Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1926 — Page 6

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Where the Money Is Spent EARLY one-half of the total expenditures IN of all governmental units in Indiana — State, county, city, town and township—last year were for education and roads, according to figures compiled by Charles Kettleborough, director of the State legislative bureau. For school purposes -Indiana spent $48,418,527.63, and for highways and streets $45,595,730.53. Payments on debts, contracted for public improvements, ranked a poor third in the list of disbursements. Schools and roads, both matters of only local concern, each cost lloosier taxpayers more than the Army, Navy and all the other activities of the National Government combined. Yet the average citizen takes little interest in a school election, school operation, highway management or other matters of local government. He gets all heated up discussing the World Court, the League of Nations, the views of the White House spokesman, and the verbal contortions of Senators. He feels more intimately acquainted with the President of the United States than with his own township, city or county officials. His interest should be reversed. In reality the activities of National Government, questions of international policy and similar matters of national politics touch the average citizen’s purse lightly. It’s schools and roads that hit us where we live. General Hancock’s remark “the tariff is a local issue” might \\;ell be applied to Government. Government is primarily a local matter. Just Plain He-Cow El HE International Harvester Company has offered to accept the farmers’ corn in payment on farm implements at the rate of $1 a bushel. v One dollar a bushel sounds good to the poverty-stricken farmers of the corn belt, but there seems to be a joker in the offer. The harvester company offers that price for No. 2 corn, delivered at Chicago. And there is practically no corn of that quality now on the farms of the middle west. Most of the corn still held by the farmer is No. 4 and No. 5 grade. The production capacity of the har ester plants will not be taxed in making good this offer. , THE height of dexterity probably would be to solve a cross word puzzle while doing the Charleston. •• • " , THAT loud chuckle was from grandma. The new cover-the-throat style conceals those age wrinkles.

Our Vanishing Gasoline

Bdltor’r Note—A gasoline and oil shortage threatens the Nation. It can come, we are told, almost any time. There are twenty million .automobiles in this couitry that could not budge without gas and oil. , The national defense—the Army, the Navy and the air force —would be powerless without petroleum, and its products. Petroleum is fiore important than powder. If you own an automobile, or hope to own one. or are interested in keeping our shores defended, then you’ll be interested •in this series of articles b.v Henry L. Dohe&: Dohertv is a millionaire director of gas, oil and electric concerns, and a scientist as well. As such he has made a life siudy of the whole subject. So when "President Coolidge's Federal oil conservation board invited the leading experts of the country to a conference at Washington, Mr. Doherty was at the top of the list. What he told Secretary of War Davis. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Secretary of the Interior Work and Secretary of Commerce Hoover he now tells you—in vivid style— at the request of The Times. By Henry L. Doherty I" ' "i VER since the advent of the I E petroleum Industry, somebody 1 *~ JI has always been predicting an early shortage, but It has never come true. This, however, is not proof that It cannot come true, and yet the failure of these predictions of shortage has caused thousands of men In the petroleum business to believe that all predictions of a shortage will prove untrue. > There is no evidence that anybody can offer that we have an adequate supply. And If you will put the acid test on the reasons given to support the theory of an ample supply, you will And nothing worthy of serious consideration other than the argument that all previous predictions of a shortage haye been proven to be untrue. On the other hand, you will find an abundance of_ evidence to Indicate an early shortage of petroleum. All of our most probable territory has been explored and much of it perhaps almost completely explored, and it has either been abandoned or exhausted, or is in the process of .exhaustion. Our consumption has grown so enormously that all df the petroleum ever produced in some of the older Slates would be an unimportant contribution to what we now need. • For example, petroleum was first discovered in the State of New York in 1864 and yet all of the petroleum produced in this State up to the present time would only last, at our present rate of consumption, less than a single month. , : this should be warning to Everybody of the rapidity

