Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1926 — Page 4
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If You Love Lizzie mWENTY years ago kerosene was about all they got out of petroleum that was worth anything. Gasoline was a necessary nuisance, a by-product hard to get rid of. The rest yras so much junk. •, Today gas, fuel-oil and the other things have become the very life-blood of the Nation. We could scarcely exist without them. What would we do if suddenly they gave out? One person in every six owns an automobile. The other five ride in automobiles some of the time, some of them most of the time. Per capita, farmers own more cars than anybody else. They haul their crops to market in them. Their children go to school in them. TMy run the farm machinery with them. The movies, in towns twenty miles away, are just around the corner from the fanner with a car. He plows his fields with gas-driven tractors, pumps water and lights his home with gasdriven machinery. Today, country lif? is absolutely dependent on gas. In the city, the average worker drives a car to his job. His chief recreation is a weekend joy ride into the country, a picnic with his family. Gas opens up anew world for him and his. When vacation time comes the little old bus invites them to the far places. But what good would the 2,941,294,mi1es of good roads be to them without the'stuff to make the old bus go? In 1925 automobile manufacturers produced 3,817,638 passenger cars and 496,988 motor trucks, a total of 4,314,626 vehicles. Gas is this industry’s breath of life. Hundreds of profitable businesses arc built up around the automobile trade. Without gas they would die. Scores of big industries now depend upon oil for important manufacturing processes. A shortage would wipe them out. Mose than $6,000,000,000 was spent on building in this country last year, mostly homes. Real estate men know hundreds of thousands of people are influenced to buy lots in the suburbs because automobiles make it easy to come in to their jobs in the city. Defending our shores against foreign invasion, rides our Navy, second to none. It would be powerless without oil. Our Army has been'motorized. Without gas it could not move a wheel. “Developing indicate that our national defense must be.supplemented, if not dominated, by aviation,” says President Coolidge. Not a plane could-leave the ground without gas. “It is even probable,” the President has warned, “that the supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. ’ ’ Quite so. We, the mightiest Nation on earth, deprived of these things, could easily be licked by any second-rate power possessing them. Important? That’s not the word. They’re vital. A shortage would mean billions of dollars lost to business, millions of our citizens thrown out of work, millions more isolated on farms or cut off from their jobs in the cities. Every man, woman and child in the country would be hit hard. • • • ELL, we’d better begin seriously to think about these things. Experts tell us our supply, as now produced and consumed, will not last longer than seven or eight years. If disaster overtakes us we are all to blame. First, the oil concerns are engaged in a mad scramble to see which can produce most and sell it, even dumping it on the market in competition with cheap coal. Second, the Government, instead of exercising some sort of control- over this absolutely vital commodity, has actually contributed largely to its waste by throwing -open its own oil lands to private exploitation at a time when more than enough was already gushing from other fields. And lastly, the public—You, Us & Co.together with the automobile makers, are doing our full share. We demand—and the factories humor us—cars that eat up twice the gas European cars consume for the same distance and speed. This extravagance will boomerang. The Government, finally, is showing signs of waking up. Having by sins of omission as
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You cau tot an answer ta any q union ol I act or information by writing lo The Indiai f.nolia Times Washing t in Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington D. C. inolosinir 2 cents in •t-niD* for reply. Metical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a peronal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Al; letters are confldrn*lal.—Editor Are the Icebergs and floating pieces of Ice in the ocean made from fresh or salt water? ,'oebergs are formed of salt water. Fresh water icebergs are of rare occurrence and inferior in size. The far northern seas freeze in huge drifts' and icebergs break off fiom
