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Compare Them Look over the list of five names selected by the representatives of the civic organizations. Then compare them 'with the names which the councilmen have suggested that they have in mind as mayor of this city in its present predicament. The contrast, in the opinion of The Times, is sufficiently strong to be impressive. These five suggestions represent the thought of men who come from every section and avenue of life. They represent the best opinion of the men jwho belong to the groups from which the city Hifc, with the exception of its government, has drawn much of its inspiration. It is safe to, at least, say that if any one of these men were mayor it would not be necessary to keep a grand jury working overtime to watch him. The selection of any one of these men would mean that he would go into office with the support and confidence of a very large section of the citizenship. The people would know that they were not picked at some secret conference with a Dodson or a Coffin or some other ambitious Warwick. Comparisons may be odious, but it is conservative to say that any one of these men would have a larger public confidence than any of the politicians who have been suggested as the probable choice of the councilmen. If the councilmen have in mind any person they have not yet named, they should do so promptly. As between the names they have suggested and the indorsements of the civic organizations, there can be no debate. One of these five men should be selected unless the councilmen immediately produce for public discussion some man who will as far outrank these five as these men outrank their present candidates. Indianapolis wants not only a big man, but the biggest man in this emergency. That biggest man so far selected will come from the civic organizations. The people have a right to know the name of every man who is being discussed. The civic organizations have acted openly. The councilmen have secretly conspired with politicians. These councilmen may not know that the end of such practices has been reached in this city. The day of the new deal is here, whether they appreciate it or not. They should promptly inform the public as to their intentions. They can not mistake the determination of the people to get rid of politics and politicians.

An All-Star Cast to Cuba There is probably no truth, in the recurring rumors that Secretary Kellogg Is going to resign his cabinet job as head of the Department of State. On the other hand it does not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduct that, though he retains his title, a mentality other than his is at work on the real, problems ox his department. . A year ago Secretary Kellogg had the bit in his teeth, galloping up and down the Latin Americas, snorting here, kicking there, bowling over fences somewhere else and generally making Uncle Sam the butt of jeers and sneers and cries of alarm and hate all the way from Mexicali to the horn. Now somebody has reined him in. His snorts are no more heard; his kicks no longer fend the air, for, the moment, at least, he has been hobbled with just rope enough to walk around his desk in Washington and answer the telephone while somebody else does the functioning. Apparently alarmed over recent Latin American developments, the United States now seems anxious to put itself in a mere favorable light before its southern neighbors. To this end President Coolidge has just appointed a delegation of genuinely sensational calibre to represent this country at the PanAmerican Congress at Havana next January. Not only does the President himself Intend to journey to Cuba to open the coming congress, but he will be accompanied by former Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes as chief of an all-star delegation, including Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to Rome; Oscar Underwood, former senator from Alabama; Dwight W. Morris, new ambassador to Mexico; former Judge Morgan J. O’Brien; Dr. James Brown Scott of the Carnegie Peace fund; Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, brother of the Secretary of the Navy and President of Stanford University; Dr. Leo. S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, and the new ambassador to Cuba, who, it is said, will be appointed before the Pan-American Congress meets. A more distinguished group of delegates could hardly be picked to represent the United States were the treaty of Versailles to be made over again or the peace of the world were once more at stake. It offers another visible proof that someone in Washington at last recognizes the vital importance of being represented south of the Rio Grande instead of misrepresented. For the past few years our diplomacy in Latin America has been of the bull-in-a-China-shop variety. Vast animosities have been kindled. Suspicions have been aroused. Our aims have been thoroughly misconstrued. Non-American business hunters, taking advantage of the hostility against us, have managed to corral trade which, all things being equal, should have gone to American concerns. We have lost ground Lanyway you look at it. It may very well be that, at Havana, the whole of our relations with the rest of the Americas lh:jane up for a full and frank airing. In which

