Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1926 — Page 4

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% I KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA annually distributes approximately $5,100,00 from the public tax revenues for the purpose of education, among the minor civil divisions of the State. N

*IHE PIGMIES Scientists have discovered anew race of little men and women, giants among them being four feet high and the average less than three. They have lived for centuries, just how many no one knows, up in the mountains of Java. To get beyond the dense trbpical marshes, the dentists used airplanes. To conquer the obstacles of the mountains, they ' had every invention of modern times. They bring back the information that these ljttle people were cool and unafraid and friendly. All sorts of scientists will now try to explain life and the history of the world through this strange people with a strange tongue. So, perhaps, will students of religion who will want to inquire whether these pygmies are descendants of Adam and Eve and just how it happens that they are small, a sort of Maltese terrier race compared to the German police dogs or mastiffs. They apparently hawe inherited no language from any other known race'. Their words are not those of ancient of civilized peoples. That will give the students of physiology a chance to demonstrate and prove their theories. But most of us "will be interested in their emotions, their natural, reactions to kindness and cruelty, what they liavy> learned of the problem of living together. They have ’been, so it is asserted, saved from "foreign wars’* by their remoteness. Other huirian beings, larger than they, could not penetrate thy; fastnesses. So they are reported to be unafraid because they have not learned to fear when another people wno spcAk a different tongue appear to take from them vyhat they may have created. But even if they have no racial hates, do they have internal wars among themselves? I Do they reverence virtue in woman and is it something for which men fight and kill, as men have fought in our civilization fro mUie time that Helen of Troy started a wir and probably long before that. Do they rush to the aid of each other when sickness comes, or do they permit their aged to crawl into holes and die as old dogs die? What are their customs of courtship, and do men or women haye the larger voice in ruling their lives? What sort of food do they like best? What sort of a government have they established, or have they a government at all? Is therq an institution of marriage, and what is it? Do men grow envious of each other and try to become champions in feats of strength or of a keenness of mind? V Is there jealousy and fear and hate or love and tnist, and kindness? Do their women try to beautify themselves and spend their hours in seeking gaudy clothes to attract the male or cause other females tojook upon them with envious eyes? Here is a race of people, unspoiled and unaffected by the vast changes that have come to life. They are apparently a natural people, if they be human beings at all —and there also is a question over which scientists and fundamentalists may start their battle all over again. For while they are built in human forn!, is it possible that they are not human beings, but a superior sort of animal in the form of man and woman? Does size differentiate? Perhaps a study of these little creatures may give man a hint'on his own condition. He may discover what he traded for civilization and get it back. Or he may learn to prize education and culture so much more highly that he will devote at least as much to the support of a state university for a year as he does to the staging of a single prize fight. Watch those pygmies. They are important.

IS THIS AMERICA'? Refugees are straggling up into the North, out of Florida. They come into a strange world, a a world that must seem strange to them. It’s a world in which they find a dying state of excitement over a prize fight and a &sowing state of excitement over a series of basebalrgames. A world in which, some of the stragglers have reason to feel, the name of Florida is forgotten. . Fifty such refugees arrived in Washington Saturday. They were women and children, whose men had remained behind, engaged in clean-up and rescue work. They were discovered huddled in Union Station —hungry. • “We haven’t had a real meal since last Friday,” said one Hollywood woman. “We’ve lived on sandwiches and coffee all the way.” They were without money, with one Exception. “A man at the station inforihation booth gave me $5,” adfld this woman. “Three dollars was to buy a berth for the rest of the trip to New* York, and he I might need the other $2. Some were weeping. “Part of the time I cry and part of the time I laugh,” said one. “People up here will never realize what we went through.’* She told the truth. People outside of Florida never will realize what they went through. People outside of Florida, having had their first thrill out of the hurricane’s horror and —a very Dew—having warmed their own hearts by contributing a certain amount of cash to the Red Cross, apparently are unwilling to fape any further duty toward the stricken State. A limited number of American citizens on Thursday night of last week paid almost $£,000,000 to see Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney fight one half hour in the rain. Up to that time, four days after the holocaust hit Florida, less than that amount of money had been contributed by the whole community toward relief of the men, Women and children fighting with death in the devastated region. Two dollars for the *two prima, donnas in the sesqui bowl. What for ithosa two men in. i '

