Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * • • Member of tbe Audit Bunsau of Circulations. Published dally except Swtay by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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OFFENDED DIGNITY—OR? The House of Representatives has called upon the Governor to remove the public service commissioners and name in their place those who will consider the rights of the public. It bases its action upon the direct charge that a powerful lobby representing the utilities of the State has prevented action In the Senate upon any and every measure to regulate the utilities. The Senate is apparently courageous enough to resent the accusation. Whether s it will retain that courage long enough to really do more than frame a -denial of utility control remains to be seen. With a certain ingenuousness, it first wants to know whether the lower house intended to reflect upon the Senate when it boldly and openly charged that the utility lobby had controlled its action. Perhaps it will decide, this committee, that the House did not really intend to reflect at all. If the Senate is really offended in its dignity, it might easily have opened the way for a challenge to the House of Representatives to produce proof of its charge that the utility lobby did control it, instead of merely asking whether an insult was intended. A real inquiry into the activities of the utility lobby would be worth while. The public, as far as it is informed at all, knows only certain irrefutable facts. They may be stated in a very few words. The Senate has killed, with two exceptions, every measure that had for its purpose any change in the men or measures by which utilities of the State are regulated. In every public hearing upon these measures lawyers and lobbyists for the utilities have appeared and recommended just the action which the Senate later took. There has been in constant attendance upon the Legislature a horde of lobbyists, some of whom openly list themselves as representing the public utilities. These lobbyists have assiduously entertained members of the Legislature. Those are the facts out in the open. What a shock it would be to Samuel Insull, the utility baron, if he should now learn that these lawyers he has hired were entirely useless and that they had no' influence at all. Insull, from the records of the United States Senate, is accustomed to spending large sums of money to get what he wants from this government. It is true that he is now cited for contempt because he does not care to tell the names of all those to whom he gave money when he elected a public service commissioner of Illinois to the United States Senate. What a blow to the self-esteem of that bunch of important gentlemen who have lived here for weeks for the purpose of taking care of the utility interests to know that these Senators who killed all the bills they wanted killed would have dene it without even a whisper from them. If the indignation of the Senate runs high enough, why not ask for a real investigation of whether this utility lobby had any influence upon legislation? And while it is probing, what answer will the Governor make to the demand of the lower house for the removal of the present public service commission? Months ago the open charge was made by the then corporation counsel of Indianapolis that the members of that body were chosen by the Governor at the dictation of the utilities in return for a large contribution to his campaign. The Governor did not urge the Legislature to investigate this charge when that body had before it a resolution for this purpose. Instead his party made it a party measure and voted not to investigate. Now those same members who refused to investigate declare that the members of the commission have not been in sympathy with the people and have neglected to protect public rights. Not a member who bound himself in caucus vote to kill that investigation protested against this resolution which demands anew commission. That might indicate that the members of the House have Repented their earlier action and believe that the public service commission is controlled by the utilities. It makes no difference whether it was framed in return for campaign contributions or not. The charge brought unanimously by the lower house declares that the present body has outlived its usefulness. , . Will the Governor dare to ignore this demand while the Senate discovers whether or not it has been insulted?

REAL EVIDENCE The Senate has passed a measure which would prevent any city from turning to the city manager form of government until the terms of present mayors have expired. There is a strong probability that the House may pass this measure. The measure was admittedly designed to keep -®‘o mayors in office for .another two years. Down in Evansville the people, resenting the administration of Mayor Males, have organized to replace the present political government with a business one. In Indianapolis a group of leading business men, backed by many civic organizations, are prepared to urge the people to adopt that form of government here. These two mayors, quite significantly, admitted that they traveled under secret orders and ai tne expense of the Klan, to Washington to “discuss' 1 their appointments with a man who does not live here and who has no interest in this city. The merits of the measure can be judged by the character of the men who are asking for its passage and those who are protesting against it. From Evansville come leading business men, headed by a college president, appealing to the Legislature to stay its hand and permit the law under which Males took office, and which would permit a change during his term, to stand. Against it are the riffraff of politics, the political hangers-on, men of small or no standing and those whose actions have incensed the people. In Indianapolis there are the henchmen of Boss Coffin and the machine he controls, messengers from

