Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1925 — Page 4
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He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considered not that poverty shall come upon him.—Prov. 28:22. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. —Franklin.
‘Steve’ Makes Suggestions
TyrllTH charges and counter-charges, mostly W concerning D. C. Stephenson, now in jail ou ;t murder charge, featuring the campaign now closing, it is interesting to note just what, part Stephenson had been playing in the affairs of the Republican party in Indiana before he was jailed. In a letter sent to Republican county chairmen just before the close of the Legislature, Stephenson said : “The Legislature is just about over. It lias made a brilliant record. Perhaps everything has not been entirely satisfactory, hut in a large sense no Legislature assembled in Indiana has come nearer satisfying all the people of the State. “I'pon this record we can make substantial claim for recognition in the future, for indeed it was the Republican party, through faithfulness and loyally to the Republican organization throughout the Stale that put the legislative program through, and to the organization goes the credit. “I am thinking of the city election this year and the importance of municipal results with reference to 1926. The leadership of the Republican party, from Ihe precinct committeemen to the State chairman, at the present time, is in the cleanest hands, and is being guided from the most lofty motives, with less strife and discord than at any time within the past fifteen years. Let’s keep the standard high. “So far as 1 am concerned, it makes no difference who you support, and -certainly I do not want to be in the attitude of attempting to dictate, but merely offer a friendly suggestion that you hack a vigorous man for mayor in all towns and cities, who can conduct, the affairs of their cities in a way that will meet with the approval of the public, and win more honors for the Republican party. “Anything I can do to help will be forthcoming unselfishly; bear in mind always that I never will be a candidate for any public office in the State of Indiana. “ T only want to help in a constructive way the men who rallied 1o Ihe standard of the Republican party at a time when I felt mv own reputation and business future was psychologically interwoven with rtie success or failure of the Republican ticket. Therefore, gratitude to you, and the whole Republican organization, inspires me to manifest iny appreciation by offering any service that it may he possible for me 1o render in the future.” This is not a letter from the Republican s 'tate chairman giving order and suggestions to county chairmen. It is a letter from D. 0. Stephenson, who until his incarceration, was the real head of a great political party in tlm State. Let those avlio are now so busy getting not from under try to laugh that off.
Economy and Other Things eOWEVER the rest of the country may react to the President’s talk of economy, (he city of Washington is beginning to take the matter seriously. The Washington Dtily News tears that a state ot nnnd is being induced that may do more harm than good. Al-
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You can ret an answer to any ques to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1325! New York Ave.. Wash inton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, lepal and marital advice cannot be 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. Where did the magazine “Punch" gets its name? From the name of the chief character of the well known puppet show of Italian origin, Punch and •I udy. Who was William M. Evarts? William M. Evarts was born in Boston, Mass., February, 1818, and died Feb. 28, 1901. lie was admitted to the bar in New York. He served as attorney general in 1868: was secretary of State under Hayes, 1877-81; was elected to United States Senate in 1885, and was one of the counsel defending President Johnson in his impeachment. What was the Newberry case? Rumors of the corrupt and excessive use of money in congressional elections led (o the passage of the Federal corrupt practices act of June 25. 1910, vyhicli limited t lie expenditure of a candidate for Representative or Senator to SIO,OOO for nomination and election. ]n the campaign of 1918, when Truman H. Newberry was a candidate for the United Stales Senate in Michigan, there was evidence to show that he and ijtliors had expended a gum in excess of $100,000; and Newboiiy
ready, this newspaper says, government employes have been frightened into going on short rations and don’t buy what they want and ordinarily would feel they could afford to have. “Economy,” says The News, “is a virtue, parsimony is a vice, and miserliness a crime. “When people are employed and feel reasonably sure of their jobs, life flows along in a normal w.\y, and business is healthy. We call that prosperity. The people feel like enjoying some of the luxuries of life, which merely means feeding the niind as well as the body. “A man is a better citizen when he feels safe in loosening up to buy his wife anew dress, lie feels on a par with princes when he can blow himself for a auto. “The reason we all love prosperity is that we can then do something for ourselves and families beyond merely keeping them alive. We can give them the comforts and some of the luxuries, as well as the bare necessities of life. We are strong for an efficient, economical government. “Rut we can’t enthuse over a national policy of parsimony and penury that breeds unrest and fear. We are a prosperous country, with enormous resources. There is no reason why we should live in continual fear of the poorhouse. “We can work hard and save without becoming misers, and without reducing life to a drab struggle to provide only food and shelter and clothing for the body, and no joy or pleasure for the soul.”
