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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351.
MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
i Chicago, Detroit, St Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos.
Advertising offices j j Sew Boston, Payne, Burns i Smith, Inc.
THAT UNEMPLOYMENT conference should give a lot of persons
employment while it lasts.
IF the street car company is doing as little business as it says it is
those bandits used poor judgment.
IT'S A SAFE BET that the average citizen is more interested in
getting a few tons of coal into his basement than in the accounts of the
miners' convention.
A WASHINGTON DISPATCH says home events may influence the dis
armament conference. Let us hope that the conference also influence
home events.
THAT DEPUTY MAYOR of Plymouth, England, who thinks the ses
sions of his city council compare favorably with those of the Federal House
of Representatives should look in on the Indiana Legislature some time.
To Aid Law Enforcement
The introduction in the city council by Mr. Schmidt of an ordinance to
abate as a nuisance places where vivisection is practiced serves to call
attention again to the fact that vivisection is absolutely prohibited by the
laws of Indiana. The statute says:
“Whoever, having charge or custody of any animal, either as owner
or otherwise, inflicts needless cruelty upon the same, or MUTILAT ES the
same, or deprives it of natural means of defense or protection, or cruelly
or unnecessarily fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter
or protection from the ■weather, shall on conviction be fined in any sum
not more than two hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment
In the county jail for any period not exceeding sixty days. - ’
In State’ vs. Bruner (111 Ind. 98) it was held that dogs and domestic
fowls are included in the provision of this section and also that it is not
necessary to name the owner of the animal in such a prosecution. There
is, of course, no exception as to the purposes of the mutilation of a dog
and scientists and medicos have no more immunity from the provisions of
this statute than any other persons.
Regardless, however, of the law which absolutely forbids such prac
tices, the Indiana School of Medicine and others have persistently practiced
vivisection in Indiana and have heretofore escaped restraint.
For a time experimental surgery was practiced on dogs in a room fitted
for that purpose in the basement of the city Hospital, which is under the
jurisdiction of the city board of health. More recently these experiments
have been conducted in a laboratory in the building of the Indiana School
of Medicine, which has fitted up elaborate quarters for the dogs and main
tains them there for no other purpose than the experiments which are in
direct violation of the State law'.
Such violations of the State law as the mutilation of animals fall under
the jurisdiction of the humane officers of the Indianapolis police depart
ment. These officers are charged with cooperation with the officers of any
regularly incorporated humane society that may be in existence. There is
a special statute which compels these officers to prosecute on direction of
the president of such a humane society. This special statute has hepn mis
construed to prevent the humane officers from prosecuting except on the
direct orders of the president of the humane .society and in Indianapolis
the humane officers have been instructed under no circumstances to bother
the medical college.
A6 a result of this interlocking system, the medical college has been
for a long time licensed to violate the State law and protected in these
violations by the very agencies presumed to be enforcing the lavts against
cruelty.
jf ' It is for the purpose of reaching the violators of this law that the ordi
nance declaring places maintained for such violations to be a public
nuisance has been proposed.
The establishment of a laboratory and kennels for dogs prima facie
evidence of an intent to mutilate dogs and the influence which has been
exerted to prevent the humane officers from interfering is sufficient to
-T’y, *
indicate some remedial measures.
So 'far as is known, the Indiana School for Medicine is the only insti
tution in Indianapolis that has openly flaunted the State law by conducting
operations on dogs recently. If the ordinance is’ the quarters
fitted for this form of torture of animals will have to be abandoned or the
college will have to defend itself against the charge of maintaining a public
nuisance.
To Cure by Singing
At times when the judgment of everybody seems faulty and one is
scarcely inclined to trust himself, it is just a trifle discouraging to note
some conditions laid down by speakers and scientists. Kven the cure they
mention for so many evils is subject to question and grave doubt.
This summer a lecturer from the Carnegie foundation was credited
with the statement that Indiana has 56.000 mentally defective persons and
only 10.000 of them in institutions. He further stated that 10 per cent of
the population is below the average mentally and 2% per cent is feeble
minded. Nothing was said about married men or whether or not these
figures were obtained from wives of men who are just too lazy to be dif
ferent, or whom they include. The fifty-six Housand out of a possible
three million population is sufficiently large to i rlude almost every one,
however.
