The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 18

JULY 29, 1923 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES 18 SUNDAY MORNING OLD AND NEW SHREVEPORT CHEEK BY JOWL JUNK DEALER IS CONVICTED UUP US LAUGH, BEIIANDOFDAY Middla Claaa American Now 1 "77' Kmmtmmf it-' mmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmimv' sjatataatawaa City Wins Tet Caaej of Ordi-, nanca Prohibiting Junk Yards in Certain Areas Come Into His Own on America's Rialto I. Schulti, accused of operating By ROSEMARY HALE. (fnprrlaM, New York. July 28. Ladles and jnnk business on lots on Texas avenue and triad recently, waa found gentlemen, meet the miJdlt class American.

You may ai est ae r'ullty in city court Saturday of vlo-atlng Ordinance 6 of 1923, whloh Crohiblts the operation of say junk usiness within fire district A. ex quainted for ha'i going to be mat any number of tlmei next season roaming un and down Broadway and cept under certain conditions. Sen and defined language, given tha sow tr to enact particular ordlnanoa, that (s if the power and manner af iti exercise are both conferred by the legislature, the courts may net adjudge It invalid because it Is unreasonable, but only II it li unconstitutional. But if tha power bt given in general terms, or of tht method of its exercise it net prescribed, tha eourtt may declare it invalid, if unreasonable, though it may not contravene any tpectfie constitutional provision. "As the court finds nothing unconstitutional In tht ordinance and it was exprsssly authorised by tht legislature, It is not within tht province of the court to teek tht reason for ita enactment er to inquire ipte its reasonableness." Judge Samuel announced that, ai thia wat tht first prosecution under tht ordinance and it wat continuous offense, there being a tint foi each day.

If the defendant would make an honest effort to remove hia business at once, a rsasonable tlmt would bt given him, CONDUCTS OWN DETENU Paris, July 28 M. Ebelet, one oj those charged with assaulting Caillaux, Is conducting hia own defense in his trial. He argues thai inasmuch as he oonslders himself patriotic, he thought it a good thins to, chastise Caillaux as an "enemy' of his country. He swore hi had ni inttntion to kill him. "V'ELL, WAR'S OVER Berlin, July 28.

British pottagi stamps are replacing tht mark is many business transactions. Work-ingmen especially are purchaalnf them, a survey the prosecution waa bassd, la illegal, uncoastitutional, null and void. be. cause it la in violation of the state sonstlutioa and of tha fourtssnth amendment to tha Constitution of the United States, In that it authorises the taking of private property without due process of law, Ths motion also stated that tha ordinance la in derogation of common rights In that it seeks to prevent defendant tha free uae of his property, irrespective of the fsot that its present use Is not injurious to the health, morale or safety of tha public; that it ia oppressive, arbltary, unreasonable and discriminatory and was not enacted by virtue of eipreas legislative or constitutional power. The motion waa overruled.

asaael's Opinion. Judge D. B. Samuel In glvlbg his decision in tha case said; 1 "Tha evfdonee on tha part of the prosecution-, disclosed that tha defendant waa conducting a junk ness within fire limit A of Shreveport, and not in a brick, building with the openings screened aa provided in the ordinance. No evidence was offered by the defendant "The ordinance was passed under expressive legislative grant aa provided In Paragraph 15, Section 1, Act 220, 1912, amending the charter of the city of Shreveport, and provides that the city council shall have tha power, 'Te regulate pawnshops, loan offices, second hand dealers, junk shops and all owners thereof and dealers And under Section 22 of the same, which Is, 'To prohibit and prevent the location or construction of any wooden or frame houses, stores, shops, buildings, within certain limits, etc' "The law ia well settled, that if a municipal roporation, is in specific tence was deferred until Monday at tha request, of the council for de ajaceui lants or tht American drama.

