Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1921 — Page 4

JnMana flail# STimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, < New York, Boston, Tayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices | Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. GENS DEBS also seems to have taken to the front porch stjle of campaign. THE O'vLY TIME any one hears of the Ku-Klux Klan any more is •when somebody sues it. THE PROPOSED CUT In Army and Navy appropriations is one way to bring about disarmament. JUDGING from the location of some of those proposed reformatory sites the central part of the State covers a lot of territory. SOME of those Ice dealers should explain where they expect to get that big crop of natural ice which they give as the reason for cuts ju ice prices. BLIND TIGER day in city court —headline. From a casual perusal of the court news one would have the impression that every day is blind tiger day. A DISPATCH from England says King George is a poor man. A little farther along it says he receives only $250,000 a year. And still they call America the land of wealth. Not a Failure It Is perhaps too early to say. as Senator King of Utah has said, that the conference on the limitation of armaments will be known for its “monumental failures,” but there are indications that those of us who had hoped for complete success will be disappointed. There is every indication that the conference is ceasing to be one on the limitation of armaments. It has. however, accomplished great good in other lines. If there is a limitation of armaments, indications seem to be that it will apply only to auxiliary and secondary armaments. Washington dispatches indicate that the naval holiday, which was the one great proposal presented to the conference, will be much less ban a holiday. This will be true through no fault of the United States. Japan was the first to break the serenity with which things seemed to be moving when it demanded permission to retain the super-dreadnaught Mutsu. Asa result, the United States and Japan will each build two new dreadnaughts. Then France and England refused to limit their submarines and France demanded permission to begin the construction of replacements in 1927, instead of 1921. This would reduce the holiday to six years instead of ten. The net result to date seems to be the scrapping of a number of old battleships and cruisers. This is an accomplishment la Itself, but it does not establish a naval holiday. The conference now seems to te taking the aspect of a conference on the rules of warfare. But, despite the facts surrounding the proposed naval holiday, the conference thus far cannot be said to tave been without accomplishments. One of these was the four power agreement in which the proposals of Article 10 of the League of Nations covenant were applied to the Far East. Another was the agreement of the knotty problem of the control of the island of Yap. Some relief from outside oppression has been given to China. Ail of these things are immensely worth while. When to them is added what little has been accomplished in the way of the limitation of armaments it can not be said that the conference thus far has been in vain. Then, too, it must be remembered tbat it may lead to better and more extensive understandings in the future.

Shatiifs Experiment The experiment of Mayor-elect Samuel Lewis Shank In appointing two society women to be members of the police force will be followed •with interest. The appointment is a typical Shank move, one of the un-heard-of things that he is always doing and that he often as not “gets away with." The success of this latest experiment will depend largely on the manner In which the new policewomen go about their duties. If they go into the police work as many of those persons interested in sociology in the abstract go about their studies and their "slumming parties,' little will be accomplished. But if they take a real part in the police work, ir they are in sympathy with what is trying to be accomplished, if they are willing to make allowances where allowances must be made and yet are sincere, their appointment may be a great good to the community. The good will icme in that they will be a connecting link between the one-half and the other half. There 13 no truer proverb than the one that say 3 one half the world does not understand how the other half lives. To a vast number of citizens crime and misfortune and the work of detecting and punishing crime and preventing and ameliorating misfortune are a world apart. Bespectacled students rarely get an insight into It. Only those who actually and sincerely work with it understand the appalling things that exist all about them. These two policewomen, chosen from among the society leaders, have an opportunity to learn of these things. Learning of them, they have the ability to communicate what they have learned to others. Thus there can come about a better understanding and a closer cooperation between those who employ the persons engaged in law enforcement and those who are engaged in this work. In passing, it might be said that Mr. Shank has made a good selection. Mrs. Richard Lieber and Mrs. Otto Anthony are known for their sincerity and interest in the things they undertake. They are not the kind of people who go Into things with a blare of trumpets and a desire for notoriety. They ate the kind of women one would expect to accomplish things.

