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The Washington times., 1927-07-08
7 F Or
OWN FOE

Two combined Yale Harvard track
and field teams have arrived in
England and are prepared for the
dual meet with Oxford Cambridge
tomorrow at Stamford Bridge in
London. The Britishers have put
together an unusually strong team
to compete against the Americans
and are expected to make the
Crimson and Eli athletes turn in
some good marks to beat them
out.
Lord BurghIey, the crack
hurdler of the Cambridge team,
who made his annual visit to.
America last April to compete
i'm the Penn relays is a strong
faVOrite to repeat his 1925 wins
over the Harvard. Yale murders.
and take both high and the
22O low races. He has been
bettering Is seconds for the
high hurdIer in practice, and
has gone under 25 seconds for
the low hurdles.
Sabin Carr, the crack Yale pole
vaulter, is the man who interests
the English athletes the most.
They have all heard about his ex-
ploits in going over the high bar,
and are hoping that he will break
his worlds record of IA feet when
he completes against the Cambridge
Oxford forces. The Britishers
haven't any hopes of being able
to beat Carr, so they are pulling
for him to set a new worlds rec
ord in their meet.
The Washington times., 1927-07-08
.TODA'S
STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays RESULTS
Brooklyn, g. New York, 2.
z st. Louis, IL; Boston, /.
Cincinnati, IL; Philadelphia. 4.
Chicago, 2; Pittsburgh, (called
Einth--rain.)
GAMES TODAY
st. Louis at Boston.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Brooklyn at New York.
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

Sharkey, young. healthy and full
of sassafras, doesn't need more than
a comparative few days to be as
right as rat poison for anyone. For
whereas Dempsey is 80 and has
fought only six times in seven
years, Sharkey is "a and has fought
five times in the last 10 months.
He could be actually short" If he
worked less than a week for Demp-
sey.
As to that, he already has
warmed himself up with a few
heats in Boston gymnasium and
probably isn't more than four pounds
over his fighting weight right at
this moment. Sharkey's condition
at gong time virtually can be taken
for granted.
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

Professional promoters like
Gordon COchrane or c. C. Pyle
can make money out of tennis
only by obtaining a world
famous antagonist for Mile.
Lenglen, making a conflict be-
tween them which would be a
natural" such as Helen Wills
VS.. Mile. Lenglen.
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

The only factor that can't
be taken either for granted or
otherwise happens to be Sharkey
himself. According to Wall
Street. he continues to rule a
favOrite at odds Verging on
to 5 and, considering his youth,
ability and the abiding fact that
he has fought his way M to
this match, these odds are not
at all unnatural.
However, men close to Sharkey
in Boston inform me that he is a
gentleman of completes, although
probably he would deny this charge
with the statement that his health
is perfect. He thought he could
lick Wills and he did. He had
nothing but contempt for Maloney
and he made the idea, stick. But.
because of an absurd notion, he re-
garded doddering, old Charley Vein
ert as a man among men and this
congenial push-over, in consequence.
was poison.
That being the case, it might
be rising to point of order to
inquire as to what Sharkey
thinks of Dempsey. He thought
so much of him several years
ago that he is alleged to have
sat, enthralled, in a theater
while a news reel displayed
Dempsey's preparations for
FiIpO. He thought so well of
him that he is said to have
made the then champion his
idol.
But it SENS possible that later
he may have changed his mind.
He went to Philadelphia for the
Tunney fight and anyone who
wandered off into that night of
rain with the impression that Demp,
sey still was a superman simply
laid himself open to suspicion as
being a super-idiot,
Besides that, Sharxey only has
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

And even then, it is pointed out.
interest would lag after the first
two weeks.
The one best bet for the pro-
meters is to. make a girl show''out
of their professional tour, some
what on the style of our best
known burlesque entrepreneurs But
there aren't enough famous women
players in the world to make a
half decent chorus line" for the
act, even with Suzie Lenglen play
ing leading lady.
Just how hopeless the pro-
feSsiOnal game appears is shown
by the fact that at Wimbledon
the promoters have made no
attempts to lure the men play.
ers from the straight and anna.
teur way. Both Tilden and
Billy Johnston have rebuffed
the recent Overtures of pro.
mOters. Tilden has denied over
sixteen different cable wires the
report that he would turn pro.
The reason he will not play pro.
fessional tennis, and that goes for
Johnston and the rest, is explained
by a high official of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association.
who never permits his name to be
used with his statements.
When Lenglen and Mary Brown
went over their route playing exhi.
bition games" he said, "people
turned out for the novelty. II
Brown and Lenglen went over the
same route again, they wouldn't
draw a nickle. The novelty is
gone"
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

while the Griffs ar. here the
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

