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What Makes the Thedter?

REFER of course. to the great Equity benefit at
the time of the strike than dozen years
ago To be sure the troupe consisted of some of the
est-known names in New York, but l. depended not
at all upon cloth OF gold any kind of trappings
And as a matter of fact, the who captured the
fullest appreciation of wildly enthusiastic audience
was practically unknown hoofer named Jim Barton.
What actors have done once through cooperative
effort they can do again Lest any friend of Well
Wisher turn pale with fright and mutter in agonized
horror "Broun is going to do another Shoot the
Works let explain that am going to do moth
ing of the Sort Through experience not particularly
bitter but still experience, have succeeded in con-
vincing myself that am not actor.
But if were an actor would go out and act for
pins or pennies in a back somebody's cellar.
would not be content with that state of the profess
sion in which players not play because so many
of the theaters have gone back to the banks and
the trust companies.
In my daily two-nlile walk generally pass large
modern theater which has had not single tenant
for some six or seven seasons. I'd like to see the
actors the musicians the stage hands and the cleo
tricians knock upon such door and say even to the
unresponSive walls You are not the theater. We
are the theater. How dare you keep us out?'
copyright. 1891
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ,

d AIN dries the air. More air goes up than ever
IN comes down. To cool air, heat it. To
air, cool it. Not air that is heated but air that is
not heated, is thereby warmed. Mixing brings the
air to non-uniform temperature. The coolest air
covers the warmest earth.
Let me hasten to explain that this is not guest
column representing the collaboration of Gertrude
Stein, Harpo Marx and Joe Penner.
The seven brief statements printed in the open
ing paragraph have been copied verbatim from the
from the printed work of learned scientist the
meteorological physicist of the United States
Weather Bureau, DR.. William j. Humphreys And
they are all true! Now you will have some notion
of the difficulties Of weather forecasting
They are taken from the just-published second
edition of DR.. Humphreys delightful little book
Weather Proverbs and Paradoxes"
The first part of the book divides false proverbs
from true ones and then proceeds to explain the
physical basis Of reality which underes the proverbs
that can be<counted on to work
THE second part Of the book sets forth such
startling paradoxes of nature as those already
mentioned and then proceeds to explain why they
are true in spite Of their "Alce in Wonderland"
sound
Let US give away the secret Of one of these para
doxes-that rain dries the air. Dr. Humphreys
points out that evaporation is always causing water
to enter the atmosphere in the form of water vapor
When it rains, water falls out of the atmosphere
Hence the humidity is lowered by the amount Of
water that fell as rain Rain may wet the ground
but it dries the air.
IF it were not for the rain. the humidity would
rise to an intoerable degree all over the world
The chief function of DR.. Humphreys book is not
to startle you but TO make you weather wise, TO
help you develop weather eye It seeks to make
you take lively but understanding interest in the
Weather
The book should make a particular appeal to
golfers. hunters, mixers. yachsmen, and all those
who enjoy the outdoors. If you number such among
your friends or relatives here is a hint for votr
Christmas shopping.
Beautiful photographs of clouds, fogs and storms
enhance the book. 1t is published by Williams q
Williams at 81.
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THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH
y of Violet SharbeS Suicide Still Battles Police

