Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1925 — Page 4
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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.
More School Building' Delay EMIIARDT, member of the f/*l school board, is quoted as asking that inasmuch as the construction of the Shortridge High School has been considerably delayed already, what harm there can be in further delay. The mere fact that the school building program, not only as it concerns Shortridge, but as it concerns the proposed colored high school, the west side high school and grade school buildings, has been so long delayed is the best argument against further delay. The outstanding fact, the fact that must never be lost sight of in this school problem, is the fact that Indianapolis MUST have more school facilities and must have them at the earliest possible moment. Despite Mr. Emhardt’s objection to going ahead with the program at this time, we -feel t}iat some progress has been made. The State tax board has indicated that it will not be particularly hostile to new school buildings for Indianapolis; although it has left the way open to block the whole program if it sees fit. Fred Sims, attorney for the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, assures us that all but one of the remonstrances against the Shortridge bond issue favor anew Shortridge, We do not know who the one remonstrator he refers to is, but certainly he seems to have considerable influence. Remonstrating against a bond issue for anew high school building would not be our idea of a way of bringing about the erection of that building. While we still believe that the Taxpayers’ Association is seriously handicapping the progress of school building in Indianapolis, it must be admitted that the school board itself has not acted as rapidly as it might. The school board went before the tax board Saturday without complete plans and Specifications for the new Shortridge. Thus the School board was greatly handicapped, for it had nothing with which to clinch its argument. The history of school building in Indianapolis has been a story of constant delays, arguments and factional fights. This would not be so bad if it were not for the fact that the children of Indianapolis, who are entitled to a public school education and who are entitled to receive that education in decent and tvellfequipped buildings, are the ones who suffer. If the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association is sincere in its desire to obtain new school buildings—a feeling which it has taken a mighty poor way of indicating—and the school board majority is equally sincere, there is hope that after all Indianapolis may have some new buildings without too much delay. All this in spite of the unfortunate fact that the muddle is in the hands of the tax board which, judging by past experience, is not particularly sympathetic with the efforts of the children of Indianapolis to become educated. But Indianapolis MUST have adequate school facilities—in spite of members of the school board, in spite of the Taxpers’ Association and in spite of the tax board. The citizens of Indianapolis, working together, are a bigger force than all these combined. Congress Convenes rpTIONGRESS is convening today with its lv| usual solemn fuss, but somehow we cannot find much that is thrilling in the spectacle. At the moment it presents only an encroachment on newspaper space that might better be given to the interesting events of our own town. What is Congress particularly concerned about as it opens it deliberations? Why, the niggling of the Federal tax total down from $3,736,000,000 to $3,436,000,000. You have to read those figures over twice to see the reduction, don’t you? It doesn’t seem to justify all the extravagant enthusiasm that party propagandists have been broadcasting on the subject of economy. Os course the tax bill should be Smaller. The war has been over seven- years now. And how are they going to reduce taxes; whose are they going to reduce? Well, chilly little Mr. Mellon, real author of the bill about which you’ve been reading so much, will have his personal tax reduced about $1,500,000 a year. Others in Mr. Mellon’s limited class will benefit a similar extent. The reduction you, personally, will obtain is somewhat less. However, remember at what terrific sacrifice Mr. Mellon left his bank in Pittsburgh to become Secretary of the Treasury and perhops your enthusiasm for the Congressional spectacle will rekindle. A generous, open-handed republic rewarding an unselfish servant! That sort of thing. Hang on to that mental picture if you want to retain your thrill, for there are not many others sight at the moment. the
House is putting its rare appreciation of Mr. Mellon in tangible form, a form he can hear jingle, the Senate will be engaged in other business. It will be considering the World Court. Over in Europe there recently was a war. We have our dimming memory of several thousand brave men to remind us of it. We also of course, have the tax bill spoken of above—perhaps a sharper reminder for some citizens than the men who died. Since the war Europe lias been struggling desperately with the problem of how to prevent another. Europe never has been especially intelligent in the matter of wars. It always has had too many of them. But it seems to have learned its lesson this time and nobody can mistake the earnestness with which it is endeavoring to make the business of going to war a very difficult one. Eprope’s efforts in this respect concern us. Another European war and we’d be in it, just as we were dragged into the last one. Another European war, and, so serious thinkers even in this country believe, all our present