Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1926 — Page 4

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

KNOW YOUR STATE * INDI4NA Is supplied with crude oil from the great producing centers of the Southwest by pipe lines, which are of sufficient capacity to supply the largest refineries in the world, situated in the northern part of the State, were the ample railroad accommodations curtailed through strikes, accidents or other causes.

INSULL’S TRIUMPH Why did the supporters of Pepper, Vare and Pinchot spend $3,000,000 in Pennsylvania to nominate one candidate for United States Senator? That’s one question the Senate investigating committee didn’t answer. The country doesn’t know why the Mellon group spent nearly $2,000,000 in a vain effort to renominate Senator Pepper, jlt doesn’t know why nearly $1,000,000 was .spent to nominate Vare. And, it won’t make much difference how much money was spent in the Illinois primary, unless that question is answered—why are millions spent to nominate a candidate for United States Senator. Os course, Senators may work up a vigorous indignation and refuse to seat Vare. They have the right to keep him out or throw him out. But it won’t mean anything, for 'the Governor of Pennsylvania will appoint a Senator to take his place, and that means that the Mellon interests will get the Senator, even though they were defeated at the primary. For their candidate for Governor was nominated. In this Illinois Investigation, it is more important to find out why the big powe#combine, headed by Samuel Insull, used money and influence to nominate Frank L. Smith for Senator than to find out how much they spent. Does any one think the Mellon group spent $2,000,000 to nominate Pepper merely because they thought Pepper would faithfully represent all of the people of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate? Does anybody think the financial group, headed by Samuel Insull, that owns the People’s Gas Company, the Commonwealth Edison Company, the elevated railways and part of the surface lines in Chicago, to say nothing of other public utilities throughout the State, spent money to nominate Frank L. Smith merely because they thought he was a good fellow and would represent all of the people of Illinois? If they don’t invest vast sums in senatorial nominations and elections in the interest of good government, why do they do it? What do they want? What do they expect? They expect substantial dividends on their fiolitical investments —in Pennsylvania, Illinois and everywhere else, where they invest their money 1 in government. Right now Mayor Dever of Chicago is trying to get the traction owners to meet with the city administration to try to agree on anew street railway franchise. The traction owners are stalling. There is published a letter sent out by the protective committee of the Chicago Railways Company, which says: “Unfortunately the city has no authority at this time to grant a street railway franchise for more than twenty years. Legislation enabling the company to secure operating rights without definite time limitations, and with a reasonable return on the acknowledged value of the property, must be secured from the Legislature before an ordinance can be agreed on which will restore the company's credit so that money can be obtained for improved transportation service.’’ There’s one reason why the vast power interests invest money in the government. They want legislation that will enable them to get them perpetual franchises. , And nationally they want to secure control of the white coal, the water power at Muscle Shoals and elsewhere all over the United States. This is the information the Jim Reed committee .should bring out. Not how much money, but why? EUROPE QUIETS DOWN Saner counsels are prevailing in Europe as Poincare proceeds with the task of putting French finances in order. Thoughtful leaders in both Franco and Great Britain are pointing out that the attacks on America accomplish nothing, and are productive of bitterness which can only affect the future Unfavorably. The United States treasury wisely has decided to end its long range controversy with the British exchequer. The French are becoming worried at the prospect of forfeiting the profitable American tourist trade. The most violent of the anti-American British journals are being silenced by the criticisms of their contemporaries. Apparently the near-hysteria of recent days with France on the edge of the abyss, is waning. French and British alike are realizing the remedy for whatever conditions need remedying is not to be found in abuse. Meantime France is rising and the Poincare ministry has evolved a program which it will take before the chamber of deputies Tuesday. There are evidences that the political groups in the chamber have been aroused by the people to a realization of France’s danger, and are prepared to unite on the heroic measures to avert ruin. Poincare’s problem in impressing additional taxes and curtailing expenditures is a gigantic one, but conditions are more favorable for success than at any time in recent days. G. B. S. REFUSES THE GAG George Bernard Shaw was seventy yesterday. In describing his arrival at three score and ten, the newspaper correspondents stress the fact that he has been much mellowed by the years. Where the flaming radical once scoffed and railed, they say he now smiles Indulgently. At 70, however, Shaw is not changed in one tremendously important particular. He still insists upon the privilege of free expression of his ideas, of which he has an abundant and sparkling supply. At his birthday party it was proposed that his remarks be broadcast. The British Broadcasting Company, which controls that activity in England, liked the idea. Shaw’s remarks are almost sure to be interesting. The company, however, set down

