Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times HOY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. 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 dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-230 W. Maryland St., Indlanapollo • • • Subscription Rotes: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

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

The Snub Direct mT is time for us citizens of Indiana to begin taking stock of onr difficulties and to set about to retain the fair name of the State. Stories of conditions in this State, many of them exaggerated, but most with a basis of fact, are being spread about the country. They are having a most detrimental effect. The failure, or refusal, of nearly all the Dixie highway tourists to come through Indiana, the original starting point of the highway, in their tour celebrating the tenth birthday of the road, should shock Hoosiers into immediate action. Only five of the big party attended the banquet given for them Friday night. The remainder of the party in more than fifty automobiles, detoured through Illinois. There is no use of ignoring the facts. There is no use of printing a glowing account of the banquet, leaving out only the fact that the visitors numbered only five persons That is not being honest with ourselves. We must face the facts in order to remedy conditions that have brought them about. Os course, the Dixie highway tourists would not have been molested. They were coming in a party as guests of the State. They knew they would not be molested and they knew that royal entertainment awaited them in Indianapolis and other cities. But they did not come. It was a snub direct, and we citizens of Indiana are responsible. Other motorists who come through Indiana are just as much guests of the State as were the Dixie highway tourists, but so many of them have been subjected to annoyances, mostly by self-appointed police officers, that some motor organizations outside Indiana have seen fit to warn them to avoid the State. Indiana is a natural crossroads of the Nation, and we should be reaping the advantages of that fact, from a purely selfish motive, if for no other reason. Laws should be enforced, but the enforcement should be accomplished by regularly constituted peace officers and, above all else, they should be enforced through the use of common sense.

Dry Debate Talk [ jLL this talk about debating the question |/\| of prohibition is idle. Indiana was dry before Federal prohibition. It was made dry because the Legislature, as representatives of the people ,voted it dry. The Eighteenth amendment was not forced upon us and its enactment did not change the Indiana situatibn a particle. Prohibition is not an issue in Indiana. The present controversy concerns methods used in the name of prohibition enforcement. It concerns wholly illegal violations of the rights of innocent citizens. Let’s keep the record straight. When the bill of rights is put back into effect in Indiana it will be time enough to talk about the right or wrong of prohibition.

Labor’s Way Vs. Kellogg’s 1 AKE back to the Russian Red Interna1* 1 tional this message: The American labor movement will not affiliate with an organization that preaches communism or stands for that doctrine.” Coldly measuring his words, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, thus answered Arthur A. Purcell, British member of Parliament and friend of Soviet Russia, who had come to the Atlantic City conventiion to ask recognition of Moscow. And President Green’s words were cheered by the labor delegates assembled, cheered until the roof rattled. And when, a minute later, he declared his organization would fight to the death any attempt to destroy it by boring from ■without or from within, they stood on their feet and made the rafters rock again. Which incident throws into vivid relief the two ways of handling communistic visitors. Recently another British member of Parliament, a certain communist by the name of

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You can get Bn answer to any question of fact or Information hj writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential.—Editor. What was the origin of stock exchanges? Stock exchanges as Institutions had their origin at the time of the creation of public debts on the modern plan at the close of the seventeenth century. The incorporation of the East India Company in London further developed the possibilities of the raising of public capital for corporate uses through stock exchange trading. In 1720

Shapurji Saklatvala, wanted to attend the interparliamentary union meeting at Washington to which he was a bona-fide delegate. Secretary of State Kellogg got scared and had him barred from the country, thus dignifying little Shapurji by putting Uncle Sam in the position of being afraid of him. The A. F. of L. did it differently. It allowed Delegate Purcell to come right along. They even let him have his say, uninterrupted, on the convention floor, boldly communistic though it was. Then, when he had finished amid a reverberating and icy silence, President Green arose and gave him the coup de grace with calmness, neatness and dispatch. How much better this, than the bungling and undignified method of our Department of State!

