Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1921 — Page 4

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JttMana Saily STirnes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dal y Except Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. I Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j j sew Boston, Payne, Burns Sc Smith, Inc. THE PARDON BOARD apparently is jealous of its prerogatives. DBS MOINES has found there is more than one way to regulate the Jitney bus. THE COME-BACK of the railroad men probably will be that the wages paid other crafts are not high enough. THE SHORTER and uglier word is likely to take a place in the sharp differences of opinion that have developed between our contemporaries as to who is responsible for the Republican ticket! Unfortunate for Mr, Ralston! Boyd M. Ralston, Democratic candidate for mayor, is certainly unfortunate In his friends. As he was warned early in this campaign, acquiescence in the support of his candidacy by the evening organ of misrepresentation and defamation, could not result In anything else than the alignment against him of that part of Indianapolis that believes it is a citizen’s right to differ in opinion with selfish bossism. Today, the issue of the mayoralty campaign is no longer the election of a candidate. It is once more the question of whether a discredited newspaper of beclouded ownership can dictate to the commuuit- who shall be permitted to hold office in Indianapolis. Unfortunately for Mr. Ralston he has had wished on him the influences of a newspaper that has been on the wrong side of every political question in the last two years. He now stands in the ranks of men who have been deceived as to the ability of a newspaper to elect them, shoulder to shoulder with Will Fesler and Thomas Carr Howe. Mr. Ralston may not have solicited this support, but be has certainly encouraged it with the result that his political fortunes have become inseparably tied to the success of th 6 greatest menace this community has ever had. Thousands of citizens of Indianapolis will regret that this municipal campaign should again be perverted into a contest between the selfish interests that continually seek to misrepresent Indianapolis and the fairminded citizens who are wholly weary of persistent and ir justifiable slander and mudslinging. Their sympathy will be extended ' j Mr. Ralston, who seems, unwittingly, tc have been submerged in this co.test when his brightest prospects resulted from the almost general impression prevailing at the opening of the campaign that he was not in any way affiliated with those who are now driving away his supporters under the guise of helping him Mr. Ralston, as a candidate for mayor, deserves better treatment at the hands of the voters of Indianapolis than he will receive since his candidacy has been advocated by the Indianapolis News and opposed by the Indianapolis Star. Either omission or commission lias resulted in the injection Into this campaign of the old. old issue of whether the News will control the city or not. This newspaper early urged the D°mocratic organization to develop an issue for Mr. Ralston which would have precluded the entrance into the campaign of this question of control of the municipality by a newspaper and Its satellites. No such issue was developed, and in the next two weeks, during which our contemporaries will proceed to tell the truth about each other, there will be ample time for the Democrats of Indianapolis to reflect on the folly of permitting their party to he the catspaw for the News-Jewett organization. Considered wholly on their personalities and records, Mr. Ralston has an immeasurable advantage over Mr. Shank as a candidate for mayor. Considering the influences that have lined up behind Mr. Ralston, It is easy to understand why Mr. Shank is receiving support from quarters that would otherwise throw their whole strength behind Mr. Ralston. This community is naturally interested in electing the best mayor possible, but in forming its estimate of the candidate it cannot help being influenced by the character of the candidates' most vigorous advocates. Dare They Tell the Truth? The attempt of a local newspaper to bring into this campaign as a trite argument a page from the record of Morton Pearson’s church