Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1926 — Page 4

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KNOW YOUR OWN STATE Indiana musical instruments give the State a high placo in this field. With pianos and organs excepted, and these too, are produced here in large quantities, Indiana manufactures 40 per cent of the entire musical instrument output in tho country.

WHO GOT IT l Let it bo hoped that tho failure of federal District Attorney Ward to bring Congressman La Guardla to this city as a witness will not seriously interfere with a thorough probe of the disappearance of the Squibb whisky from the Federal Building. The confession of three Negro custodians that they stole thirty cases of this whisky leaves open the greater mystery as to what became of 300 other cases, worth at bootleg prices a rather sizable fortune. It also leaves even more of a mystery some of the statements and Incidents which followed the official exposure of the disappearance of this whisky. In what tho Federal judge called, rightly, the “most shameful” incident in Indiana, it remained for a New York Congressman to disclose tho shame of the incident. This State, lias Senators and Congressmen. • They are presumed to have an important voice in the naming of Federal officers. They might bo expected to be in position to know better than men elected from other States what is going on in Indiana. But none of them ever whispered of this scandal. But while their silence may be understood, there stand on record certain statements that cannot be understood and will not be understood until those 300 cases are traced and the blame fixed. The people remember that when the charge was first made that United States Marshal Linus Meredith denied to the newspapers that any whisky had disappeared, and that later he stated, not once, but often, that it would he impossible to tell whether any had been taken, because no check had ever been made. The people remember, too, that after this statement by this officer, it was disclosed that ho had signed on the court docket for a specified number of cases and parts of cases. The people remember, too, that when the La Guardia charge was made, Bert Morgan, former prohibition agent, declared that two years ago an official from Washington had made an investigation and reported to someone in Washington that 220 cases had disappeared. The people do not remember of any explanation as to what became of that report. They have been told that the officer who made it, lost his position and is no longer with the Government. The people remember, very distinctly, that an agent from Washington substantiated the charge made by La Guardia and found 330 cases gone—about SBO,OOO worth of liquor which the Government had seised and then, through some unexplained manner, permitted to get back into drinkable channels. If the probers are unable to get information from a New York Socialist, might it be suggested that here are other sources of information? Why was a denial made that any check had ever been made of this whisky? Was there a report made two years ago that 220 cases had then been stolen and if such a report was made, who got it, what was done with it, why was it not reported to the cout which had the whisky in its custody? If it be a grave crime, punishable with prison, for some poor devil to sell a few drinks of moonshine, what shall he said of the position of the United States Government which seizes whisky and then, for any reason, permits it to go in great quantities back to drinkers? Incidentally, the people of Indiana are still listening for the voice of Watson, booming in the Senate, denouncing this shame and crime- Indorsed and recommended by the professional dry leaders of the State as an ardent dry, he might be expected to voice some protest against this incident which the Federal Judge calls shameful. Why his silence? THE “THRILL KILLERS” A little more than a year ago Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, “thrill killers,” held sway in the limelight. Hundreds of thousands of lines were printed about two millionaire’s sons of Chicago, brilliam. college students, who hacked little Bobby Franks to death “to know how it .feels to be a murderer.” Thousands of flashlights exploded as cameras “recorded every move of the thrill killers. That was a year ago. Just a day or so ago one of the thrill killers, Nathan Leopold, again appeared in the limelight, a most Inconspicuous limelight. He appeared as a witness for but a moment in the slaying case of a Joliet deputy warden. Report has it that, blinking from cell darkness, lie W’as pleased to again be on the witness chair, crowds surging for a brief glimpse of the notorious 'slayer. Insatiable for fame, even the fame of a murderer, these two- One wonders if slaving at rocks or alone in those dark, fetid cells, know ing that outside those stone walls other youth is playing and working and loving, they find tho game worth the candle. HERE’S TO LILLIAN From the rocks of Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover stretch more thffn twenty miles of rough and treacherous water. The English Channel, conqueror of hundreds of hardy swimmers who have pitted against it their strength and stamina and nerve. In fifty years or more of trying, a handful of men have succeeded in swimming It. They are \’ery ,few —something like a half dozen. They are the immortals. Women have tried it, too —scores of them. But not one has succeeded. Last summer Gertrude Ederle dared it, and it was thought if any woman could do it Miss Ederle could. But she failed—not go much because of waning strength as the nausea that overpowered her. And now comes Lillian Cannon from Baltimore.

