Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1922 — Page 4

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ARBUCKLE -W--W- y ILL HAYS went into thè movie business AND \/\/ for thè avowed purpose of putting thè THE PUBLIC V V movies on a higher piane. One of his most important aets so far has been to give Roseoe Arbucklc a clean bill of health and sanction his appearance as a screen actor. On hearing this decision of thè chief magnate of thè movies, Mayor Lew Sh*ank declared films in whieh Arbuckle appears should not be permitted to be shown in Indianapolis. It is evident Mayor Shank believes Arbuckle ? s latest claim to celebrity rests upon his eonnection with one of thè most disgusting and salacious scandals of thè manv that have brought thè west coast eolony of film actors and actresses into thè limelight. There are thousands of parents of girls and boys and young men and voung women who will agree with Shank. They know that wherever Arbuckle appears as a screen actor he and that hotel incident at San Francisco will be thè iubject of remark, of curious questionine and prurient gossip. They know something whieh should be dropped and forgotten by decent minds will be recounted and detailed into millions of ears now ignorant and innocent of it. Mr. Hays, appealing to Christmas season sentiment, asks that Arbuckle, who has not recentlv had an opportunità* to appear in thè movies, be given a chance to make good. He decries anv disposition to punish Arbuckle for his misdeeds. In taking that attitude Mr. Ilavs overlooks thè fact that since thè notorious St. Francis hotel incident Roseoe Arbuckle ean never again be thè purveyor of pure and wholesome fun that he was a few years ago. Arbuckle has no doubt “learned his lesson,” as Hays says, but he has given no sign of being penitent that thè public knows about. Little fault could be sound with Mr. Hays’ pica if Arbuckle were proposing to résumé a field of aetivity where his- past unsavory notoriety would not eontinually be forced upon thè public. The case is entirely different from that of thè ordinare* misdoer who asks to be forgiven and forgotten. Arbuckle can win back a place in thè movies onlv provided thè public is determined to gloss over an unenviahle notoriety whieh he has by no means shaken off. Roseoe Arbuckle can assuredly do far greater harm by reappearance on thè film screen than he could-ever hopc to do good. FOES OF INC E it was first proposed that public ofììcials be PRIMARY nominated at priinaries, selection of oandidates WARNED k J by this means has been fought by all of thè interests whieh could more easily control nominations in party conventions. Even within thè past year there have been intimations that a country-wide effort would be made to repeal primary laws. In Indiana such threats have heen frequentlv made by friends of Senator Harry S. New since thè primary in whieh New was defeated. It has been asserted by New's friends that in a convention New would have won thè nomination over Albert J. Beveridge hands down. That is probably true. If true, it would simply prove that politicians could in convention put up a candidate whom a majority of thè Republican voters would not and did not nominate at thè primary. But since thè primary of last May several things have happened. Among them is thè election held last November, indicating in no uncertain way that thè reaetionarv movement whieh was strong when Harding was elected President had reached its crest and was losing ground. The results of that election mav well cause thè gentlemen who have been talking of legislation in Indiana to knocking out thè primary law or weakenmg it to think twice before they start anything. To thè maehine politician thè primary law has always been distasteful and will continue to be. But thè average citizen making up thè majority vote in both Democratic and Republican parties is in no mood to eountenanee any tampering with thè primary law unless it should be a well understood and definite attempt to improve it and make it stronger.

