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Time Will Square 1t

Mr.. Eliot and Valentino each re-
ceives the kind of applause he worked
for-the latter a grand flash of adj
dle-pated grief that will turn to mer.
riment with tomorrows sun; the
former a lingering respect that will
increase, if anything, as the years
go by.
If the day refuses to glorify the
heroes Of an age, the age refuses to
golrify the heroes Of a day.
Spot news is not history. and
what makes good headlines will not
necessarily make a good chapter for
serious books.
For one, l do not begrudge the
dead actor single sigh, nor do /
complain because the grand old man
OF Harvard received no more at.
tention.
Time will square the account. as
time always has, and rectify the
sense of value that now appears
lacking.
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A Word for Eliot

And now a word with regard to
Mr. Eliot. not only because he was
one of the greatest figures in the
educational life of this country, but
because I knew him well enough as
lad to give it touch of personal
interest.
Many Sunday have / attended
the little stone church at Northeast
Harbor, where he worshipped, put
ting pennies in the contribution box
as he passed it,
I knew old John Gilley, whose
biography he wrote as lone of the
Forgotten Millions"
I have been to the cottage where
he spent those forty summers aid
on the little sloop he loved so we'll to
sail.
He was a kindly. approachable
man, to all those who knew him,
but hard to get acquainted with be-
cause Of his studious habits. con.
slant work and disposition to think
things out alone.
He studied the natives" of Mount
Desert Island in a cold, impersonal
way, and they resented 1t.
AS a boy. was brought up to be-
lieve that he was praying, meddle-
some old fogey," who was always
stickin' his nose into things that
warn't none of his business"
Now I know that he was just
II. L. l..
about people. not for the mere sake
of learning, but to make some help
full dse of it.
Though he developed peculiar
theories, at times. as, for instance,
when he said that a dollar day was
enough for the laboring man. he
was in the main a clear, logical
progressive thinker. and what is
more important. intellectually honest.
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ANYTHING-EXCEPT WHAT YOU
HAVE

Mr.. w. R. Adams lives in London He has what
the average American would call "a swell job" It's
better than the dream of the little boy who wanted
to work in a pie factory Mr.. Adams is wine faster
for large firm.
He has to take sips of the stuff to see how it is
getting along If shipment is to be made they
bring Mr.. Adams glass and say, taste this and
see if it's all right"
Would you think man with such job ever
would want vacation. What could he do for va
cation when just slipping wine work for him (?
Well, Adams is in the United States for his va
cation. He all tired out and wanted to get
away from wine slipping. The sad thing about it all
is he's in Chicago, but perhaps he is lodging the
booteggers.
It's the old rule of "anything-except what you
have" The city man spends his vacation in the
country. The farmer spends his in the city
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BY Walter d. Hickman

Those who study the movements
in the arts today are interested in
the place that the negro is playing.
In a leading magazine we read
what David Belasco has to say about
the negro on the stage, especially
Lulu Belle"
The inference seems to be that
DIR. Belasco discovered the negro
actor. In my experience with the
theater have seen many negroes
discovered in this particular field.
l have before me the remarks of
Carl Van Doren in the New York
Herald Examiner Books" concern
ing Carl Van Vechten's "Nigger
Heaven"
Van Boren in discussing the Van
Vechten novel says that the author
has gone above the line dividing
black New. York from white New
York"
But today I am concerned not
with what white authors think of
the negro, but what the negro thinks
of himself. Am now discussing THE
New Negro" edited by Alain Locke,
published by Albert and Charles
Boni, New York.
Locke states the aims of 1.-The
New Negro as follows in the fore
word of his book: This volume aims
to document the New Negro cultur-
ally and socially to register the
transformation Of the inner and
outer life of the Negro in America
that have significantly taken place
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

material, but the source and the
field covered by the editor.
You will find among the many
themes handled the following: The
Negro in American literature, in
drama, in music, in education and
other fields.
Various authorities discuss spe-
cific fields of activity and develop
ment of the Negro.
Locke's chapter upon the Negro
spirituals held and commanded my
interest and respect. I have seen
Roland Hayes, great Negro tenor,
sing the Negro spiritual in the new
art form. Have told you in my
music reviews of this artist He is
discussed by Locks in his chapter
on the spirituals.
The Spiritual
1.-THE Splrituals are really the most
characteristic product of the race
genius as yet in America says
Locke. Also: THE complaint to be
made is not against the art develop
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HERE is MOSTLY GOOD
NEWS AND A LOT OF THAT