Since 1915, when she was a jirl of 12, Miss Cannon has had visions of some day seeing her name in print as one of those who had made the channel crossing. She is on her way to France now, where she will train for eight weeks before slipping off the rocks of Gris-Ncz and setting out for England. With her will swim two dogs—Chesapeake Bay dogs, regarded as the greatest swimmers in the world. She is being sent by the Indianapolis Times and the Scripps-Howard papers to make tills trial. This newspaper admires her courage. It makes possible her dream of fame. Miss Cannon thinks she can do it, because she is young, strong, confident, a superb and untiring swimmer. Moreover, she swam across Chesapeake Bay—a distance of 22 miles—during a severe squall. She knows something of the shifting tides of the channel. Knows that the slightest breeze sets the channel in motion. Knows that she is confronted by one of the most difficult tasks a girl ever attempted. And still she is confident. They raise swimmers down in the Chesapeake Bay region, and the old bay itself is not the easiest thing to swim in when the weather is rough. "Bring on your channel!” she cries, and every American with sporting blood in his veins hopes she will conquer it, hopes the honor of being the first woman to swim the famous channel will rest on the shoulders of a fellow American. HILL, BLEASE AND MUSSOLINI Said a United Press dispatch from Rome last night: "Premier Mussolini will propose to the King of Italy that Colonel Nobile be awarded a gold medal for bravery and be promoted to the rank of general, with command over the dirigible forces of Italy. He will also suggest that-Nobile Le given a 500.000 lire bonus.” Which reminds us of the various ways various people have of looking at the same thing. Three days before Colonel Nobile’s dirigible Norge sailed across the top of tho world, the American naval officer, Commander Richard Byrd and Chief Petty Officer Bennett, it will be remembered bad circled the pole in their monoplane, the Josephine Ford. When the news of Commander Byrd’s historic flight reached Washington and made its way to Capitol Hill, Senator Cole Blease of South Carolina, we are told, rose from his seat and inquired, “if Commander Byrd is any relation to Dr. Cook ” Comment is superfluous. Then there is the Dill point of view. Senator Dill of the State of Washington “wondered how many more young men of our navy are to risk their lives flying over an unknown waste." Dill, the trusty congressional directory tolls us, was born in Ohio. He did not go to the Pacific coast, it seems, until he was a man and railroads and Pullman sleepers and dining cars made the Journey swift and comfortable and safe. if the State of Senator Dill’s adoption is the flowqr garden It is today and a wonderful place to live in, it is thanks to hardy pioneers who risked (heir lives in covered wagons crossing over the unknown wastes which lay between the Alleghenies and the Rockies. \\ hat’s more, if there is an America today it i3 because brave men gladly risked their lives sailing across the unknown waste of the sea. Every new' land, every new thought, every new thing wo have in the world has been won by men and women strong of heart and broad of mind, willing to risk their lives exploring the unknown. How trite these lines are and how foolish we feel putting them on paper. But, strange as it may seem, there are those, even in that "greatest deliberative body in the world,” to whom they will appeal as novel. A\ T e don’t need an army. Let our bootleggers sell tho enemy. Our big corn crop hurts most when the weather changes. j The heighth of politeness is to get off the street car and let a lady have your standing room. shift < <■ Meeting expenses isn’t half so difficult as dodging them. President Von Hindenburg must have anew line now. He is making a speaking tour of Germany One thing wrong here is pedestrians are not made out of rubber.

WHERE A WIFE DRAWS THE LINE Gy Mrs. Walter Ferguson —"

An Eastern editor becomes poetical on the subject of fishing and with Jyric abandon cautions wives to raise no protest when the husband, scenting the soft odors of spring, leaves his work for a jaunt with line and rod. Few wives, I believe, sniff disdainfully at male longings of this sort. Jn the gladsome springtime wo say nothing when they spend hours on the bank of a muddy stream, crooning iullabys to a vile-smelling mudeat. In the autumn, when the wild geese fly overhead, we do not protest when they hie forth with gun and rubber hoots seeking ducks and pneumonia. "U e know men—we women who are married to them —and are patient with their vagaries. The thing, however, that now and then touches the match to the dynamite of a woman’s anger is having one of these sportsmen come sauntering in. lired, sunburned or frozen, as the season may bo. with game in plenty, talking loudly of his exploits, giving a <-.<1.,r----ful account of the largest fish that got away,' or of .lie enormous wild goose that was wounded and f> 11 hat tling in the river and was never seen more—and then Impudently expecting Friend Wife to clean the game. This, I contend, is the fault with a lot of these wild-eyed and rapturous fishermen and hunters. They love tlie thrill of the-chase, but they hate the business of preparing the trophies for the table. Bringing home good things from stream and meadow is not such a rite as it once was, now that we have the corner grocery. The food the average woman gets that way would hardly till a thimble and therefore no such honors should he showered upon the family Nimrod or Walton. And to have to pluck wild fowl for the brave hunter, or to scrape fish for the doughty angler, is the thing that riles wives. I suspect this editor. For never have I seen a man who could wax so eloquent over the delights of such sport who would ever bring in hia game fit for the frying pan.

