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One Detail Missing The people will look with favor upon the first utterances of Judge Springer, Republican candidate for Governor, in regard to the control of utilities. lie showed that he understands the source of much of the extortion that is now practiced by the companies. He declares against the practice of utilities speculating in their own stocks. He criticises the very bad and vicious practice of permitting operating companies to buy materials from their holding companies. He protests against the very difficult path by which cities must now follow to achieve public ownership and thus, by inference, indicts Governor Leslie, who vetoed a measure that would have opened that door of escape. With this program, as far as it goes, the people will be in sympathy. But one detail is missing. Judge Springer forgot to tell the people how he expects to work the changes. His rival, Paul McNutt, announced months ago that he would at once discharge the present public service commissioners, who have protected the utilities with great uniformity. Will Judge Springer now pledge himself as his first act to demand the resignation of John McCardle, who for years has prevented any justice for the people? Will Judge Springer openly pledge himself to name men to that board in whom the people have confidence? Will he go farther and pledge himself to remove at once every member of that board who has shown an attitude of hostility to the people’s interest—and this would mean the entire board ? This little detail is much more important than the other promises. The people will never be able to receive any relief from the system of regulation as long as utilityminded members of the public service commission are named at the behest of utility lobbyists in return for campaign contributions. Please, judge, just how soon after you are inaugurated, if and when, will you fire John McCardle? Need for Moderation in Germany Those who have been inclined to sympathize with Germany as the European scapegoat from 1918 to 1932 will be likely to view with some concern the reported excesses of the ultra-patriotic and military elements in that country—Hitler’s demand for a dictatorship, much display of steel helmets, big parades of war heroes, and the like. After fourteen years of unjust and ignominious treatment of their country, . German reactionaries seem on the verge of spilling the beans just as relief and vindication have appeared clearly on the horizon. It is easy to understand the present antics of Germany, but that is not to forgive in every respect. The German people deserted their old Hohenzollern and Junker-Krupp masters in behalf of a republic on account of the promises of the allies, led by President Wilson in this respect. Wiison repeatedly asserted that there was no war on the German people, but that it was a war against their military masters. He implied that if the German people established a republic, this new liberal government would be the special joy and pride of the allies, who solicitously. would nurse it into a healthy maturity. But this all proved a cruel joke. Along came the treaty of Versailles. Although Germany already had proclaimed a republic in good faith, she was subjected to the most humiliating penalties ever imposed upon a major state in modern history. The entente theory was that they were punishing the kaiser and his entourage, when even an adolescent moron could have discerned that it was the German republic which thus was being crushed and humiliated. The Versailles spirit and methods were kept up for more than a decade. There was the crushing material burden of reparations. There was the moral stigma of sole guilt for the World war poked down the German throat with bayonets. There was the inequitable disarmament of Germany while her rival across the Rhine built up the most impressive military hegemony known in the history of civilized Europe. Germany long was excluded from the League of Nations and regarded ak a pariah and outcast among states of Europe. The heavy financial burdens helped along unemployment and bankruptcy and enormously reduced German prosperity. Never do “the good old days” appear so rosy and enviable as in periods of current distress. So the Germans naturally looked back to the period of the empire and the regime of the Hohenzollerns. Then Germany had been the strongest single power in Europe. She had been proud and prosperous and happy. Even though defeated in the World war, it took the rest of the civilized world to bring about her downfall, and then by a very narrow margin, which could be accounted for by the stupidity of those in high command. Little wonder that about 1925 many Germans began to doubt the wisdom of changing to anew order. It is easy to see why they elected Hindenburg in 1925, and gave much support to Hitler in the last two years. It is not certain that such evidence of a stiffening back did not help Germany. It forced the rest of the world to face reality in Germany. At any rate, Germany ultimately has escaped from most of the handicaps of the Versailles epoch. Nobody except an ignoramus or a bigot any longer maintains her sole guilt for the World war. Reparations have been all but eliminated. She has been admitted to the League of Nations. Her occupied territory has been evacuated. She even has begun to get something like a fair break in the news, even though the American press still is preponderantly Francophile. In short, Hitler has become a figure of menacing proportions, just as he is no longer necessary—just i <