civilization might come clattering down into chaos. Another European war, in any event, presages a rotten world, including a rotten America for our children and grandchildren, if not for ourselves. That is the why of the World Court. It is a step toward reason as a substitute for war. But the United States Senate is not prepared to embrace it without a struggle. Some members are ready to fight to the last drop against the United States having anything to do with it. Why? Well, it seems we as a people are not smart enough to take the risk. The same orators that tell you in one breath that we Americans are the slickest, shrewdest, as well as the bravest people that an admiring sun ever shone upon, tell you in another breath that we are not slick eqough or shrewd enough to hold our own in an organization dedicated to the purposes of peace. Something might be put over on us. No, the idea seems to be that we should stick closely to our own back yard, shaving the nickels off the taxes caused by the last war, while waiting for another to occur. If it does occur we can bury our dead as we did in 1918, pay the bill and start shaving off the nickels once more? So we can’t get properly enthusiastic about Congress on this, its opening day. Perhaps a few days of fighting may clear the air, however, and present a different picture. Campaign Contributions SUE corrupt practices act makes it unlawful for any corporation to contribute to a political campaign fund. It is not unlawful for an individual to contribute. The distinction is not so important as is the business in which the corporation or individual is engaged and the return the corporation or individual expects to receive from the money which he invests in the campaign fund. The report of the Duvall-for-Mayor Club originally listed several corporations said to have contributed to its fund. Later the report was changed to show that these corporations did not contribute. But the report still shows that paving interests did contribute to the fund. The Democratic report shows that some of these same paving interests also contributed to the Democratic fund. The unusual interest shown by persons who undoubtedly expect to be beneficiaries of the next administration—some of whom took no chances and contributed to both Democrats and Republicans—is the important side of the present disturbance. Property owners will have reason to consider when they pay for their streets, alleys, sidewalks and curbs. “Os Course, It’s Bad” mN the midst of the storm and strife over prohibition, with the thirsty heckling the prohibitionists and the prohibitionists heckling the Government, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has made this brief statement: “pfforts have been made all over the country to enforce prohibition. We have tried to enforce the law to the fullest extent of our capacity and ability. General Andrews has reorganized the entire prohibition service, and he has found the very best men to carry out the law. “Os course, the situation is bad. But that is just what we are trying to correct. There are evidences where the law apparently is not being enforced; but it is just because there are such evidences that every effort is being made by the administration.’’ THE proof of the pudding is the eating thereof is Sol Meyer’s opinion of the city mansget iftjm at goj^n^nt & Miawi
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
A Sermon for Today ———-By Rev. John R. Gunn" ■-
“A word spoken in due season, how good it is.”—Proverbs 15:23. SHERE are times when silence is golden. There are also times when words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Much harm is often done through rash and untimely speech; but seasonable speech is always a blessed ministry. Limited ability and pressure of circumstances may exclude some of us from some lines of service, but not so here. The main qualifications here is heart, rather than intellect, a kindly spirit rather than a brilliant tongue. Kindly and seasonable words are the natural fruitage of a loving heart. The reason why so many of us engage so little in this ministry is because we have not set out to it as we set out to do other things.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
SCHOOL BOARD AND SHORTRIDGE TiMH State tax commission Saturday held the well adL. vertised hearing on the remonstrance against the proposed $1,200,000 bond issue for the new Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. The commission indicated and immediate favorable decision on the bond issue by authorizing the board to receive bids for bonds and construction of the new school. Apparently the Shortridge project cleared the last hurdle. But when, following the hearing, the school board met to fix a day for receiving bids internecine strife broke out all over the members and the board split wide open. Plans and specifications for the new building are not yet completed or approved, so why advertise for bids now, contended one faction. Nine months ago controversy over the architects to be employed for the new high Bchool, which had languished in court for many months, was settled. The architects were Instructed to submit plans June 15. Six months have passed since the designated date. Instead of fragrant June it is chill and wintry December. And the plans are still unfinished and have yet to be approved. The school board is no more ready for heaven than it was last spring. Who is to blame for that delay? The eleventh-hour remonstrants against the bond issue? When the remonstrance was filed members of the school board rent their garments and publicly paraded their anguish over the delay to which It would subject the building program. They pinned bouquets on themselves for their superhuman