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Hired Champions

Back of all the theories involved
is the more practical point that
neither Russell nor his accusers can
do much Of anything without that
expensive adjunct of justice. smart
lawyer.
Russelrs wife, though she has
chosen to do so in a most spectacular
way, shows good, hard sense in try
ing to raise the money with which
to get one.
Her public fast, staged in a glass
case. may look sensational, but the
object of it goes right to the heart
of her husbands difficulty.
We have built up a system, out
Of which NOBODY can get anything,
except through the services OF a
hired advocate.
We are back to the old method OF
trial by COMBAT" but without
realizing it.
We don't call upon accuser and
accused to prove their case by fight
ing each other with sword, or
bludgeon, as used to be the custom,
but we do compel them to hire
trained legal champions for about
the same purpose, while the judge
sits as an umpire and the jury votes
on which side has twisted facts in
the most convincing way.
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act without a single minute Of idle
ness. If you listen to them you
will have a broad grin on your face
all the time, and a good hearty
laugh every once in a while.
George Wilson, with the assistance
of woman in the audience, is
another who lightens the atmosphere
with lot Of fun. Knox and Stetson
are two men who use large number
Of straw hats in way to get comedy
effects with them.
Bill includes a photoplay "Bache-
lor Brides" with Rod La Rogue and
a News Reel.
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
(By the Observer.)
- q.
Other theaters today offer; THE
Savage" at the Circle; Alma Rubens
in THE Gilded Butterfly" at the
Colonial; Hoot Gibson in 1.-THE Man
in the Saddle at the Isis; when
Husbands Flirt." at the Uptown;
"Lovey Mary" at the Apollo and
"Oh! What A Nurse" at the Ohio.
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that in Greenwich Village almost anything goes, and
she wanted to see what anything was.
But it turned out that she was the shock her
SELF and an old-fashioned policeman was the one to
be jolted. For, what do you suppose Miss Con
nectcut was doing she came for an evening stroll
down into Washington Square? Sheswas carrying a
lighted cgaret, that's what she was, and she didn't
try to make any secret Of either as she crossed
the magisterial pathway Of Patroman Olsen.
"Say, you, drop that cigaret!" was the voice that
doomed out of the darkness
Miss Connecticut didn't drop cop was only
a cop after ALL and how come? She asked what ordi-
nance, please she was breaking She asked further,
if it was criminal young lady to inhale flag or
two in this burg.
1t wasn't mice Patrolman Olsen's best
comeback. The young lady demurred What wasn't
nice about it? The policeman began to gesture with
his nightstick. The talk flew faster. Finally he, the
majesty of the law found himself outtalked in every
sector
Loud and boisterous language" was his final
verdict, so he arrested Miss Connecticut and her
New York friend
Moral: Don't go around on Patrolman Olsen's
beat in Washington Square smoking cigarets at night
unless you male.
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ABOUT MOTHERS
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The person who merits sympathy these days and
gets it is parent.
Never before have many people been attending
to OUR business for u.s. never have been criti-
cised and ectured and cursed. be very strict
with children and like we shall have the
humane society upon for cruelty Let be lenient
and the preachers and the professors and the judges
tell us that causing the downfall of the Nation
Whatever do, likely to be wrong
I would speak word for the too ndulgent mother.
They say it is fatefu for to give children things
did not have; that if obliged to work
and profted thereby, it is equally good for chill
We warned continually about indulging our
and daughters
However, lot Of these admonitions come from
people who have borne children. They do not
know how hard it is to say mo" to that boy who
all of life to YOU They do not understand how
it is for the soft young of your baby girl
TO away your resistance All of this talk about
mothers sacrificing much for their children is most
ly bunk anyway. Mothers want their children have
things for them is delight and hardship.
Nothing break mothers heart to see her
girl denied wholesome fun that other girls have She
wants her boy have the pleasures that others
in his financial circumstances possess
God fashioned mothers thus. Perhaps they are
soft and plant, but would the world any better
they changed?
For to real mother her children always remain
somehow like the babies that she once so fondly
tended She forget the their smiles
and the sweetness of their kisses They always re-
main to her only her infants grown tall.
I, too, think sometimes that great love is our
destruction but not half often salvation
girls who turn badly do because their moth
love them over-mlch, but because somewhere in
their blood is strain Of evil which all maternal
lection never eradicate.
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course, burlesqued the character of
the soak" while Cossart plays it
as character and not as a cartoon
idea of a soak" For that reason,
Cossart makes Glen Hawley an ac-
tually living "old soak" A mighty
good piece OF acting.
John Thorn is the CAL" the con-
fidential bootlegger from whom Glenn
buys his hooch. Understand that
Thorn played the role with Hitch
cock and he sure is playing it this
week. Another real characterization
Margaret Douglass is the hired girl
who liked her hooch and her parrot.
A mighty funny Characterization in
the hands of Miss Douglass.
The sob" role of the long suffer
ing wife is played graciously and
honestly by Judith Lowry. Alan
Floud is the two faced Cousin
Webster, the villain of the play.
Another good piece of consistent
character acting.
Small parts are taken by Adelaide
Chase, Larry Fletcher, Mona Kings
ley and Victor Hammond.
"The Old Soak" at Keiths this
week stacks up as entertainment
with many laughs and some
thoughts on life that are not bad to
remember.
At Keith's all week.
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Tracy
A Smart Lawyer Puts the
Scott Case Into a
New SnarI.
BY NJ. e. Tracy

