Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1927 — Page 6
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• LISTEN IN Tonight through the arrangements made by The Times, the speech of Senator James A. Reed will be sent over the radio to all those who are fortunate enough to have receiving sets and who care to listen. Senator Reed has helped to make history. He will, in all probability, make more history. He helped to make history in Indiana when he came to this State and summoned the mayors of two cities, who reyealed a more startling “Tale of Two Cities’’ than was written by DickenS. In that role he was a throw-back to other days lien crusaders rode forth to conquer. In these modern days, the keen mind and the nerring instinct for falsehoods urged Reed to unover the corruption of modern politics and he found part of that corruption in this State. This newspaper has often disagreed with the olicies of Reed. It has not followed always his rays into legislation. But it has never mistrusted is honesty, his fearlessness or his courage. In Reed, the people of Indiana will find the last )l the warriors for the doctrine of Jacksonian indidualism. At a time when legislatures and Congress are rying to make all of us in the same pattern, to make us virtuous or vapid, thirsty or trustful, he e'ieves in the individual. He still believes in liberty. Just because he is the sole outstanding warrior for doctrines that are oft forgotten and may be discarded, Reed is interesting if nothing else. He hates fraud. He hates corruption. He hates putting manhood into nurseries. He refuses to believe that laws mußt curb the direction of destiny and character be forgotten. He summons from a glorious past the memories ~f days that are almost forgotten, and asks, once gain, that the individual be unhampered by laws a the pursuit of happiness and freedom. Whether he be the reincarnation of a Jackson in all that Jackson meant or the prophet of anew faith in old idols remains for history. But because America must always be the considered judgment of all doctrines, all appeals, all faiths, The Times asks that you listen in tonight. You will not turn your dial to jazz If you catch the voice of Jim.
WELL, WHY NOT? Now it is proposed to sell the courthouse. The project has its supporters and they have arguments which sound reasonable. Tliey want to get ri,d of the present structure and move the county government, to a more modern building, an office type which anight suggest efficiency and service instead of pomp and power of a second class palace. * Perhaps the building is the cause of much complaint that has centered around the county government. It may be true that those who enter it take on the atmosphere of their surroundings and forget, as soon as elected, their pledges to the citizens. They may be led astray by the fact that they do business in an antiquated building and revert to the ethics of the day in which such buildings were erected. If selling the courthouse and putting officials into office buildings will make those officials more business-like in dealings,' give them anew view of their duties and anew sense of responsibility, it may bo worth while. To most citizens selling the courthouse may be more than logical. The majority might even cut out the office building part of the pregram and try to worry along without any home for the county government. It might not even be missed.
THE SILENT GOVERNOR While citizens from every part of the State arei demanding changes in the public utility laws that will give them at least a half chance for justice, one citizen has been significantly silent.. Governor Jackson might have been expected to make some statement at this time that would aid the legislators in determining upon a course of action. . With the shrewdest and most persistent lobby in years at work to prevent any action the Governor surely should be interested to the extent of intimating to the legislative body his own attitude and telling them what sort of a measure he would sign, if any. In view of his silence, the rumor that he would, veto any measure that had teeth at so late a date that the Legislature could not repass it if it wished, is at least troublesome. Here is one subject, in which the Governor should be especially interested and a word fronl him might be helpful. Much of the distrust and dissatisfaction with the present commission comes from the open charge that the members were selected by the presnet Governor under the advice and consent of the utility companies in return for a huge campaign contribution made to help his election. j That charge has caused citizens to remember decisions in w r hich the utilities apparently were treated most generously, not quite as generously as they were treated in Federal courts, but still with utmost consideration. So widespread is this distrust of the commission that it hardly seems possible that the Legislature will listen to the lobby and leave it intact as the only protection for the citizens against utility exactions and extortions. The Governor must know, as every citizen who cares to read knows, that mis high priced lobby is there to prevent the demands of the people for a commission. He must know that these lobbyists are spending money freely for entertainment, that they have unlimited expense accounts, that they draw huge fees cloaked as lawyers’ compensation and that later the people of the State will pay all the bills in the form of higher rates on gas, electricity and water and telephones than would otherwise be necessary. He know’s that the people will pay this lobby and pay in addition for the profit that comes front their employment to the huge concerns which hire them. > He knows, too, that they are working to see that * no change is made in that commission, no power given to it to regulate just such expenditures, no authority placed la-a State body to regulate those
contracts with the holding companies through which they take out huge sums from the - State and from the people. Under ordinary circumstances, he might he commended for his restraint in any temptation to influence legislation. But this Is no ordinary matter and no ordinary condition. The party caucus of the organization which| elected the Governor either kindly or unkindly prevented him from being publicly vindicated of the spen charge that he framed the present commission to suit the purposes of the utilities. \ He has had no opportunity to answer —and has sought none. But he could do much to re-establish himself and perhaps remove some of the suspicion from the commission, if he would now ppblicly declare him self and say whether he will sign or not sign any measure which would replace the present body with one that would have more of public confidence. Silence at this time may be significant.
