Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1926 — Page 4

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THE SAN DIEGO YEEDICT The naval court-martial at San Diego, after hearing evidence for two weeks, has found Col. Alexander Williams, United States Marinos, guilty of drunkenness. The punishment on which the courtmartial decided has not been revealed. Seven high naval and marino officers who sat as the court have discharged what must have been a very unpleasant duty and the public will not be Inclined to go behind their verdict. The duty was an unpleasant one because of the convicted officer’s long and excellent record as a soldier. His indiscretion in the matter that led to his arrest, however, seems to have been too flagrant to overlook, judging from the testimony. General Butler, his newly arrived superior, had no opportunity to save Colonel Williams from himself. Peculiar circumstances have given this case a notoriety deserved. Unfriendly critics have insisted on holding Butler up as a man who violated the obligations of a guest toward a host. The public is slow to correct first impressions and General Butler probably has been damaged as much in the public esteem through doing what he conceived to be his duty as Colonel Williams has by flaunting his disregard for the prohibition law in the face of his commander. Very general resentment toward the prohibition law probably is responsible for this psychology. The fact, of course, is that Colonel Williams would have been liable to punishment for a similar offense in the days'before prohibition. Tho records of the Army, Navy and Marines contain many cases of officers —to say nothing of enlisted men—courtmartialed for drunkenness. It is to be hoped that in the case of Colonel Williams his sentence may be a short one and the public’s memory of the unpleasant Incident even shorter. That much is due to two gallant officers. WAR WIiTI MEXICO ? The week’s j*fize impudence, by common consent, should g' the current “Liberty” for its editorial entitled, ‘Why Not Develop Mexico?” describing what a really desirable country Mexico is, the periodical brazenly suggests that the United States grab it and exploit it. Here are some of its phrases: Only two things prevent Mexico from becoming one of the most prosperous of nations —ignoranco and lack of capital. The United States has the greatest surplus capital ever accumulated by any people. Another billion dollars, even more, is available for quick development of Mexican resources. . . . The United States (and the world) needs oil. More than 20,000,000 automobile owners are vitally interested in having Mexican oil and rubber developed. We (and the world) need Mexican ore, cattle, coal and ranch products. Apart from selfish political aspirations, greed and ignorance, there are no reasons why Americans should not pour their surplus wealth over the ! politically drawn boundary. . . • In this ridiculous economic situation, the Calles government is enforcing a “Mexico for Mexicans” policy . . . The wiping out of the boundary would be a blessing to Mexico, a benefit to the United States and to the world. . . . A war may be necessary to remove this obstruction to economic advancement. . . . If war comes, Mexico will be the winner. Her government and her armies will fall, but her people will be infinitely more prosperous and happier. . Americans will read this with an indulgent smile. But there happens to be a large party of distinguished Latin American editors and writers touring our country at present, getting first-hand impressions. They will not smile. "Liberty's” claptrap will tend to confirm all the anti-American propaganda they ever heard. In this wild outburst they will sec the obsolete doctrine of the divine right of kings superseded by an even more vicious creed, the Gringo code of the divine right of dollars. The Germans, the Japanese, have no right to an outlet for surplus population, but Americans demand an outlet for their surplus capital! Above the editorial in question, sardonically enough, the magazine quotes the well-known words of Stephen Decatur: “Our country; in her intercourse with foreigu nations may she always bo right; but our country, right or wrong.” This slogan, it seems, is all right for us but all wrong for others. President Calles is pilloried for striving to hold on to “Mexico for the Mexicans” on Decatur’B theory that it is their country, “right or wrong.” Americans—minus an infinitesimal few—want to see Mexico independent, prosperous and happy. They know she got away to a bad start and realize she cannot change everything in a day. They are willing to give her both time and help. Noed oil? Os course we do. But Americans know we had the world’s richest fields. They also know our oil Is now nearly gone and why. They saw even our national defense reserves disposed of—- , sold for private profit In an already glutted market. So Americans are inclined to be indulgent. The last thing they want is to buy Mexican Teapot Domes with the blood of their sons. Speaking of selfishness and greed, suppose we put our own house In order before we take on Mexico. CHINESE CHECKERS The papers are carrying quite a few cables from the Far East these days telling about the war for the control of Peking. Exciting, but little else. It doesn’t make a particle of difference which faction camps in the Chinese capital during the next few months. There’ll be another war this summer or next fall between the Bame generals—only next time they’ll probably be lined up on different sldeß. China, today, is just a checkerboard. As soon as one game is finished, the players swap “men” and set ’em up for another. Behind the players stand the great powers, whispering advice, offering covert suggestions, sometimes nudging secret signals that amount to commands, trying fofr some advantage over one another and over the Chinese. With the possible exception of the Unltet}, States 4

