Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. M'M. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howarrt Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, hv Indlfinsnolls Times Publishing Cos„ 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis 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.

Keep It Up! SHE citizens who gathered to protest against the change of a site for the new Shortridge High School on Saturday gave a most magnificent exhibition of real patriotism. It would have been magnificent even if they had made their demonstration In behalf of $ mistaken cause. It was more emphatic because their cause rests upon a basis which should appeal to every father and mother In this city, every taxpayer, every citizen who has a love of Indlanapolin in his heart and a regard for its future in his mind. It was magnificent because it demonstrated that the spirit which made this Nation what it is has not died. We have not become too much engrossed in our own affairs. That furnishes no Interest in any action of our public servants which affects the public welfare. Public Interest in public affairs is patriotism in action. It Is unfortunate that it can not be recorded that the majority members of the school board showed the same regard for our traditions and for their own oaths of office. The Times would have been happy to announce to the people of this city that the delegation was given a courteous and respectful hearing, that the members were eager for advice and counsel. The Times would have rejoiced and applauded an attitude on the part of those in charge of the schools which revealed so deep an interest In all pupils that no argument is considered trivial or unimportant. * * * EIHE Times Is very unhappy in being compelled to warn the citizens who are directly affected that the majority exhibited a disposition to defy and disregard the will and wishes of the earnest men and women who pleaded for a hearing. It laments, deeply laments, that any public servant, once in office, considers himself endowed with infallible judgment or exercises autocratic power. It laments quite as deeply that any public body considers itself the ruler, not the servant of the people, and by its acts places its own judgment and decisions above those of the men and women who placed it in power. Once more, The Times wishes to call attention to the fact that the selection of this site may mean the difference between an education and the lack of one for very many boys and girls. Once more It urges the members of this board to survey the situation and to make its final decision on the question of how much carfare can be saved each and every year to parents who are anxious that their hoys and girla have advantage of the complete educational system of the State. To place a school at a point where It is Impossible for many families to send their children except at tremendous sacrifice is practically expulsion from that school of those boys and girls. If any teacher or superintendent should expel five hundred hoys and girl's from any school on the ground that their fathers and mothers were unable to furnish carfare there would be a riot in this and every other American city. That, The Times is the practical result of the decisions to change the site. The Times has opposed this change from the start. It fought when every other voice was silent. It appealed when no other weapon of defense against mistake went into action. It started this movement to protect these boys and girls who may be denied an education because of this mistake in judgment. A survey of the city shows, beyond doubt, that it Is a mistake, a terrible mistake. And The Times will keep on fighting, now and always, against expulsion from the public schools of any boy or any girl because they cannot afford tho means of getting to the schoolrooms. It protests In the name of every one of these boys and In the name of every family in which the Item of carfare means sacrifice against any decision which bars these boys and girls from an education. And it suggests to the parents of all boys and girls that they continue their campaign of education of the school board. The members of this board must be shown their mistake. When they see it as plainly as the parents see it, they will unquestionably be willing to change their minds and open that new school to the boys and girls who bring the best of American traditions as a background for their ambitions and their search for knowledge. Let there he more mass meetings. Let there be more delegations. Let there be more argument and persuasion. For these members of the board, in their hearts, must love Indianapolis, must wish it to grow, must desire the best school system in the world. A delegation of citizens at every meeting may be the answer. It should be the answer until the members have definitely demonstrated that they will not listen to reason. A Modern Miracle j~—jENRY WEIGMAN entered tho Chicago Art Institute last week to gain a little more knowl- " edge of the art of drawing so that he may keep on earning his living by designing Christmas cards. Nothing unusual for a 17-year-old boy, of course, until you have the big fact that he was horn without arms and all his life he has been unable to do the things which normal boys and girls accomplish automatically. His restoration to fully capacity for manual tasks is only one of the modern miracles of science and surgery. Asa baby his arms were missing. When he was a child he taught himself to grasp things between his cheek and his shoulder. He learned to open doors and finally to hold a saw with which he could carve out wooden Santas and animals. There was a handicap which might have easily made hopeless any hoy or any man. But Henry had courage and ambition. He never lost, the hope of doing things and triumphing in life. Two easy paths of getting food were open to him, but he scorned them both. He could let his misfortune plead for charity, ft

