Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1921 — Page 4

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JtoMatta JMy SFimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dai'y Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . __ , ... t Chicago. Detroit, Bt. Louis, Q. Logan Payne Cos. AdTcrtlsine offices j y o rk, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. THAT “CHECK-OFF” injunction comes near being a “check out” for the miners. THESE FOREIGN statesmen should learo their plots and Intrigues at home when they come to the United States. WHISKY is said to be sold oTer the bar in Philadelphia, officials apparently living np to the reputation of the city. SOME ONE has risen to remark that there was enough mud slung at the football game Saturday to supply a couple of city campaigns. JOHN D. has received many columns of publicity in the papers of the country because he gave a little girl - two dimes. What would have happened if he had handed her a dollar? Undesirable ( Support* While this newspaper must agree with the Indianapolis Star in its able, if belated, castigation of the Indianapolis News for its despicable office written anonymous communications, its editorial falsehoods and perverted news, it must also point out to the people of this community a very important matter for consideration. Boyd M. Ralston, Democratic candidate for mayor, is not responsible tor the “support" which the News is giving his candidacy. Mr. Ralston did not invite it, does not approve It and, we feel sure, would do all in his power to choke it such a desirable end could be consummated. "In the present situation, the case is one in which the Indianapolis News is making Itself one of the Issues of the campaign," says the Star. No more lamentable truth could be expressed from Mr. Ralston’3 standpoint If the Democratic nominee succeeds in winning this election it will be in spite of, rather and because of the "support" of the News. For however the people of this community stand politically, it cannot be denied that they are completely worn out by the vicious defamation and profitless mudslinging to which they are always subjected when the candidacy of any man interferes with the determination of the News to rule Che community. It is indeed unfortunate that Mr. Ralston, who v as a member of that Federal grand jury which indicted Delavan Smith, did not see the Indictment result in a trial of the Issue raised by the false statements of ownership behind which the management of the News hid so smugly for so many years. Had there been a trial Mr. Raiston might not now be handicapped In his race for mayor by having the News tied to his coattails. While it is a fact that the biggest issue of this municipal campaign a whether or not the community is to submit to further dictation by a political tyrant insane on the subject of ruthless and unscrupulous power, voters should remember that Mr. Ralston is not responsible for this Issue. It is rapidly growing as difficult to submit to unsought embraces of the “good government crowd” in Indianapolis as it used to bo to exist without paying it homage. Just Whistling! The period of political predictions is now upon us. Hesitating a few moments In their perversion of the facts concerning the candidates, the adherents of one party or the other are now putting out a line of bunk about the south side and the north side, the east side and the west side. Soon the talk will reach the same proportions as It did In the primaries Just before It was climaxed with the startling bit of information t>mt "all the good people” of Indianapolis were "uniting*’ to nominate Mr. Thomas Carr Howe. Asa matter of fact, these predictions and polls and anonymous quotas tions are all manufactured for a purpose and represent what certain politicians wish rather than what exists. The truth about this city campaign is tnat there has been no marked change In the situation since it began. At that time there were about 20,000 more male Republican voters In Indianapolis than Democrats. A large part of the Republican party was chagrined over the nomination of Samuel Lewis Shank and a large part of the Democratic party was ill disposed over the management of the campaign. Steadily, there has been a shifting of party lines, from Shank to Ralston, from Ralston to Shank. If the Democratic party can hold its votes In line for Mr. Ralston, as it should, he will be elected with the aid of the disgruntled Republicans. If Mr. Shank gets two-thirds of the normal Republican vote be will be elected by a majority representative of the Democrats who are not enamored of Mr. Ralston. One guess is as good as another. What the guessers cannot determine is how many blind partisan voters will, this year, vote for the candidates of the party they have not heretofore supported. The Consumers Day There are Increasing indications that the ultimate consumer is coming Into his own. First, the railroad 6trlke was called off, due undoubtedly to the influence of the ultimate consumer. Now Judge Albert B. Anderson has issued an injunction to prevent the miners and the operators from combining to shake down the same old ultimate consumer. The eminent Federal Court, in referring to the alleged combination of miners and operators, declared that “the poor old ultimate consumer, without a friend on earth, Is milked continuously by these operators and miners." Then he proceeds to the protection of the ultimato consumer. The effect of the Injunction issued by the Federal Court on the United Mine Workers of America and on the labor union movement in general can be determined only by future events. Undoubtedly it will be a tremendous Influence toward curbing both. Labor unions have their proper place as organizations for the protection of the working men. Just as easily Justified are the organizations of employers for their own protection. But a labor union must not attempt to exploit the general public, or an organization of employers undertake the same thing, and there must not be a combination of both toward this end. The ultimate consumer has played the role of innocent bystander so Jong he is tired of It and he is rising up in his wrath and swatting indiscriminately whoever seeks to take an unfair advantage of him. He has no objection to laboring men organizing or to employers organizing, but he does object to them combining to run a steam roller over him. Hereafter there are glng to be three parties to these controversies — capital, labor and the ultimate consumer, and the greatest of these is the ultimate consumer. Mr. Marshall's Views Coming from a man whose face has been so familiar L uy years, the declaration that "there are too many old faces' in Democratic affairs is one of the most Interesting things that Tom Marshall has ever Bald. It means, if it means anything, that Mr. Marshall has at last concluded from a rather bitter experience that the Democratic party of his prime can no longer hope to attract to It the voters of a period considerably advanced. Mr. Marshall’s way of giving expression to the fact that a party must advance along with the world, is, however, susceptible of an erroneous interpretation. Not all the faces that have been familiar ranks In the past have outworn their welcome. Some whldii have been broadly lithographed and always present when the plum tree was shaken are undoubtedly too familiar to gain a full measure of respect. However, there have been, active in Democratic politics for many years, men who oontinue to create a most favorable response from the public whenever they appear. These men should never be forced into retirement on the mistaken theory that the public is tired of them because they have been connected with Democratic politics. Quite properly, Mr. Marshall feels the necessity of new blood in the Democratic party. Such new blood will enter the Democratic party whenever those persons who have borne the party’s burdens for years replace some of those who have stood in the foreground and prevented the nation ~a upholding the party^rganization.