Mere man, having pleaded guilty to havin£“Dnly a moderately strong
mind, including, too, an acknowledgment of ownership of some oil stock
and a town lot payable a dollar down and a dollar forever afterward, seeks
a remedy for his ill. Neurologists come and go, hut insanity is increasing.
However, hope exists.
In France, where shell shock and war horrors added to the usual ratio
of Insanity, singing as a cure-all has worked wonders. A case of recovery
of Bight, too, is reported, by a choir boy who was born blind. The cures
are attributed to singing and all nervous diseases are supposed to be cura
ble by that method.
The ability to sing becomes very desirable both for the patient and
his neighbors. Thus, in curing one, another may not be driven to distrac
tion, if the right notes are not struck, or if the singing is accompanied by
too much nasal twang, or sharps or flats. One must sing to cure himself,
however, without regard for the neighbors.
If any of the other roomers are aroused in the sfnall hours of the
night by a joyful voice, let them know that what they think is incorrect.
The joyfulness is not there. It is a pain or a nervous affliction which is
finding remedy. It is not a sign of the bootlegger, nor of unalloyed joy.
Perhaps a little later the physician will prescribe .the tunes to sing,
the hymns most useful for the ailment. Probably lumbago might require
a different key from headache.
Slander Retracted
Mr. Taylor Gronninger has demanded and received a retraction of the
statement published in an evening paper to the. effect that he “approached"
a judge and “passed out the word that each judge-was expected to kick in
with $500” for the Shank campaign.
The falsity of the statement and the lack of responsibility of the
medium through which it was circulated were both established by the
admission that it was false which was made on Mr. Gronninger's demand.
Naturally one is led to wonder how much more of the publications
that appear in the same columns can be believed when there is such a
prompt admission of falsehood In regard to Mr. Gronninger.
There Is no more real excuse for misrepresentation and falsehood in
campaign stories than in any other. The truth is as easily obtained in
regards to politics as In regard to anything else. That it has not been
more frequently established in Indianapolis campaigns has been due wholly
to a lack of disposition on the part of one newspaper to stick to the truth
when misrepresentation w'ould better serve its selfish purposes.
Among those persons who are informed as to the methods and the
objects of these perverted of political facts the untruths receive no cre
dence, but unfortunately theTe are many persons who have not yet come
to a realization that a newspaper which will deceive as to Its ownership
is not likely to be particular about the truth in political affairs.
For the benefit of those persons who are not inclined to weigh the re
sponsibility of their informant it is well that Mr. Gronninger went to the
trouble of showing the falsity of the attack on him. Such action will en
courage others to resent slander and may eventually bring the slanderers
to a realization of the nefariousness of their practices.
The STORY of NINETTE
By RU BY M. A YRES
H’fto’s Who in the Story
MNETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the
light of day in cheap lodgings in a dull
road in the worst part of Balbam, i*
adopted by . .
“JOSH” WHEELER, who shared nis
meager earnings as a scribe on a Lou
don paper, with the friendless babe.
Ninette meets .
PETER XOTHARI). an editor, who res
cues her from sickness and pover y
and takes her to his sister,
MARGARET DELAY, who has a home is
the country Ninette is introduced
ARTHUR DELAY, Margaret’s husband.
DOROTHY MANVERS, an old sweetheart
of Nothard s, is a guest at Margaret s
house Ninette meets.
RANDALL CAVANAGH. a wealthy man
of London, who confesses that he is
her father.
Cavanagh contemplates a business trip
to America and places Ninette under tne
chaperonage of
MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. Ninette
is surprised to learn that Mrs. Crantoru
I is Peter Nothard's aunt.
1 Margaret teils Ninette that her husband
i has left her. Ninette overhears someone
j telling\ Peter Nothard that Cavanagh hat;
; paid Xlrs. Crawford to keep her, hears
them ridicule her extravagant dress amt
hi.it that her father had done something
disgraceful and would leave England for
a while. Much to Nothard's distress,
i Ninette angrily tells him that she over
| beard his conversation.
| Upon learning that Peter Nothard is
to marry Dorothy Manvers, Ninette sud
denly realizes her own love for him. me
awakening start’es her and she wishes
her father would take her to America
with him. In v.uu she waits for him unit
; finally hears that he is dead,
i Nothard proposed to pay his au ,. ,
keep Ninette with her and Insists that
Ninette remain ignorant of the fact that
ihe is supplyin the money. Mrs. t rau
-1 ford suspecis Ninette's fondness lor
Nothard, but he still thinks she uls
i likes him. , .
j Ninette now knows that Nothard love
her, and in her eyes he discerns her ai
| section for him. Dorothy is severely
i burned and it is thought her beauty is
! permanently destroyed.
