Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM - A- MAYBORN. Bus. Mgc Member of the Seri pps-Howard Newspaper Allianee • • * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing v \V. Marylano St. Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis— Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—l welve Lents a W eeK PHONE—MA in 3doo.

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. .

Muscle Shoals The Senate yesterday afternoon passed the resolution to permit the leasing of the Governments great power project at Muscle Shoals to some private corporation. Before taking this action the Senate amended the resolution In a manner to make it slightly more defensible —defensible, that is to say. to their constituents when eventually the Senators are called on to explain, as they will be in many States. They had the wisdom, in the last few hours left for consideration to take some of the curse from the amazing measure which the Administration had forced through the House. It remains to be seen whether the House—or the half dozen White House agents who control the. House —will accept these amendments. One amendment postpones the date when the bids must be acted on from April 1 to April 26. That means a little more time in which interested parties, including the public, can make known their desires. Another amendment provides that more than one bid may be reported back to Congress, allowing Congress to exercise some discretion. Still another amendment provides for the distribution of all surplus, power equitably among States surrounding Alabama. Thus changed the resolution is better than when received by the Senate. But This remains the fact: Congress is proposing to turn over to private interests to exploit for their private profit, a great public enterprise built with the people’s money and Intended to serve the people. Several weeks must elapse before Congress can vote on the acceptability of any bids submitted. The people will have that much further opportunity to make known to Congress their everlasting opposition to this disposition of their $150,000,000 property. Beautiful and Dumb? It’s all wrong, thit old theory that all handsome women are dumb and that brains and beauty do not mix. Take the word of a very eminent scientist. Dr. Albert Wlggam, that beauty is evidence of intellect and that the most attractive and really puchritudinous of the sex have the most gray matter. That destroys the traditions, of course. For we have carefully nurtured the idea that a pretty woman must be brainless. Beautiful and dumb has been written into all our conceptions. Just where the idea started no one knows. But it has prevailed for at least two centuries. Perhaps the male mind, in its effort to dominate, concoted the libel in order to cast suspicion upon the talented woman who offered or threatened to offer some opposition to his complete control of affairs. So the shrewd man, away back in the ages, understood what would happen if women ever asserted their rights and began to interfere with his dominance. So he cast suspicion upon all women who might have a real thought and enough personality to put it over by labelling her in advance as brainless. It succeeded in fooling the women for a long time, but no more. She has become wise to the fact that the really dumb woman is the one who has not enough brains to make herself attractive. She no longer takes it for granted that the woman who looks well never thinks. She knows that the success and happiness of the adorable are based on something more than an accidental curve of chimor a peculiar coloring of eye. Just how well she has learned the big truth that beauty and brains are related qualities and characteristics is evidenced by the fact that nearly a billion dollars was spent last year by the women of the United States on cultivating natural beauty. The beauty shops, the cosmetic factories, the gymnasiums, have become very firmly established as industries. They are not patronized by dull and dumb women, but the smart sisters who understand that beauty is not an advertisement of imbecility but a sign of mental capacity. No woman is really beautfiul and dumb. If she Is dumb, she is not beautiful.

Where Law Fails The theory that we can make men better bylaw, on which we have been depending more and more for the past thirty years, has once more been challenged. This time the protest comes from former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the nation's outstanding defender of the Constitution and its most prominent advocate of liberty under and through law. His contribution of thought upon this subject is more than timely, for as we enter upon the task of selecting our lawmakers, it is important that we find men and women who thoroughly understand how futile laws can be if they attempt to enter the realm where conscience and Intelligence must dominate. Undoubtedly many of the men and women who will aspire to these positions hold the theory that every evil can be cured by merely writing a law prohibiting it. Many of them will have fantastic schemes for changing human nature. Many of them will appeal for votes promising to stamp out undesirable tendencies in our social organizatiqn with jails or fines or other forms of punishment. We have been working upon this theory and as a result have upon our statute books laws which are not enforced and are by their very nature impossible of enforcement. A law unenforced is a constant menace to all other laws and destroys respect for courts and confidence in government. Those who believe that our ultimate destiny . list be built upon character and education will find ibis part of Mr. Beveridge's address at least thought provoking: "All of us are different, thank heaven. The whorls on thumb and finger tips have been unlike since the beginning of time—countless billions of them, end no two Identical. How then, can anybody

