Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1926 — Page 4

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No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re stricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution ol Indiana.

WHEN WATSON REPORTS Lot it be hoped that Senator Watson will be as frank and chatty as the father in the bosom of his family when he greets his convention and turns iu a report. That permits, of course, some discretion. For fathers are not always frank and chatty. They reserve the right to suppress incidents and to tell the children what they think should be known, rather than what the children want to understand. But on the homely virtues, it is always safe to dilate and expound. A homily on honesty and integrity and the stability of government ought not to he indiscreet. He could, perhaps with profit, tell the convention that lie deplores the fact that a New S ork Socialist Congressman found it necessary to expose the fact that 300 cases of whisky were missing trom the stock seized by the Government, taken from the Federal Bldg, in this city. If he lacks for a description of that incident he can find it in the language of the- Federal judge of this district who declared it “most shameful." Some of the people of this State are rather chagrined that it was not an Indiana Senator who made this exposure, instead of permitting it to be done by a New Yorker. . He could, if he desired, urge the delegates to lend every aid and effort to prevent any miscarriage of law and justice, to aid in every way the effort of Federal authorities to trace that whisky, to call upon their friends to give all information to the authorities who are trying to unravel tills mystery. It is, at. least, an opportunity. One other matter might be illuminated, for it may he feared that the people ol' Indiana will not understand why Watson led, and Robinson trailed, the rush from the Senate chamber when that body was faced by a vote for a probe of fraud, corruption and vast expenditures of money in (lie primaries with particular reference to Pennsylvania. There may he those who would interpret his hasty departure from Hie Senate to fear. There might be others who would suspect that Watson ran away because the resolution permitted an inquiry into all bargains, for oilier considerations than money, made by any candidate for the Senate. There might be,those who would even harbor the thought that Watson does not desire to have slush funds and huge expenditures in elections curbedJust why did lie run away and stay away while the vote was taken? He probably has some simple explanation that will explain. Undoubtedly a hasty telephone call from some friend in need; perhaps a good friend who is in trouble and need of solace and encouragement; perhaps so deep in trouble that he ran listen to the waves of the heighboring lakes and never sec a ripple. Or was it someone who wanted a job, some worthy toiler who had done yeoman service in the primaries and came to claim his reward? Some discussion of these incidents would relieve Watson of any embarrassment of explaining why lie should be elected to hold up tlie hands of Coolidge.

FRENCH TAXES In Washington this week ratification of the fPranco-American debt settlement is up. France has agreed to pay the $4,024,00P,000 she ywes us in installments scattered over sixty-two years. On its part the United States has trimmed the interest. so much that experts figure the settlement with France was at the rate of 50 cents un the dollar, present value. A good many senators and representatives in Congress, therefore, are throwing duck fits. They say Uncle Sam is being robbed and that France can pay every cent of her debt if she really wanted to. The trouble is, they charge, the French refuse to be taxed like the British or Americans. That's nonsense. The French before the war paid higher taxes than either the British or the Americans and the same thing holds true today. The French taxes have risen to where the Frenchman pays national income, as against IS per cent by the British and 11 per cent, by Americans. The Americans and France would think a lot more of each other if it were not for loose talkers on both sides. American politicians who don't know’ and who woft't take the trouble to find out. Babbit like, repeat what they heard somebody else say. They lead the American people to believe the French are cheap welchers and jippers. French politicians have responded in kind, calling Uncle Sam a shylock, thus leading the French public to believe Americans are a cold-blooded lot who’d chase a flea a mile to skin him for his hide. Both are absurdly wrong. “BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE HIM” "I love your husband.” So spoke Marian Wilson, actress, to Mrs. Mary Bresnahan of Brooklyn, New York, when both were arraigned for disorderly conduct, charged with pulling each other's hair. "I don’t love my husband, but I don’t want him going around with an actress,” Mrs. Bresnahan told the :ourt. “But I do love your husband,” broke in Miss Wilson. “Your honor," said Mrs. Bresnahan, “my husband spent more than SBO,OOO on her.” “What am I to do?” demanded the actress. “He loves me.” “Throw him out,” replied the magistrate, and fined the actress. Solomon might have decided differently. Here was a husband, no longer loved by his wife, turning his attentions elsewhere. Solomon, you may be sure, had plenty of domestic troubles of his own. Who wouldn’t, with a thousand wives? But something tells you that the Brooklyn magistrate was pretty shrewd, after all. The actress said she loved the man. And the man, says the wife, spent SBO,OOO on her. Hu-m-m—not hard to love a man like that. “Throw him out,” says the court. Solomon might have douo differently. But Solomon made his own laws, What would you have done?

