Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1926 — Page 4

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RIVAL CITIES Why not make Indianapolis a third entry in the unique contest proposed by Cincinnati and Cleveland? Those two cities are so proud of the if 1 city government and so pleased with results that one has challenged the other to a definite comparison as to which one has really done f the most for its people in the past six months. One points to a reduction of tax rates, an increased efficiency of the street department, betterservice from police, a reduction of crime. The other points with pride to municipally operated plants for light, to a great airport, to a business management in which no tribute is paid to politicians and no suggestion of favoritism or pull is to be found in the handling of city contracts or the activities of the police, Each one has done so much for the people it Serves that they are not matching faults but comparing good deeds. . Just what would Indianapolis have to offer if someone had the temerity to suggest that it also parade its official record since the first day of January and claim the blue ribbon for service to the people? What would Mayor Duvall offer to make the pebple of this city glow with pride of achievement? Would he say that ,the police department is beyond control of politicians, that its officers do not temper their justice,with a fine wisdom of the will of a political boss, that the law is enforced with even hand? Would he even dare to say that officers have not been juggled'about and demoted and promoted at the suggestion of politicians? Would he point to better paved streets and the handling of contracts on the same basis that a great corporation handles its affairs? Could he point to better service and lower cost to the people, and the elimination of politics from the actual operation of the government? Would he call attention to his park board and give the real reasons for putting a relative oh that board ? Would he like the Nation to rejoice with him in making city government a family affair? Perhaps some of his supporters may have suggestions as to why Indianapolis is a better governed city than these two Ohio cities which are getting better service and reducing their taxes. They may believe that the way to run a city is to have a boss jn the background who is not in politics for his health. Factories looking for sites take notice of tax rates and efficiency of city government. These UVo Ohio cities have a strong argument for new industries when they can point with pride to low taxes and good public service. Both of them have the city manager form of government. That is why they are able to cut the cost of politics from municipal budgets. * The best way to get that million population is to copy the method which makes these cities so proud of their government. A city manager government in Indianapolis would eliminate the unseemly incidents which make the people of this city blush while those of cities which are so governed puff up”with pride. That form of government ought to be adopted soon, before the Legislature meets and at the behest of bosses destroys the law which makes it possible.

PAGE BE WOLF HOPPER How would you like to swap what France owes the United States for two million acres of land an 4 a few white elephants in Cambodia. It was reliably from Paris last night that Deputy Outrey, representing French's Indo China, has proposed at a secret session of the committee on colonies that France cede to America such a tract of land out there to grow rubber. In return, M. Outrey said, the United States should cancel a large part of the French debt. Bon Dieu! It faut rire! France owes the United States, principal and interest over the time the debt is to run, more than $6,000,000,000. Two million acres at that figure would be $3,000 an acre. M. Outrey must have been in Florida recently. And where is this $3,000 an acre land located? In lndo China, 1,000 miles to the west across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where we already have trouble. There are only some 1,600,000 people in all Cambodia—not enough to work the two-million acre rubber patch if every one of them came to work for us. There are 10,000,000 in the Philippines and'they say the greatest obstacle to growing rubber there is lack of labor. There was talk a few years back of France turning over her West Indian islands to Uncle Sam in exchange for a receipt marked “Paid in full.” But the talk never got anywhere. It was never even considered. If islands right at our front door aren’t wanted—and heaven knows we don’t want them — what chance has Cambodia? De Wolf Hopper might take the acreage on, however, out of pure sentiment. The scene of one of his most celebrated comic operas was laid in this land where every man is entitled to three wives and a galoola, and he made oodles of money out of it. Mr. Hopper might not consider $3,000 an acre exhaustive. It would, however, be too much for the United States to pay for the whole of Cambodia. i DANGER POSTPONED Muscle Shoals for the time being is saved. That seemed certain Thursday following announcement in Washington of Vn adjournment program by the Senate steering committee. Muscle Shoals was not included in the lis.t of bills on which the committee recommended immediate action. Government operation advocates accepted the program as indicating that, unjess something unforeseen develops the Administration has definitely abandoned its plan to lease away the people’s $150,000,000 property at this session. However, President Coolidge is ambitions to force the pending lease bill to a vote eventually, dis--patches relate. And it was officially stated that he is in favor of the bill despite the unusual agitation it has precipitated in the Muscle Shoals region and elsewhere. The bill proposes that Muscle Shoals be leased for fifty years to thirteen Southern power dompaijies,

