Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ' ROY \V. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of thi Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NRA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • * • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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

CONTEMPT OF COURT Two or three years ago a George Dale, a Muncte editor, broke loose In print concerning a grand jury and drew a sentence to the Penal Farm. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence and the matter Is now in the highest court in the nation. But ■ to date, the decision in Indiana is that you must not interfere with the workings of a grand jury, Under tha,t decision, and especially as contempt of court proceedings seem to be a very popular weapon of the attorney general, now acting as one of the legal advisers for the Marion county grand jury, what is to be said of the solemn resolution passed by this Republican State committee? In plain language it says that the charges made by Thomas Adams after two weeks of searching and ( sifting, are entirely without foundation. The only official body which is probing those changes and doing any searching and sifting is the grand Jury ot this county. | "Upon what authority does this fetate committee say that these institutions and charges are without foundation? The proceedings of that body are secret. The lips of witnesses are sealed. The lips of prosecutors are also sealed. Upon whose authority does this committee now say that is obvious’’ that these charges have no foundation in fact? What is the purpose of issuing a statement that can only rest upon the action of this body? U it has no Authority and If those members of the State committee had po information as to the ■evidence which has been presented, the only purpose of the statement is to interfere and obstruct the search of these jurors. There can be no other purpose, unless there has been a desperate contempt of court in carder to allay fears and misgivings on the part of people to whom the resolution Is directed. Tt may he taken for granted that these grand jurors are honestly and courageously trying to perform the duty placed upon them by the court. If the list of witnesses called means anything, the public should have every confidence that it is attempting to fallow everv clew an deveiry trail. By what, right, then, does this Walb committee dare to say that, it hat found no evidence and no foundation foT the matter's it has under investigation? In this situation, certainly the least that, ihe public may expect from Attorney'General GIBVun is that he will demand., with the same fervor which he directed against, the head of the Anti-Saloon League, a warrant for contempt of court. To say that a State committee may do with impunity the very acta which brought an editor a jail sentence is to prove the charge made hy Adams that there Is a “super power” in this State. Would any official of this State dare to let Dale go to j&Q while this with Its interfering and its brazen effort to pretend to render an ad- *■ \ vgnee verdict fur the grand jury of this enmity escape at least censure? The least that could he done in th& Dale case Is to admit judgment and turn him free if this action is passed over in silence. WHAT PRICE HARMOVy? Certainly the men and women who have revered the name of Lincoln, who had placed Roosevelt upon a pedestal as an Idol of integrity, who have pointed with pride to a McKinley must be disappointed with the action of the State committee of the party which they made honorable and powerful. "What a pitiable spectaple it was that these men met and did not dare to make a full and complete inquiry of the grave charges made last week by their leader. What would a Roosevelt have done had be been a candidate in any State and read that his campaign director had charged that the State was filled with corrupt money, Intent upon destroying principle!! to which he gave allegiance? What would a Lincoln have done had he been faoed with a bold, unequivocal statement that fraud and corruption and bribery exists and a committee of benebmen gathered to plan for his campaign? Would these men have been silent or' would they not have asked the who made the charges to call upon their followers for a crusade to the finish against corruption? Into what hands has the honored name and power 5f that party fallen that its party machinery dares not demand that a fight be waged against the corruption vjhich the leader of the party says exists in every precinct? What rigAt have these men to claim it is still the Republican party and has it*not confessed by its acts that it is heir, not to traditions that are fine, and glorious, but to Stephensonism and ail that this convict built upon the betrayed and misled sentiments of his deluded followers? Here is the shameful situation. Last week Clyde Walb, chairman of the party, sent a letter to Senator Borah charging that thero was “evidence everywhere” of money sent into every precinct of the State by “international bankers” for the purpose of defeating two Republican senatorial candidates through slander. It was his reply to the grave charges of corruption and bribery and graft which Stephenson had relayed from his cell through Thomas Adams of the Republican ‘Editorial Association, It. was his method of meeting the universal demand for an inquiry and a probe of those charges. It was his way of distracting attention from the fact that for five days after the charges had been made and the life termer had told what ho could prove by documentary evidence, Walb had been silent and the Governor of this State and the trustees of the State Penitentiary had used their power to prevent six State Senators and responsible newspaper men of the State and the nation from seeing Stephenson. It was his way of meeting the known and prqyen fact that no offer of any inquiry had been made until Col. Theodore Roosevelt had forced a fetatement as he appeared with the Governor of this State upon a political gathering at La Grange. The charges of Walb were direct, sq unequivocal as to demand an inquiry from the Reed senatorial committee If he had th? evidence Which he said he had —everywhere. Instead of mentioning these charges the State committee called upon the Republican editors of the State to come to its meeting and make response. t

