Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1926 — Page 4

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

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA by law.fixes eight per cent as the maximum rate of Interest chargeable for money borrowed from public depositories. The State also has prescribed rates and terms for the small loans, usually secured by chattel mortgagtes. Volunteer social service agencies have helped prevent abuses common in this field, a few years ago.

PLEASE WRITE When, a few weeks ago, Clyde Walb pompously announced that when he told the facts about State finances, the campaign would be ended, he spoke, unquestionably, with the full approval of Governor Jackson and Senators Watson and Robinson. Thpre Is much reason to believe that Watson and Robinson would very much like to distract attention from Washington, where their votes and their speeches have alienated them from the President. There Is every reason to believe that Watson would mucu desire that the people of this State forget the men he has appointed to office during his regime, his record as a lobbyist for privileged Interests, his divorce from the national Administratfcn, which is complete—and with no alimony coming him as a wronged and Indignant wife. Senator Watson, particularly, would like to forget that he Is now driven to the expedient of unloading from his political organization and from his official appointees those who have caused such rebellion that he knows, unless he be Ingrate and calloused, he will lose the votes of those who revere the name of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Coolidge. * There Is more reason to believe that Robinson would like to have the people forget that while he was taking at least expenses, and this is his own confession, from the dry forces of the State for making speeches in their behalf, his law firm *was taking fees from bootleg suspects for appealing their cases to the Supreme Court. There is even more reason to believe that Robinson would desire that people forget that he was once the close intimate and"beneflciary of that “Old Man” who now sojourns at Michigan City and once boasted, with the facts behind him, that he was “the law” in Indiana, There is even greater reason to believe that Robinson would prefer that people forget that when •eekers for certificates from the public service commission had failed, they went to him and that a conference in the Governor’s office obtained all that they wished without even the fatigue of appearing before the public commission and arguing the Justice of their claims. 1 Chairman Peters seems to have been very willing to meet these august gentlemen on their own battleground, one which will remove from discussion or inquiry the actions of these Senators He asks Governor Jackson about the sixteen millions of dollars which were in the treasury when the people paid the last of the debts incurred by the tame organization which now asks for more power. Echo will answer that when the fiscal year ends there will be no millions, and if the Supreme Court decision in regard to horizontal raises in taxes Is carried to its logical limit, there will be another debt for whch some other Governor may hold a movie party to celebrate its payment. The truth is that this administration on which Watson, skulking as always for a shadow in which to hide his own defects, depeiTds for re-election, has cost the people more than any other administration. The people have paid to the State government in the past year some fifty-three millions of dollars. They got no more, and perhaps less than when they paid to the government under Tom Marshall eight millions of dollars, except in the matter of good roads. The irony of the situation is that Watson and Robinson, especially Robinson with his Anti-Saloon League backing and his bootleg clients, believe that the people of this State can be fooled. That is their estimate of Hoosier intelligence. But since the only organized opposition to that Infamous thing called Watsonism comes from Chairman Peters, perhaps the i Governor of the State will answer him. Let it be hoped that he can call attention to a single dollar which has been saved to the people of this State. , l Where did he save it and when? Has he cut expenses or merely charged the people more? Has he reduced the cost of government or merely through the trick mind of the former dragon, put heavier burdens upon the people? Where is that sixteen millions of dollars? The columns of the Times are open.

TRUDIE AND THE TWINS Very shrewd gentlemen have offered that unusual young lady who swam the English channel a million dollars for her activities during the next year. I ' A million dollars Is a lot of money. The men who offered that million expect to make several million by showing her in the movies, upon the vaudeville stage, by using her name to advertise everything from chewing gum to automobiles. They will use her magnificent feat of swimming that rebellious strip of water known as the English Channel to Inflame the imagination of •lose who will visit movies or the vaudeville or buy chewing gum' or automobiles. Last week, in a little county fair in the northern part of the State, two babes, victims of a biological freak, were exposed to pußlic view. They are the Medick twins of South Bend, joined together at birth through a mischance of nature. By no training or education can they ever contribute to the entertainment or the progress of the ■world. But their misfortune brought forty thousand curious men and women to the little cot to pay in all ten thousands of dollars for the privilege of viewing .their misfortune. Why did the people pay these thousands for merely looking upon a great human tragedy? These babes, linked physically, must be either exhibits or paupersThe men and women who Mid these thousands are the same people who will read this.

