Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1923 — Page 4

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9 : The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BCHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers • • Client of the United Press, United News, United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Seripps Newspaper Alliance. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos„ 25-29 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • • • Subscription Rates: tndianapolls—Ten Cent* a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * • • r PHONE—MAIN 8500.

AS TO “IMPUDENCE” EARING on the petition of the Indianapolis Water ComH pany for increased rates has been concluded. Verial attacks and defenses have been completed and expert witnesses have told their stories and made their calculations. The public service commission now has before it the difficult task of determining what is to be done. Citizens of Indianapolis put up a harder fight than they ever presented in a utility rate case. They matched the company, expert for expert, and argument for argument. There is a wide difference of opinion between the company and representatives of the consumers. This has to do largely with valuation. Each side is right if its basis is to be accepted. The commission must decide whether to accept either of the valuation theories or to adopt a third one. It has plenty of precedent for doing almost anything. ’ To the layman who has followed the progress of the case ©ne thing stands out more clearly than anything else. That is the fact that the company is, on its own admission, prosperous; that it always has been prosperous, and that it merely is making an attempt to increase its profits. The public is so used to seeing utilities appear before the commission contending they are losing money that the spectate of a highly prosperous utility asking for increased rates takes on the aspect, as Taylor E. Groninger, corporation counsel, already has put it, of “impudence.” SMOKE WAR VOLUNTEERS TT] ROPOSAL of the Scientech Club, Society of Engineers, ofl sering free services of its members to serve on a smoke ordinance technical committee, is an encouraging sign for good government. Political leaders must beware when citizens evince enough Interest over the success of a plan that they volunteer services without compensation. Action of the Scientech Club probably is inspired by the past misfortunes of other cities where no civil service commissions or qualifying bodies have passed on the qualifications of candidates for the office of smoke inspector. Chicago, until formation of an advisory smoke board l em ployed a'former florist to administer the intricacies of a smoke ordinance. Cincinnati, where unusual success has been attained in reducing the smoke evil, had a former store clerk and a politician for smoke inspectors until the present practical engineer was obtained through approval of a civil service commission. It would be about as efficient to hire an undertaker to lay bricks as to have some ward heeler of a political regime tell Indianapolis what kind of furnaces Mr. Citizen should install in his home and what methods are best for reducing smoke.

OUR CO-ED VS. THE HAT BOX T"7IISS AMERICA is going to college these days. The large enIVI rollment at Butler College, where 635 girls and 557 men are registered, is testimony of this tendency. Remember the time when girls—few of them as well—went exclusively to girls’ private schoolst It wasn’t so long ago, either. Growth of co-educational institutions is an encouraging sign for future citizenry. More girls demand careers. And in preparing for them, more girls are learning knowledge for the ballot box, instead of the hat box. The men at Butler may be pitied by some. But athletic Standards have not suffered. Co-ed supremacy in numbers at least has not handicapped physical prowess and skill of the “stronger sex’’ on the football field and on the basket-ball floor. CONVENTION HAUL AND FUNDS E ANSAR CITY newspaper has started an argument. It says that in a year’s time that city has been host to 220 convenwith a total attendance of 175,000 persona. Minneapolis newspaper replies that with a big convention hTI such as that possessed by Kansas City it could do as well. Here is the claim of Indianapolis, based on figures of the Chamber of Commerce i During the current convention season Indianapolis will be host to 200 conventions, with an attendance of 300,000. This without a big convention hall and without a special convention fund, both possessed by Kansas City. Indianapolis conventions are fewer, but the attendance at Individual gatherings is larger. This is because Indianapolis is •o easily accessible. If Indianapolis had a special convention bureau, an appropriate fund and a convention hall adequate to handle national gatherings, there might not be any conventions left over for either Kansas City or Minneapolis. EGYPT has exhausted her immigration quota for fiscal year fending June 30, 1923. Egypt’s quota is four. AUTOMOBILES exemplify the statement that a vast number of people cannot read the signs of the times. SECRETARY HOOVER’S idea, boiled down, seems to be that the regeneration of Europe must be left to another generation. AMERICAN kids and grown-ups consumed 263,529 gallons of ice cream last year. This would make about 1,581,174,000,000,000,000 portions of the size served in our cafeteria 1 . V POSTMASTER GENERAL last week resumed postal money order relations with kingdom of Bulgaria. Next day the kingdom blew up. No blame attaches to Harry New. AUGUST automobile and auto truck production passed the 334,000 mark, again breaking all records for the month. That means great opportunity for inventors to make a permanent roadbed, one strong enough to stand the pounding of these trucks’ wheels. WASHINGTON’S new Senator is named Dill, while the latest congressional victor from Spokane bears the name of Hill. Both are Democrats. Dill and Hill, lik; Jack and Jill, together now we see. They represent what the folks out West think of the a. o t P. i