the city hall, none with any interest save in holding jobs which the people may not wish them to have. These come pleading for these measures to legalize Mayor Duvall and the present administration and lift from him the fear of losing his power. Against that measure fifteen of the leading business men of this city, whose names head every enterprise and movement for civic welfare, denounce the measure as a blow to Indianapolis. Certainly the Legislature is not blind. Nor are the people fooled. That contest is a revelation of the forces that control this city. On the other side are those who plead that men who have spent large sums of money to obtain office own the job and cannot be removed, no matter how much the people may desire to give the city a form of government that will rid it of its political barnacles. 0n the other hand are the high-minded and outstanding men of the community who ask that no law be passed which will force Indianapolis to remain in its present condition if it desires to be free. Which group would you prefer as advisers in private business or on public questions? The bill is known by its friends—and its enemies.

THAT BRITISH WARSHIP Great Britain’s decision to send a warship to Nicaragua complicates an already puzzling situation. There is increased reason for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the Central American muddle on the spot. If the Senate is to deal intelligently with this Government’s assumed protectorate over Nicaragua, the proposed treaty to “legalize” that protectorate, and the relation of Great Britain thereto, the Senate must have access to the facts. Our Constitution wisely intrusts our foreign policy to the joint responsibility of the executive and legislative branches. What objection can President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have to the Senate committee’s equipping itself to share that responsibility intelligently? The proposed visit to the Caribbean should be made when Congress adjourns. * * * Great Britain’s action is a disagreeable surprise to this Government, even though its immediate effect may be to strengthen the President’s argument that we must “pacify” Nicaragua or permit some European nation to do the job. But the political advantage to the Administration may not be worth the cost. More than anything else the Administration wants a free hand in Nica ragua without other foreign interference. That has meant Mexico thus far. But it also means Great Britain. What was the real British motive in sending a battleship to Nicaragua? That question worries the Administration. Officials properly dismiss the British explanation that the United States refused to promise protection to Britons, so London had to send a ship of refuge. The American note of reply pointed out that such assurances of protection were given Great Britain and that United States marines and warships are according them equal protection with Americans there. According to reports from abroad, Great Britain is concerned over the Diaz-Kellogg negotiations for a United Statqs protectorate over Nicaragua. Such a protectorate would affect British nationals and property interess there, which are larger than American investments. The British warship at Corinto will be a reminder that Great Britain has not yet recognized the Coolidge “corollary” of the Monroe Doctrine—that the United States is the sole guardian of all foreign interests in Central America. This Government has been stretching the Monroe Doctrine until it now serves as a basis for United States dominion over the Caribbean countries. Doubtless Great Britain with her own hegemony claims elsewhere (upon which the sun never sets) will find it expedient to keep hands off in the Caribbean. * * * • The present British gesture, however, suggests a trade may be involved. London is dissatisfied with lack of American cooperation in China, for instance. Decidedly there are principles in the Nicaraguan situation other than alleged Mexican leadership in an anti-Yankee movement, which the Senate committee may find interesting. ’there is grave danger that the Nicaraguan, turmoil may be settled in violation of certain old-fash-ioned American principles: Self determination for other peoples! Noninterference by the United States in domestic affairs of other countries! * * * Borah should carry out his plan for a trip to Central America. Peaches Browning refused to be interviewed on her return from Bermuda. The public owes her its thanks. r The time is almost at hand when men spade up their back yards for the neighbors’ chickens to play in. ■% The Lnited States Senate seems to have changed all our old notions about a dam site. Congress passed the farm, relief bill, but the only garden relief we can think of is liniment.

