Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1926 — Page 4

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BE THANKFUL The citizens should be thankful that an election will be held this year. Not "that it gives them a chance to get some different officials, for the chances are that those most interested will be playing golf on election day while the boys with the busy pencils in the right precincts will do theri voting and counting for them. But the taxes will be cut for a year and there will be a moratorium for twelve months. Probably by that time there will be more debts piled up to pay later, but it makes the public feel good to think that their tax bills are going down. The State got in first with the promise to cut down the tax levy. Not much, of course. Then when the Times called attention to the possibilities, the Governor and the powers that be agreed that it could chop off that extra million to which the Times pointed. Then along comes the city with a promise that, if things run right, it will cut the tax rate. These things, strange to say, never happen on off years. The politicians understand the psychology of the rest of us. They know that we can’t remember more than three months at a time. Otherwise very few of them would be operating at all. So just before the elections they hand us those cuts in taxes and expect a cheer of approval. True, the cost of government keeps on at the same old figure. They find ways of getting the money. No one of the units has shown any savings. Ni one has claimed that it has cut off any of the useless extravagances or the jobs that permit their holders to spend all summer on political vacations. They know that we will not inquire too deeply into that. They rely on the fact that we have always in the past stood up and cheered when they handed us this'line. And so they rely on the same old bunk. But be glad. The chances are that if there were no election in November they would pile up bigger burdens. Os course, someone with a nasty disposition might inquire what they have been doing in the past with the money and that would be embarrassing. But then there are few with nasty dispositions or inquiring minds. JUST AS IMPORTANT The challenge of the head of th 6 State Democratic party to Senators Watson and Robinson to show what to their nominations cost in money will probably not worry those gentlemen much. They have filed their accounts of expense to which their regular organizations went in rounding up the voters. Unless there is some evidence that such accounts are not accurate, an Inquiry would not result in any great public indignation. What is just as important is to discover how the great Motto machine was brought together so that at one time the boast was made that there were 100,000 workers in its ranks for Watson. If that were true, the workers were not so influential, foe- the average would be three to a worker. 1 The plain truth is that the two Senators had a working agreement under which the local machine, which Is quite devoted to Robinson, delivered the votes and the count to Watson in Marion County in return for votes for Robinson from other parts of the State. Watson had his bargain with the gentleman from Atlanta to help him. A senatorial inquiry might disclose some very interesting deals and bargains made by Watson and Robinson. Their nominations came, of course, largely by default. One-third of the voters in the Republican party did vote a protest against Watsonism. Avery large portion of the voters, thoroughly understanding that there was little chance to defeat him stayed away from the polls. That helped Robinson. ' Just as important as money in influencing primaries are those subtler forms of tyranny under which a free expression of the public will is impossible. An inquiry by the local grand Jury into some of the primary returns in this city might do quito as well to disclose to the public just how Watson and Robinson did so well. - , ' WE ARE THE FIRST Just to be the first to tell you about it this year, here is a bit of advice —“Do your Christmas shopping early.” Perhaps it seems untimely. Look at your calendar. Count the days. You’ll find there are 100 more shopping days before Christmas. How is that fir a startling piece of information? Os course, it isn’t really quite time to do your Christmas shopping. But it’s time to start planning for your Christmas shopping. That’s what usually makes you late —you start planning when you should start shopping. And then, when you are ready to shop, you should be through. It isn’t too early to start on the home-made things. Perhaps you’ll have to send to New York to get some monogram patterns for handkerchiefs. Then, there’s all the cross-stitching to be done. REAL PROGRESS Something more than a tribute to five women V’ho have spent their lives in teaching at ShortridgeHigh School is involved in the proposal that their Influence be perpetuated in bronze at the new building. Such a statue would mean that Indianapolis has caught something of the vision of the new day and is changing its emphasis upon values. Through all history the statues of soldiers and statesmen have greeted the eye of youth, have silently impressed the imagination with the thought that here were the two great, and perhaps only, avenues service, to fame or glory. These women who are to be remembered have contributed much more to the character of the State than any five of its great soldiers, any five of its eminent statesmen. They have builded their life work into human cliaracter and have given direction to the ideals of youth. * Their example, {heir teachings, their appeal to higher and better things have helped create a