FAMILY IS DIVIDED FOR HAPPINESS Actor Says Love Is Ruined by Intimacy and Separation Is Remedy, By NEA Service HTT] EW YORK, Oct. 3.-—la love IN I ru i ne< i by the Intimacy ot l —* family life? Can a family more easily find happiness by dividing—separate households, two roofs? Richard Bennett and his wife and three daughters, facing these problems, throw custom to the winds and say: "Yes!” “Love?” says Bennett, noted actor. "That's exactly why we’re separating. Our family is splitting three ways because we love each other —not because we don’t. We’re dividing so we’ll be a happy family—so everyone will have a square deal. It’s a radifcal experiment in equality—which ought to begin In the home.” Bennett says clashing temperaments are responsible for this new theory of family love and housing, which has just been carried Into effect, and which eclipses In novelty the matrimonial experiment of one-breakfast-together-per-week tried by others. Constance With Mother “Constance, our oldest daughter, now 18, Is moving into one apartment with her mother,” he said, “Barbara who is 17, Is going with me into another four blocks away. And Joan —she's 13 —Is already in boarding school. “There’s my wife—Adrienne Morrison, as she Is known professionally. A good actress as well as a good mother. Do you suppose I want her worried with the care of a large establishment, playing ladles’ maid to three girls old enough to look out for themselves, and waiting on a selfish husband? No, I don’t. “Constance Is older," he continued. "Barbara has an inferiority complex. When you develop a strong nature In one member of a family, someone else has got to be yielding. That’s the law of averages. Can’t Manage Hep "Constance goes her mother because — well, frankly her mother manages her better than I can, for I can't manage her at all.” He laughed, indulgently. .“And I’m taking Barbara to bring her. out,” he went on. “When the family unites, as It will, of course, Barbara Isn't going to lace anybody’s shoes or run errands. I’ll guarantee that. “Joan Is better off in boarding school, learning to depend on herself, than to be at home copying things she is too young*to know about and being pampered by her parents. "Meanwhile, Barbara Is to appear with me In the same play. Mrs. Bennett is rehearsing In another. And Constance has become fired with ambition and Is looking for a Job. So we all expect to work this winter—and work Is the real secret of happiness.” By the new arrangement, Mrs. Bennett gets 60 per cent, of the family Income and Bennett gets 40.

Editor’s Mail The editor Is willing to print view* of Time* reader* on interesting: subject*. Make voir comment brief. Sigrn your name as an evidence of good faith. It wifi not be printed ts you object.

To the Editor of The Timet Allow me to congratulate you on your editorial of Oct. 1, "Sure Cure for Speeding.” Asa citizen of Indianapolis I am interested In low enforcement and If we have to come to the time to put chain and ball on the criminal "leggs,” let’s do so. Especially on the speeders and bootleggers. S. SCHUCK, 805 N. La Salle St. To the Editor of The Timet I noticed In your paper a piece written by Thomas A. Stokes, United News correspondent. In regard to the remedy for high price of clothes, and I beg to ask Mr. Stokes why he Is trying to deceive the public in the manner In which he has, as It isn’t style altogether that causes the high prices. It Is the high tariff and the labor unions that cause the high prices, not styles. FRANK METZGER, 8933 College Ave. Animal Facts Western Americans who know cotton tall and Jack rabbit as pests will be Interested to hear that carcassses of those animals arrived in eastern cities In barrels and are sold at wholesale for 76 cents a piece and down, according to weight. Now Is the time when Mr. Toad hunts a winter home. In making his house he digs lustily with his hind feet only and pulls the loose dirt back on top of himself with his tore feet, so that no sign Is left on the outside. He sleeps five months or more. Dr. C. B. McNary, superintendent of Caswell Training School, Kingston, N. C., keeps a phonograph humping In the barn because, he claims, music makes the cows give more milk. Butter Girl, the cow, dropped from 348 to 316 pounds of milk, one week, when they cut out the tunes. Bulls weighing from 28,600 to 2,900 pounds live in southern Italy, where they are used as beasts of burden. Stockmen are planning to bring bunches of them to Texas and New Mexico. Next thing we know we’ll have beef steaks as big as mother’s company tablecloth.

