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A Great Victory Success has crowned the efforts of years to supplant the poor house with a pension for those whose only crimes are poverty and old age. - The movement, stalled a decade ago by the Eagles lodge, by a citizen of Indiana, Frank Ilering of South Bend, has reached many states and finally a law has passed both House and senate providing for this form of relief. The measure still has a few hurdles to pass, but certainly the opposition of the Governor must fade lief ore the judgment of both legislative bodies. In principle, the old age pension introduces anew era. It recognizes the right of the soldiers of industry as well as the soldiers of war, to care in their declining days. It recognizes the principle that governments are made for men and not men for governments. '• To those whose pocketbook nerves have been chilled by the wholly unwarranted statements of the high cost of this new emancipation from the poor house, comfort comes from the reports of states which have put it into effect and found it not only beneficent, but economical. ; There is a similar law in Utah. Here is the statement of the very conservative Deseret News, a paper never unmindful of the cost of things to taxpayers: Figures for 1929 show that Salt Lake county paid out, in ordinary charity $118,814. In 1930 there vtm a vast increase in persons who had to be aided, so that charity payments in the chief cities of the United States increased 45 per cent above the payments of 1929. This county saved 48 per cent in charity payments as compared with other cities in the country. If we had been under the old system and our relief payments had increased as elsewhere, the county’s charity bill in 1930 would have been $172,380, instead of $114,067. This is a saving of $58,213 as compared with the outlay of other cities. This county paid in pensions (November, 1928, to November, 1930) $54,282, which gave us a net saving of $3,931 under the pension system. During its operation the old age pension plan has lifted 500 from the bounty Charity lists besides aiding with small amounts 142 persons who were heretofore being supported, as best they could be, by poor relatives who were hard put to provide for themselves. . Additional facts are brought out by J. H. Paul, director of old age pensions in Salt Lake county, who says: The Salt Lake county cost of old age pensions averages $132 per year. The cost in the infirmary is §319 per year. ... In 1925 the United States department of labor published a comprehensive monograph, The Cost of American Almshouses. The maintenance cost for each inmate averaged $334.64 per year; adding Interest at 6 per cent on the investment, the cost Was $39.76 per year. In small almshouses average maintenance amounted to SSOB per inmate. Fifty per cent of this cost is overhead: only half of the maintenance goes to the inmates. With pensions, more than 94 per cent, reaches the pensioners. The Prevailing Wage - Administration support of the “prevailing wage bill,” writing into government building contracts the proviso that present wage standards must be maintained, would be heartening if the measure as evolved were stronger. . Laborites, who supported the Couzens amendments. claim the administration substitute is a weakling, “with neither teeth nor legs.’’ It’s true that the bill provides no penalties to punish contractors who violate the prevailing wage proviso, that there is no machinery for appeal to the secretary of labor in cases of dispute in a local community fcs to the prevailing wage, that it does not, go into Effect until thirty days after passage, when many of the government contracts will have been let. f However, in view of the laissez fairc policy of the government in labor mac tors, the espousal of the principle of high wages is something. One can not blame President Green of the A. F. of L. for accepting the bill as “the best we can get.” ■ Since the administration has fathered the bill, it hlso assumes the burden of its rigid enforcement Especially will this be expected since President Hoover so often has repeated his conviction 'hat only by high wages can the depression be bridged. - Surely the government now will put a stop to the wage-slashing reported on government jobs. - A weak law can be made strong by determined enforcement. The country will expect the government to set the example to private employers by seeing that wage-cutting contractors get, exactly nowhere with government contracts. Three Good Men ! Recent events inspire the observation that often jnore suffering can be caused by good men than by sinners,. We nave in mind three wholly upright and honorable citizens of these United States whose very righteousness has been and is causing no end of woe and injustice. The first is Chief Justice William H. Waste of the California supreme court. He is a church man, Y. M. C. A. official, man of spotless probity in private life. Yet, because of a certain moral myopia, he has failed to see the shocking injustice of the Mooney and Billings scandals and, because of his influence on the other good men of the supreme court, is partly responsible for his court's refusal to grant justice. The second is Judge John Barton Payne, head of the American National Red Cross. Also an impeccably upright man is he, yet by his refusal to accept congressional funds he may become the instrument of intensifying the very hunger and destitution which his organization is pledged to relieve. The third is Harry Fitzgerald, president-treasurer of the Riverside and Dan River cotton mills. Fitzgerald is a Presbyterian pewholder. a man of char- ( acter and even something of a humanitarian. Yet he could stand by stubbornly for four agonizing months of strike and watch the men and women Who had made his fortune being driven to their knees by hunger, cold and sickness, and never once sit down and talk things over with them. Let Them Sleep 1 Wherever the inquisition set up its bloody tribunal, heresy always seemed to multiply, instead of growing less. As minds became inflamed with suspicion and fear and revulsion at the tortures of the victims, more and more accusations were made, and Jiigher and higher leaped the flames. The more bodies burned, the more there wre to

