Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1926 — Page 4

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THE WATSON ALIBI At last Senator James E. Watson has given his alibi for the swift assurance he sent from his hospital to a panicky crowd of former Stephenson adherents. He says that he has no objection to the Reed committee coming into Indiana to investigate, but he felt that inasmuch as the life term convict had limited his offers of proof of corruption to two years ago, his colleagues in the Senate would not be interested. There is Watsonism at its best. He knew, of course, that the power of the Reed committee is limited to investigations of frauds in the senatorial primaries of this year and the coming elections in which senatorships are at stake. He also knew that here in Indiana the men who have charge of the election are quaking in fear lest the inquisitive Reed with his unusual powers of divination, should probe the truth of the charges made by StephensonHe knew, as all men know, that Reed, if he should ever prove these matters, would not be satisfied with inquiring whether this convict is now ready to confess. He would want truth and only the truth. He knew that many men in this State were in fear that Reed might try to find out whether the charges were true, not whether the felon in his cell is ready for revenge and has cast away all hope >f forcing his way to freedom by expose of his once dmitted power. And with the true Watson touch, he overlooked he one’reason for the coming of Reed and his comlittee to Indiana. Watson, sick as he is, has been in conference ith Clyde Wall), who was at his bedside when ho ve out the interview. * Watson knew, as the world knows, that Walb, , i head of his campaign, has made certain definite : unqualified charges of corruption. Walb charged, in an open letter sent to Senator h and given to the press before it was put in .nail oha 'gcd these things: . h it tb*rc -s evidence everywhere of corrupT si th' money of international bankers in V.’nt "trcct is in every precinct in this State—t! ere arc 3 451 precincts. That Walb everywhere sees the activities of ' .hr. paid corruptionists. That the purpose of this corruption of the f, ate is the defeat of Senators Watson and Robinon and the Congressmen on the Republican cket. Senator Watson is too shrewd even to suggest that under these charges the Reed committee is not fully empowered and directed to make a full and free Investigation. Senator Watson says he is now not opposed to i probe by the Reed committee. Up to date there is no record that he has asked Senator Reed to come here and prevent the wholesale corruption directed at his victory and success which his chairman, Walb, says is evidenced everywhere In the State. No one, of course, expects Robinson to act until after Watson has nodded. His silence is quite understandable. The Watson interview is in keeping with his entire record, a subtle trick, that means nothing at all. He consoles his backers with the thought that Reed, honest and efficient, has no power to part the <• rtains of 1024. That assurance is twisted into it denial that- lie her- opposed a probe at all. Rut he has not asked for an investigation, and if what Walb has said is trite, he is being fought with corrupt money in a campaign of slander and abuse by hired gossips and libelers. If Watson were such a target, would he be not the first, to ask for an Inquiry? As it. stands, the Times which first asked for an investigation of the Adams charges, is now bereft of any appeal from Watson when it demanded that there be an, inquiry into the truth or falsity of Walb’s charges Certainly, Senator Watson has no doubt that Walb could prove all he charged. Or has he such a doubt? i

BRITAIN’S CHOICE, T..e ten-year duel between Britain’s former Liberal premiers, David Lloyd George and the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, came to a dramatic climax yesterday when announcement was made of the Earl's "irrevocable ’ retirement as leader of the Liberal pa rty. The hostilities began in 1916, in the middle of .he war. Backed by the famous proprietor of the London Times, the late Lord Nocthdiffe, Lloyd George, then minister of munitions, disagreed with Premier Asquith over the conduct of the war and Mr. Asquith, as he was then, was forced out of office. He had held the premiership longer than any other one man for a century. The split in the Liberal party, which began then, has only widened since. Today its very existence is threatened. One faction might well go over to the Conservative party of Premier Baldwin —Sir Alfred Mond, a former Liberal cabinet member recently did that very thing—while most, if not all of the others could just as easily merge with the Laborites of former Premier Ramsay MacDonald. For the past six months the quarrel between Llyod George and the Earl of Oxford and Asquith—as be became last year—has beeh partciularly bitter. At the time of the great general strike, the former gave his sympathies to the strikers, wh’le the Earl, fearing the British Empire was about to go to pieces, sided against them. Normally differences of opinions such as these are important only to the politicians directly involved. The present, however, comes as merely one of a long line of circumstances such as led Dean Inge of St. Paul's London, to express the doubt in his new book, “England,” that Britain may not long remain a great ftorld power. The coal strike, which led to the general strike six months ago, is still in full blast, though the miners to be weakening and will probably

