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No law shall be passed restrainirfg the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re
stricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of
Indiana.
SAVE THE COLLEGES
"Unless all signs fail, the State universities will
emerge from the Legislature with exactly nothing
at all to enable them to operate as first class insti
tutions.
Behind the two measures now before the Legis
lature there seems to be a force which expects to
stifle the colleges by a competition in methods of
relief.
It was bad enough when it was proposed to give
as a relief measure a tax levy of 3 cents for a
period of ten years to purchase the necessary new
buildings.
When that method was reduced by one-third
under the suggestion of Governor Jackson, it merely
meant that the growth would be so slow that the
best students would leave the State and get their
education in either private institutions or in the uni
versities of neighboring States.
Now comeß an absurd proposal to put a luxury
tax on cigars and cigarettes and hand this special
tax over to the colleges. *
Significantly those who use tobacco in its rawer
forms by smoking it in pipes or chewing it will not
be called upon to contribute to the cause of culture.
There is a suspicion that this proposal comes
from those who pretend to represent the farmer and
that it is proposed for the sole purpose of relieving
the farmer from any taxation of higher educational
institutions.
If such be the case, those who assert that they
are., battling for the farmer, who needs relief, only
insult him as a class.
The farmer has never been a parasite or; a
beggar. It is insulting to him to declare that the
education of the future must depend upon some
trick by which the city dweller-pays for this part
of government activities, perhaps the best part. Nor
will the city man be disposed to look with any favor
upon such a trick to force him to pay taxes and
give to the Governor an alibi for failing to reduce
taxation as he promised last fall.
The truth is that the present administration,
fully cognizant of the desperate needs of the colleges
made a promise it knew it could not keep unless it
starved these universities. It is quite willing to
soak classes of people, tobacco users and owners
of. automobiles for example, with special taxes in
order to hide its own political duplicity.
Asa result, it is quite probable that neither of
these measures will be passed and that when the
Legislature ends, there will be no funds for their
expansion or maintenance.
It is time to face the situation. The friends of
the college should unite on a program that is neces
sary and stand firm in its behalf.
The people of this State, all the people are ready
and willing to make these colleges the best in the
land. They are ready to pay the bills as other bills
are paid, not by trick schemes.
To reduce the levy from 3 cents means that
Indiana votes itself a second-class State in matters
of education.
To attempt to pay the bills by a nicotine tax
that encourages pipes and “chawin’ ” is to invite
ridicule and worse.
Why not have real universities and pay the
teachers and professors enough in salary to make
them self-respecting?
FREE SPEECH'
Every editor in Indiana should journey to Mira
cie when the latest charge of contempt of court
against George Dale is heard by Judge Dearth.
Every citizen who hasVondered just what free
speech really is and cares anything about that right,
will be interested.
For aparently there is introduced something new
in the way of control of the press by judges and edi
tors may discover that they have new limitations
upon their rights.
Dale has been rather persistent in his criticisms
of a Muneie judge. He is under sentence on a
charge of contempt. He is only kept from Jail by
an appeal to the Supreme Court. That was because
he wrote things about a grand jury and the Supreme
Court of this State said that his offer to prove the
truth of what he printed was no defense.
The new charge is different.
The paper which Dale owns and edits printed
a letter which made charges against the judge of
the court and the mayor of Muneie.
When it appeared on the streets, the newsboys
were brought into the courtroom and their papers
confiscated. There was no trial. There was no
hearing. The judge merely decided to suppress the
edition. ' ‘
Now an affidavit is filed in the court by the
bailiff of the court, which charges that the article is
“false, corrupt, contemptuous and libelous.”
And It is proposed to try Dale for contempt be
fore the judge he assailed who will pass upon the
falsity, corruption, contemptuousness and libel of the
charges.
If men print false articles there has always
been the remedy of libel. If any one prints untruths
and slanders,'he is subject not only to damages, b’lt
if crime is the slander, to sentences for crime.
The law has been plain and simple. But in these
cases, those who print have the right to a trial by
jury.
When judges punish for contempt, there is no
jury and the trial is before the person who feels ag
grieved.
On the surface, what is happening at Muneie
appears to be an assertion by a judge that any
editor who criticises a judge may be sent to jail by
that judge without a trial.
