Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief .BOY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, 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 Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-29 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis —Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • * • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

WELCOMING A COMRADE LLOYD GEORGE —the name is that of a little Welsh D barrister, of a premier of England, of a keen politician, of a shrewd diplomat, of a private citizen with twinkling eyes and active mind, who is visiting us today. Lloyd George is the kind of man Americans like. He came from small beginning and achieved greatness in a country whose history is writrten thickly with the names of the great. Before his name is no meaningless title of nobility. He is a democrat in the original meaning of the word. Our visitor was our comrade in arms—for while first credit must go to the men who fought on the field, no less necessary to the struggle were the activities of the men who sat around the council table. While all of us may not agree with Lloyd George, there is not one of us who does not admire him. We should be particularly glad to receive such a visitor from England, for, while there are other countries for which we have a great attachment, we always feel close to England, because it is the land from which we brought our language, our literature and our laws. It is a country with which we have enjoyed more than a century of unbroken peace. So, Mr. David Lloyd George, comrade, neighbor, friend, we bid you welcome to our city 1 ' BOYS AND GIRLS AT PAIRS I URAL educators attending the State teachers’ convention ___ in Indianapolis last week pointed with pride to the achievement of boy and girl pupils at the State and county fairs. The year was recorded as a banner one. Uncle Sam hasptaken due notice of the advancement in Indiana and other States. The country schools, newspapers and extension departments of colleges are behind the movement for extension of exhibits by clubs of pupils. There is no doubt of the beneficial results of this class of education, especially in a farming community like Indiana. The Government tells us: “This fall and winter will witness the organization of thousands of corn, calf, canning, pig, potato and poultry clubs in the rural schools.” Just count Indiana “in” with both feet.

DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB? u frj-i |3E condition of Europe,” says Lloyd George, former Brit- | * I ish premier, who is Indianapolis’ guest today, “is of importance to every great business community throughout the world. And the greatest business community of all, the United States of America, is no exception. “Representatives of your farmers,” he went on, “have informed me that they are suffering very materially because of the serious impairment es the purchasing capacity of Europe. Already some important sections of your country are affected. In the end it will reach all. “The European need of your product is as great as ever. Nay, it is greater than ever, but the capacity to pay, and therefore to purchase, is less than it has been for many a year.” Our exports to foreign countries are already more than a half billion dollars short for this year. And there are still three months to go. * During the nine months ending Oct. 1, our imports amounted to $2,905,550,859. Normally, before the war, our exports ran about 20 per cent above imports. So our exports for these same nine months should have amounted to something like $3,540,000,000. But they did not amount to Not by a jugful. The exact figures are $2,941,017,138, which is only about 1 per cent above our Imports. I The most alarming thing about it all is, the ratio is growing more prejudicial to Americans all the time. It has already hit the farmer. It has hit some of the rest of us. As Lloyd George says, “in the end it will reach all.” We don’t want to mix in Europe’s quarrels, but we must find a way to help put the world back on a peace basis and keep it there. Our prosperity as a nation, our profits as merchants, our jobs as workers, all depend upon world tranquillity. /Yet there are in Washington, who say: “Oh, let Europe and the rest of the world stew in their own juice! What care we?” * , What care YOU? You’ve got a vote, you know. ELECTRIFICATION BY FORD JENRY FORD will spend twenty to thirty million dollars for complete electrification of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. It’s 455 miles long, so the cost of electrifying a steam railroad averages $40,000 to $60,000 a mile. Our country has around 264,000 miles of railroads. To elec- ■ trify them would cost from ten to sixteen billion dollars, at the .Ford rate. That would be expensive or cheap, according to economies that would or would not result. The amount invested should never worry anybody. The important question is: “Will it be a paying investment?” The first link of the D., T. & I. to be electrified is about thirteen miles long. In a sense, it’s probably a laboratory experiment. With thirteen miles finished, Henry will have discovered a lot of things to avoid in electrifying the remaining 442 miles. By using current on a big scale—soo,ooo horse power at work, night and day—Ford expects to cut his electric power cost to a tenth of jvhat it is now. It is logical to expect that all American railroads will be electrified eventually. The coal probably will be burned at the mines, generating electric current to be sent to far distances over high tension wires—or by radio transmission, who knows ? A system like this is the dream of a great many scientists who are trying to solve the coal problem. They vision a day when the whole nation will be on an electrical basis with the power derived from coal burned at the mines, incidentally saving tremendous coal freight hauls. Ford climbed to the top by making autos. It will be interesting to see if he rounds out his career by becoming as big in the railroad business as he is in the auto industry. His whole life seems to revolve ftround the problem of cheap, fast transportation. ENGLISH hop crop officially estimated at one-sixth less than last year’s. Maybe Congress can make up this ‘‘hop” shortage.

