Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1927 — Page 4

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“No Comment” The only citizen of Indiana who has nothing to say about the check published in The Times* on Monday is the Governor of Indiana. That is significant and unusual. The check was made to Ed Jackson. Its indorsement bears the name of Ed Jackson. The signature appears to be genuine. The check was cashed. The newspaper which has consistently and at all times supported Governor Jackson asked him about it. He told that newspaper that he had already made his comment. It reprinted from its files of October 14, 1926, its interview with the Governor which said that any statement that he had received a check for $5,'000 or any sum as a gift or for carapagin purposes was an absolute lie. The Times has printed the note written by Stephenson in the Noblesville jail. That note says that this check was onefourth of ten thousand dollars given to Jackson personally for the expense of his primary campaign. That makes the issue plain and clear. The report of the Governor shows no such personal expenditures in the primary campaign. That report was sworn to. Stephenson, by this note, becomes the accuser of the Governor. And the Governor says he has no comment to make. But if the Governor has no comment to make the warden of the penitentiary who holds Stephenson in his custody makes emphatic comment by his actions. y Within a few hours after The Times had printed this document, an attorney for Stephenson violently clashed with the warden. He says that the warden refused to permit him to take away from the prison written orders from Stephenson to those who were his former lieutenants and who may be presumed to have the documents for which the State has sought, aside from those now in the custody of The Times. What was the purpose of this action? AYas it to assist the State in obtaining documents for purposes of clearing up the scandal which has cloaked this State for months or was it for the purpose of getting possession of those documents to protect those they might implicate ? If the answer be interpreted from past activies of officials since Stephenson / first smuggled out his accusation, the people have it. They will believe that there is a very deep interest in suppressing those documents and in making it difficult for any sincere official, prosecuting or legislative, to obtain these documents. Evidently The Times was mistaken when it announced that (he reign of secrecy and suppression had ended and that now there will be ■light and openness. But The Times is not mistaken in its belief ■that the people of this State will not be content fto let the Governor maintain what he calls a *'policy of silence.” It was demonstrated that there was a check. It has a note which gives the version of Stephenson as to its use. The Times has been informed that friends ©f the Governor have an explanation, but that the explanation has not as yet been fully agreed upon. That rumor which is going over the .State is itself unfortunate. That the Governor should dally along the highways in a motor while the State demands a clear, open and frank statement is inconceivable and unbearable. AVhat must be the feelings of the Republican members of the Legislature who, last winter, adopted as a “party measure” at a caucus a resolution to oppose any investigation of Stephenson, the funny grand jury and all the phases of this scandal. Every one of those members, whether dominated by the lash of party leaders or their own fears, now has a responsibility. They placed upon their party the odium of suppression when the people were demanding facts. They have made their party the fence for any hidden and secreted “goods.” Do those members want another chance? Are they satisfied with the official statement of “no comment?” Are they content to let these violent outbursts and actions of the warden of the prison speak for them? • If the warden can be so rough with an attorney, what is his attitude toward his prisoners? Those members of the Legislature who were tied by a party caucus in the last Legislature have a day in which to redeem themselves. A petition signed by those Republican legislators who refused to investigate last winter, asking for a special session and another < hance to restore themselves to public confidence, is their only salvation. The Governor is silent. Will the Legislature dare to follow his examj^et

