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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
Knocking at Johns Door

T1EW men have had the chance for fame
that is now presented to our new Min
lister to China, John " A. Mac Murray.
Today he is just about arriving in Picking.
The stage is all set. The spotlight is ready. The
band is playing and the situation, melOdrama-
fashion, is all built up for his entrance.
A nation of 40O00O,OOO people is being OPP
pressed by selfish group of great powers. Too
weak to throw off the yoke themselves, their
one chance is to find disinterested friend who
will stand by them and see that they get a
square deal
MacMurray, backed by the United States,
can be that friend. But the Legation Com
pound in Picking is perfect hotbed of intrigue.
Cunning diplomats representing the interested
powers will leave no stone unturned to win
MacMurray over to their side. And the foreign
powers want to keep China down while their
nationals go on exploiting her helpless people.
To make it harder for our hero, most of
his own countrymen out there too, are insist
ing that the United States join the other ma
tions to make the Chinese stay put-with
machine guns, if necessary.
w ndJ Will Minister bldCMurrdy QOT
In 1900 Secretary of State John Hay one
Of Secretary Kellogg's most illustrious prede-
cessors told Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany,
France Italy and Portugal where to get off. He
gave them to understand that we would not
tolerate the dismemberment of China nor even
zoning her off into exclusive "spheres Of in
terest" for exploitation purposes.
Instead he warned all and sundry that
China s territorial integrity must be preserved,
that the door must be left open to the whole
world on an equal footing, and that there must
be square deal for one and all-including
the Chinese.
Minister MacMurray and Secretary Kel-
logg have but to take their cue and the play
will have good ending.
Opportunity, they say, knocks once at
every mans door She is now hammering
away at the portal Of one John v A. MacMur-
ray. ss tss5a# HM &{E5T
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

enwrap a laugh bringing plot. A
man and wife who are bored with
each others company seek the pleas
ure Of a yacht, and, to their con-
nation, they discover that they have
both chosen the same one. Anus
ing incidents follow.
Walter Baker and company pre-
sent Comedy Magic De Luxe, y
which is replete with magical tricks
that Mr.. Baker created while on his
three consecutive world trips.
"Such is Life" is the title Of the
act offered by Norton & Wilson.
Two vocalists who utilize their
every minute in offering popular
songs as we'll as original melodies,
are Russell and Haynes in Lets
Sing"
Justice" is the comedy sketch
which should provide laughs derived
from endless chatter.
Alma Rubens and Jack Mulhall
are the featured players in the
photoplay She Wolves" a picture
of Partisan night life. Pathe News,
a comedy, and a scenic are the in
cluded reels.
Another attractive bill is booker
for July 5, 6, Z, s., with the Barton
Brothers Circus. Employing fifty
people consisting of daring gym
nasts, sensi ,tional acrobats, and
funny clowns and pracing ponies,
trained dogs, trick horses, buckins
mules, monkeys, and bears, and
Rosie, the 5000 pound elephant, it
is said to have Everything but the
Tentsr'
Other Indianapolis theaters today
offer: please Get Married" at Eng
lish's, Jonia and Hawaiians at the
Lyric, Robinsons Ele plants at
Broad Ripple, THE Talker" at the
Circle, Are Parents People?" at
the Ohio, School for Wives" at
the Colonial, and Surprise Week at
the Apollo.
TIL Indiana Indorsers of Photo
plays ~ commend for this week the
features at the Circle, Ohio. Apollo
and Crystal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
What Is Behind 1t?

