Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1926 — Page 4

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VOTE FOR REMY Whatever other selections the men and women of the Republican party may make in tomorrow's primary, let it be hoped that they will not surrender to the machine in the matter of William Remy. ■ The machine is planning to defeat this courageous prosecuting attorney who refuses to be either bluffed or bought. The machine does not like men who show the courage which it took to send D. C. Stephenson to the penitentiary. There is really no use in having a machine if you cannot control the men who enforce laws and thus secure favors for underworld characters. The machine understands that if it can get rid of Remy in the primary, its chance of making a farce of all law and justice, of selling privilege to gamblers and bootleggers, will be greatly increased. That is the reason the men who control that machine have lined up their forces to defeat Remy. These bosses are much more concerned in the defeat of Remy than in the selection of Watson and Robinson, although they have made definite bargains for them. They want to punish Remy, to make independence unpopular and discourage any other men from asserting the right to obey their oaths of office. To defeat Remy means even more than revenge for his refusal to take orders or for his successful prosecution of Stephenson. It means the defeat of decent government, the downfall of law. The attack on Remy is a challenge to every man and woman of the Republican party who has a regard for either that party or for the welfare of the county and city. The defeat of Remy can only mean that the party itself has passed to the control of those who will rent it to the lawbreaker, the bootlegger, the gambler, the disorderly. Can that happen?

EG YPT AND THE OLD HACK HORSE It was not without a smile of sympathetic understanding that we read of Egypt’s shying at John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s $10,000,000, gift and his final withdrawal of the more than generous offer. Did you ever reach out to rub the nose of some poor old hack horse and have him violently jerk his head away and show you the whites of his eyes? Used only to blows and unacquainted with caresses, the animal thought you were going to do him an injury. Egypt is like that horse. She is r.n ancient country and in all her thousands of years of history few have been the disinterested acts of kindness idono her. The only rubbing her nose has received has been into the ground. Thus when young Mr. Rockefeller, a few months ago, offered her $10,000,000 to build and endow a great museum of antiquities and bureau of archaeological research, she couldn’t quite comprehend it. A hundred thousand dollars she could have understood, but ten million! Mr. Rockefeller certainly must have designs on the Sphinx or the pyramids or something. f There were, however, no strings tied to the Rockefeller gift. The museum was to be Egypt’s, lock, stock and barrel. America’s richest young man merely asked that American, British, French and other archaeologists should be allowed to cooperate with Egypt in bringing to light, for purposes of study, some of Egypt’s fascinating and distant past. The museum would have brought the whole world to Egypt, to marvel. But Egypt, like the hack horse, was suspicious. Nobody in Egypt ever does anything for nothing. Baksheesh is expected for whatever is done, and the greater the service performed the bigger the liaksheesh demanded. So Premier Ziwar Pasha, under the politest of exteriors, examined the ten-million-dollar gift so microscopically, top side, bottom side, sidewise and so thoroughly, that “to relieve Egypt of further embarrassment,’’ Mr. Rockefeller withdrew his offer. It’s too bad but, under the circumstances, it was the only thing to do. •

YOU WOULDN’T. THE GOVERNMENT WOULD One fault to be found with the Government's plan to dispose of Muscle Shoals is that it seems to be based on the same theory as an European debt settlement. In the case of Italy, Belgium and the rest there is some justification for the terms agreed to. It can be said that we must take what we can get—or nothing. In doing so it may be true, as Senator Howell of Nebraska argues, that we are presenting these European countries with vast sums of money —even $1,500,000,000 in the case of Italy. But if we get something, that is better than nothing, and perhaps we should be satifled. The money is gone. We can’t get it back. Let’s forget it. Where does this theory apply to Muscle Shoals? Nowhere that we cau see. The people have Muscle shoals. It is ready to start paying the people dividends. It will not only make a direct profit on the investment, but indirectly, through providing real competition in the sale of power, will save millions to the people of the country. It is not a case of take what we can get and be satisfied. We don't have to sell this great project. There is no reason whatever for selling it. Yet a committee of Congressmen has solemnly presented to the House and Senate a proposal to sell Muscle Shoals on terms as extraordinary as any of the debt settlements thus far reached. In effect, it is proposed to lease Muscle Shoals, which cost the taxpayers $150,000,000 —and is worth the money—for fifty years at a total rental of $119,000,000. Would you lease your $15,000 home (furnished, a. m. i.) for fifty years for $11,900? That is a little loss than S2O a month. You wouldn’t. Would you lease a $150,000 factory, fully equipped and ready to produce goods, for fifty years for $119,000? That is a little less than S2OO a month. >u)u wouldn’t. But, 1. seems, the Government would.

