Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1922 — Page 4

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Jnteta J3ailn Crimes TNDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. , Kew York. Boston. - ayce, Burns & Inc. Advertising offices j Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. : ’ ” Jlk. CROKER appears determined to prove the fallacy of his name. AS they line up at the tape, the Jowett machine appears to be in need of overhauling. n F l HAVING INCREASED the size of a chicken's heart, that scientist might try growing a few extra legs. "JAPAN handicapped in arms conference” —News item. The Japanese language contains no profanity. Si ONE REASON why the whisky breath is less conspicuous than formerly is too obvious to. mention. IF the Arbuckle jury again fails to agree, the attorneys might settle his fate with a game of put and take. IF THE CITY must have a smoke inspector he might be required to wind the courthouse clock once each week. HAND-PICKED eyebrows originated in China, according to a feminine writer, but the blame for floppy galoshes is yet to be fixed. —• / . FIGURING front page publicity at $5 per column-inch, the movies seem, already, to have gotten their money’s worth from Will Hays. ' AN INDIANA editor, unable to express his contempt for a political foe, has hit upon the plan of setting his enemy’s name in “lower case” type whenever forced to use iL Harding and the Farmer Accepting President Harding’s declarations at full face value it would appear that the difficulties of the present day farmer are soon to be relieved. The President says that the Government must do everything possilke to ameliorate the critical condition of agriculture and its action must be immediate. “If we fail him, we will precipitate a disaster that will affect every industrial and commercial activity cf the Nation,” he says. ’ , - There will be a general questioning as to just what steps the Government expects to take immediately to ameliorate the critical existing conditions. There is thready a general feeling that the Government has failed the farmer and a fairly wide-spread feeling that “every Industrial arid commercial activity of the Nation” is affected by that failure, whether it is conceded that “disaster” has been precipitated or not. Would it not be more fitting for the President to have asserted that if the Government continues to fail the farmer .in the future as it has so far under the present Administration, the result will be a “disaster” of even greater proportions than is upon us and the industrial and commercial activity of the Nation” will be brought into the same chaos as now exists in -agriculture? In other words, this may be the “hour of distress" for the farmer, but, as surely as this distress is not immediately relieved it will extend to the industrial and commercial activities and the distress of all three will be a “disaster” greater than any that the Woodrow Wilson administration was ever accused of having brought on the country.

But This Is Different! Jn less than a week after Robert Springsteen was removed from bis position as postmaster because, among other things, he vas said to have been unduly active in politics. Robert Bryson, his successor, sat. in at a gathering in the city hall as a chosen representative of a faction of the Republican party in Marion County. Mr. Bryson, as postmaster, thus lent official dignity to a group of Republicans who are generally regarded as holding the destiny of the local party in their hands. The purpose of the meeting Was to find, if possible, some common grounds on which the two wings of the party could unite. The meeting was wholly partisan and the postmaster, as such, had no business there. Naturally, the question arises, as to what degree of participation In politics is regarded as improper for a postmaster under nie Republican administration. If any more evidence were needed tlyit the civil service presumed to protect Government officials is a joke, the happenings of the last few weeks in the Indianapolis postoffice have furnished it. Apparently postoffice employes are subjected to the same hazards as members of our police force .and the only trouble with those employes who t have been eliminated is that in their activities they ‘ guessed wrong.” Jitneys or Street Cars? Contrary to the viewpoint that was adopted by a great many persons the purpose of the ordinance regulating jitneys was to enable Indlanapoltß to have street car service rather than do away withvjitneys. And, as the preservation of street car service was the object, so it has been the result of the ordinance that eliminates jitney competition. y \ Now that there is a movemept on foot to repeal that ordinance it is fitting that the advocates of repeal be interrogated as to how they hope to accomplish the repeal and the object of the ordinance at one and the same time. "We must have street car service in Indianapolis. Jitney service is none the less desirable because it is less essential. But if there must be a choice between the two, and it appears that these must, then the great majority will continue to favor street cars as against busses. No movement to eliminate the close regulation of jitneys that now exists should be successful unless and until it provides a method by which jitneys will not interfere with street car service. Our New School Forem en \ The removal of employes of the Indianapolis school board and the appointment to their places of men who have the recommendations of Charles L. Barry and such other prominent citizens as Patrick and Michael Glenn is no surprise to Indianapolis. There were some among us who might have wondered just how far the new school board would go in its efforts to reward those who helped elect it, bur none believed GSorge Rickes when he announced that the foremen of his various trades had been “laid-off” because of a lack of activities in the school work. Nor is any one particularly surprised at the qualifications which won appointments for the new foreman. It was not expected that they would he men who were not acceptable to Mr. Barry, nor was it anticipated that he would recommend any out of that vast number of citizens who opposed his efforts to capture control of the public schools for himself and the element that elected him. Judging from the predominate qualification of those who have already been appointed by the tractable Mr. Rickes, J. P. O'Maboney ought, not have any trouble obtaining a job as foreman of something or other if he wants it. \ Be Not Disturbed Seventh District Federation of Women’s Clubs has seen fit to adopt a resolution against the activities of the so-called xYssociation Against the Prohibition Amendment. The purpose of the women’s organization is to be approved, but it is questionable whether it is necessary to dignify a movement of this kind with a resolution opposing it. There is very little real sentiment in opposition to the eighteenth amendment as an and not much more opposition to tfie prohibition law, even though some persons f avor the return of the less high? powered beverages. Such an organization, made up largely of persons with selfish interests, can do little toward influencingu. community one way or another. It is Just a method of letting loose a lot of |omparatively harmless propaganda The less said about it the better, f

