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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
We Have Just Begun
/ to Fight III

T1HE city manager movement, even though
/ destined not to be completed this year,
is the greatest step toward good government
ever taken in the history of Indianapolis.
That it eventually will be successful is a
~foregone conclusion. That it can be made sue
oessful in a referendum next year is certain.
Many who had hoped that indianapolis
would have no more political administration
naturally are disappointed over the necessity
for postponing the petition and thus prevent
ing the coming election. t.s::
Postponement Of fling the petition was
made necessary by the fact that the campaign
for signatures was started too late. Neverthe-
less, accomplishments in the limited time dur
ing which the campaign was conducted were
little short Of wonderful. ~r
Just three months ago-on Jan. 12-The
Times suggested city manager government for
indianapolis. This suggestion Immediately
met the Endorsement of civic clubs, luncheon
clubs and various organizations.
But there was no organized effort to put
city manager government in effect until nearly
April l, about two weeks before the last posi-
BILE date for filing petitions, bearing the names
of 20 per cent of the voters, asking for a refer
endum on the subject.
In that length of time a committee COM
posed of approximately 1,500 persons, pledged
to work for city manager government, was
formed. An executive committee of leading
citizens was made up out of this larger commit
tee. The work Of obtaining signatures to pc
titions was started. In less than two weeks APP
proximately 10000 names of voters were signed
to these petitions. .
But it became certain when the time for
filing arrived that a legal battle would ensue
and that under any circumstances the referen-
dunn could not, be held this year: Therefore, at
was thought better that an organization be bet
ter perfected and that a detailed campaign
be conducted than that hasty action, be. taken
with possibility Of defeat because citizens
either were not sufficiently we'll acquainted
with the manager plan or had been mis-
informed by politicians and political publica-
tons.
The postponement of the filing of the
petition in no way means that the movement
has been abandoned. The committee Of 1000,
the executive committee and others interested
still are active in the campaign Headquarters
will be maintained. Additional signatures will
be obtained and everything will be put in
readiness to go over the top next year.
Friends Of the city manager movement
have adopted as their slogan:
"We have just begun to fight"
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Tax Publicity Before Supreme Court

Baltimore and Kansas City dis
missed the charges against the in.
dicted papers on the ground that
the publicity provided in the law
passed by Congress meant publicity
Of any kind. and that newspapers
we're within the law in printing the
lists.
The Department Of Justice then
appealed, and 1t Is in answer to the
appeals that the cases of the BaTti-
more Post and Kansas City Journal
Post are now before the Supreme
Court.
The law passed Ivy Congress pro-
vides that as soon as practicable each
year the income tax lists are 10 be
made available for inspection. In
compliance with these instructions
the Treasury Department has al
ready announced that the returns
filed last month for 1924 taxes will
be opened on June l, 1925.
The decision of the Supreme Court
will not affect the preparation OF
the tax lists for public inspection.
but the question whether or not the
newspapers may print the informa-
ton thus made available will be de.
termined.
The Department of Justice, in It's
argument before the court, contends
that there is q difference between the
right to inspect lists in the tax
commissioners office and the right
to publish them. The counsel for
the newspapers contend that public
ity is publicity, whether on p~ostoffice
walls or in newspaper columns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
Fast Freight
reaped tumult

RCARNEGIE Steel Company tow of eleven
III barges, loaded to a capacity of 800 tons
each, completed the 1000 mile journey from
Pittsburgh to New Orleans in twelve days and
eight. hours. The run averaged seven miles an
hour, including all landings, tie-ups and waits.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Company re-
Gently moved a tow of nine barges from Pitts
burgh to Memphis, 1896 miles, in seven days
and six hours.
These Mississippi and Ohio River barges
thus covered $50 to 160 miles a day.
Watching a long string of barges floating
down a wide river the last impression you get
is that of speed. But the two tows described
travelled five times as fast as the average
freight on one Of America s largest and most
efficient railroads. Thirty miles a day is the
average of this read,
Som of these days surely we are going to
USE our waterways for what they are worth
IN 1IQ
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mails I have ever seen, Spotty would
rank first.
Harry and Harriet Setback open
the show with an exhibition of bag
punching. Harry keeps seven punch
ing bags in motion at one time.
Quite a feat and the feature Of an
interesting act. Complain and Bell
feature their singing and yodeling.
Mccormick and Irving and one 9th
err person are seen in Seminary
Mary"
1t is an amusing little comedy
sketch with a couple Of songs
thrown in for good measure. A lot
of old gags and an amateurish way
Of delivering them make Marcus
and Booth a very tiresome pair Of
men. Their dancing is the best OF
their act.
Elsie Meyerson's C~alifornians is
tbs title Of an all.girl jazz band. The
moaning saxophones and the hot
trumpet and the rest are just as
good as those in the more familiar
organizations Of male Jazz expon-
ents. Comedies and news reels are
the movie offerings. At the Lyric
all week. (By Observer)
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HATTIE WASHES BETTER
THAN SHE SERVES FOOD

