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Join the Movement The most Important Incident in affairs of the nation today centers around the Leisure Hour Clubs of Indianapolis. That many clubs have already been formed and are functioning indicates the spirit of the new day, a determination to get by co-operation what was formerly found only by purchase. These clubs are dedicated to community entertainment and to bringing back the lost spirit of neighborliness. Something more than millions must be counted Into the cost of modern entertainment, when invention produced the miracle of sound pictures, and the radio supplanted the occasional concert. In that cost must be reckoned the fact that when people purchased entertainment, they lost to some extent the faculty of enjoyment, or at least of amusing themselves. There is something to be said for the influence in our social growth of the old-fashioned spelling bee and debating club. These once flourished in the middle west. From them came congressmen and legislators and leaders who had learned something of the value of companionship and the real American attitude toward life. The industrial city, built on wealth, stifled these forms of social gatherings where whole communities participated. They tried to keep human emotions alive with celluloid. Today, not only those who are forced into idleness by lack of work, but every one has more leisure time. Very many have had to cut down on the budget for amusement. But all still have the desire for relaxation, and more than relaxation, for the satisfactions which come from social gatherings. The Leisure Hour Cflubs fit into this picture. They are the spontaneous results of a deep-seated desire of human beings to And some point of neighborly contact, some release from the monotony of life in giving an outlet to dreams. These clubs, it may be predicted, will outlast any of the other effects of enforced idleness. Very scon there will be the flve-day week and the six-hour day. Every one will have more leisure. And all the emphasis of the past two decades has been upon activities that have left most of us unequipped to enjoy leisure. We may have to learn again or go crazy. If there is not a Leisure Hour Club in your community, talk to your friends and form one. These clubs are here to stay. Co-operation at Washington President Hoover’s invitation to President-Elect Roosevelt to confer on foreign debts is a good sign. To conserve the new hope born of the election, it is necessary also for the outgoing administration to co-op-ate with the incoming government on domestic legislation. The four months of confusion which sometimes result can be avoided this time if Hoover and Roosevelt will forget formalities and remember realities. If they are at all hesitant about this method of co-opera-tion, they may recall that the American people, through congress, already have voted to seat new administrations in January instead of March—and that this year probably will see ratification of this lame duck constitutional amendment. Meanwhile, however, the present lame duck President and congress will have the power this winter to block reforms called for in the overwhelming popular vote for the Democratic party and candidates and their progressive platform. President Hoover can block these needed reforms with his power of veto. The defeated Republican old guard in congress can jeopardize them by legislative filibuster and obstruction, so easy in a crowded short session. Such obstruction by the administration would be an unpatriotic act. It would undermine the national morale revived by the election. It would defy representative government at a time when reliance on democratic institutions is most needed. To be specific: The Democratic party, which has a numerical control in the lame duck session of the house and a near or actual control of the senate, la committed definitely to such changes as increased unemployment relief, banking and tariff reforms, Muscle Shoals, Immediate legalization and taxation of beer. If the President can not sincerely support all these reforms, he at least can avoid deliberate obstruction, and refrain from pushing the conservative administration policies which the electorate has rejected. “If This Be Treason ” Prohibitionist William D. Upshaw, the “Georgia cyclone.” who also ran for the presidency of the United States, says that if any President “were to sign a bill increasing the alcoholic content of beverages above the one-half of one per cent legal limit, It would be high treason to the Constitution.” Mr. Upshaw should know that the “one-half of one per cent” limiting clause Is part of the Volstead act and not of the Constitution. Congress may at any time set the limit higher, so long as It ftoes not set It above the line of intoxication. He does know further that forty-two out of the forty-eight states of the Union Just have willed that congress should make such change, for these forty-two states supported the Democratic platform and candidates, pledged to immediate modification. While forty-two states can be wrong, they can not, In a democracy, commit treason. A President refusing to obey the mandate of such majority would be much more guilty than they. Hunger In Washington, where jobs are steadier than in most cities, the community chest tells of*a family of nine that dwells in a damp cellar and has not tasted warm food in months; of another living in an ancient barn and eating rice and stale bread; of several families whose food for weeks has been from garbage cans of the well-to-do section of the city. In New York, on Armistice day, a group of veterans, tattered but patriotic, spent the daylight hours scouting for food among the commission markets and then went to bed half hungry after sounding taps over thPir wretched camp on the Hudson mud flats. In Oakland, Cal., fifty men were discovered making their homes in large concrete sewer pipes as they beg for food by day. Such are the random stories from the day's press that should bring home to every solvent American his duty in these closing days of the welfare and relief mobilization drive. The national drive closes on Nov. 23, Thanksgiving eve. Reports from various cities are that responses are disappointing. Next month there be twice

