Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1921 — Page 6

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e Jntfcma Sfimrs ? INDIANAPOxJS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS O r AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. , . _ ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, O. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising office* | New York. Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith. Inc. PICKINGS must be bard when tbe inhabitants of the city prison engage In robbing themserves! ONE DOLLAR and costs will hardly be regarded as an exorbitant price for a single shot at a milk man! PEDESTRIANS regard the auto as their greatest menace. Providing places for the auto should help take care of the pedestrian. THE PRESIDENT’S OUTLINE of an "association of nations” sounds Buspiclously like that of the late lamented Hague tribunal. TEN REPUBLICANS and four Democrats wish to be mayor of Muncle. Apparently Jobs are more in demand in that city than in Indianapolis! TWO RECEPTIONS are being planned by rival factions for Admiral Sims, In addition to the one Secretary Denby has arranged for him! ANOTHER explorer has found anew continent near the south pole. An account of the discovery at least makes good hot weather reading. IP someone will now devise a way to keep the lid on the black resort, the Bungalow may go out of existence in more than name only! .. > A WOMAN has been arrested In Zion City for wearing sleeves which did not reach to the elbow. Wonder what they would do with a girl who "rolls her own." IT REQUIRED 159 ballots to elect the superintendent of schools In Clay County. They could have saved themselves all that trouble by merely abolishing a township. TURNKEYS at police headquarters have been permitting prisoners to rob one another. Apparently they have never heard that there is no honor among thieves.

Our School Fight In the first of a series of articles prepared for the Times, Blythe Q. Hendricks yesterday pointed out the reign of turmoil that has attended the business sessions of the present school hoard. Mr. Hendricks speaks from personal observation and there will be no dispute over the assertion that this turmoil is deplorable. "Back of all this dissension and wrangling lies the utterly divergent views of various members of the hoard, as to the proper manner in which to conduct the school affairs of the city under present conditions,” says the writer. In today's article he analyzes these "divergent views” and describes the “present conditions” which form the storm center of the “turmoil.” It is, indeed, unfortunate that there should be turmoil and wrangling over the manner in which to conduct the schools. It is unfortunate that. In their zeal to compel the school program which they approve, each of the two board factions should allow personalities to receive attention at the board meetings. Doubtless the provocation for unnecessary lunges at the enemy are numerous and great, but, nevertheless, they should be discarded as of no benefit either to the factions, the things they advocate or to the school system. In a nutshell, the school situation in Indianapolis has these outstanding features: 1. Neglect and Indifference to the future has permitted the city to outgrow its school facilities. 2. Either every dollar of available school money must be expended to enable the school system to expand sufficiently to take care of the children who are entitled to a proper schooling, or Indianapolis must admit Its inability, properly, to care for its children, and continue to extend to them unsatisfactory housing conditions and curtailed education. 3. Advocates of both programs are on the board of school commissioners and are actively urging their programs in a struggle that grows more bitter with every board meeting.

