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Why the Silence? If there is any one question of interest to the voters of this state at this time, it is the problem of forcing the public utilities to keep in step with the times and give rates that are in keeping with deflated prices of labor and commgdities. The problem is acute in Indianapolis. In this city, the public service commission refuses reductions on a statement of earnings that, so says the commission, is far different from the one issued by the company for the purpose of stock selling. Governor Leslie might quite properly ask his commission what it intends to do about the matter. He might even ask the attorneygeneral to look over the law r . Or he could keep out of it, or mix in to see that the commission does not embarrass the two-figured utility. The people have learned not to expect much from Governor Leslie where utilities are concerned, but they are hoping that the next Governor will have fewer ties of sentiment to the utility interests. For that reason, the silence on the part of those who are hoping to be Governor is strange. Are these candidates all afraid of the utilities? Are they hoping for the usual big contributions? The one candidate who is voicing his protest against the legalized larcenies of these utilities is Ward Iliner whose radio talks are given in plain words. Thus far he has not been crowded by any mob of rivals who take the people’s point of view. Is there not one candidate on-one of the big tickets who has enough courage and enough intelligence to give the people a break? The Real Guilt Some may find comedy in the adventure of a 17-year-old school girl who holds up eleven people with a squirt gun and robs them. Fathers of other girls do not find the episode so humorous. They are wondering, perhaps, what may happen to their own girls when tempted by bootleg gin with minds filled with crime-worship by fiction and film. Society will try this girl in a criminal court under laws made by adults -who will not understand the psychology of the new generation. Society would not dare to scrutinize too closely the source of guilt. If it did, there might be the discovery that this trip started in legislative halls when misguided Puritanism supplanted moral teaching with legal force. The most notable example in this state was the passage of the Wright bone dry law, still upon the statutes. i How ghastly is the farce when under that law it is possible for a young girl to be drugged with illicit poisons to the point of madness, drugged to an insanity that an hour of her young life threatens her whole future? Before prohibition a drunken girl would have been the occasion of a most strict investigation, eveti undep corrupt administrations, as to the source of the liquor. The vendor would have been put out of business. He might have been placed in jail where ho would not sell liquor to children. Today no one seems to be intercstd in that phase of the matter. The law is futile. It stands as a protector to the bootlegger. He has no reason to fear inquiry. And tonight and every night other young boys and girls of school age will easily find vendors of these poisons. The Wright law does not work. It can not work. Its one effect seems to have made drinking fashionable on the part of the adult and an adventure on the part of children. Just how long the fathers and mothers of this country will consent to a continuance of this menace to their children, how long they will tolerate this real protection to liquor selling which masquerades as a law against liquor selling, how long they will permit the foundations of character to be laid in written law rather than in moral teachings, is a matter of conjecture. It would not be long if these parents had a real chance to vote upon the question. Is Britain Backing Japan? Fears of Americans that the Tory-controlled British government will not co-operate in the proposed international economic boycott of Japan are not quieted by the policy statement of Sir John Simon to the house of commons on Monday night. There was no promise of any effective action in restraint of the Japanese militarists and in defense of the peace treaties. As reported by the London press dispatches: "George Lansbury, leader of the opposition, tried to obtain from the government some statement concerning its attitude regarding an economic blockade of Japan, but Sir John was silent on that point . . . It was evident tonight, as at previous Shanghai debates, that the sentiment <jf the conservative majority in parliament and in the government is firmly against taking any action that would arouse Japanese hostility toward Great Britain.” From the foreign minister's statement that "disturbances to peace do trade no good, and we do not peek to get trade through a boycott of other people,” it seem a fair inference that the British government will continue to Join in blocking effective league or other international action. Despite the official report of the league commission at Shanghai that the Japanese army began the present fighting: despite the repeated refusal of Japan to submit the controversy to peaceful settlement, in contrast to the readiness of China to permit arbitration; despite the five months in which the British government, with its observers on the spot, has had time to investigate the facts known to all the newspaper readers of the world, Sir John, at this late day, hides behind the subterfuge that “it would be quite Improper for anybody to attempt lo pronounce partial or interim judgment.” We only can hope that British public opinion yet will force the British government to join in the American declaration refusing to recognize any set-

