Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1925 — Page 4

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Indianapolis Does Not Need Laurel Hall ENDIAN APOLIS ranks with the topmost cities in number, acreage and beauty of public parks. The city doesn’t rank so well in facilities for school children. With as advanced a curriculum as any city the school board is straining the tax rate to the last penny to get money with which to prevent the necessity for half-day classes for thousands of pupils. Along comes Mayor Shank with a proposal that the city lease Laurel Hall, the magnificent million dollar estate formerly owned by Stoughton A. Fletcher, as a public playground. Now Laurel Hall lies about four miles north of the city proper. It is conceivable that Indianapolis will expand to Lturel Hall in a few years. Additions are being laid oat in close proximity to it. But practically all of these additions bear high class building restrictions, such that each estate will almost constitute a small park in itself. Therefore the district which Laurel Hall would immediately serve would have absolutely no need of public park facilities. Residents could and would drive to near by country clubs. For many years the rest of the city would have to go to laurel Hall by automobile. The automobile salesmen will tell you that not every one in Indianapolis owns an automobile —yet. Mayor Shank took a poll of visitors to Laurel Hall last week-end which showed several hundred in favor of leasing the property and comparatively few against. That kind of a poll doesn’t show the true sentiment of Indianapolis. We’ll venture that if the matter is put before the average taxpayer he’ll say the city should take care of its educational problem first. The Chinaman’s Chance AJT last Washington seems about to move to end a state of things in China as putrescent as it is dangerous. Sponsored by the United States, we arc told, a conference of the great powers is im - pending and at this gathering America will urge the nations invloved to live up to the China pact they signed at the Washington conference of 1921-22. There is nothing in this plan to set the river on fire, but this paper welcomes it. It is at least a step in the right direction. It indicates that the twenty-five-year-old Hay doctrine of the open door and a square deal for all in an independent China is still American policy, and serves to reassure us that Uncle Sam has not yet gone over to the side of China’s despoilers. It is America’s intention at the proposed conference, it is said, to pave the way for a restoration of China to the Chinese. Customs, certain taxes, some of the courts and other phases of government in China are now administered by and for foreigners. At present an American lawbreaker in China is tried in an American court by an American judge; an Englishman is tried in a British court by a British judge; a Japanese by a Japanese judge. And so on. China wishes this extra-territoriality abolished so that foreigners among Chinese will cease to be demigods above and beyond laws which the Chinese themselves must obey. But we warn China not to forget this: If she wishes to retain for long the freedom she seeks, she must make herself worthy of that freedom. However successful a China confer-

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T iu can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 >.ew York Ave.. Washiuton. ]J. C., inclosing 2 cents in Btamps for reply. Medical, legal' and advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a peroontl reply. Unsigned requests cannot be _rswered. All letters are confidential.—.editor. ’ When -was the game of Bridge introduced into Europe and America and where did the game originate? Bridge was Introduced into England during the year 1894 from southern Europe by Lord Brougham, who had been sojourning there. Mr. Henry I. Barbey is reported to have brought it over to New York in 1893, where he wrote a short account of the game for private circulation. The code of laws, as adopted by the "Whist Club in New York came out originally during 1897. The name "bridge" probably grew out of the Russian word "biritch” which is called out when the player declares "no trumps." Who was the author of the ordinance of 1787 setting forth the scheme of Government for the northwest territory? This ordinance was adopted by the Continental Congress of July 13, 1787. There has been considerable discussion about the authorship of this ordinance and whatever answer is given is nothing much better than speculation. Jefferson and Rufus

