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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-07

The trouble with most inventions
to end wars is they start wars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27

ready this newspaper says, government en-
ployes have been frightened into going on
short rations and dom buy what they want
and ordinarily would feel they could afford
to have.
Economy, F." says The News, ''is virtue,
parsimony is vice, and miserliness crime.
'When people are employed and feel
reasonably sure of their jobs life flows along
in normal WY, and business is healthy. We
call that prosperity The people feel like en-
joying some of the Injuries of life which
merely means feeding the mind as we'll as the
body.
"A man is better citizen when he feels
safe in loosening up to buy his wife new dress.
He feels on par with princes when he can blow
himself for auto
"The reason we all love prosperity is that
we can then do something for ourselves and
families beyond merely keeping them alive.
We can give them the comforts and some of
the luxuries, as well as the bare necessities
of life
We are strong for an efficient, economical
government
but we can eHthuse over hdIlohdl
policy of parsmony and penury that breeds
unrest and fear. We are prosperous country,
with enormous resources. There is no reason
why we should live in continual fear of the
poorhouse.
eve can work hard and save without be-
coming misers, and without reducing life to a
drab struggle to provide only food and shelter
and clothing for the body, and no JOY or
pleasure for the soul :"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
Movie Verdict

Ohio-Gloria Swanson proves
that she has greater dramatic
ability in Mile. Sans.Gene
than most of us suspected. 1t
is a beautiful movie, a priceless
art gallery.
Circle-Nick Lucas is Groom
ing his way to great popularity
this week. Viola Dana turns
out to be the movie sister of
Sadie Thompson. This is in
AS Man Desires.
Colonial-The stage artistry
of Laurette Taylor Is reflected
with telling effect in the
p movie, "One Night in Rome"
Opollo-"The Great Divide"
is not pleasant in theme. 1t
will not duplicate it's stage
success on the screen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27

for It, with Wallace putting up a
great fight, but with Conway win
ming. He then takes the girl into
the desert and to his cabin. He does
actually love her when he marries
her before they go into the desert,
but she hates him. Even when a
child is born, she hates him even
more. In the end she discovers that
she loves him and all is well. The
chief feminine role is played by
Alice Terry.
I can understand why this stage
play remained for years as a stage
product and not movie vehicle.
The movie has to reflect the un.
pleasant scenes. Some of the can
yon and desert shots are we'll done,
especially the cloudburst. l doubt If
ii will be half as popular on the
screen as 1t was on the stage,
Bill includes organ music by Earl
Gordon and orchestral features con
Quoted by Emil Seidel and a comedy,
'Neptune's Daughter"
At the Apollo all week.
Omar" annual Shrine revue
opens tonight for the week at the
Murat with a large cast.
Keith's this week features the
Albertina Rasch Girls. The Berkell
Players this week are presenting
Little Miss Bluebeard' at English s.
AZ n
Scottish Clans and the Palace is
featuring "On The Campus" Lena
Daley and her company Is present
at the Capitol. Tonight the Men
delssohn Choir at Caleb Mills hall In
their annual spring recital with Mile.
Marguerite D'Alvarez as soloist.
For the first half OF the week
the Isis Is offering Fred Thompson
in That Devil Quemado."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
Memories
BY Hal Cochran

I'd like to read the mem ries OF
a lady, old and gray. Id like to
know how different were the things
Of yesterday. What fun 'twould be
to echo back and thus. to really
know how turned about our doings
are as changes come and go.
I've heard folks speak Of horse
cars and of good old buggy days.
I've read of real old.timers and
their quaint oldfashioned ways. It's
hard to really realize that hoop.
skirts once were worn. but grandma
says they were before much newer
styles were born.
Imagine days when autos, and
when movies were unknown. And
think, in just the past few years.
how great these things have grow 4.
The wonders of the present day
were once not even dreamed No
wonder we all wonder just how
queer things must have seemed,
And vet I'll bet our grandfolks
often have that little ache, that
likes to play around their hearts
perhaps for old times sake. There
must have been real restfulness
when life was calm and slow. /
wonder, are we better off today
than years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
MOVIE TRAINING
AT HOME

