Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1926 — Page 6

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KILLING THE PRIMARY It is rather unfortunate that a party -which is dedicated to government by the people should take so reactionary a stand as to pledge itself to destroy the primary as a means of nominating candidates. It is true that the primary has its faults and its difficulties. It is true that it has often produced candidates for office who were highly objectionable. It is true that the cost of running for a State office is such as to cause many men of merit to pause before dedicating themselves to public service. But it is also true that, bad as It is, it i§ much better than the convention system which robs the voter of any voice whatever in the naming of candidates. The best argument for the primary is the atmosphere and the conduct of the two State conventions which have just been held. They were alike In their essentials. The conduct of the delegates did not differ. Those conventions brought to this* city a thousand men and women for each gathering and of that thousand, not more than a dozen in either group had a voice or an expressed opinion. These conventions were comparatively unimportant in that they dealt with minor State offices and control of the party machinery. The direct primary was adopted not only in this but in other States when professional politicians had so obtained control of political parties that the voter had no voice in the selection of his officials. Selfish interests can much more easily control conventions than they can all the voters. The primary is a loaded gun, not often used it is true, but always there as a defense against outrage and violence to the public conscience. The Republican party did net quite have the nerve to go the lengths to which the Democratic* party pledged itself, hut it will ofTer no protest if the Democratic party, taking leadership, starts an effort to abolish the primary system. , To kill the primary means that the government of this State will be delivered without hope of defense, to a bipartisan group of politicians who will manipulate the conventions In every city and county and in the State. The faults of the primary should have been corrected and an effort made to make the will of the people easier, not harder, of expression. A pledge to make independent voting possible and easier instead of impossible would have been more in keeping with the spirit of the party of Jefferson. In an hour when that fine slogan “back to the Constitution” was being raised, it is unfortunate that it is proposed to take away from *he people the one weapon of defense against professional control of parties.

MARRIAGE A LA ADVICE Berlin is about to launch an interesting experiment in the form of a municipal marriage advice bureau. : Both the married and the about-to-be-married who feel the need of a guiding hand call at the bureau for advice. In the main, it will serve the eugenists, as its prime purpose is to deter the physically and mentally unfit from the holy state. Avery fine idea! if anyone goes to the bureau. We have ever observed that when a swain and damozel desire to marry, they will, regardless of all the reasons why they should not for the, betterment of the race. . Although the results and effects of marriage are social in the larger sense its inception ever seems to remain a purely personal none-of-your-business affair. WHERE MEN GROW YOUNG Have you ever heard of Cardiff Hill? It rears above Hannibal, Ho-, overlooking the Mississippi River, and on it they bave just unveiled a bronze, life-size statue of two bad boys and presented it to the youth of the United States. You probably know those boys. They never lived in the sense that they ‘‘felt dawn and saw sunset glow.” They dwelt in the pages of books, but they live yet in our hearts, are, to those of us who have spent happy hours laughing at them — and perhaps crying a little over .them —the eternal symbols of American boyhood. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn! What finer memorial could be erected to Mark Twain than this statue of his imperishable in the very town where the famous humorist-author spent his own boyhood days? , On Cardiff Hill, meeting place of Tom Sawyer and his gang; where Tom fought and played and dreamed of finding buried treasure; where the moon one night looked down on a murderous knife-thrust by "Injun Joe” and two small boys hurried away from the graveyard as fast as frightened legs would carry them. • * Mark Twain never forgot that hill.'ln "Tom Sawyer,” he says, “The focust trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossom filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with, vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful and inviting." In his autobiography, written long years after "Tom Sawyer,” he says, "I can remember the drowgy aud inviting summer sounds that used to float in through the open window from the distant Boy Paradise, Cardiff Hill.” Mark Twain himself once ran through the village streets of Hannibal, played on the little islands in the Mississippi that to Tom and Huck were pirate lairs, and romped in barefoot abandon, amid "drowsy summer sounds,” on Cardiff HilL For Twain, we know now, was writing about hlmsqjf when he wrote about Tom Sawyer. Tom’s sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, was present at the unveiling of the statue. In real life she is Mrs. Laura Frazier, Delectable Land; Roy Patadise. That, says Twain, was Cardiff Hill. But think of the delectable land and the boy paradise that he opened to millions when he wrote "Tom Sawyer” and “Huck Finn” and immortalized the finest thing on earth, the bad boy. For Tom and Huck, you know, were bad. Not malicioijs. Just plumb michievous and wholesomely real. Huck smoked a corncob and Tom fsassed” his Aunt Polly and fought with the -Tillage boys. Tom played hookey and Huck wouldrft go to school at