4. The majority of the school board, recognizing the necessity of straining to the utmost the resources of the school city to meet the overcrowded conditions, is persistently refusing to be led off the path that eventually means proper schools for Indianapolis. 5. The minority of the board, failing to realize the seriousness of the present and future crippling of the schools, and unable to control the program by their votes, is desperately trying to interfere with school expenditures by the presentation of extraneous issues. As we have said before in these columns, we must have schools in Indianapolis. Insofar as the majority of the school board Insists upon building schools sufficient for the children of the city, it will receive the approval of the majority of the taxpayers of the city. There may be differences of opinion as to the best methods of expending school money. The majority of the board may be open to just criticism as to some of its methods of expending school money. But only a selfish purpose will prompt a program that does not provide better school facilities for the children of today and tomorrow. And in the pursuit of their one purpose—to provide schools —the majority of the school board may rest assured that it has the backing of the public-spirited people of Indianapolis, who also constitute a vast majority. Why Preserve It? Just east of the railroad elevation, at the Junction of Massachusetts avenue with East Tenth street, there is a curious formation of great interest to auto drivers of Indianapolis and visitors who pass It on the most traveled outlet from the business part of Indianapolis. For several weeks this curiosity has been attracting the attention of motorists, many of whom have stopped to gaze on it In wonder and a number of whom have expressed themselves as believing that it really merits the attention of the municipal government Coming into the city from the east, in either Massachusetts avenue or East Tenth street, the motorist cannot avoid giving it attention. It is so located as to demand attention and as it continues in its rather awkward setting it is becoming a familiar object, not only of curiosity but also of comment. It is a chuckhole of the type that have become famous during the present administration. It is so located that in order to avoid car tracks the motorist must fall into it. It has cost motorists a hundred times what it would cost the administration to fill it. It is only one of the many chuckholes that are neglected, but in the minds of motorists who use these streets, because there are no others open in that direction, there Is an ever growing curiosity as to whether the present city administration Is preserving it to pass it along to the succeeding administration as a problem too great to be solved in the six months that remain of Jewettism. The Sparkler! Asa measure of protection to property and in furtherance of the fire prevention campaign, the authorities of Indianapolis ought to take steps, immediately, to suppress the sale and use of the "sparklers'’ that are now so much in vogue with young America, These little bits of fireworks, with which every neighborhood drug store seems to be overstocked, are innocent enough when properly handled; but the small boy has discovered that he can make a rocket effect by throwing them into the air after they are lighted. The result is that sparklers are being thrown into automobiles, onto combustible roofs and into corners where they start fires. Several auto tops have been ruined by these little brands of fire and, if their prevalence continues, it is only a question of time until a more serious conflagration is traced to them. Indianapolis has outgrown the old days when giant firecrackers collected their toll of mangled fingers and ruinedeyesight. The Fourth of July now passes without a casualty list of length. But there is no real reason why the giant firecracker by the dangerous sparkler, which is, in reality, a the sale of which is forbidden by ordinance. Why not enforce the ordinance?

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B.

THE SIDEWALK. * * • WAS MADE of asphalt • * • AND THE roadway. • • • OF COBBLE stones. • • • AND ON each side. • • • OF THE certain street. • • • OX WHICH I walked. • • • WERE APARTMENT houses • • ♦ OF THE cheaper class. • • • AND IT was hot. • • • AND ON the street. • • • WERE SWARMS of children. • I I AND ON the steps. • • • WERE MANY mothers. • • • AND OF the children. • • * THERE WAS one. • • • A LITTLE boy. • * • OF MAYBE two. * * • AND HE wandered around. • # • WITH A little bucket • • • MOSTLY RED. til WITH FLOWERS on it • • • AND A little spade. • • • LIKE CHILDREN use. • • • TO DIG in eand. see BUT THERE was no sand. • • • AND ALL he could do. • • • WAS TO sit him down. • • • ON THE concrete curb. 11l AND MAKE believe. • • • AND HE’LL play there. ... WILL THIS little boy.' • • I TILL HE’S grown up. • • • AND IN his *teens. • • * AND LET’S suppose. • * • HE’S GROWN up now. • • • AND YOU were told. • • • THAT FOR ten dollars. • it YOU COULD send him away. • • • TO A Big Brothers* Camp. • •• WHERE THERE is a lake. • • • AND A swimming beach. • I • AND HILLS to climb. • • • AND CREEKS to wade. • • • AND LET’S suppose. • • • YOU HAD ten dollars. • • • THAT YOU could .pend. • • • IX SUCH a way. ... DON' T TOD really believes. ... YOU MIGHT enjoy. ... YOUR VACATION time. ... A WHOLE lot better. ... IF YOU could know. ... THAT THE little boy. • • • HAD LEARNED at last • • • THAT THERE really was sand. • • • •N EVERYTHING. • •• I THANK you.

