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Now Up to the House When the House military affairs committee votes tomorrow on Muscle Shoals there ought to be no hesitancy in agreeing to report favorably the Norris bill. Only by adoption of this mesaure can the committee hope to dispose of Muscle Shoals at this Congress and only by its adoption will the greatest number of people benefit. No one can profit under the Norris bill except the Government and the people. No private concern will be getting control of these valuable properties and at all times they will be ready for instant use for manufacture of explosives in event of another war. Muscle Shoals was not built by the Government to enrich a few private individuals. It was built during the A\ orld A\ ar, when ammunition was needed. The act under which it was created provided that the plant be operated during wartime to manufacture munitions and during peace time to make cheap fertilizer for the farmers. Senator Norris not only wants to see cheap fertilizer made there, but he wants to see the vast power resources that nature has provided operated in such way as to keep electricity prices within reason and furnish an example for the rest of the country. The committee took a proper step Saturday Avhen it invited Norris to appear and heard his story from his own lips. When Norris speaks, no listener can help btit be impressed. Not only does’ he know his subject, but he is earnest, fair and sincerely anxious to see that the right disposition be made of this Government property. lie did not attempt to tell the committee what it ought to do. He told what the Senate had done and why it had done it. He left the decision up to the committee and expressed his willingness to accept a better plan if the committee has one. The Norris hill represents the work of seven years and is the best compromise the Senate has been able to reach. Unless the House committee accepts it as such, all the work that has been done wilUgo for naught. And Muscle Shoals will he dead so far as this Congress is concerned. The eyes of the country are on the members of the House military affairs committee. War Outlawry and the Senate When it comes to scheming schemes for world peace, says Viscount Cecil, one of the best friends America has on the other side of the Atlantic, the United States is long on words, but short on deeds. We proposed the League of Nations, he explains, but refused to join it ourselves. We helped set up the World Court, but scorned it, once it got going. We continually are scolding the rest of the world for warring so much, but slip away when it comes time to assume a little of the responsibility for insuring its peace. In short, says this British statesman, if Europeans dislike us—and he assures us quite frankly that they do—it is largely because we don’t practice what we so piously preach. Which raises an important question: Is Secretary of State Kellogg sure that he is not letting us in for more criticism of the same kind? Is he positive in his own mind that the United States Senate would ratify, without reservation or qualification, his unreserved and unqualified treaty to outlawry of every kind? It would be hard to imagine anything more sweeping than the anti-war agreement which the secretary of state would enter into with France, England, Germany, Italy and Japan. Suppose these five nations took him up. What becomes of the Monroe Doctrine and our policy of the open door, for example? Let’s state a hypothetical case. Suppose Britain, some time in the future, looked upon the rich new Venezuelan oil fields and decided to annex them. But for the Monroe Doctrine this would be absolutely none of our business. She would not be attacking us in any way, shape or form. What would, or could, we do under the proposed treaty? Suppose Japan took over the northern provinces of Colombia next door to the Panama canal, or bought, or otherwise acquired, Lower California, where would we stand on the Kellogg agreement? Or suppose a Nicaraguan government, piqued at Washington, should ask France, or Germany, or England, or Japan, or Italy to assume a protectorate over her. What then? China could be dismembered and parceled out among the great nations, as she came near being thirty years ago by pretty much the same powers which Secretary Kellogg now invites into an unqualified anti-war agreement with us. So much for that. Already Europe is mocking uS because with one hand we are proposing a formal outlawry of war to the world, while with the other we are voting $274,000,000 to build more warships. And t’icre is logic in her mockery. For if we ever formally agree with the only other naval powers not to report to war under any circumstances, and we all mean to keep our word, what need have we of a Navy? The truth doubtless is this country hardly will agree to any such unqualified renunciation of war as the world now is being led to believe. The Senate will have a final say and cooking up nullifying reservations is notoriously one of the best things it does. Far be it from this newspaper to utter one word against any step in the direction of universal peace, short and faltering though such step may be. But in view of the numerous false starts we have made in that direction in the last ten years, it behooves us not to be too insistent upon this scheme being accepted by the rest of the world without reservations. We may back on a few ourselves. Europe may have the laugh on us again.

