Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1926 — Page 6

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A CIVIC PROBE The Federal Court has ordered an inquiry into the charges of Prosecutor Remy that law violators are really in control of the police department. That phobe will necessarily be limited to the overt 'acts of corruption in the department and he limited by its effect upon the enforcement of the .Federal laws. " The police could be as corrupt as they pleased about murder or arson or burglaries and the Federal Court show no interest. If they fail or conspire against the prohibition law, it becomes a national matter. There is need of other and more searching investigations than can he accomplished by grand juries. There is need of a great civic probe by the leaders of decency in this community. The business organizations should be interested in discovering what it costs in dollars to have a government in which politics is the main business and service to the people of minor importance. The citizens who pay taxes should he interested in knowing just hoy much more they pay and how xnych less they get In this city than In cities which have the city manager form of government. The moral forces of the community should be interested in comparing conditions in this city with those of Cleveland, for example, and discover whether the cost in morality is not a rather heavy price to pay for our politics. A campaign for a city manager charter might bring about jusDthat public interest in public affairs which will make every man an investigator or at least an observer of the workings of the city government. It does not help when public officials engage in a contest of charge making. But it would be worse if no charges were made, if the occasion demands. It would be infinitely worse to put on a Pollyanna smile and say everything is all right if we knew that the law violator, the criminai, the bootlegger had more influence than the man who earns an honest living and wants de ~tcy. Det it be hoped that official probes will go to the very bottom of affairs and that no alibis dr explanations will be accepted as long as there is any violation of law. Let it also he hoped that the public itself will start on a quiet hunt for a system that will destroythe system that permits easy control of government by the corrupt and the corruptors. FRANCE STILL BELIEVES IN ALADDIN When the Germans were hammering away at the gates of Paris and the fate of France hung by a thread, political factions buried the hatchet and formed a solid front—the “Sacred^Union.” Today the fate of France is again—or other, still—in the balance. Facing bankruptcy, financial ruin and social chaos another “sacred union” of her statesmen is imperative. Eight ministers of finance have come and gone in a fruitless attempt to save the situation. Four cabinets have formed and fallen as a direct result of France’s financial crisis and still nothing of value has been accomplished. As this is written Aristide Briand is trying to get together his tenth ministry. He wants it to be a sacred union or coalition cabinet, one that includes the leaders of all parties. This all depends on the outcome of this veteran cabinet maker’s efforts. The people as a whole haven’t the remotest idea of the real gravity of the country’s danger. Their political leaders have been telling them fairy stories so long that they are still fondly expecting some financial Aladdin to appear at any minute with his wonderful lamp, when, properly rubbed, will fill their coffers with gold. It will take courage at this late day to tell them there Isn’t any Aladdin and there isn’t any lamp and that the only way out of the fix they're in is via their own painful ears. \s long as there Is left in the country one group of Aladdinists no hard-boiled, common-sensed, practical minded ministry can last long nor can it help much as long as it lasts. ■, So France’s Inlands, Poincares, Herriotts, Caillaux, Painleves, Clemenceaus, Tardius and the rest can not unite to save her now, it is merely a matter of time before she will have her Mussolini —or her Lenin. WHY THE DELAY? Several weeks have parsed since a start was made in thy'tity council to get some action which would give'back to the city the interest on funds deposited with the treasurer under the Barrett law. It may not be amiss to askk just what is causing the delay in taking some definite action or at least making a definite decision. ' Under that law, as it has been interpreted, the treasurer of this county draws the interest on money paid by citizens for public improvements under assessments. No one would claim that the money belongs to the treasurer or that he has any ownership of the funds. Yet the treasurer does get the interest paid by banks upon it, and so igreat is the fund in this city that it makes that job pay more in money than Calvin Coolidge draws as President of the United States. The work involved in the care of these funds is slight. There is no claim that the service rendered by the treasurer in handing these funds is worth any such compensation. Asa matter of fact, the most of it is done by the banks where the funds are deposited. When the councilman, who launched his drive against the practice of letting the treasurer have this extra money, started, there was a unanimity of opinion that it is all wrong and that the city should, in some way, get the interest. Now there seems to be a lethargic attitude and a singlar lack of interest. Perhaps some member of the city government will take enough interest in the matter as to ask why the long silence and lack of action. Is there some influence which is interested in stifling action and preventing a - decision? Does the fact that the present mayor was formerly treasurer have some effect ou the attitude and activities of public officials? s It jnight seem reasonable to expect thaAthe tax-

