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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 '
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
Advertising Office*—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos.
—“THIS IS THE YEAR”—
WHAT’S BECOME of the contract with the penalty for gas of less
than 600 B. T. U. quality? '
ANYHOW, there will be no stuffing of the jury box just previously to
the trial of the Haags in federal court
INDIANA RAILROAD MEN, officials and otherwise, will miss H. A.
Boomer. His was a character that made him worth knowing.
IN THE SELECTION of their district chairman republicans should
not forget that Charlie Roemler conceded the county to the democrats un
less Fesler got the nomination for governor.
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED that the concern of the News over the
democratic votes in the republican primary be referred to Tommy Riley
of the board of works and Denny Bush of race horse fame for the real
explanation.
ONE VOTE will not prove very much of a balm for the mangled feel
ings of J. W. Feeler’s friends, but it is pleasant to think that perhaps that
vote was cast by a precinct worker who didn’t lose his job by refusing to
indorse the Marion candidate.
A Menace to Indianapolis
The ten thousand negro voters of Marion county did not gain any
thing of benefit to their race by the disgusting spectacle afforded by tfie
vote for Norrell in fifteen precincts of this county.
They ought to realize that it is such crooked tactics as these that
provoke the feeling against the colored population which overrides the
credit to which it is entitled for the progress it has made since emancipa
tion.
The negro has his place in society and the majority of the race realize
it and attempt to maintain a proper attitude toward the whites.
But in Indianapolis, unfortunately, there are a few negroes who have
been so pampered by fawning white politicians that they have developed
an ability to crook primaries and debauch elections that is almost uncanny
Today these negroes control the republican party of Marion county.
They tell who shall be nominated on the republican ticket and who should
not. Their power is recognized by the politicians and every effort is made
to swing it in behalf of the politicians’ favorite.
There is food for thought in the crooked work done in behalf of Nor
rell.
His friends did not succeed in making him a nominee this year.
But if a few crooked negro politicians can select white men for re
publican nominations, as they did in this primary, will they not soon be
able to select negro candidates by the same methods?
The Crooked Primaries
Analysis of the precinct returns from the primary in Marion county
demonstrates clearly that thousands of votes were stolen in the interest
of the Goodrich-Jewett machine candidates for office, by methods that are
as crude and as old b any used in Indianapolis.
A direct parallel to primaries of the past against which there has been
long and loud protest was created by crooked republican workers, aided
and abetted by crooked democrats who fell under the influences cf the city
administration gang.
The result was the nomination of the republican machine ucket, the
big plurality for Wood in Marion county and the nomination of some of
the less desirable democratic candidates.
It is, perhaps, expecting too much to think that the republican prose
cutor’s office, with its personal representative benefiting by the thievery,
will make any effort to punish those who are guilty of election frauds.
It is hardly to be expected that the Ipdianapolis News, whose pet candi
date, Gen. Wood, was the chief beneficiary of the stealing, will find any
thing wrong with the primaries.
But that there was crooked work can not be denied. When James R.
Norrell, republican negro candidate for the legislature. Is recorded as
receiving more votes in several precincts than all the candidates for presi
dent received in the same precinct, it no longer is a question of whether
there was crookedness, but a question of who are the crooks.
No one at all familiar with the methods of machine politics in Indian
apolis is puzzled about who stole the primary of 1920. It was stolen by
crooks on. the pay roll of the Charles W. Jewett machine administration,
crooks who are now enjoying gambling privileges in Indianapolis because
of their crookedness and crooks who either are now or have been on the
pay roll of the Marion county “good government” administration.
That these crooks will be brought to justice is a remote possibility. It
depends principally on the ability of the federal court to take a hand in
the affair.
The crooks themselves are not afraid of a grand jury controlled by
Claris Adapts, the spineless prosecutor who “managed” J. W. Fesler’s cam
‘palgn in Marion county. They realize that William P. Evans, the republican
nominee for prosecutor, is a deputy of the said Adams and that Adams
will be in office for some timp to come.