expect intellect and disposition to be made the same. “So let everybody be happy in his and her own way. so long as they don’t make others sorrowful by unkind word or deed. “There is where human law comes in—it restrains action or language that hurts in a concrete manner. But human law can not go very far —it has its clear and distinct limitations. ‘•Spiritual appeal is far, high and much stronger. For example, human law can punish and largely prevent theft, murder and perjury, but it cannot prevent covetousness and the like, can not force the honoring of parents, can not compel love or fear of God. “So we can see that only part of the Ten Commandments can be enacted into statutes. Not a line of the Sermon on the Mount can be made the subject of legislation. Yet is is the best thing that ever was said or ever will be said." Probably Mr. Beveridge has touched upon the source of many of our perplexities. It is just possible that we havo been relying too little upon the Sermon on the Mount and too much upon city ordinances and State statutes. It is Just possible that we have been basing our morality and our ethtcs upon fear of the penitentiary rather than upon firm conviction and faith in right and decency. We may have gone too far in destroying some of the agencies and influences which gave this nation a firm basis of morality and created a civilization so much finer than anything that has ever before existed in written history. We may be turning too often to the law books and too seldom to our consciences as a guide for conduct. The law fails and must, always fail when it attempts to control sin as differentiated from crime. The cure for sin is conscience, and sin never becomes a crime until the organized conscience of the community recognizes it as thoroughly anti-social. Law never created strength of character. That is something most legislators seem to forget.

Mexican Land Laws / Are Held Justifiable The following is the second of three articles on the present Mexican situation b • Robert P. Serines, editorial director of Scidnns-Howard Newspapers, who has just completed a Mexican trip. What the Mexican government Is trying to do today is to educate ten or more millions of illiterate and chiefly Indian people, get them out from under the sway of a politically organized and conservative church party, and finally get them established economically on something better than a peonage basis. This program is back of the Mexican land laws which Americans claim are retroactive and confiscatory and in conflict with international laws. Dollars Noisy Although more American citizens own agricultural and grazing lands In Mexico than any other class of lands, most American dollars are tied up in oil rights In a comparative small area on the east coast, and the dollars are making the most noise. These oil lands lie chiefly In the narrow strip which Mexico has drawn around Its coasts and borders for defense reasons and within which the Mexican law says no foreigner shall own any land at all. Outside this prohibited zone, foreigners may own anything they like by agreeing not to make an international question out of Mexican laws affecting their property—ln other words to be on the same basis as Mexican citizens as property holders. There is no question that millions of American dollars were invested arid spent on Improvements within the proposed zone before “the prohibition law” was passed. There Is no question that much of this money was spent In good faith. This is why the new law ) called retroactive. Given Five Years The new law gives foreigners holding property in the prohibited zone five years to sell out either to private Mexican Individuals, or corporations, or to the government. ' In the latter case the government will make payment in bonds. American property holders say first that there are no private Mexican citizens or corporations with enough cash to buy them out at a fair price. Second, that Mexican goverment bonds have not In the past paid Interest regularly and are not worth par. This is why they call the law confiscatory. Friends of the Mexican government hold that so far as the law being retroactive is concerned it Is no more so that than California’s law ousting Japanese land holders, and that so far as it may be confiscatory, well, it was lucky for the California Japanese that they were required to sell out in boom times rather than hard times. They also claim that many oil and. other titles In the prohibited zone were never good under any Mexican law ever extant, but were acquired by trickery, fraud or otherwise illegally. They also point out that there is nothing to prevent American property holders becoming Mexican citizens, that all Mexico wants to do within the prohibited zone Is avoid international complications. ' This is a pretty mess that requires settling if Mexico is to prosper through investment of American capital, if America is to continue to do business with fifteen million busy and rapidly progressing people south of the Rio Grande. It is a mess that almost a year of note writing has done nothing to clear up. Right now things are drifting toward a deadlock, the only way out of which may be a break In diplomatic relations and anew period of revolution In Mexico, during which nobody’s title to oil, land or even life will be worth anything at all.

