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1 fvfc Have In OulMimtA 1 jnXDEWlBOUTPEOPLr INDIANAPOLIS STAR SONG AND SENTIMENT STS Con 1o the drowsy river Council and one they can not evade grain pits participated in the tin MONDAY MARCH 6 1911 trading is up to that of one year to sell to vill square men But he would an thing that makes a differ dif nickel the describing his CONTRIBUTED VERSE address) near Indianapolis NEWEST NOTES SCIENCE Or through the sun To August afternoon WITH THE HUMORISTS the lemons Did your nuts and cer the Last round and windup Shake gents! 9 am it be possible merely for lllus that the who after Speaker 1 Veneman with his diamond ring by 621 Brunswick Gas Building at his PARENTS MUST SHARE BLAME OR AULTS IN CHID TRAINING ounded 1821 ounded 182S ounded 1963 cents cents cents cents very there reducing the number now of a portion puts a heavy own they per hoa to to chair known handle Repre fttfW Tork Office Chicago Office tadtanapolis Sentinel Indianapolis Journal Itidianapolis Star In other simply the big bully live joys de 10 15 45 65 Bordering the streamlet Where the sedges shiver Nor was Senator in any wise when there should be no a regulative act or the perished roses Soft as couch of merman When the deep reposes 100 the By what number would these constitu tional amendments have to be reduced or increased to make of them what they are a series of amendments or what Gov ernor Marshall they a new con stitution? The population limit on salodns does not at once apply to Indianapolis but per haps raising the license may prove a remedy almost as good th reducing the un desirable surplus Maybe it is better for the insurgents be locked up in the extra session than be permitted at large Speaking in a whisper Mystical and olden Silver throated llsper With a language golden If our evening neighbor would frankly announce the names of those peo who to the about Senate bill No 105 a definite statement might be waived as to whether Mr Dela van Smith is the or simply of the of that chastened publication as well as the further ques tion whether Mr real estate hold ings are or elsewhere In Lake County have per Es se that you the under dog in this with im? The Sixty first Congress is dead in death it Is unmourned Did Of 1 Do Of August Bailey of South keeper in the Senate is inmmycrat Persons unable to obtain copies of The Star on news stands trains or elsewhere tn places where is usually found for sale will con fer a favor by notifying this office to that effect Brother Shumaker Would not require many figures to express his idea of the proper number of saloons for Indianapo lis Is the bipartisan combination in audience? Smoothing nut the wrinkles In the cemetery Laughing where the tinkles Of the bells are merry He ap cl id On elect elect It is County Clerk John Rauch is not sure whether he is jubilant over the increase of salary voted him by the Legislature He says the increase is acceptable but he wishes to know the exact provisions of the law before making comments He has chased the bill from committee to committee and from one member of the Assembly to another until he is dizzy The bill has been combined with many others during its brief career and Clerk Rauch says after trying to catch up with it for the first few clays following its introduction he gave up the race and de cided to wait until the Legislature ad journs before again starting after it security market for the A ef and Mr at If the Grube referendum bill should be come a law certain people may have to the that a certain newspaper might be called on to approve every franchise asked of this city and to dictate the official action taken in the matter by the mayor Board of Works and Common Council Mr politically since 1908 he had never won a race al had several times been a can office and at Denver he would been considered for the vice i lie nunuikiiiJii Democrats who had leming four flushing he announced that option repeal without Dancing like a fairy Vanishing returning Till the spirits airy Set the woods a yearning Weeks in the Century Cannon wants' to be the Republican leader again That old anxiety to make the whole government Democratic Is a perfect passion visit to the see every as why This Thomas Colbert custodian of the State House known among the mem bers of the Legislature as man who looks after is ready to testify that being a custodian of a big state building is no mere believe I ever worked so hard as I have this the custodian sighed when talking to a friend yester day and he used to have the entire po lice force of the city of Indianapolis on his hands too Shitered aecond claRB at the postoffice at Indianapolis Ind statesmanship is tainly running to seeds The liquor question has been taken out of politics until another campaign opens up burdened with more or Jess un due to the proposed calling of session of Congress by the Tho wildest kind of tariff hills threw their 8750 890 500 250 250 125 tinn blood Mr Bryan and Mr Kern blood kin politically should not schooner divide them Representative rank Galbraith Rep resentative and Mrs John aulknor of Michigan City Mr and Mrs Edward Simon of Hammond and others were en tertained Sunday by Representative and Mrs Harry Strickland at Greenfield son is so when probably that son is almost They say nervous she is not able The society columns re activities of that family these excitements have with the nervous condi tic We want to do business not trade with foreign unless MONUMENT (Suggested by Prof To sailor and her soldier boys Who died that Liberty might Who knew not fear nor valued Their land could not to all men give To her immortals who for man His mightiest forward drive of time Made way so serving GoW great plan To make of men His sons sublime To keep for aye orgetfulness rom dimming for who alter come The tragedy of their great stress Their sacrifice for home Our Indiana dedicates This monument