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Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey ub , and we turn about their whole body.—Jas. 3:3. Good counsels observed are chains of graces—Thomas Fuller. NO MEAN POLITICS 11. Myers Starts With Good Intentions. TwIALTER MYERS enters the contest for W the Democratic nomination for mayor with a statement that indicates laudable ambitions. If he can, as mayor, carry them out he will have done more than any mayor in the memory of the present generation has succeeded in doing. Myers said in his statement: “My first endeavor will he to give an hones* administration, with efficient, competent and faithful governing hoards aad officers. No outsider will sit as an extraordinary member of any hoard, whispering the orders of a politician into the ears of public servants; nor will the personnel or activities of the police, or any other branch of the department of public safety, he determined by persons whom the voters never chose. City officials are servants and not masters of those who select them, and no one by self-appointment can assume to speak with the people’s voice.” If Walter Myers should become mayor and should be the servant of the people and not of the particular politicians to whom he would owe in a great measure his success, he would be an outstanding exception. Virtually every mayor of Indianapolis has had his man or group of men behind the throne. Lew Shank has his Bill Armitage and Charles W. Jewett had his Indianapolis News, to cite the two most recent examples. Every mayor Indianapolis ever had owed his allegiance to seme particular special interest. Every one to a greater or lesser extent has served this interest. This is not necessarily a reflection on the men themselves. It is a reflection on the political system which has no business in municipal politics. The running of a city is a business. Until it is put on a business basis, the mayor, whoever he may be, will play a political game. Myers may have, and undoubtedly does have, good ii Mentions. But he will have to he a super-man if he carries them out. Children and Politics SHE junior legislature, just adjourned, has been educational to those who participated in more ways than one. Members of the junior legislature may have learned something about parliamentary procedure./ Certainly they learned a great deal about politics as it is played. The idea of teaching our high school boys end girls something about the government under which they live is an excellent one. The importance of civics and the general study of government in the schools can not be overstressed. But whoever developed the bright idea of dividing the high school boys and girls into Republicans and Democrats and of engineering

Ivogun Drops High Notes All Over Concert Stage

By Waited D. Hickman J 1 | VOCAL twister struck the /\l Academy of Music Sunday L.i. *1 afternoon and some of us are not over the shock today. Mme. Marla Ivogun, coloratura soprano, was responsible for the high note hurricane which struck the city. r Think I am safe in stating that I have never heard so many beautifully true high notes turned loose in one concert as this singer hurled At the audience without any visible effort. Mm Ivogun may properly be called a high note twister, but the audience became a small sized hurricane in demanding many encores. The final “shock” of the concert,yesterday was “The Blue Danube Waltz” given as an encore to Strauss’ "G’achichten aus dem Wienerwald.” The strains of the “Danube" number were enough to cause the audience to break out in honest and sudden applause. My favorite Brunswick record of this artist is the "Blue Danube’” number. Here is a pretty tonal fabric that becomes as light as a moonbeam by the treatment of this singer. The unusual tiling about this singer is that she reaches the highest notes with no apparent effort. She doesn’t sway and struggle on the stage. She Just sings as though she understood that she was a great vocal engineer who knows Just what throttle to pull to get certain results. And yet her singing does not appear to be restricted by the element of being over-studied. She knows her music, the theme and is always the chief engineer when it comes time to turn on the vocal fireworks. German Numbers The Sol man and Grieg numbers which made up the second suite of bar j ■'ocram caught the fancy of those . resent, especially Grieg’s “O Matter ■Ui # ” which made & marked tiaprMion. All of these nund>ers mitt jfrMirtlefl with as much ease

