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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. 4 \ . .

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA annually makes enough furniture to refurnish every Hoosier home with every necessity and have a surplusage for export. From kitchen cabinets, In which the State leads all others, to'the highest gradeß of Hying room anj overstuffed furniture no patriotic Hoosier nee'd go away from homo to shop. ■' V '-T

WHO KILLEI) HIM? * Today the good people of Ohio, and especially of the city of Canton, are offering thousands of dollars in rewards for the slayers of Don Meliett. AH- in an instant the conscience of the community urges action against the forces which dictated his death. The complacency with which they read his charges that the pqlice were protecting criminals is now ’replaced with indignation. The mild interest taken in his charge that a political machine, supported by the underworld, was protecting criminals, is recced by a vast horror that a good citizen could be killed for exposing corruption. \ ’' 5 They might have known that either Don Meliett or someone else would be killed. For murder is always the last argument of ■crime, the great crime to cloak and protect all others. That murder was ordained from the moment that be showed both the courage pnd the ability to go beneath the surface of things and interfere with the workings of the modern political machine which gts"its power from bootleggers, hijackers, gunmen, gabblers and crooked policemen. It was when Meliett became dangerous to this group, when he interfered with tfie plundering and the graft, that he paid with his life for his passion for public service. . ( Had the same underworld been able to still his charges of corruption of the police by punishing his witnesses, had it been able to protect its venal officers by higher powers, had it been able to go on with its corruption ahd its corrupting, he would not have been touched. \ ~ Crime is a killer, always. It is a starling beast w'lilch hits back when hurt- - It is unfortunate that the people of Ohio who are now thoroughly aroused to the menace of such Situation showed no greater interest when the charges were being made. V Had the same men who now organize themselves sto replace a corrupt police force organized to stamp out corrupt'crj. there would’ be no bringing back to Indianapo'is of the man who becomes g martyr for hio crusade. The good people of that city thought too late. Their rewards may catch the men, let it be hoped, who fired the bullets. It will never disclose all those who contributed to the tragedy until it puts into thes sackcloth of lepentance those good citizens who Refused to listen when he pleaded for decency and law. The real killers of Don Meliett, martyr and crusader, are to be found among the complacent and the uninterested who refused to take the trouble to clean up leohfuption of government when he exposed it. It wquld unfortunate if other cities which are controlled by corruption and corrupted, fail to learn the lesson of his death. THE THUMB-JERKER These are the days the motorist gets out the old bus and heads for the open road and finds it closed for repairs. Many are the trials and dangers of touriig. Punctures hido where a garage isn’t and bite great holes jn yoisr expensive tires. Someone is always putting £ creek across the road, digging deep ditches on one Bide or throwing up huge embankments on the other. Seemingly harmless stones bury themselves only to leap at the stfiftly speeding machine and forth- , with knock a pip, in the ci;ank case, causing its Jriscous content to bespatter the surrounding scenery. Chickens pause to mediate or jump at the radiator as your four-wheel brakes scream. Despondent hogs, geese, duckjTand hound dogs place their necks Jjjinder your whftjinfc wheels, this being the only way .{hey hgve of becoming valuable stock to their owner. Despite the’frafltic honkings of youj; horn, consented cows retain their inherently philosophical out- , "Icok and refuse JjO look out. \ i These dangers and many more beset the exasperated pleasure'seeker. But all combined pale into insignificance vhcu compared with the fate which •'.feventually awaits the good Samaritan who heeds , the distress signals of tiff) "thumb-jerker.” •The thumb-jerker is the hobo of the highway, tie sits by the roadside until the noise warns him a car is approaching. Then he arises and jerks his thumb at the driver, meaning, “Pleaie, could I ride?” The motorist gives tho thumb-jerker a ride—and sometimes a watch and chain and many other valuables—risking his life to do so. / ’Tis sad, but true- Those deserving rides must suffer for tho robberies of the professional ride bum* * mer—the thumb-jerker. HERETO YOU, BOBBY! 4'5 By winning the American open golf championship, Bobby Jones not only set the enviable record of holding three major golf titles simultaneously, tyit hp settled once and for all the periodically recurring argument as to whether he had any peers at v the game. 4 The' young has proved himself the greatest golfer that eiver lived. Hagen, admittedly the greatest match plkyer and a man of remarkble gameness, must bow to the superior talents—nay, the burning geniis— of the 24-year-old boy from Georgia. No more popular victory at Scioto could have been imagined than Jones’. A gallery of 7,000 cheered wildly as he holed out his final putt. And over in England, when Bobby won-the British open, the English sport enthusiasts to a man were hoping that, in the event a Briton could not wiln, Bobby Jones would. . ? The young man seems to have quite" a strangle hold on the affections not only of his own countrymen, but of sport lovers the world over. It is safe to say that he is the most popular figure in the sport world today. It ii fairly safe to go a step farther

