Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1925 — Page 4

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B-U-N-K mT is really no hot weather pastime to study the income tax propaganda now being spread over the country--the propaganda which is giving Senator Borah so much concern. But there is one suggestion put forward by Secretary Mellon, Senator Underwood and other advocates of a deep cut in the surtax rates that may give you as much fun as a cross-word puzzle. Briefly it is this: If the surtaxes are reduced, the very rich will quit dodging their taxes and so will pay more. In other words the way to get more from the rich is to ask them for less. Now that is a little hard to believe. It may he that the Government does not need all the revenue obtainable under the present surtaxes. If so, that fact may furnish a good reason for reducing the taxes on the rich. Certainly there is no sound sense in collecting taxes that aren’t needed. If the problem is as simple as that, most of us would be inclined to say it is time to reduce surtaxes. Senator Couzens and some others would firsc eliminate all income tax in the case of people whose incomes are not more than $5,000 a year. The merit in that ide.t is doubtful. On incomes of $5,000 the Treasury finds the average income tax payment under the present schedules is only $13.50 a yea” and that doesn’t seem any too large a contribution to the national expenses on the part of anybody making $5,000. Perhaps Congress will view the matter differently. Congress may figure that the greatest good to the greatest number lies in once more reducing the taxes of the little fellows instead of the big fellows. There are more little ones than big ones, always. That is the way the mind of Congress worked last session, when it took the Mellon plan and altered it so that it benefited the little ones a lot and the big ones only a little. On the other hand, Congress may decide that Mellon is right this time. It may agree that the tax on the little fellows can’t be re-

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By GAYLORD NELSON.

LIVES AND DOLLARS . . T. DURBIN, ex-GOvernor VjD of Indiana, opposed the drafting of both men and capital in future wars, as advocated by a speaker in his ad-

dress before the Indiana SpanishAmerican War Veterans at'Anderson the other day, “Never, never will we stand for that,” interrupted the exGovernor, who was on the platform. “We rely on patriotism,” The patriotism of American manhood Is unquestioned. It is volunteered with alacrity in every time of

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national need. Nevertheless In our two greatest wars the country resorted to the draft to bring out the full man-power. Patriotism alone wouldn’t suffice. But the patribtism of our dollars Is not so self-evident. In none of our wars has capital offered itself for national defense without premise of profit. How many Liberty bonds would have been ■old if they hadn’t been Interest bearing? Yet even though they were inte'rest bearing, strong pressure had to be applied in many localities to force investment of reluctant dollars in Liberty bonds. Higher interest elsewhere dulled the patriotism of such dollars. Modem war is fought with men and money. Both are necessary. If drafting of men is proper why Is drafting capital so abhorrent? Are dollars more sacred than lives? JUST A “ PLUMBER I-Zr-lAYMOND DYNES, 19-year-I l< I old Indianapolis youth, has Li V I fallen heir to $70,000. part part of the estate of his greatuncle. The other day he received a check for $3,150, the income on his share. His sudden fortune reads like a story book. He left school at the end of the sixth grade and has worked since to support himself and mother. He is earning $20.67 as a box maker. Suddenly a sizeable fortune drops on him. What would you do under Buch circumstances? Expensive new car? Trip to Turope? A few extravagant splashes hitherto impossible? Raymond intends to keep on working at his present Job. He hopes to learn the plumber’s trade. “A fellow can earn SSO to S6O a week as a plumber,” he remarked significantly. “Believe me I know what a dollar means. I’ve worked

duced any more and —since the national Government doesn’t need the money—make the reduction in the big fellows’ surtaxes. But Suppose Congress should be completely convinced by the Mellon theory. Suppose it should accept the assertion that the way to get greater revenues from the rich is to tax them less. Then, having lopped off their surtaxes, wouldn’t Congress say: Well, now that the rich are going to pay so much more, we can go ahead and remove the tax from the little fellers entirely! The difference between this and other cross-word puzzles appearing in this newspaper is that there isn’t any answer. Blows vs. Bromides “ OOPERATION and mutual helpful* ness are characteristic of relations between the republics of the American continent.” Secretary of State Kellogg speaking. The occasion was the unveiling of a Pan-American highway commemorative tablet at Washington. The time was the very day of the receipt of President Calles’ stiff rejoinder to Secretary Kellogg’s warning to Mexico to behave or suffer the consequences. A platitude and a plaque versus an attitude and an act. A bromide to offset a blow. While Secretary Kellogg talks of “mutual helpfulness,” Latin-American diplomats are predicting "far-reaching effects” of the State Department’s big stick methods of dealing with their countries. The New York Herald and Tribune, Administration organ, reports that that is the state of affairs among Latin-American legations in Mexico City. Ten thousand Pan-American tablets and a library of phrases cannot unmake the unfavorable impression created by one lone act which the Pan-American countries can construe as bullying.

