Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1922 — Page 4

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Juirtatra Jlaihj kitties i Published at 25-29 South Meridian street. Indianapolis, Ind., by The Indiana Daily Times Company. W. D. Boyce, President. Har old Hall, Treasurer and General Manager. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . New York, Boston, Payne,-Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising orrices. chicajo, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Kates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week Catered as Second Class Matter. July 25. 1914, at Postofflce, Indianapolis, Ind. under act March 3, 1879. THE POOR are always with us, but the rich go away for the summer. A MOVIE star is in trouble because he got two marriages ahead of his divorces. MAN'S WIFE wants alimony because of a watch. Must have been another woman in the case. STYLE decrees fringe for the bottom of a woman’s skirts, but if a man adopts it we brace ourselves for a touch. BERT MORGAN should have that still he has on exhibition at the Health Exposition patented to prevent infringement. ' LUCIUS SWIFTS criticism of Street Commissioner Walker’s pre- • primary activities does no texplam why the sanitary board has allowed thh alleys to become congested with garbage and refuse. SENATOR WATSON has requested President Harding’s advice on the* keynote speech he is preparing for the Indiana Republican convention. Who knows, he may consult Albert J. Beveridge next? Democratic Stock Jumps Preliminary discussions of platform measures by Democratic leaders gathered here yesterday at a meeting of the State committee indicated that they have largely grasped what is in the public mind, contrary to customary political procedure, and are ambitious to crystalize sentiment as they find it into comprehensive principles that will demand reforms the people most desire. The Democrats rightly feel that the taxation scheme is still unsolved, and In this they will be supported by thousands of persosn who are still fingering over their tax duplicates. The Goodrich tax law, despite its numerous amendments. Is still far from the perfection it was promised to be. The management of the State highway commission, especially during the recent primary, will give the Democrats further cause for demanding reforms, the framers believe, and the operation of the public service commission afTords them still further opportunity for preparing what many believe are much needed changes. The platform framers will do well to follow the suggestions of the new chairman, Walter S. Chambers, tr confine their attention largely to State issues, leaving the definition of • ational issues'to Samuel M. Ralston and the various congressional cand' ates. Although national affairs, due to the prominence of both senat r iial candidates, promise, as usual, to ovedshadow purely State problems, the commissions and ok., .lons of the present State administration should not be overlooked. In fact, they should be stressed. That the leaders are keeping their ears pretty close to the ground is evidenced furthermore by the fact that moves to repeal the State-wide primary law and the injection of liquor issues are receiving scant attention. The pi itform builders will act wisely In leaving these affairs strictly alone. . . With anew organization, anew chairman, who has long been a party worker, and a secretary. Miss Gertrude McHugh, who has been tried and found qualified In the fires of many campaigns, the Democrats have reason to fSfel jubilant over the prospects.

Holding Aloof I know yoti are Interested In world restoration. So Is your Government. But I beg to remind you we must always be right at home before we can be very helpful abroad. We do not mean to hold aloof: we want to play a great Nation’s, aye, a great people’s part In the world.—From address by President Harding before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, May IS. It is rather difficult to reconcile the President’s pronouncement, “We do not mean to hold aloof,” with the Government's reiterated refusals to assist in setting the European house in order. Possibly it is true that the Harding Administration does not “mean to hold aloof” from concourse with other nations, but that is exactly what it is doing while Europe straggles futilely to regain Its economic feet and which it confesses it cannot do without the assistance of the United States. The Genoa conference failed because the Russian nut was too hard to crack, but, realizing that it must be done before the world’s commercial vitality can be restored, European statesmen are going to attempt the feat again at The Hague, hoping against hope teat this time America will join with them. President Harding makes the point that a revival of American industry Is largely dependent upon commerce, yet this cannot be brought about until the world is in a buying mood. And it will not be In a buying mood until the menace of a militant and truculent Bolshevism is removed through the good agencies of international amicability and Europe Is permitted to turn its thoughts from aggression and revenge to rehabilitation of its economic resources. The purchasing power of Europe must be restored, and when it is American enterprise will find there a fruitful market. The United States must In time come to the realization that the European mess is not so much political as it is economic. Hording and'the Steel Industry If the steel barons accept the good advice of President Harding and banish the twelve-hour working day in the industries which they control, a big battle in behalf of labor will have been won. The President suggested the abolition of the long working periods at the first of a series of conferences he is expected to hold with different business groups, and while the steel manufacturers did not subscribe literally to the executive's views they agreed in principle. The adoption of shorter hours by this method would mark anew departure in the relations between labor and capital. The steel industry has adhered the twelve-hour day and even weathered a strike a few years ago without receding from Its policy of exacting long hours of labor from its employes. If the Harding suggestion is carried out, it will demonstrate forcibly the futility of strikes and the efficacy of mediation, especially by a third and uninterested party, such as the President should be. The trend in American industrial circles for years has been toward the eight-hour day, and it has been adpoted widely. The steel industry has been one of the largest employers, however, that has stood out against granting reasonable hours to its employes, and if it now subscribes, as is indicated, to the President's appeal it will mark anew era in American industry. One Memorial Day There is nothing more fitting, nor more aptly illustrative of the pure American spirit, than the proposal of the American Legion to assume the trust of caring for the graves of the Union and Confederate soldiers and, of course, those who fell in th eWorld War and the other conflicts in which Americans paid the supreme sacrifice, in thus embracing those who wore the Blue and those who wore the Gray, the legion demonstrates that the Mason and Dixon line is no more and that those who once were foes are now- soldiers of the United States. "Why not let us have just one national Memorial Dy for the decoration of America’s soldiers?” is another proposal In the legion’s letter that merits thoughtful attention. “Our membership is comprised of the sons and, largely, grandsons of Confederate veterans and Union veterans. It la composed of your children and your children’s children; we belong to yon and you belong to us. The glory and the heroism that you wrought Is onr priceless heritage.” This proposal from the young men who also served should come as comforting news to the veterans whose ranis are steadily thinning. Year after year they have been wont to gather to\ay tribute to those who have, “taps,” and tt should bring joy to 6jtai to know that when they ' have passed on their glorious work will not boydropped.