all. But In their hearts they were plean and fine, and we love them. - Can it be that- you are one of those who have never read Tom and Huck? Never got lost with Tom and Becky In the cave? Never floated down the Mississippi with Huck on a raft? Never laughed at lovable old, Aunt Polly as she tried to discipline the irrepressible Tom? Never listened to Huck’s philosophy? * If you have never done these things you are indeed unfortunate. But it is not too late. By all means, run to the library and borrow Huck and Tom. Better still, puy the books and read them over and over. Read them and never grow old. Read them and go back to the hoy paradise, back to the fragrance of locust blossoms on Cardiff Hill, close to the "Father of Waters.” \ ——_ SOLOMON WAS A PIKER Five men have decided that one hundred twentyfive million people should be satisfied 'frith prohibition as It now stands. '“We believe the Eighteenth Amendment to be morally right and economically right,” declare these five wise men, members of the committee of the Senate appointed to consider the proposal, for modification of the prohibition law. “A national referendum,” opine the wise men, “is not provided for and it is our belief It was not the intention of the framers ofJthe Constitution that a national referendum should ever he attempted.” Could Solomon himself have been more wise than these sagacious Senators? BRITAIN ALSO ASININE Charles Edward Russell, Socialist candidate for Governor of New York In 1910-12, and writer, yesterday was refused permission to land in England, a United Press cable announced last night. Why they would not allow him to land, nobody seems to know. The British officials, the dispatch said, “declined, to comment.” This gives us the best little chance to cackle we’ve had since, we don’t know -when. Because Russell waß barred? To the contrary. But because our country has done so many things in that line lately that help being glad that Britain can be chuckle-headed sometimes, too. t Charles Elward Russell barred out of England! Charles Edward wouldn't harm a fly. He is one of the gentlest men, and while he may have his own ideas about things, as every one should have, not one of them would hurt the smallest or meanest of God’s creatures. * Maybe Britain is paying us back for barring the Countess Cathcart or their communist member of Parliament, Saklatvala, or something. Fiimny, isn't it, what absolutely asinine things can happen. - ■> ' FAME! Who should be credited with the first train robbery? This question comes up in a recent tome about the picturesque Jesse James, who has always been “credited” with Staging the first train robbery on July 21, 18V3. j The book explains that James was credited withmany exploits really performed by other members of his gang but which were hung on him because the alliterative quality of his name made it easy to remember. One wonders if Jesse James would thank his champions who seek to prove that some of his stirring feats were performed by others. . There is a certain type of humanity which basks in the noteriety- of crime, just as there are types that dote on the publicity given them for less anti-social achievements. - • Garbage men worked harder before salads were invented. Being in debt isn’t even an interesting experience. % W About -all most of us get out of our gardens Is a few blisters on our hands to brag about. I If you want grass to grow on your lawn try planting a garden there. The world could be worse. Suppose you had to lather the lawn before you cut the grass? One fine thing about summer is you don’t try to spit out the auto window when it is closed. \ ...... A good sport is a fellow who figures fun Is worth the trouble. .