one condition. The Irish poet, dramatist, critic, and almost everything else, was to keep away from controversial subjects. He was to deal in pleasant platitudes. Shaw, erf course, refused to have anything to do with such business For a chance to have an audience of most of England—and perhaps part of the United States, he wouldn’t forfeit the privilege of expressing his honest opinions. Perhaps the correspondents are right. In a world of error and confusion Shaw has probably gra,dually turned from the hope of setting the things right suddenly and come to accept as more or less inevitable much that is. He hasn’t, however, yielded anything to his youth In his basic ideas of what it is that constitutes a respectable human existence- One of these ideas is that of free speech. Shaw’s example at seventy can’t fail to appeal to people everywhere who are fighting the age-old battle for freedom of expression. It is now subject to decisive attacks in the courts; it should have been a particular appeal. WHY DON’T FISH HAVE WEB FEET? It is customary to picture a scientist as a plodding individual who lives a quiet laboratory life, seeking that which makes for the comfort and Welfare of the human race. This is generally true. Lately, publicity seekers of various ilk have been posing as scientists chiefly to get their names in the newspapers. A few weeks ago the startling bit of news was broadcast that if we drank too much milk we would assume the mentality and aspects of a cow. Now a professor In London lends much enjoyment to the occasion by exclaiming in a loud voice (or at least in large type), "The increased popularity of swimming will make the human race web-footed.” Ho hum! These July days are so warm. If the two scientific gents will make notes on their cuffs to return next winter, we will take up their cases more fully.' Just at present a few questions must suffice. Here they are: > Italians are the world’s c mpion spaghetti eaters. Have ben for a long ti. e. Why is it they don’t look like telephone poles, r shoe strings, or angle worms, or tangled yarn? If we really do become what we eat, has the scientist making swimmers web-footed ever eaten a large piece of cheese? If swimming makeq us web-footed, why don’t fish have web feet? THEY STILL ARE BROTHERS They tried the Scott brothers, Russell and Robert, in Chicago for the murder of a drug store clerk during a robbery. At first Robert Scott pleaded guilty, then he fought the case and, In open court, denied that he had fired the shot that killed the man. Russell Scott was tried. He was sentenced to be hanged. Robert Scott, following his denial and trial, was sentenced to life imprisonment. With that sentence pronounced, Robert the other day issued a statement saying that it was he, after all, who had fired the fatal shot. Russell, thus, under sentence to hang, is thrown upon executive clemency. Under such circumstances just what is a Governor supposed to do? The man who says he is guilty of the murder is under life sentence; his brother, whom his statement exonerates, is doomed to hangThese Scott boys are not a bit like Cain and Abel. IRON, A CIVILIZING INFLUENCE For more than two years Kansas City judges have been sending drunken drivers to the municipal farm, where they serve their sentences In chains. They serve once, and they don’t come back, according to J. J. O’Rourke, superintendent of the farm. One lesson Is enough. They all toll O’Rourke that they have made that mistake for the last time. Iron, in the form of shackles, is a great civilizing influence. I • ' Ten million feet of lumber destroyed by a Detroit fire would have made enough matches to smoke a pipe. Let’s take the cars away from reckless drivers. Then our streets will be safe, and quiet—and deserted. HATED TRUTH From Baltimore Evening Sun 1 Men do not desire the truth. They never have desired the truth. It is not possible that they ever Will desire the truth. Because men live and die in error the truth is ever an assault on the beliefs and faiths of the time, and therefore an assault on vanity. When the first of moderns began to study the heavens through a glass and to proclaim the truths he discovered he lighted a fire under his feet. The world did not desire truth. It desired only that its complacent ignorance be left undisturbed. Before a man can learn be must by inference confess that he is ig norant. It is vanity that stands in the way of progress. The Indiana Supreme Court, upholding a conviction for contempt, asserts that "the truth is no defense.” It is a tenet dear to English law. "The greater the truth, the greater the libel.’’ To a man of reason the dogma will seem absurd, yet this same man will train hl3 children to, accept it and punish them If they do not. Do the children point out his faults?. Very well; that is impudence, and they shall be spanked. Perhaps the children express the truth and no more. No matter; the greater the truth, the greater the impudence. There is the whole story. The powers that control the scheme of things do not desire and will not tolerate any truths that might detract from their assumed perfection. The telling of unwelcome truths in time of war is called treason. Men are Jailed and hanged for it. The telling of unwelcome truths in time of peace is called ■heresy, and men are ostracized and persecuted for it. The telling of unwelcome truths at any time or place brings down upon the head of the truthful one the Wrath of those in power, whether monarchs or majorities. “What Is truth?” asked the Roman. It is a red flag waved before a sullen bull; a wasp to sting and enrage the sodden; an enemy of the existing order; an assault omthe scheme by which the fat now draw tribute from the lean and Ignorant.