If IS proceeding follows proceeding IN tne
lIAI effort to "get' Senator Wheeler-the
word 'sget' is their own, not ours-the vim
dietiveness Of the Department OF Justice be-
comes more and more clear. The latest step is
the summoning Of witnesses before a grand
Jury in Spokane, Washington. The witnesses
are pretty much the same as those that testified
in the Great Falls hearing which resulted IN al
most instant acquittal of the young Montana
Senator. But it is made known that the in
ouirv is aimed not at Wheeler but at one Ed
win S. Booth
It is fairly apparent what this means.
Booth was an Administration employe, but
was wanted asa witness against Wheeler, but
testified in Wheeler's behalf instead. Follow
ing this he was indicted on a conspiracy charge
along with Wheeler and Gordon Campbell,
whom Wheeler represented as attorney.
Nothing produced before the Senate com
mittee, headed by Senator Borah, which inves-
tigated the circumstances of the first indict-
ment against Wheeler, while Daugherty was
still attorney general, revealed any justifca-
ton for the Indictment.
Nothing produced before the Senate com
mittee, headed by Senator Cummins, revealed
any justification for the second Indictment,
! brought while Harlan Stone was attorney gen
eral.
And certainly nothing offered in court at
Great Falls in the trial carried through by
John G. Sargent, as attorney general, re-
vealed any justification for either the first
second indictment. In fact the attorney
office went through that trial in the full
knowledge that its case rested on the weird
testimony Of George B. Hayes a man known to
have defrauded the Government of hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
The persistence Of the Government in the
matter is becoming something of a mystery.
Daugherty's purpose was clear enough. The
hired hands first sent out to Montana were per-
fectly frank about it. They wanted to 'Eget''
Wheeler, they said. They wanted to ''smear"
him Their activities and the Indictment that
resulted, however, did not stop Wheeler He
caused Daugherty to be kicked out of Office a
job for which President Coolidge should have
been as grateful as if Wheeler had removed
boil from his presidential neck.
Daugherty's reckless undertaking can be
understood. That Of his two successors cannot
be. Who or what has been the inspiration Of
their continued persistence? It is impossible
to believe either ever expected to convict
Wheeler. It is impossible to believe Sargnt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

lean arms. The nation thrilled
over their achievements. But
General Bundy was never awarded
the distinguished service cross or
distinguished servie medal in rec
ognition of his service.
The Government awarded
medals to every other division
commander overseas. Officers
who furiously spurred swivel
chairs in Washington throughout
the war were given distinguished
service crosses and honors. Ship
builders and dollar-a-year civilians
had medals and indictments pinned
on them by a grateful Govern
ment.
But a soldier, who CALAMITY
served his country forty-foY
years, Who commanded a division
on the battleline during a glorious
episode, received no reward but a
letter from the Secretary Of War.
It was a thin honor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
REROUTING
STREET CARS

@1HE city plan commission
| has worked out a echeme
to reroute street cars to
eliminate all turns at three down
town Washington st. intersections
at Pennsylvania, Meridian and
Illinois SITS The plan would also
prevent all automobile turns,
either right or left. at these corn
ers.
Adoption of the system would
prove a boon to Indianapolis pc
destrians. It will give them a
fighting chance to get some place.
At present a pedestrian at any
of these three intersections has
the choice, during the rush hours
particularly, of trying to trickle
across the street between the
wheels of motor and street cars
or of negotiating on the curb.
Either choice is facilitating.
Next to reckless driving. jay
walking is the most prolific GAUGE
of traffic accidents. The system
now in vogue at the three busiest
intersections in town encourages
jay-walking. A pedestrian might
as well take chance on crossing
in the. middle Of the block as at
the intersection. Eternity may
catch him either place.
Perhaps street railway officials
will be loath to reroute their We
hicles to eliminate turns at the
three corners. And possibly motor
lists trying to save seconds in GO
ing nowhere in particular will OBJ
ject to abolition Of their turning
privileges.
But there is no valid reason why
foot traffic should be held UP or
have the buttons brushed off its
vest while every street car and
half the automobiles in the city
turn the corner.
The traffic problem of Indian
apolis centers along Washington
St. Any system Of control that
will speed up movement there, by
eliminating unnecessary turns, will
relieve much Of the city's traffic
congestion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON


origin of Indiana and its govern
mental machinery they will be
better citizens.
But many of the same people
who approve of the act Of the In
diana Legislature in compelling
the teaching of civics are all
steamed up because the Tennessee
Legislature prohibits the teach
ing of evolution in the States
public schools. Are they con-
sistent?
Is there any difference between
the two cases? Certainly if
State Legislature has power to say
what shall be taught in the pub
lie schools it also has power to say
what shall not he taught.
The Tennessee solons in passing
the anti-evolution law may have
been silly-but nothing more. All
the uproar over the case is sillier.
The act doesn't restrict freedom of
thought any more than compulsory
civics in Indiana schools restricts
freedom of thought.
Evolution will be proved or dis
proved by scientists. What school
children are taught has little bear
ing on the question.
Stripped of its bunk the only
issue in Tennessee is the power Of
The Legislature to prescribe the
subject taught in the States pub
lie schools. The people of Ten
nessee ought to be able to decide
the question without assistance
of glittering legal talent from Chi
cago, New York, and Miami.
Florida, and without citizens Of
other States frothing at the mouth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
MORE SILENT
TRAFFIC COPS

F1UTOMATIC traffic signals
Al were ordered for two more
LII downtown corners yester-
day by the board Of safety. They
will replace flesh-and blood police
men. who will thus be available
for other duties
That will increase inexpensively
the effective man-power of the po-
lice force. Perhaps, as a result,
the chief will sleep better o.
nights.
Silent, mechanical traffic cops
have proved successful in Indi-
annapolis. Where installed they
regulate traffic very we'll and are
quite generally obeyed. But they
have their limitations as additions
to the police force.
They can't eye thinly-clad, pass
ing shebas, or verbally lay out an
offending flivver driver as real DO
licemen are supposed TO do. They
can't pOunce upon bandits, circu-
late petitions. chase votes or per
Ahi IL ooiAAC VI the. bNHtI vital Qu-
ties of the indianapolis police de-
partment.
The most serious drawback to
the mechanical cops. however. is
their inability to think. They go
right on flashing stop, change.
go" in perfect unconcern. no mat
ter what sudden emergency CON
fronts them. They may beckon
a motorist to cross an intersection
athwart the path of a speeding
fire truck-with disastrous conse-
quences.
Several months ago a smash &C.
CURED at a n. Meridian st. cor
ner between fire truck and a
private automobile from Just such
cause.
Installation Of silent oops wher-
ever practicable will assist the
police department in controlling
traffic. But they can't supercede
the traffic squad entirely. AT ev-
cry intersection thinking must be
done-either by motorists or live
traffic officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
COMPULSORY
STUDY OF HISTORY

@1HE State board of education
Tuesday approved a plan
- for compulsory courses of
study Of the history and con-
stitution Of the State in Indiana
public schools. The action was in
accordance with a law passed by
the 1925 Legislature.
Doubtless the. action Of the board
will be widely. commended by
thinking people in the State Most
Indiana school children will spend
their lives in the State. If they are
taught in school something of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
BY Hortense Saunders
NEA Service Writer

EW YORK, July 2.-The
I'M richest theatrical ''gold
IL NINE on Broadway is owned
and operated by woman.
The mime is the play, +'Abie's
Irish Rose" and the owner is Anne
Nichols.
In May the play broke the record
for a Broadway endurance rum"
previously held by John Golden's ia
NOUS sLightnin'." For three solid
years. it has been running in New
York, and its fourth birthday finds
box office receipts larger than over
and five road companies drawing
good crowds.
Offered Million
Miss Nichols admits that cable" is
IA freak. People have lost track of
how much this amazing show al
ready has made and Miss Nichols
doesn't discuss it, but she admits
that she has refused offers as high,
as a million dollars for the motion
picture rights.
Eyes, sAbie' is yielding the gold
now" she says, +'but it was mighty
hard digging at first. For the first
six months it didn't make nickel.
Instead it ate UP everything I had
and everything I could borrow.
went e.,so1utely broke before Able
ranght on.
fNTeryone advised me to close it.
TIree OF the most famous New York
dramatic critics banned it for year
Sold, But 7 believed in Able and
SI,n ten You why because the few
people who did come at first to see
IAt came again and again and they
brought their families.
ri believe the American audience
asa whole rwants a clean show that
hha family can all attend-not one
"a tnan sneaks to without his wife
or the wife attends without telling
aer husband.
Fl believe the public is fed upon
the problem play, and the co1orless
Eropaganda play. They want to
saaugh."
Able was written in just five days.
Miss Nichols had already been a sue
cessful playwright. with Just Mar
RED eIsinger Longer Lefty" and
five plays for Elsie 0T4ara to her
credit.
Mr.. O'Hara told her the story of
a Jewigh boy who had fallen in love
with an Irish girl and the conaEaica-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
Broadway Record Is Broken By a Woman's
Play by the Name of 'Abie's Irish Rose

