Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1926 — Page 6

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TEE GOD-FEARING BAKERS Martin L. Davey,< Ohio Congressman, this week askedr the Federal jtrade commission to investigate the Continental Baking Company. He related that independent bakers of northeastern Ohio are about to be crushed ljy alleged unfair trade practices of the Continental company. He inclosed a letter from Arthur W. Doyle of Akron describing the bakers’ predicament. Doyle wrote: “I am instructed to tell you by approximately eighty-eight Independent bakers in Summit County, and approximately 400 in northeastern Ohio, that they are Republicans, Democrats and independents, all of whom have faith In our President, that they are ail God-fearing people, not asking for subsidies, price fixing or special favors, that they have demonstrated their capacity to lead clean lives, take care of their families, school their children and have accumulated, by reason of hard, diligent application to their work, modest homes. “In the cities of Toledo and Cincinnati, Ohio, the wholesale price of a pound and a half loaf of bread is 1114 cents, while In the rest of Ohio, the price Is 10 cents. The bakers who must compete with the 10-cent price are gradually being driven out of business, and will soon face bankruptcy because it if below the actual cost of production. “The purpose of these baking monopolies is perfectly obvious. “Their vast and national character make It possible for them to concentrate on certain cities or sections, cut prices below cost of production, give away a percentage of bread or cakes free, absorb this loss in other sections of the country and eventually have free rein, after having driven their small competitors to the wall.” So the Independent bakers want the Continental company Investigated by the Federal trade commission. The present Federal trade commission Is the handiwork of President Coolidge. He provided It with its present majority. The chairman is a former lobbyist In Washington for private business interests. Two years ago .through a resolution by the late Senator La Follette, the Federal trade commission began an investigation of tills very same Continental company. April 7 this year the Federal trade commission dropped this Investigation. It didn’t publish its reasons for doing so. But a few weeks earlier the United States Attorney General had begun an anti-trust suit against the Continental company. And, April 8, the Attorney General dropped his suit. Notice those dates. The reason given by the Attorney General for dropping his suit was that the Continental was then being Investigated by the Federal trade commission. He gave that reason to the court —one day after the Federal trade commission Investigation had been dropped. \ And the United States Attorney General knew the Investigation had been dropped. He had been informed by special messenger the day it was done. Not only that, but he had been Informed that it was going to be done. These facts are matter of record. These Republican, Democratic, independent God-fearing bakers of northeastern Ohio say they have faith in uur President Do they have faith in any Investigation that his Federal trade commission might undertake, or in any prosecution that his Attorney General might attempt if it should be found that the complaint of the independent bakers Is Justified?

SLACKERS The rote slacker, who values his franchise so little that he never uses it, has heard much of late to burn his ears. But seldom has he Buffered an attack more vehement than the one delivered this week in Congress by Representative Brooks Fletcher, eloquent Democrat from Marlon, Ohio. Pointing out that voting has gone completely out of fashion with half of the American people Fletcher declared: "This treason of indifference 1b the challenge of the hour. If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, then what of liberty when half the people are no longer vigilant?” And the State he held up most to the public scorn was Pennsylvania, where, he asserted, two Senators were elected in 1922 with only one-fifth of the voting population sufllciently interested •to visit the polls. Which introduces an interesting question: ‘‘Do these Pennsylvania citizens who do vote really value their franchise any more than those who do not?” * It is a question that will be answered emphatically in the coming Pennsylvania senatorial election, the election in which William B. Wilson, Democrat, former Secretary of Labor, is running against Wijliam S. Vare, Republican, machine boss of Philadelphia. If Vare is elected there is every reason to believe the Senate will refuse to seat him. He has spent too much money. Pennsylvania voters have had clear warning. If they vote for Vare, the conclusion must be drawn that their voting Is a mere gesture, that actually they value their votes no more than those citizens who do not vote at all. THE WHOLE RECORD The adroit and affable Mr. Walb, who is the chairman of the Republican State committee, says that the campaign to elect Watson, Robinson and the State ticket this fall will be based largely upon the fact that the State debts have been paid by the officers elected by his party. pie believes, so he ,naively asserts, that this achievement or accomplishment should convince the voter and taxpayer that only Republicans should be elected to office. , His selection of this particular accomplishment on which to appeal to the public is not complimentary to the intelligence of the voter, to put it - mildly. , For even were it true that anything unusual or wonderful had been accomplished in the matter of debt paying, the voter might inquire how the State got into debt. If pulling the State out of debt was a party ac-