there is hardly a single great power that really desires the pacification of China —not one that sincerely wishes to see the country develop Into a real and powerful nation. Tills is particularly true of Japan. China has a population of 400,000,000. Japan proper has only 60,000,000. China, not Japan, would dominate the Orient were she ever to get on her feet. Too, Japan has her land-hungry eyes fixed on Manchuria and eastern Mongolia, wonderfully rich and fertile. Already she controls South Manchuria and, through Marshal Chang Tso-lin, former bandit but now Manchurian czar and Japanese puppet, her influence extends ever more and more over the rest. Naturally a strong China would spoil Japanese ambitions in this direction. But if China remains as she is, weak, torn into twenty pieces by as many corrupt native bosses and self-appointed war lords, nothing in the world —save outside interference, perhaps—can stop her getting whatever she wants. Nor are the other powers above profiting at China’s expense, each in its own way. So when you read that General Feng Yu-hsiang, or Marshal Wu Pel-fu, or Chang Tso-lin, or any other Chinese leader, has taken Peking and that the war is over, remember that all that's happened Is one side or the other has merely won another game of "drafts.” As soon as the players can swap pieces, and line them up again, and the foreign powers can place their next bets, the game will proceed as before. THE MAN WHO MAKES A DERBY LOOK LIKE A CROWN Some folks insist Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is just a big windbag—that he Is merely acting a part. Maybe so, tut does that alter cases? Cynics tell us Alexander was mostly bluff, that Caesar was a Barnurn and that Napoleon was largely the product of his own ballyhoo. The Italian dictator may or may not be a great man. Only time can tell and maybe even time won't do it. Time has yet to give us the low-down on a good many figures looming large in history. The important thing Is, will Mussolini get away with it? At present one thing is certain. He is the most fascinating personage in the world today. Not since the meteoric Bonaparte crashed across the European sky more than a hundred years ago has civilization produced so startling a character. And whether he’s got the goods or not, he possesses the knack of showmanship to such an amazing degree that he is having no difficulty selling himself not only to Italy, but to an increasing number of people outside. The dictator’s spectacular expedition to Tripoli, capital of Libya, Italian colony in North Africa, is just another example of this showmanship. Dramatizing the attempt on his life, he makes a regal gesture and proceeds on his way despite the wound caused by the automatic fired into his face. Wounded, be leads a big parade of fifteen battleships across the Mediterranean and the blare of trumpets, the hurrah of sailors, the whirr of circling airplanes, the royal salute of nineteen guns as his armada steamed into the Tripoli harbor and tho dazzle and fanfare of his reception by Italian colonists and native chieftains as he set foot on African soil, were all well staged parts of the spectacle. And no less so was his speech before the populace. In short, sizzling sentences, like bursts of bullets from a Lewis gun, he warned them that "Rome carries the beacon lamp of her strength to the shores of the African sea!” and that “no yne can stop our inexorable will!” Mussolini knows what he is about. He is selling himself not only to Libya Italiana, but to Rome and Europe and the world. Dangerous? Os course. All such men have been and are. He admits be is dreaming of anew Roman empire and there are those who charge he also dreams of making the Mediterranean Sea an Italian lake whose bordering shores will be under the domination of the crown he himself hopes to wear. Mere guesswork, some of this, but certain it is that when Mussolini throws his huge head back in that imperial gesture of his, squares his Napoleonic jaw. fixes the rabble with his hypnotic eyes and lifts his hand in the Roman salute, he comes nearer making a brown derby hat look like a coronet than any man we know. Don’t make the mistake of underestimating Mussolini’s potentialities. Caesar might have been a Barnurn but he put his mark on the world. > BRITISH FIRST TO ELY ACROSS OCEAN You can pet an answer to any question of fact or information by writ nip to The Indianapolis Times Washinpt?” 1^ ur .? au - E*22 New- l ork Ave.. Washington. D. Cln--2' 1 "* I cents in 8 tamos for reply. Medical, legal ■ and mntit.i.l advice cannot bo given nor can extended research v^ii ,u r e rC t!i i ken i AU ot!lPr Questions will receive a personal s^ n iassai!!HE3i& P . c “ not be ‘ uißwcmi '’ tVho made the first non-stop airplane flight across tho Atlantic Ocean? Capt. J. Aleook and Lieut. Arthur XV. Brown of the British Navy made tho first non-stop flight in June. In political economy what is tho meaning of the French phrase, “Laissez-faire?” Its equivalent in English is “do as you please.” In political economy it means the freedom of commerce and manufacture from restraints imposed by government. When were blackboards first used? They are evidently a modification of the waxen tablets of the Romans and the hornbooks of the middle ages. The earliest reference to the blackboard occurs in the thirteenth century in a book by Saciabosso In which there* is an illustration of a child h fifing a large blackboard In the form of a hornbook. In blackboards were used in the common schools in Salem, Mass., and introduced In West Point in 1817. What rivers In the United States and Europe lead In the amount o* commerce carried on them? From the standpoint of commerce, the Detroit R'ver Is the most important In the world, having carried eighty million tons in 1924. The Mississippi carried fifty-six million tons. In Europe, the Seine leads with forty-one million tons, and the Rhine is second with twenty-nine million tons. Give date, place and year of Woodrow Wilson’s and Horace Greeley’s death and birth. Woodrow Wilson was born at Staunton, Va., Dec. 28, 1866, and died at Washington, D. C., Feb. 3, 1924 Horace Greeley waa born at Amherst, N. H., 1811, and died at New York Nov. 2D, 1872.

