Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1921 — Page 6

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JWana JJaite W\vm INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone*—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . .. . < Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Pajne Cos. Advertising ofllces J >' ew York, Boston, Pajne, Burns & Smith. Inc. ANYHOW, It will have to be conceded that the King of England is not a coward 1 IN THEIR ZEAL to legislate the Anti-Saloon League leaders appear to haTQ dealt prohibition a real blow! AND NOW the Harding administration has applied another of the "atrocious Wilson policies” to the fleet! STUDY of the traffic problem reveals that Indianapolis has been trying to cure by local treatment a trouble that affects the whole body politic! AND REMEMBER, it Is very likely that jyur children will be among those who can attend school only half days if those new buildings are not erected! CHILDREN in Indianapolis are taking turns wading in the two little pools that represent the broken promises of the park board to provide proper bathing facilities! What Time Does Nations, like individuals, need a sober second thought, and where this is taken, it is seldom wrong. An instance of this is a movement now on foot to remove a statue erected at Troy, Ala., just after the Civil War, to John Wilkes Booth, slayer of Abraham Lincoln. The statue was erected at a time when partisanship ran high and now that the perspective of fifty years gives a clearer vision, an effort, at least, will be made to effect its removal. After it the monument erected to Captain Wertz, the infamous commander of Andersonville prison, should also go. This, too, was the work of partisanship. The southern states have their confederate heroes and cannot be blamed, for all the South saw things practically alike, but there iB a distinction between southern statesmen who worked for the lost cause, and those whose record is so cruelly criminal. The statesmen could not be regarded as in the latter class. • Robert E. Lee, the great general, is regarded most highly in the Northern States. “Stonewall” Jackson is respected by all .alike and today, fortunately, causes of the war are so far removed that progressive southerners admit the justice of the final decision of the entire matter. Wars are seldom the result of wisdom. They arise from prejudice and passion, though afterwards the wisdom or lack of it, leading up to the conflict may be observed. If an appeal were always made to the intellect and common sense before war started, or even in private matters, before any rash action Is taken, there would be less misunderstandings. The effort to remove the Booth statue demonstrates that, after half a century, prejudice is slowly giving away to fact, passion and partisanship melt before reason and a united country will eventually see great persona and great movements in the same light. Inevitable Disclosure Some excellent work has been done by investigators of postoffice robberies recently and this all points to the fact that the Government’s arm is still long and that a crime against the Federal statute is not a laughing matter. The recent and continued farce of executing the prohibition laws may have made a different impression, but that ii a matter which will eventually right itself. The attempted suppression of the liquor traffic is new indeed, compared with the protection of the mails, and public sentiment, which always plays an important part in criminal matters, is not crystallized, as it will be in the future. It is interesting to note the ramifications of the Government net. A robbery occurred in Chicago, and a chance remark in Indianapolis, furnished the clew whereby much of the loot was recovered. A mail sack was taken in Toledo; a New York firm reported an effort to sell a stolen bond and a man near Chicago was apprehended with considerable of the purloined bonds in his possession. The criminal always does something to disclose his guilt and a trained observer eventually gets him. To read the story of famous crimes of a generation ago and to compare them with those of today makes the former look purile and clumsy, though at the time they were regarded as remarkably smooth criminal work. The fastest horse is too slow to be of use to the criminal now. Telegrams go almost everywhere and the telephones cover the land. Even flying In the air has been resorted to, so as to overtake bank robbers. Systems of identifications, with the Bertillon measurements, and with finger print impressions, render escape practically impossible, though the action seems slow at times. Some Changes It really is a question just what the next man is doing to get a maximum out of life, and in the heat of summer days, one would lose interest if it were not for occasional items that appear in print. To an observer, these present a kaleidoscopic drama, romantic and tragic, yet ever on the screen for a minute and then seen no more. It seems that rich foreigners are flocking to France and buying real estate, particularly along the Riviera, where nature had done so much to make a dreamland, and where the wealthy of the world congregate to while away the time. A sto y is told of a little villa sold by a native to a Greek for 40,000 francs. It ..as resold to a Montenegrin for 100,000 francs, and then to an American for twice that sum. While this is going on, New York tells of a former Russian prince, who said In court that he not only had spent his last dollar, but owed a fashionable hotel and a garage bill. He was selling shares of stock for a living. Another former Russian subject, a grandson of the famous writer, Tolstoi, practically sends out an S. O. S. from Rome, stating that he has net heard from his wife in Russia since 1918, when he was forced to flee, and that he was on his way back from a Journey through China and Japan. Thus the world moves on, struggling amid the fortunes or war, to live and to enjoy. The old order changes and it is difficult to realize that the once great, who but a few years ago seemed so established, are now among the lowly, while those who were the object of scorn a short time passed, ait amid the beauties prepared only for the rich and powerful. The changes occur, however, faster than a realization of them may be had. Why? Announcement is made of an intended expedition of two or three years to Arctic planes by Vilhyamur Stefanson for the purpose of reaching and studying the ice-bound center of the North Pole regions. This will be pleasant to think about during the coming months, and if the mystery of the silence and gloom of the pole is all explained then much will be accomplished. Whether any practical results will occur can not be foretold. Not much is probable, but the information gleaned from the top of the earth, as to whether it is land or ice, affected by currents of the sea or only wind-tossed wastes of mountains of ice, wi'J be interesting. Lands of picturesque colors and luxuriant vegetation, filled with animals of many hues, appeal more to the dwellers on earth than the formidable desert of coldness and eternal hush, but the -.omance of the unknown ever beckons the children of men. The privations to be endur.d for two or three years seem scarcely worth the reward. Yet man;, have ventured into uncharted lands, faced exposure and death, for the- gratification of the passion of restlessness and adventure. It is now known that the north pole is about 450 miles from the edge of an icy area, whose center is 350 miles beyond the pole. If land Is there, it is storm infested and so cold that no life can exist on it for any length of time. If it is an open sea, it is covered with perpetual bergs of ice, and swept by winds colder than the mercury thermometer will register. But the spirit of man, seeking to know and to master, will only be satisfied when the secret is resolved into facts, cold

