Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROT W. HOWARD. Preident. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr. Member of the Scripps Howard Newspaper* • • • Client of the United Press. United News, United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scrlpps Newspaper Alliance. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-2$ S Meridian Street, Indianapolis. * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONES —MAIN 3500

BOARD OF HEALTH BUDGET THE city board of health is asking an increase of $314,830 in its annual budget. Undoubtedly there will be a protest. There always is when a city or any other governmental department asks for an increase in appropriations. Perhaps such a protest will be justified. Only a close study of the facts will decide. But there are some things on the board of health budget that appear to be absolutely necessary. Among these is an appropriation for new ambulances. Lack of ambulance service in Indianapolis has amounted almost to a scandal. Persons requiring speedy medical attention should be served at any cost. There has been much talk recently concerning the necessity for a psychopathic ward at the city hospital. Certainly the treatment of the insane could be improved. Our jails still have in them insane patients who are confined like prisoners because they can be taken care of in no other way. If a psychopathic ward will relieve the situation surrounding the treatment of the insane, let’s have a psychopathic ward. BLESSING MAKES WISE MOVE COMMISSIONER EDGAR M. BLESSING made a wise move when he stepped out of the Indianapolis Water Company case. He has relieved himself, the commission and every one else concerned of considerable embarrassment. Mayor Shank probably went considerably farther than facta warranted in his insinuations concerning Blessing, but nevertheless Blessing committed an indiscretion when he accepted the invitation of Clarence H. Geist, president of the water company, to visit him. It is not customary for judges to have social engagements with persons whose cases are pending before them. The change in the handling of the rate petition is merely in the nature of a change of venue. This practice is common in the courts and is no reflection either on court or party to pending action.

OBSTACLES ALONG YOUR PATH WE do our best work under difficulties, the same as an army puts up its best fight when trapped in a corner. No songs ever were written, no orations delivered about an army that had easy picking. Heroic deeds —really big accomplishments—are staged by the warriors who win in the face of desperate odds, such as the handful of men holding the mountain pass or trench until help arrives. A good thing to keep in mind, when our obstacles seem beyond our powers to handle them. It’s the working of a natural law. Farmers and amateur gardeners often wonder why crops can’t grow as prolifieallv and with as much strength as weeds. This is the answer: Weeds grow wild, with no helping hand, and they have to fight hard for existence or perish. They fight hard. That’s why they survive. Take a garden. The vegetables receive almost constant aid from man. They are. in eifect, pampered. Through many generations they have come to “expect” this outside aid, in the sense that by having this aid supplied to them they have lost much of the natural vigor and initiative of vegetable life in the wild state. , Progressively, as you take the obstacles away, the garden truck becomes weaker in ability to compete for existence with other growing things. So with all of us. Obstacles are sent to make us fight, thereby developing our powers, our strength. Carveth Wells, explorer, blazed a railroad route through Malay jungles. He and his crew hacked their way through the dense wild growth. When they returned, months later, they found that the surveying stakes which they had driven along the path had grown up into tall bamboo trees. That wouldn’t happen with domesticated trees, accustomed through generations to being pampered and aided, and thereby weakened. The bamboo, forced to struggle in competition with millions of other specimens of plant life in the dense jungles, had built up a tremendous power of growth and victory. You find the same thing in the far North, where short summer seasons make the struggle for existence so acute and intense that vegetation grows with almost asparagus speed, and spilled grass seed even sprouts in the cinders along railroad tracks. Compare this with the trouble you have growing grass on your lawn. You have observed how rats and mice flourish and multiply as a reaction to being constantly hunted. So on, all through the animal kingdom, man included. Success of the able, like survival of the fittest, necessitates a hard struggle-—obstacles galore. PREMIER BALDWIN wants a larger air force. That’s another way of saying the House of Commons is too small. • • * FREQUENT RAINS eliminate dust on State roads—headline. And make the detours impassable. • ft ft WATER COMPANY seems to be attempting to put a drink of legal liquid in the same price class with the illegal variety. • ft • PRICE OF WHEAT is the lowest in years. And the price of bread is almost as' high as ever. • • “WHO Is Who in China?” says a headline in the Los An. geles Record. All right, we’ll be the goat. Who is? • • • SOME DAY soon the few survivors of the automobile epoch will get together and have a reunion. ft ft ft THOSE Turks had better abandon war entirely and stick to diplomacy, wherein they are winners. ft ft ft MR. DEMPSEY may have failed to knock out Mr. Gibbons, but he certainly hung the kibosh on some of the promoters and Shelby, Mont. ft ft • AMERICA is certainly interesting itself in European affairs. There are 250,000 of us touring over there now and blowing money. " - - .1. ft ft ft FRENCH will stay in the Ruhr, says General Gourand. If it doesn’t a lot of generals probably will find themselves out of jobs. ■ • ft ft C. H. GEIST. president of the Indianapolis Water Company, says he is chewing cherry twigs instead of smoking. Next tthing we know the reformers will be cutting down th 6 cherry trees and pointing tp Washington as a great example.

