Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1926 — Page 6

PAGE 6

The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, PresidentBWYD GURLEY, Editor. t WM.. A- MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr, Member of the Scrlppe-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • client of the United Press ana the EA Service * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pnhllaherf dallv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland Kt., Indianapolis . u 2! Rateß: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week •• • PHONE—MA In 3300. 1

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

A REAL CANDIDATE Will the delegates to the Democratic convention, which meets tomorrow, furnish the Independent voters of this State and the majority of the Republican voters a candidate for whom they can cast a vote in opposition to Watson with decent regard for their own principles and ideals? Or will they be swayed by party politics and precedents and factionalism into a course of action that will disgust the thinking men and women and offer no contrast to Watsonlsm? They should know that their convention this vear crn be more than a mere gesture of protest. They should feel that they can. if they are wise and not stupid, name the next Senator from Indiana. They already have as a candidate for the shorter term in Evans Woollen a man who is so superior to his opponent in every way that there should be no question of his victory. An outstanding candidate against Watson would insure the election of two Senators. The rule of Watson and the forces which he represents and with he has made his bargains has taken the government of this State out of the hands of the people and put it in the hands of a small and selfish group. There is no longer real self-government in Indiana and in the Senate, it speaks only when selfish interests need support and aid. It is more than an open secret that at least onehalf, and probably more, of the Republican voters of this State are ready and eager to defeat Watson if they have a chance. The protest of 130,000 Republicans in the primary, voters who knew that they had no chance and who still protested,, is only suggestive of the spread of discontent. No voter who calls himself independent and who has no party preference would vote for him. He might refuse to vote at all. But he would not vote for Watson. If the democratic convention names a re?l candidate, it can win and will win. . If it puts up a candidate who must enter the race defensively or apologetically, the chance Is greatly reducedIn that situation, common sense might suggest ihat the delegates find not only a strong candidate, but the strongest one. In the primaries, the six contestants varied little In popular appeal. But there are two men in the State, members of the Democratic party, either of whom could have had an unopposed nomination. Had Frederick Van Nuys filed for thl6 race there would have been no other candidate. And certainly if Frank Dailey, who helped to rid the Nation of a Newberry, even hinted that he would accept, no one would have challenged his nomination. It might seem good sense and certainly good politics for the delegates to draft one of these men and insist on his redeeming Indiana from its low political estate. WILL WE HAVE REPEAL Are we to have two new political parties in this country as result of prohibition, one for, the other against. It begins to look that way and history would only be repeated, if this were to happen. "Prohibition,” said N. C. Cochran, a keen observer, "split the Democratic wide open in 1924. It is now permitting a similar operation on the Republican party.” If that is true, and it is, you will see if you read Cochran’s analysis of the situation elsewhere in this paper, then what is going to become of the pieces?. Are we going to have four little parties as the result of the division in the two big ones? That would hardly be logical. The prohibitionists of both parties would more likely join hands under a common, bone dry banner while the antis would Just as naturally make common cause under another. Slavery was the great issue eighty years ago. As time went by It got bigger and bigger, Just as prohibition is rapidly doing now. Thus, around 1862 the political parties ot those days were turned inside out by that one question and when the smoke cleared away, two virtually new parties held the field —one for slavery, the other against. The great Whig party had been petered out, those going to slavery going to one party, those against' it going to the other. Unless otherwise disposed of prohibition may do much the same thing to one or both of the big political parties of the present day. WHY PICK ON A DEAD COW? For fifty-years Mrs- O’Leary’s famous cow has been the most celebrated bovine In this country's history. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, you will recall, was credited with having started the great Chicago fire in 1871 by the simple expedient of kicking over her mistress’ coal-oil lamp. But recently there have been attacks on the authenticity of the story; implications that It is just another myth, a pleasant sounding fancy, an oldwives’ tale. Writes one man to say that Mrs. O’Leary's cow started a fire on a Saturday night, which was put out, the great fire starting late Sunday night in a section far removed from bossy’s shed. Writes another to say that the whole yarn is constructed from apple Sauce. Luckily Mrs. O’Leary’s notorious animal is dead, for surely if she were alive she would be unable to withstand these attacks on her integrity. One can picture the look of mild reproach in her soft brown eyes as a demon literalist approaches with documentary evidence and, with accusing finger pointed at Ifter. declares, "You are a-fraud.” ; Under the circumstances, you would hardly expect the gentle creature to produce any milk at all. She would pine and languish beneath all this doubt--13 scorn and die of self-pity. For fifty-five years Mrs. O’Learys Jersey, or oisiein- or perhaps she was a Guernsey—Occupied I ; r own little niche in the history of our great midtlie west. Why not leave her there in peace? As iar as we know, she was a pretty fair cow and surely undeserving of all these assaults on her good name. We are growing too literal-minded; the foundation shakes beneath the story of the cherry tree and

