Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1921 — Page 4

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Jfoifcma Safe OTiroea INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dal y Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . .„ i, . ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. Aimrtliinj office* j New York. Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith. Inc. THE TEACHERS also are opposed to centralized government. THE TROUBLE with the dress of some school girls is that it is too much like that of their mothers. A JUDGE in Crawfordsville says the way t ostop the crime wave is to cease suspending sentences. Didn’t he ever hear of Collins’ “nationally noted" probation system. WHILE ALL this talk of the value of interurbans in a railroad strike is going on will someone please explain where they expect to obtain their coal? It at least can’t be brought into the State in pipe lines as is the fuel for the trucks. A Shattered Ideal The death of John H. Holliday and the exploitation M his remarkable success in the founding and operation of a newspaper in Indianapolis for twenty-seven years prior to 1892 serve to bring a dual regret to the people of this city. The regret at the passing of a fine gentleman is equaled by regret that the newspaper he founded has departed so completely from the principles on which it was founded that it cannot now even remotely resemble the property which Mr. Holliday relinquished in 1892. When Mr. Holliday founded the paper in 1869 he made the following announcement: "In its discussions of public matters and comment upon current events or the acts of public men, the News will try to treat every one with fairness, and while it will not hesitate to denounce wrong or to uphold the right against the odds, no matter how strong, it will not attempt to deal a foul blow, or step beyond the bounds of common decency. While appreciating its responsibility, it will be fearless in the advocacy of what it deems right and propeT, and, if mistaken, will be honestly so. It will be conducted sincerely, truthfully, independently, being the organ of neither individual, sect nor party, and will always endeavor to promote the common good and improvement. It will ever be alive to the interests of Indianapolis, and will, so far as it can, add to her prosperity and the welfare of her citizens. In the development and growth of our beautiful city, the News will be always ready to extend helping hands." Throughout a long period of years Mr. Holliday directed Its publication in accordance with this creed under which it grew and prospered. Then, ill health caused him to dispose of the property. Since that time it has been severally and mysteriously owned, a court action having been required to establish its ownership and expose the false colors under which it was operated for many years. As to the principles of its founder, indorsement would be superfluous. The extent to which they have been forgotten ana reversed accounts for the fact that so few persons In Indianapolis recalled Mr. Holliday’s previous direction of the newspaper. Mr. Holliday’s original intentions that the newspaper should “try to treat every one with fairness,” has become a mockery. His declaration that the newspaper “will not attempt to deal a foul blow or step beyond the bounds of common decency,” has be ome only a memory. His prophecy that “it will be conducted sincerely, truthfully, Independently, being the organ of neither individual, sect or party” certainly could not have been intended to apply to it under the present management. For in recent years thousands can give testimony as to the newspaper’s willful unfairness to them, hundreds can tell of the foul blows it has dealt them and dozens have frequently and publicly attested to its apparent lack of any conception of the bounds of decency. Progressively it has been the organ of Charles W. Jewett, Leonard Wood, Will Fesler, Thomas Carr Howe and a host of lesser office seekers. Today it seeks with ail the power at its command to be the personal organ of Boyd M. Ralston. Only a few days ago it burst forth as the organ of Frank Francis, the confessing burglar from Louisville. In its present fight on the city school board it 1$ covertly