well as commission done more than any other agency to bring on the menace, in February it will confe* with the oil interests to see what can be done to save us. A little late, of course —after Teapot Dome and similar oil scandals—but late beats never every time. Now, if you love Lizzie, watch Washington. The V. P.’s Busy Day | V ] LOT of people think the Vice President mV has nothing to do. They are wrong. Here is one day in the life of Charles G. Dawes, the day being Jan. 20, 1926: Down to work at 11 a. m., after working late the night before criticising an unnamed Senator by radio. Maintains order in Senate chamber while Senator Jim Reed roasts him for his radio speech. % Apologfzes to Senator Reed and explains he hadn’t had him in mind, but Senator Copeland. Maintains order in the Senate while Senator Copeland roasts him. Withdraws to his private office to prepare a written apology to Senator Copeland. Appoints a Vice Presidential Spokesman, after the manner of the White House Spokesman. - , Calls in the correspondents and has his Spokesman explain that it wasn’t Copeland he had in mind, but Senator Cole Blease. Also that he wasn’t the one who had said -what be said an the radio, but General Harbord. Dodges, through his Spokesman, a query as to whether he had„not, then, apologized to Reed and Copeland for something he hadn’t done. Announces, through his Spokesman, that he really didn’t know what he had said, since he didn’t have a stenographer present. Returns to the Senate to hear Senator Reed refer to Owen D. Young, sitting in the gallery, as “the author of the so-called Dawes plan.” ' Spends rest of day shopping for an armored shirt to wear in case Cole Blease should learn what he had told the correspondents. Also for an ax with which to bust his microphone.
Up By His Bootstraps! SWAY to make the farmer pull himself up by his own bootstraps seems to have been revealed like a bright vision to the House Agricultural Committee. Out of the forty or fifty measures before the committee, only two have received serious consideration thus far. One, which probably will be passed, simply creates a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture. The other is the Dickinson hill, which establishes a Federal Farm Advisory Council and a Federal farm board to/iid in disposing of the surplus. To this bill C. Remold Noyes, St. Paul wholesale druggist, appearing before the House Agricultural Committee, has given his support, saying it might embody certain details of the “Noyes plan” which, he said, is receiving favorable comment everywhere from business men and farmers. “My plan,” said Noyes, “provides for a bounty on exports to be paid by the producer through an excise tax. This secures to the producer the highest protective price on that part, of his product consumed at home and still enables him to sell his surplus at the lower foreign price.” It works something like this: There is produced in a certain year in the United States 800,000,000 bushels of wheat, of which we can use only 600,000,000 bushels. Let us say the world price of wheat is $1 per bushel while the United States price is $1.40. If the farmers pay ten cents per bushel sales tax, that will put into the United States Treasury $80,000,000. This will exactly cover the difference between the price at home and the price abroad for the 200,000,000 bushels exported. Thus the farm board will be able to pay the farmer $1.40 for every bushel of wheat he grows, while at the same time they can sell the surplus abroad for $1 per bushel without any loss. There you are* Everybody taken care of except the well-known American consumer.
them. The principal source of floating bergs observed by steamship passengers, ate the ice sheets and glaciers which cover certain areas in the far Ndrth. They are broken 'off by the buoyant action of open water as the glacier pushes in to the sea. About seven-eights of the entire mass of the iceberg is under water. , When a: e "bread and butter" knives used and where are they placed in setting the table. Thejr are used at dinner and'
luncheon and are placed Just above the bread and butter plate. V.Tiat is meant by ‘timing soil"? Lime 1b used to sweeten soil when it has become too rich owing to heavy manuring. When lime is worked into the soil for this purpose It is known as "liming the soii.” On what dates did Easter Sunday come between the years 1895 and 1900?' 1895—April 14;. 1896—April 5; 1897 —April 18; 1898—April 10; 1899 April 2; 1900—April 15. What is the address of the contest board of the Almerican Automobile Association? ‘ 601 Fifth Ave., New York City.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Home Town Girl Wins George’s Heart; Richard Barthelmess Is Date Night Hero
By Walter D. Hickman . ■ - SMOTHER Main Street hero I A I comes before the eye of the camera in the person of George O’Brien as the email town fighting "hero in “The Fighting Heart." Fox appears to have the big idea that O’Brien shmlld be developed v —G nt o popularity
along the home-, spun lines which made Monte Blue a sure-fire box offl c e attraction. Since Blue' has graduated into the dress suit actor class. It leaves the small town hero type in the hands of George O’Brien. O’Brien Is a sure enough he-man fighter. When he gets on his flgbtln' togs for the prize- fight ring he is about as fine a physical