JOHN FISHER TICKLES THE IVORY Until the Piano at Keith*s la a Hit

Holy gold flshl It has happened. A pianist, an honest to goodness, regular fellow, put the brakes on iha current show at B. F. Keith's and forced the turn to be one of the two big outstanding hits of tha show. His name Is John Irving Fisher, the pianist with Wallace Bradley and Grette Ardine in “Follies of Song and Dance.’ And how that Fisher lad can tickle the Ivory 1 The truth Is, I never have heard a pianist in vaudeville who combines ability with a real personality like this fellow does. He plays the piano as If It were no effort at all and frequently he looks out at the audience with a smile while his finger* go racing up and down the keys, as If to say, “Really, folks, this Is easy pickings.” The audience yesterday afternoon took John Irving Fisher right to Its heart. The applause at times reminded one of the roar heard at a football game when the home team la winning. Fisher Is not the whole thing by any means to ‘ Follies of Song and Dance,” becanse Bradley and Ardine are two dancers of no mean ability. Their last dance, which they gave as an encore Is one of the fastest ever stepped on the Keith stage since I have been looking the shows over. Bradley swings his dancing aaslstant over the stage as carelessly as Fred Stone has been known to do. This act Is not announced as the headliner or a co-headllner, but the audience yesterday aftemon headlined John Irving Fisher, Wallace Bradley and Grette Ardine In their effections. My words of praise for this team do not reflect In any way on the merits of the offering of our old-time minstrel friend, Eddie Ross and his banjo. I expected Ross to stampede his audience and he did. He Is an artist in his line of work. He can play the banjo as if he was born with, qne in the cradle. He Is a complete entertainer. So complete was hi* success yesterday that no made a short curtain talk. My thoughts now turn to Frank Onby in “On and Off" in which he Impersonates (I think I harp used that word right in this sensei an old-fashioned ventriloquist who uses a dummy and the new fashioned one who uses no dummy at all. Tou will like Gaby the second he comes on the stage. 110 Is the third hit of this show. Ralph C. Bevan and Beatrice Flint have some Idle but rather rapid chatter In an offering called. “A Slight interruption.” It is along the lines used by “nut” comedians. Several good looking