in love enshrined To them who fought for sister states As Lincoln willed and for mankind SEARS has the Governor signed the llquof bill believe he has but I am pretty he will sign It What difference does make to you to get the City Council to restricting tne days melted far up to the evening pattered round Owen of Oklahoma however desire to discuss the point reference to 100 per dent two places in the bill and 1 TERMS SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday by mail one year Daily and Sunday by mall six months Dally by mall one year Dally by mall six months Sunday by mall one year by mall six months BT CARRIER Dally six days Dally and Sunday one week Dally' one month Daily and Sunday one month Out of the wreck of the Sixty first Congress Mr Taft gathers a few grains of comfort He Is especially pleased that the fortification of the Panama Ca nal was provided for and he is said to consider the judiciary codification bill one of the most important additions to the legal procedure of tlie country passed In the last half century To The Indianapolis Star: 4 There is a peculiar significance 'In the fact that the copy of The Star which con your excellent editorial on "An In dictment of Our also announces that the fight pictures will be shown in Indianapolis" because there is no city or state law for regulatlng moving picture shows The assertion of Dr Pritchett presi dent of the Carnegie oundation sup ported' by the testimony of the Oxford tutors 6t the Rhodes scholars' that the students coming from American schools and colleges lack careful preparation and thorough training and are superficial and restless with' little power of concentra tion is a serious charge It is all the more serious because it can not be denied No one knows better than the teachers of our schools that the pupils are not as thor ough as they should be that they are in accurate and have very little power ot concentration that they do not adjustthemselves readily to the grind necessary to the mastery of a subject And no ne is working harder or more conscientiously to overcome! this defect than are these same teachers But does the fault lift en tirely with the schools? Have the home life and the civic environment nothing to do with the nature and habits of the chil dren? Children are allowed to go unattended all over the city to witness all sorts of sights shows and conditions to see mov ing pictures of fights and brawls ot drunkenness debauchery and crime Parents assert their inability to control their children even in the presence of a child npt more than 8 or 10 years Old a parent will tell tlfe (teacher do anything with him he mind anything I Certainly these things help to mold the mind and character ot the child If a teacher attempts to require enough earnest study from a pupil to develop his powers so that he will be able tq attack a problem and master it he complains at home until his parents insist upon the teacher helping him or failing in that hire a tutor to do the work for him Can teachers train pupils to be self reliant and study things out for themselves with only such suggestions as will guide their thoughts into the right channels so long as parents demand that they shall bo helped helped helped that they be in terested and entertained? TELEPHONES Cither Phone 4000 Private Exchange nectlng All Denartmenta SNOHIXG eathering the willows Drifting in tho hedgea Tiling downy pillows On the mountain ledges The Democratic party of Indiana thinks that the people can be trusted to United States senators but not to men to frame a new constitution dishonest words big Joo Bailey is spoiled child matured into a once objection to lie maintained that the in ironing out the wrin organization and getting working smootliy is not Much prelim On a Neighbor in Trouble The merits of Senate bo conceived on about tills wise: Harry Archey a local automobile man took several members of the Legislature for a ride early yesterday afternoon and demonstrated what the word speed means Representative Branaman lost his hat and didn't discover the loss un til the machine had gone nearly a mile past the spot Then Representative Van Horne was forced to walk back to get it Charles McCullough principal clerk of the House took off his hat to save it He has only three hairs left The party passed two milk wagons and Represent ative Thornton remarked that they were en route to Elkhart a town This was for the benefit of Senator Proctor often referred to among members of the Legislature as "Bobby de Rep resentative Grieger lost his patience dur ing the ride and Senator Proctor broke Ills commandments The ma chine survived the strain Trade that through at this time tlie general voted out After all A German Centennial ld: "I vant to ting and go so fast so fast I go shust like an describes our American life hurry bustle confusion in the business world political wrangling and excitement in the civic world social strife in the domestic world The children are bred and born and reared In this atmosphere The schools arq trying to fit these children for the responsibilities of life But true to the American spirit they are expected to do the most possible in the shortest space of time To accomplish this every thing must be made easy and interesting for the child and lie skims from one sub ject to another loo rapidly to digest what he gets or to dig for more Our English cousins say we feed him preiligested food There is much truth in this but it is due to the spirit of tlie in America Tlie American child has little to de velop in him a sense of responsibility or the power of resistance to enable him to overcome difficulties He has no home duties Everything is done for him there He roveS at will seeing all there is to sec hearing all there is to hear mingling in all kinds of exciting crowds With his mind and character in the state induced by these influences he goes to school and tlie good people