i) LOUIS JOSEPH

To forget the bitter troubles of her domestic life, LUCINDA DRUCB accepts the Invitation of her friend, FANNY LONTAINE, a school girl chum, to visit with her English husband, HARRY, the film studio pf the famous ■ screen star, ALMA DALEY'. Fanny explains that Harry hopes to form a moving picture company In California. On the trip to the studio In Ninth avenue, Lucinda muses over the break with her husband, ' BELLAMY'. Wealth, youth, beauty, had failed to bring happiness to their Fifth avenue home after five years of married life. Heavy drinking and an Insatiable appetite for promiscuous flirtation had been the means by which he destroyed her early love for him. And now RICHARD DAUBKNEY, her old sweetheart. bad returned to New York. The trip to the studio would give her a chance to forget. CHAPTER Vlif—Continued. Stage, as the layman understands that term, there was none; but the floor space as a whole was rather elaborately cluttered with what Lucinda was to learn were technically known as “.sets,” In various stages of completion and demolition; a set being anything set up to be photographed, from a single “side" or “flat'' with a simple window or door, or sn “angle’’ former of two such sides Joined to show the corner of a room, up to the solid and pretentions piece of construction which occupied fully one-half of the left and reproduced the Palm room at the Rltz-Carlton. At the far end of the room a substantial set represented a livingroom, a good part of it was masked from Lucinda's view by a number of massive bait portable metal acreens or stands arranged In two converging ranks, at whose apex stood a heavy tripod supporting a small

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HE LIVES In a house. * • t WITH A lot of ground. • • • AND A low stone wall. • • • AROUND IT all. • • • AND HE'S very old. • • • AND VERY rich. • • • AND I’VE been told. • • • THAT YEARS ago. • • • BEFORE AGE came. • * • THEY KNEW him. • • • IN THE business world. • • • AS VERY stern. • • • AND VERY crael. • • • AND IN his age. • • • THEY TELL mo, too. • • • HE WANTS no friends. ... EXCEPT THE grounds. • * HE WANDERS through . • • • AND HOW I learned. * • • OF THIS strange man. • * • WAS THROUGH a child. • • • WHO TOLD me. • • • THAT HER mother said. * • • THAT HE was “queer." • • • AND SO It Is. • • • THAT WHEN I pass. • • • I LOOK for him. AND YESTERDAY.* * • • • I SAW him there. * • • AND WAS convinced. • • • THAT HE was “queer.” • • • FOB HE walked about. • • • WITH A ball of twine. • • • •AND A pair of scissors. • • • AND CLIPPED short pieces. • * • FROM THE twine. • • • AND LET them fall. • t e UPON THE grass. • • • AND STANDINO there. • • e WITHIN THE shadow. • • • OF A tree. • e e I WATCHED. • e e AND SAW a bird. • • • COME FLUTTERING down. • • • RIGHT ON his trail. • • • AND GATHER up. • * A FULL bird’s load. • * • OF BITS of twine. • • • AND FLY away. • • AND SAW him smile. • * • AND WATCH Its flight. • • * AND I am sure. * • • HE DOESN'T care. • • • THAT OUTSIDE. • • • OF THE low stone wall. • • • THEY THINK him “queer." * • * I THANK you.

