Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1926 — Page 6

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

KNOW YOU!? STATE INDIANA voters Impose a poll tax on all males between the ages of 21 and 50. Enfranchised females have thus far escaped poll tax as''sessment.

WELL, OF COURSE The Times would like to repeat in all sincerity the statement of Clyde Walb to his followersIt would like to believe that the people of Indiana had registered their own hidgment. It would like to congratulate tho people on a victory. But it does not read the returns that way. It finds that very few of the people voted at all, and that those who diA vote were probably robbed of their right to rule themselves. It finds that the senior Senator of this State got all his plurality, all the majority which is claimed in one county of this State and that the home of the Steel Trust which he has served so well and so faithfully. It finds, also, that in order to get this majority, the election machinery was in all probability put ascrew and that unintelligent and perhaps venal election officials returned a vastly different result than that which the voters desired. In other words, it discovers that the returns from the election were in keeping with the campaigning tactics of Clyde Walb, who now has the temerity to congratulate the people on the result. It much prefers to congratulate the people from the many counties of this Staf? who registered their protest against Stephensonism and Watsonism and Walhism. , It prefers to look at Marion County and congratulate the free and independently minded pebple on their throwing away of party bonds and their repudiation of Cofflnlsm and all that it means It prefers to look at South Bend, which overthrew its bosses and decided to be free. It prefers to look over and away from the Steel Trust bailiwick to the farms and villages and country places and the free cities and there congratulate the free citizens who cast their own votes. For if the vote of Indiana means anything, it means that Senator James Eli Watson goes ba'bk. to the United States Senate as the accredited representative of Judge Gary and the Steel Trust, sent there by jts votes, returned by its favor if not by its frauds. The rest of Indiana will have to worry along with Arthur Robinson, whose law firm will continue to represent the bootleggers of Indianapolis in the future as it has in the past. For when the vote is analyzed, it shows that tbe steel interests of Gary elected Watson. The people of Indiana voted against him. The men and women of the State who carefully weighed their ballots and cast them in all good conscience, turned thumbs down on these two Senators. Up to the last minute, the campaign in behalf of Watson was one of misrepresentation. Clyde Walb, by his charges of fraud and corruption, brought a Senate investigation of conditions, when he charged that the internaltonal bankers had flooded the State with money. The charge was false and brought upon him a rebuke from a great Senator that he had deliberately lied and was utterly discredited by his "own testimony. If that, were not enough, the final day brought t ,n Paul McNutt, the head of the American Legion, a denial that the organization was for the two Republican Senators as the Walb organization bad rep*, resented it to be. That was the desperation to which Walb was driven and then he went to the far corner of the State, so close to Chicago as to catch its infection, and there produoed the votes by which Watson will claim his seat in the Senate. He goes to represent Gary, not Indiana. He goes there with 99 per cent of the territory of Indiana against him. He goes back with the men and women who made this State what it is, repudiating him. But perhaps the Steel Trust needed a Senator. And if it does, we congratulate it upon its selection and its victory. ,

THE NEXT STEP Very soon this cAy must, if it redeems itself, change its form of government and rid itself of its present control from Washington. From the lips of the mayor of this city came the shameful confession that he had taken money from a secret organisation, traveled to Washington for a purpose of which he was ignorant, and there discussed his appointments with a goblin or a wizard or some other super officer who has no Interest in this city except in its domination. When the mayor of this city made that statement under oath, he surely warned the people of this city as to the sort of government it has. He made it ridiculous. He made it absurd in national fame. Is there any reason why any mayor of Indianapolis should take orders from a nonresident of thfs city as to his appointments, unless he had given an oath to those persons to obey their will and not the wishes of the voters who* gave him power? / By his own declaration, the mayor confesses that this city is a vussal state an invisible empire, a feudal state in which the people have lost control of their own government. Tire remedy may be the overthrow of partisan control and the establishment of a city manager form of government under which the people will rule themselves. ” * THE WEST SHOWS MARIE The “wild and woolly” West knows its corn and turnips. Queen Marie o£ Roumania was feted there as she has been in no other spot on her transcontinental trip. She had a taste of that phase of America which ail iirßt-time visitors, royal or otherwise, expect of America. We have patiently explained to the world that

