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strength along dramatic lines. The
story is laid in the world war period
and is centered about n man and
woman who are in owe with a sec
ond man desiring to share the love
of the woman. The man of the
girls choice is blinded during the
war, captured by the enemy and
later returns to England under an
assumed name so that he can not
marry the girl of his choice because
Of his blindness. Yh' second man
gets a chance becauss he came out
of the war all together. The we'd
ding day is set but he tells OF the
existence of the blind man.
The blind hero makes one noble
effort, by pretending that he is not
blind, but the love of the woman de-
tects what is wrong. And so those
who are really in love find a happy
ending to all of their troubles.
Ronald Colman is cast as Hilary
Trent, the soldier who sacrifices his
eyes for his country, and Wilma
Banky is Kitty Vane, the girl.
Wyndham Standing is Gerald Shan
non and he makes a good second
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be necessary to close the sewage
plant the latter part Of the year
because of insufficient funds. Then
bugs, pestilence and similar affic-
tons will visit the penurious city.
Raw sewage crawling over the
civic landscape would be unpleas-
ant, but probably 1t won't happen.
1t is surprising what economies
can be effected in an arm Of the
public service when frightened
purse strings actually compel
economy. So doubtless the ordi-
nary person won't notice any diff
ference in the sanitation provided
by the 5.5 cent rate than he would
have enjoyed under the 8. 5 cent
rate.
More important than the sani-
tary aspect of the tax commits
sion's action is the aid and COM
fort it gives the municipal budget
idea.
The So cent levy was fixed by
the administration after, presum-
ably, a study Of the departments
estimates and needs. along with
the estimates Of other municipal
departments. II this city council
with a few glib "ayes" and no in
vestigation can add a cent here
and there to the various levies at
their pleasure, Of what use Is an
intelligent budget system?
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

the more impetuous crusaders.
The least criticism of prohibition
arouses their ire. One who ex-
presses an honest opinion not in
tune with the paean of praise they
demand is denounced as a brewery
tool.
That attitude doesn't help the
prohibition cause.
National prohibition is a great
social experiment. On the whole,
over vast stretches of the country,
an impartial observer would con-
cede that it is an astounding
success. But along the Eastern
seaboard and in the larger cities
of the land, even in indianapolis,
there is considerable illegal damp
ness. with it's accompaniment of
bribery, corruption and crime.
There is no use in suppressing
the adverse facts. For the success
Of the experiment. honest discus
sion of the failures of prohibition
are as essential as reiteration of
its accomplishment. Only thus can
its weaknesses be detected and
corrected.
The ultimate status of prohi-
bition will depend on concrete
facts not on propaganda dry or
wet. II the facts are favorable
prohibition will prevail, if unfavor-
able the cause can't be saved by
dry protagonists who, like the
ostrich, bury their heads in the
sand.
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Jected Security Pact" has been accepted by
the interested powers in conference at Lo-
carno, Switzerland. According to its terms
Germany, France and Belgium agree that the
Rhine shall constitute an unfOrtifed military
frontier which neither the one nor the other
shall violate. And Great Britain and Italy
join in with the understanding that if this
frontier is violated then they will come into
the war against the aggressor, whether that
country be France or Belgium or Germany
The League of Nations will stand sponsor
for the pact and its rules governing arbitra-
ton will apply. By the same token Germany
becomes a full-fedged member of the league
with permanent representation on its council
on precisely the same footing as Britain,
France and the other great powers.
In addition to the above, arbitration
treaties between Germany and her eastern
neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia, have
been agreed upon in principle. And in the
same way that Britain and Italy agree to aid
France in the event Germany wilfully makes
war against her, France agrees to come to Po-
land s and Czechoslovakia assistance if Ger
many violates these treaties and wages aggres-
slve war against them.
Germany is to receive other considerations
In the form of the evacuation Of Cologne; a
general reduction of the forces of occupation
in the Rhineland amelioration in the admins
tration of the Saar now under the league, and
the like. All of which makes for better feeling
True, treaties are only promises. And
promises like pie-crusts, they say, are made to
be broken. Nevertheless, the pact holds out
more genuine hope of peace than Europe has
experienced in a century.
AS matters now stand, Europe's greatest
menace is Russia. Russia strenuously opposed
Germany's entering the agreemnt She is
against the security pact She is hostile to Po-
land and to Roumania and, increasingly so of
late, to Britain. What she has up her sleeve
no one can tell, but as long as she is in her
present mood and as long as Europe continues
as sort of open powder key ready to blow
up with the first touch Of frebrand, there
must be danger.
One result of the miracle of Locarno
where irreconciables were reconcied will
likely be second arms conference The
league has been waiting only for favorable
outcome of these negotiations to begin prepa-
rations. And though it is known that Presi-
dent Coolidge would like to call such a parley
in Washington, it is difficult to see how he
could now very well refuse an invitation from
Geneva, league or no league.
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A LIFE
FOR A LIFE