lose. If they do, it will only be because they are broke, cold and hungry- • This means that Britain's millions of workers may go back to the mines or contniue in the mills, but sullen and bitter and biding their time to strike back. This constitutes an ever-pjesent peril to the British Empire, a peril due to the inability of British employers to adapt themselves to modern conditions and an apparent short-sightedness on the part of Britain’s political leaders. In the midst of all this unrest at home the British Imperial conference Is ready to begin its sessions in London. And there, again, are signs which Dean Inge would characterize as ‘'unfavorable" to the empire. Every one of the British dominions overseas is demanding 'home rule in ever-increasing quantities while some, like South Africa, are talking of “sovereign independence.” Canada, more than once, has frankly informed the mother country that London-made treaties would not be binding on her and that in the event of war she would always decide for herself whether to go In or remain neutral. There has never been a time in ali the history of the empire when sane, far-sighted leaders! ip was more needed in Britain than it is now. Aid seldom has there been dissension in the political ranks. TV ship of state seems drifting, and not any too far from the rocks, while the crew is in semi-mutiny and the pilots wrangle among thefhselves as to the course to steer. As in a moment of crisis during the great war King George uttered the cry, ‘‘Wake-up. England!" he might well sound a similar alarm now. BEANS WITHOUT SUNLIGHT Eliminating the sun completely Government scientists plan to grow soy beans with ordinary electric light. Using actinic properties they have managed already, according to Washington dispatches, to make the violet bloom eight months in the year They have made the December poinsettia flower in summer and the June Iris In winter. They are investigating also the effect of high voltage lines upon growing plants. Some day the connection between electric power and agriculture will be completed. It is to be hoped that that day will find the electric power —Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam included—being produced for the people's use and not primarily for private profit. TO THE VERY END The stability of government demand $ that the injuiries into not only the Stephenson but also the Walb charges be carried to the very end. It Is not a matter of partisan politics. It Is a matter of government itself. If (he charges of graft made by Stephenson are true, and It is certain that at one time this convict had documents which he prized so highly that they vt-ere photographed and preserved, the guilty accomplices of this convict in his political crimes must be found. If Walb has any evidence'of a State-wide slander plot, he must produce his proof. It would be too bad if officials fail and the sharp message of Senator Borah to Attorney General Gilliom that if officials fail, the people will take care of the matter be the only defense. Officials must not fail.

