Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1926 — Page 4

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A REAL HERO This city which gave direction to his thought and character might well erect a monument to the memory of Don Mellett, a martyr in the war for law and order and decency. t It was the city of Canton which sends back his lifeless body. It might quite as easily been any other city in this land where the politicians bargain with the lawbreaker and the criminal, giving protection for votes. ( Don Mellett had the spirit of a crusader and the ideals of an American. He believed that laws were made to be obeyed or repealed. He believed that the police were employed to arrest lawbreakers, not to guard them in their crimes. He believed in decency. He found the police of that city were protecting criminals and lawbreakers. Vice ran unchecked and unrebuked and the gambler, the bootleggec and the dive keeper were more powerful with the police than were the decent citizens. So they killed him—these outlaws who had become powerful in politics and who were useful at election times to those who wanted honors and power. Is Canton different from other cities? Is it worse than other places? it drawn together the vicious and the weak? Is it the one city in the country where the gambler and the bootlegger and the divekeeper and the criminal direct' police polP cies? Os course not. For the thing that was taking place in Canton is taking place, more or less openly, in every city. When police fear to arrest men violating the law, when these enemies of society boldly parade their wai4s, when the eyes of the politicians watch for the returns from precincts known to be the haunts of vice, you have a city which can not afford to point the finger of shame to Canton. Every city who'So voters permit the bosseß to truckle to these interests, who vote for tickets named by those who connive at disorder, is a potential Canton. Don Mellett gave his life to the cause of decency. He died a hero’s death. But what shall be said of citizens, indignant and shocked today at this tragedy, who refuse to give an hour to the cause for which he died? STRANGE. TIME TO SELL Off/cial figures show that the Governmentowned merchant fleet Is rapidly approaching a money making status- Its annual deficit is a disappearing one. •, Wbifch accounts for the eagerness of private capitalists, and principally the Morgan-controlled International Mercantile Marine, to take over the best vessels of the Government-owned fleet. In four years the deficit which Congress has been called upon to meet for operating the fleet has dropped from $60,459,000 to $13,900,000. At which rate and with the present conditions In the shipping trade, a very few years Should see the fleet not merely sustaining Itself, but making money. This favorable showing Is made in spite of the fact that the shipping board has been selling at ridiculously low prices many of its best vessels, both passenger and cargo.' The "President’s ships” on the Pacific, sold for a song to the Dollar interests, were actually paying when sold.

The Leviathan 1b paying at present and it is believed, though the figures are not available, that several of the United States lines to be offered next month are “in the black.” The budget for the shipping board, for 1927 is 66 per cent less than the appropriation for 1924. During 1924 there were 338 vessels in operation, making voyages at an average loss of $26,654 a voyage, while in the first six months of 1926 the 240 cargo ships remaining under the board made 512 voyages with an average loss of $16,600 a voyage. After the war all shipping was badly demoralized. Trade routes had been abandoned, business had stopped, and time was required to readjust the carrying trade to new conditions. The seven years which have passed since the war have seen a reviving trade and an increasing demnd for ships. Our Government-owned merchnt marine shared with pri vate shipping firms in the lean times. Now when the market is a rising one and everybody else is buying ships, the Administration and the shipping board are proclaiming their eagerness to sell. AN UNSOUND BANKING SYSTEM Georgia is paying & heavy toll to reckless banking. Within a week 120 banks in Georgia and Florida —mostly in Georgia—which are tied up with the new defunct Bankers Trust Comphny of Atlanta, have closed their doors. A director of the Atlanta bank has committed suicide, presumably because of the financial disaster. As near as can be determined, since the Bankers’ -Trust Company wasn’t even listed as a bank and wasn’t required to report to any bank supervising agency, the Georgia chain bank system worked something like this: The Bankers Trust Company—not & bank — managed to act as a sort of reserve bank for small town banks throughout Georgia and in Florida. It borrowed funds from these banks, and fraid them higher rates of Interest than they could get inother places. It also agreed to give them back their money when they needed it, and to grant them loans to tide them over emergencies. It also enabled the little banks to keep out of the Federal reserve system, and keep on charging fees for cashing checks. This check cashing business is a sore point among small southern bankers. They claim that a substantial share of their profits oomes from collecting exchange on checks. " , The Atlanta concern’s central banking system