KEEPING HOUSE WTTH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the reade-s of the Dally Times how the many present day problems of the borne are golved by wokring on the budget that Mrs. Hooper baa evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an Intereating review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) TUESDAY. School had closed, so Helen was helping her mother in the laundry and being Initiated into the mysteries of the now washing machine. They had been doing the housework at top speed all morning because it seemed there were so many things that had to be crowded Into this week in the way of getting ready for the garden party as well as working a little each afternoon on Helen's bedroom, which wes being done over. The child was in a riot of excitement and delight as all the tangles in connection with hc-r visit to the Jacksons on Saturday afternoon had been straightened out and she could talk of nothing else, after Mrs. Hooper's telephone conversation; Jwith the president of the Woman's Club, when she was told that she was over stepping her privilege In accepting Mr. Jackson's invitation to come up and go over the grounds with him and that a formal committee would be appointed to do that, Helen was prostrated with grief at the thought that sho was to be deprived of the opportunity of accepting his Invitation to have tea with Edna. “Listen, Helen,” her mother had said, *T don’t wonder that yon think it might be a Just punishment for your having started the habit of lying to have this chance to go to Edna Jackson's and then have it snatched away from y<Ai.” “Bnt mother If you had told the president" —she began with tears running down her cheeks. “There was no need at all for that," replied her mother. "You will recall that Mr. Jackson asked you to come up and have tea with Edna first, and then he afterward suggested that It might be a good plan for me to come also. Inviting you had nothing whatever to do with the club business. Helen looked astonished and dried her eyes. “Then I can go? Bnt how can I If the president says yon have to stay home?” Mrs. Hooper smiled at Helen’s crude wording of the president's polite phrases that meant the same thing "I shall write Mr. Jackson a note explaining that the president thinks her plan Is the better, and that the officers of the club will call on him, but that I would be very glad to have you go and have tea with Edna as he suggested.” This Mrs. Hooper had done Immediately and sent the letter by special delivery and in the morning a long distance reply by telephone had come from Mr. Jackson’s secretary saying that his car would call for little Miss nooper at 4 o'clock and that his daughter would be expecting her. So all Helen’s grief had been cleared away and she could think of little else bnt Saturday afternoon. Nearly all the plans for the annual garden party had been made by the committee, of which Mrs. Hooper was chairman, but there lyould have to be some changes now that’' \t was to be at the Jackson estate instep of In the town paik.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 21,1921.

CITY SCHOOLS CROWDED; MORE ROOMS NEEDED (Continued From Page One.) building would cost between $320,000 and $400,000 and nine such structures would cost from $2,880,000 to $3,600,000. To this would have to be added the cost of additional teachers, janitors, upkeep, etc.. Incidental to the mainteuace of the new schools. TWO MILLIONS MORE IN BONDS. The limit of bended Indebtedness of the school city has been almost reached, a margin of only $2,000,000 remaining; then there are old, obsolete, dilapidated, fire trap buildings to be replaced, enlargements to be made etc., on other buildings, so It is easy to see Just why the problem of housing all the children of the city becomes almost a hopeless task. And yet something must be done. The matter cannot be permitted to go by default, despite the insistence of a considerable body of taxpayers that all building of any nature whatsoever be stopped entirely until building costs fall to a level approved by themselves. Apparently these persons seem to have forgotten that the real object of the public school system Is vto educate and not merely try to conduct its business on the smallest and cheapest scale possible. Many of these individuals boast of the rapid growth of Indianapolis; they speak In glowing terms of Its expanding industries and steadily lncreaslsg population,' and In almost the same breath they attempt to counteract this growth and development/by advocating a policy of penury in regard to the schools. This does not mean that reckless and unchecked expenditures of money should be advocated. Asa plain matter of fact, there Is such a great demand for school money at this time that the board should exercise tbe utmost economy In expenditures. Frills and furbelows should be cut to a minimum until the school children of the city are all housed, but the citizens of Indianapolis should remember that the public schools are Intended to give schooling; that schooling costs money; that a growing city has a growing number of school children to take care of and that the only way this can be done Is to build school buildings and hire teachers.

