Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1921 — Page 4

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Jttfttana Sato Sft rnes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ .. (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices (New I'ork, Boston, Payne. Burns & Smith. Inc. INDIANAPOLIS CHAPJTIES are asking so little that Indianapolis cannot afford to refuse to respond! MAYOR JEWETT might prove a little of his boasted "lova* for the negro race in the appointment of a successor to Thomas Rilej 1 WHY DOESN’T the board of works Just admit that the gas company will not lay new mains because it doesn’t want to and let it go at that? NOW that the court has officially approved of circuses Mr. Bookwaiter need not feel so bad over certain remarks that are being repeated about him. ANYHOW, Prosecutor Evans indicates that in his zeal.for Mr. Howe he has not yet’ forgotten that his first duty to the community is to uphold the laws of Indiana. _____ —— WHY NOT NAME those officials you enumerate as being fit subjects for grand jury investigation, Henry Fleming? The statute of limitations has expired, anyhow. MR. HOWE now stands for “fair and impartial enforcement of law. When he began speaking he was against the enforcement of law that interfered with the “conscience.’’ MR. W. S. BLAUVELT, who testified before the commission that coke held by the Citizens Gas Company is worth only $7, is the same gentleman who on April 6 magnanimously offered to supply the Times with 200 tons a day at not less than $9 a ton! The Truth Survives A peculiarity of this primary election fight is that the corruption in the Republican party which was so vigorously denied only a few years ago should be so universally admitted today. It will be recalled by the readers of The Times that the accusations of election crookedness now being hurled so directly into the camp of the supporters of Mr. Thomas C. Howe are the same accusations that were presented to the public through this newspaper following Urn announcement of the vote that was fraudulently credited to Charles M. Jewett. The only difference seems to be that at that period the law might have been invoked to punish the crooks. Now, the statute of limitations has run and there is little hope of bringing the miscreants to justice. But the belated discovery on the part of some of the incredulous citizens of this community that there was truth in the allegations of fraud even though they were directed against the members of the so-called clean politics and good government league Is an evidence of a better Indianapolis. It is merely another demonstration of the old adage that "truth crushed to earth will rise again.” This community is not steeped in immorality to such an extent as to relish election frauds. It has merely been deceived as to their importance and it is now awakening to the desperate danger that lies in compromising with evil. There is probably no method by which the wrongs done through the corruption of the last city primary can be righted. Time has blocked the way to investigation with a view to prosecution. But the resentment that belated knowledge of this corruption has aroused in this community can be, and is being, turned into vigorous opposition to a repetition of these frauds. The citizens of Indianapolis will, next Tuesday, express themselves at the polls. Whether their expressions at the polls will be reflected in the canvassing room remains to be seen. It is a matter of peculiar significance that the only candidate for the nomination for mayor who does not appear to be interested in any movement for a clean primary is Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College. While his opponents are seeking by every known means to make It difficult for known election crooks to defeat the will of the peopls, he is hobnobbing with the beneficiaries of that crookedness. Mayor Charles W. Jewett takes occasion to point out that Henry Fleming, who admits stealing 500 votes for him, is now supporting Mr. Robison. But he neglects to add that Judge James A. Collins, who boldly adjourned the grand Jury that was Investigating this corruption, is speaking i for Mr. Howe. That announced appearance on the same platform of Howe, Jewett and Collins is a strange appearance for a man who spent years at the head of >an educational institution. On one side he will have the beneficiary of a \ corrupted primary. On the other, the one man whose duty it was to 1 punish such corruption and who, in the time of duty, calmly adjourned the grand Jury and stopped the investigation. And Mr. Howe, forgetful of a long enjoyed reputation for honesty and decency, will, by his presence, lend indorsement to it all. Divided Negro Vote It Is becoming more apparent every day that in this primary, probably for the first time In the history of Indianapolis, there will be a well-defined division of the negro voters. The desperate efforts of the administration to align the colored people for Thomas C. Howe have been a failure because it has appealed only to that class of negro voters who neither think for themselves nor for their race. Among the better element of negro voters in Indianapolis such prom- ■ lses of social equality as have been made by Mr- Jewett and Indorsed by ■ Mr. Howe have fallen flat. The thinking negro realizes that the promises are not of things he wants and are not susceptible of fulfillment. He Judges ■ the warmth of the regard for his race by actions, not by promises, and ' he realizes that throughout the Jewett administration there has been noth--1 ing but a pandering to the type of negro whose inclination is to pull down, ! rather than build up the standing of the race. ! No thinking negro in Indianapolis can help realizing that the Rufe ■ pages and the Arch Youngs have been favored with privileges that trans--1 cend those granted any white men, while the real representatives of the colored race have been forced to look on and watch the few negroes who ! have received favor at the hands of the Jewett administration exercising that favor In a manner that only brings disrepute upon the race. • in Indianapolis, as elsewhere, there are more reputable than disreputa- • ble negroes. They ask no special favors. They are intent only on making ; their race respected and capable of enjoying its civil rights. What they cannot understand, and what no one can attribute to a ; proper motive. Is the appeal of the administration, with special privileges 1 and urging, to the limited number of disreputable negroes with whom they j can have nothing in common. ___________________________________________ That Coke Pile! The Citizens Gas Company now appears before the commission with a ; new lawyer and anew set of statistics designed to show the “emergency” ; that It declares exists for increasing its gas rates 50 per cent. According to its latest figures it has approximately $1,000,000 tied up ; in coke which it has, at present, decided to value at $lO a ton. Just how this valuation is reached is difficult to understand, but in the ! preparation of its appeals for high gas rates the company has a habit of ! arriving at valuations by routes that are difficult to follow. Perhaps the best test of the valuation of the coke lies in the w illingness • of the gas company to sell it at the fixed valuation. ! Is the company willing to open its coke pile to the public and dispose of this fuel at $lO a ton? Or does the Indianapolis consumer who desires to use coke still have • to pay a commission of 5 per cent to a Cincinnati jobber and also pay the - freight rate from Indianapolis to Cincinnati and back again whether the j coke ever leaves the city or not? • It is the custom of commercial institutions that find themselves over- ; stocked and in need of cash to sacrifice the profits on their merchandise in ; efforts to move it. Has the gas company done this? I Is the gas company willing to sell this coke to the citizens of Indian- ; apolis at a loss in event the citizens agree to a higher gas rate? J Is there any real reason why a community that needs coke cannot 'jLrade with a company that has too much coke cash? >

