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THE "FRATS" 11 T At Special Meeting for High School Students Today Secret Organizations Ordered Disbanded. (Continued from Page One) tlon of too records of the high school students belonging to or connected With the fraternities and sororities in Comparison with the records of the other students of the school, I make the following report: Arerage grade standing of the fraternity group, 78.2 per cent. Average grade standing of the nonfrat group, 35.6 per cent. Averse interest of the Prat, arrouo. 12. per cent. Average Interest grade on the nonFrat group, 97. per cent. 71 per cent of the Prat, group are falling In some work, I. e. are unsuccessful students. 6 per cent are conditional because of low Interest or unfinished work. 68 per cent show a decreasing standard of scholar ship, while the school as a whole shows a fair per cent of in crease. The Prat group contribute 9 times their proportional share of truancy. The offense Is almost coufined to the group In regularity of attendance and punctuality the Fraternity group is one and one-half points below the NonFrat students. The above report bears entirely upon school records and in no way is meant to show the moral side which after H, is the most serious' side. The Investigation is based upon the most recent reports which were made VP Dec. 16. '11. Respectfully signed, I. B. Neff. Here is a message of hope and good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boone Mill, Vs., who Is the mother of eighteen children. Mrs. Martin was cured of stomach trouble and constipation by Chamberlain's Tablets after five years of suffering, and now recommends these tablets 'to the public Bold by all dealers. & I Pluribus Unurrt. - The country la Indebted to Jabn Adbds for Its national motto, with an Englishman of .note sharing In the honor. It seems that while Adams wmm wiainvr w niiiuiuu su vvuu Proatwick. an eminent English antlquery, suggested to him a good motto to represent the union of the- American colonies. Adams at once was taken with the idea, -which he transmitted to Charles Thompson, the secretary of congress, who on June 20, 1782, reported to that body bis design for a government seal. In this the Latin legend "B Plnrlbus TJnum" was to be borne on a ribbon held In the beak of an eagle. Just where Sir John got the idea Is sot certain, but It Is a fact that the motto was In use on the cover of the Gentleman's Magazine, first published In 1790, and It may have struck his fancy by Its applicability to the situ tlon then obtaining In America. New Zealand's Qlaeiers. The great also of the glaciers around f ount Cook, In New Zealand, has pern often remarked. The Tasman Is eighteen miles long, the Mnrcblson ten miles, the Godley eight miles, the Mueller eight miles and the Hooker even miles. Most of these glaciers have moraines of exceeding roughBess, but the approaches to them are not steep, as Is usually the case with European glaciers. The southern Alpine snow line is only a little over T.000 feet. Glacially polished rocks ere rare, and In many ways the mountains are singularly different from those of central Europe. A Natural Mistake. "I was just telling our friend here. Holly, that It was storming on the day of onr marriage." "Surely not, Hiram! The weather (was perfectly lovely V "Well, well! I don't know how I got so mixed up about It: probably because It's been storming ever since!" -Atlanta Constitution. A Pish Story. There are as good flsh In the sea an were ever taken out of it. remarked Small to Young, who had been refused by Moneybag's daughter. "Tea. I know. But they are not goldfish. - Circumstances are the rulers of the weak. They are but the Instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover. Tot&e Owing te the Early primary to he held en Monday, Feb; ft, It will be Impossible for me to see every ' ene as , I - should like; therefore I take thie mtana of seilehlng your support. "- ' : Jcin E. PcEis . Candidate fer Reeerdar. ,

