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plant by saying that the allegations Of
discrepancy will be looked into "inde-
pendently and accurately" There will
be committee. he says, to examine
the question in all of its phases. to re-
port on the item in controversy, to
recommend any changes in the state
ment in question, to study the statisti-
cal methods and to advise as to legisla-
ton that may seem to them to be de-
sirable and in order to better increase
the authority of the bureau"
If the bureau is so accurate as to
deserve the unreserved confidence of
writers and brokers'" and if they are
impairment in analyzing and compar-
ing and drawing conclusions from its
figures, then why bother with anybody's
advice as to legislation ito better in
crease" its authoritys Does the bureau
have to get special authority from Con-
eress to make accurate reports?
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RADIO CAMPAIGNING.

The coming presidential and con-
gressional elections will furnish a
comprehensive test of the value of the
radio in politics. The manager of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
companys' broadcasting department
has recently given out the plan of
that organization for the political use
of its facilities, during the campaign.
The company will broadcast political
speeches at the flat rate of $40 per
allowed to hold the air for more than
ten minutes at time.
This will require, of course, quite
a new style Of political speaking. Ges-
ture, facial expression, all those ex-
ternal devices by which the speaker
on the platform is accustomed to aid
his thought in making its way into
the minds and hearts of an audience
looking into his face, will be as moth
ing when the only thing that actual
ly faces him is the receiving instru-
ment of the radio.
Another disadvantage will be the
absolute impossibility of getting any
immediate reaction from ones hear
ers. Before an audience, something
in the listeners eyes, some struggling
of their shoulders, will often con-
vince a speaker that he is going
wrong, and lead him to change the
line of his thought even in the mid
die of a sentence. With this posi-
bility removed how much more care
fully must the politician study the
possible interpretations which may be
put upon those ten-minute speeches
which he delivers to the broadcasting
machinery-so short, and yet capable
of doing so much harm before the
chance unfavorable effect can be
made known to the speaker and cor
rected!
If the offer Of the radio for this
purpose is very generally accepted,
condensation of political thought will
have to be the order of the day. This
will be an excellent discipline for some
of our campaign orators, who have
heretofore required from fifteen min
utes to half an hour for their mere
introduction, to say nothing Of the
body Of their speech. On the whole,
one of the most interesting occupa-
tons during the coming campaign will
be to watch the political effect Of this
new agency of communication.-Co-
lumbus Dispatch.
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THE ARMORER'S SONG.

Let hammer on anvil ring,
And the forge fire brightly shine;
Let wars rage still,
While / work with will
At this peaceful trade of mine.
The sword is a weapon to conquer fields;
/ honor the who shakes 1t:
But naught is the lad who the broad-sword wields
Compared to the lad who makes It
Clang. Cang! Clang!
Then huzzah for the anvil, the forge. and the
sledge!
Huzzah for the sparks that fly!
II had a cup / would straightway pledge
The armorer-that is /
Let others Of glory sing,
As they struggle in glory's quest.
Let them their brands
In their mailed hands,
While the sword smites shield and crest.
Oh war is a trade have not essayed,
Though goodliest fame attends 1t.
I sing of the one who, when fight is done,
Takes every good sword and mends II.
Clang! Clangl Clangl
Then huzzah for the valiant, the squire, or the
knight,
Who loyeth the battle-cryl
But here's to the swordsman that maketh them
fight,
The armorer-that Is II
Harry Bache Smith.
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he paused. The colonel stared at
him round-eyed. At last he spoke, In
a voice that was cold and level.
Your grace has hardly said
enough"
"Dullard! What more Is to be said ?
Don't you understand that mean to
make an end of this situationT
Faith! l think / understand that
well enough" HOLES laughed a little.
What / don't understand is my part
in this-a doxy business of this kind.
Will not your grace be plain?"
plain? Why. man. want her
carried off for me-"
They sat coming each other In 81
lence now, the coloners face utterly
blank. SO that the duke looked in vain
for some sign of how he might be TAX
ing this proposal. At last his lips
curled in rather scornful smile, and
his voice drawled with mildly humor-
GUS infection.
''But in such a matter your grace's
own vast experience should surely
serve you better than could l."
In his eagerness, the duke took him
literally, never needing the sarcasm.
my experience will be there to
guide you."
Il see," said HOLES.
"I'll tell you more precisely how l
need you-where you can serve me"
And Buckingham proceeded to in
form him of the well-equipped house
in knight Ryder street, which he now
desired HOLES to take in his own
name. Having taken it, he was TO
make the necessary arrangements to
carry the girl thither on the evening
of Saturday next, after the last per-
Torrance at the Dukes House.
Taking what men you need" the
duke concluded, at should be easy TO
waylay and capture her chair as it is
being borne home. We will consider
that more closely il the service is one
that you are disposed to accept"
The colonels face was flushed. He
felt his gorge rising. At last his anger
mastered him, and he heaved himself
up to confront the handsome profligate
who dared in cold blood to make him
this proposal.
"My God J" he growled.- Are you
led by your vices like q blind man by
his dog?"
The duke stepped back before the
sudden menace of that tone and mien.
At once he wrapt himself in a mantle
of arrogance.
II warned you, sir, that I win suf-
fer no heroics; that I will have no
man play Bobadil to me. You asked
service of me. have shown you how
l can employ you"
"Service?" echoed HOLES, his voice
almost choked with anger. Els this
service for a gentleman"
Continued in Our Next Issue)
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Poets Corner
APRIL's SMILE