Attention, Automotive Engineers CONSERVATIVE statistician has estii*l mated more profanity issued forth from changers of licem-e plates during the last few weeks than will be atoned for in a corresponding number of years. Unversed as we are in mechanics, here’s a suggestion to the automotive enginee r s attending the automobile tehow. Why not invent a clip or spring device whereby an old license plate may be slipped out and anew one clipped in its place? Not as picturesque as the flower vase or the hand-tainted ash container in the limousine, hut, (hi, what a temper saver! Our Vanishing Gasoline jpvllD you know . |L/| That one gallon of gasoline contains as much energy as 75 pounds of TNT? That petroleum is our most important munition of Avar? ' , That our most productive oil fields are being pumped dry so fast that their average life is less than three years? That if no new wells are brought in for the next thirty-five months there will be no more oil left in the market? That if the United States were to become involved in a war three years from now it might find itself without sufficient petroleum to fight? That if we had to depend upon shale for oil—that’s where our domestic supply will come from when our pools are gone—that 1,000 tons would have to be mined to drive a single battleship one hour? That at the present rate of consumption the United States will have gone through with its entire supply before Great Britain, Japan and the other great powers have more than skimmed the surface of theirs? ' These and Ynanv other things are told in the series of articles by Henry L. Doherty beginning in The Times today. M r . Doherty is a multi-millionaire oil man, banker, public utilities director, engineer and internationally known scientist. President Coolidge’s Federal oil conservation board, realizing a shortage menaces the country, asked Mr. Doherty and other experts to help it find an answer to the problem. Whether you agree with Mr. Doherty’s proposed solution or not, you will be mightily interested in what he has to say. Start reading his articles in,today’s paper. They’re of national importance. LOTTO has been chosen as Florida’s official State game, ’tis said. • • • WALL Street victims bear a lot of bull from advisers before losing.

with which we are consuming our petroleum deposits—all that has ever been produced In the State of Pennsylvania, from the beginning down' to the present time, would not last us thirteen months, at our present rate of consumption. Ohio's total output would last less than nine months; Illinois’ less than six months; West Virginia’s less than six months, and Indiana’s less than two months. All put together it would not last us three years! I am not predicting a shortage of petroleum at any certain date, but am predicting the possibility that it may occur *t anv time, and predicting with great positiveness, a serious and an embarrassing shortage before provision has been made to meet this shortage, unless something is done by th£ board. Next—Why we produce twice what we need. Ask the Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tbe Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What is the address of the headquarters of the Army and Navy Union? The organization, composed of retired Army and Navy officers, has headquarters at 1241 Juanita St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. How long does a house fly live? The life cycle of a house fly is frorh ten to fifteen days and varies according to climatic conditions. Who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923? Dr. Banting and Dr. McLeod of the University of Toronto received the prize for their discovery of insulin. the new and effective serum treatment for diabetes. What amount of money is lost each year in the United States through investment in fradulent and worthless stock? The American Bankers’ Association estimates those losses at j1,400,000,000 for 1925,

MR. FiXIT Park Department to Give Advice on Lawns Through Mr. Fixit.

Let Mr. Flxit present your blems to city officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Mr. Fixit today announces anew service for Times readers, through courtesy of R. Walter Jarvis, parks superintendent. Through addressing a letter to Mr. Flxit, you may obtain advice cohcerning Improving your lawn and building flower gardens. If you have a knotty problem, write Mr. Fixit and you will have the prompt advice of the park department experts. DEAR MR. FIXIT: . I *m coming to you for the second time. You got good results from my first appeal. Manly thanks. Where did the automobile license department get authority to raise the price of licenses and charge by weight for 1926? I own a car and am under the twenty-five horsepower class, for which I have always paid $5 a year. This year I was charged $6. How does It come? NORTH SIDE TIMES READER. The law authorizing charge by weight was adopted by the 1925 Legislature. Mr. Flxit has a car of the same make you mentioned, and was soaked in a' similar manner. How may a tennis racket be kept in good condition during the winter when not used? The best way Is to use a ‘‘racket press” fastening the racket in it with the case on. That keeps It from warping. Keep it In a dry place as dampness causes the strings to break. Should dogs of the same parent stock he mated? Breeders do not consider it advisable to mate dogs of the same parent stock. It may be (fone when the parents of both dogs are healthy, but it is better to Introduce new blood. If they have different sires and the same dam the danger of in-breeding is not no great.

