Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. “A BOYD QI'RLEY, Editor. WM - A - MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cehts a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Meek 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.

The Wrong Direction Once more the telephone monopoly receives permission to increase Its rates. As an echo there Is the Inevitable demand that the public service commission be abolished. The people have forgotten the outrages and extortions which were perpetrated when city councils fixed the terms of franchises and the utilities, perhaps of necessity, were most active in controlling city governments. The regulation law was expected to give relief and to act as a protector of the public. The telephone company has an unbroken record of obtaining about everything it wants in this State. Turned down by the public service commission it goes into Federal courts. It has unlimited resources and extreme resourcefulness in reaching into the pockets of its patrons. The new increase which is to be given will increase the cost of doing business and be an added burden upon every business establishment. In some communities it means an extra dip into the family pocketbook. It is significant that the valuation on which the raise of rates is granted is 20 per cent above the figure fixed by an expert for the commission. That means that the people will pay dividends on many millions of dollars which this expert sajs are pure fiction, not investment. Aside from the reasons by which the commission may have arrived at its valuation, the people should have every reason to hope for a reduction in the cost of telephone service, rather than continual raises. In celebration of its fifty years of existence, this concern pointed with considerable pride to the many improvements and inventions. In the past fifteen years, it has created and developed many devices which save labor, and give greater service over its lines. It sends telegrams over wires on which is being carried conversations at the same time. It is able tb send messages through the air, on so-called “phantom circuits.” It has automatic telephone ‘‘girls” in many cities which reduce the wages paid for giving service. The effect of these inventions and labor saving devices should be to cut the cost to subscribers. Competition has failed to curb the demands of this concern. State regulation is apparently giving no relief. Will the people, finally be driven to the more drastic method of public ownership to obtain a public utility at a reasonable cost?

Daniel F. Steck, Democrat ’ A number of Democratic United States Senators axe preparing to vote, with the Republican old guard to unseat Senator Smith W. Rrookhart of lowa. The moving consideration in the case of many of these is undoubtedly the fact that Brookhart will then be replaced by a Democrat. The Democrat is Daniel F. Steck. When you examine Mr. Steck’s brand of Democracy you get some idea of what's the matter with the Democratic party at the moment. Senator Brookhart was chairman of the Senate committee that investigated Harry Daugherty and the Department of Justice. A large share of the credit for that committee's exceptionally good job is due to him. The exposure of Daugherty gave the Democratic party about the best campaign material it had in 1924. The candidate for President, John W. Davis, used it for all it was worth and so did every Democratic candidate for Senator —except one. The one was this Daniel F. Steck. Steck knew that the Republican organization, national and State, was willing to do anything to defeat Brookhart. He knew that even a Democrat was more acceptable, if he proved he was the ‘‘right kind” by opening his campaign with a denunciation of Brookhart for his part in the Daugherty exposure. In return the Republican organization came across with all the votes it could deliver. Their ticket, in lowa, was Coolidge and Steck. Brookhart had the support of every Da Follette voter in lowa, but under the lowa election law his name could not appear in more than one column on the ballot. Os the 272,000 who voted for La Follette and Wheeler in lowa, 86,000 failed to vote for Brookhart for Senator, as the result of this law. The official returns elected Brookhart by only 765 votes. Steck filed a contest and for a whole year Senate Flections Committee has had the case. Notv It is bringing in a report favoring the seating of Steck, placing his majority at 1,420. If the Democrats in the Senate want the Steck type of Democrat added to their number, there is no question how they will vote on the committee's report.

There s a Guard Now at the Unknown’s Tomb Hereafter those who make the pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington will find there a buddy, fully accoutered, mounting guard. President Coolidge himself gave the order, S4&retary of War Davis passed it on and henceforth the commanding officer at Fort Meyer will see to it that a detail of picked men will do the honors on twohour reliefs. Nothing could be more fitting. The question of whether a guard should be detailed for duty there has been debated for some time, some taking the position that visitors always behaved themselves becomingly and therefore a guard was unnecessary. All this was beside the mark. No more sacred spot than this exists in the entire country and anything calculated to enhance the impressiveness of it is well worth doing. There are some things that are done, not because we have to do them, but because we w r ant to. Now let’s complete the tomb by placing a classical, altar of bronze above it and on this kindling a “flame of remembrance” such as burns day and night and always over the Unknown of France under the Arch of Triumph in Paris. Here is something for the American Legion and other patriotic organizations to get behind. They can see it through—and should. 4