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The People Learn The oil investigation ,has been helpful to many people who never really understood how political parties got hold of campaign funds running into the millions, or what contributors got for their j money. Another thing they didn't understand was the I significance of a handful of party leaders getting ; together after midnight in a hotel bedroom and pick- i ing a presidential nominee. Nor did they understand the favorite son game in picking delegates to a national convention. Now they know more about the game we call politics. While the surface has been merely scratched, enough has been revealed to show that the bosses of politics, finance, and industry who got together in that hotel room in 1920 were playing a big game for big stakes. There was much dickering back and forth. Each of the bosses with so many delegates In his inside pocket knew what he wanted in return for delivering his delegates. One of them was Jake Hamon, a big' oil man from Oklahoma. He wanted the naval oil reserves. To get them he wanted to be Secretary of the Interior in Harding’s cabinet, with the understanding that the oil reserves were to be taken away from the Navy Department and turned over to the Department of the Interior. After the election, however, it became necessary for Jake to become respectable enough to sit in a dignified cabinet. One of the steps to make Jake respectable was for him to get rid of his Oklahoma mistress. When Jake tried it. the girl killed him. So one of the first results of the midnight conference and its outcome in the election was a sensational murder. Another was the suicide of Jesse Smith in Washington—but that is another story. But other oil men stepped in when Jake Hamon faded out of the picture. Senator Fall of New Mexico became Secretary of the Interior. Then with Denby as Secretary of the Navy and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the oil reserves were duly transferred from the Navy to the Interior Department—and by executive order. The public is familiar with what happened quickly after that. The oil reserves—at least those at Teapot Dome and Elk Hills—quickly passed from the Interior Department to Sinclair and Doheny. Incidentally, considerable cash conveyed in a little black satchel and thousands of dollars’ worth of Liberty bonds passed from Doheny and Sinclair into the hands of the Secretary of the Interior. And quite recently the public has learned that many Liberty bonds and considerable cash subsequently passed from the hands of Harry Sinclair into the hands of Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee in charge of the campaign of 1920. We now are entering upon the campaign of 1928. Again the various State bosses arc trotting out their favorite sons and hand-picking delegates who will vote for favorite sons until the midnight bedroom conference determines what dark horse shall be given the nomination, provided in the meantime Herbert Hoover can be pocketed. If enough delegate:, can be herded together by the favorite son game, or the “Draft-Coolidge” bunk, there will be another hotel bedroom conference at Kansas City when Hoover has been blocked and the convention deadlocked. There will be another game of horse trading and a candidate will be picked who will play the game and stand without hitching. And if the candidate is elected, the big bosses who sit in the game will get their reward and their money's 1 worth after the hand-picked president is inaugurated. As for the people—well, they’ll get pretty much what! they got after March 4, 1921. Another man, claimed to be the original Tom Sawyer, is dead out west. But we haven’t heard yet ' of the death of the last of those who knew Abraham Lincoln.

—.— David Dietz on Science The Nature of Reality

NO. 1 The fundamental aim of all intellectual pursuits might, perhaps, be stated as an aim to understand the nature of reality. While the scientist realizes that many useful inventions and appliances come from his work, he considers them as by-products. The search for facts is his primary interest. Prof. Albert Einstein, for example, has said that just as many artists take “art for art’s sake” as their guiding principle, so the scientist must pursue science for science’s sake. The ultimate nature of reality is a difficult thing to discuss. We are a very long way from knowing what it is. Per-

haps we shall never find out. Certain philosophers have attempted to reduce the universe to mind and matter. A scientific wit, discussing this, aski “What is mind?” He answered the question himseli by saying, “No matter. ’ Then he asked, “What is mat-

