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Evening star., 1926-05-03
BIG TEN BALL TEAMS
TO SPEND BUSY WEEK



CHICAGO. May 3.-Every team in
the Western conference has at least
one game this week among eight tilts
In the race for the big ten base ball
pennant.'
The schedule:
Today-Indiana at Michigan; WIS
consin at Purdue.
Observation-Disclosures at Chicago.
F'riday-Michigan at Wisconsin,
Saturday-Michigan at Minnesota
Illinois at Ohio State; Indiana at Pur-
cue and Northwestern at Iowa.
Evening star., 1926-05-03
LIBERTYS GAIN VICTORY
AFTER TAKING ClPHERS

After losing to the Herndon Fair
lous Saturday by 7-to-0 score. the
Liberty Athletic Club nine staged a
comeback Yesterday and trimmed No.
> Engine Company al Alexandria. .
To 9. Pink" barnett went into the
box in the second inning and saved
the game after the Firemen had reg
istered runs on Exanter.
The Libertys are on the lookout
for a pitcher to replace "Jiggs" Sig
nor, who goes TO the Eastern Shore
League this week. Candidates for
the position will he welcomed at the
clubs meeting tonight al 1:30 at 7l8
Taylor street.
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DETERMINED TO CONQUER
YANKEES, HOFF' DECLARES
Have Two Clever Athletes i'm Yrjola and Walstedt.
Men of That Country Naturally Strong. Also
Have Great Training Methods.
BY CHARLES HOFF.

HERE marked interest in the decahon at the Oympcs IN
Antwerp because
after the particularly who though
winner lge Lovlsnd had which was
then regarded high
than the best OF l9 osborne
The hest made 50 ar by
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JACK JOHNSON WINS.

NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico. May
3 H)--.Jack Johnson, former heavy
weight champion of the world. wor
a referees decision from Pat Lester
of Tucson, Ariz., in, a 15-round bout
yesterday.
Evening star., 1926-05-03
INVADERS HELD To TIE.

PROVIDENCE, Il. l.. May (P).--
rhe Providence team of the American
soccer League held the I!akoah of
Eienna outiit TO a to- tie before
900 fans YESTERDAY
Evening star., 1926-05-03
ROD AND STREAM
BY Perry Miller


about perch and herring the Potomac River II seems
the vicinity OF Chain Bridge last week and
tailed with fish
No apology made the fishing tho and this
the herring the The
to the
lie
Evening star., 1926-05-03

tain that Thorpes score is very near
the limit of what the race can do
in this exacting event. II anybody
ever beats his record it will be man
of whom the world has not yet heard
The two Films are good. but they
will never be able to do IL. because
Thorpe is the greatest athletic phe-
nomenon who has yet lived.
Next: The weakness Of American
pole vaulterS.
Evening star., 1926-05-03
- Tbe Gbet1img 5tar
81 BOYS CLUB
W Conducted by ROBERT c. MCCLELLAN

there. Take-off from the left loot,
hopping on left. then a long step with
right. and then the jump, finishing
on both feet.
Here are the marks for the hop,
step and jump for boys of all ages:
Evening star., 1926-05-03

Manager at BaItlmOFt.
A GOOD outhelder wears spikes
~ and not anchors on his shoes
Part OF the outtielder's lot
is to back up the infield. Here is a
sketch that illustrates the point:
Evening star., 1926-05-03

ALEXANDRIA. Va. May 3.-The
Cardinal Athletic Club base ball nine
defeated KenilWorth here yesterday
fD =
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What's your mark in the hop. step
and jump? You are permitted as long
a run as YOU wish back of the take
off board and then you measure from
Evening star., 1926-05-03
BY JACK DUNN,

Seven Straight Years Pennant winning
Manager at Baltimore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
MEDICINAL WHISKY