George Washington’s hatchet, and they do say that Paul Revere was immortalized by a poem rather than an actual deed. Why bother to disprove them? It costs us nothing to entertain an illusion or two, and few of us will thank the fact-loving historians who seek to explode them. THE GIRL She doesn’t occupy a very important position, that girl at the switchboard in the outer offjce. She’s never in on the firm’s councils, never has much to say about policy or business. But she can make her employers a lot pf friends —or enemies. Dozens of people make their first contact with any business concern by telephone. If the telephone girl is courteous and cheerful they get a good Impression of the whole organization. If she Isn’t —as, alas, is too often the case—the firm generally has another enemy. Not a very big job she has, maybe. But It pays to pick with care, at that. JANE ADD AMS’-ADVICE Miss Jane Addams, addressing a social workers’ conference, pleads with people not to label all settlement work as “red.” This label, indiscriminately applied, harms the cause of social progress, she says. She’s right, as she often is- Too often we unthinkingly conclude that any person who tries to improve condition of those less fortunate than ourselves must be a wild and desperate radical. TEN CENTS A DAY Ten cents a day does not seem like a large sum of money. * Its size, of course, depends upon the resources of those who make the estimate. To many a man it is less than the price of a cigar. To 90 per cent of ttfe men and women of this country who work, It is the price of a bus ride, less than the oost of- any personal indulgence which might be listed as a habit. But to the group of men and women who have heard the call for help that comes from across the seas, that trifling sum is the price of a human life. Perhaps it is fortunatejhat ws have no power of imagination that permits us to visualize human suffering when it reaches proportions that stagger because of its vastness. It may be well for us that we can not understand what it means when the breasts of women wither from hunger, when men grow savage and desperate for lack of food and when children, countless children, grow thin and fade away to death for want of crusts. , In this great country we can understand that one child might he hungry. We might imagine poVbrty and want and deprivation, but the first walling cry of a child would 4bring a multitude to its aid, a fortune if necessary to protect and save its life. There are women and children upon the earth who are starving and in want, several millions of them, and their dire need is being painted this week by the drive of the committee for Jewish relief. It Is more than a call of blood, more than a racial sympathy. It is the call of suffering humanity in lands of want to sympathy in a land of plenty. Ten cents a day saves a human life. Is the slogan of these workers for funds. There is a different measurement for your dime. Would you sacrifice a cigar to stop the sobbing cry of misery upon the lips of a child? Sixty miles an hour is plenty fast. Except when you are in a hurry t oreach some place. Then thirty is about right. ’ Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wear & pair of new shoes a few days before putting them on?

