Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1926 — Page 4

PAGE 4

The Indianapolis Times \ ROT W. HOWARD, President. BOTI GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • • MemDer of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Bates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500. ,

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 .—Cons titutioh of Indiana. 1 •

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA communicates over 535,426 telephones, according to reports from various sources, as of Jaq. 1, 1926. This is a gain of approximately 18,000 phones in one year, a •■ate of increase equaled only in eleven of more populous States. Scientific development of the telephone business is advanced !n Indiana, the first State to adopt the automatic system for large municipal service.

A CITY MANAGER The revolt has finally come. The heavy cost of politics in city government is forcing thinking men to seek a way to rid themselves of the burdens that politics places upon their property. The blatant police announcements that there will be a drive to clean up vice and crime only emphasizes the fact that the ptolice, for mysterious reasons, have permitted vice and crime to gain a place * in this city. An efficient force, free from political fear.-'frould never need to make a special drive against evils. A police force that did not have to guess whether particular bootleggers, peddlers of lottery tickets or Ijamblers had a pull, would put them out of business whenever they began to operate. If men were named to the police and fire departments on merit and held their jobs on service, there would be no need for the mayor to announce that he would put into effect a civil service system through high grade citizens. . i'| The announcement that ,he would take politics out of these departments is a confession that he ha3 let politics rule these departments. Very soon, the owners of property in this city will find out that they are paying for politics in the fire department in the form of increased insurance rates- They have already paid in a menace to legitimate business in police matters by the tolerance of lotteries to such an extent that merchants had to protest that these gamblers were getting too strong In their competition! A survey of other departments of the city government would show more inroads into tax funds that are made by political domination of officials. The activities of the council, the attitude of its majority members toward the public welfare, and the pitiful inability of the mayor in crises is ample proof that if any business enterprise in this city were run on the same basis as the city government. It would be bankrupt. Can you imagine any manufacturing or commercial or transportation enterprise picking the members of the present council as its board of-directors?" The operation of a city government is very largely a business matter. Nirje-tenths of all Its service is a business service. It has no connection with national politics, ft has no policy or program even remotely associated With national politics. Yet we continue to make our governments partisan In their character and elect men because of their standing in partisan groups. These cities which wish to progress have discovered that they can prosper better and grow faster by getting rid of the burden of partisan politics. They have adopted the city manager plan of government and turned to a business from a political basis. They have wiped out the system which makes politics the dominant note in government. Now a group of public spirited citizens propose to bring that change to Indianapolis. 1 It is a movement which every citizen who wants decency in government, who wants a dollar’s worth of service for a dollar paid in taxes, who wants business management not political favoritism, can support moste wholeheartedly. }

RUBBER AND INDEPENDENCE While Carml Thompson is in the Philippines a.p , the special envoy of President Coolidge, word comes from the summer White House that the United States Government plans to encourage the growth of rubber in the islands. The news followed the visit of Harvey S. Firestone Jr., who told the President of his personal investigation” of conditions. American tire manufacturers, according to Firestone, are preparing to establish a source of rubber Bupply on a vast scale, that will make them independent of the British monopoly. Such an undertaking will be complicated. Before American rubber interests can effectively utilize the twenty-five million acres In the island of Mindanao, which Firestone has told the President are admirably adapted to rubber culture, the land laws of the Philippines must-be changed. Those laws provide that no corporation can own over 2,500 acres. They were enacted to keep foreign Interests from acquiring huge tracts. It is unlikely that the Philippine legislature, standing virtually 100 per cent for immediate independence, will willingly relax the laws. Perhaps‘Carmi Thompson will be able to find out now to accomplish the difficult task of getting the land laws changed to make rubber culture possible. That may, in fact, explain his rather mysterious mission. t An independent source of American rubber supply is desirable. The British at present control about 77 per cent of the world production and control exports in a manner that creates an artificial price. The question remains, of icourse, what effect such a rubber supply would have on the promise of independence—made by Congress and by every President from Roosevelt to Harding. If Government rubber holdings are developed in the islands, the question of Independence is certain to be involved, and' perhaps shelved for the time. • THE SILENT INGULF Having admitted giving many thousands of dol* Vr* to influence senatorial nominations in Illinois, oantuol lusull grows suddenly silent. Ho lives good lawyers who telbhim that thera technical reasons why Senator Reed \ .can not force h;nr\ to le'.l abouh'tnore thousands'of dollars 6po:u in yon u oil lag other elections. He *v!*oflea to tell how much money he gave to group* of politicians in Chicago, groups which are not averse to also taking the votes of gunmen and

