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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-03
WONAN'S DEPARTMENT CLUB
TO HAVE MUSICAL PROGRAM

The Woman's Department Club.
Meridian and Seventeenth SITS, Will
give a Music Week concert at 2:3O
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon.
The program follows:
Piano Duct
'.Impromptu Rococco". Edouard schutt
Spanish Dance -....-... 900. PhtZncr
MIS-. Elvera Estes and Mrsh NJ D. Didway
Two pianos
Solos
Spring" OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Hildarth
Pirate Dreams .-............ Hqerter
Tally-H0 Gene Mccormick Leon
Address-''Music ard Its oualities"....
Dr.. V. E. ROrer.
Ben Nan Man -.-..'...'''.. F9 paa.s
The Star. .................. Rogers
Stephen Badger.
"Scamiuade" Observation-Disclosures.
a &C. scherzo'' .-..............S Schubert
Mccormick THO
Of Shortridge High School.
Love IG;v. Has Ia E EysS Bishop Wat3
Song of the Open.
Mrs. Everett c. Johnson.
Ladies Chorue-
-sone OF the Hills. Carrie Jacob Bond
Trees .--.--.--...-.... Carl Hahn
~lnvictus' .......... Bruno HUM
De CopDah Moon Il. R. Shelley
Gene Mccormick Director.
Members of ChOrus-Mfss Lola Dunn Miss
Katherine Leonard. Miss Matilda Heuser
Miss Helen ThOms. Mrs. H. o. Heppner Mrs
Roy Kreippe. Mrs. Orlin Hudson. Mrs. F.
r. Nelson. Mrs. R. B. Wilson. Mrs. n. A.
Richardson. Mrs Wilson Parker. Miss
Verne Towman. Mrs Eugene W. Short and
Mrs. NJ. A. Johnston.
Evening star., 1924-07-26
The New "Progressives.'

The La Toilette party, through its
Joint executive committee, has chosen
the title of ''Progressive'' for use in
those States requiring a political Or
ganization to adopt title and an
emblem in order to get candidates
names on the ballot. The liberty bell
is to be the emblem OF the party.
In 1912 the term Progressive was
applied to the Roosevelt boilers, until
finally upon the dissolution of the Bull
Moose party the word covered an ele-
ment in the Republican party to dis
sociate them from the old guard and
standpatters. Now the La Toilette
people take it over for their own use,
and under it will assemble the social
lists and radicals OF all shades who
never would have been recognized by
the original Progressives nor those
. who came after them.
1t must be disappointing to the new
party to find that it is not to have the
support Of Senator Howell of Ne.
braska, one Of the leading liberals
among the Senate Republicans. He
assured President Coolidge yesterday
that he will support him and will
make speeches for the Coolidge and
Dawes ticket.
Senator Howell is quoted as saying
that the prosressives Of the country
have more to expect from the Repub
lican party than from any other group
Which remark is a political verify.
Evening star., 1924-07-26

back to the time Of company-owned
toll roads. In the case Of Maryland.
the State took over toll roads, but
allowed stock companies operating
bridges on the roads to remain. When
Maryland began spending taxpayers
money generously in rebuilding old
roads and fostering automobile travel.
the business of the bridge companies
increased. The State was building up
business for them.
The toll bridge across the Potomac
at Iiarpers Ferry Is the old Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad structure. The
railroad passed between the point OF
Maryland Heights and the river and
crossed to Hsrpers Ferry. Their the
railroad tunneled Maryland Heights.
built bridge. Strengthened Its road
and elevated its track through Har-
pers Ferry. A stock company bought
the old bridge and has operated It as
q toll bridge TOR many years, A span
of.tt was carried away by the May
flood, but temporary repairs have
been made and automobiles cross it.
A large number Of Washington cars
use the bridge.
1t is not claimed that the toll is
excessive. and there should be no dis
position to take the property from its
owners without fair compensation,
The compensation ought to be gen.
erous. We owe much to toll COM
panies. Toll read companies, or
turnpike companies" built good
roads when the States were unable
and unwilling to do it. Private com.
panies built bridges when States
would not undertake the work. 1t
vas private enterprise, represented by
these old toll companies, which en-
eouraged traffic and served the peo-
pie well. OF course. the toll road is
out of date, and the toll bridge Is
nearly so. Most persons who invested
funds in turnpike companies lost it,
and generally stockholders in toll
bridge companies have not grown rich.
Just at the time when automobile
traffic is paying them handsome re-
turns the demand is that they go out
Of business. They should go out OF
business, but the State should pay
them literally for their property.
Evening star., 1924-07-26
Athletes.

