Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times HOY W. HOWARD, President. BOID GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MATBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member cf the Scrtpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member of the Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214 220 XV. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week; Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In SOW.

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.

FOOLED BY WORDS It ts au old trick. But it seems to work again and again—this habit we have of fooling ourselves by words and phrases, and not stopping to think of what they really mean. The Anti-Saloon League uses It most effectively in carrying out its political purposes. It proceeds to invent a label and then pastes that label on candidates without regard to the fact that what it means and what the words really mean are entirely different. The league has just issued Its bulletin to voters, tbe result of its questioning of caudidates and gives advice to its followers as to how they shall vole in the primary. , The oflicers of the league are fully within their rights in this enterprise. Any person has a right to advise others how to vote. All political speakers and every newspaper does it. But the difference lies In the fact that the league is not frank in telling the people that the selections have been made by a very small group interested in just one idea. In its advice, it labels every candidate as either “dry” or "wet." It seeks to create and does create the impression that every candidate for office that it calls “dry” is a personal upholder of the Wright and Volstead acts, that they obey these laws, that they believe iu them; while the truth is that, these candidates havo simply told the league that they will vote as the league asks on matters of liquor legislation. The league seeks to create and does create the impression that the men it labels as "wet” are drinking men, violators of the law, anxious to get liquor. In very may instances they are much more observant of the law than their opponents. And in the majority of cases, they have merely told the league that they believe that public opinion must rule, that very many grave evils have followed Volsteadism, that they are not ready to surrender their own Judgment or the welfare of the Nation to the private custody of the officers of the league. Very many of these candidates who have been labeled "wet” are real believers in temperance and sobriety who have been shocked and dismayed by the corruption of government, the Increase of crime, the drinking among young boys and girls, the supremacy of the bootlegger and the poisoning of thousands through vile concoctions sold under counterfeit labels. . Unfair In its political methods, the league hopes to keep Its grip upon government through fooling voters by Its trickery of words. The truth is that those who are advocating changes in the present system are in reality the "dry” forces. They object to the bootlegger. 'They object to the increase in drunkenness. They object to wholesale corruption of government and of youth. They are seeking temperance, real temperance. They w’ant a sober nation, not a law violating people. They are demanding a practical way to stamp out the evils of alcoholism. Upder the trick and subterfuge of labels, the heads of many church organizations, the leaders in many social reforms, the men and women who are devoting their thought to permanent reforms would be labeled “wet.” Don’t be fooled by words. THE TIME TO KICK Next Tuesday Is the time for all men and women who do not relish the Idea of government being controlled by a few bosses to register their protest. The direct primary furnishes the weapon for those who wish to defend their own interests. It is a weapon which is always used by the selfish groups who know exactly what they want The political machines which want jobs and patronage and power will be certain to have every vote they can muster at the polls. They will wTlte their slates of candidates who can be relied upon to / sacrifice principles or the public good when the interests of the machine demand. They will have their lists of men on whom they can rely to either soften the punishment for the guilty or grant special favors to the bosses. The bootleggers will vote as a unit, as usual—for candidates for prosecutor and sheriff who will bo blind and lenient and for legislators who will continue the extreme dry laws. They understand that the more stringent the laws, the greater their profit. The bosses will make their deals with those who know what they want. They rely on the fact that the good inteutioned are divided or indifferent. They hope for a small vote, becauso the larger the vote the greater their own danger. They want the men and women who stand for decency to stay at homo and let them do the voting and tho fixing. That has happened so often that they have come to rely upon it iu their political plans. Some of the shrewdest make no public appeals. They simply make all tho secret, deals they think necessary. If you do not like the candidates of your own party this fall, you will have only yourself to blame If you neglect to go to tho primary election and cast your ballot. You may wake up next Wednesday morning and discover that the candidates on both tickets are such as to invite only your contempt. They are quite likely to be if you continue to let the bosses and the W'ard heelers do your voting for you. WRITE YOUR ANSWER In these days when most of us get our thrills from the melodramatio films, there creeps occasionally Into the news incidents which have all the elements of fiction. In one Eastern city a girl of 19, working for living, refuses a legacy of $175,000 from an uncle. The time honored string was attached that, she marry a young man selected by the uncle as her husband. She spurns this effort to regulate her life according to the will of a man who could give only money and who would be where ho could not see the results of his effort to play at divinity. The mison, of course, is th*t she happens to

