The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-10
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Night Life an Issue
Congress Reminded
Benevolent Publicity
Habit


A great issue-shall the night
clubs of New York close at .
o'clock?
Mayor Walker says that is late
! enough for, them to remain open and
| is in a mood to back up Police Com
missioner McLaughlin's order. He
says that men and women trailing
out on the street in evening toys at
5 in the morning make bolshevists
of working people.
The New York World says that
this is silly, but the night clubs
ought to be closed at a. M, be-
cause they make too much noise
and keep people awake.
David Hirschfield says that be
cause city officials talk too much
about closing night clubs earlier
they should learn how to so home
earlier themselves.
Night club proprietors say that
the o'clock closing order inter
feres with big and legitimate bust
ness, that they take in something
like $5,OOO,OOO year. that this
money is pretty well scattered
through the metropolis and that
much of it comes toward dawn.
I give these various angles OF the
case so that small town and country
folks may know what the greatest
city is most excited over right now.
l. T.
Congress is inclined to think
about more serious business, espe-
cially since it heard from Iowa.
1t is surprising how the vote of
a single State can affect the spirit
at Washington.
Republican leaders are really be-
ginning to wonder If the farmer
doesn't deserve some consideration
after all and unless they go too far,
it is probable that even the White
House spokesman would hesitate to
throw cold water on the idea.
Some people say the fear of the
result in November is responsible
for sudden change Of heart, but this
is too unkind.
The Brookhart victory merely re-
minded the boys of their patriotic
duty.
T. T. 4.
American publicity has reached
across the sea to save q soldier
threatened with death, because of
desertion from the French army.
America would never have known
about the case, much less have been
able to appeal for mercy, but for
the newspapers and the great news
services.
Publicity is a wonderful thing,
not only for the information it dis,
tributes, but for the good It enables
men to do.
Had it not been for wire, courier
and cable and more especially still
for wide awake men on the Job,
Bennett J. Doty might have faced
a firing squad and been cold in his
grave before any of his relatives
guessed that he was in trouble.
Reporters picked up his story in
far away Damascus just as they
pick up a thousand and one details
and his life is saved.
The French have done it artistical-
ly, Of course, by changing the
charge against him from desertion
to absence without leave.
T. l. l.
Edward Payson Weston, the world
renowned walker, was picked up by
a New York policeman at 2 Wednes-
day morning.
ITe had wandered from his home
in Philadelphia and covered the 100
miles without knowing when he left
or where he was.
Habit fingers after reason fees.
Those restless legs could not be still,
though the minutes had failed to
guide them. Weston is SO years old
and has been good for a front page
story during the last half century.
In 1861 as a youth of 23, he walked
from Boston to attend Lincolns in
auguration.
In 1910, as a man of mere 20, he
walked across the continent.
Who would think that fame could
be won by merely walking.
Yet Weston did it.
The man who excels, even in COM
monplace things, still is a champion
T. !
Pinchot, unsuccessful dry candi-
date for the Republican senatorial
nomination in Pennsylvania esti-
mates that $161, 900 was spent in his
| behalf.
This does not mean that he