Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1924 — Page 6

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I RED RIVER OIL FIGHT COLLAPSES i Effort to Repeal Bill Dropped by Congress. By C. A. RAXDAU, Timet Staff Corrrepondent "WABHIXOTON, Apnl 23.—Threatened efforts to repeal the Red River Oil Mil. passed by Con tress during the closing days of last session, have practically collapsed. Terre Haute claimants Interested in large tracts of Red River oil lands are regarded here as in no danger of having Congress change the action taken on the measure originally introduced by Senator Watson. Senator Fletcher. Florida, states that he has no Intention of pressing for action on the re peal bill he introduced several months ago. The Watson measure had the effect of turning back to certain claimants many of them from Terre Haute and million dollars' worth of lands in the hands of a receiver appointed by Supreme Court and permitting leasing of river bed oil lands for 191* per cent royalty to the Government. BUSH TALKS TO CLUBMEN Candidate Says Federal Aid to States Tends to Boost Taxes. j Granting of Federal aid to states which must thereby raise a sum equal to the grant Is one of the developments which Is tending to increase taxation," Edgar D. Bush, Salem, candidate for Republican nomination for Governor told members of the Mercator Club Tuesday.

Weekly Book Review — History of West Told by a Poet in New Book, *.Barbed Wire and Wayfarers’

By WALTER D. HICKMAN S*’" EN*TIMENT is not generally associated with barbed wire, i___J but a poet of the day not only sees romance and life in barbed wire but he ajso sees life of another day. : Edwin Ford Piper began writing poems years ago, and It remained for the author and the MacMillan Company. publishers, to collect these poems under the title of "Barbed 1 Wire and Wayfarers.” According to Piper: "The TBarned Wire' country lies west of the Missouri; Its years are the early eighties. ‘Wayfarers.’ later in the same decade, la about men walking through the settlement on the road to Den ter.” It Is best to read this volume of poetry as a book instead of as separate poems. The “barbed wire” poems realty tells the story of the early settlers or pioneers. The author states that the title "Barbed Wire" is neither fancy nor a symbol; barbed wire won the land frrm the cowman for the home steader.” You are introduced to the covered wagon days In the first poem. "The Movers." In about twenty-four lines, the poet tells the story of the prairie schooner and the great unknown West. No barbed wire prevented the settlers going West. The barriers were Indians, the climate, nature, wild animals and the like. Wildness Succeeded by Culture Even the titles of the poems tell the history of the West. Some of the titles are as follows: "Dry Bones,” “Once on a Time.” “The Last Antelope.” "The Cowboy." "The Settler," "The Horse Thief," "Barbed Wire,” ‘ The Well," “The Well Digger.” “The Windmill.” “Breaking Sod,” "The Sod House,” “The Drought,” “The Ford at the River,” “The Prairie Fire.” “The Boy on the Prairie,” "Annie," “The Grasshoppers." “The Schoolmistress" and many others. There is a natural beauty to these poems. So much of the poetry of to day is a silly blending of words with no respect to the meaning. There is thought, character and history in the poetry of Piper. Gone are the pioneer days, but

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CHARLES SCHLUDECKER The forty-fifth season of amateur dramatics at Sacred Heart Church will come to a close next Sunday night at St. Cecelia Hall, Union and Palmer Sts. By special arrangement with Samuel French of New York, BIG EVENT AT SOUTH SIDE TURNER HALL TONIGHT "The Rainbow Kimona Girls” will be tonight’s offering of the M. M. M. Club, Kindergarten No. 35, at the South Side Turner Hall. The characters and the cast are announced as follows; Nellie Van Tassel, president of the Kimona Girls. Mrs. Ann Alexander. Ruth Ashton, vice president of the society, Mrs. Harry Cowan.

