Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1926 — Page 6

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CHINESE JUSTICE China’s future looks pretty black. You’d think, reading the papers, that the Chinese are the most warlike people on the face of the globe. Os course, they are not. They are really he world's champion pacifists. Today China is in turmoil. Why? Principally for three reasons: 1. Chinese philosophy is all against war and tbe natives meekly submit to the "stronger” peoples. 2. China is indescribably rich, therefore coveted by the great powers, who up to 1900 —when our Secretary of State, John Hay, tossed a monkey wrench into the works—deliberately planned her dismem berment3. Native war lords, sometimes on their own, sometimes as the tools of foreign powers, aive keeping the country in chaos because the fishing is better in troubled waters. Here is the background against which the inter- 1 national commission on extra-territoriality, provided for at the Washington conference of 1922, has been working all this year. Its report was made public by the State Department at Washington thi3 morning. Viewed from the angle of things as they are, the report must be regarded as fair. Among the thirteen nations whose representatives signed it was China herself. The others are Belgium, Britain,.France, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway, Portugal. Spain and Sweden. The American commissioner, Silas H. Strawn, was chairman. The object of the commission was to investigate the administration of justice in China and pave the way if possible for foreign powers to withdraw, "progressively or other wise,.” their respective rights of extra-territoriality The report paints the usual gloomy picture of conditions in the Flowery republic. And it arrives at the usual conclusion, namely, that when and if China ever gets her laws and courts modernized to the po’nt where she can administer justice on her own. then the foreign powers will close their own courts there. But it does do one unusual thing for which it mist be commended. It suggests that there are cer ain abuses in the foreign courts which it would not be amiss to correct. It is not quite so happy, howiver. with some of the cases cited to show how Chlse justice sometimes miscarries. Take “the case Otto Heinsohn,” to mention only onq. Otto, it seems, was a German. (And Germany, -ince the World War, has no extra-territorial rights in China, thus furnishing an example of what might happen were, foreigners not protected by their own courts.) Otto worked as "tea man” for one Wilhelm Pfeng, manager of a German concern in Foochow. But Pfeng’s principal business was not selling tea, but German arms and ammunition to the military' governor of the province of Fukien. Recently Germany, along with the other principal powers, signed an agreement not to sell arms in China, so when a consignment of arms arrived it was held up pending a permit from Peking. The permit never came and Pfeng saw fit. to leave Foochow, not to return. Whereupon Otto was thrown into a military jail, says the report, “where I e was detained about a month and then released on parole.” This country can beat that 1 A Chinese student was arrested in Washington on a murder charge and detained in the district jail there about seven years before he was acquitted and released. Undoubtedly justice in China today is something of a gamble. That is to say, it is even more of a gamble than it is here in the United States, in Eur ope or Japan. Chinese scholars admit, this and don’t ask or want any sudden change. They do want, how ever, to be left to run their own courts some day as soon as a plan can be worked out. But right there is the difficulty. It is a foregone conclusion that foreign powers will not yield their present privileges in China until order has been restored and modernized tribunals of justice set up. And that can almost never be while some of the powers actively conspire to keep the native war lords supplied with arms and munitions and encourage them to keep the pot a-boiling. Which is why we say China’s future looks pretty dark. A WATSON PROBE Announcement of a possible contest of the seat of James Eli Watson in the United States Senate once more throws the spotlight on the methods by which he obtained a nominal lead of a few thousands in a State which usually gives his party a safe plurality of from one hundred to two hundred thousand votes. Once more the people are reminded that all of his plurality came from Lake County, that private empire of the Steel Trust, where the word was spread in seven languages, besides English, that unless Watson was elected the mills would close and there would be no jobs. Once more the people may contemplate that the rest of Indiana has no representative in the Senate, because the junior Senator does not seek a higher fame than to be more than an echo for his chief, but that the Steel Trust has a very able and adroit special pleader when any interest of it is touched. There are other phases of that 4^ ec ff° n which •hould interest the other members of the Senate. Tt should run back to the primary and beyond that to the incidents charged before the Reed investigating inquiry. The Senate should know the truth about any bargains made with wizards or goblins or other secret rulers for power and support. The Senate should know whether there was formed around the Indiana’solon a super power for the purpose of seating or unseating other, men in their body and whether \yatson lent himself to such schemes for the sake of the ‘‘ greatest political organization.” The Senate surely should discover whether the peculiar absent voters’ law In this State was juggled and abused for the purpose of overthrowing the real will of the people and placing among them the representative of selfish groups, rather than of all the people. Such a contest should be illuminating and revealing. It might produce a study of Indiana politics. It might even reveal how it happened that a Federal agent wended his way quickly to the convict cell of one D. C. Stephenson when all others were forbidden