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specimen as the screen has revealed. And this lad knows how to handle the gloves.’ The story gives him a chance to take an awful beating, and he handles this scene Jin a fine dramatic manner, coming back with 'a fine knockout. In "The Fighting Heart," O'Brien Is cast as a small town lad. who Is the guardian of his aged uncle, a veteran of the Civil War. Uncle has good Intentions and always desired to march in the Decoration day parade, but when a bootlegger appears it is doubtful if Uncle would get as far as the cemetery. There is some good old fashioned melodramatic hokum in the first part of the film. Os course George leaves his home town in disgrace, not actual disgrace. and returns a victor to the Main Street girl, who waited for him for about eight reels. "The Fighting Heart” is pleasant ! entertainment’ with a bunch of good fight scenes. Bill includes "Honeymoon Hotel,” a news reel, piano and orchestral music and other events. At the Colonial all week. + I’ IDICK BARTHELMESS TURNS , OUT A DATE NIGHT PICTURE
It is safe to predict that "Just Suppose,” with Dick Barthelmess, will turn out to be a “date night picture.” Meaning that Barthelmess and this picture both will make strong bids for favor with those who observe what is known as date night. "Just Suppose,” as a stage play, was one of those well mannered little rqmanees, supposed to be cen"tener about the
visit of tho Prince of Wales to this country and his alleged love affair with a Virginia girl. Barthelmess is cast as Prince Rupert of a little klrigdom which has a royal family. Rupert is the only human looking person In the palace. ‘You are safe to guess that Barthelmess looks mighty nifty in his royal uniforms and
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when he is just a plain Mister courting a pretty Virginia girl you still can bet safely that he looks the part of a real lover. And Dick, as the Prince, falls off of his horse while playing poT3? Just as a certain sure for goodness Prince Is expected to do. I found "Just Suppose" one of those delightful movie interludes which makes one want to laugh and act romantic on a front porch (not at this time of year) in the moonlight. The story gets into your heart. Am sure of that. And Barthelmess registers with ease.
Paderewski Makes Chopin’s Funeral March Take on a New Meaning of Intematibnal Importance
By Walter D. Hickman mT seemeed that the hands of Paderewski reached across the seas yesterday at the Murat, touched the markers on the graves of *pany nations’ hero dead; touched tenderly the memory of Belgian’s hero, Cardinal Mercier, now
at rest, and then fell like a benediction of hope upon the hundreds gathered at the theater tQ hear this artist. I seemed to get the impression that Paderewski was still laboring under the influences of the news bf the death of Cardinal Mercier. Like him. Ignore Jan Paderewski is a hero of the World War. Paderewski is the
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George Washington of his country and the world’s most loved pianist. While playing in Indianapolis, the official home x>f the American Legion, with officers of the national body in a box, with many men who served in the World War in his audience, with flags and colors placed on the stage by members of the Army and Navy and with an entire audience rising to its feet in honor of the great man when he first appeared on the stage yesterday afternoon, it is not stretching a point to say that his concert yesterday had a worldwide Paderewski lifted Chopin’s Funeral March as a part of Sonata, Op. 96, to such wide and glorious heights that one forgot 'the master at the Steinway, forgot the technical perfection which gave us such melodious drama, forgot everything, but the great heart beat of the world. Chopin took on anew meaning to hundreds of people. Never before in
Rather suspect that “Just Suppose” will be a favorite with those who enjoy tea and crackers aa well as those who like—, well draw your own conclusion as it always has cracked Ice In. it. Nearly forgot to tell you ft hat Lois Moran, hailed as anew movie discovery, is the Virginia girl. She is not beautiful, but has that sweet and well bred something about her which stamps her as a regular girl. She fits into this story. Can’t Judge her yet until she is called updn to do real acting. The overture this week Is another of the James A. Fitzpatrick Music Master Series, this one dealing with Ethelbert Nevin. Nevin's life was rich In dreams and not experiences, so it is necessary to make a sort of a dance affair out oP his life. Bakaleinikoff directs the orchestra fhrougto most of the haunting scores of this gifted composer. Beautifully done. Antonio Nocero as the gay troubadour is presented as • the stage novelty of the bill. He Just misses clicking with his audience. He should omit the spoken word unless it has a musical background He also should watch his gestures and facial expressions while singing. The bill includes a news reel, Hope, Hampton in a movie fashion show and other events. • • At the Circle all week. -I- -I- !- AGAIN MISTER FIELDS WALKS AWAY WITH HONORS In movie circles Just now you will hear a lot of “gab” about W. C. Fields, well known upon the revue •tags. Fields is an experienced funmaker. He is a large person and as shch he.