Luis Angel Firpo attracts atten-
ton. Returning to this country, he has
received many OF those marks Of
recognition reserved for popular men.
In New York crowds followed him in
the streets. Some Of this interest il
prize fighter, but a great deal OF the
interest in him is because Of his prom
inence in athletics and sport. Perhaps
In no other time has so large a part
Of the population been interested in
athletics and athletic sports. When
John l.. Sullivan was in his glory
crowds turned out in Washington and
all other cities to see him and shake
his hand. Our srandfathers made
something Of a national hero Of John
c. Heenan, the 'Benecia Boy" after
his fight in 1860 with Tom Sayers,
champion Of England. Authors have
written extensively Of James Figg,
John Slack, Tom Cribb and 50 other
champions Of England.
We do not limit attention to prize
fighters. In fact, that form, Of ath.
lettcs, or heroics or brutalics, accord
ing to the point Of view, has declined
in the past quarter-century, and we
new cheer the masters Of base ball,
flying, running. swimming and row.
ing, and give considerable attention to
|teunfk m ichclss ba1 -xin1t, u IT
Evening star., 1924-07-26
Hylan in the Smith Hearst War.

Closely following the outbreak of
renewed hostilities between Gov.
Smith Of New York and William r.
Hearst, marked BY the former calling
the latter, by plain indication, a
''demagogue or a crackpot," comes the
intimation that Mayor John F. Hyian
may be a candidate for Governor OF
New York "if the progressive element
in that State demand that he run"
This may be taken as Mr.. Hearst's re.
ioinder to the governors reply.
Already La Toilette managers
there are many managers by title, but
only one in fact, and he is the Senator
himself-are being quiZZed on the sub
ject Of whether Mayor Hylan would
be acceptable as Progressive party
candidate for governor Of the State.
They seem to be willing. though there
Is some doubt whether the Socialists
who have attached themselves to the
Progressive party would accept him.
Some say that a straight-out Socialist
candidate for governor should be
named. CAdL f1yldH IL iOt d oOSiAASI'
But neither Is La Follette, according
to his own declarations. Therein lies
one Of the difficulties with the present
third party movement.
The intimation that Hylan is willing
to take a governorship nomination
may be considered as tantamount to
abandonment OF the third-term mayor
atty aspiration. 1t is G. question
whether a nayoralty campaign with
Tammany dissentient or a Progressive
governorship campaign against the
Smith candidacy would do the greater
harm to the regular Democratic ma
tiona! ticket in New York. Neither
could aid it. Either would harm 1t.
So the Smith-Hea-st quarrel is de-
veloping into a factor Of serious inn
port for the national Democracy. Hy-
Ian may not be mayor Of Greater New
York again, or governor Of New York
State, but he is likely to be an element
of discord costing the presidential
nominee many votes in a State which
must be won If the electoral majority
is to be attained.
Evening star., 1924-07-26
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NarYIand and yiySiria.
All Other States
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The Bow Scouts,