Did they go from a feeling of sympathy? That would be a flattering explanation. And when people pay their tribute of dollars to the name of Trudle, will they do it bemuse they have caught the image of the courage, the infinite sacrifice, the training which preceded heir feat, or will they go like sheep because her name has been blazoned by greedy men who capitalize the swollen muscles and tongue of thip brave girl? There have been a dozen great souls who came Into their own id Indiana in the past year. One of them won a prize for an appeal of oratory with a topic of patriotism. You, too, have forgotten his name. There was the boy who raised the best pig. And girl who had the best half acre of com. And another, a silent (Ireamer in college who wrote a poem which thrilled and lifted the thoughts above the level of sordidness. Very fortunately we still have men and women who go among the youth of the land and Inspire them to write poetry and plays, to win in the gift of oratorical appeal, to raise pigs and corn. I For after the feat of the unusual girl has been forgotten and after the unfortunate twins have become commonplace and no longer capable of capitalization the world will still be eating pork and corn, still be thrilled by poetry, still respond to dramatic gesture and still yield to the fervor of the orator. What would you rather he? A Trudle who swam across a channel or the college boy who wrote, as did Dennie O’Neill, a great poem? Would you rather raise a prize pig or be a monstrosity? The vmrld still pays more for the unusual. Some day It may give its prizes to the useful and the inspiring. John. D. Rockefeller says he never worries. We wouldn't, either. Bamboo seeds are eaten by the Hindoos, hut wc would be afraid they would make our joints stiff. Politician leads a hard life. Never knows whether to sit on the water wagon -Or on the fence. - • If we ever get rich we are going to hire some dentist to let us bite his thumb. Morgantown (Ky.) minister was shot while preaching by someone who should have been listening.

M. CLEMENCEAU AND MR. COOLIDGE ■ Lowell Mellett ———

One misty morning in June,, 1918. in a barnyard not far from the River Marne, a short dumpy figure of a man might have been seen—in fact, was seen by the present writer—skirting the edges of a steaming manure pile to enter the modest French farm house. He was clothed, as far as could be seen, in a dilapidated soft felt hat, brim turned down, a spattered raincoat arid heavy soled stubby shoes that didn’t seem to mind the mud. The landed peasant who owned the place, you might have said, had you not seen his face. It was a face known to all France and familiar, by reason of the newspapers, to all those about the barnyard. These were Americans, officers and- men of the Second Division, A. E. F. The sight electrified them, for it was the face of “The Tiger," the premier of France—Clemenceau. Why had he come? It was soon known to the commanding general and the Officers he gathered about him. Clemenceau had dropped in—ls a hard drive in the early morning from Paris can be called dropping In—to thank the American Army and, in particular, the Second Division, for saving Paris. Warmly, but simply, he spoke the gratitude of France, giving the worn and weary division full and complete credit for stopping the German crown prince’s march on the country’s loved capital. Then he shook hands til around, splashed across the barnyard to his car and departed, leaving the splendid significance of his message to sink in upon the surprised American troopers at their leisure. That was Clemenceau. That, indeed, was Clemenceau all over. ' He left to others to debate who stopv>ed the Germans and who won the war. His mind held no doubt at that moment and he was accustomed to obey his impulses. Thank God tpr the Americans, his heart said; no, thank the Americans themselves, said his eccentric intellect. And he was out of his house In the early dawn and on his way through the mud to do It. A man of impulses, impulses which he never doubts. Yesterday he cabled to our cool and collected President hi 4 views on the proposed terms of the French war debt settlements. “France is not for sale, even to her friends!” was his astounding challenge to Mr. Coolidge—or, as it mightvbetter be put—his challenge to the astounded Mr. Coolidge. You can be sure Mr. Coolidge was astounded, for never in New England did he meet with a Clemenceau; perhaps, never even with the Clemenceau point of view. "The President is said take the position that the debt settlement is a closed issue,” Is the Premderit’s Indirect reply. Somewhere between that stormy declamation of the hot hearted French hero and the cool response qf our President there must lie a point-of reasonCertainly, France is not for sale, as Clemenceau says. Most certainly we are not seeking to buy. But equally certain it is that the debt settlement is not a closed issue. If calling it closed and endeavoring to make it so costs us more in good will, to say nothing of good money, than keeping it open until* the point of reason is reached, the American people are not ready to call it closed. Clemenceau spoke his feelings honestly that day in June, 1918—even if, with all respect for the sturdy Second Division, he may have exaggerated things slightly. He did the same in his cablegram to Coolidge. Honest feeling, honeßt exaggeration. But he has given us anew an insight Into the heart of France an’d we would do well not to be too certain that it is time to close the issue. V i • ■■*y ■ "

