Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1925 — Page 4

4

The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. FEL T :X P\ BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MATBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member or the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of til® United Press and the NEA Service • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 814-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3600.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

Versatile Bill I*7] AYOR SHANK has acquired a reputation Ifor versatility, but his political generalissimo, William H. Armitage, seems to be surpassing the genial Lew. From present, indications Armitage has a splendid chance to sit at the right hand of the throne during the next four years, a place he has occupied during the Shank administration. Big Bill rode roughshod over the JewettLemcke machine to nominate and elect Lew Shank. Then he turned adroitly and toiled in the primary campaign in an effort to nominate Ralph. A. Lemcke for mayor on the Republican ticket. Failr <; in this enterprise, during which John L. Duvall, Republican nominee, humorously said “Bad Bill is Sweet William now,” referring to the Jewett-Lemcke organization, Armitage is equally enthusiastic in the Duvall camp. Striving to arouse similar enthusiasm among city employes, he now spends much of his time at the municipal building. But the going is not always smooth. There are less versatile intellects that find it difficult to adjust themselves from villification to laudation. Too, the boys in the precincts have the faculty of memory and their attitude toward Duvall must be changed by easy stages; tot with a sudden plunge. , Beverly Howard, colored custodian of the city hall, was a rank failure at adjustment. In fact he was so poorly adjusted that he lost his job. Two members of the board of works voted to fire him. If Duvall is elected, will members of his board of works become equally adjusted to Armitage? The public wonders bow Big Bill gets that way. Whc.t is the source of his power with city administrations? Why do city officials leave their offices during business hours to confer with William at his headquarters in the Castle Hall building? Why do they scurry to Big Bill’s assuring presence when storm clouds threaten their official careers? When J. F. Rain.er, assessment bureau head, .incurred the wrath of administration leaders for support of Duvall in the primary election, why "was his peace consummated with Armitage and confirmed by the board of works in the advice of a board member who said: "Go thy way ; sin no more, and weep not.” Why is Big Bill seen about the city hall and in heavy conference with city officials when appointments are to be announced and jobs dealt out? Armitage was agent for an asphalt company during the early days of the Shank administration. “Fire Bill Armitage and save 10 per cent on city paving” was the advice of Duvall during the primary campaign. Will Armitage resume his career as an asphalt paving agent or is he so versatile nat he could sell concrete paving if Duvall is elected? The Times believes taxpayers are interested in this question of versatility. In Los Angeles, they use hammers for murders; Indianapolis police reports show they’re useful to subdue drunkards. # # # How to denounce the support of William H. Armitage without making Eill’s boys in the trenches believe they mean it is the next problem facing the campaign managers of John L. Duvall’s candidacy for mayor.

Hesitation Is Needed

By Mrs Walter Ferguson p "I British critic, in speaking of I A our movies, asks this question: "What do all these young people, hesitating upon the brink of matrimony so to speak, learn from the American photoplay?" Which is about the first intimation that anybody has had that the modern youth and maid are hesitating upon the brink of anything, much less matrimony. The average boy or girl will ponder twice as long over the selection of a garment as over the choosing of a husband or -rife, and women these days can laugh off an unsatisfactory husband much more readily than they smile at the misfit of a gown. Modern marriage is much too easily done and much too easily' undone, to insure any permanency. Until we can accumulate enough intelligence to make it compulsory for couples who seek to wed to announce their intention in the public press, cr in some other way whereby their friends and acquaintances may be apprised of their plans we shall i pc on having these hasty marriages . which nearly always terminate in . the divorce court. We literally lunge Into matrimony these days. sMer@ babies, finding a

