Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1926 — Page 6

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(The Indianapolis Times HOY W. HOWARD, President. DO YD GURLEY, 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 \V Maryland St., Indianapolis * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * PHONE —MA in 11500. _ / 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.

Write the Senators The lower house in Congress has passed a bill jutting all prohibition enforcement agents under iivil service. It is a policy and a principle upon which wets md drvs agree, the first time they have thought alike m any matter. Taking enforcement of this law out of politic* may not appeal to the Senators who have named the .gents but it is a necessary step unless the orgamation'remains an adjunct to political machines. Not the least of the undesirable conditions which :ame with prohibition was the political influence vhich has dominated the enforcement of the law. The jobs on this bureau were given, largely, to nen who are active in primaries and elections. They were not chosen primarily either for their ympathy with the law itself or for any high regard for any law. Their training was that of practical politics with its devious evasions and subterfuges. If the appointing power happened to be playing for the diy vote, he named men who would enforce the law strictly and impartially, or at least in a manner which would not alienate his supporters and followers. If he lived in a wet community he saw to it that his appointee showed very great discretion, to say the least. The result has been that there is no such thing is uniform enforcement of the law. In wet States, he agents must be blind and deaf. In dry States t, is politic to show some activity. One of the results of this condition has been a ery rapid turnover among the agents. In some of the border cities, an agent lasts ibout three months and retires rich. It is a rather ghastly joke that many men suggest that all they want is six months in that department in cities where smuggling across the border is easy. No one believes that naming agents under a civil service system will keep out grafters and venal men 'rom these jobs. No one believes that it will be a cure for lax mforcement or that It will restore respect for law. But it is a step in the right direction and may liminate one of the influences which are operatlg against all respect for law. I it will, or may, make it impossible for a candiite for re-election to the Senate to either terrore bootleggers by a show of raids or line them up i adjuncts to his respectable supporters by lifting ,e lid just before the primaries. The political power and potentialities of an vforcement machine are tremendous. That power has been used and will be used rain. It was intended to he used when the Sena>rs, without regard to party lines, blocked former fforts to take it out of politics. ( That measure is now before the Senate. It will jje either shelved or delayed unless people, without jk;gard to their opinions on the question of prohibition, make it evident that they will no longer stand Ihr it being a football of politics, a blackmail weapon fpr politicians. 1 Unless you happen to be a bootlegger, you sjhould be interested in the quick passage of this law. If you resent the mixture of politics and prohibition enforcement, write today to Senators Robinson and Watson and ask them what they intend to do (|r will do to hurry the passage of this law.

Secrecy in the Senate For more than a year the United States Senate held up the confirmation of Thomas li. Woodlock, appointed to the Interstate Commerce .Commission by President Coolidge. One day last week, following promises by the President to take care of Pennsylvania and certain other sections in future appointments, the opposition to Woodlock melted and he was confirmed by a vote of 52 to 2a. This vote was taken in secret session of the Senate. Under the rule adopted, apparently no Senator may even tell his constituents whether he voted for Woodlock or against him without subjecting himself to discipline by the Senate organization. While some Senators who had helped hold up Woodlock’s confirmation had no motive other than a desire to obtain appointment of someone from their own section, the chief opposition was different. This came from Senators who believe Woodlock is so closely identified with big railroad interests that he cannot make an impartial commissioner. The latter class had no desire for secrecy; their opposition had been in the open and they were willing that their Votes should be publicly recorded. The day following confirmation it was moved, in the Senate that this vote be withdrawn from its secrecy and printed in the Record. On this motion there were sixty-four Senators present and voting. The vote was "0 for and 34 against. The lid was kept on. The thirty who were willing that the vote should be made public are: Republicans—Borah, Brookhart. Dale, Gooding, Howell, Johnson, La Follette, McMaster, McNary, Norris, Nye; Democrats—Blease, Broussard, Copeland, Dill, George, Harris, Kendrick, King, McKellar, Mayfield, Pittman, Sheppard, Simmons, Stephens, Trammell, Tyson, Walsh, Wheeler; Farm-Labor —Shipstead. The thirty-four who voted to keep the record of the vote secret are: Republicans—Bingham, Butler, Cameron, Capper, Couzens, Curtis, Deneen, Edge, Fernald, Fess, Gillett, Goff, Hale, Harreld, Jones of Washington, Keyes, Means, Metcalf, Moses, Oddie, Phipps, Reed of Pennsylvania, Sackett, Smoot, Wadsworth, Warren, Watson, Willis; Democrats— Edwards, Glass, Jones of New Mexico, Overman, -Kansdell, Swanson. ! Jim Davis Forgets v | “9. The immigration laws of the United States Jre being abused in that deportation proceedings ■re threatened against hundreds of law-abiding citilens of the United States for no reason except that ■hey insist on a living wage and working conditions, thicli are not destructive of health and life.” Senator Robert M. La. Follette Jr., in moving for ||enatorial investigation of the textile workers’ at Passaic, N. j\, cited a number of charges by theistrikers and county-charges

