Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 August 1922 — Page 2

SOFT GOAL MINES TO HAVE^ PEACE Men to Retain Wages Paid at Date of National Walkout. TERMS SIGNED BY CHIEFS _ New Contract to Remain In Force Until Next April I—To Appoint an Advisory Commission to Consider Future Disputes. CJpvelam), 0.. Aug. 17.—An agreement ending In part the soft coal ) strike that has been in effect since i April 1 last was unanimously approved by operators and miners in joint conference here. Signing of the agreement was commenced immediately. Under the agreement, supplemental contracts between the miners’ district organizations and operators will be executed. All soft coal operators of the country are to be asked, under the terms j of the agreement, to meet here next j October to decide on the, selection of j the advisory commission of inquiry The personnel of the commission would be approved by the President, ' and its report, to he prepared for use j in making anew agreement next year, j would be filed early in January. Members of the union’s, policy com- j mittee said that, while a sharp di- - vision of opinion was voiced in their t meeting, the decision for a part, settle- j rnent of the strike was carried with j little opposition. John P.rophv, president of the oen- j tral Pennsylvania district of the union, j urged that the strike continue unbro- ■ ken _unt.it ;aU, fields, ,might he pdt back J to work at the same time. A few j others supported this view, but the j majority sentiment was said to have j been strong for ratifying the agree- j nienf. , Mr. Farrington, the Illinois leader ! and opponent of the administration policies of Mr. Lewis, announced to i the meeting that he would vote for' the agreement, adding that he would nsk the Illinois operators to meet him to negotiate a wage contract. , The operators’ caucus also rontin- [ ued through part of the morning, ending with the announcements of its chairman, T. K. Maher of Cleveland, that the operators would sign the agreement. No division of sentiment seemed to have developed among the operators, their meeting being more <UL less informal and devoted to a general discussion of the terms of agreement. In -brief, the settlement .provldes ■that the miners shall return to work at the same scale 1 of wages in effect when they went on strike; that the new* contract shall continue In force until next April: that an advisory ‘■fact-finding" commission shall he tip I pointed, a part of its duties" being to j consider future settlements of dis-,j putes in the coal industry— It is estimated that wlthTn two. weeks the majority of the operators ; in the union districts will have signed the agreement and he ready to resume operation. The union districts claim about 400,000.000 tons of the total 000,000,000 produced in the United States. Approximately 12'4 per cent of the total union tonnage was represented In the conference which effected the agreement. $15,489,486 TO SERVICE MEN Wisconsin Pays Bonuses to Nearly 100,000—Gives $2,718,454 for Schooling Soldiers. „ Madison, \\'is„ Aug. 17. ; —Soldier • bonus payments to nearly 100.000 former service men of Wisconsin have i totaled $15,489,486. In addition to this cash bonus; the state has pajd $2,718.- j 454 toward the school of soldiers un- i dcr the educational plan, Tire $18,207,890 paiit out during the ' last four-vetirs to former members bfj tlie army and navy was raised largely ! through a surtax'oh incomes. Assess menu are still hejng levied' to meet j the cost of administering the eduea- I tional bonus. . . f _... .! EXECUTE TWO.. IN TENNESSEE 1 | Holy Roller Preacher and Negro Pay Capital Punishment at Nashville for Murder. Nashville. Term. Aug. 17.—. Tames MeElroy. fifty, Roan county. JHoly -Holler preacher, and Arthur Harris, negro, were electrocuted at the state prison, hnth paying the penally ma, .murder charges. MeElroy was charged with the murder of Ed Itminecker. a commissary clerk. Harris killed another negro on a farm near Jackson. Austria Living Cost Up. Vienna. Aug 17. -The cost of living In Austria Aiaisincreased 121 per cent witliln the la it lit) days, Itumors are gaining strength that the days of the Seipl government are numbered. Pick Toronto for 1923 Session. San Francisco, Aug. 17.—Toronto, Ontario, was selected as the meeting —place for the supreme Ibilge"'of the Knights of Pythias., in 1923, George C. Cabell, NorfaHe,- Va. -elevated .to supreme chancellor, was installed.

MISS ELSIE ROBERTSON i | , J

The sole supix>rt of • iier Mur younger brothers and a sister. Miss Elsie Robertson, a pretty sixteen-year-old messenger in the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed a clerk by the special order of President Harding. According to civil service rules she could not be given a clerkship without an order from the President.