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Ir i| w There Is Pathos in Being the Son of a Great Man,

By N. E. Tracy Robert T. Lincoln, who died yesterday, had been secretary of war, minister to England and president of the Pullman company. The average man would be regarded as having made a name for himself through the attainment of such honors, but not Abraham Lincoln’s son. His father’s overshadowing greatness was more than enough to obliterate them. It followed him through life and it will cling to his memory as long as that memory la^ts. “I am not a great man,” he used to say, when asked for a public expression of his opinion on any subject, "but only the son of a great man.” If your first thought is of how wonderful such a heritage must be, your second will reveal Its pathos. Sons of great men are never permitted to grow up. That is one reason and the chief reason, perhaps, why so few of them ever become great on their own account. •I- 'l* + Is Canton Awake? The dead hand of Don R. Mellett reaches forth to strike blows for civic righteousness in Canton that seemed beyond the strength of his living hand. It Is discouraging to think that a community cannot be aroused to its faults and their corrections except through such a sacrifice, but sometimes it cannot. And the question of whether Mellett's assassination has really waked Canton* still remains to be answer?d. •I- -I- -IThe Vilest City Speaking of civic righteousness, the Rockefeller Investigation finds that Detroit Is the "vilest city in the United States.” If this is good news for the Rotary clubs and chambers of commerce In other towns it Is bad for the reformers in other towns. There is a complex 611 both sides of the picture. Uplifters have to proclaim that each town is the worst in order to promote their business, while commerciail organizations are inclined to see it*the other way. Fifteen thousand blind pigs. 600 disorderly houses and a bucket of dope each day is Detroit’s contribution to the evil side of life—l think we may look for speedy denials.

A Picture of Moody Dan Moody not only led the field in his race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Texas, as I suggested, x fcut he did better. It now looks as though he had obtained a clear majority am l that there will be no need of a second primary - . In this connection I wish to correct an insinuation that I have seen in several eastern and northern papers. Dan Moody is not, and never was, the Ku-lvl*ix Klan choice for Governor. He has no sympathy with that organization. , Asa matter of record he won popularity and became attorney general of Texas by his vigorous and successful prosecution of Klan outrages. Neither is he “wild and little,” as one headliner putsjt, btu a two fisted six-footer, with red hair and the rugged faith, deliberate courage and cha-rming illusions of a country boy. *!- -I- -IA Great Compliment It is a ridiculous state of affairs when a government like that of England N is afraid to let one old man like George Bernard Shaw speak his mind over the radio. At the*same time, it is about the greatest compliment that could be paid ar. old man on his 70th birthday. It shows that he has made something of his life and talents, that he has developed an influence with the public, has proved can be acquired in other ways than holding office. I think that government mufflers on the radio when he talked constituted the finest tribute that George Bernard Shaw could receive. -I--I--!- , Joyce's Editorial, Joyce Hawley, who occupied the bath tub at Earl Carroll's famous party, now occupies a cot in the Chicago psycopatjiic hospitl. She took an overdose of sleeping tablets, but the doctors arrived in time, and now she philosophizes while recovering. Because her observations are born of first hand experience, they form a more convincing editorial than I could possibly write. "Girls,” she says, "don't mistake notoriety for success. I thought I was a success, but I was a bust. Since I took Earl Carroll’s money for the bathtub stunt, I haven’t been able to get a job anywhere. No showhouse or case will hire me. They say I drive trade away. Tell all the stage-struck kids to stick to their jobs. Tell them Joyce Hawley says so. and T know - .” From all of which you gather the idea that there is a censorship back of the stage as \Vell as in front, and that theater folks are not so completely sold on "raw stuff” as some people seem to think. -I - -I - -IHold Your Temper It is natural, of course, for us to resent Europe's attitude, especially as it is being expressed by hoodlums and politicians, but we have everything to lose, and nothing to gain, by a display of equally ill-considered temper. The most of us refuse to believe that our Government has done things to merit such childish outbursts, of, if it has, that there is any justice in visiting them on helpless tourists. But If any people can afford to be patient, we can, and if there is one way more convincing than another to prove our fitness for world leadership at this time, it is by display of Superior poise.

