Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1924 — Page 4

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1 “LOONEY GAS” AND OTHER GAS mN Bayway, N. J., all folks talk about is “looney gas/’ Forty-nine good workmen were stricken by this strange sas in the Standard Oil Company’s laboratory. AH of them, formerly normal, took on symptoms of insanity. Some were mild, others wild, and five were so crazy they died in straitjackets. “Looney gas” is the workman’s name for tetra-ethylized zasotine, a high test gasoline with which the company is experimenting before offering it for popular consumption by autoists. A gasoline preparation similar to it is being sold in many •ities already. Company officials assert, there is no danger in its use in automobiles, but public health officials of New York City have doubts as to its safety. They have ended its sale in 10.000 gasoline stations in that city. Some other cities are following this example, and as the stories of additional deaths from the “looney gas” epidemic at Bayway reach newspapers, many an autoist begins to be alarmed for his own safety and his family’s. Which is all right. When in doubt, play safe with new gases. , But — Every motorist is infinitely more in danger from the plain, ordinary, garden variety of gasoline he uses day after day—if he only knows it—than he is from tetra-ethvl lead poisoning fro’.a this high test “looney gas,” especially at this time of year. Plain gas, and every other kind of gasoline, manufactures carbon monoxide gas as it burns. “Looney gas” may make you crazy, but you have a chance to return to sanity if properly treated. Carbon monoxide, in a closed garage, can make you dead in a few minutes, if breathed in sufficient, quantities. What’s more, it is colorless, odorless and tasteless. It paralyzes the lnngs before its victims know it. Perhaps this “looney gas” scare will result in good. It may make folks think to keep the garage doors open when they warm up the motor in the morning, and breathe air, even if it is freezing, and not carbon monoxide, which is deathdealing. without warning.

on. STORED in big tanks in our country are 500 million barrels t ____ of crude oil. That’s as much as we use in ten months. When an oil shortage develops later, as it does periodically, a big reserve will lie waiting in the tanks. Industry not only looks ahead months, it looks ahead generations. A lot of the big planning of the present is for years hence when the planners will he gone. The system increasingly becomes more intricate. Day of hand-to-mouth business is gone Seventh-tenths of the world’s oil is used right here in the United States. This is an accurate reflection of our mechanical leadership, for the main uses of oil are machinery lubrication and driving power by explosion of gasoline or burning of crude oil. Our civilization is largely mechanical. But don’t be discouraged. Machinery will solve the problem of making a good living in a few hours a day. With that problem solved, man will be released for intellectual and spiritual pursuits. Previous great civilizations rested on human slavery instead of machinery. This will interest you if you own oil stocks fas nearly every one does). Uncle Sam reports that the world produced 42,4fi2 million gallons of crude oil last year and used only 38,215 gallons. This left an enormous surplus, which by the law of supply and demand made the price of crude oil, at the wells, low. This law of supply and demand still is the real ruler of economics, though it is often sidetracked temporarily by the conspiracies of manipulators. EARTHQUAKE DOWN south. And they said it was solid! THE POLITICAL prophet is without honor even in his own country. ALL THE Chinese combatants are now running in different directions, and it is believed the war is over or a shower is coming. WAYNE WHEELER says the next Congress will be dryer, but he doesn't venture to assert that it will dry up entirely. A NEW YORK janitor has just pulled off a $5,000,000 real estate deal, showing that he had fired his ambition instead of the furnace. DOING their nefarious work on a river scow, those Gotham counterfeiters erroneously believed they could float their bogus issue.

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Dies a Hero

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Ensign Ilcnry Clay Drexler of the scout cruiser Trenton gave his life for his men. When the explosion occurred, he had a chance to. save himself. But he thought only of his “boys.” Three times he dashed back info the fire and dragged some seaman (Hit of the blazing furnace. He was going hack after the fourth when he collapsed.

