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COST AND THE WORTH OF SAYING "PLEASE" BY WIRE. Tbe iF.clency expert, tho administrative peniua, the survey specialist, preat sav.ors of llnuö, aro alMmys with u. They know just how to make every raov count, every cent earn two; no lent motion. You become a trort of automaton; a mechanical, involuntary human, who moves and acts in groovja unhampered by your own Intelligence or good manners. On cf theso lnfalliblea has nude a startling discovery. At flrbt flush too it seumfl luite astounding. Ho tells us that the American public could save $3,CCO.O&O a year in telegraph tolls by simply discontinuing the wcrd "please" in thrlr telegrams, and rifeht there we raise the qucttlon. "What prcflteth it a man or a people if 100,000,000 of them eave J3, COO, 000 a year in money and lose that much in eweetners, courtesy; in the harmony JLnd melodies of life that respond to every sympathetic touch applied to the harp of the senses. There may be efficiency engineers and cost economists, hunting for pennies to pave, who will be ehocked by such seeming wate of words ami money, but Americans, ependinfr $3, 000, 000 a year on one courteous word are Investing well and wisely. Ii Ii really gratifying to find America spending so much on one word of courtesy when so many of ie fere lajt in words and deeds of courtesy that coat & nothing at all. Courtesy ia a sweetening element in the ordinary relations of our common life. We are not Impol'to people, but wo are in a hurry and in our hurrv w take the rougher way when the smoother on3 ia bo much easier. It was a ource of never-ending delight among men cf the A. JZ. F. to hear ticket-sellers at railroad Btatlons and clerkr In post cilices in Fiance, say merci monsieur" (thank yoj, sir) when the "ialo of a stamp or ticket was concluded. It was as if one had done them a tervice by buying a ticket or a 6tamp. Courtesy has become second nature among the- French. Recently some newspapers have been awarding cash prizes to polite, folks discovered by reporters. Thcs-a wjre special re ward, but. In truth, courtesy always has paid, cne way or another. It is good business. We elncerely hopo that American business will not won degenerate to that cold, blunt stage, where courtesy will be universally displaced, particularly by a bark, resembling that of a bull dog. Btwines?!. with all its cold bloodedncs-, will forever And it good business to eay "please" when the occasion calls for it. O MR. WILSON AS MR. HARDING'S INFORMATION BUREAU. Pres't Hardinsr, he will then be known, is to hold a conference with ex-Pres't Wilson. a he wiU have become, following tho inauguration. The new prtaldent want to absorb seme of the knowledge possessed by the old pneldent in the matter of our forelam relations. He perhaps needs it. Indeed, we anticipate that he might have had much more of it, bad not partisan rancor, and the consequent misrepresentation, misinterpretation and prevarication, for discrediting purposes, been so strong with the party of the new president's affiliation, as to make public knowledge of much that has been going on, notoriously unsafe. By keepfr.ff his own counsel the president has boen able to keep, our international relations reaeonabiy amicable, pending- hk retirement from offxo, to say the least. He took hL cu. we anticipate, from the imprudent way in which tho senato foreign relations committee manhandled everything that tcck place during the Paris conference, and regardkm cf the known facts after he had retürne 1 home, and the treaty was before that body. With what was Klng on here, repudi.itive of every activity in ParL, especially as evidenced by the public noise, Kurope, despite its knowledge that tuch is one of the ways of American politics, was kept somewhat on edge. making conditions difficult nough for the state department to handle without presiding tho detractors with any additional ammunition. No doubt but tho president will be at the service cf his raccPMor, for all information that tho latter may want. That Is the type of the man. on? who hos fjbordlr.atcd himself to his country's pood, overlooking personal insult, time and again, that eome principle may be realized upon. r as nearly .o as pevib'. Prcc't Wilson and his party have stocd fast ty hli Paris agreement; by the understanding that he reached with tho r.urcp-an n-wers. If there ia to be any other treaty, or "aociation of nations," it will be the busir.e.- of the party f repudiation to negotiate them, and th negotiators may need a lot of Information, such as the president ha, and that they do not possess. For mind you It was surprising to the old diplom.!3 in Parix, the things that the prudent knew, and was able to br.n before them, that they euppcsd were locked in the secret archives of their fore :gn reati-r.s bureau.. The historian cf Princeton, professor of world economics, etuder.t of cause and effect. and ef't tack to causv?, kept cnatantly referring to this and that secret thir.g creative of cor.di.l--n that needed to be corrected. The League cf Nations was his propod process of correction, temporvirI!v imperfectly arranged, perhaps, but a good start. Ve. Mr. Harding will be wise to confer with Mr. Wiher., tlius to remove from hi political train fome of the ceb-wefcs that the piders cf the r.ate, for partisan lr.trigue, wove about from lobe to lobe. Of course, it is not to be expected that the new

