Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1926 — Page 4

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GOVERNMENT BY GOSSIP The most Illuminating view of Watsonism yet given of the workings of that unique political organization comes in the intervierw given by Mrs. Vivian Wheatcraft, the representative of the Senator in his primary campaign, printed today in The Times. There is something peculiarly significant in her description of the women loyal to her as her "poison squad.” Five women in each county relied upon her for the whispers they were to carry to their lieutenants to be repeated again and again until the State .was "buttered.” Poison suggests venom, and venom suggests hate, and the most virulent form which these take is gossip. In these days when there are so many avenues of publicity open to the Senator the news columns of many newspapers ivhich fear his wrath or court his favor, the radio stations, the moving pictures, the pamphlets and the Congressional Recdrd, the question may be fairly raised as to why a “poison squad” of whispering women was needed to sway public opinion in his behalf and against the rival who challenged his fitness and his record. The presumption is that the word that went out over the soprano wave length was stich as could not be printed in newspapers, even those very friendly to the Senator. It is a fair presumption that the messages were so preposterous in their character that were they broadcasted an easy denial would explode their absurdity and incense those for whose ears they were intended. It is even a fairer presumption that Mrs. Wheatcraft herself did not originate the messages but that she relayed to her whispering women the word that crafty men, close to the Senator, wished to reach feminine Indiana. And when you have jotted together these presumptions you may reach the conclusion that such an organization as that created in behalf of Watson was needed by Watson. That is the least surprising part of the very unusual revelation. For Watson has always played in the dark when he could, always been under cover, always lurked in the shadows, preferably of some unassailable leader of his own party. The women voters of the State might, under this condition, ask themselves whether they will further any plan to run the Government by gossip or will take a stand for full and complete publicity on all matters. t They can, if they wish, refuse to listen to the whispering women and in clarion voice demand that any message given them be told in such tones as can be heard by all. They may, it is quite certain, resent the inference that their votes are to be obtained by gossipy tales and that their judgment is based upon statements which do not court the light of investigation.

THE KING DID WRONG! The king and queen of Belgium were motoring from Brussels to a seaside resort near Boulogne. He was driving and she was sitting beside him. Just outside of Calais, they turned out to pass another machine. The car swerved against the railing of a small bridge, staving hi the wheels and bending the fenders. Luckily, the railing held and the king and queen escaped without injury. Since the two were alone in the car, no one knows what really caused the accident. Asa matter of conjecture, however, one may surmise that the queen wak saying, “Albert, do be careful now. You missed" that last car by half an inch.” And Albert was saying, “I’m driving this car. I’ve driven it thousands of miles without an accident.” And just then, being a little upset by the conversation, the crash occurred. Perhaps this is all wrong and they were not talking at all. Then one can imagine Albert’s mind was elsewhere. The king business hasn’t been doing so well lately. There doesn’t seem to be much of a future in it. So perhaps Albert was driving along and thinking about taking up some other line of work. The point, however, is an auto is a mechanical thing. It doesn’t share your triumphs or your t;oubles. It has no idea of what an important personage you may happen to be. When a king pulls the steering wheel wrong the car goes into the ditch just the same as when a begsar pulls the steering wheel wrong. You might remember this. No matter who you are, keep your mind on what you are doing when you are driving an auto.' A SUCCESSOR FOR MR, GLASSIE It is too much to hope, perhaps, that President Coolidge will appoint a man of liberal views to the United States tariff commission when the term of Henry Glassie expires next TtfWSday. By liberal views is meant merely an understanding that it is possible to lower tariff rates as well as to raise them. Mr. Coolidge’s political godfather is just now engaged in a desperate fight to save himself from political extinction. Chairman Butler of the Republican national committee is a candidate for re-elec-tion as Senator from Massachusetts and Ills prospects are not at all rosy. The highly protective textile industry of New England, of which he is one of the leaders, is in a bad way. Textile workers are divided into two classes: Those who are dissatisfied with the low wages they receive and those who are dissatisfied because they have no jobs. Butler sees no solution save in a still higher tariff on textiles. He is promising such a solution to the Massachusetts voters. Coolidge doubtless will feel bound to help him on his misguided course by appointing a thoroughly committed high tariff man to the United States tariff commission. This assumes, of course, that Mr. Glassie will not be reappointed. Surely that is a safe assumption. Mr. Glassie revealed his unfitness for the place at the very outset of his service by insisting on taking part in the decision on the sugar tariff, notwithstanding his family is engaged in the sugar business. Washington, a cynical capital though it is, w r as shocked by this exhibition. Coolidge refrained from rebuking Mr. Glassie, leaving that to Congress. Congress, unable to impress Mr. Glassie with a sense

