Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1926 — Page 4

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THE GRAND JURY REPORT The grand jury, refusing to return indictments, has dono more than accuse. It has convicted. No other interpretation can he put upon that carefully preparted statement which ends with a challenge to tho court in its declaration that undei the conditions as they existed in the grand jury, it would be impossible to return any other sort. Let's examine that report carefully, for it is significant and more than damning. It says that the charges made by Thomas Adams, the editor of Vincennes, who based them ipon a letter written by D. C. Stephenson, former ruler of this State, and now a convict, had not been .übstantiatod by evidence which it had heard. But just a moment. It says that the charges i gainst "State officials, have not been proved.’’ The indicts by silence every offleiaj. of lesser yree who has been investigated, and rumor has ihat investigations have been made. And were more needed along that line, the reL in its later language, declares that testimony and been adduced which needs further inquiry at ■ hands of the next grand jury. And surely only upon the theory that the next • and jury will need this evidence, could Judge i ,>llins so quickly and immediately take charge of o evidence and put the seal of silence of his court upon it. It is a. plaintive manner in which the jury says i it “no one has produced it.” It is pitiable in view of the fact that the prosecutor had hut one member of the police force of this city to whom he dared to entrust a subpoena with ny hope of having it served and depended largely ipon his twp deputies to do work that should have commanded the services of an army of detectives. The grand jury had to wait for someone to produce the evidence. It could not seek it. It could not even follow the trails. It had no one it could trust. Pass on to the reference to the documents which Stephenson said that he could produce. And read this part carefully: “If such documentary evidence exists, it has not been furnished to the grand jury so far as State officials are concerned.” Why the specific reference to State officials? Is it not fair to assume that there were men on that grand jury who demanded that this limitation be placed in the report and that there were documents furnished concerning other officials? If not, why the wording of the report? - The people, of course, never expected that Stephen on would tun over any documents which he had received. The existence of such documents, or at least of documents which Stephenson believed to be of high import, and very valuable to him, as he was about to enter a prison cell for the rest of his life, was shown rather conclusively by The Times, w’hen it printed the .statements of photographers who said they had made the photographs, by a former attorney of Stephenson who said that he had refused their custody, by others who had admitted the custody of lock boxes. • And the failure to produce those documents takes the public mind back to the day when the first charges were made public by Adams. It may be remembered that only silence greeted that accusation and that for more than a week, six State Senators were refused admittance to the cell of Stephenson. i It will be remembered that the Governor of this State refused to permit his warden to admit these Senators or any others. * It will be remembered that the trustees of the State prison met hurriedly at the bedside of one of its members and passed a solemn resolution indorsing such action and practically sealing the convict in his cell. It will he remembered that this rule never existed until Warden Fogarty was removed just in advance of the reception of Stephenson. It will be remembered, too, that those who were interested in preventing Stephenson from delivering any documents he may have had had free entry to that prison while others who wanted them, in the name of decency, were barred. It will be remembered that when this grand jury sought to find L. G. Julian, former business partner and trusted confidant of Stephenson, he found it easy to confer with Stephenson—and then disappear for an entire month, so completely hidden that his own wife did not know his whereabouts or his itinerary. It will be remembered, too, that the girl who was trusted by Stephenson, ran from this city, hiding away, and then as mysteriously returned. It will be remembered that the attorney general of this State, Arthur Gilliom, openly and publicly declared that Stephenson had tried to blackmail his way to liberty—and has not yet told with what •yveapon he had tried to force his freedom. Then comes the further indictment that the jury was handicapped by the flight of witnesses and the failure of others to tell the truth. Why did these witnesses leave the State? Why did they refuse to tell the truth? Were they guilty themselves, or were they hiding and defending others? Men who can look other men frankly in the eye and have no burdens upon their souls do not flee. Nor do men who are not solicited and persuaded to run and protect guilty knowledge on the part of others. The grand jury itself furnishes the answer when it declares “Tho movements and statements of such witnesses have been of such a character as to invite suspicion and seriously impede tho progress of this investigation.” What power was behind these witnesses and what influenced them to act in a manner which invited suspicion against themselves and to impede the progress of the grand jury? If there was nothing to hide on the part of any one, why did these witnesses, and apparently there were many of them", bring down upon themselves this charge which should forever hold them in the contempt of honest men? Who was it powerful enough and great enough to induce them to act in this manner? What did they hide and what secret did they protect? Link Iflfese parts of the report and what have you for any basis of faith in the government or the