Because of Dorothy's misfortune. Notl -
| ard realizes Hint- their engagement ‘an
I not be tiroken unless it is her desire.
! Ninette and Nothard quarrel when he
! obeys Dorothy’s request that be see her.
1 While out for a walk, to quiet her
Doubled thoughts. Ninette meets Arthur
, Delay. . ,
Nothard reluctantly tells Dorothy that
j he intends to marry her in spite of her
I ulsfigurement. .. ...
Dorothy spitefully tells Ninette that
Nothard admitted he was paying his
aunt for keeping Ninette at tier home.
I.caving her valuables behind. Ninette
I steals away from Mrs. Cranford's house.
Nothard, knowing t’nai Dorothy must
: have revealed his secret, tells her that
i Ninette means everything in the world
j to hint.
Dorothy feels tl.at she can not face
the future with her face so terribly
marred and to end her own existence is
her last resort.
After many unstn'cessful attempts to
find employment, Ninette becomes ill
from lack of proper nourishment and
faints in the street. Arthur Delay
passes Just ill time and takes her to her
lodging hou*e.
CHAPTER LIU.
‘lf Dorothy Maurer a Had
Lived.'
•‘As soon as I am well again I will
work and earn the money to pay you
back all you have spent on me since
I have been ill,” she told Delay. "Its
been awfully good of you to take care
of uie, and I’m more than grateful to
you, but it wouldn't be right for me to
be indebted to you.”
Delay arose from its chair and began
tramping up and down the little room,
bis hsnds thrust deep in his pockets,
his chin sunk o n his chest. At last he
paused by the couch where she was
lying.
“Ninette, why go on with this farce?
he demanded. “You know that i love
you with all mv heart, and that I'd oe
the happiest man in the World if you
would come to me and discharge your
<ielt in that way. The money is noth
ing Why not do this?'
“Oh, but . can’t. Don't you see that
no matter bow much I love you—if 1
Ylid love you at ail. which 1 don't—l
wouldn't go wlth you? You're married
to Margaret
“But Ninette, that doesn't matter. Mar
gnrt doesn't want rue any tn^re —that
leaves me f'*e, don't you see. 1 would
take such good care of you And we'd
travel. You could go to Egypt, Spain—
anywhere you liked You need never be
poor or homeless again ”
"What you prop-se is simply unsp ik
able!” cried the girl, her eyes flashing,
‘.lust as soon as I am strong enough
to go out I shall find work and pay
you back every penny that you tiav
spent, on me, though it takes the rest of
my life to do so. Will you go now.
please ?”
“Don't turn nio down this way. dear.”
he pleaded, coming over to her side and
kneeling down on the floor so that his
eyes were on a level with hers. "Can't
you see that It's real happiness that I'm
offering you? 1 may not be so rich as
I’eter, but I have plenty—l could look
after you always.”
“Is Deter rich?” asked NJnette. lan
guidly, more to change a disagreeable
subject than because she wanted to
know.
“Oh. yes, I’eter has tons of coin, but
he spends so little that nobody would
ever think it,” Delay answered careless
ly. “If Dorothy Manvers had lived she'd
have made him spend it fast enough.”
For a moment Ninette lay perfectly
still, hardly daring to breathe. She won
dcred if she had heard aright. Could
it be possible—but no, such things did
not happen !
After a moment, which seemed an age
to her, she asked :
"If Dorothy Danvers had lived? What
do you mean?"
It was Delay's turn now to stare.
“Why didn't you know? She commit
ted suicide- —Jumped into the river after
she got so badly burned that time and
found that her heauly had gone.”
Ninette tried hard not to give way to i
the rush of emotions that swept over her,
but she was not strong, and the shock
was too great. She fainted almost i>e :
fore Delay realized what had happened,
and the doctor, under the pretense of
having forgotten something, returned to
the room to find Delay dashing water in
her face. >
“What’s the matter here—what have
you done?” he demanded, but Delay j
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greeted him with a blank stare and the
amazed exclamation:
"Hanged if 1 know.”
“Ninette was quite herself again in a
few moments, and the eyes she lifted to
the doctor's were so radiant that he be
gnn to wonder if be had been mistaken
about Delay after all.