knows how to rig up clothes which makes him still funnier. D. W. Griffith probably found Fields an easy individual to get before the camera as he registers with so much ease. He never appears to be acting. At no time does Fields force his fun upon you. He makes you howl with laughter with some low brow comedy tricks of the burlesque
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stage which he llftsi to dizzy comedy heights by his artistry. There are two instances of such artistry in “Sally of the Saw-dust,” directed by Griffith. “Sally” belongs to the gingerbread series* of melodramas which Griffith is now directing. It is Just an. ordinary story, but Griffith with the aid of Fields and Carol Dempster,- lifts the picture to the place where it entertains with ease, because it is a human little affair. Griffith knows how to make his heroines suffer, the poor little dears. That is where thja director really excells- He is selling heart interest every second in this film. In perfect frankness, I missed a few minutes of the beginning of
Movie Verdict OHIO—“Sally of 'the Sawdust” is another one of the gingerbread series of heart hokum which Griffith is making. W. C. Fields walks away with the natural comedy honors of the picture. APOLLO—A fine romance with wonderful settings and a good story mak> up "The Only Thing,” an Elinor Glyn story. ClßCLE—.Richard I Berthelmesss turns out to be a date night favorite in "Just Suppose” Here Is .a sweet-little story told In a smart and romantic way. COLONIAL—George O’Brien shows what he can do in the prize fight ring in "The Fighting Heart.”
my experience with music has an artist lifted me to the dizy heights of dramatic despair onljr to give me eternal hope again. And I admit frankly that Paderewski had me silently brush-, ing away tears as the dramatic beauty left the piano. During the intermission, a man of this city, who honored himself in war and recognized as a real fighter and leader, came to me and told me of the great beauty he had found in Paderewski’s playing of the Funeral March, and also the second of the two nocturnes. The Big Reason •And that explains better than anything the reasons of Paderewski’s great success to reaching the. musically educated as well as men and women of all walks of life. Yesterday he was a greater musical power and world figure than he has-ever been. The Badness probably caused by the death of another world figure seemed to soften the spirit of the great artist He seemed to breathe the spirit of understand ing Rnd love given to him by his audience. His perfect playing, vigorous and' powerful, full and sweeping and then falling to the loveliest of whiepers caused ovation after ovation. There was a perfect setting at the Murat yesterday afternoon. After he bail completed the first part of his all Chopin program, flowers were carried on the stage by the head usher. The great man found time to shake hands with the young woman, who brought the flowers on the stage. ‘ During the Second part of the program, the audience was moved to the greatest ovation of the afternoon by the playing of "Scherzo, C-sharp fninor.” Paderewski during his entire concert appeared to" feel the enthusiastic spirit of a little girl, who was seated on the stage with 400 other people.