complishment, then putting it into debt was also the work of the same party. If any credit goes to the party for Jackson, what should go to the party for a McCray? Long before the fall election, the people will have the full record of the payment of the debts, In which nothing more wonderful was done than reaching into the pockets of the citizens and taking out the money to pay them. Instead of paying the debt through retrenchments and economies, through savings in expenses, the whole sum was paid by extra taxes.. The automobile owner was the chief contributor, for he paid without any protest the 3 cents as a tax on every gallon of gasoline he used in addition to extra high license fees. He was taxed to build roads that were formerly built through a tax of 3 cents a hundred dollars on all property. But he was not saved this general tax. The same levy was made as existed when there were no special taxes on gasoline. The State took away from the good roads funds over a million dollars in one year that was paid on inheritances, a tax that was created for the special purpose of helping build roads. And then, to cap the climax, the financiers who claim to be miracle men, tore up a half million dole lars worth of notes given to the fiuto theft fund and practically abolished that fund. And because it succeeded in taxing the people more heavily the party in power thinks that any candidate upon whom it puts its label should be given a unanimous vote. The chances are that before November there will be a change of plans and the old hokum of asking for support on the prohibition question will be substituted. For if the State debt is an issue, the people will want the whole record, not the quarter truth which the jnere assertion that the State debts have been paid, reveals.

WHO OWNS THE AIR? The people of the United States have seen their water power and other natural possessions taken from them into private ownership under the plea of the sacred nature of such ownership. Now arises anew question of the name general nature: Are the people to own the ether for its use in radio transmission or are private interests to own it? The intelligent language of the Dill radio control bill would seem to Indicate that politicians as well as people are convinced the latter will never stand for private ownership and control of radio communication. It is language no American can read without a thrill: “Congress hereby declares, asserts and reaffirms that it is the policy of the United States to exercise jurisdiction over all forms of interstate transmission of energy, communications or signals by radio, and the Federal Government Intends forever to preserve and maintain the channels of radio transmission as perpetual medium under the control and for the people of the United States, and that such channels are not to be.subject to acquisition by any Individual, firm or corporation, and that only the use, but not the ownership, thereof may be allowed for limited periods.” DON’T WORRY, MOTHER Mothers who fret over the strenuositles of misbehaving children should fret no longer, but let the worrying be done by parents of the “teachers’ pets.” A child psychologist declares that the qualities that make a young boy a roughneck are the very qualities that make for success in adult life, and that the quiet and retiring children, great favorites of teachers and proud mothers, are in a fair way of becoming social and Industrial failures because of the lack of what might be called pugnacity. This possibly explains why the nice little boys and girls, beloved of teacher and invariably at the head of the class, so often fail to realize the glittering future predicted tor them, while the obnoxious, obstreperous, incorrigible goes out, grabs the world by the neck and lays up a fat fortune. Mussolini’s daughter is in love if Mussolini doesn’t change his mind. Women are so brave. In Seattle one married a cello player. Wouldn’t it be a great streak of luck if you could convince your face that whiskers are out of style? GREATEST GIFT TO CHILDREN —————— By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Somebody asks. “What Is tb© best thing that parents can give to a child?” Probably many people will have many answers, but I know well what I would say if such a query were put to me: A happy childhood. This is the most precious gift within the power of parents to bestow, and is a gift of the spirit wholly. Children who are reared in happy surroundings, who grow in love and laughter and confidence, have a heritage by which they will be enabled to overcome the greatest difficulties. Nothing is so sad as a miserable little child. N,o matter how high in rank he may climb, or how many dollars he may accumulate, or how serene may be his la/ter days, nothing can ever wipe from his memory the remembrance of a childhood blighted by cs.re and evil, by a sight of quarreling and hatred and tears. What though you do have tribulations during your days upon the earth? If you can look backward to a sunny childhood and golden dreams, you may survive them more bravqly. Happy memories do not make us more bitter as some profess to believe. They enable us the more nobly to eiidure the pain we suffer. They diffuse a rosy glow over our whole existence. Happiness in infancy and youth develops the best nature of the child. It colors his whole future; it changes his spirit; it influences his entire existence. It is of little consequence that you are not able to give your children heaps of money, or trips to Europe, or even long days in college. WhaV matters is whether you have been able to make them look upon the. world with glad eyes in childhood. Have you made them sensible that love is upon the earth? Have you given them a home, however humble, that is like a haven to which they long to return? Have you made it possible for them to have blessed memories of their childhood and you? For other things they may get for jthemselves. Learning and honors and riches and pleasures may be procured by their own efforts. But only you, fathers and mothers, can give them the memories of happy youth.

