Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1927 — Page 4

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A LEGITIMATE APPEAL Once more the State Legislature has established, itself as a super government over what should be a matter of local decision. * When the delegation from Lake County asked for a measure which would permit the payment of judges, in their county, salaries of SIO,OOO a year, they asked no money from any other portion of the State. It was not a salary grab, in the meaning of the word. There was no effort to reach into the State treasury for more money for its officials or its political organization. * The measure simply provided that local county commissioners might, at their discretion, pay that salary to a judge. Yet this measure was killed by legislators from other sections in the Stati whose people were not affected and whose constituents would not be called upon to- pay one penny of any increase that might be made. The argument that it is unwise for any county to pay more for its judges than is paid to the Appellate judges of higher jurisdiction is not reasonable or germane. Presumably the citizens of Lake County understand their needs and the conditions and know what they want. * If their legislators or county commissicners are trying to burden them unjustly, they have the remedy at the next election to remove them and name officials who will properly interpret their desires. Sound reasons were presented for this request. The legislators from Lake County said the lawyers of the sort needed for judges could not afford to accept present salaries and that as a result the judiciary and whole system of justice suffers. They stated that the lawyers who should serve as judges are making so much more than the present salaries that it was.unjust to call upon them to make personal sacrifices and that nu matter how loud the call was, they would not respond. If the citizens of any county are willing to spend their own money to get the sort of judges they desire, certainly the rest of the State should have no objection. The principle upon which this measure was defeated in the Senate is 4 the one which is disgusting :he people and causing a distrust of all government. The people want the control of their own government in their own hands, and as near to them as possible. They are tired of guardians in Indianapolis and wet nurses in Washington. Any measure that will permit the people to do as they please with their own government should be encouraged, not blocked.

NOT TOO LATE There is still time for any State official to demand exoneration .and vindication, if he feels aggrieved because a party caucus of Republican members of th® Legislature frowned upon any investigation. Citizens generally are somewhat perplexed by the apparent willingness of these officials whose names have been linked with stories of scandal and corruption to let the matter rest. The people might have expected that these officials who have been the subject of attack and charges would wish to have a full and open inquiry into their actions so that there could be no mistake. But the reverse seems to be true. Not one of these officiate has petitioned the Legislature to reverse its decision and give him a chance to reestablish himself in public confidence. The charges made by D. C. who was giving orders to the Legislature two years ago, do not arouse any wrath on the part of officials. Many of these officials held such close and confidential relations with the life termer at Michigan City when he was “the law in Indiana” that the people have been inclined to believe that he spoke the truth when he declared he could prove corruption on a broad scale. The people know that the attorneys in the Marion County grand jury probe were paid from the Governor's contingent fund and that the report of that grand jury invited suspicion of its own fairness by, declaring that unusual conditions prevailed within that body. The people have every reason to suspect the fairness or the completeness of that grand jury report Yihen its own membership insisted on Inviting suspicion and doubt. The members of the public service commission might have been expected ot rush to the Legislature for vindication when they knew of the charge made by the then corporation counsel of Indianapolis that that body was controlled by the giving of a huge campaign fund in 1924. They do not, apparently, resent the imputation that they are utility agents placed on a commission designed to protect the public and that they owe their positions to the utilities upon which they pass judgment. It might have been expected that either they, or the Governor who names them, would have indignantly‘resented this open charge and demanded that the Legislature investigate. , But so far none of these officials have made any appeal for an investigation. A caucus of Republican members made silence and sjnfpression a party policy. The lid was put on anM weighted by a solid vote. There is still time to reverse that decision. Surely the party of Lincoln is not afraid to face facts. NO NEWS? NOT GOOD NEWS The Chinese have crowded Mexico off the front page for the moment. That might lead to the impression that the latest Mexican crisis is past. Which is not the fact. Nothing except a lapse of time has happened since Jan. 1 to ease the strain between the United States and Mexico. True, the Senate passed a resolution urging arbitration of the dispute over damages arising from the Mexican oil laws, but so far the resolution has amounted to nothing. The State Department has made no move to indicate that it takes the resolution seriously. While nothing has happened to ease the Mexican situation a number of things may happen soon to make it more difficult. -For one thing Congress will presumably adjourn in*three weeks. That will effe lively subdue a broadcasting station which

