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Pocahontas star herald., 1925-03-26
BRAKEBILL

The farmers are very busy break
ing ground, sowing oats, etc.
We are having quite lot Of sick
ness in our community. Clyde Mock
and Quimby Seawell have flu, Clifford
Seawell has pneumonia, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mcmillan are recovering from
flu.
Bro. Edgar Pringle of Current View
preached very interesting sermon
for us Sunday morning. He will be
with us again on the next fourth Sun
day.
Joe Wilson and family spent Satw-
day at Maynard.
Bro. Bert Shaver will preach for us
Easter Sunday night, April the 18th.
Bro. Pringle and family took Sunday
dinner with Joe Wilson and family.
Mrs. Isabel Lofts and little son
and Miss Weeta Mock spent the week
end with home folks.
Abe Mock will teach our summer
term of school.
DOlph Casey and family, Marvin
WaldrOn and John Wilson were in
POcahOntas on business last Saturday.
Ercell Tyler and Charlie Casey spent
Saturday night with Baxter Spence
aud family.
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Warning Order

In the Chancery Court of Randolph
County, Ark.
Ida Coble, Plaintiff,
VS.
Everett f. COble, Defendant.
The defendant. Everett Il. COble is
hereby warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer the com
plant of the plaintiff, Ida Coble.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said court this 7th day of March, 1925.
Ben f. Mays, Clerk.
Il. G. SchOonOver,
Solicitor for Plaintiff. 324t.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-03-26
Nn wnrms in a tenIthv chlId

All children troubled with Worms have an un-
healthy color, which indicates poor blood and as a
rule. there is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, I'M
prove the digestion and act as a General Strength
enine Tonic to the whole system. Nature Will then
throw off or dispcl the worms and the Child will be
in perfect health. Pleasant to take SIC per bottle.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-03-26

STAR HERALD WANT ADS PAY.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-03-26

One good work saddle horse, years old; good
work mule l5 l2 hands high three thorough bred Jersey
cows two good mch with calves by side 2year old
bred heer; Ia Weber Damme wagon good as new;
halt worn 3nch wagon John Deere 2horse buggy
good new corrugated puverze Hooser wheat drill
( SOW small gain one wheat Screen Buckeye Binder;
one Deere walking cultivator; AA barrow lot of
smaller plows between 400 and 500 bales of No timothy
hay some clover mixed $50 bushels of good sound
plow harness and lot of other harness and small farming
oo saddle 500 pounds of fine smoked bacon 20 gallons
lard 70 gallon wash kee one Crown organ gallons
canned fruit and preserves household goods and kitchen
furniture and other items too numerous to mention There
will be by bidding
TERMS: All sums over $1,000 on months time
purchaser give bankabe note with good security Sums of
$1,000 and UNDER cash in hand per cent discount for cash
on all sums $1,000
LUNCH AND COFFEE SERVED ON THE GROUND
w. M. ULMER, Owner
w W. Hafstedisr, Auctioneer. ]. G Davis Clerk.
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Easy Pickings for
Lame Ducks

~ MEXICAN prestige in Central America
IA is at low ebb, says Otto 'Schoenrich. for
mer special commissioner to Santo Domingo.
now lecturing before the Williamstown Insti-
tute of Politics.
The trouble, he explains, is mainly due to
the type of diplomats we send down there
Mostly they are just politicians. Generally ig-
norant OF the Spanish language and knowing
little of Latin-American affairs, they are total
ly untitled either to explain the United States
to the natives or the natives to the United
States. The result is Observation-Disclosures.
Mr.. Schoenrich was discussing Caribbean
problems only, but what he said is just as ap-
phcable to the rest of the world. In fact, he
put his finger on national disgrace. Now and
then you will run across an American ambas
sador or minister abroad of whom we NAV
well be proud, but more often he is a Joke and
the joke s on us.
Why? It's very simple Washington. in
the first place, generally underestimate the
Importance OF having real diplomats stationed
abroad, thus the tendency is to treat these
posts as private plums to be awarded to the
Administration s henchmen or as Ravens for
It's lame ducks.
Education, fitness, previous experience.
linguistic ability, such things as these play lit
tie part IN the selection Of our ambassadors and
minister's The big butter and egg man, the
truck garden magnate or cheese king who
speaks only English, and mighty little of that,
has the inside track on such jobs providing he
carried his State for the party in power or
performed some other important piece of DO
htical wire pulling.
We must take diplomacy out of politics.
We are the only great country in the world
that tries to mix them and it is high time we
were beginning to see they are So much oil
and water
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BY David Dietz
NEA Service Writer