and say that he is, the most popular man in the world today, in sport or out. Since the days of John L. Sullivan, America has had no idol to compare with Bobby Jones. Babe Ruth was, and still is, a gigantic figure, but Babe at his best could never inspire the affection and well wishes that the niblick wielder from Atlanta can. Here’s to Bobby, and may he win many more championships. NOTHING TCfOFFER? A United Press dispatch from Chicago reads: “If for no other reason than that the Democrats have nothing to offer the country, the Republican party will remain in control of Congress next year, Senator Charles S. Deneen upon return to his Chicago home from Washington ” The truth is that Democrats have a good deal to offer the country. Whether they will offer it or not is, of course, another question. What they have is their party’s- long proclaimed pledge: “Equal rights to all; special privileges to none.” That meant something with Thomas Jefferson behind it. It meant something with Andrew Jackson behind it. "While the World War ended his constructive work for democracy In this country. It meant something during the first four years of Woodrow Wilson’s service. It can mean, something now if the Democrats have intelligence amd courage. The Republican party Is pledged to a tariff policy that denies equal rights to all; that grants special privileges to a few at the expense of all. It is pledged to a shipping policy that grants special privileges to private shipping interests, at the expense of 1 all. Its leaders are seeking to turn the country’s power resources into a special privilege for a limited group of capitalists, at the expense of all. The indictment against the Republican party’s present program could be continued at length. It isn’t necessary to do so. The three items named reveal a theory of government that directly opposes that of Thomas Jefferson. Democrats call Thomas Jefferson their patron saint. That suggests something shadowy and unreal. They can make his spirit a living force again, however—if they have intelligence and courage. He ha 9 written their platform for them. They have only to prove their purpose to carry it out. If they can not prove this, Denver is right—they have nothing to offer the country.

BLOOD AND CEMENT Across the fast growing State of North Carolina, east and west and north and south, stretch magnificent new paved roads, and more are building. They are the first sign offered to travelers of the State’s bid for leadership, and the first thing the returning traveler mentions he tells you how North Carolina is coming to the’ front. In the little town of Albemarle, N. C., a judge nnd jury, began yesterday the hearing of a case that may take, for the time being,* some of the glory from the State’s good roads. On trial is a former boss of a chain gang that worked or these roads. He is charged with the murder of>wo negro convicts whose labor and lives went Into the making of the highways. He denies the charge, laying the two Negroes died of sunstroke, not as the result of beatings administered by himself, as charged by the prosecution. Nearly every important attorney in the county has been employed in his defense. Conditions surrounding the case assure a thorough airing. The whole State is watching the outcome and good may come to North Carolina as a consequence. , * When the people of the look- the question of convict road labor fairly Jn the face the end of that system, handed down from a darker day, will be seen The methods that built the pyramids and. the Roman roads are not methods that can be used today. , Doesn’t matter, but wonder If shoe dealers ever walk to work? Charleston dance is said to be healthy. Sol is hurdle jumping. \ , Found booze in a hearse in St. Louis. It hadn’t died of old sge. You are making a serious mistake when you learn nothing from It. ( f / • Statistics show there are about 200,000,000 dolls in the United States, not counting the human ones.