The talk of the street this week
is going to be Of the aIl-round
knockout show at the Lyric.
Here is a whale Of a vaudeville
show, not one act but at least five
of EN- hitting the ball every second
they are on the stage.
They stack up, in my judgment
something like this:
1. LAMBERT is the best xylophone
player on the stage today. Have
heard many of them, but he is the
| best, according to my way Of judg
ing such artists. He is a real show
man and knows both how to build
and feed" his numbers to his audi
ence. One of the real satisfactory
sensations on the bill.
2. Emperors of Song are four col
ored singers. 1 think that the fat
man was here several times in
Shuttle Along" Here is quartet
that is a quartet. Their comedy
work is as effective as their ballads
3. Stacy and Faye in a little rough
hokum offering in which the woman
has a chance to land with her eccen
trio work.
4. Douglas and Company-Two
men and a woman. 1t is the men
who make the act. Their burlesque
dance is good, but their acrobatic
and handbalancing work at the finish
is mighty fine.
5. Nathal, known as the man
monkey" dolls up like an adult
monkey, crawls all over the
audience, both floors, and gets some
laughs and gives some thrills. If he
would eliminate one thing that he
does while crawling over the backs
Of the chairs, his act would be much
improved. Am speaking Of a certain
monkey business" that he does. 1t
is bad taste. The act on the whole
is an interesting novelty.
The Breakaway Barlows open the
bill on the revolving ladder. Leo and
Gladys indulge in songs and patter
around a sheet music counter. Wheel
er and Francis have an individual
comedy turn developed along the
lines Of misunderstood conversation.
1t pleases. Movies conclude the bill.
At the Lyric all week.
/ T.
other theaters today offer: 1.-THE
Show-Of' at the Apollo; ut Must
Be Love" at the Circle; Miss No
body at the Uptown; Fine Man
ners" at the Ohio; "A Trip to China
town" at the Colonial and Hard
Boiled" at the Isis.
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THE GREAT REWARDS

The coincident deaths Of Dr. Charles W. Eliot,
greatest of educators and Rudolph Valentino, most
famous of film lovers brings the most obvious and
universal comment that the world pays its greatest
tributes not to most useful but to its most en-
PERTAINING.
The serious minded will deplore the decadent
ideals of world which paid so great honor to
youth of personable face and manners and less at
tention to the great career Of of the great men
of all time.
It is true that millions of men, women and
youths watched the hospital cot in New York City
for word as to the illness of the young man who was
fighting for his life that Dr. Eliot passed to his
end without watchful world to send its sympathy
and its we'll wishes.
1t may also be freely admitted that only very
few knew the name of the man who for forty years
was president of Harvard who won Roosevelt
medal for leadership of youth and the development
of American character who refused ambassador
ship in order that he might continue to he
had served for half century in molding thought
The greater truth is that for half century Dr.
Eliot had the respect of the Nation the satisfaction
of molding the character of it's teachers statesmen
preachers leaders in every useful endeavor.,
He obtained from life all the rewards that he
could desire or wanted-honor, the opportunity to
serve the impress of his ideals upon the trend Of
civilization itself.
Inc Nation anu Tie WOllu gave W llldI lIdlldh
youth who also impressed himself upon his hour and
day. the rewards that he desired
His influence, too, great but passing. The
youth of the land copied his manners, his clothes,
his hair cut.
The girls and women paid their tribute to his
genius, or whatever spark it that permitted him
to play upon the romantic sense of other human
beings.
He received the gushing sincere alteration of
the girls who long for romance and whose hearts he
He received, also, the large rewards of money,
much in his few brief years than the world
paid to the great educator during his life time
Those who may depore the bad taste of the
times in this distribution need only to stop to
slider what would have happened had the rewards
been reversed.
This great educator would have been annoyed
with the handling Of vast sums of money. Huge
etary compensation would have diverted his thought
and wrecked his glorious
Without the fattery and the luxury that came
from the film FANS Valentino would have shriveled
and soured.
Those who think in terms of money and ephe-
neral fame will keep lamentng our low level of
thought. -
Perhaps the truth is that the world pays in
similar coin for what is given to it.
Those who give dross, receive only dross. Those
who give the gold of permanent gift receive the gold
of permanent memory.
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How to SWim-NO. 81

