Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1921 — Page 6
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3fatata Jlaihi STimps INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ _ ( Chicago, Detroit, Sr. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j New York. Boston, Payne. Burns A Smith. Inc. THE TAXPAYERS’ LEAGUE continues to be mysterious. THAT headline, “Taft Slated as Chief Justice,” should be kept permanently in type. RALSTON has made public at least a part of his platform despite previous efforts of the platform committee. THOSE recommended additions to the poor farm have no connection with the universal increase in utility rates, however! 1 MR. RALSTON need base his campaign on nothing else than his declaration for “value for money expended” by the city! AS A RULE those who prefer dancing do not care very much for choir music and those who sing in the choir do not care for dancing. DOUBTLESS Mr. Ashby will light the increase in telephone rates with the same vigor and success that he fought the increase in gas rates. WITH the new Indiana National Guard organization completed it becomes still harder to argue in favor of a State constabulary. THE ULSTER prime minister has declined to attend the Sinn Fein peace conference. Who was it said discretion is the better part of valor? “BIG BILL” Haywood has sent word that he will return and serve his twenty-year prison sentence. Why couldn t he have been sentenced to stay in Russia? NOW, If the Rockefeller foundation would also consent to build a reformatory the most serious of the State s immediate problems would be soived. AS WE understand the situation the Jstate now denies that it has asked Colgate & Cos. to release it from the reformatory contract which the State insists does not exist. RECOMMENDATIONS that additions should be built to the county poor farm give the Taxpayers’ League another opportunity to fight against the interests of the deserving. . MR. ASHBY and Mr. Stevenson are busily engaged in attempting to find reasons why the taxpayers should not be allowed to say how they will spend their own money. iWE HOPE Mr. Lesh will be able to disclose in his suit against the ice trust how the Indianapolis companies succeed in making such large quantities of ice of such a poor quality! HOW MUCH CLEARER official Washington’s conscience must be over that order of Secretary Weeks which released a former army chaplain, convicted of sedition, from prison, as compared to the way the same gentlemen felt when Former Secretary of War Baker was inclined to clemency. Mr, Ralston s Speech In the first public utterance of his campaign for mayor of Indianapolis Boyd M. Ralston has not disappointed those citizens who believed that Eventually he would tell them some real reasons why they should support him. , Before the real estate board yesterday Mr. Ralston pledged himself to work for 60-cent gas, better transportation facilities, improved city market, swimming pools and community houses. These objectives constitute, with possibly one exception, the things that were promised us by the present administration, and the failure to provide which has resulted in such general dissatisfaction. The 60-cent gas issue is new, but it serves to illustrate the fact that the present administration has not only failed to give us what it promised, but has also failed to retain the advantages we formerly had. There are no citizens of Indianapolis of any party who will disagree • with Mr. Ralston in his declaration that we must have better transportation facilities. Improve the market and provide swimming pools and com'.Wiunity houses. £ In setting these things as his goal, the Democratic candidate for mayor outlined a platform that appeals to all. In his discussion of conditions at the city hospital, the police and the fire department the candidate has indicated that he realizes the complex nature of the problems before him and possesses the good judgment to avoid wild promises. It is particularly gratifyfng to note that he does not put emphasis on the threadbare issue of “law and order” but assumes that the people of this community have advanced to a point where law and order are regarded as the least that can be expected of any administration and certain to be respected. Mr. Ralston’s first attempt to tell the people of Indianapolis why they should elect him mayor is pleasing. He can, and we sincerely hope will, tell them more as the campaign progresses.
