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^ ioaOlHancy and comiptlon of aaasty and tovaahip offlcani hava ooat bba" paapig of Indiana anormoualy, aa bM>MP atiawn in thia papar. In many ' owiM thay hava paid, and heavily, for •aed nadi, and have got vary poor onaa. Whan money baa not batn stolen it hia ba«a wmatad. ahd in either caM tt la tha paobla who baM* tha iOM. For > yaarg tha movemant for good roada haa baaa pvaaaad. But al#ays it haa baan fppMad and fought by tha InSuanoad f that ara paw trying to daotroy tho pond* ' Btt twfbiHPO. Always tho paopia hava ^ bid to fight for what thay ought to Btira had aa a mattar of voursa. And ga it la now. It ia th# mme Md atnigfla batwaan tha people aj^d those who ^ vwit to shin both them iind their roada. , WMp the tagialature ehouid for a mo> ,PMPt liatan to nbjertions and ciiticiamn ' aovntng from the old aour^ we ara gbita tutaMa to underatiuid. tVith tha tiiiorimthg uaa of haavy trueka tha road aatatian haa acquired a new importmicia, niaaa MbOka soon tear up any road that haa pot a hard aurfaca, Aa a result our faada wHt imitdly datariorata. !n om ■BBba thara ara no roads that ara m«ra county roada sine# they all connect, or paghfi to connect, with main thorough- ' faiaa. aad all win hava to bear tha bur> tap af this greatly heavier traffio, We ttaat thtit this legislature win do its 4t^ by tha pedptf. and save this excet-

Awcrtcain an have monar. Boasa of tbm love matebas hava been bnataaM matebaa m wait Thera are toataacaa where the head of a bestneoa baa bean billed or ao badly woMidad aa to ba ttnabla to lead aa aetfvo life in the tana, aad Auarieaa aoeuHn'Iaw are aoMatlBMa taifng «bHy plaeaa. There have baea maniagea batwaen f Engfiab glrla and Ametkemm soldtars. ^ ^ but tJMrr are not nearly ao comaaoB aa i in Franca. PtiB, me Amaiicaai girl baa' little to Umr. Tbom who ware on war! duty abroad ware ea«erty sought by the | Amartcaa aoldiars. The average scAdler, wrltaa batat that an be wants now ii| ordOra to ratani to fha UnBad Btataa.! PoiiM Of them aasy leaa their abroad, but moat of tham wHt tiacic and marry M America. ufAmvmrtm peopaua^ba The fodaral fwmrra board, at tha foqiMM J of tha atata dapartmant, has prahlbitod| alt axahanga tnuwaetJooe between tbai Uniiad itatMi and Bnaala. aad ft ta{ said that tha gwvemnienta of Oreati Btifafa sad Franca wfll BOta iimnar’ aetloa. ft le ballevad that tha perpfMs ^ ia to make It impoeedblo for tha BoI-| sfaevUrt to IfaBaoea their propaganda. | Much of It le, of coansa, paid far, and j it bao bemf diseovared tiust through «b« 1 UM of cxdutnge faeltitiea targe sums I of mcnay had bean tnada avallabla In’ the United BtatM. The new policy la| good M far aa it goes, and It goes fhr.; But more le needed. Iha govemaiatit. must Know who tha BolMiavtk agents I ara. Thay should, every ot»g of them, ns far aa thay oanta under the law, be j deported. Man who prea^ tha doetrhto i am public anamiea. and escaadfaigly J dangarpua onaa. 1C they can not gatj thair evmgaa. thair totaraat In the cause ’ may rapidiy cool, but avan ao tba eoun-! try vHlI |a battnr without them. Those who are hare ehould be seat home, and no othera af thair kind should ba al> lowed to enter. Tha effect of euch poticiea would ha good, both In this country and Russia. The iNmeftcial effect hare is dear enough. But thay would ba quite aa helpful in Bumla, for paopia would leant that there ia p distinction batwaen Bolahav* fam on the one hand, and llbMty and damoq'aey on the other. What men greatly need at tha praaent time dt a demonstration that there la in the wofld a democracy strong enough to defend itself and maintain peace and order. We want here no ‘'freedom, free to day herectf. and dying while they Shout her name,” That !• not th# American type not the freedom of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but an alien thing. It te an alien that we can not permit to be naturalised If we are, as Banator Lodge said yeater* day, ”tha great rampart today againet tha enarchy anl dlaorder which have taken poeeeasion of Ruaaia and are trying to Invade every othar peaceful country in the world,” we must see to It that th# rampart perform* its func-

tions.

THR FRENCH FKELINQ Ths people of Franca aaam to have got into a much more eomfortabie frame of mind. If va may |udga from tha oommanta of eorraapondanta, the points of view of America, and Franca ara much the aama. Thara la a real longing on tha part of tha BVanch for a iee^gua of nations What la tha feeling of the American people Is yet to be learned, though wa know that the pending prosram is Du‘ from satisfactory in Its present form But both peopiee at least agree that there must be the most abundant protection for Franca In Mr. Qllberfa diapatch of yesterday it was said that It has been datarmlned to create a new republic in Oerman territory west of the Rhine, to aar%'e as a buffer state at least till tha indaronity ia paid. After thai^tha people will vote whether they will or will not return to Germany. This new state will include the Saar coal (ielda It may become a permanent part of fVance, or at least be permanently within the French

^uMtalgL. eustoAlaaa, ofBciaia and ail otbess eiaefaed. Tba ciactkxi laws ^^4!d be changed ao the people might have a week to devote to vattng. If members of some of the oomralaMons were eleeted instead eff appointed there woiBd be danger of greater political control than fa now possible. 'Rm vote getter wouM land the plaea ha auught, r^ardleaB of whether M wi qoalflled to hold the plaoa to which ba was ehoaen.

pay, if tt he of the ”rlg!tr sort The death IIM as capital nmy be made to yield handsome retuma The tax almost cMieeta itself, for it can not be dodged as kmg'as the owner of the Hat to hi power, and has* full command of the moh. It to Gtua poasible to ffnanoe a rrrobitloa, and have sotn^htng toft over for Its proinotatu.