An adequate merchant marine is just as necessasry to our national defense as our Army or Navy. —Gen. John J. Pershing. "qIECHETARV of the Navy Wilbur says the same thing. Secretary of War Weeks ditto. Chief of Naval Operations Eherle, idem. The Naval General Board likewise And, as our legal lights say, et al. Not so, however, our Shipping Board. Blithely, with one of those one-man majorities which so often raises cain with the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, it is proceeding with the piecemeal sale of our Merchant Marine to private and, mayhap, ultimately for eign buyers. , • Injunctions against the sale of the five Pacific liners to Robert Dollar having been dismissed, it looks as if yon had lost your boats. Dollar will pay $5,625,000 for them. They cost you five times that. If a war comes, it is quite conceivable that such ships could not be replaced for $50,000,000. Yet you would have to have them, no matter what they cost. • • • SOME countries, like France, have what they call a Minister of the Marine instead of a Secretary of the Navy. Working with him is another official called an Under Secretary for the Merchant Marine. Why? Because these governments recognize Ihe merchant marine as an integral part of their national defense and intend to keep absolute control over its general policies. They practice what we preach. • • • UR national defense is badly in need of a little teamwork on the part of our government. What’s the benefit, for the country at large, of building up our defenses at terriffic expense if a handful of men. or even one man, can make a decision wl ieh will tear those defenses down and sell the pieces for a song?
was convicted in the district court for violation of the corrupt practices act. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court on the ground that the act regulating primary elections was in excess of the powers of Congress. On the other hand, the Government argued that the primarj was a necessary part of an election. The Supreme Court in 1921 declared that the authority to regulate elections meant elections under the rules in force at the time the Constitution was adopted, when primary elections were unknown; therefore, the law was unconstitutional. The Senate refused to expel Newberry, but after the election of 1922 he resigned his seat. Where was the order, / “Don't lire till you see the whites of their eyes" given? The .order was given to the colonial troops at the battle of Bunker Hill. The supply of powder was low and it was important that none should he wasted. What was the “Dorr Rebellion?" This was the outcome of an essentially democratic movement on the question of manhood suffrage. The State of Rhode Island, In adopting Us first constitution, had simply changed a flew words in its •colonial charter. In 18q0 1t still remained in effect. Under it the suffrage was limited to holders of land and to their eldest sons—a provision that disfranchised two-thirds
Wanted: A Little Teamwork
of the population. Thomas W. Dorr, a prominent politican, attempted to secure anew constitution; but he and his supporters refused to accept the convention ordered by the Legislature In 1842, and held a convention of their own. Both conventions submitted draft constitutions to the people; and since Dorr’s proposal received more votes than the other, his supporters pronounced It law, and he was elected as Governor under It. He exercised some power for about two weeks, and then came into conflict with the rival Governor. Bloodshed was averted on'y by accident. His followers, almost certain that the United States would intervene in favor of his rival, deserted his standard. He escaped from the State, but returned In 1844. He was arrested, tried for treason, and sentenced to imprisonment for life; but was set at liberty under a general amnesty act, 1847. The regular legislature, impressed by the strength of his following, called another constitutional convention which adopted a liberal constitution. Waa the father of Vice-Presi-dent Dawes ever a member of congress? Rufus R. Dawes, father of the vice-president. was a member of congress from the fifteenth Ohio district in the forty-seventh con gress, 1881 ISB3.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Madame Jumped From a Laundry Tub Right Into the Arms of Great Napoleon
By Walter D. Hickman DIPLOMATIC and social ac j I robat was Mine. Sans Gene. She jumped from the laun dry wash tub right Into the court circles of the great Napoleon.