wonder why he does not become a student a deep thinker a scholar He may acquire mucli valuable knowledge and become a good broad minded and successful citizen but stu dents and scholars are not made in this way The schools are making every effort to do the best for the children and are constantly seeking to improve their meth ods but the home and the city must also assume their shares of the responsi bility if our children are to have the highest type of mental moral and physic al development are to acquire powers of deep thought and reasoning of accuracy and thoroughness of concentration and self reliance AMELIA WARING PLATTER Chairman of the press committee of the ederation of Teachers It Is doubtless owing to the 'Inex perience of the News in the making of explanations that its black faced plea of Is made so narrow and in conclusive for seems not near ly as broad and convincing as "docs not now and never owned any real estate in Lake Something like this would tend to clear up the About four four four years more of the only Isidor would be about right The British postofflee authorities will experiment extensively automatic telephones to learn if they can be used successfully in place of the present sys tem i Specially designed frictionless spark proof electric automobiles are used for transporting powder from distant maga zines to an ammunition factory in Bridge port Conn A German architect has built a garage for dirigible balloons on a turntable so that it can be swung around to meet its occupant no matter in what direction the wind blows Experiments in the New York aquarium have proved that salt water baths will cure some ills of fresh water fish and that fresh water will make sick deep sea denizens well A German inventor belives vessels will be steadier at sea by the use of shaped tanks containing water which rises and falls as the vessel rolls counteracting the action Partial surveys Indicate that the moun tains forming the northern portion of the boundary between Guatemala and Hon duras may become one of the greatest gold fields Wireless warnings of approaching storms and ice pack movements for ves sels in the arctic seas are contemplated if weather bureau stations are established in Alaska as planned Although Ihe new Grand Central Sta tion in New York will be one of the great est in the world there will not be a stair way in it access to its five levels being provided by sloping wajks? 1 After experimenting several years a chemist in an English brewery claims to have produced a dealcoholized beer free from intoxicating properties but retain ing all the flavor of other beer Two crumbling stone areli railroad bridges in Germany have been strength ened by boring holes into the masonry and injecting thin cement mortar at a pressure of five atmospheres Letter to The Star should be written on one side ot the paper only and should be accompanied by the name and address of the writer Tho Star Is not to be understood no indorsing tho views or statements ot correspondents Let ters should bo made as brief possi ble Those who wish their letters ro turned whoa not used' should inclose postage Is the halt The rest incident to the closing of Congress especially in the matter of Canadian reci procity This question has retarded busi ness for a month past and the earlier it is adjusted Jhe earlier business in the grain markets will become nor mal The situation is somewhat improved that grain dealers are actively engaged getting ready for the new issue It a month yet until Congress assembles Could tration to tlie that Senate bill No 105 must be rammed down the throats of legislators are the same peo whose real estate ventures in or near Indiana Harbor or other neighboring lo calities outside of Gary are interfered with by real estate activities at Gary? In such a circumstance would probably to the that Senate bill No 105 could be utilized to injure Gary and help Indiana Harbor Companies at Gary might be prevented from operations as being not within their corporate powers titles might be at tacked and liquidation enforced Then might to the con that the Indiana Legislature had been very cleverly used to pull chestnuts out of the fire Tar BUILDING INDIANAPOLIS INHBYLVANIA AND NEW YORK The average net sworn circulation of THE STAR for the month of ebruary was DAILY 72094 SUNDAY 74520 '): A Grave Offense of Congress The constitution of the United Statesrequires a reapportionment ot congres sional representation every ten years subsequent to the ederal enumeration and 'while "1 the fourteenth amendment makes some changes in the details of the procedure no one would seriously maintain that the constitutional tnan late for this reapportionmeht is nullifiedIt is morally reinforced moreover by the 'tight of the people to their proportionalrepresentation not only in Congress but the electoral college The Congress of tlie United States has deliberately violated this statutory and obligation for no higher reason than the partisan plea of certain NewYork Republicans who ask for suspen sion of the constitution and the laws until they can recover the penalty they them BfelvtS incurred last fall when for rea sons discreditable in themselves and potential of no beneficial result what yer they delivered their state govern mint many seats in Congress and a seat ta the Uhited States Senate over to the Democrats It is ah immoral and a dan 'gerous precedent 'Ehe reapportionfnent to be made under the census of 1910 confers a marked advantage upon the Republican party But the House of Representatives is now Democratic and tlie Senate is in the iway bf becoming so for nine states that choose successors to Republican sena tors in 1913 went Democratic in 1910 Ifthe Democrats capture the Senate what isto fforbid them in line with this Re publican precedent from declining to pass 5 reapportionment act? What is to pre vbnt the present Democratic House frota refusing to