Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1924 — Page 8

BAKER EMERGES AS GREA T ORA TOR

William Jennings Bryan Fail; —Fred Van Nuys By FRANK J. TAYLOR Times Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. June 30. The Democratic convention may not have much to show in way of a candi.'-ale for President, but it has made good progress toward locating the oratorical wonder of the party. He is not William Dennings Bryan and he is Newton D. Baker. Baker’s plea before the convention for the League of Nations plank raised the convention to its highest pitch of emotion since it started. Diminutive, wan from sleepless nights, Baker played upon the feelings of hife audience as an organist handles his keys, and when he finished, women all over the garden were sobbing and men w r ere breathing hard. Yet Baker lost his cause. After he finished speaking, delegates began thinking it over, and most of them decided that their heads should rule their hearts. Bryan Fails A short time later, Bryan rose to speak. Delegates waited breathlessly to see what the old-time spellbinder would do with that enormous crowd. They waited in vain. Bryan never captured his audience. Hostile when he started, the NewYorkers in the galleries interrupted Bryan with hisses and catcalls. Folks who watched Bryan Saturday night found it hard to realize that a quarter of a century ago this same man, then unknown and inexperienced, went to St. Louis, and when a similar opportunity occurred, captured his party, nomination and all. with oratory- alone. Why did Bryan's eloquence fail him? It may have been a row of three little disks, microphones, directly in front of him when he faced the pulpit and a cluster of mega-

Gone, But Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen beldng to: Harry E. Smith, 2242 E. Pruitt St., Chevrolet, from Wabash St. and Capitol Ave. Chester Harris, 938 Edgemont St., Ford, from same address. Oscar Featherston, 1923 Central Ave., Chevrolet, from Ohio St. and \Capitol Ave. Arthur Webber, 1026 N. Pershing Ave., Ford, from Market and West Sts. Thomas Mullin, Oneida Hotel, Nash, from 127 W. Georgia St. William A. Alexander, Rushville, Ind., Oakland, from in front of Columbia Club. Monument PI. Coleman Davis, 132 W. Tenth St., Chevrolet, from 2350 Sherman Dr. Robert Hiner, 4417 Central Ave.. Nash, from Market and Delaware Sts. Harry H. Monks, Shelbyville, Ind., Hudson, from Delaware and Ohio Sts. William Raub, 102 N. T -aub Ave., Ford, from Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts, Ross Ingells, Kokomo, Ind., from Ohio and Meridian Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN An automobile reported found by police belongs to: Ro’k ' Mills, colored. 953 Colton St., S s-Booth, found at 1332 W. Washir-ton St.

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to Register With Audience Moves Crowd, phones above his head that worked Bryan’s undoing. In the old days, folks drove miles to listen to Bryan speak, -because they- could hear his stentorian roar. They couldn’t hear the average speaker. Today, with the aid of mechanical devices, the entire 15,000 persons packed into Madison Square Garden, could hear every speaker. Baker Was Heard ■she more ordinary the speaker, the better ha registered by Microphone and radio. Baker faced directly ahead, and was heard. Bryan, orator of the old school, turned and twisted and was heard but half the time. The effect was weird indeed. 51 The gentle art of oratory in not an art any more. It is science. Any person with a moderately good voice, and something to say, can be heard if he will read his remarks distinctly. % Women are the exception to the rule at Madison Square Garden. They have failed as speakers, largely because they have tried to force their voices and have shrieked. This doesn't go far Mrs. Izetta Jewel Brown of West Virginia. Having a stage career behind her, Mrs. Brown knows how to amuse folks. Folks responded. It is doubtful if any but one nomination speech helped any candidate get votes. The nominating speeches were oratory wasted. The one* that wasn’t was made by a man named Van Nuys, from Indiana. He was smart enough to limit hid speech to 200 words. He helped his candidate.

Hoosier Briefs ■ ' E l- " - " LWOCD police are “doggone” sore. _JThieves entered the police station and made away with a suit case , of beer, seized in a raid. Some jack the peeper at Tipton i3 out of luck. Police found his flashlight in front of a window of a prominent home. Two squirrels cost Russell Kelly. Greensburg farmer, plenty. Squire Creath fined him $47 for possession during the closed season. EYMOUR telephone comcompany is mystified. A tjueer current set all of the telephones in Seymour ringing. Everett Ault, manager, said the switchboard looked like a Christmas tree lighted up. Spencer boys are threatening the girls with “no candy, no flowers, no movies, no nothing,” unless they ‘throw’ over Purdue University students encamped for the summer near the town. . Scoble & Son’s grocery at Washington is nfystifled by its popularity. Thieves have visited it six times. A 1 DRIVER for Cad's taxi line at Attica drove up to i.. a filling station and held a lighted match down into the tank to see how much gas he needed. He will live. George Lively, Arcadia, lived up to his name when he fell between two cars while “braking.” He escaped with minor injuries. Dr. I. M. Sanders. Greensburg physician, told Judg% Craig in Cir cult Court that the reason Roy Bry ant could not provide for his qhild was because he had flat feet and was unable to work.

