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wings carry him far into idealism." and again hi

wings carry MN lar luIO lueaISm, ana again ne
said:
I'VE must not allocate to ourselves all the merits
of ideaism and chivalry, leaving for the Americans
only imputations of materialism and meanne S. for
this would be the grossest and most dangerous mis-
Jake which the French of today could make"
Make the people of France u.s. Mr.. Ambassa-
DOR just as we are. Do SO, and they, and we and
the world will be your everlasting debtors Tell them
that we are neither of heaven nor he'll but of the
earth that we are honest-to- goodness people like
themselves; that have a few spiritual qualities
mixed in with the material. Tell them that when
read Of Americans being attacked in the streets
Of Paris we become humanity hot under the collar,
but that the reverse of this picture is also true;
wave of good feeling swept the country for their
splendid reception to Lindbergh
Sentiment: That is the key to our character. Use
that key and relations between France and America
will get better and better. Win an Americans heart
and he will give you his pocketbook. Try to argue
him out Of 1t by telling him it is yours by rights and
the battle is lost before it is begun
A sort of campaign of popular understanding needs
to be undertaken in both countries. Won't you, Mr.
Ambassador assume the leadership
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Interest CheapenS Money

Measured in dollars, Mr.. Depew's
money has multiplied eleven times,
but measured in the buying power
of dollars it has only multiplied two
or three.
The dollar is not worth as much
as it was in 1851, and interest is a
part of the explanation.
Generally speaking, money will
not pay interest faster than wealth
accumulates, and when it is forced
to, defiation is the result.
At per cent simple interest,
money doubles every sixteen and
two-thirds years, but wealth never
has.
Under this condition, the only
way per cent can be paid as a
general proposition is through the
defiation of money.
In the time of Henry the Eighth,
laborer received a penny or so a
day and small houses could be rent
ed for two or three pennies month.
The necessity of paying interest
has had great deal to do with the
constant rise in values and the con-
slant cheapening of money, but not
all.
There has been a real accumula-
ton of wealth on the one handfand
a more equitable distribution of 1t
on the other.
Average people, especially in
America, can buy 4 great deal more
with what they have or are able to
earn today than could the average
people Of any preceding generation.
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Brain TeaSerS

How we'll do you remember the old
songs Five of the questions in TO-
days quiz are about the melodies Of
a generation ago. Answers are
printed on page IA:
/. From what song is the line:
"And I'll never see my darling any
more?"
2. In the early days of the World
War, to where was the seat Of
French government moved?
3. Who was England's virgin
queen?"
4. Identify the song from which is
taken the line: soft DER the foun-
tain, lingering falls the southern
moon"
S. When was the last panic in
Wall Street?
6. From what song is: "Well take
a cup O. kindness yet?"
z. What United States presidents
have been assissinated?
8. Give the song from which is
taken: Though the heart be weary,
sad the day and long"
9. For what unusual quality was
Proteus famed?
10. What song continIs: "Gone are
my friends from the cotton fields
away?"
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"HOME FIRES" is JUST
WHAT TITLE IMPLIES

Home Fires" is one comedy that
the title explains fully it's theme.
1t means that an American family
has human flreside, but Dad and
his two daughters have the longing
to frolic other places than the
family hearth.
The wife and mother realizes the
struggle which produced the home
fires ana she can not understand
why her husband and daughters
want to fly out of the window,
especially at night, to frolic in the
glow of the cheap lights of road
house.
Mary Bedford in the hands of
Bernice Marsolais is an American
mother and wife, who fully realizes
the temptations outside of the
family circle. She thinks that her
love will cause her two daughters
to tell her the truth and she thinks
that same love will keep her hus-
band close to the home fires.
And when she fails, Mary Bed
ford can not understand why her
love was not strong enough to bind
her loved ones to the home. Not
that her loved ones were bad, but
they longed for excitement and they
vert away from the home to>get it.
All of their escapades are really
harmless, but each time one of the
family breaks out they do it at
time when certain circumstances are
present which makes the affair look
worse than it is.
1t is the serious, but human work
of Miss MarSolais and the excellent
performance of Herbert Dobbins as
Henry Bedford, the husband and
father which gives Home Fires"
what ever merit it has. Idabelle
Arnold is cast again as a Tapping
juvenile and in such roles she
registers like house on fire at
night. Adelaide Melnotte gives
realistic performance of the old
aunt, who can't hear very well and
who owns a sharp and honest
tongue. Larry Sullivan, Robert st.
Clair, Nae Beresville, Alney Alba,
Milton Byron, William v. Hull, j.
F. NARROW and others are present.
At Engiish's all week.
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A Sincere Crusader

