Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1925 — Page 4

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend. — Prov. 27:6. The wound is for you but the pain is for me.—Charles IX. * NO MEAN POLITICS 3—CAP COFFIN PICK? HIMSELF. A CANDIDATE EODAY we take up another phase of our merry municipal comedy entitled “Government of the People by the Factions for the Politicians.” When primary day around, there will be, if politicians have their way,two ballots, one bearing the portrait of an eagle and the other the likeness of a rooster. But, as Lew Shank would “them birds don’t mean anything.” The ballot with the eagle will be labeled *'Republican’’ and the one with the rooster will be labeled “Democratic/’ But the names don’t mean anything either. Furthermore- from where we sit it doesn’t look as if the rooster has much to crow about. The real fight at the present time appears to be between the Lemcke-Jewett - Lemaux - Indianapolis News-Shank-Armitage faction and the Coffin-Dod-son-Givan-Duvall-etcetera faction. The Duvall part of the latter faction came about somewhat in this manner: Cap Coffin, having been a policeman and a sheriff, wanted to branch out as a political boss on his ow§. He couldn’t get very far by sticking to the Shank faction, with which he once was associated. So he had himself elected city chairman, after firing .twenty-seven city committeemen. He was county chairman when he fired the city committeemen ,but that didn’t make any difference to Cap. He wanted to be boss, so he fired them anyway. He now is one of the city chairman, but the fact that he has a rival doesn’t cramp his style. • • • mr is more or less necessary for a political boss to have a candidate. He must have somebody to boss and the only way to do that is to elect somebody to an important offleqf where the office holder can name a lot of publio employes—salary paid by the taxpayers. Anyway, Cap got himself elected city chairman and then he looked around for a candidate. It is reported among those who profess to be well acquainted with the inner workings of factions that Cap did considerable looking around. Finally, he discovered John Duvall, sitting at his desk at the Marion County State Bank. John has had some political experience?, but apparently not enough to be cured of -the habit of running for office. Right now John holds the rather lucrative job of county treasurer. Being county treasurer, his name goes on tax receipts and is the first thing -the taxpayer sees after he gets over the shock of examining the amount he must fcay for his city, State, couiity and township government. John argued that he didn’t make the taxes but simply collected them and that his name on a tax receipt should be no drawback when it came to running for mayor. Perhaps he figured that being county treasurer and listening to the remarks of irate taxpayers

Wemkly Book Father Abraham Is Real American Story

By WALTER D. HICKMAN EEOPLE for year* have been shoutin' from the housetop** for somebody to bring on the real American novel. That has been a constant challenge to novelist for years. To obtain “the" real American novel, the theme of course must be essentially American. Have had the thought that the central character in "the” real American novel would be Abraham Lincoln. Irving Bacheller in writing "A Man for the Ages," ygars ago, proved that he knew hid 'Abraham Lincoln and the period associated with this great American as well as any one could know it. Bacheller has Just written "Father Abraham," a tale of the last years of Abraham Lincoln. It has been off the press of The Bobbs-Merrlll Company of Indianapolis only a few day*. % ' Bearing In mind other books that come under the head of being essentially American, I will hazard the opinion that Bacheller’s “Father Abraham." will In tho year* to come arrive at that.stage of universal appreciation of being called a great American novel. Lincoln Is always In the background of this story but you meet hijn during the life time experiences of a character known as Randall Hop©, who knew Lincoln from the time he was elected president, while he prepared fob the big job •at Springfield, 111., until the great task was cut short by a bullet. Randall first came in contact with Lincoln as a young telegrapher. Lincoln Intended taking Randall on to Washington In that capacity but the fear for the safety of the great man turned Randall into a sort of a secret service man but when Civil War came, young Randall got right Into the real fighting. The Real Lincoln *

