Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times _ • ' ROY. W. HOWARD, President. 1 BOYD GURLEY, Editor. . ■ WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of -the United Tress and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

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- KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA has the first big laboratory for the development of the automotive industry, the Speedway, at Indianapolis. Here annually are tested tha products of the most ingenious automobile engineers, who have reduced internal combustion engines in size and cost as a result of experiments and demonstrations. The Speedway is designated the “proving ground of the automobile engine."

A NEW STRIKE The president of the street railway qompany has gone on strikeHe has struck against any attempt by public sentiment to demand a thorough investigation of the operation of the public utility he heads. He has struck against the theory that citizens have any legitimate interest In fundamental justico in this city in regard to public utilities. He has struck \gainst the principle that there can be something higher than technical verbiage in written contracts. The people of this community owe a debt of gratitude to the five outstanding . citizens-who attempted to bring peace to the street car controversy. They owe that debt even if there is nothing more accomplished than their appeal ,to the Governor to bring mediation and inquiry. They owe that debt because It has revealed the attitude of the head of that company toward the public and toward this city. The committee tried to investigate. It found that men who struck were contending that they were underpaid. They found that the men who struck, leas than half of all employed, charged that the wage paid here is lower than in other cities lower than is paid for similar work and character in' this city, too low to maintain a family in decency without working seventy hours a week. They found that the charge was made that there was no opportunity for collective bargaining such as is Indorsed by President Coolidge. And they asked the Governor of the State to act. What they found, which was more important, was the attitude of the street car company. The head of that company, within a few hours of the filing of the report by these citizens, openly defied the Governor to name a committee. He took the attitude that the rqen who struck are no longer employes to be oonsidered in any arbitration. He said there was nothing to arbitrate and defied the Governor to act. He insisted that the individual contract with each employe is binding, that the law under which the Governor is asked to act, is not applicable to his company. And despite the claim that new men have been employed sufficient to operate all cars and able to run all cars, he ends with the suggestion that the men who struck be advised to come back and apply for work. He made that defiance despite the fact that the manufacturers’ Association had Jus,t posted an offer of SI,OOO for evidence of dynamiting and violence, an offer which was timely and neededNo friend of the men who struck will believe that they could gain a point by dynamite. That offer will curb, perhaps, any hot-headed and ill-advised sympathizers from attempting terrorism. It will help to prevent disorder. There must be no rioting or terrorism.' But when it is necessary to make such an offer, it is hardly the time to refuse a full inquiry. The people of this city want to know the facts and are entitled to have the whole affair probed so that there may be an answer that will be permanent. The people are entitled to service from capable men and experienced men. The people are entitled to ride with men who are drawing a decent and a, living wage. The people are entitled to protection against constant recurrence of strikes and disruption of their utilities. The people are entitled to some inquiry as long as the operation of cars is being waged upon a war basis with bonuses for service and with police compelled to give a large part of their time to this one institution. The suggestion of the citizens committee for a board of inquiry named by the Governor is not drastic. It is no time for technicalities. It Is no time for quibbles and weasel words. \ There but one question and that is whether the men who operate the street cars for the people of Indianapolis are working under conditions 'which those -who ride -would wish them to live. Permanent peace and substantial justice in tho public utilities must be had. These men who struck may be all wrong. These man may be misguided kickers. They may be misled and tools of ingenious trouble makers- Their claims may be all wrong. But the one quick way to let the people of this city, who finally pay the 'bills, know all the facts and to give them a chance to base sentiment and opinion on them, has been suggested by these citizens who asked for a board of arbitration and inquiry. PURIFYING THE MOVIES Murder has been regarded as a crime. Yet we see murder in the movies. Why? Morris McManus tampers with the affections of Mrs. Harold Hemingway. That transgresses the moral law, they say, but we see it in the movies. A bank cashier wraps up $75,000 in crisp new bills and loaves unostentaiously for Tacna-Arica. Thereby he rips wide open several laws, but we see it in the movies. * An uncombed gentleman of the trains slays tha chauffeur of a stage coach, robs the passengers and frightens the ladies (not to mention the male folk), thereby grinding in the fdust several laws and orders, including the one about combing your hair. This undoubtedly sets a bad example to all who see it. Whenever a person sees a movie stage coach robbery, he thinks, “Why, 1 never thought of that! I shall go out and rob a stage-coach this very night!” But >we see it, day after da j, in the films. But now! A middle-cliss family gives a party *Qd the crueata gather arotjpd 4 punch bowl tylth a

