Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1927 — 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.

THE HIGHWAY FIASCO Dismissal of the indictments against members of ike highway commission and certain junW*dealers, after two years, must Impress the people with a sense of the utter futility and powerlessness of the criminal court machinery of this county. Two years ago these indictments were returned by grand jury. They are now dismissed without a trial or hearing, on the ground that there is no evidence to convict. For two years the members of the highway commission have charged that the indictments against them were framed by the influence of D. C. Stephenson, for the purpose of obtaining control of the commission which spends about ‘fifteen million dollars a year. For two years the charge has stood against these men and these dealers that they connived to„eal the property of the Government, selling materials at low prices, failing to account for certain small articles which were presumably but a part of much larger transactions of a similar character. The offer of Judge Collins to punish anyone who used political power to obtain these indictments is but a bit of humor when it is considered that for two years the charge that political influence was used has been bandied about the State. Certainly the public cannot be satisfied with so abrupt and simple a termination of a public matter. Was there any t v'dence two years ago that the uembers of the highway commission did conspire to sell Government property for the benefit of the .'tiends of that commission and that these members actually failed to account for a part of the several millions of dollars worth of materials received from the Federal Government? If there was evidence then, that evidence ought to be brought out before a jury who would pass upon its sufficiency and either convict or acquit. The members of the commission who were under indictment and who have charged that they were victims of a political conspiracy ought not to be satisfied with such a termination of the charges against i hem. Nor should the people of this State be content lo let charges of this nature pass with so simple a statement of the lack of evidence. If it be confessed that there was no evidence two years ago upon which to base indictments, that the grand jury was badly advised by its legal adviser who is now a judge by appointment, that it was controlled and dictated by prejudice or political hatreds, a much graver problem appears. If such is the situation, then there is a necessity for even more drastic action than merely trying these cases. If the grand juries of this county have been politically controlled and influenced, the people of the State have a right to know the facts and to apply the remedy. If there was need of an investigation by the F-.egislat.ure when the charges were a matter of controversy bewteen two hoards, there is greater need now that there has been public admission that the evidence necessary to convict is lacking. Two boards, the highway commission and the board of accounts, are involved. This matter is one of the many covered by the resolution of investigation which was blocked by a party caucus of Republican members of the Legislature last week. If it were merely expedient last week to ask lor an investigation, it now becomes imperative through the dismissal of these charges on Saturday that such an investigation be held. One of two tilings is certain: Either a guilty highway commission is escaping trial or a grand jury was politically' controlled to indict honest men. Whichever solution is accepted, there is need of a thorough inquiry, without politics and without prejudice. Otherwise the handling of these cases must stand, to the lasting shame of the State, as a monumental fiasco.

AN ABHORRENT PRINCIPLE Censorship as such has no place In this any other State. It is always the opening wedge into the liberties of free speech and a free press. There is much mere to be feared from the in■ction into State government of this principle of guarding the morals and thought of the people by aws and boards than there is from those who would orrupt for a profit. The people have had protection against inocency and pruriency in the standards adopted by the United States mails. There are laws under which those who debauch or who overstep the boundaries of decency may be prosecuted and placed in jail—where they should be. Whenever any censorship is adopted, it means that a little group enforce their standards and their judgment, changing and shifting with the outlook of those named as censors. We have had too much supervision and too much attempt to make people good by law. That attempt has always failed. Censors have only been wide advertisements and never effective. The soundness of the people must be realized upon in the final test to protect the morality of civilization. Whenever suppression through very human censors is attempted, it only results in'destroying the purpose for which it is adopted. If the present Legislature begins to censor on moral grounds, the next step is to censor on political grounds. It is dangerous in principle and vicious in practice. A PROPER PERSPECTIVE A young man who is studying painting and drawing gets many injunctions from his teachers as to the value of perspective. No work of art can be of any value if the artist does not have the proper perspective—if he does not see things in their proper proportions and relations. We should like to suggest that perspective is just as important to the average “man in the street" as it is to the artist. The world just now is full of pessimism. The war lias left many of us in a spiritual and mental

