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Stopping the ‘Blue Sky’ Game SHERE is one sure remedy for “blue sky” swindling as it has been practiced in Indiana and elsewhere. Judge Baltzell of Federal court indicated that remedy when he sentenced Morton S. Hawkins Monday to serve fifteen years in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta and fined him SIO,OOO. Hawkins was found guilty by a jury of one of the largest and most elaborate swindles ever perpetrated in Indiana. It is alleged that losses to persons who placed their confidence in him totaled in the neighborhood of $6,000,000. Most of this money wa sobtained by Hawkins and his agents in small amounts from comparatively poor people. Persons experienced in -the investment field for the most part did nose turn their money over to Hawkins. This is usually the situation in cases of fraud on wholesale scale. It means that the losers are those who are least able to lose. The Federal government was relentless in the ease of Hawkins and his associates. Haw kiUS was arrested and gave bond. Then he disappeared. He was arrested months later at DaytoD. He fought every effort to bring him to trial, but he finally was forced to face a jury. • There has been a considerable epidemic of2‘blue sky” activity from time to time in Indiana. It is to be hoped that Judge Baltzell’s action will cause the smooth-tongued gentry to stop and. consider before they plan to relieve others of their savings. ** ___________________________ 4- i The Mysterious Telegrams ® HOUGH he has forgotten all about the Little Black Bag and other essential features of the oil scandal, Doheny does not forge! to condemn the Senate committee which revealed the sorry mess. The charge he makes that the committee suppressed important telegrams and letters is

How Bat’ Must a Man Be Before He Rots Mentally

By Walter D. Hickman SNDIVIDUAL sex realism! Is there such a thing? If such a thing exists, then Louis Hemon, the creator of Monsieur Ripois, knows ail about it. You will encounter this geritleman, who would qualify under the demands of individual sex realism in “Monsieur Ripois and Nemesis,” just published by the Macmillan Company and translated by William Aspenwall Bradley. • Monsieur Ripois was a spiritual wreck. He was a smart old flop, a failure In business, but he prided himself on his ability to "annex” women, both good and bad. He was a rotter, schooled in realistic vice of both the modern and the old school. He cheated every lovely and wonderful instinct within .himself. - He tried to cheat his conscience, but that busy something made the old rotter pay up. When I first encountered Eugene O’Neil crashing through on the stage with his honest and genuine realism in “Anna Christie” and “The Hairy Ape,” I asked myself if there was sudfc a thing as sex realism. Especially so after I saw “Anna Christie .. w From my experience with life, I have observed that some men have sex experiences which are filthy, terttble, indecent. In plain words, Just rotten. And then I have seen realistic sex experiences which abounded in romance and real love. (Arp seeking no argument on that po£i)t, as I am speaking of instincts.) Monsieur Ripois belongs to that school of sex realism which is ter-

Two New Ones - "The Cruise of the Nona.” fey Hillaire Belloc (HoughtonMifflin Company), is the semiautobiography of this most versatile of modern English tpriters. "Had I called it ‘The Cargo’ I might be nearer my Intention,” writes Mr. Belloc. “At any rate. I am now off to Sail the English seas again, Sind to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul, and of these somb will be of profit to qne man and some to another, and most, I suppose, to none at j Few people remember Henry £>. Thoreau as a student of Kew England bird life, yet the Author of "Walden” has written much about this branch of jpatural history. "Thoreau's Jjird Lore” (Houghton-Mifflin Company), edited by Francis H. Allen, chairman of the board pf directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, is ,one of the most picturesque and Observant books on New England birds written. This book fcas recently been brought out by Houghton-Mifflin Company In anew edition.

serious, or would be serious If it could be sustained. H. Foster Bain, director of the bureau of mines, who supervised the committee’s search of the interior department files, haS been prompt in his denial that the committee suppressed anything. / Chairman Lenroot of the committee, a man who was never suspected of sympathy with Senator Walsh’s relentless investigation, has given the lie direct to Doheny. ' If the interior department did not have these telegrams and letters in its files, and the committee never saw copies of them, then where were they? And if letters and telegrams already in existence in the early months of 1924 would have cleared the atmosphere, why has Doheny waited until mid-summer, of 1925 to reveal them?