cleaning-and lived only long
enough to make her way from her
room to the ground floor.
Immediately the detective
hearts leaped within them. Here,
at last, they thought, was the So
luton to the most battling crime
of the century.
Her suicide" it was soleInnly
announced, may be taken as a
confession of guilt"
ERNEST BRINCKERT, blink
IL ing in amazement at his UNI
expected arrest. went willingly
with the police to New Jersey,
but protested not only that he
hadn't been out with Violet, but
that he didn't even know the girl.
AS for his business cards, found
in her room. he hadn't the slight
est idea how they happened to be
there.
For days, wearied detectives at
tempted to beat down Brinckert's
story. His alibi was air-tight. His
proof was perfect. He had never
laid eyes on Violet Sharpe
At this juncture another char
acter entered the play A young
man presented himself to the po-
lice and said:
Il am the Ernest with whom
Violet Sharpe went out in the eve
ming Of March l. But we didn't
go to a movie. We went to the
Peanut Grill and drank beer"
This was Ernest Miller, and the
story of his meeting with Violet
and Edna, and his subsequent ex-
cursion with the maid checked
completely with the police knowl-
edge of those events.
q
THEN why did Violet Sharpe
L. identify Ernest Brinckert's
photograph as that of her escort?
Was it for pure malice, out of ha-
tired for the police whom she re-
garded as tormenters?
And why did she lie in the first
place, over a relationship which,
while it might have had unhappy
reaction from the direction of the
sober Septimus Banks, certainly
was not criminal?
The probability is that the au-
thorities we're dealing with a case
of hySteria induced by fear Her
promised marriage to the butler
was jeopardfzed. To a woman of
her position. approaching 30, this
was tragedy.
YEARLY, the police checked oft
the Violet Sharpe file from their
dossiers, to begin new, and more
brilliant, attack upon the prob
lem. They turned, drawn by the
magnet of logic. toward the
Bronx.
Tomorrow: The Trail of the Ran
som Bills.
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BY SIDNEY b. WHIPPLE
NHIttu Icso otaH O"fES7P"II"cHS
Copyright. 1894. BY United Press)

mansion Englewood
ejoced septimus
Morrow
small a kindly
prmly Banks little time
perhaps
The limit of his world of
sona to
upper hfies during that
previously.
be understood that
company with Violet Sharpe ponabe English serving maid
that day they would be married.
Whether dignity paled
occasionally tempered the strict
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

THERE three great medicines in the treat
l. ment of tuberculosis which, when rightly used
superior TO any of those In drug stores. They
are rest food and fresh air.
It was once though that fresh air most i'm
porant food second and rest last. but nowadays it
realized that the order is correct To give
a patient with tuberculosis and fever good food
and insufficient rest has been hkened to attempting
to fill a barrel full of holes with water.
The time that should be devoted to rest by the
average is approximately eight hours daily
during which he should sleep. However. persons who
are i'll need far time for this purpose
The person with high blood pressure the one
with an incapacitated heart. the one with any
chronic disorder requires much more time fiat on
his back in bed.
TT has been suggested that person in the early
stages of tuberculosis. when the disease has just
been discovered should lie in bed all the time and
for a while not be permitted to either hand
foot Visitors must be excluded and all excitement
avoided.
Anything that excites the patient and causes his
heart to beat faster may break up a diseased
and release poisons into the circulation.
When these posons come into the blood and be-
gin TO circulate through the body. they fever
loss of appetite loss of weight and of strength.
Real rest means not only rest of the muscles and
tissues but also of the mind. 1t is impossible for
the mind to rest during conversation and it may
even be overactive during reading.
TN 1904 there were only 20 Ssnatoriums in the
i United States where this kind of treatment
could be given to the tuberculous. Today than
5000 beds are available and there are almost 700
sanatoriums.
This does not begin. however. 10 supply the need
because there possibly million and half cases
Of tuberculosis and there are about 100000 deaths
from the disease each year.
While it is possible to take of persons with
the disease at home must prevail when the total
number of is considered in relationship to the
number Of beds available. the most certain control
OF the patient occurs when he in suitably regu-
lated institution.
Apparently the location of the institution is not
significant the quality Of service that il sup
plies
While there are some climates in which patients
with tuberculosis TO do better it is now known
that the condition may be scientifically treated in
any climate II the patient is properly cooperative
and II the doctors and attendants understand
the natVss Of scientific care.
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Minnesota's youthful Senator
Bennett Clark as a boy used to
visit the House, over which mis-
father, Champ Clark, presided as
Speaker, and sit on the laps of
Utah'S William King and Illinois
j. HAM Lewis, then members of
the House, now Senate colleagues
of Clark Huey Long is con-
sidering taking his time about
coming back to the Senate. Word
has come from Louisiana that the
Kingfish plans to make his entry
after the session gets into full
swing The whisper has per-
meated Nebraska circles that
Harry Coffee. wealthy, young
newly-elected Representative from
the western part of the state, is
the choice of Democratic boss
Arthur Mullen if Senator George
Norris decides not to run again in
1896. Coffee. it is said, is to be
built up" during the next 18
months as a prospective senatorial
candidate.
Copyright. 1884. BY United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.)
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0. T. S. CHAPTER TO
INSTALL OFFICERS
Mrs. Stella Johnson to Take
Matron'S Chair.

