Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1925 — Page 4
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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.—Prov. 13:7. Richts do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors.—Locke. NO MEAN POLITICS 10. City Factions Reach Clear to Washington. LITTLE faction, formed in a back room fc ___ somewhere in Indianapolis, has a habit, like Portia’s candle, of throwing its beams far into a naughty world of politics. A city campaign is being \wged in Indian„nolis. If the politicians have their way and the city manager movement fails to overtake them, it will wind up with the election of a mayor who will have a lot of nice fat jobs to hand out to the faithful. But there is even more involved than the political future of Indianapolis. But don’t be hasty! We don’t mean that somebody is going to take an interest in the citizens and taxpayers of Indianapolis. They still fail to count with the politicians. .• * • SHE thing that is involved is the political future of certain citizens of Indiana who hold prominent positions in national politics, to wit, Senator James Eli Watson, and Post-master-General Harry Stewart New. Senator James Eli Watson, while making a desperate attempt to have President Coolidge’s Cabinet appointments approved by the Senate, still has time to keep an eye on Indiana. And Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, while increasing postal salaries more or less against his will, still has time to keep an eye on Indiana and on Senator James Eli Watson. It is reliably reported that the feud between these two friends of the President still exists and that it is playing an active part in the campaign for mayor of Indianapolis. For, be it known, Senator James Eli Watson will suddenly cease to be a Senator and no longer will have an opportunity to wave his raven locks and shoot his immaculate cuffs in the Senate chamber if he is not re-elected next year. • • . iTT UCH depends on the present city cam- ' paign. Postmaster General New has never been very fond of Senator Watson. And Postmaster General New and Albert Jeremiah Beveridge and James Putnam Goodrich are lined up behind the Lemcke-Indianapolis News-Armitage-Jewett-Shank faction of the Rq,publican party. At the same time Senator James Eli Watson is reported to be lined up behind the Coffin-Duvall faction of the Republican party. If there should be an election and if Lemcke should be elected, there will be several
Carl Laemmle Decides to Open ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at San Francisco, April 26
“The Phantom of the Opera” will have its world premiere at the Curran Theater, San Francisco, on April 26, according to announcement Just made by Carl Laemmle, The presentation at the Ctxrran will be on an elaborate scale, befit' ting the magnitude of the production, which is Universal'# most ambitious effort to date. The Curran Is a legitimate theater and the showing of “The Phantom of the Opera” will be conducted at regular theater prices. A sixty-piece orchestra will play the musical score written by Joseph Carl Brlel, who composed the setting for “The Birth of a Nation" and other important pictures. Dealing as the picture does, musical subjects, and laid in the Paris Opera House, the musical accompaniment is of especial interest, and it is said that Mr. Briel has written a score which strikes anew note in photoplay musical settings. Cue of the features of the picture Is a brilliant production of the opera “Faust,” in the Paris opera, and the music for this and other operas provided unusual opportunities for the composer. National Importance “The Phantom of the Opera” has been eagerly awaited ever since its production was first announced by Mr. Laemmle, and interest in the picture has grown as the news of its magnitude has been given out, so it is believed that the San Francisco premiere will be an event of naA Change By Hal Cochran G" TVE me a robe and a pillow or two In a spot where I do what 1m aching to do: seek rest on a soft country side. Give me a book that's exceedingly ,llght, that will merely be pleasing, .too. Bring just a nature scene Into pmy sight, so from hustle and bustle | I'm freed. / I Send forth a breeze that will fan fme to sleep rind then, when in slumber I’m caught, give me a dream just as something to keep my mind on anew trend of thought. Break me away from monotony, please, before I fall ’way out of range. Let just the open, the birds and the trees present me a much needed change. t (Copyright. iaa&, NEA Service, Ino.)
