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Jfatota Sato Ofimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. " Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. New York. Boston, Payne, Barns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices Chicago, Detroit, St Louis. Q. Logan Payne Cos. ■ Pretty soon we will be wanting winter to play an encore. — X Evidently the dove of peace was not a welcome bird in Ireland. Germany is shipping cigars to America. Still trying to get even. While the ax is nice and edgy Congress might whittle about 17 cents ofT its mileage allowance. Ten years ago an automobile' owner had to fight off his neighbors. Today he ha., to get on their waiting list. THAT scientist who invented a machine to measure the thrill of a kiss neglected to tell the public whether it waß made of asbestos. That story comparing the heavenly climate to California's sounds more like it came from a Pacific coast real estate dealer than from a departed spirit. A dead newspaper man Is said to have interviewed Dr. Peebles, the California centenarian who died recently. Even the grim reaper can’t stop a reporter. < * Arming Bank Employes The question of what you would do if a bandit walks into your place of business and orders you to throw np your hands, emphasizing his point with the business end of an evil looking ’•evclver, probably will remain unanswered until you face the crisis. Then you probably will act without a moment’s hesitation tiut the chances are about two to one that the law of self-preservation will guide you. The epidemic of banditry in the countrv, especially in banks, has made the subject of probable action under such circumstances unusually interesting to many people. A New York bank, believing that if employes had confidence in their markmanship they would be willing to try issues with bandits, has opened a shooting range in its basement where clerks are being taught to hit the bull’s eye. Other financial institutions there are preparing to take similar action. Only recently Harland D. Carrick, in a letter to the Times, advocated the arming of every bank employe in Indianapolis so that they would be able to act- promptly if an emergency arose. The arming of employes and training them to handle firearms accurately presupposes a belligerent attitude on their part the moment a robber comes within range. This plan to be successful must allow the would-be victim the opportunity of "getting the drop’* on the robber. Most accounts of robberies, however, usually show that the bandit almost aiways fortifies his command to “throw up your hands” by "getting the drop” himself. There are few men, no matter how brave they might be under other circumstances, who would ignore that command when they are looking a six-shooter in the face. Alliance Not Discernible Most of those who saw in the League of Nations covenant a farreaching step toward perpetual peace can agree with the stand Senator Pomerene, Democrat of Ohio, has taken on the four-power Pacific pact now being debated in the Senate. "I was disappointed when the Versailles treaty was not ratified,” he said in addressing the Senate, "and I was disappointed when President Harding did not present a complete plan for our consideration • * * 1 shall vote for ratification. To do otherwise would be to prove false to my convictions and false to what I conceive to be the well defined sentiment '”of the country.” This Democratic Senator, feeling, like many of his countrymen, that the four-pact does not embrace a large enough portion of the world, fails to see any signs of the dreaded alliance In the provisions of the treaty that the irreconeilables profess to find thera. "It is not an alliance either offensive or defensive. It is an alliance binding the four powers to respect each other’s rights in their insular possessions and dominions, and binds the signatory powers to submit to a joint conference of the four powers any controversy that may arise with respect to these rights." The suggestion of the Democrats opposing the treaty that a reservation be added extending its scope to all nations having, or aiming to have, interests in the Pacific and Far East, would not be without merit if it were possible to bring this about at such a late hour. Many contend that such a plan should have been considered around the council table and that it should have been pressed by the United States delegates, but it is doubtful now if anything can be gained by such a reservation.