IT John KOvAL, an illiterate
Russian, died in the cleo.
LIZ trio chair in the Indiana
State Prison Friday. He suffered
the death penalty for the murder
last spring of his landlady, a Gary
woman, mother of six children.
The crime, which he confessed.
was no more brutal and atrocious
than a hundred other murders that
have occurred in Indiana during
the past year. While in a drunken
frenzy he merely cut his landlady's
throat with a razor.
He, no doubt, merited execution.
II he hadn't been an ignorant for.
eigner without money or friends
he nevertheless would probably
have escaped the chair like 80 per
cent OF the States murderers. He
is out of the world, not because of
the Nervousness of his crime. but
because of his lack of resources
and expert counsel.
For every ten murders commit
ted in London there are 100 COM
mitted in New York. Both Eng
land and New York prescribe the
death penalty in such cases, but
how different they impose it. Seven
out of London's ten killers are ex-
peditiously hanged, while only one
out of New York's $50 is executed.
Indiana's percentage of execu-
tions is not much greater.
Capital punishment may or may
not be a barbaric legal institution
unworthy of this enlightened age.
Its effectiveness as a crime deter
rent is debatable. But the most
damning indictment Of capital pun
ishment in Indiana and other
States where legal executions are
still possible is the negotiable
way in which the penalty is in
flicted.
If it is good for society to exc
cute one first degree murderer it
is no more than just to electrocute
all such-not merely an occasional
friendless, penniless killer. The
law can't preen itself much on it's
impartiality when it imposes the
supreme penalty on only one MUIR
derer out of a hundred.
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PUBLIC ROADS
AND BILLBOARDS

I-I lie Ohio Valley regional
conference for State parks
- comprising park and con-
servation enthusiasts from Indi-
ana, Kentucky. Ohio. West Vir-
ginia, and Illinois-at its final
session at Clifty Falls the other
day adopted a resolution indoors
ing the campaign to restrict out
door advertising.
Public roads are public prop
erty and should be protected from
exploitation which defaces land
scapes, confuses traffic and en-
dangers life" read the resolution.
There is the slap direct at the
billboard nuisance which turns the
beauties Of nature into 6. riot Of
lurid advertising messages. Where
ever along the highways nature
has done her best with sylvan dell
and gurgling brook her face is
hidden by billboard daubs.
Even the most enthusiastic de.
fender of outdoor advertising can
not claim such posters are works
Of art or enhance the beauties of
the landscape. They are glaring
eyesores. They erupt all over
woods, and hills and dales and turn
scenery into a commercialized
nightmare.
Billboard interests with their
fine esthetic sense estimate tn,
value of scenery in square feet
of poster space. Perhaps they are
right. At any rate they boast that
theirs is the fifth largest industry
in the country.
But those who use the highways
and unjoint their necks trying to
peer around strident billboards TO
catch glimpses of the landscape as
they pass don't value the posters
so highly.
To such there is greater value
in the beauties of nature than in
the signpainter's art. Therefore,
any steps to suppress billboards is
in the public interest-though it
treads on the feet of the fifth
largest industry in the county.
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A Sermon for Today
BY Rev. John r. Gum


