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The Fee System Ending of the fee system for county officials throughout the entire state is proposed in a measure by the board of accounts. Whether the salaries fixed in the measure are too much or too little is a debattalion question. There can be no debate over the statement that the fee system is vicious and should be abolished. In small counties, the fee system can only attract the inefficient. In counties where the revenues are large, tne system invites corruption. Lake county has never enjoyed a reputation in the state for purity of its The results there have at times 2*t*cmined the outcome in the entire state and have always been under suspicion of being manipulated. Lake county also has offices that under the fee system pay their incumbents more money than is paid to the President of the United States. Especially vicious is the fee system as applied to the prosecuting attorney, whose fees, so says the accountants, run to the' amazing figure of over $90,000 a year. Much of this revenue comes from the $65 fee in the dry law, extended to mean that every common drunk case is brought within this provision. This fee has brought no perceptible decrease in the number of drunks, which, of course, w-as the object of the provision, if it had any object beyond the pockets of prosecutors. The same condition exists in some other industrial counties which have not yet abandoned the fee system. There are very few lawyers in the state, or in any state, whose private practice of law brings them any such return as that of the Lake county prosecutor and certainly no lawyer in the legislature would be bold enough to suggest that the legal work of the northern prosecutor is worth any such generous payment. The salary of every official should be fixed. It thopld be large enough to properly compensate for tire work done and to remove the official from the temptation to graft. When fees are so large, it is inevitable that a political machine will be constructed to grab the perquisites and when this machine operates, it inevitably corrupts the entire state. If no other measure Is passed by the present legislature, this one should surely become a law. Henry Ford, Reformer Henry Ford’s latest blast is against capital punishment. His occasional thrusts at social maladjustments are the more effective because he is not a professional reformer and because his arguments are of the practical type which appeal to the American public. He is the Ben Franklin of our time. Characteristically, he denounces capital punishment on the ground that it is a waste—a waste of that most valuable of all material, human material. In predicting that the capital punishment bill before the Michigan state legislature 'will not pass, Ford says: “Take a man’s life and he is still that for which his life was taken. Put him to w’ork and he becomes something else. More and better jobs will help to change the crime situation.” Ford’s aid would be of real benefit in the new campaign started by the League to Abolish Capital Funishment and such penologists as Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing. Here are the league’s arguments: Capital punishment is not a deterrent. It is irrevocable, even for the innocent. Jury opposition to it reduces the convictions m murder cases. It is a public advertisement of murder. It is demoralizing to prison officials and inmates. It inflicts shame and suffering on innocent relatives. It makes the state a murderer. But the, concluding argument of the league is practically the same as Ford’s: “The business of the modern community is to reform the offender.”

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address oi the author must accompany every contribution but on reauest will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times —I want to congratulate you on. and show my appreciation of. your splendid editorial on Thursday; “Is Economy a Joke?** I think you are doing the taxpaying public in geneial a fine service to bring these things to their notice. I am glad that we have one editor in Indianapolis who isn fc afraid to take up any matter in behalf of the public. We are all for paved roads as last as we can get them and are willing to pay the cost. But it certainly is nothing more than fair and just that the public should know that its money is being spent to the best possible advantage. The present policy of the road commission. that before a road is paved in a county, the county commissioners must make appropriations to dover 1 the new rights of way and in some ! cases part of the paving cost, which of course is an additional road tax. and now proposing to levy an additional tax on gasoline and license, certainly should justify the checking up of the whole situation. If the state road commission by law has no authority to condemn lands for rights of way. the same having to be done by the county authorities, it seems to me in all fairness that the road commission 'hould be em.i'vwered to pay that expense ins*/*d of having it collected from county taxpayers. I think it's time we should have i a real state road system. At present there is too much delay. Too much. I think, is demanded of all the counties. I think the whole thing needs overhauling. First of all, cut out the politics and put men on the commission j who are trained and expert in build-1 ing roads, pay them accordingly,! and let the state sell our bonds to j get the money. Without delay, pro-! ced to give us a complete state road system, to be paid for by every taxpayer according to his ability to pay. Tt is not my intention to try to discredit the good work of Mr. Wil-

