Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1922 — Page 4

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Jntara jpailij (Eimcs Published at 25-29 South Meridian street. Indianapolis, Ind., by The Indiana Dally Times Company. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . New York. Boston. Payae. Burns & Smith. Inc. Advertising oillces. Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. £ i Subscription Kates: Indianapoil s, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week Entered as Second Class Matter. Juty 25. 1914. at Poster. Indianapolis. Ind. under act March 3. 1879. SOME people’s idea of clean movies Is having the girls in bathing. THAT Ward case seems to be as near a solution as the mysterious murder of William Desmond Taylor. LUCKILY, that negro chicken thief who exchanged shots with the policemen was no better marksman than his pursuers. AMONG the Items the Indiana highway commission has received from the Federal Government are a number of “elephant tents.’’ Inasmuch as they are not adapted to building the type of road peculiar to this State, they might be used to shelter the ‘‘white elephant” a lot of this junk has proved to be. Beach Styles and the Law The advent of hot weather has brought anew worry to municipal authorities—worry over the style, length or brevity of bathing suits that will adorn the forms of feminine bathers at public watering places. Fortunately for the Indianapolis officials, they do not have to create a beach censorship board, but the marshal of Rave ns wood already has creased his brow in wrinkles—and frowns—and has compiled a code that he expects to guide the mermaids wont to gather along the banks of White River. He has decreed that skirts of bathing suits must hang fourteen inches below the waist line, although just how he is going to arrive at the correct equatorial mark has not been explained. There is much In the marshal s regulations that will commend itself to those who are scandalized at the scant attire effected in some places, and perhaps the majority of aquatically Inclined maidens will not resent the style in the least as long as they don’t go near the water. Baltimore is letting ’em in as they will and already has won the thanks of resorters who could not grace the beach at Atlantic City attired in—well. In one-piece outfits. The Chicago censors—who undoubtedly have a waiting list—are pictured in the papers beckoning scantily attired girls in from the deep and sternly admonishing them to not appear again unless their figure is hidden from the gaze of the curious by a shrouding skirt. Chief of Police Herman Rikhoff has not given as much attention to beach uniforms as he has to the dress of his traffic officers, but ho says he won't allow an.vthing briefer than Ravenswood does. And thus it goes. Beach styles are largely subject to the daring of the resorters and the reaction suffered by the authorities. Building Future Citizens When the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs took 1,200 school children on a tour of the city yesterday, visiting all points of interest, it performed a pleasureable task well in keeping with its conception of civic duty. Although it was a lark for the children and one they wouldn’t have missed for worlds, it had an excellent educational advantage that couldn't help but impress their young minds. The trip included the parks and playgrounds, the boulevards and other municipal points of interest, and each place was thoroughly explained by those in charge of the journey. Thus the youngsters were made acquainted with, and visualized, what the city has done and is attempting to do toward making Indianapolis a brighter place In which to live. Probably the greater number of the children were more or less familiar with the things they saw, yet they viewed them in anew light yesterday and learned a valuable lesson that will not be forgotten in years to come. The federation deserves commendation for displaying an Interest in these youngsters, future citizens, who-some day will shoulder the task of "carrying on” in Indianapolis. A good example has been set .and it should be continued as each year brings new faces in the schoolroom. Reviving Business Business, which felt the undertow of pessimism tugging at it for the last two years, and which was buoyed up by an an eternal hope that the revival could not be forever delayed, has reason to feel cheerful over the present outlook. Two of the Nation’s basic industries, at least, have climbed from the abysmal slough and have eclipsed records made in what heretofore have been outstanding years. For instance, the steel industry in May manufactured 2,711,141 tons, as compared to an output of 1,929,02 4tons in May, 1919, the great boom year. The automobile factories have added up the total number of cars, passenger and truck, excluding Fords, and find that in May they shipped 252,000 machines. This is the biggest output of any single month in the history of the automobile business and distances by 32,000 the record established in March, 1920. Optimists feel that the country in general soon will be producing as much as during the post-war boom, and these figures lend credence to their hope. One good thing about a business boom —it comes back as fast as it left. Financial prosperity may not be as great, because we are beginning to pay for the war, and there may be a slowdown In the fall, but the chances are against a very decided slump. The present revival of business Is a goad augury of better things to come. The Vanishing Street Faker One of the great American institutions that is in danger of becoming extinct is the old-time street faker, as truly a Yankee product as apple pie, baseball, the circus and black-face minstrels. Old-timers may have noticed something lacking this spring, and not been sure just what it was. What they miss Is the street faker. Montague Silver, “greatest street man west of the Alleghenies” and typical of his profession, rises in memory. It is a warm June evening, back yonder in the old home town. Montague’s big red gipsy wagon is parked in the public square. Towering above the half-awed, half-jubilant faces of the populace is Montague himself, beaver hat, frock coat, checkered vest, goatee and all —including one of the Brazilian diamonds, large as a hickory nut, which Monty carried in stock. Under the flickering light Df a banjo-shaped gasoline torch, the old street faker dispensed Wa-Wa, “the remedy whose formula I procured while a captive among the Sioux Indians.” When interest in tonic of 98 per-cent-alcohol strength waned, Monty brought forth razors, combination handy tools, eight handkerchiefs for a quarter • • * and the Little. Giant Prize Packet that included everything under the sun, especially a trick ring for squirting perfume in a friend's eye. Usually a street faker "came regularly, once a year,” but rarely twice to the same town, especially when the Chinese peach trees he left behind turned out to be dogwood or blackhaws. The street faker flourished before the days of scientific salesmanship, oL which he was the original discoverer, and many a "captain of Industry" owes much of his selling ability to boyhood evenings listening under the gasoline torch. To gather the crowd together and hoid them when they grew restless and showed signs of drifting away to poolroom or homes, there was a black-face entertainer who told the joke about the mule breaking its leg when it kicked mother-in-law In the jaw. The minstrel’s sure-fire was the old-time favorite song, “My Gal’s a High-Born Lady.” > Once in a while, these days, you see a Montague Silver and his blackface entertainer passing out their plunder from a wagon. But mostly the 6treet faker does business from a suitcase-sized stand, cramped in a business district nook or a side-street gutter. The game isn’t what it used to be. The street fakers had too much business ability to continue on a small scale; they branched out. Then, too. it*s hard to get a street crowd together in these days when pedestrians have nearly all taken to autos, nobody walking. The street faker is vanishing into memory, where he stands out clear and conspicuous, enticing, likable,'®, monument to the simple pleasures and thrills of days when Bryan was a young man and his champions were vowing not so get their hair cut until he entered thwwhlte House as President.

9 Ware Absent Minded Husbands! MAY MEAN HE’S IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER Is Not From Financial Worries

BY NORA KAY. I Have you an absent minded husband? | Does he look away into space when ■ you remark that Johnny has been fighting with the neighbor's children and ought to be "attended to.” and murmur “umph-huh?” \ " ■Well, perhaps he is figuring how to meet the new gas rate without going into j bankruptcy. Or figuring out what he will say to the ! boss when he goes in to suggest a raise j in his weekly recompense would be wel- 1 come. But—the chances are, according to Judge Frank J. Lahr, that neither the gas bill nor any other financial problem is absorbing him. For, says the judge, he’s In love! And not with his wie, either, the judge declared. For the Judge has been learning a lot about men and their weaknesses in his years of service lu the Juvenile Court, j Asa result of his observations he declared : "Whenever a man looks absently at his wife and gives her a short answer, he isn't seeing her or hearing what she j says—he is seeing the Other Woman.” i This tendency to fall in love with two many women, or with the wrong women, Is one that needs careful watching, thinxs Judge Lahr. And lovesickness is a disease to which men are much more susceptible than women, he thinks. "Men stumble more readily than women,” Jud,-a Lahr said. “Give a man half a chance to fall in love and nine out of ten times he does it. It isn't safe to let him live in n neighborhood where he is exposed to temptations, for ho has mighty little power to resist them. “And I don't want any of these wives to get the idea when friend husband does fall for some other woman, it is entirely the other woman’s fault, and that husband is merely the helpless victim. Most wives are inclined to take that view of the matter, I find. But you put It down as a fact, no w6man falls In j lore with a post Even the worst of them need encouragement to fail in love

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Dear IC. C. R.-—What would you do if you were me? Three years ago, after watching an airplane land at an aviation field, T chanced to pass close to the pilot of the plane. He was tall, very dark and thin faced, and. K. C. B . when our eygs met, we both slightly hesitated and' smiled- I have never seen him since, but 1 can't forget htm. There was a ‘'some- j thing" In the depth of h's dark eves that ’ will always make in remember him. Do you suppose he remembers and 1s | waiting, too? Will he see this? Anyway, what would you do? I've waited for more than three years, and In another year or so I’ll be out of my teens. AGNES D. MY DEAR Agrx-S. • • * WHEN I was a boy. • • STILL IX my teens. • • * I TRAVELED one time. • • • ON A railroad train. FOR TnREE full days. • • • AND IN our car. * • • THERE WAS a girl. • • • STTLL. IN her te*n§. • • • WITH DSTEP dark ey*J. • • • AND RAVEN lock*. • • * AND A watchful mother. • • ♦ AND ON the morning. • • • OF TfTE second day • • • WHILE MOTHER tutted. 0 9 0 OB READ her book. * • • OR WHATEVER she did THIS WONDER girl • • • snOT ME a smile. • • * ACROSS THE aisle. • • • AND THEN I knew • . . THAT I had found. * • • MY ONE great tore. • • * IsrT WE never spoke. • • • AND WE left the train. • • IN A Western town. . . . THE TWO of ua. • • • WITH MOTHER along AND THREE weeks later. 4 4 4 I SAW her again. • • • AND SPOKE to her. • • • BET SHE was French. 9 9 9 AND COULDN'T speak English. AND WE parted there. 9 9 9 AND LATER on. 9 9 9 I FOI'ND a girl. WHO SPOKE my language. * 4 * WITHIN HER heart AND FROM her lips. 4 4 4 AND‘IF I were you. I'D LOOK around. j 4 4 4 FOR SOMETHING. 4 4 4 ODiiER THAN a smile. 4 4 4 AND DEEP dark eyes. 4 4 4 I THANK you.

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t —and you can believe most of them get it, too.” j So it’s up to the Indianapolis husbands to watch their step and beware of Brumbles, for if they stumble into the Juvenile Court they are likely to listen to a sermon which will take a lot of the Joy out oKlife, the judge promises. 'And that Isn’t \ll, he says. For when they take tlieir seat in the front row, whore j the culprits sit, they will not only hear | a personally applied lecture but will be j called upon to show results from the | same. i ‘‘They will have to make up their minds rigWt here, ,to go straight and stay ’ straight," said the Judge. “This Is the mourner’s bench, and If they don’t do their mourning here, they will do it in jail,” he declared. So it’s up to husbands to avoid absentminded looks and short answers, If ho j doesn’t want to be suspected of loving someone he should not—and getting in very bad with the judge.

Unusual Folk

DAYTON, Ohio, June 14.—T. Ross Kepler, who learned telegraphy here. ! claims ike world’s rm ‘ for speed j '•rage.| in Columbus. SjSjF 1 There were Beven j ZjjL iitSk* 1 contestants. Jvv In tke speed event j |gV' Jj words In 2 minutes I V f ke Phillips cods In ML ’mi Aiß Ike endurance con- ; i,'/ ■ Tj. test he sen' reading matter in Morse for , averaging C 8 words j rfto j, r( j exceeds, by Kepler. fifty-eight words a ; minute, Benjamin Tldrick’s record in : Kan Francisco in 1900. FRENCH PRESS OPPOSES OIL CONCESSIONS Favor to 'Americans Urged in j Report of Eynac Comes in for Criticism. i PARTS, June 14.—The nationalistic ! press is criticizing severely tho report 1 of M. Laurent Eynac on the petroleum ; situation made after hi* return from j i Genoa, In which ho urges that France j support claims and points out that the Interests of the United States and France In petroleum conceesions are ; Identical. Eynac is accused editorially of defending Siadard Oil Interests against Shell I Interests and playing an American game ; ■icah.-xt England, a violation of French neutrality. "If Trance declares war In Europe, as i our born reactionaries dream,” ash# Otis- j lave Tory, In Oeuvre, “can one seriously believe that the United States will nour ish our airplanes, our tanks and our s ’.brandies with petroleum, the very United State* that denounces our mill- j tarlsm as with a flail?” And again: "The true French policy' should consist in profiting by the rivalry of the .Standard and the Shell and while there is yet time to assure to France, under tho most advantageous conditions, that petroleum production which is not leas indispensable lu peace than in war time.” | AIR SERVICE ! OFFICER HAS MANY TITLES But Is Really Lowest Ranking Man in the School. WASHINGTON, Juno 14— The most bet it led officer In the United States Army, according to the War Depart- \ ment. Is the officer in charge of the I trade test department of the Chanute field, Illinois, Air Service Mechanics ; School. An Army official declared if this officer had a tin badgo pinned on him j f r every tit 1— he has the admiring pub lie would require a powerful mlscoscope to discover Ids jnoblo physiognomy beneath the mass of metal. A few of the titles which burden him with their weight are: Officer lu charge i of trade test, officer. Information officer, j athletic officer, publicity officer, morale j officer, member of G O. M , secretary of officers’ club, engineer officer and tranai portaticn officer of the Fifteenth Observation Squadron. With all his titles he is the lowest j rauking member of the school's staff. Conviction Upheld in Circuit Court PRINCETON, Ind.. June 14.—For osI snuiting John Jackson, miner. Dale i Stapleton, Francisco, was fined SIOO and ! costs and sent to the county Jail for twenjty days, on an appeal to the Circuit , ! Court, from a like sentence in the city i court In March. Judge Baltzell of the j Circuit Court overruled a motion for a I change of venue and a trial by Jury, prior I to hearing the hppeal.

iMrojfe' I BY FRED MYERS. NOT AT ALL. No feminine complex la she. We apeak of Dolly Boolier; We’ll say she alnt! Why, hully gee! ’Tie simple see through ’er. Fifteen or twenty years ago, just after receiving a parental drubbing, the writer hereof resolved that If he ever became n proud parent, his child wouldn’t havo to iuind. And, by chowder, we’ve made good on It. * * THE GENTLEMAN who. 4 4 4 MAKES TTP onr col. 4 4 4 JUST BAWLED rudely. • * * DOWN THE hatchway. 4 4 4 AND SAID something. 4 4* THAT SOUNDED like. 4 4 4 OUR STUFF being too. • • • SHORT TO fill our. * * * j DAILY QUOTA of space. 4 4 4 DAWGED IF we can. '* * • ! UNDERSTAND WHAT. 4 4 4 ! HE DOES with all. 4 * • OF OUR more or. 4 4 4 LESS SCINTILLATING Stuff. 4 4 4 TO BE always yelling. 4 4 4 j HIS INFERNAL head. —4 4 4 OFF FOR filler stuff. 4 4 4 IT OCCURS to US. 4 4* THAT, AT any rata. 9 9* WHETHER WE have enough 4 4 4 TO FILL or not 4 4* nc MIGHT use a. 4 4 4 j LITTLE MORE respectful. 4 4 4 LANGUAGE 4 4 4 THERE! you. 4 4 4 WRBTCni TAKE that and. • 4 • GO ON to press! 4 4* YOU BIG loot! 9 9 9 I THANK you. 4 4 4 STUFF! INDEED! stuff. 4 4 4 • Turk* massacre thousands on holiday, j —News item. Just what they might do | I In a fit of anger is problematical. 4 . 4 DOES IT. AFTER ALE FAY? New* Item: Man beaten to death anil! ; robbed in role of Good Samaritan. i When l’eirr Sift Gave bird a lift It proved much to hi* sorrow; For tho paper rend He a rapped on the hcad And Pete'll be buried tomorrow. ZEKK. 4 4 4 “He was a pioneer motorist,” says an obituary. One of those good old-timers who used to stop along tho road aud help a motorist lu distress, eh? 4 4 4 ODK TO ICED TEA. fioodly (?) ftuhntltut** for In grrckt q uantlf lr* I guzzlo you with Words ciui't tell how I mtore yoa When *>lth lemon, too, they pour you! Drink so muc h, I should n't wonder B him I ico, but vrhilt I blunder. And toll my host “Good-by” In Japanese! DORIS. • 4 4 j One reason why angel* are angola, ; Horace, 1* because there are no uewsj paper* published in Heaven. (Mebbo so, mebbe so. However, I have a very distinct recollection of n song which I used to sing In Sunday School entitled "Hark, tho Herald angels sing!” —The Linotype Operator Who Is Forced to Set Your Col.) 4 4 # THE ANGEL FOOD KXTERS I'RK--81 MADLY ARE ISIM. THE CLI BROOMS. (La Forte Argus.) The Lady Vikings will not hold a meeting this evening. 4 4 4 ’’Of all the countries in the world,” declares Iso Yamagata, editor of the i Seoul Tress, “the United States Is most destituto of mornltty and freedom.” Mr. Yamegnta’s first atop appoars to have been made nt Hollywood. 4 4 4 n.AN WOULD YTTK AYE HA SHEET HOF WAWTEK B'NEATII YE, SIR? (Lamped by Doris In a so-called literary Journal.) Bed In too small for rny tiredness. I'll Ink* is bill for a pillow, soft with trees, Draw til" elonds up close aronnil my shoulders God , , . blow . , . the . . . moon . . . out . . . pleiisc! 4 4 4 After one dny's tenancy, the Whaddn Y’ Pee chap decided to take his property back. Proudy! Proudyl Proudyl 4 4 4 TRUE LOVE. (1922 R C. Model.) A PLAYLET. Beene—Downtown lobby. Dramatis Personae An attractive young woman and an attractive young man, evidently much engaged. Time—Lunch hour. lie (with slight annoyance)—Dearest, you have too much rouge on. Phe (with sweet sarcasm)—Well, darling, you know If I don't suit you, j-ou’re not crippled. ne (gently)—No. sweetheart, hut you will be if you don't rub some of It off. B. M. G. (Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers.)

Busiest Lot in World Said to Be Lasky Movie Studio at Hollywood

With hundreds of people working and nine productions under way, the Lasky studio at Hollywood Just now is one of the busiest places in the film world. Cecil B. De MiUe, Svith his magnificent Roman spectacle as a vision in “Manslaughter,” occupies a big part of Stage 4, the largest glass-covered stage in the world. About three hundred extra people and others, mostly girls in the attire of damsels of the days of Rome In its approach to decadence, make a marvelous picture, of color and beauty. Bengal tigers, * gladiators, barbarians, tribunes, slaves aud wealthy patricians fill a veritable arena flanked by magnificent columns and lights of steps leading to Immense heights, afid upon which sit the guests, while at the pinnacle of the tallest flight sits, in regal splendor, Jueatriee Joy, in a marvelous costume, as hostess at the revel. Thomas ,Meighan and Lois Wilson, together with other principals, appfear in the big scene which forms an interlude to modern story of a modern girl who becomes reckless and pays the penalty. A big ballroom scene is now being -■Staged by George Melford for “Burning Sands,” which is ri?h, brilliant and wonderfully set. On another stage Penrhyn Stanlaws is making some exquisite scenes for “Pink Gods.” The Irvin Willat production “On the High Seas,” entails some striking scenes which'will bo taken largely on the water.

THFh ARE SMALL BUT MIGHTY PRETTY

With Sternnd'a Midgets, the headline attraction at B. F. Kolth’s this week, are the Three Royals, said to he the smallest and most perfectly formed midgets In the world. They are singers, dancers and musicians of ability and add much to the success of the act.

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By GEORGE McMANUS.

Strength and romance are the outstanding features of the picture which, by the way is the first original screen story by Edward Sheldon who wrote such stage , successes as “The Nigger” and “Salvation Nell.” Wallace Reid and company making , “The Ghost Breaker,” under the direction of Alfred Green, are shortly to have a fine set representing tho Spanish castle whose ghosts are laid by the energetic work of the young American who loves the pretty Marchesa, owner of the ancient structure. | Pirates, Seventeenth century swashi bucklers and ladles In waiting, Indians, j colonists, and what not, take part in , George Fltzmaurice’s production for j Paramount of “To Have and To Hold.” , Alternating scenes at the studio and on j location keep this company on the jump. 1 The same may be said for Jumes Cruze and his troupe of actors who are making j “The Old Homestea"d”—a modern picturo version of America’s second greatest stage i classic. The Lasky ranch, where the viji lage and the old homestead are built, is j the scene of much of their activity. ! Sam Wood is getting in shape for his next production starring Gloria •Swanson, titled “The Impossible Mrs. j Bellew.” Pending the return of Miss Swanson from her European trip. Mr i Wood is now busy with establishing shots and scenes In which the star does not appear. Production of Agnes Ayres’ picture. “Borderland,” under tho direction, of

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Paul Powell, is drawing to a close. The final scenes, in which Miss Ayres la attired in a ghost costume, require most exacting work on the part of the camera man, with much complicated double exposure. The costume departments and the set builders are among the busiest of the studio, organization, but every other department is working at top speed aa well. -!- -J- -J----ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today: “Our Little Wife,” at the Murat; popular vaudeville and photoplays, at the Lyric aud B. F. Keith's; musical j comedy and movies, at the Rialto; “The | Rosary,” at Loew’s State; “Charge It,” ; at the Apollo; “Western Speed,” at the I Isis; “The Heart Specialist,” at the Ohio; j “The Oath,” at Mister Smith’s, and the | Municipal Players in "Antonio,” at Brookside Park.

Five Good Books for Aviators Indianapolis Public Library, Technical Department, St. Clair Square.

FREE BOOK SERVICE. "Aircraft Mechanic's Handbook," by Colvin. "Handbook of Modern Aeronautics,” by Judge. "Textbook of Aerp Engines,” by Shcrbondy & Wardrop. “Airplane Design and Construction,” by Pomillo. “History of Aeronautics," by Vivian. Library Notes The most popular books at Central Library during the past month were the following In the order named: FICTION. "If Winter Comes," A. S. M. Hutchinson. “Gentle Julia,” Booth Tarkington. “The Beautiful and the Damned,” Scott Fitzgerald. “Cytherea,” Joseph Hergesheimer. “Marla Chapdelaine,” Louis Hemon. “Dancers in the Dark," Dorothy Speare. NON-FICTION. “Outline of History,” H. G. Weils. "Story of Mankind,” Hendrik Van Loon. “Mirrors of Washington.” • “Woodrow Wilson as I. Know Him,” Joseph F. Tumulty. “Outwitting Our Nerves,?’ J. A. Jackson.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Be not deceived; God Is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that sliall he also reap. For he Hint soweth unto his own flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal 11f,*. - —Galatians 5:7-8. God does not pay every week, but He pays surely at the end.—Dutch proverb.

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