ability of the government to cope with those who betray it? Joined together, the Jury merely reports that Stephenson, if he has any documents, did not produce them. It merely serves notice on a public which had every reason to believe that Stephenson would be in position to have such documents, if they did exist, that he has changed his mind from that hour when he sent from his prison cell his declaration that lie could produce (evidence of corruption and graft. It says thkt witnesses it needed have lied and that others have fled when it wanted them. It means only that, and nothing more—unless of course, you care to draw the inevitable inference that is to be found in the reference to State officials and classifying them as distinct from others of less degree. The suggestion that another grand jury take up the probe and carry on is not reassuring—unless perhaps the jury makes clear and public what it means by its final reference to unnamed and undesignated conditions which it said existed in its own jury. If it did that, perhaps the next jury might be safeguarded against the conditions which made this its only possible report. Unless Judge Collins inquires, he will not know what those conditions were nor which is quite as important, will the people know. The people could be readily excused if they begin to lose faith in the grand jury, as it operates in Marlon County, as an investigating body. They could be excused a certain cynicism about our institutions and our ability to meet modern conditions with ancient weapons. They might even be pessimistic enough to doubt the ability of people to rule themselves. But in that pessimism, they would be wrong. For in the end, right always wins. There comes a time, when grand juries will not need to refer dimly to conditions they do not make public. There comes the time when public sentiment will make it a highly hazardous proceeding for citizens wanted as witnesses to flee the State and refuse to tell the truth. There comes a time when those who work their evil ways will be confronted with so indignant a public that they know that they have courted the whirlwind of retribution. There comes a time when an enlightened and awakened public conscience makes service, not evasion, the badge of citizenship and of public life. WHO IS A PATRIOT? Some persons believe in compulsory military service. Some do not. You can be a good citizen, and a patriot—whichever your belief. If you feel an urge to convert others to your belief on this subject, you can go about the country making speeches—and still be a patriot. That is true, no matter which side of the argument you take and no matter how earnest and excited you may get. ' You can write letters, print pamphlets or books or magazine articles. You can bore your family to death. You can stop friends and strangers on the street and talk as long as they will listen. You can stand on a soap box and deliver an oration, if you don’t obstruct traffic. You can hire a hall. All this, and still be a patriot. But you can’t start a street fight with the man who takes the other view. You can’t collect a lot of hecklers and break up the other man’s meeting. You can’t exert your influence as a citizen, or the authority of a uniform to prevent peaceable organizations like the Y„ M. C. A., or the University of Oklahoma from hearing the other man’s opinion and passing their own judgment on it You can't interfere with free speech, so long as the other man doesn’t stand under your window and prevent you from sleeping. These things you can’t do, and still be a patriotThe charge is made against one Lieut. Col. George Chase Lewis of Oklahoma City that he has done several of the things enumerated in the preceding paragraph. He did them, curiously enough, in the name of patriotism. He appears to entertain the Kellogical view that persons having opinions different from his own are Bolshevists and that one may do anything to a Bolshevist and still be a patriot. He has been so busy, perhaps, defending tho United States Constitution that he hasn't had time to read it. He doesn’t know that, undtr this Constitution, you can even argue publicly and privately in favor of Bolshevism itself, or communism, and still rate legally as a patriot. This isn’t strange, for it takes a little intelligence to really understand the United States Constitution in these days when it 1* being distorted so viciously by its loudest defenders But certainly Colonel Lewis living in a country that, except in time of war, has always set itself against compulsory service, should understand that there is nothing unpatriotic, un-American in continuing to argue that compulsory service is a bad thing. The colonel’s civilian superior, Secretary of War Davis, should elucidate this for him and for all other overexcited citizens In uniform, whether of the Regular Army or the reserve officers training corps. WILSON’S BIRTHDAY This is Woodrow Wilson’s birthday. Let his country remember his philosophy as well as his fame. With American marines patrolling Nicaragua, with American diplomats threatening Mexico, one declaration of the vanished leader stands out in increased significance. “The treaty of peace is based upon the protection of the weak against the strong and there is only one force that can protect the weak against the strong and that is the universal concert of the strength of mankind ” Citizens are urged to use’ extreme thrift in. selecting the members of the recent grand jury to whom it extends a wish for a prosperous New Year. Some of them may not need it. Dust we are and to dust we shall return, but that doesn’t keep us from throwing a little mud once in a while. One way of forsaking art for pelf would be to go io’-o the underAfldng business at Herrin, 111.