' JUDGE COOPER AND THE CHURCH Scene: The Pearly Gates. St. Peter on guard. A little girl arrives. She is a smug little person, obviously very, very good. St. Peter: "And why should you bs admitted, my dear?” Little girl: “Well, I got one of the other little girls to write me a note when the teacher wasn’t looking, and then I showed the note to the teacher and the teacher whipped her, because she was bad.” * • * Federal Judge Cooper, whom Congress may impeach, is charged with doing this: Stepping down from the bench and helping arrange a scheme to run liquor across the Canadian border and then to persuade certain men to sell the bootleg goods. The scheme being euccessful Stepping up to the bench again, trying the men who sold the liquor and sentencing them to prison. Let’s leave it to Conrress for the time being to determine Judge Cooper's guilt or Innocence of this charge. Meanwhile we can consider the case of the board of temperance, prohibition and- public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The board of temperance, etc., has issued from its offices in its own handsome office building across the street from the Capitol in Washington, a statement concerning Judge Cooper. The statement is long, but it is summed up in one of its sentences: “We need more judges like Judge Cooper.” It would be interesting to know what the millions of decent, self-respecting Methodists in the United States think of this attitude on the part o? the B. of T. P. and P. M. of the M. E. church. If more judges of this kind really are needed there is a way to get them. The M. E. church could teach snitching in Sunday school, starting the little folks early on the path of reckless righteousness. We don’t think the Methodist church is likely to do this. None of the Methodists among our friends have the perverted view revealed by the board of temperance, prohibition *nd public morals. But this board, supported by church funds, is the official mouthpiece of the Methodist church.
FLIWERIZING HUMANITY
•By N. D. Cochran
It isn’t surprising that Henry Ford thinks prohibition is a good thing for-the country, and one can begin to understand him when he says that It has been of untold benefit to the workingmen. In that particular he thinks as Gary and some other big employers of labor think. There is one difference, however, between HenryFord and some other captains of industry. Henry thinks prohibition is good for workingmen, but thinks it is also good for him. Some others filled up their cellars to the ceiling with the best the market afforded and then financed the Anti-Saloon League to put prohibition over on the workingman. Undoubtedly Ford Is sincere In thinking prohibition is good for the workingman, but while he has proved that as a manufacturer and salesman he Is a genius, it doesn’t necessarily follow that he ranks high as a sociologist. Mass production and standardization work out all right when applied to turning out tin lizziea, but there Is a real difference between automobiles and human beings. The human animal has a soul, but not even Henry Ford would claim that there is any such thing under the hood of his flivver. Yet Henry’s philosophy is much the same whether applied to flivvers or human beings. Worked out socially it would standardize men, women and ohildren. We would all act alike, eat alike, drink alike, think alike, work alike—every human being would be a Ford flivver. Now if Henry carried his theories to their logical conclusion the only automobile would be a Ford. He would scrap the Rolls-Royces, Pierce Arrows, Packards, Willys-Kjnlghts, Bulcks, Chevrolets and all the rest of them and allow no car on the road but Lizzie. What he doesn’t seem to understand is that there are more kinds of human beings than there are automobiles; and they simply can't be standardized and masc Into Fords. Possibly he wasn’t conscious of It, but after Henry piled up a lot of jack he got over wanting to be merely a Ford. He wanted to be a Lincoln—something quite a bit more exclusive socially than a democratic flivver, with all the refinements of polite society. That Is, flivvers for the workingman, but Lincolns for millionaires—yes, even for billionaires. Then Edsel was coming along; and It is human for fathers to want their children to have a better chance than dad has had. So Edsel should have a chance to soar higher then Henry. Hence the aircraft. The progeny of Henry must soar higher than the old man himself. Up in the air they go. There will be flivvers for the air, of course—flivvers possibly for the workingman, but also there will be .Lincolns of the air—for the Edsels and others of the elect. In the meantime, we must standardize the workingmen—and all of the people who have to work for their living. We must standardize their habits. We must tell them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what to think, what to do with their wages, what church to attend, what party to belong to—in short, pass laws regulating human conduct and behavior so that every darned one of ue will be a standardized, 100 per cent American human flivver. Incidentally, Henry Ford, always in the lead ae a manufacturer and is now Interesting himself in teaching us all how to dance in the same waj% Like a true reformer he believes thkt he knows better than any of the rest of us just what Is good and what is bad for us; and that whatever Henry Ulr.es Is good and whatever he doesn’t like is bad. All the same, we can’t help believing that there Is a real difference between manufacturing flivvers and manufacturing human beings; and that the mass production theory won’t work when applied to American babies.
