Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1922 — Page 4
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JuMana Satin Shines INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351, MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. i New York, Boston, - ayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising office* J Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis, g. Logau Bayne .Cos. PRESUMABLY Mayor Shank will appoint the women members of s advisory committee at a later date. WASN'T IT Governor Goodrich who was lauded for taking tbe oil in ection department “out of politics?’' COUNCILMAN CLAYCOMBE has undertaken a monumental task in j arting a defense of the public sendee commission. THE DEMOCRATS appear to be much in need of a man who has the me to reorganize the State committee and the money to spend doing it. ANYHOW, the board of works is broad enough to admit that the task ! rerouting street cars was most faithfully performed by the committee. THERE SEEMS to be logic in Chief Rikboff’s reasoning that if there no gambling permitted there is no reason for a club to have its doors eked. DOUBTLESS the members of our school board will get the matter ' which favorite gets the business director’s job settled before the leather becomes favorable for building the many schools it has promised. 1 Dying ‘ Squeal ’ There Is no longer any doubt that charges made some time ago conirning a carefully laid plan to discredit the prohibition amendment were ■ue. From all over the country, in a sequence that indicates careful pi errangement, stories are coming of the activities of “powerful organizaons” said to be demanding referendums on the return of light wim s id beer. In Washington, G. O. Hinckley, secretary of the Association pposed to National Prohibition, is giving out interviews telling of ormization effort. In Chicago Anton J. Cermak, alderman and former quor dealer, is boasting of the “quality” of the workers who are seeking ) overthrow the Constitution. In Cleveland Fred W. Marcolin is talking [ a State, county and town organization in Ohio “to concentrate for a ig smash at the election.” F. Scott Mcßride, a Chicago official of the Anti-Saloon League, proba[y designates the movement correctly when he says that "it is merely lie final squeal oAhe defeated liquor interests.'’ I Regardless of their assertions to the contrary', the leaders of this wet Movement know that there can be no sustained effort to repeal an fmendment to the Constitution or to overthrow the enforcement thereof rithout a barrel of money. Every one knows that only one field is open yr the accumulation of money with whicb to formulate such organization nd that field is the one populated by the brewers and distillers. No movement for the return of intoxicating liquor can possibly exist without the support of the interests that formerly flooded the country rith liquor. Even though there might be a sincere effort on the part f a few to combat prohibition without the aid of the brewers and dislllers, it could not be done. The brewers and distillers would not perilt It. Consequently, we have the spectacle of a group of citizens starting an rganized movement for the benefit of a discredited and ousted set and .ttempting to assert in the face of incontrovertible evidence that they ave no connection with the very group they are seeking to rehabilitate. This anti-prohibition movement is a senseless thing. It is foreoomed to defeat before it gets under way for the reason that it is the xpression of the longing of the minority against the determination of he majority. As it continues it will arouse the militant sprit of those who stablished prohibition, crystallize general sentiment in favor of a more igorous enforcement of tbe prohibition laws and bring about the very hings that it opposes. Liquor is banished from the United States. No amendment to the ’onstitution was ever repealed and none is likely ever to be repealed. Yhat laws are necessary to the carrying out of the spirit of the C’onstiution will remain in force and will eventually be wholly enforced. Finally, the thirst of the anti-prohibition crowd will become so acute hat parched throats will preclude the “squeals” to which we are now istening.
