Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1926 — Page 4

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

Gun Toting EROSBCUTOR William H. Remy proposes to make war on persons who, without permits, carry guns while riding in automobiles. The prosecutor is on the right track, but lie is sadly handicapped by a bonehead law. On recommendation of two citizens it is possible to obtain a permit tb carry a gun. Three bandits can get together and obtain three guns by recommending that one another be given permits. There has been a great deal of agitation in Indiana for years for more stringent laws on possession and carrying of firearms. The agitation apparently culminated in a law making possession of firearms easier. A Bigger Noise PADDLE hangs in the office of the Marion County juvenile court as a suggestion to parents and a warning to erring youth. Court officials, believing that old-fashioned sessions in the woodshed accomplished considerable good, investigated the relative merits of a paddle and a switch, coming to the conclusion that “a paddle sounds worse than it feels, and that is the effect we want.” If we remember correctly, the youngster of our day didn’t go much on sound. If the application of a paddle resulted mostly in sound successive applications were not particularly feared. The keen cut of a switch, on the other hand, had a somewhat lasting effect. Wp wonder if there is a moral for the courts and other law enforcement officials somewhere in this. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi SHE old Schmidt brewery at McCarty and High Sts., once the main plant of the Indianapolis Brewing Company, has been sold to J. K. Lilly of Eli Lilly & Cos. It is now being used as an icehouse and warehouse and Mr. Lilly is buying it for an investment. The prohibitionists will cheer. The residents of the neighborhood will view their dusty steins and shed a tear. The sale marks the final transition of a landmark and an institution. From 1859 until a draught turned the country from beer to poison, the old brewery turned out its foaming kegs, containing more than one-half of one per cent.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

WIVES THAT STICK By Mr*. Walter Ferguson NTJ O one is astonished that the wife of a Los Angeles minister should declare that she will stand by her husband during his trial for attempting to force his Attentions upon a ypung woman of that city. For even in this age, .when women come in all sorts of s'n v ange guises from bathing beauties to bandits, many a man lives to tind out that his only real friend on earth is his tried and tested wife. God so made good wome;,< that their faith and their loyalty i& their most outstanding characteristic./ Almost every day we ran read of women sticking by their husbands during trials charging everything from petit larceny to murder. The wives of years go on soothing their husbands’ broken spirits even as they have always tended their physical wants; they bind up the wounds 6f their souls as they have always ministered to their bodily sufferings. Such wives are hold-overs form the Victorian age; from a time when marriage was considered something mure than a mere legal tie which Was to be broken for a whim. And, thank God, many a twentieth century girl still believes in this good old fashion which demands that we love and cherish the man we marry “until death us do part." * Wives like these are unto men like the ‘‘shelter of a great rock in a weary land,” like manna from heaven when they starve in the desert of despair. And such devotion, such trust, such love, is worth to a man a thousand times more than all the flaunting beauty of the gold digger, all the chic of the vampire, ail the youth and loveliness of the professional man-chaser. And yet. In the fact of these truths, there are men who will give up women of just such sterling character, wives who have been tried in the hot furnace of matrimony, for cheap and sleazy types of femininity who, like rats desert a sinking ship, will flee 4t the first signal of financial disaster. When we look about us and observe otherwise intelligent men who place physical attraction far above those charms of soul and mind, or the attributes of fidelity and affection, which have always made for human happiness, we cannot wonder that so many of them find themselves deserted and alone when, a dark hour fjomes.

The Black Death News Item: 91 Die in Oklahoma Mine. News Item: 38 Buried in West Virginia Mine. JV-n"! NE after another the coal mines of the 1 country become grim and terrible tombs. When death lies at the bottom of the shaft its tragedy stirs men’s hearts. Life in the shaft, perhaps the greater tragedy, is unnoticed. It is a commonplace thing that men shall spend their days digging the grave where they will die; knowing each hour that some day the blackness of the mine will close around them forever. But it is a matter of wonder and reproach when men complain of conditions that make their lives thus, and ask more money to pay them for their peril. A thousanud appeals, a thousand strikes, will never make life safe and decent for coal miners. It is only the death dirge that can be heard above the clamor of life. “That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die.” Some day, from the souls of thousands of men passing from the blackness of the mine shaft, will spring anew order for those who come after them. Unsafe mines are killing more than miners. Slowly and certainly they arc killing the system that has let them‘exist. Peace Insurance “Fql UT your faith in peace and keqjt your If 1 powder dry,” is the way Commander John R. McQuigg of the American Legion sums up the legion’s attitude on national defense. It is a sensible attitude. ‘‘The legion believes firmly in the World Court, not as a cure for all international ills, on a total preventive of war, but as a measure which will help adjust difficulties between nations. ” be said. ‘‘We must not allow our enthusiasm for peace to warp our judgment. It is unthinkable that a Nation of 110,000,000 people should abandon peace precautions. The legion knows what war is and it does not want any more, but it does want to preserve the Nation for which thousands of our boys gave their lives.” Commander McQuigg wants a court to adjust human differences but he does not want to abandon the police force which (comes in njighty handy when somebody tri&s to use force to bring a settlement out of court. That is common sense. L

