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Evening star., 1928-11-28
COMMUNITY INSTITUTE-Sydney
Thompson.

Melodrama, comedy and delightful
old ballads are promised next Wednes-
day night, December 5, by one of
Americas youngest and most versatile
stage stars, Sydney Thompson, who
will appear on a program of the Com
mnuity Institute at Central Community
Center, Thirteenth and Clifton streets
northwest.
Frequently called a second Julia
Marlowe," Miss Thompson's recitals are
highly original, and of wide diversity.
Then, too, her creative faculty; is
joined with fine dramatic ability; and
the picturesque rainment which she
dons for her character combines to give
rare pleasure.
Miss Thompsons program will in
clude two original plays, THE Missing
Years and "A Proposal of Marriage;
excerpts from French poems of the
Middle Ages-including those of Marie
de France, the Troubadours, and Pierre
de Ronsard, and English ballards and
madrigals.
Tickets may be had at the Willard
newsstand and at the American Auto
mobile Association offices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
LIFE ON VENUS
HELD POSSIBLE
Dietz Says Chance Greater
Than on Mars.

Possibilities of the planet Venus
being inhabited probably are greater
than the possibilities of life on the
planet Mars, David Dietz, Scripps-
Howard Science Editor and Fellow
of the Royal Astronomical Society,
told students at Shortridge High
School today.
Dietz presented an illustrated lee
ture upon the subject of astronomy,
entitled "A Trip Through the Uni
verse" before 1000 students.
Most astronomers are Of the
opinion that our earth is the only
inhabited planet in the solar sys-
tenn" Dietz continued.
Measurements made with the
thermocouple, a very delicate cleo
trical thermometer, indicate that
the planet Venus is probably as
warm as the earth, or twice as
warm.
But the planet Venus is sur
rounded with such heavy clouds
that astronomers have been unable
to see its surface.
IF these clouds are so dense that
sunlight can not penetrate them
then the planet must be lifeless, be-
cause life as we know it is not pos
Sible without sunlight"
Steropticon slides used by Diet2
to illustrate his lecture included
pictures of the moon, sun, planets,
stars and nebulae.
A daily column on science writ
ten by Dietz will appear in The
Times, starting Monday.
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herself committing the unpardon-
able sin of walking on the grass.
There isn't any place at all you
could hide it, and if you carried it
in your hand you'd get a licking
sure. But don't you cry, Eloise.
Sally1l tell you fairy story in play
hour this afternoon"
The two, Sally'S heart already
swelling with the sweet pain of hav-
ing found a new child to mother,
Eloise's tear-reddened eyes spark
ling with anticipation, we're hurry
ing up the path that led around
the main building 20 The weaving
rooms in which Sally was to work
an extra hour as punishment for
her mornings ''play-acting," when
Clara Hodges came shrieking from
behind the building.
"SaI-lee! Sal-lee Ford! Mrs.
Stone wants you. In the off1cel"
she added. her voice dropping
slightly on a note of horror.
what for?" Sally pretended
grown up unconcern, but her face,
which had been pretty and glowing
a moment before, was dull and in
Stitutional and sullen again.
"They'S a mana farmer man
talking to Stone-Face," Clara
whispered, her eyes furtive and
mean as they darted about to see
if she we're overheard. "Oh, SaIlee,
don't let 'em 'dopt you! We wouldn't
have nobody to play-act for us and
tell us stories! Please, Sal-lee!
Make faces at him when Stone-Face
Int looking SOS he won't like you"
I'm too big to be adopted" Sally
treasured her. Nobody wants to
adopt a 16-year-old girl. Here, you
take Eloise to the weaving room with
you"
Her voice was that Of a managing,
efficient, albeit loving mother, but
when she turned toward the front
steps of the main building her feet
began to drag heavily, weighted with
a fear which was reflected in her
darkling blue eyes, and in the
deepened pallor Of her cheeks. But,
oh, maybe it wasn't that! Why did
she always have to worry about
that-now that she was 16? Why
couldn't she expect something
perfectly lovely-like-like a father
coming to claim his long-lost daugh-
ter? Maybe there'd be mother,
too
The vision Sally Ford had con-
jured up fastened wings to her feet.
She was breathleSs, glowing, when
she arrived at the closed door Of the
dread "office."
(TO Be Continued
The event which changes the
course Of Sally F0rd's life takes
place in the next chapter.
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EYES OF STATE
turn TO CITY
CAGE TOURNEY
Sixteen Regional Winners
Start Friday in Tits
for Title.
PROVIDE POLICE GUARD
Special Bus Service From
Circle to Butler Gym
Is Arranged.

