Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1926 — Page 4

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Let There Be Light OALF of the street lights aleng Indianapolis main streets were turned off at midnight last night. And the system will be fol vwed henceforth, perhaps, as a means of keeping the city’s street lighting bill within the budget for the year. According to the estimate of the city engineering department, turning off all lights on one side of each street at midnight will save the city $15,000 annually. Quite likely. Cutting off the other half would save twice that sum—and no street lights at all would effect a real portly saving. But expense isn’t the only factor to be considered in street illumination after nightfall. The chief function of street lights is utilitarian, not ornamental. They are not merely a species of community advertising comparable to the electric signs used by business houses. They are provided for the comfort, safety and protection of citizens —especially the latter. Burglars, stick-ups and prowlers prefer to operate in streets where darkness is thick enough to cut rather than brilliantly lighted sections. To .discourage such gentry, street lights are as necessary after midnight as before. They don’t cease their activities at 12 o’clock sharp. More light rather than less light is the answer to much of the nocturnal lawlessness that disturbs Indianapolis. If the city must economize it might turn off half the police force as well as half the street lights. Then each citizen could hurry home at twilight and barricade himself in his own domicile, remaining there until dawn. And the city would save a lot of money.

Kellogg’s Loud Silence on Mexico "pnECRETARY of State Kellffgg seems to J have adopted a brand new policy with regard to Mexico—a policy of secrecy, silence and shush. About a month ago he sent what purported to be a stiff note to Mexico warning her—so it is said—that if certain of her new alien land and petroleum laws were not modified to suit, relations might be broken off; Just what the note actually said, how-' ever, is still one of the mysteries. The American public has not been Jet in on the secret. Next, on Jan. 14, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Saenz gave out a declaration of principle underlying the laws complained of, claiming his country was not only clearly within her domestic rights, but that similar laws, in the United States, are even more drastic than the Mexican. Step No. 3 came on Jan. 19 when Foreign Minister Saenz delivered to Ambassador Sheffield, in Mexico City, a formal note replying to the American protest. . This note reached Washington, Jan. 20. And if press reports' were correct in characterizing Secretary Kellogg’s note as “strongly phrased,” the Mexican come-back apptears to have been none the less so. But again it must be remarked that nobody knows. Still it is quite apparent the Mexican note was not to be sneezed at, for Charles B. Warren of Detroit, former ambassa-

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great

mF you are willing: to concede that "war is filthy," aa Lady Cynthia Mosley describes it, and that most wars are "other people’s wars,” you will enjoy this new film, “The Big Parade," of Laurence Stallings. Its moral—if it has one—ls much the same as that of "What Price Glory." Perhaps with all its frankness as to dirt, vermin, death and maiming it will make war no less popular, because, after all, It portrays the big stick that people get from the wholesale release from conventionality and the hum-drum routine of every-day life. We hate to praise anything that feeds the false thing so often called patriotism, but we will say that the picture is a strong stimulant. The story Is not much, but the staging and acting at the close of the first half—the parting of him and her, as the forces are ordered forward—is hard to resist. If you are given to hysteria, don't go. If you are sentimental, take two handkerchiefs. If you are a deep and serious pacifist, stay at home. • * • When a large employer or a Defense Society (professional patriots), wishes to voice its disapproval of the point of view of their employes or others, it is their custom to denounce such a point of view as "communistic," “socialistic” and "Bolshevistic.” These are all fine ' mouth-filling words, but what- do they really mean? Some time could we take a day off and quietly.go Into that matter? * • • The English playwright Drinkwater, who has bean writing about the IJtuted States, quotes a Judge met on shipboard as saying that "it is as easy to get, an American State

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legislature to pass a crank law as It Is to get a congregation to sing ‘Abide With Me.’ " • * • Millicent (Rogers) and Ludwig (Count Salm-TJoogstraeten) don’t want to live together any longer and have told their lawyers to fix it up that way. Millicent says she Intends to keep the kid and Ludwig says he’ll have to have the kid or an equal weight of money. Nothing has yet been arranged as to who shall have the custody of the title. • * * At the sight of two pretty gir.'s kissing one another Gall Laughlin, famous woman lawyer and feminist of California, voiced disapprove!. "I hate to see woman doing men’s work,” she explained. * * * No, Alice Roosevelt Longworth does not conform her social life to the duties and responsibilities of the speakership. Alice does exactly what she always has done. Which is exactly what she pleases to do. • • • “There is a glamour to this Washington life. The presence In it of men who are at the center of things, whose names fill the papers daily, makis it inevitable. The presence of foreign diplomats adds’ n. brilliance that cannot be duplicated In America. Once having been a part of it. It is almost impossible to go back to life in the old home town.” —Ruth Finney in the Scrlpps-How-ard papers. But Ruth, dear, there Is Victor Murdock who has gone back to beeoms ithe Sage of Wichita, Kans.

