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Evening star., 1925-09-26
American Flyers
Ship Riddled as He
Clears Riff Nest
BY COL. CHARLES SWEENEY.
Commander of the New Lafayette
EScadrilIa in NIorocen

EScadriIle in Morocco.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
OUEZZAN. September 26.-
Chuck" Pennington flying gayly
along. closely searching the ground
for signs of hostile elements, sud
denly tumbled on 10 "A cleverly con-
cealed machine gun nest on the
reverse slope of small hill.
Finding themselves discovered.
the salopards (enemy) turned
everything they had loose on
Chuck" Diving and squirming,
but disdaining to mount to safety,
Pennington carried on the battle
few minutes within a few feet of
the ground, and finally hurled a
bomb, wiping out the nest.
When he returned to the field he
found the planes rudder and fuse
lase of his plane were riddled like
a sieve. Thus Chuck" got COM
pensation for his weeks waiting,
while laid up with a broken arm.
In moments like these the true
soldier got a super-human upiift.
tCopyright. 1928. by Chicago Daily News.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
Sunken Schooner's Crew Missing.

NORTH SYDNEY, Nova Scotia,
September IS Up.-The schooner Inez
G. was lost off the local Rum Row
early this morning. Capt Joseph
Watcher and three of his crew of five
are missing.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
Atlantic Flight Plane Is DESTROYED
As 1t Crashes on Speed Test in France

Etampes to Chartres to Orleans.
Tarascon's condition is causing
anxiety but Favreau's injuries are not
serious.
Few details are available but 1t is
stated that the plane was on fire when
1t landed and that a high wind was
blowing.
PARIS, September 26 R.-An
official note issued by the undersecre-
tary of aeronautics says both Taras-
con and Favreau were only slightly
injured in the crash of their plane
near Dreux early today.
The note confirms that the machine
was destroyed and says the forced
landing was due to a storm.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
WEATHER.

%. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and slightly warmer tonight:
tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer.
Temperatures-Hig 70, at
pm. yesterday; lowest IS, at 6 am.
today.
Evening star., 1925-09-26

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
a. fast as the papers are printed
Evening star., 1925-09-26

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GIRLS, TELL HIM
BUT DON'T WRITE 1T

Am telling you right now, Girls.
which you say yes to a fellow tell
him right then and there the date Of
the wedding.
Don't write and tell him the date.
If you do write, don't put the i'm
portant message on an egg with the
instructions to serve the egg to your
sweetie for breakfast.
Florence Vidor as the heroine in
Marry Me" does that foolish trick.
She waited that long because the
egg was kept in storage las the story
goes) for more than three years. And
then the right John Smith didn't
get the egg with the message on it
but our had and waiting heroine got
a good man for husband although
he did have indigestion.
Think I will not tell too much of
the story because knowing the plot
would rob you of some fun. think
that you will be interested in the
man who plays the second John
Smith role. He is a funny comedy
creation which helps to davance in
terest in the story. I still maintain
that Florence Vidor has the best
pair of actin eyes in the film bust
ness. Meaning the eyes that have
looked into.
Our heroine. who wants to get
married, has a tough break in this
story. When girl Is referred to
in her own neighborhood as IAN old
maid" it is generally suspicioned
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ence may be, it can lift her only so far. She

ence may be, it can lift her only so far. She
must climb the rest of the way herself.
What we mean is this: Foreigners can
not be blamed for all the rottenness in China
today. It's pretty nearly ffty-ffty between
herself and the foreign demigods now lording
it over her.
Almost every Chinese province is in the
grip of petty native tyrant and war lord,
each with the backing of his own personal
army These war lords are, for the most part,
the paid tools of this or that, foreign power.
And Peking, far from being master of the sit
uation, is itself the capital prize for the
strongest. Today Picking belongs to the super
Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, Lord High Everything
of Manchuria, former bandit and hirelng of
Japan.
Conference or no conference, China can
never really come into her own until she
kicks out the looters, native as well as foreign.
She must get rid of her grating war lords and
their pilfering armies, 100000 strong, and
raise equip and train a smaller one of her Own
to back up real national government.
However done, there are two things China
must do if she is to survive. One is she must
become master in her own house; the other is
she must put that house in order,
1t is as inevitable as death itself that if
China cannot or will not run herself, ultimate
ly the foreign powers will do it for her-but to
their own profit and with precious little regard
for the rights or feelings of the natives, as
past history proves.
China mayrsoon be given chance. When
and if it comes she had better grab it. The
fate Of Korea awaits her if she doesn't.
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LET THE
BUYER BEWARE