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B MORE THAN likely * • •

YOU WON’T be Interested. • * • BUT I’M gelng to tell you. • • * THAT EVERY mornlns - I GET oat of bed. • • • WHICH ISN’T unusual. • * • BUT IT makes a line. AND A line’s a line. • • AND I have to write sixty. • • • OR THEREABOUTS. • * • AND EVERY one helps. • • • AND AFTER I’m up. * • • I EUSS around. * • * AND EXERCISE. •* 1 AND TAKE a cold bath. * • • AND FUT on some clothes. • * • AND EAT my breakfast. • * * AND WHILE I’m eating. • • * I GLANCE at the headlines. • • • OF THREE morning papers. • • AND AFTER breakfast. * • * I SIT myself down. • • • AND BEAD the things. * t • IN ALL of the papera. * • * TH VT INTEREST me. • * • AND MOST of the time. • • • I DON’T real scandal. • • BCT SOMETIMES I do. • • * AND WHEN I’m through. • • • I MOVE myself. • • * TO WHERE I work. AND SIT dowr again. * • * IN FRONT of tty desk. • • • AND PULL up my typewriter. • • • AND PUT In paper. • • • AND SIT there a while. • • • AND LOOK out Os my window. • • • AND WRINKLE my forehead. • • • AND LOOK at the paper. • • AND GET an Idea. • • • AND GO to work. • • • AND ON this morning. • • • THIS BRIGHT June morning. • • • AS I sit here. • • • I CAN think of nothing. / • • • TO WRITE about. • * • EXCEPTING THE man. • • * WHO HIDES hlmSelf • • • and Sends his sister. • • AND OTHER women. INTO SCANDAL courts. • • • TO TARNISH the name. • • OF ANOTHER woman. • • * THE while he hides. • • • AND I have no desire. • • • TO WRITE of that. • • • SO I’LL give It up. • • • AND CALL It a day. • • * I THANK you.

HOROSCOPE “The stars Incline, bnt do not compel!"

THURSDAY, JUNE 23. Venus rules strongly for good today, according to astrology. Saturn Is in mildly Genetic aspect. It is a day most ravorable to the projects of women making for success, especially In real estate or rarmlng. Large enterprises writ ne Initiated by women in the United States and they will be carried forward rapidly, but the forces that start good activities also arraign the powers of evil. Persons whose birthdatfc It is have the augury of rather a quiet year. Children born on this day may be qnlck-tempered and impatient, but these subjects of Cancer usually have great success In life.—Copyright, 1921.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with it to locate the scene. jT Yesterday’s picture was a view of the “yellow” bridge, across |he

INDIANA DAFT TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,1921.

CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS SCHOOL ISSUE

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section of the city unrepresented by new buildings. The mot? extensive building enterprise ever undertaken by the Indianapolis school board is at Arsenal Technical High School where the first unit of more than fifty classrooms is under construction and will cost when completed more than $700,000. Coupled with this is the big power house and shop building w-bich will cost more than $1,100,000. Last year Tech had 3,600 pupils enrolled and It Is expected that this number will pass the 4.000 mark, when school opens in September. EMMERICH MANUAL IMPROVEMENTS. Next In line comes Emmerich Manual Training High School, where the new auditorium, gymnasium and lunch room, tc cost about $516,000, are now’ well under way. After this is done it will require another $700,000 to build anew power plant and remodel the old bundling, which was built to accommodate 900 students, so that it can take care of the 2.000 students enrolled at the present time. This remodelling of the old building will be coupled with the erection of a new eighteen-class room building on the Madison avenue frontage of the old building, the present small assembly room to be torn out to afford more space for class room extension. The board has been criticized without mercy for building a gymnasium, auditorium and lunch room before giving any attention to class rooms, on the ground that too much money Is being spent on accessories and luxuries and that before this is done the old building should be remodelled. Board members In favor of the building as it Is being worked out say that in order to relieve congestion at the old building it was necessary to adopt the present plan, which will permit the removal of g- mnasium and lunchroom from the old building to the new one, thus giving a great deal more available space In the old structure. The building program as laid out for Manual will take about three years to complete. Shortridge graduates anl parents of Shortrldge children have become thoroughly aroused by the amount of money being spent on the two other high schools, and are insisting that something be done to give Shortridge anew home on the north side high school site at Pennsylvania and Thirty-Fourth street before the limit of bonded Indebtedness of the school city Is reached. CHARGE OF PREJUDICE. There 13 a well defined opinion among Shortridge adherents that their school has been relegated to the rear by a school board which, they say, Is strongly prejudiced in favor of Tech with Manual second in its graces r.nd Shortridge nowhere. They have not hesitated to charge that school politics has p'.ayed an Important part and that George Duck, principal of Shortridge, is a splendid educator but a poor player of petty school politics and that as a result the other high schools, particularly Tech, are being unduly favored. These alumni and the Shortridge ParentTeacher Association probably will he heard very strongly within the next yew months unless soma definite steps are taken by’ the board to do something to permanently bi tter Shortridge conditions. Board members Insist that Shortridge will be cared for, although they never have given out any definite plans as to when or how. Meantime the Shortridge adherents have adopted the Missouri attitude and are demanding to be shown. Grade schools under construction, many of which will be ready for occupancy when chool opens In September and their approximate costs are: No. 20, Columbia avenue and Sixteenth street, for colored pupils This 1s a twenty-four classroom building, the largest single grade school building In the city, its cost will be about $551,000. No. 54, Dearborn and East Tenth streets. Ten room addition and remodeling of old building. Cost, about $205,000. No. 58. Now York afreet and Lin wood avenue. Six room addition. Cost about $54,000. No. 43. Capitol avenue and Fortieth street. Six room addition. Cost about $70,000. No. 21. Southeastern and English avenues. Eight classrooms, auditorium and four basement rooms. Cost about $183,500, No. 41. Sugar Grove avenue and TwentyFirst street. Six room addition. Cost about slf 9.000. No. 57. East Washington street and Ritter avenue. Auditorium and class rooms etc. Cost about $166,000. No. 73. Thirtieth and School streets. Eight classrooms, manual training, cooking, sewing rooms, etc. Cost about $160,000. No. 5. West Washington and California streets. Twelve classrooms, assembly hall, manual training, cooking, sowing rooms etc. Cost about $231,000. No. 22. Kansas, Illinois and Wisconsin streets. Twelve classrooms, two manual training room*, two sewing rooms, cooking room, etc. Cost about $325,000. This program has cost money, but it has afforded splendid buildings for school children. Certain members cf the board, Mr. Barry notubly, has Insisted that the high prices at which acme of these buildings were contracted for was a shameful waste of money, especially in view of the fact that the limit of tie bonded indebtedness of the school city Is distant only $2,000,000. Last year It was found necessary in order to sell a $1,645,000 issue of bonds at a discount of $197,000 and Mr. Barry has pointed out time after time that this amount would have provided portables for every unhoused child of school age in the city until building costs fell to a point where the program could be presumed under something approximating prewar prices On the other hand the majority members of the board have held to the idea that it is a necessity to provide schools now, and that the price at which they are built becomes secondary to the necessity In the case. Which view of the situation Is correct, or more correctly, which view Is the popular one, undoubtedly will be determined by the voters at the November election, for the building program promises to be a very important issue In the school board campaign this fall.

