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keeping may endure for a night, hot . jay oometfo in the mea ning. 30:6, There can.he no rainbow without -clowi and. a storm.—VSncent, Closing Streets RACK elevation ‘continues to toe -a problem ... i in Indianapolis -end it prctoalily Xvitl re- • main a problem, fortsoine .years to come. Track elevation has a twofold purpose. First, to elimritiate grade crossings -and insure 'safety. Second, to open up districts of the city difficult 'to reach because of nraltiplMty of grade crossings. 'With, the elevation of 'tracks there is an increasing tendency to block is •to put the tracks on embankments extending across streets, instead of building bridges aCTofts streets. This method is cheaper than building bridges <or subways, but if carried-too far it-de-feats of \he purposes of track elevation, that of opening up inacoessable territory-. In 'some cases, because -of the way the trucks or streets run, it is advisable to close streets. But of -streets -aro to 'be closed promisouously tliis can be accomplished without elevating tracks. A railroad that crosses -a closed street is just as safe -as-an.'elevated railroad. 'The problem of keeping thoroughfares Open in one that deserves serious consideration in connection with track oiovation. Old Folks rpH HIS -story is told by’State Senator Davis rt I of Bennsylvauta? Two old people walked slowly orm-in-arrm up the lano that leads to the superintendent’s 'office at the Berkshire -Conuty poor farm. They presented -a permit to enter tho '“'home. The superintendent asked 'the man’s name. name is ■To’hn, y ' the man replied. ‘‘AAnd yorrrsl ** to the bent old lady otf John’a arm-. name is Mary,’ 1 ’ she smiled. ■“ John,”’ said the superintendent, ‘‘‘you go over'to that braiding, and .you, Mary, will be taken care of in that building across the road..”’ ‘■‘What ?’* -cried the old man. “ Mary and Pve been living under the -same roof for fifty ycaass'S Yuti’re not going to separate ns now 1 ” replied the superintendent. ‘“lt's the rules. We never mix the sexes in these institutions. Three days later John died, and a few days after that Maxy .joined him. In 1.923 Governor Gifford Pinchot signed

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

FOB WHOM ARE POLLING PLACES? SHE 'City council squabbled several days this week over the selection of polling f places for the city primary on May 5.. Two special meetings were necessary to settle the momentous issue. George V. Coffin, Republican city chairman, submitted, accord-

ing to custom, a list of voting places for the action of the council. Instead of adopting it, as usual, the council split wide 'Open on £ac t i onal lines. > Ben Thompson, council president, said he would “never let the chairman who tried to lock me up in jail recommend a list.” He

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contemptuously discarded Coffin's list and prepared a list of his own —and the internecine war blazed. The places designated on Colfin’s list favored one mayoralty candidate, charged the opposition, Thompson’s list favored the mayoraity candidate of his faction, <Ae~ dared the Vthar sine. What an edifying ■squabblei! War whom are polling ptenesT" For th® plain voter or for partisan bosses? The ordinary voter doesn’t care who picks the location of the booths, nor how. His only interest is to have.them, conveniently and. centrally located In the precincts. Neither faction oases anything about that. In a city government oonflncted by and for taction who considers the Interests of plain citizens? Certainly not th® lao tton*—they only want to rule or, ruin. SUNDAY AND FISHERMEN N- MANNFELI\ f , superintendent of fisheries and game, announced recently that gam® wardens will not arrest persons for fishing on Sunday. Such angling is not in violar tion of Indiana fish and game laws. A short time ago a leader in an organization favoring (Stricter Sunr day observance declared.vlgllantest

