Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1921 — Page 4

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PICTURE NEWS IMPORTANT AID TO JOURNALISM No Public Man or Woman Safe From Attack of Camera Men. EVERY ACT PICTURED WASHINGTON, D. C.-- Since and during the recent presidential campaign, that latest development of modern journalism, the telling of news by photography, reached probably its highest point to date. The average reader hardly realizes or appreciates the fact that his newspaper is enabling him to see the world and its great characters without budging from his chair. The personalities of the news, especially, are brought before him just as they live and work. Ten years ago the public man or woman was comparatively safe from the camera men. A posed studio picture showing the subject at his or her best was all the public expected or asked. The hero or villain of the moment was shown in the newspapers attired in his Sunday best, wearing the expression that usually accompanies such garments. A woman appeared in public print adorned as for a ball or some other formal social function. If she possessed jewels she was shown wearing them, and her expression generally was the complacent smirk that adorns the face of even the most modest of mortals when told to “look pleasant, please.'’ There was no question of letting the picture tell the story. From all the public could learn from the pictures shown them, their idols spent their entire time smiling stiffly into space or gazing dreamily Into the heart of a rose. A visiting princess and the latest murderess received the same treatment. Today the formal, posed studio picture, though still used extensively, fails to satisfy the newspaper-reading public. The readers demand to see their favorites as they work and play. They want to see them with their hair mussed, if they are the kind whose hair is apt to be mussed. They want them human. If the particular hero is a baseball genius the pnblle wants to see him in action or at home playing with his dogs and children. If he is a political hero they want to see him bnsy at the desk where he habitually transacts business, or out on the golf links for a bit of exercise. MUST HAVE WHOLE OFFICIAL FAMILY. Nor does the public curiosity stop at the hero himself. It is interested in his wife, his children, his house, his servants, his dogs, his horses and everything that concerns him. No member of his household is safe from the prying eyes of the little black box that spells satisfaction for the public demands. It would be a hopeless task to attempt to enumerate the thousands of snapshots of the presidential candidates which were made in the last election. Candidates Cox and Harding were shown all over the country at play and at work. Their wives and families were known by sight to practically every man, woman or child in the country. A picture of Mrs. Harding pinning a rose in her distinguished husband's lapel was reproduced in almost every newspaper in the Nation. The picture was one of a few dozen snapped of the successful candidate and his wife the morning of their return to Washington from the convention at Chicago. They were breakfasting when the army of camera men descended upon them and left their coffee to cool to obey the behest of their visitors. Facing the camera gracefully has become an essential to political success. A jolly picture of Candidate Cox playing with his tiny daughter Anne probably won for her daddy more votes than many of his speeches. One of the Democratic candidate’s chief assets for publicity was admittedly his youngster. This particular picture was, it might be added, not snapped by a news photographer, but by the wife of the Ohio Governor's best friend, Mrs. Timothy Ansberry of Washington. The picture was borrowed of the lady by a news pictorial syndicate and by them sent throughout the country. Ten or fifteen years ago the news picture field in Washington was practically uncovered. Today a dozen or so cameramen spend the entire day at the White House. It would be a clever man who could pay a call upon the chief executive and slip away unphotographed. Nor are the visitors the sole reasons for the cameramen's attention to the White House. Nothing concerning the life of the present tenants is allowed to remain unpictured. Laddie Boy, the Airedale puppy presented to President Harding by an Ohio admirer, has been photographed so often since his arrival at the White House that he is said to have acquired the camera face. The sheep belonging to President Wilson were the targets for hundreds of cameras. WILSON’S FIGHT FOB PRIVACY. President Wilson, It will be remembered. during his illness refuged to be photographed. A picture of him lying ill would have been worth a small fortune to the photographer lucky enough to have made it. Upon his return to health and at the beginning of the motor rides that became during the last months of his term of office a daily duty, was to prevent the cameramen from making his picture. One enterprising photographer hired a room in a club by which the White House car passed each day, and setting up a long-distance lens, waited day by day to get the coveted picture. The picture, if successful, never appeared. Perhaps the picture was “fuzzy.” The photographer in fact said so. But it was whispered among the photographers that the film was destroyed. Another daring knight of the little black box hired a hay wagon, concealed himself in the hay with his long-distance lense and tried to snap the President as he basked in the sun on the south steps of the White House. The Secret Service men saw the wagon, supposedly broken down near the White House fence, and investigated. Again the picture never appeared. Cameramen were forbidden admittance to the State, War and Navy Building because the east windows of the building overlooked the White House grounds. President Wilson, however, finally consented to pose. It is said the good offices of Admiral Grayson won the camera men this favor. The picture was made as the executive car left the White House grounds. Half an hour after it was made the picture was going by fast express and plane to the various Philadelphia, New York and other out-of-town papers that bad ordered it. The new administration has been kind to the camera men. With but one exception President Harding’s personal and official family have done everything in their power to aid the photographers. The exception, the wife of one of the Cabinet secretaries, has earned the enmity of practically the entire press of the city by her constant refusals to permit her picture to be made. In reprisal her house is besieged by camera men. Her footsteps are dogged by earnest young men who have apparently but one purpose in life, to snap her picture. She has been forced to have her telephone removed to silence the endless buzz that made her days miserable with requests for pictures. The camera men have declared war and it is a safe bet that the tale will end wilh the lady's surrender. In the few weeks since March 4 the faces of the secretaries, their families and friends, have become familiar to the