Heard in the Smoking Room

a _ _|JLES,” said the stockman | y| who was In the smoking room 1T *1 to chew rather than smoke, "are all that they are pictured and then some. It is true, ap well, that they heed only vigorous and picture esque language. Even the latter alls at times. A man from Youngstown, Ohio, was out driving his car In the country one bright afternoon. He came upon a mule, lop-eared and stub-, born, standing in the mifdle of the road. On a mound at the side a colored boy was lnduetrieusly whittling

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Around World On SSOO

By NEA Service S 1- EATTLE, Wash., Oct. 3.—Antonio Locatelli, famous Italian ace, holds a commission from his government which gains him audience with military chiefs of America, England and France. But he traveled

steerage aboard the President McKinley on his way here froru the Orient. Locatelli la out to win a wager that he can make a circuit of the globe on only SSOO expense money. The Italian was the first man to fly across the Andes. He performed the feat just before the ■war started, flying from Buenos Aires to Valparal-

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so. During the war he distinguished himself In the service of his country, and around this one flyer as a nucleus Italy built up a corps of air fighters which made themselves feared over the Austrian lines In the rugged heights of the Alps. Locatelli has toured India, China and Japan. After his jump across the United States he plans to go on to Europe to complete his long Journey on the SSOO and win his wager.

&M SIMS | -/- -/- Says

| INE handicap about being poor I/'A le you get shot Instead of | | being sued for breach of promise. ** * / The only hard thing about saving a dollar Is you have to keep on saving It every day-. • • • The weather man could vacate next month and leave a three months' supply of cold predictions. • • • Wv can’t decide whether to buy an auto or use the money as a first payinmt on anew suit • • * It' easier to get the wrong phone number than the right one because there are more wrong ones. • • • Two-faced people are so busy looking In both directions they can’t see where they are going. • • • Being a movie star’s husband must be a nice life, but there is no future in It. • • • When a man with but a single Idea gets there he hasn’t enjoyed the trip very much. • • • After everybody gets well educated there will be nobody left to do our work for us. • • • Married man tells us he is assistant head of his house. • • • Palntlfcg a car or a faoe never kills the knock In the engine, • • • Light words often carry more weight than heavy ones. • • • Too many people will give three cheers for something they \Von’t give anything else for. • • • The height of foolishness is the high cost of living. • • • Just before a man worries his wife to death she hopes his next wife Is a good pistol shot • • • Twenty years ago today there were more men than women being arrested for bigamy. 0 0 0 We have safety pins, but no safety pens. • • • Injured feelings are cured quickly by kicking them out the door. • • • Babies are harder to keep than autos, but they go farther. • • • Many a coat lapel gets one of these school girl oomplexions. • * • It Is about time for the women to put on their woolen beads. • • • An ideal husband is a man who gets his weekly pay every night. • • • Talk may be cheap, but cheap things don’t pay. • • • Two can’t live cheaper than one, but they can keep warmer.

Science

The strangest of all living creatures in the class of mammals are three animals that live In Australia. Mammals, as a olass, do not lay eggs and they suckle their young. These three Australian creatures do boih. Apparently they are the connecting link between modern mammals and their reptile ancestors. These animals are the duckmole, and two varieties of anteaters. In many respects they show their close relationship to reptiles. They have varying temperatures and are coldblooded, like Bnakes, and their eggs are similar to those of reptiles. The duckmole lives near water and grubs in the mud for small animals. It can swim and dive and can also burrow somewhat like a mole. It has clawe as well as webbed feet and has Jaws like the bill of a duck. Tho anteaters live among rocks and burrow In the ground, very rapidly, in search of food.

the branches from a pood-sized sapling. It didn’t take the man more than a second, to size up the situation. He knew what that mule had done and what he was going to get In a few minutes. ‘My boy,’ he said to the colored lad, ’You should not whip your mule. You should talk to It.’ “ ’I know, boss,’ replied the boy decisively, ’but Ise done talk to thlsyer mule ontwill Ise jas’ nachl’ly all wore out and I kalnt think of no more langwidge ter say.’ ’IA

