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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
TO A LIVING
DEATH

La Mariniere, French prison
ship, with a cargo Of $40 felons,
left La Rochelle yesterday bound
for Devils Island, Frances penal
colony off the coast Of South
America, near the equator. The
prisoners are doomed to living
death. for from Devils Island few
escape.
Here is the way France treats
her desperate criminals whom she
ships to her colonial hell hole.
Aboard ship they are confined in
steel cages between decks fur
nished only with hammocks. Pipes
from the ships boilers lead to all
cages so in case of trouble live
steam can be turned into the
cages to subdue unruly convicts.
A half-dozen cells without light
or ventilation, so small the in
mates are unable to lie down, r
reserved for solitary confinement
of unruly convicts.
Arrived at Devils Island the
prisoners are subjected to terrible
~cruelties and brutalities. They are
forced to work naked, are not sup
piled with shoes, receive no med
ical attention.
In Indiana. with It's sympathetic
juries and judges. smooth-running
pardon boards and humane ideas
Of punishment. a guilty criminal
feels that a few months at the
State Farm or a semester in the
State Reformatory is sufficient
e~xpiation for any misdeed. If he
thinks confinement in one Of our
penal institutions harsh. let him
try committing a serious crime in
France. Compared with Devils
Island, our penal institutions at
Pendleton and Michigan City are
luxurious bachelor hotels
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
LIFE

Just what are we striving for,
here on this earth7 Why IS It we all
love to live? Are things that we're
getting, from day to day, worth as
much as the things that we gtve7
Take sel1shness, hatred and envy
and such-what happiness comes
from their lot? You~know very well
that they'll ne'er bring you much
Of whatever the cheer that you've
got.
But love and real friendship. and
all things akin. keep spirit, that's
brightest. outstanding. Their part Of
our living lets real sunshine in
the things that we're always do
handing.
The love Of all life is the brotherly
brand, and woe comes WIENER we
forsake It. Twill better the world
when we all understand hat happi-
ness lives as we make It.
After looking over a flock OF
youngsters waists-now we know
where all the buttons come from.
SEE THE WIFE: II simply can't
go-'cause I haven't a thing to
wear"
A man gives his wife money TO
buy decent clothes-and then she
goes and invests in the latest styles.
He found his brilliant diamond ring
Was paste, and did he hOller?
Why, sure-it dawned on him that
he
Was out a half a dollar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
What kind of a game is "Bunko?"

A gambling game played extensively at Tia. Juana
and other noted gambling resorts. On a table in
front Of the players is a painted chart, marked off in
squares containing the numbers 1 to s inclusive. Back
of the table is a cage containing three dice which the
operator spins around. The numerals showing on the
tops of the dice when the cake stops are the winning
numerals The winners are the players with money
on the numerals on the chart which correspond with
those showing on the dice. If a player places a dollar
on a number 5 and all three of the dice show that
number, the player collects three dollars besides his
original dollar stake; if two Of the dice show fves, he
collects two dollars besides his original one; and If only
one of the dice shows a five, he collects one dollar
besides his original.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
What is the history of the use of sufrocating case.

III wa ~
The first recorded use Is about the year 431 B. c.,
when sulphur fumes were used In besieging the cities
of Platea and Belium in the war between the Athenians
and the Spartans. Similar uses of toxic substances are
recorded during the middle ages, and in August, 1856,
The English Admiral, Lord Dundonald, having observed
the deadly character of the fumes in Sicily, proposed
to reduce Sabastopol by sulphur fumes, a proposition
which the English government disapproved on the
ground that the effects We're SO horrible that no honor
able combatant could use the means required to pro-.
duce them. Modern chemical warfare began on April
%, 1915. when the Germans sent a cloud of chlorine
gas over the English lines at Ypres.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
There Is No End to Glory That George
Arliss' Brings to the American Stage

is the contortionistic ability displayed
by a young Chinese lad. He is as
supple as a whip.
Included on the bill is a photo
play, THE Police Patrol" with
James Kirkwood and news reel.
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
CBy the Observer
T. + +
Other theaters today offer: Fran,
ces Kennedy, at the Lyric; Doctor
Rockwell, at Keith's; THE Still
Alarm" at the Colonial; "Sea
Horses" at the Apollo; 1.-THE Black.
bird" at the Circle; Dance Mad
ness" at the Ohio. and THE New
Champion" at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
HORSE MEAT ORDERED
$4,000 Pounds to BE Shipped to Japan
on Trial.