The league executive, who
ruled with an iron hand until
Charles A. COmisI4ey and the
opposition broke" him on the
Carl Mays case in 1919, was
quoted as saying that he would
refuse to resign If the request
was made.
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

Diamond Dan Saysa
"Tna easy to get ace
qMainted sVith and
Diamond Tires ale
, tUGys smooth the path
to trMe friendship
after the aeqMGint.
ance is made. %
The Washington times., 1927-07-08

Nationalist.
American-227.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02

its attention longer be held in the way,
by exploits marked only by daring The public isn't
camoring -ye-to fly either of the oceans Its
interest is in the planes that being perfected
for daily 1t does not expect another thrill like
that given by Lndbergh the fact that such
thrills scarcely come twice to the generation. 1t
is looking instead for practical information.
Perhaps for the present, the dare-devils day is
People in this and other lands would like to be
spared the news of great and needless tragedy such
tragedy must result if aviation concerns itself
too much with efforts at distance rec
ords.
After all the at large world isn't great Roman
circus seeking excitement in the blood and broken
bodies of brave young men.
Aviators to be sure, could not rest until the chal-
lenge of the Atlantic had been met In time the
greater challenge of the Pacific will have to be met
But the hour for that seems hardly to have arrived
1t is time, rather, to take Stock of what has been
learned and to how this knowledge be applied
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
This May Be the AnszOer
By ellison Gardner

A man, driving in an automobile with his wife
went to sleep. The went into ditch and the wife
injured. She had fallen asleep some time before
the accident. She sued her husband for damages on
account of his negligence in going to sleep and letting
the automobile off the road. He replied that she
barred from collecting damages because her neg
lgence in falling asleep and not watching the road
had contributed to the accident The wife replied
that she not obliged to be the lookout because
her husband 81 years old, accustomed to driving
and had fallen asleep before She also said the
day clear the road smooth, and that there
occasion for special precaution on her part.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Err
rors of Connecticut held that the wife could recover
damages 1t said that under the conditions she was
under no legal obligation to oversee the operation OF
the automobile, and that she not obliged to keer
on the lookout for danger to watch for signs that
sleepiness might overcome her husband,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
With Other Indiana Editors

and the result is that nearly five per cent Of all
states expenditures last year went toward the pay
ing of interest on indebtedness.
Although state legislatures met in some forty
states this year. but little attention paid to-
ward reducing State Indebtedness If any con-
centrated effort is made by legislative assemblies TO
reduce taxes this will have to wait for two years.
as most states have biennial assemblies.
With the federal government pairing down its
penses and reducing its taxes in proportion by the
practice of short economy-such as refunding bond
issues at lower rates of nterestthe state and NUM-
cipal governments have excellent example before
them.
What we need apparently. are any number of
real financiers to tighten up the purse strings.
Indiana needs practical business at its head
This State is of those which has increased its
expenditures steadily during the last ten years
States without debts, with quick assets in ex-,
cess of their total Indebtedness are not impossible
as thrifty Connecticut has shown When we have
states and cities in this solvent class we shall
be putting government on the sound basis that 10
should be at all times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02

