Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1926 — Page 6

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THE SILENT SPOKESMAN The President’s message to Congress Is long ad touches on a good many topics. But It Is prin- ’ pally Interesting for what It does not say. Economy, tax reduction, tariff, agriculture, reclamation, transportation, merchant marine, labor, the judiciary, banking, national defense, prohibition, foreign relations—all are discussed, but the President offers little, if anything, on these subjects that he hasn’t offered before. Concerning one matter the President is silent. has nothing to say regarding the World Court. Forgetting for a moment whether you are for or .1 gainst the World Court, or whether the subject eaves you indifferent, consider the course our Presiient has followed. When chance elevated the present incumbent to the White House he inherited the foreign policies proclaimed by President Harding and he pledged himself to carry them out. These Included adherence to the World Court. Four months after Harding’s death Coolidge commended the World Court “to the favorable consideration of the Senate.” Two years later lie was‘candidate for President on a platform committing the pu.ii> to the World Court and praising hiiu.M ii tor his message to the Senate. President Coolidge in his mind and heart believes in the World Court. His public speeches have announced this and his intimate friends say it Is true. This being so, his position made him the natural leader of the cause. What a leader he has been! A leader licked before he ever began to fight. The army might remain In the trenches to fight the Ibsuo out, but not the leader. Ho* was headed for the rear. The organized units of the army—the churches, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Federation of Labor, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Federaiton of Women’s Clubs, the League of Women Voters and the rest —might hold their ranks fast, might choose to be battalions of death if they wished. But the leader, he was going home. The lesser chieftains, Root, Wickersham, Taft, Hughes and the others could continue to cheer the conflict on. The leader wasn’t waiting. The spirits of Hay, Choate, K: • and Roosevelt might hover over the battlefield. ;.e leader was hunting ills hole. The retreat ended a few weeks ago—in Kansas City. Coolidge surrendered. The army, of course, s still fighting. But the one-man retreat has come ‘to an end. There wasn’t much, considering the circumstances, that Coolidge could have said about the World Court when he addressed Congress yesterday. But he might have announced the terms of his surrender.

ARE YOU LYING, LEW? Today The Tmes prints an interview with Lew Shank, former mayor of this city, in .which he makes the grave charge that he was offered $40,000 by the water company for his campaign as Governor. One of two things is true. Lew Shank is a liar. v Or, the water company tried to bribe and control in advance the next Governor of the State. The water company, in the highest court of the land, has fastened |ts hold upon this city. It has capitalized its rusty streaks of pipe, fts oxygenated and worn out plants, its grants from the State. > / Under that legalized authority it is now collecting and will collect for all time, rates which will pay dividends on all the imaginative dollars it throws into its presentation before the Public Service Commission. What Lew Shank says is important. It ia important only as it may prove to the public mind that has been all too slow to anger, that these great corporations bribe public officials. As mayor of this city, he could order his attorney to quit the light for lower water rates. He says that the water company, or to be specific, Clarence Geist, of Philadelphia, tried bo give him a huge sum to quit that fight. That fight was lost/in the Supreme Court. The people pay. But the people have a right to know whether this corporation tried to bribe the mayor of Indianapolis or whether Lew Shank is a plain, ordinary liar. If Shank tells the truth, then perhaps somewhere in this fair land may be a power to investigate, to look behind the formal written records of the Supreme Court and find the facts and the real truth. If Lew lies, it is time to expose him as a fakir ahd a seeker of publicity. Fortunately at this time there Jis a body in this county which Is authorized to investigate and to discover the facts. Mr. W. H. Remy, will you not, in the pursuit of truth, in the protection of the public, summon Lew Shank today and get the story he told The Times, and then prove its truth or falsity. • We want, all of us, to know whether Lew Shank is a liar or %vhether he was so powerful that Clarence Geist offered him a bribe of $40,000. Better get busy, Will! I’ ~ ~ A BETTER DAY DAWNING Arc we coming into a different day pofhlcally? Monday a newly elected member stood up in the -United States Senate to take the oath of office. Immediately another Senator arose to challenge his right. He cited charges pending against the newcomer, which, if proved, render him unfit to serve. The action, caused only a slight sensation.. Some of the old regime blustered a bit, but the greater number seemed to regard the protest as timely, forecasting a hard tinfe ahead for others who came out of the summer primaries and the fall elections with unclean hands. On the same day the United States Supreme., Court ruled that Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall must stand criminal trial as a result of the notorious Teapot Dome deal. The trials will follow conclusion of the similar case against Edward L. Dofieny and the same Albert B. Fall. The atmosphere in which the latter trial is being held is significant. In themselves and in their counsel, Doheny and Fall represent the element that lias had its wfy in Washington for many years. But , if reports from the capital are correct; sympathy Is not with them now. Even the strenuous efforts of their highliriced press agent fails to offset the ap-

