Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. x WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing: Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA In 3300.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re gtricting the right to speak,, write, or print, freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution oi Indiana.

A Step Forward ENDIANAPOLIS will celebrate tomorrow the opening of the largest motor bus terminal in the country. The celebration will mark a distinctly progressive step in the city and State. Indiana has been a leader in the field of transportation. It was here that electric transportation was developed in the early days of the business, and Indianapolis still is the greatest interurban center in the country. The motor bus is just another step in the evolution of transportation. Less than a century ago, covered wagons in long trains traversed the mud of the old National Road, now Washington St. Indianapolis then was an important link in transportation. Then came the canal and the railroad. Indianapolis had both in the early days. Settlers steamed into the city from the Ohio river at Madison on one of the earliest steam roads in this part of the country. Then came the electric lines. Again Indiana was a pioneer State in transportation. Trolley cars were proved to be practical when run over rails laid in Indiana and the great Indianapolis Traction Terminal Station was erected. Traction lines still form a spiderweb pattern in every direction from Indianapolis. Next was the automobile. It was invented by a Hoosier at Kokomo. It. revolutionized transportation. It brought country and city together as nothing ever had before. It was only natural that the automobile should develop into a means of commercial transportation of passengers aiid freight—and it was anly natural that Indiana should be a leader in this field. So tomorrow we dedicate a great bus terminal, situated only a block south of Washington St. in one of the most rapidly developing sections of the city. We are proud of the achievements of the men who made this terminal possible. In passing, it might be pointed out that two Hoosiers —the Wright brothers—made possible the most modern vehicle Os transportation, the airplane. Who knows what the > future holds?

Commissioner Nugent’s Protest COMMISSIONER JOHN F. NUGENT of v> the Federal, Trade Commission, in a report concurred in by Commissioner Huston Thompson, protests sharply against the rules of secrecy that have just been imposed on the commission by a majority of three of the five members. The threat of publicity against business men who do not play fair with their competitors and the public is regarded by Nugent as the most effective power in the commission’s possession. Stripped of the right to give out Information if the guilty merchant or manufacturer merely agrees not to dupe his customers any longer the commission can not serve its intended purpose. In the nine years from 1916 to 1924 the trade commission considered 8,661 complaints from business men and business organizations. Publicity was given to 968 of these cases after an examination had shown an apparent basis of complaint. Os these, 42 Avere eventually found to be unwarranted. Considering the tremendous number of cases that come before the commission, and the drastic way in which its appropriations have been cut, this seems to be a splendid record. To discard the Avhole system, as the majority members have done, is comparable to throwing away an automobile because of an occasional puncture.

Wars That Bloom In The Spring, Tra La! K.tIOW that gentle spring lias conje, China’s IN. annual crop of. wars is fairly popping into bloom. A nice little one is flourishing down south around And to the west of Canton, the province of Yunnan is invading Kiangsi. If Kiangsi is beaten the plan is to sign her up for the big league war against the north, along with Kuangtung, Kweichow, Yunnan and Bzchuan. That is, if the civil war now brewing among the 100,000,000 people of Szchuan fails to take. Then the whole Yangtze valley around and vest of Shanghai is feverishly preparing foq iQstiljties. But it is an illuminating commentary on the situation that nobody seems to %riow against whom—or why. Most important of all, Marshal Chang-Tso-lin, the Manchurian war lord aikl ex-bandit, is

massing his troops in the north apparently for his annual capture of Peking. In Peking the so-called “Christian General,” PYng-Yu-hsiang. is in the saddle—thanks to h'is selling last year’s games. General Wu Pei-fu, leader of the Peking forces, was at that time at war against < ’hang. The “Christian” Feng was Wii's mainstay. At the moment Feng was supposed to be hurling his legions against Chang's key position along the Great Wall of China, he was sneaking back to Peking, which he secretly entered and captured for himself. Chang made a triumphant entry into Tientsin and struck a bargain with Feng for the control of Peking. Wu had to ilee for ‘his life with President Tsao-Kun only e lap behind, while the new masters of the Flowery Republic installed Marshal Tuan Chi-jui of the notorious, Japanese-controlled Anfu clique, in the capital. Tsao-Kun had been rotten, but Tuan was worse, so, for poor China, it was out of pan into the fire. Now it seems there has been a split between Chang and Feng. Probably Feng held out on Chang or something. Anyway Chang’s troops seem to want entertainment ond summer will soon be here. China is even more divided than usual now, so if Chang does go on the warpath the chances are he will not stop until he has a large part of the country eating out of his — and Japan's—hand.