HOME SWEET HOME ARE SWEETEST WORDS IN WORLD Elida Morris Proves She Knows Show Business—Dancers at' Lyric

“Home, Sweet Home.” There is a whole lot of meaning in those words. Y'ou feel the great meaning of those words when you see Blanche Bates and Henry Miller in James Forbes’ four-act play, “The Famotis\Mrs. Fair.” If any one fails to get the message of Those homespun words after seeing this play, then go to a doctor and find out what is the matter with “home.” Somehow or other that message will get Into your heart and blood as you witness one of the few ail-round real shows of several seasons. Sure, I went to English’s last night to be entertained. I was more than entertained —I actually received some honest to goodness convictions on certain phases of life. Isn’t It strange to leave the theater with a real idea? It will take me several days to get over that unusual experience, but it happened to me last night after spending two and a half entertaining but thoughtful hours. Don’t get excited—it Isn’t a sermon, but real entertainment in its best and tiyiest sense. Let me see if this is real entertainment? Mrs. Nancy Fair returns from four years war work in Europe. She has been made a major, decorated and all of that. She comes to her magniticient home and meets her daughter who is blooming Into real wouiaifhood. Her son was a tighter and learned to think. So much so. that he falls in love with a _Jittle stenographer—a real person. Mrs. Angelica Brice, a neighbor woman, bad been so “kind” to Mr. Fair, and his daughter. Alan Fair, the son. i;> glad that his mother is back home—but he fears. He sees that Sylvia, his sister, needs her mother. But 'the Famous Mrs. Famous goes on a lecture trip to tell the natives how she won the war. She failed to see thdt she had reeonctruction work to do in her own .home. She refuses to listen to the warning and to the demand of her husband that she should not go on the lecture tour. Alan realizes that his mother is too busy talking “Democracy” on the platform to appreciate his love affair with Peggy Gibbs, the little stenographer. He tells his father first and his mother fails to understand why she wasn't told first of the engagement. Father understands and approves. The Famous Mrs. Fair goes on her tour, lasting for months. .She is a great “success” on the platform. But when she returns “home” she begins to realize that there is no home. Her husband aud 'daughter had moved to an ultra fashionable New York hotel. The awakening comes in the third big act when she discovers that her "little' Sylvia Is no longer “little.” Sylvia, although in her teens, now tuys her hats where the chorus girls buy ’em. She paints and struts. She is no longer a little girl—she is a “baby vamp.”

