Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1921 — Page 4

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JtiMatta Saite Sft mrs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA . Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ _ i Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Fayne Cos. Advertising offices j New \ ork _ Boston. Payne. Burns A Smith, Inc. TIME certainly files. Now the horsethief detectives are after the automobile *‘spooners.‘' CONGRESS would not be so willing to stay on the job if there were a congressional election this falL TURNING board of accounts charges over to the attorney general and collecting them are two different things. IS IT POSSIBLE that the garbage plant, for which the city paid $175,000 to James P Goodrich et al., does not meet all the requirements of the city? PRESIDENT HARDING S ability to leave Washington for the week end suggests that perhaps the capitol isn t a pleasant place in w hich to spend Sunday. IF President Harding should drop around to the Interstate Commerce Commission and persuade them to reduce freight rates the railroads m.ght be able to obtain sufficient business, even at the low rates, to make a better return than they are showing now. .4 Confession! At last the sanitary board of Indianapolis has determined to abandon ita three-year effort to justify the purchase of the garbage plant from J. P. Goodrich and others at $175,000, junk the miserable machinery and erect a plant that will not be a menace to health and a nuisance to West Indianapolis. The taxpayers of this community will never know how much of their money was wasted by the Jewett administration in this plant. They will know that before any part of the $175,000 bond issue, that was divided in the directors' room or a local bank, is paid off, the property the city received for it wfll be scrapped. Three years ago Mayor Jewett predicted that this plant would pay for itself in seven years. At that time he knew, as well as the rest of the administration, that the plant was junk and the maintenance of it a steady drain on the treasury. Yesterday the sanitary board admitted the necessity of erecting anew plant to take its place in 1922. The board's admission was a much belated confession that the garbage plant purchase was an unjustified betrayal of the interests of the taxpayers of Indianapolis. Readers of the Times, who were acquainted with the details of this scandal in January of 191S, needed no confession from the sanitary board to know how noisome it was. But it is particularly fitting that the garbage plant, one of Mayor Jewett’s first purchases, should fade from existence at the close of hts administration. Always will the record of Jewettism and Goodrichism be associated with the stench of garbage through this one deal.

The Old Way The sure reward for little economies of life was illustrated recently in a large city bank, where it was found all the stenographers were using cast-off or worn-out rubber heels for erasers. The bank had been very particular that its correspondence should appear neat, and so some young lady started a custom which soon became universal. Asa reward, it ts said these economical young ladies did not suffer when the second reduction in salaries was made. It is further stated that the president of that bank was accustomed to sare the little ends of cigars which he cut off when he smoked, and to sell them, when sufficient had arcumlated, to a snuff manufacturer. During the year he realized something by this thrift. There is also a rumor afloat that this same executive required all employes to use the paper drinking cups several times until the board of health forbid such a practice. The general and accepted report was that the banker, in his youth, was so economical that instead of purchasing any sox for his boots he did not afford shoes —he cut newspapers by a pattern devised by himself and wrapped his feet in them. Os course the paper would not stand rough wear, but had to be replaced daily. Some claimed that this same personage was in the habit, even after becoming rich, of wetting all the envelopes and stamps of the daily mail with his tongue just before meal time in order to take the keenness from his appetite. By practicing such economies the man became hpad of the financial institution and was regarded as a leading citizen and a shining example to young people. Mr. Harding's Message More and more President Harding appears to be finding that the machinery created to meet the wartime problems of the Nation during the administration of Woodrow Wilson was admirably suited to its purpose. Yesterday he appealed to the Congress to make it possible for the War Finance Corporation to come to the relief of the railroads and the agricultural interests. The President's appeal is for a program that will not have any permanent effect on the conditions that exist in the United States today. It may. however, be a temporary stimulant to a country which is suffering from what Mr. Harding is now pleased to term "the depression, which, though inevitable in war’s aftermath, we are all anxious to see ended.” Try as he may the citizen of thiß country who voted for Mr. Harding cannot avoid recalling that this "depression.’’ which is now termed "inevitable in war's aftermath.” was, before the election, the result only of Wilson's misguided policies.’’ And it is not at all strange that Mr. Harding should turn, in his effort to relieve this "depression,” to the War Finance Corporation, which, if we remember correctly, was another of Mr. Wilson's "college Ideas.”

