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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
Where LazC Fails

The theory that make better by
law, which have been depending more and
for the past thirty years, has once more been
challenged.
This time the protest comes from former Sen
ator Albert J. Beveridge the nations outstanding
defender of the Constitution and its prominent
advocate Of liberty under and through law
His contribution of thought upon this subject is
moro than timely, for as enter upon the task Of
selecting lawmakers, It is important that find
and who thoroughly understand how
futile laws be If they attempt to the realm
where conscience and intelligence must dominate
Undoubtedly many Of the and women who
will aspire to these positions hold the theory that
every evil be cured by merely writing a law
prohibiting it.
Many Of them will have fantastic schemes for
changing human nature. Many of them will appeal
denotes in social organization with jas or fines
or other forms of punishment
We have been working upon this theory and as
result have upon our statute books laws which
are not enforced and by their very nature I'M
possible of enforcement A law unenforced is
constant menace to all other laws and destroys
respect for courts and confidence in government.
Those who believe that ultimate destiny
uast be built upon character and education will find
this part of Mr. Beverdges address at least thought
provoking
All of different, thank heaven. The
whorIs on thumb and finger tips have been unlike
since the beginning of time-countless billions of
them. and no two identical How then, anybody
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09

What the Mexican government is trying to do today
is to educate ten more millions Of iliterate and
chiefly Indian people them out from under the
of politically organized and conservative church
party, and finally get them established economically
something better than peonage basis.
This program is back Of the Mexican land laws
which Americans claim retroactive and con1sca
tory and in conflict with international laws.
Dollars Noisy
Although more American citizens own agricultural
and grazing lands in Mexico than any other class OF
lands, most American dollars tied up in oil rights
in q comparative small the east coast and the
dollars making the most noise These oil lands
lie chiefly in the strip which Mexico has drawn
around its coasts and borders for defense and
any land at all Outside this prohibited for
eigners may anything they like by agreeing not
to make international question of Mexican laws
affecting ther property-n other words to be on the
same basis as Mexican citizens property holders
There is question that millions Of American dol
lars invested spent improvements within
the proposed before the prohibition law" was
passed There is question that much of this money
spent in good faith This is why the law
js called retroactive.
Given Five Years
The gives foreigners holding property in
the prohibited zone five years to sell out either to pr
waite Mexican individuals, corporations to the
government. In the latter case the government will
make payment in bonds
American property holders say first that there are
no private Mexican citizens corporations with
enough cash to buy them out at a fair price Sec
past paid interest regularly and not worth par
This is why they call the law conhscatory
Friends Of the Mexican government hold that SO
far the law being retroactive is concerned 1t is
that than CALIFORNIA; law oustlng Japanese
land holders and that far it be conscat tory
WELL it lucky for the California Japanese they
required to sell out in boom times rather than
hard times. They also claim that many oil and other
titles In the prohibited good under
any Mexican law extant, but were acquired by
rickery fraud otherwise Illegally They also point
out that there is nothing to prevent American prop
erty holders becoming Mexican citizens, that all
Mexico wants to do within the prohibited avoid
international complications.
This Is pretty that requires settling If
Mexico is to prosper through investment of American
capital, if America is to continue business with
fifteen million busy and rapidly progressing people
south of the Rio Grande. 1t is that almost q
year of note writing has done nothing clear up
Right now things are drifting toward deadlock, the
only way out Of which may be break in diplomatic
relations and period of revolution in Mexico
during which nobodys title to oil. land life
will be worth anything at all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09

