Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, Prudent. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. - WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Marvland Rt, Indianapolis * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cqflts a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3000.

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

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA is one of three States without a public debt, and the only industrial State with this distinction. The payment of notes July 1 remoyed from the records the remaining obligations and there is now no charge against the taxpayers, so far as Indiana State government is concerned, except for current necessities.

THE WRONG WAY The dynamiting of street cars is the one sure way of driving away from any sympathetic attitude of mind all persons who may feel that the street car men have a right to more wages. The people of this city are entitled to service. They must ride in safety. To attempt any terrorism by frightening people from cars means to lose friends, not make them. lor it is no part of American charaoter to yield to threats or bow to fear. That a few misguided, hot-headed, criminal and very foolish persons might resort to force is easily understood. For violence always begets violence and intolerance breeds hate. The citizens committee which endeavored to bring peace through a fair inquiry into facts and a settlement on the basis of substantial Justice rather than technical questions of commas in contracts, was the one body which has endeavored in any way to represent an enlightened viewpoint on the matter of this dispute. The attitude of the company has been that it is a private quarrel to be fought out with all the -old weapons of temporary bonuses, high priced lawyer* and new men on the jobs until those who struck get •hungry enough to come back on old terms. The attitude of the leaders of the strikers has been similar obstinate, has made the same old appeals and used the same arguments that were used when the strike was the usual and not the unusual thing in industry. The Governor and the mayor have taken no interest and the final confession of impotency was made when the mayor refused to talk to a delegation of women who wanted him to take some steps for peace. The public, which is most interested and which wants and demands service and which pays the bills in the end, has not been in the matter at all. It is the public which feels the violence. It is the public which eventually pays the large price. Sending men to jail, resorting to bombs, terror and violence, intolerance and hate do not settle problems- They only create new ones.

POLICE AND POLITICS When Mayor Duvall promises a substitute for civil service in the police and fire departments, for the definite purpose of taking the po'lice force out of politics, he indicts the present condition of that department. ) It is a confession that politics does rule the police department, and the wrong kind of politics at that. Very recently Prosecutor Remy charged that officers on the force were changed and shifted in order to protect the bootlegger and the violator of laws. He charged, also, that when he had definitely proved that certain policemen had been accepting favors from those who violated the laws, the one action of Jhe board of safety was a gentle chiding that left these men in their old jobs. * • If the mayor is sincere in his desire to take politics out of the police department, ho could make a much better start by refusing to listen to those politicians who give orders that certain districts and certain individuals be left untouched. It Is hardly possible that the mayor will insist that the laws are being enforced completely or that they are not disregarded openly in some sections. He would hardly pretend that it is impossible to stop the sale of alcohol if it were not to the interests of the ruling bosses to have that alcohol peddled and sold. * The trouble is that the wrong kind of politics has ruled the police department. It has been the same sort of politics which sends repeaters into primaries and countenances fraud in elections^ The politics that control the jobs or the working conditions of the men on the force has been the sort which makes vice and law violation easy. The mayor has only to walk three blocks down one of the main streets on any night to find the direct results of politics upon the police activities. Perhaps the remedy lies in putting a different kind of politics, into, that department. If that force was given the idea that it was there to enforce all laws without fear or favor, that its duty was to enlarge the respect of the common citizen for its efficiency and its impartiality, that the duty of every man was to increase respect for the department and that the promotions went to men who were the most efficient instead of to the closest friends and most valuable aids on election day, he would not be driven to the selection of citizens to act as an alibi for his board of safety. BORNO’S METHODS ' Uluminatingly it ended, this brilliant visit to 'he United States of a chief executive of Haiti. Arrived back in Port Au Prince, the memory of military salutes, bankers’ banquets and capital's kindness still fresh, President Louis Borno, if scanty news reports are correct, celebrated expansively by jailing seven Haitian editors. The editors are accused, it is said, of having created a hostile demonstration when the president sailed for this country, and of having while he was here, cabled to a Washington newspaper a petition for relief from anarchy alleged to be prevalent under American occupation. The report supports allegations made repeatedyin Con e. by Senator King of. Utah In resolutions demanu ig withd.awal of all American military orces from Haiti. Senator King asserted that “it is claimed the actual government of Haiti is in the handß of General Russell, who is supported by the military forces of the United States; that Borno and the concjl of state IS subject to his will and act accordance with directions given by him; that the

