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Cutting School Costs In the very laudable attempt to reduce the cost of government by eliminating waste, tax committees have hit at what are called “frills” in the public school system. There Is a real fear in some quarters that this discussion may be necessarily changed to the subject of keeping any schools open. Farmers who are overburdened and unable to pay taxes can see the time approaching where the closing of all schools for lack of money may be necessary. So can the home owner in the city and the manufacturer whose plant is idle. The school system of today differs as much from "the little red school house,” which served two generation ago, as the airplane differs from the oxcart. There may exist in the present system some non-essentials and there may be such a refinement of organization as to enable efficiency experts in education to reduce the cost of schools by cutting down some of the teaching force. But it must be remembered that all of the soiled frills came from public demand for more cultural development or a desire to better fit the boy or girl to meet the problems of a changed world. In itress, they may be the first to be discarded. Os course, the final drive will be for a reduction Os teachers’ wages, and on this subject there can be at least a demand for serious consideration before any such action is taken. Teaching as a profession has never been regarded as the path to great fortune. In days of inflation, the wage Is usually less than that of the manual worker. In times of deflated labor prices, the wage may appear higher. As to the value of the service rendered in comparison with that of other workers, thinking people would place this profession toward the top rather than the bottom. There should be more social value from the teacher than the cigar maker or the cosmetic salesman. Conceivably, a teacher might be considered as more valuable than a pugilist. The wage of the teacher who has a position is very high compared to that of the unemployed father who is compelled to live upon the charity of the township trustee. Compared to the fees given to utility lawyers for the exertion of political influence, the sum sinks to insignificance. Wage reduction may be the final answer to the problem of keeping schools open at all. There is that danger. Already some communities in the state are facing bankruptcy and the breakdown of government activities. The schools should be maintained as long as possible. The increased attendance in high schools because boys and girls can no longer find jobs suggests that this is necessary. Perhaps if the burden was shifted from farms and real estate to intangibles, there would be no necessity for either closing schools or cutting wages. If public ownership of utilities is adopted, all danger of either would be removed.

“Soak the Poor!” The bipartisan parents of the $600,000,000 sales tax on consumers are telling their fellow-congressmen today that it’s a great revenue scheme because the taxpayers won’t feel it. We recall a similar remark made to the boy by the dentist who wanted to pull a tooth. What language, we wonder, will describe the feeling produced when falling wages and salaries strike hard against the higher cost of living caused by taxes on necessities. The proposed tax, in spite of its few catch-vote exemptions, levies tribute on practically everything the poor man must get to live. Ostensibly it exempts farm products and, therefore, has the appearance of exempting food. But Thursday on the floor Representative Hawley admitted that if all foods are exempted the bill would lose $250,000,000 worth of revenue. Canned or processed goods are not exempt. And the poor man lives out of a can because he can not afford refrigeration or purchase in large quantities. Besides food, the bill levies on everything the poor man must have. It takes the clothing he wears; the electricity by wtifch his wife patches the family’s old clothes; the tires on his auto, the gasoline in his tank, the automobile itself: the toys for his child, the soap for his wife's laundry tub, the shoes for his family; the cradle in which he is carried as an infant, the coffin in which he is buried. The sales tax provision, unnecessary and untimely, will add more than the 2Vi per cent to the cost of things. As pointed out by the American Farm Bureau, this measure will more likely add 10 per cent to the cost of living. Because the poor always spend a greater percentage of their incomes than do the rich, the bill can well be described, as it was Thursday by Representative Tarver of Georgia, as “a tax on poverty.” The Democratic leaders in their eagerness to avoid the charge of passing a tax measure to “soak the rich” are trying to “soak the poor.” There’s nothing painless about the sales tax. In its extra burden on the poor, in its encouragement to profiteering, in its trade-stifling effect on depresent business, this tax would take its place beside the Republican-Democratic billion dollar tariff atrocity as the Democrats’ great blunder. The League and Japan Reports of the draft resolution of the League of Nations assembly on the far eastern crisis indicate a compromise. Great Britain and France in the drafting committee continued their long fight to protect Japan from league criticism or action. The small nations insisted that the league back up its own covenant and the American policy in defense of treaties. Apparently, the small nations have ridden over the objections of Sir John Simons, British foreign minister, by including Manchuria as well as Shanghai in the resolution, by joining the United States in refusing to recognize any territorial settlement imposed in violation of the treaties, and by refusing to turn the entire matter back from the assembly to the Britishcontrolled league council. But, apparently, Sir John has won the main battle by keeping out of the resolution any declaration that the league covenant and the treaties have been violated. The teeth in the American policy is the Stimson declaration, in his letter to Senator Borah, that: “It is clear beyond peradventure that a situation has developed which can not, under any circumstances, be reconciled with the obligations of the ppvenants Os these two treaties, and that U the treaties had