And Gloria Swanson makes Madame some jumper. “M m e. Sans-Gene" was the picture that Gloria made in France while being courted by a sure-enough count. It seems that here is one woman who can combine business and matri* mony and make a success of both. Let us approach “Mme. Sans-Gene" in the light of answering several questions. Gloria
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makes a rute roughneck of this character of Action and history. She turns Madame into a sort of a Topsy and Five edition of French history. The picture is a regular art gallery, as nearly all of the scenes, including the palaces, are placed in the identical spots where they were Kupixiserl to have happened years ago. Gloria Swanson has never had a bigger Job than when she tackled "Mme. SansGene." The character is typically French, a sort of rough and ready character who rose on the political wave from a laundress to a position in titled society at the court of Na poleon. Just as Valentino had to get away from sheik roles, just so did Gloria Swanson have to break away from , her working girl type in American life. Although Gloria makes Madame a sort of a rough cut-up. yet she puts a true heart into the character. This Is a difficult role. And Gloria Swanson. I believe, does the best work of her career. The director has been wise in eliminating as much of the revolu tion stuff as possible and centering all effort in picturing Madame being tamed by Napoleon. With the exception of one or two names, most of the cast is unknown here. The cast is as follows: Catherine Hubsrher I Mme Sans (;,not .. . Ulnria Swanson Napoleon ■ Emile Dra>n Lefebrre . Charles de Roche La Ronsette Madeleine tiulty? Nmpperx Warwick Ward Fouche Henry Favteres Caroline. Queen of Naples Arlette March*! Eliza. Princess of Baoolocht. . Rpnw HeribH.f Empress Marie Ixmtse.Suzanne Rlan.hclti Madame l>e Btllow Denise I.orys Savarv, Minister of Police . Ja/Hiuof Marnfiy And 1.600 other* Because the scenes of this picture are as accurate as could be obtained, T am inclined to have the opinion that “Madame Sans-Gene" Is one of the most beautiful pictures of the season. It Is not so heavy in end less detail that some foreign made pictures have. It tells a connected and Interesting story of the rise of a laundress to the society of an emperor. Swanson shows strong dramatic talent in the last two reels, when she attempts to sway Napoleon to he a human individual. She is highly Interesting, when she is just plain Madame over a wash-tub. The subtitles aid in revealing some of the high points of the story. “Mme. Sans-Gene" has the right to be called one of the great pictures of our times. Some may not like Gloria in this sort of a role, but no one will deny that she is a real artist. Tt is anew Paramount picture. Bill includes “From An Antique Shop.’' a comedy, organ Hnd orchestral music. At the Ohio all week. •!• •!• *!* PANDORA IS MOVIE SISTER OF SADIE THOMPSON A season or two ago Sadie Thomp son arrived on the stage in “Bain.” She was an outcast with a rough and ready tongue who hsd an encounter with a missionary.
Pandora (Viola Dana) In “A* Man Desires" Is the movie slater of Sadie Thom pson. "Pan" Is not so hard on missionaries. but she is a tough egg at that. She admits that as an outcast in a rough town In a South Sea Tsland that she is about as touch a gal as there is, but she has learned the trick of lovin’ one man at a time. One of the men she loved was MaJ. John Craig (Milton
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Sills). She sacrifices her own life that John might live. Don't like to see Milton Sills check out In a movie, sa 1 am glad that Viola Is permlttel to die as Pandora. You know where Pandora is today, but I still have my doubts about the location of Sadie Thompson. Viola Dana has some cute tricks, especially when she wears a sailor uniform and follows Sills all over a boat. The women love this Pollyanna stuff and it always gets a laugh and lots of interest. "As Man Desires” Is not an optimistic picture, as it reflects the attitude of a man when he discovers that the girl he loves is a “kept wonam.” He resolves that when he has anything to do with women he will pick one out of the gutter and one who admits that she comes from there. Sills registers well, and although he has a ship In this movie. It lsn t another "Sea Hawk." Some of the types are splendid. It is melodramatic in nature. It does hold your interest up to the very last. , As one of the musical features this week, the Circle is presenting Nick Lucas. Brunswick record star, in crooning songs. He uses two guitars. I understand that “Dreamer of Dreams" was a best phonograph record seller. He certainly makes it that on the stage. He was given a tremendous reception yesterday when I was present. Encore after encore was demanded and giveh. A sure Are success. The( orchestra is playing* ’'Carmen" Cape J-s, a sort of