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liams as director of the road commission. I think he is a gentleman and a man of high business ability. Probably no other man would have done better under the sam conditions. It’s the system I disapprove of, and I think I am expressing the views of a vast majority of the public. Again I want to commend you for your courage and ability in the fights you have waged in the last few years to free our state from the rottenness that held it -vby the throat. I wish we had more editors like you. OSCAR HOUSTON. Ellettsville, Ind. Editor Times —Who is this Arthur Gresham who sets himself up as the spokesman of all soldiers, sailors and marines? Did he personally conduct a questionnaire and ask each veteran where he stood on the bonus question? It is my opinion that he is only playing to the grand stand, and that his statement is about as reliable and informative on the subject as mine would be on the selection of Hoover's cabinet. In all public questions there is always some self-elected person who rushes to the front of the platform and in loud tones says, “we don’t want this.’’ Because at the time he clothed in a little brief authority and is suffering from an inflated ego. he uses the pronoun “we” a little recklessly, to say tfee least. In arriving at his blanket opinion on th' bonus question. Mr. Crush am did not Consult me. and from inquiries I’ve made there are many other veterans who did not receive a questionnaire on the subject. Perhaps I being only a private in the rear rank, my esteemed contemporary did not think it necessary to consult anyone who had his thinking done for him during the war. As for the tax burden—did that august body, the legislature, think of the poor, overburdened taxpayers when they so lightly voted millions for the World war memorial? Hie memorial may be all right for those who are not so busy trying to eke out an existence that they have

Denby Edwin B. Denby, w r ho died yesterday in Detroit, was the most pathetic figure of the many pulled down by the sordid scandals of the Harding administration. It was his ill fortune to be a well-meaning person among clever and unscrupulous “friends.” From the time he went out as a boy to the far east with his father, who was minister to China, Denby was popular. Asa lawyer he had no difficulty in winning election to the Michigan legislature and to congress. In the world war he found it easy to rise from marine private to major His appointment by President Harding as secretary of the navy was acclaimed widely. But three years later his resignation was demanded by the senate and the public generally. The worst he was charged with was negligence. He signed the papers that transferred the Teapot Dome and Elks Hills naval oil reserves to Secretary of the Interior Fall and permitted Sinclair and Doheny to grab the oil. Without Denby’s act, of course, there could have been no Teapot Dome scandal. Afterward he continued to argue that those deals were in the public interest. But the public preferred to believe the United States supreme court that in the Teapot Dome case “Fall had been willing to conspire to defraud the United States,” and that in the Elk Hills lease “the whole transaction was tainted with corruption.” Though of all the major officials stained by the Harding administration scandals, Denby was least guilty of deliberate fault, he apparently suffered more than Fall. Sinclair, Doheny, Daugherty, Forbes, Miller, and the others. ■** ' When the blow fell, he could have put the responsibility on the White House or some of his cabinet associates. But he took the blame. Hoover Wins Again President-Elect Hoover apparently has “persuaded” Senator Smoot and the old line G. O. P. leaders in congress that there is to be no high tariff feast in the special session this spring. With many of the “angels” of the Republican campaign fund insisting on general upward revision and the politicians ready to do their bidding, Hoover’s feat is remarkable. He says immediate tariff revision will be limited to the increases pledged for farm relief. And, after more or less fuming, the stalwart Smoot seems to have decided that this administration is going to be run by Hoover and not by the big manufacturers. Doubtless the politicians will try to put through the higher tariff plan again, but there is good reason toexpect that the new President will be able to handle them as effectively next time. This is not the first Hoover victory. Last month a dominant group of Republican leaders arranged to evade the party pledge by passing inadequate farm relief legislation at the present short session, and have no special session of congress. The Presidentelect overruled them. These evidences of leadership in domestic affairs, following his brilliant good will tour of Latin-Amer-ica, should be heartening to the millions who voted for Hoover. A Look Will Do No Harm The senate has decided wisely to look into the proposed sale of the Leviathan and other large shipping board vessels to D. C. Chapman & Cos. of New York. The desire of the shipping board seems to be to get all the American vessels into private hands as soon as possible, regardless of the future effect this may have upon the merchant marine. As Senator McKellar has pointed out, there are some features of the present deal which require more light. It will do no harm to delay the negotiations sufficiently to give the public all the facts.

