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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27

Anglo American friendship Yokohama is
1875 miles from Sydney, Gill miles from San
Francisco, 1920 miles from Honolulu and 3,039
miles from Singapore The combined British
and American navies could not wage an ag-
gressive war against far-off Japan with any
degree of certainty of getting away with it.
Had we any designs on Japan whatsoever,
the Washington conference would never have
taken place and the mightiest navy on earth
that we were at that time building, today
would be making the foam fly from one, end
of the Pacific to the other. And Guam and
Cavite would now be bristling Gibraltars.
To Japan we would sincerely suggest a
careful reading of what the Australian Prime
Minister, the distinguished young Mr. Bruce,
said in his speech of welcome to the American
visitors: 81
I, ''The great Repubhezof the United States
and the commonwealth of Australia, ? he de-
c1ared 'stand for the same ideals and the
same traditions. Facing. similar problems I'M
der vastly different circumstances both desire
maintenance of the worlds peace and the
limitation Of the burden Of ornaments"
Painfully race-conscious and frightfully
sensitive, Japan, we regret to say, is too in
clined to wear a chip on her shoulder. SO Pre-,
mier Bruce s words were particularly applica-
BILE to her when he said:
''The future prosperity and peace of all
countries bordering the Pacific is best as
sured by mutual intercourse, understanding
and sympathy"
r Let remember this-all of us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27
The Bell Rings for Helen

ma R. VICE PRESIDENT GEN. DAWES
llv1l has come to funny finish in his cam
paign to remold the rules of the Senate nearer
to his heart s desire
Mr.. President Coolidge has stepped on it.
Having sputtered from the North to South
and back again, and then from the East three
quarters of the way to the West, the General
awakened the other morning in Denver He
had made speech there the night before, tell
ing how he was saving the country for Coolidge
and the common people-saving it from the
Senate. Naturally he read that part of the
morning paper given up to his speech first.
2 Then he read news item. The news item told
him.
That President Coolidge wasn't for his
campaign.
That he didn't believe in it.
That he was against it.
That he opposed it.
That it was out
The President hadn't used Just those words.
But the Presidents spokesman discussing
the matter with the newspaper correspondents
at Swampscott had made all those things per
fectly clear. The correspondents were author
lied to write that the President saw no need to
revise the Senate rules; that he believed the
Dawes campaign i'll advised; that it was cal
culated to hinder action on taxation, the world
court and other subjects in which the President
is interested; that it would provoke bad feel
ing; that, in brief, heAwas agin it.
very rude awakening for Helen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27
Putting the Comedy Yardstick Against
a New Somebody in Lost-A Wife Film

when a director and a movie writer
makes a bungle OF the whole Job
1 for ore an, going to record II.
AS usual, be your own judge OF
1.-THE Lady Who Lied" l think it
is all applesauce.
In Ensign Al Moore and his
United States Orchestra, the Circle
this week as a triumph in a novelty
producing organization. 7 h 4 s.
orchestra goes in for scenic effects,
especially In the opening and final
numbers. The last number Is so
inspiring that found several people
yelling Bravo" while all the others
were applauding.
These men have several good
singers with them. Their comedy
numbers are well selected and they
know how to put them over. The
acrobatic dancer IS a wonder lie
stops the show any old time he
pleases. Here is real novelty
organization which so pleases an
audience that It make 'em yell out
loud with Joy.
At the Circle all week.
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This fight has been so handled with
subtitles that the strictest humane
enthusiast could not object as the
dogs do not actually fight. All the
actual fighting is done in tho sub
titles.
Strongheart is a wonderful dog.
You expect an actor TO shed tears
in emotional scenes. Well, this dog
sheds 'em too. The two outstand-
ing dogs on the screen today arc
Strongheart and Rin.Tin1'in. Both
are excellent, but ! believe that
Strongheart is the better of the two
when registering sadness and real
dog loneliness.
AS far as Strougheart is concerned
the picture is satisfactory, but the
director had 1t in his bean that his
human actors had to earn their salt.
If the director had kept the dog con-
stantly before the camera White
Fang" would have been a much
better picture.
There are several good shots show
ing White, Fang eating up" on the
human villain. As l said before
white Fang" is far from being poor
entertainment, but it could have
been so much better.
Charles Murray is in the cast and,
Of course, registers even in such a
small part.
Bill includes a comedy, Short
Pants" a news reel and music by
the American Harmonists.
At the Colonial all week.
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Hands Across the
Pacific

