Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1927 — Page 4

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No law shall be passed restraining the fre e interphange of thought and opinion, or re tricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever. —Constitution of ndiana.

THE PEOPLE WIN Immediate reduction of electric rates, the cubing of fifteen millions of dollars from the perpetual urden of securities, a guarantee that there will be o attempt to increase those rates for five years is o Inconsiderable victory for the people, so aured to losing in their contest with utility cororations. The Times points with considerable pride that ils result was obtained by following the suggestion lade by It when the first appeal from Harley Clarke ,r permission to merge the companies was made. The Times was first to protest that the valuaon which he asked would burden this community ith extortionate rates. The Times at that time declared that the hamber of Commerce should organize to defend le welfare of the city against this seeming exirtlon. The Times, alone of the Indianapolis newspaers at all times, and In every editorial suggestion, eclared that there must be a merger of these plants, id called attention to the fact that the people were ntltled to a single management and relief from asteful methods in the conduct of what should e a monopoly. The Times demanded at all times that the snefits of that single management, that release •om duplicate effort, should go to the people of iis city and not to the financiers and the company. The plan worked out by the Chamber of Comlerce and accepted by Harley Clarke seems to aproach that demand much more closely than has irer been obtained by controversy in courts and ;fore the public service commission in other cases. There is to be a reduction of rates to the homevners and the abandonment of those rebates to big lers of power through which the attorney general ild the people are robbed of a half million dollars year. There is to be a reduction for all users of >wer, small as well as large, which means that lere will be no discrimination between factories id industries and that all will be enabled to live. That reduction, and those which may be exjeted to follow, should make this city more atactive to new Industries and permit it to grow the size and proportions which its natural adjutages of location and other conditions entitle It. Especially Important is the pledge that there ill be no effort to increase these rates for a period at least five years. That means that new factories ill know that they will not be called upon for eater expense for power. That alone should give dianapolis an Impetus for growth. The result Is a signal victory for the people, a ially great victory. It show’s what can be done hen the organized leadership of the community Hows the demands of popular opinion and thought. -Indicates that the people, In these contests, are > longer powerless. In that victory, The Times Is happy to have had 3 part and Its share. THE NEXT STEP Now that there is a prospect of reduced rates r electricity, almost a certainty, in fact, the next ep in making Indianapolis First should be an vestigation of the rates paid for gas. The Times has show’n that this company paid vidends In 1925 on Its common stock of 23 per int, which covers quite a considerable frart of the an year. The common stock represents the real ownerdp of the company. The other portion of the >st of the plant is covered by borrowed money hich is paid regular interest, and is not affected r the earnings of the company. A big discrepancy is apparent between the atements filed with the public service commission to its assets and the figures reached in the jderal court when the present rates were fixed r the commission. There is a discrepancy, as a matter of fact, of ore than five millions of dollars, and that sum, id probably more, is really owned by those who ild the two millions of dollars in common stock. Low gas rates are important to a city ,which ;pects to compete in the present competition bereen cities. When exorbitant rates are charged it means at it is more difficult for the men who work and eate wealth in this city. High rates are obstacles to growth and a disuragement to new enterprises. Earnings of 23 per cent of dividends in one year, addition to rather surprising sums set aside for rious funds, do suggest strongly that the company charging more than it should. Ah organized effort to get a reduction at this ne might accomplish this result. At least It is Drth trying. TIPS AND PHILOSOPHY Waitresses, according to the public confession one of them, have a very involved philosophy of e and of living and livers. The philosophy for the ost part concerns the gentle art of tipping. In their estimation, according to the confession one of them, those people who stick a nickel dime under their plate, “because it’s expected of em," are- almost negligible. And the ones who meticulously add ten per cent their bill are almost as bad. The “stiff” who doesn’t tip at all is a total loss id will find himself with cold soup and no butter water when he oomes the next time. The only human being worth an order of “ham and” Is the jovial Individual who throws down a larter or half dollar because ho enjoyed his meal and appreciated his service. Somehow the confessing waitress confuses wish th deed. It does not seem to occur to her that ores of us who slip a dime under the plate, or, rhaps, slip nothing at all, are not stingy and are it devoid of appreciation. It does not occur to her that the men who, with a sture can slip half dollars down on the counter are >t neariy so brave as the ones who slip less or (thing. She does not seem to recognize at all the plain Isery of the non-tippers who own that title simply (cause the family budget will not permit It. Tipping Is a luxury that many people cannot ford "when the grocery bill is big and the baby ledi shoes.

