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Branch the Last Emmott Branch, Governor for a few months, is dead. He was the last Governor of Indiana who had courage to fight the utility corporations when they went upon their prowl. Branch had courage. He had also a viewpoint that the people are to be served above the greeds of contributors #to campaign funds. He was brave enough to act. One of the outstanding events of his brief' regime was the demotion of John McCardle as chairman of the public service commission. The telephone company had reached out for more money. Branch, as Governor, protected the people. True,, his bravery can not be held up as at all encouraging to young men who may have an inclination to fight the people’s battles. The corporations very deftly eliminated Branch from political advancement. McCardle, very mysteriously, came back under a Jackson and continues under a Leslie. But for one brief hour Indiana was out from the shadow of the rule of corporations; for one brief hour had a real champion. The state owes Branch a debt of grateful memory. The state needs, at this time, a man with his bravery and his freedom from entangling alliances with greed. , And at this time, the call is answered Irith bleak silence on the part of those who aspire to high office. Which Are Right? Tim people of this city, home owners, heads of industries, operators of stores, have asked for a reduction in electric rates. Public Service Commissioner Cuthbertson dismissed the petition with the argument that in times of depression, with falling revenues, the people might have to pay more instead of less. He quoted some figures. They are not the same figures which the company uses to persuade investors to buy slocks. When in that role, the company tells buyers that its earnings arc 3.45 times the necessary dividends on its preferred stock, including that which it hopes to sell. There are other figures which show discrepancies. In the item of depreciation, the public service commission is told that there is set aside about $1,900,000 for tlfis purpose. In Moody’s Manual, the Bible of the banker, this figure is around a half million. Some day the public service commission may inquire into the matter. It may take an interest. Certainly the reports to the public service commission ought to be within speaking distance of those made to the investors’ guide. The Stimson Doctrine Again America has assumed moral leadership in world affairs. Secretary of State Stimson’s declaration of policy in defense of the peace treaties violated by Japan is an expression of high statesmanship. It throws the weight of the United states not only against the Japanese militarists, but against the imperialists and militarists of other countries. Never since the world war has the international crisis been so grave. If the peace treaties are worthless in the far east, they are worthless in the rest of the world. If Japan can tear up those treaties with consent of the powers today, then tomorrow any other power can shoot its way through the Kellogg pact and other treaties. In this emergency, the European powers are acting almost as though no treaties existed. They are silent, or when they speak their words are so weak that Japan is encouraged to continue her madness. They are slowing down the peace processes of the League of Nations, which is functioning chiefly because of the pressure of small nations. It is now clear that one of the reasons for the early timidity of the United States in facing this crisis was the knowledge that powerful forces in Great Britain and France were backing Japanese militarism. There are even ugly reports that some interests in England and France would welcome an American-Japanese war. Whatever the truth or lack of truth of these reports, it is an open fact that Great Britain and France have failed to support the pro-treaty policy laid down by the United States in its Jan. 7 note to Japan, and now reaffirmed and amplified in Secretary Stimson's letter to Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee. It also is a fact that if the British and French governments will follow- America’s leadership in defense of the world’s peace machinery, Japan in the end will be forced to conform to those treaties. Therefore, the Stimson declaration is more than a solemn warning to Japan that the United States never will recognise a settlement imposed by force and in violation of the treaties. It is more than a similar warning to other nations who may think that treaties can be broken without cost. It is at the same time a challenge to Great Britain and France to come to the aid of those treaties, or take the responsibility with Japan for the world chaos which may result. Referring to the American declaration of Jan. 7, refusing to recognize the legality of any action or agreement violating the treaties, Secretary Stimson puts responsibility for the future on Great Britain and France in these words: “If a similar decision should be reached and a similar position taken by the other governments of the world, a caveat will be placed upon such action which, we believe, effectively will bar the legality hereafter of any title or right sought to be obtained by pressure or treaty violation, and which, as has been shown by history in the past, eventually will lead to the restoration to China of rights and titles of which she may have been deprived.’’ The United States, if the other powers will cooperate, can outlaw Japan and the fruits of the Jap? anese conquest. An outlawed nation in the end can not live alone; soon or late-it must return the loot and make restitution to be received back into the friendship and commerce of the family of nations. Secretary Stimson is not calling the nations to military war against Japan. He is calling for a moral united front of the world, which will turn the guns *