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when he may upset the apple cart and endanger the fruits of fourteen years of travail and humiliation. But it is hard to play with fire and not get burned. Having used Hitler to get justice, Germany will find it hard to put him quietly on the shelf. Yet the Germans must be made to realize that militaristic absurdities and atrocious anti-Semitism now will help to undo the gains of the last decade and a half. It will be dangerous to get out of the lockstep only to go back at once into the goosestep. - Unwalled Prisons The fallacy that all men we send to prison are dangerous characters, to be confined behind the thick walls of “maximum security” jails, is being shown up by Sanford Bates, the enlightened director of federal prisons. In June, 1920, when Bates took over the management of prisons, he found them crowded to a point of scandal. Atlanta and Leavenworth were overpopulated at least 100 per cent. New federal laws, chiefly prohibition, Were sending into jail an increasing stream of felons. Laws passed in the last two decades had accounted for 74 per cent of all federal prisoners, prohibition for more than 60 per cent. A $13,000,000 prison building program was begun. More significant was the move to send forth thousands into the unwalled prisons of the probation, parole and work camp systems. In 1929 the number of federal probation officers was increased from eight to sixty-three; the number of federal probationers increased from 3,200 in 1929 to 23,200 this month. A full-time independent parole board was established; the numbr of men on parole increased from 664 in 1929 to 3,597 this month. Besides these, 2,000 prisoners were moved out to open work camps, to live in unbarred barracks and pei form manual labor in the open air. TLtse camps have proved an unqualified success,” Austen H. MacCormick, assistant director of the United States bureau of prisons, reports. “Valuable work has been done for the government, escapes have been few, and prisoners’ rehabilitation apparently has been promoted.” Federal prisoners confined in government institutions and boarded in county jails total 26,200. It is interesting to note that there are about the same number on probation and parole and in camps. Here is an example for the states now suffering from high prison costs, overcrowding and bad housing problems. The Wickersham commission found present crowded condition in county, state and federal jails “almost incredible” in evil and extent. Among its first recommendations were scrapping o the great state bastiles, except for use for the most dangerous felons; building of cheaper medium and minimum security prisons; extending of probation parole and road camp system. The commission damned America’s SIOO,OOO 000 penal system as a tow failure to reforming criminals and protecting society. Here is one way to make it moie effective at less cost. City Jobs vs. Doles According to a current news story, bankers believe the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will help them in their campaign to reduce municipal budgets by withholding relief funds until satisfactory arrangements have been made for cutting wages, furloughing employes, and postponing unnecessary public works. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation should say publicly whether its policies are being stated correctly, for this is a matter of great public importance. Undoubtedly, municipal budgets are too high in many cases. The record of our cities has not been a praiseworthy one in this respect at any time, and a cleanup in the name of economy or for any other reason will be welcome. Yet when it comes to postponing public works as the price of obtaining federal relief funds, there is more to be said on the subject. If unnecessary” public works are to be postponed until better times, almost any construction project may be included in that category. A city man always can get along another year or two without anew school, anew water system, new playgrounds. But is it wisdom to postpone projects that are sound and sensible and will be built soon, anyway, because tax collections are slow and bankers are unwilling to loan? Is it more sensible to use relief funds for hunger doles than for providing jobs, and to wait until building prices rise, before undertaking planned, authorized projects? Congress did not think so. when it intrusted the task of unemployment relief to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and if that body has different views, it should make them known.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FRANCE has built another monument to her war heroes. With soldiers tramping and flags flying and drums beating, she dedicated the other day the costliest and most splendid of all such memorials. The stone structure, graceful but grim, towers heavenward, and graven high upon its granite side is the word “PAX.” Peace! It was for peace these Frenchmen died! And what a sacrilege that this holy word should adorn a monument that war has built and that the still flaming martial spirit glorifies. In this monstrous incongruity, France is not alone to blame. EVery nation has its war memorials. Every nation, as soon as its graves are marked with crosses, begins to prate of peace and to prepare for more war. Every nation deifies its generals and sets up shafts to its helpless slaughtered thousands. m * a THE wonder is that we take pride in these memorials, or is it that we seek to salve our conscience thus? We dedicate them with prayers. Our statesmen, who make wars for common men to die in, mumble fine words. We women, who in every conflict have played the craven and sent our sons off to death so that our pride might be saved, weep futile tears and listen to the nonsense that men speak, the nonsense that they call patriotism and courage and heroism. How many dollars does it take to build all these monuments to the murdered martyrs of the earth? Not so many, of course, as it takes to pay for the guns that destroy tnem. But put these two amounts together—the supplies we use for war and the wasted dollars that go to pay for all Our sculptored stones—and put the most infinitesimal part of the huge sume aside to educate people for peace and what would be the ultimate result? No more monuments. No more glory of the bayonet. No more glamour of murder. Instead, if peace were not triumphant, at least men would realize, as they marched off to battle, that no insult ever is wiped out. no wrong ever righted and no security ever obtained through war. „ “