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burn. The more the Fish committee hunts Communists, the more Communists there seem to be. The American Civil Liberties Union is right in charging that the Fish committee has promoted a spirit of intolerance and repression in this country, caused an increasing number of attacks on peacefu\ assemblage and scores of unjustified arrests and prosecutions, snd has revealed a lack of any conception of America’s traditional civil liberty. The union is right, also, in saying that revolutions are not produced by propaganda, but by unbearable conditions; that the way to fight Communism is to mend capitalism. So far, congress has inclined more to the union’s view than to that of Fish, and there seems every reason to hope that it will remain sane and unconcerned about the ridiculous program of repression proposed by the committee. Three members of the committee have introduced measures to put into effect different parts of the program, but all these measures have found their way to committee pigeon holes, and none of them* apparently, will be considered at this session of congress. Fish himself is framing a measure to give the department of justice a special red-hunting division, but there is little possibility that this can be completed and considered before adjournment. During the coming recess, congress will do well to forget the bills altogether. If they sleep forever in dusty pigeon holes, no one will miss them. A!1 Is Not Gold That Glitters Fear that demands for immediate cash payment of more than $3,000,000,000 of veterans’ bonus certificates would threaten the government’s regular financing operations already has become a fact. During last week there was a serious market decline in governmental bonds, representing the worst break in ten years. With government bonds in such state, it requires no imagination to see what would happen if the proposed bonus bond issue—the largest bond issue in our history, .with but one exception—were dumped on the market. As it is, bankers believe the treasury department will have difficulty in March with its previously announced refunding of two issues of treasury notes, a $1,100,000,000 operation. Not only the government is suffering, but the private bond market as well. Last week a selected list of rail, utility and industrial bonds fell below the 3,930 low levels. Those veterans who like to believe that all this has nothing whatever to do with them are overlooking the very big fact that unemployed veterans can not get jobs until there is a business revival. Chances for a quick return to prosperity are none too bright, and the prospect will be dark indeed if a flooded bond market prevents industry from initiating new business projects this spring. The cash value of the individual bonus certificate is so small that it can not possibly compensate the unemployed veteran who thereby would ruin his chance of getting a job this spring. It is easy enough to make an appeal for cash for the veteran. But the veteran who stops to think twice will have time to remember the ancient wisecrack that all is not gold that glitters. * Cheering Signs Cheering news appears in the American Bankers Association Journal. Definite gains in industrial activity are beginning to appear, we are told. Steel production has increased from 35 to 50 per cent of capacity. The automobile and building industries are being expanded. A number of industries, such as shoes, rubber tires and textiles, are speeding up. after taking price cuts. The copper mining, petroleum, sugar and paper industries are strengthening their positions. “In financial circles there is distinctively a better feeling.” says the bankers’ organ, Bank failures have passed the “epidemic stage” in rural sections. It is devotedly to be hoped these observations arc accurate, and that the depression is beginning to dissolve. Unlike most fighters, however. Buster isn't, asking for a return engagement. Women are poor losers—when it comes tc ■‘ “ting

