Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1920 — Page 6

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3tasrarra Umlti Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dally Except Sunday, South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. i Ivertlslng Offices —Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. —‘TH/5 IS THE YEAR”— WHOSE TURN to be arrested for running a gambling house on Indiana avenue comes next Saturday night? * WITH THE PRIMARY OVER, may we expect the state highway commission to improve the roads? WHY THIS remarkable silence about the disclosures in the Rollinson case, Mr. Mayor? THIEVES with a wagon drove into a part of Indianapolis Saturday, robbing garages of tools and tires. They might at least have used an auto. Stealing Nominations In the next few days it will have become apparent in Marlon county whether the “good government and clean politics” pledges of the republican administration have failed In the entirety or merely in the matter of good government. ' That the present administration has not given good government is duly attested by the records of the criminal court, the reports of the state board of accounts, and more salientlv by the federal court investigations In which the “good government” officials have been caught and rebuked for their gross inefficiency. Whether or not the present administration can give us “clean politics’’ will be shown by the primary returns which are certified to the county canvassing board by the various election boards. The rivalry between candidates is almost exclusively confined to the republican ranks. Therein the machine is making a desperate attempt to save itself from defeat at the hands of its own party. The machine will stop at little necessary to perpetuate itself in office. The machine will steal the nominations if it is possible. Theft of nominations -at the primary will be accomplished tonight when the election boards are counting the ballots deposited by the voters unless the utmost care is taken to prevent it. The democratic members of the election boards can do much to prevent theft of these nominations. The law empowers them and instructs them to count the ballots of both parties as they are voted. The popular habit of allowing republicans to count republican ballots and democrats to count democratic ballots is illegal, immoral and the cornerstone of the corruption by which |ie machine seeks to perpetuate itself. No democratic election official can agree to such a procedure without proving himself a traitor to his party, to his community and to decency itself. It is his duty to see that the candidates have fair play. It is within his power to see that the people obtain the candidates they wish and for whom they vote. In the interest of fair play to their neighbors the democratic members of these election boards must personally determine that the tally sheets are correctly compiled, all ballots, whether of one party the other, counted and the tally sheets returned to the board without manipulation. To do less is to fail in a duty accepted. To do less is to acknowledge corruption as great as the crook who actually falsifies the poll sheets. There are sins of omission as well as commission. No democrat can afford to do lessr than is in his power to prevent the theft of the nominations at the polls tonight Enforcing the Booze Laus The United States and each state in the Union is long on prohibition laws and short on the enforcement o? the same. The United Stater, government expected, and had a right to expect, some assistance in making effective the national booze laws through the enforcement by the states of their booze laws. Here and there we find a state that tries to see that her booze laws are enforced, but these states are few acd far between Congress has been niggardly in appropriating money for the national government to see that the constitutional amendment for prohibition Is enforced. The United States government has stopped the brewer and distiller frem producing their vile stuff in a public way, but in nearly overv big city a man can buy all the beer with an illegal percentage of alcohol that he wishes and in lot3 of places he can step up to the bar and get cogktails and highballs made out of the same old stuff. Os course the people who openly violate the law charge a high price for what they serve and it is mighty poor stuff at that. 1 Both great political parties have let up on the question of enforcing prohibition, and it is not likly that full strength ia this direction wili be exerted until after the election in November. Ex-saloon keepers, brewers and distillers claim that the cutting out of booze produced the wave of crime in tbis country. That may be true, but not from the standpoint they claim. They argue that inability to get the poisonous stuff has resulted in a condition of unrest which has resulted In crime. My judgment is that most crimes result from non-enforcement of the law, and the failure of the national and state governments to make these laws stick have convinced thousands that they can break other laws and get away with it. The fact is that there are few high-class burglars and first-rate thieves who ever touch booze. They drink nothing at all, because they could not follow their occupations without being caught quickly if they used alcohol. So they leave It alone and avoid arrest that much longer. When one law is not enforced the public soon ceases to regard seriously ail other laws. There will be murder, rape, burglary, thievery and a breaking of all laws as long as human nature is constituted as it now is, but crime always diminishes when the authorities begin strict enforcement of the laws. So it will be with the manufacture and sale of Illicit alcohol. When the laws against it are enforced, the breaking of these laws will cease. —W. D. Boyce in the Saturday Blade, Chicago. The Primary Law The close cf the Indiana primaries demonstrates nothing so thoroughly as the fact that the primary law under which it was conducted Is a farce. From the beginning of the campaign to the end, the voters of Indiana have had no chance either to register their presidential preferences or to nominate their choice for the governorship. The selections will eventually be left to conventions of delegates who have been named by voters who neither knew nor could discover who they were or for what they stood. It is probably not exaggeration to say that half the voters who r.ist their votes for delegates to the state conventions today voted for men they did not personally know and would not recognize if they met them, ..tee to face. And. not a single one of these delegates ever publicly expressed his intentions as to candidates. ." Thfe voters of Indiana are strangely apathetic. They make a loud noise about registering their sentiments at the polls and they tolerate a primary law under which they delegate their right to choose nominees to a relatively few delegates to conventions whose personal preferences they do not know and who are in no way bound to reflect the desires of those who made them delegates. f This is not an indictment of the primary system. Whatever may be paid of the primary law in Indiana must be confined to the law itself. It Is foolish to assert that a primary law can not be written which will wipe but the objections of the present statute. Almost any school boy could frame an act which would accomplish more in the way of permitting voters to nominate candidates than the present Indiana primary law. ® This statute is what is left of an honest, if bunglesome, act forced InffDUgh the legislature in the face of great opposition. It has been operated on in the interest of professional politicians until Upas become of as little use to the people of Indiana as It is possible to make it. Bi This primary ought to be the last under which the state attempts to Slileet its candidates by this law. RyNo primary act conceivable could be more thoroughly ineffective than

