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Jtotoaua Saitu STtmea INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dal'y Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERB OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j y o rk, Boston, Payne, FRANCIS also might he asked to throw some light on the question of who kidnaped Charlie Ross while he is in Indianapolis! EVEN a close race fails to arouse the old-time enthusiasm in the world’s baseball series. Why doesn’t someone attribute that to prohibition, tool THE BOOTLEGGERS who returned a stolen car after hauling their booze in it probably understood that there would be no interference in their activities! Campaign Without Issues With less than a month left of this municipal campaign it is evident that whatever selection the voters of Indianapolis make will be made with no definite idea of why. So far in the campaign none of the candidates has formulated a definite program for the coming administration. To date the public has not been informed what the several candidates propose so do for Indianapolis in event of election. True, Mr. Ralston has outlined a general platform and has taken his stand against general improvements that increase the tax levy. True, Mr. Shank has expressed dissatisfaction with the police force and has promised that if elected he will compel its members to respect the law as well as enforce it. But, neither or these matters is of sufficient importance to rise to the dignity of a campaign Issue. And in the absence of a cainpaign issue on which there can be a real division of opinion, the campaign has degenerated into a mudslinging contest in which the principal pastime seems to be the invention of calumny and abuse. Asa matter of fact, there is nothing in the private life of either Mr. Ralston or Mr. Shank that would preclude them from filling the office of mayor with credit to themselves. They are of an entirely different type. Shank is the unconventional, startling, free-speaking sort of public man who appeals to hundreds because of his very ordinary habits. Ralston is the reserved, somewhat dignified, careful speaking individual whose training has been more along business lines than in public -ife. Among the supporters of each may be found persons of all classes. Neither has a monopoly on the support of gamblers and bootleggers. Neither has a monopoly on the support of business men. It Is foolish to talk of one as more representative of the "lawless element" than of the other. Asa matter of fact there Is no "lawless element" in Indianapolis. Unfortunate, Indeed, is the lack of a real issue in this municipal campaign. In its absence the spellbinders, the precinct workers and even the candidates are resorting to personalities which help no one in arriving at a choice for public office. As long as this appeal to prejudice, this harping of scandal and this villification of candidates continues, neither party will be able to produce a candidate for mayor who will meet with general satisfaction In the city. No man who is sufficiently popular to command a general support from the voters of Indianapolis will submit himself to the hardships of a campaign such as it seems impossible to avoid in this community. Prohibition's Progress Judge Ben Lindsey rises to express a wholly unjustified pessimism concerning the enforcement of the national prohibition law. He says the law should either be enforced in its entirety or amended or repealed ana he declares that it cannot be enforced until there is a change In the public attitude. Granting the truth of all these assertions, is it not a fact that there is in progress a very steady change in the public attitude? Not overnight could this public attitude be changed, as the law was changed. Not in a month, nor a year, nor several years, can the public attitude toward a habit of life be changed. It is indeed asking too much of a man who has spent a lifetime in familiarity with liquor to regard liquor as a curse. In all probability he never will change his attitude toward it. But as time relentlessly cuts down the percentage of good citizens who "can take it or leave it alone” there will grow up In their places men who will never be confronted with the election of “taking it or leaving it alone,” because to them liquor, with all its attendant evils, will be only a hazy idea. Regardless of the croakers and the propagandists the use and longing for liquor is dying out in the United States. No one of us but knows men who formerly drank either to excess or in moderation who are now paying no attention to alcohol. This Is the change in the public attitude which Judge Lindsey says is necessary to enforcement of prohibition and it Is surely advancing. The prohibition law was not enacted until after years of fighting, and it will not be enforced until after years of fighting. But It ha3 proved, right here in Indianapolis, to be a wonderfullv effective agency for better moral conditions, and it Is steadily proving Itself throughout the Nation. No one dreamed that the liquor evil could be eliminated in a day. Only the foolish are deceived by the propaganda that because prohibition has not become a reality in a few years of effort it is an impossibility. Who Promised Aid? “I have been promised aid in stopping this investigation in consideration of my retiring from the ticket as a candidate," says J. Herbert Hartman, Republican nominee for city judge, in a formal statement touching on the charges that he participated in a robbery of an Indianapolis home. Who promised him aid In suppressing the investigation of a criminal offense ? A home was robbed. A prisoner confesses the crime and implicates others. Who is running around trying to compound the felony by promising "aid in stopping this investigation?” It is not sufficient that Hartman should say he has been promised aid. He owes it to himself and to this community to tell WHO promised him aid. ! Hartman is a candidate for police judge. Were he sitting on the bench and were someone to come to him and promise him something for the ; release of a prisoner would he content himself with making public the fact that he had been approached? Or would he make it unpopular for persons to approach him by proceeding to enforce the law as It is written on the statute books? Hartman must “come clean" in this affair If he is to have any con- j sideration whatever from the people of Indianapolis. He can only “come clea*J’ by telling the whole truth. Let Prosecutor Evans invite the candidate to tell who is promising aid in the suppression of grand jury investigations in Indianapolis. It might be well to learn right now whether the grand jury is an agency for the enforcement of law or merely an agency for the advancement of political propaganda. Normal Registration There really is no occasion for any one in Indianapolis to be deceived by distortion of registration figures attempted in an effort to show an ! advantage either Republican or the Democratic ticket The truth is that there was no heavier registration in the city this year than was to be expected, and the total registered does not disclose that any of the campaign incidents has stimulated the natural Interest of the voters In the least. In the last presidential cainpaign, when a complete registration is generally expected, the total for Marion County was 168,937. In this year’s city registration it is estimated that the total will be approximately 140,000. As Indianapolis constitutes the greater part of Marion County and there has been a considerable growth In the city since the presidential campaign, the proportions of the two figures must he regarded as entirely normal. It Isn’t the registration but the balloting that counts in the election of candidates and while registration if said to be necessary to balloting, it Is very evident that neither side has reaped any considerable advantage therefrom this year. As usual, however, the bunko artists of both parties are trying hard to manufacture sentiment and are not at all particular whether or not they Adhere to the truth in the spreading of their propaganda.

