Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1921 — Page 4

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Jttifcma Smiu fixnm INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUD!*’’ BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. .. „ j Chicago, Detroit, St./Louis, G*’Logan FlTyne Cos. A dyer tiling oiilces j j^* ew York, Boston, Bayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. x \ WHERE was that West Virginia constabulary last week? V THOSE CITIZENS who advocated the Delaware street bridge should go a step forward and call on our omnipotent tax board for some school buildings. TAX COMMISSIONER HOUGH says the school board has set up a straw man and knocked it down. It might be difficult to determine who the straw man is, but the public will havp no trouble in finding who was knocked down by the board’s ultimatum! A Tiresome Campaign ?, With the municipal campaign scheduled to start Sept. 15, or thereabouts, leaders of both parties are displaying some concern as to the lines along which it will be conducted. As usual, the Democrats are being implored by the astute Republican propagandists to limit their campaign to discussion of those things that will not prove offensive to the Republicans, and strange as it .may seem this plea continues to carry almost as much weight in the Democratic ranks as lit did in the last State election. Then, Democrats were asked not to crititise the Goodrich administration and the results in the various counties tsclosed that wherever the request was refused the Democrats profited. Ev, Democrats are being advised that if they refrain from criticising the administration the Jewett Republicans will help them elect theirThe scheme is so old and has been played so successfully that it |H wonder any Democrat will listen to it. j the Republican ranks there is almost as much hesitation as to methods, although the hesitation is not prompted by the enemy. Samuel Lewis Shank repudiated the Jewett administration in his primary campaign and won on that repudiation. Naturally he does not see any need of continuing the attack. Nor does Mr. Shank appear to be very much impressed with the idea that support of his candidacy is support of the national administration. Eliminating these two fields, the Republican campaign managers have only the personality of their candidate on which to base a campaign and many of them are not enamoured of that personality. The truth about the situation is that neither party has been successful in framing an issue that makes any great appeal to the voters. Efforts to make a campaign against Shank because of the unfortunate things that transpired at the end of his previous administration are losing ■weight because of the apparent effort to garble facts in the effort to discredit Shank. Efforts to get the Democratic candidates to make an issue out of the Jewett administration are weakened by the advice of those Democrats who believe the way to win Republican voters is to refrain from criticism of anything that bears the sacred Republican label. Royd M. Ralston is not vulnerable in any spot that the Republicans .have been able to find and they are have almost abandoned hope of making an issue of him. All of which indicates that the campaign will resolve itself into a repetition of time-tried exploitations of such dead issues as law enforcement and such innocuous promises as a “business-like administration.’’ Wherefore, it is going to require a lot of red fire or mud-slinging to let the old town know there is a municipal campaign under way. Commercial Alcohol To the person who always wondered what the world would do for fuel when the woods were gone and who cannot profess to solve the heating problem from the electric standpoint, the announcement by an Indiana inventor of the adoption of industrial alcohol for heating is most reassuring. , The inventor asserts that by a certain device he is able to burn the alcohol, making a heat cheaper than petroleum and without odor or smoke. The invention is patented but not on the market. It is further asserted that the-fuel'may be made from practically all kinds of vegetable matter, the waste materials to as gopd advantage as first class produce. the warmer climates alcohol is made more extensively than farther north. Waste from sugar mills is used. This product is burnt, but the method of combustion is so crude that only a very limited heat value is developed. * What is used, however, takes the place of gasoline and petroleum. This winter there will be a superabundance of corn in some parts of the country, while no coal will be available. The low price of corn and the high cost of coal and of transportation are blamed. If this corn could be converted into denatured alcohol and properly burned, a great economy would be effected. \ The use of commercial alcohol holds another inducement, besides taking the surplus crops. Should there be a failure to mature certain grains, more particularly corn, the loss need not be complete. That v,hich grew may be distilled and utilized. The waste from canning factories, garbage plants and unsalable products and fruits can all be stopped. It is the general impression that some of the larger oil companies will purchase all methods of producing commercial alcohol, to keep them from competing in price with gasoline. Whatever the fact may be, it seems only a matter of time until many waste products heretofore regarded as useless will be utilized to the advantage of mankind.

