Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times BOY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. VYM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. 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 dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Timeß 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 steel mills are the dominating industry in the State, annual production therein reaching 33 per cent of the total value of manufactured products.

THE ARMISTICE—AND AFTER Eight years ago last Monday—Ncv. 8, 1918 at Rethondes, six miles east of Complegne, France, a dejected delegation of Germans stood listening to the voice of the victor, Marshal Foch, dictating the terms of surrender which they would have to sign within seventy-two hours or be crushed. Eight years ago today, at 5 o’clock in the morning, they signed on the dotted line, and the World War was over. At 11 a., m. firing ceased, the armistice was on, and the beginning of peace was at hand. But was it? Today, eight years after, the world seems just as far from any real understanding as ever. The military leaders at Rethondes gave to the political leaders of the world the no; : i^ea thing spoil in which to work out a plan of peace and friendship, but the political leaders have failen down. Today the world is filled with envy and hate, and fear and distrust. Today America, the hope of mankind back in 1918, is the most hated, the most envied, the most feared, the most, distrusted and the most maligned country of them all. And why? Because she Is the most misunderstood. "Negotiations between nations don’t mean anything," says Marshal Foch, whose shoulders are now beginning to bend with age. “The only thing that counts is to understand and to be understood by others. That's life’s greatest secret." Here is the only formula for world peace, and from the mouth of one whom many statesmen in this country regard as the greatest militarist of them all. What greater could there be for diplomacy? “We did our bit for peace when we gave you the armistice,” says Foch, in eftect. “But you who took up where we left off have not done yours." Nor have they. Particularly American statesmen. They have “negotiated” aplenty, heaven knows, but with the result that America is less understood today —America's aims and ideals and aspirations—than at any period in all her 150 years. Those Intrusted by the people with the job of keeping our relations with other countries have not been equal to the job. Europe and the rest of the world now thow signs of combining against us, economically at least. And if our diplomacy allows them to get .away with it, is there not danger that, ultimately, our guns may have to take up again where diplomacy leaves off—the yery guns which, eight years ago, were belching in the war which we said was to end war? Eight years ago the world was begging us to lead it to a better understanding. Today there is no understanding, with ourselves as the least understood of any. And nobobdy asks us for leadership any more. They just abuse us—not so much for what we really are, but for what they think we are. We stand alone, an island in atSea of hate. * So let us this day resolve to our statesmen to heed the words of Foch. For insofar £ s they fail to win for us the friendship of the world through a better understanding of us, their Armistice day oratory about the blood we spilled on Flanders field is just so much meaningless twaddle.

A CH ANGE NEEDED Each and every day brings forth its incident which suggests that Indianapolis needs a change of its form of government if it is to function properly in behalf of its citizens. The mayor, perhaps, gave the greatest reason of all for a very speedy change when he went before the Reed senatorial committee and admitted that he owed a very high allegiance to a man who does not reside in this city. Mayor Duvall there swore that he took money from the treasury of the hooded order and traveled to Washington when a mere gesture was made by a wizard. He swore that he did not know why he went when he started, but that he trotted along much as a slave of other days\when his master called. He never questioned the purpose and he did not hesitate. He simply went. So that it would appear that this city is no longer governed from Indianapolis, for the mayor admitted that when he arrived this super master gave his orders or suggestions as to the appointments the mayor would make. It was not shown that this wizard had any interests in this city, except to rule it, but it was made very evident that the mayor of this city has an allegiance higher than that which he gives to the people of this city. That alone ought to hasten the movement to change this present government and adopt one which wotjld make it more difficult for the partnership of a foreign ruler and a local boss to get away with power Other growing cities have adopted the city manager form of government as a solution for their escape from similar burdens of inefficiency and boss control. It has been found to work. The people are protected when they face such menaces as the light merger. The political lawyers find it harder to operate and taxes go down.. ''’he large cities of Cleveland and Cincinnati and Kansas City, to say nothing of hundreds of small towns, testify to the good results from such a change. And if any city ever needed a change, it is Indianapolis and now, before too many burdens are added to the long suffering public. Why not make the city a Christmas present of the city manager form of government and to the present administrator* a gift of freedom to follow their personal pleasures unhampered by any official titles? HOW MUCH WOULD YOU GET? There is sound sense in the following comment on the Coolidge proposal to refund 10 per cent of Federal income taxes this year. It is offered by Basil M. Manly, director of the people’s legislative service in Washington: "In 1924, the latest year for which we have com-

