Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1929 — Page 4

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Saving the Bchools Every good citizen must sympathize with the purpose, even if he disagrees with the method, of the group of men and women who have organized to rescue the public school system from the grasp of < oftin and Shipp. Tim most serious indictment that could he drawn against this city is that it p< rmitted its schools to get. into hands ha were eiher so unclean or ignorant as to permit a vendor of ventilators or a purveyor of job' to ontrol the entire system. That, siut ation is in itself a denial of the value of education as a factor oi progress. But !♦ happened, nevertheless. The schools at the present time vacillate between the s '_'c -tion- e,f political boss and the politic i manufacturer of ventilating systems. Only very rr ently h;i> the hand of Coftin become apparent in the ontrol of the schools. He did no' permit his influence to become known until he needed the jobs 4 o holster up his fast-failing machine. And it is significant that very many who were ' ompia-vr,. while he was running the of city and county became indignant when lie placed bossjsm on the pedestal of the pedagacue. There is one ure and certain iaet. Ihe present <d,ool commissioners are either too ignorant or worse to be permitted to direct the schools of the city. They were elected in a wave of bigotry, when every standard was forgotten. They may be useful, but their place is not in the school -V'-tem. Now comes ,i group of men and women who declare that < ofl’in shall not corrupt the schools as he has corrupted every other part of public affairs with which lie has had a part, bathers and mothers have asserted that no man who is free because of the statute of limitations operated to conceal his attempted bribery of a Governor is tit to run the schools. Not only Coffin, but Coffinism must be banished from the school system. They must not he an adjunct to political machines operated for senators or governors or potential governors. Let it be hoped that the ticket of the group of men and women who defy Coffin will be of such outstanding character that not, even the most thick-skinned of Coffin's men would dare to oppose them ai the polls. After that comes the more difficult task of getting the votes counted. Lame Ducks The Senate has approved the Norris lame duck amendment for the sixth time in recent years. It now goes to the house, where leaders heretofore have opposed it and accomplished its defeat. What their attitude will be this time has not been revealed. There is no question as to what it should be. however. The house should adopt the amendment and give the states opportunity to ratify it. No tenable argument can be advanced against changing the archaic system which keeps a newly elected congress from taking office until thirteen months after election. The amendment would have the new congress assemble annually on Jan. 2 following the November election. The President would take office Jan. 15. Men repudiated by their constituents would not b“ able to remain in congress for more than a year. House leaders have opposed the amendment because the presence of lame ducks strengthens their control. Men who have been defeated and who are not answerable to the voters are easier to handle than those who have an election day ahead. Moreover, lame ducks frequently want government jobs, and It behooves them to please those who ran bestow them. House leaders should put selfish political considerations aside when the amendment is considered in the lower chamber. Why All This Darkness? “(Urc Light mid the People Will Find Their Own Wap.'" What is it inside of most of us that makes us want to pull down the blinds and whisper behind closed doors when anything vital is to be discussed? What is it in officials that makes them think the best way to handle vital public business is in secret, lest the public learn too much? Here, just as the senate is about ready to sluff off its rule ot secret sessions lor consideration of federal appointments, along comes the new national commission on law enforcement and decides to hold its hearings in the dark. This history of the rise cf democratic government could be written :n terms of the opening of star chamber proceedings to public gaze Justice, liberty, and peace have advanced only as the closed doors of courts, legislative assemblies and international conferences have been battered down by the people’s demand for open covenants, openly arrived at. The twentieth century is too late a day. and the United States is too enlightened a nation, for these old and hard-won battles for publicity to be fought over again. For this issue goes to the foundations of our government. Government by the people is not only a mockery, but a positive clanger, unless the people have the full facts and information to determine their popular mandate. Moreover, such publicity in public affairs is the only automatic check yet devised against possible corruption, inefficiency, and partisanship of officials. It is therefore no accident, but a deliberate and basic safeguard of government, that American legislative bodies conduct the people's business in the people* presence, and that hearings of such agencies as th tariff commission and the federal trade commisrion on law enforcement should keep open its doors. Its inquiry, authorized by congress, is to be aimed at t.%<? most controversial atA involved problem in the