seemed to be working pretty well until the Bank of Umatilla called for $44)0,000 which It had advanced to the Bankers' Trust Company. The trust company could not diliver and the Umatilla bank asked for a receivership. It was granted. The failure of the Atlanta concern immediately frightened the little State banks, for which it had been acting as a central bank, and 120 of them have closed up shop. The Georgia situation disclosed an unsound banking system, t It’s a case of an irresponsible investment house acting virtually as a feserve bank for a lot of small town concerns. It would be interesting to know in how many States the same thing is going on. - > THE ICE-CARRYING TRIBE Following the example set by Red Grange, numerous college football players are toting ice this summer in preparation for the fall gridiron campaign. Among them is Garland Grange, brother of the illustrious Harold. He will be watched, more closely than any of his ice carrying brethren. While all icemen may look alike to the casual observer, this young man is somehow different. For it must be remembered that in him is the same blood that courses through the veins of the greatest ball carrier that ever pulled on a cleated shoe. He is of royal family. He is somehow set apart. FOOD FOR THOUGHT , Modern medical science is taking entirely too many liberties with us. We yielded on tonsils, thyroids, teetb and blood pressure. Now doctors come along and declare that -we can eat anything and that indigestion exists mostly in our Imajdnation. Others, trying to say something equally sensational, announce that there will be no jjarm done wo don’t eat at all. Dr. A. L. Holland of Cornell medlcai school declares that it’s all bosh to '’know'’ that we can’t eat cucumbers, or shellfish or doughnuts or any other of our pet aversions. A Boston physician says it is all right tcT drink ice water in summer, and adds that there is nothing dangerous in the combination of milk and cherry pie. In the Interest of “health” and for the purpose of centering national attention on ‘'the fafct that people eat too mudh," a New Yorker has offered a prize of SI,OOO to the first man who walks from Chicago to New York and abstains from fool during the hike. Just whas, if anything, are we (o believe? HE WENT, ANYWAY Milotin Arandjelovic, Serbian boy, wanted more than anything else in the world to go to the United States. Believing that every steamer on the seas surely must sail to that great country, he shipped on a coastwise vessel and found himself in Marseilles. After that he stowed away on more than a dozen freighters, was taken to South America, India. Japan and nearly every Mediterranean port. Undaunted by abuse and the rigors of heaving coal, he tried again and again. Finally, he slipped aboard an Americn liner, hid under a tarpaulin hatch cover and nearly starved to death there before a sailor stepped on him and hauled him out. Two years after Milotin set out for the land of his dreams he reached it, onjy to find that he was going to be sent back- * There ought to be some special dispensation for cases like that—some angel in the immigration department who could let down the bars. Some people get so mad at the Government they threaten to vote.

Cat found its way from Florida to Pittsburgh. Maybe it saw the smoke. Pennsylvania man inherited $5,000,000. Now he can run for office. The radio isn’t perfected, but let’s stop and work on the telephone. \ Paul Whiteman Is in Berlin drinking forty glasses of beer daily, but we all can’t be Jazz kings. The com belt is not a well-known foot plaster. Skirts are designed by women who are afraid of rats. PREACHING ABOUT WOMEN >By f Mrs. Walter Ferguson --- ■■■ - The minister of Thornton Gap, Ky., who was slapped by a bobbed-haired maiden in his audience after he had said that all short paired women were headed straight for hell, got exactly what he deserved. Ministers have Insulted women in their audiences ofjen enough In this country of equal rights, and the time has come when they should be able to think of something else to preach about besides women and their shortcomings. Any man who has so little intelligence that he will preach about bobbed hair and short skirts In this day, has no business in the pulpit anyway. 'He ought to be out plowing corn. But half the claptrap, called gospel, which is dished up by Illiterate aJb uneducated ministers, concerns topics like card dancing, women’s dress and tobacco. They nearly always forget the real sins of men and confine themselves to a lot of balderdash about trivialities. Ever since men started preaching they Jiave used women as the subject of most of their violent diatribes. St. Paul, who kqew little or nothing about the othet sex, set them the example and they have never let up since. When they can’t think of anything elsq to talk about they start on the misdemeanors of women. x And all of this regardless of the quite obvious fact that if it were not for the women theyChristlan church today would probably be unknown. Women made up over half the early followers of Jesus, and today they do two-thirds of the work of keeping up every church in the land. Let the women suddenly quit their church work and mo6t of the ministers would be without jobs. They raise a large share of the funds and make up most of the audiences. The wonder is that we women have sat so long and listened to the insults hurled at us by the Christian clergy. Many a time I have longed to rise and commit the same deed that the Kentucky girl actually was brave enough to accomplish. I, for one, glory In her spunk. If a lot of preachers were dealt with thus, we might get more real gospel when we go to church and fewer inanities about our clothes.