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A Neiv Serial of Young Married Life "By Ann Lisle—

CHAPTER CXCVIII. “XVhat the dickens are you doing here?” asked .Jim, “Why, Jim, aren't you glad to see me? You sound almost as if you wish I’d stayed down with Betty and Terry,” I cried. “Well, why didn’t you?” he muttered. “What do you think you mean shutting yourself up here In the room >while your husband's entertaining a party of friends? 1 don't get you, Anne, hirst you ask Valerie—Cosby to a party. Then you w-elch on It with sc.mo sob sister stuff about the friend who needs you. And now from the looks of things—it was all cooked up to cut the party. Why?” In the midst of being hurt at the injustice of the way Jim was Interpreting things I noticed now he started to call Xlrs. Cosby "Valerie” and then tacked on her last name. There was a why for that, too. But I knew better than to ask it just then. “Os course some husbands would be glad to see their wives they'd not care how the return ahead of time came about,” was all I said. “Well—l'm not some husbands. Jm a thinking human being. Were Betty and Teddy sore on you for what you’d done?” "No— I began, but Jim cut In. “How do you think It will strike the Cosbys when they find out about your performance? I won't stand for this.” Jim's voice became sharper. "I told you once that my wife had to be my partner.” / “I came back,” I said quietly, “because Anthony Norreys came down this afternoon.” “Anthony Norreys!” broke In Jim. “Then Terry and Betty were sore at yon for the way you shut your mouth on what they'd a right to know, and tried to run things. And they sent for Norreys—practically turned you out.” “Pending for Tony was my idea”— — “Your Idea? Why? And why. after you'd put it through, did you lose your nerve and cut and run? Now, come down to earth, Anne, and explain your darn fool conduct;’’ stormed Jim. “Don't swear at me!” I cried. “If you choose to be brutal, I can choose to be silent.” “Oh, yon can! By Jove, but can you?" A sneer had crept into Jim's voice. “Are you telling me that we've come to the parting of the ways?" I stared at him, too frightened to answer. There was a lamp in my throat I couldn’t seem to gulp down. Was It possible that Jim thought I had meant ! to tell him we'd come to the parting of 1 the ways; was It possible that such an I Idea had been in the back of my mind? i "Don't look as if I'd knifed you !n the i bark," said Jim, coming over as if the i question in my eyes had drawn him, and patting me awkwardly. “Try, Instead, for once to see things from my point of view. What kind of a partner—and pal—do you think ditches