SOFF, SOAP AMD 8ALVATI0M BMiop Nlehcdaon. speaktng to those gathered here for tha Methodist missionary centenary, traced the reforms that have been accomplIMied tn recent years and drew' a pictnie of ths fatme. fSpeafcing of tha eeatenary progiam. ba

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THE LRAOUM QUESTION

There fa nothing In tha prisetotos or doctrines of any political party that maksa tt neeaaaary to favor or oppoaa tha toagna af natSone on party grounds.

On the contrary. It to favored by men of | propoaaa Omt wo rsMaea beer, all parBea, and opposed by man of all 1 “booaa” and brothel with soap, aoap parttoa. In bis speech in the senate yea- •»« sMvatfon; that we give a new -w* meaning to cttismiship la America, In uunay, omaior mm ina* no |„ in^i. t^e totos o£ th# sea; wotdd fMiow any man tn any well-coo- that we replace the blighting tnflueoces effort to proBDOte the cause of lot tha saloon With comfortabto parfMi Thatbs was not opposed to ths I with lasidratianal community

pilacliMa to proved by hto proposal, not

to rejimt, but to amend the proposed j ^ ^ .

The btohop says that there wm be a greater demand for personal action and smcrfllce. Dorthg the streM of pa-

servioe aad with a new idea of nelgh-

boibood aad brothertiood.

sphehi of influence. This plan is said

iMt JBU from destruction at the hands j have the support of the An^rlcan

delegation, and thus wa are drawn more

af thaaa who ■MnUiff it

have an interest In de-

A NEW PARK LAW

BsMkad tha park law of 1917 was attafikad to the oourts and may ba inwaltdatad the Indianapolis officials have datamlaad to aeak new Isgisiatien. ObJeetkmabla features tn tha 1117 law ara allminatad in tha bUI and an affort Is nada to obtain a statuto that will meet breaant needs and look to the future. Buell legtoUttnn shtmid have, and doubfieM wilt htue, popular approval. Tha day is gone whan there is any quMtion about the adxiaability vt spending money f»tr parks. People everywhere reco.,nl*.« their value to the com-

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the proper legislation under which such parks may be created and maintained. The proposed changes In the law taka cars of theec and othar Important quea-

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U Is well to give the city power to iasua such b^mda as ara neceaMiry to carry an the work and to permit tbOM bonte to run long enough so that their redemption will not otMise hardship and will not tend greatly to Increase currant expenses. The permatumt and growing value of parka Is recogniaed and there la no reason why future geaerathMa should not have a share in paytag for them. Another good feature 111 tha proposed law to that which places pabHe ptaygrounds under tito Jurlsdlcaf tba park teard. Theie is no gind rMMn for the praeant divtaioa of ^ I MARRIAOE^ ollieeni in Parts ere rapHTlhva aattmetad recently that who went overseas riki br to other capacities tn FVMca. Many aMdiers •pMying'to Amarioaa busl'fo Parig. etthto for positions to hew they should FCMich bustneas life. _ axosption they have ia the place for liluMi tfekt tt would be batter fos j|P tatnrn. Some of them, how hrtaild to May in Fmnce. Some of i'llfo In tove with French girls, and

deeply into the care of European affairs. American support, says Mr. OUbert, “will explain the sudden untangling of dipionutoy at tha peace ednference, the cessation of attacks on Prasident Wilson hy tha French press, tha French .support of tha laagua of nalions. now 1. booomln, onoanllfled, the rrench acceptance of economic provlslona In the armlstica, and the French wIllingnMs to speed up the

peace treaty.”

This buffer etate policy will afford to Fmnce a much needed prottotion, and in the second piece it will assure to her an abundant supply of coal until her own fields, wrecked by the

Are restored. It is good to

ooMCitnttoB. He pointed out that there | wu a serious departure from precedent | and imditfon, and tnstoted that the de-i ciston to be made weui of fn<Hiientm» tas- < portanea. sa It to. The senator even went so far as to admit that tt might, in the tntMest of paaea. ba neceasary to sUbandon the Monroe doctrine, tmt ha thought that tba nation “should rafiact and hesitate before tt acta” The coBstltution proposed ha found dafeetlve in many partleulam The Monroe doctrine should, he thought, ha axpreasiy excluded from tha covenant, as should immigration and other intiumal quaetlofia States ahotUd. In his optn* ion. ba permitted to withdraw peaceably from the laaime. and we should know whether “th# league la to hava an International force of its own. or la to have the power to summon the armed forces of its members,” and whether the m«tmbars would be subject to the orders of the league's executive council. The terms of the constitution are, the senator argued, loosely dmwn. and before the United States ratifles the agreement it should insist that It be mad exact and as free from conflicting Interpretations as possible. Ag it is now, the constitution would tend to produce dissension and controversy. "We all desire peace,” he said, "but we must be careful not to create now obllgatlous and new and untried condition# which may lead to fostering war mther than

peace.”