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been faithfully observed such a situation could not have arisen.” There would be some gain for peace in an unconditional league resolution outlawing, as the American note of Jan. 11 outlawed, the fruits of conquest. If the draft resolution finally reaches the assembly floor and passes in that form, as now hoped, It will be a theoretic victory. But, taken alone, that would be only a feature. Japan does not care how often the league or the United States declares against treaty violations, so long as they do not apply that to Manchuria and Shanghai and so long as they do not declare Japan a violator. Japan can, and doubtless will, merely reiterate her hypocritical reply to the American note of Jan. 11 by expressing everlasting Japanese loyalty to the treaties, which she claims to be enforcing in Manchuria and Shanghai. The Issue is whether Japan has violated the treaties. Every one at the league meeting says, “Yes”—that is, all say so in private, and almost all but the British and French say so in public. Even the British dominions representatives have charged Japan with treaty violation and demanded league action. The European small nations and the British dominions fighting for the life and honor of the league and for peace co-operation with the United States, deserve much credit for their fearless conduct of the league assembly meeting so far. But they should realize that the test is no mere theoretic formula for face-saving of British tories and Japanese militarists. The issue is whether an imperialistic power can make the League of Nations swallow an aggressive war for six months without even admitting that there is an aggressive war. After all of the European charges against America for refusal to co-operate for world peace In the past, will the small nations allow Great Britain and France to prevent league co-operation with America for world peace In this crisis?

Tale of Two Cities The people of Indianapolis should induce the members of the public service commission to visit Kansas City, Kan., in order to clear the cobwebs from their minds on the matter of electric rates. That city owns its own plant. It has 35,000 customers, about a third the number in this city. It has just built anew plant, costing $1,600,000 from its profits. The profits were earned on rates which would seem like gifts to the residents of this city. The bill for a six-room house, using fifty kilowatts hours a month is $1.96. The average rate paid by domestic users is three cents as compared to double that sum in this city. Industry is encouraged, not destroyed, in that city. The big power users get a rate of less than one cent a kilowatt hour. Os course, there is no holding company to take a rakeoff on coal and engineering fees. There is no holding company to charge management fees. That plant is run by “politicians,” who are elected by the people. Municipal ownership and the control of such a business by the politicians is terrible, of course. Private ownership, under a holding company, charges a costly price for protection against politicians of the <ind that rim the Kansas plant. Smedley Butler Announcement that General Smedley Butler will run for the Republican nomination for senator in Pennsylvania against Senator James J. Davis insures Pennsylvania and the rest of the country of at least one contest that ought to be exceedingly interesting to watch, no matter which way it goes. Just what chance the doughty general has of getting to the senate, and how good a senator he might make if he got there, are the matters with which we needn’t concern ourselves at this moment. The thing that occurs first of all is that it ought to be a lively, old-fashicned, rip-snorting campaign. General Butler never was noted for taciturnity or for pussyfooting. Judging the future by the past, one imagines that here is one senatorial contest that will be enlivened by plenty of plain, forthright speaking. A survey conducted by a Chicago department store reveals that 39 per cent of the husbands help their wives with the dishes. The other 61 per cent must have been prevaricators. United States taxpayers spent $4,000 last year to record the Indian sign language, a news item says. They ought to spend about that much more and teach it to congressmen. A news story says Shanghai lies In about the same latitude as Mobile, Ala., but its climate is more like that of Washington, D. C. If it had congress’ hot air, it probably would be lots warmer.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