primitive wildness and woolliness is no mb re over here. People across the seas have listened and smiled politely, most of them not believing one wryd of it. If they confessed honestly their one big disappointment when they finally tlid see America it would be the absence of all these imagined bits of savage drama in the new world. It is very probable that even the English blooded Queen Marie rather expected some savagery over here. North Dakota doubtless reasoned so when it called together its Indians from the reservations to adopt the Queen into the Sioux tribe with a gorgeous ceremony of war dancing about the Queen as she knelt on a buffalo rug. North Dakota and the Indians did an especially gracious tiling for the queenWe wagor it will be an outstanding impression of America which the Queen will talk about when she goes home. LET’S HAVE MORE OF THEM Save in the case of California, where a State referendum abolished the State dry enforcement act, Tuesday’s direct vote on the prohibition issue can have only a moral effect. This moral effect is sufficiently clear. It is that the country Is steadily inclining toward the view that a reconsideration- of prohibition la duo. This newspaper would liko to see such referenda in mariy more States before an effort is made to act upon the question nationally. The vote whereby the Eighteenth amendment was adopted was hasty and ill considered. It was taken under stress of war emotion. It would not be well to undertake a national vote on the subject again until the people have thought the question out thoroughly and decided what they want. * As shown by Tuesday’s referenda the people in a number of States are ready to say that what they do not want h? the present attempt to enforce absolute prohibition. That, however, is only what they do not want. There hasn’t yet been sufficient thinking on the subject of what they do want. These referenda stimulate thinking on that subject. We should have more of them. PENNSYLVANIA’S MISFORTUNE A splendid showing was by William B. Wilson in his campaign against William S. Vare, tho boodle candidate for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. Wilson was beaten by two things: The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh political machines. Ho apparently defeated Vare in the rest of the State. The result is Pennsylvania’s misfortune. Vare, of course, will be thrown out of tho Senate, but that doesn't moan that Wilson will take his place. Instead, someone appointed by the Republican Gov-ernor-elect will receive the office- And this Gov-ernor-elect received his nomination at the hands of a political pool which spent for him and its senatorial candidate in the primaries even more money than was spent for Vare. William B. Wilson comes out of the fray with great credit to himself. Too bad that the same can not be said f3tate. t

