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The Indianapolis Times 1 ROY W. 110WAKD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 1:14-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA in iioUO.

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. .

Our Present Prosperity mT is a large country we live in. And it is an exceptional man who can see it as a whole. i Times arc good, so we say, and we have in mind the entire United States when we say it. We think of comfortable conditions immediately about us as supporting our idea that prosperity blesses the land. We think of frenzied land speculation in Florida, of hectic happenings in Wall Street, and of more millions than ever before being wagered' at the race tracks, as dramatizing the presence of prosperity Yet here is a letter from a middle western farming State: “As you, perhaps, know, the price of corn is now around 50 cents a bushel and with a three-million-bushel crop which took 70 to 72 cents a bushel to produce, the farmer is again facing stark ruin. The whole situation is back again to conditions prevailing four years ago. “Banks are failing right and left. Fanners are going to the wall in droves. The collapse is widespread and extremely alarming. In one week six banks failed in one congressional district. “Three weeks ago I received a letter from my parents in the northeastern corner of the State to the effect that the bank in which they kept their money had gone to the wall. Last week my wife received a letter from her parents in the southwestern corner of the State to the effect that the bank in which they had their money had closed its doors. That gives you an indication of the spread of the thing.” This picture should cause citizens in more prosperous parts of the country to pause. After all, the well-being of the Nation rests finally on production and most particularly on farm production. A warning is contained in this situation and this warning is that a way must be found to protect the producers. If it isn’t done the people as a whole will suffer. There is no necessity for enabling farmers to obtain exorbitant prices for the things they raise. All that ever has been needed is that they should receive their fair share of a fair price. They cannot get this for themselves; at least they cannot get it short of many years of organizing. They need the assistance of the consumers and the consumers, composing the whole of us, can only give it now through the Government. Why should the Government shy at the suggestion? The Government protects any manufacturer that asks for protection. The present Government is even inclined favorably toward special assistance to ship owners. More than one measure calculated to assist the farmers will be before Congress during the coming session. Any one of these that will tide them over the difficult period through which they are struggling to achieve coopera-

The Mistakes of Kellogg

Ilf. The Threat to Mexico. By William Philip Siinins ASIIINGTON, Nov. 24.—Sec\X/ retary Kellogg's sudden and JLU sizzling threat to Mexico last June was not only the biggest mistake of his own bare eight months in office, but was one of the most serious diplomatic blunders of the decade. Just when everybody thought all was serene, the Kellogg note to Mexico burst upon the world like a bolt from the blue. Genuinely startled, the public of two nations sat up, scarcely realizing what had happened. Americans, the note said, in effect, were being mistreated in Mexico and it would have to stop. Otherwise should revolutionists seek to overthrow President Calles —and there was already talk of such a thing—why this country would let them work their will. Such was the Kellogg warning. For years this country had patiently tried to make Mexico and tlio rest of Latin America look upon the United States as their big brother. Now the big brother role was dropped in a jiffy and in its place was the big stick, naked and undisguised. like Ultimatum Crackling like an ultimatum, the Kellogg note stung all Mexico to anger. President Calles at once branded it as an insult and “a threat to the sovereignty of Mexico that she could not overlook.” Nor did she. Her reply, drafted by Calles himself, fairly sizzled along the wires between Mexico City, and Washington. Furthermore delegations from the Mexican Senate and • Chamber of Deputies, the army, the federation of labor, and other popular organ!zations, spontaneously waited upon Calles to tell him they stood with him to a man. All in all the incident was probably without precedent In all the peacetime dealings between sovereign nations. It seemed an open invitation to rebellion. “If de la Huerta Is not plotting a revolution the statement from Washington may well encourage him to start one,” said tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch. While even the New York Herald and Tribune, a staunch administration paper, published & special from Mexico City saying: "No event In recent years has stirred diplomatic