REASON

WE are glad to read that the war department has devised anew gas mask which will be more comfortable than the old one. It should become very popular with the readers of modern fiction. a a a General Pershing states in his story of the war that the king of Belgium w’as surprised by’ the way some American congressmen slapped him on the back. He was in luck that they didn't slip him a few garden seeds. a a v It's not surprising to read that a Moslem teacher started a riot in India by cooking some beef, a product of the cow considered sacred by ;he Hindus. As you may remember, the Sepoy rebe’lion in India was caused by the fact that the British used hog fat in their cartridges. ana THIS endless strife between the Me,'Jems and the Hindus as to whether the cow should be worshiped or consumed is one of the sources of endless irritation in India and was one of the things John Bull fried in vain to iron out in his recent conference at London. “What fools these mortals be!” aa a 9 It would be interesting to ask Newman Hershfleld what his sensations were, if any. between the time he “died” in that Kansas City hospital and the time he was brought back to life by the injection of adrenalin. If he could cook up a good story’ he ought to go over big as a lecturer. a a a Two gentlemen shot at each other after an automobile collision in northern Indiana, which is deplorable. of course, but we have wondered for a long time “hat enabled the rugged sex to remain so lamb-like under such extreme provocation. a a a OF course, it is going too far to shoot a driver who is not intoxicated, but we should like to hav® this legislature not only legalize the perfor jn of drunken drivers, but place a bounty on thei elts. a a a There’s one good thing about the drought and it is that with water so scarce, it has to be bought, nany are drinking it for the first time in years. a a a Stalin tells the Russians they must hurry w.th the world revolution, which isn’t worth mentioning, except that when a politician keeps on promising the people buckets of gore the time finally comes when he has to start something or loose his job. a a a This last fellow who wantd to shoot Mussolini eems to be a sardine from Sardinia^.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

We Are Suffering From c. Negative Complex, Which Is Blood Brother to Fear. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. Among the forty great construction projects due to be launched in or near San Francisco this year, and representing a total cost of more than $250,000,000, is Sunnyvale air base. Here will be housed the ZSR-4, largest dirigible in the world, now nearing completion at Akrcn. The combination is significant. It shows this country’s strength, resourcefulness, and power of coordination. First, a leviathan of the clouds, put together in the east, then a roosting place for her on the Pacific coast. But the symbolism goes farther than that. To what end have we created the monster, and others like her? “Defense,” we say, but where does the idea of defense begin and end? If other countries weren’t building dirigibles for defense against some imagined foe—maybe ourselves—would we be so interested in providing them for the same contingency? a a a Strange Situation NO wonder Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, shudders at what is inevitable if the world keeps on arming and equipping itself with these devilish instrumentalities of war - . As he says, war never can be humanized, except in a half-hearted, inconsequential way. What does it signify to outlaw the sharp saber, or dumdum bullet and then use poison gas? Though ready to admit the inhumanity of # obsolete weapons, we seldom can see anything wrong with the more modern and deadly kind. Above all else, we can’t seem to get over the idea that man is foredoomed to organized, wholesale murder; that, no matter how sensible he may be in trying to save his kind from the ravages of disease and poverty, he can’t think of anything. but death and destruction when it comes to settling his quarrels. tt a tt It Stumps Us PLATO, who was a soldier, as well as a philosopher, considered war not only unavoidable, but a legitimate outlet for surplus energy or surplus population. Though pretending otherwise, we still pursue the same doctrine. When it comes to raising money, we always can do a better job for war than for anything else. Thirteen years ago. we experienced no great difficulty in raising thirty billion dollars and mobilizing four million men. Right now, we appear to be stumped by the problem of putting about the same number of men to work in useful ways, though it would cost far less and represent no waste of money in the end, much less of life, tt a u Opportunities Galore '"F'HERE may have been a time A when men couldn’t keep busy without fighting now and then, when their ignorance was such that they couldn’t think of anything else to do, but that time has passed. We have plenty of outlets for our surplus energy and surplus population these days, plenty of work, plenty of adventure, plenty of romance, if we only could see it. Even our greatest achievements are incomplete. In spite of all we have done by way of city building there is not a single American city that, is paved thoroughly, or in which all the people are well housed. When our great, rivers have been walled in. we shall have done no more than some European countries. And what we have yet to do at home is small by comparison with our opportunities abroad. a a a FOUR generations ago, when we enjoyed little prestige as a nation and had far less of a navy with which to back it up, our clipper ships were carrying the gospel of American enterprise all over the world. That’s what we ought to be doing with our dirigibles and airplanes today. And what a job we could do, with the right spirit and perspective. We are suffering from a negative complex, which is blood brother to fear, talk too much about the necessity of putting on the brakes, when no such necessity exists, of protecting ourselves by restraints and restrictions, though all history cries out that it can’t be done. For some inscrutable reason, this America of ours, built by courage an'd imagination, seems bent on hiding behind every possible barrier and thinking up every’ possible excuse for not doing things, especially beyond the three-mile limit.