Why Delay? Certainly the majority of the members' of tho school board have received sufficient evidence of tho desires of the parents of pupils to convince them of their mistake in attempting to change the proposed location of the Shortridge High School. The wide public interest in school affairs and the formation of a permanent organization to advise on school matters should be welcome to officials who want only to carry out the will of those who intrusted them with power. It should not be necessary to delay such matters by court actions which will settle only the technical correctness of their proceedings. The pressing demand of the hour is that all such matters be settled quickly and with reference to the plain wishes of those who pay the bills and whose children will be affected by any decision. If the majority of the board feels that It is a mistake to cling to the Thirty-Fourth St. site, it is a mistake on the part of the parents and of an overwhelming number of citizens and organizations which have investigated conditions. If they feel that their judgment is better than that of parents and other citizens, they are more than brave to defy the almost unanimous demand for a reversal of their position. The unfortunate part of tho situation is that there is delay of at least another year of the present intolerable conditions in the Shortridge situation. The best interests of the schools and of the pupils demand a settlement quickly and a school building, not a controversy. The majority members have a most magnificent opportunity to win public approval and public confidence by gracefully yielding to the appeals of parents and citizens and going ahead with the construction of the building at once.

Tom Sims Says Egg stains may be removed by scraping the back of the hand across the chin. * Hard thing about being a politician is looking satisfied at the results. Never sleep in a comfortable bed. You miss it too much during the day. Many of the palms in Florida seem to be itching palms. The crown prince of Sweden bane planning a visit to America. Don’t discard your burned out tubes. Use them in place of good ones. They eliminate static. The only thing you can understand about women is that you can't understand anything about women. A single man doesn't have any one to sympathize with him so he feels good nearly all the time. Wives cost more than they used to and don’t last nearly so long. Some styles and fa.ds are so sensible they don't last long. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Blotting Paper Made From Rag Stock You can iret an answer to anv question of fact or information by writ, in? to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D 0.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot oe given nor can extended research be undertaken. A:i other questions will receive a personal repb I.’nsicned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. From what are blotters made? Blotting paper is made from cotton rag stock, and in medium grades from cotton rag mixed with soda wood pulp. Cheap blotters are made from mechanical wood pulp. How are “cream horns” made? Os puff paste cut in strips one inch wide and idled over a greased funnel to a cornucopia shape. They are baked on the funnel and then filled with meringue or whipped cream, flavored to taste. How many persons are drawing pension from (he United Stales Government for service in the Indian wars? The last report of the commissioner of pensions lists 3,924 pensioners on the rolls of the pension office on account of services in the various Indian wars and 3,034 widows of men who fought in these wars. How long does it take to get a divorce in the State of Yucatan, Mexico? Yucatan grants divorce by mutual consent, after a residence of thirty days there by one of the parties. Service must, however, be made on and acknowledged by the other party. What is tiie meaning of the Italian name "Marenzana?” It is a combination of "zana,” meaning “cradle,” and “mare,” meaning “sea,” and means “cradled by the sea.” Is the population of Boston greater than that of Baltimore? The bureau of the census estimates the 1925 population of Boston at 779,620 and of Baltimore at 796,296. I)o birds have a s<*ise of taste? According to Science Service, a German ornithologist, recently experimented by giving canaries sour, salty, hitter and sweet solutions. The tests indicated that birds-have a sense of taste similar to that of human beings, tho.ugh not so acute. What is the best way to break chickens of eating their eggs? Put china eggs in the nest, and see that the hens have oyster shells to pick at. This gives them the shell they need. Why are the people of Indiana called “Hoosiers?” The nickname is said to be a corruption of "hustler’’ which at one time was ft common term throughout the west for a bully. It is also said to have originated from "the habit of the people of the State of inquiring fro mstrangers, “Who's yer?” (that is, “who are you?”) When will the Coolidge half dollars be issued? In the late spring or early summer in connection with the Philadelphia sesqui-centennial exposition. Is Colleen More, (he movie actress, married to .John McCormack, the tenor? The husband of Colleen Moore is named John McCormick, but he is not the tenor. He is the Western representative of the First National Pictures, Inc.

