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Evening star., 1925-06-07

~ SEE" 1 remarks to High
- Dome Finnegan, that one of
them movie picture lizzies has
L signed up for $4,000 a week" "
How many weeks?" comes
back Finnegan.
ing to the hop 1 read in the papes"
Hops right" returns High
Dome. II never seen nobody that
was SO careless with ciphers as them
film boys, unless it was maybe the
guy that scores for the st. Louis base
ball teams"
What" 1 wants to know. docs
lying about the salary of the hired
hands get them movie magnets?"
Publicity, feller,' answers Finne-
gan, ''and the drag there is at the
gate to see high-priced flossie do her
stuff. In this country, especial, you
figures a guys good according to the
iron men he's dragging down. The
greatest lawyer in the country is the
mouthpiece that snags the biggest
fees from the cone-ons. He maybe
don't know any more law than you
do about nearly any subject I might
mention, but if he corrals the kale
he's Kid Blackstones favorite gold
fish. The same goes for the movies. :"
We'll" says l, 81 guess the dame
that's dragging down the $4,000 or
$4,000 or whatever it is in regular
money is probably the class when 1t
comes to movie acting"
That" replies High Dome, 'is, as
the woman who kissed the kangaroo
remarked, a matter of taste. The
chances is, though, that there is at
least 1914 actresses that can act
rings around her. 1924 that have got
her skinned for looks and 1887 that
screen better.
What put her over?" 1 inquiries,
sarcastic. The shape of her grand
fathers feet?"
II happen to know something about
the particular frill you're talking
about says Finnegan, me and her
director having gone to different
schools together. From what he tells
me she amt got as much sense as
backward moth, can't really act good
enough to tote a spear in Number
Nine Uncle Tom Company playing
southeastern Arkansas, and outside of
the studio amt got enough looks to
get gossiped about in a young peoples
meeting. Besides
"I suppose" I cuts in, shes great
at that work and can make the best
platter of bruised tripe in the coun.
try"
1.-THE fact that she amt got mo
sense" goes on High Dome, "is the
best thing about her. according to
this megaphone toter I'm telling you
about. Not having nothing to think
with, she does exactly like she is told
TO do, without no arguments or moth
ing, and. this director happening to be
good. the stuff she does is good
x x
sSyXTHAT about her looks?' / wants
w to know Does that friend of
YOURS wish them on her?"
practically" returns Finnegan.
"For examples, he was telling me that
she's got hands like longshoreman,
SO them hams of hers is got to photo
graph in such way that half of 'em
is in the shadows and you never see
nNre'n her little finger on the screen.
Evening star., 1925-06-07
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.


lss,as rs g.1s9 S1s!n 1s''sH' It IS not Ct
i only point of this narrative is
it's peculiar truth. 1t not only
tells what happened to us-the five
people concerned in it-but what has
happened and is happening to all the
other fishing parties that at this
season of the year, from Halifax to
Idaho, go gliding out on the unruf
fed surface Of our Canadian and
American lakes in the still cool of
early Summer morning.
We decided to go in the early morn
ing because there Is a popular belief
that the early morning is the right
time for bass fishing. The bass Is
said to bite in the early morning.
Perhaps 1t does. In fact, the thing
Is almost capable Of scientific proof.
The bass does not bite between and
IL. 1t does not bite between IL and
In the afternoon. Nor does Il bite be-
tween and midnight. All these
things are known facts. The infer
ence Is that the bass bites furiously at
daybreak.
At any rate, our party were unani-
nous about starting early. Better
make an early start" said the colonel
when the idea of the party was sug-
gested. "Oh, yes" said George Pop
ley. the bank president, I'VE weant to
get right out on the shoal while the
fish are biting"
When he said this all our eyes glis-
tened. Everybody's do. There's a
thrill in the words. To get right out
on the shoal at daybreak when the
fish are biting" as an idea that goes
to any mans brain.
If you listen to the men talking in a
Pullman car. or a hotel corridor, or,
better still, at the little tables in a
first-class cafe. you will not listen long
before you hear one say, We'll we got
out early, just after sunrise, right on
the shoal." And presently, even
II you can't hear him, you will see
him reach out his two hands and hold
them about two feet apart for the
other man to admire. He Is measur-
ing the fish. No. not the fish they
caught; the big one that they lost.
Evening star., 1925-06-07

