Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1925 — Page 4
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Unto him that loved ns, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.—Rev. 1:5, 6. As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. —Addison. NO MEAN POLITICS 8. Politics vs. Business Administration B"IUSINESS anch politics can not be successfully mixed in municipal affairs. When politics enters, sane business administration leaves. This has been demonstrated repeatedly in the city government of Indianapolis. The form of our city government is such and our election system is so arranged', that politics must always play a large part. Therefore, it is impossible to conduct the affairs of the city as the affairs of a business organization would be conducted. Let us take, for example, some of the men who either are active in the government of Indianapolis or who seek to head the city government. Mayor Shank is a business man. He has been a successful business man all his life insofar as his private affairs are concerned. During most of his life he has been a fairly successful politician. But under our present system of government he has had no opportunity to take his business knowledge and judgment with vhi.n into the ciiy hall. No one will deny that Mayor Shank is a good salesman. Most of those who know him will class him among the very best. One of the principal jobs of the mayor should be to sell Indianapolis. But Mayor Shank has not been selling Indianapolis nor has he been applying his business knowledge to any great extent to the administration of the city’s affairs. He has had no time for these things. He has been too busy playing politics as politics must be played under our present form of government. * • • SIIEN there is Ralph Lemcke, candidate for mayor, backed by the Shank, Jewett, Lemcke, Armitage faction. Lemcke is a man of unusually wide business experience and of unusual education, having attended school in Germany and Switzerland and having attended Princeton University. For a number of years he has been manager of the Lemcke estate, one of the richest estates in the city, and he has been engaged in real estate activities on a large scale. A’.l of these things should fit him well for the job of being mayor of Indianapolis. If he could go into the city hall carrying with him his experience in business and leaving politics behind he should give Indianapolis an excellent business administration. He certainly has the experience to administer the affirs of Indianapolis on the same basis that the affairs of a big business concern would be administered. But it will be impossible for Lemcke to do this should he be elected mayor. He is playing
' Weekly Book Sabatini Finds America a Highly Romantic Place
By Walter D. Hickman fiC/tl ANY of us havo thought .hat IJViI hlstorlcai romance was con-l.-J fined to England and France. But romance we have by the ton in the history of America. This is proven by Rafael Sabatinl in "The Carolinian.” the author’s first historical romance of America. This Is the same Sabatinl who made himself famous and wealthy by writing “Scaramouche.” “Captain Blood," "The Sea-Hawk” and many others. Uke many others. I have waited for the time when the greatest of romantic story tellers would write an American historical romance. In “The Carolinian,” just published by Houghton Mifflin Company, we have an American hero by the name iof Harry Latimer, a young planter in Carolina, who helped in kicking off the British yoke and control In America. Latimer was in love with the daughter of a proud Englishman who believed that the King was always right. This father naturally objected to having his daughter marry a man who was not 'right with a a cruel and unwise English king. But love has a strange way and Sabatinl knows It Detter than any one else. The fact is, you are not so Interested in the way that Myrtle marries Harry Latimer, but how thiswoman nearly wrecked his life and her own happiness. An Ideal Hero We like our heroes to be essentially American and when they turn ag-alnst an old king rnd start flghtln’ him for the sake of America, well, any reader is bound t o get all excited. • It must be remembered that Sabatinl is not English although he new lives In England with his English wife. He was born in the Italian city of J*si. It is not the English viewpoint that is reflected In “The Carollnlon” but the Yankee point r, view. The British Governor and his alls made it not only interesting but dangerous to our hero. S.'slbatlnl does not build ur his B>ry as to reach a gigantic ItSe c.haiwder
a political game now. Such a game is necessary under our present system to obtain election. He would continue to play a political game should he move into the city hall, for he would be taking his job under political auspices and would be under the necessity of having politicians around him and of looking to the future success of his particular faction. • • • mOHN DUVALL is another Republican candidate whose business experience fits him to hold the office of mayor. He is a banker and as such he must have a wide knowledge of business and must be a man of good judgment. But he is also the candidate of the Coffin faction of the Republican party and as such is in politics up to his neck. Should he be elected mayor under our present political system he could not be expected to confine himself to the business of the city. It would be necessary for him to take care of the interests of his particular party and faction and this would require four years of constant political activity. The other active candidate is Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth of city court. Judge Wilmeth’s business experience has been somewhat limited, but his more than three years on the bench certainly must have developed his judgment and his power of decision. But under our present system he would not be able to exercise these qualities as mayor. He would be too busy playing the game and looking after the interests of hia party. • • • ONDER the city manager form of government the city manager would be employed only for his business ability and regardless of politics. It would not be necessary for him to play a political game because he would not be elected and he would be employed as long as he gave service. Any one of the present candidates for mayor might qualify for city manager, but under the present system the possibility of any one of them being a real manager of the affairs of the city has been removed. Germs and Diplomas mT IS characteristic that the scientific partner in the alleged germ murder in Chicago was also the proprietor of a “diploma mill." These purveyors of fake credentials are all potential indirect murderers on a wholesale scale. If one of them has also become a party to a direct individual murder, it is sensational and dramatic, but it is a small matter in comparison to the indirect murder in which they are engaged all the time. . However, it is important, too, as showing that “germ murder’’ is not merely the dream of imaginative melodramatists, but may actually be done. Let your imagination dwell on the possible consequences, and you grow dizzy. What some future kaiser might do in war with poison gases seems tame compared to what some homicidal maniac might do with a laboratory full of germs and access to a city’s water supply.