federation for the year 1913 is as bold a piece of effrontery as was ever witnessed in Indianapolis. The whole city knows now that this church federation was organized by Mr. Pearson at the behest of the Indianapolis News; that its every action was predicated on the desires of Richard Smith; that its resolutions were either written in the News office or submit'ed to the News employes for revision before they were crammed down the throats of the federation members. The whole city knows that the disgraceful political manipulation of this federation finally brought it in such disrepute with its own members that dissolution was only averted by a change in policy. The whole city knows that this federation was deceived into indorsement of Alvah J. Rucker, whose protection of a bootlegger was the basis of a Federal Court inquiry; the indorsement of George V. Coffin, whose tenure as police chief ended just in time to avert exploitation of the Foppiano check scandal; the indorsement of Charles W. Jewett, whose administration of Indianapolis has proved such a dismal failure. There can be no doubt that this federation once went on record as protesting against the alleged immorality that prevailed In the previous Shank administration, but dare those people who are now presenting again the record of that protest tell how it was brought about, who wrote it and why It came Into existence? They dare not because they know that as a campaign argument the story of Its conception would utterly destroy Its usefulness to them. Think Before You Join! There Is, of course, no good reason why citizens of Indianapolis should not form associations among themselves for the purpose of influencing the election of certain candidates for school commissioners and it is natural that there should be considerable difference as to the choice of these associations. But there is also a very good reason why every voter should exercise the greatest care before aligning himself with any one of these associations. It is not impossible for & voter with the purest kind of public interest to be placed in the position of assistant to the ax grinder through affiliation with some organization the true purposes of which may be concealed from him. Forming a club or an association .to promote the canuidacy of some particular person is very easy. Always there are excellent citizens who can be induced to join such organizations, although the excellent, citizens may not know all that the promoters hope to accomplish through the affiliation. After all, the question of selecting a school commissioner is not one that requires an organization. Voters should be well enough informed concerning their schools to make intelligent selections without being influenced by the doubtful efforts of paid propagandists. Before the voter pledges liis vote to the slate of any organization he should reflect seriously on both the obvious and the possible objects of that organization. It is sad but true that there are several groups at work in the interests of candidates for school commissioners who hope to win with the support of the unsophisticated. Support the Chamber In addition to the benefits that accrue from a sustaining iu ... ’nip of large proportions there is ample to justify the best efforts of Indianapolis citizens to increase the roll of the Chamber of Commerce. Membership in this institution is the guiding influence in its management and ambitions. Membership increases interest in the accomplishment of Its desires. It affords the citizen a cause for congratulation that Is personal whenever the body of which he Is a member succeeds in doing something for his own community. Much good has been accomplished for Indianapolis by the Chamber of Commerce in the past and the organization Is right now on the threshhold of an era in which it will play an even greater part in the improvement of Indianapolis. Things are going to hum in this city in the next y*ar. No citizen can afford to be outside the zone in which the humming will be heard. x To be a part of an organization that is accomplishing things for Indianapolis is not only a duty but a satisfaction. When, as in this instance, the measure of doing may be measured by the number of doers he is a poor V>ort Indeed who does not take advantage of his opportunity.