affords a partial check ou State Department activities. It is being frankly suggested that the State Department only awaits the adjournment of Congress to exercise what it calls a “firm hand ’ in Mexico. That may not be true, but the failure to make any move toward settlement of the oil law dispute lends plausibility to the suggestion. This delay, in the face of a Senate resolution urging arbitration has another serious consequence. There is at present an embargo on the shipment of arms from the United States to Mexico. It was instituted by our Government as a friendly act to the Mexican government in order to make revolutionary uprising more definite. There is no similar embargo on the shipment of arms from Europe. The only check on European shipments is the diplomatic assumption that the United States is friendly to its southern neighbor and wants to aid in the maintenance of a stable government. It's purely a moral restraint resulting from the United States arms embargo po'icy. Every day of delay in making a friendly adjustment of the dispute between the United States and Mexico weakens the restraint on shipment of arms from Europe. There are people in Mexico who want arms and who can pay for them. There are European arms manufacturers who want the money. How long can the moral restraint against their acceptance of profitable contracts be maintained. Just about as long as it appears that the United States really wants to assist the Mexican government in the maintenance of order. Delay in settling the oil dispute denies that wish. Arms shipments to Mexico means revolution, and grave United States entanglements. In the light of this situation no news isn't good news. '

NOT ENOUGH More money for the State universities is necessary unless Indiana wishes to be classed as second rate or even lower in the educational standard. The proposal to raise the tax rate for the next ten years to provide a building- program that will place the universities on a better comparison with other States is fine, but it does not solve the whole problem. The great difficulty of the universities at present is that they lack funds to keep professors and teachers who show unusual ability. They have been, starved not only in the matter of new buildings, but in the teaching force, which is vastly more important. Merely erecting attractive and comfortable buildings for the use of an increasing number of students will not raise the educational standards to the point where students will not prefer the universities of other States. There being no chance of private profit in paying a professor or teacher a decent salary or in providing enough professors, the factor of maintenance receives less consideration. These schools should be furnished enough money to maintain a teaching force that will compare with those of universities of other States. Wise students who will later become the really useful citizens, would ptobably choose a school with a great teaching Staff and shabby buildings to one with ornate buildings and second class professors. • New buildings are fine. They are not enough. L Great decrease in crime in anticipated in Ohio. The penitentiary is so crowded that no more prisoners may be admitted. It won’t be long now until our stage and screen Apollos will be acknowledging from every billboard that they “love to see a woman smoke a cigaret.” Too many love affairs are taken to court instead of to heart. HOW TO TREAT A CUSTOMER By N. D. Cochran It Isn't difficult to understand the changed attitude of manufacturing nations toward China. They are not dealing with the same' China they so freely exploited and bull-dozed a generation ago. They are dealing with a slumbering giant who has been getting his eyes open and looking around him. The wider awake he gets the bigger he will loom as a customer for American, European and Japanese goods. Business men who want to cultivate the custom of this growing buyer see the growing necessity of treating him with respect. Japan got rough with him only a few years ago and ran up against a boycott that cost Japanese business men a lot of money. Now Japan is more tender about John Chinaman’s sensitive feelings. So are the United States, Great Britain and other European countries that have goods to ■ell. In modern business hitting the customer over the head with a baseball bat isn’t considered smart salesmanship. Treating him like a gentleman, or at least a good fellow, gets better results. Anyhow, in China, political diplomacy is coming around to sound business methods. That’s all right. There is no reason why legitimate business and legitimate government shouldn’t work hand-in-hand. There is nothing wrong about our Goverment, for cxaniple, doing whatever it can to promote the growth of legitimate American business in foreign countries. The more good will it builds up in its conduct toward other countries, the easier it will be for legitimate American business men to promote American trade. In other words, good government is good business. But don’t overlook that word legitimate in connection with business. When a political government attempts to* use its power and influence to promote Illegitimate business, then is when it begins to get In trouble. t Blundering diplomacy in our relations with our neighbors in Central America is bad government and hence bad business. A bulldozing attitude toward a proud and sensitive people in Central and South America, simply means destroying friendship and piling up resentment and bad will. Carried too far it may mean a boycott of American goods. It may destroy the good will built up by legitimate business methods of legitimate American business interests. American marines can't sell American goods down there at the point of the bayonet. An army of traveling salesmen with no more deadly weapon than an order book would do more good in establishing friendly relations than our entire Army and Navy put together. Being better business, it would be better diplomacy. What do we want to do wjth Central Americans? We don’t want to eat them. We can’t make slaves of them, and wouldn’t if wo could. We can’t get any good out of them by making them hate us and our flag. They can be of no earthly use to us as enemies. But they are one whale of an asset if they will like us as friends and neighbors. There is no sane - reason why our policy toward all nations should not be kindly, courteous, friendly and generous. -