dor to Mexico, was called Into consultation. Hurrying to the capital, he took part, dispatches tell us, “in a series of conferences with President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg” relative to the controversy. On Jan. 30, after ten days of hesitation, Secretary Kellogg finally got a reply off to Mexico City. Like the rest, its contents are still a secret. Secretary Kellogg began the present row with Mexico last June when he took the*universe into his confidence, placing her “on trial before the world” and telling her, in effect, that if she did not mend her ways we might have to withdraw recognition and let possible revolution take its course. Why the secrecy now ? Mexico, we are reliably informed, is not only willing, but is actually doing all in her power short of committing a diplomatic discourtesy, to have the whole series of documents made public. Is America, with all her boasts of democracy, open diplomacy and what not, to be outdone by “backward Mexico?” Strange indeed is this contrast between Secretary Kellogg’s reverberating thunder of last June, which echoed from Point Barrow to Cape Horn, end his present silence. True, lie came out socond best in that exchange of bolts, but that is no valid excase for secrecy. It may, however, be an explanation.

California Recovering [ foil ALIFORNI A, apparently, is convalescing r from the fever of fear that has put hundreds of political prisoners into her jails in the last few years, and has set her apart from other States of the Union. A California jury has acquitted Richard Ford. Ford is the man who was organizing hop pickers on a ranch twelve years ago when a sheriff s posse broke up the meeting. In the riot which followed two officers were shot and killed, and although Ford had no weapons, he and a .fellow organizer were convicted of the murder and served elevln-year terms. As he emerged from prison, Ford was rearrested and charged with the murder of the man’for whom his companion had first been punished. It took the jury seventy-seven hours to acquit Ford. Yet in the end old prejudices and hatreds were cast aside, and a verdict on the evidence was given.

The South Awakes Ia IT a critical moment in his long fight to save Muscle Shoals from the private power interests, Southern manufacturers and business men have awakened to the fact that the fight being made by Sertator Norris is their fight. They are now lining up behind him. • If they make their support effective, their wisdom will pay dividends. Three of the fastest-growing cities in the world—Cleveland, Los Angeles and Seattle—owe rapid progress in part to municipally owned and operated power plants which provide cheap power for industrial and business needs. Proper development of Muscle Shoals will give half, a dozen Southern States thia same advantage.

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How is near silk made? How can it be told from real silk? t There are a good many substitutes for silk, chiefly artificial silk, mercerized cotton and other materials having a finish similar to that of silk. The best substitute Is generally believed to be the artificial or fiber silk, made from either cotton listers lor wood pulp dissolved In a solution and mrle Into a cellulose. The material then resembles a syrup, which is pumped Into another solution and comes out in the form of artificial silk thread. There Is no simple means of telling the various yarns In a fabric, and sometimes the artificial silk fabric is almost exactly like the material made from natural silk. Ts -John L. Ivewls. head of the United Mine Workers of America, a native or naturalized citizen of the United States? He was born In Lucas, lowa, Feb. 12, 1880. His father’s name was Thomas H. Lewis and,his mother’s maiden name was Ann Louisa Watkins, and she* also came from Lucas. John L. Lewis’ middle name is Llewellyn, which indicates that he had Welsh ancestors. Where is the island located on* which Robinson Crusoe was wrecked? The'lsland on which Alexander Selkirk _ (Robinson Crusoe), was wrecked and formerly supposed to have been In the Pacific, has been satisfactorily Identified as Tabago in the Caribbean Sea. Is white a color? x White is the combination of all colors. ,

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Lovers of Orchestral Music Prepare Symphony Concert By Buying Records