Up to the Board In effect, the reply of Snider & Rotz and of L. A. Snider to the State board of accounts charges is a polite but forcible invitation to the board to make good its accusations concerning the conduct of school building in the courts. As such it will receive the general approval of the public, which long ago was worn to a frazzle by the senseless bickering and nonsensical talking of the opponents of good school buildings in Indianapolis. Summed up. the answer to the charges made against the school board engineers is that the engineers entered into contracts which were known to the accounts board and concerning which the accounts board offered no criticism until impelled to do so by an ulterior purpose. The amswer is plausible and fearless. It puts the burden of proving the charges that have been made through, rather than by, the State board of accounts squarely on the shoulders of that body. There certainly is enough of a sense of justice existing in this community *o compel the State board either to retract or maintain V'egaSalt The United States, through its proper bureau, makes the announcement that it has discovered the largest salt bed in the world, underlying parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. The find is about one thousand feet below the surface, with an approximate thickness of three hundred feet, and is 90 per cent pure salt. This discovery is of great interest to citizens of this commonwealth. By association it recalls dgtes in Biblical and geological ages long ago. It was the wife of Lot who became a pillar of salt. Numerous references occur In the Bible, the question being one place raised, if the salt has lost Its savor, wherewithal shall it be salty? The Shakespeare has the sweet Cordelia love her father. King Lear, greater than salt. The coronation ceremonies of England utilize salt as a symbol of faithfulness. Perhaps in a few million years from now someone will uncover and rediscover the Dead Sea in Palestine or Salt Lake, Utah, and wisacres will tell how a lake once existed where is only a salt bed. With the sea salty and with plenty of mines producing anything from table use to rock for cattle to lick, it cannot be explained why nature discolses this treasure In such an abundance now. Some parts of the UnlUtf States are very thirsty already, without salt.

‘TONY’ BARRETT BOOZE BARON, WIFETSCHARGE South Bend ‘Sport’ Made Defendant in Sensational Divorce Case. Special to The Times. SOUTH BEND, lnd., July 27.—Judge Fred C. Klein of the Superior Court will decide Thursday whether Mrs. John C. Barrett, wife of ‘‘Tony” Barrett, one* famed as proprietor of the biggest gambling bouse between New York and Chicago, shall receive SI,OOO a month temporary maintenance and $25,000 attorneys' fees. Charges of sensational nature were made by Mra. Barrett. Her husband has a large private Income, she claims, bolb from business and farm properties, which bring him SIOO,OOO a year, and from an Illegal traffic in liquor conducted under the screen of a feed and grain business, admitted by Barrett to be unremunerative. Barns and warehouses supposed to contain only feed and grain are stocked with liquor, Mrs. Barrett elaims. She also says that the old '‘Owl” saloon, notorious both in ante and post Volstead days a- a gambling house and center for liquo traffic, is still operated. Beneath the floor of the Owl, once studded with S2O gold pieces, is a cistern which is used for the storage of booze. Mrs. Barrtt claims. The place, which fronts on an alley in the heart of the downtown business district, is supposed to be closed, but signs of activity have been noticed around the establishment recently. Her hubby could spend SSOO for a suit and could afford forty masterpieces in male clothing a year from the most exclusive Chicago tailors. Mrs. Barrett claims; he could afford fwo Packards, and, worst of all. could support another woman in luxury, but could only give

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. HE CALLS me Uncle Ken . AND THE other day. WE DROVE BWay. TO AN ovan beach. AND SO much water. ITE'D NEVER seen. •AND HE gazed at It. • • • IN CHILDISH awe. AND SAID to me. IT S AWFUL full. “AIN’T IT. Uncle Ken?” AND I said it was. \N D THEN ho asked. WHO rrT It there. tXD I told him G<'d AND HE wanted to Knew. WHY HE I> put It there. AND I said for the boats TO FLOAT upon. AND FOR the fish. SO THFV might swim. AND HE wanted to know. IF I could swim. AND THEN he asked IF 1 were a fish. AND I made a guess. THAT I rrobably wasn't. / AND HE wanted to knew. IF HIS Dad was a hsu. AND HIS Dad was there AND I said be was AND THEN ho asked. IF THEY took the stopper. FROM OUT of the ocean. WOULD IT run away. AND I said it would. • • • AND THEN he asked • • • WHAT THE boat* and fish. * 0 • WOULD EVER do • • • WIT HOLT ANY wnt or. • 00 AND I suggested. 0 0 0 THAT THEY might die AND HE wanted to know IF THEY’D go to heaven. 0 0 0 AND I guessed they would. AND THEN I said. • * • IF HE'D quit asking questions. I’D TAKE him swimming. AND lIE wanted to know. • * • IF I took him swimming. WOULD HE be a flsb. AND I said he would. AND MADE pretense. THAT I'D gone to sleep. * • * I THANK yon.

