Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1921 — Page 6

w Jttifcma fflaito ffiitm INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street, Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. 4 i Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Q. Logan Payne Cos. AdTtrtislng office* { Kew York. Boston, Payne, Burns A Smith. Inc. ONE WOULD naturally suspect something like that of a man named G. Brewster Bradford. IT WAS at least appropriate that the police should find those twentynine gallons of white mule in a livery stable. DO THE UNIONS which are demanding Government control of Industries also desire Government control of wages? THE PULL that Willie Carey has exercised with our law enforcement officials for several years has certainly created a noisome record! HARDING’S association still in Ideal stage, says a headline. Let’s see, how long has it teen since a President was persecuted for having Ideals? ONE of the penalties Henry Fleming seems to have loßt when he broke with the News-Jewett gang, was the privilege of keeping obstreperous negroes out of jail! —— SOME FIEND for figures has discovered that every citizen of the United States will be taxed SB2 next year. Wonder how many expect to get their money’s worth. SIX DIED from heat in Minnesota and the thermometer showed 2 degrees below freezing in Arizona at the same time, but, according to latest reports, the climate in California was still “Ideal.” WHAT CONSIDERATION is being given Superintendent Talkington’s statement that the Jeffersonville reformatory could be erected on the site of the penal farm at £ cost not to exceed $300,000? *Honest and Fair Basis* Elsewhere on this page appears today a reader's comment on an editorial recently printed in these columns. The letter is either a willful misrepresentation of facts, or a result of misinformation and lack of information that leads to erroneous conclusions. The writer accepts at its face value the cry of the demagogue that there is "water in the street car company’s capitalization” that should be squeezed out Asa matter of fact the property of the street car company totals millions more than its capitalization, and the company has been paying taxes on a valuation several million dollars higher than the combined face value of its stocks and bonds. The writer says that "thousands upon thousands of dollars have been paid on the watered stock of this company since the franchise wt-.s entered into with the city.’’ Asa matter of fact the stockholders of the several local street car companies have not, in all the years of their investment, received the ordinary rate of interest on the money which they actually put into the stock of the companies. The writer cannot understand why sufficient consideration should be shown owners of street car stock, to save them from complete loss of their whole investment when such consideration is not shown to individuals who have invested in other than public utilities. He overlooks the fact that an investor In a private business is not subjected to public regulation and may stop his losses by closing up the business, but a public utility mast continue to serve the public, no matter what the loss, at a rate fixed by a public agency. The writer says he is in favor of giving the street car company everything that is coming to it, but does not think it Is entitled to pay interest on watered stock. He ignores the fact that the company is not now, and has not been for years, obtaining sufficient revenue to pay interest on any money invested in any of its stock. In conclusion, the writer says that “it is a pity our local company could not have been run as was the company in Washington, D. C., which has never had occasion to ask for an increase in its rates for passenger service for the reason that it never watered its stock.” The answer to this statement is merely that the company in Washington, D. C., to which the writer refers, is today enjoying a basic fare of 8 cents, with four tickets for SO cents and a 2-cent transfer charge for transfer to the rival line, on whose demand the Washington fares were increased. This newspaper is also “in favor of giving the street car company all that is coming to it on an honest and fair basis.” That is why there is set out here the facts and fallacies that hawe apparently led H. A. J. to the conclusion that the street car company is getting what it has coming to it.