made by the employers. The paragraph quoted is No. 9 in the list of charges. It is cited here, not for its bearing on that particular strike, but in connection with the alien registration bill which Secretary of Labor Davis is endeavoring to put through Congress. One reason Davis’ idea has met with so much resistance in Congress is that the average member can see the abuses that naturally would follow his proposed plan of registration. He can see how ignorant foreign-born citizens, or men who hope to become citizens, might he hounded and harassed by persons wishing to take advantage of them, if they were compelled to carry cards and generally place themselves under the thumbs of local officials wherever they might settle down to live and work. If the charge made at Passaic is true, how much more unhappy would the life of these new Americans be made under the proposed system of registration. Secretary Davis was an immigrant boy from Wales himself. He loves to voice his views on America, the land of opportunity, as it has proved itself in his case. In his early days as a tinplate worker, Davis participated in a strike or two. Had conditions and laws of that day permitted advantage to be taken of his foreign birth, such as his registration bill now would permit, it is possible that his interesting progress from puddler to President’s aid would never hare occurred. He might be back in Wales recalling with a bit of bitterness a few years spent in America, ended by deportation proceedings and a steerage ride home.

A Jap Base in Mexico? Washington is said to be considerably perturbed over the report thatethe Mexican government has granted huge land concessions to a Japanese syndicate—one of a million acres on the Pacific coast near the American border and another, twice as big, on Magdalena Bay, close to the southern tip of Lower California. This is important—and serious—if true. But let’s try to keep cool until the news is confirmed. The new Mexican Constitution of 1917 expressly and unconditionally prohibits any alien from either acquiring direct ownership in lands and waters within 100 kilometers (approximately 63 miles) of the international boundaries and-50 kilometers of the seacoasts, or being a shareholder In a Mexican company acquiring or owning such concessions. Furthermore it so happens that the United States and Mexico at this moment are at loggerheads regarding laws based on this very provision —laws which on their face appear almost confiscatory. it is difficult to believe President Caller, could be so inconsistent as to require the sale of previously acquired foreign concessions within the prohibited zones described above then turn right around and make identical grants to other foreigners. Lastly, American foreign policy may be, and for the most part generally is, vague, but on this particular subject it happens to be quite clear. “When any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States”—reads a resolution adopted by Congress upon a former occasion when it appeared the Japanese were on the point of getting a foothold In the same region—"the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern” its'falling Into any foreign hands not American. Mexico may or may not choose to shape its course to confirm to our policy—that’s for us to worry about—but she has her own Constitution which directly forbids the granting of any such concession. Confirmation of the reports, therefore, would not only reduce that document to a worthless scrap of paper but spell trouble with this country as well. Which is why the news is difficult to believe.

