Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1922 — Page 4

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JnMatm Satin Sftmes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 3500; New, LI ncoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . l New York. Boston, - ayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices j Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. THE HAYSTACK appears to fc.tve supplanted the bathtub in murder mysteries. ONE OP life's mysteries is how do all the flivver owners pmk out their own cars. . ANYHOW, the Chinese should begin to understand how an American feels when he has lost his laundry check. NOW THAT Will Hays is boss of the movies, will he speed up the forty-foot kiss? THE Chicago Grand Opera Company considers “Salome” too rough even for Chicago. Is it possible? IN DECLARING marriage is not a failure, Mrs. Stokes seems to forget all husbands are not milionaires. ATJTOISTS mistake the police department “night riders” for bandits and the “night riders” mistake pedestrians for hold-ups. One or the other ought to be tagged of identification purposes! Street Car Routing The committee appointed by Mayor Shank to submit a plan for tne rerouting of street cars in the congested district of the city made a report last week in full confidence that the plan submitted was the best possible under the conditions which exist. Requested by the mayor to eliminate street car traffic from Washington street as completely as possible and confronted by the fact that the street car company is not in a position to build any large amount of new track, the committee struggled under considerable of a handicap in routing the ctjrs. Their work, however, resulted in the fabrication of a system that will, If adopted, result in the elimination of a tremendous amount of congestion and the speeding up of the street car service in the city to the tremendous advantage of the street car rider. Only one piece of track, a turnout at Pennsylvania street, was recommended by the committee and as the street car company’s representative on the committee agreed to the necessity of that, there is little likelihood that the company will offer more than its habitual objection to this improvement. . In considering the rerouting the committe proceeded on the principle that It was appointed to view the work solely from the viewpoint of the patrons of the street cars. The Interests of no Individual or group of business men were considered in the rerouting. Members of the committee, whoso personal Interests would have been better served by acquiescence than objection, were frequently among the objectors to Dronosed routes. The final test of every suggestion embodied in the report was whether or not it would facilitate the movement of cars through the business district of Indianapolis. Notable in the hearings granted citizens of Indianapolis by the committee was the great lack of Information concerning the problem shown occasionally by members of the committee themselves, and frequently by those who had suggestions to offer. For example, an elaborate Plan was submitted by one group of earnest gentlemen who had arranged eight left-hand turns for the cars at the most congested corners in the city. Another submitted plan involved turning street cars from the avenues into intersecting streets on turns so sharp that they could only be made possible through the use of turntables. Members of the committee are. of course, sensible to the fact that there will be considerable difference of opinion as to the advisability of some of its recommendations, but they are also aware that such differences of opinion are the result of lack of Information as to the street car problem on the part of those who criticise. If all the citizens of Indianapolis were to.be conducted through the course of enlightenment that the committee went through it would not be difficult to establish a mutually advantageous status between the street car company and its patrons in Indianapolis. Outstanding in the work of the committee were the numerous difficulties, physical and financial, that stand In the way of providing the citizens with exactly the kind of street car service they desire. These difficulties'precluded the recommendations of a routing plan that might endure forever. The plan submitted to the mayor is one that has been evolved in the face of great handicaps. It is not offered in the belief t,,at it solves the street car routing problems of the city. But it Is a plan that can safely be called the most practical and desirable that has ever been evolved for the city of IndlanajTolis and the Shank administration cannot do better than to adopt the plan In its entirety.

