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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
ANDREWS

IT, is reported in Washington, and pretty gen.
orally believed, that Gen. Lincoln G. Andrews will
retire Sept. l as head of the Government prohibi-
ton force.
1t is said he is disguised because Congress failed
to enact legislation which he thought would aid MIN
in his difficult job.
Congress did vote him $29,ooo,ooo to use during
the coming year-a stable sum for the enforcement
Of lust one law-but three measures which he want
ed failed to get through. One would have created
a separate Government organization for prohibition
enforcement. A second would have authorized An
drews' agents to search private homes where there
was evidence that liquor was being distilled for COM
mercial purposes.
A third would have allowed him to hire retired
army officers as enforcement agents without caus-
ing them to forfeit their retirement pay.
Another, and entirely diffeent, reason given is
that Andrews is simply heartsick over his job. BE
fore becoming dry Dictator" says one newspaper,
Andrews was a popular figure. Now he never gets
an invitation to any function where cocktails are
served, as is the case in most wealthy homes.
Heckled by vets and abused by drys, in his heart,
he is sick Of the whole thing, but is presenting a
brave front to the world"
If Andrews is a philosopher, as we'll as a man
Of action, he may be able to find a relation between
the last reason given and his unsuccessful bill to
create a new Government development. Therein,
perhaps, lies the whole difficulty of forcing prohibit
ton upon the people of the United States.
The Eighteenth amendment created a new crime.
Drinking had not been a crime heretofore.
The advent of "a new crime made necessary a
new law. The Volstead act was the result.
Now, as Andrews sees it, the new law makes
necessary a new Government department.
1t all gets back to the newness of the crime.
How sensitive Andrews may be to the snubs
of society, nobody can say. He is a West Pointer
and a gentleman, accustomed to being received
everywhere. He doubtless enjoys the company of
people Of his own kind. But we are willing to as
sert that Andrews would bear very easily any social
sights that might befall him if they came from men
and women whom, in his heart, he regarded as Grim
inals. If the homes whose latch strings have been
drawn in were the homes of murderers, or. pick
pockets, or safe crackers or any others of the class
that civilization has stamped as criminal, General
Andrews, good soldier, could continue his fight IN
mindful of their opinion. He would not desire their
society in his hours off, duty.
But the present situation is what it is. Andrews
doesn't find it a happy one.
Would anybody else?
AEE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
A REMARKABLE MAN

The quiet little physician of Nancy has passed
on, leaving behind him people who will argue as to
whether or not he was a faker or a philanthropist.
The couplet into which he crowded his philoso.
phyy went around the world.
Every day in every way, I am getting better
and BETTER was on the lips of countless thou.
sands.
Some laughed and some believed and then he
explained that it represented a message from the
conscious mind to subconscious thought, which may
be another word for spirit.
Possibly those who journeyed to his little Office
in France and came away refreshed and benefited
we're never ill at all; possibly they only believed
they were.
1t is just possible that others who laughed at
the idea that through any mental processes the hui
man body may be rid of some of its ills, were quite
as greatly mistaken.
This much is true: The viewpoint on life deter
mines many things.
The optimism is always happier than the pessi
mist.
Those who have faith are greater than those who
are controlled by fear.
We are all pretty much what we believe we are.
The man who constantly carries in the back.
ground of his mind a vision of failure will not sue
coed. He sees the man of mediocre talent and less
genius, but who has faith in himself outdistance him
in the race for success.
This little man in France might have been the
veriest Of takers, but those who wish happiness,
healthier success could do much worse than to build
up a strong faith and optimism and hope, and drive
away fear and dependency and gloominess from
their outlook on life.
Faith still works miracles. Fear always de.
stroys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
American Drift