USE BOMBS IN STRIKE ’ I Railway Bridges Blown Up and i Shops Burned. Large Trestle Over the Sac RiVer Dynamited—Passenger Train Bombed—Ten Injured. St. Louis. Aug, 16. —The St. Louis £ San Franicsco railroad bridge over the Sac river near Ash Grove, 15 miles northwest of here, was dynamited. The bridge was 400 feet long. United States deputy marshals have gone to tlie scene. ( Wichita Falls, Tex,, Aug. 16.—The j car shops here were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin.—The—loss Is -expected to be over $125,000. Three locomotives were destroyed as well as a number of cars. Portland. Me., Aug. 16.—Fifteen locomotives of the Maine Central. Boston & Maine and Portland Terminal company, and a roundhouse were destroyed by fire here. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. The police said they suspected incendiaries. Just hefore the tire was. discovered by deputy sheriffs two explosions were heard. North Bcrgcrt. N. .1, Al. 16. -Three bombs hurled at tlie Weelmwken local of the West Shore railroad as it -crossed a culvert near Granton junction shattered the windows of three coaches and injured ten persons, five seriously, officials of the road reported. . The train, filled with passengers returning home after the week-end holidays. was traveling slowly as tlie explosions came. It was rumbling across the bridge when tlie entire train was shaken by the three detonations. The passengers were thrown into u panic. VISCOUNT NORTHCLIFFE DEAD Was Owner of Newspaper* Which Had Attacked Lloyd George's Administration. London, Aug. 15. —Vlseount Northcliffy noted British publicist, died ! here. Lord Nnrthcliffe was by far the most j noted figure in British journalism. I and-the first question on everyone's ! lips was as to what effect his death will have op the nolicies of the Times | and his other newspapers, which since | the end of the* war have strongly op- | posed the Lloyd George administration and Its principles, with the no- | table exception of its -dealings with | Ireland, which The Northcliffe press i supported throughout. - JOHN G. WOOLLEY IS DEAD United States Prohibition Leader, Once Drunkard, Passes Away in Spain. “ Granada, Spain, Aug. 15.—John G. ; Woolley of Madison, WIB.. prohibition candidate for president of tlie United States In 1900, died after an Illness of some days, due to a cerebral attack.

Big Tim Murphy Is Freed. Chicago, Aug. 12. 'Blg Tim” Mur-j j pliy, on trial for two months ns a con spirator In the murder of Police Lieutenant Terrence Lyons, was, freed of ■ the charge when the state’s attorneys nol-prossed the ease, acting on tlie! I opinion -of the judge that there was ffmr—sufficient evidence 'to convict | j- him. Twp Flyers Burn to Death. Payton, ()., .Vug. ill.—Lieutenant | Mdriarity and a Mr. Stgnehreaker were burned to death when the airplane whlrTf they iH’fe flying caught i fire In a flight over Wilbur Wright j field, near tills city.* Stayer of Sheriff Escapes. ! Chattanooga. Tenn.'. Aug. Id.'—Four prisoners-. liTcLuihng I.other Borin. who killed Sheriff .1. 1.. Smith of Bradley countyv a -few months ago, escaped froth the con My jail aud ; are still at large.

“BIG FOUR” STRIKE ENDS IN THE WEST Engineers, Firemen and Conductors Ordered to Start Moving Trains. ULTIMATUMJENT TO UNIONS Santa Fe Says If Men Don't Return at Once Steps Will Be Taken to Move Trains That Are Marooned in Deserts. San Bernnrdino, Cal., Aug. 1G. —The 'strike of the Big Four brotherhood men of 'Union l’acific was called off and four cast bound trains left immediately. Chicago, Aug, Id.—An implied ultimatum that may mean war between tlie Santa Fe railway anil its train service employees was dispatched to the Big Four brotherhood-skillets by, A. G. Wells, vice president of the road. Tlie telegram was provoked by tlie action of the brotherhood men in abandoning trains in western deserts. The message'warned tlie union leaders that if they could not get their men hack to work the company might he forced to accept “the only alternative, left it in its duty to the public ami engage men to fill the places of those on strike. "I want an explicit answer on the point from you," the telegram concluded When the demand of Mr. Wells was read to W. F. Lee, president of tlie Brotherhood of Trainmen by the Associated I’ress in Cleveland Mr. Lee declared: "I liavd wired aii our lodges on the Santa Fe coast line to tlie effect that if the men. do not comply with the brotherhood's laws ami return to work and carry out tlie terms of their agreement it would be justifiable reason for the company to cancel the Schedule now in effect with the brotherhood.” A dispatch from Los Angeles said tire California Limited‘train No. 4 of the Santa Fe pulled out for Chicago. It carried seventy-five passengers as well as mail and baggage. A number of armed guards are aboard, but officials refused to say how many. Eastern mail communication to southern California, cut off Thursday afternoon with the walkout of the Big Four at Needles, has not been re-estab-lished. -~

