Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELTX F. BRUNER, Editor. MAYBORN, Bns. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howsrd Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Tress and the NEA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. t Published daily exeent Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • . . e |ublcHption lUtes: Indianapolis-Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere-Twelvo Cents a V eek * • • PHONE —MA in 3500.

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. l

Her Wrist Watch A*"""" N enterprising jewelry firm proposed to adorn the uplifted arm of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor with a wrist watch. The purpose, of course, was to make more popular the wearing of this bit of useful jewelry and to obtain a rather novel advertisement for its product. The department at Washington, in whose care this statue is intrusted, turned indignantly away from this commercial purpose. Probably the only reason for its refusal was the fact that it never had been done and of course to the bureaucritic mind anything that is new is terrible. Asa matter of fact most of us believe the goddess needs something to bring her up to date. It may not be a wrist watch, but she needs the things for which the wrist watch stands. There was a time when men measured time by shadows; then some old philosopher invented the sandglass through which the slowly falling grains marked the regularity of passing hours. Another generation and another genius produced the old-fashioned clock, whose heavy weights controlled the moving of the hands. Anew time and anew day brought the small pocket piece by which men could regulate their actions and divide their days with some regard to system and punctuality. When the wrist watch appeared it was looked upon with contempt by he-men who considered it a piece of foppery. The boys in France learned just how useful it could be. Viewed from that standpoint the wrist watch is not only a useful thing but stands as a monument of the ability of men to change their habits and their implements to fit changed conditions of living. It may be true that the goddess herself has become sadly out of date and that our interpretation of liberty and the devices by which we obtain freedom and maintain it have not kept step with the complexities of the new civilization. “We may be depending, for example, upon an hour glass device to secure for us freedom of speech, freedom of worship, the security of homes from illegal search. Certainly some things that happen in this country indicate that we should bring our ideals of liberty up to date. We are sending editors to jail for daring to print what they believe to be the truth. The century old precedence of courts of equity are used to jail leaders of labor. We twist our laws and raid homes without search warrants which comply with constitutional provisions for their protection. The fellow that had the idea of a wrist watch may have hit upon a happy thought. Unless the goddess of liberty and her ideals of liberty are kept strictly up to date,

THE VERY IDEA! ’ By Hal Cochran

Outdoors “pp IWKEN the place we call I the heavens, and the place I * I we call the earth, labors good Old Mother Nature for us all, for all she’s worth. Picking out for every season Just the proper sort of dress, ehe’s, no doubt, the real main reason why the world's worth while, I guess. All the color schemes we think of are suggested by the sky, through a fan-like spreading rainbow, when a storm has passed on by. E'en the clouds that seem to gather when the dark of night is due, always clear and make things brighter when the moon comes shining through. Like a soft and easy carpet is the grass that grows so green, and the white and cheerful clover adds its beauty to the scene. Picturesque the rangy mountains that are towering to the sky, as they act to make the level lands more pleasing to the eye. Giant trees that tower so manly; then the slender, meeker type that, with blooms, in early spring time, say that fruit will soon be ripe. Nature knows that we’re depending on the drink of life she pours, and that Joy Is quite unending in her wondrous great outdoors. * * • Any time you find a counterfeit coin, pick it up. You can get pinched ’or passing it. • • • A girl lost her glasses and thought she had to be examined all over again. But she didn’t—just her eyes.

Anti-Saloon League

To the Editor of The Times; SOUR splendid editorial on the Anti-Saloon League is certainly worthy of commendation and told the truth in every particular, but it did not go far enough. The Anti-Saloon League Is obsolete. It should have passed out six years ago when the saloons quit .business and the bartenders got employment in productive industry. public in general is satisfied that saloons have been abolished forever, even though the present prohibition laws have not proved successful.

