Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1926 — Page 4

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BAKER’S PROPOSAL ' A few weeks ago Georges Clemenceau, war premier o! France, knocked at the door which would lead to a reconsideration of the inter-allied debt settlements. w He was turned away. To his Impassioned ailtreaty there was the cool response, ‘‘The debt settlement question is closed.” Now comes Newton J). Baker, Secretary of War when the American armies were fighting in France, with a knock at the same door. He would not only have the debt question reopened but he would have the debts canceled, and the German reparations revised. Where the ‘‘Tiger of France” appealed to sentiment —the kindly regard of one groat Nation for another in distress —Baker would revise the debt settlements because he finds thfey do not answer the requirements of logic and common sense. His argument is keen and relatively simple. Germany, he says, can’t possibly pay the reparations caHed for by the Dawes plan. That means that the allies can only pay us by depriving themselves of goods which they need and which we don’t need — goods, in fact, which will do us more harm than good, and 'they will throw workers making similar things out of jobs. To collect debt payments at the expense of impoverishing Europe he thinks is bad business. It will cripple a market wljich ig essential to the continued prosperity of this country. It’s penny wise and pound foolish to lose ten dollars of profit in the future for a dollar of debt payments now. There’s much more than this kernel of business logic in the wartime secretary’s argument. The possibility of world cooperation and the establishment of cordial international relationships is menaced by debt diplomacy, he thinks. As examples he cites the debates over whether the money advanced to Europe was used strictly for War purposes. It was needed only on account of the war, and to quibble over whether it was spent for food or guns he regards as unworthy of this country. Also he would not have us defend our debt claims as a way of preventing Europe from hiring soldiers, when we stand apart and refuse to lend our moral support to European stability. All in all, it is a powerful demand which former Secretary Baker makes at the door which leads into the inner sanctum of American international finance. It’s a demand unsmirchcd by political animus, and untainted by the possibility of personal gain. There are powerful arguments against acceding to it. TJie arguments, however, are not conclusive enough to warrant the curt proposition that “the <?tbt settlement question is closed.” The door should at least be opened long enough to have some responsible person com' 1 out arid otter the other side of the argument—as simply and convincingly as Baker offers his. THE CASE OF FOGARTY Aside from the very pardonable pride in the honor to any citizen of Indiana, the people of thi3 State should have an interest in the selection of Edward Fogarty by a committee of citizens of Chicago to go there and clean up the graft conditions of the jail in the second largest city. When Fogarty, who for years had managed the State penitentiary and made it a model for penal institutions, was relieved of his pl,ace by Governor Jackson, the announcement was made that he was leaving voluntarily to go into the real estate business. That was but a few months ago. The selection by the Chicago group was made from among applicants for the place. The record shows that Fogarty was interested in prison work, was a master hand at management, was successful in not only maintaining discipline but in salvaging the human driftwood that came his way and wa3 happy in that work. Fogarty went when D. C. Stephenson, now inside those prison walls on a life term for murder, was “the law in Indiana.” It was he who had announced far in advance of the Jackson electipn that Fogarty would go—and he went. At that time it is not probable that this former political czar, whose power was great enough to make Governors, believed that he would be behind those prison bars. He was too busy dictating appointments, writing laws, selecting United States Senators by appointment, handing out jobs to those who still fill them. The honor paid to Fogarty only emphasizes the loss to through the political hates and enmities which put into office the present set of officials and which sent to the Senate one of the close friends and proteges of this famous prisoner. When Chicago was unable to keep its criminals . behind bars, when booze parties were permitted to bootleggers, when graft was rampant, it sends out a call for help and it selects as the best man in the Nation the former Indiana warden, who was taken away from his life work through the dictation of a man who would, by the shift of fortunes, have become ills ward and prisoner. : This is wort-^remembering. JUSTICE IN SIGHT A murderer facing the gallows in a Massachusetts prison has made a confession in which, among other things, he tells of ,the pay roll robbery and killing for which Sacco and Vanzetti have been tried and convicted. This convict, facing death, says Sacco and Vanzetti were not present on the occasion of the murder.

