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The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
HEAVY FALL OF
SNOW, KANATAK

SEWARD, April 22-According to
Starr, the heaviest snow fall of the
season has hit the Kanatak district.
The snow buried buildings under 10
feet and nothing was visible but the
smoke stacks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
Russians Buy Electric
Dredges for Ural Work

NEW YORK, April 22.-Fiye rep
machine construction industries
have sailed for home. Theyordered
five electric dredges valued at a
total of s1,200,00O for the Ural
platinum fields.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
British Columbia to
Destroy Seized Liquor

VICTORIA, April Announcing
the public must be protected against
doubtful potions, the government of
British Columbia has ordered all in
toxicating liquors taken in raids dur
ing the past six months to he poured
into sewers of Victoria and Van
cOuver.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
Senator Dill Placed
On Naval Affairs Com

SPOKANE. April Ex-senator c. G.
Dill has been given a place on the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee. ac-
eording to announcement received
here
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
Railroad Receivers to
Make Big improvements

CHICAGO. April 22.-The receiv-
ers for the Chicago, Milwaukee &c
st. Paul Railway have been granted
permission to proceed with their
S2,O00,000 improvement program.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
Standard Oil Is
DO,Un 1875 Feet
Kd,,atak Oil Field

SEWARD, April 22.-The drills
of the Standard oil are down
1875 feet in the Kanatak oil
fields. with the wells cement
ed off. The company expect
Oil at $500 feet according to ad-
vices reaching here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

SEATTLE - The sun is strong
and clear after showers of several
days and all fans are out for the
opening game on the home grounds
this afternoon. Sutherland and
Baldwin, and Penner and Murphy
are expected to be the batteries.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

SACRAMENTO-Two airplanes
will be enlisted In the search for
Lloyd Half and Joe Tanko. lifers
for murder, who climbed the San
Quentin wall two weeks ago and
shot Policeman Num- here yester-
day.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22
LUXURY DEALERS CLOSE DOORS

LONDON. April 22.-Because the
to purchase handmade lace, and
the maehine-made product satisfies
the new rich. famous lace-making
concern on Bond Street has closed
it's doors.
The firm was established in the
18th century, and at once time sold
lace cuff ruffles to London dandies.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

PRINCE RUPERT.-Halibut sold
this afternoon at ia and three
cents.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

NEW YORK. - Chauncey Depew
will celebrate his 91st birthday to-
morrow and will work at his desk
as Chairman of the Directors of the
New York Central.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

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The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

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The Alaska daily empire., 1925-04-22

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
Americans as VAMPIRES

lish plantations there. Therefore we
turned loose upon them the vampire
Of land-monopoly. We did it with
guns.
We ought to follow the recon-
mendations OF the report of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference.
implicitly supported by the Federal
Council Of the Churches of Christ in
America ProtestanD and reverse
this blood-sucking policy. We ought
to save the Haitians from this new
slavery.
We owe this to the memory of
Woodrow Wilson, under whose adj
ministration this great crime against
humanity was committed. We owe
it to the memory of Warren G.
Harding, under whose administra-
ton it was consummated. We cannot
suppose that either of them could
have known what was going on; but
the crime stands blot on both their
names. We owe it to ourselves.
Shall this appropriation of this
people from their lands go on? II
1t does we shall within a decade see
our troops sent there to shoot down
poor people who want back their
lands and whose demands will be
just They will be the Ireland, we
the tyrannical Britain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

