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3Maua J}ai!y (Times INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMfeERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. .„ ■ . , )New Tork, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising: offices jchlcago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. THOSE THREE JITNEYS will hardly he sufficient to relieve the congestion in traffic, however. MERCY! The school board is going to meet weekly instead of every two weeks as heretofore. YESTERDAY the city hall rested while Mayor Shank enlightened Borne of our neighboring populaces! ' ■*? “* ' WHY NOT move the Shriver avenue bridge to approaches on Delaware street Instead of building another? TESTIMONIALS for Senator New continue with a regularity that indicates there is' something else besides spontaneity behind them! INCIDENTALLY, the law says that a suitable place shall be provided for the impounding of dogs and the present quarters do not appear to be suitable. For Lower Rates Lower electric light rates for the people of Indianapolis are practically assured with the announcement of the public service commission that it will open the whole subject of rate schedules in connection with the petition now pending for a revision of power schedules. The petition is set down for hearing on Feb. 17 and in the meanwhile annual reports will be filed by the two electric utilities. It is known that the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company’s report will disclose that the present rate schedule is yielding it a greater return on its valuation than can be reconciled with the intent of the public utility law and there is no likelihood of opposition from this company to a reduction in the schedules. The situation brought about by the competing companies is peculiar. The public service commission cannot make rates for one company and different rates for another, but it appears from the operation during the last year that rates which are not unreasonable when viewed from the one company’s premises are too high when viewed from the standpoint of the other. The natural inclination of the public service commission is to provide a reasonable earning for each of these two companies, but the consumer doubtless views the predicament of the one company and of the commission as of no particular concern to him. He wants as low a rato for electricity as it is possible for him to have and will contend that it is the business of the commission to establish such a rate regardless of the effect in the competitive field. Cognizance of'this situation appears to have been taken by the Merchants Heat and Light Company, which has not been heard to protest over the prospective reduction of electric rates. In this hearing, the consumer does not stand to lose in the popular plea for a reduction of utility, rates, a fact that makes the case considerably different from any that has been heard by tho commission since the wartime conditions brought so many utilities to its door.

Bonus Prospects Washington correspondents who are not hampered by the necessity of pleasing Republican editors back home do not hesitate to say that the administration has no present intention of granting a bonus to exservice men. They regard the proposed bonus taxes as methods evolved for the purpose of creating sentiment against a bonus rather than as methods to raise the money necessary to pay them. President Harding’s position is described as that of a man who is shifting from his stand during the primaries to a stand as the Nation’s executive through a torturous course that involves getting around certain obstacles in the form of promises without breaking them. Mr. Harding is declared to remain in favor of a soldiers’ bonus, hut not so thoroughly in favor of it as to be willing to assume responsibility for a method of raising the money to pay It. As one correspondent says, the Republican Administration has discovered that there are more taxpayers than ex-service men and it is now confronted with the possibility of the lose of the support of the taxpayers through the granting of a bonus, just a,s it is threatened with the loss of the support of the ex-service men if it fails to provide a bonus. How to retain the support of these two elements is a question that Congress would like to have Mr. Harding to solve. And the only solution that has yet been evolved lies in “indefinite postponements’’ such as will keep both the ex-service men and the taxpayers guessing. As was stated In these columns only a few days ago, it is apparent that the business interests which are in control of the Republican party do not propose to pay the soldiers’ bonus and it does not at this time seem possible to saddle it on the little fellow. Until the money can be raised for that bonus without interfering with the big interests and without alienating the votes of the little fellow, there will be no bonus. .Vttvu ty o/L tj a.iT*s The announcement of Samuel M. Ralston that he will not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator is a distinct disappointment to thousands of members of his party who saw in L-u candidacy tho prospect of a vou-buitauu.. of u.o yhi j an excellent opportunity to recover Indiana. Me. Ralston’s refusal to seek the nomination .& based purely on personal reasons over which none may dispute with him, but It Is nevertheless a hard blow for Democrats. With the prospect of Mr. Ralston’s candidacy out of the way there are a large number of aspirants and “possibilities” coming to the fore and it does not seem unlikely that there will be a contest in the party ranks over tha nomination. Mr. Thomas Taggart might obtain the nomiuution w.tkouc opposition. were ha .uchueh to lister, us appeals from ah parts of the State. Eut, Mr. Taggart has steadfastly refused to sanction the suggestion and it is known that he Was very much in favor of Mr. Ralston for the position. Whether with Mr. Ralston removed from tho list of possibilities he wil. look on the matter in a different light remains to he seen. This year is an excellent time for the Democrats to unite in the support of a proper candidate and elect a United States Senator. Corrigan's Case In the matter of John Corrigan, patrolman, charged with neglect of duty, the board of safety has chosen the expedient course rather than the legal or proper method of dealing with a recalcitrant member of the police department. Corrigan received an order from the board to report to the police physician for examination as to his fitness to remain on the force, v He failed to report 'as directed and the board quite properly took steps to uphold its order. Corrigan pleaded that he was prevented from reporting to the physician by conditions he could not control, but he admits having been advised by some other authority than the board not to continue attempts to report and he admits having acted on that advice. Thus, he opens the question of whether the board’s orders may be set aside by another authority and in failure to punish Corrigan the board admits that such is the possibility. \ Insomuch as it averts, at least for the time, friction between the and the mayor, the recession of the board has its advantages. But >*%A precedent is dangerous and the issue rgpi .ins unsettled.