sit a few hours a day on a busy corner of the streets of any city, and take from pitying pedestrians enough money to make him comfortable. Or he could accept the offer of a circus and display his armless body to the curious in a side show, an offer which promised more in money than he will earn as an artist. He refused to capitalize misfortune. He preferred to conquer it. . A famous surgeon, learning o>f this boy with a brave soul, has given him artificial arms through a most unusual operation. Others, losing their arms in accidents, have substituted the mechanical devices. But this boy had nothing to which to attach these Instruments. The surgeon found beneath the rounded shoulders an embryo arm, only an Inch of bone. Medical science and an operation made It useful. His artificial arms are perfect. This boy, happy now, will forgo ahead on the career he has chosen for himself. He will put his dreams of beauty on canvas. He will produce color and brightness for others. Just how much courage and bravery it takes to win against misfortune only those who have forced or been bom to it can understand. The inevitable self-pity destroys the timid and the weak. The constant comparison with the normal breeds bitterness. It requires unusual courage and more than average ambition to battle against heavy odds. A half century ago this boy would have been heljjless and hopeless. We are beginning to understand more about life. There may even come a time when we will understand the crippled intellect and maimed spirituality and restore our morons and our unfortunate criminals to normal thought and moral viewpoint. Man has only begun to grow. Another century will bring miracles which will change human nature and cure many of the things that today seem hopeless. To those who think that they have no chance in life, that there is no opportunity for youth, that the cards are all stacked against them, this story of the armless boy ought to be Interesting. / If you have ambition and cold conrage, you can do anything you wish to do. Too many of us are horn without the mental and spiritual arms of determination and the will to win. — Tom Sims Says Perhaps this Charleston dance was started to boost the stocking trade. To keep finger prints and dirty marks off your wall paper have it all pasted on the celling. Better sit In your old comfortable chair all you can before spring cleaning comes and gets It. Half the people who own pistols couldn’t hit the other half. Perhaps you are trying to use pull to open the door to success when you should just push ahead. Milk is healthy and besides the bottles are handy things for throwing at burglars. It seems to work out that the more silverware you see on the table the less food they have. There Is a movement to make paper money smaller. The man with any of It already thinks It is smaller. War Insurance to Expire Soon You can ret an answer to ano question of fart or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bur?iu. 132:. New York Ave.. Washington. D C.. inclosing 2 rents fn stamps for replr 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 be answered. All letters are confidential. — Editor. When does war risk term Insurance expire? It automatically expires on July 2, 1926. What la the salary of the President of the United States a day and per minute? His salary Is $75,000 yearly; $205.47 daily; 14 cents per minutes. * Do the Chinese really use bird’s nests as food? The nests of the bird known as the Swift are considered a great delicacy by the Chinese. These birds are remarkable for the development of the salivary glands, the secretion of which is used In nest building. The nest Is composed of grass, twigs and other vegetable matter glued together by the saliva. How Is water distilled? By placing It in a closed vessel with only one escape pipe. The -water is heated to the boiling point. Most of the impurities such as salt and calcium sulphate are not volatile and remain in the still. The water changes into steam, which passes through the escape pipe, which Is surrounded with cool water, into a condenser. Cooling the steam condenses It and pure water drops from the end of the pipe. Is there any way, other than becoming a citizen of another country, by which an American citizen can lose his citizenship. It is possible to lose one’s citizenship under the following circumstances: Protracted residence abroad, with no apparent intention of returning to the United States; desertion from the United Staes Army or Navy In time of war; in the case of naturalized American citizens, two years residence in the foreign state from which he or she came, or five years In any other forign state. Will trees grafted from a tree that has never borne fruit be productive? Grafts can be taken from a tree that has never borne fruit and the fact will have no effect on the fruit bearing of either the parent tree or the new one. How much tobacco was produced in the United Slates in 1925? 1,229,000,000 pounds. ’ What was the date and place of the death of Samuel Gompers? Dec. 13, 1924, at San Antonio, Texas. When -was the capital of Oklahoma moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City? 1910. Is Mussolini, the Italian premier, of Jewish extraction? He is an Italian, born in Predappio, Italy, In 1883. What Is the meaning and nationality of the name "Moore”? • It is either English or Irish and cornes from an old Anglo-Saxon woro\ "mor," meaning a moor (heath.)