JUSTICE BY THE POUND |{y N. D. Cochran Now we ave another decision of the august SuI preme Court of the United States in which the Jaw is finally determined by a majority vote. Justices Holmes and Brandeis being the minority as is frequently the case. This time they are joined by Justice Mcßeynolds, who most of the time is lined up with the reactionary majority. , The merits of this particular decision are not involved Ip this study of the Supreme Court. The right and wrong of Supreme Court decisions sis something quite beyond the understanding of ua common folks. What we are Interested In just now is a sort of chemical analysis of law. By law we do not mean justice, as they are not necessarily members of the same family. So it doesn't 'affect this argument whether Chief Justice Taft or -Justice Holmes is right as to whether the President can arbitrarily fire certain officials with or without the consent of the Senate. The Supreme Court decisions are determined by a count of noses. If five' judicial noses are red and four are white the red wins. That means the law Is red according' to the great American (Constitution, even if in fact it happens to be black. It may well be that students of the Constitution would have more respect for the minority opinion of Justices Holmes and Brandeis than for the joint opinion of Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices Butler, Stone, Sanford, Vandevanter and Sutherland. Or even if Justice Reynolds had lined up with them, for In general he Is in the wrong pew when he sits with Justices Holmes and Brandeis. But that would be based on the qualitative theory of justice, and our court of last resort determines the law on the quantitative theory—the count of noses. So long as law is determined on the quantitative theory, l ,or the count of noses, it would seem that an efficiency expert might suggest important changes In method which would save not only a lot of time, but a whole lot of wear and tear on the mentality of the judges. We hear from time to time that Judges In trying to get at what the law is weigh the authorities. Even a layman who has listened to argument by lawyers has heard authorities quoted clear back to the time when the mind of man runneth not to the contrary, Moreover he has seen the separate piles of bocks on the tables of tbs' contending lawyers. Why not have scales.ln the courtroom and pile the books loaded to the guards l with authorities on the two sides of the scales and let the indicator determine which wins? 1 If, too, many books are dragged In for ordinary scales, compensating hay scales could be installed In the courtroom and justice determined by actual wolghof the authorities. A clerk could manipulate the eg-ales, and the Judges could take a snooze while weighing was going ont Or we might' weigh the Judges, and determine what the Constitution, meant by adding up the freight of the judges on one side and comparing it with the joint weight of the Judges on the other. There wouldn't be much difference In this method than that of counting noses. Os course the chief Justice would outweigh any of his associates, but if there happened to be enough public interest long enough in advance we could fatten tip some of the other justices, Anyhow the result would 1)0 th_e same, as there is no chance of the Holmes- „ Brandeis theory of the Constitution and justice winning out through their avoirdupois, since practically all of the judges are appointed because it Is known in advance which side of the scales •’they will be found upon. So long as the quantitative theory of Justice stays with us we might as well get our Supreme Court decisions by weight as by nose counting. When we get to weighing mind instead of matter the nose counting rule will not prevail.

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Tracy Donahey’s Victory in Ohio Greater Than Al Smith’s,

By M. E. Tracy Tho election makes -three men available as presidential candidates for the Democratic party: Governor Smith of New York, Governor Ritchie of Maryland and Governor Donahey of Ohio. i All three have been weighed in the local balance and not found wanting, but Donahey’s victoryj appears to be more of a personal j triumph than that of either Smith or Ritchie. in New York and Maryland the drift was generally Democratic, a Republican Senator, up for re-elec-tion, losing out in each. Donahey won by a handsome majority in spite of the fact that Ohio went against his party. -I- -I- -IAbout Prohibtion Prohibition, especially on a Na-tion-wide scale, is commonly regarded as the work of women. Those opposed to it never tire of blaming woman suffrage and wornan’.s activities in politics for their trouble.* Leaye it to the men. they say, and we would soon be rid of tbe Volstead act, if not the Eighteenth Amendment. . All of which sounds rather funny when you realize t hat of tbe four women Just, elected to Congress, three are against prohibition. -I- -I- -IOld Stuff, Vadasz Vadasz, the Hungarian artist, who is coming over to find and paint the most beautiful woman in America, says that no woman cAn really be beautiful until she has been hurt by a. disastrous love affair. Tho theory Is old. Otto Goldschmidt exclaimed when he first heard Jenny kind. “If T could marry that girl and break, her heart, then she could sing," nnd that is what he did. I- I + Is Italy so Quiet? Italy is quiet and contented, we are told, yet some 2,000 persons were arrested during Mussolini's recent swing aropnd the country, not because they had done anything, but just as a matter of precaution. Either the Duee is less popular than his followers pretend, or they are going to unnecessary lengths for his protection. He says he is not afraid, but wears a mail shirt. You just can't reconcile the conflicting actions and reports. One day it seems as though George F. Rabbit himself would fee) at home In Italy, while the next finds everybody pointing out plots and calling not only for wholesale Imprisonment of the populace, but for raids into foreign countries. It is the rumbling of a political volcano, or press agent stuff? Six persons have tried to assassinate Mussolini within the last four' years. One was a woman and the last a child of 15. -I- I -IFrontier Days The back woods and back alleys are not very far apart. It requires no psychologist to see a similarity between bad men of the slums and the frontier. So far as human nature goes, the apaches of Paris are wonderfully like the red brethren for whom they were named. The banditry of present-day Chicago is a pretty faithful reflection of what took place on th plains and In the mining camps fifty years ago. • There comes a time when the city grows too big to be human, when its crowds become a wilderness of solitude, when people feel the pinch and injustice of Isolation despite a sea of faces all around them and when the old urge that each look out for himself rises to take command. So it is that we hear tho crack of pistol and the rattle of machine gun where bright lights shine, and where people are supposed to conduct themselves in a standardized, conventional wav. •I* -I- + The Peace Treaty “Scareface” Capone and his rivals sign a peace treaty, just as though the law had no concern with their evil antics, and Just as though Chicago could get no pence unless they agreed to It among themselves. The underworld of Canton organizes to liberate prisoners who are held In connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett. , A break for liberty by desperadoes confined In the tombs startles New York, with 200 detectives and police men shooting It down and with three dead nnd three wounded to prove the grimness of'the affray. •I' -I- -I* .. v Buffalo Slaughter Considering how scarce buffaloes have become, and how much lover® of wild life have had To say about it. It seems pathetic that a herd of 250 —one of the few remaining—should have to be shot down for lack of buyers, yet that Is the tragedy about zo he enacted on Antelope Island In Great Ralt Lake. Tho grazing lease of A. H. Leonard will soon expire, and when it does, all the buffaloes left alive on the Island will revert to their owners. Because he cannot get anything out of them, except through hide, horns and meat. Mr. Leonard-has ordered all of them killed, save forty.

