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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-08
A Sermon for Today
BY Rev. John r. ounr

G"7 HE seeming prosperity and
ease of the wicked is &
~ problem which sometimes
perplexes good people who strive to
be honest and righteous. This is not
new problem. 1t is a question
often raised by Old Testament
writer's. Asaph, one of the psalmists
of ancient Israel, became envious
OF the wicked in their prosperity and
His feet well nigh slipped. Said he,
Their eyes stand out with fairness:
They have more than heart could
wish, and being always at ease, they
increase in riches; surely in vain
have 1 cleansed my heart and
washed my hands in innocency; for
all the day long have I been plagued,
and chastened every morning."
Have not ye0 who are trying to
live correct lives often found your
selves thinking in this manner?
"The thought was painful for me, !"
says Asaph, until considered their
end, when their feet are set in
slippery places, and they are con-
sumed in terror" You have no
occasion to be envious of the
arrogance and pleasantly of wicked
people, unless you are willing to ex-
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Orphans

UNEXPLAINED but not orphans, two-thirds of
- the children in orphanages studied by
the United States children s bureau in fourteen
so the bureau announces.
Only one-twentieth of the 10000 depend
ent children in the orphanages Investigated
were full orphans. Children from broken
homes made up the largest percentage Of the
children thrust upon public or private charity.
The next largest number was made up of
those who have one parent living.
Grace Abbott, chief of the children's hu-
reau, who reports these facts, urges two rem
edies. More careful study of children's cases
by social agencies before the children are ac-
cepted for placement in orphanages or in
homes; and more constructive effort to prevent
the breakdown Of the home by family assist
ance or rehabilitation.
Cleveland is cited as an illustration of a
city where social agencies have combined to
accomplish these purposes.
SIN Cleveland" Miss Abbott says, ga
local children s bureau serves as central
clearing house committee for the investigation
of applications for the care of Protestant and
Catholic children by institutions. Jewish chill
dren are well cared for by special agency.
In addition to investigating applica-
tions, the Cleveland children bureau follows
up the family while the child is in the insti-
tuition in order to improve conditions so that
the child may return home, if possible.
The workers also help with children pre-
senting special conduct problems in their own
homes
The United States children bureau is
studying the methods and results of the
Cleveland plan with view to recommending
it for use in other communities
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Helping the Farmers
to Help Themselves

F1FFORTS of the farmer to lift himself
IL from the bottom of the economic heap
where he has been struggling for several years
through cooperative organization are at last
to receive direct and constructive support from
the Government
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, in his
annual report, declares the resources Of his
department are unqualifiedly behind the farm
ers cooperative movement, and cooperative
leaders are much pleased.
The Government has been slow in coming
to the aid of cooperation, its main achievement
being partially to free the movement from the
hampering effects of legislation passed, for far
different purposes but which acted as a bar to
farmers efforts to combine to market their
own goods.
Jardine pledges his aid to inform farmers
of business conditions, to spread the gospel
of cooperation, and to advise and support
the co-operatives' work in taking over mar
keting standardization and packing of farm
products.
The last function is the most important,
for the reason that practically everything the
farmer has to sell is raw material His cot
ton and wool must be made into cloth or gar
ments; his hides into shoes, his wheat into
bread, his cattle into beefsteak
Every such change requires scores of proc
esses, and each process pyramids the price
The farmer must buy back the finished prod
uct, at the rate of several hides for pair of
shoes, several bales of cotton for a suit, a
bushel of wheat for ten loaves Of bread.
He is thus at great disadvantage and to
some extent must always remain so, trading
large quantities of raw materials for small
quantities of finished ones But insofar as he
can take away part of the finishing process
from the middlemen who always have had the
unorganized farmer at their mercy he can
take part of the profits and better his own po-
sition.
Oranges, packed and graded so that the
box leaving the coop sheds is only opened by
the retail grocer 1000 miles away; wool and
cotton and tobacco graded and marketed by
the farmer himself milk protected and graded
by the co-operative-these are all partially pre-
pared products. Encouragement of the farm
er to prepare them himself will lift him little,
perhaps, but permanently, toward the top of
the heap, and this is what Jardine proposes
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DIVORCE AND
ALIMONY