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how the nany present-day problems of the home ar* solved by working on the budget that Mrs. ifooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally n an interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) WEDNESDAY. With the coming of the warm weather, Mrs. Hooper resolved to curtail the weekly ironing as much as possible and determined to begin today by folding the sheets and pillow cases smoothly and prosing them instead of spend ng the usual time and energy in Ironing them. They were Just as sweet and clean and white as with the old process and with the beds made carefully, their appearance when in use was quite as satisfactory. Every piece of new underwear for herself and Helen was to be made of material that required no ironing Soft cotton crepe she decided was Inexpensive end very suitable for this purpose arid had the added virtue of being of servicable texture that would last a long time. She had brought down the blanket from Helen's bed and washed It as a preliminary to doing the same with each set of blankets In the house that would have to he put away clean. As she folded it she discovered that it was worn so thin its usefulness as a mere blanket was over. She remembered that the one on Roger’s bed had worn out in Just the same fashion last year, and had been put away for an emergency. By putting the two of them together and covering them with some inexpensive cretonne and knotting them to Insure smoothness she would make a pretty new quilt cover for Helen s bed that would save buying anew blanket for a while. She hadn’t found any difficulty in washing the blanket, because It was very light, and she had used a preparation of white soap shavings that makes a wonderU.il lather In hot water and that took every bit of dirt out of It with scarcely any rubbing. With, a good rinsing in Severn 1 waters and a long day of hanging In the warm sunshine it was ns white and fluffy as possible. But she recalled with much satisfaction how her surplus for operating expenses was climbing and that it really wouldn’t be long before

/. U. EXTENSION PLAY ANNOUNCED Class in Dramatic Art to Present ‘Workhouse W ard.’ The Indiana University extension class in dramatic art will present Lady Gregory’s "Workhouse Ward,” under the direction of Prof. E. G. Frazier, Friday evening at Shortridge High School, as a part of an entertainment for students In the Indianapolis center. Miss Irina Waldvogel and Miss Virginia May will take the parts of Mike Mclnerney nnd Michael Miekell, respectively, and Miss Beulah 7.lnkler that of Mrs. Donahue. The play Is the story of two old paupers who spend most of their time quarreling and finding fault with the workhouse, and who, when opportunity for release comes suddenly, discover that they do not wish to leave each other or the house. Another Interesting part of the program will bo the drainnlizatlon of n history lesson on Nathan Hale, hy the pupils of grade BA of School No. 70, nnd the dramatization of the writing of “The Star-Spnngled Banner” hy the pupils of the 58. These little tots nre actually presenting, under the supervision of their teacher. Miss Althea Johnson, their own language, characterization and point of view. This work is the outgrowth of a clqss in story-telling under Professor F razler. Mrs. Walter Jenney will read Owen Meredith’s “Aux Italians,” with incidental music hy Mrs Will luppenlatz, and Miss Eliza O’Connell will give special character impersonations. PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory. Well, Puss Junior traveled along with the magic ax and the in iglc pickax ln his knapsack. Which I told you about in the story before this; nnd by nnd by he came to a little nutshell, from the bottom of which a tiny stream of water hurst out and sparkled in the sun. “Good morning, Miss Spring,” said little Puss Junior. "Doesn't It, tire you

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1921.

a fellow the way you did with a big deal on and, and won't even say what’s up?” “I’ll tell you," I replied. But without realizing what I was doing I shook off Jim's hand on my shoulder. I ids was the second time I hud refused Jim's caress. “\\ hen I explained to Terry that I'd known all along, he understood my not telling him; that was all right. Then so Betty'd see how game someone else was in a fix worse than hers could be at the worst—-I thought of asking Tony j down.” “I don't get that,” said Jim curtly. “1 thought you wouldn’t. That was why I couldn't stay after he came.” And of course you let them all see what a Jealous tyrant I am?” queried Jim. ‘T told Terry that you’d never liked Tony since we ‘manufactured’ that Job at I lie office, and I left my bag at the btatlon so no one else would ever guess I'd meant to stay." “And, your ’Tony?’ What good did his wonderful presence do?” Iletty found out before he got there that she couldn’t use her hand. And Terry lied like a dear and said he’d known she had only one chance in a hundred, but that without that chance she was still his Betty, Then she thought of I ony and -how much worse things were for him. And partly to save him she’s making an effort to bo brave, so her one chance Is a good chance." All right. That’s clear. Bat once you get back to town will you tell me why you couldn't be as considerate of your husband as you pretend to be in coming back?” “It was 10 o’clock, Jim. I was tired. And I thought you might have asked someone In my place.” “Why didn't you phone the theater and find out what I’d like you to do?” demanded Jim. “Stop asking me questions 1" I cried, “I've been through a lot today. I’m—l’m all in. I couldn't have come to the party. But you didn't miss me. You had a good time.” “I sure did,” smiled Jim reminiscently. “You’ve spoiled it now. though. Next time use a little Judgment, Anne. It would have looked better for you to stay down and talk moonshine with your old cripple than to rnce in here the way you did—and put yourself in wrong with that charming—those charming people—” “Oh, Mrs Cosby probably had a good time without me,” I said coldly. “And that big bore—her husband—hasn't stopped wanting to gamble in oil because T was missing. Now, I'm going to bed, and you'd better do likewise. Jim.” But as I tucked the covers about my shoulders a last sleepy thought assailed me: "Jim didn't aeem so very Jealoua of Anthony Norreys any more, I might have stajed, after all “—-Copyright, 1921. (To He Continued.)