Not Halos, but Handcuffs State and Federal prosecutors of New York met at Albany recently in a conference similar to the one held in Indianapolis. Concerning the Albany conference the New York Times makes editorial comment that may be applied with equal force to the Indiana conference, when it says: “There was much useful, if a little wild, talk at the Albany conference cf State and Federal prosecutors. Existing conditions, if bad, are not 'threatening the civilization of this country,’ as one too Impassioned district attorney said. The essential cause of the Imperfect administraton of the criminal law here is an old one. Justice should be speedy and certain. In New Jersey it is. There an arrested criminal is tried as quickly as possible; and if found guilty, is locked up or executed with all convenient speed. Is the New Jersey system impossible in New York? Here the utmost protection seems to be given to the poor criminal and the least to the public. As hanging was once said to be 'played out’ in this city, so now there is interminable difficulty and delay before a murderer can be convicted. It takes weeks to find a jury composed of numskulls fully satisfactory to the defense; and in the too occasional cases cf conviction every quibbling technicality and every device of delay is resorted to in favor of the ‘unfortunate’ murderer of murderess. The latter, indeed, seems to be treated as a kind of popular saint. “So, to a great extent, with other violent and dangerous criminals. Easy release on hall, the parole, the suspended sdstence, actually encourage the criminal to continue to practice his profession. The State directly encourages recidivism. Bail should be high, in proportion to the offense. Only first offenders should be let loose on parole or suspended sentence. The notorious bail-bond abuses should be ended. “A certain part of the public, divers well-meaning sentimentalists, should walk warily for some time. The coddling of the criminal, in jail or out, is not popular just now. What the public demands for criminals is handcuffs, not halos. But the criminal fanciers are of small account, if the prosecutors in the courts do their duty. “Not Increase, but certainly, of penalty is needed; and the vain barbarities of the old English criminal statutes warn of the danger of too stiff sentences. It Ts not, save in detail, new law that will protect the community adequately; it is the swift and sure enforcement of existing law. It is a curious simplicity of American Legslatures that the more laws are broken the more eager they are to make laws to be broken; and for every yard of law we get a few Inches of enforcement.” I A Purchased Seat A seat in the United States Senate may be purchased at a price with the sanction of a majority of the Senate. That is the only conclusion that can be drawm from the seating of Truman H. Newberry as a Senator from Michigan. The question of whether Newberry is a good Benator or a better one than Henry Ford would have been should not have become involved in the hearing. The only question was one of whether Newberry was elected as a result of the illegal efforts of his friends. Newberry pleaded ignorance of conditions surrounding his election, but such an explanation will never prove satisfactory to the voters. It was Newberry’s business to know what was being done in his behalf. The Senate in seating Newberry has estal -lied a dangerous precedent. It has convinced a large number of persons that a candidate with sufficient money can obtain a seat in the highest legislative body in the land and that a majority of the members of that body will not object to such procedure. This is one of the things that is contributing to the undermining of confidence in our institutions.

CURWOOD’S HEROINE IS A NORTHERN ‘PEG OF MY HEART’ Fred Stone Is a Cowboy ‘Duke’—Carey Is Now a Star of Thrills