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B. “HOW FAR around. • • "CAX YOU twist your neck?” * • • SAID ONE of the men. • * • AT THE noon-day meal. • • • AND I twisted my neck. AXD HE declared. • • IT WAS a poor twist. i* • • AXD I ought to do It. * • • WITH GREATER ease. • • • AXD GO around farther. AXD MOKE than likely. • * THEBE WAS something the matter. * • * AXD IF there was. • • • AS I grew older. IT MIGHT be serious. • it AXD FOR two or three days. HE REFT nagging me. • • • ABOUT MY neck. • • • AXD FIX ALLY. • • • I WEXT with him. • • • TO A doctor's office. • • • AXI) WRAPPED in ft ah cot. • • • I TAT on a couch. • • • AXD MX head hun* over. * • • AT THE head of the couch. * • AXD HIS doctor friend. • • • took nOLD of my head. • • * AXD INSTRUCTED me. • . * I SHOULD relax. . . • AXD STARTED a story. * • • AXD DIDN’T finish. • • • FOR ALL at ones . • • • HE TANKED my neck. • • * AXD THREW my hand. • • • XEARLT OFF tho couch. • • * AXD GRABBED at It.

• • * AND IHREIV It back. * * • AND SOMETHING cracked. • • • AND nF. let It drop. • • • MYTH: “THERE you are!” • * • AND I arose. IN MY flowing robe. * AND TWISTED my neck. ,* * * FULL THREE Inches farther. THAN I'D done before. • ♦ AND IF someone 'll tell me. • * * WHAT MORE I can do. * * • MYTH MY nice new neck. • THAN I did before. • * I’LL SEND to him. * • * THE RECEIPT I have. FOR THE doctor’s fee. • * • I THANK you.

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girl* take "it In “Dummies,” which Is *’*-* n fr presented by William B. Friedlander vrho has supplied many a “girl” act for vaudeville. Ernest Wood is featured In the company although he hasn’t the material which would tax the ability of any performer. The act Is tuneful, there is some dancing and the scenery Is pleasing to the eye. Dallas Walker, known as “The Girl From Texas,” opens the show in some clever rope manipulations. The McDonald Trio, a cycling act closes tha show. The Pathe News Is interesting this week because It shows Marshal Foch landing In New York city. This bill Is on view today at Keith’s and for the remainder of tbs week.— W. D. H. -I- -I- -!- “DIFFERENT" IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ACTS AT LYRIC. “Different” Is billed as a “1922 idea” of ministrelsy and as revealed at the Lyric this week is found- to abound In excellent singing and clever dancing. The pianist, who introduces the specialties, also has a pleasing voice and .puts over to applause a song by Ernest Ball called “I’ll Forget You." As the name of the mala daucsr is not known to the writer, we are nnabl© to enlighten you but we brand his dance as one of the real joys of tho act. John and Ella Burke are jugglers who sing and dance. They warn well received. Ponner and Powers sing songs of a comedy nature; Including the well known, “Some Little Bug.” Lawrence

