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them realize that many of the fail- ures attributed to the war might have been avoided had proper financial or- ganizations been used and foresight in internal management been applied. In their efforts to find a way out of the disorganized conditions fol- lowing the war they have been forced to study the fundamental principles which underlie the industrial, com- mercial and financial activities of mankind. This is evident on every hand. Many large corporations have on their staffs one or more trained economists. Colleges and universi- ties are conducting scientific investi- gations in these subjects and stu- dents are flocking to them to pursue the courses in economics and its ap- plications.
Executives in Demand.
"Representatives of manufacturers, merchants, public service companies, electric companies, banks, and in- vestment companies have told me that one of their difficulties-is to find young men who may be developed into executives. They tell me they want college men who have had train- ing in business subjects. The reason they give for this preference is that such men learn more rapidly, have more versatility and adaptability, show greater initiative and come to have a wider view of the business world.
"Business men are coming to have a more considerate attitude toward the college man, not because of his immediate usefulness, but because of his potential value. They are real- izing also, that any growing indus- trial or financial concern which re- quires a large personnel must have as an essential part of its organiza- tion a comprehensive educational scheme. A number of companies have, therefore, developed carefully organized plans for training college men in order to facilitate their tran- sition from the academic environment to the practical business world. Last year I made an investigation of this movement and found that fifty-seven large companies had more or less definitely organized educational plans for college men and that thirty-seven others while they had no regular courses were glad to receive college men and let them 'work up.' From a study of the figures given it was found that employers are providing at their own expense, training for from 2,500 to 3,000 college graduates each year, approximately two-thirds of whom are graduates of collegiate schools of business and colleges of- fering business course. The cost of this training, not including the ex- pense of providing instruction and equipment and other incidental out- lays, was from $2,500,000 to $3,800,- 000. This shows the willingness of business men to co-operate in a most cordial way with educational institu- tions and to provide a means to ef- fect a ready adjustment of college graduates to business life."
Utilities and Prosperity.
Mr. Dill showed how the prosperity of utility companies depended upon that of the community served.
"We have weather reports, crop re- ports, stock and bond reports, export
and import reports, iron and steel re- ports and other reports ad infinitum," he said, "and many of them serve as barometers of business conditions, but who ever heard of utility reports to indicate the trend of business ? And yet the output or revenues of utilities must necessarily be influenced by the ups and downs of industry as a whole. In these days of close relationship of business, nationally and internation- ally, prosperity or depression affects all lines of business more or less. The experiences of the last few years have brought out that fact very noticeably. Russia may be thousands of miles away, but the conditions of its peo- ple and its business have an influence on the people of this country. Be- fore the world war a famine or a business depression in a particular country would have little effect throughout the world, but a cata- clysm like that from 1914 to 1918 reacts upon all civilized people and until the stricken nations- are put on a productive and consumptive basis, a business stagnacy will exist.
Two Kinds of Objectors.
"What has this to do with utilities ? No utility can be prosperous unless the community it serves is prosper- ous. Utilities do not create business in a broad sense. Utilities serve the particular line of business for which they were organized. Utilities may hamper business because of lack of the required element, or because of indifference or inefficiency, or be- cause of prohibitive rates. The first may be due to lack of foresight, or to inability to secure the funds to pur- chase equipment. The second may be due to bad management. The third may be due to a wrong conception of the functions and duties of a utility.
Most, if not all, of these conditions have been or can be remedied by com- petent utility commissions, state and national. Both the community served by and the stockholders of utilities as a whole were fortunate in having commission control during the last few years.
Of course there are opponents of commissions among the utilities as well as objectors among the people. The former comprise the profiteers and public-be-damned type, and the latter include the selfish, narrow and can't-be-convinced class.
"If utilities are directly dependent upon the business success of their cus- tomers, so are the latter interested in the financial and mechanical con- dition of the utilities serving them A failure in service or railroad, tele- phone, electric, water or other utility reacts upon the consumer and may mean a loss to him in the year's busi- ness.
$50,000,000 Estimated Need.