Few people now believe they were. A wealth of circumstantial evidence has been presented to the court making it quite certain that the fatal bullet was not fired from the gun offered In evidence against them. More than any circumstantial evidence is the bearing of the accused, and the circumstantial evidence against the accusers. All this circumstantial evidence tends to provj that two aliens who happened to be radicals and who were disliked by certain respectable people in- positions of power, were “framed” and railroaded to the death cell.. Criminals do not act as Sacco and VanzetU have acted. They act more as the convict is acting who has Just made a record of his criminal doings in the hope of getting his sentence reduced from hanging to life imprisonment. Many people now believe Sacco Vanzetti to be innocent Practically all

people who have examined the evidence or even gone lightly into the case, believe It is a miscarriage of justice. This and the "Mooney case” have come to stand for what may happen under our uncertain judicial system. Opposed to this body of opinion is the attitude of certain individuals of the bench and bar to whom we will attribute an equal amount of sincerity and patriotism who apparently would rather see the tragedy stalk on to cool and deliberate judicial murder than to admit that such a grotesque travesty on jus tice is possible in our governmental system. To admit that these men were framed and that the State authorities were either so prejudiced or so stupid as not to see through the trickery would, they think, discredit the Judiciary and all machinery of government.' It would bring judges and courts into contempt. But here now is a way out. Here is a way for the courts and judges to "save their fares" Here is direct evidence by this professional criminal giving inside and expert testimony on who was and who was not present at that famous pay roll robbery. Here is a chance for the court to say, “We did not know before. Now we are convinced,” and to open the doors of prison to two Innocent and much persecuted men.

SEEING THE LIGHT In pleasing contrast with the attitude of the head of the Anil-Saloon League in this State, is that of the most powerful Methodist paper, the Northwestern Christian Advocate. It announces that no longer will a “professional” dry\attltude be taken as the one and only basis of indorsement of candidates for office. Protesting against the use of Insull money to nominate a “dry” candidate in Illinois, this Influential church paper declares: “We drys are in earnest on the prohibition question, but we are not the victims of a fixed idea. A candidate’s dryness is not like charity; it does not cover a multitude of political sins. “We do not believe that being a dry is the beginning and end of any candidate’s virtue. W know that there are other civil ideals quite as important as prohibition, and to be as strongly defended when they are attacked.” Compare that attitude with the pronouncements of the local dry leader in his appeal for votes for his favorites. In Indiana the venal and the corrupt have always tried to gain favor with this powerful dry political organization. That they might be the kept men of the privileged interests, that they may be the servants of privilege and bought in advance by those who seek the people’s money has meant nothing. It may be remembered that In the last campaign, that league indorsed Arthur Robinson for the Senate nomination and later apologized to Oswald Ryan. It indorses in the primaries despite hds declarations that he was proud of his vote for Newberryism. The-courageous attitude of this Methodist paper in declaring that while prohibition is a principle to be defended, it refuses to longer be made the tool for the corrupt because of lip service to its cause shows that the great'rank and file of real, not professional, prohibitionists, are seeing the light. The time may come in Indiana when the sincere drys will look beyond the pledges to the dry leaders of the State and ask for other qualifications than devotion to Volsteadism. Many have already been disgusted with the indorsement of many personal wets and political drys. Never judge a man by his popularity with women. You may be mistaken. He may be all right. Hard work will gain you promotion in almost any line unless the boss has too many kinfolks. The man who hitched his wagon to a star has a son who hitches his to a meteor. What’s in a name? Representative Fish of New York Is a dry. \ Anything can happen. Kid Lewis, a boxer, was fined for trying to smuggle perfume into England.’ Corset firm in Niagara Falls robbed of SIO,OOO. Imagine a corset firm with so much money: And, while it doesn’t matter, the whole Damm family in New York had its name changed to Gorman. •/ 1

