Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis-Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY* Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA 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. •

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KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA provides technical training for more than students at Purdue University. This institution was established in 1865 and is maintained principally by State appropriations, augmented by Federal grants. Purdue University campus contains forty-two buildings. I

TIIE LAST APPEAL The final desperate appeal for Senators Watson and Robinson has been made, and It Is now coupled in pleading terms to Republicans to “stand by the party.” The one and only argument left which is being made is that these men are needed down at Washington to assist President Coolidge and his party policies. * Here is the final confession of weakness, the most abject admission of desperation. For the answer is to be found not only in the fact that these Senators have departed from the Coolidge policies on every major issue, but that the divorce is emphasized by the failure of any representative of that administration to indorse their candidacies- The Indiana member of the cabinet has campaigned in other States but he has not entered Indiana or spoken one word that would indicate that his chief is especially worried about the return of these Senators. The private secretary of the President has been too busy to come back home. The one anxiety about support for Coblidge seems to come from the Senators, rather than from the White House. Rut even if thvy should ask that these men come hack under the name of the Republican party, recent develijpments most strongly suggest that the livery of their party has been stolen and that the honored name and traditions of the party have become in this State but the trading sthck on which the gullible may be misled while secret deals for power are made behind closed doors with men who care nothing about parties but a great deal about power and ability to rule cities and counties. It is an open secret that the two Senators made their bargain to stand or fall together. On the one hand, and this did not need the Reed Investigation as evidence, Watson contributed his Klan workers and the machine he had constructed through privileges and favors. And for that he obtained in return the machine ruled by George. V. Coffin of this city whose darling is Arthur Robinscn and which needs a firm of political lawyers to do the many things It wants to do. ' That bargain was known to revery voter In the Republican party, so that when there Is made an appeal to party loyalty, there is really a request to the voter that those who believe in the principles of Lincoln and of Roosevelt surrender their loyalty to these idols and support a bargain between a wizard at Washington and a boss In Indianapolis. Party loyalty, under such circumstances, becomes a mere trap and a lure, not a clarion cry, for thd party - itself has been captured and is In alien hands. Let It. be hoped that the thousands of Republican voters who are dedicated to decency and honesty In government, who are tired of the slings and slurs which Indiana has had and merited because of its low political estate, will look at the situation calmly and then decide between partisanship and patriotism. The chairman of the Republican committee, the manager of these two Senators, has been openly denounced by the head of a Senate committee for having attempted to perpetrate a deliberate falsehood in order to bolster up their cause. dTien did the party of Lincoln or of Roosevelt need to resort to deliberate lies to obtain an audience in Indiana? •

Were that not enough, there comes from the same Senate committee chairman, a denunciation and denial of the attempt of the Indianapolis News to minimize the exposure and the discrediting of Clyde Walb. When did the party for which loyalty has been claimed need distortion, suppression and ooncoctlons to commend its candidates to the voters? . And when there came, as a shock, the charge that there was and has been grave corruption and graft in this State, a charge made by Hie master mind, now in the penitentiary who once ruled the very machine which is in charge of the Watson campaign, what did these two Senators do to save the fame and reputation of the State? Did theyademdSu} investigation, with punishment for the guilty, if there be guilt, or exoneration for the government of State and city, if no guilt be ‘ Rather was not the silence at Resist suggestive that they feared a full and free Investigation of their organization? Those days of silence while the nation ' looked on in amazed wonder, those days when every efTort of those in power was to suppress and close the lips of this prisoner who was once a czar, will not be forgotten, let it he hoped. The sheep s clothing was lost when the animal was chased into the open. The appeal in the name of Republicanism for support for this organization is but an insult to the memory of those great men who in other days made it glorious and honored. AFTIfR YOUR MONEY If there were Wen an opportunity for that magnificent organization which put on Us great crusade of Indianapolis First, it is presented by the demands

of the two electric li&ht companies for permission to consolidate. t Os course, they should consolidate. There should be but one utility to furnish light and power. Duplicate means waste. But the price which these gentlemen who own the two companies ask for this privilege is so stupendous as to border upon banditry. It is frenzied finance, gone mad, when there is presented a demand that the public pay interest or dividends upon $52,450,000 for plants to furnish tills fcity with light and power and the means of distributing it. The mere mention of such a sum is easy. To pay interest charges upon it means such an added burden to every business enterprise, every factory, every home, that the only claim of being first to which Indianapolis will be able to lay claim is in the charges for relectricity. ' These two companies have recently engaged in

one of those financial battles which always cost. Samuel Insult, the Chicago power magnate who makes a specialty of endowing public service commissioners when they run for the United States Senate, was the disturber In the household when he purchased a large block of stock In the rival company. Mr. Insull never wastes his own money, either in stocks or in candidates. have reached one of those friendly arrangements where they will combine and the public will be asked to pay dividends on this gigantic sum. Fortunately there is some clew to the real value of these'properties. It is to be found upon the tax returns and In the probate court. One of these companies Is valued, for tax purposes, at around ten millions. The other Is down on the lists for.eight millions. By Just what process of reasoning it may not be Inferred that when the two are combined these eighteen millions will become fifty-two millions is left to that financial mind which has been accustomed to stray in the pasture of easy pickings from a somnolent public. It may be that thepe tax figures are too low and that the properties are worth more than that. Perhaps, If the experts figure that they are entitled to reparations from the war era and that the properties should be valued according to the Increased prices of materials which go into them, they may be worth considerably more. But certainly this bold demand for a capitalization of $£2,450,000 should place Indianapolis on guard. If It Is allowed, widows and orphans will be given an opportunity to invest In the stocks and bonds and later, in their name, attorneys will plead for rate schedules to pay these dividends and protect these investors. Just where the difference between the eighteen millions of tax valuation and the fifty-two millions of new stock value will go will be no mystery at all to those who have followed such major financial utility operations. But what it surely means is that the future of Indianapolis as a manufacturing center will be menaced, for the power furnished to such factories must command a price to pay for these fictitious values. It means that it will be more difficult for every business house in this center to maintain itself, and highef prices for goods. It means that in every home the light bills will be larger and the dear old public, the ultimate' consumer, must pay interest each and every year as long as electricity is used upon dol lars that never did exist but which will be very real If the public service commission should authorize this valuation. The Chamber of Commerce, will, It may be confidently assumed, send out a hurry call for an investigation of the real valuations. It may be as confidently predicted that the business interests of this city will never consent, without battle, to being held up for all time by financiers who place so exorbitant a valuation upon their own peace pact. Consolidate, by all means. Cut out the waste. Reduce the duplication of effort and work. But just as surely, do not permit the public to be loaded up Vith a debt and an obligation that has no basis in value and nothing except desire as Its justification. WHEN CLARIS TALKS Proudly paraded Is the fact that Claris Adams, the opponent of Watson In the primaries, Its to speak in behalf of Mb rival at Rushville on the close of the campaign. That follows the amenities of politics, if there boa question of politics in this campaign. The people will be glad to hear Mr. Adams. Some 127,000 Republicans voted for him In the primaries. .He had the ability to sway audiences by his arguWeutß in the latter part of April, and doubtless still has It Just as a suggestion, may; it not be hoped that Ml 1 . Adams will once again explain what he meant When he referred to the "sterile statesmanship 1 ? of Senator Watson and bolllly declared that in thirty years es Congressional life Watson had never espoused ft measure or a cause that was worth while. ’The people are still interested and Mr. Adams is an authority. Then too, he should explain to the neighbors of the Senator that when Senator Watson voted against the World Court, he. returned home and told various men that he, Watson, had only voted from expediency and that he had really secured other Senators to help pass the^ measure. Perhaps he will again point to Clem Richards of Terre Haute, as his authority. That speech of Claris ought to be a humdinger, If he repeats In October what he said in April.

POOR JOHN Pity poor John Coolidge, son of the President. A United States sdcret service man has been assigned as John’s companion at Amherst College, where he Is a junior. He’ll watch over the hoy, aocompany him to ahd from school, advise him as to friends and amusements, and guard his health, according to the United Press. % At the age when many a youth is on his own, John finds his every act subject to scrutiny. No campus frolics for the President’s son. None af the youthful abandon of college life. John’s mentor is a pleasant sort of a fellow, but, just the same, we’ll bet John sometimes wishes he was an obscure student instead of a President’s edn. A searchlight with two billion candlepower was shown tecently in New York. It’s just possible that someone may find a seat in the subway now. Mars is only 42,500,000 miles away now. But what are 42,500,000 miles to a radio amateur. \ Headlines you never see: MARIE SAYS SHE SEES NOTHING WONDERFUL HER£. An electron is the smallest unit of matter,, say the scientists. Remember that, wives. It’s a good one to fling at him. Today’s definition: Marines (see U. S. mails.) The duty on paint brush handles has been reduced. Only a Democrat could get a dirty crack out of that. •

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Tracy Politics Has Not Become Vicious but Just Cheap in United States.

By M. E. Tracy Every so often somebody rises to inquire why more bright young men don't enter politics. The present campaign furnishes an answer. Os all the thousahds of candidates clamoring for votes, who has said anything worth remembering? The country is full of scandal and faces some real problems, but no one seems to mind. Those refusing to concede that all is well, and they are in a hopeless minority, bring out some trumpedout, picayunish charge, instead of dealing with raw spots that are A>mmonly known. The debauched Pennsylvania primary has caused only one .prominent Republican to renounce his party's candidate. _ It Is typical of the situation that Mills, Republican candidate for Governor of New York, should be shouting himself hoarse over milk, not because the milk is really bad, but because It Is technically below the prescribed standard. It is also typical of the situation that W*atson, Republican candidate for Senator In Indiana, should visualize himself as beset by a mob of angry International bahkers who are putting tip millions to accomplish his defeat because he vdted against the World Court. The country is being treated to a vaudeville show in the name of politics. # Bright young men, who take life seriously and who aspire to serious work, will have none of it. The idea thai they ought to go in and clean tjp the mess does not appeal to them. There isn't enough substance in the thing to make an honest mess. Politics has not become vicious In this country, but Just'chcap. * -!• -I- -IFatigue From War i We miss the far look of a Wilson, the inspiring voice of a Roosevelt, the dignified presence of a Cleveland. Doubtless, much of the trouble is due tp fatigue after war, the war coupled with an overdose of prosperity. We were a little tired after mobilizing 4.000,000 men and raising $30,000,000,000 to save the world for democracy, while conditions were such that wo could afford to lkdown on the job. It has been very pleasant to real ize that nobody would rock the boat if we catnapped, and that a hungry Europe would buy all we. produced, no matter what the price. .It was pleasant, too, to be told that good times had become permanent, that monopoly had evolved from a menace to a good angel, and that we could afford to put ourselves In the hands of big business without fear. No wonder politics shriveled to-the semblance of a mud fight between old women in a back alley, or that candidates saw nothing worth talking for, except cheers, laughter and applause. -J- -I- •!-, Crisis Is Ahead I km not pessimistic over the situation because of a clear conviction that our own laziness will bring on the necessai-y depression to wake us up. Nations, like men., cannot drift and be safe, but must forestall and meet problems as they arise. # At present this country Is blindfolding Itself and trying to be happy because of what It doesn't see. The most Important thing it doesn’t see Is that, matter how well off it may be today, it can't hope to remain so without the use of that same old Intelligence. Asa matter of common sense the United States Is about to face one of the most critical periods In its history, a period of strenuous competition Into which the whole civilized world has been driven by necessity on the one hand, and envy on the other. t + -|- -JMust Help Farmer Our farm marketing and distributing system will have to be reorganized and Improved, not only as a matter of justice to the farmer, but In order to put this couptry In a position to meet increased agricultural activities abroad. You can dispose of Bolshevism with a smile, but the Russian wheat crop is going to be bigger and bigger from now on. You can enjoy British floundering with Asiatic and African problems, but more cotton will be grown in both sections. -I* I- -IDanger in Bigness Ag to the growth of mo'noply, it is -something to be watched. Business may not be wrong because it is big, but there is always an element of danger in Its bigness. President Coolidge told the American Association of Advertising Agencies that the American people have ceased to fear great combine tions of wealth and are learning to make these their servants. N That may be true, but we have not learned so much abouf this particular servant problem that we can assume there is nothing left to learn.

WILL GUARD ELECTION Xiioago Takes Precautions to Protect Votters. Sv United Preen CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Cook County and Chicago officials are busily engaged # in the work of preparing protection for Chicago's voters in the general election. The Government has been asked by county Judge Edmufid K. Jarecki for 500 armed deputy United States marshals to be stationed at the polls. Mayor Dever promised eight squads of detectives, armed with shotguns, for the wards where trouble occurred in the primaries last spring. Approximately 600 members of the Chicago Bar Association are expected to volunteer their services for work at the polls. \

Stars of Radio and of the Phonograph Gather in This City to Do Their Stuff

By Walter D. Hickman

Some of the leaders in radio and record entertainment are assembled here this week to strut their stuff in person. Phonograph artists, many of them, are closely identified with radio entertainment. This week we have Ray Miller and his Brunswick recording orchestra; Lee Sims, pianist, and Allen MeQuhae, Irish tenor, ail Brunswick recording artiits, in Indianapolis • for the radio show. I have told you many times about Miller and his orchestra. Some of their new numbers on Brunswick records are "Dreaming and "Wandering?’ “I’ve lost' My Dog," “Dreaming of a Castle in the Air,” “Sweet Nothings," “Moonlight and Roses,” “Just a Little Drink." “I Wants You to Want Me to Want You,” "Oh, Oh. Oh What a Night,” and other-). Lee Sims made a big hit with me when I first got acquainted with him on the records. His two record hits Include “I’d Climb the Highest Mountain,” "Adorable.” “Tenderly” and “Talking to the Moon.” Allen Mctyuhae, Irish tenor, sang for an hour last night at the radio show. Brunswick lists as a record by this splendid artist two numbers, "After Long Absence" and "Adelai.’’ It is more than pleasing to meet these artists personally. It seems that the more human they are. the greater artists they become. A Request Have been asked to list some new Victor Orthophonic recordings. Will be glad to accommodate. Victor announces the following. “Use Goln’ From the Cotton Field.” Orumit "Parlor Is a Pleasant Pla-e." Crunilt "Sam’s Speech at the Colored Lodjce. " Sam n Henry "Sam n' Henry at the Fortune Tellers.'" Sant n' Henry "Sylvia." Asso'-iated Glee Clubs of America "Autumn Sea,” Associated Glefc Club! of America "Lucky Day." The Revelers. '"The Birth of the Blues,"' The Revelers. "Barcelona" •< fox troti. Shllkret Victor Orchestra "On the Riviera" I fox trot). Shilkret Victor Orchestra "Tonurht s My Night With Baby." Jack Smith. "When the Red. Red Rob Li.” Jack Smith. "Blue Danube Waltz." Philad' Iphla Orchestra "Tales From the Vienna Woods" I waltz | Philadelphia Orchestra "At Dawning (violin!. Fritz Kreialer. “Andantino ' iviolinl Fritz Kreisler "Humoresque." Venetian Trio. "Jocelyn —— Beriv.ise,'" Venetian Trio. "At Dawning (pipe organ). Crawford. "Rosea of Picardy (pipe organl. Crawford. “Danube Waves" (waltz). International Concert Orchestra "Over the Waves” (waltz l International Con-ert Orchestra "At Peace With the World” (pipe organ). Crawford "Valencia" (pipe organ). Craw ford. "Neapolitan Nights." Victor Salon Orchestra. "Allah's Holiday.” Victor Salon Orchestra "Bye Bve, Blackbird" (fox trot). Olsen and f(is Music. "What's the Use of Talk ins” lfox trot). Olsen and Hill Music. “No Night There. Talley "In the Garden," Marlon Talley ‘ Gunga Din," Werrmrath "Boots." Werrenrath "Uielystraum" (A Dream of Love), piano. Bachaus. Najla—Waltz." piano. Bachaue. NEW SHOW AT * THE PALACE TODAY All the weird effects of the jazz school are said to be found In Gordon Kibbler’s orchestra, an octet of young ntert especially versed in the latest of melodies) which opens Its engagement at the Palace theater the last half of" this week. The newest song hits and comedy numbers are on their program. Jones and Hood who were former headliners In vaudeville are heard In several songs. They are also featured as an eccentric dance team which give? as one of its bits the Imitation of a village choir. Winchester and Ross are billed “Wise and Otherwise” In ther original comedy presentation. These two men have several surprises and laughs fucked away for future use. Chuck Haas is California's cowboy comedian whose dry humor Is Intermingled with stunts done with three long ropes. He manipulates these ropes simultaneously. The Robinson Trio Is a troupe of sensational skaters who have what they term a novelty. Bill Includes Plato and Natlie, and, Kihu and Josht. “Womanpower” Is the film based on the age old Influence, both good and bad. that women have over man. Ralph Graves, Kathryn Perry, Margaret Livingston, and Lou Tel** legen are the stars in the picture. On the screen are also Pathe News, a comedy, and an Aesop Fable. I I- IOther theaters today offer: KinRadioetts, at the Lyric; The Lockfords. at Keith’s; "Stella Dallas,” at the Ohio: “Poker Faces.” at the Uptown; “So’s Your Old Man.” at the Apollo; “Paradise,” at the Circle; “The Lily,” at the Colonial; ‘The Man From the West,” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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COMMUNITY FUND GROUPS TO MEET Employes’ Division Will Gather at Dinner. With paper caps, banners and special "yells,” the various groups of the employes' divisions of the Community Fund will attend the annual get-together dinner in the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel at 6:30 p. m. Friday. Last year the room was packed and an equal attendance Is expected for this year's celebration. With a quota of $130,450, and an aim toward 10,000 new employes' subscriptions, the employes' division has built up an "organization of 1,300 workers who are soliciting approximately 150,000 employes In 1.200 firms and government departments. ■ Last year 40 per cent of the firms and offices which organized themselves for the capipaign were able to report “every employe a subscriber.” Each year the proportion of firms in which every employe becomes a Community Fund subscriber increases. Fred Hoke, Community Fund president, and Homer W. Rorst, executive secretary, will be the principal speakers. Talks will also be made by lhe six divisional directors; G. M. Williams, Industrial employes; Frank A. Montrose, utility employes; Robert Bryson, public employes; Dwight Ritter, mercantile employes; Samuel Mueller, commercial No. 1, and Eli Schloss, commercial No. 2.