1RTICLES of Incorporation
q lof the Twentieth Century
Motion Picture and ORA
matte Club were filed with the
Secretary of State Saturday. The
company proposes to train aspir-
ing movie actors and actresses at
home.
Nearly every one admits that he
or she. with a little encourage
ment, could outshine present
movie luminaries. And many try
it. They buy one-way tickets to
Los Angeles-where they get their
movie training washing dishes in
a cafeteria
Movie training at home will save
such aspirants many inconveni-
ences. They can learn the bust
ness without severing connections
with the ribbon counter and other
lucrative employment.
Probably they will get just as
far as they would in California.
Judging from reports that seep
out to a shocked world home train
ing is uncommon in Hollywood. 1t
might prove a mark of distinction
for king. queen or wild deuce
of the movies pack, like Ben Tur-
pins cross eyes.
Mail order education is all the
rage. If one aspires to be a
chemist. dentist, cartoonist, or
and study at home.
III all who started such courses
completed them. professional men
and industrial captains would pre-
dominate in the country. Who
would be left for the rank and
file?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON
CURE FOR
|LAZINESS

T JUDGE I. J. MOLL. Superior
Court Five. the other day
IA sentenced a man to ninety
days on the State Farm for fail
ure TO pay $40 a week for the sup
port of his wife and children.
The defendant pleaded sleeping
sickness. The Judge, however.
diagnosed the case as pure lazi-
ness, which a season on the State
Farm ought to cure.
But should laziness be cured?
Isn't 1t rather a blissful state of
existence that should be encour-
aged?
The strenuous life receives much
applause. Hard work never killed
any one, proclaims the copybook
maxim. Perhaps not Neverthe.
less, doctors are always complain
ing that we live too fast and wear
out too quickly
They invariably prescribe long
rests for tired business men suf
fering from twitching ears. spot
ted liver or fallen arches. They
know a good loaf is good medicine.
No one ever saw a tramp In poor
health. His clothing may have
the dropsy. but his appetite is up
on its toes. No village loafer dies
in the prime of life. He whites
serenely while bank presidents.
Ford agents and other strenuous
fellow citizens are being carried off
10 the cemetery.
So probably If a man wants to
measure his success entirely by
his accumulation of years. he
should cultivate laziness instead
OF curing Il.
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ciety fortune teller under an as
sumed name, but she is constantly
running into the dead and awful
past. She loves an Englishman,
played by Tom Moose. 1t is the
right sort of love, the kind that wins
out. So the picture has a pleasant
and human ending. Don't remem-
Der seeing Tom Moore lately in pic.
lures.
Miss Taylor brings dramatic dig
nifty Of the legitimate brand to the
screen. She does not over act. She
Is careful in that. She doesn't throw
away precious moments. but gives
us a clean cut conception of he
character. Her gowns have been
created for the purpose of getting
dramatic effect Her ball gown
proves that the right kind of clothes
aids an actress in putting over an
emotional scene. The entire cast is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
In New York
BY James w. Dean

/ By James w. Dean
EW YORK, April 81
I'M Spring is here and here's a
III poor place for a fellow to be
in spring unless he can sing a song
of spring. Heigh-ho! Oh. for the
power to put in .ondelet all the pass
ing scenes of the seasons show.
Along Riverside Drive, a fellow
atop a bus with his arm around a
girl. On the walk a sailor with his
arm around a girl, In a machine. a
fellow driving with one hand, his
arm around a girl. Arms around
waists, arms around waists, oh, for
the rondelet!
And there's hurdygurdy on
Eighth Ave. And street statesmen
with trays of violets and second
hand roses at Times Square. And
on Fifth Ave. girls in beautiful new
spring suits. And a few jaunty
blades sporting iaundiced gloves and
iaunty canes. There goes a camelia
In a buttonhole Oh. for the ron
delet.
Not a cloud in the sky. A warm
sun on the back A cool breeze on
the face. No place. 1t seems, has air
quite so invigorating as that in New
York. Perhaps that accounts for
the rush and push. Hurry along,
hurry along, jaunty cane and
naughty camelia, to your appointed
rendezvous. Oh, for the rondeletl
And on the east side the mothers
out with their babes. Out of the
darkness of the tenement halls.
And the hot. sleepless nights OF
summer still far off. Babies and
laughter and JOY echolng and re-
echoing from the tenement walls.
Oh, for the rondelet!
Boys with their bats and gloves
and balls. Girls with their skipping
ropes and dolls. Playing and dodg-
ing among fast running cars. Care.
less and carefree. with no thought
of injury or death Spring has come
and to live is enough. Oh for the
rondelet.
Come a Sunday and dry sod, and
The parks will be filled with poverty
and kids and lunches and rubbish.
Wornout men and WORKOUT women
with their shoes pulled off and their
toes taking root in and life out of
the soil. Heigh-ho! for the rondelet!
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REDUCTION OF
ACCIDENTS

