Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1932 — Page 15

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E. V. Lucas

F V. Lucas, the much beloved English man of letters, has placed his personal reminiscences in book form under the title of Reading, Writing and Remembering.” It has .lust been published by Harper & Brothers. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE are two birthdays that have unusual meaning and importance to me. No longer can I see them in person. but I have a sort of mental celebration for James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene V. Debs. And today on the anniversary of another birthday of the beloved Riley, it is proper that I tell you about the latest volume of poems of Riley. I have before me “Selected Poems by James Whitcomb Riley,” as chosen by William Lyon Phelps and published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company of this city. It sells for $2. Phelps in his preface writes: “For the appearance of anew edition of the Poems of James Whitcomb Riley there could hardly be a more inopportune moment. It is partly for this very reason that I like to make the experiment. Riley was a man of of sentiment, of optimism, of good cheer; today our citified intelligentsia have only one motto— What's the use? They find no pleasure in sin.” Another contention of Phelps is that "Riley became a national poet not because of his weakness but because of his strength. He expressed feelings that are common to normal men and women. It is characteristic of the abnormal that they mistake their world of thought for the thought of the world.” n n n In selecting the poems to be placed ip this new volume, Phelps states “This volume contains only those poems that seem to me the best. And in this selection there is variety as well as excellence.” I am especially fond of these selected poems because some of them are actually new to me, especially “Fame,” and "The Old Retired SeaCaptain.” You may be well acquainted with these two and the many others in this book, but some appeal to me as “jest brand new.” Asa fact that is not true but Phelps has kept his promise in selecting poems of both variety and excellence. Os course no book of Riley's poems would be complete without "Griggsby's Station.” "Little Orphant Annie,” "Lockerbie Street,” “An Old Sweetheart of Mine,” “The Old Swimmin’ Hole,” "Our Hired Girl.” “The Raggedy Man,” and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin.” And the best way for me today to honor Riley is to read again “Lockerbie Street.” nun What are they reading in fiction in New York? Brentano's list the following: "Sons,” by Pearl Buck, author of “The Good Earth,” “Inheritance," by Phyllis Bentley; “The Gods Arrive,” by Edith Wharton; “Peking Picnic,” by Ann Bridge; “The Family Circle,” by Andre Maurois, and "The Fortress,” by Hugh Walpole. The “Macaulay Company has sent me for review the following new books: “The Scandal Monger,” by Emile Gauvreau; “To Make My Bread,” by Garce Lumpkin; "Greenhorn," by Paul King; "A Familv Affair.’’ by Lilian Gill; "The Second Son,” by Dominique Dunois; “The Animal Map of the World.,' by Mary Graham Bonner, and "Children's Hour. Station YEF,” by Yvonne Elizabeth Frank. n n n Have before me a copy of “The Written Word.” a study of the art of writing with especial reference to its function in advertising. It is by H. A. Batten. Marcus Goodrich and Granville Toogood. Published by Greenberg, New York Sells for $3.50. Never before in my experience have so many people been writing as just now. Every mail brings me original poems, stories and novels. And the *same mail generally brings me requests for titles of books relative to writing. This book will be of great interest and help to the artist who is studying commercial art as applied to advertising. The chapter devoted to magazines is an intelligent and an authentic discussion of the magazine as a bill board or a medium selling goods. Special attention is paid to “good writing” in advertising and in other forms of writing. One of the interesting studies in the book is Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. The address is first printed as written by Lincoln and then you have the result of a learned committee today making "literary” corrections. Bobbs-Merrill writes me that they have definitely decided to publish on Oct. 19, “The Life and Death of Ivar Kreuger.” as written by William H. Stoneman, the Stockholm correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. The book has been delayed in publication because Stoneman has discovered some recently obtained authoritative proof concerning Kreuger’s collapse.