f ' hootleggefs and hi-jackers to put their men in power. t t The refusal to go into all his political activities will interest the people of Indiana and of Indianapolis because he is presumed to control a number of utilities in this State and c^ty. It is true that he has a hazy idea about his own power in this city and State and could not tell Senator Reed whether he had contributed to the recent Republican primaries in this State. He was not syre whether John Motto the campaign manager yf Watson, was an official of one of his companies or connected with it. k He just couldn’t temember whether he had given any money in Indiana, but his evasive answer yvas "not to my ( knowledge." That rather Suggests that he might make contributions without knowing it and that politics may ba as much a part of the utility business as wire or coal or labor. * J, ' The significant thing is the refusal of Insull to tell what he did give. The ordinary citizen who takes a part in politics is quite ready to boast of his activities. He will put on a button to tell the world where he‘stands. He will ask his neighbor to see things his way. He is proud of his convictions on public questions and is ready to discuss the reasons for his faith. He is rather proud if he chips in a dollar or two to help keep the show going. There is only ore reason for the Insull silence. He is course, that the people will resent getting their Senators with their gas and electric light and street car rides. He is afraid that people may think that public ofl|cials who receive power through his cash donations may serve him much better than they serve the voters who are still fooled into voting for birds or animals. The people, of course, would think <exactfy that thing and it would probably be true. . Watch the agents of these big corporations this fall. Find out what they are doing. Then a good safe bet is to vote for the'candidates they oppose.

THE FARMER’S POSITION Farmers of the country received in the crop season of 1926-26 slightly more than three billion dollars in cash as their ihcome after expenses were paid, the agriculture department sa>s. This is an average of $879 for each farm family, for both years’ work and the return on the value of the farm. For work alone the farm family got $648. The department says that return on the farmer's investment averaged about 3.5 per cent, compared with the 6, 8 and 10 per cent the farm mortgage holders received and the 11 per cent corporations were estimated to have earned. Also, it adds, the farm family’s earnings were about 30 per cent less than in 1920. Compared with wage earners, the latter's money return has stayed about the same for three years, and he has been able to buy about 16 per cent more than he could for the same money In 1920, while the farmer has been able to buy about 20 per cent less than he could nowbuy for his 1920 Income. When these figures are considered with the department’s recent statement that the power of farm products has receded until it is about 86 against 100 so rother products, the reasons for agricultural unrest become clearer. Don’t forget to learn the 986 new laws passed by the House. Tou know, ignorance of the law is no excuse. \ luck may be bad, but a Texas man has been farming forty-two years. f \ Don’t ask for more butter. A waiter shot a man in a Paris case. • Labor day is the first Monday in September. That gives us Sunda/y and Monday. Start resting up now. If a white suit makes it rain, put on a bathing suit -and stop it. Even though turtles live 200 years they never get anywhere much. , The y cut their hair. They bob their skirts. They diet. But they hate, to reduce ejfoenses. y Big league reports indicate farmer boys make the beet fielders. 1 - ■■ ■ ' MARTYR’S WIFE GREATEST SUFFERER By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON The entire county is stirred over the murder of Don R. Mellett, a newspaper man who dared to tell the truth and who gave his life because he did not know what it was to be afraid. He was a martyr and'he is dead, but his wife lives on with her sorrow. How do yorr sdppose she feels? Does the fact that the sacrifice of his life may awaken the nation to the danger of the crime which .seethes underneath our outw’ard splendor reconcile her to existence without him? I doubt-it. Right now., we can imagine, Mrs. Mellett would not care how deeply Canton, Ohio, might be sunk in if she could have back her husband who walketj out of the kitchen that night and never came back again._ • In every path of life, upon every plan* of society, It is the woman who suffers the greatest pain. Men are up and doing, working and dying. But their wives are left with sorrow that time can not wholly appease nor memory forget. Crime waves kill men, but they break the hearts and the souls of'women. And when we count the cost of that vile deed which was perpetrated against a decent and fearless man, let us not fail to keep in mind that the same assassin’s bullet w-ounded a woman’s life. The children who called-him father will grow up and find- happiness again. The fact that he played thetgame squarely will be for them a proud memory, and even though they have been so early deprived of his counsel, to children life Is always, after a time, a glad and Joyous thing. But to the wife of Don-Mellett. neither time nor distance, nor the passing yehrs nor that quiet Jthat comes with age, will evdr give back again the same sort of happiness which that shot in tlje dark took from her forever. It is horrible to think that many a wertnan has lived through such a thing in tw-entieth century America! And these lonely wives are all too soon for gotten. Jf we would only keep , our minds upon the widowed and the orphaned instead of wasting 30 much maudlin sympathy over those criminals w-ho are already caught, we should not have a condition which necessitates a woman having to give up her husband so that a gang of, thugs might be driven out of a city.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Five Primaries Result'in Three Draws and Two A / %- Barren Tallies,

