Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1926 — Page 6
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TO THE BOTTOM It can hardly be charged that the salt filed by Corporation Counsel Rucker is a political lie -as was done before the election whenever any one dared to whisper that there had been graft and corruption. His charge Is plain, simple and direct. He has charged, in a suit at law, that there was a conspiracy under which utility magnates sought to control the government of this State throngb contributions of money to the campaign of the successful candidate for the governorship.. He has charged that the conspiracy was successul and that the verdicts and decisions of appointees who were frTendly to the corporations w'ould justify them to their stockholders, or in other words, were exceedingly favorable to the corporations controlling utility projects. When Tom Adams first relayed the letters of D. C. Stephenson from his prison cell, the cry went ip that it was politics and Adams was charged with >eing a disappointed politician seeking to defeat the Republican party. That was the only answer. For the event is too recent to be lorgotten. The people still recall that for five days the official power of Indiana devoted entirely to keeping any person from. Interviewing "Stephenson and that he was locked away from six State Senators in whose name admission had been demanded. The people still remember that the attitude changed slightly after a Federal agent, one Maroney, found easy access to Stephenson In lets celL And it remembers that the "business partner of Stephenson disappeared for four weeks, away from his wife and family and so secluded himself that his own wife did not know his whereabouts. It has yet to learn from Julian any explanation of this, at least unusual, portion of his life. It has yet to discover what power could urge him to this ac£ or how it happened that he was allowed to sy> Stephenson when every other citizen of the State was barred. And now It has before It this open charge, more sensational than any made by Adams in behalf of Stephenson, and it comes from the legal representative of this city. The appointment of Mr. "Rucker to this position can hardly be laid to the doors of the enemies of the Republican party, of the mayor, of the boss of this county or of the Governor. He secured it with the approval of the political leaders of his party, and surely with the consent of every man he has named as a part of this conspiracy. So the cry of poliiicttl lieu will hardly answer this charge of conspiracy-. It names a definite sum—-but even ft It did not name any such price, contains other elements which make it Serious and important. Has this commission, under its present organization, favored the corporation of Indiana at the expense of the taxpayers? There is one element of this charge which can he easily proved. The people have only to look over the record and discover, for themselves, the tree situation. How many permits asked for "by competitors of the street railway in this city were refused by this commission and later granted to th£ company? What has happened to telephone rates when the gigantic monopoly in this line demanded increases? What has happened when utilities in other cities have sought larger rates and greater valuations upon their properties? Even if his charge of corrupt, purchase. of appointments on that commission were unfounded, would the decisions of the commission be any different than those rendered?
Has this commission acted in a manner which would justify the belief that its personnel was dictated to by those who sought undue and tnjjustified profits? This strfkes deep_ into the of the people and the interests of'the State. The control of these utilities has an Important bearing upon the success or failure of every other enterprise. The rates charged hit at the earning power of industries and the spending power of workers. It is fortunate that Mr. Rucker delayed his sensational suit until after election. Now there can be no question of motive. Tt requires rather strong courage to make the charge. Tt. relieves the people from any doubt, as to whether their votes might he sought through misrepresentations and false appeals t.o passion. For that, reason, and for the continued welfare of every interest in the State, this thing must he probed to jhe very bottom. Tt