HOW HIGH IS YOUK BLOOD PRESSURE? By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Two of the most sensible, instructive and interesting volumes .that have been published in many a day were written by C. Mac Laurin, medical instructor of the University of Sydney, Australia. This learned man has taken numerous famous characters in history ahd shown how their* physical Illness has-Influ-enced their lives, contending that if these persons had not suffered from abnormalties or disease the entire story of the world might have been changed. Among the breath-taking things he says is this: “The destinies of nations are commonly held in the hands elderly gentlemen who suffer from high blood pressure. It is not fair that the lives of millions Should depend upon the judgment of a man whose mind is warped by arteriosoleroeis." • Perhaps here we have an explanation of the go-ings-on in Washington and other points. Medical science tells us .that this particular ailment, which is likely to attack politicians who live a life of worry and constant mental pressure, causes irritation and anger, fits of depression and warped judgment. This doctor contends, and he may be right, that we lshould have all politicians examined for high blood pressure and if are troubled with It, consider them not competent toN an dle the business of the Nation. Why can’t we get some action upn this idea and thus rid ourselves of some of our so-called statesmen? Perhaps the Kaiser was afflicted thus when he precipitated the world into war. Maybe the Pennsylvania politicians were’made wild by this disease. Perhaps this is what ailed Earl Carroll s judgment when he gave that fateful bathtub party. * Would It not be thp part pt charity to view the actions cf many of our leadei% through the mild lenses of the medical man? When they act crazy they are probably suffering from high blood pressure. In this manner we all eventually become legal if not physical victims of that dread sicknessiC *

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T racy His State His Profession Owe Don Mellet a Great Debt.

By M. ft. TRACY Words are futile in a case like that of Don R. Meliett. The city that be died to make clean owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude. So does the State that he tried to protect from being mocked by vice and corruption.' So, too, does the profession that ha honored by raising a fearless voice for decency. Nor did he tread a path of danger without realizing, or face the possibility of death without understanding that he could avoid It by ceasing to demand punishment for lawbreakers. His life goes out as a burnt offering to freedom of speech, which Is the all important factor In a republican form of government, and to freedom of the press, which Is the only thing that makes newspapers worth while. Fine and truthfdl as such expressions are, they for nothing so long as hi3 slayers go free. As the situation now stands, vice and corruption have won a victory. The man who fought them, openly and honorably, lies stretched on his bier, with a widow and four orphaned children doomed to bear the greater burden. If the city of Canton, the State of Ohio and the American newspaper profession would pay fitting tribute to Don R. Meliett, let them first hang his murderers and then go on with his work. The rewards that have been offered show a proper spirit. •1* -lWorse Than Crime In this case, as In thousands of others, we are not only "dealing with crime, but with something far worse—the idea on the part of criminals that they have the right to break anybody who criticises them as well as to break the law. The criminal In this country no longer visualises himself as an outast and a rebel, but as belonging to a class that Is exercising legitimate privileges and that Is bound || attack Institutions and lndi'muals that interfere. Some say that this new and peculifar complex Is due Ao the fact that we have coddled the criminal too much, have pitied him as a product of the wrong kind o# environment, have studied, discussed and analyzed him as a sick man, without any Will of his own and, consequently, not accountable for being what he is.v. It may be true. I .have no doubt It Is" to some extent, at least. But there is a cause which requires far less speculation and which Seems amenable to simpler remedies. •I- -I* -IWhy Crime nourishes Experts have estimated that 90 per cent of our major crimes go unpunished. Whether thi* is an exaggeration, it ,1s a matter of common knowledge that too many of them do. There is not a locality of any Importance throughout the Nation but has its unsolved cases of murder, arson, rape, assault and theft. So,’too. there Is not a locality but has its acquittals that nobody can explain nnd Its pardons that prevailing opinion attributes to political pull. If not actual bribery, t To put It bluntly, the criminal Is getting away with his trade, and not only. that, but ho Is acquiring the idea that he has a right to get away with it. to organize for the sake of making it more efficient, to play politics for Its better protection, to get control of the police force and sher> iff's department, to intimidate newspapers and stop the mouths of protesting by threatening theni with violence. . -|- -|- -|. The Official’s Cross It has become popular to blame the law enforcing officers for this situation, to say that they are incompetent, or dishonest and to look for relief through the election of new ones. Did you ever stop to think that we might be giving them too much to do and expecting them to perform an impossible task? There are a dozen laws for the district attorney, the sheriff chief of police to enforce, where there was one half a ceutry ago. I They have to regulate 20,000,000 automobiles and smell the breath of 40,0d0,000 violators of the Volstead act, which last number represents the opinion of-General Andrews, not mine. They hdve to censor moving pictures, see that chorus girls are properly attired, read school books, to be sure that they contain nothing favbrable to evolution, stop petting parties by the roadside, inspect meat, analyze milk, protect suckers from smooth stock salesmen and attend to a thousand and one other petty details. * , How can they do it all and have any time left for the murderer, bandit or yegg? If they ddn’t do it, however, and no matter how successfully the murderer, bandit or yegg gets awsay, some reformer is on their trail, with an organization and a campaign fund at his back. •I- -1- -I* Gone to Seed We have (just gone to seed over minor offenses *and that, more than anything else, explains why we have so many jnajor ones. Our sheriffs are chasing bootleggers, when they ought to be chasing killers and thieves. Our policemen are acting as semaphores. •Out district attorneys are prosecuting people for Interfering with some uplift scheme. Our .court dockets are cluttered With miserably unimportant cases. Isn’t that one reason why such men are Don R. Meliett are assassinated in their own dooryards?

