Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1926 — Page 6

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

NO EXPLANATION Outraged public opinion lias as yet received no adequate explanation from Governor Ed Jackson of his action in changing the membership of the public service commission on the eve of its hearing of the most important case it has yet considered. The people of this city will be loaded up with a huge burden of debt, on which they will pay dividends and interest for all time, if the application of the financiers who are hooking the two light plants together is granted. Without any notice to the public, without any advance information to the public bodies representing civic interest, the one man who had entered any sort of a protest againsytlie hurried action demanded is removed and in his place is put a man whose experience has, to say the least, not won any wide reputation or public confidence. No one representing the public was, apparently, consulted in the matter of either the removal of Judge Artman or the appointment of the protege and friend of Carl Mote, utility lawyer and politician, to take his place. The Governor makes public no petitions of indorsement from any source whatever—and yet this is the most important public position at this time. Certainly his own party has in it men of Statewide reputation for integrity and honesty and freedom from corporation alliances who could have been named to act on this one matter. It would almost seem that the Governor was acting in conjunction with Corporation Counsel Rucker of this city and attempting by his action to prove the Rucker charge that these corporations had contributed money to the 1924 campaign in a conspiracy to control the appointments of tills board. At least the public could not be blamed if they placed such a construction upon the matter. If that charge werb true, would Governor Jackson not make exactly the appointment he did make and in just the manner he made it? If it is not true, would he have acted in a different manner and named a different man? Unless the Governor wishes the people to answer these questions by speculation and conjecture, he should produce some indorsements and make public the names of citizens he consulted in making these changes. The people have a right to this much of an explanation. NO SHOOTING IN THE DARK! Says the Washington Post, frequently referred to as an Administration paper: "A full exposure of the Russo-Mexlcan communist movement and its aims should be made by the Administration. ’ This newspaper is In hearty accord with the suggestion —that if there is any such thing as a “Russo-Mexican communist movement.” To the American man-in-the-street Russian communism means a system which aims at the destruction of governments like ours and the substitution thereof of a ‘‘dictatorship of the masses” ala Moscow. The people of this country want no such system. Our system may not be perfect, but when we make a change we want to make It of our own accord. And we want It to be for a better one, not for a worse. Therefore If, as the above named paper declares, the Mexican government isj a communist government and a menace to our country, the people certainly ought to be told of it, officially and at once. “A clash with Mexico itself,” the paper continues, "is one of the inevitable events nf the Incoming year as a result of the capture of the government by communists.” If the paper is correctly informed —and it makes the flat statement without any ifs or ands or buts — then the situation is indeed serious. It means that shortly the sons of American mothers may be called upon to go down to Mexico and be killed. But what for? The people of this country are not going to stand for any invasion of Mexico without knowing what the shooting ia for. “The brutal truth has been withheld,” says the Post, “for fear of offending a government with which the United States is trying to maintain peace.” That is no excuse for silence. If Mexico fs really the secret agent of Russia, or any other foreign power that would use Mexico to encompass our destruction, why should we spare its feelings? What man in his right mind would try to keep on the good side of a fellow he knew was only waiting a favorable opportunity to murder him? Alas! We very much fear Secretary of State Kellogg and President Diaz of Nicaragua are playing a similar game. In one breath N Dlaz loudly charges that the liberals who oppose him in his country are bolsheviks sicked on him by Mexico, and In the next he extends a most cordial invitation to them to lay down their arms and accept important job* In his, the Diaz government. It is all very unconvincing and Inconsistent. President Calles, by way of reply to the State Department's charge of bolshevism, has Just come out with a very sincere-sounding statement of his aims. He flatly denies Mexico is any closer to bolshevism than the United States and charges that such stories are propaganda pure and simple and for a purpose. He is very definite about It. Let out State Department be Just as definite. If we are going to intervene in any Way, shape or 'orm in Mexico, let’s know why. The Stars and Stripes have never lacked defenders. They will not lack defenders In the fu•tire. But every mother's son of them is going to want to know what it's all about, before he offers his body as a target for leaden pellets on a foreign battlefield. JUST LIKE JIM There may be more humorous farces, more laugh-compelling burlesque, but Indiana will forget them as it watches Senator James Eli Watson with sober face and perhaps serious voice telling Prank Smith not to dare to apply for membership in the Senate. Smith is the public service commissioner •of Illinois who received a contribution of $126,000 from Samuel Insull, utility owner. Insull also operates in Indiana. The suectacle of Watson warning any man to