“Perhaps she’s in love with him and
has just found it out,” he ruminated, as
he made his way back down stairs.
But Ninette, though she had indeed
found once more the man she loved, had
no illusions about it being Arthur Delay.
Indeed, she at once went about getting
rid of him.
"I know that I shall be able to earn
the money that I owe you,” she toid
him, "and you may be sure that I’ll send
It to you just as soon as ever I can.
But you must go now—and please don't
come to see me any more.”
He plaeded with her in vain, but Ni
nette's mind was made up. The knowl
edge that she was free to love Peter
Nothard gave her new strength, and now
her will to live was strong as had been
Ihe desire to die.
But even with this new incentive to
help her. finding work was as hard as
over. As soon as she was well she be
gan again a tour of various employment
agencies, and of shops whose advertise
ments had appeared in the newspapers
But. the story was the same as it had
been before: the place had always just
been filled by someone with more ex
pirtence than she had had, or with good
references, or with both. And Ninette
would turn hopelessly away and trudge
on down the long streets, wondering why
it was that in all the world there seemed
to be no place for her.
At last she decided to pawn the few
trinkets which Josh Wheler had given
hor, and to which she had clung, even
in thj direst extremity. There were not
many of them, and their x alue was not
great, but they would at least serve to
keep tbn wolf from the door,
She had never been to a pawnshop be
fore and felt a bit timid now about en
tering one alone.
“You're a silly thing,” she told herself,
disgustedly. “Nobody cares where you
go or what you do: why should you
mind going to a pawnshop? And as for
hating to part with these little keep
sakes now happy it would make Josh
if ho thought they were being a help!”
And so she resolutely crossed the street
and went over to a shop above the door
of which dangled three gilt balls. She
had reached out her hand to grasp the
door knob, when a masculine voice at
her elbow cried "Ninette!”
And. turning, she saw Peter Nothard
there beside her.
CHAPTER LIV.
Happiness at Last.
“Have I really found you at last. Nin
ette;” rried Peter Nothard, clinging to
the girl's hands as if he would never
let her go.
“Ob. Peter!” she murmured, her gnat
eyes swimming wilh tears "Don't ever
let me go again, will you?”
"Not ever again.” lie assured her.
"But what are you doing her?”
She told him trying to soften the pa
tin tic little tale as much ns possible so
that he should not fee! too sorry for her.
But Peter studying her wan little face,
and supplying details which lie knew
she was trying to hide, could not be de
celv.-d.
“Not for ail the world would I have
had you enduro sm-h suffering,” ho cried
when she had finished, “1 have been
searching frantically for you ever since
you left my aunt's home, but 1 could A id
no trace of your whereabouts. 1 trled to
locate the bouse where you and John
Wheeler bad lived, but wasn't aide to
place It, and 1 have walked the streets
at night and driven through them days,
looking for you always.
"It was pure luck that I happened to
bo passing by here when you stopped. I
had the driver to turn at the last corner,
but he niissii.il* n-t*o<l nie, and came on;
otherwise 1 would have missed you. But
come you are going with uie now," and
he led tier to the hansom that waited at
the curb, and gave the man the address
of his home.
"W here were you going when you saw
me ; asked Ninette, snuggling down st
his side and slipping her hand into his.
“To meet my sister. Margaret," he an
swered "Delay has writtm her. beg
ging that she give him another chance,
and she has de* bled to do so. She really
love-* him, you know And he said that
he had changed greatly since she lust
saw him, and that he knew she would
f' .and him worth forgiving if she would
only try."
Ninette, her face shaded by the brim
of her hat, smiled a little to herself
If Margaret would forgive him, surely
Arthur Delay would have his reward fir
the trouble ho had gone to on her ac
count.
As they drove through the streets
Ninette could not help thinking of the
many times she had walked along these
very pavements, her heart like lead,
mourning the fact that she would prob
ably never sec Peter again And now
here be sat beside her, her hands held
- lose In his firm grasp, his smiling eyes
meeting hers adoringly every time she
looked at him.
“This isn't much like that first, night
I came here, is It?" she laughed, as they
left the cab and entered Peter's house
together.
"Not murh,” he agreed, establishing
her in a big chair and kneeling down I
beside her. his arms about her waist. I
"I mine here to steal that night," she 1
reflected sadly. “And t would have sto- !
too, If you hadn't stopped me." j
“I didn't stop you," Peter declared, j
“You stole my heart Hint night, and
you've never given it back again. But
you've given me yours in return, haven't
you. little Ninette?"