HARLES HAUSMAN, as
IL sistant city inspector Of
III weights and measures, re-
Gently completed inspection Of
meters on Indianapolis taxicabs.
All Of the 112 meters tested were
found correct. Another myth is
exploded.
All taxi-meters are popularity
supposed to be sort Of mechan-
ical bandits-a cross between a
perpetual motion machine ana a
sandbag. They are presumed to
peer into a passengers pocket
book and then revolve dizzily iL
defiance of all moral and mechan-
ical laws.
Apparently in Indianapolis they
don't deserve their evil reputation
they are f. thful and honest.
Short we;s hts and short meas
ures are no longer fashionable in
trade circles. Not many years
ago retail transactions were fire.
quently three-cornered contests be-
tween buyer, seller, and trickery.
Honesty vas not allowed to par
ticipate. But commemrcial morals
have improved.
Last year the city bureau of
weights and measures made S9,251
inspections and only six arrests.
OF course the butcher occasion
ally inadvertently weighs his hand
with the steak. That's because he
is absent-minded, not dishonest.
And the bottoms of berry boxes
are sometimes surprisingly near
the top.
But now trade is generally con-
Quoted in this country on a ba-
sis of full weight, full measure
and full price. The customer sell
dom needs more than one alert
eye to prevent a commercial trans
action from becoming a sleight-of-
hand performance. Caveat emptor
remains &. legal but not a trade
maxim.
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Oscar Underwood
RetireS

tn Official conditions in Alabama having
I raised some doubt of his ability to do so,
United States Senator Oscar W. Underwood
will not attempt to succeed himself year from
now After twenty years of active service in
the House and twelve in the Senate he pro-
poses to settle down in a country place near
Washington and spend his remaining years
as philosophic observer of the political whirl.
His suburban estate is far enough removed it
is thought, to be out of the range of Tom
Hefin 40 h. p lungs, and Underwood can sit
in tranquility recalling events of his own ca
reer.
For twelve years, at least, Underwood was
"a potential Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency His conservatism, as much as his resi-
dence in the South defeated this ambition. The
Democrats sometimes nominate conservatives
for the presidency, but seldom one as out
standing as Underwood. Another factor in
Underwood's character that worked against
his ambition was his self-respect. He refused
to play cheap politics. He opposed the Ku-
Klux Kan and he said so. He opposed the
eighteenth amendment and he said so. That
wasn't helpful to him, particularly in his own
section.
There is much to Underwood credit in
his record at Washington He contributed
very materially toward making Woodrow Will
sons first four Years period Of unexampled
constructive legislation. The Underwood
tariff, measured by those that preceded and
followed it, was the work of a statesman.
The least that can be said of him is that
he knew what he thCuoht and WASN'T ofro;J
to let others know. 1t is to be hoped that
Alabama does not send as his successor man
of whom neither of these things can be said
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am predicting that the scenes | was
in will be "cut" before the picture
is released or the censors will get
busy. OF course, I know that the
censors could have no real reason
to cut me out Of the film. but they
have done worse for about as much
reason. And I confess that Bebe
probably don't know that l am in
the picture. Such is fame.
Before I began my confessions, I
started out to tell you about Jack
Holt, Noah Berry and Billie Dove
in THE Light of Western Stars" at
the Apollo. Holt is cast as one Of
those tough gun carryin' gentlemen
who is tough until he sees a pretty
woman. In this case she is Billie
Dove. Jack tries to pull that sure
fire caveman stuff on Billie, but
Billie freezes up and so does Jack.
Then his conscience gets busy and
he is so sorry. In fact he is so sorry
that he begins drinking. Not for
long. because Billie thinks she has
faith in him. She needs him, because
n bold bad bandit, played by Moan
Berry is stealing the cattle on her
ranch.
Billie has faith in Jack as long as
she does not suspicion that he might
be in love with another girl. After
Jack shoots and kills" for movie
purposes alone, Noah Berry. Billie
decides that Jack is the man for her.
Cupid would like to make dandy
out of Holt, but the author decided
that he should use a gun. This one
is rip-snorting melodrama with lots
of gun play. suspense and the like.
Not bad as hot weather entertain
ment.
Bill includes Fares, Please" a
news reel, orchestral and organ
music.
At the Apollo all week.
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that she has something to worry
about. Anyway. said old maid in
this movie is worried. She wants
her John Smith to show up. The
poor dear didn't know that the egg
telling him the date of their we'd
ding was in cold storage.
Wow! When that egg did get out
Of cold storage. it sure did kick up
a stink (Am not even trying to be
funny. Really) Well, when II is all
over the heroine has a perfectly
good husband and you have seen a
mighty good movie comedy. Spleen
didly acted
Bill includes Lester Huff playing
Hats" Charlie Davis and his or
chestra and Cy Milders in songs.
At the Ohio all week.
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Movie Verdict

