Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1921 — Page 4

JuMana flatly amirs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 23-351. * MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. .. . j Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j j^ ew \- or k, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. PROFESSIONAL BONDING falis in popularity as the plain provisions of tee Indiana statutes are enforced! THAT FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS -which the remonstrators against school buildings claim to have saved the taxpayers will just about pay the bills of one firm for the erection of portable buildings. Some “economy,” isn’t it? Distorted History The youth of the land has returned to its schools and its books. It is studying, among other things, the history of the world, and especially of these United States. That history is a peculiar record. Asa rule, it is not a record of occurrences with the proportionate space their importance demand, but it is a distorted narrative with some events magnified far out of proportion tb their importance and others given very little attention or none at all. As an experiment, ask the next school child you see what he is studying in history. Undoubtedly he will tell you he is studying the Revolutionary war or the Civil war or some other war. There is a possibility that he -will tell you he is studying about the discovery of America, but, barring that event, if he is studying American history he will be studying about the war. All the things that have gone to make this Nation really great are passed over lightly with a paragraph or two, while the histories of battles are gone into in minute detail. Thus, the young student of history obtains a distorted idea of the importance of events. This condition is easily explained. War is dramatic and therefor interesting. The important events of peace, industrial and social development and constructive statesmanship, are rarely intensely interesting. This has always been true. Not one out of a hyndred individuals can tell you who were the leaders in the art of Greece and the government of Rome, but there is not one who has not heard of Caesar and Alexander. Few can tell of the constructive events of the building of the British empire, but every one knows of Wellington and Nelson. The stories of wars have been ingrained in the human race. Few there are who have not the idea, despite their better judgments, that the history of the human race is a history of wars. Yet wars have always impeded civilization. Rome fell following Caesar’s ambitious conquests. France deteriorated into a second rate power after the Napoleonic wars. The world today is struggling to recover from a great war and is undoubtedly infinitely worse off than before the war. In less than two months there will meet in Washington a conference of representatives of the great nations of the world to discuss disarmament. At least some of them seriously wish some sort of elimination of armaments. Their greatest problem, if they really go about disarmament seriously, is to educate human beings to the fact that war is not glorious nor even a necessary evil, but a bestial lowering of the standards so humanity. Why not start a campaign of education on the importance of peace? Why* not emphasize the constructive work of the builders of the world instead of the destroyers? Why not tell of the constructive work of the Roman forum instead of the conquest of Gaul? Why not tell of the building of railroads in America rather than the battles of an internal war? Why not rewrite the history books to give the battles of peace their true proportion compared with the battles of war?

A Sham Battle! The illustrations of the inconsistency of attacks now- being made on the personality and record of Samuel Lewis Shank which have been made public by the Shank-for-Mayor Club serve exceedingly -well to prove the folly of such campaign tactics. The agency which is now engaged in holding up Mr. Shank as a menace to the community stands convicted of the basest kind of hypocrisy either now or at the close of the Shank administration. It matters not -when, if ever, this agency was telling the truth, insomuch as its frequent contradictions of itself have deprived it of credence at any time. The prompt and effective way-iiwwhich the Shank campaign managers have met this issue ought to who are presumed to direct the campaign against Shank of the futility of their methods. There are, undoubtedly, many citizens of Indianapolis, both Republicans and Democrats, who devoutly wish that Mr. Shank might be defeated. To these citizens the tactics of those who are intrusted with the campaign against Mr. Shank is heart-breaking. They cannot help realizing that it is futile and they have little inclination to join in a fore-doomed effort. All the more disgusted do they become when they 6ee the Shank campaign gathering the support of the Jewett administration with its established lack of popularity and its indefensibility. From the time Mayor Jewett entered Republican headquarters, bearing with him the record of his own failure in office, there was opened to the Democrats of Indianapolis an opportunity to make a campaign on an issue that possesses possibilities of success. Yet the challenge goes unaccepted 1 How much longer will the Republicans of Indianapolis be permitted to ride, unchallenged, to political success with a machine which even they repudiated in their own primaries? Races and Their Laws A peculiarity of race is brought to mind in th> recent action of a French war council wherein they summoned certain German generals to be present for inquiry into military offenses. If the alleged culprits fail to appear their trial will be conducted without them and sentence will be passed. Os course, France must catch the man in order to carry out the execution of the sentence, but that is another matter. In America and England the accused can only be tried for a felony when personally present. Every step of the court is supposed to be in his presence, unless he consents that it shall proceed without him. This is a constitutional right and if it is not strictly followed, the entire proceeding is regarded as illegal The story is told in Cuba of so many condemnations taking place in the absence of the accused when that land was under Spanish rule, that a custom of complete silence in public places has been observed for years. Otherwise, some political prisoner might have been placed "in c-mimuni-cado,** tried and backed against a wall before aware of the alleged offense. It is difficult to explain why the Anglo Saxon should be so zealous of the rights of the accused In this regard, while equally good Latin people, who think as much of life and their own children as any other nation, should adopt laws so radically different. In spite of this peculiarity, courts of justice in the lands of the Franks and Spaniards are respected by the people of those lands as are those of the American or Englishman. It seems, however, better to be presert and put forth any available defense, rather than rely upoD escaping the wrath of conviction, whether right or wrong. Those German generals, if innocent, would do well to face their accusers.

