Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1926 — Page 6

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Watson’s Chance Terrible as may be the result to the Nation and the world and perhaps all the future of civilization because of his absence for a moment from \\ achington, Senator Watson has decided to respond to the fervent appeals of the “great organization” and come back to Indiana for a couple df days. It is whispered that the “great organization” has heard from those cities in which Claris Adams has been making a few pointed remarks about the honorable Jim and that what they heard has not been pleasant newv It is hinted that there is consternation over the fact that very large numbers of men and women who will vote in the Republican primaries are seriously asking "Why Watson” and are failing to find the answer. It is even more hinted that instead of that unanimous approval for which this group of office holders and appointees had planned, there are deep rumblings and murmurs of disapproval. In a word, the cause of his visit is said to be fear that unless something is done and done quickly, Watson will not be the candidate in November. Let it be hoped that Watson will take full advantage of his visit and clear up a number of matPossibly he will be able to tell just what he has done for, not to, the people of Indiana in his thirty years of public life. The men and women who do not want political jobs are really curious to know just where the tremendous influence, so well advertised, has been applied in their interest. They want to know one meritorious law which he advanced and fathered and fostered, one vicious measure he has killed. They would like to have his cloak room record and his record on the open floor, the times he has dodged and the times he has stood for something. There may be those who will ask for some explanation of his political record as well. They may wish to know how' often he has helped to defeat his own ticket, how many budding hopes he has crushed that he might control the machinery of his party, and also Just how many commitments are out for the future. Here is a grand chance for him to clean up the whole sad story, and it is becoming a sad story as told so vigorously by Claris Adams. The political story of James Watson, thirty years in public ofSce, told in a frank manner by himself, would make the most interesting reading of a decade. But will Jim really tell the whole story? If not, perhaps Mr. Adams, with the collaboration of men who have 4 watched Watson for those thirty years can be persuaded to make the necessary amendments in order that it be truly historical. But Watson ought to have the first chance to boast or confess.

“Treat ’Em Rough and Tell ’Em Nothing” The implied threat of the Senate majority to expel any Senator who dares tell how he voted on the confirmation of Interstate Commissioner Woodlock, seems to mark the limit in secrecy as a government policy. It would be hard to go any farther. From this point things may get better rather than worse. The past few years have been interesting in this respect. Thomas O. Marvin, chairman of the tariff commission, has just revealed that President Coolidge clamped his hand over the mouth of the commission in the matter of the famous report on sugar. The report on sugar, be it remembered, would have shown that the President could have saved millions to the people by exercising his authority to reduce it. Marvin admitted that the commission, nine months ago, formally requested of the President permission to publish this official report. Coolidge didn’t reply. A month later Marvin personally wrote the President and still Coolidge didn’t reply. Marvin also admitted that he thought it would have served the public interest if the report had been made public. The Federal trade commission, as reorganized by Coolidge, suppresses the names of concerns .against which charges of illegal practices are filed; Attorney General Sargent orders that nobody in the Department of Justice shall discuss any pending cases without his permission; the Interstate Commerce Commission holds star chamber sessions on important railroad matters, with only the interested railroad officials present. Congress reimposes complete secrecy on the proceedings of the income tax bureau. And so it has gone. It can’t go very much farther, if this ever is to become in fact, as well as in promise, a Government of the people, for the same and by the same. The Bravest Act A common seaman has been voted a gold medal for the greatest act of bravery in Britain in 1925. An officer on the ship of which he was a member of the crew-, was washed overboard during a gale. The sea was so high that it was impossible to launch a boat. He was apparently doomed to die. This man flung aside his boots, grabbed a life buoy and swam to the rescue. To risk one's own life for the sake of another is not uncommon. But when the chances are a thousand to one that only death can be the result of such a deed, there is a quality of heroism which is unusual. • To rush to the rescue of others in danger is almost automatic. Under the stress of urgent need, all men lose their sense of Selfishness, at least for a moment. ’ r nat is one of the distinctions between men and beasts, between the civilized man and the savage. ' Yet it is quite probable that in Britain a thousand men surpassed even the courage and heroism of this man. heroic as he was. They are to be found in those laboratories where men are trying to discover means and methods of saving life; not the life of one man in immediate

