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Established as The Indianapolis Journal in IKS. The Indianapolis Sunday Sentinel absorbed tn THE SILENCE OF LOVE. Much of the interest and profit to be obtained from the reading of the New Testament may be missed by those who do make a practice of browsing in the various translations which have been riven to us hv modern scholars. There is. of course JOHN C.

SHAFFER, EDITOR. v.poi.IS STAR THE TKRRE HALTE STAR it is i ii.e Ci'ior ot i book affects popularity a men-: readers at the library. A red hook is almost One must pick it up and open it to see hat its redness i about. Somehow in that color is romance, hilarity. curiosity, mtrii'ie.

sentiment, phil-i osophy. A red hook always looks I as if it is the very one you have lone been seek mi; on library shelves. THE Ml'NCIE 8TAR THE CHICAGO EVENING POST MEMBER OF THE AUU.ut.u anJ affection tnat many of Readers frequently ask at the loan desk for the library book which has been picked up while they went out The Associated Prvss is exclusively entitled to the have fw of the authorized, or Kin-Hrer ven-ion. That especially true of person! local news published herein. in their childhood became familiar with its charm and beauty, and to whom certain passages NATIONAL ADVEUTI.Sl.Nii REPRESENTATIVES: that more than three centuries old rendering are KEI.L -SM II COM I ANY associated with experiences of joy or sorrow, with XJL.

raor meraories whif are tenderly cherished. But there is often more in the Greek original DO YOU KNOW THAT- I than any one translator derives from it and con-The Bedford-BloOtnington UnVStOne veys in his English phraseology. There are under-' tones of that rich language which may be expressed district is the ivorlds largest producer rendeHngs each of building Stone? phasizing some fact of thought. Moreover, how-. ever much of beauty has been retained by the King And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that james version, beyond question the significance of will I do, that the Father map be glovified in th- many Words has changed since 1611.

While sound tlimP 1 Will dO ,4 M.lt: tV.A aA for a bit of luneh: "Do you know wh.T f.ns become of that good book I a reading all morning at that table" was a red one." No wonder looked inviting to another reader. think, for red books are never s.r'e After a book in a blue binding has been refused 'by a library bo; ieer. we have tried giving them the same story in red, and it has been gratefully received. There appears to be something cold about a blue boo iv that suggests text editions and plain facts without any of the. glamour which one naturally expects in a book.

Certain shades of blue crculate better than others. A babv blue appears too sentimental. Soft It ye asK anyimny i anv opening ui-iv 'c ui ucou aw, laic jt john xiv. J.I. I meaning which, after all, is the heart value of the word has altered.

It may be a mere alteration in PRIMARY IS UNAMERICAN. shading, or it may be a change so great as to make mihlip nffice is the word in its modern use whollv different from The nomination or tunuiuain iv. i ffair The primary system makes i that which the devout scholars of 300 years ago Hence it is worth while to turn to the contemporary scholar, who has the dou- possible the selection of a Republican nominee by gave to it. Democratic voters, and vice versa. It contrary to work of a of conducting the I ble advantage of possessing a more intimate knowl the spirit of our two-party sy nf this country.

edge of Greek and of speaking English as we know A Republican candidate for Congress, for exam-: it in our time This is prefatory to reflections which were stim Mmi i aim mm i- hII Too dark a blue is forbidding. Readers must have the right shad. Yellow is perhaps the color which appeals next aftr red. Cheerfulness should always be wrapped in a yellow binding I always expect Chinese' boons to be in this color. Yellow books never take themselves very seriously and are sometimes uproariously funny.

There is no pretense about them. So much faith do some library readers have in this that they have been known to pick yellow books from the shelves and borrow them without so much as looking inside to see what their pages are about. But never trust a lavender or a purple book. My experience wih them has made me wary. Too often I have found them to smack of the sickly and sentimental, lly first contact with a lavender book was a nauseating volume of poor poetry about "Mother." I maintain that mothers deserve better treatment than that.