ence may be, it can lift her only so far. She must climb the rest of the way herself. What we mean is this: Foreigners cannot be blamed for all the rottenness in China today. It’s pretty nearly fifty-fifty between herself and the foreign demigods now lording it over her. Almost every Chinese province is in the grip of a petty native tyrant and war lord, each with the backing of his own personal army. These war lords are, for the most part, the paid tools of this or that, foreign power. And Peking, far from being master of the situation, is itself the capital prize for the strongest. Today Peking belongs to the superTuchun Chang Tso-lin, Lord High Everything of Manchuria, former bandit and hireling of Japan. Conference or no conference, China can never really come into her own until she kicks out the looters, native as well as foreign. She must get rid of her grafting Avar lords and their pilfering armies, 1,500,000 strong, and raise, equip and train a smaller one of her oavd to back up a real national government. HoAvever done, there are two things China must do if she is to survive. One is she must become master in her OAvn house; the other is she must put that house in order.. It is as inevitable a:- death itself that if China cannot or will not run ultimately the foreign powers will do it for her—but to their own profit and with precious little regard for the rights or feelings of the natives, as past history prb\ T es. China may-soon be given a chance. Whea and if it comes she had better grab it. The fate of Korea awaits her if she doesn’t. Oscar Underwood Retires OLITICAL conditions in Alabama having 1 raised some doubt of his ability to do so, United States Senator Oscar W. Undenvood will not attempt to succeed himself a year from now. After tAventy years of acti\’e service in the House and tAvelve in the Senate, he proposes to settle doAvn in a country place near Washington and spend his remaining years as a philosophic observer of the political Avhirl. His suburban estate is far enough removed, it is thought, to be out of the range of Tom Heflin’s 40 h. p. lungs, and UnderAvood can sit in tranquillity recalling events of his OAvn career. For tAvelve years, at least, Undenvood Avas -a potential Democratic candidate for the presidency. His conservatism, as much as his residence in the South, defeated this ambition. The Demcorats sometimes nominate conservatives for the presidency, but seldom one as outstanding as Undenvood. Another factor in Undenvood’s character that Avorked against his ambition Avas his self-respect. He refused to play cheap politics. He opposed the KuKlux Klan and he said so. He opposed the eighteenth amendment and he said so. That Avasn’t helpful to him, particularly in his oaaui section. x There is much to Undenvood’s credit in his record at Washington. He contributed very materially toAvarcl making WoodroAv Wilson’s first foqr years a period of unexampled constructive legislation. The Underwood tariff, measured by those that preceded and folloAved it, Avas the Avork of a statesman. The least that can be said of him is that he kneAv Avhat he thought and wasn’t afraid to let others knoAv. It is to be hoped that Alabama does not send as his successor a man of Avhom neither of~these things can be said.

King, by their early opposition to slavery in the northwest, must be remembered; Nathan Dane of Massachusetts probably had more to do with drafting the actual ordinance than anyone else, and in all likelihood Manasseh Cutler, the agent of the Ohio Company, is responsible for the inclusion of some of its provisions. Who is the Greek Consul in New York City and what is his address? Constantine Xanthopoulos is the Greek Consul General in New York City. His address is 11 St. Luke’s Place. How many base hits has Ty Cobb of the Detroit American Baseball Club made during his entire major league career? The total number up to and including last season (1924) was 3,666. When is a rose bush at its pest? A two-year-old rose bush is supposed to be at its best. Rose bushes sometimes become scraggly and lose their vitality when between five and ten years old. In serving at a dinner, from which side should * the dishes be served and from which side removed? It Is proper to serve all dishes from the right except beverages, and to remove all dishes from the left.

Tom Sims Says The man worth while is the man who can smile when the world goes along as it does

Take care of the present and you can trade it in on a better future. If you must reduce, try being a dejected lover. goon be warm enough for the women to take off their heavy rouge. Education is useless without common sense, but common sense is useful without

education. Th.-. law of gravity is reversed by bootleg booze. The last thing to turn green in the summer is an amateur garden. W r hat the world needs Is a front porch that will fly up and smack a bill collector. Just wiggling your toes in It is more fun than leaving footprints on the sands of time. The greatest danger about telling your troubles is folks are liable to believe they are true.

