Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1924 — Page 5

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924

WATER QUESTION AT BLOOMINGTON BELIEVED SOLVED $1,000,000 Raised to Assure Project—Mass Meeting in Celebration. By Time* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 18. — Citizens seemed assured of completion of the Griffy Creek water works project today. Business was practically stopped here Monday while more than 10,000 citizens gathered in a great mass meeting at the courthouse and celebrated the subscribing of nearly a million dollars by business men of the town to finance the proposed water works, the solving of a water supply question of the town twenty-five years standing. Every business house was closed and the town was decorated with flags. Citizens said the meeting the largest and most remarkable ever held in the city, not excepting political gatherings. Short addresses were made by prominent citizens, including President William Lowe Bryan, Roy O. Pike, local banker: Judge Robert Miers, Edwin R. Fletcher. Judge Ira Batman and Mrs. T. J. Louden, president of the Local Council of Women, spoke. Mrs. Louden circulated a petition I art week asking the mayor's sanction of the water works project. Mayor Harris has opposed the proposition. Recently the Showers Brothers’ USE “TIZ" FOR SORE, TIRED, ACHING El Good-bye, sore feet, burning feet, swollen feet, sweaty feet, smelling feet, tired feet. Good-bye, corns, callouses, bunions and raw spots. No more shoe tightness, no more limping with pain or drawing up your face in agony. “Tiz” is magical, acts right off. “Tiz” draws out ail the poisonous exudations which puff up the feet. Use “Tiz” and forget your foot misery. Ah! how comfortably your feet feel. A few cents buy a box of “Tiz” now at any drug or department store. Don't suffer. Have good feet, glad feet, feet that never swell, never hurt, never get tired. A year’s foot cmfort guaranteed or money refunded.—Advertisement.

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Weekly Book Review — —— College Professor Has Nerve Enough to Place Walt Whitman in Proper Place

LBy WALTER D. HICKMAN ~ IT has been done. | What are you raving about __J now? And, believe me, I have the/right to howl with joy. Somebody actually has had enough backbone to name Walt Whitman as one of America’s contributions to the “society of the world’s Olympians.” The somebody is Bruce Weirick, associate in English at the University of Illinois. Weirick does this bold and noble thing in his new book, “From Whitman to Sandburg in American Poetry.’’ It is a 1924 publication of The Macmillan Company, New York. I remember that I received a sound “spanking” years ago p.t home when I was discovered to possess under the pillow of my bed a copy of Whitman’s poems as well as a Jesse James thr.ller. Probably the spanking was caused by the J. J. version of thrills instead of the poetry, but both books were removed. But times do change. Here is a university professor who is brave and honest enough to give Whitman a definite place in American poetry. Here is the way Weirick places Whitman: '“For what Homer was to the early Greeks, Virgil to the Roman Empire. Dante to the Middle Ages, and Shakespeai'fe to Renaissance England, Whitman has become to our early American Democracy.” And again: “The other check to his j vogue, his lack of what we know to- i day as Puritan views in morals, is a more controversial theme, and one Just now much in vogue for discusFumiture Manufacturing Company, Bloomingcon’s largest industry, an nounceJ a "61111100 dollar expansion program. This was halted pending settlement of the water question. It is expected the program will now be I carried out.