kick in it Shall that be seen in the movies?- Nay, nay, is the latest order of Will Hays, czar of the flickering kingdom, this shall not be shown on the screen. , It all remint s us of an ancient day when mother used to signal Susie whenever half an inch of her ankle was indiscreetly peeking out from under one of those tents young ladies used to hide under The ankle was there, of course, all the time, and pretty nearly everybody was pretty sure It was, but the sight of it undoubtedly promoted vast licentiousness in man. \ why Worry? Hysterical alarmists who are convinced that the younger generation is headed straight for the bowwows may find a grain of comfort in the observation of Dr. E. C. Broome, superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. The schoolboy of today is better behaved, than was his father, is happier in his work, makes better use of his time, and is getting a better brand of education than used to be dispensed in the little red schoolhouse. All this according to Dr. Broome. Certain it is that education toda£ is making a rather strenuous effort to please the American student body with its diversity of subjects ajui scientific methods of instruction. It has overcome its status as a dreaded ordeal and has become a welcome part of adolescent life. Surely perdition and education do not lie long the same path! lOWA STIRS ’EM UP lowa again has the center of the staiga. Two meetings are to be held there this week wlaich may deeply affect political developments. One is a conference of the representatives of the eleven so-called corn belt States. The other is the Republican State convention. The farm conference, called by Governor Hamill of lowa has as its avowed object passage by the next congress of an agricultural relief bill, modeled on the McNary-Haugen bill with its $375,000,000 revolving fund, which was rejected by the session Just ended. An alliance of the farmers in the wheat and cotton areas with those of the corn States is certain to be discussed. So is tariff revision. The Republican convention will he asked to ratify the nomination of ex-Senator Smith W. Brookhart, who defeated Senator Albert B- Cummins on an anti-Coolidge platform, which denounced the world court, the Mellon tax reduction program and the foreign debt settlements, and upheld the AlcNaryHaugen bill' whjch Coolidge opposed. The issue is clear cut. The convention can not uphold both Coolidge and Bropkhart. Politicians are wondering to what extent the rebellion in lowa may be regarded as symbolic of feeling throughout the agricultural west. A BAD EXAMPLE A galaxy of American millionaires sailed this week for Europe on the Majestic, a British ship, the United Press Informs us. Included in the group were Secretary of the Treasury Andrew VV. Mellon, J. P. Morgan, banker; Charles W. Steele, one of his partners; Clarence W. Mapkay, presideut of the Postal Telegraph Company, and William S. Vare, Republican candidate for Senator from Pennsylvania. A few days ago a dispatch from New York pointed out that one reason American Governmentowned and operated ships lose money is because Americans insist on sailing on foreign owned ships. It )vould seem that the group of American tnillionaires who chose the Majestic might set an example their fellow citizens. All know the difficulties which have surrounded operations of the American merchant marine. None knows it better than Secretary Mellon and Representative Vare, the latter a member of the House Appropriations Committee. Only in the United States do citizens show such lack of national pride. The English patronize their own vessels. So does other nationality except Americans. Dentists held a convention in Milwaukee. It didn't tyurt a bit. , Coolidge caught a fish. But he didn’t name It "Congress.” Dawes went fishing and kept quiet long enough to catch one himself. France needs some fellow <who can pay her debts by reducing taxes.

THE MODERN LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE ' By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Something ought to be done about the magazine advertisements. If there Is any one thing that will make the hot and tired wife feel like committing murder, It Is to pick up one of these continued story venders and see, looming before her smarting eyefe, these beautifully colored pictures of smiling women preparing toothsome meals in spotless kitchens. There are always frilled curtains at the windows, and flowers abloom on the sill, and never a spot of dirt to be found with a microscope. Or regard these cheerful ladies so happily manipulating the various washing machines. How glad and blithesome they look! There are the mountains of clothes piled all about, while the woman, who stands well to the center of ( the picture, is gowned in an elaborate frock and looks as If she had Just come In from a party—which she probably did. One thing we know, she has never done the family wash looking like that. , And how we feel like snarling at the sight of those gorgeous dame? who have complexions like roses because they have always used Dr. Liar’ ap cleansing cream. The snowy teeth that grin at us which have become perfect and white and sound by reason of a favorite dentifrice. The marvelous bathrooms where clean and tidy children play!, The meticulous bed chambers where the rugs look like nothing that was ever seen by human eye. Everything is perfect in the land of magazine ads. No Woman ever looks tired, none appears, downcast, save that poor young thing who neglected to use AntiHalitosis. No furniture is ever old, no floor Is ever scratched, no fruit ever rotten. No hfTQse is untidy, no kitchen ever needs scrubbing, no shoes are run down at the heel. The women who exist In that fairyland are too well dressed and too beautiful and too delighted to be washing and ironing and cooking to make the average housewife who must look at them anything but wild with Wrath.

