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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
Labor Day

Perhaps the finest vindicatIon of Labor Day
as a holiday is the fact that very few of us
could give off hand, the reasons that prompted
the setting aside of one day under this
Contrary to popular suspicion it was not
created for the purpose of giving demagogues
a. chance to talk about the dignity of labor or
cheap politicians the opportunity of deluding
those who work for wages as to their friend
ship for labor"
In the days when this country began to
change from strictly agricultural nation to
one of industry, the wages Of the worker and
the conditions under which he worked were
real problems.
1t was fight to get rid of the 12-hour and
14-hour day and that strange phrase living
wage" was platform and purpose.
The problems have been solved to large
extent in this country without creating that
1 class consciousness which exists in other
countries and divides citizens into working
classes, leisure classes or middle classes.
Labor saving machinery, mass production,
intelligent selfshness have combined to give
all standard living never before reached in
the history Of any nation and ageneral dis
tribution of comforts and Of education that
have wiped out class distinctions.
Few can tell whether that shiny auto in
front Of factory belongs to the chief stock
holder, the general manager or the man who
operates machine or lathe. Department store
managers would be marvels if they could tell
whether the girl who buys that new dress is
the laughter Of the city's richest man or the
girl who works in an office in the next block.
The sons Of the owner of big enterprise and
OF the man who is it's night Waterman are to
be found in the same class in state universities
The triumph Of labor is that it has taken
diudgery from toll and maintains a standard
of living that preserves self respect.
The politician would draw only laugh
who talked these, days about the dignity OF
labor" Everyone knows that we are stepping
lively along the road to the point where
machinery and electricity will do. most Of the
hard jobs.
The day when it was necessary to set aside
day for human beings to talk about their
rights and to plan to get them industrialy be-
longs to historic barbarc past.
Can you remember why Labor Day was so
designated? Neither can many other people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
Whv Wait?

Shall Indiana and Indianapolis be COM
PEELED to wait two years before it rids them
selves Of conditions and scandals which are
humiliating to citizenship and a positive bar
rier to progress3
No such situation has ever existed in any
other State or in any other city.
We now have the amazing situation of a
mayor under Indictment holding office only
because of an act of legislature which pre-
vented the people from replacing the system
which created him with the City. Manager form
which the people have voted. g,ss ~
we have the more amazing situation Of a
grand jury calling witnesses who could only
tell Of the truth of the charges made by this
newspaper that the present Governor, then
secretary of State, offered former Governor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
The Baron, the League and the Press