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Tracy ‘Back to Nature’ When Cities Justify Right to Exist.

ii* M. E. Tracy DENVER Colo.. Feb. 11.— Cities look to nature, not only for a living, but for their pleasure, their right to exist. AVhen they are through explaining what'man has done by way l of skyscrapers, paved streets and ; parks, they Justify it all by calling j attention, to the fertility of the adja--1 cent land, the magnificence of nearby 1 sceneby or the economic advantages , of their location. i In .San Francisco .you are told j about tlie Golden Gate, the bay and I these seventeen hills. In Cleveland, ! you are taken for a drive along the ! lake rront, and in Birmingham you I are shown the iron-breasted hills. Even New Yorkers admit that the Singer building has'nothing on the I Palisades and that the harbor is the !■ secret of the town. Denver is proud of her mountains, not only for tlie beauty they represent, but for the challenge they offer. And why shouldn't she be? Hero is grander** to intrigue the artist, treasure to lure flic prospeci tor and solidity to touch tlie deeper I chords of hjuman character. Invites and Bars The city itself is a prairie with just enough roll to it to break the monotony. Some fifteen or twenty miles away, the backbone of North America bulks against tho western sky, its crinkled cliffs and rumpled peaks an everchanging mass of color. One cannot gaze upon it without realizing that there is something bigger beyond. It is at once an invitation and a barrier to progress. Men have penetrated those mountains a hundred miles and more, on foot, on horseback, and in other ways. 'They have built roads up the winding valleys and over dizzy heights. They have brought rut tons of silver, lead and gold. What :is more important, they have j brought reports of great coal fields ! and much good farming land on the western slope. Attempts have been made to tape this great reservoir of wealth in various ways. Wealth From Tunnel Railways and highways have been carried far, towns have been established and millions of tons of coal have been mined, but only to prove that the “great divide” called for some more heroic method. That is why Denver and neighboring counties conceived the Moffatt tunnel, why everybody is rejoicing now that it has been holed through. Our own paper, the Rocky Mountain News, broke the glad tiding with a salvo of bombs on Saturday morning. The Moffatt tunnel puts Denver on a direct transcontinental line, cuts down the distance to Salt Lake City by 173 miles opens up the greatest coal deposit In this country and makes practical the development of 80,000 acres of good farming land. The side bore can be converted into an aqueduct which would guarnatee Denver an adequate water supply for all time. According to the best scientific authority, Colorado contains enough coal to run the United States at the present rate of consumption for 700 years. This vast source of energy is now made easily accessible to Denver, which means cheaper power and industrial growth. The average American doesn’t realize what technical education is accomplishing until he visits the West, where nature in her ugliest form is being harnessed by the engineer. They tackle whole river systems out here with the same nonchalance we install a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine. The Moffat tunnel is the longest in North America. It is sixteen feet wide,' twenty-four feet high and plows straight through the heart of a mountain for six miles. It wants progress and improvement, wants the Boulder Dam, the Me-Nary-Haugen bill, wants tion and development where possible.

Stagnation Worst It. realizes that mistakes may be made in launching projects, or in the method of carrying them out, but believes that nq mistake of this character is as disastrous as that of stagnation and do-nothingness. When you see what the West has accomplished by sheer wit and willpower, you get anew hold on faith in man’s ability to prove his lot. There is a democracy about it all, too, that makes achievement seem cheerful. You find discipline without snobbishness and efficiency without a system of rules and regulations. I have traveled five thousand miles in the West during the last month, and not a train has been five minutes late, even at way stations, yet the conductors have time to answer questions in a pleasant way. Auto drivers make fast time, yet they are seldom in too much of a hurry to be courteous, especially to women. Men do an honest day’s work without being watched or driven. The record made on the Moffatt tunnel, which eclipses everything of the kind, is a tribute to the western way. , k How are diamonds cut? With an iron wheel, which is made to rotate very rapidly and is armed with a mixture of diamond dust and emery. Where is the land of tlie midnight sun and how long does it shine there? Tlie expression “land of the midnight sun” refers to those high latitudes within the po’ar circle where in midsummer the sun does not sink below the horizon during the 24 hours. What do the names Ann and Elizabeth mean? Anrlmeans “gracious” and Elizabeth ‘Jonsecrated to God.”