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ter?” and replied “Never mind.” Perhaps that is as close as we can get at the present moment. The scientist does not, as a rule, talk about mind because he feels that at the present time the investigation of mind is not entirely within his province. The scientist reduces the physical universe to matter and energy. But we are wondering today if it is not possible that matter and energy are merely different manifestations of one and the same thing. What is that one thing? Sir Oliver Lodge says that it is the ether of space. Other scientists say that the ether does not exist. The ancient philosophers of Greece wrestled with the problem of tire nature of matter. We are still doing it today. The Langmuir-Lewis theory, the quantum theory and the Bohr theory have been some of the recent attempts at solving it. The latest is known as the Schroedinger wave mechanics theory. Next we will examine the development of these theories. •

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1928. bv The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—kins; Q—queen; J—jack; X—anv card lower than 10.) 1. When you hold a ten-ace suit and your partner has bid it, should you lead it? 2. Declarer holds A Q 10 with X X X in dummy, how many possible tricks can he make? 3. When holding K Q 10 X in four-card suit, what outside strength is required to bid it? The Answers 1. Yes. 2. Three. 3. One quick trick. Times Readers Voice Views The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not Be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: “Give light and the people will find the way”—Dante. No better words could be put at the head of your editorial column and used by The Times daily. If the writer had not read a certain book forty-odd years ago, he would today, in all probability, be a socialist, communist or, worse, •an anarchist. The unemployment situation has confronted us for months and supposing that such problems will adjust themselves in time, how about those suffering during such periods, transitory or otherwise? Verily, here is where the Golden Rule, so much discoursed upon, should compel one to look for a solution of the vexed question of labor and capital, w'hose interests should be identical. When the change from the carriage industry to theu se of automobiles took place, the capitalist could borrow funds with which to install new machinery necessary. While he could look forward to a time when his profits would enable him. with the cooperation of labor, to wipe out the debt and reimburse him for loss of profits, the unemployed laborer was getting behind all the time, running in debt, with no income whatever, thereafter compelled to sacrifice in many ways in order to meet honest obligations. Everyone willing and able to labor is entitled to employment. The world owes no man a living, but a democratic form of government is in duty bound so to shape its laws that everyone would have opportunity at least. It is just necessary o “talk common sense” as President Coolidge has advised us at one time and "to get down to brass tacks.” as Vice President Dawes a few years ago declared, otherwise, thousands will be compelled to "keep cool with Coolidge” or get very hot indeed with "Hell and Maria Dawes.” • Democrats ma ynot laugh, as their party has no remedy to offer as yet.) Democratic orators are surely light when they say “there never has been a time when there was a greater need for a return to the fundamental principles of democracy.” but, as usual, they do not specify. Thomas Jelferson. author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But of what avail is truthful utterance if some monopolize the earth, its natural resources and by speculation prohibit others from employing themselves unless a purchase or rental price is paid? The Scriptures say, "The heavens, even the heavens, are the Lord’s, but the earth He hath given to the children of men.” It does not say “to some of the children of men.” But of this more anon, with the kind permission of the editor. CHARLES H. KRAUSE. SR., 674 E. Drive, Woodruff Place.

Ts “tip-up” another name for field sparrow? A “tip-up” is the common North American spotted sand-piper. The field sparrow is a small American sparrow similar to the chipping sparrow, but has rustier upper parts and a red bill. They are entirely different birds.

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The Rules 1. The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, or a given number of strokes. Thus, to change COW to HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN. 2. You can change only one letter at a time. 3. Youmust have a complete word of common usage for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don’t count. 4. The order of letters can not be changed.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Aristotle Ends ‘The Age of Faith ’

