Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1926 — Page 4

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THE TRICIfc THAT FAILED ft is rather a desperate business, this trick of putting words into the mouth of a United States Senator, and especially of the Senator from Missouri, Senator James A. Reed. The forces of Watsonism and Stephensonism, admittedly most desperate, tried it. And # the result is a clean cut statement from Senator Reed that Clyde Walb, chairman of the Republican State committee, put out a deliberate falsehood when he charged that there was corruption money in every precinct to promote slanders and that Walb, in his opinion was thoroughly discredited. The rebuke came when the Indianapolis News, the special pleader for Senator Watson and the apologist for Stetihensonism, quoted Senator Reed as saying that this Indiana investigation had produced only "chicken feed.” The facts were plain, clear, and so unmistakable that such a quotation could have been nothing but an inspired effort to save the heirs to Stephensonism from defeat. Senator Reed, in the hearing held in this city, made It clear that he came here because Chairman Walb had openly charged in a letter to Senator Borah that there.was evidence everywhere that the international bankers had money in every precinct to defeat the Senators who had voted against, the World Court. It was bo open and unqualified a charge that Senator Reed could not ignore it, even had he wished, and he has no record of ever dodging a duty. That charge was telegraphed to Senator Reed by The Times, whose policy is and has been for the fullest and most complete investigation of every charge of fraud and corruption, whether they came from the prison cell of the former czar of this State who misled and betrayed his thousands of followers, or from Clyde Walb, head of the Republican machine. And when Senator Reed came, his first act was to read his resolution of authority which limited his powers to an inquiry into corruption in the primaries and the election of the present year. He repeated that he came to investigate chiefly, the charges made by Walb. The other evidence which he admitted had a relationship to this campaign. He did not attempt to inquire into the truth or falsity of the grave charges made by Stephenson in his letters. And when he was leaving, and there were still to be examined some witnesses named by Walb, he said that the ,'emainder of the investigation was unimportant. That was the phrase seized upon by the Watson organ for its declaration that Reed has said the whole inquiry had produced nothing but “chicken feed.” The purpose, of course, was plain. It tried to blanket the State with the idea that Reed had found no corruption in the Stephenson chargesWhat he had found was no basis for the charges made by Clyde Walb. If your neighbors don’t read The Times, you might tell them of this efTort to trick them out of their votes by the same methods which Stephenson once employed to trick his followers out of their citizenship and their rights. They may be grateful to you for informing them of the truth, for you will probably not find it in other newspapers printed in Indianapolis. You will find, of course, the broadcasted statement of Senator Reed that he had found Walb guilty of perpetrating an attempt at deliberate falsehood to a United States Senator and he believed, fully discredited. They cannot help that. You will be faced by many such attempts to beguile away your judgment during the coming^week. There will be ma#ty assaults upon your intelligV'iice and your judgment. For at last it is disclosed and proven'that the forces which connived with Stephenson, who once were proud to receive his aid, are desperate and are desperately trying to keep their power through suppression, distortions and clear manufacture. What is to be the verdict of a cause which is so weak that Its leader must resort to a deliberate falsehood? What is to be said of candidates who are managed by a man who attempts to distract attention from their weakness by putting out a deliberate lie to a United States Senator? y Wbat would be the action of Senators James Watson and Arthur Robinson when they discovered their campaign in such hands, if they did not need Just such a man? That "chicken feed” phrase is a part of the game. It is a part of the delusion and the trick. It is a part of the general scheme to win by deceit in the fall where there was a "victory by gossip” in the spring. Rather a sad condition. It is only because of a strong sense of public dpty that The Times feels it incumbent to call to public attention the trick, the phrase and the newspaper which lent its aid to this pffort to disfranchise by trickery and deception. A RADIO EXHIBIT Let it be hoped (hat every one, whether they have a receiving set or not, will attend the Radio Show this week. If you get nothing else from your visit, you will find in it a subject for thinking—and only those who think, really live. What would have happened had someone announced twenty years ago that Buch an exhibit would be held? The man would probably have been hurried to an asylum, had he even suggested that you could sit in your home and listen to an orchestra playing in a cabaret in Chicago, a prayer from a church in San Antonio, a pipe organ from a local theater, or a bedtime story from Kansas City by merely twisting a few buttons, and selecting what you wished to hear as easily a you can choosp an orange from a stall at the city market. Those who believe that the world will always be the same ought especially to' go, for it may jar them into realizing that life is changing rapidly these days, that our habits are not the same as those of a decade ago, and that tomorrow they will be still different. Science and invention are bringing to mankind in such volume the things for which men struggled for centuries in vain that only the imagination limits the possibilities of the future. Catching music from the air is not merely a pastime. It marks the triumph of intelligence and mind. It is but the beginning of an era of miracles.

