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THE “NEW GUARD’S” PROBLEM SHE “NEW GUARD” of the Indiana public service commis-• sion is up against one of the biggest rate problems it has I laced since it came into control of the commission. And the prob-1 lem concerns the same case that brought so much criticism ou the so-called “old guard”—the water rate case. .The chances are that water rates will be increased. There is very little else for the commission to do. Valuations have been boosted and rates must be based on valuations. If the “new guard” orders an increase it will have established a higher rate than that for which the so-called “old guard” was so roundly! criticised. All of which indicates the futility of continual unconstruetive scolding. There are some indications that all of this would not have come about had not the water rate case been made an ?xeuse for attacking individuals. Will the “new guard” now become an “old guard”’ TAX PUBLICITY WILL PREVAIL [ "IHBLTOJTY for income taxes is with us to stay. Secretary j l Mellon and Attorney General Stone may obtain a <-ourt decision preventing newspapers from publishing income tax returns, despite the plain purpose of Congress in enacting the publicity law; but this avoidance will be only temporary. Sooner or later the public, now being confused by propaganda, will recognize that the benefits of publicity vastly outweigh the inconveniences and then no Secretary of the Treasury will dare dodge his duty to enforce it. What is happening in the ease of the publicity law now is only what has happened to the income tax itself. Taxation of incomes in this country first began during flic Civil War. Five times thereafter the United States Supreme Court held that the income tax was constitutional. Then in 1895, by one of those 5-to-4 xotes. the Supreme Court decided that the income tax was unconstitutional. The newspapers of that time reported that one of the judges changed his mind over night; that otherwise the vote would have been 5-to-l the other way. The result was that the people in 1913 adopted an amendment to the Constitution ending all question as to the constitutionality of the income tax. The income tax law then enacted immediately became the subject of a hostile propaganda that hasn’t entirely ceased yet. It has been ridiculed and railed against, but its essential merit, the simple common sense underlying it, has caused it to prevail. The same will be true of tho publicity law, which is merely a method of making the income tax law completely effective. The propaganda which sought to prove to the average citizen that he was being terribly harassed when he was compelled to fill out his complicated income tax return, was not inspired fcpkender consideration of the average citizen. The fact that Ke average citizen might be required to stay home from the Pmovies one or two nights in the year to work out his tax statement didn’t really bother the opponents of the income tax. What bothered thorn was that the Government had found a means to make them pay something like their fair share of taxes. And now the opponents of publicity are following just about the same course. They are endeavoring to make the average citizen feel that his privacy is being invaded unnecessarily by the Government. They proceed on the theory that the citizen regards his private income as something shameful and a thing to be hidden from his neighbors. For a little while citizens may accept this curious view, but not for long. Ultimately they will realize that publicity is their best protection. They will realize that without publicity the Government, never will be able to obtain from the rich and the powerful a full and fair share of the cost3 of Government. The present propaganda, no doubt, must run its course, but in the end the principle of publicity will prevail, because it is wise and it is fair. TEAM GAS didn't feaze Illinois bank robbers and the depositors did not need it. ANOTHER CHIC DANCER has caught a millionaire. 110 watched her step and thinks he can keep up with it. IF THEY do succeed in playing golf at night, when may tin* tired business man be expected home! AN ENGLISH physician says Ice packs will grow hair, but none of tho Arctic explorers report any thus adorned. NO SOONER did the scientists make long-time weather predictions than a considerable number of people voted for four cool years. ACCORDING TO the newspaper paragranhers, Luther Burbank’s Rix-ineh prune is not so much a discovery as it is a menace. THE DEMOCRATS are now blaming Clem Shaver for their defeat when, as a matter of fact, it was somebody else who voted for Coolidge.

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RENTING OF FAR M S 1S INCREASING Census Bureau Says Tenancy in Country Is Growing. Ttmes 'Waithiny'on Pure.au, t.i *2 S's in York . I C~r— 3 ASHTNGTON. Nov. 21.— " Own i j\)D| your own farm” is fine in theory, hut the permanent renter is becoming more numerous a.ll the time, according to the Bureau of the Census, niter an exhaustive study of farm ownership. Hitherto the South, with its negro farmers, has been the heart of the tenant fanner area. But not any more. Take the State of lowa for example.' Farm land is very expensive there. A man just starting out can hardly afford to buy it. But the land is SO good that it is profitable for him to farm it for someone else. It doesn't exactly produce a living for two families, but it does produce, more than the operator's living. In New Hampshire or Montana, where there are big areas of lowpriced land, there are few tenants. Han? On to Land In some States where there has been a prospect of farm values rising. owners have lump like prim death on to their land, but have j*,en willing to rent at moderate l;l tes with leases which leave them free to sell at any time. Hence t'ao speculative element in >t;d ownership has been somewhat ! responsible for the growth In farm j tenancy. • There are now in the United I States two and, one-half million farm tenants. The increase between il9lO and 1920 has been an increase :n the western part of the corn be.it and newly settled mountain Suites. Would lb' laborers Though many northern farm teni mts look upon their tenancy as ust one step toward ownership, j there ar e also a great many of them who, if they couldn't rent farms, would have to bo just farm lab irers. These are men who farm on shares They are no* in i position to take risks. Their landlords do | that. With farm lands costing so

