Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1925 — Page 4
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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich—Prov. 28:6. Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.—Seneca. A Real Cockfight In Sight SHIS fight over the rules of the Senate is going to be good. Ranking next to the Vice President, in the United States Senate, is the President pro tern. He presides when the Vice President goes away to take a nap or tell the world. When there is no Vice President, as was the case after Coolidge’s succession to the presidency, the President pro tem. inherits not only all of the Vice President’s authority, but the extra $4,000 of salary and the Government automobile that go with the job. The President pro tem. is one Senator Moses of New Hampshire. Quite an interesting person, is Moses. He obtained his present preferment by long party activity and regularity, but without sacrificing one thing he holds more dear—the right to say what he thinks when he feels like it. He has started already saying what he thinks about Vice President Dawes’ crusade against the Senate rules. He has a gilft of picturesque language equal to the best Dawes ever invented and, not being afraid of any Vice President he ever saw, he has started using it. He won’t let up because, if he can talk Dawes to death, he will get that extra $4,000 and the automobile I Two small men—physically—with man's sized voices, Dawes and Moses will’put up a bantam fight next fall worth traveling to Washington to see and hear. Between them, iln any event, they should make clear to the people the essential humor in the subject Dawes has picked out as his platform for saving the public. We Approve and Amend Mr. Butler HAIRMAX BUTLER of the House committee on naval affairs says he will urge legislation at the next session of Congress to make the Hawaiian Islands “the strongest jnilitary outpost in the world.” Bravo Mr. Butler! That is talking sense. Why pay for insurance that does not insure? Since we sacrificed Cavite and Guam at the Washington conference of 3921, the Hawaiians are our one and only dependence as a naval base in the Pacific. Hence they shoul ' be made impregnable, else abandoned altogether. Why pay out a lot of taxpayers’ money to keep up a military establishment out there which, when the show-down comes, can be captured and turned against us? We would like to suggest to Chairman Butler, however, that the Panama Canal is perhaps even more important to the national defense than Hawaii. And it is twice as vulnerable. Its capture, or what is more likely, its destruction, at the beginning of an American war would necessitate a complete change
Weekly Book Review——— Finding the Man in a Main Is Rose Wilder Lane’s Job
By Walter D. Hickman
.y HEN is a man a man? \uU Stale question, you say. a challenge was hurled at me on every page of "He Was A Man." But what does life do to a man? Is life making a bid to throw him into the gutter or does man himself lift himself upward? ■Funny ideas to have after reading & novel but Rose Wilder Lane In "He Was A Man" has enough thought for several books. The chief character is named in the story as Gordon Blake, but it is my Impression that Miss Lane has written the life story of Jack London. London rose from the slums of both men and conditions. He suffered and he fought. His personal standards are not understood hy those who fear life. Jack London was a product of life as much as he was his own product. To start with. Harper & Brothers published "He Was A Man.” That lg a good start. You will find in this novel a character that stands upon his two feet for a while, then crashes into the darkness of flesh only to rise again higher and higher oVer his fellowmen. Have told you before that I am not afraid to face the products of life. When an author brings real life In all of Its beauty as well as Its dirt—then again I am not afraid. What Is Genius You will agree with me that it is a "'hard job to decide just, what genius Is. Sometimes it seems that Its legs extend down Into the mire only to lift Its head to the high mountain tops. Such was the problem of Gordon Blake, a product of San Francisco alum life. At the age of eighteen he was "living" and dreaming (that must have been the work of old man genHHt* with a product of "rotten" Use." : Her name was Spanish Mary. They lived on the beach of the camp
