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INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-23 South Mertdian Street.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351
MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos.
Advertising office* { j< ew Boston, I'ajrne. Burns * Smith, Inc.
LET US HOPE no use ever will he found for that 200-mile gun.
SOME DAY we hope to see a headline saying, "No Rioting in Ireland
Today.” ♦
THINK of the flights of oratory if that Marion hospital affair had
happened a year ago.
SUFFERING ARMENIANS are askin, ’or 100 business suits, according
to a headline. Business must be good in Armenia.
WITH GEORGE HARVEY in London and David Jayne Hill in Berlin
the United States should be sufficiently misrepresented.
* —
IT NOW APPEARS that the peace resolution might not have lolluwed
strictly the lines laid down by the constitution, either.
CHARGING FRAUD is a rather cheap way of attempting to prevent
the citizens from voting on how they will spend their money.
WE SUPPOSE this latest proposed temporary loan is also due to the
fact that there was not sufficient money in the treasury when the present
city administration took office.
APPARENTLY Mrs. Haber’s attorneys were afraid women jurors might
not follow the time honored custom of turning husband slayers loose so
they can sign movie contracts.
SOME of the foreign countries may be compelled to draft men to serve
in their diplomatic corps as a result of the ruling of the department or
justice that the diplomats can’t bring their booze with them. . .
Preventable Accidents
Accidents of any nature are to be deplored. Automobile wrecks are
mon so because most o' them are inexcusable. Probably four-fifths of
them could be prevented were due precautions taken by drivers, by
pedestrians and others. When preventable they should not be classed in
the ca egory cl "accidents," but should be charged to carelessftess, either
on the part of the driver or some other negligent party.
For the purpose of stat jtics, however, automobile wrecks of whatever
nature v ill continue to be called accidents. The wreckage of a car near
Brazil Mono iy night, in which two people were killed and five injured,
was not au accident—lt was a disaster. It is the more regrettable because
60 avoidable. A tiny red light placed on the barrier which shut off the
road under construction would have been the means of preventing tne
crash, of saving the lives of two people, and the heartaches and sorrows
of members of their families would be absent today.
Every “accident" of whatever nature should serve as a warning to the
general public. This one should warn the State highway commission,
and highway construction companies in particular, to put up proper warn
ing signals at laces that are known, or thought, to be dangerous. They
should have been guided by other disasters of like nature, and the fact
that they were not In this case causes th 9 public to wonder if they will
be In the future.
The average American automobile driver is a complacent individual.
He skims along State highways and city streets at a high rate of speed.
About the only danger signs he keeps a weathered eye on are passing
cars or motorcops. Such a thing as a 6treet or roiid obstruction does
not enter his mind, unless ■; red signal to signify danger ahead, looms
before his eyes. When danger is there, and no signal to show it, he can
hardly be lamed for a crash that may have serious* consequences.
Because this ‘s true of the averxge motorists every precaution should
be taken to the end that "preventable" wrecks may be minimized, if not
actually done away with. The precautions necessary, of course, can be
taken only by th;.- erection of warning signs, and, in some cases, a light
in the usual color which generally signifies danger.
Safeguards at bad turns and blcJbkea roads alor.e will not suffice, for
they are Just as essential at railroad crossings. Scores of railway and
interurban crossings are to be found in the State where there is no warn
ing bell and nothing to signify a railroad track until the driver is on the
crossing itself. On various public roads motorists driving at night cannot
see a crossing sign until so close on the tracks that it would be impossible
to stop, should a train be approaching. This condition exists because tne
signs are placed along side the tracks instead of a Tew hundred feet in
each direction from the right of way.
The Hoosier Motor Club was sponsor for legislation enacted at the
last General Assembly, under the terms of which failure to safeguard
obstructed roads or rail crossings becomes a misdemeanor.
Who Is going to enforce these laws?
Bryson's Ideas!