SMART ALECK JUDGES Among things calculated to bring our courts Into disrepute are the frequent Smart Aleck sentences imposed by judges without warrant of law. Take, for instance, the case of Henry Sparks Mouton of Appanoose County, lowa. Henry, dispatches tell us, is a farmer. His wife is dead and his family has grown. Faced with the prospect of a long and lonely winter, Henry closed his farm and went into the town of Shenandoah. Then Henry slipped. He got drunk. Not only that, he lost all his money—presumably the money that was to enable him to avoid the ,drear monotony of a lonely winter on his farm and to enable him to seek out the society of his fellow men. What did the wise and charitable judge do? He told Henry to walk home, a mere matter of 200 miles. And so Henry set out, with not a cent in hU pockets. Cold and snow were predicted. The judge got a front page head line. Doubtless he won the plaudits of the prohibition fanatics, who think even fatal poisoning is not severe a punishment for one who will drink. But what do you think of such a judge? WOODS WON’T DO Most business men will agree that Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania is ineligible for the Interstate Commerce Commission. He owns thousands of dollars of bonds in five great railroads, according to his testimony before the Senate committee considering his nomination by President Coolidge. He owns stock in the Pittsburgh Coal Company, for which he was for sixteen years general counsel. He owns $50,000 of bonds of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, a United States Steel Corporation sidiaryHe is willing, if affirmed, to divest himself of these holdings. But how can he divest himself of the economic prejudices his connections have naturally engendered? A man who has lived off railroad profits Is not the man to keep these profits within reason. To prove the necessity of rejecting him It is hardly necessary to mention that he was manager for George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania’s recent $3,000,000 Republican senatorial campaign. WELL! WELL! Operating its Muscle Shoals power plant the Government made some $650,000 net profit during 1926, $50,000 more than offered under the best private operation proposal. Operating its United States ship line the Government made $1,622,896 profit in six months, May through October, T. V. O’Connor, shipping hoard chairman, informing a Senate committee that Government lines were the “best operated” in the North Atlantic service. And operating its Panama canal the Government made $23,091,640 In 1926 tolls, achieving anew transit record and causing renewed congressional demand for a second canal across Central America. Begins to look as though Government operation, despite its critics, is becoming efficiency itself. Next thing the Government will possibly squeeze a profit from its Cape Cod canal, that $11,000,000 lemon unloaded upon it by Calvin Coolidge and fellow New Englanders. A bunch of young English college students recently passed a resolution that “woman ought to be abolished.” Suppose they had been—about 25 years ago! WELCOME, BROTHER! Below Is an editorial from the Indianapolis News. The Times Is glad to reprint It. For It voices opinions and suggestions made frequently by The Times when the News took an entirely different attitude. The Times Is glad that the News has found the light, and that It Is endeavoring to make Its readers forgot that for five days after the original charges were made and given to the public by The Times, the News was silent. There is always joy when the erring repent and return For that reason The Times is glad, very happy, to give great publicity to this editorial: In his message Governor Jackson deals with many Important subjects, mostly In an expository way. The work of the highway commission and the conservation department, both of which in recent years have been under the fire of politicians, are deservedly praised. The primary law receives a negative support ■—is favored for the reason that the Governor knows no better system. The repeal of the absent voters’ law is urged—and, we think, rightly. The needs of our State universities and normal schools are recognized, though the Governor is rather conservative in dealing with them, as far as concerns appropriations in their behalf. More doubtful Is the recommendation that the pardon board be abolished, and that for it be substituted the trustees of prison and reformatory, or the judges of the courts in which those applying for pardons were convicted. The Governor then discusses recent charges that have been made, and are now being investigated by a Marion county grand Jury, As far as these touch the last Legislature, or the State government, Qovenor Jackson characterizes them as false. He goes further and imputes base motives to those making them, saying that they “were made by some individuals with a view of impairing the faith of the people in their public officials and their government.” That is a mistaken view. There are at least two charges which wp should think the Governor would Insist on having looked into. One is as to the checks which were charged to have been given to Governor Jackson by Stephenson, bearing the indorsement of Ed Jackson. The Governor has denied that he ever got any check from Stephenson. If that Is so, then someone must have forged the Governor’s name. Here surely is a matter that ought to be cleared up. The other charge is that a large contribution was made by the Insull interests to the Jackson campaign fund. This, taken In connection with the Governor’s transfer of Mr. Artman from the public service commission to the industrial board in the midst of the merger proceedings in Indianapolis, ought to have suggested the need for an investigation. As to the charges In general, it Is to be said that all the State’s attorneys, Including, we believe, the attorney general, believed that there was sufficient evidence to Justify indictments from the hands of the grand jury that failed to return them, and that, as is believed, four of the six grand Jurors took that view. If there was nothing in the charges It is at least curious that Important witnesses left the State rather than testify before the grand Jury. The State cannot be “hurt” by these charges, but only by a failure to probe them, and a failure to punish th* guilty. If It shall appear any are guilty . * „