entrance, and what that Federal sleuth, a very close follower of the Senator, had to say to this convict. Such a contest might bring to light many things and not leave the people at the mercy of the contingent fund of the Governor of this State for money with which to prosecute an inquiry of charges which involved the dispenser of sach a fund. Let it be hoped that the announcement of a contest is not just another tale that disappears In the night, Jlut that a serious effort will be made to discover whether we really had an election or merely a farce comedy. MEDICINAL WHISKY Approval by the head of the Anti-Saloon League of the manufacture of whisky in the United States for medicinal whisky is almost meaningless to Indiana. The law in this State forbids doctors giving whisky to any patient., even though in their Judgment such treatment might aid in saving life. It is true that occasionally there are doctors who send their patients to bootleggers. At least such was the experience of one of the highest officials of this State when a member of his family was in imminent danger of death. Not everyone has the power to make a felon of his friends with impunity, but that'does not matter when the edicts of dry czars is pitted against the possible saving of a life. The announcement only emphasizes the difference and discrepancies between the dry laws in this State and those in the Nation. The whole theory of national prohibition is that the same law shall prevail In every part of the Nation and that, the whole land shall be dry. The national law makes provision for medicinal whisky and it is permitted everywhere the national law, policy and principles prevail. It may be all wrong to let doctors give whisky to their patients. It. may not be necessary. It may open the way for the actual annulment of the entire law. But certainly there can be no deniaf of the state, ment that if whisky is a medicine in one State it should be in all States and that if it is not a medicine, it should not' bo permitted in any. One of the big obstacles to any real test of prohibition is the unequal enforcement in various States and the varied provisions added by State ’ Legislatures. ' Either prohibition is a national matter, to be settled and determined by Federal authority, or it Is u local question and should be passed upon entirely by local authorities. The one big argument for the Eighteenth amendment was the declaration that State prohibition laws kid failed. States which were dry complained of the fact that they were deluged by booze sent across their borders by wet States. Under local option laws, the same argument was used by cities and by counties. • The demand for national prohibition was based upon the disgust with this situation. But a law to obtain respect must be general in its application and its enforcement This concession of the professional dry leader for the manufacture of whisky in this country for medicinfil purposes only emphasizes the fact that we have not escaped the old cry of inequality and of local differences. It may suggest to the next Legislature that if it amends the dry laws. It should y*ke the Federal law as Its guide and make Indiana a part of the United States. Now that coal ,1b being liquefied we wonder how long it will be before the bootleggers find out how to distill a kick out of it. You can call a lady a kitten and get away with it, but don’t call a a pup. A WARNING FROM THE PULPIT By N. D. Cochran ■ 1 If I can say something that will make people think when writing lam satisfied. It isn’t bo important what they think so long as they think. For when a person begins to think he has a chance of thinking right In the end, no matter how wrong he thinks at the outset. So, in trying to make ignorant people think I like to quote a preacher. Not that I care much for the average preacher’s thoughts, because I don’t. Most of them ljave lopsided mentalities and think in prejudiced grooves. But they have always hail mystery on their side, and their assumption that they are the agents of God on earth gives them some authority. It helps one’s argument if he can quote a Christian when putting up an argument to Christians; and if he happens to be arguing to Protestant Christians it is better to quote a Protestant preacher than a Catholic priest, even if the preacher Is a Unitarian. Rev. Frederic R. Kent preached a sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Orange, N. J., in which he warned the people that we were headed toward theocracy in this country, where wo are all supposed to be supporters of democracy. And h? said that priestly government usually resulted in tyranny. In that he is supported by history, because church control of government has always resulted in tyranny, no matter which church happened to be in control. lie indicated various activities of some churches and church organizations pointing to political control if unchecked, mentioning anti-evolution legislation and the intiuence over Congress sought by the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, the Anti-Saloon League and others as typical of the general tendency to revert to the ancient theory of government ’“as the enforcement of the will of God by priests or other self-appointed interpreters and agents.” “The avowed purpose of the Anti-Saloon League is good," Rev. Kent says. “The avowed purpose of the anti-evolutionists to legislate the Bible into a state authority on science is bad. But whether good or bad, none of these objectives Is worth securing at the price of domination of the government by a church or group of churches. This country can be free only if the people remember that government in the name of God, even though by men who sincerely believe themslvs his chosen representatives, has usually resulted in tyranny, with revolution to follow', and if they keep equally on guard against the avowed advocates of this exploded theory and against those who by indirection are moving toward the same goal.” Rev. Kent is not the only one who sees rocks ahead. There have been numerous indications recently that there is alarm over the situation in other quarters, particularly as to the dictatorial methods in politics of two arms of the Methodist church—the Anti-Saloon League and the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. In addition to these Is the Lord’s Day Alliance, which aims at making all citizens observe Sunday as the preachers of the Lord’s Day Alliance think it ought to be observed. There are indications also that some other Protestant churches are growing restless under the leadership of these Methodist-controlled organizations.

