Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1926 — Page 4

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

Senators and Party Rule SHE Indiana Senators—Watson and Robinson—at the Indiana Republican Editorial Association banquet in Indianapolis Thursday night defended their votes against the World Court resolution favored by the Administration and three-fourths of the Republican Senators. , Evidently they felt the need of some explanation. The Republican party for four years has been committed to the world court idea and has elected two Presidents on platforms promising adherence to the court. The court is good Republican doetriue. The Hoosier Senators assert they are believers in the"principles of their party and in party rule. And they seek re-election as Republicans. Ik explaining his vote against redemption of his party’s pledge, Senator Watson said he construed the Republican national platform as not being in sympathy with adhesion to the particular world court before the Senate Does the Hon. Jim Watson know of any other world court than the one favored by seventy-six Senators and the Republican Administration? The same day the HoosTer Senators were explaining their votes to Indiana Republican editors, Elihu Root —elder statesman, unquestionably a Republican and a straight party man—who helped plan the world court organization, pleaded for a return to the “good, oldfashioned” form of party rule in government. Said he: “We have run into a period of government when individuals seem to ally themselves to a party for no other purpose than to get elected. They feel no obligation to stand by the principles of the party in whose name they are elected, or to back up their associates in that party.” , Mr. Root did a better job pf explaining the world court votes of Jim and Arthur thau those gentlemen themselves. Al Smith and the Power Grabbers EHE WaM Street power grabbers have made the mistake of grabbing too near home. There was a little matter of 2,000,000 horse-power on the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers, which the grabbers, in their rush to seize the resources of the South and West, had temporarily overlooked. - Recently, however, they fixed things up wHh the New York power commission. “Sura! Why not?” said the commission, it being a body expressly designed, like the Federal Power Commission, to make gifts to mendicant millionaires!. At which point entered Governor Al Smith. Said the Governor: “I am unalterably opposed to giving permits to those big corporations for the development of the valuable water power which,' to conserve the rights of the people, should be developed under State control. ’ ’ Governor Smith, according to latest dispatches from New York, will ask the State Legislature to repeal the State’s water power act and abolish the power commission. The proposal- will sound less startling to New York State than to the rest of the country. New York knows Wall Street as other States never can, and New York has been on guard ever since the aluminum interests, under Governor Hughes’ administration, obtained option on 1,000,000 St. Lawrence horse-power. The State Legislafure stopped that earlier grab by revoking the permit. It is interesting to wonder what Al Smith

A Woman’s Viewpoint

When Every Home Had Its Hindenburg mOSEPII HERGESHEIMER says that this is a harrowing age for husbands. “Once,” says he, “and not very long ago, it was quite enough in most walks of life simply to be a husband: it was a position of unchallenged authority; a husband was like a domestic Moses in whom were invested the tablets of law; he had, merely, to be.” Is tills not a true picture of the married male some twenty-five or fifty years ago? And if divorces are Increasing in number, and if women are behaving in a. reprehensible fashion, may not the above paragraph explain this, to a limited extent? Divorces have increased, not altogether because we are worse as a people, not altogether because wives are more rebellious, but simply because It is possible to obtain them. For during those days of which Mr. Hergeeheimer sßeaks, the husband In the home was indeed a law unto himself and the woman had no redress. Hers not to reason why, hers but to do and die. It was not possible for that dear, long gor , home-loving Woman, whom we are wont to praise so highly, to step around the corner and bring suit for divorce aqfl get her firs tinstallment

