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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. .

A Super-Government livery candiclaje for Congress in Indiana will receive shortly, if he has not already done so, an invitation to barter his own judgment for votes. The head of the Anti-Saloon League in this State proposes to find out, and quite properly, just where every candidate stands on the question of prohibition. He has., that right, as has every other citizen. Presumably he is acting for large numbers of others who may wish the same sort of information. It is true that very recently the attorney geneial of the State disclosed the fact that the organization has in it very little of democratic spirit; so little, in fact, that its own large body of trustees is ignorant of the announcements made by its head until they read them in print. But there is a wide difference between asking for pertinent information as to principles and demanding a definite pledge in advance that the judgment of a Congressman will be put into pawn with the man who asks the question. This is exactly what is demanded when the head of that organization demands a yes or no answer to this question: “In the event that you favor any and all reasonable legislation for strengthening the eighteenth amendment, will you favor such measure or measures for the strengthening of the prohibition laws as shall be advocated by the dry forces of the United States, that is, by such organizations as the Anti-Saloon League and the Woman’s Temperance Union?” Here is anew note in government, and a most dangerous one. It is, of'course, more than arrogance to assume that this league, whose own trustees have refused to assume responsibility for its acts, contains the only men and women who want sobriety or who have any thoughts or opinions as to the best means of obtaining it. It requires some presumption for any man or small group of men to assert that they have all the wisdom; intelligence, patriotism or sincerity on any matter. It means that any candidate who takes this pledge as a means of gaining favor of the league must surrender his judgment, his discretion, his conscience and his oath of office into the keeping of those who demand it. Here is erected, if a majority of Congressmen sign this pledge, a super-government. Just what a poor Congressman would do, should there come a time when the two groups mentioned, equally sincere, disagree on methods of accomplishing a common purpose, is difficult to imagine. It is quite conceivable that there are other organizations, also dry in their purposes, which might have some suggestions with more promise of results. Tie would be bound to fight them as bitterly as he would be expected to oppose an appeal of an avowed wet. Our theory of representative government becomes worse than a farce when any considerable number of legislators are bound in advance to sign on the dotted line for principles or policies not yet formulated. In view of the recent exposures of the methods of the league in this State, Congressmen who may be tempted to.embark on this new adventure in politics mig.it, in all wisdom, demand that they be protected to at least the extent of first submitting any measures to the trustees of that organization. But would such a demand be construed as wet and unpatriotic? Finance's Peril France’s situation is most precarious. Dow'n, down, down continues the franc, while Frenchmen with fortunes are slipping their money out of the country or buying foreign securities lest the bottom drop out entirely and leave them penniless. ‘The national finances are in a frightful mess, and are getting worse daily as the politicians run around in circles without doing a thing to forestall collapse. Taking courage from events, The Fascista of Rome has now come out in the open, boldly advising the Fascists of France that the time has come to strike. Even the most conservative, neutral and friendly observers in the French capital warn that anything can happen at any time—from a coup d’etat led by the reactionaries or the emissaries of Moscow to a dictatorship under a “man on horseback.” Yet in the midst of these sinister rumblings the gentlemen of the Palais Bourbon —the Chamber of Deputies—meet and palaver and pass laws to regulate the shape of the nipples on babies’ bottles. And when some leader, more awake than the rest, calls the government’s attention to the danger, some little fellow' jumps up and gets a lot of applause by blaming it on everybody under the sun except themselves. The increase of French paper from 40,000,000,000 to nearly 70,000,000,000 francs, he would have you believe, had nothing to do with the franc’s fail; nor had a budget chronically out of balance to the tune of billions; nor waning confidence at home and abroad; nor the conversion of French fortunes into foreign securities. Oh no! The fall of the franc, these soothing-syrup fellows say, is due to some sort of international conspiracy led by New York or London or Berlin. Or to a speech by Senator Smoot in Washington. What nonsense! France’s peril today is due to the fact that ever since the armistice French politicians have been chasing will-o'-the-wisps—doing nothing to put the nation’s finances in order while promising the people that Germany, America, Britain, anybody and everybody, would pay for the war except France. _ Fundamentally, France is better off than any, other country of Europe. The annual report of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas says that crops are good throughout the land; that mining and industrial production is above normal; that foreign trade is assuming unusual activity; that there is no unemployment, and that individually the French citizen is comparatively prosperous. Strange enough, the people of France are busy, sane and sound while their government is exactly the reverse. Instead of doing as Britain did, putting Its finances in order as soon as the war was over, the French government went on borrowing and bor-