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Tamaki Miura Scores in Satisfactory Presentation of ‘Madam Butterfly’

By Walter I>. Hickman A ’""IT this stage of one's experience with opera on tour, u—J it is necessary only to consider certain facts. My verdict of the Manhattan Opera Company’s presentation of “Madam Butterfly” English's jßfifflgP >*• night is: The moat satisfactory proIPPpPjVOPnIIF miction (tn tnnr of BIF. this noted opera that I have ever IS B seen. With Tamaki *' llura in the title |jg| : jiff role, it Is imneces--ary to state that t >i Ia was handled with both Vfti* (harm and int?l I’.tencr. both ns to TKfc SSSf*' voice and iintlerstanding of the Wm ■■ 'W W;.. role. She hag a fine dramatic sense Tamaki Miura and appreciation which permits her to lift the big dramatic moments to fine heights and she also has a voice which permits hep to render the score as intended. Miura is a most satisfactory artist. 1 have never seen a better Madam Butterfly. Ada Patrgi as Suzuki, a servant to Cho-Cho-san. fitted Into the picture with rare ease. Julian Oliver had no extreme difficulty with the role of Pinkerton and Graham Marr %vas dramatically fine as Sharpless. "Madam Butterfly" is an opera which depends upon the principals and the orchestra. Aldo Franchetti did wonders with his orchestra. I feel that I am safe in stating that you will be awarded hy attending any of the four performances to be given by the Manhattan Opera Company during its brief visit to this city. I realize fully the diffi culty in presenting opera any place and any time. It is expensive and dangerous. Basing my opinion entirely upon "Madam Butterfly," I do not hesitate to recommend this company for an honest and intelligent handling of opera on tour at the prices charged. Tonight the bill at English’s will be "La Traviata” with Marina Polazi. Franchetti again will conduct.. The matinee Wednesday will be "The Barber of Seville” with Leta May. -I-•!--!-IN’ WHICH A SINGKU WINS WITH EASE I would suggest to those who think that a real voice and artistry on the vaudeville stage are all applesauce. go to Keith’s this week and hear Miss Eva Clark, a singer, with Dan Caslar at the piano. Miss Clark is such a good showman that she knows what to do and how to do it in order to register with her audiences. We often suffer when these socalled songbirds hurst in upon the vaudeville stage for money reasons alone. But. it is entirely different with Miss Clark. She has a voice of real charm. She knows how to “feed” her songs and how to create suspense. She. knows what "Rose Marie” will do to any audience, and she does just that. There is a splendid and gracious personality. Last Saturday night Miss Clark, with Mr. Caslar. was on the observation car of the 11:45 p. m. leaving Cincinnati. Ohio, for Indianapolis. Unknown to Miss Clark. I had an opportunity to study her. and I rather longed for the wide world to see this splendid personality as she really is, gracious and wonderful, as she read her book before retiring. The world would have an entirely different picture of show people If they -ould run into Miss Clark while traveling. And lam sure that many people would respect artists more than ever. These remarks probably have no place in e. review, but I just had to tell you about Miss Clark as an artist and as a gracious living personality. Harry J. Conley has been developing his own style of eccentric comedy for years. He isv now using his regular line in anew setting, called “Slick as Ever,” by Willard Mack. At first it is little difficult to know what it is all about, hut before the sketch with musical in- j terruptions Is over, I am sure that Conley with his numerous helpers j will have his audience. It is hokum, but of a definite brand. Act is wonderfully mounted. Conley is re- I ceiving a splendid ovation here and i deserves it. Whatever I ay about Lew Shank ' as a vaudeville entertainer is going i to be "wrong.” But as far as I am concerned I feel that I am Justified In my opinion. In the first placa Shank is all wrong in getting somcK body to write hl s material. Shank is interesting only when he is Lew Shank. Other people’s material and I ideas are not Lew Shank. People | expect to laugh at Lew. The mate- 1 rlfd he used Monday afternoon was very-short of laughs. Shank must not take himself. Seriously upon the vaudeville stage. Remember I am holding this man, up to the same I vaudeville standard as every visit-1

