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I of of a a 1 I a 6 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1921. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Published Daily Son. 30 and 52 Matter at the PostAct of March 3. 1879. YORK OFFICE Dane A A.

OFFICE P. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION BATES. and in Indiana through are OF exclusively to for or of all in this and ales dy the local Indianapolis glad and proud to telcome Ferdinand Foch, marshal of of the allied sacociated armies in the great world wax for detocracy and freebrilliant soldier. and devoted patriot, whose bravery and moral are equated only by hie modesty. Binde the dawn of history there has been to man who had under hir command armies even approach.

In in numbers those directed by the, great whose battle front extended from the SoR of Galilee to the North Most of is can member how corindence revived when it was annotated, in what was perhaps the darkest hour of the war, that the supreme command bad been conferred on General Fock It was not long after that till things began to move- and: they never stopped that great day when the armis. tice was signed by the enemy to whom the terns had been presented Fool. The name of our visitor was known and honored by them Americans tong before the crest honor and responsibility to him. We had all rend of the wonderful victory At the Neat Marne to the winning of which General 'octi to greatly contributed. victory which many think was the turning point of the war, for it broke the German advance, drove the enemy Into trench warfare, and upset his whole programs which contemplated a abort campaiga and an early and victor Time was thua gained for France to consolidate her power and for Great Britain to develop her strength.

From those Sepember days seven years ago; the name of Foch was often on lips the American pegate who saw in him soldier It ho represent in the field a nation that had once followed Napoleon. But It in an a friend and ally- for ouch he in troth la. or, if not, we trust soon will be -that we welcome him today. America is humbly proud the part that she plaited in the war, and, as result of it, she feels closer kinship with those great. notons by whose side she fought.

The Inspiration, believe, will endure, and the friendship with France be strengthened Marshal Foch its an unofficial ambassador reprementing his great country, and so while honor him. to him we Fatso honor France and her gallant and Indomitable armies. That the unity that now exists may never be. Broken, but rather deepened and Intensified the years 59 by, will be the hope of the American, people. Indianapolia in the great cause for which and their friends fought, suffered and died, and Indianapolis.

atto helleven that the war. will not be finally won until the prement, peace la safeguarded and, as far as this is possible, made perpetual, This. is Marshal Foch' day. He may be: entirely sure that he is among friends. friends whose hearts beat warmly for him -for him, for France and for the grent THE SOLDIER BONUS Discussion of the soldier Donas question has de the last three weeks been revived, mad then enlivened by two important Incidenta.

Consideration of the tax measure in the senate arouned the bimocrats to an effort to inelude the bonus feature in the (bilE as a frankly partisan scheme to i embarrass the administration. Menlion of the bonus chilled those senatore who are against it for prudent financial but who feel unequal to, open opposition out of recard for their political standing back home. Republican majority is satietted. to Low President Harding's to leave the bonus queation alone tor a while. At City the national convention of American Legion, which the principal lobby for the bill, adopted resolution the passage of.

the bonus bill deploring the President's' course delay. The delegates to the convention seemed to be prads teally unanimous in their belief that they should have the bonus, They took the stand that the question haw baen shifted to new around, that it solely a question of whether the country destres to reward former service men for the financial handicap they by reason their the army at a time when wages in were very hick Thus congress the bonus is. political expediency, while in the Legion It is regarded a of common justice. It that so impor tant should be discuered in both with so little regard for fundamental a matter of revolving a great deal of money through the hands of the gore without much profit to an Increase in tater business already undar a load of war. Paring the bonus out of the interest on foreign ta only another of easing the pain of taking it of the public tresaurs.

There is and will be no publie effort to deny the former service men generous treatment, but there to need for reflecton the effect of the program. HOW DOES HARVEY KNOW! In speech at Liverpool yesterday, Ambassador Harvey assumed to qatline and even prescribe a policy for this government few months ago be told the phople of Great Britain that America entered the war to save without thought of service to the world as prompting motive, and because she afraid not to 'fight Later, having heard front home, and read certain ances of the President evidently signed to correct the impression made by the ambassador, Mr. Harvey very decidedly changed his tone, and withIn the last few weeks has made de two speeches that were warmly and deservedly applauded, Yesterday, however, he assured his bearers that an Anglo- French-AmerScan alliance was "impossible." The hope recently expresze4 by Lord Derby that such an alliance might be made wak pronounced "illusory." Mr. Harvey said: fret President fixed the foreign policy of the United States clearly and unequivocally when be adjured his countrymen never to ender a permanent alliance with any other power. This polley has been reaffirmed by virtually all his sucIt was reiterated with great I poaltiveness in our latest national campalen by our present President, and wan confirmed by a majority of the people 40 great to be beyond the pale of comparison.