CERTAIN authorities who are strong for rules invariably stress cooking when they discuss successful marriage. One has written recently, “If every girl was a good A-l cook when she got married she could keep her husband eating out of her hand and prevent him from roaming, for nothing nails a man to his own fireside like a rich, heavy dinner of the things he likes best.” Now, while this is not propaganda against girls learning to cook, it seems to be that there is room for argument here. It should be a foregone conclusion that one of the assets of a poor man’s wife is the ability to keep a clean house and prepare palatable food. But it is very far from true that a good cook always can keep a husband. Nothing, indeed, could be more false or more misleading to girls or more insulting to men. Asa matter of cold fact, did you ever hear of a man running after a woman merely because she could cook? Did you ever know a man to fall in love with a girl because her biscuits were light? Os course not. * * m BECAUSE, in spite of the fact that we have so slandered them, men are the supreme idealists and never associate their stomachs with their hearts. They, being animals, like a good meal, but they do not base their love upon it. I dare say, indeed, that more men have become disillusioned with wives and marriage because “rich and heavy meals” become the only tie to the union than for any other reason. Many a husband asks for emotional stimulus and is given a pie. When a man wants sympathy, a pot roast will not do. If he longs for tenderness and understanding, no amount of fine sauces will satisfy him. To take it for granted that a husband is a person who dotes above all else upon feeding is, It seems to me, a shiftless attitude toward marriage, even for a good code. *

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All That Prohibition Stands for Now Is a Pigheaded Determination to Retain Political Power by Virtue of an Organized Minority. NEW YORK, March 11.—Hope of the drys thas been reduced to the possibility that thirteen states can be depended on to block any change in the eighteenth amendment. It is a thin hope. Sentiment for repeal has become so strong as to make it doubtful whether the drys can depend on more than half a dozen states three or four years hence. Meanwhile, congress possesses ample power to liberalize the Volstead act. The fact that drys still control congress should not be taken too seriously. Eventually congress will be brought into line with public opinion for the very simple reason that public opinion can bring it into line. tt n Prohibition Unmasked THE 13-state idea reveals prohibition in its true light. It rests, and always has rested on the stubborn attitude of an organized minority. It is, and always has been afraid of popular votes. It operates, and always has operated on the rule, or ruin theory. Like every other movement for personal purification by law, prohibition is opposed to the principles of democracy. It cares nothing about majorities as long as it can retain the statutes, nothing about failure as long as it can keep up the pretense, nothing about drunkenness as long as the votes are dry. tt tt tt Nation of 'Speakies' NO one but a fanatic can observe what is going on in this country and not realize that the public has scrapped prohibition. The eighteenth amendment not only is being nullified, but openly nullified from Maine to California. Even those who do not patronize it have come to regard the speakeasy as a fixed institution. Whether on Broadway, in the mountains of Virginia, or on the “lone prairee,” the stranger can get liquor as easily as he could in 1916. The only difference is that the hundreds of millions of dollars which the government then was getting, now goes to organized crime. ft tt tt Temperance Killed PROHIBITION has financed gang rule and racketeering. It has promoted disrespect for all laws by forcing disrespect for one. It has killed off about every phase of the temperance movement. It has put liquor within easy reach of children and young people. It has driven the public to deal with criminals and thugs. It has reduced our most important tribunals of justice to the level of police courts. It has filled our jails with men and women who were guilty of no offense, except that they would not agree with a narrow, stupid attempt to regulate personal conduct. MUM Claims Unfulfilled PROHIBITION has not stopped or diminished crime, particularly that son of crime which its advocates blamed on the liquor traffic. It has not prevented the increase of divorce. It has not saved the home from being broken. It has not lessened thi number of delinquent children. It has not decreased the amount of insanity. It has not increased the number of home-owners as compared to that of tenants. It has not protected the country against depression and unemployment. u u u Rule by Minority PROHIBITION has ceased to be a sincere effort at moral reform, if, indeed, it ever has. All it stands for now is a pigheaded determination to retain political power by virtue of an organized minority large enough to keep control of one-fourth of the states and thus prevent a change in the Constitution. That is not the kind of government, the kind of law, the kind of moral code our fathers had in mind when they founded this republic.

Questions and Answers

Has the planet Jupiter as many satellites as Neptune? Neptune has only one satellite, discovered by William Lassell within a month of the finding of the planet itself. Jupiter has no less than nine satellites, so far as is known at present. Four of them were discovered by Galileo in 1610 and can be readily seen with a pair of field glasses. The others are very small and faint. How many bones are there In the bodies of the horse, ox, pig, dog and bird? The horse has 191; ox, 196; pig, 270; dog, 255, and bird, 161. How many unemployed persons are there in the United States today? Estimates, from various sources, range from six to ten million. Does a man have to be a citizen of the United States to enlist in the United States army? He must either be a citizen or declare his intention of becoming a citizen. WTien will the next Olympic games be held? They are scheduled for Los Angeles in July, 1932. Can a naturalized American citizen become President of the United States? The Constitution provides that only natural-born citizens are eligible to the office of President and Vice-President. What countries export the most watches and diamonds to United States? South Africa exports the most diamonds and Switzerland, France and Germany export the most .watches.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Teach Child Athlete to ‘Warm Up’

This is the last of five articles by Dr. Fishbein on “That Tired Feeling: How You Get That Way and What to Do About it.” BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyseia, the Health Magazine. THE principal danger in competitive sports for children of grade school age lies in the possibility of over-exertion before the child’s body has become prepared properly for the energies to be expended. This danger, in most instances, may be overcome if the child is careful to “warm up” before such activity, just as the athletes do before football games or track meets. The “warming up” process enables the body to reach its maximum cell replacement and prevents the short breath and discomfort which usually precede what athlets call “second "wind.” Where trained athletes know

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Editor Times—lt surely seems high time that the Indianapolis police department curbed bootlegging, also vice. As usual, we taxpayers must sit back and wait until some mother’s boy or girl either gets killed or sent to prison for life. Then all we see is where the chief is going to make a big drive on bootleggers and wants the taxpayers to give him the information. Why not let him walk down town and stop on the northwest corner of Illinois and Washington streets, and watch the prostitutes and bootleggers transact their business on a large scale? Or he could walk north on Illinois street or Pennsylvania and see for himself how easy it is to get whatever he wants, with no information asked. This has been going on for a long time before this last little school girl was caught for being poisoned on this big surprise bootleg whisky. My advice would be either to get a 1932 police department or 1900 times back again. TAXPAYER. Editor Times —Well, we have hard times, and the one great reason is that we have too much government. Every time anything comes up in congress some gangster slips in a committee to look after that particular trouble. Look at the coal miners’ trouble just a few months ago. A committee was appointed to look after it and no one ever will know anything more about them nor how many there are of them, and they will serve at war time salaries, several times the amount that honest people get at their daily work. There is a law of supply and demand, and the coal market is regulated that way, and there is no need of committees for everything that comes up. As for the grain market, I hope that the farmers can understand that it must have cost the government more than their grain comes to, for they are now howling about their taxes. Then there is the postal business. If, according to reports, our postal force was cut down half and salaries cut half we would have just as good service as we have now and they would be better paid than any of our citizens. Our people

Your Garden Now is the time to prepare for that summer garden you are going to have. Our Washington bureau has a packet of nine of its bulletins that will be mighty helpful for all phases of garden work. The titles tell the story: 1. Beautifying Home Grounds. 5. Care of Lawns. 2. Flower Gardens. 6. Shrubbery and Hedges. 3. Growing Roses. 7. Growing Dahlias. 4. Gardening. i. Growing Chrysanthemums. 9. Garden Sun Dials. If you want these nine bulletins mailed to you in a single packet, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-24, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times: 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want the packet of nine bulletins on Gardens and Grounds and inclose herewith 25 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name St. and No City state I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.).

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these things and usually carefully observe them, children are apt not to understand why such preliminaries are necessary. Properly supervised, competitive sports for children of grade school age nearly always include a “warming up” period. This always should be the case when the sport to be engaged in is a strenuous one. The same rules apply for children as for grown-ups in regard to fatigue. While many children may seem almost tireless, the fact may be that they are chronic sufferers from fatigue. They should be taught to rest after strenuous exertion and to engage in no more sports than their bodies are capable of handling without strain. Children physically below normal should not be allowed to participate in the more strenuous sports.