attempting to act as the organ of a sect and throughout a number of years it has endeavored secretly to become the organ of whichever political party could be induced to pledge its soul to it. • . The last years of John H. Holliday must have been tinged with regret that a child of his brain and his resources should ever be perverted so thoroughly from the paths he defined for it as he nurtured and developed it. As deeply as the people of Indianapolis regret the passing of John H. Holliday, that regret is made more poignant by the chapter in the history of his life which tells how ill health compelled him to relinquish his newspaper and make possible the present mismanagement. Speeders There has been so much misinformation spread in this city concerning the State law about the speed of motor vehicles that it is no wonder persons haled into the city court for alleged speeding fail to demand their rights and endure conviction without protest, even though innocent of law violation. Contrary to a repeatedly spread misstatement, there is no fixed limit to the speed with which a motor car can be legally operated In IndThna. The law sets forth certain speeds the exceeding of which may be regarded as prima facie evidence of law violation. But the statute makes the very plain distinction that speed greater than these limits Is not illegal unless the conditions existing at the moment when these speeds are exceeded make the actual speed unreasonable, "having regard to the traffic and use of the way or so as to endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person.” It is very evident, and the courts have repeatedly held, that a speed greatly in excess of that named in the statute as prima facie evidence of speeding is not unlawful if conditions are such as to make it “reasonable and prudent.” For example, a speed of twenty-five miles an hour would be unreasonable and imprudent in the circle at 4 p. m., but neither unreasonable, imprudent or unlawful at 4 a. m. The only real guide to the question of unlawful speed is evidence as to whether the actual speed attained is such as to "endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person.” Discretion must rest with the driver in this respect Arresting officers must be ready to testify that the offender was driving at a speed “greater than is reasonable, having regard to the traffic and the use of the way, or so as to endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person” before they are justified in making complaints. Many motorists have entered pleas of guilty to speeding when, if they had taken the trouble to require the arresting officer to lay the facts before the court, they would have been acquitted on the testimony of the officer who arrested them. Mudslinger’s Defense “A mud slinging campaign does no damage providing the candidates are artful dodgers.” The foregoing weak defense of a nefarious and disreputable policy is from the one newspaper in this city that persists in making the present municipal campaign muddy. Recognizing the damage it is doing the community by its persistent venting of Its diseased spleen it attempts to limit the harm it does Indianapolis solely to the candidates and then placate them by asserting that they are "artful dodgers.” The argument is one that might be expected from a mudslinging source. It is about as strong as a mudslinger could be expected to present. On this theory, as long as there is a possibility of mudslingring in the campaign the candidate who would escape damage muit be an “artful dodger.” Such a candidate can hardly be expected to prove a good official, but that means nothing to the mudslinger. As we have pointed out before, the great trouble with our politics today is that no man who is capable of giving us the kind of an administration of a public office that we desire is foolish enough to set himself up as the target of the mudslingers who now assert that their silly pastime does "no damage providing the candidates are artful dodgers.” for the moment the candidates themselves does any one believe that no damage is done Indianapolis by the publication of such silly statements as this from the same source as above: “The issue as raised r tally is whether the underworld shall become the SBr trecldr*