Three Conferences Official recognition of the fact that there is a serious and menacing ■wave of crime has come late, but it is to be hoped that despite its tardiness the effort to combat it will be a success. In order to make a concerted drive on law violations three conferences are being planned, one of prosecuting attorneys called by Attorney General U. S. Lesh; one of the judges called by Governor Warren T. McCray and one of persons interested in the enforcement of the prohibition laws called by the Anti-Saloon League. These conferences have been called as a result of belated recognition of the fact that official laxity has been responsible for a great deal of crime. Officials have been too prone to look the other way when law violations, especially violations of the prohibition laws, have been committed. Courts have been too lenient with law breakers, too prone to give them another opportunity to commit crimo. Oooperation between Judges and prosecutors will do much to stop crime. Perhaps there should also be called into the conference in ■which cooperation is to be discussed the various sheriffs and chiefs of police In the State. The courts and the prosecutors can do much to prevent crime by bending their efforts to the punishment of the guilty; the prosecutors can do something toward the apprehension of law breakers but the sheriffs and the police departments must be relied upon largely to see that crime is prevented and that the guilty are brought at least one 6tep toward the bar of justice. It is intimated that in some places prosecutors and police officials are “lying down on the job.” There is a remedy for this. Proceedings can be brought against the officials who themselves are not law-abir.ing or who do not make an effort to enforce the law. It is possible to remove these officials and the power to institute such proceedings lies in the hands of the Governor and the Attorney General if they see fit to exercise it. Governor McCray and Attorney General Lesh seem determined to get to the bottom of the reasons for the crime wave and to stamp it out if possible. For this they are to be commended. The law-abiding citizens of Indiana certainly hope for their success.

LITTLE MITZI HAS TO BE A GHOST And an Echo All the Same Time These Days

Sweet little Mitzi has been given "some job” in the musical romance, "Lady Billy” by Zeldu Zears. She has lo be a ghost, Oh, a lovely ghost, and an echo in an old European castle and then for good measure she has to be a "boy” with the ability to become a beautiful little countess. It is no job for Mitzi to be a lovely lady and even a "boy” but when it conies to the ghost business, well, Mitzi is Just too pretty aI, J cute *° i ghosts. You will search for months BHr®' come to tind a H prettier picture ir F when Mitzi walks I & as the ghost of a pretiy ancestor j through the an|f cieut halls of a crumbling estate i / Ac s ° luo " ’* er e ln K qyJCjl is so beautiful fpTwt? ami wealthy ,I oh u story has it) falls Mitzi lu love with the ghost. Who could hlame him! This is just my way of telling you that Mitzi has returned to town and is puttiny up today and Saturday at English's. She arrived last night and was greeted by a large Sahara Grotto party which nearly filled the theater. It is beginning to look like old times to see the people turn out as they did last night 1 at English’s. Me got our first peep at Mitzi last night when she comes bouncing on the stage iti the lirst act when some high toned Americans want to rent the castle for $75 a month if steam heat and a bath are installed. Mitzi is dressed as a boy wearing overalls. Oh, such cute overalls thev am. (Such grammar.) Os course Mrs. Wallingford-Ilutier Daventry mis takes tlm ov.-railed creature ,<• < the gardener's assistant and Mitzi n* : vs the impression to tie that she is a boy. Even tie* dashing John Smith (of no relation to the historic John) mistakes Billy for a boy. This opens the way for Billy, accompanied by Bateson, the butler, to ionic to America. Billy still maintains the male disguise and becomes a popular boy > prut o. Aith> gh she looks like a hoy, Billy’s heart go>-- piity-pat in feminine style for J .'in smith, especially when John doesn’t know tiiat Billy is a girl. Mrs. Daventry insists that her daughter marry John, but when Mitzi appears as the prerty countess in the last act—well, Mrs. Daventry's daughter hasn't any chance at ail. Isn't that a sweet little story! You ni l fiml no Jazz in the score of "Lady Billy,” except for one number. Mitzi has two crashing numbers—“lf" of a popular nature, anil "Come to Arc.uly.” Bhe has other numbers, but I likd those two the best. Mitzi i support.-d by the capable Fidrow Greenstroet ns the butler, Bateson. Mr. Gro.-o-fr.-. t ts the butler of butlers on t he stage. You remember him for his work in "The lb-inb w Girl." He is Just ns capable an ! just fu funny in "Lady Billy.” Mr. Greenstreet Is a finished actor and a polished comedian. Ilis porg contribution is an odd little thing called Worm's Keren go." Boyd Marshall is the John .smith, who *s in love with a g' -t wlit.-h turns t > life. Ho has a g , l \ u e and acts pleasantly and natural. Ylra Kid is Mrs. Daventry, and her work is nicely accomplished as the mother who Insists that her daughter tn.arrv f.- mor. y. Th.-re ere numerous orh'*rs in the ■•;* The dancers are adequate an ti * lie male quartette is more than as t i sfaet ory. 'I e production is a beautiful one and the end re score Is b.-ads and shoulders above the everyday musical hash. "Lo ir Billy" is not related tnusl ally to the Jazz family. Mi’zi nr.l "Lady Billy” Is on view I today and Saturday at I’agHsh's. w. n, n. ! ... -i. a. FDISOX TIAS NOTHING ON LENNOX BOBINSOV. 1. nnax 111 ' .ns -n, author of "The Wl e-headed Key.” in which the Irish flayers from the Abbey Theater, Dublin, n 1 bo presented at English's by Charles lull tighatn f*>r three nights and a Wed tie day matlr.ee. beginning next Monday. gives both the bee and the ant a

