Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1926 — Page 6

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KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA makes driving an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor a felony punishable by an indeterminate prison sentence.

REMY’S VICTORY The great vote cast for Prosecutor Remy is more than a personal tribute to honesty, courage and independence. It represents the hope and desire of the men and women of this city for a real government in which law shall be something more than tradition and in which honesty and fidelity to duty shall be the real tests of public service. What must be the feelings of Arthur Robinson, for instance, as he compares his vote in his home city with that given to Will Remy. The approach of these two men to public office has been directly opposite. The people have now passed judgment Remy has defied the bosses. Robinson courted them. Remy has never “played politics. Robinson has done nothing else. Remy has insisted on serving the people. Robinson has promoted himself serving the secret rulers. When the election of yesterday was held, Remy drew to him the hatred and the hostility of the local boss. Robimion was the “fair-haired” boy of George V. Coffin, the one man he wanted elected above all others.' TJpe contrast in results gives hope that some day and soon, the people of this city will assert themselves and finally take possession of the! rown government. For it was when bossism threaded and attacked Remy that the people defied the edict of the boss and protested. There is a lesson in the Remy victory for other men who may desire to serve the people and their fellow men. Honesty and courage do pay. They are the tests of character which men and women demand. When they are real and vigorous, the people know and understand. The overwhelming victory of Remy should warn the bosses who rule most of the offices that the end of their power is coming. It should no longer be possible for the city police to use their power to defeat the prosecution of law. It ought to be possible for Remy to secure investigators paid for by the county and appointed by himself. It certainly should be possible for him to prosecute violations of the law without being compelled to work against the police force of the city, every agency of law enforcement so-called, every influence of the bosses. It ought to be possible for him to have at Ifeast a fair chance when he brings offenders into court and not to be compelled to contest with pull, favor and politics in order to vindicate law. For it was through Remy that the people have delivered their most emphatic message. They are tired of bossism. They are tired of Cofflnism. They are tired of trickery and timidity, tired of fear and flattery of bosses, tired of favoritism and fixing. The people have also shown that they will respond when men appear who stand for real issues unselfishly, men who think of duty instead of their own advancement, men who are ready to sacrifice politics for principles. DEMOCRATS: WHAT HAVE YOU? Yesterday’s election inspired hope among Democrats of winning the presidential election two years hence. This is due to the fact that the myth of Coolidge popularity has clearly failed to stand the test of an off-year national vote. The fact stands out amid all the confusion of State returns. Coolidge did not welcome the test. He avoided it as far as he could. Talk about prosperity, not about me, he told the Republican campaign managers. But, regardless of the President’s wishes, in every State where the Republican candidate found a real fight on his hands, he was discovered in the closing weeks frantically grasping for the elusive Cool-"* idge coat-tails. And in one State Coolidge openly lent his name. In his home State of Massachusetts he asked the voters to return the Republican national chairman to the United States Senate. In any case a vote for Butler would have been a vote for Coolidge, because Cooldge and Butler in national politics have been practically one and the slime, just as they were in State politics before Coolidge reached the White House and Butler the Senate. Massachusetts repudiated Coolidge, through Butler. This, taken with dramatic gains elsewhere, is what inspires Democratic hopes today. When all States have completed the count it may be found that Democrats have won a majority of the United States Senate. In any case they have taken control away from the Republican national organization since La Follette, Nye, Brookhart and others labeled as Republicans can not be counted in any regular Republican organizationThe result, at its very minimum, is to put it up to tl le Democratic party to produce a program for the consideration of the country between now and 1923. The country is about through with Coolidgism. Have the Democrats anything to offer in its stead? It can not be said they offered much in the campaign just closed, beyond opposition to things as they are. First, have the Democrats a national leader or the material out of which to make one? There is no way yet to tell. Os national size there appears at the moment only A1 Smith of New York and he truly is of national size. But A1 Smith illustrates the very weakness of the Democratic party, rather than its strength, through the opposition felt toward him throughout the strongest Democratic section of the country—the South. What sheer character and ability, tested now for six years in the hardest field of American politics and statecraft, the State of New York. A1 Smith has kept himself the people’s leader in Now York, the people’s Governor, working solely for the people as a whole and refusing claims of private interests in a State where the private interests are