to go on his historical way like any other human being. No person has Tom Sims Says Where you start does matter. We had rather be a former poor man than a former rich man. Finding a horseshoe or being on good terms with the boss are both considered signs of good luck. Kites are making some people look up for the first time in months. Consider the busy flea and how he Jumps around. t Nothing Is mor® fattening paid an Income umbrella in the house or bumping a traffic Dims cop with your car are signs of bad luck. An optimist Is an automobile salesman in the spring. The best filling station eyer built is the dining room. A fool and hie money are not parted soon enough. Perhaps .he real reason musicians need haircuts la because they hate to go near barber shop tenors. One thing always considered good taste Is strawberry shortcake. The only cure for spring fe-ver Is winter and even that oft.?n falls. He who laughs last may laugh the best but not the most otter.. If women had more sense there would be more bachelors. (Clem vrlarhL 1926. KBA Service. h>el
climax every time he turns around although he may have Interesting experiments. That Is one attribute that Sabatini has whfch distinguishes him from all other romantic writers. He permits the characters to grow page by page In a natural way. Corking Romance It is true that he selects characters who pk&ed Important historical parts, but they are human Just the same. He knows how to lead up to what I call a chapter climax. Each chapter actually advances the story. The background Is the Revoluntionary war, especially Its southern aspect. You realize that Sabatini knows his history. You get the impression that the close of the Revolutionary actually predicted the CVvil War which liberated the negro. J.Atimer Is a corking character. He gets into trouble because he is loyal to the conviction that the English crown was unfair to America. He first considered himself an English subject and Insisted on being treated as one who was an Englishman many miles away from the seat of government. The revolution grows before your very eye* Men who r.t first Jrst protested against English Injustice became leaders In the revolution that kicked the British forces out of America for good. Probably the revolutionary period is the most romantic In the history of the country becapse ll starts with English romance and then becomes truly American. The beauty about Sabatlni’s books to that you get something worth while out of them in addition to splendid entertainment. It Is my humble opinion that “The Carolinian” will be a most popular book In this country. It ranks In color, action, plot and beauty along with anything that Sabatini has written. Should be on the reading list of every man and woman. His Preference Hann- What color is best for a bride? Nahh—l prefer a white one-—Ala-bama Rammer-J amine;. -amm a
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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
CURIOSITY AND TRAGEDY mT Is estimated that more than 26,000 automobiles filled with sightseers visited Princeton, All day long they filed in and out of the city along designated, guarded routes. From long distances and many States they came. They had no
personal Interest in the property or lives destroyed by the storm: they were moved solely by curiosity. People seem to revel in sanguinary happenings, whether t e y occur wholesale or retail—as the result of Crime, accident or convulsion of nature. Where death strikes with violence there
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gathers the goggle-eyed crowd. The bloodier his manner of striking the bigger the crowd. It will poke around the site hoping to find a severed ear or similar memento to carry home and hang In the parlor. If a man makes a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he live in the wilderness, the world will beat a path to his door —maybe. But If he slaughters his babes with an a* or is disemboweled by a cyclone the world will tear down the wilderness to view the tragic spot. Os course such idle curiosity le useless—hut it is only man's most important characteristic gone to seed. If It wasn’t for man’s healthy Inquisitiveness about everything under the sun the human race would have stood still. There would be neither material nor intellectual progress. LAW ENFORCEMENT BY PRIVATE AGENCIES IHARLES 8. WHITMAN, former Governor of New ■ -1 York, at the Indiana Bar Association dinner Saturday night, condemned "private agencies” that tend to supplant regularly constituted authorities in law enforcement. "I refer particularly to organizations for suppression of different forms of vice, prevention of cruelty, and such purposes,” he said. If a law Is passed for suppression of cruelty to oysters, immediately an organization is formed’ to enforce It. Unofficial investigators prowl about the country to apprehend and hale Into court any abysmal brute discovered docking mane and tail, or otherwise teas log defenseless oysters. Os course, there are reasons for these numerous private organizations for law enforcement. Some people are bom crusaders and are never happier than when battling for a CAUSE. The cause may be the curfew law or a movement to put galluses and pants on nude statues. Another reason is failure of duly constituted authorities to enforce all laws. But official agencies can’t enforce all laws—there are too maijy. Consequently some would bo skimped except for the activity of private agencies. The condition results from misguided attempts to regulate all phases of conduct and private morals by law. The Government can’t he expected to do everything from
