Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 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, cn any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. *

KNOW YOT7R STATE INDIANA is one of nine Staten of tho Union Imposing a tax of 3 centa per gallon on gasoline, as a means of providing fnnds for the construction of highways. Tho gasoline tax imposed by forty-four Statoß and tho District of Columbia ranges from 1 cent per gallon in Rhode Island fend Texas to 5 cents in Kentucky and South Carolina. Twenty-ono States and the District of Columbia impose a 2-cent tax.

GOOD THING TO KEEP Politicians and their financial barters are making a persistent light to destroy the primary election and go hack to the old convention method of nominating candidates for public office. They make use of the exposure of vast sums of money in the Pennsylvania and Illinois primaries to knock tho primary. Ono of tho arguments Is that a poor man can’t be nominated for office because of the high cost of primaries. Bunk! A poor man. In most cases, can’t bo nominated for any important office by any method unloss the bosses want him nominated. And they don t want any poor man nominated unless hell obey orders and stand without hitching. In the Pennsylvania primary the big business crowd that spent the most money didn’t win. But U probably would have won if It had had to buy only a convention instead of an entire electorate. Unless the people are thoroughly aroused over some Issue theyTl get trimmed no matter how nominations are made. But when they do get mad and want to turn politics Inside out their beat chanco Is 3n a primary election. If they elect delegates to a convention, even when they are mad, there la still an opportunity to buy enough delegates to control the convention. Anyhow, that’s what happened In the old day3. That’s what drove the people into adopting the primary election method of nominating candidates. That’s what drove the people to the direct election of United States Senators Instead of leaving the job to the Legislatures. It was the buying of seats in tho Senate by millionaires from venal Legislatures that led to the direct nomination and election of Senators; and there are fewer Ignorant millionaires and more poor men with brains in the United States Senate now than there were in the old days of purchasing legislatures. It la not surprising that the political bosses prefer the convention. They get the money either way, but they don’t have to distribute It to so many people when they have to buy only a few convention delegates. It would have cost Sam Insull just a3 much to buy the nomination for Frank L. Smith In Illinois under the convention system as It did with the direct primary nomination. But Ms cash wouldn’t have been so widely distributed. Ordinarily half of the eligible voters don’t go to the polls either at primaries or elections unless they are fighting mad about something. They don’t often get fighting mad- But they had better keep the gate wide open so they can burst through when they’ve got their mad up and want to give the bosses a good licking. Life preservers may hang around for years without being used, but they came in handy when they’re wanted. A fire extinguisher Is a good thing to have about the house even If It Isn’t used but once in a lifetime. The right of the people to go to tho polls and cast their ballots when they really want to. Is both a fire extinguisher and a life preserver. So better hang on to tho right to nominate candidates by votes at a primary election.

WATCH THESE AIRMEN The most Important visitors which this city will receive this year arrive tomorrow. They are the aviators -who win bring tha fleet of airplanes which are demonstrating the safety of. air transportation. By guiding these plan's to th<y different cities of the west, they do more than provld© an Interesting event in the summer schedules of these cities. They are mapping out the lines on which planes will he flown regularly in the very near future. Most of all, they help all of us to get rid of our fears of the airplane and be ready to adopt It as a ineans of travel, as soon as commercially minded men make that possible. Postmaster General New has done more than .any other one man to bring about the era of air. His mail planes have demonstrated that they can travel on schedule during all sorts of weather. The record established by the' planes for arriving on time was better than that of railways and steamships last year. But most of us are still afraid planes and as long as that fear exists, air transports tiou will not bo profitable.. But there has always been fear of new means of travel. It was difficult to find passengers for the first steamship. ' The people of Its day believed that a boat loaded down with an iron engine was sure to sink, , The same was true of the first railways. There are men and women still alive who remember how the sane and conservative said that such things were dangerous and that they would keep op with the old stage coach. The fear of the automobile is stiff, in the memory of most people and was removed largely by the racers like Barney Oldfield and .Eddie JUckecbacker.. It is a safe prediction that within the next ten years much of long distance travel will be by sir. The saving in time is too great to be 10-ug resisted. Time is the great asset of humanity, .Anything which saves It really prolongs life through multiplying experiences, .Europe has its well organized lines of air transport. Berlin only today announces an sdlrplane with Pullman sleeper accommodations. It will fiy to Moscow and eventually to Peking, China, it saves three days on the Moscow trip and twelve to Peking, The of Americans Is more yaluatjigg ib#fl