I walked forth through fields Of slor-
ious green,
Just away from my cares . while;
Through the hush Of mornings dew.
drop sheen,
I saw a vision Of Aprirs smile.
Texas blue-bonnes raised their jaunty
heads,
White and yellow primrosss did me be-
And a, I tip-toed past the wood-vio-
let's bed,
1 felt the glory Of Aprils smilA
From the lips Of the dewy-eyed dais-
les there fell
Tidings of a breeze 80 sweet and mild,
And with Joy rang the merry blue
As it heralded the beauty Of April's
smile.
Beneath the plum's snowy and frag-
rant bloom,
Which dispels from the senses all
things vile,
A blessing Of soft sunlight chased,
away the gloam-
And my soul praised the purity Of
Aprirs smile.
Suddenly-the branches overhead
were cleft apart
A cardinal trilled q song In his bril-
liant style;
Happiness and soothing peace crept
into my heart,
For on my lips was left a print Of
April's smile.
II. n. NJ
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Lolita Robinson.

Lolita Robinson.
We knew her, as a little girl;
Upon the crest Of life's gay whirl h
She's not at all the same,
/ think that could almost say;
She's changed, she's changed in every
way,
Except, except her name.
Glorious womanhood, full grown;
A girl, now come into her own,
And yet, you still can trace,
As you find in every flower;
That's been full blown, but just an
hour,
The girlhood in her facs.
She sees new hope, In every dawn;
But still looks back Ger years, now
gone,
With somewhat heaving breast,
In fear, with hope now realized;
She may be wrong, or Ill advised,
Her path, not quite the best.
In Joy, In hope her eyes Of blue;
Speak Of a girl, yet woman too,
Though with a beating heart,
She seems quite like some startled
Who. when It's own first song Il
hear,
viii in it's terror start.
Like stars that twinkle In the sky
You shall shine, then fade and die,
From your friends memory,
But when, once more, you come oua
way;
Though you are old and bent and
grey;
You'll seem the same to me.
Roll on Oh, time, but try to spare
Those good old friends, for whom W
care,
And give them honor, fame.
When they come back, 1t may b
true;
That you have even changed me too,
Except, perhaps, my name.
c. D'YROMA
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cal principle upon which the old saying
is based.
1t has been said that honesty merely
as a policy is a sorry rule of conduct.
When a person practices honesty mere
ly as policy he has in view objects that
might not stand other moral tests; in
other words, he may not be honest by
nature, but for selfish purposes-his hon
esty may be only an expedient.
However, if those who are honest by
nature would bring themselves to real
ize the unitarian value of honesty, they
might save themselves, upon occasion,
from grief and adversely. For there are
times when it is strategically necessary
to create an impression of honesty
necessary even for a person whose pur-
poses are really worthy. Consider the
Importance of strategy in the trial of a
suit before jury.
Some time ago a public-sevice cor
poration was the defendant in dam
age suit A man had been injured-al-
legedly, at least-and the vital ques-
ton for the jury to decide was whether
the company" had been guilty of negli-
gence. The corporations attorney, in
grilling his witnesses-employes of the
ompany-cautione them against making
exaggerated statements designed to win
the case. Tell the simple TRUTH" he
instructed them. "If the plaintiffs law
yer asks you a question. the truthful
answer to which would in your opin-
ion be unfavorable to the company, then
give that answer unhesitatingly. Don't
YOU dare to make misstatements just
to show your loyalty to the company"
Most of the "company's" witnesses
lived up to this admonition. They de-
scribed the accident in unexaggerated
terms. and gave some testimony I'm
favorable to the company" in answer
ing questions OF the opposing counsel.
So, it seemed that their testimony had not