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of Japanese militarism back upon itself for its own destruction. If that moral united front will not stop Japanese conquest, an international and diplomatic and economic boycott will do so. Secretary Stimson does not name those possible weapons, but the inference of his declaration is that the United States is prepared to defend the peace machinery with more than words—if only the other powers will help. That, in our judgment, is the right policy, the effective policy. Since Japan began her conquest last September, the Scripps-Howard newspapers have urged this policy to which Secretary Stimson now has given such emphatic expression. We believe all the prestige and the power of American public opinion and government' is behind the Stimson doctrine. It is anew charter of Chinese liberty and the open door in the far east. It is a decree to enforce the Kellogg treaty outlawing war everywhere. War can not be outlawed by statements alone, but so long as the United States, the most powerful nation on earth, upholds the Stimson doctrine the nations will not lack leadership toward a warless world. The Sins of Yesteryear Shed a tear for the passing of the Police Gazette. For eighty-five years it blossomed weekly in all its pink peccability in the barber shops, fire houses and police stations of the land. Once it had a circulation of 400,000. Like all the indulgences of yesteryear, the Gazette has been overwhelmed by the more meaty sins of today. In the naughty nineties, for instance, we were plenty wicked when we hoisted a stein of bock beer in an open saloon and toasted the coming of spring; today we take our cocktails in the bosom of our admiring families. When we gambled it was in poker or the Chinese lottery; now we lose our wages in the stock market. When we fought, it generally was with fists; now it's with machine guns. We were devils when we slipped into a variety show to watch the dancing of girls in pink tights; now the stage offers us the near-nudities of the Follies and the Scandals. And when we felt particularly depraved, we peeped into the Police Gazette and scanned the pictures of the big-muscled boxers and large ladies carrying spears. So, thanks to Andy .Volstead, Al Capone, Earl Carroll and the rest, our sins have become educated. And the passing of the Police Gazette is just another casualty of progress. He Thinks War Is Funny Will Rogers is reporting the Japanese-Chinese war from Beverly Hills, Cal. He has obvious advantages over the reporters on the spot. He is far enough away not to trouble about facts. And he is out of the range of the guns. Rogers Wednesday warned the public not to believe the reporters on the battle front. He advised the public to discount their stories 50 per cent, because, ne said, the reporters were exaggerating and because there are Chinese and Japanese censorships which lorce coloring of news. Though Rogers was rather a flop when he went to the far east several months ago as a reporter, he should at least have found out that American reporters in Tokio are not forced to write pro-Japanese articles, and that there is no censorship whatever in the international settlement, from which the Shanghai battle stories are written. The American public has a check on the news reports, with their accuracy confirmed by official United States government reports. , Will Rogers is not funny when he tries to wisecrack the greatest tragedy since the World war. Gandhi’s son went to jail “for his country” instead of getting married. Maybe he’s just anticipating the alimony racket. Headline: Two More Chicago Gangsters Sentenced. Even the income tax law has its uses. Would you call a man who pays his bills on the first of the month an early settler? Needle beer is the kind you drink when you wind up in the haystack. Would you say that the Nebraska barber who traded a haircut for a pig was getting hoggish? It almost will be worth the price of a trip to London to see Andy Mellon in knee pants.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