Those voters in Marlon county who believe in an honest ballot can not
help realizing by this time that honesty and the republican county machine
can not exist together. /
The republican w’ho votes to perpetuate this crooked ring in office this
fall must first obtain a strangle hold on his conscience.
Chickens Come Home to Roost
Tho public service corporations—interurban and street railways, gas,
Electric light and telephone plants, as -will as the steam railways, are now
beginning to reap the results of the watered stock which they sold to the
public as representing a real investment.
The system pursued by nearly all public sendee corporations was as
follows: First they created a bond issue, which represented the total in
vestment in the properties of an interurban railway, gas or electric plant,
etc. Then they created a preferred stock issue equal to and sometimes of
greater amount than the bonds and this stock was given as a bonus to
the bondholders, the 6tock being equal to 50 per cent of the value of the
bonds. The other 60 per cent of the preferred stock was grabbed off by
the promoters. Millions in common stock then were issued and this stock
was held by the promoters until such time as the properties were pay
ing the,interest on the bond3 and the fixed dividend'on the preferred stock,
and still leaving a surplus with which to make a showing on the common
stock. That was the signal for the - promoters to let out tho common
stock to the sucker public. Bondholders and promoters then began let
ting go their preferred stock.
Thus a corporation having properties which had cost a milliou dob
tars would have outstanding bonds for a million, preferred stock for two
millions and common stock for two millions, making a showing on the
book: of obligations totaling five millions, while the actual investment was
only one million. For the service furnished by Jthe corporation the dear
public was asked to pay a rate that would return dividends' on five million
dollars Instead of on one million dollars actually invested.
By and by the holders of bonds and preferred stock would get from
under and leave the stockholders, who by that time were many in num
ber, to hold the sack and demand of city councils and state legislatures
that the corporation bre permitted to charge a rate that would save the
stockholders from loss. In other words, the public was asked to pay in
terest on five times the original investment.
I know of one group of corporations with stocks and bonds to the
extent of a hundred million dollars where possibly not more than twenty
million dollars has been invested; which now’ has the nerve to ask for
permission to charge a rate that will enable it to float an additional
hundred millions in stocks and bonds and earn 10 per cent on the old as
well as the now issue. The original promoters, having feathered their
own nests and seeing no chance to again rob the public unles they get
permission to issue new stocks and bonds and more than double their
rates, threaten to lie down and create a local panic through the serious
losses many persons will sustain while the water is being squeezed out of
the corporation.— W. D. Boyce, in the\ Saturday Blade, Chicago. \
NEW PATHWAY
OPEN IN U. S. TO
OPERATIC FAME
Stars Regain ‘Lost’ Voices in
Study at Modern Music
School.
TRANSFER ALLEGIANCE
NEW YORK, May B—Euterpe, the
muse of melody, has moved her shrine
from France to America, from Paris to
I New York.
Worshipers at her shrine have for
saken old world teachers sos a rising
generation of music masters in the new
world. *
Where once the world in seeking per
fected song and melody turned Us face
1 toward the opera halls of Paris. Vienna,
and Berlin, there is now anew pathway
loading to Manhattan Isle,
j “Ce est la guerre” said the French,
It explains this new wandering of
Euterpe.
| The war revolutionized grand opera.
! Save for the rumbling roll of war
drums and the clarion call of bugles
such music was forgotten abroad when
the old world rocked In mortal strug
: Sl<*.
In the cities behind the shell-wrecked
trenches there came anew music to ease
the suffering—to allay the fear.
A music of delirium—a tragic attempt
to drawn war sorrows in an intox
ication Os shallow sons.
Lovers of grand opera turned tlaeir
faces to the west seeking consolation in
the new world.
The songbirds, the coloraturas, the sil
ver-toned tenors, the deep-voiced bassos
came to America from every capital in
the old world to retiew their studies in
opera.
These lovers of song for melody’s
sake remained In America throughout
the war, and when peace came the old
world prepared for tlielr return. But—
Anew era had developed In opera.
No longer did students turn, to Paris,
Vienna or Berlin for Instruction In oper
atic technique.
The stars of the opera remained in
America—and, behold, the old world's
students crossed the seas to seek tho
new shrine!