MUNCIE NEEDS CLEANING —————From Hartford City News If the bitter controversy between Judge Dearth, of the Delaware Circuit Court, and George Dale, Muncie publisher, results in the authorities awakening to the true conditions that have long prevailed there and which have been so notorious that Muncie is known from one end of the country to the other as a haven for crooks, the good citizens of Muncie ought to be pleased. Dale probably published much that he should not have published, as this is his weakness as the people here where he one time published a newspaper well know, but from present indications it looks like he has the best of the argument with the judge. The high-handed outrage of Dearth in arresting the newsboys that sold Dale|s paper and the brutal treatment of some of them, has reacted against Dearth and lost him much ptestlge In his quarrel with Dale. If a judge of a Circuit Court has so much arbitrary power as Dearth has shown, he may be a dangerous man in any community, and wholly out of harmony with Americans and their Constitution.

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Tracy Coolidge, Poor, Wall Street’s Ally—Lowden, Rich, Its Foe,

By M. E. Tracy FT. WORTH, Tex., March I. Lowden stock w-ent up over the week-end. President Coolidge’s veto of the McNary-Haugen bill offers the only explanation. At present, the corn belt is good and sore. Whether its soreness will last is another question. It may not have been completely sold on the McNaryHaugen bill, but it was sold on the idea that the Government ought to try something by way of farm relief. It regards President Coolidge’s veto as a blow at the latter proposition and talks Lowden as a matter of course. Lowden has matft himself the outstanding champion of Federal aid for the farmer. This, added to the strong race he made for the presidential nomination in 1920, makes him a logical candidate for the Republican West to support. It is a paradox, albeit a healthy one, that Coolidge, a comparatively poor man, should stand forth as Wall Street's best friend, while Frank O. Lowden, a comparatively rich man, should be singled out as the best friend of the man with the hoe. Paradox of Oil Another paradox, just as healthy, is to be found in the fact that a jury ! white-washed Fall and Doheny, ! while the Supreme Court declares | that the Doheny lease was tainted ! with fraud and the policy pursued by Fall was illegal. There are cases too complicated for grocery clerks and truck drivers to decide, and there are occasions when it takes a body like the Supreme Court to protect the interests of the common people. Russia’s Alibi Soviet Russia say*? that while Eng- i land was discourteous, it is willing to ! overlook tha,t circumstance for the sake of peace, that it not only has been good, but will continue to be [ good and that England’s charge of j revolutionary propaganda fell flat because it failed to include specific ! instances. Soviet Russia has a good alibi in | the Third Internationale. The , Third Internationale spreads all the j literature and does all the proselyt-! ing. When somebody complains, , Soviet Russia replies: "Why, that's I just a political party, like the Democrats in America or the Conserva- j tives in England. It sounds all right, until one digs into the facts. , There are two parties in America, and three or four in England, but only one in Russia. So far as Soviet Russia is concerned, it 'knows but one political system and tolerates but one faction, both of which are represented by the Third Internationale. Until it frees itself from that alliance, it will have to assume responsibility for what the Third Internationale connives at by way of stirring up trouble in other countries.

Asia, Trouble Zone England's grievance against Soviet Russia is rooted in Asia, where not only China, but many other sections have been set by the ears through Bolshevist influence. England and other countries played a stupid game when they failed to recognize ttie Cantonese, but that is water gone by tlie mill. Not so much because they Wanted to. but because they ware cast aside by the rest of the world and had no one else to look to, the Cantonese accepted advice from Bolshevist leaders. They have always been the most stalwart and progressive people In China. It was a strange oversight on the part of European and American diplomats that they were left for Bolshevist doctrinaries to pick up and ingratiate. England is the worst sufferer from such a condition, because of the vast territories she holds in Asia. It remains to be seen whether she can find any relief in scolding Soviet Russia, or whether she will have to start over agian and pursue a different course, especially toward the Cantonese. Lagging Senate Congress rushes to its conclusion with u lot of unfinished business. The House has done pretty well and can afford to look back on its calendar with satisfaction, but the Senate is in a chaos, We used to regard the Senate as sober, deliberate and sure of itself. Now it lags behind the more popular branch in every respect. Whatever it may have done to stop graft, the election of Senators has not added to their caliber or efficiency. Helping Radio Perhaps the most constructive bill passed by Congress during the present session was that providing for control of the air. Unlicensed use of the air has done nothing so distinctly as to spoil the greatest discovery of the age. As things'now stand, radio is a veritable nuisance, not only to broadcasters, but to listeners. The bill passed by Congress promises to change all this for the better. It should not be condemned because it repiesents more regulation. Science demands order and system, which are but other names for regulation. The kind of regulation that gets nowhere, and that we have a right to complain about, deals with moral theorizing, half-baked reform and obsolete intolerance. llow many graduates of high schools and colleges are there in the United States? Os the population 21 years of age and over, 2.14 per cent are college gradifhtes: an additional 4.55 per cent have had some college training; 6.22 per cent are high school graduates; another 18.86 per cent have had some high school work; 27.12 per cent have graduated from grade schools; 34 per cent have had some elementary education. and 7.10 per cent have had little or no schooUn& %