BEING first of all a housewife (a fact of which I am reminded frequently by advocates of more mammoth battleships) I am not supposed to have opinions about the navy. Yet why should the housewife keep silent upon this subject, since she, too, must dig into the cracked teapot for tax money? And right now she is not for bigger and better articles in the navy line. She is satisfied to get along this year with what we have, just as she will get along with her old cookstove so long as it gives good service. She looks with disfavor upon any splurging in gunboats. Moreover, she does not see any particular sense in our marines being at Shanghai unless they load up American citizens and steam straight home. She is beginning to realize that there is a good deal of bunk about this freedom of the seas business and that the defense of national honor sometimes means only the collection of interest. She has learned that big business can go dressed in the cloak of patriotism. And she has read about poor old impoverished England’s once powerful naval force, and remembers faintly that long ago a large fleet belonged to Spain that was called by its owners “The Invincible Atmada.” nan SHE is, in short, heartily in accord with one very able thinker. Professor Charles A. Beard, who explains that we easily can police our borders, but that if we try to police the earth, we shall find ourselves with an impossible job. , That is a job the housewife does not want, and will not have. She knows her country occupies a geographical position of comparative safety with an ocean or either sidq. So she has definitely decided that too many admirals may be bad for America, and that Armageddons seem to occur with alarming frequency. She is tired of buying ammunition to kill her sons. She is weary of defending money with men and of impoverishing her home and her heart to appease other people’s hatreds. So she ventures forth with anew ultimatum. “Plenty of soldiers and airplanes and ships to repel Invasion, but not one single gun for aggressive warfare in foreign waters.”

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Roosevelt's Summary Dismissal of a Powerful Tammany Leader Is Bound to Create a Favorable Impression Throughout the Country. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—As a matter of abstract justice, Sheriff Farley's removal by Governor Roosevelt of New York should be discussed without reference to politics. Asa matter of fact, it won’t be. Sheriff Farley got what was coming to him, w T hich is just another way of saying that Governor Roosevelt did the right thing, but that doesn’t satisfy most people. What they want to know is whether he has strengthened his chances for the Democratic presidential nomination. He most certainly has. This summary dismissal of a powerful Tammany leader is bound to create a favorable impression throughout the country. Neither should it be taken for granted that the Governor has lost anything in New York. a n n Crocodile Tears BEING- a close knit political organization, Tammny hall Is bound to look after its own, but that does not mean that it always likes the job, or that it is always sore when they lose out. Asa ward boss who could keep the boys in line, especially on election day, Sheriff Farley merited much at the hands of Tammany. Asa public official, who didn’t know when to stop, he is neither so dear, nor essential. Doubtless, some of the clubs are grieved deeply, but when it comes to the real leaders, the men who really understand, the mourning may be less sincere. u tt 11 No Time to Argue AT all events', Tammany is not going to break with Roosevelt over Farley, not publicly, and not until after the convention. Tammany has too much at stake. Besides, Farley represents a poor issue over which to gpt mad. The purpose of politics as practiced by a machine is power. What chance has Tammany of retaining it by breaking with Roosevelt at this time over a discredited public official? nun Cheer, Boys! Softly IF TAMMANY'is as wise as more than a century of clever maneuvering suggests, it will find exSheriff Farley a well paid, but unobtrusive job with some private, or semi-private concern and resume cheering for Governor Roosevelt, though not too loudly. Loud cheering at such a moment might create the impression of a dicker, and that is something to be avoided. Outsiders are in a mood to accept the Governor’s defiance of machine politics as all-wool and a yard wide. He has mad 6 votes by it, as well as by his wringing wet statement of a few days back. n n n Roosevelt in Front THE Roosevelt boom has gained materially during the last week. Whether it has gained enough to offset what it lost through former Governor Smith’s advent as a receptive candidate is not so clear, but it has gained. Roosevelt is still the hardest man to beat. Even though he may be far short of having that necessary two-thirds, he has a sufficient number of delegates already committed to make things warm for any rival. The Garners, Ritchies and Murrays will have to sing a different tune if they make headway against him—a tune that has more to do with live issues and pressing problems. n n n Al's Not Licked THUS far, the only - candidate who promises to become a formidable competitor of Roosevelt in running the Democratic show is Alfred E. Smith. Whether Smith wants, or could get the nomination for himself, the chances are that he will have a lot to say about it. Further than that, what he says will be pitched on a higher political level, and a higher conception of party responsibility than some of his critics are inclined to admit.