Why? Jacob P. Dunn discussed the proposed amendments to the constitution before the Indiana Democratic Club last week, and a great part of his speech was devoted to an argument against three proposed amendments. Both the Republican newspapers of Indianapolis presented to their readers what purported to be reports of his speech. Neither of the Republican papers referred In any way to Mr. Dunn's opposition to that constitutional amendment which opens thb doors of the state militia to negroes. Why? The framers of Indiana’s constitution made provision for the discus •ion throughout a period of two years of any proposed amendments. Here Is an amendment of vital Importance to the people of Indiana before them for discussion, end actually discussed in public. t Here are two great newspapers, presumably published for the benefit of their subscribers, that deliberately refuse to report truthfully a public speech in which this amendment is discussed. Are the negro subscribers of each of these newspapers so powerful that they control the newspapers’ news columns? Have the negro voters of Indianapolis extended their control of the Republican party to control of the Republican papers? Have we reached a point in Indianapolis where a public speaker must be misrepresented before the readers of Republican newspapers because he dares to discuss the negro problem? This constitutional amendment, opening the state militia to the negroeß of Indiana, was included in the list framed by James P. Goodrich et al., for the purpose of induoing the negro voters to vote for the amendments in toto. Already negro voters have been advised that they must vote yes on all the constitutional amendments in order to Insure the passage of this one amendment. , Now, in addition to this bit of political trickery, there is demonstrated a determination on the part of Republican papers to ignore public discussion of this negro question, even if it be necessary to misrepresent public speakers in order to accomplish that bit of suppression. Again we ask, why are the Republican papers of Indianapolis afraid to report discussions of the negro problem? A Poor Remedy! The attorney for the Indiana Hotel Keepers’ Association expresses surprise that there should be any opposition to a proposed ordinance offered by the association to the city council, with a view to keeping hotels free from immoral associations. There can be no opposition to the purpose of the ordinance, but, without some changes, there should he opposition to its text. The responsibility for keeping women of immoral character out of hotels rests on the management of the hotel itself. It requires constant ▼lgUance and considerable ingenuity. The proposed ordinance seeks to shift this responsibility. by making it an offense for any man guest to allow any woman other than his wife, mother, sister or daughter, to enter his hotel bedroom, or for any woman guest to allow other than her husband, father, son or brother to enter her bedroom. It is also proposed to inflict a penalty on any man or woman who enters the bedroom of a guest of the opposite sex, under these conditions. 4 As drafted the proposed ordinance would make it unlawful for a nurse to attend a sick man in a hotel room. It would make it unlawful for the wife or the sister of a male hotel guest to be accompanied by a female friend on a visit to her husband or father In his room at a hotel. It would make it unlawful for a husband to entertain a male friend in a room aeespted Jointly by Mmßelf and wife. What opposition Qeveops to this ordinance may rightfully be based on the.theocy that ft Is an 111-coneelved remady for an evil that every one wishes to see overcome.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B. TO BABE Bath. * * * POLO GROUNDS. * • • NEW TOBK City. ... MX X)EAB Babe. ... OUT IN the West. ... I KNOW three boys. ... WHO LIVE on a ranch. *• • • AND THEY HE miles away. e e * FROM ANT town. ... BUT THEY'RE all bright boys. e * * AND THEY read a lot. ... AND THEY know Babe Ruth. e * e AND rx spite of the fact. ... IT’S TWO days old. ... WHEN THE paper comes. ... THEY'D JUST as excited. ... WHEN YOU make a home run. ... AS IS the crowd. ... AT THE Polo Grounds. ... AND WHEN 1 said. ... THAT I had seen. - ... YOU SWAT the ball. ... CLEAN OVER the stand. • e . and THAT once on a time. ... I HAD shaken your hand. \ . e • THEY WOULDN’T believe me. . e . TILL I crossed my heart. ... AND HOPED to die. ... AND AFTER that. *• • . I LOOMED as big. • • 1 ON THEIR horiaon. • it AS THE mountain top. ... THAT SHELTERED ' them. ... AND, ANYWAY, Baba ... THEY THINK you’re grand. ... AND I aald you were. ... AND FURTHERMORE. ... THAT YOU hadn’t been spoiled. • * . AND NOW I’m worried. e . • FOB THEY *lll hare read. ... OF YOCB day In Jail. ... AND THEY won’t understand. • . • AND THE pedestal. ... THEY HAVE you on. ... WILL HAVE weakened a little. ... AND I ask yon. Babe. ... IF YOU won’t please stop. e . . GETTING YOURSELF arrested. ... IF FOB no other reason. ... IT WOULD be too bad. ... IF WORD Should come. ... OF A shattered Idol. m • • ON THAT faraway ranch.

