Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1926 — Page 4

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No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. • '

A WOMAN LEADS It is not surprising that the first open rebellion against "bossism” in Marion County should come from a woman. When Mrs. Garner, elected a member of the Legislature to make laws and protect the good name of the State, refused to permit the political boss of this county to dictate her vote on the important matter of the speakership, she set herself apart from the general average of Marion County public servants. The rebellion came against one of the tricks used by bosses to override the welfare of the people. In the Marion County delegation are twelve members, rather a formidable number, when it comes to trading for influence and favors. The boss, to control twelve, suggests that the Marion County delegation vote as a unit. He knows where he can absolutely control at least seven, and perhaps eight of the dozen. But the unit rule trick gives him twelve votes as a starter, with which he can make his deals for place and power over the State, trafficking with other bosses, persuading boss controlled legislation from other machine centers. This woman refuses to permit the boss to trade her vote or deliver her judgment and conscience. It’s funny, but these women when they get into office, do not seem to get the hang of politics at all and refuse to see the wisdom of solid delegations that can be bartered by bosses. Generally speaking, when they have been given office and responsibility, they follow that often missing voice called conscience. They do not understand that the people need guardians who do their thinking for them and that the welfare of the "party” or the State seems to require that they forget their oaths of office and remember the boss who gives and the boss who takes away. The old lin# politicians saw what would happen when women were given the vote. That is the reason they fought against that enlargement of our voting population. They just knew that if a woman got into office she would show no sense at all, but would insist on doing her own thinking and her own voting. It is rather unfortunate that a mass meeting of women called to ponder on this event and the consequent expulsion of Mrs. Gardner from the Marion County caucus should be called an “Indignation meeting. It should be to include not only women of all parties, but of all men who are not yet ready t(K accept bossism as the best form of government and call it a meeting of congratulation. A few more women who lead in revolts against bossism might help the general tone of Indiana government. COOLIDGE ECONOMY Twenty members of New York’s inner financial circles, headed by August Belmont, built a canal across Cape Cod twelve years ago. They figured that it would make money, since it would shorten the water route between New York and Boston. But it proved to be a flat, dismal failure financially. The amount sunk by the promoters was something between $6,500,000 and $8,200,000. Now the House and Senate are appropriating $11,400,000 of Government money with which to buy this canal. The Government will operate it and the annual loss hereafter will be borne out of the Government treasury. Standing behind this curious Government enterprise is President Ccolidge. He favors it. It is an Administration measure. This same Administration is endeavoring in every way possible to get rid of the Government’s merchant marine. Some of the lines are making money. All are on their way to do so. And farmers and other shippers are saved millions every year in ocean freight rates because of the competition furnished by the Government. The Administration is striving just as hard to get rid of Muscle Shoals, which is already a paying investment and promises to become an immense money maker for the Government. With the reasonable rates which the Government could charge for power, Muscle Shoals —if retained by the Government —would be worth vast sums to a great area of the South. To make money for private financial interests, the Government takes the Cape Cod canal off the hands of its owners. To make money for private interests, the Government tries to give up its fleet and its great power resources. Farmers and other plain people, who seek Government aid, may be able to understand the Administration's mental processes. It is all too deep for us. CONSIDER THE MUSTACHE! Men and mustaches. The theme may seem trivial, nay, even flippant, but few questions ever have confronted frail humanity that were brimming with more thought-pro-voking material. So many questions. First of all, the history of mustaches. Mustaches started having a history for the same reason that did sideburns and goatees and Van Dykes and all the other hirsutic garnishingsThey just naturally started because there were no razors. Here’s another question full of thought. What did men shave with before they had razors? We know they did, for ancient pictures show us both clean-shaven and foliaged cave men. Without historic research, one would guess that they used sharpened flints or perhaps pulled the hairs out one by one. Anyway, men started shaving. Then they got lazy and only shaved the south, east and west, leaving the north to flourish with what was called the mustache. * In England, we learn, the mustache came about in 1798 when the British Tommies mocked their Australian brothers, who had learned, too, that complete shaving is a trial and nuisance. The Puritans never wore them, being Puritans, And the Cavaliers did, being Cavaliers. Asa natural evolution, rnen with mustaches are supposed to be bold and daring, and clean shaven males painstaking, systematic, perhaps reactionary. Mustaches have their uses. Thus, the gentleman with the mustache can finger it when he feels uneasy in a room. He can calm himself just