a r 'ority bolt and various other things of the kind seems to have gone a bit too far. Indian.', will be glad to forget some of the things that occurred in the last regular session of the Legislature. Then why should they be imitated in a mock session, using boys and girls as the imitators? Os course, high school boys and girls should be taught the significance of partisan politics but they should not be forced into partisanship and they should not be encouraged to label themselves Democrats or Republicans. If men and women of voting age want to affiliate themselves with one party or another that is their privilege. But the voting age is young enough to begin playing political games and no one ever is old enough properly to play some of the games that were played in the last Legislature and imitated, presumably with the encouragement of their elders, by the junior Legislators. Some of the,hoys and girls listened to political speeches from men and women who are old enough to know better. They were filled with political bunk instead of the facts which they came to Indianapolis to seek. The writer attended a meeting of the junior Senate when it was discussing the Federal child labor amendment. Not one speaker who had the floor while the writer was present appeared to have any conception of the amendment. And apparently there was no one there who could or would set them rights We don’t want our remarks to be misconstrued. The Junior Legislature idea is a good one, hut for goodno®* rake let’s divorce at least this one thing from political bunk and let’s give our hoys and girls facts free from bias. They will come in contact with unsavory political trickery soon enough without being encouraged to imitate it.

A Crime to Grow Old? |77| OW we do treat our aged! I ill The fashion is, nowadays, to turn our jails and penitentiaries into clubs and amusement parks, with movies, theatricals, baseball and whatnot for the prisoners. Pampered and petted as they now are in many jails, the average criminal is far better off inside than he would be out. But when it comes to taking care of our poor old people, what a difference! Men and women who have never done a wrong to a living soul; whose only crime is to have failed to succeed and grown old without an accumulation of wealth, are often treated worse than any good stockman treats his cattle. In China—which we, in our ignorance, call Knighted—the older a man or woman is the greater he or she is reverenced. Which is as it should he. Have you never felt, in the presence of some very old person, whose hair was white with the snows of mary winters and whose Rwcet face shone with something not quite of this earth, that you somehow stood close to the Divine? In such a presence lid you never feel that if you listened real close you could hear the flutter of an angel’s wings? The old are mighty close to God. We should reverence the aged and treat them kindly. For all we are we owe to them.

as Meyerbeer’s "Huguenotten,” a heavy number. t Was impressed with the richness of the voice of this woman. She reaches highest register expected of a coloratura and keeps at all time that wonderful “velvety” quality of tone. She retains it on the concert stage as well as on her records. An entire suite was devoted to songs in English, including that little sunbeam of melody, “The Fairy Pipers,” by Brewer. The program was chosen with conTest Yourself Foresight Can you follow a road may when there are a number of different (urns marked at a crossroad? Do you always Lake the shortest cut when you are In a hurry? If you can find your way through this maze in two minutes you have some degree of foresight. Start at the letter S in the middle. Warning! When you pick up your pencil and start, be sure not to cross any o fthe lines block.ng the maze, and remember there is only one way out. Two minutes to go! Ready? Begin!

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summate care and she is a master in choosing encore numbers. And the Pianist No report of the Ivogun concert would be complete unless Max Jaffe, pianist and accompanist, was mentioned right along with the singer. The most unthankful Job in the world, I think, would be the accompanist for a great singer. Most of this type generally appear to be In a trance, just present because it is necssary. Not so with Jaffe, as he is a very important pare of the proceedings. He delights to play. He does It with a great deal -of dash and spirit. That is what a pianist needs on such a program. Jaffe aids Mme. Ivogun to suggest the spirit and the mood of the song. He knows how to get the proper tone with the lightest touch. His splendid assistance yesterday aided the Indianapolis Maennerchor in presenting one of their most successful concerts of the season. Half Holiday By Hal Cochran When Saturday noon comes, a lot of folks atop In th? work they've been doing all week. Ambition and vigor and vim go kerflop, and they take on a lazy like streak. The half a day off Is a bully fine thing and we plan what we’ll do all week long. Theresa this and there's that that real pleasure would bring, but how often the planning goes wrong. On Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday we fret. Oh, the rest can’t come any too soon. On Thursday and Friday, as closer we get, we still long for Saturday noon. The half a day off we are anxious to cop, for we klnda Just feel that we’ll Shirk. And, by the missus, we’re dragged out to shop, which Is worse than our regular work.