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HERE’S THE FIFTH AVE. BUS OF THIRTY YEARS AGO IT WAS DRAWN BY THREE HOUSES ANi> THE VERY ELITE OF THE TOWN WERE ITS PATRONS. NOW ONE MAY SEE LiNES OF FAST MOTOR BUSSES A BLOCK LONG. THEY AR! A BIG FACTOR IN NEW YORK' TRANSIT PROBLEM.

much nowad *vs it Is often cheaper to rent land than to attempt to purchase It. The Bureau of Census says the average rental pari on cash-rented farms in 1920 represented lees than :>,ti per cent of the value of the farms. The bureau does, however. And weakness In the shortterm uncertain tenancy which is so prevalent New types of tenant contracts which will make for stability should be worked out. officials and Inves tigators there believe. Facts Bradford, the center of a great woolen trade, claims to produce more millionaires In proportion to her population than any other city In England. Carrying enough poison In a hoi low ring to destroy an lnte.nded victim was one of the commonest do vices of crime in the middle ages. Bings are seldom worn on the thumb today, but in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the thumb was the fashionable “ring finger" Mannequins at the autumn dress shows of Baris have been using com plexion makeups to harmonize with the gowns they are displaying. Brass can be kept clean much longer if. after brightening with metal polish. It is rubbed with a rag splinkled with paraffin. During 1024. 34.25(1,298 passengers worn carried on sleeping cars a dis tanoe of 13,160,000,000 miles in this country. The Royal Photographic Society of England has erected a tablet to the memory of Henry Fox Talbot, “the father of modern photography.” In China the floors of ballrooms are divided into squares, and dancers must keep to the squares that are allotted to them. An English inventor has devised a canvas bed with an iron frame that can be folded to about the size of a golf bag. Special X-ray apparatus for the study of metals is being installed in the laboratories of many American universites. Profitable “Little man,” said the deacon to the small boy, “have you no better way of spending the holy Sabbath afternoon than Idling away your time on the front porch?” “I ain’t idlin’ away no time. There's a feller inside spoonin’ with my lister an’ he’s payin’ me 50 cents an hour to watch for pop and mom.” —Ziffs.

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Councillor Ellen Wilkinson of the Fallowfield district is the first woman Socialist to sit in Parliament. She is one of four women in the new House of Commons.

In New York By JAMES W. BEAN NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—See saw-! tnp up and down Broadway I saw: Eddie Cantor, passim; like a dark ! shadow. Some day I'll Ret personal and ask him how much he weighs. I Saw roe Cook, the pride f ■ Evansville, talking to a fellow fro n the old home town And ;n conversation h-> talks just about as fa-t as he does on the stage Saw Jules Brulatour, th sensational lr -k:i g husband of Hope Hampton, with the spirit of battle in his eye. Hope, you know, was displaced by Wilda Bennett as “Mine. Pompadour" at itho eleventh hour and f.9th minute |of the play's debut on Broadway. .. . -taw Sam Henbner, entrepeneur of “clean burlesque' and a powerful man he looks Ho once was a Hacksmith’s apprentice In Brookvtlle, Pa.. also a tuba player In the hand Saw George Gershwin, who mej thinks, is one of the greadout Heine ! pianists, even though he ts a devotee of jazz. • • • Greenwich \ uro rapidly Is hecomim; t* -s : -* t■ ,w that U■- -! hair, I equality <'f s- x l -. .*•••:f .1.-r-rmln.vinn j and other such subjects have he-