IF THEY ABOLISH HELL lly N. I). Cochran

If Archbishop York succeeds in his campaign to abolish hell there may bo complications the reverend clergyman didn’t think of. Anyhow, there arc two sides to the‘argument. Undoubtedly there would be advantages in getting rid of hell, but it is such an old-established Institution that most of us have got used to having it around the house and many would miss it more than the ardh-. bishop might think. Hell as we understand it is no nice place None of us wants to go there, but millions of people since the invention of hell have prized it as a place to which they would like to send others whom they don't like. Just what the satisfaction was that men got out of telling people to go to hell isn't easily definable, but there was a satisfaction just the same. ’ True, the mere telling didn’t get results. We never heard of anybody who went to hell Just because he was ordered there, but telling him, to go answered some mysterious purpose. It enabled a fellow to get something off his chest; and that always furnished a sort of relief. It isn’t easy to visualize Hell unless you have read Dante's "Inferno” and have seen the terrifying illustration by Dore, but in many minds the idea of hell brings up pictures of bottomless pits with everlasting tire, populated by the suffering souls of humans who had sinned terribly during their brief time on earth. Anyhow, what kind of a place hell was depended a good deal upon each individual imagination, which was helped not many years ago by graphic descriptions hurled at the wicked from many pulpits. The hell I heard about when I was a boy was a perfectly horrible Methodist hell, and I was terribly afraid of it. In later life, however, l found so many different kinds of hell that were visible to the naked eye, and painfully feel*>le, that the hell of my boyhood faded from the picture, Along with it went the old devil with horns, hoofs, pitchfork and pointed tail. Hell was a very useful invention, just the same—that is, for some people who knew hcrw to use it. It helped some parents to make children mind. And it was easier to frighten them into submission than to waste time appealing to their reason. Mriny a child in the past centuries has obeyed orders after being told he would go to hell if he didn’t. And if abolish hell now, it's going to make some parents find some other way of making children mind than by scaring them to'death. It will also make it more difficult for some preachers to make people be good. If there is no hell, where in the dickens can fundamentalist preachers send the wicked? Take Bill Sunday, for instance. How is he going to reform the world if he can't shake his fist at the devil and send all the people who don’t agree wit i him to hell? Somehow or other I'm afraid many of us will mis;i hell if it Is taken away from us. It had almost become a part of the home. Life itself seemed to get its spice from a judicious mixture of a little bit of heaven and a little bit of hell. There was-real comfort in the thought that we were going to heaven where we could look down and see all our enemies in everlasting torment In a brimstony hell. And if they take hell away from us, isn't there some danger that we’ll lose heaven, too? If there is to be no hell for sinners, can we feel certain that they won’t take heaven away from us saints? Os course. Archbishop York is an Englishman, hut if he deprives England of her time-honored Episcopalian hell there’s no telling where the Idea will stop. I may lose my Methodist hell. And that would be hell. Next—Judge Gary and a Jim Crow Heaven.

THE INDIAN AUOLiS TIMES

Tracy Wobbly Leadership Is to Blame for G. 0, P. Scandals,

By M. E. Tracy “The Republican party faces a hard and uncertain fight to control the Senate,” says Senator Foss of Ohio, after conferring with President Coolidge. You hardly know whether he borrowed the idea from his chief, or whether it burst spontaneously from his own brooding soul. In either case, it is candid and probably correct, hut when the noble Senator gets to qualifying it he becomes less open and logical. ‘‘There Is no real Interest in the Issues,” he laments, “but local con ditions appear to embarrass the party,” just as if the former had nothing to do with the latter, or vice versa. • I- I- -IWhy Is It? What are the issues in which there Is no interest, or the local conditions that have wrought such embarrass ment. Why won't the people, grow jubilant over prosperity, or cheer for the tariff and why will they get so excited over slush funds. Klan machines and dry straddles? •I- I- -IRaw Spots The Republican party is full of raw spots. There are belts in New York and Oregon which threaten the defeat of two badly needed Senators. There is a storm In Indiana that seems likely to destroy the further usefulness of Jim Watson, and another in Illinois that may prevent Sam Tnsull's protege from doing big business any good. There is a scandal In Pennsylvania so rotten that one Republican Senator Is supporting the Democratic candidate just to show his decency. -I- I- I* A Dollar Government The assumption is. especially at Washington, that the defections in Xew York and Oregon, the bought primaries in Pennsylvania and Illinois. the uproar over Klan control in Indiana, the slumping fortunes of Butler in Massachusetts, the almost certain defeat of Williams in Mis souri and Harreld in Oklahoma, have no connection with the way national affairs have been managed. Ts you will think hack a bit, you will have no trouble In discerning a very definite connection. This country has had a dollar Government for the last s'x years—a Government that thought, talked and functioned in terms of cash. Whether In the passage of appropriate bills, the levying of taxes, or the formulation of a foreign policy, the balance sheet has been the rule and guide. Why shouldn’t Fall and Daugherty think of their own careers in the same way and if the opportunity to make a little on the side presented itself whv should thev hesitate 0 •I- -I- .-INo Real Leadership • s Practicaly every Instance of misconduct has been exposed by Democrats, or independent Republicans. Ts It had not been for the tumult raised by men opposed to the administration. who ran doubt that most of the delinquents would have hung on? The Impression that sin consisted in getting caught went straight down through the Republican party. If there had been a wide-awake leadership at the top, this country -would have been afflicted with no such scandals as have appeared in the middle and at the bottom, and the Republican party would not be facing so many “local conditions." Varo and Pepper were willing to souse Republicans with money because of the prevailing philosophy In their party that money Is God. Jim Watson got tangled up with the Klan in Indiana and Steuer In Ore gon because of the prevailing Idea that It doesn’t matter who you associate with so long as you win.