The arrest of newsboys and the confiscation of
newspapers is even more important and'significant
than the charge.against Dale.
If the judge can confiscate any issue of any news
paper when it contains articles they do not like, if
newspapers, Or magazines, or pamphlets can be thus
suppressed, then the whole theory of publishing must
be revised to meet the new Indiana viewpoint.
The matter is so important that the Republican
and Democratic Editorial Associations should be on
the spot to watch.
If it is to become dangerous for Republican edi
tors to publish papers jn districts where Democratic
judges hold court or Democrats to publish in Re
publican territory, it is time to find out.
Dale may have published falsehoods. If so
he should pay the penalty after a trial and under the
same penalties provided for the criticism of any citi
zen.
If there be one law for criticism of judges and
another for the criticism of citizens, editors ought
to know it.
THAT BARRETT INTEREST
Will the former treasurers of this county be suc
cessful in writing into the amended Barrett law a
legal claim to keep the hundreds of thousands of
dollars they received as Interest upon these funds?
That is the purpose of the desperate effort to
write into the amendment something that can be
used by them as a defense against the suits brought
by Alvah Rucker.
The treasurers of other counties are interested,
especially in the larger cities.
Under the Barrett law the treasurer of this
county has received, as Interest on funds intrusted
to him, more money than is paid the president as a
salary.
More than that, this county is many hundreds of
thousands dollars in debt because of the manner in
which this fund has been handled.
The brazenness with which former treasurers
of this county are lobbying In the Legislature to se
cure a legal right to that interest should awaken
interest on the part of citizens and of civic societies.
No one has ever contended that these treasurers
ever earned this interest or did any service entitling
them to retain it. It amounts, so it is claimed, to
SBO,OOO a year.
For them to plead with the Legislature to write
preambles into the law which can be later used as a
legal defense in law suits is shocking and outrageous.
For the legislators to listen or for any legislator
to make a fight in their behalf is more than shocking.
The people of this city have a million dollars at
stake on the action of the Legislature on this law.
Will the Legislature protect the people or will
it endeavor to hand those former treasurers a cer
tificate of title to the fortunes they never earned?
That Is the whole question. Will the Chamber of
Commerce sit idle while this battle is proceeding?
A SAFETY ZONE
/ It you want real protection, move to Nicaragua.
There will soon be 2,300 American marines in
that little republic.
The marines are there, according to the State
Department, to protect American lives and property.
And how many Americans reside in Nicaragua?
Exactly 571, according to the official 1920 census.
On that basis each American down there can
have four stalwart seagoing soldiers as personal
bodyguard. And, according to Nicaraguan liberals,
it will be even better than that. The liberals claim
that the 571 Americans counted in 1920 included
about 150 American marines.
And property? Robert W. Dunn in his book,
“American Foreign' Investments,” lists the United
Fruit Company as the principal American property
owner in Nicaragua. He estimates this company’s
property there at $170,000 —about the value of a
block of parked automobiles. It is apparent, there- j
fore, that property also will have rather excellent
protection. #
All in all, considering crime conditions in our
own country, you could move to no place safer than
Nicaragua. s
An Indian named Naqui, who can write 400 let
ters on a grain of, rice, is coming to America. We
wonder where he’ll park his car.
A boy Is a “phenomenon composed of dirt and
noise,” says the founder of Father aud Sou Week.
That's what they’re saying about the Broadway
shows, too.
PURIFYING OTHER PEOPLE
By N. I). Cochran—— -
' Why do reformers and uplifters work so strenu
ously trying to reform and uplift others? What kick
do they get out of it?
The general supposition Is that they’ are good
people themselves and want everybody else to be as
good as they are; and good In the same way they are
good.
Also that they want to make the world better by
making the people better. I don't remember that it
was ever claimed that they were trying to make people
happier. But they may have had that in mind.
However, I have my doubts that many .reformers
and uplifters who want to make people good by law
have a conscious purpose of improving civilization. I
mean that they do not reason from cause to effect, or
have any clear understanding of just how they are go
ing to accomplish what they set out to do.
