Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1926 — Page 4

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A SPEECH BY GOVERNOR RITCHIE Getting the Government back to the people was the theme, if not the title, of a talk by Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, before a Boston audience the other night The Governor spoke the language of statesmanship. State Rights is a phrase whose appeal is generally believed to have been lost ago. This, however, may not be true. Ritchie coupled State responsibilities with State rights and he presented State rights as primarily the average citizen's rights, his personal rights as an individual member of a free comonwealth, rather than the right of power of the political unit known as a State. He saw State rights as home rule or local self-govern* ment and he argued the necessity for more such cJose-at-home control as against increasing Federal control. Some paragraphs from his speech follow: The tendency to use the long arm of the Federal Government, particularly in what is rehlly the field of morals, has been anything but helpful to the natural agencies of social advance. By trying to control by force the normal activities of men, their morals and tfieir habits, we have undoubtedly weakened the power of the real agencies for human betterment —the church, religion, education and individual conscience. Centuries of experience have taught us that in all times and all places these after all are infinitely more effective than are the letter of the Statute or the policeman’s club. * * * * It was the States that produced the great leaders. They should still bo the tfaining school for the Nation’s statesmen, rewarded, rejected. Even in the several 'States you cannot escape a certain measure of centralization and excessive officialism. But State officials are too close to their creators to develop a bureaucracy. Everybody can easily know all about him. The force of public opinion can keep them in check. But who knows anything about the army of bureaucrats that rdminister affairs from Washington? Even those who do the appointing must act on information and belief and not on knowledge. They are beyond the reach of public opinion. The same prineiplo applies to restrictive legislation. Some of the States are about as ruthless in over-riding the liberties of men as is the Federal Government; but the remedy is easier. Abuse is more readily corrected. Public opinion can better make itself felt. If a law represents the prevailing sentiment it can be enforced; if it does not it can he repealed. Not so, however, when you permit one part of the country to inflict its views on a non-as-senting part. This becomes then a species of sectional tyranny that undermines all law. ' Good government depends on popular interest in government Obviously the more remote you make the agencies of government the more the citizen loses Interest You may* satisfy him that he is getting good government by giving him fine Federal buildings, improving,,his rivers and harbors, subsidizing his industries, taking from the rich to iase the poor, and all that, but you are not helping him to function as a good citizen. He can't function that way. His government is too remote, too far removed. That is what is happening now with all this centralization; it is sapping the springs of political vitality. That is why men lose interest Tb politics. Why one-half of all voters fall to vote. Why a progressive political program Is so difficult. • * * Let me say this In conclusion: I am fighting for the rehabilitation of the States; for the preservation of their rights under the Constitution; for a larger measure of self-government and a more vital state; for less centralization and more invidualization; for more reality in politics; for more interest in government; for a higher intelligence; for a broader tolerance—all because in the last analysis these are factors in the great equation of political liberty. This is the one touchstone by which all government must be tested. And I sincerely believe that our fundar mental liberties are in jeopardy. * “PROTECTION” Just how much tire present high-tariff act “protects” American labor from the low-wage laborers of other countries was told to the House the other day by Representative Tom Ayres of Kansas. When the act was passed, he said, American girls were operating ten to 15 cotton cloth looms and getting sl6 to $17.50 a week. They and their machines were so efficient and cheap that dealers in India could come to America and buy cotton goods at less than the Indian price, although weavers in that country were getting only one-fifth the wage of the American girl. l et the tariff act placed a 40 per cent duty on all cotton goods imported and 80 to 90 per cent on embroideries and laces. Since that time efficiency of machinery and worker has so increased that according to the United Textile Workers, the girls operate twenty-four looms—and the wages have been cut. Now, Ayres said, the entire labor cost per yard of cotton cloth averages about 1% cents. American loom operators get 45 cents per cut of forty-seven yards, against a wage in Britain of 51 cents per for-ty-seven yards. ' * Or take woolens. About 6 per cent of the cost of a yard of woolen cloth, Ayres said, Is labor. The tariff is 73 per cent. Meanwhile imports of these cloths and of cutlery and other articles whose labor cost is low, are almost nothing. Who’s getting the protection? CRIME NEWS • Does the reading of crime news lead to violation of the law? Do the persons who read murder stories want to go out and do likewise? What is the influence of crime news upon the reader? Here is anew idea, advanced by Dr. A A. Brill of New York City, a psychologist and “investigator of the human impulse.” He says, in part: “We chafe under law and order. Responsible citizens even venture in crime when it comesHo faking incline tax returns, slightly or not declaring all