stronger than in any other State. He is intelligent and he is honest. But how does a great part of the country see him? Particularly how does the South, home of Democratic hopes, see him. Asa Catholic and opponent of prohibition. Neither of these two attributes has made Smith any less the champion of the plain citizen’s interests. Neither has deflected him from a true course. Neither would prevent him serving the whole citizenship of America as President. But they do put up the bars against his candidacy for tho presidency at this time. The two prejudices, neither of which ever should have been allowed to obtrude in the Democratic party, seem to eliminate the one outstanding parly leader. What can be offered in his stead? That is up to the party leaders of other States. 1 They have to meet A1 Smith half way. They have to eliminate prohibition and Protestantism as party issues. It is our belief that if they are big enough to do this, A1 Smith will renounce any White House ambitions he' may have- We believe he is big enough to do this. It is equally our belief that if the fight on A1 Smith continues to be a fight on his religion and his view that personal habits are not subject to political control, then A1 Smith will be a candidate again and will fight it out, as disastrously as he did two years ago —as disastrously for the party, that is. We believe he is too much of a man to avoid the fight under such circumstances. So, if our theory is correct, the Democratic party must first eliminate religion and prohibition from its system and then start making a program of constructive accomplishment to offer the people two years hence. Stated in a few words this program involves return to the simple Jeffersonian principle of equal rights to all, special privileges to none. Equal rights for the farmer and the manufacturer in the matter of protective tariff —which means a drastic scaling down of the present tariff barriers. Equal rights for the man who buys with the man who sells. Equal consideration, at Washington, of the claims of the humble citizen, with the claims of the powerful. Equal thought for the people who cwn the natural resources and the private interests which are seeking their control. There is sound enough basis on which to build a party program that will mnke possible the end of the discord over religion and prohibition. The Democratic party may contain men big enough to do the lob. The next two years will tell. JYELL, NOW, THAT’S STRANGE! That bushy head of hair you see cn the first violinist in the orchestra is there because he plays the violin. Likewise, that trombone player is bald because he plays the trombone. That sort of reasoning sounds absurd, doesn’t it? Well, check up on it and see. Rabbi Jacob Klein of Cleveland did and conjured up a reason. It’s all simple and logical, ho says. The violinist is getting the benefit of the vibrations of his string instrument- All players of similar instruments, including the piano, get a similar head massage that keeps the hair healthy and prolific. On the other hand, the trombone player and the rest who play wind instruments literally blow their hair off. Paderewski, Kreisler, Elman, Heifetz, and many another famed violinist or pianist, all have shocks of curls. But have you ever seen a bushy-headed cornetist? HEADLINING SINS By N. D. Cochran— 1 Much of the criticism of newspapers and the kind of news they publish can be traced to a very common trait in human nature—a disposition to regulate the lives of others, to make them live as we think they ought to live. If we happen to be so constituted mentally that we don't like to read about crime, then wo think other people ought not to want to read about crime; and even if they do want to do something we don’t want to do, we don't think they ought to do it. Sometimes it is even worse than that. If we could read the secret thoughts of others we would probably find that reformers criticise others for doing what the reformers would really like to do, but are afraid to do. I doubt whether there is a living man or woman of middle age who at some time or other hasn’t'had murder in his heart. But he, or she, didn’t have nerve enough to commit It and take the consequences. For that we can be thankful. Human nature is weak. We all admit that. We try to strengthen character with religion and law. The Ten Commandments sought to restrain people from doing some things they want to do but in the light of human experience ought not to do. If It hadn’t been the disposition of people to do these things, the commandments would not have been necessary. Newspapers publish the acts that people were interested In and talked about among themselves before there were any newspapers; and human nature hasn’t changed fundamentally since the days of the cave man and his woman. The Bible itself is full of human interest stories dealing with all the dispositions of human nature that the Ten Commandments sought to curb. Some of the pious critics of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” attach a holy significance to the Song of Solomon and think it is all right. But they’d kick if a newspaper told the same story or sang the same song in modern newspaper English. The stories in the Old Testament dealt with life as the people of those days lived life. The first time any mention was made of anybody laughing, as I remember my Bible reading, was the story of Sarah laughing when, as an old woman, she was told she was going to have a baby—and for the first time. Old women didn’t have babies then any more than they do now; and being somewhat skeptical, Sarah laughed. People would be interested nowadays if the newspapers printed a story about a woman who had been barren all her life having a baby after she was old enough to be a great-grandmother. Newspapers in printing the news about life are telling about life as it is actually lived and not as it ought to be lived, if lived according to our ideals of life as kve have been taught to believe it will be lived in heaven. Moreover, we must know life as it is in this wicked and sinful World if we are to cause a better life to be lived. And we can't know much about life if we deal only with the doings of the saints and cover up all the vicious doings of the devil. Job might have covered up his boils with a bathrobe, byt that wouldn’t have cured boils. Neither will the suppression of sin and crime help in the slightest degree to cure them. We must know the facts about life, however ugly and disagreeable, if we are to do anything toward straightening them out. Next—Justice by Avoirdupois.