✓ payers will be told, quite soon, that they can expect to have money restored to their use or told definitely that they have no redress in the matter. Silence does not answer the legal and moral questions involved in this matter. . - THAT BEACH AT-AYAIKIKI Hula-Hulas and ukuleles are net the only things the folks along Waikiki Beach think about. There is the matter of real estate, for instance. One of *he largest and most significant real estate deals in the history of Honolulu took place recently as part of the land activity which has featured business in Hawaii since the first of the year. Thirty-seven acres of the Ala Moana section of Waikiki Beach, the greater part of which is swamp land, has been transferred. According to the purchasers, the dredging of a canal for drainage purposes will commence at once, in an effort to make the section one of the most attractive residential districts of the city. The project is the result of the present Waikiki becoming too restricted, due to ever-increasing property values. When complete, the new work will enlarge the beach area many times and further develop one of Hawaii’s most popular and favored districts. The popular impression in the United States seems to be that Hawaii is a romantic, holiday land where the lei dangles from necks of beautiful native girls and thrill-seekers are entertained by the surf riding of the massively muscled Kanakas. But it is something more than that. Honolulu, for instance, is a large and booming city, and some wise Americans have learned that a penny or two can be made by shrewd investments. A HERO DIES Mari&no Montes, Mexican bull fighter, was gored during a bull fight in Madrid and died. The hull was the third Montes had encountered during the afternoon, its two predecessors dying by his sword. There will be grqat mourning In Mexico, and in Spain, for Montes. A brave, fearless man, meeting his death like a hero. W'omen will weep and small boys will worship his memory. But what of the bulls? And what of the poor horses, dull-eyed defenseless creatures led forth to perish in a gory shambles that human beings’ primitive lust for blood may be appeased? Bull fighting is a sorry thing, a brutal thing and a mighty poor excuse for sport. The bull has very little chance, the horshr positively none. Once in a thousand times the matador misjudges as he directs his blade at the vital point and then another hero perishes. Were the bull’s chances better than one in i thousand it is doubtiul if the “sport ’ would survive. A SOME LIKE THEM VEILED It’s all in the way you look at it. We had thought American women were Just about the most beautiful in the world, but seventy-five Arabs from Tunis, now at Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial, agree that desert women are more appealing. American deficiencies, it seems, include skirts that are too short, unveiled faces, too much paint and rolled stockings. The flapper may b& the ideal of the drug store sheik but not of the genuine article. These gentlemen don’t prefer blonds. Women are strange. Even though one in New York was single and out of debt she tried to poison herself. i Just because a woman says she needs anew hat, that’s no sign she doesn’t. Babe Ruth got arrested for fishing out of'season, so maybe he had to fish out of his pocket then. Nothing upsets a man*more than breaking his leg or getting the paint on his new car scratched. Running a farm is about as expensive as sending a son to college. I , Stenographers who chew gum are always gumming things up. \