AD MILLER AND ‘HICK’ APPEAR IN COURT SCENE In ‘ Lightnin / but It Was Milt on Nobles Who Got All Appla use

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. I made my stage debut yesterday afternoon. I sure did. I didn't receive any applause because Lightnin’ Bill Jones grabbed off all of the applause and wouldn’t share honors with roe at all. Yesterday afternoon, I journeyed over to English's to interview Milton Nobles, that grand old veteran who is turning 'tW&toxSL ’“H l>°s office records upside down and doubling them Wp' in “L igh tn i n’.” : Manager A. F. Milf' £ lor, known as Ad ■ Miller. suggested V -W ■ f that Igoon in the v sis courtroom scene ui " and “report - ’ the trial. Matthew Allen, company man.w|A - ager, thought it IMWS was a “grand idea,” fORW hut as actin ’ ,sn t sswk 5 in my line, I began ? t 0 l ’ alk - 1 was as- * wB- sured that ail I JpS would havo to do " „ : <’!? was to walk in and take a seat. Milton Nobles. “Act just as you do in Judge Collins’ court every day,” Mr. Miller advised. “But who will guide me?” I asked. “I’ll go with you,” said Ml. Miller. And it was settled, but I learned afterwards that Miller “rehearsed” his entrance and exit several t mes without telling me anything about it. “Os course you know this Isn’t my first time on the stage,” said Miller. “Oh, no. I appeared with Fred Stone the last time he was here. It was in the circus scene." Somehow or other, Ad Miller is getting more like Lightnin’ Bill doxies every day. (Get the idea?) At the cloSe of the first act. Mr. Miller and Mr. Allen escorted me back stage. I Tha courtroom was just being put together. A celling was being hung. The “clerk” of the court was placing the judge’s docket on the bench and dusting the judge’s chair and bench. (The judge’s bench and chair Is dusted better in this show that it Is In many a real courtroom I have been in.) Mr. Allen took us on the stage and introduced us to the court reporter and the sheriff. { “Shall I take my hat off?” asked Miller. “Sure, take It off." answered Allen. “Now sit down on the bench near tho witness chair,” directed Mr. Allen. “You will get by all right,” he to me. About that time the sheriff sat down in a chair near a table, put his feet on It and began reading a paper. The court reporter sat down at her table. The clerk went to his desk. And then the curtain went up. Miller whispered to me, “How do you feel ?” “Like I whispered. “I know, I know,” he laughed In a .whisper. The footlights blinded me *t first. Gosh, how glad I was I didn’t have anything to say. Miller poked me In the ribs and said: “There is Nelson Trowbridge laughing himself sick at us.” About that time, the sheriff rapped and announced, “The Judfre.” As I have covered courts for a dozen years, and then some, I rose just like I do each morning In Judge Collins’ court when he takes the bench. Judge Townsend didn’t pay one bit of attention to the press. (These actor folk are all business. No time for play with these people.) After I had fnnnd that my legs were strong enough to support me while greeting the court, I settled 9>ack on the bench again and tried to conceal myself behind the witness bench. Then Bessie Bacon as Margaret Davis, the actress wife who wanted a divorce quick, arrived in the courtroom and the comedy began in earnest. I looked up at the clock on the left wall, and would you believe It—it wasn't running. Just like a real clock In a real courtroom. When I began to feel more “at home” I began to study and. think. Here was Miss Bacon convulsing