the old. -age pension law-, for it had been found that it Would have cost no more to keep John and Mary together than to break their hearts by Separating them. There are 4,000.000 Johns and Marys in the United States. A few states ate Awakening to their debt to these citizens grown decrepit in service and toil The rest continue to send them “ever the hill,’’ •'separating husbands and wives, in barren county farms. Why should the sunset of life be clouded by fear, want and disgrace, when security and self-respect can be given at the same cost 1 The Price of Justice ORTY-ETGHT nationally known men and women have formed themselves into a committee to finance the defense of Senator Burton Iv. Wheeler in the second case brought against him hv the Department of Justice. This caso is to be tried in Washington and is expected to prove even more expensive than that now being heard in Great Falls, Mont. At the time the matter was put before tho District of Columbia grand jury, protests were made that it was unfair to the Senator to try him 3,000 miles from his home and compel him to bring witnesses, at his own expense, that distance. In any case, the action of the forty-eight men. and women and the response they are meeting in their call for funds, reveals an interesting estimate -on their part -of the Department of Justice. They apparently are fixed in the belief that tho young Senator who drove Harry M. Daugherty out of the Government is being persecuted rather than prosecuted by the department which Daugherty headed-. To sustain their 'opinion they can point to the money being spent by the Government, some of it to maintain a horde of department detectives in Great Falls, in contrast to the absence of such assistance for the special prosecutors in the case against the Dohenys, Sinclair and Fall. Tho Dobenys, Sinclair and Fall represent unlimited financial resources. Senator Wheeler does not. Not a poor man—he is credited with a competence earned as lawyer— yet the forty-eight citizens described above consi ter his means insufficient to meet the sort of attack that is toeing made hy the Government. The is one worth the thought of all citizens. What if Wheeler were not a lawyer himself, what if his colleague, Senator Walsh, were not willing to undertake his defense free of cost—as Senators, Borah. Norris and Reed volunteered to do? What if it were ■only a $1,200-a-year Government clerk who had exposed conditions in the Department of Justice?

erf the organization would patrol northern Indiana lakes this summer and arrest Sunday fishermen-. Re lias found an old State law prohibiting the sinful sport. The ardent angler who works six days a week and fishes the seventh will be in a quandary.. One State department will license and permit his sport. While, by virtue of another State law, a private organization will try to arrest him. Between carnivorous bluegllls and prowling "‘blue” vigilantes lie will have a strenuous summer. Perhaps Sunday fishing is morally wrong and., like other sports and amusements on the day, should be condemned. Still, it is not a, boisterous diversion. A pair of -oars or a diving Venus slapping the water will disturb the Sunday serenity of lakes as much as a hock anft line. Why dig iap an old statute, long since sunk into disuse, just ttx,. harry th® angler? conservation"" OF TEETH IZriR. FREDERIC R. HEN--11 ) I SIIAW, dean of the Indiana n Dental College, in a recent address before the Institute on Nutrition. urged a more simple diet. He asserted Americans are ruining their teeth with soft, refined foods. Frequently dental experts declare that human teeth are not what they used to be. Only coarse, rough food will save the tion, they believe. But had teeth are not entirely a modern Invention. A few years ago a fossil human skull several thousand years old — m the moat ancient discovered—was dug up in Rhodesia. South Africa. The gentleman to Whom It originally belonged never ate a dish of Ice cream In his life, yet several of the teeth In that skull had cavities. Man would hate to lose his teeth. They have served him nobly. With them he has eaten his way aimrafl the world and through the ages. Perhaps to save them be will have to forego sugar* white bread, pastries and'similar.delicacies, as suggested. However, there Is not much fun in eating grass and fodder. Nebuchadnezzar tried It for a season. Asa result possibly his teeth grew strong and healthy, but the experience didn't yield him much profit or Joy. M4n>doesn’te,agyii| Ms -

teeth. If they can't stand the strain of modern diet, they will have to go—they can easily be replaced by less sensitive modern dental equipment. Only folks hope they will pass out quietly. THE COST OF GOVERNMENT T r— HE total expense of the Indiana State government in —■ 1825 was only $40,000, according to figures just compiled by L. S. Bowman, auditor of State. In 1925 the State will spend the majestic sum of $35,000,000. The amount spent to run the State in 1825 would hardly pay for new automobiles purchased by Marion County for its officials this year. Os course. Indiana, has grown stupendously in wealth, taxable resources and population in the intervening century- And a dollar then -would buy a week’s board and lodging while now it will scarcely buy a single cafeteria meal Nevertheless, allowing for that shrinkage, the increase in State expenses far outstrips the growth in wealth and population. Where ' in 1825 the State government cost 1 2 cents per capita, in 1925 it will be sll. National county and city governmental expenses have increased proportionately. No wonder the Hoosier taxpayer is haggard and wan. He is wearing himself to the bone supporting his various governments. What has he got to show for it? Public functions and institutions have multiplied. Th® individual is regulated until he can hardly wink an eye without breaking a city ordinance, State law, or the Constitution. But he enjoys no greater security of life and property—to assure which is the fundamental purpose of government—than the Hoosier of a century ago, who paid 22 cents for his government. The citizen today la buying a lot of government, but he isn’t getting his money’s worth. Public economy is talked but little praotioed. because, while candidates for office preach ©oonoray, they expect the taxpayer, not themselves, to practice It Kokomo Trip Announced Degree team of the Indianapolis Knights of Colombo! mail go to. Kokomo, IndL, Sunday where It will confer degree work on 160 candidates, it was announced Thursday at a luncheon at the S plnk-Arms. Francis Corbett Ft "Wayne pupil, was honor guest Brother Gilbert, Instructor at Ft Wayne Catholic School,BPOfoV. ___ r -;v

