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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

play youth. The four outstanding
performances in the juvenile part of
the cast are Mary Ennis as Frances
Weaver; Phyllis Nordstrom as
Agnes; Margaret Hamilton as Daisy
LOOMS and Booth Jameson as Roy
Pickett.
Booth Jameson has that natural
for goodness everything face which
makes it easy for him. to make a
corking natural character out Of Roy
Pickett, the plumber. He has both
personality and natural talent. At
tention should be paid to Mary
Ennis, she seemed to have a fine
sense of the theater.
In the adult department, Mrs.
Ruben Leyey as Mrs. Herman
Neimeyer did a mighty good piece
of real character work so as to get
certain comedy effects.
others in the cast are Mrs. Will
liam D. Campbell, Harry A. Bolt,
Mary Fletcher Jack Arthur, who is
very good as the fresh salt water
life saver; Edward Green and Julian
c. Fix as Harry Darby, who also
deserves much credit for his natural
work.
George Somnes directed the play
and the setting were what one would
demand and expect upon the
legitimate stage.
The Little Theatre will repeat
1.-TWO Weeks Off" on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights as well
as Saturday afternoon.
Another real accomplishment and
a satisfactory experiment at the
hands Of the Little Theatre Society
Of Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
ENDANGERING OUR CANALS

Friendship with other nations is one form OF
national defense.
Some day we will build another Atlantic
Pacific canal to supplement the highly successful
Panama canal. The right to build it across Nicara-
qua already has been obtained
Do we want that canal in friendly or unfriendly
territory? Will not the friendship of the people
Nicaragua and other Central American countries
offer one of the greatest safeguards both canals can
have?
If this is So should not the United States be
bending all its diplomacy toward cutvating friend
ship instead of stirring hatred?
1t is a simple and practical question 1t an
swers itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Cal and Canal

To read President Coolidge's mes
sage one would think we had already
begun to build a second isthmian
canal through Nicaragua.
Such a canal is desirable, but il
hasn't been authorized, much less be-
gun.
Under such circumstances it is diff
ficult to understand exactly what Mr.
Coolidge means.
Has this Government recognized
Adolfo Diaz as president of Nicara
qua for the same reasons, or any
thing like the same reasons, that in
duced Roosevelt to recognize the re
public of Panama?
Is it favoring a particular faction
to drive some sharp trades and gain
control of another Central American
country?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
WHY PLAY EITHER?

America is too big to play the coward, says Will
liam Randolph Hearst.
Since he was talking about our relations with
Nicaragua, he should have added that America is
too big, likewise to play the bully.
Nicaragua is country of about 10000 SQUARE
miles, containing 100000 people, The United States
is a country of 100000 square miles, containing
100000 900 people,
1t isn't playing the coward to refrain from play.
ing the bully.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Biggest Tax Case

The greatest tax case in history
is being heard in Detroit. 1t has as
its background the rise of the Ford
Motor Company to a billion dollar
corporation within twenty-five years
Seven years ago Henry Ford
bought out nine of the original
stockholders and they paid a tax of
$2O,000,000 on their profit in the
deal. Now the Government wants
$31, 900 900 more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

and Pittsburgh. And the in which Ware
carried those two cities was questionable that the
Senate is preparing to examine ballot cast.
Seating Wilson will correct the Pennsylvania
situation. Merely to GUST Ware and give his place
to appontee of the present Pennsylvania Governor
would be a grim jest This Governor was elected
by the expenditure of quite as much money as was
spent in Vare's behalf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Pretty Low

A Minnesota man drinks eighty
five cups Of coffee at one sitting and
claims the belt. Not only that, but
he attracts quite bit Of attention
and some sentiment for match.
Every human activity lends itself
to champions, but we are getting
pretty low when we turn to glut-
tony, as we did in Rome and the
middle ages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS

other theaters today offer: Cantot
Rosenblatt at the Lyric; Daphne
Pollard at Keith's; Niblo and Spencer
at the Palace; 1.-THE Third Degree"
at the Colonial; Sorrows of Satan"
at the Ohio; 1.-THE Flaming Forest"
at the Apollo; 1.-THE White Black
Sheep" at the Circle; new show at
the Uptown; THE Silent Rider" at
the Isis and burlesque at the
Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Hands In Which Hold-Up
Is UnwIse De-
ScrIbed.
By Milton @. Work

