Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1925 — Page 4

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YTealtli maketh many f.*iends; but the poor ' separated from his neighbor. — Prov. 19:4. A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find.—Plutarch. NO MEA*! POLITICS 2. Making the Punishment Fit the Crime My purpose all sublime I will achieve In time, To make the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime. —The Mikado OON. SAM LEW SHANK has been spending most of his time as mayor in making the punishment fit the crime. The crime usually is committed by a city and consists of not being “right” politically. This matter of being right politically is a serious problem at the city hall. Just what is right politically changing from day to day. Sometimes it changes several times a day. It war. suggested that a bulletin board be installed in the lobby of the city hall telling just what or whom the mayor favors at the particular moment. This finally was declared impractical* however, no one was found who copld print- the bulletins with sufficient rapidity. • • .. For instance, not so long ago, it was as much as a city employe’s job was worth to admit he had as much as heard of Charlie Jewett or Ralph Lemcke. If any one had even suggested that he thought Ralph or Charlie should be elected to anything the punishment would immediately have been made to fit the crime. The employe might even have had to go to work! But now all is changed l The Mikado handed down to all his subjects this edict: £?*-• “Whosoever is not for Lemcke loses his job forthwith.” Whereupon, everybody at the city hall immediately changed his or her mind about the whole political line-up and started admiring Ralph Lemcke. • • • mHAT is, nearly everybody did. There were some, it seems, in the police department who either had not heard of the edict or who didn’t value their jobs particularly. Anyway Lew and his executioner Bill, and his man of all tradei, Police Captain John Zener, got their heads together and decided that these policemen wire not good policemen. But before the heads of these policemen could be laid across the chopping block something happened. A police captain who was politically righteous, or, at least, right politically, proceeded to clean up on two police officers whq were not. He used only his bare fists, but he did a pretty thorough job of it. Did this embarrass Lew and his courtiers f Not a bit of it! They went right ahead and reduced the two officers who were not right politically. They allowed the captain who was right politically to keep his job. They did not even slap him on the wrist. It is not a crime for a policeman who is right politically to beat vp two policemen who arc not right politically. The crime consists solely in not being right politically. • • *■ UT politics is not the only subject about which Lew and his followers change their minds. Remember when Lew was campaigning for mayor. He remarked something like this in many of his speeches: “Boys, this bird Charlie Jewett and his crowd are telling you that when I was mayor before the street car company had a string tied to me. Those guys are wrong as usual. The street car company had a rope tied to me. But I’ve got that rope cut. Now just let ’em dare aak for anything. We’re going to have crosstown lines and low fares and service.” Whereupon the crowd yelled and elected Lew. For the first few days of the administration everybody in the city hall was against the street car company. They called it names and attempted to make nasty remarks abont it in front of Lew as often as possible. Then suddenly one bright morning the word was passed around that it was 11 right ” to be strong for the street car company. Some of the boys and girls in the city hall just succeeded in escaping with their jobs. Some of them haven’t got ever the scare yet. Things had changed. Some of the officeholders even considered having crayon portraits of Robert I. Todd hung in their offices. The street car company got everything it wanted and higher fades were put into effect among the cheers of the mu'titude of city employes. There Lsn’t much question at the city hall as to what the punishment for a crime is. The serious problem is what and when is the crime. ... l

40 Rooms for Sinclair j=TIORTY rooms for Sinclair and party. That is a large order for any hotel. But for one in the lively but not large frontier city of Cheyenne, Wyo., it must have made mine host both stare and gulp. Forty rooms, however, were required, according to the press dispatches—for going to law has become more ponderous in these latter days than it used to be, and men of large affairs must maintain large retinues when they face the judge. Instead of merely appearing personally with your lawyer, as was once the custom, you must now, if you are of the commercial stature of a Sinclair, be accompanied by many lawyers—and other advisers. Hence the order for forty rooms as a feature of the Teapot Dome trial at Cheyenne. What are the duties of this army of l advisers t If we can judge the present by the recent pa3t, we may assume that publicity agents will occupy at least some of the forty rooms, for which Mister Sinclair will settle when the trial is over. The first naval oil lease hearing was held some months ago in Los Angeles. The decision in that case has not yet been handed down. During the trial, planted in the courtroom was a corps of advisers and publicity men. As the trial proceeded these very efficient and obliging young men were always ready to provide information favorable to the Doheny side of the case and to “assist” in any way possible the transmission of the information to the rest of the world. The prosecution, representing the public, was not equipped to furnish any such service. Which merely meana that the defendant—as usual when rich—is always a bit more agile than the public. In these latter days, the hired publicity agent rivals the lawyer in importance and occupies some of the finest of the forty rooms. All of which means a heavier duty on the regular representatives of the press—to tell the real news. Real new*.;being facts, truth, not sugarcoated handouts from hired publicity agents.