ONE MORE ATTACK State governments are in peril. Slowly but inexorably the Federal Government at Washington is reaching out and taking unto itself the last remaining rights of the individual States. “If those centralizing'tactics should continue for twenty-five years more," said Daniel Roper, distinguished Washington lawyer and former Federal official, “we will be at a loss to find a useful purpose for State governments other than for policing units in the Federal Government " That Congress itself is alarmed over this tendency is patent. President Coolidgc's executive order making Federal dry agents of city, county and State police lias taken Washington by the ears. That is expressing it mildly. Nothing that has happened in a generation has created the furore on Capitol Hill than lias this apparently routine action of the President. To give some idea of the situation, this morning's Washington Post, organ of the Administration, led its first page with this: “The storm of criticism against President Coolidge's executive order assumed such proportions yesterday that Mr. Coolidge finds himself confronted with the most united opposition lie has encountered since lie assumed the duties of chief executive.” Then it goes on to relate some of the day's developments. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, for r\•ample, declared it to he tli most far-reaching disregard of State rights that had occurred in the last century. senator Wadsworth, chairman of the Republican steering committee, issued a statement against it, saying in part: "From one angle I do not regret the order. It will teach the public the extent to which the Federal government may attempt to go in its grasp for power over the States and their subdivisions." Senator King introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the legality of the order. Attorney General Sargent assumed responsibility of the legality of the order and i: uod a statement on liis opinion. "The Democratic leader was restrained in his language, admitted the Administration organ above referred to. “but he spoke frankly and was obviously carried away by his own indignation and convictions." "The executive order." declared Senator Robinson. “which President Coolidge assumed to issue a few days ago is in my opinion the worst blow, though perhaps it was not intended as such, that has been siruek against prohibition. I think the President has made a colossal blunder." If the federal Government could control the activities of the States along the line mapped out by the order, lie declared feelingly that it would only be a short time before all State authority would he gone, the civil service law would he nullified and centralized government would have disappeared.” “A remarkable feature ot the proceeding," com-

monied the Washington Post, "wax that no Republican leader, no administration, no 1 >0 per cent o V ponent oft! e dry cause said a word to challenge or dispute any of the assertions of Mr. RobinsonThey listened intently, but Senators Borah and Bruce were tin only ones to Interrupt, and in neither case ua.s there any suggestion of defending the order." It was indepd a remarkable feature of a remarkable speech on a remarkable occasion. The States wore once more in revolt against the spectre of l heir vanishing self-government; once more they were up in arms against the continued usurpation by the Federal Government of power that should repose in the individual States themselvesANALYSTS OF NEW WET-DRY ISSUE By \. I). Cochran —— t\ ASHIN't ;TON"( May 25.—Vare’s victory in Pennsylvania means a lot of things. Mainly it that prohibition is the biggest issue in politics—Because it is W hat the people are thinking and talking about, find touches their daily life more intimately than the tariff, Teague of Nations, World Court or any oilier political issue. it means that the tidp of public opinion has deftnitcly turned, with prohibition sentiment rapidly ebbing. 1 hat Governor Pinchot, honest and dryest of the bone-drys, ran a poor third, despite a big vote in tic mining country, is especially significant. As Governor he went tlie limit for the Anti Saloon League and such churches as it controls politically, but they didn’t go to the limit for him. There was a split in that vote, to be sure; but there was also a split in the vote controlled by Big Business —though not the same kind of a split. The church \ote split between Popper and Pinchot, while the Big Business vote split between Pepper and Vare. Prohibition was put over by Big Business getting back of the Anti-Saloon League. When that combination busts up prohibition is on the rocks—for many of the preachers will go along with Big Business, wet or dry. And Big Business will now come together again and support Vare. It doesn’t care whethe” he's wet or dry. With Big Business and the Republican organization hack of Vare. the Anti-Saloon League can’t deliver the church vote to the dry Democratic nominee. So much for Pennsylvania. Vare’s .bold stand against prohibition put him on top of a liberal wave that was already on the move. It isn’t a local wave; it's all over. There is a growing conviction that prohibition has not only not helped the cause of temperance, but has actually harmed it. As this conviction has grown the political power of the Anti-Saloon League has shrunk. The immediate effect of Vare’s victory in rockribbed Republican Pennsylvania will be to loosen the grip of the League on the party in other industrial States 1)110 New York's leading Republicans, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, commenting on the result in Pennsylvania, says: "It ought now to be pretty clear to candidates for office and to political managers that the open support of the company pf ecclesiastical politicians known as the Anti-Saloon League is the severest of handicaps, and that the opposition of that group Is the strongest of Indorsements.” There have been indications for some time that Big Business was withdrawing its support from the Anti-Saloon League, and that some of the churches in the Federal Council of Churches were trying to get free from League domination. Dr. Butler probably knows What he Is talking about. He is in position to know what is going on in Big Business circles.