More Coolidge Speeches Forecast f r-Tl ROM Swampscott comes news that Pres(£_J ident Coolidge’s vacation is not proving successful. His personal staff succeeds in keeping him idle. They have even succeeded in keeping away important citizens. He has become restless under the enforced idleness. He cannot remain comfortable, it is said, on the big verandas of White Court. He is reading but little. His days are dragging. He does not play golf or tennis, neither does he take surf baths. Cards and billiards are taboo. All he does is walk—and walking Lecomes monotonous. The President may be having the same experience that other men who have never learned to play have when they start on a period of idleness. The President already has taken advantage of the absence of Congress to speak his mind on many subjects. A probable result of his new restlessness is that the public will hear from him on many more topics before the summer ends.

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rible, awful, pathetic, but It does exist in life. Many Conquests Ripois was a “man’’ who worked on the theory that women were created for sensual pleasures. His program was to obtain as many such experiences as possible, especially when they cost him nothing. The woman always paid. That is, he thought so. In realistic dirt this man existed. I know and you know that such sex realism does exist. But do' we want to read it in fiction? And that is a question. Hermon is one of the most gifted of modern writers. That I believe. His construction ’is about perfect. He is an artist. I believe that he is honest in characterization both when he paints such beautiful realism as "Marie Chapdelaine,” another book, I know that this man does not wallow in mean dirt, Realism does not have to be made up of honey, perfume, white clouds and sunshine, It can be the sewer. Such a character is Monsieur Ripois, the cheapest of the Don Juans. Realism is the realization of a fact or a series of facts, and the author knows that even a cad has a conscience and has to pay some time. And Monsieur Ripois actually pays with mental suffering. That is life. That is realism. Why Worry? You probably will ask me why worry About such things? Remember that Dickens at time was a master of realism. He painted real life. We are just now getting into

Here’s Sound Doctrine, Men

By N. D. Cochran ERE'S halm of Gilead for us oppressed and downtrodden l. —.l men; and it comes from a woman who is also a wife: “America needs more militarism in the home with Dad acting as commander-in-chief. Every man should be the boss of his house or he should not have a house.” That from no less an authority than Mrs. Walter Ferguson, whose wisdom has made us men sit up and take notice, as well as consolation, on previous occasions. And I rise to remark that while I can't call Mrs. Ferguson a gentleman and a scholar. I can speak for the hosts of husbands in this great country when I say that she is wise in her day and generation. Mrs. Ferguson is right, of course. We husbands have known it all along. If there is one thing a husband and father ought to be it is commander-in-chief of the great American home. If all wives were as wise as Mrs. Ferguson is, home would be an ideal place for husbands to live in or at. Our word would be law\ Wives and children would find keenest delight I in obeying our every whim and caprice. Every darned one of us would be a king. We could dictate the fashions, tell mother what she could wear and

the modern era where authors are calling a spade a spade with many adjectives. Dirt exists in real life and when an author puts dirt into his story because the dirt is the story and not the excuse for it, then I am not afraid to seriously consider it, "Monsieur Ripois” reflects great skill in construction. From that viewpoint; it is an interesting piece of work. Don’t read this book as “Dirt Exhibit No. So and So” but read it as “real realism.” I recommend this book for those who are not afraid to think of life as it does exist. There is going to bo lot of talk about this one.

Stage Verdict English’s—Never has Charles Berkell given Indianapolis a more genuine treat than he is this week by offering “Lightnin’.” Lyric—Soloman Basco, the hero, of the famous run to Nome, and hdk wonderful dog, Seeli, are presented to you with a very interesting account of that severe struggle to get the precious serum to the suffering in Nome. Palace—Felix Morales hands out the thrills on the circus bill. Other acts include almost everything needed to make a real circus.