Courts Must Function The conviction, by coVt martial, recently of the fifth slacker, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, in a small measure begins to restore confidence in the old saying about the mills of the gods grinding slowly, but exceedingly fine, in Federal law enforcement. A continuation of such activities will eventually restore confidence in the machinery of the Government. There was a time when the mere fact that a law was to be enforced by Federal authority was a sufficient assurance that the law would be enforced and observed. The multiplication of Federal statutes without a corresponding increase in the legal machinery to require obedience may present some excuse for the apparent inability and slowness of the Government. The war’s interruption upset many well organized institutions. Recently the United States Attorney General asked for the appointment of a score more Federal judges, so heavy has the work become. In the punishment of slackers by military court a very tardy retribution is visited upon those who well deserve It. The American people love fair play and they resent a uitter. It was so manifestly unfair to dodge military service when everyone was making such sacrifices that the public iB thoroughly gratified when it sees an attempt at punishment honestly made. The universal draft was constructed so impartially that no one could rightfully find fault with it. It fell upon rich and poor alike. Its enforcement was in the hands of each community and almost invariably was very able and effective. Backing of Government and of courts in war measures was necessary, however, and it did not always appear. The Federal Government and its court must function if they expect to retain the wholesome respect which was once accorded them. Congratulations The vicious effort to remodel the constitution of the State of Indiana so as to make it possible to tamper with our tax laws through control each successive General Assembly has been very properly defeated. This effort was a part of the Goodrich scheme for “centralizing” the government of Indiana in the hands of a few men whose motives were not above suspicion and whose participation in the affairs of the State during the last administration proved them unworthy of trust. These amendments were conceived and started toward consummation during the Goodrich administration. They were overwhelmingly defeated by a citizenry that has been undeceived as to the plans and the policies of a former Governor. Other amendments submitted to the people at the same time have suffered a like fate, although they were not nearly so deserving of rejection. It is still an open question as to whether amendment No. 1, limiting suffrage to citizens, has been accepted. Os course it should have bad the support of all residents of Indiana, and the most significant thing about its course in the election is the fact that it was voted down in the city of Ft. Wayne, where a large German element controls elections. Whether amendment No. 1 was passed or not, the people of Indiana have occasion to congratulate themselves on the results of the election. They prove that Indiana is not at all inclined to radicalism, that it has had ► fill of paternalism and that it is last alive to the menaces of Goodrichis.m. •

STORY 4 NINETTE By RUBY M. AYRES

Who’s Who in the Story NINETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the light of day in cheap lodgings in a dull road in the worst part of Balham, is adopted by “JOSH” WHEELER, who shared his meager earnings as a scribe on a London paper, with the friendless babe. Ninette meets PETER SOXHARD, an editor, who rescues he; from sickness and poverty and takes her to his sister, MARGARET DELAY, who has a home to the country. Ninette is introduced'' to ABTHIR DELAY, Margaret's husband. DOROTHY MANVERS, a former sweetheart of N'othard’s, is a guest at Margaret's house. In a lovely old place near by lives the wealthy WILLIAM FELSTED, whose only son, DICK, frequently visits the Delay s home. Ninette meets RANDALL CAVANAGH, a wealthy man of London, who confesses that he ia her father. Cavanagh contemplates a business trip to America and places Ninette under the chaperonage of MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. Ninette is surprised to learn that Mrs. Cranford is Peter Nothard's aunt. Margaret tells Ninette that her husband has left her. Ninette overhears someone telling Peter Nothard that Cavanagh has paid Mrs. Crawford to keep her. hears them ridicule her extravagant dress and hint that her father had done something disgraceful and would leave England for a while. Much to Nothard's distress, Ninette angrily tells him that she overheard his conversation. Upon learning that Peter Nothard is to marry Dorothy Manvers, Ninette suddenly realizes her own love for him. The awakening startles her and she wishes her father wouli take her to America with him. In vain she waits for him and finally hears that he is dead. Chapter XXXVl — Continued. “Dead!” she said again; and there was a hysterical note of fear in her voice. But there was no need for him to answer; she saw it in his eyes, and knew that once ni<>re she was alone in the world!