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Hoosier Lawyer in ‘Earthquake’

ASHINGTON, July 6.—A mild•Jy I mannered Hoosier lawyer. In __ I the Department of the Interior, is now sitting on one of the most highly explosive issues that has confronted the government since the rna'ter of the famous oil leases. It is the case of the people of San Fra.ncisco against the private power interests of the Pacific coast. The Hetch Hetchy case is how it is usually known. John H. Edwards is the Hoosier lawyer. Brought to Washington by Postmaster General New to be solicitor for the Post Office Deparment, he served quietly in that capacity some years. Then he was given the same job in the Interior Department and recently was promoted to Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Having decided legal questions by the hundred up to this time without breaking into print, he now finds himself in the very center of an impending California earthquake. For Public Only Twelve years ago Congress gave San Francisco permission to build the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite valley. Congress stipulated that the poAver generated never should be turned over to a private corporation, but should be sold directly to the people by the city—just as is done by the big municipal plants of Seattle and Tacoma. From the time of the grant by Congress up to this moment the private power interests of the coast have been preparing to upset the government’s plan. The power possibilities ofthe mountain streams on the Coast are a great prize. The success of Seattle and Tacoma in developing their own power at low cost to the people has led the private corporations to exert every effort to prevent this being done elsewhere. People May Lose The people of San Francisco are in real danger of losing this power, developed Avith their own money. Politicians in the control of the city

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

FOR REMEMBRANCE A TOMBSTONE RS. IZORAH SMITH, an V/l Indianapolis woman who * recently died, willed that $2,000 —the bulk of her estate — should be expended for a tombstone to mark her grave. She left her husbaand a legacy of $25. “I have at all time supported myself,” sheseet forth, in the will. "I have made whatever money I

leave and I feel it is only proper that I have a suitable tombstone to c ommemorate my memory.” Humans are pat hetically eager to be remembered after death. There fore from prehistoric times the tombstone business has flourished. Cheops, king of Egypt 5,000

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years ago, w’anted a suitable • tombstone to commemorate his memory, so he built the great pyramid. For thirty years 100,000 workmen toiled and died like flies in heaping up the stones. Then Cheops laid down and died and was promptly forgoten until archeologists dug his name out of the rubbish of forty centuries. Homer smote "his bloomin’ lyre” on some Grecian hillside. No one knows where he w r as born—a dozen Greek cities claim the honor —or died. No tombstone marked his grave. Yet the "Iliad” and “Odyssey” have kept his memory green for 3,000 years—and will continue to do so as long as books are printed. It takes something besides a tombstone to perpetuate one's name. THOUGHT GUN UNLOADED P— —"l AUL BAUMBAUGH, 11-year-old Marion (Ind.) lad, lost his left eye the other day. He thought the gun wasn't loaded. The same day a Delphi (Ind.) boy, age 12, was taken to the hospital with a bullet near his heart. He and a companion played with an unloaded revolver. “Thought Gun Unloaded” is a newspaper head used with distressing regularity. Hardly a day passes but some boy is killed or maimed as a result of playing with firearms. A dozen such tragedies have occurred in Indiana in the past two months, several in Indianapolis. Only two persons were hurt by fireworks In Indianapolis the Fourth of July. A few years ago the fireworks casualties in the city on the Fourth numbered scores. Ordinance and public opinion realizing that fireworks are dangerous playthings for children—have restricted their sale and promiscuous use. Reduction in casualties resulted. • But guns—loaded or unloaded—are more dangerous playthings than fireworks. The purpose of a gun is to hurl a projectile with sufficient force to penetrate flesh. It makes no difference to .the projectile whether that, flesh beongs to little Johnny or a sparrow. To allow children to play with firearms, or leave guns within their reach, is to invite trouble. Mad dogs or pet rattlesnakes might as well be given them to play w^th.