president will ak the old one for any advice. It will be humiliating enough to have to rt-sort to him for information. In matters of advice, mark you. we have It back even from the president-elect's first rpeech from his front porch, that he will get hia advice from the senate Henry Cabot Lodge, if you please, and gentlemen of that order. Tres't-elect Harding realizes the plentif ulness of advlco that he can ret, from the eenate and elsewhere, apparently, but for the otner thins that he needs most; Information, knowledge, he will confer with .Mr. Wilson. And welcome, Mr. Harding, welcome! Our country first! Tho Individual Is but an atom. When Pres't Wilson retires from office, to become a privat citizen, we haven't the leaat doubt but that he will seek to ful.111 hia duties of citizenship, in service to the nation, rega.-dless cf his own private or political fortunes, same aa he sought to fulfill hi3 duties aa president.

WILL HARDING SWEAR OFF? All curiosity atout the Harding family cook and the Harding tailor having been eatlsfled by a neverslteping press, attention has been focused for a moment on the indulgence of the president-elect in cigarcts. Miss Lucy Page Gaston of Chicago has asked the chief executlve-to-be to refrain from that phr cf the vile weed which consists of a slim paperful. Whereupon these dehors into the sidelights of the past who always seem to be bobbing up at the most awkward moments unlocked not one but several closeta in the white house which contained skeletons or should we say ashes? It was found that Prc't Arthur and McKinley nmoked clgarets. that Pres't Roosevelt was not averse to "blowing a ring or two." "that former Pres't Taft smokes what lies nearest to hia hand, and that on at least two occasions Pres't Wilson has been seen with a "fag" between his lips. If the world awaits Mr. Harding' reply before taking another whiff, It is to be feared that lt.i cigaret may go out.

THE RAT MENACE. Right now there are a hundred million rats in the United States. They are eating food at the rate of 1200,000,000 a year. ' The guinea-pigs cf Ellis Butler's story have nothing on the brown rat when it comes to fecundity. It is a gOd thing nobody tries today to ship a pair by expresrt unless red tape has been cut since the day that Mr. Butler's characters tried the experiment. Anyway, the biological survey warns people against the depredation and the expense incurred to the public by the common rat. Rats are disetso carriers. Typhus and bubonic plague have been transmitted by them. Cooperative efforts to stamp out the rat plague are recommended by the survey, which also emphaslzeo the use of barium carbonate as an effective poison now easily obtainable. According to New Haven grade, an Angell is none too good for the Yale presidency. What the Harvard boys say is something else again.

You ought to hear what Philadelphians are paying about the epidemic of sleeping slcknesa in Now York.