liberties of the people are restricted, the freedom of the press abridged, the independence of the courts interfered with, the right of franchise denied, and the people of Haiti subjected to a foreign dictatorship which attempts to screen its power’behind Haitian agencies which it lias set up and through which it operates.’' These claims are, perhaps, extravagant. They indicate, nevertheless, a situation/ needing inquiry. Americt is responsible for what happens in _Haiti so long as American forces occupy that land. , GERMANY’S SUCCESS IN AIR A total of 55,185 passengers traveled by commercial air routes in Germany Jn 1925. Only two were killed. Os 18,634 flights undertaken on fifty-six routes between the principal GeYman cities, only eleven resulted in accidents, most of them minor. The mayor of Berlin has an airplane as part of his official equipment. One has only to go back a few years to find higher fatality ratios on American railroads than those on present German air routes. The airplane Is an established part of Germany's business and Industrial equipment. It’s not pleasant to contrast this development with that in the native land of Orville Wright, who first demonstrated the possibility of heavier-than-air travel. When the American around-the-world travelers, seeking to break a speed record, came to their native land they had to appeal to the army for air transportation. They could find no commercial carriers. If one wants to make a quick jump between the principal cities in this country he has to charter a plane' if he can find one. The chief reason for the rapid development of commercial flying in Germany and on the continent generally seems to lie in government aid. In Germany, denied a chance to develop military aviation by the peace terms, the government subsidizes the commercial companies. Planes are regarded as a goo<fc. government investment. Here subsidies to private aviation companies have been avoided. That may be the right policy. It may not. It is certain, however, that as long as it is generally followed we will continue to stay close to the ground as a nation. The Germans have conclusively demonstrated that commercial aviation can be made safe and convenient. The only question remaining is whether we want to pay for similar service. , IT’S THE MOVIES’ MOVE The comical Will Rogers has signed for a movie with a firm in London. This is said to be the first step In a coming great battle for the movie supremacy of the worldThe British didn’t enjoy “The Big Parade," by Laurence Stallings, the marine co-author of “What Price Glory?” Since there were no British in the picture, they said it gave the. wrong impression of the war. . More and more nations are beginning to realize the importance of movies as an educational force, and as propaganda spreaders. A protest comes from an educated Chinese, “The flood of cheap American movies being shown in Pekin is distorting the imaginations of the masses. They picture your country as a land of robbers, train wreckers, a crazy conglomeration of plots and escapes." Such Is the powerful influence of the silver screen. An old saying might be revised to mean: Let me write the movie scenarios of the world and I care not who enters the World Court. The United States leads in the production of movies, both as to quantity and quality. But let us hope British competition will become a spur urging upon us a more careful consideration of the power we wield. Inaccuracies are misleading. American tourists visiting Honolulu are surprised to find natives do not play ukes and do hula hulas from dawn until dusk. A conversation overheard at a bridge party gives a rather humorous light upon the far reaching results of movie Inaccuracies. A salad was being served. “Bananas." remarked Mrs. Blank, by way of small talk, “grow only one bunch to a tree.” “Not at the movie where 1.g0,” said Mrs. Smith. “They grow three, or four bunches there, all over the world." “Only one bunch at the Theato,” said Mrs. Blank. Bobby Jones, golfer, deserves another cup If he escapes the movies. Working in a bank would be more fun if they ever gave away samples.

FATHER’S DAY * N By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

At last Pa is coming into his own. He has had a day set apart for the Oelebratlo nos his virtues. Just how he benefits from this is yet to be discovered, as it is utilized by the family mostly in spending his own money buying things for him that he does not want. Probably Father does not get much of a k?ck out of this. For no matter how we may shower flowers and loving looks upon his bald head, the American male parent still remains the national easy mark. He is a fine fellow to put things over on. Let mother shed a few tears, and young son sulk, and little sister howl, and Dad always combs through. In fact, when you stop to think about it, this Father's day is about the only thing Father 4ias left. His Christmas eggnog and gin fizz has been snatched from him by reformers. His golf courses are Infested with women: his offices are- cluttered up with them; his barber shop been transformed into a ladies’ hair cut parlor; his very knickerbocker trousers have been adopted by the other sex. He must share his voting booth and his smoking room with women. He Is taxed for the marriage license and the alimony. Mother has taken his auto, nls hair cut and his razor. He has nothing left that he can actually call his own. His world has been turned topsy-turvy; his citadels have been besieged and taken by the emancipated woman's battalion. In many parts of the country today he has no more rights than a jack mbblt. He is becoming timorous at existing conditions, but can t seem to do anything about it. He is a fit subject, in short, for special day celebrations. Father is, In fact, nothing more than a piece of putty in the hands of his females. What he needs a great deal more than a special day is special prayers for strength to enable him to exercise more authority over mother and tile kid*