efforts to expedite the project. But they have let nine months drift past without securing completed plans for the new building. Complaints of the school board that others seek to delay the building program sound like the pot calling the kettle black. To date whatever progress the Shortridge project has made ha* been under its own power apparently. It hasn’t been pushed. disposal"of _ ” COUNTY’S INSANE |R. BENJAMIN POTTER, superintendent of the Julletta County Hospital for the Insane, has In the past two weeks made disposition of fifty-six inmates of the institution, it is reported. He hopes to dispose of the remaining inmates, so that the hospital can be closed Jan. 1, as county authorities contemplate. Borne of the patients removed have been transferred to the State epileptic village at Newcastle; some have been discharged; the rest have been sent home to the care of relatives. If some Julietta inmates should properly be transferred to the Institution for epileptics what were they doing in Marion County’s Insane hospital in the first place? Likewise, if some of the patients can now be safely discharged why have they been kept in the Institution for incurable insane up to this time? By suen transfers, discharges and turning patients over to their families Julietta can no doubt be emptied by Jan. 1 or any other designated date. That will rid the county of Julietta but doesn’t solve the problem of Julietta’s inmates. To scatter the unfortunates in private homes, where at best they can only be Inadequately guarded and cared for by their families, may give opportunity for some appalling tragedy. A handy ax and an unexpected outburst of the homicidal frenzy that Is frequently marks mental derangement might turn a neighborhood into a shambles. It is worth while to incur such risks—endanger families and perhaps subject unfortunate insane to improper treatment and abuse — Just to save the county a few dollars? BEEF AT $7 A POUND | T~IOCK, a yearling Angus i j I steer owned by William W. I J I Wilson & Son of Muncie, Ind., dead and dressed was proclaimed the grand champion steer carcass at the international livestock show the other day. He was sold for $7 a pound to a Chicago hotel. That’s the record price for the carcass of an animal. The remains of King Tut wouldn’t bring more one the open market. The fellow who exclaimed “my kingdom for a horse” must be doing business in Chicago. Seven dollars a pound for beef! Tfce average housewife and restaijlrant diner hope t that Jock wA’t become the stock in trade
Other things we specially and definitely purpose to do. But here, too. is a service of sufficient importance and of sufficient promise in results to be included as a distinct and vital part of our life purpose. We often dream of what we could do, if only we had the opportunity Opportunities for words to be spoken in due season abound every day and everywhere. We have no idea how many people there are all about us in need of encouragement. Many times they almost give up in despair when a simple word of encouragement would give them new heart and courage. Truly the great sage of old was right when he said of such a word. "How good it is.” Doubly good it is —good because it does us good to speak it and because it does so much good to the one to’whom spoken. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn)
of local butcher shops. One would break more than a tooth on a steak carved from him. Is any meat worth such price? To an unlettered cannibal the Queen of Sheba would probably not prove a more succulent morsel than some unknown damsel And quite likely a mouthful of Jock would not contain more proteins, carbohydrates and vita mines than a mouthful of some plain steer. A French cook can take a chunk of super annuated horse a handful of herbs, vegetables and genius and produce a cish that will make one’s appetite rise on its toes and dance. Nothing more can be done with $7-a-pound beef. The old. luxury-loving Roman emperors served humming-birds’ tongues and such extravagant delicacies at their feasts. Lucullus, Vitellus et al. are dead. But there is a good deal of the humming-bird-tongue spirit in our pure bred livestock Industry. It is more concerned with raising record price champions than meat POOLROOMS AS CRIME BREEDERS mNDIANArOLIS patrolmen have been ordered to concentrate their energies on cleaning up poolrooms, described by Prosecutor Remy as “eriine breeding places.” This followed revelations made to the prosecutor by two young brigands who admitted they graduated into crime from a course of poolroom loafing. Almost a year ago, when the same two youths were arrested in connection with the hold-up and murder of a street car conductor, the police were ordered to clean up disreputable poolrooms. The result was not visible to the naked eye. Probably the present campaign will be equally effective. Pool may be a stimulating intellectual and physical recreation. But not in a hole-in-the-wall, place —of which Indianapolis has many -—with a ocuple of mangy pool tables and an atmosphere thick enough to cut. where youthful loafers hang out Such places graduate more outlaws than moral leaders. There boys sprout their criminal pin feathers. The unsavory poolrooms and tl e Joints with fly-specked cartons of cigarets in the front rooms and crowded card tables behind the screen must be disinfected before there can be any real clean up of youthful lawlessness and crime In ( the city. The police know the locations of these plague spots. Why do they have to he prodded into warfare against therti? But the police are not solely to blame for the conditions. Lax parental authority that permits 15-year-old boys to loaf around and acquire a poolroom, smoke shop education Is also guilty.