DREAM MEN AND REAL ■ v By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

James Branch Gabel 1, that magical' weaver of words, has a great many things to say about the men who never In rife find the lady of their heart's desire. He pictures them going up and down the world loving many women, but always before them, elusive and intangible as a moonbeam, flits the fair lady whom they well know they shall never find. Sad is that picture, sad enough for tears. But are the men any more to be pitied because their longings are never realized than we women who, wedding our brave knight, find him changed into an ordinary stock broker? For women, like men, clutch to t.heir hearts the thin fabric of a. dream. They live and love and die without ever haying had their desire for romance satisfied. Perhaps this is one reason why, in this day of restlessness and unease, women marry so often and so foolishly. They seek foreVer the Prince Charfning of their dreams, knowing not that he does not exist upon this mortal sphere. We are insatiable lovers of romance. No little girl but plunges now and then into a reverie of some ephemeral man who will sit at her feet worshipingly. As the years go by the dreams change. Where we first longed a golden-haired youth upon a white charger, we finally become enamored of the sleek-haired lad who sells socks in the corner haberdashery. From the clouds we descend unto earth, but no matter what man our adoration fastens itself upon, he always carries about with him the many colored garment of our ideal. And after \Ve marry our over-stout realtor and know him like an open book, we still hug in secret the slim hope that deep within himself he adores us as we long to be adored. ~ But we women, In this eternal quest for perfect love, are not so wise as the men. For they marry us and become disillusioned perhaps to find us far short of what they expected. But they do not attempt to make us over. They cherish us the best they can and still cling to the lost lady of their heart’s desire, she whom they know will never materialize. Whereas we, in our intense longing for the ideal of our secret beings, endeavor always to change our hum-drum husband into the brave and loyal knight who haunts our dreams. That we are never successful in this impossible task makes up half the misery of our married existence. • /

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Tracy Caprice, Not Logic* Cause of Crime Most Often,

By M. E. Tracy There is rrore caprice than logic back of crime, but we don’t like to believe it. What we like to believe is that men will not do wrong, unless driven to it by deep and gnawing motives. We like tcy. believe that the murderer ha,dt 4 suffered enough to drive him half mad, that the thief was hungry, that the forger had an invalid wife* who needed an expensive operation or a change of climate and that the traitor, though mistaken, though he was serving some lofty purpose. The necord mocks our subtler fancier —mocks them in the ypung lad Who shot his grandmother for a few cents, in the college youths, who beat a child to death just for the-thrlil of it and, more recently still in those Long Island firemen, who committed arson so that the .volunteer company to which they belonged could be there first by being tipped off before hand. The little town of Rockville Center is shaken to its very core, while three broken hearted citizens of supposedly good reputation try to explain from behind the bars of their cells why the set ten or a dozen fires so that “Defender No. 1” could get there ahead of “Water Witch No. 3” and “Acorn No. 7.” One was captain of the company, one a lieutenant and ‘ one a mere private, and there is nothing to indicate that thgy had more reason to burn their neighbor’s houses—one next door to a crowded picture show —than a desire to see their outfit get their first and take the glory away from its rivals. .!. -I- -I. ' I I 1 Pittsburgh Advertising Yesterday I suggested that Pittsburgh must be an idle town If 50,000 watchers, or anywhere near that, number, could be picked up for a day or two of useless jobs if so many could leave them for a day. Another thought now comes to my mind, and it is this: How can the ■ people of Pittsburgh afford tr> have it boxed about the country, especially by such a distinguished citizen as Secretary Mellon, that they are so careless about registering and voting as to require the services of 50,000 hired watchers to keep them straight? -I- -I* -I* Another Form of Tariff Speaking of Secretary Mellon, it is quite as difficult to understand his condemnation of the Haugen hill as his defense of the Pennsylvania primary. Not that T am so enthusiastic about this bill, but I would be obliged to he if I believed in a protective tariff. To all intents and purposes the Haugen bill is just another form of protective tariff and I had always supposed that Mr. Mellon was a firm supporter of that institution Everyone of the arguments he used against the Haugen bill could be used with equal force 'against the ,protective tariff on aluminum, not to mention many other commodities. If the Haugen bill is designed to make higher prices for American consumers, so is the protective tariff, and if it contemplates the sale of American goods to foreign consumers at lower prices, that also Is true of the protective tariff. If the manufacturers of this country arc entitled to such an advantage, why aren’t the farmers. | . -I- I- ! A Scandalous Document Thomas Jefferson stood for religious things/he wished recorded on his tombstone. Any tribute to his memory that excludes the spirit of religious >iberty dishonest and sincere. The invitation of Governor Smith of New York to deliver the principal | address in connection with the memorial exercises to he held ih honor of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello on July 4 was singularly appropriate. The scurrilous letter that has been sent out with regard to this invitation is in direct defiance to what Thomas Jefferson advocated. Governor Smith is a Roman Catholic and makes no bones about it. This letter is nothing less than a tirade against him and the idea of inviting him to speak at Monticello on purely religious grounds. It Is signed “A Daughter of the American Revolution” and more than a million copies of it are said to have been mailed to Congressmen, members of State Legislatures, judges, school superintendents and members of patriotic societies throughout the country. I do not claim to know who composed it or who is paying the .%40,000 or more required for postage, but it Is a scandalous document to circulate in connection with the name of Thomas Jefferson. .L .1. -j. Temperance, the Need Tho drys apparently have won two Congressional districts in the New Jersey primary, a natural re-action, I think to tho extreme and foolish wet propaganda that has flourished in the East. This perplexing problem is not going to be solved by extremists on either side. It began in the name of temperrjice and it will not end until it reaches temperance in law, as well as liquor. STUDENTS GET AWARDS St. John’s Academy Presents Ortifleaf.es at Exercises. Scholarship medals were awarded and certificates presented today jut exercises at St. John’s Academy, Maryland St. and Senate Ave. Harlan Bowers was awarded the K. of C. meijal for scholastic standing in the seventh and eighth grades. F. Berting won tho fifth and sixth grade award: B. Connelly, the third and fourth, and Arthur Mullln, first second grade honors.