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Gaul Is Given Greatest Ovation in History of a St.uart Walker Season

By Walter D. Hickman The greatest personal ovation that I have ever witnessed in my years of telling you about Indianapolis theatricals was extended George Gaul at Keith's last night when he opened a week’s engagement with tho Stuart AValker Company in "Seventh Heaven.” George Gaul could have come in a rotten play and anew role, but he chose the part of Ihico in one of ; * •• -, • the greatest long-, came from London j Tom's Cabin." but George o.au. he returned last night in fi role that he has made perfect. Here, last night, we witnessed Indianapolis applauding and cheering not only a favorite, but real artistry, great big human character creation. It is seldom that curtain calls are granted after the first act, but Gaul was brought forward time and time again at the close of t*e first act. His great dramatic triumph at the close of the second act resulted in a curtain talk. The third curtain resulted in many of the audience lingering in their seats to applaud Gaul and Miss Mona Kingsley, who rose to wonderfully real dramatic heights in the second and third acts. The great big outstanding things In tho “The Seventh Heaven" are as follows: Flt*t—Perfect acting on the part of Gaul. Hero is more than good theater, it is the best of entertainment. It moves from slum melodrama to mellow comedy in Paris; from the sewer to "heaven” and from heaven to terrible human suffering. Love wins all. Selp praise and individual faith in oneself does tire rest for Chico. Gaul catches every phase of the many moods of Chico. This sewer cleaner who dreams of a heaven on earth without a God. is every inch a real man. Gaul re-creates the character. Here is as wonderfully realistic human acting as T have ever seen. Marvelous theater. I am raving about one of the perfect pieces of real acting on the American stage. Second—The human soul and heart work of Mona Kingsley as Diane, a ;|ewel in a Paris ."lum, a slave of the drug-crazed sister by tho name of Nana, played with savage Intensity by Margaret Douglas. It is In the second act when Diane gets into the seventh heaven that Miss Kingsley starts to come Into her own. Before the second act is completed she has earned the right of being seriously considered as one of the dramatic futures of the stage. And when the third act is over, the future for Miss Kingsley is here, she is a great dramatic artist. Third—The splendid introduction that Ernest Cossart gave us in the character Boul. the taxi driver who thought his cab was a lady. Fine work. Fourth—The studied performance of Alan Floud as Pere Chevillon. Others in the cast include George Meeker. Kaye Francis, Jack Storey, A’ictor Hammond, Larry Fletcher (especially goof in the third act), Harry Piehl, John Thorn. Edgar Honning. Judith Lowry and J. P. Wheatley. From a scenic standpoint “Seventh Heaven” had all the attributes needed. A most satisfactory production. The lights were well handled. “The Seventh Heaven” Is mighty fine theater. It gets into the heart. A dramatic trick, yes, but completely justified. My final summary Ts this—Stuart Walker has never given Indianapolis a more enjoyable production and better theater than he has given in “The Seventh Heaven.” At Keith’s all week. •!• •!■ -IGOLF COMEDY OX MEW AT ENGLISH’S "Spring Fever,” a comedy by Vincent Lawrence, attempts to capitalize by the way of the theater a national sport known as golf. Lawrence knows that when a fellow' gets the golf bug he is really dippy on the subject. He takes his had game seriously, but the outsider looking in may get a bunch of laughs. As long as Lawrence stays within the zone of golf, his comedy is not so bad. The prologue and the first act has enough golf laughs to tickle the fellow who plays golf and amuse the fellow who thinks golf is a silly fad. But Lawrence, I think, gets out of gear when he turns his comedy into a bedroom farce in the last act. Ho should have kept his comedy out on the golf links and not in a hotel room where the leading female character prepares for bed, not before the eyes of the audience, hut with the lights out. Tho-situation may be funny to some, but it doesn’t mean comedy to me. “Spring Fever” 1s a tricky show because It requires in certain scenes a real knowledge of golf. AA'hen I reviewed this show on Sunday night

