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The First Chance While careful reading of the prohibition plank adoprea oy the Indiana Republican convention fails to disclose any pledge to repeal trv Wright bone dry law, there is no question but that it was so intended. Unquestionably the Democratic state convention will take an even more positive stand when it meets next week. There can be no question as to the majority sentiment on this matter. The disgust of the average citizen with the hypocrisy that came with the Indiana law, the tyranny and persecution that accompanied It, the mockery of giving prosecutors a special fee in all such cases, the filling of penal farms and reformatories under its authority, has reached the point of active protest. The Republican leaders, who in other years obeyed the will of the professional dry forces, saw only defeat unless a pledge that appeared on the surface to repeal this law was given to the public. The first chance to repeal that law will be in the special session. It can be legitimately looked upon as tax legislation, inasmuch as it is the source of great expense to the public. There was never any reason for a state enforcement act that differed from the Volstead act. It was put there as a gesture by the political hypocrites who wished to disguise their servility to predatory interests. A drive to repeal the Wright law in the special session would help to clear the atmosphere for the fall election. Only One Escape Once again the people are given evidence that regulation of public utilities is a name rather than a reality and that the only real escape for these people is through public ownership. The arguments made in behalf of the water company in its efforts to retain its revenue are plausible. The company has its difficulties. If it lowers its rates to the small consumer and abandons the old practice of making three-fifths of the people pay for water they did not use, it must increase the rates to the owners of apartments and factories. When it raises the rates to the large users, it invites the competition from artesian wells. If a large number of these wells are drilled, the rate to the small consumer will again be raised. In the meantime the cities of this and all other states which own their water supply have no such troubles or quarrels. These publicly owned plants return a profit to the people year after year. The rates are lower. There is a surplus for expansion. No city should be at the mercy of any private company for this prime necessity of life. Indianapolis is the largest city which is still under private ownership. The other cities learned better years ago. Even if the public service commission were so minded, any rate question can be kept in courts for months and years. The short way out is to der • and an easy legal method of obtaining municipal o* > ship. The Bonus Vote • The house in Monday’s vote on the Patman resolution to consider the $2,400,000,000 bonus made plain the hopelessness of their cause to the thousands of Veterans now pouring into Washington. The vote to consider the bonus received 226 votes. This is far from enough to pass it over the certain presidential veto that awaits, should it weather senate opposition. While this vote was a warning to the patient men of the “bonus expeditionary forces” that they must fail of their immediate purpose, there is warning also to the government in their presence at the capitol’s door. This is a warning that the President ayd congress must not let technicalities or partisanship delay adequate and immediate federal relief for America’s hungry. This, of course, means relief for veterans and their families, as well as others. The encampment of war veterans in makeshift tents, shacks, and other half-shelter on the Potomac flats dramatizes this country's tragic need. If young and husky ex-soldiers are so desperate that they march afoot, pack themselves in trucks, or commandeer freight trains to travel from the nation’s most distant corners to plead for relief, what must be happening to the stay-at-homes? What of the old folks, the babies, the sick, the millions of others who have not been trained to hardship by war? For more than two years, relief agencies, social workers, mayors, Governors and others have been calling for help from the White House and congress. Until now r their cries have been unheeded. If the veterans’ march on Washington has no other effect than to make the government listen, their failure to get the bonus will not be all failure. Indeed, it will be success in a larger way. Fortunately, congress has before it a relief measure that should reconcile quickly all differences. It is ths compromise Wagner bill. The sooner this bill is passed and signed, the better for the United States. Let It Be Clear-Cut After twelve years in which those evasive words, “We believe in law enforcement,” have been the Republican party’s only contribution to the nation’s most troublesome issue, a definite expression on prohibition is demanded in Chicago. This nation is entitled to such expression. There should be no weasel-words—no more evasion. The decision should be clear-cut. Such decision, can be secured by this process: 1. A vote on repeal by state conventions, as distinct frem state legislatures. 2. That the vote be by delegates chosen at special state elections, called for the purpose of passing on the single prohibition issue. Any other progrom means inclusion of other issues and a clouded verdint Therefore, those two rules should govern Apart from the unused and roundabout national constitutional convention method provided by the Constitution, that document allows submission through congress either to state legislatures or to state conventions. The submission must propose a change from the present order—not retention of the present order. This is covered by Article 6, on amendments. Submission to the legislatures, as distinguished from conventions, would throw prohibition in among the various cross currents that run in any legislative assembly. The strategy and the trading that characterize a legislative session, ranging everywhere from a school-book contract to the location of a state in-