In New York By JAMES \V. DEAN a little electrical shop just u__J around the corner from where I live. The other night T dropped In to buy some bulbs and be told me that ho was going out of business. He Is going to take a salaried job. Three y fears ago his wife, who was 37. ran off with a youth of i D. after being married apparently happily for 17 years. At that time the electrician had a ‘very pretentious establishment. He gave it up for the smaller place in another community, thinking that his effort, to build up anew business would bring peace of mind. That failing, he now turns to work for another man so that he will have to keep at work for a certain number of hours each day. He tells me that in three years he has not slept more than two hours any mght and that he has aged twenty years In that time. And that’s another of those little stories that can lie next door to you in New Y'ork for years without being revealed. Eannie Hurst called New Y'ork "the vertical city." In a. few years it will be known as "the pyramid city." Since the new zoning law went into effect a few years ago hundreds of new hujldiiis’s have gone up, many in the district be- * ween Eighth Ave. and Broadway and Forty-Second and Thirtieth Sts. These buildings step back every' two stories until the top floor occupies about one-half as much space as the llrst floor. At Forty-Sixth St. and Fifth Ave. an auto dashed up on the side walk and pinned a man against Its fender. A plate glass window crashed and cut off the man’s leg. When a policeman ordered the driver of the car to rush the man to a Hospital he answered, "I don’t think I ought to get my car all covered with Mood.” No sooner had he uttered that noble phrase than a bystander Stepped up and smashed him full In the face and gave him a bloody nose.

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Science As soon as Darwin gave to the world his theory that man and monkey were descended from the same ancestors, scientists conducted a search for fossil and other evidences of the connection. This search was popularized by the term "missing link.” There never has been found an exact missing link in the sense that this term generally is used —that is. half-man half-ape. There have been, however, a number of remains found that scientifically are real missing links in the evolutionary scale. However, all these remains showed more simian than human character istics. The last one, discovered recently, is a fossil of the Miocene period showing parts of a skull. It was found in India by Dr. Barnum Brour of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. The remarkable part of these remains is that the teeth bear a close, resmblance to the teeth of man. This indicates that it is the closest of all sub-men to the primitive human race. A Thought Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.—Job 13:15. * • * Trust men, and they will he true to you; treat them gently, and they wil show themselves great.—Emer-

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MEN DIE AS VICTIMS OF SPEED GOD Experiments Directed Toward Producing More Motor 'Pep.’ By Times Special BAYWAY, N. J., Nov. 3.— Those victims of "looney gas" who died strapped in straitjackets because the tetra-ethyl lead poisoning had made them so violently crazy, were sacrifices to the God of Speed and Power. “Looney gas" is the workman’s name for tetraethyl lead ingredients which are mixed in ordinary gasoline to make it more powerful. Oil companies and motor manufacturers are seeking a high test gasoline which will explode at higher pressure, developing more power and giving automobiles greater speeds. Thomas Migley Jr . experimenting with high test gasoline mixtures, hit upon this tetra-ethyl lead proposition a few year[s] sago [ago]. His product, was taken up by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the General Motors Company jointly. A product known as ethyl gas, manufactured by the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, is already on the market. The Standard of New Jersey and the General Motors Company jointly own the Ethyl Gasoline Company. Work at Dayton The General Motors Company maintains an experiment laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. In the experiments with tetra-ethyl lead gas, two employes have been killed there by the poison. The laboratory here, where fortynine workmen were victims of the poison last week; is the standard’s experiment station. These laboratories, as well as another one at Wilmington, Del., owned by the DuPont interests, are all working on a still higher test gasoline than the ethyl gas already on the market. Officials of the three companies contend that there is no danger from the product sold on the market. because the experiment stage passed and because the tetra-ethyl lead so used is diluted in 1,000 parts of gasoline. Public health officials of New York. unsatisfied with this assurance, sought the advice of Dr. Yandell Henderson of Yale an expert on the effect of gas fumes on the human lungs Works Slowly Yandell reported that tetra ethv! lead poison was so insidious in its action that it could be imbibed by victims slowly and accumulated, with the result that its effect might only be felt long after the actual poisoning. This led New York City health of flcials to forbid the sale of ethylized gasoline in the 10,000 service stations in that city. The peculiarity of tetra-ethyl gas poisoning is that it makes perfectly normal persons suddenly insane. Of the forty-nine stricken at the Bay way plant, a dozen or so were only mildly affected, a score or so were suffering from deliriums, while the rest were more or less violently insane. Five of them died in strait jackets the first week after the poisoning The Bayway plant was closed soon after the poisoning became pub-

