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Insult After InjuryMayor Duvall announces that tonight before a ward political club he will defend his administration. Great plans are made and there will speak in his behalf two lawyers. They are not the lawyers who spoke in his behalf before twelve men a few weeks ago when the subject matter was limited to sworn testimony of witnesses, t These lawyers have a wider latitude. They will not be compelled to confine themselves to facts which have been established by evidence. These other lawyers are those who are drawing salaries from the people of this city through the usurped power of Duvall. They cannot be viewed exactly in the light of disinterested pleaders. They have a reason that is apparent. They want to hold their jobs. The appeal of Duvall to the ward clubs is the appeal from the referee to the fans. What the mayor forgets and what these satellites and jobholders forget is that the courts have passed upon his case. He is under sentence to jail for thirty days. A jury has said that his corrupt acts and bargains and secret deals which he made to delude the voters of this city were of such a character as to bar him from holding office from the date of his election. That verdict was rendered after he had a trial before a jury of citizens, carefully selected. He was defended by lawyers who have been very successful in the past in securing favorable verdicts for officials who have been similarly accused. So famous were these lawyers in this direction that when they tvere announced as his defenders, those of gambling tendencies were ready to wager that there Avould be at least a mistrial. They stood at the side of Duvall Avhen he was forced to face the facts as told by men who were upon their oaths to tell the truth. The facts, in the eyes of that jury and despite the efforts of these very shrewd and capable lawyers, damned Duvall. The unfitness of Duvall is now conclusively proved by this very effort to go out and arouse hatreds and appeal to his followers, to herd together the political workers, to appeal for sympathy after he has been given justice. In the meantime the city government is in such a condition that every public act is questionable. "We have chaos. The banks refuse to take bonds of this city. Every payment of money is of doubtful legality. Every act of the mayor is subject to legal question. If John Duvall, whose only hope of holding office is that the Supreme Court may find some technical reason for disturbing the verdict of the jury, really wishes to perform a service he would tell that meeting tonight that he is ready to resign. Officially, he has no standing as a citizen. A jury has said that he has forfeited his rights. It is significant that no attorney Avho is not financially interested in having him hang to his job is pleading his cause. The mayor, as usual, has missed the point. He fails to realize his own situation. He is not a mayor defending his official acts. A jury,of his peers has said that he has been so corrupt as a citizen that he is unfitted to hold any office. That is his status as he appeals to mobs and not to courts. t i Builders of Character Teachers— It Is through their efforts that ideals are perpetuated; that vision is inculcated; that character is bullded. , it is the teacher’s task to mold plastic childhood; to cool, by resort to reason, the levered pulses of youth. And, generally speaking, the teacher does the job amazingly well, against heavy odds. Why do we say, ‘against heavy odds?' Because youth is rampant. Youth is not quite sure where it is headed, but it wants to be on its way. It wants to be up and doing—doing' this, doing that—doing right, doing wrong, according to its lights. We are in sympathy with youth. How the old world would totter into decay were youth not at hand to cheer it and dream for it and supply red corpuscles for its ever whitening blood stream. “But all the dreams of youth do not come true,” you say. Oh, what of that! “And the ideals upon which youth feasts worshipful eyes crumble under the hammer of Time—of time, the unconquerable iconoclast of the ages.” And what of that! If, indeed, ideals do crumble, new ideals that better suit changed conditions suist be raised, for civilization must march toward an inspiring goal, if civilization is to live on. Only Youth, the dreamer and the idealist, saves u from surrender to the sordid in a commercialized and mercenary world. Well, the guiding hand of your boy and our bpy; of your girl and our girl, is the good teacher who dedicates life to the unselfish task of building character. And character is an edifice that even death can not destroy, for who will say that a Lincoln or a Jefferson, long in the tomb, has ceased to exert tremendous influence in an age so changed? Perhaps, neighbor, you say; “I kngw how to rear