is not a question of punishing men. It is a question of discovering whether this commission has failed to protect the people and has favored public utility concerns at the expense of the people. If it has, the Legislature has a real duty—which is not the abolition of the commission hut the establishment of one that will represent the people. If it has protected the people in their rights, the members havjp every right to vindication. They should be the first to demand the necessary inquiry by the Legislature. Ts they don’t the people will. WHERE COLLEGE MEN GO What becomes of the man when he goes out Into the fields of life after his college days are over? How many succeed ? How many drift down and lose the aims their youth cherished? Some interesting facts have been gathered on the class that was graduated in 1917 from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uiiiversity. This class has a membership of about 326 men who are about 80 years of age now. after having been in the workaday world for eight, More than 75 per cent of them have been married since graduation. Most of them wedded at about 26 and their wives averaged 23. The most susceptible period of marrying was' three years after graduation, the romantic spirit melting away slowly after that. time. From the standpoint of heirs they have done well, the average being slightly more than one child‘per famity:The •’grads” average $6,000 a year in earnings, with an additional average income from investments bringing the total up to per man per year. Ninety-five per cent of the however, had an
average earned income of only $4,500, and total income of $6,400The most tbjt-an individual has earned is $115,000 a year. Average assets per man are $46,500, and maximum assets reported by any individual $1,000,ooa The general prosperity of the men was Indicated further by the fact that more than per cent of them own automobllea More than 30 per cent own their own homes. The average amount of insurance carried is $22,500 per man. I Nearly half the men are engaged in the work they had planned to do before leaving college. As to habits, almost 90 per cent of the men smoke, mainly cigarets. Three-quarters of the replies to the questionnaire sent out indicated t£at the men are not averse to liquor. Less than one-quarter of the gjn reported they favored the Volstead act. From the standpoint of recreation, golf received the largest vote. There is your college man, eight years after graduation. r A ROYAL WELCOME We take it all back. The interest in the Queen of Roumama does not come from any suppressed snobbishness. It springs from a deeper and more permanent emotion. We are accustomed to giving royal welcomes to those who entertain us and a queen, being unusual, furnishes anew show. Os course, Queen Marie is an tmngnal queen. She has beauty, and most of the queens who claim descent from gods and rule by the divine right of birth, have not been noted for their pulchritude. Queen Marie has brains, and it may said that royalty with Its centuries of inbreeding, have not been overburdened with gray corroscations. Likewise Queen Marie seems to be very able to' keep her family in the jobs to which they were born and has been most successful in making alliances through marriages of relatives, with the rest of the king’s union. She may be said to "be a champion, and we u>* champions. We would give the same warm welcome to Gene Tunney. True It might vary a little in dress and trappings, but it would be no less sincere. Should Mary Pickford or May Murray or some other star of filmland come, she would be treated just as tenderly and perhaps more enthnsiastically. We like our Martin Durkins as a aide show.. The queen of bootleggers is a thrill for a moment. True, the reception committees for t.heso otters would be different. We would turn out in crowds for the pugilist or the film star. But when Marie arrives, she will not complain. She will be surrounded by our great—the mayor and the Governor and all the rest who may be said to have reached royal heights and live tn that rartfled atmosphere of power and pomp. Let os hope that Marie remembers and is grateful. Two Mexican Indians ran sixty-two mflew tn nine hours and thirty-seven minutes. The police hiams a book agent. A French scientist says man's supremacy may give way before the lowly insect. There axe iTttmw when you can’t tell them apart.