BOOZE POLL FINDS WETS IN MAJORITY Those Asked Readily Admit Buying Liquor in Violation of Law, C. A Rand&u. author of the following article, is a member of this paper's Washington staff. He was assigned several week* ago to find out how prohibition is being enforced and to report the liquor situation generally without "trying to prove anything other than to present the facts This is the last of a series of six articles. By C. A. RANDAU ONE-THIRD or more of the passengers who travel on the Congressional Limited, the bestknown train running between Washington and New patronize bootleggers. Thirty-six people on the train which left Washington on the afternoon of June 19 informed the writer they regularly bought liquor in violation of the law. According to Conductor H. G. Duvall. the Congressional Limited on that day carried a total of 129 passen gers. Os these about ninety went from Washington to New York, while the others got on Or off the train either at Baltimore or Philadelphia. The questionnaire, which was given to all passengers who boarded the train at Washington, and to some who boarded at Baltimore, had as the first question: "Do you favor the Volstead act as at present written?” The vote was: Yes, 16. No, 79. Os the seventy-nine who voted "No,” slightly over one-half, or 41. favored the Eighteenth Amendment, but desired a less rigid enforcement act permitting light wines and beer. Repeal of both the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act was favored by thirty-eight. "Do you patronize a bootlegger?" j was the next question. Half Confess Sixty persons made a direct answer. Os these, thirty-six frankly declared they bought whisky and other liquor illegally. The question "How does your present liquor bill compare with what you spent before prohibition?” brought a variety of answers Some said their bills had dropped to zero—that they had made no purchases since January 1920. Others said they were now spending ten times as much as formerly. Os the thirty who answered the question, nineteen said they were now spending more, the increase running from “slightly more" to “ten times." Seven answered they were spending “about the same amount" and four found; their bills had decreased. "How did you establish contact with your bootlegger?” was the next ques tion. Among the answers were the following: "He sent me letters and circulars." "I am approached by strangers and acquaintances bootlegging every' day." "Get it from a friend. I am third party in deal." "Through the policeman who pa trols my home neighborhood.” "Through my banker/' "He calls for orders and delivers." "Asa result of constant solicitation.” Bellboys Are Mediums

"I am a traveling man. Always , got it through bellboys or hotel por ters Have never yet failed to get it. j but once had to make three attempts In one hotel In the West before I j got it.” Under “Remarks" both the wets and \ the drys went to bat. Among the 1 comments were “I never drank before i the eighteenth amendment wa. j passed.” 'T believe we should have some sort of prohibition law. Possibly a I less rigid law which should be uni | formly enforced.” “Prohibition does not exist. but ! graft and disregard for the law do."i "Prohibition in time will prove one ! of the greatest blessings the world j has ever known.” "Repeal the law and put the sale of all liquor under direct Government, control with heavy tax —some Cana dian provinces offer good examples.” Os the ninety-five persons who an swered the questionnaire, seventeen were women. Os the seventeen, only one favored the Volstead act and similarly only one favored repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Eighteen favored light wines and beer. The answers were all returned in sealed envelopes, and were without means of identification. The passengers on this train do, not represent a true cross-section of the people of America, but they do reflect the opinion of great numbers of well-to-do city dwellers.

