Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 139

BBRRIS STRONG POSSIBILITY FOR TEftGHERS’ HEAD Other Presidential Contenders May Be Elsa Huebner of Indianapolis and L. N. Hines. t H. MARION VICE PRESIDENT Sir Gilbert Parker Makes Principal Address at State Convention Today. Benjamin J. Burris, Stai.? superiutendent of public instruetion, was looked upon today as thè strongest possibility for thè presidency of thè Indiana State Teaehers' Association. Other presidential possibiiines conoide red by thè teaehers are Miss Elsa Iluebner, principal of public school No. !), and L. X. Hines, head of thè Indiana State Normal School. The jij'ime of a dark borse. D. \V. H-'rton. been hear.l in thè gossip of thè "ieachers. M. P. Ilelm, assistant diiector of thè licensing division cf thè State depart' ment of instruetion, has been elected vice president of thè Seventh district, composed of Marion County, and Miss Eunice M. Hoefgen, of school No. 58, nere elected to thè nominating committee from this district. The chief attraction today was to be a Sir Gilbert Parker, English author and lecturer, at thè Cadle Tabernacle. Mark Sullivan. journalist, will address thè night meeting. Other addresses were to be made by Alien D. Albert and Howard Griggs. Speeches were made at last night's Pession by 11. L. Smith, dean of thè Indiana University School of Education; John J. Tigert. United States commissioner of education: Ruth Bryan Po Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, and Alexander PowelL Nominating Committee Members of th enominating com mittee which will select candidates for offices are: First district, Miss Mabel Tichenor. Princeton: second, Hamlet Alien. Washington: third. Miss Emma Leepr, JefTersonville; fourth, F. Bus senberg, Columbus: fifth, C. P. Keller. Brazil; sixth. Miss Einora Novn.an. C -iibridge City; seventh. Miss Hoefgen: eighth, Fred J. Breeze, Muncie: mnth, W. A. Stockinger, Xobledville: tenth, C. A. Semler, Lafayette: e lev enth. Miss Goldie Milner. Wabash: twelfth, E. S. Gould. Ft. Wayne. and jhirteenth, W. W. Borden. South llend. jsMerabes of thè executive commiteh asci were: Eleventh, Miss Kathenne Fiannigan. Logansport; Twelfth. E. M. Suter. Fort Wayne/ and T. irtecnth, J. W. Foreman, Goshen. Suter was re-electedi District vice presidents chosen were: First, W. F. Lopen, Owensville; Second. M. S. Mahan, Martinsville; Third, W. A. Roberts, Bedford; Fourth. H. X. SherwooJ. Franklin; Fifth. John H. Jollief. Rockville; Sixth. W. E. Waggoner, Rushville; Seventh, Ur. Helrn of Indianapolis; Eighth. L S. Martin, Muncie; Ninth. I. W. Cojmer. Whitestown; Tenth. Miss Mary Kennedy, Eafayette; Eleventh. E. J. Black. Perù; Twelfth, John Goar, Fort Waytie, and Thir t-.iith. Thomas F. Berry, Rochester. ASKS CHANGE Incrrasinfe Knrolhnent Calls for New Standard*, Says Speaker. Xe<r standard. must be adonti ti in rewg.'Jtion of th rapidly increasing enrollm ?nt in thè high s-hools. deciared Murray A. Da Iman of Itjdiajiapolìs before thè classical sectioh meeting at Odeon Hall. A dramatic act was presented by thè puplls of Arsena- Technical High School of Indianapolis. MOVIES USED . Illustrateti Speecli Glven by Teaeher at Murat Theater. k An Illustrateti speech on thè uses of niotion pictures In instructing younger children. by Miss Gail Calnnrdon of Ft. Wayne. was thè feature of thè meeting of thè kindergarten section at thè Murat Theater. Miss Sue Blasingham of Indianapolis was chosen president of thè organizatlon. HEAR ORCHESTRA Music Teaehers Given Concert by AliState Organization. A concert by thè Ali-State High School Orchestra was thè main feature of thè last meeting of thè music section of thè Indiana State Teaehers' Association yesterday afternoon at Shortridge High School. The orchestra was composed of seventy of thè best musicians from thè different high schools of thè State under thè directorshlp of V. E. Dilliard of Washington. TRIALS DISCUSSED Estelle Kimniel Tells of Tribulations of Dcans of Women. The trials of deans of women were discussed In an address on "Puzzling (Tum to Page 13.) BUILD NEW HOME By Time* Furiai SOUTH BEXD, Ind., Oct. 20.—Conti act for thè building of thè new $300,000 home of Crusade Lodge No. 114, Knights of Pythia*. was awarded Htoday. The date of completlon has been set for one-year. It will be built at Jefferson and Blvd.

