Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1926 — Page 4

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LEVEL HEADED GERMANY Yesterday poor, tired, hungry, beaten, languish* Ing and disillusioned Germany showed that, despite all, Bhe Is today one of tue sanest nations in the world. Sunday was the great day of her national refer* endum on whether the property of the former Kaiser and other Teutonic princes should be expropriated by the state and turned over to the people without Indemnification of any kind, Had her answer been yes, upward of four to five hundred million dollars’ worth of estates would have become the peoples’ property. It would have gone to help the unemployed, the war widows, the war orphans, the war cripples, the needy farmers, agricultural laborers, and the hordes of unfortunates who were pauperized when the mark collapsed. Yet Germany voted no, despite this widespread appeal. The property of the former Emperor and the twenty-six other royal houses of the federated states, will not expropriated, because the vote for seizure did not reach the 19,500,000 necessary to form a majority of the qualified voters. Many observers consider the vote was for or against the republic. It was hardly that., Many per* fectly good Republicans opposed expropriation with* out remuneration because they did not think it right. Chancellor Marx’s party, for example, opposed it while favoring a radical reduction of the royal hold* ings. "The consequences of a lost war and impover* ishment," his party’s statement said, “must be borna by the princes along with the others, their rights and privileges being no more and no less than those of ordinary Germany.” No, the vote Sunday was not for and against the Hohenzollerns, but it did prove while there are mil* .lions of Germans bitter against the Kaiser and subordinate princes, the people as'a whole are typically phlegmatic about it, and refused 'absolutely to be stampeded. England in her revolutions axed her kings and queens. EYance sent hers to the guillotine. Russia, more recently, machine gunned hers or butchered them, gorily at close range. But revolutionary Ger* many never harmed a single hair on a single royal head. Moreover, it did not require Sunday’s poll to know how Germany feels about a monarchy. When she voted for Field Marshal Von Hindenburg for president, she proved conclusively that though she is a republic in name, there is still a majority who sigh for the good old days if not the good old ways. Nor does yesterday’s vote end Germany's row over the royal estates. The country has been quar* reling over the issue since 1918, and will continue to do so until it is settled. This will likely be through some compromise measure begun soon in the Reichstag. ALIBI Senator Robinson denies that he received any pay ftm the national Anti-Saloon League for speeches he made in this State. He says he was paid opiy his expenses when he went out to campaign for the dry laws. Then he does a rather questionable thing when he endeavors to justify his own actions by saying that former Vice President Marshall made speeches for money. That attempt to line himself up with Marshall should he resented even by those who may accept the new order of tilings whereby Senators take money froin organisations, even expense money, when they go among the people to advocate legisla* tion on which they must vote. The difference Is in the fact that Marshall, making a tremendous sacrifice to serve the people, Was paid by the people who wanted to listen to him, not for advocating specific laws, hut for imparting from his fond ’of wisdom on various subjects. He was not paid by organizations which have definite laws to enact, net paid for advancing arguments in behalf of legislation in which the body which paid him was interested. When Senator Robinson was sent out to speak he went as a special pleader and an advocate of certain laws on which he was expected to vote if the matter ever came to an issue. He did not go to people who had asked ”or him but to people who were drawn by his title to listen to arguments in favor of the laws which the organization which paid his expenses wanted. In tliis connection the report of the Stale body which paid his expenses, issued just before the primaries, is significant It will be remembered that In that race tins league which paid his expenses to travel over the State on lectures strongly Indorsed him, although his opponents in that race had equally strong records on the matter of prohibition. It will be recalled, that after the primary the league sent out an apology for its report on Oswald Ryan, after the votes, had been cast, of coarse. The denial of Senator Robinson that he is the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League is not impressive. The very fact that an organization pays the expenses of members of Congress opens anew form of menace to free institutions. If it is proper for the Anti-Saloon League to pay these members for speeches, it is proper for other organizations. The manufacturers who want special tariff should not be blamed if they pay members of Congress for speeches. Perhaps the labor unions could use a few in this manlier. The system is vicious. It opens the way to corruption. It is not in keeping with the spirit of our institutions. ASK ZAK As legitimate -as money given to a church, says Secretary Mellon -of the money -spent 4n the Pennsylvania primaries. The Mellon forces spent more than a miTfion. dollars. Nobody, of course, believes that sum covers their whole expenditure. For instance, just -as one example, there was the money spent by W. L. Mellon, the secretary’s brother, now State Republican chairman, four nights before the election-In -a par ty at hiß home for the county officials of Allegheny County. , Reports next day were -Chet practically all Os the county officials -were .present—tncludtug tha