She smiled at that, and turned from
him to look around the beautiful room
—her home to be. She would never be
a friendless outcast again.
As they sat there In the twilight, with i
the tire casting its warm glow over
them, she told him something of the!
weary days she had spent looking for;
work, and the Illness that followed. She 1
told him of Arthur Delay's kindness, too, j
but not of his urging her to go away
with him.
“That's the biggest thing to his credit
that I’ve ever heard,” Peter exclaimed
“lf I ever get a chance to do him a good
turn I’ll certainly do it. I can’t bear
to think of your going through such an
ordeal as you have faced. I thought that
I suffered as much as any one could, as
I tramped the streets searching for you,
knowing that perhaps at that very mo
ment you were only a block away from
me, and yet that we would uever meet.”
“But you are going to be happy now,
aren't you?” she asked, slipping her
arms around his neck.
“Madly happy, sweetheart,” he an
swered, drawing her close to him. “But
how am I going to be able to make you
happy?”
She laughed softly, as he had longed
to bear her laugh In days gone by.
“I think the real story of Ninette is
just about to begin.” she told him.
(The End.)
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1921. by Star Company
By K. C. B.
Dear K. C. B.—On the night of the
fifteenth there was left in the hat check
room of the Waldorf Roof one dilapi
dated and dirty straw hat bearing on
the inside the initials "K. C. B ” If it
is your property I wish you would call
| and take it away. The hat check boy
I says it can't he cleaned. Do you want
' It or shall we burn It?
ROY CARRUTHBRS.
Manager the Waldorf.
j DEAR ROY.
• •
I WAS going to sax
THAT FOR all of me.
THE HAT check boy.
COULD EAT the hat.
BI T INASMUCH.
AS IT can't be cleaned.
I’LL LET him off
BUT REALLY', Rev
. . .
IT seems a shame
TO BURN the hat
IT SHOULD be framed
AND PUT away.
WITH A written tale
OF THE hat checkrooms.
IN WHICH its been
AND WHAT it cost
TO BUY It back
THIS YY K should do
SO IN after years
OIK YOUTH may know
YY II AT A lot of fish
THEIR FATHERS were
YY HI N THEY'D walk right up
. . .
TO A hat check girl
AND GIYE her their hata
AND F.YY her inoncx
TO GET them back
AND KNOYV all the time
THAT THE girl was hired
BY SOM E rich guv
• • •
,/HO PAID the hotel
FOR THE checking privilege
BF.CAFSE HE knew
• • •
Til YT EVERY minute.
THE WORLD gave birth
TO ANOTHER sinker
AND FOR myself.
• • •
YTIIEN 1 was born.
I HAVE an idea
THESE HAT check guys.
MI ST HAVE rung a lot of bells
AND BLOWN a lot of horns
FOR I even smile
YY HEN I buy it back
I THANK you
HRITISH TO SAIL
SHIP OF INDUSTRY
—
Plan to Put Exposition on
Seas in 1923.
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Particulars
have readied the Department of Com
. morce about the great trade ship, "Brtt
lsh industry,” which In 1923 is to sail
for a cruise around the world. It is to
be a floating exposition of wares "Made
in Great Britain.” Although two years
off. a detailed itinerary has been worked
out. t
The ship will first proceed to the east !
coast of South Amerlin. then to South
Africa, thence to" Australia. New Zealand.!
Fiji. Japan and China. On tho 338th ;
day after leaving Tg>ndon she will slart
home via Manila, the Dutch East Indies
and India. During a voyage of eighteen
months 43,000 miles will have been cov
ered and thirty four Important; trade
‘•enters visited. A week's sojourn is
planned at each port.
Specially built for the purpose, "Brit
ish Industry" will be a vessel of 20,*K!0
tons and in itself serve ns an advertise
inent of the British ship building trade.
-Copyright. 1021, by Public
< 'ompan.v.
BYRON FT It ISO YY NS SISTER.
HASTINGS, England, Sept. 21,—Sir
Anchitel Ashburnham Clement. Bart., has
disowned his sister Bridget because she
married Roland Cloke, a gardener, with j
five children.