of fitness of things, passed a special act that ended Mr. Glassie’s connection with the sugar case. Mr. Coolidge did himself no service when he appointed Mr. Glassie. Nor did he help himself when he withheld the needed rebuke. But, if he should now reappoint Mr. Glassie, what can be said of his course. IT’S A GREAT STATE! New v York Republicans are shopping around for a candidate for Governor, to be run against Governor A1 Smith. * The latter has told the Democrats tjrat he needs a rest, but that he will run again if they draft him. And they will. The big boss of New York Republicans, Senator Wadsworth, running for re-election, is an avowed wet. But the' choice of the party for Governor appears to be one Judge James C. Cropsey of Brooklyn, an avowed dry, who insists that the Republicans advocate a State dry enforcement law, New York being one of two States without such a law. The Republicans want Cropsey because he gives them a chance to retrieve the dry vote upstate scared away by Wadsworth’s attitude. So they are attempting to fix up a "State” platform on which Cropsey will ruh as a dry, while Wadsworth runs as a wet on a "national” platform. If their plans are worked out, the Cropsey and Wadsworth campaigns will be organized and run separately with a possible “party split” advertised to explain the matter to the voters. The politicians engineering this scheme must measure New York's intelligence by the scenes at-, tending the deat.h of Rudolph Valentino. BIG BOSSES AND LITTLE Who stands responsible for labor conditions in American factories, the foremen who boss, or the financiers who own them? An interesting question this that Sam A. Lewisohn raises. The chairman of the National Management Association frowns on the foremen. He accuses them, and other petty executives, of being naturally arrogant, autocratic and aggressive. He intimates that capitalist owners are often prevented from instituting liberal policies by reluctance of these hard-boiled foremen to have their powers curtailed. Some foremen undoubtedly are as annoying as Lewisohn supposes. For example, there is that old tyrant in "Out Our Way.” There is reason to believe, however, that when foremen turn tyrants they have cause. They drive, but they are also driven. And they are driven by the harshest of all tyrants, the little blhck and red figures in the ledger books. Men may die, generations may be damned dunbom, but those digits must remain predominately the proper color. There are factory owners undoubtedly who are kept from doing right by petty tyrants who stand between them and their men. There are too many, however, who want nothing better than to stand at a distance so long as the profits roll in. They want no more contact with their men than the ledger sheet. For these Lewisohn's theories will be solace.

INSIDE INFORMATION Summer time is usually supposed to be the dizzy season. When warm weather comes along men do weird things. You have a theatrical producer staging a party in which a chorus girl takes a bath in champagne—or maybe it was only ginger ale—in front of the assembled guests. And you have a young couple flying 3,000 feet above the earth for their marriage ceremony. And moving picture actresses put on trick bathing suits and get their pictures taken. We had supposed that the backbobne of the warm weather had been broken. The era of peculiar acts was, we had thought, about over. But stay. It’s still with us. A Gary (Ind.) judge has just ruled that if a man takes a drink of whisky outside the State and then comes in, he is a bootlegger. Accordingly, he plastered a S4O fine on a Gary gentleman who had had a drink in Chicago just before he took the train for Gary. The judge’s idea is that it is Illegal to bring liquor into Indiana,.even if it’s Inside of one. Summer is still with us. Nothing seems to distort the vision more quickly than trying to look down on those above you. Making a fool out of someone is the simplest thing on earth. And that someone is you. ARE THERE ANY SENSIBLE MARRIAGES? fly MRS. WALTER FERGUSON A couple In San Diego have started a school for marriage, where the courses include lessons on how to select the proper mate. This sounds sensible, but the chances are that no matter how long a pupil may attend class the things learned will profit him nothing. There are many excellent rules when Its comes to matrimony, but the trouble is they nevpr work. No matter how many wise things may be said on the subject, we take the best we can get and are thankful. The poor little girl who wants a husband dare not be too particular. She cannot stop and apply all those theoretical precepts to the boy who happens to propose. Few marriages are sensibly arranged and those that are generally turn out badly. When a couple refuses to be moved by romantic foolishness, and marries with cold reason uppermost, the two are nearly always scrapping like cats and dogs before a twelvemonth has passed. Whereas the boy and girl who are blessed with neither judgment nor prudence and who are regarded by their families as doomed to everlasting misery, usually settle down and astonish themselves and everybody else by turning out a happy couple. Marriage is the most magnificent gamble on earth. There are no rules that will work the same way In two different cases. There are no precepts to be followed that will lead to sure success. Marriages must Indeed be made in heaven, for only a divine understanding can comprehend just why they succeed or fail. No one can explain why they turn out happily or unhappily. There Is no mortal wisdom that can solve this roblem of why we are fated to wedded bliss or misery. Surely the bitter experience cf centuries has taught us that scute power above and beyond our knowledge, some fate more strange than we can comprehend brings about the rare and happy union of two souls. There Is only one monitor to which you should listen when marriage Is considered. That is your heart—and sometimes it lies.

