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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
INDIANA'S TIP
TO UNCLE SAM

INDIANA paid $3S,446,429 in
/ Federal taxes during the
year ending June 80, 1926,
according to the report of the Com
mission of Internal Revenue just
made public. The total was
$1,000, 900 less than the pervious
years payments.
Nevertheless 1t Is a fairly stable
tip that Indiana shelled out to
Uncle Sam last year-about SIS
per Hoosier.
Among the States of the Union,
Indiana ranks eleventh in popula-
ton, and thirty-seventh in area.
In Federal tax payments 1t ranks
twelfth, so 1t Is above the average
and the Hoosier is not to be
sneezed at as "a payer.
But compared with New York
even Indiana is a microscopic
source Of Federal revenue. Last
year the Empire State-as it
styles itself-poured into Uncle
Sans Golfers 1858. 5S5, 1872. Almost
a fourth of the total internal
revenue collections came from that
one State and amounted to $50 for
each resident Of the State.
1t is quite the custom of
ns-Mississippian asrarians and
similar agitators to denounce New
York as a sinkhole of sin and
iniquity. IT is charged with manip-
ulating the weather and economic
laws to the detriment Of the plain
people. The city on the Hudson
is pictured as a combination Of
Sodom, Gomorrah and Babylon.
They would wipe it off the map.
New York is as bad as painted
perhaps. Certainly a lot of New
Workers. give us a pain. But
to the metropolis inexorably
gravitates a large portion of the
country's wealth. And the nation
couldn't get along without the city.
In the matter of taxes the New
Yorker pays and pays and pays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
Farmers Reject
Coolidge Plan

m HE American Farm Bureau Federation
listened attentively to President Cool
idge's speech in Chicago, applauded his prom
Use to assist cooperative marketing, sat silent
while he praised the tariff and then, when he
had left, got down to business.
One item of business was adoption of a
resolution that pledged support to bill for a
government export corporation to handle sur
plus American grain.
This action was in direct disregard of the
President s advice. He had just declared the
proposal to be unsound economically, and had
insisted that cooperative marketing is the way
out for the farmer
The trouble with the President s substitute
remedy, as the farmer sees it, is that it looks
to the future instead of the present. Develop
ment of cooperative marketing is slow, diff
cult process. But meantime there are mort
cages to be met and fifty cent corn won meet
them.
The farmer wants help and he wants it
now. Congressional politicians, with their ears
to the ground, felt the frost taking hold of the
grass roots following Coolidge's Chicago
speech. They recognized instantly that his
negative program had found no favor Con-
gress is likely to act in sympathy with the reso-
luton adopted by the Farm Bureau Federation.
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JUSTICE AT
$38 A CASE

~1IVIL and criminal trials in
all Indiana courts in 1924
~ numbered 5S,745, according
to Charles marlborough, director
Of the legislative reference bureau.
And the average cost per case to
the Hoosier taxpayer was s3S.
Justice at $3S a case. Every
domestic dispute, contest between
citizens, or bootlegger that is
brought before an Indiana court
represents an actual investment of
hard cash by the taxpayers. He
pays about as much for a case in
court as for a case of denatural-
lied Scotch.
And some of our court trials look
like a 30-cent instead Of a $3S in
vestment.
Among some members Of the
legal fraternity there is a notion
that courts and the machinery of
justice are maintained simply to
afford them a means Of livelihood
and for the convenience of their
clients. They resent any criticism
Of judicial forms and procedure by
the man in the street. Any
suggestion to speed and simplify
the administration of justice by
unhallowed laymen is condemned
by them as socialistic, anarchistic
or silly.
But as a matter of fact the
stolid, unlearned-in-the-law tax
payer has a deeper interest In the
functioning of courts than the glib
lawyers. He foots the bill for the
operation of the judicial ma
chinery.
If a lot Of pettifogging at
torneys, hair-splitting judges, and
dignity-encrusted bar association
would get that fact thoroughly in
mind-that the public maintains
the courts and the public's interest
Is paramount in their operation
the administration of justice would
be saner and speedier. Trials
wouldn't cost $38 a case and would
come nearer being worth the
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
CHARLES ALTH0FF
REGISTERS AT LYRIC