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his wife enough to buy groceries and the merest n <cess'. Vs of life, she says. Mrs Barrett went* $.’.000 a month per manent maintenance, but will be satis fled with a mere SI,OOO temporarily. She "raised the anto” on attorneys' fees from tl'-'.OOu to $23.000 when her husband bosled that he would spend sso.o‘>'i t ght ins the case, which will come up for a final hearing at tho September term of court. Robbers Use Wagon to Loot Household to TVif Tlnre*. TFRRE HAUTE, lnd . July 27. -Taking advantage of the family of Hubert Otto of thts city being away, burglars broke Into their home, carrying away everything valuable they were able to get hold of. Including some pieces of household furni to r. Vmong the nrti -lea reported taken were five rings, two of which were valuable diamonds, silverware, a large ool!e.,-tton of old coins, beads, lockets, n child's bank, two largo chairs and a floorlamp. It is sat 1, two men drove lnu the alby with a wagon, after dark, curtlng away tho stuff leisurely. Trustee Explains Alleged Shortage Special to The Times SHELBY V11.1.E, lnd. .11 y 27 Speak Ing of the report made today by the state board of accounts concerning the alleged shortage of $22.00 In the a mounts of his office, Charles Moberly. trustee <>!' Addl son Township, said the a's-ountH hoard had maintained that lie had expended tin out of the township fund when it should have come out of the money set aside for his expense account. He said lie spent $5 for stumps. $5 for lettering on the door of his offb-e and $12.60 for moving the supplies of the trustee from the office of his predecessor. Widow at New Albany Mayoralty Choice Special tc The Times NEW ALBANY, July 27 Mrs. Lillie Kurfess, a widow, won the Democratic nomination for mayor In yesterday's primaries over Claud Sittason, by a vote of about two to one. The Republicans nominated Robert Morris. Incumbent.

Hides Diamond in Fishing Tackle Box; Hubby Makes Sale There is a lucky fisherman in Indianapolis today. Mrs Thomas 1,, ('on unity. 227 North Highland avenue, hlil her diamond ring in a fish ing tackle box. Her husband sold some of the tackle, and the box containing the diamond ring was part of the outfit sold. Mrs. Conaulty asked the police to help get tlie ring back. It was valued at $65.

Hohenberger photograph lent by State Library. Indiana's first Statehouse, Corydon, Harrison County.

Tennessee Man Shot; Indiana Girl Held Special to The Time* TERRE 11 At 'TV. lnd.. July 27 Martin Olvls U In a hospital here today suffer log from a bullet wound alleged to have been Inflicted by Dorothy Held rick snd the girl Is being held In Jail pending In vest 1 gallon of the shooting, which occurred on n Pennsylvania passenger train near Martinsville, llj. The girl Insist, Alvis was shot accidentally. She Is understood to be wanted at the Claremont School for Girls. Alvts Is from Jackson, Tenn. He will live. Labor Leader Talks on the Amendments Special to The Times. T/OGA \SP< > KT, Did , July 27 T. M Taylor, of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Federation of Labor, addressed a crowd of nearly two thousand persons In Court Park here. The State leader spoke regarding tho thirteen proposed amendments to the constitution of Indiana which will be voted on SepL 6 Several of tbo proposed amendments were regarded as unfair to the Interest of labor by Taylor, but ns a whole the amendments meet with his approval. HOOSIER DEATHS NOBLESVILLE James Ilonniker. 95, Is dead at his home In the northern part cf Hamilton County He was the oldest man In this part of the State since the demise of Dennis Bracken at Carmel a f>-w days ago at the age of 194. Mr Honnlker was u native of Indiana, having been born In Dearborn County, but he came to this locality fifty years ago. lie served three years In the Civil War. Two children Harrison Hon nor of Tipton County, and Mrs. Wesley Bess of Mar tlusviUe, survive. BLOOMINGTON Capt Wll'lam M Alexander. 84. who served three years during the Civil War as captain of Company H. IMh Indiana Volunteers. Is dead at his home here, the result of the Infirmities of ago. Hog Raisers Meet Special to The Time*. SHELBY VII.LE, Did.. July 27.—Arrangements are being made for the an mini picnic and all day meeting of the Shelby County Swine Breeders’ Asoolatlon. at the fairground nere, .\ug. IS. Committees of the Roland China Rreefl-e-s’ Association and the Duroe Breeders’ Association are arranging for tho outing and have obtained speakers of prominence to make adresses during the day. W. W. McFadden of Chicago ha* been secured for one of the talks. Several hundred farmers of the county will be p resent. SOI Til BEND MAN DROWNS. SOUTH BENI), Did . July 27. Zygfryd Nowlnakl, 21. an overseas veteran, was drowned In Hudson Lake yesterday. Xii wlnskl had been In the water a short time when he called for help and sank. Companions dived and brought him to tho surface in four minutes, but alt es forts to restore life were without avail.