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Tracy We Can Afford to Cancel Debts and Europe Knows It,

By M. E. Tracy We can afford to cancel the debts, and Europe knows it. The question is, whether we should refuse as a matter of contract, or consent as a matter of expediency. Idealism plays no part in the problem. There is merely so much cash at stake—cash that we loaned In good faith, but that Europe feels it cannot pay because of post-war conditions. When we loaned this cash there was no thought on our part, or .expectation on Europe's part that it would be written off as a gift to the common cause. The idea of cancellation comes as an amendment to the original bargain. We are forced to consider it because Europe Insists, because there Is trade at stake, because we may lose more by trying to collect the debts than by giving them up. -I- -I- IBaker’s Argument Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War in Wilson's Cabinet, has written quite the strongest and most sensible argument in favor of debt cancellation yet presented. He approaches the problem from a purely economic standpoint and because of its bearing on the future, not the past. Ho ignores the question of what we might owe the allies because of its bearing on the future, not the past. He ignores the question of what ke might owe the allies because of our association with them in the war, or because of what they did before wo entered the war. It is his theory that the civilized world has become enmeshed in a hopeless tangle of debt and that something must be done to clear it away before trade and finance can function normally. He suggested, that if we were to cancel the debts owed us, a way might he found to reduce Germany's burden, and that, 1 think, is the most important consideration of all. The American people will never agree to debt cancellation unless the slate is wiped practically clean. -I- -lCheap Life Three men are scheduled to die in the Ohio State prison this week. Two of them murdered a fellow being for S3O and the third put up the money. . Life is certainly cheap in the eyes of some people. Bootlegging was at the bottom of it, as you might suspect. Bootlegging has come to be at the bottom of most of the devilishness these boys—the Chicago gang war which has resulted in the no less than 100 killings, the assassination of Don R. Mellett, the shooting of Billy McSwiggin, the slaying of Bert Donaldson. But S3O for a murder, that is almost beyond belief. -|. -|. -|. Mind on Matter? For 10,000 years the English channel went unswum, then Captain Webb broke the spell. For half a century men tried to equal his feat, with only three or four successes, and then the women took a hand. For a time it seemed that no woman could do the trick, but this season two succeeded. And now a German youth comes along to smash all records. Are we growing stronger as a race or does all this conquering of the channel merely show what people can do when they put their minds on a thing. -|- -|- -|. Rubber We are hearing a lot from the Moros these days, especially with regard to their burning desire to remain subjects of the United States. The Moros represent only about 5 per cent of the Philippine population but they occupy about 25 per cent of the Philippine territory. It happens that the territory they’ occupy is well adapted to the growing of rubber. There are certain great American interests that would like to grow rubber in the Philippines, but that Would hesitate to undertake it if the islands were to ! become independent, or even autonomous. The movement for Philippine Independence is gaining strength not only among the Filipinos but In the United States. Forestalling the effect this might have on the Moros—the Moros, you understand—a bill has been Introduced to keep them under American control, no matter what happens to the rest. Some say the fact that such an arrangement would serve the rubber interests has been given no consideration. -I- -|. -|. Perhaps He Knows Though admitting his wife’s defeat, James E. Ferguson says he and she are not out of Texas politics by Rny means. He says that twelve years of experience has taught him that “you can’t always tell.” After all that Jim has been through, living down an impeachment, and getting his wife elected when his name was barred from the ballot, who can blame him for remaining an inveterate optimist'. Still, he has played in spnie good luck, which Is a fact not to be overlooked, and he is growing older all the while, which is another fact not to be overlooked. When was the Tusoania torpedoed: How many lives were lost, and what troops were aboard the vessel at the time? She was torpedoed in the evening of Eeb. 5, 1918: 101 lives were lost, including 73 soldiers and 28 of the crew. On board were Company E, 6th Battalion; 20th Engineers, the 100th Aero Squadron, the 158th Aero Squadron, an Engineers' Reserve Corp3 and the 107th Supply Comnany.

