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MINERS 5 AGREEMENT y7|ITII ratification of the mine wage agreement set for March W 12 and its acceptance by the workers almost certain, it is becoming apparent that the United Mine Workers of America is considerably more of a level-headed organization than its recently disorderly convention in Indianapolis would indicate. Acceptance by miners and operators of a three-year agreement with present wage scales is an event of major impedance in the mining industry and in the history of the United Mine Workers. For the first time in years the Natioif is not faced with a coal strike at the expiration of a wage agreement. Peace between operators and miners means the saving of millions of dollars to industry and to workmen. Peace was brought about through the sane leadership of John L. Lewis, international president, and his assistants. They have done a great service to the public and even to the miners who fought them bitterly in the Indianapolis convention. NEEDED TAXATION CHANGES prno one will dispute the fact that there is something wrong [IN j with taxation in Indiana. No one —or hardly any one—will deny that the principal trouble with taxation in Indiana is that too much money is being spent. These facts apply not only to the State government —where shortcomings are glaring—but to many local governmental units. The State Chamber of Commerce has adopted a tax reform program that is well worth considering. It has its shortcomings, but it will serve at least as a good starting point for changes. Perhaps few persons will agree with every point in the program, but that is true of any complete tax reform idea. ♦ • * The program calls for a cessation of borrowing. Everybody will agree there is too much borrowing, because under the new property valuation system, borrowing is easy. Os course, it is necessary in emergencies. N# one will object to the suggested general application of the budget system. It should be surrounded with stringent laws that will compel its complete application. A budget system half carried out. as has been the case with some Indiana governmental units, is worse than no budget system. Perhaps the point in the program of the Chamber of Commerce that will create the most discussion and controversy is the suggestion that the tax commission be retained and that a strong central body be maintained to compel proper assessments.

Nearly every, candidate for Governor on both tickets has declared for abolition of the tax board or for modification of the law to. relieve it.of some of its power. “Home rule” is the slogan of the present political campaign. The Chamber of Commerce declares in so many words it is opposed to “home rule.” Os course, this does not prove the Chamber of Commerce wrong. Nevertheless, there is room for argument. | - Opponents of the tax board declare it is not possible for three men to sit in Indianapolis and decide what is wise and what is not wise in the matter of an expenditure by a local governmental unit. Indianapolis had its experience with this sort of thing when the board blocked the sale of bonds for much-needed schojl buildings. Nevertheless, it probably would be going too far to advocate abolition of the board. There could be modifications in the law and curtailment of the board’s power. • • • The program originally called for annual assessment of real estate, but this section was stricken out. Heal estate now is valued for taxation every four years. Prices have fluctuated considerably in a four-year period. If each taxpayer is to bear his just share, annual valuation is desirable, although, perhaps, inconvenient. Another subject that will create considerable controversy is the proposal of a State income tax. The present tax mess in Congress is enough to indicate the sort of thing with which the State would be confronted. Nevertheless, the proper kind of income tax probably is the most equitable possible form of taxation. Motorists should not object to the continuation of the gasoline tax, which is suggested. Objection was raised to the incretse in license fees because motorists felt an undue burden was heaped on them all at once. They are willing to pay their j jst share. The subjects covered here are the outstanding ones in t: e program. • • * Taxation is the biggest problem before the people of Indiana If the Chamber of Commerce has done nothing more than to provoke more general discussion of the subject it has rendered a service. After all, the most significant statement in the whole rep ut, as presented by the taxation committee, is this: “THE TROUBLE WITH TAXATION IN INDIANA IS NOT ENTIRELY.ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SHORTCOMINGS OF OUR STATE AND LOCAL TAX SYSTEM. INADEQUACY OF ADMINISTRATION IS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DIFFICULTIES.” Perhaps it would be nearer correct if “partly” were changed to “mostly.” DAUGHERTY evidently objects to members of the cftd guard feeding him to the wolves in the hope that they themselves may escape the wolves at the door.

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DIXON MAY BE DENBY’S SUCCESSOR v . Folks Who Know Montana Governor Think He Is Admirable Choice, Ti-mra Washington Bureau, lsli New York Ave. -LTjjASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Joseph M. Dixon, Governor of Montana, is being suggested as a successor to Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy. From what is said by Montana folks and from the recollection they have of him in the House and Senate, where he once served, Dixon may be an admirable choice. He Is best remembered by newspaper readers as the Western manager of Theodore Roosevelt's bull moose campaign in 1912. Since then he has dropped out of the national eye. Four years ago he was elected Governor of his State on the Republican ticket, defeating Burton K. Wheeler, present Senator. He was elected as a conservative, but has been anything but satisfactory to his conservative backers, which means, in Montana, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. As Governor he has been responsible for taxing this concern far beyond what it considers its .iust deserts. Course Atttraets Attention His course has attracted attention. There has been talk of recent months of drafting him for the vice presidential nomination on a ticket wit Is Coolidge. There has been talk, too, he might make the race against Walsh for the Senate. The latter's work in the oil investigation, however, is believed to have made his position so strong at home Dixon's chances would be dubious. Having been a congressman. a Senator and a Governor, it is not unlikely he would like to round out his career with a term In the cabinet. Dixon is credited with exceptional political intelligence and with adminlstrafive ability. He is a lawyer, but has devoted most of his time, when not in office, to publishing a newspaper.