Miami who for hours, with their bare hands, held up the roof over the heads of their women and babies? The day after the disaster the Red Cross announced that $5,000,000 would be needed to care for /he injured and homeless, to bury the dead and stave off pestilence. That ||kooo,ooo should have been forthcoming in less than twenty-four houfs if the heart of this prosperous country held half the generosity we like to believe it does. It has not been forthcoming yet. If you haven’t sent in a contribution, won’t yon do it —now? . _ * REGISTER, OF COURSE Take no chances on the interpretation of laws but register and make sure that you have a vote. The man or woman who does not register will be a cipher in government and in citizenship in November. Twq great organizations, the League of Women Voters and the American Legion, are trying to get a more general participation in government on the' part of citizens. * ' One of them has discovered that very many people have taken the attitude in this State that politics are so corrupt and the grip of machine so firm that- it is Impossible to get anywhere at the ballot box. That is exactly what political machines want independent-minded and thinking people to believe. They want the spirit of hopelessness to pervade the public mind. They are quite willing to do the voting for the rest of us, to pick our Senators and judges and other officials. They have enough men and women on their pay rolls and under their protection to take care of things unless the men and women who want nothing from government but decency and honesty take the trouble to go to the polls and vote. Get on the lists so that you can vote. * Even it you do not vote in November, be in position to vote if you want to. Even that will help some.

INDIANAPOLIS FIRST Today the business men of this city leave their desks and carry on the crusade for Indianapolis First. That much has been accomplished already toward the creation of a more universal civic spirit. The crusade itself is worth while if it did nothing more than to bring these workers together in a united front to protect and advertise and push forward the gospel of Indianapolis. It is worth while if it but awakens in the minds and thoughts of these few men the latent faith and optimism which must be there. It will do more, of course. It will make the Chamber of Commerce, just housed in the most magnificent building in this city, the voice of Indianapolis because it will bring it. into closer touch with every activity and enterprise of this city. , It will make it the Bymbol of a revived faith which will extend to every man and woman who finds here the opportunity for usefulness and happiness. Every city must have a voice. Not often do city governments speak for the city. They are too remote from the real heart and purposes df citizens. But the Chamber of Commerce can give voice to the aspiration?, the hopes, the prides, the claims of Indianapolis. It can do so only if every one who is intent on making it bigger and better, believes it to be the best of all cities, who has Indianapolis first in his heart, helps to (given inflection and volume to that voice. f Make your home city first in your heart and it will become first in enterprise and spirit. We nil can’t be president, but most of us can have a better time. Even though you hear a lot about self-made men, you can't think of any men who are not that. Friday is unlucky. It usually comes the day before pay day when you are broke. Bad luck is usually cussed for bad luck, while good luck is usually taken for granted. Football's here. We heard a quarter back telephoning and he scared central calling the signals. Sometimes talk is cheap. Sometimes it isn't. There are times when a little of it costs a man a lot of money. If it takes all kinds of people to make a world, this one certainly is well made. HOW TO REMAIN BEAUTIFUL By Mrs. Walter Ferguson 'How shall I become beautiful? This is the modern feminine wail. We set out upon the quest for physical loveliness as the knights of old sought for the Holy Grail. And so many of us know not what we seek. This elusive thing called beauty is more of spirit than of body. Youth always has a certain softnr ,sos skin, a certain brightness of eye, a certain suppleness of form. But, like the tender down of the peach, they are easily and 3wiftly destroyed. Immodesty will take the blush from your cheek, evil thoughts will dim the brightness of your eye, unclean living will transform your sylph-liße figure into one of ugly rotundity. And once lost, these things can never be had again. Girls who smoke and drink and are too promiscuous with their kisses are not ever lovely, for very long. For dissipation will inevitably coarsen and eventually annihilate all beauty. It makes no difference how often you may go to the beauty parlor nor how many dollars you may spend for lotions and creams, you will never obtain and keep your heart’s desire until you have learned that in some strange, intangible way all beauty relates to the soul and lias its roots in the spirit, t All the dainty courtesans of old became in a few ■years hideous old women. , And no matter how fair you may be, as each quick year hastens by you will give to it some fragment of your good looks. And so the modern girl, though she be lovely the immortal Helen, cannot hope to remain so for long if she Indulges In fast living and loses her beauty sleep and gets drunk on cocktails and otherwise ignores the rules of good health. ' We are placing too nAtcta faith In the beauty parlor these days. A fatal error. It is a truism that beauty partakes largely of the spiritual. Those who think upon this realize that it feeds upon thoughts and actions and inner sensation far more than it does upon massages and < :old creams. In our keen desire for outward loveliness, is it not strange that we fail to take this fact Into coffsid-* ere.tion?

