Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1926 — Page 6

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SCORE ONE FOR JIM At last, after thirty years of public life, an election occurs which suggests that for once Senator Watson east a vote of which the people approve. Not the people of Indiana, of course, but some people. No wonder that his defenders and supporters khout with joy that over in Illinois a Senator who voted to put this country into the World Court has been defeated by his own party. Senator Watson voted against that court. True, lie did not seem to know until the last minute just what lie thought about it. True, the heads of a secret organization with presumed power in Indiana had told him what they wanted. And even more true is the fact that back home one Albert J. Beveridge had not decided whether he would enter the contest for the nomination, but could be relied upon, because of his convictions, to challenge Watson should the Senator vote to “uphold the hands of Calvin Coolidge” and vote for the court. So, without a comment and without an argument, in fear rather than through faith, Watson voted and his closest friends knew for the first time just what he ‘would do. V But the vote offers opportunity for those who have hunted deep and vigorously %)r an incident that can be used to bolster up his campaign—which needs bolstering. The reports of leading citizens in every section openly announcing that they will vote for Claris Adams and against Watson are too numerous and 100 general to be disregarded. So everybody in the magnificent machine is now pointing to Illinois as proof that for once Watson was right. Os course, they fail to mention the fact that the winner in that contest had the powerful machine of what has been termed the most questionable administration in the history of that State, the head of Which has been charged with enriching himself at public expense. But why probe too deep? The miracle has happened. At last, finally Watson's friends have found something which they believe indicates that he voted right—once. Why shouldn't they shout and crow? They have waited thirty years for such an hour. UNDER THE CEDARS Fitting, indeed, was the simple ceremony with which the clay of Luther Burbank was placed beneath the cedar treo he loved so well. The great naturalist returns to Mother Nature A few close friends stand at the open grave, not to mourn but to pay tribute to Ms genius. The truth or the falsity of his beliefs on matters ‘of religion are no longer veiled to him, and their influence upon th minds or beliefs of others will be buried with him. He knows. To the wcfrld at large, his life work was a denial of his spoken creed. For under his skilled eye and hand, he demonstrated each day that life is endless and ever greater. . „ He took the small root of the potato plant and made it feed the world, banishing famine in many lands, adding prodigiously to (he food supply for all lime. He took the humble prune and made of it a delectable luxury. The tomato became something more desirable and more wholesome as he guided and directed its destiny. He added to the color of flowers and the perfume of the blossom. Long after his name has been forgotten, countless generations will be better fed, will more greatly enjoy beauty, will be happier because of his genius and his talent. Let those who wish believe that such a genius is the accidental reaction of chemical elements in the human body or an unusual vibration of atomic force in an unusual individual. Let those who wish believe that the spirit which prompted and spurred his work dies while his work lives on. Just as he helped these plants to become more glorious, that greater Genius which takes human lives and transforms them by its touch of love must have a happier and a greater climax than the grave beneath the cedars. Life, all life, would be meaningless were it even thinkable that such spirits as those of Burbank, such genius as was his, such love of beauty and of all mankind must end in a quiet evening, covered by the cloak of clay above their own human habitations.

A BETTER REMEDY There is an admission of failure in the suggestion of the head of all prohibition enforcement agents of the Federal Government that the Volstead law be modified to the extent of permitting certain grades of beer to be made and sold for consumption in homes and in hotels with meals. He has a nation-wide view of the prohibition question. His is the will of experience and close observation. He must know that there is a wide variation of ideas, thought, habits and beliefs among the rcsfdents of the various States. \ He must know that sentiment in Chicago or New York or Indianapolis or any large city is not the sentiment of Sullivan or Osceolo or some smaller city. He knows that the conscience of Kansas and the principles of Chicago, as determined by the majority of people, are not identical and that whenever an attempt is made to enforce limitations which are not founded in conscience and principle, law must inevitably fail. His appeal that the law be modified in order to permit the sale of beer is in effect an appeal to satisfy the demands of large numbers who want temperance, but who see neither sin nor crime in partaking of a beverage to which they were accustomed from childhood. Just how little headway the. Government has made in the enforcement of prohibition is shown by the estimate of this same official that there are 172,000 stills now in operation in this country. That figure is startling when he adds that the $