Nine out of 183 attended, just nine, and these gave a statement that they had never authorized Adams to make any probe. The statement, if its means anything, is a confession of willingness to condone frauds and corruption. For after all, what difference does it make whether any one authorized Adams to probe fraud if he has found proof of fraud —and It may be stated that the witnesses who have been before the grand jury testified to thq statements made in advance to The Times, that body has proof that Stephenson did have documents which ho had photographed which he had declared would one day gain his freedom. The committee gained a statement from the head of the editorial body that he believed the Republican candidates worthy of support—and in this connection it may be remembered that Adams charged, without denial from this editor, that the president of the association had been intimidated and threatened by the Walb machine. ✓ The party machine did not, evidently, inquire as to that phase of an important matter, the grave charge that its head had tried to "bulldoze” and Jiroaten an editor to suppress what he believed to 3e the truth. What a spectacle. What a confession. What an admission and what a shame. But there is harmony in tho party machinery. Those in command are still in power. There have been no resignations—yet. But at what a price. The American Legion is going to Paris for its 1927 convention. They fixed things up once; maybe thpy can do it again. , k Headlines yon never see: FREOHMAN LAUDS KINDLY SOPHS AT CLASS MEETING. Thrift week comes in January. Too late! Too late! A Philadelphia explorer found where Moses struck the rock and got water. But he has revealed nothing of his whereabouts when the lights went out. A guard has served forty-eight years in ping Sing. He ought to be eligible for parole pretty soonA British auctioneer says Americans are the best for old suits of armor. Quite a few* Americans own no cars. •