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T racy Europe Is Being Drawn Together by Common Dislike for U. S,

By M. E. Tracy Resentment tpwa&l the United States—that Is Europe's outstanding impulse today. That Is the inu pulse whicl Ik drawing European peoples closer together, which is inspiring European governments to make common cause' which is doing most. to obliterate European intrigue and Jealousy. We are no longer dealing with a calm, deliberate disposition to bargain on the fiart of counting house and chancellory, but with popular passion which every demagogue will be quick to capitalize. Crippled soldiers have already paraded the streets of Paris in solemn protest, while yesterday leaders of various factions in the British House of Commons —ChurcHill, Lloyd George, Philip Snowden, Hilton Young, found happy accord in denouncing us. -1- -|- -IDebt Pacts the Reason F’-anee and England are on better ten ,j than at any time since the armistice was signed. ’ Trade treaties are being entered into with Soviet Russia. Mussolini and Rivera make themselves popular everywhere by shouting that American democracy has failed. European financiers, merchants and promoters are busy about nothing so persistently as to break and beat American commerce; The debt pacts on which' we are insisting furnish the most obvious explanation.

Eleven Billions Owed Europe owes us about $11,000,000,000, which wo could wipe off the books and hardly know the difference, but which Is only a small fracvion of what Europe owes Its own people, or that tt already wiped off the books. So long as Gernvny stood at one end of the line as chief debtor, while we stood at the other as chief creditor. and governments inbetween appeared to face no greater task than pass the money along from Germany to us. things went very well, but when German reparations failed and we began to Insist that the governments In between pay up on their own account, there was a different story. •hT •!• What We Have Gotten It- has always been our contention that, though we coul afford to cancel the debts, it would be wrong to do so on account of the demoralising effect on international credit. Except for England, how could international credit become more demoralized than ft is, and what have we gotten for our contention thus far, except hate? Germany wiped out her domestic debt through paper money v and France seems likely to travel the same route. With millions of. European bondholders losing In this way. sacrificing their all not for war. but for the after effect of war. how can we expect anything but ill feeling at our demands for settlement—we who Jiave so much, from them who have so little? •i -i- i-

Dynamite The mart Is a fool who cannot see dynamite In the situation. If we insist on such terms as we have succeeded 'n persuading somfe Oovemments to accept, every debt agreement is going to be imbedded in anger and that anger is going to last as long as the payments—sixty-two year 8. Anger, especially if fanned by unscrupulous politicians, could result In a lot of things during such a long period. To put it bluntly, we have war in the making—war for money that we could afford to lose, but that our debtors would find it very hard to pay. Is the chance to collect *11,000.000,000 or what is- more likely, only a small fraction of 'it, worth the risk? '*l* •!• + Ponder the Cards We are about to sit In on an ugly game and we/would better think twice before deciding Just what cards to play. The consequences are not to he measured by what the ledger shows. We have become the world’s rich man surrounded by a lot of poor debtors. Our own law provides that poor debtors can go Into bankruptcy and wipe the slate clean when they get to a certain point. Have European nations-—all except England, perhaps—reached that point? I do not snake these observations with any clear conviction of what ought to be done. I am one of those perplexed citizens and there millions, I think, who can't see daylight as yet, but who realize that we face a vory serious problem. About the only thing I am sure of is this: I have a boy 10 years old and I am not going to raise him to be a pacifist, but I would hate to think of him shouldering a gun to collect a debt of Which my share is only about *IOO. *!• -I- -I'Steady' the Watchword Considering the blood that has been spilled, the sacrifices that have been made and the Buffering that still exists, we have no right to view - these debts *s a business proposition. They are not bills for so much powder, wheat and beef. \ *. They do not represent transactions In the ordinary sense of the word. Whatever will make for steadiness and recovery should be given full consideration, but whatever has m moreytcwsustain it than commercial rule precedent should be forgotten.

