Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 162, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times UOY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. >. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bur. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of the United Presa and the NEA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Published dally except Sunday by Indtanapolia Time* Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3600.

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

THE REAL QUESTION Tho natural curiosity and attention which the bringing hack from his prison cell of D. C. Stephenson, once the political czar of the State, must not overshadow the real question. The people must keep in mind the history of these charges and their nature and the conditions under which they were made. Thomas Adams, of the Republican Editorial Association, published what he said were letters sent from his cell by Stephenson. Those letters declared that he could prove by documents that there had - been gigantic election frauds, purchased for $200,000 two years ago, that, there had been frauds and corrupt votes. He said he could prove bribery in the last election. He said that he could prove other crimes. Adams, telling his story to six Senators, made a demand upon Governor Jackson that these Senators be permitted, with newspaper men of standing, to interview Stephenson and secure from him a statement. There was a refusal to order Warden Daly to open the door when Daly repeatedly refused. Jackson waived Adams to the prison trustees and the trustees upheld Daly—and no one saw Stephenson. For five days there was no interest and no activity. Then every one demanded an injuiry. A week later there is a grand jury ordered to Investigate and the probe has begun, very properly and very earnestly. But the bringing of Stephenson is not the only questton nor should he be the only witness. His word would hardly be evidence anywhere. His documents, if he had them, would. t But common sense may suggest that he may have every reason for refusing to give over such documents. He is under the severest penalty which he can receive. He has no fear of contempt of courts or conviction on charges of perjury. He is in a happy position to laugh at courts. They have given him their worst. , But the question of w r hether he has such documents or did have them at any time is happily not limited to any words from this witness. There is the statement of photographers \vho say they did make copies of documents which this man thought Important tenough to have thus preserved in duplicate after he had received his life sentence and presumably was not interested further in affairs. He might be presumed to have been very much interested In opening those doors at Michigan City by any means at his command. That is the question. What were, those documents which were photographed? Do they still exist? Where are they? And to their discovery or their explanation every good citizen should lend every aid to the prosecutors in thoir effort to find them. AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION Whatever else the grand jury investigation of the charges of fraud, corruption and bribery may produce, it has already revealed a situation which the people of this county should not permit. yWe find there a prosecutor who is intent upon following these grave charges. For Prosecutor Remy, it may be confidently asserted. is Interested not In the fact of whether a convict, serving a life sentence for murder, can be forced to disgorge any documentary evidence of this graft, corruption and fraud, but whether that corruption, bribery and fraud may tvist. His sincerity of purpose was shown when he went outside tho ranks of officialdom and obtained the services of Ralph Kane who has a reputation for being vigilant, sincere and earnest. It may be taken for granted that he desires to disoover whatever evidence may exlßt, whether it comes from a Stephenson who was admittedly in position to know of such graft and corruption if It did exist, but from any others who may have had knowledge of these transactions. But he had to appeal to the police for two officers to serve subpoenas for witnesses. At this time and not for months has he had the assistance of trained investigators to probe and find evidence. Aoeused men have the power to hire men to collect evidence for their defense. The State has no men the prosecutor can trust, to help him send criminals to prison. And in this crisis, it is even more pitiable. If there be frauds and corruption, those guilty have the advantage of the lack of trained assistants, intent on uncovering it, for their own protection. Here is something that must never happen again. The State gnd the people cannot afford to permit their prosecutor to be without the means of corralling and obtaining evidence when crime has been committed. He must not depend upon his friendly or ujjfrien# ly relation with other departments to hamper or make successful the administration of law. OH, MAN, BUT YOU’RE SMART! The average man will admit to himself, secretly at least, that he is smart. Some admit it openly. The educated man finds the farther he goes in the hunt for knowledge, the less he knows. Study brings out the fact that with all our civilization no human government ever has approached in perfection the economy, patriotism, self-sacrifice, devotion, and perpetuity to be found in the government of the honey bees. , Insects are the original paper, silk and honey makers. We have, perhaps, beaten them in the paper business, but our imitation silk is Inferior to the genuine, and our synthetic lioney worse. We noyir have the radio with its great educational possibilities and static tortures, but the insests long have been to signal one another over relatively long distances by some system which we do not understand. One of our problems in illumination is to create a fire which glows, but which does not burn. So far. In our best lights, much of the energy of combustion is wasted in the form of heat. Light-producing insects* such as the fireflies, ( are able to kindle in f *

