Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1927 — Page 4
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CARE OF INSANE .While the theory of spending money in accordance with a budget compiled by a special committee is undoubtedly correct, it. must be remembered that budget committees Ijor tbe State are not infallible. The protest of those in charge of the insane asylums of tlio State that they have been given too little money is unequestionably founded on a knowledge of the needs of these institutions. lb the care of the insane, this State lias no enviable record and the tragedies which can be traced to lack of money, not to lack of ability, are appalling. The State undertakes to care for those who arc mentally ill, but there is not a county in the State which does not on occasion, house these dependents in jails. The asylums are overcrowded and tire appeals for admission are from time to time answered with the statement that there is no room for more. In one northern county recently, two iusane persons died in jail cells. There was in that same jail at one time, six human beings, without the special care and attendance necessary, adjudged in•sane by courts and assigned to asylums. Undoubtedly the same condition is duplicated in other counties and jails often substituted for the modern hospital. Science has made great advances in the past few years in the treatment of mental disease. it is not so long ago, scarcely a century in fact, *ince those unfortunates whose mental balance was destroyed were looked upon as possessed of evil spirits, were shunned and avoided. They were locked in kennels and thrown bits of food with death as the only cure. • Science has shown that it is possible to restore a very large percentage of those who are mentally afflicted. It is also a fact that the number of such eases increase with the complexity of living and the new conditions of life. Today is a driving day, requiring nervous energy and the thinking mechanism snaps easily. Failure to provide proper hospital facilities and the proper medical attention is in reality of the same piece of brutality that existed when the insane were treated as animals or devils. There is no tragedy that is quite as keen for relatives as that of the care of one mentally ill. There is no tragedy greater for a human being than to lose the power to think in normal lines. They live in a strange world, a world of their own distorted imaginations. The heads of these State hospitals say that the budget committee has been shortsighted aDd perhaps miserly .in its attitude. There is always the tendency to make claims for economy by merely not spending money. Often that can be the worst extravagance, and certainly it is oxt-avagant to fail to provide properly for those who unable to care for themselves. 'these hospitals should be of sufficient size to care for ail those sent to them by the courts. They should have funds to properly provide for every patient. They should have and must have money to give the best treatment that science suggests.
MUNCIE AND MARION There is food for thought in the comparison of what happened In Muncio and what happened in Marion County. Both had grand juries. Botli investigated crimes which were charged to be under the protection of constituted authorities or committed by public officials. When the grand jury at Muncie, refused to return indictments in the face of evidence Avhich the prosecutor of that county and one of the jurors believed to be amply sufficient to convict, the prosecutor and this juror who had takeu an oath to perform his duty did not stop. Within two hours after the grand jury had been discharged, this juror had sjyorn to an affidavit charging crime, and the prosecutor had a warrant out for a man he said had been keeping a gambling house, ranning a bootleg joint and making himself otherwise obnoxious and dangerous to the commuity. Marion County had a grand jury which for more ban three months investigated charges of graft nd corruption. It had not one prbsecutor, but four. One of these was the elected official. William Remy. Another was .he Attorney General of the State. Two others were tamed as special deputies and paid from the continent fund of Governor Jackson. That jury heard many witnesses. Many of these itnesses tied the State to avoid testifying, but nt;lly returned to tell their stories. Many of these itnesscs were,the same persons avlio had given atementa to The 'limes implicating officials and* ating some very direct facts. But when this had all ended, it Avas commonly .‘ported that four of these grand jurors wished to eturn indictments and that two, at the finish, reused to indict. After that adjournment, three of these prosecuors, the two specially paid by the Governor and Prosecutor Remy gave statements that they believed the grand jury had failed to do its duty and that .he jurors had heard evidence which in their opinion should have beeD followed by indictments. It Avas a common rumor that there were four jrors who had so voted. That may or may not ave been true, but it is true that in returning its report the jury insisted Tin including in its report a tatement that brought suspicion upon its own action. It declared that “this is the only report possible under conditions as they now exist within grand jury.” There Avas a declaration of something unusual, but no official has as yet cared to inquire what theseconditions, were or why some other report could not have been made. What would have happened had that juror at Muncie who swore to the affidavits been serving in Morion County? What would have happened had that brave proscutor of Muncie been in Marion County? What would have happened had Prosecutor Davis been on that staff of legal advisers? What would have happened had any one of these four legal advisers to this grand jury declared, as the Muncie prosecutor declared,."! have every one against me but the good people’’—for be might have