I I. Hlhard, general manager of the Santa Fe, described thv situation as follows: “We have now nineteen wiest bound trains, with approximately 1.700 passengers. held up: Os these passengers there are 297 at Sellgman, Ariz.; 188 at Williams. Ariz.-: 236 at Ash Fork, Ariz.. ami about 1,000 at Albuquerque and Belen. N. Ms E-gom Albuquerque west ail west bound tralhs which have been tied up at desert points were moving. One train of seven mall anil express cars and another of sixteen Pullman sleepers and conches were due at Needles from Sellgman. Ariz. Company officials manned both. Three trains, which left Sellgman are approaching Los Angeles. Lansing. Mich., Aug. 16. —State police were ordered t > (,'hannlng. Mich., by Governor Groesbeck, following receipt of an appeal for protection of property and workers of the Chicago, Milwaukee and, St. Paul railway’. , (.’banning. Mich., Aug. 16.—Two men were slightly wounded when u number of men armed with rifles fired at the roundhouse of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad here. The home of a car repairer was burned last week Washington. Aug. 15.—President Harding, in a telegram to Governor Campbell of Arizona, offered tire assistance of tlie federal government to relieve Wardships among passengers on Santa Fe trains marooned at Junction ] points. The President’s telegram follows : "I am informed that several passenger trains on tlie Santa Fe railway are marooned at. junction points in your state because of their abandonment by their crews. ■ f "It Is the obligation of the govemment to relieve the people who are thus subjected to sblps. If you have not facilities*for the relief, which I know you will gladly bestow, then any forces at the comniagd of the federal government will be promptly ordered‘ to your assistance. Kindly advise whether such assistance Is needed." vy-

ARTHUR GRIFFITH IS DEAD President of Irish Free State Is Victim of Influenza,'Belfast Reports. ~ Belfast. Aug. 15.—Arthur 'Griffith, president of the I hit! Kireunn. tiled In I Ijuhlin of Influenza, it has been learned iiere. Halt Profiteer. - . Washington. A tig; 17. Legislation 6 hy .congress to regulate distribution and prices of coal (luring the -wittier was declared by Secretary Hoover to he necessary, even, •though operations soon are started in the fields. Madman Slays Kin. Poßflitef Mich.. Aug. 17.—Albert Sebrneder-,- twenty-five.- a farmer of" Ortonville. near here, shot and killeit his father, Carl Sclirnedet - ,. severity, and Ids brother-in-law, August Zjtu-

TJIE XAPPANFP, ADVAXrE-XFWS

ARTHUR C. MILLSPAUGH

Arthur Chester Milispuugh, foreign trade advisor for Tlie State, department, who has been engaged by tlie Persian government to reorganize its financial affairs. He Is understood to have made a five-year contract and will assume'lds duties in September. .Mr. Milispuugh is a native of Michigan and former instructor in political science at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore. He entered the State department in 1918.