Prohibition Issue to Be Tested in Eighteen State Fall Elections

The eighteen States shaded black in this map reveal their prohibition sentiment this fall, either by referendums or by political fights In which the wet and dry issue is clear cut.

By Charles P. Stewart, KEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, July 17.—Prohibition referendums, or what, virtually will amount to referendums, are promised on a State wide scale in eighteen States at next November’s election. They already are definitely assured In New York, Wisconsin, Colorado, Montana and Nevada. In New York and Wisconsin they were provided for by legislative enactment. In Colorado, Montana and Nevada the petition method was used. In Missouri a referendum petition is being circulated now. In California there Is a prospect that the Legislature will follow the example of New York’s and Wisconsin’s. In Ohio Atlee Pomerene, wet Democrat, Is fighting Florence Allen, dry Democrat, and Frank B. Willis, dry Republican, f for the United States Senate, principally on the prohibition Issue. The vote will be the equivalent of a referendum, though not explicitly under that name. The same thing Is true of Illinois, where George Brennan, wet Democrat, will make his senatorial fight lagalnst Frank Smith, Republican, solely on the issue of modification of the Volstead law. In Pennsylvania Representative William S. Vare is a candidate for the Senate on a platform which is wet and nothing else, though the scandal connected with his nomination may lose him a good many wet votes to William B. Wilson, dry Democrat, so that the Issue In the Keystone State is not quite clean cut.