A purple book I next found was one written by a husband about the awful details of his wife's death. Since then I have stood for the suppression of most purple books. I think "The Rosary" and some of Myrtle Reed's books are bound in orchid and purple, which ir ray i ivmi ipwrofR i KwVX 1 Kip $MU L3 pie, is supposed to be the choice or me muu his party. He should be nominated by their efforts. The citizens of this Seventh district have seen a man put on the Republican ticket by the concerted efforts of those who were voting as a bloc and not as Republicans.

That candidate bore the label of the Republican party and was carried into office on a presidential election wave. He was put on the ticket again last year but not by the rank and file of the Republican Tartv Thev repudiated him at the polls and elected ft 1 f-'iu Tap sir i Vh i a Democrat when the county went overwhelmingly Republican. Members of blocs, groups, associations or any organizations have a right to support their own mem ingales he brought over from Spain. There are a number of interesting and historic buildings clustering around this corner, and the sight-seeing guides and their satellites are omnipresent. This Spanish armory, like most of the buildings in the quarter, is built of brick and faced with stucco.

Time has stained this facing in soft hues, and the elements have scraped away the stucco as the artist scrapes his canvas to show the hidden beauty below the outer surface. The old Spanish armory, in the French quarter, stands in the site of an armory built in 1770. It is located in the rear of the old Spanish Cabildo which faces the Tlace D'Armes, renamed Jackson square. Just across the street from the armory Is the center of interest of the drama, the Tetit theatre du Vieux Carre. The little theater building was the home of his Excellency, the Spanish Governor Don Estaman Miro, who used to spend the siesta hour in the cool patio under perfumed lime trees listening to the night ulate when, reading again that glorious chapter in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians in which he apostrophizes love, Moffatt's translation disclosed that he translates "Love beareth all things," as "Love is always slow to expose." At once the passive suggestion of patience in the authorized version was illuminated.

Love is something more than the mere bearer of personal indignities and hardships, the quiet endurer, putting up with things which others would resent and rebuff. We see lovs restraining the impulse to shame and humiliate others by exposing their faults and misconduct. There is a good deal of righteousness that needs to learn this lesson from love. The human heart is apt to be quick to tell the worst it knows about its fellows. The instinct of the prosecuting attorney lies in most of us, and we easily forget those words of exhortation, "Judge not, that ye be not Judged." It is a tendency against which we must constantly fight.

The impulse of love, however, is not to expose, but to shield. That argues no indifference to evil. It does not mean that love condones wrong. Rather, it means that love believes in the possibility for good which lies beneath the evil in all of us, and has Its own way of seeking to condemn. It would lead men to God's forgiveness, rather than drive them to the pillory of public scorn.

Weymouth's translation presents another shining facet of this Pauline gem. "Love," says Weymouth, turning the same Greek sentence into English, "knows how to be silent." That is beautiful. One wonders if there is any bers in their own political parties, but they have no right to ignore party lines in making party nominations. A system which makes it possible for both Republicans and Democrats, who are members of any organization, to join in putting their favorites on partisan tickets is getting the nation away from party government and is imposing rule by interested groups with axes to grind. The convention system insures that Republican nominees will be named by Republican delegates and will be representative of that party.

Like conditions will prevail on the Democratic side of the ON A SUNDAY MORNING SAHOOSIER LISTENING POST A BY KATE MILNER RABB BY LAURA A. SMITH pretend to have seen everything. Nor has anyone else. But I have a fairly full record of his career and I find one positive hint of the clue of his immense personal influence. Some years ago he allowed it to be stated that, as a boy, he had promised his mother to read the Bible fence.

We then shall have party responsiomiy. was intended by the founders of this government The primary was one of the experiments that came in on the wave that brought initiative and referendum, recall and a few other experiments in pure democracy. They are not adapted to conditions in this country and do not fit in with the representative form of government. The primary has lasted longer than most of the so-called reforms that came with it. but it, too, has been weighed and found wanting.

every day and that he had kept his promise. That is the source of wisdom which has never failed him. King George had been a French Bourbon monarch living in thing else in our modern world which knows how to be silent. It is such a clamorous world. It dins into our ears from morning to night its cries, Its complaints, its theories, its enthusiasms, its multi Versailles, every courtier would have enr I'm A rv TVCTNTmiM tudinous inarticulate noises which are merely noises.

