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WADSWORTH’S PLATFORM This morning in Washington, Senator James Wadsworth, Republican, of New York, gave out a remarkable statement. Someone had written asking that he state liis position squarely on the prohibition question. He did. And in so doing he gives one more evidence that party lines are giving away all along before this great national issue. Going farther than any man in high official life in Washington has gone since the Eighteenth Amendment became the bugaboo of 'the Constitution, the senior Senator from New York formally advocates the Quebec or Swedish system of handling the liquor problem in this country. “The principles of the Quebec plan,” he says, “I believe sound. The plan, as a result of the government taking over the sale exclusively of all alcoholic beverages upon the premises where sold, does away with the saloon and the private liquor traffic.” Elsewhere in this paper you will read Wadsworth’s amazingly frank statement- It is important. Wadsworth is a regular Republican. As chairman of the steering committee in the United States Senate he is one of his party’s whips. And his position and prestige makes him the most important Republican of his State, the biggest still in the Union when it comes to presidential conventionsNot only has Wadsworth “written a platform” for the G. O. P. of his own State, but he has written something that will be heard from when the Republican national convention gathers in the summer of 1928. • “What we all really want,” says Wadsworth, “is temperance.” Every fair-minded man and woman in the country knows we are certainly not achieving it under the present system. Which is why both the Democratic and Republican parties are splitting wide open under pressure of public opinion, which is tired of sham prohibition and real corruption. It wants these abuses corrected. TWO CHAPTERS When Chairman Walb of the Republican State committee puts out his handbook in an effort to send Watson back to the United States Senate, let it be hoped that there will be no missing chapters. He announces that he is to trace the history of the party back to the days of Lincoln in an endeavor to persuade voters that they should cast another ballot for Watson. In that history, there should be included one chapter from Indiana describing the administration of one Warren T. McCray and the efforts inside the .party organization at that time. There are many things which occurred at that time which need explanation, aside from those which sent the former Governor to seclusion at Atlanta. And certainly the history of the last session of the Legislature should be blazoned so that no one will forget thg tjme, the man ncr the place when one individual shouted and was believed that he was “the law’ in this State. No true historian could fail to identify him as the man who ran the Republican party, was responsible for most of the legislation two years ago, dictated the nomination and election of most of the present State officials, and who is now spending the rest of his life behind the stone walls at Michigan City. No history of his party would be complete or more significant-'as contrasting with the days of its early idealism than the record of the era cff Stephenson, who controlled the party and who, Jt is more than suspected, dictated the selection of one United States Senator. For illustration it might be convenient to gather the photographs which great men of the State sent to this man who is now a ward of the State, and reproduce the glowing tributes of friendship they paid him at that time. t If this is to be a campaign based on history, the people should demand recent history, not that of seventy-five years ago. The voters may wish to know not who fqunded the party but who owns and controls it at present. They revere Lincoln. They may object tothe sacrilege of using his great name to cloak the acts . pf those who have seized the party he led and debased it. * A DEBT OF HONOR There has been considerable hullabaloo over the refusal of Midshipman Earl B. Zirkle, Annapolis graduate, to take the oath which is administered to all graddates of the naval academy before being given their commissions as officers of the United States Navy- . When asked the reason for his unprecedented behavior, the young man is quoted as having replied that he was not cut out for a naval officer and that he wanted “to do something else.” He asked to be allowed to resign without doing the prescribed two years sea duty which winds up the trick of a student at Annapolis. Now we are told the naval authorities are in a quandary. Never having had a case like that before they hardly know what to do. Young Zirkle has been * ordered aboard the battleship New York for the summer training cruise, while the problem presented is boing worked out. If there are any real reasons why an exception should be made of Zirkle’s case all well and good. The reasons should be Weighed most sympathetically. Unless very special reasons exist, however, that is something else again. Annapolis and West Point are strictly Government schools. ' They are very, expensive schools. They are maintained by taxes. They are exclusively to train naval and army officers. They are part of the national defense. Each officer that is turned out costs the taxpayers of this country thousands of dollars. Ordinarily thousands of boys try to ,onter one or the other of these academies- But only a few of the thousands get in. There must be vacancies, otherwise no appointments are made. Thus no boy has a right to accept appointment to one of these schools, to the exclusion of some other boy, and remain there at public expense year after year unless he is prepared to repay the Government lor his education by