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Poppy Field Will Be Memorial to F.W. Galbraith, Jr.

Popples from the battlefields of France will be grown at national headquarters of the American Legion, here, In memory of the late F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of the service men’s organization. A miniature reproduction of a shell-torn battlefield will be constructed by landscape gardeners and florists will plant and tend the memorial flowers. Seed of the Flanders popples were received today from J. M. Johnson, Marlon, S. C-, formerly chief engineer of the Rainbow Division. He gathered the pods during the hottest engagements in the Baccarat sector and in the Champagne and at (.'bateau-Thierry. Alfalfa Juice in New Plague Cure WASHINGTON, P. C\, June 22.—The Juices cf alfalfa and clover are aiding to destroy the tuberculosis germ, Dr. Hyman l.lschner of San Diego, Cal., declared hero at the convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Doth grasses. Dr. Llschner said, are being used effectively In the dynamotheraphlc treatment of former service men at the Alpine sanatorium. Use of the grass Juices had hided materially against the disease, he said. Treatment calls for well selected food, the utilization of energies, rays und vibrations, and for cheerful surroundings and a healthy mental flat®.

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS |

(The Hoopers, an average American family of five, Uviug In a subwrhan town, on a limited Si come will tell the reuders of the Dally Times how the many preseut day problems or the home are solved by wokring on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved nd found practical. loUow thorn dally lr. na lnteiestlng review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions o. the high coat of living with them.) WEDNESDAY. “What are we all going to wear at the garden party?” asked ths bride ns she sat with Mrs. Hooper on the porch waiting for the arrival of the other members of the committee. "I feel as If I ought to have something brand new, but I'd made up my mind not to get another rag this year while I still have all my wedding things. You know the ’saving bug' has really begun to ‘bite me, but Bob Isn't letting himself believe it's trua yet.” “You don’t need anew dress. I'm sure, said Mr. Hooper as she laid the hems on Helen's new curtains upon which they were both sewing. “You have loads of fiuffv light gowns.” “If I could only do a few things to ray pale, yellow organdie. I'd love It, but I'm afraid to touch the thing for fear I might spoil I', and the village dressmaker is just as likely to take all the style out of It if she changes it as 1 am.” “I'll come over Saturday afternoon, while Henry Is working In the garden and nelen has gone to the Jacksons, and I'll help you fix It. I know 1 can.” “Oh, that will be lovely,” said the bride, “but It can't be Satanrdny afternoon.’ I forget to tell you, but Bob and I have started a garden, too. in our back yard and I'm going to spend every urday afternoon out there with him.” "Well, don't overdo it and get tired of it,” warned Mrs Hooper. "I H com* some afternoon next week, then.” “But you haven't told me what yon are going to wear," persisted the bride. “Well. I lave a black and white foulard that I made up so late last year that I didn't get n chance to wear it once,” laughed Mrs. Hooper, "so 1 shall put one of those dainty tucked vests with turn insertion vlth the little square cornered collars that they are wearing this summer into it and it will be really anew dress. I'll got anew flower for my black lace bat and put it on instead of the silver one I'm wearing on It now with my grey suit and it ought to look festive. “We'll make It a lovely luscious pink rose,” said the Bride. “It's just what jou want to light up the dress and set on vonr complexion.” “I don't need to be so terribly dressed up,” said Mrs. Hooper. “I’m not on the reception committee, you know—only chairman of the one on entertainment.” “I think the president has been a real cat,” said the Bride, taking the sting out of her words with a laugh. “She had no Idea (hat you would have any success about getting the Jackson place—she didn't believe you'd get a chance to even talk to Mr. Jackson, lie's surrounded by so many secretaries. She had the surpriso of her life when she heard he came around to your ‘humble little cot’ to see you.” “Mr. Jackson is a delightful, simple gentleman.” said Mrs. Hooper warmly, “and there was not the slightest difficulty In reaching him or talking to him.” “Well, you noticed how cheerfully they all handed you the Job of doing It on Friday,” continued the Bride, “aud it does, make me furious now for them to take "all the spot light themselves.” “But what difference in the world does it make?” Insisted Mrs. Hooper. “We are going to have our party, aren't we. and I think a real good has been accomplished by getting Mr. Jackson interested in the town. I'm sure I've had all the pleasure and satisfaction out of having done my little part, that I ought to have; it's fair that the president and a few others should enjoy it in their way.” “Yes, and that blessed child Helen will get her big share of joy out of the little affair when she goes up to see Edna on Saturday,” smiled the Bride, squinting at her needle as she threaded it. “Yen'll think she'd been invited to fairy land.?*’ *aid- ua the grnujp

Right Here in Indiana

The White Water Valley, Franklin County.