Swedes Outnumber Norwegians

Toil can ret tu\ answer to ana question of fart or Information by writinp to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 132:2 Npw York Are.. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot W given nor can extended research be undertaken. Alj other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. Are there more Swedes than Norwegians In the United States? According to the 1920 census there were 1,023.225 persons lnthe United States of Norwegian origin and 1,467,382 of Swedish origin. Os these 363,862 were foreign born Norwegians and 626,680 were foreign born Swedes. \ Where is “The land of the Midnight Bitn?" The term refers to all that area about the poles, but especially the north polar region, where in mid-win-ter the sun fails to rise above the horizon even at midday, and where in summer it does not sink below the horizon, even at midnight. The circles bounding these areas are the polar circles. What star Is the earth’s nearest neighbor? Science Service reports that the nearest fixed star is Proxima Centaur!. Right traveling 1841.000 miles * second takes four years to reach us from this star.

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When It Comes to That Jazz Stuff, Brady and Wells Take First Prize

By Waiter D. Hickman

__ j HEN it comes to that Jazz melody stuff that melts the " v snow and makes the whole world a little happier, Florence Brady and Gilbert 'Wells take first prize. Here is a melody team that has showmanship that makes theatergoing a delight. They burn up the

stage, these two. Never have I seen a song and dance combination that gets the results that these two are getting at Keith’s this week. Wells knows how to handle a piano and two or three other Instruments. And then Miss Brady flashes across that "something” slow motion thing which they call shufflin’ the body to melody. Then the sen-

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satlon starts. Am willing to put this team in vaudeville’s hall of fame and mine also. Ernest R. Ball has written a bunch of songs which has made him wealthy if not happy. He Is surrounded this season with numerous talented women. They sing and play, a sort of singing-instrumental orchestra. This act has class, but needs a little more natural enthusiasm on the part of Ball. People buy seats to see Wells, Virginia and West. I do not know Wells from West, but I want to give credit again to a great eccentric team. Bob Hall does not appeal to me personally with his extemporaneous stuff, but the public has the majority verdict in this case. Don Darragh Is a trainer of baby elephants and what this man Is able to do with_ this “hunks” of weight Is really "wonderful. He puts a nervous and marvelous personality against these animals which results in a masterpiece of entertainment. Just "another animal act.” some will say. But I go further— a marvelous demonstration of what a nervous and a marvelous personality may accomplish. Am speaking of Weir’s baby elephants. Tuck and Clnns start out as a bad singing act, but wind up as an acrobatic sensation. Ching and Rosie Moey offer an experiment In an Oriental application of acting like song and dance artists. The pictures showing the rescue of crew of the Antlnoe, by the 3.3. Roosevelt are wonderful. At Keith’s all week.

LETTING A ROT TELL THE VERDICT. I surrendered my right last night to see Thurston, to a boy. Would rather have the verdict of this youngster regarding Thurston than my own. So I said to this chap who “cov

ered”~the show for me—“what did you like beet?” And his answer was—“lt was all wonderful. Everything was good.' And now I ask you, “what verdict could be better?” and then I asked an adult who was at English’s, and he told me. “I go to the theater once a year Just to see Thurston. He Is always supreme.” So you sea a dramatic critic Is not

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needed when Thurston comes to town. He Is the one artist who year In and year out draws a loyal public to the theater. He hae built up his own following and each season he gives new novelties. Thurston Is a great showman, no doubt as to that. He stands supreme when It comes to handling an audience. His hand may he quicker than the eye. but his brain his much quicker than that. He still saws a woman In two; he makes people disappear; he handles cards with ease; he presents the phantom dancer and above all he does the regular ordinary things expected from a magician with more class and showmanship than any other artist. And so you will find Thurston again supreme at English's. The boy who covered the show for me tells me that Thurston Is wonderful, he always has been —probably the greatest all yeaj* round show on tour today. If you he young or old. you have a welcome at English’s this week. And If you have children take them to see Thurston. You do it for a circus, so have the same excuse. At English’s all week. -I- -I- -|- GOOT) SHOW ON VIEW AT I,YRIC With the thermometer hovering around the lower marks and the wind cutting like an arctic breeze it sort of makes one shiver to watch Madeline Berio and her diving girts give their exhibition of crack diving stunts at the Eyrie this week. The act opens, as It should, in a rather unusual way when compared to the other acts of It’s kind we have seen. One of the girls Is out front and in a little song we are introduced to the rest of the company who Interpret with their bathing costumes the seasons of the year. Then follows some excellent examples of diving. All manners and kinds of dives from the most simple to the most difficult are performed before us. Then as a finale Miss Berio has herself taken high in the loft of the theater on a trapeze and makes a dive into the shallow tank below. This Is the stunt she did for three years at the New York Hippodrome. Bert Gordon is an eccentric come dlan who comes out and takes a vocal lesson for the benefit of those who are curious to see how It is done The accepted way of singing suffers, however, he has his own ideas of how a singer should perform. And therein lays the basis of his fun. Dancing Bom t a dancing act with four men and a woman who ail

