Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1926 — Page 6

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Lucky Francie Little Francie is back from Paris. She is wearing a beautiful gown designed by one of the most famous dressmakers. Tomorrow she will wear a different one, carefully selected by a maid, also imported from Paris, and in the evening it will bo changed to a most attractive blanket of chiffon, and the word blanket is used advisedly, for Francie, so it 'happens, is a dog. The owners of this little black and tan terrier made a trip especially to Paris in order to buy these gowns for their little pet. They spend $4,000 every year for it, and they actually think that they are bestowing happiness upon this little captive animal. The chances are that Francie would much prefer to be turned loose in the park, where she might find some pleasure in playing with other dogs oi chasing birds. Francie, instead of being really lucky, is smothered by wealth and too much care. But what are you going to say of the unhappiness of a man and woman who are driven to such desperate expedients to get anything from life? It goes without saying that they are rich and that the money,that they spend upon this little dog does not deprive them of a meal or an automobile. But somewhere along the line, in the getting of money, they missed the real meaning of life and devoted themselves and their resources to the pampering of a pup. If it were really kindness of heart which prompted them to take their pet to Paris for anew gown they would understand that, aside from the enslavement of the little animal, the human heart can find its happiness only in bringing happiness to other hearts. It seems such a waste of effort and even of emotion, when a glance through the columns of a newspaper might bring to notice a girl who attempted to end her own life because she is jobless, and would enjoy even one of the little ribbons which Francie’s maid might tie about the terrier’s neck at night. Or they might wander down to a nearby orphanage where babies, heir only to misfortune, await the magical hand of mother love to start them on the way to happiness and usefulness. Only pity can go to people who have learned so little and whose emotions can find no other outlet than smothering money on a dumb brute. There is a vast difference between caring for a dog, enjoying its fidelity and loyalty, making it a friend, and stifling it in so senseless a manner. Perhaps it is just as well that these people did not visit an orphanage. What, they might do to a human soul intrusted to their care would be appalling.

Tomorrow's Newspaper The American newspaper, says Walter E. ‘Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, is now entering a brand new phase. The first period, he observes, was one of pioneering. The second was one of “personal journalism" —when the personality of the editor came first and his paper afterward. The third saw stupendous mechanical expansion, while the fourth and last, the one which we are now entering, will be one of public service. This is a scholarly reading of the times. The late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scrippa-Howard chain of newspapers, saw it coming almost half a century ago. In his early twenties he had come to feel that newspapers are as much a public servant as street cars or electricity and so had no more right to serve one class of people to the exclusion of all others than a gas company or a railroad. Service was the device he nailed to the masthead of his first newspaper and service it has been ever since—service to country and to its people. American journalism, according to Publisher Strong, seems to be catching up with this idea. The great newspaper of tomorrow, he says, must realize its great responsibility as a servant of society and adapt itself to that service. By mechanical expansion Strong means not only the near-miracles which the giant presses and other equipment of the modern plant are, but the telephone, telegraph, wireless, cable and w'hat-not which keep the newspaper of today in instant touch with the remotest corners of the globe. These are the things which are impelling honest newspapers in the direction of public service. Public opinion is coming to be the greatest force in the world today, particularly in our own country. Therefore what greater service can any paper render than to use its facilities to keep the public mind correctly informed so that when it acts it will do so with a clear understanding of what it is doing? Evidently Strong sees this quite clearly. Also he visualizes the increasing interdependence of the various peoples of this shrinking world. For at the conclusion of his study he gives to the foreign correspondent a place, the importance of which, he says, “it is impossible now even to estimate.”

When Law Was Law The United States Indian bureau asks Congress to deny right of jury trial to all reservation Indians, That won’t surprise the Indians. In the squalid reservation villages, and perhaps in the ghostly wigwams of the Happy Grounds beyond, the request will be accepted stoically. The Indians know what to expect of this vaunted AngloSaxon justice. Their lesson began long ago. Once, in the days when tribal virtues were still untainted by Anglo-Saxon justice, law was a grim, glorious thing in the foothill*. The Indian who broke he law came before his tribe for punishment not as % criminal, but as a man privileged by tribal inheritmce to bear the full weight of Justice upon his own shoulders. Among the Five Civilized nations in the old Iniian territory, now Oklahoma State, there can still be seen whipping trees and death trees under which tribal justice was administered. Never was a condemned Indian thrown into a prison pending the time the tribal firing squad could

