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Start at the Top ' Every progressive and justice-loving citizen will start the ballot by pulling the first lever on the top row of the voting machines. That will register a demand for a constitutional convention as the first step toward a modern form of government. Such convention undoubtedly will take judges and the judiciary out of politics. That makes for more equal justice. It would increase respect for courts and law. It would end the disgraceful spectacle of candidates for the bench begging for votes on partisan pleas and taking with them to the bench possible obligations to politicians. Such change alone would justify the convention. It would make possible other changes, including a fairer tax system which will lift the burden from property and place it upon income and intangibles. Only those who now profit from present inequalities oppose the convention. For example, newspapers with profit? running from a half million to one and a half millions a year, with real property listed at less than a year’s profits, hate to see an income tax on profits. They fight any such change. On the other hand the farmers, the organized workers, the small home owners, the alert and patriotic League of Women Voters, representing the home, demand the change. Start at the top. Pull the first lever. The Cam ign Ends Today ends one of the most unfair and unintelligent national congressional campaigns ever waged by a party in power. Its reward probably will be a sweeping defeat. Allowing for exceptions, such as that of Morrow in New Jersey, the Republican national campaign has been peculiarly lacking in candor or intelligence. It deliberately has evaded or confused issues. It has misrepresented the nature of the worst high tariff law in our history, and has tried unsuccessfully to squirm out of the consequences of that tariff catastrophe. It began by trying to prevent prohibition from becoming a campaign Issue, and ended by straddling that issue. It unwittingly demonstrated the failure of the last congress, under Republican control, to take a single, step to cope with the serious depression and unemployment. Trickery of the meanest sort was resorted -to in Nebraska and Pennsylvania by the G. O. P. against progressive Republican candidates. In the national campaign attempts were made to blind the voters with a fake Red bogey; to escape Republican responsibility for failure of farm relief, by a Russian wheat hoax; to deafen the voters to serious oil shale charges by villifying a responsible public official and the press; to make the Democrat Raskob personally to blame for the Wall Street crash. In general, the Democrats have used cleaner methods, relying on factual criticism of opponents rather than unfair personalities or trickery. Unfortunately, however, the Democratic campaign, though strong in criticism, has been weak In definite national party pledges on leading Issues, such as depression, tariff, taxation, power and prohibition. * • Heavy Republican losses in the election generally are expected. The immediate effect of this will be to cripple, if it does not entirely destroy, administration control of congress. Even though the Republicans retain nominal control of senate and house, the DemocraticProgressive coalition will obtain actual control of the senate and a fighting position in the house hitherto under an absolute G. O. P. dictatorship. • • • Long range results of the probable Republican defeat may be even more significant. These may include: Jeopardy of Hoover and Republican prospects in the 1932 election. Tariff revision downward Prohibition as the major 1932 issue, with the wets retaining the' Democratic national organization and capturing or splitting the Republican national organization. • • * Emergence of new party leaders; such as the wet Republican Morrow of New Jersey and the wet Democrat Bulkley of Ohio and the dry Republican Pinchot of Pennsylvania. Possible—though not probable—change in Hoover policies and party organization to recoup losses and prepare for 1332; this would involve, among other things, presidential retreat from prohibition. • * * Apart from the specific results of Tuesday’s election, the most hopeful general result apparently will be the tendency to ignore party lines. This is true not only in Nebraska, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Chicago and New York City, but in many other localities. Voters are beginning to realize that there is no essential difference between the Republican and Democratic parties as such. On every national issue, the two parties are divided within themselves. The party system In this country, at least for the present, has broken down. Therefore, more and more voters are showing their good sense by trying to pick the best candidate, regardless of party. Jewish Hopes World-wide protest against the British government's new policy restricting Jewish rights in Palestine apparently is beginning to have effect in London. Debate in parliament on the opening day seemed to indicate that Prime Minister MacDonald is feeling around for a way to get back to original British policy, fully supporting the Jewish “national homeland. without enraging the Arabs. It is increasingly clear that the new policy, which restricts Jewish rights of immigration and land purchase, was devised to strengthen British imperial interests in the Moslem world. Support of the Moslem Arabs against the Jews in Palestine was calculated to win the sympathy of Moslems in India and thus stop them from joining the Gandhi nationalist movement, threatening British rule in the east. An apparently authoritative report from London states that the white paper announcing the new British policy was issued by the colonial secretary. Lord Passfleld (Sidney Webb), without being seen by MacDonald and the cabinet. _The secretary for India helped Passfield prepare it.

