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Government by Slate Makers Tomorrow the voter* will pro through the formality of selecting candidates for the two major parties. In all probability these nominees will be determined by the activities of slate makers. The voters will be besieged by agents of small groups, each with its particular purpose. It being an impossibility to get an intelligent and unselfish ballot without some guide, the citizen will necessarily depend on the advice of slate makers. Before any slate is voted, it would be wise to know who wrote it—and why. Citizens interested in defeating income tax legislation have their slate. Those interested in preserving prohibition and bootlegging have their list. Those who want labor legislation will urge votes for their selections. Coffin has his list of those who will put him back into power in his party and in the way of patronage if elected. The regular Democratic organization has its list of those it wants to protect its interests. Some day the Constitution will be rewritten and democratic government will be restored by limiting the number of elective offices to a very few, perhaps one at each election. Then the people will have a chance at self-government again. Today it is destroyed by the long ballot. But tomorrow the one chance lies in casting your lot with a group that you prefer to other groups. Before you vote for any slate, if you do vote for an entire slate, fee sure to find out who is handing you your dope.

The Prohibition Issue If you happen to be one of the rapidly growing number of citizens who believe that something must be done with prohibition, tomorrow will be your last chance to insure a real vote on the question in the fall. When the candidates for congress are chosen, the stage will be set. If both candidates In the same district are the selection of the Anti-Saloon League, the voters can not vote on this matter. Very many citizens who, in the past, have given allegiance to prohibition have changed their minds in these days of depression. They believe that it has not solved the liquor problem, but has introduced government by gangsters, blackmail by gunmen, vast sums spent for futile gestures of enforcement, curtailment of revenues that formerly provided funds for government. Many citizens believe that the government and not the gunmen should receive whatever tax is levied on the drinking habits of the people. Many have become appalled by the fact that the government has apparently been unable to prosecute successfully for violations of this law and is driven to the expedient of sending its Capones to prison for failing to return incomes from crime for taxation. In voting for candidates for congress, unless there is a compelling discrepancy between two candidates, those who wish to solve, not Intensify, the prohibition question should vote for those who pledge themselves to the submission of a repeal for the eighteenth amendment.

Two Shoals Bills The house this week is expected to pass its Muscle Shoals bill, a measure designed to permit lease of these valuable properties. But the Shoals issue will not be disposed of in the interest of the people who paid for these vast developments unless the Norris bill, or one very much like it, is enacted. The house bill makes government operation an alternative, if no lessee is found within eighteen months. But even after the government starts operation, the plant can be leased if suitable terms are offered by some private corporation. The Norris bill recognizes this as an unsound provision. and forbids private operation if no lessee is discovered in the very liberal time of a year and a half allowed for the search for such a company or corporation. The house bill contains provisions for disposition es surplus power to states, municipalities and counties. but this power only is delivered to a switchboard. The Norris bill recognizes that the people will not benefit from this surplus power unless the government makes arrangements to construct transmission lines. The house bill ties new strings about construction of Cove Creek dam in east Tennessee. But the senate's Norris bill recognizes Cove creek as an Integral part of the Shoals development, necessary for flood control and for manufacture of the maximum amount of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals below. The senate should not dilly-dally with the Norris proposal, which has been given a place on its calendar by the steering committee. If permitted to remain in its present place, its chances of passage this session appear remote; for ahead of it are scheduled the Glass banking bill, the economy bill, and the appropriation bills. The senate could pass the Norris bill in a few hours, for it is identical with the measure passed last year. And it should pass the Norris bill soon, so that. In conference between the two houses, the unsound provisions of the house bill can be deleted or rewritten. Enemies of Children Bv proclamation. President Hoover set aside the first of May as Child Health day. If Child Health day means anything, it should signal anew and relentless war on enemies of children. This means a war on ignorance, poverty, unemployment, and insecurity and. chiefly, upon child labor. Sentimental appeals in behalf of programs are useless while 6.000 000 American children are undernourished; while 150.000 babies die annually because of poverty, while one-third of American families live in 9.000,000 homes which Dr. Edith Elmer Wood calls • bad enough to be abolished"; while 150.000 children are ill each year from preventable diseases; while 100.000 juveniles become wards of the courts each year because of improper environment; while 18.000 children are killed by autos annually, largely because