SOMETHING FOR ITS TO KEEP OUT OF By N. D. Cochran--The flood of propaganda let loose tn this country on both sides of the controversy between state and church in Alexico Indicates a studied purpose to influence public opinion in the United States in /affairs of a friendly neighboring state which are none of our business. It is reasonable to assume that pressure will be brought, to bear upon our Government to induce it to poke an unwejjome nose Into Mexico’s domestic affair? Otherwise the propaganda would be without purpo:. . Unless one is familiar with the history of Mexico running hack several centuries the present situation will be difficult to understand’; and there is always danger in jumping to conclusions on too little information. So far the people of this country have never had to deal with any such situation as/ the people es Mexico are now wrestling with. We have had no established religion since the formation of the Government; and the framers of our Constitution did all they could to prevent a union of church and state. Only in recent years has there been any tendency in that direction, and that through the growing poll Heal power of the Methodist church—mainly through the Anti-Saloon League. There has never been any real danger of political supremacy of the Catholic Church, notwithstanding the fear of it which is responsible for the many antiCatholic movements, such as the Know Nothings, the A. P. A.’s, the Guardians of Liberty and the Ku-Klux Klan. In Mexico, however, with its early Spanish rule, Catholocism was at various time the established religion. And the conflict between church and state for centuries has been between the Catholic church hiexarchy and a people who are and alwayp have been predominantly Catholic in religion. In this country Protestants predominate. So it isn’t easy for either lay Protestants or Catholics to understand the Mexican situation unless they are familiar with the long fight between church and state in that country. The argument of both Protestants and Catholics is influenced by partisan prejudice. The fight by the Knights of Columbus in this country has beer aggressive, and against the Mexican government. At a recent convention in Philadelphia they made "demands” upon the American Government that injured the cause of the church in that country even in the minds of people who are without prejudice. No church is in position to demand interference in any manner with the domestic affairs of a friendly government by the Government of the United States, where one of the foundation principles is absolute separation of Church and State. Nor is anything to be gained by any church, Catholic or Protestant, by trying to embroil our people in the Mexican controversy. We will be better off, and the Mexicans wifi be better off, if we mind our own business and let the Mexican people mind theirs. Thus far President Coolidge has kept his head, notwithstanding all the pressure that evidently has been brought to bear on him. Any church, Protestant or Catholic, that attempts to drive our Government Into the Alexican mess will make trouble for itself. We will have our hands full enough keeping tho. Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals from running our Government without bothering our heads about whether the Catholic church in Mexico wifi run the state or the state will run the churchAly advice to both American Protestants and Catholics is to mind their own spiritual business and keep out of politics. And this advice is given with great respect for all religions.
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Tracy Maybe Mr, Instill Paid _ $19,000 in Fighting World Court,
By 1L E. Tracy Alvati J. Rucker, corporation coun eel of Indiana polls, should be ashamed of himself. The very idea of suggesting that Sam Tnsull would make campaign contributions for other than the purest and. most patriotic motives! Mr. Instill is a public utility magnate, but that has no Influence on his political views. No. sir! He gave Frank Smith SIOO,OOO, or so, fur the senatorial campaign in Illinois not because the latter was a member of the public service commission, hut because he was against the World Court. Mr. Insull has so stated under oath. If Air. Insull gave $19,000, or any part of it, to help Ed Jackson. Governor of Indiana, in 1924, It was undoubtedly to serve some equally noble purpose. Mr. Insull is an altruist when it comes to campaign contributions, out to save the United States from being ruined by interna tional schemers, and nothing else. If he wanted certain persons made members of a public utility commission, It was not because he expected them to do him any good, but be- | cause they had the right attitude toward foreign aJTairs. , If he conspired to depress the price of stock in ffis own companies so that he could buy it below the market and turn an honest penny no one should intimate that he was moved by the financial gainT World Court advocates may have owned some of that stock, and Mr. InsuTl may have taken that way to discourage them and stop their mouths. , + + + Long Time to Change Far he it from me to question thf! wisdom of the ecclesiastical Law under which the Marlborough marriage was annulled, or