Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1932 — Page 9

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Gijfi Gilpin ... of the “Ballyhoo of 1932.” BY GILBERT SWAN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Broadway, briskly brushing the gathered dust of summer from many of its theater fronts, is about ready for the horde of visitors asking the familiar question: “What's a good new show in town?” For months one could could merely suggest a visit to the revived "Show Boat,” a pleasant and merry evening at "Os Thee I Sing,” or a choice of two legitimate dramas, “Another Language” and “Bridal Wise.” Now there comes “Here Today,” wihch is not likely to be gone tomorrow. This is the smart and ultra-modern frivol which received much advance comment because such New Yorkers as Bob Benchley and Dorothy Parker w-ere reported to have been the models for certain characters. This Author George Oppenheimer denies. "OALLYHOO OF * 1932” puts D Russell Patterson, fine-line comic artist, on the map of the Important colorist-stage designers. The production stumbles over the fact that there is almost as much bad obscenery as good scenery. Never were Rasch girls more poetic in movement; rarely is the eye or ear more intrigued. On the other hand, fast moving and paced as this revue may be, it suffers from ideas that never grew up. Somehow', Norman Anthony, who put the skit into the revue, indicated himself to be an editor who knows an idea when he sees one, without knowing £ow to work it out himself. “Best Years" makes a rather second best evening, although there are some critics who insist that Author Raymond Van Sickle is to be recommended along with his opus. Somehow', young folk tied by "the silver cord" are not this writer's favorite characters. Yet, in the playwright's favor, it must be said, that he has tackled his problem of two daughters held by a neurotic mother with a certain sincerity and sympathy not often found in Broadway productions. FINALLY came “The Man Who Reclaimed His Head," the six-teen-scene melodrama. A season or so ago, the writer of this play— Miss Jean Bart—turned out “The Squall," which was stormed by all critics, but ran and ran and ran. Now the author digs out a sort of “Cyrano” with a nose for news —a maker of statesmen, malformed an ugly, whose wife takes up with another fellow—and murder follow’s. Meanwhile, enough “ham” has been provided for a couple of picnics. Only seasonal lethargy will save this pieces—but then that's what they said of “Tly Squall.” RUNAWAY GIRLS ARE HELD BY POLICE HERE Illinois Pair Held in Custody Pending Return to Homes. Two Lawrenceville (111.) girls who arrived here Monday are held today at the juvenile detention home pending arrangements to return them to their homes. Vivian Griffith. 16. and May York, 17, applied at police headquarters Monday night for money w’ith which to pay their fares to Lawrenceville. They said they had walked most of the day in an effort to find George Snyder, an uncle of the Griffith girl, but “Ohio street” was the only information they had to guide them. NAME AUXILIARY CHIEFS Mr*. Paul E. Beem Heads Bruce T. Robinson Post Women. Mrs. Paul E. Beem is new president of Bruce T. Robinson post. American Legion auxiliary. Other officers elected Monday night are: Mr*. Stewart Maxwell. Mrs. Carl Reiter and Mrs. Elmer Pohlman. vice-presidents: Mrs. Dorthv Ashley, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Prank Nesbitt, recording secretary: Mrs. Don Bmith, treasurer; Mrs. J. H. Brill, honorary chaplain; Mrs. John Paul Ragsdale. chaplain: Mrs Roland Dailey, historian, ana Mrs. James Jordan, Mrgeam-at-arm*.