in our plans if, indeed, it did not prove a fatal blow. Recent maneuvers in Panamanian waters demonstrated that any one of a dozen things might happen to the canal at, or just before, the commencement of hostilities. Spies could blow up the locks; an enemy ship camouflaged as a neutral, could sink and block the channel at any of the narrower passages; vital parts of the canal might be blown to smithereens by enemy planes operating from carriers, or even submarines, at sea or from savannas in neighboring territory; and so on. Panama and Hawaii are complementary, parts of the rsame thing, and either -would be greatly handicapped, or have its effectiveness seriously reduced, without the other. Thus Panama by all means should he made impregnable, too. Hawaii and Panama are the vital key positions in our first line of defense. We should therefore render it impossible for any enemy, however strong, to lay hands on either. A Seaman Says ‘No’ vwjHEN Chairman O’Connor of the shipping " hoard the other day suggested that instead of giving a subsidy to shipowners, the Government give it to the seamen, we remarked that it sounded like a real idea. O’Connor proposed that S2O a month he paid seamen on vessels bought from the Government. This would give the seamen that much of a bonus above the wages of foreign seamen while making the shipowners’ wage costs no greater. The American shipowner always has complained of the higher wage cost he} has to hear in competition with foreign shipowners. The O'Connor idea doesn’t sound so good to Andrew Furuseth, president of the seamen’s union. He says it would put the seamen in the position of accepting tips and that, he says, they won’t do. Furuseth probably knows seamen better than anybody and if that is the way the plan appeals to them it won’t get anywhere. T he campaign for a ship subsidy will continue. The shipowners are not so sensitive on the subject of tips, judging from the efforts they are making to obtain a subsidy. Os course, when it comes in thousands of dollars instead of twenty-dollar bills it may not seem so much-like a tip. Bart of the O’Connor theory was that it would help provide seamen for naval auxiliaries in ease of war. Furuseth has an idea on lhat point, too. Let the navy take into the service for one year any seaman who has had thirty months’ experience on merchant vessels, f‘e says, give him a certificate of honorable diseharge then and allow him preference after (hat in employment on American merchant ships. AVell, we believe that is worth thinking about, too. The great need, if we are to have a merchant marine worthy of the name, always 'vill be men—among the owners, officers and seamen. Owners able, all conditions being rqual, to match their brains against shipowners flying any flag; officers and men trained to (he sort of efficiency we like to call American; given these and we will see American ships carrying their share of the world trade. But whimpering /or a subsidy will not produce men.
fires and on the “Merry Maid,” a boat engaged in the gentle art of raiding oyster beds. An outlaw morally, an outlaw professionally—all saved by the hidden spark of genius some place in this man’s makeup. Life on the Frisco waterfront has never been a Sunday school affair. It is life In Its crudest colors. Human dirt dirt that never seeks the sunshine, but Gordon loved the sunshine of fact and of Imagination. Blake decided to get an education. It is here I believe that Rose Wilder Lane lias done her most realistic bit of work. She actually makes the reader feel the mental and spiritual development of this lad. You suffer, you cry with, and even at the character. The Rise Then you come into contact with the fine forces of an educated hofne. Then you cqme across the dual nature In the lad —the waterfront cravings for humanity a s It exists and that finer intellectual personality. Life demanded so much, f then
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more. Gordon gave. He was defeated He joined Coxie’s army. He became a "bum,” hut told nimsolf that he was different from the other unwashed specimens of mankind. Out of this march with Coxie’s army the real personality of Gordon sprang Into being. He found out that during the Boer war he could not get passports to Africa. He then became a part of the slum life of New York. Prior to -this he had married a good woman—intellectually and morally. Children were I orn. To this sort of life Gordon rebelled even when he had a good home. He wanted some sort of freedom. Freedom of what? Something In him cried out for a woman who would understand. He found her, but she was not hiS wife. And he died a young man, but world famous. I have touched only the high spots. "He Was a Man" is a recital of realism with all of Its gutter atmosphere as well as God’s sunshine. Here is a novel that has backbone and real life. Should he read by every one who is not afraid of life. I will put “He Was a Man” In my list of the ten best books for 1025. Missionaries In Session Hu Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., May 12.—Indiana Women’s Board of Missions and the Indiana Women’s Home Missionary Union convened today for separate sessions. Joint conferences were held Monday. Teachers’ Securities Transferred Securities of the State teachers’ retirement fund valued at $2,000,000 have been transferred from control of the treasurer of State to direct control by the fund itself, in accordance with a 1925 act.
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Marion Lenox Was Hard Boiled Although She Lived In a Mansion Near Fifth Ave.