county Judges. Keep your mind on the Judges and hear what happened to a young man named Zak. Zak was a candidate In the primary for a seat in the State Legislature. As the election precincts reported is revealed he was about sixty votes ahead of his opponent, a man named Malle. Malie Was the organization candidate. Zak wasn’t; he was a La Follette supporter two years ago. One precinct remained to be heard from, and Its return finally came in. It reported 183 votes cast, all but twenty of them for Malie. That gave him the nomination on the face of it. But Zak demanded that the ballot box be opened. He was suspicious. He had found that only 160 votes were cast that day in that precinct. He also had found 33 voters ready to make affidavit that they had voted for him. Ballot box was opened. It was empty. Not a ballot in it. The wife of the election official who had had charge of it reported that her husband had dumped the ballots in the sewer. Zak demanded that the whole precinct’s vote be thrown out. There was no possible way of determining how many votes he had got and how many Malie had got, in the light of the obvious fraud. But the intelligent judge, hearing the case—whether he was one of those entertained by W. L. Mellon four nights earlier, cannot be said—ruled differently. Twenty-three more votes having been counted than were actually cast, he said, he would order the number which the election officials had credited to Malie to he reduced by 23- Pittsburgh is still puzzling over the legal authority under which the judge assumed to do this. But the organization man, Malle, got the nomination, for with 23 taken from his fictitious 163 he still had enough to skin through. Now that is the sort, of politics with which Pittsburgh is blessed under the regime of the brothers Mellon. Does Secretary Mellon expect us to believe that the same sort of thing goes on in the Pittsburgh churches? ON, BLACKSNAKES, ON! On the outcome of a battle between two Missouri blacksnakes and two Texas rattlesnakes hangs a momentous decision. If the blacksnakes arc triumphant—as their Missouri backers stanchly maintain they will be—the park commissioner of San Antonio will import 10,000 of them from Missouri in an effort to exterminate the rattlesnake from Texas. Never was*there a more knightly toarna.nent- On the one hand the villainous, deadly from the plains and sage brush of Texas. On the other, the honorable champions from Missouri, carrying into the lists with them the best wishes of a long-op-pressed people. As between a blacksnake and rattlesnake for a bedfellow, we have no hesitancy in proclaiming that we should choose the former. A snake is a snake, it is true, but the gentleman from Missouri is a constrictor and his bite is not dangerous. On, blacksnakes, on! And may the cries from the ladye3 faira and gentle spur you to noble triumph!

One tell3 ua her husband is so lazy. Says the brute rushes off to work without cooking her breakfast Shaking hands may spread disease. But it also spreads life insurance. The piano evolved from the guitar and clavichord, but the saxophone comes from a mistake and an accident In the> United States, only $2,000,000 is spent yearly for paints, but this doesn’t Include rouge. The silver lining to practically all clouds is tarYou have to get out and shine for yourself. Very few automatic clgaret lighters work. They usually sit .with their feet on their desks. A fortune doesn’t always bring good fortune.

POWDER PUFFS FOR BALD PATES ■ - Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

This Nation, prone to organizations as the sparks fly upward, now a bald-headed men's club which came into being at Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the purpose of protecting the hairless male from remarks of humorous companions and professional jokesmlths. A leader of this egg-domed mob, whose number is indeed legion, says that bald-headed men are rich In mental equipment, and the fact that their skulls are barren means only that they have an extra amount of grey matter inside the cranium. Well, the editor of this column is never one who would strive to hurt the feelnlg of a good man gone bald. Asa woman jvho is.far from beautiful and who, all her life, has been subjected to pointed remarks about large noses, and who has lately been martyred because of long hair and spectacles, we can sympathize with these gentlemen and do so from our very heart. Howevar, if they are open to a bit of kindly suggestion from one who Is interested in the troubles of the race, we can offer one which will assuredly Improve the appearance of their slick pates. For some years now- we women have been admonished to foreswear shining noses. From all corners we can hear loud cries of criticism if we make a public appearance with a proboscis which reflects the glittering rays of the sun. And tha speedy and perpetual use of the powder puff testifies to the fact that wo have heeded well those admonitions. Half our amusements ar spoiled now by the necessity of having to resort to the übiquitous vanity case. Now there is one thing that is uglier than a worn an’s shiny nose, and that is a man’s shiny head. So to the bald-headed men’s club of the U. S. A., we would suggest large powder puffs for each member. Bare craniuins sprinkled with “Ashes of Roses” powder would he vastly mar® lovely. Now even tto files that drip so Leisurely over thdlr surtax® -look as if tiujy might .Blip and break a leg an tivb agteasjy expanse. Every balditaadsfl men khnUlfi to equipped tfulfh e- 'vanity ctsbeb .and jpowder tits head generously immediately alter removing his hat, ■ ■ ■’ • • . ’.I