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lOWA FARMERS FIND FLAWS IN HOOVER’S PLEA Soil Tillers Unable to See 'Glorious Victory,’ as Prices Stay Low. REPUBLICANS CHEERED President’s Backers Think Cause Was Helped by Des Moines Speech. BY LEO R. SACK Tlmr* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. V—Although he still is receiving congratulatory telpgrams on his Des Moines speech, and rapidly is coming to the conclusion that what his presidential candidacy needs most is more personal campaigning. President Hoover today is hearing things about nis adoress which are not so complimentary. The speech is being subjected to keen analysis and criticism by I spokesmen for farmer organizations, i Democratic leaders, likewise, are j dissecting the address, which, according to Senator Millard Tydings Md. is remarkable for what the President “did not say.” Governor Roosevelt, in a statement from Albany, after congratulating Hoover for taking notice of the farmer's distress, asserted that his campaign for re-election is of a type “which might be called pork barrel campaigning.” L’naware of “Victory" Henry A. Wallace, editor of the lowa Homestead and Wallace’s Farmer, son of Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture under Harding, asserted that lowa farmers, even though Hoover fold them that farm products are a billion dollars higher now than in the early summer, know that corn is 10 cents a bushel, oats 8 cents, and hogs 3 cents a pound on the farm. Wallace said farmers are not aware of the "glorious victory” Hoover said has been won over the depression. “They read his pledge to maintain the gold standard and the high tariff on farm products and reflected on their sufferings during the recent past, when both of these blessings were in full operation,” Wallace continued. Meetings Are Contrasted The son of Harding's secretary of agriculture contrasted the reception accorded Hoover at Des Moines and that accorded Roosevelt a few days earlier at Sioux City. A dimission tickets were necessary to hear Hoover; Roosevelt spoke ai the ball park, he pointed out., “At Sioux City there were thousands of poorly dressed farmers quietly listening,” Wallace declared. “But what the Sioux City affair lacked in showmanship, it gained in genuineness.” The Des Moines farmers, he said, “were not sufficiently respectable in clothes, manners and previous attitude to get into the Colisum to heckle Hoover, so they let their resentment blaze forth in parade.” Defeat Is Forecast The parade, Wallace asserted, is “a good barometer of the farm attiude which eventually will defeat Hoover in the middle west, after the enthusiasm of the Republican office-holding contingent has spent itself in trying to squeeze comfort for farmers out of the Hoover Des Moines speech.” Just how helpful Hoover’s speech will prove to him continued today a debatable question. Republican campaign managers are thrilled, but Democrats insist that it will not change enough votes to alter conditions. Newspaper men who were in Des Moines seem agreed that although the crowd at the coliseum was enthusiastic, the crowd on the streets, along the route of the Hoover parade, was unusually silent. JUDGE IS UNDER KNIFE Frank P. Baker Recovering in M. E. Hospital After Operation. Frank P. Baker, criminal court judge, was recovering today at the Methodist hospital following an emergency operation Thursday for appendicitis. Killed by Falling Tree By United I‘ress LINTON. Ind.. Oct, 7.—Frank Hale, living six miles northwest of here, was killed instantly Thursday when he was struck by a falling tree.

BELL THAT ONCE CLANGED FIRE ALARMS NOW WILL SUMMON WORSHIPPERS

A BELL that once upon a time warned the city of fire will, in rwo weeks’ time, be ringing out masses and requiems in the tower of St. Patrick's Catholic church, Woodlawn and Hunter avenues. The old fire-bell that served as siren to those who rather would "go to a fire than eat’’ hung in No. 8 station house, on Massachusetts avenue. Anew fire station, of the bungalow- type, was built at Eleventh street and Broadway. The bell had no place there, and, anyway, changing times had silenced the tolling of bells from fire houses. But the church was without a bell for its tower. On June 20, 1927, the southeastern section of the city was alarmed by red heavens and the cry. "St. Patrick's is afire." Several church edifices had been damaged by flames that year and they were thought to have been incendiary in origin. St. Patrick's was destroyed and its bell became but a tw-isted piece of metal. mam A "FIREBUG" was arrested in connection with the firing of the churches but the origin of the St. Patrick's blaze always has

