Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1929 — Page 9

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CONSIDERING LAST POEMS OF HARDY —y The Book League Monthly Gets a Fine Start by Publishing the New Poetry of the Late Thomas Hardy. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN Thomas Hardy died in his eighty-eighth year in,January of 1928. he left unpublished a collection of verse in various moods and metres under the title of “Winter Words.” The author intended that this collection of verse should have been published in his birthday. Hardy, in his own introduction, writes: “So far as I am aware. I happen to be the only English poet who has brought out anew volume of this verse on his . . . birthday, what ever may have been the case with the ancient Greeks, for it must be remembered that poets did

riot die young in those days.” We get the trup spirit of t ardy when he wrote in his author's i ttroduction to his last book of poems—"My last volume of poems was pronounced wholly gloomy and pessimistic by reviewers—even by some of the more able class ...” And then this bitter thought on Hardy's part: ‘‘As labels stick, I forsee readily enough that the same perennial inscription will be set on the following pages, and therefore take no trouble to argue on the proceeding. notwithstanding the surprises to w'hich I could treat my critics by uncovering a place here and there to them in the volume.’’ The reader will observe that Hardy never filled in that date on what birthday he expected to give his volume to the w r orld and his critics, he died before the decision was made and even before he had completed further revision. The book of poetry of Hardy's appears in the December 1928 issue of "The Book League Monthly.” I honestly believe that by this second volume of this magazine that its editors have given us one of the most important publications we have had in many years. The publication is in magazine style, part being devoted to Hardy’s poetry and life and the remainder to regular magazine sections. I react to poetry when it delights me. I may be all wrong in this standard of criticism, but good poetry to me is that which carries fully deeloped that quality of delight. And I was completely delighted with Hardy’s ‘‘A Practical Woman” in which the author in five verses tells you about a woman who had seven children “sickly every one” and then who starts out to find a means to produce a healthy child. And she does. This may be the most insignificant poem in the last volume of verse of this great mar., but I will remember “A Practical Woman” with both its comedy and its pathos when the „ majesty of “I Am the One” is forgotten by me. We find realism, the life that Hardy knew, in “We Field-Women.” This little poem may be the crowning achievement of the new Hardy collection. And you will have much to think about as you read “And Evening in Galilee.” The material in this one will cause lot of controversy. And so we have now in existence anew literary medium and if I am not all wrong this publication. “The BoCk League Monthly.” will become ope of the five leading monthly publications during the new year. Indianapolis theaters today offer: Vaudeville at the Lyric: Charlie Davis at the Indiana; “The Barker” at the Circle: “On Trial” at. the Apollo: “A Woman of Affairs" at the Palace: “Bare Facts” at the Mutual; "Wings” at the Granada, and Buddy Kane at the Colonial. PROWLER IS ROUTED Woman Awakened Screams; Son Fires at Fleeing Man. Awakened by a masked prowler whose head and shoulders she saw through the halt-opened window in her bedroom Wednesday night, Mrs. C. O. Clements. 631 North Beville avenue, screamed, awakened her son. Enoch, and the prowler fled. The son fir.d at the prowler as he sped through the back yard. TALK MANAGER LAW i Amendments Discussed at C. of C. Committee Meeting. Proposed amendments to the city manager law were discussed today by the Chamber rs Commerce legislative and legal affairs committee. Chairman James W. Noe' presided. Members of the legal committee of the Indianapolis City Manager League attended. Winifield Miller, attorney and 'state representative, is chairman.

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Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen: P. L. Evans. 2350 North Pennsylvania street. Hupmobilc sedan, license 75-186 <1929*. from Virginia avenue and Delaware street. D. J. Bowles. 1873 South East street, Ford one-ton truck, from 1100 South Meridian street. Leland Wells. 1650 North Temple avenue. Ford roadster, license 618029 <1928 >. from Twenty-fifth and station streets. F.'.tnk Ross, 951 King avenue. Ford roadster, from Miley avenue and Michigan street. Howard Kenecke, 444 North Kealing avenue. Oakland coach, license 653-723 il92fh. from in front of 590 East Louisiana street. Ervin Guyton, 617 North Senate avenue, Ford coupe, license 722-880 (1928), from North and Fayette streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: B. E. S-hren, 1920 East Washington stret, Hudson sedan, found at Illinois and Market streets. L. J. Levey, 140 South Meridian street, Jordan sedan, found at Merrill and Meridian streets. Dartmouth Frathouse Burns Ru L’mitKl Pn im HANOVER. N. H.. Jan. 3.—The Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, located near the Dartmouth college campus, was destroyed by fire early to4ay with a loss' estimated at more ■ than $40,000. / i

