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condition that she be very, very good.
and not talk or bother the children or
teacher in any way at all.
She was at liberty to tiptoe out of
the room when she pleased. AS the
,. weeks went on, the first grade teacher
noticed that Elizabeth was staying
longer and longer, but paid no atten-
ton to the child. since she gave no
trouble.
Then one day the teacher, on pass.
ing Louise's desk, saw that the wis
iting baby" was trying to copy SEN
tence from the board--"See me run"
She was drawing the letters, as she
would picture. not writing from left
to right, in a continuous line. The
teacher laughed. then placed her hand
over Elizabeth's and guided her pen
Gil. held tightly gripped in her left
hand. across the slate. borrowed from
Louise. That was Elizabeth's first
and only lesson in writing, for the
teacher paid no more attention to her.
Then. in May exciting talk of ex-
aminations was flying about in the
schOolyard. Elizabeth contracted the
fever of excitement. What were
these Examinations" that every child
was thrilling over? Why couldn't she
have them, too? hey must be great
fun.
On the first day of Examinations"
Elizabeth took her place beside Lou
Use. and stuck there. There was an
oral examination in reading. When
it came Louise's time to read. Eliza
beth who had kept her eyes glued
to Louises book rose, smoothed her
dress Importantly. as she had seen
the other little girls do, then an
nounced. in her high, baby voice:
Page 1s. The Story of the Little
Red Hen
Now, Elizabeth. you promised
you'd be good If let you stay" the
teacher admonished. sit down. like
a good baby, and let Louise read"
But l want to have Examinations.
too. l can read"
Finally. to 'humor" herAs was
told to read" When the 4-year-old
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with high grades. There was nothing
to do but to promote her to the Sec
ond grade, although. as her teacher
said, it was most unusual" since
she had never had a days formal in
struction in her life. Elizabeth was
Jubilant when she told me the news
in her own way. She had passed her
Examinations" she would no longer
have to sit silent while other children
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read the entire page correctly, with
much expression, the teacher was
amazed at what she thought was an
unusual exhibition of parrot-like
memory. Eliztbeth, at the teachers
amused suggestion, turned to another
page, which she found easily, and
again read without a mistake.
Then, the teacher took a public
school reader from her desk, a book
which Elizabeth had never seen be-
fore, and asked her to read" from it,
Elizabeth did so-any page requested
with only an occasional mistake in
pronouncing a new word.
Examinations in number work"
and spelling--oral and written-fol-
lowed, and Elizabeth passed them all
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incredulous, amused. and shaken with
joy and pride. My baby-in the sec
ond grade.
Baby Educates Herself.
Then I was told how it happened.
Elizabeth was not at any time a pupil
in the first grade, but she had a little
chum, Louise, whose last name
have forgotten, who sat alone at a
double desk in the high first grade
room. When Elizabeth was tired OF
playing alone in the big yard, she
was permitted to sit beside Louise, on
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played the fascinating game of school
At the close Of school she took part
in the converts annual play, bounc
Ing about the stage, gaudily costumed
as butterfly. but looking far more
like fat humble bee.
Babyhood was definitely behind her
amazing progress in school. adven
lures in new cities, lay ahead of her
to mark the fifth year of her life.
(Continuel In tomorrow's Starr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-12
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With
Yeasta
New Combination of Yeast with
Vegetable Iron Builds Up Weight
in Three Weeks

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vitainines W j I h
vegetable iron re-
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of sluggish blood
cells, drives out
dangerous b o d y
poisons, increases
energy and en-
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Il SERIAL NOVELS
Sheik's Clothing Gin two parts)"
By Charles Bracket
Twin Propellers Second Part)
By Henry c. Rowland
MISCELLANY
Editorials
Short Turns and Enccres
Getting On i'm the World
Out-of. Doors
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, IMPORTANT ARTICLES
Production and Prosperity
By Isaac F. Mdrcosson
The Junk Snupper
Bye. r Clifford
What Price Bribery?
By Walton Green
Changing Johnny's Behavior
By Elizabeth Frazer
Radio BY David Sarnof as Told
to Mary Margaret Mcbride
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with Wilbur Hall