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Tracy Sport Has Become the Safety Valve of Modern Life,

By M. E. Tracy Taft and Tunney were in New York Saturday. The latter, who won his right to recognition by thirty minutes of boxing, was tendered a public luncheon and given the keys of the city. The ex-President and chief justice of the United States was interviewed by a few newspaper men as he paced the station platform alone. Sport has certainly taken a deep hold on the modern mind, which an English professor says is clue to the ] monotony of machine labor. Ue says that men no longer take interest in their work: that they can’t; that i there is little about it to challwige : their ambition to be skillful, their j hunger for variety; thqt they are bored with standardized motion. The idea is worth a second’ thought, but chiefly because of; where the boredom may drive the; restless, the venturesome, the most; intelligent. -|- -|- -|- 'Break the Watch 1 There is probably more exciise for fire prevention week than for* most i of those periodic spasms which have j come injyith the ‘‘start a movement” craze. The enormous losses which we suffer through tire are due to carelessness and ignorance. They can be prevented to a large extent by calling attention to a few simple precautions. The Boy Scout, who said "Break the match before throwing it down,” saved this country millions. Challenges A Pennsylvania court has just decided that the loss of a big toe is worth $6 a week on the ground that it incapacitates a man for work. Einar Barfod, head of the Pennsylvania Insurance Bureau, and formerly head of the securities bureau, is minus half a foot, but shows no lack oA capacity on account of it, as hundred.-? of crooked stock and bond salesmen can testify. Some men take life as an excuse to whjne about their troubles, while others accept it as a challenge to make good, no matter what happens.

Seeing It Through Einar Barfod was born in Denmark and took to the sea when 14. Five years later found him captain lof a three-masted schooner in the Hutch East Indies. Then he came down with beriberi, which, wrecked all hope of a maritime career in that quarter of tlie world. Drifting to Philadelphia, he took u course at the Drextl Institute 1 and got a newspaper job. The city editor took his broken English to mean that he probably couldn't write and gave him “leg work” in connection with routine political and financial stories, especially the latter. * Barfod made such a reputation as an exposer of shady deals and crooked corporatifcns that when the Philadelphia Better Business Bureau was established he was asked to take ! charge of its investigation department. This bureau went broke after a few months, but rather than quit the thirty cases he had worked up, he sold what little property he had and started a service of his own. This service broi\ght little financial reward, but it gave Barfod such a name that Governor Pinchot placed him at the head of the Pennsylvania Securities Bureau. * The fearlessness and energy with which he conducted that burean has become of nation-wide knowledge. Barfod is the man who worked up the facts with regaud to G. L. Miller and Company. He lost his foot by walking around on it after it had become infected, and after he had been told to go to bed. in order to keep tab on that jtiece of political thuggery which resulted in the importation of eighteen gunmen from New York to intimidate the voters of a Philadelphia ward. -I- -I- -IContrast Pennsylvania, is a state of amazing contrasts—one man getting $6 a week for the loss of a toe, while an* other performs splendid public service in spite of a lost foot, a William S. Vare riding to power through machine politics and misused wealth, "Yvhile the chaste poverty of a William B. Wilson strikes no fire, a Grundy employing his brains and money to debauch primaries, while a Mitten works intellligently and romantically for the betterment of industry. •I- -I- + Nerve Vare, Republican nominee for the Senate in Pennsylvania, made his first campaign speech on Saturday night. He forgot to mention the slush fund, but told working men how much money they had to be thankful for on account of the tariff and exhorted them to sustain the Coolidge administration. If President Coolidge had the proper sense of value, he would tell Vare, as Woodrow Wilson once told George Harvey, and with far less justification, that support from such a quarter is injurious and unwelcome. Another Aspect On the same day tfiat Vare sought to obscure the debauched primary with a smoke screen of platitudes, Thomas E. Mitten, head of Philadelphia's street car system, spoke to the Arrteriean Congress of Industry on his plan to eliminate strikes and increase efficiency. His plan is to make employe* stockholders, to them qhgre in the profit and assume a part of the responsibility. He has put it into effect on the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, where the ( employs already hold more than onethird of the common stock, where fare boxes and ticket clocks /have been done away with, where/there has been no strike threats fox more; than a decade and where tie employes have a disposition to.mcrease efficiency and give better service because It means money iij their pockets. I ,