HOROSCOPE "The atari Incline, but do not compel!’* TUESDAY, JUNE 21. Friendly atari rule today, according to astrology. Uranus. Jupiter and Venus are all In benefle aspect. It Is above all a rule under which love affairs should prosper, making for financial success as well as harmony and happiness. This Is a very lucky wedding day and engagements mado under this direction of the stars should bo most fortunate. Persona whose birthdate It la have a happy augury for the year. Money and business should Increase rapidly. The ytfung will court and mary. Children born on this day will be successful In whatever they undertake seriously. These subjects of Cancer usually rise rapidly lu life.-—Copyright, 1921. Aroused From Nap to Face Tiger Charge "Charles Bay, 838 South New Jersey street," was the name given by a man arrested in a shed In the rear of 436 South East street by Motor Policemen Morarlty and Harris at abc"t 2 a. m. today. Ray, who was asleep In an automobile, was charged with drunkenness. The police went to the shed on the report that they would find a man selling liquor. No liquor was found. Wien Sergeant Sheridan saw "Charles Ray* ’the sergeant declared the prisoner’s name was Roy Householder, 304 South New Jersey street. He changed the name to Householder on the turnkey’s slate and put the additional charge of operating a blind tiger against the prisoner. The sergeant said he had raided Householder's home a few days ago and found 12S quarts of home-made beer. lflO empty beer bottles and thirty six gallons of beer in process of brewing. Householder was not at home at that time, but six men found In the house were arrested on vagrancy charges. Boy Scouts Given $6,000 wan is Hut’ The “Kiwanis hut,” a $6 000 building on the Boy Scout reservation, to be used as headquarters of the scouts, was formally presented to the boys by the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club yesterday afternoon. \ The building, which was dedicated some time ago, wagSerected by the Kiwanig Club at Its owk expense. A delegation of loclU Klwanians will leave tonight for Cleveland to attend the International convention W the Klwanlnna. , y

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 19Z1.

33 BRIDGES AND CULVERTS TO BE BUILT BY STATE Highway Commission Will Receive Proposals for Work on June 21. On Tuesday, June 21, the State highway commission will receive proposals for the construction of thirty-three bridges and culverts to be built on seven of the principal State highways of the commonwealth at not to exceed an approximate aggregate ooet of $225,000. The specifications call for five bridges to be of steel and the ethers of concrete, according to Lawrence Lyons, director. The new Improvements, occasioned because many of these structures are in dangerous condition and must either be replaced or reinforced Immediately to safeguard the traveling public, will go up In thirteen counties and In various sections of tho State. Seventeen of , the proposed new structure? are on the National road, known as Route 8, and will be located In the counties of Putman, Marshall, Hancock, Henry, Vigo and Hendricks. This highway, when completed, will cross the State In almost a direct line from Terre Haute to Richmond. Four of the Improvements will be erected on Route 4, connecting Cincinnati with Evansville and leading through French Lick. AU are In Dubois County. Route 5, known as the Midland Trail from Cincinnati through Vincennes to St. Louis, will receive one erected in Knox County, and Route 10. the Dixie Bee-Line. Chicago to Evansville, proposes six in Gibson and Algo Counties. The Liberty Way known as Route 15 from Indianapolis through Logansport to Chicago, will be Improved by three in Pulaski County, while Route 21, Ft. Wayne through Richmond to Cincinnati will have one In Randolph County. One is proposed for Route 33, Indianapolis to Danville, 111., l n Fountain County. This same highway goes through Lebanon, Crawfordsvllle and Covington. According to William J. Titus, bridge engineer of the department, Routes 3 and 4 are to be paved later and It Is expedient that bridges be ln before they are completed ns It is folly to tie up sections of good roads or force long detours because of a lack of bridge facilities. The department Is determined that only necessary road and bridge construction proceed at this time due to the high prices of road building ma’erlals, but this condition doos not so seriously affect bridge work because the price of labor, the principal Item ln bridge building. Is now about par with the 1914 level, he says.

