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DR.. FRANK CRANES.
DAILY EDITORIAL
Whit YOu Don't KnOIU
What You Don't KnOIO


TOHN S. FORD in "A Literary Workshop" says
"There should be university for the elderly, with
an elective course for old enough to know what
they do not know and wise enough to know what they
ought to know
The rarest thing the world is find man who knows
what he does not know or rather draw the line sharply
between what he knows and does not know.
Perhaps this is the truest test OF wisdom.
The trouble with most Of us that think we know
lot Of things that merely suggestions Ihe man VINO
does know thing who knows that he does not know
it, and who pretend to know it. is rare bird
true scientist by the quickness with which ne
says II don't know
The with the fumbing mind, the average man. ac
ceps Of things facts which have not been proved
OF there often number OF things that nobody
know and quite number Of things that anybody can
know It is the bordrand between these two points that
confusion lies that borderand most OF our pref
udces and ignorance and stupid intolerance
Much that is called faith due to assuming the truth Of
things that known. It much better to call our
ideas about things mere opinions and not knowledge
Science is constantly making nroads into the realm OF the
unknown bringing unknown things into the region Of
the known But there will always exist vast sea Of the
unknown that be reduced to exact information
Copyright By Mcclure Newspaper syndicateo
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TNEIE triumphs Of modern science
Il are nowhere more in the pub"
lie eye than they are in the .trop-
les of the Western Hemisphere
BY means of them, man has Wrest-
ed the Panama Canal Zone from
the clutch of tropical diseases
that made more impenetrabie par
rier to the onward march OF civil
ization than did the .iungles tney
infested. One city which owes lts
existence entirely to the skill OF
the sanitary engineer is forI
Limon, the Caribbean seaport u
the Republic of Costa RIGA.
Fifty-five years ago on clear
DAYS. the natives who dWelt IN
the highlands of Costa RIGA could
catch a glimpse of the sea to the
East. bI-+ so great was their FEAR
of the mngle fevers that they
never had the courage to venture
below the temperate 1,OOO-Eoot
level where coffee cultivation
ceased. But the demands OF com.
merce were not to be denied, ana
the advantages of natural har-
Dor made it imperative that
settlement be made at the termin"
us. of the proposed railway from
the capital, San Jose. The name
of the port was taken from
lemon tree found in the jungle.
The only thing possible was to
develop banana plantations along
the right Of way. These came
into being through the energy
and resourcefulness of the ran
way builder, and proved the
means of saving the, life OF his
transportation line.
Thanks to the skin Of the SCI
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THE AGE OF MAN
By Garrett P. Serviss

seems to have been the case, 1t
served to develop and perpetuate
the superiority of the human
stock over its brute contempor-
aries of Pleistocene times, it has
won a high place TOR itself in the
earth's history.
The objection that Prof. Berry
makes to the term "psychozoic
era" on purely geological grounds
calls for no adverse comment. 1t
is, of course, perfectly true that
the advent of man on the earth
has not produced a geologic revo-
luton. He Is physically a very
mightiest works are not even,
visible from the nearby moon.
But, by virtue of his brain power
he has overrun the earth, bored
ways for himself through it's
mountains, mastered the stormy
seas with his ships: enabled him.
self to fly in it's atmosphere;
subdued it's energies to his use;
turned its deserts into fruitful
plains; multiplied and modified its
vegetable products; tanned, domes-
ticated and reformed the charac-
ter Of many of his animal con-
temporaries; frightened and en-
Iivened millions of square miles
of it's surface by his presence
and his activities; filled it with
ornaments from his hands that
appeal to the sense of beauty and
order. BY the power of his mind
he has reached out beyond the
worlds, and ventured with un-
daunted imagination among the
countless suns of the galaxy,
classifying them by their ages
and by their chemical and physl-
cal constitution, which have been
made known to him by the mar
Velous power of his own thoughts.
Considered in the light of these
facts, does not the advent OF man
appear the greatest event in the
worlds history? Surely his
shadow falls beyond the anglos-
perm, and beyond all strait
graphic, faunal or floral things,
and events.
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A TROPICAL TRIUMPH