Two Public Band Concerts to Be Given Sunday Afternoon and Night in Parks

SWO concerts will be given* Sunday by the Indianapolis Military Band in two of the city parks under the direction of W. S. Mitchell, conductor. One concert will be given at Garfield Park at 3 p. m. and the other Jameson Parte at 7:30 p. m. The soloists will be Mary Case, T. K. Cox and Pasquale Montanl.' The programs follow: Garfield Park. 3:00 P. M. March—" Lets Go." Woods Musical Oomcdy Selection—“lt Happened in Nordland" Herbert “Musical Scenes from Switzerland”. . . “Serenade" . | Mr. Montani. flute: Mr. Oox. horn. Prologue from ‘‘Pasrllacci''... .Leoncavallo Overture—"Tempelwelhe" .... Keler-Bela from Lucia (request) Do-iiretfi Miss Case. Messrs. Throms, Ruth. Worth. Davis and Howard. "The Glow Worm".., Llncke Excerpts from "The Fortune Toller". . _ Herbert Star-Spangled Banner." Jameson Park,,7:3o P. M. “March of the Toya” Herbert “Three Spanish Danees” Moazknwnki Quartet from "Rlaoletto” Verdi Scenes from "The Wizard of Ozz". . . . Tietgene "Cornin' Through the Rye —Humoresque Bellstedt Overture—“Tempel Welthe" ...Keler-Bela Groupe of Songs t Selected Miss Case. Selection —"The Fortune Teller". .Herbert "Alpine Songs" Arr. Langey "Star-Spaugeled Banner." ** * | PRS. FLORENCE PARKIN WELCH, 1005 N. Pennsylvania St., is in Toledo, Ohio, to join the master class of Madame Rlder-Kelsey of Now York City, who is spending tho summer in Toledo and teaching a limited number of advanced vocal students. Mrs. Welch is soprano soloist at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church at ThirtyFourth St. and Central Ave. (p the city. ss s • A attending the S summer school of the Metro- -- politan School of Music will give a recital at the central school building, corner North and Pennsylvania Sts., next Saturday afternoon July 24, ai three o’clock. The program Is open to the public free of charge. On the program will piano, cornet, voice, violin, and cello numbers and readings. Taking part will be: Wtlllfttn Rouse. Maud Lou Mohring, Jane llogera. Ida Jean Waltz. Charles Jeffries. Margaret Wells. Lawrqnee Ktewltt, Clyde Hose Vera Deardorff. Pearl Stockdale. wrv Alter Snider. Mary Lohrmann, Ada, Stafford,* Betty Pittinger. Edna Ann ter The'ma, Gardner Margaret Matttnglv. Janet lleati Beatrice Worley, Eva Nave, Marfp Teter. Frieda Roderick. Josephine Maakr, Florence Schwartz. George Byfleld, Esther Stelnmeifr and Charles P. EmerJ"*he pufils are students of Mrs. Nora Beaver, Laura Doerflln. Otlg Pruitt. Helen Louise Quig, Frieda Heijcr. Hugh MeGibeny. Lucille Wagner. Frances Botk, Leslie E. Peck. Mrs. A. F. Eggleton. Earle Howe Jpnqs. Frances Wtshard. Grace Hutchings and Adolph Schellaohmidt. APPEALS ATTACK~CASE Man Sentenced for Striking WifeReluctant Witness. Ira M. Holmes, attorney for William F. Grose, 4022 N. Capitol Ave., who was found guilty of assault and battery upon his wife, Mjm. Fern Grose, "by Criminal Judge James A. Collins Friday afternoon, today said he would appeal the case to the State Supreme Court. Judge Collins flnpd Grose $25 and costs and sentenced him to ten days In jail. Mrs. Grose, principal State witness, was reluctant to testify against her husband. She denied he Struck her. However. Mrs. Pearl Woods, 4026 N. Capitol Ave., testified Mrs. Grose fied to her home and asked that police be called, because hert husband had beaten her. Mr*. Woods said there was blood on, Mys, Grose' face. , ,

In Massachusetts, If as expected, David I. Walsh opposes Senator William M. Eutler, the Republican candidate for another term, he will do so,\ among other things, as a *’et Democrat. In New Hampshire, If Senator George H. Moses Is returned, it will be as a wet as well as a conservative Republican. New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, in their congressional representation, always are

States In wlilch referendums or clear-cut wet and dry political contests this fall will give a text of the extent of anti-prohibition sentiment, voted as follows in the prohibition poll conducted last spring by NEA Service: t For For For prohi- re- modiflbition peal cation Calif 23,671 34,1*0 91,375 Colorado .. 39,916 80,041 83,968 Conn 1,796 10,137 23,014 Delaware . 280 1,175 2,258 Illinois .... 9,362 5,307 13,699 Maryland . 582 14,104 Mass 11,925 12,383 29,393 Missouri .. 4,052 13,592 12,970 Montana 2,262 2,363 6,490 Nevada ... 42 360 258 New H 4,094 7,730 8.122 New Jvr’y 4,744 16,182 21,060 New York. 19,131 114,965 163,858 Ohio 17,478 54,978. 72,356 Oregon ... 1,874 1,975 8,576 Penn 18,104 40,883 63,778 Rhode Is.. 53 ’ 87 137 Wisconsin.. 9,325 16,483 25,563

COMEBACK STAGED B Y NEW AIR BOSS Nine Years Ago Trube Davison Hurt Spine in Plane Crash —Today He Starts Task of Reforming Army Service.