THE INPIAJSTAPOLIS TIMES

There Will Bea Big Noise in This Town Next Week When Shriners Get Busy

j 1 PECIAIi features of the Shrine I V | production, “Omar," will he L±=_l the exhibition drins of the Murat Cun Squad and the Murat Patrol, it has been announced by Robert L. Elder, chairman Os the production committee. These drills will be Interpolated in the action of the play. “There are perhaps thousands of Shriners who have never seen the complete drill of the uniformed organizations,” Elder stated, “and in addition these features are always a matter of great interest with the general public.” The Shrine play is scheduled to open next Monday night at the Murat theater and will run the remainder of the week. At this time, It was stated, only night perform* ances are planned, but the committee states that if the demand is sufficient a matinee will be given Saturday. Carson B. Harris, chairman of the ticket committee, states there are still available hundreds of good seats for every performance, but adds there has been a marked Increase in the demand since yesterday and advises that the general public should not delay In getting their reservations. “This is the one big public, offer-

By X. D. Cochran mT is plainly evident that an organized campaign is on to discredit the United States Senate, with Vice-President Dawes as chief spokesman. My belief is that the purpose is to strengthen the executive branch of the Goverment at the expense of the legislative. The effect of this would be to make the President, as leader of the Republican party, the dictator in legislative as well as in administrative matters. Already the party organization has gained control of the House through the election of Longworth as speaker and cmplete control of the rules committee. Indications are that in the next Congress individual members will be mere puppets as they were in the days of Joe Cannon. In recent years the Senate has become really more representative of the people than the House. The Republican organization has been unable to control the Senate, because of the independence of western Republicans. To Make Them Submit Throwing independent Republicans off of important committees and depriving them oi their seniority rights was merely one move in the big game to make the Senate Republicans submissive took of the party machine. The test of a senator's Republicanism appears to be olind obedience to presidential orders. Dawes started the fight on the Senate in his inaugural address. Immediately afterward, President CoolIdge, in his inaugural address, argued for party responsibility. There Is a connection between those two facts and the disciplining of western Independent senators by the party machine in the Senate. Now comes Dawes rip-snorting all over the country in an attack on Senate rules, the avowed purpose of which is to stir up public sentiment against Senate rules—to discredit j the Senate if it does not obey orders from Dawes to change its rules—to bring public pressure to bear upon the Senate and force it to emasculate itself.' The Constitution expressly pro-

Tom Sims Says The birth-rate of the United States is decreasing. Automobiles don’t cry at night. An American aviatrix is startling

Paris, so sunburned noses may soon be considered stylish. In St Louis a teamster's heart was on his right side. If we were one our’s would be in our mouth. Tou may read this one to your wife. A Louisville (Ky.) husband broke his collar bone while beating a rug.