Miss Ann Davis Mounts to the Dramatic Shrine of Bernhardt in ‘The Outsider’

By Walter D. Hickman • There is a shrine which exists in the memory of the stage. And that shrine belongs to Sarah Bernhardt. Last night we saw a woman "kiss” that shrine In a dramatic and theatrical sense which brought back the roses of youth of a great memory of the stage. The form of Bernhardt remains in a “something” around which, nations

,’ove. The memory. | if that great perI onal it y again j ame to life when j Vnn Davis as La- ! age Sturdee, a I ripple, reached ! >ut her arms into i ‘he land of doubt, eached out and ' ouched the "soul” [if a longing i .roman, kissed hat character into in outburst of a Iramatic height— I hat was the spirit ! ind the 6chocfiing ; >f great theater ' which Bernhardt is rememberd. Ann Davis "kissed”

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dramatically and always under perfect control a great moment of the theater Into an actual being. This happened last night at Keith’s when Stuart Walker brought to this city Ann Davis in "The Outsider.” Hdre we have a tricky playwright building a great scene In a fine theatrical moment. Ann Davis came to that moment with a fine understanding which must have brought to the fomb of Bernhardt a refreshing wave of enduring "comeback.” Bernhardt never played this role, don’t misunderstand, but Bernhardt did give the world great "theatrical” acting and made It real, and Ann Davis last night gave Indianapolis great theatrical acting and made it real. And that is my thought and my admiration for a fine intelligent piece of acting. That is the memory, the sort of entering a memory of other days—the days when Bernhardt did the very thing which Ann Davis did last night at Keith s. See this woman mount to those peaks of great theater. Have faith in my wanting YOU to go to the dramatic heights as I did last night. I have enough faith in this woman In this role and in this play that she will rise every night this week and on two matinees, just as she did last night. Here is GREAT acting that makes the theater a playground of great worth. McKay Morris was prompted twice in the first act. I am not sure that he needed it, but he was prompted twice in my hearing He did not mount to the heights in the last act that I expected. He did go to the last dramatic extreme in the second act. Great acting, he should not have been prompted In the first act. It ruins the picture. Supporting cast selected In that fine touch which Stuart Walker and George Somnes accomplish big things. Cast as follows: s/Uw'TH La<l<1 -r’ Alan Floud Sir Montague Tollemaohe v ,„ • • France Bendtsen Paul Wright i.U^ ,t = h . Rn , l Israel J o h n Storey r.VI r lr< i ee Aldrich Bowker aJw P ' 5 Rwrina Stanflel A"'™ McKay Morri* nil a Elizabeth. JTavlor Baul Owfn Flliot Cahnt Believe me in thls-see Ann Davis bring to life the dramatic memory of Bernhardt. "The Outsider” is on view all week at Keith's. -I- -I-M----MANY WORDS IN FAVOR OF A FINE PERSONALITY It is not my purpose to "boost” any one individual for any other reason except on the grounds of merit. Am now talking of Robert St. ] Glair. This man,came to this city! a year ago, quietly, but with the purpose, the vi. 4 _ functions while a Robert St. flair character is being created. The problems of stock are many. One week a stock actor may calmly announce that “the carraige Walts.” And this week lie may have the role around which a dramatic motive centers. Such is the case with St. Clair this week in "My Son,” written with an over sentimental touch by Martha Stanley. Understand that this show had a. remarkably good run in New York. Just as we have over-sexed shows, we have over-sentimental ones. Reason must give way to atmosphere in this play. And yet this week at English's it is Robert St. Clair who catches the germ of the over-senti-mental idea of the play, the result being that he functions in a most natural way. He brings a characterization to the stage. Nicely shaded. I do not agree with the tempo in which lie starts the third act, but his tempo does give a naturalness to tho entire affair which is more than satisfactory. Here is a man who has carefully and honestly attempted to grow In his chosen field. He studies. He knows his lines and yet he gives a characterization which is not this week in keeping with his own character. That is a test of ability and the wiseness of showmanship. Quite a triumph for you this week, Robert St. Clair. We who go to the movies are acquainted with “My Son.” Nazimcva did it for the movies. In the Berkell presentation we have Edythe Elliott cast as the mother. She is unusually interesting In such characterizations of an over emphasized longing im pulse. She rises with consummate dramatic ease to the climax in the third act when she drugs her own son for the purpose of making a man of him in two years’ time. Dick Elliott with his very fine