slough. Many people see the disordered welter of foreign and domestic political and national affairs and conclude that the great sacrifice of the war was In vain—that the world is even worse off now than it was before 1914. There is where the value of perspective lies. If you would escape from pessimism, learn to look at things in their proper proportion. Remember that you are too near to current events now to gauge them correctly. The true fruits of the sacrifice of the war are not yet apparent; but they are ripening, slowly and surely. Consider for a minute; during the decade after the Civil War, it must have seemed to a sensitive observer as if the results were hardly worth the terrible cost. The South was enduring agonies in the reconstruction period; the Government was honeycombed with graft and intrigue; politics was bitter, sordid and mercenary; the dawning reign of industrialism was bringing brutality and misery to the lives of thousands. Surely one might have been justified then in sinking into pessimism. But today, viewing those days with the proper perspective, we can see what people then could not see; that the sacrifices w r ere not in vain, that something much finer and better than the old order was born in the blood and fury of the Civil War. It is the same today. We may not be able to see "better times” ahead; but the eye of history, half a century hence, will see clearly how the world took one n\ore step toward beginning with 1914. Try to see the events of today in the right perspective. You will escape despondency and doubt HURRY THAT BUILDING Whatever else may happen as a result of the unfortunate handling of the building of the new Shortridge High School, there must, be no delay in getting that building. It is unfortunate that the change in the school board was followed by new plans, an fffort to change location which was blocked by public protest, the shift of plans which proved to be more costly to the citizens. The people probably w ill set down additional cost as the price they may pay for mistake of judgment at the polls. The people always pay for bitter political controversies in which the best interest of the public is forgotten in political strife and bitterness. They pay in money, but the boys and girls of this city ought not to pay in education. There is one big fact which should be kept in mind by the school board and by all interested citizens. The new Shortridge building is needed and delay in its construction is the most costly experiment which can be attempted. The school should be under construction at the present time if it is to be finished when needed. Every week and month of delay will prevent the youth of this city from the educational facilities which they need. The urge now is for all haste and for the elimination of every unnecessary delay. The school board, let it be hoped, will concentrate on the problem of getting the work started and started at once. If that can be done before all the minor contracts are let, including the one for ventilation, it should be done. The big job is to get the building and get it at the time it is needed.

A CITY MANAGER Those citizens who believe in the divorce of city government from partisan politics and the establishment of a business system city government must be alert if they desire to secure the benefits of such a change. The measure before the Legislature to prevent any change during the term of office of an elected mayor has been useful because it has brought a confession of viewpoint of the politicians toward a public office. Why, they ask, should a man go to the expense of making a campaign and not be entitled to serve out the time? Anulize that question and you have the whole view of the political machine toward public office. It is not the opportunity to serve the people who elect him, hut a private possession, something of value, which it would be wrong to take away from him. It is, from their view, as much his property as Ills home, his automobile or his clothes, bought and paid for with campaign funds, a property right that is his. M hen he yas his money to induce voters to elect him, he buys something, is their belief. That takes away ail (lie bunk of the usual claim •hat the candidate yields to the call of public duty, that he is called to the task by public sentiment, that he only serves In response to a public call. Ihe job is his, they claim—the job with its power to givo out jobs and contracts, to draw the salary, to enjoy the perquisites. It is just that viewpoint of public office which is biinging many to a belief that the city manager form of government is better, a city manager who can be removed when hp fails to serve, who can be discarded }f he uses his power for selfish ends or private purposes. To take away a job for which he has paid out good money in a campaign shocks these politicians. It is robbery, they assert. But what about the right of the people to have the government they wish? How about indoor sports? Whit color pantsguards should a parcheesi player wear? Who remembers way back when men used to wear wire collar-shapers under their coats? The marines have been busy lately with three wars—China, Nicaragua and the postoffice. / __ If a couple more countries get hard toward America, maybe we ll have to raise another regiment. Nervous Nellis Kellogg wants to find’out all about the Shanghai gesture.

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Tracy San Francisco, Where Future Calls Louder Than Past.

