Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1927 — Page 4

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S CR l PPS- HOWARD

Better City Government One of the greatest advantages of the city manger form of government, successful in over 300 cities which grew tired of misrule, is that partisan politics plays no part in its affairs. In this and other cities which have suffered from machine rule, the bosses have been able to control through an appeal to the party loyalty of men and women. The bosses have no real party loyalty. To them the party means a vehicle in which they ride into power in cities and in States, through which they obtain patronage and power, by which they are able to get contracts at public expense. But they understand that when a party ticket is named a certain percentage of voters will vote that ticket no matter how bad its nominees may be. They have seen men call each other crooks and prove it in the primary race only to get together at the polls and support the very men they denounced. The partisan control of city government has been possible by dividing good men and womenthrough their party principles, while the crooks, the anti-social, the venal and the selfish flocked together. In the election to be held on June 21, this city will have a chance to change that system by adopting the city manager plan. Under that system men must run on their records as men, not on their appeal to party service. The candidates will bear no labels saye those of their own character and reputations. The voters will not be divided by words, but those who think alike can vote alike with some assurance that they will not be overwhelmed by a solid bloc who vote without other thought than putting a party machine into power. There is, of course, no real connection between party principles and city government. There is no such thing as Democratic policy of running a city nor a Republican policy. City government is purely a matter of business. Its problem is that of the community, not the Nation. It is a matter of management. There is no reason whj' a man is better fitted to be a city councilman because he believes In a low tariff than would be if he believes in a high tariff. The very fact that the election will be held without party labels and that the man in charge is called a manager, not a mayor, will automatically aid in getting better government. Citizens who appeal to a mayor for action on any problem think of him in terms of politics. U they went to a manager of a business, they would think of him in terms of an executive. Only the politicians fear this change, which has worked well in other cities. They understand that they will no longer be able to live off the public purse. They understand that they may really have to go to work. Keep that date in mind. June 21 will make history for this city/ It will mean a free Indianapolis and a better city, if the thinking people vote for this change.

The Bishop and the Ambassador A churchman with open eyes is Bishop Francis J. McConnell o£ the Methodist church. This country, he says, is about to witness another wave of “red hunting.” There are evidences that he is right. Ouj; amiable ambassador to France, Myron Herrick, l*as given the red hunters their cue. Hinting, as diplomats do, at portentious information in his posstjp sion, he declaims over the graves of our dead in France that the United States never will tolerate the spread of Bolshevism to its shores. _ Still hinting of things too terrible to tell, he asserts that we won’t sit quietly by while a band of men (presumably Rooshians) attempts “with fiendish ingenufty to iiv ject a fatal poison into our citizens and to undermine institutions which have brought comfort and happiness to our continent.” Too bad Charles Lindbergh had left for London before the ambassador made that speech. He might have kept Herrick too busy to utter it. Now that the pictures have arrived, it is plain just Jiow busy the ambassador was during the boy’s visit. Bolshevists. Reds. Just how many have we in the United States. Not enough either Russian or American to engage the Boy Scouts of America In a real battle! Ah, says'the ambassador, the soviet government doesn't fight that way; “it secretly sends against us the germ of a loathsome malady, instead of dispatching armies.” Forgetting for the moment the fact that under the Constitution and {he law, it is entirely permissible to spread such germs—by which is meant Ideas —how far have the advocates of communism got in this country? Nor far enough to engage the Boj) Scouts in a man-to-man joint debate! There are fewer now than there were ten years ago. They just don’t count in the American scheme of things. / Bolshevism and communism are not actual things in this country. They are names to throw at persons who sometimes .fise to protest against political or economic or social conditions. And here is the irony hidden in Herrick’s speech. The father of young Charles Lindbergh was a "Bolshevist”—that is, he was one of those at whom that term was thrown. He was a progressive Republican Congressman—a radical, a great friend of Senator La Follette. He was a Nonpartisan Leaguer in the days when excited reactionaries were charging all members of that party with’Ueing Bolshevists. Actually, he was merely a hard thinking, honest Swedish-American with a modesty and a courage that he passed on to his son. No harm ever came from permitting Congressman Lindbergh to talk. None can come from permitting even the rattle-brained radicals to talk. Indeed, as this wise bishop of the Methodist church aays, good will grow out of their talking, for talking is a safety valve. Let’s call the next red hunt off before it starts.