sounder and a higher foundation for civilization itself. There would be nothing worth saving by the sword were it not for those leaders who inspire succeeding generations with an ambition to leave the world a little better than it was at their entranco. Jf There could be no statecraft and no statesmanship unless first men and women learn the values of kindliness, of worthiness, of usefulness. While we have littered our parks and public places with our tributes to those who found glory in war or fame in writing laws, we have forgotten the patient plodding, pedagogues who have held aloft the torch of knowledge and made'it the basis of all valor and all law. It is time to give honor as well as respect to those who contribute so much and find their rewards so largely in the satisfaction of watching the results of their inspiration and their guidance as expressed in other lives. To win a war may be glorious. To inspire a boul is sublime. To write one law may be worthy of fame. To write law itself in the human heart is much a greater triumph. The way to sure civilization ij to be civilized. Why not let it be known that this city, withholding no gratitude or praise to those who win its wars or wrtye its laws, also recognizes a deep debt to those who keep civilization worth saving. Why not hold out to coming generations the thought that those who teach are also worthy of high honors, and that to be known as a great teacher, a great scientist, a great poet cr a great sculptor is a goal worthy of the most ambitious? THE SUCKER STATE Why is Illinois called the Sucker £l|ate? We’ve heard interesting reasons given for calling Indiana the Hoosier State, Ohio the Buckeye State and so on, but never the reason for the nickname long attached to Illinois. The public utility corporations of Illinois looked over the political field as recent senatorial primaries approached. They made their decision. In the Republican primary they put their money, a lot of It, on Frank L. Smith, and Smith thereby was nominated. In the Democratic primary they put their money on George Brennan—not so much of it, because it was not necessary—a id Brennan was nominated. Republicans of Illinois will now march to the polls on election day and vote for Frank L, Smith. Democrats will march to the polls and vote for Brennan. One or the other will be elected. Whichever it is, the public utility corporations will have their man in the United States Senate. What will the common run of Republicans and Democrats, the people of the State of Illinois, get out of it? Nothing. Then why do they accept a situation like this? Well, the people of Illinois are called Suckers. Can any reader of the Times tell how Illinois got its nickname? Then, here’s an easier one: Why Is It still called the Sucker State? | _ WALKS THE PLANK Another good operator of United States ships has felt the shipping board ax. T. H. Rossbottom, operator of the United States, steamship lines under the Emergency Fleet Corporation, is to be returned to the War Department. Rossbottom was loaned to the fleet corporation by the War Department, because of his fine record as operator of the Panama Railroad Steamship Company, War Department subsidiary. He continued this record as operator of the great United States fleet on the Atlantic, and recent reports have been that the deficit in operation of this fleet has been steadily cut down, aid that the ships promised soon to show a profit. A profit, of course, might cause the American people more strenuously to protest against getting rid of the ships at “bargain counter” prices to private operators, t£e clearly indicated policy of the shipping board, when it retired Elmer E. Crowley and installed Gen. A. C. Dalton as head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. It seems if you try to run the United States lines efficiently and to make money for the country with them, sooner or later you are retired. What’s the answer?

