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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-21


A south side doctor today APP
pealed to Mr.. Fixit to secure relief
from the insanitary conditions in
Pleasant Run.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: AS a resident and
taxpayer of the southeastern part OF
the city, I wish to call your atten-
ton to a condition which is not only
disagreeable, but a real menace TO
those citizens who reside nearby.
refer to the terrible odors aris-
ing from what we are pleased to call
Pleasant Run. A trip along Pleas
ant Run Bldv will convince you
something must be done.
Will you please be so kind as to
inform us what action, If any, is be-
ing taken or contemplated TO allevi-
ate this condition? Thanking you
for your investigation, I am for pub Z
lie health. DIR. A. L. G. Y
Pleasant Run has been the bone
Of contention for south side resi-
dents for years. Various tempo
rary plans have been tried but no
plan ever tried proved successful.
The contract has been let by the
board Of works to build the Pleas
ant Run Main interceptor sewer
which viii eliminate stream pollu-
ton, bringing about permanent
relief. The sewer will not be COM
pleted this summer, however. Mr..
Fixit can only advise patience
until the new sewer is finished.
Dear. Mr.. Fixit: Will you pleas
tell me the parking law as it applies
to alleys. Our neighbor instead Of
parking in the street leaves his car
in the alley opposite our garage. At
times we can not get our car in or
out.
WEST STD-N
The law on parking applies to
alleys the same as SyreLs5. IL
attention of the fact to the patrol.
man in your district. He should
be able to stop the practice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Way Shown to World

Lindbergh and Chamberlin have
shown the world what can be done.
Byrd is planning to fly from New
York to Paris and back again, where
Lindbergh only flew one way.
The German ace Anton Koen-
necke is planning to fly from Berlin
to San Francisco and back.
Two army aviators are planning
to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii.
Each day sees the records of the
day before go to smash, and who
can doubt that each tomorrow will
repeat?
Tennyson foretold 1t all, though
he never saw an airplane.
Science and poetry are close akin,
when we come to think of it. Eng
lands break with Russia gives Ger
many the best chance she has yet
had to come back.
Some nation must act as mediator
in the resultant impasse, and none
is in a better position to do SO, even
if it wanted to, than Germany.
France and Italy feel they should
stand by England for old time sake,
if for no better reason though
neither wants to break with Russia.
Poland wants a peaceful adjust
ment before it is 10 late, we'll know
ing that if conflict occurs she will
be expected to play the Belgian role.
This leaves Germany as the only
available go-between and Strese-
mann is quick to seize the OPP
portunity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
No Juggling at Geneva!

Today, at Geneva. the United States Great Brit
ain and Japan meet around the big green table to
talk naval arms limitation.
The American thesis is quite simple Extend the
Washington naval agreement or 5-5-3 program which
now applies only to battleshps and arpane carriers
to apply to cruisers and other auxiliary craft
But Britain and Japan understood to be back
ing program not simple. If forecasts not too
far from the TRUTH each of these empires intends to
try little high powered juggling. Each wants to
win advantage for itself at the expense of the
other two particularly at the expense of Uncle Sam.
We are told, for example that both Japan and
Britain will to limit the size of cruisers to 5000
or, at most, 5000 tons. They will solenly argue the
economy of the move how much all hands would save
by building only the smaller sized cruisers instead of
the 100OO-ton ships permissible.
All of which is true. The smaller cruisers would
undoubtedly be cheaper But smaller cruisers would
place the United States at vast disadvantage be-
cause of their limited of action Unlike Britain,
this country has no chain of naval bases stretching
clear around the earth, north and south of the equa
tor, from which its cruisers could operate. And I'M
like Japan whose territorial interests are confined to
the region of the Western Pacific, have interests
far removed from metropolitan United States which
must be protected.
Britain and Japan, it appears, will also try to
reduce the size of guns which cruisers may mount
from eight to six inches This too, would place the
United States in hole. For while other nations have
many ships in their merchant fleets capable of
version into cruisers in time, and which built
strong enough to carry six-inch guns we have very
few ships so convertible and from the looks of things
we may have even less in the future
There is talk of Japan and Britain proposing SIM
liar reductions on the size of bateships and subma
rines, which again would be an advantage to them
and corresponding disadvantage to us. And so on.
1t is to be hoped, however that Ambassador Hugh
Gibson and his colleagues of the American delegation
will stick to their formula and let it be known at the
start that they did journey to Geneva to engage
in seight- contest
If the parley beginning today is to be productive
Of the slightest good whaever-and its usefulness is
already limited because France and Italy are present
only as interested three powers active
ly in conference must above ALL be perfectly open
and above board with one another. They must put
all their cards face up the table.
The proposition is as simple as A. B. c. The
Washington conference of 1922 put certain limitations
on the bigger units of the worlds principal navies
DO the powers comforting at Geneva wish to ex-
tend similar limitations to the rest of the units?
That's all there is to it. There is no cause and
no room for sharp trading
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Brain TeaSerS