THE INDIANAPOLIS® S TIMES

M. E. Tracy

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Germany Is Entitled to Justice; If All Her Neighbors Arm, She Has That Right. BOSTON, Sept. B.—Germany’s demand for armed equality will disclose whether the civilized world is honest in its ballyhoo for disarmament. There are two ways of solving the problem she has presented. She can be permitted to increase her military establishment or other nations can reduce theirs. The former would put us right back where we were in 1914. The latter would mean a real step forward. It is up to the allies. Having won the war, they must accept the responsibilities of peace. Germany has asked nothing but justice. What a nation needs for defense obviously is determined by the forces with which it might be attacked. Germany is surrounded by heavily armed nations. As long as they exercise the right to look for protection through force, they justly can not deny her the same privilege. # u u Allies Break Faith WE have heard a lot about the necessity of compelling Germany to abide by the Versailles treaty. That treaty contained binding, if implied, obligations on the allies. Among others was the general understanding that Germany's disarmament was intended to set the stage for an 4 all-round reduction of armies and navies. The allies have not kept faith in this respect. They have made certain agreements among tnemselves as to the relative sizes of the navies they would maintain. They have reached no agreement regarding the size of armies. Neither has Germany’s status received consideration in any agreement. Os all European nations, she is the most helpless. Though practically surrounded with frontier forts, she is prohibited from building any. The size of guns which she may cast is held down to militia requirements. She is not allowed to manufacture or fly military airplanes, or construct a warship of more than 10,000 tons. tt tt Excuse for Fear GERMANY has done very well in, handling her domestic problems, irritating as they have been, despite these restrictions. She has shown that a European government can get along without all the equipment, training, and strut. Her only excuse for fear is what her neighbors are doing. That is the only excuse for fear which any nation has. If other countries weren’t building battleships, submarines, and airplanes, she would not feel the need of them. As long as we are threatened by their existence, we shall remain sufficiently frightened to squander billions for self-defense. One soldier in uniform leads to another. If Canada were to fortify her frontier, we would feel called upon to do the same. It is only good sense to assume that a government some day will make use of those agencies which it exhausts itself to create and develop. tt tt tt Drive Germany to Action THE idea that people will remain unarmed when surrounded by armed neighbors is ridiculous. We are all going to ride in the same boat, whether toward peace or war. We are all going to put our faith in a reign of law, or a continuance of the old order. By their failure to do what they promised,' the allies virtually have driven Germany to ask for the right to increase her army and navy. Though such a promise has been written into the treaty, it was written into history by the blood of millions" of men who imagined they were dying in “a war to end war,” who were told that nothing but a new and more permanent form of peace could make such a sacrifice worthwhile. Germany is entitled to armed equality, but the only right way of giving it to her is through a general and drastic reduction of military establishments.

Questions and Answers

What is the salary of the con-troller-general of the United States, J. R. McCarl? It is fixed by law at SIO,OOO a year. It is subject to the 8 1-3 per cent pay cut for government employes provided for by the economy bill of the last congress. Has James R. Garfield, chairman of she resolutions committee of the Republican national convention, ever held public office? He entered politics in Ohio in 1896 as a member of the Ohio state senate. In 1902 he was appointed United States civil service commissioner from 1903 to 1907 served as commissioner of corporations of the United States department of commerce, and was secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. W"hat is the duty on imported honey? Three cents per pound.