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Iripl I racy Clemenceau Sees Debt Situation Through Blue Glasses.

By M. E. Tracy Clemenceau sees the debt situation through, glasses that are blue, if not opaque. The United States has not pressed France for money, or asked a mortgage on of her possessions. Seven years, without receiving a cent, do not bespeak a mean, hard boiled, or even hopelessly commercial spirit. The American people have never assumed, or expected that France could pay all she owes. The proposed debt agreement is not based on that idea. If France has any definite proposition, s*he can rest assured that it will be given full and sympathetic consideration. , Thus far she has offered little but disagreeable generalities. Clemenceau himself, though enlarging on what France can not do, makes no mention of what she can. If France wants all her debt written off, let us come out In the open and say so, or if she wants an BCH per cent discount, instead of a 40, let her say that. But this nagging, this bawling at tourists, this writing letters to tell us of our faults, defects and In ferloritles, will do no good. •I- I -I* This Leopard’s Spotty . New Jersey is having as hard a time with an escaped leopard as with the Hall-Mills murder case. Also, she is getting just as many conflicting stories out of it. The leopard got out of a shipping cage wh4?e those in charge went to lunch. Where It went, and where It Is, something less than half a million people would like to know, and for lack of facts, are appealing to their imagination. “I heard It roar like a subway train,” says one. and “Shriek like a siren,” says another. One report had it prowling in a barnyard at a certain hour, and another had it swimming a river ten miles away twenty minutes later. A check-up of all the gossip shows that seven persons have been killed, not to mentlon.an incalculable number of cows, colts, sheep and chickens, though not th** slightest injury to man <>r beast car*be officially confirmed. The show has been going on five days now. with no result, except a lot of perfectly good headlines. What would the people of India do If they got so Ineffectually worked up over every leopard? •I- -I- -I-Age-Old Emotions A little boy’s grave was opened near Chillicothe, Ohio* the other day. He is supposed to have been placed In it no less than 2,000 years ago. Marbles were found beside him, which makes it easy to construct the scene. Despite all the changes and Innovations, we feel just the same when a little boy dies as the mound buiMers did. If a grief-stricken mother does not put his playthings In the grave, she cherishes them, and if a silent father prays to a different god, he asks the same old question. -I- -I- -IRomantic Science Has a bald head any significance? British scientists are now arguing the subject. One says that less hair permits the thyroid gland to do more for growth. Another says that less hair proves less monkey in us. One interesting theory developed is to the effect that man lost his hair when he began to fool with fire. Long-haired men, according t<J this theory, were gradually burned, or had their furry coats scorched out of existence, while their less hairy brethren survived. You can't beat science for romance when it gets running into details. -I- *1- *l-