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8A many families on the relief rolls as in December of a year ago. This means that we must double our efforts. The 100,000,000 of us protected with jobs must keep the wolf from the doors of the 25,000,000 less fortunate. It Is a hard task, yet It can not be evaded. Times appear to be picking up, but our best economists warn that n business revival materially can affect the 11,000,000 Jobless before next spring, at the earliest. The call now Is to defend fellow-Americans against a real and elemental foe—hunger. We must give at once and we must give generously. Valor Millions of Americans today are being forced by necessity into Jobs they dislike. All may be heartened by the valor of ofie of our great women, Madam Schumann-Heink. Schumann-Heink has stirred grand opera and concert audiences for fifty years. Now, at 71, she is doing four acts a day In vaudeville. Without sacrificing her majestic dignity, she does her turn, and the people who always loved her now love her the more for it. “You must not pity me,” she says. “I am proud, and I would starve before I humbled myself. It is not opera, no, but it is work, and Schumann-Heink always must work. “I like to make the people happy. And if vaudeville will make them happy, Schumann-Heink will sing vaudeville. I am not a prima donna. I am Schumann-Heink, healthy, and in good voice. I sing lullabies and the songs the people love. And they clap and my voice holds out. It is no miracle. It is a wise head.” A wise head, indeed, and an unconquerable heart. Prevented from doing the best, she does the next best thing. And she makes herself and others happy. Bring Them Home • United States marines now in Nicaragua should be brought home. There never was any legitimate excuse for their being there. After an earlier withdrawal, .President Coolidge sent them back for the alleged purpose of protecting American lives and property during a revolution when neither American lives nor property were in danger. The occupation was a method of state department dictation of internal affairs in a foreign and independent country. After that revolution was over, the marines remained. The new excuse given by the state department was that they were needed to train a native national guard. Then the United States troops began to wage war against Sandino, who was trying to free his country from Yankee rule and who was dubbed a “bandit” by the state department. In this process, the marines were used to bomb unfortified and unprotected towns. When the training the national guard excuse wore out, the state department thought up anew one. This time It was explained that the marines ‘ must stay to supervise the elections. Why American troops should supervise Nicaragua elections, any more than British or German or Japanese elections, was not explained. No explanation is possible. At any rate, the Nicaraguan election has been held j —putting into the presidency, by the way, Dr. Sacasa, against whom Coolidge sent the marines in the first place. Admiral Woodward, the American who supervised the election, reports that the balloting was fair and free—which is more than can be said for several districts in the United States. So the time has now come for the United States to do one of two things. Either the state department must withdraw the marines, or invent anew excuse for the alien occupation. We can think of many good reasons for withdrawal and none for continued occupation. To mention only two: A definite American pledge to withdraw is at stake, and we can not expect Japan and European nations to keep their pledges unless we keep ours. With the rest of the world turning against us, we need to change Latin American hatred and fear of our imperialism into friendship for the United States. A New Hampshire authority says the world is suffering from occupational obsolescence and technological surplusage. We knew when we found out what was wrong, we still wouldn’t be able to understand it. . | The depression has had many compensations, a i writer says. Well, for our part, we are perfectly will- j ing io make a few sacrifices to bring prosperity back Garbo and her silences may stay in Sweden for months, thus leaving Coolidge to carry on singlehanded.