been cooked up" Upon the jury they
created the impression of being truthful
and honest.
But one of the forewarned witnesses
Just one-made an obvious misstate-
ment. He did not tell a downright lie;
he merely exaggerated the truth. Though
his ultimate object was worthy, and his
employers cause just one, he destroyed
the value of the testimony Of all of his
fellow witnesses. In reaching its YER
dict the jury apparently reasoned that
if one of the "company's" witnesses was
less than 100 per cent truthful, then all
of them must be liars-and that the
plaintiff was entitled to damages" -.
II all innately honest people would
bring themselves to realize that honesty,
in addition to being an Indispensable
factor in good characters a matter
of philosophy-is also the best strategy,
then they would have larger measure
of self-protection against those who re-
gard honesty, or the appearance OF It,
as merely an expedient
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UNNECESSARY THINGS

Up in Missouri there Is a man OF sew
enty who lives in the same place in
which he was born. He claims never
to have ridden on a railroad train, an
automobile, or other mechanical con-
trivance, and never to have talked over
a telephone. This remarkable man has
never worn a collar or tie, chewed gum,
eaten ice cream or seen moving pic
ture show. Some sixty-odd years ago
he did travel all of the twenty miles that
lie between his home and Kansas City
and then he gazed at four-story build
ing, but he never went back.
He has a perfectly good reason too
for having nothing to do with modern
life, claiming chat he never did see no
use in doing unnecessary things"
This man should be real pleasure
and a source of great encouragement to
all those people who claim the modern
world is going to the dogs -. only they
don't say "the dogs" He should be
sort of beacon light when we rail at
trains for being late, dodge automobiles,
and are interrupted in Our work by the
telephone, that great modern convenience,
in its other role of great modern pest.
We should rejoice in him when we want
to wear old clothes and go about happy,
unshavcn and unshorn,. when various
advertisements in the streets and pub
lie highways offend Our aesthetic sense,
when the ice cream is full of gelatine,
or when moving pictures strike us as
me1odramatic and appealing to the I'm
fantile mind" In fact, we. would be
pleased with this satisfied old codger
when we were dyspeptic or grouchy,
or when we have had an inspiriting
vision of a civilization more beautifully
proportioned and soulfully satisfying
than this.
But in a philosophical mood, we might
turn over thoughtfully what the man
had to say for his idea is founded on
certain measure of good sense in dis.
pensing with many complications OF
life. Simply to live. we can eat only
So much; we can be in only one room
at time; we can wear only one suit
of clothes at a time. As matter of
plain fact, we can live only one minute
at time, that being the only thing
of which we are sure except that some
day there will come one minute in which
to die. We are admonished to "talle no
thought for the morrow" and know
that many things over which we strain
and fret are futile and in the long run
amount to nothing at all. Much of the
wear and tear of living would be auto
matically nullified did we practice peace
and serenity and cease striving for "un-
necessary things"
But there is the rub Who is to de-
eide this question, what is necessary and
what is not? The whole worlds adj
vancement, its evolution, all the beauties
of art and architecture, the solace of
music and literature, the discoveries of
science, the comforts and conveniences,
the sanitation and decency of modern
living, lie at the root of that indecision.
Had the little amoeba thought it "un-
necessary" to crawl out upon the land
we might, all of US, still be stuck in
the primeval mud.
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A RECORD FOR NERVE"