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Larry Fletcher Proves the Stuff That He Is Made of as Joe in Howard Play

By Walter I>. Hickman There is so much of the real, honest sex and mental stuff in Sidney Howard's “They Knew What They Wanted” that it takes study to get at the several character germs Here is a most difficult thing to do on the stage, as the three out■otanding characters have that mixture of sex and _menta 1 underwhich | F demands exact acting and complete “soul” tinseason 1 will V ,'<£ Fletcher in that ' sensitive soul creation of Joe, the Ernest ( nvsart the one persistent agent in sex gratification ami adventure, a-, an out standing human creation. Fletcher in the last act captures the nervous tension of the lips and the eye of a man who did a thing to a woman which wrecks happiness. .Fletcher gets into tin- character, the tragedy as well as tlie comedy of a s©x experience. He registers weakness as well as victory, defeat as well as the glory of an unholy experience, lie recreates Joe until the character be-' mies a throbbing and vital thing. He moves and puts tim drama, this strange compromise between comedy and tragedy, on a high level, it i.s the nicety of touch, the delicate und< retarding of comedy and tragedy which causes Fletcher to lift “They Knew What They Wanted” Into the , : -i< - that on ex poet:- of a. Stuart Walker presentation. Mi words of praise and understanding for Fletcher does not reflect discredit upon George Gaul as Tony. Gaul uggosis Tory in the first net. imt he does not arrive in the first act at the understanding of Tony which is needed. Tony loves his wine. H© is a victim of an automobile accident hoc ms© <>f the win© and yet Gaul ibs not give that im presslnn. Th© wine bottle -s ever present. Why doesn't lie use it to tli© extern of creating the • ff* ct demanded In the author? in the big third act, Gaul mounts to those drain 1 ■ heights that on© • xpe-ts and den: tin!.: of such an art tele. The stinging and ovon-poii- - and situation is put • rby Gaul and Fletcher With Oiling effee'. I believe that "They Knew What They Wanted” i.s big because ~f the human ending. Startling? Yes, but human. I was not satisfied at any time with Mona Kingsley as Amy. ( expected big tilings of per in this play. She seems t-> b© afraid of tb© character. She suggests Amv. Amy docs tint live io tb© hands of Xb-iit Kingsley. Sic re* nr to be afraid of Amy s natural sex instincts. Amy is a wait ress in .1 restaurant. Miss Kingsley lias failed completely to catch the spirit of Amy. In til© second act at tlie very close of the act. Amy is a hunted sex animal and yet site fails to giv that idea when ©lie rushes out into the night. Here is one of th© great moments of th© play and I might say that even I’letcheij fails to measure up to th demand tr this a©,. In tb© third act. Miss Kingsley get - nyarer the soul of Amv blit not Into lew soul. I know that it takes time to get into the character of A v. Maybe I am expecting too much of Miss Kingsley on the opening night. 1 know she mounted in “Seventh Heaven" on at© first night. Others in tb© ■ a.st include Krnest ('osar!. Joint Thorn. Jack Storey, Edgar Henning. Victor Hammond. Alan Floud, Judith l,owry, Katharine Ft- mris and others. But the great events art* th© work of George Haul and Larry Fletcher. At Keith's all week.

