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PRICE TO RETAILERS
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Senator. $3.50; Northern Spys, S.: Rome
beauties, $2.75: Baldwins. $3.50; R. I.
BananaS-60Bc ID.
Berries-Cranberries. $ioG10.50 one-half
Grapefruit-Florida, $464.75 crate.
Grapes-californit Emperors. Sc keg:
$2:25@2.5o lug; California Almeria. t2.75
lug:
Lemons-Caiifornia So.
LimeS-Jamaica. So per 100.
Oranges california Navels. $475Qs.5o
4Ws soso PSF ssas srf psr box
Elorida Ayocados' IS per dozen: Washing
TanGersnes- $s.7504.ss a crate.
VEGETABLES
Artichokes-Ca California. So per dozen.
Beans-.Southern. s2.25@2.50.
SSSsseI5 ssQPi-Outsz2sc lO,
carrots-$l@l.25 bu.
Caylihower- California. s2.75 crate.
igan rough, SO per 2-S crate; Michigan
6ucunbsTs@Hethouse. 9sss.as doz.: south
ern, sl;2S dog; Florida, So crate.
Endive-5o dog:
Kale-H; G., 81 bu.
crate; hothouse. leaf. $2.25 is lbs. '''''
on IisaTGOsSdsS sass@a5o crate: 1ndi-
Oystqrplant-5oc doz.
Parsley-60c doZ. punches.
Parsnips-$I50 bu
peppers@FineTs. TSc peck Florida man:
sV po'taft e white, 50 $50 lbs.
nssCta Red River ohiOs. s2,a5 iSo lbs;
Radishes- Hothouse buttons. 9oc dozen:
Rutabagas@si.75 per cWt.
spinscI-H. G., s1.25@I.5o bu.
Sweet Potatoes =. Indiana jersey me-
Nancy Hall Hail. si I i hampsr Jerseys s110 Ou
Tomatoes--Hothouse.. $3.50 per 10 lbs.
Turnips-H. c.. 65c bu.
MISCELLANEOUS
Cider--New York. $3.50, IA gal. key:
$3.50. gal. case: $4.75. 12z gal. Tar.
Cocoanuts-$6 per 100.
Garlic--15c per lb.
oysters Standards. $3.50 GAL: selects
saussh-Hubbard. $3.50 Dbl.
HOLIDAY SUPPLIES
Cedar Roping--$1.2 rs per 20-yard roll.
Holly-Wreaths, SITS per doz.: loose. S6
per case.
Laurel Roping-$1.5 so per 20-yard coil.
opodium-S1.25. coward roll.
Mistletoe-$1.50 per 10-lb. case.
Trees-Vermont spruce. $3dl0. singles;
s2.25. bundles Of and 8; $3.50. bundles
of 4, and 6.
Tree Holders-wooden cross pieces, SITS
per rs paid; metal holders. $7.5oG9 per
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Building Permits

:, H Z; Simon. dwelling and garage. 5ss5
N, Meridian, $4,000.
p,auiin ..OW% ieland. garage. aiSs-S5 s. Me-
Carl Exc. dwelling. 1ol7-is N. Ia
George H.: Nichoelis. dwelling and ga
rage. $3.50 Central $i0.500.
~, Belmont Realty Company. repair. 2i01
Clara g; coraway. repair. lii4 w. Eight
:. Clare 9. Conway. temporary dwelling.
Richarrd H. consdy. repair. 27os BeIti-
Q; N: Perkins q Son. reroof. 1882 Belle
Mrs: =; L. Anderson. garage. 72os Cen
Mrs. Erie Gray. reroof. 40 N Brook
Vile. $239.
west corner Drover and Twelfth, 81 800.
Charles T. Remy. addition. $50 E. Thir-
tieth. 500.
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PORKER PRICES
DROP Is CENTS
AT STOCKYARDS
Top Down 80 Cents to
$685.; Large Number
Received Here Today.
with 1000 hogs received and 400