tive marketing is likely to be a good measure. For “Farmers are going to the wall in droves.” And that must he stopped. A Complaint of Fraud FEW days ago our esteemed evening contemporary was clamoring for a grand jury investigation of the late city election. A little later it declared with the same amount of earnestness it used in asking for an investigation that there has been “no complaint of fraud.” Now Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church and a gentleman of high standing in the community, makes some startling statements concerning the election and insists he makes them of his own knowledge. “I know there was wholesale corruption of (lie negro in the recent election,” Dr. Wicks said. “I know one man who bought a carload of liquor to distribute to the colored voters. I myself saw a white man passing money to a negro.” Even those who have so suddenly discovered that there is “no complaint of fraud” will hardly question the integrity of Dr. Wicks. Perhaps that grand jury investigation which these same persons at one time were so earnestly demanding would not be amiss after all. Plaza Churches SHE Marion County commissioners are again discussing the question of buying and wrecking the two churches on the war memorial plaza site. These are the only two buildings that have not been acquired. If the original war memorial plans are to he carried out, and it seems at present that they will he, we fail to see how the churches could possibly be left standing. The plan calls for a large, beautiful and useless monumental structure. Undoubtedly, it will be a thing of beauty, and, if the copy books are right, it should therefore be a joy forever. But it can not he a thing of beauty with two churches standing in front of it. Undoubtedly, the churches themselves are architecturally beautiful, but they certainly will not fit in with the architecture of the proposed memorial building. Their presence would detract from its appearance to such an extent that the entire effect would be lost. While we are determined to spend millions for a thing of beauty, let’s really make it beautiful. We can sympathize with the membership of the two churches, but we can not sec how they and the memorial building can both be allowed to exist on the same plot of ground. On the other hand, we might be willing to admit that for the good of the community it would be better to abandon the memorial building and retain the churches.

circles here so much as the two notes.” Latin-American diplomats predicted “far-reaching effects of the affair.” Big Stick Resented This puts a finger on the most serious phase. The use of the Big Stick on any one of the LatinAmerican countries is bitterly resented by all the rest. This, perhaps, is only natural. Anyway it is true and though they may disagree among themselves and fall out and even fight, the Latin-American Union is a solid bloc when it comes to us, all the way from the Rio Grande down to Tierra del Fuego. Utmost circumspection, therefore, is vital in dealing with these countries. Not only is international harmony at stake, and the Monroe Doctrine involved, but there is a

Smoke Complaints Made By Mr. Fixit

Let Mr. Fixit solve your troubles with city officials. He is The Times' representative at tho city hall. Write him at The Tinuis. Present smoke-prevention legislation is Inadequate to halt many nuisances, Mr. Fixit is learning day by day. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I most earnestly desire that you correct conditions here. There is a public garage ten feet south of my place, a very low building. A heating stove smokes and floods my apartment rooms with, smoke. NEARLY SMOKED OUT. The board of health will Investigate. If they can do nothing, Mr. Fixit suggests you sue the owner for damages, a course adopted successfully by the Hume Mansur Bldg, management. However, 11. F. Templeton, sirjoke inspector, will investigate the following complaint, which deals with a factory stack and therefore comes within the law: DEAR MR. FIXIT: Would you please do something to help us citizens in the 2100 block on S. Meridian St. We wash our porches and windows, but a factory furnace is fired up and they get covered with soot and grime. The muse of poetry Is not dead among Mr. Fixit’s readers. Here’s one that drifted In today. It’s headed "My First Poem”:

dollars and cents side to be considered. All things being equal, Latin-American trade ultimately will go where sentiment Is strongest. Europe is cultivating these people, waiting to grab their business if we can’t hold It. And European agents are not slow to exploit such blunders as Kellogg’s, using them to fan the flames of native suspicions against the powerful Republic In the north. That Is why Kellogg’s fist under Calles’ nose was so serious a thing. The incident may be glossed over, but it cannot be lived down for years. Mexico, likely enough, is not blind to the difficulties which beset the road of our Latin-American diplomacy. Perhaps she is inclined even to take advantage of them at times. But that means we must uso all the more caution to keep out of traps, not just willfully forging Into them and trusting to our superior strength and the Big Stick methods to get us out again.