hard enough for a few of them.” Just a plumber! That's a prosaic ambition for a youth who has Just received- a tidy fortune. Last year the country was regaled with the antics of a young Army officer who became rich overnight through a lucky Wall St. raid. He resigned his commission and a hurried to Paris and rolled high—for a time. A couple of months ago he returned to this country—broke. “Oh well, there's more money where that came from,” he observed philosophically. Maybe. The boy, who, despite his sudden fortune, has an ambition to become a plumber .isn’t such a fool after all He knows that money is hard to get and keep. WATER FROM * £ THE JORDAN f=IHE REV. J. R. BARDELr | MEIER of Greensburg, w.. J Ind., used water from the River Jordan in christening three babies yesterday. The water was brought from Palestine by a Hoosier lady who had toured the/Holy Land. Piety and sentiment may endow the waters of the Jordan with special virtues. But water is constantly moving over the earth. Rivers, winds, evaporation and condensation are always at work commingling the waters from different sources and redistrictting them. The waters that lapped the shores of Galilee and flowed in the Jordan in Jesus’ day have long since been dispersed north, east, south and west. The fluid pious pilgrims now bring back from the Holy Land in Jugs may have been the property of the Indianapolis Water Company a few years ago. Likewise, there may now be in Pleasant Run some of the very water Noah used. That seems plausible for the liquid in Pleasant Run looks and smells old, very old. One is easily convinced it is the water on which Noah launched the ark—and that it hasn’t taken a bath since. It wasn’t that water that made the River Jordan important to the world, it was what took place along its banks. Water from the river perhaps added glamour to the christening cerejmony. But christening with water from Pogue's Run or the kitchen tap would have been just as effective. CEMETERY AND BOUJLEVARD establishment of a burial L__J ground by the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association, on a tract along the north side of Kesslei Boulevard, were adopted by the Indianapolis city plan commission at its last meeting. Such a cemetery would irreparably retard development of one of the most beautiful outlying sec-

tions of the city and would greatly depreciate real estate values in the district, assert the planners. Perhaps so. Many people are prejudiced against living in the vicinity of a cemetery, which prejudice may be reflected in real estate values. But why should they be? Many burial grounds occupy burial sites and are beautifully kept. Crown Hill is one of the most beautiful spots in Indianapolis. If it was a city park, instead of a city of the dead, it would attract thousands of visions daily. As it is few citizens go there until they are carried. Probably our custom of depositing the dead underground is illogical. After the breath of life is gone why should the inert human clay be preserved? Cremation or the Parsee custom of exposing the bodies in towers of silence for the vultureb seem more practical. But as long as custom decrees interment, tracts of land must be provided for the purpose. The older and bigger the city the more cemeteries required. These must be located somewhere. Where would the plan commission have them if not on the outskirts? There , it is true, a cemetery might come in contact with a boulevard. But the ancient Romans placed their sepulchers along their boulevards, particularly the Appian Way. Os course that was a pagan practice. Still our Christian boulevards need not be reserved exclusively for filling stations and billboards.

Tom Sims Says Short dresses are disclosing more family skeletons. Pointed remarks get blunt answers. The best girl's finishing school is matrimony.

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Some people save money. Others have a daughter in college. In making a movie they take one long-drawn-out kiss and hunt for a plot to precede it. One difference between hugging and dancing is it too hot to dance much now. It is easy for a

bowlegged girl to stay In the water instead of sit on the beach. You can’t become a star by staying out late at night. Laugh and grow fat is fine. But after you succeed it ceases to be a laughing matter. Getting into hot water is a fine cure for cola feet. All the world’s a stage and lots of husbands have only thinking parts. Some homes have so much jazz the baby cries like a barnyard. Love may be blind but it can see an expensive car. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Services, Inc.)

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Film Producers Are Howling for Movie Scenarios for Their Leading Stars

SHERE once was a fabled landlord who, finding his guests too short for his beds, stretched them; finding them too long, he cut them down to fit. Thus with the movies, a problem given new Impetus by the recent return to Hollywood from New York of Hedda Hopper, individualist of the screen whose inclusion In a cast has potent box-office effect. Miss Hopper went to New York on vacation. Yet during her three weeks there she was offered many parts on the stage. Now, returning here to work, she finds herself without a part, though some half dozen directors are searching far and near for a story which will exploit her talents and her popularity. “Having eliminated waste in other departments, we are now squarely face to face with this problem of waste,” declares Director Robert G. Vignola. "Artists welcomed and demanded by the public, nevertheless sometimes are kept idle by failure of a story production to provide suitable parts. No Difference s . x . ‘‘Factory owners do not fail to exploit their marketable products; nor do merchants and business men. We of the screen must also solve this problem. “My belief is that this means the hastening of the day when trained screen writers—either at steady employment or free lance—will be more sought than adapters, and novels and plays for adaptations. “One studying the limitations and the potentialities of the screen and its people, could give us a product eliminating much of the present-day wastefulness of talent. Their stories could fit our people, could keep steadily employed those whom the public demands. This now is more or less a matter of accident.” Nor is Vignola alone in his beliefs. De Mille, opening his new studio in Culver City; Paul Bern, recent sensational graduate from the Lasky scenario department; these and others also see the trained original screen writer as the solution of many of the present-day difficulties. Harper Talks Miss Hopper herself brings back word that this belief is permeating eastern as well, and is becoming a matter of keen interest to the playwrights and novelists of New York’s Broadway. “Formerly it was always the acting profession most desirous of getting information of Hollywood conditions,” says Miss Hopper, “but now 't is the writing profession. “Some have already made the venture, and those left behind question most closely their progress and future.” Some seem amazed that the screen has not already followed the stage in this regard. Miss Hopper declares, and feel that it is only a matter of a short time until they will be called upon to write stories for casts, or at least to write in parts for those of box office appeal.