WHY WOMEN LOVE TO EAT OUT ■ By MRS. WALHER FERGUSON

/ “Half the fun of eating is in not knowing what you are going to have,” writes a hungry and thoughtful editor.* Quite true. That’3 the reason more women are eating out these days. If there is anything that will totally destroy a healthy appetite It is watching the potatoes boil and the roast brown for 365 days in the year. After you have dissected and fried or baked or made Into Pie several hundred chickens, you get to the place where fowl does not interest you. After you have mashed four tons of potatoes, and stirred gallons of gravy, and cut tens of thousands of slices of bread and thought up about eighty-five different kinds of dessert, you just naturally get to’ the place where eating is no delight. Starving appeals to you. Yet this is what all those dutiful housewives endured through the centuries. Eulogies or monuments mean nothing to a woman who has had to cook three meals a day for fifty years. She g£ts to the place where a restaurant looks like heaven to her. Those dear old bygone mothers who turned out sponge plum and home-made bread, who washed carrots and boiled cabbage, and shelled peas and fried pork chops, were the real martyrs of the ages. God knows they deserve to sup on heavenly ambrosia prepared by somebody ’lse throughout eternity. One of the sanest things we are dring today is forgetting our passion for home cooking. Because more intelligent women have been sacrificed on the Jdtchen range ban ever ascended to the skies from the block or the stake or the lion’s den. N> Eating, after all, is merely r necessary physical function. The most of us enjoy good food if we don’t have to prepare it, but there is no re?<kon why every wife should be obliged to spend her days in the whether she likes cooking or,.not. It is quite as sensible to buy our food cooked as it Is to buy our clothes already made. Men, of course, have always clamored for home cooking and perhaps most of them always will. Let them have to do it for half a lifetime, ■ howVver, and they would change their tune. Husbands need a lot of education yet.

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Why Are Boys Arrested for Crime? Too Much Regulation by Law.

Perhaps it Is because the summer vacation leaves nothing more important to publish, but the papers are certainly filled with crime these days, and so much of it committed by mere children. A 14-year-old boy shot as a bandit in Colorado: a 15-year-old boy sentenced to death for rape in West Virginia; an 18-year-old boy sentenced to Sing Sing for life ae a robber with firearms. Ami they are only a few of the more remarkable cases. I could fill this column with the deeds of youthful desperadoes that have come to light within th& last three months and not hell the h^lf. V "i* T Country Prosperous The country is prosperous: the country is dry, by statute at least; the country has more time and opportunity for amusement than ever before; the country allows its young folks greater liberty; the country is supposed to have achieved a condition, In fact, where crime, especially among the youthful, would be at its minimum. -I- -I* -IDiscipline Relaxed Added to this, the country has pursued a philosophy which was supposed to help the condition. It has relaxed discipline in the home, the school and the prison on the ground that restraint had been responsible for so many people, but especially children, going wrong. It has subject its penal system to one reform after another, each designed to make things easier for the convicted criminal. It has Issued pardons and paroles to an unprecedented extent, has set up all kinds of safeguards against abusive discipline and has Insisted on good food and wholesome living conditions in its reformatories, jails and penitentiaries. •I- -I- -!- . # The Mistake But the country has done something else. As it has grown mild toward the individual, it has grown rigid and exacting toward the mass. As it has made life easier for wrongdoers, it has subjected normal people to increased regulation. Fifty years ago, our law enforcing officers were largely busy with the repression of crime, hut now they are largely busy telling all of us what to do. Ten times as many people are arrested as there were half a century back, but they are arrested mostly for infractions of some artificial rule, and not because they did, or Intended to do anything wrong. -I- -I- -IContempt for Law One series of reforms has apparently offset the other. What we might have gained through better and more scientific treatment of prisoners, if such It can be called, we have lost through irritating regulation. Our young people are growing up witlra contempt for the law because they heard their elders express It, or see their elders nagged and tormented unnecessarily. They hear the word “arrest” handled about in a joking way. They even hear people laugh over going to court. The structure of the law becomes meaningless In their eyes, and crimes, which it was designed to punish, become meahingless. -I* -I* -ILost Sense of Values It Is the sense of value that has deteriorated; the ability to distinguish between what ia Important and what is not. We have talked more about boot-* legging during the last six years than we have about murder; made more fuss over enforcing laws against it. Why shouldn’t young people think that bootlegging is a greater offeree, and since they know it to be common and winked at by many people. why shouldn’t they come to regard murder in the same light, or theft, or arson, or any other major crime. -I- -[- -IKilled, but Never Stole The bad man, who gave, himself up to Sheriff Lillie Barber of Texarkana the other day, after having killed six men and being Wanted by three states, sought to minimize his record by saying that he had never been charged with stealing or violating the liquor law. His case is typical. His frame of mind is all too common. 1 . *l* + + Not Vicious Those foolish lads, who threw away their lives for a ten-day spree of gun play, in Colorado, were probably not so vicious. They just didn’t realize what they were doing; just went out and held up people as other boys play bandit in the back yard, or used to. . We have emphasized unimportant offenses until the import! nt ones are well nigh forgotten, especially by youth. Our arguing, preaching, legislating and mobiliging to punish this or that minor breach has achieved nothing so distinctly as to obliterate the idea of the awfulnes of real crime. Our young people are growing up with a false perspective—a perspective which puts a wrong left turn in about the same class as larceny. That Is the biggest reason why so many of them go wrong. f GOBS FIGHT DISEASE Ru United Preen WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—Two hundred and twenty-three American sailors are battling disease in American Samoa, the Navy Department was advised today. The disease is similar, in symptoms at least, to Influenza.