With 1000 hogs received and 402
held over, prices dropped generally
Is cents on the Indianapolis live
stock market today. The top was
down 80 cents on the hundredweight
to $S.35, the price paid for animals
weighing 100 pounds upward in the
bulk.
The Chicago market opened slow
with most early sales and few bids
10@15 cents lower. The top was
$40, but best butchers were held
at $3.50. About $4,000 were received.
Cattle remained weak on the local
market. Calves were lower and
sheep and lambs steady.
Heayies Suffer
The top price for all animals
above 200 pounds was $685.. Heavy
meat animals, 25o-35O pounds, went
at 1925 up and those weighing 200
$50 pounds were the same. Material
in the 160-200-pound class were
down Is to Is cents, selling at $50
8.35. Light weights, 13O-16O pounds,
sold at $7.75@8, off Is cents, and
pigs, 90-130 pounds, were $7@775.
Packing sows brought $7@750.
Cattle prices were unchanged, but
weak. Beef steers sold at 1880
1880 and COWS went at $7@9.50. Low
cutter and cutter cows were $4.75@
6 and bulk stock and feeder steers
brought $4,000. About 1,40O were
received.
Calves Lower
Best vealers were down so cents,
selling in a range of $15@1550, and
heavy calves were unchaged at $3.50
@7.50. About 900 were brought to
the yards.
Sheep and lambs were steady,
with TOO in the pens. Top fat lambs
were quoted at $14 and the bulk
sold at $13@13.5o. Bulk culls were
$7.50@10.50 and fat ewes brought
$4.50@65o.
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FLoGGING TRIALS TODAY

North Carolina to Prosecute Thirty
Five for Whipping.
BIZ United Press
RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 13.-Trial
of the first of thirty-five men in
dicted in connection with a series
Of floggings in Wake County was
to begin here today.
G. E. Belshe, county convict camp
supervisor, charged with secret
assault" on Dolly jones, grocer,
and Sam Green, Jones' Negro
helper, was the first defendant.
Belshe and thirteen other men
were indicted year ago in connec-
ton with the f1ogging. Jones and
Green were taken from their homes
and lashed for alleged liquor run
ming.
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Marriage Licenses

Bruce Osthimer, 81, Of 3l4 Massachu-
setts. deIieatessen owner. and Anna Mich
aux Ss. ei4 y; East. cafe owner.
7l4 Blake, Christian Hospital.
George Poundstone.. 28, Of iI43 College,
1Iemans ana Hazel Thompson, 10, OF alas
James Swain. 80. $40 Minerva, molder.
maid. -
Robert welcher. ~. OF 1884 N. Tacoma.
salesman. and Catherine Skinner, 20. OF
1924 s. Belle Vieu Pl "a
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COURTHOUSE BASEMENT
SUICIDE EFFORT FAILS
Mrs. BeuIah Leslie Recovering After
Drinking Poison.

Mrs. Beulah Leslie, 40. Of 1418
Spann St., who took poison in a sui
eide attempt. police say, in the
basement of the courthouse Monday
afternoon, is recovering at the city
hospital.
She approached Mrs. Gladys Paul,
a clerk in the county assessors Of
flee, and asked for a cup of water.
When Mrs. Paul gave her the cup
she put several tablets in the water
and started to drink it. Mrs. Paul
told police she thought something
was wrong and knocked the cue
from Mrs. Leslie's hands.
Dependency over loss OF her Job
as a cashier in downtown re. 'Au-
rant and her husbands lack OF en-
ployment was blamed by police for
the suicide attempt.
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Births


Girls
Monte and Minerva Mumford, 1927
Martindale.
Frank and Daisy Korosec, 52oS E. WAL
pital. @A"e-
Frank and Irene oaks. Methodist Hos
William and Georgia Fish, io42 Reisner.
Hospital.
Walter and Juanita Metzler. Methodist
Thomas and Thelma Beall. Methodist
Raymond and Sue HAIL. Methodist Hos
Boys
Lee and Bessie Harris, 1914 Lexington.
Liibert and Sadie Young. 2433 Paris.
Hospital.
N. Harding.
Merle and Olive AIte, 1II2 Lexington.
Fred and Grace Harris. Methodist Hos
pital. avs
Twins
Carl and Freda Culman, 1909 Linden,
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KILLS SELF WITH GAS
Electrician, Dependent Because Of
Illness, Asphyxiated.

Dependent because of illness,
Terrell B. Speake, 3S, killed himself
with gas today at the home of his
mother and stepfather, William H.
Griffith, retired physician, 1916 Te-
cumseh, with whom he had been
living.
He went to the basement ITO fix
the fire" early this morning and was
found several hours later asphyxi-
ated by gas from the water heater,
which he had turned on. Speake
was an electrician. He had not
worked for three months because Of
illness. His mother survives.
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BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 49,
The Garrick Club, dramatic organ
ization at Indiana University, will
present the three-act e-comedy,
1.-The Patsy" in Assembly Hall on
the campus, Wednesday and Thurs
day. Sherwood Blue, Indianapolis,
a senior in the law school, is di-
recting the play, which was written
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Toaster Case in Court

BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec, lS.-In-
fringement Of patent on an electric
toaster is alleged in a suit filed in
Federal Court here by the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa,
against the Marion Electric Cor
poration, Marion, Ind.
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Late officials Mother Dies

BIZ Times Special
VALPARAISO, Ind, Dec. 13.-Mrs.
Dorothea Urbahns, IS, widow of
John G.. Urbahns. and mother of
the late Benjamin Urbahns, who
died while serving as State treasurer
Of Indiana, is dead at her home here.
Funeral services viii be held Thurs
day afternoon.
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ConvictS Buy Guard Flowers
BIZ United Press
LAUREL HILL, N. j., Dec. 49,,
When Eddy English, 10, penitentiary
guard, died, convictS became soft
hearted mourners and Clipped in
$50 for large floral offering.
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Bp United Press
POST INVITES VETERANS
Open Meeting Is Planned by F. w.
", Thursday night.

Convention City Post of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars will hold an
open meeting at p m. Thursday,
at the post hall, 210 E. Ohio ST., ac-
cording to Edward G. Schaub, COM
mander. All ex-service men who
have served in foreign engagements
are invited.
Frank T, Strayer, national COM
mander, will be principal speaker.
Arthur G. Greshem, State publicity
officer, will speak. Committee in
charge includes Schaub, Ralph r.
Canter, A. R. Brenton, G. H Hath
cote, B. A. Ringer and E. P. Butter
field.
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Ruvs Original .Thais, Manuscrint

Buys Original That's Manuscript
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The origi-
nal autograph manuscript of
That's" Anatole Frances first man
uscriptl of Importance to come to this
country, has been obtained by a.
book dealer here. ..Al..A
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Bu United Press
TIGHTEN DRY WARRANT
U. S. Rules Must Prevail Where
State Has No Law, Court Holds.


BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. Estate
officials enforcing prohibition in
States lacking their own enforce
ment acts must conform to the
volstead search warrant Require
ments.
This was the effect Of a United
States ruling Monday holding that
Rosario Gambino and Joseph Lima
were convicted illegally in New
York on evidence in the form or
liquor seized from them without a
search warrant.
The court held that since New
York has repealed its state enforce
ment act State officers must, under
the Volstead act, possess warrants
for searching suspected wet" prop
erty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-13
Local Wagon Wheat

Local grain ELEVATORS are paying sl.S1
for No. 2 red wheat. Other grades are
purchased on their merits.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 1s.--Foreign exchange
opened Irregular; 90 Demand sterling.
on .o0%c; Ira. 542Ac. of .00Ac; belga,
lD.98lsc. up .001ac; marks, 23.87c. up
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Other Livestock
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. Dec. ls--Cattle Receipts
decline; killing. quality plain bulk quality
loads to early shippers. sl5GElS:7s; good to
steady; yUealegSss soc lower; most low, cut
sTs Ss eaet Is g. S and he me
e en S Gewsh 60 $3.50 to snS SS sST sS Snsr
enough early trading to. fully establish
values; offering unevenly lower on all fat
lambs; best hsndyweights held at -$l4;
e R Dts' sos srRes s pss Ely
medium to choics. ss6s.45; @ nee ms:
weight 200 to $50 lbs: medium to choice.
Ss@s q cbGs nswsgs 49, 70 70 2 2SG lbs
packing sows. .$7@7, so; slaughter pigs 50 81
BIZ Times Special
300; market 20@35c lower; best heavy and
oofh SstO and s stsss ap ss@ss iEg
SSGS . sSsss .lsi % $sEEs i ssSs
sdoG12: outs, $40 down. s heep-Receipts.
So :on market s STEADY: top lambs, $l2@l25o
shipments: Cattle. $50; calves, $50; hogs
1853; sheep. none.
PITTsBURGH. Dec. 1s.-Hogs-Receipts,
l;5oo; market 10000 lower: S5o-s50 lbs,
$8;5o@8.70: 200-25O lbs. $S.50d8.70; i60-
EGO lbs, $S.25@8.70; 100. $50 lbs. $a08.25;
$3.50 x iSsi szaS%S; picking sows s7g
yeaiers. .s145o q 1880. Sheep ~ Receipts,
800. market strong to Csc higher; top fat
lambs, STATS bulk fat lambs, $i36i4.75:
bulk Gull lambs. 5000.
BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND. Dec. --Hogs-Receipts,
lbs lbs ss a. 2 90 lSSs ssSs5s 10000
S lbs sssss { k asv ssw e:apss s5S
market steady; beef cows. $6.50@8'25; low
cutter and cutter cows, $4.7566: vealers,
$l3Ql6.50. Sheep-Receipts 1000: market
steady; top fat lambs. $14.75 bulk fat
lambs. SLABS q 14.75; bulk Gull lambs, $li
@l2; bulk fat ewes. $507; bulk feeding
lambs. sll@12.50.
e. EAsT ,o SSUEES;AsIo Dec j., rsHsgs
to loo lower; 25o-s50 lbs. $s.5o@S.75: 200.
8.75;. l3o-160 lbs. ss25@s.60; o0-lsO lbs,
S8G9.25: packing sows. $7@750 Cattle
Receipts, SO; calves. receipts, 100; market
steady: calves soc higher; beef steers,
$40. 50@14.25: vealers. $l6@l6.5o Sheep
Receipts Re 100; followers 500; market
lambs, $ll@12; bulk fat ewes. S6.50d7.50
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DIES BY ELECTRICITY
Mother Of Five Killed at Brazil
While Using Washer.

