Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1926 — Page 6
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No law shall be passed restraining the free interclmnge of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever. —Constitution of Indiana.
THE LOGICAL RESULT Those who may he shocked by the charge ofa young woman that she was hailed by an officer of the law as she was driving her automobile slowly along the highways, fired upon when she did not stop because of her fear that the officers were bandits, and then humiliated by having her machine searched for liquor, should have been more shocked when laws were passed leading to this as a general practice. Whether the young lady Is entitled to damages is a matter for the courts. But those who have homes or automobiles should ask themselves whether they wish this very logical result of the underlying theory of the AntiSaloon League to become general and customary. Very recently the head of that organization in this State declared that he believed constitutional guarantees should be suspended for those guilty of law violations. He said that he had believed that it is more important to enforce the liquor laws than it is to keep inviolate the protection of the Constitution. If the charges of this young woman be true, then the perfect picture of what will happen when this principle is established is presented. If the Constitution be suspended for those who may not be entitled to any sympathy, then it is suspended, for all, and every citizen is open to the arbitrary acts of any official of the law, from the highest officer to the. most humble deputy of any rural congtapTe. If it be la*' ful to search, without a warrant, any automobile, then any home may be entered without a warrant. _ If it be V/wful for men who merely guess that an auto conta.ns liquor to fire upon it, search it and stop it, then 'ny man with a tin badge can fire upon any passing ,iuto, stop it and search it, subject its owner and driver to all the inconvenience and .humiliation possible. The logical result of such a system is that every automobile! will be stopped and searched by every constable/in every township, by every policeman in every cit/y; as it passed down country roads or through ihe crowded thoroughfares. The/one equitable and perfect result would be a daily search of every automobile, or perhaps an hourly /search. Tme same constitutional guarantee that protects traveling automobiles, is the one safeguard of the hom el from similar invasion. We can expect, when the Constitution and the bill Lt rights especially, is forgotten in the new zeal, thaf snoopers with badges and brief authority, will entler homes at their own pleasure, search the liome nn l any pretext, annoy and humiliate citizens they dislike. / The law abiding are expected to yield to this afort of Russianism in order to enforce one law. It Is intimated that it is impossible to enforce that flaw unless all are willing to foreg# their constitutional rights in order that law violators who may forfeit consideration, may be disclosed. The spirit of the law and especially the fanatical viewpoint of the professional leaders of prohibition iu this State, drives us fast in this direction. If you are ready to live under a system of espionage and snooperisdi, here is the opportunity. If you belike the ideal of the founders of the republic is preferable, it is time to get rid of laws that make such incidents possible. Trying to get damages from officers who make mistakes is not the answer. BRAZIL QUITS LEAGUE It’s too bad that Brazil has seen fit to resign in a huff from the League of Nations. But regrettable as her action certainly is, the League will survive the loss, if indeed it does not emerge the stronger for it. Brazil resigned because she was not given the permanent seat she asked for in the council, to be in the company of Great Britain, France, England and Japan and Germany when she is finally admitted to the league. Besides these fo(ir permanent seats, there are at present six nonpermanent places in the council to which Brazil has always been elected. Nonpermanent members are elected annually by the league assembly. Otherwise "there is no difference between members. It has even intimated to Brazil that she might continue to be re-elected to a nonpermanent seat in the council, thus making her a'sort of a “permanent nonpermanent” member. But that does not satisfy Brazil. It was all or nothing. Either she would be given what she asked for or she would veto Germany's admission to the league which all hands considered vital. This, then, was an ultimatum. The league either had to back down before Brazil and offend Germany or virtually expel Brazil from her seat in the council and admit Germany. Be it said to the league’s credit, it did not back down. It did not create a precedent which, in time, would have nullified the council’s usefulness—not even to prevent a valued member quitting. Unmistakably this was a moral study for the league, which largely compensates for the loss. The council is the league’s fire department It must act in a crisis and act swiftly. It must also act unanimously. A too large membership would make rapid action impossible. Sir Austin Chamberlain, answering the claims of both Brazil and Spain—who also demands a permanent seat in the council and threatens to quit if she ' doesn’t get it —stated the league’s case exactly. Membership in the council, he said, is not awarded on a' r basis of national culture, wealth, size", economic potentialities, history, population, but is given to those powers “whose decisions in a crisis will save the world from war.” But Brazil is not yet out of the league. She has resigned, it is true, but two years must elapse before she ceases to be a member. And in November anew government comes into power at Rio de Janiero and that new government is friendly to the league. Brazil, having gone a little too far to accept defeat gracefully, had to resign to save her face. Having done so, anew government could subsequently withdraw her resignation without her dignity suffering in the least. ' t . - , • y .... . .