Whether they have been infected
by this criticism or whether they
have been hypnotized by the phil
osophy Of system Of high power
craftsmanship, adding machine and
goose step efficiency, a good many
Americans are beginning to think
the same way. .
You can hear them talking every
where, some for reform and some
against it, but with the idea of get
ting what they want through law
and regulation. =
They complain Of crime waves, OF
uplift, of automobile markets, Of the
farmers troubles, of strikes. of
trusts, the open shop and a hundred
and one other things, but always
with the thought of having the Gov
eminent do something about it, pre-
ferably the Federal Government.
This is opposed to the original
scheme, as derived from colonial
custom and tradition. as it was put
into effect by the fathers and par
ticularly as it was voiced by Thomas
Jefferson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
Lon CLANCY Again Makes Up to Look
Like Worst Bad Man Who Ever Existed

fered for many reels. he always
blossoms out as a real fighter and a
real brave man.
These elements are found in good
amounts in The Midnight Flyer"
which has the services Of Cullen
lands. rs the poor but struggling
engineer; Dorothy Devore, Barbara
Tenant and many others.
Here is thrilling melodrama we'll
done, according TO the modern pat
tern.
Bill includes American Harmon
lists. a Charles Puffy comedy, Aesop
Fables and a news reel.
At the Colonial all week.
Other theaters today offer: Pup
py" at Keith's; THE Broken Wing
at English's; Florence Cast at the
Palace; Romeo and his dancing dolls
at the Lyric; THE Volga Boatman"
at the Uptown, and THE Fighting
Peacemaker'' at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
$1,000 AN HOUR

Was that Chicago woman foolish or very wise
when she paid $1,000 an hour for the time she saved
in travelling from New York to her home?
She had the money, and will not miss 1t from
the vast wealth at her command.
But it is easily conceivable that if the money
she spent was all that she had, she still might have
been the thriftiest of persons in spending it in ex-
actly the manner in which she did.
The most precious possession Of any human
being is time-and most Of us are most ~profigate in
its use.
low much would one of our great fnanciers,
faced With the possibility of imminent death, pay
for one more hour on earth?
Would any one Of those who have amassed a
inbred millions Of dollars hesitate to pay not a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
CAMPAIGN
UNCHECKED

A flibuster by Senator Cameron Saturday pre-
vented the Senate from acting on a resolution de-
signed to limit expenditures in the remaining sena-
torial primaries this summer.
When the hour of adjournment arrived, with
Cameron still speaking, a lumber of conservative
Senators rushed up to congratulate him. Included
were the following, who are up for reelection this
fall and who, it is just possible, prefer to campaign
without too much restriction on their expenditures.
Watson of Indiana, Willis of Ohio, Wadsworth
of New York, Butler of Massachusetts and Ernst of
Kentucky.
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there is IN mighty good comedy
moments between and even during
the gun play.
Holt has his pet horse In this
movie, and even above the oar of
guns said horse can always hear
the whistle Of his master. Holt is
a true son of the West as pictured
by the movie screen. And this man
can act. Just see him pyll the real
dramatic article in this one. OF
course, the director had something
to do with the success OF this pic
ture and the camera man as well.
Raymond Hatton has a quaint
comedy role. Margaret Morris fur.
nishes the love element. Cast In
cludes Arlette Marchal and George
Siegman.
Bill includes an O'Henry comedy,
organ music and a presentation,
Carey Ellsworth and Mari.
At the Ohio all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
Europe Different

The American conception of Gov.
eminent and more particularly that
of the checks that should be placed
on Government. is as much at vari'
ance with the European ~radicalism
Of today as it was with the European
conservatism Of $50 years ago.
1t does not visualize State suprem
acy as the great objective, does not
regard social development as posi-.
BILE, except through individual de-
velopment.
The European conception, whether
! expressed by communist fascist or
m~onarchist, is that the State and
society are all important and that
the individual should be subordinated
to both,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
More Time to Think

If our fathers lived slower 1t gave
them more time to think, and their
circumstances were such that they
had to think in terms Of politics.
Every great era of human history
has done some one thing well, some
n thing better than 1t was ever
done before and as good as It ever
could DO done afterward.
Greek art, Egyptian embalming
Roman discipline! Where and when
has civilization excelled them?
I am one of those who think the
same question might be asked with
regard to political ideas as they
were developed by the founders of
this republic during the first half
century of it's existence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
J~efferSon'S Day