daughter whether she could bob her hair or wear it long. We could wear our old clothes, go without collars in hot weather, throw cigar ashes on the parlor carpet and have spittoons all over the place. We could sit back in an easy chair, have mother bring us our clippers, clean our pipe, load it up with fresh tobacco, light a match and hold it until the old dudeen got going good. Yes, and daughter would tell us all about her beaux, ask us how long they could stay and whether they could sit in the parlor or on the porch. And Son wouldn’t think of going out without consulting us and woijld be tickled stiff to come in any time he thought it would please Dad. All of us husbands will agree with the wise Mrs. Ferguson when she says that “there is no getting around the fast that the general run of women must be sassed a bit in order to be thoroughly good and happy." And we’re so anxious to keep them good and happy that we’re willing to boss ’em. Every one of us is willing to be Commander-in-Chief of the home. Every one of us knows that he dught to be boss, and is willing to be boss. The only trouble with it is that our wives wont let us, darn ’em.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or infor nation cv writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 >ew York Ave . Washinton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, ltgal and marital advice cannot be gh en, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a peroonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. When was the opera Traviata first produced? Traviata by Verdi was first produced in Venice, March 16, 1853. and in the United States, Dec. 3 1856, at New York. Are the leaves ot the tea plant always fit ‘to be picked for the making of the tea or are they picked only at certain times during the year? Although the tea plant is an evergreen, its leaves are used for tea only during flushes in which active growth takes place. Leaves are picked from ten to twenty-five times a year in Formosa or every ten to twelve days in Ceylon. Only the tip of the shoot or one or two of the youngest leaves are taken. A few older and coarser leaves go into the cheaper grades of tea. The tender upper leaves and terminal buds are picked by, hand according to one of the several systems of plucking and subjected to a complicated system of processes before the tea of commerce is produced. How are agates polished? They are slit with a thin iron disk supplied with diamond dust moistened with brick oil. The rough grinding is done on a lead wheel supplied with coarse emery and water. The smoothing is done with a lead lap and fine emery, and the polishing may be accomplished by means of a lead lap whose surface is hacked and supplied with rotten stone and water. In raising foxes, what Is the proper food to give them? The rations of domesticated foxes include beef, horse meat, ifiutton, veal, woodchucks', rabbits, liver, fish, eggs, milk, bread, mashed potatoes, crackers, mush, dog biscuit, boiled turnips, carrots and fresh fruits. The selection of meats Is largely a mat ter of circumstance. At irregular and uncertain intervals one may obtain uninjured or worn-out or but other-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

SHOOT FIRST THEN IDENTIFY f-y~l ASON NEWLIN, a Carmel \ > youth, is in an Indianapolis I J 1 hospital, painfully punctured by gunshot. He was wounded the other night when Hamilton County deputies fired without warning at two automobiles, mistaking them for booze runners for whom the officers were lying in wait. The two automobiles contained ten youths, who had spent a social and lawful evening in a neighbor-

ing town and were en route home. No liquor was found in their cars or on their breath. A regrettable mistake certainly. Doubtless the officers responsible for the incident feel properly chagrined. Shooting first and identifying afterward is a frequent occurrence with overzealous law-en-forcement officers. They are

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making the use of automobiles by peaceful citizens on country roads extremely hazardous between sundown and sunup.* 4 If a motorist, enjoying the moonlight. obeys a command to halt he may find himself victim of bandits. If he steps on the accelerator he may find himself riddled by buckshot on suspicion of being a rum-runner. A merry prospect. Os course, booze-running is / a heinous crime and the “law” should make strenuous efforts to stop it. But to the average citizen —who is neither a lawless wet nor a dry fanatic—the crime of boozerunning doesn’t seem to warrant promiscuous shooting. It reems hardly worth while for officer- to perforate innocent and inoffensive highway traffic Just to prevent a sip of liquor from slipping through. NO CITY DUMPS THERE R. ORIEN W. FIFER, an Indianapolis fereacher touring Europe, writes back that he has seen no city dumps, weed patches, or piles of old tin cans around cities and villages in Switzerland. The neatness of Swiss . municipal hems impressed him. It is not surprising that such civic tidiness should impress the worthy doctor. The outskirts of most America ncities are strewn with disemboweled tin cans, wornout auto tires, weeds and other junk. The city dump is the first civic monument to catch the eye of incoming tourists. Indianapolis is no more unkempt man oth?r cities. But it has too much rubbish and trash around it. Many of the most attractive scenic drives around the city are marred by unsightly dumps grown strong and rancid, which even encroach on residential sections. If Robin Hood and his merry men operated near the Hoosier metropolis he wouldn't need Sherwood Forest for a hiding place. He and all his men could hide in the weeds on many of our vacant lots. They are tall, luxuriant and impenetrable. Wherever people live rubbish accumulates. Disposal is a problem, requiring for solution either active civic pride or aggressive goats. Many American communities have /neither. As the result outlying, vacant lots are the goats.