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they have no playgrounds but the street*; while some 3,000,000 children under 18 are employed gainfully in mines, factories, ahops, and streets, though 9.000,000 adults are looking for Jobs; while at least 18,000,000 children are growing up under conditions that doom them to clouded, precarious, unhappy futures. “Children are not safe and happy If their parents are miserable,” said the late Julia Lathrop recently, ‘‘and parents must be miserable if they can not protect a home against poverty. Let us not deceive ourselves. The power to maintain a decent family living standard is the primary essential of child welfare.” Children do not work for wages because they enjoy it. They respond to the call of the factory whistle because their parents must have the extra money and because employers can buy their labor more cheaply than that of tneir elders. When we have made adult life secure, child life will come into its own. Then May day will be what it was to the little May Queen of Tennyson's poem, ‘ the gladdest day of all the glad new year.”

The Economy Test If the house of representatives stands by its refusal to consolidate the war and navy departments, congress may as well abandon any serious attempts at further reduction of the federal budget. It has become apparent, even to members of congress, that enough money can not be cut from the allowance for operation of the civil services without dangerously crippling the government and adding to the numbers of unemployed. The house economy committee spent weeks going through the budget with a fine tooth comb, looking for ways to save. The house refused to accept the only recommendations that involved large amounts of money. And the senate is learning, by bitter experience, that 10 per cent cuts are not always desirable or possible. The alternative, if there Js to be economy, is to cut the great military services of the government. Twentyseven and a half per cent of our annual budget goes for interest and principal of the public debt, practically all incurred for war; 25 per cent of the budget goes for payments to veterans and expenditures in their behalf; 17 per cent goes for maintenance of army and navy. Os this last item, one-fifth, or $140,000,000, could be saved by consolidation of ,rmy and navy departments, Chairman Byrns of the appropriations committee estimates. He bases his estimates on information furnished by officers of both services. Byrns charges that the Washington social lobby, j as well as military discipline, has defeated his pro-; posal every time it has been considered since first made by the Harding commission. This is a serious charge and it raises an issue which tests the sincerity of every economy advocate more directly than any of the other issues involved. The consolidation contemplates no weakening of the national defense, no abandonment of any existing services. It does propose to prevent duplication and overlapping of functions; to stop the practice of having army and navy flying fields side by side, each with overhead expense; to do away with duplicate i supply stations in the same cities; to effect saving in purchases of food and clothing, in transportation, training, maintenance and administration. The vote Saturday was very close, with the Hoover administration lobbying against the measure. A few level-headed representatives well may swing the balance toward sane economy when the final roll call is taken.

Ten years of excessive taxation have brought us to the brink of ruin, an economist says. And the politicians at Washington think ten years more will bring us back! The eleven new limousines purchased by the White House ought to come in handy for use In taking the President to the numerous economy conferences with the Democrats. From the claims of the mine owners, it looks as if it would pay Kentucky to shut down the mines and charge admission. A1 Smith suggests that we tell Europe to forget its war debts for twenty years. It’s too late for that now. They’ve already forgotten them. The man who says the right thing at the right time is rare. But not half so rare as the man who says nothing at the right time. The man who said a profit was without honor should have lived in 1932. One reason for the depression is loss of foreign trade. Another reason is loss of money.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONE of the most significant changes ever witnessed in America is the feminine attitude, past and present, toward prohibition. While there still are many sincere souls who believe this law can be enforced, hundreds of thousands of women have changed their minds entirely about it. Once we presented an almost solid phalanx of dry advocates to congress, but now we find multitudes of our sex who are shouting vociferously for repeal. One thing is sure, that these reformed drys are no less fine or honest or decent than they were before. They merely have learned certain facts about human nature. Another thing we must not forget. A great many members of organizations that annually pass resolutions for more enforcement feel hopeless that this can be done, and would like some kind of a change. • • BUT let us not make the same mistake twice. Before 1920, women, most of whom were unversed in politics or the strange ways of men who pass laws only to break them, really believed that liquor would disappear after the Volstead act. We know now how badly mistaken they were. But we dare not fool ourselves into thinking that if congress and the states ever do muster up courage to repeal this sinister amendment, we at once shall step into Utopia. We should profit from our former error. By the passage of a too rigid prohibition measure, we created an incredibly difficult situation so; ourselves. In those bygone glamorous days, no half measure would do. Because of that fatal belief, we now suffer and probably shall suffer more in the future. This country will not present a pretty picture after repeal, unless our legislators use a good deal more sense about that than they ever have shown before. Modification of some sort we must have. But it will require wisdom to make a alight adjustment, much less a radical one. It is going to take the combined intelligence of men and women to get us out of our unpleasant prohibition predicament. But unless we do get out of it, we are lost.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Effort s to Improve the Budget - Balancing Plan Have Accomplished No Purpose Except to Destroy All Semblance of a Plan . YORK. May 2.—ls anything, prospects of a balanced budget are dimmer tnan they were a month ago. The senate has modified and amended the tax bill to such an extent that it is a different measure from what it was when it left the house. No one can tell whether it would produce the required revenue, even if the house were to accept it. That the house will accept it without a determined and possibly long drawn out struggle is equally doubtful. Meanwhile, the house has tom the economy bill to pieces, until about half the prospective savings has been lost. To state the situation bluntly, efforts to improve particular provisions of the budget-balancing plane have accomplished no purpose so distinctly as to destroy all semblance of a plan.