Street Car Fallacies Editor The Time*—Referring io your editorial, ’’The Way to Hlgbsr Fan's,' would say that I do not think you go far enough. It Is quite obvious that unless the street car company Is relieved from the payment of the annual charge of $30,000 and of paving between the tracks that it can not pay dividends on its stocks and bonds, watered and otherwise, an a charge only 5 cents for fares. Os course a lot of water was squeesed out of the street car company’s liabilities when It was recently organised, but there is no doubt a lot more that should ' be similarly treated remaining that takes a good-sised portion of the company’s receipts ln the way of Interest charges. When we think of the thousands upon thousands of dollars that have been paid on the watered stock of this company since the franchise was entered Into with the city it can readily Vo seen why it Is in such a poverty stricken condition at the present time. I do not eoe why there should bo so much consideration shown to the stockholder of the company Just because It is a public service corporation, when you consider thst nearly every man, woman and child in the city of Indianapolis is affected by any Increate ln the lares It Is allowed to charge. Why should any more consideration be shown to its stockholders than the law allows to be shown to a private individual, firm or corporation that makes a contract and finds out that It Is going to lose money thereby ? There was no public service corporation, nor any law, to come to the rescue of the contractor of our great State capltol building. I am ln favor of giving the street car company everything thst Is coming to it on an honest and fair basia, but 1 do not tttnk it is entitled to escape Its Just ob lgatlons and at the same time pay Interest on watered stock, of which there must be considerable left, for which it has obligated Itself. Tour editorial, I again say, Is all right up to a certain point, but It does not go far enough, and I have attempted to state wherein I think It fell short. We are suffering at the present time from the failure of our former administrations ln dealing with the street car company ln a way that would have protected the public and, at the same time, been fair to it. Now that it has surrendered its frsncblse, the company evidently thinks that it has relieved Itself of all obligation to the general public, and it looks to the commission to enable it to continue business ln the old way by ordering Increased fares, which at present relate only to transfers, but which later on, unless the “Jitney” question can be solved, will also Include the baste fare Itself. It Is a pity that our local company could not have been run as was that company ln Washington, D. C., which has never bad occasion to ask for an increase ln its rate for passenger eervtce, for the reason that it never watered it stock. H. A. J. Indianapolis. Rush Farmer Shoots Sister, Kills Himself Special to The Times. KTTSHVILLE, Ind., .Tune 20.—Angered at his sister because she “kept company” with Russell Wykoff, Carry .Tones, 26, former, took his old shotgun off the rack and shot her through the head. The shot extinguished the gas light and in the darkness, Jones took his own life. Miss Jones, who is 22, >s a poor chance of recovering, physic *ns said today. The charge blew out her right eye and tore away a portion of her face.

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This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with It to locate the scene? Tester Jay’s picture was of a view of Meridian street, looking north from the Soldiers ami Sailors' Monument.

M OVIELAN D Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER

Getting Into a Studio “Is it very hard to get work in a studio. 1/ one has not had training or experience? What do you think would be the best method of obtaining a position ?” An Ohio man wrote me that letter Just recently, and I’m glad to answer It publicly, because a number of other letters have asked that, same question. Now, getting into a studio is a good deal like getting into any other place of business—a factory, for example. You know how it would be if you went to a factory and said “I want work.” They’d ask what you conld do. If you could do something that they needed done, they might engage yon. If you hadn't any special ability, and they happened to need someone to do something that didn't require any, they might take you ln. That would be all there would be to it. It’s exactly like that ln a motion picture studio. Many trained persons are employed there —actors, electricians, cam-era-man, carpenters, stage hands, publicity writers, scenario editors, script clerks, continuity writers, stenographers, filing clerks, and If there Is a laboratory connected with the studio, there are ever so many other openings, ln the departments connected with the developing and printing of the films. If yen are fitted for one of those positions and there 1a one vacant, you have a good chance to get the Job. But if yos’re not trained there are fewer openings for yon. You may have a chance to get Into a scene a* an extra, ln a mob, or something of that sort But that only happens If such a acene Is being cast. Looking back over the pictures yon have seen recently, yon can count the number of auch scenes that you saw aad see how many opportunities you would have had if you had applied at the studios