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Lon Chaney Does His Horror Stuff Again to Splendid Results in ‘The Black Bird’

By Walter I). Hiclunan | Y doing his horror stuff again, rs i that funny trick of crippling 1 his body, Lon Chaney rings up another dramatic success in ‘‘The Black Bird.” Chaney has made himself famous by being ugly and all out of shai>e.

The more terrible looking lie is, the greater his vogue. By playing two roles in “The Black Bird,” Chaney has a. chance to play a “straight” crook role as well as an awful looking cripple. Chaney gives the impression In this picture that he changes from his normal position Into a cripple that he actually throws ills body out of joint, causing the terrible

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physical effects. When Chaney is all crippled in this story, he is then playing tho role of the “Bishop” of Limehouse for the purpose of covering the identity of tho “Black Bird,” a clever and mean crook. As tiie “Bishop,” even a terrible cripple, Chaney has a chance to reduce the horror of tho part, because the “Bishop” is conducting a sort of a haven of rest for down and outers in London. Chaney has a great dramatic death scene in this movie. It is a corker and done so well. It proves beyond doubt that Chaney is a most gifted dramatic artist. It is Indeed difficult to got the right type of stories for him and “The Black Bird” is a most suitable vehicle for Chaney. You will agree with me in stating that Owen Moore as English Eddy, one of those stylish crooks, does a great pie--e of character work. Moonwill make himself talked about for libs work here. At times it is really great. The cast includes Renee Adoree as Fill. You will soon see Miss Adoree in “The Big Parade.” Rather think you will say that the picture has been cleverly directed by Tod Browning. “The Life of Verdi,” another one of the James A. Fitzpatrick Music Master Overtures, is being presented in connection with the Circle orchestra with Bakaleinikoff directing. While Verdi’s tragic life Is being reflected upon the screen, his wonderful music is played by the orchestra. These overtures are making movie history in this country. The bill Includes a news reel, a comedy and an organ solo by Dessa Byrd. At the Circle all week. -1- -!- -1“SEA HORSES” HAS BEEN WELL PRODUCED AND DIRECTED It was no easy task to bring “Sea Horses” to the screen, as the big scene shows a great ship being tossed over rocks during a typhoon. As you know, you can not grab a typhoon any old time in the year,

hut the movie director in this case has been highly successful In “digging" tip a pretty good typhoon. This scene is supposed to happen off the cast coast of Africa, and the director has created realism In these scenes. “Sea Horses" interested me “heaps" yesterday lxon’ise I became interested not only In the work of Florence

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Vidor and Jack Holt, but in the way the director has staged the entire works. The story is interesting and it is filled with a lot of human bits, not big dramatic crashes, but the stuff that gets under one's skin. I have never been over-interested in stories about a good woman chasing half around the world to save a worthless man who happened to be her husband. The husband in this case was sure a peach, about the worst rotter I have seen on the screen for many a moon. In this story the husband was a terrible mess, and I was so glad that Jack Holt was close at hand to rescue the lady of suffering, played by Florence Vidor. Nearly forgot to tell you there is a corking gun fight in this picture, with just the right amount of comedy to make it go over with a bang. Rather think you will have a good time seeing “Sea Horses.” Bill includes “Circus Today.” a news reel and organ and orchestral music. At the Apollo all week. •I- 'I 'I ANOTHER Old) ONE COMES TO LIFE AGAIN Lovers of melodrama of the old school will be delighted with the way that Universal-Jewell has brought “The Still Alarm” to the screen. Here is a stage play which is very old, but it has been dressed up in modem attire and the villain gets his just the same. And do not get worried. The director has been wise enough to date the being of the picture back to the days when horses were used to draw the fire apparatus. And even today the sight of seeing the fire horses gives me a thrill. But during the last half of the movie the fire department becomes modern and use motor equipment. Os course, the big scene is the burning of an apartment house at night when the chief, his adopted

Movie Verdict APOLLO—lntelligent directing has made “Rea Horses” good entertainment. COLONIAL —They loved it on the stage for years, meaning “The Still Alarm,” and they will love it all over again on the screen. CIRCLE—Lon Chaney becomes all horrible again In appearance in “The Black Bird.” Mighty good theater. OHIO—The Observer raves over “Dance Madness” with Conrad Nagel and Claire Windsor.

