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STOP AND
STOP STREETS

Hundreds of motorists, officers
Of the traffic department declare,
drive across Washington ST.. New
York ST. and other preferential
thoroughfares without coming to
a full stop, as traffic regulations
require. SO a campaign against
such motorists has been started.
More power to the cops In this
war!
On one of our preferential streets
one never knows when he sees a
fivver approaching on a side street
whether It is going to pause at the
intersection and understanding
TO law-or whether II is going TO
leap forward and devour him. 1t
may or may not stop. which adds
an unnecessary sporting element
to driving.
But even more annoying than
the split-second motorist who
dashes into preferential streets is
the driver who always gets a run
ming start on a silent policeman.
The fellow to whom the green ana
orange lights both mean go" and
the red signal means stop" may
be.
On Meridian St. one can see any
number Of motorists starting with
the orange light and half way
across the intersection before the
green Ego" flashes. And at less
prominent corners automatic sig
nails are treated with more con-
tumely.
Pedestrians at these corners live
or die, depending on their agility.
Stop signs for preferential
streets and automatic traffic sig
mails are excellent devices for regu-
lating trahlc-if obeyed. But
sooner or later, II they are only
half obeyed. they will regulate
some traffic into a junk heap and
some drivers into the hospital.
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HOMES FOR
CHILDREN

John A. Brown, secretary OF the
State board of charities. says the
State board, in cooperation with
social welfare organizations. plans
a systematic placeemnt campaign
TO provide homes for the 1900
homeless children now maintained
in Indiana's public institutions.
I'VE believe that for every
homeless child there is some good
home ready and able to receive it, T"
he declares.
No doubt the care OF orphans in
public institutions is not a salts
factory solution Of the problem OF
disposing of the homeless child.
No matter how efficiently such in
stitutions are operated, they are
at best cold and cherries. The
inmates are denied the love, affec-
ton, individual training and under
standing with which a child in a
private home is surrounded.
But to find the proper home for
the homeless child. Aye, there's
the rub.
In Wisconsin. where the plan OF
placing children from public lnsti-
tutions in private homes under an
indenture system has been largely
practiced, a recent investigation
disclosed shocking conditions and
shameful treatment OF many of
the children so placed. Many are
treated as slaveys, beaten, Ill fed,
given no schooling. Just drudges
which foster parents worked to
death.
The pages Of oliver Twist depict
no more barbarous treatment Of
orphans than the report OF the
Wisconsin Investigators.
Indiana doesn't want any such
treatment of its orphans. We
would rather have them kept in
institutions. More important than
getting all our homeless children
in homes is making sure that those
who are placed out are IN good
homes.
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AND FRANK JAMES
WINS THE LYRIC