One Law or All Laws? Ty/jHILE a general protest against the unW usual prevalence of crimes of violence against life and property ie coming from all directions, nobody seems to know just what to do. The old remedy—“there ought to be a law, etc.” —won’t work. We have more laws now than we know how to enforce. We haven’t even made much headway with the Ten Commandments, let alone the thousands cf statutes enacted by Congress and State legislatures. While we have concentrated the efforts of the Federal government with active aid in many states from State governments, on enforcement of the Volstead law, we haven’t made much headway toward actual enforcement. Never before in the history of this republic have we had a dry army and a dry navy working overtime to enforce one law. Never before have we called upon other nations to help enforce a domestic law. And never before has there been such a serious and menacing wave of crime. If this is to be a government by law—and is can’t be anything else and survive—the law must be ei forced so far as it is possible to enforce it. Sd there is no argument as to whether the prohibition law ought to her enforced or ignored. In theory all laws are alike so far as the necessity for enforcement goes. No administrative official has a right to enforce the laws he likes and ignore those he doesn’t like. Perhaps the confusion of authorities may have something to do with the general confusion as to law enforcement. Before prohibition was enacted into law, the Federal government didn’t bother much about crime in the various States except counterfeiting, postoffice robberies, interference with interstate commerce and other crimes violative of Federal law. The States themselves undertook to enforce laws against murder, robbery and other crimes of violence. But since the enactment of the prohibition law, the forces that brought about that law have insisted that not only the Federal government, but the State governments as well, bend all their energies toward the enforcement of the Volstead law. With the recent reorganization of the federal army for prohibition enforcement under General Andrews, Uncle Sam is presumably in better shape than ever before to enforce the Volstead law. Undoubtedly everything that can be done with the army and navy at his disposal will be doneIs not then, the orderly and natural thing for the State governments to do to devote their entire energy to fighting the crime wave ? Let Uncle Sam go as far as he likes orvean in enforcing his prohibition law, and let the States get busy enforcing ALL laws instead of devoting all their energies to the enforcement of one. This means that in selecting governors, mayors and other State and municipal officials we pick out men who are interested in the enforcement of all laws instead of merely one— — officials who are as eager to prevent and punish murder, robbery and other crimes of violence as they are to prevent and punish bootlegging. .Colonel William Mitchell astounds Washington by stating that heads of the Army and Navy air services should know something about flying before ordering aircraft on long jaunts. Proving Mitchell never became acclimated to Washington during his stay there.

little difficulty in getting things adjusted in their own community, can generally run across Into a neighboring State ad have things satisfactorily settled , More than a Volstead law, more than a woman’s suffrage measure, more than child labor amendment, does this country need uniform marriage and divorce laws, and officials with enough honesty to see that they are enforced. Publicity is what all marriages need; publicity is what all divorces need. With the spotlight turned pitilessly upon all plans for divorce and marriage, everybody concerned would think well before doing either. It Is almost a crime the way we allow our youngsters to get drunk, and run off and get married, or to watch them prance off for a lark and decide to become man and wife. For the Indictment upon us is. that they can always find some official or some minister ready to marry them without making any inquiries. Our ancient adage could well be re-written when applied to the important question of marriage. “He who hesitates is saved.” Children raised with greac jare sometimes do just as well as those who just hajjpen to grow.

Tom Sims Says If this prohibition keeps on before long you will have to apologize for being sober. Putting something by for a rainy day Is all right, but now is the time to lay aside something for the cold days. Perhaps the stingiest man alive refuses to look one with long hair. Sime Things are getting brighter. Even the leaves will be turning soon. Civilization improves homes. A husband can’t be hit with a can opener as hard as with a rolling pin. Everything’s so funny. You must be at the bottom of a lot'of things to come out on top. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Senvlce, Inc.)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BELIEVE CONTINENTS NOW ARE MOVING SLIGHTLY

By David Dietz NEA Service Writer . NUMBER of eminent European geologists have announced their belief that the continents as a whole slowly shift their positions upon the face of the earth with the passing of years. They say that this shift in the past was responsible for the formation of such great mountain chains as the Alps. The continents drifting Into each tain ranges, Just as pushing a tableother, they say, pushed up the moun- : cloth causes it to wrinkle up into ridges. This shift, they say further, is still going on. Not all geologists, however, agree with this view. Accordingly, plans have been made by the International Geophysical Union to test the theory. A network of radio stations extending right around the whole world is to be employed to chock each other's time signals. Since difference In time is directly the result of difference in longitude, this will give the geologists an unusually accurate determination of the longitudes of the different stations. Then at a future date the process

