Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times liOl' W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. _____ SYM. A - MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Tress and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daiiv 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. ,

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re stricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution oJ Indiana. '

A GAGGED CONVENTION The fear of the little group of bosses who are running the Republican convention, of any disclosures or exposures, is reflected in the rule that no resolution can be presented by any delegate lrom the floor of the conventionThese bosses thoroughly understand that there is a deep protest on the pSrt of large numbers who usually vote the Republican ticket against conditions at the Statehouse and especially against the present party management. They know that there are delegates in that convention who would like to insist that the paity management be taken from the hands of men who have an eye upon the gigantic highway fund. They know that there is a group of editors in this State, editors of Republican papers, who are so disgusted with present conditions that they will no longer turn over their columns to these bosses; editors who refuse to wear'collars and become the servile mouthpieces of interests which are using their party to prey upon their readersThey know that there are brave men and women in that convention who would welcome a chanc# to take into the often many matters which the carefully handpicked committees named by Chairman V alb will not consider or indorse. So they have applied the old gag rule which silences the delegate and makes protest or progress impossible. The action is in itself complete evidence of the condition in party affairs which these editors have vainly tried to correct and against which they arc protesting. What subject did Chairman Walb fear would be brought to the floor of that convention? ■ What matter of policy did his bosses feel must be kept away from the delegates who are sent to represent their neighbors and friends? Why was it necessary to put muzzles upon the delegates and bar them from presenting any matter that has to do with either matters of government or party control? What story will these delegates tell when they go back to their homes and tell those who sent them that the convention was steam-rollered and gagged? What must be hidden from public view and from the family gathering of the party itself? That action takes away all semblance of a convention. It becomes a gathering of men and women who become spectators of the scene, unable to speak unless given leave by those in command. Will they go home and say that they have been at a convention of their party or merely onlookers at a staged farce, where puppets obey the pulling of secret strings and only those who are ready to stand for all that these bosses want have a part? ABD EL KRIM SURRENDERS The fighting chief of the Riffian tribes, Abd El Krim has surrendered. France has won its long war in MoroccoNow lachyramel bones will be set working overtime by otherwise perfectly good Americans who will speak and write weepily over the end of a great patriot. Not that Abd El Erim was not a patriot. He was. But he set himself up against modern civilization and lost —as many a good man has done before him. As the sun never sets on the British flag, it is equally so because scores of Abd El Krims have gone down'before an advancing line of British bayonets. And it was not so long ago that General Aguinaldo, at the head of a band of Filipino patriots, defied the whole United States. “We civilized ’em with a krag”—you’ve heard the song—so today Aguinaldo lives in Manila, where floats the Stars and Stripes, the flag of his conquerors. We have no room to throw stones at the French or the British or Spanish, or anybody else. Ours is a glass house. It seems there is little room left in the world for its Abd El Krims —despite what we prate of “self-determination.” One of three things inevitably happen to them all. They are killed, are exiled or otherwise rendered harmless, or they accept the inevitable and allow themselves to become mere tools —pampered puppet princes in the pay of strong, modern powers. # We sympathize with Abd El Krim as we do with Aguinaldo. He put up a good fight and deserved to win. But he didn’t, just as it was inevitable that he wouldn’t. But the leader of the Riff peoples need feel no shame. Bigger men than he, and better armed, have been flattened out by the same steam roller. REAL ACHIEVEMENT Full realization of the mighty changes that take place during a generation is found in Louise de Koven Bowen’s new book called “Growing Up With a City.” Mrs. Bowen is an old resident of Chicago, and her book traces the unfolding of that monster city from the mud flats of Just one generation ago. She tells of an early adventure in philanthropy when she sent a turkey to a poor family in whose home she had found the mother boiling thread spools for soup. A day of so after sending the turkey, Mrs. Bowen called on the family and found the fowl, which was deader than a door nail, dressed in the baby's one dress and lying in the one bed. The family did not know what a turkey was and supposed it some sort of fe, doll for the baby. Today we still have our slums and our poor. •But people do not starve In this country any more, nor is any family so utterly poverty-stricken that it could not recognize the Thanksgiving bird for what It is. Science has made great strides during the last ;eperation. We fly; we hear across mighty oceans; Machinery does the work of men. But great as any ichievement is the progress we have made in bettering social conditions. - I COFFEE AND ROMANCE Amorous swains of Haiti will be able to wed the luscious damo?els of their several choices, all because America, having been led to the trough of Haitian coffee, has been induced to drink. The American Chamber of Commerce confirms . this with its reDort of the scheme of coffee Dlanters

