Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1925 — Page 4
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Blessed is the ma;i that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.—Jas. 1:12. Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—Dryden. It Has a Healthy Sound -=nOYS going to the Citizens’ Military TrainDing Camps this summer ask what they are to bring with them, and receive the following reply: “One suitcase o’* grip, large or medium size with lock and key, containing: four suitj thin underwear; two pairs pajamas; six handkerchiefs; four face, two hath towels; toilet and shaving outfit. “Optional: linen shirts with attached collars for wear off duty; athletic and baseball clothes, shoes and cap; bathing suit; light sweater; bedroom slippers; tennis racket; musical instruments; fountain pen; camera. No firearms.” It has a good, healthy sound —that list of articles. May it be a wonderful thirty days for the 38,000 young men who’ll work and play under military direction this summer. The Cradle and the Grave REAL romances that outrival the most fanciful dreams of the novelists occasionally leap along the telegraph wires and find a place in the pages of your daily paper. Where is the novelist in this sophisticated age who would have risked using the story of Joy Louise Leeds? An orphan abandoned on a New York doorstep twelve years ago, picked up h\ a policeman and turned over to a foundling home, she was adopted by the wealthy Leeds family and has now become the richest child in America through the inheritance of $8,000,000 left by her foster parents. No prince charming and no good fairy—only a cynical policeman and a tired orphanage matron—but this little Cinderella stepped from poverty to riches. • • • SHE same thread leads through all our lives. The same lure of chance and destiny beckons us into the uncharted future. What youthful ambition would there be if drab certainty robbed the effort of its incentive and cheated it of its zest? For our own happiness, perhaps, it is well that fate has blindfolded us. * # • SWENTY years ago the names of the Dodge brothers were worth $4 a day when sit,med to a machine shop pay roll. The same names were worth $50,000,000 the other day, quite apart from the value of the property the brothers had accumulated—worth tha,t merely as the thing called “good will.” • • • EHERE are, according to the law of averages, eleven future presidents living in the United States today. One probablj’’ is coo-
Americans as Vampires
By Herbert Quick
Hr] UR Government took advanJf) tage of the World War to i upon the control of the negro republic of Haiti. For years our soldiers were there. They remained until the laws of the island republic were changed by force which we applied. What was the great change? And what will be its effect? Whatever it is, you, reader, and I have our share of responsibility; for it was our Government which did this thing. The evil change is pointed out by the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Association after an investigation on the ground. This, bear in mind, is not the utterance of Haitian politicians, but of American church people who really care whether our Nation does iniquity or righteousness. “American influence in the West Indian Islands,” says the version of this report which appears in the information bulletin of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, “has meant, the growth of the plantation system and the gradual expropriation of the people's land.” The report of the national Catholic welfare conference says (hat since the United States intervened Ir Haiti this process of taking their lanaj from the people has begun there. But, it adds, “because the plantation system has only begun in Haiti thets is time yet for another policy to he pursued successfully. The Un.ted States can change the policy. It still holds power over the Haitian government.” The Haitians are poor and ignorant. They cannot make any successful fight against the vampire of land monopoly which wp turned loose upon them. They are doomed to a slavery as bad as that from which wc set their colored, brethren free in this country if this goes on. I am telling truth when I say that we turned the vampire loose on themBefore we intervened their laws forbade foreigners from holding land. These ignorant neg Toes somehow felt that without, land there is no liberty. forced them to change these' laws so as to permit our American capltal^jfagMrfHfe'Mb-
ing of crying in his cradle, two are in grammar school or high school, two are in college, two more settled down to work, the ninth is making a career at 40, the tenth probably is well along in politics at 45, and the eleventh may be among those already prominently mentioned for the office. • • • r"T“|BOUT fifty years ago. General Grant, then President, remarked that he never met a small boy without wishing to lift his hat, thinking the boy might some day be President. General Grant would have found one such small boy toddling around a little farm in Vermont and another the son of a country doctor in Marion. Ohio. Woodrow Wilson was then a frail college youth, William Howard Taft a stout lad entering Yale and Theodore Roosevelt, a narrow-chested, be-spectacled boy of seventeen. • • • \vrJHO and where are the boys who will he President in the next half century? Who and where are the girls who will preside over the White House? Our lives, to be sure, are largely what we make them; hut little Miss Nobody from Nowhere didn’t abandon herself on that doorstep in order to become America’s richest child. Asa mystery, the cradle is quite as baffling as the grave. Sun Yat Sen’s Will SHE will of D r . Sun Yat Sen, first president of the Chinese Republic, has found its wav to this country. At least its contents have. We recommend it to each and every American engaged in public service. Its reading is eminently worth while. Sun, having devoted his life to trying to raise the standard of living among the Chinese, promoting the welfare of the underpaid and underfed coolie, and attempting to get his country out from under the thumb of unscrupulous foreign exploiters, he naturally made many enemies. One of their favorite methods of attack was to insinuate, or openly charge, that he had made millions at the expense of his followers. Thus, by innuendo and oiherwise, they tried to undermine his influence by making him out a crook. Was he? Here s his will. Judge for yourself: “T have devoted my time to national aflairs,” it reads, “so have no property. “What, I have left consists of hooks, clothes and my house, all of which go to my wife as a remembrance. “My son and daughters are already grown up and able to live by their own means. T hope they will follow in my footsteps.” That is all. But a few husbands ever left a richer heritage than did this Chinese gentleman. Not all of our statesmen will, or could, leave the like, moreV the pity.