the things they bought abroad when they come home through the customs. “So much we allow ourselves, but we hold back at stealing and killing. Vet we like to read about the clever crook who gets away from the honest policeman, principally because the criminal tendency in us finds a familiar note. We identify ourselves with him and that gives relief to the suppressed criminal tendency in us. “Well-behaved people get their outlet by proxy. That is why they tend to forgive the criminal. He has taken their sins upon himself.” There may be a kernel of truth in what Dr. Brill says. Study your feelings the next time you read a murder story and try to find out. JUSTIFIABLE It seems that a man in Chicago trumped his wife’s ace during an important bridgo game. It was more than the good woman could bear. She took him to task so bitterly for his bonehead play that he slapped her face and pushed her violently against the table. Now she is suing him for divorce, complaining that*he is addicted to several other cruelties, such as twisting her wrists. Somehow or other one’s sympathy goes out to this lady. It is bad enough to bo beaten up, but as for having your partner trump your ace—well, did you ever play bridge?

WHAT MORSE MAY DO, DEBS MAY NOT By Gilson Gardner —■

Eugene V. Dobs can’t hold office in Indiana. He is not a citizen. He is still a “criminal” because his sentence was “commuted” and the 'Department of Justice does not recommend a “pardon.” Charles . Morse may hold office. He is a citizen. He violated the national banking act and was sent to the same penitentiary where Debs served thir-ty-two months. But President (now chief justice) Taft pardoned Morse on Harry Daugherty’s application. ( I he same Harry Daugherty who was driven out of the Attorney General’s office by the Wheeler investigation.) Morse was -pardoned because he was “very ill” and "about to die.” K“ survived to get his hands intb the public treasury during the late war and to acquire several indictments and criminal charges which are still pending. Debs declines to apply for a pardon. He has no feeling of criminality and does not admit that ho has violated any law. His attitude toward Jail is set out clearly in the address he made to the court, when on Sept. 14 at Cleveland he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Replying to the usual question whether he had anything to say why the sentence should not be passed on him, he said in part: “I have listened to all that was paid in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the espionage law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with dembcratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions. “I have no fault to find with tills court or with | the trial. Everything in connection with this case has been conducted upon a dignified plane, and in a respectful and decent spirt ... “Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood. fourteen I went to work In a railroad shop; ! at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I I remember all the hardships and privations of that I earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison. j "Tn the struggle—the fierce and unceasing strug- f gle—between the tollers and producers and their exploiters. I have tried as best I might to serve those among whom I was born, and whose lot I expect to i share to the end of my days. . . . "In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies —we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in Inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man. woman and child—and if there are 'still vast numbers of our people who* are the victims of poverty nad whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and stills their aching hearts and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, It is not the fault of the Almighty; it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that oug’ht to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses, but in the higher interest of all humanity.” And because Debs talked that way they sent him to jail and declare today that he is not fit to hold office or vote. Hurry slowly. Chicago woman running from cops tvas hit by a taxi. Potatoes grow wild In Chile. Potato prices grow wild here.

DOGS IS DOGS! “By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Dogs are very fine animals. We are all fond of them, but when we read that one woman In New ork City spends $23,000 every year upon her five dogs, and that another uses up SSOO evetjr twelve months for the clothing for one, it makes us feel that perhaps there is something wrong with people. Nothing is more pathetic than a dog that is kept in the house and fed rich foods and bundled up in clothes, unless it is the woman who keeps it there. Dogs are outdoor creatures, and t"he poor things are tied to a cord and led around like monkeys or shut up in apartments deserve the attention of the Humane Society almost as much as those that are abused in other ways. You can’t civilize a dog. They were meant to run around and play upon the dirty ea.rth. They like rubbish and old vile-smelling: bones and other dogs. Do you suppose that any of them enjoy being dressed up in tight garments or lying on silken cushions? No, they have no. more business being kept in the-house all the time, than a giraffe has. To the normal woman who realizes how many neglected children there are in the world, there is something disgusting in the sight of a grown-up member of her sex rosing around over a pet dog. Men never insult dogs like this. They like those that stay out doors where they belong, and it is only a woman who becomes so cruel that she will imprison the thing she thinks she loves. I don’t care how long a pedigree a dog may have, he will never be anything but a dog, and what's more he never wants t|o' be anything but a dog. If these fine animals were left to enjoy their old bones in peace and the money thrown away on them were expended upon children who need it so badly, dogs and children, men and women, all would be benefited. Os course, I don't know how the men who supply all this money for the dogs feel about it, but if I were in such a man's place I am quite sure what my motto would be. ' . , "The lips that touch canine's shall never touch mine.” •

