Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 316, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times IIOY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GrRLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of tho Serlpps-Bowaril Newspaper Alliance • • • client of the L'ulted Press and the NBA Service • • • Member o£ the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE— MA In 3500.

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WILL CONGRESS VIOLATE THIS LAW?

“The plant or plants provided for under this act shall be constructed and operated solely by the Government and not in conjunction with any other industry or enterprise carried on by private capital."—Act of Congress authorizing Muscle Shoals.

PLEASING THE PRESIDENT A dispatch from Washington relates that the news of Watson’s renomlnation brought him tho hearty congratulations of President Coolidgo. Tho chroniclers say that the President is pleased. And so happy. He almost smiles. Yet the only reason which Watson gave to the public for renomination was tho fact that ho was opposed to President Coolidge on the two outstanding policies of the Administration. He boasted that he had voted against the President on the matter of the world court. He was even more vehement in his declarations, that he was opposed to the Cool |'ge policy of farm Alief and stood with the radicals in Congress. Os course, the truth is that what Watson stood for or against had no influence upon the primary results. Watson was renominated because ho Had the party organization, had bargained with the Klan, had dealt with the local city machine which always had enough real and phantom votes ready to protect him, and had plenty of campaign funds. If that pleased the President, he is really not such a difficult man to get along with. COULD A GENERAL STRIKE OCCUR IN AMERICA ? Could such a strike as that now paralyzing England occur in the United States? The possibility is remote. Tho present generation of Americans are living in a land whose nat tiral resources make prosperity —in some degree, at least —the normal condition. The same should be true for another generation or two, if through intelligent leadership and legislation we conserve our resources rather than allow their unchecked exploitation. It is difficult to conceive now a situation in America Comparable to that in England, where the great mass of the workers have been living for years on the verge of hunger, if not starvation. We cannot conceive of our Government lending itself to an industrial settlement whereby several hundred thousand men. engaged in labor as arduous as coal mining, would be asked to accept a reduction of wages wages were only $lB a week. That has been the maximum in the English mines for the most skilled men. The minimum has been less than sl2 a week. We cannot conceive of our Government doing this, because we cannot conceive of conditions that would permit it. It is this conception of American life as we know it that removes from our minds any thought that what England is experiencing may some day befall our own country. / There are other factors, however, that lend themselves to tills assurance. One is the philosophy, or at any rate, the practice of organized labor in America. The general strike—the simultaneous strike of organized workers in all lines—has threatened England many times in recent years, before the war as well as since. The general strike is almost outside the realm of American labor’s thought. So far Is this true that there is no present machinery for calling such a strike or for conducting it if it were called. The American Federation of Labor could not call a general strike, under its present constitution. It cannot call any strike whatsoever. The American Federation is composed of the various trades unions which have affiliated themselves with it. A few strong unions, notably the railroad brotherhoods, never have done so. All the American Federation can do in this connection is to vote its support, moral and financial, to any trade union that may engage in a strike. In this way the great mass of organized labor may. indirectly, though often very effectively, aid the workers in a given craft through a contest with their employers. This limitation of the authority of the American Federation suited the philosophy of Samuel Gompers, founder and for forty years president of the federation, lie was averse to the idea of a general strike under any circumstances met in his long experience. He did, however, consistently refrain Trm saying that under no circumstances woqld the general strike ever bo employed. And the organization of the federation merely makes such a strike difficult., not Impossible. If the labor executives composing the council of the federation were to determine that a general strike had become necessary, it could be called—after a vote of the membership of all the affiliated unions. As for extraordinary situations that might bring Lils to pass, the only one that has arisen in recent years to suggest it was the movement among certain unenlightened employers just after the war to bring übout a reduction of wages in all lines of work. Had this movement progressed to the point of an actual attempt on the part of employers‘to cut all wages, the resistance of organized labor doubtless woulfi have been fairly unanimous. Under one name or another America probably would have witnessed a general strike, A certain effect would have been a vast increase in the number of organized workers. It is in times of trouble that trades unions grow. r lhe movement to reduce wages—Misnamed the ’’American’’ plan—did not get far, partly because of increasing prosperity which caused even the most short sighted employers to forget it, and partly for a better reason. This is the reason: Organized labor in America has for a long time been building itself on the foundation of unbreakable contracts. By that is meant contracts which the workers will not break nor permit employers to break. One railroad brotherhood prides itself on its ability to say that in fifty years it never has broken a contract. That means that sympathetic strikes are practically out of the question. An agreement to work a certain number of years at certain terms precludes quitting work during that period If the terms are not violated by the employer. Workers who thus land themselves, through their organizations are pre

