Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W HOWARD. President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NUA Serrice * * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis i . e SubVcriptton Rates/ Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • THONE—MA In 3500. '

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.—l Tim. 4:8. Godliness is practical religion.—Dewey. With Their Backs to the Wall rpriROFESSIONAL politicians in Indianapo--11 1 lis are fighting with their backs to the wall. Having gone along for weeks with the serene belief that all things always would be as they have been for years, they suddenly have awakened to the fact that Indianapolis citizens are disgusted with the present form of government and that they intend to bring about a change. None of the politicians dares to fight the manager plan in the open. They know that the voters of Indianapolis are for it and that the people are through with politics in municipal affairs. So they have taken a different track , The politicians, not daring to fly in the face of such a group of citizens and taxpayers as the Committee of One Thousand, now are posing as friends of the manager plan and are attacking the State law as being inadequate. They say in substance, “The city manager plan of government is a great thing. Far be it from us to oppose anything so worthy. But the Indiana manager law as now constituted is not perfect and until we have a perfect law we should not have a manager but should go ahead and let us run the government in our own way for at least another four years.” All of which is 99 44-100 per cent pure bunk. This sort of argument was started by •Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth, one of the candidates for the Republican nomination for Mayor and it is being eagerly seized upon by the remainder of the despondent candidates. Judge Wilmeth, through his paid press agent, sent to each of the newspapers a neatly typewritten statement, covering several pages, to this effect. Os course, the Judge’s press agent must earn his money, and we don’t blame him. But the judge, as a good lawyer, should know better. He should know that the manager system, as provided in the Indiana law, despite its weakness, is an immeasurable improvement over the present political system under which the interests of the people are always made subordinate to the personal ambitions of the politicians. The politicians argue that the council under the city manager plan, would have considerable power. “Suppose,” say they, “that this council should be controlled by a bunch of politicians. Then what would happen!” Mind you, this highly clever argument is being made by the politicians themselves. Their answer is that to avoid any such eventuality we should elect a council con trolled by politicians and a mayor whose principle interest is the political advancement of himself and his friends. The arguments don’t hold water. Nobody

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You csn ret an anaww to any question of fact or Information by wrltinr to The Indianapolis Timer Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are.. WashSnton, D. C, Inclosing 3 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are conflden ttal. —Kditor How many persona In the United States are College graduates? According to the latest available statistics there are 908.469 living college graduates as compared to a population of 106,268,300 persons. HPV many persons were appointed railway mall clerks last year? 2,129. What was the "Kitchen Cabinet?" *. nickname first applied tc a small coterie consisting of five intimate friends of Preildent Jackson who w't.o thought to have more influence with him than the members of his official cabinet. They were Dugg Ores, Kditor of the United Htates Telegraph; Francis P. Blair, editor of the Globe; William B. Lewis, Isaac Hill and Amos Kendall, who occupied minor positions in the Treasury Department. When and where was Charlie Chaplin born? In London, Engl&i and, April 16, 1889, / Who Is the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and for how long a term does he serve? The oOvernor of the Canal Zone is Col. Meriwether L. AValker. He assumed office Oct. 16, 1924. He was not appointed for a definite time, but subject to the orders of the Secretary of War. The Canal Zone is a military reeervation. Who Is the Sea of Aral? It Is an extensive lake In Asiatic nusela. Except the Caspian and the Victoria Nyanza (of east-central Africa) It Is the largest Inland sea of the Eastern Hemisphere. Tobil area 26.100 square miles; length I*6