Piper has caught the echo of those days and has kept the whispers for us in the form of poetry. What *:The Covered Wagon” is to the movies. "Barbed Wire" Is the same to American poetry. tramps of yesterday In "Wayfarers,” Piper introduces us to the tramp of the late eighties. The tramp or the hobo of that period is not the tramp of today. I will let Piper introduce you to Library Books New books of fiction at the Public Library include: "Silver Moon,” E. H. Abbott; “High Place,” J. B. Cabell; “Playing With Souls.” C. (L.) Chambrun comtesse de; "Sands of Oro,” B. E. Grimshaw; “Antic Hay," A. L. Huxley; "Waddington Cipher," W. A. Johnston: “The Sea,” Bernhard Kellermann: “Are Parents People?” Mrs A. (D.> Miller; “Privateers of ’76,” R. D. Paine: "Beggar's Banquet,” Gladys St. John-Loe: "Secret Sevice Smith,” R. T. M. Scott; "Tranquillity House,” A. H. Seaman; “Hopeful Journey,” Mrs. B. K (S.) Seymour. New books of religion, sociology and psychology Include; "How We Remember Our Past Lives,” C. Jinprajadasa; "Prospects of Industrial Civilization,” Hon. B. A. W. Russell; "Dreams and Premonitions.” L. W. Rogers; "Elementary Theosophy," L. W. Rogers. New scientific and technical books include: "Mystery of the Hive,” Eugene Evrard; "Signs of Sanity and the Principles of MenItal Hygiene,” Stewart Paton; “Railroad Electrification and the Electric Locomotive," A*. J. Manson. New books of art, drama and poetry Include: "Phunology," E. O. Harbin: "Violin Mastery,” F. H. Martens: "Euripides and His Influence," F. L. Lucas; "Come Hither.” compiled by W. J. De La Mare.

HELEN HERMAN George M. Cohan’s comedy success, “Broadway Jones,” has been obtained for this event, and the well-known St. Cecelia players will be in the cast. Members of the cast are: Walter Metzler, Frank McKinney, Charles Alice Marvin, treasurer, Mrs. McGinnis. Isabel Sutro, secretary, Mrs. Lela Johnson. Beatrice Courtney, class poet, Mrs. Ethel Lloyd. Oliver Mercer, president of basketball team, Mrs. John Sproul. Winifred Turner, student, Mrs. Addie Graham. Edith Jones, new senior, Mrs. Gretchen Ott.

the tramp of the early days as follows: Tramps, tramps, tramps! Besvars. thieves and gramblers Buffalo skinners, ramblers Men with the prison face—Old red shirt. Stick and bundle. Tramps tramps, tramps 1 Gray. drifting wanderers. Beardless adventurers Powdered with dust— Old red shirt. Stick and bundle. Their backs were to the sunrise. Marching limping-. With a tune in the ear* Os Cripple Creek Denver: Stiver mines in the mountain land. Placer mines In the golden sand: Cattle ranches, roundups. Mushroom cities, railroad camps. Adventure. El Dorado. Aa you proceed with these poems, you encounter the magic charm of the road. its beauty, sadness and even death. You also run across the folk songs of the men of the road. Try this choice bit of a tramp's folk song: Says the railroad man before he died. Roeky-t-ark roeky-traok. rolytru-bo—-“I want you fix 'em trains so the bums can ride—" Rocky-travk. rooky-track, roly-tru-bo. I ride on the trucks. I hang to a rod. I trust my bones in the hands of God Rooky-track, rooky-track, roly-tru-bo. Rocky track, rooky-track, roly-tru-bo. We haven't recorded the folk songs of other days and I am thankful that Piper has kept some of them for us. I enjoyed this book of poems. "Barbed Wire and Wayfarers" is published by The Macmillan Company, New Y’ork. Overcoat and S4O Stolen Robert Crume, 1030 English Ave., reported to police the theft of S4O and an overcoat taken from him near Walnut St. and the canal.