plete statistics, there werd 344,876 taxpayers with incomes under SI,OOO, who paid an average tax of 42 cents each. Under the‘Coolidge scheme they would get a refund of only 4 cents each. It would cost the "Treasury at least 20 cents apiece to look up the returns, calculate the refunds, make out the checks and mail them to the taxpayers. The only thing for the taxpayers to do with their 4-cent checks would be to frame them as a memorial to governmental stupidity. “There were 4,871,760 taxpayers with Incomes under $3,000, who paid an average tax of $4.27. They would get checks for 42 cents, at a cost to the Treasury of about 20 cents each. “In the meantime, Congress would spend ten million dollars’ worth of time deciding whether the refund should be made.l^ THE FLOATING UNIVERSITY It woulff-seem that the Floating University got into deep and perilous waters when it reached Japan of late. The Floating University, it may be recalled, is the brain child of President Emeritus Charles Thwing of Western Reserve University. There is a faculty of 62, about 500 students, and executive officials galore on the S. S. Ryndham, which is sailing around the world to give the youth of America a liberal education. All went well until Japan. Then, it seems, things went quite wrong, from the faculty point of view, If not from that of the body student. The students would go ashore. Faculty said no. The students, therefore, launched their own landing boats and went ashore. ( Some alarm-may be expressed by the older generation at this latest manifestation of “wild and rebellious and lawful youth." A pertinent question, however, might be whether a youth is not only normal which wants to see a strange land it may never Bee again, authority to the contrary. Since we liv© in an age aggressive, youth with aggressive ideas of its own will not come amiss. * __ President and Mrs. Coolidge went clear to North ampton to vote. The party must be worse off than we supposed. Ty Cobb, who Is hunting in the Rockies, resigned as Detroit manager. Maybe the young man missed a shot. Famous last lines: “Be sure to burn this letter as soon as you’ve read it.” Retail merchants say men shoppers are better sports than women, according to a magazine article. Probably that’s because they’re not professionals. Headlines you never see: WALL STREET BROKER HELD FOR RED,SPEECH. No, he hasn’t been smoking cigarets—those are walnut stains. Forbidding college students to use automobiles reminds u sthat words like “verboten” do occasionally bounce back, no matter how hard they havp been stepped on. Goods bought on time sometimes are paid for lateConsider the football referee. The odds are 22 to 1 against him, yet he usually wins. Headlines you never see: “SPEND, SPEND!” COOLIDGE TELLS FEDERAL BUREAUS.