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Throw On The Light It would be unfortunate if the State Board of Charities, now charged with the duty of investigating the treatment of D. C. Stephenson since his imprisonment, showed any inclination to hold their in- * instigation in secret. Thete has been too much secrecy since this former political dictator of the State went to a cell for murder. There has been too much secrecy since he first belched forth his declaration that he could prove, by documents, grave political corruption. The people have been made suspicious by the actions of fhose in authority. For months every effort seemed to have for its purpose the keeping of Stephenson away from public gaze and the locking of his lips. His charges now are grave. They would probably have no importance with the public, would excite no one, had it not been for the very suspicious manner in which he has' been treated. The change in prison rules, hastily made at the bedside of one of the trustees of the prison, which made it impossible for newspaper men to see Stephenson at the time he said he wanted to talk, did more to convince the public than could anything Stephenson might have said. Now he says that a conspiracy exists to forever close his lips. He says that there are politicians and highJxlan officials who would he glad to attend his funeral. He says that he is being brutally pu> ished. The State Board of Charities is asked by the trustees of the prison to make the inquiry. Let it be hoped that this body will not make the mistake of other officials and give- even a semblance of secrecy to the probe. The people want the facts. They are not interested in Stephenson, the convict. They arc interested in knowing whether he is ready to confess.

Too Much Food? Over-production is the reason generally given for the unprofitableness of agriculture. Too much food! Too much wheat for bread. Too many vegetables; too much fruit. Cotton and wool too bountiful. Meat going to waste. Farms being abandoned. State forestry departments working with the national forestry department to reforest lands which once grew crops. The farm population of all the country actually growing less. The farmers and the farmers’ children drifting to the cities. Intensive farming, it is said, produces more food than the cities, even though overgrown, need. Yet bread is 13 cents a loaf, where formerly It was 8 cents or less. Bacon is 50 to 75 cents a pound, where formerly it was 25 cents. lamb is t!0 cents a pound, where it used to be a third of that. Beef long ago ceased to have cheap cuts and the chuck and liver are in the class with steaks. And steaks are getting to be in a class by themselves with patrons of hotel banquets. Apples are 5 and 10 cents apiece. Oranges ditto, regardless of season. Cucumbers two for a quarter. Lettuce same. Strawberries, in season, 25 to 35 cents a box. Butter 05 and cheese 40 cents upward. And so it goes. And what is the result? Fewer people cat meat. Fewer people eat fruit. Fewer people eat vegetables. Less milk is drunk. Less cheese and butter consumed. The pick of the market goes to the people who are rich enough to be able to disregard food costs. The great mass of buyers are frozen out. The income will not meet the prices. The population stints on its eating. The cigar store goes into the sandwich business. Coca cola takes the place of soup. The city population goes on a diet —a semi starvation diet, if the doctors and hygienists would tell the truth. But the farmer does not get the high price. That is the trouble. Any production for him is overproduction. In the old days at the gates of Baris every farm cart had to pay toll on its produce. That is the trouble —one trouble—with our farmers (and city people, too). There are too many people taking toll of his produce. The railroad takes toll, the jobber lakes toll, the landlord in his rent for stores and stalls takes toll, the city delivery system and credit take toll, the Wharf companies take toll and the wholesalers, jobbers and retailers take toll. It is the old fallacy of selling less of a commodity to fewer/people at a higher price, instead of selling more of a commodity to more people at a cheaper price. If the goods were cheaper more people would buy them, and there would be less talk of over-pro-duction. And if the farmer got a reasonable proportion of the retail price he would be self-rcspectingly prosperous. ' One remedy, at least, is in bridging the gap between producer and consumer. Some photographer is going to come into the ofilpe with the great scoop some day. It won't be Lindbergh driving a beer truck in Chicago, or it won’t be Wayne B. Wheeler in court for hi-jacking, tt will be a bathing beauty—in the water. The young folk certainly are seen, if not heard, these days, especially at the bathing beaches. Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keeezer —— A woman stepped off a street car into a hole in a city street. Although it was mid-day she said slie couldn't see where she was stepping because of passengers ahead of her. When she got off the street car was stopped somewhat beyond the usual stopping place. She sued the company to recover for her injuries, claiming that it was negligent In stopping the car at sqch a place. The company replied that the hole in the street was beyond its control, and that it couldn't reasonably be required to stop its cars so as to avoid all possible holes in the city streets. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THI§ CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that the .street car company could not be made to pay damages for the woman’s injuries. It said: “Street cars are not required to observe the Conditions of streets over which their cars travel so as to stop their cars rCTth exactness at places passengers may avoid ordinary defects In the highway while alighting.” The court said such a requirement would cause the street car .company “to lie liable as an insurer of the safety of a pedestrian coming from or going to a car.”