bo assembled. That was not the Indians’ kind of law. The prisoner was told what day he must die and was let free to go back to his family, to choose his burial place, to build his own coffin. On the day set for his death he would appear under the death tree bearing his coffin with him. And not once, it Is said by those who should know, did a condemned Indian ever fall to appear on the appointed day. After Indian territory was opened to white men and made into a State, Congress ruled that Federal courts must supplant the old tribal courts. Thereafter the erring Indian had to slink to death like the cowering white criminal. The old glory was gone forever. The law was no longer divine. It was cheap and tawdry, a thing to be evaded. m Oh, You Poor Hick! (By an unofficial and unauthorized spokesman for the President.) What do you mean coming here to Washington asking the Government to help you? * Why don't you help yourself? Why don’t you be An Independent Farmer? You want us to take our money and —Whose money?—Yes, I said our money; Secretary Mellon’s money—Maybe you can understand that better. You want us to take our money and help you out of your fix. We ain’t responsible for the price of corn, are we? Why should we buy corn, anyhow, when we can get Baltimore rye that’s just like the real stuff and Scotch that is absolutely genuine, labels soaked in salt water and everything? Listen, suppose we tell you where there's a good bootlegger and you let us alone. No, you don't get no money for no export corporation. That economically unsound. What? I said e-con-om-i-cally un-sound. Get that? It means unsound economically. What’s that? Why, don’t you know; it means it ain’t good economics. It's unsound. That’s it. Taking the people’s money and giving some of it to just a few million farmers. Why, it’s class legislation, and you wouldn’t want that, would you? The manufacturers? The tariff? Now don’t go to raising the tariff issue. If you’d read Coolidge's Chicago speech you know that it’s the tariff that makes you prosperous. What you fellows need is more private initiative. I said pri-vate in-it-i-at-ive. Like the power companies. They ain’t asking the Government to operate the power plants, are they? No, ifldeed! They're going right jn and doing it for the Government. Look at Muscle Shoals. Why, they’re *.yen taking that job right off the Government's hands, $150,000,000 plant and all. Private initiative, that’s the stuff! You say it looks to you like the Government was helping the power companies? Like the Government was spending the people’s money for the benefit of a few millionaires? Economically unsound?. Well, I’ll be—There's no use explaining things to a poor hick like you! i Tom Sims Says A straw hat is a round object which you put in a chair and somebody sits on the darn thing. Telling a girl how cold your feet stay on wintei nights may save her from marrying you this spring. Count your fingers thoroughly after shaking hands with one of these fellows who calls you “brother.” Our chief kick against spring is it doesn’t fall on a holiday. Do your Juno marrying early and avoid the rush. (Copyright, 11926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Pennsylvania Known as Keystone State Tou <'an jet an answer In any question of fa"t or information by writing to The Indianapolis Tunes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C., Inclosing 2 emits in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research b undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. Why is Pennsylvania called the Keystone State? One explanation is that when the delegation from that State in the Continental Congress divided evenly on the question of separation from England, John Morton, their chairman, and a. signer of the Declaration of Independence, cast the vote which placed the State on the side of the separators and it was from this fact that Pennsylvania became known as the Keystone State. Who invented the process for producing ice by the vacuum method? The first machine for producing ice by that method probably was Invented by Dr. Cullen In 1775, who made the discovery that evaporation of water could be facilitated by the removal of the atmospheric pressure by an air pump, so that it could be frozen even In summer. His apparatus w'as the parent of all those subsequently designed, although it was not it self a commercial success. What State produces the most apples? Washington has led the States in the production of commercial apples for several years. New York ranks second. Is the widow of a World War veteran deprived of her compensation from the Government if she marries? Yes. What is the origin of the expression “French Leave?” It seems to have originated in the practice in the French armies, while on the inarch, of taking whatever they wished for or needed without payment. One of Napoleon's anilitary principles was that the Army should exist omthe country thi-ough which it marched. How many men of the “Lost legion” in the World War survived - the battle of the Argonne? , Os the 700 men who formed the battalion of the “Lost Legion,” 192 came through the battle of the Argonne unscathed. The rest were either killed or wounded. How much did the population of the United States increase between 1910 and 1920? According to the 1920 census the population of the United States w f as 105,710,620. The 1910 population was 91,972,266 and the increase, therefore, was 13,738,354.