Encouraging Negro Dives It is indeed difficult to understand why the board of public safety 'it Indianapolis continues tQ tolerate the open negro gambling dives that dpfest Indiana avenue. <j In other parts of the city the police department has been vigorous in Lits efforts to eradicate any evidence of open gambling. In this particular territory its members are paying no attention to gambling joints that are K> openly operated as to attract the attenticn of any one who may pass Beir doors. ■ Policemen recently discovered that the prjprietor of one of these joints pawned a stolen watch. Investigation disclosed that the timepiece been wagered in the craps game operated for the entertainment of of the type of the thief. Diligent detectives have recovered the timepiece and arrested the but the negro who wcfft the stolen property from the thief in an craps game has not yet been disturbed. There are among the colored people of Indianapolis some citizens who to realize that in the toleration of these open gambling joints administration is permitting a grave menace to the negro race. pnly are these favors shown to lawless negroes, encouraging law[Jvaklng among the negroes, but they are inciting resentment on the part ites to an extent that is alarming. statutes of the State of Indiana apply to whites and blacks alike. authorities appear to have declired an armistice in the war against —possibly with the understs.nding that gambling is to be the privilege of the negroes only. —_ Mr. Potts was to be expected, Mr. Alfred Potts, in his response to the Society attempts to evade making public the information demanded of to the so-called Taxpayers’ League of Indiana. avoids a full and frank reply to the questions asked by the enwith all the finesse to be expected from an official of the Citizens ■■Company, and doubtless he is now congratulating himself on the of his answer. in Indianapolis there continues to be a feeling that no organization whplly to a civic purpose that finds it necessary to suppress in* [formation as to how it was organized or how it arrives at the definition of Fts policies. These two questions are conspicuously avoided in the reply Mr. Potts Ihas given to the engineers. " The Taxpayers’ League will not have the unqualified support of the fceople of Indianapolis in anything it may undertake until it invites their ■onfldence by disclosing to them by wbat and in what manner it was moved ■khc undertaking.
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ALBERT KELDER. * • * MANAGER RITZ CARLTON. • * * ATLANTA CITY. • • • MY DEAR Albert. • • • ON THE morning. * 0 • OF LAST Thursday. * • * THE OTENING day. * * • OF' YOUR new hotel. • * * THERE WAS a waiter. ... WHO SERVED me. • • • AT ONE of the tables. ... THAT LOOKS out. • • * WHERE THE surf comes in. * * • AND THE first thing he said. • • * WHEN I sat down. • 0 • WAS THAT he knew me. * • * AND READ my column. 0 0 0 AND HIS wife read it. - • • AND THEY liked me. AND HE put some ice. • * * IN MY water glass. 0 0 0 AND THEN pome water. • • • AND I ordered breakfast. 0 0 0 AND WHILE I waited. • • • THE ICE melted. • • • IN THE glass of water. 0 0 0 AND I felt the glass. 0 0 0 AND IT wasn't as eold. 0 0 0 AS I like to hare it. 0 0 0 AND I asked my friend. 0 0 0 FOR ANOTHER piece of ice. 0 0 0 AND HE got it. • • • AND PLT It in the glass • • • AND MY fruit came. • • • AND I ate it. • • 0 AND THEN my eggs. • • • AND I ate them. • • • AND WHILE I did so. • • • THE SECOND piece of ire. • • • IT H*D melted. • • • AND I asked the waiter • • 0 FOR A third piece of ica ... AND HE got it. ... AND PUT it in the glass AND WHAT it Is. ... THAT I'M worried about. • • • IS THAT I left. ... WITHOrT DRINKING the water ... I NEVER touched It. ... AND I'M afraid. * • * THAT MAYBE the waiter. WILL THINK I'm silly. ... ASKING FOR ice. ... Jl ST TO watch It melt. • • • AND I wish you'd.tell him. ... I'M VERY sorry. ... FOR ALL the trouble. ... I PCT him to. ... I THANK you.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921.
Do You Know Indianapolis?
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This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterday’s picture was taken northwest towards Illinois street from the fifth floor of the Bell Telephone building at Meridian and New Y'ork streets.