expect intellect and disposition be made the same.
80 let everybody be happy in his and her own
way, so long as they don't make others sorrowful
by unkind word deed
There is where human law comes init re-
strains action or language that hurts in concrete
manner But human law not go very fart has
it's clear and distinct limitations.
Spiritual appeal is far, high and much stronger.
For example human law can punish and largely pre-
vent theft, murder and perjury but it cannot pre-
vent covetousness and the like can not force the
honoring Of parents, not compel love or fear
of God.
80 that only part of the Ten Com
1nandments can be enacted into statutes. Not line
of the Sermon on the Mount be made the subject
of legislation Yet is is the best thing that ever was
said or ever will be said"
Probably Mr.. Beverage has touched upon the
source of many of our perpexities It just posi-
BILE that we have been relying too little upon the
Sermon on the Mount and too much upon city ordi-
nances and State statutes.
1t is just possible that have been basing our
morality and ethics fear Of the penitentiary
rather than upon firm conviction and faith in right
and decency.
We may have gone too far In destroying some
Of the agencies and influences which gave this ma
ton firm basis of morality and created civfliza-
ton much finer than anything that has before
existed In written history.
We may be turning too often to the law books
and too seldom to consciences guide for
conduct
The law fails and must always fail when 1t at
empts to control sin differentiated from crime.
The cure for sin is conscience, and sin never be-
comes a crime until the organized conscience of the
community recognizes it as thoroughly antisocial.
Law never created strength of character
That Is something most legislators seem to for
get.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

know their business when 1t comes
to making their feet move over the
boards in front of them, We are
given speciality dances by each Of
the company and some ensemble
numbers. Probably the best num-
Der was a Chinese thing in which
the woman and two of the men took
part.
The Marcelle Sisters are two girls
who entertain with plano and violin
and a couple of songs by each. Are
both good musicians and know what
is liked. One of the girls does an
impersonation of Ted Lewis that is
clever.
Rice and Cady are a couple Of CO
medians whose one wish in life
seems to be to see who can find the
biggest word and use it, No matter
whether it is right or not. They
get many laughs with their dialogue.
Cliff Jordon opens the bill with
some rather spectacular tricks which
are full Of color. His best one was
taking a large cart wheel. one like
used 70 be on the familiar brewery
trucks, and balancing it on his head
while he juggled two other objects
In his hands.
Babe Durpee and company pre-
sent some melody on the saxophone.
cornet and trombone. Are a poppy
group when 1t comes to jazz playing.
At the Lyric all week (By the
Observer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
GOOD SHOW ON
VIEW AT LYRIC

With the thermometer lowering
around the lower marks and the
wind cutting like an arctic breeze
It sort Of makes one shiver to watch
Madeline Berlo and her diving girls
give their exhibition OF crack DIV
ing stunts at the Lyric this week.
The act opens, as 1t should. IN a.
rather unusual way when compared
to the other acts Of IT'S kind we have
seen. One Of the girls IS out front
and in a little song we are intro
duced to the rest Of the company
who interpret with their bathing
costumes the seasons of the year.
Then follows some excellent ex-
amples of diving. All manners and
kinds of dives from the most simple
to the most difficult are performed
before US. Then as a finale Miss
Berlo has herself taken high in the
loft Of the theater on a trapeze and
makes dive into the shallow tank
below. This Is the stunt she did for
three years at the New York Hip
podrome.
Bert Gordon is an eccentric come
dian who comes out and takes n
vocal lesson for the benefit of those
who are curious to see how It Is
done The accepted way Of singing
suffers. however, he has his own
ideas OF how singer should per-
form. And therein lays the basis
of his fun.
Dancing Some is = dancing act
with four men and q woman who all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
THE VERY IDEA
BY Hal Cochran

T won't be very long, now
| till the kids are on their toes
~ What happens in the sum
mertime most everybody knows
ThereW be aplenty dom when the
breeze OF springtime blows, for that $
the time when nature Shines and per
and ginger flows.
Says Mister Top, I'm waitin' for
my session 20 begin. I'm all pre-
pared, with string and such, ia have
my yearly spin. In quiet and seclu
sion through the winter I have been
an now It's close to warmer days
and that's where I come in"
You haven't anything on me. u
says Wee Jumpin' Rope. 1T won't
be long until I'm swingin' merrily
I hope. I scanned a little calendar
That's where l got my dope. And
will I care, when winters gone?
The honest answers nope
Go on and do yer ravin pipes
a pair Of roller skates. why. say
this comm summer I've a half a
million dates. The kids err gonna
need me when they're at their daily
play. an when I'm fastened on their
shoes, We'll both be on our way"
If all the little playthings OF the
summertime could speak. you'd hear
them talkin' louder as the time flies
week by week. You'd know that
they were achin' to be swingin' into
tune. cause that's what's gonna hap
pen, sure as shootin' purity soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
When It Comes to That Jazz Stuff,
Brady and Wells Take First Prize

