Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1929 — Page 13

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Children Gain in Strength as They ‘Play’ at ‘Work’

. ,~s W nifrcci Smith, assistant director (left) and Miss Winifred Conr.rk. director of occupational therapy work of the Junior League, assist ing children in the Riley hospital workshop. Below, Mrs. Edwin M. McNally, 112 West Forty-first street, chairman of the occupational therapy committee of the Junior League.

MAYOR FIGHTS BOOZECHARGE East Chicago Executive to Ask Case Be Dropped. Bu 'l inn s Special HAMMOND. Ind.. Nov. 14 —Judge Thomas W. Slick will hear arguments in federal court here Saturday morning on pleas in abatement filed by counsel for Major Raleigh P. Hale of East Chicago and other city officials indicated during the recent grand jury session at South Bend on liquor conspiracy charges. Besides the mayor, the defense move includes Police Chief James Regan; Martin Zarkovich. detective chief; Police Captain Knight and Patrolmen Ralph Hart and Patsy Ramey, all of East Chicago. In behalf of the defendants, it is alleged government agents acted illegally during the grand jury session in that they took witnesses into a room adjacent to that of the jury and questioned them, admitting only those whose evidence was favorable to the prosecution side of the case. * Attorney C. B. Tinkham, defense counsel, contends in the pleas that the grand jury is a body whose duties do not end with indictment of the guilty, but also include protection of the innocent, and that it is legally required to make an impartial presentment. It is asserted alleged acts of agents in advance questioning of witnesses prevented the jury from functioning properly.

OPEN BIDS MONDAY Specifications for Street Markers Changed. Bids on the street sign., requisitioned by the board of safety last week, will be opened at 10 a. m. Monday, according to Joel A. Baker, city purchasing agent. The board of safety ordered Baker | to get bids on specifications that conform to the American Engineering Council. Baker said he will confer with the board of safety and a special council committee to make sure that “every one is satisfied.” Delay caused by disagreement between council and administrative officers wi; make it necessary to postpone erection of the signs until spring, Robert F. Miller, safety board member, said. The signs will be used to mark streets which were designated in December, 1928. by the present council. ! The original requisition, which was sent directly to the purchasing agent by Police Chief Claude M. j Worley, specified preference for the National Colorotype Company product. $28,300 COLLECTED Attorney-General Regained Funds in Shortages. Attorney-General James M. Ogden’s department has collected and returned to various municipalities a total of $28,292.23 on shortage reported by the state board of accounts during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to the annual report prepared foday. The report sets out that on Oct. 1.1928. eightv-six reports were pending while 110 were certified to the department by the board of accounts during the year. Total number of cases handled were 196. Eighty have been completed and returned to the board of accounts and 116 remain to be acted on. In most instances, recovery was made without litigation. Old fees and unclaimed estates collected added $35,177.04 to the state treasury. | Collection costs, covering forty-four j counties, Is given as $411.73.

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BY ELDORA FIELD LITTLE fingers that creep uncertainly— “ Making pretty things,” but gath- | ering strength unconsciously. Weak and twisted limbs that press loom treadless, again “making pretty things” and piling up, though so slowly, power and symmetry. And small faces where rifts of happy light chase away the grind of pain, because it’s such fun to see rugs and baskets and doll houses grow right before one’s eles; joy to spread paint and beauty over dollhouse furniture—to create—. Out at Riley Memorial hospital the Indianapolis Junior League’s principle of occupational therapy, I that “Every child needs to have his | time occupied” runs a golden thread !of activity through the gloom of | hospital life. Started in 1923 Back in 1923. the league began j this work in Indianapolis at the Robert Long hospital. Later a class ! was started at the John Herron Art 1 institute, training earnest league members for this work. In the autumn of 1924, those who had I completed the occupational therapy course began their work in the I workshop of the new Riley Me- | mcrial hospital. | The work of the Indianapolis j Junior League is concentrated here, I but some occupational work is done at both Robert W. Long and Wil- : liam H. Coleman hospitals. All work is under professional direction i of Miss Winifred Conrick. Her assistant at the Riley hosi pital is Miss Winifred Smith. Miss i Jane Myers is at the Robert W. Long hospital and Miss Mary BritI ton divides her time between the Riley and Long hospitals.