love a young man with a V3ry small salary, who has no hope of fortune at present. She has faith in him, and even if she knows in lier heart that she must always sacrifice, always work, always deprive herself of the finery and luxury which the money would bring, prefers that condition to a loveless life with another. Over in another city a young telephone girl steals away from her job to become tho wife of a very old man. Yes, he Is a very rich man. She is on the ocean, in a luxurious suite of rooms and will journey to scenes of splendor. She will come back to a palace and at her command will be an army of servants. Tbe women who formerly were very rude when she gave them the wrong number will eagerly seek invitations to her home and the lavish enteitainments which she can give. She will have her hour of revenge for fancied insult, will drive In gorgeous splendor before the doors of tho building where once she toiled for a small wage, will be able to parade In triumph before the other girls who will keep on working until they, perhaps, find love and destiny in a flat One of these girls is probably a very foolish maiden. One of them will quite likely live to regret. Will it be the birl who in the years to come, as she worries over the butcher’s bill, will think of the fortune which she turned aside In her loyalty to love? Or will it be that other girl, if she should discover that the platinum ring has become a sign of bondage, the sables a burden Instead of a delight, her palace a prison? Write your own answer. It will decide whether you are a practical person or an idealist. IF WAR, WHY NOT BOLL WEEVILS? Now comes the simplest plan of all for doing away with war: Just prohibit it by constitutional amendment. Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota is the author of the project Here it is as introduced In Congress: "War for any purpose shall be Illegal, and neither tbe United States, nor any State, territory, association or person subject to its jurisdiction shall prepare for, declare, engage in or carry on war or other armed conflict, expedition, invasion or undertaking within or without the United States, nor shall any funds be raised, appropriated or expended for such purpose.” It is another prohibition amendment, and even body knows what a success that amendment Is. It is estimated that today there are a bare 1,700,000 stills operating In this country. If the '’Frazier amendment goes through, however, anew day will dawn on a plague-weary world. Having made national defense unconstitutional, we can safely scrap our Army, Navy and air force and rest easy. For what country, however poweiful, would dare be party to a violation of the Constitution of the United States? The amendment would naturally lead to worldwide disarmament For if we made it unconstitutional to attack us, what good would armies and navies do other countries? None whatever. Realizing their utter helpfulness against us, foreign countries would automatically disarm. The only thing we would have to fear would be bootlegged wars. There Is the one L'aw. Pro-prohi-bition wars were bad eLough, but bootlegged war would bo simply awful. On the other hand if we can prevent war by constitutional amendment the secret of all things becomes an open book. We can amend the Constitution to abolish galoshes and stop the snow. Abolish traffic cops and stop speeding. Abolish lire departments and stop fires. Abolish safes and stop bank burglaries. To make husbands stay in at night, abolish rolling pins. Potato bugs, cockroaches and boll weevils would curl up and die with the fifty-seventh amendment abolishing insect powder and squirt guns. And so on ad infinitum. There Is simply no limit to the thing. To prt* vent disease, abolish doctors. To do away with death, make it unconstitutional to manufacture, Import, sell or transport coffins. Write your own amendment and abolish your own pet hate. Don’t be bashful. Chip in and help make our world Utopia. Your Idea is as good as any. We’ve been overlooking a good thing too long already. THE FRAIL SEX ————— |{y Mrs. Walter Ferguson—■" Women are said to be frail and delicate creatures, not able to endure the hardships to which men easily become Inured. Bu t did you over follow on of these weak sisters upon a window shopping expedition? This favorite form of feminine recreation is harder on the muscles than a week's washing and more injurious to the nerves than looking after a houseful of children; yet women who would faint at the idea of having to do either think nothing of faring forth on a shopping Jaunt that would put to bed the strongest male In the community. Os course, if you are going to buy something, that Is another matter. But the most harried shopping trips are made and the closest bargains driven by women who have not the slightest intention of spending a dollar, at least until next month. They will breast a torrent of traffic, dodge automobiles, be bumped by hundreds of hurried pedestrians, biave wind and rain and cold, stand in line at a counter until their legs ache, walk miles and miles upon feet that hurt, in order to get some idea of the latest embroidery pattern or tp price something they can never afford to buy. More time and energy is wasted in this sort of thing than can ever be estimated. Women like this take the attention of saleswomen who thus lose good customers vyhile displaying wares to nonbuyers. This kljid of shopping seems to be a feminine mania. Som* women literally live In front of store windows. They eat their hearts out looking at expensive things they cannot buy; they use up their nerves hunting what they call bargains. If the time thus spent by them collectively could be consumed in actual working production, they could pay off the national debt. Yet these same sisters will have a nervous breakdown if they are expected to keep five rooms clean and three meals a day prepared without the holp of a maid. They can’t bear children because they are so delicate. At shopping, however, they seem to muster up a Spartan endurance. They can out-talk an auctioneer, outwalk a soldier, and take more jostlings than a traffic cop.