Ask the Times You can *ct an unewer to any queatiou of f.xct or information by wrltln* to The Indiai ;,poli Timer Waahinaton Bureau. 1322 New YorU Are., warhtncton D. C.. incloninr 3 cents in •t .mne for reply. Medical, leral and marital advice cannot be (riven, nor , can extended research be undertaker,. All other questions will receive a oeronal reply. Unsirned requests cannot be ered. All letters are coni denis the per capita income of farmers greater or less than that Os persons not dependent upon agriculture for their support? According to figures compiled for the year 1919 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the highest per capita income for the non farm population was $956 in the district of Columbia and the lowest $463 in> Florida, while the highest per capita income for the farm population was $1,064 in Nevada and the lowest $192 in Tennessee. Is a Lamprey an animal or a flsh? It. is an animal which is often regarded as a fish, but differs from the fish because of the absence of paired fins and scales and in numerous other external and internal peculiarities. The Lamprey is placed in a distinct class known as cyclostonies or “round mouths." ' blow many Viivll War itensioners remain on the pension rolls? According to the latest report of the Pension Office, there were on the rolls June 30, 1925, a total of 126,566 Civil War Veterans; 241,193 widows of Civil War Veterans, and 60 Civil War nurses. Where can Lou Tellegen be addressed? Care Fox Studios, 1401 N. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. What is the value of a silver three-cent piece of 1866? Coin catalogues list it at 25 to 75 cents. i How did the population of Canada compare with that of the United States in 1910? Population of the United States in 1911( nearest comparable year) 1910 (nearest comparable year) 7,206,643. Is there a book that gives the rating and history of all Greek letter fraternities and societies? Yes, Baird’s Manual of College Fraternities. What happened to Leo Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, some years ago? Leo Frank was taken from a Georgia State prison and lynched by a mob on August 17, 1915. Who wrote “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse”? Is the author still alive? % Will Carleton was the author. He died In New York in 1912, a well-to-do man and a well-known lecturer \ ancyj clubman.

The SAFETY VALVE It Blow* When the Preaanre I* Too Great. By The Stoker

The ‘danger of the dissemination of doctrines,” as Secretary Kbllogg phrases it, is accentuated again by the arrival on our shores of Lady Cynthia Mosley of England. Oswald Mosley, as the Treasury' Department’s docler will inform the Secretary, is a labor member of Parliament and is (dreadful to relate) a Socialist. So is Lady Cynthia! But we are willing to bet our gold fillings that our old pal Kellogg won’t try his exclusion stuff on the Mos* leys. If he does we’ll call up Joe Leiter of the Washington QU Company. Joe and Cynthia are related. You remember Field & Leitec’s store m Chicago? State and Washington Sts.? Well, you remember Levi Leiter moved to Dupont Circle, Washington, D. .C. and Daisy Loiter married ix>rd Curzon. Well. Cynthia granddaughter. So jlou can figure yourself what relation she is to Joe. But she shares in the Leiter heritage, and lias money and fartdly enough to be a Socialist if she wants to. So, come oil Frank! Stand by for the exclusion of doctrines! • • • LONG MAY HE WAVE! “Secretary Kellogg has taken jbl firm stand and is not to be shaken in his determination to obtain full measure of protection for American nationals who are property owners in Mexico.”—New York Times. No, Secpetary Kellogg's “protection” does not refer to personal liberties. The whole dispatch refers to oil. You will note that the “nationals” are further identified as “property owners.” * * * In reading resolutions of the New Y'ork Chamber of Commerce opposing the Borah resolution for the recognition of Russia, it would to us ■ that all the reasons urged against the Soviet government would apply ten-fold against the dictatorship of Musoiini. We are thinking of offering a large prize for the best essay explaining why the Italian dictatorship, with its murders, propaganda, etc., is so muclq to be preferred to the present governmental and industrial experiments of Russia. • • • Now that they have, learned to close women's arctics in the samft manner as *ieh's tobacco pouches, there is little left for invention to achieve.