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Tracy America’s Cue Right Now * Is to Sit Steady in ■ the Boat,

By M. E. Tracy The big news Is all foreign, with two of the greatest nations —Germany and France—ln the throes of agony. At first glance it looks as though Germany stayed at home merely to dc the Kaiser and his crowd a good tun., but there is more to the story than that. Burled beneath the cry of “Monarchy versus Republic,” which radicals tried to raise, was the far more vital issue of private property rights versus communism. -I- -I- -IA Wrong Precedent If the German princes were guilty of such wrongs as called for restitution to the State, there was a legal remedy. They could have been summoned to the bar of Justice as traitors, and I am not saying they should not have been. To take their property, however, without due process of law, and only because a change of political sentiment made It possible, would have established a precedent, whereby any party might have enriched itself in the future. -I- -HGood Sense The Radicals and Communists demanded confiscation, not so much to save the republic as to strike a definite blow at private property rights. The opposition rallies its strength, not by pitying the Kaiser, but by demanding “No vote for Bolshov* Ism." Much as I detest Kalserlsm, I cannot help believing that the Germans showed remarkably good sense In remaining at home in sufficient numbers to spoil the manifestly Red program. •!• -I- +

France’s Plague France is plagued by a similarly loud-mouthed element of destruction. Herriot. leader of the Socialists, dired not form a cabinet and take over the gigantic task of giving France order, mainly because his own party demanded a capital levy as a condition of supposting him. A capital levy means little less than partial* confiscation, the arbitrary appropriation by the state of 10, 15 or 20 per cent of rich men’s property, and that, too, on short notice. _ Nothing could wreck France more qiickly or more irrevocably than such a course and M. Herriot, In spite of his radical theories, had sense enough to realize 19. r ,j. + + War Is On So far aa Europe is concerned, the wc.r to save the world for democracy seems barely to have been begun. Avery few of the peoples seem able to visualize any remedy for their ills, save a Mussolini on the one hand, or a Soviet on the other. Between the cry for every hand In the common kettle, or rule by a dictator, sane Republicanism, based on individual rights and private property, such we as stand for In America, appears to be sorely beset. -!- -I- + The Mussolini View Mussolini rises to r-mnrk that our form of government doesn’t promise very much after all, and that great prosperity we enjoy has nothing to do with our political Institutions. He is seconded In this view by Rivera, the dictator of Spain and by millions of confused citizens from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, who are so scared of the Red terror, and so Impressed with the black shirt as to forget there Is a sanpr and more moderate basis of government than either represents. -I- -I- -!- Isolation Worth Price The people of this country were first to put the theory of Republicanism into workable form. It now looks as though they might be called upon to preserve that theory from the vagaries of a filstraught world. If this calls for temporary Isolation, for a more or less extended refusal to Join other nations In a great cooperative move for peace, it is still worth the price. .|. + -|. America, the Standard When you come to analyze It. the theory of international peace Is based on the American system. The League of Nations, the world court, arbitration treaties and disarmament owe vastly more to this country than to any other. So long as our principles and standards are In danger of being set aside by dictatorships, of Bolshevism, there can be no successful cooperation among the nations. -I- -I- -IOur Immediate Task Democracy has not been so seriously threatened since the Holy Alliance undertook to destroy it 111 years ago. Without democracy, however. International peace is out of the question. So long as Europe wavers between the ideals of a Mussolini and those of Lenin, we have no task of such immediate importance to perform as to remain steady and demonstrate how much firmer our form of government Is than either of these. i Have diamonds ever been successfully produced artificially? Successful attempts to produce diamonds artificially have been carried out by Professor Molssan of Paris and also by the English Professor Crookes. The method employed consists in heating pure prepared carbon and iron in an elec - iric furnace. By sudden cooling of ihe molten iron the surface contracts and exerts a powerful pressure upon the interior mass. When cold, the iron is dissolved In aold and the small black particles remain wtfich the properties of genuir, a diamonds.