their bodies a little blaze which is more than 99 per cent light and less than 1 per cent heat. Long before man learned to warm his habitation with fire, the bees had discovered a muscular exercise whereby in very cold weather they could raise the temperature of their homes as much as thirty-five degrees) centigrade. We cool our rooms with electric fans, but before electricity was harnessed the bumblebees had learned to station individuals along their passageways to create cool air currents by constantly fluttering their wings. Had man paid heed to the insect world long ago, the gardener might have learned points in his art from the ambrosia beetle, which plants beds of succulent fungus In its burrows to furnish nourishment for its young. The soldier might have learned the possibilities of poisonous gases in warfare from the bombardier beetle, which hurls discomfiting charges of an acrid gas at its enemies. The surgeon might have found hints on the use of anesthetics from the solitary wasp, which thrusts it drug-laden sting into its spider or insect victim and by that means stupefies and preserves it as food for future baby wasps. *Oh, man. with your little white golf ball, your racing auto, your button that makes light, your radio, if you must admit you are smart, admit it only to yourself! CROWN HER QUEEN In the dismal world w'ltb its stories of graft and sadness and sorrow, there occasionally comes a gleam that restores faith. Look for a moment at the little town of Albany, Ind„ where one woman rises above the ordinary limitations and inhibitions and gives such an example of courage and faith that she is entitled to her crown. In the Star at Muncie. there appears this advertisement set in bold type, that all may read and know: ‘‘To Whom It May Concern: “I am thoroughly Acquainted with the fact that my husband was seen speaking with a woman on the street, Sunday night, Sept. 12. I know where he went and for what purpose he went. I have implicit confidence in my husband, regardless of the insinuations of any person or persons. I am for him first, regardless of gossiping tongues. I will protect him with law if necessary. I know him to be a moral man and a Christian gentleman. (Signed) “MRS. ORAN BELL” Albany, Ind. Is there anything finer in all literature? What a blow to gossip and suspicion and busybodies who would cause more suffering than all the wars of history. OURSELVES AND RUSSIA Next June the fifth international conference of soil science will be held In Washington. According to the United States Department of Agriculture—or at least to Dr. W. W. Weir, the department’s soil expert—the second agricultural country in the world is Russia. Not only that. Dr. Weir tells the United Press, but Russia is second in science of the soil. “Without Russia participating the conference could hardly be a success,’ - said Dr. Weir. But Russia will not participate. The invitations are issued by the State Department and the State Department can not invite Russia because our Government has not recognized the Russian government. Somewhat ridiculous, the fix we’ve got ourselves into with regard to Russia, isn’t it? New York is a city where everybody is trying to push everybody else out of the subway. A move has been launched for speechless dinners. If this succeeds, how'll we ever keep tab on Pat and Mike? A New York grandmother cooked dinner for thirteen on her 105th birthday. How old do you have to be to earn a little rest?