DlOLICE CHIEF RIKHOFF
IT declared Saturday that
IL steps will be taken to stop
the steady increase in automobile
accidents in Indianapolis. He pro
poses more traffic officers, more
arrests. more fines and similar
measures.
Since Jan. l twenty-five persons
have been killed in auto accidents
I'm the city. From Jan. to May I,
1924, there We're sixteen deaths.
The chief is properly alarmed.
But 1t is not only In Indianapolis
that the accident record has grown
blacker In Chicago automobiles
have cost POI lives so far this year.
compared with 100 for the CORE.
spending period In 1924.
Either enforcement OF traffic laws
Is ineffective or there is some
thing inherently wrong in the
regulations themselves. They don't
reduce casualties.
In this connection a writer In
the current number OF the Scien-
tific American makes an interest.
ing suggestion. He believes traffic
regulations place too much EN-
phasis on speed and not enough on
stopping ability.
He would require all cars to be
driven at speeds that will permit
them to be stopped within a rea-
sonable distance. varying with the
character of the street In bust.
ness and school streets this dis
lance would be ten to fifteen feet,
and greater for residence thorough
fares, boulevards and open high
ways
Brakes and not speedometers
would thereby be the controlling
factor in traffic regulations.
A car with faulty brakes travel
ing at fifteen miles an hour is a
greater menace than one with
good braking equipment at twice
that speed. 1t makes little diff.
ference to the pedestrian hit by
an automobile how fast the ma
chine is going. 1t is the impact.
not the speed, that discrepancies
him.
There is merit in abe suggested
plan. In operation 1t might re
duce accidents. which rides based
entirely on miles per hour do not
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Sills). She sacrifices her own life
that John might live. Don't like to
see Milton Stills check out in movie.
sa ] am glad that Viola is permitte ]
to die as Pandora. You know where
Pandora is today, but still have my
doubts about the locat ton of Sadie
Thompson. Viola Dana has some
cute tricks. especially when she
wears a sailor uniform and follows
Stills all over a boat The women
love this Pollyanna stuff and it al
ways gets a laugh and lots OF in
terest.
"As Man Desires" is not an op.
timistic picture, as 1t reflects the at
titude of a man when he discovers
that the girl he loves is a kept
woman" He resolves that when he
has anything to do with women he
will pick one out OF the gutter and
one who admits that she comes from
there.
Stills registers well. and although
ne mas snip In this movie, II ism
another Sea Hawk Some of the
types are splendid. 1t is melodra-
matte in nature. 1t does hold your
interest up to the very last.
AS one of the musical features
this week, the Circle is presenting
Nick Lucas, Brunswick record star.
in grooming songs. He uses two gui-
tars. l understand that Dreamer
of Dreams" was a best photograph
record seller. He certainly makes
it that on the stage. He was given
a tremendous reception yesterday
when / was present. Encore after
encore was demanded and given. A
sure fire success. The orchestra is
playing Carmen" Capers. a sort of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27

recent years in fighting diseases.
Smallpox. typhoid and other
dreaded scourges OF a more ignor-
ant age have been robbed of some
of their terrors by medical science
and public sanitation. Typhoid
caused 900 deaths out Of 10000
persons affected In Indiana in 1910.
Last year deaths from typhoid in
the State were at the rate of 200
for every 1000 cases.
Perhaps In time medical science
and popular education working
hand in hand will wipe out dis
eases entirely But that happy
day seems distant.
Despite all the progress made,
most people eventually die. And
they die from diseases just as peo-
pie did in the days when a rab-
bits foot and mysterious incanta-
tions were the physicians only
equipment and the populace
didn't know its A B C's.
There must be a slip somewhere
in the theory that disease and ig-
norance are twins. At most they
are only friends.
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Sir Henry on Railroads