S f r Indianapolis Matinee Musicale to Have Important New Season This Fall

mHE Indianapolis Matinee Musi < cale, in making Its plans for the coming season, today announced the committees in charge of the various {jgtivities of the society. According to Mrs. .Hugh McGibeny, all the, committees have been filled and are now ready to carry out the plans for the new season. The executive committee consists of the officers of tha club and Mrs. J. Reid Steele, Mrs. Henry Schurmann, Mrs. Charles A. Pfaff* lin, Mrs. Edwin Shedd, Mrs. Robeft Bonner, Mrs. S. K. Ruick, Mrs. Simon ‘Kiser and Mrs. Jack Goodman. Chairman of student section: Mrs. Charles Gaunt. Chairman dancing section: Mrs. Stuart Dean, Mrs. Herman Wolf, assistant. Membership committee: Mrs. Robert Bonner, onairman. Urogram committee: Mrs. S. K Ruick. chairman: Mrs. Helen Chappell. Mrs Prank Gregor. Mrs F. T. Edenharter. Mrs. e. E. Flickinger. Mrs. Marie Dawson Morrell. Mrs. James W. Hurt. Mrs. Louise 8. ‘ o-hne Mrs. James Lowry. Miss Jeannette Orloff. Miss Üba Wilhite. Social committee: Mrs. Roy Adams. Mrs. Isaac Born. Mrs. Dwight B. Aultman. Mrs F. M. Ayres. Mrs. W. W Bartiett. Mrs. D L Chambers. Mrs. Caroline X. Collins. Mrs. Grace Puekwall Mrs umomas De Hass. Mrs. Louise G George. Mrs. William Herbert Gibbs. Mrs. E. G. Hereth. Mrs E. G. llesser. Mrs. Jg W. Hutchings. Mrs. George C. Hearle Mrs. Harvey B Martin. Mrs. Frederick. Matson. Mrs. A. L. Mason. Mra, Virgil Wood. Mrs. William Allen Moore. Mrs. John H. Oliver. Mrs H. O. Pantzer, Mrs. Roy J. Pile. Mrs William Shafer. Mrs. Edwin Shedd. Mrs. Charles S. Vorheea. ' Room committee: Mra. Louise G. George, chairman. Delegate to local council of women— Mrs Gay R. Eatabrook. Musical extension work: Mrs. WUllam Herbert Gibbs. Musical extension In publio schools: Mrs. James M. Ogden. Library extension: Mra. Frank Cregor. Publicity committee: Miss Grace Hutchings. Annual card party: Mrs. Otto Keller, chairman. Annual business meeting and lunehoen: Mrs. Ilarvey B. Martin, chairamn. I—, IvVO concerts will be given in [ I the city parks Sunday by the Indianapolis Military Band under the direction of W. S. Mitchell. The soloists will be Mary Case, Noble Howard and Pasquale Montanl. The programs are as follows: Garfield Park. 3:30 P. M. March. "National Emblem” (Request) Bagley "Antony and Cleopatra.” Suite de Ballet . Greonwald Euphonium Solo. "Mv Regards".. Leweliyn Mr. Howard. Grand Fantasia From Wallace's Opera. "Maritana” Moses-Tobanl Harp Solo (Impromptu). Mr. Montani. Overture "Oberon” Weber Group of Songs. Miss Case. Descriptive Fantasie, "The Dying Poet" Gottschalk "Reminiscences of the Plantation"... Chambers “Star-Snangled Banner." Riley Playground. 7:43 P. M. March. "Supreme ’triumph” Jewell Selection Frr .; "Algeria” Herbert Baritone Soli Selected Mr. Howard. Humoresque c l “The Merry Widow". . “Coeoanut Dance” Herman Selection From the Musical Romance. “Sometime” Friml Group of Songs. Miss Case. "The Tramp," an Idyl of the Road. Descriptive Laurenleau "The Glow Worm" (Requestl&v. .. . Linekc “Star-Spangled Banner.’ * • • RAND opera will return to the hig open air theater in Forest Park in St. Louis the week of Aug. 23, when the Grand Opera Association of St. Louis will take over the alfresco playhouse for a massive production of "Ofcrrnen,” featuring Metropolitan Opera company artists. The season will follow Immediately the close of the civic comic opera cycle and will he a separate and distinct project diretly sponsored by Director Guy Golterman of the Grand Opera Association, onewf the founders of the open air theater, and the producer of all the previous grand opera enterprises there. A chorus of 150 members of St. Louis choral societies, trained by Giuseppe Cesati, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will he one of the features of the production, which will also include a ballet of thirty-two dancers, trained for the opera by Lillian Ogden of the Metropolitan ballet, and an orchestra of sixty local symphony musicians. In his aim for a massive as well as a finished production, Director Golterman is making special preparations for exploiting the immense stage of the Forest Park Theater,