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History Would Have Been Different If the Indians Had Danced the Charleston

By Walter D. Hickman r— l OW different American history 11—II would have been if Raymond Griffith had been on hand to teach the Indians to do the Charleston. And probably Griff would have found time to have taught the Indian chiefs the gentle art of losing even their war paint at throwing dice or the '‘hones.'’ Am just trying to tell you that is the way Raymond Griffith plays a section of Civil War history in burlesque time. Get P* 1 ready for a shock, R maybe. The characters of President Lincoln and General Lee are used by Griffith in “Hands Up” to Increase ”the fun In this burlesque upon an American war. Considered as movie bur- : lesque, this new high hat comedy r of t Griffith does | not offend. He figuers of the past Raymond Griffith does not poke fun at great national but burlesques a highly dramatic situation. This is new kind of “fun.” It would be dangerous business Uy the hands of only a man with as keen a sense of burlesque as Grj/flth has. Even when General Lee is searching for the bravest man in the Southern army, Griffith even has the general dodging bullets. ‘-CHands Up” is not history, it is just anew kind of burlesque. The test of Griffith's success in this daring new method pf treating historical figures is best tested by the laughter and applause given this picture at the Ohio yesterday. When T was in the Ohio I heard this picture applauded at its close just as patrons of the legitimate drama applaud an act. Griffith is daring and he has a bitter apd at times a “nasty” (not used to mean indecent) inflection to his fun. When he gets through with his picture he discovers that he has two women loving him. both claiming to be his wife. Then Brigham Young is seen stepping out of a stage coach with about six of his many wives. The next you see of Griffith *is that he is bound for Salt Lake City with the two women. Am anxious to know what you think of this daring high hat comedian. Write and tell me—please do —what you think of "Hands Up.” Do that very thing. The bill includes! Ruth Noller at the organ, Cy Milders in solos, a news reel and orchestral music by Charlie Davis and his orchestra. At the Ohio all week. -I- -I- I* MAE MURRAY AGAIN IS JUST MAE MURRAY • A certain director some months ago took a woman by the name of Mae Murray and made a grreat actress out of her. In other words—under the power and influence of this director, Mae Murray ceased to exist as Mae Murray. She became a great artist. When we compare “The Merry Widow,” with “The Masked Bride,” we can understand the value of a director to an actress. Mae Mm HnflH lay too Often overexpresses s o m c moods. At times P when she walks, she does a regular strut, even ugly. ' vSj * s,le exposes an in(cresting limb at various times doing A tlle “Ction of “The Masked B r Id e.” The story is only IHlg fluff, just an item in the world of entertainment. She Mae Murray wears nifty clothes, a mean Charleston and an Apache dance which is very warm. It is evident that Mae likes to do this sort of movie, because it is the regulation Mae Murray stuff. I will remember her for htr exquisite work in “The Merry Widow.” In “The Masked Bride” we run up against the supposed r.leht life of Paris, where the chief of police or what every they call him (l know that he is not perfect in this picture) is a dumbbell and everybody seems to be so while a naughty little dancer is dancing and planning Jewel robberies. Miss Murray has been surrounded with Francis X. Bushman, Roy D’Arey and Pauline Neff, all knowing how to act. "The Masked Bride” is a sort of a Follies edition of Paris melodrama.. The bill includes Jimmy Arthur in “My, Stars,” a news reel. Henderson and Weber in sings and Emil Seil and his Orchestra. Earl Gordon is at the organ. At the Apollo all week. , -!• 4 -IDKNNY MAKES 'EM LAUGH AT THE WM/JMAL Reginald Denny is just about the huskiest bishop in “What Happened to Jones,” that we have ever seen. Can you imagine being in a raided poker game the evening before being married and then when you should be the groom, having to masquerade as a bishop ami marry the girl you. love to somedne else? That is just what happens (n "What Happened to Jones.” at the Colonial this week, starring Reginald Denny. The movie version has been taken from the stage play by the same name and treated in a farcecomedy way. The story starts out with Denny as the young man from out of town.who has become engaged to a very charming girl. He has a rival whose only ambition in life seents to be to blacken the character of the groom-to-be. It is the night before the bedding and the future husband is on his way home to get a good night’s rest. By chance he is dragged into a poker game with some friends, and it is raided. He escapes with the brother of the bishop who was to do the mnrflage ceremony the next day. Bein*jin a tight place, two go

