Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1926 — Page 4

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Telegraph Our Senators SHE United States Senate is proposing to take action this week that will vitally concern all America and it is up to the people of the country to express their views on the subject, even though the Senate has not asked them to do so. The question is one that has never figured in a political campaign and our Senators have no way of knowing what wo think about it, unless we tell them. Suppose we tell the two from this State. The subject is Muscle Shoals. There is a great power project, built and paid for by the people’s money. It is capable of aiding the prosperity and comfort of a large section of the country, if it is devoted to that purpose. Prodded by the President, the Senate is about to allow this great plant to be leased to some unnamed private corporation at whatever price may be obtained and then to let the people of that section take their chances with that corporation. No real consideration of the question has been given in the Senate. Manufacturers and other representatives of the States most affected have asked that decision be delayed until some method of protecting the users of the electric current can bo devised. Not a nickel will be lost, these manufacturers point out, by taking the necessary time for study. The power will still be there, as it has been for thousands of years. "What is done with Muscle Shoals will he a precedent for all parts of the country as the development of super-power continues. That is where our community is affected. If you believe the Government should not let go of Muscle Shoals,' if you believe this great enterprise, now belonging to the people, should continue to belong to the people, wire Senators Watson and Robinson and tell them so. If you believe even that the matter is too important to be jammed through in the manner now attempted, wire them. If this grab is stopped you probably will some day be grateful. Your children and grandchildren are certain to be. $1,383,500 WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The Senate has spent $1,383,500 in the last sixteen years on investigations, according to figures made public today by Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. Senator Warren made his compilation in support of the movement started by Senate Republicans to bait costly inquiries. EH K above item raises just one important. question- Were the Senate investigations worth $1,383,500 to the people of the United States? Senator Warren, chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, is many times a millionaire- He once was rated the wealthiest member of tbe Senate, but other multimillionaires now dispute that distinction with him.. He has been engaged most of bis life in many kinds of business, including banking, stock-raising, land dealing, merchandise. If one of his managers were to report to him the fact that $1,383,500 bad been spent in certain activities, his only question would be: Was the expenditure justified by the results? Without straining our memories over the whole sixteen years, during which tlie Senate spent the total named, let’s consider a few recent investigations which none of us has forgotten. 1. The Teapot Dome investigation. Wasn't it worth the whole $1,383,500 to rid the Government of two Cabinet officers capable of giving away naval oil worth hundreds of millions? Didn’t the people stand to lose more than that amount through their continuance in service? Hasn’t that investigation assured to the people the return of this priceless proj> erty ? 2. The Department of Justice investigation. Wasn’t it worth the whole $1,383,500 to rid the Government of the then Attorney Gen-

Our Vanishing Gaspline

Editor’s Note: Menaced a serious shortage of petroleum on which 20,000,000 American automobiles, billions of dollars worth of industries and our national defense all depend, the Government called a conference of experts to help find a way out. Among the foremost of these was Henry L. Doherty, big oil man, banker, public utilities director, scientist and engineer, a nationally recognized .authority. What he told the officials at Washington, he now tells you, at the request of TinTimes, because this Nation-wide problem touches vou where you live. This is the sixth and last story of the series. By Henry L. Dolierty mT is desirable for many reasons that th© laws necessary for the production of petroleum should be passed by the Federal Government. tVe now have a hodgepodge of iaws made by the courts and passed by tho States which are not uniform and in some instances prevent efficient production. Few of the States have proper bureaus or staffs of experienced men to guide their legislative policies on oil production. At present we need only to rescind all present laws and pass one law providing for the unit operation of pools. If we were allowed to develop our pools as units there would be no necessity for any Governanent