pass an apportionment bill in the present Congress? Legislative melons were cut for every body this session but McCarthy and Til den got all Immediately tt a nrnannforl the members of the House Saturday he placed it on one of his fingers and again took the gavel He summoned a friend to his desk you he said I He was assured that his feelings could only be guessed said the speaker feel just as I did thtf first time I wore a pair of tan shoes I felt then that everybody was looking at those shoes and my feet seenled to be about six feet The plea is the oldest in his grade daughter is so to work port the social but of course nothing to do tion of the daughter Mothers say get my son to study He goes out every evening I keep him at know my daughter stays out of school sometimes to go to the theater or to go down street I tell her that she ought to be satisfied with going on Satur day but I am afraidto she must not go when she wants to for fear stag will think I am toe Such statements as these are made by parents with surprising frequency And herein lies one cause for the unfavorable comparison between the British and the American students British parents train their children and in too many families American children train their parents In all countries but America' children are kept in the background and shielded from the things that will dis tract their minds aqd excite their nerves In America they lead the van rom babyhood they breathe the air of hurry rush excitement This atmosphere is good for some things as the wonderful growth of our country proves but It is not favorable to the healthy development of the child and does not aid the mental growth that makes the student There are also many things peculiar to American cities and towns that tend to distract and excite children Many of the pictures and advertisements displayed upon our billboards would not be per mitted in any city of the old world Old world! Ah the rub! We are young! Our city governments are still in a crude state they have yet reached the degree of perfection attained by cities many centuries old This ex plains why we have no laws regulating the moving picture shows But let us take heart! A bill for this purpose has been under the consideration of our City Council ever since last July and perhaps in time we shall have a law The schools are not disposed to shirk their responsi bility in this matter and the ederation of Teachers already has a committee at work trying pass a bill aters in in is again and in the interim the American grain merchant can accomplish a great deal in shaping affairs to fit free trade conditions There was no shortage of actual money in either the grain or se curity market but there was a restricted trade because of the uncertainty as to affairs down at Washington Notwith standing these barriers the volume of general amount not exceeding $500 and incor porated towns to not more than $300 The increase like the change of the unit must be made within thirty days from tho time the law takes effect In Indi anapolis it Would be done by the City Council and the matter Is one there fore that should be given immediate at tention by that body If the commissioners and City Council can by means be brought to act in harmony both with the best interests the city in mind an excellent oppor tunity is afforded for lessening the num ber of saloons without greatly decreasing the revenue to be derived from them ive hundred saloons under the 500 popu lation limit at $300 would bring an an nual revenue of $150000 250 saloons at $500 would amount to $125000 The dif ference is $25000 but the question is pre sented whether the interests of the city would not be best served by saloons to one third of the in existence even at a loss of the income The situation responsibility on the commissioners and the A PROGRESSIVE ARMER To Te Indianapolis Star: It seems as thoiigh Hershey of Carmel Ind either does not know ths condition of our byroads or the roads In other states or he is one of the many people that want to work out their road taxes so they may take a rest during that time Or is he like some others who out their taxes when the conditions are such that they can do nothing else and think any old time is good enough to time bn the road for road tax? Maybe he is a railroad Stockholder or a road tax contractor as they are the only ones benefited by the present laws The gentleman from Carmet says is not One farmer In a thousand but wants to work out his road Now that is all according to what class of farmers he has reference to If the farmers are" wide awake and up to date they will gladly pay what little tuxes they have to pay in order to get the target amount: from the railroad com panies which is now fattening the con tractor i But if he has reference' to the laggards Who do not care for advancement and do nottake any pride in their roads or their farms I am ready to say but it the former I must vote Huntingburg Ind THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY MARCH 8 1911 Bend a door rnck rihhd He is a warm follower of Senator Bailey of Texas The other day he was chagrined to read in tlie papers of Senator resignation He wrote something on a slip of paper and carried it to the principal doorkeeper John Kelly said he Senator Bailey quits the Dimmycrat party I do too Here is my Both Baileys'' reconsidered and peace once more reigns This how the Bailey family stands together Money Markets and In an uncertain period like which the country is passing there is no better guide of trend of business than the reflection from the iron and steel markets The week brought forth no decline in orders from railroads in spite of the late rate decision which was first accepted as a forerunner of a sharp setback in this particular line Not a single railroad has canceled an order and almost without exception the steel and additional cope with fear that abandon the double track