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Mary Louise Mabie

Anew novel of pioneer days has been written by Mary Louise Mabie under the romantic title of “The Long Knives Walked.” It is published by Bobbs-Merrill. BV WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN I read “Way of the Lancer,” by Richard Boleslavki in collaboration with Helen Woodward, I thought I was very close to the actual happenings in the Russian army on the German front during the World war. On finishing the second book, “Lances Down,” I was convinced that I was close to the slaughter of the Reds and Whites in Moscow in October, 1917. It has been utterly impossible for any one writer to get a closeup view of all Russia during the period of disorder which ushered in the present government of Russia. Before the war, Boleslavski was an actor in the Moscow Art theater and a member of its revolutionary studio—revolutionary as to methods of presenting plays and training the actors along the lines of acting being a divine mission. Durig the war. he was a Polish Lancer in the Imperial Russian army. In his second book, we start with Boleslavski starting back from the “war zone" to Moscow after the Kerensky revolution. His description of the horrors on the troop train of loyal soldiers of Russia and others all ready proclaiming themselves to be Reds, are really beyond any sane comprehension of “heroes” returning home. The stench of that experience in home-coming is splendidly written into the opening chapters of “Lances Down.” It gives one the correct realistic setting for the mental, physical and spiritual horrors that occured on the streets of Moscow when the Reds and the Whites were fighting for power. I can not agree with those who have the opinion that the author seemed to be on a high mountain peak looking down on this slaughter. I felt that he was actually walking through the red lanes of disaster in the vicinity of his beloved studio and the Moscow Art theater. antt He pictures the Old Russia being thrown into the melting pot of a new social and governmental deal. His vision and his wisdom of deduction are tremendously broad and not one sided. Boleslavski pictures in the chapter, “Liberals,” the methods used by those close to. the czar to finance and to help the cause of the Socialists and even later the Reds, only to find themselves swallowed up in Lenin’s plan of “government.” The author makes the assertion that the leaders of the revolution in Moscow who conducted the actual fighting as well as the massacre were relegated to small office jobs of no power and influence under the program of the new Russia. He declares that the real brain lexers of the revolution were miles away at the time, but upon their arrival faces not Russian became the leaders. Here is one grand book and I believe it all to be the truth. It is published by Bobbs-Merrill and sells for $3. • MB Have before me the first issue of “The American Spectator,” a literary newspaper published every third Thursday of each month. Its list of editors rer- *s like a literary blue book. The editors include George Jean Nathan. Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill. And that. I say, is some lineup of editors. In this issue Dreiser writes on "The Great American Novel.” The contents is fine, but the makeup argues the need of a managing editor who knows something about makeup. a a a This department is asked many questions. One of the latest is— Where may be obtained a book on church school music which will appeal today to church goers? Such a book has just been published by The Abingdon Press, 420 Plum street. It is called “Practical Church School Music." It is by Reginald L. McAll and sells for $2. It specializes on how to teach and sing the best music in the church school. mao I just have received from Ray Long and Richard R. Smith a copy of “Glamorous Sinners,” by Frederick L. Collins. It concerns such late sinners as Stanford White. Will tell you about it when I have finished the book. man On hand today is a splendid report from Brentano's, Inc., New York, showing the best sellers in fiction based on an authentic report from its stores in New York, Philadelphia. Washington. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago. For fiction the list names “Invitation to the Waltz.” by Rosamond Lehmann: "Peter Ashley,” by Du Bose Heyward: “Josephus.” by Lion Feuchtwanger; "Family History,” by V. **ackville-West; ‘ Sons.” by Pearl Buck, and "The Sheltered Life," by Ellen Glasgow.