HARK! LUCY DORAINE OUTVAMPS OUR THEDA BARA Plain Lizzie Becomes a Great Russian—Who Is Who at the Ohio—Movie at English’s

Page Theda Bara—The Queen of the Vamps. She Is in grave danger of losing her crown as the Queen of the Vamps because anew “Queen” has started a revolution. The .canse of the excitement is Lucy Doraine, known to me only as a continental actress, who is a Franco -Slav beauty. I received my first view of her yesterday while witnessing “Good and Evil.” When it comes to the vamping business this European makes Theda Bara look like a juvenile. How that woman can vamp. She has eyes that remind one of the late Anna Held, and, like the late Anna, Lucy cannot make her eyes behave. In “Good and Evil,” Lucy Doraine plays four vamping roles—-The Duchess Vera Ormande, a Geisha girl who is an Oriental vampire, the Marchioness of Roche and also as Eminah, described as a daughter of the Orient. The interest inf thing about all of the work of j Lucy Doraine is that each character ere ■ sted is a complete characterization—that | is, her little Geisha girl does not rei semble the temperamental Duchess Vera j Ormonde. This movie is a European made film and is released in this country by the jF. B. Warren Corporation. The picture ; reminds one of “Experience" and “EvI erywoman,” and when it comes to being | extravagant, Cecil De Mille, our most I extravagant producer, has nothing ou ; the man who produced this Doraine inovie. Some of the scenes are so specI tacular that the cast at times reminds ; one of several armies. The central figure is Pierre a i worthless chap who accepts money and ! social position from a woman. We Anier- ! ieans are not accustomed to having our j heroes painted in such rosey tint* but | the hero of this movie is a complete uo- ; account. He steps from that class during a dream after he looses his money at Monte Carlo. He has a uream in which Fate turns the pages of the Book of Life. Here we meet Passion, True Love, Intrigue, Temptation and all of the gang which tempts Youth or tries to save him. This part of the movie resembles the American production of “Experience.” Os course, the dream stirs the real man that slumbers in the breast of the hero and he becomes a real man—that is he makes his own money. Lucy Doraine is a fascinating beauty— ; she has the most marvelous pair of naughty eyes. How she use ’em! Wow” As men go. Alyl onee Fryland makes a good looking kero. I rather have the feeling that the movie patrons will be highly interested in this European importation, as it is a well ; produced spectacle. It is bigger and 1 j TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company, By K. C. B. Dear K. C. B.—-I work in the office of the B. F. Keith vaudeville circuit. My job ain t much, but there’s a fresh guy here I don't like. He's a sort of a press agent and he was braggin’ today he could bust into your column whenever he Uked 1 and be was going to put over something about the Keith, circuit celebrating Its “Third of a Century.” It will be ail written out nice, because he’s that kind j of a guy, and when you get it I want you to throw it away and use this letter and tlun write something about the “third of a century.” lin saving a copy of this letter, and when you print it I’m going to wave the copy in the fresh i guy's face and give him the lass. Your faithful reader, RED. MY DEAR Red. • • • YOC'RE EITHER a mean guy. 0 0 0 OR A good press agent. • * • BIT ANYWAY. I'M VERY glad. • • • TO TAKE one day. • • OCT OE thirty-three years. • • • AND WRITE a column. • • • ABOUT TACDKVILLE, • • * FOR I can remember. 0 0 0 BACK TUIKTY-THRKE years. • * 0 AND VAUDEVILLE. • 0 0 IN THOSE olden days. WAS TERRIBLE Stuff. 0 0 0 AND ONLY tbe wicked. 000 AND ALREADY damned. 0 0 0 DARED GO to It. • • • AND NOW. 0 0 0 DT 1921. 0 0 0 I MAY take my conscience. 0 0 0 AND MY wife. 0 0 0 AND WALK right In. 0 0 0 TO A ran deville house. 0 0 0 AND SIT me down. 0 0 0 AND EXCEPT when the strong man. ... WIGGLES HIS muscles. CAN ENJOY myself. • * • AND TO everyone. ... WHO MAY have helped. ... IN THE cleaning up. . . . AND TO the shade. * * • OE’ B. F. Keith. ... I BRING the greetings. OF A vaudevillian. 0 0 0 WHO WORKS In one. 0 0 0 WITH JUST a drop. 0 0 0 AND HERE’S the curtain. 0 0 0 AND I am through. 0 0 0 I TH.VNK you.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24,1321.

