Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1922 — Page 4

JuDiaua Saihj CEitnes 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. . .York, Boston, Payne, Barns & Smith, Inc. Advert! s.ng orilces. Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Bates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; cdsewhere, 12c per week 'intered as Second Class Matter. July 23. 1914, at PostoHi-e. Indianapolis, lad. under act March 3, 1879. AX OPTIMIST is a man who plants an orchard near a schoolhouse. I>EX T X Off. —Headiine. That’s what people have thought for a long time. A SCHOOL of politics for women has opened. The first lesson might consist of smoking bum cigars. AX EASY way to make the small boy bathe is to paint a “No SWim : ming’ - sign on the bathroom door. IT IS hard to arouse public indignation over the poor quality of gas when the thermometer is shooting above the ninety mark. THE highway commission, having concluded that refrigerators cannot be used in the construction of reads, now offers them for sale to the highest bidder. ADAM and Eve had one thing at least on that couple who enyilated them in the Maine woods recently. The original pair was not fined for trapping fish and game as were their modern disciples. The Cruelty of Youth An amazing instance of the occasional heartlessness of youth has comes to the attention of the Times. It comes in the 1922 issue of “The Lucky Bag,” a handsome, leatherbound, 600-page book, prepared by members of the graduating class at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. The Lucky Bag is always the souvenir most cherished by students and graduates. Filled, as it is, with the wit and humor of school life, tales of athletic prowess, personal quips, attractive pictures and complete records of every member s activities during the four years, it will remain a part of the graduate's library as long as he lives. * But in 1922 Lucky Bag class members and their friends will find a page that is a blot on the class record. How serious a blot it is they will appreciate more and more as later years serve to balance their present youthful judgment. Three hundred pages of the book are devoted to biographies of the individual members—two members to a page. Beneath each photograph is a humorous characterization of the embryo naval officer, the sort of affectionate razzing dear to the heart of the one who is razzed. The last of these pages is devoted to Leonard Kaplan. Opposite his photograph is a crude caricature of a fictitious member of the class. The effect is as follows:

LEONARD KAPLAN' An Autoblography Born in the township of Weston, County of Lewis, State of West Virginia, Monday, the 26th of November, 1900. Educated in the public schools of Weston 1907-1912; t\ eston High School 1912-1916; department of civil eugineerlng, school of applied science. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1910-17 and 1017-1S; Midshipman, U. S. N., July, 1918. A student above the average and a mathematician of marked ability. Has always maintained that the prime factor in good scholastic work is application rather than geniusapplication which includes first the mental effort or coercive force to exert the brain; second, the knowledge of how to study. Unmarried. For further information see "Who's Who in America, 1950-1933,”

No trouble for any person in the least familiar with school life to read between the lines that treatment that young Kaplan has undergone throughout his four years at Annapolis. But the boys responsible for the expensive book were not satisfied with thus lampooning and setting him apart from themselves. They left the page number off this page and perforated it along the edge next the binder, so that it might be torn out wuthout leaving a trace. The number that should have been given it appears on the page following. The boy’s name is not listed in the index of biographies. Complete arrangements apparently were made to permit any member who desired a yearbook minus Kaplan’s name to have such a one. That the youngster from West Virginia survived four years of this treatment and came through equipped for a commission in the U. S. Navy is something of a tribute to the sAiff that is in him. But that he had to do it is a sad commentary on the spirit of those in the class who made it necessary. Dr. Wu’s Medicine Wu Ting Fang, the wisest Oriental who ever represented his country at Washington, has shifted sides in China’s civil war. He has been appointed prime minister of the Pekin government by the new president, Li Yuan Hung. When the south China revolt began in 1917, Dr. Wu went w ith Sun Yat Sen and the southerners. His return to the north may mean that fatal disintegration has broken out among Sun Yat Sen’s chief advisers. Wu Ting Fang has the nimble mind of a sage. When he was China’s minister at Washington, an American,woman at a dinner party asked him when Chinese women intended to stop binding their feet. “When you American women stop binding your waists, madame,” answered Wu. His prediction was fulfilled. American women stopped wearing cor--Bets about the time Chinese women ceased squeezing their feet, and Dr. Wu has lived to say, “I told voh so.” Wu prides himself on scenting coming changes. He has always hated the Japanese with bitter intensity. Sun Yat Sen’s recent support of the Japanese agent, Marshal Chang Tso Ling, in the latter’s unsuccessful attack on the Pekin government, may have been the cause of Wu’s sudden support of the reorganized Pekin administration. Pekin stands in need of Dr. Wu’s wise counsel. He knows the west and east with a philosopher's understanding added to the practical vision of a successful diplomat. His medicine for political ills is a double dose of democracy, repeated as needed. Around the personality of Wu Ting Fang, venerable patriarch of modern China, north and south can rally for a united frerrt_ If so, China will greatly benefit and American influence at Pekin will be in the ascendant. Anew China may now be in the making. Where Good Advice Is Needed Those who are wont to blame the flapper for everything that goes wrong these days will endeavor to see fresh grounds for grievance over the case of two Evansville high school girls who have been temporarily suspended for smoking cigarettes in the study hall. Whether these girls might pnoperly be termed flappers or not, cf course, is unknown, but to blame the modes affected by the modern American girl for this breach would be an exhibition of radical intolerance. That the girls did wrong in smoking in the schoolroom goes without saying, and they should be punished, as an example to others who might be tempted similarly. Unquestionably, the publicity attached to the disclosure will do more to accomplish that result than will any reprimand administered by the superintendent or the school board. Those girls should not be condemned as "bad,'’ they should not be ostracised nor held up as unfit for other girls to associate with. They acted in a thoughtless moment, spurred to action by bizzare accounts of licenses taken by students in so-called society schools that reacted on their girlish, exuberant minds. They should be given some good advice by mother and father and others who are interested in seeing girlhood develop Into useful womanhood, and if this is skillfully given the episode soon will be forgotten and the girls will have learned a valuable leeson.