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Dick Elliott Jumps Into Commanding Position of Being a Big Stock Favorite

Tty Waller I>. Hickman Up to a few days ago, exactly speaking, Sunday night, Dick Elliott was just an unknown actor as far as this city Is concerned. All he had to do was to walk onto the stage of English’s In the first act of “The Bomerang.” Then this

man had ’em. He has a natural comedy face and form. And he does not rely upon his natural comedy powers to put him over. He knows how to act in character. It Is difficult to judge a man my a single performance In stock, and I seldom do It in print. I like to wait and watch for several performances. But in the case of Dick Elliott I feel safe in stating that he will not only be-

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come one of the most popular players that Charles Berkell has Introduced us to, but his ability alone would make him a general favorite, -lie has a sure comedy touch. He knows his lines as well as his ‘‘business.’* And what more would we want if we were paying three bucks and then some to see him? In ‘‘The Boomerang,” Dick Elliott has the fat comedy part of Bud Woodbridge. If Elliott was not a real comedy actor he could have made a terrible insipid mess of this character, but instead he gives the character real‘life blood, color and mood. If this man keeps on you probably will start raving over jhis ability to act. In other words I am trying to tell you that Charles Berkell this season has brought to English's his best acting company. Here are the outstanding attributes of "The Boomerang” as being offered by the Berkell Players this week: First—The comedy work of Dick Elliott. Second—The splendid advancement in the artistry of Edythe Elliott as a leading woman. Third—The artistic qualities of the two sets used. The care taken in stage sotting and property and. I above all, the way the lights were handled. Fourth—The definite and sincere impression made .by Mildred Hastings as a character woman. Fisth —The natural charm of the work of Milton Byron as Dr. Sum- ! mer. lie is more polished in his I quiet comedy and love scenes than last season. New members of the cast on view I this week Includes .lyes La Rue, Mabelle Marlow, J. F. Marlowe and Bernice Marsolais. Robert St. Clair, Herbert Dobbins and Bob Fay, remembered from other seasons, are in the cast. "The Boomerang” will be on view all week at English's. -I* -l- -ISMART, VERY SMART, JS THE FERGUSON ACT Definite smartness is the attribute of a sketch, “The Lucky Stiff” with David Ferguson. There are so many natural and humorously smart situations in this

little sketch that he demon Strates better than- ever that brains and ability may lie found in a vaudeville sketch and I know from past experiences of many y ears that this seldom exists. We run up against, a man in a city park (Ferguson), with a baby buggy and a youngster in the cab. A motor brakes down and a rich man appears on the bench. Wilkins, the man with