of Haiti to deliver by parcel post in the United States sealed packets of hand-picked, roasted and ground Haitian coffee. “This will permit the poor peasants to indulge in the costly luxury of holy matrimony,” says the chamber. Thus does the H. C. L. affect dwellers in less complex regions of the earth as well as thosff in the maelstrom of cities. Come to think of it, are there any uncomplex spots on earth left? Please don’t answer glibly “The South Sea Isles.” They can't find parking space down there now. ONE MORE FLANK In distributing its praise and pointing to the specific acts of the two Indiana Senators, let it be hoped that some delegate will insist that the actions of Watson and Robinson when the Senate voted on a resolution to probe the lavish use of money in the recent primaries be properly heralded and exploited. It would be a pity it the self-denial of these two Senators, their sacrifice of a voice in so important a matter, be permitted to pass without notice or acclaim. The incident is so recent that surely it is in the minds of the delegates who had full information as to the facts. They remember, of course, that when a resolution authorizing a probe of the use of money to improperly influence the primaries, Watson and Robinson both voted against considering it at all. They probably felt a deep consideration for the people and hated to have them disillusioned as to the methods of political machines to overturn the will of the people. They probably had the same sort of a feeling that a fond mother has when she fears that her child will begin to lose faith in Santa Claus. Os course, the resolution was so broad as to include inquiries into all States and into all practices which are frowned upon under the law. That would have included bargains and deals made by senatorial candidates in Indiana. But, of course, Watson and Robinson would not fear that the bargains they made with leaders of secret orders and heads of city machines be probed anil made public. They might even boast of them. But it is certain that when the resolution came to a vote Watson rushed from the Senate chamber and that Robinson refused to vote. As the record stands Indiana did not register a vote on a resolution which was.in its nature a denunciation of corrupt practices in elections. This State had no Senators when that moral issue was presented. It would seem that the convention would be incomplete, if it fails td recognize the “leadership” of Watson as he led the exodus from the Senate chamber to escape voting. His friends and followers can claim in all truth to the fact that “Jim runs well” —and point to his hasty exit on this occasion for complete proof. Indications are that this "devil dog” Butler of the Marinos is liable to get mad and bite somebody. There ought to be a charge for the fight between the managers over who is going to fight Dempsey. Just to add a little spice to everyday life, a steamer load of cinnamon arrived at New OrleansWhen son returns home with three of his four fenders he calls it good driving. It’S all right for women to have their fling, but they shouldn't fling off quite so many clothes. , * —— Estimates give the depth of the ocean at the north pole as over 9,000 feet, so let's dump some saxophones there. Be careful about passing bad checks. Chicago jailed check passer was visited by two wives. Every knock isn’t a boost. It may be a bill collector. Hard times is when you can’t borrow enough money to buy an auto.

MOST IMPORTANT WOMAN IS COUNTRY WOMAN ———By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A New York writer says that there is no reason for any city woman becoming careless of her looks because she is never overworked. That statement might be challenged when we think of the tired out factory and mill workers, and the girls who droop in the huge city sweat shops and the thousands of wives who toil in dark and gloomy tenements. But have you ever noticed that the person who lives in a city, even an insignificant one, forgets that there are any other women on earth but those who live in sumptuous apartments? • "When we speak of the American housewife, we should keep in mind that by far the larger per cent lives in the country and in small towns, and that the parasitic woman is very greatly in tjie minority. One might never think so, of course, when reading the magazines published in the east or when conning the columns of stuff in the metropolitan dailies. These generally speak of a certain type of women, city women, cocktail drinking women, lazy women, movie mad women, bad women. They write for city women j, they solve 'social .problems for city women; they lecture city women, an this is one reason why so much of their stuff is worthless to thousands of industrious sensible women who have to read it. People who ■write, especially upon women's problems, should go to the country for a while. Then perhaps we would have less written about women who pet dogs and neglect children, and who buy all their food at the delicatessen shop and dine at cabarets, and perhaps we could get some intelligent information about the publicity neglected women who cook and scrub and raise babirs and live useful normal lives. The city viewpoint can be the narrowest in the world, and there is nothing quite so provincial as the ideas of that person who has been born and reared in a large city and who knows no other sort of life except that of the bright lights. The ignorance of people like this can be quite appalling especially when they try to discuss learnedly nation-wide problems which include the rural as well as the urban Inhabitant. The country woman is the most important citizen of this republic. It is time she was getting a bit of notice, too.