A Face and a Soul He went to prison a tough-faced little devil, who spat out curses at the guards from the corner of a drooping, tight-lipped mouth. They tried him with kindness and they tried him with the dungeon. Neither worked. This Jim was bad. Then the prison surgeon put him on the operating table and made anew face for him. He straightened Out the pug nose and lifted the corners of the mouth into a pleasant smile. Jim started to swing with a fist as he came out of the ether, but he saw himself in a mirror and stopped in surprise. After that his disposition began to change. His voice became soft. He made friends. After six months he was released from prison, literally anew man. All his past was dead as if it had never been. People talk about the folly of modern kindness to prisoners, and ridicule the idea of coddling criminals. Yet if anything in life is worth while this resurrection of a man’s soul was. That was nothing 4>Ut Christianity practiced in a new way. It brought to pass on earth all the things men have longed for from heaven for centuries. It means, perhaps, that this greatest of all ages may become greater than man has ever yet dreamed. “O, Say, Can You See?” Fort McHenry, where raw Maryland troops battled the British through a night of ‘‘bombs bursting in air,” has become a headquarters for Federal prohibition forces. Heretofore this ruined fort in the gray waters of Baltimore’s inner harbor has been a patriotic shrine, standing as a reminder of the days when Americans gave their lives for the ideal of liberty. Conversion to this new and different use has just been made. The desire to save rent is the reason given. The Eighth Deadly Sin With the divorce evil now established on such a firm foundation that it merits the sobriquet of the eighth deadly sin, some readjustment is bound to come sooner or later in the correlated crime of alimony. There are, fortunately, a few innocent souls in the world who marry for love, but it is not hard to seek and find people who marry for insurance and people who marry for alimony. One factor which will do much to alter the status of alimony paying is # the change which has come about in the independence of women. Divorced men argue, and. with no small show of reason, that they should not be required to pay alimony to childless women who are perfectly able to support themselves. The situation in this matter has altered so much from the situation that obtained ten or fifteen years ago that there have been several cases on record in which disabled divorced husbands have sued their wives for support in the form of aumony In the most recent case of this kind to come to notice, a Chicago bricklayer who was sued for divorce by his wife, filed a petition that his wife, if granted a divorce, be required to pay him alimony. The bricklayer in this case was suffering from hernia and tuberculosis, while his wife, in addition to earning $35 a week in a store, was drawing alimony from two former husbands. Not all cases are as involved as this, nor as clear cut, but the existence of this and similar suits indi- '■ cates that the day is not far distant when the precedents of alimony paying will have to be revised to meet changing conditions in society. One other Chicago case calls attention to another phase of the alimony evil. In this second case, a divorced dentist, paying alimony to his first wife, has married again, and has in his second venture apparently found happiness. His first wife is childless, but continues to draw alimony from her former mate. Wife No. 2 objects, and has issued an ultimatum: rather than permit her husband to pay further alimony she will ihave him go to jail. She has organized an anti-alimony league and is attempting to rally to her standard the thousands of husbands who labor and work to earn the millions of dollars now paid over the counter to balance the ledgers of matrimonial profit and loss. |, If you doubt Europe’s affection for America, all you ! have to do is take a non-stop flight to make sure. Great Britain may have the cruisers, but we certainly have the best flagpole sitters in the world. More than 100 words are added to the English language each year. One of these days maybe the lexicographers will find the right word to describe a ten on the water hole after par golf for six holes. A believer is a man who wears his cap and gown to the postoffice to get his correspondence school diploma. '\ New York traction interests paid $200,000 for pub- ' licity. Bamum would be 117 years old if he were alive today. Think of the minutes that have passed since he uttered I his sage remark!

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

A man agreed to buy five lots of linseed oil at $1.11? a barrel to be delivered over a period of time. After the first lot of oil was delivered the price dropped, and the man advised the oil company that unless it would give him the advantage of the lower price it could cancel the contract. The company refused to make additional shipments at the lower price, and sued the man for the difference between the prevailing price of the oil and what he had agreed to pay, on the ground that he had broken the contract. The man contended that the company had no right to sue him for breaking the contract because it had not actually delivered the five shipments of oil. Until this was done he said the company had not carried out its partfof the contract. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Oklahoma decided that the oil company was entitled to payment for the difference between the agreed price and the prevailing price. It said the man had broken the contract when he had announced that he would refuse to accept additional shipments except at the lower price, and that after that the company was not required to make delivery of all. of the five lots of oil before suing himifor breach of contract.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: A French Philosopher Has Said That the Big~ gest Factor in Life Is the Sadness of Human Destiny.