18 view of these circumstances am 1 doing more than stating wholly obvious and Inescapable fact when I proI nounce the entrance the United States Into any permanent alliance to utter impossibility, however destrable that action may seem to be? It may all be so, but the point to be made to that the ambassador can not know that it so. Neither the fret President of the United States nor any other President has the power to fix the nation's foreign policy beyond the power of the people to change it, if they so desire. And it world be an exceedingly difficult matter to prove that the enormous majority received by Mr. Harding 1 year ago was to any considerable tent due to opposition to the geated alliance of the three powers. Even now it la admitted that France will not, and can not consent to duce ber army unless she has some such assurance of protection as that which the Angio-French- American pact was designed to give.

What shall that assurance be? It should, be said further that the alliance was not meant to be permanent, so that ft would not tall within the Washington but only dewww signed to provide protection till the league of nations was in successful. and effective operation. So, though there may never be such an alliance, Ambassador Harvey can not know there will not be. can not know that the thing la sible." The decision is one that must be made by the American goverament and people, and they have not yet abdicated in favor of Harvey. We are, and for over.

four years have been dealing with a situation of which the President could not even have Arst dreamed. If the senate had promptly ratified the treaty with France, would have been far better ditions than they are today, and the outlook for the success of the Washington conference would have been more (cheering than it is, hopeful though our people are -and with reason of the result. THE LEGION AUXILIARY The selection or DAtional headquarters of the Auxiliary by unanimous vote Logion of the 300 Auxiliary delegates who attended the convention at Kansas City was influenced to a considerable degree by the fact that Indianapolis 18. the permanent headquarters of the Legion. The dity, however, welcomes the Auxiliary none thie less heartily.

The mothers, wives, ters and sisters of those who served in uniform during the war will, we trust, tind that their choice of headquarters is abundantly justified by reasons aside from their relationship to the Legion. The election of Miss Pauline Cranston Curnick, Indianapolis, as of national executive secretary of the Auxiliary, 1s recognition of the part Indiana women have taken itive in the organization of the Auxiliary, the membership of which is expected reach 1.000.000 within few to months. Mrs. Lowell Hobart, of MIlford, 0., who was chosen national president of the Auxiliary, is known to many Hoosiers who served in the army. During the war.

she was an Indefatigable worker for the welfare of the artillery units of the 84th division, in which her: son served. She is a woman of conspicuous executive ability and under her leadership the Auxiliary should expand greatly in membership and influence. Inspired by the example of the Legion, which has become the most potent forde for straight. Americanism in the country, there is practically no limit to the possibilities of the Auxiliary. As the women relatives of men whose good fortune It was to serve with the colors during a great crisis, they will command respectful hearing upon any public problem.

and they may well speak with the authority of American womanhood. Indianapolis fortunate in being called their home, and not insensible to its obligation to them. When the Indiana delegation left for Kansas City, it was expected that a contest might develop to have Legion headquarters removed from Indianapolis. Kansas City wanted them, and there was Washington and Fork. Nothing came of the rumors that such a contest would be made.

Certain Legion inter. esta have believed from the start that Washington was the logical place for the organisation to maintain its offices, but so far they have not been able to muster: sulticient strength for them to make a fight at a Although Indianapolis I stands in little or no danger of 19s- the headquarters for another year, the only way to settle the queslion permanently is by redeeming every promise that has been made. The Legion came here largely because of the vrorid war memorial plans A start toward the memortal has been made. The city, the cdunty and the state must do their share. and promptly.

In no other way can the pledge made to the Lea gion be redeemed. SHANK ON SHANK In one bf his speeches last night Shank said: "I was a good mayor before and I know that I'm better fitted conduct the affairs of the city than that other fellow." That the Hon. Lew has a very good opinion of himseif has 'been made abundantly clear during the campaign. of course mayors do not resign, and have never been forced to admit that they were powerless to control and direct the police were unable to get the truth from their subordinate Las to law violations It was claimed for Shank by Dr. Willis that Shank had saved the city $75.000 by preventing the letting of contract for the disposal of garbage, dead animals and night soil at $62.000 a year.