Senator Lodge warned the nation of the rtak involved In departing from tmdttlonaJ pollcfes: Thera is an issue involved in the league constitution preeented to us which overshadows all othera Ws are asked to depart now for the first time from the foreign pollcim of Washington, We ara Invited to move away from George Washington toward the other end of the line at which stands the sinister figure of Trotxkj, the champion of Internationalism. We have In this country a government of the peopla, for the people, and by the people, ths freest and beet government In the world, and we are the great rampart today against the anarchy and disorder which have taken possMsion of Russia and are trying to invade every other peaceful country in the world. For Lincoln’s government of the ^people, for the people, and by the people, we are asked to substitute in th# United States on many vital polnte, government of. for and by other pe<H?to> Pause and consider well before you take this fateful step. We must build no bridges acroM tha chasm which now separates American freedom and order from Russian anarchy and destruction. We must see to It that the democracy of the United States which has prospered so mightily in the past, la not drawn by any hasty error or by any glittering delusions, through specious devices of super-na-tional government within the tolls of InternaUonal socialism and anpehy. The delays to negotiating peace with Germany ■were regretted. Senator Is>dge

said:

Much time has Open wasted.' The delays have bred restlessness and .confusion everywhere. Germany is ^fting her head again. The whimpering after defeat is changing to threats. She^^ls seeking to annex »,<M0.(W0 of Germans In German Austria. She la reaching out in Russia and reviving her financial and commercial penetration everywhere. Germany is again threatening and the only source of a great war is to be found for the future sa for the past in Germany, ^e should be ch|^toed and fettered now and this menace to world peace removed. But Senator Lodge did not oppose the creation of some sort o^ league. It would be a Md tiring If the American people oouid not consider and discuM the great questions involved to this scheme far removed ftom the atmosphwre of partisan politics. For there Is nothing partisan about it. Senator I.odge made known the grounds of his objections to the constitution as now proposed and did it rather as an American citisen and senator, than as a partisan.

Thirteen Lincoln Voters Creencastie Residents

CASE AND COMMENT

{foeeisl to The Indlenstxriis GRECINCABTI^ Ind., March L—Thirteen men. ranging to age from ninetytwo down to ^Ighty-ooe, live to this dty, aad an of them cast a vote to IM for Abraham Uneoln for President of the United Statoa Six of them served tn the dvO war. It is bdleved there are that naaay more Itvfng here who -voted for Irincoln to laii and time are setnoml here who voted for Steiriien A. Donglaas against Lfncola. The mAn voting for Ltoctrin tn IfiM follow: Greenberry (TBalr. Otlvsr H. Smith. Phillip Albaiigh, James H. C. Nelson. O. H. Wnilamson, Walter J. Ashton. J<riin T. MsgUi. James Daggy. Jiunes Riley Weaver. Rtcbard M. Baker. Jcweirii Johnson. J. C. Peck and Wesley Bcllcr# The six ■arlio served during tha dvU war are: J. C. Peek, Blcfiard M. Baker, James Riley Weaver. JaznM Daggy. Jhhn T. Magin and Walter J. Ashton.

Weather Forecast for Week

know that the French are now satisfied with the economic provisions of the armlstica. for«that means that there will now be no ssHous obstacle to their adoption by the conference. If that Is true little dlfilculiy should be experlanced In reaching an agreement Tha restored cordially will do much to help

forward the negotiations CRXTRAUXiNO POWER

Lieutenant-Governor Bush la taclinsd to haileve that wa are tending too much to tha centralisation of power. Governor Goodrich believes In. and the Republican state platform calls for. a certain amount of eentraltxation. The Republkmn legtsiature was elected on that platform, and it has no reason to suspect that the people do not want now what they voted for last November. The Lieutenant-Governor ts so opposed to centralisation that he would have members of boards add commissloas elected Instead of appototld. The bill I that he asked Senator McCray to ia{troduee provides for the appointment of a commission to study the advisability of having the members of the public servioa commission, industrial board, state board of tax oommissionera and various other oflictais elected. The trouble with the ballot now is its length. Voters may remain in the voting booth only a short time. They are thus unable to give each name consideration. Moat of them renHonbar the nominees for tha head# of the tickets, but they could not name the

the end of

triotic endeavor people forgot their aelfWhncM to some extent and were ^mrred oo to untisual efforta There is danger now tost they may slip back, into toefr old sheU of sslflshneas. AU of toe worto problems aad more parUculariy all of the American problems csit for todlvtdual wllUngneaa to be of service to the community. If toe Individual atands right with his cons^nce and with his neighbor there will ba leas of greed, leas of graft and leM of crime of all kinds. Bishop Nicholson recognises that the liquor traiRo' is about ended tn this country. He does not admonish the former saloon loungets to read a good book or think beautiful thoughts. He proposes to do something to fill toe gap made by the eradication of th# saloon. Hs bellsves that soup. s6ap and salvation ara better than beer, boose and brothela- Undoubtedly h# is light, and the problem ts to make the Individual act on that belief. The church, having aided In driving out toe aaloon. must give a large portloii of Its kttentlon to providing a substitute. Whenever th# church can enter Into the life of the individual to a greater extent than at present it will have taken another forward step and wilt have made 'so muto additional progress.,

When it cam# to getting European support for the league, one of the best thlnM toe President did was to come home for a week. There must be some road contractors, however, who do not wish to cheat toe taxpayers, thamaelves Included. Of course, If the aiUes leave the Russian Bolshevfkl alone long enough, they may dispose of thenwelvea And If a fellow owned one of Hawthorne's miraculous pitchers, he always could have Just one gallon on hand.

Mr. Lodge proved that the President didn't change the sSnators' minds by dettveiing a speech prepared before the conference.

One thing about March, the weather is never the same long °eBongh to become monotonous If there is to be no extra session, the task of congress Is irimply to vote affirmatively and in a hurry. Occasionally on# finds a ppUtlcian who really believes what he says about his opponents. The 1100 a day penalty wtm’t hurt the company when the gas haa more than fOO B. T. U.. BO why remove the threat? The number of "blind tiger” arrests also shows that none is 'wlliing to preriit by the experience of another. So many women drive their ears nowadays. that they could easily learn to operate a voting machine. Senator Weeks, however, did manage td strike <me popular note when he complained of the general postal service. With the minimnm price of hogs still up. and the wheat guaranty assured, the farmer should worry even if he does lose a little daylight.

