Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BCHBMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers * * * Client of the United Press, United News, felted Financial. XEA Service, Pacific Coast Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of CirculationsPublished daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Time* Publishing Cos. 25-29 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • • • Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten On:8 a Week. Elsewhere — Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

THANKSGIVING TIME IN INDIANA mNDIANA will go along an even tenor of peaceful ways this week. Weighty affairs of state may be threatening war in Europe, Coolidge may be worrying over the taxes, bonus or world court, and Governors may be involved hopelessly in legal tangles. Such things do not count, however, when Thanksgiving time rolls around on the Iloosier calendar. It’s a real family observance for the three million folks that Riley made famous in rhyme. At Noblesville, for example, Fred Hudson is proudly proclaiming that he holds the best corn husking record in the State. And husking 3,300 bushels in thirty-three days is an enviable record. That means more to Fred, we’ll bet a good ripe pumpkin, than being elected high august and most worthy potentate of a Noblesville order. Then turkeys “may drop,.to half dollar,” reads a news item. Who said the world was going to the dogs ? To make the time ideal, wintry blasts with real freezing weather and maybe a snow- —for that’s the weatherman’s dope—will make a cheery fireplace after the feast. The entire world goes into eclipse this week. At least, in Indiana. GOD AND AMUSEMENT "q 1 T. BARNTJM of “bunkum” fame and the devil didn’t * have much in common, after all. That the greatest of all American circus kings found time in life to engage in many worth-while things, such as purging the 1 theater of many evils and devoting some of his restless energies into the church, is a true compliment to the profession which was his —the theatrical art. Dr. Edwin Cunningham, pastor of the Central Universalist Church, Indianapolis, said a mouthful when he declared Sunday: “The church, the stage and the circus need not be enemies. Human nature is such that it craves both God and amusement. Those who take up the work of entertainment as a profession can render a real service to their fellow men. True fun is of God, not the devil.” That many of the Broadway plays, musical comedies and revues have out-done all the salacious daring of Europe in recent months is no indictment against the American stage. Conditions on Broadway have become rotten. This is charged by the acting mayor of New York, who has ordered nude shows to be censored. Policemen, appointed on a special commission, will now give Broadway shows the “once over,” according to plans adopted. Broadway doesn’t represent the sentiment of the Middle West, however* and it never will. A TIP ON TIPS |l I IOTEL keeping is a great business. A born tavern keeper |rl, can think of many ways to make money. At Washington, D. C., one of the cleverest of them all has a scheme that ought ! to be passed on to all his brothers between the two coasts. You know the development there has been in the hat check custom in hotel restaurants. First hat and coat racks were placed inside the restaurant, where they’d be convenient, and the waiter helped you on and off with your coat. Then they were placed just outside the door, with a bell-hop or a girl to keep an eye on them. Then checks were introduced and, if you felt inclined, you could give this attendant a dime for finding your hat and coat when you left the eating room. Presently it became a fixed charge—that is to say, you met a fixed glare in the attendant’s eye that compelled you to deliver the dime. However, you could take your hat along with you into the restaurant and hide it under your chair, if you were strong-minded. Then they found a way to prevent that. They sent the attendant in after you to bring your hat out. That seemed the final development, the complete scheme for extracting your ultimate dime, the apex of money-making methods in the tavern business. But now a Washington hotel host has found something still better. It is an expression of true genius. Know what he does? He doesn’t have any hat and coat checks at all! No, sir, you walk right into his restaurant, in one of Washington’s finest hotels, and you throw your coat and hat on one of the chairs at your table and it stays there until you are ready to leave. The host doesn’t make a penny out of the fact that you take off your hat and overcoat when you eat. He sacrifices a good many dimes 1 in the course of a day. but he is getting the eating business of Washington. His restaurant is filled and busy when the waiters and check boys in other restaurants, otherwise just as good, are hiding yawns behind their itching palms.