A tragic moment followed Ninette's gasping word, and the silence of the room was broken only by Mrs. Cran- | ford’s gobbing. Then the girl said again, ; tonelessly: | "But yesterday he was quite well! [There was nothing the matter with him! i People don't die like that —without anyi thing being the matter with them.” [ She raised her stunned eyes to NotI hard's face. , t ‘‘You're keeping something back.” she said shrilly. "You're hiding something from me. You're afraid to tell me the truth." It was Mrs. Cranford who again answered. “Peter, she is bound to know this evening, when the papers are out; it’s kinder to tell her now.” She took Ninette hand and broke the news as gently to her as she poss'b'y could that Cavanagh had takt n his own life. “He must have been in trouble —In some great trouble that of us knew anything about," she said tenderly. “Something that he could not even tell you, my dear. We must not judge him 100 harshly until we know all that there is to know.” Ninette did not move; she looked like a frozen statue. Only her eyes were dark-shadowed and horrified. Dead—and by his- own hand! Peter Nothard's condemnation of the man whom she had known as her father for so short a time came back to her witn sad eloquence "The man's a* blackguard; his name stinks in the city!” Ssha shivered at the thought of them. Until now she had no belief in what he had said; she had thought it just the I outcome of an exaggerated dislike. But now, for the first time, she understood | that there had biv-u Justice In them, i She looked again at Nothard's dlsI tressed face. I “I suppose you know why he did it'/” i she said faintly. . He turned away Without answexlng, and Ninette sat down by the fire, hold--1 ing her hands to- the comforttng i warmth, and for the moment nobody ‘spoke. Then si)A said mechanically; i “I wish I'd been nicer to him —1 wish I'd loved him more!” And she hid her face. Mrs. Cranford motioned to Peter to leave them, and ho went quietly away, | shutting the door behind him. Then Mrs. Cranford went over to Ninette, and, sitting down beside her, j put a kindly arm around the girl's quivering figure. “Let us thi/ik tho best until we know everything." she said gently. “And one thing I do know already—that he loved 1 you. He sp“k" to rap of you in terms of the grea. st affection and conecru. "She's got to be happy, whatever ban I pens,” he said again and again. Ho impressed upon me that ail he cared for lin life was that you should have a happy life." Ninette laughed drearily. "And so he did—this!” she said dully. “As if I can ever be happy, knowing how he died!” l or a moment neither of them spoke, and then slm said again; *And now what Is to become of me/ Oh, it's always the same! As soon as I think I have found a home, and some one to belong to me, it all goes and I am left alone.” ‘“You will have a borne with me always,” Mrs. Cranford said quickly. ‘‘And there Is Peter. He is your friend —you know that.” “My friend? He Is going to be married,” Ninette said. “But he can be your friend all the same,” Peter's aunt urged gently. CHAPTER XXXVII. *Nobody Wants Me!’ Ninette did not answer; nothing ! seemed to matter much at the moment. , Even inter on In the day whpn newsj boys were shouting the latest sensation jin the streets, and the narue of Cavanagh i was on everyone's lips. Ninette hardly j cared. Her heart was like a stone, j Disgrace and suicide! Tkpy were the [two terrible tragedies that had stolen |in such sinister fashion Into her life, [and dealt her a blow from which she felt she would never recover. She knew that by Peter's orders Mrs. Cranford had carefully kept the newspapers from her, but in the morning she crept out of the house and bought some for herself. Her father’s portrait was on the front

