The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-13
Tracy
Miners Win
MyStery'S Use
Lip-StiCkS and MermaidS
Europe'S Gestures
Loves Endurance
BY NJ. Il. Tracy

may take some time yet for them
to reap the fun fruits Of their
viSory'
They win, because what they
asked is right, because it is
essential to the Industrial progress
Of their country.
Premier Baldwin can now go back
and begin again where he left off
ten days ago. He can restore the
subsidy that he so arrogantly with.
drew and take up the royal commits
sion's program for re-organizing the
coal mines that he so casually laid
aside.
But first he can tell the mine own
ers and their sympathizers just what
a mess they persuaded him to make
Of things and how desirable it is for
them to wake up to the fact that
they are living in the Twentieth
Century.
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Having discovered the South Pole
and flown over the North Pole.
Amundsen might, if that We're his
way, do as Alexander The Great did
and weep for other poles to conquer
He is a brave man and good sport
however, and that is not his way.
Besides, he knows there is more
at the frozen end Of the earth than
imaginery points where imaginary
meridians meet.
He knows that wherever mystery
exists there is something for men
to learn and probably something for
them to make use Of
!
This may be a flapper age, an age
OF lip-sticks and vanity cases, but
1t has produced more girls who can
swim a mile than any other.
One Of them is Lillian Cannon Of
Baltimore, and she is good to try the
English Channel this summer.
She is in a hurry to be gone for
she realizes If she doesn't do the
stunt soon some girl is likely to beat
her to it.
Young women are making this
day and generation famous in other
ways than the consumption Of face
paint.
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And now comes Mr.. Pilsudski,
mobilizing his troops and marching
on Warsaw, though no one guessed
there was anything but peace in
Poland.
1t may have been because Of the
British strike or the nine Polar ex-
petitions or the start of the baseball
season, or a dozen and one other
thing to distract the attention but
his latest upheavel certainly takes
us by surprise.
Perhaps it isn't so bad after all,
.hough two Polish cabinets have
ALLEN in as many weeks.
Europe is full of gestures these
days but the people haven't forgot
ten the great war and are in a mood
to put up with most anything
rather than prevent a repetition of
anything like its troubled days.
i
Chancellor Luther Of Germany
who has weathered 50 many storms
seems to have lost his job because he
wanted to restore the old imperial
lag. lie could have known better.
There is nothing dearer to the
hearts of people than their flag.
Philosophers may dismiss it as
mere symbol but statesmen should
take a more practical view.
People with a national conscious
ness regard their flag as the embodi-
nert of principals and ideals.
When their principals and ideals
change, they want the flag to
change.
1t was unthinkable that the peo-
pie of the German republic would
10 otherwise than rebel at the
thought OF restoring the old Hohen-
rollern banner
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Though party leaders were
against it and the Administration re-
fused to father It, Congress passed
he labor bill and President Coolidge
has given no intimation that he
viii do otherwise than sign it,
Critics have complained that it
VAS unfair because it gives the pub
Ic no representation | cannot agree
with them.
Members Of the commission. which
S the most important tribunal this
bill creates. cannot be connected
with railroad in any way or with
an organization Of railroad employees.
If that is not giving the public
representation what is it,
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Love can live on, though respect
0e dead, explained Mrs. Clara
Thompson as she hurried to the res
cue Of her husband. Earl Thomp-
son, who was being held by the po-
lice of Des Moines, Iowa. on the
charge of having murdered her.
How true that is, especially with
regard to the women, and how re-
assuring.
All over the world, wives, mothers
and sisters are doing things for men
whom they love but cannot respect,
and the mere fact of it often in
spires those men to turn over a new
leaf