THE TNDTANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Equal Rights in Recognizing Presidents of Nicaragua.

By >l. K. Tracy If the United States has a right to recognize Diaz as President of Nicaragua, why hasn’t Mexico a right to recognize Sacasa? Each has a considerable following, but neither controls the country. Each can claim some show of legal authority, but neither represents a government in fact. It is unfortunate that Mexico and the United States shouldn't have picked the same leader for support, and one wonders why they didn’t. Was any effort made by our State Department to come to an understanding with regard to this matter, or did it just jump Into the situation? Secretary Kellogg says that Mexico has insulted us by recognizing Sacasa after we had recognized Diaz, Why can’t Foreign Minister Saenz say that we insulted Mexico, and with just as good reason, by recognizing a man whose chief stock in trade was denunciation of his government? Stupid War As William Philip Simms points out In his able article of yesterday, “some Influence appears to bo drawing us into dangerous conflict with the countries south of here, hurrying us nearer and nearer a thoroughly stupid war, which certainly not more than a handful of people could possibly Want.” There is no issue worth quarreling about. Americans have not been injured or deprived of property. As a matter of national right and sovereignty, It is none of our business who heads the Nicaraguan government. As another matter of national right and sovereignty, the Mexicans should be allowed to frame their own constitution and laws. Yet here we are with Marines on both coasti and in 4£e capital of Nicaragua, claiming the privilege of selling arms to one faction and not to the other and establishing a virtual blockade so that the -other can’t get them from anybody else. If that is not Intervention, what is it? What Issue? Suppose a Mexican ship comes to Nicaragua with arms for Sacasa. whom Mexico has recognized, and suppose we seize her or drive her away, while we sell arms to Diaz, what construction can be put on it but that of an act of war? Suppose war were the result, what would be the Issue, the great outstanding principle that justifies bloodshed? What have we done? What has Mexico dor. q? What has Nicaragua done to create an Impasse that warrants conflict? Whose rights have been denied and, If any one's, who has denied them? We are clearly drifting toward war, but for what? Time for Action It is time that Congress took a hand in this that men in the street ask themselves whether there is anything at stake to make conflict worth while. It is time that they did this with a full realization of aii the consequences, with a clean-cut understanding that If eventualities occur a breach will have been created between the United States and all Latin-America that centuries won’t heal. What are we contending for that is worth such a price? Rights I have no delusions about the necessity of upholding American rights, about making the flag and the citizenship of this country respected throughout the world. But there are rights and rights, some having to do with the great universals, such as life and liberty, while others have to do with special privileges. What kind of rights are these that have popped up in this Nicaraguan brush? Are they such as might injure you or me if we went down there as citizens of the United States, or do they concern particular Interests? What Is Involved? What kind of rights are involved In this argument with Mexico? Are they the kind that you think about In connection with yourself, your wife and family, or are they the kind that you associate with a board of directors and corporate wealth? And when it comes to a national aspect of the case, -what kind of rights are at issue, especially for the United States? What has this Government to gain by war or to lose through peace? Where is jts sovereignty being denied, Its privileges of trade and intercourse abridged, dts security threatened? Could We Explain? We fought the Revolutionary War for liberty and the war of 1812 for a reason. We fought the war with Mexico to establish a border and the Civil War to prove that this was a real Nation. We fought the war with Spain to liberate oppressed people and the war with Germany for similar reasons. There hasn’t been a war in our history but what we can explain and Justify with satisfaction. Could we do as much if we got into a war with Mexico over this Nicaraguan trouble /6r her oil laws, or any of the other Issues that have been raised? Does ft take longer to go from New York to I/ondon than from New York to Buenos Aires? It Is 3,847 miles from New York to London and 6,761 miles from New York to Buenos Aires. It take about eight d(J.ye to go from New York to Xrfpdon and about eighteen daye to CD iron* New Tone to Bueno* Aire*.