PUBLIC CALL FOR FIRE PREVENTION AND CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN To All Indianapolis Citizens: Please clip this from the paper and indicate by an “X" in each square your co-operation in the Fire Prevention and Clean-Up Campaign, sign and mail to the office of Jacob H. Hilkene, Chief of Fire Prevention, Fire Headquarters. Eighty-Five Per Cent of All Fires Are Due to Carelessness. Let’s Be Careful. An Ounce of Fire Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Fire Extinguishment. I have cleaned my premises and rid them of debris and other fire hazards. I will not hereafter permit rubbish to accumulate in basements, workshops or anywhere about my premises. I will not burn trash, brush or rubbish, nor permit children to do so unless in a proper, non-combustible container, 1 covered with a screen. □ I will not change electric wiring without consulting the City Electrical Inspector. □ I will not pass stove pipes through ceilings or wooden partitions. □ I will not connect gas stoves, hotplates or heaters with rubber hose. I will not use gasoline, benzine or kerosene for cleaning purposes or for the lighting of fires. I will not allow children to play with matches and will always keep same in closed metal boxes. |I will hereafter use every precaution against the accumu lation of debris around my premises which might cause fire. □ I will not neglect to have all flues examined, cleaned and repaired at least once each year. j 1 I will hereafter keep ashes in non-combustible receptacles. □ I will take precaution with electric irons and will disconnect current when not in use. □ I will inform myself immediately with the nearest fire alarm box in my neighborhood. (Name) (Address)

average American as pictures of their own families. Truly, the great now have, in Cobb's delightful phrase, ”no more privacy than a gold fish.” Perhaps good taste has been transgressed at times Perhaps even a President deserves some privacy, while it seems a little unfair that a woman's right to it should be invaded because her husband has achieved office. But on the whole the camera men have certainly endowed the political news with a fresh and vivid interest. MAC FOOLS ’EM IN DUSSELDORF American Corporal Mistaken for Field Marshal and Is Salammed. PARIS, May 31.—Wren French, British and Belgian troops recently crossed the Rhine and occupied Dusseldorf, Uuisburg and Ruhrert, American troops stationed to the south of these towns, at Coblenz, stood still and watched. Nevertheless, the American Army was represented at Dusseldorf by Corporal Mac Gill, who was acting as special correspondent of the Amoroc News the official army organ. Wearing uniform, Mac soon became the attention of Dusseldorfers, many of whom wondered if he was a general, field marshal or simple soldier. Every time Mac met a German policeman the latter would sharply come to attention and salute, and Mac naturally returned the salute, though at times he found it a burdensome job. One night at a theater an American correspondent jokingly called Mac general, and German waiters having overheard this began bowing to Mac and paying what he called undue attention to him. During the first few days of occupation small groups of Germans, mostly workmen, would gather on the square facing one of the chief hotels of the town and discuss politics and the occupation. Evidently their comment was not too favorable to the allies, for as soon as they saw Mac come along they quickly dispersed, although not a word was spoken. In the hotel where Mac lived the waiters would come to attention when presenting letters and bills and the Amaroc correspondent had to take the matter seriously. More than one French soldier saluted MacGill also and he often had to call their attention to the fact that he was simply Corporal MacGill.

