Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1927 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. 1 . WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • * * PHONE—MA In 3500.

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

THAT HALF MILLION More than two weeks ago the attorney general this State openly charged that the small homfe raers of this city were being robbed of a halt mllm dollars a year. He charged that this amount was* being given the form of rebates by the two electrical comnies to favored customers. He charged that this half million dollars was ling taken In violation of the lawHe made his charge specific, definite and un[ulvocal. The public service commission is charged by the w to see that there is no discrimination and no irdens added to some citizens for the of reiving others. The law itself makes the giving of rebates a ime punishable with imprisonment. It makes the ceiving of rebates a crime, punishable with a fine. The commission can hardly excuse itself on the ound that it does not know where to find the refers, for Mr. Gilliom charged that the light comnies were giving the rebates and named, among (se he said had received such rebates, the Indianilis News. Instead of endeavoring to get a valuation on the it companies that will permit the members to cape public wrath, so the members might give me attention to these charges and to the half llion dollars which is being diverted from the ckets of the men least able to pay it into the hands those who may not need it at all. t Right now the big power users are trying to ing about some peaceful, so called, solution of the estion as to how much these light plants are irth in order that they may be combined. The Indianapolis News, charged by Mr. Gilliom th having participated in the rebates, is opposing y suoh movement and any such solution. The people ought to know the motives and the rposes behind any influence which is active in Is matter. anything is done, the truth of falsity of (pijliom charges should be demonstrated. If by are Jrue, officials of these light companies puld be in jail, for the law says that this is the Lee for officers of utility corporations who particiIte in this form of robbery. I The position of the Indianapolis News should be Lrified. It stands now openly charged with being Ifavored customer of the old companies whose Lrger it seeks to defeat. The suspicion that it is lilting because it hopes to continue such practices |d fears anew ownership would abolish it is un|r not only to the News, but to all newspapers, before another move is made in the merger of b light companies, and they should be merged on a |r . asis, the commission should look into that half lllion dollar rebate steal. I Rebates are given only when influence is soughtBuence sought only when something unfair is lired. I An investigation of rebates might obtain informaIn as to the real earning capacity and the real llue of these plants can be had from experts. It |ght even go far enough to show' how rates could I reduced to all the users. ___ I WHAT PRICE GLORY—I9?7??? I Ex-service m§n all over the country are applying I banks for loans on their United States bonus lurance certificates, as provided in the bonus law, Id, according to news reports, are being turned Iwn in many cases. I Bankers’ reasons for rejecting the loans seem to I that they are profitless business and that they Ir the Government has not provided sufficiently to ■eem the certificates if the ex-service man doesn’t lay his loan. I The rejections show again that the war is over m that obligations arising out of the war are Ing forgotten. But they show more—what an ImIcticable and half-hearted scheme the Government Irked out for the ex-service men. I Congress provided several hundred million dolls in a special treasury fund to redeem the loans ftl protect the veterans if failed to pay. There Is then little good reason for attempting to force ft making of these loans upon banks, and since the Iter apparently are not to be forced there is less Ison nenv. t I Why cannot the Government, through the postice or some other convenient agency, make these Ins direct? This suggestion has already been Ide in Congress, and it seems a good one. The ftj parties to the bonus scheme are the GovImeht and the service men. The banks are an liecessary and Apparently unwilling third party. OPEN THE BAG I The State Department yesterday officially denied It it had “inspired” the now famous news dispatch ■the Associated Press,'dated Washington, Nov.J7 — I one which began with these words. I “The spectre of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist lemony intervening between the United States and I Panama Canal has thrust itself into AmericanIxican relations, already strained.” I The formal disclaimer w'as made by Secretary ■logg in response to a resolution offered in the lited States House of Representatives asking for ■it on the subject. His action appears to have I Associated Press holding the bag. What that lanization will do w'ith the bag remains to be seen, ■night open it. , I Somebody should. The proper place for the Ining wonld be the Senate Committee on Foreign lations. It has been openly asserted in important Ivspapers—some of them clients of the Associated Iss, who received and printed the dispatch of Nov. l-that this alarmist story of alleged bolshevism 1 offered to the press association by Secretary llogg’s first assistant. It has been asserted that ■s State Department official sought to have the Ispapers publish the yarn on their own responsi■ty—he declining to have the responsibility placed In the State Department. I The concern of the Senate Committee on Foreign ■ations, of course, Is not with the fact that the lociated Press Is alleged to have lent itself to Ih an Jmproper undertaking, but that the State ■tartment should attempt to spread propaganda ■this secret fashion* l Answering the House’s question as to whether or any of its officers “sought to use

