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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-21
King Boris Plight

r. II AVING sown the wind, the Bulgarian
government is now reaping the tornado.
Red terror stalks through the streets of Sofia,
bombs are crashing and revolution is under
way.
Bulgaria is made up 80 per cent of farm
ers-or peasants agrarians they call them
over there There is sprinkling of industrial
workers-perhaps 2 or per cent-while the
other handful form the upper crust, the mill
tary aristocracy,
Up to year and half ago a representa-
tive of the 90 per cent was in power. Premier
Stambulisky was a big bull-like peasant of a
fellow, who, after his own fashion, followed
the theory of Abe Lincoln that government
should be of, by and for the people
With better intent than tact he frankly
told King Boris to observe the rule laid down
for all good boys and be seen and not heard.
And he told the world and sundry that while
Boris might play king if he liked, he. STAN
bulisky, would rule.
1t was not without relief, it may be i'm
agined, that King Boris saw his own set come
back IN power BY well-laid plot the military
seized the government of Sofa while Stambu-
lisky was in another part Of the country, then
surrounded his house and put him to death.
Since then the handful have ruled the
many. They did it only because they had the
army on their side. In fact they were the army
plus the aristocratic civilians Every attempt
of the peasant majority to regain power was
mercilessly put down as communist upris-
ing" In 1923 some 10000 peasants and work
ers were killed in the lighting" Foreign
diplomats there at the time described it, how
ever, not as fight, but as a massacre.
There are precious few bolshevists and
communists in Bulgaria, or for that matter
anywhere in the Balkans. There are a few.
Of course, for the situation naturally breeds
them And what few there are are no doubt
extremists. But the peasants themselves are
arude lot and used to the sight of blood. They
have had enough of their own spilled, good
ness knows, and they will not be any too
Squeamish if the tables are now turned
The trouble in Bulgaria may be the signal
for other revolts in the Balkans Jugoslavia,
to mention just one other nation, has similar
situation within her borders Croatians, Sla-
vonians, Dalmatians and Moslem minorities
really constitute majority there whose aims
at autonomy are frustrated only by trckery
and militarst terror at Belgrade
The war which did not make the world
safe for democracy did a particularly poor Job
for the Balkans
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW
Mrs. Robinson Crusoe Had Nothing on the Old Man

landed, rescue party of modern
English folk arrive.
Miss Smith had become old, grand,
foolish and a great lover of island
hooch. She thought that she was
Queen Victoria or somebody like
that. She was a power in the
island.
But the orphans and the descend.
ants Of orphans began to have free
thought. Even the "press," written
in sand each evening on the sands
OF the shore. had to be censored
Even the young men of the island
were becoming eliminate and a low
er of gay weeds, skins and the like
for clothes.
And even some Of the orphans and
descendants of orphans had free
love affairs without being married.
Shocking! SO Miss Smith put them
in ID class and made them So
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4
S over to borrow an egg, slice
of bread and a hunk of cheese.
While borrowing, said dear neigh
Dor does lot of talking and much
complaining about her. pains and
poor health.
Such a neighbor is one of the hui
man characters iu a little playlet
of plain folks under the title of
"Three's a Crowd" by Elaine Sterne.
AS presented at Keith's. we meet
this week two women who go in for
such careful and honest human
characterization that this little hu-
man commodity jumps TO first place
on the bill.
Mrs. Mooney lived just across the
hall. third floor. from Mrs. Meade
and her son. Danny. Mrs. Mooney
looks like the wrath of Satan. all
bleached. topsy and unkept hair. a
bad complexion and a Kitchen edi-
ton of the Peggy Hopkins Joyce
brand Of the "give-me's." Peggy
goes in for the expensive give
mes" but Mrs. Mooney is satisfied
with a hunk Of cheese, an egg or
two and a cup of tea. unprepared.
She gets more that way.
To the character of Mrs. Mooney
Nora Ryan brings a legitimate touch
which makes the character stand out
in a commanding way. although the
character is an unpleasant old piece
of human driftwood Of the hopeless
sort.
Miss Ryan has that natural, sym
pathetic something which in the
hands of the very few Is accurate
realism. And it is that in the hands
of this woman. Splendid work,
realistic and true. The featured
member of the cast is Jean Adair.
who knows the stage very well. She
does not overact the role of Mrs.
Meade, the mother Of Danny, who
realizes that when a son marries,
the mother Of the groom should not
move into the bridal fiat. She shades
the character with some sentimental
color which does not cheaper the
Characterization. Noteworthy work.
The remainder Of the cast is salts
factory. The stage set helps TO tell
the story.
Grace Hayes sings some OF the
noisy Jazz songs of the day, minus
some OF the noisy She has her in
dividual way of developing a song
number. The Arnaut Brothers are
doing their same line Of acrobatic
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Want Ads
By Hal Cochran

