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Evening star., 1925-08-23
Senator Capper Going to Berlin.

PARIS. August S F).-Senator
Arthur Capper of Kansas. who for
the past three weeks has been here
studying French political conditions,
especially in their relation to agricul-
ture, will leave shortly with Mrs.
Capper, for Berlin. Senator Capper
has had lengthy conversations on
political and foreign conditions with
premier Painleve. Foreign Minister
BRAND and Finance Minister Call
lauX.
Evening star., 1925-08-23

The highest ambition of a China
man IS to have a fine coffin and a
fine funeral.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
ALLEGED DRAFT
EVADE:R HELD
Local Man Faces Court
Martial at Fort.

Harry Jacobs, alias Ben Keith, 81,
of 500 East Drive, Woodruff Place,
is held at FIT. Benjamin Harrison,
facing probable court-martial here
on charge of evading the draft law
during the World War.
Jacobs was arrested by military
police, assisted by city motor police
men Saturday night, on authority
from the War Department at Wash
ington, D. c.
Jacobs has been sought for years
on The charge, according to~1ieut.
c. D. Haisley, provost marshal.
1t is the first arrest Of it's kind
since 1922.
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ONE SHOT; ONE HELD

Harry Bass, colored, AIS Toledo
St., is suffering from bullet wound
in his abdomen at city hospital to-
day and Charles Davis, colored, 422
N. Senate Ave, is charged with
shooting with intent to kill and car
rying concealed weapons. witnesses
told police the shooting, which oc-
Cured in a restaurant at 42O N.
Senate Ave, was accidental.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
LODGE COUNCIL ENDS
jobs Daughters Of Indiana to Meet
Next at Terre Haute.

Grand Guardian Council of Indi-
ana Jobs Daughters will hold its
next meeting at Terre Haute. Ind.
Dinner and installation of officers
closed a two-day session Saturday
night at, the SEVERN.
Indianapolis persons elected; Rus
sell H. Gilmore, associate grand
guardian; Mrs. Mile Gilmore, grand
messenger; Mrs. Ethel Warner,
grand guide; Mrs. Edythe K. Gordes,
grand secretary; Mrs. Susie Masters.
grand chaplain.
Appointive officers from Indianap-
oils: Elizabeth Tyre, second grand
messenger; Mrs. Jessie Bierce, fifth
grand messenger; Mrs. Ethel Arm
strong, fourth grand messenger;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
RAILROADER, 70, RETIRED
j. w. Reynolds Spent Half Century
With Big Four.

jesse w. Reynolds, 70, Of 200
Richiand St., recently retired, after
nearly fifty years service with the
Big Four Railroad, expects to go
to California after a visit to Modoc,
Ind, his former home.
Reynolds began his railroad career
in the maintenance of way depart
ment and rose to be foreman on
the Peoria & Eastern division. He
was f1agman OF Big -Four at Richland
when he retired.
II have made five trips to Califor-
mia and expected to go back, now
that don't have to work." he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
STEAMER IN DISTRESS
Slip, Aground. Is Pounding Severely
Radio Says.

BOSTON, Nov. %. - An SOS
picked up by the Tropical Radio
Company, here today stated that
the steamship Susherico with a crew
of twenty had gone aground on Ma
terinillos Point, Nuvitas, Cuba. The
message said that the Susherico. a
freighter, was pounding severely and
asked the Lloyd's Agency at Havana
send assistance and lighters.
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John b. Hessong, grand inner guard.
and William II. Cunningham, grand
outer guard
OLD GRUDGE BLAMED
Man Wounded in Arm in Shooting
Fray at Home.

An Old grudge was blamed for a
shooting fray at go Laurel ST.. that
resulted IN William Patty, colored,
of that address being wounded in
the arm. Hospital authorities at city
hospital say amputation will be me-
cessary.
Ella Rodgers, colored, same adj
dress, told police that Patty and Ed
gar Morris. 3S. colored, same adj
dress, were quarreling and Patty
struck Morris on the head with a
club. Morris Got a shotgun and
fired. she said. He has not been
found.
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AFTER SO LONG YEARS

BU Times Special
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Nov. 90
After thirty-eight years of married
life, Sarah Redmond has sued Thorn
as Redman for a divorce on the
grounds that the defendant does not
provide for his family. Four of their
minor children, the wife alleges, can
not go to school because they are
in need of clothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
NEW POLICE CHIEF

BIZ Times SDcciGi
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov, 23.--
Arthur Eversole will be the new
police superintendent the first of
the year. He was chosen to sue
coed William G. Sherer, present
chief
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TO GIVE TURKEY PARTY
Beech Grove Church to Have Affair
Tuesday.

