Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1926 — Page 6

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The League’s Peril The life of the League of Nations and the fate of the pact of Locarno, on which the hope of peace in Europe rests, are now in the balance. The special meeting of the assembly ended without a decision. There has been an adjournment until September. A serious situation is thus created. It may be that all the difficulties can be ironed out in the next six months, but an intervening period of International suspicion and turmoil is equally likely, after which, should the league again deadlock over the ndwiißßion of Germany, it would probably prove fatal to the league and Europe’s latest and best bid for peace —the agreements of Locarno. Already the league has been struck a staggering blow. It can scarcely stand a second. A hopeful element in an otherwise sad affair, however, is the fact that the principal powers of Europe—Germany on the one hand and Britain, France, Italy and Belgium on the other—parted friends after reaching an agreement amongst themselves and pledging anew their faith in Locarno. A less hopeful sign was Brazil’s act, making her demand for a permanent place on the council a matter of “national honor,” which indicates her intention of leaving the league if not given satisfaction. “The league has flourished,” Premier Briand said with emotion, “because people see in it a means of eliminating the horrors of war. Today's setback must be made good tomorrow.” But if individual members continue the selfish policy of rule or ruin adopted by some at this session, the league is doomed. And when it meeto again next September it may as well adjourn ai once, sine die, restore the old balances of pow er and begin preparations for the next war.

What Is the Answer? A resolution by Senator Walsh of Montana asks the Senate to call on the Department of Justice for the answers to two questions - : 1. How much money was spent in the fruitless prosecution of Senator Burton K. Wheeler - ? 2. Have perjury proceedings been started yet against George B. Hayes of New York? Unless it is expected to show that improper use of money was made during the department’s futilo pursuit of the Senator, the second question is tho more important of the two. Have perjury proceedings been started? If not, is the department preparing to start them? George B. Hayes, a lawyer who had been suspended from practicing before the Treasury Department, who was charged by the Justice Department itself With evasion of income taxes exceeding $300.00& and who had been characterized by a witness before the Daugherty investigation committee as a •man "who would murder his mother for five cento,,'* is the man in question. He is the witness who caused the District of Columbia grand jury to tidict Wheeler. He is the “suprise” witness who was smuggled out to Great Falls, Mont., to tell an amazincredible tale against Wheeler, a tale of being offered “millions’'’ to handle certain matters in Washington, the alleged offer being made in the busy lobby of the Walfdorf-Astoria Hotel in New Yortr. Wheeler was able to present convincing evidence that he never had seen Hayes until the latter appeared, months later, before him as a witness 5a the Daugherty inquiry," The jury, by its verdict, indicated its opinion that Hayes was guilty of perjary. The circumstances of Hayes’ testimony must be cleared up. This country can not leave unsettled tha question of whether irresponsible witnesses caa ba brought forward by the Justice Department to blacken the name of a public official—or a private citizen, for that matter —and then be allowed to go onrebuked. If the Department does not proceed in this matter, it can not be compelled to proceed, the situation has not improved since the days of Daugherty,

Women and the Law “Tlie fact that you are a -woman Is all that saves you. If you were a man, I would hang you.” That was tlie comment of an Illinois judge as hs sent to a prison cell a woman who had killed her husband. The murder, if there be gradations in this crime, was most atrocious. She wanted to get rid of the husband, who for years had given to her all that he could earn. He had been kind. There was no record of brutality or of neglect. But there was another man, and the husband carried a life insurance policy. She took the road to freedom and small wealth by giving poison to the husband who trusted her. Not a mitigating circumstance, not a reason for mercy, not even an attempt to drag out the usual plea for insanity. It was the brutal killing by a selfish, savage creature who put her own passion and desires above human life. But the law, as administered by men, pauses when it comes to the killing of a woman. Here is something for those feminists who proclaim this a man-ruled world to think about. In the demand for the same equal Justice, the same rights and responsibilities, are women willing to forego, not the mercy of men, but that attitude of man toward woman which places her on so sacred a plane that all women, even the most degraded, are never beyond its influence? Theoretically we should hang our women killers with the same sternness that we put out of the world men who take the lives of others. But through the centuries men have gained an ideal of women that will never permit this to be done, no matter how outrageous, may be her acts. The love that is inspired at the knees of a mother extends to all women, and with it a reverence that is deeper than our respect for those frigid ideas of right and Justice and law. We may write equality into the law. But we can not erase from our hearts and minds the idea that there is a divinity about women, whose motherhood links her with the eternal. She may have all the rights she wishes guaran-