Hamlet in a Tuxedo D ÜBERT MANTELL, noted Shakespearian actor, rehearsed Hamlet in modern attire here last week. This week in St. Louis he and his company, for the first time on the American stage, will tell the tragic story of that. Danish prince with modern trimmings. Hamlet will wear a tuxedo instead of princely garments as he soliloquizes; the king, his father, will denort himself in full evening dress array, and Ophelia, the unfortunate maiden to whom love brought insanity, will wear a 1925 model knee length gown. But what does it matter? Emotions are emotions, in silk or gingham. Death’s sting is as bitter in overalls as in a tuxedo. Love bites just as hard the imitation silk attire i store Merk, who buys her near luxuries with nickels and dimes culled from already too scanty lunch money, as maidens of fortune who purchase their silken hose by the gross. And undoubtedly Miss Hamper, who is to play Ophelia with shortened skirts, has counted the costs. For undoubtedly a 1925 model gown will display much of milady’s person which in the days of Ophelia was not regarded as part of milady’s charm which might be realized on in public. Today, it would seem, amorous maidens are better equipped by custom for the battle of love. Styles of dress and dance have changed. Means and methods of enticement which then were suitable only for women of easy virtue are recognized by convention as legitimate in the pursuit of love and happiness. But the end has not changed. Happiness, home, children, come as the reward of the game of youth—or insanity or worse. Modern society has its Ophelias whose lives drag on through divorce courts —debauches or drugs or alcohol—and end finally in the tragedy of death. In Indianapolis within the last ifear scores of girls have attempted to end their lives with poison. A few have succeeded. Scores of girls and women have been dragged through the courts of the city and county, paying the penalty of loving unwisely instead of well. And so it would seem, although much has changed, much is still as it was a thousand years ago. There are Hamlets walking the streets of Indianapolis today—a few in tuxedo, many in business suits and overalls. And every dance hall has its potential Ophelias. Hoosier Athletic Club SHE Hoosier Athletic Club is to be commended for its record of almost fifty years in this community. The club, after an extensive remodeling, has been keeping open house. The club was organized in 1879 by thirty German-American citizens as the Independent Turnverein. The name was changed in 1918. It has a membership of approximately 1,400 persons, many of them prominent in Indianapolis affairs. The Hoosier Athletic Club stresses athletic as well as social features and the gymnasiumd and swimming pool are used extensively by the membership. One of the principal features is gymnastic and athletic instruction offered by the club. The Hoosier Club has a real place among the social and athletic clubs of the city.

the enormous public speculation in the shares of the South Sea Company in London, and of the Mississippi Company in Paris, brought stock trading to a height never before conceived. No city at that time, however, possessed a stock exchange in the now aattached to the term. In London transactions were conducted through stock brokers whose headquarters were at Jonathan’s and Garra way’s Coffee Houses in Change Alley. There does not appear to have been any formal organization among these brokers. The London Stock Exchange Building was not erected until 1801; the Paris Bourse not until 1826. The New York Stock Exchange membership even after

the formal organization, was erected on Broad and Wall Streets, which was replaced by the new structure on the same site dedicated in April 1903. What is the largest species of horse mackerel? Tunny. They are found In European waters and also caught In large quantities off the coast of Southern California. How many hospitals are there in the United States? The American Medical Association lists 7,281 accredited hospitals in the United States in 1926.

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SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL TRIES OUT NEW HONOR SYSTEM

By David Diet* NEA Service Writer SN “honors group” is the newest departure in scientific education. It has just been organized in the electrical engineering Institute of Technology, one of the leading scientific Institutions of the world. The plan has been worked out as the result of a feeling which Is prevalent not only at this school but at many colleges and universities throughout the country. There is a feeling, both on the part of factulty members and students, that college rules are too ironclad, that students are too much restricted by the mechanical details of the curriculum and that there is not sufficient room for the development of individual talents and ability. In other words there is a feeling that colleges are being turned into glorified high schools and that the brilliant student cannot branch out for himself while in college, but must wait until he has finished college anu entered a graduate school where individualized research is possible.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

CANAL BRIDGE AT MERIDIAN ST. SHE Indianapolis board of public works has approved plans for a bridge on N. Meridian St. over the canal. A three-span concrete structure providing a fifty-eight-foot roadway, and to cost $56,000, is proposed. If the board doesn’t forget to secure the approaches and similar inconsequential details it Is ex-

pected that the bridge will be completed next year. Doubtless there is an imperative demand for this particular public improvement. It will open a more direct route to several north side subdivision projects—mostly beyond the city limits —and to Kessler Blvd. and bridle paths so much

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used by the toiling masses. Meanwhile, Pleasant Run Blvd., so much desired by south side residents, is no nearer completion than it was a year ago. A few of the houses condemned for the project were auctioned off by the versatile mayor; otherwise, the undertaking slumbered. And the Delaware St. bridge, opened almost a year ago, is still without suitable approaches. In various sections of the city are other public improvement projects, begun with enthusiasm by municipal authorities, that haven’t jelled. Interminably delayed and halfcompleted public undertakings are of little benefit to the taxpayers who foot the bills for them. Municipal authorities would contribute more to the joy and comfort of the average citizen if they would push to completion the public improvements they have started instead of always looking around for new worlds to conquer andl more blueprints to prepare.