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S—"My Son,” with a very fine understanding of characterization on the part of Robert St. Clair. LYRIC —Watch that second act. Wonderful. PALACE—The Observer talks about Babe Egan. KEITH'S—Ann Davis brings back the days of great acting when Bernhardt did big things. See Ann Davis in "The Out* sider."

"business” sense is again seen to advantage this week. The cast is as follows: Harry Shay Bob Fay Ellery Parker J. F. Marlow Ezra Baker Herbert Dobbins Brautrlio Silva Robert St. Clair Cant. Joe Bamby Dick Elliott Betty Smith Bernice Marsolais Ana Silva Edythe Elliott Rosa Pina Jyes La Rue Hattie 9mith Mildred Hastings Felipe Vargas Milton Byron I will not forgive the very bad handling of lights when the fog appears in the second act There is no reason for having the “sunlight” coming from one window and darkness from a door Lights should be rehearsed as well as individuals "My Son” is on view all week at English’s -!■ -I- *l* IF YOU BELIEVE ME THEN READ THIS ONE Got a letter the other day, telling me that I was the "world's worst” and it compared me to a “truck driver” The only reason that I am sorry is because I have the most "mechanical’’ respect for men., who drive trucks But if you be-

lieve my little talks to you, then read what I have to say about a vaudeville show with a purpose Sa'd a person io me when I saw this show at the Lyric: “I like shows that don’t have sketches.” That set mo thlnk 1n g. And there is n’t a sketch on this bill. Am giving the •eat of artistic creative honor this week to the secOnd act on the

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bill. As I understand the name of this artist —it is Ted Leslie\l hope that I am right in this because this woman is an artist of more, than usual ability. She does not "lioke,” but puts on blackface makeup in full view of the audience and then becomes a "male dandy” In spirit and artistry. Avery fine example of thinking out a good routine. You Will enjoy her. That lam sure. Then there Is a Juggler by the name of Felovis. His foot and "mouth” control work is as fine as I have' everr seen. He Is on last, but wait for him. The first act is a dancing impression of no too great merit, but they have the understanding of "nice” theater. Am speaking of the Dancing Franks. The Five Musical Chapins have forgotten the Item which makes novelty. Please don’t copy too much after Tom Brown. “Dainty Marie” is branching out and why she “branches” is more than I know. Here is crude comedy, not refined or even up to the ability of understanding of this woman's

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Old Family Album Gives Way to Fellow Citizens

By Walter D. Hickman The old family album which used to rest on the front parlor table now gives way to the modern Idea—“ Fellow Citizens of Indianapolis.” Just 1 like the horse and carriage gave way to the auto, just so does the family album give way to the city widq-idea. Have before me a copy of "Fellow Citizens of Indianapolis, published by the John V. Coffield Publishing Company of this city. Ts you want to get acquainted with 2.300 men and women of this city without waiting for an introduction, then get hold of a copy of “Fellow Cittizens of Indianapolis.” This beautifully hound little volume Is really a city album. If you consider citizenship has just a big family then you will have no difficulty in taking the view point that this’splendidly illustrated book is a city album. And want to tell you right at the beginning of my remarks that it isn’t because nW picture is in this book that I like it. Personally I like the book very much because It makes you mind a sort of a movie camera and makes it possible for you to at least say a