tendent Of the Long Island Railway.
He is a Logansport, Ind. boy. Well,
he is now Sir Henry and Is run
ming the $4,000 miles Of railway
owned by the Canadian government,
lie says the issue of government
ownership OF railways is not dead,
and there is nothing about II to die.
1T is the kind of thing which may
bob up any minute" says he, mot
as a policy to be voted on, but as an
emergency to be met"
The most interesting points in
his article are those in which he
tells the conditions under which
public ownership is sure to fall and
when private ownership is doomed
to disaster
Railways and Politics
Public ownership must fail, he
says, when the running of the rail-.
ways is a part OF the political bust
ness Of the government. 1t is sure
to fail when railways are run to
make votes, or when railway
policies are directed by votes. 1.-THE
right to hire and fire must be with
the operator and not lodged with an
outside body"
Now I am in favor Of govern
ment ownership; and I believe IL Is
coming. We should now be study.
ing the way to run them under gov
ot.Y t.,
Henrys statement Is important. |
believe It to be perfectly true. Be-
fore we take over the railways a
plan should be worked out by which
their operation is divorced from
politics, and not an issue in elections
Stock Market Operation
Sir Henry says that private own.
ership must fail III the eyes of the
management, or of those who direct
the management, are more firmly
fixed on the stock market than they
are on the service the road Is rem.
dering." And here he touches the
railway management of the United
States on the raw. Every one who
is anywhere near the inside knows
that the stock market Is the thing
which our railway operators are
taught to watch all the time.
One reason why we shall almost
surely come to government owner.
ship In this country Is that we are
all the time regulating the railways.
We began 1t because OF the preda.
tory policies of the railways in years
gone by. and we can't stop It, Yet
thus we get. as Thornton says, the
worst features of government and
private ownership. with the virtues
of neither. That government own
ership Is able to give good service
Sir Henry states positively but he
does not take sides between the two
plans. Events, he says, always de-
eide the issue. Therefore. await tN~
event.
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Steve Makes
Suggestions

Xvi 18th charges and counter-charges mostly
w concerning d. c. Stephenson, now in jail
on a murder charge, featuring the campaign
now closing, it is interesting to note just what
part Stephenson had been playing in the affairs
of the Republican party in Indiana before he
was jailed
In a letter sent to Republican county chair
men lust before the close of the Legislature,
Stephenson said
'The Legislature is just about over. lthas
made brilliant record. Perhaps everything
has not been entirely satisfactory, bat i'll
large sense no Legislature assembled in In
diana has come nearer satisfying all the people
of tie State.
"Upon this record we can make substantial
claim for recognition in the future for indeed
it was the Republican party through faithful
ness and loyalty to the Republican organization
throughout the State that put the Legislative
program through, and to the organization goes
the credit.
81 am thinking of the city election this
year and the Importance Of municipal results
with reference to 1926. The leadership of the
Republican party, from the precinct committee
men to the State chairman, at the present time,
is in the cleanest hands, and is being guided
from the most lofty motives, with less strife
and discord than at any time within the past
fifteen years. Let s keep the standard high.
so far as | am concerned it makes no
difference who ycI. support, and certainly | do
not want to be in the attitude of attempting
to dictate, but merely offer friendly sugges
ton that you back a vigorous man for mayor
in all towns and cities, who can conduct the
affairs of their cities in way that viii meet
with the approval of the public and win more
honors for the Republican party Il:
Anything | can do to help will be forth
coming unselfshly, bear in mind always that
never will be candidate for any public office
in the State of Indiana
Il only want to help in a constructive way
the men who rallied to the standard of the Re
publican party at a time when felt my own
reputation and business future was psycholog
Ically interviewer with the success or failure
OF the Republican ticket. Therefore, gratitude
to you, and the whole Republican organization,
inspires me to manifest my appreciation by
offering any service that it may be possible for
me to render in the future
This is not letter from the Republican
State chairman giving order and suggestions to
county chairmen. 1t is letter from D. G.
Stephenson, who until his incarceration. was
the real head of great political party in the
State
Let those who are now so busy getting out
from under try to laugh that off.
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Madame Jumped From Laundry Tub
Right Into the Arms of Great Napoleon