come common properly of 41 Nation. No new fad has heel found to make Greenwich Village <!, tine five within However, lhe mans’ litlie o.Mi’ios I which originated it; New York's Bo j hernia have left their effort on other sections of the < is - TtiD is particularly true of restaurants Every section of the city, uptown land downtown Manhattan. the Bronx. Brooklyn and even Staten Island, are dotted with little eating i places that have no tablecloths hut j plenty of atmosphere. They all stress i individuality and low prices^ ' One restaurant near the Pennsyl- : vanla Station thus blurts Itself- “A quaint place, a comforting place, an unusual place, a quiet place, a clean i wholesome place, a dlstlnciv differ ont place.” Furthermore it proclaims that exacting people may j come there with anybody or alone :and enjoy "the personal touch of a •' master cook." This place charges : only 53 cents for lunch. • • • On Eighth Ave. in ’he Thirties one may see almost any day drug addicts waiting for their peddlers. Thin, worried and pale they stand sometimes for hours while rh > pi d--1 filer eludes the police Mi st of them [are ragged, but occasionally you ! may see a prosperous looking indl I vidua) pathetically huddled with the down an-outers to participate in his I new-found curse. j Tongue Tips DU. FHAILKR MATHEWS, Old I cago University: “The coming geni oration is enthusiastic. I welcome I the enthusiasm of inexperience be- ; cause it is hard to be enthusiastic after you hate the experience." • * • DR. LYNN HAROLD HOUGH, ! Methodist, Detroit: "Are we get- | ting like Ireland? Will America hej come another group of Balkan ! States? No greatness comes to any j country not capable of maintaining | internal unity.” • • • JUDGE HENRY MASON, Topeka, Kan.: "When you talk to drivers of cars that collleded with each other, you discover that at the time of the collision both cars were stationary." • • * SAMUEL. STRAUSS, industrial expert: "The problem before us today Is to produce goods, but how to produce the customers.”

MRS. ROSS MAY WIN OVER ‘MA’ Wyoming, Not Texas, May Have First Woman Governor, Pn Times Ppttiol CThe first woman Governor _in the United Suites will not bo Ala” Ferguson of Texas, if Wyoming can help it. Wyoming expects to beat. Texas bv at least three weeks when Mrs. Nellie Tavloo Ross, Governor-elect, is sworn into office tin* first Monday in January. gome State officials think Mrs. Ross should be sworn in it once to succeed her husband, who died on Oct. 2. However, tlicit' Is some, I dispute as to whether the election at which Mrs. Ross was chosen was j a regular election or a special j election. If it is ruled to be aj special election. Mrs. Ross will be come Governor at once. At pi <*scnt Frank E. Lucas, sec rotary of State, a Republican, is acting as Governor. Wyoming has no such thing ns a lleuienani*<e*v ernor and tho secretary of hit ate automatically succeeds tin* Governor until a special election Is , called. Lucas now contends that since a special eh-. Mon was not '•ail' and, Mrs. , Ross was not legally elected He! apl..iiti'-g his It-publicai; friends j . to ( FCif-.H.

8,000 Majority Mrs. Ross is a Democrat and was ■ elected fry an S.OOO majority, although President Ooolidg-:* carried the State of Wyoming at tin- snme election by a majority of 5,000. The Governor elect of Wyoming is of aristocratic South*-m stock. She looks the part. She fs the very op pohe of "Mit" Ferguson of Texas SL** doesn’t pr- ‘era, to In* a good hnus If-Tper m*r i good cook, and she doesn't like to w id a broom. S' *' is a dignified dam-. *.* ,dely r- ii. and her great pnd-* i as 1-cen the ir.t- ilectual comiwinlor.ship - In* af forded her hurV-nd, who was a law VCI-. in hirt St udiHer home liof v *die i ; -1 B . was in St. Joseph M *tiri. to w! hI • r fa !:■ ily •’ ' f: tin -d i South Ross was a ruive of T* r:i . . e If,e h< setthsl . W v nr ■ nvcri'y two years ago. Sh* has three • s. Not Opposed .Mrs lb - * wat.-*i in • - I * ;*'.- t oppose n !•> U ‘ Ia s , *'■ days .after Cnv-'iT.-r R.~ -i.-d. She .11' rpf.,l til" f.-.tt;:n;i*:on to f'-il '-V out 111 ;r. .n ■ 1 '"'-vcii v.' i; f L•* n:a!' n ■ an .: .i !i for 1■ : ' r ~ m ~ .. . prising toge'h- • ri • • n- *re ; :;-n .' ft d wo- Is, saMi.it teat sb • won' ! if •■looted carry cut ter hush md's ,h holes. Thaeo were farm loan ref mis ■revaluation of the rai'ro i pro, .-•ties of tho State, a S: ■•<* tax. and reforms in the coil'"'. ; of taye from the "and and min ■ g con panics ■f Wt min,' Mrs Russ’ op*-.>n*nt was Eugene : Suiiivan. of < '.asper, an ;! UK F.*!! in Wvotnh;:: v' y proud f the fact that limy ..ill have the ■ ■ \v< imsn Go vet i u the ; S'atew. They point '.v.'b ; :.d> p> the fact that women Minr-. • xis'cd In Wv.-tii tig ttfty-fi\e vim; s tgo. long t efore < her S* e\ , n j thotlght of it. and say that in isva, ! when application was made for ad ! tnis d'c into the I'n n 'Wyo** ; adtnittar.ee was tl -a at*'ti- for a fine* lo ans' the • .i.. ■ .m;. ' m-ovide ! for wiiau utl'i • 'Alert t'ongiess eh*'' fed to that. Joseph M. I 'arey, Wyoming's ,te to C..n • gross, de.-lared that th** S>.r>- wot!ld fay out of the Union rb:Lei than ! iliandoti woman suffi ig<-.