News from London says the art-
fetal blond is passing, but It doesn't
mean none of our girls will be light
headed.
In Louisville. KY. some man Is
so tough he stole a baseball umpire's
overcoat.
In Chicago, a professor says four
hours sleep is enough, but our guess
is he had better wake up.
A New Yorker bet three taxicabs
he could get married in thirty-six
hours. this being a sign Of spring In
New York.
Even II scientists meeting In Bal
timore do say men are made of glue
we say some don't stick so well.
Vacations are expensive things. It
even costs two cents to send pos
tai card now.
You just can't please some women.
| In Chicago one got r. divorce be.
cause he Rugged her too hard.
Coolidge's father has quit making
maple strip. Nearly everybody has,
except by adding water to brown
sugar.
Spring fever wouldn't hurt so
much IL there was some cure besides
work.
And when the golf bug bites a
man it makes him break out with
Knockers and loud stockings.
Every ambitious young cabbage
plant seems to want to grow up and
become box of cigars.
Well bet asparagus hung around
the world q long time before any
body knew it was good to eat.
Looks are deceiving. When a
radish tries to put on too many
leaves there isn't much radish.
Sometimes a man who thinks he
| Is a smart duck gets henpecked.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

m HE will of DR.. Sun Vat Sen, first president
4 of the Chinese Republic, has found its
way to this country AT least its contents have
We recommend it to each and every
American engaged in public service It's read
ing is eminenty worth while
Sun, having devoted his life to trying to
raise the standard of living among the Chinese,
promoting the welfare of the undergrad and
underfed coolie, and attempting to get his
country out from under the thumb of unscrup-
ulous foreign exploiters he naturally made
many enemies
One of their favorite methods of attack
was to inslnuate, or openly charge that he had
made millions at the expense of his followers.
Thus, by innuendo and otherwise, they tried
to undermine his influence by making him out
a crook
Was heP Here S his will Judge for your
self
81 have devoted my time to national
affairs, " it reads, $50 have no property.
What | have left consists of books
clothes and my house, all of which go to my
wife as a remembrance
My son and daughters are already grown
up and able TO live by their own means I hope
they will follow in my footsteps"
That is all But few husbands ever left
a richer heritage than did this Chinese gentle
man.
Not all of our statesmen will, or could.
leave the like, more s the pity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

trusted TO safeguard It's own NOR
ais In the matter If given a chance.
Official and private organizations
that sit up nights to coddle public
morals only beat the air impo-
tently.
Effective censorship originates
in the box-offlce. Producers aim
to make money, not to elevate
tastes or glorify art. They will
give the public what it wants. AS
movie goers demand better pic.
lures and Enthusiastically show their
preference by patronage they will
get them.
Probably the influence Of the
films in elevating or degrading
morals has been grossly over
rated.
Not long ago 1t was fashionable
to ascribe every case OF juvenile
delinquency to the corrupting in
fuence OF the movies. Despite ad-
mitted Improvement in the char
acter of pictures offered, the Ju-
venile crime wave sloshes through
the courts just as vigorously. 1t
would continue If movie palaces
showed nothing but expurgated
film versions of Grimm's Fairy
Tales and Mother Goose.
Indecent books. screen and stage
do not lead public morals astray-
they merely follow. They are only
the symptoms, not the cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
1t Has a Healthy Sound

TN7OYS going to the Citizens Military Train
. ing Camps this summer ask what they
are to bring with them, and receive the follow
ing reply,
Zone suitcase or grip, large or medium
size with lock and key, containing; four suits
thin underwear; two pairs pajamas; six hand
kerchiefs; four face, two bath towels; toilet
and shaving outfit
'Optional: linen shirts with attached col
lars for wear off duty; athletic and baseball
Clothes shoes and cap bathing suit; light
sweater; bedroom slippers; tennis racket mu-
steal Instruments fountain pen; camera. No
firearms"
It has a good, healthy sound-that list Of
articles. May it be wonderful thirty days
for the $4,000 young men who'll work and
play under military direction this summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
A Warning
BY HAL COCHRAN

