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U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Pres

The position of the Treasure December
5erd',ay, 70 Ta; RsSseiBDtso s Ss4 1 1S16;532 I: eT
5al .24o 2l9 30; customs receipts for the
=. HeceiptS for the fiscal year tsnce July
u, 81. S31 .2l3.65l 81: expenditures So
2l4,3a5. 704. 81 Gncluding Slsls406.-
2a.oS OF emergency expenditure: eX-
gold assets. Ss,@2s.459, 81
Receipts for December 27. 1888 COM
expenditures. sos. 344 .595.3s: net net bal.
aAce. Sl.012. "a .0l9 "a customs receipts
for the month. S23,254 O5555.
af5pSS i0T expendta4es tsf hsna yes 49,
44a06 Including s1116.n70.372 SIS Of
emergency expendlturesl: excess of ex-
penditures, Sl.114 234 ,S9944 gold assets.
S3.2O1 GIL ,6l1.57.
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NEW YORK BAR SILVER,

NEW YORK. December % P.-Bar
silver Arm, a higher at 54as. The ad-
don market, which was attributed "a
speculative buying there. !
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MONEY MARKET.
(Reported by Chas. D. Barney

NEW YORK. December 2s Can
korey steady; per cent all day
Time loans steady; 60 dsys-6 months,
ta1 per cent.
/ Prime commercial paper. -.
Bsnkers' acceptances UNCHANGED.
Rediscount rate. New York Reserve
bank, Ia per cent.
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Chicago Cash Market.

NIIIt dSU NdSII -FNdI htt
Wheat, No. red, l.Oll2; corn, new,
No. 5, mixed g. No. 3, yellow, 9l2.;
No. 3. white, outside weights, 98a4 :;
oats, No. white. 5Sl2 2; No. 3 white,
5Ta57a,; no rye; buckwheat. No. l.,
1.39; No. 2, 1877; soy beans, No. yell
low. 1.l6al7; net track country sta
ton; barley, 75al.22; timothy seed,
16,50al7.50 hundredweight; clover
seed, 155Oa2260 hundredweight.
Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE December IS tFl-Wheat
No. =. red Winter. garllcky. spot. domestic.
e9l2; December. 99lz
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Washington Exchange

SALES.
Georgetown Gas 5s-S1 900 at 108.
AFTER CALL.
Capital Traction $500 at S9l4.
Bid and Asked Prices.
pNNnc
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RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. December 2s Pl.-Crude
rubber futures opened barely steady 6alO
lower. January 12.69al276; March.
II 95s 96; May, 13,14a13.15; July.
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MONTREAL SILVER.

5425b; March. "a 90; May, 55.45b; July,
56.10b; September. 56.75b. Bid.
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RAILROAD EARNINGS.

NEW YORK. December 2S LP).-Net op-
Grating income of railroads reporting today
for November included:
Southern Railway. SS4s. l32 S934.2S1
Alabama Great Sou. 25767 1920
Mobile & Ohio ... 32.695 16O,704
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PRODUCE EXCHANGE

NEW YORK December % uP,-Pro-
ouce Exchange stock list:
Moon ouotationsO
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TOBACCO FUTURES.

NEW YORK. December 2S 1P-Tobac-
co futures opened quiet. UNCHANGED.
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FEDERAL LAND BANKS

NEW YORK. December IS LP-Federal
Land Bank bonds.
(Quotations as of - oclock)
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Hud & Man ref 81 '57.
Hud & Man inc So ST .
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Rem-Rd 51a s'47Aww.
Revere Cop & B IS '4S
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Richneld Oh 80 '<4..s
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CAUSE OF INEFFICIENCY