Ask The Times Yell call get an :c “w.-r to any qi;. ition of fa* t or hi J...- • - -4-f. >n In \r .nr to The iti.lianapo . '' i ,u bureau, I::It! Sw 1 U At a tngton. !> P. Incl's i.. •* cent# tn stamp* for reply M e 1 . al and marital advi.-e cannot iw kT mi nor mm I-Kteniiiai remnu-m: he i,:>,< to’n. Ail otlifr nicKtoma >v, r-’ci-ii , • -r----ional reply Pi.- .m I r teat - -nn.it b* aims i-rial. A!i ictti’ra ara coniidt'Utmi -- Kiiin r. Whnt is the solar cycle'’ A period of twenty eight tears, in any corresponding year of which the days of the week mour on tho same days of the month. Aro any of the planets the same size as the earth? Venus is almost exactly the same size. How many eggs should tin ordinary hen produce In her pullet year? Ten dozen, at least. What is a Turk and how did the name arise? A Turk is a native of the Turkish empire, or a member of tho race now dominent in Turkey. The name camo from n mythical son of ,Taphet named Turk. It is sometimes applied to Mohammedans, as that is the dominant religion of Turkey. What is a Hindu? Those peoples of India who are members of the religious faitli of that name. Tho Hindus am worship ors of many gods, the principal ones being Brahma, tho creator; Vishnu, the preserver, and Siva, tho destroyer. Their sacred books are the Vedas. Was there a negro with Columbus? , Some authorities say that Alonzo Pietro, a negro, was pilot of Hie ship Nina of the fleet of Columbus. It is further reported that he accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to America. What is meant by the average or census family? A family consisting of two adults and three adults under 12 years of age. Have women ever worn their hair Lobbed before? There is nothing new under the sun. Bobbing the hair was a fad in the court of Louis XIV of (<’ranee, and the Dutch hair cut (a form of the bob) was popular at the Court of James I of England.