Shank, it was said, had made tract calling for only $48,000 year. The fact is that Bbank was responsible for the $63,000 contract, and violently abused the persons who op- The facts were given in The News Lot yesterday by Edgar A. Perkins. The $63.000 contract favored by Shank was de eated in the council by the narrowest of margina, and the result was the $48,000 contract. In an editorial in the paper of the Central Labor Union discussing this contract matter was the fol- Garbage was too clean a name for the billingsgate of our mayor.

Samuel Lewis Shank has ceased to be joke; he has become a disgrace to the city of Indianapolis. A municipality boasting of being "no mean city" is entitled to, a mayor who, if he has no respect for himself, ban enough refor the decent citisens to spect have himself somewhat like a man, even if it hurts him, and even 11 it to unlike his usual conduct. The Raiston Republican committee. which has been looking into the mattor, has found, after a careful investigation and an appeal to the records. that Shank opposed the investigation of the garbage contruct, abused and denounced those who favored it, and at one of the hearings "indulged in unprintable and.

profane language against persons opposed to the tract." So the truth is that Shank opposed the saving to the city of $76,000. He would indeed have been good mayor 11 be could claim for himself all the good that WAS done by others, and hold others responsible for all the wrong that was done by him. Union labor took the initiative in the effort to defeat the garbage favored by Sivan k. charging there had been no comcontract, petitive bids, and that the charge was exorbitant. For the men of the Central Labor Union leading in the movement to save money to the city.

Shank had nothing but abuse. and of the worst and most vulgar sort. In tine statement of the executive committee of the Raiston Repablicans is this: The attitude of the mayor in the whole matter was directly oyposed to the efforts of organized labor to reduce cost of the service. Just how any thinking laboring man! In view of the facts. can consistently consider Shank as his triend or how any taxpayer interested in economical city government can consistently support Shank for mayor, understanding.

SCHOOL HACK DRIVERS Reports made to the state board of accounts show that tn some cases boys, sixteen and seventeen years of age, are employed to drive hacks or automobile trucks in which children are transported from their homes to public schools. Contracts for portation were made with adults, but boys did the The legislature, in 1919, passed a law providing that no school hack automobile driver engaged in transporting school children should be younger than eighteen years. An amendment in 1921 which related to school attendance, the proper place to enroll children, repealed all parts of laws in conflict, but it is not believed that the eighteen-year-old driver clause was repealed. It might be argued that the, law only applies, in its age requirements, to the contractors, but the tent of the legislature evidently was to safeguard the lives of children. In many communities where consolidated schools have brought up questions of transporting children.

interurban and railroad tracks have to be crossed. Accidents have happened at such crossings, and there have been some fatalities. A driver's responsibility increases every time another child is taken into his vehicle. No track should he crossed until the driver has stopped and assured himself that it is safe. Horses often sup.

plemented the driver's intelligence and kept him out of trouble and ger. Automobiles can not do that. DIETOTHERAPY Diet and therapy, one dealing with food and the other. with the practice of medicine. have been joined together by the American Dietetic Association with the result that "dietotherapy" is injected Into the language.

It means, so the association explains, the science of healing by feeding, and place for it is claimed among the words concerning human ills. "Eat. drink and be merry for tomorrow ye was changed to read, drink and be wary for tomorrow ye but now there is a possibility of being able to return to the business of eating. drinking and being merry, providing the menu is properly balanced. Champion eaters used to be neighborhood celebrities, -bit most of them tilled early graves or suffered the pangs of dyspepsia throughout their declining The American Dietetto Association asserts that goiter, diabetes, nervous headaches and other maladies can bel cared by dietotherapy.

Various disorders have long been either cured or held in check by diet. Most notable is its effect on children and the infant death rate in declining as a result of more Intelligent feeding. TEAR. The people have seen how zealous Tutewfler and Shank families are their desire to serve Indianapolis in county, city and school affairs- and perhaps in' state, and to some extent In national affairs. It is not their 1 fault if their volunteer efforts not appreciated.

