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Over Dead Mems Bones

xvi E live and learn, an old saw says. But
wv mightier truth still is that we die and
learn. ~
The human race is driven by a sort Of di-
vine urge to climb higher and higher And al
ways its upward trend is over dead men s
bones But fortunately for us all another di-
vine touch the human has is his willingness to
add his bones to the pile so those who come
after can reach mite beyond.
Which is about half of what we have to
say Of the Shenandoah verdict just handed
down by the court of inquiry.
1t is intfmated that dirigibles of the future
may be built little differently from the Shen-
andoah. The report also observes that per-
haps it was unwise to reduce the number of
automatic valves in the big airship. However,
when the Shenandoah was built she was con-
sidered the last word in the dirigible art; and
those who cut down the number Of her valves
thought, of course, they were doing the right
thing. If we know better today, the knowledge
is our because Commander Lansdowne and
thirteen other gallant officers and men paid for
this knowledge with their lives
The disaster, the report says, 'is part of
the price that must inevitably be paid in the
development of any new and hazardous art. ("
And so it is. But we must not take such TRACE
dies too much for granted, inevitable though
they certainly are. We must learn something
from each Of them else the lives sacrificed will
have been lost in vain.
In other words if death is the price we
must pay for progress, let us make sure we
get what we pay for.
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The Postmastership

rs 1ALPH E. UPDIKE Congressman from
IL Indianapolis, called on President Cool
idge Saturday and laid before him his objec7
tions to the reappointment Of Robert Fl. Bry-
son as Indianapolis postmaster. President
Coolidge Monday sent the name Of Robert H.
Bryson to the Senate as his choice for postmas
ter Of Indianapolis
Further comment is more or less unneces-
sary. It should be said in passing, however,
that Bryson has made a good record as post
master His reappointment is deserved and the
Senate undoubtedly will approve it.
Updike is seeking reelection to Congress,
standing firmly on his record" His record
thus far consists principally of his unsuccess7
full opposition to Bryson
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In lesson No. 8, explained by
Miss Mildred Melrose, the original
Miss Personality, and illustrated
by her In the photograph afovc,
she is getting ready to close the
knees together step.
The hands In this movement
should be held away from tho body,
elbows slightly extended upward
and fingers pointing downward in
as awkward a position as possible.
Miss Melrose, who is the stage
attraction at the Circle Theater
this week, is being presented by
Managing Director Ace Berry
in a stage presentation entitled
"Struttin' ThJtCharleston."
In addition to the presentation
the Circle is also introducing a
Charleston Contest with a large
number Of contestants, who are
participating daily for the privilege
of winning the valuable cash prizes
being offered, while in addition the
winner OF the first prize will be
sent to Chicago, with all expenses
paid to join in the National Charles
ton Contest which will take place
at the Trianon Ball Room during
the latter part Of February.
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Ford in Indiana

FRI HE Ford Motor Company has just bought
| 1,40C acres in Lake County for the es-
adjustment of flying field and hm9e ware
house. The plan, according to an announce
ment accompanying the purchase, is to trans
port Ford parts in airplanes to the Lake
County warehouse for distribution to assembly
plants, including the plant at Indianapolis
When Ford goes about development, he
does it in big way For instance, it is re-
ported that 10000 persons eventually will be
employed in the Lake County distribution
plant. This will mark the first use of the air
plane in this country on so large a scale.
Incidentally, the Ford development in
Lake County will mean much to Indiana. The
Calumet district still is experiencing boom
and it is very healthy and permanent sort of
boom. In this connection, it probably is safe
to say that within the space of twenty years
the Lake County metropolitan district will out
strip indianapolis. Indiana may lose its char
acter as an agricultural State with two large
urban centers. When Ford gets busy anc
where Gary already is busy there is likely to be
no end to the development.
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Time to Repeal 1t