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity is fair tonight and Saturday. Somewhat warmer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 42 10 a. m.t 52 7 a. m. 4311 a. m 56 8 a_ m.l 44 12 (noon) 60 9 a. m.. 48 1 p. m 66

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TOM SIMS SAYS: We wish Henry would cut his cars S"SO, as one maker did. Of) Turkey now claims rhe was thè sicked man l feF of Europe. Why work on wireSIMS less phone when phoneless phones need it? In Boston, an heiress marVied a janitor. All she needs now is coal and she is ready for winter. What you hear never seems as impcrtant as what you overhear. “I speak what I think,” Says Beveridge. If a woman ever steps on his corn he will be arrested. It takes dollars to convince __th world you have sense. A sawijust mixture for cowfeed is being sold. It should produce some excellent plank steaks. When thè politicai pot boils someone gets into hot water. Our ancestors lived in trees and thè average man of today is up a tree most of thè time,

CITY CONTROLLER HGLDS UP 53,857 FDR SIGMON COAL Member of Fuel Firm Charged With Giving Short Weight in School Contract. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, announced today he was holding vouchers in thè amount of $3,057 in favor of thè Sigmon Coal Company at thè instruetion of Arthur Twinehain. business manager of thè public schools. Cnarles M. Sigmon member of thè Sigmon coal f.rm. is under bond for appearance in city court Nov. 1 on charge of giving short weights in coal delivered to schools.The vouchers. which are in payment for coal. are to be held up pendlng in vestigation of figure at hrnd, and prohably will not bo honored unni subii lime as a complete yeoheck ls made of thè company' aceount. The Sigmon company was given thè city’s coal contracts at a bld considerably higher than thè lowest because lt was thè only one which met speciflcations, it is said.

Defends Flappers -**l have never known of a generation as deeent as thè boy and girls in thè higlf schocl of thè United States.” Alien D. Albert deciared today in an address before thè members of thè Indiana State Teaehers' Association. in convention at thè Cadle Tabernacle. This statement met with much appiause. Mr. Albert said thè young people of today are “meeting questiona quarely and looking eaeh other in thè eye when they talked instead of sneaking off into a dark corner as you and I did.”

IVAN LOSES TO WIN CON-test Prize Bows to Lew ’s Horse

BY ADAM PHAIK. CON-test Editor of Ihe Indianapolis Times. SPREDWA Y, Oct. 19.—<By sigimi bonfire to thè Times CONtest Department.) —Ivan thè Terrible lost! With hls fafiious * S c r e a m\V r hine engine hit- /\Ò ' ting on thè cylln- (u? TOnfU ■ier like a yard engine hitting an C&Jfe. open switrh. Ivan, thè terrible auto- ' ' , , mollile, today de n' fended hls ti ilo of - ■■ “world's word" ffilTlpl against Mayor l.ew Shank's race * harse, Henry DI- V* rect. By this vie- ADAM PHAIK tory Ivan establlshed beyond all doubt Jiis right to thè title of Ivan thè Terrible. Ivan is thè car for whlch millions of Times CON-testants are seourlng tho-*clty and State in search of subscriptions and their frlends’ money, in thè circulation campaign framed by Lowd-Noyes and Company. Although he won, Henry Direct was not disgraced. He may not be slow est thing that moves. That title goes to Ivan. But he was trying all thè way and nobody who saw today’s great race of tin against bone w-111 begrudge hlm Nie consolation title of “Henry thè Horribie.” All conceded that no other horse eould have done worse. There was a tense moment as Ivan and Henry charged thè finish line at a mad speed rivaling that of thè great American glacier. “A" dead heat,” cried two of thè vasi throng of CON-test solicitors. "No; no,” cried thè other two. “Ivan loses. Dear old Ivan thè Terrible must loae.” Millions of rubles in CON-test prizes. yet to be awarded, had been wagered on thè race. One of thè CON-testants in a shepherd plaid suit rushed down to thè rail. You eould hear hls pants. Then thè sign went up on thè judges’ stand. “A dead heat!” But stay! Another slgnal rises. What does it mean? It means that Ivan is thè Champion—thè worst in thè world. For thè judges have ruled that, although Ivan and Henry ran a dead heat, Ivan died flrst and deader than Henry. Those who eaw thè finish will never forget it. I am able to state this on unlmpeachable authority. 1