would do were he Governor of Tennessee. Wall Street banks are trying to grab 5,000,000 horse-power in Tennessee, and thus far Governor Pcay has appeared provoked only at the Federal Government’s delay’in making the donation. Now, Billy, Go To It! OL. WILLIAM MITCHELL, court-mar-tialed and disciplined for his public rebukes of those in charge of the national defense, has resigned from the Army air service. Hence, it appears, v he is to be plain Mister Mitchell. And, the United Press tells us, he is soon to begin a coast-to-coast speaking tour — an oratorical flight, so to speak, during which, doubtlessly, he plans to drop many a reverberating bomb. Now that’l the stuff! Asa military officer, even to perform a service, he had not the right to do a bigger disservice by prejudicing order and discipline essential in any army. Without the enforcement of this rule, President Coolidge said in reviewing the court-mar-tial proceedings, the Army and the Navy “would not only be without value as a means of defense, but would become actually a menace to'society. Discipline is the whole basis of military training.” That, of course, is true. But now Colonel Mitchell becomes Mister Mitchelf The Army officer becomes the private citizen. As such he is perfectly free publicly to lambast whomsoever *r whatsoever he pleases, high officials or systems; and there are certain constitutional guarantees which will protect him in this right. Every ruler needs his critics. Every govsrnment needs a strong opposition to keep it From decay. Army and Navy officials, without something or somebody to keep them on their toes, tend to grow soft and drop into nice, comfortable ruts. The Bil’.y Mitchells are good medicine for any country. We hope ours gives us large and cleansing doses. Now that you have put yourself in a position to do so, Billy, go to it Do your Hitching. Not Machines =T-|UE the restrictions of our new immiJL/ gration law, engineers are fer the first time studying the men who run machines as well as the machines. This is according to a statement by Dean Arthur M. Greene Jr., of the Engineering School of Princeton, University. He explains this remark by pointing out that the supply of cheap labor has been vastly reduced by the new law, and that, in consequence, the importance to the employer of each individual laborer is far greater. If the immigration law has indeed brought this about, we .ought all to bow and give thanks. It wasn’t so very long ago that the worker was considered merely as a part of the mach ne he operated. Everybody knew that if the machine was forced to go the limit for a long period without proper care it would break down, so the machine got careful attention; but nobody worried very much about whether the man who ran the machine broke down or not. “Industrial fatigue has thus far been insufficiently studied,” says Dean Greene. “We have learned in the last few years that the human machine cannot be driven beyond a certain speed without burning out the bearings. 1 ’ The working man has known it all along. That the employer, too, is-beginning to realize it is one of the most hopeful signs industry has given us in many a year.

of alimony the next day. Once married she was bound body and soul, and her bread and butter, her reputation, her very life, depended upon her staying married. Down in their hearts I doubt whether the wives of those Mosaic husbands were any more montent or placid than we are. Do you suppooe they never cursed their fate and prayed to die and sobbed out their agony during the long watch is of the night? Do you imagine that those gentle grandmothers never longed to throw something at the home Hindenburg who ruled with an iron, fist? Do you think they lived through their days without knowing bitter heartaches and soul-stirring rebellions? But they did not divorce their husbands. No, because they couldn’t. I’ll warrant you that maify a one of them would have gloried in doing it had it been possible. To # her, divoice was an unknown quantity and an unrealizable condition, you can wager your last penny that a good many of those dear old grandmothers would have grabbed at it in their young days if they had had the opportunity. ' When women found they did not have to live with the sort of men so graphically described by Mr. Hergeshelmef; they refused to do so. Can you .altogether blame them? suffer from the reaction

which is surging through the beings of the granddaughters of women wh) had to stay married to mid-Vic-torian husbands whether they wanted to or not.

Eddie Himself

. j Eddie Cantor v '' One of the biggest engagements of the season is expected when Eddie Cantor opens a week’s engagement at English’s on Monday night, Feb. s B, In “Kid Boots.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Bauer, Pianist, and Pablo Casals, Cellist, to Play at the Murat Sunday