the Integrity of the clergyman who did the an | nulling. If this duke and duchess lived to- I gether fop twenty years, however, and had cliildren ■without being married, what was tfieir social, moral and legal status? Putting that aside, doesn’t It strike you that It took the lady a long time to find out that she had been coerced, or to resent It? •I- -I- -IWe Are Killers Last year Detroit policemen killed ; only thirty-five of 113 bandits whom they shot at and hit. The year before they killed thirty-two out of j eighty-eight. Commissioner of Police Rutledge says their markmanship 1 is growing poor and has ordered them to resume target practice. The fact that his order is widely approved shows on what evil days we fallen. The crime wave has brought us to a frame of mind where we admit the necessity of kiHing men without formality, + + + Women as Robbers The crime wave offers but one reassuring fact, and that" is women are not participating in it to an equal extant with men, if the experience of New York may be taken as a guide. Five years ago there were 5,500 men and 800 women confined in the New- York penal institutions. There are now 7.500 men, but only 700 women.. This disparity 1s explained, perhaps, py the fact that robbery has become the most conspicuous motive for crime. Womgn may have the desire to steal as commonly as man, but they hesitate at taking the risk. + + + Hangings and Trials Dan Hudson, State oenmisedoner of law enforcement In Wyoming, says that cattle rustling has become more common than in the early days w-hen “a cowboy's chief adornment was a capable shooting Iron.” ‘Tt used to be that cattle men caught, a band of rustlers, they i held a necktie party, and that was that." he says. "But now wevflrst must have evidence and then often lony drawn out hearings in the courts before a rustler can he disposed of." The commissioner’s difficulties arV further increased by the fact that he has only two men. one of whom he has been obliged to put on the trail of bootleggers. -I- + + Irreverent Prohibition
Prohibition has not only come to absorb most of the time and attention of our law enforcing officers.- but to make many of them forger or disregard what used to be considered no more than common decency. /n Houston. Texas, one dry agent fias been Indicted for extortion, another has been arrested for drunkenness and the prohibition director of south Texas is now being sued for $30,090 by. Mrs. Evelyn Edwards, who charges that bis men broke open an urn containing the ashes of her dead son and then maliciously scattered them over the floor. “■Despite the pleadings of my Negro maid." she says, "and the sobbing pleas of my little daughter, the agents brutally broke open the wrappings around the urn which was in a suitcase near my bed. then tore open the cover regardless of its death inscription, scooped out a handful of the ashes and scattered them ruthlessly o'er the floor." Mrs Edwards says sh<* - arrived home before the agents left, and when she asked them to “please go awky, haven’t you done enough?” one told her. ‘'Well leave when we damn please.” She says the cremation of her hoy, Waverly, who died from rahles three years ago. was in obedience to his last request. ‘‘‘Mama, when T die nlease don’t place me in the cold, wet ground.’ he pleaded with hfs arms clasped ygrht around my neck, ‘hut hum my body, put my ashes In something and keep them in the house near you’.” Tt seerns as though the dignity of the law rs igh* he upheld without violating such a sacred memory as that.
Park Your Chewing Gum With Fred and Bert in the Efficiency Department
By Walter D. Hickman Now theater going Is sure goin’ to be a real pleasure since Fred Allen and Bert Yorke have Introduced their efficiency methods. No longer will we have to worry about parking our chewing gum under the seats. Fred
admits from the stage of Keith’s this week that no longer will one have to worry about leaving gum under your seat and then trying to regain It the next week by trying to get the same seat. All this worry has been eliminated by Fred and Bert. They have a parking system by which you "check" your gum Just as you would your
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overcoat. According to Fred, you will be protected for at least ten days and then the uncalled for gum will be sent to the factory to be done over again. In other words I am trying to tell you Just one blowout handed by Fred Allen and Bert Yorke to the customers who visit Keith’s this week. This Fred Allen Individual thinks up hia own line of stuff. He Is different from the rest because he uses his own noodle for the Jokes. He can think standing up and there are mighty few comedians who can do that successfully. Yorke is more than a foil He has personality and enough ability to run or walk or ride by the side of the clever Fred. And there you have my verdict on this team of comedy. They are there and then some. Allen takes it upon himself to announce ail the acts on the bill. He announces Nicola and calls attention to the fifty police dogs used in the act. And that remark Is a laugh. I have never Reen Nicola before that I remember. He specializes In magic tricks which requires much apparatus. He has a