WHAT IF THE DEMOCRATS DO WIN? By X. I). Cochran

Undoubtedly the Democratic party will make gains this year. It may gain control of the United States Senate and largely reduce the Republican majority in the House. But that won’t mean anything so far as the next presidential election is concerned. It may inspire Democrats with hope for 1928, but unless the party stands for something besides geographical strength in the solid South its hope won't be worth ten cents on the dollar two years from now. One trouble with the Democratic party is that there is nothing national about it. It has a sectional skeleton with neither muscle nor flesh on it. Its backbone is the solid South, which has strayed farther away from the bill of rights and the democracy of Thomas Jefferso nthan any other section of the country. The solid South is almost as solidly fundamentalist, prohibitionist and Ku-Klux as it is Democratic. It gets its political inspiration from the Anti-Saloon League, organized and directed by a bunch of Ohio Republican politicians who cooperated wth Harry Daugherty to make Warren Harding President in 1920 and have kept the Republican party in power ever since. , Whatever there is of the liberalism and small “and” democracy of Jefferson is found in eastern and north central States. In the West and Northwest the party has shrunk almost to a memory. The forces within the party that threw the liberalism of Wilson on to the scrap heap and followed after false gods make no appeal to the progresslvism of the West. And the 'Democracy of the dry South and tho West coast are oil and water. They won’t mix into a harmonious political highball. The-McAdoo game for 1928 -appears to be clear enough. It aims at a combination of the South and West doing a political Charleston on a bone-dry platform. But that won’t work. Coolidge could beat it to death and never even peep on prohibition. Other matters than prohibition are involved in the government of this republic. The Republican party has squeezed about all the political benefit out of prohibition. It won’t leave any crumbs for a Democrat. McAdoo and Smith will probably chew each other up as they did In 1924 and make it impossible for any other Democrat to gather up the remains and out of them make over a party that would command enough public confidence to win. The plain truth is that the Anti-Saloon League, under Republican leadership, has led the Democratic party into a deep hole and is sitting on the lid. It will take keener leadership than the party has had in recent years to find a way out of the hole.

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Tracy The Weaker the Background, the Stronger Is the ‘Spotlighter,’

By M. E. Tracy. A moron public furnishes the most wonderful background for wise boys to strut against. The darker they can paint it,' the brighter they can make themselves appear. Scarcely a flay passed but what you see one or more of them rising to remark on the mental dumbness of the common herd. It is a different way of calling attention to their own superiority. -!- •!• -IAn Argument What the public can understand was up for discussion at the Buffalo health convention on Monday. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago thought that health education ma terial should be put in one-sylable words, “because the mental age of the public is 12 years.” Dr. Mathias Nicoll, Jr., health commissioner of New York, said that his State was more conservative in its methods of health education, "probably because the mental age of our citizens is not as low as 12 years." Dr. Bundesen replied that he was certain tests would show that tho mental ages of citizens of New York and Chicago were the same. •I- -I- -IT ests TesYs. indeed, to fit the standards of this or that specialized railing, to prove what the experts in each par ticular line want, to demonstrate not how well people can think, but what they think of somebody's pet theory. Suppose a bricklayer were to test the mental capacity of Dr. Bundesen by handing him a trowel, what age would It disclose? Suppose a plum ber were to ask Dr. Nicoll to wipe a joint, how mature would be appear" •I- -I- IWhat Is a Moron? It has taken Professor r>e La Barre thirteen years to read the eleven-word Inscription on Dighton Rook. The old Portuquese navigator who i put it there was neither very highbrow, nor did he strain himself to create a puzzle for posterity. He probably would havV considered the man ignor. nt who couldn’t read it at a glance. “Miguel Cotereal, 1511 runs the message, “by God’s will, here I be come leader of the Indians.” For centuries this simple legend has defied translation. Shall we say that all the savants who tried to decipher it and failed were dumb, Immature, or morons? -I I- IRuts Much of our psychology, but especially as applied to rating the public's mental condition. is built around the idea of what Reuben doesn’t know about tho city and what the tenement child doesn't know about barn yards. You can take most any man and pick a trade, subject or profession I in which he can’t show the know]- > edge of a five-year-old. not to mention twelve. This is a dav of special knowledge, | special training and special skill. I with the sum total of what men know far beyond the individual’s reach, and with necessity for each of us to follow ruts -I- I- I Burbank's Power It Is comparatively easy to tell what man have learned about a given subject, or how proficient they have become in a given field. It is just as easy to take them off the beaten track and prove how little they have learned, or how Inefficient they are. Luther Burbank could blindfold himself, crawl through a garden and detect each flower by its odor. He had developed the sense of smell to a remarkable degree because it was an essential part of his career. How many people could, or could not have developed it equally well? + -I* + Puzzles You don’t have to go beyond your Immediate circle of friends and acquaintances to realize that a man may be very intelligent in some respects, and very dumb in other at the same time. I know a corporation executive, who worked himself up from office hoy to he head of the firm, who has acquired a wonderful grasp of the business, and who can talk interestingly about its every detail, but who wall not sit at a table with thirteen T know a skillful iron worker, who believes the earth is flat, a musician, who cannot figure interest, a judge who gets lost every time he goes more than 100 yards into the woods. It'ls quite probable that all these men could have been trained to overcame their deficiencies, had th?y possessed the requisite mental capacity, but that they either didri't care, or didn’t have the right kind of a chance. I know a man who couldn’t read or write, hut who acumulated an estate of *4,000.000 and that, too, against the hardest kind of competition. He had one of the brightest minds with which I ever came in contact, could reason quickly and accurately, and remember a multitude of details with amazing precision. In any psychological test based on the alphabet he would not have made the grade of an average 8-year-nld.- When it came to appraising real estate, however, or sizing up mert. or guessing what trade conditions would he three months hence, he was blessed with uncanny judgment. What are'the highest falls in the United States? Yosemite Falls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains In California. They drop 2JS6O feet.