By M. E. Tracy SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 7. Here is a town through which the ftuture calls more strongly than the past, not the narrow, selfish future of municipal growth, but the future of a nation. I'ut geography out of your mind, and then ask what lies beyond the Golden Gate. Navigators have circled the globe and charted the seven seas, but who has fathomed what the clash of races and civilization will yet bring forth? White Man’s Issue For four centuries the Atlantic has been churned by the hottest passions of mankind. Beneath its restless bosom lie the bleached bones of millions who died for they know not what. Is the story to be repeated on the Pacific, or have we learned better? San Francisco looms as a question mark in the white man's western sky. "Whether for good or evil, she represents his most advanced stronghold. If it is to be peace, she will become a metropolis. If war, a center of the maelstrom of death. Realizes Destiny San Frarn isco senses -her destiny. She plans along Gargantuan lines. Her dreams are not of another 100,000 by the next census, or of a building record that will eclipse that of last year. Here are projects for power development and better transportation that make those other cities seem small and temporary. Uncle Sam hesitates to tackle Boulder Dam, but San Francisco is actually completing the HetchHetchy project. New' York sighs with pride whenever a mile long bridge is thrown over East river or the Hudson, but San Francisco is considering a bridge across six miles of water that is 200 feet deep. Public Aroused This bridge has became an all-ab-sorbing topic of public discussion. No less than nineteen propositions have been made for Its financing and construction by private interests. The people of San Francisco, however, are not sold on the idea of paying tolls for the next generation. The fact that private interests appear ready to undertake the job eonvines them it is practical. If practical, why shouldn’t it bfc done through public credit? Profitable Ferries San Francisco, though on the mainland, is comparatively isolated by "the bay” and the Golden Gate. The bay is sixty-five miles long and parallels the Pacific. It is connect! and with the ocean by a channel some mile and a half wide. San Francisco occupies the end of the peninsula which forms the southern side of this channel. To get out of the city people must either cross the bay, go around it on the south or cross Golden Gate. Ferry companies, mostly owned and controlled by railroads, are making a great deal of money through this convenience. $30,000,000 Bridge The project for building a bridge across Golden Gate has virtually been worked out. The bridge will have to be very high—probably more than 300 feet—not only to permit the passage of ships, but to take advantage of the cliffs which are on both sides. It represents a stupendous engineering feat which will cost $30,000,000 or more. A bridge district is being formed, including San Francisco and neighboring counties, and the proposition for issuing the needed bonds will soon be submitted.

Over Deep Water To bridge San Francisco Bay, connecting the city with Oakland, is a | much bigger and more difficult project. Five or six miles of water will 1 lia\c to be spanned at the minimum | and in some places it is more than 200 feet deep, not counting mud. All kinds of plans have been pre- i sented, and several private enter- | prises profess willingness to undertake the project providing they can have their way about tolls. Public Enterprise ’’What irks the people most, is the fact that California law permits up to 30 per cent for promotion expenses, which means that if the bridge were built under private auspices 30 per cent could lie added to Its actual cost and tolls regulated so as to cover the same. The actual cost is estimated to run anywhere from $50,000,000 to three times that amount. Outside of certain groups of capitalists who see an opportunity to make a killing through a promotion allowance of 30 per cent and compel future generations to pay it all back with more or less on the side. San Francisco people are in favor of constructing this bridge as a public enterprise. An outsider can see no reason why they shouldn't. It is a good investment for bankers, construction companies, or railroads, why isn't it just as good for the people? Certainly, the people can borrow the money at a lower rate of interest and save that 30 per cent for promotion expenses. How did New Jersey get its name? I .and in New Jersey was originally a grant to Sir George Carteret, who named it for his home on the Isle of Jersey, off the coast of England. What is the average length of life in the United States? For white males, 55.23 years: for white females. 57.41 years; for Negro males. 37.92 years, and for Negro females. IQ.2S.

The Mountain Comes to Mahomet

‘Music Master’ as a Movie Gets Into the Heart Just as It Did on the Stage

By Walter D. Hickman When a play lias ki.-.. 3 ed the imagination, the heart and even the soul of those who go io the theater as did “The Music Master” upon the stage, then it must be a marvelous director who makes as good a movie out of it. It seems to me that Allan Dawn when he started to put “The Music

master” on the screen felt the love that thousands and other thousands hold for the stage play when David Warfield made it a classic of the heart. It takes a big and an honest director to feel the inheritance of a big thing of the theater. And Dawn recognized that he could not tamper with a big heart play. Too many know how to react to the