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FIGHT OF LIFE IS FACED BY LAFOLLETTE Governor’s Reign Menaced by Ambitious Campaign of Kohler. BUSINESS BATTLES PHIL Tax Shift Plea Antagonizes Moneyed Men; Blaine Looks Safe. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Staff Writer MADISON, Wis., Sept. 13.—Governor Phil La Follettes hard fight for renomination has been called the La Follettes’ last stand in the state his family has controlled for so long, but his progressive supporters doubt that he will be defeated by the stalwart candidate, ex-Governor Walter J. Kohler. “Phil" made a stirring campaign, and he has placed in issue the whole La Follette program of taxation, relief and power legislation. He is fighting for a shift of taxes from property to corporation dividends, which has antagonized many business interests. He has championed his program for permitting municipalities to take over public utility plants, and this has provoked tremendous opposition. Lastly, he has contended that his administration was far more economical than that which Kohler headed from 1928 to 1930, Business Backs Kohler But these very measures are the ones which have lined the business elements almost solidly behind Kohler. Even the small shop keepers, who are suffering here as elsewhere from heavy taxation, are grumbling. Whereas it appears that Governor Roosevelt will carry the state on the basis of present conditions, and that Senator John J. Blaine will be renominated over John B. Chappie in the Sept. 20 primary, Governor La Follette’s battle is expected to remain in doubt until the day of voting. Phil s" 1930 -contest was bitter but it is concerned that the present one is the dirtiest, bitterest yet. It is splitting families and friends, especially in the small towns. Many groups are arraigned against each other, instead of fighting shoulder to shoulder, as in the past. The Kohler forces are, it is believed, making a more astute campaign than the stalwarts have put up in years. They are spending much money, relatively, and are using all the economic pressure possible. Claims Industry Hurt As an example, Kohler is contending that the La Follettes have driven industry from the state. The former Governor refers to his own bath tub factory. He points out that it pays $2,000,000 in freight charges alone, mentions the number of hands he employs, and the annual total of his pay roll. Apparently believing that the pinch of depression has killed Wisconsin’s traditional spirit of liberalism, he is hitting directly at the pocketbook. His firm has not left the state, however. Governor La Follette’s hope rests as usual in the farmers. They are said to be upset over high taxes, and the La Follette program of railroad crossing elimination. Construction of “humps” in their roads to market through dangerous railroad crossings, as well as the cost, is said to have antagonized them. Militancy of the Democrats may hurt Phil. They feel that, for the first time in years, they have a chance to elect some local candidates, and they may vote the straight Democratic ticket, thus robbing the Governor of some support among liberal Democrats. Workman Is Electrocuted By I nited Press HAMMOND, Ind.. Sept. 13.—Conrad Horn, 45, electrician for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, was electrocuted here when a saw he was using came in contact with a wire carrying 11,000 volts of electricity.

Rare Stamps Will Go on ■ Auction at Club Session

Valuable Collection to Be Sold at Meeting Here Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2. Auction of rare stamps to be conducted by H. Edgar French of Newcastle, well-known authority on stamps of Mexico and South America. will be an interesting feature of the fourth annual tri-state meeting of the Indiana Stamp Club at the Hotel Lockerbie Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2. French has announced that there will be about 200 lots in this auction, with a catalog value of several thousand dollars. Stamp collectors and dealers from all over the country are expected to attend. An exhibit of rare stamps open

TIME-HONORED SATURDAY NIGHT BATH DEFENDED AS ADEQUATE FOR HEALTH

■pvß. THURMAN B. RICE of the Indiana university medical .school booes ‘'B. O.” and, other high pressure hygiene in the current number cf the state health department bulletin. He indorses that ancient and honorable American institution, “the Saturday night bath.” and declares that washing ones face and hands at meal time, and bathing once a week is sufficient for all hygienic purposes. “Time was when it was honor-

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Miss Edna Newcomer, nurse, off for Rome today. She will make a parachute drop at Florence, Italy.

VOTE FOR POLICE WOMENJUTILE Morrissey Suspends Another as Federation Ballots. Police affairs were the subjects of two resolutions adopted Monday night by the executive committee of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs at a meeting in the office of the federation president, Edward O. Snethen, Circle Tower. While the committee was voting its opinion that police women should be retained, Mrs. Margaret V. Osborn, an officer, was suspended by Chief Mike Morrissey. Three other police women have lost thenpositions in the last few months. The second resolution opposes demotion of Lieutenant Frank Owen, head of the accident prevention bureau. Under the 1933 budget as submitted to the city council, Owen would be reduced to a sergeant. Mrs. Osborn, 622 West Fortyfirst street, was suspended on Morrissey's charge that she failed to make a report on a street carautomobile collision Sunday at Fifty-second street and College avenue. She contends there was no need for a report, as no one was injured and there was no law violation. Morrissey said today he suspended Mrs. Osborn on complaint by “a dtizen.” No charge has yet been filed. Morrissey said he still is investigating the case. LABOR UNION ADOPTS DRY REPEAL PLANK Rcsolutiongto Be Submitted to State Convention Wednesday. Resolution urging repeal of the eighteenth amendment and of the Wright “bone dry” law’, adopted by the Central Labor Union Monday night, will be submitted to the annual Indiana State Federation of Labor convention Wednesday in Ft. Wayne. Delegates from ninety-six local unions, representing approximately 18.000 trade unionists, compose the Central Labor Union, of which Emil Salisbury is secretary.