The "famous" Mrs: Fair discovers that her own lecture manager Is responsible for the "awful” change In sweet Sylvia. Sylvia tells her mother where “to head in” when mother attempts to command her daughter. In a splendidly acted scene Mrs. Fair tells her rnuto upt that -lie will not make another tour and for him to settle in a few days the $15,000 that he owes her. The manager provuils upon Sylvia to elope with him to Canada bocause her father and Mrs, Brice were being talked about, that Mrs. Fair would tllvoree her husband. And where would Sylvia go? The doctrine works and Sylvia attempts to elope with the scoundrel manager and nearly suereeds, but the police aud Alan Fair prevent it. While Sylvia is being rescued Mrs. Fair and her husband face Hie real facts. Here is the real, ‘ meat"' of the play and the finest Vetlng of an evening filled with fine acting. ."Sylvia is returned "home" and she wants to know why? Whose business is it. Her father Is being connected In scandalous taik with a woman and her mother was always away. “Mother, are you going to leave father?" the daughter asks. “No, Sylvia," softly answers her mother. / .Mr. Fair walks to the side of his wife and tenderly takes her hand. That w.i all Sylvia wanted—a real home, a real mother, not a public agent, and a good father. Those she regained In oue brief second. But where was the lecture manager? Brother Alan had dispatched him to a hospital in an ambulance. isn’t all of this enough to make a theater going public think? I have tried to give you some real thoughts from a real [day. It is Impossible for me to go into detail regarding the really marvelous acting of Blanche Bates as Mrs. Fair; Mr. Henry Miller as the husband; Marjory Williams as Sylvia. Bert Leigh as Alan, and what a real brother he makes; Lynn Starling as thf lecturer-manager; Marie Louise Walker (T can't praise her too much), and Angelica Brice, the “friend" of the family; Florence Carpenter as Peggy, the honest to goodness little stenographer and real wife to Alan, aud numerous others in the cast. Kindly let me impress this one fact in my humble way—“ The Famous Mrs. Fair” is an intellectual treat and above all, real entertainment. If m.v opinion carries any weight—l indorse this pla£ from beginning to end, I had my most enjoyable evening in the theater this season in witnessing this piny and company at English's laW night. ‘ N At English’s tonight, Wednesday matinee and night. W. D. 11. -i- -1- -I----YOl! MAY LIKE ’EM ALL, YOU MAY LIKE ONLY SOME, The current ,bill at B. F. Keith's runs to quantity rather than quality. Where you least expect talent on this bill that is where you find it. Charles Irwin and his company in “On Fifth Avenye,” a sort of a revue, has the prominence in the billing. It is a difficult tiling to put a revue on the vaudeville stage. There have been so many half-baked revues on Hie legitimate Ptnge that we know after much experience where to look for the weaknesses in this sort of entertainment. Mr. Irwin and his associates start the proceedings

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24,1922.

A PEN DRAWING OF CHARACTERS IN REAL PLAY

Blanche BATES -as w Famous -Mciher t 5 iV* qhKrtes* ever** —< (- '*'

These pen sketches will Introduce you to a few of the characters In "The Famous Airs. Fair” now being presented at English’s and deserving of large patronage. ~