Members of the Holy Name Society
of Holy Name Church, Beech
Grove, will give a turkey euchre In
the school auditorium at 7:45 Tues
day evening. Charles McDonough is
chairman of the committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-23
For Stiff Joints
, and Creaky Knees

Pharmacists say that when all other
so-called remedies fail Joint Ease will
surely succeed.
It's for joint ailments only-that 10
why you are advised to use II for sore,
painful, infiamed. rheumatic joints.
JointEase limbers up the joints-is
clean and penetrating and quick results
are assured-Sixty cents a tube at
Hooks Dependable Drug Stores, Gold
smiths o Drug Stores, Haag Drug Co.,
and druggists everywhere.
Always remember, when Joint Ease
gets in joint misery gets out-quick.
Biggest Selling Joint
, Remedy in the World
advertisement.
TRY A WANT AID IN THE TIMES
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Berkell Tells EN- to Take Off Coats
and Enjoy 5Oth Week of Stock Players

tricks such as turnir g a backward
somersault on a tight wire and
forty consecutive somersaults on a
trampoliue net. He is really a great
circus performer.
The rest Of the show consists Of
a little bit Of most everything TO
be found in a regular circus. Ele-
plant, dog acts. pony acts, dancing
horses, bucking mules, acrobats and
clowns all contribute their share to
the program. There aren't many Of
each, but little Of most everything
needed to make a circus.
Rosie is the elephants name, and
Rosie is about the biggest thing in
the animal line 1 have ever seen.
She is said to be 1913 years old and
Bird" with Johnny Hines. II you
looks II. She does some remarkable
tricks-she should, for she has had
a long time to learn them.
The movie feature is THE Early
like the circus brand of thrills you
should see Felix Morales.
At the Palace today and Wednes.
day. (By Observer
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serious, or would be serious if it could be sus-
tanned.
H. Foster Balm, director of the bureau Of
mines, who supervised the committee S search
of the interior department files, has been
prompt in his denial that the committee sup
pressed anything.
Chairman Lenroot of the committee, a
man who was never suspected of sympathy
with Senator Walsh s relentless investigation,
has given the lie direct to Doheny.
If the interior department did not have
these kilograms and letters in it's files, and the
committee never saw copies of them, then
where were they?
And if letters and kilograms already in
existence in the early months of 1924 would
have cleared the atmosphere, why has Do
heny waited until mid-summeE of 1925 to re-
veal them9
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BY n. d. Cochran
= ERE'S balm of Gilead for us
RI oppressed and downtrodden

OppIeSSeu anu uOWulIOuueIl
1 men; and it comes from a
woman who is also a wife:
America needs more militarism
in the home with Dad acting as
conmander-in-ch Every man
should be the boss Of his house or
he should not have a house."
That from no less an authority
than Mrs. Walter Ferguson, whose
wisdom has made us men sit up and
take notice, as we'll as consolation,
on previous occasions.
And rise to remark that while
can't call Mrs. Ferguson a gen.
tleman and a scholar, I can speak
for the hosts Of husbands in this
great country when 1 say that she
is wise in her day and generation.
Mrs. Ferguson is right, Of course.
We husbands have known it all
along. If there is one thing 'hus-
band and father ought to be it is
commander-in-chief Of the great
American home.
If all wives were as wise as Mrs.
Ferguson is, home would be an ideal
place for husbands to live in or at.
Our word would be law. Wives and
children would find keenest delight
In obeying our every whim and ca
price. Every darned one of us
would be a king.
We could dictate the fashions
tell mother what she could wear and
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Here's Sound Doctrine, Men