Befouling the Flag That Protects Them

On dry land, the United Slates prosecutes violators of our National prohibition law. But on the ships protected by our flag the outlawed booze traffic goes on unmolested and has become an international scandal. Booze of all kinds is openly sold on every ship. Anybody who has the desire and price can drink himself to death. The bar runs day and night. Drunkenness among the crew endangers the lives of all on board. And under the American flag, owners of these floating saloons expect to be safeguarded, wherever they go, by the country whose laws they violate. By what right can American ships, breaking American laws, demand the

EX-KING MANUEL IS BRIDGE FIEND And He's a ‘Penny Gambler'' in Gay Monte Carlo. NICE, May 30.--Ex-King Manuel of Portugal, whose escapades with the late Gaby Deslys won him the title, “the world's gayest monarch," is leading as quiet and simple a life as a man can lead on the French Riviera. A plain St. Louis business man, out for a lark at Nice, Cannes and Mont Cearlo, makes the former Portuguese ruler look as dead as an Egyptian mummy. Mrs. Manuel is with the ex-king almost everywhere he goes, in the morning they are frequently seen strolling along the Rue d'Antibes, in Cannes, "window shopping” and occasionally making a few small purchases. Manuel, always accompanied by the former queen, spends his afternoons at bridge, at the races or playing tennis. He is a “bridge fiend” and on rainy days is at the bridge table all afternoon, at the Cercle Nautique. There he finds, among the best known players, the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Cyril, Countess Torby. Prince Radziwill, the Duchess of Albany, the Princess of Athlone, Princess Marie of Ligne, the Baron de Rothschild and the Prince and Princess Philip of Bourbon. The former king plays a good game at tennis. In the last big tournament, he succeeded in reaching the semi- finals before he was eliminated by a younger player. Excepting for his wife, Manuel is seldom seen alone in the company of any woman but Lady Coats, who is a well known figure at Cannes and an intimate of the former Queen of Portugal. He frequently escorts Lady Coats to tea and sometimes to the Casino at night, when his wife is a bit tired. Manuel is an almost nightly figure at the Casino. He has engaged, for the entire season, the first loge, but seldom occupies it, preferring the baccarat room. There he gambles every night, but in sums so small that the Monte Carlo habitues would instantly pronounce him a “piker.” But the ex-king, so the Casino attendants say, generally comes away slightly ahead of the game. Since their arrival at Cannes the exking and queen have occupied a luxurious apartment in the resort's highest priced hotel.

protection of the American flag? There is a well known principle in law and equity that you must come into court with clean hands. You cannot violate the law on one hand and have the protection of the law on the other, as will be shown the first time these ship-owners get into a United States court. American ships would have all the travel they could carry if people were assured of no booze on board for passengers or employes of the ships, just as in the old days people chose the safer railroads whose employes were not boozers. Although prohibition is a part of the Constitution of the United States, the enforcement of the law has been something

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921.