fyV7AY down yonder in antipodean Australia
NV something is going on that ought to mean
much for the peace and happiness of the
world.
The United States fleet, in its long prac-
tice cruise, has not reached Melbourne' and
Sydney and our sailors and airmen are afrater-
nizng with the Britons of the South Seas. .
"Fifteen banquets and luncheens, 80
Dances 9 smokers, 20 picture shows, IL sports
contests and theater parties are scheduled
for. Melbourne to keep officers and men busy
and happy, - says the United Press. And, it
adds Sydney has arranged a similar pro-
gram. y.
The Japanese are trying to make sensa-
ton out of all this. For reasons of their own
they are picturing the Australian cruise and
enthusiastic reception of our men down
there, as the first move toward an anti-Asiatic
league Great Britain s Singapore naval base
project is being linked up with the Australian
doings, and throughout the far East they are
preaching the white peril. y
The japanese press, almost without excep-
lion. pretends to see the United States, Canada,
Australia and all Britain in an imperialistic
combine against the yellow races II not the
rest Of the world.
This is either stupidity or craft applied
with purpose. There is, to be sure, an Anglo
American understanding, unofficial, unwritten
and. to large extent, unspoken. And some
how this is growing with the years. But such
understanding as there is, is for peace and not
for aggression.
Wherever one may travel, particularly in
the Orient, one cannot escape the feeling that
mankind hope of peace and understanding
rests largely upon the shoulders of the English
speaking world And we are increasingly
mindful of this, Britons and Americans every
where
There is no menace to Japan, nor to any
other nation, in this new manifestation of
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WHERE THE. INDIVIDUAL
DOES NOT COUNT

N CORE one more for the Pa
cific. The Albatross expe-
dition found the famed Sar-I
gasso Sea, in the Atlantic. relative
ly poor in both animal and vege-
table life, but, going into the Pa
cific, it found a region, teeming
with specimens; plankton of ev-
cry variety, from microscopic dia-
tom to tiny crustacean; small crea-
lures preying on these. and larger
on these, up finally to the great
sharks, sea lions and whales,
whose carcasses, in turn, con-
sumed by big and little, made the
whole cycle over again.
On the border of two currents,
warm and cold, all these were con-
centrated, in unexampled richness.
There is a strange fierceness in
the sea. All the creatures in it are
cahnibals, and none of them ever
lives to die a natural death.
Each one spends its whole life
pursuing and being pursued. and
only one in a million lives to have
offspring. That one begets a mil
lion descendants, so the race sur
wives.
The individual does not count
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NOT MUCH IMPROVEMENT
ON PRIMEVAL TIMES

Out of the sea we all came. It's
salts are in our blood; our tenn
perature is that Of the primordial
waters, before the earth cooled;
our life is still internally aqueous.
a Combustion in a moist medium"
and our most delicate mechanisms
regulate our internal sea, that it
may continue the conditions to
which life was. originally adapted.
Physically, we are of the sea.
And spiritually, we have abolished
of its mu'derous ruthlessness not
much except the waste of can
nibalism.
A soldier medium gives us better
protection. SO we can survive with
less than million offspring, and
a few land species, of which man
is imperfectly one. have sub
stituted gregarious cooperation for
individual competition. On this is
founded what little approach to
morality we have yet achieved.
The sea is profoundly immoral.
The land is imperfectly moral.
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Movie Verdict

Ohio-Mighty smart fun is
reflected in "Lost-A Wife"
Menjou has a gorgeous time as
a polite caveman husband. You
will meet a startling movie
newcomer in this one.
Apollo-Lewis Stone and
Alice Terry strut their regal
stuff and thereby make a good
picture out of Confessions OF
a Queen" without too much
confessing.
Colonial-hTe director could
have made white Fang" a
much better picture II he had
not attempted to have improved
upon Jack London. Strong
heart. a dog, is wonderful.
Circle--Failure to understand
the dramatic and emotional val
ues OF Robert Hichens has
made 1.-THE Lady Who Lied"
pretty (anconvincing stuff. The
orchestra is a wonder this
week.
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Please Remit
By Hal Cochran