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Did you ever take a trip with anybody? asked the other person. "The greatest known strain on friendship," said the cynic. "Yes," said the other person, "the friendships of a lifetime may be sundered by a few days' excursion to Cincinnati to hear grand opera." "I remember myself," interpolated the cynic, "splitting on the rock of beefsteak Just before going to hear Caruso. I liked it broiled, rare and highly seasoned Tdmpkina, the barbarian, wanted It fried hard with brown gravy.Not being Rockefellers or Carnegies we couldn't order two, so we compromised on spare ribs and sauerkraut. "The pork made Tompkins sick and I had to stay at the hotel to take care of him. We never got to hear Caruso. 'Since which time,'" said the cynic blowing rings of smoke toward the ceiling, "frost has blighted the bloom of our ardour." "I expect you were savage and jerk ed things round," said the other person. "On my word," protested the cynic, I was gentle as a lamb. No trained nurse could have been more angelic." "Trained nurses are angelic accordng to Hoyle," said the other person. 'That's a cynicism," said the cynic. Women shouldn't be cynical." 'It sln't a cynicism, its a fact," re torted the other person. "Trained nurses are amiable on schedule. I knew one once that cured a man of typhoid fever but sent him to the insane asylum by her trained smile." "I have too many friends in the pro fession," said the cynic, "to continue this conversation." "The men are always for the nurs es," said the other person. "And its because," she went on maliciously, that nobody over thirty-five can be a nurse. You do me a gross injustice, my dear," said the cynic comfortably. "A woman must bo at least forty before she appeals to me." That's because you aren't forty yourself," said the other person. When you are, mature charms will hold no further lure. The younger and the sillier the better you'll like em." "These preconceived ideas women have about men," said the cynic weai? lly, "cannot be disseminated with dynamite." It Is true, however," murmured the cynic, "that when I was nineteen I was madly in love with a young girl of thirty-two. She was the Jovliest be ing I have ever known. And she gave me the thrill-thrills. No feminine creature of nineteen will ever so affect me at forty." "Oh. lets change the subject," said the other person. "We talk too much about men and women that Is, about the sentimental relation they sustain toward each .other." ' That last sounds like a club pa per," deployed the cynic. The sentimental aspect," went on the other person, "is merely inciden tal" to the current of activities. Very lit tle time is spent on that phase of the propinquity of the sexes. Men are largely occupied with business and eating. Women with imagining what they'd do If things were different." Well, to return to the beginning," interrupted the cynic. "Is there anything worse than having somebody describe his or her trip?" Absolutely nothing, "said the other person emphatically. "Sal, now. whenever she goes to Niagara Falls, San Francisco or Berlin delivers regular lectures when she returns. She drops In to spend the evening with her post card book and at each stop describes her personal experience. Preceded with a complete history. ancient and modern, of the spot," says the cynic. 'Yes, she sounds like a glorified Baedecker," says the other person. 'Every time you go out anywhere for six months," continues the other person, "you encounter Sal with her post-card book. The conversation will be desultory for a while because ev erybody knows that Sal has been inIted In to tell about her trip and then the hostess says 'Oh, Sarah, won't you tell us some

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of your experiences in the Tyrol Sarah had such a lovely trip to Europe last - summer," she adds In a stage aside. "Oh yes." "Do." "Go on Sal." "You're so entertaining." "I'm crazy about It." "Such beautiful cards." "Means so much to me." "You're such a good talker." "Please, Sal," "We re dying to hear you." "Sarah fears, however, that it will be a bore, that we'll get tired to death hearing about it. "Never!" declaims the chorus. "The Idea!" "Never thought of such a thing!" How can you!" "You're, always interesting!" "We love to hear you!" "You've had such opportunities " "We stay at homes, you know " "Now, Sal. don't be stubborn!" "Thus the chorus In hypocritical cresendo. "And then." interrupts the cynic, "you pay fifty cents for a ticket to a church entertainment only to find that Sarah Is retailing her experiences to stereopticon accompaniment. "Later," reminisced the other person, "you are invited to an informal evening with your sister-in-law's club. On your arrival you find Sal with her lost-card book. You sit round the wall land tako turns looking at it while Sal discourses." "Yes," interpolated the cynic, "if you are not able to side-step such chaste entertainments. If I am corralled I always sit next the door. Then when the stereopticon is turned on I slip into the hall, grab my hat and tiptoe fearfully away." "I'd be ashamed," said the other perjson. "Don't you want to have your mind Improved?" "Not by Sal," grinned the cynic. "Well, it is queer," went on the other person, "how funny people act when they go off on a trip. Don't you remember Agnes?" "Sure not long on brains but good tc look at. Never bothered you with houI talks or intellectual converse. Knew how to keep quiet and look pretty." "Just what I thought," cried the other person. "I never was so surprised in my life. We went together once j on one of these summer trips, you know a ticket half a mile long which had to be amputated every other time; you rode part way on the steam-cars, half the time on the trolley, took a boat at intervals and ended up in New York." "Dozens of times never travel any other way.'" "Then you know how it is," said the other person. "Agnes was charming until we got to Columbus. Then she began posing for the benefit of some horrid man across the aisle. She pretended she didn't want any dinner and wouldn't go into the dining-car. When I came back she was nowhere to be seen and what do you think! She spent hours in the observation-car talking to that horrid man. She never came back 'til ten o'clock and I was in my berth. I was so mad!" "Pretty mean of her not to let you have even a peep-in." "What do you take me for," cried the other person. "I don't pick up acquaintances among fat drummers." "Certainly not certainly not," hastily assured the cynic. "And she kept that up all the way. When I'd think she was in her stateroom nursing a headache she'd be behind the smoke-stack flirting with some nondescript man in a murderous checked cap. "But the worst trait she developed was an ungodly interest in the dimensions of things. Everywhere we went she insisted on making inquiries. She was mad to know the cubic inches in a brick and the geometric proportions of a side wall. "She would run round for an hour trying to find someone who could tell her the height to which a factory chimney would pierce the cerulean and how many rods a wooden dock projected into the bay. "You astonish me beyond measure," murmured the cynic. "Think what an eye-opener for a honey-moon. My word!" "When we got off the train at the station," said the other person, "we each ran the other way and when I see her -coming nowadays I dodge round the block." "I remember going off with Bill