Well Done, Shortridge k v rjE of Indianapolis are proud of what your [W| basketball team has accomplished this season. You have supported it loyally anr royally, and in the face of defeat you never wavered in that splendid support. After many seasons of rainy weather in your athletic life, the sun finally broke through tie clouds and the fame of this season’s basketball team carried the name of Indianapolis ’ oldest high school far over the Hoosier State. The other local high schools gave you mighty tough opposition this season, but you stayed right up there in the front line of support, every boy and girl and faculty member. And we believe you are better boys and girls and men and women for the season’s experience. To the Shortridge team: You won every game on your schedule. You deliberately spoiled your wonderful straight-victory record by scheduling an extra game with the State champions, a game which you and your coach had no hopes of winning. You went to the regional and by defeating your opponents in the first round game you entered the select list of the thirty-two best teams out of over six hundred in the country’s premier basketball Stste. You trained faithfully. And in so doing received a lesson in self-discipline not to be learned from books. You finally went down to defeat before a better team —better last Saturday night at any rate, although you had previously beaten that same team earlier in the season. And you are offering no “alibi.** That’s Shortridge. Followers of other teams said you were “cockey,” that you were posers, that your nonchalant entry before the game and your apparently disinterested manner during the game were all “put on.” Sure they were. Only those close to your team and coach know how this psychological “goat getter” was so carefully worked out. It was smart stuff, boys. It was good basketball. It made the other fellow lose his head. It kept him so puzzled that he could not give his best mental efforts toward playing the game. We’ve watched you leisurely stroll out on the floor before the game, straggling along, laughing, talking, greeting friends, in utter defiance of ad high school basketball tradition. We have seen ymr opponents stop practice in amazement at your entry. We have seen you in some of those close games—when a basket or even a foul toss meant a win or loss—when your hearts were breaking—we’ve seen you take a firmer grip on the hand of Old Man Psychology, and come crashing through. Yea team, T-E-A-M, team l

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i .v? 7.1 ™ 1 i .\ ' ?s?■ „ ■/-;' v T’j J - ~.v , , v-v * ' ..-c A Business Man on Business Management the Esterline Angus co. T;r:r CA#l O.fISHCP *■ wr^Tk.n*,. sicm*** t/xoi" MkN*ocM|Nior i Amwu* wcstcruni O-J 1 / C4i.orijHC Manufacturers of Kleclrical Instruments. CASH <oo(** SALES OFFICES IN IFTyNCO* INDIAMAPOM*' INI>IANAPOMS.r.S A. C Tlt * liarch 4, 1925* > i * .. . j Editor, Indianapoli3 Tirae3, Indianapolis, Indiana. * Sir: You have asked me whether I am in favor of the City Manager form of Government, and v7hy. Let me answer. it by asking you and your readers this question: Suppose you take the most successful industrial organization in Indianapolis, divide its stockholders into two factions. Every four years you have an election to decide which faction will run the business for the next four years. When one crowd gets in they discharge the directors who have been serving, and put in their places their friends who helped them win the election. Employees are discharged and hired on the same basis. The employee soon learns that keeping his crowd in power is the important thing for him to do. / „ * f * With constant shifting in management, policies % and personnel, morale goes to the bow-wows. Profits are reduced lower £.nd lovrer, which means lower salaries, less competent men" and more of them to do the work. How long would it be until the institution would be bankrupt? v Now that is the way our cities are managed under the present political system, and it is just the opposite of the way the best industrial enterprises are handled. The accumulated 6kill of able employees who work together for the best interests ‘ of the institution, actuated by the morale ’ - resulting frexa steady, permanent employment, with rewards which will attract and hold able men, is the v greatest asset cf an- industrial institution, and it is something our cities know very little about. People Banetimes wonder why able business men do not t2ce more active interest in our governmental-bodies. It is because there is f ' no direct line to results, and there is no permanency to the thing. When a business man gives time and thought to a thing which is for the good of his city or his state, and a bunch of, peanut politicians can knock it into a cocked hat without five minutes thought, he elects to - put in his efforts where he can get results. I am for city management because it makes possible the application of business principles# and createc conditions under which able men will work. It takes more than four years to build a successful organization. What hope is there for a city when you change it that often? * Yours very truly,