winning opening In "stretching the woman.” He does the Hindu basket trick, the trunk affair, the card-you-can’t-tell-stunt and an illusion called “piercing the woman with steel needles.” Nicola makes no claim to the supernatural He tells.you that he is In the foolin’ and entertainment*" businesinews. He Is a big and a good showman. They tflll be talking about him this week. The Six Galenos are acrobats and when the program states that they j are “European acrobatic wonders.” T believe It after seeing their thrilling offering. Tt is about the wildest think I have seen "for- months. Great act. A1 Coogan and Alary Casey have a travestv upon the efforts of n woman doctor to get patients. Coogan is a droll and individual comedian. And this man can dance. Helen Coyne and Henri French are dancers of real artistic ahlllty. Their first dance., especially the workof the woman on-- her toes. Is the high spot Ttf the act. Boudin! and Bernard are accordion players. Bill Includes movies. At Keith’s all week. -I- + + ARDATH MAKES FINE IMPRESSION AT C^LACE Fred Ardath. the much heralded j artist on the Palace bill, is In totfn j at last, and from appearances Mon- i day afternoon it seems as if about I half the town had turned out to see him. Mr. Ardath. In our opinion, is as i good as we were told he was. As tlie director and main feature of tne orchestra which he'heads he Is at
once original and entertaining. On the stage he admits that a band act Is not so new, but wo would like* to add to this and say that the handling of a band act In the Ardath manner Is of a distinct and refreshing newness. Air. Ardath’s personality has been injected into every member of his orchestra; they j even look different | from other orehes- 1
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txas we have seen on different variety bills. Every one j apparently takes an interest in his | work and does not appear to be up i there for a few minutes watting for j rheir turn to leave. That is what | makes for god entertainment, when j the audience can feel that hero is j someone who takes a sincere interest in providing their amusement, no matter what side of the theater is being presented. As the act opens Mr. Arda.th. comes out front and starts to tell of the plot of a little play, It drags on and on. When the story Is finished you will laugh, and then laugh at yourself for laughing Tt gives one an Insight into the personality of j this very capable entertainer. The orchestra is an exceptionally well trained group of musicians. The melodies they play are without fault, and numbered among them are fonr men, who have a good specialty number in their Swiss cometjv song. Also with the act are t women, who sing some good harmony. Princeton and Yale are a man and | woman comedy team, who have I some really clever things in their j act. The scene is laid In a newly opened night club and from thi-the entire act Is built up with the man making most of the laughs in his role as the master of ceremonies. The woman. In a sense, is present more to look at than to provide laughs. She has one or two good song numbers. Eauntleroy and Van are a comedy team, who rely mostly on the effect of their trick musicstl instruments and make-up In putting their act over. Missed the opening act. Included on the bill is a photoplay ‘‘Midnight Lovers’' with Lewfis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson, also a News Reel. To be seen at the 'Palace the first half of the week. (By the Observer.) k
"BEN-HUR” NOW IN SEC OND WEEK AT ENGLISH’S Asa movie attraction, "Ben-Hur" is repeating its stage ldst#rv at Eng-
fish’s. The movie version Is now In Its second week here. Asa movie. Its drawing power ! seems to be as great as the stage version years ago. i As far as I am concerned, I en-1 joyed the photo-; play much more than the stage ver-! sion. In the movie we are assured of! a good cast regardless when one sees it. Some of the companies on the road of "BenHur” years ago
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were not as fortunate as the movie. Os course, the movie run circles ail around the stage chariot race. And above all, the spiritual note is more prominent in the film version. Ramon Novarro Is cast as, the Prince of llur. A magnificent performance. As I roviewed "Ben-Hur” In full last week. It is not necessary to go into detail again.” "Ben-Hur’ r remains on view all week at Englsh’s with —a matinee and a night performance daily. -I- -I- + KINZO IN ANOTHER STUDY IN PERSONALITY ATany times when a juggler is announced on a variety bill I have the feeling that he is Just another juggling Japanese, probably good at the Job but minus personality. Not so with Klnzo. Here Is a juggler, although Japanese, speaks good English and above all has a sense of humor. I say that he Is Japanese, Judging by hts looks and his remarks. He does many difficult Juggling stunts with the sticks, coins and a plate. He has a fine comedy sense of the theater. Ivinzo is a rare artist in that he knows how to put clever comedy in the Juggling business. And some of the comedy used by some jugglers is
NICOLA TELLS OF TRIP TO THE ORIENT A Yankee Magician Gives an Account of How He Beat Fakirs of Far East While on a Tour.