Play at Work The children enter the workshop through a mysterious Pomander walk with cunning cottage fronts on either side, with grass growing around the doors, flowers in window boxes and rambler roses climbing the walls. Delightful tools and materials are in the cottages. They are allowed to play and work. The fact that a boy may be assigned to a scroll saw because it mns like a bicycle and therefore exercises his legs; that a girl is allowed to weave a pretty bit on a loom which requires a certain motion of her arms, detracts nothing from their pleasure. “Sonny-boy,” his body twisted, lies flat on his back all day, but from the side of the small wagon, wheeled into the w r ork shop, he has made a set of doll furniture for a small niece. He has the dreaded Potts disease and never will get well, but he doesn’t know it and, with creative joy in his eyes, plans more furniture. Makes Lots of Things Gene, with the big brow T n eyes, declares he can make, “Oh, lots and lots of things,” and points to woven bits of rugs as proof. Margie, who months and months ago put a lighted match into her small pocket, which a moment later spread flames across all her small body, is whiling away the time weaving tiny baskets while the slow process of skin grafting goes on. If it were not for occupational therapy work and for Indianapolis Junior League members, who give precious hours to these tots, the days would drag like lead. Mrs. Edwin McNally, 112 West Forty-first street, is chairman of the occupational therapy committee of Indianapolis Junior League and her assistants are Mrs. O. J. Ritchey. Miss Caroline Sweeney and Miss Elizabeth Wasson. B’NAI B'rFtH INITIATES Seventy Candidates Take Work at Banquet Honoring Cohen. Work of Indianapolis members in promoting B'nai B’rith, international Jewish order, was praised by Alfred M. Cohen, of Cincinnati, international president, at a banquet in his honor at the Columbia Club, Wednesday night. Seventy candidates were initiated into the Indianapolis order at the meeting in honor of Cohen’s seventieth birthday. Samuel J. Mantel, local president, presided, and Isidore Feiblem&n was toastmaster. Leo Kaminsky, Eph Levin, and Henry Blatt led the Indianapolis degree team in ritualistic work.

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RELIEF PLEAS TO BEJSPEEDED Legion System Eliminates Delays for Veterans. Delays in consideration of relief appeals of disabled veterans will be eliminated under a newly adopted system, Watson B. Miller, national American Legion rehabilitation chariman, today told the legion’s national executive committee in session at the national headquarters. He reported that *\ more accurate system for considc. .ig appeals has been established, ana expressed the opinion this will eliminate much discontent with government operation. The committee also was informed of formation of a separate board at the Veterans’ Bureau in Washington to determine total disabilities of applicants for maturity government insurance. In its two-day meeting the committee will consider proposed departmental pilgrimages to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, national Poppy day, participation of the legion rifle team in the annual contest at Camp Perry, O.; revision of the income tax laws and request of the Russian Society of Veterans for aid from the United States government. Acceptance of a painting of Miss Jane A. Delano, director of nursing for American Red Cross during the World war also was expected. Probation Officer Chosen SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 14.—C. E. Rusk, formerly of the Indiana Boys’ school at Plainfield, has been appointed as an adult probation officer in the probation department of St. Joseph county.

SLAYING CONNECTED WITH LIQUOR TRADE

Bu Times Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Nov. 14. Joseph Picallo, 29, of East Chicago, slain as he left a poker game at Calumet City, 111., has been definitely linked with liquor dealing here, according to federal authorities, who are also interested in the slaying of Fred Konenkamp of Chicago, who’s body was found in Hammond. It has been established, the federal officers say, that Picallo had been a partner of Livio Fomari, at whose home a large still was seized recently, and of Matt Such, proprietor of a bar at Indiana Harbor. Both Fomari and Such are awaiting trial on charges of violating the prohibition law. The name of Mary Such, believed to be the daughter or sister of Matt Such, was found on a piece of paper Konenkamp carried. Officials are inclined to hold a theory in his slaying that he knew too much about liquor dealing in this section. A letter from Mary Such and bills showing Konenkamp had bought furniture for her, were found in his clothing. District Attorney Oliver M. Loomis —after questioning Picallo’s widow