M TODAY WORLD WAR 1 ANNIVERSARY U. S. TROOPS IN ACTION February 25 ON Feb. 25, 1918, an American patrol in the Chemin des Dames sector of the western front penetrated the German lines for a considerable distance, attaining all its objectives and inflicting heavy losses. German troops, still advancing in Russia, took Reval. They encountered no resistance from the exhausted and mutinous Russian forces. In the Ukraine, however, intense fighting occurred between German and Ukrainian troops, with the Germans winning, after suffering heavy losses. Chancellor von Hertling, in an address before the Reichstag, said that Germany was willing to end the war on the principal basis of President Wilsoh’s fourteen points. Certain exceptions were made, however, and allied diplomats paid no attention to the move. A national labor conference board was formed at Washington to lay down a basis of relations with capital for the duration of the war.

Daily Thought

Be not wise in your own conceits.—Romans 12:16. Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of man, who, by an over-weening self-respect relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.—Beecher.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Care Adds to Life of False Teeth

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. MANY persons now are required to wear plates containing false teeth in the place of those they have lost. If false teeth are used with proper care, they last much longer and are used with much greater comfort than when they are handled carelessly or without proper instructions. In a consideration of the proper use of substitute teeth, Dr. B. L. Hooper has offered some interesting suggestions. Just as soon as the teeth are secured, the person will do well to go into a private place and practice reading aloud to get used to

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A FAVORITE argument of militarists lies in the assertion that their way is in reality the merciful one. By being adequately and super-adequately prepared, they say, a short, swift blow may be struck, which will settle the issue involved without prolonged agony and conflict. Many of them hesitate to carry this theory to its logical conclusion. I think some of them would hesitate at the use of a deadly gas which might, by wiping out a metropolis entire, save the back areas from the ravages of warfare. But we are told that if the ragged continental army had been more efficient it might have made Canada a part of the United States and that a single crack Union brigade could have turned the tide at Bull Run and ended the Civil war within a month. Whether Canada would have liked any such eventuality does not enter into the calculations of these strategic second guessers, nor are they much concerned with the fact that the immediate smashing of the confederacy would have prolonged slavery as the football of political compromises for another half century, at least. nun Lessons in Headlines BUT one does not need to turn to ancient history to cast sbme doubt upon the theory that the horrors of war are mitigated much by the fact of preparation and efficiency. If everybody believed in bristling preparedness the crack northern brigade would have met an equally well-equipped body of southern soldiers at Bull Run, and the result would have been stalemate, as usual. Current events point the lesson even more vividly than the pages of

The Right Thing Do you always say and do the right thing at the right time in the right way? Since the days of the caveman there has been rowing up a body of customs, practices and rules of social intercourse between well-bred people that takes the general name of ETIQUET. To know what to do and what to say and how to act on all occasions is the mark of the courteous, well-bred person. Our Washington Bureau has a group of seven bulletins covering the whole field of etiquet. The titles are; 1. Etiquet for Engaged Couples. 5. Etiquet of Dress 2. Social Etiquet. 6. Etiquet for Weddings. 3. Travel Etiquet. 7. Good Manners for 4. Etiquet for Dinners. Children. This packet of bulletins may be obtained by filling out the coupon below and mailing as directed: —CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-23, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of seven bulletins on ETIQUET and inclose herewith 20 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.)

the feel of the teeth and to their weaknesses. When the false teeth first are.inserted, the facial expression may seem to be changed, but this is due to the effort of the muscles to take care of the plates. Just as soon as the false teeth become adjusted properly, the effort will disappear and the expression will become natural again. Naturally, the hardest thing to do with the false teeth is to eat. The person who has the teeth thinks that he has to manipulate both the teeth and the food. He will, therefore, do well to begin with food that requires little chewing, and to avoid steaks and chops for the first few days. Indeed, even after one becomes used to the false teeeth, it is ad-

