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City Governments • Citizens interested in city government might con•ider the necessity of securing a court-proof law which will permit municipalities to obtain the manager form. Four years ago this city voted by six to one for iuch a change and only the fact that the supreme court rendered a perfectly absurd and patently political decision prevented such control. It was on the crest of the wave of indignation against the bosses who fought this change that the people turned to Reginald Sullivan. The fact that the city has had good government under his leadership should not blind the public to the fact that under a partisan system of municipal control, good government is more likely to be accidental than continuous. Under a partisan system, there is inevitable waste and a certain amount of inefficiency. No political party, unfortunately, can stand for 100 per cent service. There are too many "deserving” workers to be considered. The city manager system of government has worked well in many cities. Cleveland is the only large city to abandon the plan after adopting it. In hundreds of other cities, it has proved the salvation from bankruptcy. The people will probably agree that it will be rather difficult to discover a candidate in either party who will bring the same high standards of public service furnished by Mayor Sullivan. There is more likely to occur a race for office that will result in placing power in the hands of those whose desires are entirely selfish. Under an administration pledged to popular government, a real city manager law should not be impossible.

A Democratic Job Many Democratic members of congress are shouting that this foreign debt mess is up to Hoover and that they will not let him unload it on the Democrats. This latent attitude may have been stimulated by the pointed conclusion in President-Elect Roosevelt’s acceptance of the Hoover conference invitation, to the effect that the immediate responsibility rests on the present executive and legislative authorities. Obviously, certain Democratic members of congress have gone much farther than Roosevelt —perhaps even to the point of embarrassing the President-elect. Nothing could be more short-sighted and costly for the Democrats than an attitude of let-Hoover-han-dle-it. They seem to forget that there is much more at stake than petty party maneuvering. The debt settlement—whether the result is orderly revision or forced default—is going to have a tremendous effect upon world finance, world trade, and the American depression. All this should be of much more concern to the Democrats, who are on the way in, than to Mr. Hoover, who is on the way out. If they try to stick Mr. Hoover with this, they will find before many months that they have stuck the country—and themselves. Asa matter of fact, no amount of alleged political cleverness by the Democrats can injure the President here. In the first place, he is a defeated candidate, with no political future. He Is not on a hot spot; It is the Democrats who occupy that uncomfortable position. In the second place, the President, unlike the Democrats, is pretty well in the clear on the immediate debt Issue. The immediate issue is not a debt settlement—that is a later Job, which the Democratic President and Democratic congress must handle. The immediate issue is merely extension of the temporary moratorium which congress voted last year and appointment of a congressional commission to hear the debtors’ pleas. Mr. Hoover is in the clear because last December he made these very recommendations to congress and congress refused to act; thus the responsibility for the present jam is on congress. From a selfish standpoint, all Mr. Hoover has to do now is to repeat those recommendations to congress and unload the whole thing on the Democrats, who control congress. But the President has chosen a more publicspirited course. He has Invited the President-elect and other Democratic leaders to confer with him on a joint program, which amounts to an offer to prepare the ground so the country and they will not be handicapped when the new administration takes over the larger problem of final settlement. Under the circumstances, It is absurd for the Democrats to act as though they can escape the debt responsibility. Mr. Roosevelt’s responsibility is no less than that of his party. He is not yet President, but he already is leader of the Democratic party and largely will \control its policy in this short session of congress. Foreign debts, apparently, are to constitute the first test of Roosevelt leadership. Farm Mortgages Congress In December will face the farm mortgages problem. It Isn’t new credit that farmers need, but some • way to dig out of the deep hole into which easy credit has helped put them. The prices they receive for their products are at record lows, but the old mortgage is unchanged, and its interest rates are higher than at prosperity levels. This is the fixed charge on agriculture that congress can help alleviate. Perhaps the way to approach the problem is through the federal land banks, which hold a part of these debts; perhaps the way to do it is through the private agencies that are farm creditors; or through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Congress, with the help of agricultural and financial experts, can find a way. Both Hoover and Rooseyelt ln the campaign advocated refinancing of farm mortgages in one way or another. , Congressional leaders, the President, and the President-elect well might consider this problem together, for upon its satisfactory and speedy solution depends the return of agriculture to something approaching normal. And there is no prosperity for any of us until agriculture once again is a thriving industry. Paul Bunyans Down in the southwest, where for eons the mean and mighty Colorado has roared through “caverns measureless to man,” civil engineers have just done what a few years ago would have been a mlracle. They have taken this destructive river from its