PROTESTANTS, NORTH AND SOUTH By N. D. Cochran 1 It’s just as well that the Democrats didn’t get control of Congress. The leadership they have had on tap there for several years gives the country no assurance that they would know what to do with control if they had it. L<ack of leadership in recent years Is probably the, reason they were not given control. There was enough soreness against the Republicans, but it was offset to some extent by lack of confidence in the Democrats. Anyhow the progressive Republicans hold the balance of power In the Senate, and that Isn’t a bad thing for Jeffersonian democracy. Spell it with the little "and.” They seem to be more interested in the liberties of the people, along Jeffer-, sonian lines, than most of the wooden-headed Democrats. Democrats have little reason to get cocky over the results of the late election. It doesn’t mean a thing in the next presidential election unless the solid South gets its Democratic nose out (?om between Wayne Wheeler’s thumb and forefinger. Smith didn’t win in New York because he was a Democrat or because he happened to attend worship at a Catholic church. Neither did Dave Walsh in Massachusetts. Both won In spite of all the prejudice In both New York and Massachusetts against the Democratic party and the Catholic church. Both would have been defeated if It hadn’t been for the support of Protestant Republicans. Protestant Republicans In New York and Massachusetts have taught Protestant Democrats in the solid South a valuable lesson in tolerance. In New York, A1 Smith. Catholic, and Bob Wagner, Methodist, trotted arm in arm to victory. Both were strong because of their vital humanity and their pfoven devotion to democracy and the interests of wflht Lincoln was pleased to term the plain people. Neither did Smith and Wagner win merely because they were wet: for both Wadsworth and Mills were equally wet, although a bit more timid about it than their Democratic opponents. That makes the value of their honesty and integrity as faithful representatives of ALL of the people stand out all the more promt nently. ( y Smith’s first official act after election, made before he got his rest following a hard campaign, was to get busy in an effort to save Protestants, North and South. If the national Democratic party hopes to get anywhere in 1928 now is a good time for its leaders to begin an intensive study of the Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the life and political principles of Thomas Jefferson. I would recommend particularly a study of the first amendments to the Constitution, put there largely by Jefferson and known as the bill of rights. The blow-up of the Coolidge prosperity myth oJ Nbv. 2 indicates that the people of this country are not interested in bread alone. There are things of the spirit that are quite as important. And leaders must be much more than all wet or all dry to appeal to the imagination of a free people who have hot yet abandoned all of their ideals.

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Tracy Tyranny, Not Democracy, Has Progressed Since Armistice,

By M. E. Tracy The eighth anniversary of peace finds conditions far different from what people were led to believe they would be. There is a “new order," to be sure, but it is not the kind that was so loudly proclaimed when the boys marched away. Mussolini and bolshevism have become the two outstanding features of "a world saved for democracy.” One is no less repugnant to American ideals than the other, but some folks fail to see it that way. We have grown measureably tolerant of despotism. Sympathizers with red Russia are treated, or maltreated, as undesirables, while sympathizers with the Italian regime receive only the politest attention. Tyranny has made far more progress than communism since, the armistice was signed, and has come to be a far more definite menace to the form of Government which we I enjoy, but fear of the latter still blinds us. We are still more afraid of the ! Countess Karolyi than of the Roumanian Queen -I; -I-Court-Maitial Rule Italy has become a land of drumhead court-martials. There la no such thing as local self-government anymore, or freedom of the press, or civil liberty, or the right of trial by Jury, or a dozen other guarantees of personal protection which we have been taught to cherish. If a town needs anew mayor, Mussolini appoints one. If a newspaper disagrees with any of -his plans or policies it is suspended. If underpaid laborers so much as think of striking, they are jailed. If citizens go no farther than to hold an anti-Fascist meeting, it is a conspiracy. -I- -I- •!• . Greater Than Napoleon Some Americans think not only that the Mussolini way is all right for Italy, but that something of the sort might ho food for this country, j ilrvin Cobb comes back from Europe to pronounce II Duce a great man, greater tlun Napoleon, perhaps. Conservative papers, as they like to be called, are never more, than mildly critical, while Washington seldom overlooks an opportunity to show the black-shirted despotism particular consideration. , -|. -|- -|. More Royalists Armistice day. 1926. finds more royalists in these United Statas, more people ready to applaud a tyrant of the fourteenth century brand than to advocate the doctrines of Karl Marx. If any one had predicted that this would be the case eight years ago, he would have been laughed to scorn, if not mobbed. We were loud in condemnation of militarism and autocracy then, and louder still in clamoring for revolution, republics and an order that would do justice by the masses of mankind. Where has t-he dream fied, and why? •I- -I- + What Did We Promise? What was it we told the mother when we took her boy and dressed i him up in brown? What was it we told the boy him- J self when we put a gun in his hands and sent him overseas to bleed to ! death on a barbed wire entangle- j ment, or be gassed and come back \ a coughing shadow, as the exigencies of the battle might decree? What was it we told the stenographer when she bought a Liberty bond, or the housewife when her sugar ration was cut down? What was it we told the nations of the earth—enemies as well as allies —when we unfurled the flag and broke a precedent that had guided this Government since the day it came into existence? •I- I- IThe League of Nations The soldier stood by his guns, but the politician hasn't. Those who made war did their work well, as the crosses on a thousand hiHsides prove, but those to whom the task of making such a peace as would justify the war was left, have played a piker's game. The league of Nations, by which we profess to set so much store, has degenerated into little more than a statistical bureau. We make Its Impotent meddling an excuse for not entering, yet if we had placed the part tlyit was not only our by right and responsibility, but that, we virtually demanded, who knows what a constructive force it might have become. Why We Admirie The secret of our admiration of such men as Mussolini is the fact that they possess a courage and consistency in the pursuit of their convections that our leaders lack. Our leaders have done nothing so distinctly since Woodrow Wilson died as to throw convictions and consistency into the wastebasket. Asa matter of common sense, we have left over from the war worth standing for, no program wo* th carrying out, no purpose or policy big enough to challenge the spirit of America. Fornix years we have twiddled our thumbs for want of an objective and have grown more and more disgusted with our own inaction. Our frame of mind Is reflected in the slang of the times—"dumb-bells,” "dumb Dora,” "flapper,” “jellybean.” Who killed Mary' Phagan and was thfc murderer ever punished? Mary Phagan was a young girl employed in a pencil factory, in Atlanta, Georgia. Her murdered body was found April 27. 1913. Leo Frank was convicted of the killing. Tie was taken from Georgia State Prison by a mob Aug. 17, 1915 and lynched.

