Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, BOTD GURLET, Editor. WM. A. MATBORN, Bu*. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. 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.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA produces with a central area radiating seventy-five miles in each direction from the capital, more than one quarter of a billion dollars -worth of farm produce annually. Os this total hogs and cattle constitute a third. This area covers more than one-half of the farming land of the commonwealth, and includes some of the richest in point of productivity in the Mississippi valley-

ONE MORE REASON Each day some parfcof the city government adds anew reason for casting, off the antiquated form of city rule and adopting the modern one of city manager Today it is the fact that the council or rather the little group which forms the majority and shows a remarkable aptitude for putting new burdens on business, is investigating municipally owned water systems. They haTe already announced that they propose to buy the plant if possible. There is every reason to believe that some of them hdvs’ been to the east where the ownership of the company is lodged. The present efty charter under which they were elected to office and hold office unfortunately contains no safeguard against any bargains made by the city council in the way -of a referendum by the people on the amount of debt they may incur. So it happens that these councilmen, if they -wish, may decide to give the Philadelphia owners a price that would make them .very happy and put the city under a burden of debt which would make the people of Indianapolis very unhappy for many years to come. Selling public utilities to the city has* been the big desire of many utility since the war. For they have found a way to collect for themselves a few extra millions by capitalizing that war. The water company’s property for the most part consists of its pipes and mains. The larger part was bought before the war. But the war sent up the price of metals and now, if there should be a sale, the company will follow some legal precedents which are being and have been established, by claiming a replacement value instead of a cost value, and proceed to cash in the extra millions which the war added to its pipes under the city streets. The city, of course, should own its own water system. Every city should have its own supply. So important a necessity of life and of growth and of progress should not be made the subject of private profit or its supply permitted to be regulated by private interests and greeds. The day will come when the city will own that plant. But when it is bought, the negotiations should b in the hands of officials who are able to compete In bargaining with lawyers of the company, officials who have public confidence and public trust. Would any group of business men, banded together for the purpose of buying a factory worth ten millions of dollars, pick these councilmen to negotiate or pass on values? How big would be the rush of investors if it were announced that these men, who have the power to put the city into debt and buy this plant, would form a private company for the purchase and operation of that plant? Yet these councilmen are the logical product of the prepent system which puts a premium on politics. They are probably no better and no worse than can be expected as long as party bosses a*id ward politicians run the city on a political basis in the Interests of State and national*machines. Other cities, including Cleveland, Cincinnati and Kansas City, finding themselves similarly hampered, have gone to the city manager plan. This city must get on a modern basis, if it wishes to win in the competition of cities. The threat of theso councilmen to buy the plant of the water company, and it becomes a threat when left to their judgment as to price and conditions, oupht to hasten the movement to adopt the modern method of government.

OPTIMISTS IN WALL STREET It takes very little ;to start a stampede In Wall Street. Let a man with some financial reputation give out a few tips on what a stock is going to do and the stock will do it, often because those who listen hurry away to get In on the wave, thereby themselves making the prediction come true. Thus, the other day a statement, quoting Thomas Cochran of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Cos. started a rush to buy a certain motor stock. Cochran is reported to have said that the stock should sell at 100 points higher than it was being quoted, and that the earnings this year should be at least $35 a share, owing to the brilliant prospects and fine management of the company. Those who heard'the financial wizard rushed at once to buy stocks, with the result that the motor stock jumped almost 25 points In two days. But Cochran’s advice was not the first quoted on the general condition of motor issues. The automobile Industry offers a pleasant outlook. Even in conservative quarters in Wall Street there is optimism. The attainment of anew record output of four and a half nSillion cars and trucks for the United States and Canada this year is not without the bounds of possibility. * THE SUPREME COURT AND INSULL The delay of the United States Supreme Court in handing down its decision as to the United States Senate’s powers of inquiry, is responsible for the refusal of Samuel Jnsull and State's Attorney Robert E.'Crowe to reply to questions about contributions to local primary campaigns. “By advice of counsel," the head of the great public utility corporation refuses to testify. Previous testimony has shown that the money of thb public utility Interest has been contributed to both political parties and al] local factions. The astute manager had provided for the possible success of any candidate. As against the people’s interest and the corporate interest, the lattqp will be viewed by the successful candidate with the greater favor.