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stitution, would be present If the method were legislative. But submission to state conventions as a single issue would bring a vote on prohibition, and prohibition only. Those same cross currents which appear in any general legislative assembly also appear in a general as distinct from a special election. By confining the prohibition question to a general state election, the decision would be narrowed to where it should be narrowed when an issue of such long standing and wide uncertainty la at stake. Either of the two great national political parties, therefore, if the party is sincere in wanting real democracy to function, should insert those two safeguarding provisions. Unwillingness by either Republicans or the Democrats to do that means that the evasionists still control, and that the prohibition issue still wanders in a fog. 1 The party which fails to provide opportunity for a clear-cut decision will suffer at the polls. The Fish Program While reformers will mourn the failure of many good bills in the final rush of congress’ adjournment, few will weep over the burial of the outlandish program of the late committee headed by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York. Only one of the four anti-red bills urged by this hysterical group was even considered by congress. This one, the Dies bill, authorizing exclusion and deportation of alien Communists, passed the house and is before the senate committee on immigration. The other three —one to establish a spy system in the department of justice, one to exclude Communist literature from the mails, and one to enact a federal sedition law—were not given hearings. The Dies bill is a dangerous and needless measure. As pointed out by Representative La Guardia, it could be used by unfair employers to arrest and deport labor organizers. It would legalize and encourage such raids by the labor department as were denounced in the Wickersham commission report. Present laws permit deportation of dangerous radicals. If the senate puts a quietus upon this measure, the Fish program will have received the treatment it deserves. We hope then that Mr. Fish and his copatriots may devote their energies to the task of stamping out radicalism by removing its cause. American bondholders lost billions in foreign investments in 1931, a banker says in explaining the depression. That’s what you get for listening to bankers. American men are saps, a British novelist says. Well, he needn’t think that’s very original. Wall Street found that out years ago. Alfalfa Bill Murray says the Democrats should nominate a man “whose speeches aren’t written for him by a college professor.” Could he mean Alfalfa Bill? Worry, says Andy Mellon, is the occupation of men who have nothing to do. Or, we might add, of the men who haven’t Andy’s millions. In Pineville, Ky., they ought to change that old sign reading Go Slow and See Our City to Go Slow and See Our Jail. If the experiments to generate electric current from windmills prove successful, Chicago will make Muscle Shoals a dead issue. Real estate values are bound to go up, the economists tell us. We hope the ascension is not accompanied by smoke. The only thing decided by the nations at the Geneva disarmament conference was that all the other nations should disarm. An Ohio man reports that a caiTier pigeon turned loose in Canada took ten years to find its way home. That’s either a boost for Canada or a slam on Ohio. A gangster’s bullet passed through a New York man’s hair without hitting him. Must have been a parting shot. Despite all the argument over who won the World war, so far there hasn’t been a suggestion to call it a draw and fight it over. Nicholas Murray Butler says the United States needs a third political party. Gosh, isn’t it bad enough with two? The only real trouble with congress’ soak-the-rich idea is that Wall Street beat them to it.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTEB FERGUSON

JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER, eminent novelist, has let fiction go to his head. In the lace of existing conditions, we only can assume that he is feverishly fanciful or powerfully pessimistic when he announces that matriarchy is coming. Although this may sound a dismal prophecy for men, I am glad to announce that It also rings dolefully in women’s ears. For if there is one thing under the sun that we do not hanker for, it is matriarchy. You see, this would bring us to a very low opinion of men, and whatever may happen to the American woman in the future, she does want to believe in the essential strength, stability, and courage of her mate. To be sure, she has had several jolts lately, but, being always a buoyant and hopeful creature, she continues to believe in and even idealizes the male. She knows full well that without holding to this faith she herself will be lost. * an MEN make a great mistake when they assume that women in general would like a position of complete authority over them or that they prefer to dominate. We have been crying out for more notice. That is true. But we have not yet asked for complete power. Nor is it likely that we shall do so, although there are times when we are moved to feel that this might be better for the world at large. Our chief complaint is that we are tired of exercising our power “behind the throne.” We would like to sit up there alongside of the gentleman and be consulted when they make their laws and plan their great wars. In short, we want to be regarded not merely as wives,, sisters, and mothers, but as people and citizens. But it is almost impossible to get this idea into the masculine cranium. Speak of equality and they immediately begin their sing-song about dominance. Hint that things might be a little more fairly distributed between the sexes and somebody shouts matriarchy. From where we sit, it looks as if the gentlemen were trying to evade the issue.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

If the Prohibition Question Is Left to Technical, Routine Processes It Can Be Evaded for Several Years. NEW YORK, June 14.—Begin this fight on prohibition with a | referendum. Don’t leave it to polit- | ical traders and manipulators. They I will trick the people and gum up the works. It is all right to suppose that con- ! gress will resubmit the eighteenth amendment next December if one, or i both, parties come out for repeal, i But don’t put too much faith in it. Think back over what has occurred in congress since last December and what the country has to show for it. Think how congress ; has changed its mind from week to week and, above all else, of now susceptible it has shown itself to the influence of lobbies. Don’t be too sure of what those specially elected state conventions would do, even jf congress did resubmit the eighteenth amendment. Think of the part machine politics would play, of the local leadership involved, and of the factional rows that would affect the result. tt tt tt Forced by the Public NOTHING has forced our political leaders to take up prohibition, except public sentiment. Public sentiment should be allowed to run its natural course, to express itself in such difinite form as would preclude delay and sidestepping. The country has no other assurance of getting prompt and effective action. If this question is left to technical, routine business, it can be evaded for several years. We just have passed through three years of dawdling in the face of depression. Why kid ourselves with the notion that those in authority would be more active in getting rid of a constitutional amendment? You know as veil as I do what platform planks mean and how little they count after election. Sixteen years ago, the Democrats adopted a plank calling for a single term of six years in the presidency. Has any one heard of it since? Political leaders know how easy it is to forget, or disregard, a platform plank. After all, a convention is only a convention, with a bunch of delegates able to escape responsibility for broken pledges on the ground that they are not office holders, and a bunch of office holders able to do the same thing on the ground that they were not delegates. tt . tt it

Can’t Laugh Off Vote A VOTE of the people can not be laughed off so complacently. It represents a specific order to those in office. If that order is disobeyed, the people not only can tell who is to blame, but inflict punishment. Let a referendum disclose that the people favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and you won’t see any stalling at Washington. Let the issue be left to congress, and you will see plenty of it. Worse still, you will see much more in connection with those state conventions. You will see every sort of trickery and obstructionist tactics known to the trade of politics. You will see such an epidemic of horse-trading and log-rolling as has not occurred within fifty years. You will see backstair alliances between bootleggers and professional drys, between reformers and dry agents, between those who are moved by the highest moral principles and those who seek nothing but to protect their racket. tt tt tt It’s National Issue HAVING become a national disgrace, prohibition is a national issue. Having been forced to the front by a revulsion of public opinion, it should be decided, in the first instance, by a clean-cut expression of public opinion. We have let politicians handle it for twelve years, and what is the result? An orgy of corruption and racketeering, a disrespect for law that shakes our judicial system to its very foundations, a diversion of vast sums of money from the public treasury into channels of crime, an organized underworld that is able, through terrorist tactics, to intimidate witnesses, browbeat courts, buy officials, and thwart the administration of justice.

m T ?s9£ Y ( WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

OISE OFFENSIVE ENDS June 14 ON June 14, 1918, the Germans’ big push in the Oise sector ceased, and, despite their advance on a front west of the river of from two to six miles, French troops claimed a victory in that they had stopped the advance. Allies inflicted enormous losses on German divisions, and pushed the enemy back at several spots. Germany transferred its center of pressure to the Ourcq valley, near Villers-Cotterets, where heavy artillery fighting south of the Aisne started. American pilots manning bombers had their first taste of operating behind the front. They raided the Baroncourt railway and returned safely. On the Italian front, AustroHungarian forces, launching an attack on Cady summit and Monticello ridge, were beaten back.