Movie Flood Has Become An Important Factor in the Film Melodramas of Today

By Walter D. Hickman. It may have been the Indian who recognized that in the creek ahd the river that there was a great spirit. The modern movie director today ‘has harnessed that spirit of power

and has placed it success fully in the modern screen melodrama. This is well shown In “The Jbhnstown Flood,” a Fox movie showing how Johnstown was wiped off the map bji the breaking of a private dam used by money interests. The picture is “dressed” in the styles of the day when the flood actually happened. The

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fashioned bicycle built for two has its place in the more gentle moments of the story. This movie, will rise or fall by the way the audiences receive the flood scenes. As far as I am concerned this is the most realistic flood I have ever seen on the screen. It sweeps everything before it and yet the director, by some clever method, has been able to keep the principle characters at least visible while the flood is on. The director and the cameraman probably have used many clever methods in photographing this glgantlo flood. It takes a lot of water to wreck a town and the director has used a sufficient amount in “The Johnstown Flood.” A cast, of course, is necessary, although it isn’t so important as the Hood. George O’Brien Is the young engineer who warns tho lumber Interests that built the dam against its unsafe condition. George then leaves the lumber interests to warn the people, but the dam breaks Just the- same. A love story Is necessary In this melodrama because it Is through this love theme that a happy ennlng Is obtained. “The Johnstown Flood” is pretty fair theater from the beginning to the end. There Isn’t much comedy relief but the action is so tense that comedy is not needed. The bill induces a Neely Edwards comedy, Aesop Fable, a news i eel' and music by the American Harmonists. At the Colonial alj week. -I- -I- -ICIRCLE STARTS ITS SUMMER BAND SEASON With Tom Brown and his orchestra, the Circle this week starts its third summer season of syncopation. The Circle symphony orchestra will be In retirement during the sum-

mer months, but will come back in the late summer or early fall. Tom Brown Is carrying out the same gen. eral Idea of last season, but everything seems improved. Brown is a comedy director and he is Just as individual in his way aa Ted Lewis or any of the jazz conductors. The greatest danger of such directors is that they overdo a certain thing. Brown has a good

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playing organization and he has selected numbers which get across with ease. The opening number, something about a certain date night being a certain fellows date night, gives the orchestra a chance to sho wits stuff before Tom Brown gets on the stage. He then appears as the bashful comic, dolled up in ( his famous white pants and a hute little hat. It is here that he gets into his comedy directing, and it is easy for him to tantalize the orchestra to play Prisoner's Song," "Certain Party” and other sure-fire Jazz winners. To my way of thinking, Tom Brown has never had a better playing Jazz band than the one he has this season. “Ella Cinders” was put on the screen as a starring vehicle for Colleen Moore and for nobody else. And It is just that as everything Is passed up to give Miss Moore a chance to star. The close-up seems to me to he used entirely too much In this picture. The star idea has been followed more closely In the Colleen Moore movies than for other stars. If they would permit Miss Moore to do her stuff without using too many tricks of the trade this little star would get along much better. And yet I know that I will be told by readers of this departmene that I am all wrong because they Just can't get enough of the cute Colleen and that everything could be a close-up of Miss Moore and they all would be happy. "Ella Cinders” is a modern version of the old Cinderella story. In this case our Cir derella wins a small town movie queen contest and she lands out in Hollywood. The train scenes with the Indians going to Hollywood, where the big chief forces Colleen (to smoke a big, black cigar, are funny and well handled. Also Miss Moore’s attempts to burst Into a movie studio are funny. Lloyd Hughes Is chief support fob Miss Mooie, but he doesn’t have so much to do except to be on hand to marry her before the story ends. The bill Includes Deasa Byrd in

Movie Verdict V ClßCLE—Colleen Moore la very much starred In "Ella Cinders,” modern version of a movie Cinderella. OHIO—Lew Cody has his pantless comedy moments In “Monte Carlo." APOLLO —Richard Dlx turns to polite romantic travesty In “Say It Again.” COLONIAL—The beat movie flood of the season Is found In "The Johnstown Flood."

an orgalogue, camera capers, news reel and a comedy. At the Circle all week, -I- -I- -IDIX ATTEMPTS TRAVESTY UPON ROMANTIC MOVIES Travesty is a mighty hard article to film and there are mighty few directors as well as actors who know how to do this difficult thing. In “Say It Again” Richard Dtx Is seen In a travesty upon the "Graustark” sort of ro-

mance. Dix plays it as a comedy drama, while Chester Conklin plays it as travesty along burlesque lines. The story sort of “kids” the roman tjc heart throbs usually seen in stories like “Graustark” and other romances ’ where there is a pretty Princess, also very unhapity, and a fin® American lad who must just love a Princess.