THAT BATHTUB PARTY By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ———

There has been a lot of stir about Earl Carroll’s bathtub party. Most people condemn it and never stop to think that it had its good points. Mr. Carroll, as theatrical manager, is acquiring some excellent publicity which will probably make his show one of the high-priced places of e-musemant in New Ydrk. The yound lady who sported, Venus like, in the wine, is duplicating the kct upon a Manhattan vaudeville stage and getting a handsome salary. She might have had to go Into a factory except for this. Mr. Cobb has had an opportunity to reiterate the excellent opinion he holds of his literary ability and gets his picture in the papers. The lawyers q.re getting some handsome fees. The drys and weta both have more, good material for their campaigns, and we, the proletariat, are given another chance to thrill over the wickedness of the rich in the great city. Newspapers always get excited over suph pranks. \ They know their readers always prefer to know the intimate details of such an occasion than to pore over *he President’s last speech. We simply love to study naughty goings-on like this! It gives us such a fine chance to compare our many excellences with the wickedness of other people. Earl Carroll’s party might have been worse, too. Suppose, for instance, that Irve Cobb, after several cocktails, had decided to occupy the bath tub himself, liow many pints of excellent liquor might have been spilled over oh the floor and utterly wasted! O.r what if Mr. Carroll had not been able to get champagne and had been obliged to use some of the mld-Western corn liquor that we inlanders are compelled to utilize whenever we feel the urge to Imbibe. In that case the young lady of the bath tub would have been not only stewed, but boiled. Or suppose that the facts about this party had never gotten Into the papers at all. We would have missed lots of fun. /

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Here Are Four ‘Haunted House’ Victims at English’s

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Amonjr the victims of many exciting events la “The Haunted House** are four members of the

Tracy A Democratic Opening The Man's the Thing Al Smith's Handicap Two Governors

By M. E. Tracy While Congress la stalling over the French debt, farm relief, migratory birds. Muscle Shoals, and some other things and while the White House spokesman Is trying to convince himself , that there Isn't a surplus In the treasury or If there is, there ought not to be, let’s talk politics. -!• -I- -IObviously the Democrats have their chance, a much brighter chance than any one would have supposed two years ago. I jack of leadership In the Coolldge Administration or more accurately perhaps, Its subordination to big business and brilliant influence has created an unfavorable impression throughout the country. The Republican party Is torn with dissension and discord. Administration support Is almost equivalent to defeat for primary candidates. Things have grown so bad that President Coolldge has been warned not to come out for Butler In Massachusetts. If Cummins beats Brookhart In lowa, the Administration can consider itself lucky and If he does, the election of * another Democratic Senator from that State next fall le more than possible. -!■ •!• -IBut If the Democrats have such an unexpectedly fine chance, what are they going to do with It? Are they going to be content with an acldental and temporary triumph, or will* they make use of It to reconstruct the party and give the nation what ?t has lacked so long. What happens this year will tell much of the story. What happens this year will largely determine the program for 1928 and more Important still, the presidential nominee. The program Is essential, of course, but the noiplnee counts for more. It Is not platforms that we really vote for, hut men to make them and carry them out. If the Democratic psrty doesn’t pick a good candidate for 1928 It can frame the beet platform In the world and still not get anywhere. If It does pick a good candidate, It can run him on most any kind of a platform that Is safe and sane. So we come to,names —A1 Smith of New York; Ritchie of Maryland: Donahey of Ohio; Jimmy Cox, McAdoo, etc. •!* •!* * Os all these Governor Smith Is the most outstanding figure. If the convention were held tomorrow, he would go Into it with the largest flock of delegates. He has made a fine chief executive for the largest state in the Union, Is popular In the East and Is liked most everywhere for his fearless progresslvenens. He has come up from the’ ranks, & splendid typo of self-made man. I am a great, admirer of his pluck, ability and, above all else, good common sense. But in my opinion he Is not the right man for the Democrats to nominate If they expect to win. Too much New Tork; too much Tam-

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many; too much Wall Street; too much of a wet complex; too much to forget of what occurred In the 1924 convention, none of which represents a great dlfflculty by itself, but which forn.a a handicap that would lie hard to overcome. •I- -|- -IThe South would fall in line, of course, because the South can be depended on to fall in line for anything that bears the Democratic label, but the West wouldn’t, and it la in the West that the battle would be lost or won. The center of population Is now In Indiana, which means that the center of Impulse and movement is there also. This Nation Is no longer dominated by the Atlantlo seaboard aa It once wks, but by the prairie States, the grain belt and the automobile business. That Is something which politlclans cannot afford to disregard. -I- -I- -IA New Yorker Is not barred from the presidency or even a Vermonter, as Coolldge proves, but the West will be served and any kind of a type and origin that does not appeal to It Is barred. Governor Smith Is of the city, not the soil, the greatest city, the city of Wall Street and Tammany Hall. Besides that, he was leader of one of the factions which plunged the Democratic party into the worst tow it has had since the Civil War, and If he Is handicapped by that memory, so Is his opponent, William G. McAdoo. It Is unfortunate that two such able leaders should have done so much to make themselves unavailable through an excess of bias, but It. Is a fact that the Democratic party would only be making khotier mistake if they refused to recognize It as such. -I- -I- -ITo mention only two possibilities. Ritchie has made a good Governor of Maryland and Donahey Is as good a Governor of Ohio as Smith of New York. ‘ , The Democratic party does not lack timber, but people are always saying It does lack the capacity to pick and prune Its timber.

