Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1926 — Page 6

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THE MEXICAN PLOT THICKENS The Mexlcan-American crisis became a shade graver yesterday upon receipt of news from Central America. President Calles of Mexico, a United Press message stated, has recognized the rebel, or liberal, government of Nicaragua, and forthwith appointed thereto a duly accredited diplomatic representative with the rank of minister. This action comes hot on the heels of Washington's recognition of the new conservative Diaz government at Managua. Thus Mexico and the United States are now definitely and dangerously at odds, their conflicting Latin-American policies materially enhancing the danger of a situation already serious, thanks to the heated quarrel over Mexico’s new oil and land laws. The Administration’s Latin-American diplomacy seems drifting from bad to worse. This latest adventure bids fair to leave our prestige lower than ever, for, sad to relate, it .looks very much as if Mexico's thesis is nearer right than ours. To understand the situation it is necessary to recall that the head of the liberal government of Nicaragua, Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa, just recognized by Mexico, though a liberal, was vice president in the conservative administration of President Solorzano, whose regime was recognized by the United States. Last year, however, Emiliano Chamorro, a former president, by a coup d'etat, managed to return to the presidency. This he accomplished by forcing Solorzano to resign, then having Congress—rejiggered by the little wirepuller himself for the occasion—prefer charges of some sort or other against Vice President Sacasa, technically disqualifying him for president. But Chamorro was never recognized by the Uu’ted States. So when he found he could not make the grade against the opposition of Washington and resigned, it was natural to suppose that the situation would automatically revert to the status quo at the time of his coup. In other words, back to the Solorzano-Sacasa regime of 1926. Solorzano having resigned, the constitutional president of Nicaragua would now seem to be Dr. Sacasa. Which is exactly what Dr. Sacasa claims to be—the legal and only constitutional head of the Nicaraguan republic. But Washington, for reasons of its own, reasoned the thing out differently. After Chamorro quit office a certain Senator Uriza, the second presidential designate, sat in as provisional president, and, under the watchful eye of Washington, called Congress to meet and elect a regular president. The conservative Senor Diaz was chosen and was immediately recognized by the United States. Nicaraguan liberals claim Diaz knows his way about Wall Street without a guide. There you have it—two governments of Nicaragua, one backed by the United States, the other by Mexico. It is a situation full of possibilities, to say the least. Decidedly the plot thickens. McKinley and frank l. smith A well-liked little man, multimillionaire, member of the United States Senate, died this week. William B. McKinley of Illinois will be missed by his Senate colleagues and an unußual circle of personal friends. A chubby, cheerful man with a wistful smile, possessed of a great fortune, long experienced in politics, it would seem that he had all the elements that make for political power. Yet he hadn’t. The principal monument to his career, in the public mind, probably will be the coming bitter battle over the seat his death vacates. McKinley represented money in the Senate. Frankly unashamed, he held the point of view of great capitalists. No citizen of Illinois ever needed vote for him under a misconception of what he stood for. Since the people of his State knew what they were voting for when they sent him to the House and later to the Senate, he was privileged t,o hold his head as high as any in Washington. A utility magnate of considerable consequence, he represented the desires and opinions of his class and could not be criticised for po doing. Why, then, the outcry that has followed the discovery that Jiis successor —the man who defeated him in the summer primary—enters the Senate as the agent of the gas, light, traction and power interests? The answer is very simple: Frank L. Smith was chairman of the State board which has supervision and control over these Utility corporations in Illinois. He had been chosen to represent the peopled interests, to protect them against encroachments by the utilities. But investigation following his victory over McKinley revealed that his campaign expenses had been borne in large part by the very interests he was employed to watch. One utility magnate alone had given $125,000 to aid him. The sincerest tribute to the integrity of the Senator who died Tuesday evening may be found, perhaps, in the fact that he was rejected by the men of his own class in favor of Smith. McKinley’s views being their views, his friends being their friends, what do they want and expect from Smith that they couldn’t receive from McKinley? LOOK IT OVER, CAREFULLY More than pleasant is the role which Harley Clarke is casting for himself before the city officials. Tor C’arke is offering to save the city the sizable sum of $150,000 a year upon its street lights. Were that all of the story, it would make more than pleasant reading, for it would mark something new in utility history. Most utility men want more and not less money. Clarke is the man who is asking the public service commission for permission to combine the two electric light plants, which is a good thing, anfi to issue fifty-five millions of dollars of stocks and bonds on which the public must pay Interest, which is a bad thing. The fact that Clarke presumes to speak with authority for the Insull Lighting Company and to bind its future suggests that hereafter the city and the 60,000 users of power and light must deal with Mr. Clarke. Apparently the only question is whether the public will deal with Clarke as the directing genius of two companies or as the financial master of ohe larger one. For it Is well established that he has gained