Third Term for President
You esn gel an answer to any ones Hon of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1344 New York Aye. Wash ington. p ... Inclosing 2 renin m stamps for reply Medical leral and martial advice cannot bo driven nor can extenied research be undertaken Ail other questions will received a per sonal reply Unsigned requcMts cannot be answered All letters are confiden* tial —Editor Does the Constitution prohibit a third term for President of the United States? The Constitution does not prohibit a third term, but the precedents established by Washington and Jefferson make it hard for a man to run a third time with much hope of success. In what year was the Navy De-
Temperance, Not Prohibition
Editor's Note—Tills Is the third of s series of articles by Mr. Gardner reporting the operation of liquor laws in the various proving-* of Cansds. By Gilson Gardner M— “| ONTREAL (by mail)—The people of Quebec resent vigorously any suggestion that they have “lapsed into the evils of intemperance” as a result of adopting the Quebec liquor law, now in the fifth year of its operation. They say they are the real "temperance” people and that their plan is the Only “temperance” plan that really works. And to the stranger within their gates they seem to make out a pretty good case. Os course all statistics are deceitful, but some statistics seem less deceitful than others. Take, for instance, the official figures on drunkenness in Montreal. Population In 1921, 618,506. In 1920 the monthly average of arrests for drunkenness was above 600. In May, 1921 the present liquor act went Into effect. In 1921 the monthly average of arrests for drunkenness wajj a little less tha,n 550. During the Lext year —the first of. the liqufor ic.t’s administration, the average dropped to
Even ‘Best People’ Like a Little Lovin’; Tom Meighan Takes Journey to Ireland
By Walter D. Hickman EOVIN’ In lovin’ and love Is love the world over. Some people make a romantic drama cut of the lovin’ business, but the fact is, even the "best people” like to be loved in the way they desire. The author of “The Best People” had that idea when he wrote that play for the legitimate stage. To his satisfaction he proved that the daughter of a wealthy papa and a high social standing mamma lived to be loved by a man who was a real guy and not cause the swift IY 'VL? going daughter f jSs& fuf ' raUfiHH Jj mamma had se"lounge boys for daughter. I doubt Harold Uoyd If the object of mother’s selection could have carried the hole of a doughnut and stood up under the load. The son of a family of the best people had his idea about a wife. So he decided to marry one of those good Sally types to be found in the chorus. This chorus girl didn’t drink and d'dn’t smoke, and she wouldn’t marry the son of one of the best families until his allowance was cut off. Modern playwrights certainly do make heroines out of the chorus ladies. It seems to me that the modern playwright is giving some of “the best families” a deal these days. I can’t see how they ever became “best people” with so many old skeletons in the closet. Some times I feel sorry for members of the beet families as they are exposed upon the stage and the screen. In the cast of "The B>st People” as a movie version, are Warner Baxter, Esther Ralston and Kathlyn Williams. Also on the bill is a Harold Lloyd re-issue, “Never Weaken.” Charlie Davis and his orchestra have a novelty song in "costume and disguise” this week. They are singing something about everybody going to Florida, but the singers assure us that they will all come back. At the Ohio all week. •I- -I- -ITOM WENT AWAY TO MAKE HIS NEW MOVIE Tom Meighan and members of his company went to Ireland to make “Irish Luck.” The results are evident in this photoplay because the real Irish atmosphere is refleeted man} Isctnes - While ovei Were, the director was a tile to pick ’WwijK up some characteristic types and L, was a ' ) * e to Pla.ce ' | action in real " Meighan is given a • chance to play n ,<,pw York policeJEftß nan who won a iSSIs ’polite” contest gSri ■iSi. . I ®'* an<l " as to H Ireland on a holiday, and, as an Tom Meighan Irish Lord. Despite the title, the story in theme is melodramatic and Tom has to fight bad men, climb in and out of windows and do all of that sort of thing. Meighan can be clever upon the screen when he desires and he Is clever In “Irish Luck.” especially in (he way he “makes up” for the two characters who look alike. By the simple trick of parting his hair dis ferently than he usually wears it. Meighan looks different and is able
partment created and who was the first secretary? The Department of the Navy was created by an Act. of Congress approved April, 1798. Benjamin Stoddart was the first secretary and entered upon his duties June 18, 1798. What is the name of the poem in which the following lines recur in each stanza: “For men must work and women must weep, . And the sooner its dver the sooner to sleep, And goodbye to the bar “sand its moaning.” "Three Fishers,” by Charles Kingsley.
