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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14

VERY Bible reader will recall
r the incident referred to in the
IL text. Moses sent twelve men
to spy out the land Of Canaan. Caleb
and Joshua brought back an elIcour-
aging report, and advised going ever
Immediately to possess the land. The
other ten came back with pessim-
istic report. They agreed that 1t was
wonderful land; but they said,
1--WE are not able to go up against
the people, for they are stronger
than we." Thus they discouraged
the heart of the children Of Israel"
spreading dismay and dishearten-
ment Mn the whole camp. The re-
suit was tragic. The doom Of death
passed on a whole generation, and
Israel was shut out of the promised
land for forty years.
What a crime those discouragers
committed. Like crimes are being
continually committed among us.
Discouragers go about among us,
spreading gloom and pessimism
everywhere they go. They see only
the dark clouds and never the silver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14

lis HE other day an old French novel fell into
! our hands. 1t went something like this :
Once upon time there was red-headed
|stepchild named Margot, who was really quite
pretty. She lived with her old stepmother,
stout, over-fed over-liquored woman very bru-
Nal in her ways. Mere Michel, the neighbors
scalled her.
Good weather or foul, poor Margot was
kicked out of doors and forced to sell matches
in the streets of Paris. If evil men were wont
i to chuck her under the chin at times, as indeed
they were, she was to smile up at them like
she liked it, so her stepmother told her. and
thus perchance get more for her matches.
Nightly Mere Michel would grab Margot
and rob her Of the last sou made during the
aday And when this was not deemed enough,
she took the rest out of the poor stepchild S
hide and sent her supperless to her bed Of rags.
One day in her rambles selling matches,
Margot came upon a house in a questionable
part of the town She knocked on the door A
lady came and when she saw the poor, ragged
match-seller she patted her on the head and
smiled. Which made the lady, though really
rather hard-faced, look like an angel to Mar
got. Indeed, very like an angel
The next day it was showing terribly out
side and her new-found friend made her come
in and get warm. That settled it. Thereafter
Margot visited her friend daily and each time
stayed with her longer and longer.
By nature suspicious and believing the
worst of everybody, Mere Michel one day fol-
| nd vub no rubo +L,o
girl was visiting, she virtuously hurried to the
police. But the police were wise. Also they
knew Mere Michel.
"What do you expect, you old hag?" they
told her bluntly. eff you want to keep Margot
at your side, you've got to treat her little
more kindly. She may be getting bad ideas
from her friend, but she is also getting
kind treatment. If you expect to win her
back, you we got to do it with the same sort of
consideration -
That s. about all there was to the story.
But it reminded us of China and the great
powers For upward of century China has
been used as the red-headed stepchild of the
world e@
Now, says Sir Esme Howard, British am
bassador. Britain and America are working to-
gether to free China "by our friendly assist
ance from the communist domination under
which at one time a considerable part of her
population seemed anxious to fall"
Nonsense China has never been "anxious
to fall. " However, she has been driven toward
Russia like Margot was driven toward the
woman that was kind to her. If the great
powers want to ''free" China from communism
or any other ism, the first thing they will have
to do is to treat her right Otherwise they are
doomed to failure
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other the simplicity of faith in
Christ and allegiance to Him. The
hatred of simple religion has been
among the deepest and most per-
sistent hatreds in history and it has
been evidenced mostly by those who,
like these Jewish enemies Of Paul,
have acted in the name of religion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14