parent desire of the public to see cold Justice done. A conspiracy case is hard bo make, but the case of the people’s right against private exploitation is being won in the public mind. • * * Perhaps we are coming out of the slohgh of materialism and corrimtlon that followed the war. As the war itself furnished hysteria, with its after effects of intolerance, so also it may be that the high peak of forced patriotism inevitably brought the swing down to material selfishness. Corruption and graft, there is some pride in observing, came - after the war: not during it; two dozen or more investigations conducted by a hostile Congress failed to uncover any betrayal of the people’s interest by the Government during the war. The period immediately after brought an uglier story. Political raiders descended on the capital. They used, disgraced, broke their President and sent him to an untimely grave. The public scarcely protested. Followed a successor in the White House indifferent to the national shame and sustained by an indifferent public. Prosperity had resulted from the war and the millions were too pleased with prosperity to look beyond it. Only the pinch of hard times, said cynical students, would bring thp country's better instincts to life again. But It seems the cynics may be mistaken. Hard times haven't come, but the era of indifference apparently is running out nevertheless. Just as hysteria, by the errors of the Klan, is giving way to common sense, so indifference is passing 1 and a purpose to restore faith and pride in our national Government is talcing Its place. These things can be seen in the signs of the times. They are healthy sings. They contain hope for the coming years.

A student committee in Boston has decided that public riots are wrong. Hereafter the classmen will have to be content with mayhem on their own premises. v An American is reported to have paid $5,000 for the czar s baby rattle. Well, let us all amuse ourselves in our own way. Mussolini calls “a mystic something” his protection against assassins. We are wondering if it could lie luck or that famous leather shirt. Science has perfected a synthetic sausage casing of cellulose, but. all-wool still is meeting -with some demand. Now that the Fascists have revived capital punishment, you might suy the noose hangs high in Italy. Famous last lines: “Didn’t we borrow an umbrella the last time we were over here?”

lOWA REPUBLICAN SAYS HE’LL VOTE FOR DEMOCRAT! By N. D. Cochran- ■ ■

What is the West thinking: about? In a long conversation with a citizen of lowa some Interesting fight was thrown on what la going on in the western mind. My friend is a successful physician, well-fixed financially and interested in other things than his profession. He is a Protestant and a life-long Republican, but not a politician. “Im am going to vote for a Democrat for president in 1928, and it will be my first vote for a Democrat,” he said. % When I asked him why, he replied that he had become that he and many other Republicans of his State had become convinced that the West was getting all the worst of it from the Republican protective tariff; that the farmers of the West now had their eyes open to the fact that they had to sell in free trade market and buy in a high-tariff market. To him Coolidge was thd representative of the highly protected manufactuers of the East, "while he didn’t thing much of Brookhart, he said Republicans in lowa sent him back to the Senate because they thought Brookhart’s election would bump Coolidge harder than the election of a Democrat. The point was that after the Republican Senate under the leadership of Coolidge’s man, Butler, had thrown Brookhart out—in spite of Senator Currtls' advice that he be seated —lowa Republicans thought they could rebuke Coolidge best by electing Brookhart. When I askrirl him if he would vote for Governor Smith, if Smith should be the Democratic nominee, he said he would if Coolidge should be the Republican .nominee. "But supposja Coolidge drops out and Lowden should be nominated,” I suggested, aid the quick reply was: "Lowden is all right. He understands the farmers’ plight. The West would vote for Lowden. But if the Republicans nominate Coolidge they will get the surprise of their life when the returns come in from the West.” * When asked what was the matter with Coolidge, he said: “He thinks that so long as the eastern manufacturer is prosperous that ail’s with the United States. But the western and southern farmers are not prosperous; and all Coolidge offers them is advice to pull themselves out of the hole by their own bootstraps. We about the tariff and what it is doing tor the men who grow the food for the entire population. "But Smith is a Catholic,” I suggested, “and the South and West are Protestant.” “I know that,” he replied, “but Smith couldn’t turn this country over to Rome if he wanted to. There are something like 60,000,000 people in this country not affiliated with aViy church. That means that they are Protestants, and in any showdown between the Protestants and Catholics, these unaffUiated millions would be on the anti-Catholic side.” When I suggested that the Methodist church was nearer to a union of Church nnd State than the Catholic church, because of the great political power of t>he Methodist Anti-Saloon League and the lobby known as the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, he said: , '“lt isn’t prohibition that is setting the Protestant churches back. It is the vast nurnfber of so-called welfare organizations that have been growing up Inside the churches and with their endorsements. They are forever hounding the people for money with their numberless drives; and the people are getting tired of it. A Methodist preacher in New York City recently called attention to the fact that there were 200 more charity and welfare organizations in New York City than there were Protestant and Catholic churches. It is the same all over. Women in the churches are playing at charity. We have a vast army of professional charity and welfare workers making a good living out of begging from the public. “But we are more interested in beating Coolidge and the Republican high tariff than anything else. We will do it if the Democrats give us half a chance; and we don’t want MrAdoo. He an opportunist. We are not so anxious to help the Democratic party as we are to teach the high-tariff Republican party of Coolidge and New England a much-needed lesson. A So there you are. It is the opinion of an lowa lie, .<oilcan