“Sally of the Sawdust”, and had to leave before the final feet of film was revealed. At that, I am sure of the general entertaining qualities of the story. It is packed with human interest stuff —poor little girl deprived of her rightful inheritance and persecuted by bar own father, who doesn’t know that he is injuring his own blood. And Oi! coarse Griffith puts Carol Dempster through a lot of those tearful and pretty little scenes which makes his heroines so interesting. Although the story la artificial, Griffith and his cast have turned but a corking comedy photoplay mixed with the sob stuff and sure fire heart Interest. I admit I like this one. Bill Includes "The Bad Man,” Cy Milders In songs, Ruth Noller at the organ and orchestral music by Charlie Davis brehestra. At the Ohio all’week. -I- -I- -IGLYN PICTURES SCORES At APOLLO THIS WEEK Eleanor Glyn, - the woman who made love famous, has quite outdon* herself in "The Only Thing," her latest story to be filmed, at the Apollo for the week. It is a beautifully done picture. Every scene has the air of leaving been planned and
gqne over with the] most minute detail no matter if shouk I only last three sec onds on the screen The costumes rival the most splendid written description! by any author and the "cast is perfect In its parts. The story is that: of a young and: beautiful ' Princess, who has been betrothed to an old and very repulsive King of a neighboring country. A young English Duke, who has been
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sent by his King to attend the wedding festivities, fails in love with the Princess and tries to contrive a way in which to get her away from the old King, whom she is to marry. The plans falls through, although {he Princess loves him. Just as hope is to be given up a revolution breaks out and the government is overthrown. By this a means is w-orked out in—Which everything Is ended very happily for the two ’overs. Unintentionally, perhaps, the picture for a short while carries a very complete and colorful presentation of what happens whfen a group such as the present "Red” organization of Russa gets control of the government of a country. The complete destruction of everything beautiful and of the things most needed to make lffe worth living go hand in Jiand with these people as presented in the picture. One can imagine himself looking at the destruction of the late Czar's mighty empire and the scenes that followed. Eleanor Boardman plays the principal feminine role, and that of the young Englishman Is taken by Conrad Nagle. Both are fine. ' Bill includes Fox News and comedy. Also features by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: Greenwich Village Follies at English’s; Miss Frankie Heath at Keith’s; Mme. Dorse’s Operalog at the Lyre; "A Carnival of Venice" at the Palace; Jack JToxie in "The Demon” at the Isis and burlesque at the Broadway. What baseball player in the professional ranks holds the record for the most stolen bases ,nd for ■the greatest number of sacrifice hits? Harry D. Stovey Hold the record for the most stolen bases in one season. He stole 156 bases In 1888 while with Philadelphia, The modern record for sacrifice hits is sixty-seven and was made by Ray Chapman In 1917.
While leaving the stage at the close of the concert, Paderewski walked over to the girl shook hands with her and patted her cheek. A Little Gir! Wins Then followed the greatest demonstration of an artist’s love for an audience. He returned to the piano and played either three or four encores. He didn’t wait even for applause. I lost count of the number of encores. He left the stage again, only to return after insistent applause. He returned to the little girl on the stage and she asked him to play Ids own "Minuet,” and the great master moyed to the piano again. Many were leaving the theater. People stood still and heard this great man play for one person In the audience. “I do not know her name,” Ona B. Talbot said, when I asked her. "Paderewski seemed to feel the spirit of this little girl, and his great understanding went out to her. None of us had ever seen her before.” But Paderewski recognized the lova of the dTiild for great musical beauty. * Hundreds of people yesterday had their greatest melody experience when Mrs. Talbot presented this pianist before one of the largest audiences ever assembled at the Murat. To me, Paderewski plays the most beautiful piano in the world. I never become lost or bewildered by the mechanics of his art. He talks to the heart and to the soul. "And remember,’’ Mrs. Talbot told me, "the State of Indiana attended this concert as two-thirds of the audience yesterday was out of the city." Never before has Paderewski .given such a wonderful concert in this pity. It will be the sweetest memory of melody In my life. ,
A Sermon for Today 11 11 By Rev. John R. Gunn 1 , ’