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ancestral bed and forced it to run for a mile through two great tunnels blasted Into Arizona granite. Soon they will build on the dried river bottom the world's biggest dam. Then they will force the river through turbines to make electricity, divert more of it into an aqueduct to carry drinking water to southern California cities 300 miles distant, and spread the rest over the arid desert to make rich farms for ex-soldiers and their families. Thus they will take the “Broncho Colorado” and convert a menace into a blessing, a job worthy of Paul Bunyan, the Hercules of woodsmen’s lore. To American civil engineers today this is mere routine. Some day, perhaps, this country will raise up a breed of social engineers just as clever and as daring. These then will set about to divert our great rivers of wealth and credit, now wasted, into useful channels and make them flow over the broad lands to the benign and equable benefit of all. When these Paul Bunyans of social engineering have finished their work, there will be no 11,000,000 jobless in the world’s richest nation. Worth Thinking About Manufacturers must not wait for buyers for their products, but must put men back to work at high wages, if they wish to make profits. This is the conclusion of Clarence Geist, here from his Philadelphia home to look over his water plant from which the citizens of Indianapolis receive thi£ necessity of life. No one will quarrel with the solution. It would work. Asa matter of fact, the only way in which there can be a return to prosperity or an insurance against a recurrence of present impossible conditions is that men are guaranteed work at high wages. The trouble has been that there has been no force in society which will guarantee a man a job. Yet no one can live, under the present mechanized age, without a job. The suggestion of Mr. Geist goes to the root of things. Men must have work. Men must have high wages, not low wages, if there is to be a market for their products. No one expects that the industrialists of the nation will accept his message as inspired and blow the whistles to call men back to jobs. But it is just possible that if they can not see 'that in this road lies salvation, perhaps events will work to that end and some leader will appear impressive enough in his message, to convince them that the most costly burden is that of idle men and that finally there will be more profit in giving work than in refusing. 58.4 Per Cent Democracy Americans elated over the tremendous outpouring of the electorate a week ago today should have a look at the other side of the picture. More than 68,000,000 American.' were entitled to vote, yet only 40,000,000 cast their ballots. This means that, in the nation’s most crucial emergency, 28,000,000 Americans neglected to function as of the republic, or were prevented from doing so by racial or other forms of intimidation. It is encouraging that the percentage of > those who voted last Tuesday was higher with relation to those entitled to vote than In other recent elections. In 1924 the percentage was 44.5; in 1928, it was 55.1; in 1932, it was 58.4. But when 40,000,000 voters must assume responsibility for 68,000,000 voters, democracy is crippled Democracy must be better than 58.4 per cent strong. You now can buy your hot dogs in red, white and blue combination colors, W. W. Woods, president of the Institute of American Meat Packers, reports. It’ll be a shame to spoil those pretty colors with a lot of yellow mustard. A golfer is legally responsible when a ball he has " ure ° an person, a Brooklyn court has defcided. We can expect to see the fairways crowded with spectators and ambulance-chasing” lawyers in the near future. A clubwoman says that mosquitoes have made pettmg parties Impossible in New Jersey. The petting party becomes a slapping party in New Jersey. An Ohio woman ‘shot at her husband’s boss the other day. That seems to be a break for friend husband, anyway. Sympathy for the ousted Republicans might be saved until it is learned whether they really were unlucky In that election or not. Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON T-J’W- Say * 1 bestow **> much sympathy upon it =s° you belleve -” goes the inquiry hlppineiT„?M bubbllng over * lth JW It VrtnJCf' 1 ln , fa ? r of triage. I confess JL SL m L C K es com P laint against wives Is that thev dtstinSh?rt be , Sm T Even though we ma y not have distinguished ourselves m the matter of choosing fe l ! su P erior because we have any old kind of a husband at all. 9 gIV f S no assuranc e of happiness. But felicity nC ttler 18 spmsterhood a state of complete Women are experimentalists. They will try anything once, and so I shall continue to believe that the vast majority of girls would like the chance to try marriage. 9 That a good many of them do not do so these days is a credit to their common sense. Economic and educational factors have entered into this question to such extent that while we live in an entirely new world, we have not been able to cast off old-fashioned ideas. So far as marriage is concerned, we continue to abide by the rules of a dead past. a a a THERE are several good reasons why today’s girls do not marry. One is that while no other country in the world talks so much about the values of education, we have not yet educated our men to the opinion that a wife is entitled to be as smart as her husband. Men still refuse to marry girls who know as much as they do, even though we boast that this is the age of airplanes. Again, in an economic period when a family hardly can exist upon the earnings of one person, we cling to the conventions of an epoch which set up the theory that no man is successful unless he could keep all his women in comfort at home. Also in an era when there are ten thousand times ten thousand public eating places in the land, we profess to believe that the good wife should cook her husband’s meals. Ip short, we do not regard matrimony with the same practical sense we try to bring to other vital issues. Our business, industry and social life aie run on a modern basis; only is expected to thrive on the Victorian concept..