Approval by the head of the Anti-Saloon League
of the manufacture of whisky in the United States for
medicinal whisky is almost meaningless to Indiana.
The law in this State forbids doctors giving
whisky to patient. though in their 1udg-
ment such treatment might aid in saving life
1t is true that occasionally there doctors who
send their patients to bootleggers At least such was
the experience of one of the highest officials of this
State when a member Of his family was in imminent
danger of death.
Not everyone has the power to make felon of
his friends with mpunity but that does not matter
when the edicts of dry is pitted against the
possible saving of life
The announcement only emphasizes the differ
ence and discrepancies between the dry laws in this
State and those in the Nation.
The whole theory Of national prohibition is that
the law shall prevail in every part of the Ma
ton and that the whole land shall be dry.
The national law makes provision for medicinal
whisky and it is permitted everywhere the national
law policy and principles prevail.
1t may be all wrong to let doctors give whisky to
their patients 1t may not be necessary. 1t may open
the way for the actual annulment of the entire law
But certainly there be denial of the state
ment that if whisky is a medicine in State it
should be in all States and that if it is not med
icine it should not be permitted in any
One of the big obstacles to any real test of prohi-
btion is the unequal enforcement in various States
and the varied provisions added by State Iegisla-
lures
Either prohibition is a national matter, to be
settled and determined by Federal authority or It is
local question and should be passed upon entirely
by local authorities.
The one big argument for the Eighteenth amend
ment the declaration that State proh bition laws
lad failed
States which dry complained of the fact
that they were deluged by booze sent across their
borders by wet States.
Under local option laws, the same argument was
used by cities and by counties.
The demand for national prohibition was based
upon the disgust with this situation.
But law to obtain respect must be general in
its application and its enforcement
This concession of the professional dry leader
for the manufacture of whisky in this country for
medicinal purposes only emphasizes the fact that
we have not escaped the old cry of inequality and of
local differences.
1t may suggest to the next Legislature that if 1t
amends the dry laws it should take the Federal law
as its guide and make Indiana a part of the United
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
A WARNING FROM THE PULPIT

If can say something that will make people think
when writing satisfied 1t isn't important what
they think so long they think. For when person
begins to think he has chance of thinking right in
the end, no matter how wrong he thinks the outset
So, in trying to make ignorant people think like
to quote preacher Not that 1 care much for the
average preachers thoughts because I don't. Most
of them have opsided mentalities and think In preu-
diced grooves. But they have always had mystery on
their side and their assumption that they the
agents of God on earth gives them some authority
1t helps ones argument If he quote a Chris
tan when putting up an argument to Christians and
If he happens to be arguing to Protestant Christians
1t is better to quote Protestant preacher than Cath.
Ole priest, even if the preacher Is a Unitarian
Rev. Frederic r. Kent preached a sermon at the
First Unitarian Church Of Orange N j.. in which he
warned the people that we were headed toward the
ocracy in this country, where all supposed to
be supporters Of democracy And he said that presty
government usually resulted in tyranny that he
is supported by history because church control Of gov
eminent has always resulted in tyranny, no matter
which church happened to be In control
lie indicated various activities OF some churches
and church organizations pointing political control
If unchecked, mentioning antievolution legislation and
the influence over Congress sought by Methodist
board of temperance, prohibition and public morals
the AntiSaloon League and others typical of the
general tendency to revert to the ancient theory of
eminent "as the enforcement of the will of God by
priests or other sefapponed interpreters and agents
The avowed purpose Of the AntSaloon League is
good, Rev. Kent says. 1.-THE avowed purpose of the
antievoutionsts to egslae the Bible into a state au
thority on science is bad But whether good or bad
of these detectives securing at the price
OF domination or the government by church group
of churches. This country be free only If the
people remember that government in the name Of
God, even though by who sincerely believe them
svs his chosen representatives, has usually resulted
tyranny, with revolution to follow, and if they keep
equally guard against the advocates of this
exploded theory and against those who by ndirecton
moving toward the goal"
Rev. Kent is not the only who sees rocks
ahead There have been numerous indications recently
that there is alarm the situation in quarters
particularly to the dictatoral methods politics of
two arms of the Methodist church-the Anti-Saloon
League and the board of temperance, prohibition and
public morals In addition to these is the Lords Day
Alliance, which aims at making all citizens observe
Sunday as the preachers Of the Lords Day Alliance
think it ought to be observed.
There are indications also that other Protes-
tant churches growing restless under the leader
ship of these ethodistcontrolled organizations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