X NOTABLE concert is scheduled for the Murat Theater ir... ,J tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock when two of the world’s famous musicians, Harold Bauer, pianist, and Pablo Casals, cellist, will be heard in a co-artlst recital under the direction of the Ona B, Talbot Fine Art enterprises. The following is the complete program. “Sonata in A major'’ Beethoven Alelgro, Scherzo. Ailavio-Allefrro. Messrs. Baur and Casals. •at “Si-enes from Childhood”... Schumann (b) "Scherbo in C sham minor . .Chopin Mr. Bauer. (al “Adairio and Alleero" Boccherini (b) Intermezzo from ‘'Goyeix-aß'' Granados (c) “Mazourha" Popper Mr. Casals. "Sonata in A minor. Op. 36” Grieg’ Allegro agitato. Andante cantabile tranqullle. Allegro vivo. Messrs. Bauer and Casals. Nicolai Mednikoff at the piano for Mr. Casals. • • • O' - ~1 N Sunday afternoon. Jan. 31. the Mendelssohn Choir, under i-. the directorship of Andrew Ehner Steffen, and with Paul Matthews assisting at the piano, will sing in the court of the Art Institute. The program is open to the public, and all are welcome, without admission charge. The Mendelssohn Choir needs no particular introduction to the friends of the Art Institute, and the program on Sunday will be an important occasion. There will he about 100 voices, and the delightful setting which the court of the Art Institute affords will enhance the beauty of the music. The program will bo broadcast, tm*l is as follows: "The National Anthem . . .. At. bv O'Hara (Festival Chorus arraiigemrnt for EightPart Chotr, a Cappclla.) (a) “Salutation” Gaines (Choral Prologue. Eight Parts, a Cappella.) (b) "Beautiful Savior’'. ... 12th Century (E.ght-Part arrangement by Chriatienaon. I “Border Ballad” Maunder (Scotch Martlifnr Song for Male Voices.l (a) “Ava Marla” from "Otello" .... Verdi (For Women's Voices; arranged by Victor Harris.) (b) “Tu Es Petrus" from "Christas" Excerpt from the Oratorio for Six-Part Choir.) fa) “Deep River' ' Negro Spiritual (For Six-Part Choir, a Cappella, arranged by Burleigh.) (b) “Song of Deliverance (For Chorus of Mixed Voices. Fourt Parts) • * s Ar VIOLIN recital will be given at the Masonic Temple on Friday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 3 o’clock by Ruth Ray. She will be presented by the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. Ruth Ray received the greater part of her musical .education in America. Making her debut in Carnegie Hail, New York, Nov. 4. ltH9, the jaded critics of that metropolis shook off their indifference and ac claimed her an artist of the first rank. Tills success was followed by engagements throughout the United States, including recitals with Caruso and appearances with the New York Philharbionic, 'Chicago, Minneapolis and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Miss Ray is an artist of exceptional atatinments, great charm in her platform manner, and striking individuality. • • • SHE regular monthly musicale which the Metropolitan School of Music has, been broadcasting over WFBM this season will be given next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock by members of Kappa chapter of the MIJ Phi Epsilon musical sorority, members of which are students and teachers of the Metropolitan school. These programs have been meeting with such marked success that they will l>e Increased to bi-monthly tills month. On the program next Wednesday will fle Miss Helen Payne, soprano: Miss Mild.-ed Johns, contralto; pupils of Edward Nell; Mlks Bernice Reagan and Miss Maude Custer, violinists: students of Hugh McOibeny; Miss Ruth McDougall, eometißt; pupil of Leslie E. Peck: Miss Helen Qulg and Miss Frances Wishanl pianists, pupils of Mrs. Floi.i M. Hunter. The program will be made up of solos and a trio for two violins and piano.

vvkkki.V SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Modern Thinking on Feeding of Five Thousand Men

The International Unllorm Sunday School Leaeon for Jan. 31: Jeepa Feeds Five Thousand Men.—John w. I*l*4 By Win. E. Gilroy, I). D. Editor of Tlie Congregationaßst Ti-~ HIS lesson concerning the feeding of the five thousand brings us straight into the heart of the whole question of the miraculous. There are many mirages of Jesus that might be explainable upon the basis of higher laws, the nature of which has been partially discovered. We are realizing as never before the power of mind over matter. Undoubtedly remarkable cures have been effected in recent years by those who have rathei* deliberately followed psychological laws In exercising such Influence, -Sometimes under religious auspices, but also in many instances without any association or profession of religion. When one thinks of the personality and splrtual power of Jesus one is not amazed that the lame should have walked, that the deaf should ‘have heard, and that many who were sick should have found new health and vigor in his presence. We do not mean that miraculous circumstances are all to be explainable upon this basis of psychological Influence though we should probably find that all circumstances, no matter how seemingly miraculous, have been in accordance with laws that we have not yet discovered. But when we come to an incident like this feeding of the five thousand we are in a realm where nothing that we have discovered of psychological force can account for so amazing a result. Accepting Miracle There can be no use wnatever arguing about this miracle. Some will accept the narrative as literal history- and believe it without difficulty. Others may believe that it is of the nature of legend or tradition, a wonder story that has become attached to the life of Jesus just as wonder stories have become attached to the life of every great leader and teacher of the past. If the significance of Jesus had

Two Interesting Artists Here

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Pablo U’assals, eelist (inset) and Ilarld Bauer at tlie piano