SHAW PUTS THE ‘S’ IN SONG ‘Robin Hood * Again Scores—Gay Show at the Lyric

Discovered at last—the woman who put the “S” In song. She Is Lillian Shaw, a little blackhaired person, who sings all kinds of character songs in dialect. She first appears at Keith’s this week as an Italian girl and then follows that song about a miss who doesn’t know whether to get married or stay unhappily single. Miss Shaw then appears dressed in a wedding gown and makes the great decision to take the jump and in the next song che appears pushing a baby buggy. A great artist is Miss Shaw In character work in song and she administers a great wallop to each number. The entire bill at Keith’s this week is a crackin’ good show and one that drives gloom away. The rest of the show stacks i*p as follows: A1 Lydell and Carl Macy—two splendid chskacter men, who, as old cronies, one a sedate old sea captain and The othex a white-haired war veteran, diseusa everything from war to woman; a coni edy knockout which has not been equaled this season. Dainty Marie—This woman jumped from the big top of the Sells-Kioto circus Saturday to resume her successful vaudeville tour .on her flying trapeze and ring. Ed J-inus Revue—This act is composed of three excellent girl dancers, a male dancer and a good pianist; a mighty classy act, and pleases. “Tango Shoes”—This act has been seen several times before by the writer and as usual it can appear successfully year after year. Bert Howard —He is a good pianist, so much so that he held up the show the other night. Davis and Peile—A" tine gymnastic offering, an easy winner. The Miniature Revue —This is an elaborate manikin act presented by Lillie Jewel Faulkner and is a big time offerlug. -I- -1- -I----“ROBIN HOOD.” An Indianapolis contralto, Lornn Doone Jackson, has one of the leading roles of “Robin Hood," which opened a return engagement at English’s last night for the entire dji Mias .Jackson ■' sings the role of yfia Alan -a-Dale and (V, ' has to her lot one BwPfetwfralS 'Sk of the song hits of Wra? Lnfef* this IleKoven opera, namely “U “O Promise Me" “AUn-e-Dale.” I" tfade of the stuff which makes a song live from generation to generation and is given added beauty in the hands of Miss Jackson. It is not often that Indianapolis gets such a splendid s'ngiug organization as the one on view and it is indeed rare when such spleudid singers arc heard twice in the wimp season. Others in the cast are Stella Thomas, EisU- Tedle, soprano; John Mcßweeney, the original Friar Tuck with the Bostonians; Ed Andrew*, William Dugan, bass, and many others. The production is adequately mounted and the orchestra is sufficiently large. Opinion -“Robin Hood” as now being presented, deserves to be seen and heard by every lover of good music. -I- -1- -IKILTIE BAND. Real Scotch atmosphere. That may be obtained at the Lyric this week. For the Kiltie's band, n large assortment of kilted musicians, is at the I.yrie all week. Prom the famous kills of the high, lends worn by the players to the Scotch sung* and dialect, performed by a Robust. you can almost Imagine yours if in old Scotland. Favorite Scotch songs are played and snug, then come American patriotic airs and popular song# on “this side of the water.” Os course there is a litthi Jazz to lend