Showmanship of Eddie Leonard Keeps His Act in a Most Satisfying Shape

By Walter 1). Hickman It takes an artist of exquisite showmanship to keep an act in existence for several seasons. Such an artist is Eddie Leonard. He is an old and greatly liked institution of the old stage school. And yet at his present age of service upon the American stuge, he has a certain freshness and eagerness’ about him which maftes him secure upon the stage of today. Leonard is back at Keith’s this week, the second time this season, with the same act. It is announced on the program that this is his last appearance in this act in this city. Tiie fact as well ns the announcement in no way hurts business. It seems to help it. I noticed a tendency upon the part of Leonutd to give his six chief dancers all the time they wanted for their stepping. Three are realty featured dancers, especially the fleshy Individual, who really does marvelous things witli his feet in spite of his weight. In fact all the dancers score with the greatest rase. Leonard is taking the twilight years of his stage career very earn estly, and seriously. When he begs off from further work after doing many encores, all 1 nicely placed, 1 really do believe that lie is sincere to the last word when he questions the fact if lie will he long with u. 4 on the stage, but that be is glad today, that he has made people happy at this performance. And there is great beauty and sincerity to Eddie Leonard and he is one of the very few that I can forgive with ease for coming back with the same act on numerous occasions. And it is still a rare delight to have Eddie Leonard and his gang on the stage. He pleases those of his audience of this generation and those who heard him many years ago. Ethel Davis after a successful venture with the Greenwich Village Follies has returned to vaudville with material that is well known to the variety stage. And yet as I studied her yesterday afternoon, she obtained a rare tribute of appreciation for her work. Miss Davis and Leonard stop the show. Sidney Marion and Gene Ford go in for eccentric burlesque goings on. The man is the chief contributor to the eccentric goings on. Reck and Rector prove how strong one man’s jaw really can be. Franklin Ardeli calls his present act “The Man From Miami.” It may as well be called "The Wife Saver." Paul Kirkland by the use of a ladder and a company, just one woman, has an act of real comedy and balancing merit although Kirkland and his present offering are well known to vaudeville. The Musical Hunters open the show. At Keith’s all week. GIVING CREDIT TO AN ARTIST IN CHARACTERIZATION There is at least one act at the Lyric this week that challenges me to go the limit in giving her credit

Giannini Receives a Wild Demonstration Here

By Walter D. Hickman 'Dpe wildest demonstration of approval that I have seen any individual artist receive here in many months was accorded Dusolina Glannini. soprano, at the Academy of Music last night. If I ever heard perfect singing, I heard and felt it last night as D’lsolina Giannini sang a Beethoven group, then Puccini’s aria, “Vissi D’Arte," then the Schumann group, filled with tantalizing melody, and then the fireworks, a group of Italian folk songs arranged by Vitorio Giannini. From the time that Beethoven was revealed in his most glorious beauty until she completed the solo part with the Indianapolis Maennerchor singing “Fruehlingsnacht," this artist was the perfect artist. It takes perfect singing as well as brains and marvelous ability to attract a capacity house and then torn that audience into a cheering crowd. This did not happen once last night, but time and time again. In the Puccini aria, Miss Giannini was the dramatic exponent of the -'“l''* She brought dramatic