Grown-Up Du Icy Nearly Ruins Cupid in the Noisy Household of Joe Heller

By Walter D. Hickman When Ma Heller a Dulcy there were a lot of things that happened which should never have happened. Ma was a good old soul, but she loved to talk and talk and while talking Ma colored the facts. Ma had the thought that her older daughter Louise should marry’. Now Ma was not cruel, but she couldn't understand why Louise

didn't have gentlemen friends callin’ and .XtKfng her out. Ma tells the world in the first act of "The Family Upstairs” that Louise was a good girl, worked hard in an oiffee, but when she came home at night all site would do was to "jest sit and sit and sit and mostly sit” and not a feller turned up. Annal>el Heller Is the , baby sister, or Infanta Terrible of the Heller house-

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hold. Then there Is Willie, who longs to graduate from the neighborhood poolroom and be a politician. Then there is Joe Heller, the father, whose job was a street car motorman. Now Ma knew that Dad was only making $45 a week, but she tol l the world that Mr. Heller wa considering retiring from his position. The fact was if Dad ever retired the Heller family would have been in a bad mess. But Ma just looked at the world, when she talked, through rose colored glasses. So the night that Louise came home from work and announced that a gentleman friend was going to call on her —Well father choked on his steak; Ma nearly passed out of the picture; Willie screamed ard Annabel gave forth a groan of astonishment. So when the young man, Charles Grant, nrrived, Ma was all fixed with a story framed to impress the caller of Louise. Os course. Ma didn't know that her Ixmise and Grant were engaged, but she sets the trap well. In fact, too well. In the second act. when Mr. Grant makes his second visit to the house, Ma spreads the mustard so thick on everything she says that Grant realizes that he has no right to take Louise out of such a great home. Then the showoff. Louise tells her mother that she has just been telling “lies,” but mother Insists that they were Just "little white lies." In the third act, the Heller household Is living up to the first part of its name. So Dad decides to “shut up” Ma and aid Cupid. And he does a good job of patching things up, but Ma gets in a word or two that nearly wrecks the works. This is just my way of telling you the story of one of the brightest and most human little comedies of American family flat life that I have seen for many months. Although there are only eight people in the cast, the Berkell Players are giving their best human and natural all-round performance of the season. The five big acting hits this week are scored by Idabelle Arnold. Edythe Elliott (splendid), Herbert Dobbins (the best thing he has done this season), Mildred Hastings (probably as fine a mother characterization from a realistic standpoint that we have had this season) and Robert St. Clair (more fine work). The cast is as follows: * Amabel the Baby Slater. Idabelle Arnold hinma Heller, the Mother . Mildred Hasting* Hillie Heller, the Brother. Rnh< rt St. Clair Jon Heller, the Father . . . Herbert Dobbins Louise Heller, the Elder Sister ,• • • • Edytho Elliott Charles Grant Bob Fay Miss Callahan Bernice Marsolais Mrs. Grant Jyes I,a Rue Right now if you asked mo the j most enjoyable experence I have had at Englsh's this season, I would ! have to tell you while I was seeing "The Family Upstairs.” At English's all week. ’ -|- -|. -|- COREY MAKES BIG HIT AT THE PALACE THEATER The American Indian in his most picturesque and beautiful life is taken for the theme of the act of Arthur Corey and associate artists at the Palace today and Wednesday. Act opens with a waterfall scene that is a fine bit of work and a

