Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1922 — Page 4

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Jwitiarra Sails (Times Published at 25-29 South Meridian stree t. Indianapolis, Ind., by The Indiana Daily Time s Company. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. ... New York. Roston, Payme, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices. Chicago. Detroit, St. I.ouls, G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Rates: Indianapolis, 10c per week: elsewhere. 12c per week .. Bec-d C., DR. SUN has refused to resign, perhaps thinking that he will rise again. A GEORGIA man was a member of a jury that granted his wire a divorce That made it unanimous. BOSTON has a “temerarious” heat Any other town would have said that the weather was as hot as . A CINCINNATI gunman has been sentenced to death for slaying a detective. Ohio juries prize their policemen highly. Romances in Filrndom Til": 0, n Bar,. Rodolt VaJ^no. Man- Plckford. Marshall Neilan, Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Moore. Pauline £ede"fand man. her, have placed .Mr name, on lb. license. Many of these marriages represented very short courtshlpe. Marriage bureaus are compelled to step in the background and allow the screen studio to take first rank in match-making. Most motion picture players nearly always marry persons in their own profession. Where lies the secret of the film studio's success in a matrimonial way? Is it propinquity? Perhaps. But, we should say, there are many social clübs However, more time is given to recreational sports and paUjn *“ motion Picture life than in regular social life. Even though men of other nrofessions be wealthy, much of their time is spent at their business offices and when they are not there they are either thinking about business or have become so set and serious from business strain that they are not time to keeping himself fresh and trlmjor hls work before the screen and really practices love-makmg as an art-and practice makes perfect, according to the old proverb. It Is probably just Lelsyforan actor to make love in reality as it is before the camera. Both actors and actresses frequently indulge in all the various grace producing sports which are a necessary part of their profession an which they are at their best-the romantic atmosphere of -he canoe, tennis court, golf links, bathing beach, ballroom, bridle path, etc., has a tendency to suggest loving companionship. As love and marriage is the thought embodied in most of the pla.. in which the actors perform, they become accustomed to love-making. It Is part of their profession. Mayors of cities who have conducted unsuccessful matrimonial burea may find that an amateur film studio would solve the problem. A Growing Menace The Indiana State board of charities has the names of laS.ono persons who are or have been in the last thirty-one years inmates of State charitable or correctional institutions. Practically every one of the persons so indexed has suffered from mental disorders and constitutes one or the biggest problems confronting the State today. “More than half of the inmates of our county poor asylums are mental defectives,” savs Amos W. Butler, secretary of the board of charities. “They wander about at will. Usually present in large numbers in the winter months, thev leave when spring comes, and roam about the counrty, satisfied with whatever offers shelter-an old hut or sometimes a rail BuUer goes . on tQ Fhow that because the State Schoc* Tor Feeble-Minded Youth is crowded, the orphans' homes are filling with children who cannot be placed with foster parents. He shows that many of the State’s prisoners are feeble-minded and asserts that mental derecs is good soil in which to develop crime. After showing how feeble-minded persons, left without supervision have reproduced scores of mentally defective descendants doomed to be wards of the State, Mr. Butler takes the public to account for the indifference it has displayed toward this important problem. “One could fill a book with these Indiana stories of misery an degradation, of sin and suffering and crime, of public ignorance, indifference and neglect. And they.could be duplicated in every State in the Union. Everywhere our people have failed to realize what was happening and these weaker children of the land have grown incredibly ctrcng n numbers and in power for evil. More than once I have taken occasion to say that .feeble-mindedness is’ one of the most potential destructive factors in our civilization. It produces more pauperism, more crime, mere degeneracy than any other one force. It is a fact we have to race, a con •lition we have to meet, a power we must keep under.” It is plainly a situation that could at least be alleviated and placed on its way to solution by intelligent legislative consideration. Mr. Butler’s statement should give the candidates for the Legislature abundant food for thought. Making Crossings Safer The Hoosier Motor Club, in calling the attention of authorities to crossings made dangerous by obscuring vegetation, has undertaken a worx that should commend itself to autoists. There are hundreds of crossings in Indiana that become potential death traps in the summer time through the rapid growth of shrubbery, crops or weeds and in far too many instances the authorities charged with enforcing the 1 tve either do not see them or fail to look for them. The club, in seeking out these dangerous corners and in bringing them to the attention of the proper authorities, is acting in accordance with its past work—that of making the highways easier and safer to travel. The last Legislature enacted a law giving local authorities the power to see that all live fences along roadways are trimmed so that crossings are not obstructed. If the owner does not have the work done, upon representation of the proper officials, the labor of removing the obstructions can be charged to him if done by the township, city or county authorities. The club makes it clear, also, that in undertaking this duty it is not paving the way for unnecessary speeding in the country, and points out it will continue its campaign of warning drivers to use the utmost caution in driving and to maintain a regard for the rights of others on the roads. n "trying Business Mistakes Picture a funeral passing your house with 38,000 hearses, each hearse containing an American business firm. That gives you an accurate idea of the number of business failures since prices began to tumble 'n May, 1920. But all is not gloom. Standing thoughtfully on the curbstones, watching their deceased brethren going to Dun & Bradstreet’s cemetery, are nearly 2,000,000 business organizations that have weathered the storm without sinking. In two years of very severe depression, only one business in each fifty-three has failed In a flash this illustrates tne great underlying strength of our business organization, the Gibraltar tnat cannot be toppled by any storm. As usual, of course, attention centers on the ships that sink. Ships that weather the storm are ignored. Thus the financial ocean, like tno Seven Seas, gets a worse reputation than it really deserves. In May, only 1,960 failures. Many will snort and wonder why the “only.” If they turn back four months, they find 2,723 failures in January. Steadily the storm subsides. Observing this, young blood desires to put to sea—to try its hand. So. in May, 954 new companies were incorporated in the principal States, with capital of SIOO,OO or more apiece. Thousands of smaller ones also ventured forth. They are the rowboats How much did they fail for? That is the important question. Failtires during the depression that now is nearing its end have naa total liabilities or debts at the rate of about $600,000,000 a year. Assets have averaged enough to pay about fifty cents on the dollar. The total or net loss, due to failures, has been running around $300,000,000 a year—or about $3 a year for each American. That, after all, is not sucb a big price to pay for getting out of the woods.