the various news agencies to put out information or conclusions in regard to Mexico without assuming official responsibility therefor,” Secretary Kellogg says flatly, "the answer to this question is ‘no.’ ” At least three other persons than Kellogg’s assistant were present at the conference at which the Associated Press dispatch is said to have been brewed. The Senate committee should put the same question to them and see If their answer may not, perchance, be "yes.” There is now a question of veracity in the matter. It should be cleared up. It Involves the integrity of the State Department, and the honesty cf the machinery for the collection of news in Washington, on which citizens of this country base their opinions. Let’s open the bag. THE REAL KILLERS There is at last, some hope, that the real killers of Don Mellett will be disclosed. The people of this city should have more than a passing interest in the capture of those who took the life of this former Indianapolis man, who died fighting for decency in government. As editor of an Ohio paper he had denounced the control of government by the vicious and the venal. He had protested against the protection of crime and vice and degradation by those who wanted votes * at election time. And because he had aroused a public conscience, he was shot in the dark, killed from ambush by the’ creatures of the underworld of vice. One man has been convicted of the killing. But he was only the tool of others and It would be a confession of weakness if society fails to get the real killers of Don Mellett, the men who had ordered his death because he had interfered with their crime and their hold upon government. The killing of this editor was the logical and perhaps expected sequence to the exposures he had made. And what he had exposed in the city of Can ton exists in other places in more or less open form. The evils of which he complained are a part of every boss government of any city. For the bosses need the votes and the crooked ballots of those wh oget protection of the police. The political boss needs the bootlegger and the alcohol runner and the dive keeper and the way he gets them is to protect them in courts and from the police. It is the boss, after all, who kills such men as Mellett when they become dangerous to his rule. Punishing the deluded and vicious and sodden tool is no more important than the finding of the revolver with which the deed was 4 done. The city which gave the world an editor with the courage of Don Mellett should not be satisfied until the men who profited from vice and the control of government, which means much more than merely letting the bootleggers get away, are punished for his murder. THE PLACE CALLED HOME A bit of the "good old days” when crinolined ladies and plum-colored waistcoasted gentlemen rode in landaus along old Fifth Ave. in New York still , exists in that very modernish city. A dignified old house, muslin-edrtained, with a real garden shut off from the roaring street by a board fence, stands there. It takes up half a block of the highest-priced land in the world, shadowed by towering skyscrapers, those symbols of a day far different from the peaceful “905.” Fabulous masses of gold have been offered for the old house and its green garden trying to keep bright under a pall of soot and smoke from the commercial world all about. But the owners, sisters of one Gottlieb Wendqll, descendants of the Wendells who were partners of the Astors, only give weary and bored refusal again and again to the merchants with their yellow gold. Money? Oh, after all, if they are comfortable and contented, what can more money do for them? Besides, this Is their home * BACK IN FORM The friends of Senator Watson will be pleased to note that he is once more back in his old form and has, apparently, forgotten that burst of protest against the use of money in elections. There was undoubted dismay at home when Watson protested against the seating of Smith as a Senator from Illinois for no other reason Hmn that Smith had been financed in his campaign by utility magnates. It was disheartening to followers of the machine that Watson should find anything reprehensible in a public service commissioner getting money from those lie had or might favor. That struck deep at the heart of the machine ethics and w'as absolutely heresy to the doctrines and practices by which Watson has continued in power in this State. But Watson has, so it seems, recanted his heresies and is back to the Old Guard mode and manner of thinking. ’ Those who believed that his small majority which he received from the steel trust bailiwick of Indiana had chastened his spirit may again take hope. For Watson is now on the firing line again, just as he was in the Newberry days, in behalf of the Pennsylvania manager for another Senator who believed that the way to get voJ.es is to have the cash. It is Watson whij, leads the defense of the use of money in politics. He is back again on the reservation. / v Those friends who had thought that Watson would go back on the customs and principles of a lifetime did him wrong. He stands where he always stood on this simple question of practical politics. A Paris chambermaid bit into an apple and found the $2,000,000 Conde diamond. It takes a woman to find out all about apples. Eleven Argentine cowboys had to check their guns before disembarking at the port of New York. The night clubs there, you know, charge $3 a glass for ginger ale, not to mention countless other splendid chances.

