Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1920 — Page 4
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Jlntaia Sail? Slintes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Ct r CIRCULATIONS. Advertisine Offices (Chicago. Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne & Cos. Advertising unices { Kew Yor> . Bogtonj p a yne. Burns & Smith. Inc. WHY let the legislature interfere with the trial of Bell Howard since his performances in the last primary settled his standing In machine politics? HAS MAYOR JEWETT issued any “courtesy cards” to the members of this legislature or have they been here often enough to know how to get along without them? THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION is now reaping the crop of discontent it sowed in its strenuous efforts to reconcile its duties with the 6e sires of Gov. Goodrich. gN THESE DAYS of heavy shrinkage it would be interesting to know Whether the police confiscated 260 quarts from those two automobiles as one newspaper says or only 240 as is reported by another. THOSE AUTO THIEVES who got away with twenty-two cars ought to have saved sufficient for the coming rainy day to enable them to take advantage of all the slips between arrest and incarceration. Come on Home , Orators! Without intending or desiring in any way to cast any obstructions in the paths of those partisan advocates who are now preparing to do battle for their national leaders and principles, we desire respectfully to call attention to the fact that there Is in this community a great spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction that will never be quieted by the solution of the great and grave problems that confront the nation. This dissatisfaction and unrest have been produced by the neglect of Issues much nearer home than those about which our estimable Ohio neighbors are now wrangling. In other words, the people of Indiana generally, and of Marlon county particularly, are a lot more interested in whether or not they are In the future to have the right to register their preferences in regard to candidates than whether or not their more or less unwelcomed national candidates are going to stand on the more or less wobbly platforms some more or less selfish politicians provided for them. It is a fact that can not be denied that neither the republican nor the democratic party of Indiana got the candidate for president It most desired. Probably the Indiana republican party fared the worse in this regard, but that is a moot question concerning which we may honestly differ •without fear of conviction. One of the Important questions of the day In Indiana is what will be done in the interim to insure that no more mistakes shall be made in the Interpretation of the public will. On this subject the democratic state platform says: "We declare for the repeal of the present primary election law, but. believing in the principle of home rule, we pledge the enactment of an optional county, city and town primary law that will enable political parties at their option to select their county, city and town candidates for office and all their delegates to conventions, under a primary law with all the protection of the law governing general elections." The republican platform is far less concrete and much more unsatisfactory insofar as it does not even indicate the theory that is to be applied In an admittedly necessary revision. It says: "Experience has demonstrated that the present direct primary law is cumbersome, unsatisfactory and expensive; that It does not accomplish what was hoped for it. We believe the sentiment of the people Is heartily in favor of revision of this law and we favor an amendment of the primary law.” Since It seems to be the fashion for the candidate to add. subtract and divide the platform of his party in this campaign, would it not be well to look to Dr. McCulloch and MY. McCray for specific expressions on this subject? Dr. McCulloch might Inform us whether it is the Intention of the democratic party to permit nominations to be made in conventions under the same sort of manipulations that brought about the demand for direct primaries and Mr McCray might inform us as to whether the one amendment that the republican party favors concerns the expense to candidates or the method of counting the votes which is now so satisfactory to the Marion county officerholders’ ring. What the people of Indiana want is a direct primary system that will make impossible the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars In behalf of a single candidate and will insure a recording of the votes as they are cast. Neither party platform pledges the party to the accomplishment of these well-defined desires. No candidate for office who does not have opinions on this subject and the courage to fight for these opinions in the legislature and in the party councils is fit to occupy the governor’s office. Evasion in platforms has become a popular pastime among politicians, but each evasion adds to the rapidly growing sentiment for participation In party affairs on the part of the voter himself. The time will come when the masses that cast the ballots will have a voice in the selection of the tickets. It will come quicker when the people cease to be content with jokes about primaries and demand workable primary statutes. She Found a Way If she had been trying to bob her hair with a Bill Hart six-gun and thereby been making of herself a menace to society, It would not have seemed so harsh for a policeman to arrest her, even though she were carrying on this tonsorial enterprise at Broadway and Thirty-seventh street in New York City, amid an audience of several hundred persons. She believed that her attractive appearance would be enhanced If her ha|r were bobbed, and possibly it is needless to say that she voted unanimously in favor of its being bobbed. The barbers she called upon were of different opinion. They were unanimous that her hair was too pretty to be bobbed even under their skillful hands, and they informed her so and refused to do the deed —four of them. Foiled? ' She was of the feminine sex. And she borrowed a pair of shears and "went to it,” regardless of time or place. And now, as is true with many ventures when the law intervenes, she is in what might be termed statu quo, for the magistrate before whom she was taken was horrified at the tonsorial effect attained and ordered her to remain at home until she had grown at least a normal crop of hair. On Proper Maintenance It seems there is quite a difference in opinion as to what constitutes the sum sufficient to maintain one properly. It wasn’t so very many generations ago that a place to live in and plenty to eat and some clothes now and then constituted all one needed. Those were the candle-lighted days; or more correctly speaking, nights. But there aren’t so many candles used now, except by plumbers and and furnace men and those bold-spirited amateurs who seek gas leaks with them. Yes. present times are different. For example, there is the woman of Milton, Del., who, as guardian of her son, who inherited a trust fund yielding an income of about $20,000 a year, has applied to the surrogates’ court there for permission to expend S9OO a month for her son’s expenses, and, in addition, asks for $4,600 with which to purchase anew automobile for him. Last year, when her son was 16 years old, she obtained permission to spend $7,500 from his income. In New York City, a woman who is suing for separation from her husband, claims that he allowed her 50 cents a day with which to meet all household expenditures. Oh well, maybe the 50 cents would have been all right in the candlelighted times.