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Tou can ret an answer to any question of j'uct or information by writing So The Innianaiiolla Times Was hi nr ton lureau. 1332 Now York A vs.. Washnrton. D. C.. incloedne 2 cents fn stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot ba riven, nor can ex termed research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a perCna) reply. Unsigned requests cannot answered. All letters are confidential—Editor What does the word "Mavourneen" mean? “My darling. ** It 1b an Irish term of endearment. What does It mean by an exservice man getting- "military preference” in taking civil service examinations? This preference gives him Iflve points over the mark which he actually has on a civil service examination. For example, If he makes a grade of sixty-five, his preference would give him a place on the register with a grade of seventy. A disabled veteran Is given ten points preference. . Why is a ship called “she”? The root of the word ship is not known, therefore the etymology of the geflder cannot bd determined. However, ships a<re feminine in practically'all languages and very likely the assigning of the gender Is due to psychological reasons on account of their gracefulness and the beauty of their lines. What Is the tallest chimney In the world and the next tallest? Available records show the tallest chimney is that of the Boston and Montana Copper and Silver Mining Industrial Helps The Indianapolis Public Library through its technical department lists the following three good books on electroplating: "Modern Fleet ropl&ter,” by Coggeshall. Valuable book for the practical worker. “Principles of Electroplating and Electrofomung,” by Blum & Hogaboom. Metal Industry speaks of this as vhe book for which the plating industries have been waiting. “Electro-depositlc nos Metals,”, by Langbein, Covers electroplating, galvanizing, elec* trotyjblng. contact and lmmerslon \ processes, -loloring of metafL lacquering, grinding and pVishing,
hanging out the sun,’ moon and stars to purifying the diction of movie titles without volunteer help. THE HORSE IS GOING of the State cooperative crop reporting service, states that on Jan. 1 there were 27,000 fewer horses in Indiana than a year ago. Apparently the horse is retreating slowly to the museum. But, though he may be down, he is not out, for there are still 655,000 horses in the State, besides 100,000 mulea, the depraved kin of the equine family. The of hoofs has echoed down through the ages. Now. though drowned by the honk of mechanical devils on the highways, hoofs still thunder In a minor key. It is from city life that the horse has most completely disappeared. The clanking span of the merchant prince and the heavy-footed dobbin of the humbler citizen are no more. There are only a half-dozen livery stables left in Indianapolis, while there are more than 350 gasoline filling stations. That tells the story. Yet though the horse has be<n superseded by greasy motors In city traffic, he remains on the farm, despite the encroachment of mechanical power devices with castlron brains. He performs many farm tasks with a proficiency that gasoline hasn’t attained. Eventually, no doubt, he will have to go. But the horse will stick around in a subdued sort of way for a long time, even if civilization never again prances on mettlesome steeds. WOMEN AND ' CITIZENSHIP CHARLES RITTER Js a candidate for mayor of Hartford City. She is said to be the first woman In Indiana to make an active campaign for the office of mayor. When asked the other day if she believed women as well qualified to hold ofTiee as men, she replied: “Why not? Women have been studying citizenship ever since they have worked for the vote. Have you ever heard of the men organizing citizenship classes?” That last question skillfully sprinkles ground glass In the gruel of masculine complacency. Men assume they know Inherently by virtue of ser all there is to know about citizen *hlp, politics and government. Stch noble creatures, at the very pintwcle of creation, study citizenship? Pooh! Asa result the average man’s opinions are inherited from his grandfather. He performs his citizenship duties in a careless, slipshod, lnatttentive manner—without rhyme or reason. Women, on the other hand, are displaying keen interest, inquisitiveness and willingness to learn oitiv-enship. No community, however small, but has a group of women studying government and public afftUrs that they may be better qualified for their responsibilities as citizens. Perhaps woman’s suffrage Is the crowning folly of the age. It may herald early weakening and decay of national fiber. But meanwhile, It Is evolving higher, more Intelligent and more earnest citizenship.