as the maiden jangles her beads or snaps her vanity case. Then again, mustaches help differentiate the male from the female, and, for this alone, are rather necessary in this day. Mustaches, whether from tradition or intrinsic value, make a man look distinguished, they hide scars, they make them look older, and make most of us prefer clean-shaves. Just by way of proving that even seemingly flippant subjects hold food for thought. CHRISTMAS CHEER Just a word of warning to those who think they need their Christmas cheer in bottled form. The preliminary raids show that most of the stuff sent out by mail or delivered by those who claim to bring it from Canada is poisonous in the extreme. It takes more than a brave man these days to deal with a bootlegger, not because there is any special danger of the law or arrest, but because the chance of death in the bottom of the bottle is a little more than fifty-fifty. Os course, these are credulous days. Men who would laugh at the old gold brick game fall for the most airy of fairy stories about the sort of booze offered them. Men who would ask a business man for a certified accountant’s statement before extending a dollar’s worth of credit risk their health and their lives on the word of the first rum runner or "alky” mixer they meet. It may be sad news for many, but this Christmas cheer stuff this year is decidedly off color. It is so much easier to put out redistilled alcohol, which contains poisons of various kinds, print fancy labels that is a reminder of the pre-war days, than it is to take a chance of bringing it across the border. The wise bird who wants to be cheerful on Christmas and New Year’s will at least postpone his efforts to get this sort of inspiration until the last day of the year. Otherwise he may not be here to welcome 1927. New York is to have a 110-story building. We wonder how Detroit feels now about that eighty-flve-story cottage. Washington policemen have been ordered to give women their street car seats. What will the male copper do when a policewoman gets on? These are days when a fellow with bow legs must bow to the man with knock-knees on the dance floor. There are more autos than kitcVen sinks in the United States. Well, who wants to ride in a kitchen sink? The girls are right. When stockings coßt $3 and up, wh|y hide them? A Chinese dentist was fined S2OO for practicing without a license in New York. No tickee, no bridgework. A Boston trawler caught a fifteen-pound sea eel. This ought to be a boon to the crosswords.

CHRISTIANS AND THEIR CHRISTIANITY By N. D. Cochran

In reading over a page of essential extracts from Sunday sermons I find several references to the poll recently taken by a number of newspapers, in which certain questions were submitetd tor answerWhile this, poll showed an overwhelming belief in God and that a great majority of the people had been reared in religious homes, it also showed that not nearly so many were regularly affiliated with any church or conducted family worship. Probably the best expression of opinion I ran across was in a sermon by a Lutheran preacher who said that the returns of the religious census disclosed “not the failure of Christianity but the failure of Christians.” „ A Methodist preacher said: "The figures resulting from this poll say two very strange things. They Bay that the heart of the great majority of the people is religiously inclined. And the strange thing which these figures indicate is that while a great majority of these people still believe in God, immortality, prayer, Christ and the Bible, the majority now are not vitally connected with any church and do not attend church regularly. This is more confusing when we find that the majority were brought up in the church and religious homes and say that they would not like to live in a community where there were no churches.” I think the Lutheran preacher answered the question. There is nothing wrong with Christianity, but htere is something wrong with some Christians; I cannot speak for any other human being on earth, but I can speak for myself. I was raised in a religious home. It was a Methodist home. I attended church, 1 Sunday school and camp meeting; and we had family prayer. I have never lost my belief in the Christianity of Christ as the best philosophy of life ever offered to humanity. I still read, for my own satisfaction, the New Testament, but I can not reconcile the Christianity of Christ with some of the stories of war, oppression, and hate I find in the Old Testament. I can’t reconcile with Christianity the late World ar in which various Christian nations fought each other to the death, and Christian governments taught their soldiers to hate and to kill the boys of other Christian governments. And I was not a pacifist; for I grew as patriotic and as crazy with hatred as most Americans did during the frenzied and hysterical orgy of hatred and murder when we all rallied ’round the flag. But I never lost my faith in the Christianity of 1 hrist and His Gospel of love. I believe that there is nothing really the matter with my Christianity, but that there is something the matter with the Christianity of some of the preachers who are preaching the gospel of'love and practicing the gospel of hate. Anyhow, I do know that I have developed an antipathy against some of the saps who are masquerading as Christian ministers. So much ignorance Is displayed by some of them in their efforts, however sincere, to preach a gospel they evidently don’t understand that I haven’t the patience to listen to them. If I could be assured that I would hear preached the undefiled gospel of Jesus Christ I would go to church und gladly. But I won’t waste my time listening to some half-educated sap who doesn’t know what he is talking about and who thinks his mission on earth is to hit everybody over the head with a policeman's club who doesn’t take as narrow a view of the Christianity of Christ as he does. The church in which I was born and raised will not get me back until its ministers get out of politics and back to Christianity. And I won’t go to church until I am satisfied that the pulpit will not be occupied by a hired political reformer who makes his living out of the Anti-Saloon League as a lobbyist of big business.