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FUND FOR DRY ENFORCEMENT IS IN DANGER Trend Toward Wets Keeps Justice Department Demand Down. \ PRISON WORK HALTED Need for Jail Facilities Will Be Less Acute If Repeal Comes. By ftcripp~Hou>ard .V evspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—The department of justice is taking cognizance of tne changing public sentiment with reference to prohibition and for the first time since the eighteenth amendment was adopted congress will not be asked to increase the fund for dry law enforcement. Likewise, the department is not seeking increased appropriations for prison construction, an expense caused by the expanding jail population resulting from prohibition. The current appropriation for the prohibition unit is $10,250,000, which is $1,119,000 less than for last year. For the coming fiscal year, At-torney-General Mitchell will ask congress for only $10,250,000, even though federal enforcement may prove more expensive because enforcement codes in nine states were repealed this year Eighteen states, or more than one-third of the total, now are without supplemental prohibition statutes and a drive is Wing made in Pennsylvania lor repeal of the state code at the next session of the legislature. Prison Work Halted Indicative of the new attitude of the department of justice is the halting of work on the new $3,000,000 southwestern penitentiary at El Reno, Okla. Anew northeastern prison just has been completed at Lewisburg, Pa., and if the Volstead law is repealed, the need for increased prison facilities will not be so acute. Department of justice officials, while insisting they will enforce the prohibition law as long as it is on the statute books, realize that the overwhelming vote against prohibition has made their task more difficult. One of the keystones of their enforcement structure has been public sentiment in the various states and co-operation by state officials. They apparently have lost public sentmient, while state co-operation rapidly is disappearing. May Vote No Funds Officials feel, also, that there is possibility that no enforcement funds whatsoever will be voted by congress for the coming fiscal year. Such movement now is gathering momentum in congress and there is talk of a filibuster against the department of justice appropriation bill if it carries a large sum for prohibition enforcement. Should congress fail to modify the Volstead law at the coming short session, and take steps looking toward repeal, the difficulty which many officials have anticipated, to wit: Nullification through lack of enforcement, may confront the nation after next June DIES WORKING~ON CAR Heart Disease Is Fatal to Jo jin Smock of Edgewood While working on his auto in a garage at his home Thursday night, John Smock, 70, R. R. 6, Box 632, died of heart disease, according to deputy sheriffs. Mr. Smock was a member of Southport Presbyterian church and of Southport Masonic lodge. Funeral services Sunday afternoon in Southport church will be followed by burial in Round Hill cemetery. Prince Injured in Fall By l tiiled Press CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—Prince Michael Ocntacuzene, great grandson iof President Grant and grand nephew of the late Potter Palmer, was injured late Thursday when his horse fell during a hunt at the Onwentsia Hunt Club. Physicians said they would take x-rays today to determine the extent of the injuries.

WORRY WART SAYS yOU CAN 00 A TRICK, TOO! JUST REACH DOWN IN YOUR POCKET AND PULL OUT SOME MONEY FOR THE RELIEF FUND! IT'S A GREAT TRICK, IF VOU DOIT/

Contributed in the interest of unemployment relief by J. R. Williams, who draws the nationallyknown comic, “Out Our Way.”

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MINSTREL SHOW’S GLORY HAS VANISHED

Great Days Were Those When Band Blared in Colorful Parade

Before the war. and before that, thousand* of performers roamed the Western plains like buffaloes and swarmed in the meadows of New Jersey like mosquitoes. They were performers of curious kinds, unknown today even to Broadwav, They have been replaced in their former hunting grounds bv shadows of voices whining through a loud-speaker and shadows of faces flickering across a screen. Shadows defeated by shadows, a few old-timers cluster in the lobbies of trouDers' hotels along Broadwav or In old-fashioned managers' offices papered with yellow photographs, conning the rear nages of The Billboard and talking of the brave davs of the athletic combinations, the minstrels, the traveling ren shows, the Uncle Tommers. Buffalo Bill and. ves. the silent movies. In a series of six articles, the third of which follows. A. J. LiVbling will discuss the'e old-time performers. To- ✓ day he writes of minstrel shows. BY A. J. LIEBLING Times Staff Writer (Copyright,. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) “'IT7HEN I see an old codger VV around* here that I don’t recognize,” said A1 E Flat Edwards as he leaned on the. mezzanine rail of the N. V. A. clubhouse on Forty-sixth street, “I whistle like this: ‘Tu-whee, tu-whee.’ “If he comes over to me, he is a minstrel man.” That was the signal for the minstrel men, in their purple or scarlet ulsters, to form their twoblock line of march and, start the 11:45 parade. “With fifty men you easily could have a parade that stretched two blocks,” confided Mr. Edwards, Frank Cushman ’93. “You would have two lines of single file, with the men spaced wide apart, on each side of the street, and in the center the boys with the banners. “The band would lead the way. No band ever sounded like a ministrel band. The boys doubling in brass were performers, and each wanted the center of the stage. Real window-breakers. “The drum major would throw his baton over the trolley wires and catch it again. “The girls would line the curb and smile. The kids would run behind. The minstrels probably all had hangovers, and the morning air was a great thing for the fellows who just were kicking cobblestones. “But the band,” Mr. Edwards’ Unfurred top turned pale green at the memory. “Say, you just try blowing out strong like that after you have been up all night playing poker. “Most people think a cornetist blows with his lungs, but really he works with his stomach muscles. Oh, an empty morningafter stomach. And the smell of lunch in the streets.” an E' -FLAT, who won his appella--L' tion because he habitually blew in that lofty key, mopped his reminiscently agonized brow. “That’s why I had to quit the minstrels,” he said. “I became one of the Four Emperors of Music, a variety act which, if I may say so, lives as standard. But there never was anything like the minstrels.” “Never,” breathed Tom Barrett, Haverley’s Augmented Mastodon Minstrels, ’79. “Never,” echoed Poodle Jones, A1 G. Fields vintage undetermined.