There are many men on the stage
who impersonate the rural character
and get over with it. But there is
one man at least who does this
thing and does it in such a way
that the Old countryman and his fid-
die really live before your eyes. That
man is Charles Althoff at the Lyric
this week. QaleHw wc
Comedy is the Keynote of the act
and everyone is kept at a continu-
Gus ripple of laughter until at the
close Althoff consents to play some
real music. The first number was
'Silver Threads Among the Cold
and then he decided to play some
jazz. He asked the sympathy of the
audience if it happened that he made
any mistakes. And then the
syncopation that fiddle did turn out.
He put the infection of a whole jazz
orchestra into the one instrument.
Guy Voyer and company have a
comedy sketch concerning a young
man who has to marry before 8
o'clock in the evening or lose a for
The female applicants for the job
as wife bring the fun into the stu
alton. One of them is a knockout.
She is a girl from the Bowery and
her name is Charley" and she Is
just that hard. An entertaining act.
irish, Rector and Toolin, a trio
of men. offer some fine harmony and
a humorous little song as a solo by
one of the members of the act.
Nancy Fair and, company is an
Offering of two women of musical
monologue and plano solo. A very
interesting character study was done
by Miss Fair in the role of a little
Chinese girl who is about to be de-
ported from our country, where her
mother Is waiting for her.
Bellclair Brothers have a very SEN
sational feature in their act, consist
ing of chute by one of the men
down a plane that has been set up
on the stage and which turns a COM
plete curve in the air. The man
goes down this thing, turns a curve
in the air and lands In the arms of
his partner.
\ PAUL and Argo,a man and woman,
have two very good voices for mel
ody and work in some comedy along
the line Of a proposal.
Lieutenant Thetion, a French ace
Of the last war, closes the bill with
some remarkable sharpshooting and
an expose of the tricks resorted to
by some shooters Of the stage.
At the Lyric all week. By OBJ
server).
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The Senate Rules

m HE House of Representatives having gone
l back to the tyranny of Speaker Cannon,
with members of the majority party mere yes
men under the iron rule of the committee on
rules, it is all the more important that the SEN
ate retain its independence.
If Vice President Dawes were to have his
way about amending the rules, the tendency
would be toward control by mere handful of
Senators. AS it is the Senate is more repre-
sentative of popular will than the House.
Since the test of Republication in the House
is to blind obedience to the President. the
effect of control Of both houses by the Repub-
ican National Committee would be~ to surren-
der the legislative function Of government into
the hands of the executive.
Speaker Longworth and his Committee on
Rules may throttle independent thought in the
House for the time being, and pigeon-hole all
bills that little oigarchy doesn't like, but in
time enough Republican Congressman will
grow tired of ring rule to do to Longworth
what they did to Cannon.
In the meantime it is up to the Senate to
save the rights Of the legislative branch of
government from executive usurpation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15