licly known and the county prosecutor is investigating the circumstances under which the men were stricken. Company officials contend that the men were warned of the danger of their work when they were employed, and say workmen were examined daily by company medical men. The Bayway plant is known in its neighborhood as “the looney gas works,” a name given to tetra-ethyl lead gas by the men themselves. Dr. J. Gilman Thompson, physician for the Standard Oil of New Jersey, in charge of the patients, explained that tetra-ethyl lead is a substance known to science since 1854. It has been experimented with in laboratories, he said, but its use in connection with gasoline is quite recent. Describing its action on human beings, Dr. Thompson said it caused acute symptoms, particularly congestion of the brain, very similar to those which cause delirium tremens. Lead poisoning, generally, causes symptoms known as painter’s colic, which painters suffer from too long close contact with the lead in paints. . ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ Busy It was night-time and the cop flashed his light on a quiet automobile pulled up at the side of the road. “No parking,” said he. “you can’t loaf along here.” And a voice said. “Who’s loafin’ ” —Whiz Bang.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any q.irtion ol fact or information by wriiluj to The ImllananoUa i:me Washington Bureau, 1322 Sew York Ave Wasnaigtnn D C . Inclosing 2 cents in stamps tor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other <jit< to -ns w ill receive a per son a I r py Unsigned requests cannot he answ'red. Ail letters are cuulidtntial.—Editor. How ran ono break n dog of killing chickens? Whip him severly when you catch him stalling th“ cliickens. If tlrs does not cure him of the habit, tie the next chicken ho kills securely to his neck, leaving it there until it decomposes. The sight and smell of the chicken probably will always ling ■ emory at vent his killing another. When and where was Bainbridge <’o!hy bom? St. I/nils, Mo, Dec. 22. !S!, What causes asthma in cats and how can it he cured? Old age Is generally the cause anl the disease I- incurable. When, how and where was the steamship Bultara, carrying wounded T'nion prisoners, destroj’ed during the Civil War. and h.oyv many lives were lost? It was destroyed on the Mississippi Kiver. seven miles above Mem phis. Term., by a boiler explosion, April 27. ISfif). Fourteen hundred lives were lost Where In the Bible is the ext- - ing of the flesh of swine prohibited and why? See Deuteronomy fourteenth chapter eighth verse and Leviticus, eleventh chapter seventh verse. Is Petrograd the capital of Russia? No, the capital of Itusslk is now Moscow. How can eggplant be stored for winter use? There does not seem to be anv way, as canning is not recommended. What Is the badge of tho T'nlted Prates Secret Service and where is it worn? The badge is a small sliver star. Tt Is not worn on any special! designed place, but Is worn or carried as most convenient to the man. Whet will remove the stain of walnuts from th<* hands without Injury to the skin? The juice of ripe tomatoes. What 1s Ihe population of the leper colony on Molokai b land? According to the 1020 census It is 667. What are the countries supplying cork? The cork tree Is ft native of southern France and northern Africa. Spain and Portugal chiefly supply the world with rork. while in addition Algeria and Tunis, southern Franco and Corsica arid Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily, are also sources of supply. Seventy tier cent of the world’s cork is produced in Spain. What pensions arc paid veterans of the Civil War? A pension of SSO a niofitli 1s paid to veterans of the Civil War who served ninety days or more and were honorably discharged. The rate of $72 per month is provided for any person who served as above, but. who. by reason of age or physical or mental disability, becomes helptoss or blind, or nearly helpless or id, so as to require the regular personal aid and attendance of another person. When wans turpentine selling at the lowest price during the past forty years, and w'hat was the price? The lowest recorded price during August and September, 1896. when turpentine sold for 22 cents per gal lon.

The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Pete, the porter, says his wife isn’t much on in-fighting but she sure can shy a mean skillet. "Girls may take up smoking as time goes by,” said a man in the end chair this morning, “but the lips that suck Wheeling stogies shall never touch mine.” Too many honeymoons go Into total eclipse. NEXT-!

Our Latest Affliction

WH O WIL L BE NAMED ON C ABINET? Speculation as to Who Will Succeed Late H. C, Wallace. Time* Wanhinytan I'urcnu. / <?£■ \ etc York ,4 ir. - A-3 ASHINGTON. Nov. 3.—Who’s \X/ going to Vie tho new becre___J tnry of Agriculture? The ITesl ienr Is faced with no dearth of material for this Cabinet ; - made vacant by the death of Secretary Henry C. Wallace, judging by the number of folks who are urging him to appoint their candidates to tho Job. In Washington on hears a gno-l d.-al of talk about Frank O. Low-il.-n, former Governor of Illinois, who turned down tHo vice presi-d.-ntial nomination on tho Repubi:< an ticket. The assumption here is that the President might like to have Bowden in his official family, but In view of T.owden’s repeated refusal to accept Republican honors the President would not take a chance on being turned down again. Work for Taber A number of members of the National Grange have been busy here on behalf of E. J. Taber of Columbus. Ohio, who is titled Master of the Grange. However, some members of other fanner organizations are dead set against letting Taber have the job and that would make his appointment embarrassing to she President. A movement is also ’on foot for Dan A. Wallace, brother of the late Secretary, now publisher of Wallaces Farmer, an lowa farmer weekly, which the former Secretary edited until he entered public life. May Name Gilbert However, President Coolidge has always favored his frlenda for Cabinet positions, and It. Is possible that he may favor Arthur W. Gilbert, commissioner of agriculture of Massachusetts, whom Coolldgo appoint ed to the latter position when he himself was Governor. Gilbert Is well liked by farmer organizations. Another ’ friend" of the President Is Col. Charles TI. March, Coolidge campaign manager In Minnesota. The President has entertained him in the White House and was himself responsible for making him Minnesota Coolidge manager. March is decidedly acceptable to the dairy people, for he has fought, for them in getting higher tariff rates for iheir products. Governor Preus of Minnesota lias urged the appointment of March.

