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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
Building Permits

jose Kuhn Sales Company. furnace, 323S-
80 Bellefontaine. S430.
J. A. .Baiyden, furnace. 54S E. Fifty
Second, $3.50.
~, A. Baivden furnace. 59O2 Broadway,
Thomas Dugan. furnace 1919 S. West.
Willis Goblin, furnace. 11O5 N o;ney,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
WILL ADDRESS ROTARY
Members to Hear Auto Liability
Insurance Talk.

Edward C. Stone of Boston will
address the Indianapolis Rotary
Club in the Chateau room at the
Claypool, Tuesday, on Compulsory
Automobile Liability Insurance. d"
Stone is United State manager of
the Employers Liability Assurance
Corporation of London, England.
Auto liability insurance is now in
force in Massachusetts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
HOOSier Briefs

Boss Goodman of Evansville was
hunting the deed to his cemetery lot.
He found it and also a picture oil
another man sent to his wife. Il
just got mad, judge" he told a court,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
ASK FALL TRIAL DELAY
Lawyers Seek POstponement as Ply.
stefan Holds Condition Serious.

Lawyers Cteh HOSIpOnelnent as Ply.
stefan Holds Condition Serious.
BIZ United Press
Ell PASO, Texas, Jan. 22.-An at.
tempt to obtain postponement of
hearing on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the Government is being
made by lawyers for Albert Is. Fail,
former secretary of the interior,
members of his family admitted to;
day.
DR.. H. T. Stafford. personal physi.
clan Of the former Cabinet official,
said a trip to Washington within
the next two months would mean
Falls certain and immediate
DEATH"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
FOOL RURAL FOLK
LESS EASILY THAN
URBAN RESIDENTS
So Said Houdini in Last
Interview Before his
Death.

IN United Press
~ NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Rural folk
are much harder to fool than met
ropolitan audiences, the late Harry
Houdjni maintained in what is
claimed to be the last interview ever
granted by him, published in the
January number of Farm and Fire
side"
IF you can get away get away
with a thrick before a country audi
&C you can get away with it any
ore," Houdini asserted.
Among Rural Folk
The handcuff and escape king had
plenty of opportunity to observe the
reaction of rural people to his tricks,
for it was among them that he first
practced. the magician's art. He re-
lated several experiences he had
with members of the audience.
Once in Iowa, he said farmer
challenged him to make his escape
lIOIIl Ills Lulc1" pIOOL Vail WlLIlu XIX
hour. Although he had broken out
of numerous jails Houdini was
baffled by the locked barn and it was
Just before the allotted time expired
that the magician leaned against the
door and it opened. The farmer
afterwards informed him that he had
left that section of the door unlocked
out of pity for Houdini.
just a Trick
4 There is nothing supernatural in
'4Yhat l do, although sophisticated OBJ
EPervers say there is" Houdini stated
: in the interview. mo spirits help
me. No magic trick has ever been
done that cannot be explained by the
laws of nature. In cities they fall for
the claims of occuplists, and some
times believe. implicitly in spiritual
istic hokum. In country parts,
where emen themselves perform the
magic of making the soil harvest.
I've found them less gullibfe. They
know it's just trick"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

Learning the Bible by heart is the
selfimposed task of the 10000 mem
bers of the Berean Band of Bible
LearHers. The movement is twenty
one years old and was originated in
Actor. London.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
HOPE INCREASING
FOR PASSAGE OF
FARM RELIEF BILL
Altered McNary Haugen
Measure Creates Favor
able Impression.
Times J, WgSgsRMiM hing Bureau.