MAKE YOUR OWN ANTIQUES dy MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Never before have we had so many beautiful homes and so few people staying in them. The country is dotted with lovely houses, mansions and cottages. We have polished floors and gorgeous rugs to cover them, tiled bathrooms, graceful furniture, faintly glowing lamps, armchairs, books in Alluring rows, an atmosphere of content and comfort. The average American is able to provide himself with a charming home, well furnished. And yet a large number of these beautiful buildings are merely houses dressed up like furniture stores. There is no spirit of comradeship and love which hallowed the old-fashioned sitting room when Brussels carpets and lace curtains and enlarged portraits upon easels held fashionable sway. our homes need now Is less modern furniture and more people In them. We have too many tapestried chairs and not enough babies. For the real loveliness of the real home consists In those worn places on thl carpet where the feet of fathers and sons have trod, the scratched up tables where baby have pounded, the pencil marks upon the stairway where The middle-sized boy tried his artistic talents. We are addicted to antiques nowadays. Everywhere you go people are looking franticaHy for old four-poster beds which were used by somebody’s grec.t grandmother, and for quaint old sofas where grandpa sat when he went a-courttng. And the fascination of those things is that they have clinging to them the romance of forgotten lives, the memory of long-gone kisses, the echo of voices heard no more, the Imprint of life and love and sorrow. And so, instead of making in our own homes an atmosphere such as we long for In the antiques we buy so eagerly, we but taste the faint flavor of their deep lives that have vanished. Close human association is the thing that makes us love our homes and the things in them. How can we acquire this loveliness, this charm of atmosphere, when we are always trying to stock up on the latest styles in furniture? It Is the people and not the furniture that make the home. Instead of buying so many antiques, we had better start making some ourselves.

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Tracy The Little Children Count, Two News Items Show,

By M. E. Tracy Some people think that sex runs the world; that it Is responsible for about all the great deeds, that if a man does anything, whether fine or foolish, It is because of some woman, and If a woman does anything, it is because of some man. I call your attention to two important items in yesterday’s news, the resignation of Frank Farrington as head of the Illinois coal miners’ union, and the swimming of the English channel by Mrs. Clemington Corson. Love of family, but especially of children, was responsible for both. •i- -I- -IFamily First Frank Farrington worked with the coal miners a long time, becoming a notuble figure In their ranks, building up a large following and teaching thousands to depend on his judgment. He has been president of the Illinoise district twelve years. The job pays $5,000 a year and he will throw it up to go to work for a coal company at $25,000. • “I am 63 years old,” he says. “I have a wife and three children, the youngest of whom is 2 years old. Naturally, I must colder my family und the fut#-e.” -I- -I- -I* Backbone of a Nation Mrs. Clemington Cordon, with just ber husband to row the accompanying boat and a friend or two to help her live out the strenuous night, performed a feat that only one other woman haq performed, and it was all "for Sonny and Sister." You can’t get away from the kids. There isn’t any zest or decency and strength to life without them. Take the 40,000,000 of them out of thls.eountry and it would collapse within a decade. -I- •!* T Tone Changes There Is more to Frank Farrington’s case than the simple matter of providing for his family. There is a question of policy, not to say principle. How much does this man owg trade unionism, particularly the branch of it through which he achieved'-all the fame he has thus far won? What effect Will his joining the other side have? • Will thousands of miners get less pay when Frank Farrington sits across the table from their representatives? You can sense a subtle change of attitude in what he says. "The coal mUlng Industry in the United States Is 100 per cent overdeveloped, ’’ he says. "There are two mines and two workers where one is needed to supply the normal needs of consumption. Whoever produces the cheapest coal gets the business. Union wages are too high and ulnon operators cannot compete on an even basis with open shop operators." In all of which there is undoubtedly a lot of truth, but It does not sound like the old Frank Farrington. -!- -I- -I-