How to Swim —No. 30

* " * Lillian ready for a dive.

Diving comes after swimming but no swimmer should neglect diving. There Is always a thrill about a well executed dive, even if it be of the simplest description, and the ability to slip into the water without splashing la well worth the effort to learn. The first thing to learn about

Circle Names Musical Director

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On Sunday, Aug. 29, Mikhael Stolarevsky will make his first ap pearance as the new musical director of the orchestra of the Circle Theater. When Constantin Bakaleinikoff left for Los Angeles this spring, Edward Resener took over the duties as conductor. Stolarevsky comes from eastern cities where he has been at the head of large symphony orchestras. Mikhael Stolarevsky was born in

which makes it possible to use such a large chorus and ballet. It is his intention to produce the opera on such a massive scale that it can be given successfully for a week, and perhaps for two. The unique custom of performing the same opera night after night for a week or longer has been followed by Director Golterman's companies since he dedicated the Forest Park Rlayhouse with his first summer season in 1917, and it has not been duplicated in any other city in the country. For this summer’s production the double oast Includes the following from the Metropolitan Opera Company: Elda Vettori, who will sing Micaela; George Cehanovsky, who is cast as Dancairo; Lillian Ogden and Rita de Laporte, of the ballet; Vittorio Verse, conductor, and Giusepne Cesati, his assistant. From the Chicago Civic Opera Company come Lorna Doone Jaxon, who will alternate In the title role with Marta Wittkowska, formerly of the Chicago company, and Elizabeth Kerr and Gladys Swarthout, who will sing the roles of Frasquita and Mercedes. / The role of Don Jose will be sung on alternate nights by Iliccardo Martin, formerly of the Metropolitan, and J. de Gaviria, a Spanish tenor, who is making his first aPpearance in this country in the Grand Opera Association season. Joseph Royer, French Canadian baritone, will sing the part of Escamiilo, and Charles Galagher, who returned to this country recently after two winter grand operq, seasons in Italy, will sing the role of Zuniga. Remendado will be sung by Constanzo Sorvino and Morales by George Banton. The stage Production will be directed by Alex Puglia.