NO TRIFLES The man who, years ago, went over the Niagara Falls in a barrel was killed when he slipped on a bit of orange peel in a crowded city. His challenge to death when he took the trip over that great abyss of water attracted the attention of the world. The danger was unquestioned. It seemed as though death would bo certain. The peril caught the imagination. He was acclaimed a hero because of bis daring and his bravery. death did come, it was caused by a trifling thing, so small as to be unnoticed. That is the history of most of us, although we never recognize the fact. Not only life, but death, is made up of the small moments and not the one big one. Every big tragedy in life can be traced to some thoughtless moment, some momentary weakening before temptation, some yielding to an impulse which seems unimportant The youth who thinks that he can loaf upon the job will in his later years find hfs mediocrity or failure due to the habit he formed in a moment of laziness. The girl who lives to regret her disgrace will find the starting point in that hour when she decided that there was no harm in being a “good fellow.” • The dangers of big temptations sound their own warning in advance. The insidious pitfall of the trifle has no such red light. The big triumphs In life never come from one effort or from one glorious moment. Success must be won. It comes only from living each moment as though it were a great moment. It follows the determined effort in which eafch incident of life is given all the importance of an epic. Trifles? There are no trifles in life.

LETTING THE BOY LEARN A physician in New York State wanted to give his 11-year-old boy a first-hand picture of what life is in a city. So he handed him enough money to last three days and put him on a train for Buffalo. x The doctor had faith that his son's steps would turn in the right direction, and that faith was justi lied. The boy spent a time in the business district, visiting stores, the banks, riding street cars, asking all kinds of questions. Another day he spent in an art gallery, went to the zoo, and then to the top of a twenty-three-story building to get a birdseye view of the thing. Jle got a big kick out of this. Then he took his first ride on a ferry—to Fort Erie, Ontario, and compared tho Canadian side with ours. He visited the editorial, business and press rooms of a daily newspaper. He got a thrill out of watching the*papers stream from the presses. His last comment, as he boarded a train for his borne after three days, was: “Gee. but this is a great world.” We congratulate the New York physician. lie lias given bis son a start in the right direction by letting the boy find the way himself.

VANDALS OF THE SHOE BOX Nature is beautiful. It is admirable for the fain ily to take a day out under the trees and admire her beauty. But leaving shoe boxes, tin cans, banana peels and other trash doesn't help the fair face of Mother Earth one bit. It is a curious thing, how inconsistent some "lovers of the great outdoors" are. They rave of the beauties of nature, then go away leaving a litter of papers or other refuse that spoils an ideal picnic spot for any others who might choose to have an outing there. And the tourists! For many the only common dumping ground is the side of the road. In one Western State you can tell the main road because of the rubbish along the sides of the pike. Picnickers and tourists should be a little more considerate of the other fellow. If you need a kit of auto tools work £lf day as a mechanic in some garage. Fish will bite better if you will disguise, yourself as a country boy. Even saxophones could be worse, maybe. They never make any noise unless someone is botheririthem.

YOUTH AND. YEARS —By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.—— ■

An actress of the American stage has come forth with an interview in which she asserts that it is possible to be young at 70 and old at 20. To prove her point she cites Joan of Arc and says. "There was a girl at 18 who had all the seriousness of a sage, and there are many like her In this respect today. Life to them is a serious business." The tone of this leads us to suppose that it is wiser to strive for youth at 70, to shake off the solemnity of life and too look upon it as some sort of hilarious frolic. Nobody denies that wo should keep youthful in appearance as long as possible, or that we should not allow our minds to become permeated with the prejudices of age, but it Is the part of common sense and intelligence not to try to look like 18 at 48, nor to act like 16 at 60. We have an alarming youth complex these days. We are ashamed of our years, though they may have bestowed upon us honors. We belittle them and deprecate their numbers, although they may have brought us opportunities which we have grasped to our credit. Joan of Arc did take life seriously and her name will be remembered and venerated long after these proponents of eternal infancy have been forgotten. All those who are fit to live through the ages have . taken life seriously and believed that years should add dignity and thoughtfulnesss and knowledge to man. Sometimes I think this is one reason why so many of our youngsters fail to regard their elders with respect or attention. Do we merit consideration at their hands when we spend half our time acting worse than they do, and yet in our half lucid moments constantly admonish them to more staid behavior? May it not be because so many of us wear our years and our experiences ungraciously, because instead of setting them ah example we strive so hard to ape their manners and occupations, that the boys and girls have lost respect for us and our boasted wisdom? Os one thing we may be sure: If youth does not respect and listen to maturity, It is the fault of maturity and not of youth.