Denby Fails on .Job The signal failure of Edwin Denby as civilian head of the Navy has brought about considerable discussion I of the qualities necessary for the job. The consensus among Washington ob- ! servers is that a secretary of the Navy must have knowledge o; men and j affairs and that he must hay# common sense and courage. He must be able to understand the probjems of the Navy Department and must have the courage to apply his j own judgment, despite pressure of the uniformed experts who surround him. There is bound to be lots of "poli- j tics” in the Navy, loyal and patriotic j though the personnel is. A weak sec- ; retary soon finds himself hopelessly j enmeshed among professional and so- j eial ambitions. The one remedy for naval politics Is to send the politicians to sea. Daniels Shows Courage The experience of Josephus Daniels pretty well illustrates what a straightthinking civilian with courage ! can do in the Navy Department. Daniels, like every predecessor in his office, found the inside coterie of naval officers ready to run his job for him. All he would have to do, it was intimated, wus to look pleasant and watch the wheels go round. Daniels squashed that program and undertook to penetrate the mystery thrown up around naval affairs to mystify sim pie landlubbers. He encountered terrific opposition, but by the end of the eight years he had the complete confidence of all naval men and the personal liking of most. Despite propaganda leveled at Daniels by the armor plate interests and the oil interests, they rate him pretty high in the Navy Itself. And when Daniels retired the House Naval Comfnittee, a majority of (he members Republicans, gave him a dinner in appreciation of his services. It was the first such dinner on record. Summed up. a successful secretary of the Navy Is a man ready to face s year or two of personal unpopularity, in hope of winning his reward foi honest service at th eend. Science The importance to humanity of the great advances made by surgery in recent times seldom are appreciated unless the student of this subject looks back a few- years. Even as late as the Civil War, many operations were performed without anesthetics. Anesthesia had been introduced about fifteen years pre,viously, but the supply of chloroform, which was then the principal anesthetic. was small and many patients were held down by attendants and made the victims of "slap-dash surgery"—speed being necessary when the patient was conscious. Modern surgery started with Am broise Pare, in the middle of the Sixteenth Century. He operated on many French soldiers. In his day it was thought that gunshot wounds were 1 poisonous. They were cauterized with | boiling oil and hot pitch. At one time Pare ran short of these ingredients and he was greatly worried because he feared that a large number of men wounded by gunshot would die. To his surprise he found they got along much better than the ones treated with the boiling oil. That ended that particular form of torture. Pare made many other discoveries that put surgery on the road it is following today.

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Here is anew picture of Mrs. Beverly D. Harris (top) whoso husband (bottom reopened his suit for annulment of their marriage. Harris used to be vice president of the National City Bank in New York, i where hearing is being held. NO. 17 Third ! Degree Yourself! ~Memory Span ———— —J How many figures can you remember and write down correctly after you have heard them just once? If you are a grown person, you should be able to remember easily seven or eight. A bright child of 10 years should remember six. >r as many as there are on the average automobile license. Then try repeating them backward. An average grown person should be able to repeat in this way either one of the two sets of six. If you re peat either set of eight correctly back wards you have demonstrated superior Intelligence in this respect. Two persons play this game. One reads; the other does the repeating The reader should pronounce each number distinctly and separately as. in giving a telephone number. For example, 2537905, should be given, 2-flve-three-seven-nine-ohfive. Try’ these: Three figures—l3s, 641. Four figures—2R6l. 5394. Five figures—-74296, 86164 Six figures—729s36, 842751. Seven figures—74B2sl)l, 8396152. Eigfit figures—269sß37l, 37294258. (Copyright by Science Service) Listen By BERTON BRALEY If you will listen now and then To other women* other men, You’ll sometimes hear a thing or two That may be of some use to you. The trouble with the most of us. When there is something to discuss. Is that we merely try to say The things WE think—and go away. What other people have to state We do not hearken to, but wait Until, not being too abrupt, We see a chance to interrupt. The opportunity to learn fs loßt, we simply wait our turn So we can chatter and rejoice In listening to our own voice. You’ll gain a lot of Information From other people’s conversation—- | Look how much wiser you will be Because of listening to me! tCopyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | A Thought The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.—Ps. 104:18. • • * EET cavillers deny That brutes have reason; sure ’tls something more, 'Tis Heaven directs, and stratagem inspire# Beyond the short MMaot of human thought. —Somerville. Little Charlie’s Trouble “See, Charlie, the stork has brought you a nice little, brother." “Yes, that’s the way! Just as I’m getting on in the world competition begins.”—Fliegende Blatter.

ing to a bunch of cattle we could see below us at the bottom of the hill, ‘How many head of cattle do you think there aro there?’ “ ‘Oh, BOO,’ I said, at a venture. ” ‘Absolutely correct How did you get it?’ “ 'Well, I just counted the legs, ‘I said ‘and divided the number by four.” ”•

ARTISTS OF STONE AGE TRY HAND Scratched Sketches on Bones and Cavern Walls and Tried Sculpture, • By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright, by David Dietz) RUE, man probably’ made his I I first appearance in South Asia 1 * ) or North Africa 25,000 years ago. It is thought he appeared upon territory which has since sunk below sea level due to movements of the earth’s crust and Is now covered by the Mediterranean Sea. Anthropologists find two distinct races in the fossil remains of this period. One race has been named the CroMagnards. The Cro-Magnards were tall men, about six feet tall, with broad foreheads and prominent noses. Their skulls give evidence that their brain capacities exceeded in size the average of today.