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

We Could Afford Better to Spend Million* on the Mississippi or the Tennessee Than on the St. Lawrence River. YORK, Nov. 17.—As a source of hydro-electric power for the state of New York, the St. Lawrence seaway promises much. As an outlet for our great grain and iron-producing areas, its value is less certain. Asa canal which runs through the territory of a foreign government, but for which we are to pay one half the cost, it involves a certain degree of risk. Asa means of diverting trade from old established centers, it threatens to become more of a liability than an asset. As an experiment calling for the outlay of many millions of dollars, it should not be undertaken at this time. Northwestern farmers never will get what they expect out of this icebound ditch. What they need is a market, and the freight cost they could save by using the St. Lawrence four months in the year means little in that direction. The delusion as to what the St. Lawrence seaway would do for our corn and wheat growers leaves the door wide open for about the same kind of speech that James Proctor Knott once delivered on ‘the glories of Duluth.” a a a England Comes First WHATEVER advantages Canada may behold in a channel from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, we would do well to think twice before neglecting our eastern seaboard and gulf ports for the sake of helping her to build it. If such channel Is necessary to protect our commerce, why not build it through our own territory and bring it into the Atlantic a thousand miles farther south? The recent conference at Ottawa shows clearly what Canada thinks about co-operation with us when British interests are involved. We have no quarrel with her on that score. She merely exercised the privilege of an autonomous state belonging to the British empire. It was her right and, maybe, her duty, to swap favors with the mother country, regardless of the effect on her trade with us, or our trade with her. At the same time, we should not ignore the frame of mind her action indicated. a a tt Improve Own Rivers TTNDER existing conditions, we v? have no money to spare for enterprises which threaten to injure our hard-pressed commercial centers and struggling railroads. Our job is to safeguard and restore what we already possess. It will require all the resources at our command. Asa matter of sound investment and practical relief, we could much better afford to spend $200,000,000 on the Mississippi than on the St. Lawrence. Our people would get more work and more benefit out of it. If the Mississippi doesn’t appeal to you, what about the Tennessee, with the idle power plant at Muscle Shoals and the enormous potentialities of Cove Creek? As far as we are concerned, the Tennessee can be made to produce much more hydro-electric power than the St. Lawrence, and at no greater cost. If the entire nation is going to pay for it, or a great part of it, why isn’t Tennessee a better place to experiment than Canada? a a a Avoid Another Mistake THE time has come to put our own house in order and visualize our own interests as of first importance. If we don’t, nobody else will, as the last twelve years have shown. The money we have lost through unwise investments in other countries, unwise attempts to help other people, unwise efforts at co-opera-tion, would go far toward getting us out of this depression. While we can not correct the blunders that have been made, we can avoid making similar ones, and this St. Lawrence project is a good place to begin. We have done very well without it so far, and there is no reason to suppose that we can’t ■do the same a few years more. Besides, we have innumerable rivers, harbors and canals of our own which need improving.