Robert Scott pleads guilty to a
murder for which his brother Rus
sell was convicted and even now
faces death on the gallows.
AS the presiding judge says, this
confronts the court with a grave re-
sponsibility.
Obviously, it would be unfair to
impose any punishment lighter than
death on Robert after he admitted
a crime for which his brother had
been sentenced to hang, though it
has become the custom to reward
confessed murderers in that way.
But the problem of what to do
with Robert is overshadowed, or
soon will be, by what can, or can
not be done with Russell.*
If Robert killed the man, it fol
lows that Russell did not, except,
perhaps, in a most technical sense
and that is not the sense in which
he stands convicted.
Can the higher court order a new
trial for him under the circum-
stances, or will he be set, free?
If set free. can he be indicted and
tried as an accomplice, or will the
constitutional guarantee against Sec
ond jeopardy for the same offense
protect him?
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IOHN w. WEEKS !.
"The easiest thing l ever did we

tThe easiest thing l ever did was TO make
money A
So John w. Weeks used frequently to say.
Those who knew him, however, say the easiest uiine
he did was to make friends
The former Secretary of War, who died yester-
dav seems in fact to have found pretty much all
Of life easy. due to habit Of taking things easily.
Nothing bothered him great deal. When the oanK-
ing firm which he helped launch in the early part
Of his career failed, leaving him oroKe' II IS loiu
that he merely remarked to his wife: WeH' INQUIRER
looks like we'll have to begin over Beginning over
Weeks was able retire from active business Wits
comparatively young with fortune OF rev mlhon
dollars
Politics offered him more pleasure than any other
activity After having been mayor OF his Massacnu-
sets town and Congressman four times ne was
elected to the United States Senate on the death Oh
his nolitical tutor Murray Crane. That was IN
1913 Three years later he found in possession
of los delegates to the Republican natlonal CONVEX
ton which had met in Chicago to nominate man
for the presidency Many of the 105 were Southern
delegates and it was generally assumed that Weeks
had gathered them, they had been gathered 1or
him in the easiest way But no scandal or cries Oh
outrage attached to these delegates as SO frequently
is the case of Southern delegates to Republican
national conventions. No scandal, IN 1act ever az
tached to Weeks efforts in politics
He never wanted anything sufficiently to cause
him to step over the line that marks what can be
done and what cannot in practical politics,
without raising row. He never wanted anything
sufficiently lead him to hurt anybody else's feel
ings He kept the friendship of all the delegates,
even those who eventually dropped him in favor OF
Charles Evans Hughes.
He lent his aid to Hughes In the campaign ana
four years later did the same for Warren g. Hard
ing He aided the latter's finances during the 1920
campaign. BY this time he occupied an interesting
position in American affairs. AS the associate OF
politicians he could advise the bankers on what the
politicians thinking. AS the associate of bank
ers he could advise the politicians on what the
bankers thinking.
On Hardings election Weeks wanted to be Sec
rotary of the Treasury but when the place went to
Mellon he accepted the portfolio as gracefully
as if he had wanted nothing else.
When ill health terminated his service in the
Cabinet last fall he accepted this the end of his
public career, goodnaturedly as he had accepted
all other events in his life. Doubtless death like
wise found him cheerful, feeling that if he couldn't
live then the next best thing to die.
Weeks passing leaves no apparent gap in
American public affairs. 1t does leave however,
sense of loss the part of as large number of
personal friends any one man could have.
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Make It a Science

