Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1922 — Page 4

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Jn&iana iPaihj aitnes Published at 25-29 South Meridian street. Indianapolis, Ind.. by Tbe Indiana Daily Times Company. tV. D. Boyce, President. liar oil Hail, Treasurer and General Manager. 0 Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . , ... New York. Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising oHlces: Chicago. Itetroit, SI. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Rates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere. 12c per week Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25. 11U4 at Postoff e, Indianapolis. Ind. under act M ar<?n 3, IKn*. WHAT HAS become of all those truces in Ireland? ONE of those racing balloons went up 20.000 feet, but saw nothing of gas prices. OFFICIALS’ records are always arising to confound those who would-be “pure” in politics. POLAND has a 132-year-old veteran who fought with Napoleon and he hasn't gotten his bonus yet. ELMER DOVER has succeeded in “Hardingizing” Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair. At least, he has fired two of Blairs men. ABOUT 5,000 matches are lighted every second in the United States, it has been estimated. About 4,000 of these are borrowed. THAT NASHVILLE woman who wants the Indianapolis postoffice to find her old cook must have grown tired of her own culinary artistry. CONTROLLER HOGUE evidently thinks that when a judge appoints his-own son-in-law as a well-salaried appraiser, it is too much of a family affair. Doubtless it was just a coincidence that caused the Republican State chairman of Georgia to be the first one arrested as the result of the Department of Justice’s rejuvenated war fraud probe. " 'WITH a "No more joJ>s” sign hung in the mayor's office It seems to b* a contest between William H. Armitage and Dr. Amelia R. Keller to determine who will dispense the ebbing municipal patronage. How to Get Killed Whenever you use a ladder, remember that it is the most dangerous device in existence. Ladders continue to cause more accidents than anything else. This is shown by insurance experts’ latest checlt-up of fatal and non-fatal casualties. Every minute of the day and night, twentythree Americans are seriously injured bv accidents In the last four years accidents killed or injured more Americans than the total killed on both sides in the world war. Human deaths by accidents In the United States average around 60,000 a year, or 165 a day. according to the census. You are, of course, “afraid of getting injured.” And of what ere yon most afraid? Autos, probably. Yet, for each sixtv-seven people killed by autos, sixty-eight are burned to death, eighty-six die in railruad accidents, fifty-six are drowned, twenty-six die in mines, thirty-four are asphyxiated by gas, twenty-one are killed around machinery, twenty-thiee by street cars, twenty-three by bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles. And, topping the list. 111 are killed by falls—from ladders, out of w indows, down elevator shafts or slipping on icy sidewalks that could ba made safe by a sprinkling of ashes. Read those figures a second time, record them indelibly in your brain, and you’ll know what to be careful of unless you want to meet the undertaker. Nearly all accidents are the result of carelessness —taking needless chances in the face of danger. Obviously, then, nearly all accidents could be prevented. The prevention of accidents, according to safety engineers, i3 about half safety devices and half personal caution. It Is now twenty-two years since Dr. William H. Tolman it turned from Germany, where he had been studying accident prevention, and started tbe Safety First movement in our country. That movement has worked wonders. For one thing, it has reduced railroad deatlis to a third of what they were in 1907. The trouble with the Safety First movement always has been that it is spasmodic. Retween celebrations, the public gets lulled into carelessness, then accidents burst forth again on a big scale and another Safety First Movement is started. To keep the Safety First fires