Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1923 — Page 4

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“PLEASE SIGN HERE” f/-N jNE man already is trying to have his name removed from i the petition intended to block the school building program in Indianapolis. He admits he did not realize the seriousness of the document. Another says he “didn’t pay very much attention to the remonstrance.” Another says “The school board proposes to give contracts without competitive bids.” This is the type of rempnstrator who seeks to hold up school building construction in Indianapolis, who may force your children to continue to be housed in abandoned dwellings and frame shacks. At least two of the signers were not clear as to what they were signing. They were busy and somebody told them the thing to do was to sign, and so they signed. Another does not know any more about the way school buildings are contracted for than to say the school board proposes to let contracts without competitive 1 ' > does not know the school board could not possibly do tu.. .ns may have been one of the arguments of whoever it was that circulated the petition. A few Indianapolis taxpayers are going to find that remonstrating against school improvements is mighty unpopular business. Indianapolis parents will obtain school buildings. Fourteen or fourteen hundred remonstrators are not going to prevent it this time. The public is aroused. RAILWAYS OR TOLL WAYS SWICE in interviews recently, Henry Ford has declared there should be a single National railroad system in place of the network of jerkwater financial corporations which take toll along the Nationls highways. Ford says in Colliery’s. Weekly that the Government seems to oe th< agency in his opinion with powers to establish such a systt*.. Also that it looks as though the Government would do so presently. Ford takes the attitude that the Government may not know it is going to take over the railroads, but that in doing so, it will be fulfilling merely the prophecy in the handwriting on the wall. _ Which is very interesting. In a country so large as ours, with so great a population depending, for its very life upon the railroads, it takes but the simplest kind of economics to see the folly of running the railroads as a hundred or more separate units, each fighting for profits for itself and nothing more. It is plain that it is waste to keep cars idle on sidings in the East when they are needed to carry food from the West, and idle in the South when they are needed carry fuel in the North, and so on, merely because the cars are supposed to be en route back to the roads that own them. Railroad executives who believe so devoutly in private ownership and*management may denounce Government management as inefficient until their last pound of steam is blown off, but they will find nothing in the much misrepresented inefficiency of the United States railroad administration during the war which can compare td the economic waste of private management which actually works the average box car but a few months or so out of each year., It is a pretty safe guess that the American people, no matter how much they realize the need of this unified railroad system, will not consent to its formation by private individuals without great restraint. To do so would mean a trust with a stranglehold on the Nation such as Wall Street in its palmiest days never conceived. It is an equally safe guess that the unified railroad system is coming sooner or later. Henry Ford, himself a railroad owner, realizes that, and says sooner. Shippers, generally tired of paying tolls to the railroad exploiters, understand that it will come and hope, sooner. Likewise more than half the public. And the other half will see more clearly when the smoke screen of propaganda set up by the private railroad exploiters has blown away. Then we will have railways instead of toll ways.

AMERICAN LEGION’S FUTURE IHORTLY after the war ended, the American Legion had i*3 I about 850,000 members. Officers of the legion, at national headquarters in Indianapolis, admit membership has fallen off greatly. Following the war, the legion was recognized as a powerful force, particularly in politics, national, State and local. Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant, asserts the legion today is stronger in cohesion and spirit. What of the future ? “Some of that sentiment which surrounded the returned soLdier immediately following the war has gone,” says Bolles. “The people found out the soldier was just a human being, but a pretty £ood fellow who had been bettered by his war experiences. That War enthusiasm went and in that way the legion is not so 1 tryng, ” Bolles admits the mere fact that the boys served together in the World War will not keep them paying dues. The soldiers' organization following the Civil War continued strong because of its influence in politics. On three occasions at ieaA, an effort has been made by the politicians to throw, rope and tie the legion. Bolles adds that the legion could not be controlled, politic ally. “TL’J legion has for its objective the improvement of American life,' 1 he says. “We are to make this a better country to live in.” / The legion has gone in for community activities, building community houses, developing playgrounds and swimming pools, improving the roads, and so on. In a national sense, the legion is going to fight immigration, even opposing powerful industrial influences in the country demanding greater immigration. The bonus or adjusted coafpensation? It will be passed by the next Congress without the legion being forced to make a fight for it, Bolles predicts. MORAL: Read the remonstrance before you sign it. • • • ORDERS to arrest loafers fail to stop burglaries—deadline. How about an order to arrest burglars! * * aSgfTHAT cut in the city tax levy indicates Mayor Shank some|Hes acts as well as talks. m W IT will soon be time for Indianapolis children to go back to Rie little frame school buildings, old houses, churches, etc.