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It Is Some Job to Change a Man Into Most Beautiful Woman in the World

By Walter D. Hickman It sure Is a tough job to change a man into being the most beautiful woman In the world. Some say that beauty Is just skin deep, but a lot of modern beauty Is contained in bottles and boxes in a drug store. No matter what beauty is, Francis Renault, a man, knows how to chango himself into a stunning woman. To do this trick, Renault must slavg at the job for more than an hour. The other afternoon Ace Berry piloted me back stage to the dressing room of Renault. I wanted to see the trick which would transform a man Into the best dressed “woman" on the stage today, Renault lives in a certain atmosphere in his dressing room. The second he enters his dressing room he Is iq a make-believe world. His dressing room Is fitted up with tapestries, pictures, pillows, comfortable chairs and two of the walls are covered with marvelous gowns. Ills dressing table is as elaborate and well fitted as one would expect to see in the dressing room of a world famous prima donna. As I watched Renault, sink his natural personality Into the dushing "actress” (a slave of fashion, as he calls himself), I was convinced that it was a. science and not a trick. Renault starts making up ills face, his eyebrows and his lips. Paint, powder and several tons of other things are used in this scientific process of beauty making. In about an hour’s time, Francis Renault, the man, ceased to exist to my eye. ITis eyebrows, eyes and lips had been changed, llis face was like a painted doll. "Mother.” he called to the woman who aids in dressing him, "bring my most beautiful gown for this show.” Then a little woman placed a sheet on the floor and In a second Renault was climbing into a gown valued at SIO,OOO. “My penrls,” he said, "and tlie roses. Now my hat.” The stage manager announced that the star had one minute. Then Bakaleinikoff started the entrance music for Renault. In less than a second, the very being of Renault changed, lie y.ts then the artist, the woman that he had created to entertain the public. After he had again grabbed off much applause and admiration and after a. curtain talk. I went brick with Renault to his dressing room. He was now Renault covered with the gaudy makeup of his profession. “My dogs are hurting me,” he said. “I tell you that this business of a man wearing woman’s clothes is a tough game.” "I spend a fortune on beautiful clothes. T have eight trunks of ’em.