WILL SEND THEM HOME S'— IUPT. A. F. MILES, of the Indiana Reformatory at l___J Pendleton, has advised United States immigration authorities that he has twenty-eight alien prisoners in his institution that he is empowered to turn over to them for deportation. The Governor recently suggested such action. If the plan is acceptable to Federal officials It will be extended to other State penal Institutions. In the Michigan City penitentiary there are, it is estimated, seventyfive prisoners of foreign birth and not naturalized who could thus be sent back to their native lands. On the face of it the plan seems to offer good riddance of undesirables, as well as make room behind the bars for our home grown Hoosier criminals. But will it succeed? Only prisoners without wives or dependents in ttyis country can thus be deported. Otherwise the dependents might become troublesome public charges and subjected to unnecessary suffering. Os the twenty-eight aliens at Pendleton whose deportation is planned none has dependents. But only eight are from European countries. Twenty are Canadians and Mexicans. What’s to hinder these coming right back into this country within a couple of days after being forcibly ejected? They might be right back in Indiana in less than a week, without much danger of being molested by the outraged civil authorities. The latter aren’t very likely to apprehend an obscure deported alien criminal who fails to stay deported. They didn’t even catch Dutch Anderson, Clara Carl or other famous fugitives from justice. , POPULARITY OF STATE PARKS LIEBER, director |[\ | of the State conservation L—J department, states that 139,419 persons visited the Indiana State parks during the past season. This is an increase of 18,032 over the preceding year. Turkey Run and Clifty Falls drew the most people. A privately operated amusement park with a ferris wheel, a derby racer, a couple of barbecue stands and a bathing beauty parade will attract largpn* crowds £

I _ _ I NDER the new plan, Dr. Dull ; | gald C. Jackson, professor of I 1 electrical engineering, has sent lhvitations to selected students of the institute to become members of the “honors group” thfs fall. They will be allowed to attend lectures and classes or to stay away from them as they please. They will be expected, however, to pass the regular term examinations. They wil also be excused from attending laboratory exercises at the regular hours and permitted to carry on their laboratory work at their own discretion. * • * EHBSE honor students, instead of performing the usual standard set of laboratory exeifises, will be permitted to devote all of their time to subjects which interest them ftiost. They will be encouraged to carry on original investigations wherever this is possible. Members of the faculty will act as advisers to the honor students, thus insuring that the work is kept within useful bounds and does not become mere aimless wandering.

during the season. So, in a way, the attendance.figures of the State parks are not especially impressive. But the increase in visitors over the previous year attests the growing popularity of these Stateowned preserves. Only in recent years have States made serious effort to develop park systems. Indiana has made a start toward saving a few unspoiled fragments of the State's natural beauty for future Hoosiers. With the acquisition of the Dunes tract and the proposed park on the shores of Lake James in Steuben County its park system will compare favorably with that of any other State. Perhaps the system will not add to the wealth or prosperity of Indiana for the profits of State parks are esthetic and sentimental not in dollars and cents. But the development of suitable tracts now will Insure public playgrounds for future generations and will give them untold pleasure. \\ ild land In its natural state in Indiana is rapidly succumbing to the relentless march of civilization. In a few years it will have disappeared. Population, automobiles and good roads will dominate the landscape. In estimating the value of our State parks the number of visitors they attract in will mean more than t.te 1925 attendance.