DOUBLÉ MURDER MYSTERYSOLVED, ARRESTISSECRET Hall-Mills Crime Reported Cleared Up by Locai Authorities. MINISTER IN QUARRELS Widow's Statement of Domestic Tranquillity Disproved, It Is Afleged. 'Bu United Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ Oct. 20. —The Hall-Mills murder mystery has been solved and thè alleged slayers are virtually in a state of “secret arrese—under continuous surveillance of detectives, it was reported here today. ‘ The fact that there was less actlvity among Prosecutors Beeckman and Strickler and thè detectives and investigators that aVe aiding in thè case, was taken to bear out this belief. In spite of thè protestatlon of Mrs. Hall, thè wealthy widow of thè Rev. Jlall, who was twelve years his senior, that she is confident that her husband was never unfaithful, u us disclosed thè minister and his wife had qUarreled over his attentions to Mrs. Mills. The bodies of thè rector and Mrs. Mills, pretty choir singer, were sound together, beneath an appiè tree, on an abandoned farm near New Brunswick a month ago.

AWARDED £SOO All HOUR FOR 5 ROURSII PRIORI Frank Roberts Falsely Accused by Man and Woman He Shadowed as Detective. Ulve huntfred dollars an hour for i eaeh of his Ave hours' stay in thè ; Marion County jail in March, 1921, was allowed Frank Roberts, an A. E. F. veteran. by thè jury In Supèrior Court Room 5 today. Roberts sued Dr. Francis J. D’Embeau, said to ! have been a former dentlst at Blootn- . field, and Etta B. Selsani. 1601 Con(trai Ave., an Indianapolis woman doctor, for false lmprisonment. Ho i asked for $2,000 per hour. Roberts, who was gassed whllo in ; action in France, was a Federai board student at thè I.ane Business College 'in thè daytinie and at night was emj ployed as a detective by thè O'Neill apbncy, evidente showed. The caso grew out of an order to shadow D'Embeau, defendant in a divorce case. On May 8. 1921, he troiled thè doctors to thè Central Ave. adaress, and. with other operatlves, gained an entranco to thè room by posing as a messenger boy, getting ! evidenee, testimony showed. A few days later Roberts was ar j rested and irnprisoned for five hours ori an affidavit sworn out by thè two. charging assault and battery with Intent to rob Etta Selsam. He was acquitted in city court.

paged eaeh of tlie spectatorn In person as 1 do not make a practice of uttering loose or careless statement in print. CON-testants will be glad to hear this oonflrmed. As Ivan was led back to thè Junk yard where he ls stabled whlle nwaiting for thè winning CON-testant to come around with a team and claim him as one of thè capitai prizes in thè Times CON-test, thè CON-testants swarmed about him like messenger boys about a sign painter. Understand, I don't for a minute believe that any one on earth would steal Ivan, but I was afraid they might lean against him and squash him. So (Tum to Page 12.)

WAIT! O | : M i L \ It S C v T ' || Anybody recognlze him yet? Watch for tomoiyow’s paper. We have a hunch!

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 20,- 1922

TICK-TOE Burglar Caught Bu Times Special SPELTER VILLE, Ind., Oct. 20. Léonard Fernandez, who was arrested htre recently, has eor.i’essed that he is thè “tickletoe” burglar who caused annoyance to a number of women last summer. His System, he says, was to enter a home at night, pick up what valuables he could, tickle thè toes of sleeping young women and flee when thè women screamed. NEWMINISTRY IS BEINEOREANIZEO BY A.BONAR LAW Derby and Curzon Have Given Consent to Serve in Government.

Smoke “There is nót a normal pair of lungs in rndianapotis, so far as color is coneerned,” deciared Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of thè board of public health, todai - . He recommended that something be done about thè smoke r.uisance.

