Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 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. *

A FREE PRESS Today The Times is demanding of the Legislature that it impeach Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie. ' , That may sound harsh. It is harsh. But it is not as harsh as the attack made upon the Constitution when newsboys were seized upon the streets by policemen, their papers confiscated by a judge, themselves threatened with jail unless they pledged themselves never to sell a copy of the paper. Ic is no longer a question of George. Dale, the fighting editor of Muncie, and the Muncie government. It is the question of the Constitution and a judge. What Dale has done or not done matters little. The. people may disagree with his bold attacks upon courts and mayors and officials of the law. Or they may applaud his courage. Whatever else may be said of him, no one accuses him of cowardice or quitting. • His home has been fired upon at night. He is under a jail sentence, not after conviction of crime by jury, but by a summary sentence from this same judge for contempt of court. It is a matter of record that when charged with this- contempt, he offered to prove every assertion he had made. It may be a shock to some citizens that men may not print the truth in Indiana and stay out of jail. But the Supreme Court has said that the truth is no defense and on that point the judge has been upheld, bitter as such a verdict and such a declaration of power may be to the citizen who believes in real freedom of the press and real freedom of speech. But this latest is a different thing. Here physical force has been used to suppress an issue of a newspaper before any court had held a trial and condemned as unfit for reading by a public that needs no such guardianship. - What does a free press mean to the freedom and liberties of the people? Suppose that every newspaper should, of necessity and by law, be submitted to the local judge before it could be distributed? Suppose that in this land every article in every magazine and every book should first pass muster from some judge, elected as judges are eiected, or named as some judges are named? _ How long would there be any liberty of any kind in his land? Tyrants in every land have first found it necessary to suppress the press when they seized power. The bolsheviks of Russia knew that they could not stand against an informed people. They seized the printing presses and jailed editors who protested against their bloody rule.. Mussolini of Italy with his fascist army first captured the editors and then captured the populace with his armies. Does the seizure of newsboys on the streets of Muncie seem to you to be a small matter? It may be the beginning of your enslavement, for other judges, who may have the idea that they are .so mighty and so powerful’that the earth tips wfreu they tread upon it and who step softly lest they overthrow the law of gravitation, will seize other newsboys, jail their editors, suppress other publications. The time to check inroads upon liberty is at the start, not when they have become imbedded in precedent and custom. Liberty may be lost by ina.tiou as easily as through revolution. That is the reason The Times is calling upon tnofte who lore liberty and value freedom to urge this Legislature to impeach this judge. Let his fate be a lessen to all judges that they cannot trample upon the Constitution and strangle t with their official robes.

A SENSE OF HONOR ■ Rather a queer thing, that sentiment called a s?nse of honor. Observe how it acts when Samuel Insull, not unknown to Indiana, is called before the Senate of the United States. • The Senate wants to know about the many thousands of dollars which he admitted he gave to politicians in an election, The Senate particularly wanted to know about a certain $40,000 which he admitted that he handed opt to someone but it did not find out. Mn Insull has a sense of honor. That sense of honor prevents him from telling the nation that has given him control of public utilities wort|| a half billion of dollars the names of these politicians to whom he gave this money. He might be expected, if he were impressed by some high and mighty motive of patriotism in giving his money to sway an election, to proudly name the patriots he financed in their endeavors. if the men expected "to use this money for the piotection of some cause in which the people were interested, they would hardly object to letting the people know their identity. A sense, of loyalty is a fine thing. But it may also be a shield for shame. The gunmen of Mr. Insull’s city, the gentlemen who fight their bootleg battles with machine guns, also have a sense of honor which prevents them from exposing their enemies or their friends. Their sense of honor urges them also to a silence and a gat. Mr. Insull, in a sense, id one of the important citizens of Indiana. His utility companies boost the highest priced and shrewdest lobbyists who now appear before the Legislature. Ills money pays; for be talent which has thus far prevented any action mi utility legislation. In that peculiar sense, this State is actively interested in Mr. Insull—and his sense of honor. Will that same sense of honor later be passed along to his lieutenants, open and secret, so that • hey might refuse to tell the exact nature of their arguments and their persuasions used to enact laws for Indiana? Has he some fine, secret purpose which he would hesitate to reveal because of that sense of honor? Or has he the purpose to get something from the people that he does not believe the people want to give him and keeps his silence because, if ha speaks, it might not be possible for him to hand out $40,000 to politicians or patriots if that seemed necessary to him? . VY hat is a sense of honor, any way ; that needs a shield of silence?