J UDGE GARY AND A JIM CROW HEAVEN

■By N. D. Cochran*

AH of us want to go to heaven when vo die, whether heaven Is a mansion In the skies or the daily reward here on earth of a clear conscience. There are various notions about the mansion in the skies. One of the most popular is that of a heaven with pearly grates, golden streets, diamond "studded haloes and perfectly lovely harps—to say nothing of beautiful angels dwelling together in everlasting peace, harmony and undiluted love. As we aro tolrl there is no marriage or giving in marriage in our conventional Christian heaven, there are no matrimonial Jars to worry about. To some of us the Mohammedan heaven might have its drawbacks. An American Army offleer in Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, the Philippines, once told me that the Mohammedan aro fierce warrioYs because their priests promise them an extra wife in their heaven for every Christian they kill in battle. Put we won’t worry about the Mohammedan heaven, or whether if all of us righteous people go to the same heaven we'll segregate the different faiths. Those of us who expect to go to our own heaven are naturally curious about what we’ll find when we get there. Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the great steel corporation. had a birthday the other day. He was 80 years old and still going strong. While his health Is good and his mind clear. Judge Gary knows, of that In the natural order of human events he will not last forever in the ttesh. It is fair to assume that Judge Gary will go to heaven, as he Is one of the most prominent, eminent and successful men In America. But what kind of a heaven does' he expect to go to? On his birthday there were many kind messages from business friends and associates, w T hich, of course, pleased him. But there was something else. Five Negro singers from Fisk University serenaded him. Among other selections they sang "Walking in Jerusalem Just Uke John,” "Swing Low, SWeet Chariot,” "Gideon” and “Old Black Joe.” Judge Gary was much touched. He said that e&ch of the Negro singers was probably a better Christian than he was. When they were leaving he told them that he hoped all present would meet in the eternal life. Judge Gary Is a'good Christian-and thinks that the live Negro singers afe good Christians too, his hope that all would meet in the eternal life meant that he hoped all would meet in heaven. As there is but one God and henco there can be but one proper heaven, and as we Christians believe implicitly in the Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man, it woutyl be interesting to know just what conditions Judge Gary expects to find when he meets his Negro Christian serenaders in ’heaven. Clarence Borrow is a pessirrtist-~or pretends to be. Recently in addressing a crowd that packed the auditorium in Chicago, the larger part of whom were Negroes, Darrow told them that whatever they got of betterment here on earth they’d have to get for themselves, and that they couldn’t expect it to come from the clouds. Also that if they did get to heaven they would find it was a Jim Crow heaven. But Darrow was pessimistic. Judge Gary is an optimist. The heaven he had in mind when he told the Negro singers that 'he hoped to meet them in the eternal life was not a Jim Crow heaven, because if the Negro Christians whoTeet to heaven are segregated, set off in a dark corner by themselves, Judge Gary probably would not meet them. It is fair to conclude that as an optimist and a good Christian who expects to go to heaven. Judge Gary expects all righteous men to leave their earthly prejudices behind when they enter the pearly gates, and. that all of the happy celestial souls will be of one color in heaven no matter how their skin looked on earth; and that he won’t find any difference between his own soul and that of union labor leaders, despite bitter contention over the open shop here on earth. When we think of all of the prejudices and differences of opinion that cloud the human mind there is some comfort in the thought that r.o matter how much hell we have on earth we’ll all join the celestial union when we get to heaven. . All the same it would be nice if we could have a little more hpaven and 4 little less hell while working and living together and trying .to put off as long as possible that final trip to the skies. I NEXT: The Sinning of BUI White.

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Tracy New York, at Least, Was Calm When Marie # Arrived,