to the home of the bishop’s brother-, and here Denny has the difficult task of impersonating the bishop in order to quiet his friend's wife, But I mustn’t tell you all of it, or you will not enjoy it so thoroughly-: Enough to say that it is ‘‘rippin’ ’* good fun and is full of laughs. The orchestra. "The Hooalcr Hart monlsts,”' has as a special feature this week a number done in the style of the small town band leader and his "boys." t Bill Include* an Arthur Laks comedy that 6hows what this youngster Is coming to ,we’H be seeing him in features some of thess days. • , At the Colonial all week. (By the Observer.)| -I- -I' -IDESSA BYRI) CATUHES THE POPULAR FANCY For some months a certain song has been creeping into the good graces of the public. It is called “That Certain Party,” one of those little things which nearly sings itself. So it is no wonder that Dessa Byrd is able to make the organ at the Circle groan, hum, whisper and moan this haunting little refrain. And that Is Just/what ehe is doing at the Circle this week with “That Certain Party.” The organ, Sunder the magic spell of Dessa Byrd’s fingers, rips off tms melody in various ways. She has worked out this song in an original and fascinating way. It sure is a cute little / song. It has the swing and tl ( needed comedy in Its lyrics to put it across. A joy as played by Miss Byrd. Bakaleinikoff is conductLioncl Barrymore ing the Circle Orchestra this week through “La Stradella,” one of those light but better compositions by F. Von Flotow. The rriood reflected is light, but at times it becomes a little heavy with a more serious thought. Beautifully played and directed. In considering “The Splendid Road" we must remember that it presents us with the covered'wagon •

THE VERY IDEA! ’ ■■ "" 1 By Hal Cochran ■" ■

Mr. Sparrow OE'S a cheerful little fellow, with a chirp that's sound and mellow, afid he never fails to call on' me each day. There’s no reason why I need him. but I sorta like to feed him. and I guess he's kinda glad I feel that way. All the dogs around us chase him, and the cats will try to trace him as he flutters down to chirp (tts morning lay. V have really come to know him through the little crumbs 1 throw him. and I’ve never tried to frighten him away. It is not the song he's singing, but the spirit that he's bringing. It is really hard to understand! just why he so willingly rejoices when the God that gave our voices to the birds just' seemed to pass this fellow by. Other birds wilt warble loudly, and they fit around so proudly that my little friend, by most folk, seems forgot. Yet the sparrow's worth is ample for he sets a good example: Just be cheerful —make the best of what you've got. What you get on the golf course gives yob something to lie about in the summer the same as what you get on the radio does in the winter. Councillor Hanratty of Ireland declares it would take a hundred modern dresses to make one old-fash-ioned shawl. And besides, who would wear the shawl if tney had it? The laundr.vlady quit her job. When half way through she got. For she believed in striking The bloomin’ iron was hot. NOW, HONESTLY— Even now and then you frown and look kinda sour, don’t you? 'Sfoolishl It doesn't make you feel happy—and it has the same effect on everybody' else. Unfortunately a frown is catching. And just suppose you started the whole world to frowning. What a heck of a place this would be to live in. Don't take a chance. Smiling is catching, too. And when you see someone else smile —well, dog-gone-it, you Just sorta feel good. Aw, go on—smile! How (he oyster cracker got its name. One crackermaker. turned to his partner and said, "Well, now tha we've started, makingJhese new crackers, what shall we call them?" And the replied, “Well, the little things don’t look anything like oysters so. let's call 'em oyster cracker's?” j; My sympathy goes out today to the married business man who gives dictation all day and takes it all evening. ) Mother: “Come, Mary, tell mother a bedtime story before I tuck you in.” Little daughter: ’’Awright,* mommy—l always go ,to bed just when I’m told.” , ’ A lot of people are. asking where the, dime novel lias gone to. That’s easy. It’s gone to 75 centc.‘ With the naked hills, the nude trees and the bare limbs, it's no wonder the corn is shocked. FABLES IN FACT GOSH COMMA YOU COULDN’T BLAME MOTHER FOR GETTING PROVOKED W II E N LITTLE JAMES COMMA CALLED JIMMY FOR SHORT C O M M A CONSTANTLY CAME INTO THE HOUSE WITH SOAKING WET FEET PERIOD SHE HAD BOUGHT HIM A PAIR OF RUBBERS COMMA BUT HE ALWAYS FORGOT TO PUT THEM ON PERIOD FINALLY MOTHER SAID COMMA QUOTATION MARK AFTER THIS YOU HAVE SIMPLY