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tlement imposed by force or in violation of the treaties, and to join in international economic action making such protests effective. Effective league action is impossible without full co-operation of the three great powers—America, France and Britain. Because of her unique position in the league and in the far east, Great Britain is the key to that international co-operation. The United States government, which has compensated in part for its earlier blunders by its leadership during the last two months in support of the treaties, can not preserve the treaties alouc if the British government continues to give tacit support to the Japanese militarists, Mooney Day February is the month in which we celebrate the birthdays of Washington, the founder of a free nation, and Lincoln, the liberator of slaves. History is adding another anniversary to this month, a day not of prWe, but of humiliation. It is called ‘‘Mooney day.” It marks the fifteenth anniversary of that Feb. 24, when out in San Francisco Tom Mooney was sentenced to hang. The day and the scene are more or less remote. Mooney himself was a mere iron molder and union leader of only local note. The sentencing of such a person ordinarily would hardly have been news on the day of his doom. Certainly it would not be agitating the minds of men fifteen years afterward, In a time when the world is a place of grim and mighty doings. Why, then, have Governors and legislators acted for his pardon? Why has one American President intervened to save his life and the experts of another President’s commission on law enforcement spent time and money to issue a rebuke to California’s courts? Why have pardon i-esolutions been introduced into congress? Why have/;he entire organized labor and church movements of America protested? Why have mass meetings been held in Sweden, in Australia, Germany, and other lands where the name cf Mooney, the molder, is better known than that of some of America’s Presidents? Why are there being held, in cities all over the United States and Europe today, meetings demanding the freeing of this obscure working man and his more obscure companion, Warren Billings? The reason is that these men not only are innocent, but, being innocent, they were made the victims cf one of history’s foulest judicial conspiracies, in which the court of a free republic was used by special interests to obtain revenge instead of justice. There is glory as well as shame in this worldwide demonstration. It proves tlfat men still fight for justice. The tens of thousands 'who will meet in aiass protests today do not know Mooney nor Billings, and probably never will. They do not care what sort of citizens they were, .vhat kind of prisoners they are. They only know that here are two Americans accused of a mass murder which they did not nor could not have committed, and yet who were found guilty in a court of law— One to hang, the other to spend his life in prison. This they know and this they fear. For, as long as Mooney and Billings can be sent to jail by lying, venal witnesses, not one man nor woman among this nation’s 120,000,000 people is safe. Mooney and Biliings have become symbols throughout the world of man’s inhumanity to man. As has been said of them, they arc "something precious—a summons to struggle against injustice not only in California, but everywhere.” This is called the first annual Mooney day. We prayerfully hope that Governor Rolph of California will make it the last. Sight Saving According to Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, there are 50,000 school children in the United States suffering from defective vision and only 4,000 of these are being given special education. Only fourteen states, in fact, provide special educational facilities for such handicapped children. This is cruel neglect and discrimination. The 4,000 read from books with large type, learn the touch system on the typewriter, sit in well-lighted rooms and are cared for by specially trained teachers. The. other 46,090 are lumped wtih more fortunate children, allowed to lag and become sullen, sometimes allowed to develop warped mentalities, even criminal tendencies. The difference in cost between special and regular education is slight, the human values involved are great and lasting. Chinese bandits who reduced the ransom of an American from $10,000,000 to $200,000 must have been reading the stock market news.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

SECOND marriages for the middle-aged are fraught with danger, but fortune sometimes favors the brave. Therefore the 50-year-old widower who asks my approval for his approaching nuptials gets its, with interest. It is hard for the person who hag enjoyed long years of happy marriage to live alone again. Men especially are helpless in such circumstances and drift about like a ship without a rudder. This accounts for the fact that more widowers than widows remarry. And there is no reason to assume that a second marriage will not succeed, even though one does realize that the ardor of romantic first love seldom lives again in the heart. There are other kinds of love, however, that are just as precious. The man contemplating remarriage should try to curb his illusions. If his first wife was a docile and easy-going person, he is likely to believe that the second will be exactly the same. This often proves a fatal error. He will not visualize his life as the placid existence it used to be, and, lost in this dream of recaptured content, he will be as foolish as the adolescent boy who wonders on the perfection of his first sweetheart. a tt FOR the second woman is never like her predecessor. This means that the husband always must make adjustments, and fashion his habits to another’s plan. If he has been happy in his first union he certainly can be happy in a second, but his chances of being so are fewer. And he must be alert for shains. Middle-aged women are not so ingenuous as girls. They often are dissemblers and not generally swayed by tender passions to sacrificial lengths. They are expert at pulling the wool over men's eyes, especially if they have been married before and understand male frailties. Once convinced of the character of the lady, however, the middle aged man should march? boldly to the altar. We have built up some beautiful, sentimental legends about faithfulness to the dead. But the living are the ones who deserve consideration. And the tragedy of growing old alone is vpry real.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES

M. E. Tracy Says:

No Party, Leader or Presidential Aspirant Is in Position to Croiv Over Past Performances in Connection With the Depression . NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Some of his recent utterances suggest 1 that if John N. Garner were to become President, he would do vastly more worrying about whether he got the credit than whether he deserved it. * That is a bad impression to create at this time. The people are not looking for a ; leader who can be as small-minded | as someone else. ! Those Republicans who have been i trying to give President Hoover all ! the credit for what has been done ; have only made things a little I harder for him. When Garner gets down in the gutter and rolls with them he only does the same for himself. tt tt tt Too Early to Crow THE forthcoming campaign will be conducted along partisan lines, of course, but something besides mere partisanship will be required to turn it. The poor showing made by Republicans gives Democrats an advantage. Such an advantage means nothing unless translated into constructive work. Excellent as the work done by this session of congress may be. it represents little more than a beginning. The depression is not over by any means. Even if it were, there would be the problem of preventing others like it. No party, no leader, and, above all else, no aspirant for the presidency is in a position to crow over past performances in connection with the existing situation. tt tt tt Shameful Quibbling THIS country needs men with foresight, not hindsight. It is in no position to waste time quarreling over who did most to bring about the small start already made. Asa matter of common knowledge, the surface hardly has been scratched. There is as much unemployment as there was a year ago, if not more, and the wage level is considerably lower. People are displaying wonderful capacity in adjusting themselves to the continuance of hard times, but this must not be mistaken for recovery. Every one hopes that the measures being adopted by the government will prove effective, but it is a hope, not a fact. a tt a How About Prohibition? UNDER such circumstances, a presidential candidate only reveals his lack of caliber by pausing to bandy words over credit for the little that has been done. There are several more important and interesting subjects for discussion. There is a war in the Orient, for instance, a disarmament conference at Geneva and a tariff in England. If these seem too far away, there is the good old stand-by of prohibition. Whether Democrats or Republicans, people throughout the country would be delighted to hear from Garner on that topic. tt tt tt * Hard io Straddle AS has been pointed out by this writer several times, prohibition is not going to be straddled, or sidestepped so easily this trip. The depression has showed up its economic weakness in too vivid a light. Taxpayers are beginning to realize that it is costing them much more than the bill for enforcement indicates. The idea of coughing up an extra billion for the government each year, while bootleggers and racketeers get rich is becoming irksome. It might be different if there weren’t more speakeasies in this country today than there were saloons fourteen years ago, or if the jails and prisons were less crowded, or if divorces were fewer, or if many other promises and expectations hadn’t gone sour. One by one the various candidates are speaking out on this subject. Million by million, the people are lining up. This is not a stampede, but the evidence of a slow, deep change in sentiment. Those who are wise will recognize it as such.

& T ?s9£ Y ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

U. S. ARTILLERY IN ACTION Feb. 24 ON Feb. 24, 1918, American artillery silenced a German battery in the Toul sector of the western front ;n one of the fiercest artillery duels of the month. The German auxiliary cruiser Wolf returned to Kiel on that date after sinking eleven allied vessels during a fifteen-month cruise as a raider in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. At the same time, the Spanish ship Igotz-Mendi. with a German prize crew aboard, was driven ashore in Denmark and interned by + he Danish government. Two Americans - were included in the twenty-two prisoners aboard. The Russian government announced its complete acceptance of German peace terms, although Leon Trotski threatened to resign his post as foreign minister because of the drastic terms. Fighting on the Italian and western fronts was confined principally to artillery fire and local trench raids. What is th* difference between climb and ascend? The verb climb implies difficulty in making way up or down a hill, ladder, tree, etc., and also implies physical exertion with the aid of hands or feet in man and animals or tendrils in plants. To ascend, on the other hand, does not necessarily imply physical exertion. One may ascend to the top of a building in an elevator without exertion or descend a toboggan slide by the pull of gravity.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Hockey ‘Benefits Far Outweigh Perils