ms This the Law? B It is inconceivable that the Supreme Court of Indiana ever intended ■hat any one should go to jail as a punishment for the act of another over Svhom he had no authority and whose actions he neither aided nor ■ betted, approved or disapproved, controlled or directed, but that Is exB :tly what the Supreme Court made possible in sustaining the conviction ra>f James L. Kilgallen for contempt of the Marion Criminal Court. ■ Through the peculiar processes of the law which are difficult at best Bor the layman to follow, Mr. Kilgallen appears to have brought upon himBeif a punishment which, by no stretch of the imagination can be justiBied, simply because he endeavored to show to the court that convicted Biim that another person was responsible for the act of which the State B>f Indiana complained. B There was published in the Times an article which the court believed SLo be a contempt. Regardless of the fact that the trial judge was preBrio' sly informed as to who wrote and caused the article to be published, Bhe judge caused Mr. Kilgallen to be cited for contempt. ■ Mr. Kilgallen could easily have avoided the punishment of the court jy merely denying his responsibility for the article. But he did more —he denied his own responsibility and he pointed out to the court the person who was responsible. In so doing he framed an answer in three paragraphs, which the higher court held was "not sufficient.’’ In the case of Zuver vs. State, another contempt proceeding, Zuver iled an answer in which he said: “John Henry Zuver, being first duly sworn, upon his oath disposes and jays that the contents of the first and second paragraphs of answer Sled by him herein are true.’’ This the Supreme Court held to be a proper verification of the answer and upon it Mr. Zuver w r as discharged. In the case of Kilgallen vs. State, Mr. Kilgallen filed an answer in which he said: “James L. Kilgallen, being first duly sworn, on his oath says that the statements and facts set forth in the foregoing answer are true and correct.” This the Supreme Court held “could not be considered as a verification of each paragraph of the answer.” Is it possible that on such a fine distinction as this may rest the liberty of an innocent man in Indiana? Where to Begin A great many people in Indiana will regard the suggestion of Mr. fcschbach of the State board or accounts that we have too many officials | 3 an exceedingly frank discussion of a very personal matter. I In their opinions the State could get along first rate without either ■dr. Eschbach or the corps of field examiners which be directs. I There is, of course, a necessity for a bureau of audits in the State land this bureau should be charged with the standardization of all the ■bookkeeping of the several governmental units. But that there is any Beed of the separate department of government over which Mr. Eschbach ■presides is an open question. Reviewing its record from the time of its ■lnception to the present impresses one that it is the most shining example ■M the humbuggery regarding economy which Mr. Eschbach so valiantly ■lenounces. I Asa result of the existence and rulings of the State board of accounts government units have been mulcted of tremendous sums paid ■pat for inferior articles purchased of the “lowest bidder.” It has become ■a practice of the vendors of inferior articles to raise their prices to governmental purchasers to a level just under that of superior goods and ■depend upon the demand of the State board that the “lowest” bid be ■accepted to obtain for themselves a high price for an inferior article. ■ Asa whole, the people of Indiana will agree with Mr. Eschbach that ■officials should be eliminated and economy practiced in somewhere near ■he ratio that it is preached. ■ And many will maintain that the new or&u 1 should start with the State of accounts. \
A SOCIETY SPANISH VAMP WRECKS A BULL FIGHTER And Then Turns Her Attention to a Pale-Faced Poet