PERU JOURNAL CHRONICLE)
Thirty-one States of the Union balanced their
budgets in 1926 and had surplus of revenues
over expenditures according to the results of
vey recently completed by the United
He0~c"tg States Department of Commerce.
Stnte This condition of prosperity and
sound financing if 1T we're true of
TdTeS every state in the union would show
that the time at hand for the
states-to begin reducing their taxes. For some time
past, individuals and corporations have been COM
planning that although the federal government was
decreasing its taxes increased state and local taxes
put on greater tax burden than the federal gov
eminent took off.
The trouble is that too many State and munic-
pal governments induging in an orgy of 60
ing into debt. The Department of Commerce sur
vey shows that although twenty three states af-
fected a decrease in their Indebtedness last year
the total Indebtedness of all the 48 state govern
ments was greater in 1926 than it was in 1925 This
total state indebtedness now amounts to Sl146 per
capita. In 1925 it was $1lO9.
1t is apparently too easy to float a bond issue,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
The Cuckoo's Nest
/ One few east and one flew west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Byrd and his pals in the lane that flew east, Matt
land and Hegenberger in the plane that flew west
Lndbergh aviation hero for all time in the plane
that few the cuckoos nest. All true enough, the
nursery rhyme, that the country has ceased to
be cuckoo. AS Byrd left the mainland and headed
the Atlantic, and Maitland and Hegenberger
began to approach the islands of Hawaii young Lind
bergh was sailing serenely the States that sepa
rate New York from ST. Louis. Less than fifty persons
saw him depart; less number than you would believe
possible, saw him arrive in ST. Louis.
The country is coming out of the cuckoo stage
concerning the latest exploits of aviation. Adnira
ton for Lindbergh is less it is complete but it
is becoming controlled Which is as Lindbergh would
have it.
BY the same token Byrd and his companions will
be glad to find Paris restored to sanity and prepared
to estimate their daring undertaking for what it is
worth and no Maitland and Hegenberger, seri-
Gus students of aviation, while enjoying the lowered
acclaim of Hawaii will be best pleased when they
port their experiences to their superors in the Army
and check up the results obtained ~.
A great deal has been gained for aviation by
the flights of the last few weeks, not excluding the
slightly anticlimatc Chamberlin and Levine expedi-
ton to Berlin and the gallant but disastrous attempt
h4 Nungesser and Coli They have served to awaken
ttp public mind to the advance being made in this
nek and to the nearness of the day when will be
flying. But with the publics mind on this coming day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Hotels and Cottages

There are zoo cottages in Bar
Harbor either owned or occupied by
summer people and costing any
where from $4,000 to $l,O00,0o0
each.
There are hotels where one can
get board as low as Sc day, and
clubs that one can join for as little
as a kings ransom-with the right
credentials.
For people of less ambitious taste.
there are good accommodations in
nrivate homes and small inns. but
this is no Coney Island and never
will be.
Mt. Desert is a collection Of high
grade summer resorts. Besides Bar
Harbor there are Seal Harbor.
Northeast Harbor, Southwest Har-
Dor and several others not so well
known.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Ed
sci Ford have magnificent places at
Seal Harbor, while the late Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard and other
famous educators have given North
east Harbor its exclusive atmos-
phere.
James d. Dole. who offered $4,000
for the Hawaiian fight, used to
come to Southwest Harbor as a boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02

ton conducted by the Atwater
Kent Foundation this autumn. Mrs.
Edward Franklin White, Indianapo-
lis, reporter of Indiana State and
Appellate Courts, and national first
vice president of the General FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs, today &C
copied the foundations invitation to
serve as chairman of the Indiana
State committee, which will super
wise community and State partici-
patton in the competition. /
Under Mrs. Whites sponsorship,
early completion of State executive
committee, representing all sections
of Hoosierdom, is expected. Organ
ization then will begin of cities and
towns within the State, for their
local elimination contests-first step
in the nationwide search for Amer
ica's best undiscovered young men
and young women singers.
Winners of these local contests
will compete in Indiana State audi
ton, broadcast from Indianapolis
in September or October, winners
of which advance to the district au-
dition at Chicago in November,
there competing against State cham
pions from Illinois, Ohio. Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota. Iowa, Mis-
souri, Nebraska, North and South
Dakota.
District addition victors-five men
and five women-will compete final
ly in the national addition, broad
cast from New York in December
over a national hoek-up. First ma
tional prizes-one for youth, one
for a young woman-will be gold
decorations, $1,000 cash and two
years tuition in a leading con-
servatory; second prizes, $4,000 cash
and one years tuition; third, $1,000
cash and one years tuition; fourth,
$500; and fifth, $3.50 each.
Winners in the Indiana State
addition will receive silver medal;
winners in district additions a gold
one. The additions are limited to
amateurs of either sex. who are no.
more than IS years old.
All contestants, who qualify to
enter district and national additions
will be the Atwater Kent Founda-
tons guests during these COM
petitions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Mount Desert Island