an audience and yet she didn’t appear to be acting. She was no different than hundreds of women who appear in the courts of this county with the exception there is no love affair between the witness and the court. The sheriff of the court in this play was the important party Just as he generally is In a real court room. The clerk generally has a sense of humor and so has the clerk in “Lightnin'.” After the court, retired and then reappeared, I rose to my feet with perfect calm. I wasn't troubled in the least that time. “Does a reporter have to stand in a real court?” Ad Miller asked me. “He sure does,” T replied. _ Then Milton Nobles as Lightnin’ Bill Jones arrived on the scene in his old Army uniform. The house went “wjld.” Then for the first time I, felt the “warmth” of the audience. A something came stealing oyer the footlights the second that LVc’tnin’ Bill came on the stage. While the'applause was going on Mr. Nobles noticed Ad Miller and myself. He didn’t step out of character and passed us up as if we hadn’t been there. There 1-s no room for kidding or fooling in this company. The play is the thing yoq know Z watched the facial expression of Lightnin Bill and fir the life of me T couldn’r teli when L.ii wn b Bill and when Nobjc-s was Nobles. The transformation was so complete. I felt the re-ponse of the audience. when Bill and John Marvin began to stampede the city --afters in th<* courtI hoard 'he r\irs <f ’anghter and. •h-n—then as if by tr-j-ic. f raw tinder the artistry of Mr. Nobles, the chuckle and the laugh of the audience melt into a subdued sob ns Bill I old Mn that he would go hack to the soldiers’ home and . stay there until, until —. And T want to tell you that all the time that Milton Nobles’ back is to the audience in this scene, he is "acting” every minute. Ills facia! expression changes and follows the action of the play just face or .tot. Milton Uoblcs Is vac- actor every minute, giving his audience the very best

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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that his fifty years’ experience on the stage has awarded him. I came pretty near breaking UP the show and going to jail for. “contempt,” as I was just in the act of applauding with the audience until I caught the eye of Judge Townsend and then I womI was in a courtroom. \ I said to myself, “You wouldn’t anplaud a witness In Judge Moll’s courtroom, would ye? And I knew 1 wouldn’t dare think of such things. The curtain came down as Bill and Ma embraced and made up. Someone whispered to me, ’’Exit.” I grabbed my hat. “I want you to meet Nobles,” Ad Miller said.. Horros, I said, he has to take this curtain call. * v /“I forged,” said Miller, as he turned his back on the audience and made his exit. I follpwed. The audience was applauding like mad. I knew that the audience was prepared to honor Mr. Nobles and so Lightnin’ Bill went before the footlights. As I stood in a fussed sort of a way on the stage, Captain English came up and said: “Congratulations. You did well.” I am glad, really glad that one person at English's yesterday afternoon appreciated my debut. Then 1 met Judge Townsend (Barney Gilmore.) He was no longer the “Judge.” “Glad to meet you,” he said. “3x-‘ cuse me, I must change for the next act.” Then Milton Nobles grabbed my handOr was it Lightnin’ Bill Jones? I went to the door of Mr. Nobles' dressing room. “My wife Is dressing for the next act,”

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1822, by Star Company. By K. C. B