“PARTNERS MAIN” GIVES ( \1 SK FOR SOME THOUGHT 1 1 is rny conviction that “Partners Again” is not a happy vehicle for stock. Here we have two Jewish characters. They light hut down deep in their hearts they have a great big human understanding. It takes “.soul” to play the roles of Perlmutter and Potash. It seems to me that Milton Byron gets nearer to the real “soul" in the character of Perlnutter than others the has he eye tlash and ng .i cm n extreme he is very looks into a most difficult eharacteri- Edytlie Elliott zation. I know that it Is a triumph that Byron is able to make Perlmutter a character more than a mere suggestion. He has dialect to master. He has a soul to create. What this man doesn't have to think about this week has never been thought of. Dick Elliott has a big chance as Abe Potash. He is satisfying in the light comedy moments, but he is not able to match Byron in the heart throb stuff. Mr. Elliott overacts in the dramatic moments. His comedy scenes are well handled. He too is

Stage Verdict KEITH'S Larry Fletcher rises to wonderful heights in “They Knew What They Wanted.’ 1 ENGLrSH’S —Milton Byron, Dick Elliott and Miss Edythe Efliott tackle difficult dialect roles in “Partners Again.” LYRIC—A well-known headliner again does his stuff which causes one to get worried. PALACE—A 'novelty dance act. tops this bpi.

up against the same problems as Milton Byron. Miss Edythe Elliott brings her grace of charm and understanding to the role of Hattie. She sails through with ease and understanding. She brings that quiet response which is needed to the several I characters. The cast of "Partners Again" is as follows: Marks Pasinskjr Robert St. Clair Tom Fir Id* Mort.v Larnor Mawruw Porlmutter Milton Byron AN* Potash . . Dick Elliott Marie Sammott Bernice Marsolaia Dan Davis Hob Fay Mozart Rnbiner William V. Hull Offnvr Miller S. G Barnes Rome Potash Mildred Hastings Tilly Fr edman Jye* La Rue Hattie Freedman Euythe Elliott Gibb* Ed Smith Bate . . Tom Coyle Srhenekmann Herbert Dobbin* Kennedy M lurice Brow ne Feldman I K Marlow 1’ S. Commissioner E W Wrigrht The Indianapolis Advertising (Tub will give a big party tonight at English s. “Partners Again" will be on viewall week at English's. DAME \IT 1.1 Alls M U EVENTS AT PALATE Djince Tours, at the Palace today and tomorrow, la a very lively act in which the dance is th© featured part, although we do have several likable tenor solos by one of the men of the company. The idea of tiie act is to carry you, by means of the dance, into foreign lands. It has been worked out in a very creditable manner and starts off with a Russian dance by one of the women. Then in turn wc are given samples of Spanish and Japanese dances. l!a\© an idea that th© dances are not exactly as performed in th© different countries, but the effect of th© costumes is pleasant enough to overlook a matter HU© that. Th© a©t numbers one girl who is about the best we have seen when it comes to splitting and acrobatic dancing. The Westerners are a group of four men and one woman who are excellent when it comes to singing with real melody. Th© woman is more for atmosphere than song, but the men arc tin©. The act is set up in the manner of a western camp and the opening numbers at© of a type Suggestive of til© West and tli© "great open spaces." There Is quite a bit of comedy business present, hut ns it should tie the songs are tit© main tiling when tli© voices arc So good. Alexander and Peggy nr© .1 couple in blackface who g©t laugh after laugh out of th©ir speeches about each other's people. They close their act with a song done in an entertaining way. Nelson and Parish, a man and woman, take th© parts of tlie very ancient messenger "boy" and flip your.g actress. We have many wise cracks, several steel guitar solos and some singing by the woman. Karle and Rovein have an act in which w© se© the woman as a trapeze performer who wishes another performer in the act. The man then takes the part of a rather rural aspirant for the job. Following Ills attempts to master the trapeze wo hate much fun and then an exhibition of rather clever work. Have j a good act with much comedy in It. Bill • Includes a photoplay, "Tum-