rowing until today it totters under a burden of debt utterly impossible to carry, yet just as impossible to pay. Inevitably something must give way before long. A Real Democrat Over the world the news is flashed that physicians operated upon the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. The little germ which caused flu had no respect for the title or the importance of this very popular and best advertised young man. It hit him. just as it has hit many thousands of residents of this State in tho past few weeks and the result was no different than when it gets into the blood of the lowliest paid worker in tho British empire or the most pathetic recipient of its system of doles. It caused fe\yr, pain, illness and in the end, had constructed a mass of very undesirable matter in the ear of this royal patient. Try as we will to erect barriers and to create impressions that there is a difference between human beings and along comes a real Democrat to knock down all the foundations for such a theory. It is true that there would he a wide variation of results, if this flu germ should he a victor in the case of his royal highness. There would be a cessation of magnificent entertainments, tho shopkeepers of London would suffer losses through lack of sales and American women who purchase social splendor and standing by hobnobbing with foreign aristocrats would find their plans sadly disturbed. The accident of birth alone would give importance to the event and only because there still clings to the minds of millions the ancient delusion that ancestry can substitute for merit or usefulness. The next week there would be another prince, another idol, another shrine at which those who must have a title to worship, might bend. But as far as this sick youth is concerned, it is Eddie Windsor, uot the prince, who does the suffering and who submits to the surgeon. The importance of his job loses its significance to him, and he, better than others, knows that there is no difference in inevitable situations between a prince and a pauper. All have the same ills, the same sort of blood, the same sort of enemies. They freeze in the cold of winter and perspire in the heat of summer. They feel hunger and thirst, and the royal body produces tho same sort of bruises from a fall off a horse that conies to the peasant when kicked by a cow. Old Mother Nature is always on the Job trying to teach tho lesson of democracy, and perhaps of human brotherhood. That flu germ is truly Jeffersonian iu its activities. Tom Sims Says A woman may have trouble with her heart, but the greatest trouble she has with her head in washing her hair. The honeymoon ends when he finds a chew of tobacco makes him more comfortable than her respect. Hunt the bright side. Wouldn't things be awful if it was dark In the daytime and light at night? We heard about a man who got twenty miles out of a gallon and six months out of a quart. All the good don’t die young. The good auto dodgers live a long time. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Germany’s Wealth Put at $40,000,000,000 You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times AVashington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal arid marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. A!, other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot he answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. What is tho national wealth of Germany? It was estimated in 1924 at $40,000,000,000. Who are some of the spit ball pitchers still remaining in major baseball leagues? Urban Shocker, Stanley Coveleskie, Jack Quinn and Urban Faber. What are the Ghats of India? These are the principal mountain ranges of India. The Eastern Ghats are 500 miles long, the highest point 3,000 feet. The Western Ghats are 1,000 miles long, the highest point 8,700 feet. How much tobacco may a tourist take into England free of duty? One-half pound. It may be in the form, of cigars, cigarets or loose tobacco. Who was Louis Riel? The leader of the so-called Riel's rebellion in Canada. He was born at St. Boniface, Manitoba, Oct. 23, 1844, and was of Indian and French-Canadian descent. He is said to have been educated for the priesthood in a Roman Catholic Seminary at Quebec, but did not take orders. He first became prominent as the leader of a rebellion that broke out in 1869. He was responsible for the execution of Thomas Scott, one of a group of malcontents who opposed the formation of the new government in the Northwest Territory. The new government was comprised of metis or half breeds of that section who formed a council to insist on their claims to lands. Riel was secretary of this council and actual leader of the movement. He was finally brought to trial at Regina for high treason. His lawyers pleaded in his defense that he was insane and this plea to a certain extent was borne out by the peculiar religious ideas that he had announced; but he was nevertheless condemned to death and on Nov. 16, I§Bs, was hanged. What was ihe first national bank to receive a charter and open its doors? The First National Bank of Philadelphia, which is national bank No. 1. It was chartered on June 20, 1863, and opened on July 11, 1863. Another bank, however, was the first to open its doors as a national bank. It is national bank No. 15, the First National Bank of Davenport, lowa,, which was chartered on June 24, 1863, and opened for business on June 29, 1863. Can you give ine the names . ins.L. of higher learning in Cairo, Egypt. Mussulman University of El-Azhar and the Egyptian University.