LIGHT ON “JIM” WATSON’S RECORD (The New York World, Oct. 22) H. P. Emmons, a former Exalted Cyclops of South Bend.lnd., tells the Reed committee that Hiram W. Evans —the Imperial Wizard—recently spoke with deep gratitude of the debt the Klan owes to Senator Jim Watson. Senator Watson, according to Evans, was instrumental in having Senator Mayfield seated. Os course hot denials are issued. But the testimony recalls some interesting facts about the Mayfield affair. A Senate sub-committee was Inquiring into Mayfield's credentials in May and June, 1924. The World’s dispatches from Washington on May 10, 1924, reported* a conference of several hours between Mr. Watson and Walter Bossert, Klan boss of Indianapolis. On May 28 The World Bureau reported Senator Watson listening “with a scowl” to anti-Klan testimony. On June 5 It reported a long conference between Mr. Watson and Imperial Wizard Evans. On June 8 the sub-committee, “under the influence of Senator Watson," issued a report finding Mr. Mayfield entitled to his seat. According to The World Bureau: Old-time Senators were surprised that the subcommittee * * * should have gone out of its way to announce a finding when there is no pretense that the presentation of evidence has been completed. Senator Watson’s keen interest in getting the announcement is seen in the fact that even while Chairman Spencer was conducting his filibuster on the floor of the Senate against the adoption of t£e Walsh report, Watson was from time to time tapping him on the shoulder In an apparent effort to get him upstairs to the committee room where the finding was made. Senator Watson is adept In carrying water on both shoulders. He can be hand-in-glove in Washington with Grand Dragon Bossert and Imperial Wizard Evans, and in Indianapolis can appeal to the Negro vote as a sworn foe of all face antagonism. He can cut a highly suspicious figure in the Mulhall disclosures, and yet pose as a disinterested expert on the tariff. He can be a pertinacious defender of Newberry and Daugherty, and yet talk about the purity of politics. He is an Administration man, and yet on the World Court and farm relief he Is antiAdministration. Let us hope for more light from the Reed committee on Indiana's slickest politician. ENCOURAGING IGNORANCE Certainly the action of the State tax board in reducing the income of the local school board to unreasonable limits is not to be accepted without protest. That body evidently believed that It could endear the State administration to the voters if it made a show of economy and accordingly it lopped off one eleventh of the budget prepared by the local school' board. This will so reduce the Income that very soon the fine library and its branches will be hampered and probably the branches closed. The cut of 9 cents was 6 cents more than the reduction asked by the Chamber of Commerce and 3 cents more than that asked by the vigilant and very thrifty Taxpayers’ Association. The school board apparently had tried to make an honest budget to fit the needs of this city. Apparently there was no endeavor to become wasteful. The action of the tax board is encouraging ignorance, not thrift, and should be resented. Let it be hoped that the Parent-Teacher Associations and other civic bodies will see that the schools and libraries get money with which to operate on a decent basis. Economy in education is the greatest of waste. Four Texas rangprs have been detailed to clean up the naughty little town of Borger. Three of them were sent along to help In the obsequies, we take it. A New York editor, hunting In Africa, caught the elusive kudu by running it to earth. He got his practice with Dame Rumor. The huddle system is not confined to the football field. It also Is well known as an apartment heat plan.