FARMERS IN lOWA ASK FAIR DEAL He Is Dissatisfied and Discouraged and Hopes for Economic Miracle, Harold C. Place, editor of the Dee Moines New*, traveled 1,000 mile* over lowa country road*. Interviewing more than 200 farmers In their homes, their field*, their barn*, their hog lots—wherever he could gain audience with them. His object was to find out what Is the matter with the farming business. This Is the first of six articles in which he tells what he learned about thla serious economic and political question. By HAROLD C. PI ACE mHE farmer of the Middle West Is still restless a 1 and dissatisfied, and will remain so until he gets what he terms a “square deal.” The farmer, generally speaking. Is discouraged, but not hopelessly so. He is stunned and bewildered by his uncomfortable situation, but he Is not quite clear as to how he got there nor has he any definite idea as to how he is going to extricate himself. For the most part, the farmers axe inclined to depend upon the Farm Bureau leaders to rescue them from hard times. Those who do not belong to the Farm Bureau Federation live In hopes some political or economic miracle may be worked to place things on a more equitable basis. Legislation Not Cure-All * His reaction was manifest first In the political field because that was the most obvious and most immediate method whereby he might register hlrf dissatisfaction. He still has a lot of faith In the virtue of political action, but realizes legislation is not the cureall for the agricultural Ills existing. The mental status of the fanner today, however, Is improved over a year ago. With the possible exception of the farmer who Is relying entirely on his wheat crop for revenue, the farmers of the Middle West, buoyed by steadier and higher prices for corn, hogs and cattle, are feeling a trifle more optimistic. Wheat Price Minor Factor The low price of wheat, while serious In the extreme northwest, is really a minor factor In the situation. Its importance has been over-em-phasized when considered in relation to agriculture as a whole. Wheat represents only about 6 per cent of the total value of farm products. The statement that the farmers of lowa and the Middle West are bankrupt and penniless Js false. They may be hard up, but the are not broke. Generally speaking, the farmer is doing little buying. His purchasing power has been diminished to a point where he is only buying the actual necessities of life. One exception to this general condi tlon may be noted. The farmer Is continuing to buy automobiles. He believes the automobile to be a necessity In his business and. somehow, he finds the money to afford one. WUI Break Even The majority of the farmers In the Middle West, outside the wheat belt, will Just about break even financially this year, while some may make a little money. Obviously, the chief trouble of the farmer Is he receives too little for what ho sells and pays too much lor what he buys. Farmers want prices equalized, but they are not sure how this can be done. There is considerable resentment concerning the high wages being paid labor In the cities. Occasionally, however, you will find a far-seeing farmer who has analyzed hts situation, such os Ira Baker of Sac County, lowa. “The farmer who stops to think,” Mr. Baker told me, "must realize the laborer must be well paid In order he may have money to buy the products of the farm. We ought not to begrudge the laborer the money he can command.”

, Indiana Sunshine

Indian Unlverstlty 00-eds of 1867, the first year that women students were admitted, wore bobbed hair. A picture has been found in Bloomington proving the faot. After a reoent community picnic, members of the Rush County Child Welfare Association took the surplus food and distributed baskets to sick and needy t througr>ut the county. Cltlzsns donated automobiles to deliver the food. Bound for South Bend with a two |on truck, loaded with 264 eases of alleged ,real Canadian beer, Dudley Grayson was halted by a Mishawaka policeman. Grayson denied knowledge of the contents of the cargo, stating he understood It to be doorknobs and automobile windshield wipers. There’s a certain town In Indiana that organized a bridge club. When a name was desired it was called "The Pink Cats.” Anew club sprung up and not to be outdone called themselves the “Homesick Horses.” Everyone hopes there is no third club organized.

A Thought

Him that cometh to me I will In no wise cast out.—John 6:37. _'* • • IGHT Is the task when many ___J share the toll.—Homer. Wives Eighty-seven out of every 100 wives omit, their husbands in their Insurance policies and leave their money to some ether relative. According to an Insurance expert In Philadelphia. His explanation is that the wives feel If they die their husbands can take care of themselves and don’t need money help. Nevertheless, it’s a queer bit of psychology that makes a wife decide against leaving her money to her husband because he doesn’t absolutely need It. The answer probably is that the money usually Is left to a child or dependent parents. Things that seem “queer” on the surface usually have a simple explanation. Life In Its various ramifications Is simple, after all, not complicated.

