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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

Let us journey today through the
Heron Art Institute.
The conventionalizing of both form
and color in the work of Max Bohm
imparts to it a decorative value
that enhances the poetic imagery Of
his motifs.
His forms are achieved by fat
areas of unbroken mass and a re-
strained use of line. His color is
rich. with no suggestion of vibration
or reflection or glancing light. Bohm
was no impressionist.
He expressed himself after the
manner of the "old masters" but
with a spontaneity-a happy realiza-
ton of the charm of unstudied tech
nique-that is wholly modern. Five
of the paintings shown deal with the
sea.
Before they were painted Bohm.
with the thorougnness that charac-
terized him, went to sea and studied
his subject at close range. Then he
produced these canvasses and others,
and they represent his intimate re-
action 20 life on the fathomless
depths.
They have a somber quality that is
for the most part absent from his
other work. They were painted in
no holiday mood. They show grim
skies, heavy water and dark old
ships. but in them the artists UNI
erring feeling for beauty of pattern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
We Hope Mr.. stimson's Been
Misouoted

Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stmson'
sent by President Coolidge to war-torn Nicaragua
to make special study of the situation for him. mas
arrived at Managua, the conservative capital
interviewed upon landing at Corinto he SAID ne
MANNED to study the entire situation from an Impair
tjal standpoint. He would listen to both SIDES ana
entertain suggestions from any responsible persons
whether liberals or conservatives,
Which sounds very well, but for the fact that
there are no Irresponsible" liberals in Managua.
That is none outSide of jail.
Then maybe Mr.. Stimson is going to cross over
10 the east coast of Nicaragua or go to some neutral
interior point and there hear what DR.. Juan B.
sacasa the liberal president has to say Not so, ac-
cording to the dispatches If DR.. Sacasa wishes to
visit him. he is quoted as saying he Will receive h'
But he added apparently for fear he might be mis-
understood, he was mot suggesting such step
Imagine European visiting the United States
during the Civil War to make an Impartial study
of that conflict and visiting only one side. Imagine
him calling on Jeff Davis, then saying: NOW II
Lincoln wishes to visit me here in Richmond III
receive him" Or, imagine him stopping OF at
Washington and in an offhand sort Of way suggest
ing Davis might make his way through the Union
lines to tell him his side of the story.
There's a civil war on in Nicaragua. One CAPT
tai is at Managua. The other is at Puerto Cabezas'
clear over on the other coast. An impartial inves-
tigator would call at both places and talk to the
Liberal Sacasa as we'll to the conservative Diaz
We sincerely hope the Presidents envoy has
been misquoted. For unless he has been, he might
have saved himself both time and trouble by writing
his report without having left this country. We
don't believe his chief wants that kind of story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Another Lost Chapter

One more of the ancient bulwarks slipped away,
apparently when the Supreme Court decided that the
members of the Legislature will draw $40 a day
instead of six as salaries for the session just closed
The Constitution of the State and the charters
of most cities provide that lawmakers cannot raise
their own wages.
This safeguard against the greed of officials has
always semed to be reasonable. When men seek
public Office and are given power the
penditure of money it is not unreasonable to limit
that power of spending money as not to permit
them to take it from the treasury in the form of
higher salaries.
But the last Legislature, when it assembled,
thought that it. could Jimmy more dollars out of
the treasury The former Legislature had decided
that the members we're underpaid and following ira
dition fixed salaries to take effect at time when
none of the members voting for the increase, would
be in Office.
The theory that higher salaries would attract
a better class of officials and candidates did not
apply until two years hence for no member when a
candidate had any idea of drawing more than the
usual Sc day.
Whatever may be the legal argument of the
three members of the Supreme Court who finally
decided to let the lawmakers have their increase,
the plain truth is that members of the Legislature
did raise their own salaries above a sum which
they had expected to get.
Two members of the Supreme Court say that
the action was against the constitution and that
these members who voted increase of salaries
are no more entitled to the money than they would
be had they taken a jimmy and a gun and walked
away with it from the treasurers office.
"What is the Constitution between friends?
was the cynical comment of very shrewd pollti'
clan of this State.
The Supreme Court gives the answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Where Are the Farm Leaders?

Here's something the farm leaders of the coun-
try might explain.
Since 1920 most of them have been advocating
various forms of government relief for the farmers.
At the same time they have charged that the rail-
roads gouge the farmers and have demanded rate
reductions.
Since 1920 there has been almost continual con-
troversy railroad valuation. Freight rates de-
pend on the outcome of that controversy The inter-
state commerce commission has theory of how
railroads should be valued; the railroads have an
other. If the railroads win their contention, the
commission predicts that freight rates will go higher
instead of lower
The money stake involved directly is something
like 0000,00000o. The indirect stake-freight
rates on farm products a striking example-makes
the vastly larger
No class is So vitality affected, perhaps, as the
farmers But, where have the farm leaders been
during this long controversy? Absent, moving up
and down the highways and the lanes shouting for
rate reductions in general, they have kept out of
the controversy that probably will determine whether
they are ever to have any reductions.
What is the reason?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
This May Explain

1t was revealed, when Senator Reed was asking
Sam insult embarrassing questions about the money
he had contributed to the Illinois campaign, that
certain amount of insult money had gone to the
Chicago city organization. 1t was in resisting in
qures concerning this money that Incull got himself
charged with contempt of the United States Senate.
There may be some light all this in two
things that have happened since Big Bill Thompson
regained the mayors Office.
FIRST he appointed Samuel Etteson corporation
counsel Sam Ettelson is Sam Insults attorney.
Second, he made speech in which he declared:
"Electrifcaton the Illinois Central Railroad
must be extended to all other railroads"
Sam insult owns all the electricity in or about
Chicago
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

If you follow present day drama,
either at first hand or in the maya
zines, today's list Of questions ought
not to be hard for you. The answers
are printed on page IA:
/. What famous American actress
is this?
2. Name five of the best known
plays written by Booth Harrington
of Indianapolis.
8. In which of the Harrington
plays did Otis Skinner appear?
4. In what way dis Miss Ann
Nichols playwright, earn a huge for
tune during the last four or five
years?
5. Who wrote THE Great God
Brown"
6. What Shakespearean play was
given some months ago in modern
costumes?
Z. What actress starred for a long
time in the play "Rain?"
s. What husband and wife have
acted for many years in Shakespear-
can plays?
8. What prominent actress is the
daughter of what equally prominent
poet?
10. Who wrote and acted in "Is
Eat So?"
II. What producer stages musical
revues under the title THE Scan.
dals?" -.-
IL. Collaboration in the author.
ship of what play made Laurence
Stallings famous?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Looking Over New Events in Painting
World at the Heron Art Institute

persists and they have much fine,
deep color.
After a study of these pictures
of the sea. it is interesting to turn
TO the Ritchel paintings in the adj
joining gallery. These are for the
most part marines.
Bitchel is prominently a marine
painter. His is the gift of encom.
passing the boundlessness of ocean
wastes within a three-foot frame.
In The Trade Wind a gallant
gray ship churns through choppy
waves of a marvellous blue color.
There are porpoises, too, their shin
ing, curving forms leaping from the
water. For sheer romance, a great
ship under full sail has no peers,
and this painting has caught the
same spirit of high adventure that
is associated with the golden gal
Icons of an earlier day.
There is blue water also in THE
Derelict'-a keener, more smart
ing blue-and white foam and a
heavy smothering sh-.
Stormbeaten Coast" shows a
green sea and black rocks: "A
Morning Hour" purple rocks over
grown with warm brown weeds and
tumbling, splashing waves, all
clear blues and greens and laven.
ders. These paintings hold the very
essence of the tempestuous sea and
will prove gratifying to esthetic ap.
petites satiated with the fields and
hills and winding roads of the In
diana landscape.
Among the artists represented in
the present showing of Modern
French Prints and Drawings" the
names OF Ingres and Delacroix ap-
pear anachronous. In their day they
both were moderns, but their day
is long past, and Ingres appears dis
tinctly formal to art patrons of 1927,
and Delacroix tiresomely emotional.
Ingres G78O-186O was, at the be.
ginning of the nineteenth century,
considered an iconoclast among the
classicists, and though recognized
as a leader Of the young classicists,
was subjected to the most hostile
criticism by the established school.
The Romanticists, under the leader
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
WHY Not Bring Them Here?

1t was an excellent thing that debate on prohibit
ton arranged by the Roosevelt Club in Boston
Two men whose motives above suspicion
stood before an eagerly interested audience and ar
gued the pros and cons of the subject. Each gave
the other credit for sincerity and intelligence and
each treated the other with respect.
Yet, it not dull affair, but the contrary.
The stenographc report of the speeches bristes with
brackets reading applause, laughter and cheers)
The audience not only edited, but had good
time. Even those who paid as much as $40 for
seat evidently thought they got their moneys worth
Why not bring Senator Borah and President But
Ter to indianapolis for similar debate? Neither has
said his last word on the subject. Each has given
the other cause for thought and, doubt, aroused
desire to further drive home the ideas expressed in
Boston.
If not Butler and Borah, then two others of
prominence-provding that two men capable of con-
Quoting debate the high plane be
found Tricky, demagogic orators of either side
would not do. We've heard enough of them. What
is wanted is honest discussion by men who have
studied the question from the standpoint of the
general welfare, men who are scholars grounded in
the history of this and other nations. Paid speakers
for the Anti-saloon League out Likewise
paid speakers of the other side.
The issue is great and important, too much
to be trifed with. The president of Columbia
University and the senior Senator from Idaho ap-
proach it in the right spirit the spirit that lends hope
to enlightenment 1t is their type that Indianapolis
should hear
The very fact that such debate could be ar
ranged and CARED through in the excellent manner
reported from Boston is encouraging.
"The subject is not debatable" has been the
attitude of the Anti-Saloon League. Yet we now
read that Wayne B. Wheeler himself has agreed
to debate it with Clarence barrow.
The people of this country recognize that the
temperance problem still remains and they are seek
ing solution.
Honest debating h bound to help III
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Why Not Prepare2

Some people think we are about
to enter an era of free love, and
that instead of being shocked at the
prospect. we should provide for ii
in sensible and scientific ways.
Judge Lindsay has suggested that
we might adopt "companionable mar
riage," and Judge Lewis of Chicago
predicts that we will eventually per-
NIT prenuptial unions. though not
for a few hundreds years perhaps.
If prenuptial unions are ever per-
mitted, isn't it common sense to
suppose that the wedding ceremony
will be done away with altogether?
Those who think we can substitute
something for the marriage contract
in one respect without destroying 1t
in all respects, ignore the tendencies
of human nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Fruit of IdIeneSS

Much of this free loving and in
triguing is due to idleness, especially
on the part of women.
The young married woman with
nothing to do has become a veri-
table pest. 1t was commonly sup
posed that she would use her spare
time and energy for self-improve-
ment, that the vacuum cleaner, the
electric washing machine and the
apartment which virtually takes
care of itself promised an age of
such culture and intellectually on
the part Of the women as was never
before known.
Instead. we get a multiplication of
bridge clubs, dancing parties and sex
triangles and sometimes murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Self-Made Men

DR.. Edward A Fitzpatrick dean of the graduate
school of Marquette University took occasion to
remark the other day that all men-even college
graduates-are "self-made men,"
Education can in the last analysis be only a
process of self-development, where is mas
ter of his fate and the artist creating his life
of the materials of his experience he says.
That's point worth stressing. In school or out
of it, every man is constantly meeting new exper-
fences, each one of which has certain effect on
him. His reaction to these experiences determines
what he will be. He is, after ALL arbiter of his
own destiny, to that extent at any rate.
We are, DR.. Fitzpatrick says all selfmade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Bunk for iBoobS'

There are plenty of opportunities
to work in this country without
quarreling. to do big things and to
make investments on which we can
look back with pride.
Why don't we build more, instead
of wasting our energy in disputes
and fracases that get nowhere?
Why don't we give the doctor,
the engineer, the chemist a bigger
chance and put more of a premium
on constructive thought?
Rykoff says that the capitalist
world is preparing to make war on
China and Russia.
That is bunk for the boobs," as
a great New Yorker once said after
delivering a speech in Indiana.
The capitalist world is doing a
lot Of things it would better leave
undone, but it is not paying
bolshevism the compliment of pre-
pairing for war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Tales of Finance

The recent stock dividend declared
by the United States Steel Corpora
ton makes it billion-dollar corpora
ton.
That the transaction was a paper
one. is shown by the fact that it
caused little excitement in the stock
market.
United States Steel is worth no
more than it was a week ago, but
the stockholders have been given
look-in on prospective earnings.
Meanwhile, the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Company out.
ranks United States Steel by a few
millions, while such gigantic con-
Germs as Standard Oil, General
Motors and the Pennsylvania Rail
road trail far behind.
AS for Henry Ford, he has the
capitalization of fifth rate, national
bank in New York. but the greatest
cash reserve of them all. and he
isn't passing any stock dividends to
anyone but himself and family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
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! I)A( ~
" Says:
Some People Think We Are
About to Enter an Era
of Free LoUe.
By NJ. Il. Tracy

The news is not only thick with
murder, but with murder of Pc
culiar kind.
The Gray-Snyder is one of three
now stirring the East. in which
man and a woman are charged with
conspiring to kill the woman's hus-
band in which their infatuation for
each other has turned to hate.
There have always been such cases
and doubtless there always will be.
but they are coming too fast to be
explained on the ground Of coinci-
dence.
1t is justifable to assume that they
are sympathetic of something new
in our scheme of life. especially
when considered in connection with
the increase of divorce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Tan1many a Handicap

Tammany is ready to establish
wigwams throughout the country,
we are told, which was what its
founders intended.
No matter what its founders in
tended, Tammany would better think
twice before taking in so much
territory, especially if it wishes to
help Governor Smith.
Tammany is already one of his
greatest handicaps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
A Real Night

Many people had an ex.
perience last night at the Palace
when N. V. A. night was
observed. understand that
the three variety theaters
played their part. The state
ment is the truth. Names have
nothing to do with this. but the
spirit behind it. The audience
was there, the best ever. 1t
was a celebration for a real
reason. I know that the man.
ayers of Keith's and the Palace
do not need nor even think of
having their names used. ItA
was night for the actor and y.
the public. 1t was vaudeville
night with the Palace, Keiths
and the Lyric linking arms In
a common cause. N. V. A.
had it's greatest success II
night at the Palace. l mus
that VIII Mahoney gave his
very best for the best. By
Walter D. Hickman.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Scared by Figures

Some years ago Senator Newlands
presented a program for tanning the
Mississippi. 1t required the expen-
diture of 100000, 900 and would have
taken ten years to complete.
The Government took fright at
such staggering figures and side
stepped. A little later, however, we
entered a war which cost fifty times
as much.
Here again is something we might
philosophize about with profit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20

you are going west until you come
back to New York, having circled
the globe. In the middle of the Pa
cific Ocean at the 1S0th parallel Of
longitude, you gain a day or lose a
day depending on whether you are
travelling around the world in an
easterly direction or a westerly di-
rection. The direction does not
change at that parallel of longitude;
only time changes.
Can i get a Victory button from
the War Department to replace the
one / lost?
The War Department does not
supply duplicate Victory buttons.
They can be bought from Bailey,
Banks & Biddle, 1918 Chestnut ST.,
Philadelphia, upon presentation of
honorable discharge papers.
How soon after ore receives his
second citizenship papers does he be-
come a full citizen of the United
States?
Immediately.
How old is Lille Langtry, the
actress? Is she still on the stage?
She was born in Jersey, England,
Oct. IS, 1852. She has retired from
the stays, and lives at Regal Lodge,
Kentford, Suffolk, England.
Where did the expression "AlI
roads lead to Rome" originate?
What does 1t maen?
Rome was the focus of the ancient
Roman empire and from that center
net work of roads radiated. The
expression, "All roads lead to Rome"
has taken its meaning from that
ancient fact and signifies that for
those who have an objection any
path of conduct will inevitably lead
them to it in the end.
How many letters are there in the
Bible?
There are 2,72S,100 in the Old
Testament and S3S,3SO in the New
Testament making total of 1885,
4S0.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
Raging Mississippi

The Mississippi boils over. A
dozen persons have been drowned
already, $4,000 have been made
homeless, and the worst is yet to
come.
Nobody shows must interest. how
ever. except those Immediately con-
cerned.
Here is something which we might
philosophize with profit and our best
writer's might analyze to advantage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-20
A United Citizenship

1T is time to stop thinking about the good of
the party and 10 think about the good of Indian
apolis" the slogan raised by ]. w. Esterline
outstanding citizen, in behalf of the city manager
form of government.
The bad government and bad government in
the past and present is admitted, far as this
city is concerned be traced directly to the effect
of partisan politics.
The desire to build up political machines
which can be used to promote the ambitions of
men for State and national office is responsible for
the misrule of this city.
Men go into Office hampered by partisan afilia-
lions and party promises. Public Office is looked
upon not as an opportunity for service, but as
means of advancing private interests.
Men appointed to the jobs not for their abil-
ity to perform work in behalf of the city and not
because they fitted by training and experience,
but because they have influence at election time and
in the primaries.
The attention of the voters is centered not on
the capacity the integrity of candidates. but upon
their party labels.
Republican and Democratic voters, who want
exactly the same thing from city government, are
divided at the polls by their prejudices and their
traditions.
The city manager form of government makes
Of city government a business institution designed
to give the people an efficient administration of
their affairs.
The city government has to do with streets
not with tariffs, with law enforcement not with the
League of Nations
Yet the people divided on their beliefs on
national problems when they go to vote.
In cities which operated under the city
manager form, and there over 800 of them in
this country partisan politics has been replaced by
efficiency.
1t permits good citizens, and by good citizens is
meant the men and the women who want honesty
decency and efficiency. to stand together at the polls
and not to work under the burdens and handicaps
Of politically controlled machine
One Of the fine results that will come from this
cnange to be voted on June 81 will be opportunity
Tor united citizenship in behalf of greater Indi
annapolis