j even more grand than any pageant that I Barnum & Bailey or Ringling Brothers : have ever staged. Some of the scenes 1 are so stupendous that one gasps for j air. | “Good and Evil” will be on view all | week at the Alhambra —W. D. H. YOU WILL “O’ Iv.”‘ ' THE CIRCLE’S BILL. Get out your pencil and put your “O. K.” to the bill at the Circle this week. It's the whole bill at the Circle that ; counts this week as the management has i given us another one of those pleasing all ’rotund bills that this theater i® j capable of presenting. j This all 'round good bill consists of gw ■ .... .. Katherine Mae Don >aid in “Her Social r;: Buster iii corking good and O'iT jk tuneful xylophone j, '?, act. Each part of ■M ; the program does , Its own individual part in rounding Katherine Mac Donald cut a damiy entertainment. I have not been one of those who have gone “wild” over Buster Keaton in the past, but yesterday at the Circle he handed me a mighty good laugh in “The Playhouse'’ when he played seven parts at the same time in a minstrel offering and also appeared ns the entire orchestra of seven pieces as well as the audience. You will not believe it, but Buster dolls up as three different wometi. He is actually stunning in one feminine makeup. Buster Is at his best when he is impersonating a trained money in a vaudeville show. He has the walk, ‘talk’’ and the way of an educated monkey. He even looks the part. This is indeed clever work. I must hasien along. The MacDonald movie is of the more serious type, although there is one character who provides comedy re'lef to the heavy part of the story. The story of “Her Social Value.” that being the name of the MacDonald movie, concern* a little shop girl who marries a man of high social and financial standing. Then her troubles really begin In the end Katherine wins back his love. The director has staged a realistic landslide at a mining camp in the West. N'W for the music. Os course the Circle orchestra is present with some good music. Selections from “Whut’e In a ’ Name:” are played during Ihe news weekly. Miss Elizabeth Hamilton is the j soloist this week and she pleases with a good voice. Two xylophone players ; proved to be so melodious that they . halted proceedings yesterday afternoon ; while I was present. An all round good Mil—that’s my irn- j pTension of the current show at the Circle. ; —W. I>. 11.

HER RIGHT NAME WAS LIZZIE. HER STAGE NAME M. EARSiNOVA. Want some gay fnn? Some leal fun? Then drop over to Loew's State this week and s-v Elsie Ferguson In "Footlights," which is bound to take Its place as a delightfully keen satire on stage lift and the craze for Russian actresses. As foot after foot of “Footlights” was reeled off yesterday afternoon during t lie supper hour at I.new's, r had the pleasant fee ling that I was beiug royally entertained. In the first place, “Footlights" is not drama, it is a keen satire on stage life and the way some of net think that socalled Russian actresses nre made to order. It is the comedy and satirical touches In this inovie which are so charming In the hands of Elsie Ferguson. I th nk that “Footlights” is the first real movie vehicle that Elsie Ferguson has ever had. And when 1 say that. I am sure, dear reader, that you know I am giving you an honest opinion. You may differ witli me in my likes and dislikes, hut (his you and I know—we nre honest. I’rior to going to Loew's yesterday, I had witnessed three other movies. Sumo time three movies crowded into an afternoon makes me nearly wild, hut yesterday was different It was a pleasure to see “Good and Evil.” Buster Kenton and Katherine Mac Donald, and the very mysterious “The Great Impersonation.” In fact I was happy but T feared, don't know why. that Elsie might put me In a I id frame of mind. Far from it. She capped the climax with some of the best comedy acting I have ever sren. I was so contented after seeing this Ferguson movie that I walked right out of Loew’s, j wa’ked boldly into a cigar store, bought a IN-ceut cigar. Now that Is some con- j cession on my part to pay 1!5 cents for a smoke as I generally use a B-cent eigar. (No, I haven't bent Tom Marshall to It, I haven't found the need of the world ) Now to’ tell yon just a little of how Lizzie Parsons of New Hampshire became the great Russian actress, Mina. Lisa j Parslnova. The real Llhbie was a hardworking actress In popular vaudeville. i One nlg'nt a manager saw a chance to j transform Lizzie into a great Russian j actress. This is where the fun happens i —the making of Lizzie Parsons into Mine, j Parslnova. a temperamental Russian who | loves herring and whom the papers say j bathes in champagne. Lizzie has an aw- j ful time being the great Russian. The | fun Is in her efforts to keep the world j from knowing that she is Just plain ! Lizzie. Elsie Ferguson is to be congratulated on her high comedy acting in this movie. Such clever and clean entertainment will ] do much to make the world forget certain past events in the movie industry j out west. “Footlights” remains on view all week j at Loew's State. —W. I>. H. -1510 HE THOUGHT ON “THE 151KTH OF A NATION." After seeing “The P.inth of n Nation" for about the sixth time, my opinion is that D. \V. Griffith never will be able to produce another picture which will prove as popular as this one. X first saw this Griffith movie in Terre Haute some years ago. Last night at English's I experienced the same thrill^