By M. E. Tracy Queen Marie’s reception in New York was flat, colorless and dignified. Thousands lined tho streets along which she parsed, but maintained a decorous silence. In all respects, the people showed themselves • unaffected by the press agent campaign that has shriveled this royal visit to the level of a live-ring circus. If any one has strained a point to make tho successful, it is Her Majesty, and here again you sense the fine Italian hand of publicity artists. Obviously, somo one has been pouring Hollywood ideas into the regal ear and explaining how prone we Americans are to fall for stage stuff, especially if it conforms to local pride or prejudice. Meanwhile, and no matter hww completely overcome sve may appear at the prospect of entertaining a real queen, it is not on record that any of our first families has fired the old cook in order to get one who can prepare. Roumanian dishes. Why Did She Pick U. S,? We do not pretend to know much about royalty In general, or Roumanian royalty In particular. Tradition has it that this Republic was founded largely for the purpose of showing a distraught world that kings ana queens could he discarded without permanent injury. Tradition also has It that our relations with Roumanla have been neither very Intimate, nor vary cor- ! dial. There Is gossip to tho effect that Horbert Hoover and the Bucharest crowd did not hit it off so well just after the war, that American goods were boycotted and that French Influence cut quite a figure. - Circumstances being as they are. ones wonders why Queen Marie should have picked.the United States as the one couptry she craved to see. 4 I- 4 Lotons and Marriage TiVee thousand miles of eats and receptions,! with possible loans and ! marital adventures at the end—an intriguing spectacle, to be sure, though not half so intriguing as some British journals would make it appear. We are pictured in Iyindon as falling all over ourselves for the privilege of rubbing elbows with royalty and as in a most favorable mood to be hooked. " What happened in New York yesterday scarcely hears out the libel. .]. + -ITrotsky Surrenders Queen Marie is the granddaughter of a former czar, while Russia and Roumanla are both heavily impregnated with the Slavic strain, all of wtych permits an easy transfer of thought from our royal guest to the great drqnia that Is taking place In Moscow. Not pausing to name or discuss the partisans supporting either, Trotsky has surrendered to Stalin, has eaten his wonts publicly after blowing hot for revolt. Max Eastman, who spent several years In Russia and who should be regarded as ono of the best Informed men in this country* on Russian affairs, Suggests, that tt Is only a clever move by which Trotsky holds his place In the Communist party and that if Stalin does not beat a diplomatic, retreat and make a reasonable compromise he is likely to lose tjbe vast power he seems to wield. It is to be feared that Mr. Eastman has allowed his admiration for Trotsky to get the better of his Judgment. Neither of those two leaders has been noted for compromise or diplomacy where the question of personal power was involved. If ono has apologized, It is because he had to, and If the other has accepted it, It Is because he knows his strength. A comparative flew are playing for high stakes on the Romanoff wreck, and none of them will admit there is room for two at the top. -!- -I- -IAmericans Exclusive An unwillingness to share what he regards as most precious has ever been a characteristic of the strong man. . * ’ v With some it is hpnor, with others property and with still others pow*er. Communists, though ready to share be<j and bodrd, are miserly with u thorlty. ' Americans, though ready to share authority, cannot bear the idea of sharing the kitchen or the bedroom. -I- -I- 4 Daniel Boone Rudyard Kipling sings a tribute to this age-old trait when he deplores in verso the fact that “Moderns,” as he calls them, are coming In to mess up the quiet calm and beauty of the Sussex Countryside. When Daniel Boone was nearly four score, he moved West and pitched his cabin in air isolated spot that suited his taste. Presently a settler came and located within three miles. “That means I must move,” mourned thes old pioneer, “because its getting too populous around these diggings;” BAR MEETS WEDNESDAY Simms, Fraser _ and Harrison to Speak at October Meeting. Dan W. Simms of Lafayette, Don Fraser of Fowler, and Harry T. Harrison of Little Rock, Ark., will speak at the October meeting of the .Indiana Bar Association at the tndfnAapoli.s Athletic Club at 6:30 o'clock, Wednesday evening. Incidents of their early practiqe of law in Indiana will be related by Simms and Fraser. Harrison, will repeat his toast on “The Sucker,” made at the American Bar Association contention In Denver.

Ted Healy Brings on His Dog and Cat: Will'Mahoney Sings of His ‘Lillie’

By Walter D. Hickman < As Ted Healy says, “Anything might walk on In this show.” And in walks a cat which Ted says "leads a dog’s life” and then, comes on Tfd’s "morvelously” trained dog. The cat Is kept a safe distance from the hound, but, my goodness me, how that dog is

trained to not do just what Ted tells him to do. Ted admits that he may not have seen the animal before, but the dog is present and so is/ the cat in “The Passing Show of 1926.” Think I am right when I say that this show was originally produced under another name In New Y’ork and on leaving tha± city it became t® 1926 edition of the