Is It Fair? The problem of wages is much like the problem of, taxation, with fairness, rather than the amount, the all-important factor. A man is entitled to the social value of what he produces, according to Marx, but the difllcutly Is to determine the social value. Why should a movie star get sl.000,000 and the head of a high school $4,000. If coal miners deserve double what they got before the war, why don’t farmers. •I- -I- -IWorst Paid-Calling Farmers, according to a statement from Washington In yesterday's papers, are getting only about one-third more than they did before the war, or 32 per cent to be exact. Os all the great callings In this country, that of the farmer Is still the worst underpaid. ' I defy any man to take an average farm of 100 acres and make It pay with hired labor at wages and hours prevailing In other trades. •!• -I- -IDodging But our politicians do not want to discuss the farm problem, and they won't until they have to. What they want to discuss la some far away Issue that doen’t mean bread and butter to the folks back home. That is why they are all getting so excited about the world court— Borah, Smith, Trammel, young Roosevelt and the rest. Sam Inßull, the Chicago angel, who contributed to everybody’s campaign in the recent Illinois primaries, had nothing in view but the world court. Directly or Indirectly, he is said to have a connection with some $600,000,000 worth of public utilities, but that did not Interest him in the least, or draw any money out of his pocket. The one and only thing that touched his heart, was fear of the world court. -I- -|- -|- Shattering Ideals W 6 are having a most beautiful time killing everything worth while the war was fought for, while we neglect our own business. We are so busy destroying the last vestige of that idealism by which we Induced all the lads to dress up in brown and run the chance of draping themselves over boche barbed wire that we can't take a moment to talk about anything nearer than The Hague or Geneva. Our candidates are all so worked up over what might happen if we appointed a commission to sit in an advisory tribunal that has no real authority that they can’t even btther to tell us where stand or. any other questions.

Buster Keaton Takes His ‘Busts’ On the Nose; On the Jaw and On Both Eyes

By Walter D. Hickman Buster Keaton Is the man who put the * "bust” into the battling business. Buster gets “busted” on the jaw. on both eyes, on the dome, and even gets spanked on the parking space as triey would say In burlesque. The fact Is Buster gets slapped all

over the lot when he becomes a prize fighter. This happens In "Battling Butler.” a movie. Am telling ycu that this is a whiz of a picture. Here is one that Dad, brother and Sal’s best beau will love. It Is a real heman’s picture. You know what Dad likes in entertainment this day, nia likes, too. Here is a comedy that is so wholesome and so darned masculine

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that the world Is going wild over this one. Will confess that I haven’t ..had such a good time seeing a comedy since Charlie Chaplin did "Shoulder Arms.” As you know, I consider "Shoulder Arms" the best movie comedy ever made, and while I am confessing I wj’l admit that Buster Keaton In "Lattling Butler” is the next best, movie comedy as far as I am concerned. When Buster starts to get acquainted with the boxing gloves I think you will admit that his comedy business is a knockout. He must have taken a lot of personal punishment while making this movie. Everybody was howling when I saw this new Keaton movie yesterday. And the first part of \h comedy Is just as strong as the last half. Buster is first seen as the pampered rich son who had a man to light his cigarettes. So our hero is induced to go out west and rough it. He roughs It in fine style with a high powered motor .'car, a tent with drawing room equipment and a kitchenette which would do credit to a SSOO a month New York apartment. • Buster carries enough clothes with him to suit the Prince of Wales. He has the right garments for all kinds of sports, Including fishing and hunting. And what a comedy knockout is the part devoted to his hunting excursion. Here is rare comedy business. All of this style In roughing It is just an appetizer for the prize fight scenes. Really, I am quite sure that this is the funniest thing that Keaton has given the screen. And even when he is getting his “block" knocked off, he doesn't change his tomibstone expression. Really, this man is a comedy marvel with a way all his own. If this "Battling Butler” movie don't tickle you Into a mighty good mood, then you are hopeless. Be sure and put this one on your shopping list. Bill Includes “The Newlyweds’ Neighbors," a news reel, Emil Seidel and his orchestra and Lester Huff at the organ. At the Apollo all week.