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvaeia, the Health Magazine. NOW that football casualties have had due attention, medical experts are beginning to focus their attention on the winter sports —basketball and hockey—which also are associated with a considerable number of injuries. A German investigator recently has recorded observations on injuries received in hockey as they occurred in 2,152 games in which more than 23,000 players took part. He divided all the injuries into two groups, according to whether the persons affected was obliged to give up playing from three to five minutes or to abandon the game altogether. In men’s teams the incidence of injuries was 0.35 per cent; in boys’ teams 0.25 per cent; in women’s and girls’ teams, 0.34 per cent. The

IT SEEMS TO ME

NOTHING ever caught fire while I was at the Palace. But as an old alumnus of the theater, I naturally was interested in the story of the blaze which occurred while' Sophie Tucker was taking an encore. I’m glad the damage to the building was comparatively slight, for one never knows when an audience will forgive and forget and demand a re-engagement. Although my qualifications as an actor may be slight, I happen to be a superb fire risk. You see, in the' case of my personal appearances there are no encores. If the act before closing had been my monolog instead of Sophie Tucker’s songs, there would have been no need to ask the audience to leave expeditiously and in good order. Among all the theaters of the town there is none .possessing such palpable personality as the Palace. Although spacious, it is the most intimate of showshops. Now and again the management indulges in the heresy of seeking novelties, and generally innovations are unfortunate. In all truth, the assemblage constitutes a sort of fraternal order in which the members demand the regular reappearance of the old favorites, one after another, with only a decent interval for spacing. a tt tt Acting for the Actors IT was my impression that a large part of the throng which habitually is to be found within those walls consists of actors who are out of work. Or, to put it in politer terms, they are resting. Theater business being what it is and what it always has been, the Palace is assured of a capacity audience. Nowhere is there any group more technically minded. In a certain sense, vaudeville constitutes the highest of all art forms, since appreciation is extended less to the substance of the material than to its manner. Generally it is held

This Man, This Woman Back through the history of the human race, to its beginnings lost in the ages of antiquity, men and women have been choosing their mates, and the institution of marriage, differing in different ages and in different countries, and among different peoples, has been developing and reaching the forms and customs that exist in the world today. The history of marriage is a fascinating study, and throws much light on marital problems of this day and age. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a condensed, but comprehensive, outline of the History of Marriage from earliest ages to the present time; from primitive promiscuity down to monogamous marriage. You will be interested and informed by it. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: — CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 168. Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, p. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, HISTORY OF MARRIAGE, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

Take a Lesson From George

average number of persons injured is 0.33 per cent. In 38 per cent, the injury was caused by the hockey stick, in 19 per cent by the ball, and in 43 per cent by accidents which were not particularly hockey accidents, but might occur in any sport; for example, a fall or collision with another player. Os the, injuries caused by the hockey stick, 43 per cent affected the head and 33 per cent the legs, 17 per cent the arms or hands, and 7 per cent the body generally. Only three of 30 players injured by the hockey stick, and only three of the 15 injured by the ball were incapacitated for playing longer than a month. However, of 34 players injured through other causes, such as collision with other players, 20 were unable to resume playing after a month. Three players out of 23,000 had