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

POOR ROADS !N INDIANA mHO MAS P. HENRT. president of the American Automobile Association, who has just completed a cross-con-tinent automobile tour in four days and eighteen hours—two days ahead of schedule —reports that the poorest roads he encountered were from Lebanon (Ind.) to Danville (111.) and across the Nevada desert. The statement rather punctures Hoosier conceit, for we boast handsomely and eloquently of our unprejudiced ob\jjjP *' 'ii lS <The , <;°mtravel have corrugated Its surface like a washNelson board which unJoints the motorists’ vertebra© and religion. Gravel and crushed stone roads, once thought the ne plus ultra of highways, are failures under modem traffic conditions. Despite constant dragging, massaging and manicuring they can not be maintained properly. Their surfaces are constantly being pulverized and wafted over adjoining fields or eaten by passersby. Indiana has spent millions on improved roads, most of which are perishing. Untold millions more must be expended before the State will possess an adequate highway system, for only the paved stretches promise a fair degree of permanence. To build anything but paved roads on main routes is now a waste of money. Every other type of road surface the tourist will begin carrying away In his ear as soon as It is completed. NEGLIGENCEAND WRECKS EGIyIGENCE and disobedience of orders on the part of the crew of one car was responsible for the oollision of two traction trains north of Kokomo, June 5, the public service commission reports after three months’ exhaustive investigation of the wreck. Two interurbans crashed head-on, a score of passengers were injured several seriously—and the cars burned. Obviously some traction employes were negligent. It Is not usually by Intention that two traction cars going at high speed in opposite directions try to pass each other on the same pair of rails. Consequently the report of the investigation was not exactly news. About a year ago there was a dreadful wreck on this same traction system. Many passengers were killed. Following which there was a searching Investigation. That didn’t restore life to the victims nor reimburse their families. But it affixed the blame for the catastrophe. Os course investigations after a wreck are proper. It Is interesting to know who was to blame. But unless the investigations result in'steps being taken by the railroad company to prevent repetition of needless accidents they are mere gestures. TALK WITH OTHER PLANETS SHE REV. CHARLES H. GUNSOLUS of the Spiritualist Church, Indianapolis, predicted that within sev-enty-five years man would be able to communicate with the other seven inhabited planets of the solar system, and even journey to them. Perhaps so. But there will have to be a decided improvement in transportation agencies before wintering on Venus, summering on Mars and gdlflng on Saturn becomes popular with the human race. Venus is the nearest planet. But by any transportation methods with which man Is familiar a journey thither would be tiresome. Zipping along at 500 miles per hour—like the Beech Grove Traction cars—a trip from Earth to

will be repeated. If there has been any shift in any of the continents meanwhile, this second determination of longitudes will reveal It. • * • mMMCTRTALITY awaits the research worker who can solve the mystery of the nature of light. The theory that light consists of waves Is apparently substantiated by 6uch phenomena as reflection. On the other hand, many experiments seem to uphold the quantum theory, the theory that light consists of definite particles of energy. Physicists find themselves up against a real difficulty. One wit In the scientific world says that they are solving the problem by using the wave theory on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the quantum theory on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. • v • ELIUM Is one of five gases which have been called the u__J Inert gases because they apparently refuse to form compounds with other chemical elements. But chemists have discovered that with the aid of an electric discharge It is possible to form helium compounds. Compounds of helium with mercury, iodine, sulphur and phosphorus have been formed in this way.