By Walter D. Hickman N a MIGHTY good way to use your phonograph Is to have an orchestral concert in your own' home before a symphony orchestra appears in coflcert here. The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Henri Verbrugghen, will give a concert under the direction of Ona B. Talbot on Thursday night, Feb. 31, at tbe Murat. • I have noticed that many people are getting more familiar with this organization by buying the Brunswick recorfls of this fine orchestra. Really, I know of no finer way to become acquainted with orchestral music and to appreciate a symphony concert than by playing high class symphony records at home on your own phonograph. Brunswick announces the following Minneapolis Symphony reoords: Frelsehutz—Overture (Part X) ... Weber Frelsohutz—Overture (Part XI) ... Weber The \ irfiu’a X.ant Sleep Massenet "Coppelia" Ballet. Prelude and Mazurka Delfbea WaJata Pol (Arr. by Verbrugghen) . . Mill Melodrama from ‘'Pitx^olino ,, # . Guira’id This department has been asked to list a number of records, - oldfashfoned musio, which never grows old. I And that Columbia has such a list which I think will answer the demand. Columbia lists the following as “‘Songs That Never Grow Old.” "Silver Threads Among tbe Gold." The Rosar.v." .... Tenor Solos. Henry Buit. Mother Machree. ’ Macuahla." Tenor Solo*. Charles Harrison. Annie Laurie"—Male Quartet. .... Columbia Stellar Quartet. Meet Me By Moonlight." ... Columbia Mixed Quartet. ..Carry Me Back to Old Virginity." The Old Oaken Bucket." Male Quartets. ..... Columbia Stellar Quartet. "Old Black Joe." e "My Old Kentucky Home.” . .. Paul Ist Choristers. Dixie. "Maryland. My Maryland " Peerless Quartet. Relieve Me If All Those Endearing l oune Charms.’ ‘When You and I Were Young Maggie." Baritone Solos Oscar Seagle. Love a Old Sweet Soni " 'Silver Threads Among the Gold." Baritone Solos. Oscar Seagle. Carry Me Back to Old Vlrglnny! 7 ’ “Old Folks at Worn.’” (Way Down Upon the Swanee River). ooprano Solos. Edna Thomas. The Rosary. "Perfect Day." Tenor Solos. Charles Harrison. Have also been asked to list Charleston records. Brunswick has such a list ns follows: “Sugar Plum." 'Promenade Walk." Rerb Wltdoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra. "Everybody Stomp I" "Pretending." Abe Lyman's California Orchestra. Storan Off—Let’s Go." “Carolina Stomp.’ _ The Cotton Pickers. “Deep Elm." “I Want You All for Me." Herb Wledoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra. "The Original Charleston." “Sweet Man." Isham Jones' Orchestra. “Remember. “Oh! Boy, What a Girl." Xsham Jones' Orchestra. “CTinrlestonette." “Kinky Kid's Parade." Bennie Krueger's Orehestaa. "Footloose." “I Miss My Swiss." Carl Fenton's Orchestra. "Yes Sir. That's My Baby " “If I Had a Girl Like You." BentiW Krueger's Orchestra. "Milenbe-p Joys.” "If You Hadn't Gone Awsv." The Cotton Pickers. • • • Indianapolis theaters today offer: "Artists and Models." Rt English's; Jos Mendi, at Keith's; “Knick Knacks of 1926." at the Lyric; “Dandfe Visions of 1926,” at the Palace; "Don’t,” at the Apollo; “Three Faces East,” at the Colonial; “Too Much Money,” at the Circle; “The Wanderer," at the Ohio; burlesque at the Broadway. and “The Lucky Horeshoe.” at the Isis.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

IS BLUSHING LOST ART? By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Y rj HILE we do not exactly sub\jU scribe to Mr*. John Hender- ■ son’s movement to get back ankle length skirts, still the remarks of various Washington debutantes regarding the eighteenth century fashions sound a bit strained. After a recent fancy dress ball, whjn all appeared in colonial costumes, on* girl Is reported to have said that when hsr hoop skirt flew up so high In the dance that her pantalettes showed, she actually blushed. Another annouuced that the idea that her lace panties peeped out embarrassed her so much that she could hardly go upon the dance floor, , while still another reported that when she held up her skirts she felt the eyes of every man Id the room upon her ankles. These were arguments against the return oflthe longer skirt. Still, why blush over pantalettes when you can’t turn a shade pinker over a rolled stocking? Why become eiri barrassed to fainting over the lace on your underwear showing when you do not turn a hair at knees bared to the breeze? Why feel the piercing eyes of the men upon yoUr ankles when you do not seem conscious of their gaze when it strays much higher? The statements of those society belles Is about the first testimony w* have had that makes us think long skirts might not be such a bad thing after all. Anything would be good that could make the girls learn to blush again. Hoops, pantalettes or tight corsets would be worth something If they could bring with them some slight appearance of modesty. For. while we will never admit that the styles of a generatien ago were more sensible or that the girls were actually better, still a bit more blushes would not come amiss these days. - ’ It Is all right to follow the fashions unless, of course, they mount too high, and when skirts get to the place where they are so short that modesty seems futile, then the time has come to call a halt. - .* A certain amount of modesty Is an admirable possession, and while we would never recommend too much of that lost Victorian attribute. Just a flash of it added to many a modern maid 'Would give her a spice and charm which she does not always now possess. Long skirts were ungainly things, but they came in very well sometimes to cover up a pair of unattractive legs and a couple of knobby knees. Z, j We recommend them to a large percentage of our young ladies who are troubled with the same defects.