the much coveted electric washing machine could be installed in the laundry. She even contemplated looking into the plan of buying it on Installments. She ha l always been prejudiced agalnt acquit ug anything in this way, but she realize) that her objection to it was not one of principle, but was baaed on her belief that it led so many women to lnvolv.ng themselves In debt from which they wer helpless to extricate thetnsalves ts any misfortune overtook them ami that it was a great temptation to extravagance. But ns she believed herself immune from these dangers, she decided to at least talk it over with Henry. Knowing that Mrs. Campbell was fond of lamb's llvpr as she prepared It, Mrs. Hooper copied the redpe carefully fur her and set it aside with the expectation that she would come in to tea in the afternoon as she had suggested. LARDED DAK ED LAME'S LIVER I no lamb's liver from a young animal and after wiping off with a damp cloth cover with boiling water and let atand for five minutes. Cool and lard with fine strips of bacon or Bait pork. I.ay in an Oiled pnn and pour into the pan a cup ful of boiling water in which has been dissolved two tahlespoonfuls of bacon dripping Cover th pan closely and bak" for forty minutes, then uncover nnd brown. Dust lightly with salt and paprika after the meat has been roasted for twenty minutes. Serve with brown gravy made from the liquor in the pan and flavored with kitchen bouquet and Worcestershire sauce. The menu for the three meals on Thursday Is: BREAKFAST. Stewed Ithuharb with Dates Cereal Crisped Salt Pork and Cream Gravy Hot Biscuits Coffee LUNCHEON. Black Bean Eonp Sliced Oranges with Cocoannt Nut Cookies Milk DINNER Cream of Tomato Sonp Larded Raked Lamb's Liver Baked Potatoes Red Cabbage Salad Banana Puffs (Copyright, 1921.)

so be gushing away all alone b 7 yourself In your little corner?” ■'lndeed It does," my little R|r Cat. Put •me In your knapsack and 1 will make you as famous as your father, Puss In Boots.” So Puss picked up the little nutshell and plugged It up with moss End then he placed It carefully In his knapsack with the magic ax and the magic pickax. Well, by and by, after n while, he came to n king's palace. But although It was a very magnificent palace, everybody who lived there was perfectly miserable, for one morning, without the least warning, an Immense oak sprang up and Its leaves and branches were so thick that they shut out the sun from all the windows and made it as dark as night inside. All the woodcutters In the kingdom had tried to cut down this tree but Its bark was so tough that It turned the edge of every ax, and for every branch that was lopped ofT, two Instantly grew In Its place. Well, every day the King grew angrier and angrier, but of course that didn't do any good. So he called the poet laureate of his kingdom and asked him what, should be done. So the poet ran Ills fingers through his long curly hair and thought, awhile, and then he went out to tha royal car penter and bad him make nn immense placard. And when it was finished this wise poet sat down and printed a poem upon it; "To him who cuts my oak tree down I'll give three bags of gold, Put all who fall shall lose their ears And then as slaves bo sold." —Copyright, 1921. (To be continued) Steel Society Picks New Heads Monday The annual election of officers will he held at the next monthly meeting of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Society for Steel Treating Monday evening, May 2, in the Chamber of Commerce building. Following the regular business meetng of the chapter, W. S. Patterson of the Bausch & TiOmb Optical Company will talk on "Thp Optics of Metallurgy.” The talk will be illustrated with a number of lantern i^ftdes.