THE INDIANAP.OLIS TIMES

Tracy w. - Says: One Cannot Help Wondering If Wealth and Power Will Corrupt the Ideals of This Nation.

By M. E. Tracy In celebrating Lindbergh’s achievement, let us not forget that he blazed a trail for others to follow. If Columbus and Cabot had not been followed by thousands of daring navigators, their courage would have been of little value to the human ia,ce. If such men as Daniel Boone and Jim Bridger had not been followed by multitudes of pioneers, their excursions into the western wilds would have meant little to America. Lindbergh flew across the ocean, not to .make a record for himself, but to show the way. Perovich Case In 1905 Vuco Perovich was convicted of murder by an Alaska jury and sentenced to hang. In 1909 President Taft commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, with the condition that he should be lodged in such jail or penitentiary as the attorney general might desig nate. Perovich was first sent to Washington and then to the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. In 1920 he petitioned the District Court of Kansas for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that his sentence had been commuted from death to life, and that he had been removed from the Washington jail to the Leavenworth penitentiary without his consent and without legal authority. The district judge . granted the petition and ordered his release, upon which an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court lias decided that the President had a right to commute the sentence whether Perovich consented or not: that his removal from the jail to the penitentiary was in strict accordance with the law and that he must Return to prison and complete his term.

I Bauer Murder Harry Hoffman killed Maude C. : Bauer on Staten Island three years j ago, nnd wavindlcted for first degree murder. The jury brought in a verdict of second degree murder. The Supreme Court at Albany says that this verdict is unlawful, because it did dot agree with the indi< Intent, and that Hoffman must be tried ovei again. Where Fault Lies There is no question about the justice of a life sentence in the case of Perovioh or of a conviction of second degree mutder in the case of Hoffman. The quibbling arises over the President's authority to act in the former and over a faulty indictment (in tho latter. Such eases impress the layman with the idea that judges and lawyers .are far more interested in correcting technical errors than they are in stopping crime. . between the Lines Coupled with, the policy we have pursued toward Nicaragua. Mexico and other nations. Mr. Coolidge’s Memorial day address reads like a chal lengo to the world. Beneath its trite platitudes condemning war and favoring disarmament there runs a note of unmistakable bumptiousness. In the first place he proclaims that “When this nation lias been compelled to resort to war it has always been a justifiable cause,” and that "no greed for territory has ever caused us to violate the covenants of international peace.” In the second place he declares that we have come into possession of great wealth and that “ther# is seoroely a civilized nation which is not our debtor.” In the third place he asserts the "we arc sufficiently acquainted with human nature to realize that we are often times the object of envy,” and that “it is to protect ourselves from such dangers that we maintain our national defense.” Dangerous Words One does not have to be a student of international politics to realize the damaging effect of such statements at this time. Jn, social circles the man who says that he never did anything wrong, that people dislike him because of the money he has made and that he is obliged to act like a bully to protect himself against creditors is considered a prig. IJtiman nature acts and reacts about the same way in nations as in individuals/. Arrogance Ahead Wealth carries many responsibilities with it. One of them is not to brag of another is not to create the impression that it will be employed o coerce nations. The United States lias come to a peculiarly dangerous point in her career. Hitherto she has not been envied on account of her financial strength, or feared on account of her attitude. On the other hand she has been loved and respected for her sympathy towards weak and oppressed peoples. One cannot help wondering if wealth and power will corrupt the ideals of this nation as they have those of so many others, If this great republic is doomed to become airogant through prosperity and inhuman through the clink of gold. What is “Mother of-Pearl?” The hard iridescent lining of the shells of pearl-bearing molluscs. It is composed of a number of extremely thin translucent films secreted, by I the mollusc consisting of an organic substance called chichiolin, combined with calcareous matter. What is the total value of the SSO 1 gold coins issued for the Panama , Pacific International Exposition in i1915? The total of this coinage amounted to $150,950. • A