CRAIG’S CASE; YOUR CASE ITHOUT knowing Charles L. Craig, city controller of New W York, personally. The Indianapolis Times is glad that it is he who is going to jail for offending the feelings of Federal Judge Mayer and not some obscure local labor leader, as is usually the case. By ordering Craig to jail Judge Mayer has dramatized his judicial sensitiveness. He has made his personal pride a first page news story through the conservative East. You could send a thousand ignorant immigrants to jail for irritating a dyspeptic judge and scarcely get into these newspapers at all. But with Craig it is different. Craig is the elected financial guardian of six million citizens. He is needed on the job and the judge sends him to jail. So the people who read even, the most reactionary of Eastern newspapers are permitted to see just what the issue is. And it xs this: May the man on the bench be the complaining witness, the prosecuting attorney, the jury and the judge, all in one, in a ease that concerns himself? Men on the bench have been assuming this four-part role more and more frequently of recent years. Is there any authority for it, in logic or in law? Craig’s case has just the necessary element of the spectacular to drive the question home to millions of serious citizens who will want to know the answer. We are sorry for Craig—though in New York it is now said his unexpected martyrdom may make him mayor—but we are pleased to think the judge, in picking his victim, unwittingly picked to purjmse.

FARMER IS HOLDING TO OLD VIEWS Class Consciousness, However, Is Coming, Herbert Quick Declares, This Is the last of a series of articles on the agricultural problem written for the Indianapolis Times by Herbert Quick, former editor of Farm and Fireside. This article is on "Social Aspects." By HENRY QUICK P r “““ OLITICAL upheavals come from some sort of what the - ■ .. socialists call "class conscious ness"—ln our day at least There is little of this consciousness now as between farmer and farmer or fanner and landlord in America. Some of the "blanket toters” who do the seasonal labors on farms belong- to the I. W. W. They have a rabid class consciousness. I think there was a tenant revolt in lowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas and some other States in some recent elections which affected the result. In the main, however, in the United States farm tenants and those who are losing out to their mortgages, while tney feel despair, hold to their old political ideas so far as they hold to any. But cla.-s consciousness is coming. When it comes, look out for attack on existing conditions. Now, the despair of the submerged third or half in the country takes the form of migrations. The burnt-out farmers of the drought-stricken districts of Montana havfe lost their farms by thousands. They have. I am Informed in letters, gone to the Pacific Coast to get work. They have joined the proletariat. Answer Is Obvious If you were to throw into the passing crowd a handful of diamonds, they would in the main be picked up by poor people. But who would have them in a week or a month? The answer is obvious. Thy would pass into the hands of people able to wear diamonds. * Farms in good farming regions have become more precious titan diamonds. They are not for people in even moderate circumstances as working people go. Lands on which I lived in my boyhood, and which sold for $5 an acre, have been sold In recent years for SSOO .an acre. Vet I remember when young men used to buy these lands after saving their wages as month hands on farms for two or three years, and equipping themselves with a team and wagon—buy them and in a few years pay off the small mortgage. They would be laughed at for trying this now. Rich people in country towns and cities bid with unvarying success against the farmers for the owner ship of farms. Farm ownership brings social distinction to such town dwellers. As with diamonds, they like to wear a of farms about their necks. And moreover, they can buy farms knowing that every Increase In population or progress in society will make them more valuable. When the owning farmer dies it sends his children to town, in part, or plunges them into debt. One will try to buy the farm from his brothers and be sunk in debt, and the others will be lost to farming. Or they will all refuse to take the farm and the land will be added to some landlord’s necklace of farms. *

Subject to System Thus our rural life is becoming Mexlcanlzed—in the old Mexican sense. Otir rural dwellers become more and more subject to our rental system—which is the worst in the world. If a man had dyspepsia, sinus trouble abscessed teeth, infected gall-blad-der, stone in the kidney and cataract in each eye he might think if he got rid of these he would be well; but If at the same time a great vampire bat were to be coming every night and sucking his blood, getting rid of these other ailments would do him some good, to be sure, but mainly it would only give him more blood for the vampire. And that illustrates in a way the state of the farmers as I see It—and I have been looking at It for a long time. The vampire is land values That is what is really the real trouble with the farmers. I have never seen in any discussion. of the depression of the farmers any inetlligent recognition of this on the part of any of the men who are proposing remedies for Congress or the State Legislatures. Those wno know the truth dodge it. Yet no man who knows the situation can fail to see the truth once it is calledl to his attention. Science Why photographic plates prepared by one method are fast and by another are slow, has just been discovered. The British Photographic Research Association has solved the problem after five years’ study. Plates are made by mixing a solution of ammonia bromide with a solution of silver nitrate in gelatin. These salts unite to form silver bromide. That much was known. By placing a thin film of the final solution under the highest power of the microscope and projecting the magnified image on a screen the secret was revealed. When the solutions are first mixed, crystals begin to form, but they are so small that the plate is slow to a degree that enables it to be handled in ordinary light without fogging. As the crystals grow, or the plates are said to ripen, the plates get “faster." The facts uncovered by these researches are expected to be of great help in improving the photography of the stars..