Can you give the title - of the poem In which the following occurs?: “J a>\h Is as strong as death: .jealousy as cruel as the grave?” It is found in the Song of Solomon, in the Bible, Chapter 8 Verse fl. Does cream weigh more than milk? No. Milk containing three per cent butter fat weighs 8.62 pounds per gallon: four percent butter fat, 8.61 pounds per gallon: five percent butter fat, B.fin- pounds per gallon. Single 20 percent cream weighs 8.48 pounds per gallon: while 40 percent whipping cream weighs 8.38 pounds per gallon.

The Monarchs of Melody Open 3 Day Engagement of Syncopation at Palace

Monarchs of Melody open their kingdom of music, comedy, songs and dances at the Palace Theatre today for the last half of the week. These five rulers in the land of make-believe have four of their number in the guise of a Jazz orchestra and the other starred as a singer and a dancer who deals with her own original creations. The four men in the musical group give specialties as well as ensemble numbers. “The Romance’’ is a musical comedy that centers its attentions around the affairs of two young couples. The saying goes that the whole world loves a lover, but in this sketch the world also laughs at him. William Carle, known as a singer, has the leading role. While the Prince of Wales was touring the night clubs of New York City, in his company was Marie Stoddard, one of vaudeville's funniest comediennes. Miss Stoddard Is on the bill with a series of impersonations she has taken from that tour of night clubs. She gives the soubrette and the strutting mezzosoprano among her several sketches. Bill Includes Besser and Balfour In “Foolish Moments.” Catherine Sinclair is hilled as the “Strong Woman," and In her athlotio potpourri features tumbling, balancing, and somersault tricks. "The Midnight Kiss," with Richard Walling and Janet Gaynor, two of the youngest featured lovers on the screen, is the photoplay based on the stage hit "Pigs." Paths News, a comedy, and Topics of the Day are tile short reels.