It Is a situation into which the Senate is properly inquiring. Candidates for Senator were chosen at the primaries and, while such primaries local, their effect is bound to be national. They affect the character of the Senate. But the right of the Senate to prosecute such inquiries has been challenged. First it was challenged in the case of the Federal trade commission’s inquiry into the cost of steel and lumber. Then it was challenged in the case of the Wheeler committee’s inquiry into the deposit of corruption funds in the bank at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, run by Harry Daugherty’s brother. Mai Daugherty refused the Senate committee access to the bank records and refused to testify. He was summoned before the Senate and took an appeal. It is eighteen months since the case reached the United States Supreme Court. If the court should decide that men like Insull can contribute to corrupt primaries and then refuse to give the facts to the Senate’s committee of inquiry, one of the most important and useful powfers of the Senate will be nullified. If the Supreme Court is to support the authority bf the Senate to follow such inquiries, the should not be delayed. The mere delay is a serious interference with a most useful function of the Senate. AN EMPTY GESTURE Not even the selection of outstanding citizens as members of a "civil service” board can really take the police and fire departments out of jfolitics. When Mayor Duvall admitted the necessity of naming a super board to pass on the qualifications of new members of these departments and give examinations for promotions, he confessed to the control of these departments by the politicians. The fact that one of his members of the hoard of safety enjoys public confidence, is hated by the politicians, but is powerless, only emphasizes the real conditions in these departments. The new boards, inaccurately called civil service boards, will be powerless to correct conditions as long as the political boss of the city is able to control two mepibers of the board of safety. It is not the men who will be placed upon the departments in the future, but the influence which gives orders to the present men, which is the real trouble. (. Obviously no new men can be named until vacancies occur. Quite obviously the boards cannot function if the men in power retain in office those who play politics, who owe their jobs to politics, and who obey political orders. Examinations for candidates for jobs is not the remedy for a condition which permitted the officers named by Will Remy, prosecuting attorney, as protecting bootleggers and criminals, to retain their places and suffer no more penalty than a slight rebuke. Little can be accomplished in the way of better service if those who control the department and its activities are so gentle with law violators that they wait until the merchants of the city, in indignant protest, call attention to lotteries and petty gambling. There would be more confidence in the sincerity of Mayor Duvall had he reorganized his board of safety by getting rid of the two political members and putting the men he named as civil service examiners in their place.

WHY THE OMISSION ? The institute of politics has opened at Williamstown. Among the subjects to be extensively discussed is the relation of raw materials to international politics. Mexico isn’t represented at Williamstown today. No invitation—at least so far as the Mexican embassy knows—has been issued to our neighbor in the south. In previous years the Mexicans have always been invited. The failure this year may simply be an unfortunate oversight. If it is not the situation is even more unfavorable. The idea of “impartially exploring the facts underlying international events”—that’s the announced purpose of the institute—without hearing from Mexico on oil, sisal and a few other highly desired Mexican prpducts is a little bit like expecting a Turk to give an unbiased opfaion of the Armenians. A true picture of the politics of raw materials can not be complete without a'statement of the views of those living south of the Rio Grande. WOMEN DON’T WANT TO BE “SWEET” By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON About the worst thing you can say about' a woman these days is to call her “sweet.” How many times when you were not able to think up any sort of a compliment for a person you fell back upon tjhis overworked adjective! Time was when girls and women were supposed to be merely sweet. Thank heaven, that time has passed. Nowadays they may have opinions and express them; they may have, feelings and be allowed to stand up for them. They may be intelligent and honest, industrious and square. And they are so *far ahead of the old-fashioned “sweet” type that there Is no comparison. For the female who is* only sweet is usually too feeble of purpose and mind to be proud of any other characteristic. She is too spineless to become in<Jignant if she is oppressed, too weak brained to hold fast to an opinion when she manages to get*hold-of one, too inane to boast a single fault. The man who marries one of these saccharine sisters Is generally bored tc death with her. She is the sort who cries when the chynney smokes. She can’t think beyond her solid silver and her madeira napkins. She hasn’t an idea ta bless herself with. She can’t take any responsibility. She is afraid to stay home alone at night. She feels sorry for herself. She is a martyr. But Just because in some unguarded moment somebody has called her “sweet” she sits badk complacently, perfectly certain that she can not be improved. These sweet women, no matter what men have to say to the contrary, never interest their husband* for long. They never interest anybody. Perhaps they may be nice cuddling little things‘to have for sweethearts, but they are terrible to live with seven days a week. This type flourished in the good old Victorian age. The new twentieth icentry woman is a vast improvement. You men mdy not be able to manage her eo easily, but she is at least more interesting while yOu are breaking her in.