BALTIMORE. Md„ July 12.—This town does not inspire one to dabble with current news and write about far away happenings. It is too full of local color and romance. Its old 1 book shops and quaint customs i make a fascinating appeal. . You sense a story at every street corner in the older sections, and sometimes | in the middle of the block. You want to read all the tablets, and there are scores, want to see all the monuments, and visit all the' places that have been made famous by historic events. Tales of the Light I have climbed the 200-foot round tower which was erected to the memory of Washington more than a century ago, have visited Annapolis, where this country manufactures the ljuman side of its Navy, and have walked through niiles of corridors in Johns Hopkins Hospital, but the most romantic spot I have found in Baltimore is No. 5 W. Vernon Place. A fine old house with shutters drawn, apparently unoccupied, and a little light burning over the front door for years. They tell many tales as to why that light is kept burning night and day. Some of the tales are plausible, some are absurd, but none ever has been confirmed. According to one, the light burns that a long-lost daughter may know the house should she ever return. According to another, the owner was once saved by a light and chose this peculiar way to show his gratitude. You are at liberty to believe what you will or let your fancy run riot, and in that lies the drama of it all. Baltimore has many men and many institutions of which to be proud, but she is probably best, known through the philanthropies j of Johns Hopkins and the great I hospital which bears his name. When the local doctor gives up in I despair, whether in Skowegan, Me., or Pumpville, Texas, the distracted; family has one hope left, and that is Johns Hopkins. When great specialists arc puzzled over some peculiar case, whether on the east side of New York or the gold coast of Chicago, they, too, have hope that Johns Hopkins will help them out. Destiny’s Sadness A French philosopher has said that the biggest factor in life is the sadness of human destiny. You cannot help feeling that wf. u when you pick up the papers and read that Georges Cleraenceau, who was so strong and vigorous ten years i ago, has now cone to the point | where he shuffles about the room 1 and scolds his faithful old servant for not preparing a dinner which he just has eaten. You cannot help feeling that way when you read how the New York police prodded around in the rubbish of a dank and sodden cellar to find the dismembered bodies of two murdered women. You cannot help feeling that way when you read Os the assassination of Kevin O’Higgins, who was shot down in cold blood for no better reason that that he was a strong, able man. Some Increase Suffering We have disease and suffering enough in the world, as such institutions as Johns Hopkins prove, without adding to it, and tve have task enough to take care of those whom nature maims, without prostituting our talent to kill and cripple each other. It is a curious freak of human nature that, notwithstanding the perils which men constantly face, some take more pleasure in destroying life than in saving it. It is an even more curious freak that those who are trying to make war less frequent and advocate policies which promise to preserve peace should be denounced as traitors. • * Kill to Be Loyal? / Comes a group of self-styled apostles of patriotism to tell us that everybody# who is for the League of Nations, who wants pe&ce ’ with Mexico, and who opposes intervention in China is really a Bolshevist and an enemy of America. According to some folks, you just cannot be a good citizen unless you howl for war and violence qn every possible occasion. But you do not look for a rear admiral or a bombing plane when the baby has membranous croup or your wife is afflicted with tuberculosis. No, indeed, you look for such institutions as old Johns Hopkins made possible, and such experts as they train. Soap Boxes and Patriots This country does not find its most dangerous enemies on the soap box preaching to street corner gatherings, or its best friends yelling for more law and a bigger army, while they debauch primaries. Red propaganda has been matched by that of the Jingo and regulator. Mussolini has become vastly more of an idol than Lenin, though his doctrines are no more in line with Americanism. Fear of red devils is causing many of us to advocate tyrannies that would have shocked George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. High school principals ’ leading gangs to flog women, life termers telling how they corrupted the poUtics of States, dry agents confessing that they keep and drink the same booze for which they send other people to jail—these are but a few of the things that sap the common sense and common honesty of<he United {States.