Famous Composers Luigi Boccherini. (TGCHERINI was an Italian composer and violoni____ cello virtuoso. He was born at Lucca, Feb. 19, 1743. He was the son of a contrabassist, who instructed him on the violoncello. Afterward lie studied in Rome and traveled through Italy and Germany, playing in concerts with success. He went to Madrid in 1769 and became composer and violoncellist in the chapel of the Infante Don Luiz, which post he held until 1785. Owing to impaired health, he fell into poverty and was aided by friends. Boccherini occupies a place in Italian music somewhat similar to that of Haydn and Mozart in German. His ad&gios and nimuets are known for their quaint beauty, and his quintets are famous. The latter are written for two violins, viola and violoncellos—an arrangement that has seldom been imitated. He died in Madrid May 28, 1805.

She Fiddles

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Mrs. Mary Bisel "And just to think that I won’t have to eat my own cooking for four whole days,” Mary Bia'el remarked To her husband “Doc” as they settled back in their buggy before setting out 'pn their forty mile drive from their Brown County cabin to Indianapolis where they are one of the featured bits &f entertainment on the Palace theater bill the first half of this week. "But what do you suppose this theatrical business is like# 'Doc’?" Mrs. Bisel asked anxiously as she tucked her violin behind Harry Armstrong, another entertainer. The Bisels and Harry Armstrong are oldtime fiddlers who have been obtained by John A. George, to stage their rustic naturalistic offering. None of the company has ever appeared on the stage before and very few have ever been inside a theater.

Stage Verdict ENGLlSH’S—Judging by the ■way the Manhattan Opera Company presented “Madam Butterfly" Monday night it wiH be more than safe to visit one or ail of the remaining performances to be given here. - KEITH'S—The two real sensations on the bill are Harry J. Conley in "Slick as Ever" and Miss Eva Clark, a- singer, with Dan Caslar at thp piano. PALACE—With the Brown County fiddlers and "The Revue Beautiful.” the bill has two acts of widely different treatment. but which reach the same goal of fine entertainment. LYRIC Harry’ Shannon’s Pennsylvania Band is a snappy group of jazz melody makers with some original comedy features.

lng artist who comes to Shank must be Lew Shank updn the stage if he expects to win upon the vaudeville stage. I ask you to have your own opinion regarding Lew Shank today upon the vaudeville stage. The Andrleft Trio offers some novelty dances. The trouble with these dancers is that they fail to make clear just what they are attempting at time*. Eccentric dancing is the ovation winning qualities of Courtney find eyes. I missed the first act and I am confused regarding just who is who in the “D” spot. So I will say nothing. At Keith’s all week. -I- -I- -I* LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE LYRIC For a good peppy jazz orchestra with reserve features to use when called upon Shannon’s Band, at the Lyric this week, will hit the right spot. The band opens their program with several selections of the popular airs, making a hit immediately. Then come the encores. And their encores are the real features of their program, they are all done in a burlesque manner, principally a burlesque of chorur girls and tyie ‘‘collegiate" type of “sheik” that hangs around the corner drug stores. Are all a good bunch of fun makers. Montana, with his banjo, and that wonderful trick white suit of his, gives h:s hearers some good stuff in the way of original tricks on his Instrument. Among his best features are some examples <?f four part harmony With double picking on the banjo and one in which he gives the Impression of two banjos