stay away from the Senate because he received corporation support and money is the prize laugh of the year. The people of this State know that Watson is now asking for admission himself on the vote he received in the little empire controlled by the steel trust and that his claim to his own seat after March will be based on the vote of Lake County and the manipulation of the absent voters law to his own advantage. He will get his seat, if he does get it, as a representative of the steel trust and not of the people of Indiana who, outside that one county, repudiated him. So it requires considerable nerve for Watson to tell the beneficiary of Insull that the Senate will not accept him with his tainted campaign funds. But we all know Watson here. We have watched him for many years. Nothing that he could do In the way of absurdity or acrobatics would amaze. Even the Klan must have expected him to jump the fence on, its own pet measure of restricted immigration, for he has an* almost unbroken record of breaking faith with the forces thai support him. No one is surprised. Just like Jim. He can always be depended on—to do the absurd thing. But what will Judge Gary think and the other privilege seekers who may not take kindly to the suggestion that there is anything improper in using money, plenty of money, to control seats in the Senate? LIVES ARE CHEAPER It costs one cent a ton to spray coal mines with rock dust, aud in mines where this is used, there are no explosions and no tragedies. Today the Red Cross is appealing for funds to aid the families of sixty miners, dead or injured, in the disaster near Princeton. It is true that two years ago, with the tragic horror of the Sullivan castastrophe, in which fiftyone men lost their lives, fresh in their minds, the Legislature received a measure to force the use of this safeguard. That bill was one of those which were mysteriously “lost” under the guidance of the able gentlemen who controlled that body in which the present life term convict, Stephenson, was a power and dictator. There was no legislation and as a result, today there are more graves In the mining districts, more widows and orphans, more objects of charity. The remedy of rock dust is not an experiment. In England, where the law makes it use compulsory, there have been no explosions of coal dust, no loss of lives. This year, thus far, more than 300 miners In this country have been killed in these preventable “accidents.” Other States are adopting laws to compel mine operators to take this safeguard for the protection of their workers. Many of the larger companies, deciding that it is humane, at least to protect the men who produce coal, have adopted it voluntarily. It is a method which lias the indorsement of the United States Bureau of Mines, of mine inspectors, of labor organizations which are working for the betterment of labor conditions. No legislation can bring back the lives taken at Princeton. There is left but the poor chance to relieve the suffering of the bereaved, to rush food and clothing to those left helpless and unprotected. But Indiana can take a vow that such a measure shall not be lost in the legislature soon to meet. It can demand if, it wishes, that this safeguard shall be given those who burrow beneath the ground for fuel to beat the homes and keep the wheels of industry going. But, of course, there is the other attitude that has thus far prevailed. It can be apathetic and indifferent. It can carefully weigh that added cent a ton to the cost of coal and decide that lives of coal miners are cheaper, after all, than safeguards. The largest currency the United States prints is a SIO,OOO bill. Probably the only person offered one will be a street car conductor. Bashful William used to hide behind his mother’s skirts when company came. Now he takes a walk around the block. We agree with the cheese manufacturers. The ! country needs a higher tariff on imported cheese. Include the cheeses too. An Arkansas man hasn’t spoken to his wife for ten years. But then maybe he’s been trying. Famous fallacies: "So you’re a newspaper man. You must meet lots of interesting people?” Twenty-five years ago American women were content with 150.000 pairs of silk stockings a year, says a magazine writer. Even today that’s enough for some women. Two of Europe’s liquor kings are in this country. Studying American methods of merchandising? Famous fallacies: “When you carry an umbrella, you know, it never rains.” Gloria Swanson wants to find some nice quiet spot for a vacation. How about the Sesquiccntennial grounds? ©f all places to invent a coal burning automobile —Pittsburgh ’ Mary Garden suggests pajanjas as a street fashion for men. In some places bed sheetr'used to be popular. Vanishing Americans: the mother who used to tie a sack of asafoetida around the boy’s neck to keep away sickness. Chicago is experimenting with rubber tires to silence loop trains. Trying to sneak past the gunmen? It’s time to ask her what to surprise her with at Christmas time.,