Movie Verdict OHlO—Raymond Griffith becomes qne of the most daring burlesque funmakers that the screen has today-. This happens in “Hands Up-.” CIRCLE—Dessa Bryd reaches new glorious heights in her playing of “That Certain Pasty. ’’ APOLLO —Mae Murray does hot have another “Merry Widow" In "The Masked Bride.” CALONlAL—Reginald Denny brings out ft new version of “What happened to Jones" and packs It full of fun and comedy situations.

on the sea and on land. We see an old boat taking gold hunters to California. Then we get the covered wagons on land. The action at times is slow an<l a flood had to be Used to get the climax as far as tha atory ia core earned. But It seams to me that some good acting, and this picture has that In spots, does not make necessary the flood scenes as a ell* max. And yet a few foot of this film during this flood scene turns it Into a comedy. Most Interesting of several • flna people in the cast is Lionel Barrymore, a star in his own right on the legitimate stage, but In the movies he lea supporting artist. As a drunken and unprincipled saloonkeeper in the gold rush days, Barrymore does a flne bit of unpleasant characterization. The character that Anna Q. Nilson plays is a difficult one because it is hard to determine Just what the character is trying to accomplish. She even is forced to shoot the fellow she loves. Then attempts to give him up, only to find herseif again In his arms. It Is wonderful how quick a movie director can cure a hero of a bullet wound. The bill includes “Framed,” a comedy, a travel movie through Virginia and a news weekly. At the Circle all week. -I- -I- IOther theaters today offer: “Aloma of .-the South Seas’j at English’s; Blossom Seeley at Keith’s; Rodeo Revue at the Lyric. “Around the Globe” at the Palace; burlesque at the Broadway and Larry Scmon in "The Perfect Clown” at the Isis, j

GOT TO WEAR YOUR RUBBERS OUT QUOTATION MARK PERIOD AND DID JAMES COMMA CALLED JIMMY FOR SHORT COMMA DO IT QUESTION MARK ILL SAY SO DASH DASH HE WORE THEM OUT IN THREE DAYS PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926. NEA Service, Inc.) Hoosier Briefs EEN CARR of near Shonsvllle clgima to be the champion radio fan of the State. He recently tuned in at 7 p. m. and stuck to the dials until 6 a. m. the next morning. S. L. Mallot Is the new town marshal at Atlanta. Bloomington is the new • State headquarters for the A. D. Baker Thrashing Machine Company, which recently movet\ trom Indianapolis. Holders of $1,000,000 in bonds of the bankrupt Haynes Auto Company of Kokomo plan to Incorporate to liquidate the 'remaining assets of the company. . Fifteen were made homeless when fire damaged the Dietrich Bldg., at Napanee. A grocery, dry goods store and a jewelry store were damaged. Total loss was put at. $25,000. Indiana's annual road school opened at Purdue today. HTTIRS. HARLEY PICKETT of Windfall Is a bob-sled casualty. She was thrown against the double-tree when the horses suddenly lunged and broke her arm. Muncie folks envy Police Chief Art Jones and John Ertle, night captain. They go to all the basketball games free. An alley cat, found by Mrs. Margaret Parker of Gas Cltq, won the first prize at Marion oat show. The feline turned out to be Black Manx of pure smoke color, declared rare. Farmers Federation of Middletown will hold Its annual banquet WednesA day. Ranson Mosher of Columbia City, Ind.. cranked hi*' auto on a cold morning. His right arm was badly fractured. ‘COLLEGE’ WILL OPEN First Baptist Church to Bring Noted Speakers Here. The annual winter college of the First Baptist Church will open on Thursday night. Classes will meet every Thursday until March 11. Among the sp ikers who will appear during tit *?rm are Dr. C. W. Morro of the - allege of Missions of Indianapolis/ Eugene, C. Foster, director of / idfi.na polls Foundation; Dr. C. W. ilkey, pastor Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago. 111.; Dr. Edward J. Goodspeed, faculty of University of Chicago; faculty member Dr. H. C. Jewel, president of William Jewel College, Missouri, and Dr. Joseph C. Robins, foreign secretary of American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. COMPANY INCORPORATES Articles of Incorporation for the Audubon Realty Company, 9 Johnson Are., were filed today at the Statehouse, capital stock being listed at $5,000. Incorporators are William H. Cooper, F. William Hogle and E. 11. Hogle. .

