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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
SAFEGUARDING LIFE

OF course the occupation Of mining will no longer
be dangerous occupation industry and business
if the legislators repeal the present law declaring
to be SUCH
There may be different purpose behind the pro-
posal to abolish the law which was obtained after
years of demand by those who work beneath the
ground that other industry may operate.
The law, at present, provides that men must
qualfy@ and have some knowledge of practical min
ing before their ignorance impers the lives of their
fellow workers.
Now it is proposed to wipe out this law and per-
NIT owners of mines, who may SO foolish to hire
any one they please, unskiled and inexperienced,
with knowledge of the dangers or of common safe
guards.
Mining of coal, under the very best of condi-
ems and the most careful watchfulness, is danger
.3us.
Each year there is taken a heavy toll of human
70 that comes from accidents and explosions.
Instead of wiping out all legal safeguards there
necessity for further protection of life unless
ne cynical policy of declaring human life the cheap
est of commodities is followed
No man has the right to place the life OF another
n jeopardy To permit the lives of many men to
De endangered because a coal operator finds 1t
cheaper or convenient to hire inexperienced men to
work with them is nothing short of criminal
1t is significant that the man who now proposes
% make mining safe by merely declaring it to be
such is the same awmaker who believed he could
wipe out all appetite for alcohol by making it illegal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
Proud of Wet City

Three citizens of San Francisco
have told me that it was the second
wettest city in the country, and
there was more pride than regret in
their tones.
That, also, is the same story wher-
ever one goes.
Defiance of the Volstead act has
become a matter of local satisfaction
in every large city. <
Liquor has taken the place of
weather as a topic of conversation
when people can't think of anything
else.
may be wrong, but it seems to
me that children are seeing more
Of it and hearing more about it than
ever before.
Whether on the Atlantic, Pacific or
Gulf of Mexico, every town appears
to be infested with rum runners, and
proud of it, while interior communi-
ties brag on their home brew.
1t is no longer uncommon to hear
men uphold the Constitution and de-
mand rigider dry laws with the
smell of booze upon their breath.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
TN
Tracy
California Too CoSmopoIi-
tan for Intolerance
to Exist.
BY VI. Is. Tracy

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. s.-Like
many other States, California has an
anticipation bill to argue about
There is very little excitement,
however, for nobody believes it will
pass.
California is too cosmopolitan to
be intolerant, Besides, people can't
dwell at the base of snow-capped
mountains, hook out aver the Pacific
and put a narrow construction on
the handiwork of Providence.
Even the bill itself is comparative
~ mild and would permit the teach
ing of evolution as a theory.
The author says that it is his po-
sition that no man has proved, or
can prove, that men are related to
mankeys and that he seeks to go no
farther than to keep that idea alive.
Not pausing to debate the ques-
ton, such bills go a long way to-
ward suggesting that whether men
are related to monkeys they can act
like them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
Put Something Amusing in the Soup, Says Ruth

of the eyebrow, Miss Draper intro
duces character after character with
the greatest ease and with the most
consummate artistry.
She seems to be so many personal
tiles all rolled up in one. At times
she is a Mrs. Fiske, then a Pauline
Lord, now Duse, then a Bernnardt,
now a Mary Boland and about every
body who has created character on
the stage.
The indianapolis Athletic Club in
bringing Miss Draper to Indianapolis
has done such a worth while service
that l have the thought just now, at
this early morning hour as I tell
you about Miss Draper. I feel like
electing the club to the Hell of
Fame.
And it is a real pleasure to record
that every inch of room was used by
an audience that taxed the capacity
of the scene of this wonder enter
tainment.
If there was ever anybody who
should be termed great, then it is
Ruth Draper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
Children Forget

Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston is the first
woman to have swum the Catalina
channel. She had a terrible ex-
perience, having been lost in the fog
for three hours and bitten by fish.
On reaching the shore, after more
than twenty-five hours in the choppy,
cold water. she was so exhausted as
to fall back in the waves I'M
conscious.
She went through such an ordeal
to give her 11-year-old son a college
education.
1t is but another illustration Of
what mother love can drive 4 woman
to perform.
The sad part of it is that children
who benefit the most from mother
love, often forget.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
Business as Usual