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(be baby carriage, talks a heap about his wife and the “punj," moaning the baby boy. The rich man tells the world that he wants a home and a baby. Both wants what the other fellow has, but when Wilkins gets a chance to have money provided he gives up his wife and baby; well, won’t tell you the ending. Here is a human and honest little nit of smart sentiment. Well mounted and splendidly acted by Ferguson and his assistants. , The Albertina Ranch Girls are of course wonderfully trained. Zozo and Kiki do one burlesque dance number. There is real dancing ability in this organization, especially in the ensemble dances. Frank Hurst and Eddie Vogt (the big tall lean and lank guy) have a comedy offering of class and nonsense. They work up each separate mood of comedy attack. Real work here. Real wire walking Is seen in the offering of Kelly La Tell Company. Boyd Senter and -Jack Russell again introduce many musical instruments. They sure turn out real hot music nicely blended with human personality. I was terribly disappointed with the material used by Herbert Clifton, burlesque female impersonator, lie lacks artistry. Not interesting to me for one second. Anderson and Yvel open the bill. At Keith's nil week. -I- -|- -ICONTLVENTAL IDEA ON VIEW AT PALACE Give an act a continental air. Fill it with people who know what they are doing. Pick out some music that has proven itself a favorite with most people and we have a good act. Such is the Venltian Masqueraders at the Palace today and tomorrow. The act is done in the manner of the revelries of the famous fetes of Venice. Everything is carried out with the idea of color and harmony. And is isn’t spoiled at the end by someone singing a late popular ballad. The curtain goes up on the act to the melody of the Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffman. It is a perfect setting for this music. The members then swing to the Gypsy Love Song by our own Victor Herbert and

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S—Charles Berkell la presenting his best acting company this season. Opening bill Is “The Boomerang.” KEITH’S David Ferguson has a mighty smart sketch In "The Lucky Stiff " LYRIC —Mazette Lewis and company do a rare thing In combining comedy with a good dance act. PALACE —The Venltian Masqueraders is a pleasing example of what can be done with good music, good voices and good dancing.

the act placed Itself firmly in the liking of its audience. The most striking numbers were those of the dancer and the trio groups with violin, accordian and guitar. Edna Torrence and Company have a fine music and dance offering in which Miss Torrence is the picture of grace in her dances. A violin solo by one of the Inen members of the act was also excellent. Frank W. Stafford and Company have a rather unusual act In which the interest Is centered on Mr. Stafford In hls Imitations of birds, chickens and about everything else capable of being Imitated. Some comedy is worked Into their program, but the Imitations are the future. Stafford peems able to give a birds song even better than the bird itself. Marston and Manley are an entertaining couple, who have all manner of “wise cracks” and humorous lines for one to laugh at. Marston takes the character of a very modern barber, who after the fashion of hls ancient masters, wheels his barber chair round with him. The act is full of good fun. Brady and Mahoney are another couple, who entertain with comedy dialogue and songs. Bill includes a nhotoplav “The Runaway,’’ with Clara Bow Warner Baxter. Also a News Reel At the • Palace today and to morrow. (By the Observer ) •I- -I- •!• LOOKING OVER NEW BILL AT LYRIC It is a rare thing to find real good comedy In a good dance act, but in Mazette Lewis and Company at the Lyric this week this thing has been worked out very neatly. The first half of the act consists of some very fine dancing by Miss Lewis and her partner and a pleasing soprano solo by one of the other women of the act. The comedy is worked up when Miss Lewis indulges In a fake accident, preeumbably, and leaves the stage. The audience Ls called upon to furnish someone to take the dancers place and a rather stout young lady volunteers. The first ambitious attempts of the would be dancer are full of laugh-making situations and then everyone is given a little surprise. She is a very capable dancer In spite of her humorous first attempts. It is a good act and well balanced. The big feature of tho International Sextette is the rapid manner in which the men of the act can turn cart wheels and handsprings all over the stage. They seem to be made of a combination of steel and rubber, they are so quick and graceful.