Shaking Public Confidence The Indictment of Governor J. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma on a charge of accepting bribes adds another to the long list of public officials who recently have figured in unsavory scandals in this country. % The news iOf late has been filled with accounts of alleged official delinquencies, some f them of such a nature as td shake the confidence the public ordinarily wants the men whom it selects for office. \ Governor Len Small of Illinois is now facing trial on serious charges. Tile Governor of Mississippi was threatened with Impeachment only a Short time ago on the story told by a girl. The name of United States Senator Newberry has come to be synonymous with inflated campaign expenditures and adds no luster to the law-making body in which he sits. Richard V. Sipe, former clerk of Marlon County, is in Jail on his own admission that he dissipated thousands of dollars of public funds entrusted to him. The list is long and reads from the highest to the lowest officials. Os course the great body of upright m§n in public office should not be branded and condemned because others have abused their official titles no more than the whole motion picture industry should be outlawed because of “Fatty” Arbuckle’s conduct or that every young man possessed of a fortune should be shunned because young Dodge has elected to defy conventions of law and order. Officials are placed in power because the majority of the people have faith in their integrity, and their conduct at all times should be regulated so that that trust is never violated. Woodrow Wilson 9 s Silence Mr. Wilson is continuing to make good his promise that he would show America how an ex-Presldent should behave. Despite the thousand rumors that Mr. Wilson would come out in opposition to the four-power treaty, no word from him on the subject has been issued. Senator Borati’s talk with Mr. Tumulty was eagerly construed as an indication of Mr. Wilson's attitude toward the key treaty of the conference, as well as every other incident with which imagination or ingenuity could connect the man who lives on S street. If Mr. Wilson is opposed to the four-power treaty on the ground that it comprises only a special group of powers, he deserves credit for permitting the duly elected and appointed officials of the American people to solve the problem themselves. Especially is this true when a word from the ex-President some time ago would have had a tremendous and probably a decisive effect. Perhaps Mr. Wilson’s silence at a time when his speech might mean so much will surprise those who, upon learning that the ex-President ould take his residence in Washington, suspected that his purpose was to remain close to the heart of politics that he might exert an unofficial sway over men and things. Some of his friends greeted the thought. His enemies used it to continue their revilements of him. He has disappointed the one gr OMj) and shamed the other. —Louisville Courier-Journal

BARRYMORE, THE MASTER, REVEALS Qualities Which Makes Him a Leader of the Stage

BY WALTER B. HICKMAN. The master Is here. * Whether you always have considered Mr. Lionel Barrymore the master of the spoken drama, it makes no difference.

He has won that degree of distinction by his brilliant characterization of Ach ill e Cortelon in Henry Bernstein’s "The Claw.” There is no wide difference of opinion on the merits of “ The Claw” as a dramatic composition. Asa play, it is constructed along old lines and it is made acceptable only bv the work of Mr. Bnrrymore, Irene Fenwick, Doris Rankin and others in the cast. “The

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Claw” as played by Mr. Barrymore and his associates makes this play the supreme dramatic event of the season. Very little credit goes to the author. I Journeyed to Cincinnati, Ohio, some weeks ago to see Mr. Barrymore in ‘‘The Claw.” My first impression is also my last after again viewing the show at the Murat last night. The peak of dramatic expression has been reached by Mr. Barrymore in the reflection of the spiritual, mental and physical decline of a man. The wasting happens before your very eyes. The sonl of Achille becomes that of a whining old degenerate who is a toy, a pitiful plaything, in the sensual embraces of his wife, Antoinette. The animal in the man news through his very heart until the terrible tragedy of wasted, degenerated old manhood stands tottering on the stags. Youth is forced out of the very veins of Achille as he falls a victim to the sensual frolic, mentally and physically, with his wife. His hair becomes dotted with white. His eyes become sunken, his step only a shuffle and his voice that of a weak chatter. The soul of the man turns black and filthy through the magnetic touch of the artistry of Mr. Barrymore. Never in my years of experience in the theater have I witnessed the work of a master so wonderfully done. You do not pity Achille when he drops dead In his study. You detest the animal, but respect the artistry of Barrymore which makes possible such a terrifically powerful characterization. And that was the understanding of tjje large audience at the Murat last night when Mr. Barrymore was called to answer the ovation following his work in the third act. Last night an Indianapolis audience g&x* Mr. Barrymore the biggest and