serving for at least a few years in the national defense. There may not be any legal obligation on the part of a graduate —the authorities seem to be uncertain on this point—but theer is certainly a moral obligation of the highest character involved. The Government should make it perfectly clear whatever disposition it makes of the Zirkle case that it regards boyk who accept appointments to West Point and Annapolis as in honor bound to live up to the contract which is to give honorable service to the Nation in return for the six wonderful years of training received. * ONE WAR PREVENTED There will be no war over Mosul oil. Turkey accepts the League of Nations decision awarding the province of Mosul to the kingdom of Iraq (Mesopotamia) and yesterday she and Britain signed on the dotted line at Angora. This will be bad news to the enemies of the League. Britain and Turkey for years have been bristling at eitah other over the Mosul boundary and at times both have had troops mobilized along the disputed border. Asa sort of forlorn hope to avoid war the dispute was put up to the league- And the league’s enemies put their tongues in their cheeks and said: “Now we’ll see!” And there’ll be peace. There is a'pact of security and nonaggression for ten years, a live and let live agreement for the mixed peoples of the Mosul region, and in addition Turkey,is to receive not only 10 per cent of the revenue from the Mosul oil fields, but 10 per cent from all the oil fields in Mesopotamia. The league is far from perfect. It is composed of many nations, and nations are merely groups of imperfect human beings. But here it has prevented war. It lias saved thousands of lives. And no telling what terrible complications. That’s something. WHAT NEXT? Roger Wiliams, it has just been disclosed, not only was the founder of Rhode Island, but one of the State’s first licensed liquor dealers as well. A reference in' an old volume of cdlonial records says, “It is granted unto Mr. Roger Williams to have leave to sell a little wine, or strong water to some natives in their sickness..” Not so long ago, Rupert Hughes kicked up a fuss by making public a beer recipe of George Washington’s. And now this scandal about Roger Williams. What next? COHEN TO KELLY New York Giant fans waited for it a long time, hut finally it happened. Andy Cohen, substitute infielder, was sent in to pinch hit for Frankie Frisch. He singled. Then he took his place at second base, and a few minutes later he threw out a runner at first base and down into the records went the play —Cohen to Kelly. % Cohen to Kelly! Shades of dad’s day, when baseball echoed with the famous double-play combination qf Tinker to Evers to Chance! Echoes of Barry to Collins to Mclnnis, of Peck to Harris to Judge! Baseball is the American game, but numbered among the star performers of history are Germany, Swedes, Frenchmen, Poles, Cubans, Irishmen, Italians and what not. And now— Cohen to Kelly! Abie’s Irish Rose! Hooray! Perhaps the talking movie idea could be useful. Why not limit it to talking sub-titles? Would save reading aloud. , Next big wet and dry argument that comes up we are going to use a fine wise-crack about one side meeting its Waterloo. Prince of Wales has started carrying an umbrella, indicating he is trying to pose as a married man. A bill in Congress would bar firearms from the mail, perhaps because they might go- off when the mail does. In Sunbury, Pa., thieves carried away a 1,000pound safe, but a pedigreed watch dog kept so quiet he wasn’t stolen. Here’s the news from Hollywood: “No rouge- No lipstick. No henna.” But that’s too conspicuous for the home girl.

IS MAN GOD’S PET? By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

When ignorant men fail to And any sensible argument by which they can stress women’s inferiority, they fall back upon God as their silent champion. A minister in Dallas, Texas, has remarked that Mrs. Ferguson should not be holding office down there because God does not approve of women having authority over men. (Couldn’t we women think up a lot better reasons than that?) Such men infer that God, when he created humans, was partial to the males and is highly insulted when He sees one of I-Rs# pets obliged to give worldly deference to a woman.’ This is' a lovely theory for the men themselves, and what an intelligent God they have made for us! Why, even the heathen idols were endowed with more reason than this Christian pastor gives the Divinity credit for possessing. This state of mind is a hangover from the day when men were indeed the rulers of the universe. Have j|ou ever had to listen to one of them talk down to your mentality for a couple of hours at some club meeting? I am sure we have all suffered thus. The speaker will address the women as if they were all a bunch of two-year-olds whom he has to amuse for a while. He will trot out his stale and simple jokes and never fails to make cute remarks about feow his wife bosses him. This tendency is largely due, not so much to men’s abysmal ignorance as to their inherited idea that*God is always on their side. Back in the days of Salem, when there was spilled a trail of blood and tears which still blots American history, most of the victims were women, and only men sat in judgment upon them. Read something of the harsh and cruel religion those puritans forced upon their women, and you will get some idea of the reason why there are still men who think that God wears a white collar and a frock coat. It may take several 1 hundred years yet to get this superiority complex out of the boys. I hope I shall be able to take a peep out of the hereafter when * that glorious day dawns upon the earth. ..'- r ' Y v