know their business when It comes to making their feet move over the boards in front of them. We are given specialty dances by each of the company, and some ensemble numbers. Probably the best number was a Chinese thing in which the woman and two of the men took part. The Marcelle Sisters are two girls who entertain with piano and violin and a couple of songs by each. Are both good musicians and know what is liked. One of the girls does an impersonation of Ted Lewis that Is clever. Rice and Cady are a couple of comedians whose one wish in life seems to be to see who can find the biggest word and use it. No matter whether it is right or not. They get many laughs with their dialogue. Cliff Jordon open 9 the bill with some rather spectacular tricks which are full of color. His best one was taking a large cart wheel, one like used to be on the familiar brewery trucks, and balancing it on his head while he juggled two other objects In his hands. Babe Durpee and company present some melody on the saxophone, cornet and trombone. Are a peppy group when it comes to Jazz playing. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) 1- -]• -I- ---\ TWO FISTED BILL AT PALACE A regular iwo fisted hill is on view at the Palace for today and tomorrow. Each act seems capable of carrying the headline honors of a show and doing it eosliy. The bill opens with an act billed the Six Saxos and the fine things start right away. In this act we have six rren playing saxophones and a woman dancer. The sextette give us harmony on the sa cophones and the woman to this melody offers severe! fine songs and some dancing. They are a real peppy group. Ann Gold confines her activities to

Famous Composers Gioacchine Antonio Rossini Rossini, Italian operatic composer, was born in 1792 at Pesaro. At the early age of 10 he was in demand as a solo singer and was also in request as an accompanist. At the age of 15 he was sent by the Countess Perticari to the Lyceum of Bologna. His first opera was composed in 1810 under the title of “La Cambiale di Matrimonii)” and met with considerable success. Within’the next two years he had written eight operas, but his first important success was not written until 1813. This was “Taneredi” and placed its composer at once in the front rank. “II Barbiere di Sevigila/’ one of the most successful comic operas ever written, is said to have been composed in twenty days, and was first produced in 181fi at Rome. After this, he was given the directorship of the Theatre Italien, a most coveted prize in the musical world. His last and most famous opera, “(iuillaime Tell,” produced in 1829, marked him as the greatest Italian operatic composer of his time. As he did not die until 18fi8, it is one' of the mysteries why lie ceased to compose at the age of 37.

THE VERY IDEA By Hal Cochran 11

Friendship r— i HE east Is east and the west j I is west and some like this, l I or the other best. When In the east's the west is far, and the east’s the same when it’s west you are. A man may hail from a far off coast, move some place else, In his work engrossed, but he ne'er forgets it, after all —that deep desire, and that far-off call. As Burns once said, a man's a man who can make real friends like a real man can. He can step right in where there are no breaks In the friendship gag when he pulls up stakes. He can go hack home; leave his friends behind. He can settle down in his peace of mind, ’cause he knows what friendship really gains. Though he's gone, his spirit still remains. There ain't no word like the w.rd “goodby.” when you shout It out to a tip-top guy. He can shake your hand and be on his way, but the good old feeling sticks for aye. • • • There are more than 600 broadcasting stations In this country, not counting gossips. • • • When a man Is suffering from overwork, the rest of the family hope* it Isn't contagious. * * • We always think the stork ha* a big bill, but when he leaves and the doctor comes, we find out how small it Is In comparison. • • * She aimed to cut her weight a bit With exercise galore. Instead of eating 1 unoil, she took A roll upon the floor. * • • NOW, HONESTLY Consider the friendly waitress She's the girl who walks a million miles a day. toting a million dishes a day. and attempts to satisfy a million odd appetites a day. We all get peeved at her—maybe because ahe neglects to bring more butter —or because she makes a slight mistake In our order. And we persist In forgetting that she’s Just a human being. It’s pretty soft for the rest of ns to simply walk In and order her around. I,et’s make It a bit softer for her by returning the friendliness and the patience she gives us. • • Maybe women figure that money kept, in their hosiery draws more interest,. \ * • • DREAMER —What would you do if you Inherited a million? UOATER— -Nothing! Juet live on the Interest.