Be there a Hoosier youth with
heart so dead he does not know
that the finals of the seventeenth
State high school basketball tourna-
ment begins in the Butler Univer-
sity Field House here Friday at
8 a. M?
The hopes ard hearts of several
hundred thousand Indiana high
school students and oldeP fans CEN
tered toward Indianapolis today as
sixteen high school basketball teams
and their hordes of followers made
final preparations for the climax of
the States great winter pastime.
AS the advance ranks began to
arrive today, Indianapolis made
final moves to welcome the visitors
and enjoy the event herself.
Police Chief Claude M. Worley
announced that police will work
twelve hour shifts Friday and Sat-
urday.
Assign IS Policemen
Seventy-flve officers will be as
signed to handle traffic and crowds
at and near the gym.
Efficiency and courtesy will be
our slogan. The police will leave
nothing undone to make the stay of
the visitors happy" Worley said.
The new Butler Field House,
which will hold $4,000 fans, is To-
Gated at Sunset Ave. and Forty
Ninth st.
Police and tourney officials ad-
vised that the best motor routes to
the scene from the downtown sec
ton are out Capitol Ave, Meridian
or Illinois SITS. and west on Forty
Ninth st.
No motor traffic will be permitted
on Forty-Ninth St., west of Cap
itol Ave.
The end Of the Illinois, Fairview
street car leaves passengers six
blocks from the gym. Those taking
a Central Ave.-Meridian Heights car
to Forty Ninth st. are four blocks
from their destination.
Butler University officials de-
clared everything has been done to
put the field house stands and play
ing floor in excellent condition.
Reinforcing of the stands has
guarded against a repetition of a
collapse such as occurred at the
Butler-Notre Dame game a week
ago Wednesday, they said.
The bleachers have been finally
approved by the city building de-
pc rtment. according to Fred w.
Connell, board of safety president.
I'VE have taken every precaution
to prevent recurrence of last week S
accident at the State cage tourney
and engineers are confident that
the temporary bleachers are safe for
Indiana's youth. The university
complied with the orders of the city
in every way. Parents of Indiana
high school youths need have no
fear of sending their children to the
State meet" said Connell.
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SdJIy