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The Foreign Viewpoint Is Reflected in Three New Movies on View This Week

By Walter I>. Hickman The foreign viewpoint in matters political as well as of love is reflected in “The Volga Boatman*” as well as two other movies on view in the city this week. This new Cecil B. De Mille directed movie will be the cause of much dis-

cusslon because the theme itself is concerned with the overthrow of the old Russia and the introduction of the “new freedom.” De Mille has the title of' a well known song. “Tiie Volga Boatman” and has given that title to the story by I.enore J. Coffee, adapted from Konrad Bercovici’s novel. This movie is full of the re-

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alistic touches which ono expects to see in a De production. This touch is well revealed in several scenes which are going to be discussed this week. In one scene a princess disguised as a poor Russian girl, falls into the hands of the White Army of nobility during the revolution when the Red Army of the people has just started its war on the Czar. The officers ask the commanding officer to "give” the girl to them. The officer does this. The girl is placed upon a table, surrounded with men. Instead of showing the object of this disgusting sight, De .Mille turns the eye of the camera from the girl onto the faces of the officers as they watch the clothing removed from the body of the girl. It will he interesting to note just how this trick of realism will be received over the country. De Mille lias been successful in registering the protest of the lowly Russian boatman of the old days. He really has photographed mental revolution, the continual protest of man against the established political order of things. The theme of “The Volga Boatman’’ is disquieting at times, hut it does hold one’s interest as the people fight for political control. The really disturbing element of the story is the sex interest. I do not know whether to call it realistic sex or just plain melodrama. If I take this picture seriously, I will consider this phase of the film as realism, but as yet I ant not prepared in accept it as realism. To me “The Volga Boatman” did not come up to just what I expected, although I admit that it as a splendidly directed movie, and in several I instances the realism reflected is honest realism. I have never seen a picture that gave me as many different viewpoln's as this one. This movie is peopled by a marvelous cast, as follows: FV'tiinr. Vn’j:, Boatman. .Wi’li.am Bnvd \rra. a Princes* of Rtmsii .Elinor fair Prince Nikita her father. Robert Edison Prince Dimitri an officer in the White Army Victor Varconi Mariughd. a Tartar campfoUower . Julia Kaye Stephen, a mute blacksmith. 'W-.i.-'* boa,m;,n Arthur Rankin ihiani Boyd does a remarkable piece of work as the Volga boatman who dreamed of Treeing Russia and who found time to marry a Princess and save her life. Elinor Fair starts out with a rather half-way characterization, hut about the middle of the picture she starts doing some splendid work, and she continues doing wonderful work until the end of the picture. One expects realistic work front Robert Edeson, Jul a Faye and Then dore Kosloff. It seems to me that the best way to view “The Volga Boatman” is to consider it melodramatic theater and not realism The hill includes! the American Harmonists, Aesop Fatde and a news reel. At the Colonial all week.

THE CIRCLE PRESENTS ANOTHER VIEWPOINT In considering “The Greater Glory" as movie entertainment I again have conflicting opinions. “The Greater Glory” attempts to show the suffering of the old nobility of Austria in Vienna during the war and afterward. At times it is as majestic in theme as “The Four Horsemen" as these symbols of war figure in the theme of “The Greater Glory.” The story gets started before the war, when

Vienna was the aristocratic center "of Europe. Here you meet members of the royal old group of Austria. The grand women are grand in manners and appearance. The director, June Mathis, has done a fine job of type casting for these old former flowers of the nobility of Vienna. When I study the story I have the feeling that all worn-