little songs about some brides she has known and their experiences before and after their venture Into married life. She also gives some very excellent lessons to the would be “gold diggers.” She and her little stories in song are a lot of fun. Louise Massart and Boys Is a dancing act with four inen and one woman. Act opens with the whole company dancing in ensemble and then splits up into specialty numbers by the different members. Two of the specialty numbers by a pair of boys were excellent, as was the dancing of Miss Massart. One of the boys Is a good pianist as well as a dancer. Morgan and Lake are a riot with thetr, at times ridiculous dialogue. They burlesque about all the classics Shakespeare ever wrote. And they burlesque them well, If that may be done. After some dancing by the pair they close their act with a death soene that seems familiar In my memory, but it Is still good for many laughs. Such a death. It is a burlesque of tragedy. In the last act. Wiled as Alexandria and Nolsen, we have the whole bill In what seems to be a big laugh finale. Almost all of the acts that went before contribute to the ftin of this final number. We have everything from xylophone solos by the two men of the act to a little midget coming out and reciting. However the solos by the two men were excellent and were no cause for merriment. BUI Includes phytoplay “Faint Perfume.” with Seen* Owens and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomor- ; row. (By Observer.) -I- •!- + Other theaters today offer: "The Sea Beast.” at the Circle; “The Song and Dance Man,” at the Ohio; "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter," at the Apollo: “Stella Marls,” at the Colonial: burlesque at the Broadway ; and "Chip of the Flying U ” at the Isis.

ET won’t be very long, now, till the kids are on their toes. What happens in the suinj mertimo 'most everybody knows. There’ll be aplenty doin’ when the breeze of springtime blows, for that’s the time when t.Ature Chines and pep and ginger flows. Says Mister Top. "I’m waitin’ for my session to beg>. I’m all prepared, with string and such, ta have my yearly spin. In quiet and seclusion through the winter I have been, an’ now it’s close to warmer days—and that’s where I come In.’’ j "You haven’t anything on me.” j says Wee Jumpin' Rope. "It won’t be long until I’m swingin’ merrily. I hope. I scanned a little calendar. That's where 1 got :ny dope. And will I care, when winter's gone? The honest answer's nope!” "Go on and do yer ravin’ ” pipes a pair of roller skates. "Why. say. this coinin’ summer I've a half a million dates. The kids er gonna need me when they’re at their daily play, an’ when I'm fastened on their shoes, we’ll both be on our way." If all the little playthings of the summertime could speak, you’d hear them talkin’ louder as the time flies, week by week. You’d know- that they were achin’ to he swingin’ into tune, ’cause that's what's gonna happen. sure as shootln’ purty soon. • * NOW, HONESTLY— People are funny, at that. Not to say. thoughtless, at times. FYinstance, the fellow who has nothing to do, so drops In on a friend during business hours and proceeds to put the kibosh on the work plans of said friend. A nice afternoon is had by all — and then someone has to make up for it the next day—and It Isn’t the caller. It's all right to use your own time as you see fit —hut be a bit eai-e----ful with other people's. t • * FABLER IN FACT A COURT jA DETECT TVER WERE DOING THEIR DERNDEST TO SOLVE A CERTAIN MTBTERY PERIOD IT HAPPENED TO CONCERN THE OCCUPANTS OF AN OLD HOME COMMA AND ONE OF THE SLETTHS WAS QUIZZING THE HOUSEMAID PERIOD QUOTATION MARK NOW COMMA QUOTATION MARK SAID THE SLEUTH COMMA QUOTATION MARK WHERE WERE YOU WHEN TT HAPPENED QUESTION MARK QUOTATION MARK AND THE MAID EXPLAINED THAT SHE WAS IN HER BATH PERIOD SO THAT’S HOW THEY DISCOVERED .THE CRIME TOOK PLACE ON A SATURDAY PERIOD t Copyright, 1226, NEA Service*. Inc.)