PORTABLE SCHOOLS ARE SUGGESTED. If present building costs are too high, then portables might be provided. o r other temporary arrangements made to care for the pupils until such a time as permanent buildings can be erected. That, however, is a matter of business policy to be decided by the board. But under no conditions may tbe board sit down quietly, fold Its hands and allow any body of taxpayers to Induce It to stop even for a minute the fight to house all the' half-day classes in Indianapolis. Under the most favorable conditions this would be a titanic task and under present conditions It looms up as almost a hopeless one. Friends of the public schools Insist that previous boards are largely responsible for tbe condition that now exists. They point out that for years past Indianapolis school boards have lacked the courage calmly to face tho wrath of influential taxpayers and a school levy of the size needed. The present levy for school purposes In Indianapolis Is 50 cents as aguLnst an average of about $1.09 for the other cities of Indiana. A* large as this discrepancy Is, It Is, as a matter of fact, far greater than appears on the surface, for the 80 cent levy for, Indianapolis Includes all expenses of the public library system, while this Is not the case In the $1.09 for the rest of Indiana. Many persons feel that the local school' board should have the courage to set the levy at a point suff!c!e..tly high to' enable school work In Indianapolis to be carried on to the very best possible advantage. With this might be coupled j the elimination of certain expenditures by I the board that have brought down upon i that body a great amount of criticism and j has caused a large part of the general; distrust that even the most devoted adherents of the board admit exist among Indianapolis citizens.

The Fourth of July celebration lasted all day, In Mayfield, the morning exercise being In the hands of the town officials, who had speeches and a parade. The afternoon and evening programs were always planned by the Women's Club, and consisted of an outdoor picnic in the grove and a dance in the town haU for the young people In the evening. With the greater Importance of the afternoon affair Mrs. Hooper felt Justified In enlarging her committee and to do this she had obtained permission from the president. So she had asked the Bride to be one of the new members and the committee decided to meet at tea ouch afternoon and get all the details In shape as soon as possible. "My, but that wash was Just nothing at all today,” Helen said to her father after dinner. "I'm glad after all that we have the washing machine Instead of a Vlctrola.” The menu for the three meals on Wednesday Is: BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes with Lemon Cereal Broiled Bacon Cream Toast LUNCHEON. Scrambled Eggs Peanut Butter Sandwiches Sliced Oranges and Bananas DINNER. Cream of Celery Soup Baked Blue. Fish Brown Potatoes Pineapple and Orange Salad Cake (Copyright, 1921.) YOUNG FRIENDS’ CONFERENCE. RICHMOND, Ind., June 21.—Young Friends from sixteen churches In the Whitewater quarterly meeting will attend a conference of Young Friends to be held in the East Malu Street Friends’ Church here next Sunday. Delegates from four local Friends churches, West Elkton, Dayton. Salem. Centerville, Green’s Fork and New Westvllle, Ohio, will attend.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

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This picture was taken in your home city. Are you laminar enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterdays picture was a view of Meridian street, looking north from the IndianapcMs Board of Trade Building at Meridian and Ohio streets.

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THE KELLYS WILL CLOSE THEIR SEASON ON JULY 2 Ifs a ‘Black? Week at the Murat—Some Vaudeville News

