Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1926 — Page 6

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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. ' x

KNOW YOUR STATE , INDIANA telephone users during 1926 registered more than 430,160,000 calls, a daily average in excess of 1,100,000, according to figures compiled by the statistical department of the Bell Telephone Company. This service was provided by 4,262 employes.

WAS WATSON RIGHT*? The people of Indiana this fall will have an opportunity to tell the Nation whether Senator James Ell Watson was right when he said the voters of Indiana approve Newberryism. The lavish use of money In elections and primaries Is again a matter of public concern, after the disclosures of the expenditure of great sums In Pennsylvania ard. the torrent of Insull public utility money lntq the Illinois primaries. Newberry was the first to U6e startling sums of money to secure votes. The contest of his seat In the Senate put the members of that body on record. Watson was one who voted to uphold Newberry. A majority voted to condemn his customs and his practices. Since that time Watson has declared that the ' people of this State approve of Newberry’s tactics and that he Is proud of his vote in that matter. j It Is jhst possible that,Watson is right Perhaps a majority of the voters are not shocked by any corruption of the electorate, that the Watson estimate of their conscience is correct and that the people of the State, are themselves corrupt at heart. That would explain the lack of protest against poison squads, the lack of indignation when public offices are used solely for political purposes, the punishment of faithful public servants at the least sign of independence. ) Perhaps Watson knew what he was talking about when he alone of all the Senators who stood by Newberry, has since publicly defended his acts and said that the voters of Indiana take the Newberry view of government. It is just possible that his inferential Indictment of the Hoosier voter on a charge of belief in government by pillage and by improper use of money at the polls will not be resented. Are we really as bad as Watson says we are? FIGURES DON’T LIE, BUT— The Fellowship Forum, organ of the Ku-Klux Klan, published in Washington, which has a national circulation, had this to say of the recent parade of the order there: “The Klan parade of Aug. 8, 1926, had never been surpassed in numbers by any other parade In this city until it came to the one just staged by the Klan, and the demonstration of last year was not only equalled this year, but increased. An accurate count last year placed the number participating at 166,000. Closest possible check placep the figure this year at fully 200,000, with some careful authorities quoting a still higher figure.” The Washington Daily News of Tuesday, Sept. 14, the day following the parade, said: “A careful count by The News showed 11,387 marchers passed the District Building in the two hours and 46 minutes the parade lasted. Other tallies ran as high as 15,000 * * * the convention bureau counted 12,592 in all. The New York World counted 13,101, and the New York Times, Baltimore Sun and New York Herald-Tribune estimated about 16,000.” Meantime, Dr. Evans, bead of the Klan, proclaims a “Aioral war." We wonder about the moral!.y of spreading misinformation throughout-,th; > ray. And whether morality shouldn’t begin at htiae. OUT ON THE RURAL ROUTES Postmaster General New paid a very pretty compliment recently to the rtiral letter carriers when ha addressed the convention of the National Letter Carriers' Association. “The rural free delivery postal service,” he said, "Ib one of the indispensable features of American social and economic life.” We all know it, of course. Os late years the radio has grown as a link between farm and city, but the radio goes one way mostly, and the letter carrier etill takes the farmers’ message to his friends and the outside world. • Then again, radio fails tq, bring that warm, personal touch that the rural carrier conveys. Most of these men are an accommodating and kindly lot, and are couriers for local news along their routes. In the little world of rural folk, the carrier is the bond of common knowledge. Day after day, In all sorts of weather, he playß a vital part in rural community life. SPEAKING OF SWIMMING The English Channel has been crowded all summer, but there are a. few swimmers who didn’t get across. One of them is Melville Cover of Chicago. v Recently Melville dlveTTtrom a trestle acrossAhe ( Desplalnes River to rescue a drowning boy of 8 who had been knocked off the bridge by a train. It was a thirty-foot dive, but Melville wasn’t afraid. He plunged, brought the boy ashore, revived him and bound up a deep gash In his head. Melville's father bough* him anew suit of clothes' wlien he heard of the deed. Os course those who crossed the English Channel wcyi world fame as thCir prize, but we wonder if that compares with the boy’s thrill when he brought that dripping little body safely to shore I THE ROMANCE OF THE RETORTS Today’s miracle is tomorrow’s commonplace. The "chemist in his laboratory Is bringing about dally the changes, working the combinations, that will give man In the next century control of the elements. J > v Not more than fifty years ago Alfred Nobel drew great crowds in New York City when he demonstrated the use of dynamite. Now the power In the locked-up electrons is being looked to as a future substitute for oil, gas, electricity. Dynamite was a dream yesterday. It sounds like k a dream today to say that there Je enough energy in