eral in the light of conditions existing in his department? 3. The Veterans’ Bureau investigation. Wasn’t it worth the whole $1,383,500 to rid that bureau of the man then in charge and so start the process of cleaning it up, to the end that the war veterans might receive a fairer share of the millions voted for their relief? 4. The income tax bureau investigation. Wouldn’t it be worth the whole $1,383,500 to have a real light on the inside workings of this bureau —a bureau which, iu complete secrecy, has refunded hundreds of millions of dollars to certain big taxpayers; a bureau which at the instance of Andrew Mellon’s attorneys has made a ruling that saves Mellon’s banks $91,000 in such manner that Mellon himself is startled ? Os course those four investigations have been worth all the Senate has spent in sixteen years. They have been worth several times $1,383,500. And nobody is more capable of realizing this fact than that very successful business man, Francis E. Warren. The Law and the Countess SHE detention of Countess Cathcart under a deportation order at Ellis Island becomes sillier the closer you study it. Stopped-under the immigration law which excludes “persons who have been convicted of, or admit having committed, a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude,” it now develops she hadn’t and couldn't have committed any such crime. Why? Because while adultery was admitted. adultery, wo are told, is neither a crime, felony nor a misdemeanor in England or South Africa, where the “offense” took place. Under the circumsanees if the outspoken countess can bo legally barred from this country, almost no foreigners at all should enter. For instance, any Englishman. Frenchman, German or other foreigner who, at any time in liis life, ever carried a bottle of brandy or wine or other intoxicant, home, or even toted a hip-flaslt, should be barred. For though transporting liquor is not an offense in Europe it is a crime punishable by a term in the penitentiary in the United States. Thus, if Secretary of Labor Davis was correct in barring Countess Cathcart. for an act that was not a crime where the act was committed, then to be logical he should bar all foreigners who had committed the “crime” of carrying a brandy flask on their journeys in the old world. Abslu'd, isn’t It? Not that we give a darn if foreigners laugh at some of our laughable officials, but wo do hate to see our country stripped of its dignity by such wooden-headed administrative acts as this.. It Is time Cong Tess changed our immigration laws at least to conform to common-sense. Government Help Unnecessary mN the present furore over the suicide of the Peteet family of San Diego, this fact should be kept in mind: The future of Tijuana, Mexican border rice town, rests with Americans. American money supports Tijuana, American tourists fill the barrooms and gaming tables in the resorts up and down the town’s little street. The character of the place is well known. Tourists who go there go knowing the sort of thing they may expectIf the people of this country want Tijuana abolished or reformed, they can bring it about without help of either the United States or Mexican governments. If Tijuana rice continues to flourish it will mean that our recent ouri burst of righeous indignation was hypocritical.

regulation or supervision. If the Federal Government has the power to legislate how oil shall bo produced and asserts its right to so legislate, I assume this would suspend the State laws. I hold that the Federal Government has ample power to legislate under the power given to it In the Constitution to provide for the common defense. It not only has the power, but has assumed obligations to the States that make It the duty of the Federal Government to conserve the most important munition of war which is now being unnecessarily wasted. ■ The power to conduct war was vested exclusively by the Constitution with the Federal Government and was surrendered by, and forbidden to, the States, and the Federal Government assumed the obligation to protect the States. It seems to me the nonproducing and nonoffending States have a perfect right to insist that the Federal Government can do nothing less than comply if it is going to carry out th© obliga-

tion to these States which it has assumed. I know many eminent lawyers disagree with me, but I think their disagreement is due to a misconception of the evidence which alone clothes the / Federal Government with the power to act and the obligation to act. 1 can see nothing that is either surprising or unreasonable in holding that the Federal Government has ample power to do whatever is necessary to prevent waste and conserve the most important munition of war. Nor do I think that time should be wasted in “passing the buck” between Federal Government and the oil producing States. Prompt and effective action Is needed and it can only be secured, in my judgment, by Federal legislation. Kote: Oil exists In pools, or lakes, under ground. Above, the ground may be owned by a dozen or more interests. any one of which may drill when and how he pleases regardless of the others This means that every time anew pool is located, there is a mad scramble to see who can drill the most wells and grab the most oil, resulting in oceans of petroleum being dumped on an already over-supplied market. Mr. Doherty's plan calls for a Federal law to make every pool a single “unit.” no matter how many concerns own the ground above, to be conserved until needed.