1 am well aware that it has been
fashionable to look down on Thomas
Jefferson and his theories, to cata-
logue him as a romantic dreamer, or
a cheap politician, and to damn his
ideals with the faint praise that they
might have been we'll enough in
their day.
Not to argue the point, but just to
cite fact, If the Fourth of July
belongs to any man, it belongs to
Thomas jefferson.
He not only wrote the document
that gave it birth. but he stood for a
political creed that made it original
"a creed that pronounced the least
possible government as best, that
vtsualized tolerance and freedom of
thought as the most worthwhile doc
trines and that conceived too much
power as the greatest danger any
country or people could face.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
GOOD MATERIAL

Just what estimate does ClyOet Wdlp'
jackson and Senators Watson and Robinson place on
the intelligence of the Indiana voter?
They blatantly announce that the payment of
the State debts is good material for a Republican
campaign this fall and that arrangements have been
made to tell the story to the voters and ask for the
ra-election of every one on whom the label of their
party has been placed.
Were there any credit to be had from the fact
that the debts have been wiped out, the plea is SO
absurd in the light of recent political history as 10
put even the most guileless on his guard.
If credit is to be taken by the party In power
for the payment Of the debts. what is to be said for
the party responsibility in the creation OF those
debts?
If this is good material what is to be said OF the
administration of Governor McCray?
The truth is that the only honest plea to be
made on this matter is the fact that the admins
tration raised a lot of special taxes, took away MIL
lions from the taxpayers pockets and wiped out the
debt in that manner.
Their only accomplishment is that they got away
with an increase of taxes by subterfuge and avoid
ed protest and revolt.
By putting a 8 cents a gallon tax on gasoline,
and taking the 3 cents a hundred dollars tax for
merly levied for good roads away from that OBJECT
most of the money was obtained.
The diversion of more than a million dollars a
year from the inheritance tax, created on the plea
that it was needed for good roads, helped some.
The confscation of the auto theft fund with its
half million dollars helped some.
The automobile owners really paid the debts
through carrying burdens formerly placed upon es'
tates and the general taxpayer.
Will any State official dare to suggest that the
administration, through economies and efficiency, has
saved five millions of the peoples money!
Will any one suggest that the public sevice has
been maintained at a low cost and the debts paid
through savings?
If this can not be claimed, wherein does any
great credit come? SSF
Is it good material to tell the people that they
have been more heavily taxed?
That good material may end by calling at
tention to four years Of unpleasant history written
by the, little inner group which still controls that
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05

lib hAIC lie
Singapore and he was right when
he wrote that the stencil was some.
thing terrible or something like that,
Anyway, Clancy makes his char.
acter live up to the stencil" of The
underworld of Mandalay. Crime ard
lust seems to grow In that climate
and 1t sur has a fine crop in this
movie. Here is unpleasant melodra.
matte realism rather toned up by the
thoughts of Kipling.
There are rotters and good ones
in this movie and CLANCY tops the
list of the rotters. He has one
good quality-he never permitted
his daughter, a sweet and good
child. to know that he was her
father. And just for that, daughter
stabs her own father when he
stopped her wedding to a chap who
ceased to be a rotter.
This movie rather reflects the at.
mosphere, sex and lust, that plays OF
the type white Cargo" produced.
CLANCY is a dramatic actor Of ter.
rible parts who actually gets over.
The movie world has decreed that
Clancy must always look terrible
and he sure lives up to that man
date in 1.-THE Road To Mandalay."
The cast is right as it has the
services Of Henry b. Walthall,
Kamiyama Sojin, owen Moore, John
Georges and Lois Moran. Quite a
cast and there is a whole lot of
native atmosphere present.
Bill includes a comedy, a news
real, orchestral music by Emil
Seidel and organ music by Lester
Huff. At the Apollo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
FAMILY BASEBALL