employed in factories are making below $lO. The tariff may be one part of cur trouble, and another reason may be that so many of our factories have gone to Canada. Our noble congressmen voted themselves war time salaries and have forgotten to cut them down. Now let them go back to meet the times, for the price of everything is lower than ever. Sixty years ago sugar was eight pounds for a dollar in the winter and seventeen pounds in the summer. Coal was $3.50 a ton, coffee 28 cents a pound and eggs from 8 to 12 cents a dozen. And our congresemen’s salary was $2,500 and our President’s $25,000 and a few secretaries. Now another graft is the eighteenth amendment, and it’s all to send a drunk around with a pistol working against a law of nature. Well, if they have taken our industries away, let them stand for it, and put their salaries where they belong and cut out the grafting of surplus henchmen and sell liquor in Canada's way and try to make some money and not. spend es orything. WALTER F. SMITH. Cambridge City, Ind. Editor Times—When the wife of an unemployed worker struggling to feed a family of five on the miserable pittance allowed under present relief conditions finally broke down and gave vent to her despair recently, a middle-class social worker had the impudence to give her this smug advice: “Don’t feel,” she said, “that you are being condemned to poverty for life. Try to remember that the greatest man who ever lived was born in a manger and that one of our greatest Presidents was born in a log cabin.” This is rare consolation, indeed, and a fine prescription for the pangs of hunger. If the situation were not so serious and touching, one would be tempted to greet these words of good cheer with howling gales of laughter. For there is a grim humor in the persistence during these times of a mind so out of touch with reality. The age of log cabins hs past; the

If they follow a systematic program of play, they frequently will develop greater strength and may be able soon to join their playmates in the more arduous games. Another fact that should be kept in mind in sports for children is that they can not devote all their energy to play, since there always must be a surplus to permit them to grow until they have reached full development. For that reason, continued and prolonged playing of the more strenuous sports should be curtailed for all but the most robust children. If these simple rules are followed, the normal child may participate in and enjoy the sports ordinarily outlined in grade school and playground programs without ill effects.

age of slum and tenement is here; and the famished worker knows definitely that he is “condemned to poverty for life” as long as the present system endures. No mythically impossible chance of the presidency will woo him from his hard-earned knowledge of reality. He has been tricked by the uplifters too long. No relief will come from above. And no longer does there exist the possibility of his climbing above. No, today, the worker stands firm m the knowledge that salvation lies only in the united co-operation of his own class, the working class, and that only as that class triumphs will he be able to rise out of the degrading poverty to which capitalism has condemned him. Lot the minions of middle-class charity babble their antediluvian platitudes. The worker only can laugh. The call to which he answers is the call of “workers unite.” PERRY WYATT. 308 Sanders street. Editor Times—Allow me to make a few comments on the Logansport brewery write up in The Times issue of March 4. If the Logansport people are staking part of their hoped-for relief from economic stress on beer, they surely are placing their faith in a bubble and grasping at a straw like a drowning man. Don’t forget England and other nations. Beer did not bring them prosperity and it won’t to America. The only people who will see prosperity if beer should return are the beer barons and their associates, not the people of the United States. Spending of $15,000 for remodeling will help as far as it goes. During the last decade, the working man, the backbone of America, has been buying automobiles, radios, musical instruments, better furniture, clothing and homes. His wife and daughters have patronized the beauty parlors. All this class of business is the real job creator. The average man who becomes a good beer customer is going to quit buying these commodities to a great extent, consequently the manufacturers of these commodities will have to lay off some of their help in Logansport and in other towns. Where beer will put one person to work, it will lay off two or more in other industries. Money spent for beer is not going to build up the country, w r hereas money spent in other commodities will. I admit that there will be a spurt in some lines of business if the breweries start again, but it will be a reaction after the taking, when | the drinking public won’t have 1 enough money to buy the abovementioned commodities and beer, too. Then business is going to slump again. We would better read the ; handwriting on the wall now. Henry Ford and a few others can read it. There is nothing like a habit for taking your money. CHARLES E. TOWN. Editor Times—As a daily reader of your paper, I wish to commend you on your editorials, which are informative and interesting, but I am a dissenter when you write on the subject of German reparations. Germany carried on a ruthless war, and Belgium and France suf sered great losses, both in men and industry. Germany did everything possible to incapacitate these two countries for many years to come, and she even has tried to her responsibility and has not made an i

.MARCH 11,1D32

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Blind Seem to Have a “Sixth Sense” That Helps Them to Avoid Obstacles. MANY people have wondered at the comparative ease with which blind persons avoid obstacles, as for example, when walking alone down a street. The phenomenon has engaged the attention of scientists as well as laymen. The question usually asked is: Do the blind possess a sixth sense, a sort of compensation for being blind, an "obstacle sense” as It is sometimes called? Dr. Vladimir Dolansky, a scientist of Warsaw, Poland, who is himself blind, has made a study of the subject. His conclusions are set forth in the first issue of the new quarterly bulletin of the American Braille Press for War and Civilian Blind, a publication devoted to the interests of the blind. Dr. Dolansky comes to the conclusion that the blind do have the ability of “sensing” obstacles. He does not believe, that it is in any way a “sixth sense,” or special sense organ, but merely an extension of the other senses to take over a function which is performed for the normal person by the eyes. MUM Grazing Sensation DR. DOLANSKY defines the ability of the blind to sense obstacles as “a structural mechanism founded on the instinct of selfpreservation, and with hearing as its mainspring.” Many blind people say that they, have a sensation of rustling over the face when confronted by an obstacle. This, according to Dr. Dolansky, is “a reflex physiological process which is brought into action as a result of warnings picked up by the ear. “The blind agree on the fact that, when approaching an obstacle they have a slight sensation, which it is very difficult to define, of being grazed on the face and particularly on the forehead, the temples, and the cheeks,” Dr. Dolansky says. “This incomprehensible phenomenon has aroused great interest, not only among the blind but also among those who can see. Thus, during the nineteenth century and up to the present day many writers have endeavored to clear up the question. “The researches made during the last twenty-five years are of far greater consequence; for their authors, wishing to break the vicious circle of hypotheses, have tried to establish the causes of the phenomenon.” u u tt Experiments Tried THREE theories to account for phenomenon have been advanced. These are known, after their proposers, as the Truschel acoustic theory, the Kuntz theory of pressure, and the Krogius thermic theory. “Truschel observes that the modification in noise caused by the reflection of the sound waves (for instance, the noise of footsteps) warns the blind person of the presence of the obstacle,” Dr. Dolansky says, “Kuntz asserts, after numerous experiments, that the subject who moves toward the obstacle feels on his face a pressure exerted by the air which is between him and the obstacle. “According to Krogius, the blind person perceives the pressure of the obstacles owing to the difference in temperature which exists between the skin of his face and the surface of the objects toward which he is moving.” Dr. Dolansky by experiments proved the first theory to be correct. He found blind persons could sense obstacles even when their faces were covered by cardboard. However, they could not sense obstacles if their ears were plugged with cotton wool. Regarding the grazing sensation on the face, Dr. Dolansky says it is fundamentally a fear reaction, as when fright causes a person’s hair “to stand on end.” “A cat, attacked by a dog, bristles in the same way,” he says.

W t ?s9£ y 3? /world war \ ANNIVERSARY

TURKS ARE ROUTED March II ON March 11, 1918, Turkisl forces fell back in great dis order from Hit in Mesopotamia with the British troops in hot pur* suit. British outposts were placed more than twenty miles above the city after an all-day chase of their adversaries. British advances in Palestine were also noted, although these troops met with stiff resistance from opposing Turkish regiments. Germans amounting to several divisions delivered a terrific blow to British troops near Ypres. After heavy fighting, which continued through the night, German gains were considered slight. Naples was bombed by German fliers. Sixteen were killed. Daily Thought He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith,—Ecclesiastes 13:1. An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company. —Richardson. honest effort to recompense those whom she wronged. Sixty years ago, when Germany defeated France, she presents a bill for one billion dollars, and she stayed on Franch soil until it was paid. France paid this stupendous sum in about two and one half years. One billion dollars sixty years ago was a large sum of money, so I can not see that Germany is justified in her attitude of always seeking sympathy and trying to evade her responsibility. She should be compelled to make adequate reparations. If Germanv had won the war, who doubts that she would have presented a very substantial bill and collected it, too? It might be well to look at this subject from the point of view of those most injured, and not just at the point of view of those who were the offenders. l J. r. m. ,