YOUTH WILL AGAIN RULE WASHINGTON 'White House Boys' First Young Blood at Mansion in Ten Years, By FLORA G. ORR Times Staff Correspondent 7773 ASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Once more, after an interval of ten JLU years, youth will reign In the White House. John Coolidge, 17 years old next month, and his brother “Cal, Jr.’’ who is almost 15, will soon run the old mansion. Going back to the time of Lincoln, one remembers the stories of little “Tad” Lincoln, who was 8 or 9 years of age at the time. He Is said to have spent a good deal of time driving a pair of goats around the White H6use grounds. There were the five grandchildren of Andrew Johnson and one 14-year-old son. “Buck” and Jsse Grant drove to school every morning in a little wagon drawn by Shetland ponies. Races in East Room Little Fanny and Scott Hayes were reported as sweet, well-behaved children. Not so, young Irving Garfield. He would bring in all his playmates to have bicycle races in the East Room. Once In the middle of a big reception he coasted down the staircase on his wheel, flashed past the paralyzed spectators, and went round the East Room In a circle. President Arthur’s young son. Allan, was a student at Princeton when his father occupied the White House. He used to surprise his father by appearing for breakfast casually, and without warning, leaving college for a few days whenever the inspiration seized him. The firs tthing he would do would be to order a team of horses from the White House stables, and then he was off to call on some girl. Allan loved horses —and girls! First Christmas Tree President Benjamin Harrison had the first Christmas tree in the White House for his grandchildren, the little McKees. One day his favorite grandchild climbed upon his desk and touched In succession all the electric bells All the White House attendants came rushing in to see what was the matter. Stories of the Roosevelt children are still fresh in every one’s mind. Quentin's pranks included everything from bringing his pony into the house and up into Archie’s sick room to shooting out all .the street lights around the White House grounds with his air rifle. Taft's sons and daughter were all of college age when their father occupied the executive mansion. Neither the Wilson or the Hardings brought any children to lighten the White House regime Both, however, were very fond of children. Os the two Coolidge boys, a family friend. Mrs Frank W. Steams, says: “They are Just very fine, sweet, industrious boys. John, the older. Is of a mechanical turn of mind, while Cal’ is more studious. Lessons come very easy for Cal. Last year cersburg Academy, his rating was second in a class of 200. Cal Is working cn a tobacco farm this summer. “John is at Camp Devens for the summer. His mother has had one letter from him since she arrived In Washington. It made no comment on the fact that his father was' now President of the United States."

A Thought

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.—Prov. 29:20. C r ~~ OMMON fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. —Swift. A Date in History For the first time in history, the United States flag (at half-mast) floats over the houses of the British Parliament. Should King George die, would we raise the British flag over our Houses of Congress? We surely ought to do it. Not in token of respect for any title or of any Individual, but as a tribute of respect and sympathy of one great people for another. The Eagle poised over the den of the Lion! The touch of the spirit that makes all men kin. The gleam of hope brightening "Brotherhood of Man,” writ upon the clouds of the heavens. Poor, weak, groping civilization! Why can we not be honest, loving brothers at other times than when we meet to sadly look upon our great dead? Nut A business man In Italy said to B. L. Winchell, president of Remington Typewriter Company: "You have shut out our wines by prohibition, you have shut out our oranges, our lemons, our almonds, our grapes and our laces by high duties so that we have left little that we can export to you, and then finally you have passed Immigration laws so that even our labor cannot go to your country for employment. Why should we want to buy American products It we can avoid it?” There are easier jobs than being a foreign trade salesman.

Heard in Smoking Room

Af~~“ S THE train came to a stop. after hitting a cow, one of the *— fellows in the smoker rushed out to view the horrible remains, and returned, presently, saying the bloody sight “turned his stomach.” “Speaking of punichment for morbid curiosity,” said a Chicago banker, filling his brier-root, "Lyman J. Gage used to tell one on a fellow we'll call Smith. "Smith's tremendous inquisitiveness made him a nuisance everywhere, but It was really a disease. One day Smith was riding in the Pullman when, at a way station, a little old whiskered man with one leg hobbled in and took the seat In front of Smith. Smith’s curiosity went to boiling. How about that leg? How waa it possible to get the old man into talk that would lead up to all about that missing leg?