The argument of City Controller Robert H. Bryson that heads of
departments in the city government are ley extravagant when they know
they are operating with money borrowed upon temporary loans than they
would be were municipal finances In such a shape that there would be a
surplus big enough to carry the government through each tax receiving
period may be taken to indicate three things.
The controller does not have much faith In the men whom Mayor
Charles W. Jewett has placed at the head of departments other than that
run by Mr. Bryson.
He is trying to find a way to excuse the failure of the Jewett admin
istration to relieve the city’s monetary plight so that it will not be neces-
to continue a hand to mouth existence.
Or controller and others of the Jewett official family have very
little regard for the city’s budget.
If the department chiefs are the kind of men citizens rightfully expect
the mayor to appoint there need be no fear that they will run wild the
first time they see a little extra money in the city treasury. Had the
administration exercised the real economy and business foresight its head
promised while a candidate there would be no need for argument in favor
of operation upon expensive, borrowed money.
Presumably the department heads every year make a budget and the
city council approves it, after giving the public a chance to object to any
part of it, for the reason that the law intends that the officials shall be
limited in their expenditures to just so much. Were the budget strictly
followed the controller need not be worried over the prospect of subordi
nate chiefs ruthlessly wading through their entire appropriations in the
first two or three months of the year.
Sincere?
During the.hearing at which the majority members of the city school
hoard were pleading with the State tax board for approval of a bond issue
with which to build schools for the children of Indianapolis, Charles
Barry and W. D. Allison, of the boa-d, sat with counsel for the remon
stratfcrs and appeared to be giving both moral and actual support to the
effort to stop the construction program of the schools.
Both these board members have declared that they were not opposed
to the building of new school houses. Both appear to have aligned them
selves with the remonstrators, whose position was recently expressed as
one of opposition to the bond issue as long as certain contracts exist
between the school city and Snider & Rotz, and the school city and L. A.
Snider.
These two contracts, the abrogation of which is pretended to be so
important as to justify sacrifice of the building program of the schools,
contain clauses under which they may be terminated on thirty days’ notice
by the school board.
Neither Mr. Barry nor Mr. Allison have offered a motion to terminate
tfyem. *
Both Mr. Barry and Mr. Allison voted for these contracts when they
were negotiated. >
The sincerity of the plea of the remonstrators and of these two board
members that they are not opposing new school buildings, but are actuated
by a desire to bring about the termination of these contracts, can well be
measured by their conduct.
They have never attempted to abrogate the contracts.
But they are now engaged in an effort to deprive school children of
proper school houses.
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright 1921. by Star Company.
By K. C. B.
YEARS AGO.
* • •
I HAD tried it
...
AND PROMISED myself.
* * *
THAT XEVEH again.
* * *
WHILE I had good sense.
* * *
WOULD AM BODY.
• * *
EVER INDUCE me.
TO PLANT myself.
• • •
ON THE extra seat.
* * •
OF A motorcycle.
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AND IT mast be.
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I’M GETTING foolish.
...
FOR YESTERDAY.
...
I PORCOT my promise.
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AND SAT me down.
...
ON THE rearmost seat.
OF ONE of these things.
AND SUDDENLY.
THERE WAS an explosion.
AND I grabbed hold.
OF SOMETHING that held.
AND A house shot by.
• * •
AND WE were ofT.
...
AND A row of houses.
JEST FLATTENED out.
AND DISAPPEARED.
AND LIFTING my head.
• • •
I COULD see them.
AND THEN flash by.
AND ALL at once.
I RAN* into a hog.
OR SOME sort of a fly.
OR MAYBE a tne.
lIUT WHATEVER it was.
IT SPATT’/CltFf* itself.
ALL OVER my check
AND I tried to yell.
TO THE insane man.
WHO OWNED the cycle.
THAT I’D been shot.
AND WAS bleeding to death.
AND WT7D better go back.
AND CATCH up with the houses.
AND STOP in one.
SO WHEN 1 died.
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ri> BE lying down. 0
ON A nice clean bed.
BI T HE didn’t hear.
AND WENT rirht on.
AND I yiled again.
I’D SEEN J chess board.