Venus would consume approximately six years. However, Venus is just around the corner compared with the other planets, whose distances age expressed in stately figures. An earthling to visit Neptune, the most distant, would have to travel at the rate of 500 miles an hour for over 600 years to reach his destination. At the reasonable transportation charge of 2 cents per mile, his ticket would cost $54,000,000. No, Neptune will never be a popular week end resort for shop girls. / The possibility that other planets that revolve around the isun are inhabited by beings similar to ourselves, with whom we may communicate, has always intrigued human imagination. It would be comforting to know they are inhabited and that we have neighbors. thinking, acting and living like ourselves as, we plunge through the lonesorrfe solitudes of space. Physical conditions—atmosphere, water, heat, light, etc.—on other planets are so different from earth that it is unlikely that organic life such as we are familiar with could exist on any other orb in the solar system Life there may be, but of such different type and stage of development communication would be Impossible. If we should meet the inhabitants of Mars face to face it would probably be as difficult to communicate with them as to gossip with a sardine. SUCCESSFUL HOOSIER FARMS IUCCESSFUL 160-acres farms In central Indiana, . from 1010 to 1922, made an average annual Income sufficient to cover 5 per cent Interest on capital invested and $1,465 for labor and management, according to a survey recently completed by the Department of Agriculture and Purdue university. But only about 10 per cent of the 400 farms studied did that. In normal periods only about half of them p&id 5 per cent on the Investment and S3OO In wages besides family living. In the cold light of statistics, farming is not such a rosy occupation. It is easy to prove by figures that a man can take in more actual cash by standing on a street corner with a. tin cup than by tilling the soil. Even soda-jerking and banditry are apparently more lucrative professions for young men than agriculture. But the figures don’t tell the whole tale. The farmer may not receive much actual cash for his labor but he seldoms winds up In the poorhouse. He is more likely to spend his declining years peacefully under his own vine and fig tree than the slick city toiler who makes and spends big wages. The average Hoosier farmer may never break the bank at Monte Carlo. Agricultural depression, drouth, grasshoppers and mortgage may prey upon him. He •may receive Inadequate returns in money for his work but he builds an estate of the most permanent form of wealth—land. The amount of arable land on the globe is definitely limited. Man can not make the earth one Inch large. The number of mouths to be fed from that land Is steadily Increasing. Despite occasional depressions and disasters, farming in the long run Is the surest bet in the world. Footloose By Hal Cochran When you’ve nothing to do till tomorrow and with moments of leisure you’re blest, try thinking of cheer and not sorrow, if yod’d give your old system a rest. The mind that you use when you’re toiling, is Just like a rugged machine. To really relax Is like oiling and helps it to longer be keen. A man who is footloose at nighttime, with business and such off his mind, should plan on those hours as the right time to seek what real rest he can find. Through work hours we’re all in a hurry, and we use our old brains to extreme. To offset the fret and the worry, we ought to have moments to dream. You ne’er know how long you’ll be living. Why fall in the work-to-death trance? Play fair, while you can, just by giving your mind and your body a chance.

. \CSAAMA TW\T' [( ’ COC (A M swe vjoowo k\ll AbpvoNt nr If cak \ VJAO CAMS: US Afcß. J % \ JUST LfcT Atfc VAVTCAEK W -1 SOiAfcIWNG Ar\V> \U f \ V.OOK LIKE

~VV \ ( WOtfT ,C:

With Only One Hand Hans Hanke Plays Famous Sextet From Opera ‘Lucia’

By Walter D. Hickman ■j SING only his left hand, Hans ; J j Hanke, pianist, plays the A_l famous sextet from the opera "Lucia.” With his right hand at rest, Hanke permits his left hand to get about the same effects as if he were using both hands. This is a remarkable demonstration, and especially so when the famous melody is not butchered. There is great beauty in all of the tones that this man gets from the piano. His own arrangements of the melody from "Carmen'’ are another splendid accomplishment, and his playing of the “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” stamps him as a fine artist. His triumph is comp.ete this week at the Lyric. This man knows how to “.sell” the very best of piano music to a variety audience. A fine artist and deserves his success. One of the best character female impersonators I have seen In many months is Olyn Landick. He dishes a lot of neighborly “dirt,” or gossip, as he portrays numerous characters from life. He does not expos© his secret until the last few seconds on the stage. He doesn’t ruin his impression by trying to prove that he Is a man. He Is a splendid artist. Another triumph on this week’s bill at the Lyric. The radio idea is used by the Music Mixers and their California Revue. A number of radio artists are Introduced. This act is not ai finely presented as the one this theater presented some weeks ago. The Artist Trio presents “An Evening in the Studio” in which instrumental music is given. Nice work. Eccentrio comedy and topical songs are offered by Thornton and Carlton. Oscar Martin and Company have the services of a young lad who is splendid in eccentric acrobatics. Mighty good act.