Tracy Maine Anniversary Brings Naval Question to Fore.
By M. E. Tracy. DENVER, Col., Feb. 15.—Twentynine years ago today the Maine was blown up. That event not only made the United States a world power, but popularized the battleship. Governments dreamed that they had found security in thirteen-inch guns planted on a floating fort. Too bad the great war had to come along and spoil the illusion, but that Is exactly what happened. Now the dream Is of feecurity by virtue of light cruisers, just as though the dirigible, airplane and submarine meant nothing, not to mention poison gas and the possibility of death rays. Laboratory Needed The United States will lead in a “big navy’’ race, we are told, if other nations fail to accept the Coolidge disarmament program. One alternative is about as absurd as the other. A big navy of the kind contemplated would mean little, and so would the scrapping of such ships as President Coolidge proposes. Whether we do or do not paddle around in the water will have no great effect on the next war. War has gone up In the ah- and is looking to chemistry and electric force for new and more deadly agencies of death. What the United States needs Is a laboratory, not an arsenal. Reed Calls Bluff You remember that Sam Insull, Robert Crowe and some others refused to answer certain questions that the Reed 'investigating committee put to them last summer. They got. away with it at the time, chiefly because enough dirty work had bye ndisclosed in connection with slush funds to satisfy investigators for the iime being. The record remains incomplete, however, and Senator Reed has decided to give these gentlemen another chance. If they are still inclined to “stand on their rights,” he proposes to demand that they be punished for contempt. The question at issue is whether the Senate has power to make men testify with regard to matters which are of public concern. If it has not. and if crookedness In primaries or elections can be .shielded by the self-imposed silence of those who know, we need to pass some new laws. Suspicions Hall Is ready to back the farmers. One would have more faith in the change of heart which this Implies, were it not for the suspicion that Governor. Smith’s candidacy for the Demacratic presidential .nomination has something to do with it. The consoling part of the situation lies in the farmers’ prospects rather than in those of Governor Smith.. The farmer will have to be considl 1 ered first. After that we shall see-" what we shall see. Meanwhile, it .evidences a nobler conception of human brotherhood when the politicians of lower Manhattan find themselves moved by the plight of the grain belt. Education Suffers Asa result of the riot In Cambridge, Mass., whiAi put four Harvard students, three civilians and two policemen in a hospital and led to the arrest of thirty-seven student*, the college paper charges that the police were brutal. No doubt they were, and no doubt some of the students were. It was a free-for-all fight, according to impartial reports, in which pop bottles and stale eggs played quite as an important part as did night sticks. No matter which side hit the hardest. it was a mighty poor advertisement for higher education, and represents one more disgrace for Harvard to live down. Senseless Values Two Wall Street crowds have been fighting for control of Wheeling & Lake Erie stock. That Is why it has gone up and,down with such senseless fluctuations. It started in at 27, went up to 135, then down to 66 and then up to 83. Nobody knows where it will land next or whether the ruckus is over. Meanwhile, the value of the railroad Itself remains unaffected. There is neither more or less rolling stock, trackage or other assets than there was a week ago. Such gambles have little to do with real business. They may help It, and then again they may not. Asa general proposition, they merely inject water into the capital irtvestment for which somebody has to suffer In the end. There is a deal of difference between the promotion of honest enterprise and the speculation by which greedy capitalists try to gain control of it. Gambling in stocks for no better reason than to gamble is the curse of our economic structure. You can’t get rid of it any more than you can get rid of the social evil, but you can keep out of it. Small people looking for real Investments should keep their money In their pockets when stocks begin to fluctuate without apparent cause. They are bound to get' burned if they don’t. As for Inside tips, “there ain’t no such animal,” as any Wall Street banker will tell you. What is the answer to this question: .A farm yielded twice as many bushels of oats as wheat and four times as many bushels of com as oats. The total Is 1,868 bushels. What was the yield of each crop? One hundred fifty-three bushels of wheat; 306 bushels of oats; 1224 bushels of corn. • To whom does Wrangle Island belong? Soviet Russia. How did “G&od-bye” originate? It is a contraction of an ancient pious formula "God by wi’ye.”