we are quite likely to lose some of the real meaning of freedom and independence and liberty itself. Is the Senate Simply Stupid? ""T“| SENATE that will accept the present /\ plan to dispose of Muscle Shoals is a Senate that would legalize burglary. It would only be necessary for the burglars to call their profession by some less familiar name. The present Senate apparently refuses to think. It wants to be fooled. Last year when the idea finally penetrated the Senate’s head that it was on the point of making Henry Ford a present of $236,250,000, it threw the proposition out and began over again. What is the Senate now trying to dot It is proposing to .ease Muscle Shoals on terms which “so far as possible, shall provide benefits to the Government and to agriculture equal to or greater than those set forth in IL R. 518.” And what is H. R. 5181 It is the resolution under which Henry Ford was offered a gift of nearly a quartei of a billion dollars! Following the Senate’s awakening to the danger in the Ford offer, the President named a commission to investigate Muscle Shoals and if possible find a satisfactory bidder. This commission found no such bidder, 'but drafted conditions under which it thought bid3 should be asked. Failing to get such bids or such a bid, the commission said the other alternative —Government operation—should be followed. The House disregarded this report of the President’s commission. It passed the present obnoxious resolution, containing no safeguards for the public’s investment or for the consumers of the public’s power. It passed IL R. 518 once more, in other words, without having even the guaranty of Henry Ford’s good attached to it. And that is what the mysterious man in the White House has been jamming through the bewildered Senate. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., in an able speech, attempting to start the Senate’s mental processes working again, probably estimated correctly the purpose behind the proceedings of the past year. He spoke of the effort “to confuse and tire out public resistance so that this $150,000,000 investment of the people may be leased into private hands.” “And all the while,” he said, “the plain duty of the Government to operate this great property for service, not for profit, stares us in the face. It is the solemn direction and promise of the statute of 1916 (the statute authorizing the Muscle Shoals project), which ■ for six years now we have been dodging, while we try to hoodwink the public into believing that we ought to dodge and avoid it.”

OFBTCE BOY—Say, boss, you gotta cut down on my work. I’ve been pluggln’ 16 hours a day—Just like a machine. I can’t go forever. BOSS—Oh, yes, you can, sonny—next Saturday! • • • ’Sabout time we’re playin’ riddles i again. Awrlght, le’s go: When Is Ia fellow who follows the medical proI session not a doctor? Correct answer; When he's an undertaker! • • • 1 Yon all can have your quail on toast, The tramp was heard to holler. But, when yer servin’ me, I’ll take An eagle on a dollar. • * • NOW, HONESTLY— Every now and then you ridicule somebody for being what you choose to call foolish—or silly. Just because that person gets a laugh out of any old thing—or Is chock full of the dickens —or Just can’t seem to tales anything seriously. , Foolish? Perhaps, Silly? Well, mebbe so! But, far be it from me to ridicule them. I, frankly, envy such a soul. Life is too serious at best—and when a person takes a moment, or a day off, and sees only the light side— Well, I wish I wuz them! * * * My sympathy is divided equally between the man who was arrested for stealing silverware right after the doctor told him to take two teaspoons after each meal.

I am in favor of modifying the existing prohibition laws to permit the sale of light wines and beer nnder Government control, thus eliminating the bootlegging and hijacking that is so prevalent in the country today. I would suggest that Mr. Shumaker resign his present position and exert his ability and effort to some productive endeavor that would be more beneficial to society instead of being the mouthpiece of a decayed organization. ML H. CAREY.

YOUR INCOME TAX NO. 4 I M. Burt Thurman, Internal Rev* enue Collector, Tells Times Readers About the New Tax Regulations In These Articles.

SHE revenue act of 1926 provides that the status of a taxpayer relative to the amount of ms personal exemptions shall be determined by apportionment In accordance with the number of months the taxpayer was single, married, or the head of a family. For example, a couple married on Sept. 30. 1925, would be entitled to an exemption of $3,125; that Is, 9-12 oC $11,500 for the husband While single, plus 9-12 of $1,600 for the wife while single, plus 3-12 of $3,500 for the period during which they were married. If on June 30, a taxpayer ceased being the head of a family—the support in one household of a relative or relatives being discontinued—he is allowed an exemption of s2,6oo—onehalf of the exeeption of $1,600 granted a single person* plus one-half of the exemption of $3,600 granted the head of Jy family. With regard to the S4OO credit for a dependent, the taxpayer's status is determined as of the last day of the taxable year. If, during the year, his support of such dependent ceased, he 1s not entitled to this credit. What finally became of the first ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimac? The Monitor foundered De<*. 31, 1862, while en route to Beaufort, N. 1 C., and the Merrimac was destroyed when the Norfolk navy yard was evacuated by the Confederates May 11, 1862. Why does varnish turn white? Usually it is due to a lack of oil and an inferior grade of gum or rosin in its composition which causes Whitening when exposed to strong sunlight or mtoisture.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS mIE American Telephone and Telegraph Company reveals a net profit for 1825 of $107,405,046 approximately $16,000,000 more than the year before —according to the annual report of the company Just made public. A fairly lucrative business. That report ought to Interest Hooslers. For more than a year the Indiana Bell Telephone Company—owned body, soul and breeches by the A. T. & T.—has been pleading with the more or less obdurate public service commission for Increased rates In this State. In arguing Its case, company attorneys and officials produced reams of computations. Inventories, appraisals and what-not all tending to substantiate Its claim that the company was not making a fair return on Its Investment. The plight of the Indiana Bell, as pictured before the commission, would almost wring tears of compassion from a man who had Just got the wrong number. It's a dull day when some A. T. & T. subsidiary Is not pleading with some State commission for a rate increase. Usually the same showing Is made as In the Indiana Bell poor subsidiary is not making a fair profit. Yet, with all Its fragments thus ostensibly unprofitable and In need of higher rates to survive, the telephone octopus as a whole makes the tidy sum of $100,000,000 a year. There's magic for you. The old-time alchemists who tried to make gold out of mud wasted their time. They should have gone Into the telephone business.