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nation. It is to probe the inefficiency of officials and methods and the inadequacy ol machinery and laws, which have made up. according to the President, the most lawless nation in the world. It is to tap the reservoirs of popular psychology which permit and sustain this widespread lawlessness. The cause of the evil is in the people, and the cure is, in the people. Therefore, unless the people follow this inquiry month by month, and understand its evidence, the results of the investigation will be negligible. There have been plenty of academic studies and solutions of our inepi legal system in general and of prohibition in particular, and another such by this national commission will not help muen. The whole practical problem is to let the people see what is wrong, so that the large group of otherwise law -abiding citizens, as the President calls them, will obey the laws. Whether that entails further trial of the prohibition experiment,” or scrapping the experiment which fails to prove its worth, the solution depends almost completely on popular support To hear the evidence before this commission is the people's duty. Incidentally, it is the people's right. Sinclair Is Lucky It's rather hard on Harry Sinclair, getting another tail sentence from the supreme court before completing his first term. It is especially hard, considering that the multimillionaire naturally believed his high-powered lawyers who promised to g;t him off. That first sentence of three months was only for contempt of the senate, and that didn't sound so bad, didn't exactly brand one as a criminal and all that sort of thing. But to get an extra six months for jury shadowing is rather hard. That is, it seemes hard—so long as Sinclair's conspiracy to defraud the government of its essential naval oil at Teapot Dome is forgotten. Sinclair is not being punished for that. These little sentences are only for the by-products of his business. So. perhaps, Sinclair ought to feel lucky, after all. When the Housewives Roar Speaker Longworth and his fellow czars on the steering committee may be able to muzzle congressmen and refuse to permit debate on the tariff bill, but by the time the increased cost of living reaches the American housewife there won’t be enough muzzles to go around; and then the debate will become national. The indirect taxation by tariff duties isn’t always perceptible, but it can’t be concealed when applied to sugar, shoes or any other necessities that are a part of every family budget. By the time the next congressional election rolls around, the returns from the HawleySmoot tariff monstrosity will be coming in. Two Texans hold the air endurance mark, but surely the mark of 172 hours can be bettered by some filibustering congressman. Detroit typifies the. American melting pot, a Detroiter writes to the newspaper. And the melting pot, by the way, produces some pretty good brew. Some of the profits being made in the stock mar-, kets these days are without honor. The tariff on figs has been increased. Aha. that’s the answer—a fig for farm relief!

In New York

By Gilbert Swan

NEW YORK —Collectors of art treasures live in greater fear of aspiring young artists than of burglars. A burglar, after all. has his handicaps and is an individual, whereas the would-be artist travels in small armies and has the burglar's instinct for getting in. Manhattan. I am told, fairly swarms with young men and women who believe they should be subsidized by rich art fanciers. Furthermore, these youngsters, with the assurance and front of a book agent, seek to storm the gates of private galleries and collections. Some actually succeed in getting into the millionaire's home to sketch some treasured painting. tt n a AND it is for this reason, more than any other. I am informed, that the connoisseurs and important buyers seek to keep their names out of the newspapers Sir Joseph Duveen. for instance, who is the world's most famous buyer of paintings and who is a bidder at every important art auction, never has been heard to make a verbal bid He has a signal system which is understood only by the auctioneer. Few in the auction room are even aware that he has made a bid. Sitting fairly close to the auctioneer, he merely meves his lips slightly. These movements are caught by the person In charge, who replies with a sort of nod. Thus a transaction Is closed without the slightest publicity attending. a e tt THE other day it was discovered for the first time that a certain Mr. Harry Winthrop is none other than Mr. Henry Du Pont, the big powder man from he south. This revelation followed the paying of $4,000 for a mahogany highboy—-the highest figure ever secured for a single pie'-e of furniture. And a mysterious Mr. Winthrop apeared as the purchaser. Believe it or not. none other than William Randolph Hcarst attended this particular sale incognito—and was not recognized. He was found to have used the name of Wood. tt tt tt IT is often incredible—at least to me—how so many people whose names and pictures are forever in the limelight escape recognition at public events. At a recent important film premiere a newspaper announcement carried a list of names of celebrities expected to be present. The largest crowd of curious folk and autograph hunters ever assembled in Manhattan stormed the front of the theater. And Jack Dempsey, for instance, walked for two blocks through the crowd without being noticed. It was only when a theater flare fell upon him in the lobby that the crowd picked him out. a tt n 1 A RECENT disaster at the New York baseball 1 V grounds, caused by a bleachers' stampede during a rain storm, brought to my attention the fact that there is a section known to avid fans as “Ruthville." It is as distinctive a location as a suburb of New York and it is daily populated by the adorers of "the Babe." The section is in right field, where Babe, almost invariably, sends his home runs, and where he also plays his regular team position. Thus the transient dwellers in Ruthville can not oinly participate in his famous swats, but can adore him at first hand as he plays.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M.E. Tracy