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Tracy Real Test of Coolidge Discipline Liberty A Pretty Fuss

By M. E. Tracy Brookhart’s triumph over Cummins in lowa is the worst setback the Coolidge Administration has thus far received. It is not to be explained on any other ground tfian that of absolute uncompromising dissatisfaction with the way things have been run at Washington. Is this premonitory of a midwestern revolt of the Republican party such as Roosevelt led fourteen years ago? If so, are the Democrats due for another national victory such as Taft’s failure made possible. Cer-, tainly there is little chance of reconciliation and cooperation between men of the Brookhart type and the old guard. • If proof of this were wanting, it can be found in the nonchalant manner in which the old guard voted to seat a Democrat in preference to Brookhart. Here is a rift not so easy to patch up, a sore spot that is bound to grow. We are dealing with impulses rather than demands. Specific measures of farm relief can be hurried through to stenj the tide of discontent, but that won’t count because it is a mere detail. The West is beginning to sense not only its strength, but the lack of consideration with which fts strength has been treated. It resents political and financial dictation, but especially the latter. Behind all of its seeming radical; ism there is a constructive purpose —a purpose to mobilize more of this Nation’s wealth and credit in support of essential occupations. Brookhart’s is but one of the many voices that are making themselves heard. -I- -I- -I“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespere, “while the good is oft interred with their bones.” Bennett J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., who is the only American belonging to the French Foreign Legion and who is booked to face a firing squad within forty-e:ght< hours, has good cause to ponder this grim bit of philosophy. He fought for France on the Western Front, though under the Stars and Stripes, in Morocco and in Syria. But all that counts for nothing since he deserted and led a miniature mutiny. His head may have been turned by the awful experiences he has been through in these three wars for France, but that too, counts for nothing. Only the stark spectres of military discipline remains to counsel and console him, because of the one fatal error. Not two weeks ago he was cited for bravery in battle, but that will not avail. In arms, everything yields to efficiency. * * + -iDon’t step on tfie gas when you come over the Canadian border and don’t speed the boat when you head for land. Dr. J. A. Labelle, a Montreal surgeon, summoned by v Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp to hurry to the aid of their son in Lowell, Mass., was treated to a dose of machine gun fire as he sped over the line. Dry agents mistook him for a rum runner, as they claim. His car was riddled with bullets and Mrs. Beauchamp, who was riding with him, received a shot in the arm. The day before'this happened, two Harvard launches, going around from Cambridge, Mass., to New London, Conn., were stopped by a coast guard boat with a shot .across their bows. They also had been mistaken for rum runners. -I- -I- -I' Ink wells, glasses of water and flying fists —what have such missiles of childish temper to do with a congressional hearing, especially if the object is to find out whether a public official has been delinquent and ccolheadedness is supposed to safeguard the requirements of justice. Yet they are what struck this country full in the face from a thousand front pages yesterday afternoon, spoiling public confidence, even as spilled ink spoiled the carpet of a committee room. After several weeks of argument and testimony the committee was still at the task of trying to determine whether Commissioner Fenring of the District of Columbia ought to be impeached when the packed room was thrown into confusion by an unexpected three-hand-ed scrimmage. Congressman Rankin or Mississippi threw an ink well, Mr. Hogan, Fenning’s lawyer, threw a glass of water, and 'Fenning himself essayed to play the part of a pugilist. The cause .of the disturbance is revealed in all its littleness by the fact that nobody thought it worth recording except, of course, the official stenographers, who couldn’t help themselves. It will be no more than right for the participants to pay for cleaning or replacing the carpet and documents that injured. UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL NEW YORK—Policeman Thomas Davis saw two men drive away in his brand-new automobile. He ■houted for help and was answered by a truck driver. Within a short time the truck closed in on the stolen machine and the crooks jumped off, one of them shouting: “This car ain’t no good anyway.” Davis, humiliated, swears vengeance. ““ GIRL HIKERS BACK CHICAGO Three high school girls are back in their classes again after giving up an ambition to travel around the world. After hiking West for twelve miles they abandoned the!.' around-the-world ambi .ions and telephoned their parents to come after them. - ••