By M. E. Tracy From Tuesday’s primaries, one may conclude that Missouri is doubtfully wet, that Montana Is less doubtfully dry and , that Kansas is throifgh with the Ku-Klux Klan, while Oklahoma is still disposed to flirt With that organization rather than rehabilitate Jack Walton. So far as these four States are concerned, it was a drawn battle, whether measured toy booze or bedsheet, while in the other two, where primaries occurred*—Virginia and West Virginia—the result- was colorless for lack of issues. What Will They'bo? There have been but three primaries of any significance thisiyear, and they were all Republican. There was the one In lowa, where Brookhart beat the administration and there were those of Pennsylvania and Illinois, in which the reckless use of everything else. What, if anything* are the people of Pennsylvania and Illinois going to do about it? Are they content to the Republican party has bought for them, and quite* regardless of whether it is worth the price, or will they display a little independence? Certainly the atew over Newberry and the disgraceful exposures of the Reed investigation will count for nothing, unless the people of Pennsylvania and Illinois do something. -1- •!• -I-

Industry's Bugaboo The partner of J. P. Morgan and Company, whose reported statement boosted General Motors stock to the tunfe of more than 20 points a share within the space of fortyeight hours, said yesterday that, while he made the statement, he did not predict that General Motors was good for a 100 point rise, whereupon that cavorting stock dropped 7 points. The speculating public still compliments the House of Morgan with unadulterated confidence. But these wild rides -in Wall street, whether started by bulls, or bears, constitute one aspect of the financial game thgt does irreparable harm to honest, hard-working industry. H-T -ISuzanne’s Victims Votaries of tennis are all het up over Suzannp Lenglen’s sudden swritch from amateur to professional. “Who will, she play with?” they want to know. Never mind that. Suzanne is out to play the public and she will ex perience no great difficulty if America runs true to form. - | -|. -j- -|. Plot for O’Henry Both State and church have taken their stand in Mexico and powerful groups who desire to mediate are undertaking to forfnulate some kind of a workable plan, but the all-im-portant politician remains to be heard from. It is simply unthinkable that the scores of ousted, or would be, leaders will overlook any such a bet as the present situ&tio.i offers. Those who. took to Calles. to the church authorities, or even in mediators for the next important move are to find themselves gazing in the wrong direction. Here is a ready made issue for anyone who wants it, and here are hundreds of ex-generals, ex-Gov-emors, ex-ministers and ex-Congress-man, scattered all over the map, just itching for something of the sort. Here is a wave of sentiment to ride, inflamed passions to feed and distraught people to lead, or mislead, as the case may be. Calles has little to fear, by way of physical resistance from the church authorities or any of the people, who oppose him on purely religious ground, but he would betterwatch those leaders ,who are ambitious. who have been exiled, who are only waiting for their chance. -I- -I- -IAnd Another Plot A “bootleg queefi,” according to. the United Press, rising from the humble vocation of a cabaret singer to become the mistress of a mansion, an airplane and a private yacht, but now in the hands of Federal officers, and hurrying back to Seattle for trial—l have always contended that rum running would furnish romance, fiction and drama for the next generation. Some day an author, with the required skill, will write another “Lorna Doone," built around the gentle art of peddling booze in violation of Volstead. “Rummy” Bill McCoy and William V. Dwyer, who organized a $25,000,000 bootlegging syndicate, as it was alleged, and who was recently convicted in New York, and this latest reeruif, Florence what characters for the unborn novelist, or playwright, to juggle with. Our grandchildren will read of this hectic flurry with the same kind of wonderment and fascination as we read of smuggling along the English coast, or of the outlaw bands that flourished two centuries ago. * We stand too close to the thing for a proper prospective. To us, it is only a hot moral, or political, issue. What the artist will preserve, however, yhen tiijie and distance shall have given him a more natural view, is the clever bootlegger who defied the law successfully and the cleyer dry agent who* pever failed to get “his man." CHANGE AT NOTRE DAME B>i ‘United Prr* SOUTH BEND, Ina.. Aug s.—The position of vice president of Notre Dame Unlversi; y was held today by Rev. Patrick J. Carroll, C. S. C. Ijp succeeds the Rev. George Fihnigan, C. S. C.