is going to be fooled by this kind of bunk. No one expects politicians to be for the city manager plan of government. One of the best arguments in its favor is that they are against it. Our National Generosity 1 RESIDENT COOLIDGE isn’t so easy to ___ admire when he is being clever. When he is expressing honestly and simply his frugal New England philosophy you can give him complete credit for sincerity, whether or not you hold conflicting views. Thus when he defends the protective tariff, Coolidge’s whole life and background cause him to accept the protective tariff as essential to the welfare of the American people. But read this paragraph, one of several to the same purport, in his speech to the National Cotton Manufacturers’ Association: “We have established here the practice of absolute free trade throughout a a great continental area of forty-eight States, besides other possessions. It is the most widely extended application of that policy that will be found anywhere. Within this domain we have an extent and variety of natural resources far beyond those of any other country. Yet from our national beginnings we have sought no advantage by reason of this primacy of natural resources. Whoever wanted them was free to come here and buy our raw materials at exactly the same prices as our own people. Such staples as copper, cotton and* petroleum might have been made the basis on which to build great national monopolies. Yet they have been as freely available to the industries of other countries as to our own. Under our Constitution our export trade is free of duty.” What does it sav! Simply that we have a vast amount of goods to sell the world and that we permit the world to come freely and buy! That we raise cotton, for example, and do not prevent anyone from buying it. “I have been tempted to wonder,” said Coolidge in another paragraph, “how many other peoples endowed with the same natural wealth, the same possibilities of maintaining something like monopoly, would have been as generous with the rest of mankind as the Americans have been.” Well, that may appeal to President Coolidge as generosity, so we’ll have to let it go at that. It is a generosity, at any rate, that doesn’t cost us anything. There was another bit of generosity that the President might have been guilty of, but avoided. The well-protected cotton manufacturers, headed by Chairman Butler’s own son, are seeking still more protection. The President carefully refrained in his speech from offering them any hope, so far as he is concerned. Taft, when president, exhibited the sort of generosity the cotton manufacturers now seek. It cost him something. Tt cost him his job. President Coolidge apparently intends to make no mistake of that kind.

miles. It is slightly saline, but remarkably transparent. Though It abounds in fish, the shores are practically uninhabited. There are no important ports, and the sea has no outlet. It contains a multitude of islands. Owing to the shallowness of Its waters, navigation Is difficult, but Russian steamers have been launched upon it and took part

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As part of the Mile. Theo Heweo dancing act at Keith's this week, Bomar Cramer, one of the leaders of the younger pianists, gives a short recital. He Is meeting with much success.

In the operations against the Khiva In June, 1873. How much gold does a S2O gold piece contain? 464.40 grains of fine and 61.60 grains of-copper alloy. What is the size of the Vatican at Rome? The palace of the Vatican covers thriteen and one-half acres, and is said to contain 1,100 rooms. This includes the various museums, libraries. chapels and decorated gal leries, but does not include the gardens and grounds. The usual estimate of the size of the palace, with its various parts is given as 1,161 feet long and 767 feet broad, though these figures are possibly under the true dimensions. How can rust be prevented from forming on coper screening? A coat of linseed oil applied to the screening now and then will prolong its life by preventing rust. When was the first telephone conversation held, and between I whom? In 1874, between Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor, and his assistant, Thomas Watson. The first I public demonstration was at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. What is the area, population and chief city of the Ukraine, and to what country does it belbng? In the treaty of Riga, March 19, 1921, between Soviet Russia and Poland, both sides agreed to recognize the independence of the Ukraine. It is now, however, one of the republics of the Federations of Socialist Soviet Republics. The area of the country is 174,610 square miles and the population 26,000,000. The chief city is Kharkov. Agriculture is the chief industry. What are some names suitable for a Scotch collie? Donald, Mack. Andy and Laddie.,

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Shaw Proves to His Satisfaction That a Wife May Safely Embrace Romance