Officers of Corinthian Chapter
456, o. E. S. will be installed during
public ceremonies Thursday night,
Dec. 81, at Evergreen Masonic Hall,
2515 w. Westinghouse.
Mrs. Stella johnson will be in
stalled at Worthy Matron to sue
coed Mrs. Alice Conkle, retiring
Worthy Matron.
Other officers to be installed in
clude:
Harry Bryant, Worthy Patron;
Ennis Suesz, Associate Matron; Syl-
vester Butler, Associate Patron;
Merle Kester, Secretary: Malinda
Fowler, Treasurer; Maude Case,
Conductress; Ruth Hancock, Asso-
ciate Conductress; Maude Dean,
Chaplain; Clara Lincks, Marshal;
Georgia Manville, Organist; Gladys
Shakelford, Adah; Ruth Nell
CUBAN, Ruth; Patty Belle Robbins,
Esther; Renline Lincks, Martha;
Eva Leerkar1p, Electa; Florence
Bryant, Warder; Jacob c. Layton,
Sentinel.
The grand installing officer will
be Martha zoercher; Alice Conkle,
grand marshal; IDA Meister, grand
chaplain and Sophia McMullen,
Grand Secretary.
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bonds OF her betrothal by outside
excursions which would greatly
have upset the estimable butler
had he been aware of what was
going on.
So it came about that, on the
Sunday afternoon before the kid
mapping, while Violet and her sister
Edna we're walking in their Sab
bath finery just outside the town,
a young gentleman named "Ern-
est" offered them ride in his au-
tomobile, and they accepted.
Before the girls had reached the
Morrow home, Violet had agreed
to date with Ernest, for the eve
ming of Tuesday, March l.
n r.
THE police questioning of the
Il % Morrow servants and the
three Lindbergh servants, all of
whom we're on the friendliest
terms. had proceeded methodically
and smoothly.
Each servant, under the insist
ent questioning of the various de-
tectives. had been able to meet the
most searching of inquisitions into
their lives, into their whereabouts
on the night of the kidnapping,
and into their associates.
But when Violet was questioned,
the police were puzzled by an
amazing attitude of defiance.
Violet's moods, under the per-
sonal investigation, ran the ga
NUT of emotions. BY turns she
would be stubbornly silent and
historically garrulous. She would
be saucy. pert, and change to a
tone of sulle11 anger.
She lied about her engagement
on the night of March l, and as
she lied she winked, over her
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his crossing his own goal. Thus, long after his
his DEATH it was demonstrated that Mr.. Fitch had
not exceeded the bounds of possibility but had
merely Scooped the truth by more than 20 years
With his Siwash pieces as a leaping start in the
fiction business, Mr.. Fitch seemed likely to become
rich author when he suddenly died He is remem-
bered at Knox College, however as one of the most
Industrious alumni the roster because, under the
name of Siwash, he made Knox famous. Everybody
seemed to sense that Siwash was Knox and that he
was using Knox as model to interpret life at a
typical freSh-water college
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DR.. Thorp, who formerly taught
economics at Amherst, adds that
the gold bloc countries-France,
Italy, Belgium, Holland and
Switzerlard-sho the least evil
dence of progress.
Germany is advancing in the
domestic field but foreign trade
reverseS leave her situation far
from good.
DR.. Thorp bases his observa-
tions on four indices-industrial
production, unemployment, whole
sale prices and foreign trade. The
six countries first mentioned show
improvement in all four, he says,
while the gold bloc nations are
tagging in all four.
ID ECORDS of world business
IN conditions, he notes, re
veal a decided tendency for move
ments to be similar in various
countries. We can readily discern
what might be described as a
world pattern of prosperity and
depression, with peaks in 1890,
1900, 1907, 1918, 1920 and 1929"
Periods of world prosperity, he
further observes, seem to end with
a considerable degree of abrupt
ness, whereas periods of depres-
sion terminate far more gradually.
"As to the recession of 1929"
he says, there can be no doubt
that definite evidence of recovery
began to appear in many coun-
tries in the last half of 1882. Al
though there were many instances
of backsliding in the early months
of 1888, the upward trend was
again clearly in evidence by sum-
mer. Like all REVEALS, it has not
been uniform; it has been ex-
tremely ragged"
Industrial production "is clear
ly upward" says DR.. Thorp,
though it varies with the different
countries. In this respect the
United States occupies middle
position.
TINE three centers of most Sc
l. we're unemployment during
the depression have been the
United States, Germany and the
United Kingdom. Together, in
1888, their unemployed aggregated
20,500,o00. BY August, 1884, this
was reduced to approximately Is
million.
"All available evidence" how
ever. reveals persistently high
records for unemployment in
nearly every country"
Wholesale prices have been adj
vancing in the United States,
Japan, Canada, Australia, Sweden,
the United Kingdom, Germany
and CzechoSlovakia. Among the
countries showing the reverse
tendency, Poland. France, Bel
GUM and Italy suffered the great
est declines.
Foreign trade is still very unSat-
isfactory. There has been no
general recovery in this respect, y
records DR. Thorp. In fact, when
measured IN gold prices, it seems
to have reached a new low at the
third quarter of -134. Some i'm
provement is noted in volume,
however.
It is yet too early. Dr. Thorp
warns. to draw conclusions. But
there is one tremendously import
ant outstanding feature. For
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conultion might make Tor all sorts OF
fights and liveliness. The plain
truth Of the matter is that the stage,
as distinguished from the screen, has
become the preoccupation of an
over-precious minority, whether you
view it from the right or from the
left.
There are millions of people in
America who have never seen a play
and in all probability never will I'M
less the art takes on new habiliments
and aspects. II is hardly likely that
the public taste for story told in
action by living people has totally
abated. The answer lies not in the
field of art but in the domain of eco
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EIZnouh
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