thousand city employes who can be lined up behind whoever Postmaster General New wants to be elected Senator next year. On the other hand, if Duvall should be elected, there would be several thousand city employes who could be lined up behind Senator Watson. Meanwhile, the squabble over jobs in the Federal Building is threatening to break out again. There are too many New appointments in the employ of the Government here to suit Wotson. Therefore, shifts in the Federal lineup here are probable. Os course, Federal employes are just as valuable when it comes to backing a certain faction in the race for mayor as are city employes. Karolyi Will ‘Say It’ in Canada SHE, people of this country will listen with more than ordinary interest to what Count Michael Karolyi of Hungary will have to say when he reaches Canada in April. For weeks he has been traveling in the United States. Everywhere he went he was asked to speak. But he could say nothing—aside from platitudes about the weather—becaused muzzled by the Government at Washington. Why was the gag placed on the man who succeeded the Hap.iburg king of Hungary after the World Wars The Senate asked Secretary of State Hughes for an answer and got a lot of words. * Secretary of State Kellogg, who succeeded Hughes, continues the gag policy. Why? Nobody seems to know or, if they do, they refuse to tell. “It’s not compatible with the public interest,” it seems, or words to that effect. Sounds melodramatic hut not convincing. One result of all this muzzling and gagging nonsense is to make the public believe that the C#unt really must have something particularly deadly to reveal. No matter what Karolyi may sav now, even if unimportant., it will have a decidedly magnified effect. And, inasmuch as the press of the country has not been entirely muzzled, the public will yet learn the terrible secrets the distinguished Hungarian is now supposed to be carrying around with him securely locked in his bosom. He says he intends “to speak his mind.” Press reports tell us Canada will not muzzle Karolyi. Canada, it appears, boasts less of being a land of the free and practices it more. The American State Department has built the Karolyi visit up to such a climax, it’s getting positively dramatic. It’s like being in a theater waiting for the curtain to rise on a gripping mystery play. With considerable impatience, therefore, we await the Count’s opeping speech from his sanctuary on British soil.
tlonal Importance in the motioi picture world. A number of Universal executives, stirs and important film oritlca are expected to make the trip across the country to attend the premitre. A gigantic advertising and publicity campaign has already %een inaugurated. Made From Novel ‘The Phantom of the Opera” Is made from the novel by Gaston Leroux, and Lon Chaney stars in the role of the mysterious “Phantom." Mary Phllbln and Norman Kerry are the lovers, and the cast of five thousand Includes Arthur Edmund Carewe, Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland, Virginia Pearson and many other favorites. One of the features of the picture is the reproduction of the Paris Opera House, lyhlch was built al-
YOU NOT* Be Afraid To Laugh Next Week ‘CHARLEY’S AUNT Get your insurance policy at the door and enter secure in the knowledge that you are protected in case of hysteria. * “Enough To Make a Cat Laugh** ‘CHARLEY’S AUNT’ “ —From Brazil, Where The Nuts Come From**
i most complete, in full size and accurate detail, for the picture •I- -I- -ISOCTETY DESIRES TO HAVE NEW MEMBERS The Indianapolis Oratorio Society, which presented “The Messiah” under the direction of Horace Whitehouse last winter, deelres to Increase Its membership. The society is preparing to present the cantata “Elijah” this spring. About a hundred additional voices are needed. The society meets every Monday night at Hollenbeck Hall at the Y. W. C. A. at 7:30 o’clock. Indianapolis theaters today offer: K&ryl Norman at B. F. Keith’s; Joe Roberts, at the Lyric; “The Air Mall,” at the Ohio; “How to Educate a Wife,” at the Apollo; “Quo Vadls,” at the Circle, and Edmund Lowe In “Champion of Lost Cause" and “Fat Chance” at the Isis.