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case it is highly important that we be ably represented to the end that our position as the mightiest of the western republics shaU be made so clear that there will be no further room for fear or suspicion. At all events, the Havana gathering will certainly afford us an excellent opportunity to allay some of the bitterness against us. And, no matter what happens, all the diplomacy which our unusual delegation posseses, individually and collectively, will no doubt come in handy. Who Fixed the Wheat Prices? The Kansas City Star seems to have scotched a political story that threatened to have an important bearing on the coming campaign. Since the war it has frequently been charged that Herbert Hoover, as food administrator, fixed the price of wheat at $2.20, Thereby causing the farmer to lose much money they otherwise would have made. The Star reveals correspondence between its editor and Harry A. Garfield, president of William’s College, who was head of President Wilson’s fair price committee during the war. Dr. Garfield’s letter tells the whole story. It follows: “Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., Oct. 18— ’59 the Star: I am in receipt of your letter of Sept. 29, and am pleased to lay before you the facts with regard to the determination of the price of the 1917 wheat crop. “As chairman of the commission appointed by President Wilson to determine this price of wheat for the 1917 crop, have carefully preserved the data upon which the findings of the commission were based. I am the more willing to reply to your letter in view of the persistent misstatement that Secretary Hoover determined the price. Mr. Hoover had absolutely no part in this matter other than to urge upon President Wilson that some action must be taken to protect the American farmer. “In order that this controversy should be settled with finality I have laid the matter before the surviving farmer members of the fair price commission —Mr. Charles Barrett, president of the Farmers’ Union; Mr. L. J. Taber, master of the National Grange; Mr. E. D. Funk, at that time president of the Corn Growers' Association; Mr. W. J. Shorthill, secretary of the farmers’ Cooperative Elevators Association. These gentlemen welcomed the opportunity to sign the attached statement, in which I, together with Dr. Taussig, the economist member, and Mr. Doak, who represented the Railway Brotherhoods, also concur. “The occasion for the determination of a fair price arose from the fact that the Allied Governments had consolidated their buying agencies into one hand and through this buying power over the surplus, controlled the price of American wheat the moment that exports of the new crop should begin, the allied buying agencies considered they should not pay more than $1.50 to SI.BO for American wheat. They advanced the argument that abundant wheat existed in the Argentine and in Australia at prices ranging from $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel, and the further fact that they had fixed the price to their own farmers at about SI.BO a bushel:—That the only reason for purchasing American wheat was to free allied ships from the long voyages to the southern hemisphere in order that they might carry American troops, and they, therefore did not consider that they should pay in excess of these prices. “It was solely to protect the American farmers from this situation that Mr. Hoover presented to President Wilson the necessity for some action. President Wilson appointed the commission, directly under himself, to determine the matter, and the commission ultimately determined $2.20 at Chicago, as a fair price. The Congress had fixed the price for the 1918 crop at 20 cents less—that is, $2 per bushel. “As will appear from the enclosed statement, Mr. Hoover was not a member of the commission and took no part in the deliberations or conclusions. “Attach hereto the signed names, which I am authorized to forward on behalf of the above mentioned gentlemen. “Very truly yours, “H. A. GARFIELD.” Flattery With a Trowel Your German, when he wants to, knows exactly how to get on the good side of his fellow Europeans. Take cooking, for instance. Everybody, who knows anything at all, is well aware of the fact that English cooking is not cooking. It’s a crime. It’s an atrocity. It’s the essence of how to spoil good meat, good vegetables, goo tifruit by tossing them into boiling water and producing a sodden, flaccid, tasteless mess. And yet not long ago a Berlin paper emittted this and the editor did not bat an eye: “Os course, it isn’t true that English cooking is bad. People say it is. but that is a black lie—one of those lies which divide nations and stir up wars.” Asa matter of cold fact, it probably is nearer the truth to say British cooking is what makes th<i British such good fighters when war comes around’ their way. They get up from the table so angry and so dissatisfied that they just have to enlist and take it out of some blinking foreigner’s hide. A hospital Is s place where a person's condition usually is “satisfactory.”