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| Passing Show. That does not mean' \ that it was a good or a fair show : when first produced. As being presented at English’s this week, this show relies upon much scenery and about four people to do all the heavy work. Those who stand out above all tho others are Ted Healy, who acts as a sort of an announcer, drawing upqn his vaudeville material for most of his individual fun; Grace Hayes, also well known in vaudeville; Salt and Pepper, these two eroonin,’ singing and banjo playing lads actually make the big sensational this revue; Walter C. Kelly, also a recruit from vaudeville with his "Virginia Judge” yarns and the chorus in two numbers—the Military Charleston and in the En chanted Foreat number, a very fine and unique dance formation. A revue the size of “The Passing Show” needs stronger sketches. Some have a foreign flavor, hut they are never too brilliant. The cast doesn’t lift these sketches to that nice clever level which naughty little bonbons demand. This revue is differently constructed from the clever and mighty fine "Artists and Models.” It goes back to the other days with his heavy stage pictures .stairway and moving lines of girls t ln really beautiful costumes nt times. Ted Healy brings his vaudeville ways to the revue stage. He has considerable personality. At times he is assisted by Betty Healy, who was with him when he became extremely well liked i vaudeville. She hasn’t much to do in this show. She wot) ld have more. Those who want rather elaborate scenery (and this show has a beautiful finale in the first act), will find it present here. Grace Hayes knows how to put over a song. She has tho personality and the showmanship to do that very thing. BUt this show hasn’t that needed touch of comedy, great, broad and swift comedy, which is needed In a show as big as this. It has the girls and the scenery, but the big big minute Is just around the ijornor. And so. as usual, he your own Judge. I have my idea. You have yours. And as Mr. Kelly says in one of his stories, “What could he fairer?” '"The Passing Show of 1926,” remains on view all week at English's. • -!- + 4 WTI.I. MAHONEY AND IHB “LILLIE” MARCH TO VICTORY Mister Will Mahoney and his imaginary “Lillie” team up again at Keith’s to most astonishing results. Will Is a one-man show. He starts where some alleged “singles” leave off as a triumph. Mahoney is blessed with three of the greatest “gifts”, in the stage world —real talent, individual personality and material that Is material He, develops a song as nobody ever thought that a song could be developed. His “Lillie” becomes a comedy institution as he unbends yards and yards of this song in every mood from grand opera to hokum grand. Mahoney has a stage fall which sure does have a climax and not on its end either. He works up this fall until It becomes a vital part of his offering. And how This man cap dance. His feet run riot. These sure are comedy feet with*talent. As far as l; care this man could honestly yell from the housetop' that he is the greatest one-man show In captivity and T would shout the same thing with him. , I ask you not to be late in getting to your scat, as one of tho best acts on the bill opens this - week’s show at Keith’s. Am speaking of Josephine Chappello and Harry Carlton. Here are gymnastically inclined people who do three great stunts entire, ly differently from anybody else. A real act. The third act of real merit, according to my way* of thinking, is Harriet Doctor and William Holbrook, two dancers, who go in for both the better and popular style of dancing Miss Hoctor opens with her impression of Mae Murray dancing the Merry Widow waltz. Holbrook has feet that are trained. He throws wicked feet In “The Black Bottom Dance.” Entire act has class and talent. ‘ \ Am not so wild over the other acts. In all fairness to Nelson B. Clifford and Marie Marion In “Just Dumb,” the audience decided that this team in their extreme comedy-tfut stuff was really,funny. So much so that those present (not including myself) insisted upon Clifford making a curtain talk yesterday afternoon. Atn going to let the audience In this Instance have the last word. That’s fair. Charles Derlckson Is a "dramatic tenor” who Is too dramatic to get the best results. Probably Burton Brown, pianist, is a dramatic pianist. Continual volume is not art to me and over drama in song is as bad as not enough. Derlckspn has talent, no doubt as to that, but he should study showmanship. Willie. West and MoGinty are back again in “House Builders.” Act loses novelty when repeated too often. Bert and Dolly Ryan make lots of noise, too much, with their ski dancing. , At Keith’s all week.

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S—“The Passing Show of 1926,” does not approacW- the high mark of entsrtalnment set by “Artists and Models,” Paris edition, which opened the season at this theater. Ted Healy, Grace Hayes, Salt and Pepper, and Walter C. Kelly carry most of the burden. KEITH’S Will Mahoney more than stops thffc show. He Is about the whole works. t/YRlC—“Gentleman Jim” Corbett, with the same engaging personality as in the days of old has a good comedy skit in company with Bobby Barry. PALACE With excellent taste and an eye to good dancing and fun Sfhn Hughes present, an attractive revueact-

HUGHES HAS THE BIGHT REVUE IDEA At last we have a vaudeville revue that gets down to earth and tries to entertain Instead of spending good time trying to be artistic. Stan Hughes and Girls, at the Palace today and tomorrow, have exactly the right

idea in their mixture of good dancing and excellent comedy, the last" mostly from Mr. Hughes. With an informal start, in which no one attempts to outdo Pavlowa the act turns into a series of running comedy and dancing. Os the dances, done by four women, three numbers seemed to me to be a bit better