WHISKERS ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT p~jNT> now the gals are wearI I lng galluses, as the latest L~*l feminine fad, report Indianapolis downtown stores. Gay, gaudy galluses for sport wear; galluses that go over the shoulders and button to the skirt, front and rear; galluses Just like those worn by grandpa and Clarence Darrow. Talk about equality of the sexes! This Is going too far. Are none of the time-honored masculine prerogatives to remain sacred and safe from the Iconoclastic hands of modern females? With galluses go almost the last badge of our superiority. Woman has taken the ballot and publio offices. W T lth her tennis and swimming she Is crowding man off the sport page. She wears our socks,' smokes our clgarets, liquors up and cusses In masterly,, man-llke fashion. And, according to fashion hints from Paris, she has adopted man’s tuxedo coat for her own use. Such feminine dinner Jackets are up-town stuff now, we are informed. Next she may start to chew plug tobacco. That fits In nicely with wearing galluses. We long for the good old days when men were men and women were something else —when a gentleman could knock his wife dcwn without being plugged full of lead by her. But those days are gone. The gals have taken from us all the treasured symbols of our lordly sex except our whiskers. We can grow ’em and they can't. But that’s small satisfaction. Who wants to go around looking like both the Smith Bros. Just for the sake of asserting our masculine rights? So we’ll endure the feminine usurpation. They can wear our galluses and our dinner coats. But if they ever try to get us to adopt the feminine type of evening gown —low neck, no sleeves, no back—good nlghtl

PURIFYING THE FILMS r-rvMEMBERS of the Central M W. C. T. U., according to HU action taken at a meeting of the organization Wednesday night, will write letters to producers of motion pictures asking the smoking and drinking scenes be eliminated from all films. "The drinking scenes are an Invitation to every persons viewing the picture to violate the Constitution of the United States,” declareed a speaker. "And the encouraging of smoking among young girls is not only demoralizing. but will injure their health.” The good women of the W.'c. T. U. mean well. But really, ladies, do you think if producers compiled with your request, if movies were made solely from lnocuous themes suggested by Grimm's Fairy Tales and Mother Goose, there would be any marked improvement in public morals? The Influence of the films is exaggerated. If every film reference to drinking was expunged, the Eighteenth Amendment would have Just as roifgh sledding as at present. And girls smoked before movies were invented. "Nanook of the North”—a great screen success—didn’t Influence many young people to go to Labrador or Greenland a.nd become Eskimos. Nor has the film version of "Ben-Hur” turned us Into a nation of charioteers. There are a lot of cheap, tawdry trashy films—which as far as the spectator, whether mature or juvenile, Is ooncemed, are a dead loss. But they aren’t especially harmful to morals. Most people, young and old, bring the same set of morals out of the movie house that they took in regardless of the film. POOR PAVING WORK IOY C. SHANEBERGER, president of the board of w- works, declares the board is going to investigate carefully the work done by paving contractors on Indianapolis streets, to determine/what contractor* are do-

ing honest -work. “We are going to have good street improvementt or none,” is the board’s attitude Citizens generally, will back the board in its determination to 6moke out dishonest paving contractors and to Insure that work done shall comply with specifications. Indianapolis has accepted and paid for a lot of shoddy pavement In the past—surfacing that vanished In chuckholes before tax payments for construction were completed. Apparently on many Jobs the contractors did as they pleased and Inspectors employed by the city to keep tab dh the work did their inspecting by telephone. And some of the more recent street Improvements—such as the E. Tenth St. and Eugene St. pavements —though laid on the ground —seem headed toward court on charges of faulty work. Recently this writer showed a Chicago visitor over the city. "Indianapolis,” remarked the Chicagoan following the trip, "Is a very attractive city. But you certainly have a lot of bumpy pavement, even on streets where the surfacing seems to be comparatively new and traffic light.” And he said It. Our paving must be bad to impress a man from Chicago. Paving specifications are drawn to Insure the quality and bility of the work, not* to give the city engineering force exercise In English composition. The taxpayer is entitled to the sort of work specified and paid for. If the board of works will take action to Insure getting such paving, It will deserve applause.