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keezer

A 5-year-old girl started to take a ride on the running board of an automobile driven by her father. A$ the result of his negligent driving she was thrown underneath the car and run over. She sued her father for damages. The father contended that the child was barred by law from bringing a suit against him to collect damages because of his negligence. He said that it is a long-established principle of law, based on the necessity of unity in the family group, that a minor child can not sue a parent for damages on account of the parent’s negligence. The child, through her lawyers, claimed that this proposition had been rendered obsolete by the introduction of dangerous devices such as automobiles, in the operation of which a parent should be held liable for injuries to a child. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Rhode Island decided that the child had no right to bring suit for damages for personal injuries suffered on account of parental negligence. Any other ruling, the court said, would be inconsistent with the family relationship.

THE IKDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: If Hypnotism Can Be Employed to Obliterate All Sense of Pain, the Criminal Might Find It to His Advantage, as Well as the Doctor.

What Alexander Dumas described in one of his novels more than seventy-five years ago, and what most doctors have regarded as impossible ever since, actually took place at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago on Wednesday, when an abdominal operation was successfully performed while the patient was in a hypnotic sleep. It is absurd to speculate on the significance of such an experiment. The promise of relief which it holds is offset by the element of danger involved. If hypnotism can*be employed to obliterate all sense of such terrific pain, it might be employed to obliterate all sense of fresponsiblliity, and the criminal might find it to his advantage, as well as the doctor. * • * Danger in Mercy Murder England is enjoying her second mercy murder within two weeks. The first case was that of a grief-stricken father, who put his incurable daughter out of her misery because he could not bear to see her suffer. The latest case is that of a daughter who performed the same office for a mother stricken with malignant cancer of the liver. There probably is no better excuse for murder than compassion for those doomed to hopeless torture, but even so, it is a dangerous excuse, because of the opportunity it offers self-interest to overcome the conscience. One does not have to be gifted with a great degree of imagination to realize how easy it would be for a son to argue that his father was incurably sick and that it was his humane duty to prevent further suffering with a dose of poison, if he needed money and could lay his hand on it by so doing. * * * Taft’s View on Crime * * * Chief Justice Taft tells the National Crime Commission that the whole country is aroused over the need of better legal machinery for the prosecution of crime. “The Baumes law,” he says, “seems to indicate that the forgotten man—the victim of murder or robbery—is being remembered. We must not allow our interests in criminals to cause us to make the prosecution of crime subordinate to reform.” At first glance, Mr. Taft’s view may seem harsh and unfeeling, especially to those who have acquired the habit of regarding the law as made for criminals only and of visualizing the criminal’s interest as paramount in its administration. Asa matter of common sense law is made for the protection and convenience of those people who w'ant to do right, have no anti-social complex and are trying to get along without injuring their neighbors. It is time that they received some consideration in the matter. This theory of the law does not rest on the idea of vengeance, but of protection. Instead of leading to more savage punishments, as many seem to think, it would develop a more rational attitude toward their extent and severity, and remove that element of excitability and emotionalism which has played such havoc thus far.

Farm Belt Is Sore Rightly or wrongly, the agricultural belt is sore. Let those who doubt this read what has taken place at St. Louis during the last few days. In that city a meeting of 300 delegates, many of them prominently identified with political activities in the South and West, has gone on record as commited definitely to the McNary-Haugen bill and as willing to forget party lines in its support. Former Governor Donaghey of Arkansas tells the United Press that, “if our legislative program to drive the McNary-Haugen bill through Congress fails again at the White House, I believe there is a strong possibility that an out-and-out farm party will spring into being.” Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska, who acted as chairman of this meeting, says, “It is highly significant when men of this type meet without thought of sectional lines, without thought of party lines, and agree on a common course of action so vital to a major portion of the American population. “This should be a distinct warning to the Seventieth Congress that agriculture’s demands are not to be overlooked. We feel the case is clear-—that it places our demands on an absolute parity with the privileges already enjoyed by industry under the protective tariff.” * • * Strength Is Unknown It is impossible to estimate at this time how great an influence the desire for farm relief has come to exercise over political opinions in the agricultural belt. Its strength ultimately will be determined by the number of votes it can control. No one knows what that number is, but every politician in the country, whether on the Democratic or the Republican side, is trying to guess. Whether it leads to a third party, to a split in the Republican ranks or to nothing more than a compromise, it has gone far enough to be recognized as the one outstanding factor of doubt, perplexiy and alarm in our political situation.