By United Press LONDON, Oct. 20.—A. Bonar Law started to choose his minisi?rs as I.loyd George eonsidered formation of a new center party which would combine ali Liberai. under ,iis leadership. lt was authoritatively stated that Lord Dei by and Lord Garzisi have both intimated their willlngness to serve in thè cabinet of Bonar Law. This was not cnlirely imexpehted, becnuse they wer known to havj had ar.li-Georgian leanings fot some timo luiv Consulta Leader* Bonar Law, who accented con'lition aliy thè invitatlon ?f King George to form a mlnistry. consulte*! leader of thè Unionist party, whose bolt from thè coalitloii government caused thè downfal lof I.loyd Georg®. Pending formation of a new gov ernment, thè coalitlon mlnistry re malns in control. January or February were variously montloned as thè in which thè genera! elcction rnay he held. but inany were of thè opinion tha.t it would be calimi at mudi sooner date. The factoi-s will be taken Into consideratlon In selecting thè timo for a,generai clection. Thtue are; 1. The sooner thè eìection ls held. thè less opportunlty Lloyd George will have to form a strong center party, which would Include not only his own followers in thè Liberal party, but thoae of various hades of Liberal e who are now connected with other partles. . \ 2. In case thè electlon ls deferred, thè feeling of bitterness on thè part of Austen and ether Georgean members of tlie Unionist party may be overcome, leading them to give wholehearted support to their party. 3. The Irish eonstitution must be rtifled by thè parliament Dee. 6. hence if serious dlssatisfactlon dlscloses itself in thè country, it ls likely tlie new government of Bona • Lnr will keep thè present parliament in power nntii aster that date to assure ratiflcatlon. The whole country today av/aited thè speerh of Uoyd George, which ls seheduled for tomorrow at Guild Hall in I,eeds. On these occaslons he is to make known his pian. FRIENDLY TO TREATY Lloyd George S"ntls Assuranccs (o llead of Irish Frce State. Bu United Press LONDON, Oct. 20.—N0 action of mine will. compromise thè Anglo-Insh treaty, Lloyd George said in a wire to William Gosgrave, head of thè provisionai Irish free state government today. Lloyd George, who announced his rcslgnation as prime minister in thè message, suyt-d ho trusts thè treaty will be ratlfled by parliament in Deeember. In his answer, thè Irish leader said he was confident that thè treaty would be ratlfled.

BAIOITS HUNTED FORBII CHE Girl Companion of Victim Says Two Negroes Staged Holdup and Murder. By United Presa EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Oct. 20. A heel print in thè dust and a dilapidated slouch hat were thè only clews today to thè murder of Alphonz H. Dchon, 21, fatally shot shortly aster midnlght while rlding wlth Miss Virginia Scheffler, his 18 year-old companion, on a lonely lane near bere. Two negroes are , belng sought on thè girt’s story that they were stopped, threatened with revolvera and Dehon killed by one of thè bandita when he attempted to drive away.

No Crime Ri) United Press ’ CHICAGO, Oct. 20. James Hardy accused Cornelius Yanderput with stealing a tul) of hot water at their hotel, but Judge Hayes held it was not a crime to steal a bath.

BOLTS AND SPIKES PULLED CAUSING LOSS 0F 3 LIVES

Indiana Produces Queerest Crime Mystery in Case of Twin Dolls

WEk I By Times Special ing twin bàblès was obsessed froni " ; girlhood, was described at her pre lajgvfi. 1 lindnarj- hearing on a etiarge of mur der here todav

MRS IIAZEL MCNALLY

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ALVIN M. OWSLEY . By United Press NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 20.—Alvin M. Owsley, of Texas, today was elected commander of thè American Legion at thè annual convention here. Owsley has been in charge of thè Legion's Americanìzation program. A combination of Western and Southern States put Owsley over and he walked away from William F. Deegan, New York, his ehief opponent. Owsley was a major in thè 36th Division and recruited his own battalion in northern Texas. The vote was: Owsley, 547; Pee gan, 251; Joseph H. Thompson. Pennsylvania, 205, and JoJfn A. McCormick, Colorado, 12.