an old shoe to drive a great ship around the world. But let us not be too easily locked. People laughed at Robert Fulton. HAS O’CONNOR SPHoLED THE BEANS?. The chairman of our shipping board suggests that European nations Join with the United States in the formation of a world-wide shipping combine. Not content witbfpeddling, at 14-cents-on the-dol-lar our merchant marine built with our tax money. T. V. O’Connor, lunching In London, tells foreign ship owners and financiers that the United States would like to “divide territory and reduce competition.” Mr. O’Connor tells that world that the United States Is anxious to "secure” a “privately owned’’ merchant marine. He deprecates competition. Competition, in the language of modern monopoly, Is wasteful. It is destructive. "If the great nations of the world,” says O'Connor, “are to persevere in their ocean Industry, something must be done to stop the waste upon the oceans. No shipping company should be ■willing to go to the hospital for the sake of sending Its rival to the morgue.” Something smartly familiar about this talk. "Whfn the ship owners of the world are ready regardless of flag, to sit around a table and discuss present conditions upon the oceans I wish to assure you that if invited we will be glad to take our place at the table." We wonder where O’Connor gets his authority to make this proposal. Mr. O’Connor told the foreign ship owners that the shipping board had not invoked the law passed by Congress giving preferential rates to goods destined for shipment to foreign ports in American vessels. Just why the board had not given the American fleet the advantage of this law he did not state. 'The whole affair is typical of the attitude of the Coolidge shipping board. It confirms the oftenexpressed fear of Admiral Benson that the owners were moving in the direction of a world wide shipping combine., It is a bolder step than any yet taken toward removing the American flag from the American fle4t and contributing our ships to a polyglot jackpot. Monopoly of the ocean ways, with noncompetitive, and therefore high, ocean rates is the ultimate purpose. THE SMITHS HAVE IT Just as we had expected, the Smiths won again. Listed on the pages of the new“ Who's Who in America,” just off the press, are 303 persons bearing the family name of the man who wooed and lost Pocahontas. In second place we have the Browns. There are 195 of them. The real fight developed for third place, with two* families coming down the st-etch neck and neck, the Johnsons and the Joneses. In a thrilling spurt right at the wire the Johnsons won, with 146, and the poor Joneses, with 145, had to take fourth. v The great advantage of a narrow mind is you can go right ahead without realizing you might be mistaken. You can’t travel la good company If you make it bad company. Sometimes we think old man Father Time has traded In his scythe on a modern harvester- ■— . Those who long to be bqys again have forgotten how they sat through school in'a pair of new shoes. To err is human, even though it may seem divine. Civilization Is a remarkable structure upon which we all would like 1 to be the flag pole. Many of us go through life with our fingers crossed. Hysterics consume enough energy to prevent more hysterics. , A piece of fine chinaware never seems to know when it is supposed to bounce.

THE READING OF BOOKS —————By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ;

A wild-eyed evangelist recently announced that many of today’s young people Would be better off if they had never learned to read, because they are being polluted by modern literature. Now these youhgslers who go astray because of the IBooks they read were bom to go astray and probably nothing could stop them. Nobody with an atom of intelligence is going to be led into the broad highway by Carl Van Vechten, Floyd Dell or Sherwood Anderson. And folks that hanker to go astray seldopi read this sort of literature any way. . And can you imagine the arid mental state of those unfortunate beings who cannot read. Better read poor books than no books at all. Even the sloppiest and most highly tainted literature, as it is, has something that wakes the imagination. Through the most vapid words there gleam glimpses of sheer beauty. The mere rhythm of even ordinary prose gives a certain joy which is not to be found in any other way. Those foolish girls who went about the streets with a copy of "The Sheik” under their arms, the people who revel in Harold Bell Wright, and the more moronic set who buy the “confessions” type of magazine, are at least able to get away for a time from ■ their monotonous and often unhappy existence. In some strange way they enter, even by that low door, i into a land of romance where life is sweet and love eternal and riches are to be had for the asking. Reading is the magic talisman which opens for us all, high or low, wise or ignorant, the door to the world of Make Believe and is a lovely place to go from the woes of our workaday life. To me it seems quite ridiculous to say that reading can harm anybody. It is the one thing that has brought the race up from savagery. It is the medium by which we look back upon peoples of the past, the means of transntittlng to others that strange elusive thing that is ourself. Even bad literature cannot greatly hurt those who read it, for such people would probably indulge their weakness in some other way if they did not have bad magazines. To those of us who love books there Is no blessing In the world so wonderful as the ability to read. We hope heaven will not be without an inexhaustible library.

.THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

Tracy

The Constitution Stands Despite Civilization’s Somersaults,

By M. E. Tracy

The Constitution of the United States was completed and approved by the convention called to frame It 139 years ago today. No other document has produced such a marked effect on human life In a similar length of time. Civilization has turned several rather complete somersaults since Washington laid down his gavel at Philadelphia, but the Constitution of the United States still stands. Not only that, but many Governments have accepted itsimain provisions, developed politic*! system In accordance with Its general scheme. The two house congress or parliament, the federation of autonomous states and the separation of legislative, Judicial and executive powers have become quite universally recognized. •I- -I* + History Almost Lost A most Interesting feature of the convention that framed the Constitution was the profound secrecy with which It worked. During the four months it was In session, scarcely a word of Its proceedings appeared In any newspaper, while those delegates who kept diaries and {here were quite a few. carefully refrained from alluding to what went on. George Washington, who presided, constantly, warned his associates against the danger of giving out information or of letting it slip out unawares. One evening he found some notes that a member had carelessly dropped and the nekt day he reprimanded the Assembly as only Washington could. If James Madison had not kept a record on his own account, by whose permission no one seems to know, we should know little of what went on during the hot, tiresome summer. *1- -I- -IWashlngton Spoke Once Sixty-five delegates are known to have been accredited to the Constitutional Congress, though some authorities say seventy-one. Os this number fifty-five attended one or more meetings. Benjamin Franklin, past 80, was the oldest delegate, and Jonathan Dayton, 27, was the youngest. the average agd being about 40, Franklin, though suffering so acutely from stone and the gout that he could hardly stand, never missed a meeting. Gouveneur Morris was the most talkative delegate, rising to deliver epeeches, make motions or offer amendments no less than 150 times. George Washington spoke only once and eight delegates never spoke so far as the record shows. •I- I- -IGenius Crushed A pathetic sidelight on the constitutional convention Is the effort of poor old John Fit,ch to Interest delegates In his steamboat. He gave them a practical demonstration of how It worked, but only a few thought the event worth mentioning afterward and only one took the trouble to write him a note of thanks. However much the fathers may have known about government they had a poor vision of the mechanical wonders that were about to unfold. Discouraged and disheartened by the ridicule and skepticism of his fellow men, John Fitch deliberately drank himself to death. He had &ever seen a steam engine, but he created a steamboat that would actually rnu and was a real genius. -I- -!- -IWhere We Are Narrow Experience has taught us to be tolerant of the scientist and mechanic. We can forgive them most any kind of a dream or Innovation, but when It comes to politics, we still prefer to be narrow and conventional. The greatness of the constitution lies In the fact that It represented Improvement over the old order, but we see that greatness as something to lean against Instead of emulate. Our fathers dared to step out and make a change—a change that shook political life to its very foundations —and glorify in them for it. When it comes to making more changes, however, we are inclined to fall back on the idea that they did all that was necessary, leaving us nothing more irksome than to run the show. Laying Down The Constitution was a radical document of its day. so radical as to call down on the republic all kinds of contempt and distrust. Lurope looked on it much as we looked upon the Bolshevist regime In Russia, said it couldn’t last and spent much time -writing treatses to prove the proposition. We admit that It represented rebellion against the then prevailing ideas, but in the. same breath assert that it Is well-nigh beyond improvement. If the fathers were to come back would they thank us for paying them such tributes, or would they say we have laid down on the job of going ahead? -I- -I- IPolitical Edison Needed In science and mechanics we choose to think vigorously and with abundant faith, but in politics, we choose to stand still. Our attitude is anomalous in this respect, not only a virtual denial of what we do in other lines, but of the courage and wisdom of those who showed us what could be done by taking proper advantage of opportunity. Politics needs its Edisons' and Einsteins. That what really made it great a century and a half back. It needs not only tolerance but encouragement for men who dare to look ahead. If the constitution doesn’t teach that it teaches nothing. IWho was .he female star of the motion picture, “K—the Unknown”? Virginia ViUli.