Writ WHAT is scholasticism? Schole in Greek meant leisure; it came to mean also a school, because | schools were at first the luxury of a leisure class. Scholasticism is the j philosophy of the schools—i. e„ of those schools whose origins we have seen in studying Abelard. So defined, it means very little to us; and perhaps in no case can jit mean much in this alien age, I ; which lives by industry and science, 1 and not by art and faith. I Let us remember that these phili osophers and scientists whom we | shall consider now r were the distant; offspring of the barbarians who had conquered Rome: let us be sur- , prised, not at their errors and pre- ! judices, but at the courage with ! which the fought their way up j through a sea of dogma and super- i stition to the renewal of reason and j the resurrection of science. Scholasticism was medieval philosophy attempting to reconcile me- : I dievil faith with human reason; it j ! was an effort that deserved to be j made; and its failure was a neces- j sary step towards that great eight- , eenth century enlightenment which is the real beginning of modern history. Abelard was the rosy down of me- j dieval thought, the bright and- - troublesome youth who lias just learned the fascinating game of dialectic and debate. But his love of reason was in his time exceptional; I we have seen how Bernard barked j all good sheep away from the werewolf back into the fold of faith; and Abelard’s quondam teacher, j Anselm (1035-1109), had warned! reason against the vain effort to J make itself the base of faith. Dante's stupendous allegory gives ( the medieval mood: reason and wisdom (Virgil) bring him from hell to heaven’s gate, but only faith (Beatrice) can lead him in. a st tt ANSELM'S life shows this sides- j tic view at it's fairest. He was born at Aosta, in northern Italy; and his earliest memory was of a dream in which he tried to climb j the mountains to God’s palace—a ! seat . From that time on, his thoughts j hardly turned for a moment from i divinity; and when he came of age j to be a monk he placed himself in j the monastery of Bee. in France, be- > cause of the fame of it's Abbot,! Lanfranc, would make it impossible I for Anselm to rise there to that i fame which lured him as the last | temptation from humility and devat ion. But soon Lanfranc left and Anselm. because he was loved by all I and had shown himself an able | man, was made prior and abbot, j against his will. In a man of piety so simple and j profound, reason could not be rea- j son. it could only be an exposition I of a faith held secure in the heart j against any arguments of the head. | He writes a charming essay—- “ Cur Deus homo”—to explain why God had become man to redeem mankind: it is very clear, he says, that man could have been redeemed only by God; for man would have been the bond-servant of whoever i redeemed him, and it would have been beneath the dignity of man to j be bond-servant of any but God j himself. (There were millions of j bond-servants in Europe at that i moment.) And in the Proslogion he gives j his famous “ontological” < meta-, physical), proof of the existance of God: by definition God means the j greatest conceivable being; but the! greatest being would not be merely j in the mind, for there could be a j s ill greater being existing in reality: as well as in thought; therefore— i since by definition God is the great- j est being—He must exist in reality j as well as in the mind. And on this j basis Anselm proves that God pos- ! cesses omnipotence, omniscience and | übiquity. This is the infancy of reason, not rationality but rationalization. But Anselm was honest; he knew that the chasm between definition and existence could be bridged only by | faith; and he wrote his creed with | touching simplicity.

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ten for The Times by Will Du “T MAKE no attempt. Lord, to A penetrate Thy depths, for my intellect has no such reach; but I desire to understand some measure of Thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to know in order that I may believe; but I believe that I may know. “For I believe this also, that unless I shall have believed, I shall not understand.” It is the argument of mysticism forever; even today it hums in our ears from every fantastic creed. And yet so great a man and so profound a mind as Pascal could say that the heart has its reasons, which the head may never understand; and which of us can be sure that Pascal was wrong, and Abelard right? This world is so vast, and we are so little: our knowledge is a frail raft on a sea of infinite ignorance; let him who can believe be glad. But if we wish lo follow the adventure of reason we must pass Anselm by; credo ut, intelligam is the death of reason, and the enthronement of obscurantism, intolerance I and superstition. It was Aristotle who brought an I