QUICK HITS AT WAR LAW OF CONGRESS Commends Borah for Stand on Violation of First Amendment. By HERBERT QUICK r . I HAVE never read anything on , I any current public question L ■—-) which thrilled me as did Senator Borah’s message on liberty under the Constitution. He was called upon to speak on the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendmen forbidding the sale of liquor. But, said he, he could not speak on the Government’s side on - prohibition without first making his protest against the violation by the Government In the cases of the war prisoners, oi the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech Rnd of s he preens. The. Government asks good citizens to stand between the Constitution and the attackh which are eating into its substance In the resistance to the enforcement of prohibition. Constitution in Danger They say the great Constitution Is in danger. But, Senator Borah points out so powerfully, this very Government which asks us to rally to the Constitution’s support on prohibition is undermining the Constitution by keeping in prison men who were sent there for nothing but the expression of their opinion about the war! The First Amendment to the Constitution says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the freedom ot speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.” Commit to Memory I should like to have that Amendment cordmitted t<y memory by every citizen of the United States. I should like to have it repeated by every' child in every school in the United States every day of'his school life. For it Is the core of the Constitution as an instrument of freedom. These prisoners were railroaded to prison in the days when we were incapable of re.'isonlng calmly—the days of the war. Some of them, as Borah points out. went without any evidence against them. And no amount of evidence could justify their Imprisonment for expression of opinion on their part against the war or against the Government. Power Is Lacking Congress has no power to pass laws punishing opinion or Its expression—any opinion. Those men were sent to prison by courts, usurping courts, which became, in sentencing them, instruments of tyranny. Without the First Amendment we have no Constitution for a free people.*

Family Fun

Opportune A western evangelist makes religious mottoes on rocks and fences along pubfcc highways. On flat rock he painted these words: "What will you do when you die?” An advertising gazabo came along and painted underneath that question: “Use Delta Oil; good for bums.”— Wise Agriculturist. • • • One By Father “The horse was goin’—” "Don’t forget your g, Willie.” "Gee, the horse was goin’—”—Telegraph. • • • • Boy’s Definition A clergyman, while instructing a Sunday school class, asked the children the meaning of "the quick and th dead.’’ This seemed to puzzle them somewhat, but suddenly one small toy piped out: "Please, sir, the man as gets out of the way of the motor is quick, and 'lm as doesn’t la dead."—Arwgonout.

Science

One of the recent triumphs of science Is the film of thorium on tungsten, used In the latest devices for radio telephony. For centuries man has been trying to make thinner layers of metals. In ancient Egypt objects of art and furniture were overlaid with thin plates of gold, skilfully beaten out by hand. The making of gold leaf of great fineness was one of the arts of the middle ages. The metal was beaten between sheets jot what is called goldbeaters’ skin. In modern times it was found that layers of gold could be made even thinner by means of the electric current. All these methods, fine as they wore, are crude compared to the films of thorium. Here science has gone to the limit. The film on the tungsten is only one atom In thickness —that Is it Is much less than one-mlllionth of an inch In thickness. Thin as it ir, It increases the flow of lons, and. consequently, the electric current, more than 100,000 times. % Homes (Decatur Daily Democrat) Buy a home. You can get one now at less than cost and It’s a good time to do It. You will be better off and the city In which most people own their homes Is always far ahead of the best.

Heard in the Smoking Room

SHE fellow with the Imitation briar-root finished his inane, forty - times - told chestnutty yarn, and went to roaring, while not one of the other smokers cracked a smile. Evidently the only way to choke off the giggles of the briar-root man was to tell another story, and so the £ikar salesman went to it: “In our town, one winter morning,” he said, “Tom Clarey was going down town, when he came upon his friend John Forney, lying flat on the sidewalk. ‘How did you come to fall?’ asked Clarey. ’Oh!’ replied John, ‘notwithstanding.’ ” “This answer started Clarey on his uabit of roaring with laughter. It was so rich that he returned home to