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Tracy Respect for Presidency Only Excuse for Comment on Coolidge Message,

By M. E. Tracy Respect for 'the office demands that some attention be paid to a presidential message. If this were not so, the one just delivered could well be passed by without notice.-'. The mystery is how any man could discuss the affairs and problems of such a nation as the United States to the extent of 12,000 words and express so few delinite ideas. Mr. Coolidge is for farm relief until It comes to specific measures, and for a canal connecting the Great -Lakes with the sea until it I comes to choosing a route. He would ; have the veterans well provided for, i but without extending the pension system. He would like to see the Mississippi and Colorado rivers dei veloped, but his undying love for j economy prevents more than a j vague, indefinite approval of these | projects. j Taken by and large, the message ‘would have made a splendid address for some Rotary club. Indirect Government | Our OoveriYmeut is becoming j suave, smug ana ineffectual, 1 speaking through the mouths of uu- | named spokesmen and undertaking i to sliape even international relations i by fathering rumors. The citizen finds himself in doubt not only as to who is talking at | Washington, but as to what the talk really means. It is bad enough for the President of the United States to approach public questions through an unlden- j tided mouthpiece, but it is far more 1 serious when a high olticiai of the Utate Department encourages the spread of what is no more than back alley gossip to discredit the character and intentions of a friendly government. The cry of bolshevism recently raised against Mexico with the appearance of official sanction, but without signature to back it up , offers a vivid illustration of this new and peculiarly unAmerican method. The Inference is Inescapable that some people want trouble with Mex- \ ico for reasons of their own; that j they doubt whether these reasons would be popular and are trying to j find others that would suit their purpose better and that our State Department has either been deceived by them, or Is lending Itself to the promotion c>f their achemea

Business Is Business There are certain business interests in this country that would like to see the Calles administration overthrown, and there are religious Interests that have anything but a friendly feeling toward it. There are political elements in Mexico that would welcome revolution, and that would compromise with any Interest which provided them vlth the necessary support. Asa general proposition, the American people are not In sym-‘ pathy with any of these factions and would not approve Intervention in Mexico, or even a diplomatic break because of their grievances. Bolshevism, however. Is a different matter. For the lust nine years the American people have been carefully and to regard bolshevism as the Satan of modern times, the anti-Christ of human progress. If they could be convinced that . Mexico were really red and that the Calles administration had become a clearing house for red propaganda. It would not be a difficult matter to persuade them that bold and drastic action had become necessary.

Plain Talk Needed The time has come to call a halt on such oblique and ambiguous methods. This country can get along without imitating the Ku-Klux Klan 1 a politics and diplomacy, without anonymous statements, without encouraging scandal that no official has the sand to'Yather, though willing to let a great news association pick it up and spread it as coming from authentic sources. The United States stands in need of nothing so much as plain straight talk, especially on the part of its highest officials. Great and comforting as its prosperity may be, it is not great and comforting enough to down a growing suspicion that the people are not dealt with frankly. Every so often it developes that some big interest has been told in •seat detail about the government’s troubles, while the public was left in utter Ignorance of them. Mr. Doheny, for Instance, was informed that the United States faced grave danger some four years ago, though the people were left to suppose that everything was and serene. Let Officials Sl?n If reasons exist why we should have trouble with Mexico, let them be stated In so many words, nnd let the official who states them sign Jiis full name. If, on the other hand, they do not existylet us not attempt to manufacture them and create an artificial attitude of antagonism which has no foundation in fact. The Calles administration is ad mittedly radical. It represents a constitution and a system of law which do not conform to our ideals, largely‘because it was born of conditions which never existed in this country. All of this is- unimportant, how-, ever, compared to the fact that it is the first administration since the collapse of the old Diaz regime which promises anything like a stable, government for Mexico. Who were the “Sons of Liberty?” An association founded in Boston in 1766 to free the Colonies from British rule. Their meeting place-] was under the Liberty Tree in Breton. Branches were established /in most of the other Colonies, but all were disbAded after the repeal of the "Stamp Act,"

Stolarevsky Raises Baton to Jazz Music As Well As the Great Classics

By Walter D. Hickman “Black Bottom’’ gets the same bui ton in she hand of Mikhail fcjtolarevsky as does an overture arrangement of Gounod’s “Faust.” Funny noised clarinet Y gets the j same careful; attention from this ! conductor of the Circle Theater CopI cert Orchestra as does the strings in a great symphony. This conductor from the land of former Czars knew nothing of jazz until he arrived in New York about nine or ten years ago. Funny noises all this Jazz must have been to this man trained and skilled in the great classics and the symphonies. But did the toot-toots and hoothoots of standard instruments frighten this man away from Jazz music? It did not. We saw in the modern I Jazz arrangement another method j of expressing music. And that Is the object of every ! real musician and every honest con- ! duWor in the world today. Music Is i a universal thing and there are styles !in music just as there ara In clothes. It takes a mighty human man as j well as a big artist to arrange more | than forty weeks of programs for a movie theater. He must be human and big enough to hear the eeho of the desires of all people. And this man Stolarevsky Is a conductor who does not attempt to make everybody swallow classical and grand opera music. He knows the great beauty and the artistry that Is present In great music. Os course he wishes that everybody In the world could get as much “kick” and appreciation out of the classical as he does. But he knows equally 3t-ell that anyone who taps his foot In time to even “Black Bottom” Is a future possible lover of great muslo. Some time ago. weeks ago, I visited Stolarevsky In his study at the Circle Theater. He was working on a score for a picture with Edward Resener, associate conductor of the orchestra. Soon they completed their work and their gentle arguments and I was ready to visit the new conductor of the Circle Orchestra. An Opportunity I didn't know' whether he would ’ throw a baby grand piano In his study at me when I asked him about j Jazz music. Some musically lnollned j people have wanted to exile rne when ' I mentioned such a “vulgar” word. Not so with Stolarevsky. Here is big man said to me; “I do like to play and conduct jaap. | Jazz Is something new to me as I never had heard it until I arrived I here ffom Russia. When I was in Russia, Jazz was foreign to me. ; Jazz i s anew musical experience to me. A conductor of an orchestra I In a movie theater must take the audience into consideration. The con- j ductor as well as the orchestra must I present such a varied program so as I to reach all classes of musical appredation. “There are different types of music and Jazz Is one. and it is a step in | the musical development of this country. We must both teach and ' entertain.” And so Stolarevsky by his human I understanding of both people and ' music has, arrived a? that place in ; his career at the Co\Je where sym-!

Wanted. fyl an to Live For More Than Bit of Bread

By Walter I). Ilirkman “I wanted man to become the master, so that he shouldn’t live merely for a crust of bread. "I wanted not a single soul to be . broken by other people’s machinery. “I wanted nothing, nothing, nothI ing to/be left of this appalling sole lal structure. I'm* revolted by poverty. I wanted anew generation.” That was the aim of Henry J)o----mln, general manager for Rossum's Universal Robots, machine made I : men without His dream and | aim resulted in his own death and the death of every man and woman I on the earth but one man. Robots, creatures who were'manufactured as the result of a formula jin a factory, worked for man, by the thousands, and they worked until I the factory whistle stopped them. It cost little to keep their machinery running. The system worked well until the Robots were trained to fight the wars I of white men and then the Robots 1 revolted and killed millions of men and women. Destruction w-ent on and only one white man was saved and he was spared because the Robots thought that he had the secret formula which would produce more Robots. Robots only existed about twenty years unless they became “funny.’t Then they were put into a stamping mill and destroyed. Anfl when a male Robot and a female Robot suddenly began to generate a soul and sex’ impulses like human beings, only then was the; world to be “repeopled.” and then j only the Garden of Eden returned. "R. r. r.” I am trying to tell you about the Little Theatre production of Karel Capek’s “R. U. R.” at the Playhouse last night for the first time in this city. "R. U. R.,” meaning Rossum’s Univelfcil Robots, was first produced in this country by the Theatre Guild In New York at the Garricjt Theater, Oct. a. 1922. and it remained for the Little Theatre to give this city a chance to see this unusual melodrama at the Playhouse. By George Somnes directing and also appearing in the cast of “R. U. R.” the Little Theatre takes-lt place in community life of this city as an ja-.—’nization having a definite purpose. “B U. R.” is brainy and big theater. Tt may seem wrild at times but Gnpek is looking years and years ahead probably when a machinemade product, resembling man, may or may not take the place of man. The solution seems to be that man must always beman and not relinguish any rights or duties which *he centuries have given man. With a scenic production as com- I nlote as one would expect on the i legitimate stage and with aa comp*- 1

Jazz Frightens Not This Artist

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Mikhail Stolarevsky Jazz music has no terrors for Mikhail Stolarevsky, conductor of tire (Irde Th/xtter Orchestra, lie doesn’t cliauge batons for Jazz music. And h edoesn’t forget the ckissics. Music Is music, you know.

phonic jazz gets the same careful attention and expert orchestration and direction as the great classic. It is this faith in music of all types which has caused this conductor to give programs of general appeal. He has handed out over his musical counter jazz played In the right w-ay as successfully as he has decorated the best symphonies and the greatest operatic music in the Circle library. all people enjoy music”— That seems to br> the basic Idea of Stolarevsky. And it Is bully to meet a man who is soon to become a naturalized American citizen, a man who was born in another country, and It is a pleasure to come Into contact with his fine musical tolerance. Wlyit Is Thin? Then our talk became personal and domestic. Yes, he is married and has two children, lie was married in Russia, the boy was born in Germany and the girl In America. “I certainly have a regular melting pot here,” he said with a smile. "Anil the children get along beautifully.” Stolarevsky came out of Russia when the Czar was on the throne,

f tent theater and generally competent acting, the Little Theatre has gone at least ten years ahead in its path of progress. “R. U. R.” challenges thought, discussion and more thought. The intelligent manner l n which Somnes directs the production and acts the role of Domin brings one a little closer to the realization that the drama of the Little Theatre ln doing big and gigantic mental things on the stage has come true. By this one production, the Little Theatre goes way beyond any other | effort that I have witnessed with the possible exception of its productions of “Everyman.” Tlie Cast The cast of “R. U. R.” with the j exception of Somnes is a non-pro-fessional cast, Anna Louise Griffith is making her first appearance with the Little Theatre in this play. After the first act she became the definite alarmed character which the author intended. Here is good and intelligent acting. It is not necessary to state that Goorge Somnes gave a clear and brilliant interpretation of the manager of the factory that turned out the Robots. His diction was always clear and when weird melodrama was the method of the playwright, Somnes did the right sort of melodrama. And "R. L T . R.” is mental melodrama of the better sort. Weird, chaotic, yes, but mighty effective when it comes to making one think. All of the Robots, the machine made creatures resembling human beings up to a certain point, were excellent, especially John Burdette Little as Radius and Jack Hewson as the program gave the name. The cast is so satisfactory that I give it to you in full as follows: Henry Domin. general manager for Rossum s Universal Robots. (ieorgo Somnes I Sulla, a Robot tea Elsa Goett Maries a Robot Eduard -Or-en Helena Glory Anna Louise Griffith | Doctor Gaul, head of the Psychological and Experimental Department. . . ~ --Dr, James S. Mcßride Mr. Fabry, generdi technical director, H r ......... . . Volnev Hampton Dr. Hailemeier. head of the Institute for the Psychological Training of Robots Harry Plhl Mr. Alquist. architect, head of the works department. R. U. R _ ■ R. Bryant Long Consul Busman, general business manager, R. U. R.. . . . /, . . Norman Green Yana Mrs. Chic Jackson Radius, a Robot. .. .John Burdette Little Helena Roh-itess. .. . Anna Louise Griffith Primus a Robot Jack Hewson A Servant Richard Jackson First Robot Kenneth Strawn Se.-ond Robot Ted Bailey Third Robot Gerald McShane Fourth Robot . . Wallace West Other Robots: Arlclgh Waits. Charles Dosoh, Parker Wheatley. Bonn Levina, Leon Berger, Harry Bolt. Ray Holtmafl. John Waltz ”R. U. R.” Is an Intellectual experience in the drama and melodrama which Challenges thought and study. It will be to the everlasting credit of George--Somnes, members of the cast and the managing committees of the Little Theatre that this play was presented here. The Little Theatre of Indianapolis

I shortly before the revolution, the first one. He was in the Imperial ’ Conservatory at Kief; played In many Russian cities, studied under j many of the masters; escaped Into j Germany; played there for a lor g time and then came to this country j where he has become a part In less I than ten years of the musical life In I eastern cities in the United States ! as well as Indianapolis. | And this country is the choice of l Stolarevsky and final steps will I shortly be taken to make this his j iegal home. “When my boy came to this country with us,” Stolarevsky said, "he tulked only German. Now he talks only English.” Indianapolis theaters today offer: "Le Maire’s Affaires,” with Sophie Tucker, Lester Allen and Ted Lewis at English’"; All Nationality Week at Keiths; Fred Ardath at the Palace; Francis Renault at the Lyric; "Everybody's Acting” at the Apollo; “Her Big Night” at the Coj lonial; "Syncopating Sue” at the Circle; "Prisoners of the Storm” at the Tsls; new bill at the Uptown; burlesi que at the Mutual, and “Exit SmllI lng” at the Ohio.

has really come Into its very great big self. And there are many people in keeping faJth with the purposes of the organization who deserve credit for the success of the Little Theatre. “R. U. R.” will be repeated tonight, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Playhouse

Questions and Answers

~ You can get an answer to any ques- . or information by writing in, ‘i* e M? 11 ?." 01 ' 8 limes Washington Bureau. 132. .V- v \ork Ave„ Washing WO. D. C.. inclosing 2 ceuts in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital aavicn cannot bo given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot la- answered. Al) letters .are confidential.— Editor How did tlie epithet “greenhorn” originate? It has its origin (Turing the reign of Louis XIV, of France. A law was passed compelling till bankrupt Hebrews to wear small pointed caps or hats made of green cloth. The purpose was to warn people from doing business with the wearer. For a period of about twenty years these green hats were worn nnd if an insolvent Jew appeared in the streets without one, he was liable to be seized by his creditors and thrust into a dungeon. Progress and tolerance have robbed the expression of Its original meaning, but the phrase "greenhorn” has remained and Is used to denote a person “bankrupt" ln brains rather than in business. How is “Swedish Hleo” prepared? Wash thoroughly two cups of rlc6 and cook with two quarts of boiling water for about an hour or until the rice Is perfectly tender. Drain off all the water, add two cups full of sweet milk, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon cinnamon and salt to taste. How many times has the Government of the United States passed laws taxing Incomes? Tlie first income tax law was enacted by Congress In 1863 as a Civil. War measure and yielded a revenue of $2,741,857 that year. By 1874 receipts from that source had fallen to $140,391 and the law was repealed. Anew ln on roe tax law was passed ln 1894. and was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1895. The income tax amendment to the Constitution was adopted in 1909 and was ratified in 1918. < Is Mexico an Indian word? It is supposed to be from the Aztec word, Mexitili, the name of a tutelary''- divinity, but according to another authority it means "The habitation of the God of War."