Bring on the Throne and Place Comedy Crown on the Brow of Harry Langdon

By/ Walter D. Hickman Bring on the comedy throne and place a third seat on it. Meaning

sor 1 Charlie ChapI lin and Harold LJpyd to crowd over and make room for Harry Langdon. Don’t mean for one second that Langdon has kicked Lloyd or Chaplin off the high bench of comedy honors, but. mean that the\ throne should contain three chairs. Rather think you will agree with me in this when you see Longdan in “The Strong

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Man.” First National pulled no i mean trick when they tied this man jup for a contract. Langdon was the I bird who did a “night out” stuht in vaudeville for many years, when it mas ..discovered by the film kings that hud a million-dollar face, Instead of a thousand-dollar vtoice. He has a sort ot a Buster Keaton frozen face, but Langdon rather stretches the possibilities of such a “mug” a little farther than Keaton.* Langdon is a clever showman, and he knows many tricks of the legitimate and variety stage. These trteks he brings befoio the eye .of the camera. The truth is— Langdon gets his best and most noisy fun out of the scenes where he is going it alone. I nearly passed out when he manufactured a cold and began plastering his chest with "anti” something hut got a jar ,of limburger cheese. He finaly admits thut he is getting back his sense of smell. And how? Again heßianded me a comedy wallop upon a big scale when he turned out to he n strong man in disguise. This is an old burlesque idea but i Langdon does it with so much individual. charm that he turns this scene Into one of the comedy delights of the season. There are several comedy scene? in this picture which requires several hundred people? to put it across but Langdon is so powerful in his fun making that he stands out over the j head of the angry mob. You will 1 enjoy that expression after you see this really clever comedy on the screen. Am warning you that you have a right to see a comedy that is crowded full of lots of fun. As as I am concerned the "sob sister" scenes of Langdon could he e.'lm- I inat*d, but such scenes have direct | bearing upon the story.

If you,like this type of a Langdor. comedy, write me at once and if don't to the same, because J am going to write Langdon a longfletter and fell him what you thought of ‘The Strong Man." And I have the hunch thflt he will read it and answer it. So help me write my letter. The Circle Orchestra this week, under the direction of Stolarevsky, is playing selections from "The Burgomaster.” a comic opera which was popular years ago. And the melody is delicious. A mighty good idea to do this sort .of thing, Mr. Stolarevsky. Dessa Byrd is strutting her comedy moments this week again by letting the audience entertain her. It went over to big success when T was present. And there is a cute comedy on the bill. Has the services of a wee comic called “Big Boy.” Found “Parted." another of “Twisted Tales” series having a good idea, hut being poorly directed. A good director would do wonders with the brains back of the idea of this series. At the Circle all week. •!■ -I- -IHISTORY AND SOME INDI AN FIGHTING AT COLONI AL There are many reasons for being interested in "The Flaming Frontier." It has a mighty interesting historical background and one that most of us know something about. It deals with General Custer’s last stand. It takes lot of Indians to put this one on and they have been splendidly handled. They actually act like l imagine Indians acted when they put on a certain terrible slaughter. Well, it is good melodrama at that, done with probably a nice regard to history. An effort ( been made anyw’ay, it seems to put both brains and history into this movie. As it stands now on the screen at the Colonial, it is more than a historical document, it is Interesting and moving entertainment. ‘ The greatest trouble with historical characters on the screen generally is that they act more like ghosts of the past than actual living characters. The director has gone beyond this handicap and the result is that the characters seem to have living things to do. Os course your interest will center upon tffe big fight—when the Indians pulled a terrible Tunney upon General Custer. There is lot of fine intelligent direction in these scenrs and I believe a lot of historical brains. The movie brings out the point that rotten political influences 'caused the downfall of Custer, but the* lesson and assurance js given that the guilty ones were punished. But I am concerned just now in its value as entertainment. / "The Flaming Frontier” will hold your interest and at the same time will give you something to think about. This picture will demand attention. It is more than an Indian picture or a Western. It is big and broad enough in theme to be caMed a movie dealing with a vital event in the history of the country. An Indian Princess sings some songs, one being- a jazz number, in a stage presentation given under the flame of Princess Lillian and Company, called "On the Rio Grande.” It is rather heavy with scenery. As the act developes it turns <out to be a rather modern jazz band- Bill includes a comedy and' orchestral music. At the Colonial all w#ek.~ , J- -!• -IMAC LEAN USES OI.I) FORMULA IN NEW t’O.MEDY £ome of the better known comedians are going back to the aged formula—chase scenes. The chase is really the basis of the