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(Lebanon Reporter) (Republican) Bank bandits usually go where they are invited. The invitation is often produced by some sort of carelessness or indiscretion on the part of the bank, for just as individuals invite robbery by r? nn h the display of diamonds or money on nil their person, so banks lay themselves Banal tS liable to holdup by keeping too much Invited money outside time vaults during business hours and by regular habits of leaving few clerks in the bank at dinner hours or at the opening hours. Bandits know the habits of their bank victims as practically every attack gives evidence of having been carefully planned to take advantage of certain conditions that exist in the institution. A careful bank may experience a holdup, but at least they have not invited it, nor encouraged it. Money under time locks seem to discourage bandits more than six shooters in the hands of the bankers for when it comes to firearms the desperadoes have all the advantage. The attempted bank robbery at Lafayette shrould warn all bankers in this section to use every safeguard to the end that bandits are not invited to stage a holdup in their communities. (Marlon Leader Tribune) (Democratic) Bandits, six of them, robbed a Lafayette bank Tuesday, and killed a police captain. One of the bandits is said to have been shot. The captain was a veteran of the World War and, as Bandits and mi * ht have bee " exp^ „ ... rare courage. He entered the bank capital single handed, other members of the Punishment department on duty at the station being engaged elsewhere, and he did not flinch. The action of the captain, while it cost him his life prevented a serious loss of bank funds. The bandits, frightened by all that had taken place, made a hurried get away with a small amount of cash they had “scooped up” frm the counters. But the price paid was a heavy one and calls attention to the need, of great precaution on the part of all banks. No punishment is too severe for these bandits, and we seriously doubt whether life sentence is sufficient. They do not hesitate to take life, and we wonder whether they have any right to expect the community to spare their life. Much is said for the abolishmet, of capital punishment. Noted men argue that the old idea of an "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” should not prevail in this supposed enlightened civilization. That the taking of human life by an individual does not justify it by the State. We freqently have come to the same conclusion. It is no small matter, the taking of life, and punishment of this kind has much to condemn it. But about the time we feel certain in our convictions something happens, like the banditry at Amboy, and that at Lafayette Tuesday, and we change our minds. Humane death by the State is much too good for degenerates of this type. The old fashioned Indian bonfire around the tree may fill the bill. We can’t escape the conviction that recent political scandals in Indianapolis will bring voters of northern Indiana to a renewed determination that that section of Hoosierdom where politics are far cleaner—the section which also pays the bulk of the State’s annual tax bill—is entitled to a little more consideration hereafter.

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C„ inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. A'l other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. If the owner of a car takes a friend in his car for a ride, and they have au accident and the friend is hurt, is the owner of the car responsible or liable for damages? Yes. What Is meant by “gold filled?” This term is used in the jewelry trade to denote plate of gold on a base metal foundation. What is the meaning of the name Flavia? It is from the Latin and means “yellow.” Why does the human body rise to the surface sometimes after drowning? When decomposition sets in, gases are formed which raise it to the surface. Sometimes days or weeks pass before this process makes the body light enough to float. When was the first public broadcasting by radio done? It occurred July 15, 1917, when a report of the faces of the Inter-Lake Yacht Association at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie was broadcast. At the time it was thought to be a joke.