NEW MASTERS
CREATED IN V. S.
Meanwhile, anew generation of music
masters had been created In America.
They were masters of anew technique.
Men who combined knowledge of the
throat with love of music, physicians and
physiologists.
These teachers, led by Dr. Daniel A.
Sullivan of New York, discarded the
teachings es the old world and have now
revolutionized the art of operatic Instruc
tion.
This same Dr. Sullivan has lured to
New York from the hidden recesses of
Europe one after another of yesterday's
operatic celebrities In successful attempts
to return to stardom.
With voices strained and turn by nils
use and abuse, these stars of a generation
ago have gone to the new (feneration's
school of music and are, enterlPg anew
era of celebrity.
George Haklanoff, famous Russian
tenor in the Chicago Opera Company,
was among the first to seek the new in
struction.
Ten years ago a singer with the Bos
ton Opera Company. Baklnnnff never at
tained the heights of stardom. His voice
broke nt Inst and he returned to Russia
Hut in 1918 he f .llowcd the new lure
from America.
Two months In the East Thirty eighth
street studio of I>r. Sullivan and new
Bnklanoff was re an- to thrill e 'dlenics
with the magic flow of his melody.
He Joined the Chb-ago Opera Company
and cheated a sensation In the most dlf
flpult roles.
He is now in Europe on his first world
ton r.
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BACK IV OPERA.
Alice Nellsen, the Metropolitan opera
soprano, thrilled aiidlences a decade ago
in the ' Fortune Teller" and rose to star
dom as a prlmn douaa In the Boston
Opera Company.
, Her voice suddenly began to fnll.
She stepped down to star again In
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920.
The Young Lady
Across the Way
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The young lady across the way says
her father Is so entirely non-partisan In
his vle\As that she doesn't believe he ever
In his life so much s thought of voting
anything but the republican ticket/
"Kitty, Darling,” a Broadway musical
comedy, and then—to oblivion.
lint word of the new music masters
of America reached Miss Nellsen early
In 1919,
She, too. Joined the studio of Dr. Sul
livan, having heard of Baklanoff’s mar
velous, Recovery.
Months of instruction In the new
school gave the songbird anew voice.
She has returned to grand opera, and
a nation-wide tour brought her spon
taneous outbursts of applause from every
audience.
Lydia TApkovskn. once-famed Russian
prlma donna, one of the newcomers
to America’s music shrine.
She only recently Joined the Sullivan
studio after a hazardous trip from Odes
sa, Russia.
Years ago, with the Boston Opera
Company, she won fame by her golden
tones until her voice fatknl her.
She returned then to Russia.
Today she is nearing perfection again,
But a day ago she sustained an F
sharp above- not merely reached It, but
field B.
She will make her "new” debut this
fail, and Dr. Sullivan predicts a' won
derful reception for jbe dainty Llpkov
skn. i
Evelyn Herbert, another of Dr. Sul-
Mvan's pupils, whs but recently relegated
to musical comedy by critics who heard
her In the premier of "Rip Van WlnkD.* -
She retired from opera for the sum
mer. but will return to thrill audience*
with a wonderful coloratura voice. Dr.
Sullivan predicts.
Helene Romanoff. dramatic soprano
from Petrograd, Is another who came
from far off Russia to seek the new
school in America.
The list grows with everr fnconjhlß
steamer
The world of tnusle waits at the feet <
of New York for Its new operatic stars
The old modes are gone; anew re
gime |n grand opera exist*
Dr. Sullivan, quite rinilke the old world
tvpe of music master forsook a pro- ]
fc-slonal career to'stttdy grand opera, j
lie turned away from the music.halls j
of Europe to study In America and to
day he Is n recognized leader In the new
teg line.
"The new method Is simply to Instil
and renew youth In the human voice,’*
lie say*.
“One after another, the stars of yester
day, who dropped from sight when-theli
voices collapsed, arc now returning to :
ihe footlights to win new glories." i
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
A New Serial of Young Married Life
By ANN LISLE.
CHAPTER XXX.