Modern Art Is No Longer a Puzzle Picture When Studied at the Sesqui Ft v- Wfi Ik IlSelrman - ■ - - - - - ■ ■ - -

I By Walter D. Ifickman Modern art is a good deal like modem jazz music, as it takes time to know what it is all about. To be “modern” in tho art world i do s not mean that the artist Is a £*eak or a complete killer of all the i traditions* of art. I have the most simple rule about lieauty in art —find the meaning. There is a meaning to everything, and in art this is essential. Carried my rule into the galleries at the Sesquieentennial in Philadelphia a few weeks ago when I invaded this interesting center. Modern art catches the philosophical side of life and expresses it In a method different from the old school. To this school belongs Vladimor JBoritsky, Russian, who is repreK‘nted at the exhibit with “Dyj namo," “Mother and Child." "Ab- | stract Composition No. 1," “Factory" | and others. When l first rubbed mental elbows with “Tile Dynamo" at the exhibit I had no desire, if 1 could afford It. to have this example of modern art in my possession. At first this thing I was just composed of lines and a | large circle. Suddenly something began to happen In ray brain box. The wheel began to whirl. The white spaces became an electric power as man bowed to the power while others j seemed to control it. My idea of “The Dynamo" may | bo all wrong, but anyway I had a | new mental experience, one which ■ stays with me, haunts me. Even at j night "The Dynamo” in my brain | box becomes a living, whirling thing, humans bowing to it and controlling it at times In Ihe Russian section We have the works of Roerich, Archipenko, Manievich, Feldman. Manievlch, Chernoff. Soudekine, Grigoriev. Fechin, Chickovsky, Burliuk and many others. All of these and many others | await you at the Sesqui in Thila- I ■ delpliia. • • • LF,( TURKS BEING GIVEN IN CITY A scries of lectures for members I of the Herron Art restitute are being giver* on Wednesday afternoons 1 this month. November and Decern- i ber. J. Arthur Mac Lean. director, an-i : nounees the remaining Wednesday j afternoon lectures as follows: „ —Course I.— Course on appreciation. including ar-hi- ! lecture, sculpture pan img ami the graphic i J Arthur Maclean, director, i shadow Sculpture: Ilieli light and i tat Von '**—'Fainting: Color and repreaen- ! ; Oct. 27—Graphic Arte: I.inc. —Course 11. A resume course on the rrnplilr arts including etching engraving, xylography and lithography by Dorothy Blair, assist ant director ~ boy. 3—Xylography The pioneer of • the graphic art- !,. N ° v - 'O—-Engraving: The golden age of I the graphic arts, ! Nov. 17—Lithography: The youngest 1 of the graphic arts "•—Htching: The master of the ! graphic arts. , —Course 111. Study course of paintings: Portrait* I landscapes, murals and genre, by Anna fcasvlniau curator of raintlngs. nfe j—Portraits: Character in paint. I Df*u. n—Landbcapt*: The pictured out- 1 oi-doors Dec. 15—Murals: The painted wall Dec. ‘,2—Genre: Pictures of life and 1 manners. Description of Course No. I.—At least aue very important ob)eet will be tlior- 1 onghly poruee.i and made vital through ! visible contact and actual delineation of . each of its essential elements by each member of the course. Sketchbooks by : everybody lit the class will tie an important and interesting feature of the clas-. . Description of Course So. ll.