entists, malaria and yellow fever
have been stamped out, and Port
Limon has become the largest
port for the expectation Of
bananas in all the tropics. 1t Is
a city of some 5000 inhabitants,
modern and sanitary in every re-
spect.
Costa RIGA holds first place
publics for the cultivation OF
bananas, and one company alone
ships between seven and eight
million punches annually through
Port Limon. The city exports
coffee and pineapples. SoiLc cat
tie are also exported, bur
throughout the tropics, however,
bananas usually take the place or
meat. They are universal food
in the ripe stage from Infancy
to old age.
A trip to Port Limon is not
complete without making the
tourney to San Jose. Tns rail-
way is one Of the most pictur.
esoue lines in the world For
the first twenty miles 1t skirts
the coast, affording continual
pictures of the surf, the break
ers appearing through groves OF
graceful palms. AS the lins rises
the tropical vegetation of me
coast gives way to the mountains
side farms on which coffee. to-
bacco, sugar cane, corn and cit-
rus fruits are growing. Where
the Reventazon River dwindlss to
a silver thread 1900 feet below
the railway, the glittering falls
and the wild ravines make a
scene Of Undesirable beauty -
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days used plain horse SENSE. And
that's what we need to use now.
That's what would cure our
Crime Wave and Younger Gen.
Grafton evils. Just good, old
fashioned common sense. Why
can't we have lit
We can't have It, my friend.
because we never have had 1t.
There never has been such q
thing as common" sense.
Sense has always been most
rare and uncommon In the
human ranks.
Stop and think. How long has
humanity been a Going Business!
Only few million years, which
is but a pinch OF time In the
face of eternity.
We once lived az animals did.
Emotions ruled US. Fear was
god. Fear, hunger. sex--tnat
was the triumvirate which gov
erned our lives. They still govern
our lives to q great extent.
We flatter ourselves that We
are thinking misunderstanding
animals animals.
We aren't.
w Il t6E tGAES1ENG1 ANIMALS.
HUNGRY, FIGHTING ANIMALS
--LUSTFUL ANIMALS.
We still act on impulse. rather
than on reasoning. We're still
afraid to 'be different" It's
uncomfortable to be different. It's
dangerous to be different. It's
tremendously difficult to reason
things out.
That's why Sense" Is still most
uncommon. It's rare now-it was
even rarer in grandpa's day.
Mr.. Edwards snorts an indig.
nant denial to that. He points
with pride to the simple pro-
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BY ELSIE ROBINSON

z
ing little children with fists and
sticks. There was no comno1
sense about that. It was exact
II on q. par with the cuff which
4 wild cat administers to its
young, and got the same results;
it was the rule of fear aud u
begat fear. It added n9tning
whatever to the sum total OF
intelligence.
The treatment Of criminals, the
inadequatei educational systems
were equally short on reason.
But nevertheless most people
felt comfortable under that
system. They felt comfortable
because that system made lie
easy for them. It's much easier
to use force than It 10 to use
reason. It's much easier to 60
along without fuss about prison
reforms and civic hygiens and
child training than it IL to insti-
tute such things in our daily
life. It's much easier TO be stu
Did and intolerant and slow and
conservative than It Is TO be IN
te1ligent and tolerant anu brisk
and progressive.
And so because we like tho old
easy ways we called them conn
mon sense" and bewan their
passing.
It's the old easy way you're
longing for, friend Edwards. and
not sense. For sense Is never
easy. Nor common. Nor quite
safe.
Think OF that, Pal, when you
find yourself snorting At some
new regime and longing fer COM
mon sense.
Is it really sense you want? Or
something that won't make you
use your brains?
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Why Pet?
ALL the 81 varieties Of love-
IA making are interesting-but
"petting' isn't one OF them!
Petting is one of the Seven
Deadly Arts, such as doing the
Charleston. playing the uke and
lifting.
Petting Is to iove-making
what a scenic railway is to
trip abroad, or what near-beer Is
to champagne.
Petting, like q street fight, Is
merely an exhibition OF the hu-
man soul in dishabille. It Is the
immodest exposure Of the primi-
tive emotions.
1t is revealing the heart in
negligee!
It looks as though you were 80
HUNGRY to be loved! And SO
hard up!
It is cheerfully and meekly &C.
cepting the scraps from the table
Of a mans affections.
It is standing in the bread-line.
with the sentimental failures ana
the romantic buns.
1t is accepting a "hand-out"-
instead Of demanding an engraved
invitation to the love-feast.
It is cheaper than wearing sec
ond-hand clothes and a borrowed
hat.
1t is playing penny.ante with
the blue chips.
1t is admitting that you are
delighted to be "anybody's oarl-
ing" for the evening or the week
end party.
1t is parking yourself on life's
East Side with the secondhand
flivvers and the push-carts.
It il giving yourself away like
a premium at an auction safe:
1t is not clever or beautiful;
1t Is not even wicked or spicy.
1t is just CHEAP! And child
ish!
SIN may SOHnSLlHSS oc anu AiAS
or thrilling-but petting isn't sin.
1t is merely cheap sport. There
are some things that simply
CANNOT be idealized, even by
adding soft music and moonlight:
an ash-can, a cheese sandwich, q
soap factory-and PETTING!
No man who has his fill Of
ham sandwiches and pink Ice
cream has any zest or appetite
for a real dinner: and no man
who has INDUCED ad nauseum in
easy petting asld cheap 0aEssasa
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LISTEN, WORLD!