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Tracy Ready-Made Cures for Italy’s Ills a Bit Drastic, '

By M. E. Tracy Alexander Hamilton once estimated that the labor of four persons was sufficient to provide necessaries for 100 and that if we depended on necessaries for business, ninety-six out of each 100, including women and children of course, would go unemployed. But what is a little thing like that to Mussolini, who rolls back into the ages with the sweep of his hand and dismisses all human experience as too trifling to bother with. He will show us how a nation can grow rich and prosperous by suppressing trade, how there can be a longer working day with less work to do. No newspaper of more than six pages, no new saloons, cases, restaurants, theaters or hotels, no construction of anything, except cheap houses for working people and no strikes, or lockouts to spoil the grand parade, but an added hour to the working day, if employers desire it, cheaper brick, lime and cement and alcohol mixed with gasoline to pep up the automobiles—that constitutes his ready-made cure for Italy’s ills. -!■ •!• •!* Orthodox Pinks

How can there be a genujne “Uncle Sam night” with “The Star-Spangled Banner” barred? Yet that is the paradox to which New York will be treated this evening if nothing goes wrong, when members and their guests gather in the “Port Society” building to stage their annual Independence day celebration. If people want to celebrate without singing the national anthem, that is clearly their right, but to bar it by public announcement because of an idea that it might wound British feelings Is quite another matter. If Socialists, Communists, or even the Civil Liberties Union were to do such a thing there would be nothing less than a riot. But orthodox people can do many things in the name of international friendship that unorthodox people cannot do in the name of plain common decency. -I- -I* -!- Sharp—and Kind If you met a man named Smith from Boston, especially with Jeremiah as a handle, you would say to yourself "Here is a hard-fisted Yankee” and you would look well to the protection of your own interests if you had a trade on with him. You would probbaly go a little farther still and assume that, though he might be absolutely square, he would take the last red cent that was coming and that lu where you would be wrong. The motion prevails that kindness goes with inefficiency and that efficient men are quite generally immune to the finer feelings. Asa matter of record, some of the finest characters. in this world are shrewd, sharp exacting in the conduct of their trade, or-professional affairs. Jeremiah Smith of Boston is one. He had the ability to go to Hungary and within two years, straighten out what seemed a hopelessly chaotic financial situation. What is far more admirable, he had the courage, born of real affection for a distraught and overstrained people, to hand back the SIOO,OOO check which the Hungarian government was more than glad to give him for his services, with the remark that the poor needed it more than he did and “the only compensation I desire for my work is the appreciation and friendship of the Hungarian people.” -I- -I- -IAnother Triumph of Man Speed, speed, speed, where will It end? The sailors' Idea of ultimate swiftness used to go no farther than being dragged in a boat at the tail 6f a whale, while the landsman could conceive nothing faster than a wild pony racing across the prairie. Then came the steam engine, the motor boat, the atuomobile and, finally, the airplane eclipsing them all. Time was when the carrier pigeon held every long distance speed record, but he goes to the junk heap, along with Old Dobbin and the Baltimore Clipper. They staged an airplane-pigeon race up at Auburn, N. Y., yesterday, not because there was any sense in it, or because anybody expected the pigeons to win, but just for fun. • The airplanes were comparatively slow and, had to fly a total distance of sixty-miles while the pigeons had to fly only fifty. Fifty pigeons were started in order to give them every possible advantage, but the first one came in three minutes behind the airplane. So, He Will Fish The White House’s spokesman rises to remark that the President was merely alluding to a local issue when he said that fishing in the Tidal Basin at Washington was a sport for. boys. Asa national issue the President believes that fishing is an appropriate sport for men and to prove it he will fish. He will fish, moreover, not with “boughten bait,” as they say in Vermont, but with genuine worms dug from the garden. The White House spokesman does not say so, but one is left with the impression that the President will pursue this course Just to show that he is a real son of the soil and understands the farmers’ problem, even to the difficulties of gettting fish bait. Speaking seriously, the President is a real.'son of the soil and knows a great deal mort about form problems than some of his critics, or than the unfortunate attitude of some,of his adilisers would make It appear. ‘ 1