PARASITE BANK IS POMERENE TARGET Refusals to Make Loans to Needy Are Assailed. By Scripps-Howard Xeicspaper Alliance BOSTON, Nov. 18.—Banks, 75 per cent or more liquid—and there are such—which refuse to make loans on proper security, are “parasites iir the community,” according to Chairman Atlee Pomerene of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Pomerene castigated such bankers. citing examples, but not names or cities, in a speech Thursday at the annual meeting of the New England council with New England Governors. Saying he believed 90 per cent of the banks are doing their full duty, Pomerene “paid his respects” to the "10 per cent or less,” which are not. “I am referring to those banks that are soliciting deposits in their several communities, boasting that they are 75 per cent or more liquid, and refusing to loan their money out to people in need of it to pay labor, to buy goods, or to continue manufacturing and commerce.” He said if he had the power he would compel banks to loan money, merchants to buy more goods on longer-term credits, and tell labor to return to work at what wages it could get on condition that they would be returned to normal when normal conditions return. TURKEYS EAT BERRIES Laugh Off Thorns to Get to Wild Evergreens. TOLEDO, Oregon,. Nov. 18.—Ed Fish learned that wild evergreen j blackberries that grow in his fields, and turnips provide splendid feed, for turkeys. The turkeys fly into ! the tangled clumps of berries when turned out in the mornings, oblivi- j ous of thorns.

Love Murder 0f20,000 Years Ago Is Bared

BY WATSON DAVIS Managing Editor, Science Service. A NN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 18— *■ Violent death, perhaps even a murder of jfassion, ended the brief career of a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old girl, who promises to become America’s most famous prehistoric inhabitant, after having been covered by glacial silts for some 20,000 years. Her youthful skelton, marvelously preserved, may clinch the argument for the existence of ancient peoples in America. Dr. A. E. Jenks, University of Minnesota anthropologist, described the death of the ancient

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iih, 3k out for that. But we always llljp '1 I left Haver3tim to the talking pictures and s f th^nXmterritory ° pened e depression only during the last George Christy in character of _. . . .. ~ w years, are ready to believe the Julius Crow and old-time minstrel 1 *u T *if re was lo “ al °P tlon ; FO all )rst, the minstrel men, whose show program. (From Robinson | iSed rrLT arTfSnV?ope. Locke Action in public library). . U V U up on Peruvian Bitters and Hos“We have a little organization ‘‘ Do y°u remember Dick Jose -f . * C ° me m re right now,” Billy Heins con- s.nging ‘Silver Threads’?” Tom I v shoot out the llghtsssed without the slightest reluc- whispered. l f \ _ “The next day they would come nee, “that is looking for book- “° r Freddy Bowers and that .<afißSP around and ’pclcgize. but we had gs and will give a better show tear-jerker of his,’Always'?” coun- lost a nights business and they an any of these kids. tered E-flat. Pt-Tv' ac * no money- " Why, Billy Maxwell, our inter- Answering the plea of a junior lg||||||i About thirty years ago I came rutor and tenor soloist, hits high visitor, Tom consented to outline eas ” a , ia 1910 1 went like eating candy." Billv. atone a minstrel show of the grand A I ' lel<ls - , . . , n _!^ h L h L9 us . HillM ?nstrels, Period. I9HHHH99 chanisTnVmLXr °

