Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1925 — Page 6

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No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever, —Constitution of Indiana. , f .

The Wrong Remedy [r-p IWO young men and two young women |• *. 1 ride down Indiana Ave. at a speed estimated at between fifty and sixty miles an hour. They crash head-on info a street car. One of the young men is killed. The other passengers are hurt. A bottle of liquor is found in the wreckage. Whereupon Chief .of Police Herman F. Rikhoff talks about enforcing a speed limit of ten miles an hour in the downtown district. He is talking about a limit of five miles an hour in some sections! ~ For the life of us, we can’t see the connection. The driver of the automobile that crashed with the street car was doing at least fifty miles an hour, according to witnesses. This was at least twice as fast as the present speed limit. '•. • Is it Rikhoff’s theory that a speed limit of ten miles an hour will mean that reckless drivers will drive not faster than twice the limit set? If a serious accident had occurred as a result of an automobile traveling twenty-five miles an hour (the limit that has been enforced) there might be some reason for reducing the limit • • But the automobile in question was greatly exceeding the speed limit. Reducing the limit won’t have any effect on this sort of thing. Chief Rikhoff will have trouble in pointing to an instance in which an automobile traveling at layvfjul speed has been in a wreck because of that speed.- It is the speeder who comes to grief. Reducing the speed'limit will not stop speed law violations. A speed of fifteen mile3 an hour in the district and a speed of twenty-five ■miles an hour in the less congested districts are not unreasonable and so long as drivers know their business are not unsafe. The driver who doesn’t know his business should have his license revoked. It was said that the party in the fatal accident had been to a case on Indiajwr Ave. It is well-known that there are places on the avenue frequented by both white and colored persons and that many young people go to these, places for excitement. It is reported tftat liquor is not unknown along Indiana Ave. Perhaps a tightening up of conditions on the avenue might be considerably more to tho point than a ten-mile speed limit under which it would be well-nigh impossible to move traffic out of the downtown section during the rush hours. It might also be suggested that more of an effort be made to enforce the prohibition law. By enforcement, of course, we mean arrest and conviction of actual violators, rather than invasion of the homes of innocent persons. Get ’Em Young p LARENCE DARROW, Chicago's best V" known criminal lawyer, in an interview in Indianapolis the other day, put the blame on the school, not the home, for youthful criminals. “The time to handle a criminal is while he is a child,” he declared. “There is no use sending them all promiscuously to school to take the same courses.” He ought to know something of the subject. He has helped enough to escape the consequences of their acts to qualify as an expert in criminology. But Dr. William S. Sadler, a fellow townsman of Clarence, and eminent authority on psychology and kindred subjects, says that by the time a child enters school his character is

Paul in Addresses Gives Us Summary of His Life

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesßon for Dec. 20. Paul's Summary of His Life.—2 Tim. 2:10. 11; 4:6-18. By Wns. E. Gilroy, D, D. (Editor of The Congregationalist) AUL, In his various addresses, defending himself before the Jewish Council, before Felix, and before Agrlppa, In the records that have come down tc us, has given us an account of the main incidents and details of hls life. In this' more Intimate account in the letter to Timothy, whom he called hls “son In the Lord,” we have a rtevelatlon of the inner springs of his faith and action, and we have expressed in a very clear way Paul’s estimate of his own life. He is right at the very close of hls career, with the prospect that his deaJji Is almost immediately at hand. It Is at such a time that a man may be expected to see clearly the things that have been really worth while In hls life, and to estimate at their real worthlessness the things that have no eternal value. As Paul looks. back he finds great satisfaction in the sense of mastery that has been his through the power of Christ. He recalls the persecutions and , afflictions that' had shaped his course, bdt he has the joyous consciousness of having endured them. He recognizes that a higher poorer gave him strength. “Out of them