The Indianapolis Times

The Rise and Fall of the Imperial

•Legend’ Says Power King Fled Seat of Grandeur Between Two Days. Samuel Insull. first nower kin* of the Sutter Power aee. is in exile. Likewise his son and his brother. The house of Insulls ruin is complete—the most extensive business collapse in the Continent’s history. What wrouKht the ruin? How did Insull rise; how fall? The Times and the New York WorldTeleeram sent Forrest Davis, who has written extensively on the historic background of Wall Street's crises and person sees. author of the recent book What Price Wall Street?" to Chicago seeking the answer. His first article follows; BY FORREST DAVIS Time* Staff Correspondent t Copyright. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) IN Chicago a legend exists that Samuel Insull departed that seat of his grandeur and despair between two days. Such an Image—the deposed Power King and First Citizen, huddled between bodyguards, behind shatterproof glass, being driven surreptitiously to a suburban railway station there to make his escape to the seaboard and exile in Paris—accords with the imperial fall of the Insulls. Unfortunately for the violently romatic imagination of Chicagoans and a loose-lipped, youthful passenger on a Commonwealth-Edison building elevator (bound upward for Insull's late office) last week, the story is denied. The passenger loudly assured the operator, who, obviously, still was loyal to "The Chief,” that “Insull would have got his if he hadn't lammed it on the quiet.” Insull left Chicago last June, much, apparently, as any business man takes train for New York. It would have been more in keeping with the tradition of kings had he fled the capital of his disordered realm between dusk and daw-n. He left wreckage behind . . . paupered corporations, damaged banks, friends, associates and employes beggared. He left his power empire, which served 5,000 communities in thir-ty-two states and in neighboring Canada and Mexico, prostrate. He left monuments—such as the $20,000,000 Civic Opera house —and ghostly lists of favored reta. ■•ers to plague the politicians and tminent citizens whose names appeared thereon. n n n INSULL, who entered Chicago bravely in the world’s fair year, 1893; the pinkish, plump English “clerk,” who lived down the hateful nickname “Insult” Insull evoked by his brosque tyranny, left more behind than economic ruin. Two images come to mind as we review the decline of the House of Insull. The first is of a broken old gentleman, now 73, living in pinched luxury on a pension of SIB,OOO a year in a Paris hotel. The unconscionably haughty Insull. who forced Chicago to knuckle under, who ruled governnors, legislatures, and common councils in a dozen states, pitifully denying his identity to a reporter on the street in Paris; Insull. fed for years on the pap of underlings and his juniors in the utility business, coddled by being called to his face “First Citizen of Chicago,” “greatest utility operator in the world,” “power king,” eagerly reading the bundles of newspaper clippings he ordered sent him from Chicago. The second image is that of Chicago, never precisely a humble city, stunned emotionally by the ignominious collapse of its “First Interest.” Chicago, irked by the chance circumstance that makes it second in population among

Dream of Home Ruined; Son Is Slain in Holdup

Man’s Plan to Loot Bank and Help Mother Ended by Bullet. By United Press DAVENPORT, la., Oct. 7.—Ned Hill of Gary, Ind., wrote to his mother, promising money and holding out hope that they soon would be able to fix up their home. He spoke in the letter of Grace, the girl he hoped to marry. Everything was going to turn out right for Hill, he thought, after the “job” w'as done. The “job" w r as the robbery of the

been listed by the fire department as "unknown.” The church rebuilt with a tower for a bell, but no bell placed in it. Then the fire department abandoned No. 8 engine house and the 1,060-pound gong w r as purchased by the church. But the problem was how to place the bell in the tower erected for it, obtain the proper steel stanchions to suprort- it, and turn it from a crier ox fires to a religious messenger. It was at this juncture that William Dohn. 72, of 1322 Charles street, machinist and pattern worker, took charge. Dohn, a one-man manufacturing plant, w r as called in to build a framework of steel for the bell

Guzzle, Girls By l nited Press VALPARAISO. Ind., Oct. 7. —Two women, who said they were federal agents. approached Bill Donahue and asked "Where can we get a little drink?” Donahue, obliging and chivalrous, led them to the old town pump, and told them to drink "to your hearts content.”

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1932

S HOUSE OF INSUILi C A jV ,r ///-,' e x * c ° ) '*•- ffiiiHWßi infected with something like a Hr preferred to borrow mor of prosperity. in Chicago from the banks Capone and Big Bill Thompson the people. As lie was a bristl: were energetic contemporaries. middle-class Briton when he ca Chicago, brash and unlicked along to this country in 1881 as sec its magnificent lake front— tary to the dreamer. Thomas sculptured, terraced, and theatrical Edison, urgent in protesting .."k, , ~ —smiled indulgently on men who integrity and good intentions^ Samuel lazuli things in a big way. That was he became a town boostei in C M. fhp Instill Em- superlatives to characterize the thority assured me, a provinc ! scope of the House of Insull. They Chicagoan to the end. I vt* y pire, spreading] bulked solidly large. Insull l ' s ® < ?. the pal ' ochlal J \V WBBWBBS "• , , I Henry Ford never was credited ; triotism of Chicago in his extra; WBSm f ' ■■■over thirty-two with more than a billion in assets. dinarily successful stock-selli O '}'■/** ' fjSBMHK 9HH .• . The Steel Corporation, most pie- campaigns. \ V lIkSHh ■■ ■ 0(s a)t( 0 thoric of all the industrial giants, Naturally, never publishing t ■*.ai -V Canada and \ asserted claim to less than two j the'million^^which^wel Merico ! * 3illions and „ f ' B his coffers in 1929. 1930 and 1! asserted autocratic sivay over Y Hundreds of Chicagoans w |||iP ,übillions UP l ° approximat€ly * our corporations, over the count * mu from Insull employes, or at th Even in 1931. with the it ind out brokers, actually believed tl