In the Realm Where Woman Reigns

Keeping House With the Hoopers [The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburtan town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how th* many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally In an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high coat of living with them.} WEDNESDAY. “If your mother looks out of the window this morning and sees those clothes on the line, our reputations as housekeepers will be lost forever, Helensaid her grandmother as they were arranging the table for .breakfast. "Some of the things were nrn to ribbons by the wind and they have been rained on until they look as bedraggled as If they had never been washed. But I couldn't do a thing with that woman, yesterday. She Insisted that she knew her business and there was no use talking to her.” "I suppose we ought to have taken the clothes In ourselves,” said Helen. “That’s what Mother would tell us; but no one would have supposed that such a thunderstorm w-ould have come up In the night. But Isn't it queer,” she continued, "that the woman didn’t want to use the electric washing machine. You’d think she’d like to try it, just to see how It worked, wouldn’t you. The Bride Is Just crazy about It." “Well, It Is curious about some women," replied her grandmother. “They can't get over the Idea that what they do with their own hands Is much better than anything that a machine can do. It Is this notion more than any other one thing

Men Yoia May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER Has a man like this proposed to you 7 Symptoms: Wears a small tweed hat with a slight valley in its crown, on his handsome light haired hea — We should have said! Smart suits, lias cute ties and yet is awfully manly and charming. His clothes look heavy and sit on him as if they were always his. Keen for outdoors, has a little car in which he drives you with skill and care. He’s great fun but is not reckless. He loves music, some good verse and books — hut he is not bookish. IN FACT, You’d never have to page him in the best libraries. U/_) Prescription to his bride: <_/ h, Be as good a fellow as he. Absorb This: NORMALITY IN THE HOME IS THE NOBLEST WORK OF MAN. (Copyright, 1921.)