It’s About Time He Was Finding a Better Way

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You cn re. on answer to any question ot t act or Information by wnttnx to ths Indlanapoli* Time* Washington Bureau. 1352 N. Y. Avenue, Washington, I). C . Inclosing 2 cent* In stamp*. Medical. Wal. love and marriage advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or paper* •peeehea, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letter* cannot be answered, but all letter* are confidential, ind receive personal replies.—Editor. During the summer an actor was killed by lightning while on Long Island beach. What was his name? H. M. S. Bert Savoy, female Impersonator. Should a young lady walking with two young men walk between them or should she walk on the Inside? Between them. How many stars are visible? About 6,000 with the naked eye, and over 60,000,000 through the most powerful telescopes. What Is a good scratch mixture for hens? A good mash? Two parts cracked corn and one part oats, while a mash of three parts corn meal and one part meat scrap will be found very satisfactory. Where do we get the picture of Christ? There In no authentic portrait of Christ. Each artist paints his own conception of Christ, though a general type has become conventionalized to a large degree. How were the following measures established: Yard, foot, acre, Inch, quart? A yard Is sold ito have been established by Henry I, who ordered that the ulna, or ancient ell, which corresponds to the modern yard, should be the exact length of his own arm. Foot was originally taken from the length of a man’s foot. The word signifying a man’s foot Is used in almost all the languages to denote the linear measure ofter. to twelve Inches. The word acre Is from the Latin ager, a field, originally an open space without reference to size. The word acre now' ha* a definite area. Inch comes to us from the Latin "uncla," the middle English, lnche, and the AngloSaxon, ynce, or ince, meaning onetwelfth of a foot. Quart Is from the Latin quartus, a fourth. A quart Is & fourth of a gallon. What is the name of the Instrument used In the United States Army to give warning of an Impending gas attack? It is called a “rattle.” It Is sometimes spoken of as a "gas rattle” in the Army. What is meant by “Tom Tiddler’s ground?” This Is a contraction of Tom the Idler’s ground, thus, "Tom t’ldler’s ground." It Is a common expression In Hertfordshire, England, for the garden of a sluggard or a person too Idle to pull up the weeds. When were mirrors first, used? Probably for ages after tho civilization of man commenced, the still waters of ponds and lakes were the only mirrors. We read In the Pentateuch of mirrors of brass being used by the Hebrews, while It Is known that mirrors of bronze were In very common use among the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and many specimens are preserved in museum- Praxiteles taught the use of polished silver for mirrors in the year 328 B. C., and polished mirrors of obsidian, or natural glass, were used by the Romans. Mirrors of glass were first made at Venice In 1300, and Judging from those still In existence they were very rude contrivances compared to those of modem make. What have been and will be the total eclipses of the sun visible somewhere in the United States during the present century? Total eclipses ht*V been or will be visible In 1918, 1928, 1926, 1946, 1954, 1979, 1984, and 1994. How many women in the United States are gainfully employed? According to the 1920 census, 8,549,511. What is the population of Russia? The 1920 figures were: European Russia 98.887,923 Minor Areas 21,404,746 Siberia 8*267,825 Associated Republic# tf,495,492

The Exile By BERTON BRALEY So you’re from Home? Weil I’m sequestered Way down here mid the southern seas In Lotus Land—though somewhat pestered By ants, mosquitoes, snakes and fleas'. And lazily the days go flitting, And mine’s a cinch, beyond a doubt But tell me how Babe Ruth Is hitting And how Ty Cobb Is making out. Afar from all the silly capers Os politics and business strife, Afar from telegraphs and papers I’m living here the simple life; It’s soft and pretty I am sitting With azure waters all about, But —tell me how Babe Ruth is hitting And how Ty Cobb is making out. I wanted peace—and I have found it, I wanted ease—and ease Is mine. This island with white reefs around It, Beneath the equatorial line. And yet I do not mind admitting I get right curious about How many home runs Babe Is hitting. And how Ty Cobb Is making out. You’re going Home, whe#e newsboys bellow And strident Klaxons split the air. Where life’s a scrap—you lucky fellow! I wish I, too, were bound tor there. But when my contract’s up, I’m quitting. I’ll beat it with a joyous shout, And see myself hotv Babe Is hitting And how Ty Cobb is making out! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Ino.) Family Fun Worse Once a friend of Mark Twain’s was conversing with him regarding a terrible affliction of a person known to them both. The friend said: “Can you imagine anything worse than having diphtheria and scarlet fever at the same time?” “Yes,” replied Mark; “I can easily imagine some tilings worse than that —for instance, rheumatism and St. Vitus's dance."—Exchange. Tell to the Teacher Everything was wrong In the class of elocution. The teacher was discouraged. and he urged his pupils, In some excitement, to put more expression into their recitations. “Too flat!” he exclaimed. "Too colorless! You can do better than that. Try again. Now! Open your mouth and throw yourself in to It!”—Judge. Ma’s High Society Cold "My cold is so bad, I’m almost past going!" “Well, you won’t do anything to get rid of It!” / "Henry! I’ve already explained to you that I got this cold from Mrs. V ander hoof! ’ ’ —J u dge. Not for Old Bon "Ben, I’ll give you ten dollars to have your picture made In the cage with that lion.” "No, suh, boss, not me.” "He won’t hurt you; he hasn’t any teeth.” "Maybe so, but I ain’t going to ba gummed to death by no old lion.”— Atlanta Constitution.