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Wedding Pledge Taken By Our Hero in ‘Let’s Get Married’ Is Surely a Wow

By Waiter D. Hickman No matter what a fellow utters when he slips a on a girl’s finger at the altar, it means that he Is hooked. The vow taken by Richard Dix when he “marries" J,ols Wilson In "Bet's (Jet MarBried" is s o m e comedy wow, because it was adminetered by a Justice of the Peace, who hadn't mar- ! ried a couple for j many moolis. The old Justice berime I sadly mixed up in j his formula, but it | "look.” It sure did. There has been a f e o 1 i n’ in film , circles for many months that Richard Dix has the Jlichard Dix stuff in him which will make him the mofet popular man on (ho screen. Ami us r yelled and screamed with my friend “Al" at the Ohio yesterday during the screening of“ Let's Get Married,” I had the feeling that the prediction about this avian may come true. To me, Richard Dix is not funrfy in the senso of being funny in. appearance, but ho knows what to do along comedy lines in a given situation. And he has never failed yet in polite comedy work. Generally he lias hfu' a vehicle of merit and his latest niovio is no exception to the rule. “Let's Get Married” is the title of an original play or story tailed “The Man From Mexico '■ afKl it has been all jazzed ! up for the antics of Richard Dix. You are going to like this fun. because the sub-titles are certainly warm and the star is a comedy knockout with this material. He appears to he equally at home in a dress suit or a workhouse uniform. The scenes devoted to the “cleaning out" of a case are about as sincerely funny *3 any reflected upon the screen for the last ten months. The woman “sous” in one of these “cleaning out” scenes is a comedy gem. Have no fear about "Let's Get Married” being the favorite of the new screen offerings this week. It is a comedy wow. Bill includes Van B'bber in “The Mad Racer,” which has a mighty funny race scene; Doe Stults in a presentation and music by the Charlie Davis Orchestra. At the Ohio all week. •I- -I- I OH, YES. YOU SURE WANT TO SEE “BEVERLY” THIS WEEK The modern director of movies is realizing the necessity of permitting a personality to stand- out in a romantic photoplay. •* In the past years, the director has thought It necessary in this type to submerge the leading players with too much scenery and mobs. Much of "Beverly of Graustark”* which has the services of Marion Davies, is a series ■■MH of beautiful closehe of this woman Wj and the characters J” . , * issociated with .gfc-V Imr in this romantle yarn. In Os doing this, the di:U A, rector has been >" * very, very wise. I W-. s| When “mobs” are W") • needed, the direct- , ' em * bu * tually counts in Marion Davies this film. And for the women, I will say that Miss Davies wears some of the most beautiful gowns I have seen reflected on the screen. And she knows how to wear ’em. These moonlight, romantic stories that George Barr MoCutcheon turned out years ago are good movie material. They have action, charm and suspense and above all George always tells a story. You know that Beverly, a beautiful American girl, Is forced by circumstances to pose a3 the male heir to the throne of Grqustark. She gets along nicely with the job until she falls in love. When the eternal woman and moonlight gets mixed up in this story, something is hound to happen, and it does. And there is a lot of comedy work done by Miss Davies, which proves to me tWft this woman is a splendid light comedietinne. She has a bunch of charm which she uses every second that she is before the eye of the camera. At the end of the picture you run up against some color photography which is beautiful. This stunt gives class and charm to this movie.