hea,ded by the Alabama Power Company. Back of the group stands the Electric Bond and Share Company, an organization whose tentacles stretch into 1,700 communities and forty States. Abandonment by the Administration of any plan for immediate action will be a blow to the national power combine and a victory for Government operation advocates, including the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But they are not yet out of the woods. A vote at the short session of Congress next December promises to be especially dangerous to Government operation due to (he number of "lame ducks" expected to be present. Administration Senators and representatives defeated at the polls this summer will be in position, if they wish to support Administration measures, without fear of any additional public censure. WHISTLING IN GRAVEYARD Senator Watson, shouts to his colleagues in the Senate that he was renominated by his party in spite of the fact that he voted for Newberry and gave his approval to the corruption exposed in the effort to steal a in Michigan. Just like a boy whistling in a graveyard. For Watson knows that disaster and bad luck have followed all the Senators who voted as he voted. Some of them were taken by personal misfortune before the people had a chance. Others, in States where the people depend more upon the primary than they do upon the November elections, have been refused renominations. The boast of Watson, a boast which will be resented by the Voters of his own party, is that the organization which he heads was able to control the primary of his party and that it stood for Newberryism, just as it stoc>6 for other things. It is rather insulting to the rank and file of the Republican party of this State to suggest that it approves of the methods of Newberry, of the corruption of elections, of the purchase of Senate seats. It is not true and can never be true thgt the men and women who are Republicans from principle and not for gain would approve such methods of political control. , - It is not true that the people of Indiana indorsed Newberryism or even that the Republican party indorsed it. Had he believed it to be the sentiment of the State and of his own party he would not have run to a cloakroom rather than to vote for a probe of the indecent use of money in recent State primaries. Watson, if he believed his nayty and the people of Indiana are committed to the purchase of senatorial seats, would have been there fighting and shouting and voting, not running and dodgingIt is true that Watson with a Newberry record got past the primaries. But there is yet November. JThe people have not yet spoken- It is rather early to insult Indiana by saying that it. gives full and hearty approval to corrupt practices in elections.

GLAD TIDINGS, GENTS! Good news for husbands who strip gears with all the celerity of younger blades who Charleston! “Back seat driving’’ on the part of a wife is true and just cause for divorce. Precedent is established by the Supreme Cdurt o? California in the case of Harman versus Harman. Claud Harman, doughty locomotive engineer of San Francisco, stated that his wife Jessie did constantly opine from her back seat roost just how and when and why he should negotiate curves, the passing of other vehicles, and that she screamed when there was no due cause for said screaming. The lower court laughed and disposed of irate husband Harmhn’s plea, but the State Supreme Court gave him his divorce with a judicial verve and flair, to say nothing of fillip, which seemed to commend Harman highly as a benefactor to the race with his precedent. Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, be-e-e-e-wa-a-a-re! The tree of knowledge has branches and if you go out on them too far they break off. He who hestitates before a railroad crossing isn't lost. Wonder if there are people in the stars who wonder if there are people on the earth. CITY LIFE VS. COUNTRY By Mrs. Walter Ferguson. City people often feel sorry for the small town man. It has become something of a pose to speak of the person from the country as an illiterate, or a moron, or a miserable prisoner. The urbanite frequently considers himself as all wise and aH fortunate. But the fact remains that the man who has always lived in the city is only half educated. He who knows nothing of the physical world of the country and has never experienced the healthy joy of the outdoor world as it exists far from the noise of cities, has missed something that no other existence can give him. The perfect life should always be begun in the There the child may get his first lasting impressions and can store his mind with simple natural loveliness. v The small town is a step up in the school of experience and the person who has never lived in one should not call himself well versed in a knowledge of human nature. He has never tasted the finest contacts with his fellow man. There is a closeness and a solidarity about the small towji which a city resident seldom senses. There, while you may hate your enehiy niore cordially, your friends are nearer and more precious. The pioneers who settled this land by the dozens of faniilies knew this feeling of neighborliness better than the present generation. In the country you may live obscurely, it is true, but never more so than when you are buried in the mass of a city’s population where no man’s tragedy or joy touches you very deeply. In the city, the men and women who surround you are as remote as figures etched upon a canvas. In the small town they are living entities whose actions touch your own life very deeply. It is very fine, after you have finished your country course, to matriculate in the city, for you take with you the remembrances of the foibles tyid vanities, the magnificencies and the nobility of the people whom you have learned to know in country life. In the city you learn to love things; in the coun try you have leisure to love people. v. * .. •/