Ona B. Talbott will present Caaals and Bauer in .a joint recital at

A*""—"! JUNIOR Music Club has been organized at tfio Indiana ■I College of Music and Fine Arts with the following officers: President, Faye Bero'l vice president. Benita Menard; secretary, Eleanor King; treasurer, jAck Ford; assistant treasurer, John Dennis; doorkeeper, Joe Stubbs; assistant doorkeeper/ Audeley Kinder; chairman program committee, Helen Bauner; membership, Helen Louise Barnes; attendance. Jack Hunter; reception, Melbe Weiss and refreshments, Edna E. Howland. Meetings will be held the last Saturday of each month. The club Is open to all grade school students. Applicants will be admitted upon Invitation by the membership committee. * * • N evening of music consisting of excerpts from Handel’s i__J Otatorio Samsop will he rendered by the choir of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Thirty-Fourth and Central Ave., Sunday evening ?.t 7:45 o’clock. The choir will be augmented with some well-known local singers and Lucinda Munroe, soprano from the University of Illinois, department of music. The soloists taking part are: Florence Para in Welch, Lucinda Munroe, Norma France, Fred W. Hummel, Floyd M. Chafee, Duncan MacDougal. Fred Newell Morris, bass and director, Paul R. Mathews, organist;Mr. Morris is announcing at this time tlie rehearsals, of the St. Cecilia Mass. Gounod, to he given Palm Sunday evening, and invites singers interested in the study of this work to rehearse with the choir every Friday evening at 7:30 in the church. • • • RS. FRANCES JOHNSON of the voice department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts is organizing a Beginning Class in diction, fl.-st meeting to be held on next Thursday, Feb. 4. at the college. Also Harmony I classes will one on F'eb. 1.

been simply that He fed 6,000 people with five barley loaves and two fishes, we should have little occasion for interest in him as a spiritual leader; that might mark His wonder working power, but it could not indicate His divinity or His power of saving people from their sins. The significance of Jesus was that He brought to men the bread of life. He himself deprecated the dependence upon signs and

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Constantin Bakaleinikoff

On next Sunday afternoon when Bakaleinikoff steps upon the conductor's stand at the Circle to -direct the Circle Symphony Orchestra, he will be observing the second anniversary of his stay at this theater. For the occasion, ha has written a special overture which will be played.

the Murat at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon. /

T'" HE Indiana College of Music and /Fine Arts will present WwJ the following students in a recital on Saturday, Feb* 6, 2:30 p. m., in the college auditorium. Eunice Benner, Lenore Myers, Marian F. Miller, Virginia Marcus, Beatrice Urwltz, Jeanette Solotkin, Jean Knowlton, Jean —Foley, Charlotte Webb, Harold Phillips, Dorothy Caudell, Evelyn Draper, Melba Weiss, Lemont Miley, Mildred Yager, Ruby Cook, Elizabeth Case, Ethel Forsee, Alice Emerson, Maxine Ferguson and Margaret Quatman. The above are pupils of Clarence Weesner, Helen Sommers, Irene Hoffman, Pauline Roes, Gladys Loueks, Madam Theo Hewes, Flora Lyons, Fred Jofry, Bomar Cramer and Frances Johnson. The program is in charge of Miss Hoffman and is open to the public. * • • r—n RANCES JOHNSON of tlie I r I Ybice department of the Indi* I * I ana College of Music and Fine Arts will sing for the Rushvllle Matinee Musicale on Feb. 1. • * • The regular monthly business meeting of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music Sind Fine Arts will be held at the college on next Tuesday, Feb. 2. Luncheon will bo served. • • • r—l HE Indiana College of Music I ami Fine Arts will present j * I the following pupils in a recital in the college auditorium on Wednesday. Feb. 3, at 8.15 jl. m.T Helen Hill, Mary Pauline Smith, Virginia Marcus, Gertrude Whelan, Marion Barr, lona Lamb, Mary Virginia Wallace, Cole Watkins, Maxine Ferguson, Edward Wilson, Lillian Duckwall, Marietta Coval, Mildred Marlowe, I. M. Blackburn and Dorothy Steeg. The above are pupils of Clarence Weesner, Eleanora Beauchamp, Bomar framer. Frances Johnson, Will am R. Wehrend, Una Clayson Talbott, Madam Theo I lewes and Glenn Friermood. Mrs. Johnson Is in charge of the program which will be open to the public.