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The Ugly Duckling Becomes a Swan and Norma Shearer Becomes a Comedy Star

(By Observer) "I wouldn’t kiss that face for a thousand dollars,” he said. You wouldn’t blame him. Tt Is Just about the homeliest face I have ever seen. And you may not believe It, but It Is Norma Shearer’s face that he Is talking about. “They ain’t done right by our Norma,” you probably will think J when you finally make "ugly duckling’' is I really Norma I HHpF I Shearer. Hut they j HtfSjU rsr J have. For in "His 8 US 9 Seerotary.’’ showB -8 lug ut the Apollo this week. Miss Shearer has been Jaa riven her chance to become a fullfjL -W flelged star of sv|jU \ smart comedy. f ;Ai§L s * le llaa made | f \ much of it. Her i Jk ’%. ' work in “His Secretary” stamps ’Norma Shearer her as one of the finest of movie comediennes. As Ruth Lawrence, Miss Shearer Is Been first as the sort of stenographer who, to quote a sub title, "is used for stenography.” 'With freckled face, nose glasses, long hair, long skirts, square toed shoes and cotton stockings which fall in folds around her ankles, they do not even use her for stenography when they can help It. Ruth Is employed in the office of Colman & Sloden, attorneys. Colman, splendidly played by Lew Cody, Is single and the idol of poor Ruth; though he little suspects It. Willard Louis is a scream as Sloden, “married but broad minded.” Colman is the one who makes the remark about not kissing her for a thousand. Ruth overhears him and sees that she lias the wrong slant on things. She goes to the beauty parlor and has the freckles removed |as well as most of her hair. From there to the modiste and the tranformation is complete. She not only makes Colman kiss her but pay a thousand dollars for the privilege. But she Is still a good girl so she tears up the check and, wo are led to believe, marries him instead. Not only does Norma Shearer have her best part in this picture but 1 am sure that Tvew Cody and W illaAl Louis never had better light parts. The smaller roles are well filled and the direction by Hobart Henley is splendid. “His Secretary” ! is one of the funniest and smartest |of light comedies I have ever seen on the screen. A Jimmy Adams comedy, “For Sadie’s Sake," a Fox news reel, Emil Seidel and his orchestra and Earl Gordon, organist, are also on the program. At the Apollo all week. -I- + 4 COLLEEX MOORE WEARS FINE CLOTHES AT CIRCLE Colleen Moore with her winning personality is again the center of attention in a picture that is for her somewhat unusual, Irene,” at the Circle. It is something new to find Miss Moore in a picture that requires Jior her to show ofT W J th ® latest creations of Milady's Fdress designers. scenes lasting ■ about twenty J minutes, she Is Wl - * S given an opport unity that she &&§'•■' make* fine use of. Wff \ fashion show in ,*• natural colo r p <■ provides th* i '-hance of showing HhL A how beautiful she BsOF jjg can be when given tbe clothes to Colleen Moore wear. From a standpoint of ■beautiful coloring and the last word in gowns this color part of the picture Is striking and finely done. Although the fashion part Is a new lino for Miss Moore she does not leave the role in which she has made many admirers. She Is given an humble beginning, being very poor, and through the friendship of a man whom she meets In a g-ery unusual way is lifted to the heights of a wealthy marriage and social position. Light comedy is the keynote of most of the picture. Kate Price as the Irish mother has a role in which she fits exceedingly well. Just when the picture seems to be getting a little bit slow or sad we are given some Irish comedy of almost a slapstick nature by she and Charles Murray, who plays the part of the husband and father. Lawrence AYheat shows us at last what to expect of a man milliner. Just to think, he has to live under the name of “Madame Lucy.” Having inherited his business from an aunt, he must continue the name, and, as he explains it, he must now be a “man among women. Instead of a man among men.” He provides some finely pointed humor. Lloyd Hughs plays the male lead opposite Miss Moore and has not much to do except act as a background for the personality of his star. “Irene” was taken from the musical comedy by the same name and transferred to the screen under the j direction of Alfred Green. The orchestra program for the | week is an overture, “Irene,” played under the direction of Bakaleinikoff; an organ solo, “Always,” by Dessa Byrd, and the Circle News. At the Circle all week. •I- + -I MUSICAL ACT AVI NS AT COLONIAL An added feature at the Colonial this week Is the act of Miguel Galvin and Grace Butterworth with the Williamson Boys. The three men are Instrumentalists while Miss Butterworth sings a “blues”'song and does the Charleston. They had no trouble stopping the show Sunday. The first part of “Lazybones,” this week’s feature at the Colonial, Is set at the period when two seated Ifttycles were passing out and