that of other nationalities. At least It has a larger cash value. So tho airplane Is more needed here. It Is coming. Tho cities which provide landing fields and catch the image of possibilities will profit most. Go out and see theso planes. Very soon, when you go to New York or to Florida or Los Angeles, you will be riding In ono of them, with no more sense of danger than you now havo In coming down town in a bus. OUR CAMPAIGN FOR WHEELER General Andrews says—well, he doesn't exactly say It, cither; he just Intimates —that ho Isn’t going to resign at thd end of this month. He plans to continub as prohibition enforcer. That isn’t bad news, save that It puts a crimp, for the time being, In our campaign to have Wayne B. Wheeler appointed as his successor. We hope to see Wheeler appointed eventually, but In the meantime General Andrews Is as good a man as the country is likely to get. Tho general Is Intelligent and sincere. With him on tho job, doing his best, no unbiased person can contend that prohibition la not being given a fair trial. Os course, Wheeler and other professional prohibitionists will so contend, but we are speaking only of unbiased persons. It has been understood for a long time that General Andrews intended to resign at tho end of his first year if ho felt that he had not made a success at* the job. The reason then that n ost of us expected him to resign Sept. 1, end of his year, was that we didn’t consider proMbltion enforcement a success. Too many drunken parties, too many empty bottles being collected daily by tho garbage man, and all the other evidences that meet the eye of the average man. But Andrews obviously had in mind not the success of prohibition, but his own personal success. And he knows that personal success consists simply of doing the best that you can do. Which being so, he is entitled to believe that he has made a personal success of his Job. Anyhow, wo propose to let onr campaign rest for the moment. We are not going to join with Wheeler and his friends in any sniping tactics aimed at Andrews, if theso tactics should result In Andrews being removed, however, oui campaign will be resumed right where It stands now. And that 1s with tho country demanding that Wheeler como out of tho shadows, right out Into the daylight and attempt to enforce his own law. CORRUPTING ELECTIONS A member of Congress is demanding that the United States Attorney General prosecute tho AntiSaloon League for failure to comply with the corrupt practices act in regard to elections. The Attorney General of this State might look Into the possibilities of a similar action against the league In this State. It Is. now demonstrated that the league, as far as Indiana is concerned, Is a one man afTalr. The directors of the league havo disowned any responsibility for its annual report or for the propaganda which is put out for political purposes c iring the year. The Inquiry at Washington shows that the Indiana league spends rather large sums each year for the purpose of Influencing elections. It has on Its pay rolls and expense accounts public officials. The local laws are ratheT strict In regard to contributions of money spent on elections. The people are presumed to be able to know who Is Interested In candidates and how great that Interest is. 1 nder tho law the candidates and campaign managers must make detailed reports so that the voters can know what Influences are behind and back of tho different candidates. , Corruption of elections is likely to be a matter or national interest this falL > The expenditure of money by any party or any group will interest the voters. Wo may find out who it is that is trying to make our laws, and enforce them. A good start might be made with the Indiana league and a demand that it tell where and when and how much money It spent in tho last primaries. Incidentally, such a move would have much more public backing than an effort to make falsehoods concerning court decisions its only offense. Unless corruption can be taken from elections, the, whole system of fall*.