A few fugitives from the minstrel army that was decimated long ago mingle with the general theatrical rout at the N. V. A. “On the coldest mornings we had to turn out,” said Tom. “It didn’t make no difference. Sometimes it was so cold the horns’d freeze and we’d all have to step into a beer saloon to thaw them out.” “Not having been a member of the band,” said E-flat. “You don’t know that we were supposed to carry little bottles of alcohol to look out for that. But we always managed to lose them.” Whereas most of the variety actors, whose calling has fallen victim to the talking pictures and the depression only during the last few years, are ready to believe the worst, the minstrel men, whose game went on the rocks twenty years ago, are full of hope. “We have a little organization here right now,” Billy Heins confessed without the slightest reluctance, “that is looking for bookings and will give a better show than any of these kids. “Why, Billy Maxwell, our interlocutor and tenor soloist, hits high C like eating candy.” Billy, at one time with the Gus Hill Minstrels, is on an end with the youthful organization, the Empire State Minstrels. a a a “T DO the dancing,” said Tom. -I “I hoof as good as I did fiftythree years ago. And in those days there was dancers. You danced American clog, or Lancashire clog, or trick clog, or song-and-dance—that was soft shoe, or you were a jigger. “Afterward they made up the buck-and-wing, and that was the beginning of the end. It was a bastard dance, with a little of this and a little of that all mixed, and now there is no dancing left, only acrobatics.” “There never was anything like a minstrel tenor,” said High Tom Ward, who should know, for he won his soubriquet because, in Mr. Heins’ words, he could ‘hit a high C like eating ice cream.’ “They would break your heart," said Mr. Edwards solemnly.

McAdoo Influence Is Expected to Spur Recognition of Russia

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Restoration of normal trade relations with Russia, followed by formal recognition, early in the Roosevelt administration, is forecast by observers here. Admitting an absolutely “open mind” on the subject, the Presi-

14 ARE NOMINATED Candidates for Directors of City C. of C. Nomination of fourteen candidates for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce board of directors has been announced by the nominating committee comprised of William H. Trimble, chairman; Clarence E. Crippin, N. H. Gilman and A. Keifer Mayer. The election will be held Dec. 13. Seven of the fourteen will be elected and serve three years. Those renominated include: Charles E. Coffin, Frank E. Gates, Howard T. Griffith, Dick Miller, George S. Olive, Paul Q. Richey and C. H. Rottger. New candidates are C. Curtis Duck. J. Duane Dungan, J. J. Fitzgerald, James W. Putnam, Erqest C. Ropkey, Louis J. Schwitzer and Richard A. Shirley. Attends Forestry Convention Ralph Wilcox, state forester, heading a delegation of conservationists interested in reforestation, attended the third annual meeting of the central states fdrestry congress at Louisville, Ky„ today. The session will close Saturday.

Indian maiden when he laid before the National Academy of Science here a detailed report on what was appraised as “one of the best authenticated finds in North America.” a a a IN the historically remote days when a great ice sheet covered northern North America, this girl lived in prehistoric Minnesota. She was mongoloid in her features. and her rounded nose openings linked her more closely to the apes than modern women. How. she was killed is suggested by Dr. J&jks' investigations, which, if tafc death were

George Christy in character of Julius Crow and old-time minstrel show program. (From Robinson Locke collection in public library). “Do you remember Dick Jose s.nging ‘Silver Threads’?” Tom whispered. “Or Freddy Bowers and that tear-jerker of his, ‘Always’?” countered E-flat. Answering the plea of a junior visitor, Tom consented to outline a minstrel show of the grand period. a a a “TT'IRST, there was the first X 1 part,” he began with what seemed a truism. “That was where all the boys were seated in a semicircle. In the beginning they was right down on the stage, but afterward we got them up in tiers. "That was when the i terlocutor gagged with the end men and members of the company sang and danced as requested. Haverley carried two interlocutors and four end men, working in two editions, but later shows got up to four and eight. “Then came the olio. That was a sort of vaudeville performance between the big numbers. We had George Wilson, the monologist, who delivered a comic stump speech—Lew Dockstader was his only rival. “Then there would be a comedy musical act—Swiss bell ringers or sleigh bell performers, or such. Every show had a quartet, and

dent-elect’s closest advisers are known to be opposed to the Hoover policy of attempting to segregate a nation of 160,000,000 people. William Gibbs McAdoo, whose advice, it is said, will be particularly potent in selection of a secretary of state, has stated that neither disarmament, world peace, nor any plan for the economic reorganization of the world will work without the Soviet Union. “No effective plan of disarmament can be made unless Russia is taken into the family of nations and becomes a party to it,” he said in an address at Dallas. “Russia,” he went on, “is, of course, armed from head to foot. Can yo\y blame her? If you call a man an outlaw and stand around his house making threatening gestures, should it be a matter of surprise if he appears at the door with a shotgun In his hands?” / “It is a singular fact,” he stated in the same speech, “that, amid all the world-wide talk of disarmament, only one great nation has made an official proposal for complete and universal disarmament on land and sea and in the air. That nation is Russia—and Russia possesses today one of the largest and most effective armies in the world. “The Russian proposal was voted down. It is surprising to find the United States voted against it. The proposal was given a c art dismissal by the delegates at Geneva for the reason . . . that it was not considered sincere. “I never have believed in the soundness of this explanation. At any rate, if I had been a delegate at that conference, I would have accepted the Russian proposals at their full value and would have indorsed any reasonable proposal that would accomplish disarmament.”