Galli-Curci Gives Fine Joy in Old Time Tunes

By Walter D. Hickman Have a sort of a mood as I tell you of Galli-Curei and her concert yesterday afternoon. It was the old-time tunes, like “Home, Sweet Home" and “Swanee Rlvqr," which piade one of the largest audiences ever assembled at the Murat love Galll-Curcl as she has never been loved before in this city. The old-time tunes, those that have becomo a part of the musical dream life of all people—those were the melodies which got into the heart during the concert of this noted woman. Os course she did the well-known "fireworks’.’ stuff, such as "Caro nome,” from "Rigoletto," and "pretty Mocking Bird," in which the sky seemed to be the limit for the tone. It is true that this great audience loved all these and made favorites of "Les filles des Cadiz” and "L’heure Silencieuse," but it remained for Galli-Curei to Introduce the old-time favorites for the great ovation. Never was a great artist more willing to give encores than GalliCurei was Sunday afternoon. In one group she. gave four encoreis. The audience wanted Galli-Curei yesterday afternoon. She knew it and artist as well as the woman

Am telling you, if these winter months have rather frozen up the date night attitude t>f your sweetie, then fellows take her to the Apollo this week because this pitcuro certainly would melt an iceberg. By .this time you will guess that l am quite wild about this picture and everything in it. Bill includes Emil Seidel and his orchestra, Henderson and Weber, singers; Earl Gordon, a comedy and anew reel. - , At tho Apollo all week. -I. J. I Ii RENAULT WALKS AWAY WITH THE SHOW AT CIRCLE Y'ou will recall in tho past that I have not liked everything that Francis Renault, female impersonator, docs in his act. The fact remains that Renault is highly successful In doing a very difficult thing. I , , have thought in <&jjm As Renault is preJrtSi movie theaters, it ~ JwsSiLs scems to me that he (i has toned down on . 'gjrj tefnpts, the result \ * Jrm being that Renault W * * Jp- f J today standing very n> ' i,r 'he conimandIng the leaders in this partirSally O’Neill ular brand of work. I am sure that he is the best dressed impersonator in the business and he has a satis- — Questions and Answers You can get an answer to any qneetion of fact or Information by writing 1° The IndianapoiiK Times Washington Bureau. 132'J New York Ave . Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and niarit.il advice cannot be given nor can extended research tie undertaken. All other questions will re.-elve a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. 11l the last presidential election how many electoral votes were cast for the three leading candidates? Os the 531 electoral votes, 382 were cast for Coolldge. 136 for Davis and 13 for La Follotte. Do butterflies take long migratory journeys like birds'? Some do. The Monarch butterfly which ranges from the north to Florida Is said to be capable of a 2,000-mile flight, according to Science Service. Is Winston Churchill, the British statesman, the same person as Winston Churchill the novelist? No. Winston Churchill the novelist is an American, born in St. Louis. Nov. 10, 1871, the son of Edward Spaulding Churchill nnd Emma Belle Blaine. Winston Churchill, the Englishman. was bora Nov. 30, 1574, and Is the son of the Right Honorable Lord Randolph Churchill. Is Tom Mix the actor's real name? Hoiv old is he? Is he married and what is his address'? Tom Mix is the real name of the actor. He is forty-seven years old and In married to Victoria Foide. Ilia home address Is Beverly llills Cal. Hmv much electricity can be produced from one pound of coal and from one barrel of qii? In 1024 the average production of electricity from coal was one kilowatt hour from 2.2 pounds of coal. OH produces 200 kilowatt hours per barrel. Who was the youngest President of the United States at the time he took the oath of office? Theodore Roosevelt. 42 years old when he took the oath. What is “sour soil” and hmv can the condition be corrected? Sour soil contains an excess of certain acids. Mixing lime with it is the best remedy. What are the Government specifications for pure kerosene? The oil shall he free from water, glue and suspended matter. The color shall not be darker than No. 16 Saybolt. The flash point shall not be lower than 100 degrees F. The sulphur shall not be more than 0.125 per cent. The flock test shall be negative. The end point shall not lie higher than 625 degrees F. The oil shall not show a cloud at 5 degrees F. The oil shall burn freely and steadily for sixteen hours.

and the showman that she is, responded. It is most gratifying to hear the old tunes sung by a woman of the fame and vocal beauty of this artist. In the past, I have thought that Galli-Curei could not be more loved than she has been, but she obtained more sincere love and appreciation yesterday than she has ever received here. Another complete triumph for this artist and great showman. She knows her audience. She becomes a part of it. She can’t fail. Homer Samuels was at the piano during her numbers and played a three piece piano group with several encores. Manual Berenguer as usual was the flutist. Galli-Curei was presented by B. Talbot as her last concert for this searon. -!• -!- SPLENDID CONCERT GIVEN BY FLORENCE AUSTRAL Florence Austral, drama tic soprano, assisted by John Amadio.rflutist, and with Myron Jacobson at the piano, pleased a large and strenuously enthusiastic audience at the Maennerchor concert yesterday afternoon. . * Florence Austral has a remarkable