Tom Sims Says Almost time for the spring poet to see his shadow. Stay away from bad company won’t know enough cuss words to call your auto when It won’t start. The hard thing about making money last is making it first. A wooden leg Isn’t as great a handicap as a wooden head. Boys of 15 Can Join British Navy You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing: to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. A’.i other questions will receive a personal reply, Unsigned rcqu<-st9 cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How old must a boy be to enlist in the British Navy and what is the pay on enlistment? Enlistment age is from 15 to 17 years and the pay is 18 pounds 5 shillings per year. Has Great Salt Lake In Utah ever been larger than it is now? It is all that is left of Lake Bonneville, which in geologic ages covered about 20,000 square miles and was approximately ten times larger than the existing body of water. What is the "Big Brother and Big Sister Federation? It is an international organization with headquarters at 1775 Broadway, New York City, whose purposes are to promote the welfare of children and to save boys and girls from delinquency by individual and personal effort and through special volunteer organizations and cooperation with other agencies in the United States and Canada. It acts in an advisory capacity to such volunteer organizations as are now In existence and cooperates with them wherever and whenever possible to secure united effort in a common cause. Didn’t the American Indians have some method of lessening suffering when they treated wounds and injuries? The anesthetic potency of certain plants was known to Indians. The Zunis and some other tribes used a substance obtained from the jimson weed as an anesthetic during surgical operations. What is the botanical name for the ‘•ottonwood tree? \

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Calling .On Frances Kennedy Is Like Going On a Very Grand Summer Picnic

By Walter D. Hickman If I should tell you that I called upon a "grand old lady” of the stage, the person so addressed would remark in plain English that she might be “grand” but "not old.” The other evening I asked the house manager of the Lyric to take me hack to Miss Frances Kennedy, that gay funmakes on the hill. I was ushered through the spacious restrooms of the Lyric in the

All Broke My phonograph broke down, got the grip, spring fever or something and flatly refused to grind out another record. Package of the most interesting looking new spring records recline unplayed in my library. And just because my phonograph had to-wait until the “doctor” called, I can not tell you about the recorded music today. It probably will be a few days before Mister Phonograph is cured, because the doctor had to take a lung or something to the hospital.— W. D. 11.

basement, where the artists may have a good family time of it while waiting to entertain. We reached the dressing room of this vaudeville star. I was announced. Guess what she was doing—this grand person of the stage. She had on her glasses and a dainty house gown, calmly sewing on a dress. Oh, yes, she was using her own needle and thread. Miss Kennedy pave one scream of recognition, removed her glasses ana calmly asked: “You hunk of humanity, where have you been all these days?” I politely reminded the star that she had been in the city thirty-two hours and I thought that I was working very fast to make her a call. She screamed and laughed as only this great personality can. And then — A meat terrible secret: She kissed me. "Oh, you poor thing, you have rouge on your right cheek.” Now don’t call this an affair, because in private life Miss Kennedy is the wife of Mr. 'Thomas Johnson, noted Chicago attorney. As I have been kissed by the late Sarah Bernhardt and others equally great, and as French generals have that method of polite greeting—l ask you what is In a kiss? Miss Kennedy flatly refused to remove her feet from a comfortable position, “This Is home and just now my rest period,” she told me as she looked very much at home In the clean, modern and comfortable dressing-rooms at the Lyric. Frances Kennedy is always an artist, and she is a wife and a mother of a boy. She has a farm near Gary, Ind., which is one of the joy spots of tho northern part of the State. She has been trooping for years, and she looks younger* today than she did twelve years ago when I met her in Terre Haute. And, being young, she has her very own version of the Charleston. Y’es, indeed. Frances Kennedy has been on the stage for years. She has seen many of the greatest fall by the wayside, but Frances keeps going on. The reason is—She firmly believes tha 1 . people want to be happy. She hits made thousands laugh, and she Intends to keep on carrying her program of cheer. You just can’t stop Frances Kennedy. She Is a great artist. She knows how to reach her public. I guess that she has been a star on all of tho legitimate stages of her career in this city. This artist is before the public when many others are home and nearly forgotten. And that is Frances Kennedy, a wonderful artist, a grand wife and a charming mother. Miss Kennedy is keeping house, meaning entertaining the public, at the Lyric all week. She is another grand success. • -I- -I' -IOther theaters today offer: Dr. Rockwell at Keith’s, Frances Kennedy at the Lyric, Townsend Bolds and company at the Palace, "Dance Madness” at the Ohio, “Sea Horses” at the Apollo, “The Still Alarm” at the Colonial, "The Blackbird” at the Circle, “Under Western Skies” at the Isis and burlesque at the Broadway.