News Note-Woman In St. Louis
granted divorce because husband
had his hair permanently waved)
All, ha. here's a warning that men
can't be scorning. 1t comes from a
case In st. Louis. We've gotta be-
ware Of the waving % hair, lest our
wives take offense and taboo us.
1t seems it's Ok for the missus
to say, do this ana do that to my
hair" But husbands. by goily, are
firth with folly unless they be wise
and beware.
BY one man twas tried, and he's
now shy a bril- for his better half
gave him the air. Some locks.
combed unstraight, broke a perma-
nent date. and he missed welded
bliss by a hair.
Sure. he may have looked classy,
but not to his lassie. she merely
considered him pelf So don't be a
simp, and put up with crimp when
it may put crimp in yourself.
Lest love light be dimmed. when
You have your hair trimmed, you
had better consider the strife. Fer
YOU fall for the lure of a wave, just
he sure you're not waving good-by
TO your wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON.

biles to the extent Of $500. A
month ago a new car just pur-
chased was stolen. Never recov-
ered-no insurance.
OF course insurance costs money.
II it didn't it wouldn't be worth
having. The commissioners may
reveal sudden rush Of economy
TO the head by refusing to in
sure county property. but it's a
good way 10 save at the spigot
while knocking off the hoops Of
the public barrel
The courthouse is presumed to
be fireproof Perhaps It is. Any
way. the only things Of value about
the structure may be It's tradi-
tions-whlch are incombustible.
But freproof buildings become de-
bilitated ami require expensive re-
pairs when their contents burn.
They can't he repaired with ira
ditions.
1t isn't likely county buildings
or automobiles will be destroyed
by fire or stolen. Neither was it
likely that Princeton and Griffin
would be torn to pieces by tor
nado.
The Federal Government doesn't
insure Federal property. II can
afford to carry its own risk-it
has unlimited resources behind 1t.
However. Marion County isn't in
the same class though county Of
ficials may feel just as big rs all
outdoors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

Twelfth SITS. as deplorable.
The building is dirty and poorly
lighted; it hasn't been painted in
eighteen years: children must sit
on folding chairs withous desks;
sewer gas fills the rooms.
School authorities admitted con-
ditions at this building are bad.
They will be remedied-the dele
CATION was informed-as rapidly
as the board finds money for the
repairs.
OF course. the salary increases
granted wouldn't rehabilitate all
the antiquated. overcrowded. in
sanitary grade schools in Indian
apolis. The sum might not even
put school 33 in good shape-but
II would at least eliminate con-
siderable sewer gas from a class
room.
If funds I'm the school treasury
are insufficient TO maintain build
ing so they will not menace the
health and safety Of children. Ger
tainly they are insufficient to war
rant salary boosts. In a school
system. pupils are just as impor-
tant as hired help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
By Herbert Quick

01UR Government took advan-
IL tage of the World War to
LII seize upon the control of the
negro republic of Haiti. For years
our soldiers were there. They re-.
NAMED until the laws Of the island
republic were changed by force
which we applied. What was the
great change? And what will be it's
effect? Whatever it is, you, reader
and L have our share Of RESPONSE
bility; for it was our Government
which did this thing.
The evil change is pointed out by
the social action department of the
National Catholic Welfare Associ-
alton after an investigation on the
ground. This, bear in mind, is not
the utterance of Haitian politicians,
but of American church people who
really care whether our Nation does
iniquity or Righteousness.
american influence in the West
Indian Islands" says the version of
this report which appears in the in
formation bulletin of the Federal
Council OF the Churches of Christ
in America, "has meant the growth
of the plantation system and the
gradual appropriation Of the peoples
land" The report Of the national
Catholic welfare conference says
that since the United States inter-
vened in Haiti this process of taking
their lanos from the people has be-
gun there. But, 1t adds, because
the plantation system has only be-
gun in Haiti there is time yet for
another, policy to be pursued sue.
cessfully. The United States can
change the policy. 1t still holds
power over the Haitian government"
The Haitians are poor and ignor-
ant. They cannot make any sue
cessful fight against the vampire Of
land monopoly which we turned
loose upon them. They are doomed
to a slavery as bad as that from
which we set their colored brethren
free In this country if this goes on
] am telling truth when ! say that
we turned the vampire loose on
them.
Before we interviewed their laws
forbade foreigners from holding
land. These ignorant negroes some.
how felt that without land there is
no liberty. We forced them to
change these laws so as to permit
our American capitaIisamn1c ab
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
The Cradle and the
Grave