TRYING TO START ON A SHOESTRING Bridegroom-to-Be Lacks Sufficient Money for License, For half an hour the couple labored filling out a marriage license application Then the man. who gave his occupation as a dancing master, threw a 82 bill on the county clerk’s counter. “It’ll be 50 cents more.” he was informed by Deputy Clerk Ray Buennagel. Frantic search of pockets unearthed some small change. “Two dollars and thlrty-flve cents Is all I got.” the almost bridegroom said in a small voice, after an eloquent silence. “Have you got 15 cents?” he asked, turning to his future cook. “Haven’t got a cent,’’ she replied, and out they marched. They have not returned. “Goodnight, Ray’ Why didn’t you loan them 16 cents?” indignantly inquired a woman deputy who is thinking of getting married. “Yes. and about the first fight they ! would be holding me responsible for I their marriage," explained Buennagel. Fireman Convention Arranged : By Cnited Pri es FT. WAYNE. Ind.. March 18.— | Plans for entertainment of delegates ! to the nineteenth annual convention !of the Northern Indiana Firemen’s Association, to be held here June 18 | and 19, will be formulated at a gen- | eral meeting of committees here to- | night. When Nerves Are Unstrung The Remarkable Effect of Wheeler's Nerve Vltaiixer That Brings Sound and Restful Sleep. Send for Large Free TritkJ For some reason your nerves are exhausted and yon do not sleep. Mrs. Minnie Hildebrand. Fox 124, Lafayette, Ohio, writes: “It was a glad day when I sent for the sample of \\ heeler s Nerve Vitalixer I was so bad and nervous I jerked and shook like a leaf. With the first dose of your medicine. I began to feel like myself and I sleep so good. All say How much better you look.’ ’* 4- i SC ??h i L° I , Oe ?n , K to i W Brant Cos . Dent * A, on ' Mich., for a large free trial of this wonderful sleep producer and you can then get the regular size at most anv drug store at fc 10 a bottle—Advertise ment. r

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sion. Suffice to say that though he is very frank in matters which in his day it had been agreed that decent people should not mention, he was not indecent, at least not in the way that Byron or Fielding or Shakespeare or Boccaccio had been so . . The university professor also has this to say regarding Whitman: “His gospel of nudity, which he developed

Some Important New Spring Books Houghton Mifflin CCompany announces many important new spring publications. The list includes the following with notes from the publisher: “Mistress Wilding,” by Rafael Sabatini. In the stirring days of Monmouth’s Rebellion, Anthony Wilding compelled into wedlock an unwilling bride. Ruth Westmacott became “Mistress Wilding” not for any love of the sardonic Anthony, but to save the “young fool” who was her brother. "Bardelys the Magnificent," by Sabatini. In “Bardelys the Magnificent” the American public is introduced to Sabatini at his best, and in anew historical field and age—France of the early fifteenth century —but as in all his novels, his > sound historical lore never overweights the tale for the average reader. “The Three Hostages,” by John Buchan. To Richard Hannay, living at his ease in the charming British countryside, comes a call which precipitates him into the midst of a Bolshevik intrigue which carries him again over the map of Europe, Involves him in some deep mysteries, and in the end all but costs him hi& life. “Andora," by Isabelle Sandy. The eternal tragedy of the peasant, the struggle for the soil, the passionate desire for land which arraigns brother against brother —this earth-old theme is shot through with the beauty of love, the beauty of the wild Anflorra mountains and the beauty of Mile. Sandy’s style. "Andora” was published in France last fall. “Clubfoot the Avenger," by Valentine Williams. "Clubfoot the Avenger” recounts the further thrilling adventures of Major Okewood and his brother Francis in running to earth the machinations of Dr. Grundt, Clubfoot.

CAR COMPANY HAS PROMISES TO FILL Street Railway, Seeking Increased Fare, Has Laid No Original Paving for Eight Years,

The Indianapolis Street Railway Company, which is seeking higher fare, has not laid any original pavement between car tracks for about eight years, declared -John L. Elliott, city civil engineer, today. The result has been that the paving outside the tracks has suffered, because water seeped under it from the unpaved track section, and because heavy vehicles broke chunks of paving from the unprotected edges next to the car tracks. Notable instances. according to Elliott, are the unpaved sections of tracks in the improved sections of Boulevard Pi. and E. Michigan St. Under the franchise which the street railway “got out from under” by surrendering to the public service commission in 1921, the utility agreed to pave its tracks at the same .time the rest of the street was improved. The administration of the late Mayor Joseph E. Belf had considerable trouble getting the company to abide by this agreement. The Charles W. Jewett administration carried on the fight with equal lack of success, and the Shank administration likewise has been unable to get the company to lay a single brick in such situations. “Gentlemen’s Agreement" After the company surrendered its franchise, controversy raged for months as to whether or not It still was required to pave tracks or even keep track paving in repair. Finally the public service commission ruled the company should repair paving but need not pay for original paving. The city was not satisfied with this and maintained its original position. During the 1923 Legislative session