SAYS:

.Vo One Ever Has, or Ever Will Control Education for Any Great Length of Time. STRIPPED of amendments against aliens and disfranchised Negroes, the reapportionment bill is passed by the house. This bill provides that the membership of the house shall remain as it is—43s—which means that some states will lose. Obviously, we can not go on increasing the membership of the house forever in order to prevent I some states from losing. If anything, congress has become too big already. a o a Costly War Warning TEN years ago it was the Treaty ; of Versailles, four years ago it 1 wag the Dawes plan and now it is the Young plan. Every successive move has seen reparations whittled down. The allies finally have agreed that Germany will pay only a small fraction of what they originally asked. At that, she will pay the most stupendous tribute ever levied. This tribute does not represent the cost of the war, or anything like it, but it represents enough to warn the next two generations. tt tt tt Thrifty Mussolini Mussolini is one of those thrifty souls who overlook nothing. Whether it is a railroad in Al- j ba-nia, a treaty with the pope or the estate of an Italian laborer, II Duce ! is right therp to see that he gets | what is coming. A claim has just been filed with ! the surrogate of New York, by the Italan government for S9OO. Tire S9OO was saved up by Antonio Comincio, who died four years ago without heirs or will, and who remained an alien, though he had been in this country thirty-eight years. The Italian government claims that Antonia Comincio was a subject of King Victor Emmanuel at the time, and that according to Italian laws his estate should revert to the crown. According to American law, the estate of a person who dies without heirs or will, reverts to the public. Under this law, New York has collector thousands of dollars from aliens, as well as citizens. The property is deposited with the city chamberlain where it is held twenty years for possible claimants. a a u Control of Education DESPITE the fact they have signed a treaty, the pope and Mussolini do not seem to be in complete accord. Mussolini claims the state should control education as a civil right. While the pope claims the church should control it as a religious right. The control of education is the most important factor in life. Every one in power aspires to it, and every one who wants power, hopes for it. Williams Jennings Bryan thought that parents should exercise it. Educators, arguing from the standpoint of expertness, think that they should have it. Asa. matter of common sense, no one ever has, or ever will control education for any great length of time. Education is a matter of growth. It is compounded on the experiences. discoveries and ideals of forgotten millions. The moment it comes under control it ceases to be the real thing. tt tt ft Lucky Furnace Man AN Indianapolis furnace man pays $1 for a ticket on the English Derby and wins $84,750. It sounds all right until one recollects how many other furnace men must have lost that, he might win. The trouble is that most of us simply refuse to be impressed with that side of it. What we want to recollect is the few who win. B tt tt Mr, Menjou’s Hats According to Adolphe Menjou, the well dressed man should have at least a dozen hats. Being a movie actor, his remarks are excusable. Besides, he was addressing six i hundred hatters, when he made | them. As to us ordinary folks, we are doj ing pretty well, if we can mobilize ; one respectable head piece to fit the |season. a tt tt Speakeasies ‘Decline’ Speakeasies are reported to have decreased by 2.000 in New | York during the last few weeks. The thirsty need not be alarmed, however, since, according to police j estimates, there are 30,000 left. Neither do the causes assigned, leave the drys much room for comfort. Some say trade has fallen off bei cause of the summer exodus, other that competition has grown too I fierce for the little fellow, and still ! others that Metropolitan bootlegging has succumbed to the chain system. Anderson Rotarians Elect il i/ 7 mi c# <)D(cial ANDERSON, Ind., June B.—Elmo A. Funk, ice cream manufacturer, has been elected president of the Anderson Rotary Club. Other officers elected for the year are E. W. ; Cooney, vice-president; H. L. Thomas, treasurer; Ben B. Early, secre- ; tary: Harry Palmer and M. E. Van ‘ Meter, directors.