PREY FOR "T"-vOSTMASTER BRYBOX is authoritv for thè SUCKER I— 1 * statement that about $900,000 which residente HtJNTERS X of Marion Coiintv have invested in 1918 War Savings Stamps will be paid out in cash next month. In all Uncle Sam will pay back in January some $645,000 to holders of savings stamps, and thè sucker hunters are all set for a clean-up. Postmasters thè country over report that thè mails are fiooded wjth “come on” letters, promising fabulous returns from distant oil well% factories, farms ancf what not. “Get rich quick.” That’s their tempting siren song. Who wouldn’t likc to! But just put this in your pipe and smoke it, whilc vou’re consjdering one of these alluring “come ons,” mailed out by thousands to sucker lists of “easy marks:” Anv one with a sure-shot investment opportunity, offering 10 }>er cent or more, is not going around begging people to invest. Ile’ll keep it to himself, and he’ll have no diffieulty in finding . capitai, if his proposition is a bona fide one. \ The man who gets rich at wild-eatting is the wild-catter, nine Nindred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand. Those who exehrnge hard-earned savings for gaudy stocks merely enjoy the privilege of contributing to promoters’ easy livings some $500,000.000. That’s the officiai postoffice estimate. Don’t be one of these New Year’s suckers. Know what you’re investing in, or don’t invest. Keep thè old kale in a savings until vou can consult some one you can trust who knows investments. Why be an “angel” for some sucker hunter?

Queen Anne Was Last British Sovereign to Use Power of Veto

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milttia bill was the last instane of its exercise by an Knglish sovereign.' What is a good bath salt? To a tub half full of water nd<l one poimd of table salt and one pint of violet ammonia. The bath should be prepared ten minutes before one enters it. for the salt should bfe thoroughly dlssolved and the ammeunia should have mixed thoroughly with the bath. Should the words in Street fùgns be printed in capitai letters or with sniall letters to be must easily read? The Science Scio ice says that the eye rea da words and word trroups easiest which are most familiar. The small letti-i configuration is read quicker and with greater ease by most people than the larger but lcss famiUax capitai lettera.

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GIRL

By ROY J. GIBBONS SEA. Staff Correspondcnt ST. CHARLES, 111., Dee. 21. Through an early marriage, Lester Norris, son of thè town undertaker here, who’s just turned 22 and draws pictures for a living, hopes to bridge thè golden gulf of wealth whieh stands between him and Dellora Angeli, 20, his $40,000,000 heiress bride-to-be. That’s why thè ceremony will be performed early next spring; instead of waiting several more years, until “Lucky Les,” as thè townsfolk here eall him, can advance sufficiently in his art work to enjoy an increase in his present SSO-a-week more or less salary,” as he puts It. Asked how it feels to be engaged to thè w'orld’s richest girl, thè youngster declared that a love such as theirs should no longer be permitted to further brave thè perils and barriers of money. “Other fellows with girls they are planning to marry, should feel happy that their sweethearts haven’t thè wealth that my Dellora has," he* said. * Money Lost Iler "Because of money. I almost lost her —foolish that I was. We had grown up in St. Charles together as kids. We went to thè samo school and ehureh. and she was my girl. I planned for thè day when I could make her my wife. "Then one day carne thè news, they she had been made heiress to all thè fortune of her uncle, ‘Bet-a-Mlllion’ John W. Gates. "I was glad for her of couree. But my heart turned sad. How could I ever ask her to marry me. when ah : had so much and I so cornparatlvely little? “It was thoughts like this that kept me from proposing to her. and then when I did stir tip enough courage to ask thè question, I did it through thè mails. “Before she was just my Dellora. But aster che money carne, things seemed different. But only to me. “Money never made a bit of change in her, nor will it ever. But as I have told you, lt almost cost me thè gir! who will soon become my wife. It just goes to show that a fellow doesn’t know a thing about women. “Not that I ever lost one bit of faith in her, you understand. But it was just that feeling In' me of littleness —she with everythlng, I with very little—that kept me from dreamlng as I had always dreamt. of Dellora as my wife. JPnor Chaps Lucky “That’s why I say. that chaps who are engaged to girls who have no money ought to consider themselves lucky. Because, they might foolishly lct money interfere, and make them afraid to ask thè girl to marry them, when thè girl probably would consent. “Both Dellora and myself agree that since fate decreed she should have so much money, we had hetter be martied as soon as posstble. By marrying young, both of us feel that we can better grow up to an intelligent appreciation of thè future, and more wisely use thè fortune for good whieh has been loft to her. “I (inn'eicnow how Dellora will use ber money, and I don’t care,, so long as she uses it for good purposes, whieh I know she will. However, I’ll be thè provider for tho house and foot thè bills myself. We'll have a sm.Ml car. and perhaps she'll have a maid. Of course IMI have to draw a lot of pietures to pay for things, but with her to inspire me, thè thing will he easy.”