Let’s consider the present effort to clean up and
reform the stage in New York. There need be no ar
gument about the rottenness of some of the plays:
for undoubtedly some of the performances attacked
were indecent, no matter how artistic. I don't mean
the nudity; for that soon reforms itself. People get
■tired of it. It soon loses its novelty.
Short skirts were sensational when they first ap
peared; but when all women got to wearing them
there wa3 n<y novelty about them. It wasn't long
until decent and sensible people accepted them as sani
tary, healthful and wholesome. Now even Grandma
will no longer appear on the streets with her skirts
mopping up the sidewalk filth.
But plays presenting human weaknesses that
border on insanity did actual harm to some by what
they suggested to adolescent youth. No useful purpose
was served by their presentation. Degeneracy isn't
helpful to science, art or literature.
Until the furor was kicked up about them, how
ever, and the police began arresting the performers,
whatever pollution of the public mind there was was
confined to the comparatively few who attended the
performances. The only way it spread outside was
through newspaper criticisms. In other words, the
evil influence was segregated.
When reformers and the police cut loose, however,
the news that there was something rotten in some plays
spread all over. Curious people, including young folks,
wanted to know what it was all about. The effect was
a good deal like what happens in a city when the police
raid the tenderloin —the evil spreads out from segre
gated districts to every corner of the community.
It has happened in the past and will happen again
in the future, that the misguided zeal of unwise re
formers and uplifters has made successful suggestive
plays that would have failed If forced /to get by on
their merit as plays. The same is true of books. Pub
licity advertises and arouses curiosity. The curious
want to see for themselves.
So I wonder if the real kick reformer's and up
lifters get out of their vice crusades doesn’t come more
from the publicity they and the unnatural joy they
get out of punishing somebody, than from any real
expectation of making the world better and humanity
happier.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Tracy
Oklahoma’s University Is
Young, but Bigger
.Than Yale,
By M. E. Tracy %
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 22.
—Thirty-five years ago five men
started the University of Oklahoma
In two rooms above a gracery store.
Now It has 225 instructors and 5,000
students, being larger than Dart
mouth, Yale or Brown.
This Is typical of the State and of
the West.
No section of the country is paying
more attention to higher education.
State supported universities not
only give yourfg people a better
chance, but stimulate public interest
in better schools.
It’s Snappy
The University of Oklahoma is sit
uated in the town of Norman. * It
occupies a 140-acre campus, receives
$1,200,000 from the State annually
and owns 250,000 acres of land in fee
simple.
Its atmosphere is snappy and
Democratic. You don’t feel you have
entered a tomb when you enter the
administration building. Everybody
is busy, but not to such an extent
as to make you feel like an intruder.
Such an element of contact Is often
lacking in the university with hoary
traditions and a big endowment.
But please don’t get the Impression
that discipline is lax, or standards
low.
Non-resident students are not per
mitted to have cars and nocturnal
festivities are restricted to Friday
and Saturday nights. Even then the
students must be in by 11 o’clock.
W. B. Blzzeil Is president of Okla
homa University. I used to know
him in Texas where lie was presi
dent of the agricultural and mechani
cal college for eleven years.
Before that he was president of
Texas College of Industrial Arts for
four years. Dr. Bizzell has all kinds
of degrees..but you would never guess
it. He shakes hands like a human
being. I speak of this because it is
typical of the western scholar who
regards education, not something by
which to get a cap and gown, but as
a means by which to help other
people help themselves.
Learned Coldness
I visited the president of an east
ern college once, and felt cold for
a week. I have visited the presi
dents of four western colleges on
this trip and still feel the warmth
of their welcome. The boys and girls
feel It, too. That is why there are
more college students per 3,000 peo
ple in Oregon than in Massachu
setts; more in California than in
New York and more in Oklahoma
than in Virginia.
State Aids Education
Besides the university. Oklahoma
maintains one 'large nrgieultural col
lege and three smaller ones, an in
dustrial college for Negroes, a worn- ;
an’s college and six normal schools.
The spirit which such support of
higher education implies is reflected
in the common school system.
The splendid buildings, equipment
and grounds that even small towns
provide are a constant source of
amazement.
Washington, Pioneer
If George Washington were to
come back on this 193 th anniversary
of his birth he would find great com
fort in this West of which he
dreamed, but never saw.