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Stage Verdict KEITH’S —Eddie Leonard is lack at this theater. Still pleases with the greatest ease. LYRIC—Jane Dillun with her male characterization from life contributes to the variety stage a type of entertainment which helps to glorify this institution. PALACE—The trapeze is used to splendid advantage by the Four American Aces and Queen. t

for iter vyork in male characterizations. Her name as I understand it is Jane Dillan and I hope that I have it right. When her act starts she is playing at a piano and trying to sing. She stops shortly and explains that her friends tell her that she looks more like other people than she is a singer. So she re.noves her feminine attire and in a second appears in complete makeup of a man. Her Yukon man is a triumph as to makeup and voice. She has real life in her characterization of a white haired old man in years, but young in spirit while looking for good young looking women. There is a suggestion of travesty as well as real tragedy in this character drawing of a man about town. Miss Dillan doses with her idea of an old man, one of the oldest in Posey country. Here she has caught the voice, the makeup and old age itself. Really here is a wonderful piece of work and it actually elevates the variety stage to that place where real artists of characterization may win the admiration, respect and attention of a big and overt changing audience. Be sure and sec Miss Dillan this week and I am sure that you will thank me for picking her out and inviting you to see this really very fine and sincere artists of male characterization. To me she is one of the treats of the season. Shuron Devries has what may be called an ambitious and an elaborate dance offering. She opens with "Moonlight and Roses,” beautiful as to color and poetry of motion. Then a man on roller skates burlesques the idea of this dance. The slave dance number of Shuron Devries. Is done with wise hut sufficient restraint. That is artistry to do this sort of a thing. Jean and Valjean are hoop jugglers, who work with great speed. They have several novelties. And the act has personality, especially when on of the men makes the hoops do the Black Bottom dance. Covan apd Walker are minus the needed class'whclh an act of this character requires now days to really get over. Chase and La Tour and company present a contrast in love making. Have seen this act before, but it still registers. Ling and Long go in for very eccentric

fire and expression, as well as the greatest possible vocal warmth and color. This artist is one of the most amazing personalities I have ever heard on the concert stage. In her more dramatic moments she lives the voice of the composes Here is the velvet voice, always filled with-the greatest warmth and -lways under perfect control. I hope it will be my pie ‘sure as well as a duty to hear her with a great orchestra. Even the piano with Molly Bernstein at the piano seemed to glow in recognition of the presence of Dusolina Giannini. I am not the only person raving about this artist of song in. Indianapolis today. They were still shouting her praise when I left the Academy of Music last night. And I am certainly shouting it from the housetops right now. Watch me get hold of her records. This woman really made a cripple out of me last night. She gave me one of my greatest experiences with wonderful singing that 1 have ever had. Now for the Indianapolis Maennerchor, an organization of which ♦

stuff. The man is about the tallest masculine edition I have seen. And he is as thin as he is tall. Gordon and Pierce seem to lack the ability to give a point to their act. It is one of those old man affairs —the old man talking to a younger min. The Weldanos have a spectacular novelty, which reminds one of a carnival. Movies complete the bill. At the Lyric ail week. REAL ATHLETES ON VIEW AT THE PALACE There are probably many, many artists on the vaudeville stage whose work at times is not appreciated to the extent that their training and efforts deserve. There is one type of act that falls In this classification more often than the others; it is the act made up of trained athletes, popularly called acrobats, who offer feat after feat that to ninety-nine people out of a hundred would be Impossible. Considering the physical and nervous perfection that these people must possess it seems lather one sided at times to see much Inferior material rated above them. At the Palace for the first half of this week are the "Four American Aces and Queen.” All their work is done on the trapeze, and it is a relief to watch them go through their different stunts with the precision and air of confidence that they have. The members of this act are Annette Richard, who, besdes being a most attractive young women, is also an excellent performer, and four men, Roy Luken, Paul London, Georgo Barnard and Ed Taquet. Cardiff and Wales offer some comedy in a burlesque Impression of Romeo and Juliet. This act, with that of Bobby and Maude Roberts, are the best fun producers of the show this week. Joe and Willis Hale went on before I got in the theater, but from what I saw of their act they have some good comedy. The Transfleld Sisters have an orchestra with the three girls doing specialty offerings. The orchestra is all right and one of the girls has some clever dances, but two of the girls seemed to be too much interested in certain members of the audience to get down to business. Included on the bill is a photoplay presentation, "Cruise of the Jasper B,” with Rod Laßocque; also news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “Tell It to the Marines,” at the Apollo; “The Winning of Barbara Worth," at the Circle: anew show at the Rltz; “The Show,” at the Ohio; “The Marriage Clause,” at the Uptown: new show at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. The Little Theater tonight will present for the first time in this city “The Adding Machine.” At the playhouse.

this city has the right to be proud. These men are carrying on a glorious tradition of other days when men banded together to sing beautiful music. Ar.d the Indianapolis Maennerchor under the leadership of Karl Reckzeh of Chicago is doing that beautiful thing. It was a perfect concert at the Maennerchor last night. Wliat is plagarism? The act of appropriating the literary composition of another or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas of language of the same, ard passing them off as the product of one’s own mind. How old is the art of (lancing? It Is general'y believed that the first exponent of the art were savages existing long before recorded history who employed it In their tribal religious festivals and celebrations of victory. When was the coinage of Lincoln pennies begun? 1909.

MARCH 1, 1927

Work Lack of Quick Tricks May Not Be Bar to Initial Bid,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: A strong suit without a quick trick may he bid initially should the lmnd contain two quick Side tricks. Before taking up the three hands given yesterday, it is advisable that the rule governing these cases bo restated, so that there may be no misunderstanding of It. When a five-card suit is headed by Ace-King (two quick tricks), no side trick Is required. When it contains more than one quick trick but not two, compensating sldo strength (which may be less than a quick trick) is required. When It is headed by Aco or King-Queen (one quick trick), one side trick is required. When it does not contain a quick trick, two side tricks are required. No. 1. Sp: King -Jack-x-x-J Ht: Ace-x-x Di: x-x-x Cl: x-x. The suit is headed by King-Jack (the strongest non-qulck-trick combination of face cards) and it has a quick trick on the side; but it should not be bid because, with no quick trick in the suit, there should be two on the side. No. 2. Sp: King-Jack-x-x-x lit: Ace-Queen-x DI: x-x-x Cl: x-x. Stronger than No. 1 because the side stiength Is an Ace-Queen, but for the reasont| stated in No. 1 it should not be bid™ although with the high cards re versed and the Ace-Queen in the fivecard suit and the King-Jack on tbe side it should be. No. 3 Sp: Kink-Tack-xx-x Ht: Aco-Klng-x Di: x-x-x Cl: x-x. Should ho bid because of the two quick tricks in the Heart suit. Tomorrow wo will consider the following hands: 1. Sp: King-10-x-x x Ht: Ace x x Di - Ace-x-x-x Cl: x. 2. Sp: King-10x-xx Ht: Ace-x x Di: Klng-Jaek-x-x Cl: x. 3. Sp: King-10-x-x-x Ht: Ace-King-x DI: Jack-x-x-x Cl: x. 4. Sp: Klng-10-x-x-x Ht: Aco-Queen-x Di: Jack-x-x-x Cl: x. (Copyright John F. Dllle Cos.)

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor of The Times: Friday a bill was jiussed by the Legislature enabling cities of a certain population to pay st,ooo per annum to a. bunch o£ windjammers to discourse jazz to the idlers of our public parks. On consulting Acts 1923, pugo 296, you will soo that every small town may linvo the same privilege at a cost not to exceed $1,200 per annum. The board of accounts has decided In three cuses that “a city cannot legally make an appropriation to defray the expenses of Memorial (see Cities and Towns, pago 45, scflj tion 214). In this city not long lnCo a petition was numerously signed asking tho city council to enact an ordinal ce providing for the unnuul celehralion of tho Fourth of July, when it was found that it, too, came under tho abovo prohibition. Is it not about time that these two acts were amended so us to include the Fourth of July and Memorial day? JOHN N. TAYLOR. Crawfordsville, lnd.

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