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Sea Voyage Not Always Nerve Cure

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Asaociation and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THERE seems to be an idea prevalent among most people that any one who suffers from nervous exhaustion or nervous breakdown, or from any of the conditions which are called neurasthenia, always will benefit by taking a sea voyage. This idea probably is due to a large extent to the fact that it gets the nervous per'son away from his surroundings, responsible for his nervousness. It usually removes him from the people who bother him, and it keeps him out of touch with business and news for some time. There are, nevertheless, cases, as is pointed out by Dr. F. G. MacDonald, in which a sea voyage may be disastrous.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—Now we have Representative Royal C. Johnson, Republican, of South Dakota, adding more prestige to Mr. Hoover’s Communistic bogyman. In Johnson’s address to the American Legion at La Crosse. Wis., he declafes that the finding of explosives will be proved at the proper time. Just what does he consider the- proper time? Nothing more explosive than a brick was thrown by those ex-sol-diers. So whoever discovered this dynamite must have been quite clever to have missed a single stick of it and not have allowed it to get into the hands of some of the socalled radicals. Such bunk as this only serves to make our handful of real radicals laugh with glee to get so much credit for their power. So thanks to The Times for being fair enough to follow up the article written concerning Johnson’s address to the legion at La Crosse, Wis., which states that the grand jury investigating the disorder reported only the indictment of three former service men for assault. There was no mention of radicals, reds or Communists. Your paper surely is living up to its slogan of “Give light and the people will find their own way.” THOMAS FEAREY. Editor Times —How we should admire our most noble Governor! Heretofore we have been all too unmindful of his superior and excellent traits and high intentions. If he will forgive us we hope never again to commit so grievous an error as to accuse him of being inconsiderate of the welfare of manity! Since that courageous statement of why he wouldn’t sign the bill legalizing dog racing, that he couldn’t be persuaded that it was right to educate our children with “tainted money,” I am quite sure it would break his great heart if he positively knew one of them was hungry. Now I understand why he said no one was suffering in Indianapolis and that Indiana could take care of her own. He has been passing some of our breadlines and he believes that we have reached such a degree of efficiency that we are serving meals in community style,

The Port of Missing Men

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

“The most suitable person for such a recommendation,” he says, “is the business or professional man suffering from physical and mental exhaustion as a result of prolonged strain or worry.” However, if insomnia is a prominent symptom, this may be aggravated by motion and vibration of the vessel and by innumerable small noises associated with a sea voyage. If depression is a prominent symptom, a voyage should be chosen in which,the intervals between ports are short. People who suffer from melancholia are likely to be more and more depressed when there is nothing but water to look at for many days. , If a person has been alcoholic and has been on liquor for a long

thus saving the housewife much work and worry. The fact that he came to these conclusions about “tainted money” from the after effects of the managers of another gambling emporium in our sister state informing him that this one here would ruin their business, is conclusive enough evidence that his whole interest is based on a higher plane for human existence. We seem a very unappreciative, ignorant mob. However, it does look like even he might be afraid that Indianans .would become contaminated by association with our border state, probably he has arranged to send bodyguards with all persons crossing the lines. Until lately I never realized why some of our leading politicians were so opposed to the repeal of the dry law. They are positive that the “tainted money” derived from revenue would riiin the morale of our citizens. This article would lead any one to believe that I am an advocate of gambling and saloons, but, on the contrary, I have no use for either. But I was reared during saloon days and I am trying to rear a family in these days of “prohibition.” A saloon was a credit to some of our private homes these days. Why will the dry reformer continue to ignore this impossible condition? MOTHER. Editor Times—lt is my desire, in writing this letter, to correct in the public mind a WTong impression as to the character of Abraham Lincoln’s ancestors. Probably no man ip history has been more abused than Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln. He has been labeled as “shiftless and’ improvident,” “a migratory squatter without strength, of character, •’ “a man who neither could read nor write,” “an idler, without ambition for himself or his children. Contrary to textbooks and popular biographies, evidence has been found that Thomas Lincoln was descended fron an old and distinguished family—a family of at least moderate wealth, certain social distinction and very definite political prestige. Instead of being a squatter, Thomas owned all his homes and other real estate, and was in good standing with the local merchants. Thomas went to work as a day laborer, then a carpenter. He apparently was a hard worker and thrifty, for he bought four farms, and until he became an old man prospered as much as the average pioneer. These records show that he was directly related to the famous Lincoln family of New England, one of his parents being a Governor of Massachusetts, another a Governor of Maine, and a third Thomas Jefferson’s attomey-gneral. His own grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Sr., was a prominent citizen and owner of 5,544 acres of Kentucky land when slain by Indians in 1786. His widow lost most of the land through faulty land i titles. In denial of the charge that Thomas Lincoln was illiterate, a | court document signed by him in 1803, six years before the President’s birth has been found. Although I have been engaged in Lincoln research for more than ten years, the last four have been devoted almost exclusively to examination of Lincoln’s ancestry. I am convinced that much additional data never before published can be