By Walter D. Hickman SO hig own satisfaction and amusement. George Bernard Shaw convinces himself that a married woman, after years of wedded Ufa, may embrace romance without becoming a lady of the evening. He does this Job in smart and ringing style in "Candida,” one of his earlier comedy-satires of what is and what isn’t. The Shaw prescription probably will not be a success all the time because the woman must be a very wise and wonderful woman. She must have a sense of hr.aor when her illy white hatfuls clean* the lamps or when she peels onio’.s. Moonlight, poetry and mental tills and the conceit of her husband were few of the things that Candida had to play with. Husband in this case was one of the Great-I-Am-Ministers of the gospel who retains socialism in religion because the sweet medicine resulted in applause, praise and a battle. The Rev. Mr. James Mavor Morell was the master of his house because his wife made him the naster. But the poor old conceited thing couldn't see it until a boy poet. Just 18. suddenly came into the life of the family. The poet saw Mrs. Morell, known as Candida, as an angel. Os course, the dear husband couldn’t he expected to see his wife as being an angel, especially when he was a minister. I blame that impression of mine upon Shaw. Candida gives the naughty hoy poet the "air” after he*- husband sees her true value. Candida is solid and wise. Moonlight and poetry about angels doesn’t thiow her into the gutter. * She isn't mad alter puppy love, because she Is a' mother and a wife. She knows the true value of love and devotion although her preaching husband is blind. That Is That That Is about all there is to this little mental excursion of Shaw. It is smart, rapid and tantalizing fun with two great scenes—when the boy poet reaches the pearly gates before a fireplace and when Candida receives bids for her companionship from the poet ami her husband. Here Is gorgeous dramatic fun. Here is the smart, cruel, crafty aid funny Shaw—the hig Shaw. "Candida” is Interesting at this time, because it is now one of the leading sensations on Broadway. It was presented last night at the Masonic Temple by the Little Theatre Society. Shaw is no easy mark mentally and hi* sudden witty darts and then the sudden dramatic relief and then a startling bit of exquisite satire, make him hard to produce. Tt Is the work of experts and not beginners. Great Accomplishment It is to be recorded here that the Little Theatre gave a performance of "Candida’’ I believe that Shaw would have acclaimed with delight and sincere appreciation. The Little Theatre in the nearly six years I have been telling you about shows has never appeared to such a splendid advantage. Here was a. cast which was nearly professional as liar as the effect gained w-as concerned. There was character drawing, calm deliberation, no overacting and smart, rapid and running fun. All that is In the Shaw play and all that was in the Little Theatre interpretation of the play. Again this production proves the real value of the Little Theatre as a civic movement of the utmost importance to Indianapolis. The Little Theatre drew on its best talent for this Shaw experience. Will not speak Individually of the players hut merely state that nobody in the State of Indiana could have played it any better than this cast. Will give you the east a.s follows: Reverend James Maror Mor*>ll .... Wf)’*her i,ichor Candida Morell Evelyn Fife Mr. Burgess Arthur J. Beriault Proserpine Oanictt Sara I.auter Reverend Alexander Mill.. Worth ”nvaH Eugene Marehhsnhs Murr- WWa>'d To my way of thinking, the Little Theatre has proven its worth by

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presenting this season such two great accomplishments as "Everyman” and "Candida.” A marvelous finale for the Little Theatre this season. -I- -I- -INEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT THE PALACE A terpsichorean revue is “Tom, Dick, and Harry” which is headlining the bill at the Palace theater the last half of this wek under the direction of Tommy Thomson, Ben Macomber, end Fred Harris. Julie Claire is featured in the production. Ray and Elsie Dean present “Alpheas,” a suit of laughter. ’’Stories and Songs’ is the bit offered by L. Barton Evans and Hilda Orth. The Lime Trio is a group of comedy gymnasts giving “The Gpllywog.” One other act which is billed as full of surprises closes the show. "On Thin 1 Ice” with Tom Moore and Edith Roberts is the photoplay. -I- -!- -ITHREE INDIANA MEN IN ’IVAN lIO’ CAST Three Indiana men play prominent parts in “Ivan Ho!” which Haresfoot Club of the University of Wis-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

