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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
Almost Run Over

m NE way to stop careless driving would be
III to have President Coolidge walk around
the streets and almost get run over several
times. The President was out walking, ac-
cording to a Washington dispatch. He almost
got run over; in fact, he might have been run
over if secret service man had not ierked
him back to the curb. The motorist was ar
rested and his bond was fixed at $4,000.
We have come near getting run over sew
eral times. So has everybody else The most
that happened usually was bawling out by
the driver who demanded why we didn It look
where we were going.
There are advantages in being President
Almost running over him is placed in the cate
CORY of high crime We shudder to think what
would have happened to the nototist if he had
splashed mud on Calvin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
MOONS MOTION STILL is
PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS

A new theory to account for this
has been advanced by DR.. lines, di-
rector of the Union Observatory of
South Africa.
DIR. Innes says that his observa-
tions show that the earth does not
rotate evenly upon it's axis but that
the length of time required for rota-
ton increases for a period and then
decreases for a period.
This, he says, causes the moon to
be ahead Of it's schedule at some time
and behind it at others.
Annother victory can be chalked
up for women. This time it is in
the field of science.
The Royal College of Surgeons of
Great Britain has decided that wo-
men can now vote for members Of
the council Of the organization and
even be elected to seats in the coun-
Gil.
Chicago now has the world 5
tallest hospital. 1t is the new St.
Luke's hospital, which Is nineteen
stories high.
The hospital shows how far en-
gineers have carried the art Of max
ing building fireproof
The only wod used in the con-
struction of the entire building is in
the swinging doors at the entrance
to the building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
AND THE LAST
SHALL BE FIRST

II is not new to say that the last
shall be first but it is new TO see it
work out right in front Of your very
eyes.
The last act on the new Keith bill
Is announced as Galla-Rini and Sisters
in Moments Musicale"
BY the use of both fine Snowman
ship and ability, Galla-Rini makes
this act first in the list of winners
this week.
The act opens with the three play.
ing accordians. That is not startling
but when Galla-Rini starts his solo
work on this instrument, the audi
ence becomes wise to the fact that
something big is happening.
Then the three stage a music al
parade and in this parade Galla-Rinf
plays many different kinds of must.
cal Instruments. / suppose If IL
would have been humsnly posshb7 e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

dianapolis Speedway.
The Memorial day classic serves
a purpose aside from the specta
cular. 1t is the proving ground for
innovations in motor car design.
From the ideas tried out there
have come improvements TO staid
family buses. But what useful
purpose does a. five or ten-mile
dash on a dangerous dirt track
serve?
Such automobile racing merely
gratifies the spectators mania for
speed and thrill. 1t Is on a par
with the old Roman chariot races
or a Spanish bull fight. The
drivers flirt with death-that's the
spice.
There's not much difference be-
tween a spectator who thrills to
see an automobile race driver
spray himself all over the back
stretch of a small track and the
spectator who checred when
gladiator was hacked to pieces to
make q Roman holiday. AS long
as such racing is popular we'll
haI> a hard time proving we are
more humane and enlightened than
the old broken-nose Roman with
his Tapping toga.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
BOMBING
The RlEES

AMERICAN aviators-among
q whom are two Indianapolis
men--serving as volunteers
with the French army in Morocco,
have been warned by the Depart
ment of State that such service Is
in violation of the laws Of the
United States.
No doubt the State Department
is old maidish.
The American flyers will have
little influence on the course Of
Moroccan operations and won't be
decisive factors in the war-al-
though several have accompanied
flying expeditions that success
fully bombed Riff lines and vii
lagos behind the lines.
OF course. such service Is ro-
mantle, surrounded by the CLAM
our of adventure. 1t must be
exhilarating to the young Ameri-
cans engaged in the sport to swoop
over turbulent tribesmen and their
villages and assist in blowing them
to atoms with high explosives
dropped from the sky.
But what about the villages
raided-the men, women and chill
dren blinded and torn to pieces
by the bombs? Perhaps not be-
ing civilized Christians they don't
count. Still neither the American
fliers, who have volunteered, nor
the American Nation have any
quarrel with the Moroccan tribes
men.
France is at war with the Riffs,
so, right or wrong, French ayers
in Morocco serve their country.
No such motive actuates the
American volunteers. They seek,
at most, only honor and glory
soldiers of fortune stuff.
Why is 1t any more glorious
for an American to participate in
an air raid over a Riff village.
which slaughters women and chill
dren. than to perpetrate bomb
outrage in Wall St. and obliterate
a few score stenographers?
Stripped of romance, this soldier
of fortune business is just plain
killing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