An Eastern Art Jury Honors Randolph Coats By Choosing His ‘Firenza’ Canvas

Randolph La Salle Coats has again* been honored by an eastern art jury, this time by the jury acting for the international exhibition of the sesquicentennial exposition. Philadelphia, Pa., by selecting one of his paintings. “Firenza,” the title of the canvas to be shown, depicts a dreamy-eyed oriental maid, wearing a turbaned scarf of cerise, wound closely around her head, while about her shoulders is loosely draped a Spanish shawl of rich, yellow tones. The whole silhouetted against a background of oriental pattern. The canvas was painted by Coats in his studio on Cape Cod last summer. It recently hung at the Herron Art Institute in the annual exhibition of Indiana artists. The canvas also won a prize in figure painting in the State last year. The same model was used by Mr. Coats for the painting entitled “Mimi,” which won first prize in portrait painting at the last Indiana State fair. Coats, who, for the past few has conducted a school of painting at Provincetown, Mass., will remain in Indianapolis for the next few weeks finishing several portrait commissions, after which he plans going to Cumberland Falls. Ky., for a couple of months, where the artist had a very successful season in 1917. • • WATER COLOR PAINTINGS ON VIEW AT HERRON ART J. Arthur Mac Lean, director of the John Herron Art Institute, makes the following announcements: The International Whter Color Exhibition, of which thje first portion of the foreign group was shown on Sunday last, has now been hung in its entirety in Gallery VII and the Court. As the visitor to the museum walks through the entrance gallery, he is immediately confronted, across the Court, with a line of color which at once will attract his interest through the. soft blending of its rich harmonies,. Upon second glance this line of color resolves itself into individual water colors shown against a light neutyal ground, and here the visitors will find a series of delightful pictures in water color by foreign

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THE, VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran SCHOOL IS OUT '

Everything is up-side-down, in every house in every town. Things that make things look that way are things that make all mothers gray. Kids, of course, are runnln’ loose, and mother figures, what's the use ta fret and fuss when things go wrong. They’d keep her at it all day long. Childish voices loudly ring, ’cause youth, ya know, must have its fling. Doin’ this, an’ doin’ that till neighbora don’t know where they’re at. Playin’ tag, an' jumpin’ rope, It ain't no use to ever hope to quiet down a peppy child, when kids just dote on runnin’ wild. “Please be quiet,” mom implores. Racin’, tearin', slammln’ doors. In tha house a while, an’ then, like a flash, outdoors again.. Nothin’ fer the tots ta do but run around an’ ballyhoo. Can’t ya guess ta hear them shout? Here’s the answer—school is out! ** * , A bride may think so—but she never marries the best man. • • * When vacation time comes along, it's hard for parents to decide whether, to have a real rest —or take the kids along. * • * A man may be able to come back —but many of them don’t, after they’ve hit somebody with their automobile. N • * * Dad took the baby in his lap, So quiet she would keep. But, shucks, she kept on howling, till She cried her pop to sleep. ** * * This is the time of year when most of us are eating radishes from the grocery store, because of the luck we had with our garden. * • * Father didn't want to show’ any partiality, so he bought the baby a