WHY MA FERGUSON FAILED By MBS. WALTER FERGUSON The defeat of “Ma” Ferguson In Texas was to have been expected. Not because she was essentially h bad Governor but because she was too submissive a wife. Without Jim Ferguson and his past record, his demogoguery and his stupidity, she probably would have given equally as good service to her State as any man Vvh© has held that position. Tutting her matrimonial quiy above her duty to the voters contributed the greatest factor to her political downfall. And even though she had given the Lone Star plains the best government possible. I doubt seriously that they would have re-elected her. For you know that Texas, such a short time ago swayed by the antisuffrage oratory of Joseph Weldon Bailey, is made up largely of folk who lean toward the chivalry of the “Old South,’* And this chivalry says that woman’s place la always in the home. The booted and spurred manhood of the Texas prairies down deep within Its heart never quite liked the Idea of petticoat government. Having a woman In authority over them has always galled gallant Southern gentlemen. That Mrs, Ferguson was ever elected south of the Mason and Dixon line at all is one of the miracles that only politics sometimes treats us to, A magnificent gesture from the sturdy and Intrepid sons of the Alamo, who always die with i.heir boots on, caused them to vote for one of the frailer sex, but we can easily imagine that living through two years of such ignominy was quite another matter, Mrs. Ferguson had a difficult position to fill, and in a number of ways she filled it creditably, She Is a capable, sensible woman, Thai she did not make more of a success in her official position is largely due to the fact that, being an old-fashioned wife, she could not pitch Jim overboard when she took hold of the wheel, j Whatever may be said of her, this much is certain; She was a brave pioneer down a patch which is thorny for the feet of Women, And she lias done what ten years ago would have been laughed at as an impossibility, She got the majority of the men in Texas to vote for her once. That In itself js a stupendous achievement for a woman.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FTpl I racy British Railroads Carry 1*700,000,000 in Year —One Fatality,

Just one death on British railroads year and that resulted from heart failure due to shock. They carried 1,700,000,000 passengers, or a number equal to the world’s entire population. In 1901 and 1908 they made a deathless record while in 1909 there was only one fatality and only three for each of tho years 1916, 1919 and 1923. The worst year the British railways have had since the present century began, was 1915, when vast and rapid troops movements led to tho loss of 224 lives. Now look up the American figures. .|. -|. -i. Can Farming Pay? Senator Couzens says he does not know whothor farming can bo made to pay under present conditions, but is willing to learn. Ho has a 500-acre farm which he offers rent free to any man who can persuade it to show a profit. It is no raw, rocky farm either, but well-equipped and well-improved for the senator has spent quite a bit of money acquainting himself with tho mysteries of agriculture. He is convinced there is money in it, beeauso ho has been putting it in. He does not assert that the money is in for good, but admits that it will take a better man than he is to get it out. He is not only ready to let such a man have the farm rent, free, but L pay the taxes and, perhaps do a lbtie more. The Senator, of course, is not making this proposition to any fly-by-night that may drift along, but to an expert farmer who can deliver tho goods. ~. .|. .|. Soft Justice Bandits have killed five New York policemen since Jan. 1, one right at headquarters—and wounded twelve. Commissioner of Police McLaughlin says that the leniency of courts and parole boards is largely responsible. He says that criminals are growing bold and defiant because of the softness with which so many of them are treated. *!• -I- -IUnderworld Cabal I believe that organized bootlegging hns had more to do with the Increase of crime than anything else. Bootleggers flourish on the Idea that law breaking of one kind is respectable. The patronage protects them. They stand in with the police, not because of their trade, but because of tho people they serve. Tho thief, yegg, and even the murderer, trails along with them because of this standing. NaVion-wide prohibition has resulted in nothing so distinctly thus far as the development of a great underworld cabal with which it seems entirely unable to cope, but which Is contributing much more to public discomfort than the bad liquor it peddles. The "Cry Baby" Gang It has become very common for burglars and bandits to explain their prosperity, the goods and money found in their possession, the fact that they can live without work by pleading guilty to bootlegging. Five members of the “cry baby gang now on trial in New York are attempting to alibi themselves in that way. *!• -!- -!• Mellett Murder The Chicago gang war, in which more than 100 have been killed, is directly traceable to the rivalry of bootlegging factions. The murder of Don R. Mellett at Canton, Ohio, was palpabiy the result of anger on the part of a bootlegging conspiracy. -I- -I- -ICess Pools We have a bigger underworld than we did ten years ago, an underworld that is more powerfully organized and closer to the surface. You can argue that the only course is to pull off our coats and go at it, there can be no compromise with such a state of afTairs. That is Idealistic rather than practical. Reople cannot make themselves pure, or perfect through law. When they undertake to do so, they invariably develop cess-pools Os corruption which, though kept out of sight, breed moral disease. We have preached a “Frankenstein” Into existence, a cabal of crimo of violence; have caused the liquor traffic to coagulate'in the cellar where It stews and ferments amid all sorts of devilshness. -I- -I- -I* The Record

