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Evening star., 1925-08-31

Wood is one OF the strongest sub
stances in the world, but it's strength>s
lies in one direction only. A thin
strip of wood cut with the grain will
Withstand about three times as heavy
A pull . steel wire Of equal weight =,
Evening star., 1925-08-31
CHINESE TROOPS ON TRAIL
OF BANDITS WITH DOCTOR
Continuing Vigorous Pursuit of
Brigands in Effort to Rescue
American, Consul Is Told.

By the Associated Press
HARDIN. Manchuria. August al
Samuel Sokobin, American consul at
Harbin. has received reports that
Chinese troops are continuing a Wig
Evening star., 1925-08-31

thousand troops of the Manchurian-
province of Holungkiang surrounded
the bandits and compelled them to-
surrender.
Evening star., 1925-08-31

Of them have come into blossom in
broad ribbons of salmon-pink across
the garden and they will continue the
same luXuriOusneSs of bloom for sew
eral weeks.
Mr. Watkins. a Department of Agri-
Evening star., 1925-08-31

Two thousand Gladouses Are Making Brilliant Display Garden
of Howard r. " atkins, in Somerset Devotes Special
tention Cultivation of Peones-CoIIection Is Large
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

JUST been reading an advertisement in
] magazine. Three ugly-looking citizens
are revealed shooting bullets at large and
costly automobile. But the bullets are bounc-
ing off the car, even off the windshield direct
ly in front of the driver and nobody appears
to be getting hurt.
The ad tells about new kind of metal and
new kind of glass for automobile bodies,
which look no different from other metal and
glass, but render the car safe from attack.
Such cars, says the ad, |'can be equipped for
offense as well as defense, so that one man can
stand off a mob"
Part of the page is given up to a picture
and description of bullet-proof vest, manu-
featured by the same company. These vests,
it is declared are necessary protection for ar
mored car crews, bank doormen, bank mes
sengers, cashiers, custom house officers, in
dustrial guards, jewelers., jewelry statesmen,
mine guards, paying tellers, paymasters, pay
roll carriers, private detectives railroad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

Where Does That Monkey Evolution Stuff Grow?

library, / quote Miss Bailey again;
Because you have never studied
psychology in any form we suggest
that you start out with Larson's
Your Forces and How 90 Use
Them and another book by the
same author Practical Selt-Help.'
For a technical but elementary
treatment Of the subject you may
use Ladd's Primer of Psychology. /
"A popular book on tho will Isl
The Power OF Will by HaddoclSI
Aatkinson's Memory tells how td
develop, train and use tho memory.
"Dressers Psychology in Theory
and Application is psychological
study OF modern problems.
"Marden has an efficiency book,
Training for Efficiency and w. ID.
Scott in Increasing Human Ef-
ficiency' is practical and helpful.
ION the subject Of personality you
can choose between Marden's
'Masterful Personality and Had.
docks Creative Personality
"An interesting specialized subject
is The Physiology OF Faith and
Fear by Sadler."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
Why Single Out
Prohibition?

II OUR additional deputy prosecutors have
IL been appointed for Marion County-to
look after liquor law violations No more
prosecutors have been appointed to look after
the hundreds Of other violations, although the
prosecutor s office is swamped with this work
We believe in enforcement of the prohibi-
ton law. So long as the people keep it on the
statute books it should be enforced
But the prohibition law should be enforced
just as other laws. There is no license to over.
step the bill of rights in connection with en-
forcement of this law any more than there q
IN connection with any other law. Yet this
has been done repeatedly by officers charged
with the enforcement Of all law
What is more, we utterly fail to under
stand the reason for picking out one particular
law for special attention. Why don t some of
our public officials advance. the novel theory
that ALL laws should be given equal attention.
We grant that Prosecutor Remy has been
sorely IN need of assistance He is an over
worked public official if there ever was one.
But why give him assistance with the stipula-
ton that his helpers are to devote their atten-
ton only to the prohibition law? What about
the robberies that have been occurring in
Marion County with monotonous regularity 2
Why not robbery prosecution staff?
We venture to say that if half as much
money were spent in the prevention of robbery
as is spent in the prevention of drinking there
would be very little robbery.
Too many of us have become hysterical on
the subject of prohibition. It has doomed 50
large that we have been inclined to overlook
even banditry and homicide.
May we venture to suggest that these
crimes are almost as serious as the crime of
taking a drink2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
Smile, Please
By Hal Cochran

