Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1922 — Page 4

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JtoMatm gate SFimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 3500; New, LI ncoln 8351, MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, _ , v ew York. Boston, . ayne, Burns & Smith. Advertising offices j Chicago. Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. HELLO, have you made your three phone calls today? NO ANNOUNCEMENT has yet been made that Mr. Beveridge prefers not to have the support of Mr. Shank. EMPLOYES and ex-employes of the school board seem to be explaining why our schools are extravagantly operated! IF the railroaders and miners unite in one big union will they permit the railroad and mine owners to unite in one big syndicate? ARE we to understand that all our cement mills operate on the same cost basis and consequently their prices are always identical? THE THIEF who stole the “night riding” squad’s automobile’probably learned his disrespect for the law in some court that believed in suspended sentences! 1 Beveridge Versus New v The Republican party of Indiana either is split wide open on the senatorial question, or will be so, according to the views expressed by various newspapers of the State. The Huntington Press says: “Senator New’ is already lining up his forces in Indiana, and he Is expected to have a strong array of old-guard politicians pulling his wires and doing his manipulating. This crow’d seems already bidding strongly for the control of the State from the largest unit to the smallest; but there are also Beveridge forces that are showing more signs of preparing to challenge the right of New to boss the Republican party in Indiana. As yet the Beveridge forces seem not so well organized nor so thoroughly prepared, but that the Beveridge strength is growing there is not the slightest doubt. “It may be that, before the primary next May 2, every man in the Republican organization will be forced to show his hand for Beveridge or for New. It may be that there will be an out-an-out fight, with the forces of Harry S. New, Sr., on one side and the forces of Albert J. Beveridge on the other. It may be that in Indiana the old fight of a reactionary against a progressive will be fought over once again. There is no doubt that of the two men, Beveridge is the more popular.” The Kokomo Dispatch declares “That the Republican party is far from being one harmonious, homogenous whole has long been apparent to political observers. The old ‘stand-pat’ element in the party is determined to rule. Like the man said to his wife, ‘yes, you and I are one, but I am the one,’ the Lodges and the News and the Watsons say to the would-be progressive Republican leaders, ‘We welcome you as voters, but you can t hold office. We are the one for that.’ ” The Anderson Bulletin observes that, "Os course, Mr. Beveridge is the most conspicuous orator in the Republican party in Indiana, and did and would adorn the Senate so far as oratory counts. But New is a practical politician, and all indications point to his log rolling machine fattening out and mashing the Beveridge supporters. Their feud rivals famous Kilkenny cat fight. Watch if grow. See its results. Either New or Beveridge will go into political obliviqn in Indiana politics.’ The South Bend News-Times expresses the hope that when Mr. New comes to South Bend he will explain “to those who believe that the Senate of the United States should be kept free from suspicion, taint a,nd distrust, just why he vqted for this condemnation of Newberry’3 attack on all government and yet voted for the man. “The cry that New must be elected to show a sense of loyalty to President Harding is an insult to the President, in the view of his Newberry vote.” The Washington Democrat says: “Intoxicated with official power and unmindful of the consequences resulting from its arrogance, the old guard of Republicanism in Indiana is attempting to ride rough shod over all who refuse to acknowledge the intellectual superiority of the old guard, and its sacred right to do as it pleases. “The meeting at Indianapolis last week of the Republican editors of Indiana was a demonstration of how far the Republican machine will go to accomplish its purpose of handling the senatorial nomination to Harry S. New, regardless of whether the people w’ant him or not.” Verily, the Democratic press of Indiana is getting more keen enjoyment out of the coming struggle than It would were there Democratic candidates worth quarreling about. Opposition to Mr. Shank Mayor Shank’s demonstration against the public service commission has drawm considerable criticism from papers in Indiana, regardless of political leanings. The Muncie. Press (Republican)^says: “It was a senseless demonstration that was staged by Lew Shank and some of his misguided follow’ers in Indianapolis, when they made a dramatic march upon the State Capitol and the Governor, and there demanded that the public service commission resign because of a recent decision in an electric merger case. “Lew has been a comedian of no mean order both off and on the stage and now it seems he has an ambition to enter melodrama. * * * “Governor McCray does quite right in paying no attention to the petition of these noisy demonstrators, nor does this mean that their opinion about the merger Is w r roug; it merely means that noise is not convincing.” The South Bend News-Times (Democratic) says: “A dozen years ago Shank would have led the same army to the same place to demand the creation of just such a commission as a relief from exactions and extortions by public utility concerns. “Petitions in boots are dramatic expressions of unconsidered anger and seldom get anywhere. “Regulation of public utilities came as an answer to public demand for relief against too large profits. It was looked upon as a means of avoiding public ownership on the one hand and private greed on the other. “To demand the abolition of such an institution on the ground that it has failed in one specific instance is about as logical or sensible as it would be to kill an umpire who failed to call a strike in a critical period of a ball game or to burn a church because it failed to keep one of its flock from wandering into a path of sin.” These and similar expressions indicate that in his announced intention of packing the next Legislature with members w’ho are pledged j,o the repeal of the public utilities law Mayor Shank is going to meet with some opposition. In fact, it might almost be taken for granted that he is going to find that to revolutionize our system of State government Is almost as big a task as revising the traffic regulations of Indianapolis.