Alec B. Francis

simple tragedy of Anton Von Barwig who devoted more than sixteen years in America, searching for an unfaithful wife and a beautiful daughter. He knew that “The Music Master” was a treasured thing of the stage and to harm it in one wonderful situation would spell ruin not only for the cast but the director. And Fox was right when he trusted Dwan with this treasure or the sjtage. And the casting director was more than right when he gave Alec ' B. Francis the part of the music ] master. As nobody has cheated on tlie heritage of this fine and effective piece of the theater, "The Music Master” as a movie is still the marvelous and Sympathetic cameo of the heart as it was upon the stage. First, for Francis as the master. He Invites love himself. He is never hard and cold. He couldn't be and the music master when he had revenge in his hand could only give lover Francis does not stretch the poverty idea of the master as much as 'Warfield, but one gets the idea when the collector conics around and takes away the piano, we know that he is broke, but he speaks the dream that he lias wanted them to take away the “old tin pan” for three jveeks. And in the scenes of suffering, the keeping of the siirine of Ills unfaithful wife, Francis is able to register that suffering not as a disease of an old man and as a has-been but as a great and beautiful personality who once bad the privelege to love completely. And that is the keynote of the character of the music master. The love element is beautifully done by Lois Moran. She is beautifully effective. Even in her long dress in the days when it was indecent for a woman even to expose her dainty toe, let alone the heel. Miss Moran sweeps the long train to success. She is charming and always in character. The entire cast is so good that I give it to you in full as follows: Anton Von 8arwig....... Alec B. Francis Hejene Stanton Lois Moran Beverly Crufror Neil Hamilton Andrew Cruger Norman Trevor Richard Stanton Charles Lane joles William T. Ti.den Jenny Helen Chamlh r Miss Hnsted Marcia Harris Mrs. Andrew Crugcr.... Kathleen Kernsran August Poous Howard Cull Pinac Arinand Cortes Fisco Leo Feodoroff Mrs. Magenbom Carrie Scott Pawnbroker! Dore Davidson Medicine Show Barker.. i . . .Walter Catlett “The Music Master” is a thing of the heart. It is beautiful. A sentimental treat. Ford and Glenn, those two very successful gentlemen of the air who have taken the place of the Mother Goose book for children, are the chief contributing melody factors this week- They open with their kiddie bedtime fairyland stuff and they are an appropriate attraction with the feature film. These men deliver clean and individual entertainment. Their “Lazy Mary” is a comedy gem and they get into the heart with “My Kid” And they know how, when and why to deliver their comedy. We have arrived at that day when radio entertainers are not to be dismissed with a sneer. The individual radio entertainer Ims come to stay. Thai applies to Ford and Glenn.

First, they are chiefly entertainers, and being so they can entertain any place. You recall that Mary Pickford grew up with the movies. There is now anew- industry, that of air entertainment, and several artists are growing up with that new public. That is true with Ford and Glenn. At the Circle all week. THEY WANTED FARCE AND SO THEY ENGAGED HERSHOLT The screen is sadly in need of competent actors of farce and even the stage is not too well stocked. It is nearly necessary to develop? an actor along these lines. Several legitimate actors have made good in this w-ork on the screen, but Universal has decided, it seems to raise at least one example of farce. And Jean Hersholt is the choice and his first, important veiicle along that line is “The Wrong Mr. Wright.” It is one of those mistaken identity affairs in which the elderly hero starts out to be a plain boob and then turns out to be a very fancy person. The story gives Hersholt a chance to impersonate about everything w-ith the exception of the Prince of Wales falling off of a horse but Hersholt gets many a fall but it is not from a horse. It is from a detective, who has an awful punch in his arm and a lot of wrong imagination. “The Wrong Mr. Wright,” is just theater and at times it is more than entertaining theater, as it sparkles in places, especially when Tlersliolt impersonates an old man. This “old man” is assaulted by a detective and a prize fighter takes the "old man's” part, but the “old man” permits his age to vanish and he gets a sock on the jaw. And it is nearly more than a sock, because it is an entire campaign. “The Wrong Mr. Wright,” is an individual vehicle for Hersholt as an actor in farce. It was a good choice. The subtitles are at times a little too wise, but the work of Hersholt proves that even a smart subtitle writer may even be misunderstood by the actor and the guy who wrote ! the story. This movie is funny theater. It ; accomplishes its purpose to entertain , well, and Hersholt does that in “The Wrong Mr. Wright.” The title writer should he shot at sunrise for not getting into the real spirit of the fun. Hersholt has the services of Enid Bennett. Walter Hiers (the man somebody wanted to make a star some years ago), Dorothy De Vore, Edgar Kennedy and others. The stage offering this week is “The Song Box Revue.” The melody and the dancing is miles above the common comedy presented. The comedy follows burlesque and revue lines. I do not mean offensive burlesque, but ancient alleged comedy stuff. A young chap, the juvenile, has a way about him which hits with the audience- He knows how to use his feet and he knows how to dress and how to wear the things after th£y are on. * This revue has the services of a number of women who know how to put over a song, although handicapped by poor lights and effects. The women principals and the girls in the, chorus are the ones who will put this revue over with the help of that juvenile chap. At the Colonial all week.

