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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-08
Lead Soldiers

(T HEYRE lined up on the
III front room floor an all their
b--j plans are made. You wonder
they're waitin' for. They'll
soon be on parade. A tiny hand win
start them of, and move them on
their way. Just little leaden
soldiers and youngster at his play.
They only stand two inches high.
with guns that cannot shoot. But
anyone can tell you why the picture
looks so cute. Attention" says a
squealxy voice. and as the shout is
heard. the ycungster thinks the
soldiers pay attention to his word.
The chubby little fingers move the
man on horseback first. And then
they swing the army round until
they're all reversed. Again q
sudden wee command, as sonny
says, left face" 1t isn't long until
there's not soldier left in place.
They're scattered every which
way, and they're sprawling upon the
floor. The youngsters tired, and
doesn't care to march them any
more. OF course he's glad to get
them out, when on parade they're
led, but. mother has to pick them
up. when sonny's gone to bed.
A school teacher in Sebring, Ohio,
used a rubber hose on a pupil and
got soaked herself. Five and costs.
Lucky the bowler who gets all
strikes cause he hasn't any time
to spare.
Some Place Else is the spot where
we all desire, to be-until we get
there. And then we want to be
some place else.
He slipped upon the sidewalk and
Although he took spill,
It didn't hurt because he only
Fell against his will.
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bne lfnIneuldlely
falls violently IN love with an artist
whom everyone warn her against.
Mary is the type that we all know
and love, a girl so honest and true
that her whole being is wrapped in
the care of others.
With these three characters the
picture moves along at a very swift
and enthralling pace. The ascent OF
Mary from east side obscurity and
her climb to a featured part in a
smart Broadway show are portrayed
along with the anger and sullenness
Of her sweetheart who disapproves
Of the show.
There are many scenes of tense
interest in the picture, but there is
one that will take you backstage
with those beautiful girls and let
you live their life for a moment or
so. It is just after the girls have
heard that Irene has been killed in
an accident as she was riding to her
own wedding. The show must go
on, although the very hearts of the
girls are torn with sadness and the
love of the one who is missing. 1t
is in the midst of the opening num-
Der of the show and the girls are
all doing the Charleston out front.
OF a sudden one of them screams
and points to the place that had been
Irene's. A phantom figure is dane
ing there. 1t is very weird and beau
tiful. Sally o'Neill is in the cast.
The bill includes a comedy and
harmony by Henderson and Weber.
Also Emil Seidel and his orchestra.
At the Apollo all week. CBy the
Observer
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Text: Daniel purposed in his
heart not to deflie himself. daniel
1:8.
WING in the midst of the
Ill facilitating and running in
IL fuences OF the court of Baby
Ion, Daniel purposed not to defile
himself. lie determined to live a
clean life. AS a result he soon
outstripped his self-indulgent com
panions in the Kings palace. lie
forged ahead until finally the king
made him ruler over the whole
province of Babylon and chief of all
the governors over all the wise men
of Babylon"
His greatest achievement, how
ever, was not the position he at.
tanned, but his attainment OF moral
strength and spiritual power. 1t
was this attainment. more than any
thing else, which distinguished him
above his fellows and marked him
for a place among the great charac-
ters of the Bible. The secret of it
all goes back to that hour when he
purppsed in his heart to live a
cieap life.
Every man who would attain to
high moral and spiritual character
must keep ninaself pure and clean.
Vim impure thoughts MI the
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A WOman's Viewpoint