ri VERY day plans are laid for
r a dicker or trade and It seems
IL that we all play the game.
What we have we will swap and to
come out on top in The trading we
do Is our aim.
In the want ads youn find things
Of every old kind, from the sensible
down to the strange. The owners
don't need EN- and so they will lead
EN- to market for open exchange.
An old baby cab is put on the slab
for the buyer who's willing TO pay.
Their trade wish is keen, cause n
sewing machine is the thing they
are needing today.
The first summer weather makes
folks get together the things that
are. lying around. Their aim is TO
trade EN-. They feel that it's paid
'em as soon as a trader Is found.
We all have in stock things well
put on the block. II through, we are
willing to loose EN-. Why hang to
the things, that no benefit brings
when there's somebod yelse who
can use EN-?
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

musical stuff. Still pleases although
the novelty is worn off. Charles
Irwin wonders why he doesn't go
over big. The reason is that his ma
terial is not new.
The Five Dubskys in their aero
batic Offering convince one that cir
Gus days are here. Zelaya still plays
wicked piano and slaps Jazz music
all over the stage. A mighty good
Snowman Is he. The Du Points open
the show.
The Apache Dance, done even in
a burlesque or acrobatic way, Is no
longer a novelty. That Demo and
Rochelle know by this time. Their
dancing is interesting but lacks nov
city. Their orchestra pleases. The
two young men dancers do good
hooflng.
At Keith's all week.
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More on Christian Science Controversy

Eddy that her Church should be
dissolved when she passed on. She
never said or wrote anything that
could be reasonably construed as
evincing such an intention. On the
contrary. she founded her Church
as permanent institution, gave 1t
a constitution OF this character dts
deed OF trust and bylaws. and she
made her last will to consist chiefly
Of clauses establishing permanent
trusts to be administered by the Ill
rectors Of her Church.
Quotes Bylaw
The bylaw cited in your columns
as evidence of Mrs. Eddy's alleged
Intention that her church should
be dissolved when she passed on
reads as follows: "A member who
Is found violating any of the by
laws or rules herein set forth shall
be admonished in consonance with
the Scriptural demand in Matthew,
1887, and II he neglect to accept
such admonition he shall be placed
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In New York
BY James w. Dean

N EW YORK, April 21.-This city
I'm of all nations often has been
IL referred to as the great melt.
ing pot, and the general conception
Of the term is that all foreigners
are eventually simmered down to
the essence Of Americanism. That
may be the eventual condition, but
the process Is not completed in one
generation. nor in two.
Here, where each nationality has
its own community. that particular
nationality finds that the contiguous
community is not one of native
Americans, but very likely of an
other alien race. Thus the people of
one colony overspread into another,
resulting in a great fusion and CON
fusion of habits and customs. Were
immigration to be stopped and new
blood of the various nations kept out
Of New York, the population of the
city within a few generations would
become heterogeneous mass, a new
alloy of the human race.
The extent Of the influence Of one
race on another is shown in the fol-
lowing dramatic ventures in the for
eign colonies:
THE Secret Marriage a Russian
drama, is to be performed in Arabic.
Tho Dry Goods Peddler," Per-
sian musical comedy, is to be pre-
scented in Armenian. The Armenians
also will present Quo Vadis" in
their native tongue.
Greeks win present "Othello" in
Greek.
+ Professor Pupin will direct the
production of Georgivitch's comedy.
"Gritcha." in Serbian
And the Thalia Theater on the
Bowery presents plays from all Ian
guages in Italian throughout the
year to an aud7nce composed of all
races. II
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III SQlGe VI OIL
the automobiles, the population of
the United States has increased
100000 since 1920.
Tom Mix, movie star, rode a pony
through London, so now they will
think all Americans ride ponies.
Philadelphia has 100 public libra
ries; so she must have about a mil
lion picture shows.
In a London court, one wife was
valued at SIS, another at 100000,
and wen bet the 100000 wife
couldn't cook.
The Rockefeller Foundation Is
fighting the hookworm. In other
words, it's bookworm against hook
worm
Chicago Judge decides golf Is no
grounds for divorce, but even judges
may make mistakes.
And, in Chicago, o woman, 70,
petted her husband, 73, with an ax.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service, Incl
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A BElATED
REWARD

