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Curtis With every kidnaping comes the question —How can the human race bring forth such cruelty? * But now comes another form of cruelty which rivals, if it does not excel, the kidnaping itself. While most human beings were torn with grief for the baby and its parents, th'S specimen of the race was plotting to cash in on the anguish—to sell a phantom story to an anxious and sorrowing world. And so it was that the father was on the high seas when his baby was found dead on the rain-soaked earth; and so it was that that father and the mother were far apart on that night when the awful last chapter was told; far apart when they otherwise could at least have had the poor comfort of sharing their supreme sorrow together. Nothing in all the literature of cruelty passes this. And in the confession, the yellow shows, the yellow that is in the heart of every one who is cruel. He whines about a distorted mind, lie points to his family as reason why he should not be judged too harshly—he who was so fiendishly callous toward the suffering of that other family.. He seeks to blame the press and the films to whom he tried to peddle-his fake wares, though the press had warned Lindbergh that his story looked queer. And then, as the crowning touch, he apologizes for the “inconvenience” he caused the distressed father. A full confession is good for the soul, but not for the soul of this man. For, in the very act of telling, he constructs, not a confession, but a slinking, cringing defense. So, in cowardice, as well as cruelty, John Hughes Curtis excels. The People Lose Once more It is demonstrated that the people have no chance in a conflict with the public utilities. The people of Marion will keep on paying the same old rates for electricity. The action of the public service commission in ordering a 20 per cent cut is called confiscation. All that is tossed to the citizen is the marrowless bone of a decision that the commission must fix rates on the basis of cities as units, a doubtful victory at best and probably undesirable from the public v iew point. The history of this particular case shows the utter futility under present laws of attempting to regulate the utilities of Indiana. It strongly suggests that before the people escape the burdens of such exploitation they must own and operate their own utilities. When citizens of Marion appealed for a reduction of rates some months ago, the public service commission made its gesture. There was an order to reduce rates by 20 per cent, a reduction whose size was suspicious even though Justified. Too many legal precedents have been erected as a barrier to such drastic, even if just, action. No one ever saved a penny by this order. Instead, there was an immediate appeal to the federal courts, and three life-term judges heard the arguments of lawyers and immediately decided that such an order amounted to confiscation. The federal courts have an almost unbroken record of deciding that rate reductions amount to confiscation oi utility property whenever the utilities find themselves driven to the expedient of courts to maintain their taxing power. In the appeal, the utility concerned maintained that the city is no longer the logical unit of regulation for electric rates and that the present day methods of service demand that large territories, served by the same super system, can alone be considered. That contention probably fits the facts, even if it does not fit the Indiana law. It Is necessary today for the resident of the village and the f&rm to obtain service on a parity of cost with the residents of large cities. The federal court decided that the basic unit, under the Indiana law, is the city. But the material relief of the people is denied. The people will keep on paying the same old rates. There will be no relief, at least for months. If the people really wish to escape unjust burdens, they will demand that the next legislature open the door wide to public ownership, easily obtained and completely safeguarded. The Beer Tax Vote Today the senate votes on the beer tax. The Issue is bigger than the prohibition collapse. The issue is revenue to balance the budget, to preserve the federal credit, to save other industries from heavy taxation, prolonging the depression, to help feed ten million Americans, who can not get work, and their families That money must come from some tax. The liquor Industry is the cnly one in the country escaping taxation. The liquor industry is flourishing. Tax or no tax, it will go on. Defeat of the beer tax will not make the country dry. It will merely rob the government of just revenue and force already overburdened taxpayers to carry a heavier load. This tax test comes at a time when a large majority of the country is convinced that the prohibition experiment has failed morally—that it has undermined citizenship, polluted youth, corrupted government and multiplied crime. After giving the prohibition experiment a fair trial over a dozen years in prosperity and depression, the country has determined to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Every unofficial poll taken and virtually every by-electlon has confirmed that turn In public opinion. Therefore, the two political parties, which have pussyfooted so long, are about to enter a national campaign with wet or moist planks. Those anti-prohibition platforms will be written next month in conformity with the known demand of the party members. Prohibition is on the way out If the senate votes today the will of the electorate, the Tydings amendment and beer tax will pass. 11 the senate votes down the Tydings amendment