String Trio to Give Recital Wednesday

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Oil Wednesday afternoon at the Masonic Temple, the Sametim-Ke uter-Wallenstein Trio will he presented under the auspices of the Ma tinee Musicale.

Fritz Kreisler Will Open New Year Season of Music for Ona B. Talbot

HE world , famous violinist, | Fritz Kreisler, will open the 1.-. New Year season of music under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23 at the Murat. This concert is the first of the series of five Sunday afternoon concerts scheduled under this management. v The four other attractions will bring to Indianapolis renowned musicians, including the eminent pianist, Rachmaninoff, Feb. 13; Roland Hayes, tenor, who has won the highest recognition on two continents, Feb. 20; Maria Jeritza, the reigning soprano of the Metropolitan Opera on March 20, and Tito Schipa, leading tenor of the Chicago Opera on May 1. In addition to the concerts above mentioned, there are two symphony orchestra concerts to complete the Fifth Annual series of orchestra concerts of the Indianapolis Symphony Society. Ona B. Talbot, managing director. The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, will present the second concert on Monday evening, Feb. 21, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fritz .Reiner, conductor, with Sophie Braslau, contralto soloist, will present the third on Monday evening April 18. erry ILLARD MACGREGOR, artist YX/i pianist of the Metropolitan 1 ¥Y I School of Music, has returned from St. Louis, where he spent the holidays and gave a series of concerts playing in St. Louis, Maplewood, Webster Groves and Kansas City. Arrangements were made for him to play again In St. Louis Feb. 10 and in Columbia, Mo., Feb. 11. ISS GRACE HUTCHINGS, pianist, of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music, will go to Kokomo Monday with Dr. and Mrs. Sherman Davis of Indiana University to give a lecture-recital for an open meeting of the Kokomo Matinee Musicale. They will give the same program in Muncle Tuesday evening. They gave the program in Crown Point last Tuesday evening. mHE first recital of the new year will be given by students of the Metropolitan School of Music in the Odeon next Saturday afternoon, Jan. 15, at 3 o'clock. The public .is invited to attend. There will bo trumpet, voice, violin and piano numbers on the program and readings. Students taking part will he: Mary Paxton Young. Robert Cavanuaugh. Anna Catherine Arzet, Geraldine McKee. Genoa Haines. Betty Lou Moores, Mary Ellen Sheihum. Enisley Johnson, Jane Roger. Richard Wilding. Freda Doeppers. Byron Hollett. Martha Grace Williams. Margaret Jones Fdith Schaeffer. Dorothea Ellen Allanson. Ruth Ann Wagener. Dorothy Smith. Paul Hitch. Katherine Oishan. Helon Jane Margileth and Mrs. R. L. Schaeffer. These students are pupils of the followtog teachers: Leslie E. Peck, Hugh Me Ofbeny. Frieda Heider. Donn Watson. Grace Hutchings, B. F. Swarthout. Frances Beik, Helen L. Quir, Earle Howe Jones. Lucille Wagner. H. Otis Pruitt. Laura Doer ttm-Galrin, Norma Justice and Helen Sorter. U7|DWARD NELL, head of the .! l-t voice department of the Me1 1 ‘ tropolitan School of Music, has returned from Washington, D. C., where he and Mrs. Nell spent the holidays with their son. Edward Nell, Jr., Who is singing the leading role with the Eastern company of “The Vagabond King,” one of the high opera successes of the current season. The faculty of the Irvington School of Music will broadcast the following program from WFBM on Wednes- ; day, Jan. 12, from 7:30 to 8:30: | Voice—“ Caro Selve" Handel “Dainty Damozel” Novello “Oh! Sole Mio" De Capua Adelaide Conte. Piano—“ Chanson Triste” Conte “An Old Love Story" Conte “Sparks" Moskowsky Mildred Smith. Trio—“ Woodland" Oki-Albi “Swan” Salnt-Saens. . "Bouree" Bach “Farewell to Cucullain" Arranged by Kreisler G. Conte. A. Conte and E. Strauss. Readings Selected Alice Cooper. Whistling numbers .. Selected W. Hogle. The following program will be given Friday night at the Irvington School of Music by talent of the Sonette Musicale Bureau and the dramatic art pupils of Miss Alice Cooper. It is open to the public. Voice—“O, Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Met" Handel “The Morning I* Calling” Terry “VoUB Danse* Marquise Lemaire Virginia Maltby Clarke. Piano—- “ Country Garden” P. Grainger “Les Sylvanie" Chamlnade Flora Sauer. Violin—- “ Norma Fantasia” Slngilee “Serenade" 1 Drigo “Ciribiribin” Pestaozzi Bed a Gardner. (Accompanied by Mildred Smith.) Al’s Hoosli-r Aoes Orchestra. “Cantor Oil"—Ruth Haimll. "The Lilac Tree"—Virginia Sima “Why i"—Junior Von Spreckieaen. “Mrs. Agnew at the Movies”—Nell Kathryn Kirkpatrick. "Mammy's Pickings"—Bees Thomas. "Pa Ring." “&* Little Boy,' "Guiasape De Barber -—Katherine Rose. Ss: man.