The firs department has been so busy lately that moat of Its prevention work has been in keeping the flames from spreading to other buildings.

The optimist can see that a cold snap now will retard tha buds and psrhape save the fruit later in toe spring. Apparently a lot of folk didn't know that tho plcrture shows were open on Sunday until the recent agitation developed. The legislature, by passing a comparatively few bills, will effect a saving In white paper when the laws are pub-

lished.

Before marriage they belong to business women’s organisations, afterward

to card clubs.

The mbrits of legislation are in proportion to the strenuousness of the opposition of the “interests” to It

Perhaps the longer the government holds the roads the more willing the public will be to give them back.

Keeping a “blind tiger” BSCms to be

'becoming more of a luxury.

UERKNECHTS FORTUNE An oflSclal dispatch recency received from Stockholm gave some interesting Information about Karl Llebknecht, the assassinated Spartaean leader. The man had a bank account of ia.(»0,0(» marks — nominally 13,000,000. and It is said that it WS4S growing rapidly. The source of his Income was. It seems, a “death list" of the Bolshevist variety, on which appeared the names of prominent business msn and politicians. It is not clMir whether one whose name iMice got on the list could get it off by paying cash. But by putting up money wealthy men could — or thought they could — keep their name# from going on the list One person paid HIO.COO marks for this purpose. No doubt the same methods have

been used in Russia.

So the hated bourgeoeie have a part to play, and a rather Important one, even In toe new Bolshevist regime. Of course the mob could kill them all and seise their property. But from such a policy as that the leaders would derive no profit For their purposes toe “death list” Is much more effecti've. The bour-

geosie can be kept alive, and forced to work for toe enrichment of such men as} As » harbinger, the robin isjGl nght,

' of course, but that Salem prediction of the best strawberry crop that ever hai^

With the experiences of Belgium and Luxemburg so fresh in mind the new Rhine republic, which desires to be a buffer state, displays wondrous nerve

and courage.

A “reasonable time” In which to return the railroads to the owners miidit mean any time from a day to an aga No war, no congreM. no legislature, no campaign — my, what a dull summer we have before us!

Deimty assessors say that their pay is not sufficient? Aw. gwan, that's what

everybody says!

that katwssn I8,fi0d and

soldtaf* have married | nominees that appear at

at tita American soldier is that of toe French itljr asaiTlagea have It Msmsd toat toe

them. With the country demanding a shorter ballot, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor suggMts Qie advtsabUlty of making toa iMriiat longer. Ha might go stili furtoar and have toe doorkeeper^

Ltebknecht. This, of course, is but a modification of an old scheme, though It has never before been thought of as an essential part of an enlightened social system. Sometimes it takes the form of blackmail. Another variant ts the threatening letter, demanding a large sum of money under peMlty of death for refusing to comply. Again, children have been stolen and held for ransom. All these practices have heretofore been thought to be criminaL Bui now we see that they are essential parts of social regeneration after the Bolshevist moML It is not a very difficult matter to make a ravolutloa

peced is even more interesting. Also, before anything is done about rescinding that order penaiixtng the gas company 1100 a day for fa&lng to fulfill Its contract. It would be a good thing for the city to ctrilect what’s coming to it Not even the most intensely loyal American yet has suggested printing the hotel menus in the HtogUsh language. — Another objection to an extra session now might be that so many of the oonptressmen have been away from thetr txmstltuenta so long.

WABHINGTON, March L—Weather predictions for the week beglnlng Moev day. issued by toe weather tmivau today. are: North and middle Atlantic states: Dtaturbances attended by rains and enows Monday or Tuesday and again about Friday. Temperature will be below normal ‘during toe greater part of toe week South Atlantic and east gulf states: Dlsturttnncea attended by rainu Monday or Tuesday and again about Fr’dav. Temperature will average Mar or below normal during greater part of tha week. West gulf states: Diiiturbaaces attended by rains Monday and again Thursday cr Friday. Temperature will average below normal during the week. Ohio valley and Tennessee: Disturbances attended by rains and snows Monday and again Thursday or Friday. Temperature below normal much of the ct»ming week, •Rs^on of the Great I..dtea: Dtaturbancee Monday and aMln TTinraday or Friday, resulting in unsettled weather and frequmt local snows during week. Temperature conalderabiy below normal first half and normal second half of the week. tapper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys: Disturbances attended by snows Monday and again about Thursday. Low temperature at the beginning of the week followed by a return to normal bv Wednesday and will ba above norma! thereafter. Northern Rocky mountain and plateau regions: Local snows Monday, followed by generally fair weather thereafter, until about Thursday, when unsettled weather and local anows are again probable l4»w temperature at the beidnnlng of the week will be followed by normal temperature after Wednesday. Southern Rocky mountain and plateau regions: Oenerallv fair weather except that local snoris are probable Monday and again about Thurada}'. Tempe^ure beJow normal much of the week. Pacific states: Except for occasional rains on the nortti Pacific coast, generally fair with t^perature below normal.

An Example for Canada

flCbBtreal Starl Two hundred and fifty million dollars of a deficit and running behind at the rate of fi.iXiO.OW dollars a day. That, spiking roughly, is ths net result so far of ths attempt made by the government of the United States to^ take over and run the railways of that

country.

When the Wilson administration decided i’ WM necessary to take the manafoment of the country’s railroads out of the hands of the men who had built and operated them It wm done as a “war measure” and because there wm an unfortunate lack of tM ro-operatlon necessary for wartime conditions among

ths existing lines.

The government took the railways

over, and what happened?

