Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1921 — Page 4

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Jfotfoma Satte Crimea INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-39 Soutn .Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louie, G. Login P*;n Cos. idfirtiilog offlc€l I York. Ronton. Pnvn*. Hum** Sr S*nr*tb lur* LONDON cable says Lloyd George ■will stand pat on Irish question. It Is In order now to inquire whether Pat will stand Lloyd George! THE American Society of Cosmeticians is meeting in Chicago. Local meetings of a similar nature are held daily in every office that contains a mirror. AUTHORITIES in a southern Indiana county are investigating a report that whl6ky Is being sold for ?3 a quart. Announcement thereof is reported to have brought them plenty of help. No Tax Relief Here The Indiana Taxpayers Protective Association has promulgated a set of principles which is to govern Its program and which cannot help appealing to the thinking citizens of Indiana. It reads as follows: This association believes that the present provision of the Indiana constitution that taxation shall be “uniform,” “equal'’ and “just” should be preserved to the end that every taxpayer should be treated precisely the same. It does not believe that the General Assembly should be given unlimited power over the subject of taxation. It does not believe that unlimited power should be given to one General Assembly to adopt any sort of a radical tax law it may think proper and to a succeeding General Assembly power to adopt an equally radical and different tax law. This association also proposes to oppose extravagance of all kinds in public business; to endeavor to prevent unnecessary and ill-advised expenditures of public funds; to urge the conservation and utilization of natural resources belonging to the public; to insist on the collection of ail moneys due to the public: to support public officials in the honest and impartial enforcement of the tax laws, and to use its influence to see that all property bears its “just” and "equal” share of the burden of taxation. No one without an ulterior purpose will disagree with the association in Its declaration that "every taxpayer should be treated precisely the same.” Few will fail to concur in the belief that “the General Assembly should not be given unlimited power over the subject of taxation.” even though James P. Goodrich, former Governor, is conducting a strenuous campaign with that object. The real departure from the usual attitude of such organizations as £!s lies in the proposal to "oppose extravagance of all kinds in public business.” There is no tenable basis for a denial that extravagance does prevail In all public business at present. Nor can it be denied that extravagance is responsible for the greater part of the rebellion against the taxes that prevail today. Every property owner expects to pay taxes. Tax dodging and rebellion against taxes are the outgrowth of overtaxation and can never be overcome by the shifting of the burden of taxation from the shoulders of one class of proertv owners to the shoulders of another. Yet, that It precisely what the Goodrich amendment to the constitution contemplates. Its enactment would, indeed, provide for the continuous shifting of the burden of taxation from one class of property to another. In exactly the same proportion as the various classes of property owners obtained representation in the Legislature. Removing the constitutional restrictions on taxation and placing tin limited power to assess taxes in the hands of a legislative body will never reduce the amount of taxes collected from the property owners of the State. On the contrary, it will increase the total taxes, for It will give to those officials who expend public money the knowledge that no matter how great their expenditures the legislative body can always provide the necessary revenue. What Indiana needs now is not a system of raising more money by taxation, but a method of reducing expenditures to a point where its present methods of taxation may be utilized to provide the necessary revenue without placing an undue burden on any class of property owners.