The world knows Luther Burbank as wizard
who wrought strange wonders with plants, but
this splendidly inspiring self-story of his life
reveals him as also master of beauty of thought
and word.
The first installment of this most significant
autobiography appears in The Saturday Evening
Post-1,osv on sale-five cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
Ten Deaths an Hour

Ten lives are list through acci
dent every hour in this country, SAYS
c. B. Scott. president OF the Nation
al Safety Council.
With $4,000 deaths and several
million injuries. accidents cost the
United States no less than 5 1000, 900
annually. he says.
Last year 81 1000 boys and girls,
less than Is years of age met acct.
dental deaths. OF this number,
about 1000 were killed on our streets
and highways"
1t is a d~iscouraging picture, but
has its brighter side.
While the number of fatalities and
injuries due TO accident grows, the
percentage decreases.
In proportion to population, we
are not killing and Gripping a.
many persons. by 10 per cent, as we
were twenty years ago.
Il Il T.
II Is but a part OF the terrible
game we play that people should be
crushed and crippled.
Speed and power have been car
ried quite beyond individual capa.
city.
We turn to system. discipline and
mechanical devices for relief, but
only to find that other doors are left
open.
With two out OF every three DO
lcemen on traffic duty. the murderer
and thief have a better chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
TARIFF AGAIN ISSITE

Signs are accommodating that the tariff will be a
major political issue in the next Congress. and the
subsequent presidential campaign.
The Democrats will seek to make revision Of
the tariff a political issue and they have launched
their preliminary onslaughts. .
But economic problems. national and interna-
tional, will help to focus public attention. The ran
idly growing financial strength of this country. COM
pared to Europe; the war debts problem, the immi
grafton question, and the demand of Western farm
es for farm relief, are some of the causes which will
bring a demand of modification of the policy.
Since 1912 the United States has increased its
wealth at the rate Of $4,000, 900, O00>a year, and this
summer the Nation, according to a recent statement
by Secretary Hoover, without the ballyhoo of a boom.
is making record-breaking economic strides.
The Pennsylvania primary investigation has
helped to focus attention on the tariff. It was dis
closed that Joseph R.. Grundy, president of the Penn.
sylvania Manufacturers Association, contributed
100000 to help the nomination of Senator Pepper.
Grundy, a large textile manufacturer. and his asso-
ciates, are benefactors of the tariff.
Democratic Senators in their campaigns this
summer are discussing ~thetarif, and the entire ques-
tion, according to Senator Gerry OF Rhode Island.
chairman Of the Democratic senatorial committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
H DOES THIS O v

There are $4,000 speak-easies in New York City.
Who said so? Well, weS have it on the word OF
Chester P. Mills, Federal prohibition administrator
for that district.
Thus there are more speakeasies in New York
City today, Mr.. Mills says, than there used to be
licensed saloons in the whole State of New York.
Only 1905 licenses were issued for New York State
during the year 1918.
New York City, of course, may be an exception.
Again It may not. Other Federal officers, in various
parts of the country, may know where there are sew
eral thousand more bootleg places. If Mr.. Mills
knows where $4,000 are, must not the other agents
have tab of a few also?
Suppose there were as many speak-easies scat
tered over the country, in proportion to population
as there are in New York City? Roughly then. we
would have around $4,000 speak.easies in this, the
eighth year of prohibition.
or course, the rest of the country is not so wet
as New York. That is, we believe not. That is. we
mean, we guess not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
HOME REMAINS A CASTLE