Smile, please, and be at ease!
There, hold that pose while snap.
Stop heaving signs, and don't blink
your eyes and take your hands out
Of your lap.
Never mind powder and lipstick
and such. Try to hold still for a
minute. Glare at the bulb that I'm
waiting to touch. Leave your neck
open; don't pin it.
Sure as you live, you'll be sorry
you frowned. Don't make your eye
stare so keen. Try and hold steady;
quit movin' around. This isn't a
movie machine.
There, that will do That's enough
for today. Call back tomorrow, and
then, look the proofs over and throw
them away and I'll shoot them all
over again.
Such is the chatter the photograph
gent would like to hand women each
day. But he must consider the
money that's spent, and that sort
of talk doesn't pay,
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
IN WALKED BIG VISION
AND A COMEDY HOWL

The card announced "Stutz and
Bingham"
To a certain jazz melody, a large
woman. dressed up in a daring white
creation docking like a million dol
lars). walks upon the stage.
She attacks the melody with no
great results. And yet this woman
held my attention. She seemed to
know why she was on the stage.
Then at terrible hammering
blended with the singing of this
woman. The additional noise came
from back stage. The song was
stopped and the noise was discovered
to be caused by a man hammering
on the stage.
Under the curtain a man appears.
About all the makeup that he wore
besides a nearly white face was his
ears all done in red. There was that
something about him that everybody
began to howl.
From then on Murray Stutz and
Octavia Bingham gave one Of the
most unusual demonstrations Of
WIFI 61ilCGIlly d1ld cbllAb9
can do to slapstick comedy.
Their conversation is fresh and
new, but the method employed by
these two people in registering one
legitimate laugh after another is
startling. They know they have
sure fire individual material and
they realize that it requires artistry
with which to register their ma
terial.
And as I study this team realize
what could be accomplished If va
riety entertainers would study their
method. The result when was
present was one Of the biggest ova-
tons absolutely sincerel ever re-
corded at the Palace.
Here are two people who are not
afraid to give their very best both
as to delivery and material. I sug-
gest that you do not miss this team.
Frank Finney is using the operate
burlesque idea as a finale to his
collection of comedy attempts in
"Operatee." He has certain comedy
ability, but the material never be-
comes regal or startling.
General Pisano has worked out a
new setting for his expert shooting
act. Will admit that this man is
the best in his line of work on the
stage today, but such demonstra-
tons Go not appeal to me. He did
hold my interest. The public is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
Men and Politics

(17-7IIIS is an age of machines Things are
j / becoming more impersonal-even poll
ties The death of William Jennings Bryan
brings this fact sharply to ones attention.
Bryan was personality. He arose to the
heights by sheer personal force. 1t was Bryan
that made Bryan and not an organization. Dur
ing his reign he always was bigger than the
Democratic party 1t was subordinate to him.
Nobody said ''I am voting for or against the
Democratic party" They said 81 am voting
for or against Bryan
Our history is sprinkled with men whose
personal influence was bigger than their
carnations. Such a one was Roosevelt. So
was La Toilette. So were Webster, Clay, Lin
coin, Calhoun, Jefferson. So was Wilson dur
ing his later years. No one cares about their
parties. They were liked or dishked because
Of themselves They were frequently unsuc-
cessful in achieving all they sought, but they
stood or fell on their own personalities and on
issues of their own making.
With the rapid passing Of Wilson, La Fol
lette and Bryan where is there another such
man in public affairs9 Calvin Coolidge is not
Coolidge to the people-he is the Republican
party
Davis was not living, breathing human
being to most people during the last campaign.
Neither was Harding in the campaign. before
and only to small extent was Cox. Taft was
merely personifcation Of his conservative
party and Mckinley was only the representa-
tive Of the Mark Hanna machine
Usually there is in the public eye at Least
one individual who is bigger even than parti IS
and policies. Such man was Bryan, despite
all his shortcoming. -
But now there appears in all politics not
a single individual of this description.
Perhaps ambitious public men are
learning that machine-made politician is
more likely to succeed than one who has carved
out his career by the force of his own person
atty and his own ideas.
But when we succumb to that idea we lose
that quality which we call greatness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
Youth and Crime