American cities, relishes applying the adjective “first” to any of its enterprises. non WHETHER Chicago's opinion of Insull is important in assessing the character of the most cataclysmic financial failure in the republic’s history, here it is. Chicago, in spite of Insull’s overbearing manner, has bald manipulation of political parties and public officials, his exposed insensivity to high civic standards in the 1926 senatorial campaign, admired him. For, beside the fact that he was Chicago’s own power king—the first to rise in this newfangled super power age—and possibly the most important industrial figure, in plain scope of personal operation, in the land, Insull was a builder. Insull, as traction, gas and electric magnate, inherited the bad name of the bad old "gashouse gang” in Chicago politics. He passed out nearly a quarter of a million dollars on both sides of the fence when Frank L. Smith, Republican, ran against George Brennan, Democrat, for the senate in 1926—and defied

Northwest Davenport Savings bank. Hill and four Companions tried it late Thursday. They were outwitted and fled without money and with police close behind. A gun battle followed. Hill was killed. G. O. P. Meetings Tonight Republican meetings in Indianapolis tonight include the following: Residence of Mrs. Virginia Fouts, 1710 Ruckle street; residence of Mrs. Eura Timmons. 509 Marion avenue; residence of Lewus Meredith, 2421 North Capitol avenue, and at 2508 Martindale avenue.

to hang in the tower and was given the job of putting it there. mam THAT was three months ago and by the last of the week Dohn will begin his job of putting that fire-bell into the church tower. He made a wood likeness of the bell for a pattern. From this pattern, and w-ith measurements of the tower, he constructed pattern molds for the steel frame for supporting the gong in its new home. Casts were made from the molds and now-, in his Charles street shop, stands the framework, in readiness to be hoisted into the church tower. Despite his 72 years, Dohn is as agile as an Olympic star. "I can make a lot of young fellows hunt their holes when it comes to working. I could go to sleep making the frame for this bell,” he says. m a IN sixty years of pattern work, making machines and other devices. Dohn has faced harder tasks than putting a bell in a home which had not been made for it. "One time I spent two and one-half years turning out a machine to make one-piece elbows for

Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, to make him tell the details until Harry Sinclair went to jail for a similar defiance. Smith, elected, was denied his seat. Circumspect public opinion in other parts of the land shuddered at the moral obliquity of Smith, who had been chairman of the Illinois utilities regulatory body W'hen he accepted Insull’s campaign gratuities, and at Insull. GRADUALLY, Insull, reaching out with the unquenched zeal for power, came to be the largest single operative in public service properties. He promoted the elaborate propaganda defenses worked up by the power interests to soothe consumers and confront virtuous reformers. He became the embodiment of the so-called Power Trust. Insullism grew to be a bogey catchphrase and its author a person to be denounced, much as Morgan and Rockefeller and Harriman formerly were denounced as enemies of the people’s interest. But all this while Insull’s prestige waxed in Chicago. His rise occurred during the Coolidge New Era, when the country was

HELP AD ATTRACTS CROWD OF ROYALTY 75 Answer Call for Night Club Employe. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—A Broadway night club decided to include in its staff a member of royalty. A newspaper advertisement brought to its doors more than sev-enty-five men who said they were representatives of ancient but impoverished European families, including one prince, twenty barons and nine counts. Almost all were willing to accept $35 a week.

stove pipes. The machine still is in use and does for this company what four machines are doing for other firms—and it's a one-man machine, at that,” he says. "I've always worked for myself, by myself, collected the money myself, and spent it myself,” he added, when it was remarked that no one helped him in designing and making the bell patterns. “The only time I’ll need help is when the bell is placed inside the church tower.” Dohn said. The bell is three feet two inches at the mouth and thirty inches high. The Rev. J. P. O'Connell is parish priest at St. Patrick's.