What Does The Day Celebrate? owns Armistice Day?” W That question is raised by the Reserve Officers’ Association of the United States, coupled with the assertion that those who fought the war and won the victory own the day and have a right to say how it shall be celebrated. With an intolerance that is too Avidespread in this country already the fighters Avho claim they won Armistice Day declare Avar on all Avho oppose their plan and denounce them as pacifists. The real issue appears to be whether our celebration of Armistice Day shall glorify war or peace. When the news came to an anxious, tired, weary and war-AVorn Avorld that the armistice had been signed and the World War Avas f>ver, there Avas a spontaneous celebration all over the world; and it Avas a celebration of peace, not a glorification of Avar. People everyAvhere Avere hysterical Avith joy. But it wasn’t the hysteria of combat. It wasn’t inspired by love of war. It Avas an explosion of relief and gladness because the madness of Avar Avas over and peace on earth was in sight. That should be- the spirit of Armistice Lay. For the day belongs neither to fighters nor to pacifists, but to all humanity; and in the United States to every man, Avoman and child. If professional soldiers Avant a national defense day Avhen they may glorify Avar and advertise preparedness, then let some other day be selected. We may love peace and still admit the advisability of preparedness as insurance against Avar, but to *Celebrate Avar on Armistice Day Avould be a perversion of the spirit of the day Avhen the peoples of the world quit Avholesale murder and began to settle doAvn to the pursuits of peace.

If You Have Something to Sell jUSINESS men must not take too literally President Coolidge’s suggestion that they forget Washington for aAvhile. The Department of Commerce —at Washington—has just put out a bulletin that has a bearing on the business of every manufacturer or other producer in the United States Avho hopes to sell part of his produet outside the United States boundary lines. This bulletin tells that the Department has compiled a li§t of all inquiries for American goods that haye been received in recent Aveeks. The list tells the opportunities foj sale of American agricultural implements, automobiles, apples, coal, leather, corn, general merchandise and so forth in forty-six foreign countries. There are specific inquiries, for instance, from would-be purchasers in Chile concerning canned salmon, hops, lubricating oils and rice; from Germany for everything from rubber toys to radiators and overshoes; from England for bicycles, carpenter tools and a dozen other commodities. The list is long enough to interest most anybody with something to sell. For possible exporters in this section the list is available at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

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Tom Sims Says British soap trusts made $27,000,000 last year. They cleaned up.

Woman mayor of Holloway, 0., has quit. Wants to stay at home. Men should ask equal rlgh'.s. Woman golf champ says she never cusses. She’s a perfect lady bug. The job we want is in Paris where men are hired and paid to color pipes by smoking ihem.

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In Africa, the Prince of Wales shot a blesbok. rhis should teach blesboks to leave him alone. Is there no justice in France? Woman pot eipht yearn just for shootinp her own husband. There is no future in being a Balkan statesman. Women in Persia have started to bob their hair. Bet tho neighbors call them Persian cats. Four were killed first day of safety week In Peoria. 111., but It comes only once a year. Caine Is named head of packers' bureau. The news should have been headed. "Coolldge Raisas Caine.” French say they will welcome any si ggestlons about their debt to us. We beg to suggest she pay. If Mr. MacMillan llnds a striped cat up the North Pole he had better not try to catch It. An optimist is a young fellow who thinks maybe her father was onlywalking In his sleep. Looks count. That's- why autos cost more than bathtubs. Ananias was a married man. Covurlaht. 1925, XEA Service

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

TOO MANY TRAFFIC LAWS Mr - ”“ AYOR SHANK vetoed the ordinance recently passed i___J by the council prohibiting n.ore than two persons, besides the driver, riding In the front seat of anautomobile. -"l’m sick of this kill joy law stuff,” he remarked. Probably street safety will be neither more nor less conspicuous because of the veto than other-

wise. In practice the ordinance would doubtless have been difficult to enforce—a nuisance contrlbu tin g nothing to eradication of traffic hazards. It is not teeming numbers but empty minds in the front seat that are dangerous. Yet under the ordinance a prudent fam--1 1 y man

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couldn’t take liis wife and twin babes for an airing In a roadster. He would have to leave either wife, a babe or the flivver at home. v Last week State police made 185 arrests for violations of twenty different regulations of the motor vehicle law. It takes a smart policeman and a superhuman driver to remember all the rules. Traffic regulations are so thick they step on each other's heels. There are already enough in existence to make streets and highways perfectly safe —if enforced. Yet cars, drivers and pedestrians are demolished with frequency. More rules carefully written out and spasmodically enforced Avon’t change the situation. They are Just ’’kill-joy law stuff.”