A PROTECTORATE FOR NICARAGUA? The Administration intends to establish a protectorate over Nicaragua. This fact became clear yesterday, somewhat by accident. The purpose had been to keep the plan under cover another two weeks, or until Congress should have adjourned. But the news leaked in Nicaragua. Following conferences at Managua between the American minister and President Diaz, the latter sent a note to the State Department ppoposing a treaty under which this Government would protect the Diaz regime and its successors against alleged foreign' and domestic enemies. Such a treaty would “regularize" the present intervention in Nicaragua and provide a formal “right” for future military occupation in connection with American financial and diplomatic management of that country. Well, there the program is. There are still ten days of life left in the present Congress. Establishing a protectorate over another country is not a minor matter. It is more than a detail of executive duty. It is a grave step in foreign policy, one that may affect Latin American relations for the next hundred years. It is a step that should not be taken without the consent of Congress—the policy making branch of the United States Government. The State Department, no doubt, will postpone publication of the Diaz note, in an effort to avoid discussion! The department announces that the note is being mailed from Managua to Washington and pending receipt that there will be no official comment. But the department has a full summary of the note, by cable, of course. All this on the generous assumption that the puppet president of Nicaragua really devised the note himself and that it wasn't actually drafted in Washington in the first place. In the absence of the published text, it is widely reported that the Diaz proposal is similar to the military alliance treaty which was negotiated by the State Department with Panama and then rejected by the Panama Legislature as a violation of Panama's sovereignty. Why should Diaz be so anxious to negotiate an agreement like that? Why should he wish to turn his government and his people over to the United States? He explained this two months ago when he said only American troops and money could save him from the liberals. Money in plenty, troops numbering 5,000, battleships totaling fifteen, have been used to this end by the United States Government. Diaz’s desire to continue the arrangement that keeps him in office is understandable. . But what about the Nicaraguan people? And what about the American people? Are we ready to embark on an imperial policy, with all it involves in foreign entanglements, responsibilities and dangers? Any such basic change in American foreign policy demands full consideration by Congress and the American people, before the State Department is permitted to drag-us deeper into an unexplained situation.

GRATITUDE If you look long enough, you can find most anything. We’ve been looking for an explanation of the Government’s amazing course in the matter of the so-called bread trust. And it was lying right under our nose all the time! Gratitude —that was it. Oct. 7, 1924, one month before the election, George S. Ward, chairman of the campaign committee of the baking and allied industries, sent out a letter to his fellow bakers. It, read: “Big things are expected of us in New York. Not only to help in State and county elections, but also that there may be an exportable surplus to help the national ticket in States where it is needed. Recently we were called upon as an industry to help the wheat farmer. We now have the opportunity to do so by helping Coolidge defeat La B'ollette, thereby continuing our present prosperity in all our allied interests from the wheat, field through to breakfast toast. “Write a check to fit your earnestness, equaled with your sense,of duty. Give liberally, courageously, fearlessly for good of country. “It is our job to elect Calvin Coolidge the next President of the United States. Let us do it. Your job at the moment is to write your check and mail it today.” This letter was part of the evidence taken by Senator Borah’s campaign investigating committee two years ago. That’s what the big bakers did for Coolidge. What the Coolidge Administration has done for them is a more recent story. Some misguided person in the Justice Department having started an anti-trust prosecution of the $600,000,000 Continental Baking Corporation, Attorney General Sargent promptly put his foot on the proceedings. The Federal Court was asked by Sargent to permit the matter to be dropped. The Federal trade commission, he explained, was investigating the Continental and that was enough at one time. But the Federal trade commission wasn't investigating, It had dropped its inquiry the day preceding Sargent’s request. And the records seem to show that Sargent had carefully apprised of tins fact. In other words, the Administration did an extraordinary tiling for the Ward baking interests. An extraordinary explanation seemed to be required. Uut, apparently, not so. It’was just gratitude. Babe Ruth, demanding a higher contract, says lie s worth more than Cobb or Speaker. Maybe he was before Judge Landis helped them along with all that publicity. Harvard cutups came off second best in a brush with Boston police. They ought to sever relations with the bluecoats, too. John D. Rockefeller gave away a whole handful of shiny dimes the other day. Does that explain why Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad stock went wild? Nick Tartaglione, largest man'in New England, weight, 518, was arrested for breaking the dry law. " e predicted some big strong fellow would come along and crack it.