To this end James and the elders
suggested that Paul should join with
four men who had taken a VOW in
observing ritual practices of purifac-
ton. Paul consented, and appar-
emily had his head shaved with these
four companions, entering into the
temple with them in the rites of
publication.
1t was piece of weakness and
compromise, unworthy of Paul, and
decidedly out Of harmony with the
clear teaching in many places in his
Epistles where he distinctly makes
the personal bond of relationship to
Christ and Christ's place as media
tor between God and man, the SUI
preme thing in the Christian reh-
gion, and above all ritual require
ments.
Possibly, however, at this time
Paul had not come to the clear con-
ceptions that appear In the Epistles
written later, during his imprison-
ment at Rome. In fact, PAN may
have come through this very expe-
rience to see the futility Of all things,
except Christ.
Awaited Him Nothing
Like most compromises for the
sake Of impressing some group, or
appeasing the weak and prejudiced,
Paul's ritualistic observances aaviled
nothing. Jews from Asia, who had
opposed his teaching during his mis-,
sionary journeys, SOW him in the
temple, and they laid hands on him,
raising a great cutlery, accusing Paul
of disparaging the law and the tenn
pie, and Of polluting the temple
through having brought certain
Greeks into 1t.
Paul evidently had not brought the
Greeks into the temple, but he had
been seen with them in the city, and
when the Greeks were found in the
temple Paul'sA foes naturally con-
cluded that he had brought them
there.
The whole business is of that sick
ening sort that has persisted
throughout the history of religion,
and even throughout the history of
the Christian Church-the conflict
between form, ritual and organiza-
ton on the one hand. and on the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14

What was the American Bill Of
Rights?
Generally speaking, a Bill of
Rights is summary of rights and
privileges claimed by the epople of
nation against the tyrannous exer-
else of power by their rulers. The
first eight amendments tothe Con.
stitution are sometimes called our
Bill Of Rights, as they are designed
to prevent tyrannous acts by the
Gederal Government and to protect
among other things, freedom of re
ligion, speech and the press, rights
of assembly, petition, bearing arms,
trial by jury and right to compensa-
ton for taking of private property
for public use. The first Bill Of
Rights in America was the Declare
ton of Rights which accompanied
the Virginia Constitution of 1916,
largely based on the English Bill OF
Rights of 1858.
How much money was coined by
the United States minis in 1924?
The total value of the money
coined by the u. S. minis during
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1924
was $3.50, 0SS, 460.
What does the word bolshevism
mean?
1t means majority" and was used
in 1908 to designate the majority of
the Russian Social Democratic Labor
Party. During the great revolutions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14
Matinee Musicale Plans Thanksgiving Program

Russell Talbot, Helen Goodpasture,
Rebecca Woods, Virgilia Glamour,
Sarah Crouch Elizabeth Whetsel,
and Mildred Click
These pupils are students Of Geral-
dine Trotter, Henry Marshall, Frieda
Heider, Leslie II. Peck, Earl Howe
Jones, Dom Watson, Laura Doer-
film, Helen Sartor Franklin N.
Taylor, Helen Louise Quig, Adolph
Schellschmidt. Frances Beik, Leone
Kinder, Edward Nell Otis Pruitt,
Allie Frances Eggleton, and Arthur
G.. Monninger
@PIANO recital will he given
"A by Axel Skjerns, pianist and
professor at the musical col
lege Of the University Of Indiana,
on next Wednesday night in Sculp-
ture Court. Heron Art Institute
under the auspicies of the Associated
Artists.
The program follows:
"BS aet des ombres Heurcases Ni''ei bauer
Les iTifros" .....ii Dandrieu-Friedman
Fantasia. OPUS 49, C'Der Wander
err ........s+,... Franz Schubert
",Intermezzo' '.....,,.... LANCE Muller
"Saf. SAT suisa"' ..,... si6elius,Paimsrcn
"Homeward Bound" 80. Edward Grieg
.'Intermezzo opus 10 No, %. Brahms
"Rhapsodie Opus 7ov No - Brahms
ga raboso,,ou coY,,,iy tN,,f.,
6Tsr s5e themes Of the blue Sehq B5n5Se
Waltz" by Johann Strauss.
I'll MONTHLY recital will be
| a given Sunday afternoon at
III the North Side Branch of the
Irvington School of Music. The pro-
gram will be given by Ailene Batch.
elor. Martha Fronin. Victoria Mon.
TAM. lone Agnew, Helen owen, Ruth
Ford, Mildred Smith, Helen Ciener.
Julia Bowman and Gertrude Conte.
Pupils Of the Irvington School OF
Music will give a recital on Thurs.
day night Nov. 10, at the Irvington
Masonic Temple.
$50
l"1 HE Indiana College OF Music
and Fine Arts will present
- the following pupils in a re
cital on Saturday afternoon, Nov.
81. 2:30 p. m, in the college audi.
torium: Joe Cox, Mary Esther Law
Ter, Betty Lou Wright, 1lenore
Myers. Martha Mckinney, Mildred
Rabourn, Alfred Coffin. Julia Low
enger. Pauline Siener, Rosalyn Pugh,
Edna Mae Rosenbarger, Anna Louise
Hoyle and Ruth Klor.
The above are pupils of Mr.. Wees
ner, Miss Sommers. Mr.. Georgieff,
Miss Loucks. Mrs. Todd, Mr.. Cramer
Miss Lyons Mrs. Brown will be in
charge Of the recital and the public
is invited
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14
BY VIM. K. GiIroy. ID. ID.
Editor of The COngregationalist