already formed. School can add nothing to his moral stature, merely gives him information. He holds the criminal is the result of home training in the first two or three yeaj;s of life. There you are. You can take your choice. The two equally eminent authorities only agree that you must get ’em young if you are going to keep the children from the gallows. Probably neither is altogether right. Doubtless the only sure way to stop the output of criminals is to drown all the babies like we do superfluous kittens. But even that remedy has some disadvantages. The Real Danger ROBABLY the greatest menace presented < ___ by the tax bill now being bullied through the lower house of Congress lies in the fact that it tends to destroy the yery principle of the income tax. It is paving the way for indirect taxes that can be loaded almost entirely upon wage earners and others of small income. -' The success of the scheme to date—what the Senate does to it remains to be seen—can be easily explained. Coolidge in his first message to Congress presented the plan devised by Secretary Mellon, basically the same plan now being hurrahed into law. This plan found immediate favor with most of the great and wealthy newspapers of the United States and for a very simple reason —the fact that it would reduce their taxes materially They joined the clamorous praise. They did their share to create the impression that Coolidge and Mellon proposed to reduce all taxes in an equal degree. Tax reduction had a welcome sound to the people burdened with war taxes and . few stopped to analyze the Mellon proposal In due time the bill passed the House and came to the Senate. The Senate took time to consider. The result'of its consideration was to retain the tax reduction, but to give the greater part of the reduction to the little fellows instead of the big. The House, awakened, fell in line with the changes and the result was the reasonably fair tax reduction bill of last year. This year a smoother game is being played. This year the little fellows are being baited with real reductions in their income tax. Some two million of them are being wiped off the income tax rolls entirely. But all the reductions given the little fellows make a smaller total than the reductions given the few thousand citizens whose incomes run into the millions annually. The latter class gets the real benefit. The in-between class, the business, industrial and professional men whose earings fall below $44,000 annually, receives little attention But all the Organs of publicity in which they are accustomed to put their faith are indorsing the proposed reductions and they apparently do not realize what is happening to themselves They will be heard from next time. And they will get their reductions then. Inheritance taxes, offshoot of the income tax principle, are under deadly assault and may be the first to go. Eventually, and it won’t take long if the average citizen continues to keep his eyes closed, the revenue from income taxes will be insufficient to meet the expenses of the Government. What then ? The sales tax, beyond a doubt. Not that the forces behind the present scheme are unwilling to remove the present war tax on automobiles—a sales tax. That kind of taxation is coming, a taxation that takes several dollars from the consumer for every dollar that finds its way to the United States Treasury—if this raid on the income tax is not stopped.

all,” he says, “the Lord delivered me.” And now, writing from Rome, near the end of the second Imprisonment and a short time before hls execution under Nero, he expresses hls readiness to make the final sacrifice, and he relates that sacrifice to faithful service and to the prospect of divine vindication and reward: “I have fought a good fight,” he says; ”1 have finished my.course; I have kept the faith.” It is not an empty boast, nor Is it even the vainglorious expression of a man who could say it with truth. Even as it stands -n the Authorized Version, the statement could not be so Interpreted, for Paul recognized that all that was great and successful in hls Christian. warfare had been through the presence and upholding power of Christ. Asa matter of fact, however, the Authorized Version is not quite correct In its rendering. This will be found In the American Standard Revised Version in which the verse reads, “I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.” Paul is not so much glorying In what he himself has done as rejoicing jn the fact that -with all hls hearj he has given himself to warfare upon the right side; his whota allegiance has been to faith and nghteousness. lie

has in everything allied himself with the cause of goodness. / Hence It Is that in Paul’s prospect of reward he Is not thinking of some great distinction for himself, of some way of ease anu pleasure that is going to be his after hls labor and trial. His rejoicing is that there Is laid up for him "a crown of righteousness,” and he glories In the fact that the rewards of the Kingdom of Heaven are democratic in their nature. They do not come to arty man because of some arbitrary expression of God’s favor, but they are for all those “who love 'the appearing of the Lord.” * .„• -• ... .1 TRACTION KILLS MAN Newcastle Motorist Drives Auto in Front of Car. Bu Timea Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 19.—Edward Trine, 55, was dead today from Injuries received when he drove his auto In front of a T. H., I. & E. traction car near Pershing. Bu Timea Special VERSAILLES, Ind., Dec. 19. The county’s oldest citizen was dead today. Pneumonia was fatal to Dennis Beach, 102, pioneer resident.