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Tracy Oil Price Cut Saves Waste of Grand Scramble

By M. E. Tracy OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 23. —Crude oil has been cut 25 cents a barrel in Oklahoma and Kansas. I Operators think that bu ers have J merely taken advantage of increased production. Consumers hope the cut will be reflected in the reduced price of gasoline. No matter what the motive, or who gets the advantage, the waste of a. wild scramble will have been diminished, and that is something for which every one should be grateful. Last August the Seminole field was discovered in Oklahoma and within this brief period its daily production has been pushed to more than 300 barrels. Needless to say drilling outstripped storage and pipe line capacity. No thought of economy, the future, or public interest, but just a grand rush in which everybody was out io get his. Using Science As Dr. E. E. Slosson told the Men's Dinner Club of Oklahoma City, on Tuesday night, It Is doubtful if we have acquired sufficient poise and self-control to make good usq of our scientific knowledge. We can do things with it. to be sure, but are they the right things? There is evidence. Dr. Slosson thinks, that we are weilding the j deadly instruments of science with a child's mind, a child's faitji and a child's viewpoint. The painter no longer seeks recognized masters for! inspiration, he says, but savages: i music reverts to the jungle: poetry grows primitive; modern magic be- | comes popular and intolerance en- I joys anew lease on life. You don’t have to go to the dance hall or the oil field to sense the logic of such views. Our Government seems to take greater pride in the sheer use of power than in the question of whether it is being rightly used. Right or Might? By the presence of 2,500 marines it is literally searing the people of Nicaragua into reluctant submission. So far as those in authority are concerned, the moral aspects of such action appear to be overshadowed by satisfaction at the ease with which a weak people can be coerced. We are winning an easy triumph, if not a virtuous one in Nicaragua. Sacasa has about made up his mind that it is useless to fight the Treasury of the United States. Adolfo Diaz, in whose behalf we have been exerting ourselves, shows good sense, as well as appreciation in suggesting closer relations. He needs them if any man ever did. It is a matter of common knowledge that ho wouldn’t last five minutes, but for the Government’s support. What we ought to be asking ourselves is whether just ir.*‘u national law can be compounded on such Stuff. Business First

For ourselves, we believed in majority. For Nicaragua, we are not so sure. Small wonder that other people find it hard to distinguish between what we preach and practice, especially those in Latin-America. Having established the Monroe Doctrine to keep Europe out, we make things doubly sure by moving in ourselves, What can a LatinAmerican republic possibly care whether it loses its sovereignty to some European nation, or to us? Latin-America is beginning to sus. peet that we stand for national sotereignty only so long as it does not interfere with business. During the war we could think of all kinds of reasons why Poland should be free and why Turkey should grant Armenia the right of self determination. Now we can think of just as many reasons why Nicaragua should not be free to enjoy the right of self-determination. The reversion to primitive ways,' about, which Dr. Slosson talks, is illustrated by nothing so vividly as slogans. We have slogans for every occasion. Sometimes they consist of a phrase, but more often of a mere word. Kellogg Jumps Not to be outdone by the advertiser, the reformer or the politician, our State Department has a slogan for its foreign policy. “Bolshevism” is the magic word. Let somebody say that and Secretary Kellogg is ready to jump. The Marines are in Nicaragua because somebody yelled "Bolshevism.” We are making faces ht Calies and refusing to recognize the Cantonese for precisely the same reason. No allowance is made for shades of meaning, peculiar circumstances, or the reliability of allegations. The word is taken at full value, no matter who utters it, or what it implies. “Bolshevism” has become a challenge, a dare, an excuse, a justification for anything. Its mere whisper is enough to throw this gredt Government into paroxysms. Not the idea, you understand, but the mere word. Whet is the cross of fairy stone? This is a brown stone which occurs in metamoephic rocks, especially mica schist, and is recognized by the cruciform character of its crystals. This peculiar cross or star shape of the crystal renders well developed specimens somewhat prized as ornaments. In their natural state the faces are usually coated with mica, which is scraped off and the surface is slightly polished before the stones are put on the market. ’Hie natural crystals are often ground on the edges to improve the cross-like effect. Tn Brittany, France, a superstitious reverence is attached to these stones because of theic form, based on the belief that they fall from Heaven. In some parts of the United States, particularly in Virginia and the Carolinas, where they are found, there are many superstitions concerning their origin, and they are worn as luck charms to ward off danger and disease. The techn name for the stone is “stauroli