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en of Vienna and Austria as well had a tough time of it. Women suffer during war, regardless of their caste. Nobility may suffer with a little more grand feeling, but a poor woman can get just as hungry and poor. Conway Tearle and Anna Q: Nilsson head a cast which looks like the actor’s Blue Book. The movie is really a film version of Edith O’Shaughnessy’s novel. “The Viennese Medley.” Great things was expected from this story and movie. And yet when the story is carefully studied it does not ring true, as the central female character, Fanny, turns out to be a very bad sort during the war. She plays in with fast men, runs a gambling house and keeps faster company. And yet she is able to help financially some of the old royal flowers of Vienna during the cold war days. Fanny is not a character who invites either sympathy or understanding. If the theme had remained as lofty as it started out to be and the theme was as gigantic as the directing, then "The Greater Glory" might have been one of the w T onder pictures of the year. And yet, please do not misunderstand, “The Greater "Glory" is a wonderfully directed and acted

Movie Verdict CIF.CLE—The sight of loyalty suffering when Vienna was at war is shown in “The Greater Glory.” The story is weak hut a most magnificent directed production and a costly one has been given. OHIO—“The Exquisite Sinner’’ is an attempt to photograph the various moods of romance. COLON lAL The very theme and the method of handling the “The Volga Boatman” is going to cause fc lot of talk this week. APOLLO—“The Blind Goddess.” has many virtues as a movie and some fine character work on the part of Louise Dresser. After it gets started it is corking good theater.

movie. At times it.is nearly gigantic entertainment because of the direction of the cast. The lengthy cast is as follows: Count Maxim von Hurtig. . .Conway Tearle Fanny Anna Q. Nilsson Corinne May Allison Pauli Birbach fan Keith Tante line x Lucy Beaumont Gustav Schmult . lean Hersholt Dr Herman von Berg Nigel de Bruiler Mizzi (hi* wifei Bridgetta Clara Prof. Leopold Ezerhardt John Sainpolis Kaetlie, • his wife) Man’ll Manon Otto Steiner Edward Earle Liesef i his wifei Virginia Southern Anna (Pauli* wife* Isabel Keith Irma von Berg (the stepmother) .. . - •„ Kathleen Chamber* Leon hrum Hale Hamilton MsHp . Cora Macoy Countess von Hurti* Carrie Uaumcry Theodore von Hurti* Thur Fairfax Scissors errimier Rons Karloff Croso bearer I George Billings H/ I *;* Bee* Flowers Marcelle Coniay After you see “The Greater Glory” at the Circle this week, drop me a few lines and let me know what you think of it. The bill includes an overture, a news reel and another Charleston lesson. At the Circle all week. .j. .j. .i. LOI’ISE DRESSER STEALS MOST OF THE HONORS HERE If my judgment is not all wrong there is going to be a lot of talk about the work of Louise Dresser in "The Blind Goddess,” although Jack Holt. Ernest Torrence and Esther Ralston are featured members of the cast. Miss Dresser has one of those sob mother emotional roles who suffers nearly everything but deatli so that her daughter may have happiness. The mother of this story loved hrm daughter a heap more when she was grown up than when she was a baby

because mother runs away with another man. After the father had raised the girl until she was a wonderful young girl, the mother returns to New York prepared to wage trouble and even war. The father had made a fortune and was a man of much power. The wife forces her way into his home and demands that she see her daughter. The father re-

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fuses and tells her that their daughter loved her memory, as she thought her mother was dead. In the meantime the mother had threatened to shoot herself and left her revolver on the library desk In the mansion of her husband. She leaves the house, prepared to make no trouble. The next morning her husband is found dead in his library. Circumstantial evidence points to her guilt. Then for about four reels you have one of the most dramatic experiences the screen lias afforded for some time. The woman refuses to talk. The court scenes are the real article. The director has been careful to photograph a court scene as it nearly exists in actual life instead of giving the public another extreme theatrical courtroom scene. Louise Dresser Is cast as the mother and she probably gives the most commanding screen characterization of her aareer. She is a groat artist in putting over this mother love stuff and she is always in character. Ernest Torrence is the father, “Big Bid" Devens, arid of course he registers with ease. Jack Holt is the sweetheart of Moira Devens. played by Esther Ralston. "The Blind Goddess" comes under the head of good theater. Bill includes a Mack Sennet comedy, a new reel, singing by Henderson and Weber and music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. * At the Apollo all week.