THE INDIANAPOLIS I'IMES

Tracy Disarmament With Fear Backs Plea for Larger Navy,

By M. K. Tracy Hope of disarmament rests on fear, says Representative Butler, and the United States has no cruisers to Incite fear. Thus you get the humanitarian purpose of the cruiser campaign. The idea is not to build cruisers for national defense, but to promote disarmament, to make the world good by throwing a terrible scare into it. Why not make the project really effective by putting up a poison gas factory or two, or constructing a dozen dirigibles? It isn’t of such skimming dishes as the Naval Affairs Committee has j in mind that the world is most | afraid. It is of bombs dropped from j the sky, or raids by night, of death j In an invisible form. If there were nothing but oldfashioned battle fleets to worry ! about the world would feel quite j comfortable, but the chemist and the ! mechanician have made it jumpy. Don’t Worry, Europe European statesmen are needless-1 ly bothered by the Panaman treaty. It represents a cheap imitation of their kind of diplomacy, but is of no great consequence. Panama is a weak little nation arid j was brought into being by one of the few intrigues this Government ever engineered. Her very existence is bound up with American policy. *>he has no choice but to Jump when Washington cracks the whip. It is no feather in our cap to get her to agree to join us in a defensive and offensive alliance. The thing is of importance simply because it establishes a precedent. We have not only learned, but adopted, the act of forming coalition and entente, borrowed a page from Europe and forced the smallest child in the family of nations to sign it. The net result will be a little more soreness and suspicion on the part of Latin-Ameriea. Losing Ground We are drifting back to Jingoism and dollar diplomacy. The notes of our State Department and the speeches of our congressmen have taken on a strangely defiant and sneering attitude. You can’t reconcile the foreign policy of today with that which prevailed ten years ago. Our present attitude is uttr /ly irreconcilable with that which we assumed when we entered the war and told Europe what kind of a peace she should make. It is an irony of fate that Europe she aid have taken our League of Nations, while we take over Europe’s former method of handling international affairs. Stop Baseball Gambling Ban Johnson is right in his determination to clean the gamblers out of baseball. There is no other way to keep the sport alive and make it pay. People will never be convinced that a game is straight so long as the players bet on it. But what about bought evidence, doesn't that carry suspicion with it also? Those who go in for reform should | be above reproach themselves. The public is as leary of a man who sells out his former friends as of one who gambles, perhaps a little more so.

Honesty—Where? Whether you turn to sport, politics, business or social relations, common honesty seems to have become the all-important issue in this country. The old straightforward wqy of doing things seems to have gone out of fashion. We are pleased to be clever, rather than candid. The Government runs a speakeasy to trap its own agents; an admiral whispers of war scares in the ear of a multimillionaire; a Senator is charged with being party to a bribe; two Senato r s-elect are brought under suspicion t .-cause of the large sums of money used in their behalf; a good percentage of the coast guard is convicted or suspended because of misconduct in office. Corporations are being investigated to sea whether they have evaded taxes by the declaration of stock dividends. Federal offices aro said to have been sold in the South; alien property is said to have been mismanaged; perjury figures in the Hall-Mills case to an amazing extent, and so one might go on ad infinitum. What About Smith? The New York World thinks Smith of Illinois, ought to be seated in spite of the fact that he has done something "despicable.” He has violated no law, the World reasons, the people of Illinois elected him after they were acquainted with all the facts, it would establish a dangerous precedent, and so on. Professor Frankfurter of Harvard takes an opposite view. He thinks that the Senate should discipline Smith for the sake of common decency, that it has the right, and precedent do more good than harm. * As one of the forgotten millions, I agree with Frankfurter. PARTY AT ORPHANAGE Children in Protestant Home Will Be Entertained Sunday. Children of the General Protestant Orphanage will entertain and be entertained in the auditorium of the orphanage, 1404 S. Aye. Sunday at 2 p. m. A committee of the board of directors is in charge of the program, the first part of which will be given by the children, and consist of songs, recitations and a playlet. The guests will then take charge and distribute presents, with a bountiful supply of candies, fruits and nuts for the orphans. The public is invitt<3.