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A Sermon for Today ■■ ■. ■By Rev. John R. Gunn *

Text: "After the wind . . . after the earthquake . . . after the fire ... still small voioe."—l. Kings 19: 11-12. r FTER the passing: of tho storm, the earthquake and the_roarlng fire, when all was calm and quiet, came tAe still small voice. “And It was so, when Elijah heard It, that he wrapped his face In his mantle’' and listened. How few there are today who erven st6p to listen to that still small voice of God. The whirl of our social life, the roar of commerce, the hum of tho factory, the whistle of the engine, the click of the telegraph, noisy horns of the automobile, the bustle and confusion of our modern life. have wellnight drowned out. the voice of God. But, In spite of all this, every man ought to stop now and then and bend his ear and listen to that still small voice that never misguided a human heart, that

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

BUS FARE INCREASE SHE public service commission has granted the plea of the Interstate Public Service Company for permission to increase fares on its motor bus lines between Indianapolis and Seymour. A rate boost of about 100 per cent Is authorized. Nice Santa Claus, the publlo service commission. But not so generous. Even at the new fares the bus lines of- the Interatate company will lose money—according to the commission's own accountant. So the Increase allowed can only be a temporary expedient, unsatisfactory both to the bus operators and the bus riders. It’s like cutting off a cat’s tall a little at a time to save the creature the pain of a major operation. In this particular case who Is to play the role of the cat—the bus company or the public? A FORTUNE FROM POSIES |R. A. J. of EvansP\ vllle, Ind., reputed to be the most extensive grower of peonies In the world sold his 200 acres* of flower beds the other day. He received $250,000 for hia holdings. ' ■ A sleek fortune from posies! Hla peonies serve no practical purpose. They aren’t good -to eat, drink or smoke. Just flowers that bloom today and wither tomorrow. Who would think ope could get rich from cultivating them? Twenty years ago the doctor was compelled ft) give up the practice of medicine for a time because of 111 health, He took up peony culture as a hobby, ■without any thought of making a dime from It. He rode his hobby until It developed to such size commercially that it was more profitable to him than the practice of medicine. He never returned to his pills and‘the Inspection of furred tongues. And yet achieved a biggqr material success than he could have hoped for in his profession.' The moral Is plain. Ride a hobby, whether It Is collecting stamps or* breeding goldfish. No matter how far it seems removed from commercial possibilities it will entertain and there .Is no telling how far 1 It will take one. TOO MANY CUSTOMERS S*““”“|TATE authorities—lndustrial board and fire marshal's u___J office—are preparing to enforce the order against over-crowd-ing high school gyms during basketball games. Some school officials have failed to heed the order it Is claimed. The action Is timely. The Hoosler basketball season Is beginning to froth at the mouth and exhibit Its- annual frenzy. Gyms all over the State will be Jammed with basketball fans during the next three months and customers will clamor for admission though the S. R. O. sign Is out. Hoosier basketball has too many customers. The only way they can all be accommodated Is to put a roof over the entire State, but that seems Impracticable. Consequently in sopie gyms ticket-holders are packed In# until aisles and exits are blocked. Safety' la sacrificed for gate receipts. Amateur sport as well as professional takes a keen Interest In the “gate.” . Many of the gyms thus overcrowde dare rated fire-proof structures. Still a very Insignificant panic In one of them might cause a stampede and wipe out the population of a thriving village. ' Turning away customers' while there Is yet room Inside for a sardjpe may he distressing to some school officials. But the overcrowding order should be enforced. It’s better to have the results of a Hoosier high school basketball game announced by the referee rather than the coroner. A LOT OF PRESENTS merchants estimate that the Christmas business of the retail stores of the city this year will exceed $5,000,000. They report 10 to 16 per cent heavier holiday trade than last year. And they can add another 85 cents to this year’s estimate. We haven’t done our Chritsmas shopping yet. Five million dollars is a lot of money for city to spend on Christmas gifts. 'The total for the whole country would flnanee a fullgrown war. Experts calculate’that in New York City alone $250,000.000 will be spent for holiday cheer. Truly the upkeep of this Santa Claus iterson is terrific. Is he

never misdirected a human footstep. i Life has become too artificial, too unreal, too unnatural. The majority think what others think. Bay what others say, and do what others do. Too many of us are allowing ourselves t obe molded by the noisy, materialistic environment In which we Uve. There Is nothing we need so much as a chance to get away from the rush of the day and give ourselves an opportunity for meditation and natural growth. If you want to be real, If you want to be genuine, If you want to be your own best self and what God Intended you to be, seek 9Ut some place -of solitude for quiet meditation, where the Inner soul may have a chance so discover Itself, where the voice of conscience may make Itself heard, and where God may speak to you of the deeper secrets ofxlife. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)