Not a Reformer

. MRS. OLIVE D. EDWARDS. PROPER HOUSING IS HER AMBITION IN COUNCIL RACE Woman Candidate Also Strongly Favors Clean Elections. Morn concern over the elimination of bad bousing conditions In the poorer sections of the city so that the less fortunate may live In ss cheerful and healthful surroundings as the more fortunate than over whether a particular set of politicians triumph in their aspirations is felt by Mrs. Olive D. Edwards, director of the Chrlstaraore Settlement, ISDI Columbia avenue, and a Republican candidate for nomination for councilman of the First district. “While my chief interest after election would bo to further mSßure* In the city council which would aid in the elimination of bad housing, which many social workers consider the root of most of our social ills, I am both before and after election in favor of clean primaries,” said Mrs. Edwards. “I think that the primary should be for the people and not for the politicians. “I am not making any great promises to make wonderful reforms as a women member of the city council. Goodness knows we ve had enough of reformers of late. I •don't think we should make any great promises because, how do we know we can fulfill them? "We've got to develop anew political conscience which will lead us to stop making any promise excepting that we will try to do all we can for the best Interests of everybody when we get in." Mrs. Edwards said that she did not believe that women are going to revolutionize politics but “since women always have been leaders in social reform I believe that a woman's Influence could be exerted in the city council with wholesome effect.” Mrs. Edwards le s member* of the Women's Rotary flab, the Contemporary Club and the Social Workers Club. She became director of the Chrtsfamore Settlement five years ago. In that time she has built it up to one of the most successful settlement houses In the city. The Chrlstamore board of directors have indorsed Mrs. Edw-ards’ candidacy. They are Mrs. John Carey. Miss Martha t’nrey, L C. Huestnann, lairs Whitcomb, T. it. Baker, B. ElSey, Montgomery I-ewla, J, J. Daniels, Foster Cllppenger, Chester Jewett, Mrs. Henry Beveridge, Mrs. William Itockwood, Mrs. C. Roach, Mrs. Francis Dorsey, Mrs, Edward L McKee, Nicholas Noyes, Herbert Beck and Arthur Stout. The Progressive Clnb and a great many business women also have epiessed themselves favorably toward Mrs. Edward* as a candidate. She 1* a member e s Christ Church. LONDON TRIP OF ‘DAVIDSON’ IS TOLD ABOUT (Continued From Page One.) in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, and one of the most able and resourceful officers In the American Navy. But this Intention had to be abandoned at the last moment, owing to the discovery of a perilous situation nearer home which called for his Immediate service. Admiral Wilson was at that time commanding the IT. S. S. Pennsylvania. When, following the broak in relations, we took a survey of the situation, we realized that If we went to war an tm j perative duty would bo the protection of j otir own coastal waters from the opera- j tions of enemy submarines. Moreover, It would lie necessary to prevent, if possl ble, the shipment of oil from Mexican oil fields to European countries Oil was a vital necessity for allied naval success, and there was great danger that the Mexican product might find its way into enemy hands. So it was considered of primary Importance to organize a patrol force to guard onr coasts and shipping, and to protect allied Interests in the sources of oil supply. No one seemed better fitted fur this duty than Admiral Wilson; hence it was decided to assign him to tills tnsk, and to find someone else to undertake the secret mission to London. CALLS SIMS TO CAPITAL. Admiral Sims was president of the war college at that time, nnd onr second choice fell on him. On March 2(1 I telegrnpbed him to come to Washington. He arrived on March 2.8 and came to the Navy Department the same afternoon. I opened the Interview by telling him, in confidence, that it was our belief the time was near at hand when America would enter the wnr. In such event, I said, we must prepare for the fullest measure of cooperation with the British navy. I commented on the fact that hitherto our Information concerning the allied plans and methods of naval war-

HOROSCOPE “The stars incline, bnt do not compel!” THURSDAY, APRIL 2. Saturn nnd Mars dominate this day in bonefle aspect, according to astrology. Uranus and Jupiter nre faintly adverse. It is a day when real estate dealers and ail who have land Interests should profit. There is a promising sign for mines nnd mining, new discoveries of minerals being foreshadowed in more than one location. Persons whose birthdate it Is have a favorable outlook for the year, which should bring happiness and prosperity. Children born on this day probably will be quick-tempered and nervous, but steady and persevering. Girls have the augury of happy marriage.—Copyright, 1921. HEAVIEST RAINFALL The heaviest rainfall in the world is on the southern slopes of the Himalaya Mountains.