"Sunbonnet Sally and Overall Jim"— Doris Gritfith and Virginia Drum. The characters in a little sketch. "In a Mary Elizabeth Wood*, Betty Ward. RoFausset, Jennie Fieher. Frances Madden. Marvin. Peggy Virt. Helen Kramer, Jane Doll House, will be: Helen and Ester berta Weise, Doris Jones, Marjory Sims, Elizabeth Bock, Martha Peek. Bobby Jo Vestal. Junior Von Spreckelsen. Dorothy Ann Jos? Helen Wilson. Jane Cline. Ruth Alice Hoffman. Jean Meek, Vida Norman. Katheryn Sims. mHE January advanced student’s recital will be held Monday night, Jan. 10, at 8:15 at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Pupils of Glenn Friermood, Eleanora Beauchamp, Bomar Cramer, Ruth Todd, Ferdinand Schaefer will give the program. Milton Heller will dance a waltz. Jane Slutzky and Helen Gertrude Shaner will give the Spanish Dance No. 1, arranged by Miss Backer, music by Moszkotvski. These three are pupils of Gertrude Hacker, head of the dancing department. Erwin V. Muhlenbruch. organist and music director of St. Johns Second Reformed Church, presents the following program Sunday evening, Jan. 9, 7:15 o’clock. This is the fourth of a series of Sunday evening musical services. He will be assisted by Mr. Charles Kryter, tenor; Mrs. E. W. Muhlenbruch, soprano, and Carl Schmid, violinist. The above soloists will be heard in the second group consisting of three numbers from the “Messiah.” The program is as follows; “Third Sonata In C Minor" , Alex. Guilmant (a) Preludio. (b) Adajio. , v —R—(a) Grave from Overture to the "Messiah" Handel Violin Solo and Organ. . Carl Schmid. (b) Comfort Ye My People”.... Handel , , Tenor Solo with Violin Obligato. (c) He Shall Feed His Flock Like a „ Shepherd" Handel Soprano Solo with Violin Obligato. —Ill—(a) "Chant D'Amour”. .James R. Gillette (b) ‘Tears’ and “Smith" , , • Edwin H. Lemare (e) ‘ Minuet" Handel-W. T. Best (and) “Old English Ballad” Edwin H. Lemare SHE Studio Club of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will hold the first meeting of the year on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 7:30 in the college auditorium. The subject will be “Instruments.” Mrs. Lenora Coffin, teacher of Music Appreciation, will direct the program. The Dauner trio, Louise Dauner, violin; Helen Rauner, cello, and Mrs. Dauner, piano, will give the illustrations for violin and cello. They are pupils of Ferdinand Schaefer of the violin department. Pupils of Frederick A. Barker will demonstrate the