Nullification , Having accused AI Smitfi and Senator Wadsworth of "nullification,'’ Bishop Adna W. Leonard, speaking before the citizens conference at Round Lake, N. Y., on Sunday said: “No Governor can kiss the papal ring and get within gunshot of the White House?" If that is not “nullification,” what is it? Where does the Constitution put up any bars because of religious belief. and if not, what right has any citizen to put them up? -I- -I- -IPhilanthropy An unknown philanthropist has offered to build apartment houses for Government employes in Washington which can be rented at $12.50 a room a month. The offer was made to Herbert Hoover, and it has caused quite a stir in the capital, especially among real estate men, who say it is not practical, but who still seem afraid. Apartment houses for men earning small salaries appear to have challenged the fancy of quite a few philanthropists, and with good reason. Some of the rents charged in our cities for apartments of inferior size and construction are simply outrageous. TheLd rents may boost real estate Values temporarily, but there is nothing solid, or worth preserving about them. RENT WRONG GARAGE CEDAR RAPIDS. la.—A score of -business men trembled in their boots as a > result of the recent arrest of two rum-runners, who were found to have a long list of names of prominent Cedar Rapids people. The bootleggeus were caught when they rented a garage. It happened to be the garage of a dry arient. I

George Gaul Has a Chance to Sing and Cuss a Wee Bit in ‘The Mountain Man’

By Walter D. Hickman George Gaul isn’t call ‘d upon to do much heavy acting In Clare Kummer's “The Mountain Man.” He does other things. 'He sings, Yes, he does and he also cusses a wee bit. Not too terrible bad words, but It is modern cussing done in cave man accent. And they seem to like this cave man stuff on the stage. “The Mountain Man" is just theatrical ap-

plesauce, but done on a rather sure formula. It Is not a great play, miles from it. It is really a matinee bill but gives George Gaul an opportunity to be the rough lover from the mountains in the first two acts and Ithen a polished lover in the third act. George does his singing in the second and third acts. And he gets

George Gaul

by with it because it is acting. Was rather Interested in Gaul’s attire in the first act because he reminded .me of the pictures of George -Washington. This is not a costume play, but Gaul is sure in costume for awhile. Said attire might be called quaint. If ydu don’t take your theater too seriously and If you like theatrical applesauce, well then, "The Mountain Man” will not be so bad. There is some good work on the part of George Gaul, Betsy Jane Southgafe (about the sweetest little thing we have had this season) Elizabeth Taylor and Aldrich Bowker. Others in include I.ael Corya (was not so impressed with her work at any time), Judith Lowry, Alan Floud, Larry Fletcher, Teresa Dale, John Storey and Harry Ellerbee. This Is the last week of the Stuart Walker Company this season at Keith’s. “The Mountain Man” will taste like honey and sugar and as that as the final taste most of us will not regret because Walker has do*p some mighty big things this season. “The Mountain Man” is Just pleasant entertainment and nothing else. i At Keith's all week, closing Sunday night. I- •!• •!• ‘THE BRIDAL SUITE" IS JUST THEATRICAL HASH Have this to say about "The Bridal Suite” as a play—it is Just

Stage Verdict LYRlC—Three acts stop the show because of merit. They are Bailey and Barnum. Charles Althoff and Mary Reilly. ENGLISH’S Very little merit is to be found in “The Bridal Suite.” • KEITH'S —“The Mountain Man” is theatrical applesauce, -btrb pleasant entertainment. PALACE The Gordon Sisters in Raymond's Bohemians pre two charming girls who offer some pleasing "sister” numbers.