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T racy Sale of White Star Line Is Climax of American Failure on Sea.

By M. E. Tracy Sale of the White Star line to British interests closes the last great Amorican venture in trans-Atlantic shipping. So far as private enterprise goes, the United States is through. Whether we lack" the in genulty or whether economic laws create too much of a disadvantage, our best minds have proved unable to compete with those of Europe on the sea. With the exception of shipping board boats we have nothing left in the Atlantic trade worth counting. One hundred years ago, our great grandfathers w r ere giving England a close competition not only on the Atlantic, but on every other ocean. They were doing this, moreover, at a time when the United States enjoyed no such prestige os she does today, had no such a reservo of capital to draw on and no such foreign trade to provide freight. What Is the matter with this generation of Americans? Has it lost Its nerve or snarled itself up with a lot of silly laws? A serious situation has arisen if we can only compete with other people from behind tariff walls and other artificial barriers, if it Is no longer possible for t.he American ship owner, the American skipper and the American crew to hold their own against the world. The sea represents about the fairest field of competition there Is. and when a Nation with 6,000 miles of coast line, a vast amount of raw material for export and markets that demand goods from every quarter of the world ean’t get afloat and stay afloat, there Is something wrong. -I- J A Not Enough Dry Jobs New York Republicans have protested to President Coolidge over the prohibition situation It Isn't the lack of enforcement that worries them, however, but the lack of jobs. A careful canvass reveals that out of 175 dry agents in New York City. 10.1 are Democrats. This would not be looked upon as such a terrific piece of injustice had not the recent election, with its over whelming victory for the Democrats, thrown hundreds of Republicans out of State jobs. Lame ducks are quacking to be taken caA? of. -I- -I- IFor New Alphabet “Revises the alphabet, and save a billion.” says Prof. Godfrey Dewey of Harvard, who proposes an alphabet with twenty-four consonants, thirteen vowels, four diphthongs and a sign for the word "the.” , There Is merit to the idea when you come to think it over. We are expressing many sounds with two or three characters that could be Just as well expressed with one. This not only Involves a waste of paper, but leads to irregularities which make the English language the most difficult on earth. The problem is not one for dictionary makers, as Professor Dewey points out, but for the printer and type designer. Tradition has bound us to an alphabet through which It Is i possible to express the variety of words modern life has created with accuracy or economy. + -!- -|. Germany’s Attitude The secretary general of the League of Nations has gone to see Herr Stresemann. He feels the need of a heart to heart talk with the German chancellor. Things have not turned out as he and a great many other people thought they would. Allied statesmen have confidently visualized the league as the most convenient instrument by which to discipline Germany. They drove her to become a member with the idea uppermost in their minds. But as a German delegate remarked on the advent of her admission: “Now that you have won the bride, what assurance have you that she will make a good wife?” It has suddenly dawned on everybody that when Germany joined the League of Nations she acquired the right to demand things, to be heard and to threaten disruption if not accorded Just 'treatment. Herr Stresemann’s statement to the Reichstag that his government would insist on full carrying out of disarmament pledges in the Versailles! t -eaty or removal of fhilitary, naval and aerial instructions imposed upon Germany, and would not recognize the permanency of the eastern frontier, has indicated to the allies that Germany intends to bo a member of the league in fact as well as in name. lOWA PREVENTS FINANCIAL CRASH State Officials Announce Some Banks Reopen. Rv United Press DES MOINES. lowa. Nov. 29 The lowa State banking department has met with success in its efforts to prevent a financial panic in the State, according to an announcement today. Immediately after nineteen banks closed thler doors Friday (this made a total of thirty-one in three weeks! The banking department began to function to stop'further closings. ■ Publlo mass meetings and house to house convasses were inaugurat ed. Efforts were made to obtain waivers from depositors on time payment of their deposits. ■Within a few hours hundreds of signatures had been obtained and three banks were able to reopen Sat urday. Three more were scheduled to open today.