1n1 EAL romances that outriva the most fan
w ciful dreams of the novelists occasionally
leap along the telegraph wires and find
place in the pages of your daily paper, Where
is the novelist in this sophisticated age who
would have risked using the story of Joy Lou
ise Leeds An orphan abandoned on New
York doorstep twelve years ago, picked up by a
policeman and turned over to a founding
home, she adopted by the wealthy Leeds
family and has now become the richest child in
America through the inheritance Of $8,000000
left by her foster parents
No prince charming and no good fairy
only a cynical policeman and a tired orphan
age matron-but this little Cinderella stepped
from poverty to riches.
T7 HE same thread leads through all our
IL lives. The same lure Of chance and des-
tiny beckons us into the uncharted future.
What youthful ambition would there be if drab
certainty robbed the effort of its incentive and
cheated it Of its zest? For our own happiness,
perhaps, it is well that fate has blndfolded US
fT WENTY years ago the names of the
Dodge brothers were worth $4 day
when signed to a machine shop pay roll. The
same names were worth $50,00OOO0 the other
day, quite apart from the value of the property
the brothers had accumulated that
merely as the thing called good will"
IT HERE are according to the law of aver
ages, eleven future presidents living in
the United States today One probably is COO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
TRAILING THE
MEAT EATERS

T"1HE Department Of Agricul-
ture is making a house-to-
house survey OF the meat
buying habits of consumers in In
dianapols. Similar surveys are
being made in fifteen other cities
In the country.
A preliminary report indicates
that beef is preferred by three out
of five families. Pork is given
second choice. Fish. fowl and hot
dogs wiggle. flap and bark far in
the rear.
esting. But. aside from keeping
Government statisticians trained
to the minute. what is the good of
such a survey?
Uncle Sam may wear callouses
on his feet plodding diligently
from kitchen door to kitchen door,
to learn what people eat and why.
without altering a single item of
the average family's bill of fare.
People eat according to custom
and purse, not according TO Hoyle.
Nothing is more immovable than
a peoples food habits. Every ma
ton has its favorite formula for
acquiring indigestion. Its distinct
i've dish-from shark fins In China
to baled hay in Battle Creek. The
mutton of old England has spread
misanthropy through the ages.
Americans are meat eaters. Per
haps that is a national fault. But
where meat has slain it's hundreds.
garlic has slain its thousands-all
innocent bystanders. So why con-
denim our meat eating?
We prefer beef because that par
ticularly suits the national tooth.
We plead guilty-what does the
Department OF Agriculture pro-
pose to do about It?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
Priscilla Dean Will Introduce This City
to New Brand Movie Sheik Next Week

men T." irst place in the interest
of the public.
Heretofore Woods has played moth
ing but heroic parts, and his role
Of Kali in a Cafe in Cairo marks
his debut into characters of the
hated variety.
Besides Harry Woods, Priscilla
Deans supporting cast for this pro
duction includes such screen ia
vorites as Robert Ellis, Carl Stock
dale, Carmen Phillips, Evelyn Selbie,
John Stepping, Ruth King, Larry
Steers, Marie Crisp and Vicente Oro-
ma. Chef Whitney directed.
Miss Dean will arrive here Sun
day for a weeks engagement at the
Circle beginning Sunday afternoon.
She will enact in person scene
from her new movie, "A C,Nfe in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