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It will defy representative government so It may pass the buck to the party conventions. If the senate votes down the Tydings amendment, many of those same senators will reverse their votes after the conventions and the November election. The result Is inevitable. The only question is the time. Now, or later? The Folly of a Japanese Boycott The United States, in its international relations, should avoid both the Scylla of isolationism and the Charybd is of suckerdom. ’ We were played for a sucker in the World war. We pulled the allied chestnuts out of the fire in 1917-18, allowing them to administer the “knockout” victory that brought the much more decidedly “knockout'' peace from which western civilization has not recovered yet. Having burned our fingers by our first sally Into internationalism, which will cost us $100,000,000,000, to say nothing of losses from world stagnation and collapse, we reverted to Isolation and refused to help pick up the pieces after the fight was over. Now the far eastern situation once more has forced us to abandon isolation. We are in danger of again adopting the sucker role rather than advancing world peace and protecting cur own interests. It has been proposed that we alone, or with Europe, impose an economic boycott on Japan to force her to make peace. This sounds good, and certainly any civilized person must wish for peace in the far east. But few persons have stepped to consider just what the direct and indirect results of such a boycott might tukn out to be. This matter is admirably analyzed in the last issue of "Facts for workers.” In ihc first place, any economic boycott on Japan would be nearly as disastrous to the United States alone as to all the rest of the world combined. Onethird of the total Japanese trade is with the United States. China ranks next, but the trade of Japan with China under normal conditions is only about one-third of the Japanese commerce with the United States. European trade with Japan is negligible compared to ours. Our foreign trade is In a bad way, anyhow, because of tariff barriers and reprisals. A boycott of Japan would almost constitute the last straw on the camel’s back. And our depression does not make such a prospect any more inviting. Not only woula a boycott on Japanese trade be particularly severe in its reactions _on our own foreign commerce. It would also paralyze some of our leading industries. No less than 97 per cent of Japanese raw silk exports come to the United States. That this would mean that we could do great harm to the Japanese silk interests usually has been emphasized. It has not been pointed out that it also means j that one of our own most important industries —silk manufacturing and related businesses—would be hit a paralyzing blow. Our silk business could not stand any such shock without many and serious bankruptcies and factory shutdowns. It might force liquidation of many centers. Likewise with cotton. Japan buys no less than 40 per cent of all our raw cotton exports. Cotton prices already tie at a record low in our country. | What would be the condition of the cotton industry if 40 per cent cf the export market were to be lopped off at one blow? Japan also buys large quantities of Iron, steel, machinery, lumber and wheat from us. None of these industries Is In a condition to welcome any additional curtailment of the market. There probably would be a demand that the government of the United States indemnify the ruined silk and cotton industries. This would In no sense help out our budget difficulties. Nor is this all. Japan might be forced to make war to protect herself. Even if European nations were formally in it on our side, we still would have to bear the brunt of the expense and fighting. Our European lilies, who can not or will not meet their present obligations to us, will not be able to help us financially in any additional burdens we might take on as a result of fighting Japan. Therefore, we stand to lose all along the line by any boycott move, whether made alone or In concert with Europe. If we merely will be patient, the Japanese militarists will hang themselves. All we need to do is let them have their rope. Japanese Industries are in a bad way already. Economic and social discontent is rife. Japan needs credit badly, but she can not borrow effectively abroad, on account of depreciation of her bonds. Exchange value of the yen is shrinking and her gold reserve is depleted. She Is punishing herself severely for her war activities. If this continues, the military clique will be forced to the wall by sheer economic realities.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HUMAN stupidity is a large subject, but Walter C. Pitkin of Columbia university has not quailed before it. His last book, which he calls a short introduction to the subject, makes lively reading from start to finish. In it he often points to the obvious, although occasionally he offers a plan that has its appeal to even the most stupid of readers. For instance, take this paragraph in the chapter on politics; “The ’nrical small town that is not ruled by one ynin or oa*> mine or one railroad, but lives on a dozen industries, all small, and that has a good farming district around it, Is the best of aU places on earth to grow up and live. “It is seldom governed stupidly, for its main problems are not beyond the mental and physical power of its people. There you will find well-adjusted men and women.” Most of us are ready to sound a hearty ‘Amen to that. For we will make a mistake if we assume that the small town is dead. The future will see it flourishing as never before. a a a CITIES have grown as large as they ever can be without becoming too bewilderingly complex and ponderous to maintain. There are limits beyond which the comprehension and the endurance of man can not go. and a city larger than our New York is one of them. Indeed, many metropolitan centers noware so topheavy that they barely can sustain their unemployed and hungry. The more intelligent women become, the more reluctant will they be to subject their babies to childhood In congested, unhealthy and ugly surroundings. And the more intelligent men grow, the more they will see that life was not meant to be a mere race for the subway, but that it can be a saner and lovelier experience than our present wild scramble into which it has degenerated in congested centers. There is today a very definite and necessary trend toward the country. Unless conditions grow speedily better, the urbanites will continue to decrease. And it is to be hoped that our business slump will teach us wisdom in building future cities. Not bigger and better, but smaller and more nearly perfect should be our Chamber of Commerce mottoes henceforth.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