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS
(The Hoopers, an average American family of live, living in a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times now the many present-day problems of the home are solved by wokring on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally In an Interesting review of their home life and learn to’ meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) Bright and early the Bride had arrived ! at the Hooper front do*r armed with her j little stencil brushes and tubes of paint ! ready to keep her promise to Rogef that j she would finish up the furniture he had | been painting for Helen's new room. There was first the low wooden bedstead. then the dresser, two small wooden chairs and the old table which Mrs. Hooper was to fit up for a writing table. The table which had come down from the attic had been the hardest job for Roger because every bit of old paint had to be scraped off. before the new could be applied, but he had spent several afternoons at the task and each article now stood in Helen’s dismantled room In a bright new coat of French blue that was very pretty and attractive. “The furniture in Edna Jackson's room was all pale gray with little baskets of fruit painted all over it.” said Helen a bit wistfully, as she looked at Roger's handiwork. “Well, that'll do for Edna Jackson and pale gray." said Roger disgustedly, “you are mighty lucky to have blue ami 1 had the dickens of a time making that paint hold out till the last piece was finished. That bedstead Just ate up paint." | “Oh, I think mtne is lovelier than Edna Jackson's.” added Helen, hastily. "I wish you'd wait till I finish, Roger; I wasn't finding fault.” i "Well, I Just guess you hadn't better." said Roger, fanning himself with his hat, while Betty went around pressing a small first finger on each piece of furniture to see if It were dry. “You've done a wonderful Job, Roger," said the Bride, "and I think thinning out the paint has really made it a prettier shade of blue. Now I'll Just get busy with my palpt and brushes and put on these little basket* of pink rosebuds with a tiny touch of green and gold, and the whole thing will be a dream.” The Bride set out her tools which consisted of three small round brushes with short bristles, one for each color to be used, an old china plate, a palette knife to mix the colors, some old rags, the oil paints In tubes, and a little Japanese drier to be added to thm. Her stencD was part of the rather elaborate pattern that the Bride had used on her own furniture. She had picked out the rose buds that had been only detail In her design but that gave Just the simple little touch necessary for Helen's room. The one for the bed showed a basket filled with pink rose buds and for the dresser and chair and table there was a smaller design of a bunch of roses. As the sur-
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faces to be decorated had to be in a horizontal position Roger placed the head board of the bed flat on the table which he brought in from his mother’s room and the drawers of the dresser were put across two chairs so that the front of the drawers faced up. The Bride then prepared the paint and placed the stencil face up on the sideboard of the bed after she had measured it carefully to get the design in an accurate position. As the stencil was not very large she held it in place with her left hand though Roger suggested that she ought to weight It down at the edges to keep it from slipping. She did have a little accident by having the stencil slip, but it was not a serious matter as she sponged off the design immediately with turpentine. She dipped the brush in the pink paint with which a few drops of Japanese drier had teen mixed and worked the bristles back and forth until the paint was evenly distributed and then applied the color to the portion of the wood showing through the opening in the stencil, taking care to hold the hursh in a vertical position so that the ends of the bristles would be kept from working under the stencil and blurring the outline. Sbo worked the brush around with a circular motion, always keeping it upright, until the surface was evenly covered. The little curls on either side of the large bunch of pink rosebuds were very tiny and the green and gold paint was applied to these opening In the same manner. When the design was finished she lifted the stencil carefully. The basket of roses design was upplie-1 to the head and footboard of the bed and on the lower long drawer of the dresser, and everywhere eUe Just the small design of a bunch of rosebuds was used, as the bride was anxiow not to produce an overcrowded look to *.he decoration when It was finished. All the stenciling had been done by luncheon time, and the Bride dashed home, after enjoying the simple little meal with the Hoopers —promising to return about 3 to go shopping with Mrs. Hooper. The menu for the three meals on Friday are: BREAKFAST. Stewed Rhubarb. Cereal. Spanish Omelet Bolls. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Tomato Toast. Boiled Rice and Milk. Sliced Bananas. DINNER. Cream of Corn Soup. Cold Fish Salad. Tomatoes Stuffed with Cold Slaw. Tapioca Cream. Cake. (Copyright. 1921.) ANNUAL l. 8. FIRE LOSS. It la estimated that the annual loss by fire in the United States is S2fSO.OtO.OOO, while 15,000 lives are lost.