burning constantly, several hundred prominent citizens have just formed a national Society for Prevention or Accidents. To help in this movement and protect your own life and body, you merely have to observe two simple rules: First, keep your eyes open. Second, be cautious, take no chances. * . Is Lenin's Passing Near? Premier Lenin is reported in dispatches from Russia to have suffered a paralytic stroke which has brought him dangerously near death. So serious is his condition that Litvinoff and Radek, other strong men of the soviet, have been summoned from Berlin. One wonders what effect the death or permanent incapacitation of Lenin would have cn the future of Russia. He has been, whatever his motive, the outstanding figure of the revolution and has maintained his sway by a rule of “blood and iron” that faded into insignificance the orgies of the French revolution. Would his going unleash the pent-up feelings of the Russians sufficiently to overthrow the soviet and establish a real democratic government, or would some other strong man arise to carry out his Impossible theories to their natural extinction before the march of time? No doubt statesmen of the world, who have just witnessed a well-launched scheme for rehabilitation dashed to pieces on the enigmatic rock of sovietism, are watching Moscow with anxiety for an answer to this puzzle. At the same time that the news that I.enin was stricken tame an appalling dispatch telling that 117 children, fatally ill of glanaor.s in the famine district, have been doomed to he shot because they are Incurable. These innocent children, no matter whether they meet death before the firing squads of “humane” executioner.?, or die of starvation, cau be added to the victims of the proletarian regime that wrested Russia from the pale of civilization. The glories of the soviet, the beneficences of its rule, have been unable to procure food for these children ana now the government confesses its inability to restore them to health and orders them shot. The easiest method, perhaps, but one that justifies America's position not to deal with the Bolshevists until their hands are clean, and they never will be clean as long as that precious pair, Lenin and Trotskl, maintain their despotic control. Canada and the Tariff Wall Those who fondly believe that the erection of a hign tariff wall around the United States will allow our foreign commerce to flow uninterruptedly should scan the remarks of Mr. Fielding, Canada's minister of finance, who regretfully says: “The trade relations which nave grown up between the two countries were sadly marred by the emergency tarif? b!l,” and then in the follow ing measured terms sounds a fair warning to the high protection visionaries. “We have no rich! ” he says, ‘‘to compin':: < t onr American friends for doing that, but If they assume that position they cannot expect us In Canada to be as willing as we otherwise would be to deal liberally with them. If our American brethren try to persuade thems.-lves that you can sell all the time and never buy we ean only regret that they are falling to understand an economic truth, but since they pursue that policy we regret it. because it must affect our own policy toward them.” The Canadian tariff framers, assuming that in some form the Ford-ney-McCumber measure will become a law, have designed a hill that makes reductions in the cost of living, but the reductions are mainly In the British preferential rates. “Canadian farming and industries,” says the Milwaukee Journal,” are to be helped by a lower tariff on machinery and tools, ana tnat Is the only bright spot in the schedules for the American manufacturer. Mr. Fielding explains frankly that to give sm’ British goods a preferential tariff would be a joke, because none are used; Canadians use the same machinery as Americans. “We cannot quarrel with Canada. She is merely taking Washington at Its own word and letting America have her home market. But tlje British goods which replace American goods* in Canpda will not add apenny to the wages of the American workingman and at the same Jime our own high tariff is adding to his cost of living." i