! Gregory Kelly arl Ruth Gordon will | close their spring and summer season in stock at English's on Saturday night, ! July 2. The farewell bill will be “Just Suppose,” a romantic comedy by A. E. ! Thomas. When the curtain Is lowered j for the last time on the closing night, i the Kellys will have rounded out twelve i weeks, which represents two weeks more ; than they originally had planned. This week's bill at English's Is “The ; Hottentot,” a comedy which William. | Collier made presentable by Injecting business and some funny lines. The pro- ! gram gives credit to Collier and Victor i Mapes as the co-nuthors. I Collier was seen at English's In this I comedy last season. To the everlasting | credit of Gregory Kelly, it safely can be said that he makes the Collier rolo a great laugh getter He puts over i.u good shape the haunting fear that Pam Harrington has of horses. Mr. Kelly does not attempt to imitate Mr. Collier but he puts his own personality and ideas of "business” In the big laugh scenes of tho comedy. It may be said also that Kelly looks very comical in a riding habit. He plays the role in the right tempo. Mr. Kelly in this comedy U at his moat enjoyable *elf. Miss Angelo Ogden as Mrs. Chadwick, that fussy, funny and busy person who generally gets all of her friends In bad, was one of the favorites last night. Sho breezes right through the part, making it stand out next to the Kelly role. MUs Gordon as Peggy Fairfax, who loves horses, wears a cute orange colored dress (am sure that it is orange color) In the first act. She has a good chance to be cute, pretty and natural. Wallis Clark as Swift, the butler, again gives that masterful touch at characterization which has been exhibited so often at Eugllsh's for the past few weeks. It seems that three stand out in his show—Miss Ogden, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Clark. Devah Morel, anew member of tbe company, does splendidly the little she has to do as Mrs. Ollle Gilford. Mr. George Alison and Robert Leslie, both new members of the company, do very well In small parts. The remainder of the company are satisfactory In minor parts. Os course Collier Intended that the role of Sam Harrington should be the big and nearly the only role In the comedy but the way Miss Ogden and Wallis Clark put over their par’s, crowds the leading role for first place although Mr. Kelly does splendidly in a role In which Collier made bis biggest hit. Opinion—Mr. Kelly has every reason to be proud of tbe way “Tho Hottentot” went over last night. It Is dandy entertainment In tbe hands of Mr. Kelly and his associates. At English's all week -W. D. IL

WALKER PLAYERS TSE BURNT CORK TO ADVANTAGE. Take It from Trias Nesblt and Florlan Sluppey, boys, never steal your wife's engagement ring and "hock” It In some scheme of high finance, for the end never Is worthy of the means. And they know. T'rlas and Florlan hadn’t the slightest Idea they were going to become enmeshed In one of the "schemlnest schemes that ever was sebum” when they embarked in the money and automobile trading business. And “schemin’ schemes was tne fondest thing Florlan was of,” too, and the thing ‘ho didn’t have nothin' else but." The Stuart Walker players score a real hit in the adaptation of the Octavus Roy Cohen stories of the life of colored folk In Bumiuln’ham, Ala.. Which they are presenting at the Mnrat this week. It seems ns If Lawyer Evans Chew, Florlan Pluppey, Senior© Mashb.v, stepped right from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, walked down to the Shubort Murat In Indianapolis, and there carried out their story Just as It flows from the brain of their creator, Mr. Cohen. Trias Nesblt Is a common colored man, not averse to loafing, but absolutely unfamiliar with and loathing work. In his days of single blessedness he Invested one hundred and twenty-five berries in a diamond 'gagement ring for bis wife, representing the sole expenditure of the ambitlonless young man before and after Ills marriage to Klxlver. Florlan Slappey, the Beau Brummet of Bummingham's darktown, and chanffenr of a Fierce Arrow car for one of the city's leading white families, was discharged for driving the car for his personal use, and running down the owner of the car In the bargain, nis loss of his position made his chances of winning the hand of the fair Vistar Goins, who had spent a season at Pa’m Beach as maid to Mrs. Chichester Grubb, less rosy, and the chances of Semore Mashby, darktown’s Shyloek, appear more reseate. Florlan “sehums” a scheme, whereby, for seventy-five dollars he can purchase

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a machine of popular make, providing vj carj get. the seventy-five, and resell the said rambler for S3OO. The dirty part of the scheme is that Urias is to steal, or rather substitute, the $125 engagement ring from EP.iver, and replace It with a fake. And there is where tbe fun starts; fun for the audience, and absolute misery and untold complications for Urias and Florian, not to mention the embarassment of Vista and Mashby. The Cohen characters nre all there; there with their inimitable negro dialect and characteristics. Their "is yo’ is or is yo’ ain’t,” is done to perfection, and tbe southern negro’s colloquialisms are placed in their proper positions. The Stuart Walker players do not attempt tr make a high claBS “play” of “Come Seven.” They couldn’t If they tried, for the play In itself takes care