Kelso Brothers and Their New ‘Crazy. Quilt Revue’ on View at Palace Today

Two years ago the Kelso brothers ( brought their “Crazy Quilt Revue.” a combination of four distinct act*, to the Palace Theater and made such a hit that they were kept a whole week. For the last half of this week this company his been engaged again and promises to repeat its first performance. This year the company Is presenting anew “Crazy Quilt,” and this one Is said to be as full of disAs “The Hur” T ••• :£*:> •*** Ramon Novarro Last night English’s had absolute capacity for "Ben-Hur,” movie version of the stage play and novel. Ramon Novarro Is seen as Ben-Hur. A great performance. On view each afternoon and each night this week at English’s.

ferent kinds of entertainment as the one formerly offered. With the Kelso brothers are Billy T>e Lisle and his company, who jug-' gle and perform other feats in their “Variety of Surprises.” The life that is found around a circus is portrayed in the skit, “Outside the Circus Tent.” This is presented by people who have had some connection with circus life and who know all the funny things that happen there. Inside the tent are found Capt. Louis Furtell’s jungle lions, which are put through their tricks. Henry Catalano, Itnown as the International character delineator, is presenting his "Italian Sweets,” an up-to-date song and dance revue, with the Strum sisters and three other performers. “The Clinging Vine," with Leatrice Joy and Tom IVloore, is the film dealing with a very business like young woman who is a genius in solving business puzzles, but who is a “blockhead” when it comes to making love. Pathe News, a comedy and topics of the day are the reels. -I- -h IWHISTLER JOINS TALENT HUNT One can whistle their way before the spotlight as easily as any other way and now comes Miss Eva S. Hochman, 1414 E. Ohio St., a whistler, who has broadcast from WLW at Cincinnati and who has appeared frequently in amateur entertainments. Miss Hochman is

Trials of a Corporal H, MAMA!” lamented Ed Kennedy, who plays the corporal in the Warner picture. "The Better ’Ole,” starring Syd Chaplin, as he crawled from one muddy shell-hole to the next. “I guess this is what they mea.n when they talk about corporal punishment.”