ORATORICAL LAYA ■ ■ By Charles P. Stewart

“And *tia remarkable that they Talk most who have the least to say.” ■—Prior. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Congress, In the last few days. has been in a state of oratorical eruption such as Washington hasn't witnessed in a long time. I say "witnessed” advisedly. Nobody stays and listens to It. It’s all because election Is coming. The lawmakers have be4n wanting to get home for quite a while, to find out what shape their fences are in, and fix them, If necessary. TJJie managers, howevey, weren't able to get through with their season’s program as early a* they had hoped, which has kept the session stringing along. • Tied by the leg here in the capital, the worried legislators have been forced to the expedient of making their political speeches In the Senate and House of Representatives, "extending” ’em in the Congressional Record “ad Infinitum” —and "ad nauseam” In some instances—and mailing ’em, by the bale, to their districts. “Plenty of eloquence but little Wisdom!” as C. Sallust Crlspus once remarked about a speech he’d been listening to in the Roman senate in 46 B. C., or thereabout. The Senators and representatives who really have anything important to say have been too busy recently, with the wind-up work of the session, to say It. They’ve said nothing and sawed wood. Most of the talking has been done by the? ones whose first consideration Is * to gefi themselves re-elected. \ 1 know of one Congressman who made a ringing speech about nothing in particular and sent 80,000 copies of it, which Is an awful stack, to his constituents. For all the effect they have on Congress I don’t believe one speech in 100 does any good anyway. They never seem to change any votes. Some Congressmen swear by the system. Some give it the laugh If J they themselves can’t agree, how Is a nonpolitjcian to know? Personally, Iflon’t Imagine many people would care to wade through a dozen or twenty pages of uninteresting fine print when it’s so much easier to find put what a Congressman thinks by duly noting how he votes, but you can’t tell. Two tastes are never just alike. Two-thirds of the Senators, hut none of the representatives, are unruffled by all the hustle and bustle of these concluding congressional days. Their terms doh’t expire this time. There's a striking contrast between the atmosphere of the office of a national lawmaker who's *Jußt going into & hot campaign and the office of one who still has from two to four years more to serve The former Is an atmosphere of strife and tension, th* latter one of placid calm.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy A Courageous Gesture Florida’s Curse Political Possibilities Freedom of the Camera

By M. E. TJracy Pilsudskl refused to be president of Poland himself, but Insisted on naming the president. Cyinlcs say It was a grand ges ture to the people, and perhaps it was, but” who wouldn't make such a gesture If po had the courage? Who wouldn’t rather be the power behind the throne than alt on It. Assuming that Pilsudskl Is a patriot, ho can do his country more good by keeping out of the spotlight. Many a great man has lost such an opportunity by permitting himself to be bound and gagged with the artlclflal trappings of office. The greatness of Pilsudskl remains to he proven, of course, and especially in the fields of statecraft, but he Is certainly starting out like a man who understands Poland and Its problem*. -I- -I- + Two very estimable an 4 wealthy women started out to create a social sanctum sanctorum in Florida. It was their dream to gather nabobs from all the world—British nobles, American millionaires and ex-kings and there develop such an atmosphere of exclusiveness as would eclipse the courts of old. They entered the scheme of real estate developing In Florida, however, a year or so too late and all jthe beautiful advertising! has shriveled to the technicality of a petition in bankruptcy. These women only represent in an exaggerated form what has been Inflicted on Florida by thousands of others —an appeal to snobbery of the cheapest sort and a neglect of the great' advantages which Florida really possesses. ( No State, or community was ever made strong and healthy by mere pleasure seekers. Florida has wonderful soil and a wonderful climate. What she needs and what she has not b<jen getting In nine-tenths ot tho cases Is people to make tho most of thenis •I- -I* + What Senator Borah told the Presbyterians at Baltimore last Sunday night has a significance quite outside its bearing on the liquor question. Whether consciously or not, the man has made himself political leader of the dry forces within the Republican party. This may mean that he Is a possible presidential nominee for 1928, especially if Coolldge falls to run. Should the Republicans nominate him and should the Democrats' nominate Governor Smith of New York, what would the dry Democratic South do? Also what would the wet Republican East do? •I* -I' + After four months of careful preparation, the Navy Department thinks 1t is ready to lift the S-55 from the bottom of Ix>ng • Island Sound, where she has lain since the 25th of last September, a tomb of twenty-four brave lads. You remember how the whole nation waited for day after day while tho Navy Department and private concerns tried desperately to grapple the submarine, how everybody hoped, even whfn it had become foolish to hope, that by some hook or crook the men might be found alive. You remember how they finally entered the hull and took nine bodies out, which ended all the suspense. Or, do you remember, since there has been so much to read and think about In the meantime? The Government remembered anywAy and it Is there once more With Its dlvens. derricks ancLpontoons. The last of this week, or the first of next, should see the final test and show whether this scientific age Is able to raise submarines as well as It can sink them. -I- -i- + A Baltimore Judge has Just sentenced three editors to Jail for contempt of court. * ♦ They published photograph* In connection with the Richard Reese Whlttemore trial, after he had warned them not to. I have no comment to make on this particular ease, but ! why the anti-photograph copiplex that seems to afflict all our courts? Why aren't pictures as good a part of the records as words? We use pictures in connection with most everything else, spend jots of time to get them and would feel lost without them. Pictures tell a. lot that Is well nigh Impossible to put In print. A history or a travelogue without pictures Is bound to ,be duller and harder to understand one with them. Leaving newsfwtpers out of It, I would Suppose that the courts themselves would want pictures as part of the record In Important cases. Certainly they could do nothing that would leave posterity a clearer idea of just how we worked In this day and generation. , SUFFERS MANGLED HAND 4 Morris Love, 944 Miley Ave., suffered a badly mangled right hand today, when the member became entangled In the mechanism of a machine he was operating at the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 W. St, Love was taken to the Indiana Christian HospitalStill another little pip, goes upon a fishing, trip, with her dad, who likes his sip. Kind, you know/, that's on the hljfc ' Four miles out, so he should fret. Drops it in, so cold 'twill get. Hasn't spilled a drop as yet. That’s what mafyes the sea upset. • • • Good hard work is the main thing that keeps a man from not succeeding. *. * * Most people can keep a promise Just about as easy as they can a secret—which Is why it's *0 foolish tb make promises. ~* • * The number of reasons why a father and mother get little rest on a. vacation trip depends upon how many children they have.