STARTS NEW FAD

MISS £ UTILE CORDF.9. Fashion notes report that the girls In New York City have started a fad by bearing their Initials on their foreheads. The Initial* are made of hair. The press agent of “The Queen of Sheba” movie at Loew’s this week thought It would be a good stunt to have Miss I.ucile Cordes of Graceland avenue to start the fad here She is seen In tho above picture wearing tho letter “S,” which stands for “Sheba ” That was tho Idea of the press agent. Crane and company present an Illusion act. Crane bills himself as "The Irish \Y Izard.” William Gill and company present a dramatic sketch called,“A Christmas T-etter." The act takes place In a dressing room of an actor on Christmas morning He Is waiting for a news from his home relative to the birth of a child. It Is a boy and the act has a pleasant ending. During the act one gets acquainted with a "hard boiled” manager, a stag® carpenter and other Inhabitants of the stage. The act 1* well done. Paramount Four Is made up of singers who bavo been here before. They are offering anew line of songs this time. As a whole the act Is much better than they offered at this house on a previous visit. • At tho Lyrlo all week. -!- -!- + “FRENCH FROLICS” FROLIC AT THE PARK THIS WEEK. E. Thomas Reatty Is presenting his new edition of “The French Frolics” at the Park this week. The show contains plenty of comedy, dancing and singing. The show this season easily lives up to its past reputation of being one of tho best shows on tho American wheel. Hal Sherman obtains plenty of laughs on Ills comedy attempts and his dancing also wins favor. Sabine Copple as “Ukelele Slim” In a small town "sport” make-up, hung up a real hit with bis odd style of singing “blue” melodies. He also sings a number of parodies. Lillian Russelle, not to bo confused with tho famous Lillian Russell, would probably “shock” the famous Lillian, but pleased tho Park audience when the show was reviewed. She Is described on the program as “Dolly Dimples, Otir Dashing Souhrctte.” Butko and Llllette do an olio act. Ltlleeete sings Jazz songs and Burke plays the piano. Margaret Hastings and William Mack will be remembered while singing “Some Day.” The chorus is lively and good looking. The scenery and costumes are satisfactory. At the Park all week. -I- -I- -I----OX THE MOVIE SCREEN. Tlte following movies may bo seen today: “The Birth of a Nation” at. English’s; “The Four norsemen of the Apocalypse” at the Murat; “Tho Son of Wallingford” at the Ohio; “Two Minutes To Go” at the Circle; “The Queen of Sheba” at Loews’ Stale; “Never Weaken” at the Alhambra; “Clay Dollars’ at the Colonial; “What Women Will Do” nt the Isis; “Everything for Sale" at Mister Smith’s; “Some Wild Oats” at tho Keystone, and “Desperate Trails” at the Regent.