Heard in the Smoking Room

mHE train had killed a cow. The smokers were talking about It when the journey had been resumed. “I suppose every cow killed by a train means a claim for damage against the railway company,” said the cigarette smoker. "You betchu.” said the man at the end of the seat, “and it reminds me of the story about Emory Storre, the famous Chicago lawyer. Storrs one time attended a banquet of stock breeders *n his home town, and, toward the shank of the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE In One Court 36 Years

By XEA Service “TTJAD AXE, Mich., Nov. 27.—For l-< I .hirty-six years Judge Watson dust-I,aden, ramshackle building hero. Nowhere else had he ever presided as Jurist of the Twenty-fourth Ju- " diclul circuit of .- / the State of Miehi ’ gan. ■ ' Nowhere else hf* /JMfc -i wi *‘ he „ act h lB l U(^e - He has ■< A handed in his r--A. - 0 *"**■ ignation, to do • '■ ”. 1 effective Jan. 1. . ' \ Despite this long K, monotonous grind. RijA X * ’ ’in the same musty courtroom. Judge upon it as a ex perience. He BEACH trained many an attorney who Is still practicing in the same court. And his successor, "Xen” Boomhower, is a protege of his. And he can't keep away from the courtroom. He expects to return every now- and then, even if only as a spectator.

SIMS -/- -/- Says UROPE is so noisy now France L doesn’t even hear her frano iir.- drop. if News from Wales. Grafted a finger for a man’s nose. What if the thing tried to grab something. Europe Is good only during those months have a “z” In them. New York’s annual crime wave promises to be bigger, better and brighter than ever this year. Football will be over soon and the players should demand a bonus. New York bandits are carrying ofT lota of furs, which is regarded as a aign of a hard winter. Too many of these presidential possibilities are impossibilities. Crooks are getting so bad in New* York people with gold teeth should keep their months shut. The United States has about 14,000.000 autos, some all paid for. Somebody stole a horse in New York. Maybe they just took it home to see what the thing was. Mellon wants taxes cut Which makes it Just about unanimous. If anybody ever succeeds In cutting taxes he can become a movie star quicker than a husband shooter. Madison (Wis.) girls say they can’t tell if a man has been drinking. That’s easy. He’s broke. Chicago University debated "la a silly girl more popular?” No, but a popular girl Is more silly.J Rich Los Angeles woman left her husband only one dollar and then he felt like thirty cents. A horse in North Sterling, Conn., chews tobacco. And what is it? Why, we would say plug. Turkevß have been in cold storage 12 months, so It isn’t too late to have your last year’s turkey. Hunters tickle us the way they fuss around getting ready. Some would like duck pants for duck hunting.

Family Fun

Knows Everything Five-year-old Freddie was spending the day with his aunt. Dinner was late and the child began to grow restless. “Auntie," he said, finally, “does God know everything?” “Yes, dear.” “Every little thing?" “Yes, dear, every little thing." “Well, then, God knows I am hungry.”—Judge. Daughter Well Protected “Is this, then, to be the end of our romance?” “Oh, no, my lawyer will call on you in the morning. I have a bushel and a half of your letters.”—Boston Transscript. One for the Minister "Wake up! There are burglars In the house.” "Well, what of it? Let them find out their mistake themselves."—College of the Pacific Weekly. Wiley's Mistake “I believe these sweet potatoes would have been better if you had cooked them a little longer, my dear.” “Good Heavens! Those are the flower bulbs 'I was going to set out today.”—Judge.

