Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1927 — Page 6

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XKe Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. „ pOTD GURLEY, Editor. WM - A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. \ Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapollß • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week PHONE—MA in 3500.

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

FUNNY, BUT TRAGIC The greatest gathering of humorists in recent years must have been that solemn body of Stale Senators who met, as Republican partisans to decide just what they would do with the regulation of public utilities. If they were merely trying to keep all the bargains, explicit and implied, that were made for campaign funds, their meeting should have been short and simple. They should have summoned the little group of Democratic lawyers who form the bulwark of the utility lobby and asked these hirelings of privelege what their bosses want and given it to them. If they were trying to discover how little the people would be satisfied with and how much-the bosses would stand for, their meeting was that of tragedians and not comedians. It takes no fortune teller to disclose what the people want. It takes no great economist to discover a feasible and just plan of amending the present laws. An ear to the slightest of public whispers will determine public sentiment. A most cursory examination of defects in the present law will determine what amendments are needed. They could find, these solemn Senators who still wish to bind partisan thought to a purchased organization, that the people demand that the present commission be ousted and anew one replace It. They would find, certainly, that there is a demand that some curb be placed on the appointive power of the Governor who does not openly resent the charge that he sold his appointive power to the utilities for a campaign fund. They could, at least, have enough self-respect to demand that they, as Senators, be given the power of confirmation. That would satisfy public opinion that the Legislature is honestly trying to remedy conditions. If they study the law, they would find that most of the trouble comes from holding companies and the fact that the commission has no power to regulate the expenditures of these utilities, while giving guarantees to the amount of their income. One simple remedy would cut out all such grafts as now are practiced—the payment of huge fees to lobbyists, the making of contracts with parent companies, the purchase of supplies from themselves at fancy prices. But perhaps the conference on the utility measure was a different sort of a gathering. It may have been purely political. It may have had to decide the grave problem of how little tinkering could be done and still enable the next campaign treasurer to tap the wires of these holding companies for money enough to overthrow the will of the people through absent voters’ ballots and other tricks. Os course their problem may have been simplified by the knowledge that while they met as partisans, the little lobby group of men who give lip service to the Democratic party would line up enough members of the opposition to take the curse off their servility to these utilities. That may have lifted the pressure slightly. Otherwise there was a simple question of whether secret bargains made by bosses should be ratified or a bold stand in defense of public rights be made. How will you guess the outcome? Will the people of Indiana or the utilities of the East own its government? You can get big odds if you still have faith. THE TRULY GREAT More than three thousand men and women gathered in Terre Haute to pay a last tribute to a woman whose life had been devoted, tirelessly and unselfishly to her city. Those who make money the goal of their ambitions might do well to look in retrospect upon this gathering and wonder whether their aim he worth while. Mrs. Sallie Hughes was the librarian of the Fairbanks library and under her direction it grew from one small room to a great institution with its branches in all the schools. She asked for nothing for herself.* She did not stand in the spotlight of fame. But she was famous, nevertheless. She drew to her the sincerity of admiration and of friendship that is the reward, almost the sole reward, of those who trod the path of service to mankind. The estimate of life is given at its end. The true greatness is shown by the regard in which men and women are held when they are no longer able to give. # Those who contribute to the material progress of the world may receive admiration, seldom sincere warmth of sentiment. Their passing, perhaps unfortunately, seldom leaves that sense of personal loss which brings men and women with wet eyes and aching hearts to bid a last farewell. This woman chose the other path, from her deep interest in human life and gave herself to the great task of building, through character, for a greater and happier day. That was the reason that all schools, public and parochial, closed their doors > that little children might pay their tribute to a friend who had passed. Who are the truly great? Read a part of the answer in this voluntary tribute'to a woman. OUT OF POLITICS Any argument that any particular measure before the Legislature concerning the regulation of public utilities will either put the utilities in or out of politics is the purest of buncombe. The utilities are in politics and will stay in politics just as long as the people permit themselves t 6 be -led by professional politicians and herded at the polls under partisan banners for candidates who are anything but partisan. They are in politics now, under a commission named by the Governor. They would be in politics under an elective system. They were in politics when they had to deal with city ceuncils and mayors to get that added pound of flesh. These utilities understand, much better than the people, how to make politics pay. They know the advantage of having friendly men pass upon any case in which a variation of judgment might give the people a little more of justice orjthe utilities a little more of profit. At the present time, they are out in the opeu