II l1 way. ''S' ! -~' : : -
The campaign committee shook down the
manufacturer for favorable tariff rate on
what he manufactured Then the campaign
committee shook him down for another contri-
button. Then he shook down the statesmen for
q more favorable rate. Then the committee
sncok-and so on and on
The public paid the bill in tariff protected
prices
Progressives in Congress, after long bat
tie, brought the United States tariff commits
sion into being. 1t was to be a non-political
fact-inding body 1t was to furnish informa-
ton that would enable Congress to check up
the claims of the manufacturer. 1t was to be
scientific. It's first chairman was DIR. F. w.
Taussig of Harvard University
For some years the commission served
good purpose. True, Congress frequently pre-
ferred to rely on the views Of the campaign
contributor rather than the information of the
tariff commission, but the commission was
there to be used by any Congress that was
thinking of something other than campaign
contributions.
Then came the flexible tariff law. 1t en-
abled the President-to call on the tariff COM
mission for information between sessions Of
Congress and, based on such information, to
raise or lower tariff schedules. Meantime,
with the years, the commission gradually
ceased to be body of non-political experts,
becoming filed instead with representatives
Of protected industries. It's reports to the
President now arc in line with the wishes of
the protected manufacturers.
With this flexible provision in operation
tarif-making is back where it started before
the birth of the tariff commission. The remedy
that seems to be indicated is the repeal of the
flexible tariff provision.
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The
SAFETY
VALVE
1t Blows When the Pressure LIS
Toe Great.
BY The Stoker--

The StOker
We saw the "Song of the Flame"
in its tryout in Washington, D. c..
and liked it. 1t is a rich mixture
Of colorful spectacle, choral music
and musical comedy plot. Its theme
and inspiration are Russian. Its
nominal star is Tessa Kosta, but we
would pay the admission price to
see Ula Sharon do six steps. She
is exquisite. Arthur Hammerstein
presents-and he presents extrava-
gantly.
The writer once had train visit
with the late Frank Munsey. AS is
the case often with great men, at
least it has been the Stokers expert
ence, the visit consisted mostly In
listening. What stands out In our
memory at the moment is this.
I 'Stoker," said Munsey at the end
Of the first hour, 1.-The difference be-
tween you and me is that, when I
think thing ! do It. You think
just as man ythings as do but you
don't do them To which we hum.
bly, gave silent assentN We believe
that was the method V education
also III Do-The-Boys HalL
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uptown and few other little triiies.
And the terrible part of this bust
ness is that the women are applaud
ing the idea. Am just telling you
that Ethel Davis, one of those few
great artists in individual songs, is
back in the city. This time at B.
T.. Keith's. She Is a positive delight,
and it lisa a pleasure to see this fun
woman of song register with so
much ease. Her material has class
appeal because she is an individual
artist, but she is able now to win
the entire audience. Not to be
missed by those who enjoy rare art
istry in song and fun.
1 have written about Long Tack
Sam many. many times. AS an en-
tertainer, he stands at the head Of
his class. He has a wonderful COM
pany of Orientals with him. Here
you fine art and showmanship an
mixed UP with genuine entertaining
ability. He will prove genuine
sensation before the week is over
Senator Murphy is back, grating
about politics and everything he
cares to think about. Another
clever individual entertainer who
wins with remarkable ease.
Am refusing to let you in on the
great fun dished out by Glenn and
Richards and many others in 1.-The
Test" Everything in this act isn't
what it seems. A mighty fine
surprise.
VIII and Gladys Ahren again pre-
sent their quiet brand of comedy
and polite hoofing. Carl Nixon and
Gussie Sans again appear as "As-
sorted Chocolates"
Johnson and Baker are hat throw,
ers. The movie is Charley Chase in
"His Wooden Wedding"
At Keith's all week.
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LAWYERS AND
AND APPEALS