Movielanh puj Lillian Gish SOm MILLIONS LOVE HER
A Brief History of Motion Pictures There has been so much discussion of how and when r ovies started, and who started them, that no matter what facts are stated, someone is pretty sure to dispute them. But despite the arguments, the history of the development of pictures is tremendously interesting, esrecinlly when we realize that we can anticipate just about as much progress in the making of pictures in t'uture as there has been in the past. Even now we have talking pictures that show great improvement over those we have had. And colored pictures are rapidly being perfected. Some day I suppose we'll look back on the pictures r-e see now and be Just ts much amused at them as we are now at the ones that we made not so very many years ago. The first movie was made by "The Wheel of Life,” which appeared in England in 1833, and was really just a toy. It was a hollow cylinder, with drawings on the inside: looking at them through slits in the cylinder, when it was rapidly revolved, the figures seemed to you to be moving. The Wheel of Life” was brought to this country, and from it were developed many similar toys. The best was the Zoetrope, which a Frenchman named Desvlgnes invented in 1860, and which, in somewhat different form, was also perfected by an American named William F. Lincoln, in 1867 A revolving cylinder was placed on a stick, by which It was held; through vertical slits in ihe cylinder
ALICE IS SAVED Fi By Her Lawyer-Lover ,
"The Scarab Ring,” a drama starring Alice Joyce, which is on view at the Alhambra today, Friday and Saturday, keeps the spectator guesstng and trying to solve a mysterious murder in which a scarab ring is the only clew. A girl Is charged with the crime, brought to trial and saved from conviction only by the heroic defense maintained by her lawyer, who pleads her cause with all the more fervor because he happens to be in love with her. Miss Joyce appears in the role of the eldest daughter of a banker who had misused the funds in his trust, and placed the blame upon an innocent man. On his death he charged her to keep his crime a secret under any and all circumstances. Through chance Hugh Martin, a man-about-town gained knowledge of it, and used the information in an effort to force the banker's youngest daughter to marry him. Then Martin is found dead, the victim of foul play, with circumstantial evidence pointing to the girl he had been persecuting. The otcome is surprising and highly dramatic. The picture was adapted from the popular novel “A Desperate Heritage,” which was written by Harriet Gaylord. Th cast includes Fuller Melllsh, Maude Malcolm. Joe King. Joseph Smiley. Armand Cortex and others. Edward Jose directed their movie. He will be remembered ns the director of Sarah Barnhsrdt In the films. A Hall Room Boys farce and the Fox news weekly make up the bill. New songs and musical selections will be Introduced by the Miami six. * • * SOME NEWS. Stewart Walker at the Murat this week is giving part of his proceeds to the American legion. The bill for the week is “My Lady Friends." a comedy which was the last starring vehicle of the late Clifton Crawford. The summer season of vaudeville will close on Sunday night at B. F. Keith's. The last bill of the summer season opens today at this house. The Lyric will continue Its regular
3 Civil Service Jobs Open at Ft. Harrison Vacancies in three htanches of Government service now existing at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be Ailed by examination to be held July IS. according to an announcement made today by Henry Trlmpe, secretary of the civil service board, 421 Federal building. The positions to be filled and their salaries are: Flumber’s helper, SI,OOO--a year; seamstress, SI,OOO a year; shoemaker, $1,200 a year. Applicants for these positions must have had practical experience. Full details as to the character of the examinations may be obtained from Mr. Trlmpe. Chinch Bugs Damage Estimated at $65,000 Special to The Times. MFNCIE, Tnd., June 29.—Damage to maturing grain in Delaware County, due to the chinch bug pest, is estimated by J. F. Treasure, county agent, to exceed $05,000, more than two hundred farmers being affected. Cornfields have suffered heaviest, the loss in this grain alone being estimated at more than $50,000. Mass meetings of farmers in different parts of the country have been called to discuss an immediate and concerted campaign against tha peßt __ Officer Takes Part in Drive for Members As division commander of the Sons or Veterans Dr. E. S. Shumaker of this city is taking an active interest in the membership campaign of Ben Harrison Camp, No. 356, which is part of a national drive