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.

variety and modernity to their selections. The Kiltie’s band is an established organization. End every appearnnee is deserving of the recognition that was accorded them at the Lyric last night. John Geiger, a violinist, gave some Imitations and popular selections. Morin, a ventriloquist, entertained with the usual dummy in songs and jokes. Lee and Bennett “put over” a large number of jokes together with fheir songs. “Six Little Imps" was the name of the next act, which was a series of amazing handsprings and other acrobatic feats. The Six Imps were accompanied by ,a toe dancer. Delia and Orma, a short man and a tall woman, gave some songs and jokes, and “The Gaberts,” acrobats, completed the bill. -I- -|- -|. MYSTF.JtIOLS ALICE. Every one expects a thrill at the Park tills week when Mysterious Alice is announced ns the moat beautiful woman In the world. Following the elaborate introduction, Joe Freed walks in ail dolled up like a fortune teller and them follows u clever takeoff on mind reading and the like.** It's a good, wholesome lrfugh, and one that registers a hit with “The Mischief Makers." Miss Mabel Clark wears a rather startling costume while singing a Chinese song. “Chong," and Miss Julia Morgan is a shooter while singing "Sweetie Mine.” The show is In two parts, with the first concluding with a unique episode inlled the hours. There is a Urge chorus and several clever principals. Next week "The Monte Carlo Girls" are underlined. -I- -I- -I"TUE SHE TIGER." Richard Stanton, who directed "The She Tiger,” a William Fox all-star production now at the Rialto, is one of the real veterans of the motion picture business. A Philadelphian by birth, Mr. Stanton in his school days was distinguished as an actor, and promised himself that lie would follow the stage as a profession. He was persuaded to go to Sant* Paula to take the part of an rndlari Ir. the fl 1 ins. and Instend of remaining for the one picture be stayed six months. Then started an engagement with Thomas if. luce which lasted two years and a half. There he remained until lie joined Fox Films. A vaudeville bill completes the entertainment. -1- -ITIIE BROADWAY. Kd J'arrell acd company, in a comedy sketch. “Suspicious of Hubby.” is the headliner this week at the Broadway. Gehnn and Gehun are the acrobat* of the MU, while II trry Pearce I* announced as a regular fellow. Parks and Lande offer a comedy affair and Fores; and Church have ‘ A Vaudeville Rhapsody.” The ninth chapter of the Jack Dempsey serial, “Daredevil Jack,” is also one of the features of the bill. . MOVIE SHADOWS.' "The Sliver Horde” is a Rex Reach story of the great north, and is te be seen in movie form at the Circle. Alice Brady is easily ontdoing herself In “Sinner*," now at the Colonial. She never has been seen to better advantage on the screen. Ciarine Seymour wiggle* herself into fume in • The Idol Dancer,” now at Mister Smith's. \ Jolly fine picture is “The Luck of tie- Irish.'’ now at the Ohio •'Mark'-d Men.'’ with Hurry Carey, Is the . rr- if feature at the Urgent. M<ii!c King. In “Women Men Forget," has u very unhappy time In this movtp, but the ending is happy—at the Alhambra. Mao Murray, In “On With the Dnnce," conies to English’s next Sunday for n movie engagement, which will open a season In Paramount feature movies.

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MR. JIGGS GETS OFF AT HOME.

ABIE WASN’T QUITE UNCONSCIOUS.

THAT’S IF IT’S A STEEP ONE.