THE IN DIANA VOLIIS TIMES

Tracy Comparing Tactics in Nicaragua With Wilson's Pronouncement,

By M. K. Tracy Woodrow \V.lson.'H birthday Is an excellent occasion on wljich to think of foreign affairs. It was in this realm that he made his greatest bid for fame. Future generations will rate him largely on the extent to which his ideau of anew interna tional order are accepted. e At present the United States Government appears to be doing about all it ’ possibly can to discredit his work. Tha dollar diplomacy, which he despised and rejected, has come into vogue once more; the League of Nations, which ho founded, raises nn mom than a cynical smile at Washington, and the doctrines of libreaMsm, which he exemplified, have given place to a reign of the most brazen materialism this country ever knew. Backing Water The Nicaraguan situation would be much more serious than it is but for the almost certain possibility that our State Department will back water. In fact, our State Department has already begun to back water. It is neutral where it started out to wage a great tight against bolshevism; it will treat Diaz and Sacasa exactly alike, though it has recognized the first and denounced the second, and it has no notion of intervening though it has landed marines und taken possession of throe ports. In spite of all this talk about a red hegemony, Mexican intrigue and the necessity for protecting the Panama canal against bolshevistic operations, you cannot escape the conclusion that our State Department is merely making a grand gesture, and that it won’t go much farther than to let the Nicaraguans know that, no matter what happens, or who wins, big business must he respected. Gesture Making The United States is acquiring a reputation for making gestures. The French have already interpreted our cruiser program as a maneuver to force another disarmament conference, and seems peculiarly delighted at the idea because it promises to embarrass England. There is room for suspecting that such an object may have had influence with the Naval Affairs Committee, though the -campaigning which this committee has done sounds more like Jingoism. Costly, Useless Ships 1 Chairman Butler says that it will take $400,000,000 to bring our Navy up to tliat of England. What he does not say Is that after it has been brought up to such' a standard, we can take it out and use it for target practice. Four hundred -million dollars is a lot of money to bet on a lot of ships that are becoming more and more obsolete every day. Four hundred million dollars, if properly used, would go far toward rehabilitating American agriculture. Also, It would go far toward digging a second isthmian canal through Nicaragua. Who will say that either of these projects would do less toward making America strong and self-sufficient than a bunch of cruisers. Baseball in Congress As though Congress didn't have enough trouble already, it is now threatened with the task of having to investigate the latest baseball scandal. Baseball has come to play a very important part in American life, and its cleanliness may be so essential to the welfare of the country as to demand the Government’s attention. A lot of other nativities have become very important in American life, such as the movies, prize fighting, college sports, and golf. If the Government is going to give its attention to sucVi matters, the prospects are that it will have to"be greatly enlarged. Perhaps, that is what the boys have in mind-. Perhaps, a baseball investigation appeals to them because of the field it opens up. New Kind of Ruler Japan has had 102 Emperors, and they have been much alike. The 103d promises to be different. Hirohlto is the first of his lino to have played golf. They say his game Is nothing to brag about, but the spirit that caused him -to learn how promises much for Japan. He appears to be one of those rare men who are not bound by tradition, lie has allowed the people to Fee him face to face, to cheer him as a human being, to recognize him as a mere mortal, albeit as a well circumstanced one. It probably took courage for him to break through customs that have prevailed for twenty-five centuries, to dispense with the god-like disguise which clothed his predecessors and to walk about like other men. You can imagine how the family must have talked, how the sisters and the cousins and the aunts must have held up their hands in holy horror, and how the bewhiskered guardians of the old regime must have shuddered at the thought of such modernism. The young emperor may have done some things that will cause his throne to be less secure and that will rock Japan with the turmoil o? progress, but he has shown himself to be normal and that can hardly lead to any hut good results in the end. Who wrote "Neither snow nor rain, nor boat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swifl completion of their appointee rounds”? Heroditus. When did Alice and Phoebe Cary the American poets, die? Alice . died Feb. 12, 1871, and Phoebe July 31, 1871.