QUEEN MARIE MORE THAN MERE MARRYING MAMA

-By N. D. Cochran*

Queen Marie Is not only a good looking dame, but she’s a darned good queen. She's about the most valuable asset King Ford has grabbed off for Roumania. They may well call her the mother-in-law of the Balkans, for she married off a couple of her daughters to neighboring kingdoms, and contributed that much to a Balkan league of nations. It’s no soft job, this marrying off daughters who happen to be princesses; for available husbands for princesses are awfully scarce. Princesses its well as princes have to sell their goods in a restricted market. But Marie is more than a marrying mama. She’s one swell publicity expert. Her trip to the United States will probably put Roumania on the financial map. Anyhow, she’ii advertise her country on the first pages of American newspapers, and have a bully good time besides. After ail, queens are human beings. They are built like the rest of us. They have to eat, sleep and wear clothes. And Queen Marie is no slouch when it comes to wearing the very latest thing in the way of glad rags. She'll have all the women in the United States pop-eyed with curiosity. Even old, George Harvey wore knee breeches and sported a tin sword when he was presented at the British court. Marie carries her scenery with her. She has not I only two carloads of trunks full of plenty to wear, ! but she has with her a real live princess as well as a real live prince. All of which will be meat and drink for the democratic men and women of this great democratic republic. We don’t take much stock in the gossip that Queen Marie as a marrying Mamma is on the lookout for a Wall Street husband for the little princess. She and the princess may kid the plutes along some, but she’ll be able to get the money and still take the hand and heart of the princess back to that dear old Roumania. It Is more reasonable to suppose that Marie as a wise business woman will take advantage of the vast free publicity to establish a credit for Reunmnia. Anyhow, it’s a safe bet that Marie is going to make a big hit, and that she won't go into the movies. She evidently lias not only personality and charm, but good common sense, and all the earmarks of a regular fellow. So wo hope she has a good time and gets whatever she came so if it is money. NEXT; The Truth About Holidays.

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I racy King May Want Queen Home, but Why Pick on U, S, Weather,

By M. E. Tracy If her royal husband really wanted Kn excuse for recalling Queen Marie, it seems as though he could have found one without slandering American weather. A week of “incessant rain” bearing disease and possible death, may 1)6 all right for Bucharest, but those fathering such a pipe dream should ha/ve remembered that there are cables. Tlie yarn is denied of course, but not in a way that convinces Europe. Among thdse in the best i>osition to know, it Is generally believed that King Ferdinand has ordered his wife to come home, and that, though she appears to be enjoying herself immensely right now, she will presently show symptoms conformable to the Bucharest report. -i- -I- -|- Smith and Vare Alike The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals declares that Vare’s candidacy for the Senate in Pennsylvania Is a national scandal, but is silent with regard to that of Smith in Illinois. You just can’t reconcile one attitude with the other. If it is wrong for a wet to debauch primaries, why isn’t it wrong for a dry? To people who are guided by something higher than prejudice on the liquor question. Smith and Vare look alike. ■ Each winked at inordinate expenditures in his behalf. Each is under obligations to those who put up the vast sums of money. Each would be expected to pay by doing things, or leaving things undone that are In the nature of special favors. Smith says he is for enforcement of the Volstead act, and Vare says he is for beer, but with that little difference out of the way, and rated by the issue of honest, unbought elections, both are of the same stripe. -I- -I* -IPoor Leadership While urging continuance of “emergency measures." which Parliament authorized, because there was nothing else it could do. Premier Baldwin took occasion to say that the striking coal miners have suffered from a “lamentable lack of leadership." There are Englishmen who believe the nation has suffered from the same thing, especially as they contemplate the bitter prospect of their country facing winter without an adequate supply rtf coal. If Premier Baldwin has done anything more than stand pat, which is what the strike leaders have done, some people would like to know what It is. So far as one can make out from across the Atlantic, his contribution has been that of a man who couldn’t offer any constructive plan and who sought to save his face through a show of unbelievable obstinacy. -I- I- IButler a Nice Man President Coolidge says that his friend and former campaign manager. Mr. Butler, is a nice man and that the people of Massachusetts ought to elect him Senator^ Dave Walsh, running against Butler as Democratic candidate, says the President could do no less under the circumstances, but that he must not expect the people of Massachusetts to stretch their faith in him so that it will Include all his friends. -!• -!• •!* College Boys in Jail College boys are becoming more numerous In Wing King. While only nineteen were admit U-d In 1924. s’lxty-seven gained entrance last year, showing an increase of 250 per cent. More than 90 per cent of Sing Sing inmates profess religion and more than 97 per can read and write. Neither lack of education, nor church training accounts for crime so largely as some of us would like to think.