Among the members Of the hard
working theatrical profession there
is an ideal that is universal. 1t Is
that the show must carry on" No
matter what personal misfortune
may befall an actor or artist the
public must not be forgotten. Their
own suffering and cares must be
placed on the shelf and the business
Of entertaining the public, Of which
you and 1 are members, must go on.
At the Lyric this week is young
man that illustrates this fact in
way that all may understand. His
name is Frank Jones. With his left
leg missing just above the knee he
laughs about it. Could you do the
same? He calls it his meal ticket"
in a way that has touch Of grim
humor to it.
With his one good leg and the
peg that he uses on the stage he
dances with a degree of skill that
tells of much hard work in train
ing himself. With the aid Of several
harmonious he puts out enough
melody to satisfy all. When his
act is finished he is satisfied in the
knowledge of one thing. he has done
his bit. and has done 1t well.
Irwin Beds" is a sketch with a
good story that is somewhat poorly
acted, with the exception OF one
part, a house maid. Concerns the
eccentric straying from the marital
fold of a male grand opera singer
and the trouble of his wife in keep
ing him at home.
Jimmy Gildea and company have
an excellent little burlesque of an
cient love. We are taken back into
history and given sample OF love
as put out by the famous heroines
&C the different periods. Centuries
are juggled about in a rather care
less manner, but as it is all in fun.
we shouldn't worry about that. Mr..
Gildea as the seeker after ancient
love lore makes many a bright crack
and gives material for many a laugh.
Thornton and Squires are a clever
team who have a novel idea for the
opening of their act. They make
the movies help them out by hav-
ing a picture screened that brings
the comedy action up to an inter-
esting point. and then they step
onto the stage. They have a hu-
morous Interpretation of rural Ro-
meo and his wise little sweetheart.
Smith, Lynch and Smith are a
trio of men with some very fine
voices. Are at their best in novelty
effects such as one number they
did in which the combined voices
gave the effect of bagpipe.
Frank and Ray Doran had me
puzzled for a minute or so. They
have a dance act and were on the
stage when I entered the theater.
I thought it was an ordinary man
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act of five girls who with songs
and dances find their way to favor
YER yeasily. There are several mum
bers that have some very fine cos
tune effects. Two blues" singers
in the manner Of the Dolly Sisters,
get over some songs in a quite pleas
ing way. They all have specialties
either in dancing or song and pro-
vide some good entertainment in
this line.
Raymond Wylie has the right idea
when It comes to being in Jail. In
his cell on the stage everything
looks as if il were intended for some
ones cosy home. Curtains all
around, bottles on the table, and
when we first see him he is telling
the warden how TO draw his bath.
He is one prisoner with the desire
to have perfume in his bath. With
Dave Slack the two Of them put
over much fun and some songs.
Wylies best song number was one in
which he featured the tastes Of
song lovers of yesterday and today.
Was composed of the "Toreador's
Song from Carmen" and a popular
Jazz song.
Adams and Griffith are two men
with a good eye when it comes 70
finding things to laugh at. One Of
them takes the part Of the vocal
instructor and the other is the very
very dumb pupil. The pupil with
his eccentric manner is good for
most of the fun.
Wilfred Dubois opens the bill with
a Juggling act in which stress is
laid on several novelty features
Included on the bill IS a photo
play, 1.-THE Circle" with Eleanor
Boardman, and a news reel.
At the Palace today and tomor-
row. CBy the Observer
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sketch Of modern make. called AN
Even Break" Mollie Fuller is sur
rounded with Perry Miller, youth
full and fair dancer; Bert Kelly, a
female impersonator along the lines
of the late Bert Savoy. and Leila
Romer, a heavyweight ballet"
dancer.
With the natural aid of these en-
tertainers, Mollie Fuller has an act
that does not have to beg for toler-
ance. There Is a lot of everything
in this act. Miss Fuller is first seen
as a scrubwoman in Nine. Null
doone's fancy dressmaking establish
ment Bert Kelly is the fancy"
dressmaker with more colored wigs
than there are colors in the rain
bow.
Mollie Fuller has a dramatic reci-
tation and she then blossoms out in
beautiful gown as model. There
is swift, artificial and honest enter
tainment in this act. Mole Fuller