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Tracy Poincare's Real Test Will Come on Foreign Debt Pacts,

By M. E. Tracy Bill after bill, put through with clock-like precision, and vote after vote of confidence, while they socialists storm with impotent fury—this man Poincare, is simply a wonder. He has raised taxes by an enormous amount, though in office but little more than a week, has provided for a sinking fund and laid out the ground for getting the Bank of France permission to issue more paper money. These are all things that any of 1 his predecessors would like to have ; done, but that none of them was able to accomplish. Poincare is not out of the woods yet, however, and he -vton’t be until the debt pacts shall have been ratified. • Thus far he has been dealing with j domestic remedies for a domestic I situation, and France has done little I but authorize the use of her own : credit for her own relief. | The real test,will come when she is asked to sign an agreement for paying out money during the next sixty-two years. \ - -I- -I* -IIs It Smart? General Ludendorff thinks the I franc will continue to fall until It ! lands France where the mark landed I Germany. I • He thinks that Germany’s role is jto pool interest with France as against England and the United i States, hut doubts if the Germans ‘ are clever enough to “fulfill their : destiny" In this respect. It is his opinion tht they haven't suffered enough to gain real wisdom. .J. -|- - Betting on Publicity For se\eral days the famous HallMills murder case of New Brunswick, .V. .1., suddenly reopened after four veal's of quiescence, has been j furnishing New York papers with . their most interesting headlines. This is measurably due to the tactics of State Senator Simpson, whom Governor Moore appointed to take charge of the investigation. He is a brass brand prober right, obviously working on the assumption that the problem hinges on a conspiracy of silence and that the onlyway to solve it is to scare the liverpin out of somebody. He is staking everything on pub licity and the emotions which he hopes it will breed. The method is a’ novel one. but so Is the case to which it Is being applied. American criminology presents no more baffling mystery, or one where the attitude of a community has played a more distinct part in balking justice. The very' nature of this murder indicates that it was deliberately' planned and carried out hy more than one person. The prevailing opinion Is that several persons know about it. if they did not actually elp commit f it. but thus far the authorities have been unable to find any' convincing evidenoe. Senator Simpson Is proceeding on the theory that he will have to break somebody 's spirit to get anywhere, and he is betting on wide and continuous publicity to do the trick. -t- -!- •!•

Dangerous Deadlock If some, sort of an agreement is not arranged in Mexico during the next few weeks, I shall look for serious trouble. The people are too emotional to endure the tension under which they now live, and if disgruntled politicians are given time to fan the smoldering wrath, things are going to blow- up. T have no doubt that a vast majority of the people want nothing so badly right now as peace, or that they would vote for any kind of a compromise rather than take chances with the possibility of revolution. But they are not so constituted as to remain In that frame of mind very long. Tt is to he hoped that soirvebody will soon find a way to break the deadlock. /-i--!--!- - A Philosophy Justified A man 66 years old was arrested in New York’s Chinatown the other day for begging, for pestering sightseers by asking them for nickels. V hen taken to police station and searched he was found to have no less than $12,385 on his person, quite a lot of it in SSOO bills. He said he carrjpd it around with him because he was afraid of bankers. The magistrate before whom he arraigned decided to sequester the money, mainly with the idea of keeping It safe for the old man. And that is a pretty good story If ended .right there, but listen to the rest of It. The same policeman who made the arrest was ordered to take the money from the station to the property clerk, but when the latter counted it he found there were two o£ the SSOO hills missing. Now the policeman is in jail himself and charged with theft. The pld man was not so far wrong after all. In preferring not to trust his cash with anybody else.' -I- -‘I- -|. Quife an Exception Montague Grover, one of Australia’s leading newspaper men, says that the United States is as far ahead of Europe as Europe is ahead of Asia In all that makes for civilisation. with exception of the adminlstraUonfivf Justice.. of >urse, exception. ;

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Leader of the Yale football band, saxophone soloist, extraordinary, fecording on Columbia records, Rudy Vallie, probably is one of the cleverest members of the Yale fcollogians appearing this week at the Circle. Vallie was featured soloist at the Hotel Savoy, London, all last season, and with the band, Is making his first transcontinental tour, under the auspices of Yale. What do the names of the days of the week stand for? For gods in ancient mythology: Sunday was the day dedicated to the Sun: Monday was sacred to the moon; Tuesday was Tyr’s day (Tyr was the Norse god of war); Wednesday was sacred to Woden, the chief deity of Norse mythology; Thursday was the day dedicated to Thor, the Norse v god of thunder; Friday was sacred to Freya, the Scandinavian goddess of marriage. Saturday was Saturn's day.

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Two Interesting Exhibits to Open Sunday at John Herron Art Institute