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Tracy Night Life an Issue Congress ‘Reminded’ Benevolent Publicity Habit

By M. E. Tracy. A groat issue—shall the night clubs of New York close at 2 o'clock? Mayor Walker says that is late enough for them to remain open and is in a mood to back up Police Commissioner McLaughlin’s order. Ho says that men and women trailing out on the street, in evening togs at 5 in the morning make bolshevists of working people. The New York World says that this is silly, but the night clubs ought to be closed at 2 a. m., because they make too much noise and keep people awake. David Hirschfield says that lie cause city officials talk too much about closing night clubs earlier they should* learn how to go home earlier themselves. Night club proprietors say that the 2 o'clock closing order interferes with a big and business, that they take in something like $5,000,000 a year, that this money is pretty well scattered through the metropolis and that much of it comes toward dawn. I give these various angles of the case so that small town and country folks may know what the greatest city is most excited over right now. -I- -I- -ICongress is inclined to think about more serious business, especially since it heard from lowa. It is surprising how the vote of a single State can affect the spirit at Washington. Republican leaders are really beginning to wonder If the farmer doesn’t deserve some consideration after all and unless they go too far, it is probable that even ithe White House spokesman would hesitate to throw cold water on the idea. Some people say the fear of the result in November is responsible for sudden change of heart, but this is too unwind. The Brookhart victory merely reminded the boys of their patriotic duty. -I- -I* American publicity has reached across ' the sea to save a soldier threatened with death, because of desertion from the French army. America would never have known about tlie case, much lees have been able to appeal for mercy, but for the newspapers and the great news services. Publicity Is a wonderful thing, not only ,for the Information It distributes, but for the good It enables men to do. Had it not been for wire, courier and cable and more especially still for wide awake men on the job, Bennett J. Doty might have faced a firing squad and been cold in his grave before any of his relatives guessed that he was in trouble. Reporters picked up his story in far away Damascus just as they pick up a thousand and one details and his life is saved. The French have done it artistically, of coarse, by changing the charge against him from desertion to absence without leave. I- I I Edward Payson Weston, the world renowned walker, was picked up by a New York policeman at 2 Wednesday morning. * He had wandered from his home in Philadelphia and covered the 100 miles without knowing when ho left jor where he was. Habit lingers after reason flees. Those restless legs could not be still, though tho minutes had failed to guide them. Weston is 88 years old and has been good for a front page story during the last half century. In 1861 as a youth of 23. he walked from Boston to attend Lincoln's inauguration. In 1910, as a man of mere 70, he walked across the continent. Who would think that fame could be won by merely walking. Yet Weston did it. The man who excels, even in commonplace things, still is a champion. -I- -I- -!- Pinchot, unsuccessful dry candidkto for the Republican senatorial nomination In Pennsylvania estimates that $161,000 was spent in bis behalf. This does not mean that he

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Miss Edyllie Elliott

Os course, Miss Edythe Elliott lias a right to smile. She is all kinds of a success with the Berkell Players at English's this week in "The Music Master." Next week she will have her big chance in “Within the Law” whefi she plays the dramatic role of Mao - Turner. bought any votes or disposed of the fund in illegitimate ways, but if he didn't it takes a lot of money to run for Senator these days. How could a poor man or even a moderately well-to-do man afford to do it, and if lie couldn't, where have we arrived? Wo pass laws limiting campaign expenses, but keep up a system that calls for about so much mail, so much travel, so much band music and so much whoop-la. • If a candidate is able to take the necessary cash out of his dwn jacket, we look upon it as a proof that he is too rich. If he accepts contributions from the big boys, we look upon it as W proof that he will work in their Interest. The only alternative, unless ho is willing to take chances with a moneyless campaign, is tff call for a lot of small donations and that is hard on poor folks.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran Motoring Says X to myself, well, today Is the day to get a real rest in a sensible way. I'll tune up the car and I’ll take all my gang, an’ I’ll let all the* worry and such things so hang. 'Course the kids and the wife are all glad to agree, so they pile In the bus in a hurry, an’ gee, the thought of a trip In the out-of-doors bright Is the sort of an outing that just hits me right. We ramble along on a wonderful street and I’m dodgin’ the millions of autos we meet. The traffic is wild and it shortly appears that the buzzing and honking will deafen my ears. We seek for a roadway where traffic is tame, but shucks, all the others are doin’ the same. An untraveled highway?* Fate laughs in my face, and I fipd, like all drivers, there is no such place. We finally get home and I smile when I think how the plans for a rcst-up have gone on the blink. My nerves are on edge and my eyesight |s spent. I'm a blamed sight more tired than I was when I went. • • • The largest room in the world is the one for improvement. * * • Hurrah! They’re not going to have guns any longer in the American, army. They’re long enough. * • * One of the most common things that is rather uncommon' is good common sense. * * * The rooster has a heap of nerve. •Just think, and you won't doubt it. The hen will lav an egg and then The rooster crows about it.