They seem to grow a "Peg of My Heart" in the cold Klondike. That’s the feeling you get in watching the heroine of James Oliver Curwood's "The Girl From Porcupine.” The title might impress one that it is rough and full of sharp points but not the case. The story starts out in the gold mining region of the Yukon and then shifts to a fashionable girls’ school on the Hudson. Some jump for our little heroine to make bite she Jumps with several bags of gold. Any fashionable boarding school will turn any girl into a lady for SI,OOO a month, referring of course to the boarding and finishing schools in the movies. Curwood’s heroine is true blue, a sort of a Klondike Peg of My Heart. She nas her troubles just rs the beloved Peg did in the Manners’ play which made Lauretta Taylor what she is today. There is nothing in common in the two stories except that the heroines of both stories absorb only that amount of education which they desire to absorb. Both of 'em will fight for their rights. In watching Mr. Curwood develop his heroine and hero, you rather get the Impression that the author is not just sure of himself all of the time. He has created at least four lovable characters —the hero, the heroine and the two old gold miners who "mother” and “father” the hero and the heroine, who are two waifs of the gold country. Mr. Curwood gets an excellent start by introducing you to these four real characters. And I guess, you will rather resent it when he ships onr sweet heroine to a. girls school on the Hudson. We were rather fond of our Noll when she was in the gold country. In the end. she return* north just in time to rescue the hero from jail. Kaiher a novel idea eh? Faire Bl.mey is east as the heroine and William Collier, Jr., (a chap with a natural smile and naturally curly hair) is the hero. You will like this pair of lovers The rest of the cost lakes good care of themselves. Also on the bill at the Alhambra this week is anew I.arry Semon farce, called "The Saw Mill." This movie is the last word in jazzing up movie farce. Trees, big ones, full all over Semon. a saw cuts out the seat of ids pants, tons of falling dirt is spilled al! over some of the comic actors and about everything else known under the sun which will make people laugh is used. It is all very mechanical, but it will make yon laugh At the Atahmbra all week.—W. D. 11. -L -i- -!- ■TIIIMiKKCUi" CARRIES VOI BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Have you longed for the return of the good old days when villains kidnaped the pretty heroine; when bridges were blown up by the same villains Just as th" hero was passing on a lonely road with his beloved race horse; when the hero did everything but mount the golden stairs to Paradise to win the baud of his lady fair? Os course you have longed for the good old days when dappers were not known and cabarets were unheard of and William Fox, the wise old fox ttint he is, knew that you and I were longing for the return of the old melodrama. So Mr. Fox gathered around him Paul 11. Slonnc and Richard Stanton. The result 1s that “Thunderclap” was created by these three gentlemen. Mr. Fox was not stingy with his cast as he eh-se Mary Carr, the woman who made herself the most talked of movie persou last year by her work In “Over tho Hill.” to head the cast of "Thunderclap” Her* is the entire cast you will see when yon visit Loew's this week to witness “Thunderclap:” Mrs Jamieson Mary Carr Lionel Jamieson J. Barney Sherry my Paul Willis Betty The Baby Carol Chase Betty The Girl Violet Mrserau Web Leong ..... John Daly Murphy Foster Walter JlrEwsn Marion Audrey Maud Hill Guuga Din .. Thomas McCann Cooper Hal Clarendon Hy Watts Joe Berks I want to make a few observations why 1 think that this new Fox movie paves the lead for the return of the lurid melodrama to the screen. The stage, If all the learned dispatches from New York are correct, hy the medium of melodrama and mystery piays of the “meller” typo, such as "The Bat" and "The Bad Man,” are again filling the galleries of the theater. Th "ro st" as It Is known In the theater of the spoken word has been nearly deserted for several years. Now the people are returning to the roost through the lure of the melodrama. Mr. Fox, who It generally a half-year ahead of mo*' producers, has sensed this growing demand on the part of the groat paying public. So ho threw rhyme and reason to the windc and turned out "Thunderclap." To me "Thunderclap” In the opiate of screen entertainment. It robs one of nil reasoning power hy ouickenlng your pulse until you get that ganerv feeling and want to jell out, “ffipe that villain!” That’s the secret of "Thunderclap," as It paralyzes you with one grand rush of thrills Then he follows that up with the exquisite homespun hokum of Mary Carr ns the paralytic mother who sits in a wheel chair e* a hopeless Invalid, unable to move, walk or talk until the vory end of the picture. Mr. Fox ha mixed the thrill and the sol', the heartache and the glgggle In ; splendid fashion In "Thunderclap.” You wait for nearly an hour for the great horse race scene and when the hero Is on the way to the race with Thunderclap, his racing horse on whom he relies to win him fortune and fame, you get the feeling that all villains should go to the hot climate. Then when the villains blow up the bridge, throwing the hero and the moving van Into a river, you hold your breath. Even If yon think you are very, very wise and blase, you will whisper to yourself, “Oh, that couldn't happen,” but before the whisper becomes a thought, If i turns into a dim memory as you again ! become lost In the melodramatic magic : of Mr. Fox’s movie. The hevo battles with the enrrent and thp angry rapids Fox has created as great a thriller In his river scenes as D. W. Griffith did In his Ice and river i scenes in “Way Down Kast," Then after the hero is rescued, he rushes to the race track. He discovers

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Upper—Here is Mary Carr a* th paralytic mother who “art*” with hrr eye* in William loti “Thunderclap” cow at I.oow’s Stwte. By her ride !* Violet Merseronu who i* the heroine of the story. Lower—Here 1* Breeay Eaeon, Jr., who ha* inncli to do in "The Fox.” u. iiioyie feati.rlng Harry Carey and which I* o view- ail week at the Ist* .Breezy I* a oute looking youngster. He is real boy beotu*e he love* dog*. that his racing horse was not In the 111-futed moving van. but that ons of hts p' Is had taken the horae out of tbs van and had lead him safely to tho ra -e tra-'k. Just as the hero Is getting ready for tho rare, ho learns the viilalns have kidnaped his sweetheart and ,taken her to Chinatown. He even has tires and energy to rush to her rescue, stages a daring fight with Chinamen, cars his lady fair back to the side of her paralytic mother, rushes back to the race track Just In time to win the race and fortune. Oh, the energy that the hero of this story possesses. The ending is a happy one All the villain* have been dispatched to hotter climates, the paralytic mother Is rendered able to talk and walk again when she hears the report of a revolver. Then everybody Is happy. Mary Carr In “Thunderclap” does not have the chance that she did In "Over the Hill,” but she* w ill make you cry with pity ns she sits In the wheel chatr. She does all of her acting by using her eyes. Really marvelous work. J. Barney Sherry makes a most unlovable villain. Paul Willis Is the hero who has enough energy to run Niagara Falls. Violet Mersereuu as the heroine Is not convincing of times. "Thunderclap” belongs to the old dramatic school of the good old days when the thrill was the thing. Do not attempt to analyze "Thunderclap,” but accept It as the most melodramatic entertainment ever filmed. At Loew’s State a'i week.—W D. H -I- -I- -IVVHEN A FLAPPER ATTEMPTS TO BE A YOUNG THEDA BARA. A tempermental flapper la E'hel Hoyt. Ethel, as played by Marlon Davies, Is the main -character In "Enchantment.” Ethel is one of those spoiled modern babies who will not listen to her clad and