—Those who have enrolled m the three previous I courses in the graphic arts will be especially interested in tins resume course of I the graphic :gn. Those wiio have no: will be able to secure in this one course . the essential elements of the other three. I Notebooks and illustrations will be presented to members of the course. Description oi Course No 111.—An important picture hanging in the museum I galleries w ill tic used each week as a raaI jor illustration. Notebooks will be presented to class members and small prill’s in black and white and color will be supplied. • • • K. OF C. TO GIVE HIPPODROME SHOW On Thursday night at the Knights of Columbus auditorium, the K. of j C. will give a Hippodrome show as j an event leading up to a Mardi Gras : which they will give soon. I The program Thursday will be as j follows: Overture—nje Dux. Premisr Orchestra. Prelude—lntroduction of girls taking part in the K. C, popularity contest. Interlocutor—Daniel Doyle. Act I.—Oriental dance. Adallne Courtn< y Cathedril. Act ll.—Vocal solo. Mr. Thorpe. St. Johns. Act lll.—Popular number. Stella Haugh, assisted by Goldie Saylor. St. Philip. Act IV.—Harp eolce Catherine Harmon. Vocal solo. Caroline Foltz. Sacred Heart. Act V. —The Pour-Leaf Clovurs. St. Patrick*. Intormisaion. “What i the Mardi Gras?” by Junes E. Decry. Act Vl.—Vocal solo, Mary Feeney, accompanied by L. R. McDonald. Our Lady of Lourdes. Act Vll—Toe dnnge, Marie Dietz. Monolog. Squire Ed Dietz. St. Rocks. Act Vll.—Vocal solo. Mrs. Harold Bridge. Little Flower. Act IX.—Jack Kirby and Audrey Steffen Dancers, assisted by Steve Wilhelm's Orchestra. Holy Name. Act X.—Cornet solo, Joe Dux, assisted by Thomas Lenlhan af the ptario. Act Xl.—Dr. Vance, the musical saw wizard. Act Xll.—Vocal solo. Robert M. O’Connor. assisted by Jeaiiette Foster. St Joan of Arc. Ac t JIT. —Piano solo, Jeanette Foster. Act XIV. —Antonio Uiccopini, accordion soloist. I I- IIndianapolis theaters today offer: “Artists and Models,” at English’s; The Modena Revue, at Keith’s: Mil-ler-Marks Revue . at the Lyric; Gene i Groene at the Palace; “The Old Soak," at tho Colonial; “You’d Be Surprised,” at the Apollo; “The Quarterliack," at 'the Ohio: “Subway Sadie,” at the Circle; “High Steppers.” at the Uptown; “The Son of the Sheik," at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. YES, WE SHOULD WORRY Expert to Find Kind of Autumn Weather Mars Is Having. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—What kind of autumn weather they’re havi ing in Mars will be determined by X>r. W. W. Coblentz, Government scientist. The expert is on his way to Flagstaff, Ariz., to measure temperatures on the planet, now 40,000,000 miles j from the earth. j A tiny little instrument called a thermocouple makes the feat pos sible. Light from Mars, caught in j a giant telescope. Is focused on a metal bead smaller than a pin head. l'Vom this bead lead two hair-like wires of different metals. As the bead becomes heated by the Martian light, a faint electric current is generated Sn the wires. By measuring this current, Dr. Coblentz will pe able to estimate what a thermometer would register or Mars.

Why Investigate?