vented from striking in sympathy with other workers whoso cause they may indorse in their hearts. Every step that has been taken toward the sane tit.v of such contracts lias increased the assurance of industrial peace in America. One of the worst setbacks given this assurance, incidentally, was the action of many bituminous coal operators last year in breaking tho Jacksonville seven-year wage agreement with the miners after it had run two years. It is regrettable that the present Government, in a way a party to that agreement, refused when asked by the miners to express its disapproval of the action of the operators. The way of wise statesmanship would seem to bo to indicate the country's complete indorsement of a labor policy that undertakes to guarantee the country against industrial conflicts. All in all, the people of America can scarcely foresee a time when such a situation as that now afflicting England may arise. With the natural wealth of this country and the increasing wisdom of employers and employed,,the prospect should grow more and more remote until it fades entirely out of the picture of things that may come to pass. WHAT WE READ Very frequently we are told tnat in our reading we are going to hell on a hat rack. The shadow of a long, lean finger hovers over us. It points to the curbstone magazine rack full of Personal Experoince, Lulu Romance *and Zappy Story periodicals. The voice above the hover'ng finger insists that the minds of America are feeding on filth and it predicts tho most direful things of a generation that gorges mental garbage. It sounds pretty awful. But, do the magazine racks present the true picture? And, if they do, then would it not be well to throw in the facts that Harper's Magazine, that paragon of literary virtue which never hearkened to a line of smut, has doubled its circulation In a year? Atlantic Monthly at 50 cents the copy has several times tho circulation it had before the war. The Scientific American, Natural History Magazine and the Geographical Monthly have grown tremendously in circulation the past two years and still are growing. For each new magazine that deals with “romance” there is another new one that deals with science. • * • Publishers of good books tell us the sale of really good fiction is the best in the history of the American publishing business. And they say that in no period of ten or twenty years have so many good books on science, biography, history and religion been sold. Including fiction and non-fiction, the best seller of 1925 was Papini’s “Life of Christ.” Sales thus far in 1926 Indicate that Papini’s “Life of Christ” again wid lead the sales with another work on the same subject an easy second. Biographers rank next. In 1925 not a single fiction work was among the best six sellers. Again! A member of tho staff of this paper a few days agM. slipped off a train at Kansas City for the purpose of buying a book he had heard discussed in the smoker. You know what a depot book stand used to be. Piles of paper backed "Through Missouri on a Mule,” “100 Best Stories of a Traveling Salesman,’’ etc. Well, this is not the correct picture any more. I'p in front in the book stand of Kansas City Union Depot there was not a single novel. Way back in the corner were the novels. On the front tables were: “The Outline of Christianity,” “Critical Woodcuts,” Sandberg’s Abra-! ham Lincoln,' “The Life of John Burroughs," “My faith in Immortality,” “Life of Osier,” “The Romance of Navigation,” “Microbes,” and a score of such. The newspaper man asked the depot hook store attendant. “Why do you put this heavy reading up lront?” He replied, “Because that’s what the travelers want to buy.” Maybe we better use the hat rack for our hat. Don t scare the baby. Tt may make tho little fellow grow up to become an esthetic dancer. Good driving is when you speed t'hlough a bad place. Reckless driving is when some ones else does it. Favoring prohibition modification in Washington All the bootleggers must be out of twn. They arrested Ponzi in Florida where they shouldn't be so jealous. FOUR MINUTES FOREVER! By Mrs. Walter Ferguson - Chauncey Depew, America’s foremost after-dinner speaker, has just celebrated his 92d birthday. Many people wonder at the cause for hts longevity. That’s an easy one. Mr. Depew never had to listen to he always made them. Os all the curses left to this generation by the late World War, financial depression, immorality, restlessness, cynicism, nothing can take precedence over the four-minute speech. Before Europe became bathed in blood, the most of our citizens were content with a quiet existence, but with the thunder of the guns at Verdun we Americans started making speeches and we have never recovered from the habit. Along with our paroxysms of patriotism we all became imbued with a desire to rise and expostulate. Men and women traveled up and down the length and breadth of the land orating and gesticulating. From Broadway to the Cross Roads, eloquence spouted. And the curse of this generation, the fourminute speech was born. Everybody talked: the Sunday school superintendent, th" president of the local Rotary Club, the naturalized farmer, the garage mechanic, the county sheriff, the undertaker. If all the orators who kept the welkin ringing over here could have expended'that energy upon the battle fields of Europe, the war might have been shortened by years; if we had leaped to arms with half the alacrity with which we leaped to the platform, no draft would have been necessary. Even today, a decade after the deluge, we cannot seem to forget the delights of that epoch of speeches. Wherever we go, we will meet them, those four-min-ute men of 1917, at banquets, at committee meetings, at clubs where they are _. ;rpetually holding forth. Whatever may be our activity, we must have a little talk from the mayor, oi the alderman or the Shrine clown or the Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star. There is no eluding them, these everlasting speechmakers. Canny old Depew. He saw the avalanche coming and wisely became, instead of a listener, one of the orators.