The Same Old Bunk From the editorial columns of the Tipton Daily Times, which was recently converted to Republicanism, through a change in ownership, we glean that what ails this country at present is not the depression that President Harding says is the inevitable aftermath of war. but is lowtariff. , In fact, we are Informed that Europe is manufacturing products with cheap labor and is "able to flood America with products at a price that the American manufacturer cannot complete with." How apparent this must be to the average consumer! When he goes to the butcher he finds Argentine meats at much lower prices than home slaughtered. When he visits his tailor he finds English woollens at considerably less lhan American made suitings. German cutlery, and crockery, and steel, is priced much lower than the home product. Automobile dealers offer foreign-built cars at less than the cost of a flivver. The shoe dealer has Russian calf skins at cut rate prices. In fact, the whole of trade is utterly demoralized by the great influx of foreign made goods, offered for less because of the lack of a high protective tarifT! Is It not so? Yes, It Is not 60! But the dear old Republican party goes merrily ahead with its program of deception and every once in a while soma one of its editors is found who believes and promulgates its bunk for the edification of a reading public that is, perhaps, a little less unsophisticated than it was before the last election. In Shelby County Only a short time ago Ninevah Township, Bartholemew County, State of Indiana, was the foremost corn and poultry spot in the bright constellation of wonderful regions. Its girls and boys were up and doing, but, like the center of population, greatness takes wings and departs. Just now Shelby County stands out as remarkable in Indiana's casket of bright jewels, excepting, of course, when the tax assessor comes around. Just to illustrate how truly great Shelby County, Indiana, is, two facts of recent date show forth in open defiance of refutation. A campaign for free moving pictures was carried on, and while they were not just free, they cost the ultimate consumer nothing. A bright idea was entertained, that if sufficient pressure was placed on the town merchant he would gladly contribute to a fund to rent films and show pictures without expense to the farmers. So all that had to be done was to get In the car and go to the show. Results soon appeared. An army of chinch bugs invaded the county, brought there, no doubt, by favored conditions, including free shows. It threatened even the roots of the crops. But now the danger is passed. It plainly follows that upon an invasion of bugs, a free moving picture campaign. In addition to carbolic acid, lime, turpentine and ashes, -should at once be started. Just what does the work may not appear to a city bred man, but results cannot be gainsaid. The recreation from the pictures may make more efficient methods of fighting, or they may show ways of meeting such an invasion. Publicity kills many things. Even the pictures themselves, might vanquish an army or two. Thievery Increases The appalling theft of freight in Europe and America, while In transit on the railroads, cannot be explained. In the year 1920, the total loss reached 241,000,000 francs in France, while in America each month of that year claimed in theft alone over $2,000,000. But that is not ?1. Many pieces of the White House silver have disappeared, in spite of the engraving on them, “The President's House." And even an old bronze statue, which -withstood the German bombardment of Verdun, was carried from a warehouse in Brooklyn recently. The crime of theft is not one of Ignorance. Possibly some other crimes are. The man who enters a freight car to purloin goods, knows he is reaping where he did not sow and he knows he should not commit thefr.. Beyond doubt the person who took the staute which came from Verdun realized he was a criminal. There never was a theft attempted but what the actors in it became cursed with the brand of thief. The same is true of the utterance of a lie—the one who did It became a liar, whether he was discovered or not. The American people are too rich to become a nation of thieves, but, nevertheless. thievery is increasing in the United Sta tes. A

COUNCIL ASKS MAYOR TO QUIT Demand for Resignation Made at Goshen. Special to The Times. GOSHEN, Ind.. July 28.—A demand for his resignation was made upon Mayor William 11. Charney by the city council today. The demand was signed by six of the seven aldermen and said It was made for the best interests of the city. If the resignation is not offered by the time of a special council meeting tomorrow night, Impeachment proceedings will be started, the communication said. The demand is the outgrowth of a squabble between the mayor and other city officials over a petition the Hawks Electric Company of Goshen has pending before the public service commission asking annulment of the contract between the city and the company and also asking an Increase In rates. The mayor Is said to favor the Hawks company. The council's action was the direct sequel to the mayor’s demand for the resignation of Amasa G. Hoovens, president of the board of public works, and Guy W. Daussman, Republican county chairman. Both refused to resign. High Mass Marks Golden Anniversary Special to The Times. MISHAWAKA, Ind., July 2S.— Solemn high mass was held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church here In honor of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Ganser who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Ganser served as town clerk four terms and was city treasurer of Mishawaka from 1910 to 1914. Mrs. Ganser carried the same prayer hook she carried at the wedding ceremony fifty years ago at Erie, Pa. Ten children followed them down the church aisle and fourteen grandchildren were nearby.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1921. by Star Company.

By K. C. 8.-

NOT FAR away. THERE’S A waterfall. THAT ONCE on a time. ... WAS QUITE some fall. BCT GARDENS came. AND A water-wheel. * AND A dairy place. AND MOST of the water THAT WENT to the fall IN THE olden days WAS STOLEN away. BEFORE IT arrived. AND THE once proud faii. FELL ON bad days. AND THEN It cam*. JI'ST A week ago. THAT THE folks thereabout. HAD A celebration. OF AN ancient 'vent AND GUESTS were brought . AND ONE of the plans. WAS Avery brief visit TO THE once proud fall. AND Avery brief speech. AND TO make it good. SOME DATS beforw. IT WAS so arranged. WITH THE aid of a dam. WHERE THE water wheel was. TO HOLD the water. UNTIL THE hour. • • • WHEN THEY all should stand * • . AT THE foot of the fall. • • • AND THEY said no word. TO THE guests they brought • • AND THE hour cam*. • . • AND THE dam was freed, • • • AND TITE guests arrived. . *. AND THE waterfall. * . • RTSHED ON Its war. AND LAUGHED again. * * • AS IT used to laugh. • • • AND THE orator • • * CLEARED HIS huskr th-oat. • • • AND REGAN to talk. AND WHETHER it was. HE TALKED too long . OR THE dam wns too email. IT REMAINS a factTHAT JUST at the moment- • • • HE GREW most eloquent.. * • • ABOUT THE fall. IT PETERED right out. AND THE guests all laughed. • • • I THANK yon.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921.

Right Here In Indiana

Guardian Named for War Veteran Special to Th Times. SIIELBYVILLE. Ind, July -Judge Alonzo P.lair of the Shelby Circuit Court has appointed Mayor T.ep It Hoop of this city, ns guardian of Claude Mahley, 22. who was recently declared of unsound mind. The bond was placed at ?!.000. The appointment followed the recent arrest of Mahley at Indianapolis on n charge of passing a fraudulent check In payment of an automobile which he had purchased. Mahley was released from custody when it discovered he was tub Ject to "spells.” due to an injury which he received in the Army during the World IV ar. He had been in trouble frequently. He ' a son of Jacob Mahley of Moral Township. Pageant Presented by Young- Friends (Special to Th Ttm. RICHMOND. Ind.. July 28—The pageant, "New Life," was presented last night by Young Friends attending the national conference at Earlham College. The participants were costumed to represent tbo nations of the earth. "Commerce" opened the action of the pageant by chaining all tho nations together Then In order came "Force," "Vice,” “Education" and, finally, "The Chris ttnn Church.” Each new comer claimed to have the “New Life" sought by the nations, but it remained for the "Chris flan Church" to fill tho needs and sol-e th“ problem. Brief pageants depleting Friends' in eldents were staged Wednesday afternoon. Stunts by various groups added to the enjoyment of tho delegates. Two Severely Hurt by Horses* Kicks fneclnl to The Times. NOBLESVILLE, Ind , July 2S.—Two persons in Hamilton County were severely hurt Wednesday afternoon, the result of being kicked hr horse. Marlon Blanton, n ’armor, while working In his stable, was k'eked on the left leg. breaking the bone between the ankle and knee In three places Kenneth, aged fifteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs C. M. Tlott. was kicked in the face by a horse. The child's nos“ was broken and In addition the child sustained a severe cut over one eyes. Tho babe Is in a serious condition.

Terre Haute Seeks Bold Negro Bandits PpoHpi -> The T!m*. TERRE HAUTE Ind.. .Tuly 2A- Throe negro bandits ore being sought today following a night In which a I<l year old white girl was assaulted, a policeman wounded by (lying glass when a shot fired by the bandits crashed the windshield of a pursuing police auto, and tire persons raid up and robbed. Ourllsta Taylor was the yietlra of the assault The bandits ar ebelieved t he the some who have held up a score of persons In the past two weeks.

Hohenbejgor photograph lent by State Library. Entrance to Cave, Near Chimney Rock, Washington County.

HOT IN MICHIGAN , COOL IN FLORIDA Columbus (Ind.) Vacationist's Report Unusual Reversal. Special to The Times. COLT'MBI S. Ind , July 2S. Reporting unbearably hot weather at northern Michigan resorts. Mr ur.d Mrs James Glauton and Mr. ancr Mrs. Clarene* McCullough returned to their homes in this city today from their summer co.tage at Macatawa Park, Mich., where they were spending the summer Art ice famine at the resort also caused dtacomforts which led the party to make an early return The families have spent the summer an their Michigan cottage for twenty three years, but this year they found only heat and discomforts there In startling contrast to the heat-route! vacationist who sought coolness In the north, a letter was -received here yesterday front .T. Will I'ailahon, lloosler song writer, who Is spending the summer In his winter home In Florida. Mr Callahan tells bis sweltering home folk that the weather has been so comfortable In Florida this summer, that he and his wife Intend to stay there through the hot season. Instead of going to their summer home at Petoske.v, Mich. Only once during the entire summer, Mr. Callahan reports, has the mercury at his home gone as high as 90. Potato Crop Hurt by Dry Conditions Special to The Times NOBLESVILLE, Ind , July 28.--Tbe indications point to an almost complete failure of the late potato crop in central Indians. Tbe early crop was also practically a failure. Farmers attribute this to the drought. Those who have begun to dig their potatoes say that they have found only one or two in each hill. The wheat crop in the central part of the State has been marketed and elevator men say that the average yield has ranged from eight to twelve bushels to the acre, which Is the smallest 1n many years. Asa rile tho quality has been so poor that farmers are receiving less than ?! a bushel for their grain mid ns low as 5)0 cents for some of It. The oat crop In this section has averaged be tween fifteen and twenty bushels to the acre. Columbus Planning Up-to-Date Hotel Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Ind.. July 28.—A modern hotel for Columbus is being planned by a group of local bttslnes and hotel men of the city. A preliminary meeting was held Wednesday, at whieh arrangements were practically completed for the formation of a company to tnke over the St. Dennis Hotel, to remodel it info a first clnss hostelry. J. C. Lewis, manager of the St. Denis, is active in the promotion of the plans. Many motorists going from Indianapolis to Louisville find Columbus a convenient stopping place, and It is for tho accommodation of these primarily that the improved hotel is to be established.