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Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, March 24.—One of the greatest American-Japanese love feasts on record will take place in Tokio July 4, 1022. The occasion will be the arrival in Nippon of the famous class of 1881 of the United States Naval Academy, ul which Admiral U’riu of Japan, is an honored member. The party will bo beaded by John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, Annapolis 'Bl, and will include Edwin I'enby, Secretary of the Navy, known ns the brother-in-law of the class, because a sister of his married into it. Arrangements for the expedition are in the hands of O. E. Weller, United States Senator from Maryland, who also was graduated at the academy forty-one years ago and has been tl e class president since 1897. Other distinguished ’Bl men, who wiU attend the rent lon In Tokio, are Rear Admiral Wilson, superintendent of the Naval Academy; Brigadier General Barnett, formerly commander of the Marine Corps; Brigadier General Haynes, of the Marine W. L. R. Emmet, famed turbine expert of the General Electric Company and a lineal descendent of Robert Emmet; Dr. Fraank E. Bunts of Cleveland, and Rear Admiral Hoogewerff, commander of the Cnited States Naval Station at Bremerton, Wash. The Annapolis “Grads” of ‘Bl are going to Japan at the invitation of Admiral U'ria, who was a reunion guest in this country last summer. In it was his second foregathering with his comrades of academy days. The previous occasion was In 1909. during the Taft Administration when American Japanese relations were not as good as they might have been. Admiral Urla was sent here by the Tokio government at that time, and at the class dinner in Washirgton in his honor President Taft, members of the Cabinet and the congressional leaders were present. While in Japan next summer the class of *Bl will be guests of the Nipponese government. The reunion will happily synchronize with the new relationship between the American and Japanese peoples cemented by the Washington conference treaties. All concerned are therefore expecting the occasion to be an episode of no inconsiderable international interest. Baron Shldohara, Japanese Ambassador to the Cnited States, who will be in Japan on leave, hopes to join his countrymen in extending hospitality to the notable delegation from America. Nothing could more graphically illustrate the poverty of housing -conditions in Washington than the hospitality the President and Mrs. Harding are this week extending to the new director of the mint and Mrs. Fred E. ScoJJey. There can’t have been many families in American history who had to “put up” at the White House because there wasn't any other suitable abode available in Washington. Yet that is the .plight of the Pcobeys. Half of the Cabinet continues to d.well in hotels as does the Vice President, and so do scores of Senators and Representatives. There is a rent commission in the District of Columbia, but rents continue high. Building operations are in lively progress* but mostly in neighborhoods unsuitable for residence by of- I ficial while the new houses 1 going up are tor the most part or the j “standardized” tvjp- and inordinately ex- ' Ledger Company.

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most genuine ovation I ever have witnessed in a local theater. It swept the entire house and continued as the master of the modern stage answered the ever increasing applause. I was told by men who have followed events in local theaters for over ten years that the Barrymore ovation at the close of the third act was of ipore tremendous proportions than any extended to an actor in a local theater in the last ten years. Mr. Barrymore makes his opportunity to register in the third and fourth acts of '"The Claw.” Only a general hint at the ruin Antoinette is bringing upon Achille is given in the second act. It is the third act that Barrymore reveals the wounds of his mad infatuation for his worthless wife. At the close of that act Barrymore mounts the ladder of fame and stands supreme on the very top of the ladder of dramatic achievement. You will detest Achille and you will hiss Antoinette as characters, but you will applahd the genius df Mr. Barrymore aud Miss Fenwick which makes possible the creation of such clreractcers. 1 must pause for a brief second to express an appreciation of the work of Miss Fenwick as Antoinette, who at heart is a harlot basking In the blaze of diamonds, expensive motor cars and palaces. Her frenzied outbursts in the last act is the work of a splendid actress. She is so much better than I dared even to expect. She has come into her own in “The Claw.” The cast of “The Claw” is as follows: Jules Doulers Charles Kennedy Paul Ignaee E. J. Ballantine Antoinette Irene Fenwick Marie Marie Bruce Achille Cortelon Lionel Barrymore Vincent Leclerc Giorgio Majeronl Anne Cortelon Doris Rankin Nathaniel Joseph Granby A Doorman Jan Wolfe Guy Germain-Leroy Harold Winston A Police Officer S. B. Tobias Mlrs Rankin hasn't the opportunity she had in “The Copperhead,” but her work in “The Claw” is just as finished and sincere. Charles Kennedy as the scheming and unprineipaled Jules Doulers, the father of Antoinette, is worth of more detailed consideration than I can give at this time. After seeing “The Claw” in Cincinnati, I gave a detailed report of tfco story of the play. It is not necessary to repeat it at this time. At that time I was in hopes that Mr. Arthur Ilopkins would see his yvay clear to permit Indianapolis to see Mr. Barrymore in ‘‘The Claw." It has come to pass. For ti e finest of fine acting. I recommend “The Claw," at the Murat today and for two performances Saturday. The master has arrived. He has been acclaimed. His name is Lionel Barrymore. -I- -I- -I----ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today: Ziegfeld Follies at English’s, Lionel Barrymore in “The Claw," at the Murat; Tom Wise in “Memories.” at B. F. Keith's; Bob Findley, at the Lyric; "Jingle Jingle,” at the I’Rrk; “Gambols of 1921,” at the Rialto; “The Silent Call," at the Circle; “Perjury,” at Loew's State; “Marry the Poor Girl," at the Alhambra; “Lore’s Penalty,” at Mister Smith's; “Travelin' On," at the Ist*, and "Just Around the Corner,” at the Ohio. FATE OF PRINCE’S PETS. LONDON, March 24.r—Most of the pets brought home by the Prince of Wales from his last tour have died. His parrot, “Polly,” passed away the day after the Prince left for Indta. His two emus. Wallaby and Tasamanian Dovil, have also succumbed to the British climate.