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Pay a Visit to Herron Art Institute During This Merry Christmas Season

The Adams-Garber-Higgins-Scudder exhibition at the John Herron Art Institute is impressive in size of its canvases as well as in the brilliance of its execution. There are twentyeight paintings displayed by Wayman Adams, Daniel Garber and Victor Higgins and two small bronzes by Janet Scudder. The three painters differ widely in their inspiration and method of expression, but all are unmistakably modem. Adams is a painter of personality. He reacts to the character of his sitter and la expansive or repressed in his handling and color exactly in proportion to the emotional attitude of the model who sits before him. The portraits of Colonel House and John Noble hang on the same wall and are a study in contrasts, the smooth, darkly contained likeness of the diplomat and the carelessly Dosed, loosely treated, spontaneous sketch of the artist. The two figure paintings by Garber are studies of a woman sewing and a girl with a book, each posed against a background of filtering sunlight. This is a favorite subject of Garber’s—figures against the light —and he handles it with admirable skill. The beautiful patterns of Victor Higgins’ landscapes have a highly decorative value. "Pallodura Canyon’’ shows pale green hillsides with rich pink and gray rock formations and carefully proportioned greenblue trees rising in the foreground. "Reflected Light" shows snow fields in a creamy light and a sharply outlined dark stream cutting across the canvas. Prints from the permanent collection remain on exhibition in Gallery 11. Each item in the group is selected for some special excellence and the showing is calculated to interest all print lovers. Mrs. M. F. Johnston of Richmond, who has brought the Adams-Garber-Higgins-Scudder exhibition to tlfo Art Institute, will talk in the galleries on Sunday, Dec. 26, at 3:30 o’clock. Mrs. Johnston is well known to Indlnnaiiolis, and her intelligent explanations and penetrating criticism make her talks on IKiintings events of importance. A collection of dolls gathered by Margaret McCulloch Reynolds and presented to the institute by her sister, Mrs. Hugh H. Hanna, is now being shown in Gallery I. Mrs.

This One Almost Too Easy

Supplying the name of this picture should be easy. The prince’s name and the answers to the questions appear on page 12. 1— Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 What is the annual salary of the United States President? 3 How many degrees are there in a right angle. 4 When It's 12 o’clock noon in New Orleans, what time is in Seattle, Wash,? 3—ln what city is Vassar College? 6 Has the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives the same number of members? 7 Who plays the lead in the picture, "The Scarlet Letter?" 8— In what city was Don R. Mellett, newspaper publisher, murdered? 9ln what state is the source of the Missouri river? 10— In what country is the Mauna Loa volcano?

A Discouraging P rospect

Reynolds made this collection in a trip around the world, and it includes dolls of all sorts, from puppets to wax figures. The character dolls and those showing national costumes of many foreign countries, are amusing and instructive. This is an exhibition that will prove of special interest to children of all ages from tots to high school students who are making puppet shows and can in this way learn how puppets of foreign lands are constructed. A self-portrait by William Forsyth has been presented to the art school as a Christmas gift by Mrs. James W. Fesler. Miss Edna Mann Shover, principal of the school, presided at the presentation ceremony and presented the painting. Asa part of the program. Mrs. Carl H. Llelier sang a song, the word:-; and music of which she had composed for the occasion. The jwrtrait, entitled "The Painter Man,” is a serious self-study of character and a work of technical excellence. It is now on display in the museum in Gallery 1 and will l>e removed to the art school on Jan. 3. LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE For the holiday the Palace for the last half is offering a bill that will provide pleasure in a variety of different ways. Kay Fern and Marce with a rapid line of dialogue and a plentiful supply of wise cracks have a comedy act that isn’t slow for a minute.