String Orchestra With Melody and Clever Dancer Offered On Palace Bill

By John T. Hawkins Three women and two men, playing piano, violin and different stringed instruments, make up the orchestra in “A Night in Buenos Aires,” the chief attraction at the Palace today and tomorrow. String orchestras are getting rather common, bqt once In a while one comes along that is a little different than the rest. Such is our impression of the one In this act. Probably the best offering of the orchestra is the singing dope by the women. They have a certain way of putting the finest kind of harmony into whatever song they attempt, and It all goes for pleasing effects. There are three dancers In the act, but the team does not do so well, the one to really display her dancing ability is the solo dancer, Edna De Maris. Miss De Maris’ best offering in our opinion was a Gypsy dance toward the close of the act. Nick llufTord has one of the best “lines” we have heard for some time. When he steps out on the stage he talks and you listen, and don’t get bored, either. His act Is full of comedy. the best being the burlesque dramatics. Hartley and Patterson have a well shaped little act in which the whole thing centers on a young girl who has decided to do a burglar stunt of her own. Her intended victim happens to be a well meaning but very much intoxicated young fellow who sees a joke in everything. Have some good comedy In the act. Barto and Mack have taken the milkman and have a lot of fun with him. George and Ethel Livingston open with an acrobatic act. Bill includes a photoplay "Marriage License” with Alma Rubens and a News Reel. At the. Palace today and tomorrow. -I* -I- -I* Other Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Black Pirate” at the Circle: ‘‘The Waning Sex” at the Apollo: "Fig Leaves” at the Colonial; Hoot Gibson at the Uptown: burlesque at the Mutual and movies at the Isis.

Who Is This Member of Congress?

Try this test on yourself and see how many questions you are able to answer. You’ll find the correct answers on page 28: N 1. Who is the member of Congress shown in the accompanying picture? v 2. What Is the correct pronunciation of the name, "Vicente BlascoIbanez”? 3. What is the score of a perfect game In bowling? 4. What artist Is noted for the painting, “Sietine Madonna”? 6. What colleges are members of the eastern Big Three? 6. Where is the “Aro de Trlemphe"? 7. In what country Is “plaster” the name of common currency? 8. How many colors are there In the flag of the Chinese republic? 9. What Is the first name of Webster, author of the "American Dictionary"? 10. What is a parrakeet?

MR. FIXIT

Alley Curbstones Not Artistic, View,

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to City oflicials. He is The Times' representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Curbstones in the alley don’t seem to harmonize with the artistic view point of one of Mr. Fixit s correspondents. DEAR MiR. FIXIT: About twelve months ago a neighbor had a large pile of curbstones hauled Into the alley which separates our lots. They were dumped In-a heap and let lay. Repeated requests to have them moved have been to no avail. They block traffic in the alley and cause, people driving through to run over part of my lot. WLLIAM H. MEYER. An order will be issued at once by the city engineer’s department for the removal of the stones. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I have been reading of other people’s troubles and I am prompted to write you of two loose Joints in the car track in front of the house at 1446 Montalm St. The noise keeps you awake all night and* the jar is cracking the cement porches. PROPERTY OWNER. The complaint has been referred to M. Lynch of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, who will investigate. CARRIER PIGEON FALLS . A carrier pigeon fell exhausted Thursday at the home of Floyd Weaver, 1435 S. Richland St. He Is being cared for by Weaver. The bird bears a leg band with I32AJ26GHC on It. *

Return From Geneva

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Roy W. Howard, head of the Scripps-Howard, newspapers, and Mrs. Howard, arriving In New York on the Majestic. Howard is chairman of the permanent liaison committee of the World’s Press Association Conference and just attended the conference meeting In Geneva. The committee will be the point of contact between t he League of Nations and the presS associations of the world.