The Hall-Mills Trial Tlje Hall-Mills murder trial Is scheduled to open one week from tomorrow. It promises to he one of the greatest criminal cases in American jurisprudence. containing, as, it does, every conceivable element of the mysterious and dramatic. ' More than 200 witnesses have been examined, and It is expected that the majority of them will be called upon to testify. Newspapers and press associations have been examined, and it is expected that the majority of them will be called upon to testify. Newspapers and press associations have applied for every seat in the court room not required for witnesses. jurymen, counsel and attendants. A special telephone switchboard has been installed in the hnsement of the court house I-- -IPlaying Too Safe Having been attacked on several occasions, the Shah of Persia thought to have better protection for himself hy having an automobile full of arms and armed guards trail along as he journeyed throujrh the country 4 This automobile blew un. killimr several officers, and the Shah only escaped by a mifcle, which proves that you can overdo the job of playing safe. Quite in line with the same idea and the same result, many a child has heen killed in this country hy fooling with a gun which papa kept around the house because it made him feel a little more secure. Where did the “Pony Express” run? What was Its fastest trip? p >-an 4.oMvr>en St. Toseph and San Francisco in lXfiO. The schedule allowed eight dnvs. It once covered the 1.4(10 mi'es. in sevefi days and xpventeen hours cnrrvlng President Lincoln’s inaugural address.

Papa Cameron Makes Dave Wild Duck: Loos Brothers Know a Melody Formula

By Walter D. Hiclunan Papa Cameron warns his son. Dave, that if he isn’t a nice boy and i sing a song that he “will out" his ! throat. And Dave tells papa In as loving 1 terms that if I’apa does —well Dave

has his revenge. Probably at this writing It Isn’t necessary to tell the world that I am again trying to tell you of the nonsense that the Four Camerons hand out. They haye been doing it for years and It seems to me that Dave Caine ron is wilder than ever. Papa teases Dave until he becomes

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as wild as a wild duck. My imagine tion tells me that a wild duck Is about the wildest thing In the world but fact tells me that Dave Is even wilder. A menace of vaudeville is the repetition of the same act by the same team year after year. But the Camerons dress up their eccentric routine in such a way .that It seems new. Before the finish and before Dave and Papa become too wild. Charles Sargent and Burt Lewis, an act which hands out good melody, joins in the fun. Here Is extreme eccentric fun mighty well put over by a family that knows its business. The Lockfords. Naro and Zita, are dancers who have the aid of the Payl Tisen orchestra. The dancers have a sensational opening of both beauty and action. Their little dance travesty on golf is done in quaint charm. Ed and Toni Hickey belong to that class of eccentric entertainers who should change their material every season. I am convinced that these men can get new material. Sylvia Ixyal and company has several cleverly trained dogs. Johnny Hyman is an Individual ifunmnker who can use the same pattern and his act will always be new and refreshing. Hyman nearly “writes’’ his act on the stage, (lood act. Olntaro Is announced at the “original top spinner." Have, never seen his equal. At Keith’s all week *!* -!- -IIN WHICH I.OOS BROTHER* WIN VI.L Van and Schenk have held the blue ribbon honors in my estimation for years In knowing how to put over melodies, but 1 am going to increase the piano seat and place the Loo* brothers on the same throne. I heard these brothers last night at the supper show of the Palace. They have the ait

istry which causes even a popular song of the minute to take on new personality. You have never heard “Red Red Robin" or one of Russell Robinson’s songs put over with a bang until you hear the Loos brothers. They do not resort to cheap ho kiim to put over their numbers. They have too much of the artist in them, and they

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are too good showmen to wreck the works. Their “Hulda” number ts clever and their travesty on “Red Riding Hood” is a comedy wow. These men arc mighty worth while. If you want to see a song developed to its hundredth power, then hear the Lons brothers. "All Wrong” has two dancers, a man nnrt a woman, who are graceful dancers. Then there are two men In the act who burlesque them. The