REGINALD DENNY ROLLS IN THE LAUGHS THIS WEEK Have been told that Carl Laemmle has lot of faith in the comedy future of Reginald Denny. Here Is a fun maker, who is as quite as Individual In his method of making fun as j Buster Keaton. ’ mmmL m tipe w bich makes me roll off of my Plli seat the second he sort of a straight man comedian, reb’lng upon the jflß story and the husiness ,n make him 'swPlra&E Bn a funny man. Denny is adfep*va,K ’ inK - it seems Saji to me, in definite comic artistry ’in e a.c h picture. Reginald Denny "Rolling Home” tells the old story of ajad who rolls home broke when the home town folk all thought he was richer than the Morgans, the Vanderbilts and all the others. So he puts up a show and it is quite a show before he gets through with his bluff. And our hero wins and the world in a happier place to live In because he wins. "Rolling Home” is clean fun, nicely done and with a cast that is well selected. The same theme has bee* done many times on the stage and screen, but Denny brings new life and added Interest to an old situation, so much so that it really seems to be new. The story appeals because every boy who leaves his home town dreams of the day when he will roll home to mother and the best girl with tons of money and power. Many times he is just as broke as when he left. But the wise lad knows the tricks of the game and is well equipped to carry on the bluff. And the good old game of bluff seems to work mighty well upon the screen. The camerman uses good judgment In shooting his scences so as to give one the idea that the whole

Movie Verdict OHlO—Valentino in his latest picture, “The Son of the Sheik" in which he has the type of role which made him famous. CIRCLE Richard Barthelmess has a charming story In “An Amateur Gentleman.” COLONlAL—Reginald Denny is sure turning out the layghs in “Rolling Home.” APOLLO—Buster Keaton in "Battling Butler,” has given the world a movie which every man will enjoy. Here is great fun. Don’t miss this one. Bound to be one of the ten beet of the new season.

town is looking on. Wise direction, very wise. There is lot of Main Street fun in "I%Dlling Home.” It Is a satisfactory amusement buy. The stage presentation this week is “Dance Dreams.” The bill Includes Arthur Lake in a one reel comedy, “Don’t Be A Dummy,” American Harmonists, a news reel and Aesop Fables. At the Colonial week. •I- -I- T IT IS BIRTHDAY WEEK AT THE CIRCLE THIS WEEK When the Circle Theater N has a birthday, I am generally sure that the bill Is of unusual importance. This week the Circle Is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Os interest is the first appearance on the conducting stand of Mikhail Stolarevsky as conductor of the Circle orchestra. "William

Tell” is the overture for the week, and it is safe to bring back this large orchestra In this number. There is a lot of beauty in the score. It has volume and quiet melody as well. It gives a conductor a chance to inject some fireworks. In other words, it is an appropriate overture by which to judge the talents of a conductor as well as the orches-

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tra.. Os course, this Circle orchestra has long since passed the stage of being an experiment. It Is the established medium of better orchestra music in Indianapolis theaters. Interest right now centers upon the new conductor. It requires time for his personality and method to become the commanding feature. But yesterday on his first appearance hei showed a definite technical ability as well as a striking and definite method of'conducting. In other words, he has a sure way of cooperating with the men and' at the same time bringing out the melody as he wants it. Even on first meeting, I feel that here Is a conductor who has needed qualities which will not only keep this orchestra in a commanding position but will make it go even higher. Os course, time will tell the verdict, but his first appearance argues well. Have some more good news— Richard Barthelmess has a mighty good romantic role In “The Amateur Gentlemen." Here Is a period story of English life which is delightful. It has a certain freshness which commands your attention even through a rathei? slow beginning. It is the story of an English lad, the son of a former prize fighting champion and later on an inn keeper, who gbes to London to be a "gentleman.” Our hero finds It to be a tough Job to graduate Into a "geritleman.” It Is even a toufch Job for some born that way to remain such.