- I3Z2 NetO YORK AUeHuc
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-With
only seven weeks left this session,
agricultural leaders in Congress are
more hopeful than ever of passin
a farm relief bill. VI
AT hearings just completed by the
Senate Agricultural Committee on
the McNary-Haugen surplus control
bill, not one farm delegate raised
objection to the measure.
This is the first time slice 1 be-
came q member Of the agricultural
committee that this situation has
developed Senator McNary, Ore
gon, committee chairman, said to.
day.
Some amendments may be made.
but McNary thinks the measure will
be repotred out at the next meeting.
Il think it is safe to say that this
Congress will pass legislation which
will aid the farmers to market their
crops in an orderly Manner" Senator
Smith, South Carolina, said.
In the House, Representative
Haugen, Iowa, co-author of the bill,
predicted that body will vote on the
bill by Feb. 10.
"As soon as the appropriation bills
are out of the way L will move to
take up the farm bill, and 1 expect
a vote by Feb. 5 or TO-" Haugen said.
Unlike Defeated Bill
The bill to be considered this year
differs considerably from the Nc
Nary-Haugen measure which was
defeated in both Houses last year.
There is no reference to the tariff
in the new bill and no mention of
price except that the declaration of
policy provides for the control and
disposition of the surplus "to prevent
such SURPRISES from unduly depress-
ing the prices obtained for such COM
modities."
The former bill authorized
volving fund appropriation of 1875.
100000, divided as follows: $780,
100000 for cotton, $250,000,000 for
other basic commodities and $25..
100000 for loans. The new measure
authorizes $3.50, 100000 without sub.
dividing it.
In the present bill the equaliza-
ton fee, which was especially objec.
tionable to the South, can be i'm.
posed at the time of crop transpor.
tation instead of being imposed on
the farmer at the time of sale.
SOuth's Favor Grows
Because Of elimination of refer
ences to tariff and the change in
collecting the equalization fee, the
new measure is regarded much more
favorably in the South, whose rep.
resentatives were largely responsible
for the bills defeat last year.
Appearing before the Senate com
mittee. Samuel III. Thompson, pres.
ident of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, praised the bill.
Il think it recognizes the principle
or aiding the bargaining power of
the farmer; that is fundamental be.
cause it strikes right at the root of
the trouble This bill ought to aid
efficient production and intelligent
production. I think it is sound"
Thompson said.
Expressions of cotton cooperative
association officials was equally fav-
orable.
I'VE believe the McNary, Haugen
bill is the best thing that has been
proposed for taking the cotton sur.
plus and distributing it, Director
e. w. Kilgore, chairman of
American Cotton Growers TX
change, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
s., 200 BANK HOLD UP REWARDS ARE OFFERED
$1,000 for Arrest of Bandits 5000 for
+, Return of Checks-Victim Held
for Questioning.

Twelve hundred dollars reward offered today for the
capture and convection of the bandits who robbed Paul Tn
49, Of $50 Bates St. for the Livestock Exchange
Bank of $500 in cash Friday return of $81 900
in cancelled checks also taken by the bandits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

st. Paul's Lutheran Church at
Richmond will be seventy-five years
old next October. A jubilee is
planned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

Monon is the latest Indiana town
to enjoy an oil boom. Oil was dis
covered in an old well drilled a
year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22
BLAZE AT ELW0OD
Power Satisfaction Damaged $4,000
by Fire.

BIZ Times Special
ELWOOD, Ind, Jan. PA short
circuit was blamed today for a fire
which did $4,000 to $4,000 damage
to the Union Traction Company's
substation here. Traction cars were
delayed two hours. Dick Plummer,
fireman, was hurt when. he fell
through the roof while fighting the
blaze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

When Bum, Frankfort's pet dog,
was run over by a traction car.
police were too tender hearted to
shoot him and sent him to a vet
Urinary hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

explaining why, he attacked his wife.
Five and COSTS" said the judge.
Catching crooks is safer than
catching street cars. according TO
PatroIman Patrick Haley of Terre
Haute. He fell and broke his arm
boarding car.
Fish may go to Jail at Jefferson.
Vile without qualms. There's five
inches Of water in the basement, due
to incessant rains.
They put teeth i'm their adver-
tisements at Richmond. One citi-
zen lost his false mOlars as he
stepped from bus. He advertised
his loss and they were returned.
John N. Shelby has been reelected
president of the Lebanon Chamber
of Commerce.
Mrs. Joseph Fries reports the
first robin seen this year at Con.
nersville.
Margaret Shea has been judged
the prettiest girl at Indiana State
Normal at Terre Haute.
Theodore Petree of Greensburg
may try steeple chasing in his auto.
The machine cleared a hedge when
the steering rod broke. No one was
hurt.
When Bum, Frankfort's pet dog,
was run over by a traction car,
nol;oa mana too 4o...Io.. 100000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

Fish may go to Jail at jefferson.
vile without qualms. There's five
inches Of water in the basement, due
to incessant rains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-22

explaining why, he attacked his wife
Five and COSTS" said the Judge.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
The Green en- the Bacon

It's an old story that one-half the world DOES
not know how the other half lives. The other
day IN London magistrates court a woman
was arra!gned for not paying her rent She
gave as an excuse that she was in the bacon
business and trade had been very slack.
Magistrate (sapient!y): "But everybody in
England eats bacon. can't understand slack
ness in this business
The woman Earnestly: Il don't sell bacon.
scrub it,"
Magistrate (incredulously): do you mean
to tell me you earn your living scrubbing bs-
con-"
The woman (more earnestly: Quite 50.
You would not like to eat it if it were not
scrubbed
Magistrate (humbly) 1--WE never know what
we eat!'
And we don't. It seems that bacon comes
into England green packed tightly in boxes.
It has been sailed, but not smoked While in
boxes, it exudes moisture and salt Before it
is put into stoves to be smoked, it has to be
scrubbed with a stiff brush. It is not pretty
sight. But it is necessary. Otherwise Eng
lands