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For the Love of Mike Dr. Rockwell Tells World About Saucer Coffee Drinking

By Walter 1). Hickman Coffee drinking by the saucer is a menace to the musical appreciation of America. Probably soup sipping would come under the same head. Dr. George

Rockwell made me understand that is really what lie intended to convey during his highly instructive lecture upon the applicaion of the bai.ma stalk to the uman spine, et ter homes and mre babies. I nderstand that 1 of the prowds of the •ctor’s tmir goes i Ihe prevention f cruelty to tire liters of New oik City. He osire, I take it, i. have each firein an equipped with a thennom-

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I>r. George eter so they Rockwell can at least tell the time of day. And I found out only yesterday afternoon that when a fellow wants to set the tongue talking all he has to do is to be seated, this, according to the doctor, causes the blood to leave the feet and circulate frpely in the tongue. And the doctor should know because he admits that he was at on.) time sporting editor of the ladies Home Journal. And tiie doctor has traveled a great deal. So much so that he knows at least a half dozen people who drink as high as four or five saucers of coffee a day. I really wanted the doctor to tell me how and when to eat sardines. I ate ’em at 5 a. in. the other morning, thinking that it was lunch time. I guess 1 didn’t chew 'em 600 times. If you don't, according to tlie worthy doctor, the little acids and secretions in the stomach stage a football game. The result probably being that even a good home goes wrong. In other words, I am trying to tell you that I)r. George Rockwell is here at Keith’s this week. When I name the ten best acts in vaudeville for this season. Doctor Rockwell will head the procession. Here is the keenest, the most intelligent and careful funmaker on the stage today. His routine is a riot of pointed fun. Even when he had me in tears of joy yesterday afternoon, and I sure was ready to put up the white flag and cry for mercy, the doctor goes into a box during the act of tho Dancing Merediths, a polite and clever little dance offering, hut made a sensation by tho remarks and actions of the doctor from a box. T want the world, including Indianapolis Rnd Indiana, to know what a fine and cultivated funmaker this Dr. Rockwell person really is. If any man can bring vaudeville to that standard of perfection which some i>eople desire, then Dr. Rockwell Is tho man. He is now in my own very private Hall of Fame. And at tho same time T want to call attention to the work of George Whiting and Kadie Burt in “Several Song Scenes and Dances” with Virginia Mae. a dancer, and Edwin Weber conducting tlie orchestra. Miss Burt lias that wonderful something—class, brains and ability. •Mr. Whiting has that William Rock application of artistry. I can say nothing more fine about this act than that Whiting and Miss Rurt will be in my list of the ten best for tho year. I go for weeks before T find sucli a thing and then T find two acts on one bill deserving that honor. Miss Patricola is back with her violin and her well recognized methods of song dancing. Very smart fun is offered in “A Very Bad Cold,” |a sxetch, with Henry B. Toomer and Esther Day in the cast. Dunion and (Jegna, wandering musicians, have a musical offering of merit as well as novelty. The Four Ortons do wire walking that is wire walking. All is well at Keith’s this week.

FRANCES KENNEDY CONQUERS AT THE lARIC THIS WEEK There is a ven> well-known old adage to the effect that "Smile and the world smiles with you.” I think this is the motto Frances Kennpdy has hung- up in her dressing room and which sho follows in making up her stuff, for if one cannot smile, and laugh, at or with Miss Kennedy there is something wrong with them. Kike most of our foremost comediennes, Miss Kennedy makes no great changes in her act from year to year, and jerhaps it is best, for she might cut some of the things we all like and would miss. At the Lyric this week Miss Kennedy is getting the smiles from her impersonations of a "society” lady in a song recital and that of a youthful “Charleston” dancer. When it comes to "Charleston” dancing it. is quite evident that there is a distinct brand of this dance, to be known as the “Kennedy type.” She will even make you forget the rent* bill—she says so. Society Scandals is an act composed of three men and two women who are a fast and lively bunch of “steppers.” They have several songs, but they do not register so well, it is the dancing that holds the interest. The featured things of the act are an eccentric dance by two of the men and the two women, and several specialty dances by one of the men. Ileinie's Orchestra Is just another dance orchestra with some comedy worked in to take out the monotony, but they have one real feature that deserves mention. As you have listened to these orchestras you have probably wondered what the big tuba or bass horn would sound like in a solo, I have. In this act several minutes are given entirely to a solo on the tuba. I believe the song played was “Asleep in the Deep” that popular melody of bass singers. Zoeller and Bodwell have several songs together and some solos, the man at the piano accompanying the woman. Featured Is tile ability of Miss Bodwell to reach, notes that are very high in the scfle. Hibbert and Ilartman are a couple