Another Liquor Case It ia Indeed deplorable that the complications over the “Fatty” Artuckle incident should arise. While no condemnation should be made of any one, until the guilt is established, some facts stand out too prominently to be ignored in this sad event. First of all is the open violation, not only of the liquor laws, but of the Constitution. In the legal sense that is the lesser -offense which is acknowledged without any apparent qualm. It is apparently dismissed with the same alacrity as it would have been before the Constitution was amended, as wholly commercial. The violation of liquor laws is more than the outwitting of revenue officers. The usual spasms of activities and denunciations havev arisen. S’ome condemn motion pictures and would close them hll. Moralists thunder against them, because Arbuckle made his money as a screen actor In the meantime, there has not yet arisen a national consciousness of the desirability to obey the law and tc forego the qse of liquor in order to he lawabiding. Whether or not there is a personal desire for liquor the Constitution should be observed. Every one insists on former 'slaveholders avoiding peonage and secession is too dead to mention. Wheq the good people regard the Constitution more and liquor less some of the horrible things startling the Nation will be avoided g ■ * lat was the reason for the adoption " the constitutional amendment.

The STORY of NINETTE

By RUBY M. AYRES

Who’B Who in the Story NINETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the light of dav In cheap lodgings in a dull road in the worst part of Balhain, is adopted by . . . "JOSH” WHEELER, who shared his meager earnings as a scribe on a hoadon paper, with the friendless babe. Ninette meets PETER NOTHARD. an editor, who res cues her from sickness and poverty and tak-s her to his sister, MARGARET DELAY, who has a borne -a the country. Ninette is introduced i ART HER DELAY, Margarot’s husband. DOROTHY MANVERS, an old sweetheart of Nothards. is a guest at Margaiei s bouse Ninette meets. ... RANDALL CAYANAGH, a wealthy man of London, who confesses that he j her father. . Cavanagh contemplates a business trip to America and plaees Ninette under tno chaperonage of ... ... MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. is surprised to learn that Mrs. Cranfoi is Peter Nothard s aunt,. Margaret tells Ninette that her husband has left her. Ninette overhears soma one telling Peter Nothard that Oavatiagh ha. paid Mrs. Crawford to keep her. nears them ridicule her extravagant dress ana hint that her father had done somethi g disgraceful and would leave England i a while. Much to Nothard s distress, Ninette angrily tells him that she o\i heard his conversation. Upon learning that Peter Nothard is to marry Dorothy Manvers. Ninette suddenly realize- her own love for him. ane awakening startles her and she wishes her father would take her to America with him. In vain she waits for him and finally hears that he is dead. Nothard proposed to pay his aiuft to keep Ninette with her and insists that Ninette remain ignorant of the fact he is supplyin the money. Mrs urau ford suspects Ninette’s fondness lor Nothard, but he still thinks she dislikes him. Ninette now knows that Nothard loves her, and in her eyes he discerns aer affection so him. Dorothy Is severely burned ar.d it is thought her beauty is permanently destroyed. Because of Dorothy's misfortune, Notuard realizes that their engagement tan not be broken unless it is her desire. Ninette and Nothard quarrel when ne obeys Dorothy’s request that he see her. While out for a walk, to quiet her troubled thoughts. Ninette meets Arthur