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

Ex-Residents of the Mud Live Again in the Trenches With Bairnsfather

Mud and plenty of it. Trench mud. And plenty of it. That's what you will find in "Carry On Sergeant!" Rather guess that you will decide that Bruce Bairnsfathcr had something to do with the title as it sounds that it has something to do with Old Bill, Alf and Bert. These are the individuals, you recall, who lived with much success in “The Better 'Ole.” Since trench life no longer exists for Old Bill and tho rest of his gang, it is rather nice to get the impressions of the man who created these “characters" offer the trenches have vanished. Since the man who gave birth to Old Bill and the others, he lias been in America many times. To lecture, to draw and to have his books published. His latest, “Carry On Sergeant!”' was born in that part of the publishing world in Indianapolis, known as the Bobbs-Merrill Company. Lately we have heard a great deal about “dirt farmers:” now we hoar seme more about the “cx-rcsidents of the mud.” I rather like that expression. Since the “mud days” Bairnsfathcr states that “I have met ex residents of the mud in all parts of the continent nnd in scores of different

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: In The Times of May 30 appears an able editorial which should he read and mentally digested by all its readers. Its captio.i is “Mainly About The Times." The article is replete with pithy truth. To quote one . instance — where would the citizens of this city and State have obtained a plain, truthful, unvarnished uccount of the Stephenson case of unsavory memory had it not been for The Times? The Times should be heartily commended for its straightforward, fearless portrayal of that case. Also for its stand on political corruption in Indiana. I for one cordially indorse The Times. A constant reader, P. H. TRAVERS, 540 E. Market St. To the Editor: After reading all that has been said about the Gillioin-Jaekson medicinal whisky controversy I want to express my opinion that it is a crime to refuse not to give a small quantity of whisky when it is prescribed by a physician. If a doctor ever tells me that he will not prescribe whisky I do not want him to prescribe for my family. We must not, however, condemn those drys. who are. so weak that they cannot let whisky alone when they can get to it. W. H. CROUCH. When was the Philadelphia Centennial held? In 1876. Who built tlie first steam locomotive to run on rails? The first steam locomotive to run on rails was constructed in 1803- by Richard Trevithick in South Wales. It was a failure. The first one built in America was constructed by the AVest Point Foundry of tlie South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company and was christened “The Best Friend of Charleston.” It was put to work in November, 1830. Wliat is the name of Germany's President? _ > ! Paul Von Hindenburg. Wliat Is the full name of >)aek Dempsey, the heavyweight boxer? Hiss full name is William Harrison Dempsey. He was born June 24, 1 1895, at Manassa, Colo., and is an Americai) of Scotcb-Irish descent.

On Top of His World

By Walter D. Hickman places talked of tho by-gone adventures. I have observed the Qgsnng of that period which immediately followed the war. when everybody said, ’Lot's forget it,’ and I have observed the steady recurrence of a desire to talk it all over again. “The thing was too human and big to be lightly rubbed out and forgotten. In one of my rambles 'round America, after visits at many

Best Sellers Following is tlie list of the six best sellers in fiction and nonfiction in IWntano’s Now 5 ork stores for tHe week ending May 28th: lirtion -Twilight Sleep.” Euith Wharton (Appleton). . „ _ ■ l'tie Immortal MarriHtr. Gcrtrtnte Atherton I Bnnl A Mvenslitl. -The Old Countess. Anne D. Srdir--,vioh (Houfrhton Mifflin). Klii'er Gantry,” Sinclair J.cwis (Hareourt Braec & Cos.). People Around tlie Corner. Yhvra S Winslow (Knopf). "Ariane." C. Anet ( Knopf). • Non-Ktrtion “All About Going Abroad,” Harry A. Franck tßrentano’s). ■ “Tristram.” Edwin A. Robinson Macmillan). . _ .. „ „ ... "Napoleon: Man of Destiny. Emil Ludwis: (Boni It J.iveriirht *. “Rise of American Civilization. C. A and M. H Beard z Macmillan i. “Revolt in the Desert, T. E. Laurence (Doran). „• ~ _ „ “Wtllhelm Hohenzollern. Ennl Ludwig lPutnam).