that Americans are lacking in that theatrical loyalty which obtains in London, and perhaps in Paris. As far as the legitimate stage is concerned, there are not half a dozen persons—and I would put the number even lower—who are assured of a following, come what may. In this modern age the play is the thing and the actor a mere subordinate who may be applauded in November and ignored in a show which happens not to please in the following February. But vaudeville i£ built out of allegiances which may be ancient. A team such as the Marx Brothers is certain to be received with enthusiasm, even when the current offering comes from the bottom of the barrel. Vaudeville remains a citadel of old lace and lavender. n u Other Side of the Moon AND to a suprising degree it is a woi’ld apart. The people who attend the two-a-day seem to be quite a distinct sect from the attendants at plays and musical comedies. At any rate, the man or woman who has been well known for years in variety often is discovered as a new sensation the moment he or she crosses the channel and lands in the legitimate. It hardly will be a matter of surprise if I venture the statement that actors are inclined to discuss the stage to the exclusion of most other subjects. But, even so, they lack the single-minded devotion of vaudeville artists. People who appear from two to four times a day, with an increased number of performances on Sunday, have no time to keep up with new twists on the tariff or even the latest developments in Shanghai. To them “the act” is everything, and it becomes a sort of Ark of the Covenant, not to be touched without tragic consequences. I knw a short story writer who

to give up hockey altogether—one from injury to the kidneys and two from injury to the knee. Obviously this is a very low percentage of danger as associated with .ary sport; certainly far less than ot curs in football, in which among 23,000 players there would quite surely have been deaths and many serious injuries. By comparison with football, it is interesting to realize that the greatest danger comes from collision with other players, which is the most prominent type of injury in football. All sports carry with them an element of hazard. Considering the good that is to be derived from hockey, it would seem to hold a high place for its contribution to muscular movement, grace and speed, without contributing anything like so large an element of danger as is involved in other sports.

DV HEY WOOD bY BROUN

invariable tears up the contract if the magazine to which she contributes alters her stuff by so much as the elision of a comma. I regard her as a person possessed of a great degree of integrity. But her passion for her work, and nothing but her work, pales beside that which inspirits any traditional vaudeville team. After ten or twelve years an act becomes set, and not so much as a single piece of business, let alone a line, can be blasted out of it. n tt tt Freshman at the Palace WHEN I matriculated at the Palace it was my original misfortune to follow a couple named Barry and Whitlege. Their patter ! was so ingenious and amusing that i I came forward as an orphan at the opening performance and several which followed. At last I learned enough of show business to request the management for a spot in which I would be less obnoxious to the audience. They shifted me around so that I was preceded by a trained dog. He wasn’t very good, either, and things ran much more happily thereafter. In trying to learn the secrets of the profession to which I had devoted myself for a week, I took occasion to stand in the wings each afternoon and evening and watch Barry and whitlege. It seemed to me that they put over a carefree atmosphere. The funny things they said appeared to be wholly an inspired impromptu. After their New York engagement they went abroad and were gone for two years. Upon their return I caught them once more at the Palace. They were just as funny and precisly the same. Not so much as a turn of the hand had been altered. And then I knew the secret. Nothing in the theater is good impromptu until after the sixth or seventh year. (Coovrisrht. 1932. bv The Time*)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—During the trial of ! Coroner Fred W. Vehling a group of j local undertakers was called to pass 1 opinion on some of Mr. Vehling’s funeral bills. These men all re- ! garded the bills as reasonable. But j the newspapers of Indianapolis have been just a bit vague in making their report of the circumstances governing the result of this inquiry. The story in one paper notes that these men thought SSOO to S6OO reasonable for "caskets.” They imply merely "caskets,” whereas, curiously, the three receptacles in i question were of zinc, obviously of | the group of costlier metal coffins. Several newspaper accounts enI tirely omitted the fact that three j Clark metal vaults were included in ! the bills. Further, the bills in question include the price for grave j lots, for digging and covering them, I and for three tombstones. These cemetery items do not gen- ; erallly come under the funeral di- \ rector’s bill, although the papers I reported the case as implying so. And even the comparatively small item of embalming was not stressed in the manner it warranted, consid- , ering the decomposed condition of j the bodies in the case. 1 This article simply is intended to

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interestina writers and are presented without reaard to their acrecment or disa-reen.ert with the editorial attitude of this oancr.—The Editor.