NONSUPPORT OF PARENTS [V-yiINSON H. MANIFOLD. I I special judge in city court 1 T I Saturday, imposed a fine of SIOO and ninety days at the Sta.e Farm on a man for failure to support his invalid mother. Sentence was suspended on condi.ion the man pay her $5 a week. “I would rather take the sentence than pay the sf,” declared the culprit. ‘‘Don't promise anything,” counseled his wife. Between them they gave a fine exhibition ot filial devotion! But not so uncommon. Our courts are continually called upon the compel selfish children to provide for aged and infirm parents. Only a few days ago the circuit court at IColumbus (Ind.) had to order seven sons to contribute the munificent sum of $17.60 weekly for the support of their 85-year-old, paralyzed mother. Through their neglect she had become a county charge. Os course parents when they become odd, perhaps querulous, are not economically W'orth their keep. They may be burdens to their children—ls the latter are moved solely by selfish economics and not by love and affection. However, there seems no convenient way to get rid of the burden. Pushing worn-out parents a cliff or Into the river is a messy job—and they won’t vanish into thin air by a provision of nature. The burden must be assumed either by their family or society. That society should be forced so often to compel sons to do their duty indicates that even in Indiana civilization isn't more than skin deep in spots. >

Ask The Times You can get an anewer to any queaUon ot fact or information by writing to The Indlanapoll* Time* Waihlngton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Waahlnton. D. C.. lncloaing 2 cents in •ta'aps for reply. Medical, legal and n.-vital advice cannot be giver., no.can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a per sonal reply. IJns gned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. Who was Joseph Banneker? A negro mathematical who assisted in fixing the boundary lines of the District of Columbia and laying out the city of Washington. Did Thomas JefTersor have a part In the constitutional convention? Thomas Jefferson was absent from the convention, being minister to France at the time and away from the United States. What were the Kentucky resolutions of 1798-1799? A set of resolutions passed by the Legislature of Kentucky against the alien and sedition acts. They read "that whensoever the general Government assumes undelegated powers, Its acts are unauthoritative, void and of no force, etc.” Copies were sent to the other States, only seven of which replied, and these seven condemned the resolutions. When and for what reason did the Msthodist Church split? It split In 1844 over the question of slavery. How many spiritualists are there in the United States? According to the Year-Book of the churches there were 132.322 members of Spiritualist organizations In the United States In 1923. What Is the address of William Wrigley, the manufacturer of chewing gum? 1200 Lake Snore Drive, Chicago, 111. How many colors are there? Correctly speaking there are but six. three primary (red, blue and yellow), and three secondary (orange, violet and green.) Orange Is composed of red and yellow, violet of red and blue, and green of yellow and blue. All other colors are compounds of these, i

SCIENCE AND TRUTH VOLUTIONISTS were bitterly denounced recently v— by a revivalist, holding meetings in Cadle Tabernacle. Denouncing evolution as it relates to the origin of man has become a favorite pastime with Bryan. Tennessee legislators and many ethers in this country. Did the human species evolve in orderly sequence through untVdd eons from primordial protoplasm or did it spring physically complete and perfect from a special act of creation? Science believes in the evolutionary theory which the Scriptures recount a special act of creation. Perhaps science is all wrong. But nothing is gained by attacking it vehemently with blind bigotry. The sole aim of science is the search for truth. Bigotry made Galileo recant his declaration that the earth revolves about the sun. But that didn't alter the fact of such revolution which astronomers went ahead and proved. The theory of the origin of man by process of organic evolution from simple to more complex living forms must eventually be proved or disproved by science—not by joint and hates, denunciation or acts of legislatures. If It Isn’t true scientists will discard if of their own accord Avhen they have accumulated sufficient observed facts to disprove it. The' whole agitation against it is a tempest in a teapot—of no more importance to the average man than an uprising against the nebular by hypothesis or the Einstein theory. AVhether he descended from Adam or a tadpole is Immaterial. He will be judged for what he Is and does now —not from his ancestors. REFORMING STATE MACHINERY [h* IOVERNORl OVERNOR JACKSON an - I nounced the other day his L-_J appointment of members of th new Indiana library and histncal board. This body will control the State library, historical commission and legislative reference bureau. A committee selected by the Governor, before inauguuration, surveyed the State governmental structure. Abolition of useless boards, rearrangement and consolidation of departmental functions, to secure greater efficiency and economy in operation, was the purpose. In its report the committee suggested no radical changes in ox isting machinery. But of its few recommendations the only one adopted by the Legislature was the least important—combining library, historical commission and legislative reference bureau under a single board. Abolition of the oil inspection department and other reforms proposed were rejected. They were too deeply intrenched In politics to be disturbed—even for efficiency and economy. • Probably Indiana's government is less complex and cluttered with useless bodies than some other States—for It has only about seventy State boards and commissions besides the usual array of departments and bureaus. Still it has enough for considerable waste motion and over lapping. Put the easiest thing in the world to create—and the hardest thing to kill—is a useless government bureau. The more offices the more jobs—and politicians love their patronage.