Public Opinion

Traffic Responsibility To the Editor ot The Times Insanlty seems to be involved in the traffic rules of this city. We. have luws against speeding; we have police men lonking for pernierà; wo also have policemen on the streets telling

Tribute , B U REUTOS BRAKET (br. Royal M. Wliitenack of Nnwark, N. J., diod recentiy of meningiti, contraeteti in bis practiec among children. Hi last word were, "How are my little babies getting on?”) READ this. you realista, who eay that man Is Bdfigh, cruel, wallowlng in greed; Read of this doctor—try then if you can To hold your faith tn your remorseless crced Of human soulleesness. In face of. death Waking a moment ere his lìfo was gone, He whispered softly with his dying breath. “How aro my little babies getting on?” I say thè Savior’s spirit is not dead. Whcn one who mode tha chlldreu all his cara Asks. at tho end, bofore his bui has fled Only to know how well tho etiildren faro! Who dare* to sneer that man is but a clod, Wheu therc are words like this to thlnk upon. Words worthy of the gontie Son of Ood—“How aro my little babies getting on?” Brave Man. True Dover, Servant of Mankind; Llvlng, the Little Ones whom Chria- has blossed. He toiled to .aid Dying. they fllled his mind, His final thought before his quiet rost. > His was the faith of man, unselfish, Vast. Tbrougb which. on earth. heaven shall aurely dawti; This Newark doctor. asktng, at the last, “How are tuy little babies getting on?” Copyright. 1922. NEA Service)

Give a Diamond The Gift That Lasts V There is no gift quite as satisfying KM”'. as a diamond. Time dims neither A. i ; its enduring beauty nor its intrinsic 'Wv\ 1 j SMALL STONES OF FINE QUAI,- •• SeII ITY MODESTLY MULL ALL Y-Z)ramonc/s L. S. Ayres & Co. Street Floor

Is Same Sweet Darling , Says

Despite thè $40,000,000 Dellora Angeli (inset) inherited from “Bet a Million” Gates, Lester Norris, her 22-year-old finance, intends to support her by his art work. Ile is shown in his home studio, finishing “ Anticipation,” a magaziue picture whose inspiration, he eonfides, was his bride-to-be.

Good Manners mm In offering a fresh helping to a guest at your table don't emphasize thè fact that lt ls thè second. lt is much better to eay: “Mrs. Smith, do have some of thè chicken.” than "Mrs Smith, won’t you have some more.”

thè machlnes to speed up and they get angry lf lt isn't done. tVVe does a policeman get thè authority to teli a man to speed up when thè law says he cannot speed? I. for one, am against speeding nny place In thè city. I am also against placlng a restralnt on pedestrians. If thè machlnes would go at a low rate of speed thè pedes irians could tuke care of themselves at all times. If a steerlng wheel should breaK when a policeman tells a man to speed up car would run Into tho crowd andCTll several people, who would he responsive for thè aeeldent, tho policeman or thè driver? There are three polnts to look at: The law, thè policeman and thè driver of thè machine. If a driver would kill a person when thè policeman tells him to speed up. could he get around thè law by “passing thè buck” to thè policeman? I predict it will only be a course of Urne until some driver will lose control of bis machino pn ono of thè busy cornerà and klll several people atono Urne. AN OLD RESIDENT. Pearls for Triinniing A gown of gold cloth ls embroid erod In pearl beads and mado with a very irregular hem line. The sleeves are formed of festoons of thè pearls

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New Mexican Indians Ready to Do Snake Dance for Borali

r>V Timrt Sperili WASHINGTON, Dee. 21. —They say that thè Pueblo Indiana down in New Mexico aro gettlng ready to dance tho snako dance in honor of Bill Borali, Senator, whom they cali "Big Chief Not Afraid of Anything." In tho Sonate Public Lands Committee, thero reposes a bill os dead as thè traditional door nail introduced originally in thè Senato by Senator Bursum of New Mexico, disposing of Indian landa set aside for thè Pueblos. The Bursum bill slipped through thè Sonate san publlclty, under KurHiim'a guldance, on tlie last day of thè last sesslon. Carne tho special sossion. Up, then, roso Boruh, remarking that "tho Senato did not understand tho naturo of this bill,” offering a rea-