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'|)OM SIMS | - - - Says <<[7 I IKE a trip to hell,” says a Boston minister of bathing 1 I beaches. Others, however, say heaven. * * * “America must save the world/’ says Wilson, and we suggest starting on our wheat crop, * * * “,We are afraid of what we can’t see,” says Annette Kellerman; none of us being afraid of her. * * * "Rich men’s sons won’t work like I want them to work,” says Schwab, the last six words being six words too many. • • * “Auto is an insult to everyone but its owner,” says Albert Payson Terkune. Often, we add, it even insults its owner. • • A. Duck of Toronto was injured by a robber’s bullet. Duck, it* seems, didn’t duck. • • * Mike Jergovich of Detroit says he robbed to pay a fine. Jergovich is in the jugovich. * • * A floorw’alker in Wichita, Kas., not only acts like a Russian prince, but really is one. % • • At last the president of the Bachelor Maids of Atlantic City has managed to get married. • • • New England telephone strike is off. The girls failed to get the right number this time. • • • Please hold your breath during the coming elections in Ireland. • • * Los Angeles ministers say, “Hello, haven’t I married you before?” • • • Two girls who robbed Diminiek Natarnecola in New York w r ere not after his name. • • * England and France are two nations as mad as if one was taking lessons on the cornet.

T rom the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE

Ice Cream Americans eat J 213.000.000 worth of ice cream in a year, the government reports. And that’s only the wholesale price. By the time this frozen delicacy is dispensed in cones and other retail forms, the national Ice cream bill must average $25 a year for a man and wife with three children. Ice cream was discovered by accident. a little more than 100 years ago. by a darky chef named Sambo Jackson. You never can tell how much good or evil will eventually result from an accident or mistake. It’s a good thing we make mistakes occasionally. Power The Invisible force that holds the earth to the sun Is so powerful that, to replace it artificially, would require covering the whole earth with earth-to-sun strinds as large as telegraph wires and only half an Inch apart. And even these wouldn’t stand the strain with any margin of safety. The Christian Science Monitor furnishes the information. This force of gravity w-hlch holds the earth to the sun has been harnessed by man only in a small way. GenluSes who might have harnessed it on a big scale fiddled away their time with "perpetual" motion machines. Brain The Intellect is not in the brain. It is in our finger tips, eyes, ear drums, ttc. A novsl idea, advanced by Professor Howard of Northwestern University. Asa matter of fact, the intellect isn’t Inside the human body- at all. Abraham Lincoln's body has gone to dust, but the force known as his intellect is more alive and active now than it ever was when Lincoln was liallve.” Eventually nothing remains of the human being except thought. Life Is a mental condition, so is death. Three-Mile Returning from Europe, the president of the Remington Typewriter Company says: “Great Britain Is becoming irritated over our trying to extend the right of search l>eyond the three-mile limit. British business men fail to see how wines and liquors scaled In the hold of vessels where th3y are Inaccessible to Americans can affect local conditions, especially in a community where liquor is'so freely obtainable as in New York.” The European viewpoint is thafc our purpose, in refusing to allow return-voyage liquor to enter our ports, is not so much a matter of prohibition as to enable dry American ships to compete with wet foreign ships. Daughter’s Tire Trouble An old sea captain was reproving his daughter for being out late In an automobile with that ’lubber,” as he called her beau. “But, father, W’e were becalmed,” she exclaimed. "You see the wind died down In one of the tires and we had to wait until It sprang up again.” —Montreal Gazette.

“Pretty soon Smith, leaning far over the back of the old man’s seat, said: ‘Don't you think that Kansas looks prosperous along this line?’ ‘Yes,’ snapped the old man, and Smith settled back in his seat. But his blamed curiosity wouldn’t be denied and again he leaned over aifd said: ‘Don’t you think the country aiong here needs some rain?’ “ ‘No!’ snarled the old man, and again Smith subsided, but he couldn’t stand it long, and soon said: ‘Mister, if I might, I really would like to know how you lost your leg.’ “ ‘Well,’ replied the one-legged one, ‘if you’ll promise not to ask me one more of your damphool questions, I’ll tell you how I lost my leg.’ “ Agreed!’ said Smith, his curiosity delighted with the prospect. " ‘Well, then,’ said the old man. ‘it was bit off.’ ”

