HUMANS POUR IN Scourings of Europe Being Smuggled Into U, S, Despite Laws, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Timet Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Juno 21.—Unless a way can be found to stop them,- the rakings and scrapings of Europer and Asia will soon swamp this country. Under the 3 per cent law only 357,803 immigrants can legally come Into the United States in one year. On July 1 the quota for 1924 becomes operative and in a few weeks at most this will be about filled. But immigrants will continue to pour In just the same. Chinese. Japanese, the rag tag and bob tail of the off scourings of Europe—anybody who can beg. borrow or steal the price—can now be smuggled in with more or less ease. 300,000 Annually Officials here admit about 300,000 are now coming In annually in this way. And the practice is growing. Just before the war, when immigration was unrestricted, about 1,000,000 a year were coming in legally. This number will soon be reached, if not surpassed, through illegal channels, if precautions are not taken to prevent it. There aj-e regular agencies in Canada, Mexico. Cuba and elsewhere outsale the United States to smuggle aliens in. The fee ranges from SSO a head to SI,OO0 —or more. If the smuggler can get it. The Asahl. a Toklo newspaper, declares It has been discovered there sailors on Japanese ships have been doing a regular business smfuggling Japanese Into America. Waiting Chance In Mexico and Canada today there are about 30,000 Chinese and other orientals awaiting their chance to slip across the frontier. This traffic in human beings is an outgrowth of rum-running. If the great rum fleets or underground railways can get by with booze, they can get by with the rest. So reason the crooks.
TOM SIMS SAYS: THE only drawback to living at home is if you don’t eat it up you have it for the next n\eal. • • • Actress saying she has a perfect husband doesn't get her name in our paper with such foolishness. • 00 Palm Beach aviator hurt during take-ofT. Also, many bathers sun burned during their takeoff. • • • Henry Ford’s political machine seems to have a selfstarter. • • • Maybe a Pennsylvania man whose leg broke as a tooth was pulled thought the roots were long. • * • Just about the hottest baseball game recently was at Richmond, Va. Grandstand burned. • • • If you see a bootlegger sitting around crying he is afraid dry laws will go out of style. • • • Illinois woman insists dish washing beautifies hands. Many girls want mother's hand beautiful.
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American historians, but as interpreted by the English historians, Trevelyan and Lecky. The revisionists—not historians as far a-s American school histories are concerned—complained against are: Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, Prof. C. 11. Ward. David Saville Muzzy, Prof. Edwin Greenlaw, William Backus Guitteay, McLaughlin and Van Tyne, Willis Mason West and Everett Barnes, who now is under the old and honored name of A. S. Barnes & Cos., who for fifty years have published a brief hisotry of the United States which has stood as a sound authority as to the facts and spirit of our National ideals and progress. To prove that the patriotic organizations I have previously mentioned have a just complaint against the above named revisionists and the school histories, published under their name I submit the following: Hart teaches that patriots “were drawn into the continental army by money, bounties and promises of land.” and that “the colonists liked 1 o think of themselves as part of the Eritish empire. They were proud of being Britons. They were as well ors as any other people in the world.” Ohara denounces the Boston tea party as “wholly lawless destruction of property.” Os Washington, this so-called author says: “If you had called him an ‘American’ he would have thought you were using a kind of nickname. He and his fellow colonists were proud that they were Englishmen: they gladly and loyally served an English king because he represented the freedom without which they thought life not wor_h living.” Among the advocates of American freedom more than a score of Englishmen are copiously quoted, but the name of Jefferson does not appear, nor that of Hancock, Adams. Otis or Paine. Henrys are listed among the forces for liberty—Henry 111 and Henry VIII repeatedly, but never Patrick Henry. No Mention of Patriot# Ward declares “The American Revolution was a contest between German tyranny and English freedom.” Muzzy teaches that wisdom of a break with England was “a debatable question. Muzzey entirely omits mention of Nathan Hale, Anthony Wayne, Putnam. Sumter, Pickens, Marion, Stark, Sullivan, Knox, Commodore Barry, Sergeant Jasper, Light Horse Harry Lee, Molly Pitcher. Betsy Ross and the birth of the flag, the Battle of Bennington and Stony Point and many other heroic names and events that have thrilled and inspired the schoolboys and girls of our land in the past. Brandywine, Germantown and Valley Forge are grouped In two sentences. Paul Jones is put in one sentence. The story of Bunker Hill is compressed into seventeen insipid words. Guitteay denies the revolution was an event resulting from British injustice. McLaughlin and Van Tyne teach that “there fs little use trying to learn whose fault it was that the revolution began”; that the Declaration of Independence was largely plagiarized from an Englishman and that the United States Constitution is copied after the British constitution. West teaches that the English Colonial System was not tyrannical: that the war of 1812 was organized in blunder and was conducted discreditably.
As to Nathan Hale Everett Barnes teaches that “the first signer of the Declaration of Independence was a smuggler"; that the Continental Congress was made up of scoundrels; that the revolution was a party contest between neighbors and that the war of 1812 was a mistake. Nathan Hale, whose only regret on the British scaffold was that he had but one life to give to his country, is ignored in this “American" history, as are Ethan Allen, Mad Anthony Wayne and the Battle of Stony Point. There Is a full pags of praise for the traitor, Benedict Arnold. Now I confidently submit to any fair-minded American —yes, to any fair-minded person—whether American or British in sympathies, the simple, candid proposition that such representation of national heroes does not constitute honest history: that it is not designed to be accurate presentation of the truth; and that taught i the public schools, this sort of stuff must inevitably result in deadening of pride and confidence In the _ characters and principles of our Nation's founders: the poisoning of the springs of patriotism and the denaturing of national spirit and morale in the next generation. In Its Place There is no complaint against British history—even British history of the American Revolution in its place —but it’s place is not in the public schools of the United States. The right version for American youth is that of our fathers, not that of their foes. Friendship between the two greatest nations in the world, to be honest and secure, can be based only upon facts, past as well as present. Let ua advance together up the road of peace and progress, hand in hand, if we will; but not allow alien-hearted revisionists to set up lying historical guideposts to freedom. National headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 32 Union Square, New York Citiy, has caused to be printed a little booklet entitled "Treason to American Tradition," which gives a complete report on American school histories, and it will be mailed to any address for six 2-cent stamps to cover cost of printing.