A Sermon for Today

Text: “If I forget the*, O Jerusalem, let my right hand her cunning. If I W* thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; ts 1 ■ P f * ot Jerusalem above my chief Joy. Ps. 137:5-6, r HESE are the words of one T loyal to his native land. Many such patriotic expressions are to be found, in the Bible. Love of one’s country is not only a natural sentiment, but it is right in the sight of God. The Bible exalts patriotism- to a Christian virtue whenever It Is held In a Christian spirit. Notwithstanding our modern doctrinaires who prate about interna--tionalism and world citizenship, most of us still believe in old-fashioned patriotism. Not a narrow, provincial patriotism which thinks it Is patriotic because it sneers at every other nation but its own. Not a blind patriotism which panders to national vanity and falls to see anything good elsewhere and which can not concenve of benefit to one’s country unless it Involves injury to another. Not a Jingo patriotism which places the materia] interests of the country above all moral standards and which leads to unlawful aggrandizement, duplicity and selfish violence. But a patriotism which Is founded on great principles and supported by great virtues, and

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HIDIN’ THINGS I . | BABY shouldn't eat of too A much candy, so they say. It I ■ 1 makes them sfck, and shucks, it isn’t nice to feel that way. But still there’s no discretion in a tiny youngster’s mind, so how can people blame them when they eat all they can find? Each household has some china that is broken by a touch. I guess perhaps the reason is because it coet so much. To keep a wee one shy of It is something you can't teach, so, after all, it’s mighty Vise to put it out of reach. In mother’s darning basket are some needles, yarn and thread. Why is it every baby to the darning basket’s led? We Just can’t peedles prick, and make the kldlef

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One of the hltß In “Artists and Models," now at English’s, is the singing of None? Gibbs. One of her song pictures an atmospheric war song of the Civil War, Is a melody gem.

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which shares, not only the privileges of citizenship, but the duties of citizenship—duties which arise, not only In connection with the domestic relations of the citizen to his country, but in connection with all that concerns the attitude of the country toward foreign countries. Such is our conception of patriotism In Arßprlca. It does not engender a feeling of antagonism toward any other nation. It does not ignore the rights and privileges of other peoples, but rather cherishes a deep concern for their wellbeing. It does not forbid our cooperation with other nations in a wisely planned international arrangement for the establishment of international Justice, good will and peace. But, while not selfish or exclusive, at the same time, it does give the first preference to our beloved America. Upon this preferential devotion to America depends, not only our own salvation, but the salvation of humanity at large. For the history of our origin and rise to primacy among-the nations clearly shows that God has staked upon this nation the last hope of the world. If America should 'fall, it would mean the failure of the world. Therefore, the citizen who is truest to America, laths truest world citizen. The best way for ua to asrve* other nations la to he true American patriots. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

’By Hal Cochran

cry. That’s why you’ll find the darning basket hidden"way up high. It keeps the growfi-ups busy when a little tot’s around, ahidin’ things in secret spots where they cannot be found. But, as the tot grows older, it Imagines it’s a game, and so it keeps on hunting, an’ It finds thingß, Just the Slime. • • * NOW, HONESTLY— Just supposing you had to serve all of the time that you have kept people waiting. ’Twould likely be from Wow on. Ail the world has a habit of being late for engagement. Even the person who gets there first is late —but not so much so as the other party. If there were some way to set our watches so a six o’clock engagement would mean six thirty or a ten o’clock one mean eleven, It wouldn’t be so bad. But, so long as there isn’t—let’s try being on time. • • • Eleven cubic feet of water, when frozen, make twelve cubic, feet of ice. Unfrozen they make eleven cubic feet of water. • • • The world Is full of. a number of things—and most women want all of them. • • • lIAMAN—If there are seven ages of man, how many are there of woman? EGG—Two—and the other Is her right one. • • • FABLES IN FACT ONCE A CERTAIN FELLOW PAID A HEAP OF ATTENTION TO A CERTAIN G7RL PERIOD IN LOV.3 QUESTION MARK I SHOULD IMAGINE SO PERIOD BUT ONE DAY HIS . INTEREST SEEMED TO LAG A BIT AND HE PAID LITTLE OR NO ATTENION AT ALL PERIOD NOW COMMA YOU'RE SUPPOSfeT) TO SAY COMMA QUOTATION MARK DID HE JILT THE ' GIRL ' QUESTION MARK QUOTATION’MARK AND I REPLY QUOTATION MARK NO COMMA HE MARRIED HER QUOTATION MARK PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service Inc.)