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping House With the Hoopers i [The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living in a suburt-an town, on a limited income, will tell the readers of the Gaily Times how the many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Miw: Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them daily In an interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.] WEDNESDAY. “It’s a long time since I have seen such a stack of mending as that,” observed Henry as Mrs. Hooper set her heaping work basket on a chair and drew it up to the side of her low rocker, and then sat down to begin her attaek on the ripped and torn garments. “Isn’t It surprising the state that our clothes can get into when ftiey are neglected from week to week,” exclaimed Sirs. Hooper as she picked up one of Koger’s shirts. “I had reduced my mend ing to almost nothing on Wednesdays I because ever since I have been doing j the washing myself, and especially with | the washing machine where there is no ! rubbing to wear out the clothes, just r i little attention every week kept them in order all the time. But I declare every thing seems to have been reduced to rags all at once. Just look at this shirt.” “Well, I suppose some of those clothes were holding together Just because yo\ were nursing them along so carefully,” remarked Henry. "And the minute they were neglected they all fell to pieces. Any one but you would have put that shirt in the ragbag long ago.” Mrs. Hooper looked at the garment critically. "Oh, there are a few more ‘wears' in that shtrt even yet, and I shall certainly mend it,” she said. "The trouble is that the damage was done to it several weeks ago and Roger has been using it ever since without a stitch hav- ■ ing been taken In it. That kind of neglect \ is really what shortens the life of our j clothes.” ' Henry had been glancing idly through the little notebook that Mrs. Hooper al- | ways kept in the pocket of hpr bungalow apron while she was ironing, and j in which she jotted down the special i| Ye TOWNE GOSSIP I Copyright. 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B. i “Do yon know it’s not what people ! want aud get in this world that makes ! character? It’s what they do without l that puts backbone into them and makes men and women that tho world needs today.” IF YOC read this column. ON YESTERDAY. j* * * YOU ItEAD these lines IN THE panning I got FROM THE verv good lady. * * * AWAY OUT West. . • • AND MAY BE she’s right BUT IT isn’t new. * * * IT S BEEN said before. , , , AND MOSTLY, I thin I* * • • BY' MEN and women. • • • WHOSE BACKBONES grow. IF THEY' have backbones. WITHOUT THE help. OF DIRE want. OR SACRIFICE. AND THEY' make me sick. FOR I know it’s true. THAT UNSATISFIED want MORE THAN anything else. LEADS TO bitterness. AND I’LL admit. THAT BITTERNESS. MAY GOAD men on. TO ACCOMPLISH MENT. AS FIGHTING dogs. * ♦ • MUST GO unfed. • • • BEFORE TnEY fight. AND IF that helps. IN TIIE scheme of things. • • • THEM I’M a nut. * • i AND I know, too. WE’D BF. better off. * • • IF Y’OU and I. I DIDN’T HAVE to fight. FOR WHAT we get. | AND IF those folks. WHO PRATE all the time. ABOUT BACKBONES. i AND HOW to build them. • * * WOULD EASE up a little, • • * ON WHAT they have. IT’S CONTENT I want. AND HOW’LL I get It. * * IF ALL the time. * * * I HAVE to fight. * • • I THANK you.