Company, Great Falls, Montana, which is 676 feet tall and has a diameter at the base of seventy four feet. The next tallest Is the Hallsbruckner Hutm near Freibirg, In Saxony, 460 feet by 33 feet. What is “Latvia''? Now a Republic; formerly a Russian province. It became Independent Nov. 17, 1917. What were the “husks'* spoken of In the Scripture passage about the “Prodigal Son?” They were the hulls of the leguminous plant which in the East the food for cattle and swine, arid often the nourishment of the pr>orest people in times of distress and famine. What is the largest inland body of water in the world? j The Caspian Sea, with an area of 170,000 square miles and a depth of 1,008 feet. Is shark liver oil and cod liver oil used for the same purpose? Shark liver oO has more unsaponiflable matter in it than cod liver oil and is used chiefly for technical purposes, while cod liver oil Is used as a tonic. To whom does Tibet belong? It Is a part of the Chinese Republic. Its status Is indeterminate at present. Chinese authority was, In the past, represented by two Ambans, who had charge respectively of foreign and military affair j. My Sweetie By HAL COCHRAN I sometimes believe she belongs In a frame like a picture an artist would paint. Her features with beauty are always aflame, and her actions and accent are quaint. Her fair golden tressee are bobbed up real neat and a ribbon to tied In a bow. In things that she does she Is always discreet. She’s the I sweetest I e’er hope to know. How often I've patted her soft little hand and how often she's sat on my kneg. I feel that rhe certainly must understand wha'. she's constantly meaning to me. Oh, no, she’s not grown. She has only reached four. She’s a wee little daughter, you **>. I love her as such, and I love, what's more, ’cause aba's also a sweetie to me.
TO THE NATION • * • * ••• Let Your Sympathy Be Heard by Those Grief Stricken in the Storm Devasated Area
Karyl Norman, Singer’s Midgets and Joe Roberts With His Wicked Banjo Are Hits
By Walter D. Hickman
ppTl I SING from the depths of beI lns ust a * emale ImporsonI I ator, Karyl Norman has become today a character actor. The trouble with most female Impersonators Is that they are not
enough real artists but entertainers who attempt to wear nifty gowns while they wink, with one eye and. stage some terrible hokum to convince the public that at hert, at least they are men. With Karyl Norman thq entire basic idea, is different. Y(*jars ago he began dolng’lmof the females*, Norman is ons man who wears Presses upon
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the stage who has no<fc been handicapped with ideas. When he wanted to impersonate a girl, he did It. | When i/to wanted to be Just himself, a he was just that. In the yeaqq he has been on the stage, he h;i/j made good with his public becauga they consider him an artist and n<g. a cross-word puzzle. This is the se*y*-et of his great success. This week at Keith's, Norman is presenting 'Jiie most lavish act from a stage standpoint In his career. His drops are beautiful and costly. He has the iasslstance of Ker.o Clark and BoLble Simonds at two pianos. Normavj. shows what advancement he hag made In the art of characterisation when he does the “Paris Rose/* number, one of those evening of the night creatures. Here is cor/iplete characterization. His Sj/inish shawl number Is another gbod bit. He has a flashy entrance And a corking good finale, showing how a flapper would flap, singing “What’ll I Do.” Norman today is being considered an artist arid a fixture In vaudeville. He advances with each season. Those who have the radio fever will appreciate “Static,” a sketch showing all the horrors of having radio in the home. This Is delightful satire as played by Miss Julia Nash, C. H. O’Connell and Ella Houghton as the infant terrible. The work of Miss Nash as the wife who wouldn’t radio is mighty clever work. The dancing, vocal and acrobatic work of the Four Diamonds is well known here. There work registers as usual. We are also familiar with Fred Jarvis and Freddie Harrison In “The Love Burglar.” Lot of hokum. Mixed up conversation Is used by Frank Maring and Tony Martin. Blanche Sherwood and Obmpany close the show with “Aviating