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Experts are unable to determine the origin of grapefruit. Perhaps it just appeared one morning for breakfast. . The step to elect Hlndenburg president of Germany Is another goose step. Onion production in Canada last year is estimated at 1,095.000 bushels, but love will find a way. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Ask The Times You can ret an answer to any questo The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1323 New York Are.. Washinton. D. C , Inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. MedlcaL legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other auestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How long did it take to build Cologne Cathedral? It took' 641 years, from 1248 to 1889. What do the initials “Y.D.8." which appear on the obverse side of a Lincoln penny mean? They stand for Victor D. Brenner; the designer of the coin. In how many States of the United States Is the term “Commonwealth" need In the official title of the State? In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. How many banks are there In the United States? On June 30, 1924, there were 28,468 State and National banks in the United States; 1,603 Savings Banka, and 1,664 Loan and Trust C° al ß an * ea -• . .*.**■*

ing of Murat Temple each spring,’’ Harris said, “and the public will remember that all previous performances have been sold out, hence it shdtfld govern itself accordingly.” Richey, In charge of the dramatic work of the temple, states the, rehearsals indicate ah almost professional performance right from the first curtain. “Omar” will be well Interspersed with music,, he states, but the comedy will predominate. HERE IT IS, MAYBE, BUT IT IS JUST THE SAME Have heard of glorifying the American girl but glorifying tho American boy Is another thing, thing. Be it as It may the idea can be worked. In a revue mixture called f’Day Dreams” you will find that the form and muscles of a man are made “glorious." He first comes on singing a song about a girl in a bathing suit. Then he, by throwing off certain clothing discloses the fact that he has some form and muscle. Other members, girls, sing and dance. Then the man does a real covered wagon stunt—lifts a wagon filled with 'beautiful girls. Sudden finish. Something different. Want to call your attention to the

What Dawes Is Trying to Do

vides that each house of Congress shall make its own rules. Hence no power save that of the Senate itself can change Senate rules. All the Constitution says about the Vice President is that he shall be president of the Senate but shall have no vote except in the event of a tie. He is not a member of the Senate. He has no right to address the Senate except In the performance of his duties as presiding officer. The only opportunity he has to air his views is in hte Inaugural address. It may be interesting to review the Dawes connections. With other members of the Dawes family he is interested In public utilities, the oil and banking businjssee. s head of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, he helped William Dorimer outwit the laws of Illinois by making an official agent of the state government believe that $1,250,000 exhibited in cash in the Dawes bank belonged to Lorlmer’s State savings hank, when as a matter of fact it didn’t belong to the Dorimer bank at all and never left the Dawes bank. t These facts are In the record of the Supreme Court of Illinois. They came out when Tjorimer’s bank smashed, leaving 4,000 depositors holding the sack. Organized “Minute Men” Dawes organized in Illinois “The Minute Men of the Constitution,” ostensibly to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States. It was non-partisan. The first time the heroic Dawes called out his Minute Men was when he called them out to elect a Chicago Judge who had favored the Dawes bank in litigation growing out of the Dorimer failure.

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Darkley’s. Here Is a black and white idea in juggling lines that is different. Notice the stag© settings and method of presentation. First act, but mighty good. “Courting Days” becomes "hokum” at times. The Idea could 'be worked out better. Do not llk6 to see a “judge” even on the stage with a red nose. One of the men gets by with a dressing dance. Stanley Chapman is announced as "More to be pitied than censured.” Correct. Nice selection of songs offered with intelligence. That’s the “Bluebird Revue.” Liked them very much. Photoplay is “After Business Hours." At the Palace today and Saturday, (Reviewed hy Walter D. Hickman.) -!- -I- -!- Tonight at th© Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, the chours of the church and Harrington Van Hoesen as guest soloist, will be heard in recital. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Bat,” at English's; Deno and Rochelle, at Keith’s; “Chefalo,” at the Lyric; Lena Daley, at tho Capitol; "A Kiss in the Dark,” at the Ohio; “A Caf© in Cairo,” at the Circle; “Being Respectable,” at the Apollo; “The Last Laugh,” at the Colonial, and “Curly Top,” at the

The framers of the American Constitution gave the Senate the power it now has for the very purpose of making it impossible for any president to become a dictator. The organizer of The Minute Men of the Constitution is now leading a fight to fool the people of th© United States into making th© Senate surrender Its constitutional power Into the hands of a political party machine. If the Dawes scheme works and the Senate ceases to be a check on presidential power, future presidents will be dictators; for the president has the power to appoint members of the Supreme Court, and if obedience to the presidential will becomes the test of a man’s fitness for the Senate, the President becomes the Government, with infinitely more power than any European monarch.