Calvin Coolidge spoka by telephone
last night as honorary president of
the Boy Scouts Of America TO a group
Of o3 Scouts who are sailing today
for Copenhagen to represent this
country in the international Scout
field meets. He holds that office ex.
ctticio, but it was as a national Scout
leader and not as President Of the
United States that he addressed his
youthful fellow Americans He gave
= them a message to take away with
them to Europe, and, incidentally,
gave all other Boy Scouts a message
for daily use and application. The
three fundamentals of American insti-
tutions, he said. are reverence for ma
ture, for law and for God. A boy
who lives in accord with these three
fundamentals will make good ciu-
zen.
There is 4 personal touch in the
second paragraph of the Presidents
speech. when he said there was no
Boy Scout organization in my boy
hood. This is true Of most men to-
day, for the Boy Scout movement is
comparatively recent development.
Mr.. Coolidge was farm boy, and on
the farm in Vermont where he was
born and reared he learned the three
fundamentals Of which he spoke last
night. 1t is valuable heritage
u-l, ;ah
possess-this direct contact with ma
ture in the first years Of life.
Most Boy Scouts are city bred, or
at least are now city dwellers. They
know nature only through their
hikes in which they leave the ur-
ban conditions and get into those
open places OF which the President
spoke. That is one of the most val
liable features Of the Boy Scout work.
'1t was an act of magnificent cour-
age said the President to the boys,
when our ancestors set up a nation
wherein any boy may aspire to any
thing" And he confessed to a thrill
at the thought Of addressing an audi
ence among which may be a boy who
will sit i'll the White House. That
is one of the fundamental thoughts
Of American boyhood, that the high
est honors and the highest opportu-
mites may come to any American
youth.
This message to our junior repre-
sentatives who are going overseas to
take part in friendly contest should
have its effect i'll holding them to a
high standard Of behavior as living
example Of young Americanism. These
lads have been given great chance,
and it is safe to assume that they
will conduct themselves in q way to
do credit to America and to justify
the faith that was expressed last
night by their titular leader.
Evening star., 1924-07-26

IN the release Of Eamonn De
Valera, political prisoner for nearly
q year Of the Irish Free State. the
American press sees evidence OF the
strength Of the new government
which no longer has cause to fear the
freedom Of it's former enemy.
Recalling the record of De Valera
the Dayton News says: "A New
Yorker by birth, De Valera went to
Ireland while still young man,
teaching mathematical science in the
schoola In the outbreak in the
spring Of 1916 he suddenly loomed
as the leader of the Republicans
The organization OF the Irish Free
State did not meet with De valera's
approval. He wanted a republic
separate and distinct in itself, and he
refused to adhere to the government
which came into existence. on the
ground that it did not give Ireland
the liberty and freedom from the
British which the Republicans felt
was their country's due The result
Of all this industry on the part OF
Dc Valera was his repeated exile.
His career was cut short about
year ago when he was arrested by
the Free State government. The
months in prison may have served to
let in the light. Or on the other hand
they may have awakened anew his
lighting spirit"
In releasing De Valera. the gov
ernment Of the Irish Free State acts
with wisdom" in the opinion OF the
Springfield Republican, which de-
clares ''the Free state is firmly
enough established to risk his con-
tinued enmity in case he should elect
to remain unreconciled and it blunts
the criticism of those who may have
thought 1t harsh in its treatment OF
its armed foes in the field while. by
showing clemency to such assailants,
II also expresses to the world its con-
fidence in Its own strength" HIS re-
lease, the New York Evening Post pc
lieves sis further evidence that the
die hards' and the wild boys of Erin
have gone back to work and that
there is less Of dread and more OF
hope In Ireland than there was IL
months ago" Though De Valera has
been a thorn In the side of the Irish
xoyernment," the Cleveland Plain
Dealer claims, ''his courage has been
01CI2teO py motives u Pdtt aosiSA.A'
moreover, "keeping him in prison in
definitely could not help the Irish
Free State, and it might, by makins
De Valera a martyr prove actually
detrimental to Free State interests y
Anyway. the Buffalo News is con.
hdent. ''the government could well
AFFORD to do this, for 1t now is firmly
established, and appears to have the
confidence Of the Sveat majority OF
the Irish people"
AS the New York Sun sees it, Valera
is being released because the gov
ernment has reason to believe he Is
not disposed to launch q new revolu-
tion or is impotent to do so,' and lin
either case the event Is hopeful for
Ireland" The Louisville Courier
Journal suggests now his opposition
will be negligible; for open violence
he will be held accountable" further
more. "the hope of being the whole
show himself has passed away and he
remains q sorry figure, an egotist
and dreamer whose ego has been
blasted and whose dream has practi.
caily been realized without him and
in spite Of him. Observing that
Valera will be free in IAN Ireland to
which he u a stranger, an Ireland
onsy veEki1e oqk The Deohlag11 - ~
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Evening star., 1924-07-26
New York's New Taxi Rates.