time, he should not be removed suddenly from access to liquor on a sea voyage neither should he be put where his access is so easy that he can overdo his weakness. People who have been ill and who get seasick easily should not take a sea voyage for convalescence. The exhaustion associated with seasickness, the tendency to acidosis due to the elimination of fluid from the body, and the inability to eat necessary food for rebuilding tissue and blood may interfere seriously with convalescence. Finally, people who have had a nervous breakdown never should travel alone. A companion should be selected who will provide moral support and encouragement, but not one who is likely to intensify the irritability from which the person suffers.

found ,and I would appreciate receiving from any of your readers familiar with Lincoln’s life any information that would threw further light on Lincoln’s parentage. LOUIS A. WARREN. Director Lincoln National Life Foundation. Editor Times—l would like to believe that the unfriendly attitude of all newspapers in America (toward soldiers’ pensions is prompted by the diminishing federal revenues as the result of this depression, and the policy of Andrew Mellon in reducing income tax rates in the higher brackets, rather than to think they were joining with “big business” in an attempt to repeal the income tax laws of the United States government. Those who stole and now control the wealth and destiny of America are trying to tell the people, through the newspapers, that soldiers’ pensions is the cause of all the hard times. With the blackest crime of all ages fasteneded on them and their kind, with the blood of millions of their fellow men on their hands, with the cries of starving children ringing in their ears, their only answer is to cut the wages of labor and to repeal soldiers’ pension laws. These financial enemies of the American people say that “big business” must be relieved of all burdens of taxation, such as income, estate and inheritance. They recommend the sales tax as a substitute. They would tax want, poverty and despair instead of wealth, plenty, income and swollen, stolen fortunes. There is a way that many of these gentlemen could be relieved of the necessity of ever having to pay income tax again without repealing the law; there is a way that the government could increase its liberal benefits to her disabled veterans without a penny of cost to the people. Much heavier than the cost of soldiers’ relief and all other governmental expenses combined is the extortion practiced by the utilities through the various schemes of maintaining unfair rates. Government ownership of all public utilities would direct the flow of billions a year away from “big business” and foreign investors into the treasury of Uncle Sam. Many utility owners thus would be relieved of having to pay income tax and their heirs would not be required to pay inheritance tax. When this is done, the people will escape excessive charges and the cost of bad politics, for which the utilities are responsible, and will also stop the agitation of “big business” through the national economy committee for the government to withdraw their help to those who have offered their lives in defense of their country. It is reported that the national economy committee was given birth by Andy Mellon and his cohorts on Wall Street, that it is sponsored by war profiteers and grafters and promoted by political parasites. An array of prominent political parasites has been presented to the American public as the promoters of this committee. These super-patriots and superparasites are trying to hide their own graft and the misdeeds of their masters by poisoning the minds of the American people against the | Spanish war and World war vet- : erans through the subsidized press. | Instead of indorsing the economy ,( 7) committee in its attempt to rob