A Short Memory The memory of political writers is sometimes conveniently short. For example, in commenting on the Shank demonstration of last Monday the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette Says: , “We recall no similar manifestation in all the history of the State. Our Governors have usually led comparatively peaceful lives. They have had their troubles when they have had ‘the Legislature on their hands,’ but they have been safe against insult or molestation or violence. Perhaps Governor McCray was perfectly safe the other day. Nevertheless, members of the National Guard were crowded into the Governor’s office and it is reported that they were armed. There are advantages in that incident. It makes it easier for the practical to visualize that march on the winter palace in St. Petersburg some years ago. Os course, a'tyrant llvecfcin the winter palace, and it would scarcely be proper to so describe McCray. But the two incidents have similar points.’’ A i V’ riter has evidentl y forgotten that in 1913 there was a demonoecause of a street car strike that the public service commission led to settle; that a howling mob marched on the Statehouse, led by ■>hn J. Keagan, who afterward held a position in the Wilson Administration, and that Governor Samuel M. Ralston called out all the national guardsmen in the State. In the demonstration of 1913 lives were lost and there was great property damage. In the demonstration of last Monday there was absolutely If tyranny was practiced by Governor McC e kind of tyranny that saved the State from disgraces and h

LAURA MURDOCK COULDN’T PLAY THE GAME STRAIGHT So She Picked the Easiest Way, Which Was the Hardest Way~

BY’ WALTER D. HICKMAN. The easiest way is always the hardest way. I That seems to be the message, if it can be dignified with a message, behind Eugene Walter’s “The Easiest Way,” a play which has been revived by David Belasco to exploit the emotional talents of Frances Siafr. lt i 8 no t necessary jP- nnd influence of N Brockton keeps FRANCES STARR. Eaura from being common That's the difference between Laura and the less ‘‘fortunate” members belonging to the set of “rotten women.” The only decent people in the whole play are John Madison, a Western ehap, who makes a bargain with Laura that she “go straight” and some day he would come for -her and make her his wife, he promises to “go straight” himself, and Jim Weston, an actor. Laura returns from Denver to New York and takes up her abode in a furnished room of a cheap actor’s boarding house. Laura without funds and without work, refuses to sacrifice to keep her promise to “go straight.” She returns to Brockton on the former terms. Brockton demand's that Laura write a letter to Madison explaining that she has goue back to Brockton as his mistress. She writes the letter but never mails it. She tells Brockton that she mailed the letter. She is so weak that she "lies” to both men. In the big scene of the play, Madison comes to New York to marry her. Then Brockton discovers that Laura never mailed the letter. Laurn, only thinking of her own happiness, plans to marry Madison with the lie on her lips. She nearly succeeds, but a key Jangles in the door of her apartment* and Brockton enters. Madison realizes that Laura has lied to him. He wants to marry a woman who can be good. I,aura ia too weak for him. She tries the sob stuff, but he is a "real man” and when she threatens to shoot herself if he leaves, he calmly calls her colored maid -into the room apd asks Jser to be a witness to the affair and to ice that the suicide is voluntary. Laura is so much of a coward that she can’t pull the trigger. Brockton having been ordered out of the place and Madison leaving a few minutes afterwards, l.aura is left alone. She veils for Annie, her maid, to unpack her