history. There are no such things as decisive battles. War merely scratches the surface of a human problem, and the result depends upon deeper and slower tides. France stated, as its chief excuse for paticipation in the great war, that it must fight to win security from a menacing Germany. And France now states that it must keep a huge military force in being to assure itself security against a menacing Germany. Nothing much seems to have come out of that. When the Japanese landed at Shanghai it was on the plea that it was necessary to take steps to break a Chinese boycott upon Japanese goods. It would seem to be singular economics to proceed from that point to the theory that the only good customer is a dead one. And it is equally strange for a nation to go on the hypothesis that it can quell the hatred of another country and win sweet commercial concord at the point of the bayonet. n, n n Good Example Gone-Wrong IN recent years Japan has been held up to us as a model of naval and military efficiency. Indeed, within the last few months the army practically has taken over the government, and the word of the military man has been law. But for the itching readiness of a great machine Japan never would have attempted the Shanghai gesture. From the immediate aspect of things, it would have been well for Japan to have refrained. The campaign raging around the Chapei sector is acutely tragic, because among all useless military adventures this seems to be pointedly the most futile. By having an army ready to fight at the drop of a hat, or even without that formality, Japan has lost

visable to avoid attempts to chew chicken bones or other feats of strength to which the artificial dentures are not adapted. Small bits of food chewed slowly will be taken care of easily. Big masses of food may cause trouble. Until one learns to manipulate the teeth and until the gums and the ridges have become hardened, one need not expect to eat everything and anything that is offered. If there are spots in the gums and the ridges have become excessively sore, the dentist should be consulted immediately, to make the necessary changes and to prescribe the necessary treatment. Artificial teeth, tvhen out of the mouth, should be kept moist. The best arrangement is to put them in a salt solution, boric acid, or some favorite mouth wash.

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blood, treasure, and an incalculable amount of prestige. Foreign correspondents are fond of explaining that, even though the affair goes badly, the Japanese can not stop, because they fear to lose face. And this concern about “face” is described as a curious oriental pride which no occidental ever can understand. nun World Has a Word for It AS a matter of fact, we may call it something else, but the same psychology enters into the imperialistic forays of every nation. If Washington were wholly devoid of a desire to save face, we never would have landed an attacking force at Vera Cruz in Wilson’s time and there would not be a single marine in Nicaragua today. Japan is on a bender, and we have a right to be critical, but hardly in a high and mighty manner. Most of us have been through that same mill. War psychology is about the same in any land and among any people. And so is the psychology of peace. Even now ferments are working within Japan itself to unseat the admirals and the generals. Not everybody in the empire has lost his head. Shells and bombs are very similar to a more ancient weapon. They, too, are boomerangs and the bombardment which rages on the Chinese front is likely to hit some very distant targets. In the long run it will be discovered that Japan actually is shooting at its own heart and its own peace, prosperity, and stability. The Japanese will find in the long run that war literally is another form of hara-kiri. In the long run. But perhaps this is insufficiently consoling, for, after all, people suffer, bleed, and die in short runs. (CoDvrlght. 1932. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times —It seems to me that when the Hawley-Smoot high protective tariff act was put across that a very important item indeed had been omitted: namely, high protective tariff on foreign bonds, including foreign government, municipal, industrial and miscellaneous ones, to prevent their “dumping” on the poor deluded American public via international bankers and their cohorts, the too numerous to mention underwriting syndicates, et al. The big banks in the United States, controlled in toto by the big business bloc, unloaded their wares on the many large banks in all the cities and clear down the line to the small county seat or rural banks. The international bankers and the national underwriting syndicates long ago garnered their high commissions through high pressure sales to smaller banking outlets and tucked away in their coffers a nice, fat profit while the pickings were good. Now we have a different picture before us. Many hundreds of mil- ; lions of European and South Ameri- ! can foreign bonds “dumped” in this country are in default, the interest i being past due and uncollectable, as jwill be the face value of the bonds I when the day of maturity arrives. The gullible American public, the l man in the street, the small investor

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are (hose of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without reaard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this oaner.—The Editor.