little songs about some brides she
has known and their experiences be-
fore and after their venture into mar
ried life. She also gives some very
excellent lessons to the would be
gold diggers." She and her little
stories in song are a lot OF fun.
Louise Massart and Boys is a
dancing act with four men and one
woman. Act opens with the whole
company dancing in ensemble and
then splits up into speciality numbers
by the different members. Two of
the speciality numbers by pair Of
boys were excellent, as was the
dancing of Miss Massart. One of
the boys is a good pianist as well as
a dancer.
Morgan ard Lake are riot with
their, at times. ridiculous dialogue.
They burlesque about all the class
les Shakespeare ever wrote. And
they burlesque them well, IL that
may be done. After some dancing
by the pair they close their act with
a death scene that seems familiar
in my memory, but 1t is still good
for many laughs. Such a death. 1t
Is q. burlesque of tragedy.
In the last act, billed as Alex
andria and Nolsen, we have the
whole bill in what seems to be big
laugh finale. Almost all OF the acts
that went before contribute to the
fun Of this final number. We have
everything from xylophone solos by
the two men of the act to a little
midget coming out and reciting.
However the solos by the two men
we're excellent and were no cause for
merriment,
Bill includes ph9toplay Faint
Perfume, with Seena Owens and a
News Reel.
At the Palace today and tomor-
row. By Discovery
+ + +
Other theaters today OFFER: The
Sea Beast" at the Circle; THE Song
and Dance Man" at the Ohio; 1.-THE
Grand Duchess and the Waiter" at
the Apollo; stella Marls," at the
Colonial: burlesque at the Broadway
and Chip OF the Flying L" at the
| Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
Famous Composers
Gioacchine Antonio Rossini

Rossni, Italian operate composer born in 1892
at Pesaro At the early age of 10 he in demand
solo singer and also in request accOmpanst At
the age Of Is he by the Countess Percar the
Iyceum of Bologna
His first opera composed in 1910 under the title
of La Cambale d Matrimonial and with considerable
Within the years he had written eight
operas but his first important written until
1913 This 'TaDeredi" and placed its composer at
in the front rank
"Il Barbere di Seviga one of the most successful
comic operas written is said to have been composed
in twenty days, and first produced in 1916 Rome
After this, he given the dictatorship of the Theatre
Italen coveted prize in the musical world His
last and most famous opera Guilaime Tell produced in
1929 marked him the greatest Italian operate
poser of his time. As he did die until 1868 it one
of the mysteries why he ceased compose at the age
of 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
SMOKE AND
PEDIGREED COAL

r. OSEPH BUCHANAN, new
city smoke inspector, pro-
LII poses that all coal sold in
Indianapolis be labeled to show its
heat value-sort Of require the
dealers to deliver q pedigree with
each ton OF coal. He believes that
will help the smoke abatement
campaign.
Heat value labels on coal might
be a splendid idea. Most people
wouldn't know a b. I. u.-the
standard heat unfit they met
one on the street. but they vague
ly understand that the value Of
coal depends on the number OF
heat units it contains.
And It's heat units they want
the coal dealer, who temporarily
enjoys their credit business, to de-
liver to them. There Is a we'll
founded suspicion that some coal
delivered to Indianapolis house
holders contains few 10 any heat
units. Certainly 1t isn't as COM
bustible as the fellow who tries to
fire with It.
SO labelling coal with the heat
ing value might benefit the coal
purchaser and assure his getting
a specified number OF heat units
instead Of merely the laugh from
his coal DEALER
But how would such labelling
tame the smoke nuisance7 II isn't
the number OF heat units that go
into the fire box. but the STUFF that
goes UP the chimney that makes
the smoke nuisance. Coal OF high
heating value will make Just as
dense a cloud of black smoke as
any other II the heat units It CON
tains are allowed to crawl or into
the chimney half consumed.
To get anywhere with the anti
smoke campaign the city smoke
inspector will have to pin convic-
tons on coal users rather than la
bells on coal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
MIR. FIXIT
Complaint on ReCumbent
Retaining Wall Sent In,