teed by statutes, but she must avoid an added reverence which springs from deeper law. The words gallows and women are never in the same dictionary of American life. Mail Order Murder There is some faint hope that Congress will pass a law forbidding the sending of revolvers through the mail. That provision, rigidly enforced, would save as many lives as any conference on peace. It should do more to curb the wave of murder and robbery that has swept over this country than the sending to the gallows of those who use these mail order weapons. The alluring advertisements of those who wish to sell revolvers can not fail to excite the imagination of young men and boys who otherwise might not be attempted to equip themselves with a means of producing death. “Six sure shots” Is - -the favorite slogan. Theoretically, the manufacturers and vendors of these cheap revolvers desire to sell them only to those who may be in fear of attack or robbery. But their selling talk is along the same line as that of certain manufacturers of fruit juices and malt concoctions who warn the buyers not to expose them to the air or they become intoxicating. The youth who buys one of these guns becomes a potential killer. He wants to try out his new toy. When he foolishly tells himself that the easiest way to get money is to use that gun to terrify a man in the next block, he has this weapon to give him the necessary boldness and courage. The police in cities, where registration of sales of fire arms is mandatory, have some check upon those who carry guns. These mail order men give secrecy. The selling method has been the cause of many murders. It will continue to make killers out of many who would not otherwise have the nerve to enter a store and make the purchase. If you are interested in cutting down the murder rate in this country, write today to the Senators and Congressmen from this State. An election is just ahead and your letter will receive ’more attention now than it will after next November.

Tom Sims Says You’ve got to keep whistling if you want things to keep humming. People who live in rock houses should not throw glass. Sometimes a quartet Is nothing but four flushers. It’s a wise man who makes up hla wife’s mind before his own. People who live in spring suits should not open milk bottles. Wedding rings are different from circus rings. In wedding rings the performance is continuous. Breaking a mirror or a law may mean seven years’ bad luck. Only way for the weather to please every one is by not having any. The seven wonders of the world in the spring are the seven days in the week. Wonder if the man who names collars has any children? (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Farmers’ Earnings Less Than Average Tou can net an answer to any question of fact or information by writing: to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot tie given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona] reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Kditor. Wliat was the production of corn, rye and barley in the United States in 1917? Corn, 3,065,233,000 bushels; rye, 62,933,000 bushels; barley, 211,759,000 bushels. I Did Mary Darden, the opera singer, ever appear in the movies? Yes. She appeared in a photoplay version of “Thais,” filmed in Paris in 1917. What State has the largest number of Indian Reservations? Arizona has eight, and Montana ahd South Dakota come next. Is it too late to make application for paid-up Government insurance? No. Time for converting war risk insurance into such forms of Government insurance as one may choose expires July 2, 1926. What is the correct 'meaning of the word “transpire?” To' send off through the excretory organs, as of the skin and lungs; to cause to pass off as insensible perspiration; emit as vapor; exhale. It is used improperly in the sense of coming to pass; to happen. What is the approximate cost of a steel railroad coach? In 1925 prices paid were from $17,000 to $30,125. What is the real name of the movie actress, Blanche Sweet, and what is her latest picture? Her real name is Blanche Alexander. Her latest picture is “Bluebeard's Seven Wives.” What are the names and titles of the Prince of Wales? What is his London address? His name and titles are his royal highness, Edward, Albert, Christian, George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Cornwall (in the peerage of England, by patent, 1337), Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland (by ancient charter.) If he were deprived of all titles his name would be Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor. His address is St. James Palace, London, England. How docs man’s strength compare with that of a chimpanzee? Science Service says' that weight for weight, a chimpanzee has four times the strength of man.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

English Author and Star Enjoy First Real Sunshine in Many Months Here

By Walter D. Hickman ——NDIANAPOLIS sunshine of ‘ yesterday appealed to O. P. '*• Heggie, noted actor, and Maj. lan May Beith, on arriving here for the opening of Major Beith's “The Sport of Kings.” The two distinguished visitors, when I talked to them late yesterday, were still talking about the glorious sunshine of Indianapolis. “This sunshine is the first real sunshine I have seen gince last September,” Major Beith said. These two men are hero for the purpose of launching anew play, “The Sport of Kings,” by the major. Heggie was successful several seasons ago in Chicago and New York with another Major Beith show, “Happy Go Lucky.” Following the engagement here, "The Sport of Kings” moves on to Chicago, where it is hoped that a run will be established. “The Sport of Kings” was tried out, not with Heggie in the cast, by a stock company in Boston and It was so successful that It ran for weeks. Then Carl Heed In association