CLEANING UP THE “AVENOO” HIEF RTKHOFF, following complaints that gambling, vice, high crimes and misdemeanors flourished along Indiana Ave., a couple of days ago ordered an immediate cleanup of that district famed in song and story as the brunet Tenderloin of Indianapolis. Twenty-four hours passed, then it was announced that the "avenoo ’ was purified. Police reported that the gambling joints and soft drink places, with hard liquor and sporting sidelines, had clpsed. The only bones rattling in the district, they said, were the teeth of the scared joint proprietors. Probably police reports on the suddenly improved conditions were over-sanguine. The well-known “avenoo” night life is too hardy to be extinguished by a single temporary shower of policemen. But If, in response to a cleanup order, it is so easy to effect a noticeable improvement in conditions in twenty-four hours we wonder why the cleanup wasn’t accomplished long ago. Why did the officers have to wait until they were prodded into activity by extraneous influences?

To an innocent bystander it appears that the Indianapolis police department seldom moves of its own volition—it is pushed from one activity to another. After a couple of banks are robbed sawed-off shotguns are distributed and the officers are instructed, in a ringing proclamation, to get the bank bandits “dead or alive.” For a week the whole force chases bank bandits. Then a midnight marauder attacks women and terrorizes a neighborhood for several successive nights. By special edict the whole force Is put baying on his trail. Then, as a result of a couple of traffic accidents, headquarters orders a war on speeders. Life to an Indianapolis policeman is Just one campaign after another interspersed with periods of lethargy. Fewer spectacular cleanups, to the accompaniment of braying trumpets and red fire, and more Insistence on the daily performance of daily duties would give the city a more efficient force.

Tom Sims Says They haven’t had so much fun in Washington since the oil boom there. Be very careful about drinking apple cider. When you get home the keyhole may be gone. Among the very Important things going on now are fall hats. No matter how big a telephone booth, It Is hard to get numbers In it. Acting sensible under the harvest moon Is just showing your Ignorance. It Is hard to be brave when no one Is looking. Life has its ups and downs. And going up really is more fun than going down. Few are satisfied with their lot unless it is a lot of luck. (Copyright 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Gloria Looks Like Mrs. Leslie Carter; a Nifty Barber Is Pretty Marion Davies

By W after D. Hickman S’ "1 HADES of great artists! Can it be? No, surely it is i___J not Mrs. Leslie Carter being grand lady! \ No, it isn't Mrs. Carter, but Gloria Swanson looking very much like Mrs. Carter would look in the same vehicle.

Am talking about Gloria Swanson in "The Coast of Folly," in which the script demands some heavy and convincing work. Am telling' you that Gloria can be a grand and glorious old wreck of herself when she wants to. You remember the kind of role that Mrs. Carter had in the Circle —one of the grand and glorious old wrecks. Well, Gloria not only plays such an old wreck in "The

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Coast of Folly, but she also blossoms out in the same movie as the youthful daughter of the old wreck. The story is one of those wise modern affairs which boasts of characters not too lily-white. When they have purple in their make-up, it is the real article. And when lily-white is around, the characters are lilywhite. So, you will find both good and bad characters in this new Swanson pictures. As Nadine Gathway, Gloria is the grand old dame who became moonstruck years ago, ran away from her middle aged husband, leaving her baby daughter in the care of a nurse. Husband, being deserted and near death, leaves his fortune of thirty millions (movie figures) to the daughter, Joyce, provided that Joyce would never get her pretty face in a scandal. Os course there Is always somebody around who will spill the beans and Joyce is framed. When things look bad, Nadine Gathway, the mother, now married to another man of wealth, appears. She gets into the fight and clears the good name of her daughter. So the money is saved as well as the honor of the house. And Nadine is then permitted to grow more old daily. And everybody Is happy. The cast Is peopled by those who know when anu how to act as follows: Nadine Gathwa/. Joyce Gathwsy Gloria Swanson Larry Fay Anthony Jowitt Count de Tauro Alee Francis Constance Fay Dorothy Cummins: Cholly Knickerbocker Jed Prouty N nnv Euyene Bewsoror Reporter Arthur Hausman Baiher Lawrence Gray I for one am strong for Swanson and “The Coast of Folly. At the Apollo all week. -!- -I- + MARION DOES THE HAIR CUTTING ACT Take out your scissors, you pretty miss, and be my barber. That was my feeling after seeing Marion Davies turn barber in "Zander The Great.” At times, Marion is called upon to be Mary Pickfordish —meaning

she is supposed to be the gay young cutup in a nest of rum runners. And as Marion wants the crew shaved and bobbed, she does the barber act for ’em under pressure. This “Zander” movie starts out to be one of those poor d's rted wife ass:. but when the scene changes to Arizonia, the story gets melodramatic. It is the duty of Marton to deliver Zander, a child, to

