Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1931 — Page 28

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NATION'S HEADS REFUSE LISTING IN PHONE BOOK Only Close Friends Know Numbers of Higher Officials. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.—'The national capital Is Ailed with persons ’vho know many secrets, including ’he telephone girls. Among the secrets which the telephone girls know are the private numbers of high officials—and they won't tell you. There are more private telephone numbers here than in any other city in the world. The practice extended from the Cabinet and now one senator, the very wealthy Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, has a private number for his luxurious new home n the S street neighborhood where the Hoovers used to live, where many other officials now live, and where are the homes once occupied by Woodrow’ Wilson, William Howard Taft and Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin Number Changed Often Ts you d;op in town some night end want to talk to your favorite cabinet officer, you’d better just go around camp in front of his house In the first place, for most of them nre not listed in the phone book. Ts you had some farm problem and wanted to talk with Secretary oi Agriculture Hyde, yoa could get him op the telephone, because he lives In a hotel. Former Secretary of Labor Davis could be reached over the telephone, as can his successor, William N. Doak, who lives over in Virginia. So can Secretary of Navy Adams and Postmaster-General Brown. But there’s no use in looking in the phone book for Secretary of State Stimson, or Secretary of War Hurley, or All orn ey - General Mitchell, or Secretary of Treasury Mellon—and the information girl won’t help you any. These high officials retire only to be called by a few close friends* when they leave their offices and go home at night. And the numbers are changed occasionally to be doubly sure. President Not Listed The city telephone directory is no help either to find out who ie President of the United States—if you didn't happen to know. Herbert Hoover’s name is not in the telephone book. The only Hoover you can get by calling the White House is k head usher by that name, unless you have special official business and can prove that you have. In that case, you can reach Mr. Herbert Hoover through the main White House switchboard, that is, you may reach him. The Vice-President is not surrounded with so much ceremony. Charles Curtis is listed along with the Browns, the Joneses and the Smiths. You can’t much blame these people who won’t have their phones listed. They’d be sitting by the telephone most of the time. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is listed in the telephone directory. He wasn’t though when he was secretary of state.

INJURED MAN LOSES IN SUIT FOR $40,000 Train Struck Automobile En Route to Hospital with Patient Eii Times Special LAGRANGE, Ind., Feb, 27.—A Lagrange circuit court jury return'd a verdict for the defendant in the $40,000 suit of Robert V. Young of Elkhart against the' Big Four railroad. He sought damages for injuries suffered Oct. 23. 1927, ■when an automobile he was riding was struck by a train. At the time, of the accident, the automobile was being driven at high speed to a hospital, carrying Louis Tumock. suffering from injuries sustained in a football game. He received additional injuries in the crash as did Ralph G. Hart and Steven Turnoek. Two others in the car, Nick Carlo and Dick Dirlam escaped with scratches. Hart has a. $50,000 damage suit pending.

Interesting Letters Mother, to regain my strength. :>* . .Xt...- such a weakened state The Crown of Womanhood ° fwwass f 1 f ** around to do my work. I was told that nothing but an operate motherhood. But many women face the ordeal of tion would help my case. I would not consent to maternity without sufficient preparation. At such this. 1 finally made up my maid to try Dr. Pierce’s times and later, the mother should take a vegetable Prescription, and .it restored me to health _ . . . . , __ j . . , , without having to submit to an operation.”—Mrs. Earl onic sold by druggists and known in almost every Hawkins, 511 Bates St * home as Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. If vou need medical advice, write to Dr. Pierce's Clinic La Porte, Ind.—“l have. taken Dr. Pierce’s Fain Buffalo, N. Y. Enclose the question blank found write Prescription and have recommended it to wrapped around all Dr. Pierce’s medicines and re- many ’ !t was *** helpful to me during expectancy- , . my health was better and I experienced less trouble e p ofessional ad Ice, free, or, send 10c for when I took the ’Prescription.’ I have also taken it acquaintance package of Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Pre- for nervousness, sleeplessness, and when weak, worn cnpfion. Thousands of women have testified as to out and rundown. Every time I took it I got the help its efficacy. Space permits us to publish only a few i was seeking.”—Mrs. Minnie A. Schultz. 310 J St., of the letters w have received from this vicinity. La Porte, Ind. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Write Dr Pierce’s Clinic, Buffalo. N. Y„ enclosing the question blank found wrapped around medicine and receive free medical sdvice. f , -

A BELOVED MEMORY COMES TO LIFEAGAIN The Joyous Spirit of Jack Donahue in Life Is Felt Again in “Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma.” BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SOMEHOW just now, I appreciate the loss of two great men in the world of laughs more than I ever have. After finishing “Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma,” which was completed by Jack Donahue shortly before his sudden death last October, I felt a certain void. My thoughts went back to the great joy that the beloved Kin Hubbard and his "Abe Martin” had given the world in print. And then I had the thought that I must think of Kin and Jack at the same time. Two lovely memories that will live on because of their books.

I am really grateful that Donahue was spared long enough to finish I “Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma,” ' which has just been published by j Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. Donahue has caught the gorgeous pathos and comedy behind the footlights as experienced by a “hoofer” who graduated from the one hour stands of the smallest vaudeville in the east. t These imaginary letters of Jack to his “Ma,” whom he loving addressed ! as “Dear Mud” and “Dear Mopsy.” Oh, there is glorious comedy of i life interwoven in these letters. The I “mother” in these letters is the type who worries about Mr son taking | off his long winter underwear in i the year 1910 and is frightened to see that her son is taking on swell airs. In one letter, Jack writes that he has bought a cane and is sporting it in public. Mother writes in answer: “Your father says for you to get rid of that cane before you come home. He'd never hear the end of it at the navy yard.” And whe,n Jack spent $1.50 for a bathing siift,” the mother wrote in horror, “We don’t see how one bathing suit could cost you $1.30 unless as your father says it has a lot of lace on it.” The Best of All The'best one of all is when Jack writes his mother about mistaking a female impersonator on the same bill with him ior a lady. Jack made a date with “her” before the performer had removed his wig. But Jack recites that he did take the guy out for coffee and doughnuts after the show. Jack writes, “He’s only a kid and very artistic. You should see some of the scarfs and handkerchiefs he makes for his friends.” Mother writes back, “1 never heard of a real man making handkerchiefs although your father’s brother Neil did used to do a little fancy needlework when he Was on the fire department in Bayonne, and there was an excuse for him, with all the time on his hands ” And Another Gem I cried when I read this one when his mother writes for money from her son because father had been on a spree. Mother writes, “Please remember that it costs almost as much to sober your father up as to get him drunk and I must have something from you this week.” “Letters of a Hoofer to His Ma” is the sweetest and most human bit of fun I have read in many a month. I appreciate more than ever the glorious spirit of Jack Donahue. You know that I went to Nelson Trowbridge’s theater in Cincinnati, 0., to see Donahue in “Son’s o’ Guns,” but he was too ill to appear He died a few days later. But death can not wipe out the sweet memories of this man because

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