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When Air Flivver Factory Is Going Full Blast

Main St. Makes Paris Sit Up and Sneeze; Syd Chaplin Becomes Grand Old Woman

By Walter D. Hickman OOW. I ask you—Can you imagine Ernest Torrence as a man who was so tight with his money that he squeezed a coin so hard that It made an eagle look like a stork? Although Torrence is generally associated with chewing-tobacco roles

of characters In the great open spaces where “men are men nine times out of ten,” according to a recent wit, yet he Is the keeper of the main store on Main St., in a little Illinois town. He believed that ladies’ wrappers never got out of style, if they did. lust keep ’em in stock

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until tno style returned. You w'll meet Terence In anew sort of- a role for him in “The Dressmaker From Paris." Don’t become alarmed. Ernest Is not the dressmaker, but the owner of a small town store that attempted to make Paris sit up and take notice. He certainly did cause a sensation in the old town when he presented Mme. Louise, a French dressmaker, and her crowd of models. The old town simply went daffy. That is the men did and the dear old sisters held an indignation meeting and nearly drove the little dressmaker and her cross-word puzzle workers out of town. But. why tell you all th* story as there isn’t much to it as it is. The direct Jr of this new Beatrice Joy featured player must have said to himse’f: "Let us make some smart and tailor-made for the women, and "The Dressmaker From Paris" was the result.

The thing that will appeal to the women customers of the Ohio this week is the smart fashion display in the movie. When I was present the women nearly passed out, if their gasps of admiration counted for anything, as they saw one beautiful gown flashed on the screen after another. Then Just to make the affair more tremendous, Manager Harry Koch borrowed some of the smartest gowns, coats and the like from Rink’s of this city, and staged a real for-sure Fashion Hhow. It is a nice piece of business to do and one that will please the women. It looked like a woman’s convention when I was at the Ohio yesterday, as more than half of the house was filled by them. Leatrice Joy does sotne 'clever little frisking about In this movie. Not a great photoplay, but It is well dressed. The women will love it Bill includes organ and orchestra work and a Van Bibber comedy. “Spanish Romeo.” At the Ohio all lweek. + ’l* + STD CHAPLIN USES FORMULA THAT HAS NEVER FAILED There seems to be a formula on the stage that when one la in doubt just present “Charley’s Aunt.” Syd Chaplin did not cause much of a splash in the movie world until he produced "Charley’s Aunt.” Her© Is a stage play that is as old as the hills and has existed for about thirty-three years on the stage. It has probably been acted more timee than any other play. Before seeing “Charley’s Aunt” at the Circle with Syd Chaplin as the impersonator of the sweet old dame “who came from Brazil where the nuts grow,” I was informed that this was the funniest farce in forty years. Well, it has been considered about that on the stage for about as many years. There are only a few genuine f&roes on the stage that are successes. The movie opens as slowly as the stage version, but that It necessary to introduce the several

chief characters. When Chaplin gets on his long black skirts and his funny bonnet, the fun starts and

Movie Verdict "Charley’s Aunt”—This merry old farce turns the trick for Syd Chaplin by giving him a knockout of a hit. One of the best laugh getters the screen has ever had. At the Circle. "The Dressmaker From Paris”—Not much of a story but a dresK parade will make the Ohio a mecca for women all week. Living models wear new gowns fro u Rinks as an additional feature to the bill. At the Ohio. “Excuse Me”—Made from the stage farce of the same name. Becomes melodramatic at times /which rather takes the element of farce out of the theme. At the Apollo.