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Tracy France Again Somersaults Without Getting Anywhere,

By M. E. Tracy " France has done another spectacular somersault, but without getting anywhere. Briand wanted somebody put in control of her financial affairs, preferably his man Caiilaux. Herriot said this y was asking too much of Parliament. Marin thought that, though France might need a financial dictator and though some men could be trusted, Caiilaux was not one. Leaders and factions lined up 6n either side, some for one reason and some for another. Personality and pilitics played ary important part, while over it all feigned the Illusion that France could wiggle out of her difficulties somehow without giving up—too much. The debate opened with odds of 2 to 1 that Briand and Caiilaux would triumph, but ended in a premature explosion which threw them out of office. Now Herriot, who had more to do with bringing that explosion about than any other man, perhaps, is premier and trying to form a cabinet. Paris newspapers say that Parliament ought to be dissolved and elections ordered, but how can this be dohe with no budget voted and the government broke? Besides, doesn’t Herriot go into office with the declaration on his lips that Parliament should share in the problem of saving France? Meanwhile, the franc continues to fall, whijp gamblers make paper profits, the radicals demand a capital levy on the rich and the the rich wonder how long the governmert will continue to pay them 6, 7 or 8 per cent on the bonds they hold.. -I- *r *l- - Dire Calamity English antiquarians claim to have found and deciphered another prophetic inscription on the great. Pyramid. Some dire misfortune is due to visit the world tomorrow, though no one seems to know Its exact nature. j j Spiritualists are confirming he forecast, but they too, afe vague as to exactly what kind of a disaster is in store. Some think It refers to the French situation, while others see a background for It in the British st,rike. Still others look tor a more dire calamity than either of these seems likely to Involve. . It is one of those happily vague warnings which can be interpreted by anybody to his liking and thus find confirmation in a multitude of ways. •I- + + Even though Tuesday brings only the normal amount of death and misfortune, the very fact that so many are watching Jt will make the amount seenp unusual. About 100.000 people will die, while 150,000 babies will be born, that being the daily average for humanity. There will be storms, murders, suicides, floods, accidents and earthquakes. because there always are. We never yet have enumerated the troubles. that afflict humanity for a single day. If we should, they would appall us. -I- + + Weather. Excitement There has been more or less excitement 'about the low temperature prevailing this summer. People have “read up” on the alleged summerless year of 1816 and speculated on whether we were beholding a recurrence of that phenomenon, or whether we might be drifting Into another Ice age. An expedition ha actually gone to Greenland to learn If the seasons were backward there.

Its first report, which has Just been published, Is to the effect that Greenland is enjoying an unusually early spring, + + -I- ’ Display of Coolness Haring interrupted the preparation of his sermon Saturday night long enough to kill a man; the Rev. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Texas, delivered it without a quaver on Sunday. This is a surprising display of coolness. Most of us would feel like keeping quiet after such an unhappy event, or, if we did talk, like showing some sign of sorrow. Mr. Norris, however, appears to be sustained by a strong assurance that whatever he does is all right. •I- -I- 4 4 Common Law Practices It is an age-old custom that ship captains can perform the marriage ceremony. •* Now we are told by no less an authority than Chauncey G. Parker, counsel of the United States shipping board that there Is some question as to the legality of such marriages. Other authorities disagree, Mr. Axtell, counsel for the Neptune Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots, declaring tfiat marriages performed at sea a*e just as legal as those performed by ministers, or Justices of the peace. The controversy revolves about a question that Is coming to play a major part in our system of jurisprudence—the question of abandoning common law practices for those provided by statute. Therei Is no statute granting ship captains the right' to marry, but their authority is embedded In an age-old tradition. SAYS PRUNES WERE DAMAGED Suit brought by Joseph M. Vinci, representing M. Vinci & Cos., asking damages of $849.40 damages against the Southern Railway Company for losses on a shipment of prunes, was on file In Circuit Court today. Vinci alleges the prunes were shipped from Oregon In a defective refrigerator car, and arrived here unfit tor, sale.

