Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1925 — Page 4

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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 Scramble Begins rriNOTHER political storm has broken. {A) Hardly had the last clod of earth fallen on the coffin of Samuel M. Ralston in the little Lebanon cemetery, when the scramble over the appointment of his successor began. Governor Ed Jackson has before him the unenviable task of naming Ralston s successor, to serve until the next State election, when Indiana will elect two Senators, one to succeed Jim Watson and one to complete the unexpired term of Senator Ralston. Regardless of whom .Jackson appoints, he is bound to make enemies, for there are factions in the Republican party so numerous that any appointee will be opposed. To add to Jackson’s difficulties, it is reported that he would like to be Senator himself. He could hardly find a man who would agree not to become a candidate next year, thus giving Jackson an opportunity. Os course, there is the alternative of Jackson resigning and permitting Harold Van Orman, who would become Governor, to appoint him. Tn fact, Van Orman already has given out an interview, published in Evansville, on “What I would do if I were Governor.” But it hardly appears likely that Van Orman will become Governor, at least not at this time. | Albert J. Beveridge, who was defeated by Ralston in 1922, is definitely a candidate for Khe appointment and may be appointed. Be\feridge’s personal publicity agency is endeavoring to convince the public that he is the man for the place. The majority of the voters did not think so two years ago. But, of course, it would be impossible to appoint another Sam Ralston and Beveridge may really be second choice of the voters. Beveridge, however, certainly would not agree to step aside next year and permit Jackson to be a candidate. Beveridge has had a peculiar political history, or, rather, his reactions to political events have been rather inconsistent. In 1912 we found Beveridge in the Bull Moose fold, fighting away with the progressives. Ten years later, when he was a candidate for the Senate, he revealed himself as one of the most reactionary of the reactionaries. In fact, it was this very thing that brought about his defeat. The people of Indiana, remembering 1912, voted for Beveridge in the primary in preference to the “regular” Republican, Harry S. New. Then in the election Beveridge outNewed New and was defeated by the voters who already had expressed their opposition to this attitude. v What Beveridge would do now if he is appointed Senator is hard to predict. One thing is certain. He would not vote for the Dawes scheme to change the Senate rules. Beveridge has expressed himself as believing the Da ves program would result in disaster. It is just possible that Beveridge could not always be depended on to be “regular” and for fhis reason his appointment might have the opposition of the Administration at Washington; and it is very likely that, Jackson, with his own political ambitions in mind, will seek the approval of President Coolidge before announcing an appointment. Everett Sanders of Terre Haute, former Congressman and now secretary to the President, is being mentioned as a possibility. Sanders is not known to the voters of Indiana outside his own district. It is probable that appointment pf Sanders would be approved by the Administration at Washington, but Sanders is a young man and has been described as a man with a promising future. It is not likely that once he is in the Senate he would agree to step aside in favor of the man who appointed him. Arthur R. Robinson, Indianapolis attorney, also is being mentioned. Robinson and Jackson have been close friends, but the appointment of Robinson certainly would have the opposition of a large part of the community and for this reason he probably, has not a very strong chance. , There are dozens of hard working Republicans in Indiana who would jump at the opportunity to go to the Senate and Jackson has a wide choice. It is possible that the Governor is not seriously considering any of the men mentioned. It seems too bad that Senator Ralston’s successor can not be a man who will follow Ralston’s ideas and policies. After all, it was the will of the voters to be so represented for six years. But our political system makes such a thing impossible. The good of the party always takes precedence over the will of the voters.