enthusiasm Of one of the chief
actors in that midsummer drama.
the jurist takes in considerable
territory. There have been other
trials equally great. Pontius
PLATE presided over one affecting
human destiny fully as much as
the Scopes case.
For what did the Scopes trial de-
eide or prove?
The wordy conflict between anti
evolutionists and evolutionists con-
tinues undated. The trial settled
nothing about the large question
of human origins. Ants still place
absolute confidence in Genesis and
scientists seek answers to life's
riddle elsewhere. Not even the
constitutionality Of the Tennessee
law that precipitated the trial was
settled.
Evolution may be preposterous.
but some Of the attacks against
1t are equally preposterous. Judge
Raulston said he didn't know
exactly what science teaches re.
garding evolution-but he is
against it. That's an attitude that
would stifle human progress.
Whether man shed his toll and
descended from the trees. or
sprang from Adam, much Of his
moral, mental and material prog.
gress has been the result of his
inherent inquisitiveness. his in
satiable desire to learn what
makes the wheels go round. The
evolutionary theory is one result
of that inquisitiveness. True or
false its effect can not be ultimate
ly harmful. It's merely an in
cident in mans quest for knowl-
edge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
Stage Verdict

Lyric-Bebe Moffic proves
that clever woman can organize
a dance offering that has the
elements Of newness and nov
city.
English's-Raymond Hitch
cock gives satisfactory service
in Service For Husbands"
Keith s-The real sensation
on this bill is Galla-Rini and
Sisters in a musical offering.
Palace-The first of the unit
shows is being offered here I'M
der the title of THE Charleston
Radium Steppers."
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ASK THE TIMES

You. osl get an answer to any ques-
ton OF fact or information by writing
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Was Floyd Collins ever taken
out of the cave in which he was
entombed? Did The Times print
the fact that he was taken out
after a second attempt was made
to release him? P. T.
The Times published the fact that
the body of Floyd Collins was recov,
cred after a second attempt had been
made to release him.
How long was the Forth bridge
in construction, when was it Of
flcially opened, and how large is
1t?
The Forth bridge, across the Firth
of Forth in Scotland, was approx
mately seven years in construction
and cost 100000 pounds. The
bridge was opened by King Edward
VII. then ri Anco of Wales, on March
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
UNIT VARIETY
SHOW AT PA'LAC7

THE Charleston Radium Step
pers," first Of a series Of unit vaude-
vile shows TO be presented at the
Palace, Is the attraction there for
the first half of the week. These
unit shows consist of a number Of
vaudeville acts who Cd their own
turns and then work together in
an afterpiece, assisted by a chorus
Of girls.
This first show is not altogether
good. However. that does not sig
n1fy that the unit idea is wrong,
Tor the afterpiece is the most anus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

woman s a w a y
from home COM
pa.nion, " h i | e
friend husband is
away from home.
And Hitchy Mis-
ter Jimmy Deer
ing gets paid for
such service by
t h e husbands.
Hitchy j / m m Y
does not care for
married wo m e n
who do their pet
ting in taxi cabs.
He allows he had
to walk h o m e
from one taxi ride.
In the course of
events, Hit c h y
narr,,ff@ bir,,caIf "a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

careers, autolno-
biles, spectators.
and themselves
b y smashing
through fences.
A n appalling
number Of these
casualties have
occurred 1 n
short races on
dirt tracks.
More drivers
have lost their
lives this sum-
mer on fair
tracks in the
Middle w e S t
than in the last
dozen 500-mile
races at the In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