Daily Thought

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets and your diviners, to be in the midst of you, deceive • /u, neither hearken to your Jreams which ye cause to be dreamed.—Jeremiah 29:8. We are easily fooled by what we love.—Moliere. . In what year did Jenny Lind tour America under auspices of P. T. Barnum? From 1850 to 1852. What does the name Ruth Mean? It is a German family name, meaning “famous.”

Several Causes for Heat Stroke

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. THE United States is in the temperate zone and our number of cases of sun stroke, heat stroke and heat exhaustion ought to be relatively slight. It is known that the. ultraviolet rays do not penetrate deeply, but that the heat rays, that is, the red rays of the spectrum, go more deeply into the human body. The experts recognize two types of this condition: First, the sun stroke or heat stroke, in which there is high fever and a dry skin with some mental shock, and the second, heat exhaustion, in which there is a moist skin, sometimes even a subnormal temperature, and a considerable amount of shock. Either type may follow exposure

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE Scripps-Howard newspapers like the world, do move. But so, I must insist, does this column. Four years ago these papers came out for Herbert Clark Hoover as President of the United States. This column staged an insurgent movement in favor of A1 Smith. Indeed, so much of this particular pasturage was devoted to the Democrat that I began to fear I might be accused of boring from within. Now, after the event, the ScrippsHoward papers have changed trenches with all banners flying. It would be captious to say that the dear old journals of liberal opinion were against Smith when he was running and are for him new when in all probability he isn’t. It seems to me distinctly to the credit of a paper that it should show a willingness and an ability to change its mind. Nor is this intended as a sort of 1 condescension or favor-currying. I want to ask the same sort of indulgence for a column. I think that when the rift occurred, four years ago, the hired hand and paper which employed him were both wrong. The Scripps-Howard papers should have been for Smith, and “It Seems to Me” should have been for Thomas. tt tt tt Speed of an Antelope IT has always been my hope to keep a few jumps ahead of the man who pays me my salary. Now that my boss has caught up with the distinct and forthright liberalism of A1 Smith, this column has managed to catch hold of the coat tails of the forthrighter doctrines of Socialism and Norman Thomas. And so there still remains a gulf between he and the kindly gray-

They’re Cheap Now Fresh fruits and vegetables of all kinds are cheap now. And many a thrifty housewife is “putting up” all sorts of canned and preserved “goodies” for the future months. Our Washington bureau has four helpful bulletins on this subject that you will want. They are: 1. Home Canning. 3. Home-Made Jams and Con2. Catsups and Relishes Made at serves. Home. 4. Home-Made Jellies. A packet containing these four bulletins will be sent on request. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-33, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of four bulletins on CANNING, PRESERVING and JELLY MAKING, and inclose herewith 10 cents in coin or uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and No City I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

to excessive heat in the sun or in the shade. For years it has been realized that a high relative humidity and a deficit movement of the air, when associated with a high temperature, favor the development of the bad .effects from heat in the human being. People also know that the taking of alcoholic beverages, fatigue due to overexercise, weakness of the heart muscle, extra heavy clothing, and overcrowding may induce hent stroke or heat exhaustion. It never has been explained just why some people sweat less than others, unless the cause may be assigned to their glands; and it has not been explained why some people with heat stroke fail to perspire, unless there is some special effect of heat stroke on the glands. Drs. George C. Shattuck and