and harmonious life Of body ana
spirit. !
Everybody knows this is true, II
is the chief thing wrong with our
homes, the chief thing wrong with
our schools and the prime evil of
our national existence. Fathers and
mothers are forever trying to keep
UP with the neighbors; teachers are
stressing vocational rather cultural
training; powerful men are rated,
not by their minds. but by their
purses.
Our national symbol Is not e.
soaring eagle who scales the heig
above sordidness. but the silver dol
lar that CLEANS in the mud Of the
earth and appears so respondent by
contrast.
How many Of US teach, or even fry
to teach our children that the Iowa
Of good books, of fine music, of beau
ty in any form, IS a more valuable
possession than wealth or social
standing? How many OF our teachers
instruct their pupils that fine life
Of the soul and the spirit is the only
true existence and IS to DO sought
before riches?
So strong has become our rage
for gold that all OF the ramifications
of our national being, our business,
our social life and even our re-
ligious are poisoned with this in
sidious evil.
Great corporations, combined
money powers, crowd out the In
dividual; efficiency and speed rather
than honesty and carefulness Is
preached to workers. We labor
these days, not because of a love for
our craft, but for the dollars It will
bring to us. Strenuous economic
pressure has forced all men into this
cul de sac--they must put dollars
and cents above knowledge and
leisure and culture and beauty. be-
cause success is gagged not by what
a man gets from life, but by what
he can from the United States mint.
Why do we treasure so highly
those rare old pieces OF furniture,
those masterpieces Of painting.
those frail laces and fragile bits -
china? M
Certainly not for their actual
worth, but because we know that
some man or woman has spent
months and years of loving care in
their making. In them, we possess
not mere objects. but the soul OF
the worker who produced them.
All the beautiful treasures of
earth were created because OF love
ana inspiration OF spirit, and not tor
sold. -... .-...l.-s
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WITH A PARDON
I'm HIS POCKET

1.-TWO weeks ago a gang OF
| bandits attempted an unsuc-
cessful attack on the bank
at GAINESVILLE, Ind. They were
driven off and later engaged in n
running gun fight with Floyd
County officers, who tried to in
tercept them as they passed
through New Albany. A deputy
sheriff was killed in the battle.
A couple of days ago the body of
a man. with a bullet hole in the
chest, was found stuffed in a cul-
vert near Rising Sun, Ind. The
body has been positively identified
as one Of the GAINESVILLE despera-
does. Evidently the man had been
MORALLY wounded in the battle
with New Albany officers.
In searching the corpse for let
tiers. cards or some other means
of Identification, officers found in
his pocket a pardon issued to the
man-who had served a sentence
in the Kentucky State prison by
the Governor OF Kentucky, Dec. 10.
The dead gunman, within a
month after being turned loose by
lenient Governor from prison,
which he was committed for ~
berry, was killed while attempting
another robbery. He died with the
pardon for the previous crime In
his pocket.
DO soft-hearted paroles and cas-
lily won executive pardons reform
criminals?
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Famous Composers
Johann Strauss (The Younger)

IN He younger Strauss Was born in Vienna in 1926,
IL the of Johann Strauss who also great
poser. Strauss died in 1899.
His father averse to his adopting the profession Of
music but aided by his mother he enabled obtain
instruction the violin and in composition and 10 years
of he severed his home connections and
gagement conductor Of orchestra in a popular res
taurant In Hetzng He used this opportunity play his
own waltz compositions and became widely popular
After his fathers death he united his own orchestra
with that of his father and began through
many European countries From 1855 1865 he was the
conductor of the Petropauovsk Park concerts in
ST. Petersburg and from 1863 to 1875 he also con-
ductor OF the Cburt balls He composed nearly 500 dance
pieces. Among the best known is The Beautiful Blue
Danube Waltz"
Note-Facs about famous work is being
studied in the schools will be each day 1t
suggested that these articles be
scrap books
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LONG HAIR AND
SALVATION

Joseph JARVIS. 16-year-
old youth of Seymour, Ind,
N with long curls falling be-
low his shoulders, can't have a
haircut, contrary to his fathers
wishes according to decision of
juvenile court recently. So he
won't go to school, because of
taunts Of his schoolmates.
The father. with long hair
reaching to his waist, is opposed
to shorn locks for himself and son
on biblical grounds. He believes
long hair is necessary to salvation.
If he is right, it is going to be
hard for most men--especially for
US whose hair is all on the brush
and not on the head--to get into
Heaven. But is he right?
Maybe there is biblical authority
against halrcuts and in favor Of
letting ones hair grow all over
the neighborhood. Surely Samson
had bad luck after his first
tonsorial experience. But there Is
also biblical authority sustaining
the righteousness OF the barber
trade. st. Paul wrote: Doth not
even nature itself teach you. thNH
il a man have long hair, 1t isV!
shame unto him?"
st. Paul probably knew as much
about the road to salvation as any
modern man. Anyway most men
today are stringing with st. Paul
on the question Of long hair.
Quite likely couture styles have
little to do with salvation. Ones
Righteousness is determined by
what goes on inside the head not
what grows on top Of it. To make
a boy ridiculous by insisting that
he wear long hair when other
boys wear theirs short won't in
crease his moral stature,
The Lord Fauntleroy ringlets,
imposed on little boys a genera
ton ago by sapheaded mammals,
did more to head then toward
perdition than barber shears.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON
BACK TO THE
BEGINNING