by A. Il. Wiggam A book that will
make a fellow think, discuss and
"cuss."
I am relying this season for Christ.
mas book suggestions for children
upon a list published by Beach's
Bookshop in Book Notes"
In the past have found Beach
completely correct in his recommen-
dations.
Here is Beachs Juvenile list:
American Twins OF 1s12''. Lucy Periuns
Boy Scouts Year Book -, -.
.'D ppuI p1otiittie's Zoo Hugh Ecatins
THE Flying Carpet., -
"fSni lS1y%e q e oa@ssny V:s n En:
Poor Cecco" go. Illus by Rac q, ann am
Songs CSC OF r, Youth To-, .AlDlns
' t.TTlbs Red DIAMOND" . Samuel scqvneA yr
When tN We Were Very Young S.o Milne
Books for Boys
am relying upon the book depart
ment of L. S. Ayres s. Co.. for a list
of books for boys
The Ayres' list for boys includesi
..,, THE e Red Diamond" by Samuel SEQ
"ouinby and Son." by William Hey
Tiger.
Hold EN-. wyndhaml- by Ralph Henry
Barbour
Barry Locke. Half Back" by Ralph
/ Henry Barbour.
Right Half HoIins." by Ralph Henry
Barbour
"The Boy Scientist" by A Frederick
1.-THE Boy Scouts Year Book" by y. r.
''The Voyagers." Padraic Colum.
",Questers Of the Desert" James vii
lard Schultz.
IAN for Andover." by Claude Moore
thought for Annapolis" by Fitzhush
Green,
"A Modern Knight-His Adventures"
Friends and Rivals" by Arthur Stan
wood Pier,
Ayres & Co. has a splendid list for
the younger readers, 1t is as fol
lows:
Little Robinson Crusoe." by Charles
ig t9T Fairy Tales"
Poor Cecco," by Margory Williams
Now and Then" by p. B. and A A.
"RagYedy AIMS Wishing Pebble" by
Johnny Gruelle. one of the Volland Happy
| Children" stories.
"Raggedy AIMS Alphabet Book" By
'O' "PFeetty Poly Perkins" By Ethel CAL
MADE to Order Stories" by Dorothy
doctor Doolittles Zoo" by Hugh Loft
f'The Gateway 10 storyland,''
1.-THE Disappointed Squirrel" by W. Il.
] Hudson.
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Thunder on the Left" by Chris
topher Morley, has been branded by
some reviewers as his finest novel"
Jefferson and Hamilton" by
Claude q. Bowers q have not quite
finished 1t. although I am satisfied
with its value) would be a splendid
gife to those who enjoy historical
reading.
1.-THE Strolling Saint" by Rafael
Sabatini, another romantic tale by
a man who knows how to spin EN-.
1.-THE Keeper of tho Bees" by
Gene Stratton-Porter. A story as
sweet as the honey the bees make.
1.-THE Red Lamp" by Mary Rob
erts Rinehart. A detective story
which is fascinating reading.
1.-THE Green Hat" by Michael Ar
len. Enough said.
1.-THE Fruit of the Family Tree"
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wish for.
AS rather different little innova-
ton a sample OF the music played
in the 'Honlxy Tonks" down Ell Paso
way was played. Tho piano player
In one OF these places must take the
place OF the whole orchestra, and
the effects obtained are fine.
Hall, Ermine and Brice, IN their
act, "A Night on Broadway" pro-
sent some worth while songs and
music and some humorous tricks by
the one male member of the not.
AL Bernivice. with his violin, pro-
vides some fun and also some very
good melody, while an assistant in
a box sings some popular songs.
Dewitt, Burns and Terrence open
the bill with an act in which the
characters. two men and woman.
are dressed up as toys and carry the
spirit through the act A feature
was a stunt In which one of the
men climbed a pole that was bal
anccd in the hands OF the other.
Bill includes a Photoplay, 'The
Girl Who Wouldn't Work" with
Lional Barrymore and News Reel.
At the Palace today and to NOR
row. By the observer.)
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By Walter d. Hickman

Naming the "Ten Best Christmas
Books" is a mighty big order.
But the order has been given and
will try to deliver 1t as best / can.
In selecting my "ten best Christ
mas books" suitable for yuletid
gifts as well as holiday reading, l d.
it with the understanding that bas,
my selection upon what have reac
during the year.
My ten best Christmas book list
includes the following:
"Arrowsmith. by Sinclair Lewis;
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Dark Laughter" by Sherwood
Anderson; Boni & Liveright.
"The Private Life Of Helen of
Troy" by John Erskine; Bookseller
rill.
1.-THE Mothers Recompense." by
Edith Wharton; d. Appleton & Co.
1.-The Man Nobody Knows" by
Bruce Parton; Bobbs-Merrill.
"Recollections Of Thomas Riley
Marshall-A Hoosier Salad" pub
lished by Bobbs Merrill.
Paris on Parade" by Robert For
rest Wilson; Bobbs-Merrill.
Women" by Booth Harrington
Doubleday, Page.
when We Were Very Young" by
A. A. Milne; Dutton.
1.-THE Life Of Abraham Lincoln, u
in two volumes by William e. Bar,
ton; Bobbs- Merrill.
ask nobody to agree with me or
this list, but it represents more thar
years work on my part. In twelve
months time book reviewer digest;
many books. Some cling to his mem
DRY; in fact, some of the characters
nearly live in his brain box.
Other characters walk right out
the second they walk in. The sam,
is true in real life among the people
one meets.
My ten best" list is given yot
after much thought and mental con
troversy on my part.
Regardless of what the genera
verdict will be on the list, I am con
WINGED that have satisfied myself
A Shopping List
On any Christmas list 1 would In
clude the item best" listed above.
Here are a few other books suit
able for adult Christmas gifts:
mo More Parades," by Ford
MADDOX Ford. This novel is jumping
to the front as a best seller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
ROW OVER
| WORLD PEACE