Hap?: \ Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER Q-JO&A

‘What Is a Synopsis?* A despairing wail reached my desk today. ••Everybody says that stories for the screen should be in synopsis rorm,” it j ran. “And 1 don’t know what synopsis • form is!" Well, that's simple enough to explain.) It's a story told In straight narrative form, giving Just enough detail to fill j In the picture. Asa rule, dialog Is omitted, though If It is absolutely essen- j tial it may be included. The synopsis, just tells what happens. Os course, different scenario editors like different things. One may swear that he won't read dialog; another may insist that ho wants it put In. So the best thing or you to do Is to write your story. Just telling what happens, and let it rest on Its laurels. If it's a good story. It will get by. Another thing—the length. If yon had to read hundreds and hundreds of manuscript, wouldn't you shy when a particularly bulky one landed on your desk? Well, that's tbo way the scenario

of women they were expecting appeared at the front gate. "1 haven’t the faintest Idea what she expects but the little event will always stay in her memory for several reasons. "Don't forget when you go home tha* I want you to take this recipe for rhubarb conserve which 1 have been making. I know that you will like It immensely.” The menu for the three meals on Thursday Is: BREAKFAST. Baked Apples Cereal Bran Muffins Poached Eggs Coffee. LUNCHEON. Flßh en Casserole Canned Fruit Gingerbread Milk. DINNER. Vegetable Soup Veal Loaf Cauliflower Creamed Potatoes Lemon Mcrlugue Pie. RHUBARB CONSERVE. Seven pounds of rhubarb, six ponnds of sugar, one half pound of blanched almonds and five lemons. Cut the Ihin rind from (he lemons, remove pith and slice very thin. Cut up the rhubarb and let this, the lemons dnd the sugar boll twenty minutes. (Copyright, 1921.)

WALKER TO GIVE WORLD PREMIERE Os ‘Sir David Wears a Crown’ at Murat

Stuart Walker's second special matinee of his current summer season at ihe Murut will be j resented Friday afternoon of this week, when he offers his Young People’s Matinee," for children from seven to seventy. The program will consist of three of Mr. Walker's own one-act plays, including “Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil," “Nevertheless," and “Sir Davi.l Wears A Crown," which will bo seen for tbe first time on any stage. This is the first professional performance of chil dren’s plays which has been presented in this country, with the exception of the Children’s Theater in New York City. “Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil, ’ will be given with an extraordinarily fine oast. Stuart Walker as the Ballad-singer, Judith Lowry as the Queen, and McKay Morris as the Headsman all appear in the roles created by them when this playlet had its premiere in New York City on July It, 1915. The leading role, that of David Littleboy, will b? enacted by Robert Masters, of Indianapolis. This youngster is but twclro years old but already he shows remarkable acting talent. He is a pupil of Miss Faye Ileller of the Metropolitan School of Music. Others in the cast of “Six Who Pass” include Edwin Noel as the Prologue ! Tames Morgan as the Device-bearer. I Helen Burch as the Milkmaid, Oscar Davisson ns the Mime, and Walter Vonnogut as the BUndman. The second play on the program. | “Nevertheless" has but three In Its cast: | a little boy, a little girl, and a bold bad I burglar. The parts will be taken by Helen Burch, Robert Flske, and McKay Morris. Perhaps the event most anticipated by the Walker fans is the world-premiere of his latest work, “Sir David Wears a Crown.” This playlet is a delightful fantasy which goes “Six Who X’ass” one better by telling what happened at the court after the Lentils were boiled. It appears In its entirety in the June number of The Ladies’ Home Journal. In addition to the characters in the original. Aldrich Bowker will be seen as the Population. John Wray as the Soldiery, George Somnes as the king, Robert McGroarty as the Councillor, Elizabeth Patterson as the great aunt, and Blanche 1 Yurka as the mother. I -I- -I- -I* ON VIEW TODAY. j The attractions on view today include: “The Hottentot" at English's; “Come Seven” at the Murat; popular vaudeville at the Lyric and B. F. Keith's; “White and Unmarried” at Loew's State; “The Woman God Changed” at the Ohio; “Bucking the Tiger” at the Colonial; “Trust Your Wife’* at the Circle; “Rebecca ot Snnnybrook Farm? at Mister Speedl' -yt thq Xnisf;

