Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1927 — Page 4
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That Interest Grab A judge in a neighboring county has ruled that the suit brought by Alvah J. Rucker to recover several hundred thousands of dollars from county treasurers lacks something. The alts are plain enough. The law seems to be obscure. And certainly the matter ought not to end with a decision by a judge who has no responsibility to the voters of this county. Up to the time of the last Legislature, county treasurers took the interest on funds for improvements for which they were merely custodians. It was a fat pick-up. The present mayor, when he was treasurer, is accredited with taking down many thousands of dollars. Other treasurers drew more money from this ‘source than is paid as a salary to President Coolidge. No one pretends that they did anything to earn .it. These treasurers took the position that the law made no provision as to the interest on these funds and being in position to grab it, they grabbed. The suit was brought by Rucker when he was corporation counsel under Mayor Duvall. His job did not last long after he brought this suit. He was dismissed quickly. The intolerable situation now exists of having a final legal determination of this matter, of which there can be no question of morals or justice, in the ! hands of a. man who is interested in defeating the purpose of the suit. If there is to be an appeal, it would be in the hands of a corporation counsel named by a mayor who had been a beneficiary of these interest funds. \ Here is something that a Chamber of Commerce or some other civic organization should at least investigate. Those interest funds should be returned to the public treasury or to the people whose money earned the interest. By no stretch of the imagination can those hundreds of thousands of dollars be said to belong to the county treasurers. They did nothing to entitle them to the money. They rendered no service for these dollars. The people, as a whole, will be called upon to supply the deficits in the funds, and there are deficits in these improvement funds. That charge is so great that the last Legislature, in changing the law, provided that even those who'’ pay in advance must pay interest on improvement bonds. This money must be returned to the people. This matter must not bte allowed to drop through the mere expedient of discharging a city attorney who had courage enough to fight for them. „ -will the Chamber of Commerce permit this matter to end with a decision in a distant county or have an appeal prosecuted by those named by a man very intensely interested in losing the case for the people? ' ~ iirisN Soft Justice Gets Again Banks lose 150 millions every year through the embezzlement of dishonest employes, and one reason given for this amazing theft is that “extravagant habits ushered in by increased salaries have played their part in pulling many a banker from his perch of trust.” So, any rate, declared Banker Frierson of Chattanooga, who spoke before the American Institute of Bahking convention the other day. This is an interesting observation. The usual belief was that the poor bank employe was the one who fell into the snares of temptation and took the bank’s money to pay off a mortgage on the old home. That embezzled wealth goes for high living puts the matter in a different light, and it would indicate that the poor and underpaid banker was most apt >to be honest. The real reason for the increase in banks losses through absconding employes is the leniency of the courts, as Banker Frierson pointed out. Murder is not the only crime that the criminallyminded can get away with today, and the plea for harder-boiled justice cannot be made too often. Kindly, sympathetic, forgiving jurists are as much to blame for the crime wave as movies, or jazz, or the automobile, or any other of the stock causes paraded by the soft-hearted and soft-headed reformers.
(Ft. Wayne News-Sentliiel) We do not presume to speak for the Supreme Court of Indiana or to interpret its views on any point nw* finally decided, but we would call attention to the fact that there is strong indiIs It cation that, if the question of the Wright “bone-dry” law’s constitutionConsUtU- a iity has been raised in the Wallace UnnnW case appealed from the Henry Circuit t iwmu. Court (wherein the court took strong ground against unreasonable search and seizure) the Wright law would have been declared unconstitutional in those sections which govern the issuance of search warrants. This conclusion is drawn after considering that in the majority opinion in the Wallace case,/ from which only Justices Martin and Geinmill dissented, there appears the significant comment that-r • Appellant does not challenge the constitutionality of the section of the statute ... but contends that the constitutional rights Os a citizen to be secure in his house and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures have been violated .... The court did not rule upon the constitutionality of the Indiana dry law, mainly, we take it, because that Issue was not raised and because the decision in favor