you could see the figures painted on the inside. Not much of an advance over the “Wheel of Life. ’ Even before this, however, came the Klnematoseope, nvented by Doctor Sellers, of Philadelphia, and patented in 1861. He photographed his two small sons many times —in the process he Invented the glycerine bath for plates, a valuable asset In photography—and showing progressive stages in one action—one hammering, the other rocking In a chair. These photographs were placed Inside a box, Into which one looked through an eyepiece fitted with a stereocoplc lens. The photographs were revolved. so that the illusion of movement was given. The next step was taken by Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, who made a picture of a race horse in action. This he did by placing twenty-four cameras at the edge of the race track, with a fine thread fastened to the shuttle of each camera; as the horse passed, he broke the threads, and a photograph was made. The photographs were pasted on a glass disk, rather a complicated machine invented to project the pictures on a screen—this disk and another one were revolved, with a strong light behind them —and a real motion picture was projected. Muybridge began his experiments in 1872, but did not make their results known until 1878. He went on, taking pictures showing the oeafing of a dog's heart, and various movements of animals These were shown it the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893, and established the actual arrival of the motion picture. —Copyright, 192 L
DM MOVIE PRISON Who Swings the Jury
TO SAY GOOD-BY
RUTH GORDON. On next Saturday night, Gregory Kelly and Ruth Gordon along with members of their company will say their farewells at English's as the final performance ot their twelve week season will be given them. The Kellys will go to New York on Sunday, preparatory to going to the Maine woods for a brief rest. Mr. Kelly will o;>en with the “Dulcy” company In August In New Y'ork City. policy of popular vaudeville. New bills open on Sunday. , The movies on view today consist of the following: “The Girl in the Taxi" at the Circle; “Sacred and Frofane Love" at Loew's State; “Scrap Iron” at Mister Smith's; “Too Much Speed” at the Isis; "One a Minute” at the Ohio; “A Divorce of Convenience” at the Colonial and "The Struggle” at the Regent.
I for a million tons. The 221 members of the camp uhc were enlisted some ten days ago to t sslst in obtaining LiO new members, .raking Ben Harrison Camp the largest In the world, are being Instructed by Dr. Shumaker and by. K. J. Bosworth. division organizer, that they are expected each to five new members. Activities center at the camp’s booth, Pennsylvania and Market streets. Contributing Case in Juvenile Court July 19 Charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 14-year-old boy, lodged against Perry E. Powell, 50, 3466 Carrolton avenue, will be heard in Juvenile court on July 19. At the .time of bis arrest Mr. Powell gave his occupation as a real estate dealer. Mr. Powell formerly occupied a pastorate in Greenfield and after coming to Indianapolis took a prominent part in the Knights of the Holy Grail, an organization of boys. Following his arrest, be was released on bond signed by C. W. Bouslog, 3270 Central avenue. ‘Hello, Warren,’ Gets a Harding Handshake BROOKLYN, June 30.—At the 23d Regiment review recently Donald Tomnerkins, 13 years old, was sitting In the center of the armory President Harding In reviewing the front rank passed about ten feet from the center. Donald yelled "Hello, Warren!” and the President immediately stopped and going over, shook hands with the flustered boy. Today the lads of the Flatbush section fare shaking the hand that shook the hand of President Harding.
PRODUCE TRADE FALLS OFF NEAR HALF PAST YEAR No Large Drops in Prices, Despite Shortage in Orders.