project from the middle West to the Pacific seaboard has been dispelled in an official state ment from Judge Lovett in which he says that regardless of the famous decision or what may yet be done by the Supreme Court of tho United States with reference to the anti trust litigations the improvement will be carried out as lately scheduled The steel plants believe that had the railroads been allowed to advance their rates the employe of practically all roads as wrell as the steel corporations would have instantly launched a move for more wages might have en tailed months of hostility between laborer and master zThe general entreaties aS to what with it and coarse ef its enactment through efforts Men may be Making it awkwarck for those prophets who saw so clearly that the never meant to pass the Proctor restrictive measure red Johnson one of the men soliciting funds for the new home for the Indiana Democratic Club is finding his up job tning re said Mr Johnson yesterday one that eat how first Application of New Liquor Law It is hot necessary now to discuss the merits or demerits of the liquor reg illation law The important thing is that it is the law and that thought must be given to its application and enforcement One of the important provisions relates to the limitation of the number of sa loons to which licenses may be issued law fetiecifips thilt flinrn clmll uni ka I more thdn one for each 500 inhabitants ot any city of toivhsliip but' grants per mission to the Board of Commissionersof hny county further to limit the num her to not less than one for each 1000 Inhabitants This change must be madextf Bt all at the first Session of the board after the law takes effect and it Is there fort highly important that commissioners all over the state shall take the subject at' once under consideration so that they iitmay act advisedly and in time 7No saloons now in operation arc to be PUt out of business under tliis law cx as their licenses expire and they may be in excess of the number permitted blithe law Indianapolis lias now 750 Saloons or thereabouts With tlie limi isjauon nxea in tne law ana estimating tlie is MMWllatlrtn In tfinnfl ntt ml iro ni nn nnn a Etaauai reduction to f00 will be brought bout Should tho Board of Commls loftiBra ('decide on a unit 1000 le Uhlber in time be redii' i'd to 250 the law might then be regarded ns i i en ricin lie license fee is fixed al 5300 in cities the first and second class200 in cities and 150 in incorporated But It is Provided Hint any city sila naie power iur increase I ne it mial lows riiiofl tn Why Not the Old Ticket? Washington Star Mr Bryan kept his appointment Louisville the other day delivered lecture and met members of the He enjoyed his visit An fort had been made to have John Kern run down from Indianapolis join in the greeting but it failed Kern hurl a nrpvknisx entrairemont home Bu he soon be in Lincoln and will confer with Mr Bryan there Is ranybody anywhere in favor of re nominating the old ticket? Mr Kern has grown that time though he didate for not have presidency except that demonstrated strength before the peo ple would not permit the use of their names That year however the tide turned in Indiana Although the state voted against Bryan and Kern it chose a Democratic Governor and Democratic Legislature and last year repeated the performance In the matter of Legisla ture And this second Legislature un der instructions from the people elected Mr Kern United States senator So that the man who represented only de feat three years ago today represents success in a state which at one time was as Important as New York in all Demo cratic presidential calculations Mr Bryan may be accredited with some of Mr success It was the Den ver nomination which renewed Mr political life at home But for that he might not have been powerful enough to wdn the senatorship As a friend of Mr Bryans and tho man who had been as sociated him on the latest Demo cratic national ticket he had claims of consideration when the senatorial prize was hung up which helped him to se cure it Mr Kern is not reckoned among the presidential quantities Governor Mar shall of the saiha state is and a small MsirHhA 1 noom exists better nowr than in 1908 as a vice presidential talk of Mr not also of ticket? The onlv ence politically between the two men is their attitude toward the liciucjr traffic In Nebraska Mr Bryan fights the traffic in all forms in which it shows itself in politics In Indiana Mr Kern must ac cept the company and assist ance The of the Hoosier state are both rich and powerful and insist on having a voire in state affairs And Mr Kern copying the other Democratic lead ers prefers their favor to their opposi Mtui as neer is not iniexer inan being let a It is told of Joseph Pierson former representative now claim agent for tho Terre Haute Indianapolis Eastern Traction Company that he went recently to make a settlement with a farmer whose cow had been killed by a traction car Pierson Is reported to have said to the farmer who by the way was a Swede car killed your cow but your cow was on our right of way Your cow was trespassing and under the law it is the same as If you had trespassed We whnt to do the square thing by you but what are you going to sighed the farmer been a poor man but gif you tin dollars ef that vill square week was certainty an extra President talk pervaded Wall street and interior markets and shattered certain lines of investment At Che close of the week however when there was no longer any doubt about the extra session traders became more reconciled and as is al ways true when uncertainty of an im pending matter 1s adjusted business established its going on a firmer under tone Then ton the markets have been assailed by rumors of the approaching decisions in the trust cases Unless these decisions are literally to general business interests there will ba no permanent injury Inflicted But any