They have done their best, and one could hardly 1 ask or expect more than willingness, even an eagerness to dominate city, county and school business. They offer one Shank for mayor, another Shank (brother Carlin) for county commissioner, one Tute wiler for county commissioner, and another for the school board. Iris "a nico little, tight little" arrangement. But the family business is being overdone. For now the Rikhoff famIly leaps into the limelight John H.

Rikhoff, said to be a former Democrat and a former Progressive it is strange bow variegated politics is in the Shank camp has announced that be will vote for the Hon. Lew. remained with the Democratic party," be says, "until there came A FAMILY AFFAIR time when the party sought to establish a wide-open city, salooas wide open on Sundays and a quiet little game for 'gentlemen with gambling proclivities' I said to the party: If that is your program you can count me out, for I have a family of 1 my be proposes to vote for the Hon Lew. But Brother Herman, who is also supporting the Hon. Lew.

is in close affiliation with the Armitages, and it fo la his tailor, shop, which is a bear neighbor of the Armitage poolroom, that some of the most important of the strategy meetings of the Shank campaign bave been held. And it is said 1 that Herman Rikhoff, brother of John, is slated for Shank's police chief, that he is the man whom the Armitages have picked for that position. Brothers Herman and John are active in the Shank campaign, 80 to the Tutewiler and Shank families must now be added the Rikboff fly, It is out of these sweet intimacies that It is hoped to pluck the flower -lily or narcissus success. Einstein theory of relatively has nothing on the Hon. Lew's campaign.

Decorations by the weather manbright sun and blue sky- added largely to the effect. Not only is the federal reserve bank interest rate coming down. but more can be bought with the dollar that is borrowed. The census report showing an increase in the number of automobile fatalities is not surprising. The number of automobiles is increasing.

and with that increase naturally comes An increase in the number of drivers who think that the Volstead law. doesn't count. Even it, as the National Coal Association says, there 18 enough coal on hand to last six weeks or BO, mine strike may interfere with merry Christmas. It seems to be even more difficult to get off ticket gracefully than to get OD. Senator has been misled by persons who have permitted their imagination and craving for publicity to evercome their -Captain better judgment and Larner, quartermaster corps.

A good many people think that the senator is that sort of person himself. The people looking on are not 80 much interested in what the disarmament conference will discuss first as In what it will do after it gets through discussing. Liberty bonds are at It againmoving up in a way that makes you wish you hadn't spent your money for something else. This being a sort of holiday nations from the Republican city ticket may have been postponed until tomorrow. Instead of passing the buck the rainers will.

make a great hit with the public by going back to the job of coal passing. Avoid from Foch day committee. How could you do that and attend the festivities? The miners are striking against federal; court decision and not againt their employers, but thus far they have not made any move toward picketing the Federal building. Apparently Jim Watson knew what he was talking about year ago when he told Harding they would celebrate their birthdays in the White House this year. Question of Priority Raised by Japanese.

-Headline. The disarmament conference will be glad to know that the question of raising an army is not bothering them. The news that London Is overstocked is somewhat offset by the news that some one told federal prohibition agents about the liquor trade in and about Anderson. The average voter can hardly wait till day to see the final make. up of the Shank ticket.

Another Indication of the state of the public mind is the decision of the milk bosses in New York to stage a finish fight with the milk wagon drivers. With a corncob pipe added to his collection; Marshal Foch is not likeLy to become alarmed at the honors and distinctions heaped upon him. The Society of Soreheads will now assemble to find some way of ing fault with the police department for capturing and aiding in the conviction of one of the Beech Grove Bank bandits. The police women are probably who will use their new wondering, vaudeville appeals more strongly to the votere than business Hereafter the man who Impugns my honor will answer to me not only here. but somewhere else.

Senator Watson. of Georgia. Be ca'm, Tom, 67 you may get your. sell spanked. MAKE YOURSELF RIGHT AT HOME, MARSHAL The following letter has been received by B.

1 M. Ralston, Democratic nominee for mayor, from Orval E. Mehring: Dear Sir--According to the morning paper I am one of the vice- presidents of a Shank Ing. I was not consulted in this matter before my name was published. I can not vote in this election because my residence is outside the city limits.