Liberty Street Is not very wide. There’s some "No Parkin’ " signs along the east side. I take notice every morning about 8 o’clock There’s several cars parked In the 400 block. I drive this street every morn at 8, And when I get there I have to wait. Give It your attention, If you will, please, And then I know that I’ll rest with ease. Here's the dope from Mr. Fixit: Os all the pests, the one I hate Is the guy on whom I have to wait. And so to vent our mutual spleen. The case I told to Lieutenant Dean. "No parking means Just what It says,” Quoth Officer Dean, "and that's no guess." He told me he would send some cops To halt fore’er your starts and hops.

Do You Know? Mayor Bhank has taken to carrying a silver-headed cane.

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A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: "But they measuring themselves and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.”— 2 Cor. 10:12. mT is the measuring themselves by themselves anti comparing themselves among themselves. that makes men conceited. Hera is a business man who goes out among other business men, and when he measures himself by them he finds that he is superior to them. He is a more skillful trader, and can get more business. Overtopping them, he thinks himself very high. When a small man compares himself with still smaller men, ho always comes to have a high opinion of himself. What the small man needs in order to get a proper measurement of himself, is to come into contact with larger men- It is not good for any man to live always among people who are his inferior. This, some men deliberately choose to do. They would rather he big men among small men- than small men among big men. Such men are unwise. Tt is not good for a man in business to have dealings only with men whose bust-

RIGHT HERE

IN INDIANA

■By GAYLORD NELSON

A SACRED STATUTE C y-a ILLIA M UPSIIAW. intense\Jy ly arid Congressman from . Georgia, in an address at Ft. Wayne Sunday, characterized efforts of organizations and individuals to modify the Volstead act as “unconstitutional encouragement to drinkers, law breakers and liars." Those are strong words. But it's quite the custom of dry crusaders to shower rugged epithets on those who don't see eye to eyo with them. Os course the Volstead act, whatever its virtues or faults. Is part of the law of the land and should be obeyed and enforced like any other law. But It’s not a sacred statute. Nor are those who criticise It guilty of blasphemy. It is ns proper and constitutional for those who favor its repeal to organize and work for that purpose as it is to work for the modification of the Income and inheritance tax laws, the tariff measure or ajiy other act of Congress. One of the most recent criticisms of the dry act is the report of a survey conducted by the Moderation league, Inc. Among the directors and members of the advisory hoard of that organiz;Ulon are such men as Haley Fisk, president of the Metropolitan Life; H. B. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Henry Ilolt, publisher; Elihu Root. It is puerile to charge that such men are trying to undermine and nullify the constitution. Public opinion will ultimately determine the success, failure or modification of the Volstead act. As long os It remains the law enforce It to the letter. Nothing Is gained, either for prohibition or the law Itself, by trying Intolerantly to stifle every honest expression of adverse criticism.

ANOTHER LITTLE SPEEDER WAR EORTY-Fl VE motorists were arrested by Indianapolis police o\er tho week-end for speeding and other traffic violations. It was the biggest weekend haul since last spring, when a ruthless war against speeders was on. There was no sudden outbreak of lawlessness to account for the sudden increase in arrests. Probably drivers didn’t step on the accelerators any harder during the week before or last month. The motorists behaved normally, but the police were super-normally active, lienee a flock of arrests. The reason for the sullen feverish activity of traffic officers was the proclamation of the chief scoring them for neglecting their duty, and the ultimatum he delivered to them “to get the speeders or get off the squad.” So tney got ’em—-forty-five of them. Which proves that the police can make even traffic violations uncomfortable when especially goaded into activity by the heavy foot of authority and fear of losing their jobs. But how much good is likley to be accomplished by this latest speeder war? In a'couple of weeks it will be forgotten and automobiles tvlll whizz through the streets as of yore. Law enforcement by sporadic outbursts, under the Incitement of artificial stimulation, gets nowhere in particular. It just jounces up and down. BOBBED HAIR FOR CONVENIENCE HANNAH BRADJm BURY, of Greens Fork, 11-3 Wayne County, who celebrated her ninety-seventh birthday anniversary Monday, wears bobbed hair. That news may cause those who denounce the present feminine style of shorn locks to shudder. But the near centenarian lady of Greens Fork Is not an abandoned flapper or a daughter of Belial. For eighty-two years sho has taught a Sunday school class in the church of which sho has been a member eight-five years. She had her hair cut off for convenience not to entrap susceptible males. Most of the bitter condemnation hurled at feminine cropped heads, and still appearing from time to time in burning letters to the press, Is ridiculous. Such critics make much of "woman’s crowning glory” and bemoan the effect of a hair cut on woman’s morals. These critics mostly men quote St. Paul to reinforce their condemnation. But they artin’t so careful to observe