Tongue Tips Cleveland A. Newton. Congressman. Missouri: “The railroads must stop their fictitious fight against the water lines. We ought not to carry on a campaign to destroy the railroads, but she railroads oflght to bo fair with the waterways and give the latter a chance to live.” James T. Knox, Harvard football strategist and scout: "As I look over the college campuses these days I see hoys with spindle legs and hollow chests who have replaced the sturdy youths of a few years ago. This Is because the younger generation thinks only the frivilous things of life are worth while.” Rev. James E. Condon, Presbyterian, Kansas City: “It is evident that, if the legal profession and those charged with the development of court, procedure do not. immediately make justice the objective, chaos is inveitable, and every man will l:>e o law unto himself and our civilization will be doomed.” Dr. Charles W. Eliot, presidentemeritus, Harvard University: "The joy the modern youth has is the prospect of a happiness and power and influence which no other generation possessed.” Joke by the Cook “Where’s my whisk broom, Mary?” asked the professor. "You ate It for breakfast, sir,” replied the maid. “The other cereal was all gone.”—American Legion Weekly. .

Tom Sims Says Well, a Fresno (Cal.) woman bought the jail and will live in it, j hut we don’t know if her friends • will feel at home. New Tork boy is bald at. IS. so j c-an’t claim his wife pulled it out. When a man is mad, he cusses. When a woman is mad. she cries. Cussing doesn't get the man much. A landlord killed himself in Eos Angeles, but we can think of no reason why a landloard should be tired of living. In Regina, bask., a woman has thirteen children, the oldest being five, which must he a big washing. The police station safe was robbed in Endlcott, N. Y'., while the police force was walking his beat. Boston professor says a college : education is worth $72,000. That's : bad. At present liquor prices It j costs more than that. Two new railroads are being built :In tho Alps. Eyen so, they can’t be higher than our railroads. Grand Rapfds (Mich.) man quit his young wife for her older sister, proving wisdom doesn't come with age. The strange thing about a Cleveland (Ohio) baby that can stand on j her head is she doesn't do it acj ohlentally. i California woman asks SIOO,OOO for husband's stolen love, which probably wasn’t worth a nickel. The woman who asks money for ! a broken heart has no heart. Denver family, has welcomed Its ! seventeenth child, but just wait | until Christmas comes. I (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Breakiti' Em In By IL*\L COCHRAN It’s nice, when window shopping, to be lookin' ’round and stopping Just to see the things the stores have on display. But It’s nicer to be buying of the things that you are eyeing and to try things on ere you are on your way. Shoe store windows have attraction and they promise satisfaction If you’ll have some kickers fitted to your feet. So you enter and be seated while you’re very kindly treated and you're shown a line of brogans that are neat. After trying many shoes on you are told that you can’t lose on any pair that you may finally select. ’Course you do a lot of fretting; are you right in what you're getting? Then you pick the pair that gives the right effect. Tt is easy Just to try ’em, and it’s not so hard to buy ’em- It's a situation where we all have been. But you have a heap of trouble and the two shoes make it double, as you're aching while you're breaking new shoes in. (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc.)

Nature Many people in Europe, and seme in America, still believe the superstition of middle ages physicians that you’d lose your voice if you ate an eel. The science fellows have found by experimentation that plants must be able to breathe oxygen from the atmosphere through their roots as well as through their leaves. Then a perforated porcelain jar was sunk in many kinds of soil to prove the movement of oxygen. Little oxygen penetrated hard or packed soil. It passed freely through light and cultivated soil. Farmers and gardeners have known for ages that the ground had to be well cultivated to produce good crops, but now we have the science of it—oxygen circulating around the turnip's feet, and plenty of it. One for the Doctor “By gosh, doctor, that’s an awful bill for that treatment.” “My dear friend, if you knew howinteresting your case was and how strongly I was tempted to let it go to a post-mortem, you wouldn t kick at the price.”—Williams Purple Parrot.