cleverly enough but the big "smash” falls to come. The a t opens on a big sight seeing bus used by the “sightseekers” in New York. The comedy is well handled but the scene is too long when compared with what is to come. The high lights of this revue are the bus scene, the Chinese number in the scene at lluyler’s and a dance number in the last scene. Most of the comedy on the part of Mr. Irwin covers too much time and better results could be obtained if the act Was speeded up. That is my idea about the act, but probably you will not agree. That’s your great and glorious rights The girls of the comedy are good looking. The act has been cleverly mounted. When Elida Morris, a singer, appeared after this lengthy net. she found what m'ght lie det rmined an “exhausted audience.” Evidently this clever woman read the sign and she de< hied that if , she was going to “get” the audleneesbf had to work fast. She. pushed her set into Ihe high speed, downed a great deal and won the app’ause hit of the show The.way Miss Morris adapted herself to "the audience yesterday afternoon shows that she is a real showwotnan. She up derstands her audienees and that ts a marvelous thing And she even had to make a little rnrtnln ’a'k during which she convinced me more than ever th.v, •-•he knows the show business. Her -“Poor Flo" number is rl.-verly done. Joe Towle Is Just Joe Towle. He chatters to the p >|nt and plays the piano while seated on an empty “beer" keg They semed to like his “peculiar style" yest-rdnyv. Primrose S’emon and Arthur Conrad In “Mupicoinicnlltles” present some old m terla! In anew way. Miss Smon uses the old transparent curtain drop while changing her clothes. This couple should dance mor*. Sandy Shaw Is n Scotch comedian Thank goodness he%doesn’t announe- a H-irry Lauder Impersonation. He tins sons ' well yhosen songs- his sailor mini her and the “widow” song are the best Bather think you will like him. lie is not another Harry Lauder, nor do-a he pretend to be. That’s the reason I like hint The Rectors open the show with some strong man stunts—should say strong Jaw stunts—which will make you hold 'our breath. One member of the team hangs by his right foot from the "arch’ of the stage while supporting his com panion by his teeth The bill Is dosed Ly Ed M Gordon and 'lda Day in ’ Mirthful Nonsense." At I! F. Keith’s all week.—W. D. II -!- -1- -IITERK IS V FIVE V U PPA nil BILL. One of the elassipst bills from the standpoint of beauty and refinement Is the current offering at the Lyric. It Is a pleasure to tell yon about this bill. Heading the hill is Mile Rhea In a dance revue. She is assisted by two versatile yong men. The pianist Is also n dancer and a clever violinist. Th singer plays a saxophone and Is a jazz drummer. Mile. Rhea Is an accomplished danepr and had arranged an excellent program. Her cosi umes and special s'agc settings are Stunning. A splendid dunce offering. Henry Gnfalnno Is an act called “Along Broadway." deserves much praise for Its refinement and beauty Caialano has phasing voice and sings well several well known musical comedy numbers. His best number Is done In a French costume while Kinging “I’ll Game Back to You When It's All Over " He 1s assisted by Stanley Murray, who Is a clever plaolst and two girls who dance well in magnificent gowns. Barrett and Harris dance, sing ano whistle, laugh and cr.v and do everything j else to entertain which they succeed in ; doing. Roberts and Fariow have a lot of “ho knrn” of the “nut" variety. It takes showmanship to put over this sort of st o t but this team succeeds. Data Valerio and company is a high-class wire wallklng act. This offering lacks nothing in stage settings and costumes. Mack and Dale, billed as “musical comedy favorites,” hold up their end of n clever bill. Ernest Duplile has a very elevens line of patter which wins easy favor. Willie Brothers open the show J with a balancing offering. • Tliis exceptionally entertaining bill re- \ mains on view all week at the Lyric. comedians head * SHOW AT PARK. Matt Kolb and Frank “Rags” Murphy ' lead the fun-makers of "The Jazz Babies" ’ at the Park this week. Kolb, besides do- j

ing a comedy pari, to a crayon artist and draws a number of amusing sketches which are clever. “Rags” Murphy is so well known that his name la Enough to guarantee plenty of comedy. Betty Palmer Is a real “Jazz Baby” and makes herself an easy favorite. Evelyn Price has n pleasing voice and wears some nifty costumes,-*- Florence Drake and Louise ,Regan add plenty of pep to the show. Harry Koeler and Andrew White have much to dtf' and they know how- to do it. The entire show .smacks of good showmanship, the costumes and scenery being up to standard. This show does nod relv upon scenery to put it over. The chorus is good looking and their appearances aid in the general pleasure of the entertainment. At the Park all week. ON THR MOVIE SCREEN. The movies today are offering the following pictures: “The’Last Payment” at the Alhambra; "The Lane That Hath No Turning” at the Ohio; "Peacock Alley" at Loew's State; "The Three Musketeers” at Mister Smith’s; “The Sin of Martlin Queed" at the Isis; “The Blot" at the Colonial, and “Tangled Trails’’ at the Regent. -I- -I- -ITWO 810 STARS l)t i: THI RMIAV. Ethel Barrymore will open her local engagement at English’s on Thursday night in “Declassee." On the same evening Fay Painter will open her engage ni' iit of three days at the Murat in "East is West.”