being played at the same time. He is a really clever artist. The Reiff Murray Trio have a snappy little act consisting of songs, soft shoe dancing and clever comedy lines. Are two men and a woman. One of the men plays the piano for a couple of their dances and songs. Quinn and Caverly have a comedy act centering on the actions of certain Government officials who were quite prominent in oil well publicity some time ago. Also have a somewhat humorous song about Christopher Columbus and what he would think today. Anna Chandler is a peppy personality with several songs which she puts over in good style. Her best hit was one song in (which she takes the part of an orchestra leader and directs the theater orchestra, j Harry La More and company have a rather novel act of surprises, in which a whole room full of furniture is made to appear suddenly from the .rugs and carpets on the floor. Mr. La More is also an expert on a slack wire, on which he does some featured stunts. At the Ly'ric all week. (By the Observer.) •I* -I- -!- PALACE PICKS A REAL MUSICAL NOVELTY Back to the old bam dances and harmony of fifty years ago is the presentation of the Brown County fiddlers at the Palace today and tomorrow. With the violin, guitar and harmonica, this group of people from our own southern county, offers a program consisting entirely of songs and melodies that at. the present time are never heard unless one should happen to visit the most rural and remote of communl#es. There Is not much comedy in the act. Perhaps it is there, but if that is so it passed entirely over my head. The real merit of the organization lies in its true and faithful repro duction of the music and songs that those of us of this generation cannot remember. The Revue Beautiful, as It is billed, is one of the best acts of this type that it has been our pleasure to see for quite a while. Consists of eight people, five women and three men. Act opens with an ensemble dance by the whole company, and then follow a number of specialty and feature dance numbers. The most colorful bit was the final scene or number done by the company, in which the different fans of the women of different countries were represented by the dancers and their costumes. Avery tasteful use of colors is represented in this number. Mack and Velmar offer a comedy skit in which we are Introduced to a cowpuncher fresh from Montana and a Broadway chorus beauty who happen to meet in the writing room of ir large hotel. Much humorous dialogue and then a surprise ending good for another hearty laugh. Rose and Bunny Brill are two women with lots of pep who put over some “blue" songs and a bridal number in a fine manner. Ash and Hall are a couple of eccentric male comediAns who make hls tory play tricks for them. Meaning that they find many things in the history book that are good for laughs. Bill Includes photoplay. "The Million Dollar Handicap” and a News reel. * At the Palace today and tomorrow. —(By the Observer ) -u- -iOther theaters today offer: "The Beautiful Cheat" at the Colonial; "Lady Windermere’s Fan,” at the Circle; “The American Venus,” at the Apollo: “Lights of Old Broadway," at the Ohio; “The Tough Guy," at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