Byron Deserves Credit for His Playing Role of Voii Barwig in ‘Music Master’

By Walter D. Hickman Some plays depend upon the .ability of the actors to make them successes and “The Music Master” is such a play. \ David Warfield made himself to a great extent a fine public idol by

his work as Herr Anton Von Barwig, the sweet old master, In “The Music Master,” under the Belasco banner. Here is a big role from the standpoint of theater. It gets into the heart and the eye. The role is so timed that the star, any star, has a great cheWice. This part demands accurate makeup, careful attention to voice and walk. It gives any play-

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era splendid opportunity for dramatic and sympathetic acting. This week we have the experience at English’s of seeing Milton Byron sink his own personality into the character l of the aged Von Barwig. He has captured the voice, the sob, the tear and the walk of the master. Milton Byr/.i is not present this week, meaning that he has completely given himself to the characterization. According to my standard of judging, Byron this week is giving the most all-round characterization of this or any season that he has been herei. And as the week goes along, the characterization will become more mellow and sweeter. Byron is shading the character with a definite and strong touch, not too strong, but with that needed sympathy and understanding which the part demands. He is giving without doubt the most learned and sincere characterization of his career, or as far as I am acquainted with his efforts upon the stage. Byron deserves his personal triumph of good and sincere acting. A leading man of a stock company Is called upon to do many and varied things in the course of a season. The way that Byron yields to the demands of this characterization shows that he has a dramatic reserve which has never been tapped. Another source of int/rest this week is the work of Miss Edythe Elliott' as Helen Stantop. She is not rushing her lines but waiting for Byron to build up hla dramatic atmosphere. This is wise and fine. This play is a play of emotional parses and effects. The actor must supply the effects as well tas the atmosphere. Miss Elidf-t is giving a complete characterization this week. And she dresses the part correctly and in good taste. Another oustanding characterization is the Miss Houston" of Mildred Hastings. She, too, has caught the spirit of complete characterization. A very fine piece of work, sincere and true character. I do not like or agree with the make-up' of William V, Hull as A1 Costello. I do not consider this character a burlesque, but a type, a very sipeere type. Hull seems to dress the character as burlesque, out just a little bit-of humanity on the theatrical map. Later on In the show Hull appears as Ditson and Is satisfactory in this part. When I saw “The Music Master” someone failed to put a menu as well as pen and ink on the stage. This should never happen, no excuse for It. The lights-in the first act are not handled correctly. A little more attention to the cause of lights

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S—MiIton Byron is doing the best of his career In “The Music Master.” Without doubt this Is the best all-round production that Charles Berkel has ever given Indianapolis. KEITH’S “Applesauce” Is just light but pleasant entertainment, filled with many laughs. * LYRIC —The Capman Boys and Fashionettes have an excellent act of melody and comedy. PALACE —Jones, Fisher and Howe offer a peppy jazz act with plenty of dancing and jagz music.

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW . Collins Takes the Gyp Out of European Travel

By Walter D. Hickman Taking the gyp out of European travel has been done successfully by Frederick L. Collins. Collins has done a lot of rounding round the world and he knows Just how much should be spent for everything from the king’s palace to the London bridge. This information is found in Collin’s "Travel Charts and Travel Chats,” having the subtitle of “The Trips I Took and What They Cost me.” This book is published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis and sells for $2.50 a copy. In his introduction Collins has these very wise remarks: "I travel now and then. And the farther I go, the more I am convinced that it is easier to find one’s way through Europe than it is through a European guide book. We need to know so little, we travelers. Where to go, how to get there; where to eat, where to sleep; what to see, how to see it; what it costs. That’s all. “We don’t even need a guide book to tell us these things—even if we are lucky to find one that can. What we need is a chart, a travel chart, to set forth these essential facts, and little else.” * And the more that I study Collin's Travel Charts and Travel Chats," the more convinced I am that all a feller needs to tour Europe is a copy of these charts and the needed money. We Are In London In this book we land in London right at the very beginning. And we land there without a guide book. As Collins says; "London isn’t beau-