Warner Brothers Get’Ready to Invade Europe With Movie Road Shows Soon

With three of the twenty-six pJctures for 1926-27 season well under ! way, Jack L. Warner, director-gen-eral of production for the company, announces that three additional ones will be ready to go Into production within the next two weeks. In fact, it has definitely been decided that “What Happened to Father,’’ “The Third Degree” and an Arthur Somers Roche mystery story, as yet untitled, will be launched this month. This is in accordance with' the program snapped out by Jack Warner when the twenty-six pictures were originally announced. He declared he would have six pictures for the new season in production by the first week in August and he is making good Ms promise. The order of release of these productions will be as follows; "Across the Pacific,” ‘‘My 6fflcial Wife,” “Private Izzy Murphy,” "What Happened to Father," ‘The Third Degree,” and the Roche mystery story. Warner Brothers have extensive plans for the presentation of their road shows in Europe and the reorganization of the Vitagraph (Ltd.) Exchanges in England. With this end in view Herman Starr, chief executive of the New York office, sails on the Majestic today for London for a tour of the exchanges abroad, which will take him to England, France and Ger* many, and he will be gone aSout three months. Mr. Starr will be met In Londort by Gus Schleslnger, general manager of foreign distribution, now in Germany, and the two executives, will complete plans f<sr the reorganizatidn of Vitagraph. Ltd., which will result in the distribution of future Warner products through Vitagraph instead of another company, as in the past. , After leaving London they will go to France and Germany to look over the picture situation there together. A recent deal places the distribution of Warner pictures In the hands of Bruckmans in Germany. Mr. Starr goes abroad in place of H. M. Warner, who had planned the trip, but is compelled to remain In New York to supervise the launching of the Vitaphone road shows here. -I- -!- •!• CHINESE ORCHESTRA OPEN AT PALACE American Jazz is never associated with a Chinaman as a rule, but the exception holds true at the Palace the last half of this week when Lopas and his Chinese Oriental orchestra present their version of Occidental music. This group of Orientals has Its own interpretation* of American jazz and plays mpny popular numbers. y 4n the featured spot of the prom Is Leah, the Oriental dancer, who is claimed to be the only woman of her type who plays a piano on the American stage. Leah, billed as the most beautiful of Oriental dancers, gives native Hawaiian dances. Hickey and Hart believe that there can be “Dance Foolery” as well as “tom foolery.” In addition to serving up a potpourri of special dances they have a line of comedy songs and chattel; with which to dispense. Phil Furmas travels to Ireland, England and Germany in his “Singing Travelogue." anew method] adopted by him Jn scattering his comedy and more serious songs. Taylor Howard and Them are asking everyone to “Meet the Family” and In doing so create only fun. The Toby "{Veils Trio have been making their audiences howl for years at their clever and funny antics. These clown acrobats have fearing stunts to perform. Dorothy Capfleld’s novel “The Homemaker,” has hbn filmed with Alice Joyce and Clive Brook. Pathe News, a eomedy, and Topics of the Day are the short reels. -I- -I- -I-. Indianapolis theaters ttoday offer: “The Swan,” at Keith's; “The Lady Next Door,” at English’s; The Jolly Juniors at the Lyric: “Laddie,” at. the Apollo: “Yellow Fingers,” at the Colonial; “Pals First,” at the Circle; “Her Honor The Governor," at the Ohio; “The Reckless Lady,” at the Uptown, and complex new movie bill at the Isis.