daughter, the villain and our hero are trapped by the tlames. To make their escape the crew of fighters and the villain must walk the dangerous ledge of a window and then some before they get to safety. This scene has been directed with so much skill that it becomes the big moment of the story. When it comes to spectacular fire scenes, the screen of course has the lead over tho stage. As with all of the old-fashioned melodramas there is a lesson concealed. In this case the lesson seems to he —do not attempt to run off with another man's wife, because the wrongdoer will get a black eye if not a broken head. The cast is satisfactory and is as follows: L.icy Kay Hrlen Chadwick Richard Kay William Russell Perry Punn Richard C. Travers Drina Kay Bdna Marian Andy Todd John T. Murray Tom Ilrand Kdward Hearn Mrs. Maloney Pot Parley Maisie Rush Erin L. Bissontero Man ay ci- Modiste Shop . Jacques dAt ray "The Still Alarm” is just good allround theater. It has the punch and some interesting work on the part of the villain. Bill includes "So This Is Paris,” Aesop Fables, a news reel, the American Harmonists and Julia NiebergaJl in pianologues. At the Colonial all week. THE OBSERVER LIKES “DAM E MADNESS” AT OHIO A thoroughly delightful and entertainlng picture is on view at the Ohio this week In “Dance Madness'4 featuring (laire Windsor and Conrad Nagel. It is their first picture together. Sophisticated comedy is the underlying motive of the picture and all through the film are scattered laughs that are real ones and not half hearted attempts. Judging from this the first picture lx- made featuring these two

find has been made in the fact that they work perfectly together and seem to he good for many more productions. The story concerns the romantic marriage of a wealthy young man and the trouble ho gets into after the first y ear of married life. For a stars together a year after the marriage everything is smooth

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and Nagel as the husband sees no one in the world but his pretty young wife, played hv i laire Windsor. Then on a trip to Paris an old bachelor friend disturbs the domestic harmony and the plot of the picture is worked out. Nagel in this picture departs from his rather serious type of oharacterizat on of former pictures and ste|>e into the role of the blase and sophisticated bachelor who has seen just about everything that will pro-

THE VERY IDEA By Hal Cochran

I guess we’re all open to good, sane advice. Let’s hear what the doc has to say. This totin' a cold and a headache’s not nice. Say, how can we drive ’em away? "I'll tell ya,” says doc, in his serious voice,” you’re all a bit careless, I guess. You’re gonna he well —or he sick. Take your choice. The fault is your own, in distress. “Use good common sense in the clothes that you wear. Don't switch from the heavies, to thins, as soon as you feel there’s some wnrmth in the air, ’cause that's where the trouble begins. "If pepper and vigor and health you would keep, don't run your old system to pieces. When work hours are over, get much needed sleep. Your chance to fight sickness increases. “When fever attacks you, through cold in the heed, and makes you feel groggy and nervous, play safe with yourself, and hop right in your bed. Then call me —’cause I’ at your service * • • The average American family spends $lO a year for soap. And that’s where the kids get it in the neck. * • • ** “Where is the little boy ** ** who tends to the sheep? •* ** Shucks, I know— back of the ** ** woodshed smokin’ pop’s old ** ** pipe. •* • • • The owner of .a rammed earth house, in Washington, D. C., recently abandoned an attempt to tear down the walls, ’cause they were so hard. Wonder if he'd like to borrow my three kids.

When mother takes dad shopping, With buying power in trim. She lakes a load right off lier mind. And wishes it on him. * i • NOW, HONESTLY— „ There’s something that sounds terribly weak in the expression—“l can’t.” And yet it's a very popular combination of two words. If It's really true that you can do most anything that you really, and seriously set out to do—then “I can't” is a lot of bohunkum! At least It sounds a heap better for a person to say, “I’ll try.” I’d like to be able to answer the question: "Why do people so readily say, “I can’t?”—but “I can't.” * * Prof. Ofergosh Sakes has discovered that lialf the married people in the U. S. are the men of the house—and half the other half are, too. • * * Hurrah! Circus season is coming hack—and all the married n.en can go and see a man make a woman jump through a hoop. Hurrah! Circus season isc oming TEACHER: Can any little boy tell me where New York is? LI'L ROUGHNECK: Aw. ya can't fool me. They’re BOTH of the big leagues.

(luce entertainment. This is a hard part, for a young fellow to play as those most famous for the part will bear witness, but Nagel gets hold of it and the result is smooth and finished work. Miss Windsor also departs a little from former practice in that she now does a little vamping of anew Style, and is also excellent in the part. It Is a fine picture and to miss it is to miss many good laughs and entertainment. Bill includes featured numbers by Charley I>avls and bin orchestra and a comedy. At tho Ohio all week. (By tho Observer.) * • • Other theaters today offer; Dr. Rockwell at Keith’s; Frances Kennedy at the Lyric; The Townsend Bolds at the Palace; "Under Western Skies" at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway. STUART WALKER MAY RETURN TO INDIANAPOLIS That Stuart Walker will open one of his companies for summer stock at B. F. Keith’s in Indianapolis this summer is the information carried in Sunday's Cincinnati Enquierer under the name of William Smith Goldenburg, dramatic critic of that paper. Goldenburg in discussing Walker’s opening in Cincinnati at tho Grand says: "Though It is too early to give out names as yet, it is certain thal during the coming summer season Mr. Walker will have many of the most famous and distinguished actors and actresses in America, ns members of Ills Cincinnati and Indianapolis companies. “The opening of tho Indianapolis Stuart Walker Company will occur some two or three weeks after the company is launched at the Grand Opera House. This summer Mr. Walker will have the Keith Instead of the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, lis. "Mr. Walker, according to announcement, has lined up a most interesting selection of plays for presentation hero this season, a list that will include several important revivals and one or two premieres, as well as many of the most successful of tho plays produced on Broadway during the season which is now drawing to a close. "It is thought that Stuart Walker will direct the plays produced in Cincinnati, while George Somnes, who was director in Dayton last summer, will he the director of the company operating nt tho Keith Theater, Indianapolis." There has been a rumor in Indianapolis for weeks that Walker would return to Indianapolis this summer. I called Iloltare Eggleston hy phone and told hint of the Cincinnati story, he said that he had no personal knowledge as "suqh things arc done In New York with the Keith office.” Personally, I believe that Walker will return to Indianapolis If he can get Keith's after the regular vaudeville season.

Most men know about half as much as they think their wives think they do—or about twice as much as said wives actually give them credit for. • • • He never hugged his lady fair. He thought ?t out of taste. The evening was the only thing That ever m nt to waste. • • • If it weren’t for the early settlers, credit houses would have a heck of a time. • • • The haughtiest man I know is the fellow who always hung his head down ’cause he was too proud to look up to anybody. • • • FABS.ES IN FACT WUNCE THERE WAS A FELLA WHO SMOKED AND SMOKED AND SMOKED PERIOD SOME OF HIS FRIENDS KEPT TELLING HIM THAT TOO MANY CIGARS WOULD MAKE HIM SICK COMMA BUT COMMA OF COURSE HE KNEW MORE THAN THEY DID ABOUT IT DASH DASH OR COMMA AT LEAST HE THOUGHT HE DID PERIOD ANYWAY COMMA ONE DAY HE WAS REALLY TAKEN SICK COMMA AND THE DOCTOR BLAMED IT ON THE CIGARS PERIOD WHICH PROVES THE OLD STORY DASH DASH GIVE A GUY ENOUGH ROPE COMMA ETC PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

A Sermon for Today - ’“By Rev. John R. Gunn

A JOYFUL RELIGION Text: “And the ransomed of the liOrd shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” —lsaiah 35:10. There are those who make religion out as opposed to the happy, gleeful, playful, joyful side of life. Such a notion is a travesty upon religion. Indeed, it is a travesty upon God. Our God is a happy God. Our Christ Is a happy Christ. He came to stop sighing, but not to stop singing; to drive away tears, but not to drive away smiles. “They shall come to Zion,” says Isaiah, “with songs and everlasting joy upon thenheads.” The popular notion that religion is a melancholy affair does not harmonize with the ideal of beauty and brightness reflected in the handiwork of God. Since God has covered the whole face of nature with so much brightness, I am sure He delights to see brightness upon the faces of His children. Never should we try to advertise the fact that we are the children of God by wearing a gloomy and melancholy face. When we do that we advertise God as a Being who loves gloomy and ugly things.