to the public on Friday and Saturday, will be the occasion of the awarding of the Lockerbie trophy and other prizes. The exhibits will comprise United States, foreign, pre-canceled and air mail stamps as well as many interesting covers. On Sunday. Oct. 2. Dr. Leonard L. Steimley, professor in the University of Illinois, and internationally known authority on the postage stamps of Bulgaria, will make an address following the annual banquet. Dr. T. Victor Keene, noted surgeon and art critic, will be toastmaster. The Indianapolis Stamp Club, which meets twice each month at Hotel Lockerbie, is composed of more than 100 assiduous collectors, and is cosmopolitan in character.

able and Tortuous to win one's bread by the sweat of the brow, but that, of course, was before "B. O. ’ had become the public enemy." Dr. Rice begins, and continues : “Now we have become so sensitive about offending' that the girl selling ribbons in the five and ten can't keep her mind on Mr. Wool worth's business for fear she is creating a stench. “And the worst of it is that all of this bunk called hygiene, and

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1932

POLICE CHIEF DENIES BONUS CHARGE TRUTH Mitchell’s Statement That Criminals Led Marchers Hit by Glassford. MADE CAMPAIGN ISSUE Hoover Seeks Veteran Vote by Denouncing Motives v of Army. BY NED BROOKS Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. Resentment at the administration's charge that the bonus “army'’ was dominated by criminals and Communists seemed certain today to project the eviction of the ragged marchers into presidential campaign. Into the thick of the battle went Pelham D. Glassford. chief of the metropolitan police, <\ ho issued a statement Challenging :he truth of the report of Attorney-General Mitchell to President Hoover on the bonus disorders of July 28. Braving the threat that his utterances may cost him his job, Glassford declared that Mitchell's report contains “assertions in conflict with police records and with facts known to the police department.’

Denies Call for Troops Glassford said there actually was a decrease in Washington crime during the bonus siege; that the number of “radicals” at no time reached more than 230; that the large majority of veterans remained orderly and that at no time, contrary to Mitchell’s report, did he request the use of troops. President Hoover and his political counsellors were reported concerned at the latest turn in their attempts to justify the routine of the marchers by fire and sword. The reported revolt of delegates to the Portland convention of the American Legion against conservative leaders bent on squelching a resolution of condemnation against the administration was one development which aroused concern. A number of bonus leaders also attacked the administration as a result of Mitchell's charges. Made Campaign Issue Mitchell's statement, announced by President Hoover, was generally interpreted as an attempt of the administration to win the support of ex-service men and voters at large by denouncing the character and motives of the bonus army. The statement was taken to indicate that the President is willing to carry the matter to the voters as a campaign issue. Answering Mitchell's charge that the bonus army “probably brought into Washington the largest aggregation of criminals ever assembled in the city,” Glassford said: “According to police records, there was less crime in the District of Columbia during either June or July than during August, after the veterans had been evicted.” Few on Serious Charges Os the 362 arrests of bonus marchers, Glassford pointed out, only twelve were on serious charges. He made public a tabulation of the arrests, showing 156 were for intoxication, 90 for investigation and 28 for drunkenness and disorder. Contrary to Mitchell’s findings of Communism arid crime, Glassford reported “many demonstrations of patriotism and discipline by the great mass of the unemployed veterans.” The bonus camp which Mitchell says was “occupied principally by Communists, headed by John T. Pace,” Glassford said contained only 150 members of the Soldiers’ Exservice Men’s League, a radical organization. N There were nine units in this particular camp, Glassford said, and only one unit was made up of radicals. The camp, he said, contained 824 men. Mitchell Challenges Statement. Glassford repeated his denial that he had called for troops, a statement which was challenged immediately by Mitchell. The attorneygeneral. after, r&ceiving an advance copy of Glassford's statement, made public a letter from the district commissioners, quoting Glassford as saying at the time of the disorders, that the situation had gone beyond his control and that troops would be needed. In reply to Mitchell's statement that "the entire mob became hostile and riotous” during the Pennsylvania avenue disorders, Glassford said that “a large proportion of the veterans remained loyal to law and order.” He also defended his department against Mitchell's charge that efforts to bring the rioters to justice had been impeded by shortcomings on the part of the police. Reunion Chiefs Elected Officers elected at the eighteenth annual reunion of the Wood and Elmore families held at Brookside park Sunday are M. L. Stout, Clayton. president; George Clark, Danville. vice-president, and Mrs. Zella Clark Gabhart, Indianapolis, secre-tary-treasurer. Next year the reunion will be held at Danville.