I Am One of Those Who Believe Al Smith Should Be dominated for President. NEW YORK, May 18—Of all candidates for the presidency. ! former Governor Al Smith of New | York has made the most helpful ' contributions to this campaign. His , : avoidance of political claptrapj I sUnds out sharply by comparison. ht has not tried to be clever or ' serelational. His every statement has | been built around the idea of offering constructive suggestions. The Democratic party could take the three or four addresses he has made and write a good platform. I Under our political system, there ‘ arc only two ways of judging a can- | didate—what he has done, and what he says. When it comes to record, Alfred E. Smith is without a peer. When it comes to talk, what has any other candidate said that can be compared to his plain, practical uti terances? Mr. Smith obviously has given thought to the nation’s problems, not in that pretentious, bewildering way j that gets nowhere, but in the elemental sense that average people can understand. He has offered a workable plan for unemployment relief and a program for dealing with international I debts. His latest advice is to drop partisanship for the sake of the common good. a a a Above Straddling Alfred e. smith has shown himself to be above straddling and evasiveness. That is a virtue not to be ignored in times like these. The country needs nothing so ; much as honesty and courage. It is suffering from an overdose of smart men—men who know how to take advantage of any situation for themselves, or the crowd they represent.

There are plenty of able strategists to serve some party, bloc, or clique. When it comes to working for the 85 per cent unorganized and inarticulate, there are all too few. This country is fortunate to have such a leader as Al.red E. Smith in the foremost ranks of one of its two great parties, and the party is no less fortunate. His presence insures a largeness of vision and sincerity of purpose which would not be certain otherwise. I am one of those who believe that he should be nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate, not because of prejudice toward any other candidate, but because he has displayed a grasp of the situation such as no other thus Ihr has shown. Smith can give the Democratic party a coherent policy. a u tt For and Against Him I KNOW what is being said againsl; Smith. He is a Catholic, a Tammanyite, an associate of big business men, and a wet. The south turned on him four years ago and might do so again. He has been defeated once and that Always is bad in the eyes of professional politicians. I am not a Catholic, and I have little sympathy with the Tammany Hall brand of politics. I do not want to see big business exercising any such influence with the next administration as it h;is with the present one. f Still, I am for Al Smith’s nomination. I believe that he is sound, courageous, and aggressive, not alone in accordance with the principles of his party, but in accordance with those of his country. I believe that he can think in terms of human sympathy and human rights, and that his conception of government comes nearer to that of the founders of this republic than does the conception of some other men properly pedigreed and vouched for in our book of snobs. I believe that Smith has drawn the same kind of inexplicable genius for doing and saying the right thing from the back alley that Lincoln drew from the backwoods; that he is one of those curious men who just know people. The country always needs such men, but especially In times like these. It is a shame to see them cast aside by cheap politics and cheaper prejudices.