The Miracle of Locarno [tT’i TJROPE has just made her greatest bid I *-* I for peace. And by a strange prank of fate it was Germany—accused of bringing on the last war—that put forward this new and acoepted plan for preventing another. Briefly, Germany’s famous and once re-

jected “Security Pact” has been accepted by the interested powers in conference at Locarno, Switzerland. According to its terms Germany, France and Belgium agree that the Rhine shall constitute an unfortified military frontier which neither the one nor the other shall violate. And Great Britain and Italy join in, with the undefstanding that if this frontier is violated then they will come into the war against the aggressor, whether that country he France or Belgium or Germany. The League of Nations will stand sponsor for the pact and its rules governing arbitration will apply. By the same token Germany becomes a full-fledged member of the league with permanent representation on its council on precisely the same footing as Britain, France and the other great powers. In addition to the above, arbitration treaties between Germany and her eastern neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia, have been agreed upon in principle. And in the same way that Britain and Italy agree to aid France in the event Germany wilfully makes war against her, France agrees to come to Poland’s and Czechoslovakia’s assistance if Germany violates these treaties and wages aggressive war against them. Germany is to receive other considerations in the form of the evacuation of Cologne; a general reduction of the forces of occupation in the Rhineland; amelioration in the administration of the Saar now under the league, and the like. All of which makes for better feeling. True, treaties are only promises. And promises, like pie-crusts, they say, are made to be broken. Nevertheless' the pact holds out more genuine hope of peace than Europe has experienced in a century. As matters now stand, Europe’s greatest menace is Russia. Russia strenuously opposed Germany’s entering the agreemnt. She is against the security pact. She is hostile to Poland and to Roumania and, increasingly so of late, to Britain. What she has up her sleeve no one can tell, but as long as she is in her present mood, and as long as Europe continues as a sort of open powder keg ready to blow up with the first touch of a firebrand, there must be danger. One result of the miracle of Locarno, where irreconcilables were reconciled, will likely be a second arms conference. The league has been waiting only for a favorable outcome of these negotiations to begin preparations. And though it is known that President Coolidge would like to call such a parley in Washington, it is difficult to see how he could now very well refuse an invitation from Geneva, league or no league.

Why Doubt Creeps in mNTREPID Republican orators thunder forth heated denunciations of radicalism, and would pursue the liberal and the doubter to his home and slay him. Any one who criticises the present form of government is a terrible character, and should be made an outcast. Are they themselves not responsible for the wave of doubt and cynicism among the electorate? President Ben 11. Thompson of city council believes so. How long would baseball fans attend world series games if last year’s champions were allowed to choose the umpires, regardless of honesty, previous experience or character. Suppose the Washington club had been permitted to name Joe Jackson as the arbiter of decisions during the recent encounter. Would the fans have remained quiet? Yet Republican campaign managers expect citizens to stand for appointment of 225 Republican election inspectors and refuse to adopt the fair course of permitting Democrats to name half ctf the men who decide the vote counts in the shady precincts. Ben Thompson was big enough to comprehend the danger of losing public confidence. His professional Republican brethren can see no farther than the noses on their faces. That’s why people are turning to the city manager form of government as a relief from the banditry and crookedness of the professional politicians. The distillers and brewers killed themselves and paved the way for prohibition because of their abuse of power they had built up. In like manner the Coffins, Armitages, Ruckers and persons of similar political caliber are slowly but surely killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Through their excesses, they have undermined public confidence. Lincoln’s adage of the inability to fool the public permanently is as true in 1925 as it was seven decades ago. Indianapolis will adopt the city manager form of government because the present system has failed. If you don’t believe it has failed, try to get a square deal for a Democratic candidate in a close precinct the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

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A Sermon for Today

“Now consider this, ye that forget God.”—Psalms 50:22. rrtl HERE is an old story which j I runs as follows: There was J once a poor musician in Germany who loved a maiden of high degree, and in order to win her he went away to distant lands and strove to obtain fame and fortune. When at last he had obtained both he came back and claimed his bride. They were walking out one evening by the side of the rlve£ Rhine, and he saw down the bank a tuft of little blue flowers which he sought to reach for her. In doing so his foot slipped and he fell Into the river. As he was being carried away by the strong current he flung the bunch of flowers to land, crying as he did so, “Forget me not.” From that time, and from this story, so it is said, that little blue flower, known