— ; Yep! Some of It May Have to Go Back on the Ice!
The Brother of Iris March Called Her Something and Was Not a Bit Wrong
By Walter D. Hickman The brother of Iris March, then Mrs. Iris Fenwick, called her just exactly what she was. It ran in that family, and all the dramatic sex stuff that Iris could cloak herself with, at no time could hher ability be of that quality which her ability be of that quality which took off the wording of her brother. Gerald March called her a “harsion of Michael Arlene’s "The Green
Hat.” She wanted to cloak herself with that security of a good woman, but she would not stay put. She wanted one thing In her life and she got it before Napier Harpenden married a struggling but good mental woman. But the woman who wore the green hat went into his London apartment three days before his marriage and there in that
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she got what she wanted. ut she wasn’t right. The child “died. He wasn’t right. She thought that his weakness was strength. But it took his wife to become very big in the last act after the wearer of the gx-een hat had deliberately turned her car into a big tree. Then the wife becomes very big and she tells that skeleton brai: husband of her very own how very little he is in comparison to the won.an who appeared in green, when she was “sexually” busy, mentally and phyrically. , The wife tells the man who was lured by the green hat that they must not now separate, because they “would hate” each other, and that “now” she must be with him. And she was strong enough, that wife was. not to allow him to see the “green hat.” which might have turned “red” after the deliberate auto crash. In other words, I am trying to tell j'ou at this time in the history of “The Green Hat” with Katharine Cornell. Asa play, “The Green Hat” is nothing but sex theater which employs a very experienced and at times a wonderful cast to give its purple rays to the four walls of the theater. It is a high-brow melodrama made after a novel of much disease and fad known as "The Green Hat.” And it is effective sex theater. It tells a lot In words and in actions of those experienced people who act it, but it never goes bej-ond that point of fact. It is really sex imagination of the theater. You have heard much of the "velvet- voice” of Katharine Cornell. “Velvet” it is and, in the second act In the apartment of an English gentleman (alleged), Katharine Cornell proves her right of being “right” by one very honest experience. When shd "kissed” her man before going into his bedroom, there was not a giggle, a yell or a scream from the audience. To me that is the test of effective sex melodrama. She is more than right in the method of not cheating her art. And so is the only man in this scene—Alan Hollis as Napier Tarpendon. He does just the right thing. Nothing more. Lights'are used right. Also the curtain. And also, please do not forget, the imagination of the audience. There was one time in my experience with the theater that I thought that Katharine Cornell was just a fad. Now I am sure of one wonderful thing—that she has that wonderful and true spirit of the theater which made Duse and Bernhardt really famous. The two that are dead knew their theater. And the really big one living, Katharine Cornell, knows today her very big theater. That is the great secret —life as applied to the theater. From a scenic standpoint, It is a most heavy and correct show. From a cast standpoint—not one minute is wrong. “The Green Hat” gives you a chance to see sex ultra theater played up to the limit by the artist great, Katharine Cornell, and her associates. “The Green Hat” -with Katharine
Cornell is on view all week ai English’s. KITTY IS GORGEOUS THIS SEASON AND HOW It must be recorded that Miss Kitty Doner was gorgeous at least yesterday afternoon. She admitted it so many times at Keith’s and proved it so many ways, that it must be a fact that Kitty was “gorgeous.” It seems that this added Are, dash, independence and speed raised her
act to one of those exceptional affairs where talent, artistry and personality are all present. As far as I a m concerned. Miss Doner is my favorite woman who impersonates men, those nifty dandies of her it,agination. And when Miss Doner 1 becomes just a girl, she is so sweet and convincing that one wonders how such a small body can