A Bible Test

See how many of these Bible questions you are able to answer. The correct answers appear on page 14: 1. What incident in Biblical history is illustrated in the accompanying picture? 2. Does this quotation appear in the Old or New Testament: “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile”? 3. What caused the prison doors to open for PAul and Silas? 4. Who became king of Israel after Jehu’s death? 5. Who was the husband of Naomi? 6. What was God’s punishment for Korah? 7. Who were the victors In the battle between the Isdaelltes and the Benjamites? 8. Did the bite of a poisonous snake affect Paul when he was on the Island of Melita? 9. In what book of the Bible does this quotation appear: “A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up angeY”? 10. What was th* color of Esau's hair?

brass and woodwind group and Ruth Rainier will play on and talk on the harp. All students, parents and mu-sic-lovers are invited to attend. There is no charge. Ar— 1 RECITAL will be given Sunday afternoon by Maria Carreras, pianist, at the Academy of Music under the direction of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. Although her name Is of Spanish descent, Maria Carreras is Italian and was born In Rome. At the age of 5 years she already gave signs of unmistakable musical vocation and typical pianistic talent. She remembers with pride that kiss Franz Liszt, already very old, and then honorary president of the Royal Academy of Santa Cecilia, gave her when only 6 years old, granting her the first prize at a concourse the municipality had established for a free course at that conservatory of music. The aureole of glory that illuminated her little head was prognostic and was a consecration of that splendid ascension that brought her to the Parnasus of pianism of the present generation. For fifteen years she pursued her studies under the direction of Giovanni Sgambati, and Sgambati himself directed her first concert with the Rome Philharmonic when she executed for the first time, the concerto in G minor of her famous master, once engaged her for a series of condimir Safonoff, heard her, at Her success was sensational and VI; - certs In Russia with the Imperial Society of Music under his own direction. Since that time, she has toured almost continuously in nearly 200 cities in Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Italy and has also appeared repeatedly in London and Paris. Through her success in Spain, she was called to South America, where in the past three seasons she gave 214 concerts. In Europe. Maria Carreras had the honor to appear under the baton of such distinguished conductors as Colonne, Safonoff, Stavenhagen, Millnarski, Steinbach, Landon Ronald, Cajanus, Reznichek, Birnbaum, Oscar Fried, Marlnuzzi, Molinarl, Chevlllard, Jehin, Schneevoigt, Sgambati, Halvorsen and many other celebrities at all the most important musical societies. She was invited by the czar himself, to play in Kioff, the only soloist for the tenth anniversary of Anton Rubenstein’s death; she played a Grieg Commemoration at the National Theater of Christana under the direction of Halvorsen; she played at many of the most important festivals all over Europe, and in February, 1914, she was fourth at the four big pianistic concerts that the Philharmonic of Warsaw organized in that season. First came Paderewski, second Busoni, third Rosenthal and fourth Maria Carreras, and her success in the eyes of the critics and public was not Inferior to that of her Illustrious colleagues. Her first appearance In New York on Jan. 22, 1923, confirmed her world reputation, and the leading Now York critics unanimously declared her to be one of the outstanding pianistic figures of the day. Questions and Answers You can pet an answer to any question of fact or information by writinsr to The Tmllanapoiis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C„ inclosing: 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, leg-al and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research he undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal replv Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is there a cure for bunions? A pair of straight inrter line, broad shoes with low heels is perhaps the best remedy. The Joints may be painted twice a day with the following lotions: Tincture of iodine, 2 drams; carbolic acid, 2 drams; glycerine, 2 drams. This should give some relief. When was the French republic established? The first republic lasted from 1792 to 1804; the second from 1848 to 1852; the third from 1870 to the present time. Who are Will Rogers’ parents? Is he a Mason and what Is his religion? He is the son of Clem Vann and Mary (SchWmpsher) Rogers. He is a Mason (Shriner); a member of the Lambs and Friars Clubs of New York City, and a Methodist. Where is radio station HHK? At Port au Prince, Haiti. It Is owned by the government and uses 881.2 meter wave band and bay a Power rating of L&OQ watts,