I don't know what it was—friendly
and fine, as Tom Mason’s handclasp
seemed to be—that iqrpelled me to In
sist that I must return to the Walgrave
at once.
I managed to do it so casually that
he took no offense at my sudden haste,
and insisted on escorting me on my
homeward Journey. And he remained
Jolly and friendly even when I asked
for the refusal of his apartment for a
day or two.
"I’d like to talk It over with Jim,”
I confessed.
He smiled in big brotherly fashion:
"Nice little old-fashioned wife. Os
course you shall talk it over with Jim.”
Then still with courteous and Im
personal friendliness, ho took me to the
desk and waited while I got my key.
The c'.erk handed me a sealed, hotel en
velope.
"Capt. Winston has telephoned twice
and wished you to call the Army and
Navy club as soon as you come In,” he
said, with somehtlng very like a leer.
Then he added. "Your friends are not
letting you miss the lieutenant too much,
are they!”
Perhaps he was only over-anxious to
offer a guest "every possible courtesy!”
But his offieiousness brought home to
me very poignantly the fact that I did
not want to live In a glittering big hotel
a day longer than I must.
As soon as I got to my room I called
Capt. Winston and found he was giving
a dinner for some officers and their
wives that evening and wanted Jim and
me to come. I could not bear the thought
of seeing happy xnnrried folk together—
whtle my boy wag already long hours
away—and planning to go still further
PUSS IN BOOTS JR.
By DAVID CORY.
Cn\PT,ER XXX.
We had to leave off Just ta the most
Interesting part, you reineiu-ber. It was
Just after the wicked Lord of the Castle
had locked up Puss Junior’s friends,
and was pondering qver whet was best
to do with Puss when all of a sudden our
little hero drew his sword and said
fiercely : "What have you done with my
friends? Where are they, ray Lord V"
But he only laughed, and replied : "Never
question the hospitality of your host,
Mr Cat. Your friend* are In the garden
looking at the roses."
And then he blew a silver whistle, and
Immediately four big soldiers appeared.
"Bring Mr Cat and throw him in th>
dung won,” and before Puss In Boots
Junior could defend hi rase if be was
hound and taken away.
And, oh, dear me! It was dark and
gloomy In that deep dungeon. Only a
little window way up high, with Iron
bars across It. Poor little Pus* sat
down on a rough, wooden bench and
tried hard not to be miserable. For
the first time In his life he felt that he
was In great danger. How long he sat
there he did not know, when, *ll of a
sudden a little, squeaky voice said to
hill):
"Cheer up, Pus* Junior, I will help
you," and looking down he saw a little
mouse at hi* feet.
"Are you not afraid I will eat you?”
asked Puss sadly.
"Not In the least,” repliej Abe little
mouse. "Take heart, my friend. I will
run to the toolhouse and bring you a
tile with which you may cut the iron
►nr* and so make your escape” And
the mouse disappeared In her hole, nr.d
w she returned she had a file in her
mouth. Well, it took Puss some time
to saw through those great Iron bar*,
but at last he did, and climbed down
ta the ground.
"But how am I to nave mv friend*?”
he said to himself. And then he squeezed
through and then he suddenly thought
of the good Knight Sir Launeelot of the
Lake. So, without a moment's delay,
iie set off at a r*f>id pace t the Court
of King Arthur, and by nightfall he
reached hla destination.
It did not take him long to tell Sir
Launeelot his trouble, and In a short
time that noble knight and ten other*
were hurrytng back with Puss to tho
rescue. The wicked lord saw them com
from me. And I blurted out tho truth.
"You poor little lonely lady! The din
ner is off —positively! My friends are
all a sporting lot. No swank to ’em.
They’ll let me give the party another
night and comfort the bride tonight. Not
a word. Miss Jimmie. Husband’s matey
looks after the little lady tonight.”
And he dtffi We had a beautiful time. |
. . . A delicious dinner seasoned with
wonderful tales of my boy’s days In the
Royal Flying corps. Never had I felt’
closer to Jim. To Capt. Terry Winston j
I was not a .woman to admire, but a \
sister to protect—above all the wife of j
his “matey” sacred. .