Daily Thought

But Jesus called them unto him, and said. Suffer little chilren to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the klngof God.—St. Luke 18.16. a a a It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.—Franklin. Where was the chariot race In the Circus Maximus in the motion picture “Ben Hur" filmed? At the Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer studios, Culver City, Cal. Is melt or meld the correct term in pinochle? Either is correct, but meld Is preferred.

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Hiccups Due to Different Causes

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygcia. the Health Magazine. HICCUPS to most people is just a temporary disagreeable symptom, but to the scientist who knows of all of the possible relationships of the hiccup as a symptom to various diseases, it constitutes a phenomena of considerable significance. In a recent consideration of the subject, Dr. Charles W. Mayo listed some of the ways in which hiccup can be brought about. In a considerable number of instances it is due to some infection involving the portion of the brain associated with stimulation of contraction of the diaphragm. In such cases, he has observed the condition affects chiefly men more than 45 years of age and it tends to follow operation on the colon, the prostate gland, the gall bladder, or the stomach.

IT SEEMS TO ME

IT is, of course, gratuitous for anybody to express his appreciation of the ultimate tragedy in the Lindbergh case. Toward those to whom the child was near, sympathy will flow spontaneously. But it seems to me important that we first should get the facts in hand before there is a communal disposition to generalize upon the crime itself. We know already that the police of the state of New Jersey were woefully incompetent and that the head of that service does not stand forth as a leader competent to carry through the routine work suggested by the case in hand. The discovery of the body so close to Hopewell simply means that a thorough and accurate search of the surrounding territory never was made. If this negligence could be attributed to sheer stupidity and sloth, It might be hard to draw any more extended moral, but there Is a likely explanation. In all truth, the failure of the police to do the simple conventional things can be attributed to a vice which is national. Both the newspapers and the guardians of the law started off on the wrong foot. Long before any evidence of moment was in hand we all began to talk as if a theory were sufficient upon which to build not only the conduct of the case, but an entire new structure of criminal procedure and legal machinery. a a a The Making of Symbols THE poor doomed child of the flier was made to se*/m a very symbol of the conseqtlence of limited capital punishment, prohibition, and a dozen other things which may prove extraneous. Hundreds of editorials were written about the gang challenge to the government, and these may turn out to be shrewdly founded or to have no ballast whatsoever in actuality. Until we know the motivation and

Steam Rollered!

Then there are cases which can be classed as chemical hiccup. In these cases, hiccup occurs following the eating of highly irritating foods or liquids. Generally such hiccups last only a short time. It also is recognized that tumors of the brain, pressing on the areas associated with stimulation of the diaphragm, may produce hiccup. It is also possible by a sudden dilatation of the stomach to produce an irritation which will result in this symptom. Finally, there are cases of hiccups that have a nervous basis, exactly as hysteria may duplicate almost any disease known to medical science. Then there are cases of hiccups in which the origin can not be determined. Everybody has his own cure for ordiiary hiccups. In most instances it involves something that will fix the attention on anything except the hiccups.

DV HEYWOOD BROUN

the detail of this monstrous happening, it is sheer folly to talk about what should be done to prevent the possibility of any recurrence. The police were not the only ones who scored a lamentable failure. The notion that newspapers and newspaper men furnish a sort of inspired auxiliary to the official Investigators has been shattered badly. Detectives and reporters stand shoulder to shoulder under the indictment of being just a wee bit incompetent. nan An End to Compromise AND yet there is something to be said in defense of both branches of the service. The police and the newspapers were handicapped by the notion that in a desperate instance something might be gained by compromising with crime. While there was still a chance that the baby might be returned it seemed unduly harsh for anybody to turn Spartan and object to proffers of immunity extended to the kidnapers. Now that all these efforts have been shown up as fruitless, it might be an excellent thing for the community to enter into anew compact. And under this agreement every individual should bind himself to grant no quarter whatsoever to outlaw groups, no matter what the humane and sentimentally appealing incentive. The nomination of two men put forward as go-between represented a most unfortunate surrender to the notion that forces exist which are superior to law and its enforcement. While there was a chance that this move might bring results, it was difficult to be critical of any such maneuver. Now, it is not unfair to say that any such disposition to treat with public enemies not only lacks immediate practicality, but

