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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
BARRETT LAW
FUNDS

The city council. ut it's last meet
ing, deadlocked over tho resolution
introduced by Edward B. Raub,
Democrat, calling for an investiga-
ton OF disposition Of interest de-
rived from Barrett law funds. It
has been the custom of our coun-
ty treasurers to pocket that inter
est-amounting to $4,000 or so a
year.
On the resolution ordering an
investigation the council split, four
and four, two Republicans voting
for the resolution. One OF them
explained alphabetically: Regard
less of the fact that the resolution
was introduced by a Democratic
member, 1 believe 1t is q merito-
rious measure deserving favorale
consideration"
No apology was necessary. The
question of the disposal Of the In
terest on Barrett law funds has
no political complexion. 1t Is
flolltlcI iANSPAbAASoAA AAOA S~--O~-
1t is a question Of law.
So far the agitation about the
interest on these special funds in
the custody of the treasurer. par
ticularly the uproar on the sub
iect during political campaigns
has been futile, merely lot of eN-
cited words. If the law Is ambig-
uous as to the disposition of the
money, why blame the treasurer
for taking advantage Of the fact
and pocketing the interest?
Most of us would do the same
IL we were In the county treas
urer's place.
What rs needed is an investiga-
ton and settlement once for all OF
the question whether the treasurer
is entitled to keep the interest, or
whether such sums revert to the
public treasury. If the interest Is
a proper perquisite Of the treas
urers office, the public should
know it. And amend such a half
baked law.
Certainly no county treasurer
actually earns the $4,000 a year
that he receives in interest on
Barrett law funds. That's a movie
queens income for political snap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
STREET WIDENING
PROJECTS

The board Of works plans, ac-
cording to announcement. to take
UP the project of widening Penn
sylvania ST., between Ohio and
st. Clair SITS. 1t is planned to
add from five to eight feet to the
paving on each side.
Indianapolis certainly should I'M
dertake some street widening
projects without delay. 1t will
have to be done eventually and
never can be done at less eX-
pense than now.
From the center Of the city
there is only one wide street ex-
tending east and west. That IS
Washington st. Originally de-
signed to carry the traffic of
nation. that thoroughfare is now
SD cluttered up with street cars
automobiles, profanity and chuck
holes that for traffic 1t is more
varicose vein than an artery.
On the north side Meridian Is
a noble thoroughfare throughout
some Of it's career, but as 1t nears
the downtown section it shrivels
to a narrow street, inadequate for
present traffic demands. In other
sections Of the city there are no
through streets leading to the
heart Of the city that are now
sufficiently wide to carry the
traffic.
What will be the situation
twenty or thirty years hence II
important main thoroughfares
aren't widened and traffic con-
tinues to grow more dense?
The plan commission after long
study adopted a major thorough
fare system, beautiful on paper
but that's where it is, on paper.
The quicker some of the proposed
widening projects are started, the
better. Otherwise, Indianapolis
will awake some fine morning to
find that street traffic is trying to
go two deep on some thorough
fares, which will be unsatisfactory.
At least, for the ground-foor
flivvers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
PROTECTING
OUR MORALS

II. L. Mencken, editor OF the
American Mercury, was arrested
in Boston recently for selling cop
les Of the April number Of the
magazine on Boston Common.
Massachusetts barred sale Of the
April Mercury in the State because
it contained story indecent
and unfit for publication"
How the sacred cod atop the
Massachusetts capitol must have
shivered when right beneath his
gills that awful magazine was sold
to corrupt the delicate morals of
Massachusetts,.
Apparently Indiana is more
careless of public morals. Here
the April number of tn" Mercury
came and went unsurpassed.
And the commonwealth stln lives.
In this benighted section Of the
Middle West the only echo of the
Massachusetts action was an in
creased sale Of the fearsome maya
zine.
Personally we don't know
whether there is a story in the
April number that will damage
our morals. We tried a half-dozen
news stands and copies of the
April Mercury were all sold. But
we're bound to corrupt our morals
even if we have to go to the Pub
lie library to read the magazine.
Doubtless there is a host Of vul-
gar publications in circulation,
fetid "Hot Stories" that pander
TO sensuality and vulgarity. The
world would be better off without
them.
But some of the efforts of thin
skinned puritans to protect public
morals are ridiculous. Recently a
bright customs officer wouldn't
permit a set Of books by Ovid, an
old and very dead Roman author
whose works are read by every
Latin student, to enter the coun-
try because they were obscene
literature" Then the incident Of
Lady Cathcart and her moral tur-
pitude. Now the suppression of the
American Mercury. Our morals
must be very tender to need so
much protection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
R MERT IN INDIANA S y S1'Io ON
WATER FROM
THE HOLY LAND