To keep the lines running at all under the resultant confusion of the transfer Mr. McAdoo poured 1880,000.000 out of the treasury at once. That ehoutd have been enough, but It WMn’t. He boosted freight and passenger rates by '40 per cent.—a thing no private company' on earth would have dared to do—and he cut the service to the very bone, cut it to the point of actual discomfort for passengers and to the danger point for

many manufacturers.

And the net result of ail this—so far at least—ts a deficit of I2SO.000.000 and a daily loss, M hM been said, of about

$1,000,000.

What legitimate reaimn cap be given to JustiD'’ Canada’s deliberately putting her head into the same noose?

To Victor Befongs the Spoils

(Specisl to The Indianapolis NewS] BEDFORD. Ind., March l.-ThomM Flinn, a farmer of Bond, this county, lost his pocketbook, containing fopr checks and two 120 bills. A cow found the pocketbook and chewed It up. The bills were mutilated so that it is Impossibl# to get their numbers. The checks were drawn by his neighbors, who will majfe them good.

For Returned Soldiers

[Speelal to Tb« Indianapolle N#*rs1 TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March l.-At a banquet to be given by the Terra Haute Retail Merchants’ Association on March 5, each merchant will bring m a guest a returned soldiers of this city. W. T. Cheney is president of the association. Several hundred are expected to attend.

INDIANA DEATHS

COL.UMBU8, Ind , March 1 —Charles *lssler. age ninety, a plwieer farmer in Barthol^ew county, died yesterday at his, home in Taylorviile Ho is survived by a widow and four children. Oscar Ziegler. Henry Ziegler Webber Ziegler and Mra IMck Ooble HUNTINaTON. Ind.. March l.-Fiwderlck Martin Hsrran, age forty-flra. died at his home near this dty Friday. Surviving are a widow, one son. one daughter and Ufree

brothers.

EDWOOD, Ind.. March 1.—Mra Marian Plackard, age elgbty-three. is dead at her home in Orestes She Is sundvad by h#r husband and two aona. Everett Plackard

and Edward Plackard.

JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind . March l.-Robert Clapp. Jr. age flfty-one. is dead of induwiaa at his home In Marvaville. He is survived by a widow, two sons, two daughter! and

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father....Ernest Sherrerd

dead of pneumonia. He le survived by e

widow and four (dilldren.

age Oftj^. is

OOLUMBU CITT, Ind., March 1-The Rev P. R. Johnson, age thirty-nine, circuit minister of the Wesleyan chapel, the Charter CkOt churcb and the Blue River Methodist Epiecos>al church for the lest three years, died of Influenza at his home In Cburubusco yesterday. A widow and one daugbtw survive Mrs. lavina McClond. age sixty, was found deed of beait at her home here yesterday. OREENSBCRO. Ind., Marc# 1 —Word has beset received here of the deeth of Roberta, age seventy-one. at Danvlile. III. He formerly lived here. Surviving are three sons., one betBg Robert A Roberta, of thia city. GREKKCASTLE, Ind., March 1 —Thomas Jefferson Phipps, age slxty-two. died of heart disease at bis home here yesterday. Be ts survived by a widow, two sons and oite daughter, KEWCAffTUB. Ind- March 1.—Henry Huddleeon, age seventy-four, is deed of heart disease at hts heme tn Dunreith Besidee a widow, he it survived hy one daughter and one son Mrs. Sarah J. Coffman, age seventy-six. is dead at her home here after a kmg iUnesa Her bushaod sunrlvea. ANDERSON. Ind. March L—Miss Ruth Taylor, «!aughter of Hr. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor, is dead here....Mr* Minnie Hurber. age fortv-flve. is dimd at her home near Summitville. Her husband and one daughter survive. - MARION. Ind., March L—Frank Draper, age fifty-three, died of a oofspilratlon of iHaMffTiif at hlB home here yeeterday after a long ninesB...,Wttliam Striber. age eighty, seven, a veteran of the civil war. and one •f the eouaty's ploaeer rastdante. died st

Lent The world during toe last four and a half reara 1im heen living in a very real Lent, aad Indeed te ittlli »o Ihrlng. _ For humanity has been Tke Beat . lad — or drivM — into a Self moral wHderness, and it hM been tempted hy the devil almost daily. And toe temptatfons have appealed to toe iriiysleal nature, and to the deepest spiritual instiBCta. Some have yielded to the temptatton to preeum* on the power aad mercy of God. aad others have been daxxled—and led 1°, their ruin—by toe vlaion o< “the klngd<»B8 of the world and the i^ory of toem.” The testing time te not over— it never wlli he over while life lasts. Indeed, Ufa itsalL properly eonsidttred, to a Lent. Tliaie to not a day that goes by wttooot tta oall to sacrlllca and self-daniaL and its demand for tha sahjeetlon of tha body to toa spirit. There tt not aa hour of tlw day that doM not bring temptatlODa Bat wa oaa see all tola better aad more <riearly £n times of great stress aad strain, aad can gain strength for the dally toll and straggle by setting aside a portkm of eato year for a study of Ilf# and Its orobleiiia In their relation to the infintta Thme ts much virtue to be got out of a dtedirilne that ta self-imposed, and. thwefora, in no sense obligatory. So It te poastble evoa yet that men may be "led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.** and being ao led It must of neoessity ba for a good purpose. It certainl# to true toat there are few experlencee frwn which one may not derive proflL The question te erne of using them rightly and drawing the true moral from them. Therefore. It is that the prineipie that underltes Lent hM a very direct bearing on human fife and its conduct. Knowledge and understanding of ft. and loyalty to it, are great helps to an who are trying to live lives worthy of humanity at its best. That principle Is nothing else than the exaltation of the best self, even at the cost of suffering, m against the worst self. What te sought ts toe rule of toe individual life by the part that ought to rule. That there to a virtue even in temptations te not difficult to see. At IsMt it is posMbie to make them work out into good. They are obstacles TesipCattswi to acbievsment, hut strength is gained hy resisting or overcoming them. A great poet hM told us that we shottld “welcome each rebuff that turns earth’s smoothness rough,” and he prayed “be our Joys three parts pain.” And the same poet—Browning—ihves us this: JWhv comes temptation but for man to

meet

And master and make crouch beneath Me

foot

And so be pedestailed In triumph? Pray “Lead ue into no euch temptatlona. Uord!” Tea. hut. O Thou, whose amvants are tbs bold. 0 Lead such temptatiMW by the head and

heir.