T~7RIG. GEN. JAMES ALLEN,
X retired. a native Hoosier.
has Just been awarded the
distinguished service cross for
conspicuous heroism, according to
announcement by the War Depart
ment.
1t is an honor of which any SOL
der may be proud. To military
men the distinguished service
cross betokens professional accom-
plishment-like the honorary de-
gree OF DID. to a preacher. or a
sentence in Atlanta to ? boot
logger.
In this case the honor was not
bestowed with unseemly haste. The
special act 1t recognizes was the
cutting of the submarine cables a.
the entrance to Havana harbor
twenty-seven years ago during the
Spanish-American War
To humble taxpayers that war
Is history. bought and paid for on
the installment plan. But appar-
emily the news has just seeped
through the War Department that
the conflict is over and the gal
liant actors should be honored.
However, belated recognition Of
heroes is characteristic Of the Gov
eminent.
Gen. George Rogers Clark,
whose conquests made Indiana
possible. died a neglected and inn
poverished old man. The State of
Virginia. in whose servise he per-
formed his great deeds, voted him
a sword and a microscopic pension
in his old age. But be couldn't
eat the sword.
As a profession. heroism in the
service of State or national is not
lucrative. Patriotism hot profit
actuates the heroes an ID personal
satisfaction is their reward.
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in this show singing about his re-
Gently deceased monkey. His dane
ing speciality Is the hit Of this week 8
bill.
Lena Daley exhibits some more Of
her bizarre costumes and leads a
couple Of the musical numbers Be
lieve her audiences would like to
see her do a little more. The re-
mainder of the cast, some Of them
new this week, includes Lew Denny,
Arthur Harrison. Dorothy Alexan-
der, Tommy Seymour and one or
two others besides the chorus. The
costumes and scenery are right up
to snuff. At the Capitol all week.
By Observer)
T. + +
Other theaters today offer: Pris-
ella Dean in person and on the
screen in "A Cafe in Cairo" at the
Circle; Being Respectable" at the
Apollo; "A Kiss in the Dark" at the
Ohio; THE Last Laugh" at the Co
lonial and Gold and the Girl" at
the Isis.
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To the Editor OF The Times:
|" HE members and officers OF
the church founded by Mary
IL Baker Eddy, the First
Church OF Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
ton. and its branches. have no de-
sire for controversy with anybody.
and we especially prefer to avoid
controversy with the persons who
were members OF this Church, but
who have formed a different or
ganization. In no instance would
there be any controversy between
them and us If they would carry
on their own work and refrain from
misrepresentation and molestatlon.
In spite OF this attitude on our part.
they have now twice made use Of
your columns for a purpose which
we must regard as both aggressive
and unjust
There Is positively no basis In
fact for the claim made in your
columns by the persons in question
that they are acting in accordance
with an intention expressed by Mrs.
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Stage Verdict

Keith 's-The human view
point and understanding Of real
ism in acting of Jean Adair and
Nora Ryan in "Threes a
Crowd a sketch. makes this
offer e. the easy merit winner
Of the current bill.
English's--As a stock bill
1.-THE Bat" is a gold mine. Be
ing well presented by the Berk-
ell Players this week. In fact,
it is a triumph.
Lyric-A good all around bill
with j. Francis Haney's Revue
and Chefalo an unusual maSi- &
clan, the outstanding acts.
Capitol--Another Daley pro-
duced musical show. Billy
"Bozo" Mack the favorite.
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HOW COM MON
is HONESTY?