Narrowly Escapes Gears of Sawmill Special to The Time, COLUMBUS. Ind . July 27. Fred Wilson. living west of this city, was stripped of his clothes late Tuesday when caught in the gears of a sawmill. IDs sleeve be came entangled in tho gears when be leaned over to make a minor adjustment and he was drawn into tho machine be fore he could save himself. Falls From Motor Repair Car; May Die Special to The Times. COLUMBUS. Ind, July 27.—Edmond Davis, 44, of this city, Is in a critical condition st the county hospital from Injuries received when he fell from a motor repair car on the Pennsylvania Railroad near < ’rot hersvllle Tuesday. Examination showed a fractured skull, crushed chest and probably Internal In Juries. Litle hope Is held for his recovery, HENS I,AY NO EGGS s NO HENS. KH LLBY Vi LLE, lnd., July 27.—Farmers of Shelby County will hold two culling demonstrations next Tuesday, at which time Instructions will be given 1n the elimination of heus useless for laying purposes. The meetings will be held in Brandywine and Hendricks townships and will be conducted by a representative of Purdue University. LABORER DRINKS POISON. GREENCASTLE. Ind . July 27.- Mike Bundy, 40, a laborer, living near Coatesville committed suicide last night by swallowing poison, while In a barber shop. Ho died within a short time.

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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 showed a corner of Spades Park, bounded by Brooltside avenue, North Arseual avenue and East Twelfth street.

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If You’re in High School Not more than a day or so ago I had a most Interesting letter, and I’m going to answer it publicly as well as privately because I feel sure that high school boys and girls everywhere will be interested 1n the answer to a question asked by someone who is in high school too. The letter came from a boy who has just finished bis second year in high school, and who wanted to know how I would advise him to plan the next two years of his school work so that what he learned would help him to earn his living in the motion picture industry when he got out. He wasn't sure that he could act, and very wisely didn't propose to limit himself to that one branch of work. He wanted to prepare himself so that, if he had an opportunity to become a director or work in the publicity department of one of the big organizations, or plan and build sets, or do any other thing that bad to be done, he’d be ready. Now, what ( have to say to him applies to every high school student who wants to get Into pictures. As I have said so often, if you want to de anything in pictures, act or write or direct, or anything else, the best way to get a start is to get some kind pf Job that will take you into one of the studios. The girl who wants to be a star may feel that she would be wasting time bv working in the research department, but she might a great deal better be there right on the ground than sitting on a bench outside the casting director's office, waiting for his secretary to come out and tell her that the director is sorry, but he hasn't anything for her and doesn't know when he will have! So—learn everything you can that might make you useful in a studio. Study history—the research department often has to hunt up little points that are tucked away somewhere, and if you know how to use reference books you'll be much more valuable than if you don't. Study drawing -if you cultive a feeling for composition it's going to help you if you ever have to plan sets or arrange groups before the camera or plot out some action so that your people will be effectively posed. I speak feelingly about this, because when 1 tried direct ing 1 realized for the first time how essential this Is.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory. You remember in the last story there was a dreadful fire aboard Noah's Ark. And I guess something terrible would have happened if just then, alt of a sud den. Puss Junior hadn't seen the Whale who had landed Mr. Jonah aboard some two or three stories ago. “There's the Whale!” shouted Puss, “See him spout.” “Run up a signal of distress!” commanded Captain Noah. “He might save Mr Jonsh for old time's sake!” “If he'd only get up close and spout water over the Ark, he'd put out tho fits” pretty quick." said Ham. “Good idea." said Captain Noah “Ship ahoy!” yelled Mr. Jonah, waving his red bandanna handkerchief in the air. "Ahoy! Ahoy r* Then the Whale stopped spouting and made for the Ark. “He's coming! He's coming!” shouted the Weathercock. “Don't stop squirting wafer," said Cap tain Noah to the elephants. “On with the pall brigr.de.” screamed Ham. And then the monkeys slid down from the roof and grabbed hold of the pails and threw water down the hold. But still the cruel flames crept nearer and nearer. "Oh dear,” sighed Mrs Noah, “T'm afraid my sealskin coat will get singed and after all the trouble I've had putting It up Ist camphor.” And then, all of a sudden, a tremendous stream of water hell upon the Ark, soaking everyone to the skin. And soon the deck was a river and the steam that came out of the hold almost suffocated everybody. “Goodness me'.” screamed Mrs. Noah: “we'll lie swamped “Hold on there!" shouted Captain Noah, leaning over the side of the Ark where the whale lay like a fire patrol boat In action. “Hold on! Turn off the hose, or you’ll drown us!” So the good-natured

