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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
TRADE PUT ON
SOUND BASIS,
OUTLOOK Good
Large Amount of Sales Are
Made on Lower Prices
on Commodities.
WAGES REMAIN HIGH
Report ReiterateS Advice to
Congress on Slash
of Taxes.
WAGES REMAIN HIGH
BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY
United Press StaR <Gorresnondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Ameri-
cas- wave of prosperity has receded
somewhat, bringing the business of
the country back to normal ex-
pectancy" with sound underlying
fundamentals, Secretary of Treas
TRY Mellon reported to Congress to-
day.
In his annual report on the Ma
tons finances Mellon declared bust
ness is healthy" and listed eight
conclusions on the past year as fol-
lows:
Living Costs Down
/. "a large volume of business was
done simultaneously with declining
commodity prices-an unusual COM
bination of circumstances.
2. 1.-THE volume of new construc-
ton remained large, as engineering
and industrial and public works
projects were in sufficient volume
practically to offset a decline in con-
struction Of dwellings.
3. High wages, due to increased
average productivity per worker,
and lower living costs, due to de-
Ginning prices, resulted in a sus-
tanned purchasing power for large
variety of consumers commodities.
Caution Marks Business
4. Business was free from the
accumulation of excessive invento-
ries, advance ordering subject to
cancellations, and unreasonable
speculation in commodities, and a
spirit of caution prevailed gen.
orally among business men.
5. Automobile production con-
tinued at a pace somewhat re-
duced from the year before, and
dangers of serious slump have
been lessened as demands for re-
placements are now sufficient to abb
serb about half of the years output.
6. Competition became more in
tense and the largest profits have
made by those concerns capable of
introducing economies or capturing
the market by adaptation of the
products to the demand.
Interest Rates Lower
Z. Charges for the use of fixed
capital were reduced both on in
dustrial and Government securities
and on farm loans.
8. Banks in the United States
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
u s. BUSINESS CONDITIONS IHEALT4Y' MELON SIXTIES
F RMERS HEAR
PERSH|NG TAKE
SIDE OF RELIEF
MCNary-Haugen Endorsed
at Opening of Bureau
Federation.

CHICAGO, Dec, Farm relief as
a step toward national security was
demanded by General John j. PERISH
ing at the ninth annual convention
of the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton here today.
More than 1000 delegates, con-
vened to mould agriculture'S legis-
lative program for 1928, cheered the
American war hero.
"The upbuilding and maintenance
of a healthy farming industry is q
vital element in the problem of ma
tional Defense" Pershing declared.
Remedy Is Sought
at was the 'embattled farmers
of Its who achieved our Inde-
pendence; it was the men who till
the soil who made our nation what
it is today; and if that farm ele-
ment shirnks or deteriorates in char
acter, the fate of the nation is
sealed" he declared.
1.-THE country's attention is focused
upon the problems of American agri-
culture" Pershing said. 1T is OBJ
viouS even to the casual observer
that something is wrong in the adj
justment of that industry to the
complex conditions of the present
day.
Flood Control Brought In
''Unless some way through ma
tional effort is found of raising the
level of prices on our basic products
sufficiently to meet the production
costs and give a margin of profit
that will enable the actual producers
to hold their land and provide for
it's constant improvement, the farm
er is doomed"
Wise utilization Of the land, i'm
provement of the country's water
routes, flood control and further
development of foreign markets,
would help alleviate agriculture's
troubles, Pershing said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
WILL EDUCATE SCOUTS

Higher education today was made
available to forty-eight Boy Scouts
of Eagle rank in the United States
through the Harmon Foundation
scholarships, according to Irving
Williams, court of honor chairman.
The Harmon foundation provides
500 scholarships for Eagle Scouts
in good standing and enables them
to go on with study in their chosen
field. Williams said one scholarship
is available for an Indiana youth
each year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
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BV Serrice
HOLLYWOOD, Ca
II cinaion binding dazzling klegs
Norwegian
probably will return there before spring
Miss Nssen returning
steps other ootght Hollywood Topped
and fastened back to Broadway again. Greta graduated the
Motion producers hatterng
5000 miles the country this village paint
famous. good.
considering declares the blonde
excellent contracts stay in pictures However the call of the
footlghts
Creta Nsn this country
Over there she
reception and continued its ovaon The Viking beauty loved it. She
misses the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
STATE ASKS CHAIR FOR
ALLEGED WIFE SLAYER
John Schmidt on Tral for Second
Time at Rockville.

John Schmidt on Trial for Second
Time at Rockville.
BY Times Special
ROCKVILLE, Ind, Dec. 7.-Evi-
dence by which it hopes to send
John Schmidt to the electric chair
is being offered in Parke Circuit
Court here today by the State of
Indiana. Schmidt is on trial for
the second time, charged with the
murder Of his wife, Julia. The jury
disagreed at the first trail.
Schmidt, a Shepardsville coal
miner, is alleged to have fatally shot
his wife last April while she was
driving along road between Gin
ton and SharpSville in buggy, &C
companied by her daughter, Mar
garet. The latter was slightly
wounded by one of two shots. The
other struck the mother in the head,
causing fatal wound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
LEGloNNAIRES INVITED

Every Legionnaire in Marion
County has been invited to hear
Paul v. McNutt. Indiana University
law school dean and State American
Legion commander, at the Indian
apolis Traffic Club annual banquet
at the Claypool Thursday night.
Superior Judge Byron X. Elliott,
a Legionnaire, will be POSTMASTER.
Lawrence Helm, also a Legionnaire,
president of the Traffic Club, will
preside,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Local Motorist Hurt

ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 7.-Omar
Bennett, As, 3443 College Ave-. In
dianapolis, is suffering from severe
injuries received Tuesday when the
auto he was driving was struck by
a Pennsylvania passenger train at
a crossing east Of the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
CIVIC LEADERS ELECT
Grover C. Parr Named Head of
Broad Ripple C. Of C.

Grover G. Parr was elected to
succeed K. v. zimmerman. Broad
Ripple high school principal, as
president of the Broad Ripple
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
night.
other officers elected we're Bruce
Maxwell, vice president; L. C.
Gleickman, secretary, and William
Whicker. treasurer. Members elect
ed to the board of directors we're
zimmerman, Herman P. Doll and w.
S. Johnson.
Evening star., 1927-09-18
BY Phyllis DIganne

burn OF her neck and arms, catching
in the coils of her red hair and burn.
ing there like hidden embers. Neal
Hunter watched her thouEhtfullN.
Funny how much beauty there is
| in all the homely chores of a fam, "
he said. suddenly.
Beauty" She looked at him over
| her shoulder.
Yes. Symmetry and order--and al
WAYS color. You're singing while you
do that because there's beauty in it. .
Am ]? What a lot you know.
| Her eyes Knocked him, but when she
smiled they softened. and the curve
of her lips removed from her face
some intangible quality of hardness
She was loveliest when she smiled.
and in this month that had followed
hcr mothers death Kathy Snow had
smiled often at Neal Hunter.
He smiled in return. "Of course,
I'll admit it's partly you!' he said
Whatever I see you do. | want to
paint you doing it, Washing dishes,
with the copper rod OF the pump al
most the color of your hair. and the
sink itself-your eyes are like soap
stone, kathy."
What horrid idea. Her eyes we're
like the sink. You're quite poet,
Neal,'
He leaned bnck against the door
frame. Your mother was always so
quaint about that sink! | think 1t
was the one thing she's wanted most.
and she seemed to enjoy it every min
ute. The only time l ever saw any
real human frailty in her was when
she told me how Mrs. Pierce had
wanted a soapstone sink and the
plu,nber couldn't supply it. She posi-
lively gloated"'
He grinned at the recollection, and
then. as he locked at the girl. the
grin faded. "kathy, why do you hate
the Pierces so?''
She turned away from him. You
wouldn't understand. You've never
been poor. And you've never been a
girl" For brief moment she was
conscious of his eyes. puzzled and
frowning: then she forgot them anC
him.
The Pierces. The first of the Sum-
mer people to build their sprawling,
impudent house across the fields, by
the shore. A white house, with orange
shutters and awnings, tennis court
and a highly unnecessary swimming
pool. That was nearly 10 years
ago, when she and Diana Pierce had
been babies. Girl babies, born in the
same month, one to q great sunny
nursery that afterward became the
nucleus cf whole wing given over
to Diana and her friends. the other
to a corner of her parents chamber
and later to the stark, chilly little
room at the lead of the stairs. Be-
cause Bert Snow plowed the earth
for their gardens and supplied their
table with vegetables. the two moth
ers had come into contact. and there
began that passing on Of garments
from Diana's wardrobe to Kathys
that had continued until a year ago.
1t was not until they were talking
that either of the wearers of these
garments comprehended the situation.
Then That's my dress" Diana had
exclaimed, plucking at Kathy's frock
with chubby, possessive fingers.
"kathy's dressr" Kathy had corrected
Evening star., 1927-09-18

her. And Mrs. Pierce, gentle and
friendly. IT'S Kathy's dress now,
Di-baby. Mother gave it to her."
Later on, when they were self-con'
sciCus young women OF 10 and great
comrades, there was the poised young
heiress to the Pierce fortune. smil.
ing graciousiy and dema nding of a
third little girl, Doesn't Kathy Snow
look swee-eet in that dress Of mine?'
THEIR play at friendship was shat
- tered in an instant in the first
still burned deep in Kathy's brain.
who's the girl with the red hair,
Di? I never see her around! Some
boy asking, some boy with interested
eyes, his identity now forgotten and
unimportant. But Diana's answer,
not low-voiced enough. was indelible,
unforgettable: 'Oh, she's just a ma
tive. Mother gives her my old
clothes"'
"Kathyv
She started from her thoughts at
Meals voice and flushed.
Neal came to her side. "You
mustn't let yourself look like that"
he told her. "It's-it's ugly" His
arm slipped about her shoulders.
Dear, know how it must have been.
All kids are so nasty. But kid 1eal'
ous:es shouldn't last. think Dl
Pierce remembers more than you
think-and is sorrier. She told me
last Summer that she used to be
frightfui little snob. Kathy! 1t was
her father who got you your Job in
New York, wasn't it?'
She nodded, unyielding.
Its all over now, foolish" His
fingers tightened on her hand. oh
,, Kathy-"
,, She looked up at him. She liked
him SO much! He was a friend OF
whom even Di Pierce would be proud!
And he liked her, tool
That's my Kathy" Suddenly he
bent over and kissed her lips. AS
abruptly he turned and left her.
Katherine Snow stared after him.
What did he mean? But more. far
more than that. what did this surging
within her breast mean? Love? Why,
after all, was she staying on here?
! She hadn't intended to remain. Yet
before Neal Hunters clear eyes. she
had been ashamed. incapable of tell.
ing her father that she wanted to re.
| turn and leave him alone. 1t was to
| Justify herself before Neal that she
| had remained.
Love was love like that?
He was painting her portrait, and
| during long mornings they sat.
| speechless, facing each other. Neal
Hunter was A different person when
he was working. 1t was as though
Evening star., 1927-09-18
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

vt has occurred to me that many of
the beautiful old poems on which
the present and preceding genera
i tions were brought up are in dam
ger Of passing into oblivion. The
circumstances Of this hurried, rapid
age, filled with movement and crowd
ed with mechanical devices, are rem
dering the old poetry quite unintelli-
gible to the children of today.
For example, when "young Lochin
var came out of the West"-we need
to know at the start that this doesn't
mean the Middle West. We learn also
that he came on "steed." What is
a "steed"? Few children of today
realize that the huge, clumsy animals
that they see hauling the garbage
wagons are "steeds." They would
much more likely think that if young
Lochinvar had ''steed," it meant
something the same as IL he had a
six-cylinder or four---in other words,
he had a this years steed.
Similarly, when the poem says, "He
stayed not for brake and he stopped
not for stone" the meaning is taken
to be that he left in such hurry
that he didn't go into the garage and
get his brakes tightened up.
Or, let us say that ''the boy stood
on the burning deck" Who cares?
Certainly not n generation that thinks
nothing of reading in it's paper, boy
Falls i'm Burning Airplane."
1t seems reasonable, therefore, that
IL the older poetry. the heritage of our
race, Is to remain. some one has got
to revise it. I wish could offer to do
it myself. I fear that l can lay so
little claim to being professional poet
that / must leave the task to more
competent hands. But / might per-
haps indicate by few samples the
ways in which the necessary changes
might be made.
Sometimes a mere alteration Of the
title would do a lot. Thus, 1.-The
Charge Of the Light Brigade" might be
Evening star., 1927-09-18

"The Light Brigade, c. o. D." or per.
haps 1.-THE Cash and Carry Of the
Light Brigade" Then there is that
melodious masterpiece of Edgar Allan
Poe, which should reat. henceforth,
"Quoth the Radio, Nevermore."
But in other cases the poem has got
to be overhauled throughout. There
is something in the environment it
represents that does not correspond
to the life that the children see to.
day. I'll give an example. There was.
body knew and loved that ran
Il remember I remember,
The house where / was born.
And the little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn,"
Etc, ETC., etc.
.
needn't quote the rest Of it. The
essential thought is in the lines above.
But alas! The poem is dropping out;
it no longer fits. Here, however, Is a
for years:
/ wish I could remember
The house where / was born,
And the little window where perhaps
The sun peeped in at morn.
But father can't remember
And mother can't recall,
Where they lived in that December
If it was house at all.
1t may have been a clearinghouse,
Or family hotel:
A fiat or else a tenement.
It's very hard to tell.
There is only one thing certain from
my questioning as yet,
Wherever was born, it was matter
of regret.
That think. reproduces more or
less the spirit of the age. If some
one would just put it into really
good. up-to-date poetry-without any
rhyme in it, and with no marks Of
Evening star., 1927-09-18
LOVE IS LIKE THAT

! till looking at Gordon Carey, she was
sharply aware of Diana S eyes upon
them Di wanted this young man
and she wasn't sure of him.
| Gordon Carey addressed Diana.
"Why don't we ask these people to
come with us tomorrow And to
| Kathy. Il want to go fishing. Dis
arranged for some one to take us out
at dawn tomorrow. Or are you fright
| fully bored with ito
| "No, / like it,
Diana's part in the arrangements
was a passive one; when kathy and
Neal rose to leave. she leaned toward
| her companion with an air of relief.
| For q few moments they walked in
silence, and so vivid We're kathy's
thoughts that she did not notice her
companion looking at her as though
there were nothing else of interest in
the world.
"Di Pierce seems TO have fallen in
love at last She voiced her thoughts
suddenly.
He laughed at her. "You women!
How do you know?"
'Know the symptoms" she retorted.
lightly. Don't you?"
Know the facts" he answered her.
"Gordon was down here last Summer,
and it started then. But--have you
been in love so often. kathy?"
Never She met his gaze square
ly. then faltered. "Why?"
IT don't know. l wondered His
voice was gravely considering, and her
breath caught. Life was suddenly al
together too exciting, with the wonder
of her feeling for this man. I've al
ways been afraid of it," Meals voice
broke through. Il want to paint, and
am l in love with you, Kathy?"
She didn't look at him. Things were
moving so swiftly. SO confusedly. Are
you. Neal?" she asked him.
II don't know" He repeated the
words, AS though he were tasting
them. II don't want to be-" he said.
She glanced. not at him. but away.
up the winding strip of roadway.
why don't you want to be-" she
asked him softly.
There was a fierceness, an unpre-
meditable quality ever dormant in
him. He stopped short now. so sharp
steps before she realized that he was
not still at her side. She turned to
see him staring at her.
He looked at her, then laughed. ex-
ultantly. Come here"'
she came, and ne drew her, almost
jerked her, to the roadside, off the
hard clay. to where her feet sank in
marshy grass.
do you love me?" he demanded.
She was at once rebellious and con-
quered. This was not the way to do
1t; again he seemed almost angry, re.
sentful of her. She felt that, if she
should shout out "No"' he would
lallrh loufiIy and with a sort of relief
DO YOU love me?" she retorted.
They glared at each other, each
defiant of the others thoughts. until
suddenly they lost their anger and
their defiance in the expected EN-
brace
Neal was the first to speak. "kathy.
Oh kathy, do love you. / love you."
II love you.'' she whispered. She
hid her face against his neck. Love!
Evening star., 1927-09-18
Children's Poetry Needs Revision

feet in it, and without putting it into
lines-it might go into any present
day anthology.
But let me, in my own halting and
imperfect way, try another one.
There used to be-either for recita-
tion or for singing-a very pathetic
poem about a little girl begging her
father to "come home" The open
ing stanZa ran:
Father, dear father, come home with
me now;
The clock in the steeple strikes one.
You promised, dear father, that you'd
come home
AS soon as your days work was
done.
The scene, of course. was laid on
the other side Of the eighteenth
amendment. The picture that went
with the song showed, from the out
side. a little tavern, or saloon. with
curtained windows and a warm red
light behind them. Out in the snow
was the girl, singing. And father
was in behind the red curtains. And
he wouldn't come out! That was the
plot. Fathers idea was that he would
stay right where he was--that 1t had
home beaten four ways.
Now all OF that is changed. The
little lighted tavern is gone. Father
stays at home, and the children of
today have got to have the poem re.
cast, so as to keep as much of the
pathos as may be, but with the scene
reversed. Here it Is. incomplete. per-
haps, but suggestive:
FATHER, DEAR FATHER, GO OUT.
Oh, father, dear father. why won't
you got out?
Why sit here and spoil all the fun?
We took it for granted you'd beat 1t
down town
AS soon as you dinner was done.
With you in the parlor, the boys. .are
SO glum,
No games and no laughter about.
Evening star., 1927-09-18

Her eyes hardened. How silly Of
annoyed because I talked so much
with Gordon Careyr' she said. Really,
Neal
did you wonder that?" he inter
rupted smiling humorlessly, and she
had a desperate, frightened sensation.
II don't believe you, Kathy."
She went swiftly to his side.
"Please, dear. don't let's quarrel. l
love you so. Honestly, I wasn't try
ing to hurt Diana! Not really. l
couldn't help it. if" She paused,
but he waited unhelpfully for her to
continue "Oh, Neal"'
I'll guess I want to be alone, y
he said. slowly. I'm sorry, Kathy."
WHAT a difficult, moody person he
" was-and how much she loved
him.
She was silent through the mid
day dinner, bored by the company of
her father and aunt.
Neal came back as Aunt Min was
laying supper upon the table, and
Kathy's depression increased steadily.
Gordon Carey's arrival came like
burst of sunshine. She was glad
them, and, when she stepped out of
Gordon's roadster before the theater,
she turned upon him a smile of
dazzling intimacy.
In the darkness Of the hall. he
leaned toward her Lets duck out
and go somewhere and dance"'
She thought of Neal and Diana
Why shouldn't she go?
"A1l right" she whispered.
1t was late when she returned, late
when she dressed and came down
into the kitchen. Neal was talking
with Aunt Min.
Going to work on my picture
today, Neal?"
bit more on this new landscape, il
you don't mind"
She shrugged. "Why should I
mind?"
But she did mind; she minded ter
ribly. What was the matter with
Neal? She looked at him coolly, con-
cealing any suggestion of her
thoughts. If he wanted to be nasty,
he could see that she could take care
Of herself! When he was through
-sulking, he could come to her and
apologize.
The brain beneath her red hair was
so filled with scattered impressions
and so empty of any actual under.
standing of Neal that, when he did
seek her out, she waited for his
apology. For more than a week she
had been miserable. But now, at last,
they would make up.
She was sitting on the front steps
of the house, reading a magazine,
when he approached her; she put it
down and looked up at him.
well. Neal?"
'Im going away, Kathy"
Going away!" She started to her
feet at once. "Why-where, Neal?"
II don't know-Europe, perhaps"
Europe" For an instant she
thought that her heart had ceased
beating; her breast felt stified, choked
for air. But, Neal, you can't gov'
He was silent, and she stood, arms
dangling limp at her sides, staring
at him. "Neall You don't love me?"
Il do love you, Kathy. But
there's no use in discussing it. May.
be I'm just crazy"
She touched his hand, now, curling
her fingers about it, like a child's.
But dear. If you love mel love
you so! I'm sorry for anything I've
DONE"
He shook his head. "It's not that.
You-you don't love me, Kathy. Not
the way I mean. Love-isn't like
that"
Like what?" Fear was cold within
her now. He couldn't leave her! Not |
really! Love isn't like what?"