‘PUNCH AND JUDY, SHOW STILL LIVES I V Ancient Attraction Will Draw Crowd in Scotland ( Cities, By JOHN W. RAPER ' ANYWHERE IN SCOTLAND—An old-fashioned “Punch and Judy” show in an open space alongside the National Gallery In Edinburgh on a Saturday evening held 300 spectators In great interest. The crowd laughed heartily when Punch hit the Impudent Satan with a club and shouted, “Right in the bread basket!" Not far away was an entertainment for charity, given by folk from Lenth and Newhaven, on auto trucks. Four children in kilts danced to the music of a bagpipe. Each of the dancers wore at least a dozen medals won In dancing contests, and one boy had not less than forty. The Newhaven folk are of Scandinavian origin and wore brightly colored costumes of the ancient days of the country from which they sprang. Burns was a day or two ahead of us In a piece of slang. In the original manuscript of one of his letters to a patron he says. “Allow me then, my lord, to tell the world how much I have the honor to be your lordship’s highly indebted and ever grateful humble servant.” A “health food store” in Edinburgh has a show window containing books entitled “How Not to Grow Old,” “Vegetarianism Vindicated,” “Fruits, Nuts and Vegetables," etc. There is a sign, “Warmlte Repels Influenza." The Scotch take good care of their old bridges. On the old bridge at Dumfries is a sign cautioning folk not to push wheelbarrows across it. At Majpvelltown, across the from Dumfries, they’ll gladly show you the house In which Annie Laurie lived. But they don’t insist upon your believing it. The florists don’t use the undignified "Say it with flowers." Their signs say, “Flowers express it. better than words.” I went through the cathedral at Aberdem with a 78-year-old native of that city, who had spent sixty-five years of his life there. It is said to be the only granite cathedral in the world Part of it was built lri 1386, part in 1522. It was the first time he had gone through the cathedral. “And but for you I probably never should have gone," he said. Next—ln “Merrie England” now Jack Raper finds the native heath from which sprung the anoertral lines of hundreds of thousands of Americans, old Y’orkshire County.

Family Fun

Squash When Garfield was president of Hiram College, a man brought up his son to be entered as a student. He wanted the boy to take a course shorter than the regular one. “My son can never take all those studies,” said the father. “He wants to get through more quickly. Can’t you arrange it for him?” “Oh, yes," said Mr. Garfield. “He can take a short course; it all depends on what you want to make of him. When God wants to make an oak He takes a hundred years, but He takes only two months to make a squash." —Christian Register. What Little Son Gets “Mother, do ther-est giraffes?” ”1 don’t know, dear. I suppose they do in some countries.” "Gee, mother! Think of their little boys getting the neck!" —Boston Transcript. Read This to the Butcher Butcher —My son—the one that used to help me in the shop here—he’s gone in for boxing. Won a championship, too! Customei—Ay, I remember him. I suppose he’ll have won the lightweight championship?—London Mall. Not Little Sister's Worry “Nancy, I'm afraid, darling, you're eating so much chicken you won’t have any room for dessert." “Oh, ma, the chicken can move over a little.” Father a Camera Fiend “GoodneSs, John! How queer the baby looks. I believe he is going to have a fit!" “By George! I believe you are right. Where is my camera?”—Oregonian.

Observations

On July 29, the records show, 29 automobilists in the east tried to beat trains to crossing—and failed. It is said that the Philippines are a land of many kinds of language. Perhaps Gen. Wood may now be able to verify this statement. Once n awhile, the voice of Jimmy Cox m y be heard issuing from beneath those 7,000,000 votes. Volstead has gone to Europe too. Largely we could account for the others that have gone over, but Volstead puzles us. Dr. Henry Van Dyke says we have lost the art of conversation. He’s ixobably been listening to two automobilists discussing their respective cars. Alaska may be made a state to appease its state of mind. Mr. Ford is 60 and hitting on all of ’em. Stung again! A scientist has discovered the busy bee loafs about 50 per cent, of its time. However, it is a 50-50 bird—he admits that. They tried dog races up in Michigan, but so many goats were attracted the police had to interfere. Those mine fellows ought to have known a wage scale could be agreed on at Atlantic City only by men with scales over their eyes. ® After life’s fearful brews many sleep well and long.

