Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1925 — Page 6
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School Buildings f jHnOTHER blow at the school board buildlA| ing program, this time a restraining order holding np the work, has been struck. We do not presume to tell the court its business, but we still contend that Indianapolis needs new school buildings and that they should be erected at the earliest possible time consistent with good business and the law. There seems to be a battle on now to determine whether the present board or the board shat takes office the first of the year will have charge of the opening of actual school building work. The people of Indianapolis don’t care a hang who builds the buildings so long as the taxpayers get their money’s worth and so long as the children of Indianapolis are taken out of those ridiculous dinky frame buildings in which they are forced to roast and freeze alternatively, of which the people of Indianapolis are rightfully ashamed. . The present c ontroversy affects six proposed buildings, all grade schools. The Mistake of Roosevelt’s Friends pr-|T a cost of ten million dollars or so it is lA| proposed tq erect a great monument in Washington to Theodore .Roosevelt. If Congress consents, an imposing edifice of some sort will arise on a large lot in the lyTgl 1 between the White House and the Potomac. The beautiful new Lincoln memorial and the tall shaft that .pays tribute to Washington now dominate this scene. The plan of those furthering the scheme for the Roosevelt monument is that it shall be sufficiently imposing to rank with the monuments to the two men who loom largest in American history. The location selected would give it equal' prominence. This appeals to us as a misguided effort on the part of Roosevelt’s admirers. Too short a time has elapsed for anyone to say that Roosevelt measured up to the stature of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There are millions of Americans ready to defend their belief that Woodrow Wilson’s place in history, when time permits a true perspective, is vastly greater than Theodore Roosevelt’s. But if the present were in Wilson’s behalf rather than Roosevelt’s, our opinion would be the same. The day not yet arrived when it can be said that either Roosevelt or Wilson deserve this place beside our two great immortals. Why the haste? Why the effort to give Roosevelt a rank in marble that history may or may not grant him in fact? America has not, yet accorded such distinction to a leader whose greatness has stood the test of time. Thomas Jefferson’s place in history is secure. Sincere, disinterested historians rate him among the great men of all time. But no towering memorial to Jefferson adorns our national capital. At least until we can reedgnize fittingly the accepted greatness of Jefferson, why rush to perpetuate in stone the admiration his friends feel for Roosevelt? This thing is being done by the surviving partisans of Roosevelt. With all due respect for the motive that inspires them it must be seen that they are making a mistake. If their action furnishes a precedent, the next step is obvious —the erection of such monuments to men while they live and, eventually, the erection of such monuments by our heroes to themselves, as was done by kings of old in Egypt. Arkansas Tells Florida ONGRESSMAN OTIS WINGO of Arkan--1 sas, in the course of a speech in the House the other day, made the following observations : “I have been somewhat amused at some of the maneuvers on this question of inheritance tax. I shall not now discuss the matter, but will say I have been really surprised that, a great State, with the intelligence of the State of Florida, should have adopted a constitutional amendment like they did and then seem to be proud of it. ’ “If my State had made such a fool of itself, I would not be referring to it on the floor of the House. (Laughter and applause.) Because to be perfectly fair with you, one of the
About the ‘Fighting Fish’
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first things men learn about the A, B, C’c of taxation is this: That sooner or later somebody lias got to pay the bill of\ government. “That is true of the Federal government, and it is true of the States, is it not? “I know that the great State of Florida, like the great State of Arkansas, is going to find the money somewhow to build its schoolhouses, to build its public buildings, to build its roads and maintain its courts; it is going to find the money somewhow, and the real struggle is going to be in the game of ‘pussy wants a corner,’ each group trying to see that the other fellow bears the tax burden. “But, as I say, they are going to get the money somehow, and whenever they exempt some millionaire in order to get him to come down and squat on the sand dunes of Florida, with a specious promise that when he is dead and gone they will not split up his estate and make him put a part of it in the State treasury to help those schools and those good roads, here is what they do by that very act: “They reach out and say to the farmers the merchants, the laborers and everybody else, ‘You have got to dig up on your general property tax, on your license taxes, and all of your other taxes in order to raise revenue and -make up the deficit of this gift, this bribe which we give to rich men to come down and live with us, honor us with their benign presence, their flashy bathing suits, and their poker and liquor parties.’ ” The Country Saved Again N"~ 0 sooner had the country finished with ___ the Mitchell trial than another commotion and turmoil shook the national capital to its very foundations. A newspaper came out saying that somebody in the War Department had spelled the new Assistant. Secretary’s name wrong! All was confusion. The official’s name is Hanford Mac Nider, or Mo Nider, or MacIcnider, or M’Nider, or something like that, but some employe or other didn’t seem to know it. He spelled it with an “h” and, so the story went, the new Assistant Secretary was mightily peeved. An imperious r-r-r-r-r-ring on the telephone brought Adjutant General Davis’ ear to the receiver. The peeve was transmitted, the tale related, and forthwith a general mobilization was ordered, for the division supervisors to be mustered on the carpet. The guilty person was found and demoted with loss of pay, the story said, while the rest were soundly Avarned to be more careful in the future. Then the Army breathed again. Thank heaven the mistake had been discovered in time! The national defense had almost been undermined! For a few terrible hours IlaAvaii, Panama and the Pacific Coast had been throAvn wide open to foreign invasion and every American’s hearthstone menaced! It had, indeed, been a close shave! A sigh of relief went up from our throat as Ave read this item. All Avould noAv be well. Only one thing remained to worry us: Would the War Department hold strictly to the precedent thus set? If so, Ave thought, Avithin a year there Avouldn’t be a general left in the Army. If all the higher-ups were to be reduced a grade for each word or name misspelled—you knovr one of the simplest things they have to deal with in the Army and Navy is neuropsychotherapeutics— most of them Avould be lucky, if they are at all human, to sink no lower than a high private in the rear ranks. While as for the new Assistant Secretary ■—ah—er—(what IS the correct way of spelling Mack Nider anyhow?)—we feared that unless he is a demigod of the dictionary in the flesh, he might himself wind up way down in the sub-cellar of the War Department shoveling coal with the rank of third assistant fireman. This neAV menace, sowehow, grew and grew in our perfervid imagination until we just had to communicate with the new Assistant Secretary and ask him Avhat about it. Then the whole thing blew up. There was not a word of .truth in it. He didn’t give an Army dang how people spelled his name. Just another false alarm and the country’s saved again.
their owners by their pugnacious habits. Two of these creatures, when brought together, often rush immediately to combat, or one will attach Its own image in a mirror. Fish fights are a favcorite amusement of the Siamese and licenses to exhibit them yield considerable annual revenue. An extraordinary amount of gambling occurs In connection w|th them. The fighting fish have the anal and dorsal fins pro* longed to tnperio.- points. When
the fish is quiet, its colors are dull; but when excited it glows with metallic splendor and the projected gill membrane waves like a black frill around the throat. Why is Virginia sometimes called the "Mother of States"? The title was bestowed upon Virginia because of the fact that seven States have teen carved out of her original territory. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin in what is known as the Northwest cession at the ciose of the Revolution and Kentucky in 1792, and West Virginia in 1868> N
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
A Sermon for Today Rev. John R. Gunn
Text: “Ye shall And the babe wrapped In swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”—Luke 2t12. mESUS was born in a stable. A stable for His birthplace, straw for His bed, a manger for His cradle and the lowing of the cattle for His lullaby song. But from this lowly birth in the midst of want and poverty He rose until today His name stands above every name. Why was Jesus born in such humble circumstances Why was He not born In a palace instead of a stable? AVhy did He not have a crowned queen for His mother instead of a peasant virgin? Why did He not have a satin-lined cradle to lie In instead of a manger? Surely It was not a mere accident. I think it was" so ordered by a divine Providence. And I think one purpose of it was that He might be rn inspiration and an encouragement to all the lowly bom of this earth—as well as a Savior. Not many are born In the midst of splendor and wealth. Most of the people In this world were born In humble homes. And from these humble homes have come the majority of the world's heroes and great leaders of thought and achievement.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