and their politics is directed toward the control of. men elected by the people to make their laws. They have an army of shrewd lawyers in the front line and there is a suspicion that there is a string of sutlers wagons in the rear, ready to do yeoman service when necessary. But*their grip on government was fastened long before the Legislature opened. They were busy last fall when candidates were being named for oflice and when campaign chairmen needed money to perfect their machines. They deal, very largely, with the party in power because they want men in office to whom they can talk on intimate terms. They are so far in politics that when the open charge is made that campaign contributions enabled their political advisers to pick utility commissioners and hand the names to the Governor, neither the Governor nor the commissioners resent that charge to the extent of demanding a vindication by the Legislature. No law will drive the utilities out of politics as long as their prospect of obtaining unfair and huge rewards can be brightened by remaining in politics. But laws can drive their agents out of power when the utility brand of politics becomes burdensome and obnoxious. They can be curbed in their politics by throwing out of office those who yield too readily to their persuasions and who lose the viewpoint of the public. That is what has happened now. The utilities have been too greedy in their politics. They have reached out too openly. They have insisted on so much that finally the people are aroused. The place to take the utilities out of politics Is at the polls and in the primaries. The place to take the utility politicians out of office is In the Legislature and that should be done by substituting for the present board some new men who will have to pass scrutiny of two-thirds of the Senate. 1927 echo of Davy Crockett’s famous maxim: “Be sure you’re tight; then go ahead.” ' Three hundred and seventy-eight robins already have been seen in, Chicago this year. Some day a man will be born who can answer every question in an intelligence test. We can’t wait to hear the name of the correspondence school that produces him. Twenty-four camels have arrived for distribution to zoos in this country, says a dispatch. They'll like it here. When it comes to dressing in the height of fashion, no woman can outstrip our flappers. Kansas legislators propose mental tests for persons who have determined to wed. Wliy not continue to give them the benefit of the doubt? When King George was opening parliament he said the,' warships were being sent to China as a token of friendship. No wonder the Prince fell over his sword. When Charles Birger, the Illinois gangster, was locked up he was given a machine gun with which to “protect himself.” When a man is sentenced to hang in that country, they probably give him a horse.

IF NICARAGUA, WHY NOT CHINA? By.N. D. Cochran —■ l

Secretary of State Kellogg meant well when he invited the Chinese generals to declare Shanghai territory a neutral zone, but he went about it the wrong way. He should have stuck to tactics he understands. His experience in Nicaragua ought to have prompted him to try out his Central American diplomacy on the rambunctious Chinese. All he had to do was to have an American admiral sail into the harbor at Shanghai, • land a few marines and declare Shanghai a neutral zone. Then have the same admiral sail down to Hongkong land a few marines, and declare that a neutral zone. Then on up the river to Canton, with more marines and more neutral declarations. By tracking the Cantonese army to its lair and finding where it would make the next stop, he could head the victorious Chinese general off by scattering neutralization declarations right and left, here, there and everywhere. Having completely surrounded the Cantonese army with neutral zones, Secretary Kellogg could then send the admiral up the Yellow Sea, around the Shantung peninsula, through the Gulf of Pi Chili and up a narrow but deep river to Tientsin. Landing a few marines on the dock at Tientsin and letting loose a declaration of neutrality there, it wouldn't take much time to send a marine or two overland to Pekin and post up a declaration of neutrality there. That would bottle up Chang Tso Lin in Manchuria and keep his army from moseying southward to meet that army from Canton. General Wu would also be bottled up. So with the other general bottled up In Shanghai by the original declaration of neutrality, the war between the various Chinese armies would be over, because they would all be so thoroughly surrounded by neutral zones that there wouldn’t be anywhere to fight. By this time Secretary Kellogg, the great Amerl can diplomat, would be able to make up his mind which of the various generals suited him best as ruler of China, and he could send him to Pekin, Hankow or any other place in the great Chinese republic and set him up in the government business. If none of the Chinese generals happened to look good to him, Kellogg might borrow some clerk from the Standard Oil Company and make him president of all China, and then stick a few marines around the imperial palace as guards. If Secretary Kellogg can pull this off he can save an awful lot of trouble for our friends, the Chinese, apd also for Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, etc. It would be a stroke of genius. Business would go on in China as usual, and everybody everywhere would be happy. This can’t be criticised as an experiment in diplomacy, for it Isn’t anew invention at all. Kellogg has tried it out in Nicaragua; and he made it work. Nor does this policy require many tools. In Nicaragua all he needed was a few battleships, one admiral, a handful of marines and a few declarations of neutrality in zones where they would do the most good for our pet president. And if it is the kindly, Christian thing to do in Nicaragua, it ought to work just as well clear across the Pacific. We have got away with extending the three-mile limit off our coasts to 20, 30, 40 or most any number of miles. Now a little more extension and we can stretch our territorial control across the Pacific and smear the Volstead act all over China. As wize gazabo once remarked—where there’s a will there's a way. j