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Dlx is cast as one of those dashing young American fighters who falls In love with his nurse while soldiering in France. The nurse turns out to be royalty, and so when Cupid gets too busy she Is hurried home to her kingdom. Os course, the American hero discovers that she is a real Princess. The real travesty of the story comes in when the Princess and our hero are married. The funny thing about this wedding was that he didn’t know he was being hitched fQr life and the Princess didn't realize that fier husband was that good looking soldier which- she nursed back to health. After a gorgeous fist fight where a number of noses were splendidly broken, the identity of our hero be-* comes known to the Princess. Everything Is good applesauce from then on. “Say It Again” is light fun done

MEN SOON WILL WORK HOOK RUGS No Wonder Girls Are Leaving 'Home and Mother for Ice Men. By N. D. Cochran Time* Staff Correevondent NEW YORK, June 21. —Why do men get a big kick out of seeing Babe Ruth make a home run? And why will thousands pack the Madison Square Garden, or even the Yankee Stadium, and yell like savages while Paul Berlenback and j Young Stribling try to pound one i mother into insensibility? Not Nice to Fight Here’s one explanation. The great , majority of men gel little or no j chance to do anything worth while ohyslcally. In the big cities there ‘sn't even a vacant lot big enough tor ball playing. And It isn’t considered nice to fight—unless one Is a professional and makes a business *>f it. So men hire their playing ahd fighting done for them. They pay to see a husky he-man do the things they would like to do themselves. Few men will admit it, but there probably Isn’t a living man who wouldn’t like to smash somebody in the nose or on the point of the chin. But a they are afraid—either of getting licked or of being arrested. He Pays Babe Ruth The baseball fan would like to knock the ball over the f9nce, but he can’t do It—so he pays to see Babe Ruth do it for him. He can’t make a ninety-yard run through a field of football players—so he pays to see Red Grange do It. And men like to yell. They can't do it at home, at the shop or office, or on the street. People would think they were crazy. But they can sit in the bleachers and yell their heads off and get away with It. Tatting Next Maybe we have Improved as we have become more civilized, but I’m not sure that we have. It would be tough work making heroes of the drug store cowboys and street corner sheiks of the rising generation. If they keep on softening down they’ll be getting their exercise working hook rugs or sitting in a rocking chair doing tatting. And more and more girls will be eloping with a husky ice man. As the boys have been deteriorating physically the girls have been improving. Probably more of them than ever before look good in a onepiece bathing suit. If the picture papers ran as many pictures of tho general run of men aa they do of girls, people would understand why the modern male thoroughly covers his body from neck to ankles. Men Losing Shapes Even in middle-age the girls keep their shape, but the men—they're awful. Lots of them who had their pictures taken at Palm Beach had heads like blllard balls and bellies like hlg bass drums. It seems as It men nowadays are working their heads off to pile up enough money to enable them to hire other men to fight for them, play games for them and do many other things that he-men used to do for themselves, • Even F> —'ions They won’t even give their emotions exercise, for they hire professional charity sharks te do their charity for them. This saves them the worry of knowing how the unfortunate live and suffer, A successful business man who was an athlete in his college days but is now fat and lazy told me re- | oently that his favorite and most frequent dream was of knocking a two-base hit over the second baseman’s head with tho basea full. He’s among the thousands who get a kick out of seeing Babe Ruth make a home run—or reading *bout It, t

in the regulation Richard Dlx manner. From a cast standpoint, “Say It Again.” Is a big film as lot of people are used In many of the scenes. Bill includes a Jimmy Adams comedy, a news reel, Abe Farb, Lester Huff at the organ and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. -|. -|. -|. LEW CODY IS MINUS HTS TROUSERS IN TIHS FILM Humorous satire on the visiting American In Europe and the actions of Lew Cody, all dressed up, but minus his trousers, furnish the points for most of the comedy in Monte Carlo the feature picture at the Ohio for the week. Cody In this picture proves that besides being the perfect type for

the handsome home wrecker he can i also become a first j rate comedian. For comedy Cody ha support that Is excellent. Trixie Friganza and Roy D’Arcy are two people, to whom comedy seems the breath of life, and Zasu Pitts has a brand of comedy action that is original with herself. Karl Dane, who was liked so well In the “Big Parade.” Is seen in this picture and