Few men have left so deep mark upon
the times iii which they lived as did Wayne
Wheeler, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League,
who died yesterday.
He was more than lawyer for this organiza-
tion. He contributed the political genius which
translated enthusiasts into action and pur-
poses into laws.
Time will tell whether he wrought well or
was a mistaken idealist whose success de-
feated his own purposes. But not even his
harshest critic will deny him that greatest of
all human traits Of character, deep and un-
faltering sincerity.
He was crusader before he was a lawyer.
In the days at Oberlin College when the Anti
Saloon League was in its infancy it caught
his imagination and his fancy. He devoted his
life to its service and his later study of the
law at the Western Reserve Law School
had for it's definite object the service of the
league and its cause.
His fellow students might have pondered
to what use they could put their knowledge OF
law Wheeler knew. He announced that he
believed that the league to be practical should
have some one in its organization who knew
the laws and principles of laws, and need not
be at the mercy of those whose sympathies
might not be altogether unmixed.
1t was Wheeler who changed, slowly but
surely, the original purpose of the league to
make the nation dry through local legislation
to the larger program Of national prohibition.
Trained in the Ohio school Of politics, he
was a genius for organization and his work
and his counsel were largely responsible for
the success in obtaining the legislation he de-
sired.
He had but one purpose. He sincerely be-
lieved that alcohol was responsible for all other
evils. He wrote the law which made its sale
Illegal He stood guard against any change
in the law he had secured.
HIS monetary rewards were not in keeping
with the ability, sincerity and hard work he
gave. But he did bring to himself power in
national affairs that was second hardly to that
Of the President himself.
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What is 1.-THE Beggar on Horse
back" all about?
That is the question that is going
about town since Stuart Walker
gave Indianapolis its first look at
this crossword puzzle of play.
One probably will not get lost in
the first act because the first twen-
ty minutes firmly establishes the
theme of 1.-The Beggar."
The key to the whole affair is in
three parts. FirSt-it is satire upon
how a man dreams married life will
be to girl he doesn't like. Second
it is burlesque upon murder, muir
der trials, courts, juries and news
papers. Third-it is poetry of bur-
lesque upon classical music with
many a jab at jazz.
Don't take 1.-The Beggar" seriously
because at times the satire and the
burlesque is really so heavy that it
invites serious thought.
But the second that one gets the
pointed humor of the whole affair
and permits one smart and over
drawn scene to follow another, then
the theatergoer will have one Of
the gayest and smartest times of his
career.
Stuart Walker has promised this
gigantic show for about two seasons,
and after seeing The Beggar" l can
appreciate what a task it is to pre-
sent as a stock attraction.
1.-The Beggar" is one of the most
gigantic things from a scenic and
cast standpoint that Walker has
ever given this city.
Scene after scene must follow
rapidly scene after scene. A mere
word is signal for an entire scene
change. From a scenic standpoint
this comedy is a three-ring circus
and it moves along just like a cir
Gus.
Stuart Walker is seen as Neil, the
song writer who wants to do a SYM
phony, but gets all mixed up with
Jazz tunes and a rich society flap
per.
Walker gives beautiful perform
ance and his shading in the "mur-
der" scene is as delicious a bit of
travesty that one would want to see
on the stage. He has the needed
light and pointed touch in every
scene and it is easy to follow the
story of the play with Walker lead
ing the way.
Neil is the type of role which suits
Stuart Walker, and his performance
here is worthy of the most serious
consideration as well as lavish
praise.
The cast is a mighty big one, but
in addition to Walker there are sew
erar others who stand out. They
are John Storey, Muriel Kirkland
(splendid, Judith Lowry, Adelaide
Chase, Aldrich Bowker, Boyd Agin,
Paul Wright and others. D.
We have waited a long time to get
this very smart travesty upon life.
The actors even use the aisles and
the plot even overflows into the
audience.
When the murder" happens
copies of an extra edition of news
paper are delivered to the audience.
One of the smartest scenes in the
entire play is the court scene.
Here we have Bowker as the judge
in flaming colored robe. He is a
judge who just loves candy. The
jury even engages in a Fourth of
July grafton as they elect a fore
man. Here is deliciously smart sa-
tire.
1.-The Beggar on Horseback" is the
high light of the present Stuart
Walker season. Do not be afraid OF
this one. 1t is the comedy triumph
of the season.
AT Keith'S all week.
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Beggar ON Horseback Marks the High Peak of the
Present Stuart Walker Season at Keith Theater