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NOTHING could illustrate more clearly the abysmal Ignorance of certain eastern venders of culture about the rest of the country than the debut of George Jea Nathan’s long-anticipated “American Spectator. * f Only enough copies first were printed to supply eastern demands in several of the larger cities where, so Its sires supposed, their brain baby could be understood and appreciated. What, then, must have been their surprise to find that out in the wide open spaces, in those rural sections where the hicks dwell, came a clamor for their! magazine Second, third, and even fourth orders for more thousands were given, and in many smaller cities, right in the very heart of the Babbitt country,! hundreds more of the first issue could have been sold if the bright young men had had as deep a knowledge of their native land as they pretend to have of the arts. FOR folks do read in the Middle West. Though it frequently taxes their practical sense, they keep up fairly with literary and cultural movements. I have heard that there are actually devotees of Gertrude stein and Marcel Proust in these out-of-the-way places. A good many of our brilliant gentlemen, therefore, might find it to their advantage to go traveling in the United States. The cultivation of some political acument would do them no harm. We take it that they desire, first of all, to disseminate teaming and enlighten the ignorant, to nothing of Increasing their literary markets. This being the case, they would do well to turn their attention toward the territory west of the Hudson. There lies a vast field for cultivating. And. somehow, it does appear quite selfish for them to concentrate all their efforts upon that part of the nation where so many shining literary lights dwell and where culture, like a fog, pervades the air. After all, easterners always have had Broadway and Boston. It would be generous of them to share Mr. Nathan with the hinterlands. * ■ 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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MoJification of the Volstead j Act Means Immediate Relief for Taxpayers arid Idle Men. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Modification of the Volstead act should not be sidetracked for other and doubtful measures of relief. The peQple of this country have indorsed it by an overwhelming majority. The j opposition has become so weak that i it can do no more than postpone action for a few months. Why stall? Here is an opportunity to provide revenue, make work, promote trade and remove a source of political : corruption, all at the same time. By j what other act could the short sest sion of congress accomplish so much? The argument that “economic problems” should be dealt with first is specious. By no stretch of the imagination can tax-free bootlegging be separated from our economic problems, or imported hooch from unemployment. Legalized beer would have produced more money for the government than those “nuisance taxes.” Also, it would have produced more work than the program of subsidizing big business. The country needs nothing so much as revenue and work. It can not go on providing the first with increased taxes, or hoping for the other through complicated, indirect plans. o a tt It Means Relief MODIFICATION of the Volstead act means immediate relief for taxpayers and idle men. What other measure now on the calendar promises the same thing to the same extent? To be sure, we can cut the budget, but only by putting people out of work, which means that seme of what we gain through lowered taxes will be offset by what we lose through increased unemployment. So, too, we can lower certain taxes by raising others, or even eliminate them, but that would j mean * a redistribution of the burden, not a lessening of it. What the people want is something of genuine relief, something that will provide new sources of revenue and employment. a a tt Prohibition Is Failure IT is not altogether a pleasant task to talk so continuously in favor of rehabilitating liquor, especially if one has little taste for it, but we might just as well face facts. This great experiment, even though nobly conceived, has accomplished nothing in the cause of temperance. On the other hand, it has accomplished much to breed disrespect not only for the law, but common honesty. Even if there were not a dollar of revenue or a day’s work in sight, we probably would be better off with this hypocritical monstrosity * out of the way. It is difficult to conceive how reverence for the Constitution could be maintained if mockery of one of its articles' were to continue for very long. It is equally difficult to conceive how gang rule could be prevented from assuming tremendous proportions if permitted to go on enjoying the revenue with which rum running now supplies it. a a u We Must Be Honest The profits sucked up by the illegal liquor traffic during the last ten years would go far toward balancing the federal budget. The thousands of foreigners now making bad hooch to be smuggled into this country represent an amount of labor which would do much to relieve unemployment. If the sacrifices we have made meant anything by way of temperance or improved morals, one. would be justified in advocating their continuance, but they mean' less than nothing. They mean not only failure to enforce a law, but such a reign of organized defiance as few civilized nations have known in this century. They mean an example of cynicism which it will take our children a generation to live down. Let’s be honest with the Democratic platform, the result of the election, and ourselves.