Let Mr.. Fixit present your case TO
city officials. He is The Times repre-.
sentative at the city hall. Write him at
Tho Times.
Tho duty OF a retaining wall Is
to retain rather vigorously instead
of resting on the sidewalk, in the
opinion of correspondent who
wrote to Mr.. Ftxit today.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: For the last
two or three years a retaining wall
has been lying on the sidewalk on
the northeast corner of Cottage and
State AYES. I noticed your attention
was called to this several times in
the last two or three years and
nothing has been done
JACK LANCASTER.
1424 Dawson ST.
A. J. Middleton. engineers de-
partment chief inspector. promised
Mr.. Fixit an early inspection.
Middleton also will investigate
the following: Mrs. Mason. 2S13
2. Michigan St.; Chester Q. Fields,
Kentucky Ave. from S. Harding
St. TO Eagle Creek; A. F. O.,
Southeastern Ave. from State
Ave. TO Walcott ST.; Times Read
er. 2249 Brookside Ave.
The memory Of garbage and
ashes collectors will be logged
bit by Truly Nolen. garbage and
ashes collection superintendent,
in response to complaints from c.
]. Ward oil Sanders St, and Mrs.
Smith. 500 block s. Harris St. and
Warman Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
FABLES IN FACT

A COUPLA DETECTIVES WERE
DOING THEIR DERNDEST TO
SOLVE A CERTAIN MYSTERY
PERIOD 1T HAPPENED TO CON
Germ THE OCCUPANTS OF AN
OLD HOME COMMA AND ONE OF
THE SLEUTHS WAS QU1ZZING
THE HOUsEMAID PERIOD QUO
TATION MARK NOW COMMA
QUOTATION MARK SAID THE
SLEUTH COMMA QUOTATION
MARK WHERE WERE YOU
WHEN IT HAPPENED QUESTION
MARK QUOTATION MARK AND
THE MAID EXPLAINED THAT
SHE WAS IN HER BATH PERIOD
so THAT'S HOW THEY DIS
COVERED THE CRIME TOOK
PLACE. ON A SATURDAY PERIOD
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
'SCOFFLAW AND
'PITILACKER'

"1HD s. p. O. A. has just
concluded a contest for
IL new name TO apply TO per.
sons cruel to animals-a now word
striking, descriptive and conveying
the proper degree OF contempt.
Among the 500 newly coined words
submitted the prize was awarded
to "pitilacker."
Remember that term, when AZ
2 a. m. you knock a melodious
pussy or the backyard fenoo with
a well-aimed alarm clock or
shoe. In the bright lexicon OF tho
s. p. @. A. you are being a "piu.
lacker."
Sounds awful. doesn't itH n
you miss the cat-and curse fiu
emily on the way back to bed
your are Just a normal human. not
a pitilacker.
Perhaps the new word has much
TO recommend II, II Is certainly
az useful and handsome as tho
word "scofflaw n couple
Of years ago I'm a similar new
word contsst-which was intended
to shame us all into observing
prohibition. II didn't.
But really no one need sft up
nights coming new words. Shake
speare never heard OF ''scoff1aw"
or "pitilacker." Yet he made him
self understood with a vocabulary
Of few thousand ordinary words
The English dictionary now lists
some 100000 words. Most OF us
haven't a speaking acquaintance
with many OF them, but they are
there, II one chooses to use them.
And even with that supply TO
draw from we don't seem able 10
express ourselves any better than
Shakespeare did with his few
words.
So in America ana even tn
literary Hoosierdom we don't feel
any pressing need Tor new words.
We haven't worn out our present
stock. But there are lots of prizes
for the fellows who can coin new
ideas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
By Walter ID. Hickman