Movie Verdict APOLLO —There is a lot -of pleasure and real screen beauty as genuine fun waiting for you just around the corner. Meaning that "Beverly of Graustark” is some nice movie. COLONIAL—“Sandy” is now in its second big week at this theater. • • OHIO —Put this picture on youV must shopping list this week —“Let's Get Married,” with Richard Dix. A real comedy. CIRCLE —Francis Renault ia walking away with all the honors on this bill.

factory method in introducing and telling the audience what lie Is going to wear. His setting this season is one of beauty. It is not gaudy, but has the needed attractive qualities to give to class and charm. As far 'as I am concerned, Renault is doing the most pleasing work of liia unique career. The feature movie at the Circle this week is “Mike.” The story is about as poor and as a theatrical contraption as I have seen on the screen for a long time. It is one .of these rajlroad yarns which attempts to be comedy, romance and melodrama at the same time and this just is not being done successfully this season, at least not in this picture. It has its "cute” moments and when it is all and done, “Mike” is just another picture. Sally O'Neill is suposed to b(s*the featured player. Judging her by her work .n this picture, Miss O’Neill has much to learn. It may be the fault of the story, but she doesn't register to any degree in this photoplay. When the picture does come into its own, it is because Charlie Murray and Ford Sterling are in the cast. These two veteran f unmakers certainly do a fife saving Job for "Mike.” As usual have your own idea about “Mike.” I may be all wrong about mis one. but for the life of me I can not see any reason to rave over this one. Bill includes an organ solo by Dessa Byrd; Circle Orchestra playing "The Emerald Isle;", a Mermaid comedy and a news reel. At the Circle all week. •!• *!- “SANDY" IS IN ITS SECOND WEEK AT COLONIAL “Sandy,” a movie version of the serial now appearing in The Times, is now in Us second week at the Colonial. I told you last week that I liked this movie and the work of Madge Bellamy. Tho big audiences of last week proved that “Sandy” has a tremendous following in this city. “Sandy” remains on view all week at tho Colonial. As Mae Tinee says in the Chicago Tribune, “I know you are all going to like ‘Sandy.’ It's a dovv’nright fascinating little photoplay—not so littleeight reels—with a cast that's right on Its to.es every minute a.nd keeps you that way.” •I- -I- IOther theaters today offer: Roy Cummings, at Keith's; “Silence,” Berkell Players, at English’s; Mitzl and her dancers, at tho Lyric; Gus Thalero and his gang, £ t the Palace; “Bryant Washburn, at the Isis, and burlesque, at the Broadway.

Times Readers Voice Views

THE BLIND ORGANIST Respectfully dedicated to Mr. Charles F. ’ Hansen, who plays through Station WFBM. I hear him play—rand hearing him 1 know That blinded though he is, he still has sight! And that for him the world cannot all be As some of us may think It Is—black night! For, surely, one who plays as he can play Can see with sight much keener than our own: Can see with vision plainer than we see— Can glmpse of -beauty we have never known! And just as surely as his finger-tins Are brought in contact with the organ keys —ln ways which God has not, somehow, seen fit To let us mortals understand—he sees! - Charles Allen Branham.

voice. Both her lower and higher registers seem to be entirely at her command, and she commands a dramatic power that puts over her songs in an effective manner. The program opened * with the powerful dramatic song. "Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster,” from "Oberon,” by Weber. The applause lasted three minutes and was so generous a tribute to tWte singer that she responded with an encore. Her other songs were by Wolf. Strauss, Verdi, Mozart, Scott, Coates and La Forge, and after each part she was forced to respond with encores. The high light of the program was the aria from "Aida." John Amadio played flute solos from Chaminads, Krantz. Bricciaidl, and the flute obligato for the Mozart number, but his most interesting rendition was an eneoro written by Paganini, who delighted In writing difficult music, and this was so Intricate that few flutists would even dare attempt the-number, but Amurlio rendered it with a dash and a finish that marked him os a finished artist. This concert probably was the most enthusiastically received of all of the programs given by the Maennorchor Society this season. (By observer.) 1