Nothard reluctantly tells Dorothy that he Intends to marry her in spite of her disfigurement. ... .. .... Dorothy spitefully tells Ninette that Nothard admitted he waa paying his aunt for keeping Ninette at her b‘ ,m ®; Leaving her valuables behind, Ninette steals away from Mrs. Cranford s bouse. Nothard. knowing that Dorothy must have revealed his secret, tells her that Ninette means everything in the world to him. Dorothy feels that she can not face the future with her face so terribly marred and to end her own existence ,s her last resort. CHAPT ER~L—-Continued. Ninette’s destination that dark night was far different than Dorothy's. She had wandered through the streets aimlessly at first; then remembrance had guided her, and she had turned toward the lodgings which she had occupied with Josh Wheeler at the time of his death. When she rang the doorbell a woman whom she had never seen before greeted her. and Ninette paused on the step, uncertain Just what to do. ”1 stayed here a long time ago,” she began falterlngly, “and I wanted to come back and live here again. I didn't know that things had ebangod here, but if you could give me a room— ’’ “Oh, why of course I can, my dear—come In out of the rain!” urged the woman, and her kindly voice warmed Ninette's lonely heart. "There's Just the corner for you all ready and waiting, and I've a pot of tea on the fire this minute; yon look to me s* If something hot to drink would do yon good. My, but you're dripping wet —I'll dry your things Sot you after you've gone to bed.” Such friendliness waa almost too much fer Ninette, who could hardly keep back ‘the tears as she followed the woman upstairs And when she found herself In the little room that had been hers when she and Josh were so happy together she could no longer control them. “Oh. John, If you had only stayed with me!” she sol.bed, burying her face In the cushion of the old chair In which he had so often sat. But after a fw moments she rose, dried her eyes and unpacked her few belongings. This was no time for lamentations; she must plan her search for work on the morrow.

CHAPTER LI. Delay Is a Friend in Time of Need. Ninette had but a few pounds ln her purse when she left Mrs. Cranford's house, and she did not dare Rpend this small nest egg until it became absolutely necessary. To find work at once was Imperative, and she set out resolutely the first thing ln the morning to see what she could find to do. But finding work, even If one has experience and can show good references, Is not always easy. And for Ninette, who had neither, It seemed quite lmposslb e. Day after day she walked the streets, looking for some kind of employment that would furnish the money to keep soul and body together. She sought even the most menial work, and applied for positions as dishwasher, scrubwoman—anything that would pay even the smallest wages. Yet nowhere could she find a Job. Her little store of money decreased steadily, although she lived on the plainest food and ate very little even of that. Even when times were hardest she and Josh had never been so poor as she was now. Lack of suitable nourishment made her feel weak and tired, but she went determinedly on with her search. “I shall never be a burden to anyone again,” she told herself, as she turned away from a shop where- Rhe had hoped to secure work as a salesgirl. and went wearily down the street. Her purse was nearly empty, and for the first time she gave In completely to discouragement. I*W>m the first hers had been a losing fight; now there seemed nothing for it but to give In and die of starvation. She paused on the corner to let a hansom cab pass. And then suddenly