IVA HEN 1t comes to that jazz
!WI melody stuff that melts the
G snow and makes the whole
world a little happier, Florence
Brady and Gilbert Wells take first
prize.
Here Is a melody team that has
showmanship that makes theater-
going a delight. They burn up the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

family. The telephone was born.
Sunday night a group Of men In
O. room In New York chatted over
the phone with a group OF men In
London. The conversation was
carried part way by wire and part
way by wireless. The two groups
gossiped about the weather and
other pertinent subjects just like
a couple OF housewives visiting
over rural Indiana party line.
Transatlantic wireless tele-
phone conversation--not mare
radio broadcast stuff-is thus a
reality. Soon It may be a regular
commercial possibility. Get Lon.
don on the phone" may remark
the busy executive, just as he now
says Get me Kokomo."
And within a year tho Atlantic
Ocean may be SO full OF English
lis dropping from tho air that
1t will impede navigation.
Chauncey NJ. Depew. In his book
OF "reminiscences, says he was ap.
preached TO invest $4,000 IN
Bells invention. lie was dissuaded
by the man who then had the
reputation Of being the best I'm.
formed electrical expert in the
country. There is nothing to It
except as a toy" declared tho OK.
pert. Depew estimates no lost
Sloo,0o0,000 by following that ad.
vice.
What invention ls now kicking
around, unconsldered by tho pub.
lie and ridiculed by the experts, that
will accomplish in the next nfty
years what the telephone has
achieved In the past half century,
II you can pick It. your fortune
Is made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
Friendship

AOANboA4R
m HE east is east and the west
is west and some like this,
1 or the other best. When in
the casts the west is far, and the
casts the same when it's west you
are.
A man may hail from a far off
coast. move some place else, In his
work engrossed. but he ne'er forgets
1t. after all-that deep desire, and
that far-off call.
AS Burns once said, q mans a
man who can make real friends like
a real man can. He can step right
in where there are no breaks in the
friendship gag when he pulls up
stakes.
He can go back home; leave his
friends behind. He can settle down
in his peace Of mind, cause he
knows what friendship really gains.
Though he's gone, his spirit still re-
mains.
There amt no word Ike the word
"goodby," when you shout II out to
a tip-top guy. He can shake your
hand and be on his way, but the
good old feeling sticks for aye.
There are more than 500 broad
casting stations in this country, not
counting gossips.
When a man Is suffering from
overwOrk, the rest of the family
hopes it isn't contagious.
We always think the stork has a
big bill. but when he leaves and the
doctor comes. we find out how small
it is In comparison.
She aimed to cut her weight bit
with exercise galore.
Instead Of eating lunch, she took
A roll upon the floor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09
|. MARRY
|. IN HASTE

7Rs, FAYE HUNT. II. De
I'M catur, Ind. high school
I'll senior. after three weeks
venture in matrimony was left
penniless I'm Traverse City. Mich,
by her husband. She was taken
into custody by the police and Will
be returned home.
II didn't take long for her
romance to mature and blow up.
A plausible young man, pretend.
ing to head an aviation company
came TO Decatur. She fell for
him after a courtship OF days. They
were hastily married and left town
Immediately. Very romantic.
Regular fairy tale stuff, where
Prince Charming dashes up woos
the maiden and carries her off TO
his palace to live happily ever after
all between sunup and quitting
time.
Only IN this case shortly after
the couple left Decatur police
learned that Hunt--the Prince
Charming OF the episode--was
wanted in several cities on charges
Of forgery and larceny. The auto
mobile IN which they started their
wedding tour was stolen. The hua-
band, so lightly acquired. was Just
a cheap crook with a police record.
living for the moment a Jump or
two ahead OF the officers.
Too bad an unsophisticatod high
school girl should be taken IN by
such n fellow and loves young
dream should have It's nose broken
30 soon after the nuptiel ceremony.
But tho desolated bride Of three
weeks could have saved herself
trouble II she had picked her hus-
band with as much care. thought
and investigation rs she would
give to the choice Of a pair OF silk
stockings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-09

A TWO FISTED
BILL AT PALACE

A regular two listed bill is on
view at the Palace for today and
tomorrow. Each act seems capable
Of carrying the headline honors Of a
show and doing 1t easily.
The bill opens with an act billed
the Six Saxos and the fine things
start right away. In this act we have
six men playing saxophones and a
woman dancer.
The sextette give US harmony on
the sarophones and the woman to
this melody offers several fine songs
and some dancing. They are real
poppy group.
Ann Gold confines her activities to