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor of The Times: Jim Watspn k apology for Coolldge on account <ft hls stand on the World Court places Jim alongside the shorttailed shrew mouse that In a confiding manner besought hls fellow shrews not to he unduly Impressed with the majestic stride and stature of the elephant that had Just passed; assuring them that these were inherited traits, and, but for these would be as small and Insignificant as they. If Watson should be selected this fall, as he should not be, it will demonstrate that a surprising number of Hoosler Republicans are suffering political strablsmns.' They will not be viewing things In their true proportions and prospective. There is a widespread impression abroad In the State that Jim was for the court himself till he received the five or more letter# from organized propagandists. Here’s believing the returns in • November will ehpw he Jumped from the frying pan Into the fire. E. P. M’CASLIN, 5901 Dewey Ave. -LIES; TERM DOUBLED • NEW YORK, June 4.—Because Joseph Bravata lied In telling Judge Taylor that a robbery for which %e had Just been sentenced to 29 years Imprisonment was hls first offepse, the Judge doubled the penalty.

Dlclc Elliott and J. V. Marlow. They are regular members of the Berkell Players. Dobbins and St.

Otto Stark Memorial Exhibition Opens at Herron Art Institute Here Sunday

The Otto Memorial exhibition opens Sunday, June 6, in galleries ten and eleven at the John Herron Art Institute in this city. ! The exhibition will, continue through June and there will be approximately sixty canvases and thlrly water colors and sketches. The exhibition will be opened Sunday with a special program of I music at 4 o’clock. | Otto Starek was and life-long reelj dent of Indianapolis and alncerely In- ' terested In ltp progress in artistic ways. Asa young boy he became Interested In lithography and later In the practical study of painting and illustration. Ills studies tpok him to the Art Students League of New York and later to L’Academle Jullen in Pai ls and in schools In Dusaeldorf and Munich. He exhibited twice at the Parle Salon; at the International Exhibition of Art and Hlatory In Rome, 1912; at the Panama Pacific Exhibition, where he had charge of the Inj dlana Exhibition; at the Argentine Exposition; and in St. Louis. Coming nearer home, he exhibited | annually for years in his own studios or at The H. Lleber Company: the Annual Exhibitions of . Work by Indiana Artists held In the Art Institute; In the Circuit Exhibitions of Indiana paintings, et the Indiana State Fair; and more recently at the Hoosler Salon In Chicago. Prizes which his work secured included the Foulke Prize In Richmond, Ind., In 1908; the J. Irving Holcomb Prize at the Art Institute In 1916; and prizes at both the 1925 and 1926 Hoosler Salons In Chicago. Among the societies of which he was a member were the Societe des Beaux Arts at Belles Lettrea. Paris; the portfolio Club of Indianapolis; the Indiana Artists Club, and the ! Society of Western Artists, not now f ln existence, but' of which he was treasurer for many years For twenty yfetirs Mr. Stark was In charge of the art work at Emmerich Manual Training High School, ahd during part of that time he also taught composition classes In the art school of the John Herron Art Institute. Among the list of hls pupils are many names familiar to the Indiana art public. Including Simon P. Baus, Paul Hadley, Helen Jacoby, William Scott, Elmer Taflinger, Murray Wickard, Charles Dyer, Clara Leon> ard S. Dlemon, Walter Jack Duncan. Chaee Cassidy. Herbert Moore, Harry Emerlck and many bthers. Many of Mr. Stark’s paintings are familiar to Hoosler art lovers, but there \v!ll doubtless be something