[ wise healthy horses, or old sheep that cannot be fattened for mutton, and these, when slaughtered, make good and cheap meat. Woodchucks and rabbits, freshly killed, are always welcome in a fox yard. When cheap, meats fail, beef and poultry are used. Foxes do not need meat every day. Some keepers feed it but two or three times a week. Milk with some sort of bread or cooked mush Is the standard food for old and young foxes. Foxes, which are fed twice a day, usually have meat in the morning and bread and mush and milk at night. In summer the proportion of meat is less than in winter. How much was the share of Jac Dempsey In his fights -with Firpo, Gibbons and Carpentier? Dempsey received $500,000 for his fight with Flrpo: $210,000 for that with Gibbons, and $300,000 for that with Carpentier. What is the population of the world and what part of this population is Roman Catholic and what part Protestant? World population is estimated at 1,748,000,000. The estimated Roman Catholic population of the world is 273,500,000 and the estimated Protestant population is 170,900,000Appealing By Hal Cochran (_,) HE rustle and bustle and | crazy-like hustle of cities is ... - getting my goat. My feet have grown weary; my eyes have gone bleary. There’s acres of dust in my throa. No wonder man sighs when_he’s suddenly wise to the wear and the tear that he takes. Big buildings and such spoil the close-to-life touch and your energy suddenly breaks. You need, now and then, to break ’way from the and get real relief from the drudge. A man, very likely, goes stale onthe job If he labor in clamor and smudge. I’ve tried lot of trips for the much needed change, and I know where I’d much rather be. In hiking away 1 for a rest I’ll arrange a trip to the j Country for me. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Servlco, Inc.)'

FIRST RURAL MAIL ROUTE □HE Indiana Rural Letter Carriers Association proposes to erect a monument at Hope (Ind.) to mark the establishment of the first rural irtaU route in the State. The Hope route which bears this distinction was started in 1898. _Why such a monument? There is nothing particularly heroic in appearance or bearing of a rural mail carrier nor in a rural mail route. A monument to commemorate the establishment of such service may seem a waste of good stone. In these days when isolated farm houses are linked with the world by telephone and radio the start of rural free delivery of mail doesn’t seem such an important event. But the- mall service has been the greatest unifying force in the development of this country. Without the easy means of ' communication it afforded between sections geographically remote from each other America might have become a patchwork of jealous States instead of a nation. Establishment of rural routes extended this unifying process to the most remote farmhouses. No longer was the farmer obliged to take a day off and go to town to get in touch with the world. The world came to his door. Monuments are erected to mark profitless battles of senseless wars. That is monumental waste. It would be better for the world if fewer such monuments were set up and more were erected to mark first rural routes and other events of real significance in the march of civilization. THE JURY~ DISAGREED • ,IRIAL of Willard Butler of I j I Indianapolis, charged with L. I murder, occupied the cicrcuit court in Hendricks county last week. Lawyers, witnesses, court attaches, and spectators put in several sweltering days on the case. Then the Jury disagreed. , The facts in the case were not obscure; there were no recondite legal points involved. The defendant shot a woman to death — and admitted it. Eleven jurors voted for a verdict of first degree murder on the first ballot. The twelfth held out for a manslaughter verdict, Twenty-four houts later, after innumerable ballots, the jury still stood 11 to l v for conviction of murder. So the trial resulted in a disagreement and another trial. The right of an accused to trial by jury is one of our proudest Anglo-Saxon heritors. It is the foundation principle on which is erected the whole framework of our jurisprudence—and is presumed to be an infallible ally of justice. But in practice the system frequently hinders rather than assists justice. Too often trials result in no verdict because of the obstinacy of a single juror. Our courts are not so much engaged in trying as in re-trying them. When one man can nullify the judgment of ele /en others, presumably his equ.il in intelligence, honesty and high we • can t boast so much of the superiority of our jury system ox'er the old medieval custom of trial by ordeal. In either system guilt or innocence is proven less by facts than by chance.