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LICENSING COAL DEALERS Indianapolis coal dealers will have to take out city licenses, and pay a fee of SSO per license, if an ordinance, sponsored by the city smoke inspector and the Better Business Bureau, is adopted. The ordinance will be presented to the city council at its next session. The measure also provides that, when he delivers coal, the dealer must give the customer a duplicate ticket showing the name, source, size and quality of the fuel. All of which is designed to protect old Ultimate Consumer from the machinations of the unscrupulous coal merchant. Perhaps this bit of legislation is needed to secure for citizens life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Also to bleach our local atmosphere which suffers from low grade coal. Certainly there is nothing revolutionary about the proposal to license coal dealers. One can't keep a dog or peddle hot dogs in the city without buying a city license. And a dozen other businesses and occupations are similarly regulated. Selling licenses, and collecting fees therefor is one of the best things the municipality does. So why not license coal dealers and open another source of revenue? The retail coal merchant is supposed to boa shady individual full of guile, who will bear watching. But ho isn't as black as his stock in trade. Few Indianapolis coal dealers have become disgruntingly wealthy. Apparently they do no more than sell at a fair profit the grade of fuel the customer pays for. How can a license law compel them to do more?

FEDERAL AID FOR SCHOOLS Dr. Loeb, St. Louis educator, addressing a gathering of Indiana club women, urged Federal aid for schools. Such assistance is needed because of changed condit’oris, rapid expansion and inequality of school facilities have made educational problems national instead of local, he contends. No doubt Federal aid would help backward States improve their school systems. It seems an easy road to better schools. And there is ample precedent for such assistance. Federal aid has been extended to industry’, agriculture, internal improvements, and especially roads. Ever since it was established the national Government has contributed funds to the States for this purpose and that. Why not to schools? The proposal sounds logical. However, most States have shown themselves alive to the importance of education, generous in their support of schools, and able to handle their own school proplems without interference or aid from Washington. Indiana lias built up an admittedly excellent public school system by its own efforts. No Stat-i is too poor to do likewise, if it wants to. Federal aid has a seductive appeal. It seems to he getting something for nothing. However, even the demi gods at Washington do not possess an Aladdin's lamp which, rubbed, will materialize money out of thin air. The funds they distribute in Federal aid for any purposp are raised by direct or indirect taxes on the people. Old John J. Citizen Is the Santa Clans. Inasmuch as the money to finance a Federal school aid scheme must come from the States anyvay, what advantage is there in carting the money to Washington to be distributed back to the States by a Federal bureau?

DON’T MARRY A PACIFIST John It. McQuigg. national commander of *he American Legion, speaking before the student body of Indiana University, warns tho co-ed not to marry an ultrapacifist—a young man who would subscribe to the “slacker pledge" and the “no-more-war" oath. If she does, she will live to regret it, lie predicts. Sound advice, perhaps. Young men with those pule, pure souls so steeped in the philosophy of non resistance and the brotherhood of man idea that they sw’ear they will not, under any circumstances, shoulder a gun to defend their country, aren’t likely to make good husbands in this Intensely practical, competitive age. Unless they change their ways. Which they generally do. Matrimony Is a great eradlcator of pacifism. After the. honeymoon is dimmed, marriage is apt to prove invaluable training for war. Even the most meek and lowly husband may develop traits of belligerency that would please the most warlike of our proponents of preparedness. From matrimony to the trenches is an easy step. So don’t worry about the young men who are professed pacifists, Colonel McQuigg. If they marry at all, they’ll be fighters. Anyw'ay, the fair co-eds won’t heed any advice as to the sort of men they should marry. Papas, mammas and sage elders have, since time began, told maids what sort of men they ought not to w r ed. Despite which the girls have blithely gone their way picking the husbands that suited them. Os course some have drawn blanks. There are so many girls and so little real choice husband material. On the whole, the girls have done as well as their elders on the picking job. And if a Bloomington co-ed picks a pacifist or a mistake, she, not Colonel McQuigg or other counselor, must live wdth him. THE ‘RED’ BUGABOO Not so long ago an Americanization evangelist told an Indianapolis audience that Chicago “red” leaders claimed 2,000 converts to communism In Indiana in the last six months. He pictured an alarming spread of destructive