of appellant had solid foundation without reference to the dry law’s constitutionality. But earlier in the Wallace decision, there appeared a recital of that portion of the Wright law governing search warrants, followed by this ruling from the Supreme Court: If it was intended by this statute to declare that an allegation in the affidavit, such as therein prescribed, shall be sufficient to show probable cause, and that an affidavit embodying such ALLEGATION ALONE is proof sufficient to warrant the magistrate in determining the question of probable cause, then in our opinion the Legislature, in that .respect, exceeded its power. Although it may make a certain act or series of acts prlma facie evidence of a fact, yet it is not within its province to say to any judicial officer that when he has heard proof of certain acts, the evidence thus adduced before him shall constitute conclusive proof of the fact in issue in the trial of the •ause before him. • > The allegation such as was prescribed by the Legislature of Indiana is described in the following clause: “If afiy person shall make an affidavit before any mayor, justice of the peace or judge of any court that such affiant has reason to believe and does believe *at on any described oa. designated premises or tract
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Can They Lead? Will the rank and file of the Republican party be satisfied with the same old battle for control, the same old tricks, the same old bargains? Postmaster General New is back In the Stats. Senators Watson and Robinson are here. The occasion is the gathering of postmasters who are named because of politics and are presumably interested in politics. They should know what the people are thinking. > It is no secret that the ideas of New are different f/om those of Watson and Robinson. Their associations are entirely different. The Watson power comes largely from those who played with D. C. __ Stephenson. His organization, which he boasted was the best ever organized, was the successor to the Stephenson organization of 1924. Will the people stand for a continuation of such leadership next year when they select candidates for Governor ad when Robinson will try again to go back to the Senate? Can General New, even if he has the courage or the desire, redeem his party by offering opposition? Or will that party of Lincoln purge itself of its past sins by declaring “a curse on both your houses” and decide that it needs leadership which stands for principles, which scorns the horse traders, which needs no such trickery as that which Stephenson said he practiced at the instance of the present Governor and Clyde Walb in backing fake candidates? Will there be a following unless such leadership, courageous, conscientious and free, offers a hope? The days of trading are over, both horse swapping and political bargaining.
Sing Sing’s Warden Looks At Life The warden of Sing Sing prison, having presided over some 30.000 convicts and having seen over 100 of them get the death sentence, should rightly be a pessimist of deepest hue, but ’tis not so. Casting a speculative eye over the flower beds of his domain, the warden has given out in formal interview an unequivocal indorsement of life Just as it is. Why the warden chose one of the hottest days of the year to start this metaphysical controversy is hard to understand, for when the mercury hovers near the century mark it is no time to wax philosophical. Be these reasons what they may, the warden has put the issue on the table for the world at large in plenary session to discuss. The warden is no sentimentalist. He sticks to cold facts to prove his hypothesis. “Life,” says he in beginning, “is growth and actipn, while death is stagnation and decay.” Unassailable axioms these, beyond all fault-finding. “Life at best is short,” he says. True agiin, but hardly original. The argument doesn’t seem to be leading into paths or pastures new. Looking further, the meat of the whole thing is discovered: “Life is worth living as a sporting proposition, if for no other reason.” Here is philosophical beefsteak for the thinkers to chew on at meal times and pick out of their teeth at leisure. Life is a sporting proposition, a game, a dare. Twenty-three years with the seamy side ot life have brought the warden to this conclusion. Lite to those of the warden’s belief is not something to be lived for future glory, but a thing to be lived for its thrill of the present. What life really is all about has been a source of argument since the human race began. That the warden of Sing Sing has found the answer in his “Life is a sporting propostion” is open to grave doubts. The churches, material evidences of the belief in life for a hereafter, a future reward and a future punishment, arc still thriving in spite of the ravages of wrongdoing and the pestilences of perfidy. How in the world do you suppose Henry Ford sver happened to read the Dearborn Independent? Many an arderitr-ffwain's love for his lady has been rudely shattered by a concrete bridge. Senator Boomboom McWhorter Is advocating the “hands off” policy toward China. He says the policy’s been “hands Up” long enough.