BID OPENING APRIL 27 Highway Commission to Ixx>k at Figures on Paving. Bids will be opened by the State highway commission April 27 on approximately sixty-five miles of paving. Projects in the new letting: State Rd. 1, Columbus to Edinburg, 14 miles; Rd. 2, Valparaiso to Hamlet, 16 miles; Rd. 10, Lake Village to Dyer, 3.5 miles; Rd. 17, Waterloo to Butler, 7 miles, and Rd. 12, Mooresville to Marion County line, 5 miles. RYAN FOR FARM AID Toga Seeker Pledges Support to Indiana Agriculture. Bn United Press - SEYMOUR, Ind., March 31.—Oswald Ryan of Anderson, Republican candidate for the short term senatorial nomination, last night pledged his support to the farmers of Indiana in’ their fight for "a place in the sun.” , Ryan declared the farmers’ demands are justifiable and should be granted. FREDRICK TO DEBATE Will Take Part in World Court Discussion. BV United Press KOKOMO, Ind., March 31.—John E. Fredrick, Democratic candidate for the long term senatorial nomination, will take part in a debate here Thursday on the World Court, it was announced today. The debate is being staged under the auspices of a local Bible class]-

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Here is Ijidy Ashburton, with her husband. Lord Ashburton. Lady Ashburton has returned to the United States—l he scene of lier successes when she was Frances Donnelly of flie "Florodora” sextette.

THE VERY IDEA By Hal Cochran

MOM’S JOB A man hies homeward, every day when working hours are done. His mind is turned to loaf and play and things that make up fun. He longs to eat a home-cooked meal that wifey has prepared. He knows how good he’s going to feel as supper fare is shared. So buried in such thoughts is he, he seldom stops to think that tiredness comes with homework, and the wife is on the brink. It really looks so easy, when the supper’s on the table. To realize that cooking food is work, he is not able. Then wifie takes a week-end trip, and leaves things on the shelf so dad, when he comes home at night, can cook his meals himself. The first attempt is not so bad. With actions rather crude, he rolls his sleeves and I sails right In the Job of cooking food. I The second, and the third night. | though, begin to tell their story. Dad wonders why he ever thought that mom was in her glory. But then, when she arrives back home and tackles work a* aln. he once more thinks her job is soft—he’s like all other men. • • There’s a heap more satisfaction getting by on push than on pull. * * • Site was driving her new auto for the first time and couldn't, understand how the cop could accuse her of going forty miles an hour, when she'd only been out fifteen minutes. • • • P SEZ THE WIFE: "Sure: I'll call you at G in the morning—but I know dem well ya won’t get up." • • • He spent liis life complaining and When he was taken sick Willi gout, his friends were glad because At least, he couldn’t kick. * • • Some young men, on leaving college, have a hard time deciding whether to go to work or get a job In their father’s office. • • • A fella seldom has too much on one glass—unless he keeps Ailing it up. • • • The original flat failure Ls the heating system in a lot of apartment houses. • • • Sez the wife: "I thought you said you were down to the office last night.” • • • Her mother told her that If her sweetie ever started to get sentimental she should Immediately sit on him. He did—and she did. * • • She could not tell her husband From Adam, so they say. ’Twas at a masquerade and lots Os fellows dressed that way. • • NOW, HONESTLY— As soon as people grow out of that age themselves, they delight in arguing that a young man caller should go home earlier. Matter of fact, the gay lotharios are staying a heap later these days than they did when girls really did go on buggy rides. Or, I should say, these nights. Maybe it's because parents aren’t home to send the young man home. Anyway, if I had to take sides in the argument, I believe I’d have to be in favor of young men bidding the fond goodby earlier — In the morning. • • • Maybe things used to come out of a clear sky, but Prof. Ofergosh Sakes has announced that, what with the radio, there is no such a thing as a clear sky in the present age. * • • If it weren’t for the palms In classy restaurants waiters wouldn’t make near as much money. -* • * She —Wonder why so-and-so never minds her own business? He—either.