that give forth some of the hottest
jazz means and groans that I have
heard in many day.
This individual making coupled
with their own way Of developing
this melody and their comedy has
resulted in making Burns and West
one of the most successful individual
blackface teams on the stage today.
Partisan Whirlv is a dancing act
in which a man and woman with
their classical and acrobatic work
gives the act its commanding
charm. A chorus of dancing girls
is used as background as well as
an interlude between the work of
the two chief dancers.
Dave Rafael is a ventriloquiSt
who has worked out his offering on
different lines. Rafael is made up
as corner policeman and we meet
dummies made up to represent GER
tain well-known characters that
pass any corner There is enough
mystery to his work to keep one
guessing.
1.-THE Revels" is another dancing
act which is built along individual
lines. The girls admit that they
want to be dramatic stars and the
like, but they always go back to
dancing.
ferguson and Sunderland were on
the stage when arrived. Stanley
Chapman is one Of those nut" CO.
medians who uses a piano for the
Alps and climbs the mountain right
before you.
Because I was late in arriving 1
missed Knox and Stetson. The bill
includes Will Rogers in "Switzer-
land" and other movies.
tI,A
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TT/T II BY Charles
wv nv IHV Fitzhugh
W wv Talman
<o1> Authority on
WR(LLHKY Meteorology
ICE AGES


Little by little science is piecing
out the story Of the great changes
of climate that have occurred on
the earth in ages past.
Prior to the nineteenth century
biologists we're puzzled to account
for the presence in many parts or
the world of the rocks known as
"boulders" or "erratics," which had
evidently been transported long
distances from their original beds.
The Scotchman, Playfair, appears to
have been the first person to sug-
gest that they had been carried by
prehistoric glaciers. Many years
later Louis Agassiz and others re-
vived this idea and so brought for
ward various other evidence to prove
that vast areas of Europe ana
North America had once been
buried under glaciers. implying a
far colder climate than prevails to-
day.
A generation ago biologists talked
of "the Glacial Period" The rec
ords of the rocks have since dis
closed the fact that there was not
merely one of these frigid episodes
in the earth's history, but that sew
eral have occurred. The latest CO.
dncided with the geological epoch
known as the Pleistocene. An earl
lier and very severe ice age oc-
Cured in Carboniferous and Per-
mian times, leaving its traces in re-
gions that now have warm climates,
Including India, South Africa, Aus
tralia and South America. There
is evidence of at least two still
earlier major ice ages, besides some
minor ones.
Though each of them lasted mil
lions of years, the ice ages were
probably relatively brief departures
from normal condition of warmer
and. more stable climate, Some au-
thorities think we are now living
in transition period between the
last ice age and renewal OF nor
NAL climatic conditions.
4 L., Tn
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Greetings to M. Claudel