danger, but the lives of countless millions whom they will never see and never know. These unsung heroes of science calmly and without emotion offer themselves to test the effect of germs in order that other men may be saved from death through those germs. They try,upon themselves, the serums, the chemicals, the deadly poisons. They understand that death may be their reward, but they are devoted to the cause of knowledge and the great purposo of prolonging life and relieving man from suffering and disease. Let no credit be taken from those brave men who cast aside thought of their own lives in order to despairing cry of the dying. But let not the greater bravery of men who work in silence, away from the crowds, away from the sight of those they seek to save, pass unnoticed. * Barriers of Silence Across the Paciflo Ocean nine hundred million people—more than half the population of She globe ■ —are on the move, bound for a destination as yet unknown. Awakening to their tremendous strength, dissatisfied with their present condition, their minds rankling with thinly veiled resentments against other nations and races, these peoples have begun an agitation that will not subside until present geographical and political maps of the world are changed. We, on this side of the ocean, are going some place, too. Nor do we know exactly where. The other day the question was seriously propounded in the halls of Congress: “Is the country toe big to govern itself well?” In ten years we nave changed from an isolated republic inhabited by a provincial minded people with relatively simple wants, to a dominant world power, incalculably rich, sophisticated, a little arrogant and a bit hazy as to the direction we’ll take next. How exceedingly important it is, therefore, that there should be ample and easy communication between the impatient West and the restless East. It is vital we should get better acquainted and to do so, to use the phrase of Karl Bickel, president of the United Press, action must be taken “to break down the barriers of silence that have been erected, by high cable rates, between America and the Orient. - ' Knowledge of one another makes for peace and understanding between peoples. And nothing helps toward such an understanding so much as a generous exchange of news. The corollary of this is that dangerous misunderstandings are inevitable if all that peoples have to go on is half-baked or garbled accounts of happenings resulting from inadequate communication facilities. Recently General Harbord, head of the Radio Corporation of took the first and very commendable step to remove the barriers. He volunteered to make a sweeping reduction in the existing radio press rate between America and Japan—a cut from 27 cents a word to 10 cents —and stands ready to put the new rate into effect tomorrow if the Japanese government will only give its consent. For some reason difficult to understand, however, Japan Is withholding her O. K. Her announced reason is she fears a traffic jam due to the cheaper rate. But General Harbord’s proposition is sufficiently elastic to take care of that In faot he would merely apply the rule already in vogue over the Atlantic. Tokio should lose no time in using its good offices to help clear away this barrier now hampering the development of friendly relations between the countries bordering the Pacific. Big events are undoubtedly in store for that mighty sea in the next half-century, but there Is no need for them to be other than friendly if the peoples who inhabit its shores understand each other more thoroughly as they go along.