IT HE papers are printing bit of news that
III should make the community STOP look
and listen. We refer to the confession Of two
l-year-old boys to thirty-fve highway rob.
berries and burglaries.
The average age Of criminals appears to
be growing less. That is one of the most sig
nificant facts in connection with all the crime
news. The day of the old, hardened two-gun
man seems to have passed. He has been sup.
planted by youths scarcely old enough to wear
long pants.
:. One of the boys referred to confessed tia,
he has been bandit since he was IA years old
We don't know why SO many boys are
taking to life of crime. Perhaps some Of
the millions spent. in law enforcement could
properly be diverted to crime prgve1ifiot
among children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
The World Over
By Chester Fl. Rowell .
| q EVERAL universities have
IO been introducing "honor

@ EVERAL universities have
Id been introducing "honor
- systems by which the
best students are made wholly or
partly exempt from teaching.
They need not attend classes.
1t is a good scheme. But do it's
sponsors realize it's implications?
If the appropriate reward for the
best students is to exempt them
from teaching, then teaching Is an
evil, to be escaped, and learning
is better pursued without teaching.
Which, in fact, as things go,
Is actually the case. Two-thirds
of the work of the teacher con.
sists, not in imparting knowledge,
but in detecting and penalizing
the culprits who have sneaked the
required task.
1t is a policeman's, not an in
Nstructor's job. 1t is based on the
theory of total depravity.
The student regards knowledge
as an evil, to which he \can be
driven only by the fear of a greater
evil.
The teacher is the custodian of
the penalties which constitute the
greater evil--the worst is the
threat of imposing still more
knowledge, by extra work and
his task is to intimidate students
by the threat of these penalties,
to catch those who have escaped,
and punish them.
If this is what teaching Is,
naturally the best students should
BEL rewarded by exempting them
from it.
But if teaching is the imparing
Of knowledge-why should those
who are most eager for that know
ledge and most capable of receiv-
ing it think it an honor to be
deprived Of ft7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
By Walter d. Hickman

ET7 HEN a variety team reaches
W the maximum in variety Of
G entertainment and do all Of
the various phases of their art with
complete skill, it is necessary that
we, who sit out in front and talk
about the actor, to get down to brass
tacks.
1t is my honest opinion that
Wyeth and Wynn by their delicious
ly simple but effective method in
working out an idea of personality,
are entitled to be listed as one Of
the ten best vaudeville acts of the
1924-25 season.
For my own reasons I consider
the vaudeville season beginning each
year on the first Monday in Septem-
Der for no good reason whatsoever.
In definitely deciding that Wyeth
and Wynn are entitled to a place in
my ten best vaudeville acts for the
current season, am sure that they
deserve it. These two people have
personality and ability. The man of
the team has that goodness enough
manly attitude about him which is
so darned welcome these days when
men keep their hair in grease"
This man has that wholesome way
about him which causes one to be
interested in him the second he fol-
lows his partner on the stage. He
knows how to put over a song. Not
a great voice but the quality that
registers.
1t is when this man puts a har-
monica in his mouth and leases a
guitar or something of that family
that this act becomes positive SEN
sation. The woman is just as essen
tial as the man when it come to
rounding out a completely satisfying
routine of entertainment.
Here is an act that will endure. A
complete triumph in personality and
Wholesome ability. Not to be missed
by those who place value and
thought upon what they see.
Paul and Pexter combine a golf
ing idea with saxophone playing.
Done in good taste.
wind tumbling. Here is a fine
troupe of acrobats who are more
than acrobatics. They have comedy
sense, well developed. and they
make you actually feel that they are
having a good time doing. their
stunts. Ben Hassan has grown with
the amusement game. He proves
this by insisting that his boys learn
to dance. This man is awake. He
is growing with the business.
The Four Pals work on bur-
lesque idea of quartet singing and
quarreling. The comedy types are
good but overdrawn. Effective.
Bonnie Reynolds is mildly interest
ing with her jazz routine. The wom-
an at the piano aids greatly. James
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
BY David Dietz
NEA Ger1,fcn WrItpr.