.FEB. 25, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Astronomer Rejects Idea of Expanding Universe, Advanced by Advocates of Relativity. THE idea of.an expanding universe, most recent theory of the i students of relativity, is rejected by Dr. William D. MacMillan, professor of mathematical astronomy at | the University of Chicago. This is not the first time that Dr. MacMillan has disagreed with the advocates of relativity. Both he and his colleague. Dr. F. R. Moulton, object to the notion of a finite universe set forward in the relativity theory. At the last meeting of the British , Association for the Advancement of Science, Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans advanced ! the notion of an “exploding uni- ; verse,” that is, that the expansion of the universe pow observed, was the result of some “explosion” at a distant date in the past. In a letter to Nature, famous British scientific journal, Dr. MacMillan takes exception to this theory of Jeans and Eddington. Amplifying his letter to Nature, Dr. MacMillan outlines the reasoning which he believes led to this explosion theory. “Within the last two decades, astronomers have become agreed that the faintly glowing masses which can be observed with telescopes in remote portions of the heavens are not gaseous nebulae, as had been supposed, but are systems of stars, similar to tne Milky Way (which includes the earth, sun, and most of the visible stars,” Dr. MacMillan says. “Hundreds of thousands of these outer galaxies have been observed, ranging in distance from the earth —and from each other—between one million and 150 million lightyears.” nun Receding Nebulae WITHIN the past few years Dr. V. M. Slipher of the astronomical observatory at Flagstaff. Ariz., discovered these outer galaxies appear to be moving away from our galaxy, the Milky Way,” Dr. MacMillan continues. “Last year, while Einstein was visiting the Mt. Wilson observatory in California, announcement was made 'of a study by Professors Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason of that observatory indicating that outer galaxies are moving away at speeds proportional to their distance away. “That is, the farther out they are from tl\e earth, the faster they arc departing, the outer ones receding at a rate of as much as 12,500 miles a second. “The idea of an expanding universe was interpreted by English astronomers to mean that at some remote time in the past, probably a few billion years ago, there was an explosion at the core of the universe, and that those things which were shot out with great velocity continued to move with great velocity—and are still doing so—while those things which were rejected at slower speeds continued in their comparatively sluggish paces. “The conception of an exploding universe is based upon an interpretation of the experimental findings of the American astronomers on the basis of what scientists call ‘the Doppler effect.' “The Doppler effect is the increase in the frequency of a wave when the measuring device is moving toward the source of the wave, and likewise the decrease when the measuring device is moving away from the source. Slipher and Hubble and Humason found that the light waves coming from the outer galaxies ‘tended toward the red end of the spectrum,’ that is, that the energy from these galaxies showed a lower frequency than frould be expected if the galaxies were relatively stationary. They therefore concuded that the outer galaxies are receding.”

an n Doppler Effect IT Is important to keep this last fact in mind. Astronomers believe the distant nebulae to be receding, because of the shift of the spectrum lines toward the red. When this shift first was discovered, some astronomers thought that it was due merely to the curvature of space, and not to actual motion „ upon the part of the nebulae. This view, however, had to be given up, because it led to a universe which all astronomers agree Is much too small to fit the facts. Professor MacMillan now objects to accepting the shift to the red as a true Doppler effect, that Is as a result of the motion of these nebulae. “Such interpretation would put a terrific draft upon our credulity,” he says, “because it leads to the conclusion that all the mighty objects in the universe once were compacted into relatively narrow area, and implies a release involving energies of which we can have no conception.” He objects to the explosion idea also, because it puts limits to time, if not to space, and points out that there are rocks on the earth, which Ls a comparatively youthful body, which are estimated by geologists to be 1,800 million years old, and which, even in their cooled state, are of the same order of age as the postulated explosion. What are the proportions of twins, triplets and quadruplets in the total number of births? In a record of 50,000,000 births, twins occurred once in 87; triplets once in 7,103, and quadruplets once in 757,000 cases. What day was March 30, 1881? Wednesday. ✓ is caught holding the bag, while the big bankers skimmed the cream off on the high bond flotations in safetyfirst profits. And now the bankers tell the bag-holders that if the United States government will cancel the political debts owed by them to this country, the small investors now holding the bonds throughout the length and breath of the land will be able to salvage a fair portion of the initial cost of these foreign bonds. Here in Indiana we have a securi- : ties commission whose duty it is to keep wildcat securities off the market that originate here, but at the same time there is no legal machinery to keep the wildcat, gilt-edge foreign securities or bonds from coming here to roost. FRANK T. BAINS JB.