Questions and Answers

What are the words of the oath in the motion picture, “Symphony of Six Millions?” “I dedicate these two hands in service—that the lame may walk, the halt may be strong—lifting up the needy and comforting the dying. This is my oath in the temple of healing.” Is it a fact that merchant vessels of Russia do not carry the Russian merchant flag because it is barred from the high seas? The Russian flag is not barred from the high seas and Russian merchant vessels fly it. Did Herbert Hoover ever run for President on the Democratic ticket? No. His name was entered in the Democratic primaries in Michigan as a candidate for President in 1920, but he announced that he always had been a Republican. Os what material is the exterior of the Empire State building in New York City? Indiana limestone and granite, with strips of chrome-nickel steel from the sixth to eighty-sixth floor. The mooring mast is covered with glass, chrome-nickel steel and aluminum. How many grains of wheat are in a bushel? The estimated number is 500,000 to 1,000,000. Name the first horse that trotted a mile in less than two minutes. Croesus made a record of 1:59% in Wichita, Kan., in 1906.

Daily Thought

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink.— Proverbs 31:4. If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.— Horace Mann. 0

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Raise Your Resistance Against Germs

BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the ' Health Magazine. PREVENTION of disease must, as previously has been mentioned, be related to our knowledge of the way in which infectious disease gains entrance into the body. In the first place, everything possible must be done to see to it that the germs in the person who is infected do not get out and thus get into contact with other people. If this could be done in every case, many infectious diseases probably would disappear. It would mean that all the sheets, pillow cases, clothing, handkerchiefs and, in fact everything touched by a person would have to be sterilized by boiling or by steam under pressure before being permitted in contact with other people. It would mean that all the excretions from the body of the infected person would be disinfected by proper antiseptics or by burning. It would mean that the person with a discharge from the nose,

IT SEEMS TO ME

IT might have been worse. But there is no point in my pretending to be either happy or sportsmanlike about the results of the election. Os course, no day can be counted exactly lost which brought about the downfall of Smoot and Moses and Bingham. And yet I doubt that the senate will lack stuffed shirts to take the place of these missing guardsmen. To me one of the major tragedies of the election was the defeat of Fiorello La Guardia, who was, without question, the most able member of the house. I do not think the voters must bear the full blame for this catastrophe, because La Guardia chose to tie himself up, as far as the label went, with the Republican party. He is no more a Republican than I am, and his political future lies in feme change of trademark which will make it more palpable that he is a radical. a tt Gallant Leader Lost ~A S things stood, La Guardia was l\. suffering for the errors and failings of Herbert Hoover, whom he had bitterly fought in Washington on almost every economic issue. La Guardia, of course, will be back again in time, but his intelligence and industry are needed vitally right now. It is customary when a President goes down to defeat to be a good fellow and say a few kind words about him. The kindest thing I can say myself about Herbert Hoover Is that he worked hard during his campaign and that he had the courage to go to sections of the country where he knew that he would be ill received and even violently heckled. He took punishment in Detroit, for instance, and did not wince in the face of a trying situation. But I can not think of much more to be said for him. The content of his closing oration seemed to me to

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such as occurs in the common cold, would at all times wear a face mask. Indeed, it would mean such an obstruction and hampering of the usual routine of existence that it is not likely to be adopted generally. The next step is, of course, to do everything possible to prevent infected material from being passed from one person to another. , This means, of course, complete control of food, drink and air, also the earliest possible detection of human beings, animals or insects which carry disease, control of such carriers and their possible elimination. It can be seen at once that a human being who is carrying typhoid can not be eliminated, but must be controlled. Since there are millions of persons who carry disease constantly, it is not likely that this source of infection ever will be brought completely under control. Moreover, there are some diseases of which the cause is not known definitely and it is unlikely that healthy carriers of such dis-