NOW, HONESTLY— Live, and let live is no doubt a great idea. But, why is it that so many things happen every day that tear it down? For instance, consider the fellow who gets a great kick out of life through doing for the other fellow as well as for himself; through giving as much, or more, as he takes; through playing the fifty-fifty game in things in general, and through always being willing to help someone else, even at his own expense. That’s a fine spirit—except that for every man who plays life that way. there are ton men just waiting to take advantage of him. When some men discover they are losing flesh, they might try letting a barber shave them. • * • PATIENT—How do you think some warmer climate would help me, doc? DOCTOR —My gosh, man! That’s what I’m trying to save you from. • FABLES IN FACT THE COUPLE WERE UP BE FORE THE JUDGE COMMA FOLIiOWING A QUARREL PERIOD IT HAPPENED THAT THE JUDGE WAS A KINDLY FELLOW AND DESIRED TO HELP THEM STRAIGHTEN DOMESTIC THINGS OUT PERIOD THE WIFE GAVE HER SIDE OF THE STORY COMMA AND THEN THE JUDGE TURNED TO THE MAN AND SAID COMMA QUOTATION MARK AND WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT IT DASH DASH WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN THE QUARREL WAS TAKING PLACE QI’ES TION MARK QUOTATION MARK AND THE MAN SIMPLY ANSWERED COMMA QUOTATION MARK LISTENING PERIOD QUOTATION MARK (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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JUST ANOTHER ‘EMPTY’ GUN “This is the way you shoot it,” explained a 10-year old Indianapolis lad to his playmate Monday afternoon, as he pointed an "unloaded” revolver, owned by a roomer in his home, at his companion. And Raymond McNabney, the little playmate, is in the city hospitul badly wounded. Just another didn’t-know-it-waa-loaded episode. Os course it was purely acidental and regrettable. Probably the little boy who held the weapon feels as badly over the affair as the lad that was wounded. He almost slew his playmate. However, the boy ls more deserving of sympathy than blame for his part in the incident. Firearms have an irresistible attraction for small hoys. They will inevitably get hold of any gun within reach and use It in their play as tragedy after tragedy proves. With a gun in hand an imaginative boy, without leaving his own yard, can sail the seven seas, traverse trackless forests, and roam Western plains in search of high adventure. A lively lad can no more resist the lure of a gun than a Charles toner can resist the sobbing blandishments of the saxophone. All of which is well-known and tragically demonstrated. Consequently when a 10-year-old boy plays with a weapon, loaded or unloaded, a careless adult is responsible. Elders who leave , weapons around In reach of eager childish hands might just as well get a nest of rattlesnakes or a covey of typhoid germs and let the children play with them.