n exact statement of the scien-
a lists position on evolution
III has just bden issued by the
council of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science.
This association has $4,000 mem
bers. They include every scientist of
note in the United States.
The resolution is divided into four.
paragraphs. The first states:
1.-THE council Of the association
affirne that, so far as the scientific
evidences of the evolution of plants
and animals and man are concerned
there Is no ground whatever for the
assertion that these evidences con-
stitute a mere guess No scientific
generalization is more strongly sup.
ported by thoroughly tested evil
dences than is that of organic evo-
luton"
The second paragraph states that
"the evidences in favor Of the evolu.
ton of man are sufficient 70 convince
every scientist of note in the world
and that these evidences are increas-
ing in number and Importance every
year"
The third paragraph states the as
oociations belief that the theory OF
evolution is zone of the most potent
of the great influences for good that
have thus far entered into human
experience"
The. last paragraph deplores anti.
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THE RED
PERIL

m HE Americanization COM
mission of the American
- Legion, at a meeting Mon
day in Indianapolis. determined to
probe communistic activities and
red schools" reported TO be
f1ourishing in this country. In
these schools young men imbibe
deadly red propaganda, it is said.
with which they saturate their
peaceful home towns.
To many sensitive patriots the
red" peril in this country is real
and alarming. They lie awake
nights in shivering expectancy
that any minute the Constitution
and American institutions will be
blown to smithereens by a COM
munist bomb and their own
Threats will be cut in a red" up
rising.
Some time ago Secretary Of
Labor Davis. in an Indiana speech,
declared there are 100000 alien
communist missionaries at work in
NAAAo NC0AAAA 0PA Ne1NAAAS lAACAA NCAAh
and subversive doctrines.
That's lot Of agitators for one
country to harbor. Perhaps they
should all be deported instantly
Still the ordinary citizen fails to
get very excited over the situation
To make America a communist
state, each alien missionary must
convert some hundreds of native
born citizens. A fairly difficult
task.
In the war days when enemy
spies hid under every patriots
bed, no criticism Of our govern
ment was tolerated. Free speech
was questionable. Those days
are past. Now the nation can't be
hurt by talk.
Alien agitators preaching com
munism in our midst or conducting
clandestine red" schools are no
more dangerous to our institutions
than preachers Of free love, single
tax, or any other vagaries. If they
commit overt acts. lock 'em up
like carriers Of hip-pocket TASKS
and other law violators. AS long
as they merely preach they aren't
dangerous.
Perhaps the 10000, 900 people
in this country can be converted
to communism by them. But if
we are that susceptible TO red"
propaganda, the United tSates Of
America and it's institutions are
in a bad way. Hardly worth
preserving.
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have fought to make the unions word good
and, to a remarkable extent, they have sue
ceeded.
Union officials regard the check-off as alb
solutely essential if the national organization
is to remain responsible organization-a re-
sponsible party to a contract.
The check-off is not new It was devel-
oped long ago in the British coal fields and is in
general use in American unionized soft coal
fields, where the operators favor it.
When miner is to be penahzed for break
ing the union s agreement with the mine own
er, the penalty is collected through the check
off 1t works automatically and surely. 1t is
the operators insurance.
If only the check off issue stands between
the public and peaceful settlement of the
coal dispute, the public should throw the
weight Of its opinion behind the miners on that
question.
Conceding the check-off will give the oper-
ators no excuse for boosting the price of coal
Conceding the wage demand would 1t NAV
be that the operators would prefer to concede
the wage demand.
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Legal Football