worth tha money annually spent on him? Probably not from the standpoint of dollars and cents. A large fraction of the sum annually expended for Christmas presents is squandered for useless, foolish articles of no earthly benefit to the recipients. Oarloads of gaudy neckties that no one wears, that remain In their festive boxes until used to tie up the wounds of the bathroom plumbing, fireproof cigars, and sq on down a lengthy list. Sure, it’s all extravagant foolishness. But It’s gieat to be extravagant and foolish one day In the year. There are 364 other days that one can be serious and sensible and calculating. Santa Claus is a myth. And theChristmas gift idea Illogical and wasteful. But It produces a glow deep down Inside, does something to our spirits, that beats all the hard-headed logic In the world.

MR. FIXIT City Promises to Brighten Corner at lllineis and Twenty-Seventh.

Let Mr. Flxlt present tout problems to city official!*. He Is The Time* representative at the dty hall. Write him at The Times. The sombre street light at TwentySeventh and Illinois Sts. may be a boon to lovers, but practical, solid cltlzeno desire Illumination, Mr. Flxlt learned today. DEAR MR. FlXlT—There hae been no street light at Twenty‘Seventh and Illinois Sts. for the last week. I to annoy spooners taking that path, but my toes are not callous when they hit the bumps I cannot see.. a e. a Seems a shame, but Mr. Flxlt got the promise of J. H. Hensley of the city engineer's department to brighten the corner. • DEAR MR. FlXlT—Carrollton Ave., between Forv.y-Nlnth and Fifty-Second ,Sts., Is In a temble condition and especially since our crossing leading to Fifty-Second St. has been left unfinished. Since we ply city taxes we ought to have some consideration. Just a few loads of gravel or cinders wIU be very much appreciated. > as.' W. P. Hargon, cleric of the street commissioner’s office Is almost broke, but will try to squeeze out a few pennies for gravel or cinders. DEAR MR. FIXIT—•WiII you pleas® see that the wooden steps at Bell and E. Michigan Sts., are repaired. They are in a very danger ous condition and It Is the only outlet the people have to Michigan St. without going some distance out of the way. TIMES READER. Repairs are on the tfray after & visit from Mr. Flxlt. Ask the Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, p. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice oannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will received a personal reply-*- Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are eonfiderP tial.—Editor. Are there two organizations known as Swiss Guards? The Swiss Guard was a famous regiment of royal bodyguards In Franco composed exclusively of Swiss, first constituted by royal decree In 1616. Their fidelity was absolute and on * the outbreak of the Revolution of 1789, they became very objectionable to the Paris Mob. On Aug. 10, 1792, the Swlds Guards were called on to defend the palace of Tuileries against the revolutionists. After gallant resistance to overwhelming numbers, the Swiss were ordered to lay down their arms and they were then massacred by the Infuriated assailants. The few who escaped did so with great difficulty. It Isisald thaf , nearly 800 Swiss Guards were slain. Another Swiss Guard, the Papal Guard, consists of 10 officers and 110 men. Only Swiss can enter it and the private are not allowed to marry. "WTiat Is a “bottle fish?" That Is one of the names for a “swellfish" a species of plectognath, especially of the family Tetraodontldae, which Inflate their bodies with air until they become globe-like and and the spines of their skin beeomrigid, making them unpleasant morsels for an enemy to swallow. They are also called box fish, swell 1 toad and puffer.