By Walter D. Hickman j_ . | ARD boiled was Marion Lenox It—ll aUhough she lived in a manI- 1 * I sion'E. Sixty-Fifth St., New York. That Is he authors David Gray and Avery Hopwood placed her there. She exists because these two men wrote a comedy called "The Best People." Marion was of the "best,” according; to :hose haughty and rich | * JH had a "heck" of a J|pf| time getting enRaged to one rich (by inheritance) ' -*s|j Ruy after another \ \ lljjL* i ; and then breaking . . vw the engagement. * wIV is H was “fed up" on the nice things of life. She started Milton Byron looking for a "real man," all rough both in talk and manners. She found him in the person of Henry, chauffeur for her mother. Henry was a “cave man” who spoke of Marion as "girlie” and “kid” as well as telling her to put on the brakes and in doing so she skids right into hi? arms. The playwrights faintly suggest that Marion will he happy on a pig farm down in lowa. And not one of us believes it because Marion probably will change her mind when she sees the pigs. Said pigs will not turn out to be “cute little pink things.” While Marion iis giving her proud family and relatives the shock of their lives. Bertie Lenox, her brother, does a little exploring for himself. He falls head over .heels in love with a chorus girl by the name of Alice O’Neil. Alice went with fast company, but she was an angel just the same. Even her relatives objected to Alice marrying Into "one of the best families. 1 ’ "The Best People" was written with all eyes upon the box office. ’There are laughs, many of them. Some remarks are witty and clever, while others are the old bunk. But —the show in the hands of the Ber-
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON-
THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE
mWO Indianapolis employes of the Bell Telephone Com-pany-—Miss Marguerite Weaver and John M. Satter—have been awarded bronze medals by the company for conspicuous acts of service to which is attributed saving of two lives. Miss Weaver won her medal by getting help promptly—on her
own initiative and not at the victim’s request —to a subscriber who had taken poison. Satter was awarded *or reviving by prompt artificial respiration a workman knocked out by a live wire. Os course, a bronze medal has little monetary value. It can’t be eaten or worn with any comfort. Perhaps the company could
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more suitably award employes by adding' a few cents to their weekly pay. But the spirit of service is fostered by recognition not by pay for acts beyond the line of duty. A medal, though never worn, is such recognition. A soldier would rather have the distinguished service cross, the croix de guerre, or the Victoria cross than the loot of a city. The greatest asset any large organization can have is the loyalty of its employes—that Intangible something called morale. That can not always be purchased with the pay envelope. A medal for a gallant deed to a private in an Industrial army builcs morale. It’s recognition of high service. It is valueless but priceless. NO MORE TAG DAYS f_,IHE South Bend board of I I I safety has announced that ■ 1 i no more tag days will be pc-mitted in that city. The action of the board followed protests from business men against the practice. Florida attracts new residents by its guarantee that it will never impose a State income tax. The Harden of Eden held out as residential inducements fruit and climate. No doubt South Bend will receive equally favorable advertising from its no-tag-day edict. Harassed dwellers of other communities may hasten there as to a haven of refuge. They have been tagged almost to death. One of the greatest lessons learned from the war was the case with which coins can be wheedled from men in hotel lobbies and streets by maidens pinning tags or paper flowers on their lapels. It takes a strong man to resist their importunities. Societies maintaining obscure charities have never forgotten the lesson. • Tag days are their meat. Asa result in some communities tag days frequently overlap. In Indianapolis a pedestrain can usually traverse the streets without being held up by any except professional bandits—who do not Insist on tagging victims. Yet even here there are enough tag days to keep taggers and tagged in practice. Os course, various charities must be supported—or at least think they must. But they can be supported without being nuisances. Cnarity wouldn't suffer if all communities suppressed tag days.
kell Players go over with a vow. They are registering more laughs than usual. Mary Hill Is cast as the haughty mother of Marion and Bertie. A1 C. Wilson is the father. Milton Byron Ist he chaufeur. Edythe Elliott Is the ’’hard boiled" Marlon Lennox. Boh Fay is cast as an English edition of the best people. Larry Sulivan is George Grafton, uncle of the best people. Robert St. Clair is Bertie. The personal triumph of this week’s show is Martha Morton as the slangy, wild, but careful Millie, not a gold digger, hut a wise dame, at that. She knows how to get the coin and yet smile the smile of a virgin. The way she handles some double meaning remarks so as not to be too had and the method she uses in working up the second act gives Miss Morton the acting honors this week. Idabelle Arnold is Alice O’Neil. At English’s all week. •!• -!• -IGOLIIEN HORSE IS LYRIC NOVELTY TODAY A posing horse is not generally a novelty, but the way this horse is being presented at the Lyric this veek it is a novelty. The act opens in a studio set with a sculptor deciding to take a nap
While he dreams, a statue comes to life. Nh-i dances and then introduces a posing horse, a beautiful animal in gold, meautifully trained. A good idea well worked out. Irately nurn erous movies star? have made pep sonal appear ances. This week we have Robert McKim. one of the best know villains that Douglas Fairbanks, Bill Hart and other stars have had in their movies. He uses a little skit called
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"The Bacheior'3 Bride,” written by Elsie Williams. Miss William? plays the role of the bride. The idea is clever. McKim knows how