as I did years ago in Terre Haute. The audience last night responded with tears and applause—just as the Terre Haute audience did. This movie is one of the few which can be revived—meaning by that, to be sent out. on tour. The reappearance of “The Birth of a Nation" is just as important in Aim history as is the present revival of “Erminie” to the stage. “The Birth of a Nation” was the first American made movie which really indicated what American producers and actors could do along movie entertainment lines. There are many reasons why this Griffith movie lives and prospers after , all these years. In the first place, the j Griffith touch is better displayed here ■ than In any of his recent movies. He ! had history, a great war, the beloved | Lincoln, a good romance, suffering, death j and love ns his themes. The Civil War lis rich in historical events and with these events as his background, Griffith has placed a romautic story. This story cause* one to cry and even to shout during the battle scenes. I do not know if you are Interested in whut I like best about this movie, but I am going to tell you. Maybe you will agree. It is this—when Mae Marsh as Flora trims her cheap dress with cotton from the fields in order to make herself look pretty and happy when her brother. Col. Ben Cameron, returned from war. This is a very minor incident to the movie, but the expressive face of Mae Marsh is marvelously used in those scenes. It is to be remembered that Henry Walthall is cast as Col. Ben Cameron; Miriam Cooper is Margaret Cameron; Josephine Crowell is Mrs. Cameron; Spottiswoode Aiken is Dr. Cameron; Lillian Gish is Elsie Stoneman; Robert Hnrron is Tod Stoneman; Wallace Reid is Jeff, the blacksmith, and many others whom you will recall. This picture when it was first produced started many players on the road to success. Some have fallen by tho wayside and others ure nearing the top of the ladder of fame. If you have never seen “The Birth of a Nation,” your education is not complete. If you have seeu It, you will welcome the opportunity to see it again. Two performances are given daily, matinee and night, at English’s this week. —W. I). H. -I- -I- 4KIKKSVOOD DOES THE POPULAR THING BY ACTING TWO PARTS. Now days the fad seems to be for movie actors to play more than one role in the same production. James Kirkwood this week is revealing his ability in this line by appearing as an Englishman SUKX, aud as a German In 11 ,n 'vie a lapTo jj the screen was no tSn| reason, one does James Kirkwood. not know Just who Is who at the Ohio, where this movie is being presented. The !da of the author as Weil as the producer is to trick one and the more tricked you are, the better you will like it. The ending of the movie explains everything and you leave the theater knowing ii all bat you don't know the real secret of the story until the very end of the inovie. I feel that It Is not my duty to tell you the story of "Tho Orest Adventure." because tha real Joy in seeing this picture is one's lack of knowledge regarding it. This can he said—that Kirkwood has given two masterful characterizations in this movie. His bl’g purpose is to baffle the spectator and ho succeeds. It Is no easy matter to baffle an audience but Kirkwood succeeds. Kirkwood has the service* of a large and well directed cast. Ann Forrest makes a pretty picture at all times during the nnfolding of this story. This movie is different from all other movies and the request of the management that patrons try to catch the picture at Its beginning and not lu the middle, is well taken because one must absorb the mystery. At the Ohio all week —W. D. H.

v “V IS ANN IN' “HER WINNING WAT* Ann Auuiugton bad such a winning way that she wen the love of Harold Hargrave when he didn't want to love her. That’s the story of “Her Wtnning Hay,” a movie which ha* the services ot Mary Miles Mlnter as Ana and Gaston Glass as Harold. Harold is a bashful but fwnous author who hates publicity. Ann 1* after an Interview for publication and she lands In the author's i "Partment when l discovered Joseph ' HenaAlary Milc*. 51 Inter. bery. Lechmere Worrali wrote the story. This new Mlnter movie remains on view all week at Mister Smith’s. -I- -I- -I----AT THE BROADWAY. “Some Wild Oats’’ is now in the second week of its engagement at the Broadway. A week ago yesterday this movie began a limited engagement. Because of the nature of the movie, certain performances are given for men only aud others for woman.