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BRINGING UP FATHER.

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, tidy race for first place as the embodii ment of industry. I Not only is he playwright and novelist j with a tremendous output year after ! year, but he is also manager of the [ world-famed Abbey whose every produejtion tomes under his personal supervision. l ln addition to this he has again been I elected librarian of . the Carnegie trust in Dublin, a job which requires considerable attention. How he finds time to discharge his multifarious duties and ! "pursue literature" is a mystery to his i friends, as it is a tremendous task in j itself to direct the Abbey where the repertory system demands his continual | presence. ■ Ilobiuson, who was born in Cork, Is Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B, DEAR K. C. B. * * • FROM AWAY up h< re. * * * IN TUB faraway North. • * • I SEND you thU. * • • AND MY message Is. * + • THAT A long time ago. • • ON A summer’s (lay. • # IN A shell-PbockcMl town. • * • ON THE Marne tattlefleld. • • • I MET you first • it AND IT was there. • • • I FOUND a page. • • • THAT YOU were on • i • AND YOU made me laugh. . • • • AND SAID some things. • * • THAT WENT straight home. • . • AND I said to my buddy. • • * "THAT GCY'S euro human." • It AND MY buddy smiled. AND AGREED with me. • It AND AS he smiled. * • ALL HELL broke loose. • • • AND HE'S still over there. • • • AND jrST today. • • • WHEN A paper came. ... from roi.K back home. • • • AND I read your lines. I THOUGHT of him. AND I’M writing now. • • • WTIAT I wanted to write. ... A LONG time ago. • It TII \T I'M very sure. • • • IIL WOTTI.D be gland • • • TO HAVE you know*. • • • Tit VT THE lines von wrote. • • • WERE OV his Ill's. WHEN HE wcr.t out. AND INTO the West. 11l AND I think that t* • • • WOULD LIKK to far. • • • AT CHRISTMAS tima. • • **A MURKY Chris*Mas. • • • “AND A glad New Year.” • * • I THANK yon. . • • JEAN T. GBEN'OIS, • II r. s. Ttadio Station, • it McGRATH, ALASKA.