A GARAGE BEAUTIFUL SHE city plan commission Tuesday granted permission for construction of a large garage in connection with a proposed $3,000,000 hotel at Fall Creek Llvd. and Meridian St. For several weeks the request has been under consideration. The hotel project hinged on this peYmlt. Yet the site of the garage

is in a district zoned for residences. Hence the com mis sion's quandary and delay. In granting permission the plan body stipulated just what sort of garage could he constructed. The structure must he used only for hotel patrons; it must be surrounded hy shrubs and

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lawns; the entrance must be on an alley; the building must be architecturally beautiful. Probably the planners acted wisely. The proposed improvement will not besmirch the street —and the strings attached will insure a garage beautlfu'. But who is to decide whether the structure is beautiful architecturally? The plan commission, the builders, or the city judge? What will happen if, after completion, the owners don't use it exclusively for hotel guests? Will they be compelled to remove It to the hotel safe? The incident shows how much successful zoning depends on property owners. It isn't the letter of the ordinance, 'it is the spirit with Which property owners cooperate with the commission that makes a success or failure of zoning plans. PETITIONS FOR CLEMENCY SHE State board of pardons has received eighty-flve petitions for clemency this month from persons in Indiana )Knal institutions. Tills Is an average monthly grist. In looking over the list one Is struck with the short length of time served before petitioners think they have sufllclently expiated their misdeeds. Two lifers seek liberty after confinement for three and five years. Perhaps they have suffered enough

consin will present at the Murat theater tonight. Thomas W. Morony, Valparaiso, heads the cast as “Ivan.” He is president of the club, * which is the men’s student dramatic organization of the campus and one of the oldest and best known clubs of its kind in the collegiate world. Delbert Tally, Terre Haute, takes the role of the Black Knight In the play, and Robert Talley, also of Terre Haute, is director of the stage orchestra. Mr. ajid Mrs. Walter W. Talley have notified local Wisconsin alumni that they are bringing a party of twelve from the home town to see and hear their boys perform. -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: ‘The Masquerader” at English’s; Mile. Theo Hews' dancers at Keith s; Sherman, Van and Hyman at the Lyric; “One Way Street” at the Circle; "The Goose Hangs High" at the Ohio; "Cheaper to Marry” at the Apollo and complete new show at the Isis. Indiana. Indorsers of Photoplays this week Indorse "The Goose Hangs High’’ at the Ohio for family and "Cheaper to Marry” at the Apollo.

for their peccadillos. Thirteen robbers and burglars want out after and average of three and A half years on ten to twenty-one-year sentences. Other petitioners, with shorter terms for milder crimes, seek clemency after serving simitar fractions of their allotted time. Os course, not all petitions will receive favorable consideration. Only a few will he granted, and, undoubtedly, in those cases leniency will be Justified. However, the number of petitions filed every month and the anxiety evinced by those In to get out Indicates that imprisonment is real punishment—whatever its period. Fines play sucli a large part in modern penalties that it sometimes seems the administration of Just'ce Is now entirely on a cash-and-carry basis. It's $1 for this offense and $lO for that. Fines merely Irritate, but loss of liberty and time hurt an offender. That hits him where he lives —for those are his most precious possessions. BETTER SPEECH' CONTEST SHF: Indiana State Normal School, eastern division at Muneie, holds Its second annual better speech contest today. Four hundred and ninety pupils, representing eighteen Delaware County schools, are in the tournament. What next? For public school pupils, everything in on an interscholastlc competitive basis—from basketball to deportment. It’s a spiritless school that can’t annex at least one State championship. A better speech contest must be a thrilling occasion. What thunders of applause must greet contending teams as they trot out on the floor with all eight parts of speech working rhythmically. Probably the wellknown welkin rings when a split Infinitive or a double negative is thrown for a five yard loss. There may he too many interscholastic competitions In too many lines, hut no doubt the better