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the world whirled around her. She groped blindly for something to cling to, but her hands grasped only the I air, and reeling, she staggered backward and lost consciousness. At sight of her a man had jumped from the hansom cab without even wait- J ing for It to stop. He dashed across the ! pavement and caught the faiutlng gin. In his arms, just as a crowd of intor- I esting persons was beginning to gather. “What is it? Oh, she's fainted. Run for water, somebody!” An irrepressible little old lady had snatched hold of one of Ninette's hands and was patting and rubbing It v g'oTOUsly. “She’ll be quite all right In a moment —ls you’ll take care of her” tho man urged, trying to force hls way through the crowd to the hansom. But on all sides people hampered his progress. Insisting that various remedies be tried In order to restore the fainting girl to consciousness. “Here, what's all this?” It was a policeman who intervened at last. “What's the matter?” “This young lady has fainted and I'm 1 trying to get l.er out of the crowd and take her home,” explained the man, hold- ! ing Ninette close. “If you'll just make ! these people stand aside and let me through—" “She a friend of yours?” demanded i the policeman. "Yes, surely—a relative. Her name is Ninette Wheeler—and mine is Arthur Delay,” he answered, reaching the hansom at last. And so Ninette, despite her resolve, became a burden cnee more. But to Delay it never occurred to look ' at her la this light. He had spent many miserable hours since he had last seen her. To him Ids love fo* her was an all absorbing passion. He asked nothing better than to take care of tier, In the j hope that some day she would reciprocate his affection. Losing track of her after she left Mrs. j Cranford's house, he had sought through- ] out the city for Ninette. He feared that she might bo without money, and possl- j bly ill and helpless. Ills motive was a selfish one at heart, and yet this made , his search no less painstaking. And now, at last, by the merest chance, he bad found her when he bad almost given up the search. He opened her j shabby little pocketbook end hunted out * a fdtp of paper bearing the address o.' her lodgings, which he gave to the driver; then he settled back with Ninette propped up on the sent beside him, ids arm supporting her, and her head rest- i ir,g on his shoulder. Ninette had partly regained oonsetou*nosa by the time they had ridden a few blocks, but seemed to be slightly delirious. She babbled unintelligibly, twisting her hot little hands together, and sobbing in distress. Her cheeks were burning with fever, and when she opened her eyes theye were blank and staring. “Poor little girl,” murmured Delay. , holding her close as they ogged on through the twilight streets. "It's about time somebody looked out for you. And I’m the lucky man!”

CHAPTER LII. ‘Why Don't You Come With MeT Arrived at the lodging house, Delay carried Ninette to her room and instantly dispatched the landlady for a doctor. And while the physician talked with the sympathetic woman, and prescribed for the girl. Delay stood in the window and star<y* out over the desolate stretch of back yards and Booty roofs that had so often greeted Ninette when she dragged herself home from her unavailing search for work. A wave of compassion swept over him, blotting out his selfishness for the moment. “Poor little kiddie,” he murmured, "she's had a hard time of it straight through, and I certainly didn’t help to make it any easier. But If 1 can do anything now to help her out, by George, I'll do It! ' “The girl 1s suffering from malnutrition,” the doctor told him a few mqmeAts later, Joining him at the window. "She must have good care, plenty of rest and the best of food, otherwise I doubt whether she'll pull through. And on no account Is she to bo allowed to worry.” As he left the room the landlady turned to Delay, perplexed. “That's easy enough to say.” she remarked, ruefully, “but whero the money for nil these luxuries to eomo from Is more than I can see. This poor lamb hasn't a cent to her name, I'm afraid, and she's so proud that I've never dared ask to help her out not that I have much myself." “I'll take care of that end of It,” Delay assured her promptly. "I’ll gladly pay for everything and if you can giro nil your time to taking earn of her, it will bo worth your while to do so.” The landlady accepted Delay without question, his Intimation that ho was a relative of Ninette's, and had been with her when sho fainted on the street, sounded convincing to that guileless soul, and she made no attempt to question him. For weeks Ninette lay In a stupor, relieved only by attacks of delirium. It made Delay’s heart ache to hear her babble on; the little disconnected scraps of comment, the appeals to heaven to end everything for her—gave him an Insight into tho girl's life that ho could never have had otherwise. It was not always certain thnt sho would recover, oven after her mind cleared, “She has no desire to pet well, you see,” the doctor explained to Delay. "She prefers to die, quite obviously. Something must be done to rouse her from this apathy, or she will never recover." And so Delay made his frequent calls even more frequent, and tried In every way possible to rouse some interest in the girl. “Don't you care anything about me?” bo asked her one day. “Couldn’t you try to get well Just for my sake?” “If you mean couldn’t I try to get well and marry you, I couldn't,” she told him. “In the first place, I never could love you, Arthur, and in tho second, you still bo long to Margaret." “But Margaret has done with me," ho protested. "She Is through with me—never wants to see me again. The last I heard of her she had gone to the Kiviera with Mrs. Cranford, and was planning to