Washington Briefs

i." Special to Indiana Hally Tlmea nd Philadelphia Publl< 1-edger. WASHINGTON, Jan. “L—Pope Benedict made a deeply sympathetic impres Mon upon* the thirty-five or forty Americans. mostly newspaper men, who were :at the* Vatican when His Holiness rej celved President Wilson in January. 1919 Tim compiler of these observations was among them. Tbo Pontiff, an. unusually email and fragile figure, received the American correspondents before giving j prlva'e audience to Mr. .Wilson. Asked ' to kneel in a semi circle before the Pope I made his appearance he found ns in that posture, but apparently not desiring that so large a company of freeboafi Amerl cans should unnecessarily demean them selves, the Holy, Father forthwith beck l oned 'us to rise. Standing democratically In onr midst h* addressed us In eloquent ; Italian for five minutes. Then his re--1 marks were translated by Monsignor Charles O'Hearn of Chicago, rector of the American College at Rome. With a suggestion of a twinkle In hi* eye Pope Benedict emphasized that he had oue close link with America—he was born In Christopher Cdlumhus’ birthplace, Genoa. MaJ. Oen. Omar Bundy, U. 8. A., hero of Chaleau-Thlerry and old Indian fighter. wh > has been in command of the Seventh Corps area at Ft. Crook, Neb , will sail March 1 to take command of the Philippines dlrlslon. According to the veracious and sprightly society column of a Washington paper Mrs Harding has put her foot down on jazzy dances at White House parties. The First Lady Is reported to have instructed the President’s aides to enact the role of floor censors and rigidly to forbid toddling, shimmying, cattle walk--1 Ing and other popular but indecorous terpschorenn proceedings. Both the Brest, dent and Mrs Harding are dancers themsplve* and Hke to see their guests dancIng, nut apparently it has been decided that the dignity of the White House calls for certain restraints. Ponca Indians from Oklahoma, painted, feathered and blanketed, bent tom toms and went through war dnneces and other tribal stunts In Washington last week a( the meeting of the Washing on Archaeological Society. Robert Lansing, os president of the society, functioned as big chief. The host was Victor J. Evans, a Washington attorney, who Is an adop ed son of the Ponao tribe and Is the possessor of an extensive collection of early Indian archaeology.—Copyright, 1022, by Public Ledger Company.

ROAD DIRECTOR ASKS FENCES MOVED BACK Highway Commission Appeals to Landowners Where Rgads to Be Widened. Owners of land contiguous to State roads which the State highway commission desires to widen- are agajfi appealed to in letters sent out toddy Lawrence Lyons, dirfector. asking their cooperation with the department by moving back property line fences. According to-Alvan V. Burch, of Evansville, yjtfie chairman of the commission, it Is desired there be ‘fifty feet from fence to fenc/ line. The majority of landowners, over the State recognize the value of a modern highway adjacent to their land and are complying with the request. Some farmers in \ anderburg County, however, have not speeded up this work ns the commission thinks they should in view of the improvement they receive when a State maintained road passes their land, Mr. Burch said. Mr. Lyons’ letter in part reads: “In order to make necessary improvements to carry present and future traffic it will be necessary that a right-of-way of fifty feet be provided between fence lines. We do not desire that landowners go to any further expense than is needed to provide a suitable right-of-way: however. we realize the traffic on many of our important roads is going to increase rapidly in the next few years and it is importanb that we provide a suitable width of road. We cannot afford as an economic proposition, to widen out a few feed each year. “Many people are not so fortunate as tQ live upon a State road which will be made a good road iu the near future, yet "they pay the same taxes as those who front on a State highway. Therefore we do not think it un\ fair for those who are to benefit most by the road to cooperate to the extent of furnishing a place to build it.” The letters designate by number the particular road the commission wishes widened and point oat that the department engineers will stakes for the new lines.