Fishworms Aren’t So Dumb After All You can pet an answer to any queetion of fact or Information bj writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Are.. 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 replj. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Why do fishworms and earthworms com© to tit© surface only at night and after a hard rain or storm? Fishworms and earthworms are subterranean in their habits and appear above the surface only under unusual conditions, such as excessive rains wt’ich flood their underground burrows and force them to the surface to avoid drowning. They also come to the surface to feed and to throw out their “castings” almost exclusively at night, for they have no eyes and by primitive light organs they avoid the light. Was the wife of Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria assassinated? Empress Elizabeth was assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva, Switzerland on Sept. 10, 1898. What is the average salary of a telegraph operator? Approximately $l5O per month for a Morse operator. What kind of a game is “Bunko?” A gambling game played extensively at Tia Juana and other noted gambling resorts. On a table In front of the players Is a painted chart, marked off in squares containing the numbers 1 to 6 inclusive. Back of the table is a cage containing three dice which the operator spins around. The numerals showing on the tops of the dice when the calj£ stops are the winning numerals. The winners are the players with money on the numerals on the chart which correspond with those showing on the dice. If a player places a dollar on a number 5 and all three of the dice show that number, the player collects three dollars besides his original dollar stake; if two of the dice show fives, he collects two dollars besides his original one; and if only one of the dice shows a five, he collects one dollar besides his original. What is the history of the use of suffocating gases in warfare? The first recorded use is about the year 431 B. C., when sulphur fumes were used in besieging the cities of Platea and Belium in the war between the Athenians and the Spartans. Similar uses of toxic substances are recorded during the middle ages, and In August, 1865, the English Admiral, Lord Dundonald, having observed the deadly character of the fumes in Sicily, proposed to reduce Sabastopol by sulphur fumes, a proposition which the English government disapproved on the ground that the effects were so horrible that no honorable combatant could use the means required to produce them. Modern chemical warfare began on April 22, 1915. when the Germans sent a cloud of chlorine gas over the English lines at Ypres.

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There Is No End to Glory That George Arliss Brings to the American Stage

By Walter D. Hickman SHERE are times that an awful something happens in my brain box. It is cruel. Not kind and not even—. But it happens. It brings a something that some people call Devine—a thought, a dream, a real thing. And that Is my mood as T write to tell you of George Arliss in “Old English” by John Galsworthy. A real example of a great power. A something so real that it worries me. My confession Is my own. Sylvanus Hey thorp, (George Arliss) yelling out for his perfect “Nightcap.” A crash. A threat of greatness both in the author, John Galsworthy, and George Arliss. Then the scene that brings to me a real something—a thought. That being—l thank God for an opportunity to see a projection of a complete mental and beautiful experience upon the stage. I kneel in perfect understanding to an old-time thought. Genius —art. The glory of doing a big thing in an cld way. The way of many years. There are few chances to see a something, that thing they call perfect acting. That thing which brings the stage into the mental being and into the soul. That thing which creates a respect and a love for that power of creation, so .called many times great acting. A threat of greatness. Galsworthy becomes Arliss aid Arliss becomes Arliss. Arliss is the spark w-hich turns a drab w'ater glass into a sparkling something. A sparkling something was there. Galsworthy wrote the play. Arliss breathed into it a God-given power. Just a threat of greatness. The big scene of a play—A very old man, wined and supped in fashion. Served by a man and a “playmate.” A great big scene in which this happens. Masterful stage direction. Lights dw-ell out. Then the very old man becomes very drunk. Old age mixes with the Intoxication of a purpose. Arliss mixes the thought of a great scene and a great scene becomes even more wonderful in the hands of Arliss. He, the character, can not 1 lift himself from the chair. He must be helped. On all occasions. But the great object—the bottle of port. He struggles. He sinks. He fights. Again he nearly falls. Never giving up. Then he gets to his feet. He who eats alone and drinks alone In his study. Failure is tomorrow. lk.-nk-ruptcy. And out of that thin 4 which gives him power—Again he tries. Alw'ays trying to get on his feet. He gets the bottle. Then the greatness of George Arliss and> remembering John Galsworthy. Sylvanus (an old English name), that’s his first name, and his last (Heythrop)—the lights go out. Real stage lights go out. A cheery boy and a cheery girl come on again. The cheery girl wanted to show her frock to the old man. The cheery boy knows death. Servants know and see death because they serve tomorrow, and they don’t if there is a will. • He is dead. You carry away a thought Walt until somebody returns to the great house. All ruined. Nothing. Here is George Arliss—perfect acting. Here is a great writer, but i made even greater by Arliss. That is Arliss. And there' is also a large cast. Right. Perfect. Honest. None better. Here is that once and awhile which comes only so seldom upon the stage. Here Is a God given, a man given experience in the theater. I hope you are not missing. There is glory in big things. Glory to those who act and glory to those who see. In the early morning of the hour, I ask you to see a marvelous thing—“ Old English,” Written by Galsworthy and brought to life by Arliss and a great company. At English’s tonight, Saturday matinee and Saturday night.