Comedy servants on the stage
often make the show.
Such a character is found in THE
First Year. a comedy by Frank
Cravens.
Am speaking Of Hattie, the col
ored person who appears only in
the second act. Hattie knows that
she knows nothing about serving,
but she allows that she washes bet
ter than she serves"
But Hattie is right on the spot
when it comes to making cocktails.
Hattie carries gin, which costs SIS
cents a bottle. Whatever HIATT e's
mama could digest was all wrong
for a dinner party. The gin sends
one of them to a hospital for in
ternal repairs.
You will meet Hattie, who serve
coffee after everything" at Eng
llsh's this week in the person of
Idabelle Arnold. Hattie is the big
funmaker in the second act. Miss
Arnold again proves her comedy
worth this week. She has a close
runner-up for honors this week in
Larry Sullivan as Fred Livingston,
who has to have everything repeat
ed twice before he remembers that
somebody is talking. His makeup
is a real laugh. He goes deeper into
real Characterization this week than
he has this season.
Edythe Elliott makes Grace Liv-
ingston. the nervous but romantic
wife, who fears the first year of
married life. She handled the diff
fcult dinner scene in a good way
and was able to put real emotion
into her work in the third act. Mil
ton Byron has a slight tendency TO
play his comedy scene in too broad
a manner. He seems TO view 1t as
farce instead Of comedy. AL G. Will
son and Mary Hill We're satisfactory
In their parts. both giving charac-
terizations that had more real life
blood in them than just fiction.
Yet there is something bigger in
the results being obtained this week
at Engllsh's by the Berkell Players
than just a revelation Of the ability
of the actors. 1t is the great human
viewpoint that the yall have. They
seem to make the theater a place
where people want to go. AS usual
on Monday nights. the theater is
not large enough to accommodate the
crowds.
THE First Year" will DO on view
all week at English's.
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By Walter ID. Hickman

EV1HEN a Teller meets another
NM Teller he must have some
III thing to say.
Since the peace conference or some
such confab decided that the weather
was prohibited as conversation, so
it isn't just being done this season..
So Harry Jams and Harold Whalen
had to talk about something else and
they do just that. Harry asks
Harold how he is feeling. Harold says
that he is feeling good and Harry
agrees that he is too. Then Harold
allows that he is looking good. And
Harry declares that Harold looks
good also. a.,
That is the basic idea of the act
offered by Harry Jams and Harold
Whalen at Keith's this week. These
two young men have that happy-go-
lucky Broadway air about EN- that
gives them a punch the second they
walk out on the stage.
They shoot onsense at each other
until they become black and blue in
the face. Then Harry puts on a
girls hat, the sob stuff and every
and everything that goes with an
innocent but wise flapper. The act
then becomes a grand riot.
Here is a good. clever fun put
over by two men who know the trick.
Nonsense you call it. That Is true
but it is fine fun. These two men
are away from the beaten track. They
have individual material and their
own way of putting ove their act.
Here is n good reason for going
to Keith's this week.
Ernest Evans. supported by a
number of girl dancers, presents
nipples Of 1925" a dance evu of
class and much charm. 1t is mounted
in good taste. Evans has a corking
idea in introducing his act. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
An S 0 S for France