By Nicola, Magician, Appearing at Keith’s. t Comedy and tragedy are common playmates in China. What wt Occidentals would regard aft a hilarious incident merely gets a canny, subtle smjrk in the Orient.. Atrocities to us, the perfunctory beheading of a few careless Celestials fi Just a dally formality that brings a yawn in some parts of China. Do not gather the impression that the Chinese are entirely bereft of any enthusiasm, but they manifest their emotions in their own peculiar way. I am going to give you two rather graphic illustrations, one of comedy and another of tragedy. I had mastered no less than eight foreign languages when I invaded CMna. The* Chinese had heard of my mystic proclivities and tendered me a. royal welcome, but I was nonplussed and placed at a decidedly embarrassing disadvantage because I was struck when it came to the Chinese language. So, after my premiere performance had been set and ail China promised to flock to Hong-Kong a a roy auditors, I engaged the best interpreter obtainable. This interpreter had a keen sense of humor, which I was soon to find out, much to my discomfiture for the roncj, but later, it fortunately developed, greatly to the enterprise of my conquering of China, and all of Its submerged magics. My initial performance was wen under way, the biggest hippodrome in Hong Kong Jammed to the rails with first-nighters, including members of the royal family and officials from all parts of the empire. The audience responded sharply and satisfactorily, I thought, but I could not understand why the outbursts of native laughter and purring of Celestial tongues, which followed each and every trick. Even though I could not understand a word that was being spoken throughout the audience, and despite the fact that I felt confident that my efforts were getting over, still I was certain that I was being laughed at. Before each trick my able and too ambitious interpreter was supposed to explain to the audience what it was all about. And he surely earned his money, and some of theirs. For he not only told them what I was about to do, but how I was going to do It. In other words, he betrayed my magic and might, as well have delivered an autographed blue-print of my most Intricate tricks to each | member of the audience that first night. Weil, before the performance was half over a friend of mine, who understood the Chinese language, explained it all to me. When I approached, or rather, reproached my chief assistant, he laughed and told j me it was a goood joke. He didn’t explain, however, who, the joke was to be chalked Nip to He didn’t have time. Some Panic Suddenly the theater was thrown into a panic and roars and rumblings came from the outside of the place j of amusement. It looked to me like | a good, old-fashioned riot and free- i for-all. The manager of the theater came : upon the stage and explained. I was \ later Informed, that there had been a little misunderstanding among the ! Coolies of the city and environs and] that said Coolies were storming the \ theater for adrptssion, which was! denied them, and which cost nine of their number as many heads the following morning. / It happened to be only a misunderstanding, but, the magistrate evidently is averse to these little things and decided that cutting off & few
terrible. Not so with Kinzo. He is an outstanding event upon the bill. Jeanne Alexandren, known as "The Rose Girl of the Radio,” is announced as a singpr brought to the city for the main purpose of singing before Queen Marie, Wednesday night. In the meantime she is playing a weeks’ engagement at the Lyric. It takes the announcement to center Interest upon her as her ways are not of the variety stage. Hhe has a clear high voice and her songs are of the better popular quality. The Northwest Mounted Police is a ten-piece band in Canadian mounted attire. They look like the real article, medfimg police. They Inject some comedy and a sob song in their band routine. They please. Rosemont Revellers introduces one to a studio, where the dancing is supposed to be fast and furious. There is one dancer, tho lad who does the skating dance and a Russian affair, is a wonder. Easily the best in the act. He can stop the show anytime he desires. This act has dancing speed, but I think the orchestra, was too loud for best results. Rice and Wemer in blackface have a lot of fun on a scaffold. Here Is a good idea which is worked out with sufficient hbkufri to get the laughs. Good for many laughs. Swartz and Clifford work along musical comedy lines with Swartz landing tho comedy effect. Alias Clifford has a sob song In witch she asks the world not to say anything about a girl unless they can say that said girl Is Just a good girl. The Oxford Three play basketball on bicycles. Bill Includes movies. At the Lyric all week. - + + + Other theaters today offer: Ben Lyon In person and on the screen In “The Prince of Tempters" at the Circle; “Kosher Kitty Kelly” at the Apollo; “Love's Blindness” at the Ohio; “The Return of Peter Grimm” at the Colonial; "It Must Be Love” est the Uptown; “Speed Girls of 1927” at the Mutual and "Thirty Below Zero" at the Isis.