Movie Verdict OHIO —Marion Davies and Owen Moore have a lot of trouble in making “The Red Mill” good comedy and rely mostly on the sub-titles. CIRCLE—“The Music Master” is as sweet and beautiful on the screen as one could expect a good piece of theater to be. APOLLO The cast announces Richard Dix in “Paradise for Two.” That explains everything. COLONIAL—When you see “The Wrong Mr. Wright” consider it as farce and nothing but that.

AND MR. DIX HATES WOMEN THIS TIME UNTIL Richard Dix is as popular a star upon the screen as there is today among the rnen. The men respect him and the women love him. In his new comedy, “Paradise for Two,” Richard tries to be a woman hater, but the

drab women in his audience knows that he is just acting and the men know that he is acting mighty good. The men are v, ise that Dix hatIng women is only applesauce and Hie women in the audience wait until the time he ■rushes to sweetie that has been oving him for a long time. As you suspect, it takes a rich man to hate

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women, and Dix is such a guy in “Paradise for Two.” He starts out playing poker with married men at a club and lie resents it when one of the dear wives calls up to command husband to complete the important business engagement and come home at once. And the dear husbands at the card table do just that. Os course, I the hero of* the story is disgusted with such proceedings and when a wife prevents even a porter from playing a friendly game of cards our hero is sure that it is all wrong, especially women. But. our hero forgets that many an interesting girl wants to go on the stage, and such a girl lives near our hero. So she rents herself out to our hero as his wife to deceive his uncle to the point that “unke” will give our hero a pot of money or something along that line. We have the same 1 situation of many years stahding that one expects in such an affair. Os coursie the poor girl gets fed up on her part and the hero starts to love her. The ending of course is that the hero stops playing poker and marries the girl. The ending, that is the way the directors puts it over, is clever, but the director is not always so clever in this case. Richard Dix of course is the well mannered chap. He hasn't so much to do. but he has that nice way about him which proves that he can be interesting in any kind of a movie. Betty Bronson is the sweet girl, who turns Richard from a woman hater into a first class sheik. And it is interesting to notice the methods used by her. As I heard some fair one say yesterday. “Nothing matters as long as Richard Dix is in the picture.” I surrender. It is true, it seems. The bill includes Our Gang in “Bring Home the Turkey,” a news reel. Passise Friume, harmonica expert: Emil Seidel and his orchestra and other events. At the Apollo all week. THE OBSERV ER HAS HIS OWN IDEAS Stories for movie stars must be exceedingly hard to find these days.

judging from some of the pictures we have seen lately. “The Red Mill” is no exception to this. With Marion Davies anrj Owen Moore in a picture one would think it would be a knockout as a comedy feature, but, in our opinfejn, “The Red Mill” is just a lot of wise-cracks hurriedly bunched together and used as subtitles for a rather mediocre picture.

Owen Moore

Snitz Edwards, | that droll-looking little fellow of inj determinate is present and pro--1 vides most of the legitimate comedy. (Turn to Page 8)