We had a game OF baseball, ON
the beach the other day. The wiley
and the kiddies, and their dad were
out for play. We took u turns at
THROWN, an we took our turn at
bat. Twas mighty bully exercise fer
all of us, at that.
The kids would run the bases
when they gave the ball a sock. va
oughta see those youngsters bat.
They knock the thing a block. The
missus standssand gazes. Guess she
thinks it's lots of fun to see the
youngsters battin' SOS TO make their
father run.
OF course when / am swingin',
an the kids are in the field. 1 take
about two bats err so, and then my
fate is sealed. 1 guess the missus
kinda thinks her hubby's in a trance.
She shouts. Jaw, hit an easy one
and give the kids a chance"
And then-when wiley m to
bat, or tries to throw the ball. Then's
when I get my fun, at that-the big
gest laugh of all. She whirls around
in circles and she likely falls down
fiat. In other words, she's like all
girls, cause girls are all like that.
If a new boarder uses but one
hook in the clothes closet, the board
ing house keeper can Just about
guess that he's married.
You can stand in front of n
church after a wedding and watch
the tied go out.
She bought herself a hope chest,
Ard che fI,ox,uhf che I,o1 fI,o IoHn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05

thousand but a hundred thousand dollars for the
privilege of prolonging life for an additional sixty
minutes?
Would not the mother of a child, fading away
into the shadows give all that she had for a few more
brief moments of life in which to cherish it against
her breast.
The real test is not the money value but the
use to which the added hours are put.
What would you do with an hour that you saved
from the ordinary routine of your life?
That is the real answer to the question Of how
much it is worth.
If you think of some plunge into ~prohigate in
diligence it might be better that you travel very
slowly. y
If you decide that it would be used to scatter
some happiness among others, to add to the worlds
store of knowledge, to its power over ignorance or
superstition, to bring smiles to faces carved by the
chisel of sorrow, it is priceless.
This woman may have had a very urgent use
for those few hours, may have known that those
hours alone could produce more of happiness than
any hours in all the rest of her life.
Many a man would pay much more than a thou
sand dollars to bring back some crucial hour of his
life, some hour in which he made a serious error that
changed his future, or an hour when he lived among
the gods and was happy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
CITIZENS DUTY CITED
Homer Elliott Asks Americans to
Consider Constitution.

eve must either quit trying to
teach the constitution 10 the children
or have more consideration for IL
ourselves" said Homer Elliott,
former Federal district attorney, ia
an address on After One Hundred
and Fifty Years Sunday night at
the Broadway M. f. Church. 1--WE
must either quit exalting the
Declaration Of Independence, or put
ourselves more in hermony with Il. ="
Elliott charged present-day Ameri-
cans with applauding the work OF
Jefferson, Franklin. Washington and
Madison, while they deny deliber-
ately their theories Of government
by writing amendments into the
constitution that are virtual con.
LESSONS OF the Americans inability
TO govern himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05

tossed Angela.
played by Miss Olmsted, into his
life. A number of very pretty love
scenes gives Stills a chance to show
that he knows the art. I And the
women are just going to sigh them
selves into great joy when Sills
turns to the love making job.
But tho love game doesn't last
long, because the puppet master
forgot to take out naturalization
papers while in America So his
King throws him into the World
War. He marries Angela very
hastily and leaves her in the care
of his good looking cousin, a man
who stayed home. Little cousin
wasn't so noble and he nearly made
Angela forget her fighting husband.
The puppet maker OF course be-
comes missing in the enemy's camp.
He loses his hearing. He lands
home just when Angela and little
cousin were getting ready for a
petting party. Then the story be-
comes impossible melodrama. They
even burn down the theater. They
just had to end this picture some
way and in the happy way. And
that's the story of Puppets"
The summer orchestral attaction
this week at the Circle is Ben Meroff
and his High Hatters. a melody jazz
organization. Bill includes Dessa
Byrd iH an organ solo and movie
features.
At the Circle all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
HUNDREDS SEE "HAWATHA"
AT FAIRvIEW PARK SUNDAY