The mailman brings us messages
Of cheerfulness and sorrow. Like
everything, the bad comes with the
good. A welcome note arrives today;
the other kind tomorrow. We'd only
get the former if we could.
We welcome Mister Postman when
he makes his daily call. It's mainly
that we're curious, 1 guess. No mat
ter what he gives us we will ask
him, rs that alp" And yet what
does it matter-more or less?
We open first the missile that's a
message from a friend, or maybe
from an out-of-town relation. We
read the writing over from begin
ming to the end. tbs news about
their summertime vacation.
The balance OF the letters hold
their secrets tight within. We open
them; our interest lags a bit. To
think we thanked the mailman is
enough to bring a grin. They're
bills and bills and bills--and
PLEASE REMIT
Copyright, 1925, NEAAService, Incl
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1T HIS is written in Mid.
| Pacific.
81 Three n1ileS ctroiob+

/ Pacltlc.
81 Three miles straight
down is the bottom of the ocean.
A thousand miles further on, it
is still three miles deep.
Out of that bottom rise the
volcanic Hawaiian Islands. The
process of their making is visible
and is not yet finished.
On the. easternmost island. the
lava is still flowing, and the island
is still charging.
There are two forms of lava.
the "pahoehoe" and the "a-a,"
which the rains disintegrate. into
soil at different-rates. From flows
whose date is known, the rate of
disintegration is known.
The same rains gradually wear
down the outlines in which the
deposits are originally made. On
the island next further west, the
lava has stopped, but the rains
, have made only minor alterations
in the forms.
AS we go on westward, the rains
have done their work more and
more-though these islands are
less, not more, rainy-until on the
westernmost the still volcanic soil
has no volcanic outlines.
The only rational explanation is
that the islands were made by the
process that is still going on, in
a time that can be computed from
it, and that the western islands are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27
William Jennings Bryan

ri FLAMING soul departed yesterday from
IN American life. The career of William
Jennings Bryan came to an end. AS suddenly
and as dramatically as he burst upon the stage
Of national events fwenty-nine years ago he
has withdrawn himself-or has been with
drawn bv the hand that fashions human des-
tiny
He arrived upon a storm OF political pas
sion partly of his own creation lie departs
az the ominous rumble Of a religious storm,
likewise in part of his own creation, is begin
ming to threaten the current OF his country S
affairs. sIl<<<yI
Not in this generation may far estimate
: be made Of the man we called the eonnmoner.
: For many years. to come the opinions OF men
will conflict as they discuss his career is
torians. at later date, seeking from. original
sources for light, will find in the newspapers
and other written records more to confuse than
to enlighten them perhaps.
He was only 35 years old when he walked
out upon the platform Of the Chicago conven-
tion in 1896 to end the deadlock of the pohtl-
clans with speech that set the country aflre
and made himself the party leader,ahe mag
nifcent young orator Of that campaign, seen by
millions as their messiah, came nearer reallz-
ing then such worldly ambitions as he may
have had than ever again. But IN all the years
that followed his was just personal leader
ship of greater numbers than any other man
in his party This does not include even
Woodrow Wilson, for it was Bryans following
that made Wilson President.
Whatever may be said of his wisdom, few
can be found to question his character. He
cherished the title given him in his first cam
paign He sought always to remain the com
moner He believed himself always the cham
pion Of the common mans good. His fight
within his party always was to keep it the
common mans party.
AS the champion, so he conceived it, of the
common mans religion, he was about to lead
another campaign-and once more with the
wisdom of the world against him. He was en-
gagged when the end came in raising issues the
end of which he could not see, but whose poten-
tialities for harm might be infinite.
This newspaper with deepest admiration
for the courage of Bryan, with truest apprecia-
ton of his self-less devotion to any cause that
engaged his heart and head was among those
that feared the consequences of the religious
war he seemed bent in bringing down upon
America He was seeking to put before the
American people a question that never can be
answered at the ballot box. 1t can not be an
swered by mortal man. For Bryan, perhaps
the answer now has been given by the just and
gentle God of his belief.
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Our idea of bad insurance risk is
a small man with a big temper.
Rolling stones may not gather any
moss, but you can't sit on one:
Nothing seems to. make you fat
ter than worrying about being so fat.
Opening an umbrella in the house
or diving into a strange stream are
signs of bad LUCK.
The most attractive filling station
ever built is the dining room.
"A fool and his money are often
parted before they meet.
Isn't. it funny when you are mad
at somebody and know it's all your
fault, yet can't help it.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)
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The World Over
BY Chester H. Rowell