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my boy,” or, “I know how to rear my girl. I need no outside help.” Do you, indeed? Then you are most fortunate. Most of us who are parents of young men or young women send them out into the world with many misgivings. Most of us just do the best we can and trust to Providence that we are doing the right thing. But we only hope. We do not know. And so, Neighbor, if you do know, we beg of you to send us your recipe that we may broadcast it to an anxious world of mothers and fathers who lie awake in the dead hours of the night thinking about their Marys or their Johns. Please do not misunderstand us. Please do not get the idea t*at we belong to that misguided circle that believes that youth has gone to the bowwows and that honor and chastity are rapidly perishing from the earth. We believe no such thing. We believe that the percentage of clean-minded young women and of straightforward young men is as great as it ever was. And we believe that that is true largely because ,we have great citizens such as the teachers who mingle with us today, to rekindle the fires of idealism and to keep the feet of-youth on the upward trail. And so we ask all Indianapolis to join with us In honoring our guests, the members of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Labor Agitator—l 927 Model Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean necessarily high profits for capital. We are learning that an increasing wage level is wholly consistent with a diminishing commodity price level. We are learning that an increasing productivity of labor is not measured alone by the hours of work, nor even by the test of physical fatigue in a particular job. What we need to deal with are not the (limits to which men may go wihout physical exhaustion, but the limits within which they may work with zest and spirit and pride of accomplishment. “Are we doing well with our lives? Are we providing for our families—not merely clothes and food and shelter while we are working., but an insurance of them when our working time is ended by age, disability or death? Are we providing more cultural opportunities for ourselves and our children? Ia a word, are we free men? “Here In America we have raised the standard of political equality. Shall we be able to add to that full equality in economic opportunity? No man is wholly free until he is both politically and economically free.” Who has just spoken? Some socialist on a soapbox, some walking delegate, some agitator? The gentleman who said these words is Oweh D. Young, of the General Electric Company. He was speaking at the dedication of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. And his remarks were read by President William Green into the minutes of the American Federation of Labor convention last week in Los Angeles. Congress is getting ready to convene and probably the first thing they’ll do is attack Coolidge's foreign policy. We hardly can wait to find out what it is. “That wasn’t no lady,” the British bobby might have said of the young woman who told him to dash for Hades the other day, “that was a countess.” A presidential candidate who chooses to run in Mexico may live to run another day. You can’t mistake the careful man these days. He keeps his overcoat on in the restaurant.

Politics and People

BY RAY TUCKER

1 That a shy little man who never tcok an active part in public life until six years ago should have a leading role in all Republican presidential councils furnishes evidence of the confused state of national politics at the moment. This unassuming figure is Secretary Mellon, whose influence may go a long way toward determining the identity of the G. O. P. nominee. Mr. Mellon, of course, was a political power before he entered the Cabinet and became known to public and politicians. No man can occupy the place he held in the banking world without exercising influence on the course of.politics and politicians. The main difference now is that Mellon must perform downstage instead of behind the wings. If it were not for his age, he might conceivably be the Republican nominee. Instead, he may be only a president-maker. His aid in obtaining the support of Pennsylvania’s seventynine delegates will be feverishly sought by candidates and their backers. It is quite an advance from the days when word came from Marion in 1920 that Andrew Mellon would be Harding’s secretary of the treasury. Few except business men and bankers had heard of him; the man on the street outside Pennsylvania did not know he existed. His first conference with the correspondents indicated that public office would prove a'trial to the Pennsylvanian. He was awed by the young men who invaded his expensive office and the questions they fired at him. He stammered and stuttered, and lighted on tiny cigar after another, throwing them away before the tip had begun to glow. Efforts to draw him out were fruitless; with a deprecating gesture he said there was nothing notable in his life, nothing that would interest the public. To this day he has never entirely recovered from his embarassment before the press representatives or a public audience. He has made only two speeches since entering the Cabinet, despite the fact that he has been one of the bulwarks of both Harding and Coolidge. One was an economic talk before the Philadelphia Union League Club and the other an address at Pittsburgh on behalf of the waning political fortunes of George Wharton Pepper. The latter speech was a tragic failure; the newspaper men called it a “fizzle.’ He was as awkward and as stage-struck as a school boy; his voice did not carry beyond the first row of seats. His appearance belies his wealth and eminence; he conveys the impression of loneliness and weariness. This third richest man in the world, who is hailed by Republican admirers as “the greatest secretary of treasury since Alexander Hamilton,” excites sympathy rather than envy. looking forward to his vacation last summer, he explained that he wanted most of all to collect his scattered family on the close quarters of a pleasure yacht and visit historic places along the Mediterranean which he had read about as a boy. Invited to attend the Lindbergh reception as a guest entitled to a box, he threw up his hands regretfully with the cpmment that he had nobody to go with him and wouldn’t need a box. He detests references to his age and his wealth. He recently characterized such descriptions of himself as “sloppy writing,” fuming and sputtering as he scanned a newspaper article which called him “the 72-year-old secretary of the treasury and third richest man in the world.” 1

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: With the Exception of a Few Great Nations, Neiv York Has Become the Most Extensive Political Institution on Earth.