C/fj* I ay free) MYERS. WONDERING. When 'Omer smote hi* bloomin’ lye, (And who has e’er sung sweeter?) I wonder did the chap perspire While tollliig o’er his metre. I wonder did he ever clip (As Jokesmiths have the habit) A “bnll” on which to baae a quip— Then hove the proof gent crab it. I wonder was he ever blue When hi* inase started biggin' And didn't envy tlic geezer who Chauffs on u garbage wagon. When ’Omer smote a classic lay (For we assume HE smote It) I wonder did his readers say Is was his wife who wrote It. • e * One of the Times reporters, who spells by ear, turned in a story yesterday in which he spelled kewpie k-u-p-l-e. We are curious to know what he would do to ukulele. • • • We shall light the revival of Our Own Hall of Fame to the lust ditch, but we noticed, in spite of ourself, that Will Dust of South Bend has obtaiued a marriage permit. • * * SPEAKING FOR OCKSEI.F ALONE, WE KNOW OF ONE STILL VACANT (By the United Press.) LOS ANGELES. Cal.. June s.—Rudolph Valent luo walked from Justice Dauby's courtroom today back Into the hearts of the Nation's film worshippers, free from the charge of bigamy. • • • It is risky for a married man to tinker with a triangle, but to carry a list of affinities around in hia pocket might be termed downright foolhardiness. • * • Critics declare the stage Isn't what it used to be. Many of the jokes arc. however. * * • THE CANDID CRITIC. "If you are looking for something breezy In the way of entertainment,” declares an Indianapolis critic, “you can do uo worse than spend an evening at the theater." • * FAMOUS ROLLS. Oceana —; . As Long as the World On. Mr. Rockefeller’s. Pay . Royce. Dancing the Jelly . • • • A KANSAS editor wonders why the flivver owners always sit up so straight. For much the same reason, we fancy, that a hen luys an egg. • • • THE NEAR-sighted golfer, who can't tell tbe other fellow's new bnll from his own old one, soon will put in his appearance. IS IT NOT? We're done with war, so we proclaim. Cor war is fierce and we abhor it; Strange, Is It not. that Just the etune. We go right on preparing for it? A FLIVVER MAY BE DOWN, BUT IT’S NEVER OUT. (By Internath-tm! News Service.) SAN DIEGO, Cal May 15-With l's heart stilled five years ago beneath a bank of mud, a cheap automobile belonging to T. B. Bailies has come back to Ufa Today the rusty, rattling old bug is as lively as ever. • • • The Idea appears to be to fatten the bonus calf before ?h“ slaughter. • • • Colorado's woman mayor favors bobbed hair for flappers. Raya it enables one to distinguish them from their mothers. We shall never be fully satisfied until we have seen Will Days In a twoquart hat. * • • WHY DO THEY DO IT? Our fair Cousin Lou Is a feminine goof; Dears a No. 8 shoe On a No. 5 hpof. • • • WE Mt ST, LEDDY, WE MUST! Kir: Don’t tell me that you haven’t heard that E lgar Allen Poe runs a gro very al West Washington street and Boflevien Place. A titling candidate for Our Own Ilnll of Fame, oh? Wot? DORIS. (P. K. With all the apologies In the world to the w. k. I’urpie Cow.) I never saw a rolynmlst, I never hope to see one; But tills i'll tell you Hnyhow, I'd rather see than bo on". (Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers.)