should qualify a man for a job where he woulc have something to do with making taxes. Anyway, John vanted to run for Mayor and had some neat blotters printed and placed on the counters in his bank. And Cap, needing a candidate in his business of being a boss, picked up John. There still are reports that Cap might change his mind and switch to someone else, but thus far it hasn’t happenedat least not apparently. <* • • UVALL wasn’t very well known in politics until about three years ago when he started to run for county treasurer. He was elected and took his office. After about a year of collecting taxes and paying out money in large gobs, he decided to try it again. But somebody got the slates switched or something and Ed Ramsay was elected. So John moves out of the Courthouse about the first of next year and he hopes to move up to the City Kali. Cap Coffin and all the boys in Cap’s faction have the same idea. Some of them would even like to move in with him. Tie voters? Well, of course, it is necessary for them to vote, for e political faction that can’t get voters to vote for it can’t be a faction very long. The voters are just a sort of necessary nuisance under our present form of government.

Wasteful Saving EN 1923 the economy wave swept into office two economy Governors—Gifford •Pinchot, of the Quaker State, and Friend‘W. Richardson, of “El Dorado.” The history of two years under Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Richardson of California illustrates two opposite ways of approaching the problem of cutting down expenses. Governor Pinchot made budget cuts of 50 per cent in military affairs, 30 per cent in State police and 25 per cent in property and supplies.. He held back the economy ax from the schools and the humane, Conservatory and regulatory functions. He saved $5,000,000 a biennium. Governor Richardson slashed deep into forest protection, quarantine, housing, labor and railroad commissions and he cut 33 per cent from the normal schools, the only part of the education system not protected by the constitution. He “aaved" $1,300,000. But what the people lost in forest fires, a “foot and mouth” cattle epidemic, excessive , utility rates and intangibles, runs into the millions. One of the ablest opponents of Richardson “economy” was California’s State school superintendent, 'Will C. Wood, who got $5,000 a year. Governor Richardson was after his scalp in the form of a proposed law he fathered to duplicate his functions in anew office* thus seeking to force Wood to resign. Pinchot offered Wood the same position as head of Pennsylvania schools at $12,000 a year and Wood has just accepted. Penny-wise Richardson was a pound foolish Governor and will have cost California more than years of wisdom can regain. Pinchot has used economy as an economist.

Irving Bacheller

A sketch of* Irving Bacheller ' who ha* given the reading world, a great novel based on the life of Abraham Lincoln under the title of ‘‘Father Abraham."’ drawn for us the real Abraham Lincoln, a man with a great heart, with human*understanding as well as a man who saw through his political enemies. In this book, Lincoln Is pictured as being a man who drove home big lessons by first telling a funny story. Many of the Lincoln stories related here will sound new to the general reader. The author has given us such a commanding picture of Lincoln that most of us will feel that the Lincoln which actually existed has beer, caught and placed in this big story. I know of no novel which is more typically American than "Father Abraham." The story shifts from New Engle hi, New York State, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Springfield, Washington and the battle grounds. Randall* as the hero of the story Is a big American character, splendidly drawn and conceived! The first part of t.he story do Us with the eairlx m of LA

I know you will love Randall, his dog, Teaser, and his horse, Tyke. All three take part in actual American history. And those who love romance will get a real thrill out of Randall’s romance. The Bates House in Indianapolis figures in this romantic story. What a relief it Is to run across anew novel that reflects life of another day and ir. not concerned with a domestic triangle, a complex or a murder mystery. Close-Ups of Lincoln Bacheller uses what might be called a "movie close-up" of Abraham Lincoln during those dreary and terrible years In the White House. He also gives the world a different Impression of Mrs. Lincoln. This character drawing of Mrs. Lincoln will, I am sure, cause much discussion. Tad Lincoln romps through White House in this story. I have read many learned and careful studies of Lincoln and Z am getting ready for anew two-volume edition in preparation by the BobbsMerrlll Company. I think 1 1 am reasonably safe in saying that Bacheller In "Father Abraham” has not given us the Lincoln of fiction, but the Lincoln of fact. v Judged by that standard, I am ready to state here and even fight it out mentally, that "Father Abraham" ha* the right to be considered one of the greatest American novels aver written. My finest tribute to the author Is the assertion that I hope at least one member of every American family read this book. New National Force? The Banning national forest rear Columbus, Ga., has just been ail led to the list of United States for sat preserves. The new forest c^vjrs