He would marvel at the great cities
of the east, no doubt, at the brilliant
ly lighted streets, the whirring autos,
the radio, vacuum cleaners and
canned music, but he would find It
easier to understand the men of the
great prairie section, the mountain
wilds, the desert and the Pacific
slope.
George Washington was a pioneer
by nature, a promoter and developer.
Asa young man, he sought the
wilderness with a surveyor’s kit on
his back. As an old man, he owned
vast tracts of land that lay beyond
what most people regarded as the
limits of civilization. It was by
traveling far ahead of the crowd that
he got his real training, learned to
meet emergencies, to run a straight
course and stay with it, no matter
where it led. He would find a
thrill in all that is taking place west
of the Alleghenies, in the miles of
new roads, the great reclamation
projects, the inception of new and
bigger undertakings, the awakening
of a broader public vision.
Lagging Politically?
George Washington would find It
easy to understand how we have
grown mechanically and scientifical
ly, for he was an engineer, but what
would he say of our political prog
ress?
The modern dam builder could
give him something to think about
and wonder at, but wliat about the
modern statesmen? Would he think
Secretary Kellogg represented as
great an advance beyond 1789 as Edi
son or that the foreign policy had
been improved as much as the steam
engine?
George Washington could walk in
to the State Department and do a
pretty good job, but not so in the
laboratory. Tliat is something to
think about. Have we failed to im
prove politically because the fathers
left no room for improvement, or be
cause we have shirked on the job?
What is a “riflebird?”
An Australian bird of paradise
with a long curved bill about equal
in size to a large pigeon, the upper
parts are velvety black tinged with
purple: the under parts velvety black
diversified with olive green. The
crowns of the head and the throat
are covered with innumerable little
specks of emerald green, of most
brilliant lustre. The tail Is black,
the two central feathers rich metal
lic green. The female is much more
plainly colored. The name was given
by early Australian settlers in
allusjon to the resemblance between
the plumage of the male bird and
the uniform of one of the familiar
rifle brigades.
It’s a Wise Father Who Knows His Own Children
a*
You Must Gome Over and See Fanny
and Kitty and Frank Fay of Broadway
By Walter 1). Hickman
Just pack your troubles and take
a trip with me.
Because you must come over and
see Fanny, the fat one, and Kitty,
the slim one, as well as Frank Fay,
the very clever Individual who is
billed from Broadway and who
works with as much sincerity upon
Main St., I divide
their review.
I know I may
' o a bit confusing
ust now. So I
.vill make myself
very plain. The
iVatson sisters,
Fanny and Kitty,
•ire at the Lyric,
where they are
“wrecking” the
works. The same
is true with Frank
Fay at Keith’*.
Am now speaking
of headlinet'3 at
two different
vaudeville houses,
and I have a
x> :< L ; xgAggjyjr
.A
m
Frank Fay
right, because of their merit, to do
that very thing. First, for Fanny
and Kitty Watson. These two have
the direct method. They go to it
and get results. This season they
are playing golf, and of course,
Fanny, with her complex, makes
an awful mess of this national po
litical game. She drives through
one hole, and that Is a hole In a
window in the caretaker's cottage.
Then Kitty pulls her sob sister
stunt. Anl It Is a stunt. The old
letter stuff, but Fanny comes one
just before she dresses for dinner
and soon Kitty cries no more. But
Fanny lias changed her costume.
Both are now in very elegant full
dress attire. In other words, they
are dressed for dinner. Fanny, as
I have told you, is the “Ringling”
circus representative (and to me she
is just as fine and as big as Sophie
Tucker) of this act. Then things be
gin to happen. Things become very
wise and very fast. The audience/
realizes that they are being enter
tained. To me this is wonderful, be
cause I saw the show at the Lyric
just before dinner. These sisters
were wonderful, and they did a
great act. Frank Braidwood, the
cowboy baritone, another act, came
on the stage after Fanny had donned
his hat. He teases Fanny into a
frenzy, and she nearly takes his
“horse” away from him. And so
the Watson sisters are so good this
season (as usual) that they stop the
show for many reasons.
Visiting Frank Fay
Now we will go to another house.