Jackie Coogan Decides Not to Grow Up; * Janice Meredith’ Is Glorious Movie

By V/ALTEk D. HICKMAN ATHER guess that every boy will be asking a question this , I week. On leaving the Apollo yesterday, after seeing Jackie Coogan In "The

Rag Man." a small boy came up to me and asked with great seriousness: "Say. Mister, has Jackie all groaed up?” I assured him that Jackie was as much a “kid"’ in this picture as he has ever been. This seemed to satisfy the lad as he dug deep into one of his pockets and produced the necessas-y coin of the lr.nd which would oass him through liie magic door of the theater. Whoever the

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lad was. I sincerely hope the.t he found Jackie to be as much a "kid’’ aa ever. Rather seems to me that Jaclde has decided not to grew up for a while, at least not right now. Willard Mack, who wrote the story for Jackie, has helped the lad to delay for a short time the long pants period of the boy. In "The Rag Man" Jackie is seen ass. orphan who becomes a partrer.lr \’ie junk business with Max Ginsberg, played with much comedy it'ect by Max Davidson. This plctjre proves that Jackie Is the beet of the child actors. He seems to have tn adult understanding of comedy situations. Jaclke became a star the second that the public saw him with Charlie Chaplin In "The-Kid.” Many people thought that Jackie was great because he had fallen under the spell of the great Chaplin. "The Rag Man” proves that Jackie can cany scene after scene by himself. When Jackie becomes partner of Max under the firm name of “Ginsberg and Kelly,” the real acting chance .'s given Coogan. He hitches up an aid horse by the name of Dynamite aid goes In search of bottles, rags am' the like. When Jackie buys twenty-five bottles for a quart*-, from k lad the best comedy soen is sh _,wn because Jackie is forced t > jrapty pre-war hooch to get the ’> >tt' es In an empty oondltlon. The subject n.it'er Is really adult, but Jackie puts the Juvenile touch to the picture. I believe that the childrt. will love Jackie as much as iever in "The Rag Man” and the adults will find entertainment in the same p'eture that is not too youthful. It’s a safe bet that this new Coogan picture is a box office winner.. And it has universal appeal. Believe that it will please and interest all classes of theater goers, j BUI Includes "Blue Blood.” r

comedy, a news reel, orchestral and organ music. r At the Apollo -all week.

HISTORY IS ENTERTAINMENT WHEN PROPERLY HANDLED If there is any doubt to the problem, “Is history good movie entertainment?” would suggest a visit to the Circle this week where "Janice Meredith” is being presented. D. W. Griffith proved years ago that when action was applied to an historical scene that It wyuld screen with telling effect. This is the theory upon which the director of "Janice Meredith,” based

his hope that the picture would be considered good e n t ertainment although the chief characters step from the printed pages of history. Marion Davies as Janice has a sort of a Mary Pickford way with her in this picture. She is cute at times and always good to look upon. When I saw Miss D a v i e s > in "Uttle Old New York,’’ I felt sure

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that this woman had real talent which was just ready to bloom into a pretty flower. Well her talents are now in bloom In “Janice Meredith." You will ran across George Washington (Joseph Kllgour); Sir William Howe (George Nash): I-ord Cornwallis (Tyrone Power); Thomas Jefferson (Lionel Adams); Louis XVI (Edwin Argus); Paul Revere (Kenneth | Maynard); Benjamin Franklin (Lee fßeggs) and many others. What a cast! It has been selected with great care and with no thought of ■the cost. The comedy relief is furnished by May Vokes, famous on the stage as the best woman In the business playing maid rolels, as a revolutionary maid of all work. She is splendid in this picture. Holbrook Blinn. always a good actor. Is seen as Lord Clowes, a refine*; sort of a viUlain, who thinks he is An love with Janice Harrison Fold as Chs -les Fownes Is the hero of the story. The director has handled Washington crossing the Delaware River in the dead of winter in a fine way. Here Is masterful direction and wonderful effects. The director has used a sort of a Griffith formula of action for the ride of Paul Revere—hoofs, hoofs and more hoofs. “Janice Meredith” cost a young fortune to produce. If I sny it is worth while, some may get the opinion that It is,tiresome. Will say that it is corking entertanimeht. A 'most beaultful picture. BiU Includes a news reel, "News-

paper Fun.” and a good program of music for the feature picture. At the Circle all week. ■ft "I- -ICROSS WORD FEVER HITS THE PIPE ORGAN The cross-word fever is hitting everybody and everything these days. Lester Huff keeps in touch with what the people do in private life. So he captures any new craze and jazzes it up on a perfectly good pipe organ at the Ohio with the use of slides and smart remarks. This week he is playing a musical cross-word puzzle on the organ. Here is smart musical fun. Some-

thing new. It Is the hit of the bill. The feature movie is "Sackcloth and Scarlet” with Alice Terry. The story starts out with a young girl attempting to vamp a bashful he-man guide of a western mountain. The moonlight becomes Elinor Glynnish and the result is not wholesome. The girl runs away from her