gram Of his
youth Ii D
rough and ready
discipline t b o
freedom from
fads and new
Z g n s ] . 4
theories. =
''Those folks
Sc d common
sense, |" he in
sists.
N 81, I -
didn't, Pal.
In6FS W OE
3 ensi BILE m y n
then as there
are sensible men
now, but most
OF them follow
ed the simple
emotional pro-
cesses Of coTIli-
vorous animals.
For instance.
this charming
49, - H.Nn
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wv we have
more good old
fashioned COM
mon senee?'' Ia.
rments Mr.. Ed
wards.
Now, when he
was q boy, most
everyone u 8 . d
common sense.
None Of these
h g w tangled.
high falutin' no.
ito n . { h e Sc
crazy schemes
for raising
youngsters and
giving them gilt
e d g e d educa-
tton ., the s e
I11ussy plans for
G d d Ii n Grim
inals-No street,!
None Of that
for era nd pa.
Folks In those
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WISE SAYINGS

The more a man denies him.
self, the more he shall obtain
from God. Horace
He who can at all times sac
rifice pleasure to duty approaches
sublimity. ,-LaVatef.
The chief glory of every peo-
pie arises from ito authors.
johnson
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DROF. e. w. BERRY, Of Johns
III Hopkins University, considers
that 1.-The magnitude and multi
ferrous effects Of human activity"
on this planet ARE scarcely or
geologic magnitude" He Is able,
he says, to conceive of many past
events as being of much greater
Importance than the advent OF
man ut might be conceivable"
he adds. that the first mammal
or the first Towering plant IAN
gio-sperrn) was more Of an event
than the first man."
Prof. Berry is talking Of the
suitability Of the term 'psy.
chozoic," often used to describe
the present era of the history OF
the earth in order to distinguish
it from the earlier periods. Men
tai activity came upon the earth
with man. There can be no
objection" he says, "to speaking
of the present as the Age of Man
Or Woman for that matter
but this is quite different thing
from setting up Psychozoic as a
formal era For this the term
possesses no qualifications, either
with respect to the time involved,
the sediments deposited or the
distinctness of the lower bound
ary-either photographic, faunaI
or floral"
If such a thing were possible
one might think that Prof. Berry
looks with certain contempt
upon man, at least geologically
considered He is able to view
man with a certain degree OF
detachment" and thus viewed,
he finds that imam becomes i'm
pressive as one of gang. The
necessity for these weakest OF
mammals, among their contem"
poraries of the Old Stone Age, to
hunt in packs. was doubtless the
inception of that nationalistic i'm
pulse of which we see such
strong recrudescence at the pres
ent time"
1t seems somewhat remarkable
that this weakest Of mammals,
subdued and survived the others.
The "nationalistic impulse" upon
which Professor Berry, following
a present fashion of the "intel-
lectuals." bestows passing KICK
may not have deposited any geo
logical sediments. But II, as
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A BROTHERS
PRIVILEGE
Mrs. Cornelius BeeckmanI