WOMEN FOUND NEW CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION Purpose to Produce Social Workers Whose Duty Is to Help Others. NEW YORK, May 3l.—Sufferers of the world have long been accustomed to receive kind ministrations from the somberly garbed Sisters of Charity. The robes that cover consecrated Sisterhoods are synonymous with the offices of the Good Samaritan. Therefore, a Catholic order of women, whose members wear no habit, but nevertheless have consecrated their lives to social service and charity, is a striking innovation in the Church. It has been so planned for a special need. The new religious community has been especially created to give an opportunity for missionary service at home, and to produce trained social workers whose only task in life is to help others. Under the patronage of Archibishop Patrick J. Hayes of New York, the Community of Professional Social Workers has been established at 328 West Sev enty-First street. The community, numbering ten unmarried women, bought the house some time ago. Although the sisterhood has been working for more than a year, little has been publicly known till recently about its activities. Its members wish no personal publicity, but they desire that the aims of the organization be known and also would like to interest other women in joining the service. CHIEF WORK IS IN HOMES. “This is so young an institution,” explained the soft-voiced young woman who discussed their aims with me, “that It would be unbecoming to rush into print about our achievements so fur." But the writer learned that reconstruction and rehabilitation of the home is the great objective of all the organization's efforts. The sisters care for the poor and sick, both young and old from the baby who needs a layette to the child who should attend church and school; from the young couple in difficulties of various sorts to the aged and helpless. The home, as a perfect social unit, is the object toward which all the social service of the sisterhood tends. "Homes form the nation.” said one member to me. "They make the church and State. What we do for the homes is done for the welfare of the whole community. To teach good citizenship and firm Americanism strengthens religious, civic and political life.” Parish visitors, as members of the new community are known, devote eight hours of each day to the homes of the most needy in each parish. Spiritual advice is offered as well as attention to purely mundane necessities. The dally program is a rigid and austere one, but the workers are happy and most zealous in their profession. A rising hour well before 6 o'clock and a retiring hour at 9:40 gives plenty of time for religious devotion as well as service to others. Many of the members were teachers before entrance. Others gave up business or professional careers to concentrate their zeal upon the opportunities here offered. MUST SERVE IN MANY CAPACITIES. Acting upon the thought that a good home is a blessing to the ecommunity and a bad home a menace, the parish workers must play many parts in their daily service—that of mother, older sister and spiritual adviser. They cooperate with the pastors of various parishes and also with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Scientific methods of home saving combined with true charity form the leading features of the institution's work, which seeks to save the future man and woman by protecting the home and the child. The women who now comprise the little family are graduates of the Fordham School of Social Service, but they do not make such training nnd experience a pre-requisite for entrance to the new sisterhood. Any young woman with the proper qualifications for a religious life may apply for admission. These consecrated social workers wear no habit, it has been explained, owing to the nature of their duties. Their hours, both night and day, are utilized in their work. Three hours in the morning are given to visiting homes, three in the afternoon and two in the evening. Daily mass, daily communion and meditation are offered in their plan of life. Recompense received from the parishes visited is put into the common purse of the institution. Although the women wear the ordinary costumes such as other women wear, but of subdued colors, they have no concern with fashion. The life, though austere, is pleasaut. Lives of the members are consecrated to the service as in other sisterhoods. BIG S. S. CONVENTION. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., May 31— Warter Seelig of Washington Township was elected president of the Sunday School Association of that township Monday, at the largest convention ever held by the schools there. Eight, hundred people attended the deliberations held in a grove north of the city. The Rev. George Strausbaugh of Frederlcktown, Ohio, was the principal speaker.

of a farce, particularly in the large cities where the booze interests still are strong. Just now the Anti-Saloon League is much distressed over the dismissal of 700 Federal prohibition enforcement officers throughout the country, this leaving only 500 agents in service between now and July l. However, the Administration should not blamed for dropping these men. Many of them were ex-saloon-keepers, bartenders and politicians and they were not getting results. The country can get along a few weeks without them. President Harding seems to have taken the attitude that if the Republican administration is going to be responsible for the enforcement of the prohibition law, it should have its own appointees to enforce the law.

The Kunnel Leaves Lincoln for Miami NEW YORK, May 31.—Col. William Jennings Bryan, southerner. That is the way one of the country's foremost political leaders, must be designated in the future, it was revealed in an announcement by him here today. Bryan said he would end a residence or more than thirty years in Nebraska to become a legal citizen of Miami, Fla., where he has spent most of his time the last few years. "Mrs. Bryan's health is such that it is necessary for us to live in the South and having tested Miami's climate for eight years we have chosen that city for our permanent home,” he said.