SECRETARY MELLON SPEAKS Who was responsible for the excessive use of money in the recent senatorial primary in Pennsylvania? Behind ah the revelations of corruption,' this question lies. Nobody lias yet asked it. Time enough for that, apparently, when the adding machine has all the figures on it and the total—lu millions of dollars —can be asked. Nobody ,has asked the question, but a guilty conscience has spoken. Secretary of the. Treasury Mellon, sacred cow of the present Administration, talked to Washington newspapermen yesterday afternoon and said: “The expenditures in the Pennsylvania primary were as ‘legitimate’ as money given to the church.” The money, he said, was spent for lawful purposes and it was absolutely necessary, under conditions in Ills State, to spend It. And he echoes the pitiful excuse of his own personal Senator, David A. Reed, that the real fault lies with the primary system, not with the corruptionists. Had the party bosses been allowed to fight the senatorship out privately, he intimates all this would not have happened- At least, it might not have become known. There speaks the man responsible for the shock which Pennsylvania has given her sister States or —at least the middle western States which his Senator dismissed so contemptuously in his Philadelphia speech Saturday. The interesting fact, however, is that Mellon spoke out of turn. He spoke before the country’s accusing finger had been raisedThis can only be because he knows that when the country comes to seek the man most guilty, that finger will be leveled at the little mah from Pittsburgh whose millions made him Secretary of the Treasury. / * 1 " IP MELLON COMES . Just what will Senators Watson and Robinson and Chairman Walb ask Andrew Mellon to talk about, if he should really come to Indiana this fail in response in their invitation? Mr. Mellon levels his fire upon the farm relief bill which they are supporting, but which will not, in all probability, be passed. He intimates that it is wild in its conception, socialistic and paternal, and economically unsound. Will Watson ask him to go into the rural districts and tell the farmers that he, Watson, has become wild-eyed and rabid? Or will he be asked to assure the workers who live in cities that Watson was merely trying to bunk the farmers with promises of bags of peanuts he could not deliver and not to worry about increased cost of living? Perhaps, and this is the more logical explanation, Watson needs Mr. Melton to defend his own liasty departure from the Senate chamber when a vote was taken to probe the corruption of primaries. There is a place upon which the records of Watson and Robinson and the words of Mellon are in harmony, except that Mellon does not run away. Mellon boldly proclaims that the purchase of Senate nominations is necessury in these days ot a decadent primary and that ten dollars a day for election workers is a fair salary. It would be interesting for the men who are employed in the steel mills and the aluminum factories to compare their own pay envelopes with his idea of a fair wage for a ward heelerOn that subject, perhaps, Watson can trust the invited guest if he does come into this State, in event which is not very probable. For Watson boldly declares that the people of Indiana believe in the use of money, lots of money, in politics. * He tells the world that the people indorse Newberryism and the practices of the recent Pennsylvania primary. Perhaps lie can persuade the secretary of the treasury to confine his remarks to that subject. It would be sad if Mellon tried to talk of farm relief and boost Watson at the same time. For Andy has no great reputation as an acrobat or a chameldbn and the man who could do that successfully would have to be one or the other, pefhaps both. Judging from Secretary * Mellon's remarks of the last day, his creed must be, “Millions for elections, but not one cent for agriculture.” Os course the elections vastly more Important. Vive l’aluminum. *
PISTOLS BY MAIL ♦ By Mrs. Walter Ferguson—
Congress has passed a bill prohibiting the sending of firearms through the mail. It is to be hoped that the Senate will see fit to act favorably upon the measure. The Representative who introduced this bill say3, that investigations showed over six thousand pistols have been delivered through the mails to Detroit, and to. other cities accordingly. Recently in Chicago bandits made use of a machine gun in the public streets. An assistant State's attorney was killed by a weapon called the Thomas Machine gun, which a "hardware dealer admits having sold over his couitter. These guns were designed primailly for the protection of banks and pay roll deliveries, but when one fell into the hands of a disreputable citSzen an officer of the law met his death. In Great Britain it is an offense punished by twenty years In the penitentiary for an ordinary citizen to carry a gun. And during the national strike over there, we have no record of a shot having been fired, although there were several street riots. Can we imagine what would happen if such an event ever occurred in this country, where it is possible for every thug and derelict to arm himself? Every man who wishes to get possession of any death-dealing weapon should be obliged to present a good citizenship record and get a government license. For guns In the hands of irresponsible persons, or in . the home where children play, or in any place wllere anger may stalk, are like so much dynamite. It has become such a common thing in the United States to read' of the death of travelers upon the highroad, and of the raiding and robbery of places of business, that we are inured to a condition "Which Is appalling. , We do not appear to have sense enough to take steps to protect ourselves, nor ingenuity enough to figure out a way of keeping bandits unarmed. Just because a contingent of gun lovers howl at the idea of being weaponless, we tolerate an enormous accident death rqte." If it is such an excellent thing to carry guns about, why don't we take up the more dignified practice of wearing swords? One i3 no more ridiculous or dangerous than the other.