Os Negroid Type The second type is known as the Grimaldi man and seems to have been a negroid type. Many fossils of this period cannot be positively identified as belonging to either race. Very likely there may have been many other races at the time. Neanderthal man was driven out of his caverns by these new types which took possession of the earth. These new races were hunters. They made rough implements out of stone. They were artists. Rude sketches which they made are found on the walls of caverns of the period and scratched on bones found In the caverns. They’ even tried their hand at sculpture, making little statuettes out of Ivory and soapstone. About 12.000 years ago anew type of man known as the Azilian made his appearance. Old Stone Ago Then about 10,000 years ago (he greatest change came. Up unlll this time implements were all or rough stone. Hence this foregoing period of which we have written has been called the Old Stone Age. or to use the scientific name, the Paleolithic Age. Now starts the New Stone or Neo lithie Age. This is the period of polished stone implements. From now on, man polished his implements with earn. Arrow heads are found. There are also ax heads so constructed as to be fastened to handles. At this time the start of agricul ture and the domestication of animals was also made. Six thousand years ago matt learned to make implements of copper. Three thousand years ago he first learned the use of iron. Next article In series: The Races of Man.

Editor’s Mail The editor i willing to prion new* ot Time* reader* on interesting subject* Make your comment brief. Sign your name • an evidence ot rood fatta It will not be printed If you object. — Causes and Wars To the Editor of The Titnei When I went to a log cabin school seventy-five years ago we w-ere taught every effect had a cause. I have never seen it otherwise, in reading history 1 find all wars have a cause. We were also taught that if you removed the cause (lie thing did not happen, and just why Mr. Bok should give SIOO,OOO to find the best way to pre vent wars is beyond the comprehension of my unsophisticated mind. When 1 read in the four chapters of Jame# —which we are taught is the book of God—what causes our wars, it seems to me there was no necessity for a bribe to find out how’ to avoid wars. Just remove the cause and if James is right the solution of the question is very simple to us. I am 82 years old and a Civil War veteran. E. H. HORNADAY. Plainfield, Ind. Iji Follette Booster To the editor of The Time I read your editorial concerning Sen ator Robert La Follette as Republican Presidential timber with great pleas urc. I second the motion. That’s right, put the fire to them. In the last few years the people of this net ion have read a good deal of lambasting and ridicule against a clean chr racter, a Senator who is always in action—Robert La Follette. In his fighting clothes, when anything is on the docket that concerns matter of grave importance and gen eral interest to the masses, he is not to be sold. This man has been tried In all Its forms and always found balancing the scale for right and jus tice. If the Republicans stiil want to be the winner in the race and nominate a character that is clean. La Follette is the man who can win in a walk. ALBERT HEATH. When Dad Sews "How slow you men are. Tt takes you an hour to sew on a button.” "It does, but by jingo! that button doesn’t come off.” —Boston Transcript.

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The widows of Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, McKinley, and Roosevelt receive’d such a pension. Mrs. Cleveland is reported to have refused such a pension and bills have been introduced giving $5,000 a year pensions tc Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson. What is a standard fertilizer for an acre of cotton? Four hundred pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 200 pounds nitrate of soda, and 50 pounds muriate of potash. Is it true rubber can be made from potatoes? Yes and no. Isoprene can be made artificially in various ways, one of them being from the fusel-oil yielded by fermenting potato starch, and iaoprene can be changed into caoutchouc in various ways, one being by drying it over metallic sodium. But while the problem has been solved scientifically. It has not been solved industrially, for it does not pay as yet to employ this process. What is invert sugar? Invert sugar may be any kind of glucose, beet or cane sugar, which has changed its composition. It will not crystallize, but remains liquid. It has the same chemical contents as any glucose, namely, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but they are arranged differently.

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Family Fun Drain Food "Oh, doctor, what do you recommend for a tired, fagged-out brain? "Well, fish is a great brain food." "What kind of sish 9 " “Why, for you, a couple of whales might be about right to start with.’ - —Brown Jug. t Mother’s Donation “How did you keep your donation a secret?” “I sent in an anonymous check.”— Lampoon. When Cook Buys “Have ye anny o’ Fritzelpfeffer s Favorite Fried-cake Flour?" “We’re out of that, but we have something just as good.” "Go on! If there was annything just as good, d’ye think I’d take the trouble to mimorize that heathenish name?” —American Legion Weekly., For Football Brother It may not be possible wholly to eliminate biting and chewing from the noble game of football, but at leasts the practice of filing the teeth before" each game should he stopped.—Philadelphia Ledger.

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