r. A. LIST “Porky” Born in the township of Zion, county of Cork, State of Ignorance, Sunday the 17th day of March, 1900. Educated in the Convent of Zion, 1906-1911. Zion City Collech, 1911 1915. Department of geological engineering, school of reductive science. United States Naval Rock college, Portsmouth, N. H., 1916-19 IS. Midshipman, U. S. N. R. S., Fourth of Juiy, 1918, until death do part. A stewed gent below the average and a poker player of marketability. Has always maintained that the prime factor in good academic standing is grease rather than genius—grease, which Includes first, the mental effort or coercive force to bone out of hours and before reveille; second, the knowledge of one's own importance. Unsat. For further information see the list of those denied special privileges until by positive action on their part they show that they merit further consideration.”

1922 REPORTS MORE TRAVEL Southern California and Indiana Tourists Increasing. Travel between southern California and Indiana by motor cars is showing a marked iucrease over the season of 1921, judged by inquiries received at the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles. This is attributable in part to the better road conditions existing between the two States over the National Old Trails route from coast to coast, which goes straight through Indiana and a magnificent 6cenlc roadway to and frojn both States, the bureau says. “From James Whitcomb Riley's beloved State to California, where Joaquin Miller, also a Hoosier, sang so stirringly of the high Sierras, Is comparatively a 6hort trip in these days of improved highways and modern automobiles. The traveler from southern California to Indiana, or the motorist from Indiana to southern California has a rare treat in the way of scenic coloring, variety and uniqueness along this famous causeway, it is pointed out. “St. Louis, Kansas City, Trinidad, Santa Fe and Albuquerque will be the principal cities he will pass through, but he will go through other places of less importance from a population standpoint, which are nevertheless noted in American annals. Dodge City is one of these, , made renownd by ‘Hat’ Masterson a i reign as city marshal in the old cowboy j days, aud where the first graveyard was > laid out from men who died 'with their boots on.' Santa I'e is the seat of what was once the principal trading post with the Indians of the Southwest and where Kit Carson once lived and walked, ’ the bureau says. hungry peers must pay. LONDON, June 16.—Business in the refreshment department of the House of Lords has fallen off because many peers have retrenched their eating. A blanket assessment Is to be spread on all members.