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black box. To these stands lines of insulated cable wandered over the floor from every quarter of the room. An atmosphere of apathy pervaded the place, as If nothing of moment was happening or expected to happen. An effect to which considerable contribution was made by the lugubrious strains of a three-piece orchestra, piano, violin, and ’cello, stationed to one side of the livingroom set This trio Intrigued Lucinda’s Interest Its presence seemed unaccountable, but not more so than its rendition of plaintive melodies, tunes which one more familiar with the cant of the theater would unhesitatingly have classified as “sob stuff.” Guided by Mr. Lane, the exotics gingerly picked their way across the colls of electric cable that ran In snaky confusion all over the floor, like exposed viscera of the cinema; and Lucinda presently found herself on the side lines of the liv-ing-room, between It and the dogged orchestra, and well out of range of the camera. She could now see three people on the set, two men with a girl whom, thanks to the wide circulation of the lady's photographs, she had no difficulty In identifying as Alma Daley herself —a prepossessing young person with bobbed hair, a boldly featured face, comely In the flesh rather than pretty, nnd a slight little body which she used with a rather fetching effect of youthful gaucherle. Os these one was tall and dark, with a thick shock of wavy black hair, a wide and mobile mouth, and greut, melancholy eyes. His well-tailored morning coat displayed to admiration a splendid torso. The other was a smaller, indeed an undersized man, who wore a braided smoking-jacket but no paint on his pinched, weatherworn face of an actor. “King Laughlin," Mr. Culp's secretary Informed Lucinda -“man In the smokingjacket. he always wears one when he's working- greatest emotional director In the business, nobody can touch him. Why, alongside him, Griffith's a Joke in a back number of Judge. Y'ou wouldn't guess what he gets: thirty-five hun and red.” “That's almost a, thousand a week. Isn’t It?” “Thousand a week!” In accents of some compassion he corrected: “Three thousand five hundred every week's what King Laughlin drags down In the little old pay envelope. But that's Mr. Culp ail s/ver. expense's no object when he's making an Alma Daley picture, nothing's too good.” “I’n sure ** •” Lucinda agreed vaguely. Out of the corner of an ere the director had become aware of anew audience and one worthy of his mettle. Dropping the easy, seml-confldentlal manner, Mr. King Laughlin snatched a silk hat and stick from the other's unresisting hands. “Right O, Tommy 1" he said In the nasal voice of the English Midlands. “Just to make sure I'll walk through It with Alma” He turned graclouily to the woman: “Now, Alma, dear • • •” Miss Daley, herself not unconscious of a fashionable gallery, shrugged slightly to signify that she didn't mind If Mr. Laughlin thought It really worth while, and made a leisurely exit from the set. At the same tine Mr. Longhlln wnlked j off by a door approximately opposite. | nnd the young man In the morning coat ; strolled down to th front of the set and settled hltnself to observe and absorb ths Impending lessen. She Caught Hold of the Edge of the Tablo and Fulled Herself Up. Mr. Laughlin then rs-entered In character aa a degago gentleman with an uneasy conscience, Indicating tbla last by stealth.ly opening and peering round the edge of the door before coming in and closii g It with caution, and his gentility by holding hat and stick In one hand and carelessly trailing the ferrule of the stick behind him. Relieved to find the room untenanted, he moved up to the table, placed the hat on it crown-down, propped tho stick agnlnst It, turned and gave the door In tho right-hand wall a hard look, then bent over the table and pulled out anil began to ransack one of Its drawers. Thus engaged, ho said clearly; “All right, Alma!” and immediately gave a start, whereby It appeared that he had heard footfalls off, and slammed tho drawer. At this Miss Daley entered, a listless little figure so preoccupied with secret woe that she quite failed at first to see •Mr. Laughlin, anil when she did, gave a start even more violent than his had been, clasping both hands to her bosom and crying out in a thrilling voice: “Egbett!” Mr. Laughlin kept his temper admirably under the sting of this epithet; all the same, any one could see he didn't fancy It a bit. However, first and always a gentleman, he offered Miss Daley a magnanimous gesture of outstretched hands. Instantly the poor girl's face brightened with a Joyous smile, a happy i