that keeps many homes without laborsaving machines that are well within the means of nearly every housekeeper." Shortly after breakfast the laundress made her appearance with the casual remark, "It’s too bud It rained on those clothes last night, but the sun is coming out and they will probably be dry by the time I'm ready to them." “But -what I can't understand," said Mrs Hooper s mother, “is why you won’t use a machine that would have put your clothes out on the line In time to hare them all dry, and In no danger of being ripped and torn by being left out over night. Especially since your clothes are no whiter or cleaner. In spite of all your boasting, than those I washed myself last week." “Well, there may be something in what you say," admitted the woman; “I thought last night when 1 was listening to the storm, and knowing all your clothes were hanging out on the line that perhape after all I might be wrong, and that a machine that could finish a Job up on tirno might be better in the end than doing the same work by hand.” “Os course, what’s happened can’t be helped,” said Mrs. Hooper's mother as she took the old-fashioned flatirons down from the shelf. “I suppose you'll want to use these Instead of the electric iron that Mrs Hooper does her ironing with." "I don't know anything about using an electric iron,” the laundress replied, “and I’m a pretty fast worker with those old-fashioned iron ones; but, as I said before. I may be all wrong and perhaps I ought to give these new-fangled things a try. If you’ll Just hitch on that elec trie iron and show me how it works I'll see how I make out with it.” Mrs Hooper put back the old irons on the shelf with a pleased expression on her face, and attached the electric iron to the wall socket, and turned on the current. “In the first place you don’t have to wait so long for your irons to bent," she explained to the new Interested laundress “and after they’re once heated, they don’t cool, so that you lose no time during the course of the Ironing Beside that you don't get all heated up from a range or a gas stove.” The woman handled the electric lrou rather awkwardly for a time, but when Mrs. Hooper's mother left her to go upstairs she seemed to be rather enjoying her experience with the new device. “I wouldn't have believed I could have finished as big an Ironing as that in swch a short time,” was the comment of the laundress when she was leaving for the day. “And if you want me to do J

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your washing next week, I think t'U try that electric machine without making any more fuss about it.” The menu for the three meals on Thursday is:— BREAKFAST. Orange Juice Cereal Waffles Soft Boiled Eggs Coffee LUNCHEON Creamed Hash on Toast Peanut Butter Sandwiches Ginger Bread Cocoa DINNER Clear Tomato Soup Broiled Weak Fish Boiled Potatoes Fried Egg Plant Banana Layer Cake (Copyright, 1921.) CORN WAFFLES. Sift together one cup of white flour, one cup of corn meal, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one half teaspoon- i fill of salt. Boat the yolks of three eggs | until thick, add one and one-fourth cup \ of milk and stir into the flour mixture. Then add one tablespoonful tof melted butter and the whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Bake in a hot waffle-iron and serve with caramel sauce. CORN AND TOMATO SOUP. Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, put luto it two flne-cut onions, one bay leaf and six whole black peppers; cook five minutes without browning: add one tabiespoonful of flour, stir and cook two minutes; then one can of tomatoes: one tablesponfoul of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one fourth teaspoonful of white pepper; stir often and cook ten minutes. Next comes one pint of boiling water; cook live minutes. Rub

-1 the tomatoes through a sieve into a clean saucepan and add one can of corn, put it into the soup and boll fifteen minutes; i mix the yolks of two eggs with a half : cupful of cream or inilk, stir into the soup, and serve at once. FRIED EGGPLANT. Peel an eggplant and cut Into slices half an Inch thick. Lay In cold salt watetj for an hour; wipe each slice dry I and dip, first in beaten egg. and then in cracker dust. Set in a cold place for an ' hour and fry in deep boiling cottolene or i other fat. Drain in a heated colander ! before dishing. BAN AN A LAYER C \K E. 1 Cream three tablespoonfuls of butter ! with two cupfuls if sugar, add the beaten . yolks nf live eggs, th- Juice and half the grated rind of an orange, and three cup fills of flour—or enough for a batter—sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Last of ail fold in the stiffened whites of three eggs. Bake In layer ■ tins. Let cool uud Just a few minutes before serving fill In between the layers with whipped cream and sliced bananas Cover the top with whipped cream, then a layer of bananas and another layer of whipped cream; put on with a pastry tube. This is very attractive when baked in a Large flat pan, cut in squares for individual portions and then decorated with whipped cream, placing a maraschino cherry to top. CULINARY TERMS. (Continued.) "Bay Leaves”—Leaves from a species of laurel, for flavoring meats, gravies, etc. "Bearnalse"—-(a la) In Swiss style. “Beurre nolr"—Black butter.* “Biscuit glaco"—Small cakes of ice cream. “Blanquette”—White meat In croam sauce. “Blanch”—To parboil, to scald vege tables, nuts, etc., In order to remove the skin. “Boeuf ala Jardlnere” —Braised beef with vegetables. “Bouillon"—A clear broth. “Bombe glace”- Molded Ice cream and Ice, or two kinds of lee cream. “Bourgeois©”—(a la)* Family style. "Bouquet of herbs”—Sprig each of thyme, savory, marjoram and parsley. “Case nolr”—Black coffee. OALF FOR PRINCE. LONDON, Oct. 12.—A calf born to ; Bella, a Belgian cow captured by the i Scots Guards from the Germans, has ! been presented to the Prince of Wales. j