Presidents Harding and Cool
Z i idge, is so well known to the
world as the man whose serv-
ice in the World War was the feeding
of millions of starving and orphaned
children, that few can picture him as
having been himself fatherless and
motherless before he reached his teens.
He was born in a Quaker commu-
nifty, which comprised most of West
Branch, Iowa, in 1879. His father,
Jesse Clark Hoover, a blacksmith,
died in 1880, and his mother. Huldah
Minthorn Hoover, an active church
worker, who became a preacher after
the death of her husband, passed
away in 1884. So Herbert Hoover.
orphan in his tenth year.
After living with various kindly
|aunts and uncles in the Middle West,
he went to Newburg, Oreg., to become
one of the family of John Minthorn,
his mothers brother, a country doc
tor and principal of the Pacific Acad-
emy there. But John Minthorn pres
entity moved to Salem, Greg. to go
into the land business, and Herbert
Hoover was given into the custody of
his Grandfather Minthorn.
Grandfather Minthorn was a very
strict disciplinarian. From all reports
the orphan was not very happy with
him. But about this time there ap-
peared a person who seems to have
perceived that Herbert Clark Hoover
had qualities which would take him a
long way in the world. He was the
first. apparently, to take stock of the
youth--Herbert now was land he
altered the whole course of his career.
This person was a friend Of the
boys father, Jesse Clark Hoover. On
his uyav from IoUa fo look over a roiDa
he owned in eastern Oregon he
stopped over in Newburg to see Her.
bert Hoover. Between the time when
the lad was at school or doing chores
they visited together.
well. my boy, what are you going
Evening star., 1925-06-07
Largest Water Wheels.

WATER-WHEELS in the western
world are rivaled in size by four
giants which have served to make ia
nous the town of Hama in northern
Syria, on the River Crontes. The
largest OF the four wheels is Of wood
and is about 20 feet in diameter.
The wheels are driven by means
of what is known as the undershot
principle, the wheel being turned by
water flowing beneath it, The creak.
ing Of the wheels is incessant day and
night, for they are never stopped. The
water is used not only to supply the
needs of the town but for irrigating
the surrounding gardens as well. This
Is a most primitive form of water
supply, but is, nevertheless. quite ade-
quate to meet the needs Of the town
of Hama.
Evening star., 1925-06-07

what the Senate needed and what the
Ladies' Thursday Club dittoed was 80
great that / got strong suspicion
where it was the famous girl friend
Of Mr.. Dawes, Helen Maria, that gave
him the idea.
She probably belongs to some fe-
male club, her own self. And she
says, you need not put 1t in writing
If you don't want, but I do wisht you
would promise me to do something
about time clocks for public speakers
in clubs, banquets, Senates, etc,
father has the habit, too, but with
little help, we might break him OF II
and lots of other addicts as well.
And Charlie says I can't make
them stop. especially the Senators,
they got to exercise a little will pow
er of their own. but I will help them
quit the stuff, yes ma'am. all I can.
Or words to that effect.
Well. it seems like after he made
this promise he set right to work TO
smoke them Senators out, where the
public couldn't help but be wise to
their house rules and to the awful
fact that many of them boys was
making gas attacks on the public in
terest and that no disarmament con-
ference had as yet been held as far
as the senate was concerned.
1t seems also that the principal
weapon Mr.. Dawes used in this srnok-
ing out business was a pipe of q
real snappy. sporting model. 1t was
underslung. with very little clearance.
lots of power, and the grandest, moist
est kind of cut out. He had used
this in many a campaign, too, though
never as a smoke screen, so far's I
could find out. for all he got such
lot of training In the A. E. F.
But there was one thing he seemed
to want, which for the life of me
I couldn't make out what it was. He
wanted the Senate to get more cloture.
FIRST off, 1 thought he meant cuI-
ture, only the printer had spelled
it wrong, and naturally that made
no hit with me on account we don't
want no House of Lords in Wash
D. c. We want plain home folks.
on account as rule, the palmer, the
sincerer. IL you get me. just so long
as they don't go too far and COM
Evening star., 1925-06-07
mence calling attention to their plain
1ess and sincerity.