in which the regular order is turned around. The woman is the eccentric in their comedy offering. The best bit was a song about the common, ordinary peanut. Little Elly, as she is billed, seems to he a very talented, in the way of juggling and balancing, young gill. She appears to be not over 1 5 or 16 and does the things that we are accustomed to see strong men do in similar acts. The Scrantons open the bill with a surprise act in which we think we have a song and dance team and then find out different. They tea Stage Verdict LYRlC—Frances Kennedy, a real somebody in the amusement world, walks off with all honors here. A great personality and a real artist. PALACE —Townsend an and Bold with their assisting artists top honor winners on this bill. KEITH'S —A rip snorting bill beaded by Dr. Rockwell and Whiting and Burt. A real sensation. ture several tricks on a tight wire, chief among which was the man jumping a rope while perched on this unstable support. At the Lyric all week. (By John Hawkins.) •I- -I- ILOOKING OVER NEW PALACE BILL Always have liked stringed orchestras and in tHe act of Townsend Bolds and Company at tHe Palace today and tomorrow we have a very good one. There are six people in the orchestra and a dancing team who alternate in their numbers. The orchestra confines itself to melodies that possess a very lively tempo and pioduees some pleasing effects. The other feature of the act is the dancing of Townsend and Bold. They move around with ease and grace and are fine entertainers In this line. Another thing that is rather unusual is tho male soprano of the act. Charles and Grace Keating have an act that leaves me rather "up in the air.” In other words I don't quite know where we are after seeing the act. We have a sentimental hoy and girl romance that starts off pretty well and then as It moves along tho tendency to overact seems to get the best of tho hoy and the act becomes just a big lot of foolish and rather sticky sentimentality. Don’t mean to say it’s all wrong, but do mean that it is badly overacted toward the finish and in an act of this type it just cannot be done with safety. Williams and Young are a coupio of troubadors In black face who entertain us with many songs and

_\VEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Want to Bea Tramp? Then Read ‘The Sungazers’

By Walter I>. Hickman Apartment house dwellers will welcome an opportunity to become tramps, hut more romantically called sun gazers. There are times in this busy winter that I have longed for a chance to become a tramp. So when Houghton-Mlffli i Company of Boston announced the publication of “The Sungazers.” by H. 11. Knibhs, I said to myself: “Hick, pound out a letter to ’em and ask them for a chance to get hold of that hook. And I did and they did. So I took “The Sungazers” home one evening, propped myself in a comfortable chair and said: "Now I will see Just how much this man Knibhs knows about tramps and tramping.” When I started the book it was an hour after midnight. I thought I would read a few chapters und then to the liny. Not with this book. When the milkman about fi:3o was dropping the pint (meaning milk) at my door I was reading the final lines on page 250: “The block lifted, the train rumbled, clanked, and moved away as the cold edge of dawn touched the far eastern hills.” One picks up the talk of the road, the atmosphere, the beauty, the charm, the fights, the love and the passion of the road while reading this book. Just between ns—l am not always seeking the great American novel. I want entertainment and when a book gives me three or four bully fine hours of fights, walks, hikes and the opportunity to meet three human pals, then I know that the book is 'corking good entertainment. And that is just what "The Sungazers" is. Here Is good entertainment. N'othifig profound about it, but just the brand of reading that makes a follow glad that Houghton Mifflin Company published it. The three quaint sungazers are Aloisius who “shook” a highbrow wife for the road, only to return to her and his millions; Young Bob, a poet and a heart of gold, and, Hie old hobo, himself. Bill Mbrningstar. Don’t you like that name? I do. In fact, I am glad I met these three "guys.” They are all delicious. A Few Notes Because of the Interest of these notes from Hougnton Mifflin Company, I will reproduce the following: The English reiews of "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House," just published by Houghton, Mifflin Company. have been ns enthusiastic ns the American, and at least one of them gives insight into the amazing activities of this slight little man who moved freely among the great during the momentous decade of the war period, before and after. Says the London Daily Herald: “Few inen rode the storm of the Great War as equably as the Colonel. He slept well, ate well, and came up smiling even when the heavens fell. His secret? ‘I believe,’ he said, after a particularly driving month or two in the winter of 1916, ‘I believe I can truthfully say that I have not worried a moment. If I had, I could not have stood the strain. It was not that I was altogether certain of