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Tracy New York Solidifies Presidential Candidacy __ of All,

By M. E. Tracy New York has given Governor Smith such an impressive endorsement as will solidify his presidential candidacy, while Maryland has done enough for Governor Ritchie to make him a logicul and formidable opponent in the Democratic convention two years hence. Massachusetts has yielded such poor response to President Ooolidge's personal appeal In behalf of Senator Butler as can hardly fail to dampen his third term aspirations. The obvious Democratic drift would be of far greater significance were it n'ot for the liklihood that A1 Smith’s candidacy for the presidential nomination promises to re-open a division which threw' the party into j confusion two years ago. The situ* ation is complicated not only by this possibility but by the fact that neither party can shape a clean cut constructive program on most of the major issues. The nation has become inarticulate because its political organizations no longer square with the problems they were, designed to clarify and Bolve. Forced to line up with regard t<* prohibition, foreign affairs, farm relief, taxation, the conservation of natural resources and regulations of trade combines, without regard to party platforms, policies or principles the nation is quite unable to express Itself either clearly or effectively. This campaign, with Its scandal that failed to scandalize, Its bolts, defections and insurgencies that got nowhere, its political crookedness and chicanery that will have to be taken up by the courts or passed by, proves nothing so vividly as the need for new leadershlj, and new alignments. ■!• -I- •!• Hall-Mills Case The Hall-Mills case opens in New Jersey today. It promises to be one of the most remarkable murder trials In American history. The slain rector's rich widow and her two brothers stand at the bar. "Our whiskers will grow so long we can walk on ’em before they are convicted,” says a peace officer of New Brunswick, where the tragedy occurred. That expresses the home town atitude quite accurately. It either can’t or won't believe that the Stevens family was mixed up In this'double slaying. The Stevens family is old, rich and respectable. Its family tree is rooted In f'olonlal fame, it ow ns much f-tock and many bonds and its high connections are legion. Seldom has an American courtroom, and never a prisoner’s dock, been graced with such blue blood. Back of this family and quite in keeping with its caste and traditions, Is the little, exclusive church over which the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, presided before he was shot to death with his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Around these, there has grown up the typical eastern mill town, with low wages and foreign tongues to change the atmosphere, while native stock dwindled and grew rich, or intermarried and nut on overalls to raise a stronger breed. T -!- T Common Knowledge \\ hen the Rev. Hall came to New Brunswick he was engaged to the poor but beautiful Mattie Long, whom he forsook for the rich Francis Stevens and who died of a broken heart, as It is said. Whether his married life proved unhappy, or whether he was one of those men who crave new romances,, he began to exchange love notes and hold secret meetings with Mrs. Mills. Though Mrs. Hail denies even so much as suspecting his affair, everybody else in the church seems to have known about it. It not only became a subject of common gossip, but of more or less peeping and spying. + 'l' -ILast Meeting The rector and his choir leader held their last meeting Sept. 14, 1922, being shot about 11, o’clock In the evening under a. crabapple tree on the old Phillips farm on she outskirts of town. One bullet entered his temple, and three, closely clustered, entered her head. It was no novice who fired with such precision in the dark. -I- -i- -!• Trystring Place The tragedy occurred near De Russey’s lane, a place much frequented by lovers, especially those not wishing people to know they were out together. Quite possibly Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills chose their trysting place for this very reason, but whether they did, or not, it is one of the reasons that has prevented the discovery of their slayer or slayers. •I* -I- -IConspiracy It has taken four years to break through a conspiracy of silence to such an extent as will permit the ! law to begin functioning. This conspiracy was due partly to social snobbishness, partly to official incompetence and partly to the fact that a lot of people refused to tell what they knew rather than reveal {their own misconduct. There has been lying and evasions, not only on the part of those who know, but on the part of those who didn’t want to know. Only last week, the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills \yere exhume* for a second time and examined for a third, because of medical bungling. Much of the evidence brought out in the first investigation has either been lost or thrown away, witnesses have disappeared?"*one of them . claiming he was paid to do so, a private detective who worked for Mrs. Hall | has been indicted and the whole case j has come to he bound in such a swirl of scandal and suspicion as I staggers the mind.