Cairo" which will be on view all
next week at the Circle.
Theaters today are offering here:
the Berkel Players in THE First
Year" at Englinish's; an n. V. A.
Week frolic bill at Keith's; Lena
Daley and company at the Capitol:
Elsie Myerson's Californians at the
Lyric; THE Spaniard" at the Ohio;
wife of the Centaur" at the Apollo:
Sally" at the Circle and pride of
Sunshine Alley" and Hooked" at
the Isis.
The Walther League tonight will
present Leon Sampaix. pianist. in
recital at Caleb Mills hall.
The film indorsers recommend this
week TIE features at the Ohio.
Colonial And Circle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

m ROM the aspect of screen ro-
nance all sheiks are ideal
- lovers, heroes par excellence
and fascinating to the very nth de-
gree.
But all the sheikish traditions are
sadly upset in "A Cafe in Cairo"
Priscilla Deans second Hunt Strom-
berg production. In this exotic ro-
nance of the Far East the sheik is
the villain, quite the opposite Of
similar characters employed by pre-
vious desert dra mas
Harry Woods is the new style
sheik lii question, and it is safe to
predict that as a result OF his por-
trayal in "A Cafe in Clrio" he will
ascend to tho ranks OF fascinating
villains who vie with the leading
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

ing of crying in his cradle, two are in grammar
school or high school, two are in college, two
more settled down to work, the ninth is making
a career at 40, the tenth probably is well along
in politics at As, and the eleventh may be
among those already prominently mentioned
for the office.
"A BOUT fifty years ago, General Grant, then
Ia President, remarked that he never met
a small boy without wishing to lift his hat
thinking the boy might some day be Presi-
dent. General Grant would have found one
such small boy toddling around a little farm
in Vermont and another the son of a country
doctor in Marion, Ohio. Woodrow Wilson was
then frai college youth, William Howard
Taft stout lad entering Yale and Theodore
Roosevelt a narrow chested, be.spectacled boy
of seventeen.
EV0HO and where are the boys who will be
W President in the next half century, Who
and where are the girls who will preside over
the White HouseY
Our lives to be sure. are largely what we
make them; but little Miss Nobody from No
where didn't abandon herself on that doorstep
in order to become America s richest child
AS a mystery, the cradle is quite as baff-
ling as the grave
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
MOVIES ARE
GETTING BETTER

IRIS. DAVID ROSS. president
IM of the Indiana Indorsers of
9 photoplays, in her address
at the opening Of the State con-
vention the other day. declared
movie morals are getting better.
There have been fewer ques-
tionable pictures released during
the last year" she said. THE pic
ture-loving public is doing it's own
censoring."
Exactly. The public can be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
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What was the population Of
the United States in 1900, 1900 and
1920?
In 1900 It was 5,SOS .4SS; 1900, u.s.
994,575; 1920. 1O5,71O,62O.
Where and when was the FIRST
horse railroad I'm the country
run?
Near Boston. Mass, in 1907
When and where was St. Pat.
rick born, and why is he so hon
ored by the Irish?
st. Patrick. the apostle ami patron
saint of the Irish, was born at Ban
nevan, a small village OF Tabernis
in Scotland, about 372 A. d. lie is
supposed to have been the first per
son to preach Christianity In Ire
land
Were the characters Of Aramis
and Athos In THE Three Mus
kateers" taken from real charac-
ters?
Yes. The actual name OF the for
mer was Henry d Aramitz, and
Athos was the nom de guerre OF
Armand de Sillegue.
-
Are Rod lie ROGUE and Monte
Blue, movie actors. brothers7
They are not brothers not even
related to each other. Their resem'
blance, however. is very striking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
COUNTY PROPERTY
AND INSURANCE

GTlHE Marion County court
house and county automo-
- biles are Uninsured. The
board Of commissioners argue that
it costs too much and there is
little need for 1t.
Last week fire at the county
garage dam ked county automo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16

raises. However,
the school board
is I'm difficult
straits for lack Of
funds. For weeks
it has puzzled
over the problem
of fitting an ur-
gent $3.50, 900
maintenance and
repair program to
a deficit.
At the same
meeting a delega-
ton OF indignant
parents described
conditions at school
80, Sterling and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-16
PUPILS OR
SALARIES

@7HE indianapolis school
board. at a meeting Tues
IL day night. voted salary in
creases TO thirteen school employees
including the superintendent.
whose annual pay check was fat
tened 81 900.
Probably the employees affected
deserve, and have earned, the