i though it was streaked with tears
had been artfully coated with white
powder and tinted. on cheeks anC
lips, with carmine rouge.
This is Eloise Durant. girls" sale
Miss Pond, who was incurably sen.
tiraental and kind to orphans. she!
feeling a little homesick now anc
I know you will all try to make hel
happy. You'll take charge of her
won't you, Sally dear?"
eyes. Miss Pond" Sally answered
automatically, but her arms were
already yearning to gather the little
bundle of elegance and tears anc
inconsistencies.
"And Sally" Miss Pond said nerv-
ously, lowering her voice in the false
hope that the weeping child might
not hear her, Mrs. Stone says hel
hair must be washed and ther
braided, like the other children's
Eloise tells us it isn't naturally curly
that her mother did it up on kio
curriers' every night. Her aunt's been
doing it for her since her mother
died"
Il don't want to be an orphan,
the newcomer protested passionate
ly, a white-Slippered foot flying out
suddenly and kicking Miss Pond on
the shin.
It was then that Sally took
charge. She knelt, regardless OF
frantic, kicking little feet, and put
her arms about Eloise Durant. She
began to whisper to the terror
stricken child, and Miss Pond sour
ried away, her kind eyes brimming
with tears, her kind heart swelling
with impractical plans for finding
luxurious homes and incredibly kind
foster parents for all the orphans in
the asylum-but especially for those
with golden curly hair and blue
eyes. For Miss Pond was a born
"adopter," with all the typical
adopter'S prejudices and prefer
enceS.
When scarcely two minutes after
the noon dinner bell had changed
deafeningly, hundreds of little girls
and big girls in faded blue and
white ginghan came tumbling from
every direction, to halt and form a
decorous procession just outside the
dining hall doors. Sally and her
new little charge were among them
But only the sharp eyes of the other
orphans could have detected that
the child who chung forlornly to
Sally's hand was a newcomer. The
golden curls had disappeared, and In
their place we're two short yellow
braidS, the ends tied with bits of old
shoeString. The small face, scrub
bed clean of its powder and rouge,
was as pale as Sally's. And instead
of lace trimmed pink crepe de chine,
silk socks and white kid slippers,
Eloise was clad, like every other
orphan, in a skinny frock of faded
Bingham, coarse black stockings and
heavy black shoes.
And when the marching process
sion of orphans had distributed
itself before long, backless benches,
tables covered with torn, much
scrubbed white oilcloth, Eloise,
coached in that ritual as well as in
many others sacred in the institu-
ton, piped up with all the others,
her voice as monotonous as theirs:
"Our heavenly Father, we thank
Thee for this food and for all the
other blessings, Thou giveth u.s."
Sally Ford, keeping a watchful,
plying eye on her new charge, who
was only nibbling at the unappe-
tizing food. found herself looking
upon the familiar scene with the
eyes of the frightened little new
orphan. It was a game that Sally
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CHAPTER [

III HE long, bare had been graced by picture
IL curtain It's only furniture twenty iron
-Four girls scrubbng the warped panked floor three
of them pfu young for the hard work. the baby of them
being only the oldest The fourth who directed their labo
rising from her knees sometimes help of her small
just turned IT, but she looked in her short skinny dress
of faded blue white checked gngham than II
or 49,
Sale the 6year-old called out in a coaxing whine,
she soshed dirty rag up and down pail Of soapy water
playact for won't you Saee? Tend like YOUR
and I'm your little girl I'd be princess wouldn't Salee9
The child sat back her thin little launches small
hand pucn skinny skirt of her faded blue and
white gngham replica except for sze of the frock
worn by the three other scrubber I tend like I've got
white satin dress, Sa-lee-'
Sally Ford lifted strand of fine black hair that had
escaped from the tight thick braid that hung down her
row back tucked behind wehaped and smiled fondy
upon tiny peader. 1t miraceworkng smile. Be-
fore the miracle that small pale face had looked Like that Of
serious little old woman the brows knotted the mouth tight In
a frown of concentration.
But when she smiled she became pretty girl Her blue
eyes, had looked almost faded her Dress darkened
cleaned like pair of perfectly matched sapphres Deli
cate wngke eyebrows even backr than her hair lost their
sulenness lovely, provocative arch. Her white
cheeks cleaned Her little pale mouth unpuckered OF its
frown boomed suddenly like opening Even point
ed narrow teeth of her delicate childish
Jaw flashed into that smile completely destroying the picture
of rather old which she might have posed for
before.
"A right Betsyl'' Sally cried jumping to her feet But
all Of you will have work twice hard after We payacted
for you or Stone-Face will skin alive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
SPEEDWAY WILL HAVE
SCHOOL, BOARD RULES
Bond Issue Hearing Leads to De-
ciSiOn.