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Muzzier of Judge Lindsey Talks Like Cotton Mather.

By M. E. Tracy DENVER, Col., Feb. 18.—It has almost become national sport to bar Judge Ben B. Lindsey from speaking, or at least to attempt it. Lates f to join the game is the Colorado State Teachers College, of which Dr. W. G. Frasier is president. “As long as I am president of the college,” Dr. Frasier is reported to have said, “Judge Lindsey will not be allowed to speak here. We have many speakers here covering broad subjects, but have no room for those Who wish to air pet theories." It sounds like a paragraph torn from one of Cotton Mather’s books in denunciation of witchcraft. Dr. Frasier is willing for knowledge to spread sidewise, but not ahead. He would teach teachers how to teach by closing the mouths of those with whom ho disagrees. Judge Lindsey has the idea that companionate marriage might lessen the social evil. It shocks many people, but is it any more shocking than Dr. Frasier's idea that education can be helped by the gag rule? 'Pet Theories’ This wonderful age in which we live has been produced by what Dr. Frasier describes as “pet theories." Some of them seem awfully wild when first announced, and not a few led to violence. Farm hands tried to destroy the McCormick reaper, and Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod was prosecuted in a French court as an invention of the devil. Most of the “pet theories” never amount to anything and we would be just as well off if they were repressed. The trouble is that you can’t tell whether a “pet theory” represents wisdom or nonsense when it first appears, especially if it defies tradition. The safest course is to give them all room. Those that are sound will live. Those , that are not will die a natural and painless death. A North Dakota legislator has introduced a bill to legalize lynching and a Missouri legislator has introduced one to stop the publication of crime news. Shall wo gag the authors, or let them oft with a good laugh? Price of Silence George Bernard Shaw has said some startling things. Lots of people would have liked nothing better than to,see him silenced. The 'irorld would have lost some great plays if he had been. Marriage is one of the few subjects Shaw refuses to di.-jeuss. “No man dare write the truth about marriage while -his wife lives,” says Shaw, “unless, that is, he hates h.er, like Strindberg, and I don't.” Few people knew there was a Mrs. Shaw, much less that the great and crabbed author enjoyed an ideal home. Folly of 'Follies’ * Flo Zeigfeld sees the folly of his '‘Follies.” He will dress the young ladies, up hereafter and depend on something besides their exposed condition to draw the crowd. •Mr. Zeigfeld has never been noted for insisting on modesty or demureness, but he is a shrewd showman, and when he adopts such a course you can depend upon It, there are reasons. Even if some New York producers and actors have been allowed to escape jail by agreeing to stop dirty plays, a different reaction has set in. Nothing proves this more conclusively than the decision of Mr. Zeigfeld. Cantonese Win The Cantonese have apparently shattered the armies brought against them and opened the road to Shanghai. This does not come as a surprise to those who have followed the Chinese situation. The Cantonese have had their ups and dowms, but have maintained the strongest and steadiest government of any faction since the Chinese unheaval began. Theirs is the one government which our State Department has chosen to ignore and insult most persistently. Telepathy and Radio Do you believe in telepathy, and if so do you believe it has any connection with radio? Such a notion is intriguing whether it has any scientific basis or not, and regardless of their opinions, most people are glad to know that students are giving it the benefit of experimental tests. On Wednesday night several people w§re shut up in a room in London and showm five objects on which they concentrated their thoujfTfts, while Sir Oliver Lodge, addressing some 2,000,000 listeners over the radio, explained that the idea was to see if thought waves could be broadcast. The listeners were invited to write down the impressions they had with regard to the five objects which the persons shut up in the room were thinking about. So many letters have already been received that several days will be required to assort and classify the answers. Is it true that the United States will recall all the Indian Head pennies? The United States never recalls any of its coins. • ________ What is the value of a United States one-cent postage stamp bearing the words “Columbus in Sight of | Land?” Five cents if'uncancelled: If cancelled only 1 cent. . What is the origin of the expression “The Ghost W’alks” as applied to pay day? The expression originated as actor’s slang supposed to have been a quip by an actor in an old travelling company playing Hamlet, whose salaries were in arrears.