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Lew Cody*

adds more to his name in his portrayal of the doorman, who was mistaken for a Duke. Gertrude Olmstead in the leading feminine role carries herself well all through the picture as the meek little school teacher, who becomes one of the beauties of Monte Carlo. The story itself concerns the vacation in Monte Carlo of three young women and a newspaper man from a small town In New England. The three young ladies all meet men, who are supposed to be members of various noble families of Europe. It turns out, howeve, that even In Europe a title Is to be suspected for the only one of the "Nobles" to possess a title was himself a waiter in a restaurant. Lew Cody is pictured as the young American, who has arrived in Monte Carlo, and has run out of money. In an endeavor to elude his creditors he loses all his clothes except his hat and shirt and finding some uniforms he poses as a prince. Asa prince he Is a sight to make all the feminine hearts skip a heat. There is also a Very beautiful style show in the picture that has been taken in natural colors. The picture lself is good entertainment and is a lesson to all good Americans, who plan to visit Europe. On the stage la presented a male quartet with several song numbers featuring harmony and a trio of one man and two wemen who play saxophones and tho piano. Bill includes comedy and News reel and organ numbers by Ruth Noller. \ At the Ohio all week —(By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: "Cheating Husbands," at English’s: “Outward Bound," at Keith’s; William A. Kennedy and company at the Palace; Lottie Mayer at the Lyric: “Hands Across the Border,” at the Isis, and “Irene” at the Uptown.

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i SEA Serviee HOLLYWOOD, June 21.—The technical miracle worker of the films, like the proverbial prophet, Is not without honor save on his own homestead. To-wit, Roy Pomeroy, the screen magician who parted the Red Sea in De Mille’s "Ten Commandments," and who refuses to to baffled by any photographic stunt or mechanical problem of the etudlo. But Roy proved quite a flat tire when It came to fixing the plumbing —really a very simple job—in his own new home. He got the pipes mixed, so that his lawn was sprinkled with hot water while Roy shaved with cold. He called In nn ordinary plumber to untangle the mess. • • • Eddie Cantor, whp is now In our midst to picture "Kid Boots," got his first laugh from Hollywood when, In the presence of a greeting throng at the train station, he solemnly eounted off three of his four children, Introducing them by name. Coming to the youngest he hesitated, seemed bewildered, and said: "What’s your name—l never can remember?’’ •'Natalie,” . piped up the wellcoached baby, equally grave, "That's right,” added Eddie, " —four ohildren and seven pieces of baggage, all right. Mr. Taxi, we're ready for Hollywood." s * • Wallace Beery is one of the few big movie hoys who is always In the same character on and off the screen. At the moment he is being threatened with oorporal punishment by half a dozen of hl irate male contemporles who are biassed with wives. Beery saw to it that the wives received postcards, ostensibly Intended for their worse halves, hearing the likeness of beautiful bathing girls, with the Inscription, "Dear Ho-and-So, why did you not meet me at the beaoh, as you promised? I waited for you all day," s s s H. B. Warner, in the feremnst rank of screen actors, has a peculiar method of not sparing the rod of discipline to spoil fils three Children for the stage career they fiave In mind, Every night the trie Improvise a play, for which dad is usually an enthusiastic audience, Recently they tried to dissuade his going out by crying, “But Pep, we can’t act without an audiencel" To which Warner retorted, *‘Yeur Pop had to —quite often,’’ Many inflated Hollywood ogees might havS benefited by similar training,