YOUNG ACTOR STATES HIS VIEWS. William A. Powell, who plays the part of young Abraham Levy, in Anne Nichols' comedy, “Abie's Irish Rose," at the Murat next week, Is of the opinion that one can get an unusual schooling in the drama while acting in some types of plays. Mr. Powell refers to his own experience in stage work, and in reference to this says: "Many players have said that for a thorough training there is nothing to equal a long engagement of dramatic stock. "This is quite true. What success I have attained can be truly attributed to my earlier stock experiences. When one is constantly called upon to play parts that require an entirely different type. It naturally follows that he will he prepared to fill a role that might be allotted to him at some future time. “There have been plays wherein an actor has gained some additional Schooling because of the fact that there were some characters In the play quite different than those with which he was familiar. As an instance I can cite ‘Abie's Irish Hose.’ "This play has four Jewish characters, each a different type; the Rabbi, Solomon, and Mr. and Mrs. Cohen. My part of Able, son of Solomon. Is purely that of an Amer-lcan-Jewlsh Juvenile. “Then we have the Irish priest and Patrick Murphy, father of Rosie. Each character, whether they be Irish or Jewish, are the direct opposite of the other. In all there are eight different contrasts, although five representing one race, and three, another. "Since becoming a member of the ‘Abie’ east % I feel that my value us an actor has been greatly enhanced by a study of the various types in this groat play,” he stated. • ■ • Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Tho Big Parade." at English’s; Royal Peacock Orchestra at Keith’s; Norma and her mystery violin at the Lyric; n,ew bill at the Palace; "Take It From Me," at the Circle; “The Midnight Sun," at the Colonial; "Stella Dallas," at the Ohio: "The Ace of Cads," nt the Apollo; new show at the Isis; “Partners Again," at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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Yes, here Is Georgia, Meaning that George Jessel will he seen at j the Colonial next week in "Private : Izzy Murphy.” It's a comedy. Sure. SINCLAIR DELAY SEEN Supreme Court Cannot Act on Case for Month. Oil T’nlhtit Prrus WASHINGTON, Nov, 9,—Decision of the United States Supreme Court ! on,the Harry F. Sinclair Mammoth Oil Company petition for a review of the Government’s circuit court victory in the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve case cannot be made for a month, it was said today. The petition. Just filed, will be presented formally to the court Nov. 22. Actlbn on Its conceivably might be | delayed for several months, pending the court’s decision of similar questions in the Elk Hills case. The Sinclair Company charges the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals unlawfuly went beyond the findings of fact of the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Federal District Court in ordering the Teapot leases annulled on grounds of fraud. The district court found no fraud.

BR YAN’S DA UGHTER LA UDS GIRL TOD A Y A Re-Creation of ‘Commoner’ of Old, She Has No Fear for Modern Ideals.

(Copyright. tOSfi. NBA Service) NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4c—No danger signals need be hoisted along the paths which the “modern American girl" is treading; no • mourning need bo worn for supposed death or decay of ail the old American ideas and ideals. The ideas and ideals are as staunch as ever, and the modern American girl, with all her skirts, her rouge and lipsticks, her cigaret-smoking, will amount to more than her mother or grandmother did. It's a grandmother of the lineage of William Jennnings Brayn, who says so; one who has Bryan’s voice, Bryan's eyes, Bryan's intellect —with perhaps a bit more of liberalism than the ‘‘Commoner’’ had. This grandmother Is Bryan's daughter, Ruth Bryan Owen. Grandmothorhood?. Delight ful! “Isn't it delightful?” she laughs when her grand motherhood —at 41 — is mentioned. Her granddaughter— Ruth Bryan Meeker —is just 2 years old, the daughter of Mrs. Owens’ daughter, Mrs. William P. Meeker, who Is 22. Fresh from her first venture into politics—a losing race for Congress — ; Mrs. Owen is on a lecture tour. Her father's bent for Chautauqua and lyceum appearances is part of her Bryan heritage. It’s from her contact with America at large In tho course of her lecturing experience that Mrs Owen's confidence in the soundness of everyday American thought and ambitions has been gained. "We hear much of unrest,” she observes. "But hunt for it and you will find an overwhelming amount of equilibrium nnd basic permanence In American life. "Lease of all should we worry about the American girl. I glory in her. She is splendid. Criticisms of her are so trivial! I can’t see how the trivallties can he remembered when out of their freedom there has come such fine, full decency, such honesty, such vitality. First of All—Freedom “I grew up with an appreciation of freedom for girlhood. My mother believed in it at a time when It was anathema to many. While I was a baby, ahe was studying law. She did an almost unheard of thing for those days when she won her degree, “When I was old enough to begin dreaming of a career, I remember she told me to boa blacksmith If I