control of the other company and is able also to tell the customers of that concern what thffy must do or not do. Under these circumstances, perhaps, the public should take a very careful look at Mr. Clarke and especially of his offer to save the city money. Tl\e old Romans had a phrase of warning, something about fearing the Greeks when they came bearing gifts. Perhaps Clarke is not a Greek. He may have the Christmas spirit. < But there is every reason for taking a closer view of this utility man who has apparently gobbled the two electric companies and is still in the throes of indigestion. Instead of a quarrel over permission to merge, it may be in public interest to force him to combine his two companies and cut out any unnecessary expense. It is bad enough to have two companies doing business in a necessity and to have to deal with them separately in the matter of political control of commissions and other officials. It would be infinitely worse to have to watch one man who ha* unrestrained power over apparent competitors and no restraint upon his Imagination or his needs. But at any hearing on the matter, the public has a right to protection against a deluge of watered stocks as profit for his simple act of borrowing enough money to buy out two established concerns. The people, if forced to pay for service, ought to pay it to those who give service, not for financial manipulations. The people ought to be protected against a burden of profit at the start. That much for the merger, and when this is guarded against it might be well to warn city offlcials that the public Is very suspicious of any offer from any utility power to save the people money. They have had experience with those who wanted to take more money and who have Jumped into politics and mixed with government in order to get fancy prices for their products. The whole history in thi#. and other cities has been in other directions. The people want a well lighted city. If Mr. Clarke is going to fa ave money by turning off the lights and making this a village, the people will not be so pleased. The people will want to know just how this money is to be saved and if there Is to be an increased danger of crime, in the lessened convenience, in the general appearance of the city. Any one can save money by merely stopping spending It and if that is the trick in the offer, the people ought to know about it. The city may be entitled to know also why it was spending $400,000 a year if $250,000 Is sufficient. Clarke may serve a very useful purpose. His coming has already been the causo of one inquiry into charges of control of government through campaign contributions to the party in power. His offer to out prices should signal anew one into what influences caused the letting of a contract which apparently gives Mr. Insull $150,000 a year. Mr. Insull has a reputation for generosity to the proper politicians in other States. Let’s have a look into all angles of this situation. It will at least be illuminating if the lamps are not. The ladies are Invading the smoking coaches, says a Chicago dispatch. You wouldn’t ask them to stand in the vestibule, would you? Consider the corner cop, a most arresting individual. SCIENCE AND RELIGION ■R.v N. D. Cochran Because of the powerful influence of both on the life of the human family I read practically everything I can about science and religion. Politics is interesting mainly because of how it is influenced by either or both of the two more powerful influences. The fact that practically half of the people of this country are not affiliated with any church doesn’t mean that they are not religious or that they are not Interested in religion, or even in the churches. One may be religious and yet belong to no church. One may be a good Christian and yet be not a church member. It is a fact that man truly religious people belong to no church simply because they have found no church that gives satisfactory expression of their religion. Most of us believe in the Golden Rule. All churches profess to believe in it. But none of them actually practices it. Very few, If any, Christians live it. I don’t believe many will live It until they find that It PAYS. Many would like to live It, but they can't. They would wind up In the poor house or the insane asylum. Some of us can’t live It until all of us are ready to live it. In other words, it’s a beautiful theory, but it doesn’t work out in practice. The Golden Rule is a one-day theory. It Is a good deal like a good Methodist’s Sunday clothes. He puts them on when he goes to church Sunday morning, or evening, and when he goes home he hangs them up in the closet to take a six days’ rest—along with the Golden Rule and his Christianity. That Is, the Golden Rule and the Christian philosophy, are all right on Sunday when the stores, shops, factories, banks and offices -are closed. Six days for business and one for religion—and there’s darned little room for religion in business. I never go to church, but every Monday morning I read a full page of newspaper reports on what was said in the various pulpits on Sunday. Recently Rev. Dr. Caleb B. Stetson, Episcopalian, deplored the lack of religion In American schools, and said: “One of the saddest chapters in the history of our church Is the loss of our church colleges. Fifty years ago we had several, but gradually (hey have become nonsectarian. We car. not say, the most of us, that we have made God and the church our chief Interest in life.’’ On the same Sunday Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian, said: “A great many people are gravely concerned over the religious declination of this age. College students are rebelling from compulsory religious attendance. This Is not an ir-ellglous age; it is a spiritually wistful generation. It has awakened a hunger in man for vital religion." Notwithstanding all of the whining of clerical failures about the lack of attendance at and interest in the churches, I think Dr. Coffin has a much clearer understanding of the public mind. It is a spiritually wistful generation, but it is a more intelligent generation that can’t be bunked by eighteenth century .evangelism. Anyhow, a falling off in church attendance doesn’t mean a decline of religion—lt may mean only a decline In churches that are not on to their spiritual job. My own opinion Is that many of the preachers have been devoting so much of their time, energy and such ability as they have to politics and trying to make people good with a policeman’s club that they have neglected their own proper spiritual business. We need more preachers who know their Christianity and fewer of the kind that know little about religion and less about science. 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