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They Would All Like to Say That’s My Baby, Because It Means Cash, Pleasure

"Yes, sir, that’s my baby.” If you can say that It will mean that you get $1 In cash and a family pass to the Ohio next week to see “Thjj.t’B My Baby” with Douglas MacEean in anew Paramount comedy. The way to “cash In” on this if the picture of your baby appears

Peggy Wood Declares Candida Is Safe, Sane Woman Not Feared by Any Man

George Bernard Shaw's "Candida.” with the original cast practically intact, will be the Stuart Walker presentation at Keith's, beginning Monday night. The play will be costumed In the period of its writing, which Is the early nineties. Miss Peggy Wood, who succeeded Katherine Cornell In the title role of the play, will have her old role when Stuart Walker presents tho play in this city next week. “One woman men understand, or at least think they understand—which amounts to practically the same thing,” says Miss Wood. “Is a woman like Candida. Men think they understand her because they are not afraid of her. They feel safe w r lth her. She's tho safe and sane woman who a man knows, directly he meets her, is not going to vamp him. "Candida Is the sort of person who's a combination of child and mother, rather than the sex image. There are real life Candidas all around us. On the stage some of our most successful actresses have b#en the chlhl and mother type, for instance Maud© Adams and Mary Ptckford. Those are the actresses men like to take their mothers and sisters to see. “A great many authors and producers,” continued Miss Wood, "think the heroines that men playgoers like best are the ‘vamp’ types, the mysterious, exotic, inexplicable women. But I don't agree with them. Men have come in droves to see ’Candida,' for I think they like on tho stage as well as at home, to watch a heroine who is simple, safe and sane—a woman they’re not afraid of and can be at peace with.’” In addition to Miss Wood, the cast of “Candida” will Include Morgan Farley, Elizabeth Patterson, Elliot Cabot. Richie Ling and John Storey. The play will be transferred here from Cincinnati, where it is now being presented at the Grand Opera House. -!• •!• -!- NEW SHOW OPENS AT PALACE TODAY Tommy Reilly has the role of the young man In search of a bride in the miniature musical comedy, "The Wife Hunter,” which opens Its engagement at the Palace Theater today for the last half of the week. This love episode developed by song and dance circles around one man and four women, all of whom are talented along some special line of dance. Co-featured with the musical production Is the novelty orchestral act offered by the five Harmanlacs, whose '"Round Up Tunes” is good for laughs as well as melodies. The Harmaniacs are cow punchers who assemble around the bunkhouse after their chores are done to play their home-made instruments. In addition to the usual jazz Instruments spoons, washboards, dlshpans, and even brooms are used to bring forth songs. Harry Hollingsworth and Nan Crawford have “a hair-raising skit.” “Bobbed.” which deals with a quarrel between man and wife when the latter insists on getting her hair bobbed. Mr. Hollingsworth has just completed an engagement with Clara Kimball Young and Miss Crawford was last seen on Broadway in the musical comedy, “Marjorie.” Barker and Jackson will be seen In “Nothing Serious.” characters and original dances that Include Interpretations of foreign steps are given by Margaret Morell and H. Osborn. "Paris at Midnight” is the film starring Lionel Barrymore, Jjtta Goudal, Mary Brian and Edmund Burns. The drama was taken from the story written by the famous French writer Honore de Balzac. Pathe News, a comedy, and topics of the day are the short reels. -!. .1. .'. Indianapolis theaters today offer. "What Price Glory” at English’s; “White Collars” at Keith’s; The Oxford Four at the Lyric; "The Volga Boatman” at the Colonial; “The Exquisite Sinner” at the Ohio; “The Blind Goddess” .at the Apollo; burlesque at the Broadway: “The Greater Glory” at the Circle and complete new show at the Isis. The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays indorse the features at the Circle. Ohio, Colonial and Apollo for adults. UNDER ADVISEMENT State tax commissioners took under advisement today a remonstrance against a $60,000 bond issue proposed for anew high school at McCordsvllle to replace one destroyed by fire In Febraury. Commissioner 'William A. Hough held a hearing there Wednesday. 323 HORSES ENTERED Forty-eight more horses have been entered In the harness races for the 1926 State fair than were entered last year, according to E. J. Barker, secretary treasurer of the State board of agriculture. When entries closed Tuesday 323 horses were entered.