we poor saps, who think we know what hygiene really is, are terribly behind the times when we insist there are a lot of things more important than B. O.” * * M FOLLOWING in a satirical vein, Dr. Rice closes the article with a plea for inexpensive cleanliness, and sets out this health program: “Plenty of clean, simple food of the staple varieties, with emphasis upon milk, vegetables and

St. Lawrence Waterway Stirs Hope for Farmers’ Prosperity

Here is a sketch of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river showing where the United States and Canada proposed to spend 8543,000,000 in providing a twenty-seven-foot channel from the Atlantic to the extremity of Lake Superior. At the top is a

Freight Rate Slash Forecast, Bringing More Profit on Grain. This is the first of a series of articles on the St. Lawrence waterway, where millions will be spent on an ocean to Great Lakes link. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Harvest season is on in the fertile wheat belt of the west. John Josiah Wheat Farmer Esq., grim and discouraged, reaps his golden grain, loads it into trucks, and sends it to market. He does not expect it to bring him more than 25 or 30 cents a bushel, scarcely enough to repay him for his seed and labor, much less enable him to feed his family another year, clothe his children and send them to school, pay taxes and the interest on the mortgage he contracted when wheat brought $1.50 a bushel. He expects no relief this year, nor the next, nor the next. But across the horizon, ten years in the future, he sights a ray of hope, and it gives him heart for his harvest work. Hopes to Break Railway Grip He has been reading in the papers of the treaty between the United States and Canada to channel out the St. Lawrence river and open

Arthur Jordan to Fight Million Dollar Action

Breach of Promise Case to Come Up for Hearing Here Soon. Arthur Jordan, 76, multimillionaire Indianapolis capitalist, soon will start his battle against Mrs. Margaret E. Melter, 51, Goshen rooming house proprietor, who seeks $1,000,000 in a breach of promise suit. Jordan's attorney, Chester L. Zechiel, said today that his firm CITY HEADS TO GARY Municipal League to Hold State Convention. By United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 13.—City officials from all sections of Indiana will attend the convention of the Municipal League of Indiana which opens here Wednesday. The sessions will continue through Thursday with Mayor R. C. Johnson of Gary, president of the organization, presiding. Members of the state legislature antj state officials have been invited. GETS ROOSEVELT NOTE Confidence of Indiana Support Expressed by Democrtaic Nominee. In a personal letter to John J. Beatty, cashier in the county clerk's office, Goveronr Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential nominee, expresses confidence of full support of Indiana voters in the coming election. The letter was in answer to local newspaper clippings which Beatty sent the Governor.

fruit, if it- can be afforded. Beans, rice, potatoes, bread, oleomargarine. sugar and the like are excellent food, and at the present time are very cheap. Abundance of water should oe drunk. Cleanliness of a degree that washes the hands and face before meals and bathes once a week will take adequate care of the hygienic demands. Clothing that is merely mussed or a little soiled need not be washed for reasons of real hygiene. The cleaning of

typical scene in the wheat fields of the northwest, where farmers see hope of better prices in cheaper water transportation. Below, Great Lakes vessels unloading their cargoes of wheat at Montreal, Quebec, present head of ocean navigation.

the nearby Great Lakes ports for ocean commerce. For ten years he has been told that when ocean vessels can steam into the harbors of Duluth. Chicago and Cleveland and load his wheat for the markets of Europe, he will get 6,8, 10 or maybe 12 cents more a bushel —a margin now eaten up by high rail freight charges, a big margin on 25-cent wheat. Ever a chaser of political rainbows, John Josiah Wheat Farmer clutches at the straw. Add to John Josiah, Esq., the million and a half other wheat farmers, their million and a half wives, their millions of creditors, and you have the many million votes in the wheat belt. And you have a reason why the St. Lawrence negotiations, after years of delay, were brought to a sudden close on the eve of a presidential campaign. Makes Political Capital Ratification of the treaty and actual channeling of the passageway to the sea are problematical and distant, but before November much political capital will be made of the project on the hustings, over the radio and in the partisan press. The millions of voters of wheatland will be told that the waterway is the panacea for low prices and glutted markets. They also will be told that it is just another gold brick. How can politicians be expected to agree when experts differ?