older and the eastern ones prog
ressively younger. This is the
testimony Of the rocks, in one Of
the few places on earth where the
process is uniform and simple, and
is so visible that anyone can see
and understand it.
The time, to pile the islands up
three miles from the bottom ana
other three miles to the tops of
their highest peaks, and for the
rains to form the soil, and erode
the outlines, is enormous.
The question is, do the funda-
mentalists. deny this testimony of
the rocks, and make God a liar.
merely because Moses had not seen
them and had nothing to say about
them ?
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just the needed thing. This woman
who flashed across our amusement
world last season on the stage in
"Beggar on Horseback is making
her American movies debut in. Lost
"A Wife," a version of the stage
farce, "Banco." You will recall that
Stuart Walker at the Murat some
seasons ago, did this little play Of
how a wife attempted to be more
stubborn than her husband. Hubby
declared he would play continuously
in a gambling casino as long as
said WHEY remained within earshot
Of the buzzing wheel.
Here is a polite little nothing Of
q wise laugh that the French are
supposed to enjoy so much but the
American version is wise also.
To put it over, a decidedly cultured
comedy touch is needed and that is
just what Miss Nissen owns and
knows how to use. Coupled with
her in her efforts at farce, we have
in this picture the best man in the
business for this sort of thing. Am
speaking of Adolphe Menjou.
He really is the "smartest" and
most polite thing in the movie game
when It comes to treating women
with "highbrow" cave man stuff. He
is deliviously proper in this movie.
His work is delicious. AS fine a
piece of smart farcical comedy work
have seen upon the screen.
The photography, splendid. Direc-
ton is just what is needed. The
entire cast is just right. This pic
tUre is a delight. a.,
Bill includes Charles Chase
comedy. a news reel and music.
At the GSiio all week.
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BY Walter d. Hickman

Get out the comedy yardstick, the
smart one, not the hokum measure,
and place it up against the talents
of Greta Nissen.
This Nissen individual is just that.
She has that continental idea of
farce and comedy with sudden out
bursts of wise emotion.
She possesses not great beauty,
but she has that something" differ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27
IN WHICH MIR. STONE
SAVES A PHOTOPLAY.

Lewis Stone does actually save
and make a movie this week.
Am sure you will agree with me
when you see Stone and Alice Terry
in Confessions of a Queen"
The story is evidently patterned
after the famous queen bedroom"
brand of Elinor Glynn.
In this confession. Stone Is cast
as a king Of a make believe king.
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ent about her
which stamps her
interesting t h e
first second she
lands within the
sensitive eye of
the camera. Her
hair looks wild
but shows t h c
effect of nifty
hairdressers. She
has q startling
polish TO every
thing that she at
I e m p t 5. 5 h e
knows what is in
tended by high
lights" in comedy
work. She knows
how to speed a
1o,,.rt, ~. J,f,,o q,
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theatrical moments into them. This
story certainly does not register as
movie entertainment, in spite Of the
fact that the cast includes Lewis
Stone and Virginia Valli. II this is
careful rendering Of the Hichen
yarn, then something must be wrong
with the author, yet do not think
so.
AS filmed, the story is so theatri-
cal that one wonders why 1t was
ever made. try to be reasonable
in telling you Of the movies, but
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AND THE QUESTION IS
WHAT is WRONG IN THIS?