@7ILLIAM FORTUNE, presi-
WI dent of the Indianapolis
chapter of the Red Cross,
recently received a letter from
Princeton Qnd) that indicates
honesty is more than a figure of
speech.
Several years ago the Gibson
County Red Cross Chapter sent a
check for $500 to Oakland City
College to provide a fund for small
temporary loans to needy. ex-ser-
vice men receiving vocational
training at the school.
In four years loans aggregating
Sl2, 900 were made 10 215 men
from this fund without notes or
other security than honor. Each
dollar was turned over about
five times.
Pessimists would say that $500
loaned on those terms would
shrink like a SNOWFALL In an In
diana summer. But after four
years of such wildcat" loans
three-fourths of the original fund
was turned back to the Red Cross
for tornado relief.
Only ten men who were helped
failed to repay. Which indicates
that about ninety-five per cent of
the people are honest,
Perhaps Diogenes. as popularity
supposed tottered through the
streets of Athens with a lantern.
searching for an honest man. If
so he was moved more by indiges-
ton than neral facts. Honest
men are not hard to find.
Only cases of conspicuous dis
honesty are sufficiently uncommon
to attract public notice.
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literary hokum, but smart satire set
with mental diamonds.
At times you may think there is
wicked wit, because 1t shows up
modern society in such an unpleas.
ant way, but l assure you it is gor.
geous fun.
If you love mental fun. then read
Orphan Island" published by Boni
q Liveright. New York.
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cial outcasts, even on the island.
Miss Smith sobered up sufficiently
to attend church on Sundays and
she forced all the others to do the
same.
Rich Satire
There are many keen laughs in
.TOrphan Island" when one reads
that these people and their de
scendants. cut off from all the world
for seventy seven years. took on all
the vices. follies, pleasures and Gus
toms, of European folk.
Here is quiet. mental fun. poked
at you by an expert. tiis one of
the wtsest laughs of the season.
Here is fun Of a high Older. Not
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Not Two Straws!

TINTED STATES SOLICITOR GENERAL
vi BECK argued for an hour Friday after
noon before the United States Supreme Court
to sustain the Governments contention that
newspapers which had printed the list of in
come tax payments were subject to punish
ment Then in conclusion he remarked to the
learned court that he did not "care two
straws" how the case was decided He just
wished to remove from controversy, he said,
the question of whether the Constitutions
guarantee Of freedom Of the press granted
newspapers the right to publish any informa-
ton which might be thrown open to public
inspection
Without attempting to argue the merits of
the case, now that the members of the United
States Supreme Court have it in their hands to
decide, Beck's statement does call for COM
ment. 1t rounds out remarkable picture.
Congress enacts a statute of unmlstakable
meaning, so far as Congress is concerned.
1t is statute repugnant to the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury. The latter of
fetal undertakes to interfere with the opera
ton of the statute and the Department of JUS
tce lends its aid to that end. Suits are filed in
which elected to follow the statute, as they
read it, rather than the personal preference Of
the Secretary Of the Treasury, as expressed by
hims elf
This resulted in some newspapers avoid
ing their public duty and withholding publ
cation of the tax lists. 1t resulted also in bur
dening the already overburdened Federal
Courts with additional litigation. When none
of the Federal district judges was able to see
any merit whatsoever in the view Of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, this newspaper and many
others suggested that it was time to end the
farce, and that the United States Supreme
Court, at least, should be spared the time and
trouble of considering the case. But the De-
partment Of Justice continued ponderously to
carry through the processes OF objection be-
gun by Secretary Mellon.
finally, having said the last word open to
it, say on the bject, the Department Of JUS
tce, through the Solicitor General frankly
tells the United States Supreme Court that it
doesn t care two straws about the result.
What course would have been taken if
the Department Of Justice had cared that
many straws? Would the department have
surrounded the proceedings with department
detectives, as in the case against Senator
Wheeler under way in Great FallsY Would
the editors of the Baltimore Post and the Kan
sas City Journal have been dragged two
thirds of the way across the continent for
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and a song or two. The woman
gives a clever imitation Of a laugh.
ing cornet. Giuliano Trio offers "A
routine Of songs. This act is very
badly arranged and thereby loses
what effectiveness it might have had
before a vaudeville audience The
McBanns open the show with first
class exhibition of juggling. Esmer-
aldo and Webb pound a lot of mel
ody out of their marimbaphone
Comedies a Spotlight and a news
reel are the movies. Al the Lyric
all week. (By Observer)
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Helpful Books