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Tracy Mellett Case Demon/strates Usefulness of Right Newspaper,

By M. E. Tracy • Os all the murder trials occurring in this country within recent months, that of Patrick E. McDermott at Canton, Ohio, is the most important. It involves principles which go to the heart of modern life and reveals a situation not curbed would destroy the public's power to I maintain law and order. Enough bus already been brought out to show that Canton was not j only in the grip of a well-organized vice ring, but that the ring considered itself so strong that it could talk of murder and contemplate intimidation of a newspaper with impunity. The cold-blooded, impersonal character of the crime mi-kes it all the more startling. It was not a question of enmity between Don R. Mellett and the men who killed him, but of the determination of the gang to get rid of an editor whose fearlessness i promised to stir the leqjal authorities I into action against it. The power and usefulness of a wideawake | newspaper were never more vividly revealed. The underworld of Canton was vastly more afraid of Mellett than of judges, prosecutors or peace officers. The bullet that laid him low was a ringing tribute to the kind of journalism for which he stood, the kind of journalism without which tills republic cannot endure. The necessity of convicting his slayers and breaking up the conspiracy which nerved them to the deed includes more than the idea of punishing a mere murderer, sufficient as that might be. It includes the idea of demonstrating to the lawless and vicious elements throughout this country that a free press is beyond their power to scare or control and that the people are more concerned over their right to get free, frank and uncolored information than anything else. States’ Rights Bogey Former Solicitor General James Beck says that Vare and Smith should lie seated out of respect to States' rights. He says it is none of the Senate's business whom the States elect to represent them. Such arguments have done mofc; than anything else to belittle and abridge States' rights. A man of Beck's learning and experience should be able to see this. People will never enthuse over a doctrine as long as It Is invoked to back up crooked politics. Common honesty is still more essential in the popular mind than any particular phase or form of govern- | ment. If States’ rights cannot be pre- , served without winking at corruption, they are in a bad way. They can be preserved without It, of course, but that did not suit Beck's purpose. He wanted an argument in favor of two Senators-elect who stand more than an even chance of being unseated. Like many another special pleader who couldn't think of a better one, he seized on States' rights. Coolidge Is Wrong President Coolidge is opposed to | the partition of China, which Is all right, except that it doesn't tit the i present situation. China is not being divided by j ot,her people, but by her own people, j Her flying apart Is due wholly to i internal trouble. This is something j that no government on earth can prevent. The United States and other nations have no choice in the matter, except to recognize stable authority j wherever and whenever it makes its appearance. To withhold recognition from the | Cantonese on the ground that they , fall to represent all of China, and I that China should bo held together In ; spite of her own inclination, is * piece of absurdity. Water Power Problem Speaking at a dinner which was attended hv 1,000 of the most distinguished men and women of New York, Governor Smith offered his solution of the State's water power I problem last Monday night. He came out squarely for State I development through a corporate body that should function as an instrument, rather than a branch of its government. He admitted borrowing the Idea from Charles Evans Hughes. Before launching the real scheme of development, Governor Smith wants It carefully studied and worked out. One trouble with the public nnS derstanding such enterprises, he said, is the fact that it lacks the proper means for study and investigation. It is his thought that the course of procedure should be similar to that which private business would follow under similar circumstances. He not only wants plans fully worked out before a shovelful of dirt is turned, but wants the financial set-up completely arranged. Roughly speaking, he believes that the State should produce and wholesale its power at such prices as will carry the plant and pay off its indebtedness. The kind of project Governor Smith has in mind, the way he Is approaching It and the methods by which he would put It on a sound basis of operation, are worth serious consideration. The majority of States s face a similar problem. The control of electric power will soon become an illimportant factor. James Lawrence was the author •>f the famous saying. “Don’t give n the ship.l’ instead of John Paul lones, as wl\ suited recently in this ■olumn. When was parcel post established n the United States? Parcel post was established Jan. J. 1913. k />

Pretty Peaches They Are on Stage, But They’re Real Men on Michigan Campus

Peaches they sure are, but they arc the men all dolled up for the University of Michigan Opera to lie at the Murat Saturday night. Left to Right—Charles L. I’ettibone, William Lewis Jr., leading “lady;" Watson D. Harbough and William S. Ramsay Jr.