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory ’ " In tho last story, you remember, we left off just as Puss Junior turned the bear Into a handsome prince and the cave into a stately castle, and 1/ any little reader hag missed the story before this, I will tell him that Puss had a magic gold ring on his big toe which would remove any evil charm. Wasn’t that nice? And the Prince thought so, too, for If it hadn’t been for onr little traveler and his gold ring the Prince would still be a bear. Well after that the Prince invited them to stay at the castle, which they did for almost a week, and didn’t they have fun! Goosey Goosey Gander played with the swans who swarm on the silver moat, and Puss Junior went horseback riding with the Prince every morning, and played checkers with him In the evening, but what he did in the afternoon 1 don't know, for the Prince had anew- airship, and they went up so high in the sky that I couldn't see, so we will have to wait until you read this little verse ol New Mother Goose Land: Hey diddle diddle! Kerplunk In the middle The airship punctured the moon! The little dog laughed Aboard the craft While the flddlo kept "playing a tune! And now yon know what happened and so do I, And then Puss Junior told the Prince ail about the time he had met the cow that Jumped over the moon instead of kicking it like the airship. “And she was very careful not to chip off a piece of green cheese," said our little traveler, but the Prince only laughed, and said that accidents would happen and he thought anyway the moon was away out of her course. Well, the next morning he and Goosey Gander said good-by to the prince aurt set off once more on their Journey of adventure. And everybody who saw them smiled, for Indeed tt was a queer picture —Puss Junior astride a large gander w ho flew at times Just over the telegraph poles and the chimney, unless there was smoke coming out. And In many of the little towns they passed over the children would shout and cry: “There goes a cat with boots and spurs with a gander for his steed." Now after they had flown for many miles and if was toward evening, the gander settled himself on the roof of a big red barn and Puss Junior slid down the haystack which w-as against one end and went to the door of the little farmhouse to ask for something to eat. And the reason the gander dldn t come "town was because there was a big dog in the barnyard But Puss wasn't afraid Ho took out his sword and mnehed up as bravely as you please and knocked twice, tap! tap! Just ltke that. And when the door opened, the farmer’s wife said: "Welcome, my dear Puss Junior!” But as this is all the room 1 have we must wait until the next story to hear the rest.—Copyright. 1921. (To lie Continued.) Daily Fashion Hints I Jg i, ] i y( iKM) jir Hi 0(V iSwoL cI L

By AONKB AYRES. Star In Paramount IMetures. I looked long and earnestly for something new- and interesting or startling In the blouses I saw at the silk show, but 1 looked in vain, at least for as long as I stayed. So I hove turned to Paris for Inspiration and refreshment. In the sketch is a blouse that Is really new, new lu every detail, though it is one of our beloved overblouses still. The collar was patterned after the very newest and smartest of the fur collars one sees; the cuffs were stolen, whole aud light beartedly, from tlie present vogue of the gauntlet; the buttons down the front and the breast pocket were added out of a superabundance of creative zeal. Absolutely right for wear with the tailored separate skirt, for sports wear or with the tailored suit, whose Jacket will permit of this rather overpowering collar. The whole follows most faithfully all the points of the new silhouette, no waist line, a hip baud or girdle, outre sleeves, a collar that stands away from the neck, even into the shoulder line. It was a real French blonse, and you may not find It In the shops, but it cad easily be copied, in linen, or taffeta, in fabric of two colors, or In one color, with the contract added in heavy floss embroidery, as in the sketch. i WINE-CELLARS OOLLAPBE. PARIS, Oct. 12. —Twelve buildings were ruined at Chluon during August by landslides due to the collapse of wine cellars dug by the residents and merchants. The town built on limestone, which has been honeycombed by cellars i and tunnels.