Bovvers Puts Microscope on Birth of Democracy

Ity Walter I>. Hickman I Can remember back to the years when the Fourth of July speaker in my home town in Illinois was con sidered to be the authority on the subject of the birth of democracy in America. For many years T marveled at the fireworks put forward by this orator on such days. Now I know that many of his beautiful word pictures : were just common fairy stories of j history. Am willing to confess that sot more than tv.enty-five years I have tried to erase part of my gigantic ignorance a.s well as ray' misinformation upon historical events by reading recognized authorities. Probubly my attitude toward the correct value <f historical events is not different from many others. I will place the blame upon nobody but myself. While In the public I high school I took the three or four- | line verdict of my history teachers upon great events in American history. Years ago I realized that all I had in my historical mental warehouse was a big collection of false idols. Ail of the historical leaders appeared to me as gods instead of human beings. That was the result | of the old system of making a sort of a hero out of all makers of democracy. Os course, 1 had a few villains in my mental jail, hut even then I had them under the wrong indictment. So for years I have had to fight against my early opinions concerning the makers of American history. No Confession Not that the seal men of historyhave suffered by’ this study of late years, but I have turned the Images of these public characters of other days Into living benlgs and In so doing I appreciate more than ever the real struggle of the birth of democracy in America, And Clude G. Bowers through his writing and especially his new book, “Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy In America," published by Houghton Mifflin Company has aided me in getting at the real human experiences of the leaders and the enemies of democracy when it was being born. In this review I am concerned only with the first 240 pages of “Jefferson and Hamilton,” leaving the remaining chapters for another review. I to this because I am reading. the book with much care and because it Is too gigantic to handle In one telling. The Real Truth Democracy did not come In a golden carriage to America. Washington had his problems when he was conducting the experiment of being the first President. Even the first President had his troubles just like the man who Is now president. There is always a difference of opinion. It was present when Washington was supposed to be idolizpd. Page 214:

bleweeds,” with William S. Hart and a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- -!- LOOKING OVER GOOD EVENTS AT THE LI’RIC The Lyric this week has another of those acts that leaves one, at least myself, guessing. A woman is seated at a piano on stage and a man goes through the audience and requests different people to make a selection of a song to him. After the piece has been chosen the person desiring the niece to be played is told to ask the pianist to play the piece tliey are thinking of. During the performance I witnessed the pianist did not make a single mistake. The unusual part of the act is that there are no words exchanged by the pianist .and her partner. Came near losing sleep over this act and can't figure out yet how they do it. Elga and her Music Box Girls i.s a woman orchestra of ten pieces that puts out some very tine melody in tlie way of dance music. Tlie program played is not a heavy one by all means, but tho songs, as they play them, have tlie smooth, rhythmic quality one desires in the popular songs of the day. Kirby and Duvall are a man and woman comedy team who are certain of getting laughs out of their hearers. They have no outstanding feature to tlie act, but with a lively line of chatter-keep the gloom away from the place. Bert Chadwick, a. colored entertainer, has the original story on married life. Let him tell it to you. He has many syncopated little songs and a fund of laughable stories that are a pleasure to listen to. The Francis Haney Revue, composed of live men and one woman, numbers some very excellent step pers in its make-up. Best hits were .1 skating dance by the women and one -of tlie men and an eccentric number by two of the men. At the close of the act tliey have a fl./e example of tap dancing in ensemble. Miller. Packer and Seize, two m©n and a woman, tiro a comedy trio with some real fun. And some good tap dancing by the woman. The chief hit of their eompdv is when the two men get to telling eacli other jokes. Th© Jokes aren't so hinny hut they are told in an amusing way. Armand and Perez are two men who center their attentions on gym* nastiy features. T i©.v have one tiling that is as spectaculp • as one would wish to s©© one of tli© men gets up on a high (able and h©!ds a chair over his head. Th© other places a hoard 011 th© floor in the manner of a lever, with a box in the middle ©f it, and then stands on the far end. Th© man on the table jumps, lights on the high end of tlie board and throws th© other into th© air. Th© man in tli© air then turns a complete are and lights in the chair on th© others shoulders. *.\t the L> rlc all week. (By th© Ob server.) .L _L other theaters today offer: Tli© Old Army Game" at the Ohio: “Desert Gold" at the Apollo; "Whispering Smith" at th© Colonial: “Rainbow Riley” at the Circle and “Looking for Trouble" at th© Isis.