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CHRISTENING OF ZR-3 TO BE UNIQUE V!i , Cos .11(120 Will Name' Ar'o! i•' L New Air Gi-srit. T ’ w U >! At 'toil flu r,-nil, l \ • t York Arr. vy ,i w\sn;v' i i'o.N Nov. 21 — ivy '!"■ . V, i ■ *:o rate bottle of j -) c! ;■ : n.c u and Monday :v. I • •! • dirigible 7. R 2is for* : p. iliv i ! r>*'*t ■ and *he. "I.os Angeles", t Mrs ' ' •* ev-'i: a. L'ltl-- of grape Juice.; mad f. • I \ ;' rtner Seri" tary of :Nf ■ i .a i it •r. Tl christening ceremony is go•ng f" be aboiit is unique and sig , u ith'gnt a sp..,a ideas has ever j t.aVi n place at the capital. Sh.orflv af*' : tin huge craft Is hrnitg! * to a safe landing by a field |, -a of tot; e ” - men. a dozen care- \ full*. over' I cages will he hauled j up •' , th- dirigible through the gat I'tdank opening. Will Lower Ribbons tena infer long ribbons will he lowered out of the opening. T* .•> at the •* appropriate time. Mr- I'"-.', lie* will grasp these ribi and ' tip* N'avv ba’*d strikes up :*!■• national anthem, gently pull i •: ' cm. With that *:•' trap door will fly ■'Pen and a d'U'cn p'dze carrier • ,alcons shipp I Into Washington *• ,m naval n!r stations at Pentmcola. i' a ll 'tnpton Roads V i.: Lakehurst and --everal other stations will * >iv out and start flying hack to j their lofts. Then there will be plenty of cheering by the huge crowd n little more :>n, l playing and probably n speech I by R- ar \dm!ral William A Mos- ; chief of the Bureau of Naval Af'vrir.M'U \(' n . th<* historic core* imr-uv will bf* ovur. Six Loti Id Land It I The 2'o men will be required to j null t’ e huge dirigible to n safe. ■ landing because \ oncost a field is ,is ypt iinp?-ovi(lol with n moorinj? , mas:. With a mooring mast, only s'\ men stationed at vantage points ! could bring the ship to her landing. Admiral Moffett will ask Congress; fop funds to erect mooring masts ’ on .-very aviation field in the eoun- ; fry. An expenditure of about $25,000 on each field would Install mooring niasm which would insure both the Shenandoah and Teas Angeles maki inr safe landings with a minimum j of effort. Science Guinea pigs and rate are mostly j used for experiments in studying di.-i ease. This is because these aid mats are easy to handle and j rapidly, which n.enbles the study of i several generations in a short time. Sentiment also has something to do ; with the use of these animals in ! stead of others. There is marked ! public feeling against the„ise of dogs and the higher animals for j vivseeuon or inoculation. While work of great benefit to the human race has been done with guinea pigs and rats, such research and experiments are handlcaped by otic important fact. This is the difference in blood composition be wen these animals and man. Many j of ihe deadliest diseases that affect man cannot ho inoculated into th*' ' ! lower animals, and consequently there is no chance to study such diseases through experimentation. Tho only group of animals that i can he infected with all human diseases is that of rite ape. This takes in the chimpanzees, gorillas and ; ; ournng cutaiigis. Their blood com-; ; position is practically identical with | ! man’s. Daughter Boasts "I understand some of those movie j ; kisses last through fifty feet of j I film.” “That’ snothlng. I've had them | that lasted for over a haft mile of i concrete paving.”—Fig Leaf.

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Dishes By HAL COCHRAN When the supper meal is over and you're lazy as kin bo, and you're leanin' hack in comfort, sort a propped against your knee, thfire is . ust one tiling that frets you. kinda robs you of your fun. It's the fact, that always gets you, that the dishes must he done. Just, a half a dozen saucers and a , naif a dozen cups, and a flock of -•ti er dishes that the evening interrupts. They are sitting on the ■ - hi.- filled with scraps of food and : such, and the truth is. very frankly, that they don't amount to much But you'd rather sit a-puffing on . citrari t or pipe than to help to do j 'he dishes when the doing time is ripe. And the Missus, too. feels lazy and as lo.afy as can be and she j really doesn't blame you, as she's I ippin' at her tea. S-- you talk tt while, xvhile sitting, md you sit there as you taik. Then, i to hejp your indigestion, you decide to take a walk. In the end, the evening pass,- -: as all nights are bound j to go, atil the morning after Mom - regrets she let. the dishes go. Nature Many snow avalanches occur in ; tho United States fall and spring, ! hut it's in Europe that they have studied them to the last word, sclent:!:' ally one observer, measuring a snow avalanche that descended at Roberts de Livof, Italy, in March, 1223. taking about three and a third minutes to travel less than one and : a third miles, contained a force of twenty million horse power. The wind produced by great avalanchesj in the Alps blows down trees nearly a third of a mile distant from the slide. Son’s Motor Tour "What sort of a time is Dick having on his motor four?” "Oh. great! I've had txx r o letters; from him "tie from a police statfon. , and the other from a hospital.”— i Passing Show.

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Tom Sims Says Things are so quiet in Mexico you can hear oil stock paying dividends. Every man likes a wife who flirts unless she is his own. Only time some men want to stay at home is when friend wife wants them to take her to a show. We would like to see a fight to the finish between the fool killer and the joy killer. The great China question, as seen in most of our homes, is, '"Who will wash the dishes?” The man who makes a fool out of himself always claims someone else did it. Only a few more weeks in which to pay the bills you ran up last Christmas. On Thanksgiving we can all be thankful we are not turkeys. pome of fhos< who toil not drink bootleg and spin. The poor are with us always, but often the rljch are against us. Time Is money, and the only way you can really sax*e time is by saving money. The farther bad news travels the bigger it grows the farther good ’ nows travels the smaller it grows. (Copyright, 1924 NBA Service. Inc.) A Thought A brother offended is harder to be xvon than a strong city; and thelr contentions axe like the bars of a castle. —PrOV. 18:19. We are members of one great body. Nature planted in ua a mutual love, and fitted us for a sooial life. Wa must consider that we were bom for the good of the whole—Seneca.