life TO collecting silk shirts which
he would never be able to wear. Too
many Of them And the price Of
one Of his shirts would about be
enough to stock me up in shirts for
the rest Of my life.
This movie was made from book
called, The Great Gatsby.' and the
book is said TO be brilliant Person
ally 7 do not know The stage play
is said 10 have had it's brilliant
qualities.
Just how brilliant the movie is
wei. I Vet am thinking about it.
Hcre is movie that is we'll acted
by good cast The director may
have become little confused be-
cause he faced one of the saddest
endincs that "a story can have-the
hero and chief reason for the play
is killed But somebody tackled one
OF those sweet and oily endings to
a movie that did not need il. That
Is if we expect orr movie stories to
be logical
old married triangle problem is
treated i'm a new way. The wife
does not run away with the other
man and her husband doesn't go
galloping away with the wife of
another man. The wife and husband
decide to start over again and try
TO erase the errors of early married
years. And the other man is shot
by the husband Of another woman.
And so our hero was a hero unto
death because he wasn't the right
guy at all in the other domestic
triangle.
Warner Baxter does magnifcently
with the strange Gatsby character
He has the services of Lois Wilson
Neil Hamilton and others.
Charlie Davis and his gang this
week are gypsies Bob Gordon is at
the pipe organ and the movie bill
includes an o. Henry comedy.
At the Ohio all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
For New Alphabet

"Revises the alphabet and save a
billion" says Prof. Godfrey Dewey
Of Harvard, who proposes an alpha
bet with twenty-four consonants,
thirteen vowels, four diphthongs and
sign for the word the"
There is merit to the idea when
you come to think it over. We are
expressing many sounds with two
or three characters that could be
Just as we'll expressed with one.
This not only involves a waste of
paper but leads to irregularities
which make the English language
the most difficult on earth.
The problem is not one for die
tionary makers, as Professor Dewey
points out, but for the printer and
type designer.
Tradition has bound us to an alpha
bet through which 1t is possible to
express the variety of words modern
life has created with accuracy or
economy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

Gernnany'S Attitude

The secretary general of the
League Of Nations has gone to see
Herr Stresemann. He feels the
need of a heart to heart talk with
the German chancellor. Things have
not turned out as he and a great
many other people thought they
would
Allied statesmen have confidently
visualized the league as the most
| convenient instrument by which to
discipline Germany. They drove her
to become a member with the idea
uppermost in their minds.
But as a German delegate re-
marked on the advent Of her admis-
sion: Now that you have won the
bride. what assurance have you that
she will make a good wife?"
1t has suddenly dawned on every
body that when Germany joined the
League Of Nations she acquired the
right to demand things. to be heard
and to threaten disruption if not ac-
corded just treatment.
Herr Stresemann's statement to
the Reichstag that his government
would insist on full carrying out Of
disarmament pledges in the Yer
saIlles treaty or removal of military,
naval and aerial instructions i'm
posed upon Germany, and would not
recognize the permanency OF the
eastern frontier, has indicated to the
allies that Germany intends to be
a member of the league in fact as
well as In name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
A WATSON PROBE
pretty dark