Isaac R. Strouse, of Rockville, Ind., former collector of -Internal revenue and husband of the late Mrs. Juliet V. Strouse who for many years contributed to an Indianapolis newspaper as “The Country Contributor” gives his views upon the Adams probe in the following letter to The Times. Have his fellow Republicans advanced a single reply to the charges made by Thomas Adams, chairman of a duly appointed committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association which has not been both irrelevant and illogical? It was several days after Mr. Adams had made his charges that any public notice whatever was given to them. Then came the first notice of any kind to appear in the Indianapolis evening paper supporting Senators Watson and Robinson in this campaign, although both in Indianapolis and Chicago and charges had been made, even sensationally, by reputable newspapers. For five days the startling episode had been systematically suppressed. The entire substance of the things finally printed in the Republican evening paper in its sloshing around for something to say was a shifty pronouncement by a State Chairman Walb and a hastily gathered coterie of hard-and-fast Republican editors. Walb sought to place the Adams disclosures in the category of “campaign lies," and the editors unanimously bulletined from the aristocratic environ of the Columbia Club, notice that Mr. Adams had "no authority” to speak for the editorial Association. The next day this prop was knocked from under them by an other intellectually honest editor —J Frank McDermond —when he. as president nf the' Association announced that Mr. Adams did have official capacity in making his disclosures. Os course it was entirely Irreveiant whether Mr. Adams had or had not the "authority” the editors had called in question. The only point at issue was the truth of the things he had charged. I know exactly the position Mr. Adams is in. During a period of nearly thirty years as a member of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association I was often badly beaten

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This test has been designed to gauge the extent of the child’s Information on general topics. The correct answers to the questions appear on page 14 1 : 1. What’s wrong with the accompanying picture? 2. What was Napoleon’s last name? 3. On what day of the week is Thanksgiving always celebrated? 4. What name did Robinson Crusoe give to the man he found on the island where he lived? 6. What is the capital of Oregon? 6. What’s the difference in the meaning of the words “borrow” and “loan"? 7. How many hours difference are there between Chicago and San Francisco time? 8* What do the stars in the American flag represent? 9. How many rounds was the Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight championship fight? 10. What was the wish of King Mldazi?

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in conflicts with the same type of thick-and-thin Democrats every time we sought to pass some kind of forward-looking resolution or to thwart the purposes of the party machine —such as railroading instructions for Parker through the State convention in 1904, And defeating our attempt to indorse Governor Marshall’s plan to nominate a Senator in 1910. I know all about that old reactionary breed of "safe and sane” editors in the same way Mr. Adams is coming to know them. Then came the avalanche of de- ' for a full and complete “investigation” from ihe Governor, who five months before had said he could see “nothing good” in an investigation; from the State chairman, who, the day before, had sought to relegate the thing to the realm of “campaign lies”; from Senator Watson and from Senator Robinson; from this and that lesser luminary in a murky crisis which drove them into a position as utterly illogical as the one which assumes that a tariff on the farmer’s wheat will raise its price, while the same tariff will cause the iron and steel nf the implements with which he garners it to fall in price; that the wool the farmer sells is made higher by the tariff, and the woolens he must buy are made lower. Such now is the elastic logic of these sorely perplexed politicians to meet the charges of an honest Republican editor. Why investigate? Were these gentlemen right when they ignored or discredited the thing they now demand shall be investigated? That’s what Mr. Adams has been trying to do for a long while, and that’s exactly what the Governor and the res} of them have been trying to suppress. If Mr. Adams speaks spuriously now, he spoke just as spuriously six months ago, and when if he did so speak the opportunity to show him( up would have been welcomed. If he now speaks at the eleventh hour, who Is responsible for its lateness. ISAAC R. STROUSE, Late Collector of Interna! Revenue, Rockville. 3 REPORTED MISSING Son of Police Officer Tells Plans for Mexican Trip in Note. Police sought three missing persons today. Mack Boyer. 5. of 2616 White Avo., disappeared, we: ring a waist and trousers, with no coat or hat. Carl Macy, 15, son of Glyndon Macy. police emrgency driver, is missing from his home at 939 Tibbs Ave. According to his' father, tho boy left a note disclosing his plans to go to Mexico. A patient. 19, escaped from the Central Hospital for Insane. DUTY TO U. ,S. TOLD Italians Should Support Sound Government, Consul Says. “Every Italian in this country should realize that the fact that Columbus, John Cabot, Sebastian and others of our native lands were powerful factors in the discovery and consequent advancement of this great nation, makes our duty to encourage apd propagate sound government ah the greater,” said Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, Italian consul for Indiana, in a talk before the Queen Marguerite Society at the Claypool, Tuesday night. Following the banquet, Harry R. Raitano, attorney and Louis Salzarulo, former Richmond city councilman, were honored In recognition of their services rendered tho Italian Red Cross. r When does the wind travel the fastest? In hurricanes, sometimes attaining a velocity over 100 miles per hour.