Highways and By-Ways of LiF OF New York Copyright, 1921, by Publlo Ledger Cos. By RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW YORK, Oct. 12. —In the original | French version of the photoplay 1 “J'AccUae,” a gripping feature and anti* j climax of the concluding reels was the quailing in the picture of characters rep- ' resenting the profiteer and the unfaithful ' wife before the ghosts of dead soldiers revisiting their homes to ask th# ques- | tlou : “Have we died In vain t” Bvident- ! ly the profiteers and unfaithful wives are | considered of sufficient Importance to be | catered to, for In the American version I now being shown In a New York theater i the profiteer and the unfaithful wife are strangely miaslug. Thayshave been eliminated from the picture as it is now being shown. t At the Claremont Film Laboratories where the cutting was done, H. J. Streyckmans, general manager, said: “I assisted the author In the cutting. In fact, I made most of the elimination suggestions myself. But the profiteer and the unfaithful wife were only In the French version and never were In the English version of twelve reels which the author brought to America, and we slashed it down to eight and one-half reels. The profiteer and unfaithful wife went out of the version that was prefor England. I neper saw the French version.” | And there you have the crime of that ! photoplay trailed to its lair -the English version. The profiteer and the unfaithful wife of the original picture were left out as a concession to the British public and evidently the author puts the American public in the same category of superseiisitiveness. Those who have seen the ' French version feel the curtailment has robbed the picture of its "kick” aud think it was a silly thing to do for no : country has a monopoly upon the transgressions of those who stayed at home, Boland More Important Now When Harry Boland shook hands with friends around the Waldorf Astoria last summer and sailed for Ireland, he occupied the position of secretary to De Vu

Yc TOYVNE GOSSIP j Copyright, 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. one was a boy. • • * AND THE other n girl. AND WO very small. • • • THAT I was surprised. W HEN I saw them stop. AND APPARENTLY read. A “WET PAINT’” sign. ON AN IKON fence. AND THE paint was green. • • • AND \KR\ fresh. AND WHERE I sat LOOKING DOWN on them 1 ( oi LDN T v WIIAT EITHER said Hi T IT was plain THEY WERE Interested. • • • AND AFTER a while. IT bEE MED to me. THAT THEY agreed. THEY WEREN’T quite sure. THAT IT was fresh. AND THE little girl. • • • WHO WASN'T as little AT THE little boy. • * LOOKED IP and down. • • • AND ACROSS the street. • • AND THEN stepped forward • • • AND WITH one finger. 80 IT looked to me. SHE TOUCHED the fence AND FOUND it wet. AND THE little boy. QUITE APPARENTLY. WASN’T SATISFIED. • • • AND HE reached out. * • • TO TOUCH tho fence. • • AND THE llttlo girt. MADE A gTab at him. • • • TO PULL him back. • • • AXD HE Jerked awny. •• • AND SHE grabbed again. • • • AND THE two of them. • • W ENT INTO a clinch. AND TANGLED their feet. • * • AND LOST their balance. AND BOTH of them. • • FELL AGAINST the fence. • • * AND THE little boy’s face. • * GOT ALL smeared up. AND THAT’S nil I know. • * • OF THIS tragedy. * • • • FOR A moment later. • • THEY BOTH disappeared. • * • THROUGH THE blf? front do* 0 0 0 OF A brownstone front • • * I THANK you.