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with E. E. Clive got together and decided to cast Heggie as .Vinos Purdie, J. P. and give Chicago and New York a chance to pass upon it. According to Heggie, the role he playß in this comedy is that of an “old hypocrite” and Heggie is considered a great , artist in bringing “old men” to the stage. He was a big success In “Miniek,” a play which did not reach Indianapolis. Major Beith and Mr. Heggie are of the opinion that there is an over production of plays in New York as it is necessary with seventy and then some theaters to give all theaters a “good play.” Both men are of the opinion that New York as had a lean season when it comes to worth while things of the theater. As usual with noted visitors, they asked me regarding Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson. “The last time I saw Booth Tarkington was in New York while one of his interesting plays was being presented,” Major Beith said. And so the star and the author are hoping that (he Indianapolis verdict will he of such a decided degree that it will predict success both in Cliicago and New York. Heggie is of the opinion that Chicago should be its own producing center and not rely upon New York for all of its plays. And so Indianapolis tonight will have a real first night at English’s when “The Sport of Kings” ,1s presented for a three-day engagement. England already lias declared this comedy to be a success.

NEW RILL OPENS AT PALACE TODAY Frolics of 1926 are the new sources of entertainment that an octett of singers and dancers have discovered and which will be presented as the headlining bit of fun on the Palace theater bill the last half of this week. The Cox sisters, Edith Bohlman, Viola Kay, Ryan and Bardon, Mooney and Mandell are the participants in the revue of color and action. This miniature musical comedy has all the characteristics of the legitimate stage productions. “Indoor Sports” is a comedy sketch which deals with thfc attempts of two young women to make their sweethearts propose to them. Mixed in wiih the comedy lines are other vovelties that work out the modern romance. Ralph Bailey and company stage the skit. Percy Bronson and Edith Evans take part in “A Sober Recital,” offering a routine of popular and special melodies. Posing as a girl who has frequent attacks of the giggles and a young man who portrays a country boob Summers and Hunt make merry with their talking sketch. “Accidents Will Happen” is the assertion of Wilbur and Mack, and in their act give a series of prearranged tumbles and falls. “A Little Girl in a Big City” is the photoplay which stars Gladys Walton and Niles Welch. Fathe News, a comedy, and topics of the day are the short reels. -I- -I- -!- Other theaters today offer: O. P. Heggie In "Sport of Kings" at English’s; Jimmy Gildea and company at the Lyric; Moliie Fuller and company at Keith’s; “The New Klondike” at the Apollo; “Souls for Sables” at the Ohio; “The Cohens and the Kellys” at the Colonial; “The Dancer of Paris” at the Circle: complete new movie bill at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway. The Indiana Indoi-sers of Photoplays recommend the bills at the Circle and Ohio for adults; Apollo and Colonial for family trade.

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CURFEW RINGS AGAIN

The curfew rings again in Noblesville. All boys and girls must be off the streets by 9 p. m., presumably home in bed or listening to bedtime stories over the radio. After thirty years of innocuous desuetude the old law was resurrected by city dads at the request of school authorities. Maybe the youthful morals of the Hamilton County capital will Immediately show a marked improvement In consequence. Certainly too many boys and girls of tender years, not only in Noblesville but elsewhere, frequent the streets and gad about nights without proper restraint. Quite likely the curfew law will fail to achieve results. No curfew law ever succeeded in being anything but a very feeble bogey man for frightening extremely young children. About the time boys and girls ceased to believe in Santa Claus the curfew law lost its terrors. Still, communities all thought they must have a curfew law. It was a mark of culture and civilization just like a volunteer fire department. Most of them have discarded it and now aspire to culture and dignity by way of their bonded debts. Os course, children are better off at home evenings than running at large. But parents ought to be able to handle the situation themselves without relying on a decrepit law. A youth or maid under 16 is not too old to spank. Heavy-handed parental discipline will accomplish more than an asthmatic policeman in keeping the youngsters off the streets after 9 p. m.