haired gentleman who forces a stipend upon me every Friday. Since the Scripps-Howard chain is an up-and-coming organization (you don’t think I want to get fired, do you), I have no doubt that by 1936 this paper will be indorsing Thomas. And I—well, by that time, maybe, I will be tossing my hat in the air for William Z. Foster. Still, I doubt that decidedly. And even if it happened, Mr. Foster probably would write in and ask me co quit being for him, because it pained him too much. For the moment, my sponsors and I are moving along shoulder to shoulder. I agree, without reservation, that of all the people whom the Democrats conceivably could nominate A1 Smith would be incomparably the best. The chance of any such happy contingency is slight indeed. Mr. Smith has committed himself to the useful task of stopping Franklin D. Roosevelt. If he succeeds in the unlikely job of stopping Straight-from-the-shoul-der Frank, it stands to reason that Frank will proceed to stop him. I never have been convinced that turn about is fair play, but at the very least, it is practical politics. In other words, the best for which A1 Smith can hope is to obtain a stranglehold around the neck of his opponent, by means of which they may both drown together. tt tt tt Easy for a Columnist FROM the point of view of keeping my conscience easy, this situation has its merits. After all, if A1 Smith were nominated, I would be placed not on a spot, but close to it. I would have to say that here was a candidate to whom I felt compelled to give affection, respect and admiration, but not a vote. That might be hard to explain,

Margaret M. Hilferty of the Harvard School of Public Health have looked over the situation as it exists in this country today. The number of deaths annually from excessive heat varies from 235 in 1904 to 4,021 in 1901. Investigations abroad indicate that Negroes are less susceptible to heat stroke than are whites, so that the large number in this country must be due to the greater likelihood of exposure. The occupation, the type of clothing worn, and the high temperature seem to be the factors of greatest importance. Obviously the prevention of sun stroke, heat stroke and heat exhaustion will depend on modifications of clothing to suit the weather, and on modifications of conditions of work with suitable rest periods and suitable cooling devices for those occupations which involve excessive heat.

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even though it is quite clear in my own mind. I can not sincerely go the whole way with Al’s economics, and yet I am 100 per cent for his political technique. It isn’t quite that I disbelieve in what he says as that I am emotionally and intellectually committed to much more. Among high jumpers who will not even try to clear more than a fourfoot level, a man who can leap five feet, nine inches may seem a champion. But the time has come when riie bar must be higher than that. The time has come for somebody to raise the standard to six feet and then to sail across it. And in the higher brackets, inches makes all the difference between a muddle through and the drastic steps which seem to me necessary for salvation. tt tt You Know What He Means YET, though I think that Alfred E. Smith still is addicted to patching up the motor instead of inserting anew one, I grant him one significant virtue. No man can drive much more than the edge of a sharp-bladed knife between what A1 thinks and what he says for the public record. Os all the candidates for public office, he has done the most to discourage Ben Turpinism in politics. Must you kno\v? I mean the practice of looking*ln two directions at the same time, and I have specifically in mind the declaration of one of Mr. Hoover’s cabinet, who said that the Republican party would endeavor to frame a prohibition plank satisfactory to* everybody. The policies of Mr. Smith are not like that. In the case of A1 you must be for him or against him. In other words, he is a statesman and not a common carrier. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—While the senate continues to get its free hair cuts from a benevolent government (benevolent always to crooks and grafters), the workers on the other hand, if they open their yaps too wide in demanding relief from starvation, are going to get a nice sprinkling of formaldehyde from the brand new gas riot pistols the senate bought not long ago at 50 bucks per. Those at least are the thoughts of the reverend seigniors who complacently drowse in the senate barber shop while awaiting their turn at the massages and the eau de lilac with which they perfume their corruption. But the most potent, grave and reverend seigniors of the senate may have another thought coming. It would be very fitting and poetic justice, if the workers whom those senators are supposed to represent, should one day decide to go in and take away from the senators those nice little gas pistols and do a little spraying themselves. It would be interesting to see how the legislative moguls like the change to formaldehyde from their

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to tbeir agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