go on Into Italy later. So you see, that argument is no good. And so for your not caring for me—well, perhaps you'd learn to when you knew me barter.” But Ninette shook her head and turned away. She could not tell him so, but her heart was Peter Nothards and always would be. Meanwhile, the doctor had paused on his way home to speak with the landlady. "What do you know about this chap Delay and the little girl?” he tsked her. “Are they really related, or why Is it that be is earing for her?” “He's related to her, he told me,” the landlady answered promptly. * “And he was with her when she fainivd. He's awfully kind to her, but she doesn't seem to care very much for him somehow. I don't know why.” "Well, I don't care for him either,” declared tba doctor gruffly. “Oh, not that I have anything definite against him, but there's something abovit his face that I don’t like, i'll be glad when she s well again and able to take care of herself.” “Well, I doi ■ t know when that day wdl! be." sighed the landlady. “She couldn t do ;t before she was sick, and 1 dou t see how she's going to manage it now.” And that very thing that was worrying Ninette at that same moment. (To Be Continued,

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP

ON THH board walk. • • • AT ATLANTIC City. A LITTLE old lady. WHO MIGHT have come. • • • FROM OCT Os a book. • • • OAZED WISTFULLY. AT A big wheel chair. THAT BECKONED. • • • TO HER tired feet. • • • AND I could see. • • • THIS BOARD walk life. WAS STRANGE to her. • • • AND THAT she feared. • • * TO WALK right up. AND GET right In. • • • BIT COURAGE came. • • • AS OTHER chair*. • • • WENT WHEELING by. • • • AND TIMIDLY. • • * SHE ASKED the man. AND TOOK her seat. AND IT waa night. • • • AND A cool breeze blew. AND THE wheel chair man. • • • GAVE HER a rug. • • • AND TCBNED about. TO WHEEL the chair. AND GLANCED nt her. • • • - AND TnEN came back. • • * AND TUCKED the rug. • • • SO IT would stay. • • • AND I walked near. • • • AS THEY went on. AND VERY soon. • • • THE STRONG sea breeze. HAD LOOSED the rug AND THE wheel chair man TUCKED IT again. AND SCOLDED her. • • • AND CALLED her “mother. • • • AND THEY both lailfhM. • • • AND FOR an hour. * * * I FOI.T.OWED them. AND THEY carried on. I.IKK A couple of kids. AND HE'D reach over. AND TAP her shoulder. • • • .AND POINT to something. • • AND SHE'D clap her hands AND RAY wasn't it grand. • * • AND SO they wont. • * • THIS WHEEL chair man. • • AND THE little old woman. • < • FROM OUT of a book. • • • I THANK TOU.

Municipal League to Meet at Vincennes Announcement has been made by John TV Reynolds, general secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce that the annual convention of the Indiana Municipal League will be held ln Vincennes. Rept. 21 to 23. Tho last meeting of the Indiana league wns hold In Indianapolis In November of last year In connection with n meeting of the National Municipal League. The program for the meeting has been prepared by James I). McDowell, mayor of Vincennes. William Dudley Fotilk* of Richmond, a man of national reputation as an authority on municipal government. will he one of the speaker? on the program. According to William F. Hodges, mayor of Gary, who Is president of the Indiana Municipal league, there will also bo round table discussions or many different municipal governmental problems.