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Ho Hum! Let's Have a What’s Going on in the World, By M. E. Tracy Ma Ferguson apparently beaten In Texas; Applications filed for merging the Kansas City Southern/ “Katy" and St. Louis Southwestern Railroads; Col. Ned Green, dry chief of Northern California, •suspended and admitting that he takes a drink on occasion; Erastus L. Austin, director of the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial exposition, fined four dollars and costs for keeping the show open on Sunday; Robert Scott confessing that he really killed the man for whose murder his brother, Russell, faces death on the gallows, )>ut only after he had* lied about It on the witness stand to save himself from a similar fate; Von Hindenburg suing the Reds for Übel; Poincare Wanning to issue more paper money and raise taxes In France; Crowds still hooting Americans in Paris, but with shop-keepers, hotel men and taxicab drivers trying to stop them for fear that patronage will dwindle; Hiram Johnson trying to make political war medicine out of the uproar In Europe, but with Senator Borah twenty-four hours ahead and still going strong; President Coolidge in a mood to approve plans for a dtrigible three times as big as the destroyed Shenandoah, which may have nothing at all to do with the European uproar; The usual number of crimes and accidents. each one pick what he thinks is worth remembering and discussing.

The Most Important To my mind, the European attitude and prohlbitiqj are the most important problems we face for the moment, and furnish a background tor the most important news. To a certain extent, they are linked together, because prohibition has contributed something to that “superior air,” which has done as much as the money to Europe sore. Whether a nation of materialists, we are obviously a nation of preachers. The worst of It Is, we preach ideals that are not only too much for others, but for ourselves. Every foreign sailor coming to our shores within the last six years has gone back horns to peddle nothing so persistently as tales of bootlegging under the Volstead Act. These tales have played a part in chancing Europe's attitude from one of respect to ridicule. -I- -I* -IThe Worst Side That is the worst side of the pleture, so far as we are concerned, but it is not the only side. We have not made all the mistakes, and if such as we have made look silly and sentimental, they cannot be charged up to meanness, or poor sportsmanship. If we entered’ the war with an overdose of idealism, we did not enter It for plunder. •I- -I- -I- . They Can't Understand No doubt, Europe would find it easier to understand us had we demanded our slice of Africa and our share of the oil fields in Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. Europe might find it easier, also, if Instead of trying to stop the use of drugs among ourselves, we had forced their consumption on another nation. We did not mourn over the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral and then destroy shrines that were three times as old In Damascus. We did not use armies that had been trained in the war, and money that we owed, to acquire territory and extend our dominions. We have no Abd-el-Krims to exile. -I- -I* -IWe D ; o Have Patience It is absolutely true that we are not internationally minded, as Europeans understand the term. It Is equally true that we made profound asses of ourselves In assumlng that Europe would accept a League of Nations for any other purpose than to force a treaty which the victors shoved down the throats Still, and notwithstanding our disillusionment, we have shown some degree of patience. We waited five years without asking, or receiving, a cent that was owed us, though some of the nations that owed it, were able to finance wars of conquest. When it came to arranging terms of settlement, we were glad to offer big discounts. * Asa matter of record, we let most of the nations say what they were able to pay, and how fast. Some plead greater poverty than others,, and in that is most of the trouble. What really ails England right now Is the fact that she agreed to pay a bigger percentage of her d£bt than Italy did. According to European standards, we probably blundered in being lenient with nations that were manifestly hard up, but that is another mistake that cannot be charged up to meanness, or poor sportsmanship. Well, let us not get too hot under the collar. If the mob's hoot tourists, the hotel proprietors, porters, shopkeepers and cab drivers can be depended on to show them the error of it. RADIO FIRM FILES Incorporation papers for the Brant Radio Power Cocpany of Indianapolis were tiled at the Statehouse, listing capital s.ock at SIOO,OOO. The concern will deal In radio devices and patents. Incorporators are Fred B. Harrison. Mahlon P. Woody and ’Jiurat W, Hopkins.