story Arsed by Mac Lean in “Hold That Lion.” The story itself is oldfashioned, and so the treatment hud

to be as old-sash- . ioned as the story. It is one chase from the first reel until the last. Mac- . Lean first chases a pretty girl all over the world to give her. a handkerchief which she dropped, or he thought she did that little thing. Real lions are used in the chase when the party . lands in Africa. Os course it was necessary ■ to Use real lions in the chase because Mac

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Lean had told his girl friend in fine English that he Just/loved to twist the tail of a lion. And the producer gives Mac plenty of opportunity to twist and be twisted. What ever strength this comedy has rests in the way the lion scenes are handled, because the picture is just the regulation stuff until the lions arrive. It is interesting to note that MacLean has the comedy services of Walter Hiers, the fat comediqjt. Hiers hasn’t so much to do but to chase Mac Lean all oyer the world and then finally to be chased by lions. Charlie Davis and his ffang are giving another sta&e presentation this week. Bob Gordon again is at the organ. A comedy film and other events are on the bill. At the Ohio ail week. -!• -I- -I* OLD STYLE SLUGGING PICTURED IN “BLARNEY” Guess it is year 1870. Anyway it is the days when prize fighters didn’t wear gloves tnd when they slugged until one of the fighters eouldn'J drag himself to the center of tl|e ring. "Blarney” is a sort of a little cameo of an ancient day when the women wore hoop skirts, or what ever they called ’em, and the men dolled up like sheiks, although the world didn’t call ’em that then..They were spoken of as “fast anj dashing gentlemen.” Will admit that it took me„quite some time to adjust myself to the atmosphere of "Blarney.” -tnd even after the movie was completed,. I didn't just know what I was going to do about it. It is different, tha*

NERO’S HARMONISTS USED SAXOPHONES >- Weird and Lanquid Moans of Instrument Inspired Roman ‘Sheiks’ in Eprly Days of Love-Making.

Hit United Prrs ROME, Sept. 27. —Nero reclined with his wine and women to the languid and erotically charged strains of an orchestra of primitive saxophones, according to records just revealed by Prof. Federico Celcntano. famous Latin scholar. Exciting “jazz”, oV a forerunner of it, enlivened the eccentric Emperor’s Bacchanalian feasts. Even as far back as 753 B. C. during the rape of the Sabine women when the Romans carried off their neighbor’s spouses, so that they might populate their newly built city, the Romans played gaily on the "tibicius thusci" as they called them. These instruments were imperfect saxophones, forerun! ers of the modern instrument. Vtough the Romans were “cave men” in wooing, they recognized fully the value of a “tibicius thusci” to excite the impulse. Another Rortfan instrument and the "psaterium'' and the "sambuca.” These, the ancestors of the guitar, and the mandolin, were duced in Rome in 186 B. fc. They were played exclusively by women. Their sound was sharp and at the same time languid and fascinating. They produced a strange excitation of the senses and their use was later prohibited by the Christian churcfy. Instead of the modern polyphonic orchestra of mixed instruments, the