Present and immediate future de- mands of Indiana for telephone, gas, water, light and traction service call for $50,000,000 for extensions, said Mr. Bohn. He added that much need -- ed expansion was arrested during the world war, but predicted an early re- vival of business, and said the utilities must expand to meet the needs thus created. During the war, he said, most utilities were losing money be- cause utility rates were fixed and ex- penditures went up, while other busi- nesses were making large profits.
A state or a community can not grow faster than its utilities, he said, and it was good policy for a com- munity to stand for a square deal for utilities.
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NO LONGER A MERE DREAM!
Proposed Indiana University Union Building
Three new buildings will be con- structed as a result of the Indiana University campaign for one million dollars. Lowe and Bollenbacher, Chi- cago architects, submitted their ideas as to what the three buildings should look like. It is probable that other plans will also be received from other architects.
A New Democracy
The new Union Building will be one of the most important additions to the campus. It will be used as a gathering place for all men of the University. There will be lounging rooms, soda fountain, rooms for alumni, a barber shop, pool and bil- liard rooms and numerous places to hold meetings. The best part of such a building will be the atmosphere it will create among Indiana men-one of democracy.
An Auditorium
In connection with this building an auditorium will be built large enough to accommodate the entire student body. It will be the largest meeting
place in Bloomington and all kinds of entertainment will be given there.
Dormitories For Girls.
The women's dormitory is a very necessary addition to the campus. At present it is impossible to accommo- date all the girls who wish to attend Indiana. Every semester girls are turned away from the university's doors because they cannot find places to live in Bloomington. On the other hand, such an addition will not affect the rooming situation in Bloomington, as it will only take care of those who are now being turned away.
Athletics In the Future.
It is the hope that the new stadium, besides making Indiana University athletics more successful, will also make Bloomington a center for high school athletics in the southern part of the state. It is quite feasible to draw large crowds to Bloomington for all kinds of athletic contests. This
has been demonstrated in many other places throughout the country.
STATE AMERICAN LEGION ENDORSE I. U. MEMORIAL
The state department of the Ameri- can Legion has indorsed the Indiana Universtiy Memorail Fund by passing the following resolution calling upon all Legion members to co-operate with the University in raising the fund.
"Whereas, the Indiana University is asking the citizens of Indiana for a million dollar memorial fund, and whereas it is a laudable undertaking which will pay honor and homage to Indiana's gold star heroes, and at the same time will be a contributon to the higher education of future gener- ations of Hoosiers:
"We, the executive committee of the American Legion, Department of In- diana, assembled in meeting Decem- ber 20th, 1921, do hereby endorse the million dollar fund of the Indiana University, and urge the American Legion members as well as all citizens
LOWE I DOLLEH BACHER ..
CHICAGO
Bloomington An Athletic Center-Indiana University is to have an athletic stadium as the result of her memorial campaign.
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Women of the University are especially interested in the proposed plans for a girls dormitory.
of Indiana to co-operate in the raising of such a memorial fund."
FRANK E. HENLEY.
Adjutant The American Legion, De- partment of Indiana.
Claude E. Gregg, State Commander of the Legion, a graduate of Indiana University, class of 1910, has added his personal endorsement to the me- morial project in the following state- ment:
"The proposal to raise a Million Dollar Memorial Fund, dedicated to the memory of the sons and daugh- ters of Indiana University, who served in our three preat wars, is one which should commend itself to every Hoosier, and particularly to the stu- dents and alumni of old Indiana.
"Indiana furnished her fair share of those who were not privileged to see the outcome of their effort. Many a potential leader was lost to the Uni- versity and State. She is poorer by far, yet she gave without stint.
"Is it not fitting and proper that we, the living, should now dedicate ourselves to making a reality the dream and high hopes these men and women had for our Alma Mater?
"Ours is the high privilege of car- rying out the desires and the ambitions of the boys and girls of the past, of putting into concrete form our appreciation of their serv- ice and devotion.
"Remember, he who fails this chal- lenge, fail them too!"
The most severe criticism of the colleges of America within recent years is that instead of broadening the average student's outlook upon life, they make it more narrow thru fostering a nasty spirit of class, club and clique snobbery. It is true that the American college man knows less
of life, is more intolerant and is less liberal than the student of any other country on earth. He is ruled by his prejudices, and inborn belief in cer- tain fallacies. He is not a real demo- crat. He loves power, tribute and "classes," if he may cling to the high- er rungs of the ladder.