WEEKLY' BOOK REVIEW ~~ Heywood Broun Says His Last Say On Irishmen

In his book column in the New York World recently, Heywood Broun, who had aroused considerable excitement by his intimation that Donn Byrne was not a true Irishman, made apology with characteristic Brounian courtesy and grace: “Through some casual remarks of mine a controversy came up as to the birthplace of Brian Donn Byrne. It seems to be the Impression of some of his supporters that I advanced the opinion that Mr. Byrne could not write well of Ireland because he happened to be born in Brooklyn. Such a thought never entered my head and I made no such assertion. "It is not very important where anyone was born and I can imagine little of less consequence than locating with exactitude the precise place of nativity of Mr. Byrne. I do not think that Brian Donn Byrne Is handicapped in any way in writing about Ireland because he was riot born there. "He can write just as well about Ireland as about anything else. How ever, a friend of the novelist's sends me a letter in which Mr. Byrne has explained his literary Ideals. "It follows:-"‘A-New Y'ork critic and a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune have objected to "Hangman's House” because they say I am a ‘Brooklynite.’ I can quite understand anyone disliking my books—it's merely a matter of taste. “‘Many excellent books by Englishmen and Frenchmen and Scotsmen bore me intensely. If these objecting critics do not like them they are quite right to say so. But I don’t want the impression to spread that the public is being fooled.

Stage Verdict LYRlC—Sissle and Blake bring such a wealth of melody to the variety stage that they have the right to be considered great artists. Mighty good show with exceptiqn of one act. PALACE Picturesque dances with Indian themes are the features of the offering of Arthur Corey. ENGLISH’S—“The Family Upstairs," is the best all round acted performance of the Berkell Players this season and the most enjoyable.

young Indian Is shown listening to a love song by an Indian girls. This part of the act seems to have been

built up around the theme of the "Indian Love Call,” a song that has become the favorite melody of a current musical production. There are several fine dances by the dancing team who are well matched and excellent song numbers by the man and woman who do them. One dance done by Arthur Corey is a b i t spectacular

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and makes a very good flash for the act. This occurs when the dancer bronzes his body and Interprets s an Indian dance Sandy Lang and Company, numbering one' man and three women, devote their time to showing how graceful an art real roller skating is. Murray and Irwin are two men who offer some harmony and whistling solos, and to top off their act they give us a bit of dancing by the two of them. George Armstrong relies on his personality to put his songs and stories across and does it in an easy •manner. His stuff Is Just a bit eccentric but does not stray very far from the accepted manner. Is a good entertainer and make a fine personal Impression. Smith and Barker have a sketch in which we see the young doctor and his wife who have had no customers. They have about given up when help comes In an unexpected manner and save the doctor from the fate of errand boy In a grocery store. Bill Includes a photoplay “Sweet Ptuidies” with Charles Murray, and George Sidney. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.)

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Parents of chubby Richard Blunt, wn of Mr. and Mrs. Iloiner Blunt, Mooresvillo, attributed his ability to put on thirty-five pounds in eleven months to having eaten substantial food such as beans, potatoes and milk. Richard boats the health and weight record of Clarence Frederick, Toledo, Ohio, whose picture was printed in The Times last Clarence Is 19 months old and weighs forty pounds.

" ‘My father’s stay in America was not over tw.o years, and I was three months old when I left. Neither of my parents even considered remaining there. My family has been at the foot of Slievegullion Mountain for as far back as Irish records go. Indeed, much of the surrounding territory is still in the hands of uncles and cousins. So much for that. " ‘As to the novel’s being an outmoded model, I know that. "Hangman's House” Is a sacrifice to my people. They are a simple people. They know what they want. In ‘Hangman’s House’ I am their novelist. My next books are for the general public. ‘Hangman’s House’ is for my own people. - “ ‘The lad who knows I wrote “Hangman's House” In Brooklyn is, I must in verity If not in chivalry say, mistaken. It yas written in Dublin, in the year of war against the Free State, 1922-1923, mainly at Montrose House on the Stillorgan Road. Much of It was written at night behind iron shutters, and many a sentence has been interrupted by the roar of land armies and the rattle of machine guns. I wrote It in the middle of the flames that were

Juvenile Books Another Juvenile on the Dutton list Is “Captain Sandman,” by Miriam Clark Potter, author of “The Pinafore Pocket Story Book.” It Is a collection of stone* and Jingle# about such amusing pfersonages as “The Copper Kettle Fairy,” “Mrs. Cat’s Best Baby,” etc. It Is attractively illustrated in black and white by Sophia T. Balcom.