The record speaks for Itself. The last six years have witnessed a material Increase In crime of every sort but especially crime against the person—murder, rape, assault. The era of Volsteadism has not broughf that relief which was expected; has not saved the home, protected property nor made it safer for average people to walk at night. Our prisons are Just as crowded as they ever were and would be more so If we had not Instituted an unheard of pardoning and parole record. The poisoned bodze that Is being peddled hither and yon, that Is causing death and blindness on every hand, may be discounted as the least of the resultant evils. What realty hurts Is the spread of crime, the Increasing arrogance of criminals, the seaming Inability of authorities to cope with the crime situation. What is the largest hog on record? A Poland CHina boar exhibited at the First National Farm Show In Omaha, Neb., In 1918, This hog weighed 1,140 pounds. There are many others approaching that same weiglHJ

Sweet Girl Graduates and Others Appear In First Film of Their Career

By .Walter D. Hickman 1 Generally we do not think of the sweet girl graduate getting her diploma from a workshop as well as a job. But in this modern day when new movie faces are needed the sweet girl graduate as well as the man of the Paramount Movie School not only gets a diploma but a Job. Last summer when I was in New York, I visited the Paramount

studio, and there saw some ot these *young students of the movie busy at their studies and work in studio. At that time they were getting accustomed to the strong lights and were learning the difficult lesson of makeup as well as the most difficult of all —how to walk naturally as well as gre.eefully. Since then this crowd has graduated from

Ivy Harris

graauaiea from tho Paramount studio school. Their first movie, “Fascinating Youth,” composed of slxeen graduates of the 1926 class of graduates, is on view this week at the Apollo, Among tho graduates in this picture are Charles Rogers, Ivy Harris, Jack Lunden, Walter Ooss, Mena Palmer and others of the sonool. They have the expert help of such old timers as Ralph Lewis, Joseph Burke, James Bradbury 3r., and ’others. Tima will tell if the youngsters of the movie school will be stars. They are not called upon to wade out too far either In the dramatic or comedy waters in “Fascinating Youth.” The story is tame in spots but the youngsters do a tango and other wild capers when things get too tame. But with these youngsters in the picture, one- must admit that they givo the film lot of speed and pep. They give one the Impression that they like their Job and are proud of their diploma. It eeems to me that Paramount Is doing a very wise thing to educate and train new people for the movie of tomorrow. New faces, well trained men and women aro needed on the screen today. And I might remark that new writers are needed to create the stories. The photography of “Fascinating Youth” la of a high order, especially the winter scenes. It is light entertainment but serves its purpose of introducing to the world the sweet girl graduates of filmland. Bill Includes an Our Gang comedy, a news reel, music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra and by Lester Huff at the organ. At the Apollo ail week. -!- -I- -I-

A SERIOUS THOUGHT ON A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM There is a dangerous tendeneyJon the part of some movie directors to permit their actors to appear unnatural in action and permit them to overact. This overacting tendency has been noticed in many of the newer movies. I had a good chance to study this very serious fault in “Mismates.” In this very uneven and poorly constructed story of a poor working

girl marrying a rich rotter, Doris Kenyon and Philo McCollough are responsible for so much overacting that I will not be able to forgive them for a long time. Doris Kenyon has emotional and dramatic ability, but she appears to be overacting, either too nice or too weepy and persecuted most of the time. I know there is lot of dramatic and

Doris Kenyon

emotional license, but Miss Kenyon should know better than to do this sort of thing most of the time. She just doesn’t convince In this one. McCullough with his painful and weak expression in character didn’t appeal to me for one minute. I know that his role as the society rotter Is a thankless one, but he made me uneasy and even fretful by overacting and continually straining bis facial expression. Even Charles Murray fights off this tendency to overact. It is probably the director, Charles Brabln, who is to blame. "Mlsmates” Is a poorly directed picture. There is no excuse for some of the slip-shod and hurry up things which the director permits In this movie. Just why “Mismates” is being presented in a better movie season is beyond me. This is my idea of this orie. Certainly, have your own. The audience has two chances to sing this week at the Circle. First when Dessa Byrd Is playing her organ solo and second when “Sailing" Is being reflected on the screen as well as being played by the Circle Ensemble. On the stage this week we have Harry Webb and his entertainers.