I racy Mexican President Calls Bluff of American State Department,

By M. E. Tracy There are two governments in Nicaragua, if such they may be called. The United States has recognized one and Mexico the other. This represents anew order of things in Latin-America. For the first time in many years Washington finds its right to run the show disputed. Secretary Kellogg and his advisers are said to be worried, and well they may, but at that they have gotten no more than was coming to them. President Calles has merely picked up the gauntlet they threw down, accepted the game as well as the name. Our State Department warned him not to interfere and the Associated Press pictured him as an apostle of bolshevism. The bright Idea was to scare him off so that Adolfo Diaz would be left free to make Nicaragua safe for American interests. Calles didn’t s'-are worth a cent. He not only laughed in the State Department’s face, but recognized the Sacasa faction. There is a real Issue here which goes to the bowels of our attitude toward Latin-America, and which must he cleared up before cordial relations between the United States and her sister republics In the western world can be established on a firm basis. What America Did • When the American marines left Nicaragua on Aug. 3, 1925, after having been stationed there for thirteen years. Dr. Carlos Solarzano was president of the republic. He had been elected as a Liberal candidate at the preceding November election by a large majority. In October. 1925, two months after the American Marines had left, General Chamorro, who opposed Solarzano as a conservative, staged a military coup and overthrew the government. After remaining In centre’ of affairs for some time, he made Senator Sebastian Uriza temporary president, .and a later the Congress elected Adolfo Diaz. In recognising this Adolfo Diaz the United States has sanctioned a government born of military pressure and established by processes thnt are of doubtful legality. More than that, It has turned its back on a government that was authorized by popular election, while its own American Marines were present to see that the voting was straight. Two Theories * Dr. Juan Sacasa was vice president of Nicaragua In the Solarzano government and is leading what our State Department regards as the rebel faction. Mexico, however, looks upon him as representing a constitutional government which was overthrown by armed revolt, and has recognized him on that theory. Foreign Minister Saenz says In his message to Sacasa that Mexico withdrew its minister from Nicaragua in order not to sanction the violence with which Chamorro overthrew the Solarzano government. “Since then,’’ he . adds, "Mexico has been waiting for an opportune moment to resume traditional friendly relations with legitimate representatives of the Nicaraguan people.” For Big Business Apart from the fact that Adolfo Diaz is safe and conservative enough to satisfy big business, while Sacasa is too liberal for its liking, the United States has no ex cuse for recognizing the former, and if this is an excuse, the policies and pronouncements of a century have been reversed. If the United States has pretended to frown on one thing more than another in Latln-Amercan, it is on government by revolution. It was for no other renson than this that WILon hounded Huerta out of Mexico. Yet now we behold the State Department not only sanctioning a government by revolution in Nicaragua, but one of its high officials hinting at bolshevism as a pretext for turning down the constitutional/ government. What is worse, we find the Associated Press picking up his hint and converting it into a story which the ordinary man would accept as authoritative. Manufactured ‘News’ Having taken the stand It did, you can’t blame the State Department for wanting such stories published as would lend a decent color to its attitude. , It was in obvious need of manufactured news. So far as facts went, there weren’t any of sufficient importance to convince the American people, that this government should go out of its way to bolster up the fortunes of Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua or to injure those of President Calles In Mexico. Under such circumstances, it was no more than natural for an official of the State Department to call in representatives of the great news services with the idea of persuading them to assist. But It is a duty of great news, services to weigh the value of information as well as to gather it. Somebody has said that the wise editor is the one who knows what not to print. The Associated Press seems to have swallowed what Mr. Olds offered without qualm or scruplfc: The United Press and International News Service were more canny. Can you give me an Indian name that means courage or bravery? ’’Swaingideed" is the Chippewa word for courage. It ft too late to make application for the Federal bonus for World War soldiers? No. The application must be in on or before Jan. 1, 1928.