But love knows how to be silent And in the silence of love lies often its strength. witnessed these devotions. But in London there is a home within the palace which Is as private as any other Englishman's castle. It is in that home where the King and Queen bceakfast alone that the Bible is read. It is He who sees in secret corrected, that he attended Shortridge high school.

It is from such misstatements that so many inaccuracies become permanent in our history. Among these pictures are unusually fine photographs of the "Vande-grift Row," one of the houses, the childhood home of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson; of the old Marion County seminary in University park, of the old Pyle house, of the first Courthouse and Statehouse, of the first and second houses in which Henry Ward Beecher lived during his residence and of his church on the Circle, the site of which never has been There are many views of Washington street in different years and many birdseye views of the city. Very interesting are the pictures of some early Indianapolis notables, E. Taylor in the uniform of the Indian band," which seems to have been made from a portrait: of Prof.

P. Pearsall of the town's early musicians, of Dr. Isaac Coe and the Rev. George P. Busch.

No one can examine this collection without being convinced of the need of a more complete collection of Indianapolis photographs, including some of the beautiful Victorian houses (there is not one of these in this collection). And he must feel regret at the thought of how few of these historic places have been marked for the benefit of future generations. Love can keep its lips closed when the biting word flies to the mind. Love can let the wave of anger pass warmly over the body and hold back that rewards openly. If King the hot retort, the scathing epithet.

Love can accept the disappointment without the complaint which George has retained his Joy in service, his smile, his tenderness to children and, in a word, his character, it is because day by day the world around him was excluded from a may carry hurt' to another. is what one might expect. Green books have a wider range and can be almost anything from archeology to poetry. The color neither attracts nor repels and so we open a green book with no prejudices nor preconceived notions about it. It is the most honest sort of book, standing solely on its own merits and never cajoling a reader to borrow it because of its fantastic dress.

It is no "whited sepulcher." And by the way, did you ever read a white book, a pure white book? Only when you were very young, I can hear you say. There is something altogether too sanctimonious about it. The universal reaction to it is "No book could be so good as that!" It is usually ultra-religious in content. A publishing hoax would be to bring forth a risque story in a milk-white binding. Perhaps the callow youth of today would not then be so eager to read it.

But we forget! There is one sort of book that fits a white binding that calls loudly for it and richly deserves it: A cook book bound in white oil cloth It is the only book that deserves to be white. Do black books suggest Bibles to you? But do not be too sure. I have seen stupid books on Diesel engines wrapped in black leather and iettered in gold It is surprising how limp leather beguiles us to read today what we did not intend to read. The publishers are playing strange tricks on the most cautious of us. And then there are the frankly wicked books.

Much as we deplore the trend of low thinking within them, we must admire the ingenuous manner in which their futuristic bindings announce to the whole world how very naughty they are. They are daring in freakish design. Their strange combinations of color shout at one. They challenge the passer-by to take but one look inside. Their bindings are not so much to hold their pages together as to advertise their contents within.

But once you have read one of their tales, you have read them all. There i3 nothing new or original about sordidness. And have you seen the calico books? Their contents are more of he homespun variety. Nearly always under calico beats an honest heart. The calico books are the reaction from the futuristic books.

They seem to sav. "let us come back to earth." Usually they are books of essays or tales about plain people. Something like these are the bindings imitating old-fashioned prints. Unless you are mid-Victorian in your tastes, you will not care for posies and stiff little nosegays scattered over the backs of your books. But after cubistlc and futuristic figures, intricately decorative.

these simple motifs come as somewhat of a relief. Another honest book is the brown book. Almost is it too modest. Some of the best books I know are wrapped in this unrjretentious color. You will find dlightful old books, many ofj them first editions, selling for hundreds of dollars not to say bound in dull brown.

Always investigate a brown book, for it of all books does not advertise. Some of the rarest pi.ees of literature travel thus, incognito, so to speak. You are familiar v. the modern Love can be silent the sorrow of a friend realm within him over which there has reigned Another than he." is so profound that words are idle. It will not babble Life henceforward win be nothing but roses to tie harassed members of the program committee.