WITH THE men all on it.
ON THE SIDE of the road.
AND BESIDES being crazy.
THE MAN plays Chess
AND SO we stopped
AND WE went hack slowly.
AND IT WAS a cemetery.
THAT WE had passed.
I THANK you.
Swift Romance
Has Tedious Ending
to The r -m-■-
MATTOX. Tnd . July IS A swift ro
m.iti'c. itTi elopement to anotb r county,
disillusion and a separation two (lays
after marriage, followed tiy a kidnaping
charge and a suit for alienation of af
feetlor s by her husband, wi re told by
Mrs Agnes Miller in her divorce suit in
Superb r Court here.
Two months after she an.l Dawrence
Miller met in the same store tney slipped
away and were married In Vincennes,
Two days l iter Mrs. Miller returned to
Van Bnren, her home, when her brother
and sister-in law Informed her of her
mother’s illness.
Miller filed kidnaping charges against
Mr and Mrs Claude Dillon, Mrs. Mil
ler’s brother and sister-in-law. In the
Knox Circuit Court, and then filed suit
for alienation of affections in Grant Cir
cuit Court, natn: Mr. and Mrs, Claude
Dillon and Mr. a ...1 Mrs. James Dillon,
Mrs. Miller’s parnts. as defendants, Ite
asked S'JS,OO. Both suits are pending.
Mrs. Miller said her husband promised
her a honeymoon trip to the South, which
never materialized.
She was given a divorce.
I)ogr Loses Master;
Watches Postoffice
I’AKIS, Ky , July H. -A! fine bulldog
has lost its master. The dog may be
found in front of the Paris postofflee.
The animal has been at that point for
nearly a week. lie Investigates every
motor ear that stops, but to date has
met disappointment each time. A num
ber of persons have tried to induce the
dog to follow them home so that lie may
be properly eared for, but lie refuses to
leave the postofflee
BRINGING JP FATHER
1 TSOV/-TOO COIME RidHTI ' I CXDTS ' T Think; FOR As T"v/HAT’i> THE _ 50RRT - LA.DT - P>(JT Jl‘ : s<i < b- TOO ]
out oh the.* i3each rJ 1 moment thattou J 1 matter, with “ \oo cant come Come. Back I oV/ELL
WITH ME - VOU Afta X. CXXKCi f===± L_ OOTtN THAT r S HEREIH CHANCE-
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921.
TULLY AND POST WILL JOIN RANKS
Os Movie Producers and Actors Soon
Richard Walton Tully, a dramatist and
theatrical producer, is about to seek
fresh laureis, having just announced his
entrance in the field of motion picture
production.
As Tully has never previously per
mitted any of his plays to be filmed,
he has a great wealth of material at
hand for screening, and has already
completed arrangements with Associated
WILL LEAVE SOON
MISS PEGGY WOOD.
This is a picture of Miss Peggy Wood
as She appeared in the chief role of ‘'Bud
dies” ...st season. This week she is play
ing the main rote In “Artists' Life," of
which she is one of the authors. Samuel
Marwiti is the other author. Hiss Wood
will close her engagement at the Murat
on Saturday night
First National for the filming of two of
his most important successes, “Omar, the
Teatmaker" and “Th" Masquerader."
All productions bearing the Tully
stamp will be personally supervised in
every detail by the producer himself,
nad it is freely predicted that Tally's
Inventive genius and artistic perceptions,
which have been responsible for many
scenic and illustrative innovations on the
Right Here in Indiana
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Twin falls, McCormick's Creek.
legitimate stago, will find pleturlzation
an equally fertile ground, with many
unique and happy conceits and effects
the logical outcome.
In both pictures, “Omar, the Tent
maker” and ‘‘The Masquerader,” Guy
Hates Post will enact the same roles
which he created upon the legitimate
stage, and Tully has engaged James
Young, who recently finished directing
Kipling's “Without Benefit of Clergy," to
direct him In these, his first screen ap
pearances.
As art director, Tully has engaged Wil
fred Buekland, who until recently oc
cupied a similar position with Famous
Players.