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

{The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living ln a suburban town, on a limited lncomw n ill tell the readers of the Daily Time* how the many present dar problem# or the home sre solved by wokring on the budget that Mrs. .Hooper has evolved and found practical. Fol ow them dally in an interesting rev lß of their homo Ilf* snd learn to mret the conditions of tho high cost of living with them ) MONDAY. Mrs Hooper had telephoned at once to the president of the Woman’# Club that Mr Jackeon had promised them the use of his beautiful grounds for their garden partv on July 4, and that he had alse accepted with pleasure their that he be the speaker of the day. .he told her further that he had invlteed another member of the club and herself to meet him next Saturday ao that he might know Juat exactly what they would like to have him Mrnlah for the success of the party. _ w _ "That* neetns very trregrnlar, Mr*. Hooper.” said the president * think you should have suggested that I would appoint a committee to call on him for that purpoio. I think It ahould have been made very formal.” "It would have seemed very ungracious ln mr opinion,” replied Mrs. Hooper, “When he was kind enough to grant our request. Besides we haven’t very much time to fuss about formallti.* " Mrs Hooper was a trifle miffed at the president for taking this attitude in the matter now. On Friday tto disagreeable duty of asking a favor ol Mr. Jackson was thrust upon Mrs. Hooper without one dissenting voice because neither the president nor any of the members felt like faring a possible refusal from the rich man of the town But now when that had been accomplished the president Inferred by ner tone that a committee appointed by the chair should meet Mr. Jackson ln more or less of a social way to arrange the details. Mrs. Hooper derided to accept the rebuff gracefully and make way for the president and her friends, it was so like soma women to develop this kind of pettiness when so much was at stake. ‘I had no thought of usurping your

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The suspension bridge In Turkey Run State Park.

where those pictures were made, to get work. Most of the studios usi only union labor, I believe, so there wouldn’t be much chance of getting work unless you had a trade and could fit ln that way. There might be an opening iu one ol the offices—but you can readily see how many chances therp are ln most offices for aome one without training—and there are no more of them in the studio office# than there sre elsewhere. So the only thing to do, it seems to me. Is to learn something that will make you useful before you arply at one of the studios for a Job. It has always been my experience that the person who coulJ do someone definite thing had a much better chance in life than the person who could do “Justr anything”—and couldn’t do that very welll QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Marjorie, Columbus—ls it trne that Mary Bickford is going to retire from the screen? I have heard that she would and also that she wouldn’t—so probably yon know Just about as much about it as I do! Stanley G., Chicago—ls I came to New York this summer would I have a chance to sc* any of the stars making pictures? You might, If you could get Into the studios. Quite a few stars will probably be working in the East, although Famous Players-Lasky Is closing Its big studio at Long Island City. I’earl White will probably be at the Fox studio, we are making “The Two Orphans” at the Griffith studio, Richard Bartholmess may be working here, it is said that Wallace Reid will make a picture in New York after he finishes ’’Peter Ibbetson,” which he Is doing with Elsie Ferguson, and I believe that Billie Burke and Thomas Melghan are to work here. Constance Blnney, Alice Brady, and several others may work here also. Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler NewsPaper Syndicate.