WITH THE KELLYS

MR. GEORGE ALISON. Among the new members who have Joined the Kelly company for the last two weeks of the stock seasou at English's Is Mr. George Alison. This week he is cast as Ollle Gilford, who loves horses. of that, and the work of the players only lends zest and laughter to the Intricate and comical plot. The play is a clean, wholesome comedy, designed to produce laughter, and it accomplishes its purpose. It Is one that carries with it good acting, of a well written story. If one wants to laugh this week, one should not miss "Come Seven." -I- -!- -I"HAN'KY PANKY” IS A LOT OF EVERYTHING, INCLUDIN' GIRLS. Thero Is a bunch of nifty steppers in a dance revue, called "Hanky Panky," which Is the big splash on a summer festival bill at the Lyric this week. The girls are generous with their dances and their songs. At times one gets the impression that It might be knee revue but as the ankle* and knees are shapely, one's artistic sense is not offended. The truth Is that “Hanky Panky” Is a mighty clover revue In which the girls forget the summer heat and they try their best to make those out In frout acquire that ocean breeze effect. The act Is divided Into many scenes. The costumes at times remind one of the abreviated kind often seen In the winter time revues. There are numerous snappy dancing numbers. The revue Is so up-to-date that ofur prolog girls dressed as waitresses start proceedings by announcing that they will serve the musical hash to the patrons. The musical score used is way above the nrerng© heard on the popular priced vaudeville stage. The two male members of the company are good dancers but they fall to radiate the pep and dash that the girls do. It is safe to say that this is the biggest and best mounted revue that the Lyric has housed in my experience. The girls are good looking and they know how to dance. Os course the chief Interest of the current show at the Lyric will bo centered on "Hanky Panky,” but It was Louise Gilbert, who holds down the second spot of the bill, who made a home run hit with me. Her high lark-like notes, pleasing and natural way of putting over a song, stopped proceedings yesterday afternoon. Here is a woman of unquestionable ability and with a good voice in the high register. One of the girls with the Royal Trio, which is an Hawaiian company, shakes a “wicked” Rhredded wheat. The work of the company on the steel instruments Is pleasing. You will not get excited with Jay Raymond as the soap box orator, nor will James Kearney and company move you to applause. The bill includes Young and Read; Daisy and Wilson in exhibitions of the strength of the jaws and the Jimmie James entertainers. Opinion—lt’s a long, long bill which the Lyric is offering this week. "Hanky Panky” and Louise Gilbert are the bright lights on the bill.—W. D. H. -]- -'- -I--PLATEB HURL IN AIR ON SUMMER BILL AT KEITH'S. Plates speeding rapidly through the air ‘m the general direction of the right-hand

boxes at B. F. Keith’s bring wild shrieks from the occupants, followed by an aftermath of sheepish grins when the missiles light softly and harmlessly, proving to be but paper china. However, having seen Philip and Arthur, who are featuring their slapstick comedy at Keith’s the first half of this week, juggle innumerable plates of apparently the same texture with terrific crashes and fragments of china flying interpolated now and then, it is not surprising that the innocent onlookers are fooled. Hugh Johnson, the "confusing comedy conjurer,” delights the little folk In the audience by taking a small boy and girl from their midst np on the stage, where they bring eggs from apparent nothingness, with eagle eyes on the magician's move and he In turn extracts scores of cards from the pockets of the astounded lad. Gertrude Moody and Mary Duncan, presenting “Jazz and Opera, Inc.,’’ featuring some “coon shouting” and noise, together with some well-sung popular ballads. Senepp’s Comedy Circus, with its flock of dogs and monkeys, brings more delighted Joyous shouts from the children. and Plunkett and Romine, billed as “Two Original Boston Beans,’ attempt to live up to their titles with comedy songs and fantastic dancing. Fun Foto films together with the Pathe News Weekly finish out the current bill. -1- -i- -1ON THE SCREEN, The movies today are offering: Thomas Meighan In “White and Unmarried’ at Loew's State; Katherine MacDonald in “Trust Your Wife.” at the Circle: Conway Tearle in “Bucking the Tiger,” at the Colonial; Jane Novak In "The Golden Trail,” at the Regent; Seena Owen in "Tho Woman God Changed.” at the Ohio; Mary Pickford in “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” at Mister Smith's; Wallace Reid In “Too Much Speed," at the Isis and Ethel Clayton In “Sham,” at the Alhambra.

