Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1926 — Page 4

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A READY MADE ISSUE It should not be a difficult matter for the group of Democratic leaders, named *a advance of the convention, to find an issue on which to wage their war for two senatorships. They have one in Watson and the record of Watson. They have another in the brief record of Robinson and his servile sycophancy to Watson as against the pledge made by his sponsor, Governor Jackson, that he would at all times support Coolidge. The low estate of the management of the Republican party, its control by those who seek directly or indirectly, contracts from the State government, the arrogant and unscrupulous attitude toward any demand for decency, should be sufficient to condemn it, if something better were offered in contrast. t A campaign on this contrast would win if there is a contrast offered. The issue is settled on the short term. In Evans Woollen, the Democrats have a candidate who will appeal to the intently minded men and women of the StateHis fitness and his background should be sufficient to insure his election. If the convention when it meets next / week dodges even stupid actions and incidents, if the delegates show any wisdom whatever, the revolt within the ranks of the Republican party ought to reward it with success in the fall. If it truckles to the same influences which dom.inates the Republican Darty, if it is timid and cautious and evasive, if it refuses to take into consideration the ideas and ideals of the independent voters, it will deserve defeat. There is some evidence that the politicians of that party will try to make the convention an echo of the Republican gathering. At a time when the people are demanding a return to the simplicity of Jeffersonian ideas of individual rights, the leaders of tha£ party hesitate. The issue is made to order in a ringing call to return the Government to the people instead of giving all power to the centralized Government at Washington. The people of this and every other State still cling to the idea, foolish perhaps, that they are fit to rule themselves and need no guardian in the form of a paternalistic government at Washington. They believe that they are fit to pass on any subject. They are tired of having laws passed at the dictation of self-appointed leaders of noisy minorities. They do not believe that the Nation would he wrecked if they and their neighbors should he allowed a referendum on Volsteadism. They believe that the American way of settling questions is to discover and then translate the will of the people into law. The spirit of fair play and honesty is still strong enough with both those who favor Volsteadism and those who believe it a mistake to abide by the will of the majority. A promise to let the people rule and faith enough in that doctrine to pledge the State to a referendum on this question would be far from a political mistake. Will the convention, either in its candidate for the long term senatorship, or in its platform offer a reasonable excuse for the independent voter to go to the polls? GOOD LUCK, AILSA AND DAVE! Today, in Washington, “the world’s richest bride,” as the reporters call her —Miss Ailsa Mellon, only daughter of one of the earth’s big six money kings, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, becomes the wife of David E. K. Bruce, son of Senator Bruce of Maryland. Os course, getting married is no great novelty. A lot of people arc doing it. But there are weddings and weddings and this one has some unusual features. For instance: Ailsa is a genuine cjpllar bride. David is not a dollar prince- Ailsa’s papa is a hardboiled Republican. Dave’s father is a hard-boiled Democrat. Ailsa has some old-fashioned ideas; Dave is more modernized. But the nicest thing about the wedding to our way of thinking, is Ailsa’s insistence upon promising to “obey” Dave. Most modem brides object to ® the word obey as in the old marriage ceremony. And how absurd it is if you promise the other things. For “love” is a thing that cannot be forced. And no wife can “honor” a husband who has ceased to be honorable. Nor "cherish” him unless there is love. As to that matter, why balk at “obey” yet promise to take this man, as the ritual has it, “until death do us part,” when the very next tune after the wedding march is so often the Reno Blues? The old-fashioned idea was all or none, and if ivhat the society reporters tell us is true, Ailsa believes tli at wa*. Think of all the notoriety she might have secured for herself by demanding some special exotic marriage ceremony or if she had insisted on being addressed in the future as Miss Mellon, and so on. Instead she chooses to be plain Mrs. David Bruce of Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. It set-aiß to us she and the groom are entitled to an extra scoop or so of best quality rice and more than the usual number of specially ancient shoes. WILLIAM BYRON COLVER v - The death of William Byron Colver of Washington is told elsewhere in this issue of the Indianapolis Times. For some twenty-five years of his life, Bill Colver, as he was known to his friends, devoted wonderful qualities of soul and heart and mind to the up-bringing of Scripps-Howard newspapers of which the Indianapolis Times is oneHe served in every editorial capacity from that of junior reporter on the Cleveland Press to editorial director of the entire institution, from which position he retired about a year ago because of failing health. For several years prior to and during the war, at the request of President Wilson, he withdrew from newspaper activities to serve as Federal trade comic i-sioner. * In his journalistic career and in his career as a public official, William Colver’s record Is one of unswerving loyalty to the highest ideals. Ii; is easy to ■ • • •- \