AUL had gone to Jerusalem
with foreboding Of trouble,
- but with sense of convic-
tion that that was where he ought to
be. He had hurried his journey to
be in Jerusalem for the Day of Pen
tecost, but his desire to be at this
feast seems to have been incidental,
rather than the primary cause of
his coming to Jerusalem.
At CaeSarea, as he neared the
Holy City, Agabus, a prophet, had
taken Pauls girdle and bound his
own hands and feet, thus symbolic
ing his prediction that Paul would
be so bound at Jerusalem, and de-
livered up to the Gentiles, /. e. to
the Roman authorities, through the
antagonism of his Jewish enemies.
The disciples at Caesarea had
pleaded with Paul not to thrust him
self into such fate, but Paul could
not be dissuaded. He felt the
Spirits guidance urging him there,
and to Jerusalem he would go.
The issue at Jerusalem was not
long in doubt. The story Of Paul's
missionary journeys and Of his work
among the Gentiles had preceded
him. He was cordially welcomed by
James and the elders Of the church
at Jerusalem, but he found them not
untroubled by the reports concern
ing his disregard Of the Jewish law
They FASTENED to inform Paul Of
these reports and to point out to him
what serious effects were likely to
arise in relation to the thousands
Of Jewish Christian converts, who
had accepted Christ, but who still
felt themselves under obligation to
observe the Jewish law.
A Bit of Weakness
They agreed with Paul that Gen
tile converts to Christianity should
not be required to observe the ordi-
nances Of the Jewish law, but they
suggested to Paul the Importance,
on behalf Of the Jewish converts, of
making 1t plain that he had been
falsely accused of disregard for the
AJewish law, and that he himself kept
~ in his personal life.
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A Thought

Let me die the death of the right
eous, and let my last end be like his.
Mum. 23:l0.
m EATH is a commingling OF
Id eternity with time; in the
III death OF good man, eternity
is seen looking through timo.--
Goethe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14
Do You Know?

The board OF works requires
presence of at least one city
employee when Tomlinson Hall
is leased for a meeting to any
organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14
A Sermon for Today
BY Rev. John r. Gum

the the children of Israel that they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Pauls Arrest at Jerusalem Is Related in This Study

The international Uniform Sunday
School Lesson for Nov. 10 Paul's Arrest
at Jerusalem.-Acts 2I:2T-30
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The Red-Headed
StepchiId

r. HE other day an old French novel fell into
! our hands. 1t went something like this
D Once unon a time there was a red headed
Evening star., 1925-09-25
Another Washington Pennant

Successful defense Of a base ball
championship battle is not quite so
thrilling as the winning Of highest
honors for the first time in the local
history OF the sport, but Washington
nevertheless gets a big kick out of
the 1925 achievement of the home
team, which t"as assured yesterday by
a double victory on the home ground
while the nearest cempetiter was los
ing. From day to day for some time
past the base ball public has been re-
minded of the mathematical con-
tingencies of the race. Yesterday it
was necessary for Washington to win
three more games in order to be abso-
lutely assured of another champion
ship. To effect that in one day was
unlikely, but 1t is the unlikely that
happens in base ball. 1t happened
Yesterday, and those who saw the con-
tests here get alnnost as much of a
thrill as was afforded by last years
triumph, achieved in Boston
The victory Of 1924 was regarded
bv some skeptics as a huke. The
triumph Of 1926 shows that it was
Evening star., 1925-09-25