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Tracy Germans Have Another Practical Invention of Doubtful Value,

By M. E. Tracy Patents have Just been issued In Germany for a cylindrical house to be built of asbestos cement on a steel frame. The frame can be erected In four days, It is claimed, ami the cement added very qufckly. The design calls for six rooms and an attic, with all modern conveniences, and at a moderate cost. It is one 6f those intensely practical schemes such as the Germans are forever thinking up, but of doubtful success because It defies prevailing customs. Roundness Is opposed to every modern conception of what a house should be. Who can Imagine himself living in a tank? That Is mere prejudice, of course, because the flret houses men built were round and primitive people still build them that way. The Indian’s wigwam is round, the hut of the African pygmy is round and the Eskimo's igloo Is round. It was lumber that taught us to prefer dwellings with angles and straight lines and lumber still dominates house architecture. Sparta Resurrected As Fasclsmo proceeds, you can see its gaunt and rugged outline take shape. It is'Sparta come back in modern guise, ancient Rome returned to rule in the twentieth century. Mussolini, whether for good or ill. is moving toward his idea of what government should be with pitiless intelligence. The individual and private enterprise have small part in his scheme of things, except as they serve to glorify the State. Italy will have but one outstanding institution, if he has his way, and that will be the government. It has already been decreed that there shall he no idleness on the part of labor and it is about to be decreed that there shall he no idleness on the part of capital. No loafing. no padded newspapers, r.o strikes, no squandering of wealth in luxury—it is the vision of a genius, but like most such visions, it leaves out human nature. The Emperor Probus, seeing his army with nothing else to do, and not wishing it to remain idle, set it •to draining a swamp. ' The army worked well for a little while, but then turned and murdeied Probus. All work and no play not only makes Jack a dull boy. but a revolutionist. Tough Medicine A cotton conference assembles at Memphis today. It is sponsored by the Knights of Cotton, but will make no attempt to commit It to their views, according to J. E. Perry. The Knights of Cotton advocate that farmers plough under this year's surplus cotton and reduce their acreage by 50 per cent next year. That is tough medicine. It represents a loss which the farmers ought not be asked to take. There is something wrong with a system which teaches farmers how to raise more cotton ajid encourages them to do so, and then tells them that they must destroy the fruits of their labor and learn to maintain a decent price There is no reason why a 10 or 15 per cent increase of production should make a 40 or 50 per cent decrease in value. Cotton is a practically Imperishable commodity. Some way ought to be devised for carrying the surplus of good over to lean ones. It Is a matter for the hanker to think about as well as the farmer, because it affects the economic welfare of the entire nation. Hohest Sport Thirty-eight hall players before Judge Landis to answer, or explain charge-i of misconduct that is fronr seven to nine years old—what result can possibly be obtained that is worth all the fuss and feathers? Whether move crookedness is uncovered and exposed', or whether the commissioner is wasting time over a lot of tittle-tattle, a highly commercialized sport has been shown up for what it was doomed to become. This nation has gone hog-wild over organized baseball, has given it a degree of attention and paid tribute in cold cash that no pastime ever deserved. It has been touted and advertised out of all reason. The' salaries of players and the profits of club owners have been boosted beyond good sense. A nation has bowed to ft as though it were an industry, an sential of life, if not a religion. Money lias become the all Important consideration, and the idea of getting it has overshadowed everything else. The millions of fans who footed the bill have merely worked themselves into a state of mind where they could be gloriously and repeatedly bunked. For years I have quit the professional games and attended those of amateurs of school teams. You can still depend on the sportsmanship of men and boys who play the game for fun. They may not be so tremendously efficient, but they are honest, and that, after all, is the only thing that makes sport sport. Where is Siparla? In the south central part of the island of Trinidad. Where was Joyce Kilmer, the poet, born and how did he die? He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 6, 1886. He was a soldier in the World War and was killed in battle Aug. 1, 1918. Is there a free employment bureau in Indianapolis? If so, give name and address. Indianapolis Employment Bureau, 302 Meridian Life Bldg., Is a free agency.

Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?

Forty-Second Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings at Herron Art Institute

The forty-second annual exhibition of oil paintings at the Herron Art Institute by contemporary American artists will be in Galleries VII and XI until the last Sunday the month. Fifty paintings constitute the exhibition .and such well-known names as William Ritschel, John Sloan, Frederick J. Waugh, Robert Henri, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones and F. I.uis Mora appear in the catalogue. Thei*e are, as well, many new names, and the work of these artists who are setting their feet for the first step on the ladder of fame contribute not the least Interesting portion of the showing. Artists who have nation-wide reputations are naturally accorded attention —everyone will pause before Marie Danforth Page’s “Her Son,” Roy Brown’s “Souhegan Hills” and the many other portraits and landscapes from American masters, but the un-. known painters will not suffer by comparison. Jules Sealella’s “Where the Creek Turns.” Walter Farndon’s "Summer Grays,” Oscar Soellner’s "The Old Fafm Barn”—selected at random from among the "unknowns”—possess fine qualities that are certain of calling forth admiration. The advanced note of the ultramodern school is not lacking. These efforts in simplicity of expression may not appeal to a majority of picture lovers, hut since they are representative of a strong tendency in the art of today, they have their definite place in any representative showing. Waldo Pierce’s lively “In-terlor-Parisian,” with Its figures, flowers, pictures, tables and lace curtains, shows undeniably the influence of Matisse. William S. Schwartz’s "Sunshine and Shadow” presents a complicated pattern and the involved line and mass of Anthony Angarola’s “Christ Driving the Money Changers From the Temple,” woulil be quite as coherent did it rejoice in any other name. This is perhaps the most important exhibition of paintings that

Who Is He?

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Here are some questions which will make you put on your thinking cap. The correct answers appear on page 16: 1— Who is the actor shown in the accompanying picture? 2 In what State la Atlantic City? 3 Who is manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball team? 4 Who plays the title role In the picture, "The Great Gatsby”? 5 What State does David Reed represent In the Senate? 6 Where Is radio station WJAZ. 7ls the Panama Canal privately owned? 8 — In what branch of sport has Bill Tilden won fame? B—Who8 —Who Is author of the play, “The Show Off”? 10—Is the United States a member of the League of Nations?

will be displayed during the year, and deserves a generous meed of appreciation. The Theodore C. Steele Memorial exhibition will remain on view in Galleries IX and X for a few days longer. Some of the paintings were removed from- Gallery XI to make room for the Amer-HKtn Artists exhibition. Indianapolis theaters today offer:

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of .'act or information by writing to The Indianapolis 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 questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What country had the first railroad? The tramways used to haul minerals in the mining districts of England in the early part of the nineteenth century, are generally considered the earliest railroads. Traction was supplied by horses or a stationary engine. The date 1801 is given for laying the first chartered line, a short one in the vicinity of London, between Wandsworth and Croydon, over which the cars were hauled by horses. In 1804 Trevithick constructed a steam locomotive which hauled small loads on a short railroad In Wales. The first really successful application of the steam locomotive was made on a mine railroad near Newcastle-on-Tyne with George Stephenson's famous locomotive, “Puffing Billy,’’ in 1814. The first rail line to carry passengers was the Stockton and Darlington Railway In England, opened in 1825. The first line to which the term railroad as now used can he applied properly was the Liverpool and Manchester, begun in 1826 v Who wrote “you read history not with your eyes but with your prejudices,” and what is the rest of it? It is from the last paragraph of Mendell Phillips' oration, “Toussaint which reads: “You think me a fanatic tonight, for you read history not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of History will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for England, LaFayette for French, but Washington as the bright consummate flower of our earlier civilization, and John Brown the ripe fruit of our noonday, then dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue above them all the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, Toussaint L’Overture.’ When did John Morrissey, the prize fighter, live? Born in Ireland In 1831 he emigrated to America when very young. He weighed 175 pounds -and was 5 feet 11% inches tall. He went to California about 1851 with the gold rush, fought a couple of minor battles there and was matched with George Thompson on Mare Island, near Benicia, Aug. 31. 1852. Thompson was holding his own easily, but it was alleged he fouled Morrissey in the eleventh round and lost the decision. Thompson claimed he was forced to hit a foul blow owing to threats of the mob. Morrissey beat Yankee Sullivan in thirty-seven rounds. Oct. 12, 1853, and won the championship of America. He defeated John C. ijeenan in eleven rounds on Oct. 20, 1857. He died at Saratoga, N. Y., May 1, 1878. What is a “nebula”? A cloud-like sidereal object that is irresolvable into stars. The great nebular ellipse in the girdle of Andromeda noted in the tenth century, and the "fish-mouth” formation In Orion observed in 1619, typify respectively the two leading varieties. Nebulae are mostly elliptical or

“The Vagabond King” at English’s, Dunninger at Keith’s, Rosemont’s Troubadours at the Palace, Roscoe Ails and Katie Pullman at the Lyric, “Valencia” at the Apollo, “One Increasing Purpose” at the Colonial, “Bardelys, the Magnificent” at the Circle, “There You Are" at the Ohio, new show at the Uptown, “A Regular Scout” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

spiral In structure, and they crowd toward the poles of the Milky Way. They are very numerous, estimates varying from 120,000 to 500,000. Photographic charting is constantly increasing their numbers. The distance of nebulae from the earth are probably enormous. /None has a measured parallax or an ascertained proper motion, although their radial velocities, determined by Keeler, are comparable to those of the stars. They often occur in pairs and groups, but give no signs of mutual revolution. A few are variable in light and many are attached to stars as brushes, trains or halos. Wli ere ran I get a list of foods that would go Into planning a diet where the proportions of proteins, minerals, starches, etc., would be just right? “Good Proportions in the Diet,** a bulletin issued by our Washington Bureau for 5 cents in postage stamps gives a full discussion of the subject. * l W hat are the age and other qualifications for becoming a ship captain? He must have served three years at sea or two years in a ship school. After that service, he must have been third officer for one year, second officer for one year, and first officer for one year. He is then eligible for examination at a ship master or captain. He must have a knowledge of navigation, the rules of roadsteads, storage of cargo, ship’s business, law’ of storms, and general knowledge of agepey for owner. He must be 19 years old before he can be a third officer. Does feeding pumpkins to dairy cows affect the supply of milk? Not materially. What Is the world’s record for the running broad jump? De Hart Hubbard of the University of Michigan holds the record, which Is 25 feet 10 and % Inches.^

VUIon. the Poet

John Mealey Thought you would like to see a picture of John Mealey as Francois Villon, the vagadond poet, In the first act of “The Vagabond King,” pow at English's.

JAN. 5, 1927

Work Following Bid Shows More Than One Quick Trick.