Letting Publishers Talk About Their New Books

Last week Houghton Mifflin Company published the account of the epic race around the world against time which Linton Wells, newspaper man, and Edward S. Evans, sportsman, made last summer. Linton Wells tells the story, the official record under the title "Around the World in Twenty-Eight Days.” On the same day will be published “Palimpsest,” by H. D.. the classical purity of whose poetry has placed her high among contemporary- poets. In “Palimpsest’* qhe ventures into fiction with a series of three long stories, subtly connected In themq and style. Other books for the same date will be 1 “The Magic Flute.” by Sara Cone Bryant; “Songs of Adventure.” an anthology by Robert Forthinsham; "The Silver Stair,” lyrics and ballads by Abbie Farwell Brown: and two juveniles, “The Little Blue Man,” by Giuseppe Fanciulli, and “The Secret of Coffin Cove,” by Clayton Tolt Ernst. Bill Tilden’s most constant companion is Samuel Mcrwin, and Bill is more than a little bored with tennis, his fame, and the fact that more people seem to know him than know Samuel Merwin. "It disgusts me when people rush forward to greet me and don’t know who Sam is,” he complains bitterly. "I'd give the last string in my pet racket to write a singl* short story as good as any Sam has turned out by the dozen.” Mr. Merwin has written a small brochure on “Old Concord," which Houghton Mifflin Company will publish in time for Christmas giving. Tilden himself has written short stories, hooks on tennis, scenarios, and recently did the Introduction for Leroy Scott’s novel of tenn’s, "The Trail of Glory.” “Met .Many larons” “I have met many barons,” says Douglas Goldring in his account of life in Scandinavia. Brittany and Northern France. "Northern Lights and Southern Shade” (Houghton Mifflin Company), “mostly quite as dilapltated as the average musical comedy article, and I have always found that they divide themselves into classes —good barons and bad barons. Some good barons become bad. No bad baron, having once tasted the jdys of badness, ever by any chance becomes good. Good barons earn an honest living as waiters, massesurs, dentists, Journal-

Stage Verdict KEITH’S—The Four C.tmerons walk away with the comedy honors here tuis w r eek. LYRlC—“Pirate Treasure’’ is a song offering of genuine merit that has the assistance of a good darker. An act of real merit. PALACE Loos Brothers prove that they are singers who haven’t a thing to fear because they have the needed artistry, showmanship and talent to put a song over to the last degree.

: aerobatic burlesque is well known | on the stage, but they do it well. | Two good pair of dancing feet are owned by Baxter and Frank. These two young men are clever, so much so that they are careful not to give the impression of freshness. Their conception of two scarecrows doing the Charleston and the Frisco Charleston are both winning numbers. They have the assistance of Lora Marie and girls, an orchestra. Act pleases with ease. Has real I class. Want to pay my respects to Ward and Raymond. This is an old-time team who can teach some of the younger alleged funmakers a lot of ; things in the gentle art of how to make people happy in a theater. Ward uses a dialect which would j get the laughs, but he has talent 1 which makes his act stand out* It is good to see these people win with material which they make individual. Rosini is a magician who has cleverly adjusted his show of magic to the variety stage. Hia ring stunt is his best, lie has the assistance j of Claire Pp{ ‘/ and others. He handles hir. comedy well. The movie is "forever After.” Am telling you that the Palace has a real show today and Wednesday. •I- -I- -|- BETTER Ml SIC DONE IN THE BETTER WAY Good music done "rotten” is about the worst curse In the world. I have heard good music “butchered” so often that it is a pleasure

to see It handled in an intelligent way. To present ' good music. I mean grand music, much training Is required. No accident ever put over a great .melody. And “Pirate Treasure” has some singers and | artists in It who know how to lift up certain of the better tunes. And above all they know how to “sell" good music. The pirate Idea Is carried out during

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the entire act, even to the dancer coming out of a pirate's treasure j trunk. I would like to give you the j individual names of the singers, but I haven’t them, because they deserve? recognition for an Intelligent presentatiofi of beautiful music. A mighty fine offering. As radio Is much In the local air this week, the Lyric Is represented with Kincaid's Radioetts, an orchestra. Local interest centers upon the singing of Mary Traub Busch and Jessica McWhirter, two artists who arc well favorably known ovev WFBM of this city. The radio lm- j pression Is given during the entire i act. that Is the impression that it ; is being broadcast. Dora Early goes in for blues! songs. She has the assistance of Harry Stover at the piano. Kate; and Wiley have an athletic offering \ on a porch. Aaron and Kelly are | colored entertainers, who are good 1 dancers. Eddie Carr, and company have an act which they call “The Big Oil '

,WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW.