Put ‘The Wise Guy’ and ‘Padlocked’ on Your Movie Shopping List This Week

By Walter D. Hickman' Have a hunch that there will be I at least two movies that most of the folks will see this week. - One of ’em that is going to be in great demand, if I am not all wrong, is “Padlocked,” a powerful Rex Beach story of a modern man

who- was a com. plete mast eg and tyrant in his own home. The story is dramatic, powerfully unpleasant in them© at times, but ached so completely and with such a. fine sense of th* theater by a great cast that “Padlocked” becomes a towering bU. of film drama. And what a cast it has—headed by Lois Moran, Louise Dresser and Noah Berry. It

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was directed by Allan Dwan and this Is an important item, especially in these days when we are paling more and more attention director. And that is/ just should be. Noah Berry has a role which Is in keeping with his mighty fine talents ,of being nasty nice, cruel and not too cruel, but to that point of dramatic understanding. As the rich hypocrite in “Padlocked” who attempts to reform the world and ruin his own home and his own happiness. Noah Berry probably has never done a finer piece of character .acting. And you are going to have plenty of time left after admiring the work of Berry to share in the dramatic and sensitive triumph of Lois Moran as the daughter of this old powerful hypoerit. I thought that Lillian Gish could do the mental suffering stuff before the eye erf the camera better'than anyone, but Miss Moran proves in “Padlocked” that ahe is an artist who is just coming Into her own.

She suffers and suffers doing It all so naturally that even extreme theatrical situations are made real by this very powerful young person of the screen. And again you will be pleased ifrith Louise Dresser as the wise dame of fashion who was decent enough while being bad enough to do a very fine ahd big thing. “Padlocked” Is a powerful Paramount picture. It will command your .interest from the very beginningj Here Is a picture that is really dramatic. And what a cast. So it will not be to say be sure and sw> this one because they are going to talk about “Padlocked.” Bill includes "The Cow’s Kimono.” a news reej, Emil Seidel and his orchestra and Lester Huff at the organ. At the Apollo all week. -I- -!• -I----DO NOT MISS “THE WISE GUY” AT CIRCLE And there is another movie triumph on view this week. Its title is “-The Wise Cuy,” with James Kirkwood. Mary Astor, Mary Carr, Betty Compson, George Marion and George Cooper. The director is Frank Lloyd and it bears a First National banner. It looks like Frank Lloyd collected some of the real leaders from film’s blue book to appear In “The Wise Guy.” If I may. let me urge you to be tolerant of the theme of “The \Vise

Guy.” In a few words, the story concerns a faker, who discovers, to his way of thinking, that selling patent medicine ot4 the street corner isv 'no different than selling a certain brand of religion.' So with his bunch of crooks, this wise guy dolls up on his fancy talk and starts to sell religion just as he did medicine. At first he laughed at the game and he

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laughed some more when the peoplefell for his line of religious gab. One by one of his followers get right with the better instincts. And then the wise guy in a dramatic scene realizes what a faker he really is. He goes to his pulpit in a big tabernacle, tells the world what a bum -he really is and then goes to prison to pay for his many scenes. I saw this picture at a private showing several weeks ago and I have had time to study it, giving It much thought. Hero Is a picture that will both Interest you and make you think. It seems to me that this movie has a moral and yet It isn’t preached Into you, but rather displayed on a world counter of emotion. Ail far as I am concerned I can see no reason to be Intolerant of the theme. There are many laughs In the picture and there are some really big dramatic moments. James Kirkwood was the natural selection for the role of the wise guy who thought he could get by with a dirty trick, that of cheating at and with religion. You are going to agree with me that Kirkwood does some mighty fine dramatic and lightcomedy work in this picture. And you will be a little shocked at first when you see Mary Carr of, “Over The Hill” fame, smoking rs cigaret, but “Ma” turns out to be a real old-fashioned mother after all. The work of Mary Astor as well as the good looking Betty Compson is going to demand you appreciation. “The Wise Guy” is going to kick up a lot of talk this week, but go to it remembering that it is dramatic entertainment with a big dash of comedy and not a sermon. Walter Davidson and his Louisville Locus are present on the staffe. Some days ago T told you that a certain orchestra was the best of this season and now I must change It as this Davidson organization gets first prize at this writing. The reason for this Is that the comedy selections are all new and they have been dolled up In a very original way. The “Minding My

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The six-story Haugh Hotel at 11 E. Michigan St. soon will make transportation history iu Indianapolis. This building will be raised and rolled more thap a bfock east on Michigan to anew location. Fearing damage to streets, property and lives, the board of works compelled Z. B. Hunt, owner, to ar-