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IMJSI AL PEOPLE. Want Ad Is • Enough By NEA Service V rryi ew Orleans, La., Oct. 22. N I When a State wants a canal 1 1 ' I dug there is agitation for and against the project, legislators orate, a bond issue Is ((advanced, and more hullabaloo given to the scheme than It is worth. Edward A. MeBiff . man, however -Jp Y"* does It moresimbidders, in a few M’ILHENNY Southern newspapers. That was all, and It brought him bids from Chicago, Cleveland, Boston and Philadelphia, besides all parts of the South. While the canal Is being dredged, Mcllhenny. is planning to devote his hew tract as a game preserve—his hobby. He expects to set aside 10,000 acres for public use. SOM SIMS | -/- -/- Says nrrrrj ELL, funny news Is so scarce W we wish it would snow in I___J Africa or Bryan or Ford say something. . • • * News from King Tut. Carter wants to open tha tomb. Bet he finds a flivver or filling station, ,•• • I Who knows what they will find In Tut’s tomb? We don't. May even find that no banana song. • • • One thing that probably will be found in Tut’s tomb is a set of preelection promises to voters. • • • No doubt Tilt’s tomb contains writings proving the younger generation was going to the dogs. • • • Man in Ft Smith, Ark., wants the city to get him a wife. If they did it would serve him right • • • Portland (Ore.) man asks divorce because she was a bootlegger instead of because she wasn’t, • • • Hollywood beauty parlor remodels faces, if it isn’t kept busy it certainly should be. • • • Syracuse boy of 11 goes to college. Some day you may see a college campus full of nurses. * • • Bet when Carter enters Tut’s tomb Tut thinks it was a plumber he phoned for 4,500 years ago. ** • \ When they get Tut’s tomb open they may find the world series played in New York In those days. • • • Bet ’rut’s tomb shows some ancient stenographer couldn’t spell. • • • Washington ragpicker got $3,230 back pension. We refuse to say things are picking up for him. • • • They think outdoor life is making girls taller. We think it Is standing up In street cars.

Tongue Tips

J. Adam Bede, ex-Oongressman j from Minnesota: "My frie.vl Magnus j Johnson is not a red. There are no reds in Minnesota. He is simply leading the Republicans of our State around a detcur.” Roes Burns, editor Hutchinson, Kas., Gazette: “Isn’t Bill White a hell of a Bok peace judge? Os all the Kansas men who have kicked up a mess and kept folks on pins and needles, Bill White takes the prize.” Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, retired: ”1 remember one march we took in the Yellowstone country, In the old Indian days, when we moved for five days through a heard of buffalo. But, in 1898, buffalo and Indians roamed at will no more The wild valleys of an earner day smiled with orchards and prosperous farms. The g:eat West had been opened up by hardy pioneers. And It was brought about by comrades and such gallant men as Gen. Nelson A. Miles.”

Observations

A Maine court decides operation of a filling station on Sunday is a necessity. Right. There would be little news for the Monday papers otherwise. There are 322 varieties of wheat, but one is enough to make a farmer swear. Chief Patrick, of the air service, says he is not convinced the battleship Is obsolete, but he seems to have hope. The Chicago man who sent his shirt to the laundry with SBOO pinned to it was cleaned along with the shirt, and he seems distressed about It.

spring It on his wife while it was fresh. He burst Into the house with a hal ha! and yelled: “ ‘Mary, come here! The richest joke. Hal Hal Ha! Hee! Hee! Heel Oh Lord! Oh my! I can’t tell It. Oh my! It will split your sides. I was Just over on main street and found John Forney fallen on the sidewalk. ’How did you fall, John?’ says I. And John—Oh Lord! Oh my sides! Ha! Ha! Hal Ho! Ho! Ho! Oh Lord! John answers quick as scat, ‘Oh, nevertheless.’ "Mary studied It so long, with a sad, puzzled expression, that Clarey quit roaring to say, ‘You blamed women never can see the point of a Joke anyhowl’ ’’