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This Is Easy

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This is a list of questions which shouldn’t take you long to answer. After you have gone over the list turn to page twelve for the correct answers: 1. Who-js shown in the accompanying picture? 2. Who is Fritz Kreisler? 3. Whqt name does the letters W. C. T. U. signify. 4. Who Is Gabriele D’Annunzio? 5. In what year was the Lusitania sunk? 6. What is the capital of Maryland? ( .. 7. Wha wrote the novel, "Barchester Towers”? 8. What man acted as arbitrator for the Russo-Japanese war? 9. Who Is dictator of Italy? 10. Who Is president of Germany?

thla week has assembled a bill that will please just about every taste. Who does not remember the days when "Gentleman Jim" was In the height of his glory and occupied the , position now held

by a certain Mr. Tunney. Mr, Corbett, for he Is the one we speak of, in # a comedy skit with Bobby Barry, has decided that to make people laugh is as fine a way to entertain as the method he used In the old days. With Barry as the overly cautious pupil Corbett gets a lot of fun out of the characters of a boxing instructor and a student of the art.

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The young lady billed as Dolly Dimple is one of the most promising juveniles we have seen. He*- act is made up of song impressiohs of different kinds, and she does them all with an ease that marks her as a comer if she sticks to the footlights. Think she should give more time to her dancing; liked her dances better than her songs at times. Countess Sonia has an act that is distinctly different from the usual type. You may like it and you may not. A continental atmosphere has been used In all the numbers done by the company and it lends a pleasing novelty touch. The featured things are a toy soldier number in odd costumes and the acrobatic dancing of Sonia and her partner. The Leonti trio are three men who 'play the accordion, banjo and saxophone and know how to get melody out of their instruments. On their program are several different solos. The banjo numbers in this act are not so good, but the duets with saxophone and accordion are very pleasing to hear. Burns and Kissen take the characters’of two Greeks who have only been In this country for a couple of •weeks and offer their impressions of our country. According to the two of them there are more Greeks in the United States than there are' in Greece. They have impersonations and on the whole are good comedy. Geraldine Miller and company is an act that compromises between an esthetic dance offering and posing uct. Miss Miller and her partner have a keen eye for effects and are especially good in their posing numbers. Johnson and Baker have a lot of. fun by gathering up a number of strdw hats and then working with them. They throw them around in all sorts of ways and work out some good comedy., Bill includes a movie comedy and news reel. At the Lyric all week,—(By Observer.)

COMMENDS PRESS IN TAX REDUCTION Indiana Association Secretary Cites Results. Predictions that this would be a tay reduction year have been borne out by-reports from all sections of Indiana, according to Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. "Our forecast relative to what would happen," said Miesse, “was not based simply on the theory that the wish was farther to the though. The work in behalf of bxx reduction could not have been sucessful this year had it not been for the hearty and enthusiastic cooperation of the newspapers of Indiana, “A majority of the counties In Indiana show* reductions In rates this year. Most of the reductions were made where we have organizations of the State association or where we were working through local committees. In several counties where we could not interest the people, in organization work, there have been notable increases In tax rates. Eighty appeals were taken to the State board of tax commissioners by taxpayers who wished to have budgets revffewed. Thirty-six counties were represented in these appeals and in twenty-seven of them the county rate was the hone of contention* It was discovered in -the ease or one county that enough money remained In the county fund to take care of the estimated expense for nJxt year and the entire fund levy was eliminated for the simple reason that' it was not needed. This would not have happened had not the taxpayers of that county taken an appeal.” On what day of the week did July 4, fall? Thursday.

Rooms for Teachers Needed

Persons having, rooms which can bo rented to Indiana school teachers during the meeting of the Indiana State Teachers' Association Thursday, Friday and are asked by the Con - vention Bureau of the Indlanap-, olis Chamber of Commerce to throw open their homes to help accommodate the large overflow from the hotels?. Practically all hotels have

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Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis; , You may list the following rooms for the use of Indiana teachers on Oct. 21, 22 and 23: Name Phone Address * Number of Single Rooms Double Rooms . i C.v Price per night for each person..