lera. He has returned from the Emerald Isle with the title of special envoy o{ the republic of Ireland to the United States. Mr. Boland, after reciting that Ireland | had entered upon the final stage of her struggle for freedom and that she was willing to make A honorable peace with Great Britain, said: “We are here to ask Ireland's friends in America to make the final drive for Irish liberty by exercising their great moral strength to the end that British aggression must cease lu Ireland and to subscribe once more to the bonds of republican Ireland, so that the people In the old land may be prepared to carry on the struggle should their hard earned liberty again be assailed by the British government.” Theatrical Barometer J Cain’s theatrical warehouse in (Vest I I’orty-Flrst street is filled up, and the j theatrical season of 1921-22 has only started. Last week the stage properties of more than a score of road productions were shipped into Cain's from the distant scenes of their closings. Then there has been the steady grist of local shows that failed. A ramble through the six floors of Cain's Is the equivalent of a finger upon the pulse of theaterdom. For the theatrical openings read the dramatic columns of your favorite i Journal, for the theatrical closings visit Cain's. When business Is poor in the theatres, business is good at Cain’s, an institution known from coast to coast, the final resting place of finished productions which were not “finished" enough to pay their keep in the theaters. Cain’s is the Greenwood cetatery of theaterdom, the graveyard of productions that have either “flopped” or outlived their usefulness. On its crowded floors in sad mounds of set*, drops aud boxed properties are the remains of upward of 900 Broadway productions. Not a day passes but “another" is trucked to the door, and some aie barely worth their floor space. This has been a banner season at Cain s, for the rush of “busted ’ productions has been unprecedented. Usually Cain s has had to content itself largely with the scenery and properties of new shows that died in the Broadway district. But this year last yeur's "New York successes" are dying all over the country, in cities East, North and South. Productions came in during the week from New Orleans and Kansas City, Ottawa and Portland, Maine. When 1 want to find out what is really going on in theatrical business 1 talk with half a dozen leadiug ticket speculators and then saunter up to Cains The founder of Cain's was a New York policeman, who died a few years ago. His son P. J. Cain, now runs tue dramatic and musical show undertaking business Like household furniture, once a production reaches Cain’s it does not take long for it to become the absolute property of the institution. The rental charges soon run into ownership. There is enough scenery aud stage properties in Cain's to equip all of the theaters of New York, London and Baris - good, fine, almost new material Cain a first charge against the value of the production is fl3 a load lor hauling the stuff either from the railroad station or the local theater where the show closed, whichever tho case may be Tho large proportion of the theatrical managers who go broke, stay broke, and that is where Cain's undertaker shop comes in for its golden hardest. This is the biggest theatrical season in the history of Cain's, and correspondingly the worst elsewhere. The lamented shows are being packed av.ay so tightly and rapidly that by Christinas out will not be able to wedge oneself in between the crated and burlapped stage properties. But the contents are er-efully in dexed and listed in. the office, aud there Is nothlug painted or carpentered for the stage which is not on one or another of the floors.

Hope of restoring the eyesight of Thomas P. Gore, formerly Senator from Oklahoma, who has been blind for forty years, has erected wide interest throughout the eye and ear hospitals of New York The specialists point to the unfulfilled hope of the late Charles Broadway Rouss, the merchant, who for many years had up a standing offe- of JI.tXD.W 0 to any oculist who could restore his vision. He died blind. On the other hand there was the case of John Markle the coal operator, whose sight was restored lu Germany by his going upon a special diet. “It all depends upon the fibers in the optic nerve," said Dr. Bernard Samuel. “If they are once destroyed by disease or otherwise and cannot be regenerated, then tho eye is hopelessly and permanently blind. However if there Is any disease anterior to the optic nerve in the modia of the eye, there is hope for the patient. There can be cataracts und stars In the cornes. We have hundreds of such operations every day in hospitals, and the majority are successful. Taught Him a Lesson A widely known singer just returned from a concert tour In tho South tells of courtesies extended by the white-haired captain of the boat crossing Chesapeake Bay between Norfolk and Cape Cliarbs. "You must occupy my stateroom with your maid," he gallantly said, bowing. “For I know you are an artist." The lady, surprised, asked: “But how can you tell?” “Oh. I feel it the moment I heard your beautiful speaking voice. I once made a mistake of which I will relate. Just as you have done, another charming lady ntid her maid once came aboard at Norfolk. The same as 1 have done for you. I offered to her my cabin. During the trip over she asked if I had been to the concert the night before ia Norfolk. 1 said: ‘You don’t catch me paying to go hear some woman squawk in a foreign language.’ ” The captain went on to say that after the boat reached Cape Charles, the stew-

ardess brought Mm a note found pinned to the pillow In his stateroom, which was addressed to “The Captain,” and read as follows: “I thank you so much for your kind hospitality and the next time I appear in Norfolk I do want you to come and hear me sing, although you do not like artists who 'squawk in a foreign language.’ ” The other singer laughed, and then naked the elderly captalu who it was who had written him such a nice note. He replied: “My wife knew tho name immediately when I reached home and I told her of the incident. We have the Indy’s note framed, aail we are very proud of It. It was written by Louise Homer. Yes, I hoard her sing later on, and I enjoyed it, too. That is why I am now so careful of all the artists who cross over the bay, and usually know they are artists when they come on the boat.”