However. I have been an active Republican and a meraber of the Marion Club. Hitherto I have not expressed myself as to this election. When you and I have met since the primary, there has never been a word spoken about your candidacy and I would not write you now except that I have been mentioned as an active supporter of Mr. Shank.

Being engaged in the building of hisses to sell for homes, I am interested in seeing Indianapolis growing, prosperous, contented and orderly community. The mayor, who will beneft Indianapolis, must be A man who will have the confidence of all classes. He must Induce manufacturers and trusiness men to locate in Indianapolis, thereby giving ployment to its citizens. You have always guarded the interests of your home city; you would maintain order and make Indianapolis attractive to the business man and laboring man. Therefore, if I had a vote next Tuesday I would vote for you.

Hoping that this will correct the impression given by the article referred to and wishing you success, I remain, "Yours truly, ORVAL E. MEHRING. A CORRECTION. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Attitude of a Teacher. To the Editor of The News: Sir--An announcement was sent to all city teachers reminding them that they are to refrain from active participation in the present campaign.

But to be solicited by the people who probibit you from soliciting is beyond endurance. Having been present at a committee meeting when Mrs. Tutewiler and others informed the teachers' representatives that it would be impossible to make a needed salary readjustment two years ago, I hardly see how her clique can expect us to give them any credit for either salary Increases or bonus. Especially when she sent word to all the teachers (assembled at Caleb Mills hall) by one who claimed to have come direct from a conference with her, that "I am in favor of bonus but we can not raise the money. go If they will tell us how to get the money we shall grant the bonus." Almost any teacher asked will recall the incident.

At a later joint meeting of the teachers' committee and school board, Mr. Matson Appeared, presumably in the interest of the teachers, but couraged their efforts and advised that their case could not receive favorable action under the law. The teachers got out and got the money. And now these people ask, "Where were they when you needed help?" The answer is, "They were paying the P. believe that there are teachers who know more about the public things which the board through the schools than others a can, And outsuperintendent could control For example, the cost of lunches at the high schools, the business offices maintained at a great expense when there are unused rooms in the buildings.

A TEACHER. Reforming Criminals. To the Editor of The News: Sir--The News of November 1 gave report of an address by Dr. Howard Jensen, of the Butler College taculty, on crime and its cause. Having carefully read all the books to which Dr.

Jensen refers, and in addition to that having read all the printed reports of the American Prison Association since its foundation, I write down here my opinion that no confdence whatever can be placed in, the mass of penal statistics complled by these men. I served seventeen months in 1 the Federal Prison at Atlanta, and. I know a good deal about the way thex gather statistics there. Their Agures: de La jour de gloire est Contre nous de la tyrannie angiant leve. dans Jusque dans vos ant fils, nos ciloyens! vos an sang impur abreave nos horde rois Pour ignobles fere Quele it dolt ah quel De rendre a Fantique Quot 1 ces cohortes 6th ernient la lei dans 1 Dieu fronts tous projets Vent leur soldat pour vous tons terre produit Centro tout solo de Nous Quard serent de de lear partager leur de nos Liberte Combats Sous nos quo Victotre Accoure males Que tea expirants ton triompbe el forme sang impur abreure nos sillons! Claude Joseph de SCRAPS Gem entting has been one of sterdam! leading Industries For nearly 500 years.

School children in London to the number of 17,576 receive tree meals at a weekly cost of $7,450. The king of Spain will soon be the first monarch to own a private airplane, which is now on ite way to Madrid. Ae a treatment for apoplexy, seri pente' liver is certainly unique, but this is prescribed by the best Chinese doctors In parta of rural England the farmers believe that a new moon on Friday foretells bad weather for the crops. The largest wooden battleship ever made, the Impregnable, constructed In England tin .1858, 18 DOW being broken up. Spokane is said to be the only eity fin America to own a mountain.

It Is thirty miles from the elty and called. Mt. Spokane. The Confederate guerrilla leader, Forrest, had for his regimental colora a banner made from the bridal dress of a Mississippi girl. Field Marshal Sir Writiam RobertSOR said to be the only officer in the British army to start in the ranks: and win a marshal's baton.

The air very much thinner Mars than on the earth, so thin. In fact, that an elephant there would be able to leap about like a gazelle. portrait stamped on a clay died. and said to be the oldest portrait in the world, about 1,000 years old, belongs to the Pennsylvania Museum. English tradesmen have been mere ously Inconvenienced by the shortage of copper coins, for which the blame laid on the penny-In-the-blot michines.