WEEKLY BOOK REMEW Hoosier Publishers Win Fame for Indianapolis

By Walter D. Hickman There are several w'ays to glorify your home town. Many people in crease the fame of their home town. But it is not .often when one concern year after year adds to the fame of tbe city of its birth. We have here in Indianapolis one of the leading book publishers today. Am speaking of The Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis. In looking over the six best sellers as repotted by "The Bookmen” as ’being most in, demand at the public libraries in cities of this country, I find that Bobbs-Merrill is represented with “The Private Life of Helen of Troy." heading the fiction list, and “The Man Nobody Knows" in the nonfiction division. Both books have occupied places in the best selling list for months, especially Barton’s book about Christ. Also in the best seller list, I find that Claude G. Bowers, a Hoosier now in New York City, is one of the best selling authors with his "Jefferson and Hamilton,” published by Houghton-Mifflin. i Bobbs-Merrill has the honor of bringing to the public attention more new Indiana writers probably than any other Their publications include some of the most famous writers that Indiana has given to the world. “The Bookman,” as recorded in the Sunday New York Herald Tribune, lists the following as the best sellers: ,r The Private Life of Helen of Troy.” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." "The Hounds of Spring,” "The Blue Window," "An American Tragedy" ami "Wild Geese.” The non-fiction lisl is as follows:- "Why We Behave Like Human Beings,” “Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie Years,” "The Man Nobody Knows,” "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House,” "Jefferson and Hamilton” arid “Twenty-Five Years.’ Some News Bobbs-Merrill has supplied me with the following interesting news items about books and the authors: John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, astonished h’is erudite world when he pub : lished a best-selling novel. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy.” And now again this excellent writer has proved his versatility in a most unexpected way. WTien Professor Erskine was very young he studied music at Columbia University with a view toward .making it his life work. But he became interested in the stutly of English and for twentysix years he devoted his life to that. [. Recently the oM urge for music came back to him and he began practice again. A few days ago he acted as soloist at a symphony orchestra concert at Columbia, playing brilliantly and skillfully the difficult Mozart Concerto in D Major. Professor Erskine is dramatizing

theatrical hash and nothing but that. It attemtps to be naughty in two acts but instead it is not even mildly interesting. "The Bridal Suite” has the double meaning passage which orife general-

ly expects to find in the bed room and hotel farces. To me “The Bridal Suite” is hopeless entertainment,, and will not be remembered when it ceases to be produced. It makes no real demand upon the ability of any in the cast. Mis Edythe Elliott frets along In a role which requires such a mood. She also

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comes mighty near underdressing. Not the fault of the actress, but the playwright. Os course the “undies" exposed are pleasant to behold. I have the hunch that this leading woman of many worth while and big productions dislikes this role as much as I do. Milton Byron never has a chance to do a single thing, but dash in and out of one room to another. Robert St. Clair is cast as the “simp" hotel clerk, who has manners that romps all over the hotel lobby. William V. Hull as the hotel porter in blackface and Dick Elliott as a souse mayor do more than any one else to strengthen a weak, a mighty weak, play. Mildred Hastings goes Into complete characterization this week again* Her makeup is splendid. Others in the cast are Jyes La Rue, Bernice Marsolais, Herbert Dobbins and Bob Fay. Have your idea about this one, but to my way of thinking, “The Bridal Suite” is the poorest form of entertainment that we have had for a long time. All the fault of the author who wrote it. At all week. •I- -I- v THE OLD BANJO STOPS A VAUDEVILLE SHOW AGAIN A banjo stopped a variety show. A violin or rather a fiddle stopped a vaudeville show. A voice stopped a variety show. Meaning that three separate acts at the Lyric this week have the qualities which actually stop the show. You will find the banjo in the act of Bailey and Barnum, with Bailey playing the banjo and Barnum using a pair of wicked feet and more wicked voice in some blue songs of the moment. This team have had big league training. They know their stage and just how much to give and what. They have a travesty number on an elopement and their final number “Me Too” or something like that did a whole lot to stop the show. They have personality and ability and above all they have clean showmanship. Bailey and Barnum stopped the show longer when I was present than the other two acts mentioned in connection with stopping the show. , You will find the fiddle in the act of Charles Althoff, who makes up