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cave man edition of a lover and returns to the home of her sister (played by Alice Terry) with a deep secret. The two sisters go to Europe to hide the secret. Then for a number of reels the innocent sister permits the world to be’ieve that she is the guilty one instead of her sister. Not a pleasant story but well acted by Miss Terry and numerous others. It is one of those sex pictures and I for one do not care for this brand of entertainment. The theme as handled in "Sackcloth and Scarlet" is not offensive but I do not like this brand of entertainment. Have your own idea. Bill includes music by Charlie Davis and his orchestra and other musical features. At the Ohio all week. •I- I- -IToiight at the Murat under the auspMes ol’ Ora B. Talbot, the St. Louis Symphony orche*itra with Rudolph Gaos conducting and acting as soloist, will give the last orchestral concert of the series. 1 Tonight at English’s, Slssle and Blake Will be seen in "The Chocolate Dandles” a colored revue here earlier In the year. Eddie Leonard is the chief event at B. F, Keith’s. Burt and Rosedale offer a revue at the Palaoe. "Tarxan” is an act of importance at the Lyrio. The Isis for the first half of. the week is offering Bunk Jones in "The Trail Rider."

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By GAYLORD NELSON

POLICE ACTIVITY AND CRIME rmq*llVE burglaries occurred iu I M I the very heart of tle downI * I town district Friday night. Loot valued at about SBOO was taken. The following morning a

daylight hold-up of a neighborhood drug store wtus staged. Os course, that wasn’t much of a crime wave—just the customary week-end spatter. Week after week misdeeds are committed against peaceful citizens, and will be until In dlanapolis attains a state of perfection not of this earth.

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To curb evildoers and make life and property of law-abiding persons tolerably secure the city maintains a police force. Those are the only reasons for the department’s existence—to which It should devote all Its eriergy and activity. Consequently, the simple taxpayer must be gratified with the department’s furious activity in the past ten days. That Includes a brawl among officers at headquarters. The losers In the encounter were demoted —the aggressor received a sentence of “tut tut!” It also Includes the shifting of a score of officers—promotions and demotions. Was that to make the force more efficient in safeguarding lives and property of citizens? No. City politics. Saturday another score were shifted for the same reason—city politics. And so until the city primary the police department will seetho with activity—political activity. What has that to do with suppression of crime and preservation of order? WALKING ~~~ FOR HEALTH OC. CONKLIN and wife of Anderson started out this • morning to hike to Kansas City—a distance of 600 miles. They are making the trip for the benefit of Mrs. Conklin’s health. In this age of debt-ridden motor cars and flat-wheeled street cars a 600-mile dose of pedestrlanism is unusual. Most city dwellers would regard suoh a Jaunt with aversion—for walking Is almost a lost art. Human history is liberally sprinkled with blistered feet and stone bruises. Man plodded afoot from the Garden of Eden to the twentieth century. The tramp covered considerable territory and progress even if tedious. Now, however —though man’s first proud accomplishment is learning to walk—feet are seldom used as vehicles of personal transportation. They furnish a livelihood, diamonds and Florida vacations to shoe dealers and podiatrists. Occasionally they are useful to dance U pon—if they belong to some other person. But their principal function in the modern scheme of civilization Is to depress accelerators. Probably most people would find it profitable to use their feet more for walking. Health remains oldfashioned and is frequently found afoot. Os course, a person can’t saunter to a destination among the immortals. But a daily dose of pedestrianism is good for the waist line or a line of thought.