EAST IS EAST mNDIANAPOLIS police raided a Chinese laundry on E. Ohio St. Sunday night and arrested twenty-four slant-eyed gentlemen gathered in a back room. They were gambling, declared the policemen. Dominoes, beans, matches and small change on the tables pointed to that conclusion. Books, scattered around the room, containing writing irf Chinese characters, were confiscated by the cops as evidence. Also several mysterious bottles of alcoholic aspect, labeled in Chinese. "Chinese cognac,” said officers. But the Oriental gentlemen declared they were only innocently celebrating the Chinese New Year. They were not gambling, Just playing dominoes for diversion. The confiscated books, they said, were Chinese song books—and the suspicious bottles contain liniment, not liquor. And the police can’t refute their statements. Who in Indianapolis can describe their games, read their books or the labels—and prove whether they are lying or telling the truth? Former raids on alleged Chinese gambling games have likewise always baffled the police. No matter how long he has lived here, the average Chinaman is mysterious, e \igmatic and unfathomable. Hi language, mental processes and customs are so “different there is no more mental contact betwefh him and ordinary Americans than between an American and an oyster. “Epst is East, THE VERY IDEA! "-By Hal Cochran You Betcha! H r “”T|OWDY, friends! I’m Just & kid and, say, I’m slttin’ 1 pretty. Feelln’ like I must get rid of just a happy ditty. Time, of course, just like it should, will soor, make me a man. Then this song won’t be so so good—l’ll sing it while I can. Fella doesn’t get a Chance to be young, only once. Now’s my time to live and dance and do my crazy stunts. Maybe wrong, an’ maybe right, the pranks I’m pullin’ now. Still I’ll learn by day an’ night jest which Is which, somehow. Full o’ pep and full o’ vim, an* always set to go. Bein’ Just a kid in trim is thrillin’, don’tcha know. Exercise galore fer—me, like other kids have had. I kin stan’ much more, ya see, than anybody’s dad. Make the best of youth, I’m told, an’ let yer vigor rip. After while yer gettin’ old an’ pep is gonna slip. Betcher boots ambition hums. Betcher life I thrill. I’ll be set when old age comes. Betcher life I w 11. • * * Wonder where gossips would stand if there wasn’t any middle of the sidewalk? • • • Some men look a girl over; marry her—and then overlook her. • • * Oarllo growers of Italy have a union. In Union there is' strength. • * * The heavy-set young fellow chased A street car in a sto*m. .Although he waddled, people said That he ran true to form. • • • Cheer up! The heat you’re paying so much per ton for’’ now, Is gonna be free this summer.

FEB. 16, 1626

and West is West never the twain shall meet.” PUTTING TEETH IN EDUCATION [7p|HE Marion County Council I has provided for a traveling \ 1 dental clinic, under the county board of health, to operate in the schools of the county outside of Indianapolis. Work on the children’s teeth will be done free where parents are unable to pay a small charge. The need for such cllnlo was revealed by a recent survey made of the teeth of 8,000 Marion County school children. We are certainly putting teeth in education. Perhaps it is necessary, but free dental work for pupils In public schools has eome drawbacks. The other day the principal of a Chicago school was beaten up and both arms broken by an enraged mother because the latter’s * 10-year-old son had the toothache and the assaulted principal didn’t get the school dentist on the job instantly. What effect the indig nant mamnia’s outburst had on her son’s toothache is not revealed. Probably care of the teeth, like many other health measures, Is a legitimate function of public school systems. It is obvious that a pupil with a defective molar in which the nerve is writhing and twisting convulsively cannot devote his undivided attention to such educational matters as the multiplication table. But where can the line of legitimate school clinical activities be logically drawfi? The care of the child's physical being cannot be entirely assumed by the schools to the relief of parents. If school children are tg. receive free dental treatment, services of eye specialists. nutrition experts and so on at public expenso, why not fur nish them without cost the serv ices of chiropodists and barbers? WEEDING OUf THE DRONES mNTDIANA UNIVERSITY dismissed 154 students last week for scholastic failures as a result of the first semester examinations. Three hundred and fourteen other etuddhts were placed on probation. Only marked Improvement in their grades will , save them from dismissal. Indiana University, like nearly all the other colleges and higher educational Institutions in this section has adopted the policy of ruthlessly weeding out the drones. "Study or quit” is the attitude of university authorities. Quite a change from the situation ten or fifteen years ago. Then a youth could enter college, loaf pleasantly, neglect scholastic work and fail regularly without much lntereference on the part of the college authorities. Now Indiana University, and other State universities are overcrowded and turning away students who desire enter. There are not sufficient facilities to accommodate those who aou tally thirst for educations without considering those who would attend merely for amusement and social diversions. Asa result scholastic requirements are higher. A dumb student but. a brilliant athlete can't lead the pampered existence of yore. At the end of the semester he is tossed out on fcla ear even if he did throw a dozen baskets in ten minutes against Siwash. Overcrowding and a waiting list are ’doing more to put oollege education on a high plane than new buildings, legislative appropriations or private philanthropy.