Lord Hewart Chief Justice of England and Baron
of Bury, speaking before the American Bar Associa-
ton at Buffalo. took occasion to crtcise the press
Misrepresentation in the news, he declared is more
dangerous to mankind than communism. With which
sentiment this newspaper most heartily agrees Is it
not really kind of treason against the political
ereign" he asks deliberately to misead the public
either by active Misrepresentation or by calculated
SUPPRESSION"
Again this newspaper concurs with the general
thought though certainly not with the inference that
the newspapers themselves are most generally to
blame for said Misrepresentation and suppressions
The political sovereign" itself, that is to say gov
ernments are today the most dangerous offenders,
by far and away against what the baron complains
of. Many governments maintain their own official
agencies for the sole purpose of being able to
transmit news to newspapers coored to suit else sup
press it altogether And many governments maintain
peacetme censorship for precisely the same reason
namely that they may control the news as one con-
trolls the flow of water froL, faucet.
Here is treason" indeed and of the worst kind but
the newspapers are the victims not the perpetrators
1t is highly significant that the First International
Press conference which has just adjourned at Geneva
made this very thing the main theme for discussion
An international committee of journalists. of which
President Karl A. Bckel OF the United Press, was the
American member, drew up resolution against any
such control the news. And another resolution
offered by Robert p Scripps. president of the
Scripps-Howard newspapers against peacetime CEN
corship because it makes for dangerous abuses
Both these resolutions passed unanimously and
Friday at Geneva, German Foreign Minister Strese-
mann and M. Paul Boncour of France, urged the
League of Nations to adopt these resolutions being
of utmost Importance
The journalists, M Boneour declared, to De
congratulated for what they had DONE particularly
for their condemnation of peacetime censorship which
gives rise to SO much false news inimical to world
peace.
This is the answer of the press to Lord Hewart.
Like the bar association the press made up of good
members and bad But so long as the press is free,
that editor is fool who thinks he can mislead the
public for long Where newspapers are at liberty to
discuss any and every public question the truth, in
the long run, must rise above all attempts at mis-
representation. 80,
Lord Hewart need not lose any sleep over the men
ace of free press, matter how 1agrantly that
freedom sometimes may be abused. free press in
evitaby carries with it its antidoes for any and
all possible poisons
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factory than any court or jury. Aft
err he meets by accident a pretty
English girl going to the ranch OF
her brother, Nevada decides that his
fire arms are out of date in polite
society.
So Neveda and his pal go to work
on the ranch of brother of the pretty
English girl. There he meets the
villain of the story. played by-Guess
who. Of cburse 1t is William Powell
the best villain in the business just
now. The villain posed as rich man
but he wee the head of gang Of
cattle thieves.
Most of the story is concerned
with the efforts of Nevada to run
down the cattle thieves. Cool
theater are these scenes. The
natural western scenery makes a
beautiful background to this story.
Thelma Todd is seen as the Eng
lish girl of fine manners who finally
falls in love with Nevada. Nevada"
is a de luxe edition of western.
Good entertainment.
The bill includes "Her Silent
Wow" and a news reel.
At the Ohio,
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Hazardous Work

Operators in Ohio, Indiana and
illinois contend that the freight
rate, situation makes it impossible
for them to pas the union scale.
Union officials contend that if
they were to Cit wages in these
states, there would be still more of
a cut in the open shop mines, and
that all they would have accom-
plished is to make pay lower all
along the line.
Such details and sidelights fur
nish the background for an inter-
esting and complicated discussion.
Back of it ali, however, there is
one big important issue, and that is,
whether or not the coal miner is en-
titled to as good wages as are other
skilled laborerS.
The issue can be side stepped by
saying that there are too many
miners, that freight rates prevent
justice, or that because some have
yielded to wage cuts the rest must.
The fact remains that coal min
ing is G hard and hazardous occu-
patton and that those who engage
in it should have an opportunity to
earn a decent living.
Considering what carpenters,
bricklayers, plumbers and railroad
men receive, no one who is familiar
with the coal mining business can
argue that, as a general principle,
miners are unreasonable when they
insist on $3.50 a day.
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What Other Editors Think