GRAND OPERA TRAINING HELPED
Dorothy Follis to Success in ‘Honeydew ’
•'*; v • *'•
When tlu> curtain goes up next Monday
night at the Murat on the ti it act of
"Honeydew.” the Sbriuers, who have
bought out the entire house for the open
ir g night for their first big theater party
of ttie new season. Miss Dorothy Eollis
xxill display the advantages of a grand
opera training.
A few days ago 1 journeyed to Grand
Rapids. Mich., to spend the day with
Joe Weber, the producer of "Honeydew,'
Joe is the fnmous Weber of the team of
Weber a till Fields.
T had a chance to chat with Miss Eollis
in her dressing room at Powers Theater.
1 was introduced io her in a little alley
wav leading to the theater. She paused
before some artificial plants and flowers
which stage employes were taking into
the theater.
“The flowers look like v\ inter has ar
rived, but just wait, spring will cotne
the minute that the orchestra plays and
the lights go on. She "as right The
setting lived In the tir-t act of •'Honey
dew" reminds one of spring.
Miss Foil is dim! ed the stairs to a
little dressing room, and although she is
a full fledged priuia donna, the lights
would not turn on. She did not fret, but
caliniv stated that I would have to in
terview her in eml-darkness
.V.IBS FoIIK v ;is with the Cuic.igo Opera
Forapatiy for two years, lint it i- in -100
Weber's "Honeydew” company that she
has found success because lie played for
forty weeks in the io::g New York run
and is looking forward to the Chicago
enga geiuent.
”1 see no reason why the inland cities
should not luxe their opera seasons." she
said. "I understand that Mary Garden
Intends to taie the Chicago Opera Com
puny on tour next spring Several of
the larger clt.es nil] be visited. The ex
pense will lie tremendous, but Miss Gul
den will put tin’ tour across.
"It f ikes money to produce opera, but
COLORADO NO
LONGER STATE
OF MINING MEN
1< ontlnurd From Fage One.)
tton ns to crops even if all the advance
in farm products came after the crop
was out of tho hands of the farmers and
all the decline while in tho farmer*
band*. There Is a surplus of feed.
Range cattle are in ex'-ellent condition
and heavier than usual He predicts pro
nouneed recovery in grain and livestock
prices and Bays that when all the crops
are marketed the farmers will lie in fair
shape. He thinks great betiefl: will re
suit from tlie agricultural credit a' t.
The biggest tiling In Cos! Ttido, he say a.
Is llie improving of the herds. SixP-eu
years ago there were no blooded farm
animats here. Now Colorado ranks sec
ond in herefords. Livestock production
has Increased tenfold and so has the
production of the farm In those sixteen
years. Better breeding, better feeding
and better care liave xvorked wonder*.
Dairying is becoming a big enterprise.
The Stote has some of America's best
hogs. Poultry raising baa become an art.
GREAT PROFIT
FOR SHEEP GROYY'EK.
He says there never was a better time
to go into aheep raising. Some of the
finest flocks in America are on the mar
kef -because of the depression in wool
and n man can pick and choose as he
pleases and. if he has wisdom, and pa
tience. profit greatly. The world ntuat
have wool and it will continue to eat
mutton.
An odd thing about Colorado, and Den- ]
ver. In . articular, is what made them or
rather supported them In former days
has passed and new enterprises supplant J
and dwarf them today. Once there wort i
eleven smelters in the State. Now there ,
are three qtid they are only nominal. Once 1
the man from outside was a tenderfoot j
and was treated as much. Now the tour ‘
Ist business is a major enterprise run j
tiing Inin many millions a year. Pikes j
Peak, the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. 1
Bate* Park. Bear ('reck Canyon. Lookout
Mountain and the mountain highways
have been capitalized to the fullest and
made known more than once was th. j
Garden of the Gods. Why they have
brought luxury into the business to such
a degree that now when you are "rough
ing It” on your Colorado tour of th*
wonderland of the western world you
have elei-trie lights and bath tubs In
your catup.
Lower Manhattan is called.the lighted
wonder of the world. There Is ona
MISS DOROTHY FOLLIS.
it seems practical to me that an opera
organization be perfected for Indianapo
lis. Cleveland. Louisville and Detroit.
Many good singers can tie obtained. It
isn't necessary to have a whole flock of
sopranog and tenors. The scenery does
not have to be as elaborate as that of
the two leading opera companies. In
other words, expenses ‘an ie curtailed
and performances of merit and charm
can be rendered. The prices charged for
such a company could be in the reach
of ail.”