This Girl Wanted Her Men Rough and With a Kick in Right Mitt Like a Mule

By Walter D. Hickman you have all heard about that gal from Louisville, but have you heard about that gal from Paris, who liked her men rough and with' a punch in the right “mitt,” meaning hand, like a mule? Such a “gal” Is the heroine of “Paris,” which has the dress suit and high hat services of one Charles

Ray. This “gal" of the underworld of Paris had an apache man all of her own. And, oh boy, what a wicked right “mitt" this man placed on his girl. Black eyes were nothing in the life of this “gal.” But this girl was very\particular who blackened her optics. If it was her man, then it was all right because she loved the brute, or words to that effect. Now comes

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Charlie Ray as an American easy spender of money, and he attempts to take the girl of the underworld from her man. He thought by giving her jewels, fine duds, motor cars and visits to the opera that he could win her love. . And could he? He certainly couldn’t. Why, that girl wearing the pearls that Charlie gave her was droopin’ about just wanting that rough apache of hers to get out of prison so he could knock her down apd make her like it. She just loved her man and she just wouldn't give him up and so she accepted an apartment from Charlie, fine clothes and all of that, and when her bad man got out of prison she threw her Jewels at Charlie and trotted right off to get a black eye and a good whippin’ from the man she said she loved. And Charlie rushes madly to the case to see what a good whippin’ she got and when he discovered that the Job was good Charlie Jumps on the Apache. Just when Charlie was giving said Apache a nice whipping, the little girl who loved rough treatment comes out from under the ether of her last beatin’ and tells Charlie to save her man for her. And Charlie does ju6t that, allowing that “this is Paris” and he “is some boob.” I rather suspect that Charles Ray had this one wished upon him because Joan Crawford Is in the cast as the girl who just loved black eyes and blue necks. Joan was elevated for some reason as one of the Warn pas Baby stars of 1926. And I suspect that “Paris” was made to order so that Joan could do some rough love making.

And there are a flock of closeups showing how the poor dear suffers when she wants a black eye from her man Instead of jewels and a steam heated flat from her man of fashion friend. Nearly forgot to tell you that the man who is the rough guy in the cast is played by Douglas Gilmore. If the Gilmore style of hair dressing becomes a fad, well, I am ready to give up. ■’Paris" certainly will not make the new movie season a better and brighter one. For goodness sake, don’t take “Paris" seriously. It must have been a travesty on the mushy drama of the day. Bill Includes “Excess Baggage,” a news reel, Lester Huff at organ, and music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. + T I* JOHNNY HINES IS A VERY REMARKABLE FELLOW Any time during “The Brown Derby’’ expected Johnny Hines to fuimit that he was a^ very remarkable fellow, Just like the hero In “Seventh Heaven" did so often. And Johnny is a very remarkable fellow when he has his brown derby on, or rather the derby he inherited from one of his friends. Without the derby Johnny -vas just a plumber

by trade, but with the derby he was supposed to be Mr. A. Plummber from Australia. And so the old hat brought Johnny a lot of money and a pretty wife. If there is a morai to this story It must be that your old hat Is some hat if it’s the right kind of a sky piece. Rather think that you will agree with me when I state that "The Brown Derby” is the sort

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of a movie vehicle that gives Hines the best possible fun chance. It is nearly all farce and Is played in that tempo. Rather think that, Although this is pure hokum, Hines has found his stride in this brand of entertainment and that he will succeed. But he must stay within the realms of hokum farce. We need such entertainers of farce on the screen these days. Hines haf> a good chance to pull off one good piece of comedy business after another. Even when he is about in his pajamas, clad only n ’em and wearing his derby and roller skates, he is funny. “The Brown Derby” is a laugh picture and as such it makes a home run. They yelled at this one Sunday when I was present. Want to call your attention to the short comedy on the bill called “Fool’s Luck.’’ After you see Luplno Lane in this one, I think that you will agree that there is such a thing as an Interesting one or tworeel comedy. They are hard to make. It is possible to turn out a good one reeler if the man is an artist at comedy and also provided that he is a great little hand at comedy business. Such a man Is Lulpino Lane. He certainly rides a wicked piano. He plays the piano not, but he rides It well. A mighty good short little comedy. Way, In fact m(les. ahead of the average short length comedy or bill filler. Joe Rea and his California Night Hawks are present. They go In for atmospheric music along popular