Oh
EDMONTON, Alberta. April 2. -
Japan has placed an order for $4,000
pounds of horse meat with Alberta
packers as a trial shipment for what
may develop into an extensive trade,
according to George Hoadley, provin-
cial minister of agriculture.
THE horse meat win be prepared
and shipped to Yokohama, Japan, by
a firm in Calgary" said Hoadley. IF
the first shipment proves successful,
the buyers have indicated they will
place orders for monthly consign-
ments. While there is no market
for horse meat in either the United
States or Canada, 1t has a vide Use
in parts of Europe and tlo Orient.
The product is quite palatable. Bel
GUM ordered a big shipment Of horse
meat from Alberta last November"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
NOW HONESTLY

We're all entitled to wonder as we
see ht-so I wonder IL 1t really Is a
good idea to thrash out an argu-
ment with a child, with a thrashing.
In other words. do O few good
whacks, in the proper place. con.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
FiShzOOrmS Arenit So
Dumb After All

You can get an answer to any question of fact or In
Ton tGsiI bureau l32S New York Ave. Washington. D. G.: In;
mparltadi adyice csaannf3t be given nor can extended research
are confdential-Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02

Why do fshwOrms and ~earthworms come to the
surface only at night and after a hard rain or storm?
F1shworms and earthworms are subterranean in
their habits and appear above the surface only under
unusual conditions, such as excessive rains which
flood their underground burrows and force them to the
surface to avoid drowning. They also come to the sur
face to feed and to throw out their Castings" almost
exclusively at night, for they have no eyes and by
primitive light organs they avoid the light.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02

Austria assassinated?
Empress Elizabeth was assassinated by an Italian
anarchist in Geneva, Switzerland on Sept. 10, 1898.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02

What is the average salary Of a telegraph opera
tor?
approximately $3.50 per month for a Morse opera
tor. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-02
By Walter ID. Hickman

Fl HERE are times that an
awful something happens IN
- nv brain box.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23
Tucson Child's Foot
Cut Off By Lightning

TUCSON-Brigada Garcia, the II
year old daughter of a farmer near
Mariana, cotton settlement near
here, lost her right foot at the
ankle Tuesday, as the result of a
strange prank of a bolt of light
ming.
The child was seated in a chair
near stove in room with several
other persons when the bolt struck
the chimney top and entered the
room by way of the stove pipe. 1t
clipped across the ankle Of the
small girl amputating the foot
cleanly and knocking the child
from the chair. No other person
in the group was affected by the
lightning nor was any other dam
age done in the room.
Surgeons who examined the child
when she was brought to the hos
pital here said that the operation
performed by the lightning could
not be improved upon by modern
surgery and the child is resting
easily, with no after effects except
the loss of the foot Lack of
burns on other portions of the
body of the little girl puzzled the
doctors making the examination
and they admitted themselves at a
loss for an explanation of the man
ner in which the lightning took it's
toll.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23
Stafford Man Held
On Assault Charge
After Gun Battle