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Putting Best Seller on the Screen Is a Job; In ‘Declasse,’ Corinne Makes Her Mark

By Walter I). Hickman

mT is a hard job to put any best seller upon the screen. In the first place, a movie made from the best seller as a novel attracts usually- an ai/dience that is famllar with the story. In the case of ‘The Little French Girl,” the job of making a. movie of

it was a whale of a job. Its author is noted for her ability to reflect the spiritual and mental qualities of the characters she creates. When I reviewed the novel, I felt that the commanding character of the story was not Alix, the Little French Girl, but her mother, Mme. Vervier. Madame is one of those characters that vould be branded as ‘‘wild, dangerous loose,” if she

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paraded herself upon Main St. But in the French atmosphere of this novel, Madame Is shown at that stage of her life when she dismisses a lover only to prepare for another. Madame was not common, don’t misunderstand me. She loved beauty, romance and art. She actually created her own little court, a sort of a wild mental place where romantic was always prepent in some form. This interesting but “dangerous" woman is the real source of the power of this novel. The author did such a big job in drawing the character that Madame over shadowed even her own daughter. Alice Joyce as Mme. Vervier, a French mother with a living past, seems to have the same viewpoint—that Madame is’ the keynote character of the story.' Miss Joyce does a really very big piece of work as Madame. She has caught the many moods, especially the devotion of the character to beauty as reflected In love. Love to Madame was merely a romantic experience. She is a mighty wise woman because such “love” cannot long exist. So she plays her cards with the assurance that anew hand Is next. It is this conception of the character that helps Miss Joyce to give to the screen a character as sweeping in its emotional intensity as thfauthor created in her boot:. And that is a bigV>ccomplishmeni. Mary Brian is Alix, the little French girl and she plays the role with the needed unaffected innocence. And that is her triumph, at no time is she guilty of over-acting. T was disappointed with Topple a3 acted upon the screen because the woman playing the role failed to got that spiritual something that the author gave the character, Neil Hamilton gives a pleasing picture of Giles, but my conception of the character is not the one created by Hamilton. Asa whole, “The Little French Girl’’ is a satisfactory effort to screen a big novel. Bill includes organ and orchestral music, singing and a comedy, “He AVho Gets Smacked.” At the Ohio all week. -I- ’l’ -IJAZZ BUG BITES MAMMA AND PAPA Mo6t of our movies showing the jazz bug at work show the "insect”

at work upon the younger generation. In "The Mad Whirl” we see jazz attacking ah elderly man and wife. Those engaged in presenting this theme are May MacAvoy, Jack MulhaU, Barbara Bedford and George Fawcett. When the jazz hug attacks elderly people It makes ’em rather dippy and silly. Os course it is not a

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dignified sight to se an old man trying to kid bimself Into the thought that at fifty he can

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wouldn’t have dreamed about when he was twenty. Most of the story concerns the foolish attempt of an elderly couple to turn their home into a sort of a roadhouse so their son could sow his wild oats at home. Rather anew idea but the funny thing about it is that the son does not want to do much sowing. He wants to marry a decent girl and have a home of his own. Haven’t see George Fawcett on the screen for Rome time. He hasn’t a big part, but by putting his ability to work he makes the part stand right up by the side of the leading characters. For my own part, I am not interested in such themes as is found In "The Mad Whirl.” They do not ring true with me. But as usual you be your own judge. The American Harmonists this week are playing and singing “Oh, Katherina,” a real hit. This number is one of the season’s winners and this orchestra certainly puts it across. Bill Includes music, a news reel, Aesop Fables and a comedy. At the Colonial all Aveek. •I- -I- -IMISS GRIFFITH ISSUES A CHALLENGE OF MERIT To follow Ethel Barrymore In a role that added new glory to her career is a challenge. And in “Declasse" Corinne Griffith picks up the challenge and Issues one herself. In other words. 1 firmly believe that Miss Griffith approaches great-