ANTI-TERRORISM is not synonym TO.
anti-prohibition.
PARIS cafe owners hope the Spiher search
warrants don't hold jurisdiction overseas.
A dirty trick it would be if Old Man Static
gets rough this week.
AT ANY rate the Department of State
should be solid with the Riffs after that warn
ing to American aviators
TREASURY experts are too late A dol
lar bill has been reduced in size, economically
speaking, for many years.
WHY not try Spiher search warrants for
drier Chicago? Attorneys say they would be
as legal there as in Indianapolis.
PREDICTIONS of a bone-dry Chicago
again in vogue, are as reliable as announce.
ments of farewells to the stage.
If superstitious drivers don't speed up to
pass the white crosses marking accidents the
system may succeed.
THAT fireman you envied lolling in the
shade of the station house probably clicked off
weeks work in an hour at the Empire Garage
fire.
AFTER that narrow escape from being
run down by corner-cutting automobile
President Coolidge's application for the
Harassed Order of Pedestrians is in order.
If tenth of the charges of the outs
against the ms and the ms against the outs
are true, how can the city manager form of
government fail to improve the situationY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
DIRT TRACK
DRIV

1.-Two Indiana automobile race
III drivers were injured when
five machines piled up in a
five-mile race at the Illinois State
fair Friday. One driver was killed
in the melee.
Automobile racing has claimed
long list of victims. Drivers have
finished their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
WHAT DID THE
TRIAL PROVE?

UDGE ]. T. RAULSTON Of
Winchester. Tenn. he of
IL the Scopes monkey trial."
spoke at Cadle Tabernacle Sunday.
He characterized the Dayton trial,
over which he presided as the
greatest i'm the world"
Everx allowing for the natural
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
BY Walter D. Hickman

I'M HE world has a night 20 Know
what Raymond Hitchcock
~ thinks of a woman who
weighs "in the neighborhood Of $50
pounds"
And Hitchy believes that "she is
in bad neighborhood" and he is
shouting that verdict right out in
meeting
In other words Hitchy is back in
town with q new showoff called
Service For Husbands" In this,
Hitchy turns out to be a sort of a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

DRY officers may learn to lay off city at
torneys and public service commission mem
bers unless the search warrant is approximately
legal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
CONCERNING NEW IDEA
OF THE DANCE

A new idea of a dancing act IS
presented by Bebe Motto and com
pany.
This woman steps far away from
the beaten path of the regulation
dance offering. She does this by
several methods. The act opens
along musical lines. a sort of an
intime recital.
A gorgeous drop then descends,
and this makes possible the intro
duction of a strange dance, half
acrobat.c and the other half along
the lines OF a contortionist. This
dance is quite original and makes
the act stand out as a unique head
liner.
James Wright and Company pre-
sent Camping" in which four
whistlers have a chance to score.
The setting, a tourist cam, is beau
tiful. This act has class and novel
ty.
The Four Bradnas are well estab-
lished in their chosen field of enter
tainment. They know how to inject
comedy of a quaint order. Their
chief comedian is good.
Can easily understand the sue
cess of Frank Braidwood known as
the cowboy baritone. He knows how
to put over a sentimental song with
out too much theatrical emotion and
when it comes to playing the "ul<e'
the world certainly belongs to him.
He handles hi scomedy attempts in
a satisfactory way. 4
Some golf talk and comedy is useoV
by Harvey. Haney and Grayce to
introduce themselves in "Brassies
and Brasses." The act winds up
along musical lines.
Macon and Hogue offer ''Just
Home Folks" which gives the man a
splendid eccentric opportunity. This
act pleases with ease. The bill is
opened by Bob Anderson and his
polo pony.
At the Lyric all week.
other theaters today Offer from.
ola" at the Circle; Partisan Nights"
at the Colonial; THE Freshman" at
the Apollo; 1.-THE White outlaw" at
the Isis: "Ten Commandments" at
the Ohio and burlesque at the Broad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