\bur Brains j KSSUSi The fust five of the questions to- | day deal with the World War. An- j swers to all the questions will be j tpund on page 14: 1. Did the United States declare! war on Austria at the same time?" ' 2. Approximately how many Americans were killed in battle and died of wounds received in action? 3. Between what powers was tlie treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed? 4. What were the first two nations to declare war on each other? 5. How long after the sinking of the Lusitania did the United States i sever diplomatic relations with Her- 1 many. 6. _Who are "Baseball’s Big j Four”? 7. How wide is the Panama canal j zone controlled by the United States? j 8. What State is known as “the j Panhandle State”? 9. In what ancient kingdom was , the shekel a Unit of money? 10. What State in the Union has the most residents per square mile* What were Indianapolis postofflcC 1 receipts for 1926? 12. Hovr many tyiles 1 1 street car j lines in Indianapolis? Wliat was the distance of the longest home ever hit by Babe Ruth? estimated at 560 feet. When did Indians becomd citizens of the United States? Were their tribal rights affected by the change? An Act of Congress of Jujie, 1924, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificate of citizenship to Indians. The Act provides that all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the" United States are citizens of the United States. The granting of such citizenship does not impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property nor remove the restrictions on Indian lands under government guardianship, be- • cause the Supreme Court has held that wardship Is not inconsistent with citizenship. According to the 1920 census there are 184,966 Indian citizens of the United States. Should chop sucy be eaten witii a I fork or spoon? A fork..

cities. I arrived in Washington, nnd by n curious coincidence it happened to he Armistice week. “My work was at one of tlie theaters. lirawing and telling the story of Old Bill.” After the show and while the "father” of old Bill was in his room at the hotel, guess what happened? He heard a band in the lobby playing Bill’s favorite tune. “Tipperary,” which, in the words of Bairnsfathcr. was "Old Bill's National Anthem." And then in tlie room of the author. Old Bill seemed to come to life again and say,* “Carry on, .Sergeant!” It is tho human part of tlie war business which Bairnsfathcr brings both in the printed word and by drawings in' liis new book. He has a rather "nasty” here and there to give to the lug business of war. And the sting rings true. The thing that I like about this book is that he brings "war mud life” right to your own mental elbow without causing you to leave your comfortable chair and home. Here is the war done over in the way that most of tlie fellows saw it. “Carry On Sergeant!” will give one several comfortable evenings at home. A nice hook to have around.

New Events on the Local Stage

Starting her stage career when a child and being actively engaged in theatricals and dancing ever since, is the record of Jane Johnson, the young woman who presents her song : and dance offering at the Palace the last half of this week. Miss Johnson, in arranging her presentation, chose certain dances 1 that would best bring out the romantic plot of the musical comedy. With her are four men nnd one girl. Novelty entertaifiers who were popular with audiences of yesterday and who are proving as popular with the generation of today are the Variety Pioneers, Annie Hart, the i Lombart brothers, Sam Johnson and John Burke. Ben Rodero anti Dan Malcy arc funsters who nave a comedy dialogue. E. J. Moore is a magician comedian who deals with burlesque magic as well as the mystifying kind. “Up Stream” is tile film with Nancy Nash. Earle Fox nnd Grant Withers. The story concerns the lives of several poor actors. Pathe News, a comedy, and Topics of the Day are the short reels. Other.theater* today offer: “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” at Keith's. “Is Zat So?” at English’s, ‘ Peaches" Browning at the Lyric, “The World at Her Feet’ at tlie Apollo, "Senorita” at the Ohio, “Fast and Furious at the Colonial, “The Scarlet Letter” at the Circle, and anew mt4vie bill at the Isis. . Wliat is the address of Tom Mix, tlie movie star? 1401 Western Ave., Hollywood. Cal. Why does thp Chief Justice of tlie United States always*administer the oath of office to the President of the United States? The Constitution does not state by whom tlie oath of office is to be administered to a President, but custom base conferred the privilege upon the Chiefr Justice of tfie 'Supreme Collrt. There have been exceptions in the cases of Washington, Tyler, Fillmore, Roosevelt and’Coolidge. Robert R. Livingstone, Clrancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath to George Washington at his first ; inauguration and William Cushing 1 of Massachusetts at his second inauguration.