LOOKING OVER NEW PALACE SHOW A neat dancing act holds the tori honor at the Palace for today ana tomorrow In the act of Colby, Murphy and Girls. The act opens with a group of four girls, who are a sort of small shifts to several specialties by the different members. Among the several numbers there are two that stand out from the rest. They are a Spanish dance done by two of the girls and the final number, which seems to be a burtesque of the Bowery types that we see very often In acts of this kind. Both of these numbers are fine. King and Beatty are two men who have some clever things in the way of amusement. Primarily their act consists of songs by one of the men and piano solos by the other. But this couple have Interspersed through their offering some comedy that is real fun. One of the men In a little number comes out and goes through all the motions of rolling a clgaret. Per haps I have not seen much, but I will say that this Is the most excellent bit of pantomime that I have witnessed for a long while. Chisholm and Breen have an amusing sketch in which they take the parts of a newly married pall- who have decided to spend their honeymoon in a cabin in the Far North. The cabin turns out to be haunted, and all sorts of mysterious things happen. Contains quite a bit of humor. Billed as Bert and Hazel Skatelle are a man and woman who are experts when It comes to dancing on skates. Didn’t think much of the songs, but did like their dances on those slippery skates. The Hong-Kong Troupe is a group of Chinese who do several things calculated to make one wonder and admire. A woman hangs on a rope supported by her hair, and a man jumps through several hoops which have knifes studded along the rim. Perhaps the best feature of the act

is the contortionistlc ability displayed by a young Chinese lad. Ho Is as supple as a whip. Included on the bill is a photoplay, “The Police Patrol,” with James Kirkwood and news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) I- -I- IOther theaters today offer: Prances Kennedy, at the Lyric; Doctor Rockwell, at Keith’s; “The Still Alarm,” at the Colonial; “Sea Horses," at the Apollo; “The Blackbird,” at the Circle; “Dance Madness," at the Ohio, and “The New Champion,” at the Isis. HORSE MEAT ORDERED 25,000 Pounds to Be Shipped to Japan on Trial. EDMONTON, Alberta, April 2. Japan has placed an order for 25,000 pounds of horse meat with Alberta packers as a trial shipment for* what may develop into an extensive trade, according to George Hoad ley, provincial minister of agriculture. “The horse meat will be prepared and shipped to Yokohama, Japan, by a firm in Calgary,” said Hoadley. "If the first shipment proves successful, the buyers have Indicated they will place orders for monthly consignments. While there Is no market for horse meat In either th* United States or Canada, It has a wide use in parts of Europe and t o Orient. The product Is quite palatable. Belgium ordered a big shipment of horse meat from Alberta last November."

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TO A LIVING DEATH La Marlniere, French prison ship, with a cargo of 340 felons, left In Rochelle yesterday bound for Devil’s Island. France’s penal colony off the coast of South America, near the equator. The prisoners are doomed to living death, for from Devil’s Island few escape. Here is the way France treats her desperate criminals whom she ships to her colonial hell hole. Aboard ship they are confined In steel cages between decks furnished only with hammocks. Pipes from the ship’s boilers lead to all cages so In case of trouble live steam can bo turned into the cages to subdue unruly convicts. A half-dozen cells without light or ventilation, so smalt the inmates are unable to lie dow-n, are reserved for solitary confinement of unruly convicts. Arrived at Devil’s Island the prisoners are subjected to terrible cruelties and brutalities. They are forced to work naked, are not supplied with shoes, receive no medical attention. In Indiana, with its sympathetic juries and Judges, smooth-running pardon boards and humane ideas of punishment, a guilty criminal feels that a few months at the State Farm or a semester In the State Reformatory Is sufficoent expiation for any misdeed. If he thinks confinement In one of our penal Institutions harsh, let him try committing a serious crime In France. Compared with Devil’s Island, our penal Institutions at Pendleton and Michigan City are luxurious bachelor hotels. WAR GAS ’ STILL CRUDE Prof. Frank C. Mathers of the chemical department of Indiana University, says that poison gases for w-ar use are still crude. Mustard gas, according to him, Is the mostly deadly gas on the market now. But even of It several tons are necessary to destroy thousands of lives.