has never asked for sympathy. She
knows her stage. She knows that
Mollie Fuller is still doing this.
Local interest centers upon Bob
and Gale Sherwood and their enter
tainers. The Sherwoods got their
start in this city. They have devel-
oped the idea that something new
must be going on when an Orchcs-
ira is on the stage. They have de-
veloped that idea until they have be-
come real headliners. There is a lit
tie bit of everything in this act.
Sherwood eXcels in working out a
different routine for an orchestra.
The result is that they are a big
time sensation. Personally, I would
eliminate one song number, the one
telling about how difficult it is to tell
the boys from the girls. They are
stopping the show this week.
Harry JAMS and Harold Whalen
have become a vaudeville institution
with their own brand of comedy,
dancing and singing. They know
how to sell honest to goodness per-
sonality. I put this team in my
own Hall of Fame.
Lillian Morton and her material
didn't register with me. I failed to
get heads or tails out Of what she
was attempting. Her opening num-
Der Is the best. Haynes, Lehman
and Kaiser are heavyweight sing
ers who sell personality and comedy
more than they do harmony. But
they do "sell'' their stuff.
Laura Ormsbee. singer and violin
list, with Hal Findlay at the piano,
has an interesting offering of mel
ody, done in class and with ease.
The bill opens with the Digatanos,
dancers.
Here is a bill that makes one want
to go to the theater.
At Keith's all week.
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seems TO be too much. You ara bs
ginning TO feel blue and discour.
aged. You are wondering whether
there Is any way out.
The text speaks OF six troubles and
seventh. Perhaps your troubles
nave been too many 10 number. II
IL not so much q question as 10
now many they have been. The
thought here is that past experiences
furnish a basis Of confidence and
nope for the present and tho future.
AS II has been, so will II be. With.
out violence TO tho text, we might
read Il, THOU hast boon with ma
In six troubles. therefore. In rho
seventh Thou wilt not forsalte me ."
II You have had six troubles and
have been delivered out OF them.
surely there is no reason 10 BIO afraid
OF a seventh. And 30 on through
lie. AS you are delivered from one
trouble after another, instead OF
becoming panic-stricken at tho an
preach Of tho next. you ought 70 be
able to face Il with increased conf.
dence and courage.
What God has done for you in the
past is n guarantee OF what lie
VIII continue TO do for YOU. 'IIe
Shall deliver thee In six troubles;
yea. in seven there shall be no evil
touch thee" Why. then, should YOU
be so cast down and out OF heart
because OF your present trouble7
Why should you be wondering
whether there is any hope OF deliv.
erance2 Trust in God. do the best
you can, and your deliverance win
be as sure as any you have expe.
rienced in tho past.
Copyright, 1926, by John r. Gunnl
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what will become of the Pacific Ocean after
fifty years."
A first prize of $4,000 has been offered by the
Osaka Mainich of Japan for the best answer to this
question. There second and third prizes too.
Compete, if you like. You eligible.
"Ths question: says the Manich, "offers food
for profound thought For good bad events of
farreaching consequences destined to take place
in this vast expanse of water. The days of the At
lantic are practically gone
FIFTY years will create scenes undreampt Of
today"
what is coming?" asks the Literary Digest
History points to the greatest age the world
has known.
1.-THE greatest age of all history is just ahead of
The curtain is rising world, richer,
finer, different from anything before known.
I'm few brief years astonishing age
has transformed the world We stand on the
threshold of of still greater change-with
amazing possibilities"
And yet there those in this country who say
we ought to withdraw within our shell and let the
rest of the world roll by.
And there are others too busy making money
or spending It, Babylonian fashion, jazzing around
having a good time-to care very much what we do
Prosperity is making us needless and soft
But paste this on your morning mirror: We've
got to roll along with the world the world will
roll over u.s.
The Mainichi is right; and the Literary Digest
is right; big events coming
The wise man, says Burke, "looks back upon
experience and history and reasons from things
past about things to come"
But the wise will not stop there. He will
keep track of what is going today-he will look
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Tom Sims Saws