Own Business” number is a comedy delight. In fact all the numbers are especially well done. Oh, the whole bunch is clever. Jimmy Rea is there with a pair of mighty fine and wicked pair of dancing feet. Bill includes an organ solo by Dessa Byrd, a cartoon, a news reel and other events. V At the Circle all week. •I-!- -!• DIRECTORS ARE LOOKING FOR NEW AND NOVEL MATERIAL - Was asked the other day what the present-day tendency was on the screen. It seems to me that all directors are trying to find anew manner of expressing old themes. You will recall that burlesque has made many of the high priced and higfi powered .revues on the stage in the last three or four years. And

so many movie directors are experl- . menting with the burlesque Idea on the screen. Now comes Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer along with “The Both,” a comedy drama, but It is burlesqued all the way through with Charles Murray. George K. Arthur and a few others doing most of the burlesque. Interest will center to some extent upon the work of George K. Arthur, who sets out, dressed

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up like a cowboy inaction, to hunt bootleggers Os course, the idea is burlesfe and before he gets through with ms adventure he bags a lot of bootlegers and gets the girl he loves. The “girl” Is played by Gertrude Olmstead. Don’t expect realism in this light little yarn. If £ou take your entertainmejnt seriously yop might have a difficult time swallowing this one. Remember that “The Boob” is the lightest kind of burlesque comedy. I think that the director was In error when he used so much night

MR. FIXIT Nickel Plate Crossing Soon to Be Eliminated,

Let Mr. Ftxit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The extensive repairs necessary to place the E. New York St. crossing of the Nickel Plate Railroad in good condition will not be made because elevation of the tracks there Is contemplated soon, Mr. Fildt was informed today. That is the answer to W. R. Johnson’s complaint. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Please have the street car company fix the noisy brakes on the English Ave. bus. Alsa there Is a loose manhole cover in the aOO block oji J. veystone Ave. that Is very annoying. A RESIDENT. The complaint has been referred to the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The manhole cover will be repaired at once. DEAR MR. FIXIT: What about the new traffic rules? I am against the flat-to-curb parking regulation because I am sure It will cause much confusion and delay. CITIZEJT. The regulations are now before city council In the form of an ordinance. 4*' - :t t - k ' S . V

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range for a bond of $76,000 to cover liability of board members. Many small houses have been moved in this city, but this will be the first time a large business building will ta4te to the road. Piles of ties to be used in raising the building frorp its foundation are shown In the foreground.

Movie Verdict APOLLO—“Padlocked” Is a picture that you should see. A fine hast in a good dramatic story. CIRCLE—Be sure and include “The Wise Guy” In* your movie shopping list this week. A real winner. COLONIAL “The Love Gamble” is another dramatic and melodramatic mixture done on an ancient pattern. OHIO “The Boob” is another attempt to do burlesque in a polite manner on the screen.

photography, but much ofHhe action in the last of the story happens at night. But I do think the moon could have been a little brighter. Nearly all the old brulesque gags and business has been used by Murray and the others in this one. Bill Includes Little Caruso on the stage, Clyde Cook in a comedy, and ether events. At the Ohio all week. •I- J -IMAIN STREET CONTRIBUTES BOHEMIAN CANDIDATE When a girl in a small town gets hold of a bunch of money by inheritance, you naturally expect that she goes to ©ome big city and sets herself up in business in a Bohemian district. Whether you expect it or not. that is just what the chief character does in “The Love Gamble.” Os course the innocent old dear gets mixed up with certain people

who are not old fashioned. This explains when I tell you that the lady we are talking about buys half interest in a coffee shop in a Bohemian dis'.rict where the nen wear long hair and the women short hair. Shei becomes interested in a rich chap and the little greenhorn f mage ts to find out whether her Romeo is married or

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single. He has a wife, but she is a cat. blame him too much for leaving* puch a creature, but he should told our little gal from the small towh that his Intentions were not serious. She finds It out while In his cabin way up in the mountains or the hills, iOf course nice good girls always go to rich men's cabin alone in the night, especially and only lr, the story books. She escapes In a storm and on getting well 'she learns that her companion was being tried for murder of his wife. They always try men for something they are not guilty of In the movies. Then the usual old formula—a dash to the courtroom, arriving there Just as the Jury was abopt to send an Innocent man to prison or to death. Then the sobbing chief witness, acquittal and then a loving embrace. Not new, but they are turning out. this sort of theatrical stories again and will continue to do so, I guess, Lillian Rich, Robert Fraser, Pauline Garon, Arthur Rapkln and James Marcus top the hast. . Bill includes an Arthur Lake comedy, Aesop Fables, a news reel and music by the American harmonists. At the Colonial all week. •I‘ -I- -IOther theaters today offer: “Magnolia,” with George Gaul, at Keith's;-"Ladies of the Evening,” at English’s: Billy House and company at the Palace; Circus events at the Lyric; “The Isle of Retribution," at the Uptown, and “A Desperate Moment,” with Wanda Hawley, at the Isis.