TINE of our greatest indoor sports is legal
III football We have wonderful exam
pie of it in the case of D. c. Stephenson and
his two companions, charged with murder.
AS we 60 to press, the case seems to be
exactly where it started four months ago It
is presumed that when man is arrested on
charge of committing a crime he shall be tried
by Jury of his peers, his guilt or innocence
determined and that if he is guilty he shall
suffer the sentence imposed by law.
But the lawyers know lot more about
the game than that The determination of
guilt or innocence usually comes after every
other possibility is exhausted-and there are
lot of possibilities
Stephenson was arrested on charge of MUIR
der in Indianapolis last April 1t was charged
that murder had been committed in March.
The indictments were attacked and sustained.
A motion for bail was filed and withdrawn.
Then a change of venue was asked. This was
granted under the law.
The scene shifted to Noblesville Stephen
son and his associates took up their residence
in the Hamilton County jail A petition ask
ing bail was fled A hearing was held and
the petition denied Trial date was set and
then changed. 1t was asked that the defend
ants be tried separately. 1t was asked that
the defendants be tried jointly 1t was asked
that a rehearing be held on the question of bail.
Thensa request was made for new Judge.
Now a new judge has been appointed
third to hear motions in the case. Will all the
previous routine be gone before the
judge? 1t seems very likely.
Meanwhile, are Stephenson and his asso-
ciates guilty or innocent7 We don t know No
body has said anything about that.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

County. But probably that city's
industrial and civic life will not
be completely obhterated o. para
lyzed by the shock.
The bathing beauty contest is
one Of the silliest manifestations
of our present so called civilization
Prudes and uplifters rail against
such exhibitions as Immoral. They
are no more immoral than a fat
stock show-only useless.
Nature and Art have made some
young women beautiful. If they
want to don a speck of ribbon
and a splash of rice powder and
display their charms in competi-
ton for a pulchritude prize there
is no reason why decent society
should disintegrate.
But beauty at best is only skin
deep or less, and fleeting. A vic
torious bathing beauty may bring
home a sunburn but not enduring
fame to her home city. The Four
Horsemen Of Notre Dame--noue
noted for pulchritUde--with their
hair full of mud and their hands
full Of footballs have done more
to spread the fame of South Bend
than all the bathing beauties the
city might produce.
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The Check-Off

[T HE rumor perssts-though denied by the
l miners-that if the anthracite operators
will concede the demand for the ''check-off, .
the demand for wage increase will be
dropped. That would mean peace in the hard
coal fields instead of war.
What is the check off?
It is system whereby union dues are de-
Quoted from the miners pay envelopes and
turned over to the union. In other words. a
system whereby the coal companies would help
the union to function effectively. If the Goa!
companies desire state of war with their
miners obviously they will do nothing to keep
the miners ranks solidifed If they desire CO.
operation with the miners organization diff
ferent situation is presented. The more eff
cent and responsible the miners organization
is the better the degree of cooperation that can
be obtained
For many years the United Mine Workers
have taken great pride in their ability to keep
contract. Time after time they have
whipped dissatisfied units of the national or
ganization into line on this policy They have
thrown their support to the operators when
strikes have been called by local unions in dis
regard of wage or other agreements They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12
On Your Way
By Hal Cochran