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Movie Verdict CIRCLE —Harry Langdon has the right now to occupy a comedy seat mighty close on the throne with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. He wins this honor by his work in "The Strong Man.” First National has the right .to be proud of this one. . COLONIAL —Parents have a duty this week as well as a pleasant task. Take the youngsters to see "The Flaming Frontier,” showing Custer's last stand. ( ' OHIO —Douglas Maclean’s new comedy, "Hold That Lion,” is rather weak -in spots. It picks up near the end in action. And the lion is a good actor. APOLLO —"Blarndy” introduces a rather r w touch to a melodramatic idea. Am still thinking about this one. As far as I am concerned the jury is stifl out. Y'ou probably will say that I am wrong.

we must admit. Maylje it is a little too different. But these laSt few days have been championship fighting ' “contest” days in actual life. A champion has gone down and anew •one 1 put on the throne, for a few months, at least. So "Blarney,” with its naked fist fighting, will appeal to those who enjoy their sports rough and to thg "raw." It all depends upon how tough one likes his lighting. That’s my idea of this one. Ralph Graves is the fighter with the nude fists. Forgot just who fights him, but there are several real fights. There is a human interest yarn about the whole affair. Renee Adoree is in the cast. Shq is that good looking woman with vampire eyes quite atmospheric, I say. Prize light fans will get several knockouts in this one. The bill includes an Alice Day comedy, a musical presentation, Lester Huff at the organ and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all 'week. -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: "Capers of 1026." at the Lyric; Eddie Leonard, at Keith's; “The Wedding Ring,” at the Palace; “The Family Upstairs,” at the Uptown, and "The Texas Streak.” at the Isis. Keith's opened its new season Sunday by attracting marvelous audiences.

Romans had groups of musicians all playing the same instrument. These bands were called "colleges” and were used mostly for military purposes. King Servio Tullio had a band of two hundred musicians of different “colleges’* ad) playing together’ during the battles. The Romans borrowed many of their instruments from the Greeks and the Egyptians, among them the lyhe. Nero was a champion of the lyres. It was this instrument that he played during the burning of Rome insteatj of the fiddle as is commonly supposed.

SCHEME TO KEEP GIRLS ON FARM France Considers Plan to Offer Premiums. Hu Times Special NEW YORK, Sopt. 27.—A new Scheme for preventing the desertion of village and farm life in France has recently been suggested by M. Ambroise Rendu, member of the Paris municipal council. Speaking in the name of the committee of the “Back to the Farm” movement, M. Rendu, according to advices just received, states that the most efficient remedy for high cost of living is to increase production, ancj this can only be done by preventing villago people from emigrating to cities. Tho main thing is to prevent the exodus of girls, as they do not return to the farm after they have tasted town life. To achieve this M. Rendu suggests thdt every girl born in a village should have an Insurance taken in her name at the time of her birth, securing a small capital of 10,000 francs—at her coming of age, this capital to be invested in the purchase of a farm which would enable her to marry and found a home in the country. Os the 350,000 girls born in France every year, about 20 per cent [die before they are 21, and of the remaining 233,000, only about 120,000 live in the country. GAIN STEADY AND RAPID City to Be 1,000,000 Population in 1960, Estimate. The present population of Indianapolis is estimated at 375,000. This compares with 315,000 in 1920 and represents a steady and rapid growth. If the rate of increase prevailing during this period is continued, Indianapolis will be a etty of a million by 1980. Four other cities in the country have grown more rapidly. Witfi the exeception of Boston, Indianapolis is the largest State capital in the country. Os all the capitals it is perhaps the most representative in that it is truly tho governmental, financial and industrial center of the State. What is the population of Au:.tralia and of the cities of Sydney and Melbourne? The estimated population of Australia for 1925 is 5,904,592. The populaton of Sydney is 1,512,G70 and of Melbourne 885,700,