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TUU ROAD COMMISSION' STIN'CII. (Indianapolis Times.) The charge of incompetency, extravagance and wcrse, made against the notorious Goodrich administration last summer were characterized by tho Goodrich press as furnishing "more heat than light," and the long suffering people were apparently imprepid with this characterization. At any rate the Goodrich administration received an overwhelming vote of confidence from the voters of the etate. The election over, the democratic charges began to receive, the approval of republican papers and politicians. . Now, on the subject of the state highway commission, which representa the full flowering of Goodrichism, we are getting quito as much light as we can stand. The report of the state board of accounts on the activities of this commission indicates a scandalous condition of affairs, an utter contempt for the rights of the people, an extravagance that can scarcely be explained, and practices that are starcelj considered in good taste. The efficiency of the "business administration" of Goodrich is well illustrated in the comparison in the report between the overhead expense of the commission of Ohio and Indiana. In Ohio, under the Cox administration, this expense representa 5.7 percent of the entire amount epent for construction work. In Indiana, under the Goodrich administration, this expense represents 31.7 percent of the entire amount. Many thousands of dollars were spent for purchases without the formality and precaution of competitive bids. The building of the garage was a scandal. It was denounced as a ecandal by the democrats In the late campaign. At the time the taxpayers were told that almost J80.000 of their money had been expended in the building of a garage but then It was "more heat than light." And now we are getting light enough. The board of accounts confesses itself at a lofs to understand the exact procedure through which this contract was let. When bida were advertised for and received the records of the commission show that there were three competitors, as follows; Frank Meid. 156,493. William H. Harrison, $59,410. Georjre W. Bunting. $54,600. All this is set forth In the records of Nov. 23, 1?19. Nothing more appears In the records until June 13, 1920, in which a confusing reference Is made to the contract let to Charles J. Wacker for I67.TS0. The actual cost in the end was JT1.414.51. Here we have high Pnance on a spree. It oppearn that vast sums, as mueh as $100,000 at a time, were turned over to the director of the commission, totalling $2, 552, 698. QS, and that this money was deposited by him with the Aetna Trust and Savings company, of which he is an official, and checked out by him personally for the expena? of the department. Through this business-like method, the board ef accounts finds that the state lost J 443.97 In interest. It jcemi that while the law provides that ctrtaln work in testing road materials shall be done by Purdue university that the commleaion, acting above the law, or below it. engaged Chicago and Pittsburg iirm?. at a cost of more than $5,000, to do the work. It appears that either through a deliberate attempt to deceive or through stupidity that the taxpayers have been misled as to the cost cf construction of roads per mile. They thought lat summer that the average cost was $35,611.14. But it now appears that this did r.ct Include the cost of engineering-. Inspection, administration, supplies, meals, lodging, auto hire, railroad fare. Perhaps after a time we shall know the cost. The highway commission under Goodrichicm is a scandal and a stench. It is everything that the democratic party pictured it as being lafrt cummer and fall. And the proof Ls submitted in the report of a republican state board of accounts. Let us hope that Gov. McCray will decide in a reorganization of the commission, a radical reform in its methods, and more publicity aa to ita activities.

The Tower of Babel

By BILL ARMSTRONG

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Charie-s i: ;"nlx sits with a look of disappointment on his face at the annual dinner of the South Eend Klwanla club when Toastmaster Ex. Lieut. Karl E. Reeder fails to call on him.

The dusky matrons of Ragoor. Are going to have the ballot soon; Tho Burmese natives said: "We're not Backwoodsy like the Hottentot. Wo think, what's done by Yankeo belle. T'- . kindo Ju.t as well."

claret hive been discovered. "Keep on d!gg!ng,"is the order.

AN KNJOYABLE DIG. NEW YORK, Feb. 2 4. There were no more thrill in

the uncovering of buried Pompeii than prohibition agents are getting hero In excavating under tho premises of a former wine merchant. More of California

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iiiuur News or thj; city, j Herman Ries Is gradually recovering from Dollar day. Charley Hagerty appeared on N. Main st. Friday with a bright newsoft hat, which came near starting a good old fashioned runaway. Joe Neff is considering a proposition of playing the part of Pres'telect Harding in a serial film which will soon be put on the market. A. It. Mayerfeld is thinking of moving his office to some nice, quiet place like John Haberle's machine shop while the carpenters are at work in his store. Art MacDonald liked The NewsTimes American legion page so well that he ls contracting to run a lifeßized portrait of himself on the page tach and every week. - Like father like son we even saw Lucas Brandon, Tom Brandon's boy. walking east on Washington st. the other day. 1 A federal officer was seen to bei going north on Main st. yesterday j a. m. There wasn't a sou! In eight -on the street, but the nearby alleys and stairways were crowtled, it ls ! said. i Andy Weisberg was wearing a ; nifty waiter's suit at the Kiwanis ;

banquet. I'DUCATIONAL NOTTl Some people are such no nothings that they think Christopher Columbus landed at Ellis island when he landed in America, so Jake Heckaman claims.

Ignorant Essays BY J. P. McEVOY

WRESTLING. Wrestling was originally defined as a game In w-hich two opponents endeavored to throw each other to the ground. These days the ones who get thrown the oftene?r and the hardest are notho wrestlers hut the public. Some people will tell you that wrestling ia always on the square. They are the same birds who said the country would never go dry. No, sir! Not a chance,' Why they couldn't put it over in a million years! But they did it in one. Wrestling is an o!d, old game. The first match on record is that in which Jacob and the Angel wrestled at catch-weights, no holds barred. So far as we know, that one was on the level. Maybo because there was no purse up.' Later the Greeks took up wrestling. Homer writes of a match between Ajax and Odysseus. It's rather a de-cent report, too, considering Homer had no experience as a sport reporter. The fact that he wasn't at tho rings!do. but wrote the story In the office may account for its excellence. There is nothing that hampers a reporter's imagination so much as facts. It is comparatively eosy to bfcome a wresrtler. First you need an e-ye