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Mae Murray Gives Conway Tearle High Blonde Temperature in ‘Altars’

By Walter 1). Hickman Have often heard of a girl giving a fellow high blood pressure around the heart, but this is the first time that I ever heard of a fellow being afflicted with high blonde temperature. Mae Murray gives Conway Tearle a strong dose of "high blonde tern-

perature” in “Altars of Desire.” Mae starts out in this movie as a sweet little and innocent looking Southern girl, but her papa wants his daughter to be modern and wise. So he sends her to Paris for a year. And what Paris didn't do to that sweet little daughter of the South. Paris actually made a wild mess out of this innocent Southern

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peach. And you know and I know that Miss Murray can look mighty wild -when she .wants to on the screen. She rather specializes in this type of dame And so our heroine arrives from Paris with a no-account Count and of course she elopes with him. And at the hotel she finds that he is still married to his first wife. And so Mae crowns him on the head and he passes away to dreamland. But Mae thinks she has murdered the no-ac-count and from then on the story gets very melodramatic, but lias one of those please everybody endings. And where does Conway Tearle cc-me in with his high blonde temperature? Well, he is the guy who stays at home and silently loves our herpine. And in the end of the picture he wins her. The picture has some rather clever color photography scenes. Os course Miss Murray has a Tew hot love scenes and that is to be expected in her picture. But the big noise at the Ohio this week is not the Mae Murray picture, but Charlie Davis and his gang. Davis has his men dolled up like Northwestern mounted police. Davis has worked out a good beginning for this week’s musical offering and he finds that “The Indian Love Call,”,is still a great favorite with tlie audience. Then he brings on a young fellow, who does soihe clever hoofing which stops the show. Davis is receiving his greatest ovations this week and he deserves it, but he should be careful with the alleged comedy that he allows others to use. The “dead cat” story lias no place in such a corking fine offering as Davis is giving the Ohio patrons this week. Bill includes a comedy, a News reel, and other events. At the Ohio all week. BILLIE DOVE DOES GOOD WORK AT COLONIAL Morals' are seemingly out of fashion these days, but a good explanation of this apparent neglect of the young idea is to be found in “The Sensation Seekers,” with Billie Dove, Huntly Gordon and Raymond Bloomer, at the Colonial this week. Much has been said about the youilger people of today and their entire lack of respect and finer qualities. Not having lived long enough,

Beauty Was Keynote of Rachmaninoff’s Concert

By Walter D. Hickman The greatest possible beauty in music seemed to be what Sergei Rachmaninoff was searching for yesterday afternoon at the Murat. His mission was to find that musical beauty both in its quiet and tantalizing moods as well in its vigorous phases. Beauty of melody—That’s my cherished recollection of this pianist’s concert yesterday afternoon. And in actually finding such great beauty, his technique reflected that spirit of artistry which brought even new beauty to old and new compositions. It was not a noisy and fireworks piano that Rachmaninoff gave his largest Indianapolis audience, but It was quiet and beautifully melodious music that he gave us.

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we have no firm ideas on this subject at all, but in this picture ther# is a line tirat sums It very well indeed. One of the characters, that of the minister, states his belief that all the wildness and liberty affected by the fast young ones is but a sham. They are fighting the age-old strength of puritanism with the only weapon they know how to use, that of frankness and disbelief in anything that cannot be proven to them. Don’t get the idea that this is a moral play. It isn't. No one preaches. But there are several new angles presented on the problems of today. Billie Dove is cast as the swift young daughter of a small town family who have a lot of money, but that is about all. The father is in the habit of picking his friends, male and female, wherever he may find them, and the daughter is starting to follow his footsteps. The mother,