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ganz Was There and So Was the Piano; A Great Minstrel and Fine Juggler Here

By WALTER D. lICKMAN u y JjHEN you >see Rudolph Ganz lyyl on the corcirt stage look | | around and yov will surely see a piano. The last orchestral co cert of tho Ona B. Talbot season at the M>:.t

last night ran true ts expectations • -a piano .* • and '.ho pianist ran sway with the honors. And I do not in. tend that to be adverse criticism of the St. Louis Symp b ony Orchestra. • There are other orchestras I like better, but few pianists can claim my attention as easily as Ganz., As conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, Ganz is the quiet, intellectual con-

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ductor. He does not shoot flt-e or passion from the conductor’s desk.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

NEW SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL ““l HE Indianapolis school board yesterday reached an agreeJ ment with architects and the long-delayed project oi the new Shortrldge High at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts.—begins to come out of its trahee.

Controversy over architects landed the project in court, where for many months it has loafed. Meanwhile, the- need for the new school has grown more acute every day. The present Shortridyo High School consists mostly of great traditions, great congestion, and a great basketball team.

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All of these are, no doubt, valuable factors in high school education. But almost equally important is a building. For years the old Shortridgo structure haa been dead on its feet—only tradition kept It from falling down. Even with the compromise Just effected the new building will not be’ready for occupancy for another year. Plans are to be submitted Juno 16. Then perhaps construction jprill proceed with the stately deliberation peculiar to public work. Two years or more will elapse from Inception to completion. All because of an avoidable dispute over architects that would have 'been settled before It started, instead of consuming precious months, if it had involved a private construction enterprise of board members. High schools authorized or on paper seldom relieve school congestion. Only buildings on the ground and occupied can do that.

AMERICAN LEGION ENDOWMENT FUND lODAY begins the active can- | | I vass to raise $50,000 in In- * * * ilianapolis for the American Legion’s national endowment fund of $5,000,000. The local campaign committee expects to reach its goal by the end of the week. Probably It will. Several States have already raised their quotasThe fund's purpose appeals to the easily touched, generous public. Americans may be money-mad, as foreign critics charge, but generosity Is our most pronounced national characteristic. Seldom is it appealed to in vain. Nowhere la this spirit more In evidence than in this city and State. Scarcely a week passes but liberal purses are stirred to activity and they hurry to support some charitable object. Not long ago It was relief of families of victims of a -mine catastrophe. For that cause $60,000 was contributed. People who had never heard of Sullivan nor seen a coal mine were as quick to respond as those in intimate touch with the tragedy. Two weeks ago a humble citizen, living on the outskirts of the city, was killed by an lnterurban. He left a widow, four small children —and destitution. Kindly neighbors immediately started a relief fund, which now amounts to $2,000. / So it goes, one worthy cause following hard on the heels of another—and always public response Is In proportion to the need. Which assures the success of the Legion's endowment campaign.

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He goes in for quiet effects, relying a great deal upon the string instruments to weave the tonal picture. He does not tower over his orchestra. He seems to be a part, an intellectual and finely skilled part, and not the force that demands certain things. He obtains results by a quiet method. But when Rud-'lph Ganz seats himself at the piano, he not only has great fire and passion, but he is the complete master, not only of the instrument, but of the orchestra. He becomes a towering power, a master and one to be followed while playing the piano with the orcestra. The great moment of the concert arrived when Ganz went to the piano to play Grieg’s Concerto for Pianoforte in A Minor, Op. 16. To me this concerto, at times frail in tone and then towering in its own strength, impresses me as a sort of a wonderful lullaby. Here is a rich theme, and it was aB richly played by Ganz at the piano with the orchestra being conducted by Frederick Fischer, assistant conductor. But'as I said before, Ganz is so much the great artist