of land there is intoxicating liquor, etc. ... in violation of the laws of this State, such justice of the peace, mayor or judge shall issue his warrant to any officer having, power to serve criminal processes and cause the premises designated in such affidavit to be searched.” (Chap. 48, S. 31, p. 157, Acts 1925; Burns, 1926, S. 2746.) Now plainly it was intended by the Legislature to show that such an allegation shall be “sufficient to show probable cause.” And if it was, says the Supreme Court, then "in our opinion, the Legislature, in that respect, exceeded its power.” But the appellant, Wallace, did not “challenge the constitutionality of the statute,” ana so the issue of constitutionality was not outstanding in the case at bar. If that issue had been raised, is there not good reason to believe that, in view of the court’s general position, it would declared the search warrant section of the Wright law unconstitutional? Now it seems almost certain that the issue will be raised in time, and it will be interesting to note the decision. JDi course, each case is tried on its own merits, and the question of constitutionality may be raised on improper grounds or in the face of circumstances complicating the clear-cut question of whether the Legislature was without power to over-ride ancient traditions in making the issuance of warrants ministerial rather than judicial. But, in any event, w 6 should like to have a test, and trust that an appeal for such test may be properly drawn and adequately presented. We have never believed that this section of the Wright law is constitutional, and are of the opinion that a ruling to that effect will ultimately be handed down. y (Decatur Democrat) Bob Tucker is booming Louis Ludlow, former Indiana newspaper man but for many years a Washington correspondent, for the Democratic congressional nomination in the seventh district? Ludlow Politics in years past was a two-fisted Demo- . . crat ar.d may be yet for all we know, Again though his writings for the past few Booming. years have made us think the eastern associations had been too much for him. Tucker has also dug up anew candidate for governor, Fred Hoke, Indianapolis manufacturer and by the way he is a real guy who would make a real organization and put up a real scrap if he got into the contest. By the way, its getting along toward that time when people will begin to gossip about politics for 1928 and it looks as though it might be plentiful.
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VICTORY FOR LIBERTY (Marion Leader-Tribune) The Leader-Tribune is vegy glad that George R. Dale, editor of the Muncie Press, has won a pardon. Dale faced a ninety-day sentence to the State penal farm for an alleged contempt of the court of Judge Clarence W. Dearth of the Delaware County circuit court. The LeaderTribune is glad because it would have been a serious reflection and attack on the freedom of the press for Dale to have served this sentence. It would have created in the minds of all editors a fear to speak the truth, as the highest court in the State, in a decision on appeal, held “that the truth is ncr defense.” The sentence imposed on Dale, it will be remembered, grew out of an article which appeared in Dale’s Muncie paper, the Post-Democrat, concerning alleged political corruption and control in Delaware County politics. The court had the editor arrested and sentenced on a charge of contempt of court. Even copies of his paper were confiscated. The action of the State pardon board and the Governor is one of the most heartening things which have taken place within recent years. While Dale's editorial policy has never found favor among the better class of newspapers, it is one at least in which a certain type of courage and fearlessness have not been lacking. We have an honorable court, but it will probably admit now that the decision it handed down contained doctrine which might become exceedingly dangerous. We are sure the court, its attitude fair, would be the first to recognize the seriousness of this doctrine, and the damage which it might provoke. The pardon does not change the law, as made by the court decision, but it indicates recognition of the justice of Dale's contention. It is most likely to have a strong bearing* in the consideration of future cases of similar kind.
LANDIS HITS HOME (Kokomo Dispatch) Fred Landis displayed his unusual oratorical abilities to great advantage in a typical address to members of the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce Friday. Everyone who was privileged to hear him must have been impressed with the deep philosophy of, this former congressman and man of letters. When he referred to the American people as constituting the greatest slumber party on earth. Mr. Landis gave an effective humorous twist to a serious situation which threatens our very nation. As he aptly says, this has come to be a government by default. We have ceased to concern ourselves with vital problems and are, as the speaker asserted, directing our chief attention to the trial of King Ben and other such weighty matters, while the nation drifts toward paternalism. As Mr. Landis pointed out, we cannot inspire our youths with any considerable pride in our government so long as high State officials set examples with which we in Indiana have been regaled during the past few years. All conscientious citizens would well subscribe with Mr. Landis to the pledge that unless their party cleans its political skirts they will no longer support its candidates at the polls. ' * One bit of animadversion during the course of the Landis address was particularly appreciated. That was when he referred to the signing of advertisements by United States Senators as “the most miserable bit of sordidness ever seen in American public life.” The ears of Senator James E. Watson mifst have burned somewhat unpleasantly at this well-taken thrust. While we cannot agree with the views of Mr. Landis concerning the statewide primary election system, which he blames for present political conditions, we do *feel that he id making a sincere effort to arouse the people of this section to a sense oftheir political obligations as citizens. He certainly has the right idea of government, and it is imperative, as he says, that we get rid of the “cheap skates” in high public office. One does not have to listen long to Mr. Landis to become convinced that George L. Davis was right when he said that this statesman belongs to a Republican political school that flourished before it became customary for Indiana G. O. P. leaders to trade horses.