SENATE GIVING SOME NOTICE TO DISABLED VETS Changes Recommended to Remedy Grievances of Soldier Boys. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Publto Ledger. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—0n tha ova of the American Legion convention In Kansas City, at which delegates will dl*cu every phase of governmental care of the disable soldier, the Senate Committee appointed to Investigate incapacitated soldiers relief bureaus made public Its rej ports together with recommendations for remedial legislation and administrative action. The committee Indicated Its legislative recommendations would be embodied, substantially, In a bill to be presented in the Senate. The committee's legislative recommendations In part were: That the director of the veterans bureau be authorized to provide additional hoa- | pitals at a cost of $10,400,000, and that an appropriation be made available without delay. I hat the President be authorized to transfer to tho veterans’ bureau the opi cration, management and control of any | Government hospital*, with their equipment and personnel, for the use of disabled ex-service men. That ail trainees, subject to full advice and Information from the officials concerned, should be given their choice of tho course of training to be followed I f° r their rehabilitation, except whore It l ls clearly apparent that the trainee Is unfitted for tne course chosen, and If tho applicant is dissatisfied with the course ao prescribed, he should ba allowed an appeal under proper regulations. WAR RIBK INSURANCE. That tha war risk Insurance act be amended ao as to permit any ex-servlc# man now holding term Insurance less than SIO,OOO to Increase It at any time to SIO,OOO before conversion into United States Government life Insurance, with a ■ similar privilege to the holder of coni verted Insurance. That findings of permanent disability effective as of date previous to reinstatement of Insurance should not prevent the payment of Insurance claim*. That the benefit* of the war risk insurance act as amended, the vocational training act as amended, the veterans' | bureau act and other legislation for tha i benefit of the disabled veterans of the war be extended to Include, In addition to the beneficiaries thereof as now prosided by law, ail persons who served In the army or navy of any of the allied | powers In the war, and who were citizens . ot the United Sthtes at the time they I entered such eervioe, and were honorably | discharged thorefrom, the amounts re- | calved from any other government to be ! deducted from compensation, provided that this ahould not apply to any Injury Incurred In a period during which the United States was not at war. The committee’s recommendations for administrative action Include; That a disciplinary code be established and published for the enforcement of good order In the Veteran* Bureau and among the officers and employes of the public health service. That the inspection service provided by the new law should be given particular attention by the director of the burean for the purpose of frequent and thorough Inspection of all hospitals, training centers, Institutions and other places where disabled, soldiers are, with a view to maintaining contact with the Individual as 'well as Investigating and reporting general conditions. TRAINING CENTERS. That additional training center* should be established for vocational training where mental and tubercular patients are under treatment. That the "contract” system of training should, unless especially sound reasons Justify the contrary, be restricted to Institutions or places of business that have been In existence for at least five years prior to July 1, 1921. That preliminary training, when needed and practicable, be given to trainees prior to placement on Job training. BUREAU DI RECTORS. That tho director of the bureau uee the authority already vested in him to reduce maintenance pay of trustees In placement training wherever the trainees are receiving wages from the employer; that reduction, however, not exceeding the amount of auch wages In any Individual case. That a commissary department be established In tho bureau for providing subsistence for trainees at all training centers. Tho committee sees the need of matured men and women In teaching personnel instead of tha young women, to teach veterans, many of whom are no longer youths. Only B 0 per cent of the teachers, the report notes, are ex-*ervlee men. In many Instances, tho report says, complaints of friction between the Government appear to have been the result of a lack of understanding on the part of some official who was not an ex soldier and therefore not best fitted to understand the point of view of tha , veteran trainee. —Copyright, 1921, bj Public Ledger Company. Mystic Shrine Will Honor Lin known Hero Appropriate honors will be paid not ‘ only to Armistice day and the unknown American soldier being laid to his last ; rest in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, j but also to the patriotism, courage and ! sacrifices of the Americans who participated In the world war, at the ceremonial of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Nov. 11, at the Murat Theater. The program will begin at 2 o’clock In the afternoon and continue to the early evening hours. Tribute will be paid also to tlie living potentates of Murat, and the children at the Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin will be remembered and will be Murat's guests.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

On the Road, Nov. 1. “I don’t admire the Ku-Klux Klan,” said the man from the Mexia oil fields who was In the smoking compartment of the sleeper Oklahoma bound, "but they certainly did a good work at Mexia. "Ever been la anew field ? Well, if you haven’t you’ve never met the toughest bunch of adventurers to be found anywhere on earth. At the first announcement of an oil strike they stream In from everywhere. "Ranger Is playing out and it’s pretty dull in all the proved districts of the Southwest, so when the news of the strike at Mexia spread abroad there was a rush for the new field. "I don’t know whether Mexia Is a real thing or not. They have half a dozen wells, but it takes time to show whether the oil is In big volume. “Well, the mob poured into Mexia. In a few days you couldn’t get a real bed In hotels or boarding houses without paying Waldorf-Astoria prices. They came by train, by flivvers, by freight and some, I think, afoot. I’ve seen men pay real money for the privilege of sleeping In an automobile. There are more restaurants to the acre In the Mexia territory right now, I think, than anywhere else west of the Mississippi. Any place where you can get a 'hot dog’ and coffee Is a restaurant and the restaurant man pays SIOO a month for a shack that didn’t cost SSOO to build. "Most of the mob that swept down on Mexia was broke. The inclination of an oil-boom trailer who is broke is to get a stake by ‘sticking np’ a man at night and capturing his roll. There were a few hold-ups. Also there were a few killings. The persons shot were bad citizens. The men who did the shooting were officers of the law. “Then there was a parade of the KuKlux Klan. Do you know, It was a fearlnsplrlng sight? There's something In the spectacle of a long procession of masked men that Is hard to describe. Next the klan warning was put on the doo: of a lot of Joints that bootleggers occupied. Immediately thereafter It was difficult to get booze In Mexia. I never saw anew oil field so orderly as Mexia. I’ve gone aronnd at night and never bad a bit of trouble, although I know there are as many sttek-up men there as in any other field in the Soitthwest. “The King of the Wild Catters brought In the Mexia field. They all laughed at him at first, but he spent a million dollars barking np his faith that there waa oil In the country and now he is bucking the Standard. He mado a speech In Dal-