A Thought

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds—Prov. 27:23. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. —Cervantes. Points Made by Poets We! what do we see? Each a space Os some few yards before his face; Does that the whole -wide plan explain? Ah, yet consider it again: —Clough.

Heard in Smoking Room

One by the Business Manager. THE Pullman smoker was held up by a wreck between Columbus and Dayton and soon was jammed with newspaper business office boys en route to a conference at Cincinnati. Somebody cracked a joke on ‘‘Moving Day,” when a northern Ohio business manager related, towit: A man who had been hanging around his club all day, finally, about 6 p. m., yawned and said: “Oh, well, guess I'll go home. The wife's moving today and if I don't get there, I I won’t know where I'm going to sleep.” One of his friends exclaimed: "Why you big loafer, why didn’t you stay home and help her move?” “No, not me. I did that once, and never again. I stood around willing to make myself useful, but I seemed

THE LsDiANiLrULiS TIMES

Ships By BERTON BRALEY When you see a ship, an American ship, That’s riding the open sea, When you watch her clean bows, rise and dip And her pennant flying free; If you have ever had Yankee pride In even the least degree. You’ll thrill, as over the surging tide In glorious majesty, You see a ship, an American ship, That’s riding the open sea! Have you ever heard the gallant tale Os clippers of Yankee make, That never were known to shorten sail However the storms might break? Oh, those were the days when our (lag unfurled Wherever the ocean rolled, And American ships sailed 'round the world On argosies manifold. "Five million a month,” they say, “we lose By, sailing our ships today; Let’s junk the vessels and fire the crews, For It certainly doesn’t pay.” Well, maybe they're right—but somehow' I Am tempted to disagree, When I see an American ship drive by In the spray of the broad blue sea. And I say, "Five million a month is cheap Or that’s how it seems to me To keep our ships on the rolling deep With their brave flags flying free; American ships, American ships American ships at sea!” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Questions Ask The Times Answers You cao gel an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 N Y Avenue. Washington, h. C. inclosing 2 cent* in stamp*. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or paper#, speeches, etc., be prepared Unsigned tetters ca inot be anawered. but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Edttor. How is lime produced from limestone? The best lime is yielded by the densest limestone, the. quality of the lime depending further upon the duration of the heating process and the degree of heat to which the limestone is subjected. The heating process is carried out in kilns, a good draft being required to render It effectlve. How can one bleach a Panama hat? Wash the hat clean, and while slightly damp expose It to the fumes of burning sulphur In a closed vessel. Has any Filipino been graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis? j Yes, Jose E Olivares of Iloilo, P. |I , recently. He stood first in the : subject of modem languages In a ; class of 414 graduates and nlnety- ; ninth In order of general merit in | tbile class of 414. although he was i handicapped by months of serious 111i ness during his course. There hre two other Filipinos at the academy at present, Emilio M. Ilataga and B.’envenldo M Alba. What causes the heat inside a beehive? The movements of the muscles of the hundreds of bees produce heat, which raises the temperature of the air in the hive. The chief source of animal heat is to be found in the aei tivity of the muscles. What is the swimming speed of the common seal? Ten miles an hour. ; What is the average depth of j the sea? Two-and-one-half miles. What is chalk made of? Almost pure carbonate of lime, but mixed sometimes with various mineral Impurities. It Is made up of the broken skeletons of mollusees, sea lillies, sea urchins, and the like, but escpecially of the shells of settle of the simplest of living creatures, belonging to the group of the one-celled animals or Protozoa, and included in the class Foraminlfera. How should turtles be fed? With .a little raw meat, lettuce or other greenstuff, and small Insects. There is a regular turtle food made of dried insects on sale at most drug and animal stores. At what temperature does Kerosene freeze? 40 degrees below' zero. When were eats first kept as pots? Were they known In the Stone Age? Stone Age man boasted no "household,” hence he had no cat. When the cat’s domestication actually began we do not know, but it had very definitely established itself with the arcient Egyptians of the XX Dynasty (about 1000 B. C.) How old are the Big Trees or Sequoias of California? The rings on one of the trees numbered 2,425, and had therefore begun its existence 525 years before the Christian Era.