livery so often we are told that the United
II States needs a Scotland Yard-which,
to be sure, is undeniabiy true. The latest
plea comes from Governor Ely of Massachu-
sets, who has asked the state legislature to
draw up plan for such institution.
What we usually fail to remember how
ever is the fact that it is not so much new
police machinery that is needed as a new
spirit on the part Of the ofhceholders to
whom the police ultimately are responsible.
Scotland Yard would function no better
than the Chicago police if Scotland Yard were
subjected to the same kind of political pulling
and hauling that afficts the Chicago force.
Before our police systems will stand COM
parison with the London system, We must
divorce them from politics. And that, con-
sidering everything, will take some doing.
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how many people you will reach.
whom never would have read the
Lords life if it were not for The
Indianapolis Times.
II e
By II. E. Eberhardt.
I should have written YOU much
sooner regarding your timely and
most practical contribution to the
spiritual welfare of our city in the
publishing of 1.-THE Life of Our
Lord" as well as the splendid edi-
torials that have appeared from time
to time covering this subject I have
clipped a number of them for per-
manent filing. It seems to me that
you and your paper have made an
unusual contribution and have DEM
onstrated again the valuable place
that newspaper holds in the life
of a city.
We have given this series publicity
from time to time in public an
nouncementS-have one of your dis
play cards in our windoW-and last
Sunday gave it a strong announce
ment on our radio program over
WFBM. Last Sunday at the North
M. E. church learned that some of
the children are making scrapbooks
Of "The Life of Our Lord"
Incidentally, want to express my
appreciation of the splendid editor
ial entitled "Dillinger Hero Wor.
ship"
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PUBLIC SERVANTS SCORED

NOTHING is much more instructive than
to watch the violent Indignation which
a public servant displays when he has been
accused of wrongdoing.
fine illustration of this is the spectacle
which the Kentucky legislature recently has
been making Of itself.
Some one not long ago wrote a letter to
the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
limiting rather broadly that certain legisla-
tors had been more or less corrupt in dis
posal of a certain bill
The letter was printed over the signature,
"One who believes in honest government, a
member of the House of Representative"
Instantly storm broke loose. The legis-
lators stood up on their hind less, tore their
hair, drew their claymores and sounded the
tocsin.
Were they hunting for their dishonored
colleagues, that they might expel them? Not
at all. They were hunting the man who had
made the accusation. so that they might have
his scalp.
They hailed before the legislative bar the
Louisville editor, Vance Armentrout, and
demanded that he give them the name of the
and climb a tree. They had him jailed, and
he got out on writ of habeaS corpus.
They fined him S25; he refused to pay and
suggested that they sue him and see how far
they would get. They asked President Roose-
welt to fire the editors boss, who is ambaSsa-
dor to the court of st. James.
Suppose. now. that the editor had given
them the name of this letter writer. What
would have happened? Something like this,
probably.
The letter writer would have been called in
and questioned: Did you ever with your
own eyes. see a legislator accept a bride? Did
you ever yourself give money to a legislator
Have you afidavitS, documents, sworn wit
neSSes to prove your charges?"
And when he admitted that he had none
Of these things. they would have called at
tention to their innocence and denounced him
as a rumor- monger and a nit-wit
One would think that a legislative body
accused of corruption would hasten to demon
strate its innocence. One would think it, that
is. if one didn't know American legislators.
Their instant reaction to such a charge is to
rave at their accuser and detach his scalp.
They never seem to realize that legisla-
tive body which is always. Enthusiastically,
working honestly and inteligently for the
public interest is never in any danger Of be-
ing besmirched by irresponsible mud-slingers.
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AMERICA ADMIRES, BUT
MUST PUNISH, DILLINGER
By a Nitwit