FEB. 7, 1927

Work i Sound Initial Bid Wil Show Two Quick Tricks,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: A sound initial bid may be <1 ponded upon to show two quit tricks. •*, All first bids, whether made ..l Dealer, Second Hand, Third Hat pr Fourth Hand, arc original bid but original bids made by Dealer < Second Hand (i. e,, by a player who: partner has not previously passe arc also called initial bids, to disti guish them from original bids mai by o Third or Fourth Hand who partner has passed. It is obvio that greater strength may be e pected from a partner who has n been heard from, than from or who. by passing, lias announced til he has not the strength required f an initial bid. Therefore origin! bids by Third and Fourth Hand < quire greater strength than Init* bids by Dealer or Second Hand. I There is a clear distinction ; tween original Mo Trump bids a original suit-bids; but they have o feature In common, viz. that make the bid the hand is oxpecwPl to contain two quick tricks. A quick trick is a King-Queen e.', a. King and a Queen of the sail suit) or an Ace. An Ace-King (i. I an Ace and a King of the same sij is two quick tricks. An Acc of o| suit and a King-Queen of anotll would be two quick tricks; but | Ace in one suit, a King in a secoij and a Queen in the third, would r| be two quick tricks because thej would be no certainty that either tl King or the Queen, unsupported 1 other high cards, would take a triejThere is an even chance that tj King would do so, and much le than an even chance that the Que< would; but those two chances coi bined cannot be considered tl equivalent of a quick trick. The bidding of five-card suits w be the subject for tomorrow, and prepare for it look ovpi - the folloi ing hands and make up your mil which, if any of them, you woul\ bid initially: / 1. Sp.: x-x-x. Ht. ; x-x. D1 : x-x-J Cl.: Ace-KJng-x-x-x. 2. Sp.: x-x-x. Tit.: x-x. I'M Acj Qtieen-10-x-x. Cl.; x-x x. 3. Sp. x-x x. lit.; Ace-Queen Jai'l x-x. Hi.: X-X. Cl. xxx. (Copyright, .lolin F. DiUe Company

MR. FIX IT Complaints of Po<4i Streets Numerous,

Mr. Flxit t The Times' repre,en' live at the city ball Ho will be glad t present your oa*e to the proper cit; officials. Write him in care of Th Times signing full name and addreti Name will not be published if desired Mr. Fixit receives complaints every kind from every part of 1! city. In the last month the coi plaints of poor streets out-number all other complaints two to one. iS Fixit had a talk with Chester Oberleas. city engineer, and Geor Woodward, street commission' about the condition of the streets. Woodward told Mr. Fixit that roq of the alleys and streets would l at least cindered if money and equ| rnent for the work were availab Lack of these two things is what holding up the work he said. Ob<j leas stated that he bad begun ) an extensive paved street repair pt gram last week. The downtown s< tion will be repaired first, he sal Other street' will come up for t pair as soon as possible. Lack equipment is holding up this wo: also he told Mr. Fixit. One of the letters Mr. Fixit l ceived today asking for street repa work is: Dear Mr. Fjxit: Can’t there | something done for residents on Talbot St.? Holes and puddles the vicinity of 1737 S. Talbot 8 are almost impassable. A pipe lit laved Inst year, was never proper filled in and close to the curb aut mobiles nearly upset. A petit* was circulated some time ago 1* nothing was ever heard of it. Than for anything you can do for us. A CITIZEN. This matter was turned over t the city engineer who promised t look into the matter at once. H also stated that he would find oil what had become of the petition i it had been presented to the boarj of works. Dear Mr. Fixit: I wrote you in I gat'd to the mud on (limber St., tt months ago and so far no resul We can’t get coal or anything Ilyered. 1 have paid SBB3 asset ment on two lots and all I can sj for the money is sidewalks and abc ten feet of slimy mud on the stre Please get ns some cinders or ai thing to make the street passable. J. B Woodward told Mr. Fixit that 1 would send a man to-look at tl street at once. He said that would be attended to as soon as was possible. What is Lloyd Hughes* addreje First National Studios, Burbai Cal. What is the population of t British Empire? j it is estimated at 450,094,000. What is (lie relative purchasij value of a dollar between 1913 ai 1925? Taking the avwage of the ya 1913 as a base, computed in DeceL her of each year, for all com:® dities, as compiled front figures™ the United .States Bureau of Lab Statistics, the value of a dollar l| each year has been as follows: L ceraber, 1913, $1.01; 1914, $1.03; 191 93 cents; 1916. 67 cents; 1917, i cents; 1918. 50 cents; 1919. 45 cent 1920, 5G cents; 1921, 81 cents; 192 64 cents; 1923. 66 cents; 1924, I cents, and 1925. 64 cents. /S- . Jj < ‘ ' -Ll'