Crankum once," said the cynic, "and we nearly assassinated each other before we s?l back. Bill had a kind of obsession about walking on the right aide. No matter where or when be manouvred round to get on the right side he nearly drove me crasy. "He took along his own brand of tea and everywhere we went we bad rows with the .waiter. He objected to .tipping on principle, for another thing or pretended to and so all this fell to me. "The truth Is I found he was a regular old tight-wad and never wanted to go half on anything. He sponged on me whenever he had the chance. "He wouldn't sleep with the windows up I'm a crank on fresh air, you know and he had the most annoying habit of pulling at the lobe of his left ear. I nearly laid bands on him once but be stopped in the nick of time. "From being regular old pals here at home we returned Bworn antagonists. "And, it is the fact, that I once overheard him at the club telling Tompkins I was one of the most cantanlerous persons he had ever known. "He aaid that he had taken a trip with me and that I had developed traits be never dreamed I possessed. He said I was really dangerous when It came to money 'and that I had a way of wanting to walk on the right aide that was simply insane. That I gorged when I ate and was intemperate on my consumption of night-air." - "Only fancy!" said the other person. "If you want to retain a friend, never take a trip with him," ended the cynic. "Borrowing money of him is'nt a circumstance."

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Gilbert H. Hesdrea, Chief Clerk. INDIANAPOLIS, January 24, 1912. Mr. Wm. P. Piehl, Sec'ty. Richmond Saving' & Loan Association, Richmond, Indiana. My Dear Sir: We have examined the report of the examination of the ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS of your association, recently made by State Building and Loan Examiner Hon! Isaac Dunn, and he reports as follows: "After a careful examination, (extending from March 20, 1910 to January 1, 1912. one and three-fourths years), I found the affairs of this association in a splendid condition. A. very competent secretary, with a full and complete set of books, and all accounts properly and most accurately audited. The cash account correct and agreeing to the cent with the treasurers' bankbook and the same was verified by the cashier of the Second National bank of this city. All loans- and discounts found in amount correct," as charged herein, with all necessary papers pertaining to said loans filed with same and all properly cared for in a good' fireproof safe. The management is safe and very progressive . We are more and more convinced that building and loan associations properly and honestly conducted, are the greatest of all known home building institutions in the country, and they will accomplish far more for the HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE GREAT MASSES of the PEOPLE, than any other institution in the country, and will enable the members of building and loan associations to acquire homes, by small savings from week to week and month to month. SUCH ASSOCIATIONS are the GREATEST KNOWN FACTORS for the making of CONTENTED and LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AND TAX PAYERS. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS in their very nature, are SEMI-PHILANTHROPIC and nave a TWO-FOLD PURPOSE, to ENCOURAGE the SAVING of MONEY and to PROMOTE THE OWNERSHIP OF HOMES. ' ' Safety is the proposition of paramount Importance among the people and under the good management of your well known and responsible officers and with the 'same system of state examinations as provided for banks and trust companies, which we now have under the new 'bufldlng; and loan law (generally conceded to be the best building and loan law in the United States), we regard your association as being; safe and sound in every particular. i It will be a pleasure to render to your association the most cordial assistance that is possible for this department to grant. Very truly yours, , , Signed W. H. O'BRIEN; Auditor of State. rSignedl By G. H. HENDREN, I Seal Chief Clerk State Building Loan Department. - J0-1-J

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