Fox Plans to Put Forty-Nine Dramatic Movies in Production for New Season

Forty-nine dramatic productions, fifty-two two-rcel comedies, twentysix one-reel varieties and 104 news reel Issues will Comprise the production of Fox Films for the 192627 season, according to the first official announcement from that company. It represents more than two years of thorough preparation by all branches of the organization. Outstanding stage successes form the nucleus for the biggest under-' taking in the twenty-two years of tlie company's existence. They were chosen for the strongest dramatic appeal, variety and scenic possibilities. In addition, many stories by leading fiction writers of the world are listed. Fifty stars and featured players are under contract, and negotiations are being made for others whose abilities dove-tail with the plans -.of the production officials. Most 'prominent among the stars are Tom Mix and his marvelous Tony, the wonder horse: George D'l’rien. Buck' Jones. Alma Rubens. Madge Bellamy, Margaret Livingston, Edmund Lowe. Janet Gaynor. Leslie Fenton, Olive Borden, Edmund I .owe, Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, Olive Borden, Kathryn Perry, Lon Tellegen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Earle Foxe and Charles Farrell. Arrangements have been concluded for several brilliant actresses and lectors for special productions. They include VictoY McLaglen, who will do the raw and rugged Captain Flagg of "What Price Glory,” Dolores Del Rio, who will be “Charmaine” of that opus: Belle Bennett, who will play the title role in "The Lily," by agreement with Samuel Goldwyn; George S. Sydney, Virginia, Valli and Jacques Lerner, "The Monkey Man," who will play in "The Monkey Talks." Directors Engaged An imposing array of directors embraces John Ford, Frank Borzage, Victor Schertzinger.j Raoul Walsh, F. W. Murnau, John Griffith Wray, Howard Hawks, J. G. Blystone, Irving Cummings, Harry Beaumont, Thomas Buckingham, R. William Neill, Robert P. Kerr, George E. Marshall. Emmett Flynn and Albert Roy. They were signed because past successes, <jriglnality and promise of even greater attainments. The list af authors includes such famous writers and playwrights as Maxwell Anderson, Laurence Stallings, 11. G. Wells, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Herman Whitaker, James Gleason, Richard Taber, Winchell Smith, Charles Klein, Clyde Fitch, O. Henry, Pierre Wolff, Gaston Lergux,. Gerald Beaumont, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Harry Delf, Patterson McNutt, Anne Morrison, AuS-

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tales, Ugly ducklings, butterflies, and birds of paradise are in their Impersonations. A colored porter and a high yel-| low chorus girl happen to meet during "Train Time In Dixie” and comedy and songs ensuo. Greeno and Gale aro the blackface funsters. Tho Aurora trio halls from Europe with Its novelty featuring three men on one bicyle. "The Shadow on tho Well" Is the film developing a mystery plot. Eileen Percy and CYclghton Halo are in tho cast. . Pat he News, a comedy, and Topics of the day are tho short reels. Gerald Griffin, noted singer Is on tho bill. • • • Other theaters today offer: "The Music Master” at English's: "Applej sauce" at Keith's; Jan Ituhlni at* the Lyric; "The Isle of Retribution" at the Colonial: "The Wilderness Woman" at the,Circle; complete' new show nt tho Isis; "The Man on the Bqx” at the Uptown; "Money Talks" at the Ohio, and "Around Tho World With the United Press" and "The Palm Beach Girl” at tho Apollo.

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