BY WALTER D. HICKSIAN Vampires with dark hair and even darker eyes exist in Spain just as they do in the American movie studio. And what a grand job of wrecking this Spanish vampire of high social standing and wealth does to a bull tighter in “Blood and Sand,’’ a stage verison of Vincente Ibanez's novel of the same name. Juan Gallardo, the bull tighter, is “some” wreck when the dark haired Dona Sol gives him a cold shoulder and turns her vamping eyes upon the pale
face of a poet. Juan under the infiuence of drink forces his way into the home of the society siren. He finds her waiting for her latest victim the pale faced poet. She calls Juau a “brute,” a “clown" and "a killer of bulls.” She taunts him and then turns on the chilly blast of indifference. She calmly
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Madeline Delmar. (ell him that she is done with him. In bis mad fancy, be recalls the nights when he and she were alone. When she was ’ his woman.'’ She snaps her fingers, throws back her head and looks with frigid contempt at the bull fighter. The blood and sand of the arena seems to enter his own blood. He becomes a demon and forces her to beg for mercy and the life of the pale faced poet. The bull fighter will not kill the poet. No. he will wait until the vampire lingers of Dona Sol coil around t lie heart and soul of tbe poet. Juan Gallardo, the
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star Compos* 1 -liy K. L. B> | YEARS AGO. • . . IN THE Middle West. • * • I HAD a frieml. It* WHO WORKED with mo. * • * | AND W K called him “Fat. • * * 1 FOR HE was fat. . . . and .it .st as lazy. . . . j AS HE was fat. • * * ; SO VERY lazy. AS A matter of fact. THAT HE had a habit. • • • OF CLIMBING in hacks. OF H.M’KMEN he knew. • • • AND DOZING there. . . . I TILL HE was put out. * • • | AND ONE summer night. • • • I HE CLIMBED in a hack. • • • i FOR A llttlo rest. • • * | BEFORE TURNING in. . . . WITH THE news he had. • • • AND THE hackman came. • • • FROM A liquor place. IN THE neighborhood. * • • AND MADE up hi* mind. TO CALL it a day. • • • AND DROVE his hack. TO THE livery piace. • • W HERE IT spent the night. • • • AND LEFT it there. * * * j AND "FAT” slept on. . . • 1 TILL 3 a. m. • • * AND THE next day noon. • * * THE CITY editor. • • • FANNED HIM good. • • i AND FIRED him. * * * ' AND HE loafed around. • * • FOR A month or two. I AND DRIFTED away. . .. TO ANOTHER place. 1 AND I saw him no more. j UNTIL YESTERDAY. • • • ; AND lIE’S still very lazy. * * * | BUT HAS given up hacks. • * * | FOR AUTOMOBILES. • . * j AND HE slept in one. • • | ON YESTERDAY. • • • WHEN HE drove me out. TO HIS orange ranch. * • * AND I nearly fell over. * • * | WHEN I ran right in. TO THE old City Editor. * • * WHO FIRED “Fat.” . . . HE’S BEEN working for FOR THE last twelve years * * * I THANK you.
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bull fighter, knows that she will do a better job of wrecking than he could do either with his hands or a revolver. The scene shifts to the Chapel of the Virgin of the Dove at the Plaza de Toros in Madria. This is the place where the bull fighters pray that they might live. Itoßario, the faithful wife of the bull fighter prays that Juan Gallardo, her husband, will live through his last fight. As she prays, the mob In the arena cheers the mad attempts of Juan to make the bull even more mad. Cheers turn to screams. Juan Gallardo had been fatally injured. He is carried iuto the chapel and there in his last moments mistakes his dutiful wife for the worthless Dona Sol. The mob in the arena cares not that Juan Gallardo is dead. They have found anew hero and as the curtain desends
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MAE MURRAY. Mere Is Mae Murray as Cioo. the Paris dancer, In her latest photoplay, “Peacock Alley,” which opens a week's engagement at Loew s State Sunday.