William Allen White takes men like Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University to task for complaining about the frivolous and meddlesome character of too many laws. He says they only talk in glittering general* es, and wonders what they want. They want what nine-tenths of the people of this country wantemancipation from a system that has become immobile with complexities and inconsistencies and that cannot function efficiently because it is being buried beneath a trash heap of trivialities. New York’s Budget New York City’s budget for 1928, as tentatively approved by the board of estimate, will be $511,000,000. This is not only more than the budget of any state, but more than the combined budget of the three largest States. What is even more startling, it is a greater amount of money than was required to run the Federal Government only forty years ago. With .the exception of a few great nations, New York City has become the most extensive political institution on earth. In this respect, as well as in many others, it reveals what a stupendous part the municipality plays in modern life. s Weak Merchant Marine Congressman Sol Bloom, just home from Europe and inspired by his experience as a passenger on the Leviathan, wants to do something for our merchant marine. He does not believe this country occupies the place it should on the sea, and he is right. It is a sad commentary on our conception of what is essential to national progress and national defense that we should permit impoverished Germany to outstrip us in ship construction. As Congressman Bloom points out, though we are doing the world’s business, we are carrying less and less of the freight. Small Countries Lead Seventy years ago, the United States divided honors with Great Britain as mispress of the sea. Today the United States would be in fourth or fifth place but for its coastwise trade. Last year Italy built more ships than we did, and such small countries as Norway, Spain and Holland are running us a close race in deep water commerce. Practically all the great international lines operate under other flags, though the bulk of their freight and passenger traffic originates in American enterprise and is supported by American money. Pool Trade Interests The people of this country do not appear to understand how rapidly and how determinedly the financial and industrial interests of Europe are organizing to gain control of world trade. France and Germany, which we still regard as mortal enemies, are not only pooling their interests against us, but drawing other countries into the combination. More formidable than the Steel Trust about which there has been so much talk, is the recently formed Chemical Trust which includes England, France, Germany ants Belgium, which is capitalized at $1,000,000,000 and which already controls an export trade nearly three times greater than ours in its own peculiar field. Asleep on Commerce The United States cannot go to sleep on the idea that it is safe, because it has such an enormous gold reserve, or that it needs no ships, because it can deliver so much raw material to its own wharves and warehouses for the ships of other countries to take away if they feel so inclined. Outside of actual cash, the rest of the world is not half so dependent on us as we imagine and we cannot hope to keep our trade if we let others gain control of agencies that are essential to its security.

(Lebanon Reporter) (Republican) * Will H. Hays, that master diplomat and strategist, is in for a terrible inning. Even his big salary and his powerful position in the motion picture industry won't save him. The Irish have their Irish rup and are going after William in , j' regular Irish fashion. The Irish are In for It dead tired and plumb weary of having With Irish f un poked at Irish characters on the screen. They’ve organized and got on their fighting clothes. We feel sorry for Will Hays. We don’t envy him his job one bit. My goodness, if England with all its “sun never setting on the Empire” power couldn’t successfully cope with the Irish what chance has Will Hays? Nothing short of a master stroke in compromise and conciliation will keep Will’s movie throne from totering. (Decatur Democrat) (Democratic) In the Indiana State convention of the Izaak Walton league, at South Bend, during the past week, a movement was started to create a State park in the region of the “Limberlost,” made faPark in mous in several of the novels of the , . ~ late Gene Stratton Porter. Along with Limoerlost this is a project to connect such park Region by a State highway with Mrs. Porter’s picturesque cabin af Rome City. This would unite the author’s “Limberlost” residence at Geneva with ( the one at the northern lake resort, passing through Ft. Wayne. These projects are designed as a memroial tp Mrs. Porter, who made the region of “the Limijbrlost”