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Tom Sims Says In New York, a woman poisoned two men. Perhaps she may come clear by claiming she was a bigamist. . A woman may go to church to see what she can see and to a party to hear what sTbe
can hear. People, with without teeth, may enjoy learning a Chicago dentist is In jail. D1 gh t nlng struck a movie house In Kansas City, perhaps because It read the posters out front. i_ A New Jersey woman
who had her husband sixty years should write a book. If she Isn’t too busy. The way they trip the light fantastic now It looks as If they really are tripping. Nothing feels as crazy as anew straw hat. Almost had a fight In Congress. One started to throw a bottle of Ink. Would have been a blot on his reputation. See the pretty spring magazine covers, which were palntod last December? Wooden legs are not Inherited. But how about wooden heads? An optimist Is & man who hopes he gets run over by a doctor's auto. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Tnc.) JUDGE RELEASES GiRL Charged With Taking Dresses From Store. “I don't know why I got those dresses.” answered Miss Dorothy Purdy, 19. Y. W. C. A., to Criminal Judge James A. Collins when she faced trial before today. She was charged with obtaining three dresses from a downtown store through a fraudulent pharge account. Judge Collins released the woman on her own recognizance. The girl admitted she had plenty of money to purchase dresses. She said she came to Indianapolis from her home In New Jersey following her father’s death, to rest after a nervous breakdown.
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ARE VACATIONS A MENACE? m FRANK CANT WELD, director of the Home Com•plete Exposition, told the Real Estate Board the other day that local business Is ravaged by the winter vacation microbe. “One reason Indianapolis is not benefiting more industrially from Its natural ad van t-
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Leon’s day to Carl Fisher’s, Florida was supposed to be Only a haunt of diamond rattler, alligators and half-wild realtors. Then It marketed Its climate—and the rush was on. So now the Indianapolis business man boasts about this city, and calls it the Hoosier paradise, only In months without "R” In them. When golf clubs hibernate, he chatters: “If this be paradise, give me—” Well, he goes to Florida. A generation ago winter vacations were unknown. In those grindstone days a business man who took a couple of pleasure jaunts a year was a shiftless nomad. A bank president glancing at a railroad guide would precipitate a run on the institution. Now many business barons seemingly visit their offices only briefly between vacations. However business still flourishes. After all, business success is not measured by hours put In but by brains put In. THE REWARD FOR HEROISM mOE SCHWA RTZKOPF, a 10-year-old lad of Columbus, Ind., Jumped from a bridge and rescued an older companion’ who had fainted and fallen Into the river beneath. His quick ac-
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tlon saved unconscious boy’s life. An effort will be made to obtain a Carnegi hero medal for the brave lad in recognition of his deed. No doubt it is deserved. He unhesitatingly risked his life to save a life—which is the specification of a hero, according to the Carnegie fund commission. But It is difficult to reduce heroism# to rigid standard specifications. It is something that cannot be weighed, nor bought by the \ard. It is not an industry whose output can be stimulated by a commission. Heroism is a thing of the spirit. It’s the Inner impulse that drives one to sacrifice for others. It does not necessarily mean acts of conspicuous gallantry that can be applauded and rewarded. The person who meets the problems and adversities of dally life with honesty, truth and honor, may be as heroic as one with Jingling medals pinned all over his chest. It makes little difference whether the Carnegie presents a medal, the lad will have his reward. His personal satisfaction that he didn’t falter in an emergency will be worth a bushel of medals. A PORTLY PREMIUM LIST mHE finance and executive committee of the State board of agriculture, at a meeting Wednesday, approved the premium list for the 1925 State Fair. The total will be $126,000 —approximately $19,000 more than last year. The increase la about equally divided between cattle premiums and horse race purses. In buildings, exhibits, premiums, amusements, barbecue stands, sticky-faced children, and all other elements by which they are rated, the Indiana State Fair is unexcelled by any other State Fair in the country. The first State Hair held In Military Park in 1862 was a modest little effort. The whole thing, exhibits, sideshows, fakirs. and crpwd could be stuck In one corner of the new exposition building. Yet though it has grown into a mammoth undertaking with passing years the character of the en-
ages is that about 60 per cent, of the city’s real business men are In Florida, and the others are dreaming abouf It,” he said. Indisputably the winter vacation habit has reached formidable proportions. It may be a civic menace. From de
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