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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
CONCERNING SOME CONGRESS.
MEN
MEN
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The other day candidate for Congress was orat-
ing about the bankers and what detfment they work
to the farmers. He commiserated length upon the
wrongs that the agricutursts suffer from the srers
81 Probably a number of his audience wondered
whether it possible for any banker to work more
havoc to the farmer than the average CONGRESSMAN
does
The time has certainly arrived in the affairs of
this Nation when the blatant politician should be
turned down at the polls The fellow who yelIs the
oudest about the wrongs which his constituents suffer
at the hands of the capitalstic class often the guy
who be bought out easiest by money interests
Certainly Congress has done very little for the
farmer far nothing least candidates to bra
about And farmers have more speeches made to and
about them, and the least done for them, than any
other class of citizens.
However, the farmer in most communities is his
own worst political enemy He is about the first man
to fall for the demagogue and the last voter to see
through the tricks of the political shyster He still
believes everything candidate tells him and has utter
faith in the loudest talk OF the most pompous liar.
When farmers get sense enough to discount all
this vocal sympathy at campaign time, about 90 per
cent and vote accordingly, they will have more
to help themselves than all the Congressman who have
ever sat and slept in the Capitol halls.
OF course, the agricultural condition is serious
one and no man is wise enough of himself to i'm
1t. But talk gets nowhere and solves no prob
lens. And when has listened for twenty years to
the mouthings of who office in an agricul-
tural community and who have neither the influence
nor the mentality to contribute iota better
cusion that the enemy farmer ever had is the
awmaker. The congressional candidate who vels
about the farmer being the backbone of the Nation
certainly acts upon the theory when he gets to Wash
For the backbone Is obliged stand up of itself
and hold UP all the rest Of the body polite.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
THAT GOOD JOB

The lob of treasurer of Marion County still
mains about the best political job in the Nation.
In salary it somewhat exceeds that of President.
In it's duties it remains largely a matter OF book
keeping.
The people never really intended to let any Off
cial draw hundred thousand dollars year for this
particular work.
No sane reasonable person believes that the
work is worth anything like this sum.
Yet the man who get this job from the
political bosses does get about that much money
through the operation of the Barrett law.
That law governs the handling of funds paid by
property owners on special assessments for improve
ments
Because of a lack of defniteness in terms, the
county treasurers have been taking the interest on
these funds and putting it into their own pockets
That interest is what makes the job very at
tractive. 1t is the basis of fortune for the treas
The city attorney of indianapolis does not be-
eve that it is the law but his efforts to get this in
terest for resulted thus far only in
decision that the interest does not belong to the
whole city and does mot belong, probably, to the
treasurer.
Apparently that interest belongs to no one But
the treasurer gets it. Past treasurers have it.
1t might belong to the contractors who did the
work, but that is hardly fair, for these men got
all they earned In the payments OF the full sum or
their contracts,
1t might belong to the individual taxpayers
whose money earns the interest but every taxpayer
would have to bring lawsuit to get his share and
probably have to spend considerable money to find
out-much more than the trial is worth.
So under the present rulings and present situa-
ton. the Job Of county treasurer continues to be
very fine goal for an aspiring politician.
It is one which pays WELL very we'll indeed. It
Is one to which only the closest intimates of the
bosses aspire, only those who enough
to tho throne to whisper to the monarchs.
One thing Is certain. The next Legislature
should make the law very definite. It should put the
interest these special funds into the city
ury It should make 1t impossible for any man to
get something he does not and can not in good
conscience claim his because of work or contr-
button to the public good.
A hundred thousand dollars a year for keeping
bank account and doing little bookkeeping is
trife high
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refuse them. But only those Of the 500 applicants
with equipment ready get them.
AS for the $40 now broadcasting from pgmies
to ogres, most have gentlemen's7 agreement to
'be good" to stick to their own wavelengths and
give the fan what he wants to hear.
1t all boils itself down to the fan and his desires
It's he who makes station and if he doesn't the sta
tion finds it out ana dies. No law is needed.
It's matter of natural selection. as Darwin would
have put it. ss
Are those squeals still on the air? Let's turn
the dial little and tune in something good.
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RADIO RULINGS