THE COST OF BUILDING SHE Indianapolis Beal Estate Board has completed a survey of building costs in the city. At present, the survey reveals, the average cost is about 40 per cent higher than in 1924. According to the survey a small, semi modern bungalow can be built for S4OO a room, a modern bungalow for SBOO a room, and a two story modern home for SI,OOO a room. Finer dwellings cost as high as $2,000 a room. A two story house located almost any place in Indianapolis will cost more than it cost to discover America. The whole expense of Columbus' expedition including his vessels was only $7,200. It costs more to build a room for the bathtub, which is only used occasionally, than to buy an automobile which can he used nil the time. Which may he the reason there are more automobiles than bath-tubs in this country, as recently announced. Apparently, however, persons erecting homes and other structures in this city are not being unmercifully gouged. The average of commodity prices for the whole country is C 6 per cent higher than in 1913. So here the cost of building is comparatively low. Home owning is to be encouraged. The home owner is the stable, substantial citizen who is the backbone of any community. But the day when anybody can become a home owner without effort is past. Building now takes money. AN END OF POVERTY E r- " — ~ UOEN'E V. HERS was the principal speaker at a han- ■ quet of Socialists in Indianapolis Sunday night. He pleaded for emancipation of wage earners, denounced war and capitalistic mismanagement of civilization with his usual fervor. "Through the capitalistic class we have widespread poverty,” he declared. "Workers receive only a fraction of what they produce, and until they receive their full share we shall have poverty.” Debs Is not popular with Rotary clubs, chambers of commerce and bankers' associations. He Is always trying to put ground glass in the soup of the smug, established order. Much that he says is irrefutable, much Is eloquent twaddle. Admittedly all is not well with the present brand V>f civilization. There is much injustice: the strong prey upon the weak; the shrewd exploit the dullards. Nevertheless, If every worker received his full share of what he produces there wouldn’t he an end'to poverty. Poorhouses are not filled from the ranks of workers. Many of the inmates, of course, have become public charges as the result of misfortunes beyond their contrql. However, more are paupers because they squander their productive years. The poorhouse is the final answer to lives of easy come, easy go. It is pleasant to dream of the time when society will be perfect —when there will be no injustice and neither rich nor poor. But before that can happen there must be equality of productive effort and intellect. As long as nature turns out some men lazy and some energetic, some with great talents and others without, it will be difficult to equalize them by legislation.
to talk on the stage. He has personal appearance and charm. When the sketch is completed he gives a little talk, admitting he has been fourteen years in Hollywood and is proud of it. He admits with plea* sure that he is married and declares that he is a bad man in the movies, but in private life he is a good American citizen. Act goes over easily. Harry Antrim is arriving at that stage In his development when he can he considered an entertaining Institution. He is that and will grow more in the future than he has in the past. He whistles and does imitations, but does them all differently from anyone else in the world. A mighty fine entertainer. Arthur Fields and I/eo Edwards present songs in a manner that reflects real showmanship. “Crowland. with Marguerite, is a dancing novelty. “Songs and Dances," I believe that is the -name of the act, is a dancing turn in which one of the men is a good eccentric dancer. June and Irene Melva demonstrate that even empty whisky bottles may be used legally. At the Lyric all week. -!- -I- -!- HOWARD AND LIND j ARE PALACE HITS Loraine Howard and Flo Lind are the big hit on the Palace bill the first half of the week. These two women give a regular, intelligent comedy impersonation of two negro scrubwomen. Many a male blackface comedian could take lessons from the comedienne of this team. Not only are they funny, but they know how to put over songs about the good old “Robert E. Lee" and kindred subjects. And they stopped the show with ease. “Three Jacks and Two Queens" iis the title of a singing act. A male | trio and a sister team is the per- ■ sonnei. Popular songs and comedy i numbers are sung in a pleasing | way. Miss Jacques Hayes has a novel way of introducing her rural characterizntion. "Fifteen Minutes in Hickville’’ is the title of her clever little sketch. Parts of it could be eliminated without hurting it any. Shoud move a (title faster. I*a Temple presents a magic act a little differently. Has the services of a pretty good comedian as well as a darned good illusion. Jack Hughes Duo open the show with numbers on various musical instruments. The movie feature is “The Midnight Express," a railroad thriller featuring Elaine Hammerstein. At the Palace today and Wednesday. ! i By Observer.) • • • \THLETIC ('LI B WILL PRESENT LIE IT. HARDING Frederick E. Matson, president of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, today announced the second of a series of lecture events that are being given for the organization. Lieut. "Smiling Jack” Harding, one of the six United States Army fliers to complete the history-making flight around the world, and Lowell Thomas, official pictorial historian of the world flight, will be presented at tlie athletic club on Monday evening. May .25. The Harding lecture is a first hand, personal story of the thrills and adventurous achievements of the | world fliers.’ Lieut. Harding tells the story which is illustrated by motion pictures and "still” views taken by Mr. Thomas durihg the cruise of the army globe circlers. •I- -I- -!- TIIE OBSERVER LIKES THIS DALEY SHOW The nest show’ of the summer stock season at the Capitol is this week’s Daley production, called “Ruryiin’ Wild.” This is due mostly to the work of Jack "Smoke" Gray. Don’t mind saying that this fellow Gray is a real blackface comedian. There Is just one little bit that he should cut out of this show. Gray is too funny to stoop to suggestiveness, even in one little bit. Not only is he right there in his comedy scenes hut he knows how to sell a popular song for all that it is worth.