as easily said that in Indianapolis as he said it in M uncle? Things happened in Muncie. Nothing happened in this county. Why? CAN COOLIDGE POSSIBLY KNOW THIS ? The New York Eyeniug Post, owned by Cyrus H. K. Curtis (who-also owns the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies’ Home Journal), has been consistently friendly to the Coolidge administration. Yet this week the New York Evening Post has published information that seems to make it impossible for Coolidge to carry his strange policy toward Mexico any further. The information is contained in a dispatch from Mexico City by Gaorge Barr Baker, for a long time an associate of Herbert Hoover, and a man possessing the confidence of most persons in public life. This dispatch tells: That oil lands in Mexico on which rights were acquired before May 1, 1917, totaled 28,500,000 acres. These are the only oil lands about which there is any dispute. That 666 foreign oil companies hold these rights and that all but twenty-two of these have obeyed the Mexican law by applying for conformatory concessions. That the twenty-two companies claim rights on about 1,600,000 acres, less than 6 per cent of the total. That of the 1.600,000 acres, 750,000 acres—almost half—are owned by a company in which Edward L. Doheny has a large interest. Yesterday the New York World added to this information the statement that the Harry F. Sinclair oil interests are joined with the Doheny interests in their opposition to the Mexican law. But to make the case clear, this Is not necessary. The fight with Mexico—the fight being made by Coolidge and Kellogg—is over oil titles. Five per cent of the titles in all that is in dispute and half of that 5 per cent belongs to tbe Doheny interests. Doheny has been held by tho United States Circuit Court of appeals lo have obtained title to vastly valuable oil lands in this country by "fraud and conspiracy. ’’ (The Elk Hills case, the case that grew out of Doheny s "loan'’ of? 100,000 to Albert B. Fall, then United States Secretary of the Interior.) If Doheny has just claims against the Mexican government, ho no doubt is entitled to the same protection as any American citizen. But the American people will not countenance any further quarreling by our Government with Mexico until it can be shown that the Doheny interests do have just claims. And in the light of the “fraud and corruption” used by the Doheny interests to get possession of the United States Navy's oil reserve lands, that is going to require a good deal of showing! a \ Philadelphia clubwomen have joined a movement to have public libraries open on Sunday. Where is this wave of dissipation carrying us? > Senator Jim Reed has discovered that the presidential spokesman is Coolidge himself. Next thing you know some of these investigating Senators are going to find out he's a Republican, too. Perhaps Uncle Sam isn't popular with his wayward nephews and nieces just now, but did you ever see a rich uncle who was?
FLYSPECKS ON THE SUNSET
By X. D. Cochran
Some people stroll through life taking the bitter with the sweet, having their trials and tribulations, but managing to find some good in everybody and a stiver lining to every cloud. Others Avould get a spyglass and look for flyspecks on a gorgeous sunset. But at that pessimists as avcll optimists find some happiness in the interesting old world. Th* optimist wilt enjoy the sunset itself, but the pessimist gets a hajjpy kick out of finding the flyspeck. One enjoys finding good in his fellows; the other gets His j finding sin arid wickedness. Now one would think that zealous prohibitionists Avould be happy because after long years of struggle they put it over and have got the United States Government detoting most of its official energy to enforcing the Volstead act. But it looks as if pessimism is constitutional and Incurable. There is Mrs. Ella Boole, for example. She is president of the great W. C. T. U., chief 0 t thousands of earnest women all over the country Avho are very good themselves and spend alt their Avaking hours trying to make the rest of us as good as they are. But Mrs. Boole Isn’t happy yet. though she lives in Brooklyn-and is head of the W. C. T. U. In her keynote address at she found flyspecks all over the great blue sky. "We charge." she began, and then told a long list of troubles that disturb the sleep of the good. Here are-some of them: Some reputable newspapers are contributing to disrespect for the law; some society matrons set a bad example to the rest of America by- sert’ing Avinos and champagnes to their guests and thus keep alive the appetite for drink: the manufacture and sale of hip flasks has no other purpose than to provide for the transportation and use of beverage liquors; old grads who carry liquors back to college functions set a Avrong example to the younger generation; leading magazines, current novels and motion pictures are contributing to disrespect of the law; bootleggers flourish because patrons buy; enforcement officials are crippled by Jack of public cobperatlon and the diffl<;ulty of securing legal evidence. In short, reputable newspapers, magazines, novels, motion pictures, society leaders, manufacturers and sellers of hip flasks, old college graduates, patrons of bootleggers and the public nre all wrong. Otherwise the world may be not so bad. - I can sympathize with the estimable Mrs. Boole, for I've often felt that way myself. It Avas easy for me to see that this Avorld would be perfect if everybody on it would do exactly as I thought they ought to do. I thought I knew just what everybody else ought to do. Sometimes in my youthful zeal I wanted to make ’em think, believe and act as I wanted ’em to. In those days I would probably ha\-e passed laws to fix the AA-orld up my tvay. But, darn It all, there were too many people who thought they knew better than I did what was good for them. They were determined to be happy in their own way. So years ago r gave up monkeying with other people's souls and bodies and tried minding my own business—only to find that I had a man's sized job making myself behave. \ I've become so tolerant that the last thing I tvould think of Avould be to suggest to Mrs. Boole tha: she ought to mind her own business. On the contrary I feel like saying. “Go to it' Ella. Hope you have a good time trying to make this wicked old world put its conduct straight, even if you don’t succeed.”