SAFFORD-Charged with assault
with intent to commit murder,
Jesus Quintana is held in the local
jail as a result of a shooting af-
fray which took place between him
and Manuel Delgado near the paw
ed highway at Thatcher on Monday
morning of last week.
The shooting is said to have been
the result of a quarrel over an al
legged threat made by Quintana
against the wife of Delgado, accord
ing to the story told by Mrs. Del
gado. Quintana has denied making
the threat, officers state.
Quintana's bond has been placed
at $500 and being unable to raise
the amount, is being held awaiting
the outcome of the hearing. Both
men are about As years old.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23

in city governments depends upon
a number of factors, chief among
which are: An orderly arrange
ment of the financial activities Of
the city, modern methods of ac-
counting and reporting, proper sup
ervision of personal services and
the purchase of commodities, and
simplified organization of the whole
government to fix administrative
responsibility and thus insure that
the budget will be properly carried
out. The budget system, when
properly understood and applied
ramif1es through the whole struc-
ture of the city government. The
budget comprehends the city's most
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23
PROPOSED CHANGE
In CITY GOVERNM'T
EXCITES INTEREST

Continued from Page 1, Section y
estimates checked against record
ed information relative to past ex-
penditures and revenues; and it
is adopted by the legislative body
of the city. When city follows
this procedure it is said to have
budget system.
One can readily understand that
the success of the budget system
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23
Infant Saved AS Penny Is
Taken From It's Throat

PHOENIX-The 15-months old
baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Shiun was
saved from choking to death when
an X-ray picture taken at the Dea-
coness hospital revealed a penny
about half way down the child's
throat.
The penny was removed by the
use of instruments and the baby
apparently suffered no i'll effects af-
ter the object which had nearly
strangled it, had been removed, at
tendants stated.
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The Winslow mail., 1926-04-23

Tombstone: Traffic controls in
stalled on Desert road
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
Home Folks


The man from New Jersey was tell
ing the Utah man that the mosquitoes
in Utah were as nothing compared
with the ones back east. In the end
he had made bet that he could take
off his shirt and let the Utah pests
bite him for ten minutes without even
taking a slap at them.
At the end of nine minutes the Utah
man saw a good chance to lose the bet,
for, although the New Jersey man was
covered with mosquitoes he hadn't
even quivered. Something must be
done. Picking up burning glass the
Utah man threw its rays on the New
Jersey mans back. The man from the
east gave yell and smacked his back
with his hand.
"There's one from home" he yelled
as he paid the bet.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
COLORFUL SET OF
DECORATIONS WILL
BE SHOWN AT FAIR

Helena, Montana-August 4.-Vis-
itors to the Montana State Fair at
Helena, September to II, will be
greeted by the finest set of decorations
ever to have been put up on any fair
grounds in this state. A contract has
been entered in to with an expert on
decorations, according to Lewis Pen
we'll, President of the State Fair
Board, and this expert has instructions
to prepare the midway and the main
entrance way in colorful and gala
fashion.
The expert employed to decorate the
Montana Fair grounds has had years
of experience in this work and is the
decorator who decorated the city of
Los Angeles year ago for the Shrine
convention at that place. The Fair
management has arranged to have
him fix a set of decorations over the
bunch of beautiful shade trees which
are situated just inside the main en-
trance. :.
3 Improvements are being made to the
grounds by crew of carpenters. New
benches around the outside OF the
grand stand and dance hall are being
provided for rest places for visitors
who are moving about the grounds
The Manufacturers Hall has already
been repaired and put in the best pos
sible shape for those who take advan-
tage of the opportunity to show thel
wares to the large number of visitors
who come to Helena.
Another Improvement which has
been announced by Lewis Penwell, is
the making of two new gates at thu
main entrance. This was decided upor
because of the congestion which wa:
occasioned last year by the remen
! dous crowd which visited the Fair OF
Labor Day and on Thursday of Fai
1 Week. Drive-ways are to be mad
to the new gate and all three are t,
be opened all Fair. week.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05

by Miss Shearer, who loves and is
loved by the crook, Carlstop, played by
Mack. Their romance is blighted when
Carlstop is sent to prison for crime
and Mary joins a circus.
She becomes conquest of Lieber-
kind, the villainous lion-trainer, played
by John MILAN, and ineurs the jealous
rage of his inamorata, Yonna, played
by Carmel Myers, who deliberately
cripples her by tampering with the
trapeze on which she performs.
The representation of the European
circus is colorful and interesting, par
ticularly the beauty ballet of 100 girls,
said to be the pick of Hollywood
beauties, who portray harem scene.
Released from prison, after a long
stretch, Jensen finds Mary and, at the
height of their happiness, learns of
her love affair with Lieberkind.
A spiritual theme is developed for
the ending in which the important of
sincerity is recognized in way to
satisfy the most hlase.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05

SIMPLY TOLD IS
DEVILS CIRCUS"
Film Has Drama and Melodrama,
Comedy and Pathos, All
Skillfully Blended
(Review)

1.-The DEVILS Circus" the first
American production of the Danish
director, Benjamin Christianson, which
will show at the Iris Theatre Sunday
and Monday, August s and 8, was ac-
corded the acclaim of signal success.
Norma Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer star, has the leading feminine
role, and the east includes Charles
Emmett Mack, in the leading male
role; Carmel Myers, Claire Mcdowell,
John MILAN, Joyce Coad, the latest
child find of the screen, and the popu-
lar trick dog, Buddy.
1t is simple story simply told, and
therein lies its greatness. The direc-
tor has taken characters that are
thoroughly plausible, that really
might exist and be acquainted with
you and me, and then put them to
working out drama in which color
full and entertaining bits of detail and
convincing transformations success
fully sustain interest.
The play has drama and mefodrama,
comedy and pathos, and their blending
and smooth development represent the
work of dramatic artist, Christian
sons record of success in pictures
abroad seems to be founded on firm
basis.
The Story
The story concerns the life and ro-
nance of Mary; an orphan girl, played
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
"The DEVILS Circus" is a picture
that should not be overlooked.
DESTIN ALTON GOVERNS
MOTOR BUSS CAPACITY
WITH CHINESE ARMIES


Tientsin, China, July 29.-Two of
Marshal Chang Tsoin's soldiers were
curiously examining a new motor bus
recently unloaded on a dock here for
the Manchurian war lords transpor-
tation service. A foreigner who knows
their dialect reported the following
conversation:
"How many do you suppose it will
carry?"
"Going or coming?"
"What do you mean, Coming or go
ing?'
"Well, going toward the front it will
carry about thirty men; coming back
about hundred"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
The Gospel For Today

1t is a common trait of all of US to-
day to take the worst things for the
better. The thing that is nearest at
hand and easiest TO grasp and brings
the most pleasure for the moment are
the things that naturally appeal to us
in the strongest way.
But experience shows any thought
full person that these are not always
the best, and do not bring the pleasur-
es that are the most satisfying and the
most lasting. The better part of wis
dom would lead us to seize onto things
that are of greater value, even though
we have to pay more and wait longer
for them.
An immediate application of this
truth can be made in regard to the at
titude of many people toward religion
and the Church in our midst as COM
pared to our regard for business and
pleasure.
We know that religion is one of the
primary elements of human nature,
has never been absent from any age
or race, and is something we cannot
separate ourselves from. We know
that the better things of our our civil
ization of today are the result of the
most highly developed religious char
acters of the past few centuries, and
the right training Christianity has
given to this element of human nature.
We pay large sums to build churches
and dedicate them to the religious well
fare of the community. But at the
same time we are letting this money
fail to bring its full profit because
many people do not receive any benefit
from the services of the Church or put
themselves under its influence.
No community wants to exist with
out the Church, or without the teach
ings of the Gospel held forth as the
standard of life. But many are max
ing the Gospel of none effect because
of Indifference. -
There is common Impression that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ has nc
message for today. But those wht
have looked into it's deeper meaning
see that it has a great message fol
every age and every condition. L
never has been and never can be wor1
out or outgrown. 1t has messag,
that all men for all time will need.
People who have the habit of stay
ing away from church services do no
know the richness or the value of tn
message that the preachers of tn
Gospel have to deliver in these moderl
days. The Gospel is understood toda
better than it ever has been before
and the modern pulpit has messag
from the Lord for this age as trul
as any prophets of old did for thei
ages.
There are greater problems to solv
today than ever before, and create
evils to overcome. The Gospel 0
Christ rightly understood and apple
! is a sure solution and the only solutio
of these problems and the only ant
dote for these evils. The crime wav
| the industrial strifes, political CORFU
i, ton, international adjustments, the'
and all other ills can be cured by
full acceptance of Christ's principle
and spirit, and can be cured in I
other way.
5 This healing Gospel can have effe
in our lives, in our community, al
o in the world only as we put ouselv
under it's influence, to learn it's trutl
! and to be led by it's spirit.
The Importance of this is so gre;
tina we urge people to attend Il
) Church of your choice regularly, al
+ we urge ministers and members
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05

Voters of Montana will find referendum pro-
posing a 5-mill levy on all property for the pu1-
pose of raising some S22OO000 annually, for
twenty years, for school purposes on their bal
lot at the November election.
To the animated it seems to be an excellent step
because Montana has always done and is doing to
the limit of her ability, the best that can be done
to promote extensive, free education for her
greatest asSet-her children. But after careful
study of the measure and the school situation as
whole, we believe that the adoption of the pro-
posed 5-mill levy will be one of the most unjust
and dangerous steps ever taken by the voters of
Montana.
We find that under our constitution, which re-
quires six months of free school as qualification
for state aid, there were 402 school districts in
1924 which were denied state aid and received
nothing from the state school fund. The proposed
5-mllevy carries no program for apportionmentl
and will therefore be apportioned in the same
manner as the regular school fund is at the pres
ent time and will afford no aid for the 402 districts
which fail to meet the six months qualification
law.
These 402 districts are the very ones which need
state aid and the proposed levy will not only fail
to give them any assistance but will actually cut
down their present term because of the levy linn
itations in the companion measure that was
1)dSSoQ ana Wnlcn Will become oHocClVo II Jne
5-milIlevy is ratified
Inasrnuch as the Metals Mines License Tax
alonesis expected to yield more than S25O0O0 a
year for school purposes it appears that an arbi-
trary ALLEGATION of this revenue to the places
where it is most needed would do more to equalize
school opportunities than the proposed 5-mill
levy can ever do. The legislature can pass such
law, save the taxpayers over $4,000, 900 annual
ly, put every child in school and extend all school
terms throughout the state to not less than seven
months year.
We firmly believe that the voters will see the
evil in the proposed measure, an evil many times
greater than in the 1920 constitutional amend
ment which is denying aid to great number of
children. Rather than submit this increased
burden of taxation to the taxpayers, the legisla-
ture should apportion the income from the Metals
Mines License Tax to the places where it is most
needed.
We rest confident in the belief that the voters
will not give their approval to the apportionment
of $2,000000 annually to the large city districts
while the smaller, poorer country districts who
can't afford to meet the six months qualification
law, are denied state aid.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
QUANTITY DISTRIBUTION

Quantity production has been one of the meth
DDS by which the cost Of manufacturing has been
reduced. And SIMILARLY if retail store can
double it's Sales it will make many of the same
economies that are accomplished by quantity pro-
duction.
The principal method of accomplishing guam
tity distribution is through advertising 1t usually
takes long time to induce people to buy at a
store, unless it has some extremely favorable To-
cation unless that concern makes some special
effort to attract the people and secure their inter-
est The people like the enterprise and push of an
advertised store, and they flock to such place,
and enable it to make the economies created by
quantity distribution.
Large number of men are getting ready to save
the country this fall by going out as paid political
workers.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05
Well Acquainted

The judge looked sternly at the lady
witness.
"Do you know the nature Of an oath,
madam ?" she asked. 49,
"Well, I ought to sir. We just
moved and my husband put down the
carpet"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-05

make it worth while for all to attend
that the Christian principles of life
may have the right of way more fully
than they have ever had before.
REV. A. d. WEIGH.