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

SANITARY TAX LEVY S.E State tax commission, acting on the opinion of the Attorney General, has fixed the Indianapolis sanitary levy at 5.5 cents, as provided In the budget approved by the mayor, rather than the 6.5 cents passed by the city council. That will

make the 1926 city tax rate $1.0525 less than this year. Tax payers won’t grumble at that. Reduction of a cent in a tax rate never aroused a populace to fury or started a revolution. But members of the sanitary comm ission view the reduction with a gloomy foreboding. They say it might

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be necessary to close the sewage plant the latter part of the year because of insufficient funds. Then bugs, pestilence and similar affletions will visit the penurious city. Raw sewage crawling over the civic landscape would be unpleasant, but probably It won’t happen. It Is surprising what economies can be effected in an arm of the public service when tightened purse strings actually compel economy. So doubtless the ordinary person won’t notice any difference in the sanitation provided by the 5.5 cent rate than he would have enjoyed under the 6. 5 cent rate. More important than the sanitary aspect of the tax commission’s action is the aid and comfort it gives the municipal budget Idea. The 5.5 cent levy was fixed by the administration after, presumably, a study of the department’s estimates and needs, along with the estimates of other municipal departments. If this city council with a few glib "ayes” and no Investigation can add a cent here and there to the various levies at their pleasure, of what use is an intelligent budget system? PUBLIC ROADS

AND BILLBOARDS Irp | IE Ohio Valley regional I | I conference for State i>arks l—J —comprising park and conservation enthusiasts from Indiana, Kentucky. Ohio, West Virginia, and Illinois—at its final session at Clifty Falls the other day adopted a resolution indorsing the campaign to restrict outdoor advertising. “Public roads are public property and should be protected from exploitation which defaces landscapes, confuses traffic and endangers life,” read the resolution. There is the slap direct at the billboard nuisance which turns the beauties of nature into a riot of lurid advertising messages. Whereever along the highways nature has dono her best with sylvan dell and gurgling brook her face is hidden by billboard daubs. Even the most enthusiastic defender of outdoor advertising can not claim such posters are works of art or enhance the beauties of the landscape. They are glaring eyesores. They erupt all over woods, and hills and dales and turn scenery into a commercialized nightmare. Billboard interests with their fine esthetic sense estimate the value of scenery in square feet of poster space. Perhaps they are' right. At any rate they boast that theirs is the fifth largest industry in the country. But those who use the highways and unjoint their necks trying to peer around strident billl>oards to catch glimpses of the landscape as they pass don’t value the posters so highly. To such thero is greater value in the beauties of nature than in the signpainter’s art. Therefore, any steps to suppress billboards is in tho public interest—though it treads on the feet of the fifth largest industry in the county. UNFAVORABLE^ DRY REPORTS T~aRS. ELIZABETH T. STANZA LEY, president of the InTemperance Union, in opening the annual convention of that organization at Conncrsvllle Friday night, assailed recent unfavorable reports of prohibition and those who criticise the dry amendment. She particularly condemned the survey of the Federal Council of Churches. "Every church is disgusted with the contents of this socalled survey," she asserted. "Its inaccuracies were due to inexperienced writers accepting as facts propaganda of wet organizations.” Henyis the common attitude of

By Rev. .lohn R. Gunn

before as the "Mouse’s Ear,” has been known as the “For-get-me-not.” Whether the story is true. I do not know. But as I read it I thought of the many “For-gct-rhe-nots” which God has scattered all around us. Every flower of the field is one of His “For-get-me-nots.” Every little twig upsprlnging at our feet, every little star that twinkles in the sky, every light and every shadow, every touch of beauty everywhere in the great world about us, Is one of his “For-get-me-nots.” The Bible, with its light and wisdom, is His great ”For-get-me-not" to a world groping in ignorance and darkness. Every church, with Its upwardpointing spires, is one of His "For-get-ine-nots,” calling men back from the way of sin and evil, and reminding them of the better way that leads from earth to heaven.