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BEGIN UEKE TODAY John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, whose war wounds left him unfit for manual labor, pawns an ivory miniature of his mother in order to pay his week's rent to his landlady and to buy food. A prosperous-looking, fur-collared stranger, whom he saw in the pawnshop, stops Ainsley. takes him to his ho’ne. and feeds him. The man throws 15 or 20 thousanddollar bills on the table, admits he is a bootlegger and an all-round crook, anil attempts to enlist Ainsley as an accomplice!. Justly feeling Insulted, Ainsley pays the crook for his supper and leaves the room, preferring starvation—or even suicide—to accepting- the other man's proposal. NOW GO ON WITH”THE STORY SROSE from the bed and opened my suitcase. I was sure that there was nothing in it that would identify Mrs. Gannon’s missing lodger as John Ainsley, but I wished to be positive. Pride forbade that even after I was dead, persons who once had known me should know the humiliation of my end. I closed the case and sat down once more upon the bed, to gather all my strength. As there I thought of the man who had fed me. The display of money which he had made was assurance that he was an extremely successful criminal, probably one of those "super-criminals” created by the police to cover up their own incompetence. I laughed at the idea. This man was nothing but the most mediocre sort of person. Beyond a vicious cunning, he possessed no mentality at all. The reason for his success lay in the fact that the men opposed to him, were also mediocrities. Imagine a man of real intelligence devoting himself to the stupid career of crime detection! Graduated pej icemen were ithe detectives who society against the schemes of such as my fur-coilared friend. Pnd while a policeman may be morally and "physicalljA an exceptional person, mentally he must be on the level of a laborer. The super-criminal existed only in the newspapers. In reality he

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

was such a persoo as my fur-col-lared friend. And the limitations of that person had been made clearly evident to me tonight. He knew his limitations himself, end had asked my aid to overcome them. Why, if I chose. I could be a supercriminal, a real one, not a myth invented to please the writers of newspaper headlines and their readers.

I KNEW HIM TO BE DARAGON. THE JEWELER. It would serve society right if I turned against it. I was a gentleman, a. man qualified to act as arbiter in matters of taste and culture, a man admirably familiar with the arts. Yet the world passed me by, and preparred to bestow /its honors and rewards upon a glorified grocer or a vender of pig iron. It had taken ten generations of aristocratic forbears to produce me. While I did not profess to own the creative instinct, nevertheless, by sheer virtue of my family traditions, I was qualified to judge the works of oreatlvf! artists and say: “This is good; tha'„ Is bad."

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Such as I were produced upon this earth to guide and instruct the common people. We were not meant to battle in tawdry ways or the gross material things of life. The supreme achievement of evolution is the gentleman: and society permits a gentleman to starve. I can conceive no harsher indictment against society. Then I smiled at my own heat. I had had my opportunity to become a criminal earlier this evening, and had refused it. I had no intention of changing nr nind, and accepting the offer of my fur-collared friend. So, ‘i'c'n, if me die, as a gentleman should, without repinings, or anger, or sneers, or other vulgarities. And let me die, as unfortunately I had not recently lived, upon a full stomach. There were placed in New York where one might sti’l dine, frugally it is true, but amid clean surroundings. in an atmosphere of breeding, for the small sum that still remained to me. Such a place was Carey's, an Italian table-d'hote restaurant south of Washington Square. Dinner could be procured there for a dollar and a half; with twenty-five cents for cigarettes, there would still be a quarter for the waiter. I regretted that the check-boy in the coatroom would he forced to get along without a gratuity from me. With my stomach filled, puffing at a cigarette, I would stroll leisurely to the west, coming at length upon a dock on the North River. After that*—who knows? There was no need to say anything to Mrs. Gannon. Tomorrow or the next day, finding my room unoccupied, she would rent it to someone else; I had paid her for a week in advance, and she would consider my departure something in the nature of an unexpected profit. There was not the slightest danger that she would report my absence to the police. She would confiscate my poor suitcase and its meager contents, and gain still another petty profit. So I walked downstairs, much stronger than when I had done so on my way to visit Weinberg, but still weak and hungry again. In the hall little Peter met me. “When you goin’ to make a penny disappear for me, Mr. Ainsley?” he demanded. I smiled at him. •“I'm going to make something bigger than a penny disappear, Peter,” I told him. “When?” he asked. “Pretty soon.” I replied. “Will. you let me see you?” he asked. >. "You’ll know about it,” I assured him. * • • Smiling at my double-entendre, I left the house. And as I wajked to-