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George Arliss What is bound to be the dramatlo treat of the legitimate season will be the visit of George Arliss In “Old English” at English’s, beginning Thursday night. a good burlesque of a negro maid and her “sweetie.” La Pearl and Goi.ne have a novel opening to their act in which they appear as an acrobatic team. They come out and start the acrobatics and the rings they have to work on tumble down leaving them In a quandry. Then from the audience comes the excited voices of a couple of Italians who are in an argument as to whether they ure being cheated out of their money or not. One of the two is persuaded to come onto the stage and lie sings, "O Sol Mio” for us. He is a good singer and the song goes over well. From then on tho act has much comedy. Broslus nnd Brown open the bill with one of tHo men doing some very excellent trick bicycle riding and the other doing his stuff hi a slapstick comedy vein. Bill includes a photoplay, “Memory Lane,” with Conrad Nagel, and a news reel. At theiPaiace today and tomorrow. (By the observer.) -!• •!• -IOther theaters today offer: “The Blackbird,” at tho Circle; “Jinnee Madness,” at tne Ohio; “Sea Horses,” at the Apollo; “The Still Alarm,” at too Colonial; "Under Western Skies, ’ at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway.

the result, but I never permit myself to worry about matters over which I have no control.* An excellent philosophy,” concludes the re viewer. Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge is to direct the appeal to the public on behalf of the American Historical Association, which plans to raise an endowment fund of sl,000,000 to foster research In American history. Himself an historian

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A TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT’ In an Interview John Moorman of Kncx, Ind . in Washington to appeal to the President for tho release from prison of ex-Governor McCray, says: “For u man who has served his Stale as its Governor to be imprisoned for two years u a terrible punishment. “I think ibis is a case where executive clemency should be extended without too much d-lay. Surely no one would want a former Governor to die in prison.” Doubtless the unfortunate plight of the former chief executive of Indiana arouses sympathy. And there may be excellent reasons for restoring him to liberty at this lime. Certainly, no matter what lie did to get into prison, no one wants him to die, in or out of prison. But the fact that he was once Governor has no particular bearing on his case. It's no mote terrible to keep film in p-ison two years for violating th .aw than it is to keep any obscure, illiterate Individual, who has tripped over a criminal statute, in prison for the same length of time. It Is equally tragic to the friends and family yhen an auto thief or a once prom inent citizen dies In the penitentiary. Os course the conviction and punishment of the former Governor was a severe blow to him. But he committed the acts that brought the punishment. His conviction and punishment were also a blow to the State of Indiana and its good name. And the Stnte of Indiana transgressed no law. Terhaps lie should now be released. But the question of clemency should he decided on the basis of the merits of the case and not because he once occupied a high position. THREE DOLLARS A PATIENT Dr. Cleon Nafe, superintendent of city hospital, reports that the Institution treated and accommodated last year 7.703 patients, an average of 378 dally, at a dally per capita cost of $3.13. The cost of operating the hospital was $431,547 for the year. The figures reveal what an important factor city hospital is in relieving suffering, caring tor the sick and serving the people of the community. And how cheaply it accomplishes its purpose. Three dollars per day a putlent! Very few- other municipal activities are conducted at that small expenditure tier capita. It costs the taxpayer moro than that to hire and fire a street sweeper, a garbage collector, a policeman or any other city employe. The showing of city hospital in the matter of maintenance cost and service rendered is an excellent example of what can Vic accomplished by municipal instltu-