.JUNE 2, 1927

CT) C faction r\Li Following Bid Does Not Require Strength of Original Bid,

The pointer foi; today is: A FOLLOWING BID DOFS NOT KEQI IKE THE STRENGTH ESSENTIAL FOB AN INITIAL BID. Below are tho four West hands given yesterday. South nas bid one Heart, score love-allL wlmt should West declare?

NO. 5 NO. 6 4 A-6-3 A A-J-3 9 M-3-2 9 9 ' 7 -4- 2 A-7-2 + A-Q-5 4 A-10-4 4 A-KM NO. 7 NO. 8 4 A-K-lfi-7 4 4-3-2 9 5-.A2 9 7-4 9 7-6-3 9 A-Q-10-6-3 4 9-5-2 4 7-6-5

My answer slip reads: No. 5. West should puss. No. t>. West, should double. No. 7. West should bid one Spade. No. H. Wmt should bid two Diamonds. My reasons in support of declarations are: No. 6. With t Din hand a would bid one No Trump, Hut without a stopper in the adverse suit a No Trump should not ho ednsiriored. Many would tho hand lacks the five high cards which a sound double guarantees. No. fi. The hand contains the. high cards rcqi, -'to for a double amt thoroughly . cs that declaration. 7. Not sufficient strength for an original bid of one Spade, but sufficient for a following bid. No. 8. A similar comment to that given for No. 7. Tho hand would not justify an original one-Dianiond, hut as a following hid does not announce the strength shown by an initial hid, it is a proper two-Dlamond bid after an adverse Heart. Today's hands again Wre held by West, South having bid one Heart; score love-all and tho question is what West shout 1 declare in each case.

NO. 9 NO. 10 4 K-10-5-3-2 4 K •JO-5-3-2 tj 6-4 96-4 4 8-7-5 4 A-7-5 4 7-5-2 4 7-5-2 NO. 11 NO. 12 4 K-10-5-3-2 4 K-10-5-3-2 6-4 SP 6-4 . 4 K-7-5 4 K-7-5 47-5-2 4K.5.2 M smrmmmHmmmmm *■* ••wHnrwrrwsJ Bridge Answer Slip of June Ist No. !) West .should No. 10 West should No. II West should No. 12 West should Tlie "clatter-hung" of a noisy manhole cover at Blaine Ave. and Lambert St. soon will cease, accowiing to the promise of Street Commissioner George Woodward. In a letter to Mr. Fix it a west side correspondent declared “the noise is getting on the nerves of the residents and is making the corner notorious for the nuisance.” , Complaints that Crescent Ave. is badly in need of grading to permit lire apparatus to get oyer the street and that n ehuckhole on TwentyNinth St. at Shrfvcr Ave. needs repair were referred to the street mmndssionor’s department. Mr. Fixit received tlie promise that the complaints would Ire in-J vestigated and repairs made it pos-4 sible. The alley between Shrlver Ave. and Highland PI. and /Twenty-Plinth and Thirtieth Sts., reported muddy, will ho investigated and cinders applied if epnsiderod necessary. What is meant by a "kilowatt hour" in electricity? A kilowat is a thousand watts. A watt is tho unit of power for electricity. A kilowat hour is the energy resulting from an activity one kilowatt continued for one hour equal to approximately one and one-third horse power. Ts there a religious requirement atiuclieil *0 Iho office tv the i • rtddent and Vice-President of Argentina? The constitution of Argentina provides that both the President nnd Vice-President of that country shall be Roman Catholic and Argentlnans by birth. v How can a chamois jacket |i>r wimlbreaker be washed? Wash in warm suds to which household ammonia has been added —in proportion about 1 teaspoon to a quart of water. Do nbt rinse hard. Stretch it into shape while it is damp. What proportion of steel sold in the United States in 1926 was used by railroads? 23.5 per cent. Wliat is the origin and meaning of Roosevelt? ► y It is a Dutch name meaning "rose field,” Wliat was the biggest bombardment during tlie World War? Lately compiled statistics indicate the greatest concentrated bombardI ment in a given period was during the Battle of Ncuve Chappie. m