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Berkell Tells ’Em to Take Off Coats and Enjoy 50th Week of Stock Players

By Water D. Hickman f . 1 UST because Charles Berkell ! lis observing the fiftieth week i J | of stock at English's this week, it is no sign tht t he is all dolled up in dress clothes. Far from that. Berkell is publically inviting the men to remove

their coats before the curtain rises on "Llghtnin’." “Have Just talked to every woman In the t h e a t e r,” Berkell explains, •‘and they tell me they do not object. Men. take off your coats and enjoy the show.” And I took off my coat and did just as Berkell invited, ’’enjoyed the show.” Let us understand each other in this. ''Llghtnin’ ” is a type play the leading role being one that

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is suited to only a few actors. I may be challenged in that. I saw both the late Frank Bacon and Milton Nobles as Lightnin’ Bill Jones, the tipsy good for nothing old liar. And it is a tough role to make convincing. Byron looks' like all the other Bills that I have seen. The difference rests of course in the intensity of feeling that the actor puts into the characterization. At times I wavered in my opinion regarding the work of Bj;ron. When the final curtain came down, I was convinced that Byron this week Is coming nearer to actual human characterization than he ever has. He makes Bill a lovable tipsy old liar. He is at his best in the serious courtroom scenes, a little more so than ho i3 in some of the light tipsy scenes. Byron is giving sincere attention to makeup, and I believe that he will be remembered when the season ends many weeks from now because of his work as Bill Jones. Idahelle Arnold as Margaret Davis has many funny lines, and she puts them over. Was rrpich impressed with the work of Bob Fay as John Marvin, especially in the courtroom scene. ’ The cast is as follows: Oscar Nelson A1 C. Wilson Kevin Bloogett. Sheriff . . . Larry Sullivan John Marvin B<-h F>Rodney Harper Maurice Browne Liahinin' Bill Jones Miiton Dvron Mrs ’ordan . May Wilson Mrs. Moore Marian Haase Mildred B’icklev Edythe Elliott Raymond Thomas . ..• Tommy Evnns Mrs. Tones Mary Hill Ze b Crothers William V. Hull Lemuel Townsend ~ A1 C Wilson I.iveryman . Robert St Hate Mrs. Harper Betty Black Everett Hammond . . . Alexander Catnpbe i Marearet Davis Idabelle Arnold Emily Jarvis ' Martha Morton Walter Lennon William V Hull Fred Peters Robert St. Clair I think that “Lightnin' comes mighty close to being ideal theater. It lsino easy job to present in stock. It Is a real job. Much depends upon the ability artd artistry of characterization of the man who plays the role of Bill. Berkell chose wisely his Golden Jubilee week, celebrating his fiftieth week of stcs:k at English’s, when he decided to offer “Lightnin’. ’’ It is one of the most human things on the stage. Berkell is offering entertainment. He is paying real money for the rights of this success. Many extra actors are needed. I say this with all sincerity—"Lightnin' ” la the most effective thing from every standpoint that Berkell has ever given Indianapolis in my experience of covering his shows. At English's all week. •I* -I- -lCIRCUS DAYS EXIST AT PALACE Want a thrill? Then you should see Felix Morales! Morales Is the star of Barton Brothers Crlcus which furnishes the entire vaudeville portion of the bill at the Palace the first half of the week. There >is a wire stretched from a point above an upper box to the stage below T . Morales walks up this wire and then slides down it at a terrific speed and standing on his head. That should be enough for one man to db In one show but this fellow also does & few mor| little