Go Get ’Em By United Press TOKIO, Oct. 7—Since the Manchurian conflict, the Japanese army has received as gifts from various groups of citizens the following military supplies: Fifty-eight airplanes, thirtyone cannons, 173 machine guns, eight automobiles and an armored tank. The war department estimated the value of the gifts today at 6.283,630 yen.

infected with something like a virus of prosperity. Capone and Big Bill Thompson were energetic contemporaries. Chicago, brash and unlicked along its magnificent lake frontsculptured, terraced, and theatrical —smiled indulgently on men who did things in a big way. That was the Chicago gospel. It is unnecessary .to invent superlatives to characterize the scope of the House of Insull. They bulked solidly large. Henry Ford never was credited with more than a billion in assets. The Steel Corporation, most plethoric of all the industrial giants, asserted claim to less than two billions and a half. n n n IN his astonishing heydev Insull asserted autocratic sway over corporations whose securities value added up to approximately four billions. Even in 1931. with, the wind out of the country’s industrial balloon, the values were quoted at nearly half that sum. Insull, beginning with the great electric and gas interests in Chicago, spreading out through Illinois, mushrooming into Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Kentucky, ran his wire tentacles throughout the Mississippi valley. Then eastward. In 1925, he was in Texas and Maine. In 1928, he bought the Emmanuel and the Fitkin interests. His super-power, high-tension lines stalked ugly across a thousand landscapes. When a sober citizen turned on the reading lamp in Tallahassee, Bangor, Kokomo, or Austin, he paid some tribute to the Insull dynasty. Housewives in South Dakota and New Jersey burned the gas for their Sunday dinners to the greater glory of the Chicago builder. Workingmen in a hundred cities stvung aboard the morning trolley and deposited 6, 8 or 10 cents in the fare box on its long way to the strong boxes in Chicago. nun INSULL saw to that. He concentrated utilities’ power in Chicago. And as he grew, La Salle street grew with him. He preferred to list his securities on the relatively tiny Chicago Stock Exchange.

Author Balks at Paying • Wife’s Large Store Bill

Clarence Kelland Attacks Shops for Encouraging Women to Spend. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 7.—Clarence Buddington Kelland. author, has notified the supreme court that he does not intend to pay a $3,313 clothing bill for his wife, because “these people ought to be discouraged from piling up bills on women who do not realize they are getting themselves into deep obligations.” Kelland's reply to a suit filed by a gown shop said he furnished his

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William Dohn, machinist and inventor, with the bell he’s converting from a fire siren into a dirge-ringer for St. Patrick’* Catholic church.

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F,nter*’il *s S*cood Class Matter at Post office. Indianapolis

He preferred to borrow money in Chicago from the banks and the people. As he was a bristling middle-class Briton when he came to this country in 1881 as secretary to the dreamer. Thomas A. Edison, urgent in protesting his , integrity and good intentions, so he became a town booster in Chicago. He remained, as excellent auj thority assured me, a provincial Chicagoan to the end. Insull used the parochial patriotism of Chicago in his extraordinarily succcessful stock-selling campaigns. Naturally, never publishing the charge, it was whispered that he needed the millions which swelled his coffers in 1929. 1930 and 1931 to fend off an attack by the “New York banks." Hundreds of Chicagoans who bought stock in Insull investment corporations, over the counter, from Insull employes, or at thenbrokers, actually believed they were rendering a patriotic service in preserving the great Chicago utilities and the Insull empire ! from being swallowed up into the I maws of a “foreign” banking principality. n n n THE plight of Chicago without Insull the builder no doubt is I bad. So many philanthropic, rich. | and significant figures have | dropped off there within the last year or so. Julius Rosenwald. philanthropist, is gone; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick; and now Insull. The i city is prostrate financially, the ! second Chicago World’s Fair is at hand; relief and salvage problems press in on all sides. Outside of the Chicago interest, l the departure of Insull creates political, social, and financial perplexity. After all, he dominated an empire greater than that of any other individual in our system. He said yea and nay to more governors and legislators, he sought to persuade or coerce more editors and 1 educators. He was, whatever you think, a salient figure of our time. In the next article, Insull’s ad- ! vent to Chicago, by way of Thomas A. Edison’s office, will be recounted.

wife, Mrs. Betty Carolina Kelland, with $7,000 during the period in which she bought and charged three gowns, six dresses, six coats and four hats. He said he considered this sufficient for her necessities. Mrs. Kelland, in a supporting affidavit, said she had instructed the clothes be charged to her personal account, but that the shop billed Kelland when she found she could not pay immediately. Doak to Speak at Gary William N. Doak, secretary of labor, will address a Republican rally at Gary Monday night, state headquarters here announced today.