really an achievement Of merit. Last
years race in the American League
was for the better part Of the season
between three clubs, Washington did
not win until the end Of the sea son,
was regarded az only the runner.up
games. This years race has been un-
til the past two weeks neck-and-
neck contest between two evenly
balanced teams. Not until Labor day
did Washington get the definite ad.
vantage by defeating that rival twice.
For a two-club competition the 1925
pennant race was remarkable for its
length and closeness.
That this years championship team
is better than last years is indicated
by the greater margin on the day of
decision between it and its nearest
competitor. and by the higher per
centase of victories it has scored. 1t
achieves the mathematical certainty
sufficiently ahead of the world series
to permit recuperation from the strain
of pennant winning. 1t will go into
that contest on equal terms with its
rival for world honors. who gained
its pennant assurance only one day
earlier. Comparisons are now in order
between the two teams that will meet
on the 7th OF October for what may
be a seven.game series. Pittsburgh is
a fast, hard-hitting, smart ball team.
Washington is fast. extraordinarily
clever in defense and perhaps not
quite as vigorous in offense. Both
pitching staffs are Of the best ma
terial. Washington has the advantage
Of recent experience in world series
games and o. veteran boxmen. 1t has.
moreover, a title to defend, which will
inspire it to do its best to refute those
who contend that it won both league
pennant and world championship title
merely by good luck.
Evening star., 1925-09-25
4 Long.Drawn Game.

A checker game started eleven
years ago has just ended in a draw.
This Is an extraordinary announce
ment, but then, 1t was an extraordi-
nary game. 1t was played between
Ernest Jackson Of York, s. c.. and
James MacGregor Of New South
Wales, Australia, each In his own
home, $4,000 miles apart. Started in
1914, it was conducted by correspond
ence. proceeding uninterruptedly, each
player announcing his moves by
nail. AS 1t takes about a month for
a letter to reach New South Wales
from South Carolina, each player
made about six moves in a year, and
therefore, sixty-six moves in all be-
fore the contest wore itself out in a
tie.
1t would be intsrssting to know
whether the checkerboards were kept
set" throughout the whole period of
eleven years, II. they were, they
must have been most jealeusly guard
ed. Perhaps Mrs, jackson and Mrs
MacGregor-if such persons exist
have mad something to say about
cluttering up a house during all this
time. The little Jacksons and the lit
tie MacGregors-if there are any
must have been under the strictest
injunction not to msddls. But posi-
Evening star., 1925-09-25


bly, these boards were Kept locked
away between moves. Or perhaps the
boards were set up whenever the mail
came in from the antipodes.
1t is hard to get excited over a con-
test that lasts eleven years and ends
In a draw. A chess game is unemo-
tional, but a long -dista nee checker
game of the correspondence school of
play is about the last word in static
sport. However, II seems to have en-
tertained Mr.. jackson and MIR. Mac
Gregor quite adequately for more
than a decade. But 1t will hardly be-
come the fashion. Perhaps We may
have radio checker matches some time
with quicker action and more contest
ants.
Evening star., 1925-09-25
Unsettled.

September 15 Is the traditional date
for discarding straw hats. This year
the 18th was marked by high temper
atures. and for several days there
after the thermometer ranged high,
in the nineties. Some brave persons
Of the male persuasion. resenting an
arbitrary tyrannical dictate Of fash
ion, undertook to carry on with
straws beyond the accepted period for
their discontinuance. They even talk
ed Of organizing an Independence
league for straw-hat wearers. But
Just as they got in motion toward this
objective Nature took hand in the
game and rendered a decision. The
temperature dropped nearly 40 de-
rrees in a few hours and even the
stoutest declarers Of independence
were quick to shy their Summer lids
into the discard Some Of them con.
tributed them to the trash heap at
the ball park. Others merely hung
them up in the closets at home, with
the fond hope that next year they
might do" But the chill winds did
the business. Here and there a straw
10 seen still. just as, occasionally, a
man Is observed strolling about with
out coat. Perhaps 1t is unfortunate
that the cool wave came so soon after
the 18th. There was no time to settle
rhe question of the right OF man to
wear what he wants when he
wants to.
Evening star., 1925-09-25
Half 4 Million!