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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 a view east from Central avenue and ThirtyFourth street.

Highways and By-Ways of LiT OF New York Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos. By RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—La Fon.aine's fables of animal life are being filmed at tho studio of Raymond L. Dittmara, near Scarsdale, N. Y. Mr. Dittmara who is connected with the New York Zoological Society, has selected twenty-four of the collections of famous fables and he says success has attended hla unique attempt Legion Notes Charging that bodies of returned soldier dead at the Army piers at Hoboken are handled with less respect than are boxes of merchandise, the American Legion department of New Jersey has urged the Governor aud adjutant general of the State to place officers permanently on duty at the base to demand proper treatment of the bodies Removal of the dead lias become fatigue duty for soldiers. In practice If not by order, investigation has disclosed. Unkempt men jostle the flag covered caskets into disreputable looking trucks and drivers bounce their precious loads over rough streets at a high rate of speed, it is charged, with no military guards accompanying the bod ies Three distinguished war leaders will return to their Missouri homes as a result of the American Legion national convention In Kansas City this fall A home-coming celebration will ba held by Gen. John J. Pershing, Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder and Rear Admiral R. E. t'oonfz. chief of naval operations, all native Missourians General Pershing was borfi In Laclede, Mo., General Crowder in Edinburgh and Rear Admiral Coontz in Hannibal. Evidence of the ridiculous and malicious arguments which radicals and disloyalists In New York are presenting to lobless ex-service men to alinate them from the Government has been presented by William F. Peegan, American Legion member of Mayor Dylan's committee on unemployment, coping with the situation. To a crowd In Union Square recently. Mr. Peegan reported, a radical orator shouted that “even the shoe trust Is conspiring against you. They are keeping you out of a Job so you'll have to wear out shoe leather walking the streets. Then they'll get you for another pair of shoes!” Rergt Alvin C. York, “greatest hero of the war," has refused to consider an offer of SB,OOO for a twenty-week theatri cal tour ou which he would be required to appear thirty minutes a day He announced following a "heart to heart talk ou conscience" at a religious gathering at Cleveland, Ohio. that although he needed the money to pay off a mortgage on his Tennessee farm, his conscience would not let him exploit patriotism. Billets for ex service men who attend the land drawing at Powell, Wyo., will he provided by the American Legion, bnt the veterans are asked to bring their own blankets. President Harding will be asked to Join members of the Hood River, Ore., post of the American Legion in their annual climb of Mt. Hood next summer. The invitation will be extruded by Senator McNary of Oregon. The national com mander of the legion and other officials also will be asked to make the climb.

A State wide suspension of business and a funeral oration by the Governor of the State marked the funeral at Carson City, Nev.. of a farmer boy who went to war and wade the supreme sacrifice The honored hero was Lawrence Peter Foged. One of his daily tasks before he went to war was to deliver milk at the executive mansion. The funeral was conducted by the American Legion and J. G. Scrugbsm. national vice commander of that organization attended. While watching a fireworks production, “Siege of the Dardanelles," at the Indiana State fair. Ben Welkins, World Wat veetran. collapsed from shell shock and for five hours underwent treatment at a nearby field hospital. He is a Federal apiary insj-ector. Efforts to insert the time honored ad joetives before tho “short and ugly word" doscribing Arnbasador Harvey's statement of why America entered the war threw the North Carolina convention of the American Legion into a fiery debate. The resolution adopted merely termed the ambassador s exposition as “a lie.” The official Rong of the International Aero Congress, to he held In Omaha this fall, will be “His Last Flight.” dedicated to S. Rankin Drew first American actor to die tn the World War Drew was killed ln aerial combat. The song was written by members of S. Rankn Drew Post, the American Legion, composed of actor and writer war veterans of New York City. John P. Speaks, fanner living near Spartansburg, S. C., steadfastly refuses to bury the body of his soldier san. killed in France. Tbe flag-covered casket containing the body has been in the par lor of the Epeaks home sim-e Aug. 13. The fnther bases his refusal on the ground that the body has been buried once.