NO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TTORNEY-GENERAL GILLIOM, in an opinion to the Governor, held unconstitutional the bill requiring public schools to excuse pupils—at parental option—periodically for outside religious instruction. It therefore died without gubernatorial signature. Probably the failure of this measure to become law will cause much keen regret—and some riot so keen. The proposal, strongly supported and opposed by interested citizens, was a legislative storm center. Unquestionably there is need for systematic ethical instruction to childreh. There is a widespread realization of this need. , Many parents go no farther in inculcating morals in their children than a few Irascible don’t*. That is scarcely sufficient to bend youthful character Into paths of moral grandeur In after years. Yet, all recognize the importance of such teaching. Consequently optional religious instruction In connection with public schools has many warm advocates. It appeals to many parents of good lnten tlons but lax performance. More and more the public schools are calldt upon to shoulder all problems of child training. "Teach it in the schools ' is the invariable suggestion whether the problem Is fire prevention or patriotism. However, the task of training children can’t be shunted entirely on to the schools. It Is primarily an individual, not a collective, responsibility. Children are reared by hand not by machine*.

YOUTHFUL SEEKERS OF THRILLS EH RE E Shelby vllle high school, boys—the oldest 17 —confessed yesterday to a number of automobile thefts and an attempted hold-up of a woman. They weren’t driven to crime by economic circumstances, dissolute habits, lack of moral training, improper home Influences or other causes commonly supposed to breed criminal tendencies. The trio belongs to prominent, well-to-do families, with good homes. They are above the average In their school grades. Apparently quite normal boys, not spoiled by over-indulgent parents, enjoying ordinary advantages, comforts and diversions. Yet they embarked deliberately on careers of outlawry—for the thrill It gave them, they said. Thrill! That's the thing. Probably it is the cause of most of the youthful delinquencies that keep society up nights worrying about Itself. That’s what is crowding the court calendars with blase Juvenile offenders. Youth has always sought thrills. Time was when a boy full of vim, vigor and vitality got a never-for-gotten tingle from anew pair of copper-toed boots or a circus parade. But the lineal descendant of that youth steals automobiles or cuts throats for the same quantity of thrill. The simple ages are past—the present Is complex and distracted. Naturally youthful thrills are more complex and distracting. However, courts still have power to ?Hve young offenders enough thrill to last a lifetime.

while at the piano that he becomes the source of the direction. I enjoyed Grieg’s “Last Spring” for string orchestra. This number showed Ganz at his best in this concert while at the conductor’s stand, although the heavy Brahms’ symphony No. 2 in D Major was Intelligently played and directed. Os local Interest was the playing of “War Dance” from the suite, "Native Moments,” by Henry Joslyn, composer of this city. He occupied a box and acknowledged the ovation given the number. Helen Traubel, soprano, made a most favorable impression as a soloist, singing “Dlch Teur Halle” from “Tannhauser.” Mrs. Talbot announced last night that she has engaged for next season the New York Symphopy Orchestra with Walter Damrosch conducting, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Varburggen and the Cincinnati Symphony with Fritz Reiner. -I- + -IMEETING AN OLD FAVORITE AND A NEW PERSONALITY There is the old and the new at Keith's this week. The old is the return of Eddie Leonard and his minstrel bunch in “Oh Didn’t It Rain.” Practically the same act as last yeax. The new is Torino, a Juggler who In new to this city. He is new to me. His juggling Is not spectacular, but here is an artist who goes In for quiet and difficult stunts; His work with two billiard cues and two billiard balls is the finest I have seen on* the stage. As Torino is the last act, I strongly advise you to wait until the finish. One of his most woffderful stunts is when he controls the movements of a quarter on a Japanese parasol. Here Is masterful* work. Although this act is a novelty, it will be remembered. Eddie Leonard Is an American stage Institution. He loves applause and he is such a good showman that he knows how to manage the stage so that he gets applause. He has with him his banjo players and four sqft shoe dancers. The dance hit is the same as last year —the dance done by a man while the orchestra plays “Oh Didn’t It Rain.” I think that Leonard permits a certain banjo player to have too much freedom on the stage. This man’s m akeup is not pleasing and robs the act of one of its best attributes—class. Leonard has a certain way about him that makes it possible for him to actually ask for applause and ha gets It. Os course, he doesn’t really ask for It but he knows how to linger and build up applause. The real applause hit of the bill Is Stan Stanley and his two assistants. Stanley is doing his old aisle disturbance stuff, but It is registering better than even a son or two ago. He stopped the’