capacity of these stills averages forty gallon? a day. Running at full blast, not probable, it would mean that the country could be drenched with more than sixty millions of gallons of raw, crude alcohol, all poisonous as well as intoxicating, every day. That explains some of the brutal crimes, the madness of the new type of drunkard, his lack of mercy, his boldness in crime and his * cruelty in method. It suggests that the Nation is rapidly changing its appetite, as far as it has an appetite for alcohol, from milder beverages to hard liquors, and these poisonous in the extreme. A man charged with the responsibility of suppressing these stills might well ask for some change that would lighten his labors or stem the current of lawlessness by meeting the demands of those who might not be tempted to patronize the illicit still if given satisfactions to their former appetites. It is conceivable that the demand for beers may not apply to all parts of the country. It is more than probable that there are large sections of the Nation which look upon beer and similar beverages with smaller alcoholic content as vicious and thoroughly bad. It is possible that the majority sentiment in many sections would and will object to the introduction into their communities of this, or any other form of alcoholic drink. The Anti-Saloon League, in the days when it was winning confidence and before it became an arrogant and autocratic political oligarchy, ruled by its officers and not its contributors or members, stood upon the principle that the people should govern conditions in their own communities. It demanded, in those days, the thoroughly American principle that the people should govern themselves and should determine the environments of their own neighborhoods. It pleaded then, not now, for a government by the people. It stood for local option as in thorough accord with real Americanism. It especially was bitter against the national prohibition party and its principle of legal control of habits. That organization has changed its character But the principle under which it gained power has not changed. % Prohibition has failed largely because it violates this principle. Legalizing beer on a nation-wide basis will not solve the whole problem. It may help in some communities to reduce the amount of liquor being poured out from these 172,000 illegal stills. The better remedy is the repeal of the Volstead act, which would leave the enforcement of the Eighteenth amendment in the hands of State legislatures. Certainly no advocate of prohibition in ludiana could object, for the Wright law is much more strict than the Volstead act. But it would end the division of responsibility, decrease the widespread corruption and check the growing lack of respect for law which comes from the futile effort of Federal officers to enforce the national law. Some mechanics think the car was sent to the garage to have the contents of its tool box removed. Sympathy is best taken in very small doses. -A bootlegger tells us that what's saute for the goose is easy pickings for a smart duck. C hildren are a great handicap when one wishes to be unhappy. It never rains but it stops.

HERE’S DEFINITION OF POLITICAL BOSS w w Ave.. Washington. D. C.. incloßlnsr Z <w*ntg in stamps for reply. Medical lejral .and ° a'i? 0t .i be * iven .. nor can extended research renW A 1 " t , her Questions will receive a personal are eonfldenuL~&htor ,aJlnot ** aJ,BWered Al ‘ lcltl ' lß Wliat is a political or party boss? A “boss ’ in politics is a professional politician who has succeeded in gaining control of a party organization ‘ and who uses his power to dominate legislatures, executive officers and courts either from motives of love of power or from a desire to enrich himself or favor friends. The boss secures and maintains his power through organizations, donations to charity, bribery, colonization and other frauds; appeals! to class prejudice and the denunciation of the interests which are privately accommodated by him. In many cases he has very close relations with the machine of the opposite party. How and when did the U. S. S. Cyclofts disappear? The V. S. S. Cyclops disappeared in March, 1918. Loaded with a of manganese and with fiftyseven passengers, twenty officers and a crew of 213 aboard, the collier was due in port March 13. On March 4, the Cyclops reported at Barbadoes, British West Indies, where she put in for bunker coal. After she departed from that port all trace of the vessel was lost, and a long continued and vigilant search of the entire region proved utterly futile. Not a vestige of wreckage was discovered. After months of search and waiting the Cyclops was finally given up as lost and her name stricken from the Navy register. ( an you fell me something concerting the baseball career or Stanley Harris, the manager of the Washington baseball team? Stanley Raymond Harris, manager and second baseman of the, Washington team, was born at Port Jervis, N. J., Nov. 8,*’1896. He bats and throws righthanded, is 5 feet 9V& inches tall, and weighs 155 pounds. He was with the Detroit Tigers in 1916, was released to Muskegon of the Central League, April, 1917; released to Reading, June, 1917; Buffalo, 19181919; sold to Washington Aug. 5, 1919. He was appointed manager of the Washington club in February, 1924, and proceeded to win both American League pennant and the World Series of 1924. Under his leadership the Washington team again won the American League penant in 1925, but lost the World Series to Pittsburgh. Can Vjmm buy his way out of the Marine Corps? No. For what is the instrument called the “theodolite” used? It is an instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, it small telescope turning on a vertical axis through the center of a horizontal graduated circle, and also on a horizontal axis by which it may he pointed at any elevation. W hat city in the United States is the largest gold mining town?' / Lead. South Dakota, is said to hold this distinction.