to be in everybody's way. My wife scolded me and called me down, and finally said, 'Well, for heaven's sake, why don’t you do something; pick up something and carry it over to the other house?' “So, in my excitement, I grabbed the grandfather's clock and started up the street with it, but it was pretty heavy, so I had to set it down and rest. Then I would pick it up and carry it a little farther and rest; make another tackle, carry it a little farther and rest. I noticed a drunken man following me. Every time I would stop, he would stop, so I stopped and said to him: " ‘Well, what the devil are you following me for?' "He stretched himself, looked at me blear-eyed and said: 'Say, Mister .(hie), why the devil don't you buy yourself a watch?' V

FARMERS IN INDIANA ARE LAND POOR Louisville Bank Patronized — Fletcher Shows $10,331,811.84 in Mortgages. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, July 17.—The Indiana farmer is borrowing money from the Federal land bank in greater amounts than farmers in some other sections of the country. Whether this means the Indiana farmer is in worse financial condition or that he is learning to utidze the government farm banks more rapidly is a question. It is significant, however, that the land banks which have greater total loans than Indiana are in sections of the country where the financial condition of the farmer is bad. The Louisville bank had total net mortgages on June 30, 1923, amounting to $68,301,211.71 # The St. Paul bank had the highest mortgage total, $90,233,450.94. Only St. Paul, Omaha. Houston and Spokane had greater mortgage totals than Louisville. The Fletcher joint stock land hank at Indianapolis had net mortgages of $10,831,811.84. Banks in only Chicago, Kansas City. Lincoln. Redwood Falls, Minn., and Dallas surpassed this total.

TOM SIMS SAYS: WISH tfiis hot weather didn't work on Sunday. • • • German passive resistance Is in the active voice. • • • We will not have anew world war, but several nations are trying to make the old one over. • • • A Cleveland man who stole an auto for a joke has nothing to do for thirty days but laugh. ft ft ft Friday is one of the seven days on which diving into shallow water is said to be unlucky. ft ft ft Very few husbands slap their wives twice. Everybody in the movies seems to be a star. . . . In Seattle, a crazy man thought he was Harding, but of course he was only mistaken • • . Don’t get mad at the grocery man. He has only dun unto you as others dun unto him. • • • Next to home the worst place on earth to be is away. • • • VTiat this country needs is a law against men wearing coats. ft ft ft A June husband tells us he has been married a month and hasn't washed a dish yet. ft ft ft Nature cares for animals. You never see a goldfish fanning.

Animal Facts

Man at Calallen, Texas, breeds queen bees and pockets $50,000 a year out of it. White-throated pack-rat builds elaborate forts for defense. One burrow near Tucson, Ariz., has several entrances, each of them guarded for several feet around with carefully constructed harriers of cactus Joints bristling with needle-pointed spikes. You can imagine a wise coyote or fox jumping into that mass to nab a pack-rat. "It is a far cry from the highest to the lowest of the human race,” says W. T. Hornaday, veteran doctor of zoology, "and I hold the highest animals intellectually are higher than the lowest men.” Professor Allen of Cornell captured a ruffled grouse and nursed, fed and petted it like a mother to tame It. At the end of a year, the drummer boy of the woods was as hopelessly wild as at the beginning, and Allen gave the bird Its liberty. Before lowa protected quail by law, two men hunted Bob White for ten days on a 400-acre farm and took the bag limit of fifty per day, yet the birds wouldn’t leave that farm. It was their home, you know. Rocky mountain pika, or "chief hare,” Is so small and weak that he's not abl- to build a nest in soli which the gri tly or wolf or marten coudn't easily t g up. So pika burrows down into Ik '3 of great rock slides, where it would take Brother Grizzly days to reach him. , -

Observations

"Mr. and Mrs. Blank," says a society item, "announce to friends the arrival of a baby son.” The arrival may be news to the friends but there ain’t, no news in their both knowing about it or in the son being a baby. Down East capitalists are talking about importing elephants to do heavy work and relieve the labor shortage about mills. Oh yes! Elephants to do the heavy work and camels to do the heavy drinking of water.. “God save the mark.” Germany can't. Ex-Emperor Bill, describing his life at Doom, says he reads a little, writes a little and walks a little —that’s aJI. It's lucky for him that he doesn't think even a little.