crime which touches the entire State and the highest
official of the State Every newspaper in the State ha
declared that if the charge is true first made by The
indianapolis Times, then Ed Jackson should not be
Governor In the meantime the Governor spends his
time in vacationing and refuses to talk. Has the
Governor the right to even retain the Office if ne
continues to remain silent? Are not the people of
Indiana entitled to explanation?
The Leader Tribune believes that the legislature
of the State should meet and investigate this intcer-
able situation. We are sickened almost to death by
the continuous Haunting of the good name of the
State from one end of the nation to the other Has
the time not come for a showdown? How much
longer will we be compelled to put up with this
terrible silence and this failure to act?
McCrsy refuses to talk Does he mean by that
that he is unwilling to assist in helping to restore
the good name of the State, and does he not believe
that he had better chance to show penitence
and to come clean?
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marion Leader Tribune)
AS Warren T. McCray left Atlanta prison, on
parole he was faced by group Of newspapernen such
as might have talked with him in his political days
So says dispatch But the former
rr,z Indiana Governor declined to discuss
vNS the published report that $4,000 had
Not been offered him by Governor Ed Jack
Talk? son. then secretary of State, in an
effort to influence him to appoint j.
Mcdonald, prosecuting attorney of Marion County,
when w. p Evans, McCray's son-in-law resigned !
am not responsible for that report ne said and
want to keep out of It.
we know of no better way for the former Governor
ITO win back the good graces Of the people in Indiana
chan to talk if by such conversation he will be able
to help in good house cleaning His refusal to talk
may be understood, in a degree by the punishment
he has endured and desire to keep out OF additional
acknowledgements. Nothing will do more, we imagine, tc
sap mans courage than term OF three years behind
the bars of a penitentiary. But on the other hand,
McCray honored by the State and elected to the
highest Office within the gift OF the people He later
dspraced the Office was untrue to the oath, ard
betrayed the faith and confidence OF the people who
had SO signally honored him. In what better way can
he receive deserve forgiveness than to assist those
same people in cleaning up the horrible state of affairs
which now exist in the HooSer State? No one should
know better than McCray whether the Governor
offered him $4,000 for dishonorabe purpose, and
surely no should be more anxious to assist the
officials of the State in determination OF the
question.
McCray has suffered much and he has the SYM
pathy of many people. He would win the respect OF
the majority of them if it shown that he had
been asked to further dishonor his State by entering
into the alleged illegal conspiracy 1t has been init
mated that McCray refused to accept the $4,000 and
predicted his refusal unwilngneSs to betray
theState, and to thus lose his sef-respect No finer
motive could be imagined, and if the allegations are
true, the prisoner is a much better than he
has been pictured The oensees proven against him
concerned financial transactions surrounding his per-
sona dealing in farm products and cattle. None of
such oenses high crimes against the peace and
dignity Of the whole State. But here is an alleged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
ForzCard Pass Is Used by Douglas MacLeam in His
Film TYaUeSty ON arabian Nights Entertainment

Mike to Yale. Mike lands on the
varsity boat team and becomes
captain.
He gets the swell head or some
sort of a kindred ailment, and he
high hats his three good and true
dads and the dads" get off of
their favorite.
This rebuke gets under the skin
of Mike, and after some temptation
he refuses to throw the boat race
to Harvard. His good work and his
honesty causes the three dads" to
love Mike more than ever.
OF couse, there is a love story, and
this part of the movie is done by
Lyon and Claudette Colbert, whom
I an told was highly successful in
@1he Barker" in New York. She
photographs beautifully and acts in
quiet and honest way.
Skeets Gallagher, pretty well
known on the vaudeville and mu-
sical stages, is cast as one of the
members of the Yale boat team.
For the Love of Mike" is not
sensational entertainment, but it
has a certain brand of human ho-
KUN drama that appeals. The boat
scenes have been we'll photographed
/ stated last week that Warnings
Pennsylvanians was the best orches-
ira heard at the Circle this season.
1t is now in the second week of its
engagement at the Circle. A COM
plete new program is being given.
At the Circle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
No Farm Protection

Most branches of labor have been
assisted by law.
The eight-hour day has been es-
tablished with regard to public and
semi-public work. supervision of
mills and mines has been provided
to safeguard the health and safety
of employees and compensation in
case of accident has been made
compulsory.
Farmers enjoy no such protection
at the hands of the government.
There is no one to pay them when
they get kicked by a COW or cut
their fingers in the moving machine.
There is no inspector to see that
their barns are properly lighted or
their houses properly screened at
somebody's expense.
Their economic status is such that
they must attend to these things for
themselves.
They are exposed to handicaps
and difficulties, however, which the
government might help them over
come, and they are no less entitled
to its assistance than any other
class.
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first see Douglas MacLean as one
of the clever robbers in an Oriental
city of years ago strutting down
the main drag, meaning street, just
before the robbers use their famous
forward pass to extract without pain
the very fat purse of victim. Mac
Lean is using a mighty light DASH
ing comedy touch through the en-
tire action Of this travesty. When
he makes his VOW to pull the beard
of the Sultan when the chief Of
police or something like that should
annex certain new slave girl, you
are sure that he will pull the white
beard of the said Sultan with a
smile on his face. When he does
said pulling, MacLean gets into a
peck of trouble, but he is able to
frolic his way from ever getting his
head under a sharp ak which was
used years ago to put robbers in
everlasting sleep.
1t seems that "Soft Cushions"
gives MacLean an easy birth on
the train known as popular favor.
He is more legitimate than ever in
his comedy situation, and one gets
the impression that this man is
actually improving.
do not recall having seen be-
fore Sue Carroll, really beautiful
girl, who Is cast as the chief slave
GIRL She is mighty eaSv on the
eyes, regardless of what she is not
wearing. Richard Carl, who at one
time was considered an important
somebody on the musical comedy
stage, is cast as the cid man who
sells pretty slave girls to harem
owners.
The bill includes 1.-THE College
Kiddo," news reel, Emil Seidel and
his orchestra and Earl Gordon at
the organ.
At the Apollo all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
tThe Richmond Palladium