lines. The real hit of this offering is scored by two dancers. Dessa Byrd also is atmospheric this week as she is playing an Hawaiian tune on the Sounds pretty and is pretty. At tho Circle all week. -I- -I- -ITIUS ONE IS BETTER THAN ITS TITLE SUGGESTS Don’t have any misgivings as to the picture at the Ohio this week on

account of the name "Why Girls Go’ Back Home.” The picture is altogether different from what one would suppose from the title. It is a rather humorous picture with at times just a bit of sentimentality to work up the love interest of the plot. Patsy Ruth Miller and Clive Brook* are the whole show as far as personal 11 ie s are concerned In

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the picture. Miss Miller In the role of the young country Miss who has fallen in love with the matinee idol of New York is a flne bit of work. The part calls for a complete lack of "acting” in the popular sense, she must be natural, unaffected and herself all the time. It is somewhat a relief after the emotional fireworks of the feminifie

How to Swim —No. 7

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Lillian Cannon shows pro per way to breathe in water.

By Lillian Cannon After one has the hang of the dog-paddle, the time to learn to breathe whije swimming has arrived. In the dog-paddle the head is held .at an angle to the body and the body is in a sloping position in the water. When the right hand goes forward for a stroke, breathe deeply and quickly through the mouth, taking in as much air as possible.

Continued Good Times Ahead, Expert Predicts

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Here Is a chart Halbert Gillette has drawn up to prove that “good ' times” are here to stay.

We’re in Pleasant Grip of Sustained Property, Says Gillette. Coovriaht. 1926. XEA Service CHICAGO, July 26.—Continued good times are ahead. This from America's most famous statistician of the family pocketbook —Halbert P. Gillette of this city, who applies engineering principles'in his calculations to determine just what a dollar can .do now and what It will do five years hence, Gillette is the man whom puzzled tariff boards call in for help whenever they get stuck. He has given scientific lifts to innumerable commissions the country over trying to shake down high living costs. Never Theorizes He never theorizes. He never ha* been wrong in his prosperity predictions. He utters only facts supported by his uperring figures. So don’t worry. . No panic is due. You may con tinue to run the fainily buß with full’ assurance that there will be enough at hand to meet the -last payment whenever it falls due. "We’re In the pleasant grip of sustained prosperity,” Gillette says. An Equation And here's what gives him a right to star it:

Movie Verdict CIRCLE—Johnny Hines finds his comedy stride in “The Brown Derby.” Good fun. A P O L L O—" Paris” with Charles Hay will not contribute much to making the new movie season a better and brighter one. OHIO —“Why Girls Go Back Home” is a much better picture than its title suggests. COLONIAL Closed until next Sunday for extensive repairs and improvements.

stalls in most of tho pictures one sees today. Clive Brook handles his characterization well as the famous "lover” wl\o, In his real life, and a real love scene, can only remember the lines from the love scenes of different plays has has been in. So don’t be alarmed at the title of the picture. ,It Is good entertainment and there Is not a bit of the stickiness suggested by the name. Included on the bill are News Reel, Comedy and several orgqn features. On the stage are the Laing Brothers \yho are offering a program of .numbers on the marimbaphone. ' At the Ohio all week. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: McKay Morris in “The Outsider” at Keith’s; “My Son” at English’s. Dainty Marie at the Lyric; Babe Egan and her Hollywood Redheads at the Palace; ‘ The Ta&i Mystery” at the Isis and “The Plastic Age” at the Uptown.

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W-M X V P Looks like some mystic incantation, doesn’t it? Might think on first glance that it was a. hokus pocus charm In numerology or some such thing. But it isn’t. That combinftion of figures and mixup of letters spells your bread and butter tomorrow. Now for the explanation. It’s Gillette’s own mathematical way to tear the veil off the financial future. It works both for the country and the individual, too, this way: W equals wage level. M equals money in circulation. B equals population. V equals the velocity at which money changes hands. The average wage, so Gillette’s system has proven, is directly proportional to per eapita money multiplied by the velocity of circulation. But since the velocity of circulation is aji oscillating factor, that is it goes up and down 15 per cent above In good times, and 15 per cent below in bad times, the trend of wages follows only one sure thing. And that is per capita money. $52 Apiece Right now our per capita money is around $52,* That is, if all the money in the country were equally divided there would be enoujh to give every inhabitant $52, And approximately 80 cents of every dollar ts backed by gold. Thai