-FEB. 24, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Circulation of Air.and Circulation of Ocean Waters Have Important Bearing on Weather. * ''T'VHERE is a complex relationship between the circulation of the earth's atmosphere and the circulation of the waters of the ocean which has an important bearing upon both the weather and the ocean. This fact is pointed out by Dr. Thomas W r ayland Vaughan, director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal. Many problems of weather forecasting, or oceanic phenomena, and of the distribution of life in the ocean, depend upon an understanding of this relationship. Two basic factors contribute to the circulation of both the atmosphere and the ocean waters. They are the sun's heat and the earth's rotation. In addition, the air and the ocean affect each other because of the phenomena of evaporation and precipitation. ‘ If the earth were stationary and the sun revolved around it, there would bo heating of the atmosphere and the waters of the ocean in tropical and subtropical regions and expansion of both air and water,'' Dr. Vaughan says. “Both air and water, where heated, would move upward and flow toward the poles, in the region of which both would be cooled, and there they would sink and return to the tropical and subtropical regions as lower cool currents. The scheme, however, is bv no means so simple, for the earth rotates on its axis and this causes a deflection of the movements of both air and water.” tt 8 a Permanent 'Highs' THE combined effects of the difference in the amounts of solar energy that impinge upon the surface of the earth, the rotation of the earth upon its axis and the existence of the continental areas are to produce in the atmosphere over the oceans five more or less permanent areas of high barometric pressure, Dr. Vaughan says. Two of these are over the Atlantic ocean and arc respectively known as the north and south Atlantic •permanent highs,’ ” he continues. "Two are over the Pacific ocean, where they are known by names corresponding to those for similar areas over the Atlantic, and one is over the Indian ocean. “These highs are approximately in latitude 39 degrees to 35 degrees on j each side of the equator in the AtI lantic and Pacific oceans, and south I of the equator in the Indian ocean. "Between the northern highs and | the equatorial region in the north- | ern hemisphere we have the north- ! east trade winds. Between the j northern highs and the equa- ' tonal region in the Atlantic and ; Pacific oceans we have the south- | east trade winds. j "The Indian ocean differs from Ihe Atlantic and the Pacific in that ’t is subject to monsoon winds, partly controlled by the relative pressure in northern Asia. "The mons-oon winds, however, mostly affect the surface circulation in the Indian ocean and appear to have relatively little influence on the deep-water circulation. “On the north side of the two high areas in the north Pacific and the north Atlantic and on the south side of the high areas in the south Pacific, south Atlantic and Indian ocean are the region of the *west vvind drifts. "The west wind drifts of both the northern and southern hemispheres are marked on their polar sides by lines or areas known as the ‘polar fronts.’ ” n tt tt Ocean Currents THE surface oceanic circulation rather closely conforms to the general scheme of atmosphere circulation that has been outlined. "We have in both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific in tropical regions a movement of the surface waters toward the western sides of the ocean basins,” Dr. Vaughan says. "In the Atlantic the water moves along the eastern side of the islands off the North American continent and off the continent itself toward the northwest, north and northeast, and recurves in the region of the west wind drift across the Atlantic. “On the eastern side of the Atlantic there is deflection toward the south and southeast, and ultimately a vortex is completed, within which is the Sargasso sea. There is a similar vortex in the South Atlantic. “In the North Pacific we have the Japan current which, as is generally known, flows northward and northeastward off the east Asiatic coast, eastward across the Pacific south of the Aleutian islands, and then is deflected toward the south and southwest. "Westward flowing equatorial currents are well developed in the Atlantic ocean, where they lie mostly north of but near the equator. "There is no strongly developed equatorial counter current in the Atlantic. However, the Guinea stream, which is very near the equator, flows from west to east. "In the Pacific the equatorial currents are developed strongly and there is a pronounced equatorial counter current which lies slightly to the north of the equator.” create a little better understanding of the facts. I think those undertakers are entitled to some little vindication for their actions, abstract prejudices regarding the trial itself notwithstanding. OBSERVER. Editor Times—Some time ago I read in the People’s Voice where a man criticised the Salvation Army, saying he went to them for clothing and they wanted to charge him for for them. Well, I can not dispute his word, but I do not think any one should say a word against the Salvation Army, especially in these depression days, for my family would not have had very much to eat over Christmas if it hadn’t been for those good people, giving us a basket of good substantial food. Who stood by our boys in the war, risking their own lives to feed the soldiers? They did more then, and are doing more now for the people than any other charity organization, and I am taking this opportunity to thank them and may their good work go on forever, and God bless them. I always will have a good word for the Salvation Army. MRS. E. T. E.