A Sermon for Today ■-"—■-By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text-. "He was a good man.”—Acts 11:24*. THIS Was Luke's tribute to I I Barnabas.. It was not a careI I less compliment'. The Bible la very Careful about its tributes to men, and particularly so in its use of the Word “good” as applied to men. We are sometimes very careless in our use of this word. We speak of a mart being “a good fellow,” “a good sport;” when all we mean is that he is genial', sociable; ft hale fellow well met-. It was not in this flippant sense thal Luke Used Ihe word when he said of Barnabas, "He bras A good inari: !l After using the word “good” with reference Id Barnabas; Luke' goes furthei 1 and sayft; '“He was full of the Holy Ghost and of faith." This was the seeret of the life he lived —his Spiritual faith and the indwelling of the Divine Spirit. The goodness manifested Iri his outward life was but the fruit of the soiritual life and faith within-. It wis from this hidden source that he drew his wisdom and light and barret 4 ftnd strength. It Was through hid faith ttt Qed ftttd the help of the Divine Spirit that he became the good biart he Was, Human nature In itself cannot produce that type of goodness for Whleh BarnabaS was distinguished. None of us oAfi be good irt the highest and most blessed sense

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA ty GAYLORD NELSON ■

SPEED ON STATE ROADS Ar“““ . H. HINKLE, of the maintenance division of the In•—J diana State highway com* mission, reports that of the serious accidents occurring on Btate roads last year more than half—or 335 were due to fast driving. And there were double the number of accidents of the year before. Only one class of mishap showed a decrease. There were fewey collisions with animals. Apparently the dumb brutes that ventured afoot on the roadway are getting more cautious than the dumb brutes behind the wheel. Probably in none of the cases, where serious accident ‘ resulted from fast driving, was speed essential. No important matters would have suffered had the drivers proceeded at a more sedate pace. The difference in a forty-mlle-an-hour gait and a twenty-flve-mile-an-houi 1 gait in driving clear across the State would on y result in the saving of a couple of hours. Yet some motorists will drive that distance at break-neck speed and, if they arrive at their destination air in one piece, stand around for a couple of hq>urs doing nothing but boasting of their performance. We are a nation of sjieed worshippers. Hurry is our middle name. But what’s the use of all 6ur fast driving? Trying to save a few minutes by “stepping on ’er" on the highway and waking up in eternity is not profitable—unless the hasty motorist has lived a pious life. THE DEATH PENALTY E r ” — *10 WARiy ST EWA R TANARUS, Negro, of .Indianapolis, L___J went to the electric chair In the Indiana State Pilson early Saturday morning and paid with his life for the murder of an Indianapolis feed store proprietor a year ago. Probably the punishment fitted the crime. At any rate the penalty he was forced to pay was a mighty serious lesson to him. He won’t plan another assault and robbery. But of the eighteen murderers convicted in Marion County last year he was the one to suffer capital punishment. The other seventeen received sentences of imprisonment varying from two years to life. Why should he alone attain the unenviable distinction of electrocution? The immediate effect of his crime was the same as that of the other murderers. He cracked his victim’s skull with an Iron bar. The victim was buried soon after. The victims of tlie other seventeen murderers convicted were also buried as the immediate results of the crimes. It would be interesting If a caucus of the eighteen victims could be held and their views as- , certained as to which of tlie convicted murderers should receive the death penalty and which imprisonment. Much may be argued for and against the death penalty as legal punishment. The noose or chair may he effectlv* crime deterrents or relics of barbarism. Whatever their character they should be the end of all murderers or none. If ,ve execute only one out of eighteen convicted muderefs, or one. out oj a hundred, capital punishment is worse than useless. It is then an instrument of injustice, not Justice. DISCOURAGING BANK BANDITS IIGHOEL BROSHEAR, coal ’minor,' stuck up the Franw__J cisco (Ind.) bank the other day and walked out with a Hoosier bank roll—a fistful/ of of $t bills. He was pursued by a volunteeer posse, filled with buckshot and captured a few minutes later. Score one for the vigilaiile and dead-or-alive-feward system which Indiana bankers have established in recent months. This was the first bank robbery attempted in the State in several months, and it ended disastrously for t£e bandit. Last spring such forays were of dally occurrence. Earlier in the week four enterprising thugs held up the bank in a small Michigan village, r*<t dlcd an unfortunate customer, and