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OAVIS ORCHESTRA ADDED 10 LOCAL STATION PROGRAM Blind Organist Is Also to Be on Air Over WFBM. Program Director Robert Miller of WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company, announces that Charlie Davis and his original orchestra have been added to the program of the local station. Davis and his orchestra arc opening a season’s dunce engagement at the Hotel Severin Roof Garden this evening, from where they will go on the air. To Broadcast Dance According to present arrangements they will broadcast an hour's program of dance music each Thursday between 0:30 and 10:30 p. m. Although this orchestra is one of the best known in the Middle West they have never been heard on the radio. Announcer Carl Fohl of WFBM will have charge of the programs. Blind Organist on Air Charles F. Hansen, the blind organist of the Second Presbyterian Church, who has been broadcasting a half hour organ program each Sunday gflternoon, following the vesper services of the Second Church, will be heard in a series of four special programs each Sunday afternoon during June. Speedway Race Program These programs will go on the air at 4:30 p. m. and continue for one hour, at which time Hansen will play request numbers. „ WFBM will he on the air all day Monday in connection with WON, Chicago, broadcasting the Speedway race direct from the track.

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You can act an ahnwor to any question nt iart or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avr.. Washington 1J C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended, research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential. —Editor. Wlieu was the Volstead act passed by the United States Congress and when did it go into effect? Tt was passed by the House of Representatives on July 22, 1913, and passed the Senate without a roll call on Sept. 4. 1919. The conference report on the Dill was agreed to by the House on Oct. 10, 1919. and by the Senate Oct. 8. President Wilson vetoed the bill Oct. 2”, 1919, and on the same day the House voted to pass the bill over the President's veto, and the Senate took the same action the next day. For general purposes the law went into effect Jan. 17, 1920. Has Ibe new cheinieal element, illinium, really been isolated? Science Sendee'says that this element has not yet been isolated from the material in which it occurs, according to Prof. B. S. Hopkins, who reported its discovery. Presence of illinium was detected in half an ounce of a rare earth by means of the spectroscope. Even this unusual material contained only about 1 percent of illinium. What was the treaty that ronI eluded the Russo-Japanese war called? The treaty of Portsmouth, signed Sept. 5, 1903. Ts there any meaning aitaehed to colors? The following meanings are sometimes attached to certain colors: Red, passion or sacrifice; yellow, envy; green, jealousy; blue, loyalty; violet, memory; black, sadness; gray, modesty; white, purity. What is tlie pension paid! to a Widow of a Civil War veteran? Thirty dollars a month. What is the meaning of the prepoj sition “di” before a proper name? Should it be written with a capital J or small “and?” "Di” is the Italian proposition meaning "of” or “from.” In a proper name it may be written either with or without a capital letter “D.” Is it true that the River Jordan is fordable in a great many places? At ordinary times, the Jordan River i3 fordable in a great many places. Its usual depth between the Lake of Tiberias and the Dead Sea is two to three feet. Just below Lake Hulch it is about fifteen feet deep. Is Renee Adoree, the motion picture actress, married? Not at present. She married Tom Moore on Feb. 13. 1920, and divorced him March 19, 1923. How many $2.50 gold pieces did the United States coin in 1925? $1,445,000 was coined in $2.50 gold pieces in the calendar year 1926. ROADS N0T _ TO BE OILED Commissioners Reach Decision Regarding Highways to Speedway. Marion County will not oil any of its dirt roads to lay the dust made by the thousands of machines which will come, here 'for the Speedway races on Monday, it was decreed today by county commissioners. William Southard, county engineer, de dared such a practice is costly, inasmuch as it injures the road. Several of the county roads were oiled last summer, Southard said. He said the oil helps to make chuckholes. Southard also announced that the Georgetown Rd., which the Speedway from the west, ihas been in*proved and will be opened to traf■tia Saturday.! V