domes at the reck would Just about square things. Prices of admission started the fireworks. The management of the theater, after careful deliberation, decided to charge a higher admission price for my show than had ever been charged before. The Coolies took it for granted that the reason the admission prices were elevated was to keep them out of the magic show. They were discontented and there were threats of an uprising. Several meetings were held over the thing, ; hut finally peace loomed up, and the | Coolies decided to pay the Increased admission prices. By this time, however, the house had been sold out. The Coolies, descending upon the theater en masse, were Informed that no seats were adailable arid j that there were no tickets for them. Polic e Called They misinterpreted the information. They decided that, even though they were willing to pay the price, they were not wanted. They got i real mad. In fact, they decided to wreck the theater and go home. So then commenced their vengeful venture. All the police in Hong-Kong were called out. Hundreds of persons were more or less injured and wounded In the melee. The show was stopped for an hour, but continued after wholesale arrests had been made. Nine of the so-eaJled ring-leaders were arrested. Before he retired, the magistrate doomed them to be beheaded in the early a. m. It certainly was a night of comedy and tragedy. I personally called upon the magistrate after the show that night and was given a moat courteous and cordial reception. I pleaded for the fives of the fated nine, but the magistrate was obdurate and they perished the following morning. Even though some of my tricks had been revealed to these firstnighters. I replaced them with others and my stay In Hong-Kong was the most successful of my twenty-six years In foreign lands. TOMORROW: Snake Charming In India* Will Renew Fight on Dry Amendment Bv Tlmr* Bnrrinl NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey will urge the repeal of the eighteenth amendment as soon as Congress convenes In a bill he introduced last session declaring the adoption of the prohibition law was unconstitutional. Explaining the .bill at a meeting of the Association for American Rights here Monday night, the Senator said the people had never been given an opportunity to vote on the liquor question. How many home run* were made in the world series of 1925? Twelve. 8 by Washington and 4 by J Pittsburgh.
Stage Verdict LYRIC—Kinzo, a juggler, and a dancer In “Rosemont Revellers” are the individual hits on . this bill . ' KEITH'S-—Fred Allen and Bert York* are masters of ceremonies von this bill. PALACE4-Fred Ardath and his Alerry \Wags have something new tol offer in vaudeville orchestras. 'They are real entertainers. \ ENGLIRH’S-V’Ben-Hur" in its second weelA. One of the great pictures car all time.