Find Prohibition Doesn’t Prohibit

EDITOR'S NOTE: This In the fourteenth of a series of Articles by Mr. Gardner reporting the operation of liquor laws in the various province* of Canada. By Gilson Gardner I- 21 ANCOUVER, British ColumV bia. Canada (By Mall)—Why 1 I has Western Canada after experimenting for eight years more or less, with prohibition, rejected that reform and adopted in its place government oontrol of liquor sales? Briefly and chiefly, I should say, because It was found that prohibition did not prohibit. The majority has not turned against the home. It is not conspiring to sell the baby’s shoes for a crock of gin.. It Is not invitnig beck the corner grog-shop with Its often pictured evils. On the contrary Canada Is now experimenting with a different method for correcting all those evils, plus the *evlls of lawlessness, corruption and crime which bootlegging had Introduced and aggravated. Whether the government control system will turn out to be the success It promises, the Canadians are convinced that nothing could be worse than what went before . Leak Breaks Dam Under the so-called prohibition administrations the provincial governments were still authorized to sell liquor for medicinal and manufacturing purposes. This was the leak which finally bro're the dam and made the provinces universally and Illegally wet. Most liquor was “doctor’s prescription" liquor. A doctor could originally prescribe 800 quart bottles a month. And the efforts of the doctor’s were supplemented by the druggists, the veterinarians, the dentists and the bootleggers. And then for a time It was legal for the citizens of one province to Import liquor by express from another province.

Charles Ray Has Sad Fate in Films.

By Lincoln Quarberg United Preaa Staff Correapondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19.—Charles Ray, bankrupt film star, blames “art’’ for his financial ruin. “My desire to contribute something lasting to the motion picture profession broke me,” Ray declared today In an interview. * “I tried to produce my own pictures. and failed. It was poor business management. I attended, to the acting, but my managers who handled production and distribution argued over petty things and we headed straight to bankruptcy.’’ Ray’s creditors have filed more than a dozen suits against him In Los Angeles courts. Recently ha filed an Involuntary bankruptcy petitlon listlhg liabilities of approximately a million dollars, with assets of less than $200,000. Ray’s financial “bust’’ Is another sad chapter In the story of meteoric but uncertain success In the film business. The star, not maqy years ago, wai literally wallowing la wealth. He had at one time more than a qiilllon dollars actual cosh to his credit in the banks. He owned a huge film plant, and had extensive real estate holdings

’ Music

mHE feast of music set for the New Year by the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises is one to satisfy all tastes, beginning on Sunday afternoon lan. 24, the musical personality of the age, Ignore Jar. Paderewski, pianist will give a recital; Harold Bauer, pianist and Pablo Casals, cellist, will b© heard on Jan. 81 in a co-artist recital. Roland Hayes, tertor, Feb. 28; Elisebeth Rethberg, soprano, March 7, and Amelita Galll Curcl, April 25, are the concerts scheduled for Sunday afternoons. On Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, the second of the Ona B. Talbot Intime Concerts given In the ballroom of the Columbia Club will present the Chomlavsky Ensemble: Leo, violinist; Jan, pianist, and Mlschsl, cel’ist, and on Thursday afternoon, March 4, Wanda Landowska, distinguished pianist and exponent of the harpsichord, will be heard in the third and last of the series. The two remaining orchestra concerts of the Indianapolis Symphony Society, Ona B. Talbot managing director, will present the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Henri Verbrughhen, conductor: Henri Henrotte, French violinist soloist, on Feb. 11 and The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor, Elly Key, pianist as soloist, on March 22. The following Is the program of the Minneapolis Orchestra: Overture to "Flnral's Cave” On. 29 .. . • M pnußlMohn "HavnnaW" for Vloll and Orchestra, Op. 83 Saint-Saeaa Mr. Henrotte. Symphonic Poems No. 3. “Lee Prehides" ..... . • • • . Chat Symphony No. 3 In E Flat. Op. 55, ■Erolca” Beethoven rr-Ti iss cleon colvin of the M Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will present a program, of violin solos at the Music piub, Bloomfield, Ind., on Monday, Dec. 21. • • • 1 RED NEWELL MORRIS. Will sing the bass role In Handel’s - Messiah, Dec. 22, with the Toledo Choral Society,' accompanied by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. This is Mr. Morris’ sixth engagement with the society. TEN HURT AFTER FIRE Scores Trapped by Blaze In St. Louis Hotel. Bu United I'rest ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 19.—When scores of persons were trapped on the upper floors of the Woodbine Annex Hotel here last night, ten were overcome by smoke, cut by glass or otherwise injured before firemen extinguished the blaze. The Are caused $20,000 damage. LEBANON* PAPER SAID Bu Timet Special LEBANON, Ind., Deo. 19.—E. C. Gullion, prominent Democrat and attorney, was editor today of the Lebanon Pioneer, a weekly newspaper. It was purchased Friday by GllUon Roy C. Swank, Wendell Gullion and E. C. Pulliam, from Ralph Cunningham and A. H. Wunkoop.