mark a pretty low ebb in campaign speeches. A man with his back to the wall is apt to throw in a few dubious punches, but Mr. Hoover did get to fa state of being so highly inaccurate that he didn’t quote even himself correctly. Governor Roosevelt made a much better campaign than I had expected. Although he was not crystal clear on all issues, he did a great deal in his early addresses to sweep away the charge of evasiness. I am aware of the fact that in the final weeks he was extremely indefinite in everything he said, but the temptation to stall was so great that I doubt that many mortals would rise above it. He had an evident lead, and the whole weight of strategy demanded that he should freeze the ball and wait for the referee’s whistle. He would have saved himself some energy and some pretty bad speeches if he had just stopped talking altogether ten days before election. u tt a Give Artist a Chance THERE are distinct possibilities in Roosevelt. I am one who does not believe that salvation lies in the liberal philosophy. I think it does not go far enough, but in all fairness, Governor Roosevelt should have a chance to show in the next few months and after he has assumed office, just what specific things he intends to do to make good some of his more promising phrases. I hardly think it is a matter which is likely to keep him awake at night, but this column will not grow downright mean or anything like that about Franklin D. Roosevelt until around June 1, 1933 And by that time one or the other of us may have had a change ot heart. Possibly some such moratorium pon the part of critics should be "rtrnded to the rew mayor of New "--it. It $ hardly likely that h.

eases ever will be controlled until cause of the disease is know r n. The best step that the average person can take to prevent infectious disease is first of all to raise his individual resistance by practicing the best possible personal hygiene. This means suitable diet, securing of sufficient exercise and sunlight, and enough rest to give the tissues of the body opportunity to recuperate from fatigue. Moreover, in the presence of certain infectious diseases, it is possible to aid resistance by injecting the human being either with blood that has resistance, such as the blood from a person who has recoved from the disease, or by injecting serums from an animal which has been infected with the disease and which has in its serum substances opposed to the disease. There are available today a considerable number cf such specific preventive serums and vaccines, which will be discussed under each of the infectious diseases as it is considered in these columns.

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

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can be quite as ridiculous as hi& campaign speeches. When Surrogate O’Brien finshed the 'ast of his talks about kiddies and battleships, he should have received two large bunches of* roses. One might well have contained the card of John F. Hylan saying, “Thanks to you. I now will be classed among the intellectual mayors of New York.” And the bouquet from Jimmy Walker should have carried the messsage, “If New York ever is going to set up a cry of ‘We want Jimmy back,’ you will be the man whom I have to thank.” Ex-Candidate Grumbles THERE are bright spots here and there. Ruth Pratt was defeated, but I can’t precisely throw my hat in the air over the fact that she will be succeeded by a man who apparently based his entire campaign on the slogan, “Call me Teddy.” I hope that by about now the voters of the Seventeenth congressional district realize what swell opportunity they passed up in 1930. But I am merely an amateur politician and a professional newspaper man. I can not shed too many tears over the accession to office of John Jawbone O’Brien. If he makes the same sort of speeches from now on that he made while running, the life of every columnist is going to be a bed of roses. All that any paragrapher will have to do is to sit back contentedly and say, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” {Copyright. 1932. by The Time*)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—A meeting of the “gold note holders” of the Trustee System companies was held in Marion superior court room one 2ft 2:35 p. m., Nov. 10. Purported purpose of this meeting, as set out in a letter sent from the office of Jackiel W. Joseph, at'.o:ney, was to form a “geld note /elders’ committee” and to have the - eoent receivership set aside and cc: pe.ny promptly turned back .j the management. At the meeting, Mr. Joseph admitted that the receivership could not be set aside and the property promptly turned back. It was quite apparent that the sole and only purpose of the meeting was to get note holders to sign an agreement which was prepared and reldy for them. By the terms of this agreement, the signers agree to give up any right they have to enforce their individual rights and to vest all such rights in the committee. They agree to make no effort to collect the money due them for six months, and, if the committee should see fit, to wait another six months. They give the committee right to spend as much money as the committee shall see fit in hiring clerks or attorneys. They sign a power of attorney, giving the committee and Its attorney the right u> vote their stock or