While Using Washer.
BIZ United Press
BRAZIL, Ind, Dec. 13.--Mrs.
Richard Lybarger, 90, was electro
cuted early today while operating a
washing machine. How the ac-
cident happened has not been de-
termined.
Neighbors were attracted by the
screams of her children and found
the woman lying unconscious on the
floor Of porch at the side Of the
nlachima. Efforts to reSuscitate her
with lung motor were continued
more than an hour without success.
She leaves her husband and five
small children.
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rails was i4o Oh al sAs Ssssas O. Of Tss oasy
bonds was ss.2s. up .o4.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-United
States Steel maintained it's leader
ship of the stock market In early
dealings today, Installing confidence
into the entire list.
General Motors opened up sS at
128B and moved around this point
while Steel common was rising more
than point to above 146. Cheap
motor shares spurted to higher lev
els and practically the entire auto
mobile group gained ground. A new
high was touched by Hupp.
Wright Aero Up
Wright Aero reached a record
level, as did American Steel Foun-
dries, Liquid Carbonic, Porto Rico,
American Tobacco B and Tobacco
Products. Rails were quiet, while
oils held barely steady in quiet turn
over.
Evidence Of important buying in
stocks like Steel common, American
Can, Chrysler, General Electric over
the last few sessions aroused con-
siderable enthusiasm in bullish
quarters and further aggressive de-
mand came into the market in early
dealings.
Steel common retained it's leader
ship, pushing into new high ground
on the current movement.
Wright Aeronautical continued to
display evidence of technical
corner.
Irregular Later
FlurrieS of irregularity developed
in the late morning, due to reports
Of arrangement for further sub
stantial gold shipments from this
country. But this factor was not as
disturbing as it had been last week,
because of the belief in important
banking circles that the gold move
ment would be handled without up
setting credit conditions on this
side.
AIuerlCdu sugar IQeI a DurSC OF
strength in its class, moving up 81
to 70. Demand for the sugar was
stimulated by news that leading
ref1ners Of the United States had
met to form an institute designed
to foster more uniform trade
practices and improve market con-
ditions. It is hoped that this or
ganization will be influential in any
cut throat competition in refined
sugar which has been costly to all
reflnerS.
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LIBERTY RoNDs

BW united Press
NEW YosKS Dec Il. ls1 III 1dX sMe
2: 4th 4As. 1881, OF .; Treasury, sac.
2.29 up 6.
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In the Cotton Market
(By Thomson q McKinnon,

Vby 4HUHlSUH q uHChIuHOnJ
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Just as the
market closed British exports of goods
for November were announced. They were
better than last year. Cables are better
this morning. There must have heen lots
Of short selling Monday. There is no
prospect Of bull market now, but SUBJ
stantial rally is due at any time.
R.V United Prose-
NEW YORK, Dec. ls.-Cotton opened
higher. December 1885. up .06: January.
iS7o. up .os July, is.ss. 0 np 6s octo OibsT
1888. up Is.
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Banks and Exchange
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
Local bank cleartngs today were $4.S57,-
300; debts were So, 10000.
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LiIliendahl Trial Costs $4,000

N@SANA~AA AAAoA OV0U0 PtOJVVV
MAYS LANDING, N. j., Dec. Is.
The cost of the Lilliendahl muir
der trial to Atlantic County will be
between $4,000 and 100000.
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In the Sugar Market
(By Thomson g. McKinnon)

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Until an Official
announcement at Cuba's restriction pro-
seems likely to continue to back and fill
within a narrow compass. A report is re-
vana province have pledged themselves not
to start grinding until Jan. Is. They are
said to be negotiating with producers. Of
these later will fall into line with Havana.
What the market needs is settlement OF
this uncertainty.
BN United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-Sugar opened UNI
changed to of 3 points; December. ESQ;
January, 2.82: March, 2.83; May. 2.9l:
July. 2.9S; September. 3.06.
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STEEL SHARES
LEAD LIST IN
STOCK MARKET
General Motors Open Frac-
tionaIIy Higher; Cheap
Motors Squirt.
Average Stock Prices

Average Of twenty industrials Monday
was 1875. up 81. Average Of twenty
rails was 140.5l, OF 81. Average Of forty
nonos was SS.zS. UP .04.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
A Woman of the Wilderness.