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Mem Yota May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER Has a man like this proposed to you 7 Symptoms: Charming giant. Winning and solid. He’s the matinee Idol with idleness shot away. Every one that meets him falls for him. Yet he seems unconscious and unspoiled. Always doing kindnesses, can’t hear to hurt you or any one. Thinks marriage is a pact rather than an impact. He’s quite the idealist. Makes a wonderful home for his mother and his only reservation in marriage at all is that “Mother will miss liim,’’ yet he knows you will take mother in. IN FACT, Thiß is the only way he has "taken you in.” Prescription to his bride: Be blind. xj\i, Be deaf. / Be thick skinned. Absorb This: RATHER A HALL ROOM AND NO BATH ALONE THAN A PALACE WITH THE FAMILY. (Copyright, 1921.)

thing teat was to be done to different garments as she set them aside to be mended. Then when she sat down to sew she wasted no time turning a garment over and over searching for the place that was to be repaired. By glancing at her notebook she saw at once that it was a button that was missing on Roger's pajamas or a torn ruffle on Helen's petticoat or a rip in the sleeve of Henry’s undershirt, without using her time and energy looking for what was wrong with each garment in turn. "Some list of casualties." laughed ' Henry as he began to read the notations jon he open page before him: R blue striped shirt, four buttons, ripped sleeve, torn buttonhole. Helen's waist —darn ou left sleeve — edging on collar loose, two buttons. Henry’s pajamas! “Oh, don’t bother reading that,” exclaimed Mrs Hooper. "I'll he following those entries for a week before I finish all this mending, and I wan* to talk to you about our winter clothes, some of which I shall have to buy If I go in town tomorrow." “I thought perhaps you would decide that, we wouldn't get anything new now.” remarked Henry. ”ls we make our last winter's things do, I should think you eonld use some of the money yon had saved for clothes to pay on the doctor's ; hill. I “This Is the first time I’ve had to consider the advisability of <L>lng anything like that since 1 first began to work with a budget,” replied Mrs Hooper thoughtfully, “and you know tjiaf I have always believed that taking the surplus from one department to pay the deficit in another Is the very thing that is fatal ;to the whole budget system, and is the real reason why so many women fail to live up to Its demands after they have started to work with one.” "Then you don't think we ought to use the clothes money to pay the doctor bill?" Inquired Henry. “I believe the arrangement of paying the doctor the g.'iO we have In our sav Ings balance and then the remainder in monthly Installments will be perfectly satisfactory to him and then my budget can remain undisturbed." "But it doesn’t seem quite right, does It, Mary, to have that money which la really a surplus and not pay the doctor’s bill In full,” asked Henry, "especially when we could manage without any new clothes.” “It has been pretty hard for me to j decide against using tho money to pay j the doctor, but I have made living up ' to my budget a matter of principal and ' the 575 that wc haov to the credit of our clothing account belongs there and nowhere else, and If my conscience grows too troublesome about spending It for clothes while we still owe a doctor's hill, I shell settle the problem by letting It j remain where it is as a balance uutil the doctor's hill Is paid from another source, j and letting you all wear your old clothes." “Well, I suppose It’s all right," said Henry, “but I don't understuud It.” The menu for the three meals on Thursday Is: BREAKFAST. Apple Sauce Cereal Spanish Omelet Hot Biscuits Coffee LUNCHEON. Fish Cakes Bread and Butter Stewed Rhubarb Cookies Milk DINNER. Y’egetable Soup Beef Loaf Stowed Tomatoes Hashed Brown Potatoes Cucumber Salad Spiced Apple Cake CURRY’ OF OYSTERS. Drain and dry the oysters. Put into the upper part of the double boiler, j three tnblespoo ifuls of nlen, and In It | cook without browning a slb’e each of onion and green pepper. Remove tho | vegetables and blend In two tablespoonfuls of flour and add gradually a cupful of rombined oyster Juice and milk. Stir until the tta'uce thickens and boils, add salt to taste, a tearpoonful of Worcestershire sauce and curry powder to taste. Then stir in the oysters and serve ns soon as the edges of the oysters aro curled. (Copyright, 1921.) RHUBARB SAUCE. YVash, wipe and cut Into Inch lengths with scissors. If vou are using the strawberry variety, Jo not peel It, as the ' peel makes i fine color to the sauce, j Allow one eipful of sugar to two and I

one-half cupfuls of rhubarb. Make a ; syrup with three fourths of a cupful of j water and the sugar. 801 l for three or four minutes, and add the rhubarb. Cook until tender. CURRANT COOKIES. I One cupful of sugar, two scant cupfuls of flour, four tatdespoonfuls of butter, two eggs, one scant teaspoonful of baking powder; one cupful of cleaned currants, chopped fine, nutmeg and cinnamon to taste. Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add i •pices and the eggs beaten light, then the flour with which the baking powder has been sifted twice; lastly, the chopped currants. Roll out with quick light strokes, cut into shapes and bake in a moderately hot oven. They are better the second day after baking. STEWED TOMATOES. l“*cl, slice and put a quart of tomatoes | over the fire in a nickel,steel plated, ngate or aluminum stewpan never in tin. i (Canned tomntoes may be used.) Stew I fast twenty minutes. Reason with a lump | of butter rolled in flour, a teaapoonful of sugar, salt and pepper to taste, and two teaspoonfuls of onion Juice. Rtew five minutes longer and serve. Some cooks substitute fine crumbs for the flour, t'n less some thickening 1s used, the tomatoes will be watery and thin. API’LE ( ARE. Cream together a half cupful of butter an- two cupfuls of sugar and bent Into them a half cuprul of milk and rive whipped eggs Last of all, add three cups of flour Jnto which have been sifted

LITTLE THEATER TO OPEN SEASON Friday Night by Presenting ‘The Dragon ’