Started Young

■■ M El - :/• Vv .

Robert St. • Claire

Few young actors can boast of such a diversity of experience as has been enjoyed by Robert St. Claire of the Berkell players. Earn of theatrical parents and brought lip in th* show business, he played his first part at the age of 3. St. Claire has apeared in every branch of theatricals with the ex- y ception of the circus. After graduating from school he was in musical comedy for several seasons. Then he toured the vaudeville circuits in a playlet. Following this he organized his own dramatic company with which he was featured for three years - /throughout eastern Canada. For tw'o years St. Claire, played leading juvenile roles in the movies, supporting suph stars ns Pearl White, Gladys Leslie, Mahlon Hamilton, Burr Mclntosh and others, his last screen appearance being In "Enemies of Youth.” •

How to Swim —No. 16

sL-JL. a- jbl . Illustrating the breast stroke.

By Lillian Cannon During the breast stroke, the arms and hands are under water all the time, while the head is entirely out of water. The first position in the breast stroke is with the shoulders just at the surface of the water, the arms straight forward with the -hands touching and the legs In a straight line beliind, with ankles touching.

KANSAS WOMAN IS QUEEN OF WHEAT

Her Income This Year Equals That of President - Coolidge. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)' DODGE CITY, Kan., Aug. 5. The great wheat country of southwestern Kansas is an empire in itself and it has a real empress in the person of Mrs. Ida Watkins, “wheat. queen” of Kansas and probably of all the world. A decade ago Mrs. Watkins had never set foot on a wheat field. Now, at 55, she has a. farm of 1,950 acres in Haskell County. The farm this year will yield her slightly morq than 50,000 bushels, which will mean about $75,000 —an amount equal to President Coolidge’s salary. And she’s going to keep on buying more land! Mrs- Watkins reminds you Just a little of Harry Leon Wilson's “Ma Pettlnglll"—only she farms on a much greater scale than* did the energetic lady of the 'Red Gap. Ran Caitle Ranch , Born in Nodajs-ay Countyt Mo., she spent her childhood neqr Wichita. Kan., and in the early ’9os married Joel Watkins, who took her to Oklahoma where he was homesteading. His cattle ranch prospered, and she took an active interest in It. so that when he died, in 1922, she was well able to operate it herself. Even in those days she liked to do things ,on a big scale. She 4-ode her pony over the range daily, and it was not long before they \trere calling her the "cattle queen” of Oklahoma. Her J-anch grew to 2,500 acres; her herds yof cattle were huge. Started Ten Years Ago About ten years ago she bought her first bit of land in Kansas. {She bought it for speculative purposes, never intending to /arm it. But in 1920 she put in 200 acres < of wheat. That fall she sold the crop* for $8,844, and that started her thinking. The next year she planted wheat on the rest of her property and began buying more. She paCF $7,200 for two quartersections of land, and in the first year drew $8,400 worth of wheat from them. Another 280-kcre stretch she bought has yielded $17,000 worth of wheat in two years. Shfe bought still another half section for S2O an; acre and is now refusing to sell It for twice that price. Is it any wonder that Mrs. Watkins is enthusiastic about the possibilities of the Kansas wheat beM Busy on Sunday. Too It was on a Sunday in the midst of the harvest season that this correspondent visited her modest fourroom cottage on <he edge of the town of Sublette, Kas. She was nutting in her day of rest in a, spirited effort to get caught up on her household duties, sorely neglected because of the demands the harvest had made on her’. I “You know, when it comes time to harvest a person can’t do much else,” she explained. “We must work just the same on Sundays, whether we believe in it or not. This is the only day I have any time to do anything about the house.’’ Thousands of Bushels In the yard in front of her home were long ricks -containing thousands of bushels of thrashed wheat, awaiting shipment. On some vacant lots across the road were many more thousands. Neither she. nor her 32-year-old son, Ed Watkins, knew just how many. ( The harvest had kept them s6 busy they had not had time to check up. Four combination harvesterthrtfshers have been going oveir her fields, with eight motor trucks kept busy the grain away. Mrs. Watkins usually rides about the huge’field in a neat closed car, although ocasionally she takes a turn on a tractor or combine. “I’ll certainly be glad when it’s, all over and we can take our vacation," ghe said, a trace of fafiigue in her eyes. But her face brightened as she discussed plans for q twomonths trip to the East, with a visit to the iiUsquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia and an extended stop in New York, “where we can see some gootf’-shows ohee more.” But it will be eight or ten weeks yet before eh© caui leave her farm.