should get used to the position with.
out a great deal of difficulty.
1t is just as well, however, to zen
practicing until the movements are
as natural as can be, because that
first entry into the water should be
the basis of all future diving.
If either of the falls into the water
create nervousness or apprehension.
go back into shallow water and prac-
tice ducking for half an hour and
then come back to it.
Don't rush and don't really try to
dive until you get the hang Of fall
ing into the water head first.
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Other Entertainers

The world has always loved it's
entertainers passionately, but never
for long. The Emperor Commodus,
jumping into the arena and fighting
gladiators hand-to-hand, was much
more popular with the Roman
masses than was his father, the i'm
mortal Marcus Aurelius.
Another Roman emperor gained
the throne for no better reason than
that he was a swift and tireless run
ner, but who can name him? Who
was court jester to Charles the Sec
ond when blind Milton sold his
Paradise Lost" for 500.
Whoever he was it is safe to say
that he made more money than the
matchless poet and registered
stronger with the fun-loving public
Of his day.
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L IGeIildIi mere 10 COIOI "
the act and it moves along at swift
pace. Has a jazzy ending that
finishes it up in q good manner.
Harry Van Fossen. in blackface,
is a real comedian. He takes his
time and If his stuff seems a little
slow in getting over" he changes
the brand. He has good fund Of
stories and knows how to tell them.
Sully and Ruth are a man and
woman who offer a scene showing
how Love in Bungalow really is.
They have quite bit of comedy in
the act and are all right as enter
tainers.
Freeman and Morton are two men
who have a lot of songs to sing and
have to change their costumes each
time to sing them. These men have
the right idea and some of their
stuff is good comedy.
Margot Frandois and partner open
the bill with some novel work on
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in the last few years." and g..
we discover in the artistic self
expression of the Negro today a new
figure on the national canvas and a
new force in the foreground of
affairs. E. Negro life is not only
establishing new contracts and
founding new centers, it is finding a
new soul. There is a fresh spiritual
and cultural focusing. We have, as
the heralding sign, an unusual out.
burst of creative expression. ..:..
Justiflably then we speak of the Of
ferings of this book embodying these
ripening forces as culled from the
first fruits of the Negro Renais-
sance."
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Stage Verdict

PALACE-The Earl and Rial
Revue is the feature on the
stage this week with some
good dancing and song num-
bers.
LYRIC-A knockout bill
with five acts about deserving
first place. A real show.
ENGLISH S-Because Idabel-
lie Arnold and Larry Sullivan
are present in 1.-THE Love
Test" is the real reason of the
success Of a poorly constructed
show.
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Modern Girl

Vera Wheatley's novel. DE
vices and Desires" to be pub
lished this week by e. T. Dut-
ton & Company, is the story Of
q. modern young girl who
wants to be a heroine and be-
comes one, but in a far different
way than she had dreamed. 1t
is a story of illusion and dis
illusion and of the problems
that youth must meet and solve
if life is to have any real mean
ing. The author shows a keen
understanding of the heart of
youth, and she writes with dis
tinction and charm.
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MODEST JIM