Miss Follis talked earnestly of the
need of resident opera companies or the
perfection of a company to appear in
four cities annually.
She believes in giving her audiences
her besr work, whether it is on Broad
way or on the road. She finds hap
piness by not trying to find trouble in
the theater.
Following our chat, Miss Follis picked
up a pretty gown, explaining that she
wanted to.put a few touches <*f her own
to the frock.
Os course. Miss Follis "loves” Mary
(i rden. They all do.
I tljDik that if the "Honeydew' com
pany ™ad its way about it. Mary
Garden would be the next president of
tills country —W. D, FI
ON YJ F.YY TODAY.
The following attractions are on view
today : "The Broadway Whirl." at Eng
lish's; the I.ee children st B. K. Keith s;
popular vaudeville at the Lyric: vaurie
vide and movies at the Rialto amt
Broadway ; "Greater Than Love. ' at the
Ohio; "The Child Thou Gavest Me." at
the Circle; "Way Down East.” at Loew s
state; "An Unwilling Hero.' at the Al
hambra; "White and Unmarried.” at
Mister Smith's; "To a Finish." at the
Isis; "The Raiders.’ at the Regent and
“Handcuffs or Kisses." at the Colonial.
structure In Denver that is illuminated
more brightly than possibly any font
structures in New Y'ork City combined
Like all cities of size betweeu the
Rockies and the Missouri the stockyards
rank first in money turned over. Sheep
play a larger part here than in any
American city and probably will for
many years to come. Beet sugar follows
the stockyards and next, rubber tires.
! There has not beeu much construction
lof dwellings In Denver of recent years.
High cost of material and labor being
prohibitive. New. however, there are
reports of a $3,000,900 hotel project and
an extensive amount of residential build
ing. The latter Is surety needed. There
has not been one-tenth the residential
building In the last five years necessary
to house the people properly. Rents are
high, too high for many worthy peop-o.
Schools are overcrowded. There is pro
nounced drift to apartment house riving
STATE FINDS
good roads pay.
Road building is active. Colorado finds
that good roads pay. They bring the
tourists and tourists leave a trail of
money.
There are hints of greater railroad
building, this time of a tunnel through
the Rockies that will shorten the haul
between the Atlantic and Pacific by
100 miles or so.
Persons of prominenee say there is a
hen on and predict that the Chicago,
Burlington A Quincy will become the
owner of the Denver & Klo Grande and
the Western Pacific. YY’ith these roads
and the Colorado Southern they say the
C , B. & Q. will be the dominant system
of the trans .Mississippi region, not only
in the east and west traffic, hut in
traffic to the gulf which is open to it
by the Colorado Southern route.
The wish may be father to the thought
in this instance but the persons who
suggests such developments lire of ihieli
high standing In this part of the Repub- j
lie that their words carry great weight. ,
It must he understood that the inter 1
mountain territory gets no benefit from
the Panama Canal. In fact the canal
has put an additional handicap on it 1
which the railroads, as they are at pres
eat. cannot meet. Take for example a
shipment of steel from Colorado to Pa- !
elflc coast points.
The United States Steel Company can ;
ship from Gary to New Y'ork and thence i
to the Pacific at a much lower rate than |
the Colorado Fuel and Iron can ship
by rail direct. Colorado territory is de
fined by the absorption in the water rate
of the differential from Chicago east.
Kansas, Nebraska and the whole YVest,
in fact, have to meet this sort of a bur
den in any business with the Pacific
coast district.
But while this condition irritates it
doesn't appear to hurt. The mountain
country seems to be doing pretty well
The smoke comes out of many smoke
stacks in the mile high city. There if
an air of activity, pu _ v.e and not
a little prosperity. The same remark
able story of saviugs deposits is trua
here as it is in the East.
To a question as to how they stood
in his institution the vice president ol
one hank said today: “The highest we
ever reached was $5,300,000. The total
today is $5,400,000." For some reason
Colorado felt the slump later than did
tile East and from all appearances it got
it in a milder form. —Copyright, 1921, by
Public Ledger Company.
DIVORCE EVIL
HELD PART OF
MARRIAGE EVIL
(Continued From Page One.)
since babyhood, with tho help of charita
ble societies, while the father of the chil
dren has departed to fields unknown.