diving is that it Is just as easy to go in head first as feet first and that no more water is going to slip into the nose or ears than if one jumped in feet first or came a bellywhopper. Therefore, I advise that every diver concentrate upon slipping gracefully into the water without a splash before he even attempts the more difficult dives. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Milt had Stolarevsky

Kiev, Russia, in 1893, the son of a wealthy family. Early showing a marked talent for music, hin parents provided the best musical training for him. In 1917 he was graduated from the Imperial Conservatory of Music in Kiev with the degree of Free Master. Later he studied under Prof. Carl Felsch, Mishael Press and Paul Kochanski in Berlin. His academic education was secured in colleges in Germany and Russia.

With Some Movie Folk

By Dan Thomas XEA Service Writer AVALON, Catalina Island, Aug. 21. —About twenty-five miles off the coast of southern California lies Catalina Island—the playground of William Wrigley, Jr., Chicago gum king, and the week-end mecca of nerve-wracked cinema folk. Catalina r advertisements read' "in all the world no trip like this." I would say In all the world no water like this. The blueness of the Pacific together with its crystal-like clearness belongs alone to these waters surrounding Catalina Island. Tiny white dots grow larger and take on the semblance of yachts—sloops, yawls, schooners and power cruisers—as the steamer draws nearer. Zane Gray’s three-master stands out prominently. Then there Is the 200-foot steam cruiser that is the pride of E. L. Doheny, oil king. Hal Roach’s and Wallace Berry's crafts ride at anchor side by side. Dick Barrymore, just back from Honolulu, must he entertaining aboard his schooner. Mariner. I hear radio music carried this way by the breeze. * • * $ Here and there about Catalina: Bess Moreno, daughter of Antonio, chatting with three boys.... she’s brown as a Mexican... .must have been here for some time... .the china bathing girl model with a mosquito netting suit in a store window.... if a girl appeared on the beach in such a costume the riot squad would have to be called. .. .and she would go to jail. Lita Gary Chaplin playing in the sand with Charley, Jr. . . . three little girls about eight years old who meet every boat and attempt to single out newlyweds and then give them the “razzberry" . . . they’re pretty good guessers . . . hut sometimes they go wrong as when they did pick me for a'recently acquired benedict. . . . Hal Roach coming out of the Tuna Club . . . this is indeed a favorite spot for immigrants from heart-break village . . . the Boy Scout camp of fifty odd “puf>” tents . . . persons standing outside a church wonder, how many churches are filled to capacity these days. . . . Betty Bronson buying an ice cream cone and inviting me to join her . . she too is jtist here for /the week-end . . . there goes George Daul hot-footing it up the street ... he has been dubbed “mayor of Avalon” by William Wrigley. . . . George is always busy . . . his Island Villa and Villa Park are, regular tent villages in themselves. . . . Zane Gray superintending the mounting of a giant swordfish he just got . . .a group of tourists talking excitedly . . . bet they’re discussing the whale we sighted on the trip over ... a ballyhooer shouting the wonders of a glass bottom boat trip . . . it is a great sight to view the ocean bottom from these boats. . . . Wrigley’s magnificent home atop a hill overlooking the harbor ... an automobile stopping to let a man pass in front of it ... in Holly, wood the pedestrian waits for the auto to pass . . . chimes pealing out six o’clock. * * * Colleen Moore recently received a letter from an ardent hut apparently insane admirer asking for money to support his 2,000 wives. * • • The story is' Ibid of an extra who was overheard' by the studio manager complaining about his wages. Studio Manager—What’s the matter, my good man? Extra—For ten days now I have been getting $4 a day for being kicked off this porch. Now they want to. throw me out of that window over the porch and only want to give me 50 cents a day more. I ask you, Is that fair?