@ARL HOUSTON Of Purdue
University, has been placed
on the executive committee
of the National Student Federation
organized at the national collegiate
world court conference just held at
Princeton, N. j., to work for en-
trance of the United States into
the world court and world peace.
You just can't keep Hoosiers out
Of office in any business, social,
political or uplift organization.
Wherther the National Student
Federation accomplishes much for
world peace remains to be seen. At
= the recent conference where the
movement was launched by dele
gates from nearly all American
colleges and universities, north,
east, south and west, the dove lost
some of her tailfeathers in a row.
A young colored woman-repre-
sentative of Howard University,
Washington-was named for a
place on the organizations execu-
tive committee.
Right then the dove of peace
lost her composure-and the con-
ference was thrown into an up
roar. Anglo-Saxon supremacy was
menaced. Several Southern dele
gates withdrew from the move
ment In high indignation. They
were strong for world peace but
stronger for inherited racial pre-
JUDGES. Work in an organization
with a negress on the executive
committee for the uplift of human
ity? Never!
The episode is Illuminating.
If educated young white Amer
leans can't stifle their racial pre-
JUDGES sufficiently to cooperate
with educated young American
negroes for the attainment of such
a high ideal as world peace what
chance of nations, separated by
race, language and national lines,
forgetting their hoary animosities
in the near future for the brother
hood-of-man idea?
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
-By GAYLORD NELSON.

and carried $50 feet on the bumper
before he fell to the pavement.
The car sped away, pursued by a
couple of witnesses of the accident
In another machine, and was
eventually captured. The quick
witted pursuers in that instance
deserve congratulations for cramp-
, ing the style of one hit-and-run
driver.
Another hit@and-run driver was
sentenced the other day in Grim
inal Court to one year in prison
for fleeing from the scene of an ac-
cident in which his truck injured
pedestrian.
1t is only by cooperation Of citi-
zens who witness accidents and in
flexible judges that the towards
who don't stop after accidents can
be suppressed. No penalty is too
severe on the hit-and-run driver. He
is a blot on our so-called civiliza-
tion-in his hands an automobile is
an implement of savagery.
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A Sermon for Today

irresponsible and incapable person.
In many homes the training of
the children consists Of manners,
refinement ard propriety, rather
than morals, religion and piety
The ruling passion In some house
hols is the love of money. and the
only attention the little folks get is
to be rushed off to school in the
night. Growing up in such homes,
breathing sucI an atmosphere,
children become hayward and waste
ful, or mean and selfish.
Most Of our great men have come
from very humble homes, but they
were homes that breathed a pure,
wholesome atmosphere. am not
preaching a gospel of environment.
1 know good men often come out OF
the worst of environment, redeemed
and transformed by the grace of
God. But everybody knows that the
home atmosphere usually determines
child's character and destiny. In
view of this fact, parents who are
concerned for the future well-being
of their children, should learn first
to show piety at home.'
Copyright, 1925, by John r. Gunn)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15

today. Am just telling you that Rae
a red-hot bunch Of new papa-niamma-
daddy songs which makes her the
Queen Bee of jazz melody. Miss
Samuels doesn't give the same old
line every season but she sees to it
that the melody writers and the lyric
makers hatch" brand new batch
of songs for her each year. Rae has
been the blue streak of vaudeville"
for years and she Is still "streaking'
her stuff to great and wonderful sat
isfaction.
Here is one artist that can apply
pepper to a sassy little song and turn
it into delightful jazz burlesque. She
tells you in song that years ago 'the
job of being a woman was tough"
but today-the mammas are just flap
pers who cry daddy"
1t takes artistry, personality, and,
above all. sort of honesty to put
over these songs. She knows the
popular pulse. She tells you this
season that she would like to do
ballads full of that wanta-cry stuff.
And she tells you If she did much
of that sort of stuff they would be
paying her in buttons.
And she does one of those "cry-
ing" right to the heart things-a
song about what it means to go
trouping on the stage far from home.
They were crying when was pres
emf while this artist exposed her
heart to spotlight. N
And when the folks out in front
started to cry Rae rushed back and
said, Put up your handkerchief. Do
you think 1 am going to let you
spoil your afternoon? Walk out,
child (meaning Miss Mildred Land,
pianist) and we will blue the at
mosphere."
And Rae Samuels chased away the
heart thought, the sun of jazz mel
ody oozed its way all over Keith's.
Result-Rae Samuels had regis
tered her biggest hit at Keith's here.
Emile Lea presents herself in
songs and dances, with the assist
apce Of Sam Kaufman and Burr
Dwan. TIE male dancer has that
careless something which puts him
across. There is artistry in this sort
of thing, you know.
James j. Corbett, minus Billy b.
Van. has the aid of Bobby Barry,
one of those pint-sized comedians.
The usual Corbett chatter is used.
Johnny Murphy-just wait until
you see what this man can do with
a song, a telephone and a maya
zine. Another fine example what
the combination Of individuality and
common sense can do.
William Sully has a mighty
wicked pair of dancing feet. He
knows how and when to use 'em.
He has a sort of a college way
about him, but he doesn't let It get
painful. Has fine assistance in
Genevieve Houghton and Edwin
Forsburg. The offering is called
ARMS and the Girl"
The Trado Twins have always had
that dancing something to them
which makes them stand out in any
show. Fine, mighty fine dahcing.
Bert Melrose originated fall, not
the Adama variety. Many enter
tainers have used the Melrose fall
or something Like it The result be-
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Ask The Times