An Onion Is a Cabbage; By Walter D. Hickman They may grow it in Bermuda. That onion thing I am talking about. And somebody may something that or may not. .But Johnny Hines told me about this comedy business that “an onion made people cry, but nobody ever made a vegetable that made 'em laugh.” if I called Johnny Hines a vegetable there might be some discussion. Who can • tell? But there is a comedy tiling not answer the Johnny Hines question. He says this one thing: "There is comedy In my next picture.” And I ask you about Bermuda onions. : I liked this Johnny Hines movie at the Circle this week. I gave reasons why I liked it. And then ho tells me this. "An onion, makes you cry. but nobody has ever invented a vegetable that will make you laugh.” Just between us there are lot of people who put the spoon in this entertainment game. And it isn't a soup individual. But there is a big thought in this man Hines. Ho thinks that the country is going for comedy. Ife will give you figures to prove it. And Hines is The people want a laugh. A great big honest laugh. Even “The Last Laugh” was not a laugh to many a manager who counted up the box office. “The onion will make a man cry hut Who can get a vegetable that will make one laugh?” So asks Hines. The public has wanted tc laugh honestly and real so long that it does not need an onion or a laughing vegetable to cause a ripple of expression. Hines is right. They. I and all of us who sit' out in front, want that vegetable of comedy. Hines is going a long way toward its discovery. In a vegetable is a working germ of thought. Thought is life. And so is a laugh. And so is Hines. And this is Johnny Hines as I found him in Ace Berry's office with Ace making a quiet exit: A man with a laugh In his body. A man who honestly loves his public. A man who isn't so silly to think that all tly* laughs in this world is centered in him. He knows a big fact. And that is the reason that Johnny Hines is going forward on his own “onion.” 3ou will find him in person and In the movie at the Circle this week.

EO.M. Sale! for May An especially appealing edition of this great monthly clearance, offering, as it does, countless leftovers from the spring season at greatly reduced prices. (

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An Onion and a Cabbage So Says Mr. Johnny Hines

NEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT THE PALACE The press department at the Palace states: Wograen are asserting their independence in all walks of life today, and the stage is no exception, the bill a£ the Palace proves tile last of this week when its bill offers “The All Girl Revue'' with no inen to assist in the entertainment These young misses are presenting a unique presentation of musical novel ties that is supplemented with dances and comedy. The Royal Pekin Troupe, straight from China, Is a sextet of jugglers, magicians, horizontal bar artists, contortionists and duelists. Their costumes and settings are samples of the spectacular Orient. Lawyer Darem, otherwise known in vaudeville as Col. Jack George, is the attorney for the defense in his MR. FIXIT Revelry of Young Bloods at Drug Store Dis- _ turbs Neighbors, Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Time*' representative at city hall. Write him at The Times. Revelry of the young bloods near E. Michigan St. and Bosart Ave. is disturbing the neighbors, according to a letter received by Mr. Fixit today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I am writing to ask you if you can help us break up a crowd of noisy young men who congregate on a corner in front of a drug store at E. Michigan St. and Bosart Ave. They start to mobilize about 4. p. nt. and are there as late as 10 to 11 p. m. They holler and whoop at people that drive up in machines, dance and have played ball on the sidewalk. We cannot carry on a conversation on our front porch in the evenings on account of them. EAST SIDE RESIDENT. Captain George L. Stone trill order police to warn the disturbers of the peace. TO YOURS TRULY: The board of health is investigating your complaint on conditions at the Washington St. address. TO POOR PROPERTY OWNER: Please give Mr. Fixit the block numl>er and the street in which .you are interested so that he may learn plans of the board of works for you. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Can we please get a dead dog removed from the front yard at 574 Highland Ave? It has been there for almost a week. CONSTANT READER The- dog should be out of the way before you read this.