No matter what the organization may be, it has at more or less stated intervals required the aid of a program committee entrusted with the task of providing a suitable speaker." The effort to find an after-dinner wizard whose remarks would insure the uplift or the amusement of the membership has been an important factor in the world's increasing percentage of gray hair and baldness. The "stem-winder" type of entertainer is even more rare than a grandfather clock. As heretofore stated, however, the worries of the program chairman will vanish like smoke before the onslaught of the new combustion engineer. He will no longer have to beat the bushes to secure the necessary talent. It will be available with no more effort than is needed to order a supply of foodstuffs from the corner grocer.

Butler college is the medium which has effected this transformation in the public speaking world. in the presence of grief. There are times when men's hearts need nothing so much as the sympathy that is silent. There is a strange communicativeness The Pension Bill. In searching through the vault at the public library a few days ago, Miss Florence Jones brought to light a package of photographs of old Indianapolis buildings wrapped in a paper of ten or twelve years ago.

Many of these pictures had evidently been used by the late Jacob P. Dunn in illustrating his History of Indianapolis, and all are carefully marked. This collection brings to mind the fact that while quite a number of pictures ef old Indianapolis are in existence, they are scattered far and wide, so that when a picture of some old building is needed for illustration it often proves very difficult to find. Should the library make these pictures the nucleus of a collection, doubtless many scattered pictures would be brought from Indianapolis homes, and eventually a collection would be formed which would tell, in picture form, the story of Indianapolis. -T- -f- -4- These library pictures begin with cuts of the "ideal" paintings of Alois Sinks, which are to be found in the state library one of them, "Indianapolis in 1820." There are pictures of the old McCormick house, of the "oldest brick house," that of Samuel McCormick, at the west end of the Riverside dam; a picture of Adam McCormick.

at the time the picture was taken, the "oldest living settler" sitting beside the historic McCormick table around which the first commissioners gathered in the McCormick cabin. There is a charming picture of the old Patterson house, for many years the oldeet house in the city, the central part built in 1823, by Isaac Wilson. On the back of this picture is written in Mr. Dunn's clear hand: "Here, under this rose bush are buried Isaac Wilson and his wife. He was a revolutionary soldier in eastern Tennessee (see Ramsay's "History of Emigrated to Indiana, lived first in a cabin on what is now the Statehouse grounds.

When he died he was buried here in the door yard. His wife, a little later, was placed beside him. Rose bushes were planted on both graves. In time they grew together and covered both and are now a wilderness of bushes." Since this was written the little house which stood at the corner of Maxwell and North street, within the Riley hospital grounds, was torn down in spite of some efforts to save it. It could very well have been restored and kept as a memorial of early Indianapolis and its loss is greatly to be regretted, for there was a charm in its low roof and spreading wings that was felt by even the least interested observer.

Now, there is nothing to show where this house stood and, with the exception Nine Years Late. Newcastle Times. The apportionment bill is up in Congress again. This bill allots to The department of public speaking has a list of entertainers who will be available on demand. Like the modern drug store, it has almost everything that any program committee could desire.

Along declamatory lines the department can supply talent in love which does not require speech. All the poets have known that; all great souls have experienced it The finest human friendships have their periods of silence, high and holy times of communion, when an understanding which can not be expressed in words is felt; or where a faith which rises above misunderstanding reaches out from heart to heart, knowing, through all bewilderment, that love is sufficient. And that silence of love enters into our relations with God. There are times when the heart can not speak iUi anxieties, when the mind, baffled and perplexed, tossed by conflicting waves of impulse and of duty, has no articulate utterance. Then love can be silent in trust waiting for the calming touch of the Infinite Love, waiting for the guidance of that Love which is also Light.

"Love beareth all things; love is always slow to expose; love knows how to be silent." Thus we dig into the rich mine of Paul's thought, and are repaid a hundredfold for our effort It is an enriching exercise for the mind and soul. We should engage in it more often. each state the number of congressmen it should have, and the consti Newcastle Courier. The old age pension bill, introduced by Senator Nejdl would provide for an Income of not more than $25 a month to persons more than 65 years old upon petition signed by two hundred or more citizens. The bill would require that residence must have been in the same county for fifteen years.