ATTACKS ON COURT FAIL IN PURPOSE Criticism of Personnel in Highest Tribunal Will Not Curb Power of Body, Lowell Mellett. of this paper’s Washington stag, has made an extensive study of the movement to curtail the power of the Supreme Court Mellett has written a series of articles giving the outstanding incidents in the Court # history. This is the second article in the series. By LOWELL MELLETT ■ nl OME space was devoted In the I previous article to showing the I * United States Supreme Court is simply a body of nine very humane men. More s ace might be taken to show how they are as apt as other men to be victims of their own prejudices, each the creature of the class from which he came, each pretty well fixed in the philosophy which made him successful as a practicing lawyer and finally led to his being chosen for the highest place on the bench. Most of them, naturally, jnade their reputations as corporation lawyers, advocates of the Interests of powerful clients, for that is the path of opportunity—or, at least, of weath—in the lavr. in this respect the present United States Supreme Court is no different from Its long line of predecessors. The I complaint has been continual'since the court was first organized that its members have been sftdected chiefly from among the defenders of great property Interests. The one name about which a greater tradition of legal learning has been built than any other, that of John Marshall, does not present a picture of sheer Judicial grandeur to modern investigators. Marshall Unman Person They do not see him now as an aloof embodiment of abstract justice, but as a very human person with a keen, personal ambition. Some share Thomas Jefferson's estimate of him, rather than Albert J. Beveridge’s. Jefferson regarded Marshall’s presence on the bench as a public calamity. Just to accentuate the realization that John Marshall was as human as, for example, Pierce Butler, the latest appointee to this same bench, hear this description of him, written in his own time: “He is tall, meager, emaciated; his muscles relaxed, and his joints so loosely connected as not only to disqualify him apparently for any vigorous exertion of body, but to destroy anything like harmony in his air or movements.”

I)ld Own Marketing Marshall dressed shabbljy, sometimes carried his own basket to market, traveled in an antiquated vehicle and generally shocked those who would have preferred to see the chief Justice surround himself with all the elegance hl.s position and personal fortune would have permitted. His personal fortune was large. The son of a modi'.-t planter, he owned before he died—partly in consequence of decisions handed down from his own bench, though he, as was the custom, refrained from participating lu these decisions—the greater part of the great Lord Fairfax estate In Virginia. Harding (ritised The present national controversy over the United States Supreme Court, however, is not a controversy over personalities. Criticism was made of President Harding that he leaned toward reactionaries when making the four selections that fell to him The same criticism was made of President Taft when he made his six appointments. The demand Is constantly made In the liberal press that lawyers, who by temperament tend to put human rights above property rights, should have larger representation on tho bench. Perhaps presidents cannot find many such lawyers. In any case, little progress towjard curbing the United States Supreme Court Is likely to result from attacking Its personnel. If so, the curb would have been applied long ago. Harsher things have been said about earlier supreme courts than you have heard concerning the present one. Opinion Attacked Os one of John Marshall's opinions In. 1819, & Philadelphia newspaper said: “A most lamentable sophistry—the most flimsy and false attempt at reasoning in the annals of any nation—a monstrous tissue of weakness.” Ohio newspapers charged the court had “arrogated to themselves an authority as well above the laws as above the Constitution Itself." “A silk gowned fogydom, a goodly portion of It Imbecile with age, a portion anti-republican In notion —wedded to antiquated doctrine,” was the characterization of; the court by a newspaper in 1854. * "It Is high time the Insolence and tyranny of our federal judges should be rebuked and punished,’’ said the New York Tribune in 1855. This same newspaper three years later termed the Judges of the Supreme Court, “a handful of political subalterns of the Federal Executive, his creatures and tools, appointed on partisan grounds and for political reasons." Jurists Scored The New York Independent used this lan ruage In 1867: “A sorry attempt o f live not very distinguished persons to exhibit themselves as profound jurists, whereas they have only succeeded In proving themselves, to be very poor politicians. ’’ The New York Herajd, criticising the same decision, called It "twaddle.” The Washington Chronicle observed that “treason, vanquished upon the battlefield and huntod from every other retreat, has at last found a secure shelter In the bosom of the Supreme Court.” The editors used language In the old days, didn’t they? And yet the Supreme Court went marching on. Attacking the personnel of the court seems to have s<?i ed no purpose. If you feel disposed tc release your pent-up emotions on the same subject there Is long precedent like the above to show It la safe to do so. These editors weren’t sent to Jail. But neither did they reform the court. Dad’s Sac ed Honor "What, you would dishonor my name by becoming a boxer?” "But, father, I would take an assumed name.” "Indeed! And supposing you were to make a big success, much credit I should get if no one knew I was your father!" —Boston Transcript.