The persistent rumors from Washington that
the Reed senatorial committee may take a peek at
primary expenses and practices in Indiana has re.
suited in the discovery of the modesty Of Senator
Watson.
With great the treasurer of his Wat
son-for-Senator club chosen and perhaps with
thought of the law concerning corrupt practices
which fixes the place where reports of expenses
be filed.
The law demands that the treasurer of all po
ltcal clubs file report in the county in which he
claims or holds residence.
1t is true that the Watson club functioned in
this city, did most of its business in local hotel
and operated here
report filed in this CITY, near to telegraph
wires and many reporters would have become pub
lie property instantly
That may account for the selection of Mr.. Bob
bitt, collector Of State gasoline tax as collector and
distributor of the funds for the Watson campaign
For the gasoline collector lives in Crawford
County far from the maddening crowds and the
maddened newspaper reporters and the telegraph
wires.
TO reach Crawford County is an effort espe-
ciay from the State capital.
But its little county seat holds the secret of the
Modest Watson, whose record of small expenses Is
hidden in its archives.
No rude gaze brought it to the fore. Not even
the political opponents OF the Senator traced il.
1t is unfortunate that the senatorial candidates in
Illinois and Pennsylvania did not consult the modest
gentleman from Indiana before they deluged their
States with dollars and found themselves conspcu
Gus. t,H
For the Watson report shows that very little
money was spent after the Senator had filed his pe-
tition candidate.
These other gentlemen, had they been wise as
Watson would have drawn together their political
machines, hired and paid their workers before they
became candidates. distributed their funds before
they filed their petitions
That would have saved lot of trouble and the
Nation scandal.
And then, had they cached their reports of ex
penses in some lonely village, they might not be
worried as to whether they will be seated if elected
Modesty is one of the great virtues Our Jim has
tat times
The fellow wro goes through life afraid of making
a fool out Of himself is one.
Making ends meet is often like a dog catching his
tall They simply won't stay met.
The Pacific Ocean is larger than a pair of dreamy
eyes and almost half deep
Winds are produced by differences in atmospheric
pressure or by asking to run for office
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OUR SEAMEN COME HOME

Here's sidelight on the bargain sales of Gov
ernment-owned ship lines by the shipping board
When the Resoluter locked last Friday at New
York she was flying the German flag, having been
sold with the United American line by the shipping
board to the HamburgAmercan line
On board were her late captain, and several
other American officers of various United American
line ships and 200 stout American tars former mem
bers of the Resolute crew
They had been replaced by 100 per cent Ger
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sweeter to them than the scent of
the flowers sent over the footlights.
They proved beyond the limit of ar
gument that they are real box Of
flee" at English's. And both of them
are getting as many laughs as they
want. These two know their the
alter. They know their business,
and above all they realize TO what
extent they can go safely In the art
Of characterization.
Sullivan has a souse scene which
h puts over in both a realistic and
comic way. OF course, the person
alities of these two players have
lot to do with their big popularity
in this city, but the fact remains
that they both know their theater
and the way about from a to 2. And
they know all the tricks. They are
saving mighty weak show from
ruin this week. No doubt about this,
because The Love Test" is the
plainest kind Of small town hokum.
1t reminds one of a real success of
former years. THE Love Test" is
plain hokum. nothing fancy about
it. but it does give Miss Arnold and
Sullivan a good comedy chance.
Bob Fay as the sweet son" of the
villain Of the drammer does a bit of
acting which is a WOW. One of
the comedy delights Of the season is
Fay this week. A real scream.
Robert St. Clair is very much in
view this week as the tough egg who
loves to open banks" Does a very
nice and convincing piece Of work
both in the comedy and dramatic
moments.
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Urn
Headlines for Valentino
Small Mention for
DR., Eliot.