Colonial - The thing that
fastens interest upon Head
Waters" is the way the direc.
tor has filmed a storm on he
ocean. Even real water has
been used. The director knows
how to photograph a storm.
Circle - Just a Woman" is
endowed with good acting and
splendid directing. but the story
is old in theme and is not al
ways convincing. Everything
is better than the story. Paul
Biese and orchestra are excel
lent.
Ohio-"Marry Me" is a nifty
little comedy. in which both the
author and the director have
used their brains. About the
brightest and cleverest movie
on view in the old town this
week.
Apollo-In THE Light of
Western Stars Jack Holt be-
comes a victim Of Cupid. but
not before he becomes a bad
man. Stacks up as passable
summer entertainment.
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Question

m HINK Of tho questions little
tot asks. Giving the an.
. swers IL one OF dads tasks.
Sometimes you wonder how little
minds work. Sometimes you wish. {,
for a moment. they'd shi-k.
Daily things happen when KIDS
are around. Shortly. the why OF II
all must be found. Looking quite
puzzled. a wondering lad. seeks for
the answer by turning TO dad.
Tell me. now. pop. why do cows
always moor" What can you say
when they ask It TO your why does
the wee busy bee always buzz?" All
you can answer is. "Ah, Just be-
cause"
Still. after ALL as the little ones
grow, questions just add TO the
things that they know. Quizzing
brings out what is right and what
wrong Dads Job Is merely to help
tots along.
Take all the questions that como
day by day-try TO explain them in
simplest way. Try AID remember.
when you were kid. questioning
one of the things tina i you did.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Services, Incl
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COST or TRACK
ELEVATION

~. G.. WRAY, assistant city
HI engineer in charge Of track
elevation, will ask a 51s
cent increase in the city tax levy
for next year for track elevation.
The law permits maximum levy
lof cents for this purpose.
Plans have been completed for
raising the line Of the Indianapolis
Union railway through the south
part Of the city. This project will
cost the city and railroad company
approximately $14.000,000 and will
require years to complete. To pay
the city's share of the work 1t will
be necessary to impose the
maximum Scent tax levy for the
next ten years.
Truly track elevation Is a cost
ly undertaking.
But no other public Improvement
is of more vital Importance to the
city or will have a greater in
fiuence on civic development. 1t
quickly pays for itself in public
convenience, safety, and enhanced
real estate values.
Until the Belt Line rails are
elevated circulation to and from
the whole south side of the city
will be restricted by steel bands.
That section Of town will be
atrophied. The average citizen will
regard scent levy with
equanimity in view of the benefits
of the project. but he would like
to see the work start.
Two years have elapsed since
plans for the Belt line elevation
were ordered. They were sub
mitted a few months ago after
constant prodding. For the past
two months city and railroad Of
ficials have engaged in a leisure
ly and interminable argument over
the apportionment of the cost Of
a bridge over White River, the key
to the whole elevation project.
Apparently dispute over the
bridge cost is no nearer settlement
today than it was two months ago.
1t isn't the cost OF track eleva-
ton that harrows the civic soul
it's the delay. Money spent can
be replaced, but time spent in de-
lay is lost forever.
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A NEW WAY TO REMOVE
THE OTHER WOMAN

The ancient theory Of playwrltes,
and movie story writer's
that when a man gets u million he
is supposed not only to have a wife
but another woman on the string,
is still being used.
Such a theme is so old that it no
longer sounds new. When a theme
of this nature is used, the only thing
that we can expect is at least good
acting and direction.
Just a Woman" is a picture hav-
ing an ancient and none too con-
vincing theme, but 1t does have good
acting and a clever director. Claire
Windsor is cast as the wife Of a man
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the silly traditions of such a char,
acter. He does make a fortune,
shares II with another mans wife.
Then the husband starts seeking n
love nest. Just like the brute. He
nearly makes a public fool out of
himself. but the good wife teaches
the other woman . lesson. Conway
Tearle has the unsmpathetic role of
the husband who got gay on his
wife's money and brains.
The picture is crowded with that
mother love stuff AT other times
one feels the comedy direction OF
the director. An average story OF
the old triangle dope better acted
than usual.
Paul Biese and his Victor record.
ing orchestra Is the chief musical
event at the Circle this week. This
organization plays with ease and
intelligence. meaning that the music
is not all 'blaw." Biese knows that
noisy music is not music. Syncopa-
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The Chinaman's Chance

"A last Washington seems about to move to
~ end state Of things in China as put
resent as it is dangerous
Sponsored by the United States, we arc
told, conference Of the great powers is i'm
pending and at this gathering America will
urge the nations Involved to live up to the
China pact they signed at the Washington con-
ference of 1922.
There is nothing in this plan to set the
river on fire. but this paper welcomes it. 1t
is at least step in the right direction. 1t in
dicates that the twenty-fve-y ear-old Hay doc
trine of the open door and square deal for
all in an independent China is still American
policy and serves to reassure us that Uncle
Sam has not yet gone over to the side of
China s despoilers.
It is America s intention at fhe proposed
conference, it is sad to pave the way for a
restoration of China to the Chinese Customs,
certain taxes, some of the courts and other
phases of government in China are now admin
.istered by and for foreigners.
At present an American lawbreaker in
China is tried in an American court by an
American Judge; an Englshman is tried in a
British court by British judge; Japanese by
japanese judge. And so on. China wishes
this xtra-territoriality abolished so that for
eigners among Chinese will cease to be demi-
gods above and beyond laws which the Chi
nese themselves must obey.
But we warn China not to forget this If
she wishes to retain for long the freedom, she
seeks, she must make herself worthy of that
freedom. However successful China confer
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years ago, wanted suitable
. tombstone to commemorate his
memory. so he built the great pyr-
amid. For thirty years 100000
workmen toiled and died like flies
in heaping up the stones. Then
Cheops laid down and died and
was promptly forgotten until arch
biologists dug his name out Of the
rubbish of forty centuries.
Homer emote ''his bloomin'
Tyre" on some Grecian hillside. No
one knows where he was born-a
dozen Greek cities claim the honor
or died. No tombstone marked
his grave. Yet the "Iliad" and
Odyssey" have kept his memory
green for 5000 years-and will
continue to do so as long as books
are printed.
1t takes something besides a
tombstone to perpetuate ones
name.
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indianapolis Does Not
Need Laurel Hall

RI INDIANAPOLIS ranks with the topmost
cities in number, acreage and beauty OF
public parks.
The city doesn't rank so well in facilities
for school children With as advanced cur
riculum as any city the school board IS
straining the tax rate to the last penny to get
money with which to prevent the necessity for
halliday classes for thousands of pupils.
Along comes Mayor Shank with a proposal
that the city lease Laurel Hall, the magnificent
million dollar estate formerly owned by
Stoughton A. Fletcher, as public playground
Now Laurel Hall lies about four miles
north of the city proper. 1t is conceivable that
Indianapolis will expand to Laurel Hall in
few years Additions are being laid out in close
proximity to it, But practically all of these
additions bear high class building restrictions,
such that each estate will almost constitute
small park in itself Therefore the district
which Laurel Hall would Immediately serve
would have absolutely need of public park
facilities. Residents could and would drive
to nearby country clubs.
For many years the rest of the city would
have to 90 to Laurel Hall by automobile. The
automobile statesmen will tell you that not
every one in Indianapolis owns an automobile
yet.
Mayor Shank took a poll of visitors to
Laurel Hall last weekend which showed sew
eral hundred in favor of leasing the property
and comparatively few against
That kind Of poll doesn t show the true
sentiment of indianapolis. We'll venture that
if the matter is put before the average tax
payer he II say the city should take care of it's
educational problem first.
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ASK THE TIMES

King, by their early opposition to
remembered; Nathan Dane of
Massachusetts probably had more to
do with drafting the actual ordinance
than anyone else, and in all likelihood
Manasseh Cutler, the agent of the
Ohio Company, is responsible for the
Who is the Greek Consul in
New York City and what is his
address?
Constantine Xanthopoulos is the
Greek Consul General in New York
City. His address is II ST. Luke's
Place.
How many base hits has Ty
Cobb of the Detroit American
Baseball Club made during his en-
tire major league career?
The total number UP to and in
GLIDING last season Q924 was 1856.
When is rose bush at it's
best?
A two-year-old rose bush is sup
posed to be at its best. Rose bushes
sometimes become scraggly and lose
their vitality when between five and
ten years old.
In serving at dinner, from
which side should the dishes be
served and from which side re-
moved?
1t is proper to serve all dishes
from the right except beverages,
and to remove alil dishes from the
left.
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XVII ASHINGTON, July ga mild
| Nt hammered Hoosier lawyer, in
the Department of the Inter
ior, is now sitting on one Of the most
highly explosive issues that has con.
fronted the government since the
matter Of the famous oil leases. 1t
is the case of the people Of San
Francisco against the private power
interests Of the Pacific coast. The
Hetch Hetchy case is how it is u.s.
ually known.
John H. Edwards is the Hoosier
lawyer. Brought to Washington by
Postmaster General New to be
solicitor for the Post Office Depar-
ment, he served quietly in that
capacity some years. Then he was
given the same job in the Interior
Department and recently was pro-
NOTED to Assistant Secretary Of the
Interior. Having decided legal ques-
lions by the hundred up to this time
without breaking into print, he now
finds himself in the very center of
an impending California earthquake.
For Public Only
Twelve years ago Congress gave
San Francisco permission to build
the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite
valley. Congress stipulated that the
power generated never should he
turned over to private corporation,
but should be sold directly to the
people by the city-just as is done by
the big municipal plants of Seattle
and Tacoma. From the time Of the
grant by Congress up to this moment
the private power interests of the
coast have been preparing to upset
the governments plan. The power
possibilities ofthe mountain streams
on the Coast are a great prize.
The success of Seattle and Tacoma
in developing their own power at
low cost to the people has led the
private corporations to exert every
effort to prevent this being done
elsewhere.
People May Lose
The people of San Francisco are
in real danger of losing this power,
developed with their own money.
Politicians in the control Of the city
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storm at sea. II Is so realistic that
II nearly made mo sea sick looking
at Il. And II there IL anything in
this world I actually hate II is sea
sickness. But this storm scene IL
sure the actual goods In realism. No
doubt about that.
Haven't been so impressed with
House Peters lately but he has the
kind Of work that he knows how
to do in this movie. And he docs a
good job Of tanning the dame who
had more money than brains.
Those who enjoy realistic melo-
drama will enjoy Head Winds"
especially when the old boat starts
dipping everything. including her
nose. into the ocean.
The bill includes Charles PUFFY N
"A Lucky Accident" the American
Har7onists. special musical features.
a news reel and Aesop's Fables.
AT the Colonial all week.
e. Y
Sells T'loto Circus Is in the city
for two performances today. matinee
and night, on the circus grounds -
Washington st. and Sheffield Ave.
For the first half OF the week. the
Isis is Offering Fred Thompson in
THE Bandits Baby"
The Berkell Players this week are
being seen in "Lightnin' at Eng.
lish's. The feature a. the Lyric Is
Solomon Basco and HIS dog team.
The Palace Is observing Circus Week
by having Barton Brothers Circus.