j Yc TOWNE GOSSIP I Copyright. 1822, by Star Company. - -By K. C. li PD GONE to the country. • • • FOR AN afternoon. • • • WITH HAROLD Lloyd. THE rICTUKE star. AND SOMETHING happened. • . TO OUR auto car. ... AND THERE wc were. IN A little village. NOT FAR from home. AND WE found a man. IN THE town garage. AND HE dragged the car. TO HIS working place. • • • AND LOOKED at it. • • • AND SAID to US. • • IT WOULD take four hours. * TO FIX it up. • • • AND IT was late. • • • AND ALMOST dark. • • AND THE trolley station. A HALF mile off. AND WE started for that. • • • AND AHEAD of us. • • • ON a lonely road. WERE A couple of girls. • • • JUST STROLLING along. * AND AFTER a while WE HEARD the car. AND STARTED to run. ... AND THE girls looked back. AND STARTED to run. AND BY that time. • • IT WAS ncnrly dark. AND THERE we were. • • • THE FOUR of us. • • * ON THE lonely road. WITH THE girls ahead. • • • AND W'E gained a little. • * * AND THE car came on. AND WE were close. • • • AND HAROLD yelled. * * • AND BOTH of the girls. WENT INTO high. • • • AND WE reached the station. ... JUST AT the moment. TUB CAR pulled out. AND THE girls were crying. • * • AND TELLING a man. • • • THAT WE had chased them. * * * HALF A mile. • • AND WE explained. • • * IT was all right. BUT I didn’t dare tell ’em. • * • WHO HAROLD wns. • * • OR THERE’D have been a scandal. .* * * AND EVERYTHING. . • • I THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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<ms, *o*firiute FL I By FRED MYERS. ONE IN 1,000,000. O’er Millie Scaggs v We’re fairly "ilaiT She never nags Her better half. * • • THE END OF A PERFECT SIMP. He drew back for a lusty swat Down came the hefty swatter! Some sap had said: “You call this hot? Just wait till It gets hotter!” f• * • COMPEERS IN INFELICITY. (Monmouth, 111. Atlas.) Hardy Claycomb is confined to his home with the Spanish influenza. Miss Minnie Lust Is also confined tp his bed with the epidemic. • * * The Rev. Walter Culp, a minister o{ .Spring Valley, Ohio, has eloped with an 11-year-old music teacher and loft his wife and nine children destitute. Fatty Arbuckle, pleeaße write. It mtv be that Texas farmer who stole the clothes of the fair swimming pool frollckers didn't have his cheaters along and had to go home after them. • • • Well, anyhow, that Chicago student who refused a diploma Is a practical young man. What was he to do with It? WISE CRACKS OF A WIS EUR.ACKER. Sir: I am Informed ail employes of the mint at Washington are members of organized labor. Does this explain the origin of the Union Jack? SWEET CORPORAL.

THE FURY THAT HELL HATH NOTHING LIKE. (The La Porte Argus.) The misfit newspaper down the street pulled another boner yesterday. It printed an article telling how the Valparaiso Standards, tho team that was defeated by the Legion early in the season, lost to Kouts Sunday by a 15 to 9 scorn. Instead It was the Valparaiso Athletics that fell before Kouts. The Standards played at Racine, Wisconsin. • • • John McCormack is going to Ireland to rest. So he's anoptimist as well a* a singer, eh ? • • Unfortunately, In his ultimatum that bathing suit skirts must be fourteen Inches from the hip, the marshal forgot to state whether above or below. • • • A SMILING TRAFFIC COP ISN'T SUCH A REPULSIVE SIGHT, EITHER, SIR. (From tho Anderson Daily Bulletin.) The Prettiest Thing In Town. It Isn't the school nor even the church, Tho for nobler ones, afar you must sectvn; It Isn't a cottage nor yet a lawn — Tho some will compare with the glory of dawn; It isn't n portulaca bed— Its beauty, fit pillow for tired angel’s head; It isn't a maple tree, nor a pine— Tho of all the trees these two are mine. It isn't a robin or au oriole— Tho these sing next to the song sparrow; It Isn't a rose—tho the rose is queen Os ail the loveliest fiosgers I have seen. No—the prettiest sight In this old town, Or In all the country—the world around. Is a mother and babe—she Vending above, Both laughing and reaching out hands for a love. OUR OWN HALL OF FAME. Kir: Jesse Jester is not a colyunitst, as one might infer, but custodian of a cemetery at Anderson, lud. T. C. S. PLOT! (From a short story. ) “Their eyes met for a long, breathless moment and swam together.” • • One hates to toot the horn of one's own prodigy, but, \jhen o.'s p, asks one if the Lord could drive a speed bus faster than Jimmie Murphy, what is one to do o'r say? • • • “So eager was tfce mayor to get the theater ready for opening, July 3,” we see by the Times, "he ordered City Engineer Elliott personally to stake out the site, then went along himself to see the Job was done.” The pinnacle of eagerness, one might chirp, bromldlotlcally. • • • TRUE PATRIOT. Kir: At the conclusion of hta stirring address on “What Old Glory Stands For,” the silver-tongued orator clamped on his kelly and sat down while the band played “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Have you had your Iron today? NOAH LITTLE. • • • “Burlesque isn't what it used to be,” laments a New York writer about things theatrical. Nope, one used to have to go to the theater to see It. • • • A merchant la a small Indiana town Is advertising his Christmas bargains. Whether he's an unusually far-seeing euss or merely an old fogy Is hard to determine offhand. • * • Noah Little suggests the Follies inaugurate a stingy men's contest and offers to start it off with a tightwad who, he deposes, wouldn't give a nickel to see Salome do her dance of death with a single veil. • * * “IP YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT’S HARD,” QUOTH SHE, “TRY IT YOURSELF." I love my husband dearly And I always strive to please, But I'd rather take a lickin' Than to Iron his b. v. d.'s. A JUNE BRIDE. * • • Major Pratt sheds some Interesting light on this dirt farmer thing they keep talking about in Congress. Major knows him personally, he says. Used to take milk from him. (Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers.)