SEPT. 27, 1926 i

Questions and Answers

Y'ou can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing: to The imiianiiDOli* Tillies Washington Bureau. 13:.’" New YorU Ave.. Washington. 1> C.. nii'losing 2 cents in stamoa 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 requests cannot be answered. All letters aivyonfiiicntial.—Editor. When did Fanil Cone die? July 2, 1026, at his home at. Nancy, France. What is ihe per capita wealth of’ the United States? 82,918. . N What years are meant when one speaks of the “early 90’s”? The period just following 1890, thei latter part of the nineteenth century. What is the relationship between tile Crown Princess of Sweden and King George V, King of England? The Crown Princess of Sweden,, formerly Lady Louiso Mountbatton,. Princess of Battenberg, is the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenbeig, sop of Princess Alice, a daughter, of Queen Victoria. The Crown Prln-| eess is a great-granddaughter .of Queen Victoria. George V., King of England, is the son of Edward VII,. Sort of Queen Victoria, and is there-| fore a grandson of Queen Victoria/ Princess Alice, the grandmother of the Crown Princess of Sweden, and! Ed we i’d VII, father of King George' V, were brother and sister, being the children of Queen Victori.M The Crown Princess of Sweden therefore, a second cousin of King' George V. Who is the author of ‘“lffie Big Parade?” | Laurence Stallings. In which moving picture did Rin-Tin-Tin, the dog actor, save a baby front a condor? In "The Night Cry." What is the meaning and derivation of tlie name, “Pasteur?” The name is French for "pastor." On what day did Sept, 16, 1826, come? Saturday. What Is the food value of buttermilk? Should it be taken to gain weight? Buttermilk has practically the! same food value ns skimmed milk anti is given to-infants and persons who are unable to assimilate whole milk, because it is easy to digest. It, contains comparatively no fat, but is high in ufoloin value. Its content is ae follows: Water, M per cent; protein. 0.5 per cent; fat, .5 per cent; mineral matter, .8 per cent and carbohydrates, 4.2 per cent. Fuel value per pound, 160 calories. It will not produce weight, hut is rec- 1 ommended in cases of obesity because it lacks fat-forming ingredients. i ’ In what year was the Indian head one-rent piece first issued? In 1859. Can a declarant for Americai™ citizenship spend several months working for an American firm in a foreign country and have the time apply on Ins residence requirement for naturalization? No. The time spent abroad cannot he counted nor construed as American residence for purposes of obtaining naturalization papers. , What js a quick way to get rid of sunburn? To a teacup of n\)lk add the juice of a lemon. Let stand until the milk curdles. Apply, to the sun- 1 burned parts with a piece of cotton. Are the white keys of a piano l always made of ivory? No. Frequently they are made of celluloid.

MR. FIXIT East Is West, So Street, Signs Say

I/Ot Mr. Fixit pi’f’S'Mit your ease to city officials. lie i The Times represent,itivo at the city hall. Write hint at Tlie Times. East is East and West is West, j bub the twain, contrary to th£ poem, . meet tit Twentieth St. and Boulevard | PI., it appears from a letter Mr. | Fixit received today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The utrecJk marker at Twentieth St. and BoulflJ vard PI., marks W. Twentieth as E. Twentietth. Will you kindly have it fixed right? The said marl:- i er is on a post on the southwest cor- 1 nor of tho street intersection. A TAXPAYER. The health boaijd promised Mr. i Fixit an investigation of an insani- i tary condition in a hack yard in the I 13rto block on W. Ray St. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The one blocki or street paving on E. Twenty-Sec- i ond St., between Central Ave. and i Park Ave., is and has been in very , bad shape since early last spring, j At least twenty holes have been, worn through the paving. CONSTANT READER ON BROAD-, WAY. Repairs will come within the next few weeks. DEAR MR. FIXIT: In front of' 2007 and 2011 Miller St., there several rough places which make it extremely hazardous. The places are' getting worse. We in the neighborhood trust you will give this your prompt attention. MILLER ST. RESIDENT. There will be an immediate investigation. BALANCE TO INDUSTRY; $500,000,000 Annual Crop Value, Estimate. Indianapolis is at the center of a, very rich agricultural area. Crops) produced within one hundred miles) are estimated to have an annual! value of $500,000,000. The chA| products are corn, wheat and gardSW truck. v ’ This agricultural wealth which is! inevitably attracted to the Indianapolis market serves to provide excellent balance to the manufacturing! life of the community and provides* i i a large volume of raw materials tn J Indianapolis factories. | ■