•TAN. 8, 1927

Work Bo Sure Your Initial Bid Is 100 Per Cent Sound,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: Be sure that your initial bid is 100 per cent sound. An initial b'.d—the original bid of a Dealer or Second Hand —should be as lnformatory as possible, because upon it the whole bidding structure of the partnership must stand. The initial bidder should try. by his bid or pass, dearly to picture the thirteen cards he holds. Two duties devolve upon the Initial bidder and they Involve concomitant errors, 1(0111 of which should bo avoided. When he holds the requirements for an initial bid (even the minimum), he should bid; when his hand falls short of the minimum (even when the shortage is very slight) he should pass. Innumerable bids and doubles, which were amply Justified by the partner’s previous bidding, have cost hundreds of points, because the initial bidder did not hold the cards that his opening bid guaranteed, and innumerable games and rubbers have been tossed away, because Initial bidders have timidly refrained from announcing their strength. An initial suit-bid generally shows a five-card suit and two quick tricks, at least one of which Is apt to be in the suit named. When it is made with a four-card suit the strength must be greater than when made with five. In determining whether to bid or pass initially with a five-card suit, very slight differences in the holding should vary the decision. Ace-King and three small, and eight worthless cards divided between the other three suits, furnishes the minimum bidding requirement; but if it were Ace-Queen and three small Instead of Ace-King, the bid should not be made as the hand would be Just below the requirement. (Copyright, John F. Dille Company) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write to him through The Times, enclos : ng. a. self-addressed, stamped envelope.

MR. FIXIT Protests Bringing Skunks to Garage,

Mr. Fixit will present your case to the proper city officials. He is The Times representative nt the city haJl. Write him in care of The Times, elvinc full name and address. The name will not be published. 1 About a month ago Mr, Fixit. received a lettter complaining about the unbearable smell which was caused by a man bringing skunks into his father-in-law’s garage. The complaint was turned over to the health board and they warned the man to stop. Ho stopped for a while but is at it again, according to the letter below DEAR MR. FIXIT. About a month ago I called your attention to a condition existing in our neighbor hood and it certainly had effect on the man until the last two days, when he started It again. He said to a neighbor that he would do as he pleased in the matter. He brings skunks into his father-in-law’s garage right near our front door and I tell you that the odor is unbearable. We will certainly appreciate it if you “fixit” again. ■ Respectfully, D. M. D. Mr. Fixit took the matter up with the board of health, which promised immediate relief. If (lie man does not stop this time the case will be taken to court. Mr. Fixit always receives a great complaints. The two he took care of today are: Dear Mr. Fixit: At the comer of Pleasant Run Blvd. and Shelby St., a catch basin is stopped up and has been since last July. A number of reports have been made by policemen and otherwise, with no results. Please see what you can do. One who walks around the mud every day. The street commission has taken immediate action on this complaint and assured Mr. Fixtt that before the writer reads this the commission will have the situation remedied. The other one is a complaint of the condition of the street on that part of Prospect St., Just east and west of the Big F”our elevation. The street commissioner told Mr. Fixit that this piece of the street belongs to the railroads and that the city cannot get them to fix it. However, he said that he would try and get the city to fix It. , What is the pay of a radioman In flte Naval Reserve? A first class radioman In the Naval Reserve receives SB4 per month when on active duty and a second class radioman, $72 per month. Men in the Fleet Reserve are on active duty for two months of each year. When was the lludsnn-Delaware (’final between Ilonesdale, Pa. and Roiidout-on-lludson, N. Y., const rmr ed? Between 1826 and 1828 by the Roeblings who built Brooklyn bridge. It tapped the richest anthracite coal fields and provided waterside delivery of coal from the Pennsylvania mines at Troy, Newark and New’ York City. It has been abandoned since 1899. What Is the highest mountain peak in the world? Mt. Everset In the Himalayas, whose altitude is 29,002 feet. Who was the first President to occupy the White House? John Adams in 1800. What devices did the mariners of ancient Greece, fit the time of Homer, use to determine their course? Only by observing the heaven*, arid keeping as much as possible to the coast They were dependent upon the sun, hy day and th* stats at