daughter whether she could bob her
hair or wear 1t long.
We could wear our old clothes, go
without collars in hot weather,
| throw cigar ashes on the parlor car
pet and have spittoons all over the
place.
We could sit back in an easy
chair, have mother bring us our
clippers, clean our pipe, load it up
and hold it until the old dudeen got
going good.
Yes, and daughter would tell US
all about her beaux, ask us how
long they could stay and whether
they could sit in the parlor or on
the porch.
And Son wouldn't think Of going
out without consulting US and would
be tickled stiff to come in any time
he thought it would please Dad.
All of US husbands will agree with
the wise Mrs. Ferguson when she
says that there is no getting
around the fast that the general
run of women must be sassed a
bit in order to be thoroughly good
and happy"
And we're so anxious to keep them
good and happy that we're willing to
boss EN-. Every one of us is will
ing to be COMMUNICATIVE Chief of
the home. Every one of us knows
that he ought to be boss, and is
willing to be boss.
The only trouble with It IS that
our wives wont let us, darn EN-,
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Times WASHINGTON Bureau.
1922 Nelo York Avenue.

EUI ASHINGTON. July If
.IW present plans to eliminate
III the treasury's surplus by re-
ducing surtax rates are carried out,
.265,0O0 persons will reap the chief
benefit. There are only that num-
Der of individuals whose annual in
come is sufficient to subject them
to the present surfaces.
The total number of taxpayers
who filed income tax statements
with the government in 1923 (the
last year for which the figures are
&vailable) was 7,69S,321.
One in every thirty Of these
is called upon to pay surtaxes un-
der the present tax law.
Normal Tax Low
No responsible leaders among the
Republicans have advocated changes
in the normal tax rates. These lat
ter are already low. For persons
whose income is less than $500 the
normal rate is per cent. Between
s6. 500 and $10,500 the rate is per
cent. On all incomes of more than
SO. 500 the normal rate is per cent.
It will not be difficult to cut the
treasury receipts fully s25O.000,00o
a year by simply making reductions
in the surtax rates.
In 1923 over three.fourths of all
the money received from income
taxes was collected from persons
whose income was in excess of So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-07
Stopping the Blue Sky
Game

T7,7HERE is one sure remedy for blue sky
swindling as it has been practiced in In
diana and elsewhere Judge Baltzell of Fed
eral court indicated that remedy when he SEN
fenced Morton S. Hawkins Monday to serve
fifteen years in the United States penitentiary
at Atlanta and fined him $4,000.
Hawkins was found guilty by jury of one
of the largest and most elaborate swindles ever
perpetrated in Indiana. 1t is alleged that
losses to persons who placed their confidence in
him totaled in the neighborhood of $60O0,OOO.
Most of this money wa sobtained by Hawkins
and his agents in small amounts from COM
paratively poor people. Persons experienced
in the investment field for the most part did
not turn their money over to Hawkins This
is usually the situation in cases Of fraud on
wholesale scale It means that the losers are
those who are least able to lose
s The Federal government was relentless in
the ease of Hawkins and his associates. Haw-
kins was arrested and gave bond. Then he
disappeared. He was arrested months later at
Dayton. He fought every effort to bring him
to trial, but he finally was forced to face
jury.
There has been a considerable epidemic
of blue sky" activity from time to time in
zelI's action will cause the smooth-tongued
gentry to stop and consider before they plan
to relieve others of their savings.
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is suited to only a few actors.
may be challenged in that. I saw
both the late Frank Bacon and Mil
| ton MOBILES as Lightnin' Bill Jones,
the tipsy good for nothing old liar.
And it is a tough role to make con-
vincing. Byron looks like all the
other Bills that I have seen. The
| difference rests Of course in the in
tensity of feeling that the actor puts
into the Characterization. At times
I wavered in my opinion regarding
the work OF Byron. When the
final curtain came down, I was con-
WINGED that Byron this week is com.
ing nearer to actual human
characterization than he ever has.
He makes Bill lovable tipsy old
liar. He is at his best in the seri.
Gus courtroom scenes, a little more
so than he ia in some of the light
tipsy scenes.
Byron is giving sincere attention
to makeup, and I believe that he
will be remembered when the sea-
son ends many weeks from now be-
cause of his work as Bill Jones.
Idabelle Arnold as Margaret Davis
has many funny lines. and she puts
them over. Was much impressed
with the work of Bob Fay as John
Marvin, especially in the courtroom
scene.
The cast is as follows:
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Appealing
BY Hal Cochran