Starving Each Other to Death

Steele Exhibit at John Herron Art Institute Gets State-Wide Attention

The MemoriaJ Exhibition at the John Herron Art Institute of the work of Theodore C. Steele, which opened on Sunday, Dec. 6th, fills three galleries and makes an impressive showing. In addition to the many individuals who have lent paintings, clubs, business organizations, educational institutions, one art association (Rid the Indiana State House have contributed. The group of contributors are: InUniversity Club, the Woman’s Department Club, the Katherine Merrill Club, the Indianapolis Literary Club, the Indiana Historical Society, the Art Department of the University of Missouri, Butler University, the Art Association of Richmond. • The variety of Mr. Steele’s art activities, the high quality of his work, and the important contacts that ho made through his work give him Justified prominence in Indiana art. Fine canvases are shown in this collection depicting landscape, still life and portraiture. Conspicuous among tho portraits erf prominent Tndianians are several of national significance—those of Benjamin Harrison. Thomns A. Hendricks, David Starr Jordan and James Whitcomb Riley. Through the wide sweep of years from his very young manhood up to the time of his death. Mr. Steele painted with unflagging vigor and enthusiasm, and the record of his aehevement from 1860 to 1926. displayed In this Memorial Exhibition Is of high Importance to the community. The Adnms-Garber-Higgins Scudder Exhibition will open in the galleries on Dec. 12 and continue through Dec. 26. Three of these artists are painters, one Is a sculptor, and all are former residents of Indiana. They are distinguished figures In the world of art and the exhibition promises to be of more than ordinary interest. Prints selected from the permanent collection and now on exhibition in Gallery II include fine examples of etching, drypoint, color etching, steel

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This man figured prominently in English political life during the World War. His name and the answers to the other questions appear on page 14: 1. Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2. Who won this season's YaleHarvard fotoball game? 3. What was the last official government position held by Albert B, Fall? 4. Where is radio station WOC? 5. Where are the waterfalls with the highest drop in the United States? 6. Approximately how many radio stations njre now operating in the United States? 7. Where is the famous Circus Maximus? 8. Whom did President Coolidge send as special representative to visit the Philippines? 9. Is there any difference in the time in New York City and Miami, Fla.? 10. Where is the city of Colon?

engraving, wood engraving, woodcuts and color wood-cuts. As there is variety in the processes, so Is there variety in the prints themselves, and while every example is of fine quality, the list of artists include world famous names and names yet to be made famous. Mr. Howard McCormick, an Indianian, who now resides in New York, is represented by a striking wood engraving, and Miss Blanche Stlllson, who has an enviable local reputation, has two wood-cuts, beautifully composed and expertly executed. Miss Anna Hasselman, Curator of the Museum, will postpone until Jan. 5 the third lecture in the series of the third Wednesday afternoon lecture course of the season. The series is a "Study Course of Paintings: Portraits, landscapes, murals, and Genre.” The inability of class members to be present on Dec. 16, led to the choice of the January date for a lecture on “Murals.” These lectures are free to members of the art association and are also open to others upon payment of a fee of $5 for the course. On Sunday, Dec. 12, at 3 p. m., a program of Christmas music will be presented In the museum court, by the Schellschmidt-Koehne Harp Trio, Hazel Simmons Steele, soprano, and the Ogden Chorale. The excellence of the musicians participating and the variety in the selections to be given lend special Importance to the occasion. NEW SHOW AT PALACE TODAY Fred Ardath has anew program of nationality delineations to present on his program which opens the last half of All Nationality week at the Palace Theater today. The Merry Wags, the chorus girls, and Ardath himself will assume roles characteristic of foreign nations in their song, dance, comedy and musical numbers. Scenery which calls to mind lands across the sea will be used in the production. Ardath announces that all numbers given the last of the weeek are entirely different from those presented the first half. “Bits of Musical Comedy," which are fragments of musical show’s having played Broadway, are offered by Ferguson and Sunderland. Gertrude and Boys have “A Little Questions and Answers Vnn rt*r% trrt *n**r to nnv ♦ tor* o# *•*/♦ op tr* • ♦ (on so Vh* TirrlM Bureau, 1322 New York Are., Washinglor reniy Medical. lvcal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other oueetions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned reouests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor Can you give me a short account of slavery in America? It was introduced in the Virginia Colony in 1620 when twenty Negroes tvere imported. In 1800 strict laws were enacted to suppress slavery. The great struggle for and against slavery began in 1818 over the admission of Missouri as a State and ended with the close of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States forever. The fugitive slave law passed In 1850 made It mandatory upon persons in the North to return runaway slaves and it was openly violated much as the prohibition law Is being violated today. That law intensified the feeling of hostility between the North and the South, In 1862 General Hunter of the Federal Army proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves but his order was not approved by President Lincoln. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued Jan. 1, 1863, and freed 3,063,392 slaves. Why is Kansas called (he sunflower State? On account of the rSnk growth of wild sunflowers there. How old is Buck Jones? Is he married? What is his address? He was born in 1889, Is married and may be addressed at the Fox Studios, Western Avenue, Hollywood, Cal. *