REROUTING STREET CARS

Gustave O. Schmidt, president of the city plan commission, proposes rerouting street cars in the downtown district. The board of safety and the plan body will cooperate in working out a feasible scheme, it is indicated. Last summer the plan commission worked out a scheme to reroute street cars to eliminate all turns the three busiest V\ ashington*St. intersections Pennsylvania, Meridian and Illinois. But the scheme apparently had infantile paralysis. It never moved hand or foot after it was born. Certainly the present system whereby all street car lines in the city concentrate on the two or three busiest corners in town and trundle around these intersections greatly complicate the Indianapolis traffic situation. The dowjiv town section of Massachusetts Ave., traversed by the cars of nine lines, is, during rush hours, a horrible example of the congestion the present system of routing causes. With street cars doing righthand turns all over the heart of the city, a pedestrian has a gaudy time trying to remain on the census role instead of the obituary column. He either must take a chance on crossing in the middle of the block or skip agilely from curb to curb while street cars coming around the turn seek to bite him and motormen pursue him with profanity. But the problem Is not easily solved. Street oars must come downtown. That's where passengers want to embark and debark. It would be nice if the cars on entering the congested district would sort of vanish in thin air. But they won't. However, if any rerouting plan can be evolved that will simplify the downtown loops of the car lines and prevent the cars from piling up at one or two corners it is worth trying. The traffic problem of Indianapolis centers at two or threo Washington St. intersections. Any system of control that will relieve congestion there will speed traffic of the whole city.

UP AND DOWN

Lieut. Ralph Dean had his epaulets yanked off and was reduced to the rank of patrolman in the police department by the board of safety at its last meeting. The city budget pnly provides for ten lieutenants while eleven were on the roll, explained the board. Hence the decapitation. Perhaps cold economics were responsible for this officer’s demotion. Just doing proper reverence to the budget. But others have been appointed lieutenants since his elevation to that rank —notably the mayor’s bodyguard Lieutenant Magee. If a lieutenajit must be dropped, merely to conform with budget requirements, why not the youngest in point of service? Recently Harvey Bedford, at the time not a member of the force, was made traffic inspector. And Traffic Inspector White was reduced to a captaincy. That made too many captains. So Captain George Winkler was reduced to lieutenant of detectives. In consequenco of that shake-up the Indianapolis police department had eleven lieutenants Instead of ten. So down goes Dean to the foot of the ladder. A year ago the demoted lieutenant, then a sergeant, slew an enterprising bad man in a pistol duel. His bravery was applauded. His efficiency and devotion to duty were commended. They pinned medals and thanks on him. And as a reward for meHt .was promoted. Now he gets the ax. Up and down. That’s the li'o of an Indianapolis cop. He must vibrate in harmony with the polic ical pipers or he doesn’t vibrate at all. Perhaps the recent shako-ups will add to the department’s efficiency and morale. However the spring housecleaning in the department seems more In r reparation for the spring primary than for effectiveness in running the bandits ragged.

EASTER EGGS AT SIOO A DOZEN L. 11. Schwartz of the Purdu.e University poultry department is sending eggs valued at SIOO a dozen to President Coolidge for his Easter breakfast. The eggs are the output of the Araucana —a South American fowl just introduced in this country—and have the flavor of ordinary hen fruit, but are of a turquoise shade. We didn’t know the name of them before, but we think we have been eating eggs of that breed all winter. At least - • ity in price and the eggs we have bought have left a noticeably blue tinge on our bank roll. We hope “Cal” and the White House family enjoy them. Also that none of the eggs are mean, vicious and explosive as fresh, country eggs are so frequently. There is nothing more disconcerting at breakfast than an almost good egg. At present the Araucana is a great curiosity and her fruit a rarity. Os course, even in these days of altitudinous prices, no eggs aro actually worth SIOO a dozen for food purposes. Eventually, however, the South American bird may be domesticated here and her eggs become as common as those with which we are familiar —the kind that are laid, pass youth, maturity and old age In cold storage. And become a real addition to the nation's food resources. The scouring of the world for new plants and animals to improve our native strains and increase our food varieties has furnished material for some of the most amazing and romantic chapters in American agriculture.

FABLES IN FACT LITTLE JIMMIE CARRIED A MOURNFUL COMMA IF NOT WORRIED COMMA LOOK AND HIS MOTHER FINALLY INQUIRED WHAT THE MATTER WAS PERIOD THE YOUNGSTER BEAT AROUND THE BUSH FOR A WHILE AND THEN SAID COMMA' QUOTATION MARK HAS A CAT REALLY GOT NINE LIVES COMMA MAMMA QUESTION MARK QUOTATION MARK AND WHEN HIS MOTHER REPLIED THAT SHE GUESSED THE SAYING WAS TRUE COMMA JIMMIE SMILED ALL OVER AND CONTINUED COMMA QUOTATION MARK WELL THEN COMMA MRS. MORGAN’S CAT HAS EIGHT COMING PERIOD QUOTATION MARK. * * • My gosh! Now ya can’t even believe cook books. A young bride baked a cake and the recipe said It was perfectly delicious.