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tricks such as turnlrg a backward somersault on a tight wire and forty consecutive somersaults on a trampoline net. He is really a great circus performer. The rest of the show consists of a little bit of most everything to be found in a regular circus. Elephant, dog acts, pony acts, dancing horses, bucking mules, acrobats and clowns all contribute their share to the program. There aren't many of each, but a little of most everything needed to make a circus. Rosie is the elephant’s name, and Rosie is about the biggest thing in the animal line I have ever seen. She is said to be 103 years old and Bird,” with Johnny Hines. If you looks it. She does some remarkable tricks—she should.- for she has had a long time to iearn them. The movie feature is ‘‘The Early lik<* the circus brand of thrills you should see Felix Morales. At the Palace today and Wednesday. (By Observer.) •I- -I- I* REAL MERIT TO LYRIC’S CHIEF ACT L T ntil going into tho Lyric I imagined myself the hottest and most uncomfortable man in town, but after seeing Solomon Basco come out on the stage in genuine, honest to goodness, alaskan gero weather furs, I gave him the honor without asking, how he felt. Basco and his wife appear on the stage with the complete dog team with which the famous run to Nome was made. A graphic account of the trouble encountered in finding

Tax Cut to Help 265,000

Timet Wathinoton Bureau, IStl Sew York Avenue. Ty-fl ASHINGTON, July 7.—ls yy present plans to eliminate the treasury's surplus by reducing surtax rates are carried out, 265,000 persons will reap the chief benefit. There are only that number of individuals whose annual Income is sufficient to subject them to the present surtaxes. The total number of taxpayers who filed income tax statements with the government in 1923 (the )ast year for which the figures are available) was 7.698,321. One In every thirfy-seven of these is called upon to pay surtaxes under the present tax law. Normal Tax Low No responsible leaders among the Republicans have advocated changes in the normal tax rates. These latter are already low. For persons whose income is less than $6,500 tho normal rate is 2 per cent. Between $6,500 and $10,500 the rate is 4 per cent. On all incomes of more than $10,500 the normal rate is 6 per cent. It will not he difficult to cut the treasury receipts fully $250,000,000 a year by simply making reductions in the surtax rates. In 1923 over three-fourths of all the money received from income taxes was collected from persons whose income was in excess of $lO,-

An August Tour of Europe—--76 Days—*99o Visiting Scotland. Ireland, England. Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. Well appointed, one-cabin steamer throughout the trip. Ercellent hotels and sight-seeing, mostly by motor. For Further Detail* See or Write Richard A. Kurtz, Manager Foreign Department jIUNIONTROSfc 120 East Market Street MA in 1576

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the young alaskan when he wa* wanted and the heroic trip of hi* plucky little wife to get him from his line of traps is given you. Seeli, the most famous lend dog of th north country, is presented to you and I think you will agree that the dog shows a degree of intelligence and understanding far beyond the average dog. Also in this team are two full blooded wolves,. Green and Burnette, a black face team furnish some good harmony and much comedy. Easily the best funmakers on the bill. Cochran and Norton are what I would call a hot weather treat. To look at their dancing costumes one can imagine how cool the wearer* are. They have a fast and snappy little act, characterized by melody and dancing. Crest and Farrel offer some slapstick comedy and are a couple of hard workers. Miss Ann Vivian opens the bill with an exhibition of skill with the pistol and rifle. Peaches from Beaches Is an act without much behind it except the one comedian who furnishes a laugh once in a while. The bill includes a Harry Langdon comedy and kinograms. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- + Other attractions on view today include; ‘‘Head Wind*” at the Colonial: “Just a Woman” at the Circle and Paul Biese's orchestra; "Marry Me” at the Ohio; "Light of the Western Stars” at the Apollo; out door events at Broad Ripple and “The Bandit's Bahy” at the Isis.

000. The total income tax yield was $703,000,000. Os this, $160,000,000 was paid by those whose Incomes ranged from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO. Proportion Unchanged The other $543,000,000 came from the higher income classes. The figures for 1924 are expected to show much the same proportion of relative yields. If surtax rates are reduced next winter to approximately one-half the present scale, that reduction alone will largely erase the surplus which the Treasury is piling up each year. The only important tax (fields in which real reductions will reach the great mass of people are the tariff and the remaining war taxes. A definite stand has been taken by the Administration against any changes in the tariff rates. Headed by Chairman Green of the Ways and Means committee of the House, Republican leaders are also attempting to head off agitation in favor of elimination of such war taxes as still remain on the statute books. BAND TO PLAY IN PARK Indianapolis Military Band will play a special concert Thursday night in University Park, the park board announced. Five thousand persons attended the first municipal concert at Garfield Park Sunday night.