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As One Legged Soul Pirate in ‘The Sea Beast/ John Barrymore Is Wonderful

By Walter D. Hickman l s the soul pirate in "The Sea j A I Beast." John Barrymore gives to the screen one of those s.niving realistic things which only a great artist can create. Barrymore, becomes a one legged h’-nte. the captain of a whaling ▼essel, In “The Sea .L.oast,’’ a movie ™* version of Herman Mel< ilia’s "M ob y y Dick.” You first lam* . meet Ahab Ceeley (John Barrymore), *:■■■ - Sil as the beautiful ■ and romantic mem- v her of a crew of a | <*., * Is a tough and Sjk nasty life, but Ahab loved a good girl. Esther Wiscasset. To bind his love, he has a love emblem tattooed on his right arm. And so as Ahab In his .John iiarryinoro youth is on the "atah" looking for the sight, of a whale, he dreams of his sweetheart. But there Is evil about In the form of his half brother, Derek Ceeley. Derek is "mad" over Esther. And Derek finds It easy to toss Ahab overboard when the crew first encounters the great white whale. "Moby Dick." Moby turns on Ahab splashing In the water and takes off one of Ahab’s legs. Crippled and disfigured for life, Ahab becomes sensitive to his great 1 pain as well as to his appearance, and poisoned with mental fear by j Derek. Ahab Is lead to believe false- | ly by Derek that Esther does not want a "half man” for a husband. | Believing that lie. Ahab bares his arm before a hot branding iron to remove the visible pledge on his right arm to Esther. It Is when Ahab becomes the captain of a wild and savage whaling crew that John Barrymore becomes the very great actor that he Is on the stage. He makes Ahab, In his physical and mental crippled stage, a hideous and terrible man animal. A sort of a "soul pirate" is this new and fierce Ahab. He is a brute. So savage, so cruel and so brutal Is this new and strange Ahab that I fear some people will be shocked | with the character, and yet I beg of | you to remember that this side of ! Ahab is Just a step In his strange de- ; velopment. Any picture that has the services I of John Barrymore is assured of a . great cast. And a story of the | dramatic power of “The Sea Beast" I gives the strange creative genius of j Barrymore that spark of conception which causes marvelous realism to be released. I am sure that "Th Sea Best." when the year is over, will l*> con sidered one of the most compelling dramatic creations made in America. I The sea "shots" or scenes are mar- ; velous In their draintlo beauty, csI pecially when two sailing vessels are tossed, one to pieces, in the most realistic sea scene ever put upon the screen. From a point of dramatio greatness, I am ready to rank "The Sea Beast" In the list of the ten best pictures I have ever seen. Although Barrymore overshadows everything, yet the director and the entire cast as well as the dramatic spirit of the story tend to make a perfect picture. The cast is so important that I give it to you in full as follows: Ahab Ceeley John Barrymore Eathel Wiseeasaet Dolores Costello Derek Ceeley George O ilara Flask Mike Donlin Queequeg: Sam Baker Perth Georire Burrell Sa Captain .. . Sam Allan Jtuhbs Frank Nelson Mula Matlillde Commit Rev. Wiacaenet fames Barrows Pip ...... Vandin Urar.off Fedallsh Sojin Paertroo Frank Ha sag-'' "The Pea Beast” is on view at the Circle this week and should be witnessed by everybody who desires the best in movie entertainment. At the Circle all weeik. -I- I- -IMARY PHILBIN BECOMES A FEMALE LON C HANEY There Is going to be a "heap" of talk this week about Mary Philbln in "Stella Marls.” In this strange dramatic fantasy of fact and fancy, Mary Philbln becomes a sort of a female edition of Lon Chaney. In other words I am trying to say that her makeup as Unity Blake, the London scrubslavey (one of the two widely different characters she enacts In this movie), Is as wonderfully weird as j anything that Lon Chaney has created. The sight of Mary Philbln v as Unity, a slav% child, suffering from the effects of scalding water being thrown upon her by Louisa Kisca, another mad character, Is about as realistic as one would dare to see on the screen. Personally, I do not know the trick employed by Mary Philbln to transform herself into the ugly physical wreck of Unity Blake. Although Unity