This time Keith’s. The reason I do
We Will Never Forget Stokowski and Orchestra
By Walter I>. Hickman
There Is one orchestra and one
conductor that will never be for
gotten.
The conductor is Leopold Stokow
ski. The orchestra is the Phila
delphia Symphony.
The reason —the concert that Sto
kowski conducted the Philadelphia
orchestra at the Murat last night
under the management of Ona B.
Talbot.
Here is the big thing that im
pressed me. Stokowski is the mouth
piece, the real force through which
this orchestra speaks. His person
ality is so striking; his musical in
telligence. so commanding; his love
for perfect orchestration is gigantic,
that everything centers upon the
conducting stand.
To me an orchestral concert is an
other experience in great beauty. As
far as I am concerned, and I believe
that I voice the thought of the ca
pacity audience present last night,,
Stokowski and the Philadelphia or
chestra brought perfect orchestral
music to this city. I tell you this
after hours of reflection. It is way,
way and way into the morning as I
write this. Hours have passed since,
the orchestra completed its concert.
Even at this hour, the haunting
perfect work of this conductor and
this is because there are two very
important headliners in town this
week.
Last September, I was in New
York looking over the shows for you.
At the Palace then was Frank Fay,
• the week before Ethel Barrymore
was there. They bill Fay as “Broad
way’s Favorite Son.” But he has
enough of the heritage of real enter
tainment to know that all the sun In
the world does not shine on Broad
way. In addition to the line In
telligence of this man. you will find
the desire to do big things at every
performance whether It be at the
Palace on Broadway or B. F. Keith's
on Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis.
Frank Fay is a personality of the
stage. He cracks wise at the expense
of others on the bill. Ho introduces
most of the acts if he doesn’t "over
sleep." but when the time comes for
his act—well he wins as only a real
artist can.
And so in Frank Fay, you will see
the A1 Jolson activity as well as the
sureness of a Harry Lauder. Fay
has an honest sense of comedy. He
knows the value of song as well as a
lyric He works with you every
mtnute. That is the reason he is a
favorite every place. No upstage
stuff about tills artist. He is real.
SOME MORE LYRIC
This dividing items of variety in
terest may be a little confusing, but
the two different headliners deserve
the honor this
week. I am sure
of that. Now we
go Lack V' ike
Lyric. Araac is
back with his large
i anl stunt in which
a woman vanishes.
Uo has improved
liis showmanship.
Short act, but he
keeps one guess
ing. Fraley and
Putrr.an make up
an act which con
tributes to the
Wild West spirit.
A clever act. Both
work to get re
sults. Speaking of
•I
Edna Putman
the West —Frank Braidwood. known
as the “Cowboy Baritone.” This man
is no false alarm. Romaine and
Castle, an act composed of a black
face impersonator of the female. To
me he is a wise riot. This man
knows his business. Wise even to
naming the wisdom of joining a cer
tain chorus. He is a panic to me,
but lie may be a pain to you. So we
forgive. His pianist is a very orever
chap. On the bill at the Lyric you
will find Stanley and Attreee. as
well ns “Whirl of Broadway.” Re
member that the Watson Sisters are
at the Lyric this week.
this orchestra lingers with (me. On
his program was Handel, in two
groups, including "Water Music;”
Bach in two numbers', including that
wild and untamed "Toccata and
Fugue in It minor,” by Bach; the
cabrued beauty of Debussy’s
“Nuages" of the "Nocturnes” and
“Fetes” of the same family and,
“Rapsndie Espagnole,” that Spanish
nightmare of symphonic lire which
last night put me mighty near the
musical throne.
1 will carry with me to my grave
the memory of Stokowski and his or
chestra playing the two Bach num
bers. Here was the perfect thing.
Here was'my greatest and most pro
found experience of being put into
another world while living in this
one.
Stokowski last night seemed to me,
in a modern sense, to be the micro
phone which accepted perfect, or
chestral playing and directing, and
also, he became the "loud speaker"
through which perfect playing was
transmitted.
Without a single sheet of or
chestral conducting score before him.
this man, Stokowski, conducted the
entire program. Think of that. Not
a score before him. This man knows
his composers. This man knows what
| has been written. T’.iia man knows
SOME MORE KEITH’S
I confess that I was worried about
another act at Keith's this week. Am
speaking of Harry Fox at Keith’s,
who “drags” in for a laugli all the
towel carriers of ancient history.