An elaborate production. “Th# Dragon," ; I by Lady Gregory Is booked for the open ; !rg of the fall season of the Indianapolis Little Theater, Friday night, j "The Dragon” la notable, not only for 1 the prehistoric monster which plays an Important role in the romantic nrfulrs of the Princess, but also for the delicate ; humor of the lines. An overbearing ! queen, step mother to the Princess is : moat amusing in her eforts to fsuppress j | her husband appetite So also are the ■ two aunts of the King of the Marshes amusing, wheti they coming a wooing i with their delicate nephew, i This fall marks the opening of the | seventh consecutive season of the Little Theater, w-hieh is one of the oldest In the United States. Tue aoeiety was A PRINCESS J MISS JEANETTE PARKY. In “The Dragon,” which will be presented by the Little Theater Boeiety on l Friday night, Miss Parry will take the j role of the Princess. Miss Parry hna j been prominent In the Little Theater I work for some time.

fV two small teaspoonfuls of bakingpowder. Bake in layers. When cold, make the filling by heating In a double boiler a cupful of apple sauce, audlng sugar to taste, and then beating In gradually the yolk of two eggs and the Juice of a lemon. Cook, stirring for a minute, and set aside until cold before spreading on the cake. If a spicy flavor is liked, add one-fourth teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-eighth teaspoouful of nutmeg and one-eighth teaspoouful of ground cloves to the apple sauce. PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory One cold morning as Puss Junior was riding on his good gray horse he came to a river on the banks of which stood a mill. But the mill wheel was quiet, for the river was frozen over. Now Puss was still traveling in New Mother Goose Land, aud as he came near the old mill he heard a voice singing: There was a foolish miller once Went skating on the Dee. The ice was thin ami he fell in— No fish so we as he. And then he sang a doleful song. For shivery wet was he: “Oh dear. Oh dear! T greatly fear I'll have prieumonye!” “Where are you?” asked Puss Junior, looking around, for he could see nobody. Then the door opened, and out from the old mill came the miller himself, leaning on a crutch. "Who calls?” he asked. “I inquired who sang the song about the foolish miller,” answered Puss Junior with a grin. “I sang it myself about myself, because 1 was so foolish,” answered the miller. “Oh, that I could get rid of this rheumatism!” and he made a wry face and gave a groan, “Ough, ough!” “Rheumatism is worse to find than a flea.” said Puss, remembering the miller In Old Mother Goose Land who looked upon his pillow and there he saw a flea, that hopped Inside the dusty mill beside the River Dee. “Aye, that it is,” said the miller, “although I’ve never had a flea lD'e my brother who lives a loug ways from here upon the banks of this same river.” “Y'es, I have met him,” said Puss, “and a mighty pleasant man he was lie had a rat and a mouse for friends, and all day long he ground the corn into men! And, oh yes, on a big willow tree nearby hung the rock a by baby upon the tree top and when the wind blew the cradle did rock.” “Indeed.” said the miller, “I wish T had a willow tree and a rock a-hy baby, for I'm a very lonely man. Nobody grinds his corn at mv old mill. U is all taken to town and ground by electricity and 1 and my old mill are forgotten. Time has changed everything. "But why did you go showing?” asked Puss, for he could not understand why this old miller should wish to skate. “I was foolish, replied the old man. I was anxious to cross to the other side to buy sugar for my coffee. So I started across, and. well, you know the rest. The lee was thin and I fell in.” Then the old miller turned back Into his mill. “Come in and rest.” he sniff. So Puss gave his horse a bag of oars and went inside, and In the next story t'll tell you what happened in the old mill.—Copyright 1921 (To Be Continued.)