before rs the "Mouse's Ear" has
been known as the For-get-me-not."
Whether the story is true, l do not
know. But as l read it l thought
of the many Forget n1e-nots"
which God has scattered all around
us. Every flower of the field is one
Of His For get-me- nots." Every
little twig upspringing at our feet,
every little star that wrinkles in the
sky, every light and every shadow,
every touch of beauty everywhere
in the great world about us, is one
of his For get-me-nots." The Bible
with it's light and wisdom. is His
great For get-me-not" to a world
cropping in ignorance and darkness.
Every church. with its upward
pointing spires, is one of His For
get-me-nots. calling men back from
the way Of sin and evil. and re
minding them Of the better way that
leads from earth to heaven.
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man in the triangle. The story is
mostly dramatic.
The Circle overture this week is
another Of the James A. Fitzpatrick
music master series This time it Is
based upon the life and suffering of
Richard Wagner. The orchestra
plays the score from Wagner's com
positions while the movie is being
reflected upon the screen.
Bakaleinikoff and the Circle or.
chestra handle the score, a heavy
one. in a masterful manner. AS
played. Wagner's music is a gem
Of gorgeous melody.
Bill includes an organ solo by
Dessa Byrd. a stage presentation
and other events.
At the Circle all week.
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UNFAV0RABLE
DRY REPORTS

HRS. ELIZABETH T. STAN
IM LEY, president of the In
IL diana Women's Christian
Temperance Union, in opening the
annual convention Of that organi-
cation at Connersville Friday
night. assailed recent unfavorable
reports of prohibition and those
who criticise the dry amendment.
She particularly condemned the
survey of the Federal Council of
Churches Every church is dis
gusted with the contents of this So
called survey" she asserted. "Its
inaccuracies were due to mex
perienced writers accepting as
facts propaganda Of wet organiza.
tions.''
Hersais the common attitude of
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husband catches her fever and as hi
love for money grows stronger So
does bis love for her grow weaker.
The climax Is reached when tho
husband, now money mad, desires a
divorce In order to marry a woman
who is fabulously rich.
The story, although slow at times
is very good entertainment and tho
women will get many thrills out Of
the gowns and furnishings shown
in tho picture.
Leatrice JOY is the featured mem
Der Of the cast and others present
are Edmund Burns. Julia Faye.
Helene Sullivan and Robert Edeson
The bin includes Arthur Lake IN
HAT Fare" an Aesop Fable, Inter.
national News and the Ten Amer
can IIarmonists, who present a pro.
gram OF jazz novelties while thu
feature Is on.
At the Colonial all week By oh.
server)
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Movie Verdict