trained to count the house between falls. Then you must have an India rubber neck, a gutta-percha spine. an ivory or a good Ivory substitute head, furnished or unfurnished preferably the latter, and a knowledge of all the holds, such as the scissors, the choker, the gouger the hammerlock, the half and full Nelsons. The bar-arm is out of date. It was used mostly during the off srnsons in the old days on the free lunch. There will always be wrestlers because there will always be fortunate individuals born with a strong back and a woak mind. And there will always bo wrestling fans, because you can fool some of the people of the time and there's one of 'em born every minute, of which every other one ls twins. And there will always bo wrestling promoters because while there's only one sucker born every minute, there aro two born to take him. Last week a mule kicked a man on the head and broke h:s (the mule's) leg. I suspect he was a wrestler. (Copyright. 1921.) "The only thing I ever read that made me laugh out loud." says a Michigan farmer. J. P. McEvoy's "Ignorant Essays."

More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST

THK RACLVL INSTINCT. In the daya before tho white man crossed the ocean, When the red men did exactly as they chose, Boeing utterly benighted, they were childishly delighted In the scalping and tho slaughter of their foes. Not a warrior of the lot was really happy Till an arrow in his midriff got him riled. There was nothing h. found thrilling save conflnually killing For his simple warlike nature made him wild. With the white man. cam a drink that seared the vitals Of the poor untutored aborigines. Which they took to like an otter, when in trouble takes no water. And embarked at every chance on rousing sprees. So the whiteman couldn't qurtl their lust for battle. Or restrain their fierce proclivity for war; They remained untamed and savage and rode daily forth to ravage For the whisky made 'em wilder than before. When at last they all were sent to reservations, Where they learned to chew tobacco, and to farm, Giving over bows and arrows for Ford tractors, plows and har-' ro-ws, We believe that we had killed their power to harm. But they learned to do tho fox trot and the shimmy. The seductive toddle swum into their ken, And the while their feet grew- festive they became unduly revive, For the modern dancers made 'em wild again. So there int any taming of th? red mar. The ugh you think you've got him

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peace with all hi" neignoor?. His hereditary wlldness WILL turn up. There is '-nething in the native of the forests (If his physiognomy Is tinted red) Which win mako hinv.cruel hearted every time you g-et him started And you'll never civilize him till he's dead! (Copyright. 1921.) Think of Tho Possibilities. Th Borglas were really handicapped by the fact that they lived before the days of bootlfg liquor. Sometlilng Anyway. Well, at least wo had an open winter, openly arrived at.

UNCLE SAM PILOT. Things ain't lookln' none too good, But let's keep on sawin' wood; Clouds appear a trifle thick, But if I was asked to pick Out a sheltering place to stay Till the storm goes by, Pd say! "Let me be right where'l am I've got faith in Uncle Sam." Right now, fur as I can see, There's no better place to hu; Run the flags an countries through, An' the old red, white an blue Seems more fitted fer rougli weather Than the rest o' them together. Nail this slogan up fer me Here is where I want to be. Troubles? Sure, we've got our share, But not more than we can bear. An our cares ain't half so bad As tho ones our fathers had; So. if they come through nil rtJjht, Looks to me as though we might. Anyhow, here's one who'll stick To tho flag, through thin or thick. When the weather starts to blow. It's consolin if you know That the pilot of the ship Has a ??trong an' steady grip An knows how to take the seas, So in troubled days like these, Let me say right glad lam That our pilot's Uncle Sam. (Copyright, 1921.)

HOROSCOPE. SUNDAY' AND .MONDAY FER. 27-28. Sunday's horoscope ls a fortunate one, fostering and promoting the good will and happiness of the day among friends and in ecclesiastical matters. The tendency to worry over trifles should be curbed. Those whote birthday it is have the presage of a successful year and should nut worry. A child born on this day n?y be clever, quid; and successful In Its undertakings. Monday's astrological map, while not strong in its lm.ar aspects, by mutual direction wans again.it the hasty and injudicious use of moneys. It alsc urges the Imports nee of holding a tit on the trngue and temper if the friendly plentary forcee aro to be of assistance. To reap the fruits of this kindly astral interference, s:rict attention should be paid to business, and all possibility of litigation hunned. Those whose birthday it is may expect a feucccsful and prosperous year if they handle their money care full' and nvold law and qu.'rrele. A child born on this day r.ny be steady, industrious and p-j-severing, and work for its living. Il tnould be taught thrift and frug?.M.. (Copyright 1921

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