would file a general denial to the suit in superior court four within a few days. “We are instructed to fight the case to a finish,” Zechiel replied, when asked if his client was attempting to settle with Mrs. Melter. Zechiel indicated the case soon will come to trial In the county court, as any attempt to transfer the matter to a court of other jurisdiction would be futile. It had been reported that Jordan was hoping to get the case transferred to federal court. Jordan, himself, recently declared, “Mrs. Melter will not get one cent from me.” Since the suit was filed, Jordan has married and now is living in New York. He claims Washington, D. C. as his legal residence, according to Zechiel. Mrs. Melter charges she met Jordan in Indianapolis about four years ago, Aug. 25, 1928, and they became engaged. “I am the happiest and most satisfied man in America,” are the words attributed to Jordan in the complaint, alleging he refused to carry out his promise to marry Mrs. Melter. The complaint also asserts that Jordan told Mrs. Melter ‘they would lead a quiet and secluded life” after they were married. The plaintiff contends, “I am not an adventuress. I loved him; perhaps I still do.” TRESTER ON FACULTY H. S. Athletic Commissioner to Teach Two Courses at Butler. Butler university’s extension division will emphasise courses for teachers and school officials, with Arthur L. Trester, Indiana High School Athletic Association secretary, a faculty member. Trester will teach two courses

the various orifices of the body with antiseptic washes of orre sort or another is meddling and somewhat dangerous. B B B “'T'HE home should be as attracX tive as one can reasonable afford. It should be dry and comfortable, but need not be under split hair thermostatic control nor need it have a guest bath room and the thousand and one things that are expensive and mighty nice but not really essen-

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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, a voluntary organization of twenty-one states which believe the waterway will be an economic boon, has sent out from its headquarters here news releases, pamphlets, and economic treatises depicting the wheat belt of the United States and Canada as the future food basket of the world—a land-girt and fertile area which' needs only an outlet to the ocean to consummate its destiny. Sees Great Gain Four hundred million bushels of grain will be available for traffic over the St. Lawrence waterway, according to a survey made for the association by Alfred H. Ritter, transportation and port specialist. United States and Canadian grain farmers will realize a transportation saving of $44,000,000, he estimated, plus a price enhancement of 000,000 on grain sold in domesuc markets. Contending that transportation cost benefits would range from 6 cents a bushel as far south as Wichita. Kas., and as far west as Teton, Mont., to 12.1 cents a bushel in the areas contiguous to lake ports, Ritter calculated an average minimum benefit of 5 cents a bushel to the farmers throughout the Great Lakes grain trade area. In contradiction to Ritter's glowing prophecies are the findings of Edwin G. Nourse, agricultural economist of the Brookings institution, who contributed a chapter on agricultural traffic to a book on the St. Lawrence project published by that institution. Little Saving Seen Not more than 238,800,000 bushels of grain, estimated Nourse, can be counted as available for traffic on the waterway. Probable saving on transportation costs, he said, would range from 4 cents a bushel at the lake ports to zero where the Great Lakes grain market area merges with the Pacific coast and gulf export areas. Nourse's calculations were based on figures available in 1929, when the Brookings institution book was published. The rapid decline in wheat exports since that time have tended to strengthen his position. In 1924 the United States exported 29.5 per cent of its wheat crop; in 1926, 24.8 per cent; in 1928, 16 per cent, and in 1930, 13 per cent. In quantity the exports declined from more than a quarter billion bushels in 1924 to slightly more than 100.000,000 bushels in 1930. Russia has replaced the United States as the leading wheat producer of the world, and there has been a tremendous expansion of wheat production in Canada, Argentina and Australia. Conclusion Is Challenged Another point made by Nourse was that comparatively the northwest states, because of higher production costs and transportation charges, were destined to lose more than the Gulf and Pacific Coast areas in the exportation of wheat. | His conclusions were not left unchallenged. “The exact extent to which any given state or province may expand its agricultural production program, and the direction that expansion will take, is not a matter for discussion,” wrote Hugh J. Hughes, in a pamphlet published by the Tide- j water Association. “It is sufficient to say here that within the area contributary to j seaway traffic, there are reserves of: land and crop production margins sufficient to safely predict an ultimate production twice that of the present.” But Nourse has not retreated from his position.

tial to health. The disposal of sewage and garbage wastes of the family is exceedingly important as is also the quality of the water supply furnished in the home. “Occupation should be such as will not injure the worker. The same may be said of recreation, school facilities and social activities. “The services of the medical profession in the prevention and treatment of disease are indispensable to continued good health.”