There’s a Pin to Prick Every Bubble

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Indiana Sunshine

J. W. Thompson. Marion has cultivated an odd variety of flower called "Christ in the Manger." A web in form of a cradle appears in the center. It blooms but once a year, opening out about midnight. C. W. Camden is the first to attempt to grow tobacco in this State on a commercial scale. He is trying the experiment near Columbus, where he has planted sixteen acres. Boosters of the Home Hospital, Lafayette, decided at a luncheon at the First Christian Church, to conduct a campaign for $400,000 to put the institution on a first-class basis. A reunion of all World War veterans in northern Indiana and southern Michigan is being planned for Aug 29, according to an announcement made by Dr. H. N. Martin, com mander of the Hammond-Gary post of the American Legion. Ralph Anderson Clinton and William Gilfoy, Liford. embarked in a trusty, but slightly dilapidated flivver. Spark Plug, for regions unknown. They don't even know when they will return. Thomas and Nell Bailey. Covington, were at swords points In a divorce case Thomas fell and broke his leg. Nell became compassionate. She returned to care for him. Now they are living together happily. The National Order* of Widows, Widowers. Maids and Bachelors, organized by George Guge. Loganaport, will soon have chapters in many Indiana cities, Guge says. Clang, clang—brazen ringing of a burglar alarm at the Jenkins jewelry store. Richmond Rush of police. Crowd gathers. Investigation reveals no burglars. Short circuit caused all the excitement. Workers for the new Methodist Hospital at Ft. Wayne have secured $27,259.60 In campaign funds.

Editor’s Mail

■ Editor of The Dally Times: , • The Times is to be commended for I the correct way in which It suspended the American flag on the outside of Its | building during the reunion of the | Rainbow Division last week. It Is unfortunate that in the State* i house, and I understand the CourtI house, and also some hotels and on so many public buildings downtown, there wero so many desecrations of the American flag. The flag was twisted, knotted, festooned and rosetted in all kinds of ways by decorators, as if it were j merely an old rag. or at best was treated only as a piece of bunting. The regulations of the War Department, and alsd the Universal flag code adopted on June 15 on request of President Harding in Washington by sixty-eight patriotic societies, provides that the flag, when suspended on a wall, either inside or outside a building, whether perpendicularly or horizontally, should always hang flat and open and Its field of blue should appear in the flag's ‘upper right-hand corner, that is to the observer's left. The only exception is where a flag is suspended between buildings across the street, when for the purposes of uniformity, the field of blue should be to the east or west. We believe that merchants have no desire to have our American flag desecrated as it was last week in so many instances, but we believe that if their attention is only called to this matter they will Insist upon it that decorators follow the universal flag code adopted by both the United States War Department and now by one hundred patriotic and fraternal organizations throughout the country. The July 6th edition of the American Region Weekly publishes the entire flag code on how to display it and how to respect it, and also numerous illustrations, which ought to be obtained and studied by patriotic citizens generally. E. SHUMAKER, National Patriotic Instructor, Sons of Veterans. Yells Jones took his ten-year old boy to have his tooth pulled. “Five dollars, please,” said the dentist when he’d finished. “Five dglldrs!” exclaimed Jones, “Why, I understood you charged only one dollar for such work.” “That’s right,” replied the dentist, “but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared four ether patients out of the office.”

Greeting GEN. HENRI JOSEPH EUGENE GOURAUD, the onearmed French hero of the Champagne offensive, who visited Indianapolis last week, paid a call on former President Wilson before leaving Washington. Wilson, it seems, desiring to welcome the French Genera', appropriately, had descended to the reception hall to greet him and Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand when they called. As the butler threw open the door, admitting the party, watchers outside saw the bristling bearded Gouraud clasp the former President in a hearty one-armed embrace and bestow a resounding kiss on each,cheek.