JACKSON’S STATEMENT (Plymouth Pilot) The statement of Governor Jackson concerning the Stepherfcon check ought to satisfy anyone who wants to know the truth. It was a most convincing and complete pronouncement in the matter. Very evidently Governor Jackson believes that Stephenson is trying to blackmail him in order to get out of prison, and he tells that man very plainly that he can’t accomplish his purpose. Jackson knows Stephenson quite well, and it may be assumed that he realizes clearly the purpose Stephenson has in mind in his charges against public officials. . Os course, those who wish to believe crooks and criminals instead of honest men will be prone to cling to Stephenson and his charges. There are always people who prefer to believe a lie rather than the truth. These will just continue to believe the crooks and criminals and doubt the' honest men, no matter what happens.
Stage Verdict LYRIC— Harry Welch and Ned Norton are handing out the most delightful hokum that One would ever want to experience. PALACE—A bit of clever burlesque is found in the offering of Murray and Maddox in “Chow.” KElTH’S—Eugene Powers is giving the Arliss touch of splendid comedy acting in “Alias The Deacon.” Probably the finest individual actinj accomplishment of the season. ENGLISH’S Robert St. Clair’s unnamed mystery comedy is being presented for the €rst time on any stage.
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Good New Trick in Mystery Playwriting Is Used by Robert St. Clair in His Show on View at English's BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
Anew play Is a good deal like anew born babe because a lot of improvement is expected with age. When called upoy to tell you about a brand new play. I carry in
my thought the suggestion that its first performances are just a matter of so many experiences. This is true with Robert St. Clair’s new mystery comedy which is being presented for the first time on any stage at English’s this week. It is unnamed because the Berkell management offers a hundred dollars in cash for the most appropriate title
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submitted this week. I have been asked to be one of the judges with the other writers of the theaters on the dailies here. Anew thing or me.hod in playwriting is always welcomed and St. Clair has that in his new play because the “action of the last act begins approximately fifteen minutes before the second act climax—in another room,” St. Clair explains. It is the new plot construction which gives the show the right to demand careful consideration. So in considering this play, on seeing it for the first time on any stage. I bear in mind that the author still has his “child” in that stage of just being born. It is the odd construction which gives this play its chief charm. It is not my duty to rewrite St. Clair’s show. A mystery play must have a human heroine and a human hero. The laughs must be rapid, smart, loud and even louder. He has given the plav the propei; comedy relief in Oswald Kerins and his specimens, both dead and alive. Peggy Van Ess flashes in and out of the play all too St. Clair has a gem in Peggy'. Maybe it is Idabelle Arnold but the fpart is in the play. False teeth going wrong has nevebeen comedy to me. I do not have ’em, so any misfit is pure tragedy to me. That disposes of Sarah Broderick for comedy relief.- But mind you. false teeth does get the laughs. Maybe I am wrong but I like it Erma Lowrie. played by Jean Oliver, is the heroine who must experience the thrills. But does St. Clair cause this most important character to react against the horrors of his story? I think most sincerely, St. Clair, that your heroine must not be wooden and you must give her as much “sight” and as much intelligence as those who buy seats. I think the success of your play in other fields. St. Clair, rests in your ability to humanizing Erma. It was this trick of the maid and the lady of the house in “The Bat” that humanized this shit and made it good theater. These two characters reacted every minute to the thrills and the horror. Erma must react just as the audience. St. Clair with his cruel tiger theme, the lighted lantern in the painting and the rain effects (if they work) has enough business for several shows. But this play needs more “humanizing” on the part of the characters as certain events happen. I believe with a careful and a human reaction of the characters the mystery of the play that St. Clair has a mystery play with red promise. As I wrrite this and as I respect the intelligence of St. Clair, I believe that as he works with this play that he has GOOD THEATER. And that is the test of any play. I am not kt all concerned with 1 the cast. It is the play that counts this week. On view all week at English’s. DID THEY STOP THE SHOW? .THEY SURE DID. When two men can walk out on the stage and by real showman-
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ship cau*e an audience to forget that miUer.-i are not in style in the summer time, well, I for one am going to, tell the world about it. It may be a large order but I will tell you about it any way. There is nothing funny in ordering two eggs, you say. Maybe not but have you ever heard Harry Welch and Ned Norton order two eggs with heat applied to certain parts of the bodies of the egg? If you have not then you never have heard two oggfr ordered. Here is hokum comedy, served with all the hokum gravy in the world. And what good hokum it is and what splendid gravy It is. Welch and Norton know their theater and they know it to that degree that they can stop a show any old time they please. You never have seen hokum served properly until you see Welch and Norton. They sure do give a grand opera flavor to hokum. A real delight, this team. Art Mix is a movie actor That ne admits. He has a horse with him and a rope. The youngsters adore Art and his horse. The Revue Comique goes In for some odd burlesque on dancing. Then the fat dancer takes off his wig and no longer looks like a woman. Wilson and Ardell go in for golf as a means of comeuy conversation. Ridge's Comedy Four do the old Main St. band stunt. Allan Shaw is a magician w’ith a marvelous sense of the theater. He knows how to handle coins. I’ve seen many of his type, but he is the most convincing handler of coins I have seen in the last five years. Howard and Oden, think I have the name of this team right, stage their comedy attempts before a “three and nine cent, store.” Good human balancing is presented by the Schenk Duo. At the Lyric all week.