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today ls:„ A following bid docs not guarantee two quick tricks, but It does show more than one quick trick. A following bid is the first bid made after an original adverse bid (e. g., a bid by Second Hand after a bid by Dealer, or a bid by Third Hand after a pass by Dealer and a bid by Second Handk There are many cases In which it is obvious to Second Hand that he should double or should bid his owrj strong suit after a bid by Dealer; but there are many more cases in which Second Hand, holding far from a bust, has neither the strength to justify a double nor a suit strong enough for an original bid had the Dealer passed. In yesterday’s article the two following examples were given illustrating this situation: 1. Sp.: x-x. lit.: King-Jack-9-x-x. Di.: Queen-x-x. Cl.: x-x-x. 2. Sp.: x-x. Ht.: Ace-Queen-x-x-x. Dl.: Queen-x-x. Cl.: x-x-x. With No. 1, after a bid of one Spade by South, West should pass; with No. 2, he should bid two Hearts. West is justified In making a following bid with less hlgh-card strength than is required for an Initial bid. It may be his last opportunity to hid and he should not pass with a holding which a partner, not strong enough to bid himself, may supplement sufficiently to force the adversaries to an uncomfortably high declaration. With neither of the hands given above, should West have bid had South passed; but a following hid is different. It does not guarantee the two quick tricks expected of an initial suit-bidder, but it does announce one quick trick plus. The “plus” may be a King or a Queen-Jack, or any other trick possibility. Asa "quick trick” means Ace or King-Queen, it will be seen that No. 2 has one quick trick, plus additional strength; but No. 1 cannot be credited as having even one quick trick. A following hid, being made after an adverse hid, is exposed to one danger which does not threaten an original bid. The double of an original bid will almost surely be taken out by the partner of the doubler, because the double is informatory; but the double of a following bid, if made by the next adversary, will not be takenout, because the double would be the partner of the doubler having bid. It is not wise, therefore, to make a following bid unless the high-card strength Is up to the requirements above named. Suppose sitting North you held: Sp.: Ace-10-x-x-x. Ht.: King-Queen--10-x-x. DI.: x-x. Cl.: x. South having bid one No Trump and West having passed: what would you declare? Answer tomorrow. Work, the International authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game ‘for Times readers who write to him through The Times,, including a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope.

MR. FIXIT Motorman Passes Up Passenger, Complaint,

Mr. Fixit is The Times representative at tlie city hall. He will be glad to present your <?a*o to the proper city oicials. Write liim in care of The Times. Lack of street light at TwentyThird and Harding Sts. has caused a person living on Twenty-Third St. to miss the street cars a number of times, as the motormen cannot see the passengers who are waiting to catch the car. Here Is the letter: DEAR MR. FIXIT: We have written to the street car company, but have had no promise even or relief fiom a very annoying situation. There is no street light at the corner <of Twenty-Third and Harding Sts. and the motormen cannot see people waiting on that corner and sail on past. Four cars passed me last Thursday, then I ran in front of the machines headlights and was rewarded by a car stopping. We cer- 1 tainly thank you if you can help this situation. TWENTY-THIRD ST. RESIDENT. Mr. Fixit turned your letter over to the street railway company and they promised to do all they could to remedy this situation. The motormen have been Instructed to especially watch this corner. Mr. Fixit referred the case of a South Side Citizen who wants the part of Prospect St., west of the Big Four elevation improved to the street commissioner. He stated that it is almost impossible for the street to be Improved In Its present condition. He promised, however, to attend to the situation as soon as the street dries enough to allow it to be worked. A Flecher Ave. Citizen wrote Mr. Fixit asking that something be done to the dogs which are overrunning the locality of thfe 3800 block on Fletcher Ave. The letter stated tl at over fourteen dogs had been seen at one time. Not one of the dogs has a license tag, the letter states. Fear of rabies is another reason for wanting to get rid of the dogs. The police were notified by Mr. Fixit and they promised to send someone out to the neighborhood to investigate the matter. The dogs will be taken to the dog pound if a proper license Is not provided for each of them. How many persons In the United States have been killed In automobile accidents in the last twenty years? According to statistics from the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, the number of deaths due to automobiles in twenty years was approximately 165,000.