JUDGE HOELSCHER, of
Richmond Ind, defends the
LII practice of granting ALI
moiy to divorced wives-which
practice a Chicago jurist recently
condemned as one of the causes
of the divorce evil-and will give
sympathetic hearing to pleas for
financial salvage in cases of
marital shipwreck.
Hoosier wives, whose husbands
snore or are otherwise cruel and
inhuman, should hasten to Rich
mond. There they can sever the
bonds of matrimony with profit.
The alimony question is evoking
considerable discussion among
1urists and social uplifters. II is
claimed that the liberal compensa
ton granted by most judges to di-
vorced wives is turning matrimony
into a mercenary occupation for
gold-digging gals and is harmful to
social institutions.
They exaggerate. There aren't
many Peggy Hopkins Joyces. pro-
fessional Divorces, who regard
marriage certificates as endowment
policies to be cashed in before a
plant judge at the earliest posi-
BILE moment. Most women marry
for some silly reason like love.
There are more men thinking
Of financial advantages when
marrying than there are gold-dig-
ging gals. No maid, no matter
how unattractive in face, figure
and personality. is unsought If
her papa thumbs a puissant check
book. But few girls tried to catch
Kip Rhinelander.
OF course the increase of di-
vorces in the country is disquiet-
ing. Abrogation of alimony pro-
visions in divorce statutes, how
ever. wouldn't improve conditions
except on the surface. 1t would
merely compel many blameless
wives to suffer in hateful wedlock,
take in washings or starve.
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Let Mr.. Fixit solve your troubles with
ci.y officials. He is The Times repre-
seltative at the city hall. Write him
Dreams merge into cold reality
when your automobile hits East and
Sanders SITS, the Hoosier Travelling
Man. interchangeable correspondent
Of Mr.. Fixit, writes today.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: Did you ever
have an old friend turn you down?
OF course you have. Amt 1t
pleasant?
The other day those poor holes at
S. East and Sanders SITS, certainly
did bawl me out. Was all ready to
make a graceful right and left swing
when my dreams were very quickly
changed to bump. bump, bump and
plenty Of side motion. I wish 1
could start a good old Irish Hill fight
near that corner. Maybe after the
smoke had cleared away there would
be enough brick for the street COM
missioner.
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TIE OBSERVER GOES
WILD OVER LYRIC SHOW

Without question, the Lyric this
week has the best and most attrac~
tive bill so far presented this year.
Considering the number of really
fine offerings we have seen at this
theater the past few months it
sounds rather forcible to say such
a thing, but in the opinion of the
writer, it Is the truth.
Topping the bill are two acts Of
unusual merit. Joyce Lando and
Company, in a dancing revue and
LAMBERT, soloist on the marim-
baphone
In the Lando act, with the ex-
ception of one piano solo and song,
the entire time is given to dancing
The dances are all continental in
their theme, there being those of the
Russian order and Spanish while the
last may be considered also a gypsy
dance done in a beautiful manner.
Ths costumes of the act are entranc-
ing for the originality and color in
their makeup.
LAMBERT. with his great marim-
baphone, gets right inside you from
the first note on his instrument. The
first part Of his act was given to
selections of the popular kind. but
when the audience made known
their appreciation of his efforts by
the deafening he applause really gave
them treat in a musical way.
For his first encore he played one
Of the most beautiful things we
have ever heard on the vaudeville
stage. 1t was a quartet arrangement
from the Barcarolle in the "Tales Of
Hoffman"
Not content with this the audience
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REVIEW
Salie Sailed in and Took Harrison Away From Anne