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BACK IN THE MIRE The new Sbortndge High School project la back in the mire. For a moment is seemed the sugges tlon that the new school be planned to accommodate 1,800 pupils and be located on the ThirtyFourth Ht. site would prove an acceptable compromise to contending factions. That seemed to satisfy the majority faction of the board. But at the board meeting Tuesday night the question whether the new building should have a caparity of 1,800 or 2,500 students caused as much controversy as the fight over location which the compromise proposal was brought forward to settle. There may be an honest difference of oplxjion as to the advisability of erecting a building with capacity of 1.800 students. A larger building may bo moro suitable to present needs. Also there may be an honest difference of opinion as to the merits of the Thirty-Fourth St. site. Some other stie may be more Ideal. But the most pressing question Is not finding the Ideal location for the new school or the question of whether the new building shall accommodate 1,800 or 2,500 pupils. The most important thing Is providing anew high school. While the controversy flares and simmers, Shortridge pupils are being compelled to attend classes In a building much more Inadequate than is proposed by either side of the new Shortridge squabble, located on the worst possible site. Anew high school of any size located anywhere on the north side would relieve the situation. The school board and those actively engaged in the present controversy all proclaim themselves heartily in favor of pushing the new Shortridge to completion. Rut the net result of all their efforts to date is zero. The whole project is an almost perfect example of perpetual motion. It revolves 'round and ’round but doesn’t get anywhere. VICTIMS OF STYLE The factory at Peru, Ind.. of Fox Brothers, once nationally famous manufacturers of undergarments for stout women. Is to be sold at receiver’s sale. A victim of changing feminine style. There are no stout women any more, it is explained. Nor do women now wear the kind of underthings they used to. Life to a maker of feminine apparel. furbelows or accessories must be Just one shudder after another. The owner of a mllllon-dol-lar hair pin factory goes home at night at peace withal) the world. Profits are rolling in. tt dinner he discusses with his wife whether to buy one new limousine or a whole covey of Imported cars. Next morning he comes down to his office and finds his business has vanished and before the threshlold of the bankruptcy court. Over night the feminine world has decided to bob the hair. Poo.rh<£,ses are full of former prosperoto bustle makers, cor-

Bowker to Return to City Monday

Aldrich llowker Long a favorite in this city as a stock actor, Aldrich Bowker will return with the Stuart Walker Company in “White Collars," opening Monday night at KHth’s.

It costs a fortune to make myself Into a beautiful woman.” As I studied this man, it seemed to nie that Francis Renault is a lonely man. He Is an artist in Ills chosen line of work. And only a few men in the history of the stage have won fame and fortune in this female Impersonation game. You may sec the results of Renault’s artistry this week at the Circle. He is indeed a slave to fashion. OI.H-TIMK T 1 M S CONTEST \T PALACE Which is the most popular, the old-time melodies revived by Henry Ford or the newest jazz tunes sponsored by Paul Whiteman? This current question will be settled, as far as this city is concerned, in a contest, "Brown County, Ind., vs. Broadway,” the first half of the week of May 2 at the Palace Theater. On one side of the argument will be three Brown County fiddlers: Doe Blsel, the strumming mandolin-

setiars and hat pin barons. We wonder what has become of the man who Invented the hair puli' without which the coiffure bn no Oibeon girl was complete. Probably ho Is pushing a tin cup around some downtown comer. Next to betting on Indiana w-'ather, manufacturing a feminine specialty is the most uncertain business in the world. Even farming has fewer thrills and ups and downs. There you only have taigs, droughts, floods, heat, frosts, and speculators to contend with. All simple and predictable compared with the vagaries of feminine fashions and changing styles. NOT ENOUGH SLEEP Nearly 40 per cent of school children are getting too little sleep, T>r. Ada E. Sehweit7er. of the Stale hoard of health, told the Parents* Institute at Indiana University extension headquarters yesterday. Why limit your statement to school children. Doctor? They aren’t the only ones who do not get enough sleep. Most city dwellers are In the same boat, especially if they live in apartments on carlines, in radio infested neighborhoods. By the time the last radio bug has signed off for the night, the last flat-wheeled street car has trundled past, and you are about to shake hands with Morpheus, comes the milkman, the paper boy, the early morning trucks and another day. The gent who Invented sleep war a public benefactor —but he •ertalnly wasn’t a city man. We are often told we sleep too much. We are frequently urged to emulate such geniuses as Edison, Caesar and Napoleon, who on three or four hours’ sleep a day carved out notable careers. That’s a mistake, says Dr. Cabot, of Boston, one of the country's authorities on social hygiene. The average person requires eight hours* sleep. "Don't emulate Napoleon, Caesar and other celebrities,” he warns. "Be sure you get the proper amount of sleep. And don’t get out of bed until you are fully awake.’’ If one followed literally that authority’s prescription, he would not get out of bed at all. And If one lives In the congested Section of town there Is not much use In going to>bed. "What to do. UPDIKE BEFORE POSTMEN Support of the Lehlback-Stansfleld amendment. Increasing retirement pay of postal employes was pledged by Congressman Ralph E. Updike Wednesday night of the Indianapolis branch of the Railway Mall Association meeting. 550 CAMPS CAPACITY Lieut. Paul C. Denny, commandant of the United States naval training camp at Riverside Park, announced today that efforts will be made to care for 250 boys this summer. Camp will open June 21 for boys from 14 to 18 years of age. Lieutenant Danny succeeds Lieut. F. F. Knachel, assigned to the U. S. S. Hawk on Lake Michigan.