In nearly every town in the United States circus day is a holiday. Small boys and the average man may be willing to woi*k on the Fourth of July and Christmas day, but they absolutely refuse to work on circus day. Something about putting up of the "big the smell of the sawdust, the elephant and the trick donkey is within the understanding of every human. So there is something about a national election for president of the United States that interests everybody, although it doesn't make a darn bit of difference to 95 per cent of the people who Is president any more than it makes a difference to the small boy who owns the circus, just so there is a circus. There is little or no difference between (he democratic platform and the republican platform. Both contain beautifully worded and phrased planks that are forgotten as soon as they are written, and the only difference is that the party that gets In will get the jobs. Each party is wet and dry on a dry platform. Each party is for the league of nations with reservations. Neither party is in favor of paying the soldier his back wages because that would mean taxing the rich profiteers who made the money out of the war in order to pay the bonus, and so on all along the line. Last December and January the betting was 4 to 1 that the democrats would get licked. Today the betting is 2 to 1 and by September or October it will be even, money that the bull moose-jackass will win. So far as the great mass of voters in the United States is con-
MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON SCREEN ! Is Julian Eltinge, Who Sets the Fashions
The beet dressed woman in filmland today ts a mere man. Hie name la Julian Eltinge and many of his gowna have been copied by women lu exclusive circles. Eltinge wears a largo collection of gowns hi his latest picture play. “The Adventuress,” which opened a three-day engagement at tho Alhambra today This movie gives Eltinge. It is said, a role which Is different because he is compelled to stage a number of daring stunts. Eltinge stands today at ths head of
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his chosen profession In Impersonating the fair ones and when he Is all dolled up, Julian makes a pleasing picture. Eltinge has been as successful on the screen from a box office standpoint as he was on the stage.--I- -J- -!- ROLE OF KRIS KRINGLE 18 NOT A HOT WEATHER PART. J. C. Lewis, Sr., wno appears in “Blily's Santa Claus,” now playing at Keith’s, says he has a few uncomfortable moments at almost every show during the summer. The sketch portrays Christmas Eve In a home where the youngsters are looking for "Santa” and Lewis, Sr., enacts the role of Kris Krlngle. Although not in the garb of a regulation Santa Claus, a heavy overcoat ii necessary to carry out the character in the play and when the thermometer mounts to heights, as It has recently, winter clothes are not the most comfortable wearing apparel for the times. “Temperamental Henry,” anew comedy by Samuel Merwin, is tha current offer-
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UNUIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1920.
THE ‘BIG TOPS’ COME TO TOWN!
By W. D. BOYCE.
lug of the Stuart Walker players at the Murat Dreamy Hawaiian music, native dances and songs make up the offering of Aloha and Glrly at the Lytle this week. Mary Miles MSnter has a unique way In “Jennie Be Good,” at the Colonial this week. In letting her lover know where eha Is. Mary shells off some corn from a cob and drops ths kernels on ths ground, thus making a trail which never goes wrong. “The Law of ths West” sad “Ths Squaw’s Sacrifice" makes up ths current
In this picture Thomas Metghan Is attempting to adnllnlsier a headache curs to the fair Bebe Daniels, who Is the second wife of Melghan, In the movies “Why Change Your Wife?” now at English’s.