-JUNE 14,1932

science! BY DAVID DIETZ 1

There Is Nothing Out of the Ordinary in the Chemical Elements Which Compose Protoplasm. RECENT discoveries at the University of Cambridge, England, that carotene, the yellow pigment found in carrots, yellow corn, eggs yolk, butter and other foods, is turned into vitamin A by the action of sunlight, are certain to have an important effect upon • the whole study of the problem of plant growth. Most interest in vitamins has been centered about their effect in this human diet. It is obvious, however, that a complete understanding of the vitamins necessitates also a study of their role in the growth of plants. The subject of plant growth can be attacked in many ways. We can analyze plants in the chemical laboratory, finding that a particular one consists of so much sugar and starch, so much fat and so much protein. We can study the structure of the plant under the microscopic, noting how it is built up of microscopic cells just as a brick house is built up out of bricks. Or we can study the plant as we would a steam engine, noting what it does and how it does it. A complete understanding of plant growth can be obtained only if the problem is attacked from all these angles. Os course, that is what is being done today and, as a result, a large body of evidence is already at hand. # ft n Carbon and Water A GROSS chemical analysis of any plant or animal tissue is not diffficult to make. It reveals that they are all surprisingly alike, so much alike, in fact, that biologists regard all living things as merely variations of one fundamental substance to which they have given the name of protoplasm. There is nothing out of the ordinary about the chemical elements which compose protoplasm. They are not even rare or unusual elements. Instead, they are the commonest ones in the world. Protoplasm consists chiefly of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, cholorine. sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. In addition, there sometimes are traces of iron, manganese, iodine, silicon and copper. Os course, these substances do not occur in the elemental state, but combined in chemical compounds. The most abundant compound present in protoplasm is water. Samples range all the way from 60 to as much as 97 per cent water. There also are present slight traces of various mineral salts, such as ordinary table salt or sodium chloride, and other salts or potassium, calcium, magnesium and so on. Almost all other substances present may be looked upon as compounds of carbon. In fact, carbon may be regarded as the foundation stone upon which the structure of protoplasm rests. One pessimistic writer once described mankind as consisting of “impure lumps of carbon and water.” The same designation might be applied to all living things, although there is little to be gained from growing pessimistic .about it. tt tt a Compounds Present THREE types of carbon compounds are found in protoplasm. In fact, protoplasm usually is spoken of as consisting of these three compounds, combined with water and traces of mineral salts. The three compounds are carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The carbohydrates include a variety of sugars and starches. They are combinations of three chemical elements, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The simplest known carbohydrates is glucose. Its molecule consists of a little chain of six carbon atoms, to which have been attached twelve atoms of hydrogen and six of genA molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. You might, therefore, think of glucose as a combination of six atoms of carbon and six molecules of water. Molecules of glucose unite with each other by chemical action to form still more complicated forms of sugar, starches and cellulose. Fats are more complicated than are the carbohydrates. They contain the same chemical elements, but exhibit different and more complicated molecular structure. The proteins are the most complicated of the three. In addition to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, they contain nitrogen and sometimes phosphorus, sulphur and iron. Each variety of protein is made up of a combination of many substances, chief among which are a number of compounds known as amino-Acids. The molecules of protein are exceedingly complicated, some of them containing several thousand atoms-

customary eau de lilac, eau de cologne, and eau de whatnot. If any one objects that such procedure would not be in accordance with “law ’n’ order,” let them remember that these stink pistols belong to the workers, for it was with their money that the reverend senators purchased this gaseous armament, and that in the theory, if not in practice, the legislative fathers are supposed to be subject to the will of the people, “Subject to the will of the people!” That’s a pretty piece of fiction, indeed. The external forms of our government are democratic, but in its inner workings the republic is purely plutocratic. What do stink guns have to do with democracy? Nothing a* all! But they do play an important role in the government of millions by the moneyed few. And there’s no use in kidding ourselves. That situation will continue until the plutocrats are finally put at the receiving end of those stink guns instead of the operating end, where they now hold forth. PERRY WYATT. 308 Sanders street. What is the correct pronunciation of Marquis and Marquise? Marquis is pronounced mar-kwis, with the accent on the first syllable. Marquise is pronounced mar-keez, with the accent on the last syllable. In what year did Irving Berlin compose “Alexander’s Ragtime Band?" 1912.