trunks, pick out her prettiest gown and hat because she was going out to make a “hit.” This is pretty sordid aid rotten stuff It is poor, mighty poor entertainment from a play standpoint, but it is maguifieiently acted by Miss Starr and her company It's a pity that so much talent is wasted on such cheap theatrical stuff ns this. Personally, I do not think for one minute that Mr. Walter has handled his question honestly. We find l.aura wanting to step from the mistress class in the first net; in the second she makes a weak struggle to step out of the class, but she fulls. In the third act she is living in luxury, hut at heart she is only a harlot. In the fourth act, she is so bad that she can’t carry out her only clean idea—that of self-destruction. Personally. I do not care for Laura Murdock as a character but I do relish the artistry ami polished emotional work of Frances Starr. Her work Is truly wonderful, but the stage does not need Laura Murdock. I am giving you the cast in full: John Madison Robert Kelly Willard Brockton Joseph KUgour Jim Weston John P. Brawn Laura Murdock Frances Starr Elfie St. Clair Laura Nelson Hail Annie ..Marion Kerliy Mrs. Williams Teris Luring In the emotional third and fourth arts, Miss Starr reveals her emotional artistry in its most advantageous phases. Really wonderful work, but even the wonderful acting of Miss Starr never can mike me sympathize with Laura. Laura .a ucb a liar ’for happiness. Joseph .vilgour as Brockton. Is Just finished in his work as is Miss Starr. He is at his SS best in the first a.- t> while discuss- Wig* manner his rcla- jjr another kept worn- A an. who has tj /?-' no dreams of r . ever being u good jF - v woman, is splendid Shi* does not overact. Personally, I think Elfle is truly drawn. .Tosoph Kilgour. by far the best bit of character work done by the author. Elfle doesn't deceive anybody. She is a “business worn an” and she doesn’t mix “business” and love. Marion Iverby is capable as Annie, the maid. The remainder of the east is satisfactory. Asa play, I fall to see any genuine merit in “The Easiest Way.” I think Mr. Belasco should have left lt rot in the storehouse. Remember, the acting is splendid, but there is such a rotten odor about this play. "The Easiest Way” is on view tonight, Saturday matinee and night at English's. ON STAGE AND SCREEN.” The following attractions are on view today: "Miss Lulu Belt.” at the Murat; "The Easiest Way,” at English's: "The Dancing Master,” at B. F. Keith’s; “Melodance,” at the Lyric; “The Revue of 1922.” at the Park: “Boomerang Bill,” at the Ohio; “The'Sign of the Rose.” at the Circle’: “The Law and the Woman,” at Loew’s State; “Three Live

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922.

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Next Monday night will see the second annual edition of the “Greenwich Village Follies” start on a week's engagement at the Murat. This edition of the “Greenwich Village Follies" is not to be confused with the first ot these Bohemian spectacles seen at the Murat Just one year ago. The current “Follies” played all of last season at the Greenwich Village md Shubert Theaters In New York and comes to Jndl

Ghosts.” at the Alhambra: “The Thr-w Musketeers,” at Mister Smith's. # and “Sky High," t the Isis. On Monday night nt English’s. “The Marcus Show of 1921“ opens a week's engagement. This show has been making a tour of the South and the West