This is due to the fact that he falls more into the system and is made part of it, whether he wishes or not. As Woodrow Wilson puts it, "the sideshows have swallowed up the cir- cus." It is not the individual's fault, for the University has provided no real "mixer," no melting pot where cliques and classes are broken up; where men are simply men; where that greatest school of all, the school of life, teaches love and kindness, and toleration and real democracy, thru mixing, mingling and rubbing elbows with all manner of men.
The new Union Building, born of the Million Dollar Memorial campaign, dedicated to Indiana's men who were weighed in the balance and not found wanting, will provide such a center. It will serve as the very heart of the University, and thru it, we shall each gain some of that broader education which comes from knowing, under- standing and loving each other.
Of the thousands of benefits which will come to Indiana because of the success of the Memorial campaign, none is greater than the new demo- cracy which shall arise within the new Union Building. - S. . James Adams, An Organized Student.
MRS. WALDRON ON BENCH.
First Woman to Act as Judge in Monroe County.
The first case ever tried by a wom- an judge in Monroe county was heard September 7, 1921, by Mrs. Minnie Waldron, a member of the local har. The case was that of Charles Bill- meyer, proprietor of a restaurant, who was charged with violating the liquor laws. Mrs. Waldron acted as special judge in the case after the defense had taken a change of venue from Mayor W. W. Weaver. She found the defendant guilty and sen- tenced him to six months at the Indi- ana State Farm and fined him $300. Then she suspended the fine and sen- tence on a promise of good behavior.
Mrs. Waldron is a graduate of Indi- ana University. She has been - for many years at the head of the local charity organization and was ad- mitted to the Monroe county bar a short time before.
George Andrew Gordon, only sur- viving member of the Indiana sonsti- tutional convention of 1850-51, who now lives at Eureka, Kas., was 101 years old January 22, 1922. Mr. Gor- don, who was a lawyer, lived in How- ard county when he was elected a member of the convention to repre- sent a district composed of Howard and Cass counties. He was a Demo- crat and was placed in nomination at a convention in Howard county by Dr. J. H. Kern. Dr. Kern was the father of John W. Kern, who was a United States senator from Indiana and was at one time candidate for Vice-President of the United States.
When John W. Kern was nominated for Vice-President , Mr. Gordon, July 22, 1908, wrote a letter of congratula- tion and he told how he was nominat- ed for the constitutional convention in 1850.
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SHELL-SHOCKED AND AFTER
The pathos of the mental anguish which thousands of soldiers in this country are suffering is suggested by an article in the December number of the Atlantic Monthly written by "An American Soldier" who was a colonel and a West Pointer. The writer describes his own reactions from shell-shock. "Back in my own1 country, back among friends, among He was haunted by terrible dreams, shut away on a battlefield of solitary struggle without the help of human understanding.
Others, he knew, must be suffering as he was. "This fact," he said, "burns in the minds of thousands of men who at this very moment are liv- ing their broken lives in alms houses, jails, insane asylums, and hospitals, or wandering hopeless about the streets." The story recalls with trag- ic force the vast army of young men, their country's defenders, who have never really come home. They are still wandering, dazed, and often in want, lacking the care and treatment that might restore them to health and sanity .- The National School Digest.
HAYNES PROVES NATION IS DRY
Facts and figures, together with "en even dozen unquestioned points is proof that the eighteenth amend- ment is being enforced," were made public January 14, 1922, by Prohibi- tion Commissioner Haynes in a formal statement on the eve of the second anniversary of the national prohibition act, which became effective Jan. 16, 1920. The twelve points cited as "so outstanding that no attempt can be made in denial," follow:
"1. Disappearance of the open saloon.
"2. Abatement of open drinking in public dining rooms.
"3. Passing of the treating evil, which was recognized as the greatest contributing agency in the develop- ment of a liquor appetite.
"4. Closing of whisky cure and similar institutions.
"5. Increased savings accounts.
"6. Record breaking Christmas
business.
"7. Decreased drunkenness.