U. S. MARKET REPORT - Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Markets and Crops. Washington, Aug. 12.—Week ending August 10—HAY—Quoted August 9: No. 1 timothy, $31.50 New York, $24.00 Philadelphia. $19.00 Pittsburgn, JEI.oO Chicago, $17.00 Cincinnati, $16.00 Minneapolis, $19.00 St. Louis. $22.00 Atlanta; No. 1 alfalfa. $17.00 Kansas City. $17.50 St. Louis. $J3.00 Memphis; No 1 prairie, $10.75 Kansas City, j $17.00 St. Louis, $14.00 Minneapolis. FEED —Quoted August 9: Bran, $14,25; j middlings, $16.50 Minneapolis; 56 per cent i cottonseed meal. $34.00 Memphis. $34.00 Atlanta; gluten feed. $29.86 Chicago, white j. bomlny fee<L-S24.QQ St. Louis-; No. 1 alfalfa meal. $21.00 St. Louis; 83 per cent linseed meal. $44.50 Minneapolis. GRAIN—On August 10 new low points were established on alt grains, except December wheat A good recovery occurred near close with net advances on wheat and com, but oats *ere lower. Buying was mainly from Rhorts coveting. ►Closing cash prices in Chicago market: N0.~2 red winter wheat No. 2 hard winter wheat. $1.10; No. 2 mixed corn, 63c; No. 2 yellow porn, 63c; No. 3 white I oats, 34c. Average farm prices: No. 2 ! mixed corn in central lowa about 4Sc; I No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kani sas. 90c. Closing future prices: Chicago I September wheat, $1 06; Chicago Septemj ber corn, Minneapolis September wheat $1,114*: Kansas City September i wheat. 98c; Winnipeg Octot>er wheat, i $1.07%. VEGETABLES—For the week potato markets steady to firm for good stock. New Jersey cobblers up 10fg30c in wholesale markets,- down s@3oc in shipping points. Prices reported August 10: N w Jersey sacked cobblers. $1.35'31.65 per 100 !ba. eastern cities; $1.80*01.90 Chicago an<l St. Louis: 95t£$1.0f f. o. b. north and south Jersey points; giants. 80085 c. LIVE STOCK August 10. Chicago prices; Hogs, top, $10.10; bulk of sales. $7.55>@0.90; medium and good beef steers. butcher cows and heifers. $3.90 &D.00; feeder steers. $o 40'<3‘7.50: light and medium weight weal calves. $9 75(311.25: fat lambs. $11.40<312.60; feeding lambs, SU.SO<3 12.50; 557.25. Stockeratwi feeder shipments from 12 important miu’kets fluring the week ending August 4 Were: Cattle and calves. 63,589; hogs. 4,259; sheep, 44.224. DAIRY PRODUCTS-Closing prices. 92 score butter; .New York, 34c; Philadel- | phia. 34%e; Boston. 35c; Chicago. 32%c. j Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese mar- ! kefs August 9j Daisies. IS’ic; double dai- ! sies, 18c; young Americas, 19c; longhorns. ! 19c, square prints. 20%c.

HARDING ACTS IN TARIFF ROW President Outlines to Senators desirability of Elasticity During i Crisis. Washington. Aug. 14.—Following t conferences, with senators in behalf of Ia flexible tariff '.which would give poiv--1 eris rate adjustment to the President and: the tariff hoard. President j. Harding sent a letter tr Chairman ! McCumlier of the finance commipwe, ! and It was read to the senate, not opTy i urging that a flexible tariff be provided for, hut that file tariff commission j he made the agency for Investigation and recommendation for changes In j tariff rates. *- . Cuts Os. 100,000 Persons. Frankfort. "Ky., Aug. lfi.—-T ie strike ] .of 1.290 trainmen on the Cumberland i division of the Louisville & Nashville | Railroad company means a cutting off i from the; outside world of virtually | 100,000 jfersons In southeastern lven- | ttlckjV. Os these, approximately 70.- ■ 000 are In the great coal fields of Harlan and Beil coin ties, which have • a capacity output of 1,000 carloads of j coal a day. Mark Takes Plunge. Berlin. Aug. it,—The dollar at more than 1.000 marks was the sensational news tiiat passed from one end of Germany to the other. Tlie newspapers of Germany bandit* tlie story like they diil tlie big news. I Orders Men tc Stick. 1 Washington-.. Aug. 17—Warren S. -Stone, chief of tin Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. wired members of Hie brotherhood on the Santa Ft:- to remain on tlie jolt _niess their engines

