Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1925 — Page 4

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Godliness with contentment is great gain.— 1 Tim. 6:6, Truthfulness is godliness.—Beecher. City Must Act Now! SHE effort being made to delay the city manager referendum until next year or until some indefinite date in the future is an effort to prevent Indianapolis from changing its form of government. The movement for delay is coming only from politicians whose political lives would be saved by defeat of the manager plan. It is significant that not one person who has pledged himself to support the manager movement has even suggested delay. The time is ripe RIGHT NOW for a change to a business government in Indianapolis. A year from now anew group of politicians will be occupying the city hall and will be working to retain their jobs. There is no feeling that the primary should not be called off to make *oom for tho manager referendum except among politicians who have something to gain from the prima r y. It is unfortunate that these polit’ nans already have spent large sums of mone ou their primary campaigns, but the future of Jn.iianapolis is far more important than the feelings or even the purse of a politician. The city manager law is fundamentally sound, despite tho political smoke screen that is being thrown up in all directions to fool the voters into thinking there is something terrible the matter with it. The manager law is sufficient for Indianapolis to make a good beginning in reorganizing its form of government. It does not give those who will manage the affairs of the city under the manager plan any more power than that now exercised by politicians. Tho time to act is NOW, If the present opportunity is not seized, hope for success in the future is slight. Now to Discredit the Senate mHE defeat of the Mellon plan one year ago was the most severe political setback that powerful private interests have suffered since the World War. Progressive Republican and Democratic Senators brought about that defeat. The score remains to be settled. The method that is to be used in.squaring

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By GAYLORD NELSON

THE BREAD OF CHARITY SHE Marlon county InfimHUry is a disgrace. Such is the report o£ the county board of charities and corrections to county commissioners yesterday. Except for the

date, the report is practically identical with the one made by the same board six months ago. At that the board uses very restrained language. The State old age pensions commission described conditions in the Marion county poorhouse as revolting. Grand Juries,

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civic organizations, and publio spirited citizens have urged improvements—but conditions remain unchanged. Months ago county officials teetered right on the brink of doing something, but never took the plunge. Perhaps they desire to preserve unaltered one perfect example of a miserable, cheerless almshouse. But what’s the use? Charles Dickens, the only man who could appreciate it and do it Justice, Is •lead. - It may he that food—sufficient to maintain the fiction of partnership between body and soul—and b’.nlter of a sort discharges society's obligation to its aged derelicts. But if denied ordinary human comforts and conveniences why prolong their declining years at all? The poorhouse brand of the bread of charity is hitter enough to its recipients at best. But doled cut in the manner and surroundings characteristic of Marion county’s infirmary it only half preserves life. That’s worse than no charity at all. THE FLOOD OF COLLEGE GRADUATES rzr*]R. AURELIA REINHARDT. I j president, in opening the *-1 convention of the A. A. U. W. in Indianapolis this week, oalled attention To the growing influence of colleges in American life. There are today 608,000 college students enrolled in the country. That Is almost three-fourths of the number graduated from all institutions of higher learning In the 300 years since the first American college opened its doors. The increase in enrollment at universities and colleges in recent

accounts is now becoming clear. The Senate as a whole is to he discredited. The progressive Republicans and the Democrats still have the majority of that body. Consequently an attack directed solely against them would be fruitless. But if the whole Senate can be made to appear as a mere obstructive body in the path of progress, certain results are hoped for. Specifically, the friends of the Mellon plan would so like to lower the prestige of the Senate that the public will either rave or laugh at its proceedings. Then, stripped of its dignity, the Senat eis to be subjected to a demand for passage of a re-vamped Mellon plan. The new tax. bill that Congress will take up next winter will closely resemble last year’s Mellon plan. The label, however, will be changed. The public, it is feared, learned entirely too much about the Mellon plan’s provisions for lowering the taxes of the very rich. It will be more discreet, it is now felt, to call the revamped Mellon plan by some other name—for instance, the Green-Smoot bill. Representative William R. Greep of lowa is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Be it known by whatever name its sponsors hit upon, the new Mellon plan will encounter heavy going in the Senate. The House of Representatives is apparently safely controlled by the Republican organization. The Senate, as the vote on the Warren nomination proved, is wholly independent. The one chance that remains for passage of the special tax reductions sought by the large banking interests lies in bringing-pressure on the Senate. That body will continue to be charged with interfering to an unwarranted degree with Presidenta Coolidge’s attempt to make up a Cabinet of his own liking; with having sponsored investigations which led nowhere; with continuing to permit one-man filibusters that prevent the passage of legislation ; and with other sins too numerous to list. Those Senators who killed the Mellon plan and enacted the present more reasonable tax measure—the one that has reduced tho income tax of small income earners—understand the basis for tho attacks and can smile. Those Senators who always have been ready to do the bidding of the powerful private interests are apt to be a little hurt and bewildered by the new onslaught.