Z NOx COLLEGE of Galesburg H., has lost 81
consecutive football games in a remarkable
string OF defeats dating back to the season of 1881
In that year Knox played the United States Military
Academy and lost the game, but scored some points
Such has been the famine in football matters at
Knox that the alumni. when they get together, still
bark back to the season of 1881 and the team that
scored on the Array. Knox College is the alma
mater OF the late George Fitch who wrote the Swash
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the first time in history" he says,
"a conscious effort has been made
on virtually world scale to in
troduce social controls into the
process of bringing a depression
to and end.
I'm the past, governments have
stood aside and. waited for natu-
raj forces to produce revival. But
on this occasion the governments
of the world, with a steadily
shortening list of exceptions, have
undertaken positive and extensive
action to initiate and support an
upward movement"
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CONFERENCE HELD BY
ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
Problems of Group Discussed at
Central District Session.

Problems of Group Discussed at
Central District Session.
School attendance officers of the
central district of Indiana met yes
terday at the Lincoln and discussed
problems of the Grant schoolboy
with state and Indianapolis authori-
ties.
Speakers included Floyd I. Nc
Murray, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction; Miss Margaret
E. Paddock, State Attendance Direc-
tor; Miss Estle NJ. Fisk, School
Commissioners visitor, and Miss
Bertha o. Leming, Public School So
cial Service assistant supervisor.
President of the attendance Off
GERS group is Mrs. Eleanor White,
Shelbyville; vice president. Robert
McNeff, Morgan County. and secre-
tary, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre.
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Tie OIOheTdB6 business 10 devote
all his time to the Distillers and
Brewers Corp, of which he is-a
director. The company both man
ufactures and imports liquor
MinneSota's eX-convict former
Rep. Francis Shoemaker has told
friends that he is going into the
newspaper publishing business in
Duluth. He will prepare to run
against Senator Tom Schall when
that violent-worded Old Guarder
comes up for reelection in 1886.
Heavy-set Bertrand Wesley
Gearhart, new Republican Rep
resentative from Southern Cali
fornia, comes to Washington with
a unique distinction. Forty-four
years old, an overseas veteran, and
former State American Legion
Commander, he was elected with
out opposition. being supported by
both Republicans and Democrats.
CENERAL JOHNSON'S much
- heralded book will be pub
lished some time in March. Be-
fore that, it will come out in eight
installments in the Saturday
Evening Post beginning in early
January. Johnson is getting
money from the Post rivaling that
paid Calvin Coolidge. He has re-
written the book four times and
taken a lot of the spice out,
though it still contains some indi-
rect criticism of the President.
:. Katrina Mccormick. daughter
of staunch Republican Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms, at
tended Mrs. Roosevelt's masque-
rade party attired as Greta Gar
DO. On her back was a placard:
I tank go home, it bane gettin'
stuffy here" FERA officials
say they are still waiting to get
Senator Borah's specific charges
against its administration of re-
lief. More than month has
passed since he threw a bomb
shell into the FTERA camp, but
the promised detailed charges
have not materialized.
FERA officials are accustomed
to strange requests for relief, but
one of the strangest came from a
Russian citizen in the Volga Basin
asking aid for his family i. State
Department dispatches from
Bucharest report that American
firms doing business in Rumania
have to pay a commission to Nine.
Lupescu, titian-haired friend of
King Carol Alice Roosevelt
Longworth refers TO some of the
spinster ladies, friends of her
cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, as The
Female Impersonators \
FRIENDS of Senator Royal S.
II Copeland report that he is
planning to offer new pure food
and drug bill at the coming ses-
sion. Miffed at what he considers
was a Presidential Snub during
the recent election. however. the
carnation-wearing New Yorker
will not consult with Administra-
ton authorities on the legislation,
intends going IL alone There
are three members of the Senate
who have a unique association
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RESERVATIONS POUR IN
FOR SULLIVAN DINNER
Chamber Prepares for Meeting in
Honor of Retiring Mayor.

