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The Washington times., 1925-11-16
BOY, 8, REScUEs BABY,
THEN REPORTS BLAZE

BLooMSBURG, Pa. Nov. 16.--
Carl Gardner. eight, saved his
eighteen-months-oId sister from
burning to death when the home OF
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Gardner, OF MoreIand township, was
destroyed by fire.
The Washington times., 1925-11-16
REBEL DRUsEs ATTACK
MERDJEYoUN VII AGE

BEIRUT, Nov. 16. Rebel Drusos
have attacked and pIundsred the
village oG MerdJeyoun.
A regiment 81 senegalese soldiers
has been sent IN pursuit of the
rebels.
The Washington times., 1925-11-16
ING HARD TO LIVE STRAIGHT, ALICE WROTE TO HER KF
Bic Boa Constructor
Chckes Itself
70 Death

HAMBURG Germany, Nov.
16.The largest boa constructor
In the Hamburg ZOO commit
ted suicide today. He died Of
suffocation. the result 81 trying
to swallow his own tail.
Keepers at the roo advanced
the theory that che great snake,
notorious for ifs stupidity,
wanted food 50 badly that it
tried to gulp down IT, own tell.
has affiliated himDelf with ths
activities Of the =. III. e. Al and
II team member IN the presanl
campaign.
The Washington times., 1925-11-16
LONDON SOCIETY CUTS
SOUP OFF ITS MENU

LONDON, Nov. 1s.--Soup IL off.
Fashionable women have barred
soup from their dining tables.
It's fattening and moreover. It
may ruin marvellous frockk
The Washington times., 1925-11-16
DETAILS OF FILM
MERGER FORMUL ATEp

Los ANGELES, Nov. 16.--Details
or the gigantic merger Of United
Artists and Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
rim producing concerns were be-
ing formulated today.
The Washington times., 1925-11-16

Dollars to doughnuts
you want a blue suit
every man does. Fill the
gap between everyday
suits and formal outfits.
Dollars to doughnuts
you'll like our blue suits
every man does who ap-
preciates sound values.
The best of all-Wool and
color-fast fabrics from
leading looms abroad and
at home; cloth that keeps
its shape and tailoring
that gives it a shape to
keep.
$65 to $35.
The Washington times., 1925-11-16
Teeth Extraction Fatal

LANCASTER. Nov. 16.-within
three hours after he had had five
abscessed teeth extracted, four
year-old Lewis r. Leaman, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. LeamaN,
Of this city. suffered hemorrhages
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

of matrimony until it is a nervous
wreck.
New Hampshire has fourteen le-
gal grounds for divorce, New York
one. In South Carolina couples
stay married until death doth part
there is no such word as divorce.
In Nevada the matrimonial yoke
is put on and off as easily as a
complexion or any other article Of
apparel. There Is as much diver
sity in the minimum age require
ments for marriage in the vari-
Gus States.
A Federal law. of course, would
end the confusion. But would it
actually improve conditions?
The majority of people in Ne
vada remain permanently and
blissfully welded, despite the
States liberal divorce code-just
as in South Carolina or New York.
Why should they be compelled to
give up a law that apparently
suits them just because a few
movie stars and other casual mat
rimonial adventures take advan-
tage Of it?
Couples will happily unite or
more happily separate, no mat
ter what the statute book says.
Love, alive or dead, will find a
way. Marriage, in this country.
suffers less from the lack OF uni
formity of the laws than from
human nature. Even an omnipo-
tent Congress at Washington can't
make human nature uniform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
About That French Debt