lish plantations there. Therefore we turned loose upon them the vampire of land-monopoly. We did It with guns. We ought to follow the recommendations of the report of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, impliedly supported by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (Protestant) and reverse this blood-sucking policy. We ought to save the Haitians from this new slavery. We owe this to the memory of Woodrow Wilson, under whose administration this great crime against humanity was committed. We owe it to the memory of Warren G. Harding, undei 1 whose administration it was consummated. We cannot suppose that either of them could have known what was going on; but the crime stands a blot on both their names. We owe it to ourselves. Shall this expropriation of this people from their lands go on? If it does we shall within a decade see our troops sent there to shoot down poor people who want back their lands and whose demands will be just They will he the Ireland, we the tyrannical Britain.
Priscilla Dean Will Introduce This City to New Brand Movie Sheik Next Week
[ ROM the aspect of screen roIt* I mance sheiks are ideal Li i J lovers, heroes par excellence and fascinating to the very nth degree. But all the sheikish traditions are sadly upset in "A Case in Cairo,” Priscilla Dean's second Hunt Stromberg production. In this exotic romance of the Far East the sheik is the villain, quite the opposite of similar characters employed by previous desert dramas Harry Woods is the new style eheik in question, and it is safe to predict that as a result of his portrayal in “A Case in C trio" he will ascend to th" ranks of fascinating villains who vie with the leading
A Warning
By HAL COCHRAN
(News Note—Woman in St. I„ouis granted divorce because husband had his hair permanently waved.) Ah, ha. here’s a warning that men can't be scorning. It comes from a case In St. Louis. We’ve gertta beware of the waving of hair, lest our wives take offense and taboo us. It seems it's OK for the missus to say, "Do this an 1 do that to my hair.” But husbands, by golly, are flirtin’ with folly unless they be wise and beware. By one man 'twas tried, and he's now shy a bri le, for his better half gave him the air. Some locks, combed unstraight, broke a permanent date, and he missed wedded bliss by a hair. Sure, he may have looked classy, but not to his lassie. She merely considered him pelf. So don’t be a simp, and put up with a crimp when it may put a crimp In yourself. Lest love light be dimmed, when yon have your hair trimmed, you had better consider the strife. E’er you fall for the lure of a wave, just be sure you're not waving good-by to your wife.