This stunt is a panic. It is wise
burlesque. I doubt if the women in
this stunt be actresses. That I doubt.
Whether they bo themselves or not,
they are a panic. Really! Os course,
it Is the way that Harry Fox intro
duces his “hopeless hope chest,” that
makes this stunt a favorite. Beatrice
Curtis, not to be confused with the
towel bearers, is a dainty and clever
individual. Good to look at. Wise as
to the individual Charleston. Great
man is this Harry Fox on the va
riety stage. His voice and throat are
not right this week. He wins Just
the same.
Archie and Gertie Falls open the
show. I will remember this act be
cause the man wears such dirty
clothes. Os course he falls ail over
the stage but ho should start with
clean clothes. No excuse for this on
big time vaudeville.
Will Ahearn always lias failed
every time that I have seen him to
adjust himself to his audience. Ho
has that superior way about him
i when every alleged joke that he
utters does not register. Get wise
to the fact Mr. Ahearn that the
audience does not have to laugh
because It is present. Deliver and
every one present will understand.
Stop that Broadway wise cracking
at Keith’s this week when you do
not register. I do not attach blamo
to Gladys Ahearn because she works
to please when n certain method
of Will Ahern fails. But Will can
dance with the ropes. He can
handle ropes. But everyone is not
a.comedian with an honest sense of
comedy.
Hernia and Juan Reyes Indulge
in the right to present a vaudeville
concert. The man is the real
artlcle‘ , of merit In tills act. Danny
Duggan has the right to be seriously
considered because of his dance
offering. His old fashioned dunce
is a gem. Three girls in the act.
Pleases with ease.
Remember I am now telling you
about Keith's and also recall that
Frank Fay and Harry Fox are
both at Keith's this week.
A RHINE AM) TYRRELL
WIN AT THE PALACE
Ardine and Tyrrell, with a variety
of ideas in their act, easily take first
place on the I’ulace bill for the
first half.
Opening in a comedy vein this
couple gives an impression of a
street car conductor and an unruly
fare in the person of a ypung lady
who has not been in this country
long. After a few minutes of fun in
his method of expressing what has
been written. This man knows how
to conduct a great concert "through
tho memory of a great experience
with music.
And here is another great point.
There was not a vacant seat at
the Murat last night. It has taken
Ona B. Ta .hot years and years,
struggles, and even tears, to bring
Stokowski and his orchestra to Indi
anapolis. It took a fortune to do it.
But Indianapolis and Indiana be
lieved that Ona 11. Talbott could pre
sent Stokowski in the right mood.
That is the secret of this orchestra,
this man Stokowski, although this
organization has a great history.
But the fact Is—capacity greeted
the orehesra last night. The fact is
that Indianapolis nnd the State as
well appreciates what Ona It. Tal
bott has done in bringing the finest
to Indianapolis.
Never will I forget this experience
with tho greatest orchestral music.
Tlie verdict has been given—this
city and State will support orches
tral music of the finest quality*
Tlie victory has been won.
The music loving people of this
Si ate has given Ona I!. Talbot the
to carry on without fear.
EEIL W, jU27
Work
Penalties in Contract Are
Higher Than in wt
Auction, Ijß
(In response to numerous r*>
quests, Work Is writing on Cmv
tract for several day*. During
that time. Ills dally Auction Bridge
Pointers will be omitted, bn will
be resumed next week.)
Bb Milton 0, Work r <fM
The only important feature of Cbfc*
tract which has not been covered In
this series of articles is the manner
in which undertrick penalties are
increased when a contract In net.
Upon this question the framer* of
the various contract counts, abroad
and In this country, have vorled
opinions, Viut all have used figure*
greatly In excess of those employed
In Auction Bridge.
The value of a game In Contract la
much greater than In Auction Bridge
and the temptation to try for it Is
greatly augmented; so it Is logical
that the penalties for defeat should
be Increased correspondingly. In
addition, the enormous bonus al
lowed a slam, which is a part
of most Contract codes, creates the
necessity for a drastic penalty for
overbidding to shut out the slam.