The cotton weavers of the little city of Guingamp. In France, drat hit on the idea of dyeing the thread before It was woven and then placing It in the loom so that it would form a pattern of stripes and checks. Hence the ginghams so popular today. The French astronomer, Pons, discoverer of the comet that has aroused so much Interest on the pccasion of its periodia return. to our part of the solar system, began his career pa janitor of the observatory of Marseilles.

He discovered, in all. thirtyseven comets. The expression popuistly used to describe an vanced ige of Intoxication, had its origin in India, where a certain ety of drink taken In excess renders its victims blind from sunset to sunrise, or during the period: that the moon is shining. The condition in ex. treme cases lasts as long as eighteen: or nineteen days.

The counterpart of our S. P. C. A. has protested to the motion picture houses of Buenos Aires against the showing of dims depleting the bloody progress of the bull fight.

These are mora popular than are prise fight pictures here, but there 18 doubt that they show most ingly the torture of bulls and horses. New York Evaning Post. Recent Investigation of the old problem of the diffusion of tin over eastern Europe and Ana Minor In: prehistorie times, leads to the conthat about 1,000 years before Christ the tia of the British carried overland to the The Invention of the anchor led, about 2,700 years ago, to the opening of a marine route between England and the eastern and of the Mediterranean. and then the Phrygians controlled the tin trade with their ships. The abort summer nights of north Britain were among the wonders that Greeks talked of in the days of Homer.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS W. give the this date of March 14 and 10 and on August 1 C. F. B. Advice regarding the value stock trying in to an sell oil the Hock company in is the best open obtained 9 consulting your banker.

R. and B. Senator: Kentucky in in Constant Render see give of Indiana oil compi ere located where they The list 100 long print but may from the of sta and the state worn out old clock with Columbus the inscription Anno 166 bottom relle of any The date da probably of no value of the clock upon condition. 11. Will you please how to obtain the United States patent Jawa? The and the de based upon which of interpretation.

library which through book of which tained from the law, books in you please names of Somas Catbolle how many niembers of the house repre Catholics sonal Directors are the and an examination of phies shows that only few Mon their Te know of no official of the religious noun POCH lowing: ARMISTICE DAY. CEREMONY TO BE HEARD AT SAN FRANCISCO Call of Bugle, Chime of Bells and Human Voice Carried Plainly Between Washington and New York and Pacific Coast in Thorough Test at Arlington. WASHINGTON, November bells and the voice of a man were Francisco yesterday and flung out Arlington national cemetery with the bells and every spoken syllable as from the listener's ears. Yet the The speaker stood on the roof of the music came from phonograph 'he stood for an audience 3,000 miles It was the formal dress rehearsal of the mechanism by which President Harding's voice, a8 he speaks the nation's. homage.

Armistice day over the coffin of America's "unknown dead" from France, will be carried to an audience walting before the amplifiers in New York, and to another gathering at San to share in America's great day of tribute. Telephone wires by the thousands of miles, by the hundred, tele-j graph operators by tie score were needed test, as they will be needed Armistice day to bring the experiment to the success so certainly foreshadowed by yesterday's perfect results. High Officials on 'Hand. High officers of the army and the I officials of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, which is making this contribution to the memof the dead soldier, had no doubts ory of success after the first sentence spoken San de Francisco was clearly audible "to them half-mile away from the amplifiers on the amphitheater at Arlington. Similarly, there was a long reading from the stage of the amphitheater here fo be carried The out over the wires to San Francisco.

of. the reader went on and on, voice few present at the test first and the listened to this from every point to about the of great more than half mile. marble, structure Every syllable penetrated clearly to distance nook and hollow, making thousands it every certain that hundreds of can and music Armihear the President's address, the prayer, the standing singing anywhere in the stice day grounds about the structure. that the Then words the voice be heard would be announced next Francisco. The taint to spoken the mechanism: rose to at San whir of bigher.

hum and a chimes, played new, deeper-toned voice announced that untrustworthy as data for are totally of crime and criminals. any analysis of the Indiana state Mr. Butler, board of charities, is greatly given to compiling and publishing Agures on defectives, recidivists and parole matters and is looked upon, somewhat of an author. tion over, penal problems. He is a ity on better than a I- man--perhaps he knows little about but I believe criminals.