mother, but who longs to be a sort of a Juvenile Thedu Bara. Ethel, although in her teens, thinks she has the right to be an untamed woman. She boasts that she knows the secrets of Cleopatra's control over Anthony ami the rest of the Ulsioric lovers. In fact Kthel Is i<weral years ahead us the famous Gleo. So her father gets a hunch after seeing a performance of Bill Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" that Eihel could be tamed In the same sort of way tnat i Katherine was :>tucJ by i etrucblo. | So dad engages the actor who played ' the Petruchlo role to "tame" Ethel. It j must be remembered that Flue: is mod ern and that Katherine nevei heard of modern vampires. Commands and abuse I will not tarn" Kthel. We should say not. It Is not until that Ethel discover.! that . she ts In love with the actor that she '■ admits she is ve.y, very tame. That's the story of "Enchantment now on view at the Ohio. Clever us • is made of some of the s ene* In Shak- -p- r. s "The faming of the Shrew." it seems that old Bill Is being used In proccs these Uh.vs on the movie screen and on the vaudt-viHe stage. "Enchantment" has been stage*! In the modern studio fashion. To me there Is too much of ttie s’udio flavor about It to be convincing, especially with some of the sets Taken a a whole "Enchantment Is pretty und give* Marion Davies a chance to show what u "nasty" tempered lit tie Mapper she can be. The storj is a* clean as the driven snow. No sex problem but Just light entertn inrnent. The entire cast Is as follows. Ethel Hoyt Marion Davies Ernest Eddlaon Forrest Stanley Mrs. Hoyt Edith Shayns Mr. Hoyt Tom Lewis Tommy Corbin Arthur Rankin | College Boys _.j j .. Gilbert Rooney and Torn Brown I Mr. Richards Elum 1 Foy j Nalta Cot,une Barker Mrs Leigh Maude* Turner Gordon In The Taming of the Shrew Scene Katharine Edith Lyle I’etruchio Forrest Stanley In Fairy Tale. I The Queen Edith Lyle j'(ho King Huntley Gordon -I- -1- -ICONCFRNJNO A COW BO y 'DIKE.* The "Duke" falls for a blonde and when s fellow fails for a blonde, ho Is usually persistent. The "Duke” saw th blonde whtls racing on a horse with an express train. In order to get acquainted with her, h# hlgcd himself out as n fouco-rider on a ranch "V V red by a good looking girl of the brunette type. Our blonde Is an elusive sort but of j course the "Duke" meets her and even ’ when he learns ah# is the daughter of ' free ranger caMle thief, ha Is s'ill for her But then, she Is a blonde and that probably accounts for It. The cattle thieves decide to rid the country of the "Duke" and the blonde helps them In their attempt and although h escapes, the manages to ahoot the horse from under him. Still he Is for her. (Som* men are funny Are they not?) When he has aTiont decided that there la no chance for him with the blonde 1n ! question, the "Duke" thinks he had better move on. The brunette for whom j he has been working has her eye on him all the time and tells him she will be lonesome without him. So he stays to accomodate the lady. This U the story of the movie, “The j Duke of Chimney Butte.” ' The “Duke" Is played hy Fred Stone—- ! he of stage fame and remembered for b 1 lariat. We will remember him for his lariat work on the atage and In the movies we will never forget that he Is ! fond of blondes. ! “The Duke of Chimney Butte” remains 1 on view all week at Mister Smith’* ; -i- -i- -iCAB,EY PRESENTS HIS OWN HR \XI) OF T!TRIM„S. j Harry Carey has now blossomed out 1 In his own name and right ns a afar In his own vehicle called “The Fox.” Mr. Carey has made what he cnlla a superWestern special. Robert Thornby directed It and the picture Is released by Universal Jewel. There are many people In the cast, many horsemen who ride at a great speed and much Western photography. It

. seems that the produced and director have attempted to turn out a big Western movie with the aid of many people In the big scenes. The Idea has been used to j success in certain desert movies, like "The Sheik,” and there Is no reason why our own great and glorious West cannot be made as popular as the so-called Sahara. Carey Is a tramp who is tossed from s freight train In a little Western town. The tramp becomes an important citizen in that Western town, where the size of man’s revolver helps to establish hla oo 'al position. The tramp shows up a crooked Western banker and leads a troop of Western cavalry in a chase to break up a gang of bad men. The principals In the cast In addition to Mr. (farcy are Betty Ross Clark (a pretty little woman', Breezy Eason, Jr., Johnny Harron and others. The Isis bill this week Includes in addition to the Carey movie, the new Semon farce, “The Sawmill.” -I- -I- -I----AT THE COLONIAL Conway Tearle is the featured player in "Shadows of the Sea,” now on view at the Colonial. -I- -I- -I----AT THE REGENT. The Regent is offering this week Jack Hoxie in “Cyclone Bliss” and Charles ■j Chaplin in “The Pawnbroker.” , -!- -I- -II ON THE STAGE. j Mamie Smith and her Jazz Revue will j open a three-day engagement tonight at ! English's. This is a colored organization. On Thursday night Otis Skinner ‘ opens a three-day engagement in "Blood i and Sand." j On Tuesday night at the Murat, “The Bat” wit,b with the Chicago company, | opens an engagement which will temlnate with a Saturday night showing. | Chic Sale and Kolfe’s Ilevue are among ! the important offerings on the current j bill at B. F. Keith's. Electro is the featured offering at the Lyric this week. Henry Dixon's "Big Review” Is the offering at the Park this week.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP | Oopyrlrht, IKI, by Star CBp&a,. J — liy K. C. B j HE WAS in lower six. J * • * ON THE first night. AND WHEN we changed. • • * ON the second night. IT WAS lower seven. • • • AND HE'S our friend. • • • AND IS going with us. • • • TO A warmer clime. • • FOR A little while. • • • AND IN the morning. • • • FOR I rise esrly. • • • IT'S ONE of my duties. • • • TO WAKE him up. • • • AND ON the first morning. I POKED my arm. BETWEEN THE curtains. • . AND SHOOK him gently. * * * AND HE awoke. • • • AND WE breakfasted. • • • AND THEN all (lay. • • • WE gazed outside. • • • ON KANSAS rivers • • • AND KANSAS farms. AND KANSAS flivvers. . • • Hurrying on. OVER FROZEN roa !s WITH CANS of uillk. • • • AND SACKS of feed. • • • AND ON the third morning. • • • WHEN I arose. • • • AND WAS fully dressed. • • • I WENT again. • • • TO LOWER six. • 4 • AND THE long green curtain. • • W AS BULGING out. • • • •WD I opined. * • • IIE WAS already up. • • • .AND PINCHED the bulge. AM) THERE, came a scream IN FEMALE tones 4 4 4 ANI) HEADS earn© out. 4 4 4 l?OM BETWEEN tho curtains. • • • AIX DOWN the aisle. • • • AND ONE of the heads. • • • WAS THE head of my friend. • 4 4 IN I*OWEB seven. 4 4 4 AND BY that time. 4 4 4 I WAS beating it. 4 4 4 AND I *ot away 4 4 4 IN THE dim, dull lifrht. 4 4 4 OF THE Pullman car. 4 4 4 AND NO out knows. 4 4 4 EXCEPT MY friend. • • • WHO PINCHED the lady, • • • IN LOWER six. • • • I THANK you. LITED LIKE A PRINCESS. LONDON, Jan. 16—Miss Mabel Witching. who inherited $45,000 two years ago, has gone through bankruptcy “The ■ noney is all gone," she said, "but I certainly lived like a princess while it was „'oing.”

By GEORGE McMANUS.