Reluctant dragone. up to who dares fight, That so he may do battle and have praise. There is a cowardly theory of life which is extremely popular these days, a theory that men are weak and helpless. quite unable to stand alone, and that therefore it is the duty of church and state to shield them from all Influences that might conceivably harm them. The Browning doctrine may not be wholly sound, but tt te at least hsroio and virile, and recognlxes that there is a power in man capable of great things if it hM a chanoe to exert Itself. The handcuffed pickpocket Is still a pickpocket. and none the less so because he is unable, while fettered, to pursue hla vocation. He does not yield to temptation simply because he can not. But his will consents, and it would drive him were he Tee to follow its impulsion. When we think of temptations we think of those that prompt to outwardly flagrant sins. Perhaps these are not the most terrible. There are temptations to sloth, selfishness, pride, hypocrisy and neglect of duty-agalnst these there can be nq shield. The^' must be faced and conquered if men are ever to reach their “heavenly best” There is many a “miserable sinner” who passes for a virtuous man or woman. On the other hand. Fiere are many whom the wortd calls sinners, who have the divine impulse stirring within their souls. Probably the worst temptation of all is that to unreality. Lent is designed to bring men face to face with the realities of Ufe. and to give them the power to see things m they are—to see theipReaHttea selves m they are. Out cf the temptatlona of Christ the world got three great realities: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of th# mouth of God”; “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God”; and “Thou Shalt worship the Lord toy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” So it is that out of every temptation a great spiritual experience may be derived. Men may be better or worse-whfeh it shaU be depends on themselves. Thers are unreal ways of keeping Lent, Just as there are unreal ways of doing everything. But there is nothing unreal about Lent itself. The wilderness is real, the temptations are real, and man is real. Also the moral te rc 1. as Is the character that develops out of the reactions hAat week we celebrated the hundredth annlver^ of the birth of James Russell Lowell, who wrote the following brave

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,—thev were souls that stood alon# While the men they agonized for burled the contumelious stone. Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect Justice, mastered bv their faith divina By one man's plain truth to manhood and to Ood's supreme design. By the light of burning heretics Christ'g bleeding feet 1 track. Toiling UP now Calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back. And these mounts of anguish number bmw each generation learned Ohe new word of that grand Credo which la prophet-hearts hath burned Steee the first man stood God-conquered w{th his face to heaven upturned Tt is. after all, a question of being “God-conquered," for the best self In the nature of man te the divine life. The conquest of man by something else and other than his physical nature te perhaps toe "far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves.” At any rate it te toe goal toward which prcigresB te directed. And progress Is marked by many a “cross that turns not back," Perfection through suffering seems to be a law of life. Men may revolt against it, but the law holds And realities are realities, even though we may refuse to believe in them.

The Individual There la in Lent a great lesson for toons enmi^ed }a what we now call social aervlce, m for every (me else. No <me tn hts sonsea Social Seswtea would do or say any thing to discourage or dishearten so(rial workers. But they, lika all other men and woman, have thair faults. There te nothing greater than aervioe of others, unless tt be the training of others to serve and help toeraselvea Every one should be engaged in aodal servico-and moat ara—for It is tha duty of ail to do something to strengthen and sweeten toe social order. But the words hava come to have a spedtel and limited meaning. Often that meaning te very tndeftotte. The weak must be helped, toe poor relieved, the broken restored, the sick healed, and the sloaera reclaimed. But toe trouble te that ao many Interested ta this work think wholly In terms of etasaea, and almost never fn terms of tha tadtvMual If we <muld but turn aoeiaty upoida down—such m the theory of some—all would be walL One class te altogether guilty, and aniriher Is altogether Innocent, solely toe victim of the former. As a matter of fact, there are no «u(ffi classes. In every stratum pf society there are good and bad people, smd weak people and strong. This te precteely the teaching of Lent,, and indeed of the Chrtetian religion. If society were overturned tomorrow tt wot.d. within a few years, be back on the oM haste—indeed, this process te said to be going on in Russia at top prasent time. One esm be a sodai worker without being a Soctelist. an anarchist, or a BotehevlM. A great many of the sine of Individuate are ehouldered off hy sentimentalists on society or the social organisation which, thou^ far from perfect, te steadily Improving. and will continus to Improve. Lent teaches, rif It teaches anything, the doctrine of individuakl responsibility, and It te a wholesome doctrine. Men grow strong by meeting their responslbititles To teach them, or to lead them *to believe otherwise, te to make them teas effective aad valuable as members

of society.