Quotations of Notables

A SCHOOL principal is one who is paid extra to refrain from working too hard, so that when everyone else about the place has gone fagged or wild, his cool head will serve as a nucleus of sanity.— Dr. Daniel W. La Rue. professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State Teachers’ college. a a a Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that the man you fMght to be may, in his time,

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Cancer May Be Caused by Pipe

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Halth Magazine. / 'T''HE average persons thinks of -* cancer as a horrible sore or tremendous growth. That is because cancer all too frequently is neglected until it has reached a serious stage. In the earliest *tage the cancer is a tiny sport, often just a little scaly place on the skin or on the lining of some internal organ. This very early beginning of the cancer, indeed the change even before it becomes visible, can be prevented, so far as we know, only through prevention of the irritating factor that may give it an initial start. Obviously that is so difficult under many conditions that it can not be prevented at all. However, once the cancer is recognized in it earliest stages, the

IT SEEMS TO ME

THEY laughed at me when I bought United States Steel, for I had always been a wall flower and thought filet mignon was a fish. Even my best friends would tell me and it may turn out they -were right if the senate doesn’t quit kicking us financiers about. Personally I blame it all on the agriculturalist's friend and I possess the only practical scheme of farm relief yet devised. My plan is simplicity itself. The federal government should hire Moran and Mack to tour the rural regions and tell just one story at every crossroad. The familiar patter should begin at the point about the pigs. You remember Moran’s family bought them in the spring for "about four dollars” and sold them in the fall for “about four dollars.” It then becomes the cue of Mack to exclaim, “Why, you couldn't make any money that way.” To which Moran would say, “we found that out.” tt tt tt Mix Brains With Seed BUT the American farmer has not found out. Each year he breaks his back to raise wheat at a cost of 90 cents a bushel to sell it later at 75 cents. Each year he is amazed to find this process has left him less than affluent. I’ve always said the farmer was a fool to rise at dawn and toil until the setting sun. Seeminglv it is his desire to raise so much wheat that nobody will want it. If the American farmers in convention assembled would agree never to get up before 10 a. m., the resultant curtailment in production would bring about greater benefits than the honest agriculturists will ever obtain through their obsession for voting the Republican ticket. However, I want to put over the point I love the tiller of the soil and hate to see him destitute. I want to see him happy. It is the hooked whale which threshes about upsetting apple carts. In other words, I regard with high disfavor the proposal of Carter Glass to tax all sales except those in which the purchaser has held his stock more than sixty days. Certain enterprises have been known to disappear in less time than that. Some say the suggestion of Senator Glass is unconstitutional, but I say it violates nature. From the beginning of time it has been the inalienable right of man to drop hot cakes the instant they scorched his

be possible, be actual.—David Starr Jordan. tt tt 9 Every child is entitled at the hands of society to the full development of his finest capacities to appreciate the beautiful and the good. —Harold Saxe Tuttle, assistant professor of education at the University of Oregon. a a a The classic of all classics in the Bible.—Calvin Coolidge.

Complications

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

j growth and spread may be prevented |by early complete removal. The : importance of this fact is greater : than can be estimated. | It is the only certain thing that is known abo’ff controlling cancer in I the human being. The hereditary | factors seem beyond control in manI kind. The prevention of cancer there- ; fore rests on elimination of sources | of irritation ond on the removal of all precancfrous lesions, particu- ■ larly moles, warts, ulcers and erosions. which are subject to irritation and which experience teaches may become the basis of cancer. Cancer of the lip and tongue are among the most common cancers of men and have heretofore occurred infrequently among women. Cancer of the mouth is found ; most frequently among men who use tobacco to excess, who neglect ; their teeth and allow broken or ' jagged teeth to cut the tongue, who

By HEYWOOD BROUN

fingers. Didn’t King Alfred fight a war about something like that? a a tt Eyes of Glass "VVfinanciers have every reason ' * to be surprised at Carter Glass. Who called that piccolo player a statesman? He seems to have fallen into an ignorant confusion concerning the nature of stocks and bonds. Obviously nobody would suggest that Macy's, Gimbel’s, or Best and Cos., should be forbidden to sell any article in the shop without first keeping it around the premises for sixty days. Yet if I buy any number of shares of the three concerns mentioned I am in a way a very practical part owner of the store in question. If Macy can buy goods on a Monday and sell them on Thursday I should have the same right. My certificate means that I possess a certain equity in the cut flowers, not to mention overcoats and notions.