& T ?s9£ Y WORLD WAR A ANNIVERSARY

OIL TANKER SUNK May 18

ON May 18, 1918, fighting on the western front was confined to raiding activities by both Bides, with none of the raids being made in such force as to allow the attacking troops to hold positions they seized. The American oil tanker William Rockefeller was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, with the loss of three lives. < The Manchester Guardian announced tluft the treaty between England, France, Russia and Italy, by which Italy had entered the war on the side of the allies, had been abrogated and replaced by anew treaty. Text of the treaty had been published in Moscow. Reports from Russia said that German troops were continuing their advance into the Ukraine, despite protests by the Soviet government.

The physician who treats such cases may carry out certain procedures in persistent hiccups which frequently bring relief. One of these is to wash out the stomach; another to prescribe certain narcotics and sedatives that will give temporary relief; a third, is to treat the specific infection from which the patient seems to be suffering. Another method Involves the giving of enemas and doses of oil to clean out the entire intestinal tract. When every method of treating hiccups has failed, and the symptom persists, there may, of course, be danger to life. In such cases the surgeon may expose the phrenic nerve and either cut it or place pressure upon It. This invariably will caus the hiccup to stop by interfering with the passing of the stimulus from the irritated center along the nerve to the diaphragm.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor

undermines the entire structure of the world in which we live. It will be well if any such situation ever arises again for both the community and the stricken parents to declare, “Millions for detection, fur not one cent for ransom!” a a a Falling Into Theory Trap BUT already I perceive that I am joining in the error which I have criticised. At the moment of writing, there is no sure evidence that the crime was a scheme of professionals. At the beginning it was my notion that the kidnaping had been accomplished by some demented rustic of the. immediate neighborhood. Whether this is true or not I do not know, but it is pointless to talk of the extension of capital punishment and other things of that sort until we have adequate knowledge of the nature of the killers and of their motivation. None, I think, is free from a desire that punishment should be visited upon the persons guilty of J this deed. But even more important j than this fulfillment of righteous anger is the solution of the much more important problems of “Why?” If we are content with a “Who?” solution, we will have failed to erect sufficient safeguards against the horrible potentiality of any repetition of the tragedy. Scapegoats will not suffice. Now, more than ever before, we must be certain that we know. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times Today I was talking with one of my very good friends, and the current subject of the strain of the times became the topic. In chasing our thoughts from cause to result, and result back to cause, we finally decided that the cure for it all would in the end be youth. And why not? Isn’t the youth of today, and always, the inspiring factor? Without it, we would have no romance, no ambition, and certainly very little stimulant. We try (and by all means should) to set an example for the younger generation to follow. But if we are so old in our ideas and our business and political methods as to invite graft, debauchery, and a general breaking down of our social structure, then it is indeed high time to inject a little youth into the program and to give it a chance. By youth I mean young and new ideas coming from fertile not stagnant minds, from persons who have not lost their nerve, who realize that this is still a grand place In which to live, and that all the wealth that was ever here still remains. Nobody has carried it away, nor destroyed It, but a great many of us have been blinded to the point where we could walk through a field of flowers as thick as hops and as high as our knees and still never see a thing of beauty. The individual who always keps his nerve and keeps his chin up is the one who will begin to do things.