a jiopular version of the Carmen music. Pleasing. Bill includes a Bobby Vernon comedy. At the Circle all week: LAI’RKTTE TAYLOR PROVES VALUE OF STAGE TRAINING Most of our emotional women who have been a success on the screen in i intense dramatic roles, have hailed from the spoken stage. Yesterday when I was at the Colonial seeing Laurette Taylor in “One Night in Rome,” I realized what the screen owes the stage. Miss Taylor used this vehicle on the stage when she attempted with
little'success to find another “Peg O' My Heart.” In “One Night in Rome,” she is cast as a titled woman w-ho lived in a great house with a rotter of a husband. She keeps up appearances so as not to wreck a great family name. The husband does that very thing. but falsely puts the blame on his wife when he commits suicide. His father declares that he will wreck the woman. So she becomes a so-
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ciety fortune teller under an assumed name, hut she is eontsantly running into the dead and awful past. Sire loves an Englishman, played by Tom Moose. It is the right sort of love, the kind that wins out. So the picture lias a pleasant and human ending. Don't remember seeing Tom Moore lately in pictures. Miss Taylor brings dramatic dignity of the legitimate brand to the screen. She does not over act. She is careful In that. She doesn't throwaway precious moments, but gives us a clean cut conception of he character. Iler gowns have been created for the purpose of getting dramatic effect. Her ball gown proves that the right kind of clothes aids an actress in putting over an emotional scene! The entire cast Is
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IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
DISEASE AND IGNORANCE ROSCOE R. HYDE Os lljl Johns Hopkins University, L 1 addressing Indiana teachers of science at Munc-ie recently, stated that most . diseases are caused by ignorance, and are likely to bp greatest in localities where education is most backward. Possibly so. Successful combating of disease depends not only
on medical science but also on the public's readiness to adopt the preventive measures suggested. Where ignorance anil prejudice dominate, people •are slow (o accept new ideas in sanitation. disease control or any other subject. U n and o u b tedly great progress has been made In
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recent years In fighting diseases. Smallpox, typhoid and other dreaded scourges of a more Ignorant age have been robbed of some of their terrors by medical science and public sanitation. Typhoid caused 1,000 deaths out of 20.000 persons affected in Indiana In 1010. Last year deaths from typhoid In the State were at the rate of 200 for every 100.000 cases. Perhßps In time medical science and popular education working hand in hand will wipe out diseases entirely. But that happy day seems distant. Despite all the progress made, most people eventually die. And they die from diseases just as people did in the days when r rabbit's foot and mysterious Incantations were the physician’s only equipment and the populace didn’t know its A B C*'s. t There must be a slip somewhere in the theory that disease and Ignorance are twins. At most they are only friends. MOVIE TRAINING AT HOME A" 1 RTIPLKB of incorporation of the Twentieth Century Motion Picture and Dramatic Club were filed with the Secretary of State Saturday. The company proposes to train aspiring movie actors and actresses at home. f Nearly every one admits that he or she. with a little encouragement. could outshine present movie luminaries. And many try it. They buy one-way tickets to Txm Angeles—where they get their movie training washing dishes In a cafeteria. Movie training at home will save such aspirants many inconveniences. They can learn the business without severing connections with the ribbon counter and other lucrative employment. Probably they will get Just as far as they would In California. Judging from reports that seep out to a shocked world home training is uncommon In Hollywood. It might prove a mark of distinction for a king, queen or wild deuce of the movies pack, like Ben Turpin’s cross eyes. Mail order education is all the rage. If one. aspires to be a chemist, dentist, cartoonist, or plumber one can buy a course and study at home. If all who started such courses completed them, professional men and industrial captains would predominate in the country. Who would be left for the rank and file?