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—American ecclesiastical authorities will be Interested lu a set of prayers sanctioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, for use on Sunday, Nov. 6 —the Sabbath day before the Washington conference on limitation of armament —In all the Protestant churches of Great Britain and Ireland. They are also to be used “on other snltable occasions during the conference." Two of them are I ‘‘Almighty God. from whom all thought* of truth and peace proceed; kindle, we pray Thee, in the hearts of all men, the true love of peace, and golds with Thy pure and peaceable wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth; that In tranquility Thy kingdom may go forward, till the earth Is filled with the knowledge of Thy love; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen." “O Almighty God, who canst bring good out of evil, and makost even the wrath of man to turn to Thy praise; teach Thy chlldren to live together In charity and peace; and grant, w© beseech Thee, that the nations of the world may henceforth be united in a firmer fellowship for the promotion of Thy glory and the good of all mankind; through .Teaus Christ, our Lord. Amen." With the armament conference a fortnight away, hotel accommodations In Washington for November and December have ceased to exist. The standing roomonly sign Is now up at virtually every first-class establishment In the capital. Foreign embassies and legations and the Ftate. War and Navy Departments of the United States have commandeered whole hotel floors, upsetting the calculations of managers who were hoping to squeeze 1n old patrons at the eleventh hour. Washington during the next sixty days will be the mgeca of a vast host of Americans, drawn hither frankly by the lore of excitement, gossip, thrills and anticipated spectacular effects. The opportunity to g*z upon whole cavalcades of distinguished foreigners, whose • names are household words tha world round, is too alluring to be resisted by our sensationloving cltlzenery. So to the extent that hotels, apartment house* and the hospitality of Washington friends permit. It Is preparing to descend upon its capital enmasse. By the time the armament conference Is In session, a little volume will be in existence telling for the first time the story of the Pan-American Union, the parley's official headquarters. The work of Miss Muriel Bailey of the Union’s editorial staff. It will recount that exactly 95 years ago. In 1826. Simon Bolivar assembled the first Tan-American conference, at Panama, to achieve for the Americas that universal brotherhood which the forthcoming Washington conference aspires to establish for a war-worn world. Miss Bailey's book, too, will tell his fellowdelegates that it was Elihu Root, while Secretary of State, who induced Andrew Carnegie to give the SBOO,OOO and Congress Hie $200,000 which, respectively, provided the marble palace nnd the land where the armament conference will meet. Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, between night and day theatrical engagements In Washington, was busily engaged conferring with Government officials and private personages In furtherance of her activities on behalf of “conservation of food nniamls.” At a meeting which she addressed, Mrs. Fiske announced that ways and means were about to be found