■ miracles, and He spoke very plainly lo those who sought Him because of the loaves and fishes and not because of the living bread that He had to give. This narrative might well symbolize the marvelous way in which Christianity has had its growth and influence. From very email beginnings it has brought the bread of life to Innumerable thousands, and the richness of the provision of grace is symbolized by the abundance. We are concerned here not with a great magician, but with a great Savior who loved the masses of the people and who looked upon them with compassion. We may not have power to perform miracles such as Jesßs did, but if we had in our hearts the deep love for our fellowmen that he had, if compassion moved the souls of all who professed the name of Christ as it moved our Master in his earthly life, could we Imagine any one in all the world going hungry? There would be bread enough for all, and all would eat and be filled. The Never-Filled It is touching to think of the vast rtwtss of humanity who never know what it is really to be filled. We are told that there are hordes of people in India, even in the years when there Ik no famine, who never know what it means to have enough, and one thinks of the children of the Near East who, with all the provision that has come in recent years from Christian America, have not had during much of the time more than one meal a day. Here is where the lesson strikes home to those of us who are well fed and who never know what it means to miss a meal. Instead of much controversy over whether the miracle happened or not would It ndt be well If we found in cotisecratlon'to Christ the power to work modern miracles through the application of God's laws to human problems? > At any rate the lesson and Its meaning are lost fpr us unless we find In Jesus the bread of life and feed upon him in our hearts by, faith.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

TOO MUCH RED TAPE PJTJ. O. CLEVENGER, truckIR I man of Alexandria, Ind„ | 1 has assigned title to tho truck he has been operating to tho “State of Indiana, U. S. A.” He sent the certificate of title and .properly executed assignment to the public service commission, together with an explanatory letter. He wrote: “Since I find it impossible for mo to comply with your rules and regulations for trucks as a common carrier, I hereby assign my common carrier truck to the State of Indiana.” In commenting on his action he said he would like to see the public service commission run his truck according to their own rules and make a profit. * His daughter, who is a stenographer and bookkeeper, helped him to make out l'ie numerous reports the commission demanded. Except for that he could not have followed instructions and found time to run the truck. The incident is illuminating. It sharply reveals the effect of governmental control and regulation on private initiative and business enterprise. The disgruntled truckman has learned what every other business man has learned, who must conduct his business under the minute supervision of a government bureau or commission, that endless, complicated reports consume all his time and energy. He has learned that government regulation of business tends to become strangulation of business in a maze of red tape.

TO DIG UP EARLY HOOSIERS r -JTLANS to open and explore I l“* I next summer some of IndlI * I ana's so-called Indian mounds are being discussed by C. E. Coleman, director of the State historical bureau, anil others interested in archeology. It is believed some of these mounds will yield trinkets, utensils and bones of early Hoosiers of archeological importance. ' Quite likely. Indiana has many mounds, of the sort that'excite the curiosity of archeologists, that have never been explored systematically and scientifically. Opening them may throw much light on the mound builders—of whom little is known except that they are dead. To the average person it makes little difference who the mound builder was, hcW' he lived, or why.

The School Board

To the Editor of The Times: mAM writing you in regard to your ‘‘write-up’’ oh the dismissal of eight school-hoard employes. Why cry so loudly because peven of them were of the Catholic faith? Four years ago, about three times that many Protestants (of which about 90 per cent wore Masons), were dismissed at one time and with two days notice —some of them with no notice at all and to some, no excuse was given for the wholesale dismissal only that they “guessed wrong.” Please bear in mind that this happened when Mr. Charles Barry anil nis coworkers were in power, also please bear in mind the fact that I was one of the Protestants who walked out of his Job in order that it might be turned over to one who was not a Protestant. I um no’ acquainted with any of the present members of the board of school commissioners and I have not made any advances toward obtaining my old position with the school-board so in writing this letter Ask the Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C. inclosing; 2 cents in ■tamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Una’gned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. How long does the average housefly live? The length of life varies according to the climate and weather conditions. They have been known to live as long as ninety days. This, however, is an extreme case. How much money was coined by the Unjted States mints in the year 1985? For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, the amount coined was $278,610,944.] What is the origin of the term, “bootlegger”? The term originated with the ladians. It was unlawful for any one to peddle liquor on an Indian reservation, and it became a common practice for such peddlers to carry a flask in the leg of the boot. Hence the expression. Will you give the specific gravities of gold, silver, "pig iron and lead? Gold, cast hammered, from 19.25 to 19.30 :silver, cast hammered, from 10.4 to 10.6; pig iron, cast, 7.2; lead, 11.37.^ What was the report of the commission. of the League of Nations on the subject of an international’ language? The "Commission de Cooperation Intellectuelle” of the League of Nations on Aug. 1, 1923, reported on the question of an international language that they did not favor an international artificial language for the League of Nations, “considering that the effort of the league ought to tend first of all to foster the study of living languages and literature.” How long and wide Is the Danube River? The distance from the source to the mouth of the Danube River is 1,000 miles, but Including its windings its length is about 1,800 miles. It varies greatly in width and at the famous “Iron Gate” It Is 1,400 yards wide.