A mans home remains his castle, fanatacism
Notwithstanding. A dry agent who invades your prt-
vate premises without a search warrant does so at
his peril.
That is what is meant by the verdict Of not guilty
returned by a jury at Steubenville, Ohio, where a
man has been on trial, charged with having shot
to death a prohibition enforcement officer who in.
vaded his home in search Of booze.
The raider showed no warrant. He presented no
credentials. When asked what he was doing there,
he replied; TITS none of your damned business"
Thereupon the raider reached for his revolver
and the householder made 1t considerable OF his
business by producing his own pistol and killing the
trespasser.
The fourth amendment to the Constitution of the
United States guarantees citizens the right to be free
from unreasonable searches and seizures. II is a
wise provision. intended to give us the privilege of
living our own lawful lives, in our own homes, free
to rear our own children in peace and quietude; Sc
cure there from the prying eyes of meddlesome
Mother Grundys who would stick their over.busy
noses into our own affairs.
And now a jury in the steubenville (ohio) test
case says that fanatics can not. by statute, set aside
this constitutional guarantee.
1t is well that America remains American. Lib
erty, long trodden under foot and grotesuuely ex.
pressed by a club In the hands of shopping, gold,
digging dry officers, remains the vital thing for
which our forefathers shed their blood.
The rule of the pistol is a bad rule, regardless
of the cause in which it is employed. II is unfortu-
nate that the Steubenville man was forced to use
a gun to protect his family from a shameless and
unlawful invasion. We are sorry that some ether
way was not found:
But these facts remain: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
gumfoots in this city, in this State, in every State
and city in the land, must learn at last that the
ends do not always Justify the means.
When they go forth to raid homes, they must
be sure they go with clean hands.
They must be sure they are clothed with the
proper legal authority.
The spirit of liberty lives. A mans home re-
mains his castle. A jury of good American citizens
has spoken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
~OvER-ANXIOUs MOTHERs
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON.

One Of the greatest forms of feminine egotism is to
be recognized in the mother who refuses to leave her
children for a single night.
There are many such women in the world. They
cherish the idea that If they left their babies in the
care Of somebody else for twenty four hours the world
would crumble. They fondly imagine that by being
forever present they are fulfilling their maternal
duties.
And can't you imagine how tired the children must
get Of such a mother?
OF course, we women who have babies probably
never dream that the little darlings could ever get
bored with us. but I feel sure they must often do SO.
They may scream after us as we disappear, but the
chances are that our absence will be a relief to them
and that some new face lowering over them will be
a pleasant change.
And how their eyes shine wden we return! How
they beam at us and how lovingly. their little hands
caress that mother who has been out of. their small
world for a timel
The woman who is so full Of the sense OF her own
Importance that she will never go away is very short.
sighted. Husbands cherish you more when they have
been without your pinistrations for a time. Children
find you more precious when they have been deprived
Of your loving Service. Everybody loves you more
after you haze been gone.
And that mother who has never left her children
does not know what real joy is, because she has never
experienced the thrill of coming back to them. "
Life holds no more preasant sensation than the
sight Of those you hold most dear after your eager
eyes, have not rested upon their faces for a long and
lonesome time-that. and the light you see shining in
their eyes which lives alone for you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02