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History of Doorways Told in Exhibit at John Herron Art Institute Here

Since man came down from the trees and established himself in caves, the entrance to b - dwelling has been a matter of moment to him. At first he rolled stones into the cave mouth to keep out intruders, and then he hung the skins of animals across the opening to protect his bed from the elements. But stones were not storm tight and skins did not discourage the wild beasts, so as he gradually evolved, he busied himself with this important problem, and finally achieved a proper door that shut him and his family in warm and. dry, and opposed a formidable front to his enemies. Having achieved safety and comfort, he was prepare,’, for the next step in his development. Ho organized communities and the need arose for churches and shops and gradually the various other types of structure that house the activities of group civilization. His aesthetic Instinct demanded that each type of building have its special door, and so through the ages he has concerned himself with designing portals appropriate to their special uses. \ The door itself is usually less expressive than its casing. It is the doorway—the supports and cross beams or arches that define the opening for the swinging panels—it is here that the builder lavishes the flower of his creative impulse. He sets himself to develop a correctly proportioned and sufficiently elaborated frame and with it a moveable section that will harmonize with its surroundings. There are several good doorways in the exhibition of the Indiana Architectural Hoaicty now on view at the Art Institute. Two items shown by Walter Soholer, one “Entrance Detail, Ilor-1 tieultural Building. Purdue University," the other “Entrance Detail, Phi Gamma Delta, Purdue University," afford a marked contrast and illustrate the powerful effect of suggestion in this field of art expression. The formal and dignified white stone portal of the scholastic building with its small lamps and simple masses expresses the designer’s reaction to the academic influences of college life. The other doorway shows a rounded arch of bricks, curving above the entrance jo the fraternity house. The hricks are set to form the arch so that the lines of mortar radiate In a springhtly spread fan shape: there are generously propor-

Child's Test

This intelligence test Is especially designed for children. You'll find the answers printed on page 14: 1. What is wrong with the panying picture? 2. Where are pearls found? 3. Who led the “Rough Riders” In the Spanish War? 4. What is the largest city in Missouri? 5. What very rich American gives away dimes to strangers he meets? G. What is a boomerang? 7. Name the smallest of the Great Lakes. 8. Who wrote “Huckleberry Finn?” 9. Who is the only ex-President of the United States now alive? 10. What French city successfully listed the most bloody German ofnsive ot the World AVar?

lioned lamps; the doors display large areas of glass in clusters of small panes: the whole effect is one of cordial welcome and comfortable warmth. Among the other examples of pleasing and appropriate doorways, are those included in the plans for Butler University designed by Daggett and Hibben. The ;de, dark, solid doors are set "benoa h the heavy, slightly pointed arches that fit into the Gothic scheme arc effective accents in the rugged faces of the buildings. Then there is the entrance to the Barns Foundation of Merton, Pa., by Paul P. Cret, with its Doric columns, both cylindrical and flat rectangular. supporting a shallow balcony above a deeply recessed door and the pointed arch of the Holy Innocents Church, by Helnile and Corbett of New York, resting on pilasters ornamented with insets of carved panels an impressive Colonial entrance with a high-curved balcony supported on tall columns, by Pierre and Wright, and a hospitable stone cased door In an English typd residence by the same architects. These are but a few rs the inter-