Herron Art Institute Offers Chance to View Japanese Woodblock Prints Here

Modern Japanese woodblock prints and the exhibition of work by members of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors is on view in galleries two and eleven at the John Gerron Art Institute in this city. The woodblocks, representing the contemporary work of Japanese artists in this field, constitute a peculiar source of study which is not often at hand, as an exhibition of this sort must be especially assembled in Japan by one who knows the field thoroughly, in order to make it a truly representative exhibit. This was done by Mr. Hiroshi Y'oshida of Tokyo, who is himself represented, by request, by a number of blocks, executed for the most part from sketches made in Europe and America during his recent visit. * The Women Painters and Sculptors Exhibition also Is eliciting merited Interest in both the paintings and the bronzes which it contains. Small though the latter are they exhibit a grace of line and sureness of modeling which gives them the same quality Inherent in all skillful objects of art. "Temptation," “The Vine,” “Dancer,” “Young Narcissus,” "Athlete,” "Y’oung Pan,” ”Kid,~Cat ahd Kitten” are some of the titles of these examples of small sculpture. The first of the Wednesday afternoon \lecture courses came to a close lecture by the director of the graphic arts. A second Wednesday course opens today—a “Resume Course,” by Dorothy Blair, assistant director, covering the four main phases of the graphic arts; xylography, including both wood-cutting and wood engraving; metal engraving, lithography, and etching. Those who have attened the previous print classes conducted by the assistant director for a furtherance of interest and appreciation in the graphic arts will in this final course have a resume of the salient points already covered. At the same time, others who were not enrolled In the former courses will have an opportunity for a brief but rather comprehensive survey of these / four divisions of print art. The course Is open to all. To art association members It is free, but of others who are not members a fee of $5 is required. The lectures will l>egin promptly at 3:4b and close promptly at quarter before five. Note books will be provided for the use of those who are enrolled and from time to time Illustrations for these notebooks will ba presented to the class. On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 6, the director will speak before the American Association of University Women on the excavations conduced by him in Sulllvar/ County during the summer. His subject is, “An Historic Earthwork in Indiana.” Resume of exhibitions. Gallery I—Arms1 —Arms and Armor; American glass pewter, etc. Gallery ll—Woodblock prints in color by contemporary Japanese artists. Gallery lll—European pewter: porcelain. lai-e. furniture and class Court—Sculpture, classical art. East Indian carved screen. Natuiv studies In water color by Elizabeth Nicholson. Palcon" —Oriental art. Stair Landings—Pottery of the Far East. Jnpanese textiles and prints. Gallery Vll—Rearrangement of paintings from the permanent collection. Gallerv VIII—Ten primitive paintings In the James E. Roberta Collection. Gallery IX—Paintings lent by Frank C. Gallery X—Loan exhibition of colonial portraits. Gallery IX—Paintings and sculpture by members of National Association of Women Painters and SJeulptors v Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Big Parade,” at English’s; Royal Peacock orchestra at Keith's; Norma and her mystery violin at the Lyric; Cunningham and Bennett at the Palace; “Take It From Me” at the Circle; “The Midnight Sun” at the Colonial; "The Ace of Cads” at the Apollo; "Stella Dallas” at the Ohio; "Partners Again’ at the Uptown; "Tom and His Pals” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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This is a difficult testi However, you should be able to answer sir or more questions. The correct answers appear on page 16: 1. Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2. What was the word used by the Forty Thieves of the "Arabian Nights" to open the gate of their secret den? 3. What is the meaning of “prefix”? 4. Who is premier of Italy? 5. What caused the death of Guy do Ma”passant? 6 Wnat is the typographical meaning of "pi" ? 7. What is meant by the expression "shyster lawyer”? 8. Who is Sessue Hayakawa? 9. What is the capital of Michigan? 10. Where is the Carnegie Institute of Technology? What is the correct way of writing the word didnt? “Didn’t” is a contraction of "did not," therefore the apostrophe comes between the “n” and "t,” the place where the letter is omitted. Are guillotines still usltd for capital punishment naywhere in the world? France still uses them, and the last person who was guillotined there'' was the French "Bluebeard,” Henri Bendru

Baby ‘Billy' Fares Quite Well at Crittenton Home

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This Is Miss Gladys Neel, nurse at the Florence Crittenton Home, 2041 N. Illinois St., with “Billy” ore of the heavyweight champions at the place.