EVEN WILL RUSSELL WEARS ’EM PATCHED

Just thought we would print this picture of Helen Ferguson darning the sock of William Russell to prove that Bill is domestic. Bill has such a romalitic time

AT TUE COLONIAL. The chief offering at the Colonial next week is “The Concert.” This movie is a screen adaptation of the play which was a successful stage vehicle for Leo Dltrichsteln. Lewis Stone plays the leading role in the movie production. -i- -i- -I----AT THE REGENT.’ William Russell in “Colorado Pluck” and Harold Lloyd In “I Do” make up the double bill at the Regent this week. -!- -I- -I----ON THE STAGE. Leo Ditrlchstein in “Toto” opens a three-day engagement at the Murat to-

Suffs Arrange Program for Pan-American Conference Session at Baltimore to Bring Women of Western Hemisphere Together.

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger., By CONSTANCE DRKXEL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. The woman who suggested placing the great peace statue, Christ of the Andes, on the boundary line between Chile and Argentine is likely to attend the Pan American conference of women. That is the announcement from the League of Women Voters headquarters Also the tentative program, of subjects to be discussed by women from all tho Americas, is as follows: Child welfare. In charge of Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the United States childrens bureau, Department of Labor. Prevention of traffic in women. In chatgt of Dr. Valeria H. Parker, executive secretary of the United States Inter-Depart-mental Social Hygiene Board. Civil status vX women, lu charge of Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant United States attorney general. Political status of women, in charge of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Call, president of the International Woman Suffrage Allianca. Education, In charge of a representative of the United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior. Though only to be convened next April In Baltimore, plans for this first meeting of women from the republics of North and South America actively are being pushed. Its main purpose is to bring the women of the United States Into friendly relations with the women of South America, Central America, Mexico and Canada. How the women from the other countrte son this hemisphere will respond is unknown. But Invitations to send delegates having been forwarded by the State Department to the governments of I<atln America, a notable representation of women Is expected. The cordial response accorded the spokeswomen of the League of Women Voters by Secretary Hughes has been encouraging. All the more because this response has not stopped at mere words of encouragement, but borne fruit in active efforts to help th# Idea along. In many high quarters here in the national capital the cooperation of highminded, disinterested women t* being more anil more cordially received. There has been con side-able editorial comment on the new women's rights amendment to the Constitution to be sponsored by the National Woman's Party. One Washington newspaper thought the amendment was all right, but i did not go far enough. "Not only shall a woman be the mistress of her own home, but every woman should be compelled to be the mistress of her own home, if she has one," was the piurport of its remarks. There is food for thought in the intimation that many men only wish that they might throw off more responsibility on j the partners of their joys and sorrows j than they now feel some women are j capable of shouldering. Should a wife use her own name? There j is one case on record where a husband j is so proud of his wife's accomplishments | that he likes to have her use his name J and not hers. This was brought to light a day or two ago in Republican national headquarters. “Put me down as Mrs. Charles Day Ayers and not us Mabel L. j Ayers,” was the stipulation of Mrs. Ayres ! who has won considerable praise and publicity as an organizer for the party ! My husband prefers il that way. He is j not jealous of my work, but on tho con- j

with a Princess in “The Lauy From Longacre," a movie now on view at the Isis, that one might get the impression that Bill hasn t time to smoke a pipe and smile.