Apollo-Harold Bell Virgins
"a Son Of His Father" reads
better than it films. Bessie
Love does fine work.
Ohio-Douglas MacLean has
good entertainment in "Seven
Keys to Baldpate." Many
laughs.
Circle-Vilma Banky makes
her first American screen ap-
pearance in 1.-The Dark Angel"
at the Circle. The illustrated
overture founded on Wagner is
a treat.
Colonial-Cecil r. DeMille Is
represented by his first new pic
ture on the screen by the title
of "Iell's High Road"
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CldeS 10 Hgnt TO
hold his ranch. There is some anus,
ing western comedy and some strong
melodramatic touches near the close
Of the picture, but it doesn't piece
together as a convincing story.
.roineslterrt VII vbnfgthes?l whole
The fact is that Bessie Love is the
real feature of the picture, as she
catches the spirit of the story. She
puts over her comedy entrance in a
cute way. She Is using a Sunshine"
smile and it has its effect.
The story does not have sufficient
strength to cause it to be a movie
that rounds out it's fun strength all
the time, and yet it did receive
laughs on the comedy interest.
The bill includes a Mack Senentt
comedy, a news reel, Walter j.
Schwartz as soloist and Emil Seidel
and his orchestra.
At the Apollo all week.
i
mo, No, Nanette," opens a weeks
engagement at English's tonight
with Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian,
Frank Crumit and Ona Munson in
the cast.
The Ona b. Talbot orchestral
season opens tonight at the Murat
with Walter Damrosch conducting
the New York symphony through an
all Wagner program
The Capitol is now using n now
policy by presenting the Lawrence
Players in THE Millionaire and the
Flapper," a comedy drama, four
vaudeville acts, a chorus and movies.
The shows are continuous.
Milton Sills is on view at the
Crystal In THE Knockout" and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-19
WEIGHTS STORIES ARE
DIFFICULT TO FILM

Harold Bell Wright is one novelist
who writes a lot OF sentimental stuff
about the west and it's characters.
His material has more appeal in
print than on the screen, and this
is no exception to THE Son of His
Father" 1t is one thing to read
about Harold Bell Wrialnt's charac.
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''NOw consider this, We that for
get God. "-PsaIms 50:22.
~ HERE is an old story which
/ runs as follows: There was
- once a poor musician in Ger
many who loved a maiden of high
degree, and in order to win her he
went away to distant lands and
strove to obtain fame and fortune.
When at last he had obtained both
he came back and claimed his bride.
They were walking out one evening
by the side of the river Rhine, and
he saw down the bank a tuft of
little blue flowers which he sought
to reach for her. In doing so his
foot slipped and he fell into the
river. AS he was being carried away
by the strong current he flung the
bunch OF flowers to land, crying as
he did so, Forget me not" From
that time, and from this story so 1t
is said, that little blue flower. known
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-19

ABOUT n young
girl raised in
poverty and who
gets the idea that
money, and still
IN o re money
coupled with in
fluence, are the
only insurance
with which one
can hold love.
on her wedding
night this girl
who should have
been thinking Of
everything else
but money, sends
her husband Of n
few hours out I'm
pursuit Of her one
obsession, gold.
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SANITARY
TAX LEVY

e State tax commission,
1cting on the opinion OF
the Attorney General, has
fixed the Indianapolis sanitary
levy at 5.5 cents, as provided in
the budget approved by the mayor.
rather than the 6.5 cents passed
by the city council. That will
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terS and an en-
tirely different
thing to see them
on the screen.
The movie goes
along at a slow
rate of motion,
and really does
not get moving
toward a definite
goal until near
the end of the
film. Bessie Love
is cast as the
Irish h Groin g
who bucks the
West and it's in
trigue. Warner
Baxter is the
hero Of the story,
who finally de-
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There Were Lot of Keys to Bald pate;
Wagner Overture Is Splendid Delight

George Walsh is on view at the Isis
in American Pluck"
The headline attraction at Keith's
Is Alsen and Johnson; at Palace.
Fay, Two Coleys and Fay; at Lyric,
Meyer Golden's "Gypsyland."
The Broadway is offering
"Nauhtgy Mites" a burlesque pro.
duction.
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DEMILLE'S LATEST
MOVIE AT COLONIAL