A BIT OF CLEVER BURLESQUE AT PALACE Everything In the world apparently has been burlesqued. Everything. that is, but the burlesque. But when Paul Gerald Smith wrote “Chow” for Murray and Maddox he did even that. In this case it was a woman who was hungry and a man who wouldn’t feed her. He treated her rough and she liked it and asked for more—food. The slang is exquisite and very modern and is a good example of how “golddigging” has gone into all classes, including lovers. In a hunt for some things different Villa and Striga have landed. With a pleasing combination of Hawaiian and Spanish guitars and a selection of popular songs they come tp the fore. Striga plays several bits with one or another of the orchestral instruments accompanying him. A unique bib is offered when the bass viol takes the lead with the guitar as an accompaniment. , George B. Alexander and company present a skit called “The Failure.” A self-made man of the business world attains his every desire but one. His old schoolmate, now the elevator man gets but one. But that one is the making of the failure of the “big man.” True to life and very cleverly done. In the stage world there seem to be \no acrobats and jugglers that attain the perfection of the Japanese. Kikutas Japs are very high on the ladder of success for they have a repertoire of tricks that are dangerous, but done with such nonchalance that it seems easy. .Not a company of-one or two good pe - formers but eight or nine. Opening the bill this week is Arthur Alexander and company in “Dixieland to Broadway.” It is very good quartet work and dancing is beyond reproach. It is a blackface act that shows the old southern darkey of long ago and the colored jazz hounds of Broadway today. “The Heart Thief,” a news reel and a fable complete the bill. At the Palace today and Wednesday. (By the Obesrver).
YOU MUST COME OVER AND MEET THE DEACON Dear Brother and Dear Sister, you must come over .and meet The Deacon. Pray with him. Brother, but don't play cards with him. Verily, I tell you that. Now’, you ask, what am I raving about now? And in that exalted
light of knowing The Deacon, I tell you’ not to play cards with him unless you are on his side. Am trying to tell you in one of my unguarded moments of “Alias The Deacon” as being presented by the Stuart. Walker Players at Keith’s this week. And mini you, this is the play that brings
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Powers. As The Deacon, Powers gives that haunting comedy touch to a fine characterization that one expects only at the hand of George Arliss. And yet, here is Eugene Powers doing an Arliss on the stage. Here is consumatc acting. Polished, finished, careful and even jolly act ing. Always is the double meaning before Powers as he plays this character. He fools the actors with him but never the audience. That is the reason that “Alias The Deacon” ws rattling good theater. It should be because it is a masquerade employing some of the oldest, tricks of the theater. Am not going to tell you about the story. It is full of crooks and mighty good people. The crooks are "good crooks" and the dear Main St. people are just dear Main St. people. This is Eugene Powers’ show and what a magnificent performance he is giving. If you have any faith in my judgment of what is good fun in the theater, then see Eugene Powers as The Deacon.
George Gaul is in the cast. He doesn’t have much to do but he is there. Elizabeth Patterson is Mrs. Clark, who runs a hotel and wtib prays probably as she plays cards William Titus as Willie Clark uses a soprano voice which is about the most terrible soprano I have ever heard on the stage. It may be youth, but George Somnes, put the brakes on the pitch of the voice of Willie. And in speaking of things not right, send Larry Fletcher to Bermuda. Canada or any other similar place and let him “study” the effect of strong drink upon a prize fighter. That may be Fletchers idea of a prize fight “souse” upon the stage, but it isn't mine. I don't care to get Larry Fletcher in evil ways, but before he plays another “souse” let him at least read in some book how strong drink reacts even in a -tomedy on the stage. The cast includes John Storey. Edward Forbes, Ernest Poe, Vivian Tobin, William Titus. Ernest Cossart, Margaret Douglas, Muriel Kirkland, Eric Kalhurst, Albert West, Pauline Bruestedt and Clark Twelvetrees. But bfe sure and see “Alias The Deacon" because Power is magnificent. At Keith's all week. Other theaters today offer "Service for Ladies” at the Indiana; “Dearie” at the Circle; “Women Love Diamonds” at the Ohio; “Running Wild” at the Apollo and “Splitting The Breeze” at the Isis. What was the nationality of Battling Sikl? He was a Negro, bom in Senegal, Africa. His real name was Louis Phal. What calendar does Russia use? The Gregorian (new style) calendar was adopted in 1902.