ALONG ABOUT two. • * * ON EVERY morning. • • A ROOSTER crows. • • • NOT TEST far. * • * FROM WHERE I sleep. • • • AN.D FROM his voice. ♦ • • A DEEP bass voice. * • I JUDGE he has. • * • A GREAT long neck. • * • AND Avery fat neck. • * • AND UNTIL he crows. IT’S SO very still. • • a IN OUR neighborhood. ? THAT WHEN he crows. • • I SIT right up. • • • AND THEN sink back. AND ANYWAY. • • • WHEN HE has crowed. I’VE LEARNED to wajt. FOR MAYBE a minute. • • • AND THEN there eomes. FROM A block away. • • • THE DRUNKENEST crow. TOU EVER heard. • * • FOR IT always breaks . ON EVERY note. • • • AND IT tho end. • • • IT PETERS out. • • • LIKE THE last sad wall. Os SOME drowning thing. AND AFTER that. FROM ANOTHER coop. COMBS ANOTHER voice. THAT HOLDS each Dote. • • • TO THE very end. A TENOR voice. * * * I’D SAY it was. * AND THEN there*com%. . A TINY voice. ** * * • • THAT JUST squeaks out. • * • AND LOSES the a!r. AND IS off the key. * • AND EVERYTHING. * • • AND BY that time. • * • FROM FAR and near. * • • THEY A 1.1. Join In. ON THE “doodle-do.*”* s * * AND FINALLY. * a A ONE AT a tino. * • a THEY GO to uluup. AN’iJ THE first bass voice. TAKES A final crack. AT ITS midnight song. AND YLLN - ..now. NOCTURNAL PEACE * a * TT AS TOME again. a a a AND IF some wise man. CAN ENLIGHTEN me. 4S TO why these birds. WAKE CP and sing. I’D L-KE to -now 1C I THANK you.