AUG. 21, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can sret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The IndianaDOlis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requesis cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the address of the N*e tional Association of Audubon Societies? * 1974 Broadway, New fork City. Do “Norsk” and “Norse” have the same meaning? Yes, both words refer to persons of the north, that is Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and thehr dependencies. Do Italians and Mexicans belong to the White race? Italians and Spanish Mexicans are Latins and belong to the white race. The majority of Mexicans, however, are Indians or of mixed blood. Can you give me an Indian word to the white race? Akikta, means one who works with determination. What is the State flower of New Mexico? Cactus. Who was Colonel Gorges? An Aineircan Army officer, who during American Occupation was chief sanitary officer of Havana, Cuba, and cleared the city of yellow fever. In 1904, he took charge cj| sanitation in the Panama Canal and in five years he succeeded in reducing the yellow fever death rata from 8,000 to nineteen per year. Later ha was appointed United States surgeon general. What is the Latin for “unexcelled?” “Sine par.” Which Is the correct pronunciation “loway” or “I-o-wa?” Either is correct. The first is prfeferred by citizens of that State. Is William Boyd, who plays the top sergeant in the stage production of “What Price Glory,” the samo one who starred in Cecil B. de Mille’s “Tlie Volga Boatman?” No. They are different men. What causes lightning and thunder? The first stage in the genesis of a thunderstorm is the establishment of a difference of electrical potential In the atmosphere. A thunder cloud is, in fact, a mass of water drops at,an average electrical potential very different from that of the eart£ or of neighboring clouds. This produces an electrical stress in the air, which in the end is unable to support it. The discharge takes place In the form of one or more lightning flashes and the noise of the discharge is heard in the thun-dex--roll. What Is the value of a Confederate $5 bill with a view of Richmond Capital, issue of 1864? They are valued at 50 cents per 100 notes.

MR; FIXIT Slash in City Firemen Force Unlikely. 1

Let Mr. Fixit present your ease to city officials, he is The Times representative at the city hall. Write luni at The Times. There is little possibility of wholesale discharging of city firemen as a result of the reduction in the 1927 budget, Mr. Fixit was advised today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: *Just want to ask you if you can answer this question in your paper. They say they are going to do away with three fire stations and dispense with twenty-four firemen. What about those firemen who have worked for the city, paid their money into the funds, etc? Can they be discharged? Was under the impression that no fireman or policeman could be fired or discharged unless they had charges preferred against them. ANNA JOHNSON. Firemen cannot be removed from the department unless they are tried and found guilty of some offense by the boarfl of safety. Before the new btidget goes into effect, a sufficient number of firemen probably will have resigned or have been removed by trial toJ make the number left conform to™ the budget. Don’t worry; there’s nothing to fear. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I am writing in regard to the lights on N. Capitol Ave. There is more traffic on this street than on any other in the city. Why don’t they put up some decent lights? CAPITOL AVE. RESIDENT. Because of the large expenditure during last administration the present administration has been forced to curtail the lighting program. Only the most necessary lights Ad 11 be installed. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The sidewalks on the east side of Ritter Ave. between Lowell and Michigan Sts. are in a terrible condition. Water stands in places over a person’s ankle and mud washes down from the yards. Is there any way’ to make the people repair their walks or is it the city? They are In a very bad shape. Wish you would see If there can’t he new walks made or these patched up. OLD READER OF THE TIMES. There will be an investigation hy the department in charge of the sidewalks. DANGER WITH PRINCE Constance Talmadge, whose latest First National picture is “The Duchess of Buffalo,” is at present In London with her husband, Capt. Alastalr Mackintosh. Last week Miss Talmadge was presented to the Prince of Wales by her husband, who was one ol| his old friends and companions, anfl danced with him at a tea given iiu her honor at the Ritz. After visiting her husband’s family at Ivemess, Scotland, Miss Talmadge will return to thla country late this month.