the more impetuous crusaders. The least criticism of prohibition arouses their ire. One who expresses an honest opinion not in tune with the paean of praise they demand is denounced as a brewery tool. That attitude doesn’t help the prohibition cause. National prohibition is a great social experiment. On the whole, over vast stretches of the country, an impartial observer would concede that it is an astounding success. But along the Eastern seaboard and in the larger cities of the land, even in Indianapolis, there is considerable illegal dampness, with its accompaniment of bribery, corruption and crime. There Is no use in suppressing the adverse facts. For the success of the experiment honest discussion of the failures of prohibition are as essential as reiteration of its accomplishment. Only thus can its weaknesses be detected and corrected. The ultimate status of prohibition will depend on concrete facts not on propaganda dry or w r et. If the facts are favorable prohibition will prevail, if unfavorable the cause can’t be saved by dry protagonists who, like the ostrich, bury their heads in the sand. A LIFE FOR A LIFE mOHN KOVAL, an illiterate Russian, died in the electric chair in the Indiana State Prison Friday. He suffered the death penalty for the murder last spring of his landlady, a Gary woman, mother of six children. The crime, which he confessed, was no more brutal and atrocious than a hundred other murders that have occurred in Indiana during the past year. While in a drunken frenzy he merely cut his landlady’s throat- with a razor. He, no doubt, merited execution. If he hadn’t been an ignorant foreigner without money or friends he nevertheless would probably have escaped the chair like 99 per cent of the State’s murderers. He is out of the world, not because of the heinousness of his crime, but because of his lack of resources and expert counsel. For every ten murders committed in London there are 160 committed in New York. Both Eng land and New York prescribe the death penalty in such cases, but how different they impose it. Seven out of London’s ten killers are expeditiously hanged, while only one out of New York's 160 is executed. Indiana’s percentage of executions is not much greater. Capita] punishment may or may not be a barbaric legal institution unworthy of this enlightened age. Its effectiveness as a crime deterrent is debatable. But the most damning indictment of capital punishment in Indiana and oth£r States where legal executions are still possible Is the Inequitable way in which the penalty is inflicted. If it is good for society to execute one first degree murderer it is no more than just to electrocute all such—not merely an occasional friendless, penniless killer. The law can’t preen Itself much on its impartiality when it imposes the supreme penalty on only one murderer out of a hundred.

Ask The Times You cun (ret an answer to any question of fact or information bj writing to The Indianapolis Times W ashington bureau. 1322 hew York Ave.. Washinafon. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in (lamas for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot bo given. nor can extended resear, h be umienakea. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How- is etching made on brass signs? , Paint the sign with asphalt varnish, leaving the parts to be etched unpaired, raise a border around the outside, made of soft beeswax or asphalt, to hold the acid. Use nitric acid diluted with five times the quantity of water. Pour the dilute acid on the sign about one-fourth inch deep. When the letters are cut deep enough, which must be found by trial, the acid may be poured off and the plate cleaned by heating and wiping, and finally with turpentine. How many presidents has Poland had and. what were their names? Poland has had two presidents, Joseph Pilsudski and Stanislaw Wojciechowski, the present incumbent, who was elected Dec. 20, 1922. What was the name in civil life of Pope Leo X? His name was Giovanni de Medici. He was the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. The Medici were the most celebrated family of the Horen tine republic. Can you give the verse by Henry Van Dyke called “Four Things”? Four thinvß a man must learn to do. If he would make his record true: To think without confusion e'early. To love his fellow man sincerely. To act from honest motives purely. To trust tn God and heaven securely.

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There Were a Lot of Keys to ‘Baldpate’; Wagner Overture Is Splendid Delight

By Walter D. Hickman S 1- EVEN keys there were to the Baldpate Inn. I—l And all of them worked in the mind of the author who made a bet to write a novel in twelve hours’ time.