night. The opening performance has been taken over by the Shrlners. The public will be admitted on the Tuesday and Wednesday performances. On Thursday eight “Up in the Clouds” will open u throe-dav engagement. Frisco is the headliner on the cu. rent bill at B. F. Keith’s. The Sutherland Saxo Six are ol the current bi'i at the Lyric. The Rialto is offering anew eightact vaudeville bill. “The Bathing Beauties” is the current offering at the Park.

trary thinks his name might as well have th# benefit of it," she explained.—Copyright, 1921, by Public I-edger Company. HOOSIER ROADS EXCELLENT FOR EMERGENCY USE State Highway Head Tells How Freight May Move by Motor Truck. Indiana roads were never in better condition for emergency use such as will be j necessitated by a railroad strike, aceordiug to Lawrence Lyons, director of the ' State highway commission. There are fewer than twenty-five detours on ap- | proximately 3,300 miles iu the State highway system of roads, a condition not equaled in any State where extensive highway development Js iu progress, acj cording to Mr. Lyons. Mr. Lyons pointed out that with five hundred highway department motor ; trucks available at once, and estimating the average haul would be six miles, these trucks could handle S.OOO tons of freight each day. In other words the average capacity per truck is three tons, giving the 500 cars 1,500 tons capacity. Estimating each truck would travel thirty miles per day, this fleet for emergency relief a means of moving 4,5.000 tons of freight one niiie each day. Tonnage handled would naturally be lessened us mileage Increased. A survey of the market highways ot Indiana discloses that trunk lines info Indianapolis connect with all sections of this State aud without exception are in splendid condition, according to Mr. Lyons. On tho National road between Indianapolis and Terre Hante there are two detours. On the same road east of this city there aro three 'etoure and those around bridges The Range Line road Is open between this city and South Bend >'ith one dstonr near Kokomo. Tho road from here to Columbus, Seymour and j Louisville has a bridge detour near Seymour. Between Indianapolis, Lebanon and Chicago there are no detours in Indiana, while on the Michigan road, Indianapolis to Madison via. Shelbyville. Greensburg and Versailles, there is one short detour in Ripley County. Tho Indianapolis to Brookville road leading to Ohio Is in fine condition, as likewise Is the Indianapolis to Martinsville highway. Iu fact, Indiana now has eight : main market highways in excellent ! shape to meet any unusual traffic de- j tnaml that may arise, highway officials , say. According to highway officials, it is difficult to estimate the number of motor trucks in this State available in case of a railroad blockade. “The exc-llence of Indiana highways hag created a peculiar situation In that there are many individuals engaged in the trucking business, and there is not a day passed but we receive inquiries from owners wishing hauling contracts," Mr. Lyons said. “I believe that many hundreds of trucks are available for transporting emergency freight upon short notice providing conditions demand such action. I am positive that 1 our State highways are in condition to [ care for this potential heavy traffic.”