Unusual Folk

MEMPHIS Tenn., June 6.—Buffalo Bill was a wonderful horseman, but yyj- -t would he have been a success a* a triek rider In an airplane? PSA Ruth Cody, doesn't dare to do obouril a [w# jU "mil w °rth mentioning. f Gas money will she risk ~ life or hub on the •i kaek of a horse. It’s only two years a y-. since site bet ante Hn i avlatrix, but t 1 ready • ? : she owns three j lanes. : Mere piloting is too J*• tame for her Kite Ruth Cody. leaves that to a hired hand, while she elitnlis around the fuse luge and wings or dangles from tlie tail Shortly she Intends to make a tour, witli a flying circus, through the country over which her uncle fought redskins anti hunted buffaloes years ago.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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GAUL GIVEN BIG WELCOME ON RETURN TO MURAT Trio Chases the Blues Away—Fighters on View—Brown Wal ks to Fame

George Gaul is back, that is to say. there was a bigger crowd at the Murat last night than possibly any night this season, the show was slopped frequently by applause, and when it did wind up after 11 :.’{(> the crowd stayed in its Hearts and continued its ovation. But there was also one other member of the cast who shared almost equally In the ovation with George Gaul and who played her way right into the hearts of the audience. She is anew comer to Indianapolis—Spring By lug ton. The play Is a clever and enjnynble comedy, “The Boomerang," by Wlnchcll Smith and Victor Mapes. George Gaul as Dr. Gerald Sumner, the young physician without patients, arrives on the stage when the curtain rises., Last night be did nothing more than arrive for many minutes. The reception he received from the audience would not permit him to Cos otherwise. The doctor first engages a nurse In the person of Virginia Xelva, played by Miss Bylngton. There is no need for a nurse but she captivates him and he employes her anyway. Presently, however, the first patient arrives. Bud Woolbridgo, otherwise. Donald McDonald. After a careful examination, the doctor diagnosis tho case as Jealousy and sets out to cure it with a month s treatment. The nurse, ol’ course, assists in handling the case. This situat ion leads into others and affairs become complicated to such an oxtent that i-t appears that tiie doctor may become successful. Ito proves in the end that jealousy must be a germ disease, for lie catches it himself. Although Mr. i.aul and Miss ftylngton have the lead parts, much of the burden of the play Is on the youthful shoulders of Mr. McDonald. He takes care of It with the ability which in a few weeks has made him a favorite with Stuart Walker audieuees. Our old friend Aldrich Bowker has an opportunity to do only a bit of character acting, but he docs it so well that last night he frequently received the applause of the audience. Mr. Gaul is the K.oue old George Gaul of former years, adored by flappers, ad mired by the older members of the fair sex and appreciated by the masculine portion of the audience. He carties his part, ns usual, with h!s easy going manner and apparent lack of effort that adds to his popularity. But > we said before, all the credit for the success of the presentation last n.ght doc* not belong to Mr. Gaul, Miss Bylngton Is n real find. She has been with the Walker company in Cincinnati until this week. W,, don't wish Cincinnati any had luck, hut we hope she stays in Indianapolis. Other in tho cast this week are Belle Murray, Judith Lowry, Jane Thomas, Mary Ellis, France Bcndsteu. Clark Hoover, Walter Boulter, Julie Blakeman, Dor. thy Chiles. Gene Addlernan, Jean Kpurney, Florence Levy. George Meeker. Whitney Warren. Leslie Fenton, Hus eli Brice, Townsend Pauli, Kelvin Johnston and John Skinner. -i- -I- -|. IF YOU MI ST WALK THEN SKL GEORGE BROWN. Lot of us pay to keep front walking, but few -f us get money fur walking.

i Ye TOWNE GOSSIP j Copyright, 1922 by Stiir Company. B> k. C. IS j Dear G. C B. —Wo have a club of girls at which the following rules were passed by majority vote: We should use no cosmetics, except powder No openwork stockings. No immodestly low necks. No elaborate balrdress. No roiled stockings so bare knees show. No flimsy dre-to-s. No : iirh heels. Shir 3 no moro than fifteen Inches from the floor. No jazz garters. Now, after tl.-so rules were passed a few of the girls said they would dress as taey plea c.I and wear what th-y pleated What is your opinion of them? S. M. U. I! S. IF THE girls agreed. • • • BEFORE,THE vote. • * * TIIEV WO I" LB conform. TO WHATEVER nlies. THEY SHOULD adopt. THEN TIIEV arc wrong BUT IF they didn’t. THEN I don’t think. TIIEV ARE to blame, FOR I’M very sure. IF I were a girl. I'D WEAK Jazz garters. WHATEVER TIIEV are. AND l’|> roll -toy stockings AND FAINT my face. AND MUFFLE my ears. • • • WITH WADS of hair. • • • AND DO everything. • • • I W ANTED to do. • • • TO MAKE myself. LOOK LIKE a fright. AND DRIVE nice boys. * • • TO TIfK other fitrlß. * • * FT) 1)0 these things. * • • IF SO I wished. * • • TUT I like to think. • • • IF I were a arirl. * * * I’D HAVE more sense. AND DRESS myself. SO THAT decent boys. ♦ • * WOrI/DN’T HAVE to Mush * • • WHEN THEY went with me. IF THEY ever did. *+ • " I THANK vou.

BACK HOME

George ftnul received a real Iloosier welcome last night when he returned to the Stuart Walker company at the Murat by playlug the leading mule role in "The Boomerang.”