GIRL, 7, BADLY BURNED Attempts to Light Stove; Clothing Ignited. Attempting to light a fire in the kitchen stove of her home Wednesday afternoon, Arnell Cook, 7, of

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2212 Martindale avenue, was burned seriously when her clothing took ftre. Her small brothers and sisters beat out the flames and the girl was sent to city hospital.

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DEFINITE CITY PROGRAMJJRGED New C. of C. President Is Realtor Speaker. Indianapolis needs a definite program of city development which will take care of the city's needs for twenty or thirty years, Paul Q. Richey, new Chamber of Commerce president, declared in a talk at the Real Estate board luncheon at the chamber today. “City development must be planned with an eye to the future needs of the city if its natural growth and expansion is to be unhampered.” he said. “This problem of the Delaware street bridge approach is one which was caused by ‘he fact that the need for additional thoroughfares north was not taken

into consideration when the streets were laid out, “Indianapolis needs a number of improvements now and will need more to take care of the future. Some want anew coliseum, some want this street widened, others that, street. If we did all that was suggested now, we could not pay for it with twice our present tax rate.” Some organization like the Real Estate board or the Chamber of Commerce should work out a longtime development program, he said. “And it really, I believe, is the job of the realtor, for he is most vitally interested in the proper development of the city, as on its proper development depends his success in selling to his clients,” he said. Peruvian Envoy Better Bn I nihil Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Victor Maurtua, Peruvian delegate to ihe Pan-American conciliation conference here, spent a more comfortable night, it was said at the hospital where he is being treated for pneumonia.

WAR LOOMS INf PHONEBOOTHS Chicago Hotels to Battle Company ‘Grab.’ '' CHICAGO™ Jan. 3.—Chicago, the “home of the telephone booth," saw visions today of going back to the old phone on the W’all, where the neighbor might sit sipping a drink at the soda fountain and hear all the latest scandal about Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith. ‘ Hotel patrons and the public in general, who long have enjoyed the privacy, of lobby booths, were deprived of this convenience Wednesday in the first move which threatens to grow to nation-wide proportions. All public booths in the larger hotels were barred to patrons, when the hotel association protested the

telephone company's decision to slash the rental revenue almost in two. Drug stores and other companies that liave built comfortable booths for accommodation of customers threatened similar action. Drug stores and hotels 1 ad been receiving approximately 50 per cent of the receipts of public phones and now it is proposed to reduce the revenue to 22 per cent“We* originated the idea to give patrons privacy for phone conversations," Henry J. Krueger, president of the Chicago Retail Druggists Association said “The first telephone booths were built in Chicago and spread later throughout the United States. “It is true that in other cities a fee of only 15 to 20 per cent Is allowed, but they don't give the facilities or the privacy furnished in Chicago. .It has been an expensive investment and we insist that the revenue shall not be reduced.” Start 1929 by paying off your bills. See the money to loan w’ant ads and learn how to secure the necessary cash.

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ONE COP SHOT, 1 FIVE DISARMED Gunmen Rout Policemen, . Make Escape. BUFFALO, Jan. 3.—With state troopers assisting police of various cities in western New York, the search for two gunmen, who Wednesday night disarmed five policemen, and wounded another, perhaps fatally, in Lackawanna, near here, was being pushed today. The wounded officer is Fred A. Smith, Buffalo policeman. He was shot through the left side. The men sought are William Wunderlich. 24. of Lackawanna and an unidentified man. According to police, four Buffalo and two Lackawanna officers drove to Wunderlich's house to arrest him on burglary charges. Five entered the house and walked into a trap.