Do Not Fail to See ‘Laff That Off’ Two Artists —MacKellar and Clifford

By Walter F). Hickman There is lot of laughing to be done today and tomorrow. And the sign of laughter is “Lass That Off’’ and the place is English's. I can say with all sincerity that “Lass That Off" is the most wholesome and funniest thing that Earl Carroll has sent to this city since JCSKSmIMk. his name has do, "rated :li i"" lily iluoor. "Lass That 4: ! > iS tint a gill jfi*. wf ■k Jgfe. 'hose chummy and lovely things of . x. h '' 1 beater. It is :■ theater, but there ' - enough real liio ■r llr >• fSsgl < -l111 :■ l 'am ;, i. wimlSSmf fim .ok timl situj|!|o£&£ ' 'II tn lit! II "Ut f i. i 11 • i"i>iti"ii. It seems to me that any play Marion Welts which will make one laugh in a big, *heartv way is no failure. And this play is no failure. I have the fear that this comedy will slip out of town before it becomes generally known that there is* ton after ton of good and merry theater ( at English’s. And that Is just the reason that I am going the limit in telling you to see “Lass That Off," because here is a little theatrical rosebud which will perfume your .face into a garden of smiles. And the theater Is not wrong when it makes one happy. The highbrows may say that this is another “Abie’s Irish Rose,” because the audience laughs nearly all the time and that Its sentiment may be applesauce. I for one am for this comedy of three bachelors who adopt a girl of the street. Old stuff, you say, hut just wait and see how the author and this rip roaring cast put It over the top. Clarence Oliver as "Remorse" is one of those wise cracking characters who has most of the juicy lines. And this man knows how to put his comedy situations over. He is natural and he takes plain theater and decorates it as only u Christmas tree can look on a certain December day. Norval Keedwell as Arthur Lindai is pal No. 2 and William Gargan h Leo Mitchell, pal No, 3. Both huve different dispositions but the> know that fine art of natural anhonest acting. With the three pal so spelndldly cast. It is no r ason that the play goes over with such a bang. Marion Wells is Peggy Bryant, the down and out girl who is "taken into” the bachelor place by one of the boys for a little call and who in the last act turns out to be a star in the little fiat. Miss Wells Is guilty of some of the most human and sweetest cute acting I have ever seen. She is splendid, l'ou will love her. And I have as much praise for the slavey work of Pauline Drake as Emmy who blossoms out Into a beautiful woman. Here,} B really great acting, theater and good lines, but it is the artist that puts over those lines. And we have Hattie Foley as Mrs. Connelly. I feel like saying bless her soul. A fine character woman she is. Jack Matthews is the real article as Mike Connolly, who drinks only to be sociable or cure a cold. If you have faith in my judgment of the theater—then see “Lass That Off,” at English’s tonight, Wednesday afternoon or night. GUY RADICK TOPS NEW PAIiACE SHOW Guy Radick and Company with two men and four girls at the Palace the first half, have about the best Oomedy feature of the bill with a short revue of dances by several women and comedy a"s offered by the men. The act features mostly the comedy of Mr. Radick and his partner with the girls coming in occasionally and taking part in the humorous and dance numbers offered. Radick is the act and upon him depends most of the* work. Lafantasie with Charles Prevette and Company present a mystery act combined with a dance offering by a man and woman team. Act opens with two girls in a sort of introductory number and following that Is a Spanish dance by the team. The dance numbers are all well done by the man and woman and they have a good idea of what it takes to make a good pose in an acrobatic dance. Liked their first number best. The magic part of the act consists of two well staged numbers in

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW, §eeing Tragedy in Poetry of New England Life