The first five of these questionos
ask you to identify people promi-
ment in the news of the day. An
swers to all the questions will be
found on page ID:
!. Who is the United States am
bassador to France?
2. Who is President Coolidge's sec
rotary?
8. What Governor of what State
is now investigating the Saccho-
Vanzetti case?
4. Who is William Hale Thomp-
son?
5. Who is E. L. Doheny?
s. Are tomatoes and cucumbers
vegetables?
7. What is weighted silk?
8. Where were the Maya Indians
found?
9. Are there more automobiles or
telephones in the United States?
10. Who were the Krupps2
IL. Did the Federal Radio Com
mission change the rating of either
local broadcaster?
IL. What are the new frequency
and power assignments of the IN
dianapolis radio stations? =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Don't Be a Cipher

Tomorrow you either be figure or cipher.
The question Of whether this city shall have a
business system of government and get rid OF part-
politics in city affairs will be settled at the polls
The people will decide whether they wish to keep
the system that has brought them nothing but hu-
initiation, disgrace and high cost or discard it for a
City Manager system which works well in other cities.
The citizen who votes will have part in this
decision The man or woman who stays away from
the polls counts for exactly nothing
The law bars only three classes of residents
children imbeciles and those who happen to be in jail
The citizen who does not vote takes his place
with these classes.
The citizen who does not vote is the best assistant
of the professional politician.
1t is the stay home vote which enables the
boss to rule and to take possession of the govern
ment.
He understands that he could never, in any Amer
lean community get control of the offices with his
tools and venal, selfish men if all the men and
women entitled to vote really voted.
The boss never has candidate a cause which
would appeal to a majority.
He understands that better than the good citizen.
He knows that he only win when good people
are apathetic and uninterested.
He knows that his one chance tomorrow is in the
hope that very many men and women who are inter-
ested in better government will not vote at all.
If enough stay away he can perhaps line up his
minority of voters against the proposal.
The politicians started in to fight this change in
the open But after two or three speeches they dis
covered that they had no argument and no appeal.
The very silence is suspicious. The men who
have looted this city for years through manpula-
ton of public Office have found it far too profitable
to take this blow lying down.
The last Legislature made fraud easier than it
has been in the past and the elections in this city
have been notable for their frauds
1t is quite likely that they counting on the
belief of very many people that their votes are not
needed to get in at the last minute and defeat this
proposed change
That scheme can be defeated only by very large
vote and by active participation by good citizens who
want to free Indianapolis from its shackles
The Times first proposed this change in govern
ment. 1t was first in this city to advance it as
remedy for civic ills.
For more than two years it has consistently and
persstently shown the advantages of the City Man
ager system.
1t stood alone at the start But it is alone no
longer The people Endorsed the attitude.
This proposal can be defeated only by men and
women who prefer to be cphers in the mathematics
of government
Count for something There is only one way.
Go to the polls and vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20