government have failed thus far to provide a distributing system. With 460,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy ready for daily use, the city isn’t yet ready to use it. No means has even been provided for hooking up the potential power to the city’s own successful street railway system. At this point the private power interests have come forward offering a contract to distribute the power, the company to receive 73.1 cents for every, dollar’s worth sold and the city to receive 26.9 cents. The city’s supervisors—at least a majority of them —are ready to make the contract. In fact, they haA’e signed it. The question up to Edwards is whether the contract is good. A minority of the supervisors, speaking the sentiment of the people, declare it is not good, that it is a clear A'iolation of the terms of the government's grant. Dream Endangered The people, by petition, protest that if the Interior Department ratifiep this contract their dream of cheap electricity, which led them to build the Hetch Hetchy dam at great cost, will have come to an end. They will have to sell their poAver at 4.7 mills and buy it back at 9 cents. They will receive $1,696,368 a year for power that costs them $2,165,866 to produce. 1 In 1923 when it was proposed to sell to the same private corporation some of the energy generated during the construction of the dam, Edwards, then solicitor for the department, ruled against it. "In my opinion,” he said, “the law prohibits the sale of electric energy by the grantee (the city) for the purpose of resale." This is exactly Avhat is proposed now and it is the hope of the people of San Francisco that Edwards will again rule the Congress meant what it said when it issued the grant.

LET THE BUYER BEWARE HARLES HAI’SMAN, as sistant city inspector of s- weights and measures, recently completed inspection of meters on Indianapolis taxicabs. All of the 112 meters tested were found correct. Another myth is exploded. All taximeters are popularly supposed to be 6ort of mechanical bandits —a cross between a perpetual motion machine ar,a a sandbag. They are presumed to peer into a passenger's pocketbook and then revolve dizzily ir. defiance of all moral and mechanical laws. Apparently in Indianapolis they don’t deserve 'heir e\-il reputation —they are chful and honest. Short weights and short measures are no longer fashionable in trade circles. Not many years ago retail transactions were frequently three-cornered contests between buyer, seller, and trickery. Honesty vas not allowed to participate. But commemrcial morals have improved. Last year ’ the city bureau of weights and measures made 89,251 inspections and only six arrests. Os course the butcher occasionally inadvertently weighs his hand with the steak. That's because he is absent-minded, not dishonest. And the bottoms of berry boxes are sometimes surprisingly near the top. But now trade is generally conducted in this country on a basis of full weight, full measure and full price. The customer seldom needs more than one alert eye to prevent a commercial transaction from becoming a sleight-of-hand performance. Caveat emptor remains a legal but not a trade maxim. COST OF TRACK ELEVATION engineer in charge of track elevation, will ask a 5H cent increase in the city tax levy for next year for track elevation. The, permits a maximum levy /of 6 cents for this purpose. Plans have been completed for raising the line of the Indianapolis Union railway through the south part of the city. This project will cost the city and railroad company approximately $14,000,000 and will require years to complete. To pay the city’s share of the work it will be necessary to impose the maximum 6-cent tax levy for the next ten years. Truly track elevation is a costly undertaking. But no other public improvement is of more vital importance to the city or will have a greater influence on civic development. It quickly pays for itself in public convenience, safety, and enhanced real estate values. Until the Belt Line rails are elevated circulation to and from the whole south side of the city will be restricted by steel bands. That section of town will be atrophied. The average citizen will regard a 6-cent levy with equanimity in view of the benefits of the project, but he would like to see the work start. Two years have elapsed since plans for the Belt line elevation were ordered. They were submitted a few months ago after constant prodding. For the past two months city and railroad officials have engaged {n a leisurely and interminable argument over the apportionment of the cost of a bridge oA’er White River, the key to the whole elevation project. Apparently dispute over the bridge cost is no nearer settlement teday than it was two months ago. It isn’t the cost of track elevatlon that harrows the civic soul—it’s the delay. Money spent can be replaced, but time spent in delay is lost forever.