"Here is what Mrs, Besant says:
• 'Amongst many semi barbarous na
tions. the wives are still bought; in gome
parts of Africa, the wooer pays a cer
tain number of cows for his bride; in
ether places. money or goods are given
in exchange. The point to he noted is
that the wife is literally taken by
it bought; she is not free to choose her
husband; she does not give herself to
him; she is a piece of property, handed
over by her original owner—her father—
to her new owner- -her husband—in ex
change for certain solid money or money's
worth; hence she becomes the property
of the man who has paid for her.’
SAVAGES. WOMEN
AND SLAVES.
"In an admirable article in the West
minster Review of some time ago, the
following striking statement is to be
found:
'• Savages, women and slaves hold the
same rank. Women are bought pri
marily as slaves, to drudge and toil for
their masters. v.Tilst their function as
wives is secondary and subordinate. It
is more right to ray of polygamous peo
ple that their slaves are also their wives,
than to say that their wives are slaves.
They are purchased as slaves, and they
live as slaves.
“ ‘The history of uncultivated nation*,
it has been said, uniformly represents
the women as in a state of abject slavery,
from which they slowly emerge as civili
zation advances.
“ 'ln Canada, a strap, a kettle, and
a faggot are pla-ed in the new bride's
cabin, to indicate that it will he hence
forth her duty to carry burdens, dress
food and procure wood for her husband.
In Circassia it is the women who till and
manure the ground, and in parts of
China they follow the plow. A Moorish
wife digs and sows and reaps the corn,
and an Arabian wife feeds and clean*
and saddles tier master's horse. Indeed,
the sole of Bedouin wives Is
to cook and work and perform all menial
offices connected with teut life.
“ ‘From the absolute power of a sav
age over his slaves flow all those rights
over a woman from which the marital
rights of our own time are the genealogi
cal descendants.
“’A trace of it (purchase) is found in
the following custom of old English law:
“The woman at the church door was
given of her father, or some other of
the man next her kin, into the hands
of her husband, and he laid down gold
and silver for her upon the book, as
though he did buy her."
CUSTOM STILL IN
(lIURtH RITUAL.
“‘1 his custom still is maintained in
the chureh'ritiial: the priest asks: “Who
givelh this woman to lie married to this
man?" And when the man gives the
ring to the priest he gives money with
it. receiving hack ine ring to give the
woman, hut the money remaining, a sur
vival of the times when wives were lit
erally bought.
“ 'YVe have lopped off part of the
original marriage ceremony; we do not
exchange money at the marriage altar.
That would be too roarse, too obvious.
Our bride nowadays acquires through
marriage, home, a living, social position,
respectability. And they do say that for
these does she often sell herself.' ”
Miss Thayer sta'es that she admires the
frank admission of Judge Arthur Robin
i son of Superior Court, room 4, in ad
, milting that he does not know the solu
tion of the divorce evil.
“Neither does anybody else,” she de
: clarer.
A study of the evils of divon - ? and
the abuse of the uiarriagb law. especially
| in this State, indicates to the writer that
the two go hand in band. It is obviou*
that something must be done to curb
hasty. 11l advised and extremely young
marriages.
DEDUCTIONS
j IN DIVORCE.
! Careful study of those who for many
years covered divorce cases, has resulted
in the following personal deductions :
! That the judges of Indiana should be
j governed by more uniform laws in grant
| ing divorces and in hearing divorce cases.
! That a State conference should be held
i of all Judges of the State at which the
' judges should make a definite decision
• on a uniform proceeding in ail divorce
cases. These rules should provide for
sufficient time, at least sixty days, be
! tween the filing of a divorce ease and the
final hearing of i.
That Judges should not crowd many dl
; voroe eases info a single day's hearing.
: I have noticed in some courts in this
j county that on “divorce days," the court
rooms and corridors of the courthouse are
■ s o crowded by those seeking divorce that
the whole impression is one of travesty
j on Justice. The grtatest evil of the whole
sale hearing is that it gives the
impression that's divorce is the easiest
thing in the world to secure.
That all grand juries of the )State
should he more active in returning In
i diriment* against those who commit wil
-5 full perjury in the divorce courts and ac
tion should be taken against unscrupu
lous lawyers who “chase divorce eases.”
| That the Governor should appoint or
! advise the appointment of a legislative
committee to study carefully the marriage
laws of the State and draft measures
which will automatically curb certain
classes of divorce.
It is my impression that the basis of
the divorce evil ties in hasty, foolish, im
practical and ill-advised marriage*.
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