“It will require more poisonous gases than are now known to destroy cities in future wars,” is his comforting assurance. • We are glad to hear that, and we hope he knows his stuff. The reports of new gases perfected, and the fanciful accounts of what the next war will be like with their use, have made ua so nervous we can't sleep nights. We hear of the discovery of substances so powerful that a few drops sprinkled from a bomb on the city of New York would annihilate every living creature In Indiana, including tax collectors and farm mortgages. It Is nice to know that such accounts are exaggerated and that no gases more lethal than used in the late unpleasantness In France are as yet available. Apparently if w-ar comes tomorrow It won’t cause the Instantaneous wiping out of whole, but will be fought In the same mild, genteel manner as the last one. Even at that it will be hard to convince one of the boys who had his lungs bufned out in France that the war gases now used are crude and ineffective. He has an impression titat gassing Is distinctly unpleasant to the gassed. If the use of poison gas in war Is at present crude and undeveloped, war will be a very pretty game when the chemists really get busy. THE SQUIBB"” 7YSTERY The great Squibb liquor n.ystery, reeling around the question of the quantity of whisky confiscated at the Lawrenceburg (Ind.) distillery by Federal agents and transported to Indianapolis for safekeeping and the quantity now in storage In the Federal building, remains as mysterious as ever. Have two or three hundred cases of this liquor evaporated while In the custody of Federal officers? The public would like to know. A week age. A. J. Signalgo, special examiner of the Department of Justice, came to Indianapolis, counte dthe Squibb stock, gathering dust behind the triple-locked door, and departed for Washington without disclosing the results of ds check. Colonel House at his best was never more mum. But even that check may prove nothing. No one among the Federal officers who participated in the confiscation of the liquor seems to know the number of cases

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No greater contribution has ever been given to the stage than the Sylvanus Heythrop of George Arliss in “Old English.” On view at English’s.

seized. Despite an entry on the Federal Court docket dated July 28, 1923, showing the seizure to consist of approximately 1,457 cases of whisky, Linus P. Meredith, United States marshal, guardian of the confiscated booze, says the recent recount by Mr. Slgnaigo was the only accurate check ever made of the Squibb liquor. “I have said time and again this recent count is the only one that has been made," he states. “There was no record of the number of cases before that time. No record! Federal officers seize $300,000 worth of booze, dump the cases into freight cars without counting, unload the freight cars at Indianapolis without checking their contents to see If any liquor had disappeared in transit, truck the booze through the streets of the city and sitore In the Federal building without verifying the tally! And any number of bootleggers and men with parched tongues willing to go to any length to obtain a few cases or even a single bottle of the stuff. If all confiscated whisky Is handled as carelessly by Federal officers as the Squibb stock seems to have been, it’s a miracle that it doesn’t all evaporate. Apparently a Federal officer would have to give a stricter accounting of a 2-cent stamp placed in his custody than of $300,000 worth of mellow whisky.

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THE VERY IDEA By Hal Cochran 1 '