peopled by thoroughbreds. Some beautiful sets. “One Night in Rome" was only mildly successful on the stage. It is not over heavy as a screen vehicle. The big scene concerns the suicide of a man. This has been handled in good taste. As you know fortune telling scenes are hard' things to photograph, as they are most difficult to make convincing. Miss Taylor has that needed dramatic touch to take much of the falseness out such scenes. I had several good laughs while seeing a comedy, “Putting on Airs." with Edna Marion and Arthur Lane. It concerns a girl, a flapper, who loads up on 5 and 10-cent store jewelry, doesn’t event rent a hall to strut her stuff, but takes over a rich man's home without asking permission. Rather liked the work of Miss Marlon as the strutting flapper. Interesting comedy. Bill includes music, Paths News and Aesop's Fables. At the Colonial all week. -1- -I- -IOFT OF THE WEST COMES ANOTHER GAVE MAN The source of our rave men on the stage and screen does not concern us here. We generally suppose that they come from the West. William Vaughn Moody must have had that
idea when he wrote “The Great Divide" for the stage. He wrote this years ago. and I suppose that the West, or that part which is not covered with brick pavement, still produces them. The big seene of the story is when three roughnecks (meaning men) become crazed with liquor and enter the home of a young woman near the Arizona desert.
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One of the gang sells his “rights;” the second arid third, played by Wallace Berry and Conway Tearle. fight
CURE FOR LAZINESS , ml L>GK T. J. MOLL, Superior Court Five, the other day sentenced a man to ninety days on the Slate Farm for failure to pay $lO a week for the support of his wife and children. The defendant pleaded sleeping sickness. The judge, however, diagnosed the case as pure laziness. which a season on the State Farm ought to cure. But should laziness be cured? Isn’t It rather a blissful state of existence that should be encouraged? The strenuous life receives much applause. Hard work never killed any one, proclaims the copybook maxim. Perhaps not. Nevertheless. doctors are always complaining that we live too fast and wear out too quickly. They invariably prescribe long rests for tired business men suffering from twitching ears, spotted liver or fallen arches. They know a good loaf is good medicine. No one ever saw a tramp In poor health. His clothing may have the dropsy, hut his appetite Is up on Its toes. No village loafer dies in the prime of life. He whittles serenely while bank presidents. Ford agents and other strenuous fellow citizens are being carted off to the cemetery. So probably if a man wants to measure his success entirely by his accumulation of years, he should cultivate laziness Instead of curing It. REDUCTION OF ACCIDENTS jOLICE FHTF.F BTKHOFF declared Saturday that ——steps will be taken to stop the stoad> Increase in automobile accidents In Indianapolis. He proposes more traffic officers, more arrests, more fines and similar measures. Since Jan. 1 twenty-two persons have been killed In auto accidents in the city. From Jan. 1 to May 1. 1P24, there were sixteen deaths. The chief is properly alarmed. But It Is not only In Indianapolis that the accident record has grown blacker. In Chicago automobiles have cost 201 lives so far this year, compared with 10 for the corresponding period in 1924. Either enforcement of traffc laws is ineffective or there Is some thing Inherently wrong In the regulations themselves. They don’t reduce casualties. In this connection a writer In the current number of the Scientific American makes an interesting suggestion. He believes traffic regulations place too much emphasis on speed and not enough on stopping ability. He would require all cars to be driven at speeds that will permit them to be stopped within a reasonable distance, varying with the character of the street. In business and school streets this distance would he ten to fifteen feet, and greater for residence thoroughfares, boulevards and open highways. Brakes and not speedometers would thereby he the controlling factor in traffic regulations. A car with faulty brakes traveling at fifteen miles an hour is a greater menace than one with good braking equipment at twice that speed. It makes little difference to the pedestrian hit by an automobile how fast the machine is go*ng. It is the Impact, not the speed, that disorganizes him. T here is merit in suggested plan In operation It night re duce accidents, which rules based entirely on miles ner hoim do not
Movie Verdict Ohio—Gloria Swanson proves that she has greater dramatic ability in "Mile. Sans-Gene" than most of us suspected. It is a beautiful movie, a priceless art gallery. Circle —Nick Lucas is crooning his way to great popularity this week. Vicla Dana turns out to be the movie sister of Sadie Thompson. 'Phis is in "As Man Desires." Colonial—The stage artistry of Ijaurette Taylor Is reflected with telling effect in the movie. “One Night in Rome." Opollo—“The Great Divide" is not pleasant, in theme. It will not duplicate its stage success on the screen.