for the last tin)", a bund In the arena Is I playing a Spanish jazz song and the bull fight spo 'liters ar- 1 hnpp.i taut a mw hero has been found. The world has forgotten in a brief see. eond, Juan the bull fighter, but his duti fnl wife permitted Ills to die thinking that she was Dona Sol. One can Imagine what Otis Skinner could do with theatrical material such as I have just related. I hare given you two of the "big” scenes in “Blood and Sand,” which opened a three day engage merit at English's last night. Mr. Skintier has made his bull tighter a aupersti tioua brute, a lover of rapid women and a man too weak to be loyal to a dutiful wife and mother. This bull fighter strut* uses sweet smelly perfumes, wears fine clothes and enjoys his conquests with women. Mr Skinner !s a great artist, that there Is no denying. liis artistry makes the bull fighter a creature who can be tolerated. I wonder what a mess a loss ■ - talented and gifted actor would -jit* JL , with Jit"i BMQP' "W nftor you ts ot his apb-nd and and gjjp ‘ loyal wife. You with Dona etj&SSSfe?'’ and you fool the / throb of fine nut- ' OH when he hangs Otis Skinner. on to her flattering remarks about him being a “gorgeous brute.” And when she casts him off for a pale faced poet, you can not sympathize : with Juan. We like our heroes to berome men aft j er they pass through the petticoat flirtation period. We want them to die as i men ami not as weaklings, mistaking ! their wives for their mistresses. That’s j the fault of this play. You will lie Interested chiefly in the great and polished artistry of Mr. Skinner, In the magnificent work of Madeline Delmar. as the wife of the bull fighter and in Catherine j Calvert as the resourceful vampire who : lures Juan to his death In the arena. To my way of thinking the work of Miss Delmar as the suffering and dutiful wife ranks side by side with the work of Mr. Skinner. Her work in the third act when she realizes the hold that the siren has on her husband lias seldom been equaled and never excelled in this class of work on the stage. Miss Calvert gives visible proof of her ability to capture and hold the attentions of men. She does powerful and convincing work as Dona Sol. The cast is a large one and a capable one. The play has been given expensive and beautiful settings. ! I am sure that you will receive with keen delight the splendid work of Mr. Skinner, Madeline Delmar and Catherine i Calvert. At English's tonight and Saturday afternoon and night ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view loday: “Blood and Sand,” at Eng-
lish’s; “The Bat,” at the Murat; Chic Sale, at B. F. Keith’s; Electro, at the Lyric; “The Big Review,” at the Park; “Enchantment,” at the Ohio; “Thunderclap.” at Loew's State; “The Duke of Chimney Butte,” at Mister Smith s; “The Girl From Porcupine,” at the Alhambra; “The Fox,” at the Isis; “Shadows of the Sea," at the Colonial, and “Cyclone Bliss,” at the Regent. -!- -J- -ILOtAL GIRL DANCES AT LYRIC. Among the members of the Colini troupe of dancers at the Lyric this week is an Indianapolis girl, Miss Consuelo Zichendraht, whose home is at 2401 College avenue. Miss Zichendraht took up dancing while employed as a Btenog rnpher in a local real estate office, and she soon became so proficient that she embarked upon a professional career. She
has been with the Colini troupe for i early a year, and tilled prior engagen' tits with several other big dancing ae ts.
FUSS IN BOOTS JR. 'Or David Carr --- “You had better run back and see that the pig doesn't get away,” said Puss Junior. “The old woman aud 1 will go a little further and try to find some no to help us get plggie over the stile.” So Tom Thumb sat down on the stile to watch plggie, who seemed perfectly contended to stay where he was. puss and the old woman looked about them. There was no boy in sight. Not a traveller ai peared upon the broad highway. The sun was low in the sky and it looked as If they would not be able to get the pig home that night. ■ I’ve often heard it was a most difficult thing to drive a pig,” remarked the old woman, “but I neTer realized it so thoroughly as I do just at this mo meiit." Puss Junior grinned. “Some of the gooil old sayings arc pretty true,” he said, “My father, who is the Seneschal