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It's Up to Pennsylvania to Wash Its Own Dirty Linen,
By M. E. Tracy It is up to the people of Pennsylvania to wash their own dirty linen. Neither the Senate of the United States, nor any other outside force can do it for them. Machine politics is more responsible for the corruption attending the recent Republican primary than any of the candidates. Machine politics Is solely responsible for a frame of mind which not only admits Mie corruption with smiling candor but which appears to see nothing wrong in it. The Senate can expel Vare should he be elected, but that means little, since it would leave the real malady untouched. • The people cannot only save the Senate this trouble but at the same time give machine politics an effective rebuke by electing the Democratic candidate, William B. Wilson. Independence in the matter of voting is the surest way to break up a rotten party organization. -I- -I" Boiler Shop Chords Old Nicola Covillo said “no” as he clapped his hand to his heart and dropped dead amid the' clatter and screech of Coney Island’s noise making devices. He was a veteran musician. He directed a, band for the marching regiments of Garibaldi and had charmed three rulers of Europe with the, silvery tones of his cornet. He had reached the age of 79 with the love of harmony stili warm in his old heart. When his three nephews took him for a stroll amid the barbaric hodgepodge of discordant sounds on which this generation feeds, he paused, then winced, then died. It is unfair, perhaps, to say that jazz killed him, though that is the way one headline writer put it, but he certainly left this world with something ringing in his ears that he wished he had never heard. I am no anti-jazz crusader, but I have often wondered why, if our young folks feel such an abiding need for jazz they don’t dispense with all the costly orchestras and instruments and just go to work in a boiler shop. -I- -I* T More Speed—Fewer Killed Twenty-two thousand people were killed by autos in this country during the year of 1925, 6,000 of them children under the age of 15. We try to correct; the evil with speed laws on the theory if we regulate everybody we are bound to check the reckless, careless few. We arrest thousands of people for riding faster than the prescribed limit, not because they have hurt anybody or done any harm, but because it is an easy way to collect fines and make a showing. We get so excited playing this phase of the game that w* have little time and energy .'eft for attending to the real michlef makers. England has a different system. You can ride.about as fast as you like over there, but you’d better be careful about getting into trouble. In England you don’t get hailed before a court just because you were going twenty-six miles an hour when tlie law said you should not go moi-e than twenty-five. But if you run into anybody, your car is put up and kept until -the case is setded, and if you can't show you were not to blame, you get worse than that. According to law, we ride slower and have more accidents, while England rides faster with fewer accidents. •I- -I- -IA Good Customer Steeplehats, six-shooters, bandits, train hold-ups and revolution—that is what comes into the average American's mind when Mexico is mentioned. Oscar K. Goil. executive secretary of the Association for the Advancement of Commerce and Industry in Mexico, has a more reassuring picture to paint. He has just made a comprehensive survey of conditions in Mexico and reports that of all the nations on earth only twA do a greater business with us. Hq says that Mexico has in operation 113 sugar refineries, 130 cotton mills, 36 woolen mills, 75 shoe factories, 22(1 cigar manufacturers, 68 hydro-electric plants, 14 paper mills and 16 iron and steel foundries, jrot to mention hundreds of small establishments. He says that Mexico buys from us each year machinery to the extent of $20,000,000, iron and steel to the extent of $12,000,000, automobiles and accessories to th© extent of $9,000,000, drugs and chemicals to the extent of $10,000,000, packing house products to the extent of $4,000,000 and a raft of other materials. He says that Mexico boasts a rait road system of 14,000 miles, representing an investment of more than $1,000,000,000 of which 8,500 miles, or considerably more than half, are directly operated and controlled by the government. ■He says- that Mexico is now the world's second largest producer of oil and that she furnishes the bulk of the silver, lead, zinc, sizal and chicle imported into the Uriited States. No people could do so much and devote all or either a large part of their time to banditry or revolution. NEW MUSIC CONCERN Incorporation papers for the Indianapolis Music Shoppe. 4172 College Ave., were filed today at yie Statehouse, listing capital stock at SIO,OOO. The concern will take over the business and assets of tHe Indianapolis Music House, formerly located at 134 N. Pennsylvania St. Incorporators of tjhe new concern are John C. O’Brien, William Hoag and I. E. Sollenbarger. Ml {*.