the automobile was making It’s first appearance. Tt greatly resembles a type of drama which I believe was very popular about that time. It has all the elements of old-fas-hloneil melodrama: the poor little misunderstood mother whose husband, a sailorman had been lost at sea before the home folks met tym. her tyrannical and unnatural mother who doubted the story, denied the child and married daughter to a man of her own choosing: the desertion of the baby and the attempt at suicide. This sort of hokum has, at times, been skillfully blended Into good entertainment but something missed fire this time. There are some theatrical tricks in the picture that click satisfactorily but it is at most times obvious and without any semblance of sincerity. The baby in this picture Is found and adopted by Lazybones, a sort of juvenile Llghtnm’. LazybonVs does not at any time gain much sympathy. Youthful loafers and liars are not nearly so lovable as those approaching senility. Charles (Buck) Jones, hero of many thrilling rides across the great open spaces, has laid aside his sixshooters and two gallon hat to play the part, of Lazybones. Judging from this picture Jones has brought no great amount of talent to the larger field of feature productions. The remainder of the cast are satisfactory tyoes. Zasu Fitts, Emily Fltzroy and Madge Bellamy get all possible from their parts. But the picture as a whole just does not ring true. Also on the bill Is a Charles, Puffy comedy, a news reel, Aesop’s Fable, Julia Nlebergall, pianist and the American Harmonists, winning, as usual, their share of applause. At the Colonial all week. -I- -I- IOn view today: Zeigfeld’s Follies at English’s, Wally Sharpies and Edith Clasper at Keith’s, Theodore Stefanoff at the Lyric, Mademoiselle Nina at the Palace, Jack Hoxie at the Isis, Billy Gilbert at the Broadway, Florence Austral with the Mannerchor at the Academy of Music.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran - ■

m GUESS yer all plannin’, as likely as not, on planting some seeds In the spring; on pickin' a place fer a nice garden spot, and dreamln’ of what it will bring. A fella gels thinkln’ round this time of year of radishes, lettuce and spuds. The call of the spade and the rake he kin hear,An’ he pictures himself In old duds. He reads # lots of catalogs over and through, and is Joined In the task by his wife. He knows there are plenty of things he must do, but he'll have quite the time of hla life. The sun will beat down, and the heat waves may burn, but he'll plug just as long as he’s able. He’ll know there's a whole lot of earth he must turn so’s to grow some real food fer the table. Just think of the thrill that Is cornin' to you, when you’ve planted a whole flock of seeds. As surf as yer living, some sprouts will come through an’ about 90 per cent will be w eeds. • • • If a bald bead seems to be bothering you, about the best thing to do is have him pinched. • • * After some people buy an auto, about the only jack they have left Is under the back seat. • • • T wonder if the fellow who wrote ■’Bedelia” ever got a reply. • • • No man appreciates a supper of cold shoulder and hot tongue. • it She used to hear him on the porch. Her lover, brave and bold. But now she doesn’t any more His shoes are rubber soled. • • SHE—Do you like me in an evening gown? HE—Nothing Is more becoming.

A Womans Viewpoint

The Countess Cathcart By Mrs. Waller Ferguson SHE case of the Countess of Cathcart seems to have become an international sex squabble. Os course, any person with sense can see that If the Countess is excluded from American shores for having at one time left her husband for the Earl of Craven, then plain Justice demands that her companion in guilt, who has already been here for some time, should also be sent home from this perfectly nice country. The facts say that while the Earl answered with a simple negative when questioned as to whether he had ever been connected with any case involving, moral turpitude, the Countess, remembering her sensational elopement, said “yes” to the same queryWhich goes to show that tn spite of our privileges, we women still have our old-fashioned consciences. To the Earl, schooled In a masculine code, living with another man’s wife did not give him the feeling of a moral leper; to the Countess, saddled with the ancient feminine complex, It did. So it is the Countess and not the Earl whose case Is before government authorities. The decision seems to hinge upon a simple matter, the Interpretation of the term “moral turpitude.” If this English woman has ever been apprehended wdth a bomb up her sleeve; if she is bringing some contagious disease Into our midst; if it is suspected that she will spend her time here In Instilling the doctrine of communism into our serene and stand-pat republic; if she carries any liquor In her luggage, then, for heaven’s sake, send her home. But If this moral turpitude means that her chief claim to dangerous citizenship lies in the fact that she