tons that followed when he tried
to conceal from his father the fact
that he had married outside the
faith. Miss Nichols saw such posi-
bilities to the plot that she sought
the boy hinself-who lived in the
Bronx, and the result of that meet
ing was Able"
Miss Nichols has written nothing
since, because she has been kept so
busy with the business end Of
"Abie's" career. but she plans to
write another play this fall, as well
as produce others.
Ever since I have been able to
hold a pencil I have written" she
said. ''My first ambition was to be
a newspaper writer, but in the little
Georgia town where I lived, there
were no opportunities for this, 50
I went on the stage, much to the
CONSERVATION of my parents.
Worlds Worst Actress
ct believe was the worst actress
in the world. Certainly, l got out
Of it as soon as 1 could and went
into playwriting. My first play was
produced when I ives twenty-five.
Whereas I hated the stage my
self, I learned from it more than
could have from any school of
acting or writing, because I studied
audiences. I know how hard it is
to get a laugh. learned the tech
nique Of building laugh"
Miss Nichols has one interest
above her writing-that is her five
yearold son who has the clear blue
eyes and beautiful complexion Of his
handsome mother.
Though she has attained a pheno-
menal success she apparently has
far less conceit than the average
person. Her direct, sincere manner
is a part Of her charm.
There's nothing about Able to
make my head expand particularly, ;"
she says. Even if I were inclined
to soar in the clouds, all I need to
do is read some of the things the
critics have said about me. and my
two feet get right back on the earth
again.
IT don't know how much longer
Able will last, but I know there's
much gold in the old mine YETI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

now xpcts to, undr the District of Columbia
Indictment for conspiracy still pending.
All that can be done is to keep this indict-
ment hanging over him, while working for con-
victions of Campbell and Booth. All that is be-
ing done is to continue 'smearing" the man
who took the lid off the Department of Justice
and revealed what had been going on inside.
1t gets back to the question, who or what
is behind it all?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
Postal Rates

The omission countries recent
magazines constituted
in this column.
should have read:
O. postage printed matter mailed by an IN
mailed 20
son in Cuba?
A foreign countries including Cuba Is one cent
Of whereas the United
eight
1t thus costs for
of printed matter friend IN the united
o a in foreign country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

A man usually picks one that
looks well in a bathing suit instead
of in a kitchen.
A lazy man thinks he just has a
lot Of patience.
Being a rugged character is n
work than fun.
Getting what you want is merely
a matter OF wanting what you get.
Life keeps us all up a tree. But
there are all kinds OF trees.
Nothing makes us madden than
having a girl yawn while we are
trying TO kiss her.
Next to hens teeth the scarcest
thing is a good fried chicken.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

the Secretary.
"In all situa-
tions you have
sustained a
record for loyal
ty, galllantry
and devotion to
duty"
Wasn't that
sweet of the
Secretary?
General Bundy
commanded the
End division in
France at Cha
teau-Thierry ard
Belleau Wood.
The troops UNI
der his COM
mand wrote an
epic of Amer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
A THIN
HONOR

r7AJ. GEN. OMAR BUNDY,
I'M native of Newcastle Qnd),
l- retired from the army the
other day after forty-four years in
the service. The acting Secretary
of War wrote him a nice letter.
"You have had a long and
eventful military career" wrote
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
NEW SHOW OPENS
TODAY AT PALACE

With the Palace Theater for it's
harbor the last half of this week,
1.-THE Love Boat" unloads its cargo
of songs, 2anfasland cnulsdy which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

How does the division of the
farm family's dollar for living ex-
penses compare with that in in
dustrial groups?
In 1921, from 4O2 farm families in
New York State. the bureau of home
economics found that living ex-
penses were divided as follows: Food,
1915 per cent; clothing. 1873 per cent;
rent. lie per cent; fuel, II per cent;
other purposes. % per cent. Figures
gathered by the United States De-
partment of Labor in 1918 from
about - 900 industrial families show
that they spent their money in this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

What is a ''gargoyle'?
A projecting stone spout. usually
carved with a grotesque figure, used
in medieval architecture to throw
the roof water clear Of the walls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
Tom Sims Says

The world is shaped like a grape
fruit instead Of n lemon.
Wash your head every week, even
II YOU don't use IL much.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
HOW HIGH is UP?
German Perfects Device for Measur-
ing Plane Height.