Thp dancing team provides n pleasing number and a girl sings a song in an acceptable manner. Just the Type Is the name of a i sketch with several features of Imj portance in Its make-up. We are ln- ! (reduced to a young fellow who has | just been thrown out of college for I the ninth time. Hls father has de- ! cided that it Is time for the son to go to work, and to work he goes. A job is found on a newspaper, where there are several girls working. The girls In the office, however, appear to be much better singers than office workers and provide much of the entertainment quality of the act with their varied songs. The Melva Sisters confine their musical offering to the xylophone and are experts on this instrument. Ben Smith is one of those individuals who has never met a stranger. He seems to take a real pleasure in stepping out in front of an audience and singing Innumerable little songs, each with an intimate touch that puts it across easily. Jenks and Hartford are a man and woman who impersonate the couple who have just arrived In town from some back in the woods place where things are as they were in our grandfather’s day. The man Is that small town “wiseorackers’’ with which every one is familiar, and the women takes the part of the girl, who is suspecious of everything. They are a good couple if one is seeking laughs. Aussie and Czech have a novel act in which the feature Is .the throwing of some apparently heavy axes. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- •!■ Other theaters today offer: Gilda Gray at the Circle; “Sandy” at the Colonial; “For Heaven’s Sake’’ at the Apollo; “Miss Brewster’s Millions,” at the Ohio; "Behind the Front” at the Zarlng; burlesque at tho Broadway and “Tho Yankee Senor” at the Isis. • HIGH MASONS OFFICIATE Unusual Ceremony Given by Mystic Tie Lodge. , For the first time in the history of occidental Masonry, it is believed, the second section of the Master Mason degree was exemplified Monday night at the Masonic Temple under the auspices of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, past grand masters of the Indiana grand lodge conducting the ritual. The ceremony w-as held in the commandery room, before a host of a distinguished guests, including Albert W. Funkhouseb of Evansville, present head of Indiana Masonry, who addressed the group following the initiation. Martin T. Ohr w-as chairman of the arrangements committee.

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Milton Byron It must have made Milton Byron feel mighty good the other night when the applause broke loose at English's when he came on the stage. He was given a real ovation at the opening performance of "The Boomerang” at English's.

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By Hal Cochran LITTLE PROWLER It's maybe two or three a. m., when solid slumber’s sweet. You partly awake to sense the pitter-pat of tiny feet. It's in a cautious whisper that you hear somebody call, an’ course you know some tiny tot is cornin’ down the hall. Your bedroom door is open and there's someone peekin’ through. Just kinrla hesitatin’ and a-wond'rln’ what ta do. It’s only for a moment that the nightly prowler stands, and then your bed is jolted by the youngster’s little hands. Another timid whisper, as the 3-year-old grows bold. “Move tAer, dad, I'm crawlin’ in with you and mom. I’m cold.” And then the youngster snuggles down. You never hear a peep, and gee, before ya know it, little prowler’s fast asleep. • • Some girls have a roll of money in their stocking, and others just a roll. • • 4 Chances are the average bathing beauty would blush if she knew what the wild waves are saying. The most cautious man we know of Is the fellow who never could drive a nail without hitting hls finger—so let his wife hold it. • • • IVhat we never could understand Is why they don’t put the steering wheel of an auto in the back seat—just to save argument. 4 4 4 Musta been a slip when the price of kerosene was recently increased. It’s gasoline, not kerosene, everybody's using. 4 4 4 FABLES IN FACT A YOUNGSTER PROMISED HIS DAD HE WOULD BE A GOOD BOY ALL DAY COMMA AND THE DAD PROMISED THE CHILD A LICKING IF HE WAS BAD PERIOD THAT EVENING THE YOUNGSTER ADMITTED THAT HE HAD RAISED CAIN DURING THE DAY COMMA AND ADDED COMMA QUOTATION MARK BUT AS LONG AS I DIDN’T KEEP MY PROMISE COMMA DADDY COM MA I WON’T HOLD YOU TO YOURS QUOTATION MARK PE RIOD (Copyright. 1926, NEA SEervice, Inc.’