Half a million by the 1st OF October.
That is the promise for Washin gton
of the Census Bureau. which on the
1st OF July estimated the Capitals s
population at 4s7 .s0s. with a normal
yearly growth for the decade ending
January 1. 1920, of 1880. II this rate
has continued and il maintained up
10 that date the actuaries compute
that by the 1st Of October the District
will have 500.S4S. In 1920 the census
count for Washington was 437, ,571.
That represented considera BILE
Government forces after the armi-
stice. The actual population here at
the peak Of the war period was prob
ably half a million, IL not more. Wash
be a half-million city on the score of
that extra ordinary and temporary en-
larsement OF its populati ton. But
many of the wartime comers have
remained. The departmental forces
are greater by from So 900 TO 40, 900
Than at the normal peak prior to the
outbreak Of the war in Europe. These
additional forces are themselves only
part of the new inha bitants. Mem
bers OF their families and participa nts
in business enterprises developed
through the increase of population
swell the total. The rate Of increa Sc
between 1910 and 1890. placed at
10,970 as the average of the decade.
was proba bly, not excessive, inasmuch
as the war peak had been reached and
the ebb had almost ended when the
census enumeration Of 1920 was
taken.
A population of half million in the
District at this time means undoubted
ly at least 500, 900 within what may be
called the metropolitan district, in
cluding the suburban portions Of
Maryland and Virginia which pertain
to Washington's business system. Re
Gently a population of a million within
this metropolitan area was predicted.
With half a million in Washington at
this time, and probably 100, 900 in the
suburban circle in addition, it is easy
to conceive that the million mark will
come within very few years, will
probably be shown by the census count
of 1910 to have been attained prior
to that date.
Evening star., 1925-09-25
The New Chief OF Police.

Retirement of Maj. Daniel Sullivan n
as superintendent OF police. and the
appointment Of Edwin B. Hesse, chief
clerk and assistant superintendent. as
his successor, come with slight public
preparation, as, although it was
known that Maj. Sulivan's health has
been impaired and he has been con-
templating retirement, there was no
intimation OF the imminence of a
change After thirty-six years OF
service in the Police Department, the
veteran chief of the force, who has in
every respect been successful in his
final assignment in command, will en-
joy respite from duty with the high
esteem of all Washington and its
gratitude for valuable service rem
dered with modest efficiency through
out his career.
In selecting Asst. Supt. Hesse for
the vacant chiefship the Commission
ers return to the practice OF placing
at the head Of the Police Department
one who has not been himself a patrol.
man or who has not seen active duty
in the ranks. This practice was con-
tinued uninterruptedly for half a CEN
tury'or more. Mai. Sullivan being the
first superintendent to be chosen from
the ranks in that period. Return to
this practice. however, is not in any
wise a reflection upon the now retir-
ing chief or the success of his admin
istration Of the department. 1t Is a
recognition Of the outstanding merit
and obvious qualification of Mr.. Hesse,
who has been identified with the Po-
lice Department of the District for
thirty-two years, as clerk, as secretary
to the superintendent, and, since 1907.
the chief clerk of the department. BY
a provision in the current appropria-
ton bill he was upon the initiative of
members Of Congress designated as
assistant superintendent, an Office to
be held by him as chief clerk and to
lapse with his retirement from that
position.
The new superintendent is thor
oughly acquainted with the Police De-
partment in personnel and in practice.
During his many years Of duty as
chief clerk he has come to know it
intimately, and he now will take the
chiefship, which has been assigned to
him without solicitation, with an ex-
ceptional qualification. In his admin
istration he will have the confidence
and, without question, the support Of
all the members Of the department.
The Commissioners are to be con-
graduated upon their admirable selec
ton, and particularly upon effecting
it without delay and protracted discus
sion and competitive advocacy of can
didates, a process which invariably
arouses jealousies. Maj. Hesse will
take Office on the 1st of November
with the best wishes Of Washington
and the best chance of complete sue
cess in his new duty.