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The first regular broadcasting was done by KDKA established and maitained by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa. It started broadcasting Nov. 2, 1920. Who played the part of pharaoh in “The Ten Commandments?” Charles de Roche. Is Alice Terry married? In private life Alice Terry, the motion picture actress, is Mrs. Rox Ingram. Her maiden name was Alice Taafe. She was born in Vincennes, Ind., in 1896. Who were Abelard and Heloise? They were famous lovers who lived in the eleventh century, and the romance has been celeorated in prose and poetry. Is “lighted” or “lit” the correct past tense of the verb “light?” Either is correct. Os what country is Bavarvia a part? In November, 1918, the dynasty was deposed and Bavaria was decleared a republic. It is a state of the German Republic. What is the salary of the governor-general of the Irish Free State and that of the ministers who constitute the executive council? Timothy Michael Healy, governorgeneral of the Irish Free State, re-

(Shclbyville Republican) Here is a case tor every owner of houses to rent to ponder over. Henry Beals of Noblesville, owner of numerous houses to rent failed to keep them in decent repair and to maintain them Dutu of * n sanitary condition. Under the State r health laws he was arrested, declared Lana- guilty, was given a jail sentence of owners thirty days and fined one dollar and costs in three cases. Beals said he would prefer going to jail to paying the fines and to jail he went. He says when his time is up that he will bring suit for damages against the city board of health. One of the functions of the city board of health is to keep the city in.a sanitary condition. To this end the law provides a city inspector and clothes him with almost unlimited power. He has the right to enter property to inspect. He has the right to inspect all stores and all other places of business. He has the right to serve notice on all property owners to clean their premises and he has the right to file affidavits against all who fail to obey his orders. If this official finds goods being offered for sale that are not fit for food it is his duty to‘ seize all such foods and to destroy them. While the law is not often invoked, as it was in the Noblesville case, there is no question about the validity of the law. It is all ui to the landlord as to the class of tenants he has ani’ the condition his properties are in. Some rental properties are incubators of disease and all such should be cleaned and fumigated. It is said that because of the Red Cross inspection in Shelbyville that there are no houses in Shelbyville like those in the Noblesville case. (Marion Chronicle) i (Republican) The oil industry has been criticised for overproduction. As in all other problems there are two sides to this question. When an oil company leases land from either a private individual or the Oil Output Government, there is always a stipulan; o- >! tion as to the starting of drilling and n j a C royalties to be paid. An individual Problem naturally wants the company to proceed with the drilling at once in the hope that oil may be found and taken from the ground so that he may benefit by his royalty. The same situation applies on Government land. The Interior Department in canceling an oil and gas prospecting permit in Colorado recently, holds that overproduction of oil can not be held as a factor in delaying drilling operations on leased public land. The opinion written by the assistant secretary affirms the decision of the General Land office. The land office said if no requirements were to be made of permittee or lessee for a given period, “permits should not be issued and no one should be allowed to obtain any preference right to a permit by filing application therefor. Drilling and production on privately owned land have not been stopped and the department can not order activities on Government land discontinued, although in some cases lessees are on request permitted to suspend operations.” Thus it can be seen that the production of crude oil, like the production of agricultural, crops, is in a large measure beyond the power of'producers to control. It is necessary to plant crops each year in order to be assured of a supply of food and it is necessary to drill for oil constantly to be assured of new sources of supply, but neither the farmer nor the oil producer can so regulate the output, against the forces of nature, as to accurately balance supply with demand.

ceives a yearly salary of 10,000* or slightly less than $50,000. With the exception of the president of the executive council, who receives an annual salary of 2,500*, all ministers on the executive council recei e 1,700* a year. What is Babe Ruth’s religion? Roman Catholic. Is there a bird that hangs the shed skin of a snake over the limb of the tree? The great-crested flycatcher is said to do this. How many Stone Mountain half dollars were minted in 1925? The total amount was $1,157,354.50. What Is the address of Estelle Clark, the movie actress? Metro-Goldwyn Studios, Culver City. Cal. What gas has the grea est lifting power? Hydrogen, the ordinary lift of which is sixty-eight pounds per 1,000 cubic feet, varying somewhat with temperature, barometric pressure, and purity of the gas. On what date did Peary reach the North Pole? April 6, 1909. What is the meaning of the name McCarthy? “Son of a weaver.”

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The name and addreia must accompany ev rji ’ iitU on request will not be published. Ltj ters not exceeding 200 words will receiver preference. To the Editor: FOR SALE, TRADE, SWOP, GIVH AWAY or WHATCHA GOT? One large lot of used mayors. Mayors of all kinds. A good assortment to choose from. This city is promising to become the largest mayoralty center in the world. A beautiful stone building located on the corner of Ohio and Alabama Sts., is equipped with all modern and up-to-date machinery to turn out first-class mayors. Mayors are being turned out in wholesale lots. A good output is even now ready for the market, and are going fast. There is a mayor to fit every pocketbook. Phone, write, tel( graph or coma yourself. : No returns, lay aways or C. O. D. deliveries. Sold by weight only. Shipped in neat package with plain label. F. O. B. Indianapolis. Fifteen cents higher In Canada. Liberal discount allowed If ordered in large quantities. Note: If you come yourself be sura to wear a lodge pin or carry you! local banner or you may ba mistaken for one of the mayors. J. BRUCE VAN DARLINGTON* To the Editor: Asa spirited citizen of our too much persecuted city and State, I must take exception to your idea of news material, as appears In today’s Issue of The Times under thd catchy heading. Will’s Willing. I confess that I consider Will Rogers one of our foremsot humorists, and I have enjoyed all his stuff that has appeared in your columns until my optics scanned the articla in question. To me it Is quite removed front humor, and has only the earmarks of “just another dig at our fair city." You have won considerable favor and respect through your activities in bringing political corruption to Its tragic end, and now that our city Is scrambling to her feet, you will do well to refrain from the use of such stuff as this, whether it appears under the name of Will Rogers or our able humorists, George Ade or Kin Hubbard. Now is the time to try to lift up Indianapolis to the high plane of national respect and dignity that was once hers, rather than to print and encourage through your columns such criticism and dirty digs as Will handed out. I believe several hundred thousand citizens will agree with m® that Indianapolis has had It rubbed in qiute a plenty, and should cease to be the laughing stock of the nation. Yours for giving our city a chance. THOS. E. HAI-SEY, 947 N. Illinois St. To the Editor: I have been traveling through the East and have visited several of the larger cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Richmond, Va. Since I am very much Interested in both men’s and women’s styles, I took particular note of the eastern shops. It was with a feeling of pardonable civic pride that I noticed that our own stores and exclusive smaller shops of Indianapolis compare favorably with the eastern store offerings. INDIANAPOLIS FIRST. To the Editor: One-half million for a baseball park! The east side is to be congratulated. So-called near east-end of the city, where the beautiful new and modern structure will be erected, barring failure of the City Plan Commission to issue a special permit, can ill afford to object after digesting Owner Perry’s plans. Avery large part of the ground to be included Is idle and In rundown condition. In fact, that old, vacant homestead site is an eyesore, standing on high ground where it leaves a bad impression with the many tourists who pass that way. Putting $500,000 into a ball park certainly means assurance of architectural and decorative beauty for everything in connection with th® structure, grounds, walks, driveways, lawns, grandstand and fences. It is said traffic congestion will b avoided on surrounding streets by the club officials’ foresight In providing ample parking space on baseball property for week-day demand and for much of the Sunday attendance. A league baseball team plays only half of its games at home. It is our prediction that residents of the east side will be surprised over the Improvement a modern park will bring to their section of the city. If baseball is to live and prosper in Indianapolis the park must set in a desirable location. The teams can not play in the river bottoms. THREE NEW PARK BOOSTERS.

Old Masters

Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in tho smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! —William Wordsworth: Sonnet romporrt upon Westminster brldce, brpt. S, ISOS.