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character study of a Negro lawyer. His line of comedy Is full of laughs. Allen and Norman are comedy magicians. Taflanoff and company are Roumanian dancers who have presented their entertainment beforo many crowned heads of Europe. A pair of dancers and a young man who plays the violin and piano constitute the company which offers “A Breath From Musical Comedies.” “The Prince of Pilsen” Is a rollicking comedy photoplay which stars Anita Stewart and George Sidney. It Is a screaming farce of a mistaken Identity. Pathe News, a comedy, and Topics of the Day are the reels. 4 -I- -IOther theaters today offer: "They Knew What They 'Wanted." at Keith’s; -“Partners Again,” at English's; Mercedes, at the Lyric; "Whispering Smith,” nt the Colonial; “Desert Gold." at the Apollo; “Rainbow Riley." at the Circle; “It's the Old Army Game,” at tho Ohio, and a new movie bill at the Isis. Hoosier Briefs A rare specimen of freak eggs was discovered by Wilfred Curtis of Mt. Vernon. The eggs was really an egg within an egg and the outer shell, when broken revealed the "white," which enclosed another perfectly formed egg, with another shell. Farmers are being excused from jury duty at Wabash as (lie Judges say they will take no chance of jeopardizing the crops. Ross Jones, Valparaiso County clerk, has his hands full since a rule was passed making it possible for couples to get marriage license during the night. Jones was called out of bed seven times in one night to issue licenses. Thirty thousand dollars In cash with many valuable records nnd books were piled into a truck and hauled through the main part of Evansville, from the Farmers Trust Company, to the Lincoln Savings bank. Slot machines which have been driven out of Huntington are no more popular at "Warren and police have checked the use of them there. Pittman's pond will soon be a thii\g of the past at Greencastle. Officials at De Pauw University have decided to fill in the pond with dirt from excavations at new buildings and use the space thus acquired as a parking field for football fans’ automobiles. CHOIR ON STRIKE J/SNDON—When the vicar of St. John’s Church, Bierley, Bradford, banned one of the male members of the choir because he had divorced his 'wife, the whole choir went on strike. Tho Bishop of Bradford upheld the vicar's ruling.

MAY 27, 1926

THE VERY IDEA! ———By Hal Cochran*—”

FACIAL EXPRESSION V Consider your face and tft# things folk can trace through presslon you show day by day. Let’* all turn thumbs down on the orn who Just frown. No sense In Ita bein’ that way, , j Why r.ot realize that ri, ooupln of eyes, and a mouth can be used to spread cheer? By hook, or by crook, you can put on tho look that will make people glad you are her v A scowl’s out of joint, and ,T>y straining a point, any person can switch to a grin. 11l you’re non of that sort, aw, come on, be a sport. Right now’s a good time to begin. eyes twinkle bright. There you are, now—that’s right. Say, isn’t it easy to do? Tho fellow worth while Is the man who can smile, and let cheerful sunshine seep through. • • * Judging from static, radio music is one of tho things that DOEHEN’T come out of a dear sky. • • • The orignal wlse-cracker was the one that hid in the corner of the bread can so nobody would cat it, • • • MOTHER—Why, Tommy! You’ve taken half that piece of bread In one bite. TOMMY— You said a mouthful, mother! ... 'I Sfunny how people will kick over l'lrrding moths In a coat “they only paid five dollars for. What do they expect, butterflies? ... “I’m in the dark about our bills." Said she. alack, nlas. And was she rigid? I'll say she was. Tlie hills were all for gas, ... Once there was a bashful fella who reminded his girl of Venus. She didn't have any arms, either. ... NOVEL IN THREE CHAPTERS: Chap. I—You nro the only man 1 could* ever want for a husband. Chap. 2 *’[ wonder what she wants." Chap. 3 — "Jle gave it to mo without complaining. 1 wonder what he's been up to.” THE END. • • • FABLES IN FACT A DEALER IN SECOND-HAND CLOTHES HAD A HOBBY OF MARKING THINGS COMMA QUOSTATION MARK FASHIONABLE PERIOD QUOTATION MARK ONE DAY COMMA HOWEVER COMMA HE CAME UPON A. SUIT THAT WAS FAR TOO SHABBY To MARK THAT WAY PERIOD OF COURSE HE WAS IN A QUANDARY DASH DASH UNTIL AN ALERT CLERK SUGGESTED THAT THEY MERELY MARK 11 QUOTATION MARK VERY MUCM WORN PERIOD QUOTA Tiol (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)