Strange as it may seem, Pacific
trade has not been affected by the
Chinese situation.
In spite of all one hears about
war, BolsheVeism and fleeing
refugees, business in the Orient con-
tinues to function.
You wonder how this can be until
you remember that there are AGO.
100000 Chinese and that probably
not l per cent of them has been
drawn into the rumpus.
What would be stupendous armies
in any other land, amount to nothing
in that swarming country.
No matter how much of a stir the
war lords and the Cantonese may
have made with their marching and
notifications, they have hardly
scratched the surface of the count
less multitudes that must go on eat
ing, drinking, laboring for a pittance
and producing vast quantities of
merchantable goods.
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teaching a bunch Of youngsters-all
of these were to be found on the re-
markable program of Ruth Draper
last night at the Indianapolis Ath-
letic Club.
With the use of a shawl here, the
proper atmospheric use of a bundle
representing a baby and with the aid
of no makeup, Miss Draper created
living characters right before your
very eyes.
She gets her comedy with as much
ease as she is awarded with tears,
serious thought and a pain of under
standing about the heart.
No scenery is needed by this really
great woman who has lifted the art
of reading" to the greatest possible
heights until it becomes the most
powerful theater.
And the voice! 1t changes with
every character. One has heard of
the actor with a Numbered faces, well,
here is the artist with as many
voices as characters.
By a gesture of the voice, mean.
ing movement of the hand. a lifting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
BY Walter ID. Hickman.

Now l ask you: Did you ever hear
a lady of fashion telling the cook to
put something amusing in the
soup and to surprise 'em with the
dessert?
Whether you did or did not hear
it before, you heard it last night at
the indianapolis Athletic Club when
Ruth Draper again proved her right
10 be considered Americas greatest
actress.
Lies shadows, the comedy of the
dressing room of a lady of fashion;
the small talk of four women, all on
a diet eating boiled cold potato, car.
rots, three pieces of French pastry
and the juice of seven lemons in
glass: the heart cry of a Dalmatian
peasant i'm New York hospital look
ing for her man; the sheik-getting
FORMULA of a Southern girl at a
dance; the neighborhood gossip as
given out by an old woman on a
porch in a Maine coast town; the
silly. serious talk of a debutante and
the troubles of a German governess
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mental classic out of ''Breezin' Along
With the Breeze" The really great
manner in which she makes a sort
of sob ballad out of this popular
tune explains more than ever her
ability in developing a song until it's
possibilities are exhausted.
The Spanish number of both of
these entertainers is delightful and
they have a lot of fun with a BLACK
Bottom" number and their travesty
upon a park bench has a lot Of
punch TO it. Miss Seeley and Mr..
Fields this time are delightful. lift
ing syncopation to q Paul Whiteman
height. They are stopping the show
and deserve to do that very thing.
1t is n personal pleasure to me to
record this triumph of Miss Seeley
and Mr.. Fields in this department.
Harry Jams and Harold Whalen
are back with their individual nut
stuff, about the same as other sea-
sons, but still getting he laughs.
Bert Lair has always been a panic
to me with the aid of Mercedes.
Here is fine burlesque fun. About
the same pattern as last season, but
still a comedy triumph. Lair also
works along strict burlesque lines
with jeanne, billed as the world s
tiniest star. At times the burlesque
is too broad, but Lair handles the
situation to get laughs instead of
chills.
Jaynes, Lehman and Kayser are
melody singers who get real har-
mony. Harry and Harriet Setback
show how really entertaining a box
ing bag may be.
At b. r. Keith's all week.
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ne appears III the
act following. This act tells of a
party Of sailors who land in China
and Walmsley, Of course, is the one
who is always getting 'in bad" Ma
rie st. George is present in this fun.
Adele Jason and Boys have a pleas
ing ct in which they offer several
song sketches and some dancing. The
men in this act have good voices
when they are singing harmony, but
are not 50 good in solo numbers.
Walter Walters and Company is
a ventriloquist, who does the ac-
cepted things and brings out a little
comedy with the aid of a couple of
small dummies.
Brown and Elaine have splendid
idea of their act and we wish to say
that it is the best looking vaudeville
number we have seen for a while.
with a drop representing the deck
of a mythical pirate ship these two
have worked out a short comedy
sketch in which the woman is the
bold, bad pirate, and the man one OF
the crew, who must amuse his
feminine captain or lose his head
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Times Readers
Voice Vieze,S
Of The Times.

Editor of The Times:
L am seeing things and haven't
been drinking white mule either
l am seeing the good old Republic
an party, to which I belong, forsall.
ink the true Gods and running after
Baalism.
L am seeing it smothering State
rights and making a joke out of
what our forefathers did for us.
l am seeing it standing no longer
for a government of the people and
by the people, but for government
of the board, by the agents and for
the commission.
/ am seeing it harboring swollen
fortunes that have been Matched from
calloused hands mingled with the
sweat from laborers' shoulders.
L am seeing it selling itself to such
as the Ku-KluX Khan, whose very
name ought to be enough to freeze
the blood within the veins of true
Republican
] am seeing it giving more heed to
few hired reformers than to thou.
sands of people who vote the Ticket
/ am seeing it setting the imperial.
istic egg from which boIshevism will
be Matched within our country.
l am seeing our country founder
ing under barbarian vandalism that's
floating beneath the cloak of the law.
l am seeing human ,vultures with
catfish thuf
shadow, watching and wishing that
people might make a move whereby
they can be bounced upon and
robbed of their substance.
| am seeing swarms of commits
stoned pirates swooping down, raid
ing homes under the pretense of SO.
bering people up; but instead, by van
dalistic acts. are making beoplc
drunk with hatred for all law ana
government.
I am seeing casteism set up. That
means you obey the law while |
break it, and you serve the time
while 1 use the goods confscated
from you.
| am seeing this vandalism al.
vocating that if you are not violating
some law there will be one invented
that you will violate.
I am seeing it teaching that the
way to Heaven is by donating to tire
prosecuting attorney instead of the
church and the way to good citizen
ship is through the Jail,
/ am seeing offices created and
multiple of officers created with spies
to watch the people and spies to
watch the spies.
/ am not seeing the Republican
party raising its hands against any
of these things.
So we Republicans must all have
fallen into a semi-conscious state Of
exhausted intellect lest some or us
would wake up and say. Lets free
our party or let it die.
a. Il. WILKINSON,
Needersburg, Ind
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y YOU PAY THEM

Make no mistake about who pays the bills Of
the suaye and resourceful gentlemen who regis
tered as lobbyists before the Legislature, those
other equally suave gentlemen who hang around the
hotelf and club Hobbies with unlimited expense ac
counts to give advice to legislators.
That lobby, representing the public utilities OF
this State, spends the money of the people of this
state Just as surely and as certainly though they
were on the pay rolls of the State.
Thus far these gentlemen seem to have been
fairly successful in their efforts to direct legislation
Nothing has happened to offend even one OF them.
They can report back to their employers that they
have killed any measure that would promote the in
erests of the public and that there is danger on
the horizon.
There are sixteen of these lobbyists registered
under the law as seeking to influence legislation.
That ought to warn members of the Legislature
as to their intentions They special pleaders for
special interests. They want laws that will per-
NIT them to make money.
The railroads are we'll represented. One of them,
the Big Four, has five watching that Legislature
Only two railroads have for whom they take
responsibility.
The insult interests we'll represented. They
have three who spend all their time on the job
The traction companies have their men, usually
There is a reason, of course. The utilities of the
State are we'll satisfied with the present conditions
and especially with the lack of any teeth in the law
that will give any power that not be easily up
set in Federal Courts
Just as long they control the spending of
money they will always be able to get rates to give
them all they want.
The cost CT maintaining these gentlemen in In
dianapos for sixty days runs into real money.
They pay fancy prices for rooms. They are gen
erous in their hospitality to members of the Leg
slature. They have no limits to their bills for
penses.
Later ell this money will be collected in the
form of bills for gas and water and street fares
and electric lights.
The people will find these bills for lavish dinners
hidden in the bill that to the house for gas
or electricity.
You might expect that lawmakers elected to
represent the interests of the people would be rather
skep:ical of the advice of these lobbyists But you
woull again be mistaken. They taken very
seriously.
1t is legitimate, of course, for any industry
business to protect itself from oppressive laws.
Banks and factories and farmers have their rep
res antatives the ground to watch and guard
But these private enterprises pay their own
agents. They do not go back and soak their Gus
toners under guarantee of definite profit,
If you want to get line just how well you
are being represented i'm matters that relate to
utility regulation, how close your Senator
Representative is to of these lobbyists.
There are those who have more than a suspicion
that these agents really running the present ses
sion. If you like the idea, we'll and good. But al
ways remember that in the end YOU pay the bills
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their points.
The Seven Brown Girls are a fem
mime musical organization with
plenty of melody in their fingers.
With a man at the piano these girls
go through a program OF popular
pieces and then turn to solos by the
different members. Feature solos on
violin. saxophone and harp. And we
do like harp solos.
Miss Morse is an example of what
one small woman may do when it
comes to having pep and personality
in her makeup. She is a first-rate
blues singer, having a husky con-
tralto voice that makes these blues
melodies get right over to you.
The Thank You Revue with a
company of four women and two
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their own merits. 1t is seldom that
a strictly concert pianist playing
1.-THE Wind" Paderewski's "Minuet
in c." LISTS Hungarian Rhapsody
No. q" and Saint-Saens' THE Swan"
reaches those heights of great
artistry and general appreciation
that Miss Verne achieves on the
vaudeville stage. L have always con-
tended that great music may be
sold any place at any time of the
day if it is Sold the right way.
1t takes both artistry and Snowman
ship without too much Unnecessary
fireworks to accomplish that. But
Miss Verne is an artist of the piano,
who understands her composers and
she knows how to project great
melody over the footlights of
vaudeville theater Nothing is too
good for variety and the appearance
Of Miss Verne, a concert pianist,
proves that point. Here is really fine
playing done by an artist first and
by Snowman second. Both are
needed to put great music over on
the variety stage. There is a melody
treat awaiting you at Keith's this
week. When 1 was present yester-
day she was given such an ovation
that she stopped the show.
Miss Blossom Seeley has the serv-
fees. this season Of two pianists and
Benny Fields. To this act some one
has brought a beautiful set, exqui-
site lighting effects and a new and
unique use of transparent curtains.
To this delightful atmosphere
which invites swaying syncopation,
Miss Seeley and Mr.. Fields bring
the finest fruits of their entertaining
ability. Miss Seeley makes a senti-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
China Moves On

Politically, China may be in chaos,
but industrially she moves stolidly
on according to the traditions of ner
fathers.
The land is not awake in the mod
ern sense. nor can it be disturbed in
the modern sense.
Only when mass production with
machinery has become a fact in
China, can she be thrown PROSTATE
by breakdown Of the government.
When that time comes, however,
her armies will assemble, not by the
hundred thousand, or even the mil
lion. but by tens of millions, and
there viii be a different tale to tell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08
Deadly Autos

Up to this time last year, ten peo-
pie had been killed and 1872 injured
by automobiles in San Francisco.
This years record is eighteen killed
and 217 injured.
1t is the same story wherever one
goes-more deaths, more accidents
and no apparent remedy in sight.
We pass more laws, take out more
insurance and hire more traffic COPS,
but without results.
More Americans have been killed
and injured by automobiles during
the last five years than during the
World War.
How can our lawmakers pause to
argue about evolution in the face Of
such a problem?
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

The wonder of wonders-The
music of Paderewski, List and Saint
Saens actually stopped a vaudeville
show and the pianist was given one
Of those great ovations which genius
so justly deserves.
Am speaking of the trump Of
concert pianist, Adela Verne at
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MIN exceedingly
we'll he provides
enough comedy
to last one over
quite o few hours.
First we see
him in company
with a woman, in
which he takes
the part of a very
bashful youn 6
fellow with q dis
tinct fear Of the
feminine sex. Is
all right in this
number, and then
proves that he
still has a few
LAUGHS left when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08

Keith's this week.
And i'm the same
line ! must register
the triumph of Bios
som Seeley and
Benny Fields. Adela
Verne dignifes the
classics of great
piano music on the
vaudeville stage and
Blossom Seeley and
Mr.. Fields glorify
American syncopa-
ton. Here are two
great extremes-the
classics and jazz,
syncopation or any
other term that
you care to use.
Rnth otnnd out on
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w
ACe-King and Five Minor
Cards Calls for Opener
of One,
by Mil,On c. Work

The pointer for today is:
a suit'bid Of one should be made
on five cards headed. by Ace.king,
even with the other eights cards ut
terly worthless; hut FIVE cards head.
ed by Ace-Queen with nothing on the
side, should be passed.
Today the subject Of our consid-
GRAFTON will he initial suit-bids made
with tive.card suits, unaided by any
side strength. For The purposes of
Illustration, it may he considered
that the small cards (Xl in the exam
pies given below are Fours, Threes
and Twos.
Yesterday three hands were given
TO illustrate the slight margin which
may exist between hands which
should be passed and those which
should he bid
l. Sp.: Xxx. HtE NIX. Di;
xxx. Cl: hce-King.x.x.x.
In No. 1 there are two quick
tricks at the head of five.card suit,
and that suit accordingly should be
named. To fail TO bid with this tyne
of suit is a common error which is
apt to he fatal. The points is so
important that n special explanation
of the reasons for the bid will be
made in tomorrow's article.
?. Sp.: XXX. HIT: Xxx. Dl. Ace
Queen-10-x-x CT: xxx.
This hand is just a shade under
| the strength required for an initial
bid IT has not two quick tricks and.
although tho Queen and the Ten OF
the suit will probably produce
trick between them. they may not do
so III produced, it may be belated
and, therefore, with this holding
strong as 1t is--the hand should be
initially passed.
8. SIP: xxx. lit: Ace.Queen.
Jack-x-X. Di.: Xxx. CT: XXX
This hand should be bid as it is a
shade stronger than Ace.King.x.x.x:
with the adverse King of the suit on
the right of the hand tan even
chance it will take three high card
tricks and probably will keep the
! adversaries from making a trick in
the suit. With the adverse King on
the wrong side, it will still take two
| high-card tricks and, while these
tricks may not be as quick" as
would be the case with the Ace
| King, nevertheless the winning
qualities of the high cards in the
hand will average higher than the
winning qualities of Ace-KinC.
Therefore, bid Of one should be
made with this combination.
The following hands will be dis
| cussed tomorrow
l. Sp.: Ace-King-43.2 1T; So
Di.: 1872. CT: 4.3-2.
.. SIP: 1872. Ht,: 49, Di.. So
Cl.; Ace-King .4.32.
Copyright, John F. Ollie Coz
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Inc acts " men
we liked especially
well were Kelly
and Forsythe, the
s @ ven Br o " n
Girls and Miss
Lee Morse.
Kelly and For
sythe are two men
who have to offer
some comedy by
one of them and
an excellent bari
tone voice by the
other. The COM
edy put out by
these men is of
the order of slap
stick and is funny.
You don't have to
hunt for any of
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Stage Verdict

PALACE-Brown and Elaine
are sharing honors the first
half with two comedy acts of
merit.
KEITH S-Blossom Seeley
and Adele Verne are ringing up
complete triumphs on this bill.
A worthwhile vaudeville bill.
LYRIC-With three acts of
headline caliber, the current bill
is mighty interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-08

Is there any kind of ink that can
be used on sliclSers and will not wash
off:
Ink will not take" on the oily
surface of a slicker. Paint OF am
desired color or the 'bronzes" used
on steam radiators and other ex.
posed piping in dwellings are good.
Asphalt varnish is good quick dry
ing black and will adhere TO the
slicker.
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WALMSLEY WALKS
AWAY WITH THEIR SHOW

Frank Walmsley seems TO have
the whole show the first half at the
Palace. judging from the time he
takes up in two acts. With a peculiar
type Of eccentric comedy that fits