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can gel an answer to any question of fact or information by wriun* to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 N Y. Avenue. Washington. D C fHcloeing 2 cents in stamps Medical, 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 ail letten are confidential, and receive personal replies Editor. Was there ever a State of Franklin in the United States? In' 1834 the east Tennessee counties endeavored to form the State of Franklin. Congress however, would not recognize them as independent of North Carolina. Later North Caro# lina ceded these counties and other territories to the Federal Government and the State of Tennessee waa formed, f What kind of wood is used to make aircraft propellers? Various kinds, including mahogany, oak. cherry, walnut and poplar. Wha* is a good Latin motto for an architect’s club? Perhaps the following will do: “Faber est quisque fortunae suae." The translation is. “Every' man Is the architect of his own fortune." What is the proper way to leave the silver on the plate at the close of the meal? When the meal is finished the knife and fork should be placed close together side by side, with handles toward the right of the plate. What Is a dish served “ala Bearnalse"? This means meat or fish served with a sauce of chopped onions and yolk of egg mixed with vinegar oil or butter and seasoned to taste. Why did the Confederate States mr>4|p their capital to Richmond? The border States were those on the border between the free North and the pro-slaver:/ South. They were slave States, but In each the white population was greater and was increasing much more rapidly than the slave. Socially, these States were more like the South. It was. of course, eagerly hoped by the Confederacy that they would come into the movement, and every possible influerice was brought to bear to bring about that result. Virginia, however, was the only bordef State that went .over to the Confederacy. Virginia joined the Confederacy in April; North Carolina in May, Tennessee and Arkansas in June, while large portions of Kentucky and Missouri also cast In their lot with the secessionists and sent delegates to Confederate Congresses. The accession of so much territory north of the lower Southern States added greatly to the enthusiasm of the South and caused the removal of the Confederate capital from Montgomery to Richmond.

Who the “mad priest”? John Ball, a priest actively concerned in the Wat Tyler insuirection in England. Is referrerd to by Froissart as "the mad priest of Kent.” According to H. G. Wells it was in the preaching of John Ball that England first listened to a declaration of natural equality and the rights of man. His doctrines were summarized in the old rhyme: “When Adam dalf and Eve spam. Who was then the gir.tilman?” (When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?) He was executed at St. Albans, England, on July 15, 1381. , Are there any volcanoes in the United States proper? If so, what are their names and where are they? We assume you mean active volcanoes. There is one which has been active within the last few years: Lassen Peak, in northern California. There are a large number of dormant volcanoes in continental United States. Is It proper to send an acknowldgment of a wedding invitation as well as to send a present? It is proper, but not necessary. A present is in itself an acknowldgment. If you do write, congratulate the man, and wish the young lady happiness. Is President Harding the first President whose father survived to sale him inaugurated? No. The father of John Quincy Adams was alive at the time of his son's inauguration. What does Mizpah mean? "The Lord watch between me and thee when we are separated one from the other.” See Genesis XhcXl, 49.

Just Making It Harder, for Him

Cobb By BERTON BRALEY There still is pep in every step, In body, brain and nervej of him, Within the fount of* youth he’s been immersed; The pitchers still must fear his skill And dread the speed and Verve of him. His eighteenth season’s better than his first! He’s no whit of strength or grit, The blithe insouciant air of him Still keeps the other teams upon their toes; .nfield and out when he’s about. The players must beware of him, For what he’s gonna pull nobody knows. \ lesson, this, we shouldn’t miss. A lesson in sobriety. In keeping fit and healthy for your job; Hence time can’t pale nor custom stale < The infinite variety, The vim and zest of Tvrus Ravmond Ccbb! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Animal Facts

This is the season when you will easily find a tree or a bush in your yard, or anyway in the neighborhood, which is inhabited by numerous caterpillars, those hairy larvae of the butterflies or moths. And If you are willing to stop a little while, you 11 be quite likely to observe an Interesting incident in natural history. * While watching your caterpillars, keep one eye on the lookout for a lady wasp. When she arrives, keep both eyes on her. First, she picks her prey and then flies to his leaf. Instantly the caterpillar realizes that the world is coming to an end and begins to curl up. In a moment, however, Mrs. Wasp springs on him and like lightning hands him two stings, first in the neck and then halfway down the body. Dr. Fabre, the greatest insect naturalist of the last generation, says there are no haphazard stings: that they are carefully placed so as to paralyze the victim, but not result In his death. The wasp's next task is to convey her heavy’ trophy to her home, ■which she does after many a hard tug and pull. Then she lays an egg on top of the helpless invalid and, having performed what she considers her paramount duty to the world, she brings wet mud in tiny dabs and builds a cell around the egg arid its paralyzed but still living bed. The for stinging the caterpillar so that it will not die now appears. If it died, the body would quickly decompose and disappear and no breakfast, dinner and supper w’ould be left in that sealed cell for the nourishment of Baby Wasp w'hen he emerged from the egg knd felt the need of something substantial. So the unhappy victim lives and lives until the egg hatches, w-hereupon the young wasp begins to eat him alive! That precocious infant first devours the fatty parts and then he reaches the point where he changes Into lusty adulthood, he tackles the rest of the body, including the vital organs, until presently there is left not even the “core” of Mr. Caterpillar. Being lonely. Young Man Wasp now breaks out of the mud cell and proceeds to hunt up a young lady wasp upon whom to lavish his affections.