BRINGING UP FATHER,

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, lari.

page, and two long columns were devoted to what they chose to call the “Romantic rise and fall of a great man.” There was no specific charge made against him, but there were a great many veiled suggestions, and, although Ninette did not understand their ineanng, she knew- ia her heart that there was some terrible scandal yet to be exposed. She was still poring over the papers when Peter Nothard came. She raised a white face and smiled faintly at him, and with a muttered exclamation of annoyance he strode forward and tore the papers from her hands. “Leave those things alone! They always exaggerate the truth.” Ninette did not answer, and he went on: “Promise me not to read them any more, Ninette. Will you promise me/” “If I did I should not keep the promise," She looked away from him, and asked in a hard voice; “Do you think there is any other sort of trouble that can happen to me? I think I’ve had everything, surely?” He answered gently that the sun al ways shone out when the clouds seemed darkest, and that happiness must be waiting for her now, close at hand. The girl shook her head. “Happiness—when you are going to be married!” she thought bitterly; and a queer sort of hatred rose in her heart against him. “You will stay tere with my aunt,” he said after a moment. "She will take care of you; she is kindness Itself.” He paused, and added, with a touch of constraint: “And I hope that you will not forget that, whatever happens, I am your friend.” Ninette said “Thank you!” without enthusiasm: and then, fired by her own pain and pride, she added : [ “I havenot congratulated you. I do, with all my heart.” He flushed painfully, and his eyes fell, j “Thank you,” he said. Ninette went on slowly. I “I don't expect Dorothy would care

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1821. by Star Company. By K. C. B. ANOTHER PLAY. • • I THINK I'll write. WILL BE in one act. • • • AND I’LL have the scene. • • • IN A restaurant. • • WHERE THEY crowd the table*. SO YOU can't get in. WITHOUT TEARING the hair. • • • l ROM THE woman guenti. • m • AT THE other tables. AND WHEN you're through AND YOU look at your check. THEKE’S A cover charge. ■• • • THAT'S BEEN a secret. TILL YOU'RE ready to go. AND I LL be there 0 0 0 AY A little table. A LITTLE toy table FROM A child's playhouse. • i* e AND IHERE LL boa waiter. * A LARGE, fat waiter •• • * AND EVERY time HE MAKES a more. HE'LL TAKE a crack. , • • ♦ AT THE back of my head. • • • AND LIKELY as not. HE’LL SLIP a bean. • re OR A piece of ice. OR % nice cold olive OR SOME melted ice cream. DOW N THE back of my neck. AND ABOUT the time W HEN DESSERT is served • e • I’LL MAKE complaint. ABOUT BEING heaned. • • EVERY TIME the waite.r. • ♦ • CROWDS BY my chair. • • AND I'LL get my check. • ♦ • WITH THE cover charge e • * AND COMPLAIN again. • • * AND I’LL ask the waiter. TO SEND the proprietor. * • • AND WHEN he comes * * • I'LL HAVE saved my pie. • • NICi: BLUEBERRY pie • • * AND I’LL smear the stuff. • • • ALL OYER my hand AND I.AY my hand 0 0 0 ON THE bosses' chest. 0 0 0 AND PILAP his back. ♦ • • *■' AND SHAKE hands with him. ♦ V * AND MESS him all up. AND PAY my check. • * * AND GO on out. * * • I TRANK you.