Sales Tax Abandoned CONGRESS began with the idea of increasing revenue by sl,- ! 000,000,000 and cutting down expenses by $250,000,000. It was proposed to raise about half the-needed revenue by a general sales tax. and the remainder by various excise and nuisance taxes, as well as a sharp increase of income taxes. The general sales tax proved so unpopular that it had to be abandoned, wheerupon the nuisance and excise taxes were multiplied. The tax bill was adequate, if imperfect, as it left the house, but everybody who had been subjected to a special tax began to yell, and the senate has been trying to quiet | the rumpus by altering this, or that ! provision. man Savings Are Eliminated THE economy bill, designed to save some $250,000,000, included ; two major items. First, it provided for consolidation of the war and I navy departments, which was expected to reduce overhead expenses by $50,000,000. Second, it provided | for an 11 per cent cut of all federal employes receiving more than SI,OOO a year, which was expected to save $67,000,000. The house has raised the exemption to this pay-cut provision from SI,OOO to $2,500, thereby eliminating more than $50,000,000 of the expected saving. It also has voted against consolidation of the war and navy departments, which eliminates another $50,000,000.

Must Have Hardship HOUSE and senate can continue trying to perfect the details of each other’s work until there is nothing left. You can take each detail and demonstrate that there was excellent reason for efforts to perfect it, but you can’t take the plan as a whole and demonstrate that much has been accomplished, except mutilation and destruction. Architects know that you can spoil the appearance of a house by changing the style of the front entrance, though you may have made a decided improvement in the latter as a front entrance. This scheme of trying to make a Structure fit details is all wrong. We are not going to raise an additional billion dollars through taxation without causing hardship and distress. We are not going to save $250,000,000 without lowering the pay of many employes and discharging others. There just isn’t any painless process of digging into people’s pockets or of cutting down expenses. * * n Just Another Joke EFFORTS to find taxes that won’t hurt, or economies that do not involve sacrifice, rapidly are leading us toward the morass of quack remedies. The cash bonus plan has intrigued many, not so much because of what it means to ex-soldiers, as because of the pretext it furnishes for inflation. Then there is the Goldsborough bill, which makes restoration of the dollar's purchasing power a matter of public policy and charges the federal reserve board and federal reserve banks to see that the dollar's purchasing power is restored. Why laugh at the little Danish prince who ordered the sea to open up and let him and his juvenile followers pass through without getting their feet wet?

Daily Thought

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till He eomc and rain righteousness upon you. —Hosea. 10:12. There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home— Chapin.