New York is engaging in another
taxicab war. Several Of the leadiI 6
companies have adop.ed e. rate OF 10
cents for each half mile, with a start
ing charge of dime. Instead Of a
loss OF revenue the companies are re-
porting increased returns. One finds
an advance Of 20 per cent and another
of one-third. Moreover. the dead
mileage" which means the operation
without passengers. has been reduced
from so per cent to 20 per cent, one
company reporting a drop even to
per cent. In other words. the cheaper
rate taxis are kept busy, while the
higherrate taxis are idle for longer
periods than they are profitably active.
In the case OF a taxicab idle time is
waste. Whether 1t Is cruising or
parked there is a loss when the ma,
chine is not carrying passengers. II
the dead mileage amounts to so per
cent as a total days travel the ma.
chine is certainly not economically
employed.
Taxi service at 10 cents a half mile
is likely to find greatly increased use.
That rate means about a quarter for
miles ride. which would include a
tip. Before the war, in London taxi
cabs were to be had even less than
at this rate, With the consequence
that they were constantly occupied
and yet always available. People got
into the habit of using them for COM
paratively shert runs, and they would
in this country, and in this city par.
ticularly, If the rate were comparable.
Observation Of the streets Of Wash
ington leads to the conclusion that
there is a heavy taxicab wastage here.
Machines for hire are constantly cruis-
Ing in large numbers, and the ranks
of waiting motors are always we'll oc.
cupied. This is, In the main, because
Of the relatively high rates. Adoption
of a ten-cent rate. which has just gone
into effect in New York, would IN
crease the local taxi use and decrease
the idiing percentage.
So well Rtisfied are the companies
in New York with the results Of the
new rates that they are expeessing 6
their belief that the old schedule will
never return.
Evening star., 1924-07-26
Harpers Ferry Toll Bridge.

The chairman Of the Maryland
State Roads Commission has said
that in line with the commission 8
policy to do away with toll bridges
the attorney general Of Maryland will
be asked to take over the Potomac.
Harpers Ferry toll bridge by con-
demnation. It is said that the Mary.
land Roads Commission offered the
bridge company $4,000 for the struc.
ture and that the bridge company
declined the offer and asked $4,000.
Maryland has done away with a
number Of toll bridges, and West
Virginia alone, or in cooperation with
Maryland. has been active in that
way. All the toll bridges go back to
the time when roads were for horses
and. xagensr and many af tsn %
Evening star., 1924-07-26
COURAGE
Il am the master OF my fate,
/ am the captain OF my soul"
-HENLEY.

When E. p. Ripley was graduated
from high school and was starting
out into the world he did not know
what vocation to follow, SO he took
the first job offered.
While attending the public schools
in Dorchester, Mass, he helped in
his fathers little store, but did not
care for the work, and besides that,
the profits were SO small that there
was not room for another in the bust
ness.
Without money or influence and
having no inclination toward any
particular kind of work. he took the
first job he could obtain, that of gen
eral boy in a wholesale dry goods
house in Boston with salary of 81 u
week.
The duties were not pleasing. but
by diligence he rose in four years to
shipping clerk. earning IS week
Then a railroad agent offered him
position paying $50 a month. Ripley's
employer matched the raise and
Ripley remained with the firm. a
the Pennsylvania Railroad and be
came clerk in its Boston office at $l0o
a month. The following year he was
with the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy at a higher salary. He was
married at 25, then became New Eng
land agent for the road and at 81
was general Eastern agent.
Offered the position of general
freight agent for the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad. he de-
ciined because he thought Boston
better than the then frontier town
of Atchinson, kans., in which TO rear
his children. Two months after that
he was made general freight agent
Of the Burlington, with headquarters
in Chicago; later he became general
manager, and at As was chosen vice
president of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railroad.
An item in newspaper first told
him that he had been elected presi-
dent of the Atchison. He took office
and at so started the hardest task of
his life. The road was in a decrepit
condition physically and in disrepute
financially; bankers would not help
ii and only by strictest economy and
highest railroad efficiency could he
save it. He made it one of the best
and most profitable systems in the
world, and became known as one OF
the greatest executives in the history
Of railroads
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Evening star., 1924-07-26
Release of De Valera Held
Indication of Waning Threat