Wiggly Leadership Indecision leadership means a demoralized following. That, and that alone, is what ails the Republican party. That, and that alone, is responsible for all these “local conditions.” "There Is no real interest in the issues,” as Senator Fess puts It, because no one can tell where the Administration stands on any. It wiggles with regard to the world court, just as It wiggled with regard to Fall, and seems about as interested in the farmers as it was in Daugherty. Pretending to be against modification of the Volstead act. It wants Wadsworth, a rabid modificationist. elected in New York. It is just as anxious to have Willis, a rabid dry. elected in Ohio. All it wants is men who will stay hitched, no matter what they believe with regard to any question. -I- -I- -IOut of this easy attitude comes the local’ condition, the lack of concert. the hodgepodge in American politics. The people of the United States can’t do anything but vote for candidates according to localized sentiment and localized problems. What is the Carnegie Institute of Washington, I). C'.? It was founded by Andrew Carnegie by a gift of $10,000,000 made Jan. 28. 1902, to which he added $2,000,000 on Dec. 10, 1907. and $lO.000,000 on Jan. 10. 1911. The articles of incorporation declare in general, .that the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage in the broadest and most liberal manner investigation, research and discovery and the application of knowledge to 'the Improvement of mankind. It is controlled by a board of twenty-four trustees. It employs a corps Os trained who Conduct research work.

Meet the ‘3 Bad Men’ —Mike, Bull and Spade—in a Movie That Is a Triumph

By Walter f). Hie.kinan. Be sure and meet the "Three Bad Men.’ Their names are Mike Costigan. Bull Stanley and Spade Allen. All three of ’em and many others are in "Three Bad Men." a photoplay released under the Fox Banner and directed by John Ford. Am measuring by words —“Three Bad Men" to me is a better and

even bigger picture than “The ('overod Wagon.” 1 never thought that there could be a better epic picture that .the "Wagon,” but after seeing "Three Bad Men” I am forced to admit that there is more real entertainment and more great theater in this one than in the "Wagon.” And the world will remember John Ford as a director

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by his human work in putting over one of the largest and most important easts assembled for many months to make one picture. Am telling ycki that when I saw •Three Bad Men” at the Colonial I became so excited, laughed so much and then got so* excited all over again that I began to talk right out in meeting. If this picture don’t come nearer pleasing one hundred people out of every hundred then Gama mighty poor judge. In the ttrst place Ford had a big story to work with—the opening of the Sioux lands to the public, a land supposed to be rich in gold. Ford had a complete understanding of what gold will do with the hearts and brains of men and women. He knew the tragedy and the comedy which attends a gold rush, although it happened many years ago. "Three Bad Men" is about as human a picture as has ever been made, and that, is due largely to the genius of Ford, the director and his cast of principals. Am told that about 25.000 people took part in the making of "Three Bad Men." I can't even estimate how many covered wagons, horses and other buggies were used. It looked like thousands to me. First look at this cast of principals; Dan O'Malley , Oeorae O'Brien Lee Carlton Olfw Borden I.avne Hunter I.ou Tellrreii Mile P.mtixan .1 Farrell Mi- Dm ,1(1 Bull Stanley . ... ... Tom Santevhi Spade Allen Frank Campeau Joe Minak Georae Harrie Old Prospector Jav Hunt Midie Stanlei Prig.-ills Bonner /. ick I.cello Otis Harlan Pat Monahan . Walter Perry Millie's Pal . Grace Gordon Rev Calvin Renaon . . . Alec B. Fraud* General Neville Georac Irvine Prairie Beauty PhylTl* Haier The headline billing of the cast goes to O’Brien and Olive Borden but the throe men who really make the picture the great human doument that It Is arc MacDonald. Santschi and Campeau. When T name my ten best pictures of this season. "Three Bad Men" will be In that list and the actors playing the "three” will he given eredit for giving three of the most human characterizations that the screen has ever reflected. My praise for these three actors does not take away any of the credit which Miss Burden and O'Brien deserve. The truth l. O'ftrlen Jumped several miles in my estimation as a real actor by his work In this one