That’s tbe difference between George N. Brown, who walks to make his living, and the rest of us. Brown Is presenting an act at B. F. Keith's this week he calls, ’’lVdestrianism.'’ By the use of two tread mills (guess that is what you call ’em) .Brown stages a walking contest with a champion woman walker. The act is bandied in good showmanship. 1 1 is a unique offering and entirely different than usually seen on the stage. This kind of walking seems to agree with Brown as he is a splendid example of what exercise will do for a fellow. This aci will cause some discussion. The Three Hamel Sisters are at their ticst when playing the sliding trombone and other instruments. They sing a wee Mt, but their strength lies in tln-ir instrumental numbers. Nihla is one of those models who stand before a can-'s-s while lantern slide retie tens are thrown upon her as she poses. She gets applause when she resorts to the patriotic stuff. We have seen many of these acts in our day. Shriners and Fitzsimmons present an net which they call "The News Dealer.'' In which one of the men plays the part of an old man of moro than ninety winters who sells papers There is some conversation and a few of the good old time songs thrown in as a seasonable tonic. The female member of Simpson and Dean |a n good ’'comic,'' and If she had little better material she could stain p le tho bill, as site knows how to put over droll comedy. The eccentric da tiring of this team compares favorably with some --en on (lie “Sdg ttrne." Movie* showing the Lincoln memorial exercises In Washington u n Decora!bo Day form a part of tho Fat he News, which Is on the bill. The no-vie feature Is 'Gay and Devilish.” with Doris May The bill Is well balanced as there Isn't too much of the same tiling. At Keith's all week. FIGHTERS OK THE RING * ON VIEW AT THE RIALTO. The Rialto has several added features this week, as Jack Dillon of Indian spoils, and ex light heavyweight a ham pi"tt of tli world, and K. < Brown of Han Francisco, have turned actors for the week. They arc enacting the DempseyOirp.mticr fight The presence of lucre ; men of tint Inning game lend tho proper atmosph- re, and make the act worth see leg Jack Fllllott, a halls 1 singer of min strel reputation, lias bo-Mi added to "TinRp, 1 Girls." a mush a! comedy otganl zatlon. 1.Illot! is h phasing singer, lie U ringing "Road to Mandalay ’ and “J ust Like a Gy j *y." For tl. Ir p. rt on tho program the Speed G r.s are appearing in "Tho King of I’aGig t.la, a conic iy with music. The choruy Is Inrg-- In number and the members nr- go looking. 'ldle fishier* and th • musical conc-dy piapers arc pulling tip a regular warm wt at her Dili Gits week Dillon and Brown are upp arlng at each perform mice. The Dill also tncimi-s a movie. At the Rialto all w- ,-k. THE "BLUES" till: NOT SAl>: THEY ARE VERY GAY. If you have the blues, then go to tho Lyric this week, as the Versatile Trio will chase ’em away. They sing harmony songs and pluy several musical Instruments with more pep than "Old Man Jazz," himself could show. A sea tore of the act is the imitation of a slide trombone done with only the aid of a megaphone. The boys ri gistered a , solid hit. “The Class and Jazz Revue” consists j of two men and two women who sing I classic and jazz songs. Honors wore ; about even, for the voices of the classical j

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singers equaled the dancing and the pep of the jazz singers. Brown, Lyrell and Preyer have a cleverly arranged act. The two girls, a decided blonde and a real brunette, offer some splendid dance specialties. The male pianist does an imitation of an automatic piano player which is worthy of mention. J Ted Healy entertains with a group of songs, including Al Jolson’s “April Showers” and a comedy song. lie has a pleasing voice and a lot of that stuff we call personality. I.eßoy and Mabel Hartt hare a pretty setting'' for their program of Southern songs. 7 Their voices arc good. We don’t know what tho act of Ty 1 ir and Crolius was all about, but we presume tliut their billing, “Nutty N- tt sense,” describes it well enough. Marlin and Boise open the bill with an acrobatic act. Paul, La van and Miller close the show with a comedy tumbling turn. At the Lyric all week. -I- -i- -!- WALKER ANNOUNCES FIRST YOUNG FEOFLE’S MATINEE. Under the auspices of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Clubs, Stuart Walker will present the first of a series of Young People's matinees at the Murat Friday afternoon. June 16th and Saturday morning. June 17th. For this special attraction Mr. Walker will offer a triple bill including three of his own one-act plays. Tljp list wilt be composed of “The Triniplet”, "Six Who Puss While the Lentils Boil,” and its sequel which received iis world premiere at the Murat last season, "Sir David Wears a Crown.” Thu entire Walker company will appear in the cast at these special performances, many in the roles Created during the days of the Portmanteau Theater. The production is- made under the personal supervision of Mr. Walker, with special settings designed by Frank J. Zimmerer. Tickets for the Young People’s -Matinee will be placed on sale at the Murat box-offices on Thursday morning. ON THE SCREEN. The following movies are on view today; "The Ten Dollar liaise" at Loew s state; "Wild lloncv” at the Ohio; "North of the Rio Grande" at the Apollo; "Salvation Nell” at Mistor Smith's and “The Scrapper” at the Isis.