“red” propaganda in this country. The so-called red peril has excited many passionate patriots. They see a communist under every bush, a bomb thrower behind every ashcan. And gallop up and down the land trying to arouse lethargic citizens to the danger. They had us so scared we looked under the bed every night expecting to find Trotzky or some other hairy Russian bolshevist hiding there. It seemed probable that the revolution of the proletariat would burst upon us Hoosiers before the State championship basketball finals were played in our cow barn. But it didn’t. Now comes a dispatch from Moscow in which Gregory Zitiovieff, chairman of the executive committee of the communist international, admits that the prospects of communist agitation in the United (States are not bright. He says that the imerican communist party is in danger of disappearing altogether from the political stage. American capital and labor are both bitterly opposed to “red” doctrines, he points out. And capital and labor include almost everybody in the country. Most of us liave money or work or both. This admission from headquarters allays our fear of the “red" peril in America. Apparently the real “red” peril here is the tail lights of automobiles and the “stop” signals of our automatic traffic controls. MOTHER, TOTS KI N DOWN Ru \EA firrrirr MARTINSVILLE, Ind., March 26. —An unusual accident occurred near here recently when Dr. <\ H. AN hite came upon Mrs. Jxni "Whited, her daughter Inez and son Johnson asleep in the road. His machine struck them. He brought them to a hospital here. The mother had started to walk to another town and after walking all day oecame tired* and stopped to rest, s'le said.

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn "

Text: “I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church, which is at t'enchrea. That ye receive her in the I xml, as beeometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourcr of many, and of myself also."—Romans, 16 1-2. I _J'l HOEBE was one of the many I I I£° women who helped I I f Paul in his missionary labors. Her home was at Cenchrea, the port of Corinth. Like most seaports. it was a wicked place. It speaks volumes for her that she was able to rise above the wicked and immoral environment by which she was surrounded. The text clearly indicates that she was a business woman. A'et she 'was not so alxsorbed in her private affairs that she had no time for the church; for we are told that she was a "servant,’’ or “deaconess,” of the church at Cenchrea. No mention is made of any great things she ever did. Os her it is simply said. "She hath been a succourcr of many.” Most of the

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Miss Frances Kennedy

W hen the audience at the Lyric secs Frances Kennedy, who will he quo of the headliners of next week's hill, it Avill bo amazed at her youthful apjiearance and perhaps imagine she is just past the debutante stage. Instead, she is married, has a boy of twelve and a girl of six, and maintains her own home in Chicago, where she is the wife of Thomas J. Johnson, one of the leading lawyers of Chicago and formerly Fire Attorney and Assistant State s Attorney. Miss Kennedy or Mrs. Johnson, declares that her youthful looks are the result of the methods she has followed in her endeavors to make her married life an ideal one. She says many married women become foolish after they are married, believing the hunt is over and the prize won. This Is a mistaken Idea, declares the actress. “In married life the real battle begins just as the marriage ceremony is performed,” she says, “Then the fight is to retain a husband's love and affections. And keep him your pal and sweetheart for life.

Christians with whom she was associated at Cenchrea and Corinth, were very poor. Some of them were slaves, and had to bear trial, persecution and unkindness, because of their new faith in Christ. In Phoebe they found a friend ever ready to cheer and comfort them, ever ready to sympathize with them and help them in the midst of their trials and sorrows. There is no less need today for such succour in this world of ills and woes. And how befitting is such gentle ministry to a woman’s heart and fingers. Man is often very clumsy in his efforts to soothe and comfort. But nature has endowed woman with swifter sympathies and more delicate perceptions which especially fit her for binding up wounded spirits. Some of our ‘advanced’ women of today have advanced so far , that they have apparantly lost sight of this most womanlike ideal as set forth here in the picture of Phoebe. Rut thank God for a great company of noble women among whom this ideal still survives. (Copyright, 1926. by John R. Gunn.)

Looking Over the New Events On the Stage of the Palace Theater

Ted and A1 AVaMman at the Palace this week waste a lot of valuable time in getting around to their best bit but when they pull out a couple of harmonicas the entertainment starts in reality. The two men are in blackface and their comedy In this line Is just ordinary hut as so often happens, the last is best, meaning when they play the harmonica in the last few minutes of the act. Gattison Jones and Band, and Miss Elsie Elliot, have a good song, music and dance act in which Jones, Miss Elliott and a dance orchestra are featured. We have specialty dances by the team, several solo dances and some excellent numbers by the orchestra. Lee and Cranston place the scene of their act in Ireland. The man in the role of a movie producer from the States who has come over to look at a company he has on location in the old country. In the course of his tramps around the countryside he finds what appears to him to be a very simple and good looking Irish maid. A er talking to her ho thinks he luis found an ideal type for a picture. Later the girl turns out to he a star of his own

THE VERY IDEA

Tiny Mite By golly, the world's lookin’ brighter today. The sky is more blue and all life seems at play. My spirit has brushed all the gloom side away. A bundle of cheer lias arrived hero to stay. Tho scenes 'round the houso all day long are a sight. The thrill of it all even drifts into night. No wonder the hearts of the household are light. We’ve only just welcomed a wee tiny mite. A shrill little ery tells us something is wrong. Well, maybe some pins aren't where they belong. A little correction; a lullaby croon, and God's little gift is asleep pretty soon. At ease, by the fireside, with thoughts runnin’ wild. But ready to jump at a peep from the child. No wonder the Avorld’s lookin’ ever so bright. Two minds with one thought—on the new tiny mite. * * * Why should girls with short skirts bether to watch their stop? Most any fellow will do it for them. • * * It's Impolite to talk behind people's backs—except In a movie, and there it’s dern annoying. • • • Tourists who drop lighted clgarets along the pathways of the great American forests are the ones who blaze the trail. • * • The cost of people’s winter coal Has put folk on the hummer. And yet I'll bet we’ll kick about The heat that’s free tills summer. • • • NOW, HONESTLY— Never saw such a dirty little kid. * Ilis hair was uncombed. His shoe laces were dragging. One storking was hanging down, and the other had a hole at the knee. Mother eyed him from the front porch—and sighed. “Look at his face, dad,” said she. "I simply can’t make him keep

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who has had difficulties with her and! rector. They’ also have seA’erol good song numbers In the act. One of their long numbers, one about is clever. W Morgan and Sheldon have some sophisticated comedy In which tho! man takes the part of a radio salesman and calls upon a woman who has recently been made a widow. Ho doesn't have much luck in selling radios, but sells himself Instead and gets a wife. There is some comedy to the act and one or two good song numbers by the woman. The Four Nelsons open the bill with a juggling novelty In which large hoops are used. Bill includes a photoplay “Forbidden AVaters” with Priscilla Dean and a news reel. At the Palace all week. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “RoseMarie,” at English's: Mcllie Dunham, at Keith's; "The Campaigners," at the Lyric; “East Lynne,” at the Colonial; "Blue Blazes," at the Isis; "Soul Mates,” at the Apollo; "Tho Barrier,” at the Ohio; “The Untamed laidy,” at the Circle, and burlesque at tho Broadway.

clean. What are wo to do with a boy like that?” And dad laughed. “Do?” sez du<L. “Why, nothing at all. Let him boa. boy while ho can. lie's Just a dirty little ragged little honest kid. Whajtf more do you want?” ™ Father was right! • • • The fellow who, through honesty and square shooting, gels what he's after here, doesn't need to worry about the hereafter. • • • It doesn’t pay a real estate Ins vestor to learn a lot, when lie learns a lot is a poor Investment. • • • Wife: There are always two sides to a story. Husband: Sure! You’ve told me one of them. What’s the other? • • • The most generous man we know Is the fellow who wouldn't even turn down a street. • • * FABLES IN FACT ONCE THERE WAS A LITTLE KID WHO DIDN’T EVEN HAVE THE PRICE OF A BALL GAME PERIOD WELL COMMA THE NEXT BEST THING WAS TO FIND A CONVENIENT KNOTHOLE COMMA AVHICH HE SHORTLY DID PERIOD EVERYTHING WAS FINE UNTIL A COj> CAME ALONG AND CHASED HIM AWAY PERIOD NOW IF THAT WASN’T A PIECE of good LUCK COMMA I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS PERIOD IT WAS ONE OF TIIE BFIST BALL GAMES THE Cop HAD EVER SEEN PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, In<? ) PAWNEE BILL IN BRONZE M SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—" Paw Bill” (Major Gordon W. Lillie), mto of tho best-known characters of n*c west for fifty years, will be immortalized In bronze hv the farauda sculptor, Gutaon Borglum.