Indianapolis Citizens Loan Their Art Treasures to the Herron Art Institute

European arts of the so-called “minor*' group; this is, other than the “fine” arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture, haa for the last three years been shown in the special gallery reserved for this purpose. From time to time the various installations of this gallery are rearranged and new material, or objects which have not been on view for some time, are exhibited. Such is the case this week. The collection of pewter lent by Miss Anna May Johnson has been rearranged and several items •Which have been on exhibition have been removed to make way for others which have not been shown for some time. This collection of pewter forms an interesting part of the European exhibition, because of the various types represented, the pleasing soft quality of the gray metal, the fine proportion and lines in the individual pieces and because of the Interest which this ware, the precursor of silver in the homes of our ancestors, holds. Another Interesting section of this European gallery are the two nawly installed cases on the east side of the rpom. One contains examples of English lustrewear, five of which are from the permanent collection and the remainder lent by Mrs. William C. Bobbs, Mrs. Ernest Kneffler, Mrs. Max Leckner, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Latta and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Toel. The soft rose and white and gleaming copper of teapots, pitchers, plates and bowls is particularly pleasing in the light which falls on them from the southern windows. The second case holds another group of objects delicate in quality and grace, where clear and colored, glass porcelain of various forma and 1 decoration are shown. In the “Contemporary European Craft” case in the center of the gallery near the doorway into the loggia, several new accessions are Shown, Including examples of modern French lace from the old Norman town of Bayeux, where lace of excellent design and workmanship has been made foe the last half century and more. The case will also include other examples of contemporary European workmanship and several costume accessories which are also new accessions to the collection and not previously shown. The Otto Stark Memorial Exhibition continues to draw both museum friends and Mr. Stark's personal friends to the galleries whe.'e it Is shown. How widely his work is appreciated one may Judge to some extent by the number of sales which have been consummated since the opening of the exhibition on June 6. In this connection comes this interesting announcement of the purchase by the art association of two pictures from the exhibition: “Ripples'* and the "Self Portrait,” which was shown in the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Work by Indiana artists and craftsmen. •I- *!• -!* NEW SHOW OPENS AT PALACE TODAY “A Song and Dance Cocktail With a Kick” is the vaudeville offering of the Stars of Tomorrow, six youthful entertainers who will glorify young American talent at the Palace the last half of this week. Birdie pean is the feature dancer. She la a contortionist. The peMarr Sisters are pf the late Ziegfeld's "Sally" and the “Follies.” They are on the Duncan Sisters type. Ed York and Dolly Francis are character steppers. Marietta Craig, who was the Lizzie in the late production of “The Bat,” now presents a travesty on the famous drama which is called “Batty.” Jack Dunbar and Marie Ames are the others in the skit. Bill Utah, who, like his name sounds, is a westerner, drawls 'out his funny stories, sings original songs and performs half a dozen stunts. "Bite and Hits of Broadway” are favorite musical numbers taken from musical comedies that have played the great “white way.” Gene and Myrtle Moore are singing the songs. Clifford and S f afford have “Bits of Art” in which they do everything from playing a piano to painting pictures on a woman’s back. “Hell’s Four Hundred” is the film which stars Margaret Livingston in the role of a “gold-digger” one jump ahead of the police and pawnbroker. Pathe -News, a comedy, and Topics of the Day are the reels. Other theaters today offer: “The

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Out-of-Door Scene in *Hiawatha ’

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Mrs. Car! Ueber and Robert Green in the Theater Guild production of “Hiawatha/* to be given at Fairview Park Sunday, July 4, at 4:30 p. m. Mrs. Ueber takes the part of Nol o mis, the grandmother of Hiawatha, and Robert Green k* the child, Hiawatha.

Mad Honeymoon,” at English’s; “Seventh Heaven,” at Keith's; "Cadet Sextette,” at the Lyric; “Good and Naughty,” at the Apollo; “The Love Thief,” at the Colonel; “Brown of Harvard," at the Ohio; “Miss Nobody," at the Circle; complete new movie bill at the Isis and "The Cohens and the Kellys” at the Uptown.

Paddock Speedsy Pinched

Charley Paddock, world's fastest human, showed too much speed in trotting down the streets of Berkeley, Calif., so Bebe Daniels grabbed a cop’s motorcycle and caught him. he doesn’t seem to mind, and the press agent doesn’t either.