With an average of fifty inmates at the county farm and giving the maximum pension, a plan of this kind would cost Henry county $15,000 a year and then the old people would not be as well off as they are now. It is difficult to see how the advocates of this legislation figure old and infirm people can live on $25 a month. As it is now, there are many people 65 years and older who are not in want, but who would take advantage of the pension plan. It would be an easy way to get $25 additional each month. Where the money is to come from is another thing that is not certain.

Of course it is costing Henry county around $10,000 a year to operate the county farm, but the pension idea would be far more costly. Some members of the Legislature are in dead earnest about this pension law and it is a matter calling for intelligent action. tution says that it shall be done each ten years, immediately following the Federal census. The last census was taken in 1920 and another will be started a little more than a year from now. Inasmuch as Congress has delayed nearly nine years to perform its duty it might as well wait which will recite anything from "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" on up to Hamlet's soliloquy.

Speakers will respond promptly with a fruitful discourse on any subject. They will take one or both sides of any argument. Readers and impersonators will deliver dialect better than the Irish or cotton field orginal. All will appear under the college's guarantee that no discourse will begin with the stereotyped "I can't make a speech" and "I didn't expect to be called on." another year and do the thing right. Indiana will lose two congressmen Of all the lines in the Christmas hymns, these still echo through the brain, rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing." It is because of the picture they Invoke, a very modern picture of a modern car drawn up beside the highway or pi 'led off into a shaded side road.

Or; can see a motorist, weary with the demands of business, of life's many angles, baring his brow to the fresh, sweet air and hearing the angels sing. Not those angels which abound in sacred art, imposing beings in flowing garments and large sustaining wings. Not strains of heavenly melodies actually heard by the ear. Rather, those sweet, peaceful, charming mes3ages which come to soothe the wearied one. The song of a bird, trilling his joy; pounds of country life which bring feelings of calmer life; sounds of the winds in the trees, the rushing waters of little streams.

The glimpse of sun and shadow under the forest trees; sunshine and wind rippling grain fields, rustling the corn, vista3 of prosperous farm homes and their productive acres; roads which go winding off under arches of boughs inviting to pleasant wanderings. Blue skies, sunshine, sunset, the friendly stars, the glorious moonlight. Sights and sounds which tuild little dreams of camping out, of fishing, of hunting, of owning hU own country place. These are the heavenly messengers, the "unseen melodies" to be heard by those who rest beside the weary road and give themselves up to contemplation of its healing restfulness. Keats thus expresses it in his "Ode on a Grecian UrYi:" Hfard melodien are tweet, but those unheard Are sweeter, therefor ye soft pipes play on; Not to the aensual ear, but more endeared, Pipe to the spirit dituea ol no tone.

Seems odd to have tours played up in winter with all the enthusiasm they are set forth in the spring and summer months. Evidently there's no closed season for tourists. With all this travel information pressing from every bide, who can refrain from adding her bit? A word to the wise tourist: Remember you can go smiling through hundreds of situations where a scowl, an impatient word, an ugly gesture would block your way. When tempted to frown and show temper, pull yourself up and smile instead. Keep serene, firm and smiling in controversies over lifggage, lates, service, prices agreed upon, damages.

Remember your own attitude towards "foreigners" in your own country, then remember that you yourself are now a "foreigner" to the natives. Where a few pennies will oil the wheels and help you on your way, give them ungrudgingly. This rule obtains for the traveler in the Latin countries France. Spain, Italy. In England there's a different situation with a different kind of people.

It is better not to try smiling through that serious-minded country but to maintain a sober, dignified mien and to put on lots of "side." Englishmen divide the human race into classes with rigid modes and manners for each class. Dignity sits in high places. To see a man continually smiling, laughing, generally jocose and hail-fellow-well-met stamps him ss a "commoner," middle class, lower middle class, lower class. Therefore, wise traveler, hold a dignified aloofness which bespeaks aristocracy and being "to the manner born." To reduce this travel formula to a few words: When in France. Spain and Italy, thaw; when in England, freeze.