LIFE Just what are we striving for, here on this earth? Why is it we all love to live? Are things that we’re getting, from day to day, worth as much as the things that we give? Take selfishness, hatred and envy and such —what happiness comes from their lot? You know very well that they’ll ne’er bring you much of whatever the cheer that you’ve got. But love and real friendship, and all things akin, keep spirit, that’s brightest, outstanding. Their part of our living lets real sunshine In — the things that we’re always demanding. The love of all life Is the brotherly brand, and woe comes when’er we forsake It. ’Twill better the world when wo all understand that happiness lives as vve make it. • • • After looking over a flock of youngster’s waists—now we know where all the buttons come from. • * • SEZ THE WIFE: “1 simply can’t go—’cause I haven't a thing to wear.” • • • A man given his wife money to buy decent clothes —and then she goes and Invests In the latest styles. • • • He found his brilliant diamond ring Wan paste, and did he holler? Why,"sure—it dawned on him that he Was out a half a dollar. • • • NOW HONESTLY— We’re all entitled to wonder as we nee fit —so I wonder if It really Is a good Idea to thrash out an argument with a child, with a thrashing. In other words, do a few good whacks, In the proper plade, con-

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

Text: "Therefore, let us run.”— Heb. 12:1. No loitering, no walking, but running, os In iv race. The idea la intensity—life In earnest, I see an astronomer pouring over his problems until the stars begin to fade away in the dawn of morning. I see an artist sitting before his canva* for many successive hours, until forms of matchless beauty appea-. T see a poet keeping watch with the night vigils, until flaming verses flash from his pen. I ask you what you think of them, and you say, “These men are in earnest.” That is a comment we hear universally concerning such men. The men who accomplish things in this world are earnest men. In a ministry of thirty-four years. George Wh’Aleld, the great evangelist of the eighteenth century, crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, preached over 18.000 sermons, besides doing an enormous amount of personal work and caring for an orphan's home. How can you account for such a career? Whitfield was a great orator, a great preacher, but above all, his earnestness, born of love to God and men. was his winning power. No one, unless profoundly in earnest.

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vlnce a youngster that a wrong is a wrong—and make him want to do right the next time? If tho answer la “yes”—then the child does right the next time he cause he’s afraid to do wrong. And what havo you gained? Made a coward out of him. It’s a good rule that worka both ways. Why not try laying the rule aside — and explaining why wrong Is wrong, and why right la right. Be. you’ll got fartherl • • • TEACHER: Never say, "I ain’t going to tho party.” Always aay, "I am not going!” (And to Impress her point, she added:) Ho Is not going She Is not going. They are not going. Now do you understand? SCHOLAR: Surel The party* a failure. • • • The most talkative woman I know of I* the one who objected to the doctor looking at her throat because she had to hold her tongue. • • • FABI.ES IN fW^ HAVING NOTHING BETTER TO DO COMMA THE LADY WENT TO A PALMIST TO HAVE HER FORUNE TOLD PERIOD THE PALMIST PAINTED A BEAUTIFUL FUTURE COMMA EXPLAINED THAT the lady would soon be on EASY STREET COMMA AND THEN ANNOUNCED THAT THE FEB WAS FIVE DOLLARS PERIOD AND THE ENLIGHTENED CUSTOMER REPLIED COMMA QUOTATION MARK THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THE READING COMMA AND I’LL SEND YOU YOUR MONEY AS SOON AS I GET SOME OF THAT WHICH YOU SAY I HAY’D COMING PERIOD QUOTATION MARK (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)

could say as he said, even In the midst of his strenuous life, "O, that I may at length learn to begin to live! I am ashamed of my sloth and luke warmness, and I long to be on the stretch for God!” Paul, the author of our text, was a man of like passion and zeal. No one, unless deeply in earnest, could say as he sold, “I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.” When Paul was in earnest, when Whitfield was In earnest, when John Wesley was In earnest, when Lincoln was In earnest, there was "no small stir.” It has always been so. Whenever an earnest man appears, there Is "no small stir.” Joseph Cook, the famous Monday lecturer of Boston, said on one occasion: "Gentlemen, this life up to the edge of the tomb Is no Joke.” There are some people who treat life as a Joke. Adopting the epicurean philosophy of life, they say: ’Let us eat, drink and be merry.” But, if you make a Joke of life, tt will make a Joke of you. Life is a serious business. It Is a race in which we cannot afford to loiter. "Therefore, let us run.” (Copyright. 1925. by John R. Gunn.)

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