he said as wg backed up. jgainst a radiator on the stage. “1 don't hpve to change.” , I asked him how old he was. “I was born in forty-seven.” he said. “ ‘Who's Who’ has me and gives the date of my birth. That makes me between 74 and 75.” Captain English came up and said: “Milton, have you told him that you played his house thirty years ago?” “Yes, I hate,” answered Nobles. “And I played tho old Grand, too.” I looked at this veteran actor who, pas£ 74 today, is attracting the great American public to the theater to see a qjean and wholesome play. He talked to me"in a tone of voice not unlike that of Lightnin’ Bill. Mr. Nobles remembers names and faces as well'as dates. Today he is In the height of his glory. The loves him. That I knew because I had faced an audience which not only filled every seat In the house but overflowed In the orchestra pit, the musicians having been removed to a remote corner back stage. “Probably nobody Is more surprised at the success of the play than Frank Bacon and myself,” Mr. Nobles said. “1 am often asked the cause of this great success. I believe that It rests In the love of the public for a vagabond. Look at ‘Rip Van Winkle,’. ‘Way Down East.’ and other such successes, the lovable vagabond Is present.” And then I realized a great truth. Thomas Jefferson, personally, lived a Clean an upright life. The other lovable vagabonds in private life were upright, honest, sincere men. Such a man is Milton Nobles. He does not carouse and waste his time. His company Is the same and right living has rendered each member of the company capable of giving his best’at every performance. The last act was called. Dolly W. Nobles, who plays the role of Ma Jones and who is in private life, Mrs. Nobles, came from the dressing room and walked on the stage. Milton Nobles stroked his white hair, smiled, bade me a hearty “goodby” anil then shuffled off to make that big audi- | once still happier, i I was left alone. I managed to find a door. It opened upon an alley. My acting days were over. I tried to find Ad Miller but he had “retired for the afternoon.” I left tho theater, unheralded and uq; sung. Gosh. I make a “rotten” actor, but the memory of my mootin' and acting with Milton Nobles will always linger In my memory. Curtain! -I- -I- -|A SOTHEKN RATS FAREWELL BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE. B. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe said farewell to Indianapolis last night for at least two years at the drop of the final curtain of “The Taming of tho Shrew,” at tho Murat. In the hands of the Sotherns, “The Taming of the Shrew” becomes nearly a modern comedy. The situations have been intelligently handled from a comedy standpoint. The respect that Indianapolis has for the Sotherns was reflected in the largest audience of the engagement being assembled at ’he Murat Inst night. I have handled at length on a previous visit of the Sotherns their work in this merry farce. Mr. Sothern’s Petruchio is a most interesting wife-tamer and the Katherine, tlij* Shrew, of Miss Marlowe has taken on even greater sent usd power than In former years, j Modern producers and writers of farce would do well to see Sothern and Marlowe remove the dust of ages from the pages of Shakespeare. Here Is an aged | farce made entrancing |iy the use of j modern stage settings and by the dej llciously clover work of the two stars, j I will cot go into detail concerning this farce, but merely state that It is worth waiting two years and then some to see Sothern and Marlowe in "The Taming of the Shrew,” -I- -I- -IThe following attractions are on view 'today ’’Lightnin’,” at English’s: June , Cowl in ‘‘Smilin' Through" at the Murat; : Ona Munson at B. F. Weith's; “Cindereii la Revue” at the Lyric; Billy Watson’s ! Big Show at the Park; “Hail the Wo- ; man" at the Circle; ' Forever” at Loews ; State; “Nancy from Nowhere” at the Alhambra : “The Lure of Egypt” at tha Isis; - “Molly O” at Mister Smith’s and “The Four Horsemen” at the Ohio. -I- -I- -IMANTKLL OFF.NS E VGA GEM ENT M ONDAT. Robert B. Mantell will open his annual engagement at English's on Monday night In “Richelieu.” On Tuesday night "Hum let" will be the bill. CHINA CAUTIOUS IN LOAN DEAL To Take StocJt of Debts Before Accept inp $%.000,(K>0. PEKIN, Feb. 16.—A financial mission, headed by Ling Wei, minister of the in terior, will be appointed to Investigate the outstanding debts of the Chinese government prior to the acceptance of a new loan of $93,000,000. it Is semiofficially stated here. The mission will Include representtivos of tho Chinese b—nking group, th*commercial body aud the bead of i-,. public loan bureau. This step is believed to ba tho forerunner of acceptance of the loan project which is favored by rho banking group. Thc'markct at Pekin and Tientsin has been st.-bilizcd by report" if r;v •*t i.uo ——v* pyir*— hr, gul*.. by Pub,ic Cokjpa.ii.v DIES ON BROTHER'S GR a YE. VERDUN, France, Feb. 16.—Four years after her brother was killed defending the Fortress of Verdun, Yvont.e tie Lionne shot herself dead oh his grave in (he military cemetery. BABY STEET’LEJACK. HINCKLEY. Dr.gland. Feb. 10.—Herbert ; famous atoeplojack, oil tabl'd tic aGoC cl.urci cirtying his 8-months-old son on one arm.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SB I ELAN E

Special to Indiana Dally Times ' and Philadelphia Public Ledger, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. HI. —Eight Senators and the Governor of a great State are reported to have interceded with the officials of the New. York Stock Exchange in behalf of a brokerage concern accused for tho second time of “bucketing” orders of its customers. To the credit of the governors of the exchange it can he said that disregarding this powerful influence brought to bear upon them, they did all they could to put the offenders out of business. That was to order the removal of the Stock Exchange ticker from the offices of the brokers, for the accused parties were not members of the exchange. A member of the governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange is given as authority for the foregoing. It also is declared by another person In position to know the‘facts that the president of one of the greatest banks in America used his influence in behalf of the same brokerage house. It is said in this latter instance that the letter of the bank president is in the files of the Stock Exchange.