SHOWDOWN ON BONUS ASKED BY AL SMITH Calls on Candidates for President to Make CLear Their Stands. ‘PLAIN TALK’ DEMANDED Congressman Blamed for Washington March, in Magazine Article. B;i United /’res* PHILADELPHIA, Sept, li—Alfred E. Smith today called upon the candidates for President to tell the people what they intend to do about i the soldier bonus problem. The demand by the Democratic party's 1928 candidate for the presidency was set forth in a copyrighted argument written by Smith for the Saturday Evening Post, published today. It voiced the forthright speaking j New Y’orker's own disappproval of suggested legislation and some laws on the books; it declared that present laws would force the government within twenty years to spend as much for pensions as the entire government costs this year; it blamed the house of representatives for j encouraging much o fthe legislation and agitation. "Nobody,” the former Governor j said, “will take the negative side of I the question that the man who of- | fers himself to the country in ; time of trouble should be rewarded.” “Bedeviled by Politics'* The unfortunate thing about arriving at a “just and equitable system of compensation and reward,” is that the question “is bedeviled with politics,” he said. Smith reviewed the platforms of the two major political parties. The Republican platform suggested a study with a view to eliminating the “inequalities and injustices and effecting all possible economies.” The Democratic platform, while much briefer, called lor a “full measure of justice to all war veterans who have suffered disability or disease resulting from war service.” “So much for the platforms,” Smith wrote. “The American people have a right to know where the candidates stand. Let us have pretty plain talk. The Amercian people are entitled to hear it. “They should be afforded not only opportunity for study of what has happened in the past and its relationship to the whole question of public money, but they are entitled to know what their candidates for high office intend to recommend with respect to the future.” Neither Candidate Mentioned Smith did not mention President Hoover or Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President's Democratic rival, in this connection. Hoover has let it be known that he would veto any further bonus legislation. It was believed in some quarters that Roosevelt would announce his bonus views during his western speaking tour, just beginning. The article by Smith, entitled “Veterans and Taxpayers,” was timed to appear as the American Legion convention got under way at Portland, Ore. It dealt largely with the legion’s advocacy of veterans’ legislature, and with the encouragement given the legion and others by congressmen. “It can not be disputed,” Smith wrote, “that the recent gathering in Washington of veterans demanding the immediate payment of the bonus certainly was encouraged by the attitude of members of congress . . . who can deny that politics entered there into an economic question?” Praises Relief Program Smith praised the program for war veteran aid proposed and adopted during Woodrow Wilson's administration as a “wide and farsighted plan” intended to “take care of veterans killed or injured in line of duty, or their dependents, and to offer all veterans term insurance upon an actuarial basis.” “At the time this program was put forth, it was accepted by the entire country and the great army of American veterans subscribed to it 100 per cent. . . . Within six years of the close of the World war, however, the bonus bill had been passed and hospitalization had been thrown open to veterans not disabled in the line of duty.” Smith reviewed the work of veterans’ organizations, and the lobbies they financed, with the result, he said, that the United States is paying “large sums every year to more than 400.000 veterans whose disabilities resulted from causes other than military or naval service.” He warned that further payments of the same type would be authorized unless the American people “pay some attention to these statutes.” FORM ROOSEVELT CLUB Sixteen Precincts of Ninth Ward Included in Organization. Roosevelt-for-President Victory Club, embracing sixteen precincts of the west end of the Ninth ward, was organized and officers elected at a meeting Monday night. Officers named are: Charles Markey, president; Mrs. James Flaherty, vicepresident; William White, treasurer, and Mrs. Mary Vetter, secretary. Headquarters until election will be maintained at 2129 East Michigan street. PROfEST~UifH~ST7ROLL Widening Assessments Termed Excessive in Court Suit. Protest against assessments for widening West Sixteenth street, from Illinois street to Capitol avenue, was filed in circuit court Monday by Edgar O. Hunter, property owner. The suit charges the assessments “are excessive, confiscatory, unlawful, and unreasonable."