BURGLARS LIKE DOGS AND ISIC One Thief, Probably Underweight, Steals Yeast. Some unusual robber* were at work late Wednesday, police reports today show. Among them were a dog fancier, a burglar with musical taste and n thief who apparently Is trying to gain weight by eating yeast. Jack Hngal, 1113 Bellefontnlne St., said whilewas at work, someone stole his saxophone and trumpet, valued at S3OO, from his home. Ml** Faye Sharp, 802 Berkley lid., reported that her SI,OOO German police dog was taken from her auto at Ohio and Delawn re Btn, % Theft of ten pound* of yeast from his wagon at 601 Ketuoky Ave., w’rs reported by John Monte, driver for Schnull A Cos, Two diamond rings valued at SIOO were taken from her home, according to Maggie Frelgle, 803 W. McCarty St. A thief also took SBO worth of dishes from a church at ThirtyFourth St. and Arlington Ave, GIRL HELPS IN VICTORY OF G. O. P. Directs Republicans to Polls, but Sends Democrats Elsewhere. John ' Bankett, Negro politician, questions the Improvement in politics that was predicted with the advent of woman suffrage, after witnessing the election on Tuesday, He brought the following story to Republican headquarters: , In one of the NegTo precincts a church was the polling place, The morning was cold and the church door was shut. Although there was ample activity inside, the exterior was deserted, A Negro girl. Just turned 21, according to Bankett, came and cast her first vote for the G, O, P, and then took up a position outside the church. She -wanted her party to win and was going to see that they did, Whenever any friend came along, whom she knew was going to “vote right," which, in her opinion, meant Republican, she ushered them to the closed church door with joyful welcoming. But then a Democrat would come along, and, seeing the girl, inquire where the poll was located, “Well, suh,’.’ the girl would reply, “They was agoln’ to vote in this here church, but lopks to me like its deserted; maybe they moved off somewhere else.” With this sad assurance, the believing Democrat would move off up the street and the ydung lady would stand chuckling with delight. •

felt that suited my mind and muscles best. “There is no danger for the American girl in freedom. There Is danger in denial of It." Girlhood lingers In the grandmotherhood of Mrs. Qwen. Her gray Bryan eyes are alight with, the keenest enthusiasm. Her hair Is shingled her gown is of the latest mode. She is an eager lover of literature, music, art. No other woman lecturer of today commands as high fees. Vigor of thought marks this daughter of Bryan, just as it marked her famous parent. No Illusion About Politics It la "splendid” for women to be in politics, but she has no visions of women monopolizing the White House, the Supreme Court, the hails of Congress. An end of war may come some day, but not in the day of people now living or their children. The economic wrong of war is the lesson the world Is beginning to learn. Thftt lesson has a far more potent appeal than considerations of human suffering and sorrow. Cries of alarm over the "alien element” in America’s population are uncalled for. The "melting pot” still melts and fuses Its,human Ingredients. The accumulation of wealth? It’s an urge rooted In human nature, and not to be denied. As for the “landed aristocracy” in America of which some folks complain, weren’t George Washington and Thomas Jefferson landed aristocrats? If people of -wealth tend to schedule themselves, to seek spaoe and privacy, that’s Just human nature’s urge again. So think- the daughter of William J. Bryan, In whoso personality and Intellectual range the “Commoner” of A <J seems to live anew— Save, perhaps, that by the alchemy of rebirth the stern ess of his vlowb on the' wpys and thoughts of men has been mellowed somewhat, and Idealism has given way 1 pa degree to the practical tangible.