-i- Of the religion of King George of England, P. W. Wilson, writing in the Christian Herald, says: "For some years this quiet monarch was overshadowed, first by his father then by his son. Nor were he and Queen Mary popular with the smart set. It was said Queen Mary had no conversation and that King George was under her tutelage.

The court was humdrum. But gradually a somewhat different estimate of the sovereigns began to pervade the nation and the world. The King was confronted by an extraordinary series of crises. Yet through all these difficulties and dangers the King and Queen continued their throne, sympathetic, assidious, tactful and imperturbable. They began to be trusted and confidence developed into affection.

Of the millions of words published about King George I can not unless the number of members is increased from the 435 it now stands. If the opportionment is based on members, California, Texas and New York will be the big gainers. The fact that Texas and New York city It is difficult to think of anything more cruel than an earthquake in Alaska which compels the poor victims to seek the street in bare feet and nightshirts. show the big gams has kept a Republican Congress from making the reapportionment. Michigan makes a gain, but Iowa, Kansas and Massa Capital punishment should also be retained for all political salary increase bills.

Chance for Walkers. style of binding whkh is very plain! and noncommital, hamg no printing! on the outside except a small patch of paper pasted on trie back, giving as unobtrusively as possible the title, chusetts lose. Florida gams, and so does North Carolina, while Missouri and Kentucky lose. Indiana has had thirteen Congressmen for more than half a century. It is not the number of congressmen that gets things done, The optimist reflects that introduction of a bill is usually a long way from enactment into law.

but the kind of men that are sent there. of this picture, how it looked. There is a fine picture of the Propylaeum in the collection, which is a reminder that in a few years many Indianapolis people will have a very faint idea of what this build JAPANESE IMMIGRATION EXCLUSION. A number of Americans may be somewhat surprised to note the importance attached to the question of the American exclusion act by the Japanese foreign minister, Earon Tanaka, in his address at the opening of the Diet. The baron declared that the problem would not interfere with the growing friendliness between the two countries, but explained that it still requires a satisfactory settlement.

The other factor of Japan's foreign relations chiefly Stressed by the minister was the Manchurian situation, involving what Tokio is pleased to term its "vital interests." The American public is ready to admit that Congress was guilty of plain stupidity in its handling of the Japanese immigration problem. This country does not desire the admission of additional immigrants from Nippon who can not be assimilated as author and publisher A certain branch librarian has ri -mvered that such books will not rip ulate among her patrons who are larjelv of foreign extraction. Such a book they brand "highbrow" and tVy can not be induced to look If such books could only be rebound straight In the effort to name an official feathered representative for Indiana, no one has mentioned any of these political birds. Old Age Pension. ing was like.

Since it was built al Shelbyville Republican. The proposed old age pension bill Eastern time for Indiana would destroy one of the Atlantic coast's fondest illusions regarding the far West. will stand very careful and very dili gent investigation. Paying a pension together by women and for women, at a time When women were just beginning to take an active part in the world's work, it has a historic significance which its successor can never have. A picture of this building, it would seem, should hang in the present Propylaeum, near 'the portrait of the woman who caused it to be built.

At the tea given at the Propylaeum for the members of the American Hostorical Association during their meeting here in December, That Canada-United States pact is said to be for of $25 a month to all citizens of the state 65 years of age who say they can not make a living for themselves the purpose of conserving Niagara's beauty, but in reality it is to save the honeymoon trade. Mr. Hoover will have to go some to equal the im many questions were asked about pressive Coolidge fishing record. way in inviting red, green and yellow coats they would be read until they fell to pieces. I am not sure but that this is the general feling toward these sophisticated books.

In this colorful age when color has entered our kitchens, splashed our cooking utensils with its cheerfulness, brightened our bathrooms, and even made less melancholy our umbrellas, raincoats and overshoes, it is not surprising that the library book has taken on a gayer aspect than ever before. But the publisher has certain traditions with which to reckon. Our notions of black books and white books and red books, conceived in childhood, are not so easily put aside. And no one knows this more surely than the librarian who tries to persuade a man hat the black leather book on cost accounting that Is being offered him is not a commentary on the New Testament! VICTORY FOB CAB OWNER. Springfield Republican.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes scores a victory for human liberty in vindicating his right to have his car Mrs. Sewall picture and much interest expressed in the building, and the history of the Propylaeum or Evansville Courier. It appears that there are two sides to the jaywalking problem. Most cities have been struggling to suppress the jaywalker, arresting him sometimes, haranguing him at all times, guarding him zealously from the dangers of his lawless way of crossing the streets. The head of Chicago's police traffic division thinks this is all a mistake, particularly in crowded sections.