Take the Dwyer case in New York
when an ex-rum runner stood up
Yesterday and told the court that
he had landed boatload after boat
load Of booze at Bellevue dock with
uniformed police looking on.
Those police were as guilty as
anyone connected with the enter
prise, but what can the law do about
1.-THE Federal law, with New York
city cops?
My own impression is that one
of the greatest questions before this
country is how to make the law more
of science and less of a game.
At present, it is too much of a
sporting proposition, with the de-
PENDANT forced to play the part of a
medieval >damsel, who married and
'1ived happily ever after, if her
knight won, but was seized as legiti-
mate prey by the other chap If he
lost.
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Justice Paid For

1t is very common to hear people
say that such or such a man would
have been acquitted if he had had
different lawyer, or that the State
would have won such or such a con-
viction if the prosecuting attorney
had kn6wn his business.
This is all based on the assump-
ton and an altogether too correct
assumption that the best lawyer gen.
orally wins.
How is the average defendant to
know who is the best lawyer and
what good will it do him if he hasn't
the necessary amount Of cash?
How are the people to know who
is the best lawyer when they elect
a prosecuting attorney and what
good will it do them If the State
Legislature won't permit them to
pay enough to get thin?
A system of justice based on sheer
ability, bought and paid for in the
open market, may have it's advan-
tages, but it is devilish hard on poor
people.
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Stage Verdict

LYRIC--Four knockout acts
Of real merit. They are Six
Bonhairs, Frank Wilson, Dillin
and Sico, and, Burt Earl's
Hollywood Bathing Models.
PALACE - Mary Cowerd,
blind soprano, is a big hit on a
good bill.
ENGLISH S-Good chummy
and pleasant entertainment is
THE Four-Flusher" which once
had the title of "A King for a
Day"
KEITH'S - Ernest Cossart
scores a real triumph as THE
Old Soak" in a comedy Of the
same name.
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SeTHE UNITED STATES OF
CANADA"
The United States Of Canada!


That sounds strange after many years of ~~The
Dominion and king and Country" Perhaps it
will continue to have an alien ring, but right now
the expression or its political equivalent, is grow
ing in popularity very rapidly in Canada.
month ago speech advocating independence
would have been regarded in Canada as coming only
from macontents and extremists. Today the same
speech would probably muster crowd in any part
of the Dominion What it will do when the general
S elections come in September depends develop
ments in what is bound to be Canadas hottest cam
paign for many years.
The trouble oddly enough, all started because
of bootlegging Canadian liquor to the United States.
This involved Mackenzie Kings liberal minis
try in customs scandal Faced with vote Of lack
of confidence in the Canadian Parliament King
asked the governor general Lord Byng of vmy, to
dissolve that body. The governor general refused,
so King resigned June g.
Arthur Meighen, conservative leader, at the re-
quest Of Byng, formed government which lasted
only four days before failing of the requisite votes
to continue in business.
Now general election for September has been
ordered.
In the campaign much of the excitement will
hinge Lord Byng's refusal to comply with Kings
request to dissolve the parliament, and his subse-
quent appointment of Meghen without the formality
of election
In England, when the prime minister asks for
dissolution of Parliament and general election the
King always agrees The Canadians were under the
impression that the governor generals powers
wouldn't outrank those Of the King.
Lord Byng vetoed the wishes of the Canadian
rrime minister and followed his own wishes in the
matter of government reorganization. Now in all
parts of Canada the question being heatedly asked
rs this mere crown colony is it a sefgovern-
ing dominion?" And in a good many places there
are outright suggestions of complete break with
England 49,
That Canada will celebrate the 150th annver-
sary of American independence with similar move
is outside Of the realm of probability. ~
That the whole question of Canadian relation
ships to England will receive lively airing during
the next sixty days is, however, certainty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
TO EXPLORE MOUNDS
Party VIII Visit Town in Sullivan
County.

Several prehistoric mounds near
the town of Fairbanks in Sullivan
County are to be explored this week
under the joint auspices of the In
diana historical bureau and the State
geological department. j. Arthur
MacLean, director of the John Her.
ron Art Institute, will supervise the
excavation work.
His staff will include a photog,
rapher, an artist, a geologist and a
crew of diggers. Local promoters OF
the research expedition are l.. x.
Lilly, Louis j. Borinstein, Leo M.
Rappaport, Charles B. Sommers,
William F. Teel. L. c. Huesmann, ],
I. Holcomb, George z. Forrey, Mrs.
John c. Carey, Christopher B. Cole
man, Amos w. Butler and II. A.
Grassland.
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The Complex Complex

One Congress. forty-eight States
and a thousand and more city gov
ernments grinding out statutes. reg
ulations and you can'ts, at such a
rate that even the index clerks find
it impossible to keep track of them
yet the veriest ignoramus is for
hidden to plead that he doesn't
know.
or course, Mrs. Russell Scott is
taking the only logical way, even
though she must starve herself in
public to get the funds to pay a
lawyer, who is clever enough to out
manuever the other side.
And we call this fabric justice.
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little dancer with
the company. As
the girl Is about
half through her
dance, Miss Cow
erd starts to sing
from the wings.
She continues her
song until the
dancer has fin
ished and then
slowly walks onto
the stage, singing
the rest of the
melody.
I listened to her
finish this number
and she was al
most through an
o+ba,. before I re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
CHAMPIONS GOLD

Sammy Mandell new lightweight boxing cham
pion of the world has just presented his sister with
a $4,000 home in Rockford, ILL., Previously he had
bought home for his father and retired him from
his arduous job in a foundry.
The sports writer's say that Mandell-whose real
is Mandeo, he being Italian-is pretty
poor excuse for champion. They say he is not to
be mentioned in the same breath with former hold
ers of the title.
Yet we somehow hope that Sammy hangs On to
his crown for some time to come. Champions make
a lot of money but not very many of them know
what to do with it when they get it.
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Dillin has a solo number which gets
over with a bang. This team works
with the utmost ease and under
standing.
2. The six Bonhairs, who can teach
some of the old acrobats something
about human pyramid building. They
are leaders in their class of work.
No silly. Glowing, but real work.
g. Frank Wilson, bicycle rider, and
as such many people consider him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
law Gone to Seed

The law has gone to seed with
mechanism, burying itself beyond
recognition under the mass Of it's
own rubbish.
No wonder the American Bar Asso-
citation is ashamed Of the system
which it serves. ashamed of the
delays that have to play such an
important part in its business,
ashamed Of the fact that the great
est experts no longer know the law,
though the entire structure rests on
the principle that Ignorance of the
law availeth no man."
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order at the Lyric
this week.
Am quite en-
tbusiastio over
four acts, as fol-
lows:
1. Dillin and
Sico, instrumental
players on a man.
dolin and kindred
instruments or
whatever they are.
Just about the
best blues players
/ have heard this
season, and they
both have person
atty and real abil-
ity. Both real
ebo--,,an Mice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
BLIND SINGER WINS
SUCCESS AT THE PALACE

If you are lover of music you
will know what I mean when 1 tell
you something about Mary Coward,
at the Palace today and tomorrow
Her act opens with the man accom-
PIANIST at the piano playing the
music for q dance by Mile. Gala, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
Cossart Is Good old Soak Thorn a
Big AL and Douglass Splendid Gal
By Walter ID. Hickman

Those who go to the theater as
well as those who read about it are
acquainted with one Glenn Hawley
known on his Main St. as "The Old
Soak" and his two companions in
hard drinkin', "Al," the bootlegger,
and the hired girl in the Hawley
household.
The thing you want to know this
day is just how the Walker Com,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13

pdily IS presenting
this week at
Keith's. THE Old
Soak" himself is
in the most ca
pable hands of
Ernest Cossart. 1t
will be no surprise
to you if you have
been following the
work of this man
on the stage to
learn from me
that Cossart is the
old boy himself.
Meaning that he
is more convinc-
ing in the part
than r a y m o n d
H i : c h c o C k.
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BEFORE CHICAGO BOARD

Lawrence v. Sheridan, landscape
architect and city plan. consultant
who is preparing city plans for VAL
paraiso and Michigan City, was to
address the board of directors of the
Chicago Regional Planning Associa,
ton today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
KNOW YOUR STATE

INDIANA maintains home Tor olsapieu
and INDECENT soldiers and sailors and another
for their orphans. These institutions, az Laiay
cite and Knightstown, respectively are rnoueis
of order and convenience. Wives OF soldlers ale
eligible to the State care at LaIayelte,s
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If the police ever get after Us we'll get job as
vice president and never be noticed at all.
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FOUR REAL ACTS SHINE
ON NEW SHOW AT LYRIC

When any vaudeville show can
boast of four acts. any one suitable
to top bill, WE'LL things are pretty
good at that playhouse. That's the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13
NEW YORK. is PURE

A fresh young miss from the wild and woolly
hinterlands OF Connecticut came to New York the
other day preparing to be shocked She had heard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-13

Buffalo IN. W woman robbed in church by
some one who should have been listening to the
sermon.
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Expert finds cigarettes ruin compilations. They
don't. Nothing does Except leaving the compact
home.
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There's one fine thing about straw hat. When
you get real mad you can bite it,
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It's an awful waste Of money to raise a SC
and then let him do just as he dern pleases.
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Time you find out what it's all about it's all
about something else
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Questions
and
Answers

You can get an answer to any cues
ton OF TACT OF information by writips
bureau. 1922 New York Ave-. washing
ton D.. O.. inclosing 2 cents u atatnpf
for reply. Medical. legal and maritA
research be undertaken. al othef
questions viii receive personal repiy'
UNSIGNED recueeta cannot be answered
All letters are conndentlal .-Editor.
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What is the tariff on candy
brought into the United States9 Does
the sender or the recipient pay the
duty?
The tariff act of 1922 provides for
a tax Of 40 per cent ad valorem on
candy. The duty must be paid by
the recipient.
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At the Lyric this week.
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How often should dog be fed?
Feed a puppy frequently and an
old dog twice a day.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-24

cook for him. It won't do him any good.
 The way I used to do 1t was like this:
 "I couldn't eat that junk she used to give me, so l would wait until her back was turned and take the food off of my plate and slip 1t into my pocket. I used to walk around half the time with my pockets full of steak and onions and lyonnaise potatoes and chicken fricassee. Every dog on the street would follow me for miles. Took me
 for a lunch cart. One day I met a man on the street and I wanted to hand him my card and I dug down in my pocket and handed him a piece of custard pie. Then l tried 10 square myself by giving him a cigar and I handed him q home make pickle I had.
 After a few of these kind of experiences I adopted a different
 plan. I went and painted a big tar get with a large red spot right in the middle of 1t. And I'd take my meals out there In the alley and throw them at that target, trying to hit the spot. I threw three weeks board al that target and l couldn't hit 1t. Finally I did hit it with dinner. When I came back to the house my wife said, Well James, how did you enjoy your dinner?" I said. "Oh, it just struck the right spot.