Announcement Of possible contest of the seat
of James Eli Watson in the United States Senate
once more throws the spotlight the methods by
which he obtained nominal lead of few thousands
in a State which usually gives his party safe plu
rality of from one hundred to two hundred thousand
votes
Once more the people are reminded that all of his
plurality came from Lake County, that private en-
pire of the Steel Trust where the word was spread
in seven languages, besides English, that unless
Watson was elected the mills would close and there
would be no jobs.
Once more the people may contemplate that the
rest of Indiana has representative in the Senate,
because the junior Senator does not seek higher
fame than to be than an echo for, his chief,
but that the Steel Trust has very able and adroit
special peader when any interest of it is touched.
There other phases of that election which
should interest the other members of the Senate
IT should run back to the primary and beyond
that to the incidents charged before the Reed in
yestigating inquiry.
The Senate should know the truth about any
bargains made with wizards COLLINS other
secret rulers for power and support.
The Senate should know whether there was
formed around the Indiana solon super power for
the purpose of seating unseating other men in
their body and whether Watson lent himself to such
schemes for the sake of the greatest political or
ganization"
The Senate surely should discover whether the
peculiar absent voters law In this State juggled
and abused for the purpose of overhrowing the real
will Of the people and placing among them the rep
resentatve of selfish groups, rather than of all the
people.
Such contest should be illuminating and re-
ealing 1t might produce study of Indiana politics
1t might even reveal how it happened that Federal
agent wendell his quickly to the convict cell of
one D. G. Stephenson when all others were forbidden
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
IOWA PREVENTS
FINANCIAL CRASH
State Officials Announce
Some Banks Reopen.

BU United Press
DIES MONIES. Iowa, Nov. 90
The Iowa State banking department
has met with success in its efforts
to prevent a financial panic in the
State, according to an announcement
today.
Immediately after nineteen banks
closed thier doors Friday this made
total of thirty-one in three weeks
The banking department began TO
function to stop further closings
Public mass meetings and house
to house convasses were inaugural
ed Efforts were made to obtain
waivers from depositors on time pay
ment of their deposits.
Within few hours hundreds of
signatures had been obtained and
three banks were able to reopen Sat
urday. Three more were scheduled
to open today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

was to wear swell clothes. That was
all she could do, and nothing else
but that. But it turned her head
and she became the great lady be-
hind stage. That is, she made a
fool Of herself by putting on airs
and trying to be something that she
wasn't.
And she never became a trouper
until she learned her art by hard
knocks in the chorus of a girl act.
Then the soul of a good trouper
came to her and all was well.
1 found "Upstage" with Norma
Shearer, Oscar Shaw and others to
be a mighty human story OF life be-
hind the footlights in vaudeville the
aters. At times, it rings mighty
true. The human interest angle al
ways is present.
And Miss Shearer is just about one
of the pretdest women on the screen
today, and she has real talent. l en-
joyed this movie because it is hui
man and mighty well acted.
You will again enjoy Emil Seidel
and his orchestra, as this organiza-
ton plays a loud jazz tune as it was
played years ago and as 1t is now
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

This actress has appeared on the
stage and in photoplays DO you
know her? The correct answers to
this and the following questions ap-
pear on page IA,
Who is shown in the accom-
panying picture?
What class Of products are adj
vertised by the slogan, ASK the
man. who owns one?"
3-Who won the recent Harry
Wills. Jack. Sharkey fight?
4-Who is Gilda Gray?
5-Who is the baseball player that
resigned as manager Of the Detroit
Tigers?
6-Where is Buffalo Bills grave?
What is the popular nickname
for the state of oklahoma?
S-Which State of the United
states has the smallest population?
9-What figure is on the back of a
United states Liberty 50-cent coin?
lO-What color is meerschaum? =.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29


get excited and if he did, he was to
sing or whistle a tune. And above
all he was to be careful about max
ing love because that too might ex-
cite him. And so our hero acted
more like an original figure in the
stone age. He tried TO stay calm,
but an interprising father Of a pretty
daughter decided to make our hero a
sheik. And so the name of a movie
vamp in Hollywood is faxed on a
picture. The faxed lines tells Of al
legged great nights on the beach
with the movie star.
Things then begin to happen for
cur hero because the real movie star
and her jealous prize fighting look
ing husband arrives in the home
town of our war hero. In the big
scene Of excitement there probably
wasn't a piece of unchanged furni-
ture left on the set. The actors
sure wrecked the works. And OF
course our hero lives through the
excitement and he discovers that he
has no silver plate in his skull. And
80 we see him last ordering the girl
lie loves into a moonlight garden.
Edward Everett Horton, a stone
laced comedian is the war hero.
Virginia Lee Corbin is the girl and
Trixie Friganza, looking more like
covered wagon than ever before,
romps and runs gleefully through
the many reels of this comedy, or II
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