privilege." *ald Mrs. Hooper. "It was merely Mr. Jackson's suggestion that l should ask one of the club members to come up to the house on Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock when he comes down from the city. I thought of course that you would be the one to come,” sne concluded ‘‘but If you think a committee should be appointed for that purpose there Js no reaaon why any arrangement that I made with Mr. Jackson should bo kept.” "That is really very sensible of yon," answered the president blandly. "it will be very much more dignified to have two members of the board and myself compose the committee. (living tue garden party at the Jackson instate means too much to the club, you know, Mrs. Hooper, to jeopardize It by any lack of formality in meeting Sir. Jackson.” "Vary well.” said Mrs. Hooper, feeling decidedly like losing her temper at the president's snobbish insinuation that several other women in the club would be much more creditable representatives than humble Mrs. Hooper. “If you will communicate with Mr. Jackson and tell him of your Intention that will be all that Is necessary,” con eluded Mrs. Hooper. "lou see 1 have my car,” the president reminded Mrs. Hooper condescendingly,” "and It will be very easy for me to take the committee up there. Besides, you will be so busy about plans for the entertainment.” Mrs. Hooper said nothing about Mr. Jackson's remark that he Would send his automobile for her. ‘‘What did it matter, anyhow,” she said to herself as ahe hung up the telephone. But when she turned around and saw Helen who had been listening all huddled up among the pillows on the couch In the living room sobbing as If her heart would break, she realised that It mattered very much as far as She was concerned “Oh, mother, how could you. How could you,” the child walled, ‘‘when you know how much I want to go to the Jacksons! I suppose it’s because I told those awful lies that I'm being punished some more.” The menu for Xho three meals on Tuesday is: BREAKFAST. Stewed Rhubarb Cereal Vegetable Omelet Beaten Biscuit Coffee LUNCHEON. Rye Bread Lettuce Salad Salmon Mold Cookies Milk DINNER. Beef Soup with Noodles. Cold Corn Beef Potato Salad Sliced Tomatoes Spinach Rice Pudding (Copyright, 1921.) Boy Thought He Could Swim; Body Not Found Special to The Times. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 20 James Huntington. Jr., saw his youthful companions enjoying themselves swimming In a gravel pit here. Although he couldn’t swim, he leaped Into the water and sank immediately. An expert dlvt;r was to come here today to search for the body.- Fifty automobiles circled the pit last night as searchers probed the water with their grabhooks, but because of the depth of the watex those were of no avail. .• ~ ■

BETTER GRADE OIL USEDHERE Soaks Into the Street, Does Sot Crust Surface to Wear Atvay Soon. The controversy between tho city and the George O. Peterson Company, Chicago brokers, over the quality of road oil being supplied on contract by the latter has brought to light the fact that Indianapolis uses a different kind of oil on its unimproved streets than any other city. Specifications for the product have been worked out by Chalmers C. Underwood. according to the Ideas of A. O. Meloy, street commissioner. Where most cities use the common black, heavy oil, which resembles molasses when spread upon the street, Indianapolis requires Its oil contractor to furnish a product that may be driven Into the dust and gravel so that little It remains on the surface. The theory of most cities is that oil should be put on gravel and stone streets ln order to form a surface crust. Mr. Meloy states that he believes oil should be used only to lay the dust and saturate the street so that water can not work Into it and carry the loose dirt away. Formation of a crust, according street commissioner, is injurious to a street because the first heavy load cracks It and other vehicles then scatter tho material to the side of the highway leaving innumerable pit holes that later develop Into chuck holes. Because tho oil which the Peterson company has supplied on its contract up to now Is not of the right quality a number of streets upon which it has been used undoubtedly will have to be reoiled before tho summer la over, Mr. Meloy said. The company has offered to meet the expense of such reoliing.