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in order to show in an emphatic way that he thought the body the equal and mate of the soul, seemed to many indecent. Yet his purpose even there was a fair one: to show the emotions as real and yet as spiritual.” Riley and Newspaper Poets Are Discussed by Weirick This book has great value because it gives a splendid critical study of the development of American poetry. It is complete and carries authority with it. In discussing “The Poetry of the People,” he discusses James Whitcomb Riley, Will Carleton and others. “The most popular poet of the seventies was Will Carleton (1845-1912), the sale of whose books ran to almost a million, and who was the forerunner of his literary twin of the next decade, the great Hoosier, James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). . . . Both are sentimental, homely poets, whose greatest tribute is a tear. Both dote on reminiscence, ‘Out of the Old House, Nancy;’ ‘The Good Old-Fash-ioned People;’ . . . ’The Old Swimmin’ Hole;’ ‘An Old Sweetheart of Mine.’ Both delight in showing how boys who smoke and swear abandon their mothers to the poorhouse, as in Riley’s ‘Philiper Flash.’ ” Under the chapter of “The NewsI paper Wits,” this university professor does not iay “pooh pooh” to the late B. L.*J\, Eugene Field. Edgar Guest, James Montague, Walt Mason and other day poets and columnists, but finds time to study their contributions. Weirick Brings A New Note to Bear on Poetry In speaking of B. L. TANARUS„ Weirick writes: “Sometimes, as in the case of B. L T.. whose recent death left the whole Middle West without its breakfast companion, the position held by one of these poets and wits takes on the authority of a mild literary dictatorship, one the whole the most genuine dictatorships, for it must be won by good sense, distinction of style, some knowledge of the classics, and a taste that is kindly and hu mane." Now don’t you have more faith than ever in college professors? He even discusses the chief figure (Carl Sandburg) In middle western poetry of today. “From Whitman to Sandburg In American Poetry” strikes anew and human note In what you and I want to knew about American poetry. It is a gem. That Is what this book Is.

a "gentleman's agreement" was reached between the city and company, according to Elliott, that the company should pay the cost of track j paving in excess of the rate for the : section of the street where there were ;no tracks. This meant, for Instance, I if the cost of paving the section outj side tracks were $4.50 a lineal foot j and the cost between tracks, by reai non of the extra labor necessary in laying base around ties and fitting the j surface material along tracks, $5 a [ lineal foot, the company would pay 50 cents a lineal foot and the property owners J 4.50 for the track paving. Company Repudiates Now, Elliott says, the company has indicated, In recent conferences, that It repudiates this verbal agreement, i The company contends, according to the engineer, that it only agreed to pay excess cost where the company desired a higher grade pavement between tracks than was called for in the contract for the rest of the street. The company has not been put to actual test upon the point since no street with car tracks on it has been paved since the reputed agreement was made. Elliott said. Meanwhile some citizens interested in seeing that the public have all the facts before company is permitted to Increase its fares take the position that the company should fulfill all its moral and legal obligations to the city before it asks for further favors. ‘WI’CRAY SHOULD GO’ Cravens Says Republicans Owe It to Indiana to Get Governor Out. By Times /Speciel LEBANON, Ind., March 18.—Senator Joseph M. Craven of Madison, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, told party workers here Monday that honesty in government is more important now than new legislation. Cravens said it was time for a housecleaning at the Statehouse. He said there is much talk of calling a special session of the Legislature to impeach the Governor in case of his conviction. “The Republicans owe it to Indiana to get Governor McCray out of office without the use of legislative action," Cravens said. Scholastic Record Best By Times Special COONVILLE, Ind., March 18.—This towns is celebrating receipt of information from Miss Blanche Merry, State attendance officer, that Coonvilie’s scholastic record is the highest in the State. The average of 90.71 was made by the school’s thirty five pupils for the first six weeks of the new semester. Autoist Hurt at Grossing By Times Special LOGAN SPORT, Ind., March 18.— Miss Edna Hein, 19, is suffering severe injuries today as the result of a machine in which she was riding with Gilbert Patterson being struck by a Pennsylvania freight train here. The auto was demolished. Contracts Let for City Hall By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 18.— Logansport Is to have anew city hall. Contracts totaling about |200,000 have been let for construction of the | building.

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