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OCT. 18, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to nn.v question of fact or information b.v wrijinir • to Tho Imliananolis Time* Wa-hinuton. Bureau 1322 N w York Ave., W ishin.'A| ion it V. itieloeinß 2 rents in slamnM for reply. Medical. iPi-oil anil advice cannot be siven nor pan extended research bo unTertaken. All other questions will receive a personal rcnly, Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor, When did the beauty contests at Atlantic City start and who were ilia winners? The contest started in 1921, Miss Margaret Gorman of Washington, D. C., being the first to win the title of Miss America. Mary Catherine Campbell of Columbus, Ohio, was the winner in 1 ”22 and 1923. In 1924 Miss Ruth Maleolmson of Philadelphia was the- winner, and in 1925, Miss Fay Lamphier of Oakland, Cal., won the contest. Miss Norma Smallwood of Tulsa. Okla., was the winner this year. What Is tho address of .Tiddii Kirshanamiirfl, the Indian mystic who recently came to this country? Address him in core of Annie Besj ant, Point Lorna, San Diego, CaL | What proportion of (lie population : of Russia is engaged in agriculture? Nearly 70 per cent of the popula- : tion engage in agriculture under norj mal conditions. About 230,000,000 | acres are cultivated, the chief crops i being cereals (wheat, barley, oats) 1 sugar, beets, tlax, tobacco, potatoes and corn: There are vineyards in the south and southwest. Hors* l breeding and cattle and sheep ra.is ing are carried on on a largo sealjg especially in the steppe region. H How are suede jackets washed? In warm water with pure soap suds to which household ammonia has been added —about one table spoon to a gallon of water. Rinse ■lightly and stretch to the desired size to dry. Where was Shelley, the English poet, born, and how did he die? He was born at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. Aug. 4 1792. He was drowned in 1822 while on a voyage from Leghorn for Leric.l. His body was washed ashore in Tuscany where quarantine rogula tions at the time required that what ever came ashore from the sea should be burned. body was accordingly reduced to ashes These were collected and interred in the Protestant burying-ground at Rome, near the grave of his friend Keats. What is the value of silver Scent pieces dated 1852 and 1865 and a nickel one Hated 1865? The ones dated 1852 and 1865 are valued at 5 to 25 cents and 25 to 75 cents, respectively; the nickel one is valued at 5 to 15 cents. How much pure gold is in a §2O gold piece and how much silver in a silver dollar? S2O gold pieces have 464.40 grains fine gold and 51.6 grains copper alloy. Silver dollars have 371.25 grains silver and 41.250 grains copper alloy. Is there an acid that will rtissolvjf asbestos? Is asbestos soluble il water? Asbestos is not soluble in water nor in ordinary acids. Hydroflourie acid will dissolve it and it is slowly soluble in aqua regia and other strong mineral acids. Asbestos filters are frequently used for acid solutions. When was Brooklyn Bridge started and ’when was it opened to the pubHe? It was begun in January, 1870, and opened May 24, 1883. How was the “magic carpent” operated in “The Thief of Bagdad"? A carpet was suspended by piano wire, and a specially built mechan ism whisked it over the set at twen-ty-five miles an hour. The camera and projector created the Illusion of infinitely greater speed. Where was the first newspaper printed? The. earliest newspaper is supposed to be the Chinese Tching-pao, or “News of the Capital,” which has appeared daily In Peking since 760 A.D. It consists chiefly of official news, decrees, etc.