Re prepared for about as big a spectacle as you have ever seen. T am speaking about western pictures. T have in mind “Ren Hur” but that picture will he handled later when It comes to this city. Here are some nf the big things you will see in "Three Rail Men": First—As sweet and natural a love story as one would want to see. SecoTtd Such big scenes as the thousands waiting in one great line to make the rush to the promised hand of gold And whpt a rush. One of the most exciting scenes T have ever seen. Third—The great big human qualities of the "Three Rad Men” themselves And what natural comedians they are as well as dramatic actors. And when the "Three” take their last shots which puts them over the border, you are hound to have the feeling that they were too good and too had (the right sort of bad) to die. Fourth—The t melodramatic suspense which Is held through every foot of film. And here Is real theater, moving and thrilling dramatic action. The burning of the church is just one of the many big ones that increases the dramatic tension. . Fifth—The ability of Ford to take advantage of the comedy element even before a dramatic background. There are many other things T could call your attention to. But T ask you if you are a father and a mother —let the children see this one and don’t miss it yourself. Here is ode .picture that deserves capacity at every performance. Here Is one picture that can not he overpraised. It deserves every word spoken and written in its behalf. Rill includes The Four Stines on the stage, orchestral music by Flnvd Thompson and his organization, a news reel and other event. At the Colonial all week. -I- -|- -IIRANEZ DRAWS ANOTHER MIGHTY EVIL WOMAN When Ibanez makes his women evil ones he gives ’em tons and tons of that quality. Elena in “The Temptress,” by

Movie Verdict COLONIAL "Three Rad Men" is a better picture than "The Covered Wagon." One of the best pictures'ever made so far. CIRCLE —"Mare Nostrum” Is a powerful drama of the sea. Intelligently acted and directed. OHlO—Bebe Daniels in “The Campus Flirt,” is again the Bebe that one loves to see on the screen. APO LLO— "The Tern pt less, ’ ’ another Ibanez drama about an evil woman and a lot of foolish men. Powerfully acted by Greta Garbo, and Antonio Moren.

Ibanez seems to have a corner on that quality known as sending men to Hades, and even when Elena

wants to send 'em on the straight and narrow she finds somebody getting killed or their face caved In just because they happen to be a friend of hers. Am judging Elena as she is played In “The Temptress” by Greta Garbo. Miss Garbo Is one woman that has that eontliental something which few women on the screen possess. You either have that seme-