Valentino Rodolph Valentino shows the reporters that he wears tan silk suspenders. He wants it known that he is an Italian, not a Spaniard, his real surname being Guglielmi. Valentino gets from 2,000 to 3,000 letters a day from the fair (sometimes unfair) sex. With a million women a year writing to hjm, we wonder what would happen if he ran for President. Men, who have as one of their chief functions the task of "selling” themselves to the Only Woman, should study the psychology employed by Valentino. He is a “wise bird” and as clever a press agent as Barnum’s Tody Hamilton. World Kept On Going The Emir of Asir is dead. Yet hardly any of us knew he was sick. Where is Aslr, anyhow? About one in 100 could name the continent it’s on, let alone the particular spot. It is south of the Hejaz, on the Red Sea, not very far from where the children of Israel crossed the sea on dry land. So strong is human pride, it is likely the old ruler imagined the whole world revolved about his particulax person and country, yet he was dead for weeks before anybody outside Asir heard of It. That’s fame.

SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1923

What Editors Are Saying

Organize (Frankfort Crescent-News) The Rensselaer Republican carried an interesting story a few days ago of a farmer’s wife who thirty years ago marketed ten pounds of butter for which she received 80 cents. She traded it for some groceries and had to pay the merchant 58 cents difference. After thirty years she comes again with ten pounds of butter, according to the Republican, and sella the ten pounds for $3.40, and bought exact/y the same articles she had purchased thirty years before, and after deducting these from the price of the butter, she had 98 cents left. That was good. Bat the moral to that story is not what the Republican seems to have regarded it. It is no use trying to kid the farmer. He knows what is the matter, and has done some figuring himself. The moral to that story is organization. It ■will be noticed that woman received but 8 cents a pound for her butter thirty years ago. This year she received 45 cents. There were no creameries thirty years ago. The butter is now made by creameries wiio have organized the business so that farmers get a good price for either their cream or their butter. But for this good-priced butter made possible by the creamereies that woman would have beep worse off than she was thirty years ago. The moral is for farmers tc organize and systematize in other lines. Dairying is paying well now. -I- •!- -IJaywalking (Muncie Press) The Press has received a communication which while commending it for its Incessant campaign against automobile speeders, says that enough attention has not been paid to careless pedestrians. There is much to be said on this point, as every driver of a motor car knows. The commonest experience is to observe a man, woman or child stepping almost directly into the path of the car. Now, no automobile. even if running slowly, can stop instantly, and if the pedestrian happens to be struck. The machine even though running aa slowly aa possible may kill the one struck If it pass over his body in such a way as to crush him. It is not always, although It is generally, the speeding car that does the most damage. -I- -I- -]- Marketing (Lafayette Journal and Courier) One sound fundamental success In business is to find a market, make sure what is needed and to supply that article when It Is most desired. This applies today to the farming business. It means diversified farming just as it means diversity, intelligence, alertness and timely shifts In all other lines of business. If the supply of wheat exceeds the demand It is good business to turn the land to other products for which there is a good demand and of which there Is a short supply. In this way the producer better serves his public and does so at a fair return.

Science

The majority of people believe in thought transference, mental telepathy and mind reading. Science does not entirely deny these things, because there may be truths in them beyond the present methods of research. But science says there is no known case, under proper methods of observation, where a single instance has beeni>roved. Science admits suggestion and auto-suggestion and a certain definition of hynotism. Therefore, it is possible, although not yet proved, that there may be laws of nature governing phenomena that come in the realm of mental telepathy. Astrology, palmistry and phrenology are now known to be fake scienoes. They still have thousands of followers, however. The case against mental telepathy is still open, although the evidence, thus far, is against it. The strongest argument in its favor is a list of 300 cases of what may be thought transference, compiled by a French scientist of the Paris Observatory. Father at His Tailor’s "Shall I make an extra pair of knickers with the suit?” “You might as well. My wife will be sure to wear them.”—Judge.