Weekly Book Review Throwing Light On Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

By Walter D. Hickman "i NY one who reads the second volume of William E. Bar—J ton’s “The Life of Abraham Lincoln," will have a deeper appreciation of the real greatness of Abraham Lincoln. A week or so ago in this department, I told you about the first volume of this new work on Lincoln. Today we are concerned with the second volume—Lincoln asi President. Barton pictures the Abraham Lincoln which actually existed. He goes beyond the White House and shows the numerous problems that Lincoln had to face during the war. We see Lincoln often seeming to put certain big decisions off to another day, but Lincoln had a program of education. This program changed of course as different events of the war made it necessary to adopt different measures. Barton shows In a most careful manner the real trouble of McClellan's generalship; how Lincoln put up with this haughty leader; how Lincoln was forced through necessity to re-appoint McClellan, i how McClellan sought to increase his own political worth, and above all, we see Lincoln looking for the one real big general of the war— General Grant. Barton has much new documentary proof concerning McClellan and Lincoln. Every student who desires to know what Lincoln was actually up against during the Civil War should study with care this second volume. After Many Years After many years, the world has declared Lincoln's Gettysburg address to be a masterpiece. But on the day that Lincoln delivered his “few remarks” on the great battlefield, Barton shows that Lincoln himself considered it of extraordinary merit. Barton shows that Edward Everett, the orator of the day, did not at the time recognize the greatness of Lincoln’s talk. The author throws much light on the source and how the address was prepared by Lincoln. kj It is necessary to gat away from

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By

Stage Verdict Lyrio—The two real winners on the new bill are Hans Hanke, a planet, and Olyn Landick. Palace—Davie Jamieson and his “Revolters” are the chief delight on this bill.

A news reel showing interesting views of the wrecked Shenandoah is on the bill. At the Lyric all week. •I- + -IOBSERVER LOOKS OVER NEW BILL AT PALACE Those who are a little tired of one jazz organization after another will find an act organized for their especial pleasure at the Palace this week. Davie Jamieson and the Revolters provide this jazzless interlude. Ao cording to their own announcement they are revolters against the craze for pazz music. The Revolters are a male chorus of eight that sings a number of old favorites and some new songs. Jamieson Is a dancer with a lot of personality to help him sell his hoofing to the audience. The act is nicely staged In several scenes, with an “Old Heidelberg" number for an effective finale. The act is fast and peppy enough to please even the dyed-in-the-wool jazz fans, I believe. Lewis and Norton offer a sketch from the pen of Jack Lait. It is callled “Cost to Cost.” Not much plot but some good comedy speeches well staged ond presented. Ann Clifton, who sings as well In a deep, mannish voice as' in a higher pitch, reverses the usual order of “impersonations” When she opens her act In male costume.-

the years that a great man lived and met his problems before we can judge their value. Lincoln was great while living, a genius, and yet a man, but the years have thrown much light on the real greatness of this man. The real value of Dr. Barton’s book is that he cites so many authorities on many phases of Lincoln's life. One seems to have WUF HI Hr A f'U ?WA' S is>•.. Dr. William E. Barton. nearly all stated opinions upon Lincoln. The vast completeness of this work makes it one of the outstanding contributions on the literaturo of Lincoln. Barton Is just and honest In handling this great man. To my way of thinking it is the most complete work on Lincoln that I have ever read. It is published in two volumes by The Ijobbs-Merrtll Company of this city. The set is listed at $lO. The technical and scientific books at the public library includes: “The Heavens.” by J. H. C. Fabre;