j Russel A. Gohring of Toledo, Ohio. I who has been selected to play the | role of the leading man in the | twenty-first University of Michigan j Union Opera, “Front Page Stuff,” j which will play at the Murat Saturday night, will be remembered by those who saw last year’s opera for his clear baritone voice and his dancing. This is Gohring's third year as leading man in the Opera, ! having played the part of the captain I of the guard in “Tambourine” last year, and the male, lead in “Tickled jto Death” the year previous. His presence in the opera again this winter will undoubtedly J>e one of the outstanding attractions of the 1926 production. William M. Lewis Jr. of Muskegon, Mich., will play the role of feminine lead, and will be featured In numerous dante numbers and as a pianist. He will appear In an unique ballet and toe dance specialty and in a piano solo number on the order of the Belle Baker novelty. Accordin to E. Mortimor Shutter, director of the opera, I.ewis has already proved to he the most valuable assistant in dance coaching that he has ever had. Lewis is an experienced dancer, a promising actor, and ir. famine attire, is possessed of a figure and facial beauty that recalls "Cotton Stockings,” and Lionel (Mike) Ames. Richard Lutes, of Duluth. Minn., the comedienne in “Tambourine,’’ will again figure as the comedienne in this year’s play. According to reports. the comedy in “Front Page Stuff” is excellent and Lutes will have a promising part to play. Other menitiers of the cast who have had former opera experffence include Thomas DougaU, of Detroit, a feature dancer in the women's chorus last year, and Lorain Norton, of Adrain, Mich., who sang “April Days” in the same show. The remaining members of the cast who have major roles in “Front Page Stuff” are Donald Lyons of Ann Arbor; Richard Woellhaf, of South Haven, Mich.; Frank Starchan of Colorado Springs. Colo.; Robert Graham of Harbor Springs. Mich., and Philip Culkin of Carthage, 111. These men will make their first appearance in this year’s opera, hut all of them show unusual talent, Shuter says. Lyons, Woellhaf and Starchan have all had major parts in recent university dramatic productions. Graham will have several important song numbers In this year's show. Lester, of Chicago, the designer of costumes for several former operas, has received measurments of the cast and choruses and will come to Ann Arbor to fit each costume before the opera gives its initial performance in Ann Arbor. The cast, choruses, orchestra and committeemen will form a company of 100 men, fully as large as that of last year, to be taken on the tour of thirteen cities during the Christmas holidays. Committees of more than fifteen students are included in the opera company. Practically all of the mechanical work of the pro i duction Is done by these men In ad l dition to applying the make-up. ar- ! ranging and caring for the hun- ] dreds of costumes, editing the proi grams, handling the publicity and such work. Three Pullmans and a baggage car are required to carry the company on its tour of the East and Middle West. Words for “Front Page Stuff” were written by Milton A. Peterson of Detroit, a student in the law school, who also composed most of the music and the lyrics for the opera. Other musical numbers and lyrics were written by Miss Dorothy Stone, now playing in “Criss Cross,” who is an honorary member of Mimes, campus dramatic society, and by Lewis, who plays the %art of

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The first question is most difficult. One must be a careful observer to detect the error In the Illustration. The question answers appear on page 18: 1— -What Is wrong with the picture of the clock In the accompanying Illustration? 2 Who is chief justice of the United States supreme court? 3 How many gills are there In a quart? 4 What are the names of the Great Lakes? sls Ice lighter than water? 6 What is the capital of Louisiana? 7 In what American war did the battle of Chickamauga occur? ' B—ln8 —In what national park is the Old Faithful geyser? 9 —ls local postmaster an appointive or elective position? 110 —What Is the first tone of the musical diStOnlO SC&le?

“June” in this year's opera. E. Mortimor Shuter, professional stage director, is supervising the production for the eighth consecutive year, while all the dance numbers are again the creations of Roy Hoyer, dancitig partner of Miss Dorothy Stone, in Fred Stone’s new play. Hoyer personally trained the chor uses here last spring. The first opera was presented by the University of Michigan in 1908 under the direction and supervision of the Michigan Union, the men’s club of the university. From then until 1913 n comedy production was given each year in Ann Arbor, though no road trips were attempted. "Contrary Mary” was presented in 1913. The opera was taken over by Mimes, campus dramatic society, under the indirect supervision of the Union, and a tour of the State was made that year. This lntiterary was repeated until 1921 with an occasional performance in Chicago and Toledo. “Make It For Two,” the 1921 production, took the first exten-