more recent, might be presented before a coroner's jury. The Minnesota maid was about a half mile from the shore of an ice age lake that has since dried up. Probably she was on a raft or in a canoe. An arrow, or perhaps a spear, was projected toward her and its point entered her bosom, piercing the right lung, and perhaps entering the heart, causing instant death. The mortal blow was struck from the front, not behind her back. Dr. Jenks knows this from a gouge in the right shoulder blade of the skeleton.

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most every show had a female impersonator, but he had to keep his place. Another kind of specialty that was popular was gun-juggling. “With the big show you had a singing and dancing eight, usually, and then came the second part, what we usually called the big act. That was where some of the boys would put on wench dresses and they would play some fool sketch or travesty. “The scene might be out on a levee, just as it would be on any day down South, with lots of Negroes playing the banjo and singing and shooting craps, and two steamboats racing and one of them blowing up—all a typical Southern everyday scene. a a a “\\ TELL, Dan and I went out W to the coast with Haverly, and it was a wonderful trip. We

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BOOZE PRICES SOARING New York Bootleggers Prepare to Reap While They May. By Times Special NEW YORK. Nov. 18. Bootleggers, seeing the beginning of the end, boosted their holiday liquor prices today. A 20 per cent hike in prices will face the buyer of wet goods for the Thanksgiving period and the cost is expected to go zooming later. Liquor, say investigators, is more plentiful than ever before, with cargries of “real stuff” being rushed daily into the metropolis. Scotch and rye whisky were up $5 to $8 a case, gin $6 and other liquor in proportion.

SHE toppled over into the water, sank to the depths, and the mud and silt of years sealed her bones into a natural grave which was disturbed only twenty millenia later, when Minnesota road repairers dug out her skull and skeleton. Who wielded the weapon never will be known, nor has the weapon been recovered. But shell ornaments to hold her hair and others with a sexual significance found with her skeleton undoubtedly adorned her. An antler dagger, found nearby, may have been carried by her at the time of lUr death.

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played all those western towns like Butte and Helena, but the talk about the gunplay and such is mostly a joke. “The bartender always would tip you off which fellow with a gun might really shoot it off, and those fellows you gave a wide berth. But most of those bold, bad westerners wore guns for personal adornment only. “My brother and I left Haverly and went into variety, and later we ran a theater down in Oklahoma City when they opened the Indian Territory. There was local option, so all the beer was labeled hop tea, and the fellows would also get stewed up on Peruvian Bitters and Hostetter’s Bitters and come in and shoot out the lights. “The next day they would come around and ’pclcgize, but we had lost a night's business and they had no money. “About thirty years ago I came east, and along in 1910 I went with A1 G. Fields.” “I suppose you found a lot of changes in minstrelsy?” “Why, no,” he said. “What was there to change?” a a a A POST-MORTEM on the noble art then began, with half the old boys arguing that this sameness had killed the businsss, and the others contending that, on the contrary, such innovations as elaborate scenery, destroying the true spirit, had hastened the end. . It ended, like most theatrical discussions, with ' the burden squarely on ‘the interests,” who E-flat said, had denied the minstrel troupes good dates in order to capitalize more highly on their own musical comedy companies. “Minstrel shows would go fine now,” said Bill Heins, “but the talking picture people control all the theaters and they don’t want anything else.” Mr. Liebling will write of the old Wild West shows.

VIEWS CONFLICT ON BEER BUSINESS AID One-Sixth Increase Seen at Fairmount Glass Plant. Contrasting opinions as to the effect of return of beer on the business volume of glass industries were revealed today by officials of two companies. Despite general belief that orders for bottles would tax capacities of glass factories, the increase would be less than one-sixth of the present business volume, according to officials of the Fairmount Glass Works, 1601 South Keystone avenue.