The Disease Seems to Be Spreading

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Her Name Could Have Been Lulu; But She Was a Used-to-Be Sweetie

By Walter D. Hickman The name of this fox trot lady could have been “Lulu” of the Belle family, but she is just one of those used-to-be Sweeties, and that's her name. These dolls of rather warm temperature are being much spoken about on the stage and much warbled about in songland. Bryan and Wending have written a corking rapid fox trot which they call “Usenft You Used to Be My Sweetie.” This tiaming fox trot has been brought to life by Ted Wallace and his orchestra on anew Okeh record. And if you are looking for warm orchestration then get ho'd of this used-to-be sweetie number. The vocal chorus tells you about a lovesick chap who declares in melody that he is a victim of a used-to-be sweetie, and that he is so lonesome since she has been with another that he “will steal around and kiss her dear, sweet mother.” That certainly is keeping the kisses in the girl's family, although we never hear what mother thinks about the arrangement. The lyric and the tempo of this song is in the language of the hour. The words have been set to a prancing fox tort. And to me it is about the warmest dance record I have played for some weeks. On the other side of this “sweetie” record you will find “Since I Found You,” played by a different orchestra. It is by the Harry Reser’s jazz pilots with a vocal chorus by Tom Stacks. Here is a good stepping tqne. Okeh again has used one record to give the phonograph buyer two orchestras on one record. A good idea. Ford and Glenn Since Ford and Glenn visited the Circle. I have been asked to locate their "Lullaby Time” in record form. I wanted the record myself and I was glad when Columbia submitted it for review in this department. “Lullaby Time” is Ford and Glenn's contribution to a better and happier musical time in the home when the children go to bed. In the past thirty-five years I never have been accused of bftng a child, but I often turn on this Columbia record of Ford and Glenn and permit these two artists to get me a little nearer to slumberland. This record has been arranged to include their bed time introduction, some jokes, then “Lazy Mary,” the “Chickadee” number, some jokes and then the prayer. Here is a number that should be in every where there are both children and a phonograph. There can not be enough music in the

Are You Up on History? This test will show how well you have kept posted on your history. The answers will be found on page 10.

1 — What British colony In Virginia In the sixteenth century died out because help failed to arrive from England? 2 Who was the general in command of the Union Army that was defeated at the Battle of Chancellorsville in the Civil War? 3 Who was Vice President during Lincoln’s first term? 4 What battle, in what war in which America took part, was fought after the treaty of peace had actually been signed? 5 From whom did the United States acquire the Virgin Islands? 6 What American naval commander, in whit battle, gave the order, “Damn the torpedoes—go I ahead?” 7 What former Vice President of [ the United States killed a prominent political opponent in a duel? 8— What dispute nearly brought the United States and England to war during President Cleveland’s administration? 9 What American battleship made a record-breaking run around Cape Horn during the Spanish War to strengthen the American fleet in Cuba? 10— How did the United States first acquire land west of the Mississippi river?