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thing or you don't. And Miss Garbo has It. whatever It is. Elena's victims are. many. Including M. Fontenoy. a banker; Canterac, Plrovani and others. She nearly made a wreck out of Robledo, : but the others Sot killed and he didn't. But the temptress became an awful looking old creature in her last days. I had no sympathy for her at any time. And 1 do not know if Ibanez ever intended that I or anybody should have any sympathy for hV-l\ "The Temptress" is what may he called a typical Ibanez story. Ibanez always lets his men bo regular fools over a worthless but pretty woman. It all Sounds yather silly but Ibanez has the trick of making it sound i very real in his stories and photoplays. Greta Garbo holds the center of the stage with Antonio Moreno, who is also in the other Ibanez picture on view In this city this week. Elena is an awful cheat and Miss Garbo makes her just that and nothing more —a clever and dangerous cheat. The cast Is as follows: i Elena Greta Garbo Robl.-do Antonio Moreno , Martofl Duro* Roy D Arcy I M Fuiitenov Marc MaeDerniott Canterac Lionel Barrymore ; Celinda , Virginia Brown Fairr Torre Bianca Arniand Kaliz Josephine Aly* MnrreP Plrovani Robert Anderson Timoteo Francis McDonald Roias Hector V Sarno Sr bandana Inez Gomez Salvador® Steve Clomerto Trinidad ... Roy Coulson Bill includes a Newlyweds comedy, a news reel. Russell Robinson and his orchestra and Lester Huff at the organ. At the Apollo all week. -!- -I. on ING LOT OK THOUGHT TO IBANEZ’S ‘‘MARE NOSTRUM" Vicente Belasco's Ibanez can create the most evil and scheming women that inhabits the land of fiction. Such a woman is Frey a Ferragui, a German and Austrian spy in th? Word War as related in "Mare No-, trun .” meaning “Our Sea," because so n.any members of the Ferragut family of sailors rest on the bottom of the sea. Ibanez is an intelligent author, and he knows how to draw characters along dramatic lines. “Mare

Nostrum" has a war background just as “The Four Horsemen" had. This author builds characters hot h strong and evil as well as good qualities. In this movie Frey a is played by Alice Tepry; An- | tonio Moreno is I Ulysses and the I picture was dirceti ed by Rex Ingram. The foreign atmosphere has been well maintained. The scenes on the sea are filled with real salt water, not

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!an imitation sea. There is a lot of ; magnetic charm In "Mare Nostrum.” It is a big picture, well acted and, directed. Cruel warfare is the background of the story during the j World War and is also the motive which causes Ulysses to revenge the death of his, little son, who was lost I when a German submarine destroyed a passenger boat. Os course. Ulysses was the real cause of all the

Who Is She?

A variety of subjects are louched upon in this test. You’ll find the correct answers to the questions on page 12: 1— Who is the actress shown in the accompanynig picture? 2 What ate t}ie French words indicated by the letters “R. S. V. P.’’? 3 What college dpes Benr.y Friedman, football star, attend? 4 What is the name of Almee Seipple McPherson’s mother? B—With what baseball team is Rogers Hornsby? 6 What States border the Gulf of Mexico? 7 Who is Betsy Ayres? 8— In what State is the source of the Arkansas River? . 9—Who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”? 10 —What special privilege has a "king" In the game of checkers? *

trouble, because he fell In with the evil plans of Fre.va and her German agent friend, one Dr. Fedelmann. a most evil and powerful woman spy and agent. Ibanez plays "square” with his characters. Freya was a bad sort, and she paid the price of being a spy. She was shot at sunrise. She dolls up in her furs and jewels and faces the "goodnight firing squad.” And Ulysses also paid the price for his revenge—his ship went down, he with it. “Mare Nostrum" is high class photoplay entertainment. It moves like a legitimate show from one climax to another. The cast has been wisely j selected as to types, as follows: The Triton Uni Apollon Don Esteban Ferrasrut Alex Nova His Son, U'ysses Kadu-Abd-cl-Kader ■Jarairol Hushie Mack Fre.va Talherx Alice T- tv Ulysses Ferrafrut Antonio Moreno I His Wife. Dona Cinta Mile, Kitlinou Their Son. Esteban . . . Michael Brantford Their Noire, I’epita Rosita Ramirez Toni the Mate Fredrick Marfntli Dr. Fedelmann Mme. Paquerette Count Kaledine Fernand Mailly Submarine Commander. Andre vonEngelman "Mare Nostrum” has been a long ! time coming to this. city. New Yorkentertained it at legitimate show prices for many months. It is one of the more important pictures. Stolarevsky has arranged a musical score which brings out. the dramatic beauty of the story. The music helps one to> catch the beauty of the legend part of the story. Because of the great length of the picture, the hill includes a short orchestral prelude to the movie, a news reel, a novelty event on the screen and the Circle Chat. At the Circle all week. -I- I- -IBEBE HAS A GRAND TIME IN “CAMPUS FLIRT" Never have seen Bebe Daniels in a moviq that I didn't have the thought that she just “loves" to act. About a year ago, I saw Miss Daniels actually make many scenes o.n board a ship