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FRANK M'KINNEY Schludecker, Bertha Hoereth, C. Francis Rathz, Bernard Weimer, Lawrence Feltman, Inez Nordloh, Ortrud Ankenbrock, Albert Hoereth, Helen Herman, Fred Tenner, Alphonse Wendling, Joseph Leppert and Raymond Steffen. Charles Lauck is the director. R.ose Jackson, -naid. Mrs. Patterson. William Staump is the director. There will also be a musical program, dancing and singing. It will be a great night at Turner HalL -1- -I" + NEW PICK FORD MOVIE BOOKED AT B. F. KEITH’S. The last bill of winter vaudeville will be offered at B. F. Keith's starting next week after which the management has arranged to show Mary Pickford In her latest release 'Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" from the novel of the same name by Charles Major. This is aid to be one of the biggest things that Miss Pickford ever did during her career as a ecreen artist. During the Intervening time the stage crew, property men .and scenic artists will be busy building and painting various stage settings for the Aborn Opera Company which will begin Its musical comedy season starting Monday, May 19, In Victor Herbert's 'Sweethearts." The Aborn company Is now rehearsing In New York, where costumes and other properties are being assembled. This will be one of the most complete producing companies that has been seen in this c.lty In years and with the facilities of both the Aborn and the B. F. Keith organizations no detail will be overlooked to make the pres I entatlons complete In every way. j There will be twelve principals ' whose names will be announced later in the company and a chorus of twenty-four. *f- *i* *l* Attractions on view today Include "The French Doll" at English's, Van i and Schenck at Keith's, movie exposij tlon at the fairground. Fr>' and Wes | ton Revue at the Palace. Grace CamI eron at the Lyric, "The Cowboy and tjie Lady" at the IJitcoln Square. "Sliding” Billy Watson at the Capitol, "Girls From the Follies” at the Broadway, “Triumph” at the Ohio, "Conductor 1492" at the Apollo, "The Goldfish” at the Circle, "Forty Horse Power Hawkins" at the Isis, and "Ls | les of the Field” at Mister Smith's. Arson Trial Continues IH v 7'ime* Special SHELBY VILLE, Ind.. April 23. i Sixteen persons testified Tuesday in | the second trial of Rev. Ulysses I Johnson, charged with arson in con | nection with the burning of the Waldron Baptist Church. The jfiry failed I to agree in the first trial.

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STEVE HARTER IS ROBBER VICTIM Fight Promoter'Bound in Chicago Hotel Room: Edward W. (Steve) riarter, Indianapolis boxing match promoter was boi#hd and gagged in his room in a downtown Chicago hotel Tuesday night and robbed of jewelry valued at SI,OOO according to word received by relatives today. Harter said he worked himself to the door after two hours and summoned help by kicking on the panel. Harter left last Sunday and will return Thursday. The bandits, with a drawn gun, entered Harter’s room when he responded to their knock, according to a Chicago dispatch. Harter was bound to his chair with strips the bandits cut from the sheets and a gag prevented his making an outcry while the bandits searched the room for money they insisted he had hidden. Their search lasted an hour. The loot included a diamond ring, a $350 diamond stud and Harter’s overcoat.