CITY GARBAGE PLANT IS RtfN AT BIG LOSS (Continued From Page One.) products of garbage reduction has changed profits to deficits in garbage dis- ] posai in 1920 our production of byproducts failed by $92,73(1 96 to meet the cost of operation and maintenance. in 1921 the deficit was reduced to $30,451.fit. In 1920. 15,367 tons of green were reducted at a cost of $0.50 a ton; in 1921, 20,053 tons were reduced at a cost of $3.80 n ton. This saving in expense amounting to $24.K 24 33 was practically wlp< and out by the lower price of by-products. The com mission has under consideration improvements In the reduction plant by the installation of a closed system which will eliminate ail odors and a very great saving In operating cost." REPORT WILL BE ILLUSTRATED. The report, which Is to be printed, has ! sixteen Illustrations, freats also of progI rcHs in the construction of the city sew | age disposal plant at Sellers farm: ash j nnd garbage collection, which were taken over from the board of public works in I the middle of 1921; steps to solve th problem of night soil, commission, poul- | try and market house refuse dumping on Sellers farm: financial conditions In every department and contains a detailed report of lAwnge disposal plnnt construction by Charles H. Hurd, consulting engineer. The commission’s report reviews the history of the sanitary district law and points proudly to the operation of the experimental disposal plant to determine which Is the best method of handling Indianapolis sewage. The probleqj differs with every city, it Is said. Methods of treatment of the sewage, which are to lie used in the big plant, were worked out at tbe demonstration station during 1921, the general plan being to remove as much of organic solids as possible before subjecting sew-age to final purification treatment. The final effluent which will be turned Into White River will be harmless. The consulting engineer designed anew type of equipment for accomplishing the first step in this process. In the final purification, the activated sludge system was adopted. Mr. Hurd's appendix to the commission's report treats the above matters in great detail. The commission reports that nearly all manufacturing establishments ordered more than n year ago to install equipment to eliminate objectionable matter from trade wastes damped directly Into streams are working on their installations. The sanitary district bond fund re-

anapolls direct from its noteworthy engagement of twelve weeks at the Gar-rb-k Theater, Chlcngo. * The players who Interpret this gay nnd fantastic antic Include Rert uy tnd Jay Brennan, Poee Wee Myers er.d Ford Hanford, the McCarthy sisters, Phil Pa* ker. Ada Forman. James Clemons, ColHns and Hart, Louis Berkoff and Ssstci Frieda. Julia Silvers. Russell 9rott. Virginia Pell. Ilap Hadley, Harriette Glmbel, Olga 7A eva and Mildred Mann.

celveil $18.3,570 36 during 1921 and contained a balance of $137,825.91 Dec. 31. From bonds sale amounting to $859,202 25. i- Urest, miscellaneous sources and the balance, from 1020, the construction fund received SHHS.9STO4. There was expended on const ruction in 1921. $592,742 17. leaving a balance, at the beginning of 1922, of $423,240.87 In the instruction fund. Tbe board received $101.006 02 for asa and garbage collection and spent It ail. CAN’T HIT FROM GERMANS. COLOGNE. Germany, Feb. 3.—Two Belgian worn >n who came here nnd bought severe! lira of shoes were arrested and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment each Their conviction ■was based on regulations forbidding foreigners to buy certain articles In the occupied areas. Friends have taken up their case and are attempting to sesure pardons.

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i Ye TOWNE GOSSIP | i Copyrleb*. 1921. by Star Comp nay. i 1 By K. C. B ! Dear K. C. B. —When you wanted s man to work for you, why didn't you hire a white man. instead of a Jap? Don’t you know there are thousands of ex-service men out of work who would be glad to do most anythiug for au : honest dollar? And why don’t you read whut Mr. Hen ret has to say about the Japanese? He’s paying your wages, isn’t he? AN EX-SERVICE MAN. IN THE first place. • * • YOU HAVE lt all wrong. • * * WHEN YOU suggest. • * THAT I’m employed. * • • BY MR. Hearst. AS A matter of fact. • * • HE’S EMPLOYED by mg. 1 WRITE the stuff. • • • AND SEND it to him. • • AND THEN he prints It. ♦ * ♦ AND hells it to you. * • AND COLLECTS tbe money • * AND SENDS it to me. • WHEN lIE takes his bit. • * FOR THE work be does. • • AND I’LL say for him. HE’S TIPE best man. • • * EVER WORKED for me. • • AND ABOUT the Jap. I’M FREE to confess. *■ • • I WOl LI) have preferred. 9 9 0 AN EX-SERVICE man. ’ ’ * BUT JUST at the moment- /• * • I COL’LDN’T find one. WHO WOULD do *h*e*work. • * * I HAD to hare done. • i • AND IT’S very easy. • • • TO FIND a -Tap. • . • AND I hired one. ♦ • • AND I’M very sorry. BUT somehow or other. •• AS I look out. ... FROM WHERE I work. • • • AND SEE Yokahoma. IHM>Ki HIS tasks. * * * AS THOROUGHLY. • ♦ • AS THEY could be done. • • * AND HEAR his voice. • • • IN SOME Nipponese song. THAT HE probably learned. WHEN THEY let him down, j FROM Ills mother’s back. AND IIK started to walk. • • • I HAVE a feeling. • • • THAT IIE who created. • • • THE UNIVERSE. • • • DOESN’T VERY much care. • • • IF I hire a Jap. ' • • • i OR A colored man. • * • OR THE Prince of Wales. • • • I THANK you. SHREWD GERMAN METHOD. BERLIN, Feb. 3.—German manufac- ! Hirers are establishing selling agencies In Holland and Denmark, taking orders nnd receiving payment in raw materials. In this way they find a market and | got materials at the same time.