Leading produce houses on “eonD mission row” stated today that the volume of business in their line during the past month has decreased between 33 1-3 and 50 per cent in comparison with the same period last year and the year before. A comparison of the wholesale prlc* sheets of the past three years for this same period of the season fails to reveal any large drops In prices. Outside of potatoes and one of two other staple products, there is but little difference in prices of the past three years. Some prices are slightly lower than last year, but higher than the prices of the year preceedlng that, but the changes are, small. Some of the prices follow: Apples this season are quoted at s6® 0.50 per barrel,, while last year they were quoted at s4@4j>o. This increase is probably due to the influence on the market of the failure of the crop in the State. Potatoes show a big decrease, however, selling at $1.90 this year for a 150-lb. bag, whereas last year they sold at sS@l2 for a similar amount. In 1919, they sold at [email protected] for the same weight. Onions also show a decrease, Fancy Texas yellow selling at $1.50 a crate this season, against $1.75 for similar amount last year, and at $4.50 the year previous to that. TOMATO PRICES ARE HIGHER. Tomatoes, a vegetable that is considered everywhere a staple and Is used as food In practically every home, are higher this year than last summer and the same price as in 1919. They are now selling at $3.50 for a 15-lb. box. against $2.50 last summer and $3.50 the summer before. Cabbage, another staple, shows little, if any, decrease in price this season over the season before. It is now selling at J-3 a hamper, whereas it sold at $8 a barrel in 1920, and at $3.50 a barrel In 1919. Lemons show a big Increase In price, now selling at [email protected]. a box, against $5.50135.75 in 1920 and [email protected] in 1919. Oranges show a decrease in price under last year, but are higher than In 1919* They are now selling on commission row at ss<§,6 a box. whereas they sold at $5<37 last year and $4.75@6 In 1919. Bananas are 1 cent less a pound this year than they were last year, but they are now higher than they were in 1919 at the same time of the season. They now sell at Sc a pound. They sold at 9c a pound last year and at 7V*c a pound in 1919. There Is but little difference In the prices of cantaloupes this year and last, while they are now higher than they were in 1919. They are now selling at $3.‘25(g.4.25 a crate against $L75'34.50 a crate last year and $1.50(g4 in 1919. There is no difference in the price of peaches. Fancy Georgia peaches are now seilirg at $3.50 for a six basket crate ami they sold at that price last year and the year before at this season. Watermelons are now 10 cents higher than they were last year at sl, and the same price as they were in 1919. LETTUCE PRICES ALSO KEEP UP. Lettuce is now selling at 10 cents a pound, against 8 cents a pound for last year and the year before that. Thla is an increase of 2 cents per pound. There is little, if any difference in the price of celery for the past three years. Fancy Florida now selling at $1 a dozen bunches. There also Is very little difference In the price of green onions. They now sell at 15(g49e a dozen, against 25 cents for last year and the same for the year before. Fie plant, a very homely plant, but nevertheless very popular at this season of the year shows no decrease in price. This year, last and the year before tt sold at 35 cents a bunch. Kale this is selling at $2 a barrel. It sold at $1 a bushel this time last year and at $2 a barrel in 1919. This Is no decrease in price. The radish shows a decrease of 5 cents a bunch, now selling at 25 cents a bunch, against 36 cents for last year and 25 cents for 1919 at this season.
HOROSCOPE “The * tars Incline, but do not compel!* 9
FRIDAY, JULY 1. Many friendly stars have power today, according to astrology. Mars, the Sun, ITanus, Mercury and Jupiter are all ia benefle aspect. Neptune, alone* Is adverse. During this sway all ambitions projects should be pushed and important plans should be made. - The configuration is most fortunate for all who are at the head of big projects, for the stars foreshadow great development of International interests, commercial, Intellectual and artistic. Persons whose blrthdate it is hare the augury of a very successful year. They should prosper berond their greatest hopes. Changes thac Involve travel will be fortunate. Young women will be much courted. Children born on this- day are likely to be quirk, highstrung and lucky. These subjects of Cancer usually advance rapidly in whatever they undertake.— Copyright, 1921. Park Board Orders 95 Trees Removed Ninety-five dead and dangerous trees were ordered removed or trimmed by the special service of the city park department today. Property owners within Meridian street, Central avenue. Fall Creek and North street will receive the notices and have ten days in which to comply. Most of the bad trees are silver maples and poplars. The oyster shell scale has killed most of the maples, according to George E. Morgan, head of the special service.
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