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Fine Examples of Paintings of J. Ottis Adams Are on View Now at John Herron Art Institute

During the latter part of his life, J. Ottis Adams painted chiefly in Florida and in Michigan. jFrom Florida in the winter to Leland, Mich., in the -summer was the pilgrimage he made each year for several years and the pictures that he painted are true chronicles of the natural beauties of these widely separated regions) In the Memorial Exhibition of his works, these paintings are listed in the catalog as belonging tc his last period, and some very fine examples are shown. Florida has come so conspicuously before the public in the last few years and diligent press agents have circulated such a wealth of advertising, showing Spanish villas and hotels and palm trees and miles of sunny beach, that the Florida pictured by Mr. Adams seems an entirely different place. He was interested in the wooded country, the ancient trees, the hanging moss. A group of these landscapes is arranged on the south wall of Gallery IX. One avenue of palms is included—straight trunks and feathery foliage of light yellowgreen, with a roadway of white sand. There Is one study of the salt marshes near New Smyrna, and there is Macgargee's Bay seen through a frame of wide-branched trees draped in gray moss. The path that leads through the edge of the woodland to Salt Lake is portrayed in grays and soft greens and tans with a pale sky. The other canvases show wood interiors: Tall closely set tree trunks and branches trailing long festoons of moss, painted in a variety of light effects. “Ronnock Park, New Smyrna” holds a twilight dimness, all blue greens and lavender grays; “Winter in Florida” and “Florida Moss” contain bright patches of yellow sunlight filtering through the trees, and “Edge of the Woods” and “Wonderwoods, St. Petersburg” treat a difficult problem; old forests with warm sunset radiance falling on their trailing fringes of mess. Among the Michigan paintings are bright woodland scenes and many studies of the lake. Tin lake at the sunset hour was a favorite subject—several canvases are filled by a splendid sky reflected in the rippling waves. There is one very lovely study of a moon-set. A little crescent moon follows the departed sun down the still rosy western sky and it spreads a path of shimmering light on the dark water. This painting hangs facing the door on the east wall of the small octagonal room. Gallery K, and can be seen from the far end of the long gallery to the west, and it and the other painting on that wall, form one of the important sections of he exhibition. The Bakst textile designs that will

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be shown for two weeks beginning ! Sunday, Oct. 23, are the work of the ! great modern designer, Leon Bakst. i Bakst's imagination was stimulated Jby the art of the Americas and j when he arranged with Arthur L. Selig, an American silk manufacIturer, to furnish textile designs for manufacture, he drew his inspiration from Indian. Aztec, Mexican and Incaaic motives. It is this group of designs that will constitute the exhibition. ’.\hey are typically Bakst in line ana color and the stylistic treatment of motif, but they are recognizably American, and strike an entirely different note from the exotic, oriental stage decorations that first brought fame to the artist. Miss Hasselman in her “Survey of Art” course of lectures will talk on “Greece, Before Phidias” on Tuesday, Oct. 25. at 3:30 o’clock. Miss Stillson’s subject for Thursday. Oct. 27. is "Rome." This is the fourth lecture in the “History of Art” course that is held on Thursday afternoons at 3:30. The Allied Arts Section of the State Teachers convention is scheduled to meet at the institute on Oct. 20 at 8:30 a. m. The speakers announced for the occasion were May Robinson of Washington, Ind.. whose subject was ‘Tvlaking Art as Popular as Basketball,” and Raymond P. Ensign. Dean of the Art School of the Chicago Art Institute, discussing “Reference Material in Art Education." On Friday morning from 10 o’clock till 12 it was arranged that the Allied Arts Section should meet at the Art School for a round table discussion led by Mr. Forsyth, Miss Miller, Mr. Richey and Miss Shover. The school was to be open to visitors both Friday and Saturday. On Saturday morning at 10 o’clock it is announced that Miss Miller would give a special talk on Art Appreciation to high school pupils, and the visiting teachers were invited to be present. Invitations were issued for the alumni dinner on Friday at 6 p. m. Art teachers who had attended an art school for a year or more were asked to attend. The art, work for the “Drift,” the yearly publication of the students of Butler University, will be done this year by Butler students who attend the John Herron Art School. Jane Messick is chairman of the committee. The class in commercial art will have charge of the work. Four prizes are offered in four of the classes of the school. Tickets for the Ona B. Talbott concert on Oct. 31 will be given in Mr. Forsyth’s composition class for the best composition; in Mr. Wheeler’s still life class for the best still life study in oil; in Mrs. Richard’s anatomy class for the best drawing of a skull, and in Mr. Hadley's water color class for the best study of drapery and