increases until It becomes a regular laugh factory. There is something still funny in seeing a man put on the elderly dress of an elderly woman. His desire to smoke always gets a laugh and his weakness for drink stronger Tom Sims Says The world’s a stage upon which you have no show unless you play fair. Wrnan’s ?lace may be In the home, iut some say it is In the beauty parlor. The greatest man in the world is the happiest man in the world. Uneasy lies the head that can’t

decide whether to bob its hair or let it stay long. You can’t even depend upon a mirror to show you someone you can trust. Only a short time until April showers will bring May floods. Easter eggs, and not the people selling

them, should be hard boiled. Results count. The causes of most things are unknown. Another ure sign of spring is when gas prices go up. Two may not live cheaper than one, but they may live more. Weather is like time. We have so much of both, it all can’t be good. The worst thing about being a grouch is he thinks everybody else is grouchy. Only a few more weeks now until It is safe to predict a mild winter. There’s one thing about poison booze, few people buy It twice. The early bird may get the worm. The early bud may get the frost. A wise man is merely one too sensible to act foolish. Being married doesn’t worry a married man any more than' being single worries a single man. A bachelor is a man who is afraid of conversation. The modern dance floor needs both a speed limit and parking regulations. And maybe the early bird doesn’t enjoy the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the sleep. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

than a lady would absorb throws the audience Into a convulsion. The funniest scene is the "mixed garter scene.” Here is slapstick comedy but done so cleverly that one goes wild with the wildest sort of laughter. “Charley's Aunt" is a noisy vehicle, but it does have the laughs. Chaplin has a corking good time going through the merry paces. This picture has made Syd Chaplin famous. If he is able to find another vehicle half as good he will be one of the leading comedy players on the screen. On the whole, Chaplin is about as funny in this picture as any of the other few great comedy players before us today. Chaplin does not make the story, the story makes him. It is noisy, but corking good fun. It was given a tremendous reception at the Circle yesterday. Ajnong the biggest audiences of the season attended the opening performance. As there is much Interest about the casts of “Charley’s Aunt,” I give it to you in full: Sir Fancourt Babberley, "Babbs".... _ •••• Syd Chaplin Ela Del ah ay mm . . Ethel Shannon Spettiyue James E. Page Brassett. the Scout Llicten Littlefield Mr. Delahay Alee B. Francis 31 r Francis Chesney Phillips Smalley Donna Lucia D'Alvardorez. . Eulalie Jensen Jack Ohesney David Janus Charlie Wykeham Jimmie Harrison Amy Mary Akin Kitty Priscilla Bonnnr This week Bakalelnikoff is directing the Circle Orchestra through the overture, “The Fortune Teller," by Victor Herbert. Beautifully played and directed. Bill Includes a news reel and a comedy. At the Circle all week. • • •

RUPERT HUGHES’ FARCE REACHES THE MOVIE SCREEN "Excuse Me” was first a novel, then a play and now It Is a movie with Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel and Walter Hiers. Here is a light, merry little farce about a newly wed couple that had

not reached the altar. I hasten to add that they intended to march to the altar but their plans became tempo rarily sidetracked, although they were riding on a crack train in a modern Pullman. Miss Shearer arid Nagel play the parts of the wouldbe newly weds who do become wedded before the picture is finished. They did have many adventures

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before they marched to the altar. It I remember the stage version correctly, the movie director has added a number of thrills, spectacular in nature that the stage version did not have. The sleeping car scenes are well handled and the "souse” who attempted to sleep in an upper is still very funny in these prohibition days. Asa movie, "Excuse Me” is light entertainment, with Walter Hierß, blacked up as a Pullman porter, getting as many laughs as the man who plays the "souse.” The airplane scenes as well as the train wreck episode have been well handled. The bill includes a comedy, "Butterfly Man,” a Fox News and music by Earl Gordon at the organ and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. -I- -I- -IThe BerkeVl Players opened their third season at English’s Sunday night in “Why Men Leave Home,” a comedy. Will be reviewed in Tuesday’s Times. Will be the bill for the week. Houdlni is at Keith's all week; Bernard Granville at the Lyric and Ted Lorraine and Jack Minto at the Palace. The bill at the Isis for the first half of the week includes Richard Talmadge in "Jimmies Millions, ’’ and a Bray Plctograpb.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