How to Swim —No 8

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By Lilliat\ Cannon If difficulty. Is experienced in breathing, and there very probably will be, go ashore to shallow water and try It lying on the stomach. Count one, as the right hand goes forward, and Inhale. Count two, as the right hand comes downward and the face goes under water. Count three as the left hand goes forward.

histpry on the stage. She brings two “props” on the stage. A fat woman very much fat and also a very thin woman with a “theatrical” thin complex. Marie then applies directions of reducing or getting betted. To me this is most terrible and ill advised example at entertainment I have ever seen. It is not funny. It is insipid. Terrible and awful Why does this very fine woman of a very wonderful accomplishnfcmt come to this end? You have been misadvised. No reason for so much terrible “hokum.” You are too fine to do this sort of thing. Elliott and Denn appear In "Comedy Welch and Norton with an audience ajppeal do this very one thing—they stop all things for themselves. • And I saw this show and liked what I liked and did not like the things that I told you about. At the Lyric all week, -I- -I- -ILOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT PALACE Babe Egan and her “Hollywood Red Heads,” as they are billed, are a real peppy organization and are putting out some very snappy jazz melodies at the Palace today and tomorrow. Miss Egan and all the girls, numbering about six, all have hair of a most charming

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rural entertainer. He tells some rather amusing things and then the woman makes her appearance, in the role of a rather sophisticated young Parisian. The two of them then engage in some comedy dialogue. Tom Mahoney tells everyone what they ought to know about women, marriage atAl the wedded life, in a comedy manner. And to open and close his act he has a couple of clever little songs along the same line. “Karter’s Komedians” is a group of four young men, who have good harmony voices and a good brand of comedy. They open the act with two courtroom scenes, ono serious and the other burlesqued. Their harmony singing is their best offering in our opinion. "Sealo” is a seal that needs hardly a single direction in order to go through the tricks he has been taught. Alone on the stage he goes through the act with just once in a while a slight bit of prompting from the wings. Avery intelligent little performer. Bill includes a photoplay "Black Paradise” with Madge Bellamy and Edmund Lowe, also a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) -I- -I - -IOther theaters today offer: "Why Girls Go Back Home,” at the Ohio; "The Brown Derby,” at the Circle; "The Taxi Mystery,” at the Isis; “The Plastic Age,” at the Uptown; “Paris,” at the Apollo, and “closed house,” at the Colonial.

mental “howdy” to at least 2,300 people of Indianapolis. It is lot of fun to go calling by this method, because under each picture is the name, occupation, business and home address. To a newspaper man "Fellow Citizens” is a gold mine and its value cannot be overestimated. And it is mighty valuable for many other reasons. The first picture is that of Dr. Frank p. Abbett, surgeon, 421 HumeMansur Bldg., 3307 Washington Blvd. And the last picture is of W. G. Ivreis, vice president of the Kreis Transfer Company, 435 E. Louisiana St., and 735 Euclid Ave. So you have chance to get acquainted with at least 2,300 citizens of Indianapolis, And each picture says “howdy,” including myself. v Fall Fiction Received the following from the Macmillan Company: What is the truth among all the conflicting reports- about O'Casey, the author of the much-discussed plays of the Dublin tenements?— “Juno and the Paycock” and “The Plough and the Stars.” Padriac Colum knows*- O’Casey

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Count four as the breath is exhaled under water and the left hand comes down. Repeat this until it comes easy. There will be difficulty at first, but in swimming the difficulties are overcome by getting used to doing them, and a day or so in the breathing practice will be of Inore value to the swimmer than almost anything else. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Questions and