Not only must the slam bidder be
made to realize that he takes a ter
rific risk when he ventures beyond
the probable strength of his hand,
but also his flag-flying opflpnent
must be made to pay heavily for the
privilege, If he decide to shut out a
probable slam by overbidding with
a higher-valued slam. With only the
Bridge undertrick-penalties in use,
a player could well afford to suffer
an Intentional (tiag-flylng) loss
shut out the big bonus of an adverse
slam. A vulnerable player who bid
seven Hearts would be In for a whale
of a score if he made his contract—
so an adversary might try to shut
this out by a bid of seven Spades
appreciating that a double and se
vere defeat was sure to follow, but
figuring the loss that way would be
Jess than the other and that tho
rubber would still lie unfinished with
a chnnoe of victory for the flag flyer.
It is with the idea of discouraging
such extreme flag-flying that tho new
and heavy penalties for severe de
feats have been added to tho Con
tract Code. It would not be popu
lar or equitable to permit a side able
to make thirteen tricks In Hearts
and bold enough to bid that number
to be robbed of the larger reward
their good luck and good bidding
had placed within their reach by an
adversary w r ho know he was miles
away from thirteen tricks In Spades
but who made that bid as a saving
devise. With moderate penalties this
would be possible, so the reason for
the heavy Contract penalties Is evi
dent.
Tomorrow and Thursday a resume
of the two counts most generally
used in this country.
(Copyright 1 . John F. Dille Company.)
these characterizations the couple
change their style and offer several
dancing numbers.
In both their dancing and comedy
work this pair are good entertain
ers. Besides being good dancers
they know how to coax fun out of a
dance when they want to —believe
they are at their beat when it
comes to having a. little fun about
something or other.
Howard and Harris, with Ml
Helen He Roy, offer a series of
short comedy sketches, some of
which are funny and one or two of
which are sad. One of their num
bers shows either a complete lack of
taste or a deliberate attempt to
achieve publicity.
Os the act "Weeping Willow” not
much can be said except that two
of the company have voices which
could be use*! to advantage it given
the chance. Refer to the wonwn
who sings a solo and the man who
sings one number with her. Act num
bers three men and two women.
Lewis and Lavarre have a comedy
offering of the old man type. Being
late missed the opening act.
The photoplay offering the first
half is "The Blonde Hnlnt,” with
Lewis Stone and Doris Kenyon. In
cluded is a news reel and comedy.
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
—(By the Observer.)
NEW THEATER OPENS
TONIGHT IN THIS CITY
The Ritz Theater opens #af
o’clock tonight at Thirty-fourth and i
Illinois St. Here Is another neigh- '
borhood improvement. It is operat
ed by the Markum Theater circuit.
This opening happens on Washing
tons birthday and this is the only
party that I expect to attend. I un
derstand that there are several fine
and new features, such as a baby cry
room. Will tell you all about It later.
The movie on the opening bill will
lie "Host at Hen.” Also “The Rare
foot Boy." On the stage will be the
Ritz dancers.
Other theaters today offer: "The
Taxi Dancer" at the Ohio; "New
York" at the Apollo: "The Perfect
Hap" at the Circle; "Her Big Night"
at the Uptown: "Taxi-Taxi" at the
Colonial; "A One-Man Oamc” at tho
Isis and burlesque at tho Mutual.
Who was (lie first shoemaker In
America? ,
Tho first recorded was Thomas
Baird, who arrived on the second
voyage of the Mayflower in 1628.
He was under contract with the
Plymouth Company to make shoes
for the colonists. One Philip Klrt
land, a Welshman, came to Lynn,
Mass., in 18tl(i; and John Adams
Drtgyr, a celebrated shoemaker, set
tled there in 1750; so Lynn got an
early start in the industry for which
it is now famous.
Why Is cement called Portland ce
ment?
When first manufactured in Eng
land and mixed with sand and stone,
it resembled a celebrated building
stone called Portland, which was ob-4
talned from the Isle of Portland.
What is the title of the Isiok of
poems by Rudolph Yulcntlno, and
I when wr.s it published?
I It is called "Day Dreams, ** end
Was published In 11C3.