Bit of Everything,” in which they perform acrobatics, sing songs and deal with comedy talk. The five men- und woman also have a musical bit In which they play Instruments. / Kirby and Duval are the "talk of the town” In their original singing and comedy act. “West of Broadway," a humorous photoplay, with Priscilla Dean and Arnold Gray in the roles of a golf Instructress and a woman hater Is also shown. Pathe News, a cemody and Topics of the Day are the short reel 3. STUDENT RECITAL AT COLLEGE TONIGHT The pupils of Clarence M. Weesner will be presented in a recital at night. Program follows: the Hewes College of Fine Arts to- " Witches Revel” Russel v’ 8 and Mr. frees ner. Sweet V iolet Smallwood w.,,., Joan Eccles. Harebell -j_. ••• . . Smallwood ••t i—i. Brenner. Limitations of Youth Field Lamoffi Mi.ey. frjp — Promenade Waltz” ........ Behr r.tf** ’’i 1 ,' 1 . ty l . 1 ,**® Lovinger and Ruth Klor. Rose Petals Lawson „ x , . ~ Selma Gellman. (Four Hands)..... Miles crri!1 Kton and Mr. freeener. Spinning Song Ellmenreiu , ~ Ray Kealltig. Dreaming (Four Hands) Adams rmieriok Johnson and Mr. Wees ner. Jazz Dance Mile. Theo Hewce „ T _ Barbara Clilton. Lo Promenade Wilson ..St, ■ - Marjorie Kaser. Nina # Last Lover’ (Reading). .Werner ..t..., „ Helen Taleantek. Little Boy Blgt . . Engelmann “Naughty Little Clock 9 ”' Peyche mt> m _ Boi-bv Jean Johnson. Before Her Picture” Kern , „ Barney Christensen. Roaming (lour Hands) Adams Euf® Lev* find Mr. freesner. •i t hi la^a^^ orU : lul .'. Rea ' Unir ;.';;.Y^ .. Virginia Marcus. ■Reverie” (Four Hands) Adams Jack and Jean Ochiltree. ‘Chums' (Reading) Peyche “Holliday in the Villager Lore , Sam Sims. Sparklets” Miles , ~ Mildred Houser. "Legende” AUbout _ _ Edns Zier. Vive La France ’ (Reading) Preston Scarf Dance Chamlnade _ , Helen Thomas. "La Fontaino Bohm Kathleen Sims. Pirouette (Dance) ; Mile. Theo Hewc* _ . Lavonne Maloof. Dot Leetl Orippl’ Boy” (Reading).. Werner Irma Flutro. IdUlo Lack Paul Bechtold. 'Little Scottish Martyrs”, Werner Helen Donnell. •’Witches Dance" Conoono Thomas Isaacs. “Land of the Sky Dlue Water"...Cadman Leon Levi. “Nola" Arndt Elizabeth Case. "Zingara” . Chamlnade Mary Margaret Hill, "Madonna at Palos" (Reading) ... Hughes Ernestine Walker, ‘Concert Valso” Manna Zucca Grace Parris. Indianapolis theaters today offer: Earl Carroll’s Vanities at English's; Thomas B. Shea at Keith’s; Francis Renault at the Lyric; Fred Ardath at the Palace; "Paradise," at the Uptown; “Her Big Night,” at the Colonial; “Everybody’s Acting," at the Apollo; “Exit Smiling,” at the Ohio; "Syncopating Sue," at the Circle; “The Plastlo Age," at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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Joo Cook The chief funmaker with Earl Carroll's Vanities, opening tonight at English’s for a three-day engagement, is the well-known Joe Cook.