RI HE rustic and hustle and
crazy-lilIe hustle of cities is
0 getting my goat. My feet
have grown weary; my eyes have
gone bleary. There's acres Of dust
in my throa.
No wonder man signs when he's
suddenly wise to the wear and the
tear that he takes. Big buildings
and such spoil the close-to-life touch
and your energy suddenly breaks.
You need, now and then, to break
way from the mob and get real
relief from the drudge. A man,
very likely. goes stale onthe job If
he labor in clamor and smudge.
I've tried lot of trips for the much
needed change. and I know where
I'd much rather be. In hiking away
for a rest I'll arrange a trip to the
country for me.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Incl
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making the use Of automobiles by
peaceful citizens on country roads
extremely hazardous between sun
down and sunup.%
If motorist, enjoying the moon
light, obeys a command to halt
he may find. himself victim OF
bandits. If he steps on the accele-
rator he may find himself riddled
by buckshot on suspicion Of being
a rum-runner. A merry prospect.
OF course, booze-running is a
heinous crime and the law"
should make strenuous efforts to
stop it. But to the average citizen
who is neither a lawless wet nor
a dry fanatic-the crime Of booze
running doesn't seem to warrant
promiscuous shooting. 1t seems
hardly worth while for officer to
perforate innocent and inoffensive
highway traffic just to prevent
sip Of liquor from slipping through.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-07
More Coolidge
Speeches Forecast
= ROM Swampscott comes news that Pres
ident Coolidge's vacation is not proving

n ROM Swampscott comes news that Pres
II ident Coolidges vacation is not proving
successful.
His personal staff succeeds in keeping him
idle They have even succeeded in keeping
away important citizens.
He has become restless under the en-
forced idleness. He cannot remain comfort
able, it is said, on the big verandas of White
Court. He is reading but little.
His days are dragging. He does not play
golf or tennis, neither does he take surf baths
Cards and billiards are taboo
All he does is walk-and walking becomes
monotonous.
The President may be having the same ex.
perience that other men who have never
learned to play have when they start on a
period of idleness
The President already has taken adj
vantage of the absence Of Congress to speak
his mind on many subjects. A probable result
of his new restlessness is that the public will
hear from him on many more topics before the
summer ends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-07
NO CITY
| DUMPS THERE

ER. ORIEN W. FIFER, an
U Indianapolis preacher tour
~ ing Europe, writes back
that he has seen no city dumps,
weed patches, or piles of old tin
cans around cities and villages in
Switzerland. The neatness of Swiss
municipal hens impressed him.
It is not surprising that such
civic tidiness should impress the
worthy doctor. The outskirts of
most America ncities are strewn
with disemboweled tin cans, worn
out auto tires, weeds and other
junk. The city dump is the first
civic monument to catch the eye
of incoming tourists.
Indianapolis is no more unkempt
than other cities. But it has too
much rubbish and trash around it.
Many of the most attractive
scenic drives around the city are
marred by unsightly dumps grown
strong and rancid, which even en-
croach on residential sections.
If Robin Hood and his merry
men operated near the Hoosier
metropolis he wouldn't need Sher-
wood Forest for a hiding place.
He and all his men could hide in
the weeds on many Of our vacant
lots. They are tall, luxuriant and
impenetrable.
Wherever people live rubbish ac-
cumulates. Disposal is problem,
requiring for solution either active
civic pride or aggressive goats.
Many American communities have
neither. AS the result outlying,
vacant lots are the goats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-07
THE JURY
DISAGREED

I-1RIAL Of Willard Butler Of
Indianapolis. charged with
- murder. occupied the cicrcuit
court in Hendricks county last
week. Lawyers, witnesses, court
attaches, and spectators put in
several sweltering days on the
case. Then the jury disagreed.
The facts in the case were not
obscure; there were no reconcile
legal points involved. The de-
PENDANT shot a woman to death
and admitted it.
dict Of first degree murder on the
first ballot. The twelfth held out
for manslaughter verdict.
Twenty-four hours later, after in.
Vulnerable ballots, the jury still
stood IL to l for conviction of
murder. So the trial resulted in
a disagreement and another trial.
The right of an accused TO trial
by jury is one of our proudest
Anglo.Saxon heritages. 1t is the
foundation principle on which is
erected the whole framework of
our jurisprudence-and is pre-
sumed to be an infallible ally of
justice.
But in practice the system fire.
quently hinders rather than as
sists justice. Too often trials re-
suit in no verdict because Of the
obstinacy of a single juror. Our
courts are not so much engaged
in trying cases as in re-trying
them.
When one man can nullify the
judgment of eleven others, pre-
sumably his equal in intelligence
honesty and high principles, we
can't boast so much Of the superb
ority Of our jury system over the
old medieval custom Of trial by
ordeal. In either system guilt or
innocence is proven less by facts
than by chance.
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Two New Ones