ROMANTIC ATMOSPHERE ON VIEW AT THE OHIO Again we have the European viewpoint in “The Exquisite Sinner." This time the atmosphere is romantic. This time the atmosphere is brought to the screen by Renee Adoree, the French girl in "The Big Parade," and, Conrad Nagel. “The Exquisite Sinner" can best be explained by saying that there is

an attempt to photograph romance In several of Its many moods. This is indeed a tough job and one that requires tons of skill on the part of the director. This atmosphere of course is mental in life and to photograph such moods, of course, is one mountain of a job. Personally it seems to mo that this atmospheric romantic stuff is much

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more suited to the stage than the screen. Also there is a strain of ultra-smart humor concerning the foreign idea of marriage and honor. The duel scene is really travesty and is well handled. Os course a “Big Parade" part Is not written every day for Adoree, but she docs

get into the atmosphere of this story which is that of the quest of a rich young man of Paris to find love and romance where it exists. Mr. Nagel has no trouble catching the spirit of the theme. Ho is easy to look at and knows the needed trick in acting to put over his scenes, are handled with the correct sassy punch. It took me some little time to become acquainted with several of the odd types introduced in this story, it will require several more years oefore the screen is properly suited for projecting smart romanuc modern comedy. The bill includes an organ solo by Ruth Noller, playing “Say It Again,” music by the Charlie Davis orchestra and Alice Day. in “A Love Sundae ” At the Ohio all week. The Stuart Walker Company tonight opens its season of ten weeks at Keith's by presenting “White Collars.” Other theaters today offer: “The Oxford Four” at the Lyric; “What Price Glory” at English’s; “Brown County Vs. Broadway” at the Palace; burlesque at the Broadway and "The Border Sheriff” at the Isis. “Sally,” annual show of the Harlequin Club of Purdue University, will be presented tonight at the Murat.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran

VERSIFIED HASH When people ask a question, 'course an answer should come back. For instance, in a riddle, you can find a good wise crack. But someone, in a song one time, with this one came to bat. “Has Anyone Seen Kelly?” No one ever answered that. • • We might get aldng without airships. We might do away with balloons. Perhaps we could do without autos, but golly, just think, if our tunes, of raggified music and waltzes were taken a Way, goodness knows, ’twould make us all lazy, and near drive us crazy. We can’t get along without those. • * • How water gets in melon is A rather puzzling thing. Until you stop to think that it Is planted in t lie spring. • • • I often take a chicken pie when eating with the bunch. I'm satisfied with ham and eggs when T go out to lunch. I've eaten heaps of kidney stew, and lots of other trash, but when I want them, all in one. the waiter brings me hash. * • • A great many people save up to hu.v themselves a ‘farm—and then do something else with the money. * • When people ask you to sing, don’t be coaxed—go ahead and do it. It’ll bo their own fault. • • • FABLES IN FACT ONCE THERE WAS A FELLA WHO TRIED TO GIVE HIMSELF A HAIR SINGE PERIOD ’TWAB SO BLAMED SUCCESSFUL THAT HE BURNED ALL THE HAIR OFF HIS HEAD PERIOD LOOKED KINDA FUNNY THAT WAY COMMA SO HE STARTED USING EVERY BRAND OF* HAIR TONIC COMMA AND GROWER HE COULD FIND PERIOD FROM LATEST REPORTS HE IS RECOVERING PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Editor Times: I want to express to you my appreciation of your support of William H. Remy. It seems to me that he is entitled tp the support of lawabiding citizens. I think most people would be willing to say that he had done well and. should lie reeleetd, but few people would have the nerve to come out with the statements which recently appeared in your paper. Very truly yours. J. C. MOORE.

Indianapolis Starts Its Music Week Programs

Music In its highest form is being carried out in the churches, schools, theaters, industries and the institutions of Indianapolis this week through the efforts of professional musicians cooperating with tho Fine Arts committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Every phase of the city’s life will, in some way, be touched by the influence of better music during National Music Week, which opened Sunday with special sermons in many of the churches and choir recitals in practically all of them. For tho past three years the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, through its Fine Arts committee, has sponsored National Music week, extending the activities from year to year with the State Music Contest, in which more than* 2,000 Indiana high school students are entered as the featured activity around which all other undertakings are conceived. Under the guidance of Elmer A. Steffen, the general program subcommittee of the Fine Arts committee arranged approximately fifty concerts, recitals or special music events for the week, In addition to tho State Music Contest and State music concert, which will be held at Carlle Tabernacle on tho concluding day of the week. These concerts and recitals will be given by the leading schools of music and by professional musicians who have cooperated with the Chamber of Commerce in planning a week's program of activity. Band concerts on the south steps of the Indiana Soldi/rs’ and Sailors'