"8. Prohibitive prices of 'bonded' liquor for beverage use. "9. Dangerous character of illicit whisky.
"10. Surreptitiousness of present day drinking.
"11. Wail of howling minority who would go to the length of undermin- ing the Constitution in order to nulify an amendment which their action demonstrates is in actual effect.
"12. Changed attitude of former hostile statesmen, political leaders and the press."
OLDEST VOTERS.
The 1920 election found the oldest male voter and the oldest woman vot- er in the United States, both ex- tremely active considering their ad- vanced years. "Uncle John" Shell of Leslie county, Kentucky, is 132 and has been a voter for 111 years.
Miss Anna Stone, 102 years of age, is the oldest woman voter; she voted in Roxbury, Conn. What is their politics ? Huh! When you "grow up" as they have, you'll know better than to tell how you voted.
Alexander Stoute, a resident of Bloomington, is now 95 years of age, and still voting, and Mrs. Eleanor Buskirk, 98, cast her first vote in 1920.
THE YEARS
The year 1922 comprises the latter part of the 146th and the beginning of the 147th year of American Inde- pendence and corresponds to: The year 6635 of the Julian Period; the year 5683 of the Jewish era begins at sunset on September 22nd; the year 2675 since the foundation of Rome, ac- cording to Varro; the year 2582 of the Japanese era and to the 11th year of the period entitled Taisho; the year 1341 of the Mohammedan era, or the era of the Hegira, begins at sun- set on August 23, 1922. The first day of January, 1922, is the 2,423,- 056th day since the commencement of the Julian period.
35,143 DEATHS AND 67,850 BIRTHS IN STATE OF INDIANA DURING 1921
Sixty-seven thousand eight hun- dred and fifty persons were born, and 35,134 persons died in Indiana last year; according to the annual report of H. M. Wright, director of the div- ision of vital statistics of the state department of health, issued Jan. 19, 1922. The report also shows 4,860 infants under one year old died.
The mortality statistics issued by Mr. Wright are given with a compar- ison of the four years preceding 1921. The mortality from tubercu- losis of the lungs is decreasing, the report shows, there being in 1921 a total of 2,659 deaths from this dis- ease, and in 1921 a total of 2,254 deaths. On the other hand, deaths from cancer are on the increase, ac- cording to Mr. Wright's statistics. In 1920 there were 2,592 deaths from this disease in all its forms, and in 1921 the deaths were 2,681.
Diseases from which the most deaths resulted in 1921 are, in order, as follows: Organic heart disease, 4,003; acute and chronic Bright's dis- ease, 2,714; apoplexy, 2,701; cancer, 2,681; early infancy and malfor- mations, 2,358, and pneumonia in all forms, 2,349 deaths.
There were 1,913 deaths by acci- dent in 1921. Diseases of the arter- ies and diarrhoea of infants each claimed more than 1,000 victims.
The department of vital statistics lists 189 diseases from which death most frequently results. Of these
only forty are tabulated in Mr. Wright's statistics. From all other diseases than those listed in his re- port, 4,140 persons died in 1921.
Influenza claimed only 311 persons last year, the report says. Four hun- dred and thirty-one persons com-
mitted suicide. Seventy persons met
death from unknown causes. There were 168 homicidal deaths. Pellagra caused the death of five persons.
The 1921 birth rate for 1,000 popu- lation was 23.2. In 1920 it was 2.21. The death rate for 1921 was 12 for 1,000 population, a decrease from 1920, when it was 13.4. The death rate of infants under one year old was decreased from 81.4 in 1920, to 71.6 last year.
"On the whole, the report shows," said Mr. Wright, "that the health of the people of Indiana is gradually im- proving, and that life may be length- ened considerably in the coming years by preventive social measures, and by an increase of knowledge about the laws of health and happiness."
REAL DEADWOOD DICK DIES QUIETLY IN BED
Hero of "Blood and Thunder" Novels Passes Away a Pensioner in California.