Having visited with us little while on his way
to Paris from his old post in Toxic, the new French
ambassador to the United States M. Paul Claudel,
has returned to Washington to stay
To M. Caudel this and twenty-five other Scrpps-
Howard newspapers published in as many cities from
New York to San Diego extend sort of national
greeting
In so doing, we will presume, if we may, to offer
few reflections in the hope Of contributing just a
mite toward an urgently needed better understand
ing between the people of America and the people of
France.
AS governments, France and the United States
understand each other fairly well, even if they do
not But the peoples of the two countries do
not seem to understand each other at all. Which
is why, Mr. Ambassador, we sincerely hope you will
make yourself at home among us. not merely as the
French governments diplomatic representative at the
seat Of the American government but the ambassa-
dor of the French people to our people.
II you will do that the American people will feel
In position to ask of you great favor. They would
be everlastingy grateful if in some way you could
help your people to understand them, even if ever
so little
Your distinguished predecessor in this country the
senator and ambassador. Henry Berenger once said
that the people of France always picture Americans
in one of two ways. Either they see them as ideal
stically, as all Washngtons Franklins and Jeffer-
sons or contemptuously as shylocks and barbarians
The truth is, of course, Americans are probably
somewhere in between Neither devils nor angels we'd
say they are just regular human beings, with human
faults and human virtues, but, we would add they
are cursed-or blessed, one prefers-with more
than their share of sentmentality. Sentiment we
would if asked is the key to the American char
acter; not money madness as 50 many Europeans be-
ieve, but plain. old-fashioned sentiment
little blarney and we are ready to give the shirts
of our backs. Anger us, rub us the wrong way and
W can be as hard nails and as stubborn as army
mules.
HE who does not realize or refuses to realize that
the American man of affairs is completed by the ideal
ist, will never understand the American of today"
so Snator Berenger said, and he was right. "The
American plants his feet firmly in reality, but his
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Discourage Loan

France proposes to borrow $780,
100000 from American bankers at 6
per cent.
Senator Borah thinks the State
DEPARTMENT should do what it can
to discourage the proposition at this
time.
He points out that France thus
far has declined to pay her war
debt at a discount of SO cents on
the dollar and at a rate Of interest
which averages IL per cent.
would it not be conducive to a
better understanding between the
peoples of these countries" he asks,
eff such a loan were discouraged I'M
til the two governments have
reached an agreement relative to
the adjustment of the French
debit"
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Going Too FaSt2

The English Bishop of Ripon
thinks that labor's worst problem
consists of too much science and
too much machinery.
What he would like to see is a
cessation of invention and dis
covery for about ten years.
He believes that the world is
going too fast and that humanity is
overSaxed.
Secretary Davis. on the other
hand, believes that more discoveries
and inventions are needed to take
care Of labor which science and
machinery have thrown out of work.
Boiled down, these two views
represent the age-old controversy
of whether we should seek remedy
for our troubles by going ahead,
or setting the clock back.
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BURLESQUE SHOW
HAS GOOD CHORUS

Fast and furious dancing inter-
spiced with a lot of comedy and
plain old-fashioned hokum is the
mainstay of Mite Lie in Paris"
The chorus of the show is an UNI
usually good looking burlesque Choir
us. They seem to radjate pep and
enthusiasm which is furthered by
musical numbers that are snappy.
The show is well costumed and
the scenery used in the various
scenes is very effective. BY novel
uses of lights one mood is changed
to another. progressing the show
very rapidly.
Charles Tramp McNaley, who is
an old trooper, supplies most of the
comedy and fun of the piece and
is supported by La Villa Mayme,
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BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN

who is the feature dancer, and
George Seldom.
Contrary to most burlesque, this
SHOW; is not built around a plot, but
is series of variegsted scenes and
sketches which are run off in rapid
succession.
AT the Mutual all week.
(By the Observer)
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princeton Daily
Former Governor McCray has won his freedom
and will return to his former home and endeavor to
get back of this worlds good that he lost through
his excursion into the political field of Indiana and
there are large number Of people in his State who
of the opinion that he should not have been made
the goat" of political maneuveres that cost him his
fortune and sent him to Atlanta for term of ten
years one-third of which he has served.
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MIN which involved the appointment of the prose-
cutor of Marion county when William Evans his
on-in-aw resigned, it is probable that new light Will
DE focused the political situation here which has
Eept Indiana google-eyed these last few months.
In McCray's release from Atlanta there is lesson
chat ali of us ponder upon The thoughts of age
and life ambition and courage is what it brings to
most of us.
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Stage Verdict