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A Sermon for Today

■ "“By Rev. John R. Gunn ’" ” ' THE CRIME OF NEGLIGENCE .

Text: “If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto <k-ath, avid those that aro ready to be slain; If thou safest. Behold, wo knew it not; doth not he that pondoreth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth tliy soul, doth not he know - it? and shall not ho render to every man according to his works?” —Proverbs 24:11-12. One of the chief topics of discussion today is the crime problem. It is not anew problem. It Is a problem tho world baa hud on hand ever since Cain murdered Abel. The problem today, however, is intensified by the fuct that wo are confronted with an unprecedented variety and number of crimes. Crimes of all sorts, and in great numbers, aro dally paraded before our eyes in the columns of the newspaper. But what has all this to do with our text? It has this much to Jo with it, that we have pointed out here one of the most common, and one of the most serious, of all crimes —the crime of negligence. This crime seldom gets itself reported In the papers, and wo seldom pay any attention to It. And yet wo need to pay attention to it, even more than to any of these other crimes of

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran DAD’S LULLABY Ilotsy, totsy, cake and pie, come now. youngster, don’t you cry. Mister Sandman, bye and bye, plans to close your little eye. Rockin’, rockin’, to and fro. Down we come and up we go. First it’s fast and then It’s slow. Toodlo, tumpty, toddle tow. Ride the road that seems so steep, on our way to fast asleep. Happy playtime's sure to keep. Quiet, youngster, don’t you peep. Little paddles, held so tight. Time to turn down low the light. Peace and qiuet through the night. Pockin’ left and rockin’ right. Now we’re on our way to bed. Wide-awake ness all has fled. Softly, softly is the tread. To the trundle bed we’re led. „ Maybe silly—maybe sad. Still It makes a youngster glad. Verse like this each lot has had—rocked to sleep at night by dad. • • * The best was to get people to telling you about their children Is to start talking about your own. • • • Son —Say, pop, what makes the work! go ’round? Father —How many times hnve I told you to keep out of the cellar? * * * The brushing of m.v hair, said he, Is, after all, no art. I do it ’cause I realize Tho best of men must part.

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which wo hear and rend so mucli these days. Perhaps some may think jicgllgonce does not deserve to bo as a crime. But wait a moment. ’TO thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain”—what does that amount to? It amounts to this, that ho who neglects to save a life, kills. Men arc often tried and condemned in our courts of law on charges of criminal negligence. When wc consider the fatalities that result from negligence, It would seem that it deserves to ho classed us ono of tho most appalling of crimes. Wo talk about the crime of violence, but while violence haH slain Its thousands, negligence has slain Its tens of thousands. Think this ynutter through, not only as It applies on tho level of physical life, but on tho higher level of moral, social and religious lift, and you will soon see that tho most lrnportunt phaso of America's crime problem is that which lias to do with the crime of negligence. While you are thinking about It, do not forget to think nbout It in relation to yourself. And do not overlook that last solemn word of tho text: “Doth not he render to every man according to his works?” (Copyright, 1926, By John R. Gunn)

MR. FIXIT Gravel Sought So School Children Can Play,

bet Mr. Flxlt present your esse to city official*. Hr 1* Tho Tim.*' rcpiswiita live at ttio city hall, write him af The Times. Children attending School 20 are prevented from plnylng outdoors this bright, spring weather because thero Is po gravel In the school yard, Mr. Flxlt was Informed today. The com paint will be discussed with school officials in an effort to obtain tho child's almost divine right, a place to play. DEAR MR. FIXIT: You helped us once, and I nm going to appeal to you again. The first alloy north of Tenth St., between Bosart and Wallace Sts., the 4700 block, Is practically Impassable. Wo get stuck regularly each morning nnd night when wr so in and out of tho garage. The city has promised us some cinders, and we have been “getting them” for about two months. Won’t you please see what you can do? Other folks are getting them. MRS. El DON BUTLER--4724 E. Tenth St. “Investigating it” Is the renl word now from the street superintendent's department. You should have results soon. It’s a shame an author, who pounds his typewriter day and night, can’t sell his stories so much per pound. -