Fifteen children and eight adults
were baptized in an Indianapolis
church Easter with water from the
River Jordan, boiled and bottled
in Jerusalem, which the pastor
brought back last summer from
a tour Of the Holy Land.
Perhaps the use of water from
the Jordan added something TO the
baptismal ceremony. Sentiment
and imagination may endow that
water with special virtues and sac
erdotal significance.
We wonder, though, If baptism
with water lugged from Palestine
is likely to be more efficacious
than a like ceremony with fluid
furnished by the Indianapolis Wa
ter Company or bottled by Tom
Taggart at French Lick.
Water is constantly moving over
the surface of the earth. Rivers,
winds. evaporation and condensa-
ton are forever mixing the wa
tiers from various sources and
transporting them hither and yon
to be deposited elsewhere.
The waters that Tapped the
shores of Galilee and sparkled in
the Jordan in Jesus time may be
falling as rain in Indianapolis to-
day. Likewise some Of the water
now gurgling over the tin cans
in Pleasant Run may have fioated
Noah's ark. Quite likely. The
water OF Pleasant Run gives the
impression of extreme age and de-
creptitude. 1t might have known
Noah but It never knew a bath.
So with the boiled and bottled
water the pastor brought back
from Palestine. 1t had wandered
over the earth before falling into
the Jordan a few days or weeks
before he got it.
1t wasn't that particular bottle
of water that made the River Jor-
dan important. It was what took
place along the banks Of that
stream nineteen hundred years
ago. Water may come and go. but
the teachings Of the Galllean are
imperishable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07

needed If we are to have finer, human
development of our nation.
"The ideal OF true home life is the detached
house with at least some space around it. We can
not expect the finest flower of family life from
tenements from flats A single
family house which a family owns is much more
apt to embody our IDEAL The family has sense
of security and solidarity; it has incentive for
maintaining the house and home"
1t is a truism that ever fought for a
boarding house, but will always fight for his home
The idea of a single family house is truly American
in it's origin and it's conception
This is the season of the year when any en-
enlargement that be given to more and better
homes is not only commendable from the standpoint
of progress but really patriotic enterprise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07

not covet"-I never hear any COM
planning, except from those whose
lives run counter to these command.
ments.
l can always tell when I touch
q sore spot in a mans life. As Sam
Jones used to say. it is just like
when the currycomb touches q sore
spot on a horse. When you go TO
currycomb a horse. IL that horse is
perfectly sound, IL he has no sore
spots anywhere, he likes for you TO
currycomb him; It feels good to him,
he leans up against the currycomb
and enjoys II. But If that horse is
not sound, IL he has any tender
spots. any sore places. he will kick
and bite when the currycomb is run
over his hide.
/ find It is the same way with
men when l apply the currycomb OF
truth. The man who is sound and
has no tender spots, likes 1t; he
leans up toward me, and the more
l comb him the more he enjoys It.
But look out for a howl when 1
strike a man full Of tender spots
and sore places. The moment he
feels tho currycomb he begins to
kick and bite.
Am I become your enemy be-
cause I tell you the TRUTH" Per-
haps, after awhile. you will find out
that your greatest enemy is the man
who flatters you with the false as, 4
surance that all is we'll.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
Concerning
Little Theatre
By Walter ID. Hickman

One reason that I favor the Little
Theatre movement Is that it gives
one chance to see plays that do
not hit the road.
A. A. Milne has written much
better things than "Ariadne," which
was presented last night for the first
of four performances by the Little
Theatre Society in the Playhouse.
Mrs. Eugene Fife was Ariadne,
the wife of an English solicitor, who
staged an affair" with rich client
to help her husbands business as
we'll as to teach him a lesson.
Volney Hampton was the John
Winter, the husband, and Ralph
Cooney was the Hector Chadwick,
the butting-in friend Of the Winters.
Miss Lulu Kanagy was the Hester
chadwick and Waldo Schoen was
Horace Meldrum with whom
Ariadne was supposed to have ex.
plored the unknown.
Remainder of the cast included
Miss Ella Goett, and Miss Marianne
Reid
saw the first two acts last night
as ! found 1t necessary to leave the
Playhouse before Ariadne had placed
her house in order again.
'Ariadne" is Just a light little
trifle with some smart conversation
and nifty situation in the second
act.
was more interested in the Play.
house, the new home of the society
on N. Alabama St., at Nineteenth
than was in the Milne play.
I hope that the Society raises the
needed $4,000 to complete the
theater. If was asked to mention
the ten most valuable things in In.
dianapolis, certainly would include
NE Little Theatre Society in the list
1t has worked for years to not only
establish itself, but to have it's own
producing home. Although not com
plete, the structure is an intimate
gem.
I hope that Indianapolis, the great
err and bigger Indianapolis, gets back
Of the society, because it is doing
real things in its own home.
The stage setting used for
"Ariadne" was as finely executed as
one would expect to see in a $3.50
legitimate production.
.'Ariadne'' will be repeated Thurs.
day night, Saturday afternoon and
night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
Better Homes

Something more than paint and lumber is in
volved in the nationwide movement for the pro-
motion Of better homes.
It is really the declaration of war against crime
and degeneracy. 1t is a great movement for the
protection of that greatest of all institutions, the
home.
Many influences have developed in recent years
to minimize or destroy this cradle of all character
Transportation has been made easy through
good roads and twenty millions of automobiles, SO
that there is temptation to spend less and less
time in family groups.
The only modern influence of recent years
which has not been directed at the home is the
radio, which does have tendency TO keep families
together.
Just how important this movement is can be
estimated partly from statement by no less au-
thor1ty than Herbert Hoover secretary Of commerce.
r Hoover is known for his keenness of observation
and his wisdom.
"The home is fundamental because it is the
mold in which the character Of the next generation
is formed" says Mr.. Hoover Homes that are at
tractive stand better chance In competition with
the distractions that ever tempting. Not only
the boys and girls but fathers and mothers spend
Mess time in them"
SAA Let Mr. Hoover give his argument
ASAn the restless shifting currents of modern life
a. Are sometimes at loss for ideals and standards
tSskssfssAIp us keep our bearings. But higher and
Aype of home life is ideal to which
Ast. We have a timely duty to stress the
s xSsA home life now, for many forces are at work
'sif In the home and family ties, and in the
~ S #tates as in most other modern nations,
81 3ss5es ups do not have such good shelter as they
q ssssst God, clothing, and many luxures
26Dfhe home is basic in economic system
s "a principal point at which and
Hsume the final products of farms and mines and
ada n
typical family budget shows The primary division
of labor still lies within the family with bread
winners employed outside in our vast organized
economic structure and the homemaker who keeps
house. prepares food, and attends to other personal
wants
Most people make their home the center of
their social life, and spend most of their leisure
hours there. Home influence can be dominant in
nurturing the religious impulses which sre SO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
In the Open

It's fun to go down to a small
country town, where people are still
Twin sanely. It's really a treat,
when you HE down a street where
restness predominates. mainly.
You're filed with surprise, when
you full realize, that peace and real
quiet exist. To get far away, for a
week or a day, from cities-you
know what you've missed.
1t makes you feel surer that afr
is much purer in hamlet spots, out
Of the way. You sense the real pity,
that every big city holds freeness
and saneness at bay.
There isn't the wear and the mad
ness of tear in small towns where
wise folk reside. There's no bust
ness rattle. They're not packed like
cattle. They're living-and work
ing, outside.
Like nature7 Well. lissen-that's
Just what you're missin-the best
thing this word has to give. Hop
off, on vacation. at some small town
station. Just loaf for while man
and livel
Aw. cheer upl If you didn't have
something to complain about-you'd
be complaining about that.
Middle West farmer boasts a
COW with one wooden leg. Huh,
we've eaten that kind of steak.
The wise wife wanted to get a
new front room curtain-and man
aged to pry five bucks out Of her
hubby when she told him 1t was for
the blind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07

wick record.
Father probably would have Gov
cred up his Police Gazette more
carefully and started reading a new
theory on life and death.
But not so these days with the
shimmy, the Charleston and what
not. No, sir; Dad likes to hear the
zippy songs right in his own home.
And so, songs like What! No
Womenr' are having their day in
the home and In the night clubs of
the land.
A mans home is his castle and
nowadays. with the monograph and
the radio, it is becoming his theater
and night club.
What! No Women" is a bur
lesque song in theme and action. 1t
is a nifty. a laugh song OF the day.
It tells the experiences of a married
man who is invited to a party and
naturally, the married man on leav-
ing his wife at home, thought that
there would be women at the party.
He admits in song that he thought
he heard girlish> laughter on enter
ing the fiat, but admits that 1t must
have come from the fellow wearing
the red tie.
And so you get the main idea
Whist. No Women"
The red tie gag has been used so
often that it has become nearly a
national expression.
You may or not like this song but
it has been released on a Brunswick
record and probably will be one of
the best novelty sellers of the eve
ming.
I have tried this record out in va
rious gatherings and my guests, with
women present, laughed at the non
sense.
1t is wise song, snartly put over.
It will depend upon ones mental
temperature how it is received. The
public is hearing this song In the
theaters and now it can be played on
your photograph.
I have been informed that Nick
Lucas is the best seller of all the
individual artists on the Brunswick
list.
His new record is one Of those sure
success things-clean, melodius and
pretty. On one side you will hear
II Don't Believe 1t, but Say 1t
Again" And on the other you have
Nick singing and playing on his
guitar Always" by Irving Berlin.
You also will hear violin and cello
background Never has Nick Lucas
been better than in these two num-
bers. There is a glorious something,
nearly spiritual. in these two num-
bers which brings added dignity to
the mood.
Nick Lucas is clarifying American
music just as much as a certain
stage producer is clarifying the
American girl.
To my way Of thinking this new
Lucas Brunswick record is better
than his famous Dreamer Of
Dreams"
- l.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Miss Venita Gould at Keith's: 1.-THE
Big Parade" at Englishs: Broad
way Flashes" at the Lyric; Jim and
Irene Marlyn in their Miniature Re-
vue at the Palace; Xxi" at the Cir
Gle; Morals for Men" at the Ohio;
SINNERS Dress Suit" at the Co.
lonial; For Heavens Sake" at the
Apollo; "The Fighting Buckaroo" at
the Isis, and burlesque at the Broad.
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
CITY SELLS ITS GREASE
And Three Months Accumulation
at Plant Brings $27,552.

An Indianapolis family wastes
enough daily to feed a French
family of equal size.
That's what the economists tell
us and their statements were con-
firmed when the board Of sanitary
commissioners sold only the grease
from garbage at the reduction plant
accumulated during three months
for $27,552.
Grease comes fairly high, it ap-
pears, the winning bid of the
Proctor and Gamble Company,
famous soap dispensers, being 6.56
cents a pound. The reduction plant
ground out 100000 pounds during
the three months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07

ilOSpHere OIL the
night clubs into the
home library.
The nifty bur-
lesque song. rather
topical in nature,
can now be heard
coming through the
windows Of the
modern home.
Years ago, moth
err probably would
have tainted If she
had heard Ed
Smalle II n g | II 6
What! No Won
EMU on n Bruns-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
THE VERY IDEA
BY Hal Cochran

A youngster comes home with a
nose bleed, black eye. etc, and nino
times cut Of ten the mother win
say. How many times have I told
you not to play with that neighbor
boy?" Which proves what a queer
conception mothers have Of play.
80
It's easy to go to the head Of tho
class. when you're "In a class by
yourself"
A sparrow saw a bathing girl.
With "peeps" his small throat
shook.
But. shucks, instead Of peeping, folk
All took a dern good look.
The coming Of the boating season
a lot Of folks are wondering what
to do In case Of seasickness. Don't
worry-youTl do It.
Client don't know what
would have done II II hadn't been for
you.
lawyer do-timel
Sss
FABLES IN FACT
Sunny HOW EASY SOME
MEN CAN GET IN WRONG PIE.
Rod FER INSTANCE COMMA I
HAVE IN MIND THE WIFE WHO
SUDDENLY SHOUTED COMMA
QUOTATION MARK OH COMMA A
BUG HAS JUST FLOWN INTO MY
MOUTH PERIOD WHAT SHALL I
DO QUESTION MARK QUOTATION
MARK AND THE POOR HUS-
BAND REMARKED COMMA QUO.
TATION MARK KEEP YOUR
MOUTH SHUT PERIOD QUOTA.
TON MARK
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
Haze You a Green
Hat? Read This

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undertaken All other q1estors will recetve PERSONAL
are cannot DE answered All letters
How can light green felt hat be cleaned?
Ammonia and water make good cleanser. Many
good Turpentine benzine will remove stains if
there is the hat. If the turpentine leaves
a mark finish with little alcohol.
What is the meaning of the name Conrad"
The is Teutonic and means liable counsel
liable speech
Is Gene StrattOn, who played the part of the
Little Scout i'm the motion picture 1.-THE Keeper of the
Bees" any relation to Gene Stratton Porter?
She Is the daughter of Mrs Laura Meehan, who
is the only daughter Of Gene Stratton Porter
authoress.
What is the boiling and freezing point of iluni,lat
ing gas?
The mixtures of gases such illuminating gas
do not have single definite boiling points, freezing
points critical temperatures and Instead
another separates out each condensed portion carry
ing less of the remaining gases in solution
What Is the consumption of ice per person
i'm the United States and about how much is con-
sumed each year?
The consumption Of commercially manufactured
ice cream in the United States has increased from
1.04 gallons year in 1910 to 2S gallons
in 1925. The total quantity consumed last year is
estimated at 322,729,00O gallons. compared with
2S5,500o00 in 1924 and 26O0oo.oO0 gallons in 1920
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
What! No Women! Yelled Married Man
Who Attended Party in the Wrong Flat
BY Walter ID. Hickman

Dad can be kept at home these
days because one can bring the at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-07
How can light green felt hat be cleaned?


The name is Teutonic and means liable counsel
II liable speech
Nogales international., 1926-12-26
DRY IN 1882 BUT
IN 1925 LARGEST
LAKE IN ARIZONA

The Mormon lake, the largest
natural body Of water IN Tne
state. was in 1882, designated as
township 18 north, range 8 east
ella and Salt River meridian, Ari-
zona, and the plat was approved
in 1884, is a gist Of report
made in the daily bulletin OF the
limited States forest service
southwestern district.
The report states, 'At the time
Of the survey, however, the lake
was apparently not in existence
"a the entire township was see
;onized and the area now cover
a with water was called Pleas
ant Valley.
"The topography, drainage and
springs, on the plat are correctly
located and indicates an actual
survey instead Of The so-called
cabin survey, which was ocassion-
ally put over IN the early days.
ga theory Is put forth that SIT
ing after settlement Of the coun-
Nogales international., 1926-12-26
A CHEVROLET BbILT
EVERY II SECONDS S

A Chevrolet built every II Sec
onds Of the working day during
this year. This is a production
record which has shattered all pre-
v;ous marks in the three-speed
automobile field.
Thi month the Chevrolet Motor
closes its gratest year with an out
put Of 72S,697 cars. The total
is 90 per cent over the last years
achievement.
Daily production for this make
cf motor car has averaged 2,450
cars. The highest monthly aver
age. was reached in September
when the days build reached g.
S81 units.
Output for the year far exceeds
that of the first ten years of Chew
roIet production, 1912 to 1921 in
elusive.
April, May and June with the
production Of 71,157; 74,617 and
77,241 units respectively, set new
high marks. July production was
restricted somewhat but in Aug
ust it was snapped up to 1851
units, only $50 fewer cars than
were built in June.
June was the record period un-
Ill outdistanced by September.
With a greatly increased pro-
duction program for 1927, Chew
rolet enters the new year with ev-
erv promise Of setting still higher
marks in the three-speed trans
mission field.