Questions and Answers

You can (ret an answer to any que*tion of i act or Information by writiur to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1:122 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 queationa will receive a personal reply. Unsigned reqin-ata cannot bo answered. All letters aro confidential. —Editor. What is the address of Harry li. Thaw? Harry K. Thaw's address is Winchester, Virginia. Who was Seneca? Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman philosopher and statesman who made a great reputation in philosophy and literature. Among his best known works are the "Minor Dialogs," which have been translated by Stewart. When was the grade school system established? It began in the United States in the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century. In its essential features, the plan was borrowed from Germany, where, at the time of its introduction into America, it was rapidly becoming the universal plan of school organization, and where it -had been evolved during three centuries of educational experiment and practice. The final stage in the evolution of the modern highly organized and highly graded elementary school began, roughly dating, from the time when Horace Mann and Henry Barnard commenced their educational work, tho one in Massachusetts 1837) and the other in Connecticut (1837), and later in Rhode Island (1843). Is the temperature the same throughout the equatorial zone? It varies widely at different points on the equator, and for the same place at different times of the day and night, exactly as temperature variations occur everywhere else on the earth's surface. The altitude of places on the equator lias much to do with whether the temperature is high or low, and the absence of sunlight, either at night or because of cloudiness, affects the temperature as it does elsewhere. The equatorial regions of the earth (for comparative altitudes) are hotter than in the temperate or higher latitudes, but there are great variations at different places on the equator. What Is a "Nlcol Prism?” A long rhomb of Iceland spar, cut along an axis, the portions being cemented with Canadian balsam, so that when white light enters It the ray Is divided, and the ordinary ray Is totally reflected the cement-

They have displayed wise Judgement in their selection of material and are good providers of entertainment. Jimmy Kemper and Company for the last half have several good Ideas chief among which is the male chorus at the opening of the act. Mr. Kemper does several song numbers that are pleasing and the girl violinist has two or three solos that are well worth listening too. Jim Penman and His Pago had a rather hard time of it Thursday afternoon in the way of getting the act across. Mr. Penman has a good line of comedy and some good juggling tricks, but it was not until the latter part of the act that it seemed to take hold. Present as the page is a young woman whose charms lay mostly in a very pleasing appearance. Romantic Youth, as the opening act is billed, is flat in our opinion of entertainment values. The only thing in the act is a girl with a soprano voice who stands out among the different members as the only one who can sing. The comedy isn't much. Included on the bill Is a photoplay, ‘Young April,” with Bessie Love, and a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: Dante at the Lyric, Coram at Keith's, "Just Another Blonde” at the Circle, "Love ’Em and Leave ’Em” at the Apollo, "Eagle of the Sea” at the Ohio, new bill at the Uptown, "Spangles" at the Colonial, "Lazy Lightning” at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual.

ed surface, while the extraordinary ray emerges parallel to the Incident ray. It was named for the inventor, William Noel Nlcol of Edinburgh, who died in 1851. It Is used in optical work. When did Moses live and where was he burled? Ha died on Mount Nebo, and, according to the Biblical account in Deuteronomy, his burial place is not known. He is supposed to have lived about 1400 B. C. What character of Shakespeare’s has the greatest number of lines to speak? Hamlet has 1,596 lines. Richard 111. comes next with 1,161 lines. What do the names “Stephen” and "Schwartz” mean? Schwartz Is German for "black” or "dark." Stephen Is from the Greek -and means "crown of garlands.” Do most of the great baseball players enter the major leagues when they are around 20 yeans of age? In the main, yes. Rogers Hornsby began playing in major league baseball when he was 19 years old; Ty Cobh, 19; Tris Speaker, 20; Babe Ruth, 20; Bob Meusel, 22; Joe Dugan, 20; Carl Mays, 23; Walter Johnson, 18. How Is date cake made? Sift one pound of atoned dates and one pound whole walnut meats, IV4 cupa flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, % teaspoon salt. Mix thoroughly, add 1 cup sugar and mix again. Beat white of four eggs stiff and yolks until light in color. Beat egg yolks into cake mixture then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Flavor with lemon. Bake In a loaf in a moderate oven for one hour. ' Is whipping legal punishment for wife beating in any State? In both Maryland and Delaware. What does the term cycle mean In engine construction? It Is defined as a series of events which are repeated in regular order, constituting the principle of operation. Expressed briefly, the cycle of a gas engine embraces: One, the admission of the charge into the cyllder; two, its compression: three, ignition; four, combustion; five, expansion therein, and six, the subsequent exhaust of the products of combustion. •

DEC. 24, TJ2G

Work What Makes Normal Support for Partner’s Suit?