use superlatives in estimating the life work of one who has passed, but it would be less than the truth to apply to this man any word less than “great” He was a great man measured by any test. He was honest, intelligent, courageous, true to his principles and his friends. * Justice for the common man was his journalistic and public service ideal and he was never happier than when fighting for that ideal. The writer of these lines was his journalistic associate and personal friend for many years. He belieVes he speaks for the thousands of Bill Colver’s friends as well as for himself, in saying he regrets more than words can express, his passing, when at the very zenith of his powers. But after all death is not the greatest tragedy—in one sense it is not tragedy at all. If one has had a full and useful life, has lived courageously and is able to meet death in the same brave fashion, it is a victory. In spite of the recognition of irreparable loss which Colver’s passing means to them, his friends may rejoice in the knowledge that both his life and death were victories. LEST WE FORGET Once more the Nation journeys to the graves of its defenders, pausing to pay its tribute of gratitude to those who in the hours of danger, saved it from defeat and wreck. Comrades of men who fought in three wars will march again and for a day live in memory upon the fields of battle. The world has been remade since the men who fought to free the slave went out with rifle to face combatants face to face. The hate which inspired them is gone. The cause for which they fought has been forgotten. The ideal which they bought with blood has become so firmly fixed that present generations have lost even the power to imagine that it was ever necessary to make war to abolish the right of property to other human beings. Invention has changed the methods of war- It las produced machines of death so effective as to multiply the power of man to kill a thousandfold. It lias carried battle to the air and under the sea. It has substituted poison gases for bullets. But the spirit which prompted the comrades who will lay their flowers upon the flag-decked graves of those who fought in 1860 and those who journeyed to the poppy fields of France is still the same. They gave themselves when challenge was given to the cause of liberty and of freedom. Their comrades died that the ideal of liberty might not perish and that man, unhampered and free from oppression, might climb, slowly but surely, to a higher happiness through freedom and equality. All that we have of liberty, all that we have of opportunity, we owe to those who sleep beneath the- tiny mounds and their living comrades who will journey there as to a shrine. Those who sleep may not feel the presence and the gratitude. But still they serve and still protect, if they but once more arouse a determination never to surrender the ideals for which they lived and died. JERITZA AND CIGARS Maria Jeritza, golden haired songstress of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will sing, but she will NOT have her lovely physiognomy on cigar bands. Maria says so herself, emphatically, in asking for in injunction against Louis and Isidore Cohen, which would prevent their using her name or picture on cigar bands. Maria got the injunction. We like this songbird from overseas more than ever. The spirit had grown a bit wearied of the eternal pose of prima donnas upon cold creams, perfumes, cigars, malted milks, nursing bottles, cabbage seeds, and what have you, with their eternal chantings of “Gooey Soap Makes Me Sing,” when every me knows very well that the nearest said prima donna came to Gooey Soap was via a nice fat check for the saying so. We thank Maria Jeritza for her good smacking slap at Bunk. Coolidge lias a set of golf clubs now. Wonder if lie says “Dern” when he misses a short putt. The Haug h bill farm subsidy has fallen by the vote, so farn fs may raise crops instead of money. I 9 These plump people have one advantage. They get their penny’s worth when they weigh.