JUNE 21, 1026

Questions and Answers

You can -set an ana war to an; question, or lai't or Information by writing to Thn liidlannpoUa Timet Waahiugton Bureau. 1322 New York Are . Washing ton I> 0 inclosing 4 cents ip stamps for reply Medical legal and martial advice cannot la- given nor aau •*tended research he undertakan All other, a neat lona will receive a personal replyr Unsigned requests cannot b answers* All letters are conlldenUal.— Editor. Os nation was a God? “Moleoh" or “Moloch" was • Ood , of the Phoenician*, associated with j Baal, probably ns the sun God, but | differing from him in being almost totally wanting in benevolent qua!- j lties. Is the word “none" singular or plural? It may be either singular or plural. When It means distinctly 1 “not one,” It Is singular. In many ■ instances either construction is per- 1 •tnJsslblo. Are the cherries that ripen at (his season in California forced to ripen by artificial methods or are the} of natural growth? They are an early ripening variety and are natural. What Is the difference In time be- i tween Stnnnicl Eastern Time and 1 Standard Mountain Time? When* It Is noon by Standard i Eastern Time It Is 10 a- m. by I Standard Mountain Time. How did foolscap (lejp.l) paper get Its name? , Formerly In England legal sized , paper, that la foolscap, was marked , with the fool's cap n’nd hells. Thot sign was the origin of the name. What Is the maximum and minimum salary- for an income lax auditor in the Government? The minimum salary Is $1,680 and the maximum $6,900. The latter is , paid only after service In the Income Tax Unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau. When did the last act Imposing a prohibitive tax on white phosphorus matches go into effect? The first action taken in tho United Statoa against the use of white or yellow phosphorus in match manufacture waa the proposal in 1910 to tax all matohea I made from white phosphorus. In 1911, the Diamond Match Company, 1 which manufactures about 60 per cent of the matches consumed In tho United States, and which held tho exclusive patent rights to the use of phosphorus sesqulsulphlde in America, surrendered its patents, thus making the use of the safer material available to all concerns. In 1 1913 the Esch-Hughes Nonpolsonous Match Act imposing a prohibitive tax on white phosphorus matches went into effect. Who waa the lending I after In the National League last season? Rogers Hornsby. His average was .409.

THE . VERY IDEA! By ITal Cochran TRAINING

Sletor gets up early, without over bein' told. Seldom makes a move that makes liar mother have to ‘ scold, Chlpa right into morning work,*and when ahe takes a hold, 1 it's pretty hard to reollzo she's only 1 S years old. Helps got the breakfast; cleans J the kitchen epic and span. Tinkers 'round the household, doing every- 1 thing she ran. All the wrk is fin- ' lshod by the middle of tho day. Then 1 she feels she has a right to run 1 along and play. Sonny runs, the erranda to the 1 meat shop and the like, I)oes 'em in 1 a hurry, making speed upon hie bike. 1 Burns tho papers once a week, and * after that is dono, cleans the yard 1 and outs the grass and calls hts l labor fun. Isn’t any wonder that their mom I and dad feel proud, They're the I sort of youngsters who will stand I out in a crowd, Jtjst a hit unususl, I but the answer sheds a light! Ask I their parents—you’ll ho told they've | Just been brought up right. • e e A man's worst enemy wished j marry his daughter, and he let him, | realising that his wife would be the | fella's mother-in-law, • • • A kid's explanation of what water, Is would likely run something like ( this; "Home wet stuff that turns) block when you pnt your hands In . It," One advantage a horse has everj an auto—who ever heard es carrying a spare leg? • • • The use es strap* In street ears makes A person throw a fit. But what tho riiHiene can we do? Just simply stand for It, • * t Funny thing about a fellow whose wife Is waiting up for him, If he' misses the last car home, ha’ll catch 1 it, • • • Whan a fellow asks a girl’s fatheh for his daughter’s hand, he’s sns - lous about the outcome, and the* father Is anxious about the Income,! *• • * The easiest way to keep dirt euU of the front room carpet t> tot lock the kids outdoors, • • • FA HI-K A IN FACT s A MAN WHO HAD BEEN TO A, HUMMER RESORT HAPPENED TO SEE HIS FRIEND’S DAUOHTER JUST ONCE COMMA AND THAT ONCE WAS OUT ON THE BATHING BEACH PERIOD LATER* ON COMMA WHEN THE MAN 1 MET HIS FRIEND THE FRIEND' AHKHI) COMMA QUOTATION' MARK DID YOU SEE MUCH OF MY DAUGHTER AT THE SEA SHORE QUESTION MARK QUOTA TION MARK AND COMMA IF YOU USE YOUR NOODLE COMMA YOU' WII4-I UNDERSTAND WHY TllMj REPLY WAS QUOfATIDN MARK) Yhlti QUOTATION MARK PERIOD' t'QtkOVM, Mi% *ertk># 'a