The Age of Science This is the scientific age Civilization as we know it today Is the child of science. You can not keep up with modern developments without a knowledge ot modern scientific thought. Our Washington Bureau has ready tor you a packet ot eight ot its interesting and authoritative bulletins on various phases ot science. Here are the titles: 1. Popular Astronomy 5. Psychoanalysis Simplified 2. Electricity 6. History of Radio 3. Evolution Pro and Con 7. Seven Modern Wonders 4. Great Inventions 8. Weather and Climate If you want this packet, fill out the coupon below and mail a* directed: —CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. £-22. Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D C. I want a copy of the packet of eight Bulletins on SCIENCE, and Inclose herewith 25 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelad United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs > NAME STREET AND NO. , CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indi&napatta Tunes. (Code No.)

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Science Cuts Infant Death Rate

Thi I* the first of ■ irrlH of six : article* hr Dr. Moris Fishbein on "Your Child'* Health. *’ Others will follow 1 daily In The Times. BY' DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia. the Health Maeaiine ONE of the principal accomplishments of the medical profession in modern times has been the great work done in decreasing the death rate for infants from nearly 300 a 1.000 to a rate varying between 50 and 80. This has been done with the aid of the infant welfare organizations and by campaigns to educate prospective fathers and mothers. A further decrease in the infant mortality rate, however, not only is possible, but it is the ambition of every public health organization. Much work remains to be done and it is not too pessimistic to say that the present death rate is entirely too high. At the end of the nineteenth

IT SEEMS TO ME BY II BROUN )D

THE questions and requests which come to a columnist from time to time are curious. Here, for instance, is a letter from H. R. J. of Washington, D. C., who writes: "Please, on the inclosed card, give ie your opinion of Wordsworth's change in politics. In 1814 Wordsworth changed from a liberal to a conservative. Your opinion will mean so much to me.” But all I can say regarding Wordsworth’s switch in faith is. that I am very sorry to hear about it. And speaking of Wordsworth, some of my friends want to know whether some recent columns expressing admiration for A1 Smith mean that I have become converted to the Democratic party. Certainly not. It seems to me not impossible or even illogical for a Socialist to admire some of Al s program and most of his personality. Asa potential office holder, I would prefer him vastly above Hooer, Roosevelt or any of the likely or remote candidates of the two major parties. M M M Not Far Enough BUT, although Smith has grown a great deal in social vision in the last ten years, he is still a man committed by belief and emotion to the preservation of the present world as we know it. As far as immediate remedies go, Smith would travel much farther than any of the others. But in regard to things which seem to me to be fundamental. I would find Smith and all his competitors of approximately the same mind. I'm on the other side. Some hold it heretical for a radical to have any such thing as a second choice among political candidates. Among the more dogmatic there is the contention that nothing of good can come from the Democrats or the Republicans. They are all to be lumped together as among the lost, without regard even to hairline distinctions. Indeed, from this point of view

Keep Your Eye on the Ball!

century scientific medicine and public health officials began two great campaigns: <lr control of infant mortality; (2) campaign against tuberculosis. Fifty years ago such great cities as New York and Chicago had infant mortality rates of 250 to 300 or more, which meant that 250 or 300 out of every 1,000 babies died before they were 1 year old. The fight to decrease infant mortality really began in 1854, when the mayor of a French town started a baby-saving compaign which cut the infant death rate in his village from 300 to 200 for 1,000 live births. Forty years later his son. who succeeded him as mayor, took up the campaign and put into effect the following regulations: 1. The reporting of every pregnancy. 2. Provision that every baby should be nursed at least a year. 3. Fortnightly weighing for every baby. 4. Report of every case of ill-

the most benighted standpatter is more helpful to the radical movement than the intelligent liberal. I agree that it is demonstrably true that an administration such as that now in power has won many converts to the belief that what America and the world need is a . new deal all around. And yet it seems to me that ft man is heartless if he prays for more inefficiency and greater stupidity as aids toward the coming of Utopia. n an The Drawing of Lots THE price for any such program is staggering. It must be paid in agony and woe. Moreover, gravely doubt that salvation ever is to be purchased with such coin. Catastrophe is not a springboard by which man springs lightly to new effort and freshened intelligence. Dark ages beget dark ages. Fellowship does not increase, but diminishes among the starving. Surely no one would pick a lifeboat ten days adrift as the best possible place for creation of a co-operative commonwealth. Unless man is a reasonable being, it is a waste of time to talk in terms of organizing anew society built upon the principle of mutual service. I think we are reasonable beings in the long run, but very slow-witted in short ones. The brain works a little better at the brink of a precipice than at the bottom of it. A great many leaders have been fond of declaring. “I never compromise." But none of them ever

Here re Some Puzzlers cind Their /I usueers

How many kilometers are there in a mile? One and six-tenths. Where and when was John A. Roebling, engineer in charge of the building of the Brooklyn bridge, bom and how did he die? He was born in 1803 in Muhlhausen, Prussia, and emigrated to the United States in 1831. His death was caused by an accident while engaged in fixing the position of the Brooklyn tower in 1869. When did Antonio Stradivarius, the violin maker, die? Dec. 18. 1737. Can cob honey be made artificially? No. Is it true that the hog is immune from the poison of venomous snakes. The skin of hogs is tough and thick, and beneath it is a heavy layer of fat which keeps the poison from entering the circulation system. Where and when was C ; ark Gable born? Cadiz. 0., Feb. 1. 1901. Are all state employes exempt from the payment of federal income tax on their salaries? Are the salaries of the President of the United States and federal judges also exempt? The salaries of the President, federal judges, and employes of states

ness in a young child within twentyfour hours. 5. The regular attendance of a physician in the village at least once each week. A properly selected herd of cattle was developed to supply clean milk to nursing mothers and children. It is reported that the infant death rate of the village stood at zero from 1893 to 1906. The rules there put Into effect well might guide modern communities in similar campaign. Today the infant welfare campaign includes regular inspection of school children for the earliest signs of disease, so that they may have prompt medical attention; proper control of milk through inspection and pasteurization; setting up of milk stations for poor mothers; health teaching of children in the public schools, and nutritional control through a number of special agencies. Next: Child hygiene.

Ideal* and opinion* expressed in this column are those ot one of America's roost interesting writers and arc presented withoat retard to their agreement or disacreement with the editorial attitude of this psper.—The Editor.

lived up to this mistaken formula. At least, none of the great ones. To be sure, a compromise should never be accepted as if it were a gift horse. There ought to be searching dental examination. After all, the important point about a compromise is whether it constitutes a step forward or a aide step. Or, as in too many cases, a step backward. But it is the fate of men and causes that progress is and always has been a hitch-hiker. Though "Pike’s Peak or bust” may be your motto, t.iere is no point in scorning a lift from the traveler who says, "I'm not going that far, but I'll take you across the Alleghenies.” nun Fair for Both Sides /~|N the ride the Pike’s Peak advocate may be able to convince t he man that this is really the only authentic mountain top and that it is foolish for anybody to stop short of It. It may be argued that, on the other hand, the long-haul traveler runs the risk of being talked into an acceptance of the nearer mountains as being tall enough. But that is a risk which should be courted rather than avoided. No believer is very stanch unless he craves a chance to mingle with heretics and put his own .aith to the test. If it is a creed which has been sufficient to stir himself, why not try It out of others? If a single person has been captured, why not ten? Why not ten thousand? (CoovriKht. 1932. bv Th-r Times'

and political subdivisions of states are exempt from the federal income tax. This law has been questioned when applied to employes of the state or political subdivisions who are engaged in non-governmental activities, such as employes of pub-

M TODAY sd -'7 ; IS THE- SW ANNIVERSARY

GERMAN'S LOSE GROUND —May 2

ON May 2, 1918, French and British troops on the Somme sector improved their positions by a series of short attacks on ground recently taken from them by the Germans. German activity was confined principally to a heavy bombardment of the Bethune area, but the expected attack was not delivered. Allied observers declared that the German position was not nearly so favorable as at the time of the beginning of their first offensive in March. Forty-four Americans were killed when the liner Tyler was torpedoed off the coast of France. Es-Salt, in Asia Minor, was occupied by advancing Enflish troops, following another victory over the Turks.