NOV. 14, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Leonids Are Expected to Provide Spectacular Display This Week. * A STRONOMERS are urging amateur observers throughout the nation to Join in the watch for the Leonids, the shooting stars which are scheduled to make their appearance this week. Every one ought to watch for this display of celestial fireworks, whether he has a technical interest in astronomy or not, for it promises to be one of the most brilliant of the century. If hopes of astronomers are realized there will be moments tvhen the sky will seem covered with a rain of fire. Shooting stars are not uncommon. If y6u watch the sky on a clear moonless night in any direction for about ten minutes, you are fairly certain to see one. It looks as though a star suddenly had broken loose and gone flying across the heavens. If you are lucky, you may see a large one. Its trail in the sky may be more pronounced and may remain visible for a minute or two. Sometimes a very large one is seen. It may move very slowly, even wabbling in its course, leaving behind an unusual zig-zag trail in the heavens. Os course a shooting star is not a star at all. The stars are all trillions of miles away and compare in size with our own sun. The technical name of the shooting star is the meteor. The meteor is a small bit of material which has entered the * earth's atmosphere from outer space. Friction against the air heats it to incandescence and consumes it. * tt tt Cosmic Rubbish THE meteors have been called by the uncomplimentary name of “cosmic rubbish.” Space seems full of them. Several millions of them fall into the earth’s atmosphere every twen-ty-four hours. Most of them are no larger than grains of sand. In addition to the general distribution of Wtaors throughout space in the solar system, there also are a number of groups or swarms of metoors. These sociable groups of cosmic rubbish, moving around the sun in regular orbits, account for the annual meteor showers. The orbits of these various swarms cut across the earth’s orbit. Each time the earth reaches one of these points of intersections there is a meteoric shower. These annual meteoric showers have been named after the constellations in which they appear to originate. Thus the shower due next week is known as the Leonids because the shower of meteors seems to acme from the constellation of Leo or the lion. Actually, of course, it does not. The stars of that constellation are trillions of miles away. But the earth’s orbit cut that of the Leonids in such way that we see the Leonids, as they enter the atmosphere of the earth against the background of the constellation of Leo. It appears, therefore, as though the meteors came out of the constellation of Leo. Another interesting fact is that, due to the laws of perspective, it seems as though all the meteors were originating at a * single point. This point is known as the radiant. 'a a a Other Showers ASTRONOMERS have identified about 500 radiant points, thus establishing the existence of at least 500 meteoric swarms in the solar system. These, for the most part, however, have been identified by relatively small numbers of meteors, and therefore do not possess for the public the interest of such spectacular showers as the Leonids. The larger swarms which furnish the more spectacular shows include the following: The Lyrids, originating in the constellation of Lyra, and due about April 20 each year: the Aquarids, constellation of Aquarius, May 1 to 6; Pereids, constellation of Perseus, Aug. 11; Orionids, constellation of Orion, Oct. 19; constellation of Leo, Nov. 13 to 18; Andromedes, constellation of Andromeda, Nov. 20 to 27; Gerinids, constellation of Gemini, Dec. 11. The Leonids are not equally bright every year. They put on their best show every thirty-three years. This is because the material comprising f them seems to be concentrated for the most part into one spot In the orbit. This dense swarm takes thirtythree years to go around the orbit of the Leonids. The best shower occurs when the earth goes through it. Spectacular showers occurred In 1933 and 1866. One was due In 1899 but did not occur. The reason for that was that the planet Jupiter passed near the dense swarm some time before and deflected it from its usual course to such extent as to make it miss the earth in 1899. There were good showers, however, in 1930 and 1931, and for that* reason astronomers are hoping for a big shower this year. claims for them in bankruptcy proceedings and to file their claims for them and make collection on their behalf. To make the matter brief, any one the agreement does nothing but hire an attorney and let Mr. Joseph's committee pick the attorney. The agreement Mr. Joseph wants signed so badly gives Mr. Joseph’s committee full right to take the trustees system into bankruptcy, name their own trustees, collect the claims and take their own fees from T the gold note holders’ money. It might be interesting to both stockholders and noteholders of this company to know that the present receiver was appointed for the com--/* pany on a claim of $11.75 owed one of their employes, that the suit for a receiver was not contested, and that one of the receivers was vicepresident of the company and one of the men managing the company when it got into its present condition. These are a few facts that people at the meeeting were not informed of and which they should know. GEORGE L. DIVEN. 817 M"Jutic building.