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Cupid Does Everything to Jack Holt but Make Him Sing Tenor in a Church Choir

By Walter D. Hickman 1 OWDY! I_Jj Be;n “missing” from town J *1 for more than two weeks. Have been looking over as much as I could of Broadway and also had time to drop in on those “bloody chaps” (I sure sling some mean English cockney talk) in Bermuda. In that time I have seen one movie, Douglas Fairbanks in “Don Q,” until I resumed looking ’em

over in Indianapolis Sunday. It probably won’t interest you one bit to know, but I even acted in a movie while I was on my vacation. On the boat taking me to the islands was Bebe Daniels and her company making “Love in Quatantine” for Paramount. Os course Bebe had her leading man, but they dragged me into a number of scenes. And 1

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am predicting that the scenes I was in will be "cut” before the picture is released or the censors will get busy. Os course, I know that the censors could have no real reason to cut me out of the film, but they have done worse for about as much reason. And I confess that Bebe probably don’t know that I am in the picture. Such is fame. Before I began my confessions. I started out to tell you about Jack Holt, Noah Beery and Billie Dove in "The Light of Western Stars.” at the Apollo. Holt is cast as one of those tough gun carryin’ gentlemen who is tough until he sees a pretty woman. In this case she is Billie Dove. Jack tries to pull that sure fire caveman stuff on Billie, but Billie freezes up and so does Jack. Then his conscience gets busy and he is so sorry. In fact he is so sorry that he begins drinking. Not for long, because Billie thinks she has faith in him. She needs him, because a bold bad bandit, played by Noah Beery is stealing the cattle on her ranch. Billie has faith in Jack as long as she does not suspicion that he might be in love with another girl. After Jack shoots and "kills," for movie purposes alone, Noah Beery, Billie decides that Jack Is the man for her. Cupid would like to make a dandy out of Holt, but the author decided that he should use a gun. This one is rip-snorting melodrama with lots of gun play, suspense and the like. Not bad as hot weather entertainment. Bill includes "Fares, Please." a news reel, orchestral and organ music. At the Apollo all week. • • • GIRLS, TELL HIM BUT DON’T WRITE IT Am telling you right now, Girls, wheh you say yes to a fellow tell him right then and there the date of the wedding. Don’t write and tell him the date. If you do write, don’t put the important message on an egg with the instructions to serve the egg to your sweetie for breakfast. Florence Vidor as the heroine in “Marry Me” does that foolish trick. She waited that long because the egg was kept in storage (as the story goes) for more than three years. And then the right John Sndtn didn’t get the egg with the message on it but our had and waiting heroine got a good man for a husband although he did have indigestion. Think I will not tell too much of the story because knowing the plot would rob you of some fun. I think that you will be Interested In the man who plays the second John Smith role. He Is a funny comedy creation which helps to davance interest in the story. I still maintain that Florence Vidor has the best pair of actin’ eyes in the film business. Meaning the eyes that I have looked into. Our heroine, who wants to get married, has a tough break in this story. When a girl Is referred to in her own neighborhood as “an old maid,” it Is generally suspicloned •

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that she has something to worry about. Anyway, said old maid in this movie is worried. She wants h’r John Smith to show up. The poor dear didn’t know that the egg telling him the date of their wedding was in cold storage. Wow! When that egg did got out of cold storage, it sure did kick up a stink (Am not even trying to bo funny. Really.) Well, when it is all over the heroine has a perfectly good husband and you have seen a mignty good movie comedy. Splendidly acted. Bill includes Lester Huff ploying “Hats,” Charlie Davis and his orchestra and Cy Mllders in songs. At the Ohio all week. -I- •!■ + A NEW WAY TO REMOVE TIIE OTHER WOMAN The ancient theory of playwrites, novelists and movie story writers that when a man gets a million he is supposed not only to have a wife but ’another woman on the string, is still being used. Such a theme Is so old that It no longer sounds new. When a theme of this nature is used, the only thing that we can expect is at least good acting and direction. "Just a Woman" is a picture having an ancient and none too convincing theme, but it does have good acting and a clever director. Claire Windsor is cast as the wife of a man

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the silly traditions of such a char-, acter. He does make a fortune, shares it with another man’s wife. Then the husband starts seeking a love nest. Just like the brute. He nearly makes a publio fool out of himself, but the good wife teaches the other woman lesson. Conway Tearle has the unsmpathetic role of the husband who got gay on his wife’s money and brains. The picture is crowded with that mother love stuff. At other times one feels the comedy direction of the director. An average story of the old triangle dope better acted than usual. Paul Biese and his Victor recording orchestra is the chief musical event at the Circle this week. This organizaatlon plays with ease and intelligence, meaning that the music is not all “blaw.” Biese knows that noisy musio is not music. Syncopa-