(The Richmond Paladium)
The Indiana law requires automobiles to come to
stop when school hacks are dscharging or loading
pupils The reason for the law is apparent 1t is to
give the children chance to leave or
cso,;uo enter the bus without suffering bodily
~ harm from passing motorists
ChteuTeH Here is law that is not well known.
O ChGnce School will resume in a few days so
the warning of State authorities that
the law will be enforced should prompt automobile
drivers to remember that children have certain rights
of them being entrance and exit from school
hacks without having to watch every step they
The requirements of the law reasonable, and
every automobile driver should obey it implicitly In
several counties drivers have been instructed report
the license numbers of drivers who drive by hacks
without coming to STOP In Henry county vigorous
prosecution of offenders is promised.
Wayne county drivers are not exempt from the
operations OF this law. They, too, should come to a
stop whenever they that school hack is taking
on or dsch@ging its young passengers
number of fragrant violations of the law have
been prosecuted in this county. Authorities Till be
protecting the rights of the children If iney Insist
that motorists obey it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
Brain TeaSerS

If you have friends who are al
ways playing with the dialS, ask
them few of these. The answers
are printed on page IL:
l. What radio orchestra is her.
aided by sleigh bells?
2. Who is "the man from Cooks?"
3, What pair sings Just Like a
Doll?"
4. What station signs on and of
with a gong?
5. What song usually closes the
Atwater-Kent hour?
6. What editor gives weekly talks
on current events?
7. Who is the goat" of the Cap
itol family?
8. Who is the Musical Chef?"
9. What announcer also sings in
a quartet?
10. What is the nationality Of
Godfrey Ludlow?
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TTT7 ~. BY Charles
wv NM IHV Fitzhugh
w ivy WV Talman
HZ1~+h 1n~ Authority on
w K(LLHKT Meteorology
1oRLD WEATHER RECORDS

WORLD WEATHER RECORDS
With the aid of funds supplied by
John A. Roebling, the Smithsonian
Institution has compiled and pub
lished a monumental collection OF
weather records from 387 stations
widely scattered over the world.
In a volume of about l,200 pages
this work presents mean monthly
values of temperature, rainfall and
barometric pressure for the entire
period of trustworthy observations
at the places selected. Several or
the records cover more than CEN
tury. the oldest Of all being the
temperature record for Charleston,
S. c., which was begun by DR.. John
Lining in 1888.
The plan of this undertaking was
formulated at the International
Meteorological conference held at
Utrecht in 1923. DR.. Felix Exner of
Vienna, was made responsible for
the collection of data from Europ-
can stations; Sir Gilbert Walker OF
London, for the stations of Asia;
H. H. Clayton of Canton, Mass, for
the stations of North America; Rob-
ert C. Mossman of the Argentine
Meteorological Office, for those of
South America, and DIR. G. G.
Simpson, director of the British
Meteorological Office, for the sta
lions of Africa, Australia and the
oceans.
The task of editing the work was
assigned to Mr.. Clayton, and occu-
pied him and a staff of assistants
for nearly three years.
IAN rights reserved by Science Service.
Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
MRS. REID EXPOSES
SOME MODERN EVILS