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” Washington hurried back to Philadelphia. "He immediately gathered his Cabinet about him for a momentous decision. Genet, young, dashing, audacious, had arrived inChailcston and would soon present his credentials as the minister of the French Republic. He might rim refer to the treaty. ... Worse still, MR. FIXIT " Lou Poetically Protests Woodpecker Menace, .Let Mr. Fix It prrgrnt your case to city officiate. Ho i* Tlio Time* renre-h,-illative at the city hall. 'Vrito him at The Times. Returning from vacation, Mr. Fixit faced anew variety of community terror, the woodpecker menace. Sleepy Lou. a correspondent, jioetlcally describes *hc situation: PEAR MR FIX IT: I have troubles each mom. Can t sleep until eipht. Asa. woodpecker pecks Right over my pate. Now, what am I to do With this long-nosed thins? lie comes every vear At the first call of spring:. The dirty old redhead. He pecks and he peeks; It he don't slop his peeking. I'll shoot him. by heck! To remedy the situation. Will you advise me quick? What to do with this bird. & As he's driving mo sick. He's got holes in my porch post And holes in my roof, Sounds Itko a trlpnonmicr. And I've got tho proof. SI.EEPY LOU. Conservation department officials report your complaint is not at all uncommon, but they have no remedy to suggest. In weighing the evidence to determine whether the woodpecker shall live, don’t forget he Is credited with heavy inroads among the nastier species of Insects. The Hoosier Traveling Man returns to the column with another tirade against traffic conditions in Indianapolis. Among the remarks: “Coming downtown yesterday morning between Thirtieth St. and the Storehouse I saw five violations of the stop sign for Capitol Are. “If I had charge of the traffic a white or yellow line would lie drawn down the middle of certain streets and any driver crossing that line, no matter how slow the traffic is moving, would Pay SSO, of which $25 would go to the one who informed the police. "I wish we had a man with nerve enough to take a stand as to to drivers of automobiles when full of booze. I am for good beer, twenty-fopr hours a day. but have sense enough to know w-hen fto drink It and expect the other man to do the same.'”

THE VERY IDEA!

■By Hal Cochran BRIDGE

The So-and-Sos, from down the street, go callin’, three doors west. And, on the way, the mister says, "quit *frettin’—do your best.” The men folk play the women —yep, it’s bridge that’s under way. Each one expects a trimmin’ ’cause they "don't know how ta play.” The cards are dealt and—after awhile —the dealer bids one spade.' Then promtpjy starts to wonder how the deuce it can be made. One diamond is the next bid—and, of course, that’s just a slip. The diamond bidder passes—but the partner’s got the tip. Two diamonds finally take it, when the partner has her say, and both the men are wond'ryjg how the women get that way Two tricks or more are lost before the bidders set the pace. Then Mrs. So-and-So forgets— and trumps her irtner's ace; The evening thu progresses 'mid mistakes at every turn. Each Voupio, 'course' is thinkin - . "will those people never learn?” It's lots of fun when playin’ bridge and most folk have their fling. But, when most people play it —shucks, the rules don't mean a thing. • * • A lot of people cross bridges before they come to them, and a lot more cross railroads without stopping to stop, look and listen. * * • If all of us said exactly what we think, we wouldn't have any friends. * • * June is the month when many little things come to pass—ls they're up on th©ir studies. * * * Tlie quartet gathered, head ta head. Now, watchelia think o' that? "How can we sing in sharps?” one said, "When we are in a fiat.' * * * Mother demanded that Jimmy never come home from school again with poor arithmetic marks. And Jimmy lived up to It. They haven’t seen him since. • • • The life guard usually charged one dollar for saving a life. One day a Scotchman was rescued, about half dead. Guess how much lie paid. * * A mul© wouldn't get so dog-gone balky and highfalutin’ if it. would stop to remember that its father was a jackass. T ABLES IN F\< T AN AGENT .CALLED AT ANY OLD HOME "AND TOLD THE LADY-OF THE-HOT'PE THAT TTE WAS SELLING A DEVICE FOR GETTING ENERGY FROM THE SUN PERIOD MOTHER MISUNDERSTOOD HIM COMMA AND PROMPTLY PURCHASED ONE BECAUSE SHE IIAD AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Do invitations to graduations necpssarilj call for a gift? No. Th© invitation is. merely a thoughtful mark of respect on th© part of the sender. It would be courteous, however, to send a card or a note of congratulation. In the case of a very intimate friend a gift would be appreciated.

the people in. the streets understood tli" nature of the pledge. ‘lt was not Hamilton’s' way to concede to Jefferson a primacy, where foreign relations were involved ... And in this I think that Bowers does that one million pet- cent of honesty that makes historical writing a fact instead of a false dream. T merely ask you to read carefully. Not too many pages a night. These many facts leading up to what Bowers said. Here is the life blood of the fight of Jefferson ajid Hamilton told as only a great human mind can tell it. And that mind Is Calude O. Bowers. The publisher in Houghton Mifflin Company. And you will recall T have tried to tell you only one idea of the 240 pages of “Jefferson and Hamilton.” •Study w-itli me. Tell me about this adventure In a historical fact. PROGRAM FROM SEVERIN Orchestra to Broadcast Dance Music Thursday Night. Charles Davis’ original orchestra will broadcast dance music from the Severin roof garden, Thursday, the opening night, from 10 to 11 p. m., over WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company station. The orchestra has completed its winter engagement at the Ohio theater and the Columbia Club. Harry D. Leer, business manager, said tentative arrangements have been made to broadcast every- evening.