MONDAY, NOV. 3, 1924

Right Here In INDIANA 1 By Gaylord Nelson

rpq HURCH bells will ring and I I whistles will blow’ in Indiana j tomorrow’ an hour before the polls close to warn dilatory voters. Extraordinary efforts are being made throughout the Nation to poll a large vote tomorrow. In Aurora, 111., a slacker list will be published of eligible voters of that city who fail to visit t.he polls. The percentages of eligibles voting in a presidential f-lgi ;ion makes a discouraging record. “Rarely is it 50 per cent.. This despite the fact that a national election is the culmination of an advertising campaign of unrivaled extent in the publicity field. If a maker of chewring gutn spends a few- millions advertising his product the jaws of mankind wag in a chorus that might be mistaken by inhabitants of Mars as an attempt to communicate with that planet. Publicity w’orth a hundred times more is devoted to an election day. l'et in many precincts election offi cials spend the hours in comparative solitude. The ringing of the Liberty bell in Independence Hall once proclaimed a people's freedom. Only once. Y'at. before It Americans pause and pay homage. For its peal w’as patriotic music. The rustle of the ballots as they slide Into the box is better patriotic music. And more surely Is freedom proclaimed by ringing the bells of the voting machine.

Medals *■] INE Hoosiers were swarded V bronze medals Saturday. These were for acts of heroism and were among the fortyeight recognized by the Carnegie fund commission at Its fall meeting. Eight of the awards in this State were for an effort to save a clay miner entombed in fe. cave-in at Brazil, Ind. One of the rescuers, J. FYanklin Elson, was killed in the attempt. Thus, according to the dispassionate statistics of the Carnegie fund. Indiana ranks high In the output of heroes. Men always display unselfish daring when emergencies, with other lives at stake, arise. But true heroism can not be expressed In statistics. Nor can It be weighed and measured like coal or wheat. It does hot always mean braving the jaws of death in tense moments of excitement. It may not be conspicuous physical gallantry that can be applauded. / The man who meets the problems, responsibilities, and necessities of daily life, with honesty, truth and honor —who would rather go broke than break his w’ord—is as much a hero as one who dashes into the water after an imperiled bather. But the Carnegie commission won't pin any hero medal on him. It can’t. His only medal is personal satisfaction which is worth a bushel of bronze tokens.

Peepers . TENANT of Lhe William Penn Apartments. N. Pennsylvania • St., discovered a man peeking in one of his windows the other night. Police believe it to be the same man who has been reported several times around that apartment house. Peepers are common annoyances. An eye-full through the crack of a carelessly drawn shade is not substantial filling for man or beast. Still, peepers, undeterred by scanty returns and risk, prowl in the darkness, straining their optic nerves. Until a patrolman gets them or a householder fills them with birefshot. For the normal person hates a peeper. No one can stand for twenty-four hours a day the white glare that beats upon a throne. One may be gregarious. enjoy companionship and crowds. But every one wears a shell in formal relations with the world. Which becomes Irksome and is laid aside for the natural self In! the privacy and seclusion of the home. In business and social contacts a man may be a ruthless and domineering pirate. Hated and feared But at home, with his hard shell laid aside, he is only a bald, tired little man. with jumpy nerves and fallen arches. Then he pulls down the shades. Because it is sufficiently disquieting to him tn know the recording angel sees him divested of his pro tecting shell. A human peeper at that time is unbearable.

Tribute jr> UNDAY morning in Roberts j | Park Methodist Church there ' was service in honor of Oliver P. Morton, former Governor of Indiana. It is the custom to hold an annual memorial service on the Sunday nearest the anniversary of his death, which occurred Nov. 1, 1877. He was a national figure among statesmen of his time. As Governor, during the trying years of the Civil War, his leadership was characterized by unflinching determination, indomitable energy and high patriotism. And statues in Indianapolis have been raised in his honor. One guards the base of soldiers and sailors monument. In company with bronze memorials to three other notable men who played prominent parts and wrote bright pages in the State's history. Before the Statehouse stands, another more massiye piece of statuary—the tribute of this commonwealth to its great war Governor. For this memorial the legislature appropriated a considerable sum. But it's customary to raise solid, expensive statues for distinguished, deceased statesmen. The memorial service at Roberts Park Church cost nothing. But that simple observance in memory of a man whose life and character made an impression on his State —is a more sincere tribute than a stained, lumpy bronze casting on a granite base—raised by legislative enactment.