B. C. TO BECOME ‘WETTEST’ SPOT Moderation Act Permits All to Imbibe Freely. VANCOUVER. B. C.. May 31.—There is going to be one perfectly gorgeous time in British Columbia when the new moderation act goes into effect. At least the government seems to think so, for even before the new liquor commission which is to take care of the selling end got into harness, a thoughtful department had ordered carloads of champagne. So far, however, the day when the prohibition lid is to come off has not been announced. Once the champagne is here, however there ought to be no further occasion for delay. Judging by the daily announcements from the liquor commission’s office the press agency has been put into competent hands. The publicity is of a kind calculated to put a very nice edge on the prevailing thirst. There is talk not only of the best and soundest whiskies, of real beer and English ale, but also liquors and wines of rare vintage. The commission is out to satisfy the taste of the connoisseur—as well as that of the man who merely wants something with a kick in it. Even the Oriental palate is to be catered to, orders having already gone across the Pacific for the lines of saki and other strong waters specially favored by the Japanese and Chinese, who, by the way, are to have liquor stores in their own "towns.” Let it be understood clearly, however, that the business is to be conducted in a dignified manner. A gentleman will no more take his bottle home under his arm than he would carry a suit away from his tailor's. There will be no sign of liquor, in fact, about the salesrooms. The prospective imbiber will go into a business office and give his order, not to a white-coated bartender, but to a refined, black-coated, floor-walker-sort-of-person, who will hand him a receipt for his money after endorsing the quantity of the order on his permit. A day or two later a van from the liquor warehouse situated far away from the liquor office will deliver the goods at the address where they are required. The delivery charge is to be absorbed in ths purchase price. Of course, if the purchaser insists, he can go around to the warehouse and take up his consignmeut himself, a method that is likely to be adopted by persons desirous of avoiding both the domestic and general publicity attending tho arrival of the liquor commission's vehicle at the door. Two prophecies are very generally made. The first is that the Government will succeed in its effort to put the bootlegger out of business by crushing competition; the other that it will also succeed in provoking a demand so strong for the total abolition of the liquor traffic that the framers of the next prohibition law for British Columbia declared due about the spring of 1922, will be able to give cards and spades to the man who wrote the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution nnd even to Mr. Volstead hlmseif when it comes to formulalating a reslly hone dry act. Opium Helps Negro See Invisible Stairs KANSAS CITY. Mo. May 31.—Opium dreams are substantial, according to police. A negro, trapped in a raid on an opium joint here was in a deep sleep. Police clubs aroused him, but he broke loose and, jumping through an open window, descended invisible stairs to the street. He landed on his feet, still clenching the opium pipe in his teeth and fled. He escaped, mere policemen not being able to find the invisible stairway.

'You can't beat ’em! Tommy Milton and Silver Flash Gasoline They rode to victory together in yesterday’s 500-mile race! WESTERN OIL REFINING COMPANY

TARIFF AND TAX MAY HANG FIRE TILL LATE FALL Special Congress Finds Revision and Lightening Task Man’s Sized Job. RECESS NOT UNLIKELY WASHINGTON, May 31—The mam purpose of the special session of Congress was to revise the tariff and lighten the tax burdens, but, according to con-

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servative estimates, these tasks will not be completed before late next fall. The House and Ways committee which has been framing the permanent tariff bill for two months, has struck several big snags and hopes that the measure would be reported to the House by June 1 have been blasted completely. Chairman Fordney now thinks that the bill may be ready by June 15, but other members of the committee doubt if it will be reported by July 1. The House will fight over it for at least a month. The last big tariff bill required five weeks of debate before it was sent to the Senate. By Aug. 1 both houses probably will be complaining of the Washington heat, and it will be difficult to prevent a recess of from four to six weeks. It is admitted that little work can be done by the Ways and Means Committee toward modifying the tax laws while the tariff bill is on the floor. The committee may stay in session during

August for this purpose, but even then it would be most diffcult to pass both the tax and the tariff measures by Dec. 1, the opening of the regular session. In fact, some members believe Congress will be showing good speed as the result of its past slow progress if the new taxes are ready to go into effect Jan. 1. The Ways and Means Committee is at present finding the chemical, cotton, aluminum and other tariff schedules are knotty problems to solve. TO WHIP STUBBORN CREAM. Q. When I order double cream and it will not whip, what can be done to make It thicker? K. W. M. A. Cream that is too thin to whip properly will whip much better if the white of an egg is added. If a large quantity of cream is used, use the whites of two eggs. This will add both to the quality and quantity of the cream.