time to gaze at it, but a veteran broken in health as a result of the war, feels as though he were monument enough to remind him of what took place in that period. M. A. PRATT. Editor Times—Replying to P. Mathis as to why Gresham opposes the soldier bonus bill now before the legislature, I would like to say that he opposes it for the same reason that many thousands of other tax burdened citizens oppose it. To my way of thinking, the man who stayed at home and labored in the shops and factories, often denying himself many of the comforts of life to support the army, is just as much entitled to compensation as the man who went to war, but do you see any of the military organizations rushing to the legislature with a bill to pension them, no, it is a one-sided affair with the slogan, get all you can. I do not believe there is a man or woman in Indiana who would not be willing to vote for a bill to help any soldier or sailor who was disabled in the sendee and who is in need, but there are too many extservice men who want to live without work, and this “gimme” business is beginning to get on peoples’ nerves. The bonus bills have been the means already by which many narrow gauge politicians have been elevated to powe- and the sooner it is ended the better for both soldier and the taxp-r jer. I am an ex-service man. having served with the First Temiessee regiment in the Philippine insurrection, but I never have asked for even a small pension for two reasons: First, because I do not believe that I am entitled to it, and second, because I do not believe in commercializing patriotism. W. H. MONTGOMERY. What part did Mabel Scott play in the motion picture, “Behold My Wife?” Lali, a half-breed. What is the area of the earth? The superficial area of the earth is 196,940.000 square miles, 139,686,000 square miles of water and 57,255,000 square miles of land.

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M.E. TRACY SAYS: “Where We Are Going, No One Can Guess, hut We Certainly Are on Our Way.”

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 9. A gasoline war has been raging up and down the Pacific Coast. Though of brief duration, it already has caused quite a few casualties and a big yell for relief. Independent retailers assert that big companies have cut the price to freeze them out. Agents of the federal department of justice have been making an investigation and the federal trade commission has been asked to take a hand. In Los Angeles, gasoline has been selling at 15 cents, though the wholesale price was 14VJ. and no less than ; forty independent . filling stations have failed. In San Francisco, the big companies are said to have agreed on a wholesale price 6 cents lower than the retail price. Big companies declare that the retail price should be 21 cents, but that filling stations have been selling at 16 cents and garages at 17. a a a If Big Boys Are Rough THE moral of the situation is that little fellows can not stand it when the big boys get rough. That is something we did not use to believe. Fifty, or even twenty-five years ago, w*regarded price cutting as a good thing, no matter how it started, or whom it hurt. “Competition is the life of trade,” we chorused: “bust the trust, keep the good old cutthroat game going and let the devil take the hindermost, while honest John Public heaps a just reward.” Now we are not so sure. It looks unsportsmanlike to let an outfit like Standard Oil hop a little chap at some crossroads and put him out of business by setting up a competition in which he has no chance. Organized capital, mass production and systematized business has caused us to change our minds with regard to many things. We can not protect ourselves against the ruthlessness of a machine age on a free-for-all basis. a a a Bull Markets STOCKS fall a few points Thursday and Representative Black of New York demands a congressional probe Friday. Fast work, though not too fast to save the paper profits. Representative Black seems to think the federal reserve board acted in a' tyrannical way when it advanced the rediscount rate and issued a warning against “excessive speculation.” Possibly it did. Possibly we should have let an addle-pated public go right on pouring water into the capital investment of major industries until the bubble bursts. Possibly we should have allowed the country to continue kidding itself with the idea that the rise in stocks meant more money for business, when, as a matter of common sense, it meant more of a burden. We have had these bull markets before, and history shows what happened when they were permitted to run their course without restraint.

Now, an Electric 'Eye' WE have drifted far into mechanized life, but not as far as we shall. The future is simply vibrant with revolutionary inventions. Where we are going, no one can guess, but we certainly are on our way. “The field of electricity barely has been scratched,” declares E. M. Herr, president of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. No one can follow even a small part of what is occurring every day without realizing that Mr. Herr Is right. * Last Thursday night John F. Briesky of the same company demonstrated an "electric eye” in New York, which watched while he dropped a match in a pail of kerosene and gasoline, and turned on a. fire extinguisher too quickly for those in the audience to realize what had happened. n n n Mechanical Men? MANY people take a gloomy view of what such devices portend. In their opinion, the human race is headed for a kind of slavery worse than that of the dark ages. They picture men and women as shackled to shaft and pulley, as mere automatons, incapable of independent thinking and doomed to a life in which romance, adventure or personal thrill can play no part. Even such a clear-minded scholar as Lord Birkenhead falls an easy victim to this pessimistic complex. Within 150 years, he says, we will be having synthetic milk, if not synthetic babies, shall be employing the newest Einstein theory to slow up the world until the day has been lengthened to forty-eight h*vrs, shall be working than two hours a day and living twice as iorig as we do now. V B Good With the Bad ADMITTING the possibility, though it seems preposterous in some respects, why imagine that it contains no compensating values, no unforeseen blessings to make up for the defects, no opportunities for human nature to function as of yore? We have had considerable of a revolution during the last 100 years —such a revolution as has changed many routine customs and conventions. yet we remain pretty much like our great-grandfathers, or great-grandfathers, in all the essentials—hoping, loving, fearing, hating, aspiring, doubting, believing along the same old lines. j