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Colonial to Present ‘Sandy,’ Times Big Continued Story, on Screen Next Week

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Let Mr. Fixit present your ew to city officials. lie is The Times representative at the city hall. Write luiu at The Tiu.es Park board employes are improving a number of small parks for the summer season, Mr. Fixit learned today. This includes Miniature Park, between Belle Viou and Mount Sts., on W. New York St. DEAR MR. FIXIT: This is to advise you and also to thank you for a favor which brought results last summer. I read The Times every evening and your column is the first thing I look for when I get it. I would like to know If they are going to do anything with a plot of ground that they cleaned up last summer. It is Miniature Park, between Belle Vleu and Mount Sts. They were supposed to put In shrubbery and lawns this spring. * MICHAEL .1. HEALEY. 2424 W. New York St. It. Walter Jarvis, parks superintendent, said the park would be Improved. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I would like your aid ia finding out the reason wo'have not heard about a petition for the improvement of an alley from Wyoming St. to Ray St. and wet ween South and West and Chadwick Sts., which we turned in on March 1. MICHAEL KENNEY. Wayne Emmelman. board of works secretary, said the matter is now under consideration and that you will be notified soon for further action. HEAR MR. FIXIT: A bottle yard on Bradshaw St. keeps the alley between Bradshaw and Buchanan Sts. strewn with broken bottles so that it is a nuisance to automobile owners who must use this alley. Why can’t something lie done? A RESIDENT. Something can and will be donn. The police will investigate at once.

THE VERY IDEA By Hal Cochran* - 1

HAPPINESS What are you looking for—happiness? Sure! Men who are shy of it, really are poor. Show me the soul who can say he cares not as to the things that are born In his lot. Living Is one thing we all hate to | 1 lose. Lojgg days, and happy ones, j all of us choose. Brightness that ' seeps in to last on for aye, only can j seep If you make it that way. W*ise is the man who knows right j things from wrong, playing them j safely, he travels along, never to I wonder what life is about. Doing your best, make the best side come j out. Age makes you learn that to give is to iget. Always, returns come to J givers—and yet, soon you will learn that the happiest plan, is GIVE, quite regardlless, as much as you can. Do just a little bit more than your share. Show all the world that you really DO care. Make others happy —that's getting the hang, of spreading the thing that’s a* real boomerang. •• • / You can’t always tell, from a Senator’s speech, what he really thinks about the thing he’s talking on. • * * Some people think the best precaution against fire is to have a place insured for twice what it’s worth. • • • The laugh is on the who ! bought his wife some lipstick ’cause j he thought it would make them do it. I * * * .lust make the best of what you’ve got. The thought may loudly ring, But, just what can a fellow do Who hasn’t got a thing? • • * We’d like to hear all the hoboes j get together and sing the famous song, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” * • * The stingiest man we know of Is ! the fellow who was always late to his meals but wouldn't even give an excuse. WANTS TROOPS TO STAY Herrin Anxious to Keep Peace Enforced. Bu TJr.itert Pres* HERRIN, 111., April 15.—Herrin today Is quiet. But in an effort to maintain that quiet, local city officials have asked that the militia, which so far has j been the only medium of bringing an abrupt end to the hate guns, remain on dut at least until after Tuesday’s aldermanic election. Nd action has been taken thus £r/ k.