Who Let Her Wealth Blot

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olution recalling tho bill from thè House Indian Lands Committee and returnlng lt to thè Senato Public Lands Committee, where it is now entombed. CITY BUYS SNOW PLOW At thè request of John F. Walker, superlntendent of Street cleaning, purchase of a snow plow and a tractor for clearing thè streets of snow and slush has been authorlzed by thè board of public Works. Fasliionable Hat An exceptionaily smart hat is of brown panne velvet with a soft, rolling brim of rod leather. smocked in brown silk. Its only trimming is a qulll of smocked leather, lined with tho velvet.

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

THEY are telling Russian children there is no Santa Claus. Many will ask, “Then what is thè United States?” * * • Nice thing about. winter is you can lay off Congress and cuss thè poor Street car Service. • * • Due to Christmas airguns, women will continue their window shopping, to bùy new Windows. • • •

Zaharoff, world’s richest man. is a woinan hater, so some will say that is why he is thè richest man. • • • Even though thè Turks do come from Tartar stock, you would be wrong in calling them thè eream of Tartar. • • • There is a lot of money in working, but it is hard to get. • • l Johnny Weismuller has broken several records in swimming pools, whieh makes Johnny a pool shark. • • • The fastest run on record is thè Christmas run on thè bank.

BY HERBERT QUICK As thè reader stands shading his eyes and looklng at an alrplane roarlng athwart thè sky, he sometimes envies thè navigators their freedom. No rocks, no shores, no impediments, nothing to obstruct thè gaze flave thè vaporous clouds, no foe save thè winds and thè invisible brake of gravity. At last, freedom! The uplooker from' below never realizes that this airship commits trespass over every holding of land below it, that ita owner and operator might successfully be sued for trespass by every land*owner thus “injured,"'and' that such trespass might be enjoined by action in court if all thè land-owners to combine to stop lt. Aerial navigation might be prohiblted by land-owners! “Land,” sald Lord Coke (lst Inst. 4, quoted In 2 B'.ackstone 16, and quoted again by me because it looks so learned), “Land hath also in its legai significatiop, an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards. Cujus est solimi, ejus est usque ad caelum is thè maxlm of thè law. ” In plain American, “he who owns land owns to thè center of thè eartn, and up to thè sky—” and I might cite plenty of American cases establishing this rule. Slxteen years ago thè present scribe wrote a romance called “Virginia of thè Air Lines,” it's out of print, now, so this cannot be construed as a advertisement (but lt was a bully tale, tf you take my word for it!), thè

Who Owns thè Air?

crisis of whieh was thè tying up of a great System of aerial navigation by a crazy loon narned Crsi£h<? a d by injunction obtained without aid of Attorney General Daugherty, against trespasses on lands in that part of thè sky owned by my hero. I wonder if some one in thè American Bar Association hasn't been reading my old novel! Whether this be true or not, its committee on a unlform aviation act has formulated a bill whieh, among other things, is meant to keep any future Craighead from tying up thè Industry of aviation. It proposes to have all States pass a law making thè ownership of lands subject to thè right. of aviatore to fly over It. It won't do, gentlemen! Such a law would be unconstitutional. ,It would deprive us land-owners of our right to our sky without compensation. What you seek to establish ls thè highest kind of a highway over my farai, without paying me. We land monoplists will tight to thè last cloud and star. You say this right to thè sky is absurd? Well. what if it is? We develop a high civilization whieh makes land valuable, and we allow land owners to sell this civilization year by year as rental value, or outright in thè consideration of deeds, and to make thè landless go naked. shelterless and idle, instead of taking thè value of land for thè public who gave it. Isn’t that woree? Sit down and masticate that for a while, and you may see that it is far more fateful, and mavbe just as absurd as thè right to thè sky.

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