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have two spirits—the sweet feminine and the nifty masculine. But we see that strange combination in Miss Doner. She is full of personal fun and artistry this season. Indoubt if Billy Griffiths, who presides at the piano knows what is going to always happen next. But it does and Miss Doner gets better and better each season,. She sure has warm dancing feet and a personally of a. mile a minute pace. Quite an is Kitty this season. Ed and Jennie Rooney are up in the air all of the time as they do their stunts on the trapeze. Some of their toeholds are splendid. Peter Higgins is billed as "America’s youngest Irish Tenor.” -His rather nervous and uncertain stage nei’s proves one point, but hfe has a good voice. The publid, judging by the applause, seems to like him very much. George Wiest and Ray Stanton with numerous others have caught the spirit of the modern revue with its nervous Charleston and Black Bottom disorder and placed all of these modern diseases in a little revue called "Eye and Ear Entertainment.” Here is a revue that is diffei-ent from the regular run and enough pep to put it over with satisfactory ease. The Three Swifts are jugglex-s, but do not get excited. Here is a Juggling act that is different. They are so good that they stop the show and they deserve it. Here is a Juggling act that leaves the others so tar behind in this class of work they become the leaders. Hal Neima'n Is a comedian along ultra-burlesque tramp lines. He gave me a comedy panic yesterday. Mighty wise and clever is this man. Notice how he sells an anfient Idea. Russ Brown and Jean Whitaker are back with their patter, some new and other very ancient. Amazon and Nile close in “A Tropical Enchantment” in which the alligators turn out to be human. At Keith’s all week. TWO REAL HITS ON VIEW AT THE LYRIC There are two undisputed hits on the new bill at the Lyric, The hits are: The Heidelberg
Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S “The Green Hat” gives you a chance to aee sex ultra theater played up to the limit by the artist great, Katharine Cornell, and her associates. KElTH’S—Kitty Doner admlts that she is “gorgeous” this season and her act is just as grand and fine as she is. LYRIC —This show has three real hit* in the Heidelberg Student Chorus; Harry Rappe and the O’Brien Sextette. PALACE—As a dancing act the Palace has a very pleasing number the first half In “Garden of Roses.” Is a well put together act.
Student Chorus of sixteen men, and the O’Brien Sextette, a musical organization. Hammerstein and the Shuberts in their big musical shows like “Rose
Marie” and- ‘‘The. Student Prince” have used to splendid advantage the male chorus. Real men with real voices have helped to make many of these modern - musical shows. So Charles H. Thompson, formerly with “The Student Prince” realized that the vaudeville stage has had fewj if any, good singing male choruses.
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And so he recruited sixteen men, dressed them up like Heidelberg students and selected the right kind of choral music. Tne result is that, this offering at t£e Lyric this week is so diffei-ent from the regular run of singing acts that it becomes a •favoriie with all audiences. The men ns-a chorus have good voices and the solo numbers have been wisely chosen. Act will please about everyone who hears them. The other big tilt this week is the O'Brien Sextette. O’Brien, a man with white hair, has surrounded himself with younger musicians. Splendid showmanship has been used in introducing the men and this same attribute builds up an act that Is actually stopping the show cold this week. O’Brien has selected the right popular numbers, has worked out a corking sob song (I generally hate this type of stuff, but this one actually gets overt and for a finish a corking vocal and instrumental parody is used. This act has the real good/ and the men know how to deliver it. Mabel Harper used the “babyfaced sized voice” to put over her eccentric numbers. I can admit one thing, she is different from any eccentric song yeller I have ever heard. Langford and Myra offer melody and comedy in a modiste shop. Act pleases. I probably should have said that this bill includes three hits because Harry Rappe and his violin, hooked up with his bwn way of delivering his fun and his melody, came mighty close to being a positive sensation. Will admit that he was a positive sensation. Guess I counted my hits wrong, come to think about it. Babccok and Dolly engage in noisy and eccentric conversation. Alexander and Kent open the show. I arrived late and missed this act. Sorry' At the Lyric all week. REAL DANCING ACT ON VIEW AT PALACE Assembled with a careful and discriminating eye the dances and songs in “Garden of Roses,” at the Palace the first half make up an extraordinarily pleasing act- of this type. A tenor who has chosen his songs wisely is featured in the song offerings and gets across nicely. The dancing of the act Is the main offering with the numbers by four (Turn to Page 9)
Geography Test This quiz puts your knowledge of geography to a test.j You’ll find the answer* on page 14. 1 — In what country is the mouth of the Rhine? 2 What is the longest river In Europe? • 3 What is the large island just south of the Strait of Magellan? 4ln what part of the United States la the land farthest below sea level? 6—Name the capital of Nevada. 6 Where is Fujiyama? 7 What “Cut” in the Panama canal was repeatedly blocked by landslides? 8— Name five countries that touch the boundaries of France. 9ls Australia as large as, or larger than, the United States (excluding Alaska)? 10— What Is the largest body of fresh water In the world?