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Gaul as Hajj, the Beggar, in Kismet' Contributes His Winning Characterization of Present Season —— BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Before the most lavish production that Stuart Walker has given this city for a long time, George Gaul as Hajj, the beggar In ‘’Kismet,” this week is revealing himself in his most powerful characterization of the current season. In “Kismet” we have the Gaul of the other days—the Gaul of romance.

t r a g edy and power. And In such roles, this man is excellent. I did not see Otis Skinner on the stage in this role but I did on the screen and it is my opinion that Gaul is giving the best work of his career. There is beauty of tone and beauty of action in this rolq. Gaul loses none of the beauty. He is magnificent when in rags aijd

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he is grand when in elegant attire. In the last act when he murders a father and his son for revenge, one feels the great dramatic power of this actor. His is magnificent performance this week and makes one love the theater more than ever. I especially enjoyed the work of Eugene Powers as the Sheikh Jawan. Here is a strong and powerful characterization of a cripple. Ernest Cossart as the Beggar Kassin looks like he stepped out of the pages of the story book. He is realistic even to the scratching of himself. He looks the beggar, dirt and all. <A lovely picture is Vivian Tobin as the ( beautiful and at times suffering herdine of this romance of old Bagdad. Seldom have I seen her so charmingly beautiful as she is in this part. She puts music into her role every time she talks. Her work this week is a cameo, a rare and beautiful gem. Larry Fletcher as the Caliph has a role different from those that he generally plays. His love scenes are tenderly handled and in the Diwan scene, he looks every inch a ruler. This Diwan scene is splendidly played by Fletcher, Gaul and by Gavin Gordon as the Mansur, Minister of Police. Gordon is up against a stiff acting proposition this week and he gives an intelligent and strong performance of the villain role. There are many, many others in the big cast, including Malcom Parker, Don Beddoe, Willard Joray, Ernest Poe, Boyd Agin, Harry Ellerbe, Selma Fisher, Elizabeth Patterson, George Kinsey, Muriel Kirkland, Adelaide Chase and many others. “Kismet,” from a scenic standpoint, is really a three-ring circus. George Somnes has done wonders with his production. He has captured the needed beauty and “Kismet” will remain the gem beautiful of the season. That I am sure. “Kismet” should go to absolute capacity. It is a magnificent accomplishment. It again proves to what extremes Stuart Walker will go to in presenting plays that few stock producers would ever dream of attempting. “Kismet” is a Walker-Gaul-Som-nes victory this week. Too beautiful to be missed. Be sure and see it. At Keith’s all week.

Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S “His Chinese Wife,” is a mighty poor, play but it gives Miss Jean Oliver a chance to give one of the most powerfully dramatic performances she has ever given here. LYRIC—Here is a bill which is filled with hits, four going into the panic class. PALACE The Sorrentino Four takes the lead on a fair bill. KElTH’S—"Kismet” is the finest and most beautiful production that Stuart Walker has given this city for years. George Gaul is doing the finest work of his career, here.

Ford Promises a New Model

A BILL OF BIG HITS AT THE LYRIC Am telling you right now and with a sureness that I do not generally possess in hot weather—one of the best vaudeville shows of the season is on view at the Lyric. I can truthfully tell you that every act makes good and at least four of ’em go into the panic class, meaning solid outstanding hits. The four panic hits line up as follows: First—Lancaster and Leenie. Here you find an eccentric comedian

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a comedy act along hokum lines which is a Pure gem. Second —“Meet the Navy.” Here is a pretty little affair peopled by four sailors and two girls. The gobs all have dates with two girls. Two get the "eats” and two get the air. The singing is effective. The settings are beautiful. The act has class and good individual comedy. Third—Elmer Cleve, one of those artists who play the xylophone with a fine regard to showmanship. His jokes are way above the general type. This man is a showman and hee makes you like and respect him. Fourth—“ The Catipillar,” a little sketch in which a wise cracking bean sells the beans to a Main Street gal. Aldrich's Imperial Hawaiian Singers get lot of music and some wiggles out of their act. Day and Davis go in for eccentric comedy, especially the man who is a lizard salesman. Good act and probably should have been include ! in my list of the panic acts. The Six Daunton Shaws have a bicycle act which Ik a bicycle act. At the Lyric all week. LOOKING OVER NEW SHOW AT PALACE Heading the bill at the Palace this week is the “Sorrentino Four” in an act that is composed of semiclassical and ballad songs. Part of the program of these singers is in Italian and very well done. Avery popular comedy skit has returned to Indianapolis in the form of the Swedish elevator girl. Billy “Swede” Hall is very well known by the patrons of the variety houses. It always was a laugh getter and still is. Building around the old story of Cinderella and the glass slipper, Connell, Leona and Zippy present a comedy act that is hard to beat. It is burlesqueing the scene of the Prince and the unfortunate sister meeting. Some good dancing is embodied in this act. Also a dancing and singing dog. Kennedy and Davis are a pair of comedy and singing gins that have what is wanted and believe in giving it to the public. And they really can sing. There is no doubt about that. A blackface act that is good is had by George Morton. He knows some of the blues and some others. Also some funny stories. Ben Lyon in ‘High Hat,” a news reel and comedies, complete the bill. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the observer.) GOING WAY BACk TO ANCIENT IDEA There are times when a critic is squarely up against it and I admit that I am as far as “His Chinese Wife” is concerned. Asa pray, this one is badly and poorly written, crowded full of false dramatics and even false theater. Nearly all the characters are placed in false positions. Even a mother r* le is made so unnatural on the part of the