HE KNOWS WOMEN By Mrs. YY'alter Ferguson—

i Gilbert Frankau, British novelist, who is now visiting- in this country, claims to be the greatest living authority upon women, with the possible exception of his ;country man, W. L. George. It strikes us that these Englishmen are prone to vain boastings. It is bad enough for them to come over here and lecture on our shortcomings and give us critical observations and sit in judgment upon our habits and customs and manners and morals, but when they start to grabbing laurels in our favorite pastime it is time to call a halt. With true insular provincialism, Mr. Frankau purports to have gained an almost complete knowledge of the feminine and does not seem to know thait we also claim authorities upon this subject. AVe have, for instance, Mr. Browning, whom we are willing to run against any British veteran. Mr. Browning has already matriculated in young girls. Nobody can tell him anything he doesn’t know about the playful, plucking little things. AA'e would be willing to lay a wager that Grandpa Browning, since he is buying for “Peaches,” could tell Mr. Frankau lots of things about girls that he had never heard of before. Then there is our own Harry Thaw. Just now a certain metropolitan newspaper is asking in tall headlines a puzzling question about this national Don Juan, and demanding answers from learned readers, “is Harry Thaw addicted to a certain type of feminine beauty?” There’s a stumper that makes memorizing the list of annual members of the French cabinet easy. Let’s set Mr. Frankau on that one. Why, Harry Thaw knows more about cabaret dancers in a minute than Gilbert will ever know, even if he has spent part of his life in seclusion. And there’s Mr. Stillman, who specializes in femininity, and Fatty Arbuckle. Mr. Frankau could learn lots about women from Fatty. Anyway we jlo not like to hear foreigners make boasts of that sort. Mr. Frankau may be a wow in England, but he hasn’t married Peggy Joyce yet.

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Metropolitan School Commencement Activities in City on Thursday Night

| pMMENCEMENT activities 1C 1 begin aj the MetropoliI tan School of Music next week when dramatic art graduates, pupils of Miss Frances Beik, will give their annual program of readings next Thursday evening, June 3, in the Odeon at 8:15. Miss Martha Hoyle will give a reading from Rachel Crothers’ play, “The Little Journey;” Miss Libuise Cox will read a cutting from “The Goose Hangs High,” by Louis Beach and Miss Helen Emert will give • a scene from “Smiling Through,” by Allan Langden Martin. Miss Emert will leave immediately for a tour in Chatauqua for the summer season. Incidental music for the program will be given byEdwin Jones, violinist, and Miss Geraldine Trotter, pianist, members of the faculty of the school. Other graduates of the Metropolitan School of Music will be Miss Elizabeth Clements, soprano, of Crawfordsville: Miss Helen Payne, soprano: Miss Selma Zahl, contralto; Miss Dorothy Ryker, soprano, pupils of EUward Nell. Miss Martha Run dell, violinist, pupil of Hugh McGibeny; Miss Mary Ellen Galbreath, Miss Beulah Beckwith, Miss Dorotha Berger, and Miss Helen I. Hamilton, pianists, pupils of Mrs. Flora M. Hunter, and Miss Mildred Glick. pianist, pupil of Arthur G. MonDinger. Graduates from the public school music department will be Dorotha Berger, Charles Byfield. William Horton Byfield, Neil Denny. Charles Geyer, Agnes Pusinelli, Kdythe M. White, Mildred Gliek. Mildred M. Casey, Laura C. Moag and Agnes J. Holland. Graduates in public school music will receive their diplomas from Butler University with which the Metropolitan School of Music is affiliated. Commencement exercises will he held in the Odeon, June 18, and other graduating recitals will be given before that date. SHE Indiana College of Music and F'ine Arts presents the following students in an advanced recital AVednesday evening. June 2, in the college hall: Ocie Hig gins, Wilma Thompson, Dorothy Steeg, Mrs. C. F. Cox, Hortense Falender. Fanetta Hitz, Frances Bell, Christine Owen, Mrs. O. R. Tooley. Lucille McKay-, Mary Feagans and T. V. Broadstreet. These are pupils of Mr. Frier-