Tujily plans to do his picture producing
In aud around Los Angeles, work upon
the “Omar” film Ua> i:ig already com
menced at the Brunton Studios. Other
famous Tully surceases vhlch he will
eventually screen Include "Keep Her
Smiling.” “The Flame” ar.d "The Bird of
Parudise.”
It should not be understood, however,
that Tally's film interests will in any
degree interfere with his activities in
the legitimate, theater. He has almost
completed anew comedy, which he In
tends to present on Broadway next sea
son, and in October will produce in New
York the reigning London success, "The
Right to Strike.”
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ON ATEW TODAY.
The entertainment menu for today Is
as follows: "Artists’ Life," at the Mu
rat; popular vaudeville, at the Lyric;
“Godless Men,” at the Colonial: "Sow
ing the Wind,” at the Circle: “Carnival,’
at Loew's State; "The Lost Romance,’'
at the Otijo; "Moonlight and Honey
suckle,” at the Alhambra; “Blind Love”
and a Lloyd comedy, at Smith's: A*A
Daughter's Strange Inheritance,” at the
Isis, and "The Freeze Out,” at the Re
gent,
HOROSCOPE
“The itara Incline, bnt do not compel!”
SATURDAY, JULY 9.
Again friendly stars guide mankind,
according to astrology. Mars, Jupiter,
| Mercury and the Sun a--e ail In 'benefit:
: aspect.
It is a most auspicious sway under
which to start upon Journeys long or
short.
There is an especially fortunate rule
for alj who travel by rail, for they should
! encounter the most favorable conditions
and meet with new acquaintances who
will l>e valuable in the future.
Persons whose birthdate it is will have
a successful year. In which money and
business will Increase, but they should
not make any decided changes.
Children born on this day will lie
i quick, clever and lucky in all undertak
ings. If a girl, Rhe should be wise In
j choosing a husband.—Copyright, 1921.
Do You Know Indianapolis?
This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough
with it to locate the scene?
Yesterday’s picture was taken looking west in East Washington street
from the courthouse steps.
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS
(The Hoopers, an average American
family of five, living in a suburban
town, on a limited Income will tell
the readers of the Daily Times how
the many present-day problems of
the home are solved by working on
the budget that Mrs. Hooper has
evolved and found practical. Follow
them daily in an interesting review
of their home life and learn to meet
the conditions of the high cost of
living with them.)
FRIDAY.
Mrs. Hooper continued her canning
after breakfast and put up all
she had bought with the exception of
enough to make a cherry roly-po’.y for
desert for dinner. There wasn't much
that the Bride could do to help after the
cherries 1 nqp been pitted and she had ster
ilized the jars,
“I didn't plan to come over here and
Just sit around, while being instructed,'
she said, "so. I brought some things to
make a little waste paper basket to go
under Helen's desk in her room. Wasut
there a piece of material left from the
bed spread.”
"Yes, It Is in the scrap bag hanging in
the sewing alcove in the hail,” answered
Mrs. Hooper. "Go up and get it.”
"Just the thing 1" exclaimed the Bride
as she returned to the laundry holding
the square of chintz. She bad brought
with her a large piece of heavy enrd
board, oblong in shape and a smaller
piece out of which she cut a circular bot
tom sos the basket, measuring the size
with tlie rim of a small milk pan. Then
she took her glue pot and needle and
thread, and covered tho two pieces of
card board neatly with the jchlntz. Fast
ening the two edges of the large rec
tangular piece together with small brass
cleats and sewing In the circular bottom.
She produced la a very short'time a pretty
round waste basket that matched the
hangings in Helen’s room and added one
more necessary thing that was also at
tractive.
“Won’t Helen be plased when she sees
that /’ exclaimed Mrs. Hooper a3 the
Bride carried it off upstairs to put it
under the desk for a surprise.
That afternoon at the club the session
was largely given over to reports and
discussions in connection with the
fourth of July garden party, the con
clusion being that it had been the most
successful affair ever given under the
auspices of the WOman's Club.