Laughs

“Hoosit.” A housewife relates overhearing this conversation between her girl and the one next door: "How are you, Katje?” "I’m well; I like my job. We got cremated cellar, cremated plumbing, elastic lights and a hoosit.” "What's a hoosit, Katje?” "Oh, a bell rings. You put a thing to your ear and say, 'Hello,' and then something says 'Hello,' and you say ‘Hoosit.' ” Dari’s Love Grows. "I’m afraid you do not love me any more—anyway, not as well as you used to.” "Why?" "Because you always let me get up to light the fire now.” "Nonsence, my love! Your getting up to light the fire makes me love you all the more.”—Watchman Examiner. The Family Culture "John, the cook says she is going to leave.” "What's the trouble?” "She says she's used to working for cultivated people and she can’t stand our line of phonograph records." — Boston Transcript. Sister Edith's Voice I've decided Edith shall have her voice trained in Europe. That would be ‘wonderful: But isn't there some place in Asia? — Judge. Mother’s Vacation Plan “Dear, if you’ll get a car, I can save a lot on clothes during our vacation this Rummer.” “How do you mean?” “Well, you see. If we go to one hotel. as formerly, I’ll need seven dresses, whereas if we have a car I can get one dress and we’ll go to seven hotels."—Boston Transcript.

Science

A recent medical survey of the various ills afflicting mankind shows that there is nothing at all mysterious about acquiring the common diseases. Most of these common diseases formerly were supposed to come through Inhaling germs, especially as to colds and coughs. It has now been ascertained these, as well as many other diseases, are not due to inhaling germs but are infections carried by their hands. Therefore frequent handwashing will reduce the rate of sickness of a community more surely than any other procedure. Handshaking is a certain way for the spread of sickness. This custom, unless followed by careful washing of the hands before food is conveyed to the mouth, may easily causp the rapid and serious spread of disease.

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What Editors Are Saying

Sumter (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Governor A1 Smith of New York hasn’t been heard from since he went up against the Mt. Sumter of the Indiana Democracy at French Lick. For that knocked his little scheme for secession into a cocked hat finally and immediately. New York’s impudent assumption that she thinks for the United States and really is the United States has been bumped before and It will be again. The wets of that alien center who try to force the country to accept their Imported doctrines are going to get Just what the draft rioters got and get it in the same fashion. ■!• -I- -IPublicity (Lafayette Journal and Courier) Our modest judgment on the Charles D. Hilles “campaign” against Henry Ford is that the thing probably will become merely publicity for Mr. Ford. If we were advising Mr. Hilles we would gently suggest that he retire to the tag and uncut and keep out of mischief. We have yet to be convinced that Mr. Hilles is a political genius. We have here in Indiana. in every voting precinct, political experts who are able to “run rings around” Charles D. Hilles when it comes to working out a political problem and doing it right. -I- -I- -I* Cheaper (Frankfort Crescent-News) The Anti-Saloon League should get busy in Indianapolis. The high water rate proposed by the water company will drive everybody to booze as a cheaper drink. -I- -|- -|- Greatest (Marion Leader-Tribune) “The greatest message I can bring home,” said George M. Kleder, Marion man, after a 35,000-mile trip around the world, “is that America is the greatest country of them all. None compare with this land of ours in any way.” Every schoolboy ought to remember this, for Mr. Kleder has seen many lands and has had an opportunity to observe conditions. He speaks from experience. He tells of the regard for the American dollar, and the fact that it commands respect and will open any door in the world, for It is king of them all. It is too bad that thousands of radicals in this country can not have a trip to Europe at this time. They might profit considerably from the experience, for if they have sense enough to grasp the significance of things around them they would understand how well off they are In this country. -I- -I- -I* Blessing (Richmond Item.) If there is anything certain in this world, it is that prohibition has been a national blessing. Since prohibition was adopted, right here in Richmond, the deposits In our banks have amounted to about one-half as much again, as this generation had saved up to the time of the change from wet to dry. In five years our people had saved, under prohibition, about half of the total that they had saved In the thirty wet years preceding. Our city Is growing as never before. Our workers are earning money as never before, in most Industrie*. The prosperity is so unusual, so amazing, that the doddering old Jeremiahs, stunned by the contrast, say that "it can’t last.” But It has shown no -signs of breaking down, as yet.