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YV. \V. Stearns and wife and ciiauffeur, Clarence Cantrill, and his “House on Wheels ”

"FYee as a bird!” That’s how W. W. Sterns, a retired business man of Hudson, N. H., and his wife feel while traveling around the country in tlieir “house on wheels.” They spent several days here at the tourist camp. Ten thousand miles Sterns and his wife and their chauffeur, Clarence Cantrill, have traveled since they left their home last September. In that month they left New Hampshire, going in the general direction of Florida, but detouring whenever fancy moved them. They

Broad Ripple Park Opens Its Doors Today

The new Broad Ripple Park will officially open the outdoor amusement season today. This season the park has many new attractions, probably the most important being the big wild animal zoo, which is the biggest of its kind in the State and the only one in Indianapolis. The zoo has fifteen different dens and cages, which contains about every species of wild animal known to zoos and circuses. The animals are housed in a special zoo that is situated in the northwest corner of the park. A force of keepers were sent along with the TO APPEAL CONVICTION Minardo, Found Guilty of Manslaughter, at .Liberty Under Bond. While Mike Minardo, 19, of 443 S. Alabama St., was convicted by a Criminal court jury Friday of involuntary manslaughter, he was at liberty today under bond, pending an appeal to the State Supreme Court. Manslaughter carries a penalty of two to twenty-one year’s imprisonment. Minardo was indicted as result of the death a year ago of Miss Bertha Wright, 21, Mars Hill, who was riding in a roadster with Minardo and another woman. While speeding toward Indianapolis on the Rockville Rd„ the machine overturned. HEAT OVERCOMES ONE KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29. One person was overcome by the heat here yesterday - when the mercury soared to new heights—9l— hottest day of the year thus far. Thunder* ahowers during the night brought sWie relief.

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Edward Resener With Constantin Bakaleinikoff on his way to the Pacific coast on a leave of absence. EUward Resener, associate conductor, becomes conductor of the Circle Theater Orchestra.

mood, Mr. Cramer, Miss Beauchamp, Miss Gorsuch and -Mr. Jefry. SHE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts offers dormitory facilities to out-of-town students for next season, having made arrangements with the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union” for accommodations in its building. The women's dormitory is at 1240 Broadway-, within walking distance of the college, and this plan fills a need which for some time has existed. Me— —YR. ARTHUR MASON, who comes to the Indiana College of Music Sept. 1 as educational director, paid a visit to the school Saturday and held confer ences relative to classwork for next seaon.

Clarence M. AVeesner, teacher in the Indiana College of Music will

crossed ten States on the trip. Now. they're on their way home, but they’re only going to say “Hello and goodby” and off they’ll start again. The next trip will be to California and other western States, and when snow flies in New Hampshire next winter the Sternses can send home some of those intriguing postals—you know the kind, “My, it’s warm today. Went in swimming, eta” The “house on wheels” is built on a Studebaker Big Six chassis. Curtained at night, it turns into two rooms, with two full-size beds In the

animals from the Horne wild animal arena of Kansas City, who furnished the park with the animals. Another new feature will be the big Ferris wheel, which is the largest of its kind this side of Chicago. Other new rides w-ill be in operation when the park opens. The big swimming pool, the largest concrete pool in the world, has been cleaned and painted and filled with water from the park’s own filtering plant. New diving boards have been erected. A Selnir water wheel has been installed and a rest station or platform has been erected in the middle of the pool. Life guards under the direction of Earl Deitrich will be in attendance at all times. They will also give free swimming instructions during the season. Asa special feature for Sunday (Decoration day) a triple parachute leap will be attempted by Daredevil Huggins. Huggins will use anew style balloon which has been adopted by signal corps. This will be the first time this type of balloon has been used by a parachute jumper in this State. A number of civic and other bodies have arranged with James H. Makin, general manager of the park, to attend the opening as guests of the park company. EMERGENCY CONTINUES King George Extends Order on Coal $ Strike. Bv United Prest LONDON, May 29.—King George has proclaimed that the state of emergency, Instituted during the general strike, will continue during the continuance of the coal strike. The King’s proclamation, as published in the official London Gazette, pointed out that the proclamation of April 30 was effective for one month.