mence calling attention to their plain
1ess and sincerity.
Well anyways, this cloture turned
out to be spelled correct, 1 found
1t several other places, and SO finally
took It to be merely some kinda
patent disinfectant, calculated to keep
the Senate pure and wholesome, and
SO didn't bother with 1t no further
except to note down the name SOS
could ask our drugstore man for
some in case we ever needed any
over to the Thursday club.
A little further on in Mr.. Dawes
opinion, I see where he says that the
power Of one man to block the pur-
pose Of the Senate to take a vote often
led to checks to mistaken legislators,
or something. / guess he meant that
the one who committed all that mis-
placed language was probably out for
no good.
And at once that put me in mind Of
Mabel Bush. What in the world did
she care about the homeless mice Of
our city? Except only to get herself
made pres. Of the Mouse Rescue
League, I'd bet!
Well. l also seen in the paper how
Mr.. Dawes had found out that the u.
5. Constitution was meant to protect
the people of the country as well as
the politicians. and how he wasn't
afraid to come out and mention the
fact that our govt amt absolutely
perfect. And the way he done II, why
certainly got reminded a whole lot
Of Pres. Teddy Roosevelt, only of
course 1t was a big stick he used but
I couldn't see why a pipe wouldn't
work just as good.
However. the principal thing
learned off of reading this piece by
Mr. Dawes was that IL a person takes
a public Office, they ought to work at
1t and not merely go around shaking
hands with the parents, patting the
little ones on the head. and dedicating
statues of leading citizens. And being
now vice pres. my own self. why
naturally I thought that over good
and plenty.
Of course in spite OF that Mabel
~ Bush and her mice, our club pro-
gramme was undoubtedly conner call
for the cleaning up of the town and
the seeing that il got run better. The
question was bound to come up. first
thing at our next meeting, and what
Evening star., 1925-06-07
RACE that in a peculiar senset til

N
is not to the swift is one that is
run-if the word may be used in such
a connection-every year in the
provincial districts of Germany.
Early in May, during the celebration
of festival that to a cerain extent
corresponds to the English May day,
an OK race Is held. The entrance fee
is small, but the conditions are
peculiar.
Each OK must be ridden by its own
er and ridden bareback. No whip,
spur, yoke, harness or any other
means of guiding the animal Is al
lowed The rider must depend entirely
upon his voice to accomplish the end
he has in view, and as the oxen do
not race on a track, but across a
large open field, the training Of the
animals and the skill of the rider are
severely tested
Speed is a secondary consideration
in this race, for the rider who can
induce his steed to go in a straight
line IS sure to win.
The start Is made at one side of
Evening star., 1925-06-07

four, especially as I hadn't been out
fishing for nearly 10 years: though
fishing is a thing l am passionately
fond of. Oh, yes, l live right beside
the water every Summer. and yes,
certainly-I am saying SOL am pes
sionately fond of fishing. but still
somehow 1 hadn't been out Every
fisherman knows just how that hap
pens. The years have a way of slip
ping by.
Yet l must say 1 was surprised to
find that so keen a sport as Jones
hadn't been out--so IL presently ap-
peared-for eight years, l had imag-
ined he practically lived on the wa
ter. And Colonel Morse and Kern
in-I was amazed to f1nd-hadn't
been out for II years, not since the
day ESQ it came out in conversation)
when they went out together in Lake
Rosseau and Kernin landed a perfect
monster, regular corker, five pounds
and a half they said; or no, l don't
think he landed him.
No, / remember, he didn't land him.
He caught him-and he could have
landed him-he should have landed
hin1-but he didn't land him. That
was 1t. Yes, remember Kernin and
Morse had a slight discussion about
Iit-oh. perfectly amicable-as TO
whether Morse had fumbled with the
net-or whether kernin-the whole
argument was perfectly friendly
had made an ass of himself By not
striking" soon enough.
So, as l say. we decided to go the
next morning and TO make an early
start. All of the boys were at one
about that. When ! say boys" 7
use the word, as it is used in fishing,
to mean people from say As TO 65 If
= fellow gets out for a good mornings
fishing, forgetting all business worries,
once in a while-say once in 10 years
| it keeps him young.
X X
WE agreed to go in a launch, large
launcf-to be exact, the largest
in the town. We could have gone in
rowboats, but a rowboat is a poor
thing to fish from. Kernin said that
in a rowboat ii is impossible properly
to play" your fish. The side of the
boat is so low that the fish is apt to
leap over the side into the boat when
half played"
Evening star., 1925-06-07
Nav Give Up Tea.

HIGH prices of tea in England
= have led to the rumor that the
British may be forced to become a
coffee-drinking nation again. Two
centuries ago coffee was the English
national drink
Evening star., 1925-06-07
BY PRESTON WRIGHT.

r ERBERT CLARK HOOVER,
IL Secretary of Commerce under
Presidents Harding and Cool
Z i idge, is SO well known to the
Evening star., 1925-06-07

S Edgar Allen Poe, the we'll
~ known automobile mfgr., said
IL once in his daily newspaper
u talks to young people, "A
good little vice president
Evening star., 1925-06-07
BY SAM HELLMAN.

1T SEE" l remarks to High
- Dome Finnegan, that one of
them movie picture lizzies has
L signed up for $40, 900 a week"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
TAKE SALTS FOR A
KIDNEY BACKACHE

Too much rich food forms acids
which excite and overwork the kid
neys in their efforts to filter it from
the system. Flush the kidneys &C.
casionally to relieve them like you
relieve the bowels, removing acids,
waste and poison, else you may feel
a dull misery in the kidney region,
sharp pains In the back or sick
headache, dizziness, the stomach
sours, tongue is coated, and when
the weather is bad you have rheu
matte twinges.
To help neutraIize these irritating
acids and flush off the body's
urinous waste, begin drinking water.
Also get about four ounces Of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy, take a
tablespoonful in a glass Of water be-
fore breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys may then act fine and
bladder disorders disappear.
This famous salts is made from
the acid Of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been
used for years to help clean and
stimulate sluggish kidneys and stop
bladder irritation. Jad Salts is in
expensive and makes a delightful
effervescent Whitewater drink which
millions Of men and women take now
and then to help prevent serious
kidney and bladder disorders.
BY all means, drink lots of good
water every day. Have your ply
stefan examine your kidneys at least
twice a Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
HAY ABOUT HIS
FOUR MARRIAGES
Defendant Doesn't Know
What Became of Wives.

James Galbreath, so. Of 1121 River
Ave-, charged with bigamy, today adj
mitted to detectives he had been
married four times, was not divorced
ana does not know whether all his
wives are living or dead.
''She just wants to get rid of me, ;"
said Galbreath, when he was told
wife No. A, Mrs Lizzie Plunkett Gal
breath, SCI Chase ST.. caused his ar
rest.
Detectives said Mrs. Galbreath
No. declared she had information
that No. 8, Mrs. Carrie Brown Gal
breath, was living in Greencastle,
Ind This marriage occurred in 1914,
according to detectives. Galbreath
said he had heard No. was dead.
Wife No. 1 was Mrs. Susie Irwin
Galbreath, whom he married in
Danville, Ind, in 1900, Galbreath
said. No. was Mrs. Ella Martin.
He married her in 1901 and lived with
her until her death several years
later, he said. The fourth marriage
was in 1922, according to the defend
ant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
JURORS ILL; PROBE ON
Muncie Water Is Sent to State
Chemist for Analysis.
By United Press

Bn United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. e.-An inves-
LEGATION of the restaurant where the
members Of the jury hearing the
murder charge against Cassius
Flowers. colored. at Thursday. after
which seven jurors became violently
Ill, was under way today. AT the
same time it was learned that the
city water supply has been found
to contain certain impurities and
samples of the water were in the
hands of the State chemist. The city
health officer has advised that all
water be boiled.
The condition of the stricken jur-
ors was reported much improved at
their homes today. Flowers was
found guilty Of manslaughter. He
was accused Of killing his wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
Girl, 2, FREED
AT MURDER TRIAL
Unwed Mother Found Not
Guilty Of Killing Babe.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Iowa, Feb. 6.
Blanche Calvin, 22-year-old unwed
mother, was on her way back to her
fathers farm near here. Massena,
Iowa, today.
A jury freed her Of a f1rst-degree
murder charge, after celebrating
only an hour Thursday night.
The State had demanded that she
be hanged, because, it charged, she
had deliberately placed her newborn
babe on a lawn where it became i'll
and died from exposure to the chill
October air.
The defense contsnded Miss Gal
vim, alone when the child was
born. realized she needed help and
tried to carry it to nearby resi-
dence. She started back to get a
blanket to wrap around the infant,
but tainted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06
Political Argument Today

Argument on demurrers filed by
attorneys for George v. Coffin to the
complaint Of twenty-six Republican
precinct committeeman to prevent
their custer by Coffin will be con-
tinued here before Judge Sidney s.
Miller in Superior Court Three at
4 o. m. today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06

South Side Turner's have engaged
Miss Mabel McHugh, graduate of
the American Gymnastic Union
School and physical Instructor in
public schools, to teach esthetic
dancing to classes of girls between
IL and 16 years old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-06

John Dilworth, 30, 3o11 Park Ave-,
today is held on charges of assault
and battery, shooting with intent to
kill and unlawful possession of fire.
arms, following an alleged attack
on w. c. Stephens, 80. of SO High
land Ave-. who he said he found at
his home with Mrs. Dilworth. Steph-
ems is held on a charge Of contribut-
ing to DELINQUENCY.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13
Rum Runner Eludes
Gutter, Heads South

VANCOUVER. u. c. March Ia
The steamer stadaeona. loaded with
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13
Old Home State Is Good
Enough, Citizens Told
Buy Our Own Products" Is Advice Given
at Chambers Annual Northwest Dinner

products since 1900. Last year It wns
in sixth place in tho per cent Of In.
crease in valuo 81 i,A factories"
To show tho diversity Of North.
west products an elaborate dinner
or Northwest made vianda and foodu
was served,
Even tho violina OF o. y. Coon.
msr's Chamber OF Commerce or.
choatut wcp mado in tho North.
west.
Hugh Caldwell. presided IN the
ahsence Of j. a. swniweli. who was
80. other speakers included Mrs
Josephine CorilHs Preston. state
superintendent or schools: worth
Mcclure. assistant superintendent, OF
schools: a. X. Me,zgcr. chairman
Northwest Morchantz' exposition,
John r. Boyd. chairman Of tho
chamber school committee: Miss
Julia shourok. elementary science
specialist Of Seattle schools: VIII.
ihm Davidson. Broadway high stu.
dent. Earl NJ. Casey and Nathan
Ecistoln, widely known civic leader
Students OF tho John Hay school,
presented n plnylct written by the
students. entitled. willie Boosts
Northwest Products" II was d.
rccted by Miss Mabel v. Wilson.
Chamber guests from Spokane
Tacoma. Everett, Kirkland. Belllng-
ham and other Washington cities
wcro present.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13

Congressional Mac Nolan didn't
make n speech during her two-yoar
term. 4 female record. by crackcyl
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13

"EvEEY time YOU buy a North
II west product IN preference 10
q forelgu-mnds ono. you add TO the
population % tho state, augment lta
prosperity. increase tn payroll. re-
ducc lis taxes. decrease unemploy-
men, aui make Washington a bet
ter place IN which 90 i've
That Was Tho message 10 800
guests % the Chamber Of Commerce
Northwest Products COMMITTEES at
tho second annual Northwest Prod
ucis dinner in tho chamber audi
forum Thursday night
II wpa the message thttn guests
in8A homo with them 20 their rp-
spcctlyo cities thrubut tho state. IL
IN tho message that Seattle school
children and children OF the state
arc being taught thru tex, books
complied BY members OF tho COM
mlttea and distributed 10 tho schools
NJ the expense Of the committee,
And upon the degree with which
the inhabitants Of the state absorb
this message depends tho future Of
tho commonwealth.
worrai Wilson. acting president Of
tho Chamber OF Commerce. gave
forth the message. T.. l.. skeei.
chairman OF tho Northwest Products
Committee speakers. gave tho exact
details and quoted figures TO show
tho vast increase In factories In this
state in recent years.
Products made In Seattle factor.
les last year wcro worth s215.ooo.-
ooo." skesl said. more than tho ms.
sossed value OF real and personal
property In the city.
or tho si.10o. 600. 900 worth OF man.
ufacturcd products OF tho state. less
than 20 per cent are from tho basic
industries. that Is lumber. fish. fruit
and wheat.
Tho state OF Washington has In.
creased from asth place TO 18th place
In the value OF lts manufactured
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13
Mine Scholarships
Are Offered at "U"

Tho college Of mines Of tho Uni.
ycrsity Of Washington offers five
frllowahlpa Tor research IL coal and
ceramics in cooperative work with
tho bureau Of mines Tho fslioartips
arr open 90 graduates 81 universities
and technical colleges who arc pro-
perry qualified 90 undertake research
Investigations. Tho value Of each fell
lowsFip ia $3.50 for the /. months be-
ginning July Fellowship holders
pay ttAtion and laboratory fees. but
arc reimbursed for tho amounts 10
expended: they register al graduate
students and become candidates for
the degree OF master OF science In
mining engineering. or IN ceramics.
Tho purpose OF these fellowshipa y
20 undertake. tho solution OF various
problems being studied by tho United
states bureau OF mines that arc OF
especial importance 20 tho state Of
Washington. tho Pacific Northwest.
and Alaska. according to Dean NIL.
NOR Roherfs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-13

lsh, She wlrclcssed that shs had
dropped Uncle Sam and was
'hradlu' south."
Tho Stadaeona II tho star Of tho
rum fleet, sho has been boarded
by United States officers ana
watched carefully. but has always
avoided serious consequences.