editor feels about it. So the story that iB about three thousand words long stands a much better chance of being read, instead of being tucked into a corner of the desk to await a time when the editor Is less tired, than does the longer story. If you can tell your story In less than three thousand words, so much the better. If it absolutely has to run over that, all right. But you can say a good deal In three thousand words, yon know. And if, on the separate sheet on which you have listed your. cast of characters, you have given a brief description of each one, that will save you just that much space when you are writing your story. For Instance, the list might read this way: “Mary Brown, the heroine—a pretty, care free girl who has been brought up In a small town and knows nothing of the city. “John Smith, the hero—a lawyer from Chicago, tired of life as he has lived it and eager for si mething new.’’ There have been so many letters about this question of the synopsis that I am going to let you read one in these columns. It la too long to be run all in one day, and so will have to be continued. It was said by Famous P layersLasky to be one of the best synopses that they have ever had. Yon will remember the story as a play, “Maggie Pepper,” in, which Rose Stahl appeared with much success. Ethel Clayton appeared some time ago In the picture. A little later I can give you the synopls of a current production. But this one, which will begin tomorrow, Is so well done that you can safely use it as a model. QUESTIONS 4ND ANSWERS. K. P., Ohio —I hoard that the comedy team of Lyons and Moran has split; is this true? I hope not, for I liked to see them work together. I liked thetr work, too, so I'm sorry to say that the report was true. It is said that they disagreed over the manner in which a picture should be cut. Lee Moran is still making comedies for Universal, but Eddie Lyons has left. Phil. Bridgeport Charlie Chaplin was seriously Injured recently in a studio fire, and did Edna purvlance save his life? No, he wasn't seriously burned, but ho might have been if Miss Purvlance and other people who were in the studio at the time had not run to the rescue. —Copyright. 1921, by The Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate.

A MELODY MAKER

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MR. EMIL SEIDEL. Although only twenty-five years of age, Emil Seidel Is conductor of one of the largest orchestras to be heard in local movie theaters. He Is responsible to a great degree for the success of the musical accompaniment to the movies being shown at Loew’s State. He is probably the youngest director of an orchestra In any house the same size of Loew’s. His splendid work In directing the score used for the Griffith picture last week at Loew’a won him new recognition.