ist: Dinah Bisel, the most versatile musician In her county, and their neighbor "Oody” Green, the only musician playing “Pop Goes the Weasel” behind his back. True exponents of jazz were obtained for their opponents in the persons of the Amedlo brothers, accordionists, who double on the saxophone, and George T,e Tour, a product of dance orchestras. Charles Lines, local boy. will be the referee rid “happy announcer from station .1. O. Y.” Audiences wfll vote by applause for the side which they favor. The contest is one that has been well liked in the middle West and Henry Ford’s saying that the old tiroes are the most popular has proved true tho majority of times. •I- -I- -!- Other theaters today offer: ‘'Silence” at English’s, Roy Cummings at Keith's, Mitzi and her dancers at the Lyric, “Let's Get Married” nt the Ohio, “Mike’’ at the Circle. “Rev. eriy of Graustark” nt the Apollo, ’Sandy” at the Colonial, complete new show at the Isis, burlesque at the Broadway and anew bill at the Palace. The Indian Tndorsers of Photoplays this week recommend as family patronage the features at the Circle, Ohio and Apollo.

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THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran

Each week-end. when your work Is done, you plan on havin’ heaps of fun. You’ll take the family out somewhere, and Just drink In the open air. You get the old car fixed up right, and then real late on Friday night you sprawl yourself upon the floor and look up road maps by the score. ’Course mom has had the happy hunch to pack a j>eachy campin’ lunch. She’s fixed some salad; cooked a ham, made sandwiches of bread and Jam. The kids, long since, to bed have gone. They plan to wake up with the dawn. You’ve worked a lot and feel quite worn, but fun will come tomorrow morn. On Saturday all things are set. And. are you all enthused? You bet! You’re on your way—then fate breaks loose. It starts to rainin’ like the deuce. • * • The man who Invests In real es tate has lots to talk about. • * • The fellow who gets In the habit of saying "I can’t” eventually finds out It’s true. • * • There’s no use in putting a plug penny in a scales ’cause you can’t get a weigh wdth It. * * • They’d toss the tennis ball up high, Then shout each time they’d smack it. But no one worried ’bout the noise, ’Twas just a tennis racquet. • * • One of married life’s great troubles Is that many men marry sealskin wives on a muskrat salary. • • • Speaking of chivalry—A pretty girl or an elderly woman always get a seat on a street car. If there are plenty of vacant ones when they board it. • • • Polire chief of Racine. Wis., has announced young couples may park their cars and spoon—but one-arm drivers will be prosecuted. Two-arm driving and twoarm spooning is his motto. • * • Mother takes father to the "dearest place imaginable” for a vaca.tion. And when the bills start coming in he finds that’s Just what It Is. • a * FABLES IN FACT ONCE THERE WAS A CONGRESSMAN WHO CALLED ON SOME OLD FRIENDS OF HIS PERIOD AFTER AN ENJOYABLE EVENING HE REMARKED TO THE HTSBAND THAT HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND HOW MUCH THE MRS, KNEW ABOUT PARLIAMENTARY LAW PERIOD QUOTATION MARK WHY COMMA QUOTATION MARK REPLIED i THE HUSBAND COMMA QUOTATION MARK SHE’S BEEN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE EVER SINCE WE’VE BEEN MARRIED PERIOD QUOTATION MARK. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, tnc.)

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