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If you can take a course In amateur photography, so much the better do it if you possibly can. If there isn t a course of this kind, organize a camera club among your friends—even if you all have just little kodaks, you'll accustom yourself to taking pictures Study the writing of English—you may want to write scenarios some day. Or you may get a chance to do subtitles, and if you can express yourself briefly and clearly, won’t be hard for you. Or you may have an apportunity to write publicity—and how you'll need facility in writing then! Don't cut your gymnasium work; if you become an actor, you'll Deed the well-trained body that makes well-di-rected movement easy. Until you’ve tried it you won't have an idea of how hard it can be just to walk across a set easily, when the camera is turning. I have seen a director on the verge of irritable profanity, and an actor almost In tears, simply because the actor couldn't do that very thing as he was told to by the director. Foreign languages are and more American companies are going to Europe to make pictures, and it's most inconvenient and sometimes quite serious to be handicapped by not being able to speak French or Spanish easily. If your school has a dramatic club, make the most of it. Sometimes, just as a good practice stunt, try giving a story wholly in pantomime: it will, be good fun, and will teach you a lot of things about acting. In fact, use every single scrap of ability and opportunity that you have. You'll need it if you are going to break into the motion-picture game later. Don't sit back aDd say: “Oh. look at Soand so —he didn't have any education, he says, and look what he's done in pictures.” Well, there are lots of people like Soand so in pictures. But as time passes their number decreases. And the rest of us are studying right along. Why do you suppose Charlie Chaplin is always studying? Why do you suppose I read myself to sleep every night? It's because we're just two of the many who realize that no matter how much education they may happen to have they need more. You can't have too much if you're going into picture-making!—Copyright, 1921.

Whale shut off the water, while Captain Noah added. “A Turkish bath haa nothing on this!” “It was awfully kind of you to come to our rescue.’ said Mrs. Noah, smiling sweetly ot the whale as she leaned over the railing. “Well, if you hadn't come Just when you did,” said Captain Noah. “I guess we'd all have gone down to Davey Jones' locker.” "Don't mention It.” said the Whale. “Glad to have been able to do you a little favor. You see,” he added In a low voice. “Mr. Jonah was never satisfied when ne was my guest. He was always complaining about the dampness. So when you came along and I had a chance to put him aboard the Ark I was tickled to death. In fact, I was so glad to get rid of my passenger that 1 made tip this little poem,” and then the Whale began to spout. It's not so very pleasant, when sailing on the sea. To have a passenger aboard who’s sulky as can be; And that's the reason after dark I landed him aboard the Ark." And In the next story you shall bear what happened after that.—Copyright, 1921. (To Be ConHnned.)

HOROSCOPE “The stars Incline, bnt do not compel!" tbi kshat, jn.T ss. The morning of this day is not fortunate. according to astrology, but afternoon the stars arc helpful. The Sun, Venus. Saturn and Neptune arc all adverse, while Uranus and Mercury are in benefle aspect. It will be wise to pursue the usual lines of activity while this configuration prevails and any effort to secure promotion of preferment is likely to be unlucky Those who seek positions should defer any sort of initiative. Claims for appointments also should not be pushed until planetary aspects change. Persons whose birtbdate it Is have the augury of a fortunate year They should avoid worry and keep the health In orer. Children born on this day may b* restless and unsettled, but talented and industrious. They are subjects of Can. ccr and tbeir principle ruler is the Moon. —Copyright, 1921 Five Booze Carrying Cars Auctioned Off Special to The Times. TEKRE HAUTE, lud., July 27.—Mark Storen. deputy United States marshal of Indianapolis, will sell at auction here Aug. 4 five automobiles, seized by local Federal prohibition agents when they were transporting liquor. The cars, which consist of three Cadillacs, a Moore and a Uuick, will be sold to the highest bidder. White Beats Black Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 27.—Florence Kussellr colored, is in a local hospital in a serious condition, suffering painful stall wounds and Mrs. Mary Alls man, white, is 1n the county jail, charged with assault and battery, following a fight. The two women are said to hav quarreled over some money.

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