HOROSCOPE “The itar. Incline, but da not compel:"

WEDNESDAY. JUNE, 22. Although Saturn Ls In benefic aspect today, according to astrology. Mercury, Uranus and Jupiter are all strongly adverse. There Is a sign Indicating a return to more conservative ideas and a settling down to practical aim* on the part of persons hitherto inclined to be too ad. vaiK-ed or too socialistic. Great Britain Is to appease the working classes by the passing of popular measures tu parliament, but a very uncertain period may be expected. Persons Whoße birthdate it is should avoid letters that may bo troublesome. A qu'et year in augured. Children born ou this day may be unsettled and restless. These subjects of Cancer often have great rsychic powers and they are likely to be gifted In many ways.—Copyright, 192 L

AMJQ) Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER

For the Scenario Writer From Chicago a letter has come to me which states a problem that may interest a good many scenario writers —and i would-be scenario writers as welL Tho man who wrote it had a short i story published a year ago in a news- ! paper. In January of this year he saw Elaine Hammerstein appear In a screen version of that same story, he says. He has written to the Selznick Company, which produced that picture, but has had no reply, and wants to know what he can do to get his share of the royalties. Now, this question of plagiarism comes up time and timo again. Sometimes—quite frequently—writers tell me that they hare submitted a story to a producing company, had It turned down, and later have seen It on the screen. That I does not happen, of course. It may be j that a reader In the scenario departj ment read the story, thought it had possibilities and stole it—selling It as an original story of his own—that hag been known to happen. In fact, I don't believe that a real scenario editor would be guilty of plagiarism. Or it may be that, in the search for a stoty, someone ran onto one that seemed possible, and adapted it for the screen without bothering about be copyright. Again, as may have been the case with the story mentioned in this letter to me, It is possible that the story was submitted to the scenario department by someone outside the company, as that person’s own story. It is sometimes hard to trace such things. I know of a woman who some time ago submitted to one of the biggest producing companies a story for an historical production. She sent with It photographs which illustrated the customs of the time and country in which the story was laid, and also accumulated a great mass of valuable historical data. The material which she submitted was in the possession of the star for whom she Intended It, for a year. One of the directors read It. Many letters were exchanged regarding U> Then the star left