Richmond Palladium U. S. Lesh, a former Attorney General of Indiana, who maintains a legal residence at Huntington. but lives in Indianapolis, where he practices law, has announced his candidacy for Governor subject to the Republican nomination at the approaching primary. Lesh, in other words, is a Marion County candidate. Does he come before us with any proof that the Coffin ring in Marion County has been cast out? No. Does he give us any assurance that he is joining with other decent Republicans to break the grip of the Coffin ring on Marion County and on the state? No. He says in a pubile statement he “if selected will regard it an imperative duty to conduct a vigorous campaign for the success or the entire ticket.” . Suppose that ticket has on it the names of men who have been associated in the worst political scandal Indiana has been shamed by? Do his own words not reassure the very men we want to get rid of that he will support them if he and any of them get on the ticket? Why vote for any man from Marion County for any nomination for public office until the Republicans of that county have cleaned house? Is this not the sole and only means the Republicans outside in the State have to use to make plain her duty to Marion County? Let us remember the name of Lesh and point it out to others as one to keep our pencils away from on the primary ballot. Trrro Haute Star Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom has bid defiance to the Klan and to the leaders of the Anti-Saloon League in Indiana in announcing his candidacy for the Republican senatorial nomination. He wishes it distinctly understood that he is personally and polit ically for prohibition. His quarrel is with some of those who have been carrying on the prohibition movement in this States. He is for permitting physicians to prescribe liquor if they see fit to do so. but is not in favor of repealing the Volstead act or the eighteenth amendment. He announces that he intends to call a spade a spade and proceeds to mention by name those against whom he plans to wage warfare on the stump. Mr. Gilliom is no pussyfooter. He was elected four years ago as Attorney Geenral in face of determined opposition on the part of the Ku-Klux Klan leaders. It has been no secret that he would welcome an opportunity to have a showdown with the remnants of that organization. He has been out in the open

rant end to the Age of Faith; from 1150 to 1225 translations from Syriac into Arabic, into Hebrew, into Latin; and when at last hi.s vast encyclopedia was made intelligible to the students of medieval Europe it was as if anew continent had swum into their ken; lo and behold, here was a philosopher without dogma to chain him, a nation without priests, a great civilization reared, precariously but nobly, on the shifting sands of reason. The Papal legate at Paris in 1215 forbade the universities to use these exotic books; but the students of those days were lured by prohibition as surely as students now; they read Aristotle all the more, and soon the schools were calling him Ille Philosophus—the Philosopher. In 1231 Gregory IX appointed a commission to expurgate him; by 1260 he had become de rigeur in every course of philosophy, and the scholars of Europe labored to absorb his lore, and prove him a good Christian. (Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

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and vigorous in his fight against Dr. Shumaker, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. It was through his initiative and effort that Dr. Shumaker was cited for contempt of the Supreme Court and was later sentenced to fin 3 and imprisonment on that charge. There will be no mincing of words on the part of Mr. Giiliom. His candidacy is bound to enliven the senatorial contest as almost nothing might have been expected to do. He proclaims that he is seeking a nomination at the hands of the Republican party and if it can not be had without the consent of those who. he declares, have tried with some degree of success to establish supergovernment in Indiana he prefers to be defeated. Win or lose, he promises political fireworks for a campaign that already has shown indications that there wlil be no dearth of spectacular features. Questions and Answers You can set an answer to any answerable question o£ fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby, Question Editor, The Indianapolis Times, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Avc., Washington. D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given,, nor can extended research be made. All other Question; will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All leters are confidential. You arc cordially invited to make Vise of this free service as often as vou please. EDITOR. What was the paid attendance at the recent Dempsey-Sharkey fight, and what proportion of the receipts did each boxer get? The paid attendance was 72,283 and the receipts $985,027, of which Dempsey got $270,882 and Sharkey $221,631. F' v can stains be removed from grani.e steps? Make a strong solution of lye by dissolving three pounds of washing soda in one gallon of water and lay it on the granite with a fiber paint brush. A bristie brush would be tuined by the soda. Scrub the stains and rinse with clear water. Does Mme. Ernestine Schumann“Heink live in the United States? Her home address is 800 Orange Ave., Coronado. Cal. Is a verbal contract as binding as a written one? A verbal contract is as binding as one that is written, even in the absence of witnesses; provided, that there is sufficient consideration, and a meeting of the minds as to the subject and nature of the contract. The instability of a verbal contract arises from the difficulty in proving it in case of a dispute.