Now my way Of thinking about
this Harrington book is that it
is neither novel or collection of
short stories.
1t is more than that-slices of life
done in natural color without a lot
Of romantic hokum splashed over it.
That is the greatness of Tar5ing-
ton. He takes life, not the sordid,
dreary old complex life, but the life
of the town, my town and your
town and the town of all America.
You know your Anne Cromwells,
your Harrison Crisps and your Sallie
Ealings. You do, you sure do be-
cause it is everyday life. Tarking-
ton gets into the heart and the brain
box of the characters of life.
Tarlzington's characters are not
just dolls, but people who walk,
motor, love, fight, cry and sin in
their own little ways. The sins of
Tarkington's characters in women"
would not land 'em in criminal court.
Their sins are of the mind and the
heart-those petty little sprays of
water the mist that falls from the
wheel of life.
The F'Iapper Again !.
Harrington recognized the family
child flapper first and the flapper
juvenile family is present in
Women"
This time the infant terrible, the
girl who is all grown up with moon
light and advanced ideas on mar
rfage at the age Of eighteen, is called
Lily Dodge.
Lily's mother was one of those
women who was interested in the
younger generation because she had
representative of it in her own
house and also because she was pre-
pairing a club paper on Spiritual
Life and the New Generation"
Lily became so spiritual in her
early love affairs that poor dear, Mrs.
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Dodge never completed the paper
Lily recognized in that young Mr.
Oswald Osborne the spirit and SOU
of a night. The fact was that Os
wald was no more of a knight than
a cookstove is.
To Lily he was heaven and earth
just because her mother and dao
ruled that Oswald should not come
around the house. Lily threw some
mighty fine fits. In fact, she pulled
the dramatic stuff better than Mrs
Leslie ever staged the same line or
the stage.
And Lily, when she threw the
grand fit in her bedroom, a sort OF
death scene. Ldly's father recog.
nized that he and his wife were
wrong and so Oswald was invited to
the home for dinner.
And somehow the second that
Mamma and Papa Dodge invited o.
valid into their home, Lily discov-
cred that Oswald wasn't as much of
grand knight as he used to be.
Oh, there are many other charac-
tiers from life in Tarkington's story
called Women"
Here is the Harrington Of glorious
fact, everyday fact.
You will love Women" revealed
by Harrington in his latest contribu-
ton.
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BREAKING
ROAD RECORDS

e lANNONBALL BAKER, In
dianapolis race driver and
IL chief test pilot for a promi-
nent automobile manufacturing
company. has just finished break
ing a flock of road records in the
east. Last spring he drove from
Indianapolis to Cincinnati and re-
turn at an average speed of Sal
miles per hour. a new mark.
That stunt achieved consider
able publicity and caused a mild,
belated furry among State motor
police. However, they quickly sub
sided.
On his recent eastern run he
drove up a famous Pennsylvania
hill, three miles. 9 per cent grade.
twenty-one bad curves. at an aver
age speed of 81 miles an hour. And
came down at an average speed
of Sc miles an hour. No casualties.
1t would have been interesting
If some luckless rustic whose taxes
has helped to build that particu-
lar public highway had been stalled
in a fiivver behind one of those
curves.
Cannonball then invaded Can
ada. He drove from Montreal to
Quebec, 173 miles, at an average
speed of So miles an hour. On the
route there were 10 turns, 80 rail-
road crossings, AZ bridges and "a
towns. Two feet of snow for the
last 35 miles, through which he
'1oafed" at IS miles an hour.
Completing his eastern trip he
drove back to the factory, no
miles in seventeen hours, a mere
matter of AZ miles an hour.
All very interesting. His feats
with a stock car is doubtless very
gratifying to the maker of the
particular brand of automobile
used. They win furnish much adj
vertising copy for that manufac-
turer. even though they are in de-
fiance of driving regulations and
speed laws.
Suppose firearms manufacture
err should advertise in newspapers
and national magazines the deeds
performed with his stock pistols
by Gerald Chapman or Dutch An
derson? Road stunts by daredevil
drivers in the employ of automo-
bile makers, are in the same cate
CORY.
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BUT FOUR ARE PRESENT

II you are puzzled as to what is
to become Of the man of today,
would advise seeing the little farce
"In 1899" at the Palace today and
tomorrow.
In this playlet the time is showed
ahead FOR a good many years and
you are supposed to be looking at a
scene in the year OF 1899, some sur.
prising things happen. For instance
a man is sewing on some baby
clothes, while his wife Is at the office
earning the family living. The tri.
angle of today is enacted with the
change that 1t is another woman
who steals a husband on account of
the neglect Of his wife. Quite
amusing.
The -Four Toys have left "Pop"
and are now on their own. The act
is not centered on any one thing or
brand of humor but each Of the four
is given a chance to do his or her
stuff and get the laughs in their
own way. A golf game furnishes
most of the fun while the harmony
singing Of the girls is another fea-
ture.
Laurel Lee has an amusing little
act dealing with the way the mod
ern chorus girls would do things of
today.
Marlettes Marionettes open the
show and the bill is closed with
Swegles Sax-O-Tette, group OF six
men playing saxophones.
At the Palace today and tomor-
row. By Observer.)
+ + 4
Other theaters today offers '"The
Unguarded Hour" at the Circle;
Irish Luck" at the Apollo; "The
Keeper Of the Bees" at the Colonial;
''The Best People," at the Ohio; "All
Around Frying Pam" at the Isis and
burlesque at the Broadway.
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By Walter d. Hickman