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When Clowny’d rocked the doll to sleep, he laid it down and said, "Don’t peep, for If you make much racket you will wake it up again.” So al l the Tinies sneaked away ’till Scouty stopped and whispered, “Say what is the noise? It sounds just like a barnyard cackling hen.” Just then a dwarf came walking in, and on his fact he wore a grin. Said he, "I’m winding up a doll to try and make it talk.” The winding made that clicking sound that made w-ee Scouty turn around. Then Copup questioned, “Have you any dollies than can walk?” “Why, sure we have,” the dwarf replied. “You see that box? Well, one's inside. Just take it down from off the shelf and we will have same fun.” So Coppy did as he was told. The dwarf then told him. “Take a hold while I start winding up the doll. Perhaps we ll make It run!” The doll felt very proud, I guess. It wore a very pretty dress, and on

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You ran cet an answer to an* uuosP on _o (act or information by writing U> rne Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 13 Z'Z >?w York Ave.. Washington. D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital adv'ice cannot be uven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Lnamed requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor What is the correct order for presidential succession in the event of death, resignation or inability to serve of the President and Vice President of the United States? Congress has provided by law, (J&n. 19, 1886), that the following cabinet officers stand next in order of succession to the presidency provided they possess the constitutional qualifications for the office of president: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior! By Implication it has been held that the remaining secretaries would succeed In case of death or inability of the others, these departments having been created since the passage of the Succession Act. Is the custom of having debutante parties modern or ancient? The "coming-out party” had a very literal interpretation in primitive life. A savage girl came out of the hut In which she had been carefully guarded during her young girlhood, thereby indicating that she was ready for Immediate marriage. During her earlier years she had been carefully Instructed In the duties of a wife and mother. In many tribes there was a dsbutaots

sive road trip of any show, visiting Cleveland. Indianapolis. Toledo, Cincinnati, Chicago and Lima, Ohio, as well as the cities in the State that were usually played. Three years ago the eastern route was included and “Cotton Stockings" at that time stamped the Michigan as one of the foremost collegiate presentations In the country, entirely distinctive in character from any other university production. Indianapolis theaters today offer: Jimmy Kemper, at the Palace: Wyatt's Scotch Lads and Lassies at the Lyric: Roye and Maye Revue at Keinth's; “La Boheme” at the Circle: “The Canadian,” at the Ohio; “Tin Hats” at the Apollo; "The Marriage” at the Colonial: new show at the Uptown: burlesque at tjie Mutual and “We're In The Navy Now'’ at the Isis. On Thursday inght one of the most welcomed shows of any season, “Blossom Times,” opens a three-day engagement at English's.

its feet had little shoes, as shiny as could be. A fancy sash hung at its side. It’s little eyes were open wide, which made the Tinies ask the dwarf "Say. can this dolly see?” The dwarf replied, “Alack,alack, the eyes are only made of glass, but even so; the doll is smart and walks all by itself.” The doll was put down on the ground and soon began to walk around. It seemed to like this better than just being on a shelf. The doll house door was open wide and when the doll walked right outside, the little dwarf was startled when he heard wee Coppy say, “Oh, get that doll, at any cost, or I’m afraid it will get lost. And then you wouldn’t have it for some girl on Christmas day.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) (The Tinymites visit the kiddie car shop in the next story).

dance. In whiclh the girl is the central figure. What was the “Sand Lot Party” in American politics? An organisation of workingmen in California,, 1877-1880. so called from the fact that the first meetings were held on the sand lot a vacant building site in San Francisco. The party was based upon economic dissatisfaction due to the exhaustion of placer mining and to the competition of Chinese labor. They denounced monopolies and the rich In general. The faction soon gained control of the Democratic party and succeeded in calling a convention to frame anew state constitution. Though this document was rather conservative, a sufficient number of radical voters accepted It to insure Its success, and the Sand Lot party practically ceased to exist in 1881. What was the longest prize fight under Queensbury rules? The longest glove fight was at New Orleans, La., seven hours and nineteen minutes, (110 rounds), A. Bowen vs. J. Burke, draw, April 6, 1893. In what American city is there no living green things? As far as we know there is no American city In which there are no living green things. Have there been any Negro senators? Tee; Hiram R. Revels, Mississippi, 1870-1871; and B. K. Bruce, Mississippi, 187*038].