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Here is a good picture of Randolph La Salle Coats’ “Firenza,” which will be honored at the Sesquicenten nlal Exposition in-Philadelphia, Pa. 4 this summer.

artists —English, Scotch. Norwegian, Swedish. Danish .and German. In one of the upper galleries, No. VII, tho American section of this international exhibition is shown, and there, too, the visitor will find a broad range of pleasing color variations. and an added opportunity for studying the characteristics of our own American artists' work in conjunction with the same type of work from other countries shown in the Court. The American etchings shown in

rattle, and his wife a second-hand auto. • * * If pop b'jvs a bushel of peaches for canning purposes, about all mother can do is put up with It. * * * FABLES IN* FACT ONCE THERE WAS A FELLA WHO WORKED IN THE DIAMOND MINES OF AMSTERDAM PERIOD NOW COMMA MOST PEOPLE WHO WORK IN DIAMOND MINES LIKE THE WORK COMMA BUT THIS FELLA ALWAYS CONTENDED IT WAS A DOG'S LIFE PERIOD AND THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR THAT FEELING WE CAN THINK OF IS THAT IN SPITE 05’.THE FACT THAT MOST OF THE WORKERS WERE DUTCH COMMA HE WAS AN IRISH SETTER PERIOD. (Copyright, 1026, NBA Service, Inc.) PATROLMEN IMPROVED Suspended Officer Faces Charges as Result of Collision. Slight improvement was noted at city hospital today In the condition of Geqrge Rubush, 315 Trowbridge St., suspended patrolman, injured when the auto he was driving late Tuesday collided with another auto at Sixty-Second St. and Keystone Ave. Rubush was arrested on charges of assault and battery, drunkenness and driving an auto ■while intoxicated. Three occupants of the dther auto were injured. Five members of the Joseph Parker family, injured when auto driven by their father crashed into a train at Belt Railway and Jefferson Ave., still are in the city hospital. Parker died in the accident. FOREST BANK FORMED Formation of the Citizens’ Bank of forest, Clinton County, w*as completed today following receipt of a charter from the State banklng.department. Capital will be <IO,OOO. with a SI,OOO surplus. A. S. Davis Is president and L. A. Tranbarger, cashier. The old Citizens’ Bank of that place will be taken over.

Gallery 11, the Print Room, are representative of the American section of the etching collection. Including the older group of men working in the latter vears of the nineteenth century, and also a number of the later artists and our contemporaries. New accessions to the Print Collection, recently purchased by the art association, are shown on the northeast corner walls of the Print Room during tho month of June. They include two very delightful etchings by Arthur llolntzelmnn, a contemporary American, two by Albert Besnard, one of the older and better known French artists and one by Auguste Brouet, a young contemporary French artist who has already shown great ability In his work and promise for the future. •I- I- IXETV SHOW OPENS TODAY AT THE PALACE Muslclands. danceland*. laughlands and all kinds of lands have been created for the vaudeville stage, but Jack Fine i Introducing banjoland as the newest of these creations at the Palace Theater the last half of this week. Seven men, all of whom have been chosen for their ability to play the banjo, present a program of popular airs interspersed with harmony, songs and clever steps. The men are seen at the rising of the curtain In a huge banjo occupying the center of the stage. “Don’t Say Anything” Is billed as a different type of act when presented by Dorothy Murray and Karl La Vere. Patter, songs and dances are Included in this harmonious act which does not deal with pantomine. Maude Earl is called "vaudeville's highest voiced prima donna,” as she can reach above high “C.” 4 She works out a novel manner in pre senting her various popular and classical songs. The dancing mannequins with their picturesque dance revue are on the bill. Joe Holland abd Kathleen Oden have a skit elaborated with songs and steps which they call "bluffing.” "Lure of the Wild” is the n>n with Lightning 1 , the dog actor, and Jane Novak. Paths News, a comedy and Topics of the Pay are the reels. •I- I- IOther Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Within the Law,” at English's; “Polly Preferred,” at Keith’s; Cosmopolitan revue at the Lyric: “Old Loves anti New,” at the Circle; “The Rainmaker,” at the Ohio; “Watch Your Wife,” at the Colonial; “For Heaven's Sake,” at the Uptown: “The Auction Block,” at the Apollo, and a complete new bill of movies at the Isis.