SISSLE AND BLAKE STOP SHOW AT THE LYRIC Some years ago Sissle and Blake flashed upon Broadway with a Negro revue called "Shuffle Along.” They followed that big hit up with another show written by themselves. They are now in vaudeville after returning from a highly successful appearance in London. Sissle is the singer of the act and Blake is the pianist. Here is a combination of talent which is difficult

to surpass. They have written many s o n g s 'together. They know how to lift jazz music to that dizzy height of real melody. They do not hammer out their melodies or their lyrics. Rather they seek to find syncopated beauty and harmony instead of crashes and noise. The song hits of the act are two numbers, “My Picaninny Shoes,”

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a ballad of tender charm in lyrics as well as melody, and “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin.” These two numbers are enough to stop any act, especially the “pickaninny” number, which is sung by Sissle in his best ballad and sympathetic manner and played Just as beautifully by Blake. Here Is an act which dignifies vaudeville. There is no cheap hokum here, just artistry and big showmanship. There is lot of music at the Lyric this week. The Four Pals Is a quartett. Their comedy has the needed punch to make them a hit but it is their harmony which causes them to stop the show when the next act should begin. Billy Carmen is seen “behind the liars” and he gets lot of melody out cf ’em. Frozinl is an accordion player who plays-music of the great operas with as much ease and satisfaction as he does the Viewer tunes. The Desly Sisters are two dancers who have worked out a musical revue of real charm. *They are assisted by two pianists and two other Instrumental artists. An act of pleasing quality. Burnum has a good surprise act. An artist. I* found the material of Taylor and Bobble very old and very tiresome, very much so. The audience didn’t. Johannes Josefsson shows how a man may defend himself against all odds. Movies complete the bill. At the Lyric all week. ’l’ ’l’ ’l' Other theaters today offer: "Rolling Home,” at the Colonial; "Ginger Girls,” burlesque, at the Broadway; “The Amateur Gentleman,” at the Circle; "The Son of the Sheik,” at the Ohio; "Battling Butler,” at the Apollo; "The Storm Breaker,” at the Uptown, and "The Still Alarm,” at the Isis. Curfew Rings for Petters at Chicago Bu T'nitrd* Press CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Curfew rang In Chicago Monday night and twen-ty-four girls and their escorts were nabbed by the corps of special officers who patroled the highways and spooning nooks about the city. The drive was the answer of county and city officials to the pleadings of mothers to put an end to the recent widespread moron depredations which have plagued Chicago. The officers started their drive at 10:30 p. m. and all girls under 18 and their companions found out after that hour were brought to headquarters. The girls were turned over to their mothers and the young men were released after a warning. The force of patrollng officers will be Increased on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday night, the nights for “heavy dates.” I EATS 42 HOT DOGS NEW LONDON, Conn.—Aldo Montall recently settled forever the question of whether he could eat more hot dogs than Jack Missmin, a sailor. Montall won after'downing forty-two of the dainties. Missmin was forced to pause at thirty-eight. Half an hour after the contest Montall declared he could even cat a few more.

burning: the country I knew and loved. “‘I trust ycu will see that this letter is published. You know how I dislike publicity, but I think that this personal explanation is called for. Though I was born in New York and lived there in my twenties, yet Ireland ia my home. I have and always will have, please God, a roof tree there, and if I am not under it at this writing the cause is easily imagined. “ ‘I have suffered a good deal In my career in an attempt to write what I thought was worth writing, and as to Ireland, I, like every one else who comes from here, suffered, but I think I might have been spared the indignity of having to write this letter of explanation.’ ” to Mr. Broun's gracious apology the Century Company, publishers- of Don Byrne’s novels in this country, announce that another edition of 10,000 couples of “Hangman's House” has rolled from the presses. The demand for Mr. Byrne's Irish romancd is increasing at such a rate throughout the country that the last four editions have been 10,000 copies each. Laureate of America Thirty years ago Bill <<yc, famous humorist, died at the age of 45. In his short life he had written over 3,000,000 published words, and was established as the highest-paid newspaper man in the counrty. John Dewey, great educator and philosopher, named Bill Nye “a great satirist—no man has done more to expose pretense and superstition.” Ho was hailed as “The Humorist Laureate of Americsu” An autobiography of Bill Nye, “Bill Nye; His Own Life Story,” continuity by Frank Wilson Nye, is announced for publication Sept. 24 by the Century Company.