The new exhibition opening on Sunday. Aug. 8, at the John Herron Art Institute Is a double ■ one, consisting of two sections which, though closely allied, are two independent groups. One is the fourth annual exhibition of “fifty books of the year” and the other the third annual exhibition of “printing for commerce.” •Both were assembled by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York City, and are shown under their auspices. Regarding the quality of this year’s books Mr. L. B. Siegfried has this to say In the introduction to the catalogue: , "While the best books of this year’s fifty books exhibition —the fourth to be held by the American Institute of Graphic Arts —can hardly be considered as better than those of preceding exhibitions, the general level of quality of the books for 1926 is, in the opinion of the jury, appreciably higher than ever before. "This applies to the books that were rejected as well as to thpse Included In the exhibition. Publishers generally, as evidenced by the work they have submitted, have shown a notably increased appreciation of the Importance of design and craftmanship in the making of their books. They have realized the necessity of treating typography. pa{>er and presswork not as so many separate Items but as integral parts of a carefully co-ordinated whole if the resulting volume Is. to be, In the true sense, good. "The good books for the most part are still being printed by the good printers, as will be seen from the detailed statement In the pages that follow; but an ever growing number of publishers are going to good printers and to good designers for the production of good work.” This catalogue, by the way, Is In Itself a splendid example of fine printing. Free distribution of It has been made possible by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.” The slgnifiance of the exhibition of "Printing For Commerce,” is well set forth In the quotation given in the leaflet prepared by the American Institute. It is taken from Mr. Daniel B. Updike’s book "In the Day's Work” and runs as follows: “It Is often said (as If it were a compliment), that such and such a printer does not do commercial work, but only artistic. One may say that he endeavors to do good work. If that is ‘artistic’; and he sells It, so It Is after all ‘commercial.’ “The rejoinder Is, ‘But I mean

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printing of a commercial character, 1. e., used in business’ —the Inference being that such printing cannot be ‘artistic’ (poor, overworked word!), which, thank God, is often the case! The real difficulty lies in what is meant by artistic printing. “To my mind its means: Printing as exactly and agreeably suited as possible to the object for which It Is to be used —commercial printing being just as capable of possessing this excellence as any other variety. But most people, if they stopped to analyze, would find that they really meant by ’artistic printing’ something queer, dear, and not well adapted to daily use, delivered later than expected: and by ‘commercial,’ something commonplace, cheap, nasty and done in a hurry. “The truth is that the best presses do but one kind of work, which Is neither solely commercial nor artistic, but both, 1. e., good. Then again, in the mind of the class of customers of whom I speak, literary Interest is confused with problems of handicraft. “A mere circular or an advertisement. they say, cannot be interesting to arrange. One can never make such persons .understand that it is §ot the matter to be printed, hut the problem of design presented by that matter which is interesting to a printer. “An edition of Dante may he a great bore to execute, and offer no very difficult problem: while one may be exceedingly amused and interested by a circular about tea! To see this requires the profesional point of view, and does not support the lazy generalizations of the amiable amateur. “He will continue to call printing ‘very artistic’ and ‘only commercial.’ and rather fancy that he commends himself to a printer by so doing.” These two exhibitions will remain on view for a short time only, opening Aug. Bth ip the court and closing about the 21st. During that time they present a showing that is both interesting In Itself and an exposlion of the position fine printing occupies in the field of artistic pro duction in America today. -!■ •!• -IWHAT IS ON VIEW ’’ tO?' AT LOCAL THEATERS Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Swan” at Keith’s: "The Lady Next Door” at English’s; The Jolly Juniors at the Lyric: "Yellow Fingers" at the Colonial; “Her Honor the Governor” at the Ohio; “Laddie” at the Apollo: “Pals First" at the Circle: Art Acord In “The Terror" at

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the Isis and William Hart in “Tumbleweeds” at the Uptown. •I- -I- -ILOOKING OVER NEW SHOW AT THE PALACE If a Chinese stringed orchestra playing American Jazz in Oriental costumes and an oriental atmosphere isn't original we don't know anything that is. Such is the act of Joseph Lopas Orchestra at the Palace today and tomorrow. The orchestra confines itself to jazz pieces almost entirely, with Just one or two ballad numbers to round out the program. The merit of the act lies in the freshness of the idea back of the whole thing. The dancer present does one "shredded whedt” number and that Is about all of that brand of entertainment we see. Taylor and Howard, a man and woman, have a most Interesting collection of strange animals with which they have some fun with. Included in the array are two beautiful cats, both of a variety that one seldom sees. One of them is a fine specimen of a wild cat and the other Js one of the good looking little black and white cats that makes everyone run when they see It. Just.guess what it Is. Phil Fuman with a number of hmorous songs and a pleasant melody or two succeeds with ease. The Toby Wells Trio offer some acrobatic features and opening act is a roller skating number done by a man ar.d woman billed as the Beege and Qupee Trio. Bill Includes a photoplay, "Home Maker,” with Alice Joyce and Clive Brook, also news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By observer.) Is there a verse In the Bible that forbids a woman to wear men’s clothing? Deuteronomy 22:5 reads: “The woman shall not wear that which pertalneth unto a man. neither shall a man put on a woman's garipent; for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” What will remedy excessive perspiration of the feet? Mix 60 grains of tannin. 2 drams of alum. 6-drams of lycopodium. Use one teaspoonful of this powder to a gallon of water. Bathe the feet In it frequently. J What President was railed "the Caesar of the White House?” Andrew Jackson.

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