his amazing best-seller, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” for production by Winthrop Ames, with Ethel Barrymore in the title role. Kurt Wolff Verlag of Munich are publishing "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" in Germany. Helen's private life is no longer that. A best seller for almost a year, her private life has become as public as a fountain in a city park, from which everyone drinks of her pert, witty epigrams, astonishingly quiet and quietly astonishing. Within the gray, grim walls of San Quentin prison are seventeen men who want to become writers. Their latent ambition being awakened, the prison officials have asked Sidney merschel Small, author and newspaper man, to conduct classes In novel and short-story writing. “Don Quixote” and "Pilgrim’s Progress” were both penned in prison. And O. Henry began his extraordinary literary career as the unwilling guest of the State. Mr. Small is well-qualified to teach writing since he is himself a writer of note, having published three novels: "The Lord of Thundergate,” "Fourscore" and “Both One." A Minister Writes Tt remains for a minister at a mission up in Alaska to tell a really new story about Abraham Lincoln! The reverend had Just read Nathaniel Wright Stephenson's “Lincoln," and, remembering the story, he wrote to the author about It. It seems that at one of the Lin-coln-I*ouglas debates, the latter appeared with o brass band. Lincoln came in a buggy and had on a linen duster which he kept on when he

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like an old “hick” fiddler. He has a lot of comedy business which he rather over uses, but when he gets into real melody on his fiddle, he has not trouble In stopping the show. You will find the voice that stops the show to be owned by Mary Reilly. She is a “blues” singer who knows how to project her words, getting the meaning and the melody over at the same time. She is an easy winner In her chosen line of j work. McCormick and Wallace are ventriloquist who use about eight dummies In a school act. Has comedy interest and much singing. The Bader-Lavell Troupe are bicycle riders. “The Revue Comlque” is both a classical and eccentric dance offering. Some of the work is most pleasing, but the so-called Apache opening, done so often, rather deadens the act because this number is used as an opening. Man ning and Glass dance on the wire. ; Howard and Jenkins have an act in which the alleged comic policeman and the alleged comic flapper are introduced to no big success. Movies complete the bill. At the Lyric all week. -I- -I- I- ' LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT PALACE Raymond's Bohemians at the Palace today and tomorrow can boast of two very engaging entertainers In the persons of the Gordon Sisters who offer several specialties of the “sjster” type. The four men who compose the orchestra of the act are splendid performers when it conies to popular music but I think they have shown deplorable taste iff the selection of their numbers. If they want an eccentric number why not get one with at least a bit of humor to it. The sisters, however, are charming enough to make up for the deficiencies of the rest of the act and with several of their numbers are completely !n the good graces of their audience. In tl eir specialties the one done in an atmosphere of civil war days is probably the best* for one looking for an effect) of beauty. The last numbers done by the girls in which they do some character studies and songs are very well done bits, especially the impersonation of the much troubled little Italian mother. Janet Adair offers some rather intimate little songs about brides and bridegrooms and puts a very pleasant personality into theVn. She easily makes friends with everyone. Kennedy and FYancis have comedy centered on the impersonation by the man of a drunk and some dancing by the woman. Both are good in their Individual offerings. “Courting Days” starts out with a burlesque courtroom scene In which a divorce is granted a warring pair and then shows the reunion of the couple. All this is done with a comedy air and has some good laughs. The Five .Tunetros feature some very clever work in tossing each other around and in balancing. A novel feature is when one of them makes a leap head first and lights on the head of another. Imagine that takes a little nerve. Included on the bill is a photoplay,