A Thought

Confess your faults, one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.—Jas. 5:16. * * • iy j E easily forget those faults yy which are known only to our- . .„.J selves.—La Rochefoucauld.

evening, was called on by the chairman to make a speech. He held back a little, but finally got up and said; ” 'Gentlemen, I have listened with great interest to the merits and good qualities of the Jersey, Holstein and other fine breeds ofxcattle, but, as an attorney for railroads, I can assure you the most valuable and highestpriced animal in the world Is the offspring of an ordinary cow crossed by a locomotive.’ ” *

MILLIONS IN BONDS LOST EACH YEAR Many Instances of Sob Stories Told in Savings Swept Away. BY JOHN CARSON Time* fitaff Correspondent TyT] ASHING TON, Nov. 27.—War yy came. With It came also the __J cry to buy bonds until it hurt, .udiy and Ann Jones had saved S2OO. It represented sayings of $5 a month over almost four years—almost poverty savings. It hurt, but Mary and Ann bought until it hurt. The only thing they knew was that the Government would pay them back the money some day. Mary went to work after she hid the bonds in a chest. Ann cleaned the chest and burned the papers and incidentally the bonds disappeared. The evidence was complete that the bonds were burned, but Ann could not swear she knew they were burned. They did not get tha money. The Government refused to pay or restore the bonds. Many Similar Storiee The story is true with the exception that the names are changed. You can read into it ail the sobs you want and they’ll not be misplaced. You can get a hundred similar stories. Somewhere today are $56,218,760 of Government interest bearing securities on which the interest has ceased and which will be paid on presentation. These bonds may never be presented —the Government may never have to pay. What stories would they tell if they could be brought forth? 'And yet Today, the Treasury Department was called on to pay a bond of 1790. It was presented by a bank. Its history was not related. "Each year we get some old bonds,", said C. N. McGroarty, head of the treasury division dealing with such bonds. "They come out. somehow, from an old teapot In a chimney and so on. Usually we get them through banks and do not get the story. Go on Assumption "So we cannot assume tha Government will have to pay bonds outstanding. We’ve got to assume the bonds will be presented.’’ The story of Mary and Ann Jones was related. “That's too bad,” sakl McGroarty. "But we’ve got to assume the bonds were not burned until we have proof. We had a case a few years ago where a ship went down. Everything showed the safe in the ship had certain bonds in it. We were convinced of that. Yet a few years later, the bonds started to turn up here." It might be assumed that the United States was populated with careless savers. But McGroarty. with thirty yevars of experience behind him, says It is not so. Scattered Over Country "Think of the number of bonds outstanding,” he said. "They are scattered all over the country, in fiftydollar lots, maybe. If n fifty-dollar bond is lost or misplaced, not so much is heard about It. But those fifty dollars lost here and there count up. "Undoubtedly there will be a good mpny more bonds lost out of the issues of this war than before because there were so many more bonds issued. ‘‘lf we could only get the people to register their bonds. That would be the safe course. But they do not seem to realize it”

What Editors Are Saying

Insistent (The Daily Clintonian) But there are people so gullible ! they will listen to “the advice of a I stranger In preference to that of their j own banker, whom they should know ; personally and whose advice they should value. Texans and Hoosiers are alike. They insist upon being stung first hand. And the more they listen to the promoters and fakers, the more thoy get it. The quicker they learn to seek advice at a Chamber of Commerce or | Better Business Bureau office, or at ! any reliable home banking institu- | ’ion, the more they will escape being defrauded. Drifting (Portland Commercial-Review) The divorces that hurt the country ere those springing from mameges untimely made without thought of consequences or without tests of love; marriages for money or position or, worse yet, marriages made by those Just for the thrill, knowing full well that the gilt will wear away and that ihe divorce court Is sure. We are drifting away, from the old and safe “and they lived happily ever after.’’ We need a return to it. Wo need a rebaptismal of the old-fash-ioned ideals of the American home and love. Only then wall this canker on | our society be stopped. Lesson (Lafayette Journal and Courier) That unfortunate and possib.y trag lo night clash of armed posses in Clay County is but another development of the serious situation in which Indiana people of the small towns and rural sections find themselves in this day of motorized banditry, Inadequate police protection and frequent attacks on banks and on isolated communities. The lesson to be taken from this bloody fiasco is a simple and obvious one. Society must take measures to properly protect itself in Indiana, not only against iocters and gunmen and bank wrecking bandits, but also against the haphazard, Inefficient and untrained enthusiasm and over-zeal of the hastily recruited posse. L State* police in other States drive ! out criminals and those outlaws slip ; quietly over Into unprotected Indiana and strike practically at will, making i one easy getaway after another. How | long -will it 'lake Indiana to see the situation as St is? Sonny Underestimated “Oh, Dickie! Who taught, you to swear like that?” “Taught me to swear? Why, it's me that teaches the other guys.”— Denver ParrakeeL