Barristers Meet to Ask Separate Court “trier ii tn Th Tlm EVANSVILLE. !nd„ July 28.—A movement to establish a Federal District Court at Terre Haute to have Jurisdiction over southern Indiana was started here at a meeting of Evansville and Terre Haute attorneys Thomas O'Mara. a Terre Haute attor ney, is leading the fight for the new court. He addressed the raeetltig late yesterday. Church to Serve as Guard Armory Special to Th Time*. GREENSBURG. Ind.. July 28.—The old Centenary Church here will be converted Into an armory for the local company of the Indiana National Guard as the result of a lease signed today by the trustees of the First Methodist Church. The old church has not been in use since the merger of the two Methodist Churches here two years ago. Farmer Sends Bullet Into His Forehead Fpec!n! to The Tlm-s. MEDORA. Ind . July 28.—Curtis Mar tin. 40, a farmer residing two tulles wst of this < Ity. shot himself probably fatally lat Wednesday. He was found unconscious near his home by parties who had been sear'dting for him several hours The charge entered his forehead. He has a wife and four children.

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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 looking north in North Pennsylvania street, showing the John Herron Art Institute.

MOVIELANQ Lillian Gish MILLIONS LOVE HER

A Word About Foreign Films Last evening I saw “The Golem" a German picture. I don’t know whether it is to he released throughout tho country or not; I have heard that It might not lie, because of the protests against some of the foreign pictures w hich were shown a while ago. But I think It might he well to make an exception in this ease. For not only is it an unusual production, but It is one from which we can learn a good deal. Anyway, I did. For instance, in it a man lays his band on a rock. He dors it in such a way that you actually get the feeling of that rock — you know that it is a hard, firm substance, not something soft, like a bed. That Is a thing which the European actor Is taught to do—to convey Impressions to the feelings of the audience by the way in which he touches objects so they get the sensation, in a degree. which he gets. Then, too, the sets are very interesting, and absolutely different from the sort of thing that mr>6t of us do ever hrrp. They also convey states of mind. Instead of being merely conventional backgrounds for a story of this type. But I think that the story is the m. interesting thing It Is based on an ola old legend. It Is almost incredible, of course, yet there Is historical foundation for it. It is the story of a clay figure made In the Image of man. and given ii f e. only to prove a destructive force until a little child destroys his power. Os course, these foreign, films are nearly always spectacular; they never are inti mato glimpses of ordinary people, as so many of our most popular releases are They show great mobs, palaces, royalty The action Is intensely dramatic. They never make pictures like our comedy dramas, or “The Old Nest." made front the story in which Rupert Hughes has given us so effective and touching a picture of "just home." Personally, 1 like our own films far better than I do foreign ones. Ours are more real, more genuine In feeling. I don't have any particular sympathy for the heroine, as a rule: when I saw "The Golem." and a woman behind me remarked, as the monster who Is the Golem dragged the heroine around by her hair: "Serves her right- I wish he’d done I* before!" I couldn’t help think ing a little as she did.

South Bend Man to Ask Cut in Loan Tax Special to Th* Tim^s. SOUTH REND. Ind . July 28. A South Bend man. K. V. Haymaker, chairman of a building and loan association, will appear before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives to urge that incomes up to S.IOO derived from investments in building and loan associations be exempt from income tax. This will stimulate building, according to Mr. Haymaker, who was at one time financial adviser to the United States Housing Corporation, and who was called to Washington br the National Committee of the Associated Building and Loan Organizations. This Is Mr. Haymaker's plan: "The Government, by waiving SI,OOO in taxes, would release half a million dollars for building loans. SIOO represents the interest on an Investment of SIO,OOO In building and loan societies, at 5 per cent. The Government tax on this income, at 4 per cent, would be only S2O. Thus, by waiving this small amount, the Government would divert SIO,OOO into capital for building loans.” Fine Time Coming for Artillery Boys Special to The Times. COLUMBUS. Ind., July 28—Preparations are going forward for the reunion of the 139th Field Artillery to be held here Sept 2 and 3. The former members Os Battery H. the local unit of the reci ment. are looking forward to the coining of thefr former comrades and pl3n to on tertaln them in true •■buddy” style. Donald Essex, former lieutenant of the regi ment. Is In charge of the preparations. Letters of Invitation have been mailed to 1.500 former members of the regiment.