FIR OFFERING dizzily at the brink Of tran-
l cial and economic disaster, can France
save herself? Or has she, like the Germany of
eighteen months ago, reached the stage where
unless outside help is forthcoming, she will go
on the rocks?
Overdrawn and overspent by between two
and four billion francs; with. staggering sums
in short-time loans coming due with the mar
ket for domestic loans exhausted and foreign
ones afraid, France today, regardless of who
may be premier, is confronted by four alt erna-
tives: "A capital levy, new and much heavier
taxation, currency imitation or calling Foreign
aid to the rescue.
Premier Herriot faced the disagreed lie
facts without blinking and asked for a capital
levy. The most socialistic move dared BY any
modern government outside of Russia, is raised
a storm and he fell. He fe1rto the impa 'Jioncl
cry of keep taxes down. - and Make Ger
many payl'-
Which is ominous. France has already
tried too long to make Germany pay. How
ever right it was for Germany to pay, she did
not pay and is only now settling at so much on
the dollar by virtue Of the Dawes plan. No
additional revenue may be looked for in that
direction
If France is unwilling to assume new tax
burdens or submit to a capital. levy-which, it
appears, is the case-inf1ation can be escaped
only by a miracle and with it all the conse-
quences which that would mean. +
There is one man in France today who.
might possibly save the situation: Joseph
C~aillaux, former premier and minister Of
Finance. Back on the scene after'some years
in exile, he is now one of the. most talked-of
figures IA French politics,
Caillaux is a marked liEkral. He believes
in a Franco-German entente. is one Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14

i is human nature to be interested IN for
/ hidden fruit.
When in "Huckleberry Finn" the Duke
of Bilgewater and the Dolphin were about to
stage "The Great Cameieopard" in a small
Mississippi River town, the Duke said to the
Dolphin-"We1l advertise women and chill
dren not admitted, and if that don't bring 'em
l don't know Arkansas
T1AROLYI'S RENT cks, as they are now
~ waited over the border from Canada, are
getting several thousand times the attention
they would have received if they hadn't so
long been forbidden in the U. s.. A.
And when Karolyi warns that the peace
of Europe and of the world is still being men
aced by the same old dream of empire, he is
accorded that intensity of interest which al
ways accompanies curiosity restrained.
If American loans money to the present
Hungarian government she will help build an
other bonfire in central Europe, Karolyi tells
us. The Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns are
still on the job and the scheme of Mitteleurope
is not dead. Dual monarchy stirs in it's coffin
and the world is not yet safe for democracy.
That IS the burden of Karolyi's message as he
breaks at last his long silence.
Had he been permitted to speak when he
first came to the United States, he would have
been listened to by a few and ignored by the
many. He would hardly have been able to
compete with Babe Ruth and Dawes, and the
Dodge Brothers, and the movies and prohibi-
ton, in the rough-and-tumble scramble for the
limelight.
But he was advertised. Americas curios-
ity was centered on this man who was beng
kept muzzled. He took his place along with
Babe Ruth and the rest on a high plane If
public attention. And the longer the muzzle
was applied, the greater that interest became.
What Karolyi had to say was forbidden fruit
and America s mouth watered.
Karolyi was advertised-and the State
Department of the United States acted as his
advertising agency.
The State Department sowed silence and
reaped tumult. ~
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the commissioner might designate.
IN October last year, the commits
sioner of internal revenue notified
Washington newspaper correspond
ents that lists Of taxpayers were
open to inspection in the tax dis
tricts where the returns had been
filed.
At once newspapers throughout
the United States printed the
Information they were able to
obtain from these lists. The Depart
ment of Justice, on the ground that
Congress had not intended the re-
turns to be used for newspaper pub
LEGATION, sought indictments against
a number Of papers.
The Baltimore Post, the New York
Herald Tribune and the Kansas city
Journal-Post were indicted. Suisse
quently Federal judges in New York,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
A QUIET
SUNDAY