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to any question of fact or information b.v writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. <:.. inclosing 2 cents in etarons .or reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply I’nsisned requests cannot tie answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. In what countries arc Christmas trees used most generally and what speries is most popular for the purpose? Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 Christmas trees are used in the United States every year; one for every four or five families. The number used in England, Scotland and Wales, is about the same and it is about 25 per cent more than for Germany. Practically all conifers or evergreens can be and are used, but the most popular are firs and spruces, and to a lesser extent pines and cedars. How many forest fires are there in tlie United States annually and what are the chief causes? Between 1916 and 1925 the average number of forest fires was 51,021 per year. Os this number approximately 9,940 were of incendiary origin, 9,034 from camp fires and smokers: 7,809 from brush burning; 6.257 from railroads; 3,759 from lightning; 2,959 from lumbering; 3,803 from miscellaneous causes and 7,900 of unknown origin. Who was the star in the moving picture, “The Temptress?” 1 The Swedish actress Greta Garbo had the star role. What is popcorn? It is a species of maize or dwarf Indian corn plant that bears small ears studded with hard kernels. Upon the application of heat the kermis puff or pop open so violently that they turn inside out. How did flowers get their names? There are many legends about the origin and naming of flowers. The bulletin “Flowers and Their Meanings,” published by the AVashington Bureau gives the legends concerning many of them and can be obtained for 5 cents. Is there a company of Negroes that produces motion pictures? The Reo Moving Picture Company with offices at 225 AA'est Forty-Sixth St., New York City. AVliaf is tlip distance between the earth and sun? The mean distance is estimated at 92.930,000 miles. Hoes the United States pay France for the maintenance of American cemeteries in that country? | Congress appropriated $97,000 to I maintain six burial grounds in j France, one in Belgium and one in England during the current fiscal I year and they are supervised by an American commission.

esting doorways, selected at random | from many photographs and drawj ings that are an edifying feature of | the exhibition. If you have not been ' concerned with the fascinating possibilities in the fashioning of doorways. there is ample material here to help you to a better realization ; of the importance of this very special problem in construction. The Claude Bragdon theatrical exhibition in Gallery I claims the attention of all who have an eye for bold color and all who liko the glamour and romance of the stage. "Rose Marie" opens a four-day engagement tonight at English's. A matinee will be given on Thursday afternoon and on Saturday. Other theaters offer: Frank Fay at Keith's: “Weeping Willow," at the Palace; Watson Sisters, at the Lyric; “The Taxi Dancer,” at the Ohio; “New York," at the Apollo; "Stepping Along." at the Uptown; "Lost at Sea," at the Ritz; “The Perfect Sap,” at the Circle; “Taxi-Taxi,” at the Colonial; new show at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

What is the proper way to keep gold fish? A two-gallon aquarium should not have over three or four small fish. The bottom should lie covered with sand and gravel two inches deep and there should be an open rockery and a bunch of aqueous plants sufficiently numerous to liberate enough oxygen to keep the fish in a healthy condition. Tt should bo kept in a cool place, hut not in strong sunlight. The. water should be changed only once a year. The plants will keep the water pure and if the fish are not overfed they can bo kept for years. As the water evaporates a fresh supply can be added. If a green scum forms on the glass mop It off from the front with a small mop made of sponge tied to a stick, but leave It on the rest of the glass as the fish feed on It. Has Mrs. Wallace Reid, widow of Wallace Reid, the movie actor, married again? No. What is the salary of the Governor of Texas? $4,000. What color is ambergris and of what use is it? Ambergris is gray, marbled with blackish. It is used in the manufacture of perfumes.

Makes a Hit

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Frank Braidwood

Among the several personality hits on the bill at the Lyric tills week is Frank Braidwood, known as the singing cowboy. He olds the AA'atson Sisters in putting over a wee bit of real fun as well as doing his own act.