.SEFT. 8, 1932

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

Pseudo-Science of Alchemy May Have Extended to West From China. THE fantastic pseudo-science of alchemy, with its search for the philosopher's stone which would turn iron into gold and insure perpetual youth, usually is thought of as a feature of western civilization. But recent researches show that it was a feature of Orienal civilization as well. In fact, so similar are the aims of the early Chinese alchemists that many authorities now believe that the western alchemy of the Greek, Roman and Arab cultures may have had its start in Chin*. Another opinion is that a common origin must be sought for both the Chinese and the western alchemles. According to Dr. Tenney L. Davis and Lu-Ch’iang Wu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alchemy flourished in China as early as the second century B. C. These two authorities say that alchemy, may have arisen in China as an outgrowth of the magical and fantastic side of the Taoist religion. They point out that the Taoist canon is a veritable treasure house for students of the history of alchemy. tt tt tt The Magic Quintet THE medieval alchemists believed that everything in the universe was composed of four elements, fire, earth, air and water. Davis and Wu pointed out that a similar notion was held by the Chinese, even prior to the founding of the Taoist Religion. This was founded by Lao Tzu, who is supposed to have lived from 604 to 500 B. C. According to the old Chinese idea, the universe was compounded of five elements. These composed the quintet,, the Chinese w'ord for which is “Wu-hsing.” The Wu-hsing consisted of water, fire, wood, gold, and earth. Just as in medieval alchemy, the four elements came later to mean elemental qualities rather than things, so the same change took place in Chinese thought. Water, for example, in the Middle Ages, when considered as an element, was thought of as the quality of wetness, earth as the quality of dryness, and so on. A translation from the Chinese “Book of Historical Documents” reads as follows: ‘Water is that which soaks and descends; fire that which blazes and ascends: wood that which is straight and crooked; gold that which obeys and changes, and earth that which is of use for seedsowing and harvest. “That which soaks and descends becomes salt; that which blazes and ascends becomes bitter; that which is crooked and straight becomes sour; that which obeys and changes becomes acrid, and from seed-sow-ing and harvest comes sweetness.” a a tt Occult and Magical THOSE familiar with the alchemical writings of the middle ages will note that the passage just quoted from the “Book of Historical Documents” runs quite true to pattern. Davis and Wu go on to say, “Although the terms Wu-hsing at first meant only the five elements, it later took on an occult and magical connotation and was used in connection with the five ways of righteous conduct, the five social relationships, the five virtues, the five tastes, the five colors, the five tones, etc.” Liang, another authority upon the subject, says “The seasons of the year thus were divided among the Wu-hsing: Spring, wood; summer, fire; ‘ autumn, gold; winter, water, and, to complete the story, they even went so far as to assign the interim between summer and autumn to earth. “In a simitar w'ay the magic quintet was correlated with the five locations; East, west, north, south and center; with the five colors: Blue, red, yellow, white and black; with the five tastes: Sour, bitter, salty, astringent and sweet; with the five animated species: Furred, shelled, scaly, feathered and nude; with the five rulers of ancient China and with the five gods. “Thus, the thousand and one entities of the universe have been forced ruthlessly into five categories, corresponding to Wu-hsing.”

& T ?s9£ Y f f WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BRITISH SMASH GERMAN LINE September *

ON Sept. 8, 1918, British force? on the Somme sector continued their hammering at the highly fortified German positions and made important gains toward St. Quentin and Lapn, taking Villeveque and the greater part of Havrincourt wood. Many positions gained during the day were well within the old Hindenburg line. The British had reached the old German line of March 21 on nearly their entire front. It was from these positions that the great German drive, which almost succeeded in smashing the British army, was launched. French troops took Hamel and several other villages, but reported no such sweeping gains as they had made during the earlier days of the month. Americans advanced northward on the Aisne sector, fighting their way through highly fortified positions.

Daily Thoughts

For wrath killed the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.—Job 5:2. It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.—Bacon. the nation’s defenders of their monthly pittance, why not start (L movement to mobilize the veterans and all the common people in a crusade for government ownership of all public utilities? This would end all squabble over income taxes and our government could be selfsustaining, with practically no taxes. I am sure that the great mass of the American people are more interested in balancing the scales of justice than in balancing the budget at the expense of their crippled and sick veterans and their dependents. ROBERT A. HOFFMAN. Greeneastle, Ind.