DA UGHER TY A GES AS TRIAL GOES ON

But Miller, Former Alien Property Custodian, Codefendin Big Case, Has Loyal Wife by Side.

Bu Timet Special NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Drama has been sitting' with tensely clenched hands for several days In a Federal courtroofn here. All that legal trappery and confusion of terms can do to hide Its presence has been done: There Is a Jumble of evidence concerning stocks, shades, agreements, underwritings, capitalizations, transfers, world-war geography, history j and golden bubbles hobbling up in j champagne glasses! Now and then a reporter takes out j this thought-challenging phrase, “A 1 trial rivaled In American history only by the Johnston Impeachment —” and waves it at the public. But for the underlying drama one must look to the principals—Harry Daugherty, one-time cabinet member and president maker; Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian and Richard Merton, German metal magnate. If the charges be true that Daugherty and Miller accepted a bribe from Merton, then they have wellearned their wages of disaster. Take the oustandlng figure 1 Daugherty. He ages with every day 1 In the courtroom. The strain of "keeping up a brave front” tells upon him. Not lonfc ago his wife died, and his family Is In disruption. He Is alone. He grasps at the ktndly good-morning of a newspaper reporter and replies warmly. Miller has by his side, day upon day. his loyal wife. She has been with him in the courtroom since the first day. She will be there at the last. A woman with an artistocratie nose; an artistocratie face; the manners and bearing of a lady. She | comes from a proud line, without a single strain upon its scutcheon, until— She bears up under the ordeal proudly and gracefully. But whether her husband is guilty or not guilty, what of the family turmoil that must have been precipitated? One hears many rumors, to all of which she is silent. She keeps repeating “I have nothing to say." fs it true that her mother died crushed by the blow? There is no answer. Merton, the Aristocrat And there is Merton, the immaculate and aristocratic German, the young financial king. He "sits on top of the world.” He has salvaged the great family fortune out. of chaos. A character for some Galsworthy, this fellow, whose steel Interests are comparable with any of the great American fortunes and who, with his beautiful wife, occupies suites in one of the finest New York hotels. They say he used the American officials to recoup the Merton millions at a time when minutes ticked oft disaster. Melodrama has no more lurid story. Here were the Mertona—two brothers, thrust suddenly into their father’s boots by his death. Both young and untried in the world of big business. Vast Interests were theirs; interests with international ramifications; a great steel power founded back in 1850. Then came the war and as one nation and then another entered they had to sit back and watch their interests being impounded by enemy countries. Finally there were but two neutral nations left. In which could their stocks find security? They feared Switzerland a bit and finally swung to America—no, America would not get In. they figured. But America did get In and their American stocks

were seized by the alien enemy custodian. A Swiss bank became their agents, representing neutral interests. Merton, an‘officer at the front, came out of the lines to clicker with the financial kings of the world. The son of the family had grown up.

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Mrs. Thomas W. Miller.

And then the war ended. If the fortune was to be salvaged, stock which was tied up must be had. Speed! Speed! There was not a minute to lose. The bank would close them out otherwise. Melodrama of Gold Merton sped to America. It Is claimed by the prosecution that the deal by which the seven millions In stock were released was consummated In something life sixty-two hours and celebrated by a champagne dinner at which gold cigaret cases were passed about. Merton could afford to celebrate. He had saved the proud old •family. This very speed, say the prosecutors, was the great mistake! It was, they add, the means of betraying the alleged fraud. But Merton had triumphed. Again the vast steel interest of the Mertons are sound and the fortune runs to the hundred millions, or thereabouts. And Merton enjoys the security of promised immunity. Meanwhile an old man, quite alone, sits sagging under the strain, and a proud wife sits beside her husband, wearing her brave mask for the public. HAS 19-INCH SUNFLOWER Indiana Heats California By Two Inches, Says ViaL Seventeen-inch California sunflowers, as described in news dispatches, are Just two Inches behind the Indiana variety, according to J. B Vial, gardening Instructor at the Indiana Boys School, Plainfield. A nineteen-irtch sunflower is one of the prize exhibits lat the school garden. Seventeen-inch ones are common, Vial 3ays. GOVERNOR IS SPEAKER Governor Ed Jackson was principal speaker today at the Kentucky State fair at Louisville. Thursday ihe spoke at & Republican meeting at Madison.