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RECORDS OF CENTENARIANS Grandma Huffman, a 104-year-old Hodsicr lady, went aloft in an airplane recently. She established a record —the oldest woman in the world to take a flight. And she got her picture in the paper and 'otherwise acfiieved vicarious fame. Yesterday a Connecticut w Milan, 108 years old, celebrated her birthday anniversary. Her father was revolutionary soldiep She had never ridden on a railroad train, or trolley car, and never has listened to radio. Which is an unique record. Consequently she got her picture in the papers and achieved a sort of vicarious fame. Apparently if you would be famous just live past the century mark. It makes little difference what you do or don’t, if you have attained that ripe old age you have done something unique, you are news. But scientists srsy the span of life is lengthening. Longevity is becoming more common. There are 5,000 centenarians in the country today, they say, and the secret of long life lies in every man’s grasp. Soon because of competition you won't be distinguished just because you are a centenarian. Os course every one hopes to live long. But Alexander the Great died at 33 sighing for more worlds to conquer. And his ceeds fili more pages of history than the career of any centenarian. Life is less a matter of length than breadth. Except to you personally. it is relatively immaterial how long you live. The important things are how you live and what y*u accomplish while living.

THE VANISHING TREES One hundred and twelve walnut trees and ninety-nine ar,h trees on a farm in Hamilton County have been sold to a sawmill operator. These trees, said to be the lorgest collection of virgin timber of the kind to ho found on one farm in central Indiana, brought a fancy price. And less than a hundred years ago great areas of the State were covered with such trees. The incident gives point to the reforestation programs urged by conservation ehthusiasts and nature lovers. In three generations the forest primeval has disappeared from Indiana. * Once a timber producing slate, .full of sawmills and lumber barons, it now imports practically all of the lumber it uses. The Hoosier pioneers. with sweat and blisters, chopped farms out of the woods. And now tho nation consumes annually four times ns much timber as it grows, while wild trees are almost as scarce in Indiana as wild Indians. The plain, untutored citizen may know nothing of forestry or trees. He may not know an oak from a sycamore. But lie does know that a landscape entirely denuded of trees is dead, unlovely and uninviting. Trees appeal to him as something more than so many board feet of merchantable lumber and something more than a convenient place to hang a hersethief. Call it an esthetic appeal. if you will. And unless a reforestation policy

Music Week Events Monday —12:00 M.— Band concert, on Monument steps by The Indianapolis Newsboys Band, J. W. Vandaworker, directing; Helen Payne, soprano. —2:30 P. M.— Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts recital at Public School No. 25, Merrill and S. New Jersey Sts. —3:00 P. M.— Indianapolis Music Promoters Recital, Sunnyside Sanitarium. —7:45 P. M Advance piano recital, auditorium Public School No. 57, with Jessica McWhirter, soprano. —8:00 r. M.— Indianapolis Music Promoters Radio Concert from Carr Studio over WFBM, Mrs. Lillian Lo Mon in charge.

Monument at noon each day beginning today, will be a feature of the program designed entirely for the purpose of taking music to thou sands of persons who have scant opportunity to hear the better kinds of music. Big Day Saturday On next Saturday when the Indiana high school organizations are here for tho State music contests, more than three hundred students will appear in a massed band concert at the Monument on the Circle, at which time announcement will be made by the judges as to the two best organizations which will compete that night at the State music concert for first and second prize awards. All day Saturday contests between bands, orchestras, mixed choruses.,i girls’ glee clubs and boys' glee clubs from twenty-five Indiana cities will be in progress In various points of the city. The band contest wilt be held at Cadle Tabernacle, starting at S o'clock In the morning, the orchestra contest will be held in Caleb Mills Hall, and the glee clubs will hold their contest in the new auditorium of the Manual Training High School. The concluding feature of the week will be the State music con cert given under the auspices of the fine arts committee at Cadle Tabernacle next Saturday night when the two best f organizations from each classification will contest for first and second awards of SIOO each and SSO each, respectively. Great enthusiasm is being manifest-