ONE girls in any town annex
the best looking and most
- popular regular he-guys for
their best friends because she hap
pens to be "highbrow girl and
comes from an "old family"
Such a girl was Anne Cromwell
and by divine right of birth and
family position she Annexed Harri-
son Crisp as her companion.
Anne was no dumbbell and she had
her charms and college intelligence.
She was proper girl but she had a
heart apd bunch of pride.
She had clear sailing with Harri-
son Crisp until Sallie Ealing, from
family not so important and new
to the town, sailed in with her
modern silly Cleopatra ways and
took Harrison away from the Queen
Bee, Anne Cromwell.
The conquest was made more in
teresting because Anne suddenly de-
veloped great big human heart all
covered with a bunch of pride.
And the tricks that Sallie Ealing
used to get the men. Sallie had lot
Of bait on her hook and line and
the men just swallowed hook, line,
sinker and all.
And the good looking Harrison
Crisp fell for Sallie and "ditched"
Anne Cromwell, a ''highbrow girl
from an "old family"
Will tell you where you may get
acquainted with Sallie, Anne, their
mothers and Harrison Crisp.
You will find them as living char
acters that step right out Of Booth
Tarkington's new book, rWomen,'
published by Doubleday, Page and
Company, selling for 50 a copy.
AntOher BEST"
got my copy for review from the
book department of L. S. Ayres &
Co
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Naughty Ed Wynn Invents New Kind of
Sport Shoes for Sporty Horses of Today