Questions and Answers

Do the words “capitol” and “capital" come from the same root? The proper noun "capitol,” meaning the building in which the legislative body meets, is derived from the Latin word "capitolinus," the name for temple of Jupiter in ancient Rome. “Capital," the name applied to the city in which the government of a state or nation is located, is from the Latin “capitalis,” a form of “caput," meaning “head.” How can narcissus bulbs be kept after they have bloomed? When the bulbs have ceased blooming they should be placed immediately in a shallow trench in the ground, covered with earth and allowed to remain there for two or three years before they are forced in water again. If they are the “paper white” narcissus, however, it is useless to plant them, as they will not live. What does the expression by and large mean and who coined it? It is an American idiom that means “comprehensively.” The phrase seems to have been coined by Mark Twain, for in an article entitled “Old Times” he said: “Taking you by and large, you do seem to be more kinds of an ass than any creature I ever saw before.” In which motion picture did the song, “I Love You So Much,” originate?” “The Cuckoos.” Which political party had a majority in congress when war was declared againts Germany? Democrats. How many persons in the United States legally are eligible to become voters, if all registered? The estimated number is about million.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Drugs Are Small Part of Cure

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. MOST people without an accurate understanding of the way in which medicine has progressed during the last fifty years are of the opinion that the chief duty of a physician when called to see a P'tient is to prescribe a medicine. Actually the giving of drugs is an exceedingly small part of the successful prevention and treatment of disease. Modern medicine uses many methods including physical treatment, such as the application of light, heat and electricity; chemical methods, involving the use of drugs taken internally or applied externally; anatomic methods, involving the use of splints and bandages and manipulations of disordered structures; bacteriologic methods, such as the use of vaccines, serums and antitoxins; hygienic methods, which control the climate, rest and exercises, and nutritional methods, which provide for suitable food and drink. In addition to these there is mental treatment which, ’■;* the power of suggestion, stimulates the patient, explains his difficulties and frees his mind from care. A rational physiciana uses anything or any method in the treat-

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SINCE a column is a sort of pulpit, I will assume the privilege today of preaching a sermon. For my text I shall take the lines of Charles Kingsley, who wrote quite a few years ago, “Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.” Mr. Kingsley made the assumption, which is not yet wholly gone, that wisdom and virtue are warring factors. In our own day William- Jennings Bryan went up and down the land preaching against the professors and the higher learning, on the ground that science rotted the soul and that education, save in the most circumscribed sense, was a sin against the Creator and the Constitution. Probably the strangest duel which ever took place was the courtroom debate between Mr. Bryan and Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial. Mr. Bryan seemed to himself the embodiment of all the Christian virtues and Mr. Darrow would have been entirely ready to identify himself as an agnostic realist wholly at war with the ethical scheme of life propounded by Mr. Bryan. tt tt tt A Happy Little Accident AND it was a curious controversy, because Mr. Darrow always has been imbued with a far greater component of loving kindness than ever was known in the breast of the Commoner. He was in the fortunate position of being equipped with both more goodness and more cleverness than his opponent. It seems to me that the good and the clever ought to get together and merge, retaiining the best features of each. Unenlightened excellence of disposition is not enough to solve the problems of a sorely beset world. You could set a million sweet idiots into an urban community and they could not make a go of their city. They would be ravaged by disease and starvation. Very soon they would learn that a couple of effi-

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Beer - Conscious!

ment of disease that he knows to be for the good of his patient. The common contagious diseases include measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, mumps, chickenpox and German measles. As was said previously, the best way to avoid these diseases is to keep away from people who have them. However, it is not so simple to do this, since many parents do not feel their responsibilities greatly and do not see to it that their children, when ill, are kept away from other children. Really the chief responsibility rests on the parents of the sick child for the prevention of infectious diseases rather than on the parent of the well child. Most of the common infectious diseases are caused by organisms which get into the body and which then begin their action. A certain amount of time elapses between the period when the germ first gets in and when its visible manifestations appear. This is known as the incubation period, and it varies with different diseases. For instance, in meningitis it is from 2 to 4 days, in erysipelas Vi to 3 days, in measles 10 days to 2 weeks, in German measles from 5 days to 21 days, in scarlet fever from a few hours to a week, in smallpox from 10 days to 2 weeks,