555 IN INDIANA ?ATo’S

DELAWARE ST. BRIDGE The board of works threatens to rush to completion tho approaches to tho Delaware St. bridge over Fall Creek. That sounds familiar. For more than a year that bridge has been completed. It was opened with "ceremony and eclat by heavy dignitaries when the late Lew Shank was on the throne in the heyday of his mayoralty. It was announced then that the approaches to the bridge, the necessity for which had just apparently dawned on city authorities, would be rushed to completion. From time to time during the past year similar announcements have been made. And still the bridge is Without approaches. A magnificent specimen of bridge architecture, it can only he reached by crossing the miniature Alps at either end. Busses, commercial vehicles, private motor cars and others who would use the bridge must wallow through no-man's land where the approaches should be. They wallow through quagmires, and leap nimbly from crag to crag, breaking springs and shucking loose store teeth, religion, vertebrae and profanity all over the place. The infferno is paved at least with good intentions. Despite oftrepeated announcements of municipal officials the Delaware St. bridge approaches lack even that surfacing material. It would be nice If the present board actually means to complete the approaches. Certainly until they are completed the whole bridge project Is a mere civic vanity, an empty artistic and engineering triumph.

DYSPEPSIA, WHERE IS THY STING? Miss Mary Beenian. State supervisor of home economies education, says that domestic science la the most popular science course among grade and high school girls in Indiana. It is Included In the curriculum of 477 Hoosier schools. That's good news. From the headlines and from the frequent public denunciations of modern girls hy soured pessimists one gathers the impression home and domesticity are the last things modern girls think about. It seems the girls are more interested In learning marksmanship to use on their future husbands than cooking. But the number of Iloosler girls studying domestic arts and home economics in school proves that their ideals are not all petting, jazz and the escapades of flaming youth. They are just as interested in learning to manage a home and feed a brute as were their mothers. The girl today, who learns domestic science in the schools, may wear bobbed hair and chapped knees, but she is less likely to sink her family with rock-itke biscuits. compounded of flint and Portland cement, than the ladylike maid of yesteryear who was so domestic and feminine that she fainted at tho least provocation. More matrimonial ventures have foundered at tho dinner table than elsewhere. However, with growing popularity of cooking and domestic science in the schools tho dinner table will soon lose its terrors for the newly married couple. Young Hoosier husbands will be able to bring thier sppetites to the table without disastrous results. They can safely ask: "Oh, dyspepsia, where is t.hy sting?”

BEWARE OF THE CHARLESTON Many Indianapolis doctors condemn the Charleston as harmful to health. Dr. Morgan, city health officer, says that over-indulgence In the popular dance is likely to prove a serious overstrain on the heart muscles. So, If you would live long, beware of the Charleston. That's the way of medical gents. Any fad taken up hy young people Is usually pronounced by fearful physicians to he damaging to youth's heart, digestion, muscles or morals. Every newly Introduced dance was similarly condemned when It appeared. And so with every other strenuous diversion young people have taken up. When the bicycle craze struck the country, it was predicted that it would produce a mad, stoop-shouldered race with overdeveloped leg muscles. But it only produced a few skinned nosea and hurried a few unsuspecting young folks Into matrimony. Probably the effects of the Charleston will be no more lasting. Os course Charlestonlng is not an essential Industry. If a maid needs physical exercise, probably

But is that true? Look at the radiant orbs that gem the brow of night. Look at the sun sinking behind a bank of clouds, painting them with purple and fancy pictures of golden glory. Look at the lilies, the violets. the roses, and the carnations which cover the bosom of the earth. I say it Is not true. God Is not a Being who loves gloomy and ugly things. Away with the notion that religion is a melancholy affair. If you are a child of God, let your countenance reflect the brightness and gladness we see flaming and flashing upon the face of nature. I believe in a religion that can laugh as well as cry. It is all right to cry. There Is nothing prettier in the house of God than a tear. But there is nothing ugly in laughter. Some people seem to feel that there is something malevlc in humor: that laughter partakes of the nature of sin; but that is foreign to the rellsr lon Christ taught. Christ is not opposed to the pleasurahlo things of life. Indeed, the purest pleasures and the sweetest Joys are to he found through association with Christ and His people. Isaiah saw in Zion an highway, and to all who walk there the promise is, “They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

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washing dishes will do her muscles ns much good ns dancing. And there aro other ways than shaking a hoof of the wuil of saxophones, that will keep youth physically fitfl But the Charleston can scarcely l> ™ held responsible for adenoids, pyorrhea or halitosis. If a Charlestoner dies on the floor, It is more likely to he in consequence of kicking another Charlestoner than tho result of overexertion. Anyway, medlcul gents need not worry over the possible physical ravages of the dance. By the time tho physical ravages aro duo the young people will have abandoned the Charleston for a newer fad, Tt may he tho tango waltz or tid dlywlnks. Whatever it is, it will ho criticised.