Observations

If Thomas Riley Marshall runs for President on a good-nickel-cigar platform he’ll smoke some of those other fellows out, you betcher. Also, the French said of the Germans In the Ruhr, “They shall not passive.” And they're not going to any more. The Baldwin Works are turning out a locomotive a day. They have to do It to meet the demands of the genus that is born every minute and tries to beat the train to the crossing. Charlie Chaplin announces he has abandoned the art of throwing custard pies. And he doesn’t carry out his project of throwing Hamlet. ‘Rah for Charliel One Mrs. Calhoun put a gun under the nose of a deputy sheriff who called to attach her auto, and now all the deputies of Los Angela* County are out after her. Go It, woman! Give her liberty or give her a gun!

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3,1928

What Editors Are Saying

Interest (Marlon Leader-Tribune) Everybody Is talking about the n em memorial field and the opening of the high school athletic season. High school boys and girls are said to be amazed at the interest shown In their work. They aro proud of It all. In helping the Ivys and girls the public Is doing a big thing in making the characters of tomorrow’s citizens. Not only that, but the young people become proud of their community and of Its interest In the things they like so well, and many of them will be come so Impressed with It all that when the time comes to consider whether they shall remain in Marion or seek other fields of endeavor their decision will favor the old home town. Advancement (Dally Clintonian) Bickering, fault finding and backbiting will retard the growth of any town. Consideration and energetic cooperation will materially advance the interests of any community. Possibly we are not over burdened by the destroying element in Clinton, but such as we have is entirely too much. Community advancement means personal security of the Individual, and this Is best achieved through energetic and persistent cooperation. Builder, or destroyer—which are you? Punishment (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) In refusing leniency to Arna. HutahIns, 18, who had pleaded guilty to robbing the Grabill State Bank, Judge Wood served notice on others who may be contemplating similar Jobs that they cannot escape punishment In his court. The judge In passing sentence said: "I would feel guilty of violating the law myself If I should say this defendants should go free. That would encourage every young man In this community to think that he, too, could commit a crime of this kind and escape punishment,” If all judges were to take the same oourse that would ba much less crime In this country. Shank (Bluffton Banner} Lew Shank, the colorful mayor of Indianapolis, says he has been asked to run for Governor on the Republican ticket. That man has a hold on his hat,- and is about ready to throw. • Town (Muncle Evening Press) Regardless of how much you think you know about your town, there are things about her Industries and hei business that you do not know. To be the best kind of citizen of a community, one should know all possible about his neighbors that Is cf good report. To know something of the tilings that are going c,n about him that concern deeply the lives of his friends and acquaintances, will make him more mindful of their welfare, more sympathetic toward their problems, more interested In the men and women themselves. Telephones (Kokomo Dispatch) After the passing of a month since Increased telephone rates went Into effect, Kokomo subscribers are beginning to realize the enormity of the advance. At South Bend 1,600 telephones have been ordered taken out; at Elwood indignation meetings have been held and efforts are being made by a committee to have 500 householders remove their ’phones; at Anderson and Frankfort the establishing of Independent telephone plants Is considered. Nowhere In the State have dtisens agreed that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was entitled to an increase, much less the doubling of telephone rates. The public Is wondering If the word service has not been lost sight of by the telephone company In fixing Its charges.