Annual Dance Recital to Be Given By Mile. Theo Hewes Next Friday Night

The twelfth annual dance recital i to be given by Mile. Theo. Hewes and her students will be given Friday night at the Masonic Temple. This annual event will present again many ot the younger dancers of this city. As usual the lights and the costume* will be prominent features of the program. The program will be a* follows! "Minuette Antique.” “Baby Dancers Calender of Data*. “Schooldays Again. ’ “Baby's Toy Shop.'' “Tho Ogre and the Elves’ 4 —lntermission—“Ballot Batik.” “Steps and Taps.” “Spring—South Wind and tho Sun Summer—Autumn.” “The Thunder God.” “Acrobatic Rythm,'' “Animated Shoe Shop” “Ye Old-Time Square Dance*.' 4 —lntermission—“Egyptian Scene de Ballet." “Toe Quartet.” . “Madam s Dressing Table." “Siamese—Cambodian Festival Dance. “Topsy and Eva.” “Tho Charleston Drummer. The feature of the performance will be the Ballet Batik. The scenery und costumes are all batik dyed in gorgeous oolors. Six life mask* will be worn by the principal dancers. A* usual. the baby dancers will have a large share of' the program. Tickets are on sale at the Studio, College of Music And Ffine Art* Bldg. OORINNTS HAS HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER For years one of America’* most popular musical comedy star*. CorInne, famous comedienne, who is appearing at the Lyric this week heading "Stars Os Other Days,” still retains the charm and personal magnetism that endeared her to theatergoers of bygone day*. Corlnne Is distinctly a product of the stage. Born under, the painted branches of the stage palm*, reared under waving canvas skies, and fed upon flattery and applause since babyhood, no aurfelt of riche* could take her away from the atmosphere of the theater. Corlnne, In* her baby day* had such a powerful voice her mother was Induced to have her sing at a national baby show held In Horticultural Hall, Boston. Mas*. She was then three and a half years og age. At the close of the show she was awarded a diploma as a musical podlgy and presented with a diamond locket and chain. Her next public appearance was with Brown's Military Band at a concert at the Gaiety Theater In Boston. She was then but five years of age and she sang, standing on top of a piano, accompanied by the band. She made such a hit that on May 3, 1879, her parents signed a contract with Murphy & MacDonough for Corlnne to star In a miniature opera company. With this organization she sang the role of Little Buttercup In "Pinafore” 850 times. After a tour through the New England State* and Canada, Corlnne was engaged by Dr. D. C. Hess to play the title role In tho opera "Cinderella.” While at the National Theater In Washington. D. C., she was signally honored by President Garfield, who with his family occupied a box during one of the performance*, and showered the choicest flowers from the White House conservatory upon the stage. Before the Washington engagement was over Corlnne and her mother, at the special invitation of Mrs. Garfield, visited the White House, whAre they were received most cordially In the famous Blue'Room. For eighteen years Corlnne was starred under her mother’s management! As she grew older and matured she became a Nation-wide favorite. and finally, as the result of a voting contest conducted b* the New York Journal And extending over a period of six months, was awarded the title "Queen of the Stage,” winning over such prominent stars of tho day as Lillian Russell, Julia Marlow, Mary Anderson, Annie Plxley and Margaret Mather. • * * Indianapolis theaters today offer: "The Goose Hangs High,” at Keith’s; "The Haunted House,” at English's; "The Corner Store," at the Palace: "Corlnne," at the Lyric; "Torrent,” at the Apollo; "Wet Paint." at the Ohio; "Ransom’s Folly,” at the Circle; "Skinner’s Dress Suit,” at the Uptown; "Wages for Wives,” at the Colonial, and "My Own Pal.” at the Isis.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran

ALL AT SEA Sister has a bathing suit. My, oh my, but it’s a beaut. Klnda short, and tight, but, shoot, even so it looks real cute. Father saw it Camly smiled. Feelin' proud ’cause she’s his child. She goes swimmin', thusly styled. That’s what makes the wild waves wild. * • • • 'Nother sweetie, lookin’ grand, rather loaf upon the sand. Doesn’t bathe, but. understand, she prefers to get real tanned. Nothin’ else she’d rather do. Sits and suns an hour or two. Goes away when she is through. That’s what makes the ocean blue. *• • . He walked up to his sweetie’s dad— The question that he put, yVas, “Can I have your daughter’s hand?” 'lnstead he got a foot. • • • There’s one satisfaction in getting ready to receive week-end visitors. By the time you've cleaned house, etc., you're too dern tired to spend nlueh money entertaining them. /• • Takes two to make a bargain. Mother falls for It and dad pays the bill. ' , ** * FABLES IN FACT A FELLA SLIPPED AND FELL ON THE SIDEWALK. PERIOD IF YOU’D BEEN THERE YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THE ! CRASH.' OF GLASS PERIOD HE WASN’T CUT COMMA* HOWEVER COMMA AND ORDINARILY WE MIGHT SAY THAT THERE WAS ! NO USE CRYING OVER SPILT MILK DASH DASH ONLY COMMA ' IN THIS CASE COMMA IT : WASN’T MILK PERIOD i Copyright, ISSS. USA Ssrato* 1

Dancer to Give Annual Recital

V \. if A ?r Njj

On next Friday night at the Masonic Temple, Mile. Theo. Hewes

MR: FIXIT

Poultry Houses Complained of— Garbage Clean-up Promised, Let Mr. Fixlt present your ewe to city officials. He Is The Tiraca reprenentetiv* at the City Hall. Write him at Tho Times. _____ Downtown poultry houses need -cleaning, according to a notice Mr. Flxit received today, from a reader.. He h*s obtained the promise of health authorities for an immediate Investigation. DEAft MR. FIXIT: Will you pleaso see that the gar .age and trash are taken away from Virginia Ave., west on Wyoming it.? It has not been taken for three weeks. We have a restaurant at 865 Virginia Ave., and* we have more garbage than we can take care of when they won’t it. MRB. E. V. STOUT. Truly Nolen, garbage and ashes collection superintendent, will insure that your garbage Is collected regularly. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Hew may I take steps to get a stop and go signal placed at my corner, one of the most dangerous In the city? CITIZEN. Petition the board of safety.

AO i 1 v Meiclier Ameridaii Flmwiir America* Nationalßai(4 Ijn>,A * APOl “ * Sc%>!ke * a Pennsylvania and Mark* Strum

Mile. Theo Howes

und her students wtll give their twelfth annual dance recital program.