S IN INDIANA n™n

A FLOCK OF TWO-DOLLAR FINES Since the active campaign by Indianapolis police traffic bureau against overtime parkers and other traffic violators started several days ago more than three hundred pink-slipped motorists have appeared at traffic headquarters and paid $2 fines. Apparently the traffic war Is profitable for the city treasury. If the ordinance violators keep on violating and the cops keep on picking them off. enforcement of the traffic rules will be a inoneymaking enterprise. But the traffic regulations are intended to be something more than a prolific source of $2 fines. They are designed to regulate traffic to permit the maximum use of streets with the minimum danger to both vehicles and pedestrians. i That purpose won’t be achieved by, any intensive war of short duration. If, after the present campaign has lasted a week or two, it js allowed to die down, as have previous notable traffic wars waged by the police department, nothing much will bo accomplished by the flurry. A sporadic shower of moderate flues won’t permanently Improve tho local traffic situation. Lester Jones, traffic inspector, says: “Thi3 Is not a campaign. It is just the way we are going to handle this business all summer.” We hope he means it. Enforcing all traffic rules day In and day out, and making it uncomfortable for all offenders all *.he time, is the only way to make obedience to traffic rules a habit, and really promote street safety. Intermittent paroxysms of enforcement are just tribute collecting expeditions. UP IN THE AIR J. )1. Armington, Government meteorologist In Indianapolis, the ! man who makes our local weather, will spend the month of May at Royal Center. Ind., in charge of Investigation and observation of atmospheric conditions at high altitude. We hope as a result of the upper air work he will bo able to supply the local market with a better brand of weather than he has put out in recent months. Since the development of aviation, the study of the upper air regions has attracted scientists and the Government. But with all our effort, ingenious Instruments and scientific ability, little is known about the atmosphere except for a few miles above the earth's surface. Man still has a lot to learn about the little planet on which ho lives. He thinks the earth was created primarily for his edification and use, and he has lived on it for a long time, he makes it yield him food and raiment, ho gouges chunks out of it, but even yet ho knows practically nothing about it except a small zone near the surface and just above. He has ascended seven or eight miles in the air. His deepest mines penetrate the crust of old Mother Earth only a little more than a mile. The greatest depth he has ever reached is less than two miles. That was a hole bored in search of oil or gas In West Virginia. Paradoxically we know more about the constitution of the sun 92,000.000 miles away than we do of what is two miles beneath our feet or ten miles above *our head. Man lias still lots to learn about this earth before he seeks new worlds to conquer. NATURE AND LEGISLATION Albert J. Beveridge, distinguished Hoosier statesman and author, addressing the Tri-State Bar Association at Texarkana, Ark., the other day, declared that, as a people, we have overworked the Idea that anything and everything can be done by passing a law. "The human mind and soul can't be regimented by statute,” he.said. “No human law can compel the individual to love God, honor parents or purify the heart of covetousness. Not a line of the Sermon on the Mount can be made effective by Congress or Legislature.” Piste that in you hat before you start out, if you have the itch to reform the morals, personal habits and private conduct of people by legislative fiat. Law is the only crystallization of public opinion. It doesn't lead them up to a higher moral plane; It follows them. If people are generally convinced that the use of coffee is harmful, a legislative act suppressing coffee might be reopinion supported it, it would be flouted. That's the reason the prohibition law Is encountering heavy weather. People regarded the saloon as an unmixed evil, and viewed Its passing with equanimity. But many are not convinced that all drinking is wrong, nnd are irked by a law that interdicts their private libations. So with nnti cigaret, Sunday observance, anti evolution and similar "causes” on which earnest reformers are constantly seeking, prohibitory legislation. An active, vociferous minority may force the adoption of laws on such subjects, hut can’t compel obedience. Moral advances must he made by public opinion.