The hands are turned back to back and the arms sweep backward until they are at right angles to the body. Then the elbows are bent and the hands brought together under the body until they touch. Then they go straight ahead to the first position, which completes the cycle of movement/

Mrs. Ida Watkins

BOY HATES WORK, SAYS PROFESSOR - Even 2,500 Years Ago He Did, Discovery. By United Pre LONDON, Aug. s.—The average boy hates work, according to Dr. J. A. Nairn, who is retiring shortly, after twenty-five years’ service as head master of a prominent boys’ school here. “The average boy has always hated work,” Dr. Nairn declares; “he hates it today, he hated it twenty-five years ago and so far as I can make out from Quintilian, he hated it 2,000 years ago.* “Seme head masters have claimed to recognize a -certain listlessness, which they attribute to pre-natal effects contributed by mothers during the trying and anxious days of war, coupled with actual shortage of sjich foodstuffs as milk and butter. On the other hand, I have been impressed with the unimpressionability of elflreme youth, which never reacts to outside stimulus in the way one would expect. “Thq. prestige of intellectual aetypvement has diminished in proportion as the prestige of athleticism has grown. Young people are the most ardent votaries of the fashion of the dat- To them essentially, “Whatever is, is best.” GUARDSMEN TO ENTRAIN All Units Except Aviation Will Go to Camp Knox. Adjutant General William H. Kershner announced today that beginning Thursday and continuing until Kunday, units of the Indiana National Guard will entrain for Camp Knox, Ky., where the entire guard, with the exception of the aviation division, will be encamped until Aug. 22. - The air squadron is training at Camp Fairfield, Ohio. Governor Jackson is expected to visit Camp Knox. Aug. 19 and 20, along with governors of Kentucky, Ohio and Weft Virginia. RUM RUNNER CAUGHT Police Believe Companion Who Escaped, Was Shot. Bu United Pres* FRANKLIN. Ind., Aug. 6 —Frank Drybread of Edinburg was held today on a charge of rum running after a by a sheriff's posse near here last night. Officers laid in wait near a hidden cache of liquor and took up the pursuit as Drybread and a companion fled in an autq, riddling the machine ' with Sbulleta Drybread's companion escaped, but it is believed he was wounded. GIRL BICYCLIST HUkl Bv-JCnited Prc* -, ‘ RICHMOND, Ind.. Aug. Riding a bicycle in front of a heavy truck. Emily Wiechman, 11, was struck and badly Injured. Wheels of the truck* crushed one of her legs. The driver waa exonerated.