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 14, 1929

LEADERS ARE CHOSEN FOR FUNDDRIVE Community Chest Campaign Will Open Friday Night at Claypool. GOAL TO BE $786,853 I 2,000 Workers Enlisted for Solicitation; Nov. 25 Closing Date. Leaders in various divisions of the tenth annual Community Fund campaign, which opens with a meeting Friday night in the Claypool, were announced today by J. I. Holcomb, general campaign chairman. More than 2,000 workers will begin general solicitation Saturday to reach the goal of $786,853 by Nov. 25. The list of leaders: Special Gifts Walter C. Marmon, chairman. District I—Leo M. Rappaport and William J. Mooney Sr., chairman; team members, Hugh J. Baker, Samuel Sutphin, Ferdinand Barnlckol, James E. Bartlett, Arthur V. Brown, Franklin Vonnegut, W, F. Cheek, Irving Lemaux, Brodehurst Elsey, Albert S. Goldstein, Mortimer M. Furscott, Arthur Taylor. William H. Insley, Fred Appel, Hugh McK. Landon, Charles J. Lynn. District 3—J. H. Trimble and Guy Wainwright, chairmen; team members, Earl R. Conder, Volney M. Brown, Berklev Duck, Charles Mayer. Henry Dithmer, J. J. Kiser, Edgar H. Evans, Leroy C. Gordner. Edward G. Hereth, John G. Rauch, A. D. Hitz, Edward A. Kahn, Walter C. Marmon, George S. Olive, Obie J. Smith, R. Hartley Sherwood, Carl Walk. District 3—Nicholas H. Noyes and L. L. Goodman, chairmen; team members, Chester W. Albright, Frank Laird, Frederic M. Ayres, G. Barret Moxley. Ralph Bamberger, Ross Wallace. Lester Budd. Dick Miller, Woods Caperton, Roy E. Adams, Fred C. Dickson, Theodore Griffith. Samuel Frommer A. G. Snider. A. Kiefer Mayer. Louis M. Huesmann. Donald S. Morris. Myron Green, Curtis H. Rottger. L. C. Huey, Merle Sidener. Charles J. Karabel). Elmer Stout. Donald Test. Issac Woodard. Albert S. Pierson, James Yuncker. E. P. Severns, J. L. Rodabaugh. Thomas N. Wynne.

Individual Gifts Herman P. Lieber. Edward A. Kahn, Fred Hoke, co-chairmen. District I—H. C. Atkins, chairman; captains, F. E. Glass, Henry M. Jameson. r. Baker, Harold B. Tharp, Perry E. O’Neal. Roy Shields. District 2—Dean Francis, chairman; captains. H. J. Berry. Raymond C. Fox, Ernest C. Ropkey. E. Blake Francis. M. D. Lupton, C. Milton Kellv. District S— Samuel Mueller, chairman; captains. L. D. Bell. A. H. Goldstein, Robert S. Stempfel, Leonard Strauss, Erwin Vonnegut. B. D. Spradling. District 4— Scott R. Brewer. • chairman; captains, Henley Hottel, F. M. Knifrht. C. Leroy Austin, Clarence F. Merrell, Walter T. White. A. J. Wohlgemuth. Districts— A. E. Baker, chairman: captains. C. C. Ridge, George A. Kuhn. Paul W. Simpson. Robert W. Fleischer. Ralph F. Thompson. Alexander Corbett Jr. District 6—John A. Hook, chairman; captains. William J. Greenwood. Morris Sims, M. L. Norland, William B. Halgerty, R. O. Beane, Edward H. Harris. District 7—George P. Torrence, chairman: captains, Rex C. a Boyd. Malcolm Moore, H. E. Ralph G. Elvin, Frank G. Morrison, William M. Zeller Jr. District B—Harold B. West and Dwight S. Ritter, chairmen: captains, Myron Hughel, Harry Nicoli. Henry T. Davis. Rev. C. G. Baker, William H. Book, George E. Oren. Employes’ Division Howard T. Griffith, chairman: northeast. Walter E. Kemper; northw’est. James L. Kalleen; southeast, L. C. Breunig; southwest, Maurice Collins. Commercial Division —Merlin M. Dunbar, chairman; District 1, C. R. Weaver; District 2, W. W. Colby; District 3, Malcolm Lucas. Mercantile Division —Perry W. Lesh. chairman; District 1. R. H. Losey; District 2. Norman Baxter; District 3, Donald A. Morrison. Public Division —Robert H. Bryson, chairman. * Utility Division— Zeo W. Leach, chairman. Railroad Division —Edwin S. Pearce, chairman. Branch House Division Almus G. Ruddell. chairman, and twenty workers: J. A. Brookbank. A. M. Chapman, George Jackson, David T. Nicoson. J. B. Shideler, Fred J. Trupp. George Weaver, Fred I. Wilis, Frank Peters, Ancil T. Brown, H. E. Harrold, George Bockstahler, Lew Cooper, F. W. Ahtbecker, J. Edward Rehm, James H. Ruddell, Arthur C. Demaree. Charles Schnicke, D. R. Guthrie, George W. Thompson.