would add greatly to the effect of the first act. The three sets used In “The Music Master” reflects credit upon Eddie and Tqm Adrian Cracraft. Never have they done a better job. The furniture, including the piano, is of the correct type. The man who dug up these antiques deserves a whole lot of genuine praise. From a scenic standpoint, this show sets a high mark for the Berkell organization. The entire cast is as follows: Jenny Bernice Marsolais Mens. Louis Pinao (of Paris). second violinist Herbert Dobbins Signor Tagllfico. called Fico (of Milan) /first violinist Dick Elliott Herr August Poons (of Leipsie), cellist Robert St. Clair A1 Cos tell), the marker at the door of. . liig owu museum ... William V. Hull Miss Houston (of Houston 5t.).... . Mildred Hastings Herr Anton Von Barwig Milton Byron A Collector ,H. C. Carter Mr. Schwarz, secretary Amalgamated Musical Association ..... Harry Pihl Mr. Ryan. deregate Brickmakers Union Tom Coyle Helen Stanton Edythe Elliott Jones James Holems Henry A. Stanton, at the head of a banking house J- F. Marlow Beverly Cruger .-.•••• Bnb Fay Andrew Cruger. ex-ambassador to Germany Tom Coyle Mrs. Andrew Cruger ... Henrietta Hh>yd Ditson William V. Hull Mrs. Cruger s Nieces— „ . , , Charlotte Mabel Marlow Octavie -tae* La Rue “The Music Master” is on view all week at English’s. It is one of the most satisfying stock buys of the season. + + + HARMLESS AND SWEET IS "APPLESAUCE” AT KEITH’S. Sweet and harmless is a pretty good way to define Barry Conners’ “Applesauce.” When this play was presented at

the Murat some seasons ago, I agreed that the title was proper because It is all applesauce. Here is the lightest possible stage entertainment. .Human at times, but never heavy. I understand that it made money when it was first presented and turned a nice profit last week in Cincinnati for Stuart Walker. The secret of the suc-

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cess of this frail little play is that it does make people laugh by showing up the American home. No great artistry was required to manufacture this play. A mother and father fight all the time. Their daughter quarrels with her rich sweetheart and marries the poor one. Relatives on all sides agree that the marriage is a failure, but the applesauce of the husband keeps the wolf away from the door. ’ , George Gaul Is cast as Bill McAllister who puts out his own brand of applesauce and makes the people swallow it. The George Gaul smile is constantly in use and that means something. Larry Fletcher is Rollo Jenkins who has money, but no applesauce. George Alison does a good job as Matt McAllister and Ernest Cossart is the loud speaking and yelling Pa Robinson. Judith Lowry is splendid as Ma Robinson who fights with Pa all the time and yet loves him. The real great big acting hit Is contributed by Margaret Douglass as Mrs. Jerfnie Baldwin, a wife who would talk any husband into his grave. Here is a wonderful vinegar characterization, true and honest. Splendid. “Applesauce” has one virtue, it introduces us t"b Vivian Tobin, a mighty sweet pleasant little body who. knows her theater. Her voice and her eyes are probably her winning points. She is cast as Hazel Robinson who would rather live on applesauce than marry a fortune. From a scenic standpoint, "Applesauce” Is all that It should be. The lights are perfectly handled as one expects In a Walker production. "Applesauce” has lots of laughs and that is something in the theater today. At Keith’s all week. -!- -I- -ILOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE ' Lucille Jones, Carl Fisher and Jack Howe at the Palace today and tomorrow have a jazzy act in which the dancing of Miss Jones is the principal attraction. Four men playing two banjos, a violin and a something or other that I didn’t recognize furnish most of the melody for the dancing. The high lights of the ac* were two dances by Miss Jones, one a very graceful thing and the other

tiful In the usual sense; not as Paris is, or Vienna. It s crooked, and twisted, and grim, and dark. A city of baffling vastness.” You learn in “Travelcharts” that “nothing in London is cheap but the actual expense of a sight-seeing week, exclusive of eating and sleeping, but including railway, motor and bus fares, taxi one way to Hampton