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an answer to any question of fart or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New Yor’ Are., Waahington, D C., enclosing 2 oeDt* in stamp* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot fc* given, nor can extended research be undertaken. A 1 other queations will receive a per•t nal reply. Unig: ad request* cannot be answered. AU letter* are confidential .-*r-Editor. What is the area of Australia? 2,946,651 square miles. How should potted fern s be grown? To in a healthy and growing condition, to prevent and to kill Insects and diseases, a proper condition of atmosphere should be carefully maintained at all times. Extremes in moisture, heat, or dryness should never bo allowed. In potting ferns after they pass the four-inch pots, a potting stick should always |be used, as the patter cannot very well firm them with his fingers, and it secures evenness in potting. Ferns ! should be potted tight, especially old ; plants. They should be shifted into larger pots whenever necessary. Once a day is often enough to water a fern. When did the idea of the tanks used In the World War originate and how? According to Colonel Swinton of the British Army, who organized and commanded the first tank unit, the idea was conceived in 1914, and its distinctive feature, the long belt, was derived from the Holt agricultural tractor which is built in Peoria, 111. Who were the “Laughing Philosopher” and the “Weeping Philosopher?’’ Democritus of Abdera was the “Laughing Philosopher." Horaclltus was the "Weeping Philosopher.” Is there any difference between the words, "special” and “especial?” There i* a distinction which is not noticed by the majority; "especial” singles out a quality from others, while "special” oonveys the idea of having some important weight or characteristic. How does one remove the shine from serge or other wool garments? Sponge the garment with hot vinegar or ammonia water (1 tablespoon lof ammonia to 1 quart of water). ! Cover with dampened cloth and press ion right side. Remove cloth and brush. Removing the cloth after the garment has been pressed pulls up the nap. What bulbs may be planted in the fall? Narcissus, tulips, and hyacinths. What kind of grass is best for the lawn? A mixture of Kentucky blue grass, rep top and white clover. How for apart should southern pine seedlings be*epaced? 1 According to Science Service, the spacing of eight feet each way is perhaps the best for loblolly or slash pines, and six feet for shortleaf. This will require about 700 and 1,200 trees per acre, respectively. What and where is San Souci? An old royal palace in the vicinity of Potsdam, Prussia, built by Frederick the Great, between the years 1745 and 1747, and afterward his favorite residence. The name is said to have been suggested by Frederick I, who had selected the spot as the burial place for his favorite horse, Conde, and his dogs, and had a grave dug for himself at the same spot. "That is : where I shall lie after death,” said j the monarch, "and when I am there I shall rest without care.” (Sans-Souci.) How should ring-tailed monkeys j be cared for? Provide as much light and fresh , air as possible. They will require j heated quarters In winter. Avoid draughts. If they are kept in a cage, provide swings and bars for exercise. Clean hay Is much better than straw for beds. Feed them raw and cooked vegetables, boiled rice, ripe fruit, etc. A little sunflower seed or wheat each day and occasionally a little cooked meat is advisable. Provide clean water for them aty aU ‘ times and avoid overfeeding them. , f

Happy? Happy? School Days

The Prince By BERTON BRALEY "I wait for Prince Charming,’’ she said, "Prince Charming, blithe, slender and young, With curly gold hair on his head And gay honied words on his tongue. Oh, he will be handsome and tall And l?e will be valiant and strong, A Prince with the world at his call, A figure of story and song! "I wait for Prince Charming,” she said, . "To set all my heart.strings athrum, And ere many seasons have fled. I know, oh I KNOW he will come! He’ll woo me with glorious art. With tenderness, passion and fire, No other shall capture my heart Or bring me the love I desire!" He’s fat and he’B - .rcid and short, His wooing was clumsy and tame. He’s only a commonplace sort Devoid of renown or acclaim; And yet when she gazes at him, He sets all her pulses astir. For, thanks to Love’s magical whim. He’s truly Prince Charming to her! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, lnc„>i