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis TlTnes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Where Is Vancouver? An island ojf the west coast of Canada forming part of the province so British Columbia. How much is spent annually for the maintenance of State collegesand universities in the United States? More than $158,00p,000 was ex* pended for support of such ipsti* tutions during the year ending June 30, 1925, according to the United States Bureau of Education. Os that sum salaries of professors and employes absorbed more than half. Purchase of materials and supplies for operation and maintenance accounted for nearly a fourth and expenditures for land and buildings for more than an eighth of the entire amount. Where and what is the thyroid gland? It consists of two lobes about two inches long lying on either side of the windpipe at the base of the neck and connected by a narrow cross band. The enlargement of one or both of the lobes is known as a, goitre. Can you give me a recipe for dill pickles? Take cucumbers about four IncßP long; wash and dry them, and pack in layers in half-gallon fruit jars. Place bunch of dill and a grape leaf between each alternate layer. When the jar is filled, pour over the contents a brine made by adding one cup of salt to twelve cups of boiled and cooled water into which a tablespoon of alum has been dissolved. Seal the jar, making sure it is air tight, and keep in a dark place. Wiiy is there not an eclipse of the sun every month when the moon is "new?” There would be an eclipse of the sun every month at this time ,if it were not for the fact that the path of the moon about the earth and the path of the earth around the sun are not in the same plane but incline to each other at an angle of 5 1-7 degrees. In addition, perturbations due to various causes result in a distinct and well marked deviation from the moon’s course in a single month. An eclipse of the sun cannot occur uhless some part of the moon overlaps the disk of the sun. What 81*6 good names for a parrot? Friday, Jester, Trumps, Jinks, Mose, Flirt, Flapper. What are the State flowers and mottoes of California, Oregon and Washington? Poppy is the State flower of California and the motto is "Eureka” (I have found it). Oregon Oregon’s flower and the "The Union.” Washington has Uia rhodonendron and “Al-Ri” )by and, by) is the motto. How is fruit cup made? Any kind of diced fruit can ba used, oranges, pineapple, grapefruit, berries, banana or any combination one likes. Serve in a sherbet glass, spr.nkle with a bit of sugar and grated Cocoanut (if desired) and top with su cherry or strawberry and a dash of whipped cream. What is the total capital of National banks in the United States? In 1925 the capital was $1,369,-* 435,000. In there a Government school to train men for the United States Postal service? No, the United States Government has no connection with any school that gives such training.

auburn tint and it produces a pleasing effect on the stage. Their musical offering is confined tq several popular songs done in the most approved manner of speed and syncopation. Also offered is a xylophone solo by one of the girls. Davis and McCoy rely for most of the kick to their act in the characterization, somewhat burlesqued, of the mail as a

well, and he sayS: “Sean O’Casey has worked at nearly all the casual jobs that fall to the lot of the unskilled, uncollared worker In Dublin; ho lias been a dock laborer, a hod carrier, a stone breaker on the reads; as a boy he worked in Dublin’s big news agency for nine shillings per week; he had to be on the job at four o’clock In the mornings to get the newspapers folded and addressed for tho early trains, and he was dismissed from his job for nolding his cap in his hand while his pay was being given him. ißk “All this, 'however, would little avail to him as a dramatist if he did not love the men and women, and the boys arid girls he has known in the tenements and met on the varlous jobs he has pu|t his hands to. He loves them and he believes in them. . . . He went with the wor|ters through the historic strike of 1923 and he belonged to the Htlzen army, the body of young Dublin workingmen who first to arm for insurrection. . . . Sean O’Casey has discovered a' new material; he has shifted the center of dramatic interest from the peasant to the dwellers in the city tenements. Dublin has Us own folk-like and its own tradition, and he has been tho first to put that life and that tradition on the stage. What a rich assortment of characters there are in hia play, ‘Juno and Paycock!’ ” "Juno and the Paycock” has been running for several months past on the New York stage, and is published by Macmillan In the same volume with another of O'Casey’s plays, "The Shadow of a Gunman.” Mr t O’Casey’s latest play, "The Plough and the Stars.” created quite a furore on its first nights at the Ab< bey Theater and The Living Age said: J' In a season of clever and empty plays ‘Tho Plough and the Stahs’ seems like a genuine literary event.” Padriac Colum's account oi O'Casey, from which we have quoted, is taken from his forthconv ing book, "The Road Round. Ira land.” In It Mr. Colum writes of a number of other famous Trl3hMM of the day, In both literary political life, and gives picture* of peasant Ireland. “The Road Jlound Ireland” will be published in the early fall bj Macmillan. ' t

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