Collins Of the Marion County Crimi.
nal Court knows that two and two
always makes four. but in a dra-
matte problem there may be reasons
for the same formula making a diff.
ferent total. But Judge Collins
knows the lazy says that two and
two makes Tour. Why don't the
movie writers and the film directors
know this great truth?
Some day when a movie writer In
sists on a courtroom scene, I am CO.
ing to suggest that Judge Collins be
invited to Hollywood. or wherever
the picture is being made. so that
he IA direct the courtroom scene.
Then we would have, dramatically
and legally speaking, two and two
make four in the movie courtroom.
/ am very sincere in this after
seeing Her Honor the Governor"
For a while in the courtroom scene
of this movie. I thought that at last
we had a courtroom scene on the
screen that Judge Collins and all
the world could recognize as a real
courtroom scene.
Then all of a sudden 1t was de-
cided that Miss Frederick should
"emote," and she enoted all over the
screen. Fine acting but ii isn't law
and 1t isn't good theater. Somebody
decided that two and three make
four.
Dramatic license, the film direc-
tor tells me. But let me suggest that
I have e great drama, the great
est possible drama enacted in the
courtroom of Judge Collins In my
newspaper experience. And here
was a read courtroom with Judge
Collins and real drama.
/ can't understand why a director
Of movies, especially one who en-
joys to photograph realism. doesn't
visit a real court some time before
he attempts to photograph it.
In this Frederick movie we have
a courtroom scene at it's beginning
which looks like the real article. And
il proceeds for some time. Detail
after detail Of the real article is In.
cluded and then Pauline Frederick
as the mother and governor OF a
State and the mother of the defend
ant. a son On trial for murder, bursts
out in a lecture to the jury. And
that outburst is permitted by the
judge in this movie. Do you think
any real judge or any real p~rosecut-
ing attorney would tolerate that?
/ don't want you to get the i'm.
preston that Her Honor the Gov
ernor' is all wrong. 1t isn't and
most Of the time it is corking good
theater. The story gets into the
heart. OF course the big item is that
Pauline Frederick is given a grand
dramatic opportunity. In fact many
Of them. II is her picture. When
it comes to emoting, Pauline
Frederick is the best artist we have
before the screen today. If the
director and the movie writer had
known court DON methods a little
better, Her Honor the Governor"
would have been one Of the ten best
Of the year.
AS it is, it stands as a fine ex-
ample of what great dramatic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
Tracy
Senator Caraway Knows
How to Please Children
and Politicians,
BY Nj. E. Tracy

Senator caraway of Arkansas
finds President Coolidge a pathetic
figure In the role of fisherman. but
then Senator Caraway Of Arkansas
finds most everybody pathetic in one
role or another.
Governor AL Smith is pathetic, be.
cause of the wetness ami religion
that bar him from being elected
President. though, as Senator Cara
way opines, he could probably get
the Democratic nomination two
years hence If the two..thirds rule
were abolished.
William G. McAdoo is pathetic, be.
ceause he threw away all his
chances by flirting with the Ku-Klux
Khan. and Oscar w. Underwood is
pathetic, because he did the same
thing by knocking IL.
Having eliminated a good many
bright prospects In Tins gloomy man.
ner, the Senator turns prophet and
forecasts that the Democrats will
nominate some man unknown in
1928, that the Republicans will do
likewise and that the Democrats will
win, which is one of those Delphic
auguries with a happy ending that
can always be depended on to please
children and, politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
D~onaIdSon'S Tragedy

What a picturesque career Bert
Donaldson had
A thug turned prosecutor: a ban.
dit, salvaged by fate, as II would
seem, to become the nemesis of the
very gangs he once trained with.
You can't eclipse his record in the
widest fiction.
Once he was convicted Of muir.
der. though wrongly. and again of
robbery
While serving a light sentence in
the Federal Prison az Atlanta for
the latter crime. he was converted.
became a social worker, then a
Presbyterian minister and finally an
assistant to the solicitor general Of
Georgia. which position he held at
the time he was assassinated in a
hotel room last Thursday night.
To make the tragedy of his death
still more romantic, he had recently
come into wealth, and was planning
TO retire Just as Vol as he caught
Floyd Woodward, head of the mil
lion dollar bunco which he and So.
licitor General Boykin had broken up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02

40S
female shake a wicked piece of
shredded wheat or that which
should be covered by said shredded
wheat. The fact remains that Olive
Borden as the quaint-faced little
heroine of this yellow Fingers
melodrama doesn't use shredded
wheat. but another garment about
as scanty. And how Olive can
wiggle. She must have heard that
Gilda Grey had packed her shred
ded wheat and had gone Into the
movies. And so Olive goes Gilda
n better. by doing the same dance
without shredded wheat. Gilda has
no monopoly on wiggles. Olive
proves that in yellow Fingers"
And that explains fully about all
there is to yellow Fingers" 1t is
the old Luana stunt done in a
different setting and by different
actors.
You will be interested in Bartram
and Saxton, two singers, who are
PiShhJ WCAl khONH ia 'hila CITY w
previous visits. They know how to
build a good program of melody. AS
you know the Colonial has Just re.
opened after being closed for a week
for house cleaning.
And so under the new policy Of
stage presentations. we have this
week Bartram and Saxton, two men,
who know when and what to sing.
1t takes a little time to introduce
a new policy and If anybody in the
world can do that big thing, then
Bartram and Saxton are the ones.
Floyd Thompson and his Ameri-
can Harmonists, THE Thirteenth
Man." a News Reel and Aesop
Fables, complete the bill.
At the Colonial all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
Times Readers
Voice ViezGS
Editor Of The Tines:

Editor Of The Times:
Is Indiana to be subjugated to the
corrupt campaign contributions so
recently exposed in Illinois, where
Samuel insult, extensive operator I'M
this State, is reported to have given
almost $500, 900 to the campaigns of
various candidates for United.
States Senator?
Are the utilities which insult con
trolls, including those In Indianapolis.
to be perpetuated and protected
against wholesome competition by
the authority granted by a commits
sion subject to influences which In.
sull so literally and boldly ma
nipulates?
No wonder that the Peoples Motor
Coach Company, which has asked
Twelve or more routes in Indian
dpolis during the past fifteen.
months, has been turned down time
after time In favor of the street rail
way company. No wonder that In
sull feels safe IN increasing his hold
ings in other Indianapolis utilities
No wonder the merits of the appli.
cations Of the bus company have
been ignored and the street railway
company given almost anything it
wants from the governing body. No
wonder the Indifference to the wei.
fare of the public in relation to
public transportation. No wonder
the head of the street railway COM.
pany refuses to consider representa-
tives of employees of the company.
who have witnessed an increase of.
25 Der cent in the fares paid and
have nev had a cent advance in
their wages. c. T. 3.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-02
FOR COURTS

Let it be hoped that the ninety-day sentences
passed UPON Parker and Armstrong by Federal Judge
Baltzell will increase respect for courts and the dig.
nifty of judicial orders.
One of the foremost topics of discussion at the
recent meeting of the American Bar Association was
the growing disregard of the people for courts and
for the laws.
The great minds of the legal profession were
haunted by shadowy alarm that the time might
soon come. if not already here. when the ordinary
citizen would lose all confidence in courts and we
would revert to the day of private justice and re-
dress for wrongs,
These two men will spend the next ninety days
in iail for violating an order issued by the court re-
straining them from interfering with the operation OF
street cars.
They are, or we're, organizers of the national
union of street car employees. 1t is their business
to organize unions. They hold the office of vice
president in the national body. -
When they came to this city, they received a
rather unusual welcome. The police put them in
Jail several times on vague charges OF vagrancy and
forced them to produce heavy bonds for their good
conduct. At one time they had guarantees of 800,
900 for their obedience to the statutes and criminal
laws. They were never tried. All cases we're dis
missed. tt
Then came the Injunction and the charge that
they had violated it by attending a strike, meeting.
That and a speech containing some sighting re-
marks about injunctions in general, constituted their
offense.
The first charge against them, it is true, did al
lege that they had inspired or ~conspired or encour-
aged d%ynamiting Of cars and violence.
But that charge. although presented by the dis
trict attorney, was withdrawn before the hearing. It
is to be presumed that he was mistaken when he
made 1t or that he could not prove it. The sug-
gestion that this charge was withdrawn in order to
avoid giving a trial by a jury is too abhorrent to
be accepted.
There had been dynamiting Of cars and attempt.
ed terrorism of the public. There had been some
injuries to passengers. And with these two organ
izers when they were sentenced were members OF
the union they had organized, who readily admitted
that they had placed explosives on the track.
Those who confessed to these acts of violence
Jail.
The men who did not urge the violence and did
not inspire it, but who attended a strike meeting.
received the ninety-day sentences.
Thus is a victory scored in the great crusade of
courts to create confidence in justice.
The men who dynamited cars get twenty and
thirty days in jail.
The men a~djudged guilty Of contempt for an
Injunction f~orbidding them to encourage a strike get
ninety days.
dangerous to violate an order from a Judge.