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Work Follow Mathematical Chances When You Try Finesse.

By Milton C. Wort*. The pointer for today Ist Declarer should finesse to catch a Queen whenever he has lens than nine cards of the suilt In his two hands; with nine or more, he should not finesse. ' This pointer, like that ot yesterday, must be qualified when conditions resulting from the bidding op the previous play Indicate that the finesse should be made or refused. It does not pay to guess or to follow a. hunch: the thing to do is to follow the mathematical chances. With Ace-King-Jack in one hand, or with Ace-King in one hand and Jack-10 in the other, or frith one of the two top honor and the Jack in the other, the finesse should be triad when the total holding of the suit in the two glands is less than nine; but with a total of nine, the Ace and King should be led, with the hope that the adverse Queen either will be alone or but singly guarded. The double tenace—Acc Queen 10 —presents another special problem, the question being whether to play tlie Queen or the Ten on the tirsL trick. Again the answer is dete.l mined mathematically, if Declarer’s two hands contain a total of eight cards or fewer, the double Unease (1. e., playing the Ten) should be taken: but with a total of nine or ten cards, the single finesse (i. e., playing the Queen) should he selected. It goes without saying that the lead should be toward the hand containing the double tenace, and that the play should be suitably varied If the Second Hand play an honor. Total Cards of Spit tn Holding Declarer’s two Haw* Play Aca-Queen-Ten Bor less T en Ace-Queen-Ten 9or 10 Queen Are-King-Jaok Bor less j ark Ace-King Jack 9or more King Ace-Queen 10 or less Queen Ace-Queen n Are Tomorrow: Original four card suitbid. (Copyright, John F. Dill© Company.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer qUM . Dons on the game for Timas readers who write to him through Tho Times, enclosing, a. self-addressed stamped envelope. MR. FIXIT Correspondent Wants Clean Street Cars. cWy WrU ® Appeals of correspondents at Mr. Flxlt for fire alarm boxes have received the attention of city Mr. Flxlt learned today. William Griffis, board of safety electrical engineer, told him today that a box had been placed at College Ave. and Fifty-Second St., and another would be Installed at Wilson and Walnut Sts., in the vicinity of the Long and Riley Hospitals. DEAR MR. FIXIT: You generallly get some results In most cases of complaint, but here Is one that will probably tax your capacity. I wish to call your, attention to the unsanitary and filthy condition of the street cars, the floors or which are usually littered with dirt and filth, the woodwork covered •with an accumulation of dust and the window panes so dirty you can t seee through them. This is the condition of the cai s on College Ave., and this line is no exception. Can’t the health authorities compel the street car company to keep the cars in good condition? Why not provide the car crew with a broom and a dust wiper to clear their car? In these days of cold and Influenza every car should be thoroughly cleaned and renovated once In twenty-four hours. CITIZEN. This isn’t as hard to adjust as you believe. Mr. Lynch of the In dlanapolis Street Railway Company will Investigate. If you seoJ an improvement let Mr. FlxifH know. If the complaint Is ignored do likewise. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Is there any possible way to get the contractors who are putting In the sewer on Holmes Ave. and W. Ohio St. to remove the dirt from my driveway and yard so I can get. to my garage? H. W. NTJSRMEYER. City officials will instruct them to do so. What president served four years without a change in his cabinet? James K. Folk, 1845-184*. MTU you please give *H avnffahie information on the phrase "on the green carpet?” A thorough examination of numerous reference books falls to Identify this phrase. Please give me the correct form for ordering a formal dipner? The following is the usual order o| courses for a formal dinner* Appetizer (fruit cup, oy clams, or clear soup); second course (roast, fillets, poultry, game, fish, served with a green potatoes In some form, a relish, n* Jelly?; third course, salad (grapefruit, tomato, cucumber, lettuoe, endive, alligator pear, artichoke, asparagus); fourth course, Aesse:* (Ice-cream, Bavarian iprenms; meringues, tarts, puddings): fifth course, coffee and crackers and cheese. Should the complete order he given at one time or sljonld each) course be ordered separately? It is customary to order the er* tire meal at once. This does a waa yitk Jong mlt* hetnTifmin. oottaHs- I