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S A comedy about the golf disease, “Spring Fever,” is tho Berko). offering this week. The play is spotty, but It has been beautifully mounted. KElTH’S—Never ha Stuart Walker given this city better theater than George Gaul and Mona Kingsley in “The Seventh Heaven." Mighty fine theater and great acting. PALACE—Jaqet of France triumphs with ease on this bill. LY'RIC—The Giersdorff Sisters have a splendid dance and musipal offering.

several of the players had trouble in remembering their lines. It is safe to say by this time that this has been corrected. The fun of the prologue is carried by Milton Byron and J. F. Marlow. Mallow has his first real comedy chance of the season, and he does it well. Byron was at his best in the prologue and the first act. During one of the acts Jyes La Rue and Robert St. flair become successfully melodious. The settings are really beautiful this week, more pleasing than some of the dialogue, especially in the last act. Dick Elliott has a comedy chance in tho first act, and as usual ho stops the proceedings not so much with what ho says but how. The east is as follows; Jack Kelly Milton Byron David Waters I F Marlow Allio Monte Edytlie Elliott Harnr Johnson . . Bob W Martha l.omednn Bernice Maro!i:i* Paul Tewksbury Dick Elliott Hairv Aver Herbert Dobbins Frank Hoyt Robert St. Clair Myrtle Brent Jyes I.a Rue Marv Mildred Masonic* Bellbov William V Hull "Spring Fever” is mighty light diet but it does have a real box office appeal. At English’s all week. -!• -I- -IJANET TOrs NEW BILL AT THE PALACE With a personality as charming as has Been our good fortune to see for many a day days. The act depicts Janet the present day appearance of Chateau Thierry and the wanderings of a former American soldier, who has returned to find the girl he left behind after the war was over. AVe are given flashbacks showing the occurrences on a memorable night when the said young soldier was in bad witn tho M. P’s. The girl turns out to he a prominent star in the “Follies Bergere,” and for some time does not recognize the boy who was so sure she would “go wild.” There is some rather likable comedy to the act, but Mademoiselle Janet is the one big feature. Dance Mad is entirely dances, and they are of an excellent type. We have two women and two men who feature specialties and several numbers in ensemble. Os all the dances given by this act the two best are probably the Cinderella number by one of the girls In which she gives us an excellent Charleston and a specialty dance by one of the men Kenny and Hollis are two hard working men whose offering is comedy of all kinds. They start the act with many “wise cracks” with a lot of humor in them and then to finish off things call in just about the whole of the bill in a series of comic and burlesque Incidents. Olga Kane, with a man at the piano goes over very well with a selection of popular songs and is a first rate entertainer. She would have a slightly better act if the comedy were to be eliminated. Sank us and Silvers open the hill with some acrobatic features that are interesting on account of the difficulty attached to them. Bill includes a photoplay "Silence” and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.)

fIEftSDORFF SISTERS HAVE HOOD DANCE ACT A diversity of offerings is the feature of the Giersdorff Sisters' act at the Lyric for the week. The three sisters seem able to do about anything needed to entertain. They dance, each in a different way and then to top it off play a couple of musical instruments apiece. The jazz band with them furnishes the music for the dancers and several numbers of its own. There is one number in the act that is of the very highest type of musical offering. It is a trio with violin, flute and piano. The number played was the Indian Love Call from Rose Marie. The dancing features were all good but one. One of the girls is clever when it comes to the Charleston or any of the popular dances of the day and it is a pleasure to watch her in a dance of this type, but there is one thing she ought to learn, an Oriental dance consists of much more than a series of back bends and a prominent clarinet in a jazz orchestra. Some tilings have to be done right or it is better not to do them at all. Holmes and Dane are two women, whose entire offering is melody of an entertaining nature. One of the women plays the piano and saxophone and the other sings. Their best features are the jazzy songs that are so popular today. Fabiano, is another of those artists, who can come out on the stage and impress, through the instrument he plays, his personality upon the audience. He plays the mandolin and can't say that I have ever heard a better player on this instrument. He is another who is catering to the public and playing what they want instead of what someone thinks they should want. As an encore he played a piece that I imagine very difficult, the Sextett from Lucia with full harmony. Marie and Corbett are a man and woman who enliven the bill with comedy and songs. The comedy comes from the peculiar situation a night watchman at a girls’ camp finds himself, being played by the man. The Exposition Four is a colored quartet which qan certainly deliver the goods when it comes to singing in harmony. And front the way a couple of them dance the Charleston it would seem that these boys originated the dance. They have a