Questions and Answers

Is the Irish Free State independent of Great Britain? What power does the governor-general have? It is a self-governing dominion within the British empire. The Irish parliament in Dublin enacts j the laws and the governor-general who represents the British crown signifies the king’s assent to bills passed or .deemed to have been passed by both houses of the Oireachtas (parliament). He can not signify or withhold such assent, or reserve a bill for signification of the king's pleasure save upon the advice of the executive council. What s AI Capone’s address? Is he married? His address is 7244 Prairie avenue, Chicago. He is married. When was the eagle adopted as the emblem of the United States? June 20. 1782. What does the name Kieffer mean? It is a German occupational surname meaning “barrelmaker” or I “cooper.” Where and when was Irene Bordoni born? How many times hac s che been married? She was born in Ajaccio on the Island of Corsica, in 1895. She has been married and divorced twice. Her first husband was Edgar Beeman, and she later married E. Ray Goetz. "

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Three Drugs Used to Rout Hookworm

This is the last of two articles by T)r. Flshbein on hookworm disease. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. ’ Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WHEN a person is suspected of having hookworm disease, the diagnosis is made by finding the eggs of the worms in the excretions or by finding the worms' themselves in the excretions after the person has had some treatment. The examination includes study with the microscope, which can be made by any one trained in the proper technic. Various methods have been developed for filtering the excretions and for detecting the eggs so that they will not be overlooked. Whenever the patient reports stunted growth, anemia, changes in

IT SEEMS TO ME

BEN HECHT ought to know better. After all, he was a newspaper man once himself. His new book, “A Jew in Love,” has the seed of an excellent idea. Thre are whole pages of brilliant and searching writing. But the novel in its entirety fails completely. It does something more than fail. It achieves a very persuasive and penetrating boredom, and the book is tiresome in a way which might be readily avoided. A blue and punitive pencil could readily make “A Jew in Love” an interesting affair. Hecht’s literary career always has been marked by a strange duality. Once in so often he dashes off a light story. This is generally done with terrific speed. Indeed, he has spread the legend that “The Florentine Dagger” was written within twenty-four hours as the result of a bet. I do not credit this assertion. I suspect that possibly it was two days or three days. But one day makes a better story, a a a Fellowship A QUALITY of cruelty runs through the point of view of this novelist. He would as soon knife a character in the back as look at him—probably sooner. Few people in fiction ever have been so harshly dealt with as his Boshere, the hero of “A Jew in Love.” He constantly is racked and maimed into all sorts of meanness by his creator. To me there is a slightly estranging quality in this savage sport. Yet I must admit that all of us can be interested and moved by fictional cruelty. There comes a point however, when the reader will rebel and cry out: “Stop the fight!” I am not a foe of ribaldry. But the explosive obscenity of Ben Hecht sometimes is annoyipg. It is as if a man with a dirty story insisted upon telling it through a megaphone. Ineed, there is almost a regimented quality in the ribaldry of this book. Ben Hecht has constituted himself a sort of cheer leader determined to blast Puritanism out of power by dint of nine rahs. tt tt tt Brilliant Bore HE is too conscious of the shock impact he wishes to create. You can detect him in the act of taking a long windup before he lets go a fast one. In fact, I suspect that Mr. Hecht’s dislike for life in general and all the people who walk the earth is so great that he lists among his enemies the reader. There is as yet no law compelling any reader to remain with a book which he finds tiresome. It would be easy to dismiss “A Jew in Love” if it were dead weight on the back of your neck through its entire progress. But some of the flashes are so

Daily Thought |

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it )an not rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.—lsaiah 57:20. No wickedness has any ground of reason.—Liyy.