There Is intrigue, romance and lot of suspense—all these qualities are needed to put over successfully such a story. Barthelmess is more dashing than usual and he surely looks the part of the hero of the story. Here is a movie that, is filled with that pleasant feeling that here is good entertainment. I The cast is an important one. Bt is as follows: * Barnabas Barty . . Richard Barthelmess Lady Cleone Meredith . Dorothy Dunbar Ronald Barrymaine Gardner James Sir Mortimer Carnaby Nisei Barrie Feterby Brandon Hurst Viscount Devenham John Miljan John Barty Edward Davis Duchess of Camberhurst . . . Billie Bennett There is lot of delightful fun in "The Amateur Gentleman,” Dessa Byrd puts the merry

MR. FIXIT Morris St, Bridge Unsafe, Report,

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He Is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. There's little safety about the W. Morris St. bridge over Eagle Creek, Mr. Fixit was Informed by a correspondent today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Asa taxpayer in Wayne Township, I would like your aid in repairing the east approach of the Morris St. bridge over Eagle Creek, which is in had condition and dangerous to foot passengers at night without a light. The bank is caving in under the pavement and gravel covers the pavement at the foot of the grade, making it dangerous for two cars to pass. In answer to your reply to the effect that the trucks hog the streets we have enough trouble dodging chuck holes without being bothered by the police. We have our living to earn the same as the rest. Where does the gasoline tax go? Why not fill some chuck holes? WALTER V. SOUTH. The street department will take steps to repair the bridge as soon as possible. City Council will authorize appropriation of $85,000 for repair of paved streets from the city’s share of the State gasoline tax. DEAR MR. FIXIT: • Is there any way of having the property owner at the southeast corner of E. Tenth St. and Hamilton Ave., clean and keep the mud off the sidewalk on the Hamilton Ave. sjde? All last winter we neighbors had to walk In the street to get to the car line. RESIDENT AND PROPERTY OWNER. A. \J. Middleton, chief inspector of the city engineer’s department says he received the property owner’s promise to remedy the situation, but will insure that it i is done. Investigations now are proceeding of the following complaints: Property Owner, 300 block 'on Belle Vleu PI.; Thomas E. Beall, 2200 block on Northwestern Ave.; motorist, twenty-fifth St. and Keystone Ave.

“ha-ha” into her organ solo as well as the laughs. Rather think the world Is going wild over a chance to sing. They sure are singing and laughing with Miss Byrd this week. A special reel has been made showing tfce work of the, various departments of the Circle. In other wbrds it Is a back Stage view of what is done and who does It to put on a Circle program. Interesting. It takes a lot of people to put on a program at this tjieater. Bill Includes a comedy presentation, "The Kerenoff and Maree in a dance offering and other events. Here is really a big bill. At the Circle all week. * * * CONSIDERING VALENTINO’S VERY LAST PHOTOPLAY There are some jobs in this business of telling about the stage and the movies which bring up difficult problems. Rudolph Valentino is dead in New York waiting burial. His last movie, “The Son of the

aheik” with* Vilma Banky as chief in support. He made his big popular success as “The Sheik” and his farewell plcft ture carries on the same Idea. Am told that this Valentino picture, "Son of the Sheik” broke all Sunday records at the Ohio. The crowds started early and kept coming until very late. At times while I was looking at tfiis

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movie there was applause when the sheik was fighting a band of bad men of the desert for the sake of the girl he loved. It seems that most of us like a good fight and this picture has several ones of this nature. And yet It seems to me that it is the general idea of the story that makes It interesting instead of any one single factor. Much of the photography Is made to resemble night scenes. This prevents Valentino from being .too definite except in the closeups. I have considered Valentino as "big business” Instead of a great individual artist. He struck a popular fancy and as such he grew Into a commanding position upon the screen. He has been accepted as the “greatest lover” on the screen. His fight scenes in this movie are wild ones and hfe fights well. His love scenes have that desert heat which one expects and tolerates in such stories. Valentino does strike a “picture." I mean by that he knows how to dress the part so as to capture the spirit of romance. He plays a part which exists only in the land of make believe. I was tremendously Interested In the audience yesterday at the Ohio. Valentino is still the "great lover” in this photoplay. It seems appropriate that his last role would be of the same character which made him the greatest sheik in movie land. I admit that I am a little confused about the whole business. And so fate has been both kind and cruel to this man. But lls fadeout from the screen Is In the role In which movie fans liked him best. The hill Includes Alice Day In "Alice Be Good,” a news reel and other events. At the Ohio all week. •I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: Sissle and Blake at the Lyric; "The Fapiily Upstairs” at English's; Arthur and company at the Palace; "The Ginger Girls,” Mutual burlesque, at the Broadway; “The Still Alarm” at the Isis and The Storm Breaker” at the Isis.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Here are some easy questions which school children should have little difficulty in answering. The correct answers are found on page 12: 1. What’s wrong with the accompanying picture?