good act, well balanced in every way. The Paul Brothers open the bill with some rather daring acrobatic features in which one of the men balances the other at the top of a long pole. The Kellers close with an act that, for a while is an excellent burlesque imitation of the old-time circus and the character who stood out front and told of all the mysteries in the side show. They finish the act with some gymnastic features. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) * • * Other theaters today offer: "Mile. Modiste." at the Circle; “A Social Celebrity,” at the Ohio; “The Devil’s Circus,” at the Apollo; “Wild Oats Lane," at the Colonial, and "Stop, Look and Listen,’’ at the Isis.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor of The Times: I may not carry much official weight as a citizen of this city of Indianapolis, but I am right hero to tell you that you can classify me with the Fghtlng Marines of the Smedley Butler School, of which I am a graduate by discharge from that service branch, that the article by N. D. Cochran, "Behind the AntiSaloon League” was the most daring j piece of truth that I have ever ! read. That article should be circularized ' into every home of our “No Mean ! City” and then to every corner of | our State —and don’t stop there. You have made a splendid start. (-Continue your fine work. This country is badly in need of such truth. A HEADER. MORE JUDGES PROPOSED j Bar Association to Discuss Increasing Supreme Court. In a tentative resolution drafted by officers of the State Bar Association proposal is made that the Legislature amend the State constitution so the number of Supreme Court I judges may be increased from five to I nine or fifteen. The committee draft- | ing the resolution was composed of Joseph H. Shea, Samuel Ashby and the late, Robert \V. Mcßride. Passage by two legislative ses- ' -ions and ratification at a popular i election would be necessary before 1 the change could be made effective. The matter will be discussed at the Far Association meeting in Michigan City in June. Due to the large number of appeals arising, the court is unable to keep up with the docket, it is pointed out.

Indianapolis Playwright on Spring List of Samuel French With a Farce

By Walter D. Hickman This city Is contributing more and more to the literary as well as the dramatic field of literature. The new spring publication of Samuel French, New Y'ork. includes a farce-comedy in three acts by Test Dalton of Indianapolis, called "Adam’s Apple." In discussing the pay and its history in the French edition. Dalton states that "in the course of twelve years this play was entirely rewritten twenty seven times." According to Dalton, the play then known as "Uncle John," was first accepted by tlw late John Bunny. It was the star s intention to produce the play in San Francisco and then take It on his world tour, which was cut short by hi- death. “Mr. T. R. Edwards of Samuel French always believed in the play and secured the amateur rights when no one else would even look at the play,” Dalton states. “A few years later It was presented in stock by the Temple Players at Ft. Wayne. Ind., under the title of ’Uncle John.’ ” In 1919 it was again presented by the stork company at the Travis Theater in Houston, Texas, and in August, 1933. by the Municipal Company in Indianapolis under the direction of Carlton Guy. The play was recently presented at Sacramento, Cal., under its last title, "Adam’s Apple,” and Snub Pollard played a lengthy vaudeville season of it in tabloid form under the title of “Unrle John.” according to Dalton. Pollard was seen on two different engagements In this version at the Palace in this city. The play is dedicated by Dalton to his friend, Walter Poulter, who created the role of Uncle John in the original production. The other night, way after midnight, I had reached the point of mental and nervous exhaustion, and on taking up the new copy of the French edition of "Adam’s Apple” I became so interested and so happy in Dalton's farce comedy that 1 finished it before it was bath time in the morning. Dalton has real situations and mighty funny characterizations. They ring true, although the characters are placed in both comedy and farce situations. If ever a play was written to make people laugh, then "Adam's Apple” Is such a play. It is seldom that I get a bunch of real laughs by merely reading a play, but “Adam's Apple” started one day for me in a good frame of mind. And it is good to be happy with the world. Dick, or I should rather say, Richard Halliburton, author of “The Royal Road to Romance,” now in

Busy Again Robert Forrest Wilson, author of “Paris on Parade,” is hard at work on a novel. Mr. Wilson’s story tells of dressmaking life, for which he is eminently suited, he having been for some time a designer for Lucien Le Long of the House of Kinetic Design, Jn Paris.

THE VERY IDEA!