Work ‘Vulnerable’ Feature of Contract Bridge Described, •
(In response to numerous requests. Work will write on contract for the next few days. During that time, his dally Auction Bridge Pointers will be omitted, but will be resumed shortly.) By Milton C. Work One of the features of Contract Auction Bridge, not a part of the game as originally conceived, la the provision that a side become "vulnerable” when it has won one game; on the rubber game both sides are vulnerable. Most players in this country use this feature, and it also is used by a considerable proportion of foreign players, although there are many, especially In France, who do not like It and who no longer use It. In the new Code of Laws which the Knickerbocker Whist Club (New York) has drafted for Contract, Law 7, entitled “Vulnerable or Danger Zone,” provides that when a vulnerable side assumes the contract, the bonuses for making contract and overtricks, and the penalties for undertricks are doubled; the slam bonuses being increased by one-half. Being vulnerable does not alter trick values. A side having no game on the rubber is "Invulnerable." and its bonuses and penalties are not’ increased. When both sides are vulnerable. the Increases apply to both sides. The Knickerbocker code make* the use of vulnerability optional and says In its preface: “The ‘vulnerable” feature of yie game has been made optional and may be played or not as the particular group may decide. It undoubtedly adds much interest to the game and makes It much more exciting Like all novelties, however. It major may not take with the public." These vulnerable increases, piled on top of the big counts and the regulation doubles and redoubles are somewhat reminiscent of Mah-Jongs. They greatlj' increase the bidding risks of a side with a game In and make timid bidders unduly conservative. For a side that has won a game ’’flag-flying” obviously la a most hazardous experiment. The wild bidder Is apt to disregard the warnings that a position in the Danger Zone should give and as a result catastrophes unheard of in Auction Bridge are daily happenings In Contract. (Copyright John F. Dille Cos.)
Times Readers Voice Views
To The Editor: I want to, thank jou for your editorial in The Times of Feb. 11, relative to the Old Age Pension Bill passed by the Senate and now pending in the House. Your statement is true and fair 4 and quits a contrast to some few in • divlduals and newspapers, who are oither ignorant of the facta or arc deliberately attempting to deceive the public and members of the Legislature. I have In mind a statement that would convey the Impression . that all that Is necessary to have a • county adopt the pension plan is to secure the signature of 200 citizen* and legal voters of the county, when the fact is that such a petition onn only put the questton up to the voters at a general election and the majority of votes cast shall decide the question. I have been taught ihat under our form of Government It Is my duly to submit to the will of the rhajorltj. yet there are some, t am sorry to ray. who would set themselves up as dictators to decide what the public shall do and what is best for them. Now I am like The Times—ls tin citizens of any county decide to continue the poor house system, send their worthy old citizens there to end their days, separated from husband or wife, why that Is their business: but if they decide to adopt a mere humane way of spending the money, they raise from taxea for poor relief, why should some pompous magnate or newspaper outside the county seek to prevent it. If thej’ don’t want it In the county where they reside let them go to the polls and vote against it. Again thanking you and assuring you that your fairness la fully appreciated by the United Mine Workers. I am. Y'oura truly, JOHN HUTCHlNSON,secretary old { age pension committee, United Mine, Workers of America.
Questions and Answers
. You can get *n answer to any qua* tlen ot feet or information by wnttiw to The Indianapolis. Timet Weibinaton Bureau. 1323 New York At*., wathlnston. r>. C.. Jncloalng 2 cent* tn stamp; for reply. Medical, legal and raarit*; advice cannot be given nor con extended reaearch be undertaken. AH other oimatlona will receive a personal reply Unalned request# cannot b answered ( All Utter* are confidential. —Editor. What Is the longest drop anyone has made before opening up hie parachute? Staff Sergeant Randle L. Bose dropped 1.500 feet from an airplane at Mitchell Field on April 17, 1925, before opening hla parachute, which so far as we know la the record. . Has the British Government recognized Russia? Official recognition to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was accorded by Great Britain Feb. 1, 1924. Is Held hockey played more by men or by women? Men sometimes play It, but It is considered more of a woman’a game How long has George Walsh been In the movies? Where wag he edu cated? He has been in the movlee about ten years. His first appearance was In the D. W. Griffith production "Intolerance.” He was educated at Fordham University and waa study lng law at Georgetown University when he decided to enter motion pictures.