took his place. Douglas spoke first. Hjs friends thought he was unanswerable and so did the Lincoln contingent. When he sat down. Lincoln arose, took off his duster and handed it to the man sitting next to him, saying: "Young man, hold my coat while I stone Stephen." And, anachronistically, that’s just what Father Abraham did. Stephenson’s new book, "The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln" is scheduled for late September publication. The publishers of “The Recollections of Thomas R. Marshal!" received a letter, not long ago from a western clipping bureau, that had them all stumped and up a. tree. The letter was addressed to "Mr. A. Hoosier Salad," but there wasn’t a soul in the whole organization who answered to that name. Os course, after the first surprise and the last laugh, everybody understood. The subtitle to Tholes R. Marshall’s book reads: "A Hoosier Salad”! This same eminent clipping bureau has offered its services to William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson and James ‘Whitcomb Riley, who. if they will call or write, may receive their mail at the Bobbs-Mer-rill office. The question that arises Is: How famous do you have to be to be well-known? “The Dawes Plan in the Making.” the authoritative account of the deliberations and actions of the Committee of Experts on Reparations, by Rufus C. Dawes, has been published in Germany by the VerlagAnstatt at Stuttgart. Germany is, of course, tremendously Interested in reparations and a wide sale is predicted for Mr. Dawes’ book in that country.

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“High Steppers, ' with Lloyd Hughes. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) •I- •!■ -I- % Other theaters today offer.: Gray in “Aloma of the South Seas.” at the Ohio; Constance Talmadge in “The Duchess of Buffalo,” at the Circle: “The Unknown Soldier,” at the Uptown: “Bigger Than Barnum's,” at the Apollo; “Hero of the Big Shows,” at the Colonial, and “The Millionaire Policeman,” at the Isis.

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You can Bet an answer to any question of fact or information by writinß to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washing ton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All othpr Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Who In mythology were the messengers of the Gods? In classical mythology Mercury was the swift messenger of the Olympian gods. He is represented with wings on his cap ahd heels. Gannyme&e also was cupbearer and messenger and Hebe, among the female dieties, performed a eimilar duty. When should new tives be planted? In the late fall, or early spring before the sap begins to rise. Can you give the lines beginning with,“truth forever on the scaffold,! wrong forever on the throne,” and * name the author? The quotation is from Lowell's “The Present Crisis” and is as follows : “Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne, But that scaffold holds the future, and from out the grkat unknown Standeth., God within the shadows, keeping watch above Hi* own.” Is Alaska a State? No, It Is a territory of the United States. What Is the average number of ears of com that grow on one stalk? The average is two or three. Occasionally there are as many as seven or eight ears on one stalk. What Is the meaning and deriviation of the name “Zane?” The origin is the German word zahn, meaning “tooth." * SPOONING ’ t BAN STILL . ON IN CITY Park Police Watch Diligently for Rule Infractions, Says Official. Removal of the ban on “spooning” in the parks of Chicago. Berlin and other cities of the world will not dislodge the restrictions in Indianapolis, according to George Morgan, assistants parks superintendent. Morgan said the force of park policeman is busy every night, investigating the gleam of the stationary tail light through the shrubbery and other indications that there is much ado in a parked car. The park policemen travel In pairs, to avoid being “framed,” according to Morgan, inasmuch as those they pursue do likewise, thereby having the preponderance of evidence in court against one policeman. To obtain the correct names and addresses of the spooners Is rather a diplomatic task, involving questioning of the two persons separately, according to DJorgnn. Garfield Park, once a rendezvous for lovers of the entire city, is now said to be as Victorian as the Virginia reel. Highland Park is losing a lure that was universal until a few weeks ago when the park policemen started a drive. The plight of petters seems unmitigated. With deputies of County Sheriff Omer Hawkins scouring the roads and the park officers looking in the shadows of the public parks, home sweet home is regaining popularity as a center of smuggllhg.

Hay in' London lan Hay, known more famlliary as Major lan Hay Beith, is spending most of the summeb at his Londop homa in Berkeley Square. He has an occasional chat with P. W. Wodehouse and “gets about a bit,” but the life of so prolific a writer is not a leisurely/one. Major Beith, aside from being a popular lecturer, is the author of fifteen books, and his sixteenth. “Half a Sovereign" will be published this fall by Houghton Mifflin Company. More than two and a quarter million copies of his earlier books have been sold.