INDIANA STATE CNEWS

Tire thirtieth n mum I reunion of former soldiers and gullet's In northeastern Indiana will he held at Mount Ptsgnh August 19. A total of 101,143 baby Halt, from two to five incites long, were placed in public waters of tlie state during July by the fish and game division of the state conservation department, George N: Mannleld, director, annouheed. Enter tlie deaf atpl dumb lobbyists. Indiana legislators will have them to "(intend with "at tlie next session of tire Indiana general .assembly, for F. B. SlUcnd, secretary-of tlie Fort Wayne Society of' Deaf anil Dumb announced that tlie deaf mutes will have a special lobby itt tlie state legislature to petition for certain rights which they believe should he accorded them. Daviess county’s Elherta peach crop —tlie largest in many years—has been picked and marketed. Contrary to expectations flic railroad strike did not interfere with tlie shipping and marketing of tlie crop. Prices ranged from 75 cents to $2 a bushel. Pencil growers are now preparing to harvest Heath clings and other later varieties in about ten days. The Vigo county board of review, In special session, refused to make certain increases on assessments of real estate and on personal property iri the county, as was recommended by tire state hoard of tax commissioners. The action was taken by a unanimous vote, the members of the board feeling that the assessments in the county already represented tlie true cash value of the property. A total of $610,353.87 was Spent from public-funds by township trustees acting as overseers of the poor for outdoor relief during the last- fiscal year ending December 31. 1921, according, to. a .report made public by Amos Butler, secretary to tlie hoard of state charities. This is the largest amount b:f money ever expended for such aid in the history of tire board of state charities, according to Mr. Butler, The state hoard of tax commissioners intends, to stand squarely behind its appraisement increase recommendations made to a number of counties recently, John J. Brown, chairman of the hoard, and William A. Hough, member, said. The continents were occasioned by information that a number of county boards of review are refusing to carry out the recommendations for increases In tax appraisements. ■ Indiana’s 1922 corn crop will produce approximately 4,500,000 bushels more than the 1921 crop, says the crop estimate given in the monthly crop report of George C. Bryant, statistician for the co-operative crop reporting service for Indiana. The estimated production of wheat: outs, rye and barley show a, slight decrease over tire estimate of lust month, but tlie estimate on tlie corn crop increased approximately 3,500,000 bushels, tlie report said. On account of accumulated street work which requires attention and because* of tlie necessity of increasing tlie police and lire departments—tlie latter on account of the new two-platoon system —and atso because. It is said, tlie outgoing eouncil_ last fall made inadequate provision for runtdng the city government, tlie Jefferson city council adopted prelimi-nary-resolutions for a tax levy of $1.30, tin increas'e of 20" cents over last —year, when tlie rate.was cut 30 cents. “Indiana needs a driver license law

by which the individual’s license can j be revoked in cases of serious viola- j Hons of motor vehicle laws,” said 11. I Latlirop, president of the Indian-J apolls Automobile Trade association. “The 'directors of this association are I giving serious'consideration to tlie plan j to present such a statute to the next i legislature so that we can further hack j up tlie judges iwid police officials who are 'attempting to bring about strict law. enforcement for tlie protection of life and property.” Indiana schoolchildren lost 5,848.,784 days of Instruction as a result of absence from s>hf>o|:-*<ltti'in-gthe-la-st year, according to u compilation of attendance statistics made hy Miss Blanche Merry, state attendance officer. Tardiness resulted in pupils losing 2,.277,87<) minutes, making tlie total time lost from tardiness arid absence amount to-5.H.Vi,l 10 days. The time lost by all tlie school children of tlie state is equivalent to one child losing 20,502 years of school attendance. The statistfdk are practically complete for the state, but do not include reports from Gary, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, South Bend, Whiting, Michigan jClty and tlie following counties: Clinton, Daviess, Franklin, Knox,—Pike and Pulaski. Hy estimating that the minimum cost of educating a child'for one year is SSO, Miss Merry pointed out that the t+me lust from school resulted in a financial loss of $1,829,600 to tlie slate. Tlie state highway commission awarded the contract for three and a , half miles of hard-surface construction on the Lincoln highway In Lake county at a-cost of $7l.dSO. Tlie esHmate on tlie construction made by highway department engineers was s7;i,snß. Brown county farmers are picking tlie finest pencil crop in tlie history of tlie county, according to growers.— •ljie crop is large and of excellent quality, the average diutneter of tlie fruit In the Bessire orchard, near Nashville, being between four slid flic niches.