OCT. 19, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Imilanapoliß rimes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Aye. Washing ton. 1). C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal ami marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be un lertaken. All other questions will receive a personal repljUnsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. If a World War veteran is kitted in an automobile accident Is his widow entitled to compensation from the Government? A widow can get compensation only jvhen tho death of the ex-service man is due to injuries received or disease contracted or accellerated while in the service. Is there a lotion that will reduce Open pores in the skin and improve a greasy complexion? Try the following: Rose water, 3 ounces; elder flower water, 1 ounce; tincture of bonzpln, Vt-ounce; tannic acid, 5 grains. A sparing diet chiefly of fruit and liquids and copious wa ter drinking should help to clear the complexion. loes it injure (lie health to sleep during the daytime rather than at> night? The norutftl time to sleep Is at night and one usually sleeps bettor when therfc Is less noise. An ordinarily healthy person who works • at night Is not injured in his health j by sleeping in the daytime. The main/ thing is to get enough sleep, and tho tendency is to sleep fewer houi*g in the daytime ,than at night on agjcount of outside distractions. Under the non* immigration law are wive* and children of alien erans who served in the American Expeditionary Forces entitled to ad mission to the United States outride the quotas of their respective countries? Yes ’ * 1 4 Mil ere did the cherry tree /that are planted around the tidal basin in Washington, D. C., come from? They were’ given to tho city of Washington by the city of TokJo, Japan, in 1912 during the administration of President Taft, Where wa* the first rural dr ill very mail route established in this country? The first experimental rural deliv ery service was established Oct. 1. 1896, simultaneously on three routes, one from Charleston, one from Uvilla and one from. Hallltown, W, Va. The first complete coanty rural service was established Deo. 20, 1899, in Carroll County, Maryland, What I* the v alue of an ounce of gold refining? The value of gold beforel refining depends on the fineness of the gold in the ore. An ounce of pure gold is valued at $20.67.

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Editor of The Times: An American citizen must be cold I and indifferent who can look upon l the beav.tiful folds of our flag rippling In the gentle breeze without contributing any duo respect. Our emblem is so dear and loving In Its purpose, that It matters not where or In what land we may be, without friends dr companions, the sight of the Stars and Stripes, has that expression tn It that Invites us to be cumfortecl beneath Its folds. It’s highest beauty is In what tt symbolizes. It is because it represents all, that all patriots gaze upon it with defight. Our flag speaks sublimely. Every part of it seems to have a voice. Its stripes, Altematly red and white, proclaims the original Union .of the thirteen States, the maintenance of the Declaration of Independence. The stars of white on a blue fleld proclaim the Union of States, constitutiing our National Constitution. For every new State a white star is added to the blue field. The two Unions, together, signify Unlop past and Union present. The white In our flag represents purity, red represents valor, blue represents Justice. It is for the love of Old Glory, which has for over a dentury proclaimed freedom, Justice and universal suffrage 1 nthe land, that the pride of manhood in our country shoulders a musket tn defense. On many a battle fleld, at home and abroad, has the soil been soaked with the innocent blood of heroes to preserve our freedom and maintain its honor. . m In the confers of our State we find Old Glory preserved, torn and shattered hy the missiles of death, bearing blood-stained spots as evidences of the heroic valor to preserve its immortality. It lias been my conviction of long standing to sec the time when the Stars and Stripes shall float oven every State and National Institution in our country. why should the good citizens of our State accept any excuses op apolofries for the Indifferent attitude or our Stato authorities for not having a flag on our State Capitol. WILLIAM ANDERSON.

been booked to capacity, and tn order to takq care of the many teachers who have no reserva*tions, \tho Portvention Burean will conduct a downtown housing bureau during the meeting, as It has done in previous years. Newspaper coupons properly filled out and signed will be accepted as official listing of rooms, hut no telephone calls will be accepted, according to Henry T. Davis, manager.