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for my Lord of Carabas, Is very fond of quoting them.” A merry little brook ran under the bridge that spanned the highway, and as Puss looked over the railing at the sparkling water he spied a trout swimming about. Puss was fond of fish, as all cats are, but before he could make up his mind to go fishing the old woman cried out: “Water, water, quench Are; Fire won’t burn stick; Stick won’t beat dog ; Dog won’t bite pig; Piggy won't get over tbe stile, And 1 shan’t get home tonight.” But the water would not. It was Just as disobliging as all the others had been. So of course there was nothing left to do but try again. In the meadow stood a great ox. The sweet clover waved about his feet and the grass wrinkled and crinkled In the afternoon breeze. “Come along,” said tbe old woman to Puss Junior, and then she climbed over the fence and went up to the ox, who seemed quite surprised and stopped eating the clover tops. He looked first at her and then at Puss Junior. The old woman was a bit frightened, and also a little out of breath, so she waited a minute before she said: “fix, ox, drink water: Water won’t quench fire; Fire won’t burn stick; Stick won't beat dog; Dog won't bite pig; Piggy won't get over the stile. And I shan't get home tonight.” But the great big ox said he was-n’t the least bit thirsty. In fact he wanted to eat more clover and would be very mu<’h obliged If they would let him alone. And then he looked angrily at I’uss Junior, so the old woman beat 1 8 hasty retreat, taking Puss by the paw and climbing over the fence as fast as she could. And In the next story you shall hear what happened after that.— Copyright, 1922. (To Be Continued.) STATE PROFITS BY BURRIS TIP Counties Turn Collected Fees Into School Fund. The inslstance of Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public Instruction, that counties pay into the State treasury taxes collectable on amusements | Is bringing results, William O. Oliver, auditor of State, announced today. Since the campaign was started by the superintendent three weeks ago, more than $1,500 ha> been sent to the auditor for the State school fund. The law requires every motion picture show must pay to the county treasurer $5 a year. Circuses must pay a fee of from $5 a . .. to $25 a day, a , ’“ ortliu * { to siz., carnivals are required to pay $1 for each separate performance. 1 raveling nrchants, who are not residents of the State, are required to pay from -1 t St) according to the value of their stock. Circuses are required to notify the auditor of State when and where they will Show in the State. There Is uo . : ,,u i a Hite lied to this provision of the act anil for this reason, county treasurers seldom colic t the fees from traveling shows, according to Mr. Oliver. The following sums have been sent to ihe auditor since Jan. 1: Carroll County sl2; Fountain County, $36; Fulfil county, sls; Greene County. S2O; Knox County. $433; Posey County, $10.; Randolph County, $1S8; Vigo County, sls; Warren County, sl6; White County, sl7, and Madison County, $935. $139,447 Heritage Tax Last Quarter More than $139,417 has been collected under the inheritance tax law for the last quarter of 1921 In seventy-eight of the ninety-two counties of tht State, Edward A. Remy, deputy State auditor, said today. The money collected from inheritances > used by the State highway commission for the construction of roads.
By GEORGE McMANUS.
Harding Is Getting Ready for Real House-Cleaning
Combination of Army and Navy Departments May Be Chief Change.
Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY CONSTANCE DREXEL. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Washington again is filled with rumors that ;be plan for the reorganization of all Government departments is about to be launched by the Administration. Women who like putting their houses in order will enjoy this attempt of the Government to rearrange its furniture, so to speak, to the best advantage possible. It will mean throwing out many things because there are too many of them, like any number of engineering bureaus scattered over every department. It will mean throwing into the discard other things that have served their usefulness. T t will mean putting in new things to take their place. Perhaps the greatest change of all, if plans go through as disclosed in sources close to the White House, will be tbe unifleation of the War and Navy Departments into one department of national defense. Gx-eater efficiency and economy are expected from this change, but It is important as well because it will g've war and thoughts of war one, instead of two members, in the cabinet. Tbe overpowering influence of the war makers in Washington will be much lessened. ANOTHER CHANGE CONSIDERED. Another great change contemplated is the creation of a department of Welfare and Education, perhaps including labor. The plans have had to be changed so often by pullings here and there that it is difficult even at-this stage to hazard a guess as to what the reorganization will eomprise. There is some talk, however, that the Labor Department will be scrapped, its present functions being incorporated into new department, The appropriation to be asked of Congress for the Chemical Warfare Service for the fiscal year ending June, 1923, is $1,500,000, an increase of $150,000 over the appropriation for the current year. Whether more money will be granted from other funds, as In the case of this year, is not disclosed. Congress is not considering the budget with the above appropriations included. The matter Is stilt In committee. What effect the resolution passed by the cations at the Washington conference to banish poison gas as a weapon ot future warfare will have (inviting ail other powers to Join) has not been decided. One might assume the money of the taxpayers being spent for research along those death-dealing lines at the poison gas works In Edgewood, Md., could be saved. WOMEN HAVE REAL CHANCE. In this connection, women who have been interested in the Sheppard -Towner bill might suggest the money be transferred for the purposes of that act—an attempt to save life and to give the bailies that live a good stare The appropriation called for, $1,489,000, has not been made. However, it must be said In fairness that amount could not b” included in the budget, because the bill was passed too late. But, with its overwhelming vote in both Senate and House, It is expected the Appropriation soon will be granted by the Appropriations Committee. The Children’s Bureau announces twenty-two States already have accepted the act through their State Legislatures or Governors. Most persons had assumed the poison gas issue had been about settled when the conference adopted the resolution presented by the American delegation prohibiting its use. It was hailed, and is still considered, one of the greatest, if not the greatest victory for peace ahd humanity of the conference. But until the agreement is ratified by the Senate it was to be expected tba; efforts would be made to break It down. That may or may not have been tne purpose of Brigadier General Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, but bis speech before a gas manufacturers
association In New York Is causing comment In Washington. General Fries and Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, president of the American Chemical Society, are the two American technical experts on the sub-committee representing five powers appointed by the conference to make a report on chemical warfare. As disclosed In the official communique of Jan. 6, the report of “experts” was discarded in favor of the report of the advisory committee, signed by General I’ershing, and of the General Navy Board, signed by Admiral Rodgers, both of which condemned the use of poison gas and recommended its abolition. That is the view which formed the basis of Secretary Hughes’ recommendation. in the name of the American delegation, to abolish poison gas. However, tbe particular feature that aroused comment In General Fries’ New York adress was his statement that “poison gas is the most humane weapon of warfare.” It was said he thus answered “persistent demands that deadly gases be banned from battle fields by International agreement." Yet in a pamphlet on “Chemical Warfare.” reprinting an article by General Fries from the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, General Fries took a different stand. Why does General Fries now plead for poison gas because it Is “the most humane weapon of warfare?” In this connection, I would like to give a letter from a Philadelphia mother received some weeks ago. The letter reada la part as follows: LIFE OF YOUNG SOLDIER RUINED. “I am a widow with an only sa, having lost my other boy shortly after his return from France. James (the boy in uestlon) enlisted In the National Guard at the age of 16 In 1916, was oa the Mexican border, later served one rear overseas in Belgium and Franco with the 13th Division. When he cam* back his health and mind were both bad, but I thought he was so yout.g he would outgrow the thing he had bsen through. “He never was wounded, bat was knocked senseless from cencussioa of shells on two occasions, and the gas has injured his whole system, making him appear tubercular. “When he has his spells of melancholia he sits and plays the piano, and that seems tbe only thing that quiets his nerves. He is very anxlons to iearn to play a pipe organ, and Dr. Major said that would le the best thing he could do and also would fit him - o make a living.” As for what the public thinks of poisoa gas, the latest reports Issued by the American delegation through the committee on general information of Its advisory committee gives resolutions received from Jan. 6 to 15 on the subject of “gas warfare" as “355.170 for abolition” and 169 for “retention with restriction In use.”—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. Speaker to Discuss Immigration Laws Mrs. Jean Dußlel will speak on “Immlrration Laws" at the January meeting of the Indianapolis Republican Club in the Marion Club gymnasium next Thursday afternoon. Miss Katrina Fertig. secretary, announced today. Members of the Indianapolis Republican Club have been asked to bring their friends. APPROVES INCORPORATION. Approval of the Incorporation of the Sexton Walterraier Manufacturing Company was Issued by Ed. Jackson, secretary of State today Che capital stock of the company, which will manufacture '■'hirepraetor tables sad office furniture. will be flO.OW). The Incorporators are Henry A. Sexton, Dr. Tell C. Waltermler and Roy E. Glidwell. The principal office of the company will be at 70t Odd Fellow building.
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