Wise Is the Mortal Who Buys ‘Stock’ In the Firm of ‘Polly Pierpont, Inc.’
By Walter D. Hickman It all depends on the way that the dish is served -these days. Have seen “Polly Preferred” done several times before and I didn’t shout the praise of the play. But after seeing the way that Stuart Walker presented this little
comedy of movie life and of selfad vert i sing at Keith’s last night, I have the hunch that I am ready to wise the world to buy a share in “Polly Pierpont, Inc.,” by purchasing a seat for “Polly Preferred.” That’s' the only way that “stock” may be bought in this enterprise. It is the cast and the settings w h i c h often make the play. And this is
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the case of the Guy Bolton comedy. From a scenic standpoint, “Polly” is one of the prettiest little stage dreams that the Walker organization has given us this season. The clever handling of the lights, the action of the cast and above all the scenic beauty make “Polly Preferred’-’ a lovely buy in the theater this week. Three different sets are required in the first act alone. The second scene is on Fashion Row at the Biltmore, whefe the wise chicken chasers of New York assemble at certain hours to look ’em over. The scenic artist has done a magnificent job in this scene and he duplicated it in the bungalow scene in the second act. Each scene looks like it was built for Broadway and yet the best in Broadway is none to good for us. And I mean every word of that. The cast is a mighty one and there are many fine and convincing performances, but if I am not all wrong is it John Thom as Crawford Boswell, a sort of a Queen Anne type of a movie director with a Margie accent, who registers with the biggest bang. Thorn has caught the burlesque spirit of the role and yet has dressed it up with ridiculous realism, which makes the part assume a comedy magnitude of importance. Thorn uses his wrists and his hips as well as his eyes to develop this character. The result is a comedy burlesque creation not carried to the point where it becomes vulgar or disgusting. And irr keeping the character in the realms of burlesque, John Thorn is an artist. It is his first opportunity in Indianapolis to register a big sized hit. Vivian Tobin makes a delightful Polly Bitown, who decides to sell her personality. This woman has a bunch of charm and understanding for quiet human effects. She, has lived up to the promise of being clever and gifted that she gave last week. Where she suggested talent last week, she reveals it this week. George Gaul is cast as the press agent, who sells Polly and then wakes up that he is in love with her. Again a pleasant little creation done in a nice way by Gaul. , I probably should . mention the entire big cast, but will compromise upon the merits of Regina Stanfiel, George Alison, Larry Fletchar, Ernest Cossart, Margaret Douglas and George Meeker. It is corking good fun, that's what “Polly Preferred” is as being presented by Stuart AValker at Keith’s all this week. * -I* -I* -IA DRAMATIC STUDY WITHIN THE THEATER Have always regarded “Within the Law” as mighty good theater. It is peopled with some real crooks, those who use their brains and those who use their hands only. Other* stock companies have discovered within Jhe last few weeks
tbat “Within the Law” repeats mighty well, giving both Audience and box office satisfaction. The chief character, that of Mary Turner, has been given some wow lines, meaning that they are su.’efire. They get across, the .lines, because they are splendid theater.’ They talk to the heart and the emotions. And so it is not surprising that “Within the Law” is still good theater,
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mighty good stuff. That was my opinion after seeing the Berkell Players at English’s do this surefire melodrama of the polite and impdllte crooks. Any leading woman of the stage welcomes a chance to play the Mary Turner role. It is not an easy one, but it has the material which enable a woman of the stage to show just what she is. When I saw this show on Sunday night, Edythe Elliott was sure of herself in the first three acts, but in the fourth she did not rise to that emotional height to which she has a fine opportunity. And yet I would rather have her do her best work in the first three acts for by this time I am sura that Miss Elliott has adjusted herself to the emotional demands of the last act. She is splendid in the climax reached at the end of the first act. To my way of thinking the real acting triumph of “Within the Law’’ falls to Bernice Marsolais as Agnes Lynch, the tough liapper-like crook who can act like a lady and then turn around and lay ’em cold with her slang. Miss Marsolais in a surefire part is giving one of the best individual all-round character performances that I have seen this season. ' Robert St. Clair has a role this week which gives- him a chance to be gay as well as emotional. Well done with the exception of a minutes in the last act. William V. Hull has every reason this week to be proud of his work as Eddie Griggs. Milton Byron is seen as Joe Carson, a crook who Urould rather use
his hands than his brain. His big chance comes in the third act. Thp cast is a large one, as many characters are used. "Within the Law” will mor4 than satisfy as Prespited this week at English’s. The furnishings used this week are convincing and proper. At English’s all week. + -|- -|- LOOKIXG OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE Bernard Weber, at the Palace today and tomorrow, has what I would call an ideaAshort program for a tenor on the variety stage. He leads off with a light, catchy melody and then turns to several songs that are so well liked as to be favorites of almost every one who has an interest in music at all. Among the excellent selections were “O Sol Mlo,” a song that Is not heard so much lately, ana that beautiful.