In this group is for the mother to bring the child to The Times, ask for the ‘That's My Baby Contest Editor” and the award will be made. For the past several days The Times has published pictures of Indianapolis babies, snapped on the streets with their mothers by The Times photographer.

S IN INDIANA “-A™

A 700-TON FURNACE The Inland Steel Company, one of the large independent steel producers operating mills in the Calumet district, blew in a 700-ton blast. furnace at Its Indiana Harbor plant yesterday. This is the second largest blast furnace in the country, the largest also being In the Calumet district. The new furnace marks the completion of q'512,500,000 expansion program of Inland Steel at Its Indiana plant. And yet imposing as this' expansion is, it is only an in the industrial development of that section of the Hoosler State liordering Lake Michigan. Industrial projects involving many millions of dollarsdffollow one another in rapid succession In the Calumet area. A month or so ago the Insull electric utility interests announced that a super-power plant to cost ultimately $10,000,000 will be Immediately started. Shortly before that one of the large oil companies announced completion of the preliminaries for erection of a $35,000,000 refinery at Hammond. Steel production, oil refining, cement making and other largo basic industries are gravitating toward the Calumet district. Near the center of population, at tho head of navigation on the Great Lakes, served by all the great trunk line railroads, this section of Indiana is the strategic industrial section of the nation. Twenty years ago it was an area of waste land, sand, marsh and delinquet taxes. Twenty years hence it will be the industrial heart of America. It can't escape destiny. BASEBALL ON THE SQUARE Because the town council of Hartsville. an inland hamlet of Bartholomew County, passed an ordinance permittii baseball games on the public square, the lone dissenting councilman quit the board in disgust. Baseball on the square is not his idea of civic betterment. Maybe his attitude is right. Perhaps town authorities shouldn't encourage the rowdy game of baseball. Tt might be better to reserve the sacred precincts of the public square for civic uplift and culture, plant on it a few sickly shrubs and flowers, or park flivvers and loafers on it; Still we rather wish our fastslipping Indians would play baseball on the square or anywhere else. Seven consecutive bumps down the ladder have made Indianapolis fans desperate. They would gladly have the Tribe play on the War Memorial plaza if that would break the losing streak. Perhaps the dissident Hartsville councilman thinks baseball on the public square is lowering to the dignity of his community—small town stuff. Probably It is. But it is mpre important that the youth of a village he encouraged to indulge In wholesome outdoor games than that civic dignity be maintained. Cities spend millions providing playgrounds and parks for the recreation purposes. Little hamlets usually lack such facilities. In such cases why not use the public square for recreation purposes? Isn’t it better for the community for youths to shoot fast ones over the palte in the square than to shoot pool in Joe’s place? THE MOSQUITO A SOURCE OF POWER The mosquito, especially the malaria and yellow fever bearing breed, is the cause of the United States' commanding position among the nation’s of the world, says Joseph A. Leprince, sanitary engineer to the United States public health service. If it hadn’t been for this pest, he points out, .South and Central America, with their climatic anil natural advantages, would have been the centers of civilization on this hemisphere and would have attracted the horde of immigrants that built the United States. Is the idea of the eminent mosquito fancier far-fetched? Maybe. It is sort of like blaming the present outburst of bobbed hair, bandits. the Charleston other evils of the times on Adam, Noah and other old-time patriarchs. If it, hadn’t been for Adam there would be no United States. It seems discourteous and ungallant, to say the least, for a great big,’ healthy man to pick on a tiny insect and accuse it of chasing civilization out of the natural path. But it was the mosquito more than any other cause that wrecked the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome. Those