RATS LEADING WOMAN RETURNS To Christie Studio to Play in Comedies

About the most Interesting group in the films today Is the little group of comediennes who surprise us every once in a while by becoming regular dramatic actresses and leading women or stars. And one of the prettiest and most vivacious of all of them is Dorothy Devore, the little girl who for two years has been playing the dainty heroine of those highly amusing one-reel Christie comedies. Miss Devore flashed forth recently as Mary, in “Forty Five Minutes From Broadway,” Charlie Ray’s first independent picture, and showed slio was a real actress with subtle and convincing technique. Now she has returned to Mr. Christie, who will star her in a series of two reel comedies. Miss Devore, whose real name, by the way, is Inez Williams, was horn in Fort Worth, Texas. She went to California with her parents when she was eleven nnd entered a girls' school. She started her stage work by singing in vaudeville, not because she longed for the stage, but because she had a little voice and wanted to support her mother. She was Just about to start East for an engagement with a large company when she had an offer from Lee and Moran. That started her in pictures and the rest of the story Is told in some sixty or more pictures she has made since that time. Miss Devore has two aims aside from her histrionic ones. She w-ants to go to New York, where she has never been, and she wants to take her mother with her for a year's travel. And she will do It, ON VIEW TODAY. Among the attractions on view today Includes: "Seven Keys To Baldpate" at English's; Maud Lambert at B. F\ Keith's; “My Dream Girl" at the Lyric; Eddie Herron and company in “The Traveling Man" at Loew's State; “Homespun Folks” at the Rialto; Wallace Reid in “The Dancing Fool” at the Broadway; '’Madonnas and Men” at the fare had been limited; that we knew little or nothing of what they wore doing to combat the U-boat, I Informed him as to the communication we had received from Ambassador Page and the announced readiness of the British admiralty to take us fully into its confidence in order that we might be prepared intelligently to offer Immediate and effective cooperation when we entered the war. The President, I told him, had decided to act on the proposal that an American admiral be sent to London to receive the confidences of the British admiralty and to keep us Informed on all matters of importance. SELECTED IN SPITE OF GUILDHALL SPEECH. And then I said to him: “Admiral Sims, you hare been selected for this task.” In the course of the conversation that followed T recalled the speech that he had made some years before at a banquet in the Guildhall, London. In that speech Admiral Sims had said : "If the time ever comes when the British empire is seriously menaced by an external enemy it Is my opinion that you may count upon every man. every dollar, every drop of blood of your kindred across the sea.” Referring to this utterance T said to him : “You have been selected for this mission, not because of your Guildhall speech, but In spite of it.” T added that he had been selected because he had enjoyed intimate associations with the British officers, and It was to he expected that they would the more readily repose confidence in him and disclose their screts, and that, after we entered the war, their cooperation would be heartily given. I reminded him, however, that the United States was still neutral, and that untie Congress should declare war his mission must be a secret and confidential one. MIST BOTTLE l I* U-BOATS. Finally I told him that there were two things on the mind of the President which he would like to hate nrged upon

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the consideration of the British admiralty These things arose out of the belief, based upon such information as we had been nhle to obtain from our naval attache and from Ambassador Page, that the submarine menace was more serious than the allies were willing to admit, nnd thnt no adequate means had yet been found for dealing with this peril. They were: 1. That every effort should be made to prevent the U-boats getting Into the Atlantic; that they should be bottled up ln their own porta, and that some heroic method should be devised to prevent their Ingress and egress. 2. That all ships ought to be convoyed. T told him that the President had been of this opinion for a long time, but that there was a division of opinion on the matter among naval oficers of Influence in the department, most of whom seemed to agree with the British admiralty, which was unfriendly to the idea. But the President, I assured him, felt the British objections were unsound, and was

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DOROTHY DEVORE. Park; “Forbidden Fruit” at the Ohio; “Society Snobs" at the Colonial; “Outside the Law” at the Isis; "The Home Stretch” at the Alhambra; “Bob Hampton of Placer” at the Circle; “LoneHand Wilson” at the Regent and “King, Queen, Joker" at Mister Smith’s. firmly convinced the only real protection for shipping lay In convoying. NO WRITTEN ORDER M VUE. So as to preserve absolute secrecy about the mission and departure of Admiral Sims no written order was made detaching him from his duties at Newport. His travel orders were made out that afternoon, and written, I think, by the chief of the bureau, himself, to avoid any leakage. Thete orders were: "Proceed to a port of Great Britain, leaving the United States on or about March 31, 1917, and on arrival carry out the confidential instructions which have been given you.” Admiral Situs seemed pleased with his mission. As already intimated, he reached London on April 10, reported at once' to Ambassador Page and was Immediately thereafter admitted to the confidence of the British admiialty. Thus began that splendid cooperation which was carried out with the utmost cordiality between the navies of the United States and Great Britain until the day when the two navies, side by side, received the surrender of the mighty German fleet. NOW ABOUT THE “BRITISH CHESTNUTS.” Tills story might end here were it not that the render is likely to ask, “What about the sensational statement in the letter to Admiral Sims, that before he. sailed he was given the following explicit admonition: ‘ Don't let the British pull the wool over your eyes. It is none of our business pulling their chestnuts out of the fire. We would as soon fight the British as the Germans.” I heard of this first in January. 1920, when the letter of Admiral Sims was written. He later said the remark was mude hy Admiral Benson, who, he said, repeated It, or words to like effect, in Paris. In his testimony under oath. Admiral Pirns showed that he attached little significance to it. He said: “I will admit thnt I had completely forgotten tile incident. It was recalled to my mind hy a member of my staff who was present and who heard It. I think that the reason I did not remember that distinctly