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(In response <o numerous requests, Work Is writing on Contract for several days. Ills daily Auction Bridge Fainter* wlli be rei sunied next week.) B.v Milton C. Work Contract Is plnyed in many differ* ent ways and under many different counts. In this country players in choosing between the various counts, its a rule have payed littlo attention to the Continental, the South American. or to several counts that have used cither the count of the Knlcker* ! bocker Whist flub or the Racquet i Club. It is a reasonably safe prediction that one of these two New Tork counts —probably with some amendt ments —will ultimately become the ! American count. , In the Racquet Club eount, the values of odd tricks In a fulfilled contract are: Clubs. 20; Diamonds, 20: l Hearts, 30; Spades, 80; and no Trumpa, 35. The game is 100. Four honors in one hand count j 100; five honors or four Aces In one 1 hand, 150. (No smaller honor-hold-ings are counted.) The premium for winning each game is 200, and for winning the rub i her. 300; the rubber bonus being scored in addition to the rubbcr-gani^ ■ If I doubled, nothing: If doubled when not vulnerable, 50; 100 If redoubled: 1f doubled when vulnerable, 100, 300 If ■ redoubled. • For each extra trick above tlie con , tract, if undoubled 50 when not vul nerable, 100 when vulnerable. If j doubled, 100 when not vulnerable 1200 when vulnerable. If 200 when not vulnerable. 400 whan vulnerable. \ Slams bid and made count; Little ' Ffiem. when not vulnerable, 800. when vulnerable, 730. Grand Slam. 1 when not vulnerable, 1,000; when vul--1 nerable, 1,50(1. Unhid slams, no pre-. ! mlum. Doubling and redoubling dnl not alter slam premiums, which are additional to those for making con tracts and extra tricks. The penalties for not making con j tracts arc: ff undoubled, when not ! vulnerable, CO for each undertrick j when vulnerable and undoubled I first trick 100, other tricks 200. If i doubled when not vulnerable, ion per trick for each of the first four tricks, 200 for the fifth, 400 for sub | sequent tricks; if doubled when vul I nerable, double the above trick pen I alties. 1 Redoubling douhles t.hs doubled j trick values and penalties. | The Revoke Penalty Is two tricks j for the first revoke and two addition- ' al tricks for a second revoke If made jin a different suit. For a second | revoke made in the name suit, 100 points in the honor column is the penalty. This count lias been played In Nta York City, in many cases with aligifl variations, during the current aeff son. (Copyright John F. DUte Cos.)

MRTFIXIT City Handicapped in War on Stray Dogs.

Mr. Fixit i The Time* reprensntstlw St. the city hull. Ho will glad to pr-ront your i-nsr to the proper city of It ot ,-ile. Write lum in care oi Tin> Time*. sicmnK full nnm and addrsfName will not be used it anonymity is desired. The dog situation In Indianapolis does not seem to he getting any better according to the complains re ceived by Mr. Fixlt. They come to him from every part of the city. Mr. Fixlt Is almost beginning to think that there are more dogs in In dianapolts than politicians and poll tical clubs. The latest complaini about dogs it: Dear Sir: AYhat is all this talk that comes out in the papers about dogs? I read where police were oidered to shoot all dogs not muzzled. I have never seen a muzzled dog In Indianapolis. Another time I read where all dogs without licenses were to be shot. Well -it this writing 1 can count five dogs eating out of a garbage ran at our next door neighbor's and not one of them a license. Please do something f<fl us. A. B. C The board of safety at a recent meeting took the dog situation under advisement. They said under the present law that the hands of the. police are tied. Not very long ago a policeman shot a dog that bit him and the owner wanted to Rue everyone. Mr. Fixit called the attention of the police department and the board of safety to this situation and they told him that they were doing all in their power to remedy it. They said they thought that an ordinance would he introduced into the council at the next meeting that would remedy the situation. Dear Mr. Ftxit: There is Avery bad place in the alley between Arnolda and Concord Sts., south of W. Tenth St. It is impossble to get In and out with a car on account of the high place in the alley. Privats garages are handicapped. Pleas* look into this. X. Y. Z. Tho street commissioner promised Mr. Fixit that he would send a man down to look at the place at once. If It can be repaired he will do it, he said. Mr. Fixlt: Please see If you can get a load of cinders dumped Into the alley between S. Rural St. and Lord* Ave., on Newton Ave. It Is almost impossible to get in and out. Thanks. E. AV. L. AVoodwurd has taken this complaint from Mr. Fixit and promised that he would attend to the * *oon us the funds are avallablW He said that he realized the need of improvements in tho alleys, and that he Is doing all In his power io attend to them. “I can't do anything without money,” hs said, “and with our budget at low as it i*. tt is impossible for me to cinder all the alleys.”