Inspiring Beauty of Operatic Music ; Found by Stolarevsky in Overture

By Waller D. Hickman In popular terms of the hour I might say that Stolarevsky is shakI Inga mighty "wicked” baton. It remnined until yesterday when I saw this man < ffer a musical preI mentation which assured, me that the orchestra is now yielding to his personality and H 'he orchestra ret turning that per- | 1 sonality. f 3 When a director dL * new to an orches|bf aC'IS tra come# to the conducting stand doesn't mean at that time that the for to -41 and the same is true with the conMary Bickford duetor. Now, since hearing the Circle concert orchestra in the overture, "Bits From the Operas," that I feel that Stolarvesky has become a guiding personality of the orchestra. It also requires time for an audience to adju.-i itself to the mannerisms and methods of a conductor. Today ono is associating the orchestra with Its conductor. Seme claim that j operatic music ls hard to sell In ; a nvK le theater. I have no such opinion, because I am convinced that I great and good music will "sell” and : appeal to a mixed audience if properly presented. Stnlarvesky is doing , this very thing this week by arrang ing an overture to include famous passages from such operas as "CarI men" and “Cavallerla Rusticana.” During one of the passages from “Rusticana” the orchestra has the assistance of a woman singer on the stage. Tt seems to me that the t'lrrle orchestra is yielding to the desire of the conductor at this time. Tt is now operatic symphonic, at least this week in this overture. And yet when the orchestra plays for the pictures, the music used i“ the tunes of the day and of the present hour. And so the contrast with an operatic overture as n feature of the program is felt the more. The Circle with its orchestra and its big organ is equipped to give orchestral versions of great operatic music. Stol aievsky this week is giving a musical presentation which refleets credit upon the original idea and purpose of this organization which ls unique In the history of music In this city. Now for the picture—Mary Pick ford in "Sparrows.” I can see no use for Mary I’lekford becoming so dramatic ar.d so melodramatic. It was certainly bad judgment when this vehicle was selected for her. It Is often dismal, even alligators are in the cast. The children In the cast do a good Job of it, but the story ls too dark and dreary. As fAr as I am concerned, I will never remember that Mary Pickford ever appeared in "Sparrows.’’ If the picture has any appeal at all. it will be adult. '-'•'Pile cast is as follows: Msifl.'i Moille Marv Pickford' Grime* Gustav von St .vffertitr Richard Wayne . Rov Stewart Dons Wayne Mary Louise Miller Mrs Grimes Carlotte Mlneau Ambrose Grimes Spec O Ponnrli Bailey Lloyd Whitlock Ilia confederate A T. Schaeffer Host Buyer Mark Hamilton Splutters Monty U'Grmiy Tne Sparrows—Muriel MaoCormac. Billy Jones Cammtlla Johnson. Mary McLane, Billy Butts, Ja -k Lavine. Florence Ro van. Sylvia Bernard. Seesel Anne Johnson. And as usual be your own judge of this one. On the bill Is "Benson at Calford,” the first of the Collegian series. Very well done and mighty entertaining. It truly reflects a certain phase of college life. You also will see special movies of the Army and Navy game In Chicago, Saturday afternoon. These movie people certainly work fast. At the Circle all week. .-I- -!- -ITHERE SI RE WAS A REASON FOR LOT OF TALK People love to talk. And when a shy young man. who has never been talked about, suddenly blossoms forth with on autoI graphed picture l>y a Hollywood I movie star —well of course the talk would be hot and often. Anyway that Is what happens to the bashful U-adlng inale figure in “The Who 1 e shl' ijjjj tlie wbat a j reason because by : war> he was * ecl t 0 Pg '■ wasn’t kicked by an army mule but GftY,y that he has a slli *4* ver piato lit his skull. He was Edward Horton warned by the doctors never to | get excited and if he did, he was to ' sing or whistle a tune. And above j all he was to be careful about mak- j ing love because that too might ex-! cite him. And so our hero acted more like an original figure in the stone age. He tried to stay calm, but an interprislng father of a pretty daughter decided to make our hero a sheik. And so the name of a movie vamp in Hollywood is faked on a picture. The faked lines tells of alleged great nights on the beach with the movie star. Things then l>egtn to happen for , cur hero because the real movie star j and her jealous prize fighting look- j ing husband arrives in the home town of our war hero. In the big; scene of excitement there probably wasn’t a piece of undamaged furniture left on the set. The actors sure wrecked the works. And of course our hero lives through the ■xcitement and discovers that he has no silver plate in his skull. And n we see him last ordering the girl he loves into a moonlight garden. Edward Everett Horton, a stone iaced comedian is the war hero. Virginia Lee Corbin is the girl and Trixie Friganza, looking more like a covered wagon than ever before, omps and runs gleefully through the many reel* of this comedy, or In