entrance and what that Federal sleuth very close
follower of the Senator had to say to this convict
Such contest might bring to light many things
and not leave the people at the mercy of the con.
ngent fund OF the Governor of this State for money
with which to prosecute inquiry of charges which
involved the dispenser Of such a fund
Let it be hoped that the announcement of a con-
test is not just another tale that disappears in the
night but that serious effort will be made to dis
cover whether we really had an election merely a
farce comedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29

concert orchestra in the overture,
Bits From the Operas. that / feel
that Stolarvesky has become a guild
ing personality Of the orchestra. 1t
also requires time for an audience
to adjust itself to the mannerisms
and methods of a conductor. Today
one is associating the orchestra
with its conductor. Some claim that
operate music is hard to sell in
a movie theater. l have no such
opinion, because I am convinced that
great and good music will sell and
appeal to a mixed audience If prop
erly presented. Stolarvesky is doing
this very thing this week by arrang-
ing an overture TO include famous
passages from such operas as Car
men" and "Cavalleria Rusticana."
During one Of the passages from
"Rusticana" the orchestra has the
assistance of a woman singer on
the stage
II seems to me that the circle or
chestra Is yielding to tho desire Of
the conductor az this time II is
now operate symphonic. at least
this week in this overture And yet
when the orchestra plays for the
pictures. the music used is the
tunes Of the day and Of the pres
ont hour.
And so the contrast with an oper-
attic overture as n feature Of the pro
gram is felt the more. The Circle
with it's orchestra and its big organ
is equipped TO give orchestral YER
sions Of great operate music. Stol-
arevsky this week is giving a mus
ical presentation which reflects
credit upon the original idea and
purpose OF this organization which
is unique in the history OF music
In this city
Now for the picture-Mary Pick
ford in "Sparrows. | can see no
use for Mary PIcltford becoming so
dramatic ard so melodramatic 1t
was certainly bad Judgment when
this vehicle was selected for her. 1t
is often dismal. even alligators are
in the cast. The children IN the
cast do a good job of it. but the
story Is too dark and dreary. As
far as am concerned, I will never
remember that Mary Pickford ever
appeared in "Sparrows." If the pic
ture has any appeal at all. It will be
adult.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
IT7
i r aCW
Sale of White Star Line Is
Climax of American
Failure on Sea.
By NJ. e. Tracy

Sale of the White Star line to
British interests closes the last great
American venture In transatlantic
shipping. So far as private enter
prise goes, the United States is
through. Whether we lack the in
genuity or whether economic laws
create too much of a disadvantage,
our best minds have proved unable
to compete with those of Europe on
the sea. With the exception Of ship
ping board boats we have nothing
left in the Atlantic trade worth
counting.
One hundred years ago. our great
grandfathers We're giving England a
close competition not only on the
Atlantic, but on every other
ocean. They were doing this, more
over, at a time when the United
States enjoyed no such prestige as
she does today, had no such a re-
serve Of capital TO draw on and no
such foreign trade 10 provide freight.
What Is the matter with this gen
GRAFTON Of Americans? Has it lost
its nerve or snarled itself up with a
lot of silly laws?
A serious situation has arisen If
we can only compete with other peo-
pie from behind tariff walls and other
artificial barriers. IL 1t IS no longer
possible for the American ship own
er, the American skipper and the
American crew TO hold their own
against the world.
The sea represents about the fair
est field of competition there Is. and
when a Nation with 5000 miles Of
coast line, a vast amount of raw ma
terial for export and markets that
demand goods from every quarter Of
the world can't get afoat and stay
afloat, there is something wrong.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-29
MoUie Verdict

COLONIAL - THE Whole
Towns Talking" Is rather
rollicking fun.
CIRCLE-The real hit here
is the grand opera overture of
the orcestra with Stolarevsky
conducting. A masterpiece.
Mary Pickford should never
have appeared in "Sparrows."
Too sad.
OHIO-"The Great Gatsby"
gives one a lot to think about.
APOLLO-A mighty human
and interesting story of vaude-
vile life behind the scenes is
found In 'Upstage," with
Norma Shearer.