President Coolidge's proposal that a
reduction in taxes payable this year be
provided for by separate resolution. rath-
er than by clause in the revenue bill.
has been rejected by the House of Rep
iesentatives. There may have been ten
able reasons for such rejection, although
it might easily seem to the layman that
Congress could do anything, in the legis-
lative sense, by resolution, If it so de-
sired. However, it is disgusting to read
some of the members professed reasons
for rejecting the Presidents proposal.
Before considering those professed rea-
sons it might be we'll to note what Rep
resentative Longworth said about the
matter. Compliance with Mr.. Coolidge's
request, the gentleman from Ohio under
took to explain, was impossible" be-
cause the parliamentary situation" was
too involved to permit speedy considera-
ton of the proposed resolution.
Well, whose fault was it if the tax
reduction project had become so compli-
Gated: Was it the Presidents or that
of the HOUSE? Mr. Coolidge's recon-
mendations for tax reduction were SIM
pie enough. Partisan pickering on the
part of members Of the House produced
the parliamentary situation" which Rep
resentative Longworth regarded as a
barrier to the resolution suggested by
the President as a means OF doing i'm
mediately what nearly every member Of
Congress had protested to be DESTROYS
of doing.
But the disgusting reasons for reject
ing the Presidents proposal came from
partisans on the other side. They seized
avidly what they evidently regarded as
an opportunity to make political capital
for themselves. Said Representative
Hull of Tennessee, chairman of the
Democratic national committee:
"The utterly belated tax measure oi
the President is in harmony with his
past record of delay when confronted
by an important problem or by ar
emergency situation"
OF all the nerve" that has been dis
PLAYED in Congress since the introduction
of the Mellon tax-reduction bill, this i
by all odds the grossest. Representative
Hull accuses Mr.. Coolidge of the kind o
delinquency of which Congress has be
come VIGOROUSLY guilty. The tax-reduc
ton project did not mark the beginning
of congressional temporizing. Nearly
three years ago a business proposition
was submitted to Congregations,
Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals-and no
until a few days ago was this matte
disposed Of
Mr.. Melons tax-reduction plan wa
business proposition. 1t was base
upon sound economic principles. Wha
did Congress do with it? The story ha
already become old. But when mem
Der of Congress, particularly the chair
man of the national executive commit
tee of one of the major political parties
undertakes to criticise President Cool
idge for hardness. the effect upon ever
sane and intelligent citizen in the Ian
should be sickening in the highest de
gree.
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TRY AND BE CHEERFUL

II the world seems sad and dreary {;
And you're all down and out,
And you're footsore, and you're wear,
Just don't start ahead to pout.
Just throw out you're chest an
smile,
That's the only way to do,
Be cheerful for little while.
There's no use in being blue.
Times are what you make them;
Life gets shorter every day.
So Just brace up men.
Try to be cheerful and gay.
JOHN J. WILSON.
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HONESTY AS STRATEGY

AS matter of philosophy, everybody
who is capable of seeing life from so
broad a viewpoint believes that "hon-
esty is the best policy"-believes it, at
least, in a vague, abstract, theoretical
sort of way. But when it comes to
concrete situations even some good peo-
pie slip, and leave it for the unscrupu-
lous to take advantage Of the psychology
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copies OF any nature
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Prepared.