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If this report is true, it gives MacDonald another excuse to modify a policy which within a few days has done so much to jeopardize British diplomatic faith. The Marquis of Reading, speaking at the opening of the house of lords, voiced world opinion when he said: "This Is not a question merely between the Jews and the Arabs, but a question of British honor. It is the government’s duty to clear up any difficulties there may be and to restore its position as far as it can.” Will They Get Their Man? Whether or not Gifford Pinchot is elected Governor of Pennsylvania Tuesday, the charge that utility companies are spending large sums of money to defeat him should be looked Into by competent investigators. The need of such investigation is even more pronounced than it was several weeks ago, when Senator Borah proposed such senatorial action. Since that time the Clarion River Power Company of Pennsylvania has given new evidence of its determination to prevent the sort of government power regulation for which Pinchot stands. It has asked District of Columbia courts to restrain the federal power commission from attempting to squeeze more than six million dollars of “water” out of its net investment accounts. This is a challenge of the constitutionality of the entire federal power act. Action of the Clarion River Company is a declaration of war on regulation. It will not be a war of cutlass and rifle, such as head hunters are waging against hydro-electric developments in Formosa, but a war of dollars and propaganda and votes,- as well as legal briefs. It will be a war in which the entire power industry will be arrayed solidly. Possibly elimination of Gifford Pinchot, Senator Norris and other men from political life is part of the general campaign. Power companies will win such a ifight unless it is brought out in the open where the public can referee it. The stake is too large to let the victory go by default. The Part-Time Cabinet We suppose there is no way to stop cabinet officers from running about the country making partisan political speeches when they should be in Washington doing the job they are paid for. This sort of thing happens in virtually all administrations and all campaigns. But it looks worse this year, just because there are so many serious problems in the hands of cabinet officers, who can not well be spared for campaign junketing. The case of Secretary of State Stimson, keynoting and campaigning in the New York state election, stands out, because Stimson apparently did not have time to inform himself on the Brazilian revolution and therefore had uhe United States intervene indirectly on the losing side. But the worst case is that of Secretary of Labor Davis. If ever there was a time when the American people needed the full-time paid service of a secretary of labor it is in the midst of economic depression and large-scale unemployment. But since last summer Davis has devoted most of his time to campaigning for the Pennsylvania senatorial seat. During the last crucial month of federal unemployment relief planning, Davis has been in Washington very little. Fortunately, only one more week remains before the election. The actress who asked SIO,OOO damages for a broken nose probably felt she was entitled to the sum by hook or crook. A Pittsburgh man, shot in error by a policeman, complimented him on his alertness. And there is little doubt that the tactful cop replied: "I aim to please.” Before he became a football coacji Knute Rockne says he was a mail sorter. And there’s many a scrub hoping he’ll come aefoss with a letter when the season is over. A sure way to be left in the cold, says Margin Max, is to take a hot tip on the market. An English nobleman has entered the ring. After another title, no doubt.

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MUSSOLINI sent 5,000 soldiers to the wedding wdien King Boris of Bulgaria was married to Princess Giovanna of Italy. Boris has been broke for a long time and it’s likely the soldiers were sent over to keep his creditors from grabbing the wedding presents. 000 Leading citizens of Ecuador want England, Germany or Japan to purchase some wonderful islands lying off their country’s mainland. They wish to keep some Americans from buying them. 0 00 But for the Monroe Doctrine, Ecuador would not be a country, but the back yard of some European power and this is the way they pay us back. He who goes forth into international relations, expecting to find gratitude, is sure to come back with an empty basket. 000 HERE’S something to paste in your hat. Asa result of hard times there have been 3,600 less deaths in Chicago in the last six months. People are not eating themselves to death as they dearly love to do when tines are good. 000 If Ambassador Edga can come clear home from Prance in order to vote the rest of us ought to be willing to walk down to the engine house and do the same thing. Mexico is going to pass a tariff law which will cut down our exports to that country, but we could more than make it up by cutting out the stream of Mexican immigrants coming here to find work. 000 YOU don’t read any more of the prince of Wales riding horseback and being thrown all over the lot. Probably he’s not riding because the Labor party is in the saddle. 000 Robert Brown 60-year-old dope victim, told United States Judge Slick of South Bend he would rather go to the electric chair than to Leavenworth prison, where he could not hit the pipe. To the dope victim the Declaration, of Independence is the wildest of fiction. V 0 0 0 The assistant secretary of war states that he has a plan which will cut profiteering in the event of another war. It’s not enough to “cut” it We should “cut it out.” 000 We are glad to see that the British have sense and sentiment enough to ask people to refrain from putting wreaths on the tomb of their Unknown Soldier as a part of every public program. There’s been too much of this in lib United Elates.