By Walter D. Hickman

Since seeing “Desire Under the Elms,” I have had the feeling that the New England states with its snow has about as much tragedy as Denmark with its Hamlet. To put this tragedy in verse is a gigantic task because the characters must be created with that amount of realism which reflects the tragedy of the atmosphere. I have before me a book of verse recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company. "East Wind” is the title and it is a collection of verse reflecting New England life by the late Amy Lowell. Am informed that at'the time of the authors death she left three volumes of her poems for publication. The first was “What o'clock” and the-second, “East Wind,” a collection of thirteen imems of New England life, has recently been put on the market by the publishers. One of the outstanding poems of characteristic tragedy of a country that is cold in winter is “One Winter Night.” It tells of Em'ly who came “down sick all of a sudden” and how her strange sickness, following her second marriage after the tragic death and disappearance of her first husband in an ice covered pond and her narriage to the man who was cutin’ ioe at the time of the tragedy, ipset the entire neighborhood. Em'ly suddenly developed the ;trange hubit of seein’ her dead husband and on theee occasions Em'ly lad an attack which put her in bed for hours. You seem to feel the cold, ice-coat-

which a girl is made to disappear and appear again. Act is well mounted and is good entertainment. Fields and Johnston, two men, with their songs about “Terry and Jerry,” make quite a few friends for themselves the first half, and deserve it. Are a couple of comedians who do not do very many things, but do well what is offered in the act. Stanley Chapman offers a comedy act in which he sings a few songs in an original way that may not be very operatic but is good fun at times. The Covell.v Girls open the bill, featuring some fast work with Indian clubs. Are good in their line. Included on the bill is a “Man’ of the,Forest,” by Zane Grey, with Jack Holt; also news reel. At the Palace the first half of the week. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “God Gave Me Twenty C p nts,” at the Ohio: "Stranded in Paris,” at the Apollo; “Twinkletoes,” at the Circle; “Butterflies In the Rain,” at the Colonial; "Hidden Ixjot,” at the Isis; “Mare Nostrum,” at Sanders; “Love Blindness,” at the South Side; "Midnight Sun," at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual. IMPORTANT EVENTS AWAIT YOU AT KEITH'S Two great personalities, both different, await you at Keith’s this week. Tlie two really great artists are Helen MacKellar, a dramatic star of much importance upon the comedy stage, and Edith Clifford, comedienne of song and the best example of ultra fun on the vaudeville stage today. First for Miss MacKellar —Here is the only woman in my experience of covering Keith vaudeville who has brought a really big and fine EL. * dramatic sketch to the variety stage \ in all of its legitiW iu’iPjM mate equipment with the possible '’ xce Pti° n of NaziJ waitress who marrics a farm lad of Hr h "ho “whips” a tyrant of a father JBmBPWm v ltll ° 7 n G> er of her grand submission Helen MacKellar and reason, Miss MacKellar is In my opinion giving vaudeville one of its greatest dramatic treats. Here you have a powerful and a human situation worked up by Miss MacKellar and a worth while cast into an electric thunderbolt. Yesterday afternoon 1 saw a lar?e audience actually rise to the great dramatic moments of both great acting and a powerful dramatic sketch. Good vaudeville sketches are not being made. Once in a great while we have a big one, and “The Mud Turtle," Miss MacKellar’s present vehicle, belongs to that class. In her support you have Peggy Warner, Viola Fortesque, George MacQuarrie magnifleient as Pa Tustine who is "crowned" by Kate, the waitress os played by Miss MacKellar and Burford Armitage as Lem who marries Kate. And in Mr. Armitage you have a man who knows his theater and senses big dramatic moments. "The Mud Turtle” is grand, strong, powerful and at times cruel theater, but it will make you live the days when great acting was just around the corner. The real treat of the Keith season so far along dramatic lines. I have told you about Edith Clifford many times before. On one occasion I did not speak kindly, on others I did. Today, Miss Clifford Is the best examples of the intelligent comedienne in sang that we have and I am not forgeting Fanny Brice. Never in the history of Miss Clifford's visits to Indianapolis has she received such an ovation As she is getting now. She stops the show. She has the material and the method. She has the personality and the brains. She is wise and nifty in her material. She knows how far to gg. She is at her best today. Jack and Billy are two wonderful words under the direction of their teacher. A real novelty. It is wonderful what this woman has accomplished with these two birds. Jue Fong is a Chinese tenor of real ability and some clever showmanship. Eddie Clayton and Frank Lennie