To put It briefly the praduean and tht playwright have tossed the va-riou acrapi of possible and nrobable fense, ao that he could file a motion in arrest of judgment. A motion to auash the affidavit pots into the co.inte hat, given It was filed by the defendant on the grounds that tha ordinance, which a imai annua and look who comas out on topt Inspiration of Moat Tlaya, None other than the middle clan even though we're not luppoaed to have olaaaes in the land ft the free and the home of the brave. However, he's It. Ha'i the Inspiration of the majority of the ays about to buret forth with a en panes of one old brokerage house how long will It be before the oil king has mailt too, a part of his domain This is only one block from the river, and the car turns back Into Texas street, to tha blase of sun on concrete walls and ths noisy struggle of an uncompromising "today." Yesterday its last hints and traces are loft behind, along ths old Union Depot Belt, and the sentimentalist wonders if' the car will make rounds even once again before fast-changing prosperity will have effaced a little more of Shreveport's local color and romance. uud crah aa a signal that the new theatrical aeaaon li on.

In other Bottom, manaiona of two ages; right, recently completed palatial homo of Attorney and Mrs. S. L. Herold in Jordan street, the last word in elegance and comfort In Shreveport, city of beautiful Left, a mansion of the Shreveport of an earlier, day; atill atanding in Texaa Above, a viata of arbored Jordan street, Main Street of aristocratic realdence Left, an outpost of civilization in the daya-of the present generation's youth, the village smithy, on the edge of town SO years ago, now miles from the city limits, surrounded by residences which, disputing the enroachment of the business district, have themselves been surrounded by business buildings. Going strong, but won't be going long HART SCHAFFNER MARX AND OTHER FINE SUMMER SUITS AT By ELEANOR HUFFMAN.

The yesterdays of Shreveport are fast passing. It is only in a few of the older streets that a hint remains of the city as it was. The Union Depot Belt car line traverses some of these and then jumps one into hustling, bustling, building Shreveport of today; through avenues of wealth and lesser streets where the most of Its foreign population is represented and others where the pioneers' families have their castles. "Eli and Amadee Gras" how quaint that sign, painted on an old grocery store, sounds, and how full of the flavor of Old Louisianne. Above the store hangs an old wrought iron balcony that runs the length of the house just as those in Rampart street, of New Orleans, do, which romantically minded Shreve-porters go down to see.

Almost aa, antique as the wrought iron balcony is the rest of the advertisement "Family and Fancy Groceries," that' was painted before these extrava uordi, comedy to be the keynote and the average American with hia perhaps nut ao average problems, ts to be the Instruments in the plays that set the tune to which Broadway and hence the rest of the theatrical American will dance. This does no mean, of course, that no play will contain a foreigner for bow would musical comedy get along without its spendthrift prince. Neither does it mexn that no tragedy will stall across the' boards to draw a sniffle from the susceptible. Nor would it be correct to declare that the upper class American, with an airplane and a valet, is absolutely banned. It means, however, that the big new ploys which mark the big new fashion will deal in a rather light manner with the sort of Ameri.

can whom you and I know by the hundreds. Only, to be ture, they will make him somewhat lesa of a bora. It's in his own country and his own time and his own class in which the American theater-goer's most interested at the moment. The historical play is so blase in his opinion that even Lauretta Taylor cannot redeem It. The mystery play has run the gamut of thrills and left the IierVous system so sated that there isn't a jump nor a screech left.

The unroarioua farce is not so darn uproarious after all, according to the riay-goera present mood. And the Eng'iiah comedy, like Cyril Maude's Aren't We AU" while wholly delightful, ia after all English comedy and not native. Moreover, the public la still near enough to the great war so that it does not yearn to. have its feelings harrowed. Tenement house tragedy is not, as the fashion writers put it, In vogue.

The thought of a cold New English spinster murdering the entire family in the middle of a Snowy night, Just because she had keen repressed or something in her Sirlhood, is not one to cause the R. 0. sign to swing from the box office window. The Infernal triangle, done with too much emphasis on the tragedy of it, has as little appeal right now as the coke fiend here, the burglar-husband, or little Eva herself, golden haired young moron that she was. The (rest American public is sending the great voiceless, psychic cry cross the open spaces to ths managers.