was ugly in physical form, yet her spirit was one of great beauty. So great was Unity's love and understanding for the man she idolized that she made the one great sacrifice which she thought would give him happiness and the girl he loved. And of course Unity was wrong again. Miss Philbln plays two different type roles in “Stella Marls.” As Stella she Is a beautiful cripple of wealthy parents In London. In time she is "cured" and learns to walk, after living in a world of fancy for many years. While a cripple she has the mental aid and love of two men. One single and honest, the other married, although Stella does not know it. Os course, her love is first awakened by the married man and then the alrcastle falls. "Stella Marls” is a dramatic delight and It has enough beautiful fantasy in it to relieve the dramatic cloudbursts while Unity is the center of the dramatic action. Since “The Merry Go Round" critics and the public as well has been watching Mary Philbln. She has not disappointed any one. She is an exact, careful and capable character actress who can do the real big dramatic creations as well as the Pollyanna things. She is a dramatic sensation In "Stella Maris." She has made hfrself a dramatic star in

Movie Verdict There are four corking good movie* on view at the Circle, Colonial, Apollo and Ohio this week. Movie fans have a right to rejoice this week, because the real movie article is on view. CIRCLE—"The Sea Beast.” with John Barrymore, deserves to be ranked among the ten best movies ever reflected upon the screen. COLONIAL—Mary Philbln In a dual role does some realistic dramatic work which ranks along the side of the best that Lon Chaney has given the screen. . OHIO —“The Song and Dance Man” is one of those human movie delights which makes movie going a pleasure. APOLLO —Adolphe Menjou has In "The Grand Duchess and the Walter” an example of perfect story writing for the screen. A delightful comedy.

"Stella Maris." The cast is as fol- , lows: Stella Marla Unity Blake Mary Philbm John Rises F.lliott Dexter I.ouiaa Rlsea Gladys Bro'-kwell Walt-r lb rold Jason Robards Sir Oliier lilount Phillips Smalley “Stella Marls" Is a movie version of William J. Ixx'ke's story of the same name. Charles Brabin, an English director, was in charge of I the production. The bill includes a Buster Brown j comedy; Nick Teramo. banjoist: American Harmonists and other musical novelties. At the Colonial all week. -I- -!- -I* AND HOW OUR BESSIE CAN DANCE THF, CHARLESTON Probably the most vigorous Charleston ever filmed Is being revealed this week In "The Song and Dance Man" at the Ohio. Although Tom Moore has the "fat" leading role, yet I feel that Bessie Love as! the little "ham” Charleston dancer, who becomes a .A<vs| membered as the i 1)11 °* i 1 * 1010 "! ‘ Asa George K Song and Dance V Mmm was quite a jy '*•*> noise on the stage natural heart Bessie IjOvc punches which get over with ease. Anil this heart element, the story j of the struggle of men and women to get by and across on the stage I is found in the movie version of the • play. Tom Moore is cast as a "ham” actor, who never gets to the top. , Fate always landed him a knockout i just when he had a real chance. The | way the director has handled the I flashbacks while the song and dance • man relates how he happened to turn "hold-up man" reflects much | credit. The subtitles are not full of "wow” lines except when the keeper i of a "star” theatrical boarding house is introduced. Most of the human ctmedy is furnished by Moore, lie really is quite a comedy person in I this wholesome little story of the ■ stage. But it Is when Bessie Love gets | her “pins” a moving to do a CharlesI ton that the picture 'becomes BesI sie’s own little playhouse. She j dances the best Charleston I have ever seen. George Cohan knows life hack stage as few men do. and his spirit ' Is reflected in the movie version. Am sure you will And "The Song and Dance Man*' mighty good human entertainment. It gets right Into ' your heart. Bill includes an O’Henry comedy, j Concerning Mme. Rethberg G r ~~ OOD music got a "slap” in the eye Sunday afternoon when one of the smallest audiences assembled this season or any ; season for a recognized artist at the i Murat greeted Mile. Elisabeth Rethberg. Ona B. Talbot has brought