One Dead Man and Ham and Eggs Is a Quiet Meal for, Tarkington’s Hero

By Walter D. Hickman Booth Tarkington in “Magnolia” makes the suggestion that ham and eggs* go mighty flttin’ after a shootin'. Any way' that is what our hero learns from a real bad man in “Magnolia.” Tom doesn't start out like a real Southern hero in the first act, be-

cause he had been | raised In the North and enjoyed chasing butterflies more than fighting me/i who are jealous, because Tom is in love with the same gi :1 as they. And so in | Magnolia, a Southern estate en the ! Mississippi in 1841, is the scene of Tom’s first disgrace, because he wouldn’t fight. His own father Orders him from * the house. Tom knows that he is branded as a coward. He wanders

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into the gambling resort of one Gen. Orlando Jackson and there sees the general shoot to death two men. The general then calmly, but loudly orders ham and eggs. Our her? kills his first man and starts eating* ham and eggs. Then our hero becomes the wildest man on the Mississippi. Years afterwards when his fame has traveled as a bad man (his identity being unknown to his family), he returns to Magnolia and straightens out an old debt. The girl to whom he had read poetry had kept faith in his gentleness and she throws a grand scene when she finds out that her Tom is a killer and a bully. “Magnolia” Is welcomed to Indianapolis for several reasons. Not because it is a great or a well written play, but because it George Gaul a dramatic and romantic opportunity. brings back the quaint and pretty costumes of other days, It restores the southern Conversational method, and above all, gives Gaul a chance at complete dramatic , characterization. Here you will hear the voice of George Gaul in all of its romantic purity bnd charm. - You first hear It in delightful charm and then it ages int(> a man who has paid the price to redeem the name of his family. Here is a big Gaul part, and one which makes playgoing a pleasure. Larry Fletcher as the bad Blackie gives a complete characterization, both from the standpoint of voice and make-up. Here Is a man that they are going to be talking about on the stage in the next few years If he keeps on growing and study-i ing life. Ernest Cossart is General Jackson. He hasn’t acquired the needed swagger and grand manner of the character as yet. make-up Is splendid. Mona Kingsley is an interest- 1 ing Lucy, a little southern flower who hated killin’. She plays the i role with sweet charm. Regina Stan-1 fiel does wonders with Mexico. You will have no tVoubie discovering that ; Teresa Dale is Elvira because Miss | Dale is again the good actress. Others in the large cast Include ; Harry Ellerbe. John Thorn, Judith LoWry, * Alan Floud, Victor Hammond, Kay Nasser, Douglas Dale and Boswell Lowry. From a scenic standpoint, "Magnolia" is a most interesting contribution of George Sommes. All the sets are-southern dreams. "Magnolia” will be on view all week at Keith’s. / I if v* * KAY BEATTY IS BEING MADE OVER AGAIN HERE

When David Belasco presented “Ladles of the Evening,” in New York, the word went about that it was one of those “dirt" plays. When people started to flock to the theater to see It on BroHdway or just off of Broadway, changes were ordered and made. Belasco sent us last season a t English’s his New TJork production with most of the principles in the big city cast. This week the Berkell Players are presenting this much discussed play. I saw this play in New York before it arrived here and’ when I visited it on the opening night of the Berkell production, my thoughts again were the same as when I first saw it. I do not take these sort of plays too seriously as I consider them a certain brand of entertainment. The characters are drawn pretty close to life but the situations are more or less theatrical and often two sentimental. The secret of the success of this play depends a great deal upon the characterization ability of the woman who plays the role of Kay a street walker who was convinced that undey the proper circumstances she would not -want to “cruise” the streets for a living. Kay Beatty is not basicly a bad girl. She has found 4 what she thought Is the easlst way to get money. As long as she Isn’t too hungry she worries not. Also a place to park herself at night Is necessary. Os course, Kay Is not a good product, but the theory Is that there is enough good in her or any girl of her type to go straight If she has honest employment. And an artist by the name of Jerry Strong give's her decent employment. This Is done after he has made a bet with two club companions that he could pick up any girl of this type and make her anew huma/i being. Things go along nicely until Kay learns that her artist friend has made a bet. This Is told to her by a cruising companion of the flight, named Dot Mfller. But try as she could, Kay could not go back to the old life. Os course, Jerry falls in love with Kay and there is a happy ending after much suffering. And so you know that Kay Is going to be a good girl for many moons at least when the curtain drops. Miss Elliott this week is contributing a characterization which is a type study, not as individual probably as It should be, but the character Is built upon such well-known lines of understanding that you will agree that M|ss Elliott ddes some very fine work; In a most unpleasant rcla.