KEITH'S-"The Beggar on
Horseback" is the gigantic
artistic accomplishment of the
Stuart Walker season. 1t is
the comedy treat of this or
any season.
ENGLISH'S-"Home Fires"
gives Bernice Marsolais a fine
character opportunity and she
gives a magnificent per-
Torrance.
LYRIC-Burns and West are
a fine example of how good a.
blackfaee act can really be.
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Editor
What is the value of United
States fractional scent note?
Such notes are worth from 10 to
so cents, depending on the date of
issue and the condition of the note.
How old is Charles Farrell, who
starred in "Old Ironsides," 1.-THE
Rough Riders" and Seventh
Heaven"
Twenty-Five years.
What is the plural of hypOtenuse?
Hypotenuses.
What causes flames of fire? Why
does it tend to go upward?
Flames of fire are produced by
the union of one gas with another
that surrounds it. A flame is merely
the combining of gases at a tenn
perature which causes them to be-
come luminous. AS these gases are
lighter than air, they are constantly
in the process of rising in air, con-
sequently the flame produced by the
uniting of these gases tends to go
upward.
Are there any restrictions as to
aliens owning property anywhere in
the United States?
In general it may be said that
aliens may own property in the
United States under the same terms
and conditions that apply to Ameri-
can citizens. Property rights are
governed by State laws, not ma
tional or Federal laws. In a few
cases, States have limited the right
of certain aliens to hold property,
as in the case of the Pacific coast
States, which limit the right, or
prohibit the ownership of property
by Chinese and Japanese.
Is the name Louis a nickname for
Aloysius?
No. The name Aloysius is from
the Latin and means grace" Louis
is from the French and means de
fender"
How many Indians were in North
America when the first whites set
tied here?
Estimates vary widely. Some ortho-
nologists claim there are more In
dams today than there were then,
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Questions and AnS1Ce7S

but this view seems to be unfound-
ed. Others claim that there were
vast hordes Of them and they base
their assumption on the large ruins
found in certain parts of the coun-
try. Hodge, in 1.-The Handbook of
the American Indian" gives care
full estimate of the number of Indi-
ans north of Mexico as 1,15O,0O0.
Of these $4,000 were in what is
now the United States proper.
How many acres of land are
there in the TT. Harrison grounds?
How many officers and men are sta
toned there?
The grounds at TT. Harrison COM
prise 1890 acres. The Fl Harrison
roster shows 1,700 men and ninety
officers, but some of these are away
temporarily.
Is there any completely gas proof
fabric used in making balloon bags?
No fabric is entirely gas proof. In
the Government service captive ball
looms are inflated at night until the
cover is metallic to the touch and
in the morning enough gas will have
escaped to make the bag feel quite
soft The only gas-tight contain
ers are metal ones,
Do airplanes have headlights?
No. They have wing and tall
lights.
Will salt or kerosene kill grass in
the crevices of brick walk?
Either will accomplish the pur-
pose if used in dry weather, so that
they will not be washed away. Con-
siderable quantities must be used
and care should be exercised not
to contaminate the surrounding
grass. If the walk is made so that
it drains to the surrounding grass
they should not be used.
When did Sarah Bernhard die?
March Is, 1923.
Is there any buoyant material be-
sides cork that is, used in making
life preservers?
Is the Atlantic Ocean rOugher
than the Pacific?
Generally it is. but not always.
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How are aboIone shells cleaned?

The Bureau of Fisheries says that
in order to clean them well special
appliances are necessary. but it can
be done by filing the shell, rubbing
it with sandstone, finishing it with
fine emery and polishing it with
rotten stone.
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Do You KNoW-

That the Jewish Federation
has an Institutional spread
covering Communal Build
ing, Kirschbaum Center,
Shelter House and summer
camp, serving ninety-five
families, ITS homeless men,
eight old people and 500 in
organized clubs and classes?
1t is affiliated with the Com
munity Fund.