The technical department of
the public library recommends
the following three good books
on Bee Keeping:
Productive Bee Keeping"
by Pellet. Practical book by
one Of the editors of the Amer.
can Bee Journal.
= Bee Keeping" by Phillips.
Adapted to any part Of the
United States. Thorough and
authoritative.
Beginners Bee Book" by
Pellet. Useful for the anna
teur interested in producing
and marketing honey.
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The most illogical things happen and
it is up to the actors, the electrician
and the director to keep the public
fooled from the first shrek Of Lizzie
Allen. the maid, TO the last yell Of
the frightened girl. When a com
pany can mystify an audience for
more than two solid hours, the re
suit IS satisfactory. The BerkeI
Players go way beyond the point
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BY Walter ID. Hickman
- lotion has had lot to say
about old man Robinson Cru
GOO hi1f fha1y bouay,it eri,rav,

m lotion has had lot to say
about old man Robinson Cru
~ soc but they haven't given
much thought to the petticoat edi.
ton of the old girl
Not that Robinson was married
because we recall that Robby had
his man Friday about
But Rose Macaulay became a ies.
ter, satlrist when she pictured a
woman placed in the shoes" of ad-
venture of old man Crusoe.
Such an idea caused Miss Ma,
caulay to dip her typewriter ribbon
In green Ink Of satire and the result
is Orphan Island"
In 1855 Miss Charlotte Smith, one
of those nice things from England
started out to cart over on a boat
about fifty orphans from London to
San Francisco.
On the way over the boat was
wrecked and Miss Smith, a woman
companion and a doctor who was
fond of liquor and strong words, to-
gether with the orphans. found them
selves upon an uninhabited island.
Miss Smith became Mrs. Robinson
Crusoe in spirit and in fact, because
after realizing the urge, the spiritual
lonesoneness and a few other things,
she married the doctor or thought
she did but years after found out
that doc had a wife In civilized
cline Then the ocean sharks made
a cafeteria out of Doc end so ended
the gentleman
Miss Smith kept right on taking
care of the orphans.
Some Merry Fun
But orphans will grow up. you
know, and they marry or don't, and
even have children. Miss Smith, in
this virgin island, made, herself
queen of the island because the dear
old soul felt that she was entitled to
have all the land.
And then the fun starts. The old
soul discovered for seventy years
that even orphans when they grow
up and multiply that some become
Smiths" high-class society of the
island because they come from the
Smith side Of the fence and others
are just orphans, no class at all.
For years and years, this old Lady
Crusoe remained the spiritual and
legal head Of the island which was
never touched by tAats. But one
day, severity years r the orphans
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senting a little
different style of
show. This one
has a plot-very
thin, to be sure,
but a plot never
theless. IT con-
Germs the "Bozo,
Billy Mack. being
mistaken for the
king of somewhere
or other. Gives
Mack a good op.
pOrtunity. Incl
dentally "Bozo" is
no longer a silent
c o m Q d 1 n. He
spends a good
mart of the tim q
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trial, as in the second cas4 against the same
Senator'S Perhaps the newspaper publishers
should be glad the Government cared so little
and that they were subjected only to the an
noyance of being hailed into court and the ex-
pense of employing counsel to point out the
law to the Department Of Justice.
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il was reaping a
fortune while OF
tour. Last night
| went to Eng
lish's to see The
Bat" as presented
by the Berkell
Players under the
stage direction Of
William V. Hull.
AS you know The
Bat" is a mystery
trick. AS a road
attraction il has
been seen in this
city several times
but Berkell. by
paying a mighty
high price, secured
it for the first
stock presentation
in this city this
week. This play
Is a stage trick
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but Where men
are realtors and
w o m e n movie
actresses.
u q ( h Valley
California. n n d
cowboy jobs were
their detectives
Motor police
men found them
in a field a mile
w e S t or b en
Davis studying a
road map. They
h a d mt quite
re a c h G ID their
d @ sti n a I 1 o n.
heath Valley and