TURMOIL REIGNS SUPREME ON SCHOOL BOARD {Continued From Page One.) of more than usual importance this year. Unfortunately, experience has shown that in the rush and turmoil of the mayoralty election the school board usu ally is lost sight of by a large percentage of voters; ln fact, the vote for these offices usually totals only about one-third of that cast for mayor. This means that any group or body of persons desirous I of ’’putting over” a slate find their work considerably simplified by the general apathy of the voter. AND FOUR ARB SEEKING 'REELECTION. At present It looks as If four of the five members of the board will be candidates for reelection. Mr. Allison being the only board member who probably will refuse to run again, and unless all indications go astray the majority will pool their Interests and will be on tbe same slate, although there las been considerable gossip to the effect that Mr. Crippin will be thrown overboard by his majority colleagues and his place on the slate given to a third person. The fact that religious and fraternal Interests have crept into the school election affairs is a bad thing for the city as a whole. One member of the board, Mr. Barry, Is a Catholic and not long ago Mrs. Tutewiler read from a prepared manuscript, a carefully prepared denuuication of him in which she accused him of belonging to a church that always had opposed the best interests of the public schools. This, of course, precipitated another wrangle in which Mr. Barry defended himself and pointed out that he is a graduate of Shortridge high school and that his own children attend the public schools. At a meeting of the headquarters class of the League of Women Voters, less than two weeks ago, Mrs. Bert S. Gadd, wife of a member of the board, said that she understood the Masons were to put five candidates for the board in the field this fall, and the Catholics three. This, of course, is a condition that should not exist Members of the board should be chosen not because they belong to any certain order or because they are members of any one church, but because of their fitness for the office. INTEREST OF PUBLIC VITAL NECE39SITY. Mrs. Gadd made a very pertinent remark, which applied to the situation exactly when she said, in answer to a statement by a member of the League of Women Voters, to the effect that board should not be chosen for religion or fraternal reasons. She said: “Yes, but the people of Indianapolis allowed the school board to go by default, and some oue Just had to step in and do sort Mng.” The personnel of the next school board should be a matter of Interest to every citizen of Indianapolis. The next board will have a serious situation to confront and it should made up of persons willing to submerge personal differences in an effort to secure Intelligent team work. The next board must work out a number of important questions and problems that will require the utmost thought to solve successfully. There are the 128 half-day classes to be housed; Shortridge High School , in obsolete, crowded quarters, to be given anew home; old building to be replaced; the constantly increasing number of school children in a constantly growing city to be taken care of: the matter of economical business administration to be worked out ln a manner that will avoid some of the criticisms that have heaped upon the present board in this respect. And all this must be done with the limit of the bonded Indebtedness of the school city only ~h short distance off: in fact the expenditure of another $2,000,000 will exhaust it. For these reasons the selection of a board equal to the Job it will find waiting for it becomes a matter of more than usual Interest and importance to the taxpayers and parents of Indianapolis this falL

SHANK BACKING DOUBTFUL OVER HENRY E. HARRIS Council Nominee, Now City " Employe, Not Very ‘Enthusiastic/ The failure of Henry E. Harris, nominee'for city councilman of the First district, to Join with other Republican candidates in actions evidencing wholehearted support of the entire Republican ticket, particularly of Samuel Lewi* Shank, aspirant for mayor, was explained ln part today when it was learned that since June 8 he has been an employe of the administration of Mayor Charles W. Jewett. T' a mayor would be greatly pleased if vne chief nominee of his own party could be defeated, since Mr. Shank has promised to drive the News-Jewett element completely out of power. Mr. Harris, before the primary election, was purchasing agent for the Stuta Fire Engine Company. When he severed his connection with this company is not known, but on June 6, records of the board of public works show, he became an inspector in the city civil engineering department at a salary of SIOO per month., Inspectors of the city civil engineering department investigate signatures on petitions and remonstrances and are supposed to see that pavements laid by private contractors are put down according to specifications. John E. King, another Republican nominee for councilman, was appointed engineering inspector several weeks ago. While, Mr. Harris supported a resolution, adopted in a meeting of candidates at the Shank residence, a short time after the primary election, in which all Republican nominees agreed to stand by the ticket from top to bottom, he has been criticised by other candidates for “playing too much” with the disgruntled News-Jewett leaders. Most of th' stories to the effect that the other Republican nominees do not stand with Mr. Shank ln his demand that Irving W. Lemaux resign from the Republican city chairmanship, which members of the ticket vigorously deny every time they appear, are tfudetstood to emanate from Mr. Harris ami Mr. King. Democratic candidates tor councllmt a are making the most of the situation and are trying to take votes awiy from Harris and King by telling both Democrats and Republicans of their connection with the unpopular News-Jewett regime. Those who are interested ln the election of Shank are understood to have less fear of the loyalty to the ticket of King than of Harris since King has made no secret of the fact that he was working for the city merely as a means of earning a living until his regular position with a local automobile factory is open again.