Will Be Heard in Song Tonight

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Among tlie new artists to be Introduced tonight on The Times pro. gras over WFBM from the SeverLt will be Bessie Fullen Steele, singer, and Jeanette Dausch Browne, pianist.

home for every occasion. And Ford and Glenn have the idea for the bed time hour. Several Ways Have been asked to tell about some records devoted to warm music. Again I do what I am asked. The best "Little White House” number that I have is on a Brunswick, by Ben Bernie and his Hote. Roosevelt orchestra. Here is Arts melody, beautifully recorded. On the other side “Half a Moon,” from “Honeymoon Land.” Have two corking versions of “In a Littie Spanish Town,” one is on an Okeh and is "by Sam Lanin and His Famous Players. Here the banjo is used to get a marvelous melody effect. And Brunswick has a winner in its “Spanish Town,” by the Castlewood Marimba Band. Both are charming. For a novelty number, I recommend “If I Didn’t Know Your Hus--band, and You Didn’t Know My Wife,” as played by Bar Harbor Society Orchestra. It is an Okeh. Concerning married LIFE ON THE STAGE Married life with a snap in It Is the subject Guy Voyer and Company have made into a sketch at the Palace the first half. First there is the honeymoon couple and their fond glances for each other. Second is the couple who have been married for five years and with whom married Use is not so sweet as it was, and last is the couple of ten years standing who are engaged in open warfare most of the time. There is a plot to the sketch ahd through the action are several song and dance numbers that add considerable to the act.

“The Great Leon,” is a clever illusion act in which the feature is the trick of apparently shooting a live young girl through a sheet of steel without harming either the steel or the girl. We never could figure out a stage mystery and so we leave it to you to find the answer to the problem of how it is done. Gladys Green and Boys have a dance act in which the opening is bad. The rest of the numbers in the act are much better and several of the dancing features are excellent. Griffiths and Young are a comedy team who are at ‘their best In the bit about a traveling salesman coming home to his wife. Mallon and Case offer an eccentric comedy act with the personal traits of one of the men furnishing most of the comedy material. “When the Wife’s Away,” with Dorothy Revier is the photoplay attraction for the last half, with news reel and comedy films. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By 'the Observer.) Indianapolis theaters today offer: "The Green Hat” at English’s; Kitty Doner at Keith’s Heidelberg Student Chorus at the Lyric; Leon at the Palace; “Sensation Seekers” at the Colonial; “Loco Luck” gt the Isis;

“It” at the Circle; “Love's Greatest Mistake” at the Apollo; 'Altars of Desire” at the Ohio; new show at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washing- | ton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps j for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other auestlons will receive a personal reply. naigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What was the number of gallons of gasoline used in Indiana in 1936? Approximately 303,105,000, the gas tax reports show. Who composed the cast of the motion picture "Wild Oranges?” Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post and Ford Sterling. , To what religious denomination, if any, does the Governor of Ohio belong? A. Vic Donahey, Governor of Ohio, is listed as a Methodist. Where and what arc the “Iron Gates?” The name is given to a celebrated pass on the lower Danube, near i Gladova just below the point where j the river leaves Hungary and where a spur of the ,Translyvania Alps nearly barricades the river. It is the last great defile of the Danube and Is about two miles long. In 1890 the demolition of this obstruction to navigation was begun by a Hungarian company, and In the course of ten years was practically completed. The work necessitated the excavation by blasting of nearly 1,200,000 pubic yards of rock, about half of which was in the river bed. How and when was Jesse James, the outlaw, captured? Governor Crittenden of Missouri offered a reward of SIO,OOO for his capture, dead or alive, and tempted by this bribe, two members of his own band, Robert and Charles Ford, killed him at his own home at St. Joseph, Mo., April 3, 1882. How mucli did it cost to build the Palace of Versailles? Approximately $200,000,000. Did Betty Compson play the leading part in “The Palace of Pleasure," “The Belle of Broadway.” "Beggar on Horseback” and “The Goose Hangs High?” She played the leading part In the first two pictures. In “Beggar on Horseback” she had a small part and in "The Goose Hangs High” she did not appear, „