ness ability is inferior to his own. He may hold his advantage -over them, hut ho will miss the challenge to a better and bigger business that would come to him through dealing with men ahead of him in buslnesr. ability and achievement. The same principle applies in one's intellectual and moral life. It is not wise for any man to associate continually with men who are Intellectually and morally beneath him. To do so will deprive him of the incentive and stimulus that comes from contact with -better and greater men. Comparing himself only with his inferiors, he will come to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. It was a wise man who said, “If I could choose a young man’s companions, some of them should he weaker than himself, that he might learn patience nnd charity; many should he as nearly as possible his equals, that he might have the full freedom of friendship: but most of them should be stronger than he, that he might ever be thinking humbly of himself and be tempted to higher things ” (Copyright, 125, by John Tt. Gunn.)

the Apostle's precept that interfere with their own comfort or convenience. Only about one hurdred years ngo men wore long hair and rambling beards flecked with soft boiled egg. Yet St. Paul says if a man lias long hair, it is a shame unto him. Until the invention of the safety razor and modern barber tools men didn’t pay much attention to St. Paul. Now It is more comfortable and convenient to be smooth-shaven and short haired. So men pursue convenience and for the moment the resulting style happens to coincide with the Epistle to the Corinthians. Why shouldn’t women be equally free in choosing their styles of coiffure and clothes? If they affect a certain method of hair dressing or style of apparel for convenience why should mere man grow indignant? PUBLIC UTILITY VALUATIONS rp-jinVAIU) W. BEMIS, expert I ill I ern P'°y ed the Indiana Li - J public service commission to appraise the properties of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company in connection with the telephone rato hearing now in progress before the commission, places the present valuation of the company's properties at f28.000.000. Appraisal of the same properties by the Telephone Company’s staff give a total valuation of J45,560,871.96.’ Quite a difference. The two appraisals—both presumably the work of high minded experts who wouldn't knowingly falsify a figure to save themselves from the gallows—aren’t within speaking distance of each other. Which valuation more nearly approximates the truth? No* one knows—not even the experts—though the 96 cents at the end of the Bell Company’s figures give their appraisal a bland air of rectitude hard to dispute. Yet on the valuation figures depends the future peace of mind of Hoosier telephone subscribers. Rates fixed to yield a fair return on the valuation of the commission’s expert would he otn thing, fixed to yield a fair return on the company’s own appraisal would he another. In the latter event something distinctly unpleasant would befall the subscribers. The wide divergence of the experts’ figures In this case are characteristic of most public utility rato hearings. Usually months of investigation and thousands of dollars are expended in accumulating a mass of conflicting data that only serve as the basis of argument. As far nH the public is concerned utility rate question might just as well be settled by mere strong lunged debate without a digit In the room.