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Tom Sims Says Beware the brifles of March. Some people are always surprised that things didn't out worse. New Jersey man struck a match to see if he had any gas. Now he hasn’t any car.

Drunk pig In Kentucky 1e and officers to the still, they following the pickled pig’s feet. In and 1c a tlons are that the north pole has gone home for the summer. The sheriff at Memphis, Tenn., took a manja auto. He liked it very much. Had an attach-

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ment for it. We will never have saloons back. They were so unhandy. They never would deliver the stuff. News from Los Angeles. Man named Abrams robbed. Taking them in alphabetical order In Los Angeles. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) show cold yesterday. He works fast and knows when to stop. There is a lot of fun In this act. Gets lot of applause. Ernest Hiatt bills himself In “Nothing Serious" and he lives up to the title. I was Interested In the apparent ease that this man becomes a favorite. His secret probably rests in Ms method of developing his material. Henry Regal and company offer a burlesque on acrobatics, without the use of Hghts, which turns out to be the real article. Mae Francis in dainty costumes, sings a number of songs from musical comedies. Christo and Donald open the show with an athletic offering. At Keith’s all week. -I- -I- I* COLORED REVIJE OPENS A REPEAT ENGAGEMENT For the second time this year Indianapolis has ah opportunity to ably the greatest of all colored revues. An enthusiastic audience last night at English’s welcomed the on their return. There is certainly a reason for this popularity. A great deal of talent and a great deal more enthusiastic hard work on the part of the entire company make this a show that will hold Its own alongside any of the big revues, when it comes to entertainment value. There is plenty of comedy, mighty (Turn to Page 9)

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Stage Verdict Keith’s—Eddie Leonard is th* chief drawing card this week. Stan Stanley works up a personal comedy hit as does Ernest Hiatt. Torino is one o f th* greatest jugglers ever seen here. English’s—Sissle and Blak* and “The Chocolate Dandies.” Easily the best of the colored revues and will bold its place in comparison with all others. Lyric Greta Ardlne In a dance revue and Joiner and Foster, blackface comedian* best on the “spring festival” bill of eight acts. Palace—Burt and Rosedale In a good revue act heading a bill of comedy acts.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to an; question of fact or information by writin* to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. incloulfc 2 cents in stamps for reply. MetFcal. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a perKnsl reply. Unsigned requests cannot answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. What part did Ruth Clifford play in "Abraham Lincoln?” What is her address? She played the part of Ann Rutledge. Her address is 7627 Emelita St., Los Angeles, Cal. Is white a color No, It is defined a* “without color.” Would Jesus Christ be classed racially as an Oriental? All people belonging to the Semitic race, are technically speaking, classed with the Orientals. Jesus would therefore b® considered an Oriental. What countries compose the Balkan Peninsula? European Turkey, Servia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania and Greece. Os what religious faith are the people of Syria of today? The bulk of the inhabitants are Mohammedams, the Christians composing only about one-fifth of the total population. Are acorns poisonous to eat? 1 No, but they are not particularly palatable, although they are a fattening food for livestock, and are often fed to hogs. How many Chinese are citizen* of the United States? There were in 1920, 60,625 Chinese citizens of the United States 21 years of age and over, and 26,865 between the ages of 18 and 44 Inclusive. What Is the present air strength of the United States? We have at present 630 first-line planes and 48 plane squadrons.

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