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BREAKING LAW TO ENFORCE IT mTTDOE SLICK, In Federal Court up at South Bend, expresses disapproval of the methods of Federal dry sleuths In buying, at Government expense, and drinking booze to procure evidence against liquor law violators. “It goes against my grain,” quoth the Judge after an agent had testified he Induced a youth in a poolroom to sell him a drink out of a bott’e, “to see Government money being used to buy drinks when it is necessary for the Federal agents to beg their suspects to violate the law. It is Just as much against the law to buy liquor es to sell it.” Enforcement officers assert such methods are necessary. And the favorite stunt of “under-cover” agents is to pose as butter-and-egg men, spending Government rttoney fteeiy on taxi-cabs, ladles of the evening and drinks. That’s strictly In the line of duty, they argue. But. like Judge Slick, the ordinary citizen doubts the propriety of such proceedings: There may be a distinction between a Federal agent buying and swallowing drinks for evidence and a private citizen buying and swallowing drinki? for pleasure. But there’s no real difference, rhe drinks go to the earn© destination, have the same effect and. light the same internal fires. If John Barleycorn'is damaging to the morals and internal economy of the private citizen he is eqftaliy so to the Federal sleuth. It lt’e all wrong for the private citizen to buy drinks, it can’t he all right for enforcement officers to buy them. Perhaps that’s the only way the prohibition law can be enforced—sort of fight the devil with fire. If so the Government can easily enroll a lot of volunteer firemen.

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•By GAYLORD NELSON

DEMOCRACY NOT SO GOOD ERQFESSOR UNGER of Butler University, addressing' the Irvington Republican Club Monday night, said: “I have come to the plnfe where I am not entirely sure democracy is the best thing even for Anglo-Saxons." Doubtless those patriotic souls who proclaim our form of government perfect, something almost sacred, the result of a divine miracle, and kowtow to our Constitution in blind Idolatry, will register anguish at the prof’s candid words. To them, he haa struck a sour note. But there is a basis for his remarks. In the history of nations, and even In the United States today, democracy as a form of government is more or less of an experiment. Monarchies and autocracies have proved more enduring than republics, democracies and forms of popular self-government. Life of the democratio Greek city-states was short. The Roman republic existed for two or throe centuries and then gave way to the Homan empire, which endured for a thousand years. Switzerland, the oldest modern democracy, has been under that form of government only 300 years —just a day or two in the life of a nation. So the United States with its 150 years of popular rule and democratic institutions, hasn’t existed long enough to prove whether democracy is a success or failure. Is our form of government permanent or just a passing phase? Where are we going, and tvhy? The next 150 years will tell the story.

MR. FIXIT College Ave. Street Car Patron Sends in Complaint.

Ix*t Mr Flx.it present your ease to city officials He la The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The amusing sale of the "College Ave. tag line” is related to Mr. Fixlt, among letters received today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: If you don’t live on the College Ave. street car l*ne, you are missing something. Tag is played, yet you never know who is it. The game generally lasts from forty-five minutes until an hour and there are no objections if It goesJ into overtime. ’ The game in progress: An in-bound Forty-Sixth St. or a Broad Ripple car loads in the usual manner down to Twenty-Seventh St. Then by a scratch we move down College Ave. Just ahead of the car marked Twenty-Seventh St. Os course, the car beyond Twenty-Sev-enth St. is loaded and the other car Is empty, but for fear the TwentySeventh St. car might get lost and not find its way downtown we lag along. When it gets pretty close we run ahead for a blcck and wait again. No wonder we swear. The motormen claim the slow schedule is to blame and that no game is being played. The out-bound schedule at 5 p. m. Isn’t called tag, but the object is to see how many empty College Ave. cars can get away from town before the rush. READER AND STRAP HANGER. Mr. Flxit has been an unwilling pawn In the tag game and is sym pathetic with your vexation. The matter will be presented to Indianapolis Street Railway officials.

FEB. 3., 1926