Ask The Times Vou car. get an answer to any aqes- . tion of fact or information by writing io The Indianapolis Time# Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered Ail letters are confidential —Editor Is the railway postal clerks examination a first, second or thirdgrade examination? It Is not any of the three, but Is a special examination In itself. What are the names of the months In the Mohammedan calendar? Muharram, Saphar, Rabia li, Rabla 11., Jornada 1., Jornada 11., Rajah, Shaaban, Ramadan, Showall, Dulkaada and Dulhcggia. Where are the largest sulphur mines in the world located? In Louisiana and Texas. What was the maiden name and the nationality of the mother of Enrico Caruso? Her name was Anna Baldinl. She was an Italian. What does the name "Duquesne" mean? * It is the Norman form of *‘du chene,” meaning "of the oak.” Can' you name ten States whose names are of Indian derivation? Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Mississippi, Dakota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Idaho and Tennessee. Out-of-Doors By HAL COCHRAN We have every reason to know It's the season when kiddies come into their own. The plans they are layln’; the games they are playin’, are envied by folks who are grown. We find that the boys shun their ln-a-door toys, as the summer call gets In their blood. They hie to the open and shortly are gropin’ and playin’ around In the mud. Their tops are brought out with a romp and a shout and their marbias are swung into play. Dad's working at night, flxin’ sonny-boy’s kite, and there’s fun in the offing today. Sedate little Polly Is taking her dolly out riding, and my, but she's proud.' The youngsters today feel the thrill of real play ’cause the (call of the summer I* loud.

DOG TAX GOES TO THE BOWWOWS -IARION COUNTY commit JVI sinners reduced the county dog tax the other day. This action was possible because of the new State law giving counties limited power to fix the canine rates. The cut somewhat blunts the tusks of a full-grown nuisance tax. Nevertheless—with the city license required—keeping a few pups in Indianapolis is still about as expensive as ownership of * blind tiger. The dog tax was originally Intended t 6 create a fund to reimburse farmers and others fbr loss of sheep and fowls through depredations of stray dogs. Probably in some localities such a fund is necessary. But in Marion County last year $32,000 was collected In dog tax and only $72 was paid out tor sheep and fowls killed by dogs. The county collected from this source in 1924 enough money to pay the yearly damages until 2368! Even under the minimum schedule permitted by State law this county must Impose an annual tax sufficient to pay the canine depredations of a century. Here the tax 1r aboht as necessary as a tax on goldfish to pay for havoe wrought, by those ferocious creturse when at large. For a county to be required by the State to levy a tax for a non-existent object is absurd. A lot of State dictation In purely county affairs is equally absurd. Indiana counties could consume larger helpings of home rule without indigestion. JULIETTA AND ECONOMY SMONG the bills—passed by the recent Legislature—suffocated by the gubernatorial “pocket veto” Saturday was the act to transfer the Marion County Hospital for Insane to the State. The Governor’s affection for his economy program Is believed to be the reason for his failure to approve this measure. No taxpayer can quarrel with that high motive. But Marion County, alone of Indiana counties, operates its own insane hospital. All other counties send such sufferers to Institutions maintained at State expense. So this county not only cares for its own insane, at an annual cost of SIOO,OOO, but through its share of State tax contributes almost one-seventh of the support of all others in the State. Which is a specimen of double taxation with teeth in It. Julietta has been a white elephant on the hands of the county. Its maintenance has been costly and unsatisfactory. Friday, county officials announced determination to close It, if the State failed to take it over, and turn Its 300 patients over to State hospitals. That would be a logical and economical policypleasing to county taxpayers. However State asylums are already over-crowded. They can’t accomodate 300 additional patients. Irt this sudden stampede for economy by State and county administrations where does enlightened care for innocent victims of mental disorders get off?

Tom Sims Says No wonder Philadelphia is known as a sleepy town. People staying up late at night look sleepy next day.

Price of haiiv cuts Is up In Chicago. Ju*t> when it's spring and all the folic needing them. Once when li man waa in love his barber got rich. Now when a man’s In love hia fill* ing station geta rich. Dancing masters met. in New York. Deelded upon an inter national

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dance. The old one is the way dance. • Opium parley failed. Nothing much done. A drug on the market will not be a drug on the market Los Angeles man wants lights on baby carriages. Hardest thing will be keeping the mufflers on. Bored a California oil well thousands of feet. Next biggest bore Is some of the movies they make. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) - ■ - ■ Movie Verdict Rag Man” Jackie Coogan still remains the “kid” in his latest feature. Although he in growing in ability, this boy is Just the same lad he was In "The Kid." At the Apollo all week. "Janice Meredith”—Elevate* the screen to that worth while position of being a medium through which history can be presented as gorgeous entertainment. Finely mounted and directed. Not to be missed by , those who desire worth while entertainment. At the Circle. : "Sackcloth and Scarlet"—One of those sex things that gets no plaoe. The acting, is much better than the story. The hit of the bill Is the musical cross j word puzzle as played by Lester / I Huff. At the Ohio. ———— mi ww——ss———