; organized in February 1915 at the Art 1 institute, “for the experimental and repertory presentation f both approved | and untried dramatic works, and the development of the resources of this comi munlty In the creation and interpretation , of vita! and artistic plays.” The outstanding feature of the first season was Max Parry's three act comedy |of Hoosier home life, “Dad.” For the ! fifth season George Somnes was engaged j as director, and under his artistic management the Little Theater has progressed rapidly, gaining fame even in toe East. Some of the most active nnd influential people In Indianapolis are now serving on the hoard of directors, which is as I follows : George C. Calvert. H. E. Gloss- | brenner. Dr Ray Newcomb, John R Reynolds, James H. Lowery. Mrs George D Rock wood, Mrs James T. Murdock. Miss Florence Beckett.- Miss Adelaide Fairbanks. Mrs R. Felix Geddes, Mrs T. B. Noble, Mrs. E S. Severln. Miss Eldena Lauter and Mr*. W. O. Rate* Mrs. Bates, whose untiring efforts as manager have been responsible to a large degree for the success of the organization, was elected president last spring, to succeed Robert E. Tracy, who had served for two years The other officers for the present year are: Vice president, H. W. Glossbrenner; secretary. Miss Florence Beckett: treasurer, George C. t Calvert. The society now numbers several hundred member*. There are four grades of member'blp: Life, at JtOO: , supporting, at $25; regular, at $lO, and j teachers’, at |5. The Little Theater wishes especial cm- j phasis placed upon the fact that mem- ] bershlp Is open to any one in the com- j munlty, nnd thnt the organization is pri- j tnnrily n community affair. Membership : blanks can be secured from Mr. Gloss brenner. at 4027 Guilford avenue, each membership carrying with it tickets for oil performances. Individual tickets for non members are always on sale at the Kautz stationery store at 11(1 North Pennsylvania street for the week preceding each performance. The pressing net' of tho Little Theater Society for the present Is a home in which plays may lie staged without the handicaps to which the management is at i prseut subjected. An interesting and ar- i tistic workshop has been fitted up in a barn at the rear of the residence of .Tames D. Pierce at 962 North Pennsyl- j vania. The enst of characters for the Dragon J is as follows: The Dali Gllck, Allan Dit- ! trlch; the Queen, Mrs. Mary H. Planner; i

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

NEW YORK, Oct 20.—There are, it is computed, 29.000 women voters in New York City engaged In artistic pursues, portrait and plaque painters, designers, mural decorators and Illustrators and sculptors. They are voting for the first time here in a city election. Instead of those professional women being disinterested in politics we find they are keenly alive to the merits of the respective candidates. Take the cause of Sally James Parnham, the sculptress who designed the frieze in the broad room in the building in Washington where the armament conference Is to be held, and who has been at work since March 4 Oa a marble bust cl President Harding. She said : “I suppose it would be called a woman’s way to start a story with the end, so I commerce mine with a story. There was a Democratic meeting called at Brier Hill, a town near Ogdeasburg. in which Democratic meetings are rare as Democrats are few. A silver-tongued orator was Invited from New York. He had a careful hearing- xad at the end of the meeting the Republican ticket was indorsed by a unanimous aud rising vote. “They were men and partisans: women are not partisans. We believe municipal business is municipal house keeping—that s all. Good schools, clean homes are what we will require of public officers—men who will attend to their duties and who have the ability to do so. A woman notices dust on the furniture quicker than a man does, aud she is more appreciative of flowers In the back yard. \Y e live here; it is the home of those near to us. We wish to see good men in office and how are we to secure them and how are we to get them, but by voting for them when nominated? Senator Lockwood is, we women think, the right man for controller. His fine record on the schools appeals „o every W0I: ' 80 does his equally fine record on the housing question. Women at the polls will judge men according to their attitude toward the home.” Mrs. Parnham designed the bronze statue of General Simon Bolivar, recently unveiled by President Harding in Central Park, and a gift from the people Bolivia: also the symbolical statue of Ihe Spirit of Victory” during the war. decorations in the Pan-American building, Washington, D. C„ the Soldier's Monument in Ogdensburg, the Soldiers’ Monument in Rochester, and a fountain in Baltimore. She is the daughter of a lawyer and granddaughter of a judge. Esperanto on Concert Stage Esperanto, the international auxiliary language, Is going on the concert programs of a number of singers this season. Miss Anna Fitzhue. the dramatic soprano, will sing two songs in Esperanto nt her concert in Pittsburgh: while others who are working up gongs in that language Include Grace Fjorde, contralto, and Luella Meluls. colorature soprano. \\ hatever may be the shortcom tngs of Esperanto as a talking language, it has distinct advantages when adapted to the needs of the singer, its vowels being long anil dear and consonants precise and unmistakable. More than SO per cent of the words of Esperanto are of I.atin derivation, which singers declare make It a show language for the singing voice. In Esparanta every word Is renounced as it is written. It has a library of many thousand volumes, inchiding translations of the greatest mas terpiece of all times: it is being spoken and used privately and commercially by more than three million persons iu all parts of the world. The assertion is made that it takes a person with average Intelligence twenty-four hours to learn the whole Esperanto grammar and twothirds of the fundamental words which enable any scholar to carry on a conversation or correspondence.