Yellowstone Park Tours “The Wonderland of America” Leaving Weekly, June 26th August 28th Visiting Yellowstone Park, Salt Lake City# Royal Gorge, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Garden of the Gods. For Further Detail See or Write Richard A. Kurtz, Manager Travel Department

MAY 25, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to any ques- ' tion o i laet or information by writing to The lndianapolia Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. I) C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital 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 ore confidential. —Editor. Has Ohio or Virginia been * tin* birthplace of the larger number of Presidents of tlie United States? Ohio and Virginia have both been the birthplace of seven Presidents of the United States. Taylor, Tyler, W. JI. Harrison, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson and Washington were born in Virginia and Grant, Hayes, Garfield, B. Harrison, McKinley, Taft and Harding were born in Ohio. What is tlie period of gestation for an elephant? From twenty-one to twenty-two months. How often is mail sent from th© United States to Buenos Aires? How long does it take a letter to reach there from New York and what is the rate of letter postage? There is a weekly service between the United States and Buenos Aires. New York is th© port from which steamers sail and it takes seventeen to twenty days lor letters to reach their destination. The letter rate to Argentine is 2 cents an ounce for each ounce or fraction thereof. Who played the parts of Joe Kelly and Tim Rooney in the motion picture, "Little Annie Rooney?” William llaines played the part of Joe Kelly and Gordon Griffith the part of Tim Rooney. Mary Bickford starred In the title role. When will the next eclipse <f tho sun he visible in the l nited States? The next eclipse of the sun will ha a partial one (in the United States), visible as partial west, of a lina drawn from Montana to Georgia, occurring late in the afternoon of July 9; at Mt. Wilson, Cal., one-third of the sun’s diameter will be covered and tho eclipse will last from 3:25 p. m. to 5:20 p. m. (Pacific stand* ard time). Pleas© give th© s©x and the data and place- of birth of Zano Grey? Zane Grey is a man, born at Zanesville, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1875. Who was Joaquin Miller? An American poet born in Indiana in 1841. He became a miner in California. fought in the Indian wars, was an express messenger, practiced law in Oregon, edited, a. paper that was suppressed for disloyalty, was a Washing! >n journalist and in 3 887 settled in California as a fruit grower. He died in 1913. Hjs real name wan Cinclnnatus Heine Miller. Who governs Arabia? Arabia is held under a mandate of the League of Nations by Great Britain. The organization of the native states is to he developed under British auspices, tho principal native rulers (the King of the and Inman of Yemen) being subsidized on the condition that they maintain internal peace and place tli© control of foreign affairs in the hands of British advisers. Was there another boxer by tho name of Jack Dempsey beside the one now living? Yes. Jack Dempsey was the famous Brooklyn Nonpareil, and wa:i born Dec. 15, 1862, at County Kildare, Ireland. 11© was five feet eight inches tall and weighed 150 pounds. Ho was one of tho greatest middleweights in boxing history, and held the world's title from 1884 to IS9I. He died Nov. 1, 1895, at Portland, Ore., where he Is burled. How can 1 get a letter to a man in tlie United States whose whereabouts I do not know? Address a letter to him (giving his full name), “Care of Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C.” and writ© “Please Forward” on the envelope.

In Memory In memory of Amy Lowell a meeting recently held at Keats House, Hampstead, England. Among the speakers were Florence Ayscough, John Drinkwater, and John Gould Fletcher. A letter was read from Middleton Murray, expressing tho view that Miss Lowell's life of “John Keats” (Houghton Mifflin Company), w-as the final one. Mrs. Ayscough, long a friend of Miss Lowell, gave an intimate account of the poet’s life and work. The Keats House, for tho preservation of which Amy Lowell had always worked, was placed at Mrs. Aysrough’s disposal by tho Keats house committee in appreciation and acknowledgement of Miss Lowell's services. “What's O'clock,” which won the Pulitzer prize in poetry for 1925, is to ho followed this fall by another volume of posthumous poetry, “East Wind,” her publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company’, announce.