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THE HUMAN BODY AND ITS CARE—N v O. 3 1 Infections of Youth Take Toll After 45

The third article es Dr. Fishbein’s interesting series of seven articles on 'Whe Human Body and Its Care" is presented- here. The series, in pamphlet form, can be obtained from the American Library Association, 86 East Randolph street, Chicago. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygreia, the Health Magazine. THE chief factors in death after 45 years of age are heart disease, pneumonia, high blood pressure, cancer, brain hemorrhage and kidney disease. Among the causes of these conditions, so far as known, are infections sustained early in life, particularly of the nose, throat, tonsils and sinuses, infections of the teeth, and spots of infection elsewhere in the body from which germs are carried to the heart, the kidneys and blood vessel walls. These early infections are themselves associated with poor personal hygiene, with overcrowded living conditions, with residence in damp places and with undue exposure to the elements. Any of these factors, as can easily be realized, is controllable only by social and economic movements w'hich are only secondarily within the province of medicine. Upon pneumonia much research is being done, and it is reasonable to believe that it will be conquered eventually, because the germ cause is known, and ft remains only for science to find a technique for increasing specific- resistance. Cancer is today almost as great a mystery as it was twenty-five years ago. Indeed, some scientists and philosophers insist that senility or

Reason

STIMSON, said to be slated for secretary of state by Hoover, was an element in the downfall of the Progressive party, it really dying in 1914 when R .osevelt told the Republicans of New York that he would support Stimson for Governor if they nominated him. That deolaration amputated the antlers of the Bull Moose. Lindy has not ridden by rail since flying the Atlantic and while he has run a risk, he has escaped paying George for brushing invisible dust from his coat, also inhaling the super-heated, poisoned atmosphere of coaches. ft St St John Hanson of Ashland. Wis., broke all the glass in his Lizzie and tore out her gizzard and epiglottis because the poor girl wouldn t start. Had his rage occurred before universal suffrage, Hanson would have taken it out on his wife. B B tt Columbia college’s perpetual student. William Kemp, is dead at 78. An ancestor left him an annuity so long as he was in college, so Kemp stayed in college. He acquired thirteen degrees and his ambition was to high-hat the thermometer. It it It Tv'" 1 eminent Buckeyes have been convinced this week, one a million- ; aise and the other the state treasurer, both occurring in court. If all our state courts could go fishing for a year and all crimes be tried in Federal courts, the crime wave would recede. # * King Victor Emanuel knew his business to congratulate Mussolini on the sixth anniversary of the Fascist government, for Mussolini might have taken away his crown and handed him his hta, had he not turned this little bit of punk. B B B The Supreme court of Mexico has decided that all marriages contracted between 1913 and 1918 are void, but this w T on’t effect any Americans who were married down there, for all of them ha£e been divorced ling ago. n tt n A Michigan gentleman has been sent up fer life for stealing beans, and a lot of people ought to be sent up for spilling them.

Seeing Shadows

old age is a sort of cancer of the entire human body. The degenerative diseases,' however—resulting from the wearing out of tissues—come on gradually, but are easily detectable by simple tests such as can be made by any competent physician. Knowing that the human being is more controlled by sentiment than by sense, the campaign for prevention of these diseases includes what is know'n as the periodic physical examination with the suggestion that each human being have a complete physical examination on his birthday. Any one who owns a good motor car is likely to take it into the shop at least once every three months for a general examination and for correction in their early stages of any developing defects. It seems quite logical, therefore, to urge that a similar procedure be adopted with the human body—just as valuable a machine as any motor car. With all this, however, one must take into account the fact that it is the kind of body conferred on a man by his ancestors which is of the greatest importance in determining his length of life. Highly technical researches made by Raymond Pearl and others indicate that the length of life is a matter of heredity and that, harring accident and severe infection, the total years of a man’s life are somewhat well determined by his birth. Hence the proper care of the human machine is concerned not so much with total years as with physical qualifications and freedom from pain and disease during those years.