AD CLUB OPENS DRIVE FOR 100 MORE MEMBERS Organization Waives Initial Dues For Campaign, Says Hunter. The campaign for 100 new members of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis is gaining headway, Edward W. Hunter, business manager of the club, said today. The initiation dues have beer, waived during the campaign. “The advertising club is the one place In the community where Individual and special interests and organizations may come and continually center their thoughts on advertising.” Mr. Hunter said in discussing the advantages of the club. “In some communities where there is no advertising club the tendency of the people is to look on advertising as a necessary evil imposed upon them by publishers and others. A live ad club tends to dignify advertising in the minds of the people. “The advertising club helps the publisher to make extra dividends out of his stand for clean advertising. The club does this through the Better Business Bureau, which owes its origin to the Advertising Club, and the club stands behind the bureau in all of Us activities." MACNIDER TALKS AT SOUTH BEND Insists cn Square Deal For Ex-Soldiers. i Special to The Times. SOUTH BEND. Jan. 16.—A square deal for the disabled veteran and adjusted compensation for ex service men and women were asked by Hanford MacNider, national commander of the American Legion. who spoke at a luncheon of business men at the Oliver Hotel here today in connection with the celebration of American Legion day in South Bend. The 1 legion's stand on the question of adjusted compensation wt.s supported in a pech (bade by A. R. Erskine, president of the Studebaker Company. “The veteran Is now asking for bedride decisions instead of long agonising weeks of uncertainty while papers and affidavits and claims wander back and forth between the hospital and the sick man who cannot be expected to get weil when his mind is full of worry about his dependents to whom, he is only proving a burden,” Macllder said. “The American Legion intends to see that the disabled veteran gets a square deal from the country he fought for.” Those organizatoins opposing the bonus fail to understand the adjusted compensation bill pending in Congress which provides it. MacNider said. “I indorse the principles of adjusted compensation for World War veterans as sponsored by the Am-rban Legion." Erskine said, “because I felt, first, that the men who risked their lives in defense of our country are richly entitled to the benefits offered under the legislation now pending In Congress and second because the legislation Is economlnally sound.” MILLIONAIRE BEDS SLAVE. TOKIO, Jan. 19—Togo Fuluda, a millionaire lumber dealer, has married Miss Noka Otl. a Japanese girl who was kidnaped twenty years ago by strolling 1 Chim-ee players and made their slave. Fuluda helped her escape from China last summer.

j PUSS liN BOOTS JR. _ Bj Oavld f'arr - As the "man all atiered and torn” ran away a church bell began to ring, "ding, dong! ding, dong!” In the distance could be seen a church spire among the tree*. “Ding, dong! ding, dong.' went the bell, and Just then up the road came a man dressed in a long black , robe. He stopped when he came opposite the "house that Jack built" and looked In. ‘‘This is the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn. That kissed the maiden all forlorn.” “You don’t say so!” exclaimed Tom Thumb; "what a terrible mistake It was.’ “Yes, I gtiess it was.” said Jack. “You see, everybody thought when he got married he’d go to work, but he didn’t. He Just kept on being tattered and torn.” “Too bad he ever got married.” said Tom Thumb. “I don’t believe he ever would have been if the priest hadn’t been waked up in time." “Why, how was that?” asked Tom Thumb curiously. i Just then a rooster crowed, "Cook-a-doodle-do.” “This is the cock that crowed In the i error n That waked the priest aU shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn.” | "Oh. ho! I see!” cried Tom Thumb. ! “It’s really the rooster’s fault. If ho ! hadn’t wakened the priest the priest wouldn’t have gotten to church in time to marry the man all tattered and torn.’ j “That’s true.” said Jack “One thing depends on another. And then, too, there's always an ’if or a ‘but.’ So you never can tell. At any rate he’s married. and he’s still all tattered and torn.’’ "Who’s ‘all tattered and torn’7” cried a voice. A nice, fat. Jolly sort of a man j stood close at hand. Across his red waistcoat lay a big gold chain. “This is the farmer Who sowed the corn That kept the cock That crowed in the morn,” explained Jack, introducing the farmer. : “Well, then, It’s his fanlt that the ’men nil tattered and torn’ got married,” shIO Tom Thumb. “It’s nothing of the kind,” said the farmer, “and you’ll never make me think so!"—Copyright, 1901 (To IV Continued.)