OAWNA ACPoACS AOA N1CCblIS III
Honor of Retiring Mayor.
A number of reservations have
been made at the indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce for the
chambers testimonial dinner to-
morrow night in honor of Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan.
ToaStma&er for the dinner, which
will be held in the Claypool Riley
room, will be Fred Hoke, state Ma
tional Emergency Council director.
Responses will be given by Gov
ernor Paul V. McNutt, DR.. Louis
Hopkins, Wabash College president;
Mrs. Walter Greenough, Louis j..
Borinstein, chamber president; Ar
thur v. Brown, Indianapolis Clear
ing House Association president,
and DR.. Carleton B. Mccullough.
City Park Board member.
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oOUIIeS OF III5 UdIDdIIan age OF Inter-
collegiate football. Mr. Fitchs prin-
cipal character was Ole Skjarsen, a
local teamster or aShman with a
kindergarten intellect and a low
comedy accent, who performed mighty
feats for the Siwash varsity. Ole
capped his career by running the
wrong way in the big game of the
year. This invention of rising
young fictioreer seemed incredible
until day in 1929 when Roy Reigels
of California did the same thing in
the big game against Georgia Tech.
Like Ole Skjarsen, Mr.. Reigels was
tackled and brought down by one of
bis own men lust in time To nreYant
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shoulder at the housekeeper. Her
story was that she had gone to
movie, on the night of the kid
MAPPING, with Ernest" whose last
name she did not know.
THE police, figuratively, set her
Il aside for further questioning,
at about the time the Lindbergh
baby's body was found. Mean
while, Violet spent a week in
hospital, undergoing minor OPP
Grafton.
In May. the investigation was
resumed. The New Jersey inquis-
itorial forces had moved their
headquarters to Alpine, and it was
proposed to take the serving maid
there for renewed questioning.
They we're certain she had been
to no movie on the fateful night,
for she had been unable to give
them any description of the play.
A search of Violet's rooms had
disclosed little of interest save a
number of business cards of the
Post Road Taxi Co., Ernest
Brinckert, Proprietor" at White
Plains, New York.
To trace down Ernest Brinck-
ert was the work OF but a few
hours. The speculation of detec-
tives was heightened when it was
learned that Brinckert had a DO
lice record-a record of minor of
lenses, to be sure, but neverthe-
less a record.
They brought photographs of
the youth to Violet, who identified
them as those of the Ernest"
with whom she had been out on
the night of March Il
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY
By Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XTASHINGTON Dec 8Bonus
w time in getting their bail rolling
Of Foreign Wars working incoming
Democratic casualties the
banging Administration berhs
ans Ralph F. Lozer and James Rufn places
United States Tariff Commission assistant attorney generashp
Curtis Dali former sonnlaw the