3IAY 2, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Ancient Burial Places in India Reveal Customs of Centuries Ago. ANCIENT burial customs arc responsible for much of our knowledge of man’s early history . Our knowledge of ancient Egypt, for example, is so complete because of the elaborate tombs and burial customs of that Utilization. For that reason there is unusual interest in announcement of the findings of an archeological expedition reported by Dr. George Roerich, director of Urusvati, the Himalayan institute of the Roerich museum at Naggar. Kulu, India. Dr. Roerich reports the discovery of three types of ancient burial grounds in the Lahui district. This district is one of the two Himalayan cantons comprising the subdivision of Kulu in the Punjab. British India. Describing the burial grounds. Dr. Roerich cays: "In the first type, the grave represents a hole about two to three feet deep, covered by a stone slab, the average length of which is about five feet and the breadth three feet. "There is nothing on the surface to tell of their existence and most of the graves have been discovered during field work, excavations of house foundations and road building. Mast of the iron implements found in the graves have rotted away beyond recognition, and the human remains have turned to dust.” an m Like an Urn THE second type of burial seldom is found and probably represents the most ancient type of burial so far discovered in Lahui.” Dr. Roerich continues. ‘‘As far as I know, only one grave of this kind was discovered near Kvelang. It represents a circular hole inlaid with large flat stones. The shape of the grave bears a striking resemblance to an urn. ' The grave was excavated by some local inhabitants and nothing was found in it except some decayed fragments of human bones and some small fragments of pottery. "The utter state of decay of human remains, and the almost total absence of inventory, may indicate the presence of a burial in which the human body was cut to pieces and the flesh separated from the bones, a common type of the ancient Tibetan burial of the pre-Buddhist period. “Groups of large tumuli, said to have been left behind by a body of Mongol-Tibetnn troops who raided the Bhaga and Chandra valleys during their attack on Ladak, about 1640-80. represent the third type of burial. “According to popular tradition, a detachment of Mongol-Tibetan troops invaded Lahui acrass Baralacha Pass and remained in the country for several years, or. as says the oral tradition, ‘such time as was needed for an apricot seed planted by the invaders to grow into a young tree.’ “Some 1,000 men are believed to have died from a disease which attacked the camp. "The larger tumuli found in the vicinity of Koksar are said to contain each from five to ten bodies of dead warriors.”

! Buddhist Monasteries THE expedition also has gathered interesting material on the hisj tory of the Buddhist monasteries in J the Bhaga valley, Dr. Roerich reports. "This material throws new light on the introduction of Buddhism into Lahul and the adjacent regions of western Tibet." he says. 1 A Tibetan-En-lish dictionary emI bodying the results of modern researches in the fields of Tibetan ; linguistics and philology, is being prepared at the Himalayan Research Institute, Dr. Reorich announces. The new dictionary will Include, besides the printed material found in the already-existing TibctanEnglish dictionaries, the rich material found in the Sanskrit-Tibetan and Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionaries printed in Mongolia and Transbaikalia and the several important polyglot dictionaries published in China. Besides this printed material, the compilers will add a vast material collected by them in the course of their research°s. Dr. Roerich and Lama Lcbzang Mingypur Dorje are in charge of the compilation. The work which the Roerich Institute is carrying on in Tibet is extremely important and fits in with the intensive work which other organizations are doing in other parts of the world to unravel the puzzle of man's ancient histories. Among the important research programs going on at the present time arc those of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Egypt. Palestine. Persia and other parts of the old world, and those of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Central America.

licly-owned street railways and waterworks. How many Chinese immigrants States- annU * ,lr ln thf United The immigration of Chinese into the United States is prohibited by law. The only classes of Chinese who may gain admission to this country are government officials and ’heir wives, children and servants students, tourists, professors and merchants. They may not become naturalized In the United States. ™* n3r saloons, breweries and distilleries were there In the United States prior to the adoption of the eighteenth amendment? There were 177.790 saloons, 1090 breweries and 236 distilleries

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls you could persuade the various candidates to publish their platforms ln The Times this week, regarding the restoration of our primary rights, public ownership of various utilities, and revision of our state tax ljiws. etc., it would enable us to complete our own lists intelligently by the time primary day arrives and thus speed up the vc* ng, and on a more Intelligent basis. Will you please call their attenti to this thro’igh your columns? B. LITZENBERGER.