MAY EXCLUDE BRITAIN FROM TREATY TERMS Hughes Said to Favor Proposal Affecting Pacific , Dominions. WILL SCRAP SHIPS Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— Exclusion of British dominions In the I’acific from the proposed ban on fortifications under the five-power naval treaty, because Australia and New balked at any limitation on their freedom of action, has assumed a place of importance In conference discussions. There was reason to believe the original program of tho treatey framers to have the status quo respecting fortifications apply to the whole “region of tho Pacific” might have to be modified. In competent quarters the statement was made the British proposal—to which the American delegation has given tacit approval—contemplated, first, a definition by latitude and longitude of the region of the Pacific to which the treaty would apply, instead of having the covenant cover the whole region of tho Pacific. The British ask, secondly, the fortlficatb us provisions be restricted to lnsu! possessions north of the equator, ! thereby excluding the islands south of she equator where virtually all of the British possessions in the Pacific Are \ found. It was stated the British have in contemj lation tho fortification of British Guinea and Australia and New Zealand, ! object to any proposal looking to a restriction of their respective rights to fortify islands attached politically to those dominions. HUGHES SAID TO FAVOR PROPOSAL Secretary nughes was represented as ' ready to assent to the British proposaL Th Ameri-au delegation, it was stated, : could see no military objection to such a course, but consideration is being given to possible political circumstances which i the Harding Administration would have j to take into account. Although tjie fortified British dominions would be far removed from the mainland and the insular possessions of both the United States and Japan the \ conference critics in and out of the Senate could be expected to appeal to antiBritish feeling to bolster their case | against ratification of the naval and ■ -ther treaties by contending Mr. Balfour had gained a great diplomatic triumph in haring British possessions excluded. Th ■ heads of delegations have completed their discussion of the unobjected sections of the naval treaty. The revised text was ordered*printed so as to embody the manges made during the discussions of the last few days. For reasons of economy, decision has been reached to permit conversion of som of the capita! ships building, but not completed, info airplane carriers, with an agreement they should not be j used for anv o’her purposes. All the | commissioned saps scheduled to be scrapped "will be swapped,” it was revealed. WOULD KEEP CAPITAL SHIPS. j Great Britain desires to keep two cap- | ital ships fjr conversion into training J ships. .Tap. Ml wished to keep one capital ship with turrets for use in target , practice, but has withdrawn that pro- | posaL France and Italy would tike to save from scrapping some capita! ships for gunnery practice. The United States would keep two capital ships for conversion into airplane carriers. Final determination of the question of conversion. It was indicated, had not been reached, but assurances wore given the question did not offer any real dlfficulty. It is also probable the treaty will be amended by deleting the phrase “Japan proper" as the Japanese delegates have assented to maintenance of the fortifications status quo in a part of Japan ' proper, the Bouln and Pescadore islands and Oschira. At the time the treaty was drafted, and also at the time the agreement was formed provisionally, there was not a clear understanding in regard to either "region of the Pacific" or "Japan ! proper” phraFeg used In the treaty. Confusion concerning the exclusion of "Japan i proper." when the Japanese had assented : to the Inclusion of parts of Japan proper in the fortification arrangement has ceccs-sltatr-d a reference of the matter to tho i Japanese government. In order to meet j the situation. In each Instance, It is praci ticaily assured the two phrases will b* : taken out and the region to be affected by the treaty be defined by longitude and ; latitude, or by map, tke latter to bej come an appendix to the treaty.—Copy- : right, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

ELKS WILL NOT TAKE ACADEMY Further Search to Be Made for Lodge Quarters. Members of the Elks Lodge have decided not to purchase the property of the Indianapolis Academy of Music, Michigan and niluols streets, and tho property of Dr. SoUis Runnels adjoining it. as had been planned by the Elka Realty Company, a subsidiary organization. The decision was made at a meeting of the lodge In the Academy of Music building Saturday night. The members decided It would not be wise to invest SSOO.(XX) in the property and then spend a large additional anm tn remodeling It for club purposes. The original plan was to use the academy building for club purposes and to bofld a hotel on the adjoining property. The realty company previously has obtained an option on the property Charles J. Orblson, exalted ruler of the lodge, said further efforts would be mad* to obtain o clubhouse. but the proposed campaign for 1,000 additional members would not be conducted

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