Thirsty? By Hal Cochran We all got the habit, ’cause the habit’s lots of fun. There’s nothing like a cooling drink to offset Mister Sun. Ya buy a dozen lemons, and ya rool ’em till they’re loose. Ya cut ’em in the middle, and ya squeeze out all the juice. Just pour it in a pitcher, and you’ve really started fine. It adds a bit of color if ya add a bit of rine. Seek out the Jar of sugar, so’s to sweeten up the mess. There isn’t any set amount; ya sorta have to guess. Now stir it for a minute, till it forms a kind of paste. The odor of the lemons hints the way it’s gonna ta3te. It’s time to add the water that is flowing by the sink. Os course, ya know there’s water in most every’ kind of drink. Now chip the needed bit of ice. The soothing draft is made. Pour out a glass and treat yourself to ice cold lemonade.

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NEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT PALACE An all-vaudeville bill heads the Palace theater the last half of this week, featuring five black-face comedians in the role of “The Alamo Club,” “Shadowland," a novelty flash dancing act, and three other acts that abound in comedy possibilities. A photoplay, "The Whijte Sheep,” is also included in the entertainment, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey. “The Alamo Club” plays musical instruments, sings and dances before a special drop. The dance of the bubbles Is one of the spectacular featured bits of “Shadowland," which is staged by six well-known dancers. The Bennett Twins are sisters, who sing and dance while dressed as small children. Wise and Janaae

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are billing a laughter skit, “Oh, Henry.” which tells the troubles of a boy whose Ford stops dead on him while taking a girl home from a dance. Dancing and patter are found In the act. "Inspiration" is the act of Pease, Nelson and Dawson. Short reels are added to the feature photoplay. *1- -I- -ILoc&l amusements Include: Modes and Models at the Lyric, “Cheating Cheaters" at English's, outdoor evenes at Bread Ripple Park, William Desmond In "The Burning Trail" at the Isis, “I Want My Man" at the Clr.'le, “Seven Chances” at the Apolllc, "Are You Fit to Marry?” at the Crystal, “Up the Ladder” at the Colonial, and “Any Woman" at the Ohio. The Indiana Photoplay Indorsers approve the pictures at the Circle and Colonial this week for adults and the Apollo for family attendance.

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China Looks for Three Men

By Mav Stern Three things—the high cost of living, frightful labor conditions and foreign aggression—are behind the chaotic conditions and the rioting In China, according to Ng Poon Chew, editor of Chung Sal Yat Po, the most Influential ChineseAmerlcan newspaper on the Pacific Coast. “Since the war the cost of living has gone up twice as fast as wages," said Dr. Chew. "Living is now 100 per cent higher than before 1914. Many working families can not afford to eat rice. This was $2.60 a sack and now Is $7. The Chinese are not starving, but they are eating just enough to keep soul and body together. They are feeling the effects of the Great War more than in western countries. Conditions Bad “With the recent industrialization of Shanghai. Tsing Tao and other cities, have come terrible labor conditions. A recent strike In a Japan-ese-owned silk factory occurred tri which one of the demands was that the workers were not to be beaten. Many of the toilers are beaten and Kicked by ther task-masters. The twelve-hour day is common. The wages, paid monthly, range from $2.50 to $5 a month. “The present trouble arose frohn a strike In the spinning mills of Shanghai and Tsing Tao that followed repeated demands for better conditions. The Japanese owners had the strike leaders arrested and twenty were convicted of the crime of strike agitation in a mixed court, part native and part foreign. The conviction aroused the students, who

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agricultural land, except as prescribed by existing treaties. Severe penalties are prescribed for the violation of this law. Why la the wedding Journey called “the honeymoon?" Among northern nations of Europe, in ancient times, It was the custom for newly married couples to drink metheglin or mead (a kind of wine made from honey) for a period of thirty days after marriage. Antiquarians say that from this custom the term "honey mouth,’’ or “honey moon." According to tradition, Attila, the Hun, drank so much mead at his wedding feast that he died from the effects of It. But whether this origin of honey moon Is true or not, we know that in the days of marriage by capture It was necessary/or the bridegroom to remain in hiding with his bride until her kinsmen tired of the search for hex-. And later, when love entered marriage and elopements were frequent, it was necessary for bride and groom to remain In hiding for a while. Both of these “hiding periods” seem to point to possible origins of the honeymoon. What gas has the highest quality of reaction to heat and cold, and will not liquify? All gases expand and contract at nearly the same rate and all can be liquefied If cooled sufficiently.

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