T~ HE Importance OF scientific
4 acknowledgements on the
- worlds last frontier - Is
brought home in the announcement
of the plans for spending the Milton
research fund for the coming year.
This fund yields $4,000 year
and is at the disposal OF Harvard
University.
1t represents only part of the work
Of one university. Yet this will be
happier and healthier, to say moth
ing Of wiser, world, If the research
to be betrayed by this fund in the
coming year turns out successfully.
Twenty projects are to be
undertaken. Here are some of them:
Prof. Walter f. Dearborn is to
begin a study Of the physical and
mental development Of school chill
dren.
This is to be done by annual
measurements of several thousand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

New books Of fiction at the
Central Library include: over
heard" by Stacy Aumonier;
"Old Wine" by Phyllis Bottome;
Barren Ground" by Z. A. G.
Glasgow; Three Flights Up"
by Sidney Howard: Red Rid.
ing Hood" by T.. @. Jordan:
Missing Initial" by ". s.
Lincoln. His wife.In.Law'' by
M. c. oemler; ''Pimpernel and
Rosemary" by ErnmuslSa orczy.
His Second Venture" by Mrs.
G. M. Reynolds; Last Hope
Ranch" by c. A. Seltzer;
Pearls Of Desire" by A. ].
Small; RED Lacquer Case" by
Patricia Wentworth; Thing in
the Woods" by Harper Will
lians.
New technical and scientific
books include: MY Ford" by
Blanchard; Machine Tools and
Their Operation" by Colwn and
Stanley. Practical Heat" by
Croft; Guide 20 the Trees" by
Curtis; BELT Conveyors and
Belt Elevators" by HotxeL
art Of Talking" by Losunore,
"Untrodden Ways" by Massing-
ham: outlines OF General
Zoology" by NewmanI Clocks
and Watches" by Overtont
"cales You Won't Believe" by
Gene Stratton Porter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
IN WHICH A DRAMNTER
CRITIC MAKES A WISH