bill at tho Regent. Harold Lloyd in “High and Dizzy" and Will Rogers in “Jes - Call Me Jim" makes up the double bill at tile Circle. H. B. Warner in “The White Dove’’ is the current feature at the Ohio. Varied vaudeville bills inako up the current offerings at the Broadway and Rialto. The Isis is presenting Wallace Reid In “Sick Abed.” a smart comedy. Jack Plckford In “The Double-Dyed Deceiver” is the feature at Mister Smith’s. Soviets Refuse to Halt Their Armies BERLIN, July 15.—The Russian soviet government will reject the British armistice proposal and will not order red armies to halt their advance until a bolshevik Poland has been established, according to a dispatch from Moscow today, quoting the government newspaper Pravda.
cerned It doesn’t care who w ins. Both republican and i democratic bosseß are scared as to how tho women would vote If they had a vote and have done their best to keep enough states from adopting the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage while pretending to favor tt. It Is likely, however, that the women will get the vote and only the real big interests will be watch-' ing which party gets the vote. A good many people think that white women will vote with the democratic party because all the negroes are in the republican party, j Women draw the color line a great deal closer than men. A good many men seem to think the soldiers will vote with the democratic party because the republicans, being In power In congress, did not pass a bonus bill. A good many people think the democrats made so many mistakes in the conduct of the war that they will be turned down. There is no doubt that President Wilson has been so arbitrary in many matters that he lost hundreds of thousands of votes for his party. If he had not had a stroke he might have smoothed over some of those mistakes. The candidates for president of both parties can be claimed by both wets and drys, so they break even on the big question. Either Is perfectly willing to be a wet or a dry if he can land the job. Neither one ranks a3 a topnotcher in his party, but the party that carries the state of Ohio this year carries the election. Let us all Jo to the circus, take in the sideshows and stay for the minstrels. “Who cares for expenses?” I don’t! —In the Saturday Blade, Chicago.
Health Board Orders Clean Barber Shops An investigation has been ordered by ths state board of health of the sanitary conditions of ths barber shops. Inspectors will force all barbers who are afflicted with disease to quit and will see that all shop* meet the state requirements for cleanliness. i'be stare board of health has acceptsd the Invitation of the mayor of Wabash to hold a meeting there In September. Receiver Appointed for Anderson Concern Fred C. Dickson of Indianapolis has been appointed receiver of the Bull Tractor-Madlson Motors Corporation of Anderson, Ind , by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson on petition of the Bobbins Body Corporation of Indianapolis, the Dugger Coal Company and Cunflower Coal Company of Dugger. Ind. HU bond was fixed at $25,000 The debts of bankrupt company are said to be $570,000. $70,000 of which Is unsecured, and Its asseU are said to amount to $150,000. j HOROSCOPE THURSDAY, JULY 15. 1920. This In rather an uncertain day. according to astrology. While Jupiter and Neptune are mildly favorable to the affairs of men. the Sun, Saturn and Uranus are all adverse. AH the signs seem to point to a continued proaperlty In business during the summer months, but warning Is given to make the best use of money. The planetary government for the autumn seems to forecast flurries In the stock market and financial reaction after the long period of extravagant spending. Jupiter gives promise of great advents in educational methods and ideals. Professors and teachers are to come Into benefits and honors. This ts not a very favorable mle for political candidates, aa the stars encourage a critical and fault-finding attitude of the public mind. Patriotism that is practical will be much preached after the presidential campaign, it is prophesied, for the stars aeem to forecast a return to the contemplation of lofty principles in national life. The new moon of this day takes place ! when the luminaries are in conjunction j with Venus and In semi-square to Saturn. i This Is believed to give warning of much 1 Illness, with stomach troubles prevalent, j Uranus rising opposed to Saturn j threatens labor trouble and grave dlf- i ferences with capital that reach a critical j point. Railway receipts will greatly Increase j at this time, but conditions will cause ft determined agitation for public owner- | ship, the seers prophesy. Persons whose birthdate It Is should attend Rtrictly to business. Children born on this day have friendly stars to guide them and will be lucky all through life In all probability. Success j r- "' prosperity are predicted.—Copyright, ] 1020.