n I'VE persons were killed. and
five others were seriously
IL injured. in three grade
crossing accidents in the State
Sunday.
Three accidents, three wrecked
automobiles, five dead and five in
jured. But at that it was a quiet
Sunday. The open season for
grade crossings has hardly begun.
In not n OF the cases was a
blind, ~obstructed. or otherwise in.
herently dangerous crossing to
blame. -Carelessness of the motor
lists alone caused the deaths.
Grade separation, safety devices
and watchmen would doubtless re-
duce the accident toll at crossings.
But only reduce. As long as care
lessness is behind the steering
wheel. crossings will claim vic
Tins.
A month ago six persons were
killed at a crossing at Williams
port, where was stationed a watch
man. The driver of that car ran
down and injured the Waterman
in her haste to get on the track
and meet death. She kept her
appointment.
The naked, unadorned fact is
that ca%relessness, and its legiti-
mate offspring, reckless speeding,
cause the majority Of automobile
accidents. Yet 95 per cent of the
drivers exercise prudence and cau-
ton and do not endanger others
or themselves.
A minor fraction Of motorists
are responsible for a major frac-
ton Of the accidents-and for the
increasing stringency Of driving
regulations. Every additional tooth
in automobile laws that annoys all
motorists is a monument to the
carelessness of a few.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
FLORENCE ENRIGHT BUILDS
A NEW KIND OF OFFERING

Vaudeville performers are anxious
to obtain not only new material, but
new ways in presenting 1t.
Florence Enright is an actress
who writes much of her own ma
terlal. In presenting Embarrassing
Moments" she went to Babe Ruth,
VIII Rogers and other famous
people and asked them to tell her a
story about the most embarrassing
moment they have heard about. She
acts each of these stories as separate
little sketches. The result is not
only pleasing, but gives her a chance
to play three different characterize
tons.
Brockman and Howard offer "Por-
traits Of 1926" an act which Is
revue in nature. Brockman has
done beautifully with the old song
about the little tin soldier and the
rag doll. He has been able to put
both sentiment and pathos in this
number. Although this is the big
number Of the act, it shapes up
well. Brockman also finds time to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
LENA l. OPENS
AT THE CAPITOL.

The Capitol Theater is reopened
this week under the direction Of Ed
e. Daley, indianapolis Snowman.
Daley is presenting a musical
tabloid production with a film of
mooxies. 1t is breezy entertainment
for the warm weather months and
is quite likely to a a definite
place in the list Of local summer
amusements. At least the reception
on the opening night would lead to
that assumption. ~
Lena Daley, a local favorite, who
has not been forgotten, is starred.
Miss Daley leads a couple of musical
numbers and does a dancing special
ty that scores. Bill "Bozo" Mack is
the principal comedian. Mack doesn't
say a word in the course of the
performance, but he has a way of
presenting slapstick pantomime
that will probably make him a
favorite with the Capitol audiences.
If there are enough tricks in his
repertoire Of silent comedy to en-.
able him to change the program each
week he will go a long way toward
establishing this company. Lew
Denny makes a very capable foil for
Mack.
There are several more principals
and a chorus Of good looking girls
in this production. Daley has pro-
vided them with a wealth Of really
beautiful costumes. This show at
the popular prices charged Is not
a bad buy for these warm evenings.
At the Capitol all week. By OBJ
server.)
+ + T.
On Wednesday night, the Carleton
Guy Players will present Mickey"
at Caleb Mills Hall. 1t is a three
act melodrama. The cast will in
clude Kathryn Lieske, ]. Carl Mar
tin, Cordelia Wooden. Betty Jean
Clayton, Paul Mastellar, Eddy eau
mer, Ben Harris and ]. f. Essex.
This cast has been under the per-
sonal direction of Guy this winter
prior to the opening Of the munich
pal park shows.
Other theaters today offer: sally"
at the Circle; 1.-THE Spaniard," at the
Ohio: Wife Of the Centaur," at the
Apollo; Idaho" a new serial, at the
Alamo and Regent, and Beyond the
Border" at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

living in a paradise just because
his monthly electric bill is a few
cents less than 1t would be in
Ohio, Illinois, or other semi-bar-
barous seaports.
But the lower rates here should
be potent arguments in attracting
factories and promoting the indus
trial development of the State. A
few cents more or less in electric
rates to a large user might mean
the difference between a profitable
= enterprise and a stockholders
white elephant.
II is the consideration Of such
small factors that determines loca-
ton of industries.
Consequently in boosting Indi-
annapolis industrially cheap juice"
will prove a more persuasive-if
not as esthetic-slogan than no
mean CITY,"
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Times WdshfndtOn Bureau,
1879 Net0 York Arenue.
April 14.-Pre-