They Read Drama Drama Is the most popular form of reading in the New York Public Library, with fiction as the only exception, Alfred Eichler, a statistically minded page in the. Institution, writes in the current International Book Review. Eugene O’Neill stands far and above all other dranyatlsts in popularity, according to the findings, and is gaining a larger share of tho readers constantly. Owen Davis, George Bernard shaw, and Sir James Barrie rank next to O'Neill fn contemporary demand from the public. The .American drama has steadily advanced during the last few years, mainly due to the genius of a few brilliant writers, it is found. Library demand indicates that Lewis Beach, Rachel Crothers, Phillip Barry, John Colton, Kaufman and Connelly, Jameg Gleason, George Kelly, and Channing Pollock are among the moat popular American dramatists. 1

o t the eccentric type; a banjo duet by two of the men In the small orchestra In which the effect was given of three banjos playing at the ame time, and the final nujnber in which both of the dancers took part. Sull?, Houghton and Sam Rose •have a very humorous act in which is depicted the love affair of a young cadet at a military school. The fact that this love affair is unusual is brought out in a very humorous manner when the young lad happens to “pan” the girl’s father while talking to her and not knowing the relationship. The act has several good tap dances by the boy and a good song by the man and girl at the finish. • Delbridge and Gremmer have a well act in which the two unite in some very fine song numbers besides solos by both. Comedy ia worked Into the act in a very pleasant manner by the man telling several stories of the southern type. The song number at the end of the act was their best and I think they should have more of the same type. The Capital City trio, composed of three men, offer comedy and song fry all and are good for several minutes’ fun, Equill* brothers have an excellent balancing act In which the feuture Is a balancing feat (tone on a single cross bar. One of tile men, by holding the weight of the other In his hands, balances himself on his shoulders alone while on a bar. The bill includes a photoplay, “Rustling for Cupid,” with Anita Stewart and a news reel. At the Palace toddy and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) -I- "I- + LYRIC HAS AN ORIGINAL FEATURE The Lyric this week in the act of the Capman Boys and Fashionettes has a very original and entertaining feature. The two boys, -they look like brothers, have a brand of fun that is all their own and stay on the same line all through the act, they are good funmakers and do not try to get classical on an audience that wants to laugh. The act opens with the two boys on the stage with a small portable organ. They impersonate a couple of rur%l characters and give us a sample of their Idea of jazzy songs. The “Fnshlonettes” are then introduced to the audience and they come out wearing some clothes that must have been grandmother’s pride in her younger days. The "Fashionettes” are a group of seven women In a very fine jazz orchestra. The act Is then a series of musical numbers by the orchestra and comedy numbers by the boys alternating. One number, called "Dreamy Dan,” I believe, although a bit more serious than the rest of the act was very effective with the weird music, green lights and all that. Eddie Hill is a whole show to himself. To start things off he tells every one his troubles with his radio set. He must have struck a sympathetic chord In this idea for every one was with him when the exasperating things his radio did were mentioned. Hill closes his act with a very remarkable exhibition qf his philosophical talent. It is remarkable in that It Is anew brand. Bonnie Reynolds and Collegians are a woman and four men In an act that has some good melodies by the men and some clever dancing by Miss Reynolds. Pete and Paula Hanson have a very clever song and dance act In which they both stand out to advantage. Believe I llko their dancing somewhat the best. They certainly have nimble feet. Jan F.ubini, assisted by a woman accompanist at the piano, gives several violin solos which, although of the finest quality, seemed to rather stress technique more than irelody. Tallmain and Kerwin entertain with comedy and songs. The Takewas have a gymnastic act in which balancing is the featured part. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) •I- -I- + Other theaters today offer: “Money Talks," at the Ohio: "The Sea Beast,” at the Uptown; “The Palm Beach Girl” and “Around the World With the United Press,” at the Apollo; “The Wilderness Womnn," at the Circle; “The Isle of Retribution," at the Colonial and “Among Those Present,” at, the Isis.

Court, admission fees, catalogs, guides, theater tickets, necessary taxis In city and tips while sightseeing, can be kept well within $30.” Thirty bucks. That sure Is fine. Am sure that you will agree with me that Collins knows his oil and how to spread it around on the palms of those who would take everything away from the Innocent traveler. A Tip About Paris Collins asks: “Wish t 0 see Paris? Do as the Parisian does. Grab one of those little wicker chairs that line the boulevards and the streets of the Latin quarter. Squeeze your knees under a dirty little table, damp and smelly from the untidy libations of the previous occupant, and order yourself a cup of coffee. And then look around. And Collins tells you how to safely get a touch of the real night llfp of Paris without going broke or getting murdered. He also the battlefields and tells you how to take this Interesting trip. He advises the use of one of the travel agencies because they can take you to the battlefields much better “than you can take yourself.” A two-day trip to the battlefields costs about S4O. Seven days In Paris figures from SBO to $l5O. And I sure like this line of advice of Collins: Drink ordinary water In' Europe at your own risk.” And you also learn from Collins that you can do France on $5 a day. He also takes you to Monte Carlo, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland and the Alps. Here is ,a hook which will be of great value to you if you go to Europe and mighty fine entertainment if you stay home.