PUSS IN COOTS JR.

Itj David ("ori “Up at Piccadilly,' oh! the coachman takes his stand. And when he meets a pretty girl he take* her by the hand. Whip away forever, oh! drive away so clever, oh’ All the way to Bristol, oh! ha drives her S four-in-hand. ” And then Puss Junior and Tom Thumb climbed up on the big stage Crack! went the whip, and away went the horse*. Round and round went the wheels, bumpty-bumpty, over the rough cobbles. “Whip away forever, oh! drive away so clever, oh!" sang Puss Junior. "Isn't It nicy to ride again! I’m weary walking aud my red lop boors ar worn through.” “So are my shot-s,’’ replied little Tom Thumb. And Just then a voice cried out: “Stop the coach, we want to get on." Puss looked down nil.. 1 saw Little IJo Peep and Red Riding Hood. And when they saw him, they shouted, “Oh, there ho is! Our dear Puss in Bools Junior." “Wli# !" cried the driver, and the big coach stopped. In a moment the two little girls were aboard, and Pus* was kissed and hugged until he began to nit- w. “Don’t hug him to death,” said Tom Thumb. "Besides you're mussing his coat.” Pretty soon tie coach stopiied again, aud there stood the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Ail her children were with her, and you can imagine how full the coach became when they all got aboard. There were faces nt every win dow, and every seat on top was crowded to overflowing. “M'-rrlly we jog along." they ail sang, and the laught-r echoed tliiysrgh the streets as they passed (Yom village to village. “Let's stop at tlie next candy shop and give the children n treat,' cried Tom Thumb. So the driver was fold to keep a sharp lookout, but before they canid to one the conch stopped again, and there stood Simple Simon, Cinderella, Toin the Piper's Son and Little Jack Horner. < “We want to go to Bristol, oh. We'll stop you with a p!sto!,*oh. So don’t say no, but let us go, All (lie way to Bristol.” And, of course, the good natured driver couldn't refuse. Oh niy, no! So he pulled In the four in-hand, and some of the children sat on eneh other’s lap, and some stood up and Tom Thumb Jumped on Puss Junior's shoulder and held on to his ear, which made the children laugh, And oh, my! "It was a merry party! And when they were Just about to enter the city of Bristol they saw Mary and her little lamb. Again the coach stopped Again, but when It came to squeezing In the lambkin. 1i was another matter. There wasn't room, that was all there was to It. So the little lamb ran along under the coach Just like a coach dog. and when they reached Bristol its wool was so full of dust that it took Mary a whole day to wash it out. “I declare,” cried Mary. "I seem to havo a lot of trouble with my lamb.” “Not nearly as much as I do with my sheep,” answered Bo Peep. "They are always losing theN- tails. Boy Blue promised to look after them while I was away.” And next time I’ll tell you what happened after that.—Copyright, 1922(To Be Continued. r ___________ # Opera Association Needs Half Million CHICAGO, Jan. 21,-*' Half n million dollars must be guaranteed for support of the civic opera association before contracts with stars will be signed, Samuel Instill, president, said today. The association, successor to the Chicago grand opera company, unit be run on a business basis, said Insull. Harold F. McCormick has spent close to a million dollars on' Chicago opera.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Ye TOWNE'GOSSIP Copyright, ini, by Star Compnay. By K. C. B, HANGING IN the window. • • • _OF A New York store. • • • IN THE month of December. , • • * THERE lICNG a sport salt. * * * AND A sign on it said. SA * • kTHEY WERE just half price • • * AND NEVER In my Ilf®. * * * HAD L had a sport suit. * • * AND I’D always felt. • • AND 1 In. • • • AND PICKED one out.' AND TRIED It on. • • • AND A tailor came. 0 0 0 AND MADE some marks. 0 0 0 WITn HIS piece of chalk. n • * * AND THEY fixed it ali. /• * • SO IT fitted me. •• • . AND DELIVERED it. .* * * AND I packed it away. • • • INSIDE ML trunk. • • WHEN WE went away. * * * AND JUST this morning. * * * OF THE day I write. • * • I TOOK it out. * • • WITH THE woolen stockings. ,• • • THAT 1 had bought. • • • AND PUT on the stockings. • • * AND THE knickerbockers. • • AND LOOKED at myself. • * • AND MADE up my mind. • t i I'D TAKE them off. • * t AND PIT the long Jnes on. • • . AND DIDN’T do it. • • • AND WENT on out. • • • WITH MY overcoat. • • • HANGING ON my arm. • . • AND WE didn’t get back. . * • UNTIL AFTER five. ... AND THE light was cooL • • • AND MY wife suggested. • 00 l PUT my overcoat on. * 0 0 0 AND SO I did. • . • AND FIRST thing I knew. ... # A CHILDISH voice. . . • BROKE ON m.v ear. ... "OH, MA, see the man. . . . "BE AIN’T got any pants. AND I hurried on. 0 0 0 TO MY hotel room. • • • AND LOOKED at myself. IN A full length mirror. • • • AND VIIE kid was right. , FOR SO isr as I could see. I HADN’T any pants. • * . I THANK you.