it a farce? The old timers will recognize Otis Harlan as the father of the heroine. The stage presentation this week is Alice Van Allen and company in song and dance. Floyd Thompson and his singing troubadors are present. Movies include Aesop Fables. Neely Edwards In a comedy and a news teel. At the Colonial all week. -I- -I- -IGREAT GATS BY HAS A NEW SOCIAL FAD In these days of Volstead entertaining in rapid country homes, of course -those in the East arid very near New York, one may expect about anything. But It remained for the Great Gatshy in “The Great Gatsby” to spring anew one. of his torn b, Gatshy takes iO. - i|jf ■ one of his chief IwKB - ema *° guests to M rfia h-s rooms and there shows her JvS silk shirt si* And \ \ 'lie poor synri-path.-ic w o m an -lie to ji: not her nu.n in the -tory), gives the opinion that a man Warner Baxter must be ‘ awfully lonely to devote his i life to collecting silk shirts which he would never be able to wear. Too many of them. And the price of l one of his shirts would about be ! enough to stock ine up in shirts for the rest of my life This movie was made from a book called, “The Great Gatsby.” and the hook is said to he brilliant Personally Tdo not knou The stage play is said to have Viad Its brilliant qualities. Just how brilliant movie is—well. 1 vet am thinking about it. Here is a movie that is well acted by i good cast The director may have become a little confused be. cause he faced one of the saddest endings that a story can have the hero and chief reason for the play is killed. But somebody Lacked one of those sweet and oily endings to a movie that did not need it That Is if we exjs-ct our movie stories to be logical. Thy story is unique in that the old married triangle problem is treated in anew way. The wife does not run a\va\ with the other man and her htisltiml doesn't go galloping away witli the wife of another man The wife and husband decide to start over again and try to erase the errors of rnrlv married years. And the other man is shot by the husband of another woman. And so our hero was a hero unto death because he wasn't the right guy at all in the other domestic triangle. Warner Baxter does magnificently with the strange Gatsby character. He has the services of Lois Wilson Neil Hamilton and others Charlie Davis' and his gang this w< < a iv gypsies. Bob Gordon is at the pipe organ and the movie bill includes an O. Henry comedy. \t the Ohio all week. -!- -I- + "UPSTAGE” HAS ITS MIGHTY HUMAN QUALITIES Stage history tells us that the really big stars are not “upstage.'’ Meaning that they do not "highhat” their audience or associates upon the stage. One of the small fry upon the vaudeville stage starts out her career to be queeni hlgh an<l ,he jgp?- -a., v,. grand dame to i PF&pKfrC ‘ everybody in a I movie, "upstage.” can’t sing, and it EgSk waa Just by luck Jj and chance that ji she become* the partner of a real iff song and dance f t man of the vallylfif rlety stage. Tils Jt own c ' over " how ' SJki * manshlp and good JR jj£t dancing put the act over. All this Nonna Shearer ritzy partner of his had to do was to wear swell clothes. That was all she could do. and nothing else but that. But It turned her head and she became the great lady behind stage. That ls, she made a fool of herself by putting on airs and trying to be something that she i wasn’t. And she never became a trouper until she learned her art by hard knocks in the chorus of a girl act. j Then the soul of a good trouper came to her and all was well. I found “Upstage" wffth Norma Shearer. Oscar Shaw and others to be a mighty human story of life bohind the footlights in vaudeville the- ! aters. At times, It rings mighty true. The human Interest angle always is present. And Miss Shearer is Just about one of the prettiest women on the screen today, and she has real taJent. I enjoyed this movie because it ls human and mighty well acted. You will again enjoy Emil Seidel and his orchestra, as this organization plays a loud Jazz tune as It waa played years ago and as It Is now

Movie Verdict COLONIAL ’’The Whole Town’s Talking” la rather rollicking fun. CIRCLE —The real hit here ls the grand opera overture of the orcestra with Stolarevsky conducting. A masterpiece. Mary Pickford should never have appeared In "Sparrown.” Too sad. OHIO—“The Great Gatsby” gives one a lot to think about. APOLLO—A mighty human and interesting story of vaudeville life behind the scenes is found In "Upstage,” with Norma Shearer.

played as symphonic jazz. Mighty, mighty well done. Was net so impressed with the vocal work of Franklin Greenwood, but the audience was. I.ester Huff is at the pipe organ. Movies of the Army and Navy game In Chicago Saturday are on the bill. Nearly forgot to tell you about Our Gang In “War Feathers.” Rather good fun. Many laughs. At the Apollo all this week. -I- -I’ + CONCERNING “AIMEE” AS A MOVIE ATTRACTION The Band Box theater is presenting a movie which is called upon the screen. “Aimee.’’ It is supposed to be a certain version of an alleged popular kidnapping case. Asa movie It has no merit at all. It is poorly and sadly directed. Tt is just an attempt to cash in financially upon a certain event which has been front page news in the dailies for months. 1 can see no reason for making such stuff. And again It is dangerously near being j>oor propaganda. •I* *l* *t-“Ben-Hur" is now In its fourth and final week at English’s. Florence Moore in “She Couldn't Say No” oi>ens a week's engagement at the Murat tonight. Other theaters toss ay offer: Fred Ardath at Palace; "Clowing Around" at the Lyric; Jean Bedini at Keith's; "The Ruckaroo Kid” at. the Isis; •‘Up in Mabel’s Room" at the Uptown; "Tin Gods” at Handers; “Batling Butler” at the South Side, and burlesque at the Mutual.

Hey, Movie Fans, Who Is She?

This actress has appeared on the stage and In photoplays. Do you know her? The correct answers to this and the following questions appear on page 14: 1— Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 W hat - lass of products are advertised by the slogan, “Ask the man, who owns one?" 3 Who won the recent Harry Wills Jock, Sharkey fight? 4 Who is Oilda Gray? 5 Who ls the baseball player that resigned as manager of the Detroit Tigers? 6 Where is Buffalo Bill’s grave? 7 What is the popular nickname for the State of Oklahoma? H_ Which State of the United States has the smallest population? !)—What figure is on the hack of a United States Liberty 50-eent coin? ]o—What color ls meerschaum? ,

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any qu**ttcrr.ol tact or information br writing to The Indianapolis Times whlngton Bureau, 1822 New York An., Washington. D. C.. Ire!owing 2 oeoJa in stamps tor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research iv- undertaken. All other auestlon* will receive a personal reply. i'nstsTLMl requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. I want to use gum araMe to stiffen my lacc curtains. Can you give me fho proportions to use ami how to prepare? , Dissolve one ounce gum arable in one-half pint of boiling water, strain and bottle. Keep well corked. Use one desert spoon of the mixture to a pint of cold water. Dip the curtains In this water and rinse and stretch. What language Is “Flos meraatorum” and what does it mean? Tt is Tjitin meaning “flow'er (flourishing, success) of the merchants.” What is the enlisted and commissioned strength of the United States Army and Navy at the present time? Recent figures show 112,459 enlisted men and 11,677 officers in the Army. Tn addition there are ninetyseven Philippine scout officers and 6,9’.19 enlisted scouts. The Navy has 82,752 enlisted men and 8.511 officers and the Marine Corps, 17,855 enlisted men. 1,035 commissioned officers and 154 warrant officers. Is Thanksgiving day ol*srred In other countries than she United States? Thanksgiving day is distinctly an American holiday and ls not celebrated in other lands except by Americans residing there. Harvest festivities, however, held at about the same time of year, have been common among mftny peoples. What were the total receipts of the Deinpsey-Tunney fight and how much did Dempsey and Tunney receive? What was the total attendance? The total receipts were $1,985,733. Dempsey received approximately $700,000 and Tunney $200,000. The total paid admissions were 118,736. In addition 25,732 were admitted on passes, which made the total attendance 144^68. How Is “Bean Geate” pronounced? Bo (to rhyme with “go”) and “Jest."

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Take-Out Rule Is Given Work Tells When No Trump Should Be Changed.

By Milton C. Work No auction bridge topio has caused more discussion or created more misunderstandings between partners, than the question of whether and when the partner of a no-trump bidder should take-out by bidding t\yo of a suit. There Is no blanket rule to cover this vital ly important subject. To say, "Al ways take-out your partner's no trump with a five-card suit," or—what in even worse—" Always take out your partner's no-trump with yoijv longest suit.” would be as ridiculous as to say, “Never over rail your imrtner’s no-trump' Such broad advice is apt to work badly more often than it works well; the bidder should follow a system which will produce winning results in the long run. No sys tern will prove a winner In evert case, but longer expiVlence has shown that the system that 1 nd vooatr will produce more satlsfm tory results than any other. AH take-out theories are or should he, premised upon the an sumption that the first and para mount object of the bridge playei Is winning the game Os course partial scores are not to he scornr< when game is impossible, and i is important to minimize loss whei a loss has to he faced: but the ac complishmenf of these things doe> not compare in Importance with making ihe game whenever gnnir is possible. Suppose South bids no-trump West passes and North holds S|> . Ace Queen xx x. Ht King X X Din. Are xx. n : x x or sp Ace-Kin .luck-x-x Ht : x-x x Din xxx. Pi.. xx There is no way for North to tell n lie) tier ihe combined hands will work better at no trump or at spades. It may lie that game can be made with either, or with one and not with the other Reliable statistics prove that under such conditions there are as many caseof no-trump games as of spade games: and sonic have, therefore contended that there is no heneflt in taking-out The answer to this Is that, a player with a strong hand, sitting opposite a no-trump should not be satisfied with rift> per cent, success; he should make game practically every time by hiddt>Hr the major and gtoing the partner the opinion between that and no-trump. The take-out guar antees help for the no-trump either in the major, or on the side, or | the no trump if he does not like the major. A major take-out- of your partner's no.fijump should be made with length and strength. The consideration of major take outs will he continued tomorrow and w'hetoer one should he made with either or both of the following hands will then he discussed 1. Sp.: Queen-Jack-x-x-x. Ht. x-x-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: xx. 2. Sp.; Queen-Jack x-x-x. Ht.: King x-x. DI.: Aro-x-x. Cl.: Qqeeii x Minor take outs (a different sub jeet) will he eonslderixl Inter, (Copyright Niitlonnl Newspappi • feel

MR. FIXIT Collectors Dump Ashes in Alley, Says Taxpayer.’

f-* 1 Mr. Fixlt credent row rase to dty officials. He Is The Times re pro •'"tatlvoat the Wly hill. Write him at The Times Ash collectors are doing- a llttlr alloy paving: on their own hook, li would appear from one of Mr. Flxit s lulLer* today. DEAR MR. FIXTT. Would you kindly do me a favor and see that the ash collector* rjult dumping bushel baskets of ashes in the alley instead of putting them in the wax j on? The alley is so high now tliifl the water runs into the garagem This is between Michigan and WU cox Sts., and Lynn St. and Belmont Ave. A TAXPAYER. This condition will bo corrected according to Truly Nolen, superin tendent of ash and garbage collec tion. Likewise the failure of the ash man to visit regularly the J9OO block on English Ave. DEAR MIL FIXTT: Tn paving Lambert St. last year. It was not graded up right on lyc* St. on the south side of Lambert St. and It left a large chuck hole. Can you get it fixed before slippery weather? A READER Yes, you’ll be all right In a few days. DEAR MR. FTXIT: Last summer we people who live on Thirty-Fifth St., between Salom and Illinois Sts . got a big thrill when the city filled up all holes. For a time everything was lovely, but now the holes have worn again. Help! Help! Help! FRTEND. Good luck Is coming within the next few weeks was the word MV. Flxlt received. $11,500 DAMAGE SUIT ITT BM Vnilf'l Prrsx EVANSVILLE, Tnd., Nor. 29.-1 The $11,500 damage suit of John W. Roehne, former mayor of this dty and once Congressman from the First district, was before the Circuit Court here today. Boehne alleges breach of contract by the North Side Amusement Company. Chazten Sweeten and Newton Kslwy are defendant*.