was because I regarded It ss a personal idiosyncrasy o fthe admiral, 1 had known the general opinion that he was intensely anti-English, but It did not affect me particularly.” Os Admiral Renson and his work, Admiral Sims said: “I have always had the best possible personal relations with Admiral Benson. I regard him as an upstanding and honest man, who has exceedingly strong convictions and who Is very firm i n adhering to those convictions. I believe everything he has done during the war has been done conscientiously and to get along with the war.” In view of this statment and the known fact that Admiral Benson nnd everybody else in the Navy earnestly cooperated with the British, and that Admiral Ben son played a large part In perfecting this cooperation before Admiral Fims reached London. I think there is no oe casion for any further allusion to this remark. It wont up like a rocket. It came down like a stick. (Another article by former Secretary Daniels will be printed tomorrow.)

School Notes ARSENAL TECHNICAL. The ninth hour public speaking Class has elected the following to office t Addison King, president; Edward Troy, vice president; Alice Born, secretary, and George Strassler, sergeant-at-arms. A program committee consists of Charles Sugert, chairman; Edgar Kickler and Edward Troy. Miss Schelischmidt's second hour English VI class dramatized a scene from Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.” Frances lorn took the part of Madame Defrage and Ruth Hulse the part of Miss Pross. The next number of The Arsenal Cannon will be the vocational issue. In this number the staff is indebted to the teachers and the students of the vocational English class fur the greater part of the articles. The Issue will be sold next Monday. Iu a recent test In the office practice class, Frances Thrun attained the greatest speed. Frances Leiter, Eva Thompson, June Hoefner and Alberta Kappler were close competitors. Ihe Expression 1 class, which meets the first hour, has elected Carl Smith president for the month; Marie Huber, viee president; June Fields, secretary; Marie Manner, assistant secretary, and Dan Alleg, sergeant at arms. The following students have for the summer camp at Camp Knox J John Adams, John 11. Albright Dcjß Alig, Edward Allred, George A. Ander™ son, Charles L. Banks. Robert E. Beery, Floyd F. Beggeman, James W. Bell, Virgil Blackman, Gail C. Blakeslev, Sherwood Blue, Harry G. Bolton, John F. Borman, Noble Boston, Marvel R. Boyd, Charles Dean Brossman, Hugh C. Brown, Parker B. Burns, Robert I). Burrows David F. Burton. Thomas J. Bush, Frank 1. Callon, Raymond E. Carr, Herbert A. Clark, Arthur L. Coffev, Benny Cohen, John W. Conlev, Donald R. Craft Delmar Curry, Donald S. Davis, James u . Day, Henry E. Devacey, Joe L. Donnelly, Elmer S. Doriot, Clayton W. Duncan, Sydney C. Durbin, Walter S. Dyer. James C. Lwln#, Glenn E. Finley, Maurice Fitzwater, Edward L. Ford,'Marion D. bred, Lyle E. Gant, Davis R. Garrison. Hurbert Garrison, Arthur C. Guest, Donald A. Gordon, John B. Gray, Stantou G. Green, Russell Hamilton,' Walter tV , , amnife '> "John M. Ilaynes, Maurice Henkle, Arthur H. Hert, Robert P. Hoes- ! Jacob S. Hornung, Donald B. John. 1 w . 1 1 -Johnson, Charles L. Johnson, j Maicom R. Kelly, Lester P. Woelling, I berdinand Krentler, Edward E. Lanev : Edwin A. Leslie, John E. Loftus, Richa.rd..Hi, Eukens, Lewis C. McCarty, John A, McCreery, Elmer L. McGillem, Harry 1. McQuinn, Haslet McWilliams, Robert '' Mathers, Ferdinand Mehrlich, Arthur w^ len S'u Robert T. Midkiff. Raymond A Miller Shelby E. Minter, John M. Moore. Samuel A. Muir, Lester Mussman, Verle Newcomer, Charles E. Noble, Alfred G. N uerge, Merrill Overman, Malvom M. lorter, Joe M. Potts, Kennard M. Powell. Ralph L. Randall, Albert Beddie, Arthur R. Robinson, Edmond J. Rocker Harold Rubin, Harold W. Russell, Vir- £ il .“ t „ Ua,r ’ * Max Sfeeth. Edward D. , I ' r ? ui : is A - Sommer, Donald Steeg, CUfford Stelhorn, Lowell R. Stephens Garnet Sunderland, Charles R. Swain’ RsfnT’w x 1’ Tlor ’ Emmetl G - Thompson’, Raiph H. Thompson, Kennison Tove. .Royden \an Meter, Jack Velsey, William R. M bailey John C. Whitt, Clinton J. Ui kerson. Harold p. Williams, Fred L \\ lllls Arthur b. Wilson. Glenn E. Wilson, Harold S. Zimmerman, Edward S Zollner, John F. Morris, Edward PenPlerre LoWell C ' Hurst and Adrian R. ! r„32! e C , hora J Society, an organization : fo . I !? led ln th(> fifth hour chorus class next ‘Friday 1 ’ at the Woodruff Club