ists, poets, schoolmasters, profesors and what-not. Bad barons, who are much better dressed and more baronial in style, hang about hotel lounges and Bohemian bars, waiting for commercial travelers to stand the/n a drink.” W. Ashley, the foremost painter of whale ships and whaling scenes in the world, has scheduled an exhibTtion of his paintings for the Vose Gallery, Boston, opening Nov. 8. Nov. 5. Houghton Mifflin Company -will issue his thrilling memorial to whale fishery of a byegone day. "The Yankee Whaler,” a history written from firsthand knowledge and with an artist's feeling for all the romance and peril of that old calling. Mr. Ashley's own illustrations. 12(5 in all. with seventeen large color plates, make it an unusually beautiful book as well as a record of real value. Another "Darwin.” Gamaliel Bradford, whose psychobiography of “Darwin” was published hy Houghton Mifflin Company early in October, replies, in the New York Evening Post, to the question of how he regards critics and criticism: “The question of how much and in what way authors are affected by criticism, is an interesting apd important one. “One can only speak of oneself: but I am, at least, extremely susceptible to the comments of critics, so much so that I make it' a rule to avoid seeing them so far as possible, particularly as, perhaps through a natural tendency to skepticism. I am inclined to regard destructive criticism as sincere, and compliments as perfunctory. “The great drawback in most book-reviewing is that the reviewer is not adequately equipped and is apt to substitute his own cleverness for an earnest effort to get at and expose what is best in the book. Nevertheless, I could name several instances in which reviews have deeply affected my work. I hope for the better.” How Written. The appearance of the second edition of Winifred Holt's book. "The Light Which Cannot Fail." published by Messrs Dutton & Company.* recalls the circumstances of its writing. Done during the havoc and destruction of war, under

Man.” I judge that the temperament of the two men has a lot to dc with this act as at times it sounds rather wild. Not so much in what they say, but the way It might sound. Have seen this act before and it is just hokum comedy, fast at times. Pisano and Landeur, need material and they need it badly. The movie feature is “Masked Mammas” and other events. At the Lyric all week. Other theaters today offer: “So's Your Old Man” at the Apollo; “Stella Dallas” at the Ohio; “The Lily” at the Colonial; "Paradise” at the Circle; “Fig leaves” at the Uptown; radio show at the fairgrounds; "The Runaway Express” at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual.

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor of The Times: J Kir—lndiana* and Indianapolis peoI pie as a rule do not realize the j reputation the State and city are ; getting In the country at large. Some who do are of that mentality which habitually harps on the one string of condemning the “knocker,’ and who mistake an effect for a cause. The harm to the State and city in the present case began two years ago; any one could have. foreseen the eventual effect in a public scandal, with Tom Adams doing the publicity work. It Is largely due to cowardice of people in all manner of activities, political, business, pro fesslons, churches, clubs, etc. The same cowardice permitted through the years in Indianapolis’ political feudalism with its concomitant of Invisible control of official and other public action and created the condition making possible a Stephenson rule. Stephensons in public life do not make the cartwheel go around; they are the files on it. Senator Watson went so far as to say that everybody had been trying to get Klan support, and quite mgenouously said in the same statement that It came to him by reason of his attitude on issues In which the Klan was interested. A political leader was accused of using his influence in Congress in aid of n railroad stock Jubbing deal and a committee was trying to get some Incriminating letters. The leader rose to a question of personal privilege In the House of Representatives and dramatically reading the letters asked what was wrong in them. His big following in the country hurrahed the louder for him. He would have been nominated for President a few weeks later if another ballot had been taken In the convention, which adjourned in darkness because his opponents causa the statement (a lie) to be made thtit the convention hall could not be lighted. But. that audacious leader went on to greater preferment, his career being one of the illustrations of the success of | audacity and American politics. A. B. C.

PLEDGE FOR DEMOCRATS "The first duty of the Democratic party, when successful Nov. 2, will be the restoration of confidence in the instrumentalities of government in Indiana.” Raymond F. Murray, democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, told a joint meeting of the Fifteenth ward and Wayne Township Democratic club at Hawthorne Community House, Monday night. Other speakers were Frank P. Manly, president of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Company; William D. Headrick, candidate for Congress; Edna M. Christian, candidate for State representative and Clarence E. Weir, candidate for Criminal Court judge. Manly urged “citizenship before partisanship” and pointed to the splendid records of the Democratic candidates.