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S—Edythe Elliott giving one of those fine and big characterizations of uncertain women in “Ladies of the Evening.” LYRlC—'This is circus week at this theater. Take the whole family to this one. PA LACE —Billy House and his hard working company to please are the outstanding events on this bill. KEITH’S George Gaul brings to life the old romance nt the South in Booth Tarkington’s “Magnolia.”

In the second act on the opening night she showed the soul longing of Kay, but in the third act Miss Elliott just didn’t click because, not so much her fault, but the difficulty of getting down pat some very difficult lines with Dot Miller, played by Bernice Marsolais. Both had difficulty in getting their many talks to hang up correctly and the prompter was busy. But through it all, Miss Elliott stayed in character and kept up the nervous emotional tempo of the part. She mounted beautifully to the dramatic dutburst near the close of this act. She was perfectly lovely in the last act. Here is a most difficult part, and by the time you see this show. Miss Elliott will be giving one of the best difficult char- ; aeterizations we have had in stock this summeii. Milton Byron plays an Interesting Jerry Strong and Bom Fay brings a fine poise and understanding to the role of Tom Standish. The comedy wallops of this play are contributed by Bernice Marsolais, Dick Elliott and William V. Hull. The cast is as follows: Oaivin King J. j*. Marlow Tom Staniah Bob Fay Jerry Strong Milton Byron Kay Beatty Edythe Elliot. Phillips Robert St. Clair n l! W ! ?f anißh a ■ • La Rae Dot Miller ....Bernice Mareo’als 1* rank I orhes Dick Elliott Andrew Kenney William V. Hull Daddy Palmer H-rbert Dobbins A Waitress. Mildred Hastinra A Head Waiter Tom Coyle The play has been well mounted with the exception of the studio scene. For goodness sakes take away the portrait of the man with the red tie. , “Ladies of the Evening” is interesting entertainment, exceptionally well done by Miss Elliott and her associates. At English’s all week. -!- -!- IMUSJI’AL COMEDY HOLDS FORTH AT PALACE When Billy House steps on the stage the show starts. Am speaking of the show at the palace toda’y and tomorrow in which Billy House and an able supporting company are doing a very fine bit in the way of amusement. “Hello Bill” is the name of the attraction they are playing the first

part of the *week and It is very much above the average of musical comedies that one sites on the variety stage. The girls have the ance of being well trained in their dances and songs and make things very pleasant for the eye. The show starts out .like the regulation musical show of the day and keeps it up. There are specialty song numbers

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featured by the different members of the company and some charming dance offering by Arrtoff and Louise. Miss Vera Walton, a soprano, has several songs that are likable and the fun is left to House, with Billy Riddle as the foil. A plot is the one thing a musical comedy can neglect, but In this show we have a little more than usual in order to give full play to the Billy House brand of fun. We see Billy In the character of a young fellow who has been arrested for speeding the night before his wedding and sentenced to six months In Jail. In order to get arotfnd telling his new ufife the truth he tells her that he must go down Into Mexico with the army. As one would suppose everything turns out wrong and brave “General" gets into a lot of trouble. To my way of thinking the happiest thing House did was his description of a battle he supposedly participated in during his absence. The song and dance numbers are good, but there was one which I liked In particular, It was the “Castle in Spain” number with the chorus, the dancing team and a man singing the melody. Another departure from the regular bill this week is a feature number on the organ by Justine Herder. Bill Includes a/ photoplay “Shamrock Handicap,” by Peter B. Kyne and with Leslie Fenton In the cast. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- -|- A CIRCUS IS IN TOWN THIS WEEK Am telling you, fathers and mothers and those who are not, that there Is a circus in town this week. It is not under canvas, but it is a circus just the same. The place is the Lyric Theater. Just want to tell you that this theater has its new grand entrance Just about working. When It gets all shaped up, it is going to be one of those grand things. There are two things I like in any theater and those two things a-e—grand entrances and exits. ' v the new lobby and foyer are quite the things at the Lyric these days. The new foyer and lobby give space and distance, a sort of a grand feeling when you enter. Remember that every real theater owner knows that these grand entrances, backed up with a fine exit, make a real theater. On view this week after you get through the new foyer and lobby, you will discover a circus, one of those things that you eipect to see under a tent. Done wy.h that tempo which you woold t®poct under a canvas FUxfc.fhm * the ring-