2. What major baseball club won the national championship four years In succession? 3. Who was the first President of the United States. 4. What colors are used in the British national flag? 5. Who Is Earl Sande? What United States President was known as “Honest Abe”? 7. What is the highest number of home runs scored by Babe Ruth in one season? 8. Where is Mt. Rainier? 9. Which is the larger, the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean? 10. How many stars are there in the United States flag? (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) WRITES SCHOOL TEST Shortrldge Teacher Publishes Newspaper Book. William N. Otto, for stiteen -years head of the department of English at Shortridge High School, is author of anew textbook on high school Journalism, Just off the press. The text, “Journalism for High Schools,” contains a glossary of newspaper terms, a style book, a section devoted to correct English and numerous illustrations.

AUG. 30, 1926

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To the Editor of The Times: ' In this column of Aug. 24, Mr. Grimes of 4934 Broadway made a comment on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which meets with my approval. Homer McKee, in a recent talk at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, made a spirited speech to boost Indianapolis to a million population. Every citizen of our city was enthusiastic over his plan for growth in business. Now, the attempt to annex Speedway City and to stop the Speedway race Is one of the biggest black eyes against the growth and popularity of our city that can be made. . Many tburists will tell you that while motoring or on vacation, If you are asked what part of Indiana you are from and reply "Indianapolis,” the next thing discussed Is the Speedway. We have the only 500mile race on an oval brick track in the world. And, is it not the greatest race in the world? Some of the foreign cars shipped here for the race last May 31 had printed on the packing cases, “For Indianapolis, the greatest race track in the world.” Is this not a booit for our city? Months before the race, all hotel reservations are taken, private homes are asked to share their spare rooms to help out in taking care of the huge mass of people that invades our city. And any merchant. In most any line of business, will tell you that people from out of town buy merchandise in our city, becausfl they are proud to display the itemfl as articles bought in our city while attending the races. Many buy articles, because they have a hobby of purchasing things In a strange town. And yet the biggest drawing card we have, is threatened to be discontinued. * PAUL SLINGLE, 826 Ft. Wayne Ave. To the Editor of The Times: A letter which appeared in this . column on Aug. 24, with due respect, to the judge who sentenced the 15-year-old lad of Virginia for tin attack upon a 9-year-old girl is, I feel ; certain, without public sentiment and even consideration. And If the author of the article has a son, or even a “kid” brother It might benefit him to meditate upon this question: What would he do if this lad were his son, or his kid brother? It is hardly probable that he would sit down and write that he doffs his hat to that judge. Shall we consider this lad a worse criminal than the “hit and run” auto driver who, without consideration of life, drives at a dizzy pace down our streets and runs over Innocent pedestrians? Shall we? No! A mere lad, who probably has had no care of a loving mother, is not given a chance to reform. Now. almoat every one knows that, inevitably, there conqrs a time in a lad's life when his ideals are In abeyance. He chooses one Ideal and clings to it like a shipwrecked sailor would an oar. He would breakout Into the world, make a name for himself and make his -parents proud of him, And thib one lad who, tjk I have said, probably hasn t had proper training, should be giVen a chance in the world. This brings one to the age-old discussion— heredity and environment. Some of you mothers, what do you think about it? HAROLD H. CROOK,' 2527 W. Washington St.