ed breeze of the death pond as the poem starts. Neighbors and relatives, two of ’em, are discussing this strange thing that Em’ly sees. To my way of thinking here is a quaint tragedy set to the music of the cold winds, which is a modern masterpiece. Others that you will be interested in includes such poems as “A Dracula of the Hills,” and "Pity 'Tis, 'Tis True,” “Rosebud Wall Paper,” “The Dali,” and others. Real characters are to be found in each poem and it is this ability of the author to create these characters to that extent that they appear to live, which gives great warmth and vitality to the poems of Amy Lowell. Some New Ones Have received the following data from Houghton Mifflin Company, which is of interest, as follows: In his life and all through the years of his ministry in Poston, Paul Revere Frothingham exemplified the high-minded courage and belief in the Christian spirit that are everywhere reflected in his volumes of essay-sermons, “The Temple of Virtue” and "The Confusion of Tongues.” The quiet, enheartenlng sanity of his words made him loved by every one who came in touch with him, whether as reader, parishioner or friend. To Dr. Frothingham belongs also the credit for the only life we have of Edward Everettt; his biography of the great orator is at the same time n pietuile of the vanishing civilization ihat Everett graced. The books of Paul Revere

have a wise cracking English accer act. Some real fun here. And 1 might remark one ofi the men make a marvelous display 1 of his bridgework. But the fact is that there is lot of real laughs In this act. Splendidly put over. Art poses, good gym, pasties and some dancing is found in the act called Dex-Beaus Art. At Keith's all week. VADIK DANCERS TOP LYRIC BILL The name of Maryon Vadie means a great deal to those who danoe und to tltose who enjoy the dance. For some time her name lias been associated with some girls who dance for the purpose of can tic sets and not dance. At times, A Vadie Dancer a dancer and a grand piano are only needed to create beauty. Such dancing may not appeal to all people but these young women tire beautiful in the process of creating the beauty of the dance. The toe work is excellent and although there is no attempt at a gigantic ballet, yet the individual talent is there. Here is a beautiful and a successful attempt to create dance beauty on the variety stage. There is another act on this bill which is way out of the ordinary. It is called "The Lucky Stiff" and shows a rich man sitting on a park bench in New York waiting for his driver to repair an automobile tire. He is joined by a man pushing a baby carriage. The two each think that the other fellow is the luckier guy. Here is a big idea put over in a few minutes by a cast of four. Here is big time atmosphere, done mostly in a comedy vein, but with enough dramatic feeling to give it a ring of sincerity. “The Lucky Stiff” has a big set, as big as one would expect In the big legitimate revues. It is splendidly acted. It will make you both think and laugh. And that is something these days. "The Blue Streaks-of Jnzzmanla,” is a jazz band or novelty organization which features a harp. The harpist certainly can get the meanest blues out of the harp. He is a wonder. I jlidn’t care for the “personality” number because that sort of musical burlesque has ntver appealed to me. With the exception of that one number, and it is needed, this band has a winning routine. Burns and Kane have some pointed and rapid fun in an act called “Broadcasting.” One of the men is an extreme eccentric comedian. Morton Cahill does some thrilling falls and throws on a swinging rope. Shee-Moon is an Indian who has a good song cycle. He attempts no comedy but keeps well within his one, that of singing sweet songs in a good way. The material of Lapan and Bastedo did not appeal to me. Judging by the results they obtained, I am in the minority. Some splendid dancing is offered by La Salle, Hasson and Moran. Their final stunts about stop the show. Mighty good act done in a personality way. At the Lyric all week.

Stage Verdict LYRIC—The Maryon Vadie Dancers, one of the finest dancing acts in the business and “The Lucky Stiff.” a big dramatic and comedy offering, on this bill. KEITH’S—Two of the best present this week —Helen MacKellar in “The Mud Turtle,” and Edith Clifford, the best of her kind. ENGLISH’S “Lass That Off," the best comedy buy that we have had for at least three years. A treat. rA LACE—Guy Radick and company with a short revue of dances and comedy feature the bill here this week.