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his father way out in Arizonia after the deserted wife dies in New York. But Marion is too late as the father has “kissed the dust,” meaning he had been kicked off in a fight with a bandit. But Marion lands a “qiqe husband” after she had reformed him from his tendency of being! a

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wholesale bootlegger. Rather reminds me of the popular song refrain: “And .there will be some changes made." As usual there are lots of closeups of Miss Davies looking very glorified. I for one can not Imagine Miss Davies being in a kitchen actually cooking a meal for three hungry men. But the movie director makes her do it. There are some real people In the cast. Including Holbrook Bllnn, Hedda Hopper, Harrison Ford, George Siegman, Hobart Bosworth, Richard Carle and others. “Zander the Great," is modern melodrama, nothing but just that with Miss Davies doing several closeup specialties. The bill includes “Don’t Tell Dad,” Ruth Noller at the organ and the Charlie Davis orchestra. At the Ohio all week, •I- -I- -!• WE YELL IT LOUDLY CIRCLE HAS A REAL ONE. Am willing to yell it from the housetops—“ Classified” with Corlnne Griffith is one of those fine human little affairs which makes one want to go to the movies. Edna Ferber wrote the story, “Classified,” and the director did

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things, little overdrawn on facts somewhat, but corking good comedy entertainment. The story has been acted with lot of pep and action. Some of the types are screams. The audience recognized ’em and yelled with joy. Give Miss Griffith a human comedy story and she sails on to victory. This is a human story about an American family—mother, dad, little sister, big sister and big brother. Yes, there Is a radio in the family and big sis gets a chap on her hands that cold cream will not take off. (Wise remark is not mine. It is a subtitle.) Jack Mulhall Is In the cast as one of the good looking gang. Charles Murray is the father who would rather hear China on the radio than hear his wife talk. Edythe Chap-

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mnn is the mother who worries about the divine intentions of her daughter when said daughter stays out late at night. Carrol Nye is the big brother. Ward Crane is the dress suit menace and Miss Griffith is the classified daughter of the family. Tell you again that this Is a wow of a human comedy. It Is Just as good a human family comedy as "The Potters" was on the stage. Bak&leinlkoff is directing the orchestra through that pleasant and tuneful overture, "The Green Mill." Miss Dessa Byrd has a comedy organ triumph with that funny little hit called “Cecilia.” Mighty clever. The stage presentation has the services of Harry Jolson and his southern serenaders. Jolson again does what I call an "A1 Jolson’’ impression and the serenaders jazz up negro spirituals. / Bill Includes Lloyd Hamilton in "The Movies." Funny in spots. At the Circle all week, + + + SECOND WEEK FOR “THE IRON HORSE” v The Colonial this weok Is presenting “The Iron Horse” for a second week. Herd is a fine epic showing the railroad growth of the country. It is fine entertainment. Should be seen by every man, woman and child In the city. Not to be missed. + 4* + Mrs. Fiske opens a three-day engagement with a great cast in "The Rivals,” at English’s. Houdini, noted escape artists and magician, starts a week’s engagement at the Murat tonight. Sylvia Clark is the chief event at B. F. Keith's. Princess Angie is at the Lyric. “In Hawaii" Is on view at the P&lace. /“Innocent Maids” is on view at the Broadway. The Isis for the first half of the week features "Rldin’ the Wind” with Fred Thompson.

not attempt to rewrite It. Edna Ferber Is one of the most human of writers especially when she puts a real American girl in a story, the girl that works and is proud of It. I might have a weakness for newspaper stories, but I do know that “Classified,” ing the workings of the classified ad department of a large dally, is one of those good natured human

Movie Verdict Circle—“ Classified,” with Corlnne Griffith, Is a mighty fine domestic comedy with a look-in on the business world. "The Potters” won the title of being a great American comedy on the,stage. "Classified" wins the same honors on the screen. Colonial—“ The Iron Horse," one of those pictures which everybody should see. Ohio—"Zander, the Great," introduces Marion Davies as a female barber. Apollo—Gloria Swanson plays a dual role in “The Cost of Folly.” She Is both a grand and glorious old wreck and a sweet American girl. Gloria proves that she can really act.

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