Deadwood Dick is dead-again. Every time an old timer named Rich- ard dies in the Black Hills the report goes out that "Deadwood . Dick is dead." But this time it is the real Deadwood Dick who died-Deadwood Dick, the gold guard of the Wells Fargo overland days, the Deadwood Dick who brought $350,000,000 in gold down from the Black Hills and never lost an ounce of "dust," the Deadwood Dick who fought Indians and outlaws with the same calmness and composure with which he ave nis dinner, the Deadwood Dick of the days of Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, Lame Johnnie and Laughing Sam.
His name was Richard Bullock. His death took place in southern Califor- nia where he went to live after the express company retired him on a pension. He came to the Black Hills at such an early date that it's a question whether he was named for Deadwood or Deadwood named for him.
This was Deadwood Dick, the hero of a hundred novels of the "blood and thunder" type. He was the hero of thousands and thousands of American boys thirsting for the "one man" hero.
Last of Shotgun Brigade.
In actual life Deadwood Dick was the last of the shotgun brigade-nine men whose duty it was to guard the gold coach from the Black Hills to the railroad, 200 miles away, through a wild country infested with Indians and outlaws. The country was so dan- gerous that the express company built a stage coach entirely of iron. It was called the "treasure coach," and Deadwood Dick had charge of the eight men with shotguns who rode in the coach and protected the millions.
Twice the coach was attacked by outlaws when Deadwood Dick was on duty. The only man of the two bands who escaped died a few days later in a frontier hospital of buckshot wounds received in the fight.
The fame of the shotgun brigade became so great among the road agents and outlaws that the very rat- tle of the old iron coach would cause a stampede among them.
After the coming of the railroad
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Deadwood Dick was retained as a guard for the gold which came through by train. Twice each month The Homestake gold mine had a "clean up," and at each $500,000 was shipped to the mints. On these occa- sions, just before time for the train to leave, a dray would drive up to the st: t on. On the dray was a little old iron safe. Sitting on the safe was a little old one-eyed man. In his hands was a sawedoff shotgun with a bore so large that buckshot was used.
Strapped round his waist was a belt containing two bone handled .45 guns. That little old one-eyed man was Deadwood Dick Bullock. He climbed into the express car, took a seat on the safe and sat there until he de- livered his charge over to the express company in Omaha, 500 miles away. He guarded this shipment of $500,000 twice a month for years and never lost a cent.
Deadwood Dick used to laugh at the stories told about him in novels.
COMPLETE LIST OF MONROE COUNTY MEN WHO SERVED IN MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR
Names and Addresses Supplied from Indiana State Records in the Office of Adjutant-General Harry B. Smith-Men Whose Life Paid the Supreme Forfeit for Rights of Humanity Come First.
"Go yourselves, every man of you, and stand in the ranks and either a victory be- yond all victories in its glory awaits you. or falling you shall fall greatly, and worthy of your past."-Demosthenes to the Athenians.
After much worry and seeming un- ending failure in obtaining a correct list of Monroe county men who went into military service In the late World War, on November 16, 1921, the writer
UNITED STATES VETERANS BUREAU
Washington, D. C. To All Former Service Men 1. The United States Veterans Bureau was created to serve all ex- service men and women and I in- sist that all veterans get a square deal.
2. Employees will give you a cordial welcome and full informa- tion concerning your case. The law will be administered in the broadest and most sympathetic way possible.
3. You are entitled to informa- tion, assistance, and advice con- cerning the law and the Bureau's requirements. Employees will make these plain to you.
4. You will not be given short and unsatisfactory answers to your questions, but will be properly and sympathetically advised.
5. The services of the Bureau are at your disposal as a tribute to your patriotic service during the World War, and it is expected that you shall always receive courteous and helpful treatment. Any devia- tion from these rules should be re- ported to me. I want you to have every benefit which your grateful Government has provided.
C. R. FORBES, Director.
This bureau is your bureau. Here's its invitation.
appealed to Adjutant-General Harry B. Smith, of the State of Indiana, for any assistance he could give in pub- lishing a verifed list of these men, in order that coming generations might know the patriotic support Monroe
county give to our country in this war for Democracy.
The following communication was
ceived in prompt response to the re- quest, for
STATE OF INDIANA
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE INDIANAPOLIS
November 15, 1921.
Forest M. Hall,
828 E. Cottage Grove,
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