Reduced Prices for Electricity Have Been The Rule in Indianapolis The recent complaint of the President and Secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce that the last reduction of rates for electricity made by the Public Service Commission have been nullified by the increase of the demand rates has been shown by Merchants Heat & Light Company to be unsupported by the facts. Their second suggestion that, if present conditions or rate making are continued, Indianapolis will become an Industrial Wilderness, is equally untrue. Asa matter of fact, the recent industrial growth of Indianapolis has been coincident with a continuous process of reduction of the price of Electric Energy. Merchants Heat & Light Company derives its income from the rendering of Electric and Heating services. In July, 1913, a Reduction in both Electric Rates and Steam Heating Rates was ordered by the public authorities. In March, 1915, a Second Reduction in Electric Rates was ordered by the public authorities. In September, 1915, a Third Reduction in Electric Rates, and a second one in Heating Rates, this time affecting the supply of heat by Hot Water Service, was ordered by the public authorities. In December, 1915, a Fourth Reduction in Electric Rates was ordered by the public authorities. * • 6 sl In March, 1916, a Fifth Reduction in Electric Rates was ordered by the public authorities. From March, 1916, to April, 1922, the Elec trio Rates remained the same, but from time to time certain surcharges were authorised to meet the conditions of increasing expense for coal and labor. These surcharges amounted, under the order of September, 1917, to one-half cent per kilowatt hour, under the order of September, 1918, to seven-tenths of a cent per kilowatt hour, including and not being in addition to the previous allowance; and under the order of July. 1920, to one and two-tenths cents per kilowatt hour, including and not being in addition to the last previous allowance. There was a total of 16 different classes of rates in effect from March, 1916, to April, 1922. In April, 1922, all previously existing rates were cancelled and four classes of new’ rates established, In June. 1922, a modified order established anew rate, “Class E,” for cooking and battery charging service. In June, 1923, a final supplemental order was mad£, affecting the rate established in April, 1922, reducing Power Rates for “Class D’’ customers, and favorably affecting industrial users of Electricity. This was the Sixth Reduction in 10 years. In February, 1924, Order No. 7,510, effective with billings for March, was made, reducing the cost of electricity to large commercial light and power consumers. This was the Seventh Reduction in 11 years. The effect of the reductions in electric and heating rates in Indianapolis, made by the public authorities since and including September, 1922, covering the last two and one-half years, has effected a reduction in the income of Merchants Heat & Light Company, based on its present business, to the following extent: The order of September, 1921, reducing heating rates, has effected a reduction of cost of service to the heating customers of this Company, based on its present volume of business, amounting to $72,686. The order of April, 1922, reducing electric rates, has effected a reduction of jost of service to the electric customers of this company, based on the present volume of business, amounting to, per year, $182,025. The order of February, 1924, reducing rates for electricity, applied to the estimated business of Merchants Heat & Light- Company for the year of 1924, amounts, in addition to the foregoing, to $101,554. Making a total per year of $356,265. People to whom Dollars are Serious Matters, and not Playthings, will appreciate that reductions in rates for electric and heating service amounting to more than Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars per Year, is a serious decrease of the revenue of any public service company. This figure represents a 6 per cent annual income of more than Six Million Dollars a year. It is more than the sum earned in interest by all the savings deposits of any single bank in this city. It was under the operation of these reduced rates for electric power that the Industry of Indianapolis Doubled in the Value of its productions. Increased 50 per cent in the Number of its Employes and Doubled the amount of its Pay Rolls. These are the answers to the charges that existing electric power rates in Indianapolis are a threat to the continued prosperity of industry of this city, and of the honest workers who earn their living* in the shops and factories of this city. MERCHANTS HEAT & LIGHT CO. “THE DAYLIGHT CORNER”

Gone, but Not Forgotten An automobile reported stolen belongs to: E. Rauh & Son. Union Stock Yards, Bulck, from Bird and Ohio Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN An automobile reported found, by police belongs to: Orlando B. Little, Y. M. C. A., sou- and near there. WIFE HUNTS FOR SPOUSE Coatesvilie Woman Reports Husband Missing—Boy Leaves Home. Mrs. Anna Kerten, R. R. I, Coatesville, Ind., asks local police to search for her husband, John Peter Kerten, black hair, brown eyes, scar on nose, wearing brown overcoat. Leßoy Hunt, 15, of 204 W. Wisconsin St., dark complexion, hair and eyes, light brown coat, and trousers, light cap*and tan shoes, was reported missing.

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ENTRIES IN HORST SHOW MOUNTING Polo Games Will Feature Affair at Fairground, j Entries in the second annual horse ' show under the auspices of Ft. Ben- | jamin Harrison officers numbered alI most five hundred today. Performances will be given in the Coliseum at the State fairground at 8 p. m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at 2:15 p. *m. Friday and

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1924

Saturday, with a parade of entries at 7:15 Thursday. Reserved ‘seat; are or, sale at the Severin, Lincoln and Spir,k-Arms hotels, Claypool drug store, Columbia, Indianapolis Athletic, University and, Hoosier Athletic clubs, Chamber of Commerce, and Army recruiting office at Federal Bldg. Ticket sals trill He transferred Thursday evening co the box office at the Cloiseum. Polo games will feature each evening and Saturday' afternoon. The 10th Infantry polo champions, from Ft. Thomas, KKy., will play Friday evening and Saturday. Purse, S2OO in Valuables Gone Mrs. Harry Dunn, wife of the county treasurer, 3615 Carrollton Ave., told police her purse is missing. It contained two diamond rings, a pearl ring, sterling silver ring, and other valuables totaling S2OO.