to hear from me, or I would write and congratulate her, too.” Nothard paced away and came back. “Nobody blames yon for that—for what took place at my sister’s house,” he said almost angrily. “Delay has told us himself——” She broke ip. with a hard little laugh. “So you had to wait to believe in me until he told you I was not to blame!” “I always believed in you,” he answered harshly. There was a burning splash of color in either of her cheeks. “W’hen you first knew me I tried to steal your watch,” she said, a note of hysteria in her voice, “and then—you think I tried to steal your sister's husband! I wonder what the next thing will be?” He made no arfswer, and quite suddenly Ninette began to cry—the low, dreary sobbing of utter Tlespair. If only I could go to sleep and never wake up any morel What la the good of me in the world! Nobody wants me; nobody ever will!” Ninette!” He made a swift movement toward her, and then stopped helplessly. “That is not true,” he went on more quietly, but with a note of hoarseness in his voice. "We all hare our dark times to go through, but we a ‘ get our share of happiness as well.” le laid his hand on her shoulder; but sh- shivered away from him. Gh, please—leave me alone!” ■ he felt as if her heart were breaking, em.iu'fs Y happiness! What happiness ■ ould there be for her, when I’eter Noth- ,, * raß marry Dorothy Manvers? -Nothard came lack to the house „ nl k r ht, and had an interview „.th Mrg Cranford. He looked white and worried, and h e paced up and down the room restlessly the whole time he was talking. It s impossible to beep it from her. e papers have got hold of it, and are exiraeting every rag they can out of it iou what they are! I alajs said tlfe man was a blackguard, but somehow i never thought he would mnke an end of things like this. For his daughter's sake he might have faeed Mings out He turned rpuffd and looked nr his aunt. "I've been up In the city all tio- afternoon, making inquiries, and they say by the time the whole story is on: and everything cleared up as well as It can be, there won't be a shilling for Ninette.”

Mrs. Cranford gave a stifled cry. “And for me—Peter.” “For you?" He shrugged his shoulders “I\ell, you can't expect to get particular consideration. The thing is—what is to become of her?” I have told her she can nave a home with me; but If there is no money—” Mrs, Cranford began to cry. “Peter, you know how poor I am! You know how much I was counting on this money; and now— Oh, it's a bitter disappointment !” "If s worse for Ninette,” Peter said bluntly. He walked to the end of the room and came back. “My God It look* as If she was born under at unlucky sfar!" he said bitterly. "It's true enough when she says she has never had any happiness,?’—Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. (To Be Continued.) BUSY WITH PLANS FOR EXPOSITION Officials to Wind-up Exhibit Space Allotments, The vrind-up of the exhibit space for the Industrial Exposition is bringing In scores of applications for space which have been held by different Indianapolis concerns. m The exposition organization and the allotment committee have been busy in adjusting space ami making changes which will allow the greatest number of etxhlt itora to shqw their products In the exposition. Officials hope that the final space allotments will be completed by Friday noon Following are the Indianapolis concerns whose applications for space have not been acknowledged heretofore: Mellett Printing Company. Ine., Printing Arts Company. Hayes Wheel Company, Reed Food Company. Climax Ma chinery Company. MarachktWMannfartnring Company, Ludwig Fo<sl Products Company, J. D. Hunt Manufacturing Company and th_* Hooaier Veneer Company. SETTLE ISSS TAX LEVY. NOBLERVILLE, Ind., Sept. 8 The county council at its annual session Wednesday fixed the tax levy for next year at 15 cents, tin Increase of cents over the levy which Is In effect. The council mt requisitions to the amount o f $20,000. Among other things it reduced the salary of the county superintendent of the schools SSOO and also the salary of the court reporter sl<tO Many of the requisitions for money for improvements over the county were stricken off the list.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterday's picture was a view of East Washington street, east from Whittier place.

LIKE A PEACOCK

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GLORIA SWANSON. Here is our well dressed friend, Gloria Swanson, all dressed up like a peacock for one of the elaborate scenes in "The Great Moment.” Gloria's gowns In this movie really take your breath away. This picture will give you an idea. This .Swanson movie may be seen any time this week at Loew’s State.

Highways and By-Ways of LiP OS 5 New York Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.

By RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW YORK. Sept. B.—Oh. for a vocabulary sufficiently succinct aud vitriolic to tell what one really thinks of the “hideous things” by no stretch of the imagination eotild they be called paintings - now pari of a loan exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. which have been roundly condemned in an anonymous circular signed "A committee of citizens and supporters of the museum." They are so downright bad that one half suspects tho circular Itself is propaganda devised In the hope of starting a controversy and. If possible, get otherwise sensible folk to go aud see what some people actually will put frames around. They ere so bad as paintings that once seen they could be held responsible for almost anything—a crime wave, a suicide epidemic, divorce—l will even go further—another World War. To the point, the "condemned twentythree” constitute a frank revelation of the inability of seven Frenchmen to paint. The names of maaqneraders responsible for the “atrocities'' —those are French and not German made —are Paul t’ezzaue. Edward De Gas, Andre Doratn. Paul Ganguin. Henri Matisse. Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Renoir. I.et us pray that some of these men were born somewhere outside of France and reduce if possible the mortification of our sister republic. But come along and we will do the “atrocities" together. Although there are 157 frames hanging in the “loan exhlbltion of Impressionist and post-im-pressionist paintings," our quest is confined to a less number. The circular is oar j;ulde, if supplying ns with the number of the branded ones. NO SORROW IF YOU DON'T SEE ‘sf)KROW.’ Number 2 is called "Sorrow,” which the catalogue says Cezzane used as a wall decoration for his house at Alx. tt is a huge canvas upon which, in blueblack, the figure of what may be a man Is leaning over a head, John the Baptist for ail we know. It is a frightful thing and looks like nothing. Number 5. by the same author, called “The Bather,*' Is the rear view of a bow legged naked man without even the lotn cloth. The water ho is about to jump into re gambles a pool of luk. and the rock upon which be stands could be any thing that does not exist. Ah, we find number lu also is called "The Bather," and by the same author. This one has bine, !hin legs, wears the same sort of trunks that prizefighters do when they enter the ring, and his face is a smudge. Num-

BROADWAY STARS TO SEE ROAD As New Productions Open in New York

The theatrical writers for the New York papers are evidently gluttons for punishment. Either that or talented players are ao scarce the said scriveners must perforce regret their absence, bemoaning the fact that playgoers elsewhere will have an opportunity to know and enjoy the work of such artists. With some fifty odd first-class theaters adorning or abutting on Broadway and ten first night performances announced for the following week, the Evening Post and the New York Sunday Times call attention to the fact that Fay Bainter will be absent from the city for another season, as William Harris, Jr., desires the country at large shall know her as Ming Toy in "Eastis West,” that Balnche Bates and Henry Miller will journey abroad in “The Famous Mrs. Fair:" that Ethel Barrymore will give her admirers in other cities an opportunity to see "Declassee” and Holbrook Blinn will be among the absentees for a season or two, owing to the success scored by “The Bad Man.” Bearing In mind the boasted fifty odd first-class theaters of New York will have a rather consistent season of first nights, good, bad and middling, during the season, it would seem that at least a few of the good players might be spared to other sections of the country without complaining about It. Indianapolis is promised all of the above shows with the stars and many others are headed this way. The road season looks like a big one. -I- -!- -tOF LOCAL INTEREST. On next Monday night at the Murat, “Three Live Ghosts” will r open n threedav engagement. The cast includes Beatrice Maude, formerly a member of the Stuart-Walker Company. On Thursday night of next week. Kissing 1 .me, a musical comedy, will open a three day engagement. On next Monday night at English's the 1921-1922 edition, of “Abe Martin," a musical comedy, opens a week's engagement at English's.