Times Readers Voice Views

! Editor Times—Sti set widening , and pavement improvements being made in many parts of this city are indeed commendable and a source of j much pride to all loyal residents, yet we often wonder if one object of, street-widening is not, after all, being defeated. By this I mean the park at will methods permitted by the so-called traffic force. Capitol avenue north from New i York street has been widened, yet I there is no more room than usual j for the moving motor cars. Where ; cars formerly parked two deep on j each side, they park three deep now. j | This was an expensive and needed J improvement, but as a matter of convenience to moving traffic north I it just as well might remain as of j old. The parked cars defeated the : purpose of the improvement. Some months ago the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting parking on both sides of any street under thirty feet in width. The ordinance never has been enforced. Take any side street north and you i will see cars parked on both sides \ of narrow streets, many using the streets as garages and not even j troubling themselves to burn tail j lights at night. Particularly is this j noticeable on any side street con- j necting with Central avenue. On North Illinois street, between j sixteenth and New York streets, there are safety zones, presumably for protection of street car patrons. Near Sixteenth street are several cut-rate stores. Automobile patrons of these places park their cars in the safety zones while they trade in these shops. I noticed an officer alight from a street car the other evening and he found difficulty in getting over | to the sidewalk for the parked cars. He never gave the ordinance viola-

wear badly fitted, roughened edged dental accessories. Some men smoke the same pipe year after year, holding it always at the same corner of the mouth and directing the stream of warm smoke at the same spot on the tongue. It is believed that thorough cleanliness of the mouth and teeth, correction of all dental defects and the avoidance of such sources of irritation as have been mentioned will do much to lower the incidence of cancer of the mouth. On the other hand, women have taken up smoking at a rate far beyond that of many men. It will be interesting to study the cancer statistics of the future to find out how far this change in the habits of women affects the incidence of cancer of the mouth among them. At present they suffer primarily with cancers of the organs that are specially feminine and which therefore do not concern men.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Gamblers and Others A N attempt to distinguish between an investment and a speculation is the most fantastic sort of quibbling. It is ridiculous to say the man who sells his holdings fifty-nine days after purchase is a gambler, while the fellow who hangs on two days longer is a sound investor and the bulwark of the nation. The only difference between a speculator and an investor is that the latter says, “Let's play three more rounds and then we'll all go home.” I trust Senator Glass is not seeking to eliminate from American industrial activity all taint of gambling. It would be a mistake, I believe, to drive speculation out of the open market into speakeasies which might be called blind bulls. If there is to be no gambling any more after the bill of Senator Glass becomes operative, what does the gentleman from Virginia think will become of “agriculture” and “le-

i tion a thought, judging from the manner he disappeared about his business—or was it business? The celebrated new city ordinance which the mayor said would lessen civic ills and speed business expansion of this fair city, might be all right if the 1.800 or more policemen would try to enforce it. A ride about downtown streets any night will disclose twenty to fifty cars operating at unlawful speeds and burning no lights. It seems that cars in this city either burn bright lights all the time or none at all. Again it is a common sight to see four people crowded into the driver’s seat. The policeman who sees them—or, better said, who refuses to see them—permits the unlawfully laden car to pass without molestation. Why is it that on those widened streets north autoists are permitted to drive at any speed they desire when the city ordinance says thirty miles an hour is the maximum in the outlying districts. What is a stop or preferential street for, if it doesn’t mean the driver must stop before driving into it? There are many in this town who believe that if the fellow who continually chants over the radio about safety first, tells what he is supposed to be doing to make the streets safe, would get his gang together and prevent speeding, prevent double parking, and likewise permit parking only on one side of all side streets north of Washington under thirty feet in width, and force motorists to put their cars in garages instead of leaving them in the streets all night without burning danger lights, he would come nearer to earning the money he now is obtaining, through misrepresentation, from the taxpayers. C. A. DALY. North Alabama street.