Two men who tried to get into chain store in
Birmingham, Ala, got into the chain gang instead.
Los Angeles man made rope from his pajanas
and escaped from jail which the up Adam
spirit.
Chicago will have hotel named Coolidge 1t
should be a real quiet place.
Earl Carol says a minister wouldn't have been
shocked at his party but he doesn't say what min
lister.
In Augusta Ca, Ty Cobb baseball player, caught
a robber who have thought he was out
Our philosophy is that the world ends every night
and starts out new again every morning.
Birds building their nests happy. They
don't try to make them larger than they did last year.
Spring clothes look fine on slender people but don't
feel well slender incomes.
Copyright, 1926 NEA Service, Inc)
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LAKES TO
OCEAN

Arch q. Graham II South
Bend, candidate for tho Republican
senatorial nomination. Announces
that he favors development OF p
waterway linking the Middle West
with the Atlantic seaboard. 81
consider such a waterway one OF
the most vital necessities for
northern Indiana and the state as
a whole" he says.
That's a good safe position for
a candidate for Office IN the MID
do West 10 take Producers, man.
ufacturer5 and shippers generally
in this section of tho country arc
strongly in favor OF waterways.
They would reduce freight rates.
open world markets directly 10
Middle Western producers, and
boom business.
But II will probably be some time
before ocean liners toot up White
River and dock near the Washing.
ton st. bridge or the flags OF q
dozen nations fly from shipping in
the Michigan City harbor.
Untold millions have been spent
dredging tho Mississippi and its
tributaries and I'm construction of
canals In Indiana, Ohio and neigh.
boring States. However, the IN
land waterways thus projected
have failed 10 produce results. The
rivers OF Europe are great com.
mercial arteries. American rivers
carry little except Congressional
appropriations and sewage.
So far development Of inland
waterways here has been mostly o
dream-a nightmare.
Right now there is much talk Of
the Great Lakes 20 ocean route.
From the engineering standpoint
It Is feasible either by improve
ment Of the st. Lawrence route or
by enlargement OF New York's
barge canal, the old Erie canal.
But there is no agreement as 10
which is the best. And no pros.
poets OF a decision that win per.
init starting Of work on either
project.
There's the reason our inland
waterways aren't more service
able. We talk about them endless
~ and enthusiastically, but in
stead Of building them we quarrel
over the route. Freight, not con.
versation, IS what they need 10 DO
successful.
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Walters, Sam Critcherson and Rob
ert Leonard do all they can with
faulty material.
The few song numbers are not
tuneful and certainly are not well
put over. This company acts much
better than II sings and dances.
am not going TO blame the actors
the play just is not there. At times
it is morning but low comedy.
As a one-night-stand show, "Kosh-
or Kitty Kelly" might get by, but 1t
is not a big city show. This is my
verdict Kindly have your own.
At English's today and Wednes-
day.
Il f. l.
other theaters today, offer: 1.-THE
New Klondike' at the Apollo, 1.-THE
Dancer of Paris" at the Circle,
Souls for Sables' at the Ohio, THE
Cohons and the Kellys" at the Co
lonial, movies at the Capitol. bur-
lesque at the Broadway and with
Daniel Boone Through the Wilder
ness at the Isis.
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h KERT IN INDIANA S y ohf5o ON

capitalists are engineering tho
$4,000 900 deal which will place
control Of Indiana's limestone out
put in a single company.
AS moro than 60 per cent Of the
building stone used In the United
States comes from Hoosier quar-.
rles. q very lusty trust IS appar.
ent in process OF Matching right
under our nose. And there IN no
public outburst Of indignation
such as would have greeted an on
terprise OF that sort I'm the gay
undertaking days.
Business now leaps lightly from
merger to merger. Big business
gets bigger and no tocsin gounda
for tho trust busters to do their
stuff.
True. the proposed $4,000, OOO. 900
baking merger has Just been
slapped on the wrist by the Gov
eminent. And the Nickel Plato
merger was disapproved by the in
terstate commerce commission. But
NAAb AtNAhNA was AiOA uAatIlIlNVNfu IffN
SO; the objection was to tho fnan.
cial structure planned. Probably
that will be reformed and tho con
solidation perfected in due time.
It's a far cry from tho days
when antitrust suits followed each
other in rapid succession-when
Judge lands stuck the 500. 600, 900
fine on Standard Oil---to the pres
ent, when merging is all the rage
Railroads, mines, Quarrios, Oh
wells are being grouped IN larger
and larger corporations. A $40.
100000 stone merger hardly at
tracts casual attention.
Perhaps this tendency TO con.
solidation is all wrong. The old
trust busters may turn over IN
their graves. But big business "a
no longer feared just because Il il
big. even by its competitors It's
the result not the size. OF a merger
that merits official scrutiny.
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LOOKING OVER NEW
EVENTS AT THE PALACE

Surprising you were a married
man of many years standing. Sup
posing your wife went out for the
evening and when she came back she
found three young and good looking
girls being entertained By you. What
do you think she would do?
At the Palace today and tomorrow
in the act of Sager Midgley and
Company this very thing happens.
The kick of it is the ending. 1t is
everything but what you would ex-
pect.
Pitter Patter is the name of an
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW
An Entire Year Parades in the American Year Book