W,atsMimgtom Briefs Special to Indiana Dally Times and Bhiladtipiiia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Lord Nnrthcllffe Is due to strike American territory again soon on his globe-grldling tour. He is expected In the Philippines and Manila dispatches to his own papers in London state that “great preparations ' are being made to welcome him. A significant message was sent from Melbourne while Lord Northellffe was in Australia. It said owing to the length of his projected sojourn lu China and Japan he regretted it would be "impossible ' to visit India as he had planned. One wonders whether Lord Northellffe s great personal friend, the Earl of Reading, who is Viceroy of India, may not have the tip from Downing street to refrain from hospitality to the British newspaper king, as the embassy In Washington had in July. In that segment of the empire which traditionally snaps its fingers at decrees from London —the free dominions of Australia and New Zealand—Northellffe has been receiving royal honors. Dame Melba—the celebrated prims donna was given the title of “Dame of the British Empire” during the war—entertained him at her palatial estate outside of Melbourne over a week-end. One of the dainty morsels of political gossip now tickling the palate of Washingtonians is that Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, no longer is so high , in the graces of the Whitl House as in days of yore. Recent developments in New Mexico are ascribed as the cause. If appears there has never been any love lust between Mr. Fall and Holm O. Bursum, who recently and triumphantly was elected to the Senate after having been appointed in March to fill the #crearys unexpired term in Congress. Secretary Fall was not among those present u New Mexico In September, when Mr. Bursum was conducting a stiff fight for election, although the Harding Administration attached particular importance to a Bursum victory as a vindication of the G. O. P.'s national stewardship since 4 , 1921. Pres.dent Harding aiways has been exceedingly fond of Secretary Fall, considers him one of the country's foremost authorities on International law, and at once time was thinking of making him Secretary, of State. Housing conditions In Washington gre revealed in all their gravity by the unprecedented circumstances that the Vice President of the United States and five members of the Cabinet—more than 50 per cent of the Administration, are hotel dwellers. The quintette of executlvt chiefs is domiciled under the same rooi at a big establishment on the edge ot IL„ k Creek Park. They are Secretaries Wallace, Fall and Davis. Postmaster General Hays, and Attorney General Daugh erty. Another important cog in the Government wheel, Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the Shipping Board, lives in the same hotel, while the congressional sec tlon of the G. O. P. is represented there by no lesser a persemage than Senator Penrose. The Cabinet members and their wives say the twin difficulties of life in Washington—houses and servants— bavr driven them into hotel quarters. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, is in Canada this week on an interesting journey. Today he will attend the centenplal reunion of McGill University at Montreal, of which he was once principal. A number of distinguished American Navy men, including I'r Edgar Pahs Smith of Pennsylvania, and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton, will attend the centennial. Later in the week Ambassador Geddas will proceed to Ottawa, to pay a fomal visit to the governor general of Canada. Lord Byng of Vlmy, the gallant leader of the Canadian army In France in the early years of the war. Senator Arthur Capper, one of the Napoleons of the all-conquering “farm bloc," has coined the most Incisive slogan for the Washington conference. He says the issue is “disarmament or bust.” Senator Capper comes from Kansas. He may have been inspired by the legend ; hat used to emblazon the prairie schooners carrying pilgrims to the Golden West—“ Kansas or bust.”—Copyright, 1921. by Public Ledger Company. Dog Has His Day at Public Library The Indianapolis rnbllc Library la showing an interesting collection of actings. picturos and folders collected from kennels all over the country of interest to dog lovers of Indianapolis These also take up the care, treatment and training of dogs. Collie, Pekingese, alredale, fox hounds, wolf hounds, polled docs, cocker spaniels, mastiffs, terrier, bull dogs and blood hounds are among those represented. Boozs on "The Dog” are also showiv with the exhibit. These will be shown for two weeks in the delivery room. PRINCE’S TRIP A PUZZLE. LONDON. Oct. 12.—Canadians who expected the Prince of Wales to return via Canada after visiting the Far East arc puzzled by the official announcement that he will not do so. They had been led by government offlcia’s to believe that the original plan would be carried out.

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