@7HE Indianapolis school
n board has decided to seek a
xrger site for the new
Shortridge High School than the
tract at Thirty-Fourth st. ana
Meridian heretofore chosen for the
location Of the new building. So
the Shortridge project instead Of
progressing goes back to the be-
ginning.
Perhaps the Thirty-Fourth st.
site is small and more land could
be utilized advantageously. Ger
tainly it doesn't spread over all
outdoors like the Arsenal Tech.
grounds. Still it comprises five
and one-half acres. room enough
for a million-dollar building that
will accommodate 1900 students.
Isn't that large enough for one
high school?
When the Thirty st.
tract was bought several years ago
for the new high school site 1t
deemed ample for the purpose. And
the matter of location was con-
sidered definitely settled until a
couple Of months ago when the
old school board discussed the mat
ter of securing a larger site.
That board investigated the
subject, studied other proposed
sites. and decided in favor of the
previously accepted site at Thir-
ty-Fourth st.
Now comes the new school board
and resurrects the question.
If the members of the new board
are going to ignore all the plans
developed by their predecessors,
rejecting their conclusions and GO
ing over the same ground, school
building projects won't progress
much. They will merely hop UP
and down in the same spot. I'm
doing the work of the previous
board may keep the present board
busy but such activity doesn't
build schools. And schools are
what Indianapolis needs.
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WINNING THE
WAR AGAINST T. 3.

mi TUBERCULOSIS coused o.
49S deaths in Indiana last
IL year, according to figures
recently made public by the State
board of health. The death rate
from this disease was 1922 per
100000 population.
In 1913 the death rate In In
diana from tuberculosis was 1917
per 100000. That year 400 Hoo
siers were victims of the dread
white plague. Every year since
then $here have been fewer and
fewer victims and a steady de-
cline in the death rate.
Not many years ago, when per-
sons were afflicted with II. B. they
Immediately put their earthly az
fairs in order, Theoretically sealed
their windows, betook themselves
to carefully darkened bedrooms,
and with fortitude and grace as
they possessed awaited the in
eivtable end. There was no hope,
no staying the ravages Of the dread
ScOurge.
How different now is the treat
ment. And how different the re-
suits.
No medicine has yet been found
that will cure the disease. But
establishment of clinics by which
the malady is recognized in it's
early and durable stages, sunlight,
fresh air, improved sanitation, and
the work of such institutions as
Sunnyside have reduced the T. B.
death rate in Indiana almost one
half in a dozen years. And one
afflicted with the disease can now
hope.
The progress already made in
winning the stubborn war against
tuberculosis is one of the greatest
triumphs Of preventive medicine.
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The SAFETY VALVE
It Blows When the Pressure Is Too. Great
BY the Stoker

early May Cherry; 10 Carnation
Cherry. And planted them as fol
loweth: the Bullock Hearts in the
first Row next the Quarter begin
ming at the furthest part thereof and
ending at a stick. The early May
next to them in the same Row and
ending at another Stick. The Carna-
ton finishing the said Row.
GRATED IL Magnum Bonum
Plums beginning at the farther part
Of the Second Row.
PLANTED Nuts of the Mediter-
ranean Pine in the Pen where the
Chestnut grows-sticks by each.
Mote the Cherrys and Plums
came from COLON Mason's. Nuts
from Mr.. Gr(ecn'9."
williamsburg, Virginia, No
vember II, 1769-Dined at Mrs.
Campbell's after 4 and spent the
evening there without supping. Hav-
ing one Bowl Of P and To-day
Wednesday. 9th April, 1760-Dr.
Laurie came here. may add drunk.
Observed the trefoil which / sowed
on the Sd inst to be coming up, but
in a scattering manner. The Lu-
cerne which was .sowed at the same
time and in the same manner APP
peared much better and forwarder."
1t has been said that Washington
was '.irreligious." How can a man
be regarded as irreligious when he
was a vestryman of the Pohicl1
Church and attended services-see
all four volumes of his diaries al
most as regularly as Sunday came
around? Neither Roosevelt nor
Coolidge was more scrupulous OBJ
server If church habits.
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"A First Year Hubby Is Strange Creature
Who Just Does Not Understand His Wife