Hundreds Of people went to Fair.
view Park Sunday afternoon to see
the Theatre Guild presentation Of
"Hiawatha," done in the open.
G.. V. Deacon directed the pro.
duction. although the Guild has pre-
scented 1t several times before. Mrs.
w. o. Bates. head OF the Guild, can
be assured by the large attendance
yesterday that she will be able to
make this great pageant a yearly
event.
Test Dalton arranged the Long.
fellow poem for this production used
by the Guild.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
.KIPLING is HOME AGAIN

BIZ United Press
BURWASH, Sussex. July s.
Rudyard Kipling, the novelist, who
was seriously i'll with bronchial
pneumonia last winter has returned
to Burwash after several months
convalescence in Southern France.
He appears none the worse for his
illness and has resumed his writing
and the MANAGEMENT OF his six
hundred acre estate which lies in
beautiful rural districts in England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
Less Rule

1t is commonly assumed and com.
monty taught this republic was
founded to change the source Of au.
thority from throne to people. but
the story includes far more than
that.
Our fathers were interested not
only in the source Of authority, but
in the amount, and II they fought
for popular rule it was because they
looked upon it as a guarantee Of
less rule.
That is what other people, but es.
pecially Europeans, do not under.
stand. 1t is still a basic idea of
European politics that the State
must be supreme and the State con.
tinues supreme, whether governed
by soviet or by a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
SAYS MuSSoIini

Mussolini says that u democracy
is a futile experiment and that is
precisely what the Tory ministers Of
King George said.
We are condemned by the bolshe-
visit as bitterly as we ever were
by royalists and all because we don't
set up class rule. don't give the
Government a clean right of way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
PROMISE
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Another fair maid says she has been Tilted and
asks heart balm in the guise of a large amount of
money from her erstwhile sutton.
1t does look as if no selfrespecting lawyer would
take a case of this sort. The idea of a woman's hav-
ing a big cash payment because a man decides he does
not want to marry her is stuff out of the "Mauve
Decade" 1t is as unjust as the sacrifice Of ~unchaste
women which took place in the long ago.
Women have a great many rights these days and
they should now realize that they can't have their
cake and eat it, too. So long as they can turn a
man down whenever they please, there is no reason
why men should not have the same privilege.
There is no longer q question of economies in mat
tiers of this kind. Women are now capable Of earning
their own living and are given all sorts Of opportunity
to do so. They compete with men in the business and
professional world, and there is no sensible reason
why they should be given all the legal advantages.
Breach Of promise suits, alienation of affection
suits, alimony to strong and childless women, are all
things which should be relegated to a Mother Hub
bard past.
It is fine for women to have their reedom-mo
of them prefer it to anything else-but there is a
vast difference between freedom and tyranny.
And certainly any woman who narries a man and
then quits him for alnlony while she chases around
with others and has a good time, or the girl who,
after selecting some well-to-do fellow and having a
few dates with him, sues him for breach Of promise,
has not the right to be heard in any court in an en-
~lightened country.
Judges appear to have a lot of authority. I won
der why more of them do not rule out cases Of this
sort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
L VERY
ITALIAN IN THIS ONE

Milton Stills turns Italian in
Puppets"
Stills hasn't been doing enough
love making before the movie public
lately and so it was necessary to
make a lover out of him although
the lover is Italian.
They selected Gertrude Olmsted
to play the role of the girl to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-05
Movie Verdict

C~IRCLE-Milton Stills turns
italian at times in an unreal
istic picture called Puppets"
The story writer is at fault and
not the cast.
OHIO-zane Grey has turned
out another good yarn of the
supposed west in Born to the
West"
APOLLO-Lon CLANCY n
ates another horrible face in
THE Road to Mandalay."
COLONIAL = Melodrama Is
the chief element in THE Mid
night Flyer"