And the gist of that cry is: Slip as laughl It need not be a laugh from which tears are too far distant. Comedy, In the true sense of an absence of stark tragedy, is what the public ap- fiears to demand. This, at any rate, what the producers and the playwrights appear to believe. It's perfectly all right to have a sob or two up the sleeve as long as you wave a good laugh right out where everyone can see it somewhere the final curtain. Example of What's Wanted.

"Seventh Heaven," though not an American play, is a fairly good ex Clearance Prices ing the typical American city. Next is the old depot Itself, now no longer a "depot" at all, but in the modernized. parlance, "the Union Station." It is Just as busy a place now, however, as before the enlargements in 1919, and some think it even more bustling. The street ear waits for the trains to cross its path again, before it rolls down the hill to Crockett street and the busy hum of "downtown." It turns once more at Milam, on the corner where three large banks guard the treasure of the community and enters the wholesale district. Oil Supplants Cotton.

Here the old cotton brokers had their offices when the wealth of the district lay in the field for half the year, to be speculated upon in advance, and prayed for until the moment when it was safely baled and snipped. Cobwebs hanar on the brok- modeled) S. G. Sample Jiome and across the utt-eet is a vacant lot which humor reports that Mr. Sample has bought, and intends to hold in order that no store or business house may be erected there.

One block up in Louisiana avenue is a modern plumbing shop, the first invader into the aanctity of thia residence neighborhood. Contrasts In Terrace." The Florsheitn home, with its high sloping lawn marks the crest of beauty and affluence in Louisiana avenue, and across from it in scenic contrast is the gulch on the opposite side of which a proposed new school is to be built. It is filled with high willow trees whose topmost branches are on a level with the car track and flaunt their foam of trumpet vines to passers-by. Sun-flowers grow along ths edge of the gully and show their faces above the asphalt, while a triple-bend path meets the northern sky line. Some day the trumpet vines will all be gone, the hollow will be filled for a square brick building, and the path will give way to an ordered cement walk.

Shreveport will lose a little more of that individual quality ao dear to old residents and new, and will have taken one more step towards becom gant daya when no distinction isi made lor guests or homefolks, and the children are allowed to come toI the table with company. In the vacant lot next door, two negro boys operate their shoe-shining' How Manf Pounds Would Yob Like to Lose in a Week? If you are fat and irant to loe weight, will end mu a sample of the famous Rld-0-Kt triaint absolutely Pre. Do not send any mnney Juat your name and addre to Wliintrm Iabnratorloa, iill Coca Cola Kansas City, Mo. Adv. stand.

A small settee set on a platform makes a two-customer place of busineas, and here dusky Beau Brummela may be seen having their1 shoes shined, or, on hot days, Rastus, the proprietor, himself, may slumber on hia bench, cap over bis eyes. It: neighborhood. All the pathos of passing neighborhoods clings about this corner, and it is hard to hold a sigh for the vanishing respectability of stately old mansions which once held the high dreams of some young bride of half a century ago who thought to see her children's children grown up in the same spot. Now a junkyard belches its rusty wheels and rails over the sides of the signboard which hides its hideousness. A new contrast, a hint of tomorrow, stands in the modern brick hotel which has been erected a shor( distance beyond.

Up-to-date stores are fast being built beside it. And so the old street grows more interesting Jn dollars and cents. Distinct Community. The negro Strand, the Pell Mell of the colored population, is next. Two negro picture shows, a church and any number of barber shops and stores give the place its name.

Here on Sunday afternoons the pavement is double-lined with the neatest Sunday suits and gayest dresses of the dark Loohinvars and Lady Ellens. There is even a negro undertaking establishment in this section in fact, there are three monument yards 'before the Jordan street crossing ia reached, and the Charity hospital ia not far beyond to start the Joyous circle all over again with ita birthrate every day. The hospital, the Central High School and the municipal water and sewerage building show how much this part of town means to the public, and when Che corner is turned at Jordan street there is the police substation, a potent factor in indicating the passing of the old and the advent of the new. But almost like Bnother public building with its illusions of permanency are the strings of tank cars and freights that seem always to be passing a'long Southern avenue when the car stops at the crossing. Almost every time, the bell clangs; the wooden gates drop, and the train must go by before the car proceeds down picturesque Jordan street, where the oak trees almost meet overhead.