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Tracy Human Mind Conquers Isolation —Men Must Know and Think,
B> M. E. Trary. ON BOARD SANTA FU LIMITED —Sunday morning breaks bright and clear as tlie train plows across the last reaches of the great Mojave desert. We have been sliding down hill all night. The elevation was about seven thousand feet at Flagstaff, where we stopped at bedtime. At Barstow. which we passed at breakfast, it is about twenty-live hundred. The untrained eye. however, directs no difference. There are the same gray wastes and treeless mountains on every hand. A thousand miles of such scenery is quite enough. The thronged cities of the East, the verdant South and the budy Pacific slope socm all too far away. Then come the big Sunday papers from Los Angeles, telling what Lloyd George thinks about the Chinese,situation, how President Coolidge is opposed to a big Navy and the Democratic squabble over MeAdoo's dry speech. You are reminded how lime and space have been conquered by the human mind, how isolation has ceased to be the all important factor of human life, how.men must know and think about each other, whether they like it. or not. and how the greatest problem of the future is to live in peace that we may enjoy the larger opportunities.
Interest in China As one travels West it is to hear more about China and less about Mexico. People are naturally interested in the ocean which they face. The Pacific has its problems as- well as the Atlantic. If anything. they promise to be more complicated and more perplexing. It is the largest ocean of them all, and its coasts' are inhabited by the greatest multitude of human beings. White.civilization has moved around the world and come out of the western shore of North America. It is now lookingvat Asia from the rear. Three thousand years ago our anoostois fled before the milling Oriental hordes, before the westward ad- i vance of Mongul, Kurd and Tartar. 1 The fleeing helped t., make them alert and Intelligent. While civiliza tlon owes much to tbe fact that it was chased out of Asia, easte' n | civilization became infected with j dry rot by remaining stationary. Larger Vision When the Caucasian race began i its forward circuit of the earth it was as savage as those who pursued it. if not a little more so. Tt winds up. however, with steam and electricity as its servants, with powers and capacities that were never dreamed of at the .beginning. Better still. Its conceptions of government, law and human rela ; ; tions have broadened, tt looks weA-” ward from the Pacfic slope of this continent, with an altered and enlarge vision. New Theory of Right China is waking, we say, but only because of the white man’s influence, the white/ man’s knowledge, the white man’s achievements. Her strength and greatness depend on what site can borrow from us, what she can learn, what we have already learned. At present she is in a state of stampede. The thought that western nations do not undertake to coerce her because they are afraid is absurd. England and the United States could organize ten or a dozen divisions and go to Pekin as easily as the allies did a quarter of a century ago. The Western world is held back, not by fear, but by anew theory of what is just and practical. The belief that China and every other nation, for that matter, should have the right to work out its salivation has taken firmer root than J ever before. It is not cowardice or hypocrisy ■ that makes London willing to negotiate a more liberal treaty with China, or that inspires the United States Senate to favor arbitration with Mexico. It is the idea of a different international order.*It may be We are wrong to substitute the ways of peace for those of Avar. Maybe we would do better to keep our knowledge to ourselves and trust the superiority it implies for protection. Where Risk Lies The generous policy which western nations appear determined to pursue toward China may seem for no other purpose than to convert her into a formidable enemy and force our grandchildren to engage in deadly strife for no better reason than that we are too soft. Such a risk is within the range of possibility, but the world prefers to take It. has been tried since time immemorial as the first and quickest way to settle racial and nat/onal disputes. In nine-tenths of the cases results have not justified the cost, and in many there has been no result at all. Civilized people are in a mood to try something else. They do not entertain the illusion that war can be eliminated, but they do intend to think of it as the last, not as the first resort. "Whether for good or ill, China will be given her chance. A chance that she could not have hoped for under the old order, a chance that may cost us dearly before the tale is completely told. It is a, great and hazardous experiment, but 4f it works, even half fvay well, humanity will have gained a more worthwhole victory than was ever won on the battlefield. What percentage of the gasoline consumed in this country is used in autos? The gross consumption was 9,362,094,000 gallons in 1926 of which about 80 per cent was used by motorists.