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of that word without the help of Gpd. i'To he good means more than being clever. It means more than being smarts It means more than being Influential The world exalts these attainments, but gbodness doest not necessarily follow with them. Neither is goodness a mere negative quality. It has both ia negative and positive side. While refraining from doing evil., it also manifests itself in doing good-. And yet dojng good is not always an evidence of true goodness: A man may do a, good act with an Ultra motive: That does not entitle him to be counted a good mad'. To be ft good man brie must not only db good but he must db it with si. pure motive. His. motive must be not to glorlfv himself but id glorify God; And nis doing gbod must represent something more that! fitful, momentary impulses: it must represent ihd absorbing; ali-ebtv trolling tendency of his being: It tvas (a this high sense that Barnabart Urns ft hood mart; as smt will see if you follow the story (J his life, Such goodness is the high: est attainment in the world; sfteit tniS goodness is the duty of every mart-. But it should bb remembered that Its attainment is not possible tb hian through hist Own strength-. If yml would attain Such goodness, yotl must have that same help by which it \vaft tnade possible to Barnabas. (Copyright, 1926, by John It. Gunn)

grabbed several thousand dollars In currehey, As they emerged, hastily summoned villagers opened fire, All th# bandits Were badly wounded and captured and the loot recovered. It will be some time before the bank In that village will be stuck up again. Learned criminologists discuss ways and means of reducing crime, Some of them say defective glands pineal, suprarenal and whatnot—make criminals. They believe many criminals can l,e cured of their taking ways by psychology and surgery. Mebbe so. But it Is increasingly evident in recent months that lead is the most successful antidote for bunk robbery yet tried. A buckshot inserted in the rear elevation of a bank bandit will do more to steer him into another profession than a frantic gland. REVENUES DOWN; STOCK UP EVENUEB of the TndianapoKs Street Railway Coni-t-—J pany, comparing months of the current year with corresponding months last year, contlnuo to dwindle. December, 1925, Income was $25,525 below December, 1524, according to the company’s report to the public service commission. That has been the story month after month. Last fall the company had to pass its quarterly dividend on preferred stock, and no dividend has been paid on common stock for several years. Yet. though revenues decline and the traction system gives an excellent impersonation of a dying institution, the market price of the company's stock bos advanced 19 points in the past few months. If tlie street car business is dying, apparently somebody is anxious to own t lie corpse. bespite the inroads of Independent bus lines and private automq.\ biles, the day of the street car in Indianapolis is not past. A city that covers fifty square miles, in which a considerable part 6f (lie population of nearly 400,000 must travel long distances to and from work, must have a cheap, unified transportation system, There Is no complete substitute for the trolleys in mass transportation. The future of the street railway system will depend more on adapting itself to changed conditions rather than on higher rates to offset every shrinkage in customers.

MR. FIXIT I • New Administration’s Speedy Work Draws Letter of Praise.

f-ot Mr. Kixil. preterit your problem* to city official*. He i* Tna Time* rep'regentative at the city hall. Write mm at The TimtS,. Mr. Fixit rejoices in an opportunity to chronicle something besides criticism of a city administration. The letter speaks for Itself. DEAR MR. FIXIT: A week after the new administration assumed office my wife called the street commissioner's office and explained the situation about our muddy alley to him. This was about 10 a. m. and by 3 p. m. of the same day, three lotpla of cinders had been placed In the worst places and today they finished the rest of the alley. Tt took the new administration two weeks to accomplish what the former administration had neglected for three years to do. I take this means of expressing our thanks to the men who did this. L. *VV. SMITH, 336 S. Dearborn St. Mr. Fixit rejoices with you. Albert Meloy Is the new streets euperintendent, DEAR MR. FIXIT: The car with the Kentucky license Is etill in front of 540 Massachusetts Ave, Why? TIMES READER. Mr. Fixit Informed the police agalf. Notify hits it you failed to get results on the second appeal. Sandy

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