In the five "prohibition” years from 1918 to 1922 the Alberta government vendors sold $8,607,066 worth of alcohollo spirits for “medicine” or "manufacturing" purposes, and with variations for population, these figures will stand as typical for the other prohibition provinces. Even under the United Farmers* government, strongly pledged to prohibition, the figures were cut In 1922 and 1923 only to $1,624,888 and sl,488,915 annually. This and the bootlegging and Increased disregard for law became a Dominion scandal. B. IX Starts Revolt British Columbia was the first to revolt. Prohibition had attained its first great triumph in the Canadian west when, in 1916, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, following the lead given by Alberta In 1915, adopted the prohibitory principle, and the pendulum swung even higher when Ontario, In October, 191, reaffirmed prohibition by a sweeping majority. But even while this election In Ontario was going on, the change in the West had begun—a change which In three years would completely reverse the Canadian liquor policy. British Columbia was the first to about face. Its voters adopted the present government sales plan In October, 1920. Manitoba reversed Its prohibition vote and adopted government control June 23, 1923. Alberta, regarded as the stronghold of prohibition In the West, went to government control In November, 1923. Saskatchewan voted wet July 16, 1924. So the four great western provinces became unanimous In their repudiation of brand of prohibition.

His wife had expensive Jewelry, they had a palatial home, a fleet, of automobiles and maintained a large staff of liveried servants. Ray’s only assets today are hfc histrionic talents. His liabilities are staggering. He lives with his wife In a rented house, drab In Us comparison to the mansion they once occupied. Withal, Ray Is optlmlstlo, and has returned to the business of picturemaking under tho banner of one of the biggest producing companies. “Life Is Just a series of experiences,” he philosophized. “I went out and learned bitterly from experience. But I still think more of my career than money. “I was not content to make good, ight farces that would not last. That Is why I sank on the financial scale. “But I did It, and still I am not unhappy. To achieve the things I wanted brought me happiness despite the fact It brought me financial ruin, too. To merit. has all been marvelously successful, as I didn’t go Into the business to make money alone. “Now I know I will be able to do things on the silent stage that I would not have been able to do had I not tried the artistic.”

Returns Home

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James D. Kennedy

After spending five weeks among movie people in California, James D. Kennedy, manager of the Apollo, has returned to Indianapolis and his duties at the theater. MURDER PLOT REVEALED German Supreme Court Judges Were Marked for. Death. Bu United Frets BERLIN, Dec. 19.—Details of an assassination plot against several judges of the Supreme Court were disclosed today In an alleged confession' of the Communist, Hartmann, held In Lelpzlc on charges of burglary. ' Hartmann Is said to have confessed that he stole In order to finance a terrorist group which planned the assassinations. Police revealed that they had found two automobiles In which were several machine guns and revolvers, acting upon information supplied them by Hartmann. AWKWARDNESS IS FATAL Youth Knocks Over Shotgun— lMee From Wound. Bu Timet Special RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 19. Awkwardness cost Lawrence Gillette, 15, his life. He knocked over a shotgun leaning at the gate of his home. The shot entered his left side. He died several hours later. MERCHANTS ARM SELVES Bv Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind., Dec. 19.—Anderson merchants are taking out gun permits, the county clerk' has announced as a result of hold-up. The merchants have adopted; “Shoot first" ss a slogan.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1925