JAPAN’S JINGO LEADERS FAN HATE OF U. S. Real Danger of War Seen as Tokio Reaches Out to 'Fulfill Destiny.’ AMERICA BLOCKS PATH Crisis Confronts League in Action to Be Taken on Lytton Report. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Oct. 7.-The far eastern and peace pact crisis has brought the United States face to face with the very real danger of being dragged into an unwanted war. This is not the talk of a jingo or an alarmist. It means simply that i world events are shaping in that di- | rection—that a stupendous international ferment is at work in the far east, imperiling peace, and that equally powerful forces, over there and in Europe, are threatening to pull or push us in. China, the most populous country on ear f h, is in a state of transition. Like Japan before her, she Is changing from ancient to modern ways. Soon, as history reckons time, she is bound to become either the greatest power of the Orient, else disappear as a nation from the map. She either will go to pieces, perhaps partitioned among stronger powers, or become a dominant power herself. Japan Aware of Peril Os this Japan is keenly aware. Today Japan is mistress of the Western Pacific. Tomorrow, if China’s 450,000,000 people unite and become modernized, Japan's 65.000,000 will be at their mercy. Such is one of the colossal forces at work in Asia. To save herself, as Japan sees it, she must stop China while she can. To wait, her military men fear, will be too late. China will have become strong. Before that time arrives, however, big, backward China must complete her unification and modernization. She must cross the bridge separating the past from the present. Guarding that bridge, covering China’s passage and protecting her, is the new world-peace machinery —that is to say, the nine-power treaty, the Kellogg pact and the I covenant of the League of Nations. Nippon Gives Warning If the peace machinery proves ; effective, according to the Lytton report to thfe league, both Japan and China can work out their destinies side by side to the vast benefit of both and of the world. Japan, however, believes that only ! by expanding on the Asiatic main- | land, at China's expense, can she work out her "manifest destiny” as a great empire. And she boldly has announced that whatever or whoever dares come between her and that destiny will be brushed aside ruthlessly. % The fate of the peace machinery, therefore, is in the balance. If it fails in the coming test at Geneva, Lord Cecil, league advocate, declares, "the world will revert „o conditions infinitely worse than prewar,” when force was all that mattered. Today, it so happens, the principal champion of world peace is the United States. The strongest pressure to make Japan live up to the nine-pow'er treaty and the other peace pacts, has come from Washington. Britain, France Sidestep Britain and France, the other two principal factors, have been strangely reluctant. The sympathy of the London government has seemed with Japan and that of Paris has appeared no less so. The United States has taken the initiative in practically every move to make the peace machinery effective. It has been so far in the lead that Britain and France have not yet even caught up. The result has been to put the United States in a post of grave danger. Japan has come to regard American as her enemy—perhaps her chief enemy. Only the Unitea States, as she views it, is blocking her road to anew continental empire in Asia. Only the United States stands between her and her place in the sun. Public opinion in Japan Is at fever pitch. It is said to be nearly 100 per cent behind the militarists. A sort of war-time psychology has taken hold of the people. Even the liberals seem to have lost their heads. Print American Spy Stories American spy stories are widely printed in the newspapers. Weird and impossible tales of American preparations for war are current, even in the ordinarily liberal press. On top of all this, a cult of Japanese invincibility is being preached by the militarists. Returning travelers tell the same story. The Japanese masses all seem to believe war with the United States is necessary, sooner or later, and that Japan will be victorious. There is the danger. America does not want war. Japan does not want war. But the Japanese apparently are being led to believe they must fight to save their empire, and if America allows herself to be pushed too far forward in the present clash between Japan and the rest of the world, Japan suddenly may strike in the belief America alone is in her way. Saturday—Why Japan Thinks She Could Win. Fish “Planted” in State Streams A total of 540.155 fish were planted in Indiana streams and lakes from the state fish hatcheries during August, it was announced today by Walter Shirts, chief of the fish and game division of the state conservation department.