familiar to millions of readers throughout America and to many in other lands. The purpose is admirable, <fven upon grounds of sentiment, though Gene Stratton’s Porter’s fame stands in no need of a memorial of any kind. Her books are her memorial and will preserve her name, for her books are now one of the heritages of American literature. There is good reason to preserve “the Limberlost” for itself and that can be done by making it a State preserve and giving it the essential character of a park. “The Limberlost” is, in its way, as unique and interesting a region as the remarkable dune lands in Lake county, where the State has finally acquired several hundred acres and made a park reservation of the tract. It is important, on obvious accounts, that “The Limberlost” be preserved. That region is, or at least was, a region of unspoiled natural beauty with perhaps nothing quite like it anywiiere else in Indiana. (Terre Haute Post) (Independent) Indiana teachers are always reaching out wanting the teachers of Terre H~ ute to drop their own pension system and join in with that of the State. They say, “Why you can teach any place in Teacher the state > y° u wdl d0 that, and still p . get your pension, while if you belong Pension t 0 the Terre Haute system you must System teach all your period in Terre Haute.” School officials declare a teacher’s value is doubled when she has taught in a system and becomes acquainted with it; that one of the big values of the Terre Haute system is that it keeps our teachers here. Then let’s insist that Terre Haute teachers keep their own pension system.

color. The winners in each division will be selected by the votes of the class members. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “What Every Woman Knows” at English’s; “The Donovan Affair” at the Colonial; Ray Huling at the Lyric; Hardeen at Keith’s; “Is Your Daughter Safe?” at the Murat; “Happy Hours” at the Mutual; ‘The Shanghai Gesture” at the Indiana; “Loves of Carmen” at the Circle; "Body and Soul” at the Apollo; “The Racing Romeo” at the Ohio and a new movie bill at the Isis. Who were picked as the members of Babe Ruth's 1927 all-Ameri-can all-star baseball team? Gehrigh, first base; Frisch, second base: Traynor, third base; Jackson, shortstop; Meusel, left field; Simmons, center field; P. Waner, right field; Ruel, catcher; Lyons and Root, pitchers.

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You can get an answer to any qttes>°n of fart or Information by writing to The. Indianapolis Timrs Washington bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. u. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be civqii nor can extended research lie undertaken All other questions will receive a persona] reply. Uns trued requests cannot be anawered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. To what species does the tuna fish belong? Tunney or tuna is a species of mackerel. They run in schools ranging from the south of England to Tasmania and are very abundant in the Mediterranean especially off the coast of Spain and Italy. They are known on the Atlantic Coast as “great horse mackerel” and in the St. Lawrence as the “skip jack.” On the coast of California they are called tuna. When was the United States battleship West Virginia commissioned? How long did it take to build it and w r hat did it cost? Commissioned Dec. 1, 1923, and required three years, seven and onehalf months to build. Its cost was $22,897,804. How many sons and daughters did Solomon have? The Bible does not state. It merely tells that “he had 700 wives, and 300 concubines” (I Kings 11:3). The only son who plays an important part in the narrative is Rehoboam, his successor to the throne. Were the scenes In “The Big Parade” taken during the World War? No. Most of the battle scenes in the picture were filmed in Texas ;in 1925. A few fighting scenes were made in California. * How much dtf the lumber production of the United States amount to in 1924? Which State led in production? The total production for tfcat year was 35,930,986,000 board feet, Washington led with 6,267,343,000 board feet. What is the meaning of the name Eleanor? “Light.” “What do raccoons eat? Their diet is varied and consists mainly of mice, frogs, crawfish, oysters and other molluscs, eggs and young birds, insects and the like, according to the place and season. In summer they eat fruit and berries and are especially fond of corn when the ears are in the milky stage. A characteristic practice is that of washing the food and these animals like to live near a stream or lake in which they may dip and rinse whatever prey they catch before eating it. In general usage is there any difference in the meaning of the terms college and university? In the United States popular usage entoloys the terms indiscriminately for any higher in-