‘I Forgot’ By Hal Cocliran ONE of Us do half the things that could. Our tasks of us do half the things that we should. The answer? We Bimply forget. Often we think on a single track mind and thoughts are confined to one thing. Then’s when accomplishment’s falling behind, while listlessness Is having its fling. “Sure I can do it,” has often been said and probably honestly meant. Then to some other thing people are led and the best of intention Is spent. Mem’ry’s a mighty pood thing to promote. Its use makes your lisp seem mpre fun. Always forgetting can get a man’s goat through, worry o’er things left undone. life’s grentest alibi's easy to say, but really, ’twill help you a lot. to always be able to shout, day by day, "I did it” and not, “I forgot.” (Copyright .1925, NEA Service, Inc.) What is the proportion of epsom salts to use In a reducing hath? Is there any prescribed time for the duration of such a bath? One-half pound of the salts to a gallon of water is a good proportion! There Is no prescribed time for the duration of the bath. Did Sherman really say “War is hell?” This saying is attributed to Gen. Sherman by John Koolbeck, aide-de-camp to Gen. Winslow, who claims to have heard the remark after the Battle of Vicksburg. Sherman did not remember making the statement. What Is the weight of hammered sliver. Sliver, cast hammered, weighs 656 pounds to the cubio foot.

An Unpleasant Truth Is the Basis Upon Which ‘White Cargo’ Was Made a Play

By Walter I). Iliekman i > EX hunger is the keynote to I "White Cargo,” a play re--1 _ I vealed here for the first time last night after many other cities had passed upon it. The “hunger" of the body of white men in a western coast town In Africa is the haunting note that races through this play. It is the

lure of colored skin upon white men facing a hot sun and a hot life. At times it is as savage as the men, the white men, who fight each other with their weakening and wavering mentalities. Witzel, the man who stays, nnd the doctor, the man who has been there for many years, know the “hell” of a debauched existence. They have strength

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enough to point out to Langford, the man who comes out to the African town, the danger that ho fares. Langford knows that he will not step across the color line. He fights in the wrong direction. He compromises by marrying a half-breed, a “sand walker,” and sinks lower and lower in the social scale. The doctor and Witzel know the formula that creates half men. They blame it upon sex hunger. "White Cargo" is now a play that has been seen In many cities for long runs. It Is cruel In its dramatic power. It is the sort of a dramatic and melodramatic mixture that gets into your very blood. It is intoxicating at times, and at times it becomes like a drug—it forces your will power into quiet

submission. When men talk in this play they talk as certain men do in certain unhealthy conditions. It Is not pleasant talk, but it is the talk of emotions that have been boiling, but have never quite gone over the kettle. But when the spill does come. It is quite a splash. The woman In ‘‘White Cargo" Is not romantic like the poor native woman In “The Bird of Paradise.” The "sand walker" in "White Cargo’ even poisons her own white husband. She is dirt just through and through. There was romantic beauty or rather romantic intoxication iq the “Bird.” There is honesty in “White Cargo,” because men who are lost are “honest” in the wrong way. Here is realism —frank, vulgar, powerful and at times real. Strong situations call for strong acting and thit is supplied by Leon Gordon as Witzel; Willis Clark, a former member of the Gregory Kelly stock company at English's some years ago, ns the doctor: B. N. Lewin ns the missionary; James C. Carroll as the skipper; Allan Wallace as the engineer and Frederick Forrester as Ashley, a human wreck, who honestly desired to come back. Gordon mounts to great heights in the second act, second scene when he tells Langford that two and two make four and nothing else but. It is a cruel but an honest scene, splendidly acted by the man who wrote the play. Wallis Clark as the "drinking doctor” gives a marvelous conception of a character that is just drifting toward the end of everythiftg. Clark shades the different mental experiences of the doctor as only a great nrtist could. Austin Coglilan as Langford Is better as the natural young man than he is the hopeless hitman wreck. This may be that I have a little different conception of I,angford as a wreck than Coghlan does. He is probably right and I am wrong. Tot deleyo, the "sand walker” of mixed blood, is a symbol more than she is a character. And that is the way that Jean Downs plays her. Tondeleyo might be considered n black skin edtion of Cleopatra without the snake and the fan. And that is "White Cargo.” At English’s all week. •I- -I- -1KEITITS BILL HAS liOTS OF PEP AND DASH The Thanksgiving Week Bill at Keith’s is a snappy 'comedy show. Harry M. Snodgrass, pianist who became famous over the radio and now breaking house records all over the Keith circuit, is the chief headline attraction. Snodgrass with the aid of J. M. Witten, radio announcer, place the act in a radio setting. Wise showmanship causes them to follow this idea. Snodgrass plays the popular songs of the day like many other performers. He doesn't try to be a comedian. He doesn’t say a word. He plays the piano. The public expects him to play “Three O’clock In the Morning,” his own arrangement of this former song hit. and he does. Snodgrass leaves hls audience honestly wanting more of hls kind of melody. The radio public has elected Snodgrass ns a success and vaudeville seems to have the same verdict. He attempts nothing classical but plays the tunes that the public demands. Ben Ryan and. Lee Harriett have an eccentric hit of delicious nonsense. Tt Is noisy but the showmanship of the team really makes it a classic- They nearly come to blows, should say that they do. They know how to "sell” eccentric comedy across the footlights. Billboard posters come to life when Brynn and Fairchild appear in "Billboard Steps.” The opening of the act is novel and gives the dancers a good start to strut their steps. Act pleases. The Roman Tro’”"' ' 'for an acrobatic revue, filled w ; ii speed and lot of fine stunts. The whirlwind acrobatic of these five men cause them to be one of the real applause winners on the bill. Clark and Bergman, with the assistance of Margaret Hoffman, present an Intimate little sketch with music nnd much personality by the name of “Seminary Mary.” It is the way these three people, that human comedy way, which makes this little but entergetlc affair become a feature on the bill. The cast of three does enough work for about ten people In the average musical comedy sketch.