years is remarkable. Almost every university is packed to capacity with many -'clamoring for admission. The college graduate used to be a rare bird. In many villages people almost doubted the existence of such an animal—they never saw one. To most youths anything beyond common school was an iridescent dream. Now, however, with youth, going to college Is a matter of course. Everybody is doing it. What does it all mean? What will be the result of this flood of higher education? Certainly ,all graduates turned out with collegiate degrees in the next few years can’t engage ip socalle learned professions—or live on their sheepskins. Some will have to be rank and flle. But as the intellectual horizon of the rank and file broadens, social and economic standards improve. So in no case is a college education a dead loss to its possessor or to society. POLICE MUST SHUN POLITICS Cr—— HIEF RIKHCFF issued an edict Wednesday that poliu J tics must not interfere with police duties. Several officers were reprimanded for passing out cards of candidates. Wouldn’t that make a plain citizen dislocate his jaw, and look over his shoulder expecting to be bitten by the millennium? After promulgating his ukase the Chief said: “We need policemen on the districts and not politicians. If they wish to play politics they can resign—but my idea of being a good policeman Is attending sr.rlctly to police business.’’ Exactly. No municipal reformer, eyes alight with zeal, could put the case for divorcing police from politics stronger than that statement. Tot a few weeks ago the throne decreed that officers who didn’t get right in the mayoralty race would get left. The department was house-cleaned for political reasons. And under the present system it is continually used for political purposes by the bosses In power. After being thrust into politics up to their necks by the administration, now policemen are gravely ordered by the powers that be to shun politics. The interesting point in connection with the order is Its admission that the police department can be kept out of politics—at the will of those in authority. Policemen don’t jump into politics, they are pushed by partisan administrations.

OPPOSITION TO ANNEXATION rrflNE hundred and twenty-five 1C) I cltlzens Uvlng 1° the disI I trict south of Southern Ave., between Meridian St. and the Bluff ltd.—outside the city limits — voted unanimously against annexation to Indianapolis, at a meeting the other night. Possibly that is a mean slap at this city. The advantages of living under the benign and puissant municipal government of Indianapolis ought to be so selfevident that all central Indiana should crave to come under its wing. Higher taxes and no benefits were the arguments in opposition to annexation. Probably in this particular case tne residents are justified in remaining outside the city. Extension of the corporate limits to Include the territory would be of no particular advantage to its residents or to the city. However the action is characteristic of the suburban fringes of many large cities. Annexation is resisted. Frequently even after a city grows and engulfs a smaller town, the latter retains Its entity—like Woodruff Place in, but not of, Indianapolis. Highland Par’c, Mich., with 50,000 population, Is entirely surrounded by Detroit, but stubbornly refuses union. In some cases such reluctance may spring from sentiment, but usually it is higher taxes with no advantages. On the outside looking in, suburbanites.see that city taxpayers seldom get their money’s worth. Which isn’t very complimentary' to the efficiency of American municipal government in larger cities.