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As a Matter of Fact, There Is a Lot of Common Sense in the Popular Attitude Toward Government. THE drift admittedly is Democratic. It began not only with the crash in Wall Street last year, but with the change in sentiment toward prohibition, which covers several years. Politicians are unable to measure it, because it is not of their making. A few voters may have been persuaded to split or bolt tickets, but the vast majority are acting on their own judgment. Tuesday’s results, with the exception of a few, where some local issue or personality has played a sudden and unexpected part, were on the map last June, if not before. That always has been the way with American elections, especially when upsets occurred. tt tt tt It’s in the Bag Early THE notion prevails that party organizations, spellbinders, literature and campaign funds win or lose elections, and that the outcome is determined during the last two or three months. Some shrewd observer has gone over the records and proved to his own satisfaction, at least, that in every instance this country has voted for the biggest treasure chest, but that does not tell the whole story. What people want they are willing to pay for. When you see large and general contributions for any party, you can rest assured that people are interested in its success. Though it is hard to discover at times, the force of public opinion survives, and can be depended on to upset the most carefully laid plans when aroused. tt a a Public Is Shocked THE public opinion with which we are dealing in this particular instance is not very coherent, because it has not had time to crystalize. By and large, it is the result of shock and disillusionment — Shock over the depression; disillusionment over prohibition. A philosopher could prove that this does not represent great intelligence, that we are sore rather than thoughtful and the motivating desire is for change, without much consideration as to what it means. When he had finished the job, however, he would have proved very little except the one great virtue of democracy. You can’t substitute a good administration for a poor one without putting the poor one out, and that generally represents a sufficiently hard task not to warrant the waste of too much time in thinking about what the good one will do when it gets iij. tt tt tt Common Sense Shown ALL things considered, the people are right in concentra .ing on the idea of merely having a change when they don’t like existing conditions, and in regarding their part as critical rather than constructive. Asa matter of fact, there is a lot of common sense in the popular attitude toward government. We ordinary folks are wise In not undertaking to figure out the details and merely in being guided by results. The best we can do is to elect people to do the necessary work and thinking. If they fail, the best we can do is throw them out and take chances with some other crowd.* You can call this emotionalism, undigested dissatisfaction, mob psychology, or anything,else that suits your fancy, but it’s the best we can do. tt tt # Resentment Drift Grows THE majority of Americans believe, and they have a right to believe, that their system of government is fairly good, and that, with reasonable efficient management, it ought to provide them with a fair degree of order and a fair degree of prosperity. When it fails, they have a right to assume that its failure lies largely with those in office. That is exactly what they are doing today, and that’s exactly what they have been doing for the last year with regard to unemployment, and for the last several years with regard to prohibition. Local issues, factional fights, and the influence of strong personalities §ire having a colorful effect in spots, but underneath it all there is a strong, definite, nation-wide drift. At present it is a negative drift, setting against the Republicans rather than for the Democrats. It is of obvious advantage to the latter, however, and easily can be converted into a postive drift. How far it,will go this trip is a matter of less importance than is the fact that it will go far enough to furnish the Democrats an opportunity to develop an effective organization and formulate constructive policies. The stage is being set right now for 1932.

Questions and Answers

What is the approxiriate area of the continent of North America? Approximately 8,000,000 square miles. What is a gigolo? It is a French slang term for young men who are professional entertainers and dancing partners of rich women. Why is Latin called a dead language? Because it is no longer the vernacular of the people of any country or race. Who is librarian of the library of congress at Washington, D. C.? Dr. Herbert Putman. How many immigrants were admitted to this country in 1928? 307,255.