Quartets which are able to harmonize
melody and personality.
The quartet is composed of Paul
L. Walters, G.. c. Lloyd, William r.
Pearcy and Robert A. Halter. Chris
Albion is at the piano. They are
winning a deserved success this
week.
I have said so much in the past
about Singers Nudgets II seems to
me that it. is only necessary to hint
at the ability of these little people.
The midgets this season are APP
pearing in gorgeous revue, similar
in some respects to their Offering OF
last season. but containing enough
new material to make It splendid
entertainment.
The dress parade number and the
jazz band episode are among the
winning numbers. OF course, the
elephants are present. Some OF the
sets are as lavish as used In the
big revues.
Want to call your attention to the
eccentric artistry of Jimmy Nervo
ton wrestling match is one OF the
comedy delights Of the season. And
be sure and notice how these men
sell" personality.
Janet Adair sings songs Of an in
dividual nature and gives for good
measure one Of those poems Of the
heart that gets across. Sketches
are hard to find, that Is good ones.
Valerie Bergere in "a Woman's
Way" has a poor skeptch. At
times 1t is poorly acted by the two
supporting members of the cast.
Miss Bergere deserves better ma.
terial and she should be wise enough
these days to know where to get a
sketch of merit.
Holloway and Austin dance on the
wire. The movie is a Hal Roach
comedy. Laughing Ladies'"
At Keith's all week.
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DGJltI SilOW IHdIl
THE Perfect Fool?" My answer is
THE Grab Bag" is the smartest
and most unique entertainment that
WSTnn has given the American stage.
And in proof of this indictment Of
being fine and funny entertainment,
will list the big hits as follows:
First-Ed Wynn because it is Ed
Wynn.
Second-The Volga Boys because
Wynn knows how to introduce a
Russian chorus OF eight men in
songs not in English. Here is great
showmanship coupled up with fine
choral singing.
Third.-Elva Shirley because she
has a voice and personality which
puts over a song. OF course, Wynn
introduces her and leases the audi
ence into complete submission, but
1t must be remembered that Miss
Shirley knows how to put over a
song and she has q voice OF high
register.
Fourth-The Three Ormond Sis
ters, because they know how to put
over a Scotch song, with the proper
kidding introduction by Wynn. They
are real hits.
Fifth-The lie Grohs, acrobates
and contortionists, who simply tie
up the show. These men just I'M
bend and work themselves all over
the stage. Sensational hits.
Sixth-Albert Shaw and Samuel
Lee. because they know how to
develop eccentric dancing without
making it a disease.
Here are six good reasons for sup
porting my theory that Wynn not
only has his best rovue in 1.-THE
Grab Bag" but that the whole\show
is entertainment proof.
Wynn's position is unique upon
the stage. He is an inventor of
strange and different entertainment.
He talks all the time and :he funny
part about 1t, he is funny all the
time. When people howl as they
did last night at and with a come
dian. know that he is funny.
The secret of Wynn's comedy
method is that he seems to think up
his stuff right on the stage. That is
not true. but he sells it as a new
thought at every performance.
And another thing that I admire
in Wynn and his entire crew is that
when they get out on the road. that
is away from New York and Chi
cago, they don't seem to be afflicted
with that terrible sickness known as
''the back to Broadway feeling"
From Wynn down to the last
chorus girl, every one works on the
road with as much interest and
pleasure as they would on Broadway.
Wynn knows how to talk an indi-
vidual act into a big success. Take
for example the Russians singing
1.-THE Volga Boat Song" Here is a
great number. but who would ever
have thought 1t would stop a revue.
Wynn knew that by the proper intro
duction and comedy atmosphere he
could put these singers over to a
hit.
Wynn calls them "organ singers
and allows that he can't sing with
them because he has had an opera
ton and has had an organ pointing
to his throat removed.
And Wynn paves the way for his
unit entertainers to register with
ease. OF course he has a talented
bunch with him but this comedian
knows how to dress 'em up and per-
NIT them to strut their stuff to big
success.
1.-THE Grab Bag" does not run to
lavish scenes. People go to an Ed
Wynn show to Sc Ed Wynn present
himself. He has plenty to do in
this show.
feel that I am honestly right
when I tell you that 1.-THE Grab
Bag" is Wynn's best and most novel
revue.
At English's all week.
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MONTREAL By Mail)-We OF
"the States" are the best customers
the Quebec Liquor Commission have,
so the officials of the commission tell
me. Fully forty per cent Of all the
commissions business is done with
visitors from across the border. -
And, since the gross receipts of the
commission average about twenty
millions a year, the States visitors
must account for about eight mil
lions.
This figure is, of course, an esti-
mate. There Is no accurate data on
the subject. 1t is based on the re-
ports of tourist bureaus, the hotels
and the government stores" where
the liquor is sold.
Each year since the Quebec Liquor
Act went into operation-that is each
year since May. 1921-the stream of
tourists arriving at Montreal and
Quebec has been swelling. One Mon
treal hotel proprietor estimates the
average summer tourist crowd at
10000 week or 100000 a season,
but whatever the real figures, there
is no disputing the fact that the
hotels are crowded constantly to
overlooking and the business OF the
liquor stores Is a rushing one.
Montreal business men are now
debating what steps to take to han
die the increasing crowds. One plan
is to erect & summer only" hotel
on the banks OF the st. Lawrence, or
in a suburb of Montreal where the
visitors from the south may tarry
while they satisfy their thirst.
I'VE like the revenue from your
purchases" said Mr.. Arthur Saint
Pierre of the commission. "It is a
considerable item In our budget. But
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

their lives to rescuing stray dogs
and cats from the hardships of a
cruel world or relieving the suffer
ing Of canaries or gold fish revel
in fur coat which represents
more cruelty to dumb animals, in
Guiding husbands. than the causes
which excite their militant COM
passion.
They are not consistent. which
is characteristic OF mans attitude
toward all the lesser creatures Of
the animal kingdom. When a lion
kills a man It Is horrible: when a
man kills a lion he has his picture
taken,
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Stage Verdict

Keith's - TheN Paramount
-Four, Singers Midgets, and.
Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox
are the three big hits this week.
And they are real hits.
English SD Wynn in the
very best revue he has ever
given the American stage.
Called 1.-The Grab Bag"
Lyric-For a good dancing act
Joyce Lando and Company are
among the best that have ap-
peared here for some time.
Palace-"In 1890" a farce,
some amusing things are shown
as to what will be the fate of
the men at that far distant
time.