and her mother—refused to make a statement. There is belief in some quarters that Picallo was slain because he had given federal authorities information, but they say he has never been a witness before a United States grand jury, although his father-in-law, John Natale, reputed to have become wealthy in liquor dealing, gave testimony. Funeral services for Picallo were held at Gary, Wednesday, while a I curious crowd milled about a church eager to glimpse the more than one hundred gangsters from Illinois who came by motor to attend the services. Flowers of all colors and species—enough to fill five huge trucks—were banked about the inside of the church and piled in front of the doors. Students to Teach By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 14. Religious education students at De Pauw university will again this year teach courses in character education in the local public schools. The course, not a part of the curriculum last year, now will earn college credit.

Third Church Scientists’ New Home

\ From temporary quarters it has X •"'s7 occupied for ten years at 3350 ■(/ ;:A w. Washington boulevard. Third Church of Christ, Scientist, has /...Allmoved into its new and imposing ANuii/jW ■ ’ " * edifice at Washington boulevard and Thirty-fourth street. First , J X *■ / : StL : services were held In the new V\\ J - | |f| ,' ft tWf church Sunday. The Third church

TWO ARRESTED .FOR ACCIDENTS Cyclist and Schoolgirl Hurt in Crashes. Theale Haupt, 19, of 541 North Delaware street, was in Indiana Christian hospital today with a double fracture of the right leg, sustained when thrown from his motorcycle as it struck an automobile in the 3900 block Central avenue, Wednesday. , Mrs. Mildred Augustine, 806 East Sixty-sixth street, the motorist, was charged with assault and battery and failure to signal a left turn. Paul Schrader, 27, of 2217 West McCarty street, was charged today with failure to stop for a school bus, after his auto struck Gladys Blunk, 7, of R. R. 7, Box 258-D, as she alighted from a township school bus near her home, Wednesday. She was injured only slightly. Joseph Copeland, 55, of 317 East South street, was cut and bruised when struck by an automobile at Virginia avenue and South street, Wednesday night.

Wave and Save Motorists Are Urged to Use Hand Signals on Slippery Streets.

SIGNALS!” This crux in every day play of a football game is just as vital on the traffic gridiron—the city’s streets —in winter weather, according to a bulletin released today by the Hoosier Motor Club to city and state motorists. The bulletin urges automobile drivers to familiarize and prac-

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tice hand-signals from autos in order to decrease the number of accidents in the winter months on wet and slippery streets. The signals areLeft Turn—Extend the left arm in a horizontal position. Right Turn—Extend left arm with the forearm raised perpendicularly and at a right angle to the main arm. , Stop or Slow Down—Extend left arm in horizontal position and move it up and down in a vertical direction. Back Out or Head Out From Curb—Same signal as for left turn. MISSING BOYS HELD Indianapolis Youths Are Under Arrest in Wisconsin. Gone from their homes two days, two Indianapolis youths were held today in Elkhorn, Wis. They are: Gifford Phillips, 14, of 3105 Northwestern avenue, and Vaughn Fitzwater, 16, of 1033 West Thirty-sec-ond street. Elkhorn police detained them, in company with a third youth who gave his name as Albert Wells, 22, and said he was from Indianapolis. girl~d7es in crash Bookkeeper One of Four Victims When Train Hits Car. Miss Maude Ellis, 22, of 2452 North Delaware street, bookkeeper,

i vas one of four j. srs on s killed \ hen a coupe was i iven into a | eight train at he West Morris •eet crossing of ! h e Pennsylvania iiroad, Mars ill. early today. [ The driver of he coupe is “ught not to ve seen the in until too -e to stop on the lipper y pavement. Three men

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LICENSE FEE PLUM GIVEN MOTOR CLUB