clSlOus
Speedway City, recently incorpor-
ated as a town, will have its own
school, the State tax board has
ruled as a result of the hearing held
by it on petition of Wayne Town
ship citizens for permission to issue
$4,000 bond issue to be used in
the erection of additions to three
schools, at Speedway City, Bridge
port and Flackville.
Citizens Of Speedway City remon-
strated to the issue, saying that if it
were permitted it would cut down
the bonding power of the new town.
Investigation revealed that the
township school at Speedway City
was in the heart of the new town.
The tax board ruled that if the
school is in the heart of the city
1t must be purchased by the new
community.
Appraisal of the valuation of the
school will be made by three per-
sons, one selected by the township
trustee, Vestal H. Davis; another by
the town, and the third by the State
board of accounts. Hearing on the
bond issue will be held again on
March &c.
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Ford often played-imagining her
self someone else, seeing familiar
things through eyes which had
never beheld them before.
Because ElOise was q new girl, ="
Sally was permitted to keep her
at her side after the noon dinner.
It was Sally who showed her all
the buildings Of the big orphanage,
pointed out the boys dormitories,
separated from the girls quarters
by the big kitchen garden; showed
her the bare schoolroonls, in which
Sally herself had just completed the
third year of high school. 1t was
Sally who pridefully showed her
the meagerly equipped gymnasium,
the gift of a miraculously philan-
thropic session of the state legiS-
lature; it was Sally who conducted
her through the many rooms deyot-
ed to hand crafts suited to girls
showing off a bit as she expertly
manipulated a hand loom or ran a
quick seam on a sewing machine.
Eloise's hot little hand chung
tightly to Sallys on the long trip
of inspection Of her new home"
But her cry, hopeless and monot-
onouS now, even taking on little
of the institutional whine, was still
the same heartbroken protest she
had uttered upon her arrival in the
dormitory: Il don't want to be an
orphanl don't want to be an
orphan, Sal-lee!"
1T anti mean, isn't-So bad"
Sally comforted her. Sometimes
we have lots of fun. And Christmas
is awfly nice. Every girl gets an
orange and a little sack of candy
and a present. And we have turkey
for dinner, and ice cream"
My mamma gave me candy every
day." Eloise Whimpered. Her men
friends brung it to her-boXeS and
boxes of it, and flowers, too. God
was mean to let her die, and make
an orphan outa mel"
And because Sally herself had
frequently been guilty of the same
SINFUL thought, she hurried Eloise,
without rebuking her, to the front
lawn which always made visitors ex-
claim. why, how pretty! And SO
homelike! Aren't the poor little
things fortunate to have such a
beautiful home?"
For che front lawn, upon which
no orphan was allowed to set foot
except in company with lawn
mower or clipping shears, was
beautiful. Now, in early June, it lay
in the sun like an immense carpet,
studded with round or star-shaped
beds of bright flowers. From the
front, the building looked stately
and grand, too, with its clean red
bricks and its big, fluted white
pillars. They were the only two
orphans in sight, except rair of
overalled boys, their tow heads bare
to the hot sun, their lean arms, bare
to the shoulders in their ragged
shirts, pushing steady against
whirring lawnmoWers.
ooh, nasturtiums!" Eloise crowed,
the first happy sound she Lad made
since entering the orphanage.
She broke from Sally'S grasp, sped
down the cement walk, then plunged
into the lush greeenness of that vast
velvet carpet, entirely unconscious
that she was committing one of the
major crimes of the institution.
Sally, after stunned moment, sped
after her, calling out breathiessly:
Don't dast to touch the flowers,
Eloisel We amt allowed to touch
the fowersl They'd skin you alivel"
But Eloise had already broken the
stem of a flaming orange and red
naSturtium and was cuddling it
against her cheek.
"Put it back, honey" Sally begged,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
CITY METAL MEN ELECT