to make screen stars out of frogs, beetles, fleas, butterflies and other Insects and animals. “I hare already filmed twelve subjects,” Mr. Dlttmars said, “and they are being edited by Charles Urban, Fellow of tlie Royal Zoological Society of England. Asa matter of fact, the late Colonel Roosevelt was responsible for It all. When he was President he went after the nature fakers. He read my book on reptiles, approved of it and asked me to come and see hfm at the Oyster Bay home. I went and he advised me to read La Fontaine's works, which I did, and that Is how I got the Idea of putting animals and Insects on the screen In real human stories.” In the making of the films not only the live Insects and animals have been used, but artificial animals and blrns have been used In some of the scenes. This has necessitated trick photography. In all the plays In which the frogs take part they are shown as walking on their hind leg*. A katydid In one scene is shown preparing herself for an outing. She smooths her feathers In the mirror of a pool and sho struts off to a flower to "get some pollen to powder her nose. Ihe first releases are ss an educational film for children. F. Trubee Davison, son of Henry P. Davison, the financier, is after the assembly seat vacated by Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who served at pie front In the Ist division, A. E. F. ne has obtained the Republican nomination from the Second district of Nassau County, which is equivalent to election. Some weeks ago young Davison was In Oyster Bay when a local justice of the peace suggested, "Why don't you go up there to Albany and fill *ynnng Teddy's shoes?'" “I'd surely like to,” excitedly replied Davison, “it’s really my ambition. But I don't know If I rate the Job.” The worcl'vrent around that the young man was willing and his modesty pleased everybody. He accordingly was picked. Mr. Davison is 25 and was graduated from Yale. He is against going into fina’pee and 1% even now faking a course of law at Cohnubita University. For his services in organizing tbe first Yale aviation unit of twenty-nine aviators, who later were enrolled in the Navy Reserve Flying Corps, young Davison received the Distinguished Service Melnl. The writer met him at the peace conference In Paris where lie was his father's secretary in the organization of the league of Red Cross societies.

After tho armistice the “tip” went around the < ountry : "Buy German marks, they are sure to advance." That was three years ago, when the mark was quoted at 8 cents. In pre war days the mark's value In American currency was 28 cent*. When the mark reached anew low level last week of less than 1 cent. Wall street sat up and took stock of the speculation in marks that has been steady all the way down, an investment that reaches Into the millions. A singular feature of- the whole affair is that never has there been a scarcity of marks, many thousands coming fresh from the printing presses of the new German republic. One house tn the financial district alone has disposed of sl,000,000 worth of marks. Stores were opened ln various cities of the United States solely to deal ln “foreign exchange,” and there Is no way of arriv ing at the losses, which must run Into the many millions. Asa surcease to these unfortunate, It Is now being suggested they use their depreciated marks to purchase German municipal bonds, which, backed by real estate and a direct tax on German workers. may rise and that Increment be at legst equal to if not greater than the shrinkage in the foreign value of the German currency. Shot While Holding Up Lifelong Friend Special to The Times. VINCENNES. Ind., Sept. 20.—Shot In an attempt to hold up a lifelong friend of bis own family Fred Younghans. 36. former policeman and son of a prominent cigar manufacturer here, died last night. Younghans made a complete confession, police said. W. H. Knowles, whom Younghans is alleged to have attempted to rob Sunday morning, fired two shots from a revolver carried ln his hand when Yonnghans stopped him.