appear in a special number between divertisements of the MMle Theo Hewes, pupils entertainment at Masonic Temple, June 4th, at 8:00 p. m. * • * T-JHE last afternoon students recital of the Indiana College of i__J Music will take place Saturday afternoon, June 5. when the following Btudents will take part: Frederick Tucker, Mary’ Elizabeth Hesseldenz, Beatrice Urwitz, Betty Stay, Dorothy Meub, Vivian Felver, Katherine Maurer. John Dennis, La \ r ance Chaplain, Martha Dunn, Carter Thorpe, Edna Flarle Bowland, Freeman Gibbs, Harold Phillips, Betty Jane Thorpe. Eleanor King, Doris Brady-, Kenneth Calm, Mary Katherine Nicodemus, and Alberta Keep. These are pupils of the following teachers: Miss Pauline Ross, Miss Irene Hoffman. Miss May Gorsuch. Miss Cleon Colvin, Miss Gladys Loucks, Miss Fiona E. Ly-ons. and Miss Eleanora Beauchamp. The public is invited to attend. First announcement of the plans of the Matinee Musical for next season were made today. E. Robert Schmitz, French pianist, will give one of the recitals. Rudolph Reuter, noted pianist will he heard with the trio, Reuter-Tamatini-Wollenstein Trio. Other artists will appear next season. A reception will be given by Miss Margaret E. Delameter and Miss J. Cecelia Weaver of the Irvington School of Music to the Progressive Series Piano Teachers Club at the north side branch Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. • • • M'l ISS MOLLY GOLDSTEIN will present students in a Piano Recital on Tuesday evening. June t, 1926. at the auditorium of the Indiapapolis Public Library, Pennsylvania at St. Clair Sts. at 8 o'clock, assisting Miss Goldstein will be Miss Minnie Kaplin. violinist; Miss Esther Supinsky, violinist, and dramatic art students of Miss Elizabeth I. Snider. Those taking part in the program will be Dora Berman, Bella Goldstein, Miriam Goldstein. Elizabeth Virginia Rowlands, Quetta Pryer, Sly via Rogin, Helen A’ideberk, Rose Ida Baker. Charlotte Underwood, Marion Black. Bertha Budnick and Gwenna Jenkins.

"master bedroom" and a comfortable sleeping cot up front. In daytime the beds are broad, comfortable seats and a complete dining room-kitchen with dish closet, pantry, sink, with hot and cold water, etc., are right at hand. The kitchen is attached to the rear, and the chauffeur does the cooking. “If it were cold, we Could move the kitchen, stove and all, into the house,” observed Mrs. Sterns.

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THE VERY IDEA! ■ By Hal Cochran DAILY BREAD