FEB. 18, 1927

Work Trick Values in Contract Generally Higher Than in Auction,

(In response to numerous requests, Work is writing on Contract for several days Instead of Auction Bridge. During this time liis daily Auction Bridge Pointer will be omitted, but will be resumed later.) • By Milton C. Work As soon as the basic principle of Contract is understpod the next point to be grasped is that the trick values of Auction Bridge (6 for Clubs. 7 for Diamonds, 8 for Hearts, 9 for Spades, and 10 for No Trumps), while generally followed in the Contract games abroad and in certain places in this country, are not used by most players in New York City. The count popular in the metropolis (generally assumed to have been sponsored by Mr. Harold Vanderbilt) contains radical changes both in the amount allowed for each trick and the total necessary for game. In this coifht the precedence of suits is the same as in Auction Bridge; No Trumps. Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs in the order named and Irrespective of trick values; the over bidding is unchanged, viz.; one Spade overbids one Heart and three Clul* overcaljs two No Trumps, but. the value of the declarations and of game are greatly increased. Din monds and Clubs are counted at 20 per trick. Spades and Hearts at 30. and No Trump at 35; the game la 100 Instead of 30. This leaves the number of odd tricks necessary for game (from a love score) the same in Contract when played with this count, as when played with the Bridge count, viz.: five Minor-suit tricks, four Major-suit tricks, or three No Trump tricks. Neither of these methods of counting tricks is “alone correct” or the one “universary used ” both have their adherents who advance what they claim to be strong arguments for their favorite plan. In some places only one of these counts Is known, in others, the other is the only one that ever has been used The question of ultimate selection if the gam©* of Contract become a permanent part of our social life, must be set down as still undeter mined; but the fact that the Knick erbocker Whist Club of New York, with its army of expert players, has lined up in favor of the Aucttbn Bridge count, must carry gnat weight, although on the other han I many New Yorkers have become at customed to playing with the higher valdes. Another article on Contract tomor row. (Copyright. John F. Dille Cos.)

MR. FIXIT 23 Residents Report Alley Is Impassable.

Mr. Fixit is The Time* rrprewnt* five at the city hall. He will be larl to present your troubles to the proper oity official*. Write him in care of The Times. A letter received by Mr. Fixlt today asking for cindering and repair of an alley was signed by twentythree property owners. The letter stated that the alley is so muddy that it is impossible to get to garages on it. The letter also says that no ash or garbage collections have been made during the time this alley has been in this condition. The letter: My Dear Mr. Fixit: We are rest dents of the 2700 block on N. La Salle St. We have to let our cars stand over night In the street because th-' alley Is so muddy we cannot get to our garages. Also We have had no ash or garbage collections since the alley became Impassable. We would be grateful for cinders or anything to make it passable. It is the first alley east of La Salle running north from Twenty-Sixth St. E. S., Mrs H. C., Mrs. M. W., D. G.. J. F E Mrs. C. H. H.. F. K.. Mrs. G. I. K.‘, Mrs. C. 0., Mrs. E. G., J. C. W„ fl. A. W„ A. R. TANARUS„ E. W.. I. O. W„ Mrs. O. K„ E. C., Mrs. W. B. G.. Mrs. C. M., Mrs. H. J. S. and Mrs. M. G. H. Surely in unit there is strength, for when Mr. Fixit showed this letter to Street Commissioner George Woodward he said that he would see to It that the alley was fixed at once. Truly Nolen, superintendent of ash and garbage collection, said he order collections at once. Dear Sir: Wish to advise that last fall the city put in some sewer* at Forty-Sixth St and Hensley Ave., these running north on Hensley. The avenue was torn up at the time and has been Impassable, as the street was never fixed. I am a property owner at 4626 Hensley Ave., and think that something should be done about the condition out here. H. J. C. George Woodward, street commissioner, said that he would give this matter his immediate atten tion. City Engineer Chester C. Oberleas sdid he would also look into the matter, and If he found that the contractor had failed to leave the street In as good a condition as when he put in the sewers that steps would be taken to seo that he repaired the street at once. In laundering Is it better to soak the clothes overnight before washing? It is not absolutely necessary, but helps to loosen the dirt. It Is a good plan if the clothes are very much soiled. T'se either cold or lukewarm j water with or without soap. " ’ I Is n communicant of the Roman ! Catholic Church prohibited by law I from becoming president of the j l nlted States? No. . ■ ii ■ "■■■. • Is the gov eminent railing in rnunforfeit quarters of 1017? Counterfeit coins are not recog nized by the* Government nnd are seized and confiscated whenovsr they ara found.