EV7E'VE said lot about being fair to Ger
kVI many And we We spilled some Of our
incest words praising Britain for her really
remarkable comeback after the war-involv-
ing, among other things, the refunding of her
$5,oo0,0OO,OOO debt to us.
Now let's consider France She owes us
about $4,000, 100000 and Britain $50 100000.
Whyhasn't she paid?
Germany, you may recall, did not suffer
invasion. She kept the war on foreign soil
mostly French. So when she recently started
to pay up, she had no big repair bill to meet
at home.
Ditto~18ritain. Not an enemy heel was
p1antedson her shores. She, too could use her
surplus wealth to meet her foreign obliga-
tions.
Butsin France it was different The war
left 7,250000 acres Of land unfit for use,
100000 acres Of which being in farms. She
had 1872 buildings destroyed, $4,000 fac
tories smashed, along with 5,O81 schools and
3,31I churches.
Somebody had to repair this damage.
French refugees began to pour back home as
soon as the war was over. It was imperative
that the region should be made habitable and
the farms tillable, as soon as possible. The
French said the Germans would have to pay
Butsthe Germans did not pay. So France had
to borrow the money from her own citizens
To-day 90 per cent Of the land and 81 per
cent of the buildings have been restored. The
work has cost France 74,2O6,OOOOOO francs
Normally this would be over ,$14000,O00,OOO
or twice her present total indebtedness to
both America and Britain.
Is it not fair to assume that France long
ago, might have started paying off her debt to
us had she had-like Germany and Britain
no devastated region to repair?
1t is the fashion nowadays to ride France
for not having refunded her debt to us. And
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
Enlightening Figures

BLENDERS of the high protective tariff
IL invariably profess that their chief con-
Germ is the American workman. Only by
keeping out foreign commodities, they say, can
the wage earners in this country be provided
with plenty of work at good wages.
The implication is that workmen are the
chief benefciaries of higher priced factory
products. The census bureaus report on the
comparative value Of manufactures in 1928 and
1921 is a complete answer to this contention
These figures show that workmen get only
from one-fourth to one-third Of the increased
values.
Stockholders in the protected industries
reap the major benefits. Between 1921 and
1928 the average wage of American workmen
went up from ST, 18O to $1,255. The average
value of each workman's factory output dur
ing this same period went up from $3.50 to
So, $50.
Consumers, Of course paid the difference.
They have been told time after time that they
pay the higher prices because OF the higher
wage scale This is clearly disproved.
The revelations by the census bureau may
embarrass efforts to retain the present high
rates when Congress assemblies next winter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11

COUPLE of pedestals soar to
| Al the sky. and their occupants
E make us all glad. You've
seen them, of course. in your little
minds eye. Let's consider them
mother and dad.
We all owe a debt that we never
can pay, but at least we can make
just the best of it, by showing our
thanks in our acts, day by day-and
they'll have to imagine the rest Of
it,
Right now is the time you can do
little things that will show that, as
daughter or son, you are happy for
acts that real happiness brings to
your parents, whenever they're
done.
Our lives, after all. are too short
to repay our folks for the things they
have done for us. It's best that we
do one good act every day. What's
the answer? 1t really means fun for
us.
Say. where is the daughter or son
who'll deny that there's everything
due Nom n Pop? Let's start off
today to repay--you and 1--let's
start it, and then, never STOP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
LETTING SOF 1LOFF
TALK A LITTLE BIT

Have received in interesting state
ment from Nikolai Sokoloff, con-
ductor Of the Cleveland Orchestra,
who has just returned from Europe.
You will remember that Sokoloff was
here last season with his orchestra.
Sokoloff has the following to say:
There is a tide in the affairs Of
art, as we'll as the affairs Of men,
which, taken at the flood, leads on
to fortune, and that tide is turning
America-wards.
II found nothing in the publish
ing houses of England and my per-
sonal inquiries among European
composers who were in London, re-
vealed nothing. Even Stravinsky,
most prolific of composers, has pub
lished nothing for a long time. There
Is absolutely no creative work be-
ing done.
American composers, on the
other hand have been hard at work
during the past year and a number
of big orchestral works are being
written, some to be published within
the next few months.
But that is not the only turning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11

Some centerarians have been
weaned on plug tobacco and moon
shine. Noah. an historic drunk
ard, lived, according 10 the Scrip
lures, to be $50 years old. Thomas
Parr, an Englishman who died at
1852, ate, drank and was merry
all his life. He guzzled ale and
never took a bath.
Metchnjkoff, the celebrated
zoologist and bacteriologist. pro.
claimed he had discovered the
fountain of youth in buttermilk.
But his own span of life extended
only a little beyond the normal
three score and ten.
Probably most people dig I'M
timely graves with their teeth and
appetites. Observance of simple
rules of health would doubtless
lengthen the average life span.
But there is a bigger goal in life
than the century mark. The value
of human life is estimated by its
breadth not it's length.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11

Of the tide. America is showing a
keener appreciation Of the arts and
is organizing groups which make 1t
possible for musicians and artists to
live without the worry Of financial
support.
This is not true in England,
where there are as fine musicians
as there are anywhere in the world.
The London Symphony, for exam
pie, is a cooperative affair, and If
concerts are not patronized, mem
bers of the orchestra have no pay.
Unfortunately, musicians have to
meet their creditors on the same ba-
sis as any one else, so they are
forced to desert the ranks of art
and accept popular engagements,
where they are sure Of an income.
MANY London writer's are Gliding
musicians for this desertion, but
men are forced to go where they
are supported.
The arts are not being supported
by the people of culture, and while
these same writer's claim. that Eng.
fish people of culture are very poor
and have no money for concerts, I
noticed that they spent fabulous
sums on the Derby and other
popular sports. 1t resolves itself to
the well-known fact that people can
usually afford what they want most.
Fine old homes, some dating
back to the Tudors, some Of an
earlier period, have been bought, or
are being rented by the new-rich.
who are making painful attempts
to do them over in modern style.
It is really very tragic"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
BY Walter D. Hickman


E=lAVE carried back with me
lH from my delightful days vaca.
ton in New York new and
high regard for some things that
surround me every day in Indian
apolis.
Several times when 1 was intro
duced to people in New York they
would say, Eyes, you come from the
home of Booth Harrington" and on
more than several occasions this was
said, s'You live in the city that has
the wonderful theater orchestra, the
Circle Orchestra"
They were speaking Of the regular
Circle Theater Symphony Orchestra
under the direction Of Bakaleinikoff
Symphony orchestras are not rare in
New York. That we know but New
Workers who travel have dropped in
at the Circle for the purpose Of hear
ing this orchestra.
To gain such a reputation as this
is an honor. It lifts the Circle Or
chestra from a private enterprise to
one of civic importance. I know the
directors of the Circle theater and I
realize that in'creating and maintain
ing this expensive symphony orches-
ira, these gentlemen are guided with
more than commercial interest
an interest which is actually civic.
In fact, the commercial side of the
question does not enter into it.
When a. city is often remembered
as the residence of a great. author
and the birth of a wonderful theater
orchestra, it seems to me that it is
time for some of us to do little
shouting for Joy, and am doing
Anst that little; thing here.
It would have been easy for Mr..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
Making the Discovery That New York Holds Circle
Theater Orchestra and Conductor in High Regard

Lieber and the others to have given
up the better music idea when the
jazz and rag craze hit the country
But these men knew the lasting
beauty Of great and good music. I
firmly believe that jazz music has it's
place in the entertainment field, but
[ am as equally convinced that a
symphony orchestra is just as essen
tia!.
l know a man who at one time
admitted that he did not, care for
what he called ''high-brow" music.
One week the Circle Orchestra
played The Blue Danube Waltz"
He discovered that the reason he
didn't like high brow music was
that he was acquainted with only
one brand Of music.
Since that time, this man has
bought a monograph and when I
need to hear some of the finest rec
orded orchestral music, walk over
to his house for an hour Of genuine
pleasure with him.
And I believe that this influence
Of the Circle Theater orchestra is
one Of the noblest ard finest things
we have in the State.
The symphony orchestra is more
than fixture with the Circle
Theater. 1t has been kept intact at
an enormous cost, so staggering at
times that 1 wonder what new de-
mands Of the. musicians will make
upon the future Of the symphony
orchestra.
Another thing I like about the
CIRCLE orchestra and that is the way
that Bakaleinikoff applies melody
of individual meaning to the movies
shown at this house. FIe does It
SO well. that thp music is now looked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
EARNINGS OF
OF PRISONER

7RS PROsPERINE sTER.
IMI RETT. an Indianapolis
woman with four small chill
dren, received a check for $1.25
from the great State of Indiana
the other day. That sum repre-
sented the net June earnings Of
her husband confined IN state
Prison for wife and child deser-
ton.
An act passed by the 1928 Legis-
lature provides that net earnings
of prisoners serving sentences for
desertain shall be turned over to
their families for their support.
So Mrs. Sterrett gets s1.25.
Humanitarians. uplifters. and
social welfare workers enthusi-
astically supported the law and
urged its passage. They argued
it marked a real advance in
penology and would solve a diff
cult problem, the care Of prison
ers' families.
It was a beautiful dream.
But $1.25 a month won't provide
very many necessities, comforts or
luxuries for a wife and four little
ones. 1t won't even begin to
answer the question Of how they
will live while husband and father
serves his sentence. 1t proves that
a man who can't or won't support
his dependents out OF Jail can't do
ii III p:ison.
The incident illustrates the fulfil.
ity Of much of our Humanitarian,
social reform legislation. Many
such measures, appealing to the
heart not the head, are passed
with a hurrah and a few tears.
Then they fail to work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
TOM SIMS SAYS

If she had married the man she
wishes she had maybe he wouldn't
have been the man he is.
Always make a lot of noise at a
party and they will ask you to come
back again.
A little chloroform sprinkled on
the coat lapel will attract rouge and
make it stay.
Write your letters before your va.
cation. If you enjoy the trip you
won't have time to write.
Being alone is dangerous. It
makes you think.
Money is like booze. The more
you have the more you think you
need.
Nature leaves man unprotected.
Gold nsh stay in swimming all the
time without getting sunburned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
COUNT OF THE
CITYS NOSES

HE indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce is undertaking
an exhaustive survey to de-
termine the, present population of
the city. Increase in telephones,
newspaper circulation, gas users,
water consumption etc. since
1920 will be studied in arriving at
the estimate.
According to the United States
census bureau estimate the city
now has a population Of 35s,s1s.
The directory publishers give It
371,745. In any event there has
been a substantial increase since
the last census.
or course that is very pleasing
to civic pride. However. popula.
ton figures in themselves mean
very little. They are merely
count Of noses, not achievements.
Community greatness can not
be measured by the number OF in
habitants. The important thing is
not how many inhabitants. but
what sort OF inhabitants and how
they live. An ant-hill is populous.
but unimportant. It's fame ex-
tends only a few yards.
There are a hundred cities in
the world with larger populations
than Indianapolis-half Of them
less we'll known.
A city's importance is measured
by its civic. commercial and
cultural accomplishments - the
quality not quantity of it's people.
Athens, in the classical age, was
not large. In the days of its
greatest glory its population did
not exceed that of many an OBJ
Sou e Chinese village today. But
Athens furnished intellectual and
artistic inspiration for all succeed
ing ages.
1t is not important how many
Indianapolis has added to it's
population since the last census.
Is it a better place to live and
raise a family, does it offer great
err opportunities to the average
man, materially, intellectually
and In the pursuit of happiness.
than in 1920? II not it hasn't
advanced even IL it has grown in
population.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
UNIFORM
MARRIAGE LAWS

RS. EDWARD F. WHITE,
IM reporter of the Indiana
IL Supreme and Appellate
Courts, at the Indiana Bar Asso-
citation meeting Thursday, decried
the lack OF uniformity in the mar
rige and divorce laws of the vari-
GUS States-and urged a Federal
law governing the state of matri-
mony
Such a law could only be en-
acted after adoption of an amend
ment to the Constitution.
Undoubtedly a tangled mess of
marriage and divorce laws are in
force in this country. Forty-eight
sets Of lawmakers, legislating on
the subject, have added the state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11

How much has been paid in
pensions by the United States to
veterans of all wars, exclusive Of
the World War and about how
much for each Of the wars?
A total Of S6,S36,1s2, $50. has been
paid in pensions TO veterans of all
wars in which the country has been
engaged exclusive of the World War.
OF this total $6.427, 106,5s6 was paid
on account of the Civil War For
the war Of the revolution, S70,000.-
600 was paid In pensions; for the
war with Mexico, $685.. 364, and
for the war with Spain s126.673.359.
The Indian wars are recorded as
costing the smallest amount in pen
sions. $25. 640,3s2. Next comes the
war Of 1912 with pension payments
reaching s46.145.323. In addition
the government has paid S67 ,557 1858
in pensions for its regular establish.
ments Of the Army and Navy; $16..
513,425 for unclassified pensions and
s16S,59S pensions for the World War
that have been handled by the Pen
sion Bureau instead OF the Veterans
Bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-11
China Through a
keyhoIe

There is now a 10.year-old Chinese boy in a
Shanghai hospital who was brought there following
accident in a local cotton mill, with his upper lip
torn to ribbons his lower jaw almost fractured and
most of his teeth knocked out.
'These injuries were received because just BE
FORE GOING OFF DUTY AT A NJ, AFTER AN
ELEVEN AND HALF HOUR NIGHT SHIFT, he
lost his balance and fell against the machinery.
"The boy, told is dull and listless, plainly
showing the effects of having worked at this rate
SINCE HE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, which is his
record
HE said he had worked all night without any stop
for food and had had nothing to eat until after four
in the morning. He has been receiving IS to Sc
Mex ($2 to S3) month for his work"
f~1 HE above is from the North China Her
l aid of June 6, organ of the foreign settle
ment of Shanghai. It was conditions such as
these in the Anglo-Japanese cotton mills there
that led to the strike, that led to the demon
stration, that led to the killing of unarmed
students resulting in the nationwide agita-
ton in the Celestial Republic
To make it typical of the situation out
there, the self-same issue of the Herald is 9TH
erwise devoted to scathing denunciations of the
Chinese for taking part in the agitation. The
paper calls it rebellion" and publishes an
appeal 'To the Peaceable Chinese of Shang-
hal" exhorting them to side with the for
eigners.
Sooner or later the rioters and strike ag1ta-
tors will be beaten" the appeal concludes
Until they are, life will not be pleasant for any
one, Chinese foreigner.
But that will not deter the foreign authorities
from standing firm and doing their utmost to crush
revolt and restore order and good government.
How long this threat to your peace, your well
fare and your safety to last depends largely you"
God Of us all, what hypocrisy
Quit objecting, bend your neck to the yoke
and ''life will be pleasant" again. The tot s
face will be patched up, he II go back to the
night shift and his SO month, the foreign pro-
prietor will buy himself another yacht, his
wife new string Of pearls and all will be
well in this perfectly jolly old world
r. Fl ERE is glimpse as through keyhole, of
III the situation in China.
This mind you, is in what is known all
over the far East as ''The Model Settlement, 4"
always held up to the Chinese as sample of
the white mans culture and headquarters of
Christianity among the heather.
China herself has child labor laws which
compare quite favorably with those of this
country or Europe. But the mighty foreigners
there laugh at these laws, as witness the man
gled tot now in the Shanghai hospital
And when the municipal council of the
''Model Settlement" itself proposes the dis
cussion of an ordinance to improve child labor
conditions even a little, in Shanghai, bossed
though the council is by the British, it CAN'T
GET A QUORUM.
At Washington in 1922 eight powers
signed pact to give China square deal. AS
sponsor for the Washington conference Z. the
American government should at least try to
induce the other seven powers to live up to the
agreement