You can get an answer to any oues-
ton OF TACT or Interrogation by writing
Bureau 1922 New York Ave-, Wash
stamps sta nH for reply cp Medical le esafs and
martial advice cannot be given nor
can extended research be undertaken
AL other questions will received a per-
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered All letters are coniden-
OF what derivation is the name
Kuen and how is it pronounced in
English?
The name Kuen is Of German
origin. The old form may have been
Kuhn, which means bold, daring,
fearless. The umlaut-two dots
over a German vowel is used to in
dictate short sound, which in Eng
lish is designated by conjunction
with ''e'. The word Kun two dots
over "U'D in German would be
spelled Kuen in England and pro-
nounced almost like Keen"
Who decides what the brides
maids at wedding shall wear?
The bridesmaids costume is die
tated by the bride. Whatever the
bride wishes her maids tos wear they
must conform to as nearly as posi-
BILE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
MIGHTY NICE REVUE
ON VIEW AT PALACE

Although the Mae Swift and NTu-
riel Gibson Revue has no great num-
Der Of principals in its makeup, this
act, at the Palace today and tomor-
row, has a real punch when It comes
to dancing and setting off a popular
song.
The dancing is at its best when
the two girls d. their stuff in uni
son, their timing and action is well
nigh perfect. Also featured was an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
'BLOssOM TIME" COMES
BACK IN MIGHTY FINE SHAPE

The now familiar blossom Time"
with it's beautiful Schubert music is
back at English's for a weeks en-
gagement. The pathetic story of the
great Austrian composer is presented
by a capable cast headed by Knight
MacGregor in the role of Schubert.
The story of the operetta, as most
theater-goers know, has to do with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-15
HIT EN-
AND RUN

-CHARLES e. HEARN, a pri-
I vate at Fit. Harrison. while
~ walking in Pendleton pike
Sunday night was struck and killed
by an automobile. His companion
was seriously injured. Leaving the
crumpled bodies in the road to be
discovered by a latter passerby
the killer sped away.
Just another specimen Of the
lovely handiwork Of a hit 'em-and-
run coward with which Indianapo-
lis is all too familiar.
To kill accidentally Is tragic. To
speed away following an accident,
leaving the victim alive or dead to
the mercy Of chance passersby, is
worse than tragic. 1t is particu-
larly revolving act of brutality.
Yet that is what most drivers of
death cars do in this enlightened
State.
Ten days ago an Indianapolis
pedestrian was struck by an auto
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the history or the
composer, w h o
struggled for recog-
milton In Vienna, Of
his love affair with
the beautiful Mitzi,
of his composition
of the marvellous
Unfinished S sym :
phony and his dis
appointment.
Mr.. MacGregor
appears as a capa-
bic Schubert and
his baritone is
pleasing. e s pc :
cfally pleasing is
the Song of Love"
number. which he
sings WITH Char
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Rae Sings That Dough to ld-Fashioned
Mamma Has Different Meaning Today

ing that Melrose should get another
kind of fall.
The movie is Clyde Cook in star
walton Blues"
|. Keith's this week has the kind Of
show that makes you want to buy
tickets.
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and a thlng that
they cry for every
minute of the day.
Dough is dough
to the baker but to
the head headed
mamma in the jazz
songs of the day, it
means that daddy
has come a calling.
They call 'em NAM
mas but they sure
amt old fashioned.
Anyway, that is
how Rae Samuels
sings of the old.
fashioned mother
and the red hot
flapper mamma of