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Asking the Campus Female Impersonator to Get Into Same Boat With the Actor

By Walter D. Hickman FEMALE Impersonator is tho earn® in general lines, whether he is a product of the university campus or the legitimate stage. In tho last few years it has been a common sight to se® our college men wearing skirts on the stage. At first, I entered into the lr nocent spirit of the affair as one who sits out in front. Ag long as these university affairs remained in the amateur or nonprofessional class I was not concerned. Certain universities, through their organizations or clubs, seem to be running a race to se® how many men they >ian put into skirts In an expensive stag® production. When a university production such as "Ivan Ho!” as produced by the Haresfoot Club of the University of Wisconsin leaves the college campus in over-elaborate style, the show loses its greatest asset —youth and non-professional spirit. “Ivan Hoi" is a good example of the extremes that certain university entertainments ar® going to. It Is time to call a halt because they are becoming professional. I know of one leading "lady” of a university production (not Wisconsin) who graduated from the college skirt affair to the legitimate stag®. He started out to be an engineer by his own statement on the professional sage, but Is now a legitimate actor trying to sell his college acquired knowledge in skirts on the variety stage. As long as these university revues slay within the bounds of campus entertainment, noi overgrown amateur revues, but Just natural college fun, I find no legitimate complaint. When a bunch of college men attempts to become perfect "ladles” of the chorus in a lavish and costly production, then I consider such attempts as legitimate and not nonprofessional. This and That This glorification of the college female Impersonator has reached a stage that is no different from the efforts of Julian Eltlnge, Karl NorTom Sims Says No real sportsman will shoot more than two spring poets In one day. Telling a girl her petticoat is showing is a mistake, because they £on’t wear them. Be getting your Christmas gifts in shape to give as wedding presents.

What this country needs most is les3 things It needs most. It will be lmp o s sible for spring t‘> wear out her welcome It Is true that money talks, but a man tells us his weekly pay check can barely speak above a whisper. Now comes

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the season of the year when coal dealers are busy trying to get their friends back. The weather is discusesd more often than any other subject simply because It la the closest. Wouldn’t the farmers be & happy bunch if they could find an- insect which eats nothing but weeds? Women a*e not men’s equals. We know. We tried to slap one on the back and borrow a dollar from her. The Wall Street sucker’s motto seems to be "if at first you don’t fall, try, try again." Be careful with your watch if you want It to become an old timer. A male stenographer has a hard time getting ahead in business because he can’t marry the boss. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc..) Bang! By I Lai Bochran If you are a <daddy, you’ll surely agree there is one thing that little folks liko. The colored balloons always bring heaps of glee, and of fun to a wee little tike. I’ve taken them home by the dozens, or more, and they always have brought forth a shout. They blow them up high; then they’re bounce 1 on the floras they’re merrily batted about. It’s “Daddy, please bring some balloons home tonight." So daddy goes shopping that day. He picks out a blue one, a red one and white, and his thanks from the kids Is "Hurray!" There’s one thing the little folks never will learn. They have in bolloons, too much trust. They blow ’em too high, and the blamed things in turn. Just suddenly up and go bust!

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man and the others on the stage to earn a living by being female impersonators. "Ivan Ho!” as revealed last night at the Murat by the Haresfoot Club, did not appeal to me as a university play, but a plain dollars-and-cents attempt to Imitate the legitimate revue. And In that I think they should carefully consider the future. The female costumes as well as the male attire were beautifully conceived. The music In spots was tuneful. Some of the comedy was smart and other was Just so-so. There was too much female Impersonation In this Bhow. The Idea Is being overworked In university revues. Thomas W. Morony as leading man had a decided tendency to overact. Byron F. Rivers was leading "lady." He has had that Job for two years. Most of the dancing was well done. I no longer consider these university affairs Just college pranks but a too legitimate attempt to be professional. -I- -I- + LOOKING OVER NEW SHOW AT THE PALACE The Frisco Harmonists start out aa a quartet at the Palace this week but wind up as a small but corking good orchestra. It Is probably the intimate Idea of this orchestral revue that appealed to me as we are accustomed to large orchestras. These men know how to get pleasing harmony. Tom, Dick and Harry has the services of three men and a woman. Singing, dancing and piano playing furnish the backbone of the act. The studio scene has been well mounted. The Lime Trio offer a quaint acrobatic offering which is out of the ordinary. The main idea has been cleverly worked out. L. Barton Evans, If I haven’t the name Incor-