THE SHEIK CLEAN-UP M r “— I AYOR SHANK has directed police to open hostilities i__l against slick-haired young men who ogle girls and women on downtown streets In the evening. Life to Indianapolis policemen is just one war after another. "Who are we warring @wlth now?" might well be the refrain of their official anthem. But probably no recent war undertaken by the force popular with mothers of nice daughters than that Just proclaimed aga 1 n st mashers. Womn, young Nelsore and mature, should be able to traverse the streets without being subject to Insulting advances of cheap, imitation Lotharios. The masher is an unnecessary species of wild life—not worth preserving. As part of the fauna and flora he Is neither beautiful nor edible —just a pest like mosquitoes or Canada thistles. The quicker he is eradicated the Letter. However It is doubtful if the edict will exterminate him. He will continue though the hatpin figuratively speaking, the weapon itself Is extinct —of every decent woman Is against him. He will continue because occasionally his advances are encouraged. If every girl he accosted rebuffed him he would soon seek other diversions. Probably therefore the , police can’t entirely uproot the sheik crop. But a few clean-ups can keep these civic weeds mowed to prevent downtown from becoming a jungle.

FIRE WASTE PRIZES Eire CHIEF OBRIEN received notice Friday that Indianapolis was grand winner in the 1924 national fire waste contest conducted by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Two hundred and sixty-five cities were in the contest and the winner was determined by low fire loss per capita during the year. In 1923 Indianapolis hud the best record in its population class—in 1924 the best of all competing cities. Os course the award is gratifying to fire department officials. It also inflates civic pride. But it is more than an empty honor. Reduction in fire losses means ultimately lower insurance rates. The latter do not tread hard on the heels of the former with unseemly haste—insurance companies lower rates with reluctant and stately deliberation—but they eventually appear. To the average citizen owning only a hatfult of furniture and other domestic goods a few cents' reduction in fire insurance rates is inconsequential. To large property owners and industries, however, it is important. Insurance, tax, light, freight and other rates that prowl abroad may only annoy individual householders but they make or break cities. They are determining factors in location of factories and large enterprises. The achievement of Indianapolis in fire prevention may be more effective in attracting new industries than an aroused civic spirit and gallons of perfervid oratory. MAGIC AND” ERRANT HUSBANDS njTTjRS. PEARL, LANE, Central yj Ave., wanted to get back l. ill her husband, who had left her. She consults a medium, who claimed to be able through occult powers to return the errant knave for a cash consideration. The bereft wife paid over $64.75 —but the spouse wasn’t delivered per contract. Apparently the medium’s spirit controls—Little Annie, Eaglefeather and the rest—went to sleep on the job. Consequently Saturday she was haled into court by her client on a grand larceny charge. A medium usually falls down thus when asked to exert her psychic powers on any little practical job. Occult forces are willing to ring bells, jiggle tables, rap out inane messages from Plato, Shakespeare, or the babes in the woods, but they scorn useful pursuits. They won’t find a stray husband or a lost collar button. Garden variety husbands, somewhat scarred and blemished, are not hard to get. Nor are they hard to keep after they have been dried, salted and laid away in matrimony. But something more substantial than magic or necromancy must be emp.oyed. Husbands are more attuned to gastronomic than to psychic phenomena. An apple pie like mother’s crooning to itself in the oven or golden brown waffles smiling at breakfast will hold them whep a house full of psychic powers and a stable of spirit controls won't. UNCOILING RED TAPE rpnUNNYSIDE SANITORIUM I O I I*®* been S ranted permlsI I sion to use a switch track at Ft. Harrison to transfer cars of coal from the Big Four railroad to the Union Traction line thus making possible their direct delivery to the hospital. Marion county will thereby save approximately $1,00(1 a year on the sanitorium’s fuel bl'l. Heretofore it has been necessary