"Pedestrians moving only with the traffic lights," he declares, "soon block the sidewalks. All those waiting on a corner can not get across on the green light, and as a result a surplus is left at the corner. With the continuous changing of lights, this surplus is gradually built up at busy corners until sidewalks for entire blocks are jammed because the pedestrians can not keep up with the traffic lights." How much better to let the pedestrian develop nimbleness and agility of mind and muscle by crossing the street when and wherever he wants to! Maybe that's a good idea, but no motorist will think so. It is difficult enough to watch out for careless motorists, keep track of traffic signals and make correct turns without having pedestrians leaping about like grasshoppers everywhere. CUT AND DRIED.

New Orleans Times-Picayune. "Annual Conventions Are says a headline. Yes, nearly always I The inside group generally has tha thing all fixed up and when the chairman puts the motion the delegates vote as desired. The Democrats are trying to put Mr. Hoover in the hole on prohibition, but he is likely to make a political hole-in-one.

ganization. It was unfortunate that a picture of the original Propylaeum was not there at the time. Who knows the history of the Underbill mansion? On the back of a "Birdseye view of Indianapolis in 1854" is written; "The large house is Wisconsin claims to have given birth to the Republican party, but there is mighty little of the old stock left up there now. are the average aliens from Europe. At the same time the problem could have been solved by establishing a limited quota which would have achieved the desired object without offending Japanese pride.

Congress was guilty of serious bungling in the unnecessarily offensive method it used in consideration of immigration from Japan and it should remedy the evil at an early opportunity in the long session which begins next December. The game of politics is played much the same in all parts of the world and the American observer may also detect a bit of political strategy in the remarks of the Japanese foreign minister. This session of the Diet is the first since the grant of manhood suffrage and more difficulty is expected by the government party in meeting the criticism of the opposition. Japan's domestic affairs have not been entirely tranquil and the home ministry may be compelled to take the defensive. The emphasis placed on the immigration question at this time, coupled with the always important Chinese problem, may have teen a clever move to stir Japanese pride and would cause a very severe drain on the state treasury.

At the last session of the Legislature, a bill was introduced to pay a pension to all blind people who had resided in the state five years. "Bhat bill did not get very far. Apparently the bill providing for pensions for the class of people mentioned is well surrounded bv safeguards against imposition. That may be, but there is no doctor who can see a pain, hear a pain or touch a pain. When a person says he has a pain in the back, the doctor can not deny that declaration although he can find no cause for a pain.

Unfortunately many people can put on long faces, stoop over, hobble around and announce their physical disabilities to all who will listen, until they actually gain the sympathy of many. There is very much to be said against this bill, and it should be said before the measure becomes dan-generous. There is more than one way to care for the indigent without voting them so much cash per month. When the state charitablerganization and the state health board endorse this bill, will te plenty time to seriously consider its enactment into law. the Underhill mansion, where Short- ridge High School now stands.

This Religious man has the biggest thrills, says a Presbyterian pastor, but that is not likely to divert the average criminal thrill-seeker. was added to at the back and to this old building the high school was moved from Beecher's Church on the Circle. The Indianapolis Public Library was in the front north and parked in front of his own house A Marion county senator has a plan to reduce until be can get into it, west corner of this house." Mention of Rhortridge high school is a re taxes and expenses. If he puts it over he's likely to find himself in the White house. minder that it was merely the high HE HAS TO BE.

Philadelphia Inquirer. school for a long time. Recently, in the notices of the death of a man "The President of Austria has who had attended the high school children and is said to be Miry frugal," but why insinuate that The Hoover Cabinet may be filled, but a number of politicians want to know with what. long before it became Shortridge the statement was made, and went un a necessity is a virtue I.