ON THE AIR MAP

Felix McWhirter, Indianapolis banker, spoaklng before the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce recently, urged that Immediate steps bo taken to establish a convenient, accessible, properly ©quipped air port In Indianapolis. He'd put this city on the air map that Is now being drawn hy tho pioneers of commercial flying. He suggests tho possibility of using the Motor Speedway for a landing field. Intermittently during the past year sundry local civic organizations and business leaders have enthusiastically discussed tho project of an air port for dianapolls. Nothing has done to make the project a The only landing field in the vicinity is nt Ft. Benjamin Harrison, ten miles away. At tho present moment that suffices doubtless. A port for accomodation of commercial flyers may seem nn empty municipal flourish. Planes are not so plentiful In our local atmosphere that they fight with soot particles for a place In tho sun. But what about tomorrow? Commercial aviation is developing rapidly. Airmail and private lines are In operation on regular schedules and new routes are be ing opend up. Saturday the postoffice department received bids for the Chi-cago-Atlanta air mall route. Indianapolis, Nashville atui Birmingham, will he served hy this line. Saturday, the Ford interests announced the Ford airport at Dearborn, near Detroit, will bo enlarged within the next few months Into one of the largest and most complete aircraft centers in the country. Tho day of commercial aJr transportation Is here. The cities that do not bestir themselves now to attract tho flying business may suddenly wake up and find themselves In the position of the haughty river towns that snubbed and neglected the railroads when railway development was in its Infancy,

MR._FIXIT Mother Worried Over Son’s Drinking,

Let Mr. Fllxt present your ease to city officials He la The Times' repre S'-ntallve at the city hall. Write him at Tho Times. The gin and wi men parties of a son Is causing w< rry to a woman correspondent of Mr. Flxit today. DEAR MR. FIX IT: I am a widow with one son who is my only support. He attends a dance where ho drinks and spends all his money in a basement cabaret. He is a dear boy. Shortly after that had accident where the two boys were killed and the girls so hndly injured, he told me he was talking with them. On my plea ho promised never to go to the cabaret again, but like all young boys, ho broke his promise. I hope you ran help me keep him away from there and forbid them to sell gin and white mule to him. READER. Mr. Flxit Is of the opinion tho cabaret does not soil the liquor, but that your son takes it there to drink. Mr. Fixlt believes you are magnifying the seriousness of tho situation. Don’t nag your son, but reason in a deliberate, passioned manner, ■ The streets department to In J vestlgating the following com/ plaints: F. A. Otto, 1406 8. Capl/ tol Ave.; Charles O. Duncan, H. Fit Thompson, Louis A. Roth, Frw Bechold and Walter Ftinker, block, Gladstone Av#.; M. ml. Reasoner, Campbell Ave., and I H. Quinn, "38 Kim St. I

GLENWOOD BOYS WIN Rush County School Taken Aluslc Memory Contest lfonorsJ Three boys of Rush Countyfs Glenwood High Schoo today raid the honor of having the best j musical memories of any high sefcool students In the State. DonaMd Brooks, Donald Brown and Joseph) Douthett won the State muslo memory contest Saturday. / The team representing Hendricks County's White school c/pped honors in the rural school section, and the team of WestviUe school of La Porte County won the gri/mmar school competition. / four sundjay Fires Officials Estimate /Goldsmith Pbuit Blaze Damage to be $1,004. Fire did I,OOJi damage at Goldsmith IronT and BupJy Con® pany, 126 S. It/chwlne St., late day, Are ofllcliols reported today. An overheated tetove was blamed, .sparks emitted three roof Ares. Walter Ray'fc home at 661 Tacoma Ave., sufTerr/d S3OO damage and the home of \\J, H. Ball, 67S9*Centrnl Ave., a $5Ol loss. Damage estinjah 1 at SSO wa done to the garage of Walter Sclott, 11*9 Bellefontalne St.