Geography Test

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All of the questions after the first ore concerned with geography. The correct answers to the4o questions appear on page 14: 1, Who is ahown in tho accompanying picture? 2, Where Is the Capo erf Good Hope? 3, What body of water separates Sweden and Russia? 4, What two large bodies of water are Joined by tho Btralt of Gibraltar? 6. Wiat State separates Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, 6, Which of the United States Is the most eastern? 7, Does Alaska extend farther north than Iceland? 8, How many British colonies are there In Australia? 9, In what country is tho eity of Bangkok? 10, On what continent la Guatemala?

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Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by wriUng to The IntUanaooila Time* WMlmiglon bureau 1322 New York Ave Washing A ton I) C Inclqstnii 2 cents in staaina ■ for reply. Medical legal and marital u advice, cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken Al) other qiiwatione will receive a personaJ reply unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Please give the measure incuts of a major league baseball diamond? * From homo plate to the pitcher's box is 60 feet 9 Inches; from first base to third base (diagonally) 127 feet 3% Inches; from pitcher’s box to third baso 63 foot 7 11-16 inches; from home plate to second base (diagonally) 127 feet 8% Inches; dls tance between bases, l.e. from home to first, first to second, etc.. 90 feet WlwU percentage of the poputaMPn of the United States are negros? According to the 1920 census the percentage is 9.9 percent. v■ . . In what part of the world are Pygmies most often found, and how lime have these peculiar people existed? It is known that Pygmies have heen In existence more thah 5,000 years. They are found more numerously In the Philippines, than elsewhere, hut groups of them exist also in the Andaman Islands of tho Bay of Bengal: New Guinea; the Interior of the Malay Peninsula and the Congo regions of Africa- With few exceptions they have slmlly characteristics. The smallest Pgymles are those of Africa where the men seldom attain a height of more than 4% feet and the women only 4 8A foot- f How much has the coal strike In Great Briton cost? In round numbers it Is estimated that up to September 1, 1926 tho coal strike has cost $145,000,000. In what part of she United States do the greatest number of forest fires occur and what is the monetaryloss on account of them? Every year there are from 85,000 to 90,000 forest fires in the United States, and two-thirds of them are Jn North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, Os the total burned area 80 percent was in that region and 71 percent of the total estimated tangible loss of $28,000,000 and of the estimated collateral loss of $600,. 000,000. Can yon tell mo something about the Yangtze River in China, whore it rises, how It compares with other rivers, and tho country thru which It passes? It rises in central Tibet at an altitude of 16,000 fecit or more among a tangled mass of mountains and plateaus. In its Journey to the sea it cuts thru several distinct mountain ranges, forming some of the deepest river gorges in the world. It (’rains an area of 770,000 square miles, equal to one-quaiter the total arm of the United States and In this hnsln live approximately 176.000,000 people. It Is not the longest river In tho world forlt Is only about 3,000 miles In length, but with Its tributary rivers, lakes, canals. It more commerce than any other land water system in the world. Please give a brief account of Battling Nelson? He was the world’s lightweight boxing champion from 1905 to 1906 nnd from 1908 to 1910. He was horn Juno 5, 1882, nt Copenhagen. Denmark; wns five feet seven and onehnlf Inches tall and weighed about ISB pounds. His full name was Oscar Mathew Nelson. His greatest battles were those with the colored fighter, .Toe Gaos, and with Ad Wolgnst, who Hueceoded Nelson as lightweight champion. From what do the names "Nell** nnd "Nellie" come? From Eleanor, a name from the Greek meaning fruitful. Flow many Italians are In the world? The number Is estimated at 40* 888,834, When did peopl > first begin tntmrjr their dead? Tt is not known exactly when this custom arose but there are records of it as far back as anything concerning the human species is known. Recent, discoveries in South T ranee Indicate that man not only buried bis dead 15,000 years ago but actually had tombstones so indicate the graves, How many ties are used on steam railroads In the United States per year and what Is their value? Statistics for 1923 show —139,13*,. 347 cross-ties used and an average cost per tie of 94 cents, M