"Hell's High Road" Is a title that
might well be applied to a swash-
buckling drama OF the olden bays,
but seems just trifle out Of place
for the current show on view at the
Colonial.
In this, the first Of Cecil 3. De-
Miles new pictures, the story Is
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Tom Sims Says


saxophone players are rejected.
You can't tell what's in a boy by
looking at him. Philadelphia doctor
got an iron bolt out OF one.
Coolidge dog bit another dog. So
the other dog can brag about II the
rest Of his life.
Must be awful to he President
Coolidge's dog and get your picture
IN the paper every time you have
fight.
Literary Digest explains how tho
coal strikes the public. We explain
It strikes It in the pocketbook.
Bad news from the Arabs. Lead.
ors have quit smoking. And smok.
ing keeps you from getting restless
and going TO work.
Banking powers arc meeting In
London. Banking powers are like
baking powders, They raise tho
dough.
BE careful about what you pre-
tend to be. In Columbus, Ohio,
sword-eater accidentally swallowed
a knife.
New vest.pocket battery will run
n car ton days. But what we need
is n pocketboolS that will run one
forever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-19

How is etching made on brass
signs?
Paint the sign with asphalt var
nish. leaving the parts to be etched
unpaiMed, raise a border around the
outside, made of soft beeswax or
asphalt, to hold the acid. Use nitric
acid diluted with five times the guam
tity of water. Pour the dilute acid
on the sign about one -fourth inch
deep. When the letters are cut deep
enough. which must be found by
trial, the acid may be poured off
and the plate cleaned by heating and
wiping, and finally with turpentine.
How many presidents has Po-
land had and what were their
names?
Poland has had two presidents.
Joseph Pilsudski and Stantslaw
Wojciechowski. the present incum-
bent, who was elected Dec. 20, 1922.
What was the name in civil life
of Pope Leo X?
His name was Giovanni de Medi-
CT He was the son Of Lorenzo, the
Magnificent The Medici were the
most celebrated family Of the Floren-
tine republic.
Can you give the verse by Henry
Van Dyke called -Four Things?
-Four things a man must learn to do.
II he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly,
To love his fellow man sincerely,
To act from honest motives purely,
To trust In God and heaven securely.
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at the Circle this
week.
Am speaking
of Wilma Banky,
a foreign beauty,
who is opposite
Ronald Colnan in
T n e d ar k
Angel.
This woman
has beauty and
and ability al
though 1.-THE
Dark Angel" is
a story that does
not give her too
much of a chance
to register all the
time. In the
emotional scenes
che nhn-r.r. 1911
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make the 1925
city tax rate
$1.0525 less
than this year.
T a X payers
won't grumble
at that. Reduc-
ton of a cent
in a tax rate
never aroused
a populace to
fury or started
a revolution.
But members
of the sanitary
G o m m iSsion
view the reduc-
ton with a
gloomy fore
boding. They
say it might
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What he wrote
makes the story Of
Seven Keys to
Baldpate Inn" both
a success on the
stage and screen.
This stage play,
which made a lo.
Of m o n y for
George NJ. Cohan.
is a delight as a
movie, now being
presented at the
Ohio. ID o Il & las
MacLean Is cast
as the author who
had to write the
story : within IL
hours. Mac Lean
fits easily into the
part. His comedy
method is differen1
from most coD,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-19
The Miracle of LOCarno

ri UROPE has just made her greatest bid
IL for peace. And by a strange prank Of
fate it was Germany accused of bringing on
the last war-that put forward this new and
accepted plan for preventing another.
Briefly, Germany's famous and once re-
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A Thought

For this Is thank worthy, II man
for conscience toward God endure
grief, suffering wrOngfulIy.--I Peter
2:19.
Through much enduring coma
things that cannot be endured
Latin proverb.
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Ask The Times

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TO The indianapolis Times n ashington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
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stamps for reply. Medical. legal and
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can extended research be unuerLakea.
All other questions will receive a per-
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be answered. All letters are cOnfiden-
ual-Editor.
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By Walter ID. Hickman

o EVEN keys there were to the
IL Baldpate Inn.
IL And all Of them worked in
the mind Of the author who made a
bet to write a novel in twelve hours
time.
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MEETING A NEW
PERSONALITY ON SCREEN

There is a chance to get ac-
quainted with a new personality
1pOn the Scrpen
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be
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Coolidge dog bit another dog. So
the other dog can brag about II the
rest Of his life.