J ONE S, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis -

Writing a Column in a Pullman Stateroom Is I cat Calling tor Great Skill and Ingen vity. IT is hard to write this column. We do not mean to say that our marvelous mental endowments are not hitting on all cylinders, but we do mean to say that we are writing it on the train, headed for New York, to experience the thrill which comes only once in a lifetime, to see the first of our offspring graduate from college. tt tt tt In fact, this column had a close call from never getting born. We started to hammer it out on the typewriter, on which we have rendered our daily obligatos for years, when the conductor approached and leaned over. We thought he wanted to make a loan, but he informed us that it w as | against the rules of the Pullman company to use a typewriter on one of its cars. tt tt tt Instantly we massed all our indignations and told that conductor how the sun never set on the newspapers using this column, and that in our very next article we would sound a bugle call to the American congress, the Interstate Commerce Commission and other people living j without work, to rise and abolish the surcharge, that delicate bit of interstate porch-climbing by which the Pullmans, their heirs and assigns now plunder the Americano. tt tt tt AT this thought, the conductor turned pale round the gills and pointing to a quartet of seven-up players twenty feet in front of us, said that he was with us, but the seven-up players were officials and they were disturbed by the music of our literary flivver. Whereupon we told him to tell the seven-up players that four card players, who did not pay their fare, had no right to be disturbed by an honest laboring man who did pay his fare. tt tt tt We accompanied this ultimatum with the gesture we always use in hammering home an eighteen-inch conclusion and the conductor's Adam’s apple registered agitation, whereupon he went to the seven-up players and delivered the package C. O. D. Whereupon the seven-up players nut their heads together and told the conductor to give us a stateroom—and here we.are. All of which goes to prove that the meek shall inherit the earth! a tt tt People, passing our glass exposure, gaze in and pass with hushed footsteps, lest they bother the giant of industry bending over his loom of thought. He is Charles A. Schwab, thinks one; he is Henry Ford concludes another, for the thought of anybody’s doing anything apparently useful on a Pullman car always arouses such .surmises. tt tt tt A ND meanwhile the rocking of -GV fi-, e (rain muddles one's crystal utterances. You reach for a period and you grab a semi-colon; you wish to propound a question in type and the lurching of the train hands you an exclamation point, and by the time the page is finished, it resembles a Chinese laundry check. gitimate business,” about which there is so much concern? Farmer Takes Chance EACH spring the farmer gambles when he plants his crops. In essence he is bidding on red or black when he decides to plant corn or wheat. Only the farmer is an unfortunate player who generally manages to choose wrong. Nor am I acquainted with any business in which risks are not run for the sake of potential gain. Even a statesman is a gambler. When he selects a burning issue for a campaign he makes a wager on the public temper. Glass is possibly a little sensitive about gambling because he stuck with the wrong crowd in 1928. His proposal should not by any means be accepted unless he adds a rider providing no member of congress ever should urge any public policy unless he is willing to stick by it for sixty days. (Copyright. 1929, by The Times)

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JAMESTOWN SAVED June 8

ON June 10, 1610, Lord Delaware reached Jamestown, at the mouth of the James river in Virginia, and rescued from starvation the English colonists suffering there. The rescue saved the first permanent English colony in America from total extinction. Before Lord Delaware's timely arrival, the hardships endured by these colonists were the most severe in American colonial history. They began when Captain John I Smith was forced to leave the col- ; cny to its own resources and return to England to answer some petty charges. When Smith embarked for Engi land the colony was a well-provi- ; sinned settlement, boasting nearly j 500 settlers. No efforts to replenish i their stores by farming was made, however. Six months later, when Lord Dela- | ware arrived with anew colonizing i party this number was reduced, by ! starvation chiefly, to sixty. Lord Delaware, who had come as the first Governor of Virginia, immediately built a flourishing colony. under a government that was I ridiculously pompous for the wilderness. but which, nevertheless, proved highly successful. Father of Doctor Dies I Bu 7 in if 4 Spec in l j ANDERSON, Ind., June B.—Dr. I Forrest W. Freeman has been called to Chillicothe, O, on account of the death of his father, Reuben R. Freeman.