BERLIN, July "A German in
ventor has perfected a machine for
measuring the height of airplanes.
The apparatus times the echo from
the craft to the ground within ona
ten-tholsandt A q, q, SECOND
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

Many a shock
ing dress IS
charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

What wind velocity constitutes
high wind, a gale, a storm and
hurricane?
According to the scale used by the
United States weather bureau. a We
locity of from 80 tc 3S statute miles
constitutes a high wind; from 80 to
as miles, a gale; from 81 to 75 miles,
storm, and above IS miles, a hur-
rlcane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

Some men in
Knockers look
fine. Others look
like men in knick-
ers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02

II a widow of a world war
veteran has received the first pay
ment on her adjusted service GER
tificate, will she lose the remaining
payments If size remarries?
No. After she has received the
first payment she is considered to
have vested rights in the remainder
of the money, and will receive all
the other payments regardless Of her
renarriage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
To cure a bad
temper argue
with people you
can't whip.

So live that you
can get sick and
be delirious with.
out later worry
ing over what
you said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-02
ASK THE TIMES

way: Food. 1872 per cent; clothing,
1876 per cent; rent, 1874; fuel and
light, 90; all other purposes, 26.4.
The cash outlay of the industrial
families, however, was much great
err. In the case OF the farm fami-
lies about half the value Of the food
all the rent and nearly half Of the
fuel were furnished by the farm
without direct purchase.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-10-22
SOuOMEN SEAL 8
lodge by
the Dunes"

A Camp for little Indian Child
ren. Write r. +. d. No. 2.
Chesterton, Indiana.
The faculty in charge of this
institution are admirably qualified
for their work. 1t is in charge of
q college trained lady who is a
graduate of Smith College for
girls, and who also spent two years
ut the Massachusetts, Agricultural
College, aud a term at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
She has AS an assistant a college
trained Indian woman who UNDER
stands the Indian children and is
deeply interested in her work.
Charges are reasonable. Write for
pal ticulars.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-10-22
Ir0Quois Name -Four
Chiefs to Foil Death,

As au emergency measure, q
council of four chiefs of the Iro-
quois has been named to carry on
the campaign for recognition of
the confederacy by the Dominion
of Canada. The recent death of
Deskaheh had left the 4,500 Iro
quois on the Grand River reserva
ton, in Ontario, without leader.
To guard against recurrence of
the embarrassments and vexations
caused by the vacancy in a high
Office, these original Americans
seek to minimize their troubles of
state by having four leaders in
Office, each familiar with national
issues and clothed With full pow
ers. Thus the Grand River Iro-
quois plan to thwart death when
one of their leaders falls.
Deskaheh was the modern red
jacket, the chief orator of his
people. At Ottawa, in London.
Paris and in Geneva, Switzerland,
be had urged the claims of his
nation for independence.
He had been chosen by the
worlds oldest league of nations,
the Iroquois, to protest against
the alleged injustice of the Cana
ldiau government in attempting to
abolish their tribal rights. These
rights were guaranteed to the
Grand River Indians by a treaty
signed by the British government
40 years ago.
The Canadian government is at
tempting to ''enfranchise" the In.
dians, but, according to Chief
Carlow, only about 400 of the
4,5O0 people of the Grand River
country have accepted the EN-
franchisement." These 400, he
says, are the Indians who do moi
own land and are generally con-
sidered traitors by the great ma.
jority of the Grand River Indians
The majority, he says, do moi
want to be ''enfranchisee' and
subjected to the laws and taxation
of the white man, but prefer tc
conduct the affairs of their reser
vation according to tribal custom
and in accordance with the treaty