Most people have a pretty good
idea of what Bar Harbor is like,
even though they have never been
there, but not so many know that
it is situated on Mount Desert
Island.
This island, though containing
only 104 square miles, boasts six
teen mountains and twenty lakes.
One can stand on the top OF am
of its higher elevations and poinc
out every geographical formation.
If the socially elect have made IL
a happy setting for their vanities its
unsurpassed scenery inspired them
to do so.
1t has appropriately been called
Little Switzerland Afioat."
Those who have visited Mount
Desert Island never say "See Ma
poleon and die"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
A/L. ~ BY Charles
w NV INK Fitzhugh
- Talman
H4 II o1>O Authority on
w K(LLHET Meteorology
THE BRUECKNER CYCLE

| HE BROEChNEI CIOAri
Professor Eduard Brueckner, who
died the other day in Vienna, though
by profession geographer, was best
known to meteorological all over the
world as the discoverer of the
| "Brueckner Cycle"in weather phe-
nomena.
In the year 1890 this authority
published a work entitled kiln
aschwankungen" fluctuations of
climate), in which he brought to-
gether a great amount of statistical
evidence indicating that there is a
period averaging about IS years in
the fluctuations of rainfall and tenn
perature; groups of relatively cool
and rainy years alternating with
groups of warmer and drier years.
Though the average period, accord
ing to his figures, is 35 years the
actual strength of a single cycle may
be as small as twenty years or as
great as fifty years. The average
f1uctuation of temperature for the
earth as a whole was found to be
less than degrees Fahrenheit. and
the average f1uctuation of rainfall
about IL per cent.
Various reflections of this cycle
are believed to have been found in
records of the advance and retreat
of glaciers, in the prices of grain,
in business cycles, in the thickness
of tree-rings, etc, but there is a
large amount of uncertainty in trac-
ing periodicities of this sort
The idea of a 35-year weather
cycle is an old one. 1t is mentioned
in Lord Bacon's essay "Of Vicissi-
tude of Things"
Inc)
! (All rights reserved by Science Service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02

TIN the Atwater Radio Kent
ii Hour Sunday. 9:15 Eastern
daylight time, Paul Althouse,
tenor, will be the artist. Rudolph
Gruen will be at the piano.
Program follows:
ssionsl"-Kiplng 49,, r. DeKoven
What q Wonderful World . Would
Be- ................s..H Hermann Lohr
Unfold Thy Snowy Pinions Maori
Love Song" .......... WIN. e. Jones
The Sorrows of Death"-From the Sacred
Cantata.
Hymn OF Praise" ..... Felix Mendelssohn
I'm the Luxembourg Gardens and
music by Kathleen LocShart Manning.
Hawaiian Love Song .ChaS. Bennett
THE Great Awakening" walter Kramer
Announcement has been made of
new members TO the faculty of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Tourist DiSpIaceS ToiIer

Came the tourist, concrete and
centralized industry and the picture
changed.
The quarries where a thousand
men once worked are silent, the
great fish wharves have rotted down,
the fleets of. mackerel catchers
have disappeared. This generation
and the one preceding it, for that
matter, found not only an easier
way to earn a living, but an easier
way to live.
In winter the population Of
Mount Desert is less than 10000.
but in summer it comes nearer
$4,000.
About 100000 visit Lafayette Ma
tional Park annually.
This park consists of some 10000
acres of land that has been pur7
chased by philantbropic residentSN
and given to the United States.
1t is in the interior Of the island,
and includes some of the most rug
ged and picturesque scenery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Enforcing Joy BY Law