HOLIDAY BOOZE WAR r~Z"jHIEF RIKHOFF. following | | his annual custom, is makLV > I ing special efforts to give Indianapolis a dry Christmas. He has ordered his underlings to carry on intensive warfare against holiday booze. He says he has always tried, since he has been at the head of the police department to keep Indianapolis dry during the nolidays. He tvant to keep up the good record. Very laudable. But why an espe.cially intensive campaign to mop up Christmas booze? Why single out the yuletlde? Neither the Volstead Act nor the Indiana bone-dry law makes mention of Christmas. Those laws seem to apply to the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year as well as Christmas. They Intend that April Fool's Day, the Ides of March, or the anniversary of the slugging of Billy Pattrron. shall be just as arid as the 25th of December. So a high pressure annual drive to make the holiday season hold out a parched tongue doesn’t mean much. It’s the average enforcement day after day throughout the year that will determine the success or failure of the police department to make Indianapolis dry. LET ALL _ SERVE mOHN R. M'QUIGG. national commander of the American Legion, in an address at Newcastle, Ind., Sunday, urged support of a universal draft act — conscription of Industry and wealth as well as men in case of war. A bill embodying the idea will be presented to Congress this session. The persistence of the Legion in advocating the wealth draft scheme must send a shiver of apprehension down the spines of some moneyed gents whom age and physical decrepitude render immune from liability to personal military service. And the sacred cows of Wall Street will moo in distress. Such 'capitalists say we should rely on patriotism not on compulsion to finance a war. Draft the young men to fight, but let industry and capital voluntarily take, interest in the war, Is the idea. And in the last war capital and industry took interest to the extent of 1,000 per cent in some cases. Drafting of money and industrial resources may be chimerical. Nothing is more adept at hiding out than money. But the plan isn’t as impious and wicked as its opponents believe. Men, money and industry fight modern wars. AVhy shouldn’t all serve on the same basis? Dollars are no more sacred than lives. It is no more unjust to take in a national emergency the capitalist’s million dollars and make It serve for S3O a month than it Is to put the widow’s son In the trenches at S3O a month. NO FIGHT IN INDIANA mACK DEMPSEY, the Sir Galahad with the synthetic .nose, announces to a breathless world that his agreement with a Michigan City (Ind.) prize fight promoter to fight Mr. Wills, the heavyweight gentleman of color, some time next year is off. The Hoosier promoter failed to make the down payment for the fight. So the liattle of the century won’t be staged In Indiana after all. Hoosierdom will have to wallow along as best it can without the uplifting exhibition of Mr. Dempsey. What! what do you know about that? It'll be a terrible winter In the Hoosier State. But though the Michigan City promoter fllvvered Mr. Dempsey will have a chance to gratify his passion for battle against Mr. Wills during the next year if he desires. A Uew York gent has stepped Into the breach and offered Dempsey $500,000 and a percentage of the gate to risk his new nose and his title in battle against Wills at the Polo Grounds, New York, July 4, 1926. It Is expected that such a bout would draw a $2,000,000 “gate.” Five hundred thousand dollars to ai- pugilist for thirty minutes muscular exercise. That’s record pay kor a fighter. B\it the public loves a fighter. Tt U-ts .Sergeant Woodfill. nf
Columbus, the discoverer of the New World, was born in poverty. Abraham Lincoln, the great emarcipator, was born of poor and humble parents. This has been true of nine out of ten of the world’s great deliverers. , What an encouragement this ought to be the young men and young women today, who were born in such circumstances and who are struggling for a place in the world. There may be others around you who have everything in their favor —money, influence and every other possible advantage. You may think that you have no chance, that there are too many limitations and handicaps to overcome. But thousands of others, in spite of poverty, in spite of difficulties almost inconcel /able, have forged their way to the top and forced the world to recognize their superiority and leadership. And if others have done this splendid thing, why not you? From the story of that one, who nineteen centuries ago was born In a stable, take courage. If you were bora of poor parentage, lit you have started life in humble circumstances, let that fact be regarded as a removed handicap. (Copyright, 1825, by John R. Gunn.)
claimed by General Pershing our greatest hero of the World War, be retired from the Army on a sergeant’s half pay. And It gives Sergeant York, another war hero, a stony farm In Tennessee. But It is anxious to give Dempsey a million dollars. Apparently there are fighter sand fighters. A MATTER OF INTEREST F” ORTY-FOUR years ago W. T. Durbin, Anderson—for* mer Governor of Indiana—borrowed $225 from his wife. He gave her a note bearing 8 per cent interest. The instrument evidencing the transaction was laid away and forgotten. A few days ago the old note earne to light. And he paid hla Avife $6,522.35 in settlement of principal and interest compounded on the old loan. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars multiplied to over six thousand dollars in forty-four years. The incident is an unfortunate precedent for husbands who borrow carfare from their wives and conveniently forget the debt. But It’s a vivid example of the growth of money at interest. A dollar in the savings bank is a little thing. It only earns 4 cents a year. But if one of the passengers on the Mayflower Immediately after landing on Plymouth Rock had put a dollar in the bank and left it there, his descendants would now have $130,000 to their credit. An Argentine gentlemen recently deposited a small sum In a Buenos Aires bank where It is to remain at compound interest for 1.000 years. Then the fund is to be devoted to some great humanitarian project vital to North and South America. If his intention carried out the fud will le sufficient to buy half a continent. A dollar out at Interest is an Aladdin's lamp. A dollar in the savings account Avorks while you sleep. But most of us would rather spend the dollar today than give our wives S3O forty-four years hence or our descendants the earth in 2925. MR. FIXIT Garbage and Ash Men Lax in Collections, Mr. Fixit Told. ' Let Mr. Fixit present your raae to city officialo. He is The Times repre-M-ntnUveat the eity hall. Write him at The Times. Numerous complaints 9oneerning forgetfulness of garbage and ashes collectors, In charge of the board" of sanitary commissioners, have been received recently by Mr. Fixit. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Why don’t the city gather cans and ashes this fall in the alley between Drexel and Bosart Sts., north of Byram St.? CITIZEN. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I live at 4252 Sunset Ave. The collectors don’t even pause to pick up the garbage. Why not? ROSS GARRIGUS. The board will receive a special report on these cases. Truly Nolen, superintendent, will Investigate. I?EAR MR. FIXIT: I’ve noticed what a go-getter you are, so I am taking the liberty of writing you to ask the smoke Inspector to Inspect School 43, at Fortieth St. and Kenwood Avel The smoke rolls out in real clouds so dense it ruins the wash on our line as well as makes It almost Impossible to live out here. If any one should set a good example of living up to the law, it seems to me It should be the school authorities. TAXPAYER. H. ff. Templeton promised Mr. Fixit an early Inspection. DEAR MR. FIXIT: S. Delaware St., south of the Belt Railroad, is marked In many ways, once It Is Chestnut St., aagln Talbot Ave. and Fennen St. It sure Is misleading to any stranger. SALESMAN. Mr. Fixit agrees the confusion should be removed. The city engineer’s department will investigate.
Stella Mayhew Spills the Beans About a Jane of Fiction Known as Cinderella
By Walter D. Hickman mHE old Mother Goose writers spun a prettf yarn about the sad life of Cinderella and how a fairy prince made her so happy when she slipped on a glass I slipper. Pretty yarn, admits Stella Mayhew who heard the yarn years ago, I oh, many years ago. Stella knows that the flappers of today don’t swallow that fairy ta e yarn. And StUSla Mayhew tells the world all about this Cinderella jane as the jazz writers of bed-time stories would spin the old y.arn. Am telling that Stella in song tells you that Cinders | was a Jane who [{ iSf|Ps| had to mop the MMKs§jgK v&jna ond floor apartvSeSmß ment and while HHk iwßfli her high brow sisters Emma Trentini were at a dance at the bricklayers’ union that the plumber came to the house, saw the beauty under the dirt of Cinder’s face. Presto chango. The plumber sprinkled some water over Cinder's face. Saw she was beautlfuK-and then gave her a bang in the nose. When Cinders came to, she was saying "Yes” before an altar, being married as it were to the plumber chap. Cinders then strutted her stuff in a big auto and she had a' fine fur coat, all because the plumber husband was paid every week. Am Just trying to tell you that Stella Mayhew, one of those grand echoes of other days, is on the Keith’s bill. By saying "echo," I mean no disrespect, because Stella Mayhew is a great showman. She knows her theater. She knows the fine art by years of experience of how to put over a story and a song. She closes with one of those darkle songs along the lines which made her famous. It Is not the same Stella of musical comedy days you will see and hear, but a Stella Mayhew who has kept pace with the popular demands of the hour and at the same time has retained the glory of the past. I am not kind to Stella Mayhew because Christmas is near. But this fine example of entertainment got Into my heart yesterday because she knows how to serve the stuff of the hour in Stella Mayhew fashion. Emma Trentini is a singer of songs of class appeal only. She knows how to sing the songs that demand a dramatic touch and a high voice. That is her fame from the operette stage. She Is a high priced artist and a great one. She Is not in step with the demand of the hour. She sings no jazz songs nor does she think about the Charleston. She Is a marvelous artist of song. She wins because she an artist who as yet hasn’t taken on the vaudeville trappings of the hour. During her act, Eric Zardo Is at the piano. Here is one of the finest concert artists before the public today. He wins because he Is a great artist.
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Stage Verdict Keith’s—Stella Mayhew, one of the big favorites of other days, returns to the stage and proves that she Is just as groat a favorite as yefcrs ago. Lyric—The bill, headed by the "Dancing Pirates,” is in the way of being a real Christmas present of fine entertainment. Palace —Jazzy syncopation has some real exponents in the jict of "Don Tranger and Syncopettes.” Mighty good bill.