A great addition to this company. The rest of the cast, headed by Lena Daley and Bozo Mack, do their work
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Stage Verdict English’s—The authors wrote “The Best People" with both eyes on the box office. They knew what public appeal amounts to. It is registering lot of laughs this week in the hands of the Berkell Players. Lyric—Ready to say that the Lyric this week has a knockout of a show. A sure winner. Palace —Howard and Lind in an excellent comedy act stand out as the hit of a pretty fair bill. Capitol—The best show of the Daley stock season. Jack (Smoke) Gray proves himself a real blackface comic.
well and the chorus is all right, too. As usual, there is a pretty set and a treat in the way of costuming. A good show at the Capitol all week. (By Observer.) •I- -I- •!• Other theaters today offer: “My Son," at the Circle; “Introduce Me," at the Colonial; “The Charmer.” at the Ohio; "Adventure," at the Apollo, and ’’Tearing Through,” at the Isis Ask The Times You can pet an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washinton. D C.. inclosing 2 cents in etuuips for reply. Medical, legal and n.~i4tal advice cannot be given, nor eau extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot, be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Did the Volstead Enforcement Act receive the President's signature? President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Enforcement Act October 27, 1919. It was immediately re-passed over his veto. How can greasy spots be taken from wall paper? Mix powdered pipeclay with water to the consistency of cream. Brush the mixture over the greasy spot and let It dry. Then brush off the powder. Are the cities of Washington, D. C'., and Atlanta. Ga., comparable in size and population? Atlanta covers 3 9.834 acres and has a population of 218,216. Washington covers 39,680 acres and has a population of 437,571. How many electrical engineers are there in the United States? 27.077. What is the <s<ize of Camp Meade, the Government military reservation near Baltimore? It contains 7,446 acres. How can vitrophane he entirely removed from class? Take one-half a pint of boiling water, and a piece of soap sufficient to make a good lather. Saturate a cloth and place cloth on the window’. Let stand for a few moments. Take a clean cloth saturated with ammonia (double strength) place, on glass for a few’ moments. The vitrophane will begin to loosen and can easily be removed w r ith a thin knife blade.
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Tom Sims Says The paper says Paris -s holding her annual street car strike. Anew spot hat been found on the sun. Perhaps it is the dove of peace settling down at last. lowa City prohibits bathing suits on the streets. Doesn’t matter. They
are too warm for summer. lowa City prohibits bathing suits on the streetsDoesn’t They are (oO warm for Bummer. C o 011 dg a. President, is for economy. But the electric horse he rides cost more than a real one. Astors sold
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thpir Fifth Ave. home. Got three million. Reminded us our grass needs cutting. Los Angeles rich man’s wife asks divorce because she washed dishes. May be why he is a rich man. The Florida legislature is considering making it illegal to be descended from a, monkey. The average (phicagoan lives only forty-two years, proving it isn’t as dangerous as we thought. Health expert says middle-aged people should dance. They would, but most of them are married. Y’ou are not old if at midnight you start wondering what you will do until bedtime. New order says Annapolis graduates must learn to fly. We say that is higher education. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.) Good Bye Dolly By Hal Cochran (NEWS NOTE: Pr. George T. Harding, fathfi- of the late President Harding, has retired his famous old horse. “Dolly," to the Harding farm and purchased a flivver.) Just a bit of a tragedy written again; a horse that has slaved through its best years and then, an auto comes 'long and old faithful Is banned, to live life’s last years on the fat of the land. The horse-sense that horses are said to possess, must make poor old Dolly feel saddened, I guess. ’Tis true that, of work, there will ne'er be a trace, but I’ll bet that It hurt when she gave up her place. Out there in the pacture, with nothing but play,the thoughts must drift back to the old one-horse shay. There must be the mem’rles of days drifted by, when Dolly stepped out with her head held up high. But listen, old faithful, you haven’t been fired. You’ve done your full work and you’ve just been retired. Don't fret ’cause an auto has put you to rout. Just give it the ‘‘horse-laugh’ we’ve all heard aboul.