G HAPURJI SAKLATVAIA, says %, United
- Press cable from London, is highly
pleased with the publicity given him by Wash
ington's action.
Naturally
Had Saklatvala, an obscure communist
member of the British Parliament, been al
lowed to come to Washington to ATTEND the
meeting Of the Interparliamentary Union
there, and say his little say, few lines in the
papers is probably the best he could have
hoped for.
But Secretary Kellogg got scared. The
Amer can eagle duttered in terror at sight of
the English sparrow. This was news Tele-
graph wires buzzed. Cables hummed Presses
roared. Newspapers the world over printed
and still printing-columns upon columns
about it.
Thus has Secretary Kellogg played into
the hands of communists everywhere-the last
thing in the world he or the bulk of the people
of this country wanted.
And who is this Saklatvala? Gone of
three brothers, all members of multi-million-
aire family that owns steel mills, plantations
banks, ships and rubber companies, employing
hundreds of thousands of men in India-a man
who has forsaken his caste and fortune to be-
come the champion of every tatterdemalion
every underdog, in England"
"That's the picture drawn in the Wash
ington Post, an Administration organ, of this
dangerous" communist
Secretary Kellogg is inclined to take
Shapurji too seriously" says his brother
Chiros, president of the Middle States Oil Com
pany, of New York.
That's the word: "Too seriously" By
taking this insignificant foreigner too serious
ly, our Secretary of State has not only made
Uncle Sam ridiculous but has done Moscow
the best turn it has had done it in years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22

TITO reads a newspaper headline. What the
| y deuce is a morals expert?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-22
The Eagle and the
Sparrow

G HAPURJI SAKLATVAIlA, says %. United
- Press cable from London, is highly
pleased with the publicity given him by Wash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
Reception Of the Report 10 the
Capitalist Press,

The report was published on Fri
day, February u, and was reported
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
ResuIts.of the Traction Election

Early in the traction fight in Chicago we set
forth the position Of the Communists We told the
workers that the plan was a gigantic looting
scheme and that those who opposed the Dever
plan were simply, for the most part, crooks of
more timid type.
The opposition to the Dever plan used only the
increasing hostility among the masses towards
the banks and that this issue alone was sufficient
to defeat the plan is striking evidence of the
strength of this resentment.
The only clean-cut alternative to the Dever plan
came from the Communists. The party said to the
workers.
''We stand for the conhscation of the transporta-
ton properties in the name of the community and
their operation by the unions with the advice of
experts who however, are subordinate to the trans
portation unions.
'Get rid of the capitalist politicians and para
sites, make the transportation system serve the
masses who use it, who have paid for it and to
whom it belongs"
Not the least interesting phase of the attempted
steal was the depths of corruption revealed in the
labor movement Those unions which have been
the most bitter in their attack on the Communists
and most plable in the hands of the bosses showed
that their connection runs straight to the finance
capitalists. Every gunman and gangster labor
official, with few exceptions for the traction
steal. The list of those who endorsed the Dever
plan is also list of the labor takers who have
endorsed the Lands award and made war on the
left wing AS we say, there are exceptions, but
in general this holds good.
The political bankruptcy of even the most honest
section of the Chicago labor movement has been
plainly shown.
The non-partisan political policy followed by the
American Federation of Labor hamstrings the
unions and renders their efforts questions of
this kind confused and ineffective. The result is
that most of the labor unions whose officials are
of the type called progressive" follow middle
class leadership composed of doctors, lawyers and
petty businessmen and manifest the hesitation
characteristic of this class
When labor rejects the non-partisan policy and
forms its fighting party it will need no longer
to tolerate in it's ranks the semicriminal type of
labor leader and the professional middleclass
politician who fears the big capitalist but hates
the workers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
The Steel Workers Convention