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to truck coal from Oaklandon to , the Institution—which is tedious ’ and expensive. Six months ago—at winter’s approach hospital authorities sought permission to use the track through the military reservation. The commandant at the army poßt was willing but helpless. If Ft' Harrison was a private enterprise the simple and logical arrangement would have been perfected in two minutes by phone. Because It is a Government establishment the matter had to be referred to Washington. Winter has come and gone. Sunny-side’s fuel demands have slackened for a season. Now after ponderous deliberation—spurred on by Indiana's senior Senator — the War Department graciously permits use of the switch. Probably the momentous decision will imperil national defenses. hut Washington authorities always rise grandly to the occasion—if given time. Os course Government departments can’t move with the directness and celerity of private business. But efficiency is only incidental to their operation. Their chief concern Is coiling and uncoiling red tape. Ask The Times You can set an answer to any questionof fact or information by writing SThe Indianapolis Times Washirutin t ireau. 1322 New York Ave., Wasp I Stoii. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In 1 stamps for reply. Medical, legal ana marital advice cannot be given, nor can research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidenOs what islands is Japan composed? Honshu!, Klushul, Shikoku, Hokkaido and Formosa. Besides these are three small groups of Islands known as the Luchu Islands, the Bonin Islands and the Pescadores Islands. Are there two cities In the United States known as the "Gate City?" Atlanta, Ga., Is called the "Gate City of the South” and Keokuk, lowa, "The Gate City.” Are there any women employed In the United States consular service? No women hold positions in the regular consular service. The only women employed hold clerical positions and these are usually filled by persons living In the city In which the consulate Is located. How old must a hoy be to join the Navy? At least 17. Under 21, he must have the consent of his parents. To how much sick leave Is a mall carrier in the postal service entitled? . Ten days a. year. This is alt#sftw to accumulate for three years. Fol example. If he takes no sick leav™ for two years twenty days will accumulate for three years and In the third year he can take thirty days If he needs it. A doctor’s certificate Is required for sick leave when over two days are taken. This applies to the postal service for the entire country. In the insurance policies Issued as Federal bonus, is It necessary that the beneficiary be a dependent? No. Anyone can be named as ben* efleiary on these policies. How many soldiers of the World War are drawing pensions throughout the world? The International Labor Bureau at Geneva, Switzerland, reports that in 1923 over 760.000,000 ex-soldlers were drawing pensions from tha various governments. Is the climate of the whole of Alaska extremely cold? Only the northern part Is very cold as the southern part Is made comparatively temperate by the warm waters and winds of the Paciflo. Records for Sitka, located in the southeast, show a range of 36 degrees to 87 degrees for August, the hottest month. In February, the coldest month, records show a range of S degrees to 64 degrees.

In New York 1 By James VV. Dean NEW YORK, March 30,—The favorite bit of humor going the rounds of Broadway and its teetable literati has to do with the manner in which Michael Arlen out* smarted a smart woman guest at the “bon voyage” party given to Pola Negri. Michael Arlen, as you doubtlessly know, is author of the sophisticated “The Green Hat.” The woman Is of a rather decided masculine type, usually wearing mannish clothes, smoking cigarets and talking in deep tones. Upon being Introduced to Arlen she quite coolly looked him over from shoes to head and then drawl* ed, “Do you know, you're almost feminine.” Just as coolly and without waiting for words Arlen answered, “I believe you are, too.” • • • Bartenders In speakeasies are now* being routed over circuits In the same manner as ' vaudeville pen. formers. Most of the bootleg shops along the Broadway district are con* trolled by syndicates. One of these ' syndicates controls more than, twenty places. Each two weeks the bartenders are shifted around. Some | patrons follow their favorite bat> 1 tenders and this Increases the bust* ness of the various establishments/ by word-of-mouth advertising. tills system prevents bartendeM getting too friendly with reguliS* patrons to whom they might give bigger drinks than the usual "two fingers.” • • • From what I can see of the boot* leg situation here I doubt if Die. trlct Attorney Buckner’s padlock crusade will be effective. By the time he gets a padlock on the last speakeasy ths locks on the first one# will have rusted and fallen off.