WHERE THE MONEY IS SPENT Approximately per cent of the money that will be paid in taxes this year by Hoosiers will go for local government purposes, while less than 10 per cent will go to pay State costs, says Ovaries Schultz, settlement clerk in the State auditor’s office. Forty-two per cent of the total collected will go to support our schools and 18 per cent for roads

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not included in the State highway system. Schools and roads and local government—city, township and county—all matters of only local concern, oat up all of the taxpayer's dollar but the core. Yet the average citizen takes little interest in school or road affairs or in local government. He gets all stirred up pro and con over the world court, the League of Nations, and national political questions, which in reality touch his purse very lightly, while schools and roads and local government hit him where he lives. At tho present time the voter is being regaled with the respective merits and demerits of candidates seeking nomination for United States Senator. The Senatorships occupy the center of tho stage in the primary campaign. Editorials thunder for and against Adams, Watson, Robinson, Ryan, Cjraham. Their speeches are reported. Every voter has formed some opinion on the Senatorships. But the avorngo voter knows nothing about the candidates for justice of tho peace, constable, township trustee, county commissioner, surveyor, assessor, sheriff. And ?et those are the men who will spend most of the tax money the voter reluctantly pays, not the United States Senators. Government Is primarily a local matter. If we would reduce the cost and have better and more efficient government wo must start at home. < A Sermon for Today By Rev. John 11. Gunn Text: “Much food is in the tillage of the poor."—Prov. 13:23. * Palestine was a land of smal estates. It was the tillage of the small owners of these small estates that furnished the land with ths hulk of its food supplies. It was from this fact that tho proverb ol our text arose. In its meaning it corresponds with another wholesome old proverb, “Many littles make a nickle.” It teaches the responsibility of small gifts, and is intended to encourage ordinary, mediocre people who do not possess much ability or influence. You may belong to the class to whom this proverb refers. You may have only a tiny patch, and you may think it does not matter much whether you work it or not. But it does matter. It matters everything to you. And it matters more to the world than you can realize. Who are they who have done most of the world’s work? The largely endowed men? “Not manjjj wise, not many mighty, not noblo are called.” History has here and there a few geniuses, a few wealthy men. But as against these few the men that ore rated as ordinary are to be counted by the millions. And the bulk of the world’s work has rested upon the small labours of these many, rather than upon the large, labours of the few who can he counted by units. No matter, therefore, how little yotir plot may be. Much depends upon its cultivation and tillage. Y'our responsibility is to work it to its fullest capacity. Remember, “Ha that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also In much.” (Copyright, 1926, by John It. Gunn.)

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran *"' The Comer Store

It’s just around the corner, and a little bit of place—the store where, twenty times a day, the youngsters have to chase. Yea, Tommy takes some money an’ he grabs his coat and hat, an’ he hustles around the corner for a bit of this or that. “We’re out of bread,” says mother, "an’ the butter’s kinda shy.” Andj then she thinks of other things thatJ she forgot to buy. Necessities are listed and a basket's htlnded son. Ho kicks a bit. but mom insists, and sends him on the run. I've often wondered what we’d do without the corner store. The man won runs it always has the things you’re looking for. The grownups call It handy, and they hope it’s there to stay, but kidlets kinda razz it, ’cause it interferes with play. • • • “That’s the hunk,” said little Jimmy, as his mother told him to crawl Into bed. • • • Maybe it’s because soldiers are not afraid of i Kinder that they make such a hit with the fair ladies. • • • LEOTTTtER—I hare been lecturing for four years. MAN WHO HAS BEEN SNOOZING—WeII, 111 stick around a while longer—you oughta been dern neat through. • * • lie loved to teach the girls to swim. Ah, yes, he’d taught a flock. But when his sister asked Ills aid. He pushed her off the dock. * * • Now they’re shouting, “Paint uu time Is here.” Huh, tho girl* been doin’ It all winter. • • • No matter how poor the refce that sings the “Star Spangled Banner” y<Su have to stand for It A •• • H

FABLES IN FACT THE MISTER WAS A HOUND FOR PINOCHLE COMMA AND WAS ALWAYS AFTER PIS WIFE TO PLAY A GAME WITH HIM PERIOD ONE NIGHT SUE WAS TOO TIRED COMMA SO THEY TURNED IN PERIOD IMMEDIATELY THE MISTER STARTED TO SNORE COMMA WHICH KEPT THE MRS AWAKE PERIOD FINALLY SHE DECIDED THAT THE ONLY WAY SHE COULD GET AN Y SLEEP WAS TO SIT UP AND PLAY PINOCIILE PERIOD ; Copyright, 1 926, HE A. Brrvioa