What s Your IQ?

Iq means "Intelligence Quotient” or intelligence rating. This is a hard quiz, and the average person should he able to answer only five questions. If you are able to answer more than five questions your intelligence is above average and if you can answer all, your rating is superior. The correct answers appear on page 14. 1. Who is Bhown in the accompanying picture? 2. What caused the death of King Alexander of Greece in 1920. 3. Who wrote “Thanatopsis?” 4. In what year during the Civil War was the Battle of Chickamauga fought? 5. How many tiles are there in a set of Mah Jonng? 6. How many boroughs are there In New York City? 7. Who wrote “Evangeline?” 8. Who excavated the tomb of King Tutankhamen? 9. What are the two most popular complaints for divorce in the United States? 10. From what is this quotation taken: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, thnt among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?” TOWN BOOSTERS WRITE Home-town boosters are losing no opportunity to squeeze In a good, healthy weird fort their cities, counties or States, according to radio stations' mail.

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Eddie CanHaving found an eccentric comedy sketch to his liking as well as the general public, Eddie Carr is at the Lyric this week in “The Big Oil Man.”

APPOINTED BY BALTZELL Special Master In Chancery in Equity Case Named. Federal Judge Robert G. Baltzell today named Charles M. McCabe, Crawford sville, to sit as special master In chancery In the equity case of tho Sherman and Elite Company sued the casualty company for Mutual Casualty Company. The Chicago underwriting company used the casualty company for breach of promise and seeks to recover some $500,000. The plaintiff charges that the Arm was to manage the business under a twenty year contract and was discharged before expiration of the contract by directors. at a meeting in' 1924. Relly Adams is receiver for the casualty concern. 75 DESIRE CITIZENSHIP Majority Seeking Naturalization Are German and Irish. Petitions for naturalization papers have been filed by seventy-five aliens before W. A. Kiefer, Cinci mati, district director nl naturalisation, at the F'edoral Bldg. 1 Majority of those seeking naturalization are German and Irish, Kiefer stated. They are the first petitions received here under the new statute providing that the testimony of two witnesses may be taken, excusing them from appearance In court. Those found qualified will be certified to .Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell after ninety days. ■ 1 —i CIVIC GROUP TO MEET Community Fund Representative to Address Club Federation. October meeting of the Federation of Civic Clubs will be held Friday evening at the Chamber of Commerce. The speaker will be a tlve of the community fund, A. L. Portteus. president, announced. Reports will be heard.

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Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any qqeation of fact or information by writing to The ImllanaDolia Time* Washington Bureau 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and manful advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests . ennnot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who was Mary Bickford's first husband? Owen Moore. What is the correct pronunciation of “respite”? , Res-pit, with the accent on the first syllable. Where is Tierra del Fuego? It is a group of islands at the southern extremity of South America belonging in part to Chile and in part to Argentina. Who holds she transcontinental walking record for the United States? John Ennis. He started with a plunge In the surf at Coney Island, New York, on May 23, and arrlyed at the Cliff Hotel,. San Francisco. Aug. 24. 1910, and took a plunge In the surf. He walked the distance In eighty days and five hours, covering 4,000 miles, heating E. P. Weston's time by twenty-five days. Ennis, like Weston, did not walk on Sundays. What is the oldest city fn the world? Damascus is supposed to hold this distinction. Its foundation Is attrib uted by Josephus to Uz. the son of Aram The city was the seat of a kingdom at the time of the He br'ew monarchy. How high is Pike’s Peak? 14,108 feet Are the sun and moon eclipsed every year? , ft There are always et least two eclipses of the sun every year, and there may be as many as five. There are years, however. In which there is no eelipso of the moon. * What was the property toss in the great fire nt Chicago in 1871? About $165,000,000. \ What is the meaning of "TVulre et decorum est pro patrla mori?” Tho translation Is: "It Is sweet and glorious to die for. one's fatherland.” . I Who were the Drnldk? They were fraternities of priests who ruled over the Celtic Inhabitants of anoent Gaul, Britain and Ireland Caesar gives the following desortp tions of the Druids: “They attend divine worship, perform public and private sacrifices and expound nat tors of religion.”

WHIST TOURNAMENT ON More Than 200 Players Take PartPrizes Offered. 1 More than 200 whist players from throughout the State are taking pan in the second annual tournament of the Indiana 'Whist Association, which opened at the Severin today and will continue throughout Saturday. One of the tournament prizes will be the Indianapolis Athletic Club trophy for auction bridge teams of four, representing clubs or organize tions. Another trophy is the Indiana Whist Association cup. presented by Mgx Eichman and Robert McClure. This contest will be for mixed pairs and play will be held Friday night. Mrs. William H. Coleman is association president; Ralph K. Smith, vice president; Edward H. Davis, secretary, and Mrs. Ralph K. Smith, treasurer.

THE SMILE BRINGER By William Herschell New atid enlarged edition, containing new poems which have been so well received 'in his public recitations. $2.00. Other verse by Mr. Herschell i Meet the Folks, $2.00. Howdy All, $1.25. Songs of the Streets and Byw#ys, $1.25. The Kid Has Gone to the Colors, $1.50.

THREE SKALLYWAGS By Walter Greenoogh "Reminiscent of Riley ere these singing Hoosier tales of homespun. Delightful, all of it. Having commenced it, you will keep right en chanting It out loud to the very last word.** •—Washington (IX CL) Star. $1.50.