"If we can only make it an annual
affair It will be splendid," announced the
president. "A great deal of .snobbish
ness has been creeping into Mayfield, as
It does in many suburban towns, and it
seems to me that the only way to keep
It from growing is to have a big affair
of this kind, which includes every one,
and really typifies the "democratic spirit."
"I think that' was the keynote of Mr.
Jackson's speech," suggested Mrs. Hooper,
' and 1 think what we learned was that
It Is not the wealthy among us that are
Snobby, but rather those of us who are
putting a false estimate on our own im
portance by supposing for some reason
or other that we are better than our
neigh bors.”
“Now, I wonder who she means—talk
ing like that," said Mrs. Briggs huffily to
the woman sitting next to her. "If any
one thinks she's important—it's the Barae
lady that's speaking.”
"Oh, I don't think so.” The woman
addressed was quick in defense of Mrs.
Hooper. "I’ve always found her very
helpful if there is ever anything she can
do about suggesting a solution of one’s
difficulties.”
"Oh, yes, she’s perfectly grand at sug
gesting." sniffed Mrs. Briggs. “But she's
always so superior about her managing
and her housekeeping that I just can't
stand it.”
‘‘Well, I wish my hous.e ran as smooth
ly and satisfactorily as hers seems to on
a small iuroroe. I'm always ready tc
take her advice about things, because
it really works.” replied the woman.
“Please come to order," said the presi
dent. looking at the two whispering wom
en sternly and rapping on the desk with
her gavel. After a resolution of thanks
to Air. Jackson for his kindness and co
operation the club adjourned for the sea
son with the chairmen of the various
committees pledged to have their pro
grams for the coming year outlined for
the first meeting in September. The club
was not large enough to have special rep-
|yjO VIEL ANjp)
Lillian Gish
MILLIONS LOVE HER
What Happens to an Extra
“You always say ‘Start in as an ex
tra,' ” someone wrote to me the other
day. “What would happen to me If I
did get a job pf that sort?”
Well, you'd report at the studio —
after having received a telephone call
from the easting director of the agent
through whom you were engaged—and
be sent to the dressing room set aside
for extras, If you were to be In scenes
that would be taken there. In most of
the modern stndtos these dressing rooms
are quite attractive —big, light rooms,
■with rows of lockers and shelves running
along the walls, with long mirrors over
them. There is running water either
In the room or in an adjoining one. and
above the mirrors are very strong electric
lights.
You'd put on your make-up there, and
change your costume If that was neees
snry. Os course, if historical costumes
were needed they would be furnished by
the company. If evening clothes were
to be worn you would be asked to bring
your own. though these could be fur
nished from the company's wardrobe
room, if necessary.
You would dress there, and wait until
you were called to appear on the floor
—that being the part of the studio where
pictures are taken. Y r ou'd probably find
that you had been called at least an hour
before work was to begin; getting a
crowd of_extras together, in proper make
up and costume, is a task that requires a
good deal of labor, as you'd realize If
you had ever inspected a gathering of
even fifty and seen what their individual
Ideas on the subject of make-up are!
The assistant director would tell you
what he wanted to do. If you were to
be in a restaurant scene, probably the
resentation at the National Federation of
Woman's Clubs which had Just met in
Sait Lake City, but one of fthe members
was deputized to assemble all the data
for them that she possioly could as to
what.the big clubs had decided at ths
convention to do next year, so that they
might keep in touch with the federated
activities.
“I'm going to put you on my domestic
economy committee next year,” said Mrs.
Hooper to the Bride as they walked
home together.
“My, that’s seme boost for me,”
laughed the Bride. "Bob said I’d proba
bly be put on the committee for decora-,
tions. That's as far as he trusts me."
The menu for Saturday Is:
BREAKFAST.
Cold Fruit Juice.
Creamed Fish Cakes. fc Cereals.
Cinnamon Toast. Coffee.
LUNCHEON. / (
Pea Soup.