SEYMOUR L. CROMW’ELL, president of the Exchange, appears to have an appreciation of his duty to the public ! greater than that of any of his predecessors. He ha’s planned a work of reform ! that is radical in comparison with that | heretofore attempted. It remains to be seen whether it is put into effect and made positive, ♦ f He is likely to be judged In part by , his decision in regard to the Senators, i the Governor and the bank president. A ! broker who “buckets” the orders of his j customers robs them! He exacts a commission for a service he does not perform. He does not buy or sell the securities he is supposed to buy or sell. He merely 1 gambles, bets against bis customer and, when he losea heavily, closes his door. The bucket shop operators, whether of high or low degree Is entitled to no respect. Neither Is the influential politician or bank president who seeks to protect him or have him continue his robbery of his patrons. In the instance where the Senators, the Governor and the distinguished bank president sought to intervene the offense was an aggravated one. The concern had been convicted of “bucketing” once before and one of its members punished by suspension from the Philadelphia | Stock Exchange. Seemingly that did not i have any effect for it is declared that ! later Its operations in this regard were j in greater volume than before. M* fHOMWELL faces a moral issue. 4 A When eight Senators, a Governor and the president of a great bank seek to shield a brokerage concern “brought to the bar,” a second time for dishonest practices It Is natural to suppose that political and financial influences had proved potent in the cases of other offenders. So long as the exchange protects those who would protect plunderers of the , public it will not merit and should not 1 expect public confidence. Never again will mep In high places, political or risk exposure in such cases. ;f those concerned in this particular instance are brought into the open. It Is not a pleasant Job that confronts ' (he president of the New York Stock ; Exchange, hut it Is not one a courageous man would shirk. Tho “bucketeers” have robbed tho

HOOSIER AUTO CLUB PLANS TO AVERT DANGER Association in Effort to Raise Fund for Placing of Signs. A specific effort to raise funds through memberships for the erccllon of hundreds of danger signs on Indiana highways is now being made by tho noosler State Automobile Association, according to n statement issued at headquarters here today. “We wish the public and especially the automobile owners to know, first of all. that we are not a profit-nmking organization. but a civic association of motorists, handed together for mutual protection and benefits,” M. E. Noblet, secretary said. KIGNS DO NOT GROW LIKE WEEDS. “A lot of motor car owners have the idea that th warning- signs and direction signs they sec on the highways grow ifp spontaneously like the weeds of summer. Some few, even, have the notion that perhaps the Titate Is paying or helping to pay. “Every motorist who has b'ien outside of bis own township or county knows the value of marked trails. We have po’e-marked thirty five trails in Indiana and some of these are to be repainted In the spring, while nw trails are to bo marked-all at .heavy expense. We are placing danger signs as fast as our funds permit and everybody using the roads benefits by them. So yon see, onr work is unselfish and entirely for the civic good in this respect. Inasmuch as our sole means of support comes from memberships. the duty devolving upon each Individual motorist is plain. Tha more membership support, the greater our tvorh can be. Our legislative work alone deserves the support of ail owners. APPEAL SENT -KOADCAST. “We ega'r send • persona', .mutating to every automobile owner and therefore have to make a broadcast appeal through I tho generosity of the newspapers. The : newspaper editors of Indiana understand our work and our objects, ns we 1 ! as our aoco-tpllsljicsts i:al that 1: -vhv they! i- ■ so ably assisting us .u spreuu...g u. mriutifcn. “Wo have heard many alibis, but the time for nllbir Is post. When your own life or the life of a friend or loved one is saved due to one of our warning signs at a bad railroad crossing or elsejvhcre. isn’t It about time to quit thinking it over and get into action? An inquiry directed to our headquarters office. Claypoo! Hotel, Indianapolis, wi’l he the proper thine on the part of thousands of auto owners of t'co State woo have beer. ’let tins’ Geoa-ge do a.)3 nil’ longenough." |

By GEORGE McMANUS.