There are as many opportunities In this imuntry m there ever were;, and more men than ever are taking advantage of them. The race Self is healthief. more vigorous, better cared for and more Intelligent and moral than ever before In the htetiwf of the world. Therefore there does not seem to be any call for a whining gospel. Rather toe world needs a large infusion of the heroBlm that Informs the lenten message. Belf-dlsclpline. self-sacrifice, self-improvement, and salf-halp in all that is good and worthy—surely It is well to emphaslie these somewhat more than many do. Men should think of self M an agent of service, rather than a personality to be served. Much good would come from co-operation along this line. There are people engaged In social servtc!# who guide their lives by thsse principles, but there are others who seem to be chiefly ambitious to be great reformers and rebulldefs. who can see no hope unless their schemra are put into operation. They would do well to remember toat life, whether Individual or social, te based on character, and that character can not ba strengthenad by teaching men that thay hava no powar ovar their lives, but ara tha helplees vietlma of a bMe and ci*uei social ergantaation. Christ’s appeal—and this te the appeal of His temptatlon-te to the iadividual. He did not make men weak by telling them that they were weak. On toe contrary. He Msumed that they were strong enough to do whatever they were called on to do. Sympathetic and tender beyond all others who ever lived on earth. He expected and demanded great things of humariity at a time when It wm In finitely worse off in every way than it is today. He healed and helped and fed those who fcrilowed Him, but Ha Blfft expected much of them. This hM been the attitude of all great leaders, both civil and military. Appeals to heroism, and summonses to hard tMks have never fallen on deaf ears. They never will unless humanity 1% debilitated by being taught that It to abused

and helpless.

Surely toe lenten meseage is* that each soul te responsible for its own sins, and that for its own sins each soul must repent. It te by IndlvldPerffeetlaai uals that the spirit of setf-mcrifice and self-re-nunciation must be shown. It te not to congress or the legislature that we must look for human perfection. That must be toe frult-if it te won at aJl-of individual effort and struggle. Thar# can be no perfect society unlcteb it to composed of perfect individuate. That te why the message of Chrtatlanlty, though It te tha most social religion the world ever knew, is addressed to the Individual. Unless men are. m the saying te. right with' themselves and with God, they can not be right with the society of which they are a part Unless there is this rightness, society, no matter what form It may take, can not be right The Christian call—and it ought to shame Christians—is to a life of hardness It te also a ,^!aU to a life above the plane of matei^al existence. Men may doubt m much as they plekse, and scoff at the “divine Impoasibillties of religion,” but It Is nevertheless a fact, attestM by history, that men or nation# that did not live above materialities Inevitably^sank to a lavel below that of the beMts. There could have been no progress had there been no aspiration, no reaching forward and upward to something better and truer, Of this Lent reminds us It te both a challenge and an Inspiration, a challenge to high endeavor, and an Inspiration to make that endeavor succeesful. “Inhere your treasure te, there will your hean be also." The words are deeply true It is hardly too much to say that what a man loves, seeks and admires, toat ■am# he te. Tlmt te why it te so neceasary for him to teach himself to love, seek smd admire all that te best, noblest and most elevated. There can be no< doubt that there is tn life a higher and a lower, and there te m little that the higher is to be preferred, or rather to be sought, to the exclusion of tho lower. Men of vision, to whom the world hM always looked for leadership, have never failed to act on that prinetpte.

In Earliest Spring Toestas hts mane tn wtifiezt efifiiss aa# tanict^ Lfon-lik« Malt* eomctfi in. hoarse, with temiMstuou* Iweatli, Thnmgh sit tha moaning chimneys sad thwart all tha hollows and anerles RoaBd tha ahtiddwiBf houm. throating ef wiatar and death. But ta my haart I feat the lUe of wood and meadow Thrllltng the pulsan that own kindred with flhara that Uft Bod and Made to tha aaaward. within the InemitaMe Wiedow, Deep ia the oak's chill eora, uadsr the gathering drift. Nay, to aarth’s life in mine some prse^esea or (hream or darire <How anait I aama it aright?} ooama for a montant and gees— Rapture af Ufa. fnattabla, pwfoct—as tt la tha hrtMT. I.esl!as» thwe hy* my door, trsmhtad g sense of the roes —William Daaa Uowslte.

SCRAPS

Every hearth or fireplace In Eni^and taxed Ilk the reign of CliarlM II. Italy has some 4.890,(10(1 lemon trees, which produce 1.300^000.000 lemems a year. It hM been eatlmated that steamers are 50 per cent safer than sailing vessel# The lleur-da-lte, more generally kiwsm as the irta, te tha nattanal flower of France. Airplanes ara now being announced for the use of rangera, sportsmen and tourists England te preparing for a oelebratlon next year of the 100th anniversary of the birth ol Florenoe Kightlniale, “toe angel of mercy,” Spain enjoys more sunshine than any other country in Europe. Its yearly avaraim te 3,000 hours, while In England tt te only about 1,400 houra. A decrease of nearty W) per cent in requests from emplover# for female help te noted in reports received by the United States employment service from its agents throughout the country. Sheet Iron is rolled so thin at tha Pittsburg Iron mlils toat 15,000 sheets are required to make a single Inch in thickness: light shines M readUv through one of these sheets as through ordinary tissue paper, KaJlors have a curious way of knowing when their ship la approaching land. They go to Mother Nature for their knowledge. If you are on toe ship they may ask you to feel th# deck, which te wet with dew. Even ibotigh the stare are shining clearly, and the sea te absolutely smooth, the deck seems as though water bad been poured acrosa It. The sailor will then Inform you that dew Is never to be found more than thirty miles from land, »o the dew te a good Indication. St. Petersburg, toe modern capital of Rusata, now known m Petrograd. was founded in 1TO8 by Peter the Great, who died m years ago. Peter first built a small hut for himself and a few wooden hovels. The majority of nobiee, however, preferred that Moscow should remain the scat of government, but Peter was determined to build a new capltnl, and tn 1711 he laid, with his own hattds. the foundation of hte palace, which was built of brick Peter wm an extraordinary character and RumUi's rise to a great power was largely due to his genius. St. IgmJs and New Orleans, at the head and at tha foot of the Mtestsatppl valley, have been the cities favored vHth a sight of the Ch-oss of Revtgny, before which Joan of Arc worshiped. All of the sacred image nave one crucified hand has been blown away by German shell fire, but the cross Itself was found in fair oondHfon amid the wreckage of the cathedral. France feels an especial kinship with these two American communities ol old French traditions, and now that th«y have seen ths cross it will be sent back to be mounted In the great war mussum. Neariy ail of our military terms and designations are derived from th# Normans These d«ilgnatlona are marahai, general, colonel, major, captain, adjutant, cornet, IteutenanL ensign, officer, sergeant, oorporal and soldier. *?}]# military terms are siege, maneuver, trench, tactics, march, Invasion, assault, aical,ada, encampment, column, battsry, fortification, battalion, bombardment, reconnoteeance, enfilade, army, regiment, company, military, artillery, militia, cavalry, Infantry, volunteer, etc. These are in strong contrast to the sea terms, neariy all of which are pure AngloSaxon. South America can Boast of the simplest poatolfice in tha world. Opposlts Tlerra del Fuego le a very high, rocky cliff overhanging the Strait of Magellan, and from one of the rocks te suspended, by a lorjg chain, a barrel which receives mail. To be sure, there te no postmaster nor Is there any reguiar letter carrier or collector, but every ship that foes through ths strait stops and aendu a boat to this curious little postoffice, looks over the letters that are in it to see if there are anv for the men on board that particular ship, and places therein letters for seamen on board ships that are known to be headed for the strait.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