Fewer figures, tables, tistics, etc, and a little more common and facing of facts would disense minish the crime wave. Criminals are not mental defectives. They certainly are degenerates. They learn a good deal of it in the Boys' School at Plainfield and in the reformatory before they graduate into the prisons. How could it be wise? Unnamable, unnatural vices flourish in every penal institution in the state unrebuked.

I got tickled at part of Dr. Jensen's suggestion about, segregating "hardened" crooks from "youthful" offend. era. his dear soul. the most these young birds who are objects of his solicitude can give the whole deck to the hardened crook and yet win the came There is a mere boy at Atlanta now, an automobile thief.

who has been a thorn in the Mesh, to the Indianapolis police department, graduate of the city and county who was "reformed" at Plainfield and at Jeffersonville, and of who told me he 'ntends to stay out Indiana so be will not be Again at Michigan City. 014 man who la also there, is angello in comGorman, a protessiona parison with this boy. I deliberately that this youngster in a fair sample of the inevitable product of the theories spun by prison reformers, LESLIE LEE SANDERS. Indianapolis. Township To the 'Editor of The News: Sir--More than one Indiana township trustee is disgusted, and why? Beasuse, as was shown by former trustee, the office has become one of grab.

Money paid to moot call of a bugle, the chime of swept across the continent from San over a wide stretch of ground about every note, every silvery vibration of distinct as though sounded feet sounds originated at San Francisco. the great civic auditorium there and records played in the building on which on a phonograph record at San Frag cisco, would come next. Jest Like a Few Feet Away, As clearly as if it were not a dozen feet away. the ellek of the phonograph mechanism came as the needle dropped on the face of the whirling record disc, 3,000. miles away: the miliar introductory scrape began, then the bells boomed out to awaken echoes in the cemetery over the thousands of graves, The deep voice took up the task again with the announcement: "Spoken from the root of the auditorium in San Francisco." It read out the words of President Hard ing's inaugural address, then nounced bugle call record and the clear note of a trumpet in stir ring army calls swept over the held more distinctly heard than the notes of the bugle at Ft.

Meyer, across the road, where the garrison was at re treat parade. To accomplish this latest marvel of communication the telephone com pany employed nearly 10,000 miles of circuit, double that length of wire it een had Unemen stationed every miles all the way to San cisco, 308 picked men to keep it going; it had more than ninety tele graph operators on Morse circuits paralelling the talking lines to see that all moved smoothly, that orders were promptly obeyed. Faith of Telephone Engineers. And in the test the- telephone perta proved that, given enough. equipment, they could carry, all the Armistice day in proceedings, the Prestdent's words his own volce, the strains of the Marine Band, the roar of the gun salvo That will mark "unknown soldier's" burial, and notes of to "taps" sounded above the grave, every person in the United States.

Only lack of equipment, for this is an experimental development with no commercial aspect as yet, of fielals said. prevents extension of the service San to other cities than New York and Francisco Armistice day is by 8D interpretation of the statutes: turned into the pocket of the trustee. 1 speak from the official records when I charge that higher officials are responsible for this We pay for examinations of township business and should be protected. We are dollars paying to Clay county hundreds of in overhead charges in vio lation of what I believe be the true meaning of the statutes. The question is, what are the higher Gelals going to do about It? Brazil.

S. C. BISHOP. In Sorrow They Part ST. LOUIS, November -Marshal Foch and General Pershing left here late last night, their departure being marked by two speeches in which both expressed their cordiality and affection for the state.

of Missouri, Kansas City and St. Louis. Speaking at banquet given the city administration, the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion at the close of the day's program, General Pershing said: SOTTOW I part from Marshal Foch. wish I could tell you about the pressions I am carrying away m6. "It has been great pleasure have been with the marshal and I am leaving him with great regret." Marshal Foch said: "I would prefer to answer the salute given here by following the example of St.

Louis and saluting with the sword. But in doing I would be lacking very important part of my duty. not expressing to you the gratitude I feel over my reception. the reception given me the Legion in Kansas City and Louis. I have felt everywhere a pronounced cordiality and affection.

have partieniarly been Impressed the tremendous activity I ace where and which is such a true augury for the development of these acurities in every direction".