; people of many millions of ollars. They j will bo back at the gaine or some of the f same tribe will be back at it when the j present scandal wanes Ts the most vigor- ' ous action is not taken now. One way to make “bucketing” a bit difficult is to make nssoeiatloa vrith the bucket shop a matter of suspicion. It has not been so In the pass.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. LOCAL LAWYERS BANQUET AND HEAR SPEECHES Members of Indianapolis Bar Hold Annual .Meet- * ing. In an address on “Obedience to tha Laws’* before more than one hundred fifty members of the Indianapolis Bar Association at the association's annual j banquet at the. Columbia Club last night. George T. Page. Judge of the United Stares Circuit Cou/t of Appeals of Chicago and former president of the American Bar Association, declared “the main reason we are not successfully combating tha crime wave that la sweeping the country is du* to the fact the people at large are ignoring the lawa of the country and tout crime Is being commercialized and syndicated.” Added to this and to make the problem more complex is the ever growing problem of the Immigrant, Judge Page said. IMMIGRATION MENACE. j ”In an effort to escape the persecutions ! and the overcrowding of the old world,’’ Judge page said, “immigrants of all nationalities have poured into this coun- ] try for several years past, until the j United States has literally become she dumping grounds for the viciousj of Europe and other foreign lands. There ' are many among those who teach vicious ! doctrines, which, if accepted, would mean the overthrow of all government and authority.” Theater managers and theatrical producers came in for their share of Marne in the wave of unrest. Judge Page declared that producers of theatrical productions are, to a large extent, to blame \ for tho immodest mode? of dress and the looseness of conduct by their ever i increasing efforts to produce something new and that will attract the people 1 to the theaters. In answer to frequent charges that the legal profession is falling into a state of decay, Judge Page emphatically | stated that “the legal profession Is net falling into decline and It is only by tlie efforts of the members of the profession both collective and Individual, that the country Is to be brought hack to a realization that it Is only through obedience to law that a nation can long endur-t.” JUDGE BAKER S ADDRESS. Following the address by Judge Page ■ Judge Francis E. Baker of the United Circuit Court of Appeals of Chicago gave a short address. Judge Baker briefly traced the ascendency of human life from the one-cdled being to the Intelligent i creature that is now the Intellectual as well as physical marvel of the animal ■ world, and he stated that there should he no alarm in the ever growing volume of laws and complexities of workings as It is a natural result of man’s growth. To go back to the simple forms of living and to do Away with many laws, he said he thought would be an effort to turn back the bands of time and that it could not be accomplished, because it would be in direct violation of natural laws Both of the speakers were introduced by Lewis A. Coleman, president of the : Indianapolis Bar Association. will start LINCOLN EXHIBIT. Efforts are now being made by the bar association. Vr. Coleman stated, to found a Lincoln exhibit in Indianapolis, and further efforts will be made to procure permanent quarters for the exhibit in the Ststehouse. The rest meeting of the association will be hqld Wednesday. March S, at which time Charles W. Moores. United States commissioner and student and welter of Lincoln subjects, will deliver ; an nddrous on tne Man,' as n part of the campaign to establish a per- i manent Lincoln exhibit in Indiana.

Surgeon Uses Jasz <A.S A/iULdt’/lCrVlu' a/v Operation on Bog CHICAGO. Feb. 16.—A prominent Chicago surgeon wielded his knife during a serious operation on 16-yeas-old boy at St. Luke's hospital to the tune of "Livery Stable Blues.” Only a local anesthetic was administered. "The boy hud other operations and disliked hr.eatV.ot ies," said the doctor, who requested names be withheld.