to mamma. OF course. there is a
happy ending. There must be to
every first year.
THE First Year" is a corking
good comedy. human and honest. 1t
is clean and delightful entertain
ment. The whole family will enjoy
this one. Well directed. Follows
the stage version closely.
Bill includes a news reel, The
Big City" Aesop's Fables and music
by the American Harmonists.
At the Colonial all week.
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George Washington was a pro-
fame, irreligious, pleasure loving
man."-Rupert Hughes.
1t is only necessary to dip into
the Washington diaries, just pub
lished in four volumes by the Mt
Vernon Ladies' Association, to dis
cover that Washington was a most
energetic. work loving men. Listen
to these excerpts:
January, 1760--"Visited my Plan
tations- and received an Instance Of
Mr.. French's great love of Money in
disappointing me Of some Pork, be-
cause the price had risen to 1915 aft
er he had engaged to let me have
1t at 20.
'Calld at Mr. Possey's in my way
home and desird him to engage me
100 Bar'ls of Corn upon the best
terms he could in Maryland.
And found Mrs. Washington
upon my arrival broke out with the
Meazles.
Mrs. Barnes who came to visit
Mrs. Washington yesterday re-
turned home in my Chariot the
weather being too bad to travel in
an open Carriage, which, together
with Mrs. Washington's Indisposi-
ton, confined me to the House and
gave me an opportunity Of Posting
my Books and putting them in good
order.
Fearing a disappointment else
where in Pork I was fem to take
Mr.. French's upon his own terms
and engaged them to be deliv'd at
my House on Monday next"
=
March, 1850 Grated 40 Cherrys
viz: ~ Bullock Hearts "a large
black Mgv c'herryl Is very dne
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MUSICAL COMEDY MOVIE
HAS LAVISH PRODUCTION

Sally, Irene and Mary, at the Apol-
10 this week is a very lavish photo
play production of the famous stage
play with all the attending things
the screen can add to play that has
already made itself famous behind
the footlights.
Sally, Irene and Mary are trio
expressing the feeling and tempera-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-08
The Million Population
Idea