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rect, is a singer who puts over "Sally’’ and other popular songs. His pianist is a woman. The act has class. Ray and Elsie Dean go in for the eccentric or “nut*' stuff with the man getting most of tho laughs with his grotesque manner of delivery. The movie is Tom Moore in “On Thin Ice.” At the Palace today and Saturday. CIRCIJS GETTING READY TO WELCOME “SALLY” Where has Sally gone to? Leon Errol, noted funny man of the musical comedy stage, who *is now starring In Florenz Zlegfeld’s production, “Louie the 14th” In New York, has the leading supporting role in "Sally," Colleen Moore’s newest picture, opening at the Circle _ Errol hag made but a few brief Incursions into pictures, as his time has been so busily occupied with production activities in his own particular field, but it is a safe,bet that by his portrayal of the Duke of Checkergovinla, tho role he created In the stage version of "Sally,” he will not he long In forging to the front ranks of the newer screen comedians. Blessed with a facile countenance, a keen and clean sense of humor, and years of stock and legitimate experience Leon Errol, should he chose to stay in the "movies” will make most of the present day top notch comedians take notice. -1- -I* -IOther theaters today offer: Sherman, Van and Hyman at the Lyric; William Farnum in “The Scuttlers” at the Isis; Mile. Theo Hewes’ Dancers at Keith’s; "One Way Street" at the Circle; "The Goose Hangs High" at the Ohio; "The Masquerader” at English’s and "Cheaper to Marry" at the Apollo.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indtanapolu Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washinton. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal ana marital advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What universities in the United States had the largest enrollment for the year 1923-1924? The University of California, ■with a total of 14,461 students studying for a degree and 883 teachers; and Columbia University with 32,760 students (including extension and summer students, omitted In the California figures) and 1,242 teachers. What was the first engagement of the Civil War? Before dawn on the 12th of April, 1861, a shell arose from the mortars of Fort Johnson and screaming over tho harbor burst Just above Fort Sumter. It was a signal for general bombardment. In a few minutes, from the batteries of Sullivan's, Morris and James Islands, east, and south and west, fifty cannon were pouring shot and shell upon Fort Sumter. This was the first engagement of the Civil War. When and under what circumstances was the "Battle Hymn of the Republic” written? Written by Julia Ward Howe while visiting the camps near Washington during the Civil War, and first published in the Atlantic Monthly In 1861. What kind of an animal Is a sloth? . A purely aboreal animal with elongated fore limbs terminating In hook-like digits, never more than three in number, by means of which the sluggish creature clings to branches. The hind limbs terminate In similar hooks. The tall Is rudimentary. head short and rounded, ears small, hair long and coarse.

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The color In natural habitat M greenish. Sloths appear rarely U quit trees. Their movement* ar< slow and deliberate and there Is ztc power of leaping. The Stomach li complex In keeping with the diet ol vegetable matter. Only one produced at birth. Who was the first President of the United States to send his me*, sage to Congress? Thomas Jefferson. Before him, Washington and Adams had ap peared before Congress and read their messages. What was the date of the birth of Caesar in the Roman reckon* Ing of time? Caesar was born 102 years B. G The Romans reckoned time from the founding of the city of Roma hence 102 B. C. would be 652n<3 year since the founding of Rome. From what language does tha expression "Mai Pona Lu" coma and what does It mean? It is from the Hawaiian, and means "Don’t forget me.” Where are the greatest number of ranches found in the United States and what is the name of some of the largest of these ranches? The greatest number are found 111 Texas, California, Wyoming, Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Mom tana. Among the largest ranchel In the United States are the Kin| Ranch, Brownsville, Texas; Pltohi fork Ranch, Cody. Wyoming; PeJ rln Ranch, Seligman, Arizona. Is a certain size and weight r* qulred for a deep sea diver? These are unimportant. He mjHV however, have great physaTL strength. A strong heart and good lungs. How long does It take-*th© mood to revolve around the earth? 27.321661 days. This period known as tho "sidereal month."