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

SMOKE AND PEDIGREED COAL mOSEPH BUCHANAN, new city smoke Inspector, proposes that all coal sold In Indianapolis be labeled to show its heat value —sort of require the dealers to deliver a pedigree with each ton of coal. He believes that will help the smoke abatement campaign. Heat value labels on coal might be a splendid idea. Most people wouldn’t know a b. t. u.—the standard heat unit —If they met one on the street, but they vaguely understand that the value of coal depends on the number of heat units it contains. And It's heat units they want the coal dealer, who temporarily enjoys their credit business, to deliver to them. There Is a wellfounded suspicion that some coal delivered to Indianapolis householders contains few if any heat units. Certainly it Isn’t as combustible as the fellow who tries to fire with It. So labeling coal with the heating value might benefit the coal purchaser and assure his getting a specified number of heat units Instead of merely the laugh from his coal dealer. But how would such labeling tame the smoke nuisance? It Isn't the number of heat units that go Into the fire box. but the stuff that goes up the chimney that makes the smoke nuisance. Coal of high heating value will make Just aa dense a cloud of black smoke as t.ny other If the heat units it contains are allowed to crawl off Into the chimney half consumed. To get anywhere with the antismoke campaign the city smoke Inspector will have to pin convlc- | tlons on coal users rather than la I be la on coal.

LONDON BY PHONE I p | IFTY years ago Alexander II I raham Bell succeeded In l .......I transmitting the sound of his voice by wire from a room on tho upper floor of a house In Boston to his assistant In the basement. “Watson, I want you,” he said. At the receiving end his assistant heard every word though

YOUR INCOME TAX NO. 7 M Burt Thurman. Internal revenue collector, tells Tlmoe readers bout the new tax regulations in these articles. r~n ET Income, upon which the IN I ~loot,' e tax is assessed, is 1 1 gross Income less certain j specified deductions for business expenses, losses, contributions, bad I debts, etc. A storekeeper may de- | duct as a business expense amounts spent for rent of his place of busl- | ness, advertising, premiums for Insurance against fire or other losses, cost of water, light and heat used in his piilbe of business, drayage and freight bills, and the coat of malni tenance and repair to delivery wagI ons and trucks, and a reasonable ] allowance for salaries. A professional man, such aa a lawyer, doctor or dentist, may deduct the cost of supplies used In his profession, expenses paid In the operation and repair of automobiles used In making professional calls, dues to professional Journals, office rent, cost of water, light, and heat ! used in his office, and the hire of office assistants. The farmer may deduct as necessary expense all amounts actually expended In carrying on the business of farming, such as amounts paid In the production and harvesting of his crops, cost of seed and fertilizer used, cost of minor repairs to farm buildings, and cost of small tools used In the course of a year or two. The cost of farm machinery, equipment and farm buildings Is not deductable as expense. Deductions for personal or living expenses, such as repairs to the taxpayer’s dwelling, cost of food, (clothing, education of children, etc., ! are not allowed.

MR. FIXIT Complaint on Recumbent Retaining Wall Sent In,

L*t Mr Flxlt your cm to city official* He U The Time#’ reprenmtaUv'o at the city hall. Write him at ThU Time*. The duty of a retaining wall Is to retain rather vigorously instead of resting on the sidewalk. In the opinion of a correspondent who wrote to Mr. Flxlt today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: For the last two or three years a retaining wall has been lying on the sidewalk on the northeast corner of Cottage and State Aves. I noticed your attention was called to this several times In the Inst two or three years and nothing has been done JACK LANCASTER. 1424 Dawson St. A. J. Middleton, engineer's department chief inspector, promised Mr. Fixlt an early inspection. Middleton aleo will Investigate the following: Mrs. Mason, 2813 E. Michigan St.: Chester C. Fields, Kentucky Ave.. from S. Harding Bt. to Eagle Creek; A. F. 0.. Routheasfern Ave.. from State Ave. to Walcott St.: Times Reader. 2249 Brookslde Ave. The memory of garbage and ashes collectors will he jogged a bit by Truly Nolen, garbage and ashes collection superintendent, in response to complaints from C. J. Ward, fill Sanders St., and Mrs. Smith. 600 block 8. Harris St. and Wurman Ave.