What he wrote makes the story of ‘‘Seven Keys to Baldpate Inn” both a success on the stage and screen. This stage play, which made a lot of money for George M. Cohan, is a delight as a movie, now being presented at the Ohio. Douglas Mac Lean is cast as the author who had to write the story t within 12 hours. Maclean fits easily into the part. His comedy method is differen’ from most com-

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edians, as he relies upon the story to put him over. He does what the writer of the play intends and fits splendidly into many events. There is a lot of good comedy business in this story. It gets lots of laughs and the mystery part goes over with a bang. The movie version follow's closely the stage play, and In so doing the director has been wise, because “Seven Keys” does not need any improvement. The stat e version acted out what was supposed to happen and at the final curtain the author explained over the telephone in front of the audience that nothing had happened at all at the Inn while he was writing his novel. He explained that what the audience saw was just the cnaracters acting out their ports. This is done by a subtitle in the movie. “Seven Keys to Balpate," is bully entertainment. It gives Mac Lean a straight comedy chance and he is more than adequate during the many events. The cast is satisfactory. Bill includes Ruth Noller at the organ: an O’Henry comedy and Cy Mllders singing "Esmeralda.” At the Ohio all week. -I- -I- -IMEETING A NEW I’EKSONALITY ON SCREEN

There is a chance to get acquainted with a new' personality

upon the screen at the Circle this week. Am speaking of Vilma Banky, a foreign beauty, who is opposite Repaid Oilman in “The Dark Angel.” This woman has beauty and and ability although “The Dark Angel” is a story that does not give her too much of a chance to register all the time. In the emotional scenes she shows much

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strength along dramatic lines. The story is laid in the world war period and is centered about a man and woman who are in ove with a second man desiring to share the love of the woman. The man of the girl’s choice Is blinded during the war, captured by the enemy and later returris to England under an assumed name so that ho can not marry the girl of M choice because of his blindness. second man gets a chance bccaut he came out of the war all together. The wedding day is set but he tells of the existence of the blind man. The blind hero makes one noble effort, by pretending that he is not Hind, but the love of the woman detects what is wrong. And so those who are really in iove find a happy ending to all of their troubles. Ronald Colman is cast as Hilary Trent, the soldier who sacrifices his eyes for his country, and Vilma Banky is Kitty Vane, the girl. Wyndham Standing Is Gerald Shannon and he makes a good second

THE SPLTDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

Movie Verdict - Apollo—Harold Bell Wrignt s “A Son of His Father” reads better than It films. Bessie Love does fine work. Ohio—Douglas Mac Lean has good entertainment In "Seven Keys to Baldpate.” Many laughs. Circle—Vllma Bnnky makes her first American screen appearance in “The Dark Angel" at the Circle. The Illustrated overture founded on Wagner Is a treat. Colonial—Cecil B DeMille Is represented by his first ra w picture on the screen by the title of “Hell’s High Road.”

man in the triangle. The story is mostly dramatic. The Circle overture this week is another of the James A. Fitzpatrick music master series. This time it is based upon the life and suffering of Richard Wagner. The orchestra plays the score from Wagner’s compositions while the movie is being reflected upon the screen. Rakaleinikoff and the Circle orchestra handle the score, a heavy one, in a masterful manner. As played, Wagner’s music is a gem of gorgeous melody. Rill includes an organ solo by Dessa Byrd, a stage presentation and other events. At the Circle ill week. I- .|. .|. WRIGHT’S STORIES ARK DIFFICULT TO FILM

Harold Bell Wright is one novelist who writes a lot of sentimental stuff about the west and its characters. His material has .more appeal In print than on the screen and this is no exception to “The Bon of His Father.” It Is one thing to read about Harold Bell Wright's eharac-