SAYS U. S. CUTS OFF OWN NOSE TO SUITE FACE British Steamship Propaganda Reveals Keen Competition. PLAY T S ‘CHECKERS* ! Special to Indiana Dallg Times „ ; ana Philadelphia Pufilic I^d’rer. I ■'* BY NORMAN W. BAXTER. ' LONDON, Feb. 16!—The propaganda ' of British steamship interests againsit the ! American immigration restrictions has , come ’out in the' open with - the publication a shipping paper of a grave warning to tfce'Uulted States that 4.v restricting the flow of aliens to its shores it is “cutting off its nose to-spks its face.” The publication, however, gives some interesting figures shotting the c-mpti-tion- so;- steerage business. The American I immigiation laws designed to permit the entry of approximately SsJ*Qj)(i aliens annually, while the combined carrying capacity of the vessels engaged in fcans-Atlantlc trade Is ' more Thau 1,700,000 In the same time, counting only i steerage accommodations. PROPAGANDA 18 SARCASTIC. Wbat evidently is causing the most anxiety is the suggestion 50 per cent of I the immigrants must travel in American. | ships. “This somewhat naive * propoeaJT : comes from the ‘tend of liberty,’- ” says the shipping organ. I In the meantime the British lines are I actively engaged iu meeting the comi petition of the United States shipping board in every new venture it makes. Tha action of the Government in putting squm j of its vessels at the disposal o/ the operators for trips between the United States and Bremen has been met by a British line which is to run a service bdtwedn Canada and Bremen this year, and so far as business between England and the United States is concerned, there threateny this year to be a greater scramble than ever before, with new vessels, constantly being put into commission. SAYS MATTER IS SERIOUS. “It is quite obvious,” says the shipping organ, “rife rationing of immigration by the United States is a serious matter indeed, for the British find continental ship I owid-Tb, especially when it is remembered the formed have expected a big trans; migration from desolated Europe to i America where labor Is wanted so badly. 1 In preparation for this movement, they I provided ships with requisite passenger accommodations and now find thefr*provfsiori defeated by d r a stl o Immigration restrictions. NVe are by no means certain the United States, by adopting a i policy of America for Americans, Is not doing Itself a very considerable injury, j It is a fact that it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.” —Copyright, 1922, by ! Public Ledger Company. Washington Briefs Special to Indiana Dally Times a:.d Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Be It known that there are now bath Pepper and Mustard in the Gavcrnment of these United States. Pennsylvania supplied ■ the Pepper last month, and this week President Harding passed the Mustard. ! In other words, there has just g<>ne to the Senate tlte nomination of Bascom Mustard us postmaster of the placidly titled town of Bland.—Va., whose postal affairs henceforward, if there is anything , in’ a name, ought to be more spicy than ! ever in their history. ! There will be no lack of American eye-witnesses at the marriage of Prineoss Mary. They there by right i of matrimony—the “American peeresses” who are wives of British dukes, marj quises. earls, viscounts and barons. During this last half century of alliances ; between British “blood” and Yankee dol- , lars, a hundred or more American womj en have been wedded to Britons entitled !to have their pedig?ees indexed In ! “Burke’s Peerage.” Between forty and fifty of them are still alive and entitled ito claim the coveted sixteen inches ot space each in the seating space at West- ! minster Abbey. ! and turmoil in Ireland gives ; point to one of the best stories told In war-time of the Irish “Tommies” who fought so magnificently on the British | front. Mike Callahan—so runs the tale—lwas badly shell shocked when the Huns blew the trenches of the Connaught Rangers into smithereens. He did not “come to” for several days after, when, able to leave a base hospital, the surgeon bade his nurse to talk to him at first of anything but war. “Cheer Mike up,” was ; the instruction. The nurse took him for a stroll through a village behind the lines that had been devastated by German shell fife. “You’re back home In dear old 1 tteland now,” said the nurse, gayly. ! ‘AVcll, bedad.” rejoined Mike, es ht surveyed the landscape of wreckage and ruin “so I am, but how long have wq had home rule?” | Twenty-four years ago today the TJ. S. i S. Maine was suck In Havana harbor. The anniversary, as usual was commemorated by the “Maine memorial” braaeh association of the Spanish-Americas War veterans. IV Wee Lr t—u —'-a ".Xriougca without nouce sc the navy yard by president. <*i order—the earliest vaoLiUS of iimitation of armament. Tacle Sam's expert guumakers—the’ fellows who have brim turning out the If-inch. 1-.- ...... ...- —.„ —„.....rt auc^Lt. vUr >.j.t oaCL.v.-iiw.jiu. prouai-tt achieveuu-nr ziu lc product..!.. \n record time in i:)l7 ana 191 b of four ’b.irtcrics of 16-inch guns which the Navy built, transported and manned on the American front during the final months of the war. It was from one of these batteries, mounted up and operated froip railway trucks specially built for the pu-pose, that the last American shot ‘of the campaign was fired .; i w minute, ! ofore the arn.’.stice came- officially jutd force. Roh.* -!ery'- Copyright, 1022, by Public Lodger Company.

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