Homer Selch was elected president
of the Indianapolis Sheet Metal and
Warm Air Heating Contractors As
ISOLATION at the organizations
headquarters, 631 S. Delaware St.,
Wednesday night.
Other officers chosen we're
Charles M. Sigmon, vice president;
Harry Peterson, secretary, and
Michael Glass, treasurer.
Brandt Downey of the Central
Lien Company spoke on "A Stand
ard Form of Contract for the Asso-
ciation." State President w. S.
Waters lead discussion on cutting
down overhead costs.
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first thing you know. and then
won't have any Thelma," Sally
smiled at her.
Say, Sal-lee," Clara wheeled
"why didn't nobody ever dept you?
think you're awful pretty. Some
times it makes me feel all funny
and cry-ey inside, you look SO awful
pretty. When you're play-actin','
she amended honestly. Sally Ford
moved the big brush with angry Wig
or, while her pale face colored dull
red. 81 anti mean, I'm not
pretty at all, Clara. But thank you
Just the same. I used to want to
be adopted, but now don't. 1 want
to hurry up and get to be Is SOS
can leave the asylum and make
my own living. I want" but she
stopped herself in time. Not to
these open mouthed, wide-eared
children could tell her dream OF
dreams.
'But why wasn't you adopted
Sal-lee?" Betsy, the baby of the
group, insisted. "You been here
forever and ever. amt your"
"Since was four years Old Sally
admitted from between lips held
tight to keep them from trembling
when 1 was little as you, Betsy,
one of the big girls told me I was
sickly and awf'ly tiny and Scrawny
when I was brought in, so nobody
wanted to adopt me. They don't
like sickly babies" she added bitter
ly. "They just want fat little babies
with curly hair. Seems to me like
the Lord oughta made all orphans
pretty, with golden curly hair"
az know why Sally wasn't
'dopted," Thelma clamored for at
tention. "I heard Miss Pond say it
was a sin and shame the way
old Stone-Face has kept Sally here,
year in and year out, jist cause
she's so good to us little kids. Miss
Pond said Sally is better'n any
trained nurse when us kids get sick
and that she does more work than
any big girl they ever had here.
That's why you amt been 'dopted,
Sally"
1T know It," Sally confessed in a
low voice. But I couldn't be mean
to the babies, just so they'd want
to get rid of me and let somebody
adopt me. Besides" she added, I'm
scared of people-outside. I'm scared
of all grown-up people, especially OF
adopters," she blurted miserably. II
can't Sashay up and down before
'em and act cute and laugh and pre-
tend like I've got a sweet DISPOSE
ton and like I'm crazy about 'em.
don't look pretty a bit when the
adopters send for me. I can't play
act then"
you're bashful, Sal-lee,"' Clara
told her shrewdly. "I'm not BASH
ful-much, except when visitors
come and we have to show off our
company manners. I hate visitors!
They whisper about us, call us poor
little things and tank they're
better'n U.s."
The floor of the big room had
been completely scrubbed, and was
giving out moist odor Of yellow
soap when Miss Pond. who worked
III the Office on the first floor of the
big main building, arrived leading a
reluctant little girl by the hand.
To the four orphans in faded blue
and white gingham the newcomer
looked unbelievably splendid, more
like the princess" that Betsy had
been impersonating than like NOR
tai child. Her golden hair hung in
precisely arranged curls to her
shoulders. Her dress was Of pink
crepe de chine, trimmed with many
yards of cream-colored lace. There
were pink silk socks and little white
kid slippers. Ard her pretty face,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
SELFISH BUSINESS PAYS
Speaker Says Interest in Worker
Really Rewards Firm.

Modern business is honestly selfish
and is not afraid to say so, Floyd A.
Allen, assistant to the president of
the General Motors Corporation, de-
clared Wednesday at the Kiwanis
Club luncheon at the Claypool.
Corporations have learned that 1t
pays to take an interest in the en-
ploye, his family, the community
and the things which go to make
human happiness, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
CARTER TO QUIT POST
Public Service Commission Engineer
Will Retire April /.

No successor has been selected to
Earl Carter chief engineer of the
Public Service Commission, who has
handed in his resignation effective
April l, in order to enter private
consulting work.
Carter has been with the commits
sion since 1917, when he became as
sistant to H. o. Garman. He sue
ceedd the latter six years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15
No Booze Tax

In filling out his Federal in
come tax report, one northern
Indiana man clearly explained
his stand on the Volstead oct,
according to George L. Foote,
collector of internal revenue.
At the bottom of the tax
blank was written:
81 protest use of this money
in enforcement Of the prohih-
iton law"
More than 100000 was col
ected from income tax payers
Tuesday and a larger sum was
expected today, Foote said.
Midnight, Thursday, is the
final time for paying the Fed
eral tax without penalty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-15

The event which changes the
course of Sally Ford's life takes
place in the next chapter.