Fire at Mouth Bend caused a prop erty loss estimated lit $350,000. Five three-story brick buildings und 18 retail business houses were destroyed. The pencil crop that promised to lie so 'abundant In- Crawford county will prove a disappointment. Fruit growers all over tlie county say peaches I tire ripening about three weeks earlier than normally ami that tlihy are rotting fast, l’eaobes are being retailed j for $1 a bushel. Eleven cows, valued at SSO each, which were In a herd of 50 that Homer B. Hall, a farmer of Laporte county, purchased from the Chicago stock yards recently, have died of hemorj I’ltage septicemia.- The disease is a \ poisoning of the blood and runs a short | course and then the animal dies. There ! is no effective form of treatment. Signs hearing tlie words, "Go Slow and See Our City and Go Fast and See Our Jail." are to be placed at the various street intersections of Gas City. This Is the result of the city council declaring war on automobile sjteeders. Fifteen miles an hour was announced ns tlie speed limit for autolsts while driving through Gas I City, Reports by Bert Wheedon, traffic I manager for the Interstate l'ublic Service company, show that npproxi"niately 100,000 crates of berries were moved this season- in internrhan cars i by that company to Indianapolis from ; the berry patches of Clark, Floyd and Scott counties. The harvest is the largest ever handled So Jfxpeditlously. it is said. Seady progress in paving work on tire National road both east and west of Indianapolis is reported by the touring bureau’ of the lloosier Motor duh. Tlie indications are that the eastern sector will lie completed from Indianapolis to Richmond hefore tlie western sector is completed, tlie club said, but. all tlie present gaps are expected to- he closed with concrete or brick surface before cold weather, j The hoard of directors of the Indiana I Dairy Marketing association lias rej ported that the association will start I'-coHectTve marketing’of milk and dairy: j products in and about Muncie within |.n few weeks. It is -understood that j tlte association acts in the Indianapolis i district* ns sales agent for tin* products of its members livin— in 15 counties tributary to the city. Extension bt this plan is going forward now in the Muncie district. Tlie board of county commissioners, in session at Greenfield, grant- | ed an Indianapolis electrical firm perjtnfsslbii lii erect "a "radio receiving set j in tire .courthouse as an experiment, to see whether or not radio programs from broadcasting stations will draw people from the surrounding country into Greenfield in greater numbers. The experiment will .be conducted without cost to the county and. if successful, the set will probably be bought anti tt municipal receiving station established. Pike enmity, farmers are cutting their third alfalfa crop. All three Crops have bqen above the average and the total yield will exceed five tons to tlie acre. A fourth cutting .will he made late in September. Farmers have begun plowing for wheat. Tire corn crop will he tire largest in the history of Bike county, notwithstanding that hundreds of acres of corn land in the Tatokn and White river bottoms stood idle this year. Most farmers are bolding wheat for higher prices—

The Indiana state public service -commission granted tlie petition of the Cincinnati. Indianapolis & Western railroad to purchase a section of the Chicago & Indiana coal railroad, ex tending north from Brazil, a distance of 26 miles. The coal road was ahan doned by tlie Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad some time ago. Stile of tlie part of the road lying north of the section purchased by the C., I. & W was arranged a few days sign. The .northern section will tie operated by a syndicate of business men residing along lire line. Flour mills—and grain elevators in the Indiana “pocket" report that wheat deliveries are unusually heavy for this time of the year and many of the elevators tire filled. Millers say that they cannot recall a year when farmers disposed of their grain more liberally than they, hay" this year. It is believed thn) by_.the first of Octoher little Wheat will be left In the hands of tlie farmers in the tristato district, The flour mills report an increase of business and sqy that as soon as the railroad ann cotil miners' strikes are over trade should show a big improvement. Tlie increased cost of education to, taxpayers In Indiana is du? "to the lengthening of the school year, increased .-.public school attendance, decreased purchasing power of the dollar, large increases in the expenditure' for new school buildings after the war, rapid growth in school transportation caused by school consolidation, increases in teachers’ sal (tries and not because the schools have 'been conducted in an extravagant manner, Benjamin J. Burris, state sttperintendent_nf public instruction, said in it report on Indiana school finances submit ted to Governor Me* 'ray. Tlie congregation of tire Trinity Methodist Episcopal church at Elkhart ailoplC(j"*a resolution, asking Governor McCray to stop all prize lights in Indiana. The. commissioners of Hamilton county have taken steps to stop the payment of what they regard -as—excessive fees to attorneys who prepare and file petitions for the improvements of roads. Recently the hoard refused to pay two claims of SSOO each for services given by lawyers on two different roads, and later both’ cases -were corppromised for S3OO each. .