The pointer for today Isl
The hoId-up is unnecessary when
Declarer knows that the partner of
the original leader will never OBJ
obtain the lead.
During the past week these ar
ticles have described the very val
liable play known as the hold-up and
have shown a number of types Of
hands in which 1t will produce q
game otherwise unobtainable. With
hands which permit a hold-up it
should generally be made; but there
are some with which it is useless,
and merely would concede two I'M
necessary tricks to the adversaries.
The hold-up is made for one pur-
pose only, viz: to exhaust the part
ner of the original leader of cards
Of the suit led, so he cannot lead
that suit II he win trick; and there
are many hands in which, for
number Of reasons the first of
which will be illustrated today and
the others later in the week., the
hold-up would be foolish. Today's
hand, contract No Trump, follows:
North
s. A-Q-J.
III. 1916.
ID. J-9-8-4-2.
c. 1919.
West East
Leads Plays
Four of Club Queen of Clubs
South
S. K-7.3-2.
III. AXIS.
ID. A-Q-10.
c. ASS.
It will be noted that when the De-
clarer South plans his campaign he
will see that he has eight tricks he
can run, and that to make game it is
necessary finessing the Diamond. If
he could lose this finesse and leave
tthe lead in the East hand, he should
hold up the Club until the third
round; but as a lost f1nesse must
leave the lead in the danger hand
(West, there is no point in giving
away tricks in an attempt to ac-
complish the unaccomplishable. Fur
thermore, Declarer knows that East
can never obtain the lead anyway:
so why surrender two tricks to keep
him from leading his partners suit?
If West have the King of Diamonds,
game cannot be made, hold-up or
no hold-up. If East have that all
important card, Small Slam can be
made by taking the first trick, and
the hold-up would present two tricks
to the adversaries without obtaining
any advantage in return; so this is
case in which the hold-up should not
be made.
Another such case will be given
tomorrow.
Copyright, John r. Ollie Coz
Work, the international author
ity on Auction Bridge, will answerI.
questions on the game for Time@N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Lloyd George addressed church meeting the
other day in Welsh and English We've heard
speakers who were familiar both with American
and English too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

The holidays are over and we must say the
fveday week isn't bad, after ALL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

All records in road building will be broken this
year. says an engineer Then, no! for the life of a
detourist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
How are cranberries grown?

In the improved culture of cram
berries, natural swamps or boys are
selected which can be drained by
open bitches and flooded when de-
sired. The native moss and swamp
growth are removed and the peat
covered two to four inches deep with
sand. The vines are planted about
fourteen inches apart, cuttings six
to eight inches in length being used.
The sand keeps down the weeds,
makes cultivation easy, and helps re-
tain the moisture in the soil Addi-
tional Standings are given every four
or five years which keep the vines
short and close.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Keep active to live long, says a doctor Espe.
cially when crossing the street
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

We have been reading about child psychology
To-Day and wonder how much time Nancy Hanks
put in with a book of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

They're putting thermometers in the street
cars in Baltimore. The patrons can read 'em and
shiver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

The real oil gushers are the men who write the
stock advertisements
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Maybe it's just well to wait little while be-
fore you make up with her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

What does it mean to bolt your
food?
1t means to swallow hurriedly
without proper mastication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Questions and
Answers

-. You. can get an answer to any cues.
tlon or TACT or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Washing
ton D. c.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps
advice cannot be given nor can extended
research be-, undertaken. All other
questions will receive a personal reply
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
AL letters are confdential.-Editori
What is the meaning Of the name
Phyllis?
1t is from the German and means
Green Bough."
What causes high blood pressure?
Contraction of the muscular walls
of the arteries, causing increased re.
sistance to the flow of blood from the
heart.
Was the plan of Washington
copied from some other city and
what building was the model for the
White House?
The plan for Washington was orig
inally made by L'Enfan and was not
copied from any other city. The
White House was modelled on the
country seat of the Dukes of Lem
ster, near Dublin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

On Thursday night at English's,
Glenn Hunter will open a three-day
engagement in young Woodley."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

We can hardly await the next oil trial to find
to war on this country
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Why do we get so little heat and
light from the stars?
Because they are at such enor-
nous distances from the earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

What is the value of a United
States silver dollar dated 1899, f1llet
head, five stars to right OF bust?
From $1.75 to $3.50. With six
stars to right of bust the value is
from $1.35 to $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

What we want to know today is why all the
farm implement calendars have pictures of ball
room bellies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

When is the next presidential cleo
ton?
In November, 1928. The next Presi-
dent will be inaugurated March 4,
1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12

Work, the international author
ity ON Auction Bridge, will answerA
questions on the game for Times
readers who write to him through
The Times, enclosing seIf-ad-
dressed, stamped envelope.
Evening star., 1927-11-06

Sc Inches Wide
Brillian sport shades Zone woman design
a most successful riding habit of this fabric
hunters green), dark coat shades and in-l
tween colors for dresses. A very fine, erect-p
velveteen which wears better than velvet, w
twill back which gives pliability and softne
(Main Floor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
WOMENS HOME WORK MAKES CHILD SLAVES

ing her hand distractedly over her
head. "What with this sewing and
the homework and all, just can't
always manage to get him ready"
All do Home Sewing.
"All the mothers in the neighbor-
hood take home sewing from the fac
tory" said the head teacher. "They
have done it all the years l have been
here. Why we had one family where
the boys used to go to sleep in
school. We found out that all these
boys helped nightly with this work"
Stagger Under Bundles.
Michael's teacher has gotten used
to the sight Of women and children
staggering along under load of cut
out clothing. This is work that the
wives Of workers can do and at the
same time try to look after house
and children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
STILL MORE ABOUT 1.-THE NEW MASSES.