for it, with Wallace putting up a great fight, but with Conway winning. He then takes the girl into the desert and to his cabin. He does actually love her when he marries her before they go into the desert, but she hates him. Fiver when a child is born, she hates him even more. In the end she discovers that she loves him and all Is well. The chief feminine role is p.layed by Alice Terry. T can understand why this stage play remained for years as a stage product and not a movie vehicle. The movie has to reflect the unpleasant scenes. Some of the canyon and desert shots are well done, especially the cloudburst. I doubt If it will be half as popular on the screen as It was on the stage. Bill includes organ music by Earl Gordon and orchestral features conducted by Emil Seidel and a comedy, “Neptune's Daughter.” At the Apollo all week. • • • “Omar." annual Shrine revue, opens tonight for the week at the Murat with a large cast. Keith's this week features the Albertina Rasch Girls. The Berkell Players this week are presenting “Little Miss Bluebeard" at English's. The Lyric is headlining the Royal Scottish Clans and the Palace is featuring “On The Campus." Lena Daley and her company is present at the Capitol. Tonight the Men delssohn Choir at Caleb Mills hall in their annual Rpring recital with Mile. Marguerite D‘Alvarez as soloist. For the first half of the week, the Isis is offering Fred Thompson in “That Devil Quemado.”
Memories By Hal Cochran I'd like to read the mem'ries of a lady, old and gray. I'd like to know how dlff'rent were the things of yesterday. What fun 'twould be to echo hack and thus, to really know how turned about our doings are as changes come and go. I've heard folks speak of horse cars and of good old buggy days. I've read of real old-timers and their quaint old-fashioned ways. It’s hard to really realize that hoopskirts once were worn, but grandma says they were, before much newer styles were born. Imagine days when autos, and when movies were unknown. And think, in Just the past few years how great these things have grow) . The wonders of the present day were once not even dreamed. No wonder we all wonder just how queer things must have seemed. And yet, I'll bet our grandfolks often have that little ache, that likes to play around their hearts, perhaps for old-times' sake. There must have been real restfulness when life was calm and slow. I wonder, are we better off today, than years ago.
Sir Henry on Railroads
By Herbert Quick A/"“ -"I N interesting nrticle on Government ownership has re- - cently been published, written by Sir Henry Worth Thornton, K. B. E. A great many American railroaders will remember Henry Thornton who was with the Pennsylvania for twenty years—from 1894 to 1914 —and was once snperin-
In New York
By James W. Dean Spring is here and here’s a poor place for a fellow to be in spring unless he can sing a song of spring. Heigh-ho! Oh. for the power to put in ; ondolet all the pass ing scenes of th*) season’s show! Along Riverside Drive, a fellow atop a bus with his arm around a girl. On the walk a sailor with his arm around a girl. In a machine, a fellow driving with one hand, his arm around a girl. Arms around waists, arms around waists, oh, for the rondelet! And there’s a hurd.vgurdy on Eighth Ave. And street salesmen with trays of violets and secondhand roses at Times Square. And on Fifth Ave. girls in beautiful new spring suits. And a few Jaunty blades sporting jaundiced gloves and Jaunty canes. There goes a camelia tn a buttonhole. Oh. for the rondelet! Not a cloud In the sky. A warm sun on the back. A cool breeze on the face. No place. It seems, has air quite so Invigorating as that in New York. Perhaps that accounts for the rush and push. Hurry along, hurry along, jaunty cane and haughty camelia, lo your appointed rendezvous. Oh, for the rondelet! And on the east side the mothers out with their babes. Out of the darkness of the tenennient halls. And the hot. sleepless nights of summer still far off. Babies and laughter and Joy echoing and reechoing from the tenement walls. Oh, for the rondelet! Boys with their bats and gloves and balls. Girls with their skipping ropes and dolls. Playing and dodging among fast running cars. Care less and carefree, with no thought of injury or death. Spring has come and to live is enough. Oh, for the rondelet! Come a Sunday and dry sod. and ♦he parks will he filled with poverty and kids and lunches and rubbish. IVornout men and wornout women with their shoes pulled off and their toes taking root in and life out of the soil. Heigh-ho! for the rondelet!