many great artists here. Up to yesterday, Mrs. Talbot has had In most Instances large and even capacity audiences. Something tumbled for Mrs. Rethberg as far as the audience was con- I corned. She has never been here ! before, although she Is a recognized i soprano of great merit and musical I intelligence with the Metropolitan . opera. Even the lure of a recognized ! prima donna failed to draw ’em in j yesterday. Only a week ago yester- j day Roland Bayes played to a more | than capacity house. Vacant seats ! greeted Mme. Rethberg yesterday. Mme. Rethberg gave a concert of ! great charm and of magnificent mu- j sical intelligence. She has a voice i of high range, clear and wonderfully j ' controlled. She seems to he as much j at ease in her dramatic passages as ■ in her songs of sunshine, especially i one of her encore numbers. She lifted the small audience to J that peak of enthusiasm which Is i expected only when a capacity j house is present. She was not handi- i capped by her small audience as she j was most gracious and liberal with j encores. Her final encore, “Ava | Maria” was one of those great and | beautiful high spots of her splendid ; concert. Personally, I enjoyed Schubert's j "Staendchen," (Serenade), better: than any one Item on her program. I In fact the entire Schubert group j showed the artist to best advantage although an aria from "Madam But- j terfly” was a popular artistic favor- j ite. Dr. Karol Liszniewskl was at the piano instead of Andreas Fugmann, who is ill. Dr. Liszniewskl appeared 111 at ease during the first few numj bers but as he mastered Wimself he became an interesting accompanist.

“Elsie in New York,” organ music by Ruth Noller and orchestra music by the Charlie Davis Orchestra. At the Ohio all week. -I- I- ’l* SOME MIGHTY GOOD MOVIE COMEDY AT APOLLO Adolphe Menjou has at last done what has appeared to be Impossible in the movie world. He has given us a picture that Is as perfect in the matter of story technique as is humanly possible to be. In "The Grand Duchess " 0 * 8 settled near, you are scene when you calmed and setAdolphe Menjou tied by an ending which Is a surprise, but Is so natural that you grin sheepishly and wonder why you never thought of it. In this picture Menjou Is the servant who has his own household and servants to manage after his day's work Is done for the beautiful Grand Duchess with whom he Is in love. Asa servant he proves to be Just about the best horseman that could be. His first attempt at pouring tea results In spilling a pitcher of cream down the neck of the Duchess. Asa result of this and his other so-called impertinences he is made the personal attendant of the Duchess who has decided by this means to punish him. In his words he makes a definition of his status that Is a classic. A personal attendant must, he say, "be sexless, like the angels.” Florence Vidor seems to get more beautiful as time grows on. As the haughty Grand Duchess, with that royal air and manner, she Is a most lovable thing. You have read about the cold and yet suggestive beauty of feminine royalty and have probablv wondered what It all meant. She has it In this picture. Slim, graceful, with a restless wandering appeai in her eyes, she Is an Ideal of beauty to gaze upon. In tho story Menjou as Albert Durand falls In love with a Grand Duchess. Florence Vidor, who has been exiled from Russia. All efforts ito gpt an Introduction falling, he : Impersonates a servant and finds employment In her service. While in this character he makes all the blunders that bring out the humor and also brings to a climax the 1 plot of the story. Supporting members of the cast who carry their parts excellently were William Courtright as the valet to Albert, Lawrence Grant, Andre de Baranger, Dot Farley, Barbara Pierce and Brandon Hurst. Included on the program Rre a comedy, News Reel and special features by Emil Seidel and his cri chestra. j At the Apollo all week. (By f.he Observer.) I- •!• + Other theaters today offer: Thurston, magician, at English's; Madeline ' Berio at the Lyr'c; Alexandria and i Nolsen at the Palace; Ernest R. Ball at Keith's; “The Eagle,” at the Princess; Hoot Gibson In "Chip of the Flying U." at the Isle, and burlesque at the Broadway.

MR. FIXIT Parks Department Scores Practice of White Washing Trees.