OCT. 20, 1927

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor; I’m In again. Really I hold on to myself while I read Allene Sumner's articles. Is she a hard-boiled he-man, an old maid or a disappointed sour woman who has never been loved? She envies the family with eleven children. No woman could be so bitter without Jealousy. Many a father does wear a suit two years and drives an old 1922 topless Ford because he has children to bear his name. Society has no Job making homo building attractive. The mother or wife makes the home, the children bring It to a paradise on earth and the father is a good example to set before his family and the entire community. These one child familes, silk stocking working wives, mealless men are the ruination of the United States. The mother did her duty by bringing a child Into the world to throw at the feet of the neighbors, while she receives a pay envelope to buy unnecessary things. Sacrifice is what makes life worth living. What woman who never had a child but regretted it in her old days. Really such articles as this bitter woman writes make dissatisfaction in the otherwise peaceful homes. The Times would be a better paper without them. We each have a duty and when that is neglected God makes us pay. Give us more of Mrs. Ferguson articles; they bring content to wives that do not know their minds. MRS. W. A. COLLINS. To the Editor: We read of the investigation to be held following the terrible catastrophe of Friday night, and really were it not so appalling It would tend to cause one to look on this phase as a huge joke. The writer has been a resident of Indianapolis for the past year and | many times during this period has I pointed out to your residents the j menace offered by unguarded cross- ■ ings in every part of your State. Why Investgations, I ask, when the simple remedy of placing gates at crossings with an attendant would solve the problem, and do away with the need of investigations and save thousands of lives in due course of time. Hardly a week passes without an j article chronicling the fact of a ! crossing fatality and after these litI tie white crosses are erected at the ! spot calling to mind that some of j your cit’zens foolishly drove across the railroad and traction companies' franchise given property. In Europe and most parts of these United States where gates are Installed one rarely reads of a crossing accident and if the human element enters and makes it possible, there is no need af an investigation to fix the blame. Get out your files for the past year and count the toll of lives taken by tjiis agency and then figure whether or not the compelling of the railroad and traction, companies to build gates would not be a good move for the communities at large. FRANK G. BAKER.

stitution of learning which possesses the power of conferring the usual academic degrees. This confusion prevails also in the official nomenclature and a completely equipped American university may bear the name "college” while in certain parts of the countrv institutions inferior in endowmer t and in scholarly distinction to some of the secondary schools are officially designated as “universities.”

Mr. Fixit Remora l of “Haven for Bums" Sought by South Side Resident.

Let Mr. Flxlt, The Times' representative at cltv hall, present vour troubles to cltv officials. Write Mr. Flxlt at The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be published. Removal of a "haven for bums’* was sought by a south side today in a letter to Mr. Flxlt. Dear Mr. Fixit: Close to the Belt Railroad, between English Avc. and Southeastern Ave., there is a shack that was used by the city workers when they were dumping there. It is not in use now and is a haven for tramps and bums. Do you think It possible for us to have it torn down or removed? O. W. S. Building Inspector W. A. Osbon said he would investigate the complaint and have the structure torn down if it is a menace. Dear Mr. Fixit: Would be very much pleased if you would Induce the ash collector to call in rear of 2168 N. Capitol Ave. and remove ashes that have been there some ten months. D. M. H. Truly Nolan, ash collection superintendent, said your request would be granted. Dr. Mr Fixit: A traffic officer 'Z very much needed at the intersection of E. Tenth St. and Massachusetts Ave. If you will observe tne traffic at that point you will agrev with us, especially at morning and* evening rush hours. Kindly usa your influence. MOTORISTS Police Chief Claude M. Worley will survey the intersection aJ your request. The present number of traffic officers make it practically impossible to station polic* at all such crossings. Dear Mr. Fixit: Just a line to tell you the needs of Douglas Park. Martindale Ave. and Twenty-fifth St. The city does almost everything to* it except what should be done. W need cinder sidewalks very badly as the paths are bad on wet days. Sea after this, please, we need soma suitable walks. J. C. Clarence Myers, parks secretary, said the board has a definite program in mind for the epark. Re- 1 pair of the shelter house is holding up the work as the board desires to work out a landscape scheme before building walks. Be patient and you will get what you want