Press points out that he has three
courses from which to choose: He
can delude himself with visions of a
revivifed Sim Fein, waging new civil
war If he does that he is doomed to
ridiculous failure. He can quietly re-
sumo his place as the leader Of the
extreme party of IRISH freedom. He
can accept the Free State for what it
is and become the leader of the poll
tical opposition. If he does this he
will be a power in Ireland. Or he
can withdraw from public life alto
gether to live in obscurity with his
memories. and to pass his declining
years in a greater or less degree OF
dignity. But he does not fit into such
a picture"
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probably the move will be fol-
lowed by some slight revival Of ex-
tremist agitation, and may tempo
rarily prove a setback to the eco
nomic and political improvement
which has been marked in Ireland
since the Republicans were forced to
abandon guerrilla warfare" continues
the Baltimore Sun, but in the long
run De Valera, and the rest OF the
dwindling handful of rebel leaders
will have little effect on Free state
stability" for, "as potential martyrs
in prison cells they have had more
of a disturbing influence than will be
the case when they are set at liberty"
Regardless Of any difficulties that may
arise. the ST. Louis Post Dispatch is
sure the risk is justified, for DE
Valera has served the cause Of Ire
land wonderfully" and, "srievous as
his mistakes have been. De Valera has
won his place in history and is de-
serving of the broadest leniency COM
patible with peace and the safety or
the Free State government" The
Rochester Herald feels the release OF
De Valera sis a hopeful proof that the
young Irish republic is magnanimous.
virile and convinced Of the essential
principles Of freedom and inde-
Evening star., 1924-07-26
Luther's Letter Sold.

An event unique in German auction
one Of Martin Luthers important let
ters, date 1523, two and a half folio
sheets, and addressed to the Elector
Frederick of SaXony. The letter
shows clearly that Luther urged his
deternin ed and energetic sovereign
to adopt a conciliatory attitude to-
ward the Pope Taking the stand
point that peace is more beneficial to
humanity than justice, Luther main
tatned that a war must follow if
the elector protested further against
the papal coronation of the recently
elected Charles the Fifth as emperor.
The latter VaS sold for 5000 gold
Say1s ta1ssA eAlee ssenaa sx-
Evening star., 1924-07-26
British Force Chinese
Respect for u. S. Dead

It IS announced by an Associated
Press dispatch that the commander
Of the British gunboat Cockchafer
lying In the Yangtze River OF the
town Of wanhsien, forced the Chi
nese authorities to attend the fu-
neral Of Edwin S. Havley, the Amer
ican killed by junkmen. The COM
mxnder told the authorities that
unless they put on uniform and walk
ed to the cemetery behind the coffin
the town would be bombarded. An
action like this may not please the
pacifists. but others will be pleased
by 1t. It was Of the fortnight de-
scription that says more than many
pronoun cements. and than elaborate
diplomatic compliments. Moreover,
1t has good precedents.
In 1853 Commodore Tatnall Of the
American Navy made his famous re-
mark that "blood is thicker than
water" remark that was not
counted against him by his govern
ish who had been wounded In the
attack on the Taku forts, but some
Of his mem who had accompanied him
he found had served one Of the for
xsrd guns s,sa,, Of the British British a,.E,.hip.
national law. but Tatnall did not
regard 1t ~ more than technical.
All know what was the action OF
Chichester In Manila Bay when he
ran his ship between Dewey and the
Germans. 1t was an operation that
did not take very long, but it's conse-
quences have lasted to this day. Here
In the case that has just been re-
ported was an American who died
far away from home. Where the
incident occurred there were few to
honor the last rites to this stran9ss
in a land where funeral ceremonies
have peculiar Importance. It
would appear that the Chinese mill
tary authorities intended by their
omission to show disrespect and the
British commander saw to 1t that
they did nothing Of the sort. It is a
pleasure to recall his action and
thank him for 1t. As well, it Is an
appropriate occasion to point out
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