SnORTRIDGE NOTES. Robert Conder, won second place In the State high school discussion rontest at Bloomington, last Friday. Keith Masters, of South Bend, was awarded a gold medal for winning first place and Miss Genevieve Ratnere. of Worthington. came third. Last year John berris. of this school carried away third honors, this year .Shortridge came in second, and it seems that the debaters expected to take f.rst place next year. . , . f pr ’f lcr tennis tournament will he ■ • .and in the near future according to Mr rVnnV er ' Th° s j ,ortrid *’e authority on £ V , The inner of the singles will oV rim A„ r K,° ket wiil the champions f the doubles. A campaign for entries ing off rOSre ' 9 811,1 ° rla Wood J is lead-Nlis-is Pearl Ehie, formerly of Sbortridge, who has been attending the t7nlversity of Illinois, died last Friday night Sue had shown a marked genius for mechanics and art work and some of her work done in the Art Department may Do found ln the school class rooms. The Alumni association which was formed in ID2, will hold its annual meeting the Friday after Commencement. The association has the chance to support the movement for anew Shortridge building in the northern part of the city. The present officers are; Presid“at - John Ilollett, ’95; vice president, Noll R. Sharpe, ’O3; board of control, Hal Plummer, 'l4; Gertrude Dithmer ’93Herbert S. Woode, .’B9; Edith Barry, ’l3 • and Beulah House, T3. The Music. Memory Contest between the three high schools will be held Thursday May 5 at the Odeon under the supervision of Mr. Birge. Each school is preparing a team of ten for the final test. A group of students who are not eligible for the regular baseball team have formed a team, practiced at Thirtieth and Fall Creek, and wish to be known as the “Outcasts.” They have scheduled two games, one plaved Monday with the Tech “Outlaws” and the other for Wednesday with the Cathedral High. The 1921 S. H. S. spring golf tournament, ln all probability will start Saturday morning April 30th. Twenty-five cents is the entrance fee and this money will be used to pay for the prizes, one for the winner and one for the runner up. A golf club will be given to the former, the latter will be awarded three balls. The tourney will be at the South Grove links and all matches except the finals will be eighteen holes. * MANUAL. Groups ITT and IV of the Junior Drama League gave the playlet. “The Enchanted Garden.” in the auditorium at the close of school Monday. The June seniors met at roll call Monday. the June class play publicity committee met Monday under the supervision of Miss Knox. This committee consists of Ralph Hopping. Saul Goldman, Claude Pitsenhorger, Everett Dammeyer and Donald noover. The Manual musical memory contest squad now contains Elizabeth Davey, Louise Martin, Vlora Frye, Magdalene Eberhardt. Marie Arens. Murrell Bess, Nell Essex. Vienna Kennedy, Grace Driftmeyer. Bessie Meng, Mary Dolk, Saul Kiien, Theodore Draper nnd Nigel Holme. The team of ten students will he chosen just before May 5, the date of the contest. The Birge Club will hold its next meeting May 3. Any one In school qualified to become a member of a musicians club sec Mr. Winslow as soon as possible. The field events of the freshman track meet will be held in the field at the rear of the building this afternoon. A meeting of all boys who plan to attend Camp Knox was held ln room D during roll call yesterday. The east for the “Midsummer Night's Dream” is practicing dally for the play which will be given May 5. ORIGIN OF MOURNING. The custom of wearing black for mourning was originated by Anne, the queen of Charles VIII of France.