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Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to any question ot tact or Information by writing to The Indlanapoli* Time* Washington Bureau. l:3 New York Ave.. W aehlntton D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal replyUngigiifd requests cannot be answer***▲ll let’era are confidential. —bailor. Whun should daffodils bo planted? In the fall to get tho best results. Early September is the best time. If they are planted In tho spring, they are not likely to bloom well. Will you give me some versions of the Golden Rule that are found In sources or religious otlter than in the Bible and in tho Christian religion? The principal places where tho golden rule is found other than In the Bible are ns follows: Hlllel (Jewish Rabbi) —"What Is hAteful unto thee, do not to they fellow-man; this Is the whole law. the rest is mere commentary;” Confucius—"Do not to others what you would not wish done unto yourself;" Epictetus —"What you avoid suffering yourself, seek not to Impose upon others” (he wan spoaklng of the treatment of slaves). Was Antonio Moreno born In the United Statws? How tall is he and what does he weigh? What in llie color of his hair and eyes? lie wag born in Madrid, Spain, Sept. 26, 1888. He Is five feet, ten* inches taal, weighs 170 pounds am| has dark brown hair and eyes. Who conducted the funeral service of Luther Burbank? What was the exact date of ills burial? Ho was burled at sunset, April 14, 1926, in Santa Rosa, Cal., Judge Ben IJndsey conducted tho fun Oral services. Tho Rev. Caleb S. S. Dutton of San Francisco read Burbank's last words “Plant a tree—-don't build a. memorial for me. My strength will grow as tho tree grows," Wilbur Hall, short story writer, road Robert Ingersoll's eulogy on the death of his brother. How ran one tell the age of an alligator? How should I care for a small one? There Is no accurate way to tell the age of an alligator. If it is less than eighteen Inches long it Is probably less than 3 years old. Alligators eat meat, scraps of liver or beef, and bits of fish. Get. a galvanized tub, fill the bottom with snnfl and put. in a large rock or two sor t tho alligator to climb on. Fill the tub hnV full of water, and keep it where there is plenty of sunlight. In winter keep the alligator In a warm sunny place. What is the costliest moving picture ever produced? “Ben-Hurr” was probably the costliest ever made. Over $2,090,000 la said to have heen spent. In producing It. Approximately a million and " half dollars was expended In making “The Ten Commandments.” “The Thief of Bagdad” also was produoed at a coat of a bout a million find a half. t Why are men called “Sheiks”? The word In Us original meaning refers to tho head of the tribe or village In Mohammedan communities. Tn this country It In used as a slang expression to describe a man, who is popular with ladles and a Beau Brummel In nppennuice.

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letter to the F.ditor: f I wish to call your attention to an error In the following In your Questions and Answers column: Is there a fowl known as a “turk?n” that Is a cross between a chicked and turkey? There Is no cross between a chicken and a turkey. The report that such a fowl known as the “turkon” has been developed Is a false one. There Is a fowl 1 nown an “turken” a cross between- a hen and turkey. While in Pittsburgh, Pa., last May, the Donahue Mnrkct had After of the live “turkens” on display tis their window. Tho Pittsburgh Press ran quite a lengthy article <>n tho "turken.” A. M. JENKINS