He made me understand the glorious |
urge that sweeps the flying man to his ;
conflicts above the clouds. I fe'.t in tunej
with Jim’s desire to go back to France
—I was reconciled to my sacrifice. That
dinner with Capt. Winston on the roof ;
of the Valbriggia gave me a vision, of j
what a soldier’s wife must be. . . . I
I comprehended. j
He told me of the new chivalry of i
womanhood the war was calling to life, j
Capt. Winston spoke reverently of all j
womanhood, and then there came one
woman’s name. / ", i
"You’ve seen the scar on Mrs. Bryce s ;
hand. That woman drove her car down
a road the hums were shelling—shrapnel
got her when she was helping a y poor
Tommy into her ambulance.” . . .
He stopped speaking abruptly. I
couldn’t tell whether the reserve of the
Britisher had pnt a period to his re
mintscenees or if the emotion of remem- ;
boring what he had known were too great j
—or if he had suddenly realized that-he
was speaking to Jim Harrison's wife.—
Copyright, 1920.
(To bo continued.)
| ing, but before he could escape they
| surrounded the castle and, battering
j down the gates, they entered the oourt
] > J,rd - V
Here a tierce battle took place, the
I lord of the castlo striving to overcome
| the brave Sir Launeelot. But right nl-
I ways wins in the end, and at length
| the wicked lord was forced to surren
der and give over the castle to the
Knights of the Round Table.
Ia a short time little dog Buff, the
Scarecrow apd- Rowley Frog were-set at
liberty. And then Puss took hts three
friends In the wagon and drove away
with Sir Launeelot aad ■ hts brave
knights And In the n-’Xt story I will
tell you *ome more adventures that Puss
Junior had while on his travels through
New Mother Goose Land. Copyright,
1920.
(To Be Continued.)
URGES STRIKE CONFERENCE.
DETROIT, May B.—Former Judge Wil
liam Look, legal representative of the
I>etrolt Yurdmen’s association, today ad
dressed to the railroads affected by the
"outlaw" strike a letter asking for a
conference "for the purpose of consid
ering their wage scale and hours and
time of labor."
REAL ESTATE '
GOSSIP
By REALTOR
“A I." EVANS
J. F. Cantwell itpoke too early Wednes- i
day noon.
That's some sticker Temp sent out
this week In bis letter, but It was a small
sample.
Conditions aren’t so bad according to
the statements of several of the realtors
Wednesday.
Our old friend John Roberts rolled
back in Hoosierdom last Monday. How
does your olil home look, John, after your
extended sojourn (fur your tiaaitb)?
Bert Essex ha* departed to attend the
milliners' convention in New York City.
His Invitation was in the form of a per-
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(ionual letter from the editor of the mil
liners' publication. Mr. and Mrs. Essex
are Mopping at the Hotel Astor.
William Brennan and his better half
are the latest to signify their intentions
of joining the Indianapolis realtors on
the trip to Kansas City. Who's next?
The Anderson Real Estate board ts
the third to put a barricade In front of
the Nolan bill. Boys, we sure ure getting
a strong lineup. Next.
SH! Conspiracy—Thomas Carson was
seen talking to Bob Troy Thursday.
Everybody keep your eyes and ears open.
W. E. Bash announces that due to
"the high coat of bis rent" be was
forced to move his office from the old
ROBBER, GIVE JAMES HIS GREEN BACK!
WHO GETS THE BILL FOB THIS?
Law building to 60G Odd Fellow
Building.
A few more now and we'll have a spe
cial car to the convention —and believe
me, the western realtors have planned a
program you can’t afford to miss.
Next Wednesday will be a good day
for all the realtors to attend the lunch
eon. We may get a few good points
from these five-minute talks.
There will be at least three realtors at
the luncheon next week. They are the
participants in the five-minute talk con
test. It's a shame there aren't more en
tered for that contest, but It will be a
worse shame If we don’t have a record
crowd Wednesday' to decide who getl
the free trip to Kansas City.
HE GOT OFF LIGHT.