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You can get an answer to any question of fart or information by writing to the IndJanaiioUs Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. U. C.. enclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Does a fighter dry out before a fight? If so, how long before a fight does he start doing so, and what does dry-out mean? A FAN. 1. He does if he has to reduce his weight. 2. Night before fight until after weighing In time on the day of the fight. 3. Doesn't eat or drink. The Idea Is to keep weight down. What Is the cause of chapped lips? j Chapped 'lips are caused by exposure to wind, cold or extreme heat and dryness. A good salve is cocoa butter, 24 grams: white wax. 4 grams, oil of rose geranium, 1 gram. What Is the position of the modern woman In India? Is she still veiled? She is less restricted than formerly. In many cases she Is highly educated. There are now a number of women’s colleges, and a university for women at Poona has recently been opened. The Mohammedan woman's veil is still worn, however, among certain classes. The veil Is called he rupatta. and Is about three yards long and one and one-half feet wide. It Is worn over the head and is thrown over the left shoulder. What Is the value of a Paisley shawl today? There Is no great demand for these shawls at present and prices range from 525 to 550. % What Is the annual Immigration quota for France? 5,729. Is the District of Columbia part of the United Slates? Y>s. It Is not a State, but a Federal district, provided for by the Constitution, set aside for the National Capital, and legislated for by Congress. The District of Columbia was established as the seat of government under authority of Acts of Congress approved by President Washington, July 16, 1790. and March I, 1791. It Is a district of fifty square miles of land surface and ten square miles of water surface, situated on the east bank of the Potomac River, between Maryland and Virginia. The land now in the district was ceded by Maryland. The portion originally ceded by Virginia was returned to that State. The people of tho district have no vote in national or municipal affairs.

How can one clean white ermine? Make' a paste of starch and gasoline of the of soft mud. Cover tha fur well with the preparation, being careful not to let the moisture sink Into the hide, as it Is apt to shrink the skin. A stiff brush Is best to use for this purpose. Leave the preparation on the fur until It becomes thorougnly dry, then brush and beat all the particles out of the fur. If there Is ary odor from the gasoline let the fur hang out In the air for a day or so. This treatment should make the fui as white as it was originally. How and when should cuttings of the Rose of Sharon be planted? Middle of August to the middle of October. Tho cuttings should be planted half an Inch apart In the row, and rows planted three Inches apart. They should grow that way for a year and then be transplanted. The cuttings should be six or eight Inches long, and three Joints should be planted und-'r the ground. If seeds are planted they should be placed thickly and about one-half inch deep.

Delay READERS: So tremendous has been the demand on our Washington Bureau for the bulletin, REMOVAL OF STAINS FROM CLOTHING, our Washington Bureau has been swamped with requests, and the supply of their bulletin on this subject has been temporarily exhausted. The bureau finds the Government Printing Office is also out of these bulletins, but a reprinting has been ordered. The Government red tape, however, is something hard to cut through, and it may be several weeks before all orders from readers for this particular bulletin can be filled. PLEASE BE PATIENT.

No Wonder Nothing Grows

Not Lost BY BERTON BRALEY Fled, you say, is old Romance, And the bloom is off the rose? Juliets and Romeos Haven't, nowadays, a chalice? * So you look on quite askance, And you shake your head aid frown Watching Romeo advance, Calling ‘‘HI, kid, come on down!” • * Careless, slangy words, it’s true; Yet to Juliet, above, They are glowing words of love, Just as sweet to listen to As Verona’s garden knew When, In days of long ago, Whispering the foliage through, Juliet heard Romeo! Wha* if Romeo drives a car? Or if flapper Juliet ■f'x.metimes smokes a cigarette. In these "humdrum days that are"? Still, she is his shining star, He’s her knight of high renown, When he sings out from afar, "Hi there, Julie, come on down!” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

What Editors Are Saying

•Thoughtful (Waterloo Press) Why not slow up the car and let the nervous pedestrian cross the street with the thought that his destination may be Just is important as ours is to us. Impressions (Rushvllle Daily Republican) When you meot a stranger on the street, what do you do? Do you give him a greAlng. or any form cf recognlton, or do you favor him with the once over and pass coldly on? The stranger judges this community to a great extent by the people he re sets in Just that way. If they are cordial and friendly It leaves a good impression. If they are cold and distant the impression Is not so good. And the Impression he forms of us is passed on to other people In other places. Happy (Munde Evening Press) Indianapolis is congratulating herself because only 792 burglaries were committed there in the first nine months of this year. It takes so little to make some folks happy. Organizations (Hartford City News) When one reads of the many organizations, not only lodges, but every other kind. Including' charitable, he wonders If the people have not gone to seed on the subject. Some enthusiast thinks his org tnlzation the best ever, but there are mighty few organizations outside the church that the world would miss severely if they dropped out of existence. Taggart (Goshen Daily News-Times) It might be well for Democratic aspirants for Governor, who are basing the chance of party success upon Governor McCray’s financial difflloultles, to recall that one of the first contributors to the McCray redemption fund when the Governor’s plight first became known was Thomas Taggart, de facto head of the Democratic party in Indiana.