Quebec with Its large proportion of French descendants preserving European traditions as to wine and personal freedom, always had stood out against prohibition even of the ‘'war-time” variety. Quebec reaffirmed Its attitude In a plebiscite held In April. 1919. . Ontario Is the one remaining dry province (the Maritime province** are so small , as to be negligible) and at last full’s election the old sweeping prohibition majority was ail but wiped out. To avoid oonfuslon this "government control of liquor sales" should be defined. Add the words “as a beverage” and you have the difference between the former and the present system. Formerly the government was a “vendor" but It vended liquor as a “medicine” and as a "manufacturing” ingredient. The new plan recognized the government (provincial) as a vendor of drink for drinking purposes. Instead of having doctors and druggists acting Illegally as dispensers of drink, the law provides that the government legally and openly may dispense liquors and real beer through stores, kept for the purpose, and subject to bookkeeping and other regulations Intended to contribute to sobriety. The very latest vote hnd therefore the very latest Index of publlo oplnldi*i, Is tho plebiscite of British Columbia on "beer by the glass” taken last April. That vote would Indicate the continued drift toward wetness. While the vote was exceedingly close It did authorize the opening of ‘taverns” where beor, and beer only. Is served at tables. There are now three provinces, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia where the “tavern** supplements the liquor storos. The principal argument for the "tavern” Is that It encourages the) drinking of beer Instead of tlyC harder and more Injurious Whiskas and gins. /

The ( SAFETY VALVE It Bloip When the Prensnre Is 1 Too Great.

■—— The Stoker——— D'l O you remember Willis Luther Moore? For years he ran the United States' Weather Department and the National Geographic Society. When Wilson was first elected President, Moore grew ambltloifs and started a boom for himself for Secretary of Agriculture. And Just for that he got fired. It nearly broke Moore’s heart and ha “sunk without trace.” All of which leads up to the Important fact that Moore has now Invented a religion and written a book, “Spiritual Gravity of tho Cosmist and One Hundred Years of Youth; the new Religion of Science and Philosophy.” Hls religion is of the comforting sort. It reconciles science to God (not an anthropomorlo God) and smacks of Dr, Crane and Mrs. Eddy. There Is a morning prayer In It like the one Ben Franklin used to use. “Sargon” appears In it, too. The same one we meet In H. G. Wells' "Christina Alberta’s Father." The book Is up to date on the Dayton trial and what Moore thinks of William J. Bryan we leave to Mencken to telL ♦ • • All kinds of people graduate from the profession of Journalism. Now here Is Herbert Janvrln Brown developing the gift weather prophecy and foretelling a 1926 “aummerless summer” l.ke that of 1816. ■Adn tho distressing thing about it Is that Brown hns set the professional weather folk all by the ears by long-distancing our early fall and the failure of our Indian summer to materialize. Brown was one of the Washington correspondents in the. Bpanlsh-Amerlcan War days. Since then he has been an expert In speculative finance and an expert In Jewels and antiques. At one time be had an adventurous career as an arms runner for Mexican revolutionists. And for a while hs was a propagandist for the interests opposed to the eighteenth amendment, e e e And "Bobby" Wilson, also a one time Washington correspondent, has written a book—Robert Forest Wilson. He was “Bobby” 'when in Washington before the war. It Is one of those Innumerable books on Paris, France, which, It seerna to us, are more fun to write than to roan “Paris on Parade.” • e e The best two-fbot book shelf W* have met lately—they are really on a desk In a friend's living room—contains the following;: “The Room,” by G. B. Stern; “Human Nature and Conduct," Dewey; “History of Mr. Polly,” Wells; “The Way of All Flesh,” Samuel Butler; “Alice In Wonderland)” Carroll; “Fairy Flute,” Rose Fyleman; "South Wind,” Douglas; ’’Nostromo,’’ Conrad; “The War of Steel and Gold,” Brallsford; “Over Bomertons,” Lucas; "The Constant Nymph," Kennedy: “Thunderstorm,” Shern; “Getting Married,” G. B. Shaw; “When We Were Very Young,” Milne, and "Memoirs of a Midget,” Do La Mare.

Little Theatre

The Little Theatre Socitey of Indiana completed successfully Its program for 1925 at the Masonlo Temple, probably making Its last appearance in the Temple Friday night, presenting a group of four one-act playlets under ( the direction of George Somnes, play director, John I B. Reynolds, president, has an-1 nounced. Having completed one of the moat profitable years of Us history the Little Theatre is planning many things of Interest for 1926, Colonel Reynolds declared. Notable among these will he the completion of the new building, which will be ready for occupancy early In February, when the society will present “Treasure Island.” “Treasure Island.” George Somnes has announced, originally was produced by Charles Hopkins in the Punch and Judy Theater, where it was a success. The arrangements is by Jules Eckert Goodman and weal made from the world famous Robert* Louis Stevenson story. . 5*