las practically defying the Standard Oil, but that may be a bluff. The Magnolia, which Is owned by the Standard, has a short pipe line to Its storage tanks six miles from Its wells. The wild catter has wells, but no pipe line. I hear he Is short of money. If he can build a pipe line he may come out all right, but It Is not wise to buck the Standard. They’ve posted a notice putting a price of sixty cents a barrel on Mexia oil. That may be low, but oil Is pretty dull Just now In price. “There’s talk of the Royal Dutch Shell buying some of the properties. I don't know. An oil field Is a great place for rumors. "Why am I leaving? Well, that’s another story. Do you know I’ve been tied ap with a guy who had some land lu Oklahoma which he said had oIL I sold stock In It to a lot of the people up In my country—lllinois—and then I had reason to think my man was a crook. He drilled a well. I don’t know whether he did It on the level or Just to make a show In order to sell more stock. Part of the proposition on which we sold stock was that we’d sink two walls —the second If the first one proved dry. “What do you suppose? I got word the other day that the first drilling has brought in a good well—2,ooo or 3,000 barrels. I’m going up to see about it. But I’m in a mess. I'm not sure yet whether my man la on the level. I wrote to a lot of paople to whom I sold stock that he was a crook and now here comes a well to prove he Is an honest man. "I guess I’m In for a fine old row with him and maybe some of my friends back home think I’m the crook, but at any rate I’ve got an interest in that property and Mexia has to get along as best It can without mo until I see Just how I stand In Oklahoma. “Is the Mexia strike the real thing? Yes and no. There’s a lot of exaggeration about wells, particularly new ones. Y.'hen you hear of a 20,000-barrel well discount the figures 75 per cent. There’s one thing I tlon’t like about Mexia. There’s no roar to the flow. I’m afraid that after a few months they’ll pump salt water. “Rut you never can tell. The geologists all passed up Mexia and said there was no oil thereabouts. Now they say there’s oil all around lhat country. Ranger was Inexhaustible and now It’s petering out. It’s all a gamble, gentlemen, all a gamble, and that’s why I’m In It I guess. “But those roughnecks down at Mexfia don’t care to gamble about what the KuKlux Klim people will do with them if they act rough. Not on your life.”

for establishing a national headquarters In "Washington, which would deal systematically with “the colossal waste, through cruelty and neglect, of 4,000,000 food animals and two billion pounds or eatable meat a year on our Western ranches.” Incidentally, Mrs. Fiske Is on the war-path against bull-fighting. She has enlisted the support of Senor Ibanez In Spain, the classic land of the bullring, and hopes President Obregon may he induced to reenact In Mexico tha antihull fight decrees of his predecessor, VenuStlano Carranza. Simon Wolf of Washington, the grand old man of American Jewry, was 85 last week. The anniversary was commemorated by special services In his honor at the leading capital synagogues. President Harding sent a letter describing Mr. Wolf as “one of the eminent and tiusted leaders of our civic life,” and wishing him “many more years of ac*'vlty and usefulness.” Mr. Wolf camo to America from Bavaria In early childhood. After graduation from the Ohio law college of Cleveland, he began practicing In Washington during the Civil War. He once served as a municipal Judge In the District of Columbia and in 18S1-82 was American mlnlstor to I’gypt. Mr. Wolf has been a leader In Jewish activities for fifty years. One of hi* hooks Is “President i I Have Known ” —thirteen in all.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Publlo Ledger. NEW YORK, Nov. I.—When I met Chauneey C. lirainerd In the lobby of the Pennsylvania Hotel there was such a restful, contented, dignified look upon his studious face that I knew he had been over to Brooklyn. Mr. Brainerd is tho Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, that faithful guardian of Long Island home and fireside which has flapped Its wings and screamed in full face type for the Interests of Brooklyn since 1841. This great afternoon daily Is exactly eighty years old, and its past Is so Inseparably linked with the progress of Brooklyn, from what was virtually a village until It has become In many respects the most Important borough of Greater New York, that the anniversary Is an event of national Importance. “We of the Eagle are a family ourselves, and It has followed that we understand the problem of the family," said Mr. I’ralnerd, who was en route back to his post after attendance at the reunion. And we talked of the death in the year of Col. William Hester, nephew of the founder of the Eagle, and the succession of his son, William V. Hester, as president, who has been an Eaglet himself for forty years; Herbert F. Gunnison, vice president and treasurer, with a service of thirty-nine years: Editor Arthur M. Howe and Harris M. Crist, managing editor, each of whom has been Engling for twenty-eight years, and Edward V. Elli*, son of Jacob Riis (Roosevelt’s friend) who left Park Row fiat eleven years ago and has never even wanted to come bark to Manhattan. FOUR SERVE MYTH EAGLE FIFTY YEARS. ‘‘l myself have been only thirty-two years with the Eagle," said Mr. Brainerd, almost apologetically. “Why, the Eagle gave medals last night to four persons who had been with the paper half a century,” And right here begins the tale of the