What does the name Adele mean? It is a French name meaning “full of beauty.” Which has the larger population Italy or England? The population of England (Including Monmouthshire* is 35,678,530; of Italy 39,659,944. Has the number of hospitals and institutions the cure of drink decreased since prohibition? There were approximately 278 hospitals and sanitariums for inebriates, Keeley cures, etc., in the United States-before prohibition. At present there are about 22, but they are not entirely devoted to alcoholics, some being general sanitariums as well.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran PASSING THE BUCK ”1 wanna go barefoot. Kin I, pa? Aw. lemme—l won’t catch cold.” "Well, I Just, can’t say, son—ask yer ma, an’ do Just whatever yer told. Id like ta say sure, non, but shucks—l dunno. You’d better ask her, jes’ the same. Supposin' a slivver’d run into yer toe. You'd holler, an' I'd get the blame.” • . . "Aw. gimme a nickel, grill ya ma? I wanna go down to the store." “Say, when you want money, Just go to yer pa. Explain what yer wantin' it for. I have a hard time gettin’ money myself. With spendin’ I has ta go slow. A quarter is all I've got up on the shelf. Ask father—he’s got all the dough.” ... It’s funny how kids ask for this thing and that—beg candy, a soda, a dime. The folks keep ’em guessln' at Just where they're at. They ask the wrong one every time. When pa’s asked for thfsf and when maV asked for those, the answer they’ll always lrroart, is "go to the other” —no kid ever knows the tight one to ask at the start. ••• \ : FABLES IN FACT THEY HAD LIVED TOGETHER FOR LO THESE MANY YEARS COMMA AND HAD ALWAYS BEEN HAPPY PERIOD MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE THEY USED THEIR NOODLES DASH DASH HE WAS A TRAVELING SALESMAN COMMA AND WHENEVER HE WAS HOME FROM A TRIP COMMA THE GOOD WIFE ALWAYS PICKED THAT TIME TO GO VISITINO OUT OF TOWN PERIOD / OopvrioM. JOtS, XEA Service

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You can set an anawar to say question of tar* or Information by .ruins to The Imlianapoli* Time* Waahlnatoo Bureau. 1M22 New York A*e# Waahln* ton D 0.. Ineloain* t <-enta in atainpa for reply. Medical I real and marital advice cannet be siren nor can extended research be undertaken Ail Other aueationa will receive a personal reply Dimmed request, cannot be answered All letter* are coußdentlai.- Editor What is the real name of Rain on Novarro? Where was ho bora and has he brothers and sister*? His real name is Ramon Gil S&menyegos and he was born at Durango, Mexico, Feb. 6, 1899, of Spanish and Indian parentage. Ha has seven brothers and two sisters. Who said “Don’t cheer, boy*, the poor devil* are dying,” and when? Robley Dungllaon Evans. “Fighting Bob,” Commander of the IT. 8. S. lowa, in the naval battle of Santiago in the Spanlsh-AmFrlcan War, July 3, 1898, when Cevera’s bumlrfg ships were going down. What ia the population of Canada? 8,788,483. Can you tell me something about j the Roosevelt dam? It Is the chief feature at the Salt 1 River project, an Important IrrlgA-f tion undertaking of the United States reclamation service, located in the valley of Salt River, Arizona, below t the Junction of that river with Tontojj Creek. It lies in an InaccesalbM mountain region, seventy-five mils*” northe st of Phoenix. The site of the dam is a narrow gorge through a lofty ridge of sandstona from which Home material for its construction was taken. The dam coat $.- 800,000. The baae cover* about an acre and from the foundation the dam rises to a parapet 28ft feat high. It is 235 feet long at the base and 1,080 feet on top. The spillways are 220 feet above mean low water. The dam is built in a curve upetream. with a radius of about 400 fset and contains about 340,000 cubic feet of masonry. The reservoir outlet is through a tunnel about 800 feet long In which are six gates to be used for sluicing and for regulating the flow. What Is the Council of National Defense of the United States? A board consisting of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, created in 1918, whose duty Is to coordinate transportation, molibization. military and naval resources, and increase the domestic production of necessaries of life, to develop the merchant marine, to make a survey of available military supplies and perform other functions covering the broad field of national security and welfare. Do cow* go mad and 1* there danger that other* in tho herd will become Infected? Cow* do have rabiea, like dog*. The only danger to the herd 1* from saliva of the mad cow infecting, other cattle. If another animal i hooked but pot Infected with there Is no danger. Who was Coal-Oil Johnny? The nickname given to John Steele, a famous co*l operator in the Pennsylvania oil fields, who a massed a great fortune and squandered It In riotous living. Do large sized men make the beet salesmen? Recent comparative study of the size and weight with the commissions earned by 800 shoe and insurance salesmen indicate that the old idea that the large man can dominate his client by mere physical bulk and gain hotter results is not supported by fact, say* Science Service. Men of medium *!ze and weight were found to be the best salesmen. What I* the hardest metal? The United States Bureau of Standards states that it is impossible to say that any one metal 1* the hardest, because the hardness of meal depend* upon the treatment It receive*.