studying music and hopes, through the Ardath-Times talent hunt, to be given a chance to show fifcr ability before Fred Ardath, vaudeville star who opens at the Palace, .Sunday afternoon. Ardath desires new talent for his productions and The Times is assisting in rounding up all likely talent In the city and State. If you are theatrically inclined in any way, send your photo, name, address, age, phone number and an account of previous stage training, if any. aijfd an account of training received, if any, to Fred Ardath, Palace Theater, Indianapolis. If you are of sufficient talent and ability a tryout on the Palace stage awaits you. Talent of merit will be placed in the circuit of theaters. This Is a rare opportunity for young actors and actresses with something new and it may be the opportunity for which older persons of talent and ability have waited long for. I- -I- *l* Other theaters today offer: "BenHur” at English’s: "Abie’s Irls> Rose” at the Murat; Fall Festival Show at Keith’s: "Yip, Yip Yaphangers” at the “The Cave Man” at Sanders; “Wild Oats Lane” at the South Side; "Private Izzy Murphy” at the Colonial; “The Four Horsemen” at the Apollo; “Atta poy” at the Ohio: “One Minute to Play" at the Circle; "Don Juan’s Three Nights” at the Uptown; new show at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual. The Little Theatre Society opened its season last nfght by presenting “Enchanted April” for the first of three times this week. It will be repeated Friday and Saturday night.

Farce Comedy Tiffany Productions, Inc., announces that filming has started on the special production, “Redheads preferred," by Douglas Bronson, a farce comedy. The cast so far signed for some of the principal roles Includes Marjorie Daw, Theodore Von Eltz, Raymond Hitchcock. Cissie Fitzgerald and Leon Holmes.

RADIO AUDIENCE i WILL HELP SING OLD-TIME TUNES \ Unique Feature Arranged for Times Program Friday. By Walter D. Hickman Telephone calls and messages prove i the fact that hundreds of Indianapolis citizens as weii as those in other Indiana cities and town will take part In the Times great radio sining festival of ol dtime tunes Friday night over WFBM from the Severin. At 9:30 p. m. Friday from the studio at,the Severin, Carl Fohl will ask the many listeners to take out their old song books and sing In their homes with the artists over the radio. Different community groups of singers, pianists and soloists will take part In this great singing-at-honie over the radio adventure. Let there be music in every home that there is a radio Friday night. All you have to do is to sing in your own home with thA voices of the radio artists as they come out of your loud speaker. Follows Many Requests For many months, requests have been received for such an adventure and The Times will gladly devote the first thirty minutes of its program to this unique IdeaPractice up on old favorites as “Love’s Sweet Song,” "Sweet Bunch of Daisies,” “Down by the Old Mill Stream,” “Dixie,” "The Arkansas Traveler,” “Turkey in the Straw” (you can whistle this one), “When You and I Were Young, Maggie." “The Old Oaken Bucket” and as many others as the artists have -time for. So get around your loud sneaker ar.d put new nunch and enthusiasm in your radio reception. New Orchestra to Play The last hour of The Times program'Friday night will be devoted to Stork’s Roval Vagabonds, an orchestra new to radio fans hero. This orchestra is composed of Alonzo Eidson. trumpet: Clarence Waldron, sousaphotie; Harry Eidson, piano; Ward Hackleman, saxophone; Fred Seward, trombone; Wayne Hackleman, banjo; Paul Eidson, drums; George L. Stork, director and saxophone, and Bewerf Eidson, saxophone and violin. This fine orchestra has arranged a program of at least fifteen numbers. Mr. Stork, the director, is formerly

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•The name of the woman in the accompanying picture has appeared in the headlines of many newspapers during the past few years. The correct answers' to these" questions appear on page 16; 1. Who is the woman shown in the picture? 2. Who wrote the novel, “Show Boat?” - r 3. How many nights are there In the stories of the "Arabian Nights?” 4. Who wonrihe Raphael Herman peace prize? 6. Where was the first university in the German Empire? 6. What Is a moray? # 7. What system of municipal government has Kansas City, Mo.? 8. Is the earth the largest celestial globe? 9. What was Mark Twain’s real name? 10. In what State is the source of the Mississippi River?