Bu United Frets WASHINGTON, July''l7.—After nine years, Trube Davison, millionaire son of the late Henry P. Davison of Morgan & Company, has come back. When they picked him out of the wreckage of his plane with a dis-

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When Ona B. Talbot presents Chaliapin in “The Barber of Seville” next season, Elvira De Hidalgo will be in the company. CITY MARKET TO BE UP General Discussion Expected at Cabinet Meeting. General discussion of the future of the city market was expected at city cabinet meeting today. Mayor Euvall is sticking to his guns on opposition, to a committee proposal to build a market for $1,000,000 despite the statement by Boynton J. Moore, city council presithat he would never agree to appropriate $45,000 for market repairs. ‘‘A million dollars is a lot of money,” Duvall said. PURDUE MAN WILL TALK Prof G. I. Christie to Rotary' Luncheon. , Prof. George I, Christie, director of the agricultural experiment station and the Department of Agricultural Extension at Purdue University, will address the Rotary Club Tuesday luncheon at the Claypool. Members are planning to attend

wet, but the prohibition issue will figure, as usual, In the coming campaign, with all of them, and the test will, at any rate, determine the present extent of their wetness. Maryland, also always wet, will be revealed as having grown still wetter if it nominates the very wet Representative John Philip Hill for the Senate, on the Republcan ticket, in perference to Senator O. E. Weller, whose wet-and-dry views are somewhat difficult to ascertain exactly. Finally, there is an independent wet ■ candidate for Governor lq Oregon. Besides State-wide prohibition referendums, or contests which will give substantially the same information as would be given by referendums, the wet-and-dry issue will figure in numerous and widely scattered congressional district fights. Representative William D. Upshaw, for example, will have a wet candidate opposing / him in his Georgia district. ' There will be wet and dry candidacies in the Ft. Worth, Texas, and the Ft. Wayne, Ind., districts. Wet and drys will vote it out in the New Orleans district In Louisiana. Reports of a prospective wet congressional candidate or two come, of all places, from Kansas. The district contests will not signify much. Nevertheless their results will count In determining the wetness or dryness of the next House of Representatives.

located spine one day in 1917, his friends said: “If he gets out wit! his life, Davison is certainly through with aviation now.” ___ But the blue-eyed, round-faced young man received the United Press form the much-criticised Army air form the much-crticised Army air service. He is assistant secretary of war for aviation. “I’m frightened.” he admitted, explaining that on this first day in his new office as assistant, Secretary Davis had gone away and made him acting secretary of war. “Yesterday, aftgr I was sworn in, I rushed out to Bolling field and flew—the first time in nine years. Os course they sent up an expert pilot with me, but later he let me take the stick. Like old times,. I skidded a bit around the curves, but I’ll get my hand in again with a little practice.” Davison would not talk about the reforms he is expected to Initiate in the service. “I must get my legs first—learn how the wheels go round here in tho department,” he said. "Later I shall fly to all the training fields and get acquainted with the men and the problems." WILL CONDUCT REVUE Walnut Gardens Announces Bathing Beauty Contest. The first Mid-Western Bathing Beauty Revue will be held at Walnut Gardens Aug. 15. Cqrl Freyn, manager of the park, announced today. The management has completed arrangements with Jack Vance, director of the Hollywood Producing Company, 807 City Trust Bldg, to handle detail* of the revue. A selection will be made of Indianapolis girls to determine the Indianapolis entry. The winning Indianapolis beauty, will compete against girls from various towns of Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The winner of the American Beauty Revue will be christened “The American Beauty.” In addition she will be given a silver loving cup, and a trip to Hollywood, Cal., with all / expenses paid, and will have a chande to go Into moving pictures. Girlii wishing to enter send their names to the Hollywood Producing Company. : - i AUTOS KILL SEVEN Bu United Press BUFFALO, N. Y.. July 17.—Automobile accidents claimed fifteen victims in this vicinity last night. Seven persons are dead and eight injured. Six were killed when a passenger train on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, struck a. stalled automobile at I