Entering q bar in Montmartre. q Pa
risian came upon a heated argument be
tween the bartender and a customer.
Ths latter was holding a oounterfei
lo-franc note In his hand and gesticulat
ing wildly.
'You n.Jve given me this fake note.
he shouted. land / want good money &c
1t, or I'll have you arrested"
But the bartender was imperturbed. u
simply pointed to sign behind hin
which read:
1--WE do not take back oounterfeI
money."-Los Angeles Times.
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If the tea dealers have any sense Of
proportions, they will get busy with
their advertising while this teapot dome
stuff is running on the first page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-27
REVENUE BILL LAID
ASIDE AS HOUSE
HONORS HARDING
Progressive Split Threatens
Reduction in TaxeS-Vote
Expected Friday,

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Work on
the new revenue bill was laid aside
today by the House as Congress paid
homage to the late President Hard
ing. Under the surface there were
rumblings threatening tax reductions.
Outstanding developments were:
!, The split in progressive ranks.
brought about by the Longworth
compromise, was widening. despite de-
nials from progressive leaders.
?. Administration Republicans. dis
satisfied with amendments written
into the bill, which they declare will
cause a deficit of S350.0O0 900 in the
treasury threaten to vote against the
bill
Most of the major amendments
have been disposed of and a final
vote on the measure is expected by
leaders Friday.
An amendment by Representative
Clancy, Michigan. cutting taxes on
automobiles and the provision that a
board of tax appeals remain to be
passed upon by the House.
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Buy Lines, Church Body Urges

That whereas regulation by the
State has proven a miserable fail
ure and there is nothing left for
the people as a. means OF relief ex-
cept to own, control and operate
their utilities;
Be it therefore resolved, that
this organiza ton here and now go
on record as being opposed to any
increase in street car fares and
that we again urge the officials of
this city to take immediate, definite
and effective steps for the taking
over of the said street railway sys-
tenn, and that the same be taken
over and operated by the city upon
a nonpartisan commission man
agerial basis found successful in
hundreds OF other cities of the
United States and Canada"
The organization also agreed to
participate in a mass meeting to
demand a west side high school at
school No. 80, King Ave. and Wal
nut St, Friday night.
A resolution favoring a new
courthouse was adopted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-27
Statement Regarding Status of At
torney General Will Be
Issued Late Today
Cabinet Member Under Fire in Oil
Scandal Scraps for Vindi-
cation Before Senate
cation Before Senate
Oil Scandal Developments Today

Statement regarding Daugherty resignation expected
within 48 hours
Smoo and LenrOot of investigating committee admit secret
conferences with Fall 100000 payment former secretary
Francis McAdoo of William Gibbs McAdoo, linked with
Mclean and Fall in kilograms regarding his advise lawyer.
Wheeler resolution to investigate Department of Justice
again blocked in Senate, this time by Lodge.
Walsh assas Republican national committee for charging
he fathered oil lease law.
Lenroot and Smoo defend Walsh and support his denial of
Republican charge.
Senate committee to investigate report England obtaining
most of oil from California leased to Doheny
Copies of Western Union and Postal kilograms reveal
m1ncaon from Washington Mclean and Fall in Palm Beach
and also leased wire direct from White House
WASHINGTON Feb. ga statement relating to Attorney
General Daugherty status member of the Cabinet will be
issued late today Daughery said the White House after
conference of hour with President Coolidge today.
The only question remaining show and when Daugherty
viii go.
The Attorney General understood to be holding out for
poSponement of his resignation until after the Senate committee
be named under the Wheeler resolution has him public
hearing and opportunity defend himself against charges
has not vigorously offenders and his
partmen of.Justice has weakened public confidence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-27

fNI UNICIPAL ownership of
lWI the Indianapolis street car
1 system is demanded in a
resolution sent to the city council
by the Eighth Christian Live
Wires. q civic organization con-
nected with the Eighth Christian
church. today.
The organization declared State
regulation Of utilities is a failure
and that municipal ownership has
proved successful in other places.
The resolution:
THAT whereas the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company is asking
for an increase in fares;
THAT whereas such increase will
strike those of our citizens who are
already overburdened by corporate
greed and unfairness and less able
to- bear this additional burden;
THAT where this organization
maintains that so long as private
capital operates our utilities, Just
so long will increases be allowed to
meet the demands Of inflated cap
italization to the detriment of the
people;