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Feodor Chaliapin The first appearance of Feodor Chaliapin in Indianapolis will occur on Monday night, Dec. 6, at the Murat In “The Barber of Seville,” under the direction of Ona B. Talbot.

of Kansas City, Mo., where he was prominent in musical circles and where he broadcast many times. A Baldwin grand will be used in all numbers. Those taking part in the old-fashioned song revival will be announced in Friday’s Times.

Studio Shorts

The dates on which the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra will broadcast, during the winter are announced as follows, Nov. 25, Dec. 16 and 23, Jan. 13 and 27, March 3 and 31, and April 21. Eight concerts out of a series of nine are still to be broadcast. The first one was put on the air Oct. 25. At present four Chicago stations are scheduled to broadcast the ArmyNavy football game to be played In Chicago Nov. 27. They will be WON, WMAQ, KYW and WEBH. The game is expected to begin at about 1:30 central standard t me. The Department of Commerce has issued a license to another experimental radio station for broadcasting development. The recruit is the property of the Bell Telephone Company. Call letters are 3N. The station will operate after midnight only. JOINT POSTAL SESSION Clerks’ Federation and Auxiliary Will Meet Sunday. Joint meeting with the women’s auxiliary will be held by local No. 130, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks Sunday at the Denison to observe the enth anniversary of the local organization. A concert by the postoffice band and speeches by organization leaders will be part of the program. Nominations for candidates for offices will be made. The election will be next month

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Questions and Answers

You can get nn answer to any ones ( tion of fact or information by writing to 'Hie Indianapolis Times Washington I Bureau. 1322 New York Av.. Washing. ’ ton, I>. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal ami marital advice cannot bo given nor oan extended research be undertaken. All other 1 ullestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot t>o answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. Where was Ruth Oniger killed, > and was her murderer caught? She was Murdered in New York | City during February, 1917. Alfred J Cocchl, the murderer, escaped and j fled to Italy. The girl's body was! discovered 'buried in the cellar of j Cocchi’s shop. After long delays and an effort to, extradite Cocchl from Italy, which was refused by the Italian government, he was finally tried In Italy in October, 1920, and was convicted and sentenced to serve twenty-seven years in prison. How many mentally defective, j crippled and dependent children are' being cared for by private and pub' lie agencies in the United States? A recent publication of the \ Children’s Bureau of the United 1 States Department of Labor states 1 that approximately 218,000 dependent' children are under care of private j and public agencies and Institutions; 200,000 crippled, deaf or hlind i children are in hospitals and special ' schools; 135,000 mentally defective I children are In special schools and I other private and public institutions! and 130,000 children are given pub-i lie aid in their own homes each year! by the States. Did the word "com” formerly have a significance other than the 1 cereal that It now represents? “Corn" is an English word of long; standing. Os old It meant any small j hard granule. Pepper corn Is one j survival while “corned” beof Is another. "Corned” meat gets its name from the fact that it was first prepared with coarse grains of salt —salt corns. "Acorn” Is so called because early Englishmen naturally mistook Its derivation to he fromj "oak-corn.” Tt. is generally accepted , that America gave “Indian corn” to, the world. A few students have' supported the theory that, the plant came from Asia to Europe and from 1 America, to Europe about the same' time, soon after the discovery of' America. There is, however, no gen-! ©rally accepted record that maize ex | lsted in Asia before the beginning' of the 16th century while on the con trary it is known to have been cul j tivated in America many centuries' before the arrival of Columbus Why do the sun and the moon a.p- t pear larger when on the horizon j iiian directly overhead? T*he sun and moon seem larger; near the horizon due to an optica!| Illusion. The horizon appears more; distant than the zenith because the eye rests upon many'objeots by the way. The sun or moon on the horizon seem large because their distance is apparently greater and the mind unconsciously reasoning that being so much farther away, these objects must be larger in order to look the same. What does “Radius vector" mean in astronomy? The distance from a fixed origin to any point of a curve, specifically, In astronomy, a line from a center of attraction to a body describing an orbit about tt. How many churches of all denominations are there In the United States? Approximately 387,945.