opinion as to what these forthcom ing decisions may be is sheer guess work and Wall street is indulging less freely In these forecasts since speculators were trimmed in 1he late bulge before thn rate opinion was handed down Tho investment market the country over has slow week for the reason that it logical time for security buying to iron plants brought into use furnaces in order io more fully the demand for material The the Harriman linos would it may be signifi convened both term at all unless such action vnu ever eazn through the nuriled haze flung glorious or oin Till the valleyed vistas And the earth reached Star? When the loosened nuts font With frost flavored grapes or brown pawn sweet While gray squirrels ran hoarding srlnr i And a Jone crow cawed from a deadened Where Was the Joke? They have their little jokes in Congress but sometimes the humor verges so close ly on solemn truth that the difference is not always clear An item in the naval appropriation as it came over to the Sen ate from tlie House provided that in the purchase of steel armor the Navy Depart ment should not pay the steel manufac turers a price that would yield a profit to the manufacturers of more than 100 per cent This provision Senator Pen rose of Pennsylvania the home of steel armor moved to strike out am in he said ponderously "that it was put in' by some humorist in the House in a spirit of facetiousness It is improperly there and should be stricken Senator showed a said the peared in not strike him as being humorous the contrary it seemed to him to sanc tion 100 per cent profit and the elimina tion of that limit without the insertion of some limit would leave the way open to indefinite prices notwithstanding the fact that the bill stipulated elsewhere that only a reasonable price should be paid for steel The removal of the limit he declared would leave the way open to those who have been conspiring against the government and he could not believe that the senator from Pennsyl vania would wish that The senator from Pennsylvania coldly returned that he knew nothing about any conspiracy He also expressed his con viction that the senator from Oklahoma lacked a sense of humor and the motion then being put by the chair the provision In question was when you consider the Steel Trust where was inc in making a limit of per cent or In not making any except elastic ohe of on a grass grown did you name your dog he is a Great Balti more American igg Bangs is a liar no gain saying that There'S no gainsaying it to Bangs I tried it once and it cost me $10 for repairs Boston Transcript He Darling be mine and your small est wishes shall ever be fulfilled She (coldly) am able to do that myself What I want is a man who will gratify my biggest wishes Judge am gian to sympathize with harharons Gosh mister all the money got isup on that Chicago Tribune never hear anything more of that great afraid neg lecting business spending his time in an observatory when lie ought to be dictating articles Washington Star Brother What docs think of de new evangelist sah? Deacon Win diddy a smaht man sah mo ec speeial in de matter rignr aiong no axes ior tnings aat old pahson Bagstor didn even know Lawd hadlPuck Did you ever seek nut the clearest pool Where tne sun urownea shadows cool stretch full length glade drowse at the sky flecked shade? I vnii dream on that the time that caine to the boy too soon? you now recall sweet midsummer dreams yourself In the hills by White streams? Is your noon life plan Like your day dreamed man? Bryan Not for Harmon The Commoner The papers which are friendly to ferent candidates seem disposed to mis construe the comments which the Com moner has made upon the different Democrats whose names have been sug gested in connection with the presidential nomination or example some weeks ago four names were mentioned and questions which have been asked con cerning them were answered Sofne of the Eastern papers at once reported that Mr Bryan had declared the four gentle men named to be available candidates More recently the Commoner has referred to different public men in connection with their official work In the last issue an extended quotation was made from an Ohio paper in regard to Governor Har attitude on the Oregon plan It might be as well understood now as later that commendation of particular acts does not necessarily mean that the par ties are available as presidential candi dates or that their nomination would be desirable The Commoner is not attempt ing to select a candidate for the presi dency and Mr Bryan is not prepared to express an opinion yet as to which one of the many gentlemen named would be the most available but that the Com moner may be free to commend such acts of Governor administration as seem worthy of commendation it is stated now for the benefit of the readers that the Commoner does not consider Governor Harmon as an available man for the Democratic nomination for reasons that will be given when the discussion of the subject seems proper WHITE HILLS Did you ever range fair White Water hills With thfir wooded slopes running down through rills Where striped chipmunks stay and blithe bluebirds play And the tune thrilled thrush and gay jeer ing jay? When the bloom hung in starry gleam rom each grass green knoll buttressing the stream When the soft tree tints ere the leaves were green Clung a mystic mist like the pictured scene Of your April joy As a barefoot boy? oy chief engrossing clerk of the State Senate in addition to being a professional ball player is a ventril oquist Recently oy accompanied Sen ator Proctor to Shelbyville where the senator was scheduled to speak En route from Shelbyville to Indianapolis people in the car were startled by a shout me out!" coming apparently from under one of the seats The shouts continued and the car soon loaded up a big package of excitement The con ductor Investigated but could find no one imprisoned