The Dominion of Canada is always
doing interesting things, from lifting
itself by it's bootstraps to a position IN
the British Empire almost. II not quite
co-eaual to the mother country, to CIV
ing the capital of it's neighbor on the
south the military treat of its lie. IL
draws the Prince of Wales to be an
Albertan rancher; it successfully ma
tionalizes it's railways; it projects this
engineers that and accomplishes the
other thing. All the world seems In
terested in the doings OF this vast
young.yet.old country. in which al
most all the many nationalities to De
found within the United States get
along beautifully with millions sprung
from French stock, with Indians and
with Eskimos.
One of it's latest novelties Is the Off
cial recognition of the virtues and ac-
compIishments of the pioneer woman.
The government of Quebec recently
I invested Mrs. Philippe Croteau of Abb
tibi, one OF the wilder electoral dis
tricts. with the "Merite Agricole." the
highest honor within its power to be
stow. and has described her as one of
the finest examples Of heroism the
province has seen. She is the first oil
! her sex to win this distinction.
Nine Croteau,. for doubtless that Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

| in some minds as to whether justice
has been done.
There are two ways by which the
Constitution can be changed. BY the
first, two-thirds of both houses of
Congress must approve resolution
for an amendment. which becomes
adopted when ratified by the Legisla-
lures of three fourths of the States.
BY the second, Congress, upon the APP
plication of the Legislatures of two
thirds of the States, must call a con-
stitutional convention. Such a con-
vention may produce an entirely new
Constitution or make any changes in
the existing Constitution, but what it
does must be confirmed by the Legis-
latureS of three -fourthS of the States.
BY the first, two-thirds vote of
Congress and three-fourths vote of
the States are required to effect an
appointment BY the second. two
thirds vote of the States opens up the
entire Constitution to amendment or
revision, but three-fourths of the
States must accept the action of the
constitutional convention, whatever it
may be. before it becomes effective.
1t has been charged that those who
are opposed to the prohibition amend
ment are behind the movement for a
constitutional convention because they
believe that to be the easiest way of
accomplishing their purpose or the
only way in which the prohibition
question can ever again be put up to
the country as a whole. That, obvi.
ously, opens up another debate.
But there are people in considerable
numbers who are interested in fur
Their changes in the Constitution aside
from the indicated changes to elimi-
nate conflicts, and they are those who
believe in the so-called equal rights
amendment, sponsored by the Woman's
Party, and those who want a newly
elected President and Congress to be-
gin functioning the first week in the
January following their election in No
vember. There are also advocates of
change that would give the Presi-
dent term of six years and make him
ineligible for reelection.
There has been no Federal constitu-
tional convention in the country since
that presided over by George Wash
ington, which concluded it's delibera-
tons and it's work on September IT,
1887.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
Mother. Dad and Santa Claus.

/. The Depa rtment of Commerce esti-
mates the Christmas toy sale this year
at $3.50. 900 900. and Immediately there
come TO mind all manner Of Stats
tics concerning what could be accom-
plished with this money If it were not
spent on toys-projects depending on
the taste of the projectors and rang
ing from battleships to boil weevils.
from highways, churches and schools
10 foundations and funds for the elm
iuation or the propagation of this.
that and the other thing. But after
all, spending $3.50 100000 on toys is
spending in a worthy cause. And en-
couraging. 1t was only about thirty
wears ago that the people of the
United States were buying. 100000
600 worth OF Government bonds to
help pay for the war with Spain.
Modern toys cost about as much as
the wars Of earlier times, which is a
complimentary commentary on the
advancement of the human race.
AS far as the children are concerned,
they would not mind a great deal If
all this money were diverted into
other channels. Every grown-up has
felt that bitter pang of disillusion'
ment caused by watching little Algie
turn away from the SIS toy, all glis
tening in it's shiny red paint and nickel
work. to become absorbed I'm building
a steeple out of five old blocks a car
penter threw away. The children
might get along comfortably without
Lsew toys. But how about the par