CHITA HOLDS FAR EASTERN CONTROVERSY American Citizens Believed In Control at Siberian Republic Base. PARLEY PROBLEM SEEN Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Former residents of the United States, who probably are American citizens, are In control of , the Far Eastern republic of Siberia at I Chita. The political possibilities of that | situation are emking considerable com- ! rnent in Washington official quarters. It i* the Chita government, headed by those semi-Americans, which new is fencing with the Tokio government, with a view to forcing the evacuation of Siberian territory by the Japsnese army. The negotiations were reported a fortinght ago to have broken down, thus frustrating Japan’s desire to have the Siberian question, like Shantung, settled "privately” before the Washington conference. The two men in charge at Chita are a former Chicago lawyer and a one-time New York I. W. W. agitator. The exi Chicagoan, who is the chief or the president of the Far Eastern rpeubiic, was known while a law student and practicing attorney in the western city as Tobeisoa or Tobinson. In Russia, to which be returned after the czarist revolution, he is known as Kraschneachekov, which means “red cheek.” The former New Yorker, who is minister of communications and defense at Chita, Is named Shatov. He was a crony of Trotskl while the soviet war minister lived in New York and returned to Petrograd and Moscow with the Trotskl contingent at the time of the boishevlst upheaval. Both Kraachneaehekov and Shatov lived in this country long enough to have obtained citizenship. The former was here twelve or fifteen years. MAKES OVERTURES FOB RECOGNITION. Early this autumn the Chita government made overtures to the United States for recognition and sympathy. The consequence was Secretary Hughes’ note of Sept. 19, announcing the dispatch of am official observer to the Far Eastern republic’s capital, J. D. Caldwell, American conaul at Kobe, who is expected to reach Chita this week. He is accompanied by a second American expert on Far Eastern affairs, Edward B. Thomas, vice consul at Harbin. 'While informing the Chita authorities that we would “observe” things diplomatically in their country, Mr. Hughes declared the United States would represent the view that the Washington conference held a “moral trusteeship” with regard to Russia. Our reply to the Far Eastern republic, it la nnd-rstoo 1, was made in response to ! Chita a request for the right to participate iu the Washington parley. The United States is not quite clear, it appears, as to whether the Chita raI public is "red” and Moscow-dominated, lor not. It calls Itself a “non-commun- : istic democracy," but both Kraschneschekov and Shatov certainly at one time were kand-ln-g!ove with the Lenln-Trotski regime. Further developments, as far as sympath tc Americau interest in the Far Eastern Republic is concerned, will depend upon what Messrs. Caldwell and i Thomas “observe" there. JAP GARRISON KUIAIS DISTRICT. Following the collapse of the Kolchak anti-Bolshevist movement in 1919.. the Far Eastern republic, comprising a cluster of i cal administrative entities in eastern Siberia, was . -.mixed. It. has had a checkered and uncertain existence. At one time it included the Vladivostok local government. But the latter has now set up business for Itself, under precarious conditions, for the Japanese garrison is lord of creation In the district. Nevertheless, it sill is the hope of many students of Kus-ia’s tangled fortunes that the Chita government may one day prove to be the springboard from which “the old Russia.’ with outside help, can leap back to sovereignty and triumph over the Red tyranny at Moscow. America’s Interest in the perpetuation of the Far Eastern republic Is manifest anl undisguised. It is the one bulwark against any permanent aggressions the Japanese might attetmpt to carry out in Siberia. It contains Russia's only outlets to the Pacific, and is her one route to the non-Japanized Far East from the vast hinterland to the West. With Japan in control of the “maritime province” of BV.ieria, th Pacific coast of the Far Eastern republic, oil efforts by the United States Navy to cope successfully with the Japanese fleet In the eastern Pacific would virtually be doomed In advance. With Siberian ports in friendly hands, a conversely favorable situation would exist. It is for all the reasons herein mentioned that great Interest attaches to the possibility that American citlsens are at the helm In Chita. It Is regarded inerttable that they will turn up. In person or through representatives, when Fan Eastern “principles and policies" are under discussion In Washington next month. Chita's stand against Japan is understood to be unequivocoaU Recent negotiations broke down, it is learned, because the I'ar Eastern republic's negotiations at Derien (formerly the Russian town of Dainty, in southern Manchuria) declared a settlement with the Japanese on the basis of far-reaching “economic” concessions in return for withdrawal of the Japanese army from Siberia. The Japanese version of the breakdown la that the Chita negotiations asked time to “consult their government."—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. MAYTSE STORKS BROUGHT 'EM. DANTZIG, Oct. 23.—A great flock of storks flew above the village of Anklam last week and settled upon the church and city hail. Since their visit more than fifty babies have been born. BISHOP DEFINES PESSIMIST. LONDON. Oct. 23.—Asked for the modern definition of a pessimist, Bishop Furse, of St. Alban's, replied: "A pessimist is a man who wears a belt as well as braces.”

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