ox district deputy of the Knights of Columbus was on the car Soon some one was calling "Mr ox was startled but could not tell from whence came the sounds He went Into the smoker to investigate thinking the party calling him wad in there His quest was unsuccessful oy knows ail about it candidate and ns there is Bryan for another race why Mr Kern? Why not the old bill No 105 may That of our statutory requirements for domestic corporations should be enforced also upon foreign cor porations by a now law If not enforce able under already existing statutes the attempt to enforce upon them also every oppressive and prohibitive statute which may be operative in their own states would certainly smack of injustice as well as illiberality We do not want to destroy corporations foreign or domes them to do business and honestly Our people do corporations domestic or it is to their advantage to do so Destruction of trade is harm fol to the man who wants to buy as well as to the man who wants merits of this bill however have been put forward by its propo Their operations have been eon excited matter compel abuse work an minds me "of the story of the two tramps of the tramps suggested to the other if they just had a ham they could ham and eggs The other asked him he ficrured it out? said the tramp we had a ham we could have ham and that is if we had the we have had promised $55000 for the continued Mr Johnson if we had the retraining $15000 we would have enough Is autumn glad As those dayn my lad? Did you ever glide In meteoric flight steep snow clad hills as the moonshone bright And laughter rang through your quavered bass Or follow the track or chase l'p the hill and down on a thawing night Till your bawling hound told a coon's af fright Ah old winter then could not harm or chill When the frosts but made pulses faster thrill When the hills you had As a playground lad DR HENRI BOGART Brookvilla Indz Senator Diirre of Evansville was called to the Jong distance telephone just be fore the session adjourned Saturday night and responded to a very urgent request from one of his Vanderburg County con stituents "Is that you newr "I Mure that just wanted to find out if I couldkeep open until 12 tonight and if he kept open uhtil 12 ho did not violate the law for the Gov ernor had Signed the bill SCHOOL REORM URGED iTo The Ifidianapolis Star: Believing the members of the School League (Indianapolis) to be work ing for the same result as myself name ly the greatest good to the greatest number of children I desire to request the president thereof to bring before it a subject which has been called to the attention of school authorities of Michi gan and which I am vitally interested in seeing introduced into the schools of In diana I believe the introduction of a compre hensive course of morals and manners beginning in the first grade of our public schools and continuing through tho on tire twelve years is a crying need the day The rudeness bumptiousness and im morality as well as the lack of reverence for al! things and the total disregard of the rights of others of tlie American child is fast becoming the reproach of other nations and unless given serious attention in the near future is Jikcly to become the downfall of our own The intellectual manual and physical education tlie child is given today is im portant I admit but of how much more importance is his moral and spiritual de velopment? I once heard a noted educator say that the true aim of education should be to teach the individual the shortest dis tance betWeeh himself and God and in what Way can you teach him this more surely than by training him to see the nearness of his own interests to those of his fellbw man? Some claim this is the duty of the parents not the schools Granted it should be but what of the child whose parents are too ignorant selfish or in different to give the proper training? It has alwaysbeen taken for granted that a teacher by precept and example Will instill manners and principles into the minds of her pupils but experience proves that this haphazard method is not to be depended upon A scientific explanation of the causes and effects of an Immoral life and the reasons for a moral one are due to the child Being neither a protestant Catholic or Jew according to the common accept ance of these terms feel that 1 can speak as an unprejudiced American and 1 do not believe the general use of Bible In the public schools (made up as they are of all sects and nationalities) Would be constitutional but I do sav and most sincerely believe that the in troduction of a course in ethics an manners would hot only be sanctioned bv every sect concerned but most heartily welcomed by them all The superintendent of public instruc tion of Michigan last November appoint ed a committee of many experienced and learned men to investigate and outlinea definite course oGmoral training for the schools of Michigan That he neglected to appoint one or more women on this bdard I believe to be a mistake there fore I Would like to see the matter started in Indiana by the League as I believe it will bo a great re forfi MARTHA JOHNSON Crawfordsville Ind Benefits of an Extra Session The Star must plead guilty to a chronic craving fur the sight of a new Congress at the outset of its The life of each re begins on March 4 tides a pardonable ro pt 1 ed by some special purpose This is told of Senator Trautmann and Senator Gers: They were en route to the State House the other day Senator Gers is slightly near sighted it is said and as the two statesmen passed the Traction Terminal Station he glanced into a window He plucked Trautmann by the coat sleeve he said believe one of those ladies bowed to Trautmann alway polite bowed it is said and went on unaware that he had greeted a dummy woman placed in the window of one of the rooms to demon strate a new washing machine The to whom Trautmann bowed his good grades rocks a