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You can ret an answer to any question of fact or information hy writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1 .'1~" Now York Ave.. Washington. V. C,. inclosing a cents in stamps ior reply. Mrdii-stt. leral and marital advico cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential. —Editor. Under Indiana law can a boy ut* der 18 but over 16 get a *chauffeur’i license? J- K. Upon proper application and examination the secretary of State may grant such a youth a chauffeur’s license. What percentage of the total fort elgn-born population of tho United States is Italian? According to the census of 192 Q there were 1,610,113 foreign borfi Italians or 11.6 per cejit of the totaj foreign born population. Why is a necktie called a "era* vat?” Cravat Is from the French word “cravate,” a corruption of'“croat.M It is a name used by the French iij the time of Louis XIV for the scarfq worn by Croatlon soldiers. What Is ‘‘paradichloro benzene 1 * that is used to destroy moths? A white crystalline substance, that vaporizes slowly at ordinary temperature, forming a gas apparently heavier than air. The gas Is non-i poisonous to man and the fumes do) not injure fabrics. It is similar lit appearance to napthalene flakes effectively destroys moths when u|W in the same way as napthalene In the same quantity. What is the average difference ta| height and weight between a 9-year-old boy and girl? The average height of a boy 9 years of age is 49.7 inches and the( average weight 59.2 pounds. The average height for a girl of that age| is 49.4 and the average weight 57.1* In washing clothes should they bd put to boil in hot or cold water and how long should they boil? Place the clothts In a boiler ofl cold soft water, mixed with finely* shaved or scraped soap and bringl slowly to boiling. Boil five to tea minutes. Prolonged boiling yellowy the clethes. When was the design of the American flag adopted and was it the samq as the present one? The design for our flag was outlined In a congressional resolution passed on June 14, 1777, which states that the flag was to be thirteen alter* nate stripes, red'and white: that tha union be thirteen stars, white In a blue field, representing the new constellation. At first anew stripe and anew star was added for each newl State, but soon it was realized that! the flag would grow too large, and on April 4, 1818, Congress passed a resolution reducing tl|e number of stripes to thirteen and providing that only anew star be addeerto the field when anew State was admitted to the Union.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor "The Times:” Dear Sir:— It may be that I have been mis. informed, but from all accounts Miv Shaneberger of the board off. publiar works has been stating that he favored the city’s disposing of their municipal asphalt repair plant. v I can not help being of the opinion] that someone “with an ax to grind** has been giving Mr. Shaneberger some bad advice. The city can not afford to take any backward steps. When the municipal asphalt repair plant was installed In 1908, the writer was chosen by Mayor Book*! waiter to superintend it and the asphalt repair work; he was picked out on account of his practical exj perience (now covering a period off thirty-three years) and not from hia political affiliations. At that time the .superintendent off the Asphalt Paving Company, which had the city contract for repairing asphalt streets, had just been sent to the penitentiary for defrauding the city of Indianapolis, having pre. sented and sworn to false claims* and the contractor himself, waa under indictment as being a party thereto. The plant was a complete succeaa and remained so as long as men, and ned politicians, were charge of it. Mayor Shank in both adminlstra. tions appointed' politicians to this department. Mayor Bell appointed Denny Bush, Mayor Jewett also appointed politicians, and of course the asphalt repair department did notj make the showing it would have,! under competent, experienced man* agement. There has never been a off a municipal asphalt repair plant, when in charge of experienced men, they have all been moneymakers. fori the taxpayers Detroit has had ona for twenty years and now lays a great part of ber new asphalt streets, and repairs all her old ones, economically. This city is paying sl4 per ton foifj an inferior material, that is ihferio*i to first class sheet asphalt mixture! which could be produced by the city 1 plant for less than $lO per ton wlm her own labor, instead of being, shipped 1n as the “cold patching" material is, and the mixture produced ‘by her municipal plant would give far better results in the repaip of her asphalt pavements. We hate to think that some poll, tician is collecting a commission f!\ this material, but we still remembe# the last administration. One thing certain, a municipal asphalt repair department, cannot be vun successfully hy railroad con. ductors or cigar salesmen, and neither could an asphalt ma.O con. duct a train successfully. ' Let’s take the asphalt plant of the politicians hands and In the hands of experienced men, and It cannot help being a success, for it is one of the best that the city still has left... saa,