seems to me- writes Lawrence Williams chat Benjamin Weiss in his
magazine With all its faults don't think
black painted to
cuty of doing what The
that
artistic that extends the majority
to the capitastic system
to do
Granted that Waldo Frank and Kreymborg proaan
1.-THE
proearn and in that
tendencies That these frequently
the fault the And writers
the class struggle deliberately write in that sympathetic
and succeed imposing the editors of Te
who have dishonoed themselves and their
should
China the last issue that there should be unified
discussions of
overwrtten
unimportant
order must make provision reorentaon
the which
Of private property Perhaps the editors phsed rather pedancy when
called
but that doesn't invaidate the discussion itself.
Personally 1.-THE Masses" great
should publication magazine country
like it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
ShingIe Weaving Is a Battle "

but so long as a thumb and one fin.
ger remain, even the little one, a
man can still battle with the saws
for a livelihood. I asked one man
what compensation he had received
for a missing digit. Two hundred
and fifteen dollars was the answer.
No wonder strikers say that it would
really be blessing if the mills
should remain closed and the work
ers forced to find their living in some
less hazardous industry than the
making of shingles. But under the
present industrial system there are
too many men for the jobs. And
there's the rub.
Pitiful Low Wages.
Wages in the shingle industry are
pitifully small considering the dan
gerous nature of the work. The work.
ers of Gray's Harbor are on strike
to resist the attempt of the bosses
to reduce wages still further. Pay
ment is on a piece-work basis and
the strikers declare this will be elm
mated when their union is stronger.
Skilled workers receiving an average
of from So to $3.50 per day the boss
es would cut to $4.10 and $500. The
sawyer receives from II to 20 cents
per thousand for the shingles, which
the consumer buys at 81 or more per
thousand.
Always Cutting.
The packer receives a little less.
Day labor, relatively unskilled, the
boss would cut from 81 per day to
$3.50. The former wages may be a
trifle higher than those paid in some
other single districts but the in
creased cost of living in Gray's Har-
Dor more than makes up the differ
ence. Food is from Is to 20 per cent
higher than in Seattle.
High Rent.
A dilapidated. four or five room
house, unfinished, will rent for
$22.50 per month. Water, light, etc.,
is extra. Board at one of the COM
pany hotels for single men is $1,000
per week. The fact that most of the
strikers now have to buy their gro
ceries on credit boosts the living
costs still higher. While the mer-
chants thus far have extended credit
freely there is a disposition now on
the part of some of them to cut this
off. Ninety per cent of the strikers
are married men with families and
the problem may become acute. The
strikers are endeavoring to raise
money locally but they need help
from the unions in other cities. Have
your union vote a monthly contribu-
ton at its next meeting and send
same to International Single Weav-
ers' Union, 305 Eighth St., Hoquiam,
Wash, R. E. Lovelace, Treas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Sure Thing Sportsmen

Mayor Jimmie" Walker, was the
father of the bill bearing his name
which legalized boxing in this state,
and also recollect that "Tex" Richard
and Humbert Fugazy, millionaire
sports promoters, are among Walkers
strong hackers. They and other
"sportsmen" can connive and manipu-
late with impunity.
Nobody was ever hurt by a com
mission Investigation" and its in
evitable whitewashing. And, so far
as the press is concerned, it would
take a light stronger than the one
carried by Diogenes to locate a sports
scribe or cartoonist on one of the me-
tropolitan dailies who is not properly
instructed and provided for by the
publicity department maintained by
the promoters.
Nefarious Trades.
Broadway has its pimps and pros
titutes-and also its promoters and
their press agents. And the public
receives a generous closing of sugar
coated purgatives. Sometimes these
take the form of Benefits" similar
to the one staged in Brooklyn last
summer when practically not a cent
went to the charity involved.
Hooked In Sports.
When fight is framed the charmed
inner circle pass around the word that
it is gin the bag" AS far as the
public is concerned the whole business
is Gin the bag" and the bag encloses
every one Of the fight fans who swal-
low the stuff provided by the pros
titute press. The American boob is
hooked in sports as well as in bust
ness and politics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Rv CARL RRANNIN.