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This man has been prominent in world affairs and continues to be one of the most important leaders in his own country. His name and the answers to the questions, many concerned with governments ot the world, appear on Page 16: 1 — Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 Has the United States an ambassador in Russia? 3 Who is president of tlie Grand National Assembly of Turkey? 4 in which of the United States Departments is tho Weather Bureau? B—Docs the English Parliament have a set date for elections of members? 6—What State does U. S. Senator James Couzens represent? , 7—What form of government is Switzerland? 8 — Is Nicholas Longworth a Democrat or Republican? 9 Did Mexico recognize Sacasa or Diaz in Nicaragua? 10 — What capital of India?

Os course one felt the stirring beat of Liszt's “Rahoczy March” •Sand the definite touch In Chopin’s “Rondo, Opus 16.” But it was the quiet beauty of Schubert-Liszt Fantaisle “Wanderer,” of Brahms “Intermezzo, Opus 118,” and his "Ballade” and the tantalizing beauty of Medtner’s two “Fairy Tales,” and his own delightful "Prelude” which made this Rachmaninoff program my greatest and most satisfying experiment In finding musical beauty. It was this definite message and spirit of beauty which the artists gave to everyone in the theater that caused him to be tendered the biggest ovation in the history of his experience in this city. It was this understanding of his

as is to be expected, has brooded so long over the actions of her small family that ifo to her is a long period of lonesomeness. Into this atmosphere comes a young preacher. Good looking and possessing a strong personality, he soon wins the girl's admirutlon and is the cause of her Anally changing her mode of Jife. Much is shown of what is said to lie smart set life in a small town. Aside from the prep school atmosphere of the parties shown they ore all right as being there to bring out a point in the story. Billie Dove and Raymond Bloomer do soma mighty fine work in this picture and it is to them all the credit goes. Blodtner is cast as the preacher. On the stage this week the Colonial is offering a musical comedy. “The Sheik.” Fred Hurley's company in this presentation is giving plenty of comedy, specialty numbers and all the things that go with a musical show. Included on the bill Is a news reel, Aesop Fable and Floyd Thompson and his orchestra. At the Colonial all week. (By the Observer.) THEY SI RE TREAT OUR “HONEY” ROI'OH IN THIS ONE Old as the hills is the story of the small town girl who goes to New York. But somebody with a lot of wise brains has dressed the old yarn up in modern togs and has made interesting screen out of it under the title of “Love's Greatest Mistake.” The heroine from a small Maine

town is known in this story as Honey McNeil. Honey goes to New York to visit her sister, now married, who lives in that big city. But before Honey arrives in New York she meets a rich New Yorker on the train who jilst lc&es to buy pearls for innocent young lambs. Honey always thought that her sister was so slow

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that she didn't know that tlie Civil War was over. But Honey found out that her siston was a mighty fast worker with a lounge lizard upon a sofa. And so Honey, after making the discovery, looks upon tho advice of her sister as oppiasauce. t*o Honey hooks up with tho rich New Yorker and this gives a couple of clever blackmailers a chance to plan some dirlv work. But Honey turns out to be a pretty wise little girl, and she even allows one of the blackmailers to beat up on her when he demands the letters, that the rich man had sent her. During all of this time tlie real fellow, a young architect, was around actually wanting to marry Honey, but sho couldn't see that fireside stuff. But at the right time, before too much damage was done. Honey wakes up love’s greatest mistake (Turn to Page 7)

mission yesterday which caused him to play his famous "Prelude In C Sharp Minor,'” as ono of his many encore numbers. And this great man played encore after encore and it was necessary to turn off tho stage lights before the audience would leave the theater. During his program proper, Rachmaninoff used a method new to him in presenting his recital. He played the first two programed numbers and then left tlie stage to return to play the remainder of his long program at one sitting. After his program proper he went into Ills many encores. Ona B. Talbot again by presenting Rachmaqjnoff has given this city and State one of its most satisfying experiences ih musical beauty.

FEB. 14, 1927

Work Contract Bridge Is a Stake Game Like Poker.