pleading solo from "Pagliaccl,” Pagliacci’s “Lament." To me these numbers were a welcome diversion in contract to the constant repetition of popular music that is heard. To close his act Mr. "Weber sang another that time has made a classic, “Mother Machree."" Mr. Weber's accompanist fits perfectly in the act. Pat Daly and
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company have an act of a rather informal revue type in which the big thing is cpmedy as put out by two men and the dancing of five women. Featured among the dances were two in which high kicking and splitting predominated. The last number of the act is the most impressing one and makes a good flash with the 1 girls in black costumes and all doing the Charleston. TWo Scotchmen in black face is the keynote of Fenton and Fields. These two men have a good fund of wise remarks and get their comedy axross in a pleasant way. The Ruby trio, three women, nufUber two dancers and a piano player. They have some fancy steps and some good melodies on the piano. Featured was r xylophone solo by the dancers at the last. The Three Orontos are three men featuring some, excellent work in balancing with the aid of several poles and ladders. Included on the bill is a photoplay,
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“The Dice Woman,” with Priscilla Dean and a News reel. \ At* the Palace today and tomorrow. —(By the Observer.) •I* -I- + THREE MEN STOP THE SHOW AT THE LYRIC The men are turning the “stop the show” trick at the Lyric this week. This is accomplished first by Black and Blacker, a blackface act constructed on sure-fire aged lines, and Davey Jamison, who has his own way of telling his stories and
a man who knows how to sell his dancing. Jamison has that needed, chummy and yet not familiar attitude which gives him a chance to register with individual material. He realizes the value of selling the thing known as the dance. Hi* method is to first show that he can tangle* his feet. He then calmly announces he will dance any kind of
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dance that the audience desires. And he does that with so much skill and individual artistry that the eptlre theater is his before he completes. The Frlco, the Hula something and the Charleston seem to bo tho most popular. Black and Blacker are doing all tho sure-fire stuff that comedians and dancers of this typo have-done for years. And yet they know how to “sell” their material. Tho result'ls that they stop the show, or did when I was present. Personally, I do not see the reason, but I do know that they stopped tho show with lionosl applause when I was present. The Cos|nopolitan Revue has its strength in its instrumental players. People do like string instruments whan they arc played correctly and wini charm. Fein and Tennyson have developed the song picture idea With charm and ability. A mighty pleasing act. Clark and Villani are using material which is not new. One song Humber saves the act( from being dreary. The Four Clovelly Girls have some interesting juggling formations. Bill includes movies. Harrison Merry Makers will delight the children because it la an animal act. At the Lyric all week. •I- "I" L Other theaters today offer: “Watch Your Wife,” at the colonial; “The Rainmaker,” at the Ohio; “The Auc
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Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S “Within the Law” as being presented by the Berkell Players Is mighty good theater. Edythe Elliott and Bernice Maraolais walk away with the honors. KEITH'S—"PoIIy Preferred” as presented by Stuart Walker is one of the magnificent comedy events of the season. Not to be missed by those who enjoy beauty and fun on the stage. LYRlC—Davey Jamison has no trouble in making himself the real hit of this show. PALACE The Observer found much,to admire in th* work of Bernard Weber, tenor.
tion Block," at the Apollo; "Old Loves and New,” at the Circle; “The Phantom Bullet,” at the Isis, and “For Heaven's Sake,” at the Uptown.
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