master, who tells you about this and that which Mister Pantages has assembled under his Indoor circus banner. , Vaudeville at the Lyric this week has given way to the clowns, the fine elephant and his trainer; the man who slides down a wire on his head; the several men and several women who do tricks on the wire; tho Clowns are ever present and not a bad bunch of them, and then there Is that fine riding family known as the JoeHodgina family, and I am telling you that this family, po matter how and when presented, have a great routine. ' Have Just hit the high spots and have not mentioned the monkey, the ponies and all the other little fellows you expect to see in any circus. And there are a lot of other things you will enjoy In this very clever presentation of artists. I could say a lot more about this Hodgina family and their horses. Joe, of course, is the clown and he is a perfect clown. Meaning this family stands at the top rung of the ladder. So much for the circus. And you will find also on the bill tfie presence of Tom Mix in “Hard Boiled.” They were applauding this movie when I arrived. Then there .ja a little comedy movie, one of those intimate movies showing how children dream of animals. If you haven’t a child in your family, then borrow one this week. Make Indianapolis children happy by taking them to the Lyric this week. •I- -I* I’ Other theaters offer this week; “The Love Gamble," at the Colonial; "Padlocked,” at the Apollo; “The Boob,” at the Ohio; “The Wise Guy,” at the Circle; "The Isle of Retribution,” at the Uptown, and “A Desperate Monnmt,” at the Isis.

CHALLENGE SEEN IN DEATH OF MELLETT Can Vice and Crime Utilize Violence to Defeat Law and Order? Asks Carl C. Magee. Editor’s Note: The following statement on the assassination of Don Mellett was written by Carl C. Magee, editor of the,New Mexico State Tribune, Albuquerque. M?.gee, in his newspaper fight to clean up New Mexico, has faced many times the kind of death that came to Don Mellertt. He nas been continually threatenexl. many limes waylaid, assaulted and persecuted by the same kind of unholy alliance between politicians ami gangsters that brought about the death of Mellett. The last assault upon him was by former Judge Leahy.' It resulted in a beating that, nearly took Magee's life and the shooting of an Innocent, bystander In the Las Vegas Hotel lobby, where the attack on Magee occurred. Magee's comment on the Mellett case lias a peculiar interest to the press and public of America.

By Carl C. Magee Don Mellett’s death is a challenge to America. Can vice and crime utilize violence anywhere or any time t<4 intimidate and defeat law and order? If it can there is not enough red blood in America to be worth saving. Every reader's soul will repel such a thought. Hanging Mellett’s murderer will not avengfe the crime against America. Crucifying lawlessness upon the cross of the orderly process of law alone will expiate such crimes against society. No man wishes to die. Perhaps We dread the ordeal of dying more than we do being dead. But the man who prefers that death come to him by the slow process of disintegration in a sickbed, rather than with his boots on in a fight for a righteousness. is a dolt. The fact that the latter will fight at all will prompt him to resist his asaiiant if he can. Failing, he can die with a smile, as men of moral courage always die, no matter where they die. We sorrow for Mellett’s family. They are crushed by his untimely end. But In the last analysis—in the years to come—how proud they will be of such a record. It is a greater heritage than gold. Society is the loser by the death of such men as Mellett. The world needs fighters for civic righteousness. They are all too scarce. Yet Mellett. dead, lives more vitally in Canton than Mellett ali4re. The manner of his physical removal will shock men to action. His spirit, passing from his physical frame, will find an abode and will

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become the inspiration of ten thousand men to take up the fight he has been forced to abandon.

MR.' FIXIT Time for Sprinkling th§ Lawns Announced,

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representative at tho city hall. Write him at Tlio Times. Sprinkling of lawns is restricted to certain timesv by the Indianapolis Water Company’s regulations, Mr. Fixit learned today. DEAR MR. FIIT: Can the Water company shut off your water without warning simply because I scrubbed my front porch with a hose at 1 p. m.? We haven’t a meter and don’t Intend to have, but we do own our property and keep our bills paid in advance. CITY READER. The company has a rule that sprinkling is authorized only from 5 to 8 a. m, and from 4 to 8 p. m., Mr. Fixit was Informed. If you wish to know why your water was shut off, please give name and address. TO A RESIDENT; The mechanic on the noisy English Ave. bus has received instructions to repair the brake*. •+*