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Rasputin Still Boastful as He Goes to His Death Evil One Lured to Feast , Plied With Wine and Stabbed to Death .

BY DAVID L. BLU’MENFELD, United Press Staff Correspondent. CHAPTER 111. LONDON, March 24.—Rasputin, from the time he entered the Prince’s motor car, had but a few hours to Hve. The ride was marked with boastings on thp part of the monk. His eyes glistened as'he was led to the dinner table, groaning under the weight of precious foods and gold and silver flagons for wine. Six or seven men (reports differ) sat down to that meal. There was Yusopoff and his bosom friend, the Count D ; there was the Grand Duke M ; there was his son and aid; there was Rasputin and two of the Prince's entourage. After the dinner the cloth was removed and waiters placed the wine at the elbows of the diners. Yusopoff and his friends took good care their guest was well piled with wine. Soon the monk’s tongue vyas loosened under the wine’s influence, and he began to boast of his secret communications with the Kaiser and the Gernlan general Staff; told, too, with a-vicious leer of his “conquest” in “converting” countless pretty titled women and of how he had disposed of their unfortunate husbands. Yusopoff and his friends smtlcd—outwardly. Inwardly they boiled with hate find rage. The moutbings of the monk grew more and moro coarse, his speech more and more inarticulate. TIME FOB DEATH OF MONK ARRIVES. At length Yusopoff drew the attention of his associates. The time for action had arrived. Rasputin, his great; eyes gluring was leaning, drink-sodden, across the table, his red beard dangling In bis wine glass, loathsome and disgusting. "And so,” he hiccoughed, “this Duchess too became my convert ” It was enough. Yusopoff, drawing a revolver, shoved it 'under the monk's nose, snarling: “Grishka! Your time has come! You are Judged and you must die! Kill yourself!” Rasgutin looked np and grinned through his wine-sodden beard. “Kill myself?” And he flt'ed point blank at Yusoooff. The Prince ducked and as the bullet splintered a great mirror to atoms, he leaped on the monk and stabbed him in the chest. Blood surged across the table. The monk sank 'unconscious in his chair. Guards hammered at the door, but Yusopoff. calm and resolute, locked it and picking up the half conscious monk, stabbed him again, this time in the ribs, saving: “Thus are you paid by God, Rasputin!” , Yusopoff's friends dragged him away and seizing the bleeding monk, carried him toward a window Jn front of which Yusopoff's car had been drawn by arrangement. FORM PLACED IN WAITING CAR. Yusopoff opened the window and while his friends dressed the now unconscious monk in a fur coat and placed a can on his head, whistled for his car to take position beneath the window ledge. Climbing into the motor car while the naiac,. resounded with shots, the party placed their bleeding charge in the front seat and prepared to drive off. Yusopoff stuck a clear between the half-dead monk’s 11ns and saving: “Enjoy your smoke, old man!” ordered the chauffeur to drive to a bridge over the Ice-covered Neva. During the drive each of the friends stabbed at the monk with their Cossack