TLEoDAx, toEirX. 0, xo-5

TALBURT

There are a lot of capable female Impersonators in vaudeville, but few women who can actually fool her audience into believing she is a man. Miss Clifton's costume change, made in the dark with only certain luminous articles of her clothing visible, is a nifty bit of staging. The only suggestion for this act is some more up-to-date song material. Easily pleases. Billy Carmen plays a xylophone. The effectiveness of his turn is also improved by novel staging. Whitfield and Ireland present a comedy sketch. Miss Ireland is a capable “rube” comedienne. The feature movie is “The Street of Forgotten Men.” At the Palace today and Wednesday. (By Observer.) •I- -I- -I“THE BLIT! ORCHID” OPENS AT BROOKSIDE “The Blue Orchid,” a play supposed to deal with the development of a woman's soul, was presented last night in the Municipal Theater at Brookside Park for the first time on any stage. It was written’ by Test Dalton of this city. It is in three acts, with the action placed In a cabin in the mountains. The cast is as follows: Dulith Dufrr&r Carlton Guy Shorn Duwrar, brother to Dulith Ray Jerome Mrs. Bess Dujrear. woman to Shem. . Mra. Natalie Duwrar. woman to Dulith Elsie Fowler Trent Wentworth, an orchid hunter. . Sam Staple, a Broadway playwright. James Morgan Tom Endioott, a lawyer .T. C. Martin Mllly Casper, a mountain girl. Jean Selkirk It will be on /lew at Brookside for the rest of the week. Other theaters today offer. “Shore Leave” at the Circle; “The Man Who Found Himself” at the Ohio;' “Sugar Babies” at the Broadway: | “Seven Days” at the Colonial; ‘‘The Isle, of Hope” at the Isis; “Wild.) Wild Susan” at the Apollo and colored revue at the Capitol.

Hr. Little s Doc- Book,” by G. Vs. Little: Bird Islands of Peru.” by R. r. Murphy: 'Muskellunge Fishing." by B, C. Robinson- “Evolution for John Doe, 1 ’ bvHenshaw Ward; “Transaction- of the International Conference cn Sanitary Engineering;" “Claims of the Coming Generation. by Sir Janies Marehant: "Raishic Fur-Bearing- Animals." by Hardison Patton: “Introduction to the Operations With Series." by I. J. Schwatt. New books of poetry, essays and general literature Include: "Sappho and Her Influence," by D. M, Robinson; “The Meaning of Literature.** by George Sprau: "Dust and Flame." by E. F- Taylor; "Collected Poems, ’ by 3. L. Owynn; 'At the Gateway of Son*.'’ by S. R. Myers: “Readings From the Literature of Ancient Greece in English Translations/’ by Dora Pym: "Far Princes*,” by Edmond Rostand: "From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy." edited by Robert Shafer; “The Political Novel." by M. E. Speare: "Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen,’ " by H. S. Stange: "Jane Austen a French Appreciation, by Leonie Viilard New books of history, travel a.nd biography are: “The American Indian Cnder Recoil - jtruetion b> A. H Abel “The Cruise of the Nona, by Hilaire Belloc: “Round the World, bv I H Butler: “The Autobiog. raphy. of a Mind.” by W. J. Dawson; "A Player Lnder Three Reigns," by Sir Johnston Forhee-Robertson: "In an Unknown Land.” by IV W F. Gann "My Hart, In. the Hills. by Charles Hansen: "Troubadour. an Autobiography,” by Alfred Kreymborr: "We Visit Old Inna," bv M H. Northend: *3tx Years in the Malar Tungle. ’ by Carveth Wells: “Lost Kingdom of Burgundy," by R .T, (Jassy: "Washington Irvington, Esquire," by O S Heilman; 'Lives and Times," by Maude Mlnnurerode: “Rome and tha Pope." by Marino Priori, Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question ol fact or iniormation by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital rdvice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other ouestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many men, swam tha English Channel, and when? Capt. Matthew Webb, Aug. 24-25, 1375; Thomas William Burgess, Sept. 5-6, 1911; Henry Sullivan, Aub. 6-6. 1923; Sebastian Tiraboschl, Aug. 12, 1923, and Charles Toth, Sept. 10-20, 1923. What are the pure primary colors of the spectrum? Red, yellow, green, blue, violet. s What is a good mixture for polishing glass? Make a powder of rock alum burned and finely powdered, 5 parts;! levigated chalk, 1 part. Mix and' apply .with a dry brush.