Daily Thought

The Lord is a God of Judgment. Isaiah 30:18. Every event is a judgment of God. —Schiller.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Too Much Milk Hurts Appetit'e

BY DR. 3IORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tbe American Medical Association and of Hygeia, tbe Health Magazine. FOR many years it has been understood generally that milk is the ideal substance for the diet of the child. It is easly available, simple to use, and is certainly an excellent food from many points of view. It demands only the addition of certain salts and of vitamins to make it a complete food. As pointed cut by Doctors F. W. Schultz and W. J. Siemsen, specialists in diseases of children may be opposed to the opinion of nutrition experts and are inclined to doubt the value of considerable amount of cow’s milk in the child’s diet. They are inclined to believe that milk may be an important factor

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W'HEN the cruel political war is over I have a not.on of two activities which might engage my attention. There is, for instance, literature. I’m carrying around with me a fine idea for a magazine article. Somewhere there should be printed a piece by somebody who likes Hollywood. Right now I’m well equipped to do it. I’ve never been there. But in spite of slam and satire, I can’t believe that everybody connected with the industry is wholly stupid and unowrt’ny. I’ve seen too many interesting pictures. Os course, the screen could be better, but any fan who picks his spots, need not blush at the type of entertainment which he witnesses. Patrons of the legitimate theater, in particular, have no reason to look down on talkie addicts. It seems to me that the best which the stage has to offer still is several cuts below the highest achievements of the movie men. But the best comes into the theater infrequently. Certainly the run of mill fare provided by the theater is nothing to boast of. If I were cast away on a desert island and had my choice to ten average Broadway shows and ten average Broadway talking pictures I rather think I’d take the screen versions. Os course if the plays went with me to the desert island I’d have the opportunity to break my solitude with the companionship of ten average Broadway casts. The pictures would furnish me no human companionship save that of a motion 1 picture operator or so and maybe a couple of ushers. I still think I’d choose the pictures for the desert island. a a tt Track Fast SNAPPER GARRISON, who had a finish named after him, is dead. The most famous jockey of the

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BRYANT’S BIRTH November 3 ON Nov. 3, 1794, William Cullen Eryant, great American poet and journalist, was bom at Cummington, Mass., the son of a physician. Precocious as a boy, Bryant composed “Thanatopsis,” one of the greatest poems in blank verse, at the age of 18. He was sent to Williams college, but left it after a year to take up the study of law. He practiced law for ten years, but continued to write poetry. In 1825 Bryant removed to New York, where he joined the New York Evening Post, of which he later became editor in chief. His editorials were written simply and frankly and in excellent prose style. He best is known as a poet, however, particularly for his “Thanatopsis,” ‘To a Waterfowl,” “The Fringed Gentian” and “The Crowded Street.” Such lines from his -works as “Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,” and “The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,’ have become household quotations. Bryant died in New York at 84 as the result of a sunstroke, while he was making an address at the upveiling of e statue.

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in the causing and development of loss of appetite in children beyond the age of infancy. Several experts have described ill effects from excess feeding of milk, but it is not known whether the development of this phenomenon is due to deficiency in vitamins and minerals, whether it is psychological, or whether it is due to some peculiarity of composition or some special substance in the milk. When a child is fed enough milk to get one-half its total amount of calories in the form of fat, it is likely to develop a loss of appetite sooner or later. A quart of milk a day, once urged as the universal standard, may in time develop a distaste for milk in many children. From the psychological point of

American turf lived through all the perils of a dangerous profession to die in bed at 62. Only a day or so ago a professional parachute jumper died at the ripe age of 78. Seemingly gallantry and daring may be incentives to the human spirit and not threats against longevity. I’ve always hated to accept any theory which would obliterate active spirits. I like to think that somewhere the yell which Garrison knew in his youth still endures, even if it is no more than a dim echo. And if nobody else raises the cry I will. “Come on, Garrison!” tt tt tt Suggestion I’VE always felt that theatrical managers, the men who put on these big musical revues, make a great mistake in choosing chorus girls. When they first come out and sing, “We are the chorus! We are the chorus!” everybody is very pleased and happy. But you’re tired of them before the show’s done. They all have regular features, and plenty of them, and Gladys looks just like Mae, and Millicent is about the same as Vonnie. It suggests mass production. You feel that the same factory turned out all the bodies. If I ever put on a musical show I’m going to advertise in the news-