MIS- NOENGl1uS DSSCAut1A
MY DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
WILL you kindly tell me the
w correct form for my we'd.
ding invitation? I have no
parents. only brother, who Is
not living 1n Washington, but
will be here for the wedding.
I said the invitation should
read: Miss Rose Marie Smith
requests the honor Of your pres
ence at her marriage" My
fiance says it should read: "Mr.
Earl T. Smith requests the honor
Of your presence at the marriage
Of his sister"
A CONSTANT READER.
Your fiance is correct in his
taste and sense Of form. It Is
far better for you to have your
brother do the honors for you at
your wedding. The invitations
should be sent out in his name;
he should be invited to present
you in marriage, and he should
make the announcement.
An Important Don't"
Is it right to chew gum in
public. for instance, at parties,
on street cars, and so forth?
F. S.
No. If you feel that life is in
connlete without indulging lE
this vapid habit, chew your gur1
in the privacy Of your room.
where the wide, wide world does
not have to watch you.
BY the way, did you ever see
a person whom you would class
as a person of breeding and re-
finement chewing gum in public?
Necessary Introduction
I have heard from friend,
not very long ago, that young
man I saw some time ago
cares for me. I never realized it.
Every time I pass him he smiles
as though he wanted to get
acquainted, In order to get
acquainted with each other would
it be proper for me to talk with
him first? Please advise me.
JANE.
Now. Jane. you wouldn't expect
me to say that it would be or
rect for you to speak to the
gentleman, without an introduce
tion-would you? Since the mu-
tual friend seems to know the
gentleman we'll enough for him
to confide in her about YOU. why
doesn't she introduce him to you?
Anyway. give the friendship a
good and wholesome start by be-
ginning 1t as 1t should be begun
with an introductions -..
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has any enthusiasm or desire LETT
for real LOVE!
Wood alcohol may poison the
stomach and rob a man of MS
digestion, but free-and-easy pet
ting poisons the soul and rohs
a woman of her life'S greatest
necessity-ROMANCEl ...
Why pot2 -u,AnGalAuA4ls.-
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Trucks
PASSENGER BIS 1903

Ford, with Ruckstell extension: in fine
condition INSIDE and out; motor exception
ally good. This would make a fine school
bus. Priced very low for a quick sale.
210 Penway Bldg.
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RAINY AND SULTRY
WEATHER L|NGERS

With humidity only per cent be-
low the seasons record, and a fore
cast for local thundershowers, In
dianapolis today carried on with the
same unusual August weather
which to date has marked the month.
Temperature was II, or above
normal, at a. M, while the
humidity, or moisture in the air, was
90 per cent. The humidity record
for. the season is 81 per cent,
established July 8.
August so far has been ex-
ceptionally rainy and sultry, Meteoro-
logist ]. II. Arlington pointed olNE
Total rain during the month hA1
been 2.S7 inches, while normal for
the first half is only 1877 inches.
Normal for the whole month is 1888
inches.
Little change in temperature is
anticipated. Rain Sunday registered
Os1ly .02 Of an inch,
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manners of the masses is marked
as a freak" and crowds turn to
cape.
Greenwich Village commercialized
this many years ago. BY means of
a few artists smocks and flowing
ties, this district drew thousands
from every section and became snug
ly prosperous. Chorus girls wear
funny ankle bracelets or go without
stockings and, of course, attract at
tention.
All any sap has to do in this
community-or almost any other,
for that matter-is to affect a couple
Of eccentricities and, within the
week, he is marked by the crowds.
So
And many are the individuls who
find this Barnumesque device emf.
nently profitable. Just now Fifth
Avenue becomes the target at which
they aim.
Recently there appeared hand
some young fellow, with long Ear
tistic" hair, who .paraded up and
down the famous thoroughfare.
Now and then, for no particular
reason, he would stop and burst
into a fragment of song. Hundreds
would stop dead in their tracks and
others would follow him.
He would continue walking for a
few blocks and again the necessity
for song would come upon him. A
few notes more and then on he
would go.
After several days of this crowds
began to look for him.
Finally curious ones stopped him
and asked what the big idea was.
He was perfectly frank.
1--WE got to attract attention" -
said. tive got a good voice and "
know it. I've gone around trying
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to get engagements and couldn't. 1
wasn't known. Nobody had ever
heard of me. Soon the whole city
will know me-"
And 1t does. The young man now
appears several times a week at q
big radio station broadcasting room
and is likely to get stage engage
ment.
T. i T.
Then there was the case of the
young singer who struggled along
until he conceived the idea of put
ting on a mask.
Today the whole broadcasting
world knows the "Silver Masked
Tenor" So much so that a big mu-
steal bureau has booked him for a
transcontinental tour, beginning in
Ohio. His name is never mentioned.
That's of no consequence. If he
were to remove the mask it is prob
able that the crowds would soon fall
off. And yet, 1 take my oath, he
sings no better with the mask on
than with it off.
And there's the old gent who APP
pears on the avenue with an Alphine
stick, in lieu of the walking cane;
the Beau Brummelish old fellow whMN
wears cutaway coats and spats
the temperature be 90 in the shade
and if the time be morning or night
to say nothing Of his waxed mus
taoba and elevated boa1a
In Greenwich Village there was a
book store that passed from one
hand to the other No one could
make it so. Along came a young
man from the west. He had lived on
the border and at one time rode
cattle" He put on cowboy hat,
hung some lariats and saddles in the
window, began singing cowboy songs.
And the book store is a success.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl
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TAKING WALK ON a
BROADWAY WITH
GILBERT SWAN
Getting the Deep LoW-DoWn
on Greenwich Village
and Other Places.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Fa
nous methods Of P. T. Barnum are
constantly being applied by those
shrewd ones who might otherwise
go unnoticed.
The circus genius would take
three-legged pig, wild man from
Borneo, a "what-is-it" or a bearded
lady and calling attention to these
strange creatures" would soon have
a crowd Of gawkers.
When the dimes had been counted
he would smile and comment:
There's one born every minute"
Such is the extent Of modern
Standardization that any one who
does not wear the exact clothes and
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TRADE YOUR CAR

\ y
for a late model closed one A large line
Willys-Knights. Overands, Paiges Jewetts
Washes Essex. Fords. chevrolets, many
l.. 7. ALLEN MOTOR SALES.
Open evenings OH Virginia Ave.
FOR high-class used cars come to ILG
MOTOR SALES. Hudson and Essex
Dealers. 2957-59 Central Ave. Ran. 1915.
Omen evenings
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WOODEN BLAMES
FORDNEY TARIFF (
FORFARMERI ILLS
Democratic Candidate for
Senate Is Speaker at
Frankfort.

FRANKFORT, Ind, Aug. 10
The general character Of the farm
problem in the United States is two
fold, having a short-term and a
long-serm aspect, Evans Woollen,
Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate, declared in a speech
here today. The short-term aspect
of the farm problem dates from the
war, Woollen said, and the long
term aspect goes back into the last
century.
by the patriotic endeavor of our
farmers to win the war with food,
agriculture in this country was
stimulated to abnormal production"
he said. That abnormal produc-
ton could not be brought abruptly
to conclusion with the end of the
war. Agriculture has since suffered
from that war time stimulation. We
have had oversupply and under
demand, the latter proceeding
chiefly from the impairment of Eu-
ropeon purchasing power. Contrari-
wise, it was quite the other way
around with the nonagricultural
commodities. Their production was
repressed during the war and with
the armistice began period of
catching up. In consequence we
have had lack of equilibrium be-
tween agriculture and industry. At
the end of 1921 the per capita in
come of our Indiana farm popula-
ton had been reduced in three years
SO per cent, while the income Of
our other Indiana population had
been reduced less than per cent.
Simply expressed, the dollar Of the
farmer has been, still is, worth less
than the dollar of other people.
Hits Tariff
ut is inevitable that the war
should have brought difficulties to
the American farmer. For meeting
those inevitable difficulties his pa
tient courage and self-respecting re-
sourcefulness would have been suf-
ficient. The cruel wrong of it all
was that while struggling with those
difficulties he was put upon by the
Fordney-McCumber tariff act. 1 say
put upon because that act increased
his difficulties in two ways: First,
by increasing the prices Of things he
had to buy; second, by decreasing
his farm market.
1.-THE average rate Of duties was
raised to the highest point in our
history. The average of duties is
now something like 40 per cent of
the value Of the goods on which they
ire levied, and let it not be over
looked ever that the one unques-
toned thing which a protective tariff
does is to raise prices. Such is the
primary PURPOSE of q protective
tariff.
"In Pretense"
Farm machinery and fertilizer
and other things were put on the
free list to be sure, but in pretence.
I say ain pretence" for it avails the
farmer nothing to have those things
on the free list while retaining
high duties on the materials from
which those things are made.
How long a wrong was put upon
the American farmer in raising the
prices of the things he buys may
be measured by the fact that the
Fair Tariff League, an organization
favorable to protection, but to honest
protection, has estimated that the
net annual lose to Indiana farmers
alone from the raising of prices by
the Fordney- McCumber tariff act is
thirtythree million dollars"