Animal Facts

American Museum of natural history has skeletons of horses thac lived In Wyoming some millions of years before Senator Warren, and which were only twelve inches high at the shoulders. Present horse descended from that family, after it had emigrated to the old world. The little steed had four toes on his front feet and thfee on the hind and could run like a streak of lightning. He needed his speed when the world was full of Wool worth tower beasts that could have made a mouthful of him. They say the horse hasn’t much brains, but he had enough to live for ages and develop the most useful animal on earth. One of the counts against sparrow, who has been condemned to death, Is that he is a glutton. Very serious; as bad as millions of humans. Sparrow may have been a British emigrant seventy-five year* ago, but he’s American now.

MONDAY, OCT. 22,1923

Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print views of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. your name as an evidence of rood faith. It will not be printed If you object.

To the Editor o] The Timet Editorially you stated that according to Federal prohibition headquarters, prescriptions for liquor patients barring Indiana which through its State law does not allow it—are being filled at the rate of 48,000 a day. You then State that this means more than 2,200,000 gallons, 17,000,000 pints, or 352,000,000 drinks in a year. You also make reference to the health commissioner of Chicago, who declares that of 80,000 samples of liquor seized there this year, only 800 were the genuine article and that 150 persons have been killed in Chicago by "rank poison” booze drunk there this year. The above is exceedingly interesting. but let us see! In 1917, the people of this United States consumed 42,723,376 gallons of wine. That amounted to 331,787,008 pifits, or 10,617,184.256 drinks. During the same year while the saloon was running full blast In our country, there were consumed 167,740,325 gallons of spirituous liquors. That amounted to 1,331,922,600 or 41,621,523,200 drinks. A Yea, Think of It! ™ During 1917, the drinking people of the United States consumed 1,884,265,377 gallons of beer. That amounted to 15,074,123,016 pints; or, if you can divide up beer into such small quantities as by the standard indicated above, it meant 482,371,936,512 drinks. Just think of it! Summarizing it, it meant that in the year 1917, the people of the United States of America, who drink booze consumed 2,094,729,078 gallons of booze of all kinds; or 16,737,832,624 pints, which amounted to 534,610,643.968 drinks. Which means, in other words, that in 1917, 1,518 drinks were consumed to where one is consumed now. And yet they tell us that prohibition does not prohibit! Reference is made In the "Times" article to 160 persons who have been killed by booze drunk in Chicago this year. This Is interesting, but according to Judge William N. Gemell, for the last seventeen years a Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, we are told that In 1917 the coroner’s office of Cook County, conducted 6,636 Inquests on the bodies of persons dying In that county under auspicious circumstances. Open Booze Joints In 1922 the number of Inquests under such circumstances were 5,842, or 794 fewer than in 1917 when Chicago had over 6,000 open booze joints and the inquest In this latter year eluded all the accidental deaths caused by automobile smash ups, which would have been Increased many hundred percent, but for the fact that even an Imperfectly enforced prohibition law In Chicago Is many times better than license at its best. "We do not have at hand the specific figures as to the alcoholic mortality In Chicago. However, New York City might afford a pretty good basis of comparison, comparatively speaking, with Chicago. In 1917, New York had a total of recorded mortality from all alcoholic cases of 670, while in 1922 of 296, the same being a reduction of 48 per cent. And this In spite of the fact that the city of New York has been the capital of all the liquor conspiracies In the United States. In Halcyon Days /Talk about the poison which is In booze today! It certainly has about enough, but alcohol Is and always has been a poison. People In the halcyon days of the saloon got delirium tremens, died of alcoholic poisoning, and through diseases brought on by alcoholism, and also through murders for which alcohol should be charged with the responsibility, and the depths by alcoholism of the old saloon days were many hundred percent greater. If the facts were only known, than they are today even with prohibition not perfectly enforced. Maybe the editor of The Times might try his hand at figures again. E. S.. SHUMAKER. Superintendent Indiana League. *

A Thought

The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. —lsa. 32:8. M™'| BN of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.—Duncan.