Let Mr. Flxlt present your case to city officials. lie ts The Time*' repreeenUtlve at the city hall. Write him The Tlniee. The growing practice of whitewashing trunks of shade trees Is questioned by the forestry branch of the city parks department. "The thick coating of lime usually applied can be of no benefit to a tree, and If done for ornamental purposes the snowy effect Is of too short duration to Justify the effort,” Elbert Moore, chief forester, said. "The whiteness ' of the lime remains only a week or ten days, when It becomes streaked with yellow and graudally fades Into unsightliness. If the whitewashing process Is repeated undoubtedly the tree will be harmed. Some Indianapolis filling stations appear to be utilizing the whitewashing custom os a sort of a trade mark, and a few Individual property owners are Inadvisably taking up the practice. A solid coat of ordinary house paint, pitch or tar, applied In the same manner rs the whitewash, would kill the tree outright within a short time.” TO MRS. W. NEWBOLD, 922 Division St.: George E. Morgan, assistant parks superintendent, today offered the following advice concerning your lawn: "Your main problem Is the Incorporation of plant food in the soil. The best thing to use Is well rotted manure. Throw It broadcast and work in the soli. If manure is not available use some good standard commercial fertilizer of about 4-10-4 composition. The amount to appb f will depend upon the brand of fertilizer used. Seed - about the middle of March to April 1, using a mixture of 60 per cent blue grass, 40 per cent red top, using five pounds per thousand square feet. Give light separate after seeding of white clover. Give another light seeding of blue grass and red top about Aug. 25. GO TO MOVIES BY TRUCK COLUMBUS. Ind. Joseph Springer, proprietor of a movie theater at Elizabethtown, has established motor truck lines to Azalia and Grammer, nearby towns, by which he hauls patrons of his theater to and from the towns free.

Famous Composers Wilhelm Richard Wagner GYdAGNER, a German musical composer nnd poet, waa IW| born in Leipzig in 1813. It was not until he was nearing manhood that Wagner began the serious study of music. Upon hearing a Beethoven symphony, he was inspired to unite glorious music with suitable languages, feeling that musical drama could be made oue of the greatest intellectual forces in existeneo. He was his own librettist and stage manager and he soon produced an important work, “Rienzi.” Ills writings were strikingly original and his productions have influenced nearly all subsequent compositions in every branch of music. A strikingly successful early work was the “Flying Dutchman” and was followed by Tannhauscr and Lohengrin. Owing to his participation in a revolutionary movement, he was in exile in Zurich for a time, hut there com posed portions of his highly successful, “Dos Kheingold,” “Siegfried,” and “Tristan and Isolde.” “Parsifal,” his last and perhaps his greatest work, was produced at Bayreuth in 1882. He died a year later.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE PEOPLE AND THE SCHOOL BOARD mHE new Shortridge High School project Is headed to court. This was assured Saturday, when a delegation of north side residents —appearing before the school board to protest against the location of the new school at Forty-Sixth St., instead of on the previously designated Thirty-Fourth St. site—received neither satisfaction nor explanation. Members of the present major* ity faction of the school board declared before, during and after election they would do all possible to expedite the school building program. and would truly carry out the will of the people in school matters. How are they representing the people of Indianapolis? The majority of the people want new school buildings so that chil- , dren won’t have to attend school ! In flimsy, combustible portables : and dangerously overcrowde'il ; buildings. They want a now Short- ! ridge High School The new board has been In of- ; flee two months. It has cancelled j the architects’ contracts for four of the six proposed new grade j schools, and hasn't yet chosen new | architects. Did the people ask ’ that? Is that expediting the building program? It has attempted to abandon the Thirty-Fourth St. site for the new Shorfridge and move the project to Forty-Sixth St. L>id the people ask that change? For years, apparently, the Thirty-Fourth St. site was generally approved. And now the only audible expression of public opinion on the matter Is the protest of north side realj dents against the ehnnge. The acts of the school boltrd so | far have merely picked the build--1 lng program to pieces, instead of pushing It. New grade schools delayed; Shortridge project hopelessly tangled In controversy and litigation. If that’s what tho majority of the people wanted and expected, the school board is certainly delivering tho goods. KEEP ’EM OFF THE STREETS mUPGE T-AHR of Juvenile court has instructed officers attached to tho police accident prevention bureau to arrest parents who refuse to co-operate In keeping their children from playing in tho city streets. "Parents who let their children play in the streets are guilty of child neglect," he said. You said It, Judge, It has been demonstrated often In Indlanaoplis, as elsewhere, that modern motorized city traffic and children in tho streets don’t mix —not with any comfort to the latter. A youngster under tho wheels of a five-ton truck or wrapped around the axle of a flivver Is not, at the moment, an asset to the community. Children, of course, have an Inalienable right to play. But the street Is a poor place to assert that right. The attempt may result In a moral victory and a broken back. Which is small satisfaction. And parents, who believe their children have a right to the streets and won't keep them off, may be well within their moral rights, but If they have large families they had better hire morticians by the year. Generally fatal traffic accidents are blamed on the motorists involved. Tho careless drivers are plenty guilty, but not altogether. Jay-walkers who saunter heedlessly into the path of fast moving traffic and parents who won't, keep their children off the streets swell the casualty list. If they will exercise the same care and prudence they expect drivers to display there will be a notable reduction In street accidents. BIBLE IN SHORTHAND mACK YOUNG. 82-year-old resident of Charlestown, Ind., has begun the task of transcribing tho New Testament In shorthand. Doubtless it is quite an undertaking for an elderly man and, when the task Is completed, he may establish a now record and deserve applause.