Reverse is true, according to predictions of officials of the OwensIllinois Glass Company of Toledo, who stated that three plants now closed would be reopened, offering employment to 2,000 men and consumption of more than $2,000,000 in raw materials and $2,500,000 of fuel in the first year. .One of the closed plants, which would be affected, is located at Evansville. This plant, it was stated, could b.e reorganized to produce 1,500,000 bottles annually.\ The home plant is in Toledo, but the company has offices in Indianapolis. Officials of the Fairmount company said that the plant, now operating at 60 per cent of capacity, within a few hours could be prepared for immediate production of any amount of increased business. All that would be required, they stated, would be preparation of additional molds, a process requiring only a short time. END DRY ENFORCEMENT New Jersey Law Out of Effect December 6. By United Press TRENTON, n. j., Nov. 18.—Enforcement of the New Jersey prohibition act will cease Dec. 6. State police were so advised Thursday by Attorney-General William A. Stevens. The act was repealed by the Nov. 8 vote. Police also were told that they are without authority to enforce the national prohibition law and need not give aid to federal agents, even when help is requested. SLED HITCHER KILLED Law Asked to Bar Lads From Hooking to Autos. By Times Special GALESBURG. HI., Nov. 18.—A coroner's jury Thursday recommended that city council pass a law prohibiting boys from hitching their sleds to autos. Action followed the death of Andrew Tadie, 13, whose sled skidded under an auto when freed machine that was pulling him.

DEMOCRATS IN FRENZY OVER JOB APPEALS Congressmen Deluged With Pleas for Appointments to Federal Posts. SENATORS ‘PASS BUCK’ Applicants Are Advised to Query Representatives, Who Also Dodge. By Scripps-Hownrd .V-, espaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. Nov. 18.—Never in the history of the government, it is believed, has an election resulted in such a flood of applications for federal positions as that which has burst upon congress since the Demj ocratlc landslide of Nov. 8. It is more than a flood. It was ! a tidal wave of appeals from high | and low, rolling in from all parts of the nation, beating against the doors of senators and representatives, sinking secretaries and clerks in a sea of correspondence, bringing almost to desperation many of those who have jobs and patronage at their disposal. The deluge presents a problem to members of both houses. In countless instances, constituents are asking for positions that are not vacant and will not be vacant for some time. Many are promoting themselves for highly personal appointive positions; as for instance, that of physician to the President. Many Seek Postal Jobs Applications for post masterships, large numbers of which are coming from women, would, if granted, necessitate a postoffice in every city block and at every country cross- \ roads in the land. Frantic senators who are being appealed to for postofflee jobs are referring constituents to their respective representatives, pointing out that they must take the initiative in making recommendations for those positions and that the senate merely has the power to confirm. Representatives, on the other hand, who are in receipt of applications for such berths as judgeships, marshalships, district attorneyships, etc., are referring their correspondents to their colleagues in the senate, pointing out that senators exercise the right of patronage in relation to offices which exceed boundaries in jurisdiction and administration. And so “the buck is passed” between the two houses, with no commitments made. Recall Wilson Action Veteran congressmen recall that President Wilson, during his second term, made po6tmast?r appointments via the civil service route, thus taking the matter out of the hands of representatives entirely and putting it on the basis of merit. Whether Governor Roosevelt will follow this procedure, whether the presidential authority will be exercised at will to remove Republican incumbents whose terms have not expired, or whether vacancies will be filled on congressional recommendations as they expire, are questions yet to be answered. BATTLE LOOMSTOVER 1933 REAPPORTIONING Legislative Control Will Go to Cities If Figures Are Followed. Urban centers’ large gains in population over the smaller counties forecasts a vigorous battle in the 1933 general assembly over reapportionment, it was indicated today. There has been no legislative reapportionment in the state since 1921, although the Indiana Constitution requires enumeration and reapportionment every six years. If the 1933 legislature carries out the constitutional mandate and if 1931 enumeration figures are followed, control of the assembly will I pass for the first time in years from I the smaller communities to the | larger cities of the state. DIRGE FOR VTUDEVILLE Famed Palace Theater (N. Y.) Is Turned Into Movie House. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The curtain has fallen on big time vaudeville. The last bill has been played at the Palace theater, which for a score of years was the pace-setter for the variety world. And, as a crowning blow, the movies have moved in. Vaudeville was too expensive with the depression on, said the management. Addresses Canners’ Group Dr. W. H. Harrison addressed members of the Indiana Canners' Association at the closing session of their annual convention in the Claypool today. He discussed pulp standards, of special interest to members because Indiana leads In tomato pulp production.

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