HOLT AND LANGDON ' SHARE HONORS AT OHIO In a double bill at the Ohio this week, featuring Jack Holt In "The Enchanted Hill” and Hairy Lang- ''l don In “There Ho Goes,-” it Is ap- Jyjßr j parent that Holt of the bill. * P comedy Is ns good not a feature pic- MRa&U • ture by nil means. Kj|c /' t Don't mean to say kSWL* that I didn't like wit m, VH it, for I do. Have t liked Harry Lang- Jack Holt don for the last few pictures he has made and think his brand of serious fun is full of laughs, but still think that “There ll© Goes’’ is not a picture to be featured over “The Enchanted Hill.” In the Holt picture the first scenes show us just about the toughest town ever. AVe are given the picture of a small western town, and the odd part is that everyone Is on the street looking for someone else to shoot at. Regular, honest-to-goodness melodrama of the western kind. They wear guns, chaps and ride horses. The story Is centered on the fight, of some Interests for possession of aC cattle ranch on which has been located a rich seam of coal. A miniature war Is started in which Jack Holt, as Lee Purdy, an exArmy aviator and owner of the ranch, sends Just about all his enemies to the hospital with bullet wounds. Florence Vidor is in the picture for one reason only. There had to be love Interest somewhere, and she Is It. And she Is also very good at It. Is fine opposite Holt. A roaring brand of fun Is given by Noah Beery as an old westerner of days past who is knocked about from one job to another. He and his pet goat are inseperable companions in many laugh provoking escapades. For those who like western melodrama “The Enchanted Hill" will prove to be fine entertainment. At the Ohio all week.

NOW, HONESTLY— Hoes your suit look as If you were about to Jump? Baggy at the knees and elbows and such? Just carelessness, Isn't It? It’s so easy to let a suit got raggish looking. He’s a wise man who pays a bit of attention to his personal appearance. It has its effect anywhere you go. AVhy not let one of your next pressing engagements have to do with the outfit you wear down to work? • • • "The Lost Kiss” sounds wonderful on the piano, but have you ever tried It on your mouth organ? # • • MUSICIAN—Never mind, porter. I can carry my own grip. It's only got music In it. PORTER—AVeII, do you want someone to carry the tunes? • * • Maybe It’s true th; t “Heaven will protect the working girl.” But It’s tough luck to have to die to get protection. • • • If you happen to mar a portion of the dining room table, just turn over a leaf. * • • FABLES IN FACT FATHER WAS A FIRM BELTEVER THAT MUSIC HATH CHARMS TO SOOTHE THE SAVAOE BREAST PERIOD HENCE HE LEARNED TO PLAY A SAXOPHONE AND HIRED A COMPETENT INSTRUCTOR TO TEACH SISTER THE VTOLIN COMMA SONNY THE GUITAR COMMA AND MOTHER THE PTANO PERIOD AND YOU HAVEN’T HEARD THE HALF OF IT PERIOD THE FAMILY CAT PLAYS ON THE LINOLEUM PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

left her husband for another man, then we might as well let her come In. Otherwise we shall be straining ab a gnat after having swallowed u whole caravan of camels. A little moral turpitude, more or less, is not going to hinder the flow of Congrcssinal oratory nor increase Chicago's dally average of hold-ups. Our national defenses are not likely to be impaired by anything the Countess can do. We've kindly overlooked European war debts and should be able to overcome our prejudice against European matri monial escapades. And besides the Stillmans are In Europe. What is a little moral turpitude between friendly countries, anyway?

A Sermon for Today “ ' ’By Rev. John R. Gunn 1

Text: "A brother offended Is harder to b© won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a casfle."—l’rov. 18:19. mHE offended brother Solomon describes here is to be pitied. In most cases the thing ho Is offended about has been exaggerated and magnified ou:. of all proportion. Often It is nothing more than an imaginary . it. Some people take offense upon the slightest provocation. An over-sensitive nature Is the excuse usually made for them. I am sorry for people who are afflicted with an unduly sensitive disposition. They are so easily offended you have to handle them with gloves. I think I would rather be like the man who went to a party where he was not Invited. They kept hinting to him that he was not wanted. Finally the host Intimated to him that only those who were Invited were expected to come. But he did not take anything that was

Famous Composers Franz Schubert fTTICHUBERT, a famous Austrian composer, whs bom |J | in Vienna in 1797. llis violin lessons started at the of 8. At the age of 14 he composed a piano duet. Tbo following year he composed a number of songs and continued the composition of a large number of pieces during his short life. lie died in 1828. Some of his most important compositions were written in 1813 and immediately afterward, after ho had been forced by throat trouble to lcavo the Court choir. In 1816, when he was only 19 ho WTOto his most famous song, “Tho Erlking,” and one almost ns famous, “Tho Wanderer.” Through financial assistance of his friend, Franz von Schober, he was permitted to leave tho drudgery of teaching and devoto himself almost entirely to composition. Although Schubert’s songs were immensely popular, not one of them was published until 1821. Ono of his finest works, “The Unfinished Symphony,” was composed in 1823. Tho known number of Schubert’s songs is more than 600. His orchestral and chamber musio compositions also are notable.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

ANNIVERSARY OF MINE DISASTER S'— —IULIJVAN, Ind.. (observed Saturday, In an Impressive manner, the first anniversary of the great coal mine disaster in that city, which one year ago cost the live? of fifty-one miners—the greatest mining tragedy in Indiana’s history. In memory of the men who lost their lives in that explosion, the courthouse bell was tolled, Sullivan business houses closed their doors for three hours In the middle of the day and memorial services were held in the high school auditorium. Community observance of the anniversary and the memorial services in which citizens of all classes participated, of course, can’t benefit the dead miners. Nevertheless, they form a beautiful tribute. But what has been done since the Sullivan catastrophe to make coal mining more sn/e? AVhat steps have been taken to prevent a repetition of the Sullivan horror in Indiana? A year ago the State was shocked when the lives of fiftyone miners were snuffed out in that single blast. Sympathy and thousands of dollars for relief of the stricken families poured In. State and Federal authorises Investigated the disaster to affix the blame and devise regulations to prevent similar occurrences In the future. Nothing came of the lnvestlga/tion. Tho families <t the dead miners -were relieved of immediate financial distress. The affair Is forgotten, except for memorial services on the anniversary. Coal mining goes on, taking its toll of lives, the same as before. In the year that has elapsed since the Sullivan tragedy, greater mlno disasters have occurred In Oklahoma, Pennnsylvanla, Kentucky and North Carolina. All from unnecessary fires and explosions. The price of coal is still paid in blood. Coal mining is more in need of safety measures than of memorial services. WASHINGTON’SBEER RECIPE Gc— ”1 ROUGE WASHINGTON’S recjpe for making beer — L__J found recently in his dairy —has been dragged into the battle between the wets and drys in the National Capital. The father of his country—dead a century and a quarter—is enlisted to fig(>t in the prohibition controversy. The association against the prre hibition amendment will distribute at Its “face the facts" dinner tonight facsimile copies of George’s beer recipe. That’s clearly contrary to the Volstead act, declares Wayne Wheeler, chief Pooh-Bah of the dry organization. "Whatl is it unlawful to circulate a document written by tho first President of tbe United States in his own handwriting?” ask the wots in mock horror. The whole incident is ridiculous. It doesn’t prove any point in the prohibition question—only that both wet the dry agitators have lost all sense of proportion. Washington, being a lending Virginia country gentleman of his time, lived after tho manner and custom of contemporaries of his class. He owned slaves, drank liquor, distilled whisky and brewed his beer, as did his neighbors. What has that got to do with modem conditions and the settlement of modem Issues? Even his beer recljie 1s of no great Importance. An earnest homebrewer can probably get a better recipe from his next-door

said to himself and made no move to go. At last tho host seized him by the arm. led him to the door and said. “I must request you to leave, sic.” Whereupon the man said, “I can take a hint as good as anybody; I don’t believe you want me here.” Not only are sensitive people easy to become offended. When they become offended It Is hard to do anything with them. They are very contentious; and, as Solomon says, "their contei tions are like the bars of a castle.’ They are "harder to be won than a strong city.” Thoy make life miserable for themselves and for everybody around them. Is there any remedy for this unfortunate disposition? The trouble with these hypersensitive people Is that they make their feelings and happiness dependent upon that attitude and action of other people toward themselves. The only remedy I can suggest is a reversal of this position. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

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neighbor or from a fellow straphanger on tho street csr. George's beer recipo may N> most excellent. But that isn’t | tho reason today, tils birthday, is a holiday, Nor was It on oroounl of his rlave owning, (lancing and convivial activities that th* Wash lngton Monument was erected MUST BREED ' BRAINS a ga.tiering of Indianapolis -1 club women tho other day that we must brood brains. She j advocated wo mo sort of State control of reproduction to adjust the propaganda of tho race for Its -betterment. “Mental strength does not rise indiscriminately from the mass," oho said. "It la always from good stock. Character equipment Is determined from heredity. The only way to keep undeal rallies from reproducing themselves la not to breed them.” All of which sounds scientific and logical. But Improving the race by scientific breeding of humans under Government supervision Is not a simple matter. What type of humans should we attempt to produce? There ta likely to be dfsagreement as to what constitutes the best stock. If we go in for breeding brains to the neglect of bleeps we may produce a race of Intellectual giants, brilliant college professors, but who then will dig the ditches and perform tbs manual work of the world? Nature has been in the business , of breeding humans for a long time. Os course, she Just mud dies along unscientifically, but she has always been able to produce tho man necessary for any occasion. She h;is produced, unaided by modern eugenics, the better stock which eugenlcists now talk of propagating. On the whole we would rather trust the question of race betterment to nature than to a State Legislature. BURIED SIXTEEN FEET DEEP SHO MAS A. KNTDER. a Rockport (Ind.) buslnerman, who died a few days ago, was buried In a grave sixteen feet deep, which necessitated cm ployrnent of a construction com pany, derrick and crew Instead of the usual gravedigger to excavate He wua Interred unusually deep at his own request. He feared that In course of time the earth in his burial plot—-on a hillsidemight wash away and expos* hla remains If they were placed at the conventional depth below the surface. Certainly he can steep,ln reason able security. Even the archoolog Ists of some future day aren’t ly to disturb him. To unearth him for museum purposes, they would have to wear too many callouae.-t on their hands. Moat of us have a horror of being laid awny after death In a unmarked grave or Interred In a manner that doesn’t Insure per manency. But really what difference does it make what disposition'la made of tho body after the spirit has left? Deep or shallow graven, costly bronze caskets, perishable wooden boxes or cloth shroud, intsrment underground, burial at sea or crems tion; it’s all the same a thousand years afterwards. The old kings of Egypt gpent their lives hewing tombs in the living rock, or in building pyramids for the reception of their dead bodies. And for thousands of years their very name* were forgotten. A man’s permanent pise# is the scheme of things Is determined by what he does while alive, not in the disposition of hJa untenapted shell. Ask The Times Ton mn ret an anrtrar t* my er*S tion of f.n-t nr In formation by wrting to Tho Indianapolis limes w*tilntne liureru. I.T-’i Nee Turk Are., Wih lngton, TV C, InclosTnr 2 eente in stamp# for repl.v VtolicH. Uat and uuu-Url iqlrinr ciuuiot br rivep nor nan extended research he undertaken. All other miontlnne will roceiv* a persona! roplr. Unsigned requests esnnot he snew-ered. Ail letters are confldenttsJ —Editor, Does Henry Ford psy his men all tho same wages? If not. what Is the lowest and what is the high cat wages pnld. The F’ord Company does rot make this known. Who |s the author of the saying “God reigns and the Government at Washington still lives?” James Garfield used those words In an address after the iks.->anMlnatioit, of President Lincoln.