He Forgot That Bridge Thing Before He Crossed

By Walter D. Hickman mF there Is a bridge to bo crossed It must be there. If the bridge has to have a covering, well, it must be covered. Tho same thing is true when a violinist requires a mute to soften the tone. And that in what Albert Spalding forgot last night at Caleb Mills Hall when he first appeared as soloist at the third annual choral concert of the Tndiarapolis Teachers’ Chorus, When Spalding needed it on his first group, second number, he didn’t have it. The pianist was turned Into an errand boy. The audience Joined in general conversation until , the necessary “mute” was produced.

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by M. E. Tracy It would be a paradox. Indeed, if Joseph Caillaux, once banished as a traitor, were to lead France out of her financial quagmire, but this is a day of paradoxesOn& gazes at the world with astonishment, not only because of its altered map, but more especially, perhaps, because of its swiftly changing moods. Where are the great war leaders —Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando, even Trotsky? Where are those policies that were heralded os fixed and unalterable, like the law of the Medes and the Persians? The last seven years prove nothing more distinctly than what poor guessers we are. Where is the League of Nations we were going to Join, the bills that Germany was going to pay, the

Croonin’ Blues

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Here is the crooning “daddy,” as he is called by some Brunswick phonograph fans. Lucas and his guitar will be present all next week at the Circle,

And when he softened the approach to the bridge, ho landed right into the arms of those present. The concerto, "Concerto in A Minor No, 5,” by Vieuxtemps, had certain fireworks, but not too much soul. He reached tremendous contact while playing "Hark, Hark, the Lark.” Even when he had concluded the program, Spalding gave an encore. Returned. Again he returned. Returned again. Threw up his hands. Left the stage. ' Returned again with his violin. Played again. In plain words, he “got" his audience. I was interested most of all In the teachers' chorus. Ernest Hesser, as

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925

CAILLAUX

Ruhr that Potnrnre was going to i keep? Where, may we ask, ts Poincare himself, and what is he doing, ejflh cept complain about Caillaux, he thought to have undone* but, whom the caprice of lnscrutlble Eat © has tossed to the top once more. Shades of Gaston Chnlmette, whom Madame -Caillaux shot, and of 8010 Pasha, who was executed as a spy for being mixed up in the same conspiracy with which Caillaux himself was supposed to have been entangled! It is a queer old world, and Xrfidyj Luck has not been completely thrusfcf aside by science. Here is this Caillaux party* not crying his eyes out on some lonely isles of the sea, but right back In the upper circles of Paris and telling his country how she can be saved from the incapacity that has plagued, her since the war. There must be something to the man, moreover, else he couldn’t have lived down so much, or persuade a, great nation to pass from an at-, tltude of violent distrust to one of comparative eonlldence so quickly. , Whatever there Is to him, his first pronouncement sounds refreshing In; American ears, where It had come to be suspected that France Was willing to talk about evofirthlng except what she owed. But he Indulges In the same old\ soothing syrup, though perhaps for tho sake of political expediency, that, | It may ho possible for big business! in France to still escape a levy or a big income tax, Big business In France has i responsible for most of the trouble I thus far, with its trading with GerI man Interests, Its -clamor for moro ] ! paper money, Its willngness to do-i ! anything rather than face taxation.. If Callanx can teach it better, h©< will have accomplished something of great importance. Artists Club to be Guest Members of the Indiana Artists, Club will be guests tonight of Mr, and Mra. Walter D. Baker at the Waldcraft studio, 1501 N* Now Jersey St., in observance of *WWdCraft Handicraft Night.” Materials •will be fumißhed at the studio for the evening’s work in block printing, batik or tie-dying, or polychrome work. Processes will be completed tonight.

conductor, has dono a mighty blgj thing in creating a ohoral society; that takes its plao® os one of the, mediums of obtaining fine choral' music. Last night's program proved that; this sort of training gets results.', There was volume, controlled vol-j ume, and purity of tone. The pro-; gram had charm and Interest. We have a right to bo proud these teachers who are members this singing group. It brings now. confidence and a suro means of contact with the parents of those that’ they instruct, as well as those who: also enjoy ohoral music. The choral part of the program; was a compliment to the teachers, i

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