** * By Frederick LANDIS

COMPLAINT is made that members of the National House of Representatives do not attend the sessions, but this always has been so. At times, the floor is abandoned, save for the presiding officer, the statesman speaking and the stenographer, but let a leader speak and the seats fill rapidly. And almost all the time there’s a hum of conversation w'hich sounds like a hundred swarms of bees.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM BV W. W. WENTWORTH

39. FAILING TO WIN FIRST TRICK TO FORCE ESTABLISHMENT ;F SUIT. North sfDuiamy)4k 6 5 6 4 3 O A 3.2 4k Q J 10 6 3 • lx West— • EastLeads Q. 5 South (Declarer) — 4k Q 10 8 3 <0 A K Q OKB 7 4 * A 9

The Bidding—South bids notrump and all pass. > Deciding the Play—West leads 5 of diamonds. How should Declarer proceed to make game? The Error—Declarer takes first trick with ace of diamonds and then finesses queen of clubs which is won by West with king of clubs, thus blocking the club suit and sacrificing game. The Correct Method—Declarer

Os course, all of the years of man’s life at an advanced age are not an unmixed blessing. It is not so much the years as what one can do with them. Much of the freedom of the human being from disease depends on w'hat he eats and how he disposes of it. Numerous studies have shown that for every human being there is an optimum weight for health. Not all of us are either greyhounds or Newfoundlands fn our body built. The American represents a combination >pf numerous races and peoples and we have among us the tall, thin product of England; the round and broad German, and short and active French; the stalwart Norwegian and the excitable Latin. Certainly it is the height of folly to think that such varied people should all attempt to develop a certain body form. Nevertheless, it is the tendency of fashion to demand such conformation and the results not infrequently are the symptoms of ill health. Studies made by one of the greatest life insurance companies have shown that overweight after middle life is definitely associated with a shortening of life. ■' As expressed by an Indiana farmer, pigs would live longer if they didn’t make such hogs of themselves. The human being as he passes middle age tends to diminish at either end and to increase about the middle. Unquestionably the factor of body weight is significant. All books on hygiene published in recent years discuss its importance. Next: Health, Fads and Fancies.

AMPUTATED ANTLERS LINDY ESCAPED LOTS BEATING lIIS LIZZIE

THAT was a, beautiful thing for the American Legion to do over at Effingham, 111., when it buried an old Confederate veteran with military honors. With the reconciliations since Appomattox, the United States is stronger today than it would be, had there been no civil war. A government is the only vessel which is stronger for having been broken and mended. a a a Personality is the outstanding thing in human relations. The new man in the machine shop, the laboratory, or the business office may pass his seniors because he has vision, audacity, originality, just as this Lieutenant Hennekin of the Marine Corps passed all his military superiors and captured this r;bel general down in Nicaragua.

should win the first trick with king of diamonds, then play ace of clubs and 9 of clubs, overtaking with queen of clubs if king of clubs is not forced, continuing clubs until it is forced. The ace of diamonds now serves as the re-entry to make the remaining clubs and game can not be prevented. 1 The Principle—When holding a suit, headed by queen-jack-10 in dummy, and A-X in closed hand or vice versa, it is usually a winning play to capture the first trick. < Copyright. 1929. Ready Reference Publishing Company) THIS DATE IN U. S. HISTORY Feb. 9 1773—Birthday of William H. Harrison, ninth President. 1814—j Birthday of Samuel J. Tilden, American statesman. 1825—John Q. Adams elected President by vote of thirteen states in congress. 1861—Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy. 1865—Lee assumed command of all confederate forces. 1867—Confress admitted Nebraska over the presidential veto.

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IT SEEMS TOME a m By HEYWOOD BROUN

Utti and opinion* expressed In this c oI o es n ere those of one of Aaerica’* most Interesting writer* end ere pretented without retard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this . paper. The Editor.