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the blood, and an attack of ground itch, the suspicion arises that he suffers with this disease. At present, following extensive investigations made through the Rockefeller Foundation, three drugs j are used regularly in the treatment j of hookworm disease. These drugs are thymol, oil of chenopodium and carbon tetrachloride. Thymol has been used for the longest time, but various physicians differ in their choice of remedies for individual patients. The treatment is, how’ever, ex- j cedingly simple. It involves usually' the clearing out of the system by! use of purgatives at night, and the j administration on the next day of j the proper dose of the remedy when thymol is used. When oil of chenopodium is j used it usually is not desirable to j

startling and revealing that one is constantly tempted to go on just a few pages more. In other words, Ben Hecht is one of the best bad writers known in American literature. He is a brilliant bore. a a a Dr, Holmes Replies JOHN HAYNES HOLMES feels that I have misunderstood his attitude on censorship and writes: “Please, as you love me, or at least as I love you, get me straight on this theater business. I am not in favor of censorship, never have been in favor of censorship and, God helping me, never will. ‘I would resent a censor’s interference with the theater exactly as I would resent a censor’s interference with the church. I said this in my debate again and again, and yet again, and aparently must say it still once more in order to be understood. “What I want is for the theater to put its own house in order, and I do not see that this is an unreasonable demand. But I am not writing to argue my position. “I am seeking simply to correct you and to give correction to your readers in the idea which outrages me that I should be identified in any sense of the word with such preposterous churchmen as Cardinal Hayes and Bishop Manning in their attitude, which I abominate, oppose and will gladly fight to the bitter end.” U tt tt Still Censorship POSSIBLY I gave the wrong impression as to the attitude of Dr. Holmes on censorship. But there remains an honest and whole-

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DANIEL BOONE’S BIRTH Feb. 11.

ON Feb. 13, 1735, Daniel Boone, a famous backwoodsman and pioneer. was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. His father, a farmer, moved to North Carolina when Daniel was 18 years old. The boy had little education, but he knew the woods and Indian life. When 34 years old, he went with five others into the wilds of Kentucky. He had many adventures and fights with the savages, and was captured by one of them, but escaped. Shortly after he moved his own and five other families from North Carolina to Kentucky, he built a fort on the Kentucky river which he named Boonesboro. The Indians attacked the fort several times, but were driven off. In 1778, they caught Boone and carried him to Detroit, Vhere one of them adopted him as a son. Hearing of a plan to attack Boonesboro. he ran away and, reaching his fort, defended it with fifty men against large forces of Indians and Canadians. He lived in Boonesboro until about 1790, when he lost his lands through defective title. He died in 1820.

abstain from food or to use the purgative previously. Carbon tetrachloride is the remedy exceedingly popular at the present time. It has had extensive use by workers in the Rockefeller Foundation who have treated thousands of cases without any ill effects. Once the patient with hookworm disease is freed of the worms, he begins to recover rapidly from his anemia, provided he is given good food with blood-building values. The diet should be orte similar to that taken for anemia, including plenty of leafy green vegetables, liver, milk and similar substances. The physician can prescribe iron in a form suitable to the patient, which will aid rapidly in building the red colcflng matter of the blood.

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hearted opposition between us concerning his own scheme as stated. He says, “What I want is for the theater to put its own house in order, and I do not see that this is an unreasonable demand.” Dr. Holmes and those on his side feel that the managers themselves should perfect some sort of supervision. They would be empowered to discipline the erring brother. My complaint always has been that censorship never is intelligent. I can not see that this problem can be solved by merely making the managers act as censors. When did theatrical producers ever prove themselves so smart? (Copyright, 1931. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—There are many smoke violations each hour of the day which put the “tallow-pot” on the locomotive to shame, yet there seems to be nothin? done to eliminate it, although if the “tallow-pot” gets picked up for three violations in a month, he may be fined, and, as in one case I know of, penalized a round trip on his run. Who are the ones making the biggest cry about abatement the ones compelled to make some of it, and their dependents, or the ones who feel sure they can eat, drink and be merry, smoke or no smoke? Is the smoke from a locomotive any more harmful than that which is poured from hotel and factory stacks? Is the steam for power and heat any more important in these places than it is in the locomotive, to move passengers quickly and in comfort, and to move many tons of material and necessities to thousands of people? The “tallow-pot” is instructed that black smoke is a of fuel, yet the women’s prison on north Randolph street pours out gTeat volumes of it ten minutes out of every twenty, so if it is a waste, as we are instructed, the smoke inspector could save the taxpayers quite a sum of money if smoke is

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FEB. 1 11, 1931

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ-

G'-eat Majority of Larger Buildings Now Rising Are Declared Ugly and Oft Color. THE United States is making progress in city and regional planning, but much remains to be done. So says the committee on city and regional planning of the American Institute of Architects, in a review of 1930. But while the committee, of which Charles H. Cheney of Los Angeles is chairman, is hopeful of the future. it is far from pleased with thpresent. Only 10 per cent of the building, put up are such nature as to possess permanent neighborhood value, says the committee. “In other words.” the committer says, “we still are getting nearly 90 per cent in number of buildings almost everywhere in the country, so ugly and off color, so badly arranged and inappropriately placed on account of bad street planning, lack of proper zoning, etc., that the; form a liability instead of an asse almost fc-om the day they are com pleted. “This, the most serious and prob ably greatest economic loss of our time, should be the first problem ’ solve in the coming decade." a u xr Economic Loss THE committee has more to say upon this subject of ugly buildings. it continues; "In 1929. $5,000,000,000 in value of new buildings went up. and 60 pei cent of that amount, or about $3,000,000,000, in 1930. It is time investors and public awoke to the fact that nearly 90 per cent in number of these buildings of 1930, over $2.000,000,000 in value, belong to that bad building class which have made our cities so intolerably’ ugly. “There is therefore some consolation for the falling off in volume of building in 1930. Some way musi be found to correct the situation before the volume of building materially increases again. “ ‘Without benefit of clergy, a; the old saying goes, or rather without the help of a trained architect or any other competent designer these buildings have been put up. and are continuing to be put up by the careless and thoughtless of the country. And the worst of it is that the much greater blight and loss must be suffered willy-nilly by owners ol property unfortunate enough to be in the immediate neighborhood into which these bad buildings intrude themselves." n a a A New Slogan TO remedy this situation, the institute recommends a form of regulation called “architectural control.” This is being established in a number of cities, the committee says. “It is effected by setting up an architectural board to scrutinize and pass upon plans for design with the same care that they now are passed upon for safety, under building codes, by building inspectors,” the committee reports. “Until such protective barrier is set up, all city, community, or regional plans, even the best of them are most likely to be spoiled in the construction stage. “ ‘Watch your architecture’ thus is becoming the slogan of planning agencies. “Good environment is the aim and desire of practically all families in America. It is demanded not only for homes, but for working conditions. In our new high standards of living it is the key factor. Today real joy of living and pursuit of happi-.. ness are demanded with ever louder voice in all parts of the country, “People no longer can be satisfied with the careless ugliness, banality and off-color appearance of most of our communities, cities and regions. “There is a rising dissatisfaction, protest and contempt for city plans and city officials that omit sure provision for the essential qualities of beauty, charm and. restfulness. The craving for attractiveness of environment lies deep in all of us. “Production of good government, therefore must be the aim of all city planners, architects, builders and realtors.” unnecessary. It seems to be O. K for a state institution for which we pay taxes to do that which if wc ourselves do we are penalized. I ask the public city smoke inspector, is this a fair deal? LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN Editor Times—Referring to the people of America, in regard to cash payments on adjusted service certificates for ex-service men, I think they should have every’ cent that belongs to them. Since they had the fighting to do, why argue over the money that is justly due the veterans? I think they should b<paid off immediately in cash. ARTHUR D. FITE 2816 Highland place. Editor Times—Since the pubh service commission authorized th' interurban company to discontinue service between Indianapolis and Lafayette, the bus company seem; to sell tickets on its lines regart, less of their seating capacity. W. D, Lafayette, Ind.