Utah Miners Swiped Palm in the White Elephant Case for Spring

1?" l emmmnMi tweqfy-flve cents the driver permitted like to think of those days because we

SPRING BYINGTON IN A RESTFUL POSE ON A FRONT PORCH NEAR THE MURAT THEATER.

BY SPRING BYINGTON, Os the Stuart Walker Company, I remained with the repertoryy company In Denver all that summer getting better and better parts. Before the season was over I was playing minor character roles. My yearning to be a great actress had been nourished by this experience. I felt that all 1 needed was a larger opportunity; within my Inner consciousness was the surge to he a mighty woman of romance. Our director, I appreciate, now, was kind and wise. He kept me in small parts, but he encouraged me to look farther. There has been on the stage, of course, instances where an actor without training but imbuaed with a compelling flair of genius has achieved wonderful artistic triumphs. But these occasions are as -are as they are lovely. For the rest of us the stage Is a matter of technique and an equipment of experience to be acquired as slowfootedly a* the technique of a concert violinist. My director understood this then; it took me several years to gain this knowledge. There is very little Irresponsibility in the actor s approach to his audience. By the end of the summer season at the Eltlch Gardens In Denver the company disbanded. The older members returned to New York. Several of us, however, organized a road company. Jumping In where angels would have shown an Intelligent caution. Wo got some bookings In one night-stand towus through Colorado and Kansas, acquired two or three sets of scenery, more or less dejected, a girl to play the piano, and after a couple of weeks' rehearsals took to the road. PLAYED WITH SILK HAT VILLAIN. tflie play was one of those awful things relating a story of a persecuted heroine, a hero very nearly Immaculate, and a villain of tho sllk-hat-blacU-mustached type and a snowstorm. If my memory serves me correctly, the name of this masterpiece was "Jim of Devil's Gulch." It was part of our work to tear up the snowflakes before the evening performance, and once in Kansas the scene was almost spoiled because some of the snowy atoms etuug to the heroine's face, refusing to melt! Koine of these performances were given In “opera houses," the first floor of which were occupied by livery stables. Finally the company went broke, but we had money enough to get Into Kansas City Two other young women and myself found a room in a cheap but clean hotel. We then began a quest for Jobs. I resolved that I would not go home t’.or would I write for money. I applied nt the one theatrical agency In the town and then made tho rounds of the department stort s. In the cheapest of these I almost found a place nt $6 a week, but as this wns conditioned upon my getting references from Dover. I did not take It. It seemed to me then that I would rather go Into domestic service tn somebody's kitchen than let my family or friends In Denver know that 1 had failed. There were bleak miserable days. Th two girls with me. one of whom became a famous star both in America and Lon ton. had gone on with a burlesque company chorus. My little store of money under the carpet dwindled nnd my clothes grew shabby. And then one day there came a chance to go back on the road. I was to play leads In a company Jmokeil to visit, mining towns in Arizona and Utah. I have since appeared In the great cf.'les of two continents, but I shall never know again a thrill like that which came when I wrote my name on the doited line for the manager of this tenth-rate troupe. AT LAST SPRING BECOMES A LEADING LADY. Well, I was a leading lady. And T was young and strong nnd bolstered with an ambition to succeed so I didn’t mind so much the cheap, cold lodging houses, the tawdry, drnfty theater, and the tiresome rides in day coaches. It ail seemed to me a romantic adventure and the audiences liked me. Once in Utah some miners wanted to pay me a tribute. I was taking a curtain call after the second act when X saw two of them coming down the single aisle carrying wbat looked to me like a small pnim tree. t 9 I started to leave the stage one of them called out: "Hey! Wait a minute," and they came up to the footlights—-which were oil lamps—and deposited the small tub at my feet. I bowed again. When the floral offering was carried back stage we read the card on it. It said:

“There, for the little lady with the yallar hair. There ain't any flowers In this yere God forsaken town and so this is the best we can do. You are the prettiest woman in the world. (Signed) THE BOYS. It was s tribute so touching that latty that night on the train I found myself weeping quie.ly. The fact that one of the men in our troupe learned that the palm was the single decorative element in the white elephant saloon where it had been stolen bett#en the first and second acts did not mitigate the slightest in the compliment intended. I kept this card for several years and even yet I often wonder what became of my mining stagedoor Johnnies. There were many picturesque incidents on this tour. Once with the mercury almost dropping ilown to the bottom, we arrived at a station a utile from the town. There was only one vehicle, a mine company truck partly loaded with coal. For Five Good Books for Gardeners Indianapolis Public Library, Reading Room Department, St. Clair Square. .FREE BOOK SERVICE.'— “A Little Garden the Year Around,” by TealL “Aristocrats of the Garden,” by Wilson. “Old Time Gardens," by Earle. “The Little Garden,” by King. “A Garden of Peace,” by Moore.