AN EXCELLENT resolution for all Americans public life would be an agreement for one year to refrain from saying, “We are the wealth!:,:t of nations.” It is good for a country to be rich. It is no handicap to the individual. But it is not one of the things about which one should talk continually. Sam Bernard used to play a comic character in a musical show whose never ending refrain ran. “Mi’ Name's Hoggenheimer—l'm rich.” The gentleman was presented as a ludicrous and somewhat contemptible figure. A nation is just as ill-mannered as a person, if it flaunts too aggres- | sively. There's more than envy j back of my boredom in watching the dancing of the dollars. To be more specific, the finest achievements in the the"ter are not to be attained by frantic lavishness. They say the drama is on its last legs and it is true that some of the managers are flinging gold about as if there were no tomorrow. a a a How Much? AT THE Earl Carroll theater I witnessed “Fioretta” and probably no more costly show ever has been splashed upon a New York stage. At the end of the first act the entire trend of conversation in the lobby ran to the problem of how much it might have cost. Three hundred thousand dollars was a common estimate. In justice to Carroll, it must be said that he had mixed some good taste with his greenbacks. Now and again a rare loveliness parades across his stage. But in the case of cloth of gold, and cloth of silver,' too, it seems to me that the first hundred yards are the most magnificent. In fact, I found myself in complete agreement with Miss Texas Guinan, who remarked, “Anybody can put on a show with all those clothes. The trick is to put one on without any clothes at all.” * According to the Broadway legend, which may be mythical like all the others, the capital for the vast production was supplied by the aunt of the young composer. And though the lady may have millions, I doubt if she can make the la.d a Wagner. Indeed, I wonder if there is enough money in the world to make him an Irving Berlin. a a a From Groucho NO MORE Marxes—The names of various members of the Marx troupe have figured in this column a shade too frequently. Accordingly, I will agree to mention not one of them until the early days of summer. But first I feel under the necessity of printing a letter from Groucho that a recent remark in “It Seems to Me” reflected upon him adversely. “You ought to have your mouth washed out with soap,” he begins in friendly fashion. Thereupon he continues: . “Things have come to a pretty pass, as the dice player remarked, when* American womanhood must be defended by an ogling roue like the notorious Heywood Broun. “You all bettah take care yo’self, Broun. The hot southern blood of the Marxes is boiling. I don’t mind telling you that Chico was all for caning you. Hippo said nothing but started to clean out the family shotgun. “And hot-headed Harpo swore that he’d beat you to a pulp with his own brawny fists. But a cooler head prevailed. The boys listened to me, the master of invective, “You brazen-faced slanderer, how dare you publicly state that there’s no American actor fit to lace Ethel Barrymore’s shoes. What about the Marx brothers? What, to be more specific, about me? “You probably can’t remember far back enough to recall the time that I laced Jenny Lind’s shoes. What a Jlurry it caused in Castle Garden. Look it up in the file. Surely you remember the D’viae Sarah’s first visit to the United States. Don’t you remember her ultimatum? “Not a step would she take on an American stage unless I laced her shoes. I laced the shoes of Maude Adams, Duse, Minnie Fiske and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. And once I laced Sophie Tucker’s corset!” a a a Those Groceries TO, YOU cur, you imply that we v3 have no actors as good as our leading actresses. Maybe not—but what about the Cherry Sisters? Have we any actors that terrible? “When did any actors have to play behind a wire screen as the Cherry Sisters did? When did any brother act collect in a single performance fifteen pounds of lamb chops, four doien eggs, nineteen heads of cabbage and a half crate of tomatoes? “Having disposed of that statement, we proceed to your other canard. Current musical comedies are not supported wholly by frantic females.. It is not for the feminine fans that Godiva rides again in Ziegfeld’s show or Dorothy Knapp appears diaphanous in an Earl Carroll production. “Is that true of ‘Animal Crackers ?’ Is it for truck drivers that Chico and Zeppo drape their forms, that Harpo bares a heavy chest and I appear in a bath suit that reveals every sinuous curve of my voluptuous figure? ‘“ls it men who write to Chico for autographed pictures: who wait at the stage door for Zeppo; who send mash notes to Harpo and jewels to me? No, Broun, and you know it isn’t.” Where was the “land of Goshen” that is mentioned in the Bible? In Egypt. How many Jews are there In the world? The Jewish Year Book for 1927 says that the total Jewish population of the world is more than 14,600,000. -