DEC. 8, 1926'

Work Pointers on Semi Two Suiter Hand Are Given,

By Milton C. W ork The pointer for today is With a semi-two-suiter, hid the i iligluer-lalued first If the two suits ; are of equal strength. Yesterday two Dealer's hands wengiven, the question being how these hands should lie bid: 1. Sp.; Ace-King-x-x-x. lit,; Aco Klng-x-x-x. Dl.; x-x. Cl.; x. 2. Sp.: Ace-King-x x. lit. Ace-Iving-x-x-x. Dl.? x-x. Cl.: x-x. In No. 1, following the pointer givlen on Monday, a Spade should be [bid first; the suits being of eqiuil ; length and strength, the higher valued should be given the prefer ! once. In No. 2, a doubtful question 'arises. This hand is not a two-suit-er (1. e., five cards in each of two suits,) but a seini-two-sulter (i. e , five cards In one suit and four in Hitother); and while the two suits are of equal strength, tho higher-valued Is composed of only four cards, the lower-valued of five. In that case it Is important to show both Major suits, and it may be most advanta ;■* ous to name the four-carder while it can bo named cheaply. If possii,], the Hearts should be shown later even if the partner has helped the Spade. For example, if South (the holder of the above hand) bid one Spade. West two of a Minor, North two Spades, East pass; South should then bid three Hearts to show that he has only four Spades and that he has five Hearts. After the same first round bidding. If South held five Spades he should pass on the second round. The rule may be stated as follows: When a four-card suit has been bid originally, and has been raised by the partner after a bid by the Intervening adversary (but not after a pass by the adversary and a Jump by the partner,) the original bidder should overcall partner’s bid with a strong five-card suit, provided his hand justifies another raise. Such bidding would show the partner that the first suit Is a four-carder and the second a five-carder; It would give him a choice between the two, with accurate Information concerning them. What would you hid as Dealer with the following hands! 1. Sp.: Ace-King-x-x-x. Hit Ace-Klng-Queen-x-x. Dl.: x-x? Cl.: x. 2. Sp.: Ace-Klng-x-x. Ht.: Ace3. Sp.: AceKlng-x-x. HLt x-x. Dl.: Ace-Klng-Queen-x-x. CL: x-x. (Copyright, John F. Dtlla Oo.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write to Mm through Tho Times, Including a self-addressed stamped envelope.

MR. FIXIT

Reports Flag In Morton Place Neglected,

Let Mr. Flxlt present your case to city official*. He in The Times’ repiyS''! l tanvn at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The American flag In Morton Place Is tattered nnd forlorn through neglect, it would appear from a letter Mr. Kixit has received. DEAR MR. FIXIT, On several occasions I have been at nineteenth St., where there is a flag pole. The flag hns been neglected for a long time now. t Noticing how disgraceful such a thing looks to any considerate person, I tried to take the torn and weather beaten flag of the United States down, but was unable to do so, as the rope has slipped to Beside of the pulleys. I am a student at Shortrlde High School, This flag is a marker in old Camp Morton. C. F. H It’s a disgrace. There will be an investigation, DEAR MR. FIXIT: Will you please see if anything can be done to get the city authorities or the construction company that tore up the oast side of Shelby St south of Bean | Creek to complete the repaving? This was torn out last spring by the construction company while lav ing the south side sewers. Because of the new bridge being built over Bean Creek, they could not pave about fifty feet of the street. But the bridge has been completed two months and nothing has been done. GEORGE D. WILLIAMS. Completion of the Job will be ordered. ASK REFUGEE RELIEF Heeding an appeal for help from the American Friends Service Com jmittee, supplemented with appeals I from S. Parks Cad man, the Indiana committee of Near East Relief is asking contributions for Bulgarian refugee relief. Thousands of children are said to be dying ln Bulgarian refugee camps of tuberculosis brought on by malnutrition. Two hundred thousand refugees, reduced to poverty through war, have found a haven In Bulgaria, presenting a problem too [ great for the government. Indiana contributions should be [marked “Bulgarian Relief,” and ad ! dressed to Thomas C. Day, treasurei, 528 Peoples Bank building. POLICEWOMAN RESIGNS Resignation of Mrs. Bessie Kerr, policewoman, given to PoMoe Chief Clyde F. Johnson, was accepted by the board of safety at Its meeting Tuesday. Mrs. Kern was appointed last January. During the last admin Jstration sho was with the city legal department. For the past several months she hr,s been a stenographer in the detective department. Rea sons for her resignation war not disclosed.