NOV. IG, 1926
Questions and Answers
You onn irnt *n answer to any qneatinn ot fact nr in ft inn t 101 l l>y writing to Tho Indtnnanollß Tln-os WkahJngton Bure ail. \Yw York Avo.. W aniline I ton. 1> C , un-losing 2 cents in stamnn for reply Mmlii-n, Ickml anil marital , advice cannot ho given nor can extended ' research h<- undertaken. All other ■mentions will receive a pqrsonal reply Unsigned rermoate cannot bo answered All letters are confidential. —Editor. What Is “Persian lamb?*’ It Is a member of the sheep family inhabiting chiefly Bokhara, Af ghanlstan and Persia. Those from Persia are properly called Shiras. Persian lamb usually is black, although occasionally a gray or dark brown skin appears. The fur on pure Persian lamb from Bokhara is silky and curls very tight. Afghan and Shiras skins ore woolly and have a coarser curl. Shiras are sometimes called half-Perelan lambs. What 1* the greale.st depth that a diver has immersed? One of the expert divers of the Navy succeeded in reaching a depth of 306 feet. What Is the value of a United State* small copper cent dated 1879? From 1 to 2 cents only. Wliat will remove a deep chat of sunburn? Try mixing one cupful of sweet milk and tho Juice of a lemon. Let stand until the milk curdles and apply with a piece of cotton before retiring. Who was Benvenuto Cellini? An eminent Italian goldsmith oil the high renaissance; also a sculptor. He was born in Florence, Italy, Nov. 1, 1500. In compliance with tho wishes of his father, Cellini devoted himself to music until his fifteenth year, but his desire to learn designing prevailed, and he became a pupil of the goldsmith, AUchelangelo Bandlnelll, the father of his lifelong rival, and later of Marconi. Cellini's greatest fame did not result from his art but from his autobiography—a narrative of his own turbulent, brll liant career, and a vivid picture of j the fife and civilization of the renal: sance. What Is unwritten law? A popular expression for a suppositious rule permitting a man to take the life of his wife's paramour or daughter’s or sister’s seducer. Tt no general judicial recognition. What are the evening stars for October? Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. How long after the Titanic struck the Iceberg did It sink? Two hours and forty minutes. Who was Rabelais? A French satirist and humorist who lived between 1495 ~nd 1553. By whom and In what country was the first sailboat made and need as | a means of conveyance? There Is no exact Information on the foregoing questions, but It Is generally .supposed that the first sailboats were used by the Bgyp- . tians using skins for sails, about* 2,509 B. a | Can the President be arrwrtbd? Theoreotically the President of the United States la absolutely immune from arrest for any cause whatso- | ever, unless, end until after, he Is Impeached and deposed. Who was It said It took a surgical operation to make a Scotchman see a Joke? Sidney Smith, fn "Lady Holland’s Memoir," says: "It requires a surgical operation to get a Joke well Into a Scotch understanding.” __ * What la the meaning of the name Van Dyke? It. Is Dutch and means either “of the trench (ditch)" 1 or "of the I mound."
MR: FIXIT Correspondent Wonders • Why Salaries Increase.
I.et Mr. Flxlt presentyour case to city Official!!. Ho la The Time* represent:! live at (he city hall. Write him at The Timer Incensed at the tendency of State officials to demand more money for , their services, a correspondent wrote a rather warm letter to Mr. Fixit today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Am enclosing part of the. Increase In Salaries requested (newspaper clipping). I not get, to send all, but would like to ask how,, before election, everything was going down and now every one is getting his or her salary raised by the State budget commission. Where will the thing stop? All utilities under this administration should by all means merge so they, like the Bell Telephone Company, can put the rates where they want them. Don’t you think it is time for someone to take a hand In affairs? Don’t the laboring people hear the brunt of the whole affair? Can’t you fix the news so it can get to the public through your most efficient paper? I know you always stand by the people. MRS. ANNA MEHRINOER, 5050 S. State Ave DEAR MR. FHCTT: The next time the desire foi comes upon you I wish W'.-uld start out Kentucky Ave. and tollow it to the city limits' then turn left and take Raymond St. back to the main part of/your city, and tell someone what u think of it. OUT-OF-TOWNER What Mr. FMxlt, who knows that route, would write of couldn't be printed. The streets should he resurfaced. DEAR MR. FTXIT: Are the pen pie on Capitol Ave. supposed to haul . their own leaves, or are they allowed t to put them in the gutter? T got into trouble with a boulevard cop on that score. T live In the 3700 block on N. Capitol Ave. PROPERTY OWNERThe streets department urg* s citizens to place their loaves in piles on the street before their teams arrive to collect them, not after they have parsed, Sn keep a lookout for he drtfectore.