IMPROVED UNIFORM WItKNAIIONAL SundaySchool I T Lesson T (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.. Teacher of English Bible in tlie Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright, 1922, Weiern N**wnrap**r Union,

LESSON FOR AUGUST 27 NE-HEMIAH’S PRAYER LESSON TEXT—Neh. 1:1-11. GULDEN TEXT—TIie effectual, fervet player us a righteous man availeth much. —Jaa. 5:16. * REFERENCE MATERIA!.—-Ex. 32:2038; I Sum. 7:5-11; Matt 9:37, 3S; Acts 1:1214; Eph. 3:14-21. PRIMARY TOPIC- Nehemlah Talking to God. JUNIOR TOPIC—The Prayer of the King's Cupbearer. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Prayer ua a Preparation for All Undertakings. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Prayer and power. I. Nehemiah Learns of the Distress of the Captives (vv. 1-3). 1. When (v. 1). Twentieth year of tlie reign of Artaxerxes (2:1). The month Chisleu corresponds to our December. It was while performing Ids duty as cupbearer to tlie Persian king. While in this Important position there entered into his iieart a desire to honor Goti and do good to his people. A young man cun he true to God in any position in life if he sets his heart on Jesus Christ and communes with Him by prayer and study of God's word. A man may be elevated to a high position, prosper in business, and yet live a life unspotted from tlie world. 2. By Whom (v. 2). His brother Hanani and certain men of Judah brought him tlie news. His inquiry shows that though he was prosperous he did not forget his unfortunate brethren. We should never let our success and welT-beiiig .shut but sympathy’ for the oppressed and suffering. 3. The Nature of the Distress (v. 3). The wall of Jerusalem was broken down. Its. gates were burned tire and the remnant of the captives were in great affliction and reproach. 11, Nehemiah’s Sorrow (v. 4). The news of Ids brethren’s distress greatly moved Nehemiali. lie sat down and wept and mourned several and a vs. He fasted ami prayed before God. God’s people are so essentially one that the affliction .and shame of the one is the affliction and shame of all. No one will ever do much to help a distressed people who does not deeply feel their, desolation. Nehemlah’s sorrow was not the kind that says “I pity you" and goes on in ways of selfishness without making an effort to help. True pity expresses itself in un effort to help. 111, Nehemiah'* Prayer (vv. 5-11). He knew where to go for help. He took the matter upon his heart to God In prayer. Tire first and best way tb* help others is to pray for them. Nehemiah did not merely pray; he left ills place at tlie Persian court and journeyed to Jerusalem and took hold with his•flwn hands. Our prayers and tears must be translated into definite action if’we fc'ould Ire of real help to others. Note the characteristics of this prayer. 1. Its Worshipful Spirit (v. 5). He recognized God as - the great and terrible One, the Lord God of heaven. Trite prayer shows that spirit of uorsldp. 2. Its Ground (v: 5). If -was on the ground of covenant relation that He besought God. On this ground ail who are in Christ Jesus can come and plead before God. 3. It Was Persistent, (v. 6). He prayed day and night. God is pleased when His servants are persistent In their pleadings with Him. Those who understand the covenant relation will he importunate in their petitions,. 4. It Was by Confession of Sin (vv. 6. 7). In this confession he mentioned definitely his sin (v. 7). We should specify the sins which we have •committed. Most people when praying are too general in their confessions. 5. He JBleads.' Hurt's 'l'ronTtsotr'tVYiMjy 9). In our praying we should remind God of His.own words. It is when His words abide in us that we can intelligently pray (John 15:17). If We would Ire successful in our praying w<; should fill our minds,with God's promises. 6. He Pleads Relationship (v. 10). He reminds God that they were Ills Children hv redemption'. Those who nre in Christ are God's children by redemption through His precious blood. Tire child has a claim upon its father. God’s children have a claim upon Him. 7. It was Intercessory Prayer (v.lTj. With intense earnestness lie definitely prayed that God would givi- him favour, before the king in orderttiat he might be enabled to help tits people. Tile king’s favor was needed in order to •rouble'him to liolp Ills brethren. God Is able to move tlie heart of a heathen -king 'ami tints further His own cause by means of the prayer of a humble servant. The Cunning Man. A cunning mmt overroaehes no n-e half as much as himself.—li. \v. Beecher. God’s Love. Behold, what manner of love tire fnllrer hath bestowed upon us, that n should lie called the stins of God.- ( lohn 3:1. ’ The Foot. To he a man’s fool is had enough; but the vain man is everybody's.— Pehn.