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‘Sea Beast’

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John Barrymore John Barrymore's latest contribution to motion pictures, “The Sea Beast,” will be shown at the Circle the coming week. It has been announced. “The Sea Beast,” Is the photoplay version of "Moby Dick," Herman Melville’s story of the mysterious white whale which roams the seven seas. Barrymore Is seen In his most exacting role.

Wanda Landowska Proves That There Is Great and New Beauty in Old Music

By Waiter Hickman Mme. Wanda Landowska yesterday afternoon In an Ona B. Talbot Intime concert at the Columbia Club proved that there is a lot of musical beauty In the world. She seemed to cause many of us to rediscover this fact. I am not too familiar with the harpsichord, but I did enjoy my second Introduction to this Instrument yesterday. Mme. Landowska, whether she was at the piano oi the harplschord, proved. that she was a splendid artist as well as a big personality. First of all she has that foreign air about her which causes her to melt into artistic atmosphere which she creates. A woman’s grown may not help to make her a great artist hut It can do a great deal to make the picture created one of charm. And Mme. landowska creates a beautiful picture while seated at her beloved instruments. She Is a definite artist enjoying the ability to make the melody leave the keys with astonishing speed. At the piano, Mme. Landowska probably made her most lasting Impression playing "Invitation to the Dance” In the original version. Yesterday was a most delightful afternoon of melody. Mme. Landowska was the final Intime concert to be presented by Ona B. Talbot in the ballroom of the Columbia Club this season.

Famous Composers Johann Sebastian Bach “rTjACII, the greatest organist of his generation and the D fountain of German music, was born in Eisenach in 1685. He came of a musical family, his father being a well* known violinist and the musical atmosphere and traditions of the Bach family, must have made deep impression on the boy. His early musical training was given him by his father, later continued under his brother. In 1700 he went to Luneburg, where he was accepted in the church choir and here for a time he received valuable training, later coming under the influence of u great composer, Reinkcn, who developed him rapidly. Bach held several court positions as organist, being capellmeister to Prince Leopold for some years. He was later appointed cantor and director of music at the university and churches of St. Thomas, Leipzig and St. Nicholas, holding these positions to his death. Bach’s numerous productions for the organ remain unsurpassed. His best known works are probably the D Minor Toccata and Fugue, the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (D minor) and the Clavichord (48 preludes and fugues through all the major and minor keys). He died in 1750 after having been blind the last year of his life.

LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE With a fund of good stories and a pleasant way of telling them, Ralph Whitehead, at the Palace today and tomorrow, upends an entertaining half hour making friends. Prominent In the act, although she Is not used very long, Is Miss Gertrude Pennington the accompanist. From her we have a couple of fine piano soloe. As an encore Mr. Whitehead sang one of the song hits from “Big Boy,” A1 Jolsen's show which closed a few weeks ago. Both people were with this show.. Helen and Gertrude Clinton are two dancers who carry a rather novel orchestra with them. The orchestra numbers only three men, but by playing one Instrument as Is ordinarily done and then sticking one of these “kazoo” things In their mouth they manage to make enough noise, or music, for six. The two girls carry tho act however with several dances among which are specialties by each of them and a fast and snappy eccentric "Charleston” In which they all figure. Crissie and Daly are a couple whb have some good stuff when the man Imitates a dog. fur, tall and everything. Act has lots of comedy as

MARCH 5, 1926

produced by tho very wise littlW “doggie.” Grace and Edflle Clark with songs, some tap dancing and several “wine cracks” furnish some good fun. The Rath Brothers close the bltl with feats of strength that are prob ably among the best in the country. Lifting each other about seems but child’s play to these men. and they are both 'husky fellows. Bill Includes photoplay, "With This Ring,” with Lou Tellegan. and news reel. At the Palace today and tomor row. (By the Observer.) • • • Other theaters today offer: "The Student Prince," at English's; TVenny Rubin, at Keith's; "Fads and Fancies Revue,” at the Lyric; "The Skyrocket,” at the Ohio; "The Far Cry." at the Circle; "Braveheart,” at the Colonial; "Dancing Mothers,” at the Apollo; "Big Pal,” at the Isis, and burlesque at tho Broadway. CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY EASTON, Pa.—Twins here recently celebrated their eighty-fifth birthday. although they were horn on different days In different months of different years? They are Mrs. Louisa Barron and Henry Brinker. He was born on the night of Dec. 31, 1840, and his sister arrived In the morning of Jan. L 1841, sixteen hours later.