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EASY TO BUM Carl Moreland, a 12-year-old Huntington. IV. Va., lad picked up by Indianapolis police recently to be returned to hls parents, boasts that he has run away from home twelve times In the last two years. Without money, he had no difficulty In making his way from Huntington to Indianapolis. “It’s easy to bum your way,” he explains. He ate at restaurants, then informed the proprietors he was ’broke.’ and got away with it. He rode interurbans until put off for nonpayment of fare. Then he begged rides from passing motorists. No ambling freight train, or a ride cn the rods that fills the hobo’s soul with cinders and his ears with right of way, for him. If the lad continues hls run away hobby he will soon be a first class hobo—ready to take up the profession of petty larceny, from which to graduate Into banditry and similar serious vocations. All made possible, because he finds it so easy to bum. There will always be recruits fer the hobo army. But seft hearted motorists and others who give any strange lad they meet a lift are encouraging the bum business If on the road they were greeted with stony indifference when they beg rides, the hobo business would be discouraging to many youths and they would stay at home. A GOOD CROP OF DELEGATES Indianapolis has entertained an average of three conventions every two days during the first three months of 1926, reports the convention bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. And already 148 conventions are scheduled for the remainder of the year. From all indications the city will harvest a good crop of visiting delegates this year—better than last when conventions, it is estimated, brought to town over 300,000 visitors and $10,000,000. Entertaining conventions is a big business. It is gratifying to civic pride to see visiting delegates, bedecked with ribbons, jovial spirits and clanking badges, in our midst. But more than that such visitors represent an Industry worth cultivating from the dollars-and-cents side. Next to movies, radio and automoiles, conventions .are tho most typical American luxury. A considerale fraction of the population is going to or returning home from conventions most of the time. And every convention visitor brings to the meeting, In addition to his festive spirit, a restive bankroll. Between parades, sessions and social activities, he must eat, sleep and satisfy physical wants—for all of which hls bankroll Is Indispensable. The delegates may taka away pleasant memories of hls visit. However he leaves behind hard cash to circulate in civic veins. The bigger the crop of delegates, the more city profits from tho convention business. LURING THE TOURIST Joseph W. Young, formerly of Indianapolis, now chief pooh bah of Hollywood, Fla., and associates are planning an Intensive drive to lure summer tourists to Hollywood. Beginning in May they will more than double Hollywood’s seductive advertising in northern States. And Hollywood has not been noticeably reticent at any time in telling the world about its charms. Michigan, tVlsconson a.n'd Minnesota are bragging about their trunk line roads and popular resort routes. They anticipate the greatest Influx of motoring visitors In history. They want summer

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visitors and are preparing for them. North, East, South and West cities, localities and States are likewise baiting their hooks. Since | America took to rubber tires and gasoline enmasse, attracting summer tourist trade is the favorite outdoor amusement. The tourist trade is worth cultivating. The visiting motorist, even though his stay is brief and he is a reluctant spender, brings In an appetlto and a thirsty motor. He may drink up scenery, but he rings cash registers. Except for tourists Florida would still be mostly sand and much of California climate. What is Indiana doing to let the world know about our beauty spots, roads and touring attractions? We are at the cross-roads of the Nation. So far we have merely sat there and watched the summer tourists whizz by. If Indiana is going to profit from this summer’s tourist traffic, oftdiscussed plans for a State publicity campaign will soon have to advance beyond the egg stage. Too often the Hoosier welcome to transients traversing our highways has been extended by hick constables, speed-trap justices and snooping horsethief detectives with a search-and-selzure complex. PARADES AND SAFETY Detroit started off a, safety week campaign Sunday with a parade. The procession, including policemen, firemen, city dignitaries and floats, featuring wrecked cars. t jail cells, skeletons, hospital cotss and tombstones, took an hour to pass a given point. It was accompanied by bands, red fire and bombs. Tho parade was presumed to scare reckless motorists and speeders into observing traffic rules. In the Michigan city safety week is an annual affair. For seven days traffic safety Is preached and applauded. The other fifty-one weeks pedestrians must look out for themselves as in other cities. But spectacular parades, public stunts a.nd special weeks really accomplish little to reduce traffic casualties. They are just kid play. If reckless drivers, speeders and traffic rule violators could ho curbed by such measures, tho streets of Detroit, Indianapolis and every other city would be as safo as a church. They aren’t, as disjointed victims of traffic accidents and tombstones testify. Some months ago the accident prevention bureau of the Indianapolis police department was busily engaged In marking with white crosses the spots in and around Indianapolis where fatal accidents had occurred. It was thought such crosses would make motorists more prudent. But there has been no diminution in our traffic accidents and street fatalities. . What will check reckless motor-1 lsts? " The same day Detroit was holding its safety parade, thirty-two motorists were arrested In Indianapolis for speeding and traffic violations. Probably that police activity did moro for street safety than any parade, headed by bands and in which the whole polico force marched until they wore* their feet off, could have been done. Reckless drivers will never bo checked by crosses over the spots , where victims fell. Bars in front of the drivers will stop them. FIDDLERS START "laCK lloocr Tour KuM in Car; Piny j„ Contest. Joseph F. Lawson, 80, of 829 S, West St., and his Hoosieb fiddling partner, James O'Donnell, 67, have started on their return trip to Indianapolis from Lewiston, Maine, where they competed in an interne tlonal fiddlers’ contest. “Uncle Joe” Lawson, who won many awards in the Middle West, played in several eastern theaters. They made the trip East in Lawson’s car.