Where are you bound for, and
what is your trail? What is the
goal that you seek? Life is a shin
that each person must sail, to the
lowest depths, or the peak
You are the captain and rule your
own course. Seas may be stormy
or still. Riding successward depends
on the force of your mind, and your
grit, and your will.
Failures ahead, on the careless
ness road, and you'll find 1t the
easiest way. There you will drift.
on neglecting your load. It's the
toll that the shiftless must pay.
Better watch out for the rocks OF
distress where the fates wait to hin.
der your trip. Lining the channel
that leads to success, they are wait
ing to shatter your ship.
Give every chance that you meet
with it's dues and when foundering,
start out anew. Much you can gain,
and there's nothing to lose If the
course you are sailing is true.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc)
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field Of foreign relations.
The latter doesn't lie f1uently or
wear plush pants and bow and
scrape at royal levees. Bathed in
perspiration he just whangs a
gutta-percha ball hither and yon
over the foreign landscape. Be-
tween times he is just a sociable
human being.
Nevertheless, international COM
petition in sports is a powerful
cementer Of friendly relations be-
tween nations. In classical Greece
Jealous city-states fought each
other bitterly. Theban phalanx
hacked Spartan phalanx. But
through it all the Olympic games
made for the unity Of Hellenism.
Today our Johnny Hennesseys,
Helen Wills. Gertrude Ederle and
other ambassadors of sport are ef-
fectively promoting Anglo-Ameri.
can friendship. AS diplomats they
could beat Talleyrand at his own
game.
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CHAPTER ~
Familiar Scenes in Beech Grove

dIIulldT SCtHeS III DccCH OIONo
We have been through strange
places and times, but now we arrive
at scenes we will soon recognize. We
have reached Beech Grove in the
Cainozoic Period; we get our first
glimpse of Marion County under
conditions that make 1t recognizable.
even though the grand jury wasnt
investigating any officials at that
time.
There were the same sorts of trees
and grasses as today. In stormy
weather-and 1t was usually stormy
then-the water overflowed Indian.
apolis as it still does; and. I pre-.
sumo, the first mammals complained
then as now about the grade cross.
ing and the smoke.
For, in place of railroade shops,
Beech Grove then had volcanic &C
tivtties which made this a great
place for laundries.
1t was a, very busy time for
volcanoes, and the crust of the earth
was continually being rent by ex.
plosions or wrinkling up into bumps
and hollows. just as our wood. block
pavements do today.
Very probably the first men had
appeared somewhere on the earth by
this time, although the records re.
lating to them are missing. Perhaps
their politicians destroyed the
records.
At least, the fossils of that time
are confined exclusively to the an.
.cestors Of our present animals, in
Guiding giant pigs, primitive horses,
mastodons. rude dogs and the like.
Because Of the volcanic conditions
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ABANDONED
GRAVEL PITS

07ECTL REESE, 12-year-old
IL Indianapolis lad, playing
~ "injun" waded into the
water Of an abandoned gravel pit
near West Regent st. Monday
afternoon and was drowned. He
was the third child of the neighbor-
hood to be drowned in that pit in
recent years.
Not long ago a man sank to
his death in another water.filled
gravel pit in the southwestern part
of the city. Throughout the State
many such fatalities are recorded
every summer. An old pit that
doesn't claim at least one victim
during the season is neglecting it's
job.
The outskirts of Indianapolis,
especially in the vicinity of White
River, are SCARED with holes from
which sand and gravel have been
taken. Filled with water these
holes become small, surprisingly
deep. ponds-a lure and a menace
to wilted lads in the. dog days.
But what is a "feller" going to
do? He has an inalienable right to
go swimmin's
To most Of the lads Of the city
the bathing beaches along White
River are inaccessible. Board of
health minione pursue him if he
attempts to splash in Fall Creek
or Pleasant Run because those
streams are contaminated with
sewage. He can't plunge into the
concrete pools in city parks with
out first submitting to a bath and
perhaps an eye. ear, nose and
throat examination. That's too
antiseptic for him.
So he tiocks to the abandoned
gravel pits with their perpendicu-
lar sides an treacherous depths.
And drownings occur. To keep
him away from such danger India
napolis needs more reincarnations
of the oh ewimmin' hole.
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swimming is, out of the question.
When people try to walk on it the
pressure Of their feet per square
inch on the ground is considerable
and the ground gives way under
this pressure, letting them sink in
gradually. When an attempt is
made to lift one leg out, the pressure
on the other is more than doubled
Quicksand does not flow readily into
a void, so that in trying to lift a
leg a partial vacuum Is formed
around it. This causes the other leg
to sink in the sand much more
rapidly than if the person remained
quiet. The safest thing to do Is to
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Outline of Evolution