cient managing directors and a good sanitary engineer were of more use to them than the sum total of their good intentions. And the managers and the engineer might all be mean, dissolute and lecherous. But these vices would not be an essential part of their equipment. There is a flaw in any reasoning which holds that when a piece of counsel is unsound, it can be made true by the simple process of reversing it. “Be good and let who will be clever,” is bad advice. “Be clever and let who will be good,” Is equally unfortunate. We have come to an age in which the second proposition has been seriously advanced by very many people. a a a A Somewhat Brazen Calf r T''HE somewhat brazen calf of A “enlightened selfishness” has been held up for us to worship. It is a phrase requiring close definition. I am aware of the fact that some people, perhaps the vast majority, get a decided kick out of doing good and useful things without other hope of reward than the opportunity to reach around and pat themselves on the back. They are extremely useful citizens. Rather than bending exercises I recommend to all men over 40 the practice of patting yourself on the shoulder at least once every morning. More than once is a mistake. After you have learned the trick, it Daily Thought So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.— Jeremiah 51:60. An avenging God closely follows the haughty.—Seneca.

in typhoid fever from 6 days to 25 days, and in chickenpox from 4 days to 16 days. In most of these diseases there is an eruption on the surface of the body. These eruptions have characteristic distribution on the skin, so that a competent physician asks particularly as to whether the redness first began on the face, the neck, the hands and feet, the obdomen or the chest. The eruptions also differ greatly in their appearance; from tiny red spots to large red patches, from tiny pimples to crops of blisters. Practically all these conditions are likely to begin with a slight cold. In some of them the sore throat is severe; in most of them there is fever, slight headache, dizziness, nausea or vomiting. Obviously, it is not safe to disregard any of these symptoms, particularly when they appear in a child. It is important to remember that the excretions which carry disease include the material that is coughed from the throat, that is spread by spitting, by sneezing, or that may pass from the body in the form of discharges of one kind or another. Therefore, mothers should guard against contact of a well child with one who is coughing, sneezing, spitting or who manifests any of the other signs of infectious disease mentioned.

Ideal* and opinions expressed In this column are those ol one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to tneir agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude es this paper.—The Editor.

may be accomplished too easily and on too little provocation. The trouble with enlightened selfishness is that it is hard to project it in regard to problems beyond your own life span. Once the race begins to take account of the necessities of the world fifty years hence, or a hundred, I think it is rather lax to call that sort of concern “enlightened self interest.” It then becomes “idealism”—which is a word in very bad repute at the present time. a a a In Defense of. Idealism npo the ears of many, “idealism” -*■ means a lot of empty words and effort to achieve the impossible at some very distant date. But it is better than that. Several of the wisest of economists can offer us little counsel to improve the tangled snarl of international relationships except to suggest that we might work our way out if there were a greater amount of good will floating around in the world. And at the moment the nations have gone off the good-will standard. Muddled-headed good will, the mere desire to do something to improve the human lot, won’t get us very far. The way is as vital as the will. But we are in no position to sneer at “bourgeois virtues” when in certain instances the road to adjustment lies, plainly ahead of and Is blocked by fear, hatred, petty nationalism, and personal greed. I am all for rational and scientific planning for the new world, but I don’t think it will do a bit of harm if the machinery is oiled and lubricated by a liberal amount of a very old-fashioned virtue. You can laugh your head off if you choose, but I mean very literally that the wise men need not only all their wisdom, but also the fellowship of love. (Copyright, 1932. by The Time*) People’s Voice Editor Times—Since the election is over this is an appropriate time to take retaliatory action against the Republican papers of Indianapolis that showed such malicious partisan spirit during the campaign. I exonerate and vindicate The Indianapolis Times from the publication of a single statement of malignant or partisan character. But our two leading Republican sheets aim at no higher object than party spirit, by trying to inflame the political passions of men by engendering and keeping alive party spirit and animosity. These two Republican sheets suppressed legitimate facts that were indispensable to the candid formation of right opinions, because of unfavorable influence against the Republican organization and its success at the polls. But they never failed to misrepresent the candid views and honest statements of their political opponents. w They were the procrearors and