Egg and Lettuce Sandwiches.
Cherry Tarts. Milk.
DINNER.
Vegetable Chowder.
Spanish Omelets Buttered Beet*.
Scalloped Potatoes.
Cake. Cherry Yum Yum.
CHERRY ROLY POLY.
Make a rich baking powder mixture
and roll out in rectangular shape. Cover
liberally with cherries and sugar. Fold
like a jelly roll, pinching the edges
lightly together. Bake in a moderate
oven. Serve with cherry juice sweetened
and thickened with flour. —Copyright,
1921. /
Ambassador Should
Learn Americanism ,
Says Times Reader
M. L. Clawson, an Indianapolis attor
ney, believes that Col. George Harvey,
President Harding’s ambassador to the
court of St. James, should be brought
home to learn Americanism. In a Jette*
to the editor of the Times he says:
“When I read in the paper Ambassa
dor Harvey’s Fourth of July speech la
London, for a moment I imagined I was
a British citizen, and after tha shock
had passed away I realized I was really
an American living in America.
“Language absolutely raris one to heal
this British ambassador from America
misrepresenting America to King George’!
court.
"He stated that if King George 111,
who ruled during the Revolution, had
issued the same sort of document that
King George V had issued to the Irish
people, there would have been no inde
pendence bells rung on July 4, 1776, at
Philadelphia.
"In the name of all that men cherisli
in liberty and freedom, how can sh
Government at Washington and tne
American people stand for such an in
sult, such a contemptible lie, as tliia
proposition ?
“King George V simply said he hoped
for a reconciliation of all Irish interesr*
and offered a dominion rule under the
British flag, and this Ambassador Har
vey would have suggested for Americana.
1 wonder what Patrick Henry and George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson would
think if they heard this. In fact, I am
presumptious enough to believe if you
would examine the graves of these men
now you would find they had turned
completely over in their last, resting
place.
"I do not understand how the Amer
ican people can leave this vile utter
ance go by unnoticed. Would America
be satisfied with dominion rule under
the British flag? Would we ever be
satisfied with a British king? And if
we would not. how can the American
people be satisfied with such a rnlsrep
reseutative as Harvey In the court of
St. James? Surely American public
opinion is at low ebb if it does not re
s'at this in some practical way as to
force this man to come back to America
aud learn Americanism."
Strong Summer Color
LONDON July B.—" The ‘Summer’
color." says Dame Fashion, “will be a
soft shade of yellow, not unlike apricot,
but more correctly described as Spanish
onion peel color.”
Pip ~ '
men and women would be told to P
off and) sit down at the tables—and you'd
find it interesting to see them maneuver
so that they would sit In front, la line
with the camera. The director would
probably rearrange the grouping some-*
what, so that he would have the best
possible background for the star or the
principal actors.
And after that you'd Just do what he
told you to. till the day’s work was over*
and then collect your pay.
If you were to work out on location,
you’d go to the place where you were
to work by train, or by special busses.
If the distance was not great. There
would be some sort of dressing room*
there, and the company would have made
provisions for luncheon; usually a box
luncheon Is provided for each person,
and coffee, tea and milk are served.
Otherwise your work would be managed
just as It would In the studio.
Perhaps, if you were to "show" la
scenes that would come later, you'd be
asked to report for work again. Thle
illustrates what I mean. One day I saw
Mrs. Sidney Drew direct some scenes that
were taken in a railway station in New
York. Two or three extras walked dowa
the station just ahead of John Cumber*
land, who was featured In the pictures
and then stood at the train gate talking
as he came along and said goodby to his
wife. Now, probably nobody who saw
that picture would notice those extras;
they were simply background, But when
It was not possible to work longer be
cause of the failing light, those three
extras were asked to report for work tha
next day, when 1 more scenes showing Mr.<
Cumberland at the train gate would be
taken. It wouldn’t do to change tha
background, yon see.
So that's what would happen If you
got a job as an extra. —Copyright, 1921.
UGIBIEBED V. S. PATENT Of/ICI