men f <lrst place in the interest of the public. Heretofore Woods has played nothing but heroic parts, and his role of Kali in “A Case In Cairo" marks his debut into characters of the hated variety. Besides Harry lyoode. Priscilla DeanG supporting cast for this pro j duction includes such screen favorites as Robert Ellis, Car! Stockdale, Carmen Phillips. Evelyn Selbte, John Steppling, Ruth King, Larry Steers, Marie Crisp and Vicente Orona„ Chet Withey directed. Miss Dean will arrive here Sunday for a week's engagement at tho Circle beginning Sunday afternoon. She will enact in person a scene from her new nfiovie, “A Case In
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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
PUPILS OR SALARIES
SHE Indianapolis school board, at a meeting Tuesday night, voted salary in-ci-eases to thirteen school employes —including the superintendent, whose annual pay check was fattened 11,000. Probably the employes affected deserve, and have earned, the
raises. However, the school board is in difficult straits for lack of funds. For weeks it has puzzled over the problem of fitting an urgent $250,000 maintenance and repair program to a deficit. At the same meeting a delegation of indignant parents described conditions at school 33. Sterling and
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Twelfth Sts.. as deplorable. The building is dirty and poorly lighted: it hasn't been painted in eighteen years: children must sit on folding chairs withous desks; sewer gas fills the rooms. School authorities admitted conditions at this building are had. They will be remedied —the delegation was informed —as rapidly as the board finds money for the repairs. Os course, the salary increases granted wouldn’t rehabilitate all the antiquated, overcrowded, insanitary grade schools in Indianapolis. The sum might not even put school 33 in good shape—but it would at least eliminate considerable sower gas from a classroom. If funds in the school treasury are Insufficient to maintain building so they will not menace the health and safety of children, certninly they are insufficient to warrant salary boosts. In a school system, pupils are just as important as hired help. TRAILING THE MEAT EATERS mHE Department of Agriculture is making a house-to-house survey of the meat buying habits of consumers in Indianapolis. Similar surveys are being made in fifteen other cities in the country. A preliminary report indicates that beef is preferred by three out of flv.e families. Pprk is given second choice. Fish, fowl and hot dogs wiggle, flap and bark far in the rear. The information Is very interesting. Rut, aside from keeping Government statisticians trained to the minute, what is the good of such a survey? Uncle Sam may wear callouses on his feet plodding diligently from kitchen door to kitchen door, to learn what people eat and why. without altering a single Item of the average family's bill of fare. People eat according to custom and purse, not according to Hoyle. Nothing is more Immovable than a people’s food habits. Every nation has its favorite formula for acquiring Indigestion, its distinctive dish—from shark tins In China to haled hay in Battle Creek. The mutton of old England has spread misanthropy through the ages. Americans are meat eaters. Perhaps that is a national fault. But where meat has slain its hundreds, garlic has slain its thousands —all Innocent bystanders. So why condemn our meat eating? We prefer beef because that particularly suits the national tooth. We plead guilty—what does the Department of Agriculture propose to do about it? COUNTY PROPERTY AND INSURANCE SHE Marion Countv courthouse and county automobiles are uinsured. The Konrd of commissioners argue that it costs too much and there is little need for it. I„ast week fire at the county garage daimked county automo-
Cairo” which will be on view all next week at the Circle. 4• • • Theaters today are offering here: the Berkel Players in “The First j Year” at Englinish’s; an N. V. A. Week frolic bill at Keith’s: Lena | Daley and company at the Capitol: Elsie Myerson’s Californians at the Lyric; “The Spaniard" at the Ohio: "Wife of the Centaur” at the Apollo; “Sally” at the Circle and “Pride of Sunshine Alley” and "Hooked" at the Isis. The Walther League tonight will present Leon Sampaix, pianist, in recital at Caleb Mills hajlThe film Indorsers recommend this week the features at the Ohio, Colonial 4ml Circle.
MILLING EUROPE
By M. E. Tracy r*r-3 ITH Hindenburg likely to beVU come president of Germany in spite of the fact that he is Ia royalist, and Herrlot already fallen i because he wanted a capital levy in ! France, those of a prophetic turn I can get awfully excited. I They can predict, and with some ' show of logic, .that Germany is about |to recall the Hohenzollerns. that I France won't pay her debts, that I there will be trouble along the i Rhine, that radicals will gain power through general debts, and a I lot more things. But the chances are that Europe I will wobble along, though a little ! unsteadily. jierhaps. toward the j definite end of readjustment. Europe is still groggy from the
biles to the extent of Jl.foo. A month ago anew car Just purchased was stolen. Never recovered—no Insurance. Os course insurance costs money. If it didn't it wouldn't be worth having. The commissioners may reveal a sudden rush of economy to the head by refusing to insure county property, but It's a good way to save at the spigot while knocking off the hoops of the public barrel. The courthouse is presumed to he fireproof Perhaps !t is. Anyway, the only things bf value about the structure may be its traditions—which are incombustible. Hut fireproof buildings become debilitated an 1 require expensive repairs when their contents burn. They can't lie repaired with traditions. It isn't iikely county building*) or automobiles will be destroyed by fire or stolen. Neither was it likely that Princeton and Griffin would he torn to pieces by a tornado. The Federal Government doesn’t insure Federal property. It can afford to cairy its own risk—it has unlimited resources behind it. However, Marion County isn't in the same class though county officials may feel just as big as all outdoors. MOVIES ARE GETTING BETTER MU 1 IRS DAVID ROSS, president of the Indiana Indorsers of v__J photoplays, in her address at the opening of the State convention the other day, declared movie morals axe getting better. “There have been fewer questionable pictures released during the last year.” she said. "The pic-ture-loving public is doing its own censoring.” Exactly. The public can be
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effects of war, still striving to regain a balance. Europe is doing many things that would seem queer under normal conditions. But conditions are not normal, and they will not be for many yeahs to come. Four hundred million people can not be shaken up as the Europeans have been and regain their poise over night. We Americans who ex pect them to are merely expecting the impossible. But we Americans are great on expectations. We expected the war would not come, and when it did come, we expected it wouldn’t last more than sixty or ninety days. We expected we could keep out of the war, and elected Wilson, thanking God because he kept us out. We expected a League of Nations to spring up and flourish like Jack's beanstalk when the armistice was signed. We expected Germany would go bolshevik. We erxpected the kaiser would be hung, etc., etc. Having been disappointed in so many things, we are now in a mood to expect whatever the imagination suggests. But the war is over and reconstruction has begun. The fact that reconstruction halts now and then, that it strikes unforeseen snags, that people stampede first to the left and then to the right, when the pressure becomes too great, means very little, except that it Is difficult to recover from such a spree. A large proportion of the young men in Europe have been killed or crippled, a large proportion of the women are widows or dependents, a large proportion of the children have not received the proper care or education.