ber 11 Is catalogued "Still Life—Fruit, pears in a dish with crockery and a glass of wine,” also by Cezzane. It was mighty thoughtful to tell us what was on the dish, for it might have been vegetables, hen's eggs or buns so far as resemblances went. - Number 23 the next to view, is called “Lechateau Nolr,” which was even greater foresight, as it looked more like a "bloob,” than anything. The last Cestaas was number 24, called “A Sailor," a large blue, green canvas with a central figure that possibly might pass for General Grant In a thick fog without his cigar. TURN IN HOPES TO DE GAS WORKS. Thank heavens that' over. Now for the works of De Gas. Number. 31 is called “Before the Race,' a harmless thing if you can make It out, supposed to be seven Jockeys astride seven horses, but more resembling a pile of wood waiting for the saw buck. Number 32 is another “The Bather,’’ being the rear of a grotesquely shaped xvomau pulllt., a chemise over her bead. AVhether it Is going on or off we can take our choice. There is no water near at hand. Number 34 is dubbed, “Woman on Couch" and is a daubed representation of a woman with hi- hair down, pitched forward on her fact, her left arm over her back aud her left leg bunched under her body, the foot protruding. One's only thought was that of pity for the poor model, who had to pose for De Gas In this unnatural way. Doraln Is the next of the post Impressionists to torture our artistic senses, faux of his “creations” being in the cir- : cular. Number 40 is catalogued “Still i Life: fruit aud wine bottle," without the : catalogue we certainly would have been lost, for there was nothing on the canvas ; to convince us that the lumps of color were strawberries, pears and cherries. In fact, the look of the cherries 1* that of the faces peering out of a monkey cage at the Bronx zoo. Number 42 is’called “The Pine Tree,” but it looks more like Mclntyre and Heath's “Ham Tree.” Number 43 was named “Woman,” but a much better “moniker" would have been “The Bent nosed Squaw.” GAUGIN' MAKES HIS ART PLAUSIBLE, MATBE. We have now gotten as far as Gauguin. who appears to have been more clever than other*, for he makes his characters definite as to location, putting them In place where one has never been. Number 47 is his “Ya Orana Maria." which is South Sea Island for “Hail Mary.” We shall never go to Tahiti if the women are like Ganguin makes them. The “Mary" in the frame probably Is one of the three women who wears some red bagging, and has a boy straddled over her shoulder, whose expression suggests “Hell Mary” rather than the title given the mesa Matisse should have been named “What ’tls” so difficult are his smears. Number 88. called “Window on the Garden" left one In doubt both as where the window commenced and the garden left off. His “Spanish Girl.” or Number 69 of the circular, wai simply maddening in its unlikeness to anything human. We shall pass on to Picasso, number 80 being “Woman Dressing Her Hair," a woman with a T-shaped grandmother face, the figure exposed from the knees up. The catalog days "It was painted abont 1905 in the sc-called piDk manner.” Well, whatever manner that may be, it gave one the giggles. Number 81. another by Picasso named “Landscape.” possessed clouds that looked like a flight of airplanes, trees that resembled aligators standing on their tails and water that looked like thick soup greenish black in color. The last that we contemplated was Renoir's “Girl Arranging Her Hair,” number 111. Again we must thunk Mr. Bryson Burroungbs for his catalogue, for the girl question looked like an old battle-axe. and she seemed to be arranging an escape from her clothes. It was dreadful to be among the lot, and never did we welcome the air so much as after our tour af these French Nouveau art hobsgoblins. Yes. and the rich people

Among the merles on view today are: “The Hell Diggers,” with Wallace R B td at the Alhambra; Gloria Swanson In “The Great Moment.” at Loews State: “At the End of the World.” with Betty Compson, at the Ohio: Bill Hart In “The Whistle,” at the Isis: Charlie Ray in "A Midnight Bell,” at Mister Smiths; “The Man Who,” at the Colonial, and “The Man of the Forest," at the Regent. Willie Howard and Eugene Howard are playing to big business at the Murat this week with “The Passing Show of 1921.” Harry Beresford is finding marked favor at English's this week where “Shavings” is being exhibited. Singer's Midgets is the headline act at Keith's this week. Lena Dalev and "Kandy Kids” remains the attraction at the Park for the remainder of the week. “A Trip to Toyland” is the featured act on the current bill at the Lyric:

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger, e On the Road, Sept, 8. IF ANYTHING, the tip evil is worae in the Middle West than the East. If you are not alert the taxi driver will overcharge you and then expect yon to tip him. The waiter, of course, you must tip, no matter whether he serves you ill or well. The chambermaid neglects you in the matter of towels if you do not fee her. And woe to you if you do not cross the palm of the bell boy who takes yonr bags to your room. But, of all the graft, that of the hat check, perhaps, is the most irritating. If you eat thrice a day in a hotel It means thirty cents per diem, or more In a month than the cost of th* hat. And if you neglect the girl once either by chance or design she aril as If she considered yon a cheat. Does the hotel man tip the shoe salesman who serves him when he buys shoes? He doesn't. The hotel man's wife or daughter would complain to the proprietor of a department store ot specialty shop whose employes had their Itchy palms ont ail the while for rips, yet hotel attaches act as If It were their right and privilege to exact toll In common honesty and decency, hotel men should run their businesses as other merchants do theirs. The tip evil is a diagram. No reasonable person objects to rewarding a servant for special or good service, but does object to being viewed as a bird to be plucked because ha must, perforce, patronize a betel. And he doesn’t object to not getting even a “thank you” when he does tip and tips [ well at that. It is Idle for hotel men te say they ; cannot abate the evil. They grant special rights to taxi companies and receive • I considerable sum annually from the taxi people. If they do not run the hatcheck rooms themselves they a*U the “concessions” to hat pirates. Many hotel employes look more to their tips than their wages, and witb-reason. The whole thing is wrong. It is a fi*ul growth. It doesn't fit in a democracy. A worker should receive honest anl full wages. He or she shouldn't have to depend on graft. It's un-American in essence and in fact.

IN ROME cities Chambers at Commerce are conducted on queer lines: A visitor inquired in a certain city I for the secretary. j “He is on bis vacation.” was the reply “Mar 1 see his assistant?” was the next question. “He is out at lunch,” the caller wax informed. The stranger looked at the clack. It was 11:15 a. m. “IVhat time will he return?" was the next query. “T don't know.” was the response. “He’ll be busy this afternoon.. Wont you call tomorrorw?” “No.” said the caller. Acd he didn't. * * • COMPARATIVELY few neg Toes ar* seen in Middle West cities. In the war period there was a great Influx of colored men and women from Mississippi. Louisiana. Alabama. Georgia. Tennessee and Kentucky to the munition plants and industrial establishments of the North. Apparently they didn't make good or, at least, didn't win favor. Its bulk of them have gone back or gone elsewhere. Employers say they were loud, unruly, offensive and arrogant, apparently swelling up with importance owing to the largo wages they received, i They were among tho first to be let go. when the depression started. Now there la a distinct disinclination to employ negro workers. Thia ia an added handicap to the earnest, painstaking negro, who is abont as conscientious and da- ! pendable a worker as can be found.--, j Copyrigl . 1921, by Public Ledger Company. " " Kiwanians Start Golf Tournament Members of tbe Kiwanls Cflnb will battle for the golf championship of the club in a tournament to be piayeti at the Country Club beginning Sept. 19. J. V. Rtont is chairman and Homer Wiegand. Paul Donald Brown, H. F. Raymond. Jr., and Ell Scbloss members of the committee. ‘ Thomas F. L Henderson of LaSalle Extension University. \Chicago, spoke at the weekly luncheon YVednesday. actually buy this sort of thing and put 'em In their homes to live with. When these art dreadfuls leave the Metropolitan not a tear will be shed. We then will go back and bow in reverence before Corot, Daubigny, Dia£, Israel. Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Rubens. Velasquez—men who painted and did not palm their palettes off for works of art.

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