49, NV a wv AttfA@t
ET7 ASHINGTON, April 14.-Pre-
I\A/I cisely what Congress meant
W. when it provided hat income
tax returns were to be open to pub
lie inspection is the subject now of
debate before the United States SUI
preme Court.
When the revenue act of 1924 was
adopted last spring Congress includ-
ed a clause instructing the commits
sioner Of internal revenue to pre-
pare lists giving the name, postof-
flee address. and the mount of tax
paid by each person making an in
come tax return.
These lists. Congress told the COM
missioner, were to be available for
public inspection in the office Of the
collector Of each internal revenue
district and in such other places as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-14
RECORD
CHURCH ATTENDANCE

INDIANAPOLIS CHI u r C h S
report a record breaking
Il attendance Sunday. 1t is
estimated 1876, 900 people attended
services and $50. 900 the Sunday
schools, exceeding the totals for
any previous Sunday in the city,
it is said.
Perhaps the remarkable turnout
was due to a spiritual awakening
in the community, but quite likely
more worldly reasons contributed.
The smiling day and gladstone
Easter ralment as much as piety
propelled people churchward.
Probably many worshippers-
not all feminine-while they kept
one eye on the service allowed
the other TO rove over the congre-
cation speculatively. Where did
she get that hat-and why?" was
only a little less vital than the
text and the preachers we'll
trained syllogisms.
Easter is a great church festi-
val-of profound symbolic signih-
canoe to Christianity. 1t is also
the occasion when vernal apparel
m out Of hiding and struts.
Sometimes it seems this phase Of
the days observance quite over
shadows the religious phase.
Nevertheless, clothes-in this
climate-are important. Absence
of them would expose considerable
goose-fesh and confusion. Nat
urally. therefore. men and women
are interested in them.
Clothes do not make men or
women. but if they make 'em go
to church only on Easter Sunday
they aren't worn in vain. Church
attendance for whatever reason is
productive of some good. The in
fiuence Of church even in homeo-
pathic doses is beneficial
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The red is more popular and more
expensive, due to its popularity.
Where is the island Of Monte
Cristo?
1t is a small island off the western
coast of Italy. twenty-eight miles
south of the island Of Elba. 1t con-
sists largely Of a mountain of gran
lite rising 1000 feet above the sea,
and was made a penal colony in
1874.
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crazy. So do we.
It's none Of our business, but some
people look as If they were raised
on lemon juice instead Of milk.
Los Angeles woman butted a ROB-
Der in the stomach, laying him out
which was using her head.
Men become eXasperated too easl-
ly. In New York, a man took his
girl out and shot her.
Haste makes waste. In Chicago
a man running from a cop fell and
broke a leg.
News from Turkey. They nave
Gale off a war. perhaps to end 1t In
time for their next one.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
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th1ng so to make
up the most re-
freshing act on
the new bill at
the Lyric. South
ern Singers is the
name of this act,
made up of four
girls. very pretty
in the costumes
Of fifty years ago,
and a man who
plays the banjo.
Inelr SOnSS are
MY Old Kentucky
Home" "Suwan-
nee River" and
others of Foster
and his contem-
p%orarieS. 1t Is
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good 10 near these
old songs sung and played by people
who are capable. 1 would like to see
more acts like this one.
Paul Sydell is back with his dog,
Spotty, who truly deserves to be
the wonderful one" This
dog does a routine of acrobatic
that really seems impossible.
In a list of all the performing ami
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tell the audience about the high pur-
poses of the n. V. A.
Meredith is present with his dog,
Snoozer, a well trained bulldog. Car
son and Willard present 1.-THE Pro-
lessor" The photoplay is "Dante's
Inferno" This picture is causing
much discussion over the country.
1t all depends IN how seriously you
take your Dante and whether you
want to see it illustrated in the
picture books or on the screen.
At the Palace today and Wedens-
1aV
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Buffalo, Mich,
just across he In
diana line. cele-
brated the n
%hundredth birth
day of its old
est resident.
To reach the
century mark is
more or less a
mark of distinc-
ton and evokes
public comment.
However. scien-
lists say that cen
tenarians m a y
eventually become
as m as