peopled by thoroughbreds. Some
beautiful sets.
"One Night in Rome" was only
mildly successful on the stage. 1t
is not over heavy as a screen We
hicle. The big scene concerns the
suicide of a man. This has been
handled in good taste. AS you know
fortune telling scenes are hard'
things TO photograph, as they are
most difficult to make convincing.
Miss Taylor has that needed dra-
matte touch to take much of the
falseness out OF such scenes.
I had several good laughs while
seeing a comedy, Putting on Airs.
with Edna Marion and Arthur Lane.
1t concerns a girl. a fapper, who
loads up on and 10-cent store jew
elry, doesn't event rent a hall to
strut her stuff. but takes over a
rich mans home without asking per-
mission. Rather liked the work of
Miss Marion as the strutting flap
per Interesting comedy.
Bill includes music, Pathe News
and Aesop's Fables.
At the Colonial all week.
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i0ed Wflen lie
wrote The Great
Divide" for the
stage. He wrote
this years ago.
and l suppose
that the West. or
that part which is
not covered with
brick pavement.
still pr o d u C o s
them. The big
scene of the story
is when three
roughnecks (mean-
ing mem become
crazed with liquor
and enter the
home of a young
woman near the
A V.iunVaa Il n 6 AY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
Warnings Posted at
Swimming Holes

Warning signs were posted at
swimming holes today by Ser
geants Jack O'Neal and Harry
Smith of police accident pre-
vention bureau, as preliminary
steps to reduce the toll OF
drowned this year.
The record.breaking heat has
resulted in an early season for
bathers, Friday police made
several runs to swimming
hole in Pleasant Run, where
lads were swimming without
bathing suits.
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@ ECRETARY of the Navy Wilbur says
- the same thing. Secretary of War Weeks
ditto. Chief of Naval Operations Eberle, idem.
The Naval General Board likewise. And, as our
legal lights say, ct al.
Not so, however, our Shipping Board.
Blithely, with one of those one-man majorities
which so often raises cain with the wishes of
the vast majority Of Americans, it is proceed
ing with the piecemeal sale of our Merchant
Marine to private and, mayhap, ultimately for
eign buyers. ~ 1'A'e2s
Injunctions against the sale of the five Pa
ciic liners to Robert Dollar having been dis
missed, it looks as if you had lost your boats.
Dollar will pay $5,625,0O0 for them. They cost
you five times that If war comes it is quite
conceivable that such ships could not be re-
placed for $50,O0000o.
Yet you would have to have them, no mat
ter what they cost.
re- ONE countries, like France, have what
- they call Minister of the Marine in
stead of Secretary of the Navy. Working
with him is another official called an Under
Secretary for the Merchant Marine.
Why? Because these governments recog-
nize the merchant marine as an integral part of
their national defense and intend to keep abso-
lutte control over its general policies. They
practice what we preach.
COlUR national defense is badly in need of
~ little teamwork on the part of our gov
eminent.
What's the benefit, for the country at
large, Of building up our defenses at terrific
expense if handful Of men, or even one man,
can make decision wi ich will tear those de-
lenses down and sell the pieces for a song?
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DISEASE AND


GR. ROSCOE r. HYDE of
h Johns Hopkins University.
addressing Indiana teach
ers of science at Muncie recently,
stated that most. diseases are
caused by ignorance. and are
likely to be greatest in localities
where education is most back
ward.
Possibly so. Successful combat
ing of disease depends not only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-27
Economy and Other
Things

III OWEVER the rest of the country may re-
LII act to the President s talk of economy.
The city of Washington is beginning to take
the matter seriously The Washington Daily
News fears that state Of mind is being in
duced that may do more harm than good AL
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4 dlluOl a AOAra
Dana) in AS Man
Desires" is the
movie sister OF Sa-
die T h o m pson.
Pan" is not so
hard on mission
aries, but she Is a
tough egg at that.
She admits that as
an outcast i'm a
rough town in a
South Sea Island
that she is about
as tough a gal as
there is, but she
has learned the
trick of lovin' one
man al q time. One
of the men she
loved was Maj.