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orders are orders in the movie business. Miss Griffith is able to put over the impression that Lady Helen is a thoroughbred, when she is in high London society and still maintains that quality when she is a social outcast. This impression is essential be cause it is necessary to put / over that idea in order to get sympathy for the character. Miss Griffith is able to show the mental suffering of Lady Helen when she Is an outcast. This trait is visible in the scene when British royalty visit New York. In a quiet way she registers as she has never done before on the screen. Lady Helen is a role rich in dramatic and emotional values and Miss Griffith doesn't ‘‘mess’ up any chance to express these qualities. Although most of the interest centers upon the work of Miss Griffith, yet you will find yourself studying some of the English nobility types with much interest. From a scenic standpoint, this picture is beautiful. The English society scenes as well as the American hotel scenes are handled in a fine way. .Was more than satmfled with the entire cast. The Circle Orchastra is playing ‘‘C Sharp Minor Preludfe,” by Rachmaninoff as an overtu/re. Bill includes a news reel, “Newspaper Fun arjd a comedy. At the Circle all week. •I- -I- •!• The Berkell players this week are presenting “The Silent Witness’’ at English's. Jimmy Watts is present at the Lyric and Walter Weems at the Palace. Lena Daley is presenting "Morning, Noon and Night,” at the Capitol. For the first half of the week the Isis is offering Jack Hoxie in “A Roaring Adventure.” ROBS 30 HOMES A WEEK BERLIN, May 18.—A man arrested here is charged with breaking into thirty houses in a w**K

GET IN RIGHT MOOD FOR THIS PHOTOPLAY Take a little tip from me—when you go to see "The Way of a Girl" be sure and take your sense of humor with you. Don’t park it at home, because you must laugh to enjoy this one. i uo not mean you will howl with

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so the audience will not get impatient? Well, that is just what happens so delightfully Interesting in “The Way of a Git|l." If there ever was such a thing as the intimate or chummy movie, then this film is just that. Here is something actually new in the movies. To me It is a fine laugh. Will grant you that some of the scenes are nothing more than hokum, but when things get 100 “meller” the lending woman jumps from her part and lands on the desk of the author, who Is hard at work writing the story. .She says to the author, "Now you have me in a cave with the hero and a murderer. What will I do to the rough gentleman?" And the author tells her to shoot that guy. And Eleanor Boardinan, the leading woman, Jumps back Into thi story and shoots the bad man. The bad man is sent to the happy hunting ground and tlie author tells Miss Board man and her hero. Matt Moore, to put on a love scene and wind up the picture. And they do. Haven't seen William Russell for a long time He plays a sort of a near-bad man In this movla. Bill includes Simmy Henderson and Heiney Weber in songs, organ and orchestral music snd a comedy, "Hold My Buby," in w.iich a real live baby is a wonder. At the Apollo. SPIRITUALISTS WIN SUIT Belief in Supernatural Held Not Indicative of Insanity. FRANKFORT, Ky., May 18.—Belief in spiritualism does not indicate an unsound mind, Kentucky’s highest court has ruled. The case involved an attempt to break a will. SPARK OF NINE FEET Current of a Million Volts Produced by English Experimenter. IjONDON, May 18. —A current of a million volts, the highest voltage ever produced in England, was generated recently by Dr. de Ferranti. It caused a spark to jump nine feet six inches.

ness at times in this picture. If I remember correctly In the stage version, Lady Helen Hayden dies without finding happiness following her fall from high society. The movie version prevents Miss Griffith from staging a death scene (which all dramatic women of the stage love) but she make it a death scene just as long as she dares. But the happy ending was ordered and

mirth, but you will laugh mentally. Can you imagine in your wildest moments of an actress stepping out of her character and running up to the author of the movie and saying. "You sure are a fine guy. You have me in j ail. Get me out. And can you imagine the author telling the leading woman to drag her form from his typewriter and get hack to the screen and do her stuff

Movie Verdict Circle—Corinne Griffith does not get stage fright when she steps into the shoes of Ethel Barrymore in "Declasse." She does a convincing and human piece of work. Ohio—lt was n tough job to make a movie out of "The Little French Girl." Alice Joyce walks away with the picture. Fine work. Colonial —"The Mad Whirl," attempts to show how elderly people beha\e when the jazz bug bites 'em. Apollo AVaDt to run up against something new? Then see “The Way of a Girl," but take your comedy InsUnet with you. New kind of fun—the intimate movie