hound for Bermuda. She puts lots of joy into her work. She must have loved to make “The Camp us Flirt," her latest effort to make the world a happier place to live In. You know that Bebe does not tackle cAmplex movies or high drummer. She likes to play a cutup character and she sure does put the heart into

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such characters. The reason that this woman has such a big following is that she gives her public the impression that she is always having the best time ever. She is at her best in out of door scenes where ahe can race. swim. ! light, romp or do anything along I sport lines. | College stories are mighty popu- ( lar these days and Bebe has a cute j little story of campus life In "The Campus Flirt." Bebe first starts out ! to Rttz Colllege, but she learns the lesson that nobody likes a snob. Aftd so when Robe, throws away her | grand manners her French ac l ! rent and becomes a real Yankee girl ! and a star runner on the girl’s track team she finds out that college is a grand and glorious place, "The Campus Flirt" gives Bebe | a chance to do some fast running. • lives her a chance to fall In love -and pass through a night of sus- . pense when locked in an observa 1 tory. The rah-rah movie has oorrie to stay on the screen. And Bebe makes a corking good rah-rah girl. She Is mighty wise in sticking to the sort iof roles that the public wants to ; see her In. ' It seems to me that Miss Daniels by making t*eople happy is a more important person than tho actress who trios (o make the world cry. "The Campus Flirt” is a. cute little vehicle for Bebe and she cer- ! talnly walks away with her light comedy scenes Understand that most of the scenes were photographed at a reg ular college and that many real students appear In It. I found this Bebe Daniels movie mighty enjoyable as light comedy entertainment. The bill Includes Ohiwlie Davis and his gang “In Paris." an O'Henry comedy and Ben Gordon at the pipe organ. At the. Ohio all week. -I- -I- -I“The Passing Show of 1926” opens a. week’s engagement at English's tonight. Other theaters today offer: Will Mahoney at Keith's. James J. Corbett and Bobby Barry at the Lyric, "The Black Pirate" at the Uptown, "Red Hot Le.'ther" at the Isis, "Hello, Paree,” burlesque, at the Mutual. and Stan Hughes and girls at the Palace.

One-Man Crime Wave Is Quelled Itu I ni tnl Prr* WARSAW, Oct 18.—Poland's oneman crime wave is over. Jane Zielinski, credited with sixty murders and hundreds of robberies is dead became of his desire to see his sister married. Long successful in evading the police, Zielinski came out In the open when his sister's wedding clay was announced and said publicly that he would attend. Police surrounded the house. Zielinski arrived with his gangsters who opened fire on the police. After an hour in which the police used machine guns and the bandits contented themselves with sniping, the fire from the house ceased. The police found the wedding party standing around the body of Zielinski. His followers declared he had committed suicide. How is marshmallow satire made? Roil together .until it forms a soft hall when dropped in cold water, one eup sugar and one-half cup water. Pour slowly on beaten white of one egg. beating constantly meanwhile. Add one teaspoon vanilla and one teaspoon melted butter. Reat until It reaches-the desired consistency.