the hot dog probably also had its
origin in the Cainozoic Age--pay.
ing the way for Greek prosperity in
time to come.
Evolution had progressed until this
was peculiarly an age of mammals
which are creatures who have pro.
gressed four stages from the fish
age. While some men are fishes,
figuratively. no true mammal can
live exclusively under water. The
first step from the fish stage was
the development Of amphibians; and
from the amphibians our fossil rec
ord shows the growth Of serpents.
It was from the serpent that both
birds and mammals branched off
after developing some unique
features such as hair.
Life started growing long hair IN
the Cainozoic Period and bobbing Il
in the Cornozoic. But 10 needed hair
worse then than it does now, for
the glacial ages were coming on
and dress makers had not been
evoluted.
For untold ages the fee crept
southwark and the earth spun
around like a huge ice cream freezer.
When finally the ice receded, we
find our first traces Of earth's most
glorious product-man. And, Of
course, its most expensive product,
woman, was there, also.
And. as the earth was still cold
and the ice still far south and the
winters still long. think bow her
cold feet must have brought chills
to mans back.
II was not a pleasant age.
CNext-The first Rogue's Gallery)
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AN UNOFFICIAL
Am BASSADOR

TOHNNY HENNEsSEY, In.
dianapof=s tennis star, one
2J of the Americans who took
part in the great British tennis
tournament at Wimbledon this
summer, returned home today. He
was accorded a welcome as BELTS
the homecoming Of conquering
hero.
Abroad he captured no cups
nor championships, but his bril-
liant play carried him far
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toward the H.
nails before he
was eliminated.
AS this city s
unofficial am
bassador to the
British empire,
we are proud
Of him.
Diplomats of
the old school,
who fu m b ! q
with interna-
tional affairs
until they ex-
plode may pooh
pooh the idea
that a mere
tennis player
can accomplish
anything in the
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last longer II kept
away from baseball grounds, ana
light bulbs II kept In the dark.
Preachers have a fairly good job
IN summer. None OF their HOOK
wants 10 90 where It Is hotter
The faster a rumor travels the
bigger Il grows.
Oldfashioned ideas may be the
best At times. but you can't run an
auto 10y feeding &c oats.
world seems worse than II really
IL because you never hear about the
bad things that don't happen
Copyright. 1928. NEA Service Incl
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EVERY SCIENTIST ACCEPTS
EVOLUTION, IS ASSERTION

evolution legislature as tending to re-
tard the advance of knowledge and
human welfare.
n HE suns corona is not as hot
as astronomers formerly
L. thought It was
The corona is a sort of silvery halo
sur 'ounding the sun which becomes
visible only at the moment of total
eclipse. Astronomers believe that
the halo consists of finely divided
particles of material hurled out of
the Gun by the force of the suns
radiation.
The temperature Of the corona VIZ
at one time believed to be 10000 de-
grees Fahrenheit.
However, calculations just COM
pleted by DR.. w. w. Coblentz of the
United States Bureau Of Standards.
based on observations made during
the January eclipse, indicate that
the temperature is only about
5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
ri EALIZING the Importance of
TX scientific research to national
III welfare, the French Chamber
Of Deputies has begun debate upon
bill which would force the indus
trial and commercial concerns of
France to help support scientific re-
search through a special tax.
The tax, as proposed. would yield
about three-quarters of a million dol
lars a year.
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You can get an answer TO any ques-
ton of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
stamps for reply Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will receivea per-
sonAl reply. Unsigned requests cannot
tia1 --nd1fnR
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A Thought

Correction is grievous unto him
that forsalxeth the-way; and he that
hateth reproof shall die.--Proverbs
1910.
INVERSION from reproof is not
| a wise. 1t is a mark of little
J nind.-Cecil.
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Why does a person sink in
quick sand? Can it be prevented?
Quicksand is a mixture of fine
round grained sand and water. The
density of the sand being greater
than that of water, should be able
to support the body of man better
than water. However, quicksand
prevents quick movements, so that