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ts speedily undertaken by State and individuals, with tree planting on a large scale, Indiana faces a treeless future. Tho State approaches baldness. The euro should not bo delayed. SIGNERS OF PAROLE PETITIONS Action of Judge Mount of tho Tipton Circuit Court, who last winter sentenced four young thieves to the State Reformatory, in calling before him forty signers of the petition for parole of tho quartet, reveals ono of the chief obstacles to justice and law enforcement—the easily produced signatures to clemency petitions. Three of the signers, questioned by the Tipton judge, were bankers, men of substance and standin* |n their communities. Two of tneso said they thought tho four young thieves had been punished enough, so they signed the pearole petition. One wonders if they would have felt tho same if the petition had been for release of a quartet of bank robbers. The third banker admitted frankly that he appended his name “because I saw that a good many others had signed it and I did not wish to refuse the request of the boys' father.” In that statement is one of the principal reasons for ineffectiveness) of law enforcement. Many good, upright citizens cuss the courts, juries, prosecutors, and police officers for failure to check crime. Speedy and stern dealing with criminals is demanded. Then when a lawbeeaker is convicted and scarcely before ho starts to serve his sentence a lot of these same upright citizens sign petitions far clemency. They do it just to be obliging, because “others had signed,’’ without considering whether there are valid reasons for leniency. Don't blame pardon boards and judicial machinery for pampering criminals and turning them loose with mild reproof. The careless tfgners ai parole petitions are equally at fiault. It is their duty as citizens, as much as it is the duty of the courts, to assist, not hinder law enforcement.

BACK TO THE STARTING POINT The new Shortridge High School is to be built on the site at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., and is to have a capacity of 2,500 pupils. Such was the decision of the Indianapolis school board at its last meeting. Around the world and back again to the starting point. That’rj the history of the Shortridge project in the past four contentious months. Citizens generally hope now it will settle down, take off its coat and go to work. It is a happy ending of a hitter controversy. Perhaps tho Thirty- • Fourth tit. location ist not ideal. At any rate the sincerity of those board members who opposed erecting tho now building there is not questioned. But public opinion unquestionably favored that site. And as Commissioner Yonnegut said, in voting for it: “The people want (he school at Thirty-Fourth St. I think it is a mistake. But the whole town is tired of this Controversy.” So tho board bowed gracefully to public opinion and should bo applauded for the act. However It has only bowed half way. More than settlement of the question of site and architectural details, public opinion is anxious for the new Shortridge to become a reality. It is the actual school building not the promise of a school building that is urgently needed. Consequently the average citizen hopes the fledgling spiri* of compromise that has appeared will hover over the school hoard sessions and the Shortridge project be pushed to completion a3 rapidly as possible.

SUBSTATIOIM IS OPENED The new Fountain Square posN office at 1034 Virginia Ave., opened' today. Three clerks are on duty and fifteen carriers operate front the station. Postmaster Robert H. Bry. son said. Formal opening of the building will be held May 11, under the auspices of the Fountain Square Business Men's Association.

ed over the concert since It will serve to bring out the very best in each competing organization. At the conclusion of the concert awards will be made to the winners. In discussing the program a. ready outlined, Holcomb said it was significant that music should be taken to institutions, State and local, into which very little music Is in* troduced in the course of a year. Sunnyside Sanitarium, the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home, the Blind Institute, the County Poor Farm, tho llomo for the A god and other sucli institutions will be visited by bands of musicians, who will . give free-will concerts to brighten the lives of the inmates. Under the direction of Mrs. Lillian M. LeMon, the Indianapolis Muslo Promoters, composed of the leading negro musicians of tho city, will give numerous conceits and recitals, opening tho week with a radio conceit which will he broadcast from the Carr Studio, Michigan and Delaware Sts., through the courtesy of Station tVFRM, Merchants Heat and Light Company, of this city. The first band concert of the week to be given at noon time on the Circle will begin promptly at 12 o'clock Monday, when the Itidkrtiapolls Newsboys’ Hand, directed sty J. B. Vanda worker, will give an hour's concert. Miss Helen Payne, soprano soloist, will give a group of songs to the accompaniment of tho band. The Postoffice Band will appear on Tuesday.