authors that the role ceases to be human. This is true with most of the characters. And here is where I am troubled. Even with a poorly written Play and with characters which do not ring true, yet Miss Jean Oliver as the Chinese bride of an American does a Florence Reed “Shanghai Gesture” to the role which makes the play one to be ‘discussed. Have heard a great deal about an actor saving a poor play by good acting and great make-up, and here I have visible proof of the theory. Miss’ Oliver has never been as transformed from her real self as she is this week. Her makeup is really marvelous and her dramatic scenes are being put over with so much dramatic fire that the audience insists in breaking in with applause to show appreciation. There is another most effective piece of character drawing this week in this play and it is being contributed by Mrs. Irene St. Clair, the mother of Robert St. Clair. Mrs. St. Clair has a grandmother role and she Plays It with that natural charm which one expects to find only in Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. Here is an honest performance, beautifully projected. Mildred Hastings, Robert St. Clair. Dorothy Farley. Idabelle Arnold, Grace Foreman and J. F. Marlow have been given characters to play that never ring true. Bernice Marsoiais is the “she villain” of the play and does some effective work in an unpleasant role. Milton Byron is the man who marries a Chinese woman. Maybe you will agree with my idea of the play as to its merits but I am sure you* will agree that Miss Oliver is doing some mighty effective big acting. At English's all week. Other theaters today offer: “The Magician.” at the Ohio; “Faust,” at the Apollo; “The Beloved Rogue,” at the Circle; “Broadway Nights,” at the Indiana and movies at the Isis.

of such clever- . ness in this team that you will rate him as one of the leading “low” hokum comedi - ans on the stage today. This man is of the droll type which gets one the second he rushes on the stage. He is assisted by the right “feeder” who brings out playful spirit of comedy in this eccentric funmaker. Here is

You can get an answer to any aueation of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C. inclosing 3 cent* in stamps for reply. Medical, legit and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a oersoral reply. unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential —Editor Who founded Harvard College and when? It is the oldest college in America, founded in 1638 by a bequest of John Harvard of his library and half his estate, amounting to $3,500. The first commencement was held In 1642. Has SOS always been the signal used for distress of ships at sea? At a preliminary conference on Wireless Telegraphy at Berlin in 1903 a suggestion was made that a distress signal to be used by ships be adopted. The first suggestion was “SSSDDD.” In 1906 at the Berlin conference. Germany pro-

Brain Teasers

Below are the correct questions for the answers printed on Page 12, under the “Now Y >u Ask One” heading. 1. What Maine fiddler played old dance music for Henry Ford? 2. What was the fate of Gerald Chapman, famous bandit? 3. Who is mayor of New York? 4. On what grounds was it sought to bar Countess Cathcart from the United States? 5. What was “Peaches” Browning's maiden name? 6. What did Sinclair Lewis do with the Pulitzer prize awarded him for his novel “Arrowsmith”? 7. What is the world record for a trip round the world? 8. Why did Queen Marie shorten her tour of the United States? 9. What is the F* feral limit of medicinal liquor which a doctor may prescribe for his patients? 10. Where were General Pershing's headquarters in France? 11. Who is State auditor? 12. What are his duties?