DEC. 9, 1926

Work Another Pointer on Bidding Semi-Two-Suits Bridge Hands.

By Milion C. Work The pointer for today is: With a strong semi-two-sulter In wltich the flvo-eard suit is longer, stronger and lower-valued, bid it first if it be a Heart; but if it be a Minor, bid a four-card Major in preference. A semi-two-suiter Is a hand with one five-card and one four-card suit. Yesterday's question was how the following three hands should bo bid by a Dealer. ( 1. Sp.: Ace-King-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Queen-x-x. Di.: x-x. Cl.: x. Sp.: Ace-King-x-x. Ht.: AoeKlng Queen-x-x. Di.: x-x. Cl. x-x. 3. Sp.: Ace-Klng-x-x. Cl.: x-x. In No. 1, the Spade should be named first, in accordance with the rule I have emphasized all this week, viz., that the higher-valued suit usually should bo bid first. With this hand it would be wiser to play with Spades the trump ratfcer than Hearts If the partner be longer In Spades than In Hearts, but when the choice Is between two Major suits and one is both longer and stronger that the other—as lu No. 2 —lt Is not wise to depend upop the partner’s ungulded preference. Tho difference In his hand in favor of tho suit ho may select, may be much less than tho difference between the two suits In the hand that Is to become tho Closed Hand. So in No. 2 with two Majors, tho stronger, although the lower-valued —the Hearts should be bid first. There are two reasons fog this: (1) The Spado might be left in, in hands In which the Heart would be the more desirable trump. (2) Should the Spado be overcalled and the Heart then declared, 'the partner might show a preference for Spades, with a difference so slight that for the combined hands Spades would not be as productive a trump as Hearts. When, however, as in No. 3, the choice Is between a four-card Major and a five-card Minor, the Minor being the stronger, the Major should be shown first because it is one trick nearer the game goal. What would you bid as Dealer with the following hands: 1. Sp. Ace-King-x-x. Ht.: x-x. Di.: x-x. Cl.: Ace-Klng-x-x. Ht.: x-x. Di.: x-x. Cl.: Ace-Klng-Queen-x-x. 2. Sp.: Ace-King-x-x. Ht.: Acc-Klng-Jaock. Di.: x. Cl.; Ace-King-Queen-x-x. Answers tomorrow. (Copyright John F. Dillo Cos.) Work, the International authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the gome for Times readers who write to him through ThP Times, including a self-addressnf stamped envelope.

MR. FIXIT New Cars to Be in Use Soon on Stock Yards Line.

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Those who ride the Stock Yards street cars and the English Ave. busses are due for good tidings from Mr. Fixit today. Mr. Fixit reelved tho followlrg letter from James F. Lynch of the Indlanapols Street Railway Company. "In regard to complaint of service on the Stock Yards line, I wish to state that a now type of cars on that line will be out of the shop In a few days and should bo In opera* ation within another week. "I beg to advise also that the complaint In regards to the English Ave. bus line, has been taken up with the supervisor of busses with a view of eliminating a repetition of this complaint." DEAR MR. FIXIT: On Louisiana St., south of the rubber works between East and Noble Sts., the street Is very narrow. Employes cM the works pork their cars along side, making it impossible for machines to pass, and the pedestrian has no change at all. EDWARD S. Unfortunately, there is no law against this practice. Tho proposed traffic ordinance would have prevented this practice, but the measure was slaughtered by city council. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Will you please be kind enough to see that E. Fortieth St. from Tecumseh St. west Is cleaned. The gutter is In an awful condition and has not been cleaned for two months. ' P. O. Kilt soon will be cleaned. Mr. Fixit was Informed to lay by R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks, that the American Mag in Morton PI, which, according to a correspondent, is tattered and torn, has been taken down. Is it true that tho Ukelele to not of Hawaiian origin? The story is that a white man In Hawaii designed the instrument usihg th* Portuguese taro-patch violin as his model. He simply made the instrument one-half tho size and gave it one-half ns many strings as tho Portuguese Instrument and result was a twanging, tuneful sound! that made an excellent accompaniment to singing. The Hawallans .adopted the instrument and used it at their festivities, as an accompaniment to their weird songs. Travellers who saw the Hawaiian* use the ukelele associated It with them and gradually It was looked upon as a Hawaiian Instrument. They have been using It now for more than a century.