! bombardment, on steamers pursued by submarines, and in hospitals be tween ministering to the needs of newly blinded men, it represents a feat of authorship. The author, now i Mrs. Rufus G. Mather, was engaged in establishing the "Lighthouse for the Blind” in Paris, and was search ing out the men who. suddenly bereft of sight, needed special care. Yet she managed to jot down on wrap ping paper, on the backs of envoi I opes or whatever scraps she could j find the notes which were later developed into vivid graphic pages. Some of the stories were dictated at odd moments to any available per j son—a Red Cross nurse, or an order j ly recovering from a wound. Such were the circumstances ! under which the books was written The book itself arose from the demand from many sources for Miss TTolt’s unusual experience. Letters I hail come to her from all over the world asking her how to help the blind. During the war, when she answered the request of the French Government to help their war-blind piling up in hospitals, she had a similar appeal from the Italian Government. A nurse in the Italian Red Cross wrote her for advice. Miss Holt answered this letter in great detail, giving the fruit of her experience in working with the blind. This letter was translated into Italian and published throughout Italy. Then requests for advice began in from all over, and Miss Holt decided that an amplification of this letter in such form that it would be available to everyone, was an important duty. The new edition contains two new stories “At General Headquarters,” and “The Torch of Memory.” The first throws an interesting side light on the courtesy and sympathy of General Pershing and is published with his permission; the second tells graphically of the dedication of the “Lighthouse in Paris” by Marshal Foch In 1924. Both were written after the Armistice. In its second edition. “The Light Which Cannot Fall” appears in two volumes; one containing the narratives under the original title: the other, much briefer, containing ad vice and counsel on the treatment of the blind under the title, 'A Handbook for the Blind and Their Friends.”

OCT. 26, 1926

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You can get an answer to any question ol tact or intnrmation by wntinc to The Indianapolis limes Washington Bure ail 1322 New York Ave. Washing- _ ion r> C. inclosing 2 cents in stamuaM for reply Medical leiral and advice cannot be given nor can ax research ly un lertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential,—Editor. How thick is the armor plate <m the largest battleships? Between fourteen and sixteen Inches.

What i.: (ransubstantiation aruf j corisuhstantlation? Transubstantiation is' the doctrine i that when bread and wine used in communion service, is blessed by the j priest, a miracle transformation occurs and it becomes the body and | blood of the Lord. This is expressed in the Latin prefix “trans” which | means across or over. The elements of the sacrament are made over Into the body and blood of Christ. ConI substantiation does not go so far, but | holds that the “real presence" of Christ comes to the elements when blessed by the minister in the communion service. There is no change in the substance of the material, but a. spiritual union of Chrfst wdth the consecrated elements takes place. This is expressed In the Latin prefix “con” meaning "together with." \Vn dentistry practiced by the ancients? Some forms of dentistry seem to have been practiced in ancient Egypt, Etruria, Greece and Rome. the middle ages the art made llttfl progress, except among physicians. It was revived as a serious study in the eighteenth century when Fauchard published “Le Chlrurgien Dentiste” (1872). The literature of the subject was even then of slow growth, but in 1882 Koecher’s "Principles of Dental Surgery” published In London, established dentistry as a science out of which modern practice has evolved. Ccn you tell me something about Nell Gwynn? Her birthplace is not known deftnitely. She was brought up In poverty and as a child, sold oranges at the Theater Royal In Londan. She was not a great actress, but her sprightliness, beauty and skill in dancing made her a popular favorite. She had many lovers, among them Charles Hart, the actor, and diaries Sackvllle, who in 167 T became the sixth Earl of Dorset. About 1689 she became the mistress of Charles II of England by whom she had two sons, Charles (1670) called Beauelerfc. and James (1671) who died young. She was received into the best qf London society, and she was in fervor with the people for her many acts of charity. After the king’s death, she led’a. quiet life. She died in Isindon and was burled In the Church of St. Martin’s in-the-Flelds l>oes Goose Qosljn or Babe Ruth hold the record for home runs In a single game in a world series? Ruth got three in one game in the last series, breaking all recorddM Ruth’s total for the entire serim this year was four home runs. Are mil knives used In the million picture “Ulie Son of the ! Sheik?” ’ Yes. What is the length rtf a rattlesnake? How far can they strike? They are sometimes 5 or 6 feet long and can strike about 2-3 of their length. Where and when was Vlhna I Banky, the movie actress bom? When did she make her debut in moving pictures in America? She was born In Budapest. Hungary, Jan. 9, 1903. Formerly a celebrated European actress, she made her debut in America in “The Dark Angel” with Ronald Colman. She supported Rudolph Valentino In two pictures—“ The flagHE’ and “The Son of the Sheik." On what date will Easter Sunday fall in 1927? April 17.

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