OUR MARY FORSAKES SWEET SIXTEEN ROLES Clara Kimball Young Runs a Charge Account — Mr. Jones on View Again

Bring on the arsenic, yon villain. But be careful, Mr. Villain, if our Mary Miles Minter is near the deadly scene. This is just my way of telling you that Mary Miles Minter has given up her M gushing sweet sixteen type of a role and has gono In for tho ••heavier" sort of stuff. This is apparent in her latest movie “The Heart Specialist." I have confessed before that I eni* ~ J°y thrilling 4 ' /' mclodrnma. And JV ' " if >'°u need a Jfff f: A* - quiekenlng of the I f ■i > pulse and you doH s, re to fool your f M heart go pltrorpatter, then drop, into the Ohio Theater any time this week and see Mary wreck the plans of Dr. Thotnas Fitch, a character in the story, to poison by arsenic our hero. Bob Stratton. Bob | nearly eats a temptiug steak which has been “dusted" with powdered arsenic and while he la contemplating eating the steak Mary is trying to escape from a deep well. Oh, I tell j-on, It is a grand and glorious feeling to see Mary pull herself from the well to arrive on time to prevent our hero from eating a steak which would plunge him into eternal sleep. Now, you will probably whisper to yourself that this Is Just "mellerdramer,” and to be Bure It Is, but it Is mighty Interesting at that. 1 don’t know If the movie producer has heard Rbout the famous arsenic poison case recenlly heard In tho Shelbyvillo Circuit Court, but this movie does shed some light on the method used In admilsterlng arsenic. But as this D a regular melodramatic story, tho villain goes to tho happy hunting ground Instead of the hero. Maybe the story of “Tha Heart Specialist" appeals to me because the chief figure is a newspaper woman who makes a bet with her editor that she can go forty miles in any direction and find romance. Mary is the newspaper woman and she certainly runs Into a bunch of romance and a mean old Dr. Thomas Fitch, who !

I Ye TOWNE GOSSIP i Copyright. It!!, by Star Company. liy K. C. B -

Dear K C. B.—What words of comfort can you give a traveling man live weeks away from home - who. in looking for a mate to a sock, picks out from the assortment in his bag a brown stocking, a trifio longer than the ordinary so 1;, but several Inches shorter la the foot, and with marks at the top where a little gar'er had clung to it? Is it proper for a drummer to get mushy like this, even In the privacy of his room? A PEDDLER. Mr DEAR Bill. • • • I SHOVED say. • • IF TOl' nifist get mushy • • • IT’S VEKT much tf-trer. • • • TO GET that way. • • • rr IN your room. • • • TUAN IN some store. • • • WHERE YOU’RE selling gods. • • • OR ON tb# st reet. • i AND I’D further sn*'. 000 THAT IT’S my belief. • • • THAT EVERY man. • * • WHO n.AS mushy spells • • • IS A better man. • • • THAN THE hard boiled egg. • • • WHO rRIDES himself. THAT HE'S hard clear throe._ AND SO I'm glad. THAT WHEN you searched. • • • FOR THE Other sock. • • • vor SIIOVLD have found. • • DEEP IN your bag • • • A VISION. • • • or THE boy or girl. • • • TOC LEFT at home. • • • I’M GLAD for you. • • • THAT IT was there • • • AND CD ask of you. • • • IN FAIR return. • * • THAT YOU toll me. • • * WHAT WORDS comfort. 000 VOU COt'I.I) give. * • • UNTO A man. • • • WHO NEVER saw. • • • DEEP IN his hag. • • • OR ANYWHERE. • • • A VISION. • • t OF A little child. 0 0 0 THAT HE could know. • * • WAS AIX hlg own. 0 0 0 l THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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enjoys studying and administering poison. Am not going to tell you any more of the story. It is full of surprises. An yon are going to like Mary Miles Minter In a grown up role. The cast Is as follows: Rosalia Beckwith, a romance writer Mary Miles Minter Itob Stratton, her sweetheart Allen Forrest Winston Gates Roy Atwell City Editor Jack Matheis l>r. Thomas Fitch Noah Beery Fernald James Neill Grace Fitch Carmen Phillips If you are looking for a thrill and enjoy seeing good acting and splendid photography, then "The Heart Specialist” fills the bill. At the Ohio all week.—W. D, 11.

ISN’T THE UMBRELLA PRETTY?

MIRIAM COOPER A XU CONWAY TEARLE.

An umbrella may not be necessary t o an effective love scene, but It sure does help to make the picture a'pretty one. Anyway. Miriam uses the umbrella to advantage in her latest movie, "The O ath,” now on view at Mister Smith’s. The movie was made from a story. "Idols.” by William J. Locke. Mr. Locke Is quite a person in the literary world. The bill 1 neludes Buster Keaton In "t ops.”

OLD FASHIONED 1,01 E is bent kino of i.o\ r: (in ttie stage "The liosary" did not appeal -■> me That I admit. The same Is truo - lth the screen ver'l his kind of melodrama does not ap peal to me and never has, but there arc many wh > enjoy emotional melodrama i ~i led before a religious background. I ha>- i." fault to find with those who i 1... this kind of ente.'tw'.nmeiit. If this Sort of eub rtaiiliueiit does not appeal to mo. that is m> reason It wll not int"rest and enthuse countless thousands. I am handling ;b.* play strictly upon u in.’."dr mint •• bus, and upon nothing eiso. n- niov:„ version I take it. n faithful id.ipt ’oh of tie* stage v. T i.<-r- a!••• • - • - whidi are dragged out to,, intiefi in length. a.-h as the will [••ii i.:, vne t.-.t the dire. Lion upon tier whole ' go.-I. The cart Is satisfactory ■ -;■•■• • v the work of Lewis S N! ire as Father Brian Kelly. Bert Wood utT is magnificent m ('apt Caleb Mother. m T. scenes showing the blowing up of th.-. cannery (ire well handled. T i ,• east Is ns follow - : Father Brian Kelly Lewis S Stone Vera Mather In no Novak Kenwood Wright Wallace l'-ry Brae*. Wi’ton Robert Gordon WiduM Kathleen Wilton Hue:.:,' 80-, erer js : Abrabu.mion I tore Davidson ] ioi, M , Tin -It I'luii'Toy 'unnon ... i b M . the.- I’.e-t Woodruff A\\ ijton Mildred June [n'.teeters Martin Harold Goodwin •The Rosary” remains on view at Loew s Slat.- all week Be your own Judge ..n this type of on ti Tenement. -W. I > II JMU JONES IS VG AIN W I 1 II t s. Say, girls, what would you do If a fed low- on looking at you f. r the first time should remark, "L’m going to marry YOU V” That is what Mr Charles Jones, for uteriv known as ‘Back" .tones, tells ft girl in "W estern Speed, a feature movie now on vi.w at the !-.a. . The girl m the movie runs him off the place with a shotgun. •‘Western Speed" is much like other We-uern stories. Thorn are present the

Unusual Folk

BYKACI'SE. N. Y. t June 12.—Miss Ag ties E Campbell ha* specialized ns a Sunday school teacher with the snm* degree of thoroughness that a teacher tn W&M hlnl,|r ' B fu r educ.-i tion.'ii work. She )S theologians say (here „ . | are very few students \ ns familiar with Bibio i J In fourteen years x there bus been only "i one week during * / which M.ss Campbell .Mis- ( iiiiiptieU. looked on account of an epidemic. Slio bolds both a gold bar And a star for different periods of atteniia nee. Miss Campbell, whose homo Is at Walton. N Y , is a junior in the Syracuse 1 Diversity college of business' administration.

cowboys, the sheriff, the gambler, the falsely accused father, the fight on the cliffs of the mountains and the saloon fight. HoweTer, there Is one thing different and that Is the girl who runs the hero off the place with a shotgun when he tells her that he la going to marry her. But onr noro Is persistent and gets himself into all sorts of trouble for her sake. Os course the poor girl is too happy to marry him just as the story closes. Jones keeps one Interested in the picture by his speedy work as the name of the picture Is lived up to. An added feature to the Tsis bill is Ben Turpin In “Step Forward," Turpin has the role of a street car conductor and gets into all sort of trouble with the passen-

gers. There are plenty of "cross eyed laughs" to this picture. At the Isis all week. • L - 1 - IT IN EASY TO NAY “CHARGE IT.” “Charge ft.” the current attraction at the Apollo Theater, will drive home a lesson to many women who find It ea-y to say "Charge It." while out shopping. The story concerns Julia Lawrence, a beautiful woman, whom her hualuci be t.3 home life w.a m3 B money and the H lng It, running Ijfj! - fl counts until he £■ / ■ was forced to put “pouts” Slid on(hini Kirnbiitl Yonnc ti.m with an Idler who finds it safe and profitable t . make lore to married women. There is a i(unrr. ! and the husband tolls h's wife if she leaves It li for good. Then Julia goes to tSc idler's home and finds out the true side of his char a*ter. Finally, of necessity, she seeks employment, and after working several places winds up as a checkroom girl of a hotel. Here tho husband finds her. but not until a bntler has exonerated her of any blame In connection with the Idh r She is ready to say "yes” when her husband a-ks her, "Will you take your old Job hack?” Clara Kimball Young heads the capable cast, which includes Herbert Uawdinson. Edward M. Kimball. Betty Blvthe, Nigel Barrie Ha! Wilson and others If is a pleasing Clara Kimball Voting picture. At the Apollo all week. ON THE 8T \GE. "Our Little Wife,” with John Wray, opens tonight for a week's engagement ; at the Murat. Sternad’s Midgets Is the featured of- 1 fcrlng an the new bill at B- F, Keith's. Belle Oliver, an Indianapolis actress, !s heading the n-w bill at the Lyric In , “One On! Dixie Revue ” Bland, billed as an hvpnottst, 1s an added attraction on the bill at the Rialto. | ‘•Antonio,” a Comedy, will be th of- j sering this week, beginning tonight, of the Municipal Flayers at Brnokslde Park, j

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Opem Id* eye*, that ho may sec—2 Rings ?-. Nine things to sight required are: The power to see, tfio light, the visible thing. Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; Space clear, and time, the form distinct to bring. —Sir John Davies. STRANGLER CONVICTED. RRtXTON. England. June 12.—Anthony Castor, castoff son of a wealthy man. was convicted of strangling Miss Lily Othoo to death with her own silk stocking.

2L>firwfe C/TKJ By FRED MYERS. SYMPATHETIC, An nnscrupuloua person defrauded the gas company and telephone company of SIOO each by a clever ‘'change” ruse.— News Item. It took throe men to hold him! Hysterically he sobbed. Because a neighbor told him Tho gas comyuny was robbed. Six men could not subdue him When It happened to "The Bell.” So they took him off and threw him Into a padded cell!

WHADDYSEE

C. A. B. saw a policeman at lUlnils and Maryland streets, spit on tho sidewalk. M. J. V. saw a man knocked over by a speeding automobile and beard someone exclaim, “Uh, ha muet be drunk!” 1 O. G. F. saw a negro, standing In a crowded street car In front of three seated flappers, shower them with cracker : crumbs when he Jerked his handkerchief from his pocket. ... THOI'GIITH WHILE SNOOPING A KOI NO INDIANAPOLIS. Radio trying heroically to compel, i with chap hallyhooing o>r surefire corn | cradlcator. M.v dime goes on the corn ! cradlcator guy. Meredith Nicholson ! taking the air. He once said he thought ' inv stuff was generally fair. If I'd cut out Our Own Hall of Fame. Like asking an undertaker to give up hi? crepe. Henry K. Burton gas charioting In his snappy new tins. Taxi driver calls a corner cop a hlg sap and gets away with it. Atta boy! Believe I'll go down and practice "The Sheik" on Low Shank's steam calliope. Ah' The charming O'Connell sis'.ers. than whom there are none charrnInger unless It be each than the other! Hope they rend my stuff. Man drwsse* In n Confederate uniform carrying a battle flag. Wonder If he's got change for a Confederate S2O bill. Wouldn't he surprised If it didn't rain. Ooh! Therj's Rudy Vat in anew super-production. Thank Gawd; It isn't compulsory! Wonder why all us boys hate Rudolph so enthusiastically. This day I have Inherited the Whadda V See editor's burden. Well, the fust, thing Is to put that apostrophe in "Y” where !t belongs, on, hum! Time to quit snooping! EUIOKN FROM THE BEAN BLOSSOM BIBLE. Miss Samantha Putter galoshed to the post off let* Saturday. Little Benny Wilier*, who got anew watch for bis birthday, says the sun -<-t fifteen minutes late Tuesday evening. Miss Sally Hopkins says she has a peculiar foiling in her midst which sh ■• blames on spring and a young man's fancy. The Rev. I'll Waller’s little daughter. Mamie, has eh -trl.-ity In to r hair and hi r grandma has gas on her stomach. Hoc Murphy say* he never saw a family so lit Up before. SCOOP. A. E. SOCIETY PULL THRILLING RAID ON CLUB Young Cake Hound Dealt With Summarily for Serving. LEFT TURN IS FLUKE The Anti Everything Society for the Suppression of Joy, led by the estimable Brother Hrysork*. raided the Club for Feebleminded Woublbethin Men. this morning at daybreak and, with an adroitly telling blow from their new forty kilometer Tee strainer, destroyed one of the most dangerous "still life" tee parties menacing our (yet our not) country. I’hcn. with soup Yr human agility the society hopped over to the adjacent tennis court In time to at rest a depraved young blackguard In the very act ol' serving; he tried to destroy tho evidence but, unlike tile ostrich, he failed n! the turn adjoining tha Adam's noble The A. E. Society was presented with a beautiful Soapstone Syrup Pitcher by the Brotherhood of Heroic Hlphoundtng Hawkers in u body * • • 1. n. the body will bo used for research purposes in discovering !he truth or falsity of the Darwin and Volstead theories. ♦ • • THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF TOl till NESS. Sir; I extracted a couple of hehs from this. Try your luck! Abraham Lincoln Jones, colored, was in indignant controversy with Washington Scott, also colored. The dice had been turning up in favor of the chocolate-tinged Washington, and n faint suspicion of fraud began to dawn upon Jones. "Look heah. you niggah,” he blurted out. "deni things got to tuhn dlffnt or day's goin' to be a big fuss ruin' heah. "Fuss?” Man fuss? Wa't kino of fuss yo' kulkiinte startin'? Know who 1 am? Down in Looville dey call me Wood Alcohol, I'se so tough.” “Wood Alcohol! Dat ain't no natno fo’ yu'," rejoined Atraham. "Why. down Nashville, whah I come from, dev'd call yo' Sweet Cldah.” M.V R.TTH, (Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers).

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Highways and By-Ways of Lil’ Ol’ New York By RAYMOND CARROLL • ' (Copyright, 1822, by PobUc Lodgar Company.) ■

NEW YORK, June 12.—Up-to-date figures obtained at the headquarters of the hotel association of New York City reveal there are about two hundred hotels In the big town, divided into three classes: Transient, semi-transient and residential. About seventy-five are residential. The aggregate room capacity is 70,000 —or sufficient to accommodate from 120,000 to 130,0<X1 guests. The largest hotel Is the Pennsylvania, with 2,200 rooms, while to belong to the hotel association the proprietor of a hotel must operate at least fifty rooms. There are 113 hotels represented in the association. Hotels with less than fifty rooms are not represented in the hotel association, nor are the boarding houses. Included In the hotels that do belong are four hotel chains: Bowman group— Blltmore, Commodore, Murray Hill and Ausonia; Boomer group—Waldorf, McAlpin, Clarldge, Woodstock and Martinique; Manger group—Netherlands. Great Northern. Grand. Navarre. Cumberland, Endicoft and Martha Washington; Knott group—Albert. Berkeley. Earle, Holly, Judson, Le Marquis, Wei llngton and Van Rensselaer. To be a “chain” one must operate more than two hotels, there beings number of men who nave only two hotels. The high and mighty attitude of the New York hotel men appears to have begun some fifteen years ago with the charging for bread and butter, the trail blazer being James Reagan at the Hotel Knickerbocker; curious to relate, Mr. Reagan lias since retired from “hoteling" and the Knickerbocker is now an office building. Several of the “chain" groups maintain house organs and have expensive liusiness-getting departments, all of which Is paid for by the hotel guests. Years ago the theatrical kings discovered the people who kept amusements going were the great middle classes, who occupied the orchestra and the galleries and not the smart set who took the boxes. I have In mind an instance where a prominent society woman was asked to leave a theater because of the r.olse her party was making In the two lower boxes ■••as disturbing the common-people in tha i r ’hestra. In these days the fashionables were always found In the boxes. In a towering rage next day she called upon the owner of the attraction and the lessee of the theater. lie listened quietly to her complaint and then replied; I am s'rry. madam, but as far as 1 am concerned the box°s can remain empty —inv money comes from the rest of the house." Not a'i the strangers who visit New York ar • millionaires. In fa-’t, thousands are buyers. limited as to expenses. Thousands of the sightseers are equally ordinary In th.* sense of looking after the pennies. With one breath the New York hotel men jre crying up the advantages of a holiday spent in the metropolis, and with their next breath they are doing that which will keep thousands away this summer. And then they seem to have forgotten a population of ‘ 0.000.000" at their very doors, a large proportion of which would enter and c:it if the food prices were right. People with “one-way" po kets arc getting their money’s worth when seated in orchestra chairs at some of the New York theaters. Down the center of the

Don’t Give a Hang, Says Shank SPEAKIXG OF WOME.X’S KMCKERS Police Chief Has Same Opinion

BY NORA KAY. Said the mayor of Traverse City. Mich., to the women of his town. ' I won't stand f'>r any kn!< kerboekers being worn around hero while I'iu mayor!" And forthwith the women organized n parade, stormed the rity hall and slowed the mayor there were limits to even a mayor’s authority. Whether Mayor Shank heard of the feminine rebellion and profited thereby is not known, bnt when he was questiote.-d by a feminine inquirer as to what he intended to do in regard to the new type of apwrel appearing more and no re frequently on the stn ts of Indianapolis, he answered, with the wisdom id Solomon, "1 don't give a hang what the women wear!” "Why, I wouldn't even try to tell my wife what she could- or couldn't wear,” he continued. "of course. I wouldn't want Sarah to take to knickers, but if she decided to do so, 1 would have hotter sense than to tell her she couldn't wear 'em," the mayor said. "And I can t conscientiously say I object to other men s wives wearing them, either, though 1 don’t see quite what the women see in them. They are a lot more modest than some of the short skirts ami low cut waists that have been shocking us poor men for the last few years. “As .a matter of fact, If these scandalized men would only admit It. none of them are as shocked ns they want their wives to think they arc. When a short skirt or a pair of knickers goes down the street, the mitti nearly get crossed eyes trying to see it and yet be sure no one sees them looking," Mayor Shank declared.

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-JUNE 12,1922.

lower floor of the Winter Garden Is a runway, from which pretty chorus girli toss cakes of real ‘‘Eskimo pie," Not still gy samples to a few favored ones bnt enough for nearly the entire audience. Later In the same show over the footlights a Spanish girl throws away several dozen roses, and to cap the climax Eddie Cantor, the comedian of the attraction, came down the runway In the last act with a bunch of bananas and gives them out with a prodigal hand. I saw a fashionably dressed woman ride away from the theater 1 na limousine eating one of Eddie's bananas. In Loew s .State Theater comedy and vaudeville and picture house last week one of the singers flung real apples at the audience. They were good eating, too. At the New Amsterdam Theater, where the Ziesfeld Follies is playing, a glass of free orangeade can be had for the asking, and each member of the audience is provided with an artistic fan which holds in its embrace Billy Burke's latest picture. These fana are a costly item to the theater and Co<> to 1,000 fans a night are used and taken away by the audience. If the donation Idea expands it may be necessary to attend the theater with a market basket on the arm, like the basket needed at a county fair, to carry away the samples given at the various exhibition booths. Chief Justice Taft with Mrs. Taft passed through New York recently en route to Montreal via Philadelphia. Tha chief justice will sail for Europe from Montreal on the steamship Regina. He will remain In London until the middle of July, having quarters at the Hyde Park Hotel. During a brief rest at the Hotel MeAlpin the chief Justice told our correspondent that Ambassador Harvey had In hand his program while in England. Its details he did not care to discuss, although reports hare come from the other side he is to receive a distinguished degree at one of the great British Institutions of learning. The last visit to Europe of the preseat chief justice, was fifteen years ago when he crossed the continent on his return from Japan, where he had been sent on an important mission by the then President. Theodore Roosevelt, in whose Cabinet he was secretary of war. Shortly before America entered tho war Mr. Taft was invited to visit England and explain some of tho causes of onr delayed action, but he found greater usefulness for his services at home. Chief Justice Taft's two sons, Charles P. and Robert, are practicing lawyers in Cincinnati. His daughter Helen, formerly assistant to the president of Bryn Mav.r College, who is the wire of Prof. Fred .T. Manning of Vale, will sail for Europe July 15, passing her returning parents n mid-ocean. Prof. Manning and Mrs. Manning will pass a year abroad in study, after which the daughter of tha chief Justin- will return to take a Ph. D. degree at Yale. The Britishers will find the American chief justice considerably under their idea of him as a corpulent personage. By dint of golf, and dieting, the chief Justice has Inst all the heaviness he gained when in the White House. His skin is healthy. He looked fine and he Is “as hard as nails.”

i “And I don’t believe the world is going to the dogs, either, like a lot of people are trying to convince me.” he said. • Women are just as good now as they ever were. I can remember how tho whole town was excited over the first Indianapolis woman who discarded tha ■bustle,’ and they will make the same fuss over any other new Idea. No, you can :•.!! the women that if they want to wear knickerbockers, I will be the last one to object.” Nor will Chief of Police Herman F. Rikwh.it? put any restraint on the devotees to the newest fad, he says, as the un'.v law against wearing them would be the one which prohibits women from masquerading as men and he says he doesn't see how any one could possibly mistake a girl in knickers for one of the more angular sex. Which, according to women who understand their sox. shows there isn't going to be enough opposition to mako the style worth adopting, after all. War Veterans Insist That Germany Pay Up PARIS, June 12.—Delegates representing fioO.tXXl war veterans of the Union National*, meeting in Strasbourg, passed four resolutions regarding French foreign policy ; 1. That Germany be compelled without further delay, to execute to the letter all treaties and conventions. 2. That France should enforce these provisions either in accord with her allies or alone. 3. That to this end France should take necessary measures to assure in tha present and In the fumre the payment of reparations owed by Germany by submitting to a serious control those conditions which alone constitute a guarantee of peace. 4. That any reduction in the debt owed to France must not be consented to. C’OVNTESS AIDS PRISONER. HENLEY, England. June 12.—A conntoss yet unnamed has come to the and ot Jack llewitt, the boy accused of murder* ing a woman at Lonely Tree Inn. WHO WINS? VIENNA, June 12.—German capitalists have gained control of Austrian newspapers; British financiers have acquired Austrian factories.

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