~, OAfER M 'KEE in suggesting his plan for
It'll a movement for greater Indianapolis,
talked frankly. He said that Indianapolis is I'm
the position of an industry operating on half
production and that the city's problem is to
get back to full production. He showed an
inclination to face the issue ,squarely and then
suggested in general way plan, of bringing
about the desired result.
Mckee suggested the organization of a
club with the slogan Make Indianapolis a
City of Million People" Of course, the idea
is to make Indianapolis prosperous city. The
million population suggested is not nearly so
desirable as industrial and economical we'll
being Mere numbers are not so essential. But
we understand what Mckee is driving at. He
evidently feels the real necessity for setting up
something concrete, goal toward which the
city can work Hence the million population
idea
IT1 HE suggestion made by Mckee calls for
I the formation of club with mem
bership Of between 5000 and $4,000, out of
which would be formed finance committee
and a sales committee for the purpose of sell
ing indianapolis, Of bringing new industries
here and Of promoting the general prosperity
Of the city. The executive head Of the organi-
zation would be well-qualified industrial sales
manager
The idea basically, is not at all new Plans
of this kind have been advanced repeatedly,
but thus far none Of them has been carried
through. There is reason why none of these
plans has been successful. In stating this rea-
son are going to be just as frank as Mckee
was in setting out The need for some such or
ganization as he suggests
The reason why Indianapolis has never
carried out program of the kind suggested
by Mckee lies in lack of confidence and I'M
willingness to cooperate. The Chamber of
Commerce has been attempting to start pro-
motion campaign, but it never has got very far.
The bald, unpleasant fact is that the com.
munity has not had full confidence in the
Chamber Of Commerce Others besides the
Chamber Of Commerce have attempted at times
to launch promotion campaigns and they have
failed because of lack of confidence M
II n OMER M KEGS plan can succeed if THE
LII WHOLE COMMUNITY, everyone inside
and outside the Chamber Of Commerce. every
interest in the community, is sold on the idea.
1t can succeed if every one has confidence in
its leaders, if every one is willing to cooperate
to push it through. But if rivalry and jealousy
are allowedto interfere it is doomed to failure
just as similar movements in the past have
failed. The Mckee plan must be carried
through with the idea that in no sense is any
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APOLLO-"Sally. Irene and
Mary" is lavish and enter
tanning production Of the stage
play of the same name.
CIRCLE - 1.-The Reckless
Lady" is very theatrical and
overdrawn. Does not convince
although Lois Moran does
wonders to improve it.
COLONIAL - 1.-THE First
Year" is all family entertain
ment. Excellent fun.
OHIO-"The Wanderer." is
In its second week here.
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week. + a k
Craven made big sized hit Of Tom
my Tucker in the stage version and
now Matt Moore shines forth as the
misunderstood first-year hubby in
the screen version. Kathryn Perry
is Grace. Both play the roles in a
human and honest way. These two
do not impress one as acting but
rather as living characters. They
just seem to be two people expert
menting in the first year of married
life.
There Is a sort OF delightful Main
Street flavor found in the scenes
devoted to the parlor courtship of
Tommy and Grace. OF course there
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they call 1t. She
has not injured
that quality by
making 1t theat-
rical. Although
the theme OF
ct h e Reckless
Lady" is extreme
ly theatrical and
unconvincing as
a picture, Miss
Moran b r / n & s
sweet realism to
many a scene.
She is cast as the
sweet daughter
of a reckless
mother, a wife
who loved a man
she was not mar
riad tn xyhiIa ha
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company about.
He doesn't do
much better when
he is alone with
her. Tommy Tuck
err discovered that
that first year of
married life is the
toughest. A n d
Grace Tucker has
the same opinion.
You viii meet
T o m m y Tucker
and his W 1 T. e
Grace, in THE
First Year" a
movie version OF
the stage play of
the same name at
49,, r~1-., 80
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CONSIDERING LOIS
MORAN AS A FIND

1T has been announced that Lois
Moran is one OF the real movie
finds of the season.
Am sure of that after seeing her
lift one ordinary scene after
another in 1.-THE Reckless Lady to
position that the story appeared
more reasonable than it really is.
Lois Moran has the healthy
something about her-youth l guess
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ment of that
world of bright
light in \ which
their lives are
spent. There is
Sally, she has
made herself one
of the sights of
the town by her
beauty In a Broad
way show. She is
kept by one of her
admirers. A n d
Irene, she Is the
dreamer of the
three. Being intro
duced into the
circle of which
Sally holds the
reins of pleasure
sssA-r.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
By Walter ID. Hickman

H FIRST-YEAR hubby is a
1 Al strange individual because he
@ seems to be in the clouds
most of the time.
Z Meaning that he just can not
his wife when there is
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finder. That statute is no longer
in effect and the Government does
not issue search warrants now or
take part in the recovery of lost
treasure.
What is meant in politics by a
dark horse?
One who Is nominated unexpected
ly for an important office, after the
leading candidates have failed. The
first dark horse in a national con-
vention was James X. Polk, 1874.
Later presidential dark horses"
were Pierce, Garfield and Harding.
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treasures when found belong to
the government?
The government does not get half
the gold mined in the United States.
Formerly there was a statute pro-
yiding that hidden treasure belonged
to the Government and persons who
wished to search for it were
obliged to get Government permits.
Part Of the treasure found went to
the Government and a part to the
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sECOND WEEK FOR
THE WANDERER. HERE

"The Wanderer." an attempt to
"glorify" an ancient story by apply
ing revue methods, is nowt in it's
second week at the Ohio. 1t is doing
good business. Has big cast and
cost lots of money to produce. The
orchestral score used is beautiful.
At the Ohio all week. Reviewed last
week in this department.
Il + +
other theaters today offer: Eddie
Cantor in kid Boots,' at English's;
"Old Cronies," at the Lyric; Seven
Collegians," at the Palace; Charles
Withers & Co. at Keith's burlesque
at the Broadway, and THE Cowboy
and the Countess. ( at the Isis.