ocean, who loves his younger broth
er. In fact, he loves his brother so
much that our hero is even ready to
turn over his best girl, and she de-
cides that she will do her own
choosing of a husband, regardless
of what any one might say. Of
course, she decides that she really
loves our sea hero when a good-for-
nothing girl attempts to be good
for-nothing with our hero. The re-
suit is that Mary and Milton marry
before the next cloudburst.
1.-THE Sea Tiger" has its moments,
but not very many of them. Sills
is going to wake up to the fact very
soon that he is being cursed with
some mighty poor vehicles.
That is my opinion of 1.-THE Sea
Tiger" Be your own Judge as
usual.
The bill includes a Helen and
Warren comedy, a news reel. and
Ruth Noller at the organ.
At the Ohio all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Lac, and Justice
by Dexter NJ. Keezer

A woman slipped and fell on a sawdust-covered
butcher shop floor and was injured badly. She sued
the butcher shop proprietor claiming he was negli-
gent in leaving his floor in such condition Because
of her injuries she said she had no opportunity to
discover just what it she slipped on, or how 1t
got there. The butcher shop proprietor claimed he
should not be held for damages because the woman
did not know what she had slipped on and had not
proved that it negigenty placed there by him or
his employees.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The decision: New Jersey Supreme Court de-
cded the was not entitled to collect damages
because she unable to show that the object on
which she slipped belonged to the butcher shop pro-
prietor, that it had been placed there by him his
servants, that they knew it there These facts
were needed, it said, to prove the butcher shop pro-
prietor's negligence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
The Last Word in MoUie Theater Entertainment
Arriued Here With the OPENING of the Indiana

always been a comedian of many
DISCUSSES and he uses several dozen
of EN- as a correspondent school de-
tective in Rubber Heels" l like
his individual comedy efforts, be-
cause I can associate his voice with
his actions on the screen.
The big scene in Rubber Heels"
is when Wynn as the detective is at
tempting 70 recover a trunk full of
jewels before it dashes over Niagara
Falls. Here you have funny melo-
drama with Ed Wynn getting good
comedy support from Chester
Conklin.
can not tell just now how Ed.
Wynn will be accepted by the regu-
lar movie patron. The revue en-
thusiast will welcome a chance to
see the comedian on the screen.
1t is my opinion that Wynn is a
comedian of so much individual
ability that he will be Welcomed
in, movie theaters. His method is
entirely different even from such
a movie veteran as Chester Conklin.
The Apollo this week has a nov
city melody event when the orches-
ira with the aid of Abe Farb, soloist.
stages a minstrel show The idea
is a good one but the slides, which
carry the comedy as we'll as the
words of the songs, did not keep
pace with the musicians when I was
present. This Of course is remedied
by this time.
Bill includes an Our Gang CO.
medy and a news reel and an organ
solo by Earl Gordon.
At the Apollo all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
Agitation Developments
Hit Great BritaiR-U. S.
Sea Control.

Out of all this comforting over
naval ornaments and their limi-
tations there comes one big idea,
and that is .Anglo-American rule OF
the sea.
The 5-5-3 ratio, which was eStab-
lished at Washington some years
ago, and which promises to stick,
no matter what is included, means
Great Britain and the United States
have undertaken to divide the sea
between them on equal terms and
other nations have submitted to it.
Were it not for the part aviation
seems destined to play, one might
take this as lineup by which to
chart the future of international
affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20

that they something to the appointive power in
the way of personal servitude
The Times has protested and will protest against
any public official using the government and the en-
ployes of the government to further his private
interests.
If any official desires to embark in any CONNER
cal industrial enterprise, he should have the de-
cency and the honesty to found that enterprise by
the same methods as he would be compelled to use
if he not official.
A resignation or an impeachment would seem to
be in order
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Huge Loss Cited

Secretary Hoover estimates that
the Mississippi flood represents a
loss of from two hundred million to
four hundred million dollars.
In human terms, he says that
100000 people actually faced death
that 100000 were obliged to flee for
their lives and that 100000 have
been made temporarily dependent.
1t will require thirty million dol
lars in one form Of relief or an
other to take care of the immediate
situation, he declares. After that
comes the problem of making these
people permanently safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
BY Walter ID. Hickman

ton, Pioneer Days" a news reel,
"Enchantment," and much music.
The Indiana is a gem of a the
alter. 1t is the last word, and the
opening bill certainly measures up
to the gem of the theater in which
it is being presented.
On view at the Indiana all week
AS the audience left the theater
after the inaugural performance
each one was presented with a
souvenir edition of The Indianapo-
lis Times, which was specially
printed in honor of the occasion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Tradition Too Strong

A French author rises to assert
that Christopher Columbus was no
navigator, no scientist, no dis
coverer, no conqueror and no faith
full historian, but cheap braggard
nypocrite and liar.
What is the use?
The traditions regarding Custer
and Columbus have been too firmly
planted to be spoiled at this late
day, and the traditions are good, nc
matter what the facts may be.
Somebody discovered America or
we would not be here, and every
body died in Clusters gallant band.
That is quite glorious enough even
! if we do not know all the details.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
The Mayor and City Employees

Orders to policemen. firemen and other city
ployes to act solicitors for private enterprise of
Mayor John Duvall might seem to call for some
drastic action.
The fact that he is using them as solicitors for
a newspaper which he intends to launch has nothing
to do with the matter.
AS far as The Times is concerned 1t welcomes
the mayor any other citizen into the field of pub
fishing long the enterprise is started any
other private enterprise and depends upon its service
to the public for it's foundation
But The Times has protested in the past against
the use of city employees for the private advantage
of public officials and expects to protest against the
use of city employees for any purpose except those
for which the people pay them.
It would have protested had the mayor ordered
all the city police to eat pie day and sell ten
Others had he chosen to embark in a. revival of the
pie vending business in which he interested
1t would have protested against the use of fire.
men and park employees to sell oil stock had he
started them off to their official jobs to force
such sales to citizens.
The Times has an idea that city employees are
employed by the public for certain public purposes and
do not become the private agents of the mayor, no
= matter who the mayor may be, to their jobs TO
advance his private Interests.
The Times has an idea that public employees are
servants of the public and nothing but service
and good service to the appointing power
The Times has protested on every occasion
against any threat being held efficient employees
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Past Holds Its Lure

No matter how fascinating the
present is, or how the future in
trigues us with its rapidly unfolding
possibilities, the past still holds
mystery, romance and enchantment.
Old plainsmen, meeting to diS-
cuss a day that has gone, take a
moment to talk about Clusters last
stand, especially in the light of a
painting that is supposed to convey
an accurate idea of how the heroic
general died.
According to most of them, he did
not live to defend himself alone or
even with the last few survivors,
but persisted early in the massacre
According to a young Indian
writer, he committed suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Times Readers
Voice ViezOS
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
What the w. c. T. U. needs most
OF all is Memory Contest" They
need to go back to the days of the
old saloon on the corner, to the time
when man could go in and buy a
drink and be on his honest way,
without making himself a felon In
the sight Of the law.
In those days we had liquors
but we also had lower taxes, and
laws to protect our young people,
Today taxes are out of sight, and
boys and girls not yet out of high
school patronize bootleg joints
where they obtain the worst kind
Of bad liquor at the highest prices
and greatest possible risk 70 their
life and liberty. Would it not he
far better to permit those same boys
and girls the enjoyment of a pitcher
Of beer in their own homes?
You members of the w. G. T. u.
who are so strongly opposed to the
use of alcoholic liquors, are any of
you equipped professionally to say
whether or not Indiana may or may
not use whisky for medicinal pur-
poses?
1t is far better, far more honor
able, for our Governor to be branded
"bootlegger" than a murderer, and
had he done as you honorable ladies
of the w. c. T. U. say you would
dO In eiict1 oy, a,,oaroayoo,y &c he
faced, he would have, in the eyes of
! the law. committed murder by re-
fusing to provide the medicinal aid
that his doctors recommended. Far
better be known as a bootleg Gov
ernor, and save the life of the wom-
an who is his wife, than to uphold
temperance, which even the Bible
condemns, and brand himself as
Christian Temperance murderer.
If the w. c. T. u. and all such
organizations would withdraw from
politics and leave the laws to the
Legislature, it would be for the bet
terment of all concerned. Their
views are narrow and bigoted, as
is the Wright bone dry law, and
when even Volstead believes in
whisky as a medicine, why must one
State take it upon herself to dictate
that whisky shall not be used as a
medicine?
Ladies of the w. G. T. u, go into
the municipal courtrooms for an
hour or two. See the boys and girls
from IA to % up before those judges
for vagrancy, drinking, delinquency
and many other serious offenses.
Fifteen years ago, on Monday,
there was a line of red-nosed, mid
dle-aged men with bloodshot eyes
before His Honor" They we're
the chronic barrel-house buns, but
there were no youngsters in court in
those days. We had laws to keep
them out of the saloons. There
were also laws that permitted our
boys and girls to drink their wine
and beer at home with their par
ents. and they never abused the
privilege or drank to excess.
The boys and girls of today are
the future lawmakers of the State
and the bootleg liquor they consume
now will show its effect in later
years. Better by far let them
drink honestly, than deny them and
force them to sneak around and
drink liquor strong enough to scorch
sewer tile,
MRS. FRANK A. OTTO,
1906 S. Capitol Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
Dance to Old Tune

1t required no comforting to send
such ships as Nelson and Farragut
commanded to the scrap heap, and
it will require none to do the same
for those of Won Tirpitz and Jelli-
coe.
AS usual statecraft is merely
dancing to the tune of invention
and discovery.
Though making a fine gesture in
the name of peace, governments are
only yielding to the inevitable when
they decide to reduce present day
battle fleets.
Ducks have no chance against
eagles when it comes to a fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
China Has Dictator

That grand cid bandit, Chang
Tso-Lin, savior of the east. from
.Bolshevism, as some people fancy,
becomes dictator of north China to
the boom of 108 guns.
What this outrageous number
signifies nobody seems to know, but
it certainly represents 9. waste of
powder that Chang is likely tc need
if the Cantonese keep up their ad-
vance Of the last few weeks.
More than one war lord has lost
out by pausing to let himself be
glorified when he should have been
attending to his. business.
From this distance, it looks as if
Chang might be that kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20


failure of the Prince to realize the
part he had played in the terrible
affair.
The next part of the movie ver-
sion shows how low Katusha sinks
in life. This is not pleasant, but
it is a part of the story.
To my way of thinking, this movie
does not begin to measure up with
the genius of the author until Rod
La ROGUE, as the Prince, realizes
the shame that he has brought to
one woman. You actually see the
soul come to life in this man.
And then you see him renounce
his title, his position in society and
give way his wealth so that he may
march side by side over the snow
covered road with Katusha to ST.
IBERIA where she had been sentenced
on a charge Of murder.
1t is in the last half Of the movie
that Edwin Carewe in his capacity
as the director of the film catches
the great pathos and meaning of
the author.
Resurrection" is a big picture
from a scenic standpoint and La
ROGUE and Dolores del Rio as Ka-
tusha do magnificent work. You
will remember La Rogue for his
great performance in the last part
of this movie.
Resurrection" is powerful drama
but it is often unpleasant. 1t has to
be it seems because the novel al
though a masterpiece is often I'M
pleasant with its truths.
The stage presentation this week
is Max Fisher and his California
orchestra. Bill includes news reel,
Topics of the Day and other events.
At the Circle all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
TOLSTOY'S BIG STORY
HAS REACHED SCREEN

Iolstoy viii always be remem-
bered for writing Resurrection" a
tragic story of the old Russia when
Siberia was fact.
Here is a gigantic novel which
would tax the ability of any di-
rector to produce. The story is con-
cerned with the tragic faith of
Katusha Maslova, a beautiful Rus
sian girl and good one until she