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—As our state Constitution is one of the easiest to amend and fairest besides, why is there so much demand for anew Constitution? It will, Earlham college figures, cost about a million dollars. Who ever heard of a man, because the granary needed repair, tearing down the barn to do it? It has been shown that the new Constitution idea originated in the Columbia Club, the den of Coffinism, Ed Jackson, D. C. Stephenson and all the mob of political parasites who have been “feasting in selfish glee upon the life blood of the state.” Thomas Marshall was elected Governor on his slogan: Get back to the Constitution. And he did so get back our state government and kicked out all the political parasites and their lobby, who in their aforesaid den concocted this new Constitution idea to make it so they could not be kicked out. They are baiting leaders in the various organizations to speak for the new Constitution and thus be delegates. Each one of these dupes, the insidious feelers-out and fixers, are getting out more than enough for the hundred delegates, and no one else thus will stand a ghost of a chance of being a delegate, especially if he is faithfully warned against this “gold brick.” This proposed constitutional convention will last admittedly six months, and will be a Belshazzar feast and spending spree, enriching most of the delegates. Governor Marshall stragetically came out for the improvement in our Constitution, so, thinking to use him for a catspaw, they picked him for their screen when they had it all set to take the stave by storm, when Marshall pulled the Constitution, all written oft with their

view, Dr. F. P. Gengenbach emphasized the importance of keeping the milk off the table until the child had eaten the rest of its food. Sometimes, the child refuses to eat all the food in anticipation of the milk which it dislikes and sometimes it gulps down the milk so as to get as soon as possible to the other food which it prefers, knowing that it must drink the milk or it will not be permitted to touch the other food. Orange juice may be given between meals instead of milk in some cases to considerable advantage. Dr. Gengenbach has felt that food should be taken as dry as possible and that the milk should be given only in the quantity which the child desires to take at the end of the meal.

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 oaper.—The Editor

paper: “Wanted for Heywood Broun’s ‘The Indiscretions of 1940’ six chorus girls. Must be moderately plain, but possessing an infrequent and very pleasant smile.’ The first innovation would be to have only six chorus girls—“six appeal.” It’s a mistake to hit an audience in the eyes with four or five dozen. For instance, one producer always advertises, “The most beautiful girls in America.” Then when you see the show you notice that there are sixty or seventy of them. With as many as that being the most beautiful girls in America doesn’t mean much—it’s about like being a vice-president of a chain bank. You see, how different it will be in my show. Just six chorus girls and all of them rather plain. That will be the big sensation for the first act. When they come out singing “We are the chorus! We are the chorus!” everybody will sit up and pay attention. They’ll say, “Why, these girls haven’t got regular features at all. That one over on the extreme left is just a shade crosseyed.” That will stimulate interest. The spectators will be looking around to see what’s the matter with the others. And then suddenly —just before the curtain at the end of the first act—they’ll smile. (CoDvrieht. 1930. bv The Times)

pretended improvements, and it died a-borning. Why? This “Marshall Constitution” can be secured if the Coffin ring hasn’t gotten away with all of them. They don’t want to improve it at all, but they want to make income tax impossible or not to possibly hit the political bosses, and to raise the 2 per cent bonding limit to about 5 per cent, and make nearly all the offices boss appointive and boss controlled. Examine their attempted amendments and be convinced. Illinois recently had such a Belshazzar feast, costing three millions and lasting three years. Then the new Constitution was rejected. Governor Len Small seemed to think he was under it and grafted $3,000,000. A. M. THREEWITS. Editor Times—One of the most important questions to be decided by Indiana voters next election day is whether our state shall have a new Constitution. There is only one way that every thinking voter can answer that question and that is “no.” Among the principal reasons why we should not change the present Constitution is the great expense that the calling of a convention would cost the taxpayers of Indiana. The cost of such a convention has been estimated at $1,000,b00. Another reason is that under the present economic condition of the country, tending to breed Communism, discontent and unrest, such a move is most unwise at this time. It has been estimated that out of 381 attempts to amend the present Constitution, only seven have been successful, which indicates strongly that the citizens of Indiana have been fairly well satisfied with things as they are. It would be extremely difMult to