It seems that all the children In this city have smiles for the camera man. The Paramount office and the Ohio Theater desire to make happy every mother whose child’s picture appears in The Times. Watch for the next group of children in The Times. I

nations fell not because of external enemies but because malaria sapped tho vitality of their citizens.* It wasn’t fierce barbarians from the north that crushed Rome, but mosquitoes from the Pontine marshes.’ The mosquito, changing the course of history, is annoying proof that it doesn't pay to neglect the little things in life. Life is mostly made up of little things. A SLOW APPROACH The city plan commission, at a public hearing Friday, will discuss with interested property owners the matter of acquiring the necessary ground to complete as planned the approaches to the Delaware St. bridge over Fall Creek. If permitted to erect filling stations at the southeast anil southwest corners of Delaware St. and Fall Creek Blvd., gasoline concerns offer to give the city sufficient ground for tho bridge approach project. That listens good for the plan commission, as if will expedite completion of the approaches. But residents in the vicinity protest against the filling stations. Discussing ways' and means to hasten the approaches to the Delaware bridge is one of the best things city officials do. For more than a year official aqnouncements that construction of the approaches would be undertaken immediately, if not sooner, have followed each other rapidly. But the approaches are as slow in

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Music Week Events Thursday —8:15 A. M.— Shortridge Trio at Theodore Vonnegut School No. 9, concert. —10:30 A. M.— Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts Recital at Tublic School No. 57, Ritter and E. Washington Sts. —10: 30 A. M.— Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts Recital at Public School No. 32. Illinois and Twenty-First Sts. —12:00 M.— Butler University Band, J. V. VandawoAcer, director, on Monument steps. —12:00 M.— Indianapolis Music Promoters, glove factory, concert. —2:30 P. M.— Indianapolis Music Promoters at County Poor Farm, concert. —3:00 P. M.— Indiana College of Music and Fino Arts recital, at Home for the Aged W'omen, Capitol Ave. and Eighteenth St. —3:00 P. >L— Metropolitan concert, Butler College. —1:00 P. M.— Indianapolis Music Promoters at Alpha home, concert. —7:45 P. M.— Irvington School of Music, " ensemble evening concert In auditorium of School No. 57. —8:00 P. M.— Children’s concert and play. Metropolitan School of Music —Odeon Hall. —8:00 P. M.— Music Promoters concert. Shiloh Baptist Church.

arriving as the millenlum. Lack of funds to acquire the needed ground or something equally vital to the project intefered always. Users of the bridge still give realistic imitations of Eliza crossing the ice, or Hanibal crossing the Alps when trying to negotiate passage. Bus customers bounce about like popcorn kernels on a redhot stove when their vehicle jolts off or on the bridge, bound north or south. And that has been the condition for eighteen months. Quite likely the residents in the vicinity are justified in opposing erection of filling stations on the proposed sites. Filling stations, though more distinctive of present day civilization than homes or churches, might bo annoying neighbors, and detract from the architectural beauty of the bridge as well as obscure the rugged scenery of the roadway leading to and from it. But all the argument pro and con over filling stations doesn’t alter the fact that completion of the approaches is a public necessity, which should be undertaken at once even If the city lius to buy the necessary ground.

MAY 6, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington ( Kuroau, 133” New York Ave.. Washington. I). C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research lx- undertaken. All other ?uestlons will receive a personal reply. Inslgned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How long has Art Acord, the movie actor, been in the movies? Can you tell me something about his early life? He was born at Stillwater, Okla., in 1890. Ills early fife was spent as a cowboy and ranchman. His professional career began with tho Dick Stanley Wild West Show in 1910. The following year he went with Buffalo Bill and rode second to tho world’* champion at the Pendleton, Ore.; Cheyenne, Wyo., and Salt Lake City, Utah, round-ups. His first moving picture engagement was with the Selig Company in 1910. 110 is now employed by Universal. Acord is six- feet one inch tall, weighs 185 pounds, and has light hair and blue eyes. lie has been married and divorced. Ills address is Universal Studios, Unlversay City, Cal. What Is tlio second oldest city in the United States? Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico. What is the meaning of the name “Duncan?” It Is an old Celtic name meaning “brown chief.” Is there a distinct American typo of man? Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institute lias conducted investigation lasting over many years and has concluded that a distinct American type is being evolved from the flux of many races that have come into this country. This type ho describes as follows: He weighs on the average 150 pounds; hair, brown and straight; eyes, light in color; he is tall, his face is frank, healthy and intelligent; his hands and feet are somewhat shorter than those of other nationalities; tho main characteristics of the typical American are frankness, openness, shrewdness, energy, persistency, with little sentimentality or affectation. What lias been done with the former United States battleship Delaware? It was sold Feb. 5, 1924, and .Is being broken up and scrapped. How long has the Australian ballot been used in the Unit oil States? How general is its use today? The Australian ballot was first authorized In the United States in 1888 by the Legislature of Kentucky for elections In Louisville. The next year it was adopted by Massachusetts. In the presidential election of 1892 it was used in no less than thirty-five States. What is celery salt made of? Table salt and ground celery seed.