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ward Carey's, my resolution grew stronger. If a man can't live as a gentleman should live, why live at all? Life is rather unendurable at best; only comfort and luxury mitigate its severity. I laughed as I passed rows of tenements. What fools these people were to continue in the prison of life! A tragically humorous thought occurred to me; suppose that these people who lived in these grimy tenements, and .in similar or worse habitations all over the world, should decide to quit the bitter struggle for mere existence? Suppose, instead of going on strike, or starting riots, or turning Bolshevik, they chose by lot a certain number. and that certain number immediately killed themselves? On the next day, another number would kill themselves, and the remainder would declare publicly their intention of following the suicidal example. In a week or two society would be so alarmed that it would be offering paPaces on Fifth Ave. to the poor if they would merely consent to live. It was, I flattered myself, a quaint conceit, as sane as most revolutionary nostrums, and I was smiling as I entered Carey's. I was still smiling as I finished a very satisfactory meal, and leaning back in my chair, consumed my eighth cigaret. Life was not a complex thing, after all. At least, If one didn’t find it simple, one simply stepped out of its absurd complexities. For instance, that girl who sat across the narrow room from me would be indutiably better off if she joined me on my stroll to the dock than if she remained with Ihe gross beast, who was her dinner companion. For she patiently showed that he disgusted her. Pretty, extremely so, with black hair and blue and, I guessed from what appeared above the table, a charming figure, she belonged to youth, not to bloated age. And the fact that her eyes were hard and mercenary made no difference. They were so merely because advantages had been denied her. I could discern that the atentions of her companion sickened her. Yet though I could see her shrink at the touch of his flabby hand upon her own, she did not push it away. She smiled and apparently answered terms of endea-ment with verbal caresses. Unquestionably he was rich! Doubtless she was to share his wealth. Well, I was glad to be about to leave a world where such things were endured. I raised my hand to beckon to my waiter. Then I dropped it, for into the room came my fur-collared friend, advancing to the table wherj sat the couple who had excited my disgusted interest, them

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

cordially, being hailed delightedly. I wondered if these were part of the gang which I suspected must be associated with him. Then, noting a meaning glance exchanged between him and the girl. I knew that while she might be an associate of his. her gross companion was, if not already a victim, destined to be one. I postponed my departure. I had two cigarettes left; amusement would go well with my last tobacco. And inasmuch as my acquaintance of the early evening had turned his back to me as he sat down, there was no danger that my presence would interfere with his plans—provided, of course, that he had any plans, and that I had not misinterpreted the pregnant glance between him and the girl. As I watched the three, the gross man produced a little box from his waistcoat pocket. It was the sort of box that would contain a ring, and the sight of it evoked memories. I wondered that I had not recognized the huge-featured man before. For years ago I had more than once entered his jewel ry establishment on Fifth Ave. I knew him to be Daragon, one of the most famous jewelers of America, and one of its most notorious rogues. He had changed greatly since I had seen him striding pompously through the aisles of his fashionable establishment. Added years of loose living had brought more flesh and

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that dead pallor to his face. But 1 recognized him: the sight of the lit* cardboard box had aroused remembrance. I had bought triAkets in my day. So, wondering what might be the rr'-ailing of Daragon’s presence in the company of a self-confessed crook, I watched them. I saw the girl open the little package. I saw her lands tremble as she t unfastened the string that tied it. I saw her lip* part in a gasp of delight. I saw her turn to my friend of the earlier evening and address words that, from her manner, seemed to be appealing. (Continued in Our Next Issue) INTERNES ARE ASSIGN^ By Times Special W BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 30. Nine of fourteen Indianapolis medical students graduated from Indiana University School of Medicin* have been appointed to Indianapolis hospitals. They have been assigned as follows: Donovan H. Givens and Willard P. Bice. Provident Hospital. Chicago; Archie D. Erehart. Postgraduate Hospital and medical School. Chicago: Harold W. Gillen. United States Naval Hospital, Norfolk. Va.: Fred W. Tavenner. Saytrs J. Miller and Henry G. Backer, Methodist Hospital. Indianapolis: William S. Ankenbrock and Flavius E. Ullrey, St. Vincent's Hospital. Indianapolis: Harold M. Trusler and Walter L. Portteus. Robert W Long Hospital. Indianapolis: Hubert B. Pirkle and Floyd Roberts, city hospital. Indianapolis. John C. Stueki will attend the University Nanking Language School, Nanking. China.