-MAY 18, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Fossil of First Creature Believed to Have Lived on Land Is in Smithsonian Collection. THE fossil of the first creature to live on lend, and therefore the ancestor of all animals, including man. which live on the continents today, is believed to be in the collections of the Smithsonian institution. He is a queer little creature that lived aproximately 500.000,000 years ago. in what geologists call the Cambrian era. He has been referred to as “a worm with legs.” He was one of the most wonderfully preserved fossils found in British Columbia by the late Dr. Charles D. Walcott, former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who was struck by its imusual feature# and left among his papers unpublished notes of his studies. Dr. Walcott made & preliminary announcement. The notes he left just have been published by the institution. with additional notes by Dr. Charles Resser. long Dr. Walcott’s associate in the study of Cambrian fossils. ‘■The peculiarity of this very ancient ’worm’ Is that there Is a land-dwelling animal alive today from which it hardly can be distinguished.” the institution points out. “The curious trilobites and many other sea creatures of a half billion years ago vanished, leaving no direct descendants. “Although distantly related to the crabs and spiders of the present, there is an unbridgable gap between them and any land-dwelling animals alive today.’’ u m * Queer Creature -nUT there still exists In Africa, £> Australia, South America, and the West and East Indies a curious, seclusive creature known as the peripatus, generally assumed to be a relative of the crabs and spiders, although it looks like a legged worm,” Austin H. Clark. Smithsonian biologist, tells. “These animals live under the ; bark of trees, in the burrows of | white ants, or beneath stones. They avoid light and therefore rarely are seen. They move slowly, picking their way by means of their antennae. ‘The peripatus probably Is the world's champion spitter. When j irritated, one of these animals will i eject with considerable force the I contents of a slime reservoir by ; means of a sudden contraction of I the muscular body walls. “It can throw this slime for as much as six inches. In this way it strikes down flies, which it devours, tearing its prey with jaws which j it has the power of extruding from its mouth. “There are few humbler, more obscure creatures on earth than this slimy lover of darkness. But the specimens among Dr. Walcott’s fossils indicate that It may have the tallest family tree of any creature now alive. “If the fossil is indeed that of an early peripatus, this weak, but vicious creature sowehow must have survived through vast eons of lost time, largely unchanged when all other branches of the animal kingdom were undergoing vast changes." Took to Land SMITHSONIAN officials say that the fossil in Dr. Walcott’s collec- ! tion can not be identified positively with the living form of the peripatus. It has been identified, Dr. Resser announces, as a member of the same class of the general arthropod family b£ Dr. G. E. Hutchinson of Yale university. “The only alternative seems to be that this creature represented a highly developed type of the annelid worms which swarmed in the Cambrian seas and whose trails are found in the rocks,” he says. “During the Cambrian period the creature was undoubtedly a marine animal. At some point it took to the land and ha# remained there ever since.” Another Cambrian creature which possibly was in the ancestral line of the airbreathing scorpions has Just been received by Dr. Resser from Utah. This is a fossil of a hitherto unknown variety of mcrostome crustacean collected by Frank Beckwith of Millard county, Utah, and is one of the most perfectly pre-served examples of its family yet found. There Is an enormous gap between it and any living creature. How many unemployed there in Indianapolis? How many empty houses? At the present time there are about 48,000 jobless. We have no way of determining the number of empty houses.

Our economic structure needs repairs and must of necessity come irom youthful and fresh ideas, which can come from the young and old GEORGE AGNEW, 1033 Franklin street. Columbus, Ind. Editor Times—Why did congress pass the insurance law for the veterans? Answer with no ifs or ands. The rank and file of the legion JUS bonus - nc,t as a gift any £oL the fcwo mlllion dollars loaned to corporations to pay dividends and loans to Wall Street. hi 1 ® Wa s, a 8111 for vote*, the for fun ds, originally, so why not now? The American Legion has ha/1 one put over on it by the V. F. W. The legion’s days are numbered: S h £V alled 10 take U P where tne Civil war veterans left off. Heres luck to the V. F. W. mav their leader never be tempted with ha**, such as it seems h? A* 16 downfall of our leader of the legion. We also might add that Roy Howard himself has fallen, as probably you and I would do likewise, if placed in the same position. Temptation is a hard thing to overcome. We are all human. I saw service at the front, but do ntk want a bonus nor any compensation whatsoever. E. E. JONES. 2151 North Meridian street. Is there a real country named Granstark? No. What day did Sept. 21, 1918, faU? Thursday.