Legion Notes Vigorous objection to the admission into the t iiired State’s of Gregorie Seffiionotf, self styled ataman (head-manv of the i;.: #iau Co-sacks, lias been made by the American Legion, appearing before Secretary of Labor Davis. The legion claims he is an undesirable alien. He has been granted permission to stay In the country for six mouth*. How much war trophies are actually worth depends on whose neck was risked to get them John G. James’ room in an Omaha i N'eb.l boarding house was rifled of all his A. E. F. souvenirs from a medal laden belt captured from-n German major, iron crosses picked up from the butt! fields, the gas mask he had used in man' battles, Red Cross bags containing shrapnel extracted from his wounds, a silver., cigarette case taken from a German prisoner, to his American Legion button. He told the couit they were worth SIO,OOO the law only compel! and the landlord to pay SSO. because tlie trophies were In a suitcase at the time they were ptolen.^ Thousands of disabled soidiers who should be In hospitals are forced to work and support their families because th-ir compensation claims have not been allowed, according to the American" Legion. Hanford MacNlder, commander, has called upon the veteransbureaus to effect prompt adjustment. Every town of 500 or morq, persons In Minnesota has an American Legion post. Gopher atate records show. Fiv* hundred and thirteen posts and 275 auxiliary units have been organized since July, 1919. Beaten tip by a gang of railway (thieves. Detective J. C. Rodlinski of Salamanca, N. Y , was spared from death when one of the thugs spied a Marine service button in his lapel and ree ogntzed the detective as a former buddy in France. Among the New Year greetings received by Hanford MacNider. commander of the American Legion, was a beautifully oiigraved card which rend; “Happy New Year. May you, if you get in jaii through sentence affirmed by the United States Supreme •• Court, receive front Harding, as did Debs, a pardon and a reception in White House.” The proper care of disabled and un< etrtployed ex-soldiers should come before tiie erection of expensive war memorials. -according to the American Legion's legislative committae, which has condemned the plan of the George Washington Memorial Association g!tln State support in erecting a Victory building in Washington. I>. C. President Harding is reported as having endorsed the project a*nd written to Governors of States recommending aid