Movie Verdict COLONIAL Leatrlce Joy makes a good Impression In the role of a grown up tom-boy. APOLLO “Fascinating Youth” gives sixteen of the 1926 graduates of the Paramount Movie Studio School their first screen chance after graduation. QIRCLk —The overacting on the part of Doris Kenyon and Philo McCullough and the poor direction results In "Mismates,” being just another only fair picture. OHIO —• "You Never Know Women” is lively entertainment, It keeps up the suspense element from the very beginning to the end. Some smart and clever photography and '‘shooting” In this one,

They go in for novelty effects and have worked out a routine which gets far away from the regular stuff dished out by orchestras. The lights are well handled and the dance numbers, especially the eccentric dance, is presented in a most unique man. ner. This orchestra pleases with ease. Bill includes some movie novelties and a news reel. At the Circle all week. -I- -I- -ILOWELL SHERMAN STRUTS HIS DRESS SUIT VILLAIN Lowell Sherman is the dress suit villain of the screen. It seems with each appearance he becomes a little better oiled in tho artistry of being the best dress suit, villain in the business. When Lowell dresses up in his night best and struts his stuff, you

may be very sure that some poor damsel Is going to be tempted off the straight and narrow road or else be made a fool of. Sherman makes up his mind that he is going to win the heroine of “ You Never Know Women,” played by Florence Vidor, who is cast as a Russian variety performer on tour in the United States. Our little heroine should have fallen in love

Florence Vidor

with her Russian partner, a man who is a magician. Instead of seeing love in her own dressing-room, our heroine looks for it In other circles. When the dress suit villain appears, she thinks she is in love with him. When the Russian vaudeville performer stages a fake suicide by making it appear that he had not released himself from a trunk tossed Into a largo body of water, and while he is supposed to be at the bottom of jtho ocean, dead, our Little Russian heroine decides that It is her dead Russian she loves and not the di’ess suit villain. She gives said villain a lot of air, and our Russian magician shows up just at the proper moment to add some more thrills to the picture. Miss Vidor is appealing as the Russian variety artist who didn’t know love when It existed right at her elbow. She was very effective in her emotional scenes. Clive Brook gives a splendid performance of the Jealous Russian sweetheart of our heroine. Take time to study the many camera tricks, used in "You Never Know Women.” The cameras have heen placed at odd positions with the result that some striking and new effects have been obtained. “You Never Know Women” is interesting entertainment most of the time as the theme sounds rather new and also interesting because it contains some, excellent photography and some mighty convincing acting.

How to Swim —No. 25

By Lillian Cannon The crawl, originally called' the Australian crawl but since improved by Americans until Its original form has almost been lost, Is a stroke for speed swimming. All racing swimmers use it and it has been pro’yen/by far the fastest known. A number of teachers instruct beginners in the crawl, but 1 hold that it Is so difficult of perfect co-ordination that a swimmer should

MEN HERE KEEP ON HA TS IN ELEVATORS Order, Such as One Issued Recently in Denver, Hardly Necessary—Majority Does Not Remove Them.