MALT TONIC ALMOST LIKE BEER Two large breweries have been granted permission by Federal prohibition authorities, according to Washington dispatches, to manufacture a malt liquor containing 3.76 per cent alcohol. It is classed as a “tonic” and is to be sold through drug stores without proscriptions. The liquor is not suitable for beveridge purposes, assert the manufacturers. It contains 23 per cent malt solids, because of which it cannot he drunk in sufficient quantities to be intoxicating. But It looks and tastes like beer. ' That ought to mako some Hoosiers smack their lips. Here is something they have been longing so drink that looks and tastes like beer, contains alcohol ’neverything, and can be purchased legally without sneaking up an alley and trafficking with bootleggers. It will be interesting to see how the “tonic” will be received by the light wine and beer enthusiasts. These vociferous gentlemen argue that people don’t like hard liquor, but drink - it because prohibition makes it difficult to obtain tho milder beverages of low alcoholic content. Give ’em beer and wine and drunkenness will disappear. All of which sounds logical. Here will be an opportunity to demonstrate that people drink beer to gratify the palate, not to light alcoholic fires. On that theory, if the new “tonic” looks and tastes like beer it should be as satisfactory as beer. But probably as soon as the ’’tonic" appears on the market some enterprising thirsts will try to devise a method to extract the malt solids from it. They will try to get a rea’ “kick” out of it. They won’t be satisfied with taste alone. THE PINCH OF ECONOMY Asa result of the last meeting of the State Legislative finance committee, it is expected that increases in salaries of sundry State employes will add SB,OOO to the State's annual pay roll. And most of the requests for fatter pay envelopes made to the committee were rejected. Last fall the finance committee assembled, with much clashing of cymbals and beating of tom-toms,

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to revise the State's salary list in accordance with the present administration's well-known and much advertised economy progranrk The pruning knife was sharpened and some of the fat salaries attached to State jobs were peeled to the quick. A few low salaries were boosted. At length the committee reported. It was announced lht its salary adjustments would save the State SIOO,OOO annually, There was economy to brag about. But scarcely had the committee finished Its deliberations before the officials and employes affected by cuts set up a howl. And started action to have their stipend re stored to former figures. And every meeting of the committee in t ho past three motif hs has been marked by pleas of officials and employes for restoration to the old pay scale. Every meeting there has been a SIOO boost here and a S2OO raise there in response to the pleas. Ho now the net result of the committee’s much heralded salary trimming foruy Is (hat the SIOO 000 saving has vanished. Most salaries are where they were at the start. If the committee ts really going to save SIOO,OOO this year it will apparently have to do so by saving lead pencils and scratch paper, not by trimming the State s pay ro ll. Every official and employe nf the State Is heartily in favor of economy in State expenditures. But they don’t want it to get too personal. When (he policy of economy pinches their own pav envelopes, it hurts, and how thev protest.

QUACK!QUACK! QUACK! "Dr.” George Rockwell. iinor at Keith's this week, a quack doctor act that the audience. The “Doctor” physician. if be possesses diploma, he obtained it by savin® soap wrappers or cigar stonA coupons. Aided and allotted by horn-rim spectacles, clothes of professional cut, and a quasimedlcal llngoi bristling with poly syllabic ten M that rumble and reverberate vincingiy, he is the q;,nckie®K the qu.i-ks. Ae you listen you can feel all tho ills that is heir to crawling up on your and making themselves at home He i d uproarionsly funny. But Just how funny is the real quack doctor business in Indianapolis? Dr. E. M. Shanklin of the Indiana hoard of medical registration .wys that five or si* quack establishments in Indianapolis defraud their victims of $200,000 a year. That’s just the out and out fake practitioners. The estimate does not include the sums spent in treatment by aerotherapists, astral healers, bio - dynamo - chronmtlc therapists and the rest of the Innumerable healing cults and isms that have sprung up in recent years and at which orthodox pin- { sicians look askance. * The unscrupulous quacks pose as doctors and pretend to treat diseases from consumption to canrer. Unlicensed and unqualified they prey on ignorant und trusting patients. A wart these fake pronounce a cancer, a pimple thev magnify into a dreaded blood disease, and chargo accordingly for treatment. A person who s ailing, of course, Is privileged to try any healing system ho desires. It’s his disease. If he want to treat it by fasting, prayer, faith, cracking his finger joints or by wenring a red bandanna handkerchief around his neck, that’s his business. But he should have assurance that, whatever system of therapy he chooses, he bo treated,- not swindled, by a medical knave. Quackery is a sorry business. PEARL FISHING AT P. I. MANILA —Because of onerous restrictions and duties in their own country, Australian pearl fishers are turning their attention to the Philipp pines as a future field of operation.*