Upper I>eft—ltardson Bard as Ben Murillo and Madge Bellamy as Sandy in "Sandy,” a movie made from Tlio Indianapolis Times serial of the same name, to be presented at the Colonial next week, skirting Sunday. Upper Bight—lieslie Fenton as Douglas Keith, Madge Bellamy as Sandy and Gloria Hope as Judith Moore in "Sandy.” Lower— Harrison Ford as Bamon Worth and Miss Bellamy as Sandy. It is a , William Fox production.

NEW SHOW OPENS AT PALACE THEATER A transcontinental tour will be conducted by six versatile guides for theatergoers who 'jSee America First,” Milton Hooky's and Howard Green’s geographical musical fantasy, which ofiens today at the Palace Theater foi- v the remainder of the week. These entertainers will lead their audiences north, south, east and west, pointing out the main places of interest and offering a bit of characteristic amusement at each stop. There are five stops and each one has fitting scenes, humor. Steps and melody. Four girls are In the numbers. Harry Coleman, former musical comedy star is starred with Gladys Hart in "Love As Is.” a sketch written by William Wells, mie vehicle is a comedy with music. Miss Hart was formerly with "Irene.” Burt Payne assists In the number. Winifred Morgan and her Boys stage their elaborate musical and dance frolic. "A Night on a Roof Garden.” Several scenes are offered in this number. “An Incomparable Surprise” is booked for Paul Sydell’s act in which he presents his trick dog.

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Spotty. This little animal does balancing feats and acrobatics. Mr. Sydell is a violinist. “Two American Beauties” are Frank and Eddie Monroe, whose trampoline stunts and tumbling bits fill an important part on the bill. ‘The Lawful Cheater,” 'starring Clara Bow and Raymond McKee, Is the photoplay. Pathe News, a comedy, and topics 6f the day. are the short reels. • • • Other theaters today offer: "The Big Parade.” at English's; Haokett and Belmar Revue at Keith's; Nellie Jay and her Jay Birds, at the Lyric; “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” at the Circle; "For * Heaven's Sake.” at the Apollo; "Red Dice.” at the Colonial; "The Crown of Lies,’ at the Ohio; a Theatre Guild production at the Masonic Temple; complete new movie bill at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway. The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays indorse for family patronage the feature at the Circle and Apollo, and adult at the Ohio. SIO,OOO JEWELRY LOSS William A. Atkins* in Italy, Loses Gems. Jewelry valued at 510,000 was stolen from the Milan, Italy. Grand Hotel suite of William A. Atkins, 1320 N. Meridian St., touring Europe with l\is bride, according to cablegrams to local relatives today. Atkins, vice president of the E. C. Atkins ani Company, saw manufacturing firm, was married in Greenwich, Conn., March 10 and sailed for Europe the following day. DOCTORS REAPPOINTED Governor Jackson's office announced the reappointment today of Drs. W. A. Spurgeon of Muneie and J. W. Bowers of Ft. Wayne, as members of the State board of medical registration. Terms are for' four