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: Ace-x, King-x, x-x-x or greater! strength is normal support for part.) ner’s suit. The normal support requirements! is comparatively new Bridge doc- ( trine. In the old days it was not understood or regarded as a lmpor-l tant; now it is known to he an es-! sential part of the holding which warrants an assist —that is, a raise' of partner's bid after an intervening overcall. Many declarations fall because' four or more trumps are held in onel adverse hand. When the Closed! Hand and Dummy have a total of' only seven trumps, the chances fa-! vor an uneven distribution of the! six adverse trumps; the odds belng ! two to one against a 3-3; but when| the Closed Hand and Dummy have a| total of eight trumps, the odds arel three to one that neither adversary] will have four. It is for this rea-i son that the assisting partner musti have at least three In the suit if hej is to raise a suit-bid from one two —or, having only two, that of them be Ace or King. No how great the side strength may he,, normal support is esential. If the, original bidder, without a raise from| his partner, should rebid his suit; or) If he start by bidding more than, one of it, normal support is not es-j sential for a raise. In other words,! raising from two to three is per- ( mlsslblo without normal support in; partner's suit provided the raiser has other strength; but an assisting; raise from one to two without such; normal support is not sound Brldgo| no matter what other strength the' raiser may have. A player not only l should decline to nsslst his partner! when without normal support, but! when the intervening adversary! passes, the lack of support should 1 be shown by a denial: a most im-j portant topic which will be taken up tomorrow. What should North do with the 1 following hands, South having bid 1 one Spade and West having bid two] Diamonds? What should North do| if South bid one Spade and West' passed? 1. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-x-x; Dl.:| x-x-x. Cl.: Klng-Queen-x-x. 2. Sp.: x-x. Ht.: Jack-10-x-x. Dl.:t Queen-10-x. Cl.: Queen-Jack-9-x. 3. Sp.: x-x. Ht.: Ace-Queen-Jack-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: Ace-Queen-x-x. (Copyright John F. Dill Cos.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions o/i the game for Times readers whe write to hint through The Times, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

MR. FIXIT Predicts Streets Repair During New Year.

Let Mr. Fixit present your ease to city officials. He ia The Times representative t the city hail. Write him at The Times. With additional funds for street and bridge repairing, George Woodward, streets superintendent, today predicted city street repairs would; progress remarkably during the approaching New Year. Woodward has, been handicapped by a curtailed; budget during the entire first year of the Duvall administration. Baraey Conray, 87, sewers expert, carried out his custom of presenting, Christmas gifts of boxes of candy to all attaches of the streets department. Despite his years, Conroy leads his men dally into the laby- 1 rintlis of the city’s "underworld." DEAR MR. FIXIT—For the last three weeks my wife has been forced to call tho city garbage collection' department and nsk that they stop' and get our garbage. We keep the can In a conspicuous' a place as possible and assure you it 1 is absolutely no trouble for the men' to stop and get It. Hoping you •will 1 use your influence to remedy this in- 1 sanitary condition, and thanking in advance, I remain, yours truly, TIMES Your Christmas gift will be prompt collections.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor The Indianapolis Times: A close-up study of farm conditions shows the small farmer to 1 be in need of tractor equipment, at- 1 tachments devices, etc., that will allow nil kinds of work done with the tractor. The farmer Is passing through that slow transition you use on the streets, where a few teams are still hitched up to vehicles, but on the farm the transition is slower and the 1 farmer ia Just as far behind. There is no doubt that those devices can be added and the press can, by their editorials, speed up the manufacturer and help the thing along. Many other things are needed by the farmer, but the building of machinery to make the tractor useful is the first thing to take up. In November, December, January, February and March, five months in a row, farmers seldom hook up a team. Yet the farmer must feoA stock the year around. Tho fanner B being bankrupt by this big feeding cost, especially the small farmer. Instead of dull times our factories should be rushed with work turning out millions of dollars worth of these Improved devices. Press editorials will help speed this up and of course The Times Is friendly to any movement for betterment. Yours, respectfully, W. H. BRUNNER, 328 E. Washington St. .