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JULY 12, 1927

Why the Weather?

By CharM Fit?, Hugh Talman Authority M Meteorology

'FUTURE ATLANTIC FLIGHTS A few years hence flying over the Atlantic will be provided, as R matter of course, with many safeguards against unfavorable weather that were not enjoyed by Byrd and his companions in their recent venture. In the first place there will be a comprehensive system of radio weather reports from ships widelj scattered over the ocean. These will be sent several times a day. tTic possibility of collecting such repon in midocean and transmitting then to the land has been demonstrate! by French meteorologists, who ha for some years maintained an inte: mittent service of this kind on th steamship Jacques Cartier. Thi vessel, during her occasional voyages across the Atlantic, gather; weather reports by radio from al’ vessels within range and forward them to meteorological establish ments on shore. She also chart, these vessel reports, together wit’, land reports received by rad: broadcast ■‘from both sides of the Atlantic, and broadcasts weathei bulletins and forecasts for differen parts of the ocean. As soon as aii traffic justifies the undertaking there will be several floating weather bureaus of this kind instead ol one, including, perhaps, the artifi dal islands that have been so much talked of recently. Then there will be better arrangements than now prevail for utilizing radio reports of European weather. The Eiffel Tower, for example, now broadcasts five times a day weather reports for all parts of Europe These should be made available to an aviator taking off from the American side. During the flight weather maps of the Atlantic will probably be received on board the plane at Intervals of a few hours by a telephotographic process. Lastly an efficient system of radio beacons and directional wireless ought to solve the fog problem. ‘All rights reserved. Science Service. Inn

Mr. Fixit The Proper Time to Care for Trees Is in the Fall or Spring.

An interested citizen today asked Mr. Fixit to urge that care be given Willard Park trees blown over by tha cyclone. Dear Mr. Fixit: Since the cyclone, several small trees In Willard Park have been left in a leaning position. These trees could br straightened by digging under them on one side and pulling then, straight. There is a sycamore in front of 32 S. State Ave., leaning about 45 degrees. If left much longer it will be crooked. READER OF THE TIMES. Clarence Myers, park board secretary, said nurserymen differ with you as to the proper time to straighten up trees. Myers said the board had not ordered the trees lifted because the proper time is in the fall or spring when there is no sap in the limbs and the trees are not growing. They will be given proper attention. Dear Sir: North St., from Tibbs Ave. to Eagle Creek, has been torn up, for improvement, :or the last two months. The street is impassable, the holes in the street being very deep, and jn other places bumps that are almost sipall hills. This is terrible for the residents in this neighborhood, especially those with cars. Won’t you please try and get something done in regards to this mud hole? H. C. Wayne Emmelman, board of works secretary, informed Mr Fixit there Is a petition on flle to improve the street. The petition will have to follow the regular routine.

posed the signal “SOS.” On January 7. 1904 the Marconi International < Communication Company issued an order to all stations to add the letter “D” to the general inquiry call “CQ” which was then being used by British ships as a distress signal. That was the Inauguration of the distress signal “CQD.” When the International Radio Telegraph Convention of Berlin went into force in July 1908, the distress signal “SOS” was universally adopted, but for some time subsequent thereto operators used both “CQD” and “SOS” to make sure that their signal would be understood. “SOS” is now universally used. Who was Baron von Richtofen? A German World War ace. Will a lo*d pull more easily with a short or a long hitch? With a short hitch, because the application of force or pull is nearer and more direct. When and where was the Prince of Wales bom? At Sandringham Castle, near Lynn in Norfolk County, England. June 23. 1894. How long was Bavaria a monarchy? For over a century ft was a kingdom ruled by descendants of the ancient counts of Willelsbach, who flourished in the twelfth century Bavaria ceased to be a kingdom on Nov. 22. 1918, upon the declaration of the republic. Who operates radio station WCCO and on what wave length does it operate? The station is owned by the Washburn-Crosby Company. St. Paul-Minneapolis. Minn. It broadcasts on a wave length of 416.4 meters at 5,000 watts. Does all salt contain iodine? Ordinary salt does not. lodized salt is manufactured by several