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twenty-five cents the driver permitted us to ride to the hotel on the coal. That night we played in a dance hall In the rear of a saloon. Strange as it may seem the company made money. By the end of the season when we disbanded on the coast I had saved several hundred dollars. I always like to think of those days because we brought something of the glamor and sunshine and glory of romance to people who had almost forgotten that life held anything but a dreary round of work with occasional mod drunken orgies. To them we represented something of the sweetness of life. With this engagement over 1 saw another dream In prospect of coming true. It was Broadway. After a few days visit with my mother and sister in Den-

| ver I went to New York, j (Editor's Note—The third and final artide of this series will appear In Satur- [ day's Times.) -I- -I- -I- ---! ON THE ; AND THE SCREEN, i The folowing attraction are on view to- , day: “Our Little Wife,” at the Murat; vaudevile and movies at the Lyric and B. ! F. Keith's; musical comedy and movies at the Rialto; “Charge It,” at the Apollo; "The Oath,” at Mister Smith's: “The Rosary,” at Loew's State; “Western Speed,” at the Isis, and “Tho Heart Specialist," at the Ohio. “Antonio” is the current hill being offered by the Municipal Players,” at Arookaide Park. Mr. Walker will give a matinee today and a Saturday matinee of three of his own plays' at the Murat. j A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Go through, go through the gates, pre- . pare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the ; stones; lift up a standard for the peoi pie.—lsaiah 62:19. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her banner to the air. She tore the azure robes of night, And set the stars of glory there. —Drake. SWORDS INTO SHEARS. LONDON, June 16.—A British firm which manufactured 2,000,<0 swords and bayonets during the war has turned its Immense plant to the making of garden pruning shears.

JUNE 16,1922.

ESKRIDGE IS FOUND GUILTY Second Killing Results in Sentence to Life Imprisonment. FRANKFORT, Ind., June 16.—Clarence Eskridge, tried for the killing of Kenneth Knotts, here May 6, was found guilty by -a Jury In the Circuit Court, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Eskridge testified that he killed Knotts in self-defense, following an argument over an alleged insulting remark made by Eskridge to a girl, at the Clover Leaf depot. It was the second time Eskridge had faced a jury on a similar charge. He was acquitted following the killing of a neighbor, Andrew J. Henderson, with whom he had quai*veled over a chicken fence, June 20, 1920. TO FLOAT LOAN OF 25 MILLIONS Government Approves Deal of Americans With Jugo-Slavia. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. June 16.—The United State has approved the proposal of American banking interests, headed by Blair and Company of New York, to float a loan of $25,000,G00 for the Government of Jugo-Slavla. Negotiations between Belgrade officials and the banker were concluded some time ago, but the details of the loan were submitted to the State Department for scrutiny before the deal was consummated. First 1 reports ou negotiations were to the effect that the loan was to be for f50.00u.900, but the State Department's approval was placed on an advance of only $25,000,G00. The loan is the first made by American bankers to a European government since the State Department requested that the banking interests consult the Government before making foreign loans. Unusual Folk JACKSON, Mich., June 16— So far as he knows, William B. Davis Is the oldest traveling man who still travels in the ■ 1 „ United States. He was 94 on Jane 12. at any rate. For fifty-three years be has been on JL A day by calling on I the customers along A bis route. Mr. Davis has an Interest In the shoe£f 'Hjjfcte. making firm of A ■ tj Rohrer & Cos., OrSysj n Fa., though Jj Ms home is here, and if l 11 i9 '^ or th,s concern Hx (MfcA that be has traveled t ' -bag-l more than half a eenDavls. tury. His health Is sound, he reads without glasses, he looks as it he were about 60 and he Is as active as a man of that age. He has used tobacbo for something seven decades and a half. MOTOR CAR HITS STAG. EDINBURG, June 16. Traveling through Glen Affric forest, Inverness•fcire, an automobile struck a stag. The animal was knocked down, but arose quickly and sped away..

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