1.-THE Cruise of the Mona,
by Hillaire Belloc CHoughton-
Miff1in Company, is the semi
autobiography of this most YER
satile of modern English
writers. Z Had I called it The
Cargo, I might be nearer my
Intention" writes Mr.. Belloc.
FAT any rate, am now off to
sail the English seas again,
and to pursue from thought to
thought and from memory to
memory such things as have oc-
nupied one human soul, and Of
these some will be of profit to
one man and some to another,
and most, I suppose, to none at
all"
Few people remember Henry
b. Thoreau as a student of
New England bird life, yet the
author of walden" has writ
ten much about this branch Of
natural history. "Thoreau's
Bird Lore" (TIoughton- Mifflin
Company, edited by Francis H.
Allen, chairman Of the board
of directors Of the Massachu-
sets Audubon Society, is one
Of the most picturesque and
pbservant books on New Eng
land birds written. This book
bas recently been brought out
by Houghton-Mifflin Company
in a new edition.
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How Bad Must Man Be Before He Rots Mentally
Weekly Book Review-

rible, awful, pathetic, but. it does
exist in life.
Many COnquests
Ripois was a man" who worked
on the theory that women were
created for sensual pleasures. His
program was to obtain as many
such experiences as possible, espe-
cially when they cost him nothing.
The woman always paid. That is,
he thought so.
In realistic dirt this man existed.
I know and you know that such sex
realism does exist. But do we wan.
to read it in fiction?
And that is question. Hermon
is one of the most gifted of modern
writer's. That 1 believe. His con
struction is about perfect. He is an
artist. believe that he is honest in
Characterization both when he paints
such beautiful realism as Marie
Chapdelaine, another book, I know
that this man does not wallow in
mean dirt,
Realism does not have to be ma de
up of honey, perfume. white clouds
and sunshine. 1t can be the sewer.
Such a character is Monsieur Ripois,
the cheapest of the Don Juans.
Realism is the realization Of a
fact or a series of facts, and the au-
thor knows that even a cad has a
conscience and has to pay some time.
And Monsieur Ripois actually pays
with mental suffering. That is life.
That is realism
Why Worry?
You probably will ask me why
worry about such things? Renem.
Der that Dickens at time was a
master of realism, He painted real
life. We are just now getting into
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) RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
FIRST RURAL
MAIL ROUTE
BY GAYLORD NELSON

mi HE Indiana Rural Letter
Carriers Association pro-
- poses to erect a monument
at Hope Qnd) to mark the
establishment of the first rural
mai route in the State. The Hope
route which bears this distinction
was started in 1898.
Why such a monument?
There is nothing particularly
heroic in appearance or bearing Of
rural mail carrier nor in a rural
mail route. A monument to COM
memorate the establishment of
such service may seem a waste of
good stone. In these days when
isolated farm houses are linked
with the world by telephone and
radio the start Of rural free de-
livery of mail doesn't seem such
an important event.
But the. mail service has been
the greatest unifying force in the
development of this country. With
out the easy means of com
munication it afforded between
sections geographically remote
from each other America might
have become patchwork of
jealous States instead OF a nation.
Establishment of rural routes
extended this unifying process TO
the most remote farmhouses. No
longer was the farmer obliged to
take a day off and go to town to
get in touch with the world. The
world came to his door.
Monuments are erected to mark
profltiess battles Of senseless wars.
That is monumental waste It
would be better for the world If
fewer such monuments were set
up and more were erected to mark
first rural routes and other events
Of real significance in the march
Of civilization.
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the modern era where authors are
calling a spade a spade with many
adjectives.
Dirt exists in real life and when
an author puts dirt into his story
because the dirt is the story and not
the excuse for it, then I am not
afraid to seriously consider It.
Monsieur Ripois" reflects great
skill in construction. From that
viewpoint it is an interesting piece
of work. Don't read this book as
Dirt Exhibit No. So and So" but
read it as real realism"
1 recommend this book for those
who are not afraid to think of life
as ii does exist.
+ There is going to be lot Of talk
about this one.