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ANOTHER SITE FOR SHORTRIDGE The Indianapolis school board, at its last nieeting, rescinded previous actions to buy a tract at Forty-Sixth St. for the new Shortridge High School site and sell the site at Thirty-Fourth St. That disposes of the injunction proceedings brought by opponents of the Forty-Sixth St. location. And leaves the whole Short ridge project just where it was three months ago. * The board now has another site under consideration, it is reported —a seven-acre tract between 1111 ois and Meridian at Fortieth St. Members of the majority faction, - it is said, look Upon this site with favor. The ordinary citizen, who is not in the real estate business is not an aggressive partisan of majority or minority school board faction, probably is not deeply interested in whiqfi site is finally selected for the school. He wants a school, not a site, so that his children will not be compelled to go to the present dilapidated, overcrowded, ramshackle fire trap that is now Shortridge High School. Perhaps the proposed Fortieth St. site has merits and advantages over either the Thirty-Fourth St. or Forty-Sixth St. tracts. Perhaps the Thirty-Fourth St. tract already possessed by the board is as suitable location for the school as can be found. But one thing the board should not overlook. The present site of Shortridge is the worst possible. No location could be worse for school purposes than that fronting Pennsylvania between Michigan and North Sts. And there is where pupils will have to go indefinitely while the board discusses new sites and delays construction of the new Shortridge. NOW FOR FLYING The airport committee of the chamber of commerce has secured the use of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a commercial airport. The owners have more than done their part in granting uso of their property for a landing field. , Apparently after tho idea had simmered for several months, Indianapolis will do something to encourage commercial aviation. We now have a convenient, accessible landing field and, with now under way, soon to be equipped for the proper accommodation and grooming of airplanes. We have everything necessary’ to make this city a flying center. But only a start has been -made on that ambitious enterprise. At the moment in a commercial aviation way we are all dressed up and no place to go. We have the airport, but no air lines. The proposed air mail line passing through Indianapolis has not yet definitely materialized. Other cities are already linked by private lines carrying express and passengers. The Ford aerial express between Detroit and Chicago completed yesterday its first year of successful operation. There is still plenty of work for our enthusiastic civic boosters to do Jbfore Indianapolis is on the air map. Air lines must be attracted and encouraged. We have the airport; now for the flap of wings. A STOCK SWINDLE The State securities commission, following an investigation of Ills activities, secured the arrest of an Indianapolis man yesterday on charges of fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of securities. He had traded worthless stock to Jennings County farmers for giltedged securities. That’s the sort of thing the securities commission is doing every

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day—running down and putting out of business the glib blue sky artists who swindle innocent investors with fake stock. But tho job is nejver completed. Here i,s a blue sky artist, who is not a registered dealer or agent, whose securities had not been approved by the State commission as required by law. Yet he flourished and did business with trusting Investors. His victims made no effort to investigate him or his securities before they invested. They just bit. A few weeks ago another fake stock enterprise, by which a number of Henry’ County investors were swindled, was exposed by the securities commission. In that case also worthless, unregistered stock was peddled successfully by unlicensed dealers. The investors just bit without knowing, or apparently caring, whether the securities or the salesmen had complied with Indiana blue sky law. The last Legislature passed a blue sky law with teeth, designed to protect Iloosiers from stock frauds and drive the fake stock gentry out of the State. The law means well. But we have the stick swindler still with us. A blue sky law can't protect investors against themselves. As long as careless investors grab wildcat stock without investigation they will get hooked, law or no law. HERRIN AT IT AGAIN Guns barked again Tuesday at Herrin, 111 Six more men died with their boots on in the bitter, bloody feud between Klan and anti-Klan that has / divided the town into warring factions. And militiamen again patrol the streets of Herrin. Bloody Herrin. No other community in tho country Is in such evil repute. The nation is shocked at the black record of murder, assassination and violence that has been written by this southern Illinois mining center in the past three years. Is there to bo no end to the bloodshed and hate? But let’s not denounce Herrin too vigorously as a murder center where killing and being killed Is the principal business. There are other communitie where life Is as short, tempestuous and punctuated with homicides. In the last two years there have been only twenty-eight murders In ♦the county In which Herrin Is located. Twenty-eight minders apd the county is regarded as tho country’s premier murder center. In Indianapolis, a city where commerce, culture, art, music, literature and friendliness abound, there were thirty-nine homicides last year. In tho last two years there were 114 murders in the Hoosler metropolis. Four times the Herrin score In tho same length of time. Yet Indianapolis is rated a quiet, orderly peace-loving community, with an intelligent, citizenship, tho birthplace of the “Home complete," a city of model homes and domesticity. While Herrin is advertised as the home of the smoking six-shooter, where they say it with lead. The cold statistics scarcely justify us in pointing the finger of scorn at Herrin. Our murder industry goes along steadily week after week, while in Herrin they kilt ’em sporadically and in bunches. Our homicide industry isn't properly exploited. SCHOOL REMONSTRATED Hearing on .McCordsvillci Bond Issue Next Week. State tax commissioners next week will hear a remonstrance against construction of anew S9G,000 high school building at McCordsville to replace one destroyed by flro Feb. 7. Noil Blue, principal, presented plans and specifications to the State board of health for approval.