The great wheels of industry* spin on around, and give an impression that everything’s sound. The whistle that calls men will toot every morn, announcing anew day of hard toil is born. The maelstrom of menfolk who work to create, turn In, and turn out things the whole world calls great. AVe boast of achievement, of progress and power. AA'e marvel at new things created each hour. AA'e look to the side that the world moves along, and fights its way through things that, mayhap, go wrong. AVe take it for granted that progress can't stop. AVe say that through work, men can come out on top. But —come down to earth—what's the fight aft about? AA'hat interest has man in the things he turns out? In truth, if you face it, the av-erage man's led to toll on and toil on—for what? —daily bread! • • • • A corking good time is one thing—and an uncorking one is something else again. • • • "You’ll get a ring,” lie promised her. “If you will be my own.” And when she said, “I will,” he simp Ly called her on tlie phone. • • • This is the season when the man who is too dern lazy ta move, is saved the trouble of looking for a new home. • • • After all, doing things right is half as much trouble and twice as much fun. • • • It's pretty hard to keep your anger bottled up sometimes, when tl ere are so many people hanging around with corkscrews. • • • FABLES IN FACT A FELLA ONCE CALLED AT THE OFFICE OF THE INSANE ASYLUM AND ASKED IF ANY PATIENTS HAD ESCAPED PERIOD THE SUPERINTENDENT LOOKED OVER THE ROLL CALL AND TOLD THE FELLA NO PERWD THEN THE SUPERTNTEX t)• ENT GOT - CURIOUS COMMA AND ASKED WHY THE FELLA WANT ED TO KNOAV PFmiOD AND THE FELLA REPLIED COMMA QUOTATION MARK SOMEONE HAS RUN AWAY WITH MY WIFE PERIOD QUOTATION MARK (Copy-right, 1926. NEA Service. Inc.)

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You can eel an anawer to any question oi ia<t or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau i:i32 New YorU Are.. Waahtu* ton 11 C.. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical legal and marital Ativiue cannot be given nor can extFnn*l research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal rsply. Unsigned requests cannot be answersd* All letters are confidential.— Editor. There is a story in the Bible of a giant that had nix fill gem and six toes. Can you tell me when I can find it? In 11 Samuel 21:20. which reads: "And there was yet a battl# in Gath, where waa a man of great stature that had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number.” The story is repeated in I Chronicles 20:6. How can I clean an oil painting that lias become spotted and dirty? Wash the surface gently with clear warm water, using a soft cloth or new sponge; let it dry and then rub gently with a soft flannel cloth moistened with pure olive oil. The water softens the accumulated smoke, dust, and dirt and the oil as sists in w-iping it away. Another way is to wash with milk diluted with warm water and dry without rinsing. Or cut a potato in half and rub gently with the frosh surface, slicing off the soiled portions, until the whole is cleaned. Which State lias the larger number of registered motor vehicles. California or New York? California had a total of 1.400,641 motor cars and trucks registered for 1925; New York had 1,625,583. Are there any men on the pension rolls of the United States who are over 100 years of age? In the last report of the Comnils sloner of Pensions there are two men over 100 years of age who are receiving pension on account of services In the War of 1812. One of these men was horn Jan. 7, 1825, and the other Sept. 3, 1825. lias the United States Government any published Information on tin claimed estates in England? “Unclaimed Estates tn England” (a pamphlet) was published by the Government Printing Office, .Washington, D. C., in 1924. Tt la a United States Department of State bulletin. Has any State In the United States changed its capital in the last twenty years? Only Oklahoma. Guthrie was made the capital by the State, constitution, but it was changed to Oklahoma City In compliance with an election vote in 1910. What Is the correct weight for a girl who Is 5 feet 6 inches tall? That depends upon her age. but a girl between 15 and 24 years of age should w-elgh between 130 and 133 pounds. Fn maldng molasses from sugar what. Is used to keep molasses from turning hack to sugar? Use one tonspoon of glycerine to a pint of syrup. YVliere can I get detailed and Illustrated account of the Soaquiccntennial at Philadelphia? Write to publicity department. Sea qul-Cenfennlal International Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa. YVhat Is an Indian word for “bright spot.” Paku-wlyatpa. Who made the first watch? It Is believed that Peter Hele of Nuremberg did, early In the 16th century.

Screen Offerings Next Week ClßCLE—"Hanson's Folly,” with Richard Rnrthelmess. OHlO—Raymond Griffith, In “Wet Paint." COLONIAL "Wages for Wives." with Jacqueline Logan APOLLO “Torrent,” with Greta Garbo.

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