Frothingham—the volumes of his essays and “Edward Everett: Orator and Statesman” —are published by Houghton Mifflin Company. The demand for the “Letter* of William Roscoe Thayer” has made it necessary for Houghton Mifflin to print a second edition within a month of publication. The many associations of Mr. Thayer as editor, author and university official, and his contacts in this country and abroad, gave to his correspondence an unusual range and quality and from a large body of material Professor Charles D. Hnzen has made an illuminating selection. The fairminded scholarship that Mr. Thayer brought to all his historical writing is notably embodied in his “Life and Times of Cavour,” also published as are all of Mr. Thayer’s works, by the Boston house. It is interesting to note the historical side lights on the monetary standards of the United States and Culm contained in the “Guide to Cuba,” by T. Phillip Terry, recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Mr. Terry writes that in the latter part of the eighteenth century and in the first decade of the nineteenth, Spanish milled pesos from Cuba circulated widely in this country, and when in 1794 we minted our own silver dollars, Congress stipulated that they be of the same fitness as the Spanish *milled dollar or Piece of Eight. It is from this Piece of Eight, or eight reales, that our dollar symbol is believed to have been derived. At present all the bank bills and much of the silver circulating in Cuba are American.

DEC. 28, IU2G

Work I | Change a Major Bid Only | When Conditions Are Unusual,

By Milton (’. Work The pointer for today is: Normal support precludes denial of partner’s major, but does not preelude ail overcall of partner’s minor. It Is very usual for a partnership to hold hands which, combined, do not contain a game at No Trump, but which will produce exactly ten tricks with their best suit the trmyr. Such hands obviously contain a Major game only; not a Minor which requires eleven tricks. Therefore partner's Major bid should not be changed except under unusual conditions; but the same doctrine does not apply to a Minor bid, because it is not so apt to be a game-goer. Even with a bid more than normal support for the Minor, it seldom has the best chance for game and generally the partner should bid another suit or No Trump. To illustrate today's pointer, take this North hand: Suit 1. Ace-10-x x. Suit 2. Ace-x-x. Suit 3. Ace-x-x. ( Suit 4. x-x-x. If Suit t be a Major which South has bid initially and West has passed, North should not give the slightest consideration to a No Trump, regardless of his three Aces. Why risk an unstopped suit? He should either pass or jump. (By “jump” I mean ra'ise the partner’s bid when the intervening adversary has passed.) If, after South’s bid of Suit 1 (that suit being a Major), West should bid Suit 2 or 3 which are stopped, North should even more surely assist South's Major, not bid No Trtnnp. But if Suit 1 be a Minor and South bid it, North should bid No Trump if West pass or bid Suit 2 or 3. Only if West bid Suit 4 should the partner's Minor be assisted. (Copyright, John F. Dille Company.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer qiies. tions on the game for Times readers who write to him through The Times, inclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Questions and Answers You can get an answer to any mestioi of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Time* Washington Bur-au. 1322 New '/ork Ave.. Washing-* ton. D C.. inclosing 2 cents in atnnpa for reply Medical. legal and marital advice cannot bo given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other ( miration* will receive a personal reply Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the address of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching? 522 Fiftli Ave., New York City. W'liat Is the name and address of the American consul general in Brazil? Alphonse Gaulin, consulate general of the United States of North America, Rio do Janeiro, Brazil. \ Where and when was Milton Sills born? Chicago, 111., Jan. 12, 1882. What is the approximate value of clothing sent abroad by the Near East Relief last year? Clothing to the amount of 3,225,115 pounds and 515,616 pounds of,shoes valued at 30 cents per pound. What does it cost to clothe a boy and giii up to the ages of 16 to 18 years? A cost-of-living study published in 1924 by the United States Bureau o' - Labor Statistics, estimates the cost of clothing for a boy up to the ago of 18 at $912 and for a girl $1,002. To the age'of 16, it would be approximately SBOO for a boy and .$875 for a girl. Through what stages was the name of the Russian city of St. Petersburg changed to Leningrad? Shortly after the outbreak of the World War in 1914, the name St. Petersburg was dropped because it was of German origin, and the city was called by the Russian name, Petrograil. In March, 3924, the Soviet government changed the name officially to Leningrad, in*honor Os Nikolai Lenin. When did Johnny Evers start his baseball career? In how many world series has lie participated? His major league career began with the Chicago Cubs in 1902, and be remained with them until 1914 when be went to the Boston Braves and from there in 1917 to the Philadelphia Phillies. He has participated in four world scries, three of them consecutive, in 1906 with the Chicago Cubs vs. tho Chicago White Sox; in 1907 with the Chicago Cubs vs. the Detroit Americans; in 3908 (with the Chicago Cubs vs. the Detroit Americans; and in 1914 with the Boston Braves vs. the Philadelphia Americans.

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