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What Is the oldest living thing? This department of The Times tells you. If you have a question to ask, send It with a 2-cent stamp to The Indiana Daily Times information bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C., and the answer will be mailed direct to you. OLDEST LIVING THING. Q. What Is the oldest living thing in the world? J. M. T. A. Trees are the oldest living things in the world, and the Gen. Sherman tree of Sequoia National Park, California, is probably the patriarch of them all. It was a goodly speciment when Moses led. the children out of the land of Egypt and was 2.000 years old when Jesus of Nazareth was born. When last measured this tree was 279.7 feet high and 102.8 feet in circumference. BLUE SKY LAWS. Q. What states in the union have blue sky laws? M. K. D. A. States in the union having blue sky laws are Georgia. South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Vermont, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, lowa, California, Minnesota, Oregon, ■West Virginia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Utah, Arizona and South Dakota. “STAR-SPANGLED BANNER." Q. Is the flag that Inspired Francis Scott Key to write the “Star Spangled Banner” still in existence? R. A. G. A. The flag which was flying over Ft. McHenry on Sept. 13, 1814, and which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the “Star Spangled Banner” is now in tire old National museum at Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT QUOTATION. Q. Who said, “Any man who says he is an American, but something else also. Isn’t an American at all?" A. M. O. A. This was said by former President Roosevelt shortly before his death. FKIBILOFF SEALS. Q. Is It true that the fur-seal fishing ofT the Prlblloff Islands paid the United States government moro than the cost of Alaska? R. R. A. Alaska was ceded to the United States by Russia In 1867 for $7,200,000 In gold. Following *he custom of Russia the fur-seal industry was leased for a period of twenty years—lß7o to 1800—and during this time paid to the government in rentals and royalties $350,000. The
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import duty on dressed sealskins brought back from London for use In the United States was more than $12,000,000, making the total $13,000,000, nearly twice the cost of Alaska. The industry was leased for the following twenty years, but .the herd had decreased, and although the price of sealskins had risen, the income was less than half the former amount. NO INSULATOR FOR MAGNETISM. Q. Is there any non-magnetic substance through which a magnet will not exert its force, but which will arrest the force of the magnet? W. T. N. A. The United States Bureau of Standards states that there is no known substance which is an insulator for magnetism. LEFT-HANDED JUDGE. Q. Who was the left-handed judge of Israel? I*. W. K. A. This refers to “Ehud, the sou of Geva, the Benjamite, a man left-handed.” DEAD SEA. Q. Why are are Dead sea and the Red sea so called ? C. B. A. The Dead sea is so-called because no living thing can exist in It, on account of the extreme salinity of It.* waters. The Red sea was originally named tho Sea of “Edon,” Edon meaning “red,” or “muddy." PULSE BEAT. Q. How fast should the pulse beat? It. U. K. A. The pulse gradually slows down through life. A newborn infant has a pulse of 130 to 140 beats per minute. An adult's ranges from 70 to 90 In health, while in old age the rate Is from CO to 75. BONFIRE OF VANITIES. Q. What was the “Bonfire of Vanities?” V. I. M. A. In 1497, at Florence, Italy. Savonarola. an Italian monk and martyr, celebrated a carnival at which he ordered burned indecent books, pictures, masks, and other things pertaining to frivolity. A Venetian merchant offered 22.000 gold florins for the doomed vanities, but his offer was rejected and his portrait added to the pile. There is no proof that any hook or painting of value was sacrificed, as Savonarola bad great respect for both art and learning and when the Medici library was offered for sale to pay the family's debts, he saved the collection with money from the convent purse.
The Right Thing at the RighU|l * By MARY MARSHALL PARENTS SOMETIMES FORGET. There is a rule of good form that tells ua that we should never reprove a servant or other employe in the presence of outsiders. T A waitress perhaps breaks a dish at dinner and the confused hostess exclaims hastily that she should not be so awkward or that she has been very careless. Now the perfectly well-bred hostess does not do this. She does her best at the time to distract her gues's’ attentions from the mishap and if she feels that any reproof is necessary she waits until she is alone with the servant. Now If we are as considerate as this to servants ought we not to be as considerate to our children. Yet, truly, I know plenty of persons who would not think of reproving servants la my presence, especially nowadays, when servants are so independent and hard to get, yet who would not think it anything amiss to scold their children in my presence. Sometimes the scolding is delivered in a half teasing, jesting manner. “John, ■will you be careful,” exclaims the motbo; to her 10-year-old son when he is ing to bring her some article that she has sent for. “You are the most awkward creature in the world. Your feet are so big It s no wonder you trip over them.” And then to her guest: “Just imagine, John wears shoes that are larger than mine already. I suppose he is going to have enormous feet, like hta father.” It may be that John is sensitive. lle was doubtless trying to do the errand gracefully and carefully, and it hurts Km to be reproved for his failure to do so. Moreover, he feels sensitive about those big feet. He knows t*>at the only reason his parents tease him about them ts because ho can not come back at them and make teasing remarks about their infirmities. Now really, does it seem fair? If you want to reprove John and humble him—perhaps you ace Justified, but you ought at least to be as considerate to him as you would be to a servant—and do It when there is no third person present.— Copyright, 1920.
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