Talk Monument to Robertson There is talk of the erreetion of a monument in Grammercy Park to the memory of Morgan Robertson. About fifteen or twenty years ago a certain clique of log-rollers dominated literature i in this metropolis. They patted each ; other's backs in the taprooms, bought each others brain product, boosted each other's poems, *>la.vs. short stories and books, and when the occasion demanded, showered praise only upon those books that came from the presses which turned out the books they and the'r friends wrote. Through the extent ot the grip the Gotham log-rollers had Upon the executive positions in the offices of the magazines, weeklies and bookhonses, it practically became impossible for an outthe King. J. Lloyd Wayne; the Princess. Miss Jeanette Parry; the Nurse. Miss Jennie Aikmun, tho Gatekeeper, Laurence NeidUnger; the Prince of the Marshes. Thomas Flaherty; his first aunt, Miss Ethel Rfelhorn: bis second aunt, Miss Einllle Kipp; Fintan, the astrologer. Will Forsythe; Manus, the King of Sprcha; Tatg. the Taller, by 11. L. Earnest: foreign men, James Daggett and Nivin Stahl; two servants, Albert Heff-.ier; the Dragon, Robert Hollingsworth; Taig's mother, Mrs. Ollah Perkins Toph - -I--I----ON Y lEYV TODAY. The following attractions are on view today: “Toto,” at the Murat; Frisco at B. F. Keith's; “The Birth of a Nation” at English's; “Temple of Minstrelsy” at the Lyric: “Rathing Beauties” at the Park: vaudeville at the Rialto; “The Great Impersonation” at the Ohio: “Footlights” at I.oew's State; “Good and Evil’’ at the Alhambra; “Her Winning May” at Mister Smith’s; “The Lady from I.ongacre” at the Isis; “Her Social Value at the Circle; “The Concert” at the Cole *1; “Some Wild Oats” at the Broadway, and “Colorado Pluck” at the Regent. -!- -|- -IM USU AL COMEDY OPENS AT MV RAT THURSDAY’. Joseph M. Gaites will present tomorrow night and for balance of the week, with matinee Saturday at the Murat, “Up In th Clouds," which is a musical comedy. It comes to Indianapolis almost direct from an all summer run at the Shubert-Garriek theater, Chicago.