n Reaction rides high at the opening of the an
nual convention of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron Steel and Tin Workers in Pittsburgh. The
steel trust secretary of labor, James j. Davis,
avowed enemy of the foreign-born workers, was
its hOnored guest
The union is forty-seven years old it reached
the height of its power in 1892 in the Homestead
strikes. Professor Commons in his history of the
American labor movement, credits it with being
the strongest union of that period.
In the steel organization campaign of 1890
the Ocialdom of this union betrayed those workers
over whom it had jurisdiction well as the mem
bers of other unions. 1t profted financially from
the campaign, but its officials deserted the strike.
Since that time, under the headship of Michael
Tighe, the union, altho it has industrial charter
and with the display of little militancy and or
ganizational ability could again become power,
has been on the downgrade.
In the present convention there is a rather large
bloc in opposition to the Tighe administration. 1t
is not yet ready to adopt and fight for the full pro-
gram of the Trade Educational League but it will
have to or surrender completely
The Communists in the union are the backbone
of the left wing and before the convention is over
there will be put before it program for the union
that will form the basis for real activity.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
members work for are the most powerful in the
United States and an organization campaign in
the industry, based on shop, committees, and car
ried on vigorously, will have a stimulating effect
on the whole labor movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10

Captain Jacques Sadoul has been acquitted by
a French court martial on a charge of treason
growing out of his support of the workers. and
peasants government of Russia.
For four years he has had price on his head.
Recently he returned to France from Russia and
demanded a trial The capitalist press promptly
branded this as another Bolshevst plot, as Great
ing an opportunity for the French Communist Par
ty to hold meetings and campaign against the gov
ernment.
For once the capitalist press was right. Such a
storm was stirred up by the Communists and the
masses of workers who accept the Communist pro
gram that the court martial was forced to acqut
him
The fact that Sadoul became Russian citizen
and went to trial with the backing of the full
power of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
after the conclusion Of the Franco Russian treaty
undoubtedly had some influence on his prosecutors.
In Europe, IL not in America, it is no longer
possible TO rally the for attack Soviet
Russia or its sympathizers. The Sadoul trial
shows very clearly, by reason Of the tremendous
Of popular sympathy for bin, that
Soviet Russia has in all nations outer line Of
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10

and commented upon in the Saturday
and Sunday newspapers. With the
exception Of the Daily Herald, the re-
ports or comments were hostile. More
remarkable, however, than the hostil-
ity Of the editorials was the falsifca-
ton Of the contents of the report by
misleading headlines, summaries, sub
heads, etc. For instance, the Daily
News, the organ of pure" liberalism,
owned by the wealthy Quaker choco-
late makers called Cadbury, gave the
following headlines:
The Communist Dictatorship.
No Place for Democracy in Russian
Rule.
Killing Family Life.
British Labor Delegates ConcIu-
sions.
The Times gave straightforward
report, balanced, of course, by the at
tack in its leading article, but in this
it was not initiated by the Journalists
Of the Manchester Guardian, who sub
stituted for a proper account Of the
contents a little essay by M. Farb-
man. Nearly all the other papers, fol
lowing a similar line to the Manches-
ter Guardian and the Daily News,
abandoned their own canons of jour
nalistic rectitude and gave a news
treatment that was highly tendenci-
Gus.
The Sunday press went one better.
In seven out of ten papers all mention
# the report was quietly suppressed.
In the Observer Garvin fired off his
oroadside against the report, repeat
ed the suggestion of the "Patiomkin
Villages" dealt with on an earlier
page of this supplement- and affected
to treat the whole $50 pages as a sub.
ject for ridicule.
Thus, in every way, by suggestion
of what was false, by omission of what
was true, by complete suppression
where that seemed most convenient,
the British daily press combined to
mislead its public about the report of
the trade union delegation on Rus
STA in 1924"
one feature OF the report eagerly
seized upon by the Fleet street jour
nalists was the absence in Russia of
freedom of the press" The British
delegation had recorded this: and
they condemned it. BY a stroke of
irony their own report was itself the
subject of just such treatment in the
press as was described by Lenin in
the words:
"What the capitalists call liberty
has always meant liberty for the
wealthy to accumulate more wealth,
liberty for the poor to starve. What
the capitalists call freedom Of the
press Is freedom for the rich to
bride the press, freedom to use their
wealth for the fabrication and aduI-
teratlon Of so-eaIled public opinion"