“Sham” at the Alhttmbra.nnd "Tie Golden Trail 1 " ntr-UiaMtßkgitnts

BOULEVARD IS 1 NEEDED AROUND INDIANAPOLIS

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there Is the necessity of traveling over only Capitol avenue, Meridian street. Central and College avenues to get across Fall Creek to interrupt full enjoyment of the drive. Practically all north and south traffic In the north side goes over these bridges. Some gets around to the Sutherland and Nortwestern avenue bridges. Some will go by way of the Boulevard place bridge when it is made passable by the construction of approaches and paving of Boulevard place from Twenty-First street to Fall Creek, but most of the movement over the latter three is and will be from east to west. The difficulties of getting across the creek probably keep many people from other sections from driving along broad, beautiful Maple road, to the State Fair Ground and around Riverview Drive anil other routes to Broad Ripple park. Getting to Broad Ripple is not the easy task it should be to afford most people the maximum of pleasure. Central and College avenues are direct routes, bnt the paving of both is not conducive to easy riding the entire way and the canal road which is crossed at the north Is anything but a boulevard. The canal road is the chief obstacle In the route by way of Meridian street. The route to Broad Ripple by way of Maple Road to the State Fair Grounds thence northeast to Keystone aud north to the road leading east of the park Is not particularly desirable at present because of a stretch of bad road between the Fair Grounds and Keystone avenue and the road east from the park is closed. FAIRVIEW PARK HARD TO REACH. Falrview Park Is a nice place to picnic, but a hard place to reach excepting on street cars. The only good routs now open Is through Meridian and Illinois streets to a point within about half a mile of the park. There it Is necessary to get from Meridian to Illinois, if the former route has been used that far, and from Illinois, because Forty-Sixth street is torn up with sewer construction between Illinois and Boulevard place one must jog around through Hampton drive or some other new east and west street In the neighborhood until the section of Forty-Sixth street leading into the park finally is reached. Completion of the pavement of Boulevard place from Thirty-Fourth to Forty-Second streets will practically provide anew route, making it profitable to use Capitol avenue in crossing Fall Creek. Viewed from several angles the most accessible beauty spot in town is a cemetery—Crown Hill. It can be reached over any of the highways crossing Fall Creek, and when the Boulevard place improvement running In front of It is done, it will be adequately linked with Maple road for approach from the south. It should be kept in mind that In reaching none of these north side points of interest Is it possible to come from Irvington, the extreme west side or the south side with any degree of riding comfort without passing through tha business district. The same thing holds true, of course, in going from the north side to the other points. Riverside Park must te approached by more or less tortuous ways. Once across Fall Creek there is the boulevard and Burdsall Parkway, both broad, uncrowded and well paved, good examples of what the traveling public would like to see all over the city. If a more direct; -oute than the boulevards is desired the park can be reached from the business district over Indiana avenue and the Speedway road. Indiana avenue ordinarily is not followed the full distance because of the unpaved stretch between Montcalm and Sixteenth streets. The board of works and county commissioners soon may fill this gap, however. Right angle approaches to the park are afforded by the north and south streets to Thirtieth street, thence west, and by West Washington street and the west drive of White River boulevard. Crowded streets, which are not beautiful, are encountered on both these right angle routes. For one month out of the year, when the race season is on traffic to the Speedway is heavy. During the rest of tne year folks occasionally like to show the place off to visitors. But you can’t get to the Speedway over any bed of roses, or even an unbroken stretch of good pavement. The Indiana avenuo route la spoiled by the unpaved stretch mentioned above; Speedway avenue is in poor condition : the Crawfordsviile road, once it is reached by one of the other highways, is excellent; the Thirtieth street route Is out-of-the-way and congested while the West Washington street—Belmont, Holmes and Tibbs avenue and West White River Drive means of getting Into approaching distance are not direct. It is conceivable that the stock yard* might become a point of great interest to visitors but the only hope of getting to it is Kentucky avenue, jammed with commercial vehicles, street cars, railroad tracks and cut up by one unpaved section just west of the bridge over White River. Y'ou have to get into Kentucky! avenue to get to the stock yards aud 11 is practically necessary that you com® downtown before you can get to It from any other direction than from the south! side. GARFIELD FARK IS ISOLATED.

Probably the worst Isolated of tb® “traffic islands” is beautiful Garfield Tark, site of the second most beautiful municipal gardens in the United States. There is no well paved, uncongested rout® to Garfield Park from any section except the small residential district lying Immediately around it. People of tha south side who lire only a few blocks away can not get into it without driving over some abominable pavements. Going to Garfield Park from the business district means following either Madison avenue or South Meridian street, both ofl which have many bad spots and ar crowded. Each street has several bad jogs and is not raved all the wayj Shelby street one day may be a good route to the park but no one who does not have to, drives over it today. Until Pleasant Run Parkway finally Is cut ( through to connect Garfield and Ellen-* berger Parks citizens of the east side will have to continue to go through the downtown section to get to Gerfield. Extension of the boulevard system to the west also remains to be accomplished before the west side will be linked with the city's most beautiful park. Although there is no stream to cut It off from the rest of the city, the Irvington "island” Is too hard to get to. Washington street's pavement Is not good and It is crowded with motors, street cars and lnterurbans. New York street, which is full of Jogs and dangerous crossings, as well as narrow, is the only through route to Irvington. Michigan street would be added to this list, but It is unpaved from Sherman drive to Emerson avenue. Irvington can not bo reached directly from the north and south sections. One must go through the downtown bottle or get to Washington or New York streets by way of State avenue or Sherman drive. Brookside Park has some spendid winding drives, and some entirely inadequate ways of getting to them. The best route from the business district lea through Massachusetts avenue, under t*p dangerous elevation and Tenth street thence east in Tenth street. The practical approach from north and Is Rural street. ’*U** Indianapolis has her beauty points perhaps they are no more reach than those of many other but she wants to hold her head than others. Eliminating tea*. •’* -■> way to JLmpro.iiC^SSEH