■ Bu Times Special HAMMOND. Ind. Oct. 20.—A murila for motherhood, with which Mrs. Hazel McNally, accusml of slaying twjn bables was obscssed from J girlhood, was described at her pre- ! liminary hearing on a charge of murder here todav Mrs. G. A. Kahne and her daughter, who knew thè accused woman flfteen years ago, when she was a young girl, deciared that she frequently feighed motherhood. “I recali when she was about 16. she dressed herself so that all her friends believed she was soon to become a mother. Later she wheeled around a baby carriag containlng two bundlej which she claimed were her twin. No one was allowed to look at their face, but we sound out they were dolls dressed as clfildren. Mrs. Kahne's daughter. a girlhood pl&ymate of Mrs. McNally, confirmed ber mother's storv. Attorney® defendlng thè young woman relied on this testimony to free thè girl. Frank McNally, Hazel’a husband. was cross examlned at thè opening o( court. He said that his wife gave birth to twins on Dee. 8. 1921 and they mysteriously disappeared tiic following February. She subsUtuted doli. for thè children, he declaied. Dolls or Uahles Dolls or bables? AVhlch were thè tiny things nelghbors say they saw wrapped in *waddling cìothes in thè home of Frank McNally here? On thè answer hangs a woman's fife. She malntalns her husband foreed ber to nurse dolls and pretond they were bis own flesh and blood in order to appease his craving to be known as a father. The case has no analogy in criminal history. The defetise will endeavor to prove at thè fidai that a mental peculiarlty of thè husband—a possible twisted liirn V>elieve that he was fondling reai babies when he held theghina dolls at his breast and kissed them. Hammond does not know what to thir.k. Several people say they saw thè McNally twins. But none of these will say ho heard them ct-y-McNally’s charges are supported by others. Mrs. Mary Griffiths. a p"actlcal nurse who lives next door to thè McNallys, says she nttended Mrs. McNally, and saw, not dolls, but two babies, alive at birth. “I even saw them nursed,” says Mrs. Griffiths. “But whenever anyl cdy would enter thè room, Mrs. McNally would cover their faces/ She explaned this by saying thè children had wea.k eyes and lt was necessario shield them from light. “One morning, though. I carne in. and saw her wiping blood from thè mouth of one baby. I thought thè ehlld looked rather dead. Aster that, 1 did not see either of thè twins* faces agnin,” Mrs. Griffiths told prosecutors, they say. “My husband ls making all this trouble for revenge because I left him and wouldn’t return,” is Mrs. McNally’s explanation. C’harges Revenge “I often took thè dolls out for an airing In a doublé baby carriage, as if they were reai children. I really think he's gone crazy on thè subject of children.” McNally and his young wife were married in Aprii, 1921, through an advertisement. “He wanted children,” says thè wife. I told him lfwas impossible for me to have children. The doli schema was then adopted.

BEST MAN Police Better , By Times Special LA PORTE. Ind. k Oct. 20.—Julius Seroka was arrested as he carne out of a church in Indiana Harbor, where he had ben aeting as best mau at a wedding. He has been over to Superior Court on SI,OOO bonds on a charge of grand larceny. Mrs. Kate skryzypek of Michigan City charges he stole S6OO from her, where he rooined last Jiijy.

E utered as Second-class Mai ter at Postofflce, Indianspolls. Publtshed Daily Except Sunday,

Continental Limited on Wabash Crashes Over Forty-Foot Embankment Due to Defeets Discovered in Tracks. RAILS ON REDWOOD CURVE LOOSENED Locomotive and Eight Coaches Carry Passengers Into Ditch, Where Blaze of Wreckage Cremates Baggageman. By United Press WILLIAMSPORT, ’ 1 with thè bolts reraoved and several spikes pulled out, thè Continental Limited, fast train on thè Wabash between St. Louis and Detroit, crashed over a forty-foot embankment near here last night with a Coll of three lives. The dead : Charles Schmugge, engineer, Decatur, 111. K. W. Smith, express messenger, Detroit. R. A. Smith, baggageman, Detroit. The injured : W. W. Fields, mail clerk, Huntington, Ind. Harry Smith, passenger, Maumee, Ohio. Emerson Clayton, passenger, St. Louis, Mo. Hobart Durrett, passenger, Springfield, Tenn. George Lloyd, negro, passenger, St. Louis, Mo. G. 0. Dale, passenger, Ft. Wayne, Ind. R. A. Smith, baggageman of Detroit, was cremated by a blaze which started in his car and burned seven coaches of wood construction. His body was identified in a Williamsport morgue this morning by a friend aster members of thè tram erew had failed to reeognize it. ♦ The Jifeless body of Engineer Charles Snjugge of Decatur, 111., was pulled from under his locomotive. H. W. Smith, express messenger from Detroit, died whjle beiug taken to St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafayette.