DRYS TO RUSH ANTI-BEER BILL Will Also Fight Calder Tax Proposal on Reconvening of Congress. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—Congress will reconvene tomorrow to be further taunted by the prohibition issues. Appealing. now for “law and order," the drys have served notice they will set waste a moment In seeking to compel tbe Senate to adopt the conference report on the anti-beer bill. They will fight also the proposal of Senator" Caluer of Neyv Y’ork, to levy a tax of $5 a barrel on beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol or less. Wayne B. Wheeler, genera! counsel for the anti-saloon League, dec’a re and : '“There Is no good reason for further delay in the consideration of the measure. All parties Interested in an honest enforcement of the law will be better ofr to have tbe final vote taken. Further delay means the continued Importation of liquors into this country from abroad, when there Is already plenty of liquor for non-beverage needs. It means continued embarrasement to law enforcements officials concerning the beer regulations. No purpose will be served except to encourage lawlessness." The conference report on the anti-beer bill is still pending, owing to the filibuster by the wets during the last hours of the end of the session against the compromise on the search and seizure*' amendment sponsored by Senator s.-u----ley of Kentucky.—Copyright, 11*21, by Public Ledger Company.

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Dally Time* and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Washingtoa and the District of Columbia no longer clamor merely for the vote. It Is statehood they now aspire to. A project has been launched, which may soon emerge in the guise of a bill In Congress, to set up the “State of Columbia” with the full fledged rights enjoyed by the other forty-eight stars In Old Glory. Frank Sprigg Perry, a Washington lawyer, has drawn up a brief contending Congress has the power to give the district statehood by a majority rote, without a constitutional amendment and a State ratification. The Perry scheme provides for a recession of the city and county of Alexandria, Va., Washington's Potomac suburb, which was part of *the original district, giving the “State of Columbia” an area of exactly one hundred square miles and a population of 475,000, Hugh R. Wilson, who has been Commissioner Dresel's right hand man at Berlin and has Just brought the original \ German treaty of peace to Washington shortly will become counsellor of the American embassy In Tokio. no will attain that distinction at the end of ten years continuous connection with the diplomatic service, being one of the younger “career” men. A native of Evanston. 111., thirty-six years of age. Mr. Wilson holds degrees from Yale and the College of Political Science at Paris. Ilis diplomatic experience was gained In Portugal, Guatemala, Argentina, Germany. Switzerland and Austria. Mr. w ilson will relieve at Tokio, Edward Bell, who has been charge d'affaires In Japan since the spring of 1920. „ J* V* of the Japanese Buddhist Church has reached the United , °“ 8 nation-wide tour combining visitation to his faithful and Investiga- j tlon of wonders of the Occident. He Is ' now in San Francisco and probnblv will reach Washington about the time tho armaments conference opens. The Buddhist dignitary's trip around the world marks a departure in “New Japan” comparable only n ith Crown Trlnce Hlrohito s journey to Europe. A few years ago such excursions would have been unthinkable. The Japanese l n California maintain a Buddhist temple at Berkeley. It recently was the scene of a ceremonial welcome for the great dignitary now oa American soli.

To the writer comes an inquiry en a question that may be puzzling many Americana -how it happens that Lord Robert Cecil, an Englishman, represent* South Africa in the League of Nation* assembly. Under the unwritten British constitution any British subject may represent any part of the British empire ia any official capacity. Many members of the British House of Commons do not live in. or have any connection with the constituencies forwhleh they sit in Parliament. A Canadian 1* eligible to election for any constituency in Great Britain or Ireland and a Britisher vice versa may sit In a Dominion Parliament. Lord Robert Cecil was intimately associated with General Smuts, premier of South Africa in formulating the league at Paris in 1910.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. Frenchman Says \V or Id to Be Ruled by Old Maids Soon PARIS. Sept. 20. —in the opinion of M. Giraulf. old maids are going to rule the worlg within another generation. M'hen that happens all sensible men, looking for happy existences, will try to flee this earth and try out the planet. Mars. Professor Glrault is considered #n authority on political economy. “Women are going to assume leadership, particularly In Europe, for the next hundred years." he said. -There are too many women for the marriageable male* and hundreds of thousands are being compelled to make 111-assorted marriages In which the man in nearly every case i* the weaker partner. "Women married to men their Inferiors will become embittered with life. Their experience will discourage other women thinking of marriage. Presently we will find a large and active majority of unmarried women controlling things, and men will have an unhappy time.”

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