Among Heavyweights Who Make Up ‘Angel Chorus’ in Institution. Nineteen babies form the "angel chorus" at the Florence Crittenton Home, 2044 N. Illinois St. The voices range In power according to age and weight. Some are tiny red bits of new born humanity, whose birthday is but a few hours back. “Billy,” the heavyweight champion at the home Is way beyond that, however. He Is 13 months old, weighs twenty-six pounds and only Joins the chorus when he is determined to make his wants known. He usually gets what he wants, for “Billy” was born with a determined set to his Jaw. Tho number of babies at the home varies from month to month, according to Miss Helen Burns, jovial, red-haired superintendent of the place, who is a great admirer of all ol them and ever extends aid and comfort to the unwell mothers seeking refuge at the home. The average varies from sixteen to twentytwo habies monthly. The girls who come to the place to "have their fatherless babies are usually between 14 and 18 years of age. The babies are kept at the home for awhile and if their mothers are able to provide a decent home for

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them they are turned over. Those who are unable to do so, permit the home to find good homes into which the babies are adopted. “There are more good homes than there are babies,” Miss Burns declared. The adoption and other social service work of the home is handled by Miss Norma Beck, matron at the home. The institution Is a national organization. sharing in the endowment of Charles Crittenton, .Washington, D. C., who started the movement to honor the memory of his daughter. Much of tho financial support comes from the Community Fund, however, and is sorely needed, Miss Bums declared. IJKIS ON DISPLAY WAILUKU, Maul.—Probably one of the most Interesting exhibits ever seen at an American fair will be the- Hawaiian leis displayed when the island of Maul holds its annual exposition. The leis, or floral neckpiece, is used by residents of the Hawaiian Islands to decorate arriving or departing friends. Prizes will he given for neck-sized lei made by individuals; hat-sized made by school children and leis made from red, yellow, blue, orange, pink or white flowers, with or without greens.

NOV. 3, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing K,r 25? ton D C. Inclosing 2 cents in Mtajpoa for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given nor eun extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Q, How many automobile duuihfacturcsH making passenger cars arc in the United States and hotv many makes of cars are flic re? _ The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce estimates approximately 63 manufacturers of passenger cars, turning out about 112 different makes. / Q. How far is Mars front the earth? The maximum parallax is 2f49,000,000 miles and tho minimum la 34,GOO.I’OO miles. Q. How was the Mississippi River named? It Is a slightly corrupted form of the original Indian name "Miche Kepi,” Great River, or literally, Father of Waters: Is King Arthur about whnm Tennyson wrote in “Knights of the Bound Table” a real or fictitious character? He was King of the Brßtons supposed to have reigned In the sixth cc-ntury around whom many legends have been woven. He wags.a great national hero of tho British Celts and became tho central figure of one of the principal cycles of mediaeval romance. Q. What differentiation Is there between exposition and exhibition? ( Both have the same meaning: “The act of presenting or bringing to view.” Exposition is used generally for largo affairs like the Philadelphia Sesqui-centennial. What causes jelly to crystallize? The amount of sugar dissolved in the fruit juice must be exactly right for combining with the pectin in tho fruit to make jelly. Any excess of sugar tends to form crystals and the presence at these tends to cause the whole mass to erystallze. If 1 tho syrup bolls too rapidly some of 1 Its rises on the sides of the preserv- ■ lng kettle, and the particles form I crystals which if stirred into the , syrup, may crystallize tho whole. Another cause might be the over ripeness of the fruit. i On what day of the week did Aug. ! 16, 1907 fail? Friday. What Is the meaning of the names Jessie, Jane, Mary. Joan and Virginia? Jessie, Grace of the Lord; Jane, be- [ loved ot God; Mary, exhalted; Joan, gift of God; Virginia, pure. How tall is liamon Novarro, the moving picture actor? Five feet six inchee. What is t!e “consrienee fund” of it he United States Government? It is the title of an account In the bookß of the United States treasury to which are credited sums remitted by persons who have defrauded the Government and whose conscience forbids them to keep their Illegal gains. The money is Included in the* general funds of the treasury. It* comes In anonymously. Where was Lou Tellegen educated, and is that his real name? When did lie enter the movies? He was educated in Holland and France. Ills real name is Isidor Louis Bernard van Dammeler. Ho entered the movies after completing a run in "Underneath tho Bough” on the legitimate stage in 1920. Are the children of cousins also coils ins? They are second (generation) cousins. What is the meaning of the name- - It is Irish, from "Conn,” meaning ( “of heroes” and "aill” a "wall”— | hence, a wall (or company) of heroes. , How did Mussolini get the title ”11 Dure” and what does it mean? ”11 Duce" means “The Chief.” He , is called that by Fascist! to indicate his position in the order and in the state.