This effect is admired by all except the linemen of the traction company, who fear a short eintuit, probably death, with every storm that strikes, every breeze that blows. Palace an Worelfl. "Youreeka," at Fairtteld and Jordan, with its green-shaded lawn and tall trees offers the first contrast to the poverty just passed in Texas avenue dwellings. The- homes of E. B.

Herndon, Black Hamilton, J. Homer Jordan and S. S. Hunter, pioneer in the oil development around Shreveport are close by upon this street. The immense tree-covered lawn and lovely driveway of the Jacobs estate are perhaps the next more impressive after "Youreeka," but the homes of When the finest quality is under-priced it does not take long to make a big dent in stocks as complete as ours.

It's better to come in tomorrow than wish you had; good things 1 i i can't last forever Dixie Weaves, Mohairs, Palm Beaches, Silks Linens, Seersuckers, Gabardines, three' piece Tropical Worsteds BIG SIZES, SMALL SIZES, ALL SIZES will not be long before tall' tiled, buildings are put on this valuable. lot, and the boys will be gone and, Bad Accounts! with them a bit moro of that local color which distinguished Shreveport as a distinctly southern city, Sign Out of Date. Progress has not affected the signs in Texae avenue, however. On this same block a cobbler advertises "New and Woren Shoes," and a cold drink stand with two entrances, one for white and the other labeled "colored," boasts of "Ice Cold Beer." Before the cobbler's shop old shoes hang in long rows like strings of prize fish, and bright tan boots vie with bull II ample of the sort of thing peop.e want to see and will see this season. There is plenty of pathos in it, there dog toed pumps for patronage.

Greek and Jew and Italian mer chants dispute for business, some of Moat ewery business house of atanding has accounts that are ordinarily thrown in the common category of bad debte yet these account may be worth 100 cents on the dollar where experience and facilities are employed to recreate contact and understanding. Very often a supposed bad debtor may thus become a substantial paying pat -on aa the result of an amicable adjustment of his indebtedness. THE LAWS CREDIT AND COLLECTION BrRKAU has for nearly ten years been recognized as an efficient mediator between the professional or business man and his patron. Its methods are practical and persistent. Renew that amicable contact originally existing between you and your debtor list your accounts with us and we will get your money or tell you why.

them showing the- old slogans like everything below cost, and one of SATISFACTION GUARANTEED them even says in his sign, "Buy Here Or We Both Lose." 'Yet across the street is the modern flat-iron building plate-glassed all across the front, with the latest and some not so late, the most expensive, and some not so costly, motor cars in its There are ten big garages and fill' Ing stations on this stretch of Texas avenue, but it is on this street, too that two rambling old frame buildings still stand as "Horse and Mule The Laws Credit Collection Bureau It. M. LAWS, Manager 61 American Bank Bldg. Telephone 584 Is almost tragedy, but tnere is a certain lilt of joy from beginning to end. In a very much lighter way, the "not so fast" in Taylor Holmes has been starring, is a sample of what may be expected.

"Seventh Heaven" deals with the problem of two lovers who stick to each other through adversity, even though they have their serious failing. And "Not Bo Fast" is the kind of plot wherein the innocent young man foils Wall Street crookedness and saves the heroine's fortune by a simple turn of the wrist and a clever turn of a phrase. For the tired business man, the producers are planning all kinds of girly shows with the usual minimum of costume. Don't tell it the managers, for the mere hint makes them awfully mad, but the lack of costume has become so accepted a convention that the business man is getting tired even of this. Anatomy is losing its dramatis turn.

The tired business man is actually demanding lines that sparkle as well as the lines that merely curve. As to Shakespeare well, Cohan's press agent, or Shaw's publicity man, or somebody has let on that Shakespeare is not funny, any more. The experiment with "As You Like It" went far to prove this ru Barns," minding one of the days when A. J. Peavy, E.