When it comes to removing hats in office building elevators in Which women are riding, Indianapolis men either are modem or stubborn. Most of them, in fact an average of seven out of ten, do not remove their headgear when Women are in the elevator, according to observation In several downtown structures. Whether or not they are impolite is a question. In Denver, Cokf., for example, keeping on the hat Is considered proper. An official order has been Issued in Denver to the effect that men should not remove their hats In elevators because of the confusion caused and the valuable space taken up. In one elevator In the Hume-Man-sur Bldg., there were six men and three women on the car. Four of the men did not remove their hats. In the Merchants Bank Bldg, elevator, there were three men and one woman. None of the men removed their hats. In the Consolidated Bid., there were four women and two men. Both men removed their hats. The operator of the “lift” in this building said he did not care whether hats were removed or not. When statistics from these and three other structures were compiled, It was found that seven out of ten men on the elevators did not remove thetr hats. It Is noticeable, however, that hats are doffed In hotel and club elevators, There Is no doubt but that the removal of hats when an elevator is crowded, causes confusion. In the Federal Bldg., recently, several men and wcajfca packed one

“You Never Know "Women” is the best picture in town this week as far as I am concerned. Bill includes a comedy, a news reel and the Original Parisiennes, an orchestra. At the Ohio all week. -I- -I- -ILEATRICE JOY HAS TOM BOY ROLE AT COLONIAL “Eve’s Leaves” at the Colonial turns out to be an interesting and exciting melodrama of the old style, done in the latest and moat accepted jazzy way. Leatrice Joy as the daughter of the captain of a tramp sailing ship is all that could be askeid for in the way of a charming and good

Leatrice Joy

the subject she finds a willing helper in the cook on board who professes to know all about It. The ship is in Chinese waters ad a Chinese bandit turns up, played by Walter Long. Long makes a real character out of this part in spite of the jazzy atmosphere of the play. In connection with the bandits William Boyd makes his appearance in the role of the young American whom Eve has fallen in love with. There is much excitement about the bandits and plenty of fighting of the type to be Yound in a melodrama of this kind. Boyd, it will be remembered, was the young man who made such a good showing in “The Volga Boatman,” there is no similarity In these two pictures and Boyd hasn’t much of a chance to do anything, but his work is well up to his former standard. So if you like your melodrama seasoned with jazz would advise seeing "Eve’s Leaves.” On the stag© Is the "Caledonian Four,” a group of two women and two men, who offer several song numbers as a quartet and some solo specialties. The orchestra has a good feature this week In a banjo solo by one of tho men. At the Colonial all week. (By the Observer.) -!- -!- -IOther theaters today offer “The Love of Su Shong,” at English’s; Sweeney and Stewart, at the Palace; Bob Larry's ‘entertainers, at the Lyric; “Ella Cinders,” at the Uptown, and "Wild Horse Stampede.” at the Isis.

THE CRAWL STROKE

be more or less expert in other strokes before he attempts the crawl. The chief matter of interest to beginners is that the face is under waer all the while Except while breathing. It is this breathing business which makes the crawl difficult to teach beginners. So the first instruction is to try the overarm stroke with the face under water and turn the head to inhale every sou strokes of the hands. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

of the elevators. The act of men reaching ~to remove their hats created a general disturbance. It was necessary for one man to step from the elevator until the crowd quieted. Another argument for keeping on the hats, other than that of avoiding confusion, has been advanced by a Government official. He declares the elevator Is an electrical stairway and that a man would not remove his hat when passing a woman on the stairs. From a review of the situation, therefore, it hardly seems necessary for any official announcement to be mk.de Instructing men to keep on' their hats in elevators. $5 Request Causes Near-Groom to Wilt “Buddie, you haven’t a taste yet,” said County Clerk Losche to a young man who had a chill when his fiance "shook him down” for $5 after applying for marriage license today. “If you think that is tough wait a year or two,” advised Losche. Pale as a “sheet” the young man, with fiance, walked into the clerk's office and asked for a license. Noticing the man was nervous, and looked sick, Miss Margaret Mahoney, license clerk, offered him a drink of water. “No, thanks,” he replied, “I’ll be all right after while.” After he paid for the license the bride-elect “nudged” him in the side and said; “Give me J 5, please, dear?” The victim turned whiter, and, handing out the woman |5, asked for “a drink o£ water." * . ....