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TRACY SAYS: “The Country Might Rate a, Billion Dollars for Ox Carts n\id Regard Itself Safe, but Who Believes It Would be?”

Peace organizations should bel satisfied with the Navy bill afj ‘passed by the House. It a greater victory for them than for the Administration Though authorizing the largest building program since 1916 it still falls 50 per cent short of what the Navy wanted. Secretary Wilbur gets fifteen cruisers where he asked for twentyfive, one airplane carrier where he asked for five and nothing at all where..he asked for thirty-two submarines nine destroyers. The seven or eight hundred million dollars which he proposed to spend has been whittled down to $274,000,000. Whether the Navy bill can be described as a victory for the "pacifists” it certainly is a victory for common sense. Seven hundred million dollars may not be too much for the United States to spend on this branch of the national defense, but it is too much to spend for the. kind of craft that. Secretary Wilbur and his advisers proposed. If national defense calls for one thing more than another, it is the last word in efficiency. No human activity turns so largely on the factor of inventiveness as war. The country might vote a billion dollars for ox-carts and regard itself safe, but who believes it would be? tt u tt World Not Yet Ideal This country cannot afford to neglect its navy for the sake of an ideal. Neither can it afford to go so far as to place itself in opposition to that ideal. As Chairman Butler pointed out in his concluding remarks, the navy bill squares not only with what this country wishes in theory, but with what existing conditions demand. Much as we would like to dwell in a world of peace and far as we are willing to go to bring it about, it were folly to suppose that we do dwell in a world of peace or that* we can bring it about by ourselves. tt a tt Honrs for Speed If the S-4 had been raised in three days, instead of three months, the country would ring with cheers, yet the longer time only proves the difficulties of the task. It is sad but true that the very thing which proves men’s mettle often robs them of applause. Speed plays a part in bringing honor these days, which is not so peculiar considering the part it plays in everything else. Many a feat gets more praise than it deserves for no better reason than it was quickly performed, and many an achievement gets less because it took longer than people expected. n tt a Beware Swelled Head It is not surprising tliat an order to purchase 3,000 shares of General Electric stock should be placed by •elephone from Berlin, but it intrigues the fancy. One never gets tired of contemplating such vivid evidence of how man is conquering time and space. Whether it means anything of constructive value, it certainly tickles our pride. The mere thought that we have done something, or even heard of something being done that was impossible for previous generations is a constant source of inspiration. But we must not forget that it is also a constant source of danger, and that if modern civilization should contract a swelled head because of its achievements, it would more than spoil the good they promise to accomplish. tt tt tt 40-Year Crime Secret Joab Banton, district attorney of New York says that a murder case loses half its strength from the prosecution standpoint in six months. If that is so. how much does it lose in forty years? Theoretical as this question seems, it may have to be answered by Michigan authorities, who are now searching for a man who is charged with having killed his father and seven other members of the family two generations ago. The charge comes about as the result of a confession which he is alleged to have made to his sweetheart when Grover Cleveland was President of the United States. She lias kept the secret all these years, she says, and might have kept it to the end had the murderer not appeared to her a short time ago and soon after the death of her husband proposing marriage and threatening violence if she refused. tt tt tt Shouldering the Blame Occasionally, old and well-nign , v .-* gotten crimes come to light In this way, but more often than not suen confessions, even though made voluntarily and publicly by those claiming to be the perpetrators, turn out f 1 *’— '--rt now, a New York iv ....outer is trying to make the police believe he killed Joseph B. Elwell eight years ago, but there are too many flaws in his story. In the same way, a man tried to make Texas officials believe he killed Florence Brown in Dallas. It is a curious circumstance, but unsolved murder mysteries seem to prey on weak minds. More than one man and woman has walked into a police static*}, confessed to murder and begged for trial on no other grounds than that thinking about some unsolved crime developed the hallucination that they did it. How old is Jane Cowl, the actress? When did she make her first appearance on the stage? She was born at Boston, Mass., Dec. 14. 1884, and made her first appearance on the stage at the Blasco Theater, New York, Dec. 10, 1903, in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs."