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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
DAREDEVIL
AERIAL STUNTS

1EORGE COOVER, balloon
list, to give the county fair
~ crowd at Princeton. Ind,
thrill the other day cut loose from
his balloon 1000 feet in the air
and descended by a series of para
chutes opening successfully. Only
the last failed to open and Coover
crashed to death.
He was performing a daredevil
aerial stunt just to make specta-
tors gasp and of no service to the
practical advance Of aeronautics.
His death was a regrettable but
useless sacrifice.
But no more useless than the
recent aerial stunts of Navy air.
men undertaken by the Depart
ment's orders-the Hawaiian fight
and the Shenandoah tour.
Fourteen skilled officers and men
were killed when the Shenandoah
was torn asunder. They risked
and lost their lives for what? Even
If the projected fight had been
completed without mishap it would
have served no useful purpose.
Merely stretched the necks of fair
crowds in the Middle West, add.
ing nothing to the progress of
aerial navigation, military effec-
tiveness, or airship design.
At best the trip was a publicity
stunt. at worst which happened-a
needless sacrifice of precious lives.
The attempted flight of the Pm
planes to Honolulu was no better.
If successful 1t would only have
proved that under favorable con-
ditions those planes could hop over
2.100 miles of sea. No new knowl-
edge Of design, construction Of
operation Of planes would have
been gained. The planes were sent
off with only sufficient fuel for
1900 miles, If all went well. All
went i'll.
Under the conditions, as planned
and executed, the flight was only
a stunt-at most valuable for pub
licity If 1t succeeded.
The Navy Department might
Just as we'll send its airmen around
to county fairs to make parachute
jumps from hot air balloons as to
waste them on such stunts. Casu-
alties would be no heavier and 1t
would result in as much progress
in aeronautics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
Wild Susan Did Not Want a 1909 Model for
a Husband Cause She Wanted Live One

ment to film because action is de-
manded. On the stage the action Is
often increased by rapid converse.
ton. On the screen, this is taken
care Of by sub-titles and business.
Seven Days" concerns a bunch
Of people who are quarantined in
house. Somebody is supposed to
have smallpox or something along
that line and everybody else Is
guaranteed in this home. But
others are caught besides the guests.
One Of the invited ones is a. burglar
and another is the policeman, who is
after the burglar man.
Some, or rather most Of the fun
is supplied by the officer chasing
the burglar. The dumb-waiter is
used as an elevator by both the cop
and the bandit.
Another comedy touch is fur.
nished by woman who believes
that she is able to talk with the
spirits. Sometimes she nearly sue.
ceeds, but the spirits in each ap.
pear to be more human than other.
wise.
There is lot Of fun in this farce.
OF course there Is a love theme as
we'll as a divorce story running
through this yarn. You know that
Hopwood would get his married folk
mixed up a wee bit. And so he
does in this one.
The cast includes Lillian Rich.
Creighton Hale. Hale Cooley. Tom
Wilson, Mabel Julian Scott. Lillian
Eastman and Charles Clary.
Bill includes Arthur Lake in Tho
Party" Aesop Fables. American
Iarmonists in singing and instru.
mental numbers. Also a new reel.
AT the Colonial all week.
Other theaters today offer Davle
Jameson and his "Revolters" at the
Palace; MacDonald's Music Mixers
at the Lyric; and burlesque at the
Broadway.
The Indiana State Fair is on view
all week at the fair grounds.
The Isis Is presenting Talmadge
in The Isle Of Hope"
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Spending Five Million
Dollars

M AYoR SHANK proposes that the city
wi shall spend five million dollars next year
A complete budget revealing the amounts
all departments of city government shall SPEND
was prepared and submitted to city council
August II. 1t was referred to the finance COM
mittee for consideration and a public hearing
and final action was set for tonight S meeting
What happened9
The committee was never assembled to
view the most vital ordinance before council
during the year until today.
AS result council members will face
consideration of the appropriation measure
without adequate advice Of members selected
to enlighten them on it's terms.
William Bosom, city attorney, has given
the opinion that final action must take place
tonight or the 1925 allowances will prevail.
State legislators toiled in committee more
than three months before the State budget was
adopted.
Are city councilmen so enlightened that
they need not occupy their time with consid-
Grafton of the five million dollar expenditure
before they authorize it9
corporation spending five million dol
lars year would soon pass out of the picture
of industrial competition if similar methods
were employed in estimating the yearly ex-
penditures.
An inspection of the cities where the city
manager form of government is in operation
will reveal no instances Of such complete con-
fdence and indifference.
Council members find time to spend many
+bo cb Of +Lor
branches of the administration. Surely, they
could have assigned at least one meeting to in
telligent perusal a body of the amounts
comprising the five million dollars taxpayers
will march up to the tax counter and leave.
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Movie Verdict

Circle--Dick Barthelmess has
a humdinger of a comedy by
the name of "Shore Leave" on
the level. this is a real one.
Colonial-"Seven Days" was
an entertaining farce on the
stage and remains so on the
screen.
Apollo-As Susan in wild.
Wild Susan" Bebe Daniels has
a gay tom.boy time of it. Cute
little comedy.
Ohio-Booth Harrington has
turned out a non-Tarkington
story for Tom Meighan by the
name of THE Man Who Found
Himself.
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SPECIAL COPS
AND BRIBERY

-AROLD KNUDSEN. a
III special police officer in
South Bend. lost his badge
of authority and faces the grand
jury on charges of accepting a
bride. He admitted he accepted
$50 to forget" evidence obtained
in a liquor raid.
He was a volunteer officer who
served without pay.
The incident reveals the danger
of giving every Tom. Dick and
Harry police power to be exer-
cised in spare moments and not
as a regular. job paid for by the
public.
IT is difficult to keep a regular,
professional police force pure and
undefiled. Some Of the frail hui
mans composing it are likely to
succumb to temptation even
though their living and vocation
depend on faithful performance of
duties How much more difficult
to keep unpaid officers, who po-
lice as a sidehne, from develop
ing itching palms.
Such officers have every in
centive-and. no restraint except
their own consciences-to turn
their badges to personal profit.
Indiana is over-run with horse
thief detectives and unpaid WELD
ers of police power. The system
results not in greater law enforce
ment, but immeasurably widens
the opportunity for bribery. The
State. no more than the individual.
gets something for nothing. 1t
will get no more real law enforce
ment than it buys and pays for.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

as a satisfactory and final DISPOSE
ton Of the case"
The board characterized the
architects inclusion in the specifi.
cations Of patented steel in which
they are financially interested as
"unethlcal and unlawful" It en-
gagged Professor HIATT of Purdue.
an acknowledged steel authority,
to check the specifications. 1t
withheld further action pending
result of its inquiry.
To the average man it would
seem the trustees have taken hold
Of the matter in a common sense
way-in a way TO safeguard the
interests Of the people of Indiana.
What more does the State ex-
aminer want? Are the members
of the Memorial board working
FOR him or for the public?
The War Memorial is a magnifi-
cent project. Nothing is to be
gained by hasty action on unveri.
fed accusations that will upset and
delay the undertaking. That's one
of the surest ways to discredit the
whole enterprise.
II the architects are guilty Of
unethical and unlawful practices
the facts win be adduced by the
boards inquiry and the findings
of its technical expert. The APP
propriate action can be taken. IN
til such time the public, if not
the State examiner. is willing to
let the matter rest.
There will be plenty Of time t
cry Wolf! WolfI after the
lupine creature is actually dis
covered.
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BY David DietZ
NEA Serrice Writer


NEW astrology-one with
lIA the stamp of approval Of the
scientists-seems to be loom
ing up on the frontier Of science.
The astrologer insists that the po-
sition Of the planets influences the
individual destiny of each person.
The new astrology won't go quite
that far. But it will admit that the
position of the planets in the sky
has much to do with the aggregate
health, happiness and prosperity of
the people on this earth.
Ellsworth Huntington, famous ex.
plorer. geographer. and. research as
sociate of Yale University. proposes
the new astrology.
Health. happiness and prosperity
depend largely upon the weather, he
says. Weather changes are the re.
suit fundamentally of changes in the
amount of light. heat and electrical
energy radiated by the sun. And
these changes. he says. are due to
the positions of the planets. Hence
the influence Of the planets upon the
human race.
The Importance of the weather is
obvious. 1t determines whether
crops will be good and bad and
therefore whether the farmer will be
prosperous or not.
Hot summers increase infant mon
tally. Storms wreck ships. And so
on.
Most scientists are willing to agree
now that changes in the suns rsdia.
ton are the fundamental causes of
changes in the weather on earth.
Now Huntington advances the pro.
posal that the positions of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
George Remus and the
Tar BabV

KV7ELL, well! George Remus is with us
w again. George Remus, king of the boot
leggers, the man who bought distilleries by the
dozen after prohibition began, and who told
the Senate Committee of $250,OOO to 100000
payments to Jess Smith, adjutant of Harry NJ.
Daugherty.
George Remus, who when the 1924 cam
paign got warm provided Harry NJ Daugherty
with reputation of this testimony, saying
story that WASH t true.
George Remus, out of prison for awhile,
now repudiates his reputation All he tes-
titled to concerning the money paid Jess Smith
for Department of Justice protection is true he
says.
There was another great story-teller
named Remus. His first name was Uncle. One
of his most famous stories concerned a Tar
Baby.
"Didn t the fox never catch the rab-
bit Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.
He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's
you born-Brer Fox did One day after
Brer Rabbit fool i'm wild dat calamus root
Brer Fox went ter wuk en- got i'm some
tar, en- mix it wild some turkentime en- fix
up cOntrapshun wat he call Tar Baby,
en- he TUX dish yer Tar Baby en- he sot 'er
in de big road, en- den he lay off in de
bushes fer to see wat de news wuz gwine
ter be. En- he didn't halter wait long,
nudder, kase bimeby here come Brer Rab-
bit pacin down de road-lippity -clippity,
clippity-lippity-d ez sassy ez jay bird
Brer Fox he lay low"
You know the rest of it, how Brer Rabbit
got all tangled up in the tar when he tried to
treat the Tar Baby with courtesy
Folks who followed the amazing proceed
ings of the Justice Department, after Senator
Wheeler took the lid off, might see certain
parallel to this Uncle Remus story. Brer Fox
that's Harry Daugherty. Brer Rabbit
that's Senator Wheeler The Tar BabyY Per
haps there were two: the magnificent CASTOR
B. Means for one, and Uncle George Remus
himself for the other.
Each of these born regulators sought to
tar the senator, but each having eventually to
repudiate his Reputation, the senator came off
with clean hands. OF course, the story ism t all
told yet
''Did the fox eat the rabbit" asked
the little boy.
''Dat's all de fur de tale goes" re-
piled the old man. He mout, en- den
again he moutent. Some say ledge Bar
come long en- loosed 'm-some say he
didn t."
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some holding that it began in the
times Of David and Solomon, others
claiming that the tradition Of the
Ten Commandments written on tab.
lets Of stone shows that it went back
to the time of Moses.
What is a good method for kill
Ing popular trees?
One of the best methods is to ring
them by cutting them all around to
a depth of about six inches. This
should be done in the spring
How many head of cattle and
how many pigs are there in the
United States?
According to the latest census
figures available there are 6S,760, 0S6
head Of cattle in the United States
and 61,sS4,7sS head Of swine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07

400 and 425 degrees F., the actual
point being possibly near 412 degrees
F., although it varied somewhat with
different kinds of paper. There was
considerable browning and embrit-
Element above $50 degrees F. and
some charring between 375 and 400
degrees F.. although no actual igni-
ton took place.
For how many years has writ
ing been known? When was it
first known among the Hebrews?
1t has been supposed by scholars
that the earliest forms of writing
date back to about ten thousand
years before Christ. Monuments.
letters carved on stone, come down TO
us from centuries before the time OF
Solomon. AS to when writing be-
gan among the Hebrews, there is
considerable difference of opinion,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
Divorce for the Asking

XVI HILE most reformers are advocating
wv making divorces harder to obtain Clar-
ence Darrow, lawyer, who frequently enjoys
being different" suggests that divorces
should be obtained for the asking. In almost
the same breath Darrow says, "Abolish mar
riage and you abolish the home" He opposes
any idea of so-called free love-"
It is hard to reconcile these two state
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sparkle and novelty into this story,
it certainly was lost before It reached
the screen.
Am sure that some viii contend
that this is a typical fhe.man role
for Meighan, and that he does It
nicely. Maybe so. l admit that the
prison scenes look like the real ar.
ticle actually taken at Sing Sing.
The cast includes Virginia Valli as
the girl who nearly married a crook
before she married our hero. Julia
.Hoyt, who was here with Stuart
walker several years ago, has a
Small part in some society scenes
Victor Moore, Norman Trevor and
Ralph Morgan are in the cast
Be your own judge Of THE Man
Who Found Himself" but l am not
sold" on this picture.
Bill includes a Pathe news reel,
Carter De Haven in Hot Sheiks. 3"
a musical presentation and orches-
ira.
At the Ohio all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
HARRINGTON WRITES ANOTHER
MOVIE FOR THOMAS MEIGHAN

Booth Harrington has written an
other movie for Thomas Meighan.
This time 1t is called 1.-The Man
Who Found Himself"
To my way Of thinking. based en-.
tirely upon the story as filmed this
story is not the regulation Tarking.
ton brand.
1t is too melodramatic with prison
stuff. emotional escapes Of the chief
prisoner. a killing and all that sort
Of stuff which / would never believe
was brain child of Booth Tarking.
ton. unless it had the family name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
A NEW ASTROLOGY IS
BEGINNING TO LOOM UP

planets with respect 10 the sun cause
changes in the suns radiationa.
Huntington believes that each
planet absorbs the electrical radia-
tons from the sun up to a certain
point and then reflects the remainder
hack toward the sun.
The distance Of each planet from
the sun varies as it goes around the
sun because Of the fiattening of the
orbit. Furthermore. at times several
planets will all be grouped on one
side of the sun.
AS a result. the amount of reflect
ed energy striking the sun varies in
intensity and direction. This, Hun
tington believes. acts as a trigger to
upset the electrical balance ~ the
sun and so vary the amount Of en-.
ergy radiated by the sun.
@LIVE oil exposed to ultra.vio-
IN let rays can be used as a cure
" for ricketts,. according to ex-
periments at the University Of Wis
consin.
IL was recently SHOWN that ultra
violet rays or cod liver oil could be
used for a cure and that furthermore
the action Of the cod liver oil was
due to the fact that it save off ultra
violet rays when it oxidized inside
the human system.
1t is probable that the ultraviolet
rays cause a chemical change in the
olive oil so that when taken internal
ly it gives off rays just as the cod
liver oil does.
ri HE German navy has dis
patched a special ship called
the Meteor to the South Sea-
The Meteor is to make a scientific
study of ocean currents from a point
north Of the equator to the border
of the Antarctic ice fields.
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IND Of a husband that Susan
TX wanted was not the model
that went out with the flood
but a modern go-getter, a regular up.
to-the-minute cave man.
Susan was a wild girl. She
thought that traffic signals were
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particular KISS out
the girl had not. To get him back
again she gives a party for all the
Smiths (being the last name Of our
hero) and she discovered they were
several hundred Smiths in the fleet.
For a time the main Smith was
missing but he showed up just in
time to get into a bunch Of family
trouble. He allows that he will not
marry a rich dame and out he goes
with the fleet again. Our little hero
inc. still remembering the first and
second kisses, puts her money in
trust She then writes all the Smith s
in the fleet that she is broke and
waiting. The one Smith mostly in.
terested works his way back home
and returns to his lady love.
Then for about a reel we have
some delightful fun. Barthlemess is
advancing rapidly in the lines of
polite comedy. Everybody will like
this Barthlemess movie. His work Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
STAGE FARCE rs NOW
a PH0TOPLAY HERE

Some seasons ago. don't quite re.
member how many. Mary Roberts
Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, days
before THE Bat" was born, wrote
a mystery farce.
1t is easy to decide just who sup
piled the mystery and just who had
the bedroom idea.
They tell me that a farce is a
mighty difficult form Of entertain.
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corking, really. Lot of fun in this
one.
Never seen Dorothy Mackaill ap.
pear to better comedy advantage.
She puts that heart stuff right along
side of the giggles and the laughs.
Haven't been wild about this woman
but she sure is giving a fine account
of herself in this one.
"Shore Leave is a treat for the
whole family.
Bill includes an orchestra pres.
entation upon the stage, Walter
HERS in "Off His Beat" a comedy,
news reel and other events.
AT the Circle all week.
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sist OF speech
making. band
concert and ex-
h / billion S of
m anufacturing
processes at the
S I a I g fair
ground.
Small b VS.
and others who
get a thrill out
of mar C h in &.
hlaring bands
a n q colorful
pro g S S / ons
may regret the
a b a n donment
of the time
honoTed Labor
day parade. But
probably I h e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07

In the first place,
1 haven't any
sympathy for a
hero who takes
the blame for a
crime committed
by another. espe-
cially when the
law finds him
guilty, and all of
that sort of stuff.
A hero must want
to get into prison
bad in the least
possible way when
he becomes re.
sponsible for the
criminal act Of an
other person.
If Harrington
aaA l-lnI
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A Thought

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of thine own eye; and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out
the mote out Of thy brothers eye.
Matt. rs.
OF all the cants which are canted
in this canting world, though the
cant Of hypocrites may be the worst,
the cant of criticism is the most tor
menting.-Laurence Sterne.
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made TO alnuSe chill
dren. Susie kept
her good but
wealthy dad in a
peck of trouble. He
tried to marry her
off 10 an old.fash-
Toned college boy,
the type that is
careful and learned,
but Susan wanted
a wild man for a
hubby. And she
found him. Guess
what he did? He
drove the widest
looking black and
yellow taxi. And
when you learn
that the "he" is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
HOT DOG, DICK is
A wow IN THIS ONE

Rather think this is my sentiment
Of Dick Barthelmess in Shore
Leave'-Hot dog. Dick is a wow in
this one.
Meaning in plain English that
Barthelmess again comes back with
a whizz-bang Of a photoplay. In
Shore Leave" Dick is a sailor on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
WAR MEM ORAL
INQUIRY

LAWRENCE F.. ORR, State
ii examiner, whose recent
IL charges against the arch
fleets of the War Memorial
have resulted in an investigation,
issued a statement Friday that
the Memorial boards action on
the charges will not be consid-
cred by those who know the facts
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q - ~ Bcl TIC > III T.
who is afflicted
with forgetfulness
concerning t h e
girls he meets. But
he met one girl, a
dressmaker In a
port town, who
had never been
kissed until this
COB did the trick.
She took it seri-
ously and fits up
a boat for him to
captain when he
returns two years
later. Our hero,
of course, had for-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
What temperature is necessary

What temperature is necessary
to cause the ignition of paper?
The United States bureau of stan
dards has conducted experiments
with different kinds of papers and
subjected them to heat somewhat
under the same conditions as would
be present in an insulated contalner,
which consists in raising the tenn
perature in about an hour to the
desired point and maintaining it
there for ohe or two hours. Under
these conditions they found the fg-
milton points of papers to be between
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
NO LABOR DAY
PARADE

T~7ONTRARY to usual custom.
Il the labor organizations OF
IL Indianapolis do not parade
today. Instead. their official OBJ.
servance of the holiday will con.
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton of fact or information by writing
TO The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
ington. D. g., inclosing 2 cents y
stamps for reply. Medical. legal ard
marital sdvice cannot be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
sonal reply unsigned requests cannot
be answered All letters are confden-
tial-EditOr
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s p e n d you
days doing as
you are told 20
do and you never
will be told how
to spend them
better.
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Work is about
like w a s h in z
dishes. Thinking
about IL before
you start is the
hardest part.
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as they say they
do. If they did
they would say
more.
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Impossible for every one to make
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Tom Sims Says

Well. this is the age Of speed. But
payday is just as slow as ever com.
ing around.
wouldn't It be great II payday
were like collector? You could say
Come back again tomorrow"