4 Advocating closed Sunday, Rev. William Sheafe
Chase in sermon at Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn, asked voters to write their
gressmen to support the Landlord bill, which would
enforce a closed Sunday on the District of Columbia
He says:
1.-THE movement is not for the purpose of taking
away joy on Sunday from the community but for
the purpose of increasing the Joy of the community
by forbidding any to engage in any form of un-
necessary labor or business"
One trouble with many reformeres is that they
assume to know what is best for other people Some
of them are everlastingy trying to do something to
others to make them good-assuming Of course, that
they, the reformers, know precisely what is good
In the present instance Rev. Mr.. Chase wants to
increase the joy of the people who live in the District
of Columbia He assumes that this can be done by
law and that Congress by forbidding work Sunday
make everybody in the national capital joyful.
All of us want to be joyful That includes the peo-
pie of the District of Columbia. If they think they
can become joyful through the passage of the Lank
ford BILL doubtless they will petition Congress thus
to make them joyful But until the people of Wash
ington want the kind of joy Rev. Mr. Chase pre-
scribes for them and his assistance why should
he or any other outsider insist forcing that kind
of joy on them by law?
Some people OF the District OF. Columbia now md
Joy in motoring through the beautiful suburbs of
Washington Others find Joy in playing golf. Still
others find Joy in other forms of innocent, health
giving outdoor sports There many who find joy
in going to church, either morning evening, and
yet have time for other kinds of joy during the
mainder of the day.
The people decide for themselves what will gvie
them joy on Sunday-ard most of them probably
dutful members of one church another. Legal
interference with their right do as they please, so
interfere with the rights of others to enjoy themselves
as they please, would be interference with the
liberty of the people
That is just what the Landlord bill purposes to
do-enforce by the might of legislative enactment
some peoples notion of Joy Others who haven't
asked for that kind of JOY and haven't indicated
that they want it,
You can't enforce Joy with policeman's club any
more than you make people moral and good
in the same way
On the same day that Rev. Mr.. Chase preached his
kind of religion, another clergyman of the creed
preached in New York pulpit. The Right Reverend
Irving Peake Johnson Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Colorado said Perfect personal freedom is the
foundation of the Christian religion We don't have
to do thing unless we want to. Our religion is a
passion springing out of desire"
So we have two interpretations of Christianity
coming from the same church. We believe the Colo
RADIO Interpretation will be the more popular.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
If the Tourist Is a Good
Mder of Business Condt-
tons, This Country Is
Still Blessed With Pros
perity.

BAR HARBOR, Maine, July q
This is the Biarritz of New England.
It's style and character are suggested
by the fact that Bonwit Teller
maintains as classy a shop here as
on Fifth Ave.
Incidentally, it is one of the few
places I have found in Maine
where the telegraph office remains
open after . o'clock.
But Bar Harbor in July is a diff
ferent place from Bar Harbor in
January.
g., Postmaster Young tells me that
the receipts of his office during the
summer quarter amount to more
than for the other nine months OF
the year
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2. Who was hung on the gallows
prepared for Mordecai?
g. Who was king when Nebuchad-
nezzar waged war on Jerusalem?
4. What was Daniel named after
his capture by the Babylonians?
S. What were the original names
of Shadrach, Messach and Abed-
nego?
6. How far from Christ were the
disciples when He prayed on the
Mount of Olives before His betrayal?
7. To whom did Plate sen& Jesus
after He had first been brought be-
fore the Roman judge?
IS. Where did Ahimaaz and Jona-
than hide on their way to tell King
David of the treachery planned
against him?
9. Who brought David news of the
death of the young man Absalom?
10. Who conquered the cities of
Judah in the reign of King Heze-
kiah?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Index of Prosperity

Real estate men and hotel pro-
prietors say that this promises to be
the best season Mount Desert has
had in years.
Not only has about everything
available been booked but many OF
the larger estates have changed
hands, with a general increase Of
values as the result.
If the tourist is good index OF
business conditions, this country is
still blessed with prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
Early Fisheries

In earlier times Mount Desert was
noted for its fisheries, its granite
quagries and its deep sea sailors
Many a boy grew up here to know
the harbor of Havre, the Straits Of
Magellan or Java Head as well as
he knew his native shore.
Many a Goldfish, paddock or hake
that was cured at Mount Desert has
found its way to some midwestern
table.
Many street in Boston, New
York, and Baltimore was once paved
with Mount Desert stone.