hts home in Jonesboro yesterday... Mrs CaroUne Miner. m*e seventy, of Van^rea. mother of Dr. J. M. Toney, of yanboren. ia dead at hw home after a long lUneaa

IncomB Tax Deductions

WASHINOTON. March L—Contributions to war chest funds, war campaign community funds, and similar enterprises in support of war relief work may be deducted in figuring nel income for taxation purposes, the internal revenue bureau announced today. Gifu or donations to churches, or to funds for church activities similarly are deductibls. 'This te an InterpretaUon of the legal provision permitting deductions for conations to ln<mrpomtsd charitable or religious institutions.

Loan Appeals Selected

WASHINGTON, March Iv-Dteptey advertisement# for toe Victor Liberty loan campaign were choswn today by a committee composed largely of advevifsing men, invited to Judge toe formt. already prepared. For more than a month expert advertising copy writers had been engaged in preparing dteplay copy for the loan. The* ropy commlttro was compo-^ej cf TbomM A Wood, Phliadelphta- joseph A- Appel, New Yoriu Robert rinsman, New York; Henry C. Brown, Uamden. N. J.; Wrtitot A. Pattereon, Chicago: Lewis B. Franklin, director of the treamipy’s war loan organisation, and Prank R. Wilson, director of loan pub-, licity.

We have ae tafenMttan eeneeratag fos toeatiea &t orgnalaatieM, er teisast sv salltag ef treeps'efoer tliM foot pfollsJied foesk day ta day ta The Ifeirs, sag foerefere «aa aet give additieaal lalanMttoa as to thetr heaseeeaatag. _ OeBwteve—Ws know of news. “ H. T. 8 -At Engllsh'a March 24. B. ArmstroBg—Iibpomthle to sey. Thirty-fifth Balloon Compeny~l>oR’t know, A Roedsr—Th# 94eth Infantry is in ths Itth flivtslon. F. G.—No ruling hat y#t beat mada on •uch a caae. A. L. M —The tlSth trench mortar hattory ta In the ttih dtriaton. L. M.—Wo have no Infonnation furthar than that glvan in the dispatch. Constant Reader—Tho Tth diVlafon is with the Xd army. Thors te no Atfa arnwFku'd 8. Huffman—Ths noafnclvil ssrvkw szamlnatton for railway mail clerks will bo on Marcl# 16. A War Mother-Don’t know, m Ttoos ships have been arriving daily at Atlantis oorts. Robert Kirk. 8r.—It haa been dons ia favorablo seasona by using an early variety for both ptantlnss. W, 8. W.—If it aattod It has probably arrivod. Csfialnljr nothing has. happened to It r tt would hav# beta repertod Demglas V. Cookr-D^teJma mads tha MBmile track rvm4 tn mi, driving a Mwcedes. With an average of Wft snltes an hour. e A. N. a-|teo books on ttoewoti^rit the tty Hbrarr. Oonaolt the reforenes clerk. .2) can not looata ths oiganizatlon. (*) Can not recommend a receipt. H. H fonith—8o-vl-st; Bol Gong ol-ahe-vs-e. accent on last syllable; bar-rags, acoeat a first syllable in English; bar-rahth. aoeeat wi last syllabia as used in Fmies: aviation and avlatiw, lotg a, por>ti<sr. short a, aoosnt a last syllabia O. A. W.—AdJutant-Geneml flmUh aaya that the* regulation* proscribe that *U honorabb discharged soldier* shall b* furntshsd with two sc*rlet-4:bevrona to be worn on th# left sleeve, point up, midway between the elbow •ad the shoulder. of the cherieaa 1* tor the overooat and (foe for the ooat. All soldtera who saw service overseas for * mrtod of si* month* will wear th* gold chevron on the left sleeva four Inebewfroin the bottom of the sleeve. An additional gMd chevron will be worn for each additionai six months* ssrvtee overseas., Soldlere who saw teas than Mz months’ ssrvic# overseas win wear a ble* chevron on the left sleeve, four inches from the bottom of the sleeve. All aoldlera who saw asrric# in the United Biate* for a period of six month# wilt wear tho silver chevron oo th# l#ft|fle*v#, four Irrhro from the bottom of tbe-ifi«l^ a An •ddltional chevron will be worn fo# ^ch additional atx-months’ aarvlce. Th* w>»nd f^wron should be worn on the rixht ateeva. font Inch** from the bottom of the steeve, and Is of gold, ctievron* worn below the elbow •hould be worn with the point dowa aai thoee above the elbow should be a ora with th* point up_

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