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Tracks By HAL COCHRAN I took up the trail of some wee little tracks, that lead from the yard to the door. I followed them inward, these bold muddy facts, and they hied for the living room floor. All over the carpet, in circles they went, with always some mud left behind. I knew, right away, what the trail really meant, but the tracker I vowed I would find. On through to the kitchen, and then to a shelf where always a cookie Jar stands. I peered in the jar—then I took one myself. ‘Twas missed by some wee little hands. ' The footprints then led to the door in the back, and the mudspots were suddenly spent. And there stood a tot, at the end of the track, eating cookies in youthful content. y A wee little thing is the child In the case. The mother of course is the fretter. But, shucks, tell-tale tracks in all youth have their places, ’cause a tot doesn’t know any better.

speech contest has a laudable purpose. Every person—except husbands —uses speech more or less, but to use it correctly Is an accomplishment. Ordinarily the English language is more abused than used. It is frequently torn limb from limb. Perhaps grammar and diction don’t matter just so speech conveys one’s meaning. But speech is the garb of thought. Slovenly speech encourages shuffling, looseJolnted ideas. If the better speech contest inspires pupils to correct use of words it will sharpen the tools of thought and may result in more clear-cut thinking. THE COST OF~ COMMERCIAL CRIME mE TREGOK of New York —executive secretary of the • National Association of the National Association of Credit Men —declared before the Indianapolis Rotary Club Tuesday that commercial crime has greatly increased In the past two years. In 1924, he said, credit losses in this country amounted to $700,000,000, or about $6.50 per capita. About one-third of this loss was due to commercial crime—particularly fraudulent bankruptcy. Judging from those statistics business integrity is only a. figure of speech—or less. No wonder Diogenes carried a lantern and an armful of pessimism In his search for an honest man. But the situation is not as desperate as it seems. Ninety-five per cent, of the business of the country is on credit. Credit losses, though they bulk large when piled In one heap, are only an insignificant fraction of the annual business turn-over. Nevertheless fraudulet bankrupts are not only a source of grief to their trusting creditors but tax. the honest business of the country. Whenever a crook, after straining his credit, busts, the wholesaler feels the first, impact but he passes the loss along until it reaches the ultimate consumer. It can’t go farther. So the present Avar being waged by the credit men’s organization on these commercial crooks is in public Interest. The sooner they are eliminated the better for American business and old Ultimate Consumer.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1925

Tom Sims Says When you are lonely, and Want the doorbell to ring, try to take a bath. A learn-to-swim campaign Is being started. Perhaps the quickest way

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surgeons. The crying need of our female population seems to be spring clothes. Music hath no charms to soothe the savage radio static. The most important thing to know about your automobile is the phone number of some good mechanic. A man downtown broke feels like a woman downtown without her powder. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

jfellotnsifilp ot draper Dally Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commision on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.

THURSDAY The Supper Read Lk. 22:7-23. Text. 22:19. This do in remembrance of me. MEDITATION—In this last, meeting with his disciples Jesus sought to bind the hearts of his intimate friends to himself and to God forever. He had learned through the years the way to God and lmd been strengthened again and gain by the Holy Spirit. In this hour he gave his disciples an opportunity to share his communion with the father. As we join in this sacrament in memory of him, his Spirit comes to our souls and we learn the true value of things. No one can partake of the communion in truth and retain a frivoloup or flippant spirit. "Always when my soul has surrendered itself to the Divine will I am refreshed. The laying down of self is the taking up of God. When I lose my will I gain the Infinite. The moment of surrender is also the moment of conquest. When I consecrate my weakness I put on strength and majesty like a robe.” PRAYER—Eternal God. may the presence of thy Spirit In our lives give us strength to do Thy will. Maj e have true communion with <1 come to know Thee as our . ..ther, infinite in love and tenderness. Let us be ns faithful gardens bringing forth all manner of good fruit in the Spirit. O abide with us. In Christ’s name. Amen. (Copyright. 1925—F. 1.. Fagley)

is by changing seats In a canoei A chaperone never has to apologize for go* ing to sleep. Be oareful while selecting the experience you want. You can’t get your money back if not satisfied. Plastic surg ery is becoming popular, chiefly with the plastic