NOV. 3. 1930

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Only One Star in Millions Believed to Be Surrounded by Its Oum Planet System. A QUESTION which Inevitably bobs up in any discussion of the stars is the problem of life elsewhere in the universe. The speculations of men of science—for here we are in a field where only speculations are possible at the present—have swung back and forth like a pendulum. At times they have thought it rather unlikely that there should be life elsewhere in the universe. At other times they have thought it extremely likely. The opinion has depended largely upon the theory of the earth’s origin which seemed to be most favored at the moment. The problem is one which did not worry the ancients. To them, the earth was the center of the universe and the stars merely points of light fixed in a crystal sphere which revolved about the earth. But with the realization of the immense size of the universe came the question of life in other parts of it Astronomers established the fact that every star is a great blazing globe like our sun. Our sun is a star. Every star is a sun. Might not every star, then, be surrounded by planets? The telescope can not tell us, because stars are so far away that even the most powerful telescope fails to reveal a star as anything but a pinpoint of light. tt tt u Prodigal Nature AT the end of the nineteenth century, many astronomers felt that there must be huge numbers of stars surrounded by planets. But the twentieth century has changed this view. By 1920, it was felt from various considerations that perhaps not more than one of every million stars possessed a system of planets. Within the last year, a number of British astronomers have suggested that one in 100,000,000 mav be a more reasonable view. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, famous British astronomer, sounds an even more conservative note. "We must not forget the prodigality of nature,” he says. "If, indeed, she has no grander aim than to bring forth her favored child, Man, it would be just like her to scatter a million stars, whereof but two or three ’napply might achieve her purpose. "Strong reasons have been given by J. H. Jeans for regarding our solar system as a very unusual development. Although probably not unique, the formation of a system of planets is not the normal course of evolution of a star. “It happens only when, at a critical stage of development, disruption is caused by the accidental approach of another star—a fortune which, perhaps not one star In 100,000000 would be likely to undergo. “This theory is subject to much uncertainty; but it is at least a useful corrective to the view, often c oo facilely accepted, which assumes an almost infinite plurality of living worlds.” tt tt a Changing Theories According to the original nebular hypothesis of Kant and Laplace, the sun evolved from a nebula. The planets were thought to have been cast off in the normal course of evolution. It will be seen, at once, that on this theory, every star must at some stage of evolution cast off planets. But the present view of stellar development discards these views of an early century. Present-day theories hold a star would never in the normal course of events give rise to planets. The generally accepted theory today was originated by Dr. F. R. Moulton of Chicago and the late Dr. T. C. Chamberlin. This theory holds that the sun existed for trillions of years without any system of planets. The planets were formed from material pulled oqt of the sun by the gravitational attraction of a star which passed very close to the sum. The problem of the existence of planetary system in the universe depends, therefore, upon the question of how often such catastrophe might overtake a star. The stars in general average about twenty-five trillion miles apart. It is not likely, therefore, that such close encounter would be frequent. Moreover, the encounter would have to occur at the right time. If the star was still very young or very old, its condition might be such that the formation of planets would not necessarily result.

induce busy citizens, successful merchants, or able lawyers to leave their business for months to serve at such 3 convention at small pay to listen to foolish ideas for absurd laws advocated by reformers, radicals and bigoted people. The present Constitution has served Indiana well during the last eighty years. The state has grown and prospered. There is no more need to change the Indiana Constitution than there is tq change the federal Constitution. To change either is to admit the failure of American government. JOSEPH A. WICKER, Attorney. 207 Pennway Building. Editor Tfines—l just arrived in your city a few weeks ago and I certainly am disgusted with your streets here. A person would think a town the size of Indianapolis would take unuer consideration the condition of its streets, to give tourists a good impression when they leave. I have toured through many towns, but I must say the Indianapolis streets surely are run down. Speaking of ycur street cars and the men who operate them, I can’t say much for them either. The cars have flat wheels and sound like a herd of tractors. The operators, I don’t believe, ever put on a clean shirt or press their trousers. Now the town I’m from at least can boast of good streets, clean street car men, and well-kept trolleys. I must, though, give your police officers credit. They are the mo6t courteous police in any town I’ve been. They are right th-'re to give a stranger advice when they see he is in distress, instead of bawling him out. E. 8. Cleveland, O.