JULY 26, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any ques- w tion of fact or information by wrltinx to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. X). C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended I research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. ! Unsigned requests cannot be answered, i AU letters axe confidential.—Editor. Is Booker T. Washington, the negro educator, dead? He oiled In 1915. Is the word “yclept" a legitimate English word? “Yclept” is an archaic Idiom seldom used now except humorously. It means “called,” "named.” —— I Does lemon Juice injure the skin when used as a bleach? No. It is one of the best bleaches! for the skin. Do all kittens have blue eyes? The eyes of kittens generally ara| blue. The color usually changes ( however and becomes darker as the kitten grows older. Who was Virginia Dare? The first white child born in the United States. She was bom in’ 1587 in what Is now North Carolina. Where does the Mississippi River rise? In Lake Itasca, one of the many lakes in the northern part of Minnesota. Are salmon salt or fresh water fish? Do they always spawn in fresh water? Salmon are salt water fish*. They spawn in fresh water and sometimes work their way up shallow brook A and perish miserably, floundering about On the stones. The prevailing impression is the salmon have a special instinct that leads them to spawn where they were originally hatched, but there is no evidence to support it. Probably young salmon remain within a radius of twenty j)r 100 miles of the mouth of the river in which thfey are hatched. Is there a special reason for !)9 year leases? The 99 year limit seems to bo connected with a somewhat arbitrary’ estimate of 100 years as the, probable extreme duration of human life. Leases, in their attributes, evolution and history are a sort of middle term between an estate for life and a tenancy at will. For that reason a period, little short of the, duration of the extreme life of man was devised, so that the lessee might reasonably build or lay out money on the property. Are fresh water clams edible? Yes, but they are tough when raw and are only palatable when cooked and served in a well seasoned sauce.

MR. FIXIT Completion of Lighting System Delayed,

. bet Mr. Fixit present your esse to city officials. He is The Times' representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Completion of the high-powered lighting system on Central Ave., north of Fifty-First St., is being delayed until the board of works adjusts its affairs with the Merchants Heat and Light Company, Mr. Fixit; learned today. The board has taken the stand that 1 finances will prevent carrying out 1 the original plans of the Shank ad-i ministration board of works. The board of sanitary commissioners is investigating the failure of garbage collectors to visit O. H.. 645 E. Thirty-Third St., and , A Neighbor. However in the case of the East St. grocery, the board I will remove only two cans of I garbage which must be placed out- I side the premises. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Can a person i put wire around his lawn if it is close | to the sidewalk or should it be awayi from the sidewalk? R. C. RATHSMANN, 1857 Applegate St There is no ordinance to prevent! you from placing the wire. TO CITIZEN: . The light at 1 Berwick and North Sts., will be repaired at once. However, the i supply of oil for the whole city now , is exhausted. There will be no | more oiling this summer. George G. Schmidt, city engineer, m announced toddy that the paving of Keystone Ave. from the Belt Railroad to Temple Ave., would proceed soon so that it may be \ completed before fall. means we have about $39 of gold per capita. “Wages then are proportional to the per capita money in circulation. And both facts and figures prove them to be so at the very moment," says Gillette, “At the present time we have approximately 50 per cent more money in circulation than we had in 1913,} which is the year of reckoning given, an arbitrary figure of 100. “And we find that wages are up •around 65 per cent more than they were in 1913," says Gillette. “Combined with this we see wholesale commodity prices dropping.. They have been stationary for some! time. Their present level is aroundi 145. They will continue there for some time. But wages will not goi down. They will go up inateftA, FATAL TRAIN-AUTO CRASH Bu United Press NORTH HACK SON, Ohio, July 36, —Homer Warren, 19, Sclenceville, Ohio, was killed and C. G. Nelson and hts wife were probably fatally injured today when their auto was struck by a Chicago-Plttsburgh flyer, MERGER O. K. ASKED Bu I ntted Press WASHINGTON, July 26.—Application for permission to execute isA $600,000,000 merger of three targeNj southwestern railways into a transportation system was filed wttb the Interstate Commerce ComotiSh slop Saturday, 1