and author of tho “Life of John Marshall" (Houghton Mifflin ’ompany), Senator Beveridge knows the difficulties and ex]>enses attached to original research. “At least nine-tenths of the time snd labor is given to rrsearch —digging out the facts." be said. The fund, when raised, will bo distributed to onah e professors of history to travel ani engage In important research which otherwise might be impossible because of exliense. Georges Clemenceau, physician, journalist, politician, statesman, author and war-time premier of France, will ho 85 years old this September. His life has been filled with many stirring things. He has seen France fight two wars: seen the empire fall and the Third Republic take its place. Now he has broken a long silence with anew book, ‘‘Demosthenes,’’ which Houghton Mifflin Company will publish In May, and which Is at the same time a study of the Great Athenian and a symbolic autobiography. FREIGHT INCREASE SHOWN In 1925 there was a substantial increase in freight business on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which Includes Indianapolis. according to the report of J. T. Johnson, freight traffic manager of the western region. The report showed the greatest volume of business In the company’s history, FIRE AT FT. WAYNE JUi I'nitrd Prrm hT. U AYNE, Ind., March Local officials today were attempting to determine the origin of a lire which swept tho Wilkins Brother Packing plant here, causing damage estimated at $30,00n.

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Moms when the management is not harried by ixdiUcs. If you think $3 a day tie)' patient Js too high cost, try a. season of sickness at private hospital mid mo what youw bill Will be. We may brag about our motiu inent, our bonded debt mu' other outstanding feature* of Indianapolis without ever thinking to mj'iitlon city hospital among our clvio wonders. But when we leap nimbly in front of rush hour traffic it is comforting to know that city hospital is there ready to receive us if our foot slips. A FIRST CLASS NUISANCE Stray dogs, singly and in roaming the streets and numerous “mad dog” calls seeping into police headquarters are now keeping Indianapolis policemen on tho jump and allow them no time to vegetate. The cops are having s “doggy'* time trying to round up and dispose of the stray canines. Nearly thirty cases of rabies are being treated In the city at the present time. Five children were more or less seriously bitten by dogs in two days last week. There are dogs and dogs. Some are intrinsically valuable; others are family pets. The attachment between a boy and HIS dog is often a beautiful, touching example of unselfish love. And thu| dog has been the faithful coirfl panion of man, trotting by side and wagging his tail, down through the pages of history. So most people have only a kind feeling for dogs. Any suggestion that the sutplus canine population, even stray mongrels or animals whom r.w’ners have disinherited rather than pay the dog tax, be disposed of by way of vivisection, the sausage machine or other violent means, arouses the sentimental to protest. But no matter how much we may think of dogs and tludr right to life, liberty, tho pursuit of happiness and humane treatment, the dog, whether he is a family pet and loved or a homeless rover, that roams the city streets, Js a first class nuisance. No one likes to have his child or t rouse vs chewed up by frisky dogs that IrA habit the streets. Any scheme that, without undue' cruelty, will rid the streets of such pests will be welcomed. To Ire a prospective lunch for street dogs Is carrying the love of animals too far.

SOBERING THE DRUNKEN DRIVER The problem of sobering the drunken driver, shown by accident statistics to be one of tho greatest menaces to highway safety, Is being given earnest attention by safety conferences, automobiles clubs, highway bodies and law foreement agencies. The situation is serious. In 185 cities last year reports show 14,505 persons were arrested for driving automobiles while Intoxicated, of whom only a minor fraction ro celved punishment. Spring now Is scarcely a Jump behind. In a few more weeks American highways will swarm with more automobiles than ever before in history. And, unless something Is done to curb him. the Intoxicated driver will, cause more havoc this year than, last. What’s the remedy? “Jail ’em all,” says or/e safety expert. But Judge Hall of Minneapolis would go farther than that, 110 would deny motorists charged with driving, while befc/gged with alcoholic fumes, right to Jury trial. He says that a sure way to acquittal for an intoxicated driver Is to be tried V>y a JurySuch a plan might Insure that no guilty motorist e*cai>cd. But It would certainly tde our whole theory and practice of Justice Into a hard knot. 7trial by Jury Is a too sacred right to cast lightly aside, even to get the drunken driver. Indiana statutes are wellequipped with tjeeth capable of biting chunks ou< of those drivers who, to the menace of other notorlsts and pedestrians, gasoline and nlpohol. Such can be given Jail sentences anfli debilitating times. And th licenses revokted. M If those weripons aren’t iisoW it is the fault of officers, courts Kn,i Juries. If -the people will M them, tbey can sober up #n„< u • without Hilo h of any newfangled plan or Judicial . Keely cure. w