We Suppose Such Things Must Happen , But —/
Naughty but Pure Is Adolphe Menjou in ‘Blonde or Brunette’ at the Ohio
By Walter D. Hickman Naughty bui good is the moral temperature of Adolphe Menjou in his latest comedy effort. In "Blonde or Brunette.” Menjou is up aga’nst tho problem of pick-
ing a blonde or :i brunette from bis peach orchard as his wife. When he had a blonde wife, he developed the brunette complex and the second he divorces the blonde and marries the brunette the blonde" comp’ex returns. And so the second wife, who played a harp and sang at home, agrees to leave a Menjou free to return to the blonde if he will
Greta Nissen
pernvt her to have her harp- This netv Menjou movie with Mary Carr. Greta Nissen and Arlette Marehal Is reallv a farce with a snappy bedroom climax. A1 Woods would have loved this situation in the days when his bedroom forces Avere making him a fortune. Menjou is the best man on the screen today when it comes to putting over this polished manly devil stuff. Adolphe has the lean and hungr\- look Avhich makes him an ideal choice for naughty, but good roles. Adolphe is getting a little bolder in his kissing, meaning that the movies these days seem to be going in for the longer and hotter kiss. "Blonde and Brunette" is a snappy story of a very Avise and worldly man of Paris Avho AA-ants a country girl for a wife. He selects a modest blonde. avlio gretv up to be modest because her grandmother was so delightfully old-fashioned. " But Paris did not keep the blonde Avife old-fashioned, but changed her into a hot mama, as the song writers would say. The truth is that the blonde really Avas too rapid for Adolphe, and they agree to a divorce. But his second wife in the story is so quiet In her home that an electric fan would sound like a cyclone. The brunette wife had one awful failing. She insisted on playing the harp by the hour for her husband. No husband can stand that. And so the blonde complex returns when it Is necessary for our wise hero and hia divorced Avife are compelled to “act married" before dear old grandmother. And while the sham is going on. the second wife is present. Grandma is such a dear old soul that she insists on tucking the covers around the blonde and her alleged husband. Situation sounds naughty, but Menjou and the cast do a smart and brilliant job of making it funny but wise theater. “Blonde or Brunette” is corking fun. Good for many, many laughs. Charlie Davis and Ills gang are in Ha watt this week. They have an atmospheric and tuneful start. Davis now has a soloist in his band who is a wonder when it comes to putting the love ballad stuff over with success. All is Avell this week hecause Davis plays the piano. At the Ohio all week. YES, IT I* WARM MOVIE WEATHER TODAY You do not need your winter coats and snow shoes when you see John
Movie Verdict COLONIAL —Irene Rich has a smart, clever and thoroughly amusing farce offering in “Don’t fell the Wife.” ClßCLE—Francis X. Bushman makes a A-ery definite "come-back” in “The Lady In Ermine,” by deftly stealing the picture from Corinne Griffith. OHIO —“Blonde or Brunette’’ is rapid and smart fun with Adolphe Menjou and Greta Nissen in >#e cast. Jolly fun. APOLLO—“The Flesh and the Devil,” is hot sex stuff. Has a silly story but it has been N beautifully photographed and well acted.