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You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by wrltine to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. inelosinx 2 cents in starr.Pa lor reply. Medical, lesrai and marital advice cannot he (tiven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unaiirned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What was tho score of the last game of the 1925 world baseball series? Pittsburgh, 9; Washington, 7. Pittsburgh did not bat in the ninth inning. What are tlio distinctions tn the meanings of the words “graininiferoua,” “graminivorus" and “gramineous?” "Graminiferous” means grass bear- ■ ing; “graminivorus” means feeding upon grass, and “gramineous” means resembling or abounding in grass. FYom what is the word “Esperanto” derived? Has that language or any other attained universal usage? The meaning of Esperanto is “one who hopes.” Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the language used the pen name Dr. Esperanto,” and thus the name became fixed. As yet no language has become universal is the world, although several have been proopsed. The most successful mechanically contrived languages such as Volapuk, Esperanto, Bolak and Idiom Neutral are urn-t with the fundamental objectiiP that they are based on modern European and are unfit as universal language® because they do not contain thiP characteristic elements of any of the important groups of languages spoken in other continents. Do bats develop from mice? No. 1 ' Who published the World Almanac and what is the price? It is published by the New York World, Pulitzer Building, 53-63 Bark Row, New York City. The price is 90 cents per copy in cloth binding and 60 cents in paper. What is “The Christ of the Andes?” One of the famous peace monuments of the world. It stands high in the Andes Mountains on the border line between . Chile and Argentina, and commemorates a treaty between those two nations made in 1903. Matteo Alonso, a young Argentina sculptor created the design. The statue was cast from an old Argentine cannon. In February 1904, it was carried by rail to Mandoza, and from there up the mountain by mules, soldiers and sailors accompanying it and helping to carry it over dangerous places. It was p.aced on the highest practical point between Argentine and Chile and dedicated on March 13, 1904, with appropriate ceremonies. It stands on an octagonal granite column twenty-two feet high, upon which rests a hemisphere of granite with partial representation of the world in outline. On this in turn stands the erect bronze figure of the Christ twenty-six feet high, holding a cros™ which extends five feet above. Bronze tablets are fastened to the granite base, on one of which are statistics and dates and on the other the following inscription: “Eooner shall these mountains crumble into dust, than Argentines and Chileans break the peace to which they have pledged themselves at the feet of Christ, the Redeemer.”

looking tom-boy. As the story goes the father left with an only daughter on his hands has taken her to sea with him on all of his voyages and through Iris own distrust of the ways of polite society has endeavored to raise her as a boy. Love is the one thing that this composite daughter knows nothing about, and In her quest for information on

MR; FIXIT

City Repairs Walks After / * Laying of Mains,

Let Mr. Fixit present your ease to city officials. He is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Tunes. The city will insure that sidewalks, sunken after workmen have laid mains, are repaired, Mr. Fixit learned today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Who is supposed to fix a block In the side- ; walk that has sunk after plumbers’ i work? Two plumbers had to dig In the j same place but at different times and j both failed to put back all the dirt - which cause the block to sink. M. K. , A. J. Middleton, chief inspector of the city engineer's department - will see that your sidewalk is re-M paired. He also will direct service on the following com- , plaint: DEAR MR. FIXIT: There Is a j large spike such as they use for railroad ties projecting from the j curb into the street at 237 N. Penn- . sylvanla St. As our trucks must park there to load, we have torn j two new tires within the last week ! on this same spike. G. M. SAMPLE, Two Times Radio Service, DEAR MR. FIXIT: Could you tell I me what the city limits are, going I south on Madison Ave.? C, J. J. i The corporation line run* j through Moffett St. JAIL BREAK THWARTED | — Seven Saw Bars In Cook County Cells and Overpower Guard. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—A wholesale j jail delivery In the Cook County jail j was thwarted early today, after ] seven prisoners had cut the bare of j their cells on the third tier, and crawled to the tier above and over- 1 powered a guard. An unarmed guard herded tha prisoners back Into their cclki after ' pretending he had a gunln his pocket. . |

Holds Record G. Gardner Sullivan, who Is supervising “Corporal Kata,” newest Vera Reynolds starring feature, for De Mille, is responsible fop more photoplays than any other individual writing motion pictures today. Sullivan first achieved prominence When he turned out a scenario a week for Thomas H. Ince during the heyday of Incevflle.

AUG. 16, 1926