about 37 ( years old, and “The Whiteheaded Boy” is only one of his many plays to score heavily. Asa novelist perhaps his best known book is “A Young Man from the South,” which has passed through many editions, j In addition to the great amount of ! work entailed upon him in putting on the plays at the abbey, Ilobinson occaj slonally acts in them. On one occasion he -played the part of the idol in Lord Punsany's “A Night at on Inn,” first produced in this country and caused a ; decided sensation. It was the premiere of the play in the United Kingdom, and when he appeared in green tights with the hideous face of an idol, with his (1 feet 0 inches of height and apparently about six inches of thickness, the effect , was 1 startling, to put it mildly. Robinson is also greatly interested in the Irish Drama League founded by himself. tbe poet, William Butler Yeats, the novelist, James Stephens, and Ernest A. Boyd, historian of the Irish drama. I 'l' 'l* -I----OX VIEW TODAY. Other attractions on view today include Eddie Cantor in "The Midnight Rounders" at the Murat; Miss Josephine Victor in "Juliet and Romeo" at B. F. Keith’s; a Jazz band anil other acts at the Lyric; "The Pacemakers” at the Park; "Little Lord Fauntleroy” at Loew’s State; “My Boy” and “Toyland” ballet at the Circle; "Why Girls Leave Home" at the Ohio; ‘‘Rent Free" at the Alhambra; Thomas Meighan ln "A Prince There Was” at the Isis; “Fightln* Mad” at Mister Smith’s; “Beating the Game” at the Colonial, and "Go Get Him” at the Regent.

Oklahoma Banker Slain After Quarrel OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla . Dec. 30.—A sheriff's posse today hunted Oklahoma County ln search of Schell Rector, an Oklahoma City insurance agent, who is wanted in connection with the death of 15. W. Brindley, president of the Mustang State Bank, who was shot and killed In the front yard of his home at Mustang last night. The fatal shooting was said to have followed a quarrel over possession of an automobile. •

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TIME TO BUILD, SAY BUILDERS Importance of Doing It Now Urged by Building Trades Body. The building season for Indianapolis folks is here, A movement, urging the Importance and practicability of a year-round building season and pointing out the vital need of pushing every sort of building construction, at least all repair and remodeling work, which can be carried on straight through the remainder of this winter, has been taken up by the Marion County Building Trades Council. Weather or temperature, say the officers of that body, does not retard the proposed plan.

The ‘‘don't stop building now” ‘den Is earnestly advocated by practi-itly all holiday Issues of publications in the construction industry. These magazines point out the vital importance of either repairing, remodeling, resuming or hastening postponed construction, because <f the nation-wide need for attacking tie unemployment menace and providing employment for men in the building industry. "Building in Indianapolis should not be a seasonable affair,” President Fox and Secretary Robinson of the Building Trades Council assert, "because Indianapolis Is blessed with weather conditions which make all-the-year-round building practical.” TWO HELD AS PLOTTERS. CHICAGO, Dee. 30. —Henry M. Ashton, an attorney, and Joseph Levy are under indictment here for alleged conspiracy to uhtuln money under false pretenses. It is alleged they obtained 527,000 through the sale of worthless stock. WOMAN TAKES lODINE. Marv Hoffman, <5lO Caldwell street, was fakpn to the city hospital last night after she had taken iodine. The police were told she attempted suicide. She had practically recovered today, according to hospital physicians.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

FUNDS VANISH WITH CUSTODIAN Rensselaer Deputy Treasurer Reported Missing. Junior Benjamin, deputy treasurer of Rensselaer, and 37.46!), have disappeared, according to a report to the State board of accounts, yesterday. Charles M. Sands is treasurer of Rensselaer, but the office work is done by the deputy treasurer. The bond of the treasurer Is $7,500. Benjamin, the report charges, attempted to cover the shortages by a series of false entries in the city books, lie disappeared Nov. 17, and has not been seen since, according to the report. In checking up on the funds of the city two field examiners of the board found $17,652.22 in cash must be accounted for. Credits in the office amount-

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ed to $10,182.30. A notation in the examiner’s report said, “Short $7,469 in cash.” The examination covers the period of from Jan. 1, 1920 to Nov. 30, 1021. It discloses it was the practice in the office to have a s “petty cash” fund from which the bills of the city were paid between meetings of the council. The system, it • was pointed out, presented an opportunity tot the alleged abuses. LEGION DIRECTOR TALKS. Alvin M. Owsley, director of the Americanism committee of the American Legion, addressed the Exchange Club of Indianapolis at Its weekly meeting at the Hotel Lincoln today. Mr. Uwsley told of the Americanism work of tha Legion. BANQUET OF DEATH. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2S.—Henry Ashton bet he could eat three dozen oysters and five steaks. He did. He died.

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