Gilbert and Greta Garbo in ‘‘Flesh and the Devil.” This movie Is uncomfortably hot. Wow and many avows. This story is too wild' for me. They are trying to make a great and grand lover of John Gilbert. And they sure arc succeeding. But it is
wist? to put Gilbert in such overheated love scenes as 1 lie has with Greta Qirbo? Greta is wildly attractive. The character sho plays this time seems to be more at home in her bedroom than in the drawing room. "Flesb and the Devil” is a superheated wild sex thing that- one would suspicion the author of “Three Weeks” to
John Giibeit
write. This is about the strongest sex thing I have seen on the screen for many months. Here is the AAarm drama charged Avith enough sex stuff to make even Miss Glynn envious. “Flesh and the Devil” is just a box office picture. It is going to do t|he business. This hot stuff generally does. Here you have the long and lingering kiss which starts hot and ends up like a volcano. > Miss Garbo-is cast as one of those linger longer womin, especially AVhen attractiA-e men are around. She sure lures the poor saps on. The Avriter lots her burn up most of the time, and the very end of the story causes her to drown In ice Avater. That sure cooled the old girl off. “Flesh and the Devil” is a. silly story, splendidly acted, beautifully photographed and probably the hottest sex yarn seen on tlie screen®in many a month. Don’t take this one seriously, laugh or you xvill go Avild. Just because it is the kind of picture it is there wi 11 be fetv A-acant seats this week at the Apollo.
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Latin students have the floor today as targets for one of the questions in this test. The correct answers to all appear on page 12: 1— Who is shoAvn in the accompanying picture? 2 Who plays the lead in the picture, “The Better ’Ole”? 3 What is the translation of “pro tempore”? 4ln what State is the source of the SuAvanee River? 5 What is the abbreviation for the Avord “railroad"? 6ls Claire Windsor, actress, a blonde or brunet? 7ln which century was the Great Wall of China built? 8 — What State does Senator William E. Borah represent? 9 Who won the Catalina channel swim? 10— What is the capital of Colorado?
Bill includes Lester Huff at the organ, Emil Seidel and his orchestra, a news reel an da comedy. At the Apollo all Aveek. BUSHMAN STAGES ANOTHER COMEBACK Francis X. Bushman in a A’ery definite manner has proven that he is able to “come J>ack”on the screen. In “The Lady in Ermine” Bushman stands out from the rest of the players as if the picture had been written and made for him. It Is just the personality of the man. When you see him before you on the screen there is a certain some-
thing about him that is compelling in it’s intensity. He strikes a chord of the past and makes memories come to life again. How different is the sure and easy touch he has from that of the present run of male vamps and villains. The picture is a costume affair concerning one of the Austrian wars of conquest. The Austrians have taken over the
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Einar Hansen
estate of a young noble jft ho has been forced to leave his AA'ile on their wedding day in order to join his regiment to fight the Austrian enemy. T.he wife is taken by th© Austrians, along A\-ith the estate and is unable to escape. Corinne Griffith lias, this part and as far as we can see she made no attempts to do anything Avith it. In several scenes she makes an excellent model to drape an ermine cloak on but that is as much as we can recall of her Avorth to the picture. Einar Hansen plays the Count and husband, and does as well as is to be expected from a, subordinate part. The one character that does stand opt, though, in our opinion, is that of General Dostat, the Austrian, played by Bushman. The finish lie gives to the part is what makes it live. You forget the costume he wears and forget he is acting; it is as if he Avere telling you personally an incident from out his own life. The big thing in the story is a dream which the General has, Avherein he spends a 'night of love with the beautiful young Countess. By a peculiar trick of fate, he is convinced after awakening that the dream was real. And on account of this, a tragedy is averted in the life of the Count and his wife. We have made it as plain as we can that Ave are very enthusiastic over Bushman’s return to the screen and avc assure those who used to go to see him that, although this picture was not intended for him, he takes it Avith the same ease and grace he showed in his pictures of a few years ago. The supplemental features include an overture by Stolarevsky, “An Evening OA’er the Radio,” which we did not like: a comedy, neAvs reel and organ solo by Dessa Byrd. At the Circle all week. (By the Observer.) SMART COMEDY AT THE COLONIAL A human smartness that is dim i cult to translate from the original 1 French has been achieved in'
"Don’t Tell the j Wife,” Avith Irene 1 Rich at the Co- ( lonial. We have a picture that does not rely in a single in s t ance on a “wise • cracking” subtitle to hold u p the pointed and clever humor j present. Irene Rich and | Huntly Gordon In ' this story a recast in the roles of a husband and wife who haA’e become estranged
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just a bit through the husband’s habit of roaming around with other (Turn to Fuse 7.)
JAN. 31, 1927
Work Original Bid of Two Shows at Least Six AceHigh Cards.
By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: An original bid of two of a suit slioavs at least six cards in the suit, with ace-klng-qucen at the lop. From the moment that the game of Auction Bridge landed on these shores, the question of Avliat should be the meaning of an original bid of tAvo of a suiL lias been actively j debated. At ‘the start the two-bid Was used generally to show length without tops, as distinguished from the hid of one which announced tops. In spile of the incongruity of bidding one with a strong suit and two with a weal; one, the bid had its advantages when used with proper | limitations. These proper limitations. hoAvevcr, were not always recognized and two-bids were made v\ ith all | sorts of Avorthless holdings. Innumi erable other two-biil conventions, most of them unsound, sprang up: 5 so that an original hid of two soon I became as meaningless as a poli- | tician's utterances on the prohibition I question. Some writers then attempt- ; ed to clear up the confusion by pro- | scribing all original bids of two; but- | this was foolish because there coni j be no good reason for giving up a bid which might bo used to advantage. I I therefore proposed that tho problem be solved by making an original bid of two mean one tiling only, viz.: Ace-King -Queen-x-x-x, and that pro posal lias been accepted by most expert players ns the conventional twobid. The adoption of tills con veil | tion does not mean that two always must be bid with the holding hr ! question: but it does mean that tvhen (\a-o is hid originally, flic hand, Avlialcver else it may contain, has at least slv cards headed by Ace-King-Queen of the suit named. I TomorroAv we xvilt consider what to j bid with the foiowing hands: 1. Bp.: Ace-King-Queen-x-x-x. lit.: x-x. Di.: x-x. Cl.: x-x-x. ! 2. Sp.: x-x. lit.: King x- Di.: . Ace-King-Queen-Jack x-x. Cl.: x-x x. o. Sp.: King Jack-x. lit.: Ace-King-Queen-x-x-x. Di.: x-x. C!.: x-x. Copyright, John K. Dillc Cos.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers avlio Avrite him through Tiic Times, inclosing a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope.
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You can get an answer to any ourtton of fact or informatiou bv wnti’i* to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 132*2 N>w York Ave.. ton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in for reply. Medical. lesaJ and advice cannot be given nor can'extendi r> research be undertaken. All otln r auetion* will receive a personal reply i Unsigned reauests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Hoav can T figure the length of rope required to fasten a horse to a stake in the center of a circle 100 yards in diameter so that he can go around the circumference? The rope must equal the radius of the circle which is half the diameter, since the point marking half the diameter is at the center of tlie circle and a line from any point on the circumference of tho circle to the center is a radius of the circle, or Half the diameter. If the diameter is 100 yards one-half Avould be fifty yards, which is the length of the rope. What Avas Benjamin Franklin's definition of “one hundred per cent American”? In his autobiography he said “One hundred per cent American is one who puts his duty to his country above his selfish desires and who is more anxious that his children and his children’s children may live in a country where justice and liberty prevails, than for any profit that he may make for himself during his own life by cheating,” What are petrified forests and where are they located? In Arizona a tract of land com prising 25,625 acres upon which there are many exposed, prostrate trunks of petrified trees has been set aside as a National monument, by dentfai proclamation. It is called th<™ Petrified Forest. What is the correct way to make a budget for household expenditures? It would depend upon the size of the family and of the income. The bulletin on “Budgeting and Household Accounts,” issued by the Washington bureau for 5 cents treats this subject in detail for income" ranging from $75 to SBOO per month ond for families of two to six persons. How many autos are there in Iceland? The number registered is 310. Hoav many sons did the late Theodore Roosevelt have, and what Avere their names? Four, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Archibald and Quentin. Who Avroto “Lady Windermere's Fan"? Oscar Wilde On what day of the Aveek did Dee. 14. 1876 tali? Thursday. At Avliat rate does the earth travel in its orbit? At the rate of about nineteen miles a second. Did President Grant ever' have any name other than Ulysses Simpson? He was named Hiram Ulysses and was called by his middle name, but having been designated i Simpson in hih appolntpient to Wes'® Point Military Academy, lie adopted that name. < Hoav many white and Negro teachers are there in the United States, According to tho last census there Avere 35,442 Negro teachers, 716,153 white teachers and 460 others, including Chinese, Indians, etc.