trusted to safeguard its own morals in the matter if given a chance. Official and private organizations that sit up nights to coddle public morals only beat the air impotently. Effective censorship originates in the box-office. Producers aim to make money, not to elevate tastes or glorify art. They will give the public what it wants. As movie goers demand better pictures and unmistakably show their preference by patronage they will get them. Probably the influence of the films in elevating or degrading morals has been grossly pverrated. Not long ago it was fashionable to ascribe every case of juvenile delinquency to the corrupting influence of the movies. Despite admitted Improvement in the character of pictures offered, the Juvenile crime wave sloshes through the courts just as vigorously. It would continue if movie palaces show’ed nothing but expurgated film versions of Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Mother Goose. Indecent books, screen and stage do not lead public morals astray—they merely follow. They are only the symptoms, not the cause.
Tom Sims Says Perhaps Babe Ruth, the baseball player, fainted in a Pullman car washroom because he found some soap there. With Henry Ford making airplanes, it will he even harder to keep a good man down.
And, if the farmers all buy Henry Ford's airplanes, stealing watermelons will become very dangerous. The news from Washing ton these days is usually about who w’ill resign. The Prince of Wales was given a warm reception in Africa, by the people ns well as by the weather.
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News from London says the artificial blond is passing, but it doesn’t mean none of our girls will be lightheaded. In i-iouisville, Ky.. some man is so tough he stole a baseball umpire's overcoat. In t'hioago, a professor says four hours sleep is enough, but our guess is he had better wake up. A New’ Yorker bet three taxicabs he could get married in thirty-six hours, this being a sign of spring in New York. , Even if scientists meeting In Baltimore do say men are made of glue we say some don’t stick so well. Vacations are expensive things. It even costs two cents to send a postal card now. You just can’t please some women. In Chicago one got a divorce because lie hugged her too hard. Coolidge's father has quit, making maple sirup. Nearly everybody has, except by adding water to brown sugar. Spring fever wouldn’t hurt so much if there was some cure besides work. And when the golf bug bites a man it makes him break out with knickers and loud stockings. Every ambitious young cabbage plant seems to want to grow up and become a box of cigars. We’ll bet asparagus hung around the world a long time before anybody knew it was good to eat. Jaioks are deceiving. When a radish tries to put on too many leaves there Isn’t much radish. Sometimes a man who thinks he is a smart duck gets henpecked. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any aura tlon of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapolis Time* Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave.. Waali tnton. P. C., tneloainir 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken All other durations will recslvo a per sonal reply Unsigned requests esnnol ** be answered. All letters are conliden M llal.—Editor. What was the population of the United States in 1800, 1900 and 1920? In 1800 it was 6,308.483; 1800, 75, 994,575; 1920, 105.710.fi20. Where and when was the first horse railroad in the country run? Near Boston, Mass., in 1807. When and where was St. Patrick horn, and why Is he so hon ored hy the Trish? St. Patrick the apostle and patron saint of the Irish, was born at. Bannevan, a small village of Tabemis. in Scotland, about 372 A. D. He is supposed to have been the first per son to preach Christianity in Ireland. Were the characters of Aramis and Athos in "The Three Muskateers” taken from real characters? Yes. The actual name of the former was Henry d’ Aramltz, and Athos was tho nom de guerre of Armand de SlUegue. T"*— Are Rod Le Rocque and Monte Blue, movie actors, brothers? They are not brothers not even related to each other. Their resemhlanee, however, is very striking
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