Movie Verdict Colonial The thing thaS fastens interest upon “Head Waters" is the way the director has filmed a storm on he ocean. Even real water has been used. The director knows how to photograph a storm. Circle "Just a Woman" Is endowed with good acting and splendid directing, but the story is old In theme and is not always convincing. Everything Is better than the story. Paul Biese and orchestra are excellent. Ohio—" Marry Me’’ is a nifty little comedy, in which both the author and the director have used their brains. About the brightest and cleverest movie on view in the old town this week. Apollo—ln "The Light of "Western Stars’’ Jack Holt becomes a victim of Cupid, but not before he becomes a bad man. Stacks up as passable summer entertainment.

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tion and noise are two different things. Their program is varied and has general appeal. FIU includes Llojd Hamilton fn “Waiting," nows reel and a fable In colors, "The Nightingale.” At the Circle all week. • e e* PATSY BECOMES RITZY BEFORE SHE IS TAMED You have heard the old saying. “My. look what a long tall our cat has.” The modem jazzbo meaning is, "Purple and red. she is rltzlng us." Also meaning that this dame thinks she Is the pumpkins. That is the sort of a character that Patsy Ruth Miller plays in "Head Winds.” It might have been called "Headstrong.” Patsy is oust ns a wealthy girl who has more money than brnina.

who Isn’t too clever or successful. The wife has a friend who is an inventor who disvovers anew steel process. The wife boards and rooms the genius for nothing with the understanding that she should have half of the profits of any of his inventions. It is just cold business dealing s with these two people. Even the favorite boarder doesn’t live up to

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storm at sea. It la so reallatlc that it nearly mode me sea sick looking at It. And if there ia anything In this world I actually hate It la aea sickness. But this storm aoene la sure the actual goods In real lam. No doubt about that. Haven't been so Impressed with House Peters latsly hut he has the kind of work that he knowa how to do In this movie. And he doea a good Job of taming the dame who had more money than hralna. Those who enjoy realistic melodrama will enjoy "Head Winds.” especiallly when the old boat starts dipping everything, including her nose, into the ocean. The bill includes Charlss Puffy te "A Lucky Accident." the American Hanponlsts, special musical features, a news reel and Aesop’s Fablea. At the Colonial all week. i •!• -I- -I- 1 Sells Kioto Circus la in the city for two performances today, matinee and night, on the circus grounds •* Washington Rt. and Sheffield Ave. For the first half of the weak, tha Isis is offering Fred Thompson in "The Bandit’s Baby.” The Berkell Players this week are being seen In "Llghtnln'" at English's. The feature at the Lyric la Solomon Baaco and his dog team. The Palace Is observing Circus Week by having Barton Brothers Clrcua.

Question By Hal Cochran HINK of the questions a little j | I tot asks. Giving the anL__J swers Is one of dad’s tasks. Sometimes you wonder how little minds work. Sometimes you wish,, for a moment, they’d shirk. Dally things happen when kids are around. Shortly, the why of it all must be found. Looking quite puzzled, a wondering lad, seeks for the answer by turning to dad. “Tell me. now. pop. why do cows always moo?" What can you say when they ask it to you? “Why does the wee busy bee always buzz?" All you can answer is, “Ah, Just because.” Still, after all. as the little ones grow, questions just jukl to the things that they know. Quizzing, brings out what la right and what’ti wrong. Dad’a Job ia merely to help’ tots along. Take all the questions that come day by day—try to explain them In simplest way. Trv alid remember, when you were a kid,\ questioning’s one of the things that you did. (Copyright, 1925, NEA. Service, Inc.)

She tries to be temperamental but sho turns out to be tm silly little cat her claws are cut. And House Peters does a. mighty good job of clipping the claws. The background might be called extreme melodrama as most of the taming is done on a yatch during a. terrible storm. These storm effects have been handled in a splendid realistic way. I can’t remember & better handling of a