354. The next year the average dropped to below 300, and in 1924 (the last year for which there are official returns), the average arrests dropped to 243 t I visited the Recorder’s Court where the "drunks” are arraigned and sat through a morning session. As it happened there were none that day, Oct. 13, 1925. I talked to clerk of the court. Mr. C. Lalonde, and found him enthusiastic over the results of the law. He called attention to the figures in the annual report of the court showing that since 1921, when the liquor act was passed, to 1924 the arrests for "loitering .or lying drunk” had dropped from 7,843 in 1921 to 4,205 in 1922, 3,829 in 1923 and (about the same) 3,854 in 1924. “Quite aside from the figures,” said Mr. Lalonde, "one knows who sees a court like ours, what are the results. Days go by when I see no person under the influence of liquor. The saloon has gone. It Is very different for the working man who now may buy his wine or beer and consume it In his home. The
Movie Verdict Circle —Doris Kenyon walks away with the comedy honors in “The Unguarded Hour,” although Milton Sills is announced as the star. The musical features are splendid this week. Apo 11 o—Thomas Meighan plays a dual role to advantage In melodramatib surroundings in “Irish Luck.” Colonial At times “Tho Keeper of the Bees” is as sweet as the hoeny the bees make. Not all the story of Gene Stratton Porter has been filmed. Ohio—“ The Best People” is another movie attempt to show' that some of the “be.-t people” are wrong, while the poor are always right.
to play twA characters without makeup. The natural scenery of Ireland with its lakes and old castles and quaint towns, / rip to make this picture a delighitul little Journey to the land of romunce. “Irish Luck” has a definite plot. It stacks up as good Meighan entertainment. Lois Wilson plays oppo site the star. The bill Includes an Imperial Comedy,” The Heart Breaker,” a news reel, organ music by Earl Gordon and orchestral music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. Charles Lines is singing a “laugh’ song this week which gets over to quite a hit. At the Apollo all week. -I- -I- -IA BOOK IS A BOOK AND A MOVIE IS A MOVIE Bees have been “turned into actors.” Seems strange to say that, but that is just what the director of “The Keeper of the Bees” has done. The late Gene Stratton Porter put bees, and many of them, in her last novel, “The Keeper olf the Bees.” To accurately bring this story to the scene, it was necessary to have real, live Wes, millions of ’em, in the camerawas crank Clara Bow ing. In bringing “The Keeper of the Bees ’ to the screen, the director did not attempt to film the complete story. Some of the scenes I enjoyed most in the story were not included in the movie version. If the dramatic sequence of events were filmed as recorded in the novel, it is probable that the movie would have been confusing. As “The Keeper of the Bees” now stands as a movie, it makes n complete story, but it doesn’t cover the entire story as written by Gene Stratton Porter. And yet this opinion, or rather, statement of a fact, does not mean that “The Keeper of the Bees” is not good entertainment. Mrs. Porter knew her busy out-of doors. She knew' jbee life and she knew humans. The! little Scout and the girl who makes a vital mistake in love are the two characters that really stand out in the movies. The girl playing the role of the Little Scout is a wonder. While she is masquerading as a boy, she Is splendid and she is an awk ward delight when she decides to wear skirts and become a “lady.” The acting honors go to Robert Frazier as the wounded soldier hero; Clara Bow as the girl who sins for love and Alyce Mills as the girl who
Police Protection Asked By Mr. Fixlt
bet Mr. Fixlt solve your troubles with city officials He is The Times' representative at the eity hall. Write him at The Times. DEAR MR. FIX IT: We live in the northwest part, of town and arc in had need of police protection, for robbers have been busy every night. Can’t you do something? WORRIED. Forty-seven additional police today were assigned to residential districts. You should be fairly well protected. They added fortyeight men to the force, but one wrestled with Mr. Volstead disastrously shortly after appointment. He is now suspended.
Montreal officials have not yet recovered from their feelings of outrage at an article published in a leading female household magazine (The Ladies Home Journal) in which, as they say, the facts about the liquor act and its effect were flagrantly misrepresented. So strongly did Recorder Amedeo Geoffrlon feel that he wrote a scathing letter to the Hon. L. A. Tascherau, Prime Minister at Quebec, calling the writer a liar in all the ways known to the French-English of Canada. The problem of excessive use of drink, say officials here, is not a local one. Persons who come into Quebec from the dry province of Ontario, as at Hull, swell the arrest statistics. Like the people from the United States, they come to slake a long-felt thirst, und try in the short period of their visit to drink all the liquor In the world. Quite expectably they get drunk and have to be taken fa charge by the police. Meantime, the person who can go and buy what he wants when lie wants it, does not get so ambitious and ia content!to drink moderately at home, or e*en to leave It alone until he really wem* it.