SAYS REACTION AGAINST G.O.P. IN EVIDENCE Bryan Sees Prospects of Eleotion of Democratic Congress. VISITS WITH SENATORS Special to Indiana Daily Ttmee asd Philadelphia Pvbllo Ledger. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.— Forecaattn* a gloomy future for the Republican party, Willlim Jennings Bryan was In conference Monday with members of the Senate in and a! out the Capitol. The Commoner defended the “agricultural bloc,* attacked the anti-lynching bill before the Hr,n and pronounced unfavorable verdict upon, the work of the present Congress. He gave his support, however, to the four-power treaty with “reservations,” protecting the right of this country te “independent action.** FAVORS FOUR-POWER TREATY PRINCIPLE, “I am strongly in favor of the principle’of the four- power treaty,” he said, “but I would regard it as a grave mis* take for the United States to ratify the treaty without a reservation giving this country the right to act independently In the event of trouble. Independent action is merely Implied by the treaty as it now stands. It should -be written Into the treaty in strong terms that would leave uo doubt as to the meaning.” T .e anti-lynching bill was characterized by Mr. Bryan as a “very partisan ineTTsure.” The utilization of a tax on automobiles to pay a soldier “bonus,” he said, would create a very unfavorable re- , action. • “The reaction against the Republican party," Mr. Bryan said, “has become quite pronounced. I think the prospects for a Democratic Congress this full axe good. FARMERS’ CONDITION , | UNSATISFACTORY. | “Farmers make up one-third of the i country’s population. They are in worse | condition than they have been for more ! than thirty years. Laborers are dissat- ; isfled because wages have been reduced ! quite generally, while the cost of living has not been reduced to the same extent. Business is not good generally. The j country Is not so prosperous as It was ; two years ago. A great many people are Influenced by those conditions in their votes. The Republicans always *ld .that if business was good, no explana- * tions were necessary. But business la not good now.” According to Mr. Bryan the revenue revision act Is “one of the strongest arguments." against the Rep'ubllcaa Administration. The action of the “agriculture bloc" In supporting the * fight , against retroactive effort* of the new “bVoc,” In his opinion, were a happy con- : trast to what he said was a "Wall Street bloc" whose operation, he claimed, had i covered a period of thirty years. He denounced the Newberry resolution and said there had been no reaction against prohibition. “If men can get prohibition.” he said, “can't the women keep it?”—Copyright, j 1922, by PubUc Ledger Company.

M'KINNEY SEEKS JUSTICE BERTH Former Assessment Bureau Chief Enters Race. W. O. MeFlnncy, 1532 Ashland avenue, who was chief of the city assessments bureau under Mayor Cnaries W. Jewett, today announced he Is a candidate for the Republican nomination for -Justice of the peace in Center Township. ‘ Mr. McKinney has been a Republican worker for more than twenty-ilve years, in his younger days having been an outstanding figure In State politics. He had charge of the State Republican speake rs’bureau during the two narrison. two McKinley and first Roosevelt presidential campaigns. He was Justice of the peace in Center Township from 1910 to 1914, and was renominated In 1913, but was defeated by a Democrat REFORMATORY SITES INSPECTED > Commission Examines 13 Locations. Thirteen proposed sites In Hendricks and Morgan counties a*vere inspected by members of the reformatory relocation and advisory committee last week, M. E. Foley, secretary of the relocation committee. announced today. Many Hamilton and Boone Counties will be Inspected during the last three days of this week, ho said. Several of tho sites, according to Mr. Foley looked very favorable and they will be kept In mind until after the commission has had a ehanc# to insect the remaining twenty-seven sites which were retained out of 147 submited. Woman Killed in Shooting Fray CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—James Cusak. farmer war Blue Island, 111., was tinder arrest today following a battle in which John Parsetr Cusak’s landlord, attempted to eviot him. Mrs. Jeanette Parset, the landldrd’s wife, was shot and killed. Cusak tola pdllce he took tt revolver away from Parset and shot Mrs. Parset when she attacked him with a butcher knife. WORLD BEAUTY TO RETIRE. _ PARIS, Jan. 24. —Mile. Souret, the French girl whom artists have declared "the most beautiful In the world,” has decided to retire'from the stage. Darin? her stage career she lias received ohe hundred thousand offers of marriage by mail.

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