Antice.” Roger Williams givesi impressions of a banjo and about everything else. Oscar Martin and Company-do some human balancing. -I- -I- -ISINGER’S MIDGETS STILL LEAD ITS OWN HELD After a careful study of the midget situation on the American stage, I still feel that Singer’s Midgets still lead the field. Singer is producing his act on a lavish scale even when it Is comnared with other vaudeville revuen. "The attribute which distinguishes these midgets from all the others Is the Individual talent of the members. This season's act of Singer’s Midgets la to be found at the Palace this week. The first scene is western in nature, with the little men raiding ponies and one midget doing some daring acrobatics. This scen*e gives way to the strong man act, in which a midget lifts a pony and does other strong arm stunts. Hiis little man Is a ntfil showman. Then the act gross into a comedy boxing scene, g. ___
This is followed by introducing two wee ladies as the “Dun San Sisters” In jazz tunes. Followed by a cabaret scene in which the male midgjets make up a corking good jazz orchestra. Cabaret acts are introduced with the Midgets impersonating the Dolly Sisters, Frisco, George White’s Scandals and oth•Jn. Three trained baby elephants take 'part In the next scene. This act has always been a wonder to me as a midget is the trainer. You will find some rare comedy In, this scene. The elephants are perfectly trained. The next scene Is really the opening to a smart finale, a wedding scene which Is beautifully costumed and staged. This Is, of course, the big scene of the revue. Again, I ask you to watch the individual talents of these little people. I can say with conviction that no act on .the vaudeville sltage has as much family and general appeal as Singer’s Midgets. My advice 1b to go to the afternoon and supper shows, as capacity is the rule this week at the Palace. The other two acts on the bill consist of mild entertaining merit. The are Pollard, a comedy Juggler, and Polly and Oz in an eccentric routine. The movie Is "Lady of the Night." * • • BANJO PLAYER TOPS NEW BILL AT LYRIC Joe Roberts, one of the foremost exponents of banjo playing, is the headline act on a good bill at the
Lyric this week. Roberts plays everything from “Poet and Peasant" to the Jazziest of the present day numbers. He is an artist with the banjo. Tallman and Keiwin are seen in a comedy act. The of the act is a capable comedian and gets her laughs easily. Grace Doro offers a piano act. One of the best acts of its kind. She can really play a piano and
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has a good selection of popular and special numbers. Scully and Caplin, two men, have an Interesting song and dance routine. "On the Boardwalk” Is the title of a musical comedy act. This Is an exceptionally good turn of its kind. Has the services of a funny comedian, a good, "straight man,” a dancer and several good looking girls.
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Les Klicks offer their novelty, “The Enchanted Forest.” In this act various kinds of brilliantly lighted, grotesque animals perform dances before a black background. A pretty novelty and a great act for the kiddies. The Aerial Bartletts perform on a revolving ladder. Anderson and Graves set their comedy act In an airship, where the are endeavoring to escape the rent problem. Comedies and news reels make up the movie program. At the Lyrlo all week. (By Observer.) Other theaters today offer: Quo Vodis” at the Circle; “How to Educate a Wife” at the Apollo; “The Air Mail” at the Ohio and “Blood and Steel” at the Isis. Stage Verdict Palace—Singer’s Midgets have arrived at that position in Its career that it is the best midget act before the public today. Not only the best but the biggest. The other two acts on the bill are Just so so. The Midgets are the whole works. Keith’s —Karyl Norman, easily tho best of the characterization artists on the stage today. He heads the bill. Miss Julia Nash demands attention by her clever work in “Static,” a sketch. Lyric—Joe Roberts, banjo player of real ability, tops a good bill. “Uncle Tom” In Book Form 4 and on the Stage " MADE 50 MILLIONS C RY_ “Charley’s Aunt" Now on the Screen Will Make 100 MILLIONS LAUGH