MONDAY, DEC. 7, 1925
understands w'bat it means to sin for love. The cast is more than Am not forgetting the bees, they arfl wonderful too. Boy Scouts and girl scouts will enjoy “The Keeper of the Bees.” Here is a movie of sentiment which is as sweet at times as the honey the bees make. The bill includes the American Harmonists, “Buster’s Bust Up,” a Buster Brow'n comedy; a news reel, Aesop Fables and Julia NlebergaJl in planologues. At the Colonial all week. -1- -I- IMILTON SILLS BECOMES VN ITALIAN NOBLEMAN For movie purposes alone, Milton Sills becomes an Italian count who doesn't look anymoro like an Italian Count than I do. This happens, I mean Fills becomes an Italian Count, in “The Unguarded Hour.” Let us talk to each other Just a minute. ‘‘The Unguarded Hour,” Is far from being bad P meat, but it is not vehicle which is S§V- -C ton Sills on top of the movie ladder, Hi v either as an artist ■jlsgpr fll or ns a box office HOP”"' as Fills Is cod| cemed, he mlgl^ ft, ( I Doris Kenyon, as ißjftl j j American girl, who Italian society, is Doris Kenyon the one who walks away with this picture. This is Miss Kenyoh’s picture and nobody was able to take It away from her. It is her picture, because the author centers all of his “fat” comedy stuff upon tho character played by Miss Kenyon, About all Sills has to do Is to jump into the ocean twice and get his clothes all wet. Asa starring vehicle for Sills, it is all wet, As a starring vehicle for Doris Kenyon, it is mighty fine. “The Unguarded Hour," gets off to a bad start. Tho director wanted to start off differently and he sure did. The American girl heroine is shown giving a smart society ball to which she has Invited through tho newspaper a gang of real thieves and yeggmen. This might be a novelty in fact, but upon the screen it registers as a silly idea. Sills does not get into the picture until the story is well under way. Again, I sny that it is Doris Kenyon who walks away with this picture. Soothing melody is found in Victor Herbert's score of “The Girl In the Spotlight,” as played by the Circle Orchestra with Bakaleinikoff conducting. The orchestra has aAj other chance to furnish soothiiJP melody because they play “Hymn to the Sun” while “Tho lUver Nile," a little journey movie, Is being shown -on the screen. I have tfce greatest admiration for the way Ace Berry is presenting these little travel movies. They are worth while and corking good entertainment. Miguel Galvin plays the banjo find at times is able to convince one thht in his hands the banjo can be; a wicked instrument. His melody registers with ease, but he should study stage appenranee ( and showmanship. A. Farb sings "Save Your Sorrow” as the movie story is flashed upon the screen. At the Circle all week. • • • Ed Wynn opens a week's engagement at English’s tonight in “Tho Grab Bag.” Joyce Lando and company is tho readline attraction at tho Lyric. Singers' Midgets hold first place on the bill at Keith’s. The Four Foys are present at the Palace. The feature at the Isis for the first half of the week is Fred Thompson and his horse in "All Around Frying Pan.” 1 Burlesque is on view at the Broadway.
DEAR MR. FIXIT: Is there i city law against wires, electric fl telephone, hanging over our man streets downtown? One broke am fell in front of my machine aJn <U -sed some damage. A VISITOR; Practically all wires downtowfri are underground and this Is the ultimate aim. Occasionally, however, mechanical conditions necessitate allowing one utility wire to remain overhead. Report ajl hanging wires at once to police headquarters. They will be guarded immediately. TO A STREET CAR PATRON: Sergeant O’Neal of the police accident prevention bureau now is investigating the case of doubleparking you reported.
Do You Know? Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, urges all personaavoid possibility of smallpox Infection by vaccination atonce. •
What is the standard size of a Jour-car garage? Eighteen by thirty-six feet. What are the dates of the and death of William Shakespeare? He was born at Stratford-on-Avon, County of Warwick, England in AprU. 1564. He was baptized bn April 26 and since it waa a common practice to christen Infants when three days old. the tradition which makes his birthday the 23rd (May 3 as dates are now reckoned), Is generally accepted. He died on April 23, 1 16. Which has the greater specific gravity, go,ld, aluminum Qr platinum? The specific gravity of fUumlnijrn Is about 2.6; of gold l#, and- u s platinum 2L .