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daggers. The wounds froze in the Iceladen air. Arrived at the bridge, Rasputin was pulled from the car. Each of the party gave him a final stab. The monk groaned. They bound him with ropes. Then, after had spat on the evil genius of the Romanoffs' they hurled him, bound and bleeding, from the bridge on to the ice-covered Neva, far below. There was a dull thud as the monk hit the ice, a crackling sound as the ice broke and a splashing gurgle as the waters closed over the last of Rasputin. FISHERMEN FIND MUTILATED BODY. Three days later fishermen found the torn and mutilated body, frozen, covered with wounds and an expression of absolute terror on the dead face. They weighted the body and threw It back in the waters of the Neva. That was the last chapter of Rasputin in the flesh. The vast forces he set in motion ase still in action. Then followed the revolution, the rise of the communists, the assassination of the Czar and the royal family in a Siberian village,-the total collapse of Russia as a factor In the war and the trail of events in the empire and Its associates and neighbors since peace came. History alone can decide bow Rasputin’s treachery influenced the final life of a great nation. TEXAS PACKS UP TROUBLES; GOES TO WORK (Continued From Page One.) Chicago and this part of Texas is to get on its feet again and back to where it was in 1914, to make a fresh start. The people are not whining; they are not despondent; they are not grouchy about their hard luck. They know they have turned tha corner and again aee daylight ahead of them. They are not spending money as they used to spend it; but ail the while their expenditures for necessities are increasing. In every town one has passed through or has visited there are literally scores of new buildings in process of erection. One sees them from the car windows as one saw them in Des Moines, Omaha, Kan- | sas City and Ft. Worth. | NOT CARRYING | LARGE STOCKS. ! The country merchants are not caryying large stocks of goods, but they have i sold virtually all of the stuff that they j bought at wartime prices and liaTe got | new stocks to replace them. These stocks are not as large or as diversified as the j old 1914 stock, but there is enough on the store shelves to meet current demands. It seems to be taken for granted that the treaties growing out of the Washington conference will be ratified by the Senate. It should be added there is very little interest of them because of this assumption that they will be ratified. One has yet to encounter the slightest opposition from any quarter or the slightest manifestation of alarm about the fourpower treaty. Lack of Interest or concern about the “bonus” for the ex-service man is equal-

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ly noteworthy. One ventures the broad statement that the current feeling throughout this part of the country is against the payment of a “bonus” at this time. But there is no violent or aggressive opposition. The general feeling seems to be one of regret that additional taxes should be imposed at this Juncture on the agricultural communities that are trying to pay their way out of debt and who already have neavy burdens of obligations to carry. STATE FAIRLY' RADIATES WARMTH. There is a general kindly, warm feeling toward the veteran and the desire to do the right thing by him if he restrain his demands for a little time until the country is in better shape. The politicians at Washington who think It will help them to pass a "bonus” bill are fooling themselves or are being fooled. It seems perfectly safe to say that only a small number of the voters in any congressional district will support a candidate because he has been active in working for a bonus payment. There is not yet visible the faintest interest in the November elections. One encounters In every State scores of candidates in leash and chafing to be about the promotion of their interests, but they sense the widespread popular Indifference at the present time and are keeping pretty quiet. Several of them have made tentative essays toward opening their campaigns and making speeches, but have not met with much popular response. So, perforce, they are all holding back until the summer or early an tumn before beginning to go out among the people. It all sums up the one thing all of these people are interested in, to the exclusion of everything else, is their own business; getting out of debt, getting to work again, getting back to where they were before the war. And they are going through these processes, not sullenly, not despondently, but with a gayety, courage, steadfastness and directness of purpose that could not be surpassed.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. GREEN MOONSHINE. FARIS, March 24.—Disputing the belief of Professor Pickering of Harvard that there is vegetation on the moon, M. Le Morvan, astronomer at the Paris observatory, declares the moon is "dead” rnd the green zones are a chromatic dsiplay.

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