What's this we're tuning in? Squeals, scraping
rasping ~
It's a decision Of the Department OF Justice that
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover has no control over
broadcastng any other form of radio unless it's
specified by law
Sounds terrible. Look at all those stations now
on the air, trying to find good wavelength on
which to broadcast their circuses to the world See
all those applicants 500 of them, waiting for
chance horn in Watch all those ogres raise their
power to devour the little stations.
All of them unleashed. All Of them wild for the
humble fans attention
But it's not bad as it looks.
There's law still in effect, the old law OF 1912.
BY that Mr.. Hoover still has the power to Issue
licenses for broadcastng, although he can't very well
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When he returns to his home in.
stead of Offering as an excuse the
bushes trip gag he poses as the
general of the Mexican army. The
true general happens 10 be in his
house at that time and complications
ensue. Ann Greene is the wife whose
cross fire questions make matters
worse for the happy-go-luclSy fellow.
other theaters offer today: THE
Old Soak" at Keiths; "The Four
Flusher," at English's; Mildred
Andre at the Palace; Frank Wilson
at the Lyric: THE Savage" at the
Circle; ooh! What A Nurse" at the
Ohio: 1.-THE Far Cry" at the Up.
town; "Lovey Mary" at the Apollo;
THE Gilded Butterfly" at the
Colonial. and THE Man In The Sad.
de-" at the Isis.
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Civilized Veneer

Having noted how this refined
English lady corId pass most Of hel
life In safety among the wild tribes
men of Mesopotamia, let us jumr
half across the world to that grew
some find OF a girls disnembered
body which occurred in Boston yes
terday.
Have we learned so much, or adj
vanced so far, after ALL or is it true
that our. boosted civilization is but
veneer over the same old brutal
instincts, ready to crackle and give
way at the pressure Of pent-up emo
ton?
Neither the Bastile. nor Bagdad
are so far away as we would like to
think.
The savage can still show us how
to be chivalrous on occasion, while
the civilized man can show us how
to be savage.
At best. these anniversaries are
but reminders that we still have
work to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
Mary Lou Is Cute Little Musical
Person From Our Own Good City
By walter ID. Hickman

Musical daughters are supposed to
be born on Broadway. but there is
musical germ in this city.
There is q musical father in Indi-
annapolis. His name is Russell Rob
tnson.
You may start his melody in your
own home by getting this Bruins,
wick record, MARY Lou" The an
pouncement says that "Lyman-Rob-
inson" is responsible for it.
And then you notice that Abe Ly-
mans California Orchestra is respon-
sible for bringing to life the visible
melody of the composers.
MARY Lou" is swinging melody
of delightful purpose, one of those
quiet and soothing moonlight things
which causes one to understand.
The vocal warbling is done by
Charles Haley. But the lyric and
the melody both are present. The
combination is the same old result
one or those restful, melodious
things.
And that spells soothing success
to you and Hick. And have seen
composers when they are not com.
posing. When they are not com
posing" they are always at a piano.
And nothing else but Just that.
And that is Russell Robinson. He
Is mentally always at the piano.
That's the language he knows.
That's the language he talks. I
have had him in New York. 1 have
had him by letter. I have had him
at the piano in Indianapolis. He is
always Russell Robinson.
Get this Brunswick combination
of quiet and sincere. melody, MARY
Lou" On the other side you will
find do You Believe in Dreams?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
Tracy
France Observes BastilIe
Day by Staying on the
Front Pages,
BY NJ. E. Tracy
This day belongs to France.

This day belongs to France.
1t marks the 18th anniversary of
her blood covenant with Republican.
ism.
So long as history is written. the
eyes of youth will shine as they fall
on the crimson page that tells how
Paris mob stormed the bastile, and
they will not look away until they
have drunk in the last detail of the
five succeeding years.
1t was one Of those glorious mo-
ments in humanity's career when an
excess of idealism seems to excuse
the grossest passions, and when even
the eruptive Latin temperament
could not attain such extremes of
fury as to go unforgiven.
One would like to pause and specu-
late on the grand upheaval, with its
strange admixture of high preach
ment and low practice. its reign of
terror that could order massacres
one moment and devise a new sys-
tenn of weights and measures the
next, but the present calls for no.
tive more insistently. if not more
deservedly than the past.
And France is right on deck to
claim front page position through.
out the world, running true to form
in her lovely, erratic way.
The Spanish dictator is Kissed by
the same old type of Partisan radi-
cal, the puppet Sultan of Morocco
is cheered by the same old Imperial
listic spirit and Abd-el.Krim is sent
into exile by the same old pitiless
intelligence that once filed the dun
geons of the bastile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
Pressing Problems

Fifteen men hanged at Smyrna for
plotting to kill Mustapha Kemal,
Mussolini and Rivera shouting that
democracy has failed, Latin America
and half Of Europe sore at the
United States. Joseph Caillaux cho-
sen to save France, though he came
near being executed as traitor
these are but few of the details to
show that we still have problems
and there are mere closer home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
A Real Sheba

Gel Sitt," the Arabs called her
while Englishmen who travelled the
romantic wastes between Suez and
the Persian Mountains knew her as
Gertrude.
., Without power, she ruled as an
uncrowned queen and without
authority she changed the course Of
empires.
What caprice of inscrutible fate
sent this frail little woman, with
blue eyes, into the desert. inspiring
her to roam with the Bedouins ano
learn their dialects, when she might
have adorned a drawing room?
What peculiar quirk of the mind
enabled her to be the good adviser
of so many men and the sweetheart
of none?
Gertrude Margaret Lowethiar
Bell, daughter Of a British iror
master, educated at Oxford, equipped
by fortune. training and tempera
ment to fill the highest social posi-
tion-why did she forsake the white
woman's role and go to dwell or
/ the desert?
Let it. pass as one of those myster
les which make life interesting bu'
not without the acknowledgment
that she played most useful par
and that her death at Bagdad las
Sunday night marked the end Of {
most unique career.
| She knew the East as few mer
and no other women ever did.
Her counsel was sought by native
housewives, disgruntled sheiks
Psychologists, historians, diplomats
statesmen and military commanders
eel Sit" the woman, she was called
through Arabia, thus sharing equa
honor with Sheba's Queen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
REED DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENITALHOPE
Fiery Missouri Senator
Has Friends Among
Vets and DryS.
BY Charles P. Stewart



WASHINGTON, July .l4.-Watch
Senator James A. Reed Of Missouri.
All the signs are that he is gain
ing strength every day as Demo
cratic presidential possibility.
Among politicians still in Wash
.ington--despite the congressional re-
.tcess, they're constantly drifting out
and in, with tidings from all over the
1 Countrywide increasing frequency
of references to him, as such, is sur
prising.
Here are some Of the things one
hears in his favor:
He has a tremendous personality.
He has ability. He's an indomitable
fighter. In his homo state he has
proved himself wonderful cam
paigner and vote getter.
AL Smith has all these qualities,
but he's known somewhat too ex-
clusively as wet.
So is Gov. Albert c. Richie of
Maryland.
While Reeds wet, he stands for
numerous other policies which ought
to take some of the curse off his
wetness even in dry territory.
William G. McAdoo would be all
right for the drys but has nothing
to recommend him to any Of the
vets.
No wet could find any fault with
Reed. and, as previously remarked,
he does have certain things to rec
ommend him to some, at least OF
the drys.
Another thing, the midwest Is
clearly indicated as a good place to
pick presidential candidates from in
1928.
Reed is a mid-vyestern man. Smith
and Richie are just as far east as
they possibly could be without fall
ing into the Atlantic ocean. McAdoo
is western but the Pacific coast is
rather too far west.
80
ThereTl be talk Of Atlee Pomer-
enc If Ohio elects him to the Senate
in November. However, he may not
be reelected. Even If he is, therell
be talk also of Governor Vic DON
ahey, and, both being Ohioans, they'll
tend to nullify one another.
rthermor geographically
they're not as well situated as Reed
with reference to the corn belt.
Neither, although both have ma
tional regulations, has either one a
national reputation of Reeds proper
lions.
Reeds a progressive and pro-
gressiyeism seems to be in the at
mosphere throughout a considerable
part of the United States.
His wetness should endear him to
the big wet eastern States and to
some few western ones which show
damp tendencies.
1t will hurt him in the dry South.
but, to offset that, the South is
strongly anti.foreign, and no part
of Reeds career has more dis
tinguished him than his fight against
foreign entanglemepts.
He voted against the corn belts
pet farm relief measure, but not be-
cause he doesn't believe in farm re-
lief He simply doesn't believe in a
subsidy. The corn belt, discouraged.
appears practically to have aban-
doned the idea of a subsidy, anyway,
and to be concentrating on tariff re.
duction. Reeds for tariff reduction.
Democratic hopes are greatly
stimulated by the undoubted split in
the Republican ranks. However.
they have q split Of their own to be
closed up If they're to get any good
out OF the Republicans. II Reed
can manage It he's wizard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
$40 GUITAR IS STOLEN
Youth Charged With Burglary and
Petit Larceny.

William Murphy. II, Of 1715 Gin
Der ST., is held today on charges OF
burglary and petit larceny after de-
tectives allege he entered the barber
shop Of Frank Chamberlain, 2o41
Shelby St., July Z. and stole $40
guitar.
Buster Kennedy. 20. Negro. Of 2102
Boulevard Pl.. is charged with grand
larceny after Maurice Shaunter, 220
w. Twenty-First St., reported the
theft of $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
PHONE CALL PRoBED
Unknown Person Tells of killing
Man After Accident.

Police today were investigating a
mysterious telephone Eall an I'M
known Negro made in the garage of
Eugene McAtee. Negro, at 81 W.
Eighteenth st., late Tuesday.
According to McAtee the man
talked to a party who he called
Lillian and told her that the auto
he was driving had run over a man.
After striking the man. the Negro
said, according to McAtee's story,
that he leaped from the auto and
stabbed the man to death. Negro
who made the call had a shirt bear
ing blood stains, McAtee told police
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
GETTING A LINE ON
A PALACE EVENT

Something interesting is going to
happen at the Palace.
The Palace announces:
When Billy House. comedian. ap-
pears in his musical tabloid show
Hello Bill" at the Palace the first
half Of next week, he will be the
show. He and his company of
twenty chorus girls and six men are
taking over the vaudeville end of
the theater all next week offering
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
Everlasting Tasks

The world grows better. of course,
but not steadily and not unless peo-
pie stay with the job of making it
better.
Let a generation or a race get
lazy and it grows worse, no matter
how glorious the past from which
they sprung.
The idea that we can develop, or
even hold our own by leaning against
tombstones is not to be trusted.
EACH rising sun means another
days work, no matter how much
was done the day before, and each
evening sees many task uncom.
pleted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

their two musical comedy farces,
one for each half.
In Hello Bill" the sketch which
resembles the play, THE Man From
Mexico" House has the role OF
the husband who is sent to jail after
having been caught in a poker raid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
KNOW YOUR STATE

INDIANA maintains a sanitarium for suf-
ferers from tuberculosis at Rockville Through
an aroused public interest in the campaign
to eradicate the disease. the death rate from
tuberculosis has been reduced to less than one
third Of the figure of a generation ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
OUR OWN BROMINE

NEW YORK.-No more European
bromine need be used in this coun-
try, according to Carl r. de Long,
head of the chemical division Of the
United States tariff commission.
Bromine. necessary in medicine and
many arts. is obtained from the
ocean. Treatment of about 1900 gal
Ions of sea water is necessary for
one pound of bromine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

Bootlegging is a dangerous business It leads
man to stealing autos. And that's against the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
SCOTS WILLING

GLASGOW. - The people from
Scotland are so anxious to come to
America because Of the high wages
that there is a waiting list Of $4,000
which will take some two years to
exhaust under the quota law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14
GASOLINE AND GUMPTIoN

The University Of Illinois is the latest of the
growing list Of schools to forbid the ownership of
automobiles by students.
The university authorities claim use of automo-
bes results in less study, moral delinquency traffic
congestion the campus accidents and general
s5wastea Of, time.s s~
This is probably all true, but It doesn't make
a against the use of automobiles by college
students.
The big lob OF the American colleges and uni
versities is to teach boys and girls to live in the
kind of world we have-not the kind of world we
ought to have may have some day. but the world
"as u.s."
To try and protect them from the realities Of
modern life by restricting their use of modern ma
chinery smacks of the middle ages
1t may ease the problems of college deans dis
tracted by jazz and gasoline but 1t lodges the prin-
cpal job that the colleges and universities have be-
fore them-the teaching Of people to live in a real
world. not clustered and restricted one
Women are so silly. Kick up almost as much
racket over bridge prize as man does over a. golf
cup.
Imagine the plight of nervous man who got
caught in a traffic jam without any horn to honk.
Bootlegging Is a dangerous business It leads a
to stealing autos And that's against the law.
Bet the foreign papers carry standing heads,
"Today's Cabinet"
The most expensive thing about home is care.
lessness.
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Bar rsS 8 aasgq SsS lorR m 4y wS%sG3SaSe
tt or reply 90 w. Me5d2icai. icsai and mSHtSl
advice cannot be given nor can extenaed
Questions win receive a personal reply.
Qnagned REQUESTS cannot be Answered.
All letters are conhdenual-Editor.
How Is orange marTnalade made?
Select sour. smooth-sikinnod
oranges. Weigh them and allow
three-quarters OF their weight In
cut sugar. Remove peel from
oranges in quarters. Cook peel un-
til soft in enough boiling water 70
cover; drain and remove white part
from peel by scraping II with a
spoon. Cut thin yellow rlnd IN
strips, using a pair OF scissors. Then
divide oranges In sections, removing
seeds and tough part Of skin. Put
into a kettle and heat TO a boiling
point. adding sugar gradually. and
cook slowly one hour: add rind and
cook one hour. Pour into glasses.
A real bitter taste is given TO orange
marmalade II one grapefruit Is add.
ed to each dozen oranges.
What Is the best way to wash
black lace?
Make suds Of CASTLE OF other hard
white soap and boiling water. and
add a tablespoon OF oxgall to set
the color Allow this TO cool until
It viii bear the hand and then i'm.
merse the lace and cleanse by
squeezing gently with the fingers.
Rinse in two or more cold waters.
adding salt to the first water and
bluing 10 the last, Lay over black
cambria and iron with a warm ironkI
Describe the shield Of the United
States OF American
II is the shape of a shield and has
thirteen vertical stripes. seven white
and six red, with blue chief with.
out stars.
What Is the proper way 20 eat
corn on the cob?
II should be held in the fingers
at each end. A more satisfactory
way is to use corn holders that may
be purchased at house furnishing.
stores.
What Is the etiquette with respect
to using a napl1inf
Lay II across the lap, folded in
half. When the meal Is concluded
the napkin is laid on the table as
It was used. II is never folded. II,
however, one Is a house guest. a
clean napkin should not be expected
at every meal, and the napkin Is
neatly folded and put beside the
plate.
What is the bst way to IdII q
tree?
Cut with an AK a deep girdio
around the trunk. about 10 inches
deep. The tree will soon die.
Where was Sherwood Forest I'm
England? Does II still exist?
The ancient forest was a stretch
of hilly country in the west OF Not.
tinghamshire, Englad. between Not.
tingham and Worksop. extending
about % miles from north 10 south
and 6 to 8 miles from east TO west.
II is now divided into estates and
includes in part the ancient bounds
OF the towns OF Mansfield and al
number Of villages. II does not be-
long to one owner. II Is almost
wholly denuded and divided into
gentlemen's seats, parks and farms
Who was Secretary Of War In
LincoIn's cabinet during the Civil
War?
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Bet the foreign papers carry standing heads
"Today's Cabinet"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

Imagine the plight Of nervous man who got
caught in traffic jam without any horn to honk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

The most expensive thing about home is care
lessness
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-14

Women are so silly. Kick up almost as much
racket over bridge prize as man does over golf
cup.