(In response lo numerous requests Work will write on Contract for llio next few days Instead of Auction lirldgo. During Ilia! time his dally Auction Bridge Pointers will be omitted, hut will be resumed later.)' Last summer. Contract —or Contract Auction Bridge, as it is sometimes called—most successfully invaded Newport and Southampton, And from thoso resorts it naturally migrated to New York, where it lias been played quite a bit this winter Tills variation of the tremendously popular game of Auction Bridge appeals io tlie blase Btidger who Is looking for new "kicks” and thrills, and for the plunger seeking a high stako; but it is not apt to And favor with Bridge uevotces who play tjie game for “love,” nor with the majority to whom tho satisfaction derived from winning in a scientific contest is u sufficient consideration. Contract is essentially u stake game —liko poker; so it lias little chance of becoming popular with Progressive and Duplicate players, in the Duplicate game it would create such great swings that the result of one deal might dotermino tho outcome of an entire evening's play. The ono point in which Contract varies materially from tho game of Auction Bridge Is that a Declarer Is not allowed to count “below the line" for any tricks beyond the number he has bid. In Auction Bridge a player who obtains the contract nt one Spado and makes four Spades, scores four-odd and game; but nt Contract the player who bids one and makes four-odd can score toward his game only thc'valuc of one Spade trick. He would, however, obtain a nice bonus above tlie lino for eayli trick made above his contract. Oihor feuturcs In which tho game varies materially from Auction Bridge are: New and increased penalties for n defeated contract, a varltion of tlie revoke penalty, a specially large bonus for Slams bid and made, and an adjective new to Bridge, “vulnerable” which Is applied to a pair that lias won a game. All these will be explained fully In succeeding articles. Another article on Contract tomorrow. (Copyright John F. Dille Cos.)

MR. FIXIT Dogs and Ashes Grief to City People.

Writs your trouble* to Mr. Fixll in rare ot Tho Time*. Ho l Tho Tlmrt' rei>re*entaUv mi the .Sty nail *nd will .iroaonf your trouble* to the proper <-lt.v orttolala. Sltni lull nan.o *ntl mldrev namo will uot be published it anonymity li desired. According to letters received by Mr. Fixit In the last few days a very “doggie" situation exists throughout Indianapolis. lie has received reports from various neighborhood* that untagged dogs art numerous and troublesome. Thoso reports were turned over to the police who promised Mr. Fixit they would in vestigato the situation nt once- Mr. Fixit phoned the dog pound and found that it Is overcrowded. Tinlatest dog complaint received: Dear Mr. Fixit: Won't you sec that something is done about stray dogs? They are overrunning 15 Georgia St., in the 1100 block and it isn’t safe for children to be on the streets, or adults either for that matter. Most of the dogs are un tagged. Nono have muzzles, please help us. MRS. E. O This complaint was turned over by Mr. Fixit to the police, who promised they would send an officer to investigate Immediately, if nothing Is done about the matter Mr. Fixit advises tho local patrolman's attention bo called to tho situation. Dear Mr. Fixit: You coaxed the ash man around to 706 E. Lord Ht.. once before. Won't you please try it again? A TIMES READER. Mr. Fixit wag promised by Truly Nolen, ash collection department director, tliut ho would see tl(o aslics arc collected- Nolen cannot understand why no collection lias bec-n made. V

Times Readers Voice Views

To Tlio Editor: Simply a* a private citizen •ml nit u tax payer, 1 have observed /or several weeks the acts of your la-gii laturc relatho I" some matters. I am shocked at tho vacillating methods used by niuny*ol our Itglslutors relative to tho so-called f’ub lie Service Commission. This commission by its despicable conduct and attitude against the consumers of the State of Indiana has made itself absolutely odious and Is despised by every consumer in Indiana, and lias been for several years. Out in Greenfield wo have suffered sorely at its hands and it m by tho acts of such a commission that the people are taught to despise government and run a riot of banditry und robbery. I notice tha' ou have about twen-ty-live differs, bills seeking to soft pedal this tiling because it has been such an able aid to society in collecting funds from the utilities for campaign purposes und in the name of common sense, why cannot these farmers, stock rulsers and common people, of which our Legislature composed, get togetiief and once In a life time put some of our Btate of fairs back In the hands of tho people where they belong. J. M. HUFFORD, Greenfield, lnd. What is Ihe height and weight ol Earl ftande, the Jockey? He Is about 5 feet ♦ Inches tall and weighs about 115 pounds.