Jack London in writing white
Fang" had a definite idea of what
he was doing but the man who
turned the story into a movie was
not so definite.
do not mean that white Fang"
is poor entertainment, but do in
sist that the director could have
made.it a better picture.
The director has seen fit to weave
an over amount of human romance
into the film. AS
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piOQuGllOil 4 an
ready 10 be more
tern than ever.
Here is mighty
poor direction. II
The director at
tempted realism,
ne failed miser.
ably. The desert
shots look so much
like studio stuff or
just a few seconds
from the street
car that / lose all
patience. In my
experience with
Kitchens as a
novelist l have
always found his
backgrounds to be
realistic, although
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A Thought

Watch therefore, for We know
neither the day nor the hour where
in the Son of Man cOmeth.-Matthew
25:13.
Let death and exile, and all other
things which appear terrible, be
daily before your eyes, but death
chiefly; and you will never enter
tain an abject thought, nor too
eagerly covet neutrality-suspicious..
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IN WHICH LEWIS STONE
CANNOT SAVE A PICTURE

Have always thought that Lewis
Stone could about save the poorest
kind Of a yarn.
After seeing The Lady Who
Lied" supposed to be an adaptation
of Robert Hichen's story, Snake
Bite" 1 am convinced that such is
not the case.
Have never read this Hichen
story, but I take the liberty, feeling
that 1 am right, that the person
who adapted his to the screen did
a mighty job of It. And when
realize that this is an Edwin Carewe
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a cog story, white
Fang" is strong
enough to stand
upon his own feet.
AS a movie, this
picture has sew
eral good moments.
The in the wild
shots at the begin
ming showing the
female void yam.
pire, the first time
l have seen an
animal vamp or
the screen are mag
nificent. They
breathe the spirit
of London's story i.
Up to the point that
White Fang be-
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dom. lie Sc too
polite 20 be gross
polite 10 be gross.
ly common. 80 he
puts his mistress
into n pretty villa
near the palace.
He is a kingly rot.
ter but being
kingly and also
rotten las tho
m OWE writers
causes Us to be-
lieve) he marries a
beautiful and good
queen, played in
regal sincerity by
A l 1 @ @ Terry.
Under tho cold
ethics Of the court
tho ptfaat. tsanef
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comes civilized and talks on a sweet
heart for a petting companion, all OF
the doe scenes are well handled.
In this story, London made quite
ado over a fight between two dogs.
White Fang and a champion dog.
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FRONTIER OF SCIENCE is
TAKING TOLL OF MARTYRS
BY David Dietz
NEA Service Writer

81 HERE are martyrs on the last
IL frontier. Frequently the pio-
G mems of science sacrifice
health and even life itself to adj
vance the lines of understanding
little farther into the fields of dark
ness that surround man.
= This is particularly true in the
fields Of the x-ray and radium. Here
the scientist is working with deadly
mysterious forces which are only
half understood.
DR.. Frederick Henry Baetjer of
Johns Hopkins Hospital has only
two of his ten fingers left. He lost
the other eight as the result of
burns received in X-ray expert
mentation.
Il suppose my researches will
eventually kill me-" DIR. Baetjer
said. but III die with my boots
on"
DIR. Charles valiant of Paris was
recently awarded the Cravat of the
Legion of Honor, the Paris Gold
Medal and the Carnegie Gold Medal
for Heroiem.
DIR. Valiant lost both arms as a
result of infection incurred in X-ray
work.
Radium research caused the death
of Professor Emile Bergonie of
Paris.
Professor Bergonie was seeking to
find cure for cancer through the
use of radium.
His continuous exposure to the
rays of radiltm finally caused him to
contract cancer himself.
lEN1 TOPOGRAPHY is just exactly
100 years old. 1t was in 1925
~ that the first method Of "tak-
ing" pictures was discovered.
Joseph Niepce was the father of
photography. He experimental
with a sheet of tin covered with
chemicals which were sensitive to
the action of light.
One of Niepce's associates was
Daguerre. Daguerre perfected the
process and the pictures were sub
sequently called Daguerrotypes.
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run Dy electricity,
we claim he is run
by his creditors.
Women would
be much nicer
people if they
didn't refuse to
agree with you
when you are
mistaken. D. "a
When an auto
balks in the mid
die of a mud hole,
it is merely trying
to replace the
mule.