Indiana Sunshine

An irate Vincennes merchant is looking for a soulless bootlegger who sold him five gajlons of Wabash River water as the "best white mule” ever made in Indiana. The kiekiess product cost him the bargain price of $25. • • • Another proof of the omniscience of the postoffice was revealed when a letter, written in Canada without the State or city given in the address, reached Its Muncie destination. • • • A team of horses Is hardly worth the price of an auto tire In Bartholomew County these days. Two horses in good condition were sold at auction for $14.50. • • • Mrs. Cora Deree chased Bob Sulll van out of the Martinsville city courtroom when he testified he did not owe her the $7 mentioned in a suit. Police rescued Bob in the courthouse yard before he had been badly Injured. • • • Obeying the instructions of a fortune teller, Laura Swaringer of Gary went to the home of the man she thought had stolen her diamond ring every day to accuse him. Her pilgrimages were stopped only when she was arrested for trespass.

Observations

A recent W'ork of fiction is called "Bunk,” but there was only one author honest enough to admit and employ It. The diggers after fossils In this country are flay by day approaching closer and closer to the United States Senate. It costs Americans $5,600,000,000 a year to run their automobiles, but, before you call them fools, think of the other wheels they cause to be turned, too. Germany leads the world in the production of potatoes—and trouble.

&Qy SELECT YOUR GIFTS NOW FOR CHRISTMAS By making a reasonable payment at the time of purchasing and the remainder in weekly payments you can have your diamond held until Christmas. For those who wish to restrict their expenditures we have many beautiful diamond rings moderately priced. J. P. MULL ALLY—Diamond Merchant STREET FLOOR

TUESDAY, NOV. 27,1923

Editor’s Mail The editor ia willing 1 to pnnt view* of Time* readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Sign your name as an evidence of Sood faith. It will not be printed you object.

The Mall Man’s Burden To the Editor of The Times I have noticed articles in The Times by persons wha have evidently a reason for complaining of the poor service they have received at the hands ; of the local postoffice, laying particu- | Lar stress, upon the mail carrier. Writing as one who has had the experience and who knows, it is only fair to the public that it should become acquainted with the facts concerning the other side of this question. With reference to the case of Mrs. Catterson, the deliver}' of these 100 letters that day depended largely on the place of mailing. If they __ were mailed in a street box on Tuesday morning, they stood a chance of not being picked up by the collector until too late for the afternoon delivery from the office, and the same applied if they were mailed at a sub-station. Nevertheless they waited until a very late hour to mail announcements for a meeting that same night, and there was a fifty-fifty chance that they wouldn’t be delivered even if the local office was 100 per cent perfect. In the letter from the Cullaton Granite Company, Mr. Cullaton stated service was better in 1910 than at the present time. I agree with him on that point. In 1910 the routes were so that the carriers could cover them and give every one on the route his morning mail in the morning, but as the city grew larger more streets were added to his route at the present time every carrier or nearly every carrier in Indianapolis has more than he can do. The only thing that can relieve the situation is for Congress to grant us more money with which to hire more men. We are doing our very best. What more can be expected? If we can put up with long routes, heavy mail and ofttlmes long hours, why can’t the public put up with a late delivery. A MAIL MAN.

Tongue Tips

President Coolidge, after one horseback ride: “Horseback riding keeps a fellow’s feet too far from the ground.” A. J. Volstead, prohibition law author; "Nobody cares what I say." “Mary," an addict in Kansas City: "The poor creatures who use narcotics are the lonesomest persons in the world. There are times when they would give anything for the touch of a friendly hard, the moral support and help of someone who understands. But they are suffering alone. None cares about them, it seems.” Charles Lxy Downing, New York: “The value of a building is increased measurably by the beauty w'hlch a skilful artist is able to put in it, and nowhere Is one to find more talented architecture being done than here. More of us must learn chat good art is good business, in arithmetic, aa in opera.” Ernest R. Caverly, principal Newton, Mass., schools; “If children are going to make mistakes, the place to make them is in school. If they are ever going to have civio consciousness, it is in school. Before you veto a plan of extra-curricular activities, remember the schools are not run for the teachers.”