AUG. 5, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Th< Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1.322 New York Ave., Washington. D. 0., 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 pdrsonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the exchange value of German paper marks Issued October, 1923? \ German paper marks Issued prior to December, 1923, are no longer legal tender and are, therefore,' worthless. They cannot be exchanged. % Is the custom of washing the feet of the poor still practiced as a religious ceremony by the King of Spain? Yes. The subject* are usually twelve poor pld men or twelve poor priests, summoned for the ceremony. What are the most recent figures on National Bank failures and how are the depositors protected? , In 1924 121 National Banks failed. While the office of the controller of the currency exercises supervision over National Banks, depositors are not guaranteed against loss In case of fallur. Is a boy 16 years old, gdio was bom In England, but has lived in this country ten years, a British or American subject? If the boy was born of English parents who are not naturalized Americans, he is a British subject. How much space does the library of the Vatican occupy and how many volumes does it contain? It is established in twenty-five rooms, in addition to the great library hall, and now contains over 250,000 volumes and over 34,000 manuscripts, some of the latter being of great value. What was the date of the act of Congress that established the United States Soldiers’ Home at Washington, D. U? March 3, 1851. During what period was the disparity between, paper currency and gold greatest in the United States? After the Civil War, from 1862 to 1865 inclusive, the average gold price of SIOO currency in the New York market range fromd $98.00 to $39.00. Does hair actually stand on end when one is frightened, of 4 is that merely a metaphor? Fright causes hair to rise because the striped muscles *f the skin contract. Sensations of heat and cold or fear cause an involuntary contraction of these muscles in man, resulting" in the feeling that the hair on the head is standing erect. What is the best way to wash colored material so that it will keep its color? Set the color by soaking for an hour in cold saltejJ. water. Wash In tepid water with mild soap and do not the soap qn the garment but make a suds. Knead rather than rub the dirt out. Rinse well and4 wring as dry as possible. Starch and' hang out at once. If allowed to stay wet the color may run. Dry in a shady place, sunlight will fade colors. Take from this line while still damp and iron or sprinkle lightly and let stand only a short time. What particular ingredients in milk make it necessary in the diet of a child? It is rich in lime, and supplies the important vitamine A that is especially needed for tissue building. When a child has a liberal supply of milk he gets so much protein that other protein-rich foods, such as eggs, meat and qheese, are only needed, in small quantities, if at all. What is the meaning of the word “wop?” The word is said to be a shortened form of the Sicilian colloquialism "a good-for-nothing fellow. 1

MR: FIXIT Letter Full of Complaints Investigated,

Mr. Fix it presentyour case to city . officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write hHh at The / Times. / Allowing persons to fence off a. street, failure to oil, a stopped sewsr> ungraded streets and insanitary premises are subjects of complaint® expressed in an omnibus letter Mr. Pixit has received. DEAR MR. PIXIT: Does N. Tremont St. run through into Sixteenth St.? If the ground adjoining Sixteenth St. is not privately owned, will you see that the fence posts across the street are removed? Does political pull have anything to do with oiling streets? N. Tremont g St. has not been oiled for two or three years. Tho gravel got washed into the storm sewers. Two of them in the 1000 block are stopped up. One is In front of 1031 and the other one across from it. * No one seems to be interested in condition of the streets. There is one section between Tfemont and Mount Sts., on .Eleventh and Twelfth Sts., that should be graded •nd graveled. There is one place oh Tremont where there are a half dozen old wash tubs, bushel baskets and a garbage can filled to N the brim without cover. This can has been .there all summer and I think they are starting another one in a wash tub. OBSERVER. Investigations are in N progress in regard to the closed street and to the streets needing grading. < The storm sewers will'be at oncA The board of health has promised to notify the tenant |o clean his premises. Unfortunately the city's supply of , oil Is exhausted. TO TOURS HOPEFUL: The *©ity smrke inspector lT now lng witn Pennsylvania shop flre-y men in a campaign of ( education in firing engines as a smoke prevention measure. However, there seems to be no ordlnand&s to correct the other condition* you described. {