JULY 19,1927
Why the FUBhuth' '* Weather? Meteoroiof; THOSE DREADFUL EXPERIMENTS. The ancient and apparently immortal delusion that rain can be produced by the use of explosives received much encouragement in 1891 and 1892. w’hen experiments of this character w’ere carried out by General R. G. Dyrenforth with the aid of a Congressional appropriation. These undertakings were partly the outcome of the publication In 1871 of a book called “War and the Weather" by Edward Powers, which gave great prominence to the notion that rainfall is a usual sequel of battles. This idea actually dates from ancient times, long before the invention of gunpowder. It is mentioned In Plutarch’s “Lives ” Dyrenforth and his assistants, after some preliminary experiments in the suburbs of Washington, went to a ranch in Texas. Here, during a period of several weeks, many balloons containing a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, as well as sticks of dynamite sent up attached to kites were exploded in mid-aid. Other explosives were fired on the ground. The following summer more money was secured from Congress and the firing was continued. The 1 experimentors thought, that, their explosions were responsible for a few’ showers that occurred in the vicinity of their headquarters, but most meteorologists were convinced that the showers w’ere merely of nature’s program. The only tangible result of the undertaking was tiny* it gave a great impetus to all of wild schemes for regulating tha weather. (All rights reserved by Science Service, Ine.)
Mr. Fixit Blowing Auto Horns at Drug Store Irks Neighbors.
E. Thirty-Fourth St. residents today appealed to Mr. Ftxit, for relief from noisy auto horns in front of a north side drug store. Dear Mr. Fixit: The blowing of horns by autoists using drug store curb service is the w’orst nuisance a city ever had. It is more than we can stand. Every night the noise lasts until past midnight and on Sunday it is all afternoon and night. This drug store is on E. ThirtvFourth St. east of Meridian St. We have stood this for five summers and one woman Is so nervous she is under a doctor's care. This practice has ceased to be a joke. Please help quick. SEVEN PROPERTY OWNERS Sorry, but Mr. Fixit has found no way to give you relief. There is no law prohibiting blowing of auto horns. If there are sufficient property owners who object to the drug store you could go into court and declare the place a nuisance, according to Police Captain Walter White. Dear Mr. Fixit: I thought I would write to you to sec if you could gcß the city to clean our alley which iV the first, alley west of State St. betwesn Ohio and New York St. I have teen for’three years trying to get it -leaned At each end there arc two dangerous manholes. On the south side the hole Is so bad the city has a man place a red lantern on it at night. He has done that for a month and I think it is very expensive. Thanking you for past efforts, I remain YOURS O A. E The street commissioner said he would be unable to clean the alley at present. The engineering department will inspect the manholes you refer to.
Questions and Answers
When Is it proper to use “Junior’' after a boy's name? Ordinarily junior is used only to distinguish between father and son. but sometimes it is used to distinguish an older from a younger man of the same name. Who was the first President of Germany? Frederich Ebert. He died February 28. 1925. Who was the author of the old phrase "Early to bed. early to rise, makes a fnan healthy, wealthy and wise?” It is from Benjamin Franklin “Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac." What is the total value of I rent pieces come*! in ihe United States tn 1922? ’ $7 1.609.
Brain Teasers
Ten questions today relate to tha movies. Answers to all questions are on page 12: 1. What was Gloria Swansons name before she entered the movies? 2. What movie star wes recently married to Rod La Rocqtte? 3. What movie star now liar, two daughters starring in the films? 4. What movie hero is known aa “Two Gun?” 5. What movie star first won fanft for his characterizations of country boys? 6. What movie comedian is known as “Silk Hat.” 7. Who starred in “The Penis of Pauline?”\ 8. Who is czar of the movie industry? 9. Win directed production of “The. Covered Wagon?” 10. In whose productions does Carol Dempster star? 11. How many churches and schools In this city? 12. How many retail stoics and jobbers are there In Indianapolis?
Do You Know — That workers at the Dispensary Aid Association, an I * agency of the Community Fund, saw to it that 054 sick poor people received the proper medical attention this year?