JUNE 8, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to any Question of tact or Information by wrlttnc io The Indlanapolla Time* Washington 'ureau. 1383 New York Are.. Wahinton D C.. Inclosing 2 cent* in ■tampg for reply. Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can eitcnded research be undertaken. All other question* will receive a pergonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answer*®. All lettcra are confidential. —Editor, Do the cadets at the Coast Guard Academy wear uniforms? How does their pay compare with the cadets at West and Annapolis? The ctkdets at the Const Guard Academy New London, Conn., wear uniforms of the same type as those Avorn by tho midshipmen of the Naval Academy and have the same pay and rank as the boys at West Point and Annupolts. * From what book was tho photoplay “Red Lights” taken? It was not taken from a book, but was adapted from the stage play "The Rear Car,” by Edward E. Rose. Why was King Peter I of Russia called “Peter the Great"? Because It was he who made Russia a world power and ulso brought about the adoption of (occidental dress, manners and customs. How many airplane casualties were there In 1925? Fifty-three. Does California or Florida produce the most grapefruit? Florida. Who holds the world’s pole vault championship? Charles Hoff of Norway. Is Harold Lloyd’s hand an artificial one. Does lie have to employ a double for Ids comedy stunts? Only Harold Lloyds right thumb is artificial. He lost this thumb m an explosion. No double is employed for his comedy stunts.

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Editor Times: Dear Sir—Please accept my expression of appreciation of your very strong, fearless and most sensible editorials dealing with the present deplorable conditions concerning the traffic In liquor (both poisonous, spurious—rarely good) und the Volstead act. To anyone who reads the dally papers, with correspondents' columns of opinions and news, It would seem as though It Is the aim to force an issue as between dry and wet, insofar as prohibition ia concerned. Suoh should not be; tho majority of true prohibitionists want law enforcement, and this Is also true of those who favor a moderate weti regime. " The average politician, in my opinion, is so lacking in the courage of his convictions that ho does not vote for a measure demanded, not only by the public generally, but also for the good of the land in which we live. There is too much hypocrisy in politics—yes, in the politicians them*,, selves. Eliminate this by electing to office, so far as humanly possible, only such Individuals as nre trua men, In the full, broad meunlng of the word. > Any law so Impossible of enforcement as Is thb so-called Eighteenth Amendment should find no place on the statute books. It Is a law that Is ridiculed everywhere, laughed at, winked at —the bootleggers are growing rich over It, tho public is getting Its poison and its training In tho disregard of law! Let’s have a law that can be both respected and enforced. Let’s have men In office that will give us such a law; men that we can rely on, ns men of courage, of rugged honesty. WILFRED RACKEMANN.

THE VERY IDEA!

By Hal Cochran THE CLOWN

Wo pay to see him act the fool a ml everybody, ns a rule, is made to feel more cheerful. His life is one of crazy things, and always heaps of pleasure brings. (For clowns is meant this earful.) Who knows what grief may lie within the heart behind a forced out grin? What pranks the fates can play; to make a man bring forth a smile —yea, laugh—when really, all the while, he doesn’t feel that way. It must be fun to make a crowd of gloomy people luugh out loud. That Job the clown Is living. Tho frown dies out; tho smile comes through when e’er you see the man' —just due to foolishness he's living. He gives his life to c< her folk who look on him ns just a Joke. Yet is it all worth while? For. while ho does the best he can to try and cheer his fellow man—who trleo to make him smile? • * * A lawyer's stenographer knows that a brief isn’t. • • • Those who cannot get a seat on a street car hang together. • • * You may know where you buy your hootch, but it's still a secret, if it's a secret still. It may be wrong, but a youngster gets to do a lot more things, by telling his. parents abont them afterwards, Instead of asking permission in the first place. FABLES IN FACT THE YOUNG FELLOW BOASTED THAT HE COULD MABRY ANY GIRL HE PLEASED PERIOD AT FIRST THOUGHT COMMA THAT SOUNDS NOT ONLY EGOTISTICAL COMMA BUT ALSO LIKE A LOT OF BUNK PERIOD BUT COMMA WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT HE DIDN'T PLEASE ANY OIRL AT ALL COMMA TT'S A DIFFERENT STORY PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc->