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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Curing the Disease

Adoption of the city manager system OF govern
ment is only the first step in curing the disease from
which Indiana and Indianapolis has long suffered.
Three years ago The Times warned the people
of what would happen if the selfish forces OF hate,
fanaticisn and intolerance obtained power.
That warning was not popular. The State burned
with flames of carefully nurtured hates. The appeal
to prejudice had been adroit.
Just because that warning went unheeded, this
State has suffered and this city suffered most.
The men who went into power on the gales OF
fanatical intolerance still in power not only in
high Offices but in control OF the major political party
The hand of Stephenson, though he himself is
in prison cell for life and is being feared by those
he favored, is still upon the State
The men he put into minor offices now seek higher
ones. The benefcaries Of his influence in State af-
fairs still rule the State.
In this city the people have repudated, as far as
they can repudiate the administration which had his
support and which went into power through his
followers
Each day the people are Inundated as exposures
bf the misuse of power are made
Four public officials are charged in the criminal
courts with crimes. The misuse of official power in
actions which are so outrageous that Legislature
thought to make them crimes is daily proclaimed.
The Times has devoted itself to the curing of
"a disease, not merely the parade of symptoms.
Months ago it alone in this city dared to publish
4 the news and it news, of the charges of po-
litical corruption
The results finally in this county have shown that
some of those charges were well founded and that
others are indicated by circunstantial evidence
The exposures have. been made in spite of official
hindrance. Much of the credit is due to the work
of a deputy in the prosecutors Office. They have
in spite of timidty and fear and political
ardice and worse
The time has come to the disease.
The cure lies in driving from power in Office and
In political parties those who brought about this
reign of intoerant fanatical hatreds who proed
by appeals to prejudice who obtained power by secret
bargains, .-~,>
AeIt might be we'll to take pledge to never again
put into power any official who dealt with Indiana's
most famous convict That would reduce the number
aspirants for the governorship in this State very
Considerably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

voices from the Mendelssohn Choir
and will be assisted by Miss Norma
France and Mr.. Elmer A. Steffen.
The program follows:
Break Diviner Light" ........... .Allitsen
Miss France and Mr.. Morris
When Thou CONTEST" (stabat Mater.
Mrs. Kinnaaifd and choir f'''''l
The Phantom Legions" .Ward-stephens
q saSation says M InsSa ioF Rosspi
'Inflammatus' lstabat Mater .Dvorak
Gloria in Exceisis" Cmesse Colonellel
Mrs. Kinnraircd. Mr.. chafie. Mr.. steSen
Solo quartet All" O"'
Mrs. Florence Kinnaird.. soprano.
Miss yiora Frye. contralto.
Mr. Fred Newell Morris. bass and d.
Mr. Paul R. Matthews. oreanist.
Jane Thorne, violin student of
Dom Watson of the Metropolitan
School of Music will be solist for
Chapel service at Fl. Benjamin Har-
rison, Sunday afternoon, June 26.
William Gielow of Burlington. Cal,
member of the Bohemian Orches-
ira giving concerts in conjunction
with the Grove Players at Los An
geles, Cal. was a guest of Dom
Watson, violin instructor of the
Metropolitan School OF Music during
his stay in Indianapolis.
Edwin Jones, violinist of the fac
ulty of the Metropolitan School of
Music, will give several numbers at
the Musical Tea to be given at the
home of Mrs. John A. Huetter, Will
liams Greek Estate, on Thursday
afternoon.
Miss Norma Justice, dramatic
reader of the faculty and Maxine
Moore, contralto. pupil of Edwin Nell
Of the Metropolitan School of Music
will give numbers on the Song Ser
vice program at the Roberts Park
Methodist Chuch, Sunday evening,
June rs.
Miss Marcia Dirnberger, pupil of
Franklin N. Taylor, voice instructor
of the Metropolitan School of Music,
winner of The Times opportunity
contest, left for New York Tuesday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Always the Exception

You hear politicians rave over
the necessity of initiating laws and
recalling public officials by popular
vote.
You hear them proclaiming that
constitutional amendments should
be adopted in this way.
You hear them denouncing the
incapacity of municipal, State and
national governments to decide all
sorts of questions.
You hear them arguing for the
referendum with regard to about
everything.
When it comes to war, however,
you hear only profound silence.
War, it seems, is the one thing
that should be left to a chosen
few, though war touches life and
liberty in a more tragic way than
any other public business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

/. What incident from Bible his
tory is pictured in the illustration
below?
2. What relationship did Nimrod,
the hunter~bear to Noah?
3. What miracle did Christ per-
form with the pronouncement, "Tal-
itha, cumi?"
4. Who was Roman governor OF
Syria when Christ was born?
S. Who prophesied the destruc-
ton of Babylon and the land of the
Chaldeans?
6. In what manner did King
Herod meet his death?
7. How was the garden of Eden
guarded after Adam and Eve had
been banished?
8. Who judged Israel after the
arc of the Lord had been returned
by the Philistines?
8. What king ordered that every
man should be ruler in his own
house after the kings command had
been disobeyed by his queen?
10. Who said, LET the day perish
wherein I was born?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
VI. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
The Notion That People
Can Get What They
Want Through Sympd-'
thy for Some One They
Haze MiStreated Is AU
Bunk.
SAYS:

PORTLAND. Maine, June 25.-
Measured by the gate receipts which
Tex Rickard estimates will be at
least $1,oOo,ooO, the Dempsey-shark?
ey fight is a very important affair
At most, it can only furnish the
spectators with forty-five minutes
of fisticuffs.
What is there in three-quarters OF
an hour of such entertainment that
can be worth $1,000,000?
These two gentlemen, neither OF
whom is a champion, will drag
down more money than President
Coolidge, even if he serves a third
term. ... ..'
We have certainly acquired a
strange sense of value when three
quarters of an hour in the ring are
worth more than ten years in the
White House. ....
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(MARION LEADER-TRIB

(MARION LEADER-TRIBUNE)
The surprise of the Indianapolis election is the
unusual majority for the change in government For
several weeks has been predicted for the new
order. But the most enthusi-
City astc did not anticipate any such re-
1x suit The majority was overwhelming,
MWhe"9e' and must have been humiliating to
ELectiOn the old-time politicians Indianapolis
has had some most unhappy crcum-
stances in connection with its recent political
history They such to arouse the peo-
pie, and to create demand for a new order of
affairs The size of the vote shows beyond the per-
adventure OF doubt that when the people are really
concerned, and believe there is hope for improve
ment that they will not hesitate to express their
choice. The next important chapter in the of
events is to insure the right kind of commission.
We know that a commission government is not always
blessing. They become as unpopular as any
other system of government The lack of partsanship
does not of itself eliminate the evils and there
times when party responsibility is needed to restore
efficient conduct of affairs But the people have
a commission which will insure an honest and eff
c1ent administration, and it is important for them
to see that strong are nominated and elected to
the new commission City manager government is not
cure-all by any means 1t is probably step for
ward but its advantages may be easily lost by indf
ference in the selection of the personnel of the COM
mission y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
The Results of Usury

JA9sJef7erson, special investigator of the Julian
Pete Corporation swindle calls the collection of
usurious interest by the bankers pools involved the
most alarming phase of that financial disaster.
THE situation" he says us one to make every
American STOP look and listen"
Itsis Since the Biblical injunction was issued
against lending upon usury to thy brother the prac-
tce Of levyng tribute for the use of money has
been condemned through history as unsocal disrup-
tive and criminal In Biblical days slavery the
result of usry In the account of the building of the
second temple of Jerusalem the borrowers cried OUT
We have borrowed money for the kings tribute, and
that upon lands and vineyards, and, 10, bring
into bondage our and our daughters to be
ants neither isait in power to redeem them, for
other men have lands and vineyards"
In Athens great part of the population became
virtually enslaved through usury. The small land
holders nominally Free had stone pillars erected on
their land bearing the names of the lenders and the
amounts of debts owed. Scion found it necessary
to proclaim a "sesachtheia"-a shaking off of bur-
ens canceng all debts made on security of land or
persons
In Rome the evils arose to destroy the
State In the course of two or three centuries the
small free farmers driven into virtual slavery by
debt. Rates as high so per cent imposed in
per cent. Julius Caesar adopted the radical
hat Scion had applied five centuries earlier but not
3tjls the middle classes had been destroyed.
cato, according to Cicero was once asked what
he thought of usury rz
what do you think Of murder?" Cato replied
The resentment of the English toward usury was
such that it reacted against the whole Jewish
driven from England in 1890 because of the practices
of some of the money lenders Shakespeares 'Mer-
chant of Venice is full Of anti-usury propaganda 1t
was a tract against money slavery much as Uncle
Is Cabin" tract against chattel slavery
s. "Usury dulls and damps all industries improve
hts and new inventions, wherein money would be
FIRING if it were not for this slug" said Lord Bacon
s'Usury is the and-shark and the devil-fsa of
mmercep said Basford
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
PLAGUE of Moose

California can brag Of her mouse
and grasshopper plaques all she
likes, but Brewer, Maine, takes the
prize in reporting a plague of moose,
1t is a dull morning, they say,
when some inquisitive moose does
not stroll into Brewer TO play havoc
with lawns and gardens, frighten
children or obstruct traffic by mean,
dering down the principal streets.
Those of an unimaginative turn be-
lieve it is the same moose given en-
cores, but a more original explana-.
ton is the Brewers new fire whistle
which announces the time twice a
day, and, of course, all confagra-
tons, sounds so much like the call
of bull moose that it is emptying
the nearby woodlands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Questions and
AnSWerS

Where is the magazine "Our
Navy" published and what is the
subscription price?
1t is published semi-monthly at
81 Sands ST., Brooklyn, N. Y. The
yearly subscription is $3.50.
What is Photographic wili?"
One written, dated and signed
wholly by the hand of the testator
himself.
When was John Quincy Adams
the American minister to the
Netherlands?
From 1894 to 1877.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
ANDERSON RrrrIrrYN,


Inc voters OF indianapolis, at special election
nave adopted manager plan for the government of
that city by 5-to-1 VOTE The large majority given
the plan is most fiattering indorse-
The City ment OF the plan and also shows the
Mo,,ooo, determination of people to rid their
N1"""9" city OF its misrule by Republican poll
Plan. ticians of the Duvall class The vote is
evidence that public opinion is over
whelmngly in favor, not only of change that will
eliminate Duval- Khan control but of giving the
ager plan trial The City Manager style of govern
ment has been tried in other cities-in some with
success, and in others with failure The success Of
the plan depends on its honest and efficient admins
tratlon The plan involves city government abso-
utely free from any political domination 1t involves
management by high grade officials
indianapolis has taken its first STEP 1t won its
nrst skirmish. Its real battle is yet to That
battle VIII be to choose honest officials 1t will take
an intensely aroused public opinion to win this battle
because politicians are strongly ntrenched ana VIII
resort to any corruption to hold and own that CITY,
The success Of the recent vote may be taken as
stlngng rebuke to the present administration WHO'S
Mayor is under indictment in the Marion County
criminal court. The people Of Indianapolis hu 9.
realize that they themselves, must make tner cry
government Under any form, it will not DC any any
better than the people make It. The result VI ''-
election is indication of their awakening. t,
Only one city in Indiana has the manasI Iujar-
Of government. That is Michigan City II Ii So1t
apos makes good with the plan other clues ~ ~
will try it, In Indianapolis the situation e"i1'0' ~
worst than at present.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Mistaken Notion

Those Kansas prisoners may have
thought that they we're staging a
mutiny when they captured their
guards and refused to come out Of
the mine, but instead, they were
merely starting a hunger strike.
Their idea was, of course, that
sympathy for the guards would in
duce prison officials to accede to
their demand.
This is a very old idea and a very
poor one.
The notion that people can get
what they want through sympathy
for someone they have mistreated
is bunk. 49,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

baltimore EVENING
The people of Indianapolis, Ind, have finally got
ten tired of the Ku-Kuxism and dirty politics gen.
orally which have made their city laughing stock in
the country Yesterday they went to
ReciDe for thefpols and voted to change the form
of their government. Hereafter, if the
GOOU GOO- election turns out to have been legal
e1n71ent they won't have mayor and city
council but will turn the affairs of
their city over to commission of members who
in turn will choose city manager to run things.
The change will undoubtedly be for the better
for the moment. For the present Mayor of Indian
apolis being creature of the Kan is laborng under
handicap There is a charge of criminal conspiracy
pending against him and also against his brotherin
law, the City Controller
But though there will be some advantage in get
ting rid of the present Mayor the people of Indian
apolis are unthinkng children if they believe that
political evils can be cured by mere change in the
form of government. No system of government has
yet been devised which is potician-proof There is
no system which cannot be mastered and controlled
by the political machines for their own purposes
The for this situation not difficult to
discover The politician works at his trade every day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
He Finds It Simple

World peace says the Rev. William Sheafe Chase,
D. d. of Washington, D. c.. is simple matter. And
he has launched elaborate drive for Federal
regulation of all movies.
The Rev. Chase is superintendent of the Interna-
tional Reform Federation The International Reform
Federation is the Rev. Chase
Both believe that movies must be brought under
control of the Federal Government
1.-THE steadily increasing evil of the movies is a
great foe of world peace says Chase cit is likely to
incite world
Films have told other nations that we are rolling
in wealth, and have represented us as breaking all
moral and civil laws held in respect by other nations.
eff this is allowed to continue motion pictures
may incite the nations of the earth to unite in
to seize our wealth and destroy our civilization.
Wholesome pictures for the world will insure
universal peace"
So the Rev. Chase has got up some pamphlets
telling about the menace in detail, and is sending
them al the United States He will have bill
presented to the next Congress.
The bill would create Federal motion picture
commission of six members to hold Office for life or
good behavior
They would have power to inspect and criticise
all scenarios before films manufactured, and to
inspect the staging and acting of play before it is
photographed. The bill will not pass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Who started the style for bobbed

Irene Castle is credited with
starting the modern fashion. A
young woman with bobbed hair is
shown on wall painting in an Eng
lish Parish Church built in 1880
Pictures Of Joan of Arc usually rep
resent her with short hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Brain TeaSey.S

Here's another chance to test
your knowledge of Bible history and
people. Answers to all the questions
,,,;11 10 fA,,y1I o,a v,orrA "a
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The Faculty and Pupils of Stockn1am Studios VIII
Give Variety Shoe at Playhouse of Little Theatre

evening, where she joined the Pub
lix Revue Company for an extended
engagement.
r" OUR American singers will ap-
r pear on the Atwater Kent
~ hour Sunday night. The
artists will be Charles Harrison, first
tenor; Redferne Hollinshead, second
tenor; Vernon Archibald, baritone,
and Frank Croxton, basso.
Program follows:
Santa Lucia. -. .Neapolitan Boat Song
American Singers.
Dediested to and sung BY Frank cF Sen.
81 sweetest s9 story Ever Told. n SUITE
American Singers.
"Ah, Moon OF NV Delight" .... Lehman
,,,,L A., MI. Harrison. ,.-...,..
Oio man N American Singers. oSi 'i'0i0'i'e~
Bertha Ball Archibald viii be at the
piano.
" Piano recital will be given
"A Monday night in Sculptor
III Court at the John Heron
al AllotiNuSO NY CASIlb uNdAlCCO pu-
pills of Percival Owen and assisted
by v. L. Cornish, baritone soloist,
of the First Baptist Church.
The program follows:
Program
Sonata .Traglca -. Edward Mcdowell
- Mrs; Pearl Stewart Mcdonald
D1 Mrs: Mary Purv;iance Sanders DD'' :,
Ell Iu-Nai Mr. 1. V. Cornish ''Ne''i
Grave and Allegro die Motto Cam brio
from Sonata op. 10 .......... Beethoven
Miss Lucille Pritchard
Caprice-Burlesque op. Is No. l:;...:..
Miss Irene Coulson
Part Two
Prelude In G minor op. no 2. ,....,..
....,.s........... Hacnmanlnou
Mrs. Harry M. Chaddock
Dramatic Sonata list movement. Beethoven
Mrs. John c. Sander
sylvia .......l. :............. .Oley SPEAKS
Where You Walk ................. Handel
Mr.. L. v. Cornish
Theme and Variations in F. Minor. -;
vaise in sharp minor op. 81 No. - A..
Mrs. clifford Foiz OV''
scheTzO in II E i minor op. is No. 2; 800;
'''' Miss Mildred weymer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

Let us be thankful there is presidential spokes-
man in the Black Hills Think of the whopping
fish stories he might weavel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

Walking is good for the complexion, according to
physical culture expert Some of the women, how
ever insist on phoning for theirs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

The radio brings shows, fights elections and al
most everything else into the home-but the young
people go out, just the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

T" HE choir of the Tabernacle
| | Presbyterian Church, Thirty
IL Fourth st. and Central Ave-,
will give its final musical service of
the season Sunday evening, June 26.
at 7:45 o'clock.
The choir will be augmented with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

The special six weeks term for
supervisors opened last Monday
with the largest enrolment in the
history of the Indiana College Of
Music and Fine Arts.
The following are the subjects
taught and the teachers: High
school methods, chorus and instru-
mentation, Frederic A. Barker; eye
and ear training, grade methods
and piano normal, Flora E. Lyons;
harmony and harmonic analysis,
Bertha M. Jasper; theory, Arthur
w. Mason; history and music ap-
probation, Lenora Coffin; violin
classes, w. E. Tallentire, and stage
department, Ruth Todd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25
Boston Is Different

Most towns regard a man perched
on a flagpole as just another stun.
Boston, however, takes a different
view, looks behind the scenes, as it
were. and regards him as only one
more obstruction to traffic.
Sparrow Holl might have taken
the nonstop flagpole roosting
record away from "Shipwreck's
Kelly, except for this very view.
He found the flagpole endurable,
but he could not stand the i'm
portunities of a chief Of police, who
threatened to throw bricks, cap
tain, a sergeant and a patrolman.
who would have climbed up and
brought him down if the pole had
not been creased. and a publicity
agent, who actually did battle in his
behalf. .,,.
Neither the height nor the narrow
ness of his seat bothered Mr.. Holl;
but the show of authority broke his
heart.
He descended after fifty-five hours
of heroic effort, and now he faces
prosecution in court "for endanger-
ing the life and safety of the
public.
The theory back of it is that au-
toists might have run into each
other or over pedestrians while
craning their necks to see Mr.. Holl.
and that this made him. as one
complaining citizen puts it, a novel
and unique hazard"
You just cannot beat Boston when
it comes to discovering first causes
and applying effective remedies.
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evening, where she joined the Pub
lix Revue Company for an extended
engagement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-25

m ONIGHT and Monday night,
II June 81, at $3.50 o'clock, the
III faculty and pupils of the
Stockman Studios will present va
riety show at Little Theatre, 1847
N. Alabama st.
The program will include a large
variety of entertainment, including
a one-act play, musical comedy
sketches, skating. tumbling, singing
and instrumental selections. The
dancing will include ballroom, step,
ballet and acrobatic.
rrl.o foIIou,;,,o, will toI,a mart.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Take Fun-Makiing Seriously.

THAT making motion picture come.
businesses in the world is the claim
ton, comedy team Paramount pic
lures are shown in 81 foreign coun-
tries. Titles and subtitles are trans
lated into S5 different languages. 1t
is, in fact. a case Of having the world
laugh with you. And if the laugh
isn't there, your comedy becomes the
most tragic of tragedies. The whole
world weeps.
1t is for this reason that Reery and
Hatton take their fun making seri-
ously. They never attempt a scene
without it's having been thoroughly
discussed and debated from all angles
before the camera turns.
Then it often happens that the
scene Is not taken as planned. In
motion picture comedy making it is
an accepted fact that extemperaneous
action gets the biggest laugh, and
1t is here that Berry and Hatton ex-
Gel. To a great extent they direct
their own pictures.
In their new comedy, Fireman.
Save My Child" they are called upon
in one scene to rescue a parrot from
the topmost branches of tall tree
In the midst of the scene Beery grab
bed the vacated cage from the hands
of Josephine Dunn, held it invitingly
up toward the bird and started to
whistle as though calling a dog. 1t
was only a little thing that Beery
thought of on the spur of the mo-
ment.. but it draws 4 big laugh in
the picture. q -