New Contract Signed for Distribution of Auto Plates, Papers. Thirty-eight towns and cities again will have their automobile ahd drivers’ licenses distributed by the Hoosier State Automobile Association next year. Contract for this patronage has been signed by Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield and M. E. Noblet, secretary and manager of the motor club. The new contract, similar to the one which this year brought the club a harvest of notary fees, 7/ere disclosed today as the result of a row in the Kokomo branch. Mrs. Ruth Ross Herrman, manager of the Kokomo license distribution branch for the Hoosier State Automobile Association, has declared that from now on she is going to turn the notary fees, minus office expense, into the Kokomo Community Fund. Noblet and James A. Bradley, chief of the licensing division in Fifield’s office, assert that this would violate the contract. Noblet, however, did not say that he would demand the resignation of Mrs. Herman on the grounds of insubordination. Bradley stated that the present license distribution at Kokomo is *under a contract with the Hoosier State Automobile Association, which expires Dec. 14, T 929. He failed to mention that anew contract takes effect immediately after that date. This fact later was confirmed by the secretary of state. Mrs. Herrman declares that the office at Kokomo took in $6,000 :n notary fee and made a net profit of SI,BOO. She says that, commencing Friday, she is going to divert all profits to the community chest, rather than send them to the association headquarters at the English hotel here. She has defied Noblet to take possession of the records and other accessories. He refused to state today what action he will take.

FOUR DIE IN CRASH OF AUTO AND TRAIN

Three Men and Woman Are Instantly Killed as Auto Hits Freight. Jammed in the wreckage of a light coupe when it ran into the side of a Pennsylvania freight train on West Morris street, one-half mile west of Tibbs avenue, early today, three men and a woman were killed instantly. The dead: William Carmichael, R. R. 6, deputy sheriff, employed at the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Mars Hill airport. Miss Maude Ellis, 22, 2452 North Delaware street. Karl A. Kirchefer, 37, of 1928 North Pennsylvania street, oil burner salesman. James E. Tribble, 40, of 229 East Minnesota street, plumbing and electrical equipment maintenance man employed by Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Their heads were crushed, and all received broken arms and legs, Coroner C. H. Keever determined this morning. Kirchefer’s body was wedged so tightly in the wreckage of the auto that a part of the car was cut away to remove it. The machine struck a steel gondola in the middle of an inbound, thirty-car freight train, under R. O. Sparrow, 512 South Lindbergh avenue, engineer, and Emmett Gregory, conductor. The front of the machine was demolished, and the motor driven back into the seat. Unaware of the crash, the train crew did not stop. Marks on the freight car later served to identify the train into which the auto crashed. Ths bodies were discovered eight minutes after the train passed the crossing, by William Dunigan and Orville Kams, Coal City, en route to Jiidianapolis with a truckload of hogs. Kirchefer came to Indianapolis a year ago from Columbus, O. He was

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From temporary quarters it has occupied for ten years at 3350 Washington boulevard. Third Church of Christ, Scientist, has moved into its new and imposing edifice at Washington boulevard and Thirty-fourth street. First services were held in the new church Sunday. The Third church congregation was organized and incorporated April 24, 1916.

Chivalry, sll Bn Times Soccial MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 14. Two boys threw tomatoes at a woman. Elmer Mann, 20, interfered. A fight followed and one of the two boys was knocked down. Mann paid a fine of sll.

MARONEY GOES TO 1). S. PRISON Two Former Dry Agents Are Sentenced. Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 14. Two former prohibition agent" sentenced in the United States district court here entered the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., Wednesday to start sixteen month sentences each for conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. John J. (Jack) Maroney, Indianapolis, and Conrad (Blackjack) Bivins, South Bend, are the prisoners. and Maroney pleaded guilty to charges of giving protection to Andrew Kekko, a South Bend bootlegger. Kekko received an eight-months term in the county jail here. Maroney served in the prohibition squad in Indianapolis and previously was a member of the Department of Justice bureau in that city Bivins for a time served as head of the prohibition squad in South Bend. He won his nickname Blackjack after he used a weapon oi that nature on the head of a motorist who parked his car in such a fashion that he discommoded the dry agent.

connected with the Bryce Electro Oil Burner Company, 19 East South street. Miss Ellis, Kirchefer’s companion, formerly lived in Conneaut, O. Her father, William, now lives in Detroit, and her mother is in Williamson, N. Y. A brother, Edward of Conneaut. was en route to Indianapolis today to claim the body. She is survived also by a sister in Ohio. Tribble is survived by the widow, in Columbus, 0., and his mother, Mrs. Earl Tribble, three brothers and a sister, all of Boston. He lived here with a brother-in-law, Joseph Blettner. BUND LEGION OFFICER AT BOARD’S MEETING National Vice-Commander Lost Sight at Bois d’Ogona. Frank Schoble Jr., blind war veteran, attended his first semi-annual meeting of the governing body of

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fantry, In a divisional attack on Bois d’Ogona, Oct. 5, 1918, a fragment of a high explosive shell passed through his head, blinding him. He was elected to his present post at the recent national legion convention in Louisville.