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Yet, of course, she wasn’t a heroine, from our point of view. There really wasn't one, any more than there was a hero. The burden of the story rested on an old man and the monster which he had made. There weren't any pretty love scenes —the two there were were anything but pretty, save from the point of view of good photography. But that's another thing that we can learn from these foreign pictures. Over here we are too likely to demand that a girl be pretty. “I don’t want to go to see her—she s not at all good looking”—we hear that far too often, wheD pictures are being discussed. In Europe more emphasis is laid on acting than on mere appearance. I don't believe that these foreign releases will ever be serious rivals of tho American pictures In this country, because it seems to me that the American public is too sincere, too genuine, to (/• satisfied with them. We like our *!l| country and our own type of storteJ.'s* things such as some of Norma Talmadge'r pictures, “Yes or No,” for instance, and Charlie Ray’s and some of Bill Hart's, and Mary Tiekford's, and others like those. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Mrs. G., Ohio—l'm sorry that yon didn’t give me your address; I'd hav liked to answer your letter personally, instead of through the columns of a newspaper. Finding your daughter may he rather difficult, as she may hare registered at one of the motion picture agencies or studios under some name other than her own. Since she ran away from home to go into pictures she would he quite likely to do this. However, she wbuld register with an agent or with the casting director at the different studios and a description of her would be given on her -ard in their files. So I would suggest that you write to the casting directors at the different studios, and to the agent whose address you found in her desk, and ask if any one answering bpr description had registered with them recently., 1 am sure that they will help you in every- way possible, and you may be sure that I will keep my eyes open for her, too. I hope from the bottom of my heart that you will find her.— Copyright, 1921.

DISCUSS WORK IN FOREIGN FIELDS M. E. Church to Hold Confer ence in August. A series of meetings dealing with tbl work of the Centenary in foreign countries will b held tn August in the South Bend district of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, according to the Rev. Jesse F.cgue of Indianapolis, area secretary. Dr Harvey R. Do Bra of Gary, secretary of the Calumet Missionary Society will give an illustrated lecture at each ol the following places: Wheeler, Aug. 10, Merrillville, Aug. It: La Crosse, tbo morning service Aug. 14; Hanna, tho evening service Aug. 14; Wheatfield, Aug 14; De Motte, Aug. 17; Chesterton, Aug The Rev. Mr. Rogue will be heard In an address ou the subject. "The Centenary In Europe." at the Methodist Cburc’ at Argos, Sunday evening. Aug. 7, and at Hebron Sunday evening. Sept. 4. The names of the speakers, meeting places and dates of other lectures to he delivered in the district follow: Th Rev. n L Chivington of Westvllle at Door village Aug. 3 and at Westvill* Aug 31 : the Rev. W. B Warriner of Michigan City, the First M. E. Church, Michigan City, Aug. 12; the Rev. E. M. Kttonen of Culver, Aug. 10, at Culver| the Rev. XV. B Collier of North Liberty, Aug. 14, at North Liberty: the Rev. A W Smith of Hamlet, Aug. 17. at Hamlet; the Rev. G. A. Trodie of North Judson, Aug. 21, at North Judson.

Ryan Granted Leave From Duty by Legion Henry J. Ryan, national director and ehalnnan of the Ameriranlsm commission of the .American Legion, has been granted an extended leave by Commander John Cr. I-lrnery upon advice from physicians. He will be relieved of all duties prior to the legion national convention, Oct. 31, following a nervous breakdown attributed to the automobile accident hers last .Tune wbicb was fatal to F. TV. Galbraith. Jr. then national commander of the legion. Alvin M Owsley. Pallas, Texas, assistant director of the Americanism commission, assumed the duties of Mr. Ryan and will continue indefinitely as acting director. He resigned the position of assistant attorney general of ths State of Texas last February to become assistant director of the legion commission. As chairman of the legion's legislative committee in Texas, he secured a ?2.(K)o,(ttk> hospital for disabled ex-service men. During the war he served as divisional adjutant of the ofitb Division overseas with the rank of colonel, participating in two major engagements. One of (he firsts acts of the new director will he to present personally to President Harding the legion's view on delayed passage of the adjusted compensation measure lie also will confer with Government officials at Washington upon the Bergdoll ease, the revival of German propaganda and Bolshevistic activities. INSANE PATIENT ESCAPES. lia Ballinger, 25. a patient at the Centra! hospital for the insane escaped last night. Ballinger was -sent to the hospital from Johnson County. The police were notified.

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