But of what use is such a feat? It Is just another Bible stunt. Every little while some enthusiast engraves the Lord's prayer on a pinhead, another writes the sermon on the Mount on a post card. A few months ago. 7,959 churcfh people In an lowa city each Copied one verse In the New Testa/nent. The. verses were

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bound in a huge book to he exhlb Had at roliglus gatherings through out the oounlry. Tho enterprise | elicited considerable comment in the religious press. And Bible reading marathonhave become common affairs, Perhaps all these stunts with the Bible bring their performer nearer Heaven, advance tho cause of religion, strengthen faith and Improve public morality. It seemImprobable, however, that ethi< ally they are worth tho effort They are just stunts, of no more spiritual Importance than ton marathons or six-day bicycle races. One who follow* a single Bible precept In dally life accomplishmore than one who spend* a lifetime committing tho book to mem ory by rote or who succeed- in writing the Book of Genosl* on hi* cuff. THE TIME TO INSTALL SIGNALS PAUL F. ROBIN Iy , i BON ftyi he will ask the j W-T-J Pennsylvania Railroad to j Install a warning signal at the Thompson St. crossing in Edge wood, where two men were killed and their automobile demolished by a passenger train the other day. The crossing is unusually danI gerous in the otlnlon of the | coroner. Th" tracks pass through a deep cut, obstructing the view of mol orlsti ippri • from | east or west. Efforts to provide adddltlonal safeguards at this Intersection I ought to be good news to the two I victims of the recent, smash. It | may prevent them from again : driving on the track in front of I an approaching train at that parI ticular spot. Only they arc -lead. A warning signal placed there be fore last Friday night might, have benefited them. It can't now. The Edgewoo.l crossing, now admittedly a death trap, isn’t anew bom danger. It has existed for long time Just as It is at present. A casual glance would have re vealed its Inherent lethal posslhltl ties, and county authorities could have taken steps to render it less hazardous as easily last year as yesterday, today or tomorrow. But public authorities never seem to get very excited about the dangers of a crossing until a tragedy Is recorded there. Then they hustle. The theory seems to be that to be worthy of official notice a crossing must get Its man. That may be a sure system of proving a crossing dangerous—but It's rough on the follow who furnishes the proof. YOUR INCOME TAX NO. 6 M. Rurl Thurman, Internal Revenue Collector, Tells Time* Readers About Ihe New Tax Regulations in These Articles. SHE taxpayermiust include In his income-tax return for tho year 1925, all Items of gross Income specified by law. In the case of a storekeeper, gross Income usual ly consists of gross profits on sales, together with Income from other sources. Tho return must show the gross sains, purchases, and cost of goods sold. The professional man. lawyer, doctor, dentist, must Include all fees and other compensation received from professional services. The farmer must report as gross lncorn' the proceeds of sales or exchange of products raised on th farm or whether purchased by him and resold. He must report also gross Income from all other sources, such as rentals or profits from the sale of farm lands. Net income, upon which the tax In assessed, is gross Income less c* -tain deductions for business, ex pense, loe, bad debts, contributions, etc. To take full advantage of the deductions to which entitled, taxpayers should rc.id carefully the Instructions on the form under the heads of "Incomo front business or profession."