baby and does the washing at the same time the whole out fit being operaieu uy tl Richard Schaaf Republican man in Lake County and widely as man who knows how to le mi ci at tne toreigu vutr sentative Van Horne of Lake County PEOPLE LOSING CONIDENCE To The Indianapolis St'ar: Less than a year ago Governor Mar shall lifid the respect and confidence of the people of Indiana irrespective of party But the sentiment of the people has changed The better class of his own party has lost a great deal of con fidence in him since he and the leaders of the party have bowed their heads to the god and suffered his yoke to be put upon them Why can not a man have the moral courage to do what his conscience tells him is right? Why be a slave to the liquor interests when knows that the liquor traffic is drag ging thousands of men down to degra dation? Again the Governor 'egotistical and being clothed with a little authority has evolved the mistaken Idea that he is able to draft a new constitution for( the state of Indiana unaided by any one and that the people of the state will think it the very thing because he said so The Governor is a receptive and a prospective candidate for President next year If he should be elected who knows but that he may in his wisdom some morning after breakfast without consulting any one unfold to the members of Congress a new A United States constitution and should both branches of the Congress be Demo cratic have a caucus of the party called and push his new constitution through Congress But his excellency must not forget that later the people will have a voice in the matter BEAUCHAMP Hortonville Ind WIDOWS AND SURAGE To The Indianapolis Star: It was with much regret that 1 read in Star of the defeat in the House of the bill granting municipal suf frage to the women of Indiana This falls particularly hard upon the women of this town because of the large proportion of widows in its population Possibly the fact that it is causes it to be so very unhealthy for males Long a widow I own ahd occupy a corner where the owners and occupants of the two opposite corners are also wid ows The fourth corner is the property of a young girl a minor whose mother is a widow all persons of means This may be an exceptional ease but in addition to these mentioned there can be seen from my door the homes of three qther widows i On Broadway within the space of two blocks are the residences of five wealthy widows Probably there is not a residence square in the place without one or more homes The only participation permitted these in municipal affairs is that of taxpaying The tax rate is over 3 per cent an amount always acknowledged to be bur densome and this is now threatened with an increase through an enterprise that will enrich a few persons and oppress the remainder of the taxpayers for many years In New York Michigan and the equal suffrage states women owning prop erty vote upon such questions Here men who have no financial in terest Or responsibility men who have their poll tax paid for them help to im pose these burdens upon us helpless wom en In my precinct last November the first man to be voted was a well known imbecile Unnaturalized Roumanians of whom we have large numbers who can hot speak the language and according tor' our American standards are semi civil ized were also voted But to property holding American women forty eight of our representa tives say no all honor and gratitude to the forty one who generously said yes I am descended from three linos of revolutionary ancestors I was reared on patriotism I wras taught that this is par excellence "the land of the but in fact the tax paying women of Sweden have had for 100 years the right denied to Indiana Women by forty eight members of the House last Monday A HOOSIER WIDOW Vincennes Ind in special session technical existence curnng Congress and it at least curiosity if it is itbe President for 'The fact that Benjamin Harrison has utilized this power may be interpreted moreover as betokening a hardening of the precedent Though Mr Taft is neither a rash nor a spectacular executive cant that He has grasses coincident with his 4 Things that need doing often need doing at Is some grave It might even time consumed kies in a new the machinery wasted but well Spent inary wrork that would have to be donenext winter will now be disposed of The fact is that the long gap between the election of a Congress and its as semblage more than a year later desir able under the transportation facilities of the eighteenth century has points of grave Inconvenience today Tho next March is not too soon for a man elected In: November Io assume his duties and there is a touch of injustice in the fact that the campaign for his own re election forced upon a member in a few months after he has taken his seat and before'his constituents have had time to judge of his quality VIEWS TIE PEOPLE The never nents fined was the forts to personal failed as they ought suaded they dislike to be coerced peclally do they resent If they are of honesty and self respect any attempt to compel their blind acceptance of a measure by aspersions on their charac ter and veiled threats of continued per secution Nor is anything more impor tant in popular government than the freedom of lawmakers and courts to act without pressure from agencies as power ful as a dictatorial press It may be said in all kindness that tho Indianapolis News is its own worst enemy Efficient and successful as a newspaper it destroys its own influence when It leaves the legitimate province of newspaper making for the role of polit ical manipulation and high handed rule A newspaper's attitude on public ques tions should be determined by their intririsic merits not by the part play in some ganrte of politics of sonal aggrandizement or of vengeful tility' It is not such a bad world after all Congress adjourned Saturday and the In diana Legislature adjourns today.