OCT. 18, 1926

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Vou can xet an answer to any quo* tion ot fact or information by writing to Tho lmliamiDnlit times Bureau 132'2 New Yorl< Ave. Washing M lon D C. inclosing -J cents in for reply Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research lie un lerlakrn All other questions will revive a personal r>• i ly Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor How many radio receiving sets are in use in (he United States? The Deiwrtment of Commerce estimates that there are more than 5,500.(100 radio receiving sets in use in the United Stales, or approxiinately oiy* set for every twenty persons. What is the world's record for the standing broad jump? 11 feet. I 7 r inches. Hop does the area of the United States compare with that of Europe? Figures for 1920 gave the area of the United States as 3,743,529 square miles and that of Europe 3,821,000 square miles. In what zone and between what degrees of latitude and longitude does the United States lie? It lies betwoMm the latitude of 25 degrees and 40 degrees north and between the longitudes of 67 degrees and 125 degrees west. It Is in the north temperate zone. Why are commemorative coins sold for more than their face value? Because the profits realized form their sale are generally intended to help defny the expenses of the eehifl bration for which they are minted. Will a pasehall dropped from an airplane moving 100 miles an hour fall straight down? No. It will be sucked along by the plane. This was illustrated when Babe Ruth, on July 22, 1926, at Mitchell Feld, New York, failed five times to catch a ball dropped from an airplane moving 100 miles an hour at a height of between 200 and 300 feet. The halls he missed dropped among the camera men. Was Frank James, brother of Jessie James, ever in prison? In the October Allowing the death of Jesse James, his brother Frank surrendered and was held in Jail for more than a year awaiting trial, but he was never convicted on any charge. What does it mean to sell one's “birthright"? This phrase comes from the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau and meant in that instance the giving up one's- divinely appointed right to take his father’s place as head of the family when the father died. It was an hone red position and among the Jews, to treat it lightly was regarded a great sin. Generally speak ing it means giving up one's honor or position op prestige or something that has been handed down from , one's forefathers for something not worth while. Are foreign diplomats immune from civil arrest? Immunity from civil arrest arfl prosecution is extended to membeiW of the Diplomatic Corps and their families. How do Eskimos build their houses? They have two kinds—tents for summer anrl huts for winter. The tents or tupiks are made of seal skin; the igloos nr winter houses, are more varied. Usually they are of stone, chinckod and covered witli moss, anrl banked with snow Man\ of the western" and Labrador Eskimos build their houses chiefly of wood. Some of the winter houses of the East Greenland shelter forty to sixty Some houses are made of blocks of snow, piled in a shrppe somewhat like a beehive. What is the book called “The Five Kings" in the Harvard Classics Sines? The best known of Chinese Hcrlp tu res.

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Editor. The Indianapolis Times: Hince the discussion of Old Age Pensions has become so general and widespread and the conditions and rules governing the county homes for the poor have been so thoroughly exposed by unquestionable author ity, lam more and more Impressed with the necessity of doing sonic thing to suffering and same time free ourselves from t stigma and disgrace of maintaining a cruel system that, has been discarded by every industrial nation of the world’ except the I'lnited States, the richest of them all.I have received^numerous letters from old men in different States of the Union relating their experience. The latest is from Mr. J. M. Jones, 66 years of age, at Dow, Okla., and I would like to quote parts of his letter. He says “I started in the mines iif Wales when 1 was 7 years old and worked In the mines till 1926, Then the coal company said I was too oh. to work any more so they put me like all old men in the scrap pile and refused to give me anything to do. Turned me and my wife out to starve. 1 went to the county judge for relief. Ifc told me he could not give me any relief on the outside hut we could go to the Poor Farm. I had worked for the Milby and Dow Coal Company ,for twenty-five years (again). The only place they have got for old men and women is the Poor Farm and me and my wife will sooner die together on the outside than go to the Poor Farm and be separated like convicts." Another extract reads, ”1 am thankful to God that you and the Eagles fraternity are working for the old ’worn out men and women of the nation.” He further says, own a little home of our own the county officials want us to give that up and go to the Poor Farm.” The reader can draw his own con elusion, the only comment I will mike is if there was only one case like the a hove in each county it would justify an Old Age Pension law, but alas, there are many more. Respectfully yours, JOHN HUTCHISON . . , '■