By Nitwit.
Permit a young lawyer to borrow a
little room in your paper for his
views on the well written Dillinger
articles.
Who doesn't admire a man who
displays nerve enough to stand up
alone and declare war against a
nation? A man who proves his
clevernesS by living among his
enemies and forcing them to furnish
mis- needs and to finance his war with
their equipment and money, chang
ing their advantages to his adj
vantages and turning out victorious
after every skirTniSh and evading
their well-laid traps and outwitting
their wittiest.
The man with courage and hope
enough to fight, even after he was
captured, jailed, and ready for a
firing squad. He was down but not
out and started planning his come
back. He fought through steel bars,
locked doors, over barriers, through
a mob of armed guards, and to free
dom. He did it with his little wood
en- gun and a lot Of steel nerve.
Sure. it took nerve and it required
more OF that stuff to start out fight
ing the nation again when flight
across the border would have been
so easy.
This man has everything requisite
Of a hero and people admire man
with these traits. The nation longs
to worship such a man, to brag to
others of their acquaintance with
him. hHt because he is on the Other
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THURSDAY. MARCH y. 1894.
THE NEXT PLAY

THE moving Of several million families from
Il wretched tenements and shacks into
homes fit for humans is a social imperative.
1t also is an economic one. Nothing can so
stimulate the heavy industries, where unem-
ployment is largest. as a well-planned, amply
financed and resolute attack on the nations
urban and rural slums
The public works administration has been
organized since last June, the housing cor
poration since October Out of its great works
fund public works administration has loaned
only SIS, 100000 to limited dividend housing
corporations. which are preparing to begin
projects in ten cities. It's housing corporation
has not broken ground for a single project.
The Indianapolis project mas been turned
down definitely.
A commerce department report estimates
that s14OO0OOOO 900 could well be spent in re-
housing farmers and workmen's families. The
housing corporation is financed now for
s13.OOOOOO
True the obstacles slowing down this
project are many and great. We have found
that private and semi-private interests can
not or will not undertake really low-cost con-
TRACTS. states ana clues are HdnlpeIeO ny
lack Of credit or lack Of authorizing laws. The
federal government the only agency able to
undertake the task Is only beginning to cut
through legalistic and economic entanglementS
The chief obstacle is the price OF land in
congested areas. But the government can
leave the city tenements and build in the freer
air of the suburbs. This would serve two
ends; it would debate the present slum areas
for future city park sites and it would pro-
vide space for garden homes in line with
President Roosevelts dream of a semi urban
way of life for wage-earners and farmers.
Financing a big rehousing project awaits
mortgage and taxation reforms. We must pay
for better houses, and it will hurt. But here is
a life investment that will return dividends
in better health, and a generally higher liv-
ing standard.
Germany, with half our population, has
spent $4,000 OO0OO0 in rehousing. England has
rehoused one-eighth of her population since
the war, and London's new labor government
plans to spend millions more. France, Bel
GUM, Holland Portugal and other nations
have far outstripped the United States.
President Roosevelt is fond of comparing
his administration TO football team. Big
scale rehousing. it would SEEM should be one
of the next plays.
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WHY DELAY?

CO-EDS are more serious minded today
~ than they were few years ago. They
are more attractive, too. In fact, they gen.
orally are approved by the 800 deans of women
of American colleges who have been in session
in a convention at Cleveland, o. They do not
disabuse their freedom, either, the deans say,
now that they have been granted the priv
ileges of human beings on most campuses.
And that is nice. In fact it is a distinct
step in the right direction that co-eds have
been removed from kindergarten rules
Something has happened lately. Life has
presented so many tremendous problems that
the guardians of young girlhood have realized
that there are things more important than
seeing that the sheet is folded six inches from
the hem for room inspection.
But once upon time . maybe you re-
member, if your memories include a CO.
educational campus, that there were two ways
of going home from the college movies One
was three-n1inute direct route to your
dormitory door. You took it when you did
not have date.
Took it hurriedly and little shamfacedly
because you didn't want any one to see that
the college tenors and the wearers of the foot
ball insignia had not found you good to look
upon.
The other way was the long way. 1t took
twenty minutes. Or you could make it in
seventeen minutes and spend three more say
ing goodnight on crowded veranda. If you
stole a second you were deprived of privileges.
Sometimes you couldn't speak to boy for q
whole month. That made life very. very ina
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
toIerabIe. or anyway, the faculty thought

toIerabIe. Or anyway the faculty thought
it did.
1t is gratifying to note that the faculties
and deans have developed, that they have
grown human and understanding. The coll
lege students haven't changed. They seldom
abused freedom when it was given. But be-
cause girls of a few years ago. on many
campuses, were restricted they let their minds
dwell on trivial matters. Now, no longer
having to do so, they can take genuine in
terest in life and its human problems. They
have time to learn that there is a world be-
yond an elm ordered campus, that not all
clocks lose twenty minutes a day as those in
ivy-clad towers sometimes do
A few years ago college students in many
communities, thought of the world as
strange place which they would brave some
day. 1t is splendid thing to know that the
college has caught hands with that world.
Men always have been given the run of
the embroidered paths. Nobody watched
their coming-ins and going-outs. But girl
was something fragile to be protected from
chance kiss that a predatory sophomore,
swamped with too much moonlight, might
bestow.
Co-eds, sooner later, have to brave the
world. They must learn how to handle men,
how to fight for raises how to battle subway
crowds. There is no one around to offer pro-
lection. The new attitude which lets girl
see whether her wings are any good before
she attempts to fly to Rome is a much fairer
one. 1t is far better to get perspective on
life, and adjust it, before it is needed than
to creep back with broken wings.
If girls are going to fight shoulder to
shoulder with men in the world why shouldn't
they have the same type of preparation for
the battles? Why give them special protec-
tive arnor for four years. only to take it away
some day. and tell them to take up arms and
get busy? Life doesn't give women handi-
cap. Why should college?
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No Jobs I'M Sight

standard, I was not eligible be-
cause I had not been on the
basket and my sister holds po-
sition in an Ohio city and my
father draws a pension Of a re-
tired federal job.
In order to keep my wife and
1 from being without a roof over
our heads my father allows us
to share his apartment, while my
sister out of the kindness of her
heart, is caring for and sending
my 6-year-old girl to school. Out
of my fathers pension he sends
about SIS to his wife. 1t is a
pretty pass when a man of 20 is
virtually told that he must beg
from his sister for money when
she already is making a great
contribution to him and in addi-
ton she is helping to care for one
of her uncleS and his family in
West Virginia.
have writer's cramp from
filling out applications for jobs.
The lady who had charge of
the interviews for "justifying" me
for the job wore expensive clothes
while I stood before her with
ragged clothes that had been given
to me.
Why in the name of high
heaven was it necessary for me to
go downtown or call for job
when they already knew so much
about my case?
L have always been taught not
to beg but things look mighty Sc
rious to me in the future but I
still can praise God for health.
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By Friend Of The Times.
If a man tries to keep off the
basket and the trustee, he is not
eligible for work under the re-
employment plan now in operation
in this city.
For nearly two years I have
fought every way possible to keep
from the basket and have barely
gotten by, but I still have fair
health. T have done any ligiti-
mate work I could obtain. For
fourteen months 1 assisted one of
the leading evangelists in the
country without any salary save
my actual living expenses, in
order to save the expense at
home. Since this man has no
work have not been able to stay
with him.
have done odd jobs, from re-
pairing autos to photography; in
fact, anything to buy groceries
and keep the wolf from the door.
About the middle Of January I
was fortunate enough to be called
on the CWA real property inven-
tory and for about five weeks
worked on two of the toughest
territories they had to offer, but
on Feb. 81 my allotment was fin
iShed and I was laid off.
Last Saturday I reported for
work on a phone request from the
unemployment Office at 80 North
Meridian street but on reporting
I was sent to the other Office on
Pennsylvania street to be justified
for the job and, according to their
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he had one. fearing that he might do some
thing desperate.
But no one foresaw, or could have fore
seen, the frightful thing that he actually
did do.
What a strange and terrifying thing the
working of the human brain is, after all Let
a bit of bone press lightly on the brain some
where-and kind. intelligent man is turned
into a fend incarnate.
Derange a few brain cells-and all the
graces Of mind and heart cancel themselves,
somehow, and leave only thing Of horror.
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The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are SnUited to cypress
their Uiea0S in these columns. Make gour
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them 10 ESQ 400rds or lesS.J
DILLTNGER CONTINUES AS
POETS INSPIRATION
BY Times Reader.
A desperate that Dillinger they say,
Works the law both night and day,
And when he's captured he has his
fun,
Plotting escape with wooden gun.
Then on to bank he grabs some
loot,
With the law behind ready to shoot,
He laughed and ne sings while on
the run,
Off to round up with his wooden
gun.
There're some bankers just as bad,
They take the savings of some poor
lad,
Then hang a bankrupt sign on the
door,
And with fancy fadeout claims
they're poor.
But this Dillinger with his bold
acts, smiles,
He sings get along pogie, cover some
miles,
It seems he's captured and put in
jail,
But always goes free without any
bail.
There doesn't seem to be a Jail so
strong,
For none holds Dillinger very long;
1t was easy to capture Johnnie, they
say,
But with extra guards he was
watched each day.
He's free again while he roams,
Deeper in sins his loved ones means,
They weep and pray in their des-
pair,
That he'll meet his mother over
there.
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Hero Worship
BY FRANCESCA

BY FRANCESCA
If God would hear a prayer to
make me over
I'd ask Him please, to make me
just like you:
To put the same amount of sun
shine in my makeup,
I'd pass it on to others,-as you
do.
I'd want my heart made off the
same clean pattern;
I'd want my mind shaped on the
same broad plan,-
So anywhere I'd walk, those about
me,
Would say "He truly is the ideal
manl'
I'd want to be as big and strong
as you are
With still a woman's tenderness
mixed in;
Perhaps a barb OF flint somewhere
within me,
So I could measure with my
fellow-men.
I'd choose to take the same amounts
Of heartaches,
To show that nothing In the
world could mar
The strength Of character I'd have
within me,
nIwere only an I know yOM arsl
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ARMY WANTS MEN
NOW, HE ADVISES
By J. A. Perkins.

By ]. A. Perkins.
I have been a reader of The
Times under its various names for
many years. I appreciate its fight
for the poor class. I enjoy the Mes
sage Center and the statements
therein.
j. Brook, in his letter to The
Times March 8, takes exception to
my status as war veteran. I had
pointed out the abuses of the Ma
tional Economy League as it applied
to disabled war veterans.
Mr.. Brook, in part, says: Gust
a few words in defense of the over
burdened taxpayer and to really set
the people straight on this veterans
argument, also explain the right to
j. A. Perkins, who in his article to
The Times plainly states he has
not considered the truth"
Well, Mr.. Brook, many thousands
Of war veterans Of all wars are
overburdened taxpayers. I stated
I pay $50 taxes annually. MY pur-
pose in stating the money expended
for the payment Of pensioned SOL
dlers is not local affair, but a fed
eral obligation.
1t has not been my intention to
set people straight, as you state in
your letter. I leave that to the
preachers, doctors and lawyers. AS
for my information, I prefer the
government records to personal
opinion. I take for granted you
never have served your country in
time Of war, but stayed at home,
slept in a good warm bed, while the
defenders Of this great nation were
protecting you. hope, if I have
guessed wrongly, you appear at the
recruiting Office and get in the
service at once. See what a snap
it is. viii you do that? They want
excellent men, now.
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THE BRAINS EXTREMES

TT is very seldom, thank heaven, that there
L is anything in the newspapers quite as
horrible as the story of the Akron business
man who threw his baby son into the furnace
because the Lord told me to-
One hardly needs to await the report Of
the psychiatrists TO know that the man was
deranged- He just had come home from
hospital, after being hurt in an auto accident;
he had been talking strangely: friend
had asked the mans wife to hide his gun. Il
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side of the fence and our enemy we
must go on hating him, being
ashamed of his relation to us as an
American. He is your enemy and
my enemy and it's our duty to treat
him as unworthy of life. He must
sacrifice life, but when he goes down
he will be fighting and not fearing
death.