Stage Verdict English’s—“ White cargo” speaks in plain English of what happens when sex gets the better of men. Keith’s—As a holiday week show, there is a lot to be thankful for nt this theater. Lyric—The Spirit of Vaudeville with It’s many different offerings is certain to uppeal In one way or anoiehr to you. Palace —FlanderH and Butler have some new things In a musical offering that are worth listening to.

Evangeline and Kathleen Murray dish out the crooning blues songs and the jazzy homespun stuff with the aid of the eukelele with such effect that they do step into the hit class. Nice work. Zelda Brothers are contortionists and acrobats. They frolic in their own unique way, getting their share of real applause and appreciation. The movie feature is Our Gang in "One Wild Rido.’’ At Keith’s all week. -I- •!• -I--SNI B POLLARD TOPS SHOW AT THE PALACE Although the popular Idea Is that jazz Is a creation of late years, In the act of Flanders and Butler, at the Palace today and tomorrow, you are give na sample of jazz as It was written twenty-five years ago. Flanders, the pianist, from somewhere dug up an old one and played it for us. The name of the piece was the “Maple Leaf Rag.’’ \yunder if any of you remember it. You have probably heard the classics Jazed up many times, but in this act the reverse is true. A modern jazz hit, one that lias proven quite popular is given new clothes and Is played and sang as if It were written an aria. “Meet the Prince,” is a little sketch done In a musical comedy way. Concerns the troubles of a bunch of flappers at a country club, who are expecting a visit from the Prince of Wales. An Impostor gets in and impersonates the prince and the comedy idea is worked out from this. Joy Brothers and Gloom Is some comedy put out by a couple of eccentric dancers and a policeman who sings. Snub Pollard has an act full of hokum concerning a couple of burglars and a husband, who will not stay homo, presented under the title of “Say Uncle,” written by Test Dalton. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Obesrver). -I- -I- ILOOKING OVER NEW BILL AT THE LYRIC A delightful little fantasy "The Spirit of Vaudeville,’ takes the honors of this weeks bill at the Lyric. As the curtain goes up you are In front of what appears to be a mystic palace. A girl inquires of an aged man what is contained therein. He tells her that it is the home of all the amusements, that drama, opera, musical comedy, burlesque and circus all live there and indulge in a continual squabble as to who is the best an entertainer of the people. Then from out the old castle come each In his turn the amusements mentioned above. First, we have Musical Comedy, as this offering we are given a tango done in a very swift and pleasing fashion. Then Drama. Drama, played by a man in a Shakespearean eharaeter literally acts all over the stage, gives us some real deep stuff. The Circus and Burlesque are represented in turn and then we have some opera. For those who have a liking to hear a real good voice here is a treat. Have you ever heard a rooster do much more than crow at the wrong hours of the morning? If