crjr trembled upon ber lips as she ran to bis arms. He enfolded her with a fond hand ground her features Into the shoulders of his smoking Jacket, and turned bis own toward the camera, working them into a cast of bitter anguish. Gently rescuing herself. Miss Daley discovered Egbert’s hat and stick, turned to him and looked blm up and down with damning horror, audibly protesting: “But, Egbert! you are going out!" He attempted a disclaimer, but the evidence of the top hat aud the smoking jacket was too damning; and in the end he had to give In and admit that, well, yea, he was going out, and what of It. Evidently Miss Daley knew any number of reasons why he ought to stay In, but she made the grave mistake of trying to hold him with affection’s bonds, throwing herself upon his neck and winding her arms tightly round It. And that was too much; Egbert made it cleat that, while he’d atand for a lot from a woman to whom he was Everything, there was such a thing as piling It on too thick. And, against her frenzied resistance, he grasped her frail young wrists, brutally broke her embrace, and flung her from him. She fell against the table, threw back her head to show the pretty lines of her throat, clutched convulsively at her collar-bone, and subsided upon the floor In a fit of heartbroken subbing; while Egbert callously took his hat, clapped It on bis head, and marched out by a door in the rear wall, his dignity but slightly Impaired by the fate that the hat was several sizes too large and would have extinguished him completely If It hadn't been for his noble ears. Without pause Mr. Laughlin doubled round to the front of the set, threw tbs waiting actor a brusque “See, Tommy? Get what I mean?” and encouraged Miss Daley with “That's wonderful. Alma dear. Now go on, right through the scene." Miss Daley, lying In complete collapse, 1 with her head to the camera, writhed up on an elbow, planted her hands upon the floor aud by main strength pushed her heaving shoulders away from It, keeping :

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a tortured face turned to tKe camera tbrougbout, Then she got her second wind, caught hold of the edge of the ! table, palled herself up, looked round wildly, realized that she was a deserted woman, saw her hat by Tappe hanging on the back of a morris chair by Ludwig Baumann, seized it, rushed to the door by which Egbert had escaped; and threw herself out in pursuit. I Mr. Laughlin clapped gleefnl hands. “Fine, Alma, wonderful! You’re sim- ' ply marvelous today, dear. Now, Tommy run through it just once with Alma and then we’ll shoot.” Mr. Lane bustled about and found j chairs for Lucinda and ber friends, upon > which they composed themselves to watch ! Tommy Interpret Mr. King Laughlin’s tuition in the art of acting for the screen. To the best of Lucinda's Judgment, however, the greater part of Mr. Laughlin’s efforts bad meant to Tommy precisely nothing at all. Beyond the rudimentary mechanics of the physical action sketched In by the director. Tommy made no perceptible attempt to follow bis pattern, and disregarding entirely its conventional but effective business, embellished the scene Instead with business which was, such as it was, all his own, or more accurately that of a dead era of the speaking stage. And when Mr. Laughlin tranquilly approved this performance and anouneed that they would forthwith “shoot it,” Lucinda began to wonder if there were possibly something wrong with her own powers of observation. “But,” she protested to Mr. Lane, “he didn’t play the scene as Mr. Laughlin did.” (Continued In Our Next Issue.) Boy Scouts Serve as Officials for Hour SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 20.—Springfield's mayor and four city commissioners are to be ousted from office on May 4 for one hour. During that hour Boy Scouts chosen at an election held by their ! post will have complete charge of the city | government. Scouts will be appointed to j relieve traffic cops for that day.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

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Porter on Dining Car Grows Rich From Tips CHICAGO, May 20.—Tips, whetbes monetary or informative, always were *©• ceptable to William Taylor Johnson ol this city during his twenty years’ service on a case club car of the Chicago, Mil* waukee & St. Paul Railroad. Asa result, John’s reputed wealth to. day Is SIOO,OOO. Johnson’s principal holding is a thirty* Six acre farm at Anoka, Minn., twenty miles north of Minneapolis. Here he has' installed th° latest methods In scientific farming and has never known a failure. Despite the responsibilities of this venture, Johnson still remains In the service of the road and the dining car which gave him his start. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Behold the tabernacle of God Is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they ahull be His people: and God Himself ahsM be with them, and be their God.—Revelation 21:3. Earth’s crammed with heaven. And every common Lush aflame with God: But only those who see take off their shoes. The rest sit round it and eat blackberries. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. AWNINGS Indianapolis Tent & Awning Cos. 447-449 ILWash. St

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