Having produced, some time ago,
a picture that intended to show the
evils of narcotics, Mrs. Wallace
Reid now presents a picture which
shows the sordidnesS of the white
slave traffic.
Written by Adela Rogers st.
Johns, "The Red Kimono" shows
that girl who is down is invariably
being pushed on down, no matter
how hard she may try to rise. But
by being able to perform a service
to humanity she may win back her
self-respect.
Priscilla has the part of the coun-
try girl who was lured to the red
lights by a "nounder" from the city.
She is taken to New Orleans and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05

sold to white slayers. Her misfor-
tune comes to light when she kills
her first lover.
The picture, which is purely prop
uganda, is accompanied by several
reels that are intended to- convey
matters of sex. These reels are in
terpreted by DR.. L. Lee Krauss, who
has spent over twenty years lectur-
ing and fighting against such vices
as are shown in the feature pic
ture.
AT the Colonial 81 week. (By the
Observer0
Other theaters today offer: "Pa-
riSian Whirl," at the Lyric; "Beggar
on Horseback" at Keith's; Home
Fires" at English's; Mite Life in
Paris at the Mutual, and Painted
Ponies" at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
SAYS:

have just returned from trip
through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken
lucky and Indiana.
These states form a section of the
country where farming and coal
mining play an important part.
Farming and coal mining are the
two darkest spots in our industrial
situation right now
It is only fair that tpey should re-
ceive some attention on Labor day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
Lowest Paid Labor

According to the latest govern
ment report, the average income of
farmers in this country is 1885 an
nually.
Leaving out Sundays, this amounts
to less than SO a day, but most
farmers have to work some on Sum
day.
In a majority Of cases. common
labor earns more.
Some of the skilled trades earn
three times as much.
Though good many people think
so, the farmer can not be classified
as common laborer.
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amount this time has seen to it
that Miss Negri has a chance at
dramatic acting in a war story
which is different. Pola is cast as
French farm girl III northern
France before the war. She is real
ly a day laborer on her fathers
farm. Then war comes and her
younger brother goes to war. Pola
hates the enemy and this hate
flames up more than ever when word
comes that her brother has been
killed in action. About that time
the French government takes over
the farm and turns it into a prison
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05

Lyon steps in as Mike. The three
cronies and merchants are played
by Ford Sterling, George Sydney
and Hugh Cameron. This was
probably done because comedy teams
are becoming mighty successful on
the stage. These three actors know
their stage business, especially Ster-
ling and Sydney. The three dads"
to Mike bring up the lad and they
are proud of him and after bitter
verbal fight they decide to send
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05

IN Wnlcn the cnleI
character is a boy
and not a girl. Ben
is cast as a lad
who is left on the
door step of a
home of three
merchants in the
Hell's Kitchen dis
trict in New York,
when just a baby.
OF course Ben
does not attempt
Mike when he is
just a ba''y. Even
Ben has too long
legs for that, but
when Mike ar
rives around the
oUo Of 10 Pan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05

The forward pass now so valuable
in football was used many, many
years ago by three bold and clever
bandits-a young, good-looking BAN
dit, an ugly one and a fat one.
My proof is soft Cushions"
which is Douglas MacLean's latest
effort to make the world happier
place to live in. soft Cushions" is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-05
MOUie Verdict

APOLLO-Douglas MacLean
has a real winner in soft
Cushions" which is keen
travesty upon the Arabian
Nights entertainment.
INDIANAAPola Nigri def
nitely establishes herself as
great dramatic character act
ress in "Barbed Wire"
CIRCLE-"For the Love of
Mike" is a masculine Pollyanna
type Of movie.
OHIO Nevada" is a good
example of how modern pho
Biography and direction can
elevate western story to the
realm of good entertainment.
COLONIAL-Evils of white
slavery are reflected in 1.-THE
Red Kimono."
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back strong in an
American made
movie. Miss Negri
became famous in
this country years
ago when a Ger
man made picture,
Passion" W a S
brought over. In
time she came to
this country and
u n 70 TT unately
went native" on
the coast and
started to do
pictures h a v n g
stories that were
either bad or I'M
suited to her type
of work Par