side writer, no matter how worthy his output to gain access to the public. After a time the readers of many of the publications saw through the tactics of the Gotham log-rollers and protested, but in vain, for the hold of the association of self-boosters was too firm to bo shaken. They continued to play up each other as before until the coming of Morgan Robertson, Action writer of sea tales, and a ragged, unusual personality of force. He w-as a diamond in tho rough and creator of the Jack London type of short story. Ilis “Sinful Peck” still is regarded as a masterpiece. Robertson endeavored to “land” his product with the Gotham log-rollers. They would have none of him and took nothing that he wrote. They declared he was crude and passed the word around to keep closed the portcullis whenever he appeared. Those who aimed to be known as the arbiter of literature, then as now, bad created about tl emselves an exotic atmosphere with soft lights, vel-vet-covered sofas and beautiful literary angels, generally blondes, walking around scattering smiles and perfumes. Rough fellow that he was, Robertson s simple nature finally revolted at the whole system of pretense governing the merchandising of literary wares In New York. He loaded up with liquor one dark. rainy day and set forth to right a great wrong. He called In person upon the various self anointed logrollers, and after mussing up the furniture and tossing about the pretty pl 2. lows in the outer rooms, he reeled in aud told the various members of the clique what he thought of them and how their conduct was a crime against literature and thousands of struggling writer* throughout the country Os course, that outburst from Morgan Robertson did him no good with the logrollers . He get nowhere with them. They continued to refuse to buy his product. He remained an outcast, and while his subsequent fits of rage were a source of terror to the door folk at the offices of the various publications, his spirit gradually was shattered. He finally died broken-hearted. Then, with that hypocrisy so common with poseurs, the logrollers, one and all, began to praise the work of the man who they had sneered at when alive. Robertson’s short stories were gathered together and published la a set of books, and ho was declared * genius. That was more than many of the publishers could stand. They descended upon and ousted from their Jobs the men who had refused to give Robertson a fair hearing. Log-rolling was ended for the time and in the interim that followed many struggling writers of the West obtained a hearing and achieved fame. But with the smaller fraternity, through which history can always be depended upon to repeat, anew get of logrollers has become established in the very ashes of the men who plugged only themselves twenty years ago. Wanted—a new Morgan Robertson to enter the Gotham arena and end the revival of literary log-rolling. Record Music Readily Sold These may be hard times, but ther* has been a marked improvement In the sales of graphophone records, rolls and sheet music this month. On the other hand, the big theatrical syndicates are reducing costs, a cbitf Item in saving being electric light. Orders have been sent throughout the country curtailing extravagant electric light sign displays, which usually have been kept illuminated in front of the theater all evening The bouse staffs hate been ordered cut In two. The manage: s say only through the most stringent economies will 1 hey be ennhled to ki-ep their theaters open, and from becoming picture houses. Theatrical and motion picture interests have prepared to meet the railroad strike if it comes. Great fleets of motor trucks have been contracted for tentatively and all Is in rea l!ness to transport theatrical companies from town to town, vrh!le airplanes will be employed to sea l films. The “key” cities are Boston. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis, and in each of those centers local representatives have been instructed to engage limousines for ihe actors and actresses and trucks for the scenery. The vaudeville managers have gone about the arrangements with great detail, for it will be a test of a transportation system that may become permanent.

Magazine an Aid to Writers Now comes a monthly New York publlcation that tePs one how to write. It is called the YV,-iter's Digest, sells for $2 a year or 15 conts the copy and pledges to be “an invaluable help” to those possessed of ambition to write and sell photoplays. short stories, poems, poplar songs, magazine and newspaper articles or any other kind of manuscript. If they can do all that, the editors will fill a want that has existed since the first roll of parchment was tanned. Prisoner Handed Rubber Ice Pick BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Oet. 26.—As a mathematician James May wins the rub. her ice pick, says Prosecutor Tate of tho Criminal Court bars. May Is in jail awaiting trial on two charges of forgery. He was recently convicted on u similar charge nnd appealed the case to the Supreme Court. Recently May admitted to Tate that he Is an escaped convict from the Missouri State Penitentiary and that he has four more years to serve in the latter institution. While awaiting the action of the Supreme Court May wants to be returned to Missouri in order that he may begin serving the unexpired portion of his sentence there. “I'm serving time here and am getting no credit for it,” he told the official. Tate Is Investigating.

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