ments; expansion of cities; organized
territories and government; water
rights and water uses; governmental
developments in other countries;
prohibitio reinforcement; municipal
ownership; police; revenues of
states; national budget system; the
Allies debts to the United States;
army and navy facts; economics and
business; banking and currency; in
surance; agriculture and fisheries;
mineral industries; manufactures;
transportation and communication
Indiana is mentioned as one of the
few states that have unusually COM
plete" inter-city bus traffic);; radio
communication; women in public
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III year. 1925. to be exact is re-
-5 vealed in the American Year
Book.
When Macmillan Company, pub
fishers, New York, announced the
publication Of this book / wrote
them and asked permission to have
a copy sent to me.
This was done because many let
ters have reached by desk regarding
information upon yearly events. 1t
seemed to me that the American
Year Book, a record of events and
progress for the year 1926" might
meet a big general demand.
One does not read" this year book
page by page, but keeps it handy
every hour of the busy day. That
is the best compliment that I can
pay this genius of a book.
One of the most frequent ques-
lions that reaches this desk is: What
is the progress of the city manager
plan of city government. This year
book discusses this factor in city
government under various heads.
On this subject you>will find such
an authority as Clinton Rogers
Woodruff, honorary secretary of the
National Municipal League.
The progress Of the city manager
plan is shown in the directory of
city manager cities"
A Wide Scope
In the 1853 pages you will dis
cover the following other topics dis
cussed by leading authorities: Amer
lean Political History; the United
States Foreign Service; treaties
completed and ratified; Latin
American relations; influence of the
United States in world affairs; Amer
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and expression; changes in the cleo
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cabinet; personnel OF all govern
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THE VERY IDEA
By Hal Cochran.

One of the best ways to make lit
tie things count is to get a Job as
a third grade arithmetic teacher.
Shells bookkeeping easy?
He-Yes--unless the people you
borrow from have good memories.
The worst lite I ever heard tell OF
was the golf ball that landed in the
middle Of q. newly plowed field.
Sunny about a telephone girl.
She has to make both ends meet or
she can't hold her Job.
This thing has puzzled me for years,
So tell me, II you can,
Why Solomon, with his hundred
wives,
Was called the wisest man?
One Of the most important parts
Of an auto is the nut that holds the
wheel.
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SOME OTHER TIME

All kiddin' aside, this is one of
those days when a man can't get
down to his work. The suns shinin'
bright and I'm lost in its rays, and
1 feel that I'd much rather shirk.
/ might write a verse about fash
ions and such, 'er l might frame a
poem on spring. I well can imagine
that Just the right touch could make
it a sweet little thing.
There isn't a law against serious
thought, and might turn a rhyme
to advice. But that's not the spirit
in which ] am caught. so the verse
wouldn't turn out so nice.
No doubt there are millions Of
lunches, at hand, that really would
fit into rhyme. but surely. by this
time, you'll all understand. I'll write
them-at some other time.
It's queer how a fellow can knock
letters out, and write without bat
ting an eye. I'll bet you don't know
what this verse is about. That's
nuthin', folks-neither do !.
NONs hV4NCoI LII
Pardon me If laugh at the fellow
who thinks he gets by on bluff.
Why shouldn't I? All the rest of
the world laughs at him.
That's the funny part If it-when
a man has so little sense as to travel
along on brag, exaggeration, egotism
and the like, you can't expect him
to have sense enough to know that
he's not fooling anybody but him
self.
But-someday he wakes up to find
that the road he has Travelled leads
only to the well-known place called
No Place.
TITS a kindly tip to all heading
that way-DETOUR!
When you kiss a girl in a quiet
spot. it's quiet only because she
can't very well talk while being
kissed.
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Mollie Fuller Can Not See Her Audience
but She Can Hear Real Appreciation

and woman dance team. but found
out that I was wrong. The woman
is a man.
The Camille Trio close the bill
with much clowning on the cross
bars and tumbhng.
At the Lyric all week. Qy the
ObserYerO
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theator. / have
tried at all times
to center interest
upon worthwhile
things, and "Kosh-
er Kitty Kelly"
does not belong TO
that class. Here is
a oisy fare e
about Jewish and
Irish families. The
character drawing
Is faulty. The
story doesn't ring
true, and no COM
pany could put
this bunch OF
theatrical hokum
over 10 success.
Nell Roy, Marvin
n-aoIy DA~Af ], "
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mention that she
is sightless until
a curtain talk is
demanded. Then
Mollie Fuller talks
out of her dark
ness. She sees not
but she feels"
and hears her au-
dience. She knows
that all is well, or
as well as it can
be under the con-
dltions, with her
and her public.
Mollie Fuller has
kept pace with
the demands Of
the hour in the
way Of entertain
want In q litfla