GOVERNOR WILL GREET BANKERS AT CONVENTION Summer Night Carnival in Athenaeum Garden to Precede Business Meetings. The real business session* of the twenty-fifth annual convention of th* Indiana Bankers' Asoclutlon will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Claypool hotel, but preceding tbe sessions there will be a summer night carnival In the Athenaeum garden tonight with a program Including vaudeville acta and community singing. At the opening session of the convention tomorrow morning the invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. A. B. Philputt. There will be an address of welcome by Governor Warren T. McCray ; a response by Henry Reis, president of the Old State National Bank of Evansville; the annual address of th* president of the association, Charle* L. Zlgler, cashier First National Bank of South Bend; reports of the treasurer, Gustave Gramelepacher, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Jasper, and the secretary, Andrew Smith, Tice president of the Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis; an address by M. A. Traylor, president of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago; appointment of committees; an address on “Ourselves and Others, Incorporated, - by George E. Allen, deputy manager. State bank division, American Association, New York, and an address on "Banking Education,” by John EL Puelicher, second vice president of sh American Bankers’ Association, XliW waukee. The program for Wednesday noon's session includes the following adi dresses: “Our Investment In Employes, - by Mrs. Evelyn Aldrich, New York CltyJ “The Revenue Act of 1921—Some Pros visions It Should Contain,” by T. S. Cady of the Fidelity National Bank and Trusi Company of Kansas City, Mo., and “PuW ting Enthusiasm Into the Banking Bosl-t ness,” by William Ganson Rose, preals dent William Ganson Rose, Inc., of Clevee land, Ohio. The program for Thursdays session Includes an invocation by the Rev. Georgs Savary, the reports of committees, thsj election of officers, the awarding of aj prixe to the group chairman reportings the greatest percentage of county orgae nizations this year; a general discussion of county association activities and prace tical banking topics, an address on “Th* Failure of fthe General Property Tax,” by State Senator Winfield Miller of Ini dianapolis, and an address on “The Cony stitutlon. Our Safeguard,” by Harry Atwood of Chicago. Immediately following adjoumament of the Wednesday morning session a meet-i ing of the members of the American Bankers Association in Indiana, will be held for the purpose of electing one member of the executive council, a vice president for the American Bankers’ Assoclai tion for Indiana; a member to serve on the American Bankers’ Association noml-. nating committee at Los Angeles convention and an alternate; vice presidents for Indiana for each of the following sections: trust company section, saving* bank section. State bank section and national bank section. On Wednesday evening, Tislting bankers and their wives will be guests of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association and the Indiana Bankers Association at the theater party at the Murat theater. There also will be other features of entertainment during the convention. MAKES ADDRESS TO BANK EMPLOYES. 1 “Optimism and honesty eomhlned wits a definite aim In life make* a first class recipe for success,” said Miss Ev< yn Aldrich o<f New York In her tai bes .re the employes of the Indiana National Bank last evening. Miss Aldrich, lecturer and writer on the Industrial unrest problems of today, is In the city as one of the speakers for the lndjan* Bankers Association convention which convenes here tonight. Her talk at the back, which was Informal Included a number of success hints. "Smile and keep smiling” she said, “not only smile when you’re happy but keep the same smile when thing* go wrong with you. Anybody can smll* when they are happy but it Is the sura test for the tpue optimist to keep smiling when he Is unhappy.” She Illustrated her remarks by relating stories of the amazing optimist of the boys overseas when she was in France la Red Cross work. other fellow for he Is Just ss wise a* And In conclusion she dwelt upon th* fineness of good fellowship In business; relations, the sympathetic understanding! between employer and employes which, is one of the biggest factors toward the building of a successful business In he*' estimation.

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the company and the material waa returned to the writer. There is now being shows a picture based on that story, and produced by thei company to which the story was snb-j mitted. Even the small detail# shown la< the photographs—and these • hotographgj were so rare It la hardly likely that one, could obtain duplicates of them—wer2 faithfully reproduced. This aeema Ilka a, flagrant case of plagiarism. The writer feels that she has proof to warrant her going Into courtJ It seems 'hat only a lawsuit can adjust the matter for her. The company! which she will have to fight has amplai means to continue the case indefinitely.| It Is a question whether the fight will! prove to be worth while or not. The average writer who beliera# that; a story of his has been stolen has, as a rule, smkll proof that this Is the case. If he feels sure of his ground, the best thing to do Is to engage a capable lawyer and let him handle the matter. Writers who are members of the Author** League have its lawyers at their service. If the editor of the scenario department refuses to pay any attention to a letter calling a case of plagiarism committed by his company to bis attention, X think the best thing to do Is to let a lawyer handle the case. But let me warn any one who feels justified In doinff thla to be very sure of his ground before proceeding to do this. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Dolly, Regina—ls Wallace Reid married, and if so, to whom? It seems as If every one In the world must know that Wallace Raid Is married to Dorothy Danveport— l’ve told so many people so myself However, I'm glad to give you the Information, Dolly. Sid, Akror.—Where is Jack Pickford, and what is he doing? He is in r -os Angeles, and ha# secured th screen, rights to “The Tailor-Made Man” and The Ne'er Do Wall,” in which be will star for United Artists. (Copyright, 1921, by the Wheel** Newspaper Syndicate}.