-By Hal Cochran - WELL ENOUGH

That blamed expression "well enough” has caused a heap of trouble. Because of it our finest stuff has oft’ been just a bubble. We have a task that must be done, but do it in the rough because we feel when it’s begun, when done, it’s well enough. I wonder who the man can be who let that boner slip. "Let well enough alone,” said he. We all have grabbed the tip. In daily things that we must meet, we slide them by and sluff. At heart we know it’s indiscreet to do just well enough. Os course that gets you by. but then, there’s not much satisfaction in doing things haphazard when you’ve snitched by just a fraction. The finest job a man can do is worthy of the trouble. It brings tho pep that sees you through and makes the pleasure double. Tho world will keep on going though you pick the softest way to make your daily showing, but, you’ll find it doesn’t pay. Try cutting out. the well enough, and be the sort of man who doesn’t slide along on bluff, but does the best he can. * • • If fish really is good brain food, it’s a shame, for some people, that they don't sell whale meat. * * * You never know just what to do with a pen that won’t write. Why not leave it In some postoffice? * • He bought a hunter’s license, but It didn't work so nice. In spito of it, they pinched the guy For shooting loaded dice. * * • Now we know what has become of the old-fashioned kid who used to get spanked In the woodshed. He’s out in the garage spanking his own kid. • • • It’s a gieat idea to keep your spirits up—and yet most people keep ’em down in the basement. * * * .Tust think of the pretty bathing girls the life guards are gonria pass up saving this summer, ’cause they will think they’re boys. • * FABLES IN FACT MARRIAGE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE PERIOD FOIL INSTANCE COMMA CONSIDER THE GIRL WHO WENT AROUND WITH A FELLA FOR YEARS COMMA AND ALL DURING THAT TIME SHE TOOK SUCH AN INTEREST IN HIM THAT SHE EVEN PICKED OCT HIS SUITS PERIOD HELPFUL GIRL COMMA ONE MIGHT SAY PERIOD THEN THEY GOT MARRIED COMMA AND DOES SHE DO IT ANY’ MORE QUESTION MARK HUH UH DASH DASH SHE’S SATISFIED TO PICK HIS POCKETS NOW PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926. NEA Service, Inc.)

WEEKLY BOOK REMEW

its fourth printing by Bobbs-Merrill, found time to pay me a brief visit yesterday while en route to New York. Halliburton speaks this afternoon in New Y'ork, and that winds up his lecture tour, which started last November. He then will resume his writing for the next four months in New Y'oik. Have the following item of interest from Dutton <£• Cos.: An early June publication of E. P. Dutton & Cos. will be "Dosttoievsky. Portrayed by His Wife,' translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky. It chiefly of chapters from the reminiscences of

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You can set an anawer to any quet tion ot tact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave . Washington, D. C.. inclosing: 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and manta advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Are any metals ordinarily liquid? Quicksilver is the only metal liquid at ordinary temperatures. By whom is the telephone system in the Panama ( anal /one operated? By the United States Government. What is the dally output of automobiles by the Ford Motor Company and how does it compare with the output of other, companies? The Ford output is approximately 9,000 cars a day, a far greater output than that of any other jpolor company. Are there any’polar bears near the south pole? The explorer Stefansson says that there are no polar bears or other land animals in the south polar regions. What coused the death of Breitbart and Sandow, the strong men? An account published Oct. 31, 1925, gives the following information concerning the deaths of these two men: Breitbart succumbed to blood poisoning as the result of an apparently trifling scratch. Sandow was the victim of his own prowess, if Lis death Is correctly attributed to tho strain of lifting an automobile single-handed from a ditch. After that feat he was under melical care and it was thought that he would recover rom the strain, but death occurred some time later. Did the United States or Great Britain use postage stamps first? They were introduced in England in 1840 and in the Uhited States in 1847. What rank in the regular IT.l T . S. Army does the highest ranking chaplain hold? Tho "Chief of Chaplains” in tho Army has the same rank and pay as a colonel. Is there a town in Chile where it never rains? Solar is a town in the coastal region of Chile where the winds from the Pacific are warmed by the intense heat of the interior, thus holding the moisture rather than, giving it off in rain. Hot air holds the moisture. It is not true that it never rains, but years pass without a drop of rainfall. How old is Charlie Chaplin? Thirty-seven years. On wliat date did Easter Sunday come in the year 1893? April 2.

Dostoievsky’s second wife, Anna Gregorevna Snifkln. It has been enthusiastically received in London, where it has already been published. The London Observer says of it: "The diary is almost exclusively a record of Dostoievsky's passion for roulette and of the straits to which ho and his wife w-ere reduced by poverty, but its real value lies ia the evidence it gives that, even which his passion was his master and-was compelling him to Iring disaster into his home, he remained an unselfish and lovable man, in whose company Mine. Dostoievsky, in spite of he-- material distress, was supremely happy."