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hold his ranch. There is some amus ing western comedy and some strong melodramatic- touches near the close of the picture, but it doesn't piece together as a convincing story, .rolneslterrt vb vbnfgthes?! whohe The fact is thut Bessie Love is the real feature of the picture, as she catches the spirit of the story. She puts over her eomedy entrance in a cute way. She Is using a "sunshine” smile and it has its effect. The story does not have sufficient strength to cause it to he a movie that rounds out Its full strength all the time, and yet it did receive laughs on the comedy interest. The bill includes a Mack Senentt comedy, a news reel. Walter J. Schwartz as soloist and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo ail week. •!• -I- -I----“No, No, Nanette,” opens a week’s engagement at English's tonight with Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian, Frank Crumit and Ona Munson in the cast. The Ona B. Talbot orchestral season opens tonight at the Murat with Walter Damroseh conducting the New York Symphony through an all Wagner program. The Capitol is now using n new policy by presenting the Liwrencej Players tn "The Millionaire and the Flapper,” a comedy drama, four vaudeville acts, a chorus and movies. The shows are continuous. Milton Sills is on view at the Crystal in "The Knockout,” and

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George Walsh is on view ut the Isis in “American Pluck.” The headline attraction at Keith's is Alsen and Johnson; at Palace, Fay, Two Coleys and Pay; at Lyric, Meyer Golden’s “Gypsyland.” The Broadway is offering "Nauhtgy Nifties,” a burlesque production. •I’ I + DE.MILLE’K LATEST MOVIE AT COLONIAL "Hell's High Rond" is a title that might well be applied to a swashbuckling drama of the olden bays, but seems just a trifle put of plane for the current show on view at the Colonial. In this, the first of Cecil B. DeMillo’s new pictures, the story is

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husband catcher her fever and as hi love for money grows stronger s > does, his love for her grow weak' t The Climax is reached when th>husband, now mopey :und, desires a divorce in order to marry a woman who Is fabulously rich. The story, although slow at times is very good entertainment and the women will get many thrills out of the gowns and furnishings shown in the picture. Lcafrire Joy is the featured mem her of the cast and others present are Edmund Burns, Julia Faye. Helene Sullivan and Robert Edeson The bill Includes Arthur 1 "Half Fare;” an Aesop Fable, Inter national News and the Ten Amer can Harmonists, who present a pro gram of jazz novelties while t.h'i feature Is on. • At the Colonial ail w-eek. (By Ob server).

ters and an entirely different thing to see them on the screen. The movie goes along at a slow rate of motion, and really does not get moving toward a definite goal until near the end of the film. Bessie Love is cast as the Irish heroine who bucks the West and its intrigue. Warner Baxter is the hero of the story, who finally decides to fight to

Tom Sims Says If music is the language of love saxophone players are rejected. You can't tell what’s in a boy by looking at him. Philadelphia doctor got an Iron bolt out of one. - . Coolidge dog bit another dog. So the other dog can brag about it the rest of his life. Must be awful to he President Coolldge's dog and get your picture in the paper every time you have n fight. Literary Digest explains how tho coal strikes the public. We explain It strikes it in the pocketbook. Bad news from the Arabs. Lead ors have quit smoking. And smoking keeps you from getting restless ond going to work. Banking powers are meeting In London, Banking powers are liko baking powders. They raise the dough. Be enreful about what you pretend to be. In Columbus, Ohio, a sword-ester accidentally swallowed a knife. New vest-pocket battery will run a car ten days. But what we need is a pocketbook that will run one forever. A Thought For this la thank worthy, if n man for conscience toward (rod endure grief, suffering wrongfully.—l Peter 2:19. • • • Through much enduring oome things that cannot be endured.— Latin proverb.

about ft young girl raised in poverty and who gets the idea that money, and still more money coupled with In f I uence, are the only Insurance with whieh one can hold love. On her wedding night tills girl, who should have been thinking of everything else but money, sends her husband of a few hours out iu pursuit of her one obsession, gold. In time the