ENGLAND JARS WORLD BY HER NAVALSTAND Tradition of Centuries Will Be Upset If Britain Gives Up Sea Mastery. READY FOR NEW DEAL Right-About-Face Comes as MacDonald Takes Helm of Empire. This is the fourth of a great aeries on the coming five-power naval parley in London, written by an authority on international affairs. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-lloward Foreign Editor If Premier MacDonald’s promiso of full naval parity between the United States and Great Britain is made good at the London conference Britain's part in that historic meeting will be hardly less epochal than that of America. The World war left the United States amply able to dominate the Seven Seas if it cared to do so. But, doing what no nation ever had done before, it turned the opportunity down. All it desired was fair play, not domination. Now Great Britain appears to be on the point of doing a similarly unheard of thing. Having fought one of the greatest naval battles of all time to get control of the seas, and having retained that control for centuries at the cost of war after war, her government today declares its readiness to accept anew system. Stand Is Remarkable

In some respects Great Britain’s stand is even more remarkable than America’s. The American people never have thought in terms of lording it over the oceans, whereas the British always have been taught that if they could not control the sea, they would be lost. Geography has more or less dictated British policy. An island empire lying just off the continent of Europe, Britain always has had very powerful potential—and often, avowed—enemies just across the channel, so, for her, it was a case of maintaining a navy capable of licking that of any of her neighbors, or any likely combination of her neighbors, or being licked herself. Thus from the time of Alfred the Great down to Ramsay MacDonald, the British have lived and breathed the idea which Tennyson put into words, namely that “the fleet of England is her all-in-all.” This was uppermost in the mind of Queen Elizabeth, and in the minds of her Raleighs and her Drakes, her Hawkinses and her Howards when they mothered and sired the overwhelming fleets which were to make the little island kingdom the greatest maritime power of all time. Fought for Rule From the destruction of Philip of Spain’s Invincible Armada in 1588, to the scuttling of the German fleet of Kaiser Wilhelm 11, at Scapa Flow in 19J 9, Britain retained command of ti e seas and went to war at the drop of the hat the moment she felt that command threatened. For upon her sea power she banked everything she had or ever hoped to be One after another she fought and sunk the fleets of challenging nations, singly and in coalitions, while she went on adding colony after colony to her empire. Navy-built, this empire was held together by its navy, as British industry grew and flourished and British trade spread to the four corners of the earth. Only one serious setback was encountered in ail that time, and thab was at the hands of her American colonies. Small wonder, then, that when at the peace conference of Versailles, President, Wilson broached the subject of “freedom of the seas,” the blood of Britain ran cold. A world in which the British navy was not mistress was simply unthinkable. Not Impossible Dream Nevertheless some such amazing thing as that now seems about *o happen. A conference has been called to meet next January, in London, to discuss naval limitation on a basis of parity between Britain and America and proportionate strength for Japan, France, and Italy.

Equality on the high seas, with the ships of all nations free to carry on their commerce, alike in war and peace, subject only to certain simple rules affecting contrabrand, is not an impossible dream. Law may be applied to the lawless ocean, hitherto subject only to the rule of might, and in this millennium Britain, as well as America, has promised to play a part. The millennium, however, has not yet arrived. Far from it. A dozen towering obstacles must be overcome. But the London conference proposes to tackle this unheard-of thing—and we shall see what we shall see. DESCRIBES GIRLS’ WORK * - Kiwaaiis Club Is Told of Methods Used in Redemption. Education, ideals, and good environment form the mental and spiritual diet of inmates of Indiana girls’ school, Clermont, Dr. Kenosha Sessions, superintendent, said at the weekly luncheon of the Kiwania Club Wednesday at the ClaypooL Dr. Sessions spoke on “Redemption of Indiana’s Girls,” declaring that 75 per cent of delinquent girls come from broken homes. David Liggett, executive-secretary of the Community Fund, talked briefly on the kind campaign.