However, It will be futile this year, because there Is no provision in the budget for additional signals. Hie It this year for action In 1927.

BANKERS TO HOLD STATE SHOOT HERE Indiana Bankefh Association has set out to discover the “crack shot” among vigilantes over the State. Under auspices of the protective committee, of which A. G. Brown. Greencastle, Is chairman, a State shoot will beheld June 23 at Ft. Benjamin Harrison range. Brig. Gen’: Dwight E. Aultman, commandant, offered the range to the bankers. Representatives from ninety-two counties are urged to participate. Purpose of the 6hoot Is to encourage better marksmanship among the vigilantes. Elimination matches will be held In districts. Monetary loss from bank robberies has been comparatively negligible, and number of attacks has been materially reduced in the past year since the protective , program was launched, according to Frank 11. Dunn, protective committee member. Col. George Freeman Jr., and Captain Thornton Chase of Eleventh Infantry* are cooperating In arranglng for the match.

see k °PP or tunity to serv* (r 0 new investors that we may advise them not only on immediate purchases but also plan the building of independent incomes ment in sound securities.

JUNE 2, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an gnawer to any question. of lart or information by wriun* to Tha Indlunapolla Times Washington Bureau. 1322 Now York Ave.. Washing ton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents tn stamp* 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 request* cannot be answered All letter* are confidential.—Editor. What are some appropriate sifts for a young man to give <0 a girl? Appropriate gifts would be hand kerchiefs, stationery', books, scarfs flowers, desk set. fountain pen, per fumery. Flower* are always wel come and in good taste. When and for what reason was the subtreasury system started in the United Staler,? After Congress refused to charter the second Bank of the United States, Federal public funds were deposited in State banks, but that system had great disadvantage* owing to the fact Jhat some of these banks were unsafe. Tn 1837 a bill providing for a tiYosury system under the control of the Government and Independent of banks wna de seated In Congress, owing to the op position of conservative Democrats and Whigs. Three years later Con grass passed an act providing for four recelvers-generaJ at New York. Boston, Charleston, and St. Louts and to make the mint at Phlla delhpia and Its branch at New Or leans places of deposit. In 1841, however, the subtreaeury bill 1 was repealed and for five years there after the Government funds were managed at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, most of them being deposited in State banks When the Democrats returned to power they enacted anew law In August 1846, creating an lndepend ent treasury with several subtrees urios located Ip the principal cities. How many fraternal insurance orders are there? The Statistical Abstract gjves 227. I have a copy of the lister County Gazette giving an account of the fu neral of George Washington. Is it of any value? Practically no original copies of that paper are extant. Some years after the event a reprint of that 1* sue was made and widely distributed It Is of little value. Only an expert can tell the original from the re print, by the texture of the paper on which It Is printed. Hot/ many Negroes are there in tho United States Navy? On June 30, 1925, there were 925. Wliat L* tho capital of Russia? Moscow, succeeded Leningrad (formerly Petrograd and St. Petersburg). How are baseball batting averages of individual players determined? By dividing the total "times at bat” Into the total number of base hits. How many persons who fought In the Indian wars are now receiving pensions from tho Government? The last report of the Commia sloner of Pensions (1925) gives 3,924 veterans and 8,-034 widows of vet erans of Indian wars on the United States pension rolls. Is I.a tin sfi!l called a language? Yes. It is. however, one of the dead languages because it is no longer the spoken dialect of any race or nation. It forms the Iwhls. how ever, of many of the modorn languages. 1. - # How are brass sighs etched? Paint the sign with asphalt varnish, leaving tho parts to be etched unpainted; raise a border around th“ outside, made of soft beeswax or asphalt, to hold the add. Use nitrl-’ acid diluted with five times (he quantity of water. Pour the diluted acid on the sign about one-half inch deep.. When the letters are cut deep enough, which must be found by trial, tho acid may be pouted off and the plats cleaned by heat lng and wiping, and finally with turpentine.

■@r