INDIANA ROADS PRAISED HIGHLY BY OHIO SOLON State Senator Brand Says Native Material Is Best. Use of native material, gravel and stone for practically all the roads and the decision of Governor Warren T. McCray to build gravel and stone roads rather than expensive concrete and brick thoroughfares, has given Indiana one of the best systems of public roads I have ever seen, writes Senator Charles Brand of Urbana, Ohio, to Lawrence Lyons, director of the State highway commission. Senator Brand and a party recently toured this State to obtain an Insight on what Indiana Is doing in the road building and maintenance line and his Investigations will be reported to the Ohio legislature. According to Senator Brand, Indiana has a much more complete system of State roads than Ohio, although approximately one-sixth as much money is expended for highway Improvement and construction as in the sister State. "Indiana uses her native material, gravel and stone for practically all her rcyds and has today a much more complete system of roads than Ohio, although we spend five or six times as much. “Ohio refuses to use her native materials In her State system. We have now reached the point where the repairs on what hard surfaced roads we have, are about to use-up the entire Income of our State highway department, yet most of our State roads are today unimproved, utterly and purposely neglected in order that property owners along these roads may be forced Into a willingness to put down hard-surface roads, regardless of cost,” Senator Brand says. The decision to build gravel and stone roads on many sections of the Indiana State highway system was made by Governor McCray, who wished to avoid in this State the difficulties complained of in Ohio by Senator Brand,. * Senator Brand says that one can drive forty and fifty miles an hour over Indiana roads without fear of finding bad spots, except In-towns and cities, where the State highway commission has no Jurisdiction. “I think it fair to say that these roads are smoother to ride on than < even anew cement ro&d, because there are no Joints or waves to go over,” he said. According to Senator Brand's observations the work of the State highway commission has had a very beneficial effect on the efforts of local officials to improve conditions on county or secondary roads. "I wish to congratulate you on the work you are doing In Indiana. You have the best continuous roads I have ever found. Your example Is going to be helpful to Ohio in obtaining better and cheaper roads.”

Councilman Leaves Estate of §25,000 The will of Albert Newby, a member of the Marion County council, admitted to probate today, disposes of an estate valued at $6,500 in personal property and $20,000 in real estate. Augustus G. Newly, a son, qualified as executor of the estate and gave bond In the sum of $13,000. Under the terms of the will three daughters. Ina M. Newby, Hazel A. Newby and Lora G. Newby, each receive S3OO In cash and the remainder of the estate goes to the widow, Angeliue F. Newby. Following her death the estate is to be divided into equal shares among Augustus G. Newby, Minnie P. Trldle, Ina Newby, Hazel A. Newby and Lora G. Newliy.

sort of a Brooklyn that existed when this quartet started with the Eagle— Robert F. Clark of the job department, Celia Kenney, librarian; Superintendent George Wlndram and Patrick MeSherry of the pressrooom. It was a city of no subways, no bridges, no automobiles and no electric lights, and it was called “the city of churches" by some and “the bedroom of New York” by others. Most of the population was downtown near the ferries when they were tho only means of travel between Brooklyn and New York. The boats were slow and cumbersome and took plenty of time to dock. Upon his exit from the ferry house the Brooklynite of IS7O found borse ears of twenty lines waiting to carry him on his long journey out to Gowanus or Flatbush or some other suburb. Every man who bought an Eagle and who had to ride in a horse car had plenty of time to digest the news, although the kerosene lamps were usually so dim that reading was a difficult task. GOLD MEDAL QUARTETTE SEES MANY CHANGES. At the time the gold medal quartette entered the Eagle's service, the paper had been molding public opinion for thirty years, hovering over Kings County in watchful solicitude. Since then they have seen wonderful changes, day by day and year by year, as the presses turned out each day's Eagle. - For Instance. the increase of commerce in and around Brooklyn has been so great that the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan has not had a chance to freeze up tight as it did in 1870. when Henry IVard Beecher and members of his congregation walked across from Brooklyn on the ice and boasted of the feat for many a long year. The Eagle has “mothered" many of the changes, and always opposed those changes which were of detriment to the people, recorded everything that happened and kept pace with the onward march.