ri ACH t. DUNCAN, clerk Of
the Indiana Supreme Court,
told Bar Association
gathering at Crawfordsvillel the
other day that lawyers could halt
crime if they would refuse to ap-
peal cases in which they realized
their clients guilt.
zone Of the reasons for the enor-
nous increase in crime" he de-
clared, 'is the tremendous jump in
the number of criminal cases APP
pealed. Since 1918 there has been
an increase Nef 700 per cent in the
number of criminal cases appealed
In Indiana. More than 800 such
cases are now pending before the
Supreme Court
There's food for thought.
Leading legal lights and bar. as
sociations frequently and audibly
view with alarm the growing dis
respect for law in this country.
increase in crime, congestion Of
our courts and slowness of judi
clti IildCHlItIJ. HCy SdSCiy us
cuss remedies for the pressing ills
of our judicial administration.
The principal reason our courts
are falling to function satisfac-
toriiy and impartially is due to the
lawyers themselves.
Who believes that there were
seven times as many cases in
which miscarriages OF justice or
judicial errors justified appeal to
the Supreme Court in 1925 as in
1913? If so Indiana judges and
juries must have suddenly become
incompetent.
The conclusion is obvious. Law
yers are more and more carrying
criminal cases TO the higher courts
on gauzy technicalitiesi and fiimsy
pretexts. in the hope Of delaying
If not frustrating justice. There's
something for bar associations to
reform.
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

Romance published by Bobbs-M er
riH Of this city.
/ You will recall that told you re-
Gently about this literary tramp"
who has bummed his way all over
he world, hunting beauty and ro-
nance. He was in Indianapolis re-
Gently.
The Right Sort
I found this twenty five-year-ofd
tramp" Gn this case literary
genius) most delightful individual.
You probably will never meet him
personally, but you have the feeling
that you know him when you read,
THE Royal Road to Romance"
He takes you over the world, not
in the style Of a tourist, but just
as you would want to travel il you
had the chance. -
And what a glorious adventure
this chap has had. He writes just
as he talks. He is genuine. He
gives you romance and beauty with
out rubbing it in.
Halliburton has made mental
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haf-breed. This woman is won
der. She is marvellous in the Totem
Tom Tom" number. She has that
dramatic something, dancing inteln-
gence 1 call it. that few dancers
possess. This she uses to the last
degree in every dance number.
Again, she is the best Of the Wandas.
have always liked Charley
Sylber meaning after he got into
the part several seasons ago. as
Hardboiled Herman as well as I did
Skeets Gallagher. And that is say.
ing several tons Of praise.
Thomas Conkey is the Jim
Kenyon. He has the looks and a
dramatic poise which meets all de-
mands. Voice, satisfactory. Betty
Byron as Lady Jane is one OF the
,outest little bodies on the stage. She
is a cute little trick and mighty
gifted. Her work with Sylber is i'm.
nense. A joy she is.
could rave on and on. The pro-
duction is up to the highest stand
ard. Lights, costumes. chorus, both
male and female, and everything
that goes to make "Rose-Marie'' tho
great success that 1t has been from
the start.
And 1 repeat again-you are SEQ
ing the best and most satisfactory
presentation of "Rose- Marie" at Eng
lish's this week that indianapolis
has ever witnessed.
The demand for seats is so heavy
that the Wednesday and Saturday
matinees are completely sold out. So
a special matinee will be given
Friday.
And / make this gentle request
Please don't give me telephone
call and ask me to 'get good seats
for you. This thing is starting
already. If 1t keeps on am going
in hiding. Have a heart. Stand in
line yourself and get your own
seats A critic can't get front row
seats when there "ain't" any.
See ''Rose-Marie.
At English's all week.
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that a modern jazz orchestra viii
rondescend enough to place that
classic instrument. the harp, in their.
midst, but the Seven Brown Girls, 4
realizing the time-proven worth OF
this instrument. have used II toSthe
fullness Of it's possibilities. The Or
chestra itself Is composed of seven
girls playing the <reguler inHtru-
ment8 of dance orchestra and the
harp. Featured are violin, saxo-
phone and harp solos.
One would naturally expect two
dyedin-the-wool Chinese boys to
sing with somewhat OF an accent.
Don, Sang and All Chung have an
accent, all right, but II could have
been acquired In one place only,
New York. These two oriental har-
monists give a fine account Of them
selves In a program consisting of
the latest OF the popular sonlTs and
some Chinese melodies tina. enc
would suppose popular in their own
country. Both possess good singing
voices. As feature this couple give
an impersonation OF the famous Har-
ny Lauder and the equally famous
bagpipes OF Scotland
Delano Dell. in a perfectly sincere
manner, let's the audience in on a
secret. In his matter OF fact way
ne calmly announces that I'm
nuts" And then he begins a line
Of chatter that gets the laughs. Re
Tying solely on what he says. he
gets his stuff over In such a way
that It is worth a laugh almost ev,
cry time he opens his mouth.
Franklin and Vincent, the man at
the plano and the woman singing.
get off some hot little songs and
some good comedy. Their feature
is little song that seemingly has
no end, the verses coming one righil
after another.
Dunbar and Turner offer some
slapstick comedy and eccentric dane.
ing.
The Elry Sisters open the bill with
a new way of dancing the Charles.
ton; they do 1t on roller skates.
AS each number they portray needs
a change of costume they get around
the time question very nicely by
changing on the stage.
Three Weber Girls close the show
with some harmony and a surprise
finish of tumbling and balancing.
II J. j.
Other theaters today offer: blue
boards Seven Wives" at the Circle:
Madam Behave" at the Colonial;
little Annie Rooney, at the Ohio:
THE Vanishing American" at tho.
Apollo; burleSque at the Broadway.
and THE Arizona Sweepstakes" at
the Isis.
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LOCAL TAX
|LEVIES

T~1HE Indiana State tax com
I | mission, during the past
year, saved Hoosier tax
payers $4,000. 900 by reductions it
ordered in local tax slevies and
bond issues appealed 70 the COM
mission -for review. according to
figures recently compiled.
Wild and prolonged cheers from
harried John Citizenl But really
did-the commission save the tax
payers $4,000 900 or anywhere near
that sum?
Usually a local tax levy arbi-
trarily cut one year must be cor
resnCfdingiy increased the next.
The ultimate effect on property
owner is no actual saving; it mere
ly pestpones his killing.
Last year the all-knowing tax
commission arbitrarily cut 31k
cents off the Indianapolis school
levy. Nitally necessary items in
the budget veie thereby sacrificed.
This year the school levy Is 171a
cents higher to make up for the
lost ground.
What did the State tax commits
sion save the Indianapolis tax
payer in that case?
Possibly the review of local
levies and bond issues by State
authorities may accomplish some
good. and restrain. extravaganza Of
local governments However, the
people Of a locality are as capable
of determining how much they
should spend for local government
purposes as three austere digni-
taries in the Statehouse.
The system Of giving a State
board control over local tax levies
is just another example of grow
ing paternalism in government
the logical result OF the theory
that the citizen needs a guardian
for his protection.
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BY walter d. Hickman

We all know that the White House
has kitchen but we don't expect
the President to entertain guests In
his kitchen.
OF course when it, is announced
that the President OF Andorra en-
tertained Richard Halliburton, a
Yankee from Memphis, Tenn, in the
Kitchen of the White House, we do
not become so excited.
Andorra is the hermit republic
existing in the Pyrenees. 1t is
neither French nor Spanish. 1t
boasts of only 5000 people scattered
over ITS square miles.
AS Halliburton tells you in 1.-THE
Royal Road To Romance, ~ found
that this doll democracy was per-
haps the one spot left in Europe I'M
contaminated by the vacation flood
Of sightseers, for the reason that,
with the exception of the capital city
which communicates with the out
side world by means OF a sixty-mile
dirt road, the entire country is in
accessible to sure-footed man or
mule.
Halliburton in discovering this
strange republic, says; For years l
had not been sure whether the
vaguely familiar word Andorra
meant fish or fruit, until one
day ran across it by accident on
the map, and found it was nothing
edible, but an independent republic
Of 5000 people and IT'S square miles,
with a chief executive, a capitol
building, a White House, apd Con-
gFess, all lost for ten hundred years
in the tops Of the Pyrenees."
The White House
was tremendously interested in
ialliburton's recital of how he came
to know the President Our friend
Halliburton, on reaching this
strange country learned that the
President received visitors at the
executive mansion" that night un-
less he was spending the evening at
cafe.
So Halliburton found the president
at a cafe was personally conducted
to the White House and was taken
into the kitchen before a giant fire
place. There a mother cat and her
five kittens lay curled close to the
glowing Goals. Halliburton recites,
Am just trying to get you inter
ested in Halliburton's first book. his
literary baby. "ThA Royal Road to
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A
Wonnan's
Viewpoint
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Ct MOTHER letter from a hurt
| Al Bachelor. He says, 1--WE do
IL not think we are Sinking
our duty by not marrying. and
believe that statistics will show that
we are fairly liberal to charity funds.
It's true we have a little fun now
and then, but don't you think we are
entitled to our share?"
Certainly, Sir, certainly. But Just
exactly what is this fun that you
bachelors talk about having? Is 1t
the sort of fun that you would
want your spinster sister to have?
Oh, mercy, no. What a foolish ques-
ton.
For 1t is upon this very question
Of fun" that society in general and
bachelors in particular, are so woe
fully unfair. Suppose a. man does
not care to saddle himself with a
wife, does that mean that he forever
walks in the straight and narrow
path of virtue? Does it prevent
him from taking a sweetheart with
out the benefit OF clergy?" Absolute
ly not.
Suppose, on the other hand, that
his spinster sister, the intelligent
professional girl, comes to tie same
conclusion and does not wish to
relinquish her career for a husband,
can she, feelin gthe need Of compan-
ionship and love, go and do like
wise? You all know the answer to
that.
And her bachelor brother would
be one of the first to cry aloud in
righteous wrath against her. Con-
fronted with the question Of just
common decent justice about the
thing, he would be the first to give
that age-old masculine retort to such
a query, That's different"
Sure, it's always different with
men and women when it comes to
morality. and men, with all their
logical brains. and all their high
class intelligence, and all their SUI
perior mental abilities, are still
never able to see the sharp injustice
of their point Of view concerning the
sexes. Their fine reasoning powers
are never able to encompass the
breadth of this problem.
They claim in many instances,
these unmarried men, that they do
not care to wed because the women
Of the present age are too wild, that
immortality Is growing among girls.
And having such a record as their
sex has accumulated throughout the
centuries, having. in only the rarest
of instances been able themselves to
preserve a clean record of morals,
one wonders how they dare bring
such a charge.
For one thing IS quite certain, in
spite of the pitiful plant of the
present-day bachelor, and that is,
though the search may be arduous
and the quest long. It viii always be
possible for him toNfind woman ap-
proximately as good as he is to
=
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WE NOW HAVE THE BEST
"IOSE-NIARIE" PRODUCTION

l am yelling this from the house
tops-''Rose Marie" is. now being
presented much better than when
presented at the Murat last season.
This is saying a 'mouthful' but
it is true. / have seen five different
companies do Rose Marie"
The company now at English's is
by far the best and I am not forget
full that the orig
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QUICKER THAN
A WINK

m. FRANCIS. JENKINS. for
mer Hoosier, scientist and
S inventor, famed for his in
ventions in the moving picture
and radio field. has perfected a ma
chine that win take $500 pho
: tographs a second.
BY means of the device engineers
and scientists will be able to study
the fight and impact Of proJectiles
and other fast moving objects.
1t takes about one-sixteenth of
a second for a visual image to inn
press itself on the human eye. DIR.
Jenkins camera is 200 times faster
than the human eye; It photographs
quicker than wink.
This marvel/of photography is
possible within less than hundred
years from the time Louis Daguerre
worked out his slow and cumber-
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President of Andorra Entertains in His Kitchen

travel great pleasure. say frank
ly that I received my greatest travel
kick" out Of his first book
seemed to experience the same
things that he did. And that is the
test of great writing.
And another great thing-he gives
you the world as it exists today and
in another second you go back to
the days of the great poets. the
dreamers, the fighters and all the
others. You haunt the places they
visited
Don't let the year pass until you
meet the president of Andorra in
the kitchen of the White House.
Halliburton's first literary child
is a delight.
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Stage Verdict

English's-"Rose Marie" Is
being presented in the finest
possible manner. Never before
has 1t been so well given mere.
Lyric-"Stateroom 49," q
sketch featuring McLain Gates
and Genevieve Lee, Is a laugh
from start to finish, An anus
ing story about newlyweds.
Palace--Jack Blglow's eight
musical misses offer some fine
melodies and excellent solos. In
GLIDING the violin, trumpet and
xylophone,
Keith's-Ethel Davis now has
complete song-comedy tri-
umph. Long Tack Sam and
company repeat their great sue
cess. 1LA