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Tom Sims Says Coolidgp rides an iron horse, hut Dawes, he rides the Senate. Future histories will read: “Prohi bition came up like a cyclone and the populace took to their cellars." If one of these air mail planes does go wrong the pilot can grab
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Omaha, ft cop started to arrest a man and the man sold him some insurance. There's one thing about languages where you use your hands; if your words start a fight you are ready. Four nations are racing to reach the North Foie. The first to arrive will probably start a tilling station. Accidents will happen; In fact, most things are accidents. These are ihe days when a man's quiet contemplation of life is dis turbed by tHe realization that he needs a haircut. Two pianos were carried to Washington by airplane, so a good musician should get some high notes out of them. Henry Ford is being sued for a million dollars. If he loses he may have to work a few minutee over time. A fly swatted this spring saves nine million swats this summer. Fire Insurance amounting to 470 millions was paid last year, proving too few flres are beng prevented. Most of us are too lazy to enjoy life. We hate to be contrary, hut we doubt If there ever was a one armed paperhanger with the Itch. And there are people who may en Joy reading that in Boston a dentist is In jail for thirty days. (Copyright. 1025, NEA Service, Inc.) Teetotaler Had Booze BELFAST. Ireland, April 27. — Although he claimed he had always been a teetotaler, Edward McAdam, a farmer, was fined S3O after the police found a half pint bottle of poteen (Illegally distilled Trish whisky) on his farm. He said ho had purchased It for a sick cow.
Warnings Posted at Swimming Holes
Warning signs were posted at swimming holes today by Ser goants Jack O'Neal and Harry Smith of police accident prevention bureau, as preliminary steps to reduce the toll of drowned this year. The record bieaking heat has resulted in an early season for bathers. Friday police made several runs to a swimming hole in Pleasant Run, where lads were swimming without bathing suits.
tendent of the He is a Logansport, Ind.. boy. Well, he is now Sir Henry and Is running the 22,000 miles of railway owned by the Canadian government. lie says the Issue of government ownership of railways Is not. dead, and there is nothing about It to dja. "It Is the kind of thing which may hob up any minute." says he, "not as a policy to be’voted on, but as an emergency to he met." The most Interesting points in his article are those In which he tells the conditions under which public ownership is sure to fall and when private ownership Is doomed to disaster. Railways and Politics Public ownership must fall, he says, when the running of the railways Is a part of the political business of the government. It is sure to fail when railways are run to make votes, or when railway policies are directed by votes. "The right to hire and fire must be with the operator and not lodged ■with an outside body." Now I am in favor of government ownership; and I believe it Is coming. We should now be studying the way to run them under government ownership. Therefore Sir Henry's statement Is Important. I believe It to be perfectly true. Before we take over the railways a plan should be worked out by which their operation Is divorced from politics, and not an issue in elections Stock Market Operation Sir Henry says that private ownership must fail "if the eyes of the management, or of those who direct the management, are more firmly fixed on the stock market than they are on the service the road la rendering.” And here he touches the railway management of the United States on the raw. Every one who is anywhere near the inside knows that the stock market Is the thing which our railway operators are taught to watch all the time. One reason why we shall almost surely come to government ownership In this country is that we are all the time regulating the railways. We began it because of the preda tory policies of the railways In years gone by. and we can't stop it. Yet thus we get, as Thornton says, the worst features of government and private ownership, with the virtues of neither. That government own ership is able to give good service Hir Henry states positively, but he does not take sides between the two plans. Events, he says, always decide the issue. Therefore, await they ent. i
love letter for a parachute. Things are nothing morn than what you think and usually not as much. In San Francisco, a broker is sentenced for 030 years, so perhaps rhnt will hold him for a while. Policemen lead a dangerous life In