ROTARIANS TO PLAY AT QUOITS Invitations Call for Meeting at ‘Horseshoe Court/ July 1. The members of the Rotary Club ot Indianapolis and their wives and families are Invited to attend the first assembly of the "Rotary Horse Crusade” st the “Horseshoe Court,” at FaU Creek boulevard and Thirtieth street, Friday evening, at 7 o’clock, July 1. Official assurance is given that horseshoes of official design and artistic finish will be on the ground ln abundance, sold to the Rotarians by the manufacturers, and that the courts are electrically lighted. The Rotarians have secured the courts for every Friday evening and games will be played each week. “Fermanent Bridges” will be the sub. Ject of an address by Daniel B. Lnten at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis tomorrow at the daypool Hotel. According to the announcement—- “ Here Is the opportunity to find why they pot water under bridges.” The Indianapolis Rotary Baseball Team —new uniforms and everything—will try conclusions with a team of Kokomo Rotarians at Kokomo on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 28. The baseball committee Is desirous of having as many members as possible accompany the team, and has arranged for a special traction ear to leave Indianapolis at 1:15 p. m. The club’s luncheon program will be shortened sufficiently on that dale to permit departure on this car. The board of directors has designated Friday night, July 1, as Rotary night at the Murat Theater, as a mean* of cooperating with the American Legion ln Its work for sick and disabled soldiers. It is announced that through the courtesy of Stuart Walker, the Marion County Council of the American Legion will share in the proceeds of tho Stuart Walker Company for the entire week of June 27. Harper Ransberg, chairman of the Rotarians’ entertainment committee, and each of the three committee sections, are working on Rotary stunts for the evening of their theater party. HOLD 108 AUTOS IN HOOCH RAIDS Range From Aristocracy ta Flivver.

Automobiles good, bad and Indifferent,' large and small, ranging from stately sedans to battered old flivvers seized while bearing forbidden liquids Intended, to quench the thirst of eighteenth amend-: ment sufferers, clutter up the records of the office of Frederick Van Nuys, United States District Attorney. Two weeks ago! Judge Geiger disposed of thirty-three, of these cases, tut there still remain 10A to be settled. Os the thirty-three cases heard by Judge Geiger, nine resulted in the return of thg machines to their owners, thir! teen were forfeited and ordered sold at public auction and eleven were taken under advisement. By t£e provisions of the Volstead act the seizure of automobiles engaged In Illegal transportation of liquor is authorized, but owners may recover their cars if they can show that they had no knowledge of the illegal purpose for which the machines were being used wheat the seizure occurred. Interurban Fights for Use of Streets Special to The Tlmea. LAFATETTE. Ind., June 20.—Conrt action is expected to be taken here today by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis fc Eastern Traction Company to compel ‘Mayor Durgsn to allow the traction cars to pass to the downtown district over the city tracks. The traction company Is now shut out of the city, following an order by Mayor Durgan to tear away conecting tracks at the edge of the city when the contract for the use of the city streets by the traction company expired. The question at Issue has been la dispute here for several month*.