AUG. 31, 1926

Questions and Answers i

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis 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 bo undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned reouests cannot be answered. All letters are confi Initial.—Editor. Who publishes the Birth Control Review and What is the subscription price? It is edited by Margaret Sanger and is published at 104 Fifth Ave., New York City. The yearly Bubscription rate Is $2. In what movies has Donald Keith p"ayod opposite Clara Bow? He played the part of her lover, Kenneth, In the motion picture called “Dancing Mothers.” He also played opposite her In “The Plastic Age” and ’My Lady of Whims.” What are “The Seven Seas?” The North and South Atlantic, the North and South Pacific, the Indian, the Artie and Antarctic Oceans. Who was John Doe? It is a fictious name frequently used to indicate a person for the purpose of argument or illustration, or in the course of enforcing a fiction in law. What is meant by "conservation of natural resources?” Conservation has been briefly defined as ‘‘utilization with maximum efficiency and minimum waste.” Gifford Pinchot ha3 outlined movement for conservation as Ing fpr development for use exhaustible resources, for prevention of waste, for control against natural calamities, for perpetuation and renewal, for progressive and cumulative conquest of nature. The Government directs conservation of resources through various agencies such ns the Forest Service, the Inland Waterways Commission, The Bureau of Mines, etc. Do the ears of thoroughbred police puppies stand erect naturally? They should bo erect at the age of six months. llow much did Jack Dempsey receive for his fight with Carpentier and Firpo? He received approximately $300,000 for his fight with Carpentier and $500,000 for that with Firpo. What are the duties of an ordinary seaman aboard ship? On a modern steamship, he swabs, scrapes and cleans decks, scrapes cables, colls and handles ropes, mans small boats and performs other work as the ship’s officers may direct. What is the full name of the King of Norway? His title Is Haakon VII. Jlis name is Christian Frederic Charles George Valdemar Axel. Is whale oil still used for illuminating purposes? Whales arc still hunted for their oil, but not so much as formerly. Before the discovery of petroleum Illuminating oil was derived almoaß entirely from whales, but has now largely supplanted animOT oil. Whales are still important as a source of ambergris, spermaceti, whalebone, glue, etc. When did King Edward VII of England die and when was George V crowned? Edward VII died unexpectedly from heart failure, incident to a bronchial attack, May 16, 1910. George V immediately succeeded to the throne and his wife took the title Queen Mary. They were crowned June 22, 1911, in Westminster Abbey. Who were the Tudor sovereigns of England? Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth.

Mk: FIXIT Change In Traffic Signal Too Brisk for Reader.

Let Mr. Flxit present your ease to city officials. He Is The Times representative at the city hall. Write lum at Ttio Times. Winking of the stop and go signal at Alabama and Washington Sts., is a bit too brisk for the fancy of one of Mr. Fixit’s correspondents. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The stop and go sign at* the intersection of bama and Washington Sts. is timed that one may pass the showing green and have it immediately flash from orange to red. The exact time, between the change is three seconds. A perfectly decent, lawabiding citizen may cross here with the “go” sign in his favor and suddenly find himself f-onfronted with the “stop” sign and an officer. 11. M. L. The short Interval for the “change” sign is planned to discourage the tendency to jump the gun, according to William Griffis, board of safety electrical engineer. However, he promised to test the signal to see that the time allowed Is ample. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Please try your magic wand on the proper person and have them come down and see that a tree at 515 S. Holmes Ave. is trimmed. You can hardly get by it. Some day someone will lose an eye. ' / CONSTANT READER. Elbert Moore, chief city forester, ordered the limbs cut off and the sidewalk cleaned. At the request of Mr. Fixit investigations are under way concerning the following complaints: W. B. 8., 1900 block S. Delaware St.; A Reader, Haugh St. near Twelfth St., and weeds reported • by Neighbor at 1910 E. Washington St., and Taxpayer at Twenty-Third St. and Arsenal Ave. Investigations are In progress of the following B. garbage collections in the 3000 block mu W. Washington St.; Mrs. %I. Minker St.; Old Times Reader, holes In the 5300 block on Burgess Ave.; Times Reader, weeds at FortySixth St. and dapitol Ave.; C. C., cleaning Illinois St., immediately nortji of Fall Creek.