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The righteous shall be glad In the Lord, and shall trust in Him. —I’salni 64:10. You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do t.ot think of your own faults; still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near to you look for what Is good and strong; honor that: rejoice In It, and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will dreqi off like dead leaves when their time comes. John Raskin. EMBROIDERING. W hen embroidering on mn’erial so "h. -or 't does not go Into embroidery rings well, haste it on white waxed (•'!'• r 'fills holds the fabric out quite nicely.

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Highways and By-Ways | of Lil’ Ol’ New York ! B y RAYMOND CARROLL *- (Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.) ■ "

NEW YORK, June o.—New Yorkers dwell in terraces, those above looking | down upon the life in lower level".. All this is exceedingly interesting, except for those at the bottom, with whom there is that compensation of being in full view of all altitudes. This morning from an open sixteenth-floor window T gazed below at a Sunday rest period in what appeared a strange process. the laying of an nsphalt pavement upon the roof of an old live-story house with a brown stone front. On subsequent inquiry being made of the house owner it was found to be true the venerable roof being covered with a hard surfa'-ed asphalt roofing as a lire preventative. First had been laid rag felt shi igles, thoroughly saturated with asphalt. On top of that was being placed a heavy coating of ordinary asphalt, which waterproofed the felt shingles and into which was rolled crushed slate. “I can have the roof colored green, gray, red or brown as I wish,” said the owner. “And to give those living above a treat I have decided upon green, which sug gests the country " Just think—if the buildings of New ork had been restricted to the same height—the terrible existing traffic- congeatiun in the streets could be relieved l>y simply bridging over the chasms be tween the solid blocks, thue creating roof top boulevards, asphalted, slated or tiled, whichever preferred. In five years the total fire loss in the United States amounted to $1,762,722,677. which, according to engineering authorities, Is sufficient value to build 554,000 dwellings at $5,000 each, enough to house 1.700,000 persons. That is equivalent to the combined population of Connecticut, Nevada and Wyoming. A New Yorker has come forward and confessed to having eaten his war through 1,400 public dinners and banquets. Ills name is John Griffin, insurance man and champion diner-out. He is hale and hearty, but what is more surprising he concedes what has long been suspected, that many of the persons seen at banquets are not there to hear the eloquence of Job Hedges or Chauucey M. Depew, but Instead "to know people and to have people know you.” There you are, and for that accomplishment be has souped and-fisbed through seventy dinners annually for twenty years. Mr. Griffin said: "Business depends upon personal relationship. Net that I attend public dinners purely as a business proposition. But It is at these din., ners where all the people you know and want to know congregate. I am in a business which depends upon personality and acquaintanceship, it is so with th- ligands of others, and we become more or less chronic diners-out." llow refreshing U Is to hear the truth spoken; hypocrisy pushed aside. Half of what is called luck consists of preparation fi r Its advent, ns recently shown In the cases of two Hotel McAlpin beil boys. John Duffy. In his free time during seven years bellhopplng at this hotel—with two years counted out for his service Ir. the Army during war time, going overseas —period over grammars of foreign languages, finally mastering tho rudiments of Italian and Spanish. German ami French. Edward HUlsburgh, a permanent guest at the hotel, needed nr, interpreter for a tour of France, Belgium, Germany. Italy and Spain, with a month's stay in London. Duffy got the Job, which means four months of travel In Europe stooping at the best hotels, expenses paid and a handsome salary. Throughout medical circles of the metropolis and along Fifth avenue, where Ills tail and sinewy figure was a familiar sight, the death of l)r John Allen Wyeth came as a dread shock. He was a remarkable personage, ns fearless with his pen and speech in the latter days of his life ns alien as a boy he was a cavalryman with Morgan’s men iu the Civil War His favorite phrase was: "Keep