Five Passengers Injured Six were injured. five of them passengers, but it is thought none will die. The "flsh piate” had connected two stretches of rail on an upgrade around Redwood curve. An investigation was started today to determina how thè bolts were removed from It and how thè spikes were pulled from thè ralls. Over Embankment The locomotive ‘and eight ~ót' thè olèven coaches roUed over thè embe.nkment. One of thè coaches was a Pullman. They were dii carrying their capacity of passengers. As. thè day coaches rolled over and over screams of women and children went through thè.night air. People crawled out through thè Windows and doors. Conductor Frank Hulbert. one of thè flrst to emerge from thè wreckage, said he saw thè baggage car burning. He saw thè rescue work was getting under way. So he and Murray Greenman, a passenger from Danville, Ili., ran to a neighboring farmhouse, awakened thè farmer and bc*rrowed his flivver. Fire Alarm Sounded They drove to Williamsport and notified thè telephone operator, who biew thè Are alarm. The entire town turned out of bed and hundreds of people rushed to thè scene. The blaze from thè burning cars could be seen five miles away. They set Are to a woods at thè bottom of thè bottom of thè embankment. The engine plowed through thè woods, bowling over large trees like ten pins. The mail was taken from thè mai! coach and thè sheriff deputized six rnen to keep an all-nlght vigli over it and over thè wreckage. The truck was being cleared and it was expected it would be open by noon. ✓

Baby Mine

KlFkids that pose ] TOP THE BABY FOOD ADSÌ SUPE HAVE AN EASY cJOB JTHEY DON’T HAVE TO IPPESS TOGO Of rourse yoar baby hai aaid or dosa aomethlng Joit as clrvrr as thoie reported lo this rolumn. H’rltl It on a postrard and end it to thè Baby Mine Editor of The Times and share your ehuckles with thè reat. Lost Charline, who is 6 years old, is proud of a barrette bought to wear on her hair. But yesterday she carne in from school wdth constemation written all over her face. “Oh, cried, “I lost my pretty brunette.”—F. M. K. Unconcerned Our~little three-year-old daughter picked up her daddy’s ruler and threatened to spank him with it. He threatened to run away if she did. Calmly, she informed him, “Well, if you do, UH gel more daddy.”—G. M. M. History When Rita was quite small she one day asked her mother, “Mother, when you were a little giri did I live across thè Street and come ovgg to you?”—Mrs. C. O. H,

Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday. Somewhat warmer Saturday.

TWO CENTS

AMERICAN AND; ENGLISH WORKS DIFFER UTILE o Sir Gilbert Parker Says Distinction Between Literatures ls Only in Locai Color. Bu DOSALO D. HOOYER •“AH literature is thè sanie.” This was thè statement of Sir (Jilber.t Parker, noted Englìsh author and lecturer in an interview today. Pir Gilbert compared Sinclair Lewis, author of ‘‘Main Street” to A. S. Hutchinson, author of *‘lf Wijiter Comes." “I don't want to be invidious in any way," Sir Gilbert said, "but what is thè differenee bet-ween Sinclair Lewis and Mr. Hutchinson, in England? “A differenee in style and setting; that is all. If Mr. Hutchinson lived in America he would prohably write as Sinclair Lewis does, and Mr. Sinclair Lewis would do thè sanie in Engìand.” The distinguishing element between American and British literature, he said. was not words. style. plots or emotions. but is thè “locai setting, thè locai color, thè locai character, thè idiosyncrasy.” If he had been born in thè United States, he would have written of thè United States, Sir Gilbert said. “Clothes do not make thè roan,” quoter Sir Gilbert. Different countries, which previde setting and other elements of a story, he compared to clothes. “But thè man,” he said. “is pure literature, no matter where it comes from.” Imitator Faìls "Any writer Who imitates another writer can npver go far," Sir Gilbert said. “Any rqan who tries to cultivate a style by seeing how others do it makes a mistake if he imitates thè others.”

Sir Gilbert emphasized thè quotation “There is no royàl road to success.” “In every hook that succeeds. high or low, there is something worth while or it eould not succeed.” Sir Gilbert set down his tea, which, he commented, was much wreaker than that in England, settled himself comfortably in his chair, placed thè thums of his right hand in his waistooat and, with a reminiscent look, told thè following story.” “When I began my literary career, one man gave me thè best advice that eould be given to any one. That was Sir YVemys Reed, of thè speaker, in London. Here Sir Gilbert stopped to finish his breakfast. While waiting for thè check, we discussed locai authors. He has admiration for thè Indianapolis writers and asked about them. "I know I’m speaking in thè town where Booth Tarington and Meredith Nicholson live. For both I have profound admiration. Both play a big pari, not only in llterature of thè United States, but in literature of thè world, which is thè only literature. "They eould writa in New York or San Fransisco or elsewhere. But what does it matter. “They write where it suits them best. And they are an honor to Indianapolis, to Indiana, to thè whole American public and to thè vast republic of letters. I have met neither, so my words may be taken as sincere. I should like to meet both. 9Ut, as I m here only for today I suppose I shall not. “But I salute my brqfher writers with thè old Indiana eipressloii of greetlng, ‘How!’ ”