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UNDERWOOD TO * DEFY SENATE ‘SPITE BLOC’ (Continued From Page One.) In conference with Mr. Wilson during the progress of the conference. It Is not said he has not communicated with the former President directly or indirectly, Bimply there Is no proper basis for the supposition he has sought counsel at the S street house. The Democratic leader proposes to withold his challenge for a party powwow until the work of the conference shall have been concluded- It is entirely probable he will not act next week, should the conference udjourn on Saturday as is hoped, but would withhold action until the treaties actually are before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The party leaders then would have had opportunity to study the conventions to arrive at certain personal conclusions. They would be prepared to ask questions, to pry into causes for certain settlements, to seek light on causes gnil effects. Having accepted a place on the American delegation with the explicit understanding he would not be bound to observe secretary with respect to any “dosed door” sessions, .Mr. Underwood will feel' free to counsel freely and fully wit h his party associates in the Senate. WILSON OPPOSED TO FOl R-POWER TACT. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Underwood, in pursuit of such a policy, will find himself in a clash-at-arms with the former President. Very specific statements have come from Senators who centered with Mr. Wilson. They said he was opposed to the four-power Pacific pact and would state his position at the proper time. He is represented as believing the four-power covenant sarora of a return to the old balance of power theory on which an awakened worm sentiment turned thumbs down at Paris. If, he is said to believe the peace Pacific may be promoted by an agreement for conference and advice on the part of four powers, it would be advanced far more by Inclusion of all the nations in such a compact and, that, he holds, Is what the League of Nations covenant does. Any statement by Senator Underwood to a Democratic conference would be quite naturally, a defensive one. It

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would be, literally, an accounting of his stewardship, a defense of his conduct ss Democratic member of the conference elegation, a reply to those cantankerous elements in the party which would challenge his leadership simply because he dared to express approval of something bearing a Republican label. It is not doubted many Democratic Senators will oppose the Underwood program, especially If they have Mr. Wilson with them. James M. Cox of Ohio, having learned nothing from the November election, proposes to keep all e tbe League of Nations issue—the one thing on which all Republican elements are certain to rally in common purpose—it is not expected the arch champion of tbe covenant would disown it. WOULD REVIVE LEAGUE ISSUE. The Cox-Wilsou program would favor Democratic battle this autumn against a Republican party unauimously against the league and almost solidly for the Hushes treaties, instead of the Underwood plan to get political tracks cleared of international affairs and wage battle against Republicans spilt into “blocs" and factions over domestic issues, the tariff, failure to reduce war taxes, lack of agricultural relief aud Newberrylsm. In some States Democratic Senators are listening with oars to the ground for humbles of an anti-Britißh, anti-Jap-anese and anti-anything-else sentiment against the treaties. So far most of the minority Senators have kept their own counsel very well, lt remains to be seen, for instance, whether the big German vote in Nebraska will be hostile to the treaties under the lnflnence of anti-British agitation. That might have an important bearing on the attitude of Senator Hitchcock, who Is Mr. Underwood’s chief rival for Democratic leadership In the Senate. The Nebraskan is the ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Relations to which the freaties will be referred. —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

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