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your feet on the earth and your eyes to the stars.’’ He was the pioneer of tho pioneer of post-graduate teaching In medicine and surgery, which, through the help -of his distinguished father-la-law, Dr. J. Marion Simms, found ex-pre-ssion in the Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Those who Were privileged to know him found an all-round man, generous and amazingly well In* formed upon all subjects. His career embraced boyhood upon an Alabama plantation, Confederate soldier, war prisoner, student of medicine, manager of a cotton plantation, cattle buyer, merchant, building contractor, steamboat pilot, financier of railroads, student of medicine in New York, Paris and Vienna, poet, autnor of books upon surgery, travel, metaphysics and philosophy, surbeou and consultant, president of the American Medical Association and numerous other associations. The reward of life is to be missed in death —and Dr. John Allen Wyeth left a place in the hearts of al! who knew him no other man ean ever fill. An error in this column on Saturday gave the fi.reign-born population of New York as 65 per cent of the whole. That is incorrect. Commissioner Joseph J. Hohveli of the bureau of weights and measures estimated the city’s foreign born at M 5 per cent of the whole. CommisGoner Holwci! has made a study of tl sub.'e-’t, for he has the supervision of 125,000 scales. IfiO.OOO weights and 60,000 measures, distributed throughout the 60,000 retail stores of the big town. The bureau of weights and measures hi New York attained its greatest promi-nt-ce during the term of tbe late Mayor Gay nor, its commissioner at that tlina being Clement J. Driscoll, a former reporter raised in the Cherry Hill district, whose energy Mayor Gaynor rewarded by terming him "a steam engine in boots." Driscoll a? a ruthless foe of the shopkeeper who had crooked tools on b:s counter , ftnd hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of measures with salsa bottoms and underweight scales were seized and confiscated. Driscoll Is now head of a lace mill, although the animosities growing out of his advent in politics still persist. As the political reporter for a Hearst newspaper, he carried on the campaign, of his employer against the candidacy of Tom Foley, downtown Tammany leader for sheriff. Foley was elected and served out his term, but he has not forgotten the things said about him. Hence his bitter opposition Inside Tammany council to the proposed nomination of Hearst for Governor by the Democrats this autumn. Dee McLain hails from Des Moines, and he has traveled all over the country as a bellboy, and keeping his eyes open he became a walking railroad guide of America. When the hotel management was called upon to name some bright bellboy who knew the United States to serve in that novel capacity upon the American built and operated litter, Manchuria, McLain qualified and was recommended. The lowa lad is only forty-two inches in height, but he more than makes up for his diminutive stature in pep and intelligence. Folks are apt to under-estimate the possibilities in a bellboy. E. M. Ktatler, operator of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York and owner of hotels in Cleveland. Detroit, Kt. Louis and Buffalo, anil who Is going to have another in Boston, began as a bellboy kn the McClure House, Wheeling. W. Va., and early iu life adopted the maxim "a guest is never wrong.” Mr. Statler’s best story Is about his experience with General Nathan Goff. “Bring me a cuspidor, boy,” said the general. Young Ktaller, earning $6 a month and climbing four flights of stairs at the cal!, knew what ice water meant, but “cuspidor” knocked him mentally a twis'er. The general looked him over atteetatlvely then grinned. ”1 see you do not understand me. I want a spittoon, He got one in double quick time, an 1 Ike lad whose initials "E. M S.” are now good for millions, made an important enlargement to liis vocabulary.

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