SEPT. 17, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can tret an answer to any question ol fact or information by writing to Tha IndianaDolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other auestiona will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Did George Washington belong to a political party? When Washington was first sleeted President there were no political par ties, but in 1973 the followers of Thomas Jefferson assumed the name Republican in opposition to the Federalists under the leadership of Alexander Hamilton and Washington became a Federalist. Is there an “Edison Star?” About 40 years ago a newspaper reporter printedan Item to the effect that Thomas A. Edison sent up on clear nights a brilliant light known as tho “Edison Star.” It was a hoax which, however, has persisted to this day. Mr. Edison says that there is not the slightest foundation for the story. What Is the circumference of the earth? In round figures 25,000 miles. What will remove medicine stains from bed linen and white material? Owing to the number of substances used in medicine it Is not possible to find methods or solvents to remove all such stains from fabrics. If the nature of the medicine Is known, the solvent can be chosen accordingly. A tarry or gummy medicine can be treated with the same agents as tar spots, medicines and in a sugar syrup can usually be * washed out with water, those dissolved In alcohol sometimes can be i removed from fabrics by sponging with alcohol. It the nature of the medicine Is not known It Is necessary to try various agents until one Is found that serves the purpose. What are the natural colors ot hydrangea blossoms; are there any that are blue? Hydrangea blossoms are white, pink or blue. Tho blue tinge Is believed to be due to the presense of iron In the solL Is it proper to say one eats or drinks soup? One drinks sopp. A liquid cannot be eaten. What Is Newton’s law of gravitation? Every particle of matter In the universe attacks every other particle with a force directly proportionate to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them. What do the terms “Right” and "Left” mean in French politics? "Right” refers to the Conservative parties and "Left” to the Socialist or radical parties. How did the Irish potato get Its name? Is It the same as white potato? Because they are produced In large quantities In Ireland and are a staple diet there, white potatoes are called "Irish". What Is meant hy "diaphragm breathing?” Why is it beneficial? Diaphragm breathing is deep breathing that takes plenty of air into the lungs and causes the diaphragm to move up and down, and the abdomen as well as the chest to expand. It Insures more air in the lungs, aids digestion and Is beneficial In many ways. Where Is Kadrliffe College? Is It a co-edurational institution? It Is a nonsectarian institution for women at Cambridge, Mass.

DON’T SLEEP AT SIGNALS IS ADVICE The man renowned in railroad circles for being “asleep at the switch** has thousands of relatives who fall asleep at automatic traffic signals, causing needless traffic congestion, Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, declared, today. “Signals placed on Meridian St-,* 1 says Mr. Btoops, “are lapped and tlmed / to accommodate a steady flow of traffic at a certain set speed. Motorists who stop before thesd signals and doze or fall into a stupor until awakened by the horns of protesting motorists who are alert and ready to go, are causing an expensive system for the elimination of traffic congestion to fail. “At other busy corners where traffic is lined up for a block, motorists who fall asleep before traffic signals are causing others to stop In line two or three times before getting across the street. "Alertness in driving is essential. The driver who maintains a fair rate of speed is more careful than the poky driver, who feels his lack of speed a mark of carefulness. The driver who maintains a fair rate of speed will be alert to all traffic and watchful of cross streets and pedestrians. He does not cause Accidents by causing others to drive around him. Asa rule, he does not take his half of the road out of the middle. I "Now that school has started, motorists must be alert and careful at school crossings. He should watch for signals given by school boys delegated to traffic duty and aid them In their work by giving the children a fair chance to cross the streets In safety. "Shorter days are Increasing traffic hazards and the motorist should watch his lights carefully.” CLASS HOLDS REUNION Former Members of Good Cheer Group Hold Meeting. Mrs. E. E. Kinnlck, 1122 W. Thir-ty-First St., was host this week to former members of the Good Cheer Bible class of Sjeventh. Christian Church. Members of the adult Bible class which was merged with another class several yearo ago met at the Klnnick home to revive memories. A basket dinner was served. Severs! former teachers attended.