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The tax rate, the cold wave, the price of gasoline, or any of the important matters of present-day Indiana life will not be effected by mound exploration. Such work is merely in the interest of science. To dig up the skeleton of % W*historic Hoosier and determine by* a study of the remains that the original proprietor of that skeleton died of the measles or domestic complication is hailed as an achievement. The excavator is praised. Ono who digs in Crown Hill cemetery and excavates a more recent Hoosier is called a ghoul, a grave-robber. Archeology is a peculiar science. The moral distinction between it and grave-robbery seems to rest oir whether the deceased gentleman to be excavated has any immediate) relatives living or not. NEW TESTAMENT LANGUAGE |R. EDGAR G GODSPEED of Chicago xJnivorslty told v an Indianapolis audience the other night that the- New Testament was written in colloquial Greek—in the style of speech used by common people in everyday life, not in classical and literary Greek. Because of that fact, he made, not long ago, anew translation ofi tho New Testament into the ordi-" nary, modern American language, instead of tho stilted slyle familiar to us in the King James version. It must be shocking to some! who believe the Bible to he perfect In, every detail to learn that Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul and other New Testament authors wrote in anything but pure biblical language. If they wrote by direct inspiration of divine authority, why didn't God have them use pure, correct Greek, instead of the colloquial, slipshod language of tho phonic, the market place and everyday life? The New Testament authors wrote to bo read and understood by plain folks. They were concerned only with the message they had to deliver and Its effect on human hearts, not of literary excellence. They were careless' of stylo and grammarBut what they wrote Is now conceded to be great literature —It has lived for two thousand years, and will live thousands of years henee: , It has touched the hearts of count* less millions. Which proves that it's what you have to say, not hoW you say it, that really matters.

you can see that I “have no ax to grind." When with the school-board, jM was employed as a pay poll elerffli and in my work, I was constantly in touch with Mr. Carl W. Eurton, who was, at that time superintendent of buildings and grounds, and I will say that everything that transpired in the time that he was superintendent, was done for •'the good of tlie school city. I further kitow (whether you or any. one else care to give him credit for it or not) that Carl W. Eurton is working night and day to give the taxpayers of the city of Indianapolis value received for every cent he receives in salary and more,! too. Go and look at the reco-ds of the school-hoard. Go and look at the buildings. Compare the work which was done and the condition of the buildings when Carl W. Eurton was superintendent of buildings and grounds before, with the general condition of tho school city for the past four years, and I believe that his record will speak for itself. As I stated before, I have no ax to grind other than I would like to see "Justice to whom justice is due” and I certainly think that your paper should be broad-minded enough to sec both sides of this school Efficiency counts for a lot and you can rest assured that who ever Carl Eurton employs in his department will be qualified for the Job, or he will not get the Job. Please let me repeat the fact that I am not trying to get a position with the school board. I am mereP ly trying to defend men who I knowP will make good on their Job if people) will only give them a square deal. DALLAS B. CASTLE. 612 N. Denny St. SHORTRIDGE To the Editor of The Times: H*" "1 AVING read your article in The Times regarding-the condition at Shortrtdge High School, I am at a loss to understand what the school board means. I have a daughtor attending Shortridge who lias mentioned the conditions there. Certainly education is a fine thing, but not at the risk of loss of life. I wonder how many of tho school board have children attending Shortridge. Surely there is some way to make schoolhouses safe for the hundreds attending while the building program is being settled. Is there no way to awaken those responsible for the safety of these .students before some terrible calamity makes them realize the danger? Teachers and students alike surely deserve some consideration. MRS. J. W. JENKINS. 3448 N. Illinois St. SPEED To the Editor of The Times: Yy /] E are Buffering from a dan- 1 W *erous and homicidal attack 1 -of speed nv -lness, has i overthrown our reason, and we killing, in the United States, more ™ than 20,000 persona a year, under • its Insane influence: The present excessive and murderous speed of automobiles serves no practical pu) >ose whatever. It is merely the inane amusement of i empty minds. It is foolish, deadly: and absolutely useless. It produces, nothing but cripples and corpses. It) helps All our cemeteries. BERTRAND SIXADWELL.