About Sidney Lanier

You can tret an answer to any question ot fact or information by writing !o The Indlananolia Times Waahlngtoii lureau 1323 New York Ave. Waahntrton, D C., Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical legal and martial advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will received a j>eramial reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. AH letters arc confidential. —Editor. Where Is Sidney Lanier, the poet and hymn writer hurled? When did he die? Ho died in 1881, and Is hurled in Oreenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. What are the proper hours for a children’s party? For very young children tho hours are from four to seven or from three to six. For children tinder sixteen but over ten they may be from seven lo ten or eleven but never later. What was the relationship between (he present King of England and the former Czar of Russia. The mother of King George V of England and of the former Czar of

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not, you will learn somethlngg from the trained lards in the act of Torcat and D’A'liza. On© quite comical thing they did was a prize fight staged in a miniature ring, gloves on the roosters'and everything. Tiie Chandon Trio, two women and a man, center their action on a trapeze hung high above the stage. ’The features of their act were the holding of tlie other two by the neek of one of the women nnd some arm-turns on a rope by the other. Matthews and Ayres have a rather amusing little sketch of a couple at the seashore. The girl is hungry and her husband will not buy her anything to eat. 110 is so tight that ho has punts made without pockets. Dovitt and Fletcher, two men, give us some dancing and some splitting that bettors many chorus girls wo have seen. Another feature of their act was the back somersaults done by them. The Kuhn Histers sing several songs and one of them plays a piano solo. At the Lyric all week. By the Observer.) -!• -I- IM END I.'US SO I.X ( HOI R GIVES FALL CONCERT Opening with an impressive nnd beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, the Mendelssohn Choir last night at Caleb Mills Hall gavo what appears to he one of the most, ambitious and inspiring perfortnances of their career. In the “Omnipotence,” by Rhuhert, the choir sang as If the deep re ligious fervor of the master bad been communicated to them. They gave this song all the beauty that the composer had written into it. The Ave Marla, from “Otello” sung in Italian by the women's voices had that, high spiritual quality that only conies with the grouping of many women. It lmd a lifting effect entirely away from the heavy and dramatic tone accompanying a chorus of men. On© number that had proven it self worthy of a repeat on request Was the "Border Ballad” the words heing those of the chorus of an old marching song by Sir Walter Scott. The male voices of the choir carried this number with all the lilt and swing one would imagine those old Scottish warriors put Into it themselves. The high point of the Choir's offering came though with the singing of the chorus “Tu Es Petrus" from that magnificent composition of Liszt, “Clirlstus.” It carries the solemn beauty of the church throughout the ages; a feeling is there of something deep and noble, of something that is everlasting. Mr. Lambert Murphy, an American tenor who has won distinction both at home nnd abroad, was the soloist on the program. From hls first introduction to the audience in the solo part of the opening number the house paid tribute to hls voice in repeated encores and an insatiable demand for more. An Aria, “Voir Oriselldls,” from “Grlsehdis’’ was the climax of his singing. This number takes the full power nnd range of a singer's voice, and in Mr. Lambert’s rendition nothing could be found wanting. It was beautiful. For encores he was called out eight times and his last were two old favorites that one seldom hears done by such an excellent voice, “Kathleen Mavourneon" and "Rose of Picardy." This was the ninth annual fall concert of tho Mendelssohn Choir and It fully expressed tho work that has been done by this sincere group of singers under the masterful leadership of their director Mr. Elmer Andrew Steffen. (By the Observer.) + + + Other theaters today offer "Clothes Make The Pirate” at the Circle; “Stage Struck” at. the Apollo; "The ICing on Main Rt-eet” at the Ohio; burlesque at the Broadway war pictures at the Capitol. "Where Was I?” at the Colonial and "Two Fls.ed Jones” at the Isis.

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