B. Rand, and Arthur We Specialize the EYE Only" Sample also make Jordan street inimitable in its quiet air of cool beauty. "Ardenwood," the E. II Randolph home, with its sunken gardens and pool, ia next, and then Texas avenue was the trail to western settlements. And here is the old blacksmith's shop just past Cotton street, which carries on its business just as it did S5 years ago, before the vacant lot across the car comes the new $200,000 Herold home, tracka waa parked with 40 motor standing like a white palace far if back at the intersection of Line ave cars and became Shreveport's "Used Car Market.

The glow from its open forge falls out upon the broken brick pavement in front Just as it rue; Judge J. C. Pugh's and Judge W. C. Hail's are a few more of the prominent residences to be seen after Texas avenue and ita polyglot industries and population is past.

At Louisiana avenue Is the recently re- did when the big A. J. Ingersoll home at Grand and Texas avenues was a brand-new residence in an elegant A 1 7 A 1 I "A 9 1 mor. And although a lot of us may disagree, it is a fact that Shakespeare's lighter plays are not looked on with the enthusiasm they aroused In other seasons. This mood may casa.

as soon aa somebody finds time to read Shakespeare's comedies and J1.aa. Vn lit. Mnn.Anf Success fill men differ in many respects Character, purpose, makeup, size and type. Yet with few exceptions they wear tailored clothes. A personality or an individuality CAN be brought out by means of tailored clothes.

however, it is the deep tragedies of Shakespeare that will be mostlikely to find a place in tne season repertoire. But they will find a place for only the briefest of periods unlets the acting is exceptionally fine. John Barrymore'a Hamlet will fill the house always, just as Ethel Bar-rvmora's Juliet will empty it and Vision and Jane Cowl's cram it. Jeane Eagel's In "Rain" wou.d always Play to full house, even though this comedy leana, with such insistence, to the side of tragedy. Appearance Restored! But, by and large, the average American in the midst of his actually problems, in the midst of such prob yn nniv oi.inn v4 in r.r iMi Hi.

hut hia anneararws waa restored lems as the audience Itself, knows rati all about, is the guiding star of thia mia waa accomplished without the use of a drug or knife, forcing the EYES to function by propH ua.i. t.tnfc fnflM tha Vt-'Jtt RTRA If JUT. seasons stardom. "The First rear is a marvelous example of Just what The above llluntratlons ate an actual case which waa treated by our I. 8.

It. Millard with thtjol the public wants. Sighs are permits! And Wenk clothes are tdilored'to-you clothes uae of LENSKS only; who has made a epeclal atudy and a nuge siK-cesa or. aucn ueryuu. "You Can Fool Some People All the Time" Therp ere more people fooled, tricked, deceived and Imposed upon when buying Glasses than any other known article.

You cannot tell, you do not know, whether the Ulasaeat you buy will help or harm you, There is only one protection go to a reputable house. The Schwarta Optical Co. has been established right here in Shreveport for 26 years. (SCHWARTZ-MADE CLASSES ARE BETTER) Schwartz Optical Company able. Heart breaks of the agonising sort ia not They've got to have their little laugh.

applying hia knowledge together with the latent lnatrumenta and metnoaa. Consultation FREE In All These Cases "Let Our Knowledge Assist Your EYE Troubles" In othpr words, for the moment and for the season. In spite of many and striking exceptions, the American stase is returning to normal. Thia means it will be neither abnormal nor subnormal and a lot of people, both SOUTHERN OPTICAL Inc in Wall Street and in the pulpit, uaaowst tAiLoa think this is an encouraging sign, WHEN A JUDGE ERRS 512 Texas St. Opposite Courthouse Upstairs -OUR UPSTAIRS LOCATION MEANS A SAVING TO YOU" 612 Milam Street a Twenty-two Ycart In Shreveport London, July 28.

Justice Bray.hsd assisted many in making their wi.la 306 Texaa Street Shreveport, Lb. 110 E. 23d Street New York City djrinr the years he practiced law But his own will, when admitted to 'probate, was found faulty..