Sometimes I wish that wasn't a
critic" te'
Had that wish again after seeing
THE Easy Mark" and alleged small
town comedy by Jack Larrte.
Here is the an elegant example Of
hokum all 'hoked up" Our hero
is a small town lazybones who
dreams like Ford and the other rich
men. He is too good to work in a
grocery so. he buys worthless oil
stock with his mothers last $4,000.
BY the end of the third act he gets
busy sufficiently to skin alive" the
boys who skinned him. And in so
doing the curtain is permitted to
come down on a happy collection Of
characters.
Personally, think this play is so
terribly poor that it is funny. l
nearly had Mysteries twice during
the parade of the hokum.
The talents Of everyone Of the
Berkell company are wasted upon
this drawn out and often noisy SEN
timental bit of theatrical stuff. There
is no chance to mount in this thing.
The only one who does the impossible
is Tommy Evans as the breezy
finger swapping Main st. cyclone,
called Charlie Hatfield" And
do not give the playwright credit
for this but hand all the honor to
Evans.
Those who struggle through poor
material are Mary Hill, Idabelle
Arnold. Larry Sullivan (who plays
the role like a funny page cartoon
instead of character); Robert st.
Clair, Milton Byron. AL C. Wilson,
William V. Hull mot a charac teriza.
ton but a diseased: and Bob Fay.
Am not blaming the actors, but
hold no mercy for the guy who
turned this bunch Of careless hokum
loose upon the American public.
This is my idea of THE Easy
Mark" Have your own whether you
agree with me or not.
AT English's all week.
other theaters today offer: THE
Lady Who Lied" at the Circle; Lost
"A Wife" at the Ohio Confessions
Of Queen" at the Apollo; "Don
Dare Devil at the Isis; white
Fang" at the Colonial and outdoor
events at Broad Ripple Park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28
WHERE THE ORIENTAL
lis DIFFERENT

CONSTANTLY the mystic at
Ia titude of the East clashes
with the scientific attitude
of the West.
Both are reflection of the most
Enthusiastically human instinct
the impulse to find out why"
To the animal, a fact is just
fact. It may be a delightful fact,
like food or a mate; or a fearful
fact, like an enemy; or an indiffer-
ent fact, like most things; but any
how, it asks no why
1t is the same with most of us,
as to most things. But because
we are partly human, we ask
why" about part of the things,
part Of the time.
Our human classification de-
ponds on which sort of why"
The Occidental Is scientific. He
knows the reason for some things
and he ass mes that there is a
reason for others.
He seeks AT reason with his
eyes and thought, and, if he has
not yet fou it, he. assumes that
when founo it will be rational,
orderly and impe1 sonal.
The Oriental is mystic. He uses
his imagination on the wonders Of
the world, and erects authors for
events.
If happening and explanation
fill out a harmonious picture, his
imagination is satisfied, and the
critical faculty is not aroused 70
demand evidence and reality.
So the Oriental reads horoscopes
cures his ills by similitudes, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

sees in a comet the portent of hui
man evil.
He sees the forces around him
in the imagery of personality, and
pictures them as friendly or hos.
tile to himself.
To the Occidental, they are i'm
personal, having causes and laws.
but not purposes; being neither
good nor bad, hostile or friendly.
This is the spiritual contrast of
the East and the West. But how
many Of your neighbors, wearing
occidental clothes, living in Occi-
dental houses, speaking European
tongues, cherish Oriental minds?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

Gently. The "jaz craze" and the use
of the fox trot in recent dancing
have made it suddenly popular. it
being admirably adapted to this type
of music.
When did the exemption of 50, 500
for married men in paying Federal
income tax become eectffive?
1t was authorized by the last
amendment to the income tax law
and became effective for incomes
received in 1924, returns for which
were made last March.
When and from what cause did
Prince John, son Of the present
King of England die?
He died Jan. Is. 1919, at the age
of 10 years. He had never enjoyed
robust health. and had his schooling
at home on that account. Since in
fancy he had suffered from epileptic
fits, and these had become more fire.
quent toward the end. of his life.
He passed away in his sleep follow
ing one of these attacks.
1 have heard this expression
used so often, "Barnum was
right" To what does it refer?
1t refers to a statement credited
tdsP. T. Banum, the Snowman. that
there is a sucker born every min
,Ita
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-28

public library of this city. The
mental" reformers haven't been
able to have a public burning Of
certain books here. II may be boot
leg literature TO some. but 1 feel
that 1 have a constitutional right
to this bootleg" evolution stuff.
So invited the services Of Justine
Pritchard. Catherine Bailey, readers
adviser and Charles T.. Rush.
librarian, Of the public library TO aid
me with their Readers Adviser
Service Out-Of. Door Division" of the
indianapolis Public Library.
Here is one of the best things we