Alice Hamilton and George Hayes hand out the sentimental hokum that gets over in “The Spirit of ’76.” Robey and Gould work along eccentric lines. Arthur Hartley and Helen Patterson appear In "One Night,” a sketch showing what might happen when a pretty girl turns burglar. Ed East and Ralph Dumke, both of Indianapolis, are now on the big time. With their singing and piano work, this act gets over in good shape. Groh is an acrobat who works on the top of a piano. He has the assistance of a dog, well tnained along individual lines. There is another act, a roller skating act, on the bill. The name I have misplaced. The movie is Glenn Tryon In “The Flaming Flappers.” -I- -I- -IKEAL .MERRY CHRISTMAS SHOW ON VIEW AT LYRIC' A holiday bill assuring everyone of a very “Merry Christmas is on visw at the Lyric for this week. Just about all of the most Important things of vaudeville are to be seen In the several different acts. Topping the bill Is a company of crack dancers under the name of the “Dancing Pirates," the dancing part of the name coming from the excellent interpretations of this art by the members and the "Pirate” from the plot of the little sketch which they present. The sketch is just an excuse for the very fine dancing of five girls and one man. Real, genuine fun is the offering of Marr and Evans. The two men are in blackface and one takes the part of the very Ignorant and dumb porter of a hotel. The other is the "sheik.” Tpie questions asked and explanations offered are the mirth provokers. Some fine tap dancing Is also featured. The Demario Trio, two men and a woman, furnish the classical part of the bill with vocal numbers that are above reproach. Among their num- : bers were two that the writer liked i especially well. One, "O Sol Miq" I and an arrangement of the sextette | from “Lucia.” The Gypsy Wayfarers Is an orchestra of girls that lives up to its name in truth when it comes to color. The set and costumes are beautiful and the selection of pieces played is just about the pick of the j popular numbers. Quite apart from the orchestra Is the dancing of the girl featured in this part/ Oh how that girl dance the “Charleston.” Smith and Sawyer have taken,the
TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1925
lowly orange juice stand and mads , it furnish some very good fun. This , uct is a continual rapid fire line of wise cracks and bright retorts. You’ll laugh all the time. Ann Schuler and George open the bill with some exhibitions of what , a skilled gymnast can do when It comes to really novel and difficult feats of balance and posing. The Ishiknwa Brothers close the bill with a Japanese act> of contortions and acrobatics. Included in the bill is 'a movie J that the kiddies will Just eat up. It j Is a version of the old nursery tale •* of “Little Red Riding Hood.” At the Lyric all week. (By the ' Observer.) •i--i--i-MIGHTY GOOD " SHOW AT PALACE It has been said that there Is noth- ! Ing in a name, but we know of one ! instance at least where this—is not true. Meaning the act of “Don Tranger and Syncopettes" at the ■ Palace today and tomorrow. \ The girl members of this orchestra with Tranger are verily the "pets” 1 the syncopation. They can take a popular air and make It talk In ' music. granger, besides giving several. 1 saxophone solos, gives Impressions! of several celebrities of the kingdom j of jazz which furnish some good ' chances for the orchestra to do Its I stuff. , Bungle Love is a humorous mix-! ture of harmony and comedy by four! men In the character of sailors, and! two women. The four sailors, each' by the name of Jones, -get an Invi-! tatlon to a chicken dinner, but it I happens that the invitations are for' two only. From this point the com-1 edy is worked out. The men sing! some very good harmony. , Ray and Everette in an act, the I scene of which is laid In a cabaret,! keep up a continual line of wise! cracks that contains much humor. Eccentric dancing and some jazzy i melodies by the woman member are I the features of the act of Francis,! Ross and Duross. Irma Balm us and Milo open the| bill with striking poses and examples; of the gymnast’s art. Included in the bill is a photoplay,! "Lord Jim” with Percy Marmont aqd I Shirley Mason and News reel. At the Palace today an{l tomorrow. (By the Observer). •I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: "Thai Scarlet West" and Rose's Midgets at! the Circle: "Mannequin” at the Ohio;! "When the Door Opened" at the | Colonial: “A Woman of the World” at the Apollo; burlesque at the Broadway and “The Desert’s Price" at the Isis. PLAN’ CHRISTMAS FETE An old-fashioned Christmas program of readings, songs and poems jby sixty little folks'will be given Wednesday at 7:30 p. rn., at Cadle Tabernacle, under the direction of some mothers o 2 the church: Mesdamea* Ed Oswald. A'nlter Kock, lEd Strobes, H. E. Summers and Fred Biemer. A Santa Claus will be there to distribute gifts. Everyone is welcome.