Text: “Howwnuc.h better is it to get wisdom than gold?”—Frov. 16:16. (' I > to choose between these two I M things, wisdom and gold. Which would you choose? Do not be too haaty. Before you’ make a choice, let me relate to you two stories. * The first is the story of King Midas, . who, according to ancient myth, was offered whatever he wished. He asked that everything he touched might be turned to gold. His request was granted. Rising to dress he found himself shivering in a coat of gold. Oping into his garden he stooped to breathe the perfume of the roses, and the dewy petals became yellow points that pierced his face. As he breakfasted the bread became metal In his mouth. Lifting a glass, the water became a solid mass. Taking his little daughter into his arms she turned into a gold statue. Realizing his mistake he begged that the golden touch might be taken from him. The othef story is not a myth. Tt is familiar to every Bible reader. The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, “Ask what I shall give thee.” And Solomon said: “Give thy servant an understanding heart to Judge thy people, that 1 may discern between good and evil; for who is able to Judge this thy great people?” And It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.v And God said unto him, "Because *thou has asked this thing,
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
AN UNBEATABLE LOTTERY mNDIANAPOLIS police have brought to light a very flourishing lottery industry operating in our midst. The alleged heads ot the ring are a former city smoke inspector and a poolroom operator; salesmen and agencies were scattered through the city wherever the sporting boys hung out. They called It the "Windsor lottery.” Tickets sold from 25 cents to $1 —and though the lottery has been in operation sine? last May, no prizes had been paid, except occasionally to cappers to stimulate trade, much less the $40,000 capital prize promised. Drawings of winning numbers were made from unsold tickets. The ring had evolved an unbeat' able lottery system. Such a lottery must make the old operators of the famous Louisiana lottery turn over in their graves. That business was run publicly and on the square. Prizewinning numbers were actually held by ticket purchasers and prizes were actually paid. Yet the owners of that lottery made millions. The possessor of a ticket in the Windsor lottery didn't even get a run tor his ■ money; he was scratched before he started. The game didn’t even rise to the dignity of a gamble—Just a plain swindle. Yet a lot of folks In Indianapolis bite on such schemes. There •are always customers for tickets lit lotteries, baseball and weather pools until the police Interfere. Maybe Darwin was right about man’s ancestry—but for some people in Indianapolis to eat fish would be cannibalism. SANCTITY OF THE CITY BUDGET
ELVAII J. RUCKER, Indianapolis corporation counsel, in an opinion to Mayor Duvall, holds that an outgoing administration can not cripple an incoming administration to the extent that it can not properly perform the city’s business by adoption of an impossible city budget for its successor. The budget, he says, is not sancrosanct, Just a medium for securing a, fair adjustment of the money raised for the respective municipal departments. The 1926 city budget adopted by the Shank regime, in its dying agonies, is plaguing the Duvall administration. It was cut to the smallest possible dimensions, and pinches in inconvenient and vital spots. It is designed less to help thap to embarrass city business. Playing horse with the budget Is'customary in Tndianapoils. During the high tide of a municipal administration the budget isn’t taken seriously by the ins. Funds are shifted hither and yon as they think necessary. Then Just before an administration goes out of office it is customary to adopt a budget • for its successor’s first year that spells economy with a capital E and the accent on O. As operated in Indianapolis the city budget isn’t a carefully considered chart of fiscal policy. Between friends it is nothing. Its' principal use is as a political sandbag to benumb the party or faction succeeding to power. They all play horse with it and then boast of their business-like management of city business. POLICE COURT BUSINESS mJIE Federal grand Jury in Indianapolis Saturday returned seventy-four indictments in a report to Judge Slick. The number persona indicted and the cjtf- .er of offenses charged about as usual — the customary Federal grand Jury grist. Forty-three of the seventy-four indictments almost two-thirds, were for prohibition law violations. Twelve were for interstate transportation of stolen autos. The rest were scattered over the numerous high crimes that make up the remainder of the Federal criminal code. The change that has come over. the business of the Federal