MARCH 9, 1920

faintly. The telephone was bom. Sunday night a group of men In a room In New York chatted over the phone with a group of men In London. The conversation was carried part way by wire and part way by wireless. Tho two groups gossiped about the weather and other pertinent subjects Just like a couple of housewives visiting over a rural Indiana party line. Trans-Atlantlo wireless telephone conversation —not mere radio broadcast stuff—is thus a reality. Hoon It may be a regular commercial possibility. “Get London on the phone,” may remark the busy executive, just as he now says “Get ine Kokomo.” And within a year the Atlantto Ocean may bu so full of English ll’s dropping from the air that It will impede navigation. Chaunoey M. Depew, in his book of reminiscences, says he was approached to invest 110,000 in Bells invention. He was dissuaded by -the man tvho then hod the reputation of being the best Informed electrical expert in the country. “There Is nothing to It except as a toy,” declared tho ex pert. Depew estimates he lost $100,000,000 by following that advice. What invention Is now kicking around, unconnldered by the pub lie and ridiculed by the experts, t hat will aoompUsh in the next fifty years what the telephone has achieved in the past half century? If you can pick It, your fortune Is made.

MARRY IN HASTE T-TIRS. FATH HUNT, IT. De. catur, Ind.. high school I. senior, after three weeks venture In matrimony was left penniless In Traverse City, Mich., by her husband. She was taken into custody by the police and will be returned home. It didn’t take long for her romance to mature and blow up, A plausible young man, pretending to head an aviation company came to Decatur. Hhe fell for him after a courtship of days. They were hastily married and left town immediately. Very romantic. Regular fairy tale stuff, where Prince Charming dashes up woos the maiden and carries her off to Ills palace to live happily ever sftsr —all between sunup and quitting time. Only in this case shortly afier the couple left Decatur police learned that Hunt-—the Prince Charming of the episode—wns wanted In several cities on charges of forgery and larceny. The automoblle In which they started their wedding tour was stolen. The husband, so lightly acquired, was Just a cheap crook with a police reoord, living for the moment a Jump or two ahead of the officers. Too bad an unsophisticated high school girl should l>e taken in by such a fellow and love’s young dream should have Its nose broken eo soon after the nuptial ceremony. But the desolated bride of three weeks could have saved herself trouble If she had picked her husband with as much cars, thought, and Investigation as she would give to the choice of a pair of silk stockings. ‘SCOFFLAWAND 'PITILACKER' mHE3 8. P. O. A. ha* Just concluded a contest for a new name to apply to persons cruel to animal—a new word striking, descriptive and oonveylng the proper degree of contempt. Among the COO newly coined words submlttted the prize was awarded to "pltllftcker." Remember that term, when at 2 a m. you knock a melodious pussy off tho back yard fenoe with a well-aimed alarm clook or a shoe. In tho bright lexicon of the 8. P. C. A. you are being a "pltllacker.” Sounds awful, doesn’t ItT If you miss the oat. —and curse flti ently on the way back to bed--your are Just u normal human, not a pltl lacker. Perhaps the new word hne much to recommend it. It la certainly as useful and handsoma as the wor\l "scofflaw ” —lnvented a couple of years ago In a similar new word contest —which was intended to ehame us all Into observing prohibition. It didn’t. But really no one need sit up nights coining new words. Shakespeare never heard of “soofflaw” or “pltllacker." Yet he made himself understood with a vocabulary of a few thousand ordinary words 'The English dictionary now lists some 200,000 words. Most of us haven’t a speaking acquaintance with many of them, but they are there, If one chooses to use them. And even with that supply to draw from we don’t seem able to express ourselves any better than Shakespeare did with his few words. So In Amerioa and even tn literary Hooslerdom we don't feel any pressing need Cor new words. We haven’t worn out our present stock. But there are lots of prizes for the fellows who can coin new ideas.

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