JULY 19, 1926

REVISED MANUAL FOR GEOGRAPHYSTUDENTSISSUED State Board of Education Preparing Complete Series of Elementary Text Aids. Several thousand copies of the new geography manual, prepared under the direction of Dr. ’Henry Noble Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction, for use ffi the Iny diana elementary schools, are being distributed among school people throughout the State. The booklet, containing seventysix pages, outlines courses of geographical study for the elementary schools from the third to seventh grades, inclusive. It is arranged to interlock with the adopted textbooks for these grades. Eight pages of the book are devoted to a study of Indiana, beginning with the State's early history to show how the natural geographical advantages were utilized by Hoosier pioneers. % State’s Location Sections then are d evote d to the State’s location with respect to lakes and streams, to its topography, drainage, climatic, natural scenic wonders, mineral deposits and other natural resources, soils, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation and to’ the general separation of the commonwealth into political subdivisions. Another section is devoted to the geographic study of a typical rural community, designed to familiarize the pupil with his own environs. Likewise, a section is given jjyer to the mapping of an average size town or city. > Other Manuals The geographical manual was prepared by Frederick J. Breeze, dean of science and professor of geography and geology at the State normal school at Muncie He was assisted in the work by Miss Louise Bruner, teacher in geography in the Muncie city schools. Under Dr. Sherwood's direction, educational manuals are being prepared for all of the subjects taught in the State's elementary schools. They will be compiled primarily for the assistance of the teacher, but for the ultimate benefit of the pupils. The geography manual is the first of the new series.

Questions and Answers

You can tret an answer to any question or fact, or information by wntina to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be givn nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who In the World War said, “‘They shall not pass” The statement Is attributed to General Petain, and it was the battle cry of the French pollus at Verdun. Who Is the author of the play, “Is Zat So”? J. Gleason and R. Tabor are joint authoi-s. Is Fairmount Park In Philadelphia larger than Rock Creek Park In Washington, D. C.? The present area of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is over 3,400 acres, including a water surface of 373 acres, which makes it one of the, largest public pleasure grounds in the world. Rock Creek Park in Washington, D. C., contains 2,000 acres, extending along both banks of Rock Creek, adjoining the Eoolog ical Park, which contains 166 acres. To whom is the expression, “Black Dutch” appplied? In its local significance It refers to the Dutch who live In certain sections of Africa'. It does not necessarily refer to iNegro blood, although there Is, of course, a great deal of mixed blood in that part of Africa. By whom wtp* the book, “The Day of Doom” written? Michael Wigglesworth, one of the earliest American poits who lived in Colonial times. Who or what Is a “Bozo”? Where did tffe word originate? Bozo has a present day slang significance that evades a sharp definl tlon, but in general is applfed to persons who rcsemhle tramps. About forty or fifty years ago the name was coined and given to one who was exhibited in the side shows of Forepaugh Brothers and other circuses. He was called “Brzo the Dog-Faced Boy,” on account of his exhuberant hirsute facial adornment. Can you tell me something about the constellation known as “O’Brien’s Belt”? There is no constellation by that name. Doubtless you refer to “Orion," which means “The Giant Hunter.” The belt of the hunter is represented by three bright stars within the constellation. Orion was worshipped in China 1,000 years before our era. The group was called by the Chinese “The White Tiger.” Is It true that buoys are placed In thC\ocean in steamer routes In which letters can be mailed to be picked up by returning ships? There are no such buoys. DR. BROWN IN CHARGE —— * Assumes Duties Today As New State Veterinarian. Dr. Frank H. Brown of Fortville today assumed his new duties as State veterinarian, succeeding Dr. R. C. Julien of Delphi, who resigned Saturday. Dr. Julien leaves for Kansas City,l Mo., to accept a traveling position with the Royal Serum Company. Brown has been Jullen’s assistant for the last eighteen months and Is said to be thoroughly tuatUtt with the work.