Four-inch headlines for Rudolph
Valentino, but only an inside column
for the great educator, Charles w.
Eliot-let us not read more into this
contrast than it deserves.
The idol of an hour is entitled to
his moment of tears, and we can
afford to let them flow freely well
knowing they must soon cease.
Mr.. Eliot's name will adorn many
a page long after that of the movie
star has become part of the UNI
recognizable dust.
If a man seeks fame by setting or
following fashion, he must expect
to perish with it.
If Altman lives above or beyond
fashion, he must expect to wait.
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Idabelle and Larry Sullivan Find
Real HOOSier Welcome On Return

stills by the woman and some clown
ing by the man. The silt work is
new and original, at least around
here.
Bill includes a photoplay, Nell
Gwyn," with Dorothy Gish and a
news reel.
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
(By the ObserVer)
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He Made Good

Meanwhile, it is only fair to give
Rudolph Valentino his just deserts.
No matter how we may rate the
profession in which he made good,
the point remains that he made
good, rising TO the top in spite OF
handicaps, difficulties and bitter
competition.
II his triumphs were press
ACCENTED, so were his humble origin,
his ignorance and his peculiarities.
Few men in any profession have
suffered the abuse. the ridicule. the
nasty sniping, that Valentino did.
No one knows how keenly it hurt,
but he made good in spite of II.
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GOOD DANCING ON
VIEW AT THE PALACE

Some very good dancing of various
types and some song numbers make
up the Earl and Rial Revue at the
Palace today and tomorrow.
Act opens with a dance accom-
panied by two girls on violin and
banjo and shifts to speciality work
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man crew, and had "deadheaded" back to the United
States to try to find jobs, if they can.
One of the necessities for merchant marine is
to train husky American sailors for emergencies. If
the shipping board is going to throw hundreds of
them out of jobs by selling its fine United States
owned ships to private foreign operators it doing
the country good service regardless of other con-
siderations involved in the sales?
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DROUGHT-PROOF CORN?

WICHITA, Kan.-Thirty-two va
rieties of droughtresistant corn have
been planted on the farm of George
Theis, Jr., in Clark County, Kansas,
in the effort to find a drought-proof
corn. The different varieties were
gathered from all parts of the United
States. Harvey 3. Sconce. noted
plant breeder of Sidell, III. is to
make observations.
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by the seven peo-
pie in the COM
pany. OF the num-
bers which seem
to be the best Of
fered are a spe-
cialty song and
dance by two girls
w h o accompany
[ h e m s e I've S on
banjoes, a dance
in black by one Of
the men and a
w 0 m a n partner
and a solo dance
b y t h e S a m e
young man
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she found a wei
come waiting her
of enormous size
1t is seldom in
Indianapolis that
an audience gives
a demonstration
Of approval and
of love as was ex-
tended to both
Miss Arnold and
Larry Sullivan.
At the proper
time even flowers
went over the
footlights, but l
take it that the
enormous size OF
the audience and
the ovation given
them is even
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he Editor OF The Times:

To the Editor OF The Times:
1 wish to ask a question-but first
it will be necessary to give a few
words Of explanation.
Quite recently there was a cam
paign started for a population of
million for Indianapolis. That idea
is admittedly dead, but it's conceiver
has said that the city has been
benefited, and its morale strength
ened by the idea.
1t will be granted me, then, that
any public-spirited citizen wishes
two things for Indianapolis: First,
an increase in population, and Sec
ond, an increase in business. The
quickest ways to accomplish this is
by advertising our metropolis and
bringing people here.
The Memorial Day race at the
Speedway does just what we wish.
1t advertises indianapolis over the
whole nation, and, I might say, the
whole world 1t brings people here
by thousands, and they buy goods.
1 have read in The Times lately
that the city council is endeavoring
to annex Speedway, City, and that
they give as their reason the fact
that they can hold an ordinance
over the heads of the Speedway Of
ficials, an ordinance prohibiting the
Memorial Day race.
The question I mentioned above u
this-just why do the councilmen
wish to hold such an ordinance over
the heads Of the Speedway officials?
Respectfully yours,
EDWARD GRIMES. \
MA ii s15A 4934 Broadway. M
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KNOW YOUR STATE

INDIANA savings accounts in 1925 were
reported to have been $29O,OOO,OOO, greater
portion of which was in building and loan as
sociations. The measure Of Hoosier home
ownership, which makes for more staple
citizenship, was given tremendous impetus
through the medium of these associations