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and hast not asked riches for thyself; but hast asked for theyself understanding to discern Judgment; behold, 1 have done according to* thy word: 10, I have given thee nQ wise and understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." We have in these two stories a contrast between twe ideals. King Midas stands for the money Ideal. King Solomon stands for the moral ideal. King Midas represents those whose chief ambition is to gain gold. King Solomon represents those whose chief ambition is to afcin good. Which of the two represents you? If I should put the matter to a test as between these two kings of antiquity with their respective ideals, I venture to say King Midas would be unanimously repudiated. "We all agree that Solomon’e choice was right. We all agree that there are other things far more valuable than all the gold ever dug from the earth. We agree with all that line of philosophizing which puts a greater valuation upon moral possessions than upon material possessions. And yet, in actual life we act os if we thought the opposite of this were true. Solomon was speaking out of experience when he said, “How much better is it to get wisdom than to get gold.” 'Hie experience of every man leads ultimately to this conclusion. If we could only realize this at the beginning of life, what a difference it would make! (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)
Courts is disclosed In this re port. Once Federal Courts were awe some, dignified tribunals with which the average, plain citizen had no contact. They were mostly occupied with cases of mall robbers, counterfeiters and such high-class crimes of high grade crooks. The Federal Judge in those rays, in popular mind, was a sort of Jove seated on lofty Olympus, loosing his thun derbolts against those who trifled with the majesty of United States statutes. Now Federal Courts are occu pied principally with booze cases an automobile thefts —police court business. Respect for them has sunk to a corresponding level. Which is partly responsible for the low ebfi now noticeable in the whole administration of Justice. AN IDOL OF MUD DURKIN, “sheik gunman,” auto thief and tion upon his arrival In Chicago the other day, following his arrest. In Jail he is flooded with flowers and mash notes from empty-headed girls. Sobsisters are busy regaling the public with sentimental slush about him. His mother, feeling that he has attained national fame, has organized a syndicate to handle sto rles connected with his case, and thus raise money for his defense That scheme has struck a snag. Nevertheless Marty has become a popular idol of sorts, and the campaign to make him a valorous, romantic figure deserving of sym pathy is well under way. Any sympathy for him Is wasted, and if he is an idol to the senti mental mash-noters, he is an idol made out of mud. They can well save their tears over his case. Here is Durkin’s bid for fame He started his career in petty lar ceny—a cheap sneak thief. Then graduated to automobile thievery, a not much more ennobling profession. When cornered, he killed without hesitancy. Two widows with their fatherless children are reduced to want because of him He wooed and* Jilted a succession of flames. Not a decent, honorable act in his entire career, never a thought for anything except his own vanity and pleasure. The ca reer of a human rat. And that’s the sort of fellow whom his womenfolk, bride, mother and cousins, believe is nationally famous. His career Is a pretty punk framework for fame, but it’s a mighty good foundation for the gallows.’
John Coates in Concert At the Academy of Music, the Indianapolis Mnennervhor presented John Coates, English tenor. Mr. Coates has a tenor voice with a barytone quality, ‘and his lower reg ister was far surperior to the upper. His voice is not of lyric style, but more of tho "robusto,” and he picked out his songs to bring out the full quality of his particular stj le. He captured his audience, not only by his singing, but by hie word as a character comedian bring- 1 ing out the humour of his songs hi' his excellent characterization. It was a mixed program of. twenty-one songs with several encoree, and i-anged from old English and French to modern songß with one part taken up with German songs of Brahms and Schubert. Mr. Coates is at home in the English songs, his French < songs were put over with a bouyancy and sweep that showed he was also master of that language, but his German accent did not measure up to his French. Thp hall was packed to capacity and every song brought applause and it was evident, from the first, that he had won his audience and was able to hold It. The program was very devoid' arranged, for the end of each purl had a song with n punch to it. that brought even more’ applause than the ones that preceded Gerald Moore was his accompanied and followed the singer with intelligence and no flaw marked tb* performance. (By Observer.)