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hitherto unknown for everyone who visits the exhibition. And It will, moreover, afford an opportunity for Comparative view of many tnva#es and sketches by the artist. “Print Lovers Sunday” is anew venture on the part of the print department of the art Institute. The invitation is extended especially to those who have enrolled In the classes In the appreciation of prints conducted by the museum during the past three wnlters, and also to the print makers of the city, but all who are Interested In the making or preservation of prints will be welcomed. At 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, June 13, Miss Dorothy Blair, curator in charge of prints, will be In the print room for conference aqd discussion, and will speak briefly on the new exhibition of etchings from the permanent collection, which will open at that time. Under the direction of A. E. Condon. the county superintendents will meet at. the John Herron Art Instltute for their meeting on June 11. Director MacVean wlll # speak on “The Appreciation of Art —Its Educational and Cultural Value.” The College of Music and Fine Arts will arrange a musical program for the superintendents. • • e LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT PALACE Frank Van Haven, at the Palace today and tomorrow, Is Just about the first, fellow on the stage who seemed to take it Just seriously enough to feel at home and make everyone else forget that they were In a theater. Walking on and off stage, muttering to himself, and telling everybody tp “wait a minute, I'll be back" Van Hoven amused all present to such an extent that before the act was half through the aufilence would Indulge In a hearty laugh If he did nothing but turn around. Hls act apparently Is supposed to be concerned with “fake” tricks of magic, but the main thing Is Mr. Van Hoven and hls comedy. Mack and Daganova, with Massimo and Folly have a well set up act In which there are present a good dancing team, a violin soloist of merit and some excellent gymnastic features by two men. Operatlo Tld lßta Is an act composing seven people, ' who have selected the most popular parts of several of the operas and give them In a very excellent manner. Stanley and Wilson Sisters is a man and two women who entertain

JUNE 4, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can set an annwer to nay question ot iact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis, Timer Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. W*htnton D C.. Inclosing 2 cent* in •tamp# for reply. Medical. Trial and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All otno* Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests qennot b* anewersa. All letters are confidential.—-Zkutos. How does the Trans-Andlne Railway tunnel between Valparaiso and Buenos Alrea In South America compare with the Simplon tunnel through the Alps? The Traffs-Andlne tunnel is five miles long and 10,496 feet above sea level. The Simplon tunnel is twelve and one-half miles long od is tho longest railway tunnel yet completed. How many market gardeners are these In the United States? About 450,000. This includes farmers who grow potatoes on a largo scale and frulta for canningWhat Is the large- bird tliat battles Rln-tin-tin in hls latest picture? There la a thrilling fight between the dog and an eagle In hla latest picture “The Night Cry- ’

with comedy by all three and aomaj good singing and dancing by the women. Haulier's Dogs feature trlrka by these very Intelligent animals and features a dog dancing the charleston. A dance muat be pretty popular when the animals take it up. Bill Includes a (photoplay “Ills Master's Voice” and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “Th| Haunted House” at English’s: "Th<* Goose Hangs High” at Keith's;) Corlnne at tho Lyric; "Wet Paint ’ at the Ohio; "Wild Justice” at the Uptown; “Wages For Wives at Colonial; "Torrent” at the Apollo; "Ranson's Folly” at the Circle; “The Checkered Flag" at the Isis.

THE VERY IDEA! 1 By Hal Cochran

The new hotel proprietor wished to take worthy precautions against fire—so he insured the place for twice what it was worth. • • • Maybe the beauty of a fish is only fin dee> • • • Any husband who holds the pursed strings feels that there Is no auchj thing as the sweet buy and buy. • • • Tho copper* In the cellar peeked And watched some fluid bubble. The man intended brewing wine. But only brewed some trouble. • • • You may have your favorite kind, but the best thing to put Into plea Is your teeth. e • • | ear* * •*• The more you contract debt, th* larger It grows. • e • FABLES IN FACT HE WAS A STRANGER IN TOWN AND WAS HAVING A TOUGH TIME FINDING THE STREET HE WAB IjOOKINO FOR PERIOD IT SO HAPPENED THAT HE CAME TO A CORNER WHERE FOUR DIFFERENT STREETS BRANCHED OUT AND HE GOT SO FUSSED TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH ONE TO TAKE COMMA HE TIER UP TRAFFIC PERIOD A COP TOLD HIM WHERE TO HEAD IN PEROII) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)