NOV. 17, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Twin Tests Throw Light on Relative Importance of Heredity and Environment. p°R years a battle has raged * over the relative importance of heredity and environment. New light is thrown upon the controversy by studies of 109 cases of twins Just completed by Dr. Horatio H. Newman, the distinguished biologist of the University of Chicago Dr. Newman is prepared to make only a tentative statement of his conclusions. He says: "A rather etude way of putting the tentative conclusions is that with regard to mental, temperamental and certain physical characteristics, the actual differences in heredity have been twice as effective as the actual differences ln environment. “What I just have said is not at all the equivalent of the statement that heredity is twice as important in determining a person’s total individuality as is environment. Such a statement would not be merely untrue, but would be absurd.” To understand Dr. Newman’s work, we must remember that there are two types of twins, identical twins, which result from the splitting of a single embryo in two. and fraternal twins, which result from two fertilized egg-cells. Identical twins have identical heredity. Ordinary twjis are related in exactly the same way as ordinary brothers and sisters. a a tt Three Groups DR. NEWMAN points out that the twins studied fall into three groups. First of all there was a group of fifty identical twins reared together. Here each pair of twins might be considered as having both the same heredity and the same environment. Next there was a group of fifty fraternal twins reared together. Here each pair of twins had the same environment, but differed in heredity. Finally, there was the group of nine identical twins reared apart. Here each pair had the same heredity, but different environment. The first group of fifty formed a standard to which the others might be compared. In scientific parlance, such standard is known as a “control.” Dr. Newman and his associates made careful examination of all the twins, noting physical characteristics, mental characteristics, and temperament or emotional characteristics. Discussing the nine cases of Identical twins reared apart, Dr. Newman said. “In every one of the nine cases where there is known to have been a pronounced difference in someone or more features of the environment of the twins, one finds an appropriately pronounced divergence in the kinds of characters that such differences in environment might be expected to produce. Similarly, whenever there has been no pronounced difference in the environment, even the twins have been long separated, there Is found no greater divergence in any characters than might be expected had the twins been reared together.” a a a His Conclusions FROM his study, Dr. Newman draws three conclusions. He states'them as follows: “1: That environmental differences produce differences in certain human traits directly in proportion to the extent of the environmental differences involved. “2: That minor differences do not have sufficient intensity to transcend the threshold of stimulation, and therefore have no effect. "3: That mental characters, tem-perament-emotional traits, and some physical characters, such as body weight, condition of teeth, and general health, seem to be about equally affected by pronounced environmental differences, and to be equally unaffected by slight environmental differences.” Including the one set of identical twins reared apart previously studied by Dr. Mueler ln his figures, Dr. Newman compared the ten sets of identical twins reared apart with the fifty sets of identical twins reared together. “The average difference in body weight in fifty pairs of identical twins reared together is four pounds, that for ten pairs of identical twins reared apart is ten pounds, or exactly the same as that for fifty pairs of fraternal twins reared together,” he said. broadcasters of the iniquitous tale that Democratic success on last November 8 would mean certain disaster, absolute ruin, and misfortune to the welfare of the American people. These two periodicals are intolerant and vindictive, and live on political spite, which is inimical to the best interests of a free people. Such a spirit indisposes the mind to honest investigation, closes it against competent evidence, and fortifies dishonest conviction. Because of this partisan conduct, I voted the Democratic ticket and subscribed for The Indianapolis Times. CHARLES G. KEISER 612 Hamilton avenue. Editor Times—ln your Nov. 5 Times, in an article regarding the South Meridian Civic Club, you state the following; One more Leisure Hour Club organized by the South Meridian Civic Club. I do not know who is responsible for this article, but I do know the article is not correct. The chairman appointed a committee to investigate, and it was given full power to decide whether we should participate in such a program. I, for one, am not in favor of the program, for it is just the opposite to what I have been advocating, and that is more entertainment in the homes and fewer children on the streets at night. It is learning and putting an idea in our young people’s minds that they can not be entertained in their homes, that they must go outside of home to spend an evening, and, furthermore, this is creating an expense for the taxpayers somewhere along the line, regardless of how much is said about it costing nothing. If the rooms in our schoolhouses are furnished free to the club, then who pays for light, heat, etc? If the school board has anything to give away free, then let’s cut the budget some more. JOHN C. KIRCH.