"Shingle-weaving is not trade
it is a battle. For ten hours a day
the sawyer faces two teethed steel
discs whirling around two hundred
times a minute. To the one on the
left he feeds heavy blocks of cedar,
reaching over with his left hand to
remove the rough shingles it rips
off. He does not, he cannot stop to
see what his left hand is doing. His
eyes are too busy examining the
shingle for knot-holes to be cut out
by the second saw swirling in front
of him.
Saw Sets Pace.
"The saw on his left sets the pace.
If the singing blade rips fifty rough
shingles off the block every minute,
the sawyer must reach over to its
teeth fifty times in sixty seconds; if
the automatic carriage feeds the
odorous wood sixty times into the
hungry teeth, sixty times he must
reach over, turn the shingle, trim
its edge on the cleaning saw in front
of him, cut out the narrow strip con-
tanning the knot-hole with two quick
movements Of his right hand and
toss the completed board down the
chute to the packers, meanwhile
keeping eyes and ears open for the
sound that asks him to feed a new
block into the untiring teeth.
Unprotected Hands.
Hour after hour the single weav-
er's hands and arms, plain, unar-
mored flesh and blood, are staked
against the screeching steel that
cares not what it sewers. Hour after
hour the steel sings its crescendo
note as it bites into the wood, the
sawdust cloud thickens, the wet
sponge under the sawyer's nose fills
with fine particles. If "cedar asth-
ma" the shingle weaver's occupa-
tional disease, does not get him, the
steel will. Sooner or later he reaches
over little too far, the whirling
blade losses drops of deep red into
the air, and finger, a hand or part
Of an arm comes sliding down the
slick chute"
Most Lose Fingers.
Thus wrote Walter V. Woehlke,
editor of the Sunset Magazine in
1917. Except for the supplanting of
the ten-hour day by eight hours,
through organization, the description
of the working life of the sawyer is
much the same today. Ask any mass
meeting of strikers here for a show
OF hands and concrete evidence will
be afforded of the awful hazards of
the industry.
Ninety-five per cent of the work
ers have lost one or more fingers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
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A WORKERS PLAY.

The Machine by Toer. Alfred So
We poet the revolution the
proletaras dramatis writing with burning
painter
pictures sitting aoo fight
posing Mol To finest works written seated
hind steel bars And he behind those because
active participation the memorable revolutionary
the fine schooling revolutionary
dramatic the of the English
udds against the introduction machinery the weaving industry
Hundreds skilled
and replaced by "iron
mechanics
labor
plotted
feelnglessy taking
with all its attendant msees Their wives sell their bodies for bread
crust and their children begin resemble skeletons Finally
gather the
who counsels patience international military
with the usual
Here is Workers
There three which will blood
worker rush faster and his heart
wrights Sind street; us What can dc.
Al esika.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
By SPECTATOR.


Those who appreciate the humor of
the "Honest John" title adopted by a
thousand Main Streets thousand poll
ticians will find an added source of
entertainment in the alibis offered
by defeated ring favorites. The sting
of the trouncing, actually handed to
the suckers who swallow the ballyhoo
prepared by subsidized sports writer's,
is cleverly healed.
Swelling SwelIs.
Thus, the slight swelling noted in
Jack Delaney's thumb after his I'M
expected defeat by Maloney last
month became a fracture. And the
light heavyweight's unexpectedly poor
showing was due to worry over his
wife's illness. When Tom Gibbons
took the count in his bout with Gene
Tunney in June, 1925, the upset was
accounted for by the "fact" that one
of Gibbons children was i'll. In an
earlier fight with the champion,
Dempsey, Gibbons had stayed the
limit. When Tunney kayoed BARLEY
Madden who had lasted with Harry
Wills, sports writers proclaimed the
"fact" that Madden's pugilistic star
had outworn its brilliance. After a
decent interval of retirement" Bart
ley came back and recently defeated
Soldier" King.
Useless Bride.
Recently the writer was in the Of
flee of manager who had just re-
turned from an upstate club where
one of his meal-tickets had decisively
trounced local favorite son.
The manager bemoaned the fact
that he had been so uncertain Of his
proteges worth that he bribed the two
judges to give his man an edge in the
event of close battle.
Facts like these may be received
with amazement by the unsophisti-
Gated. The Rialto and all local fight
clubs buzz with talk of similar ma
ture. Albany knows all about it,
Governor Smith makes an occasional
gesture. But recall that the fair
haired boy of metropolitan politics,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
(By Student in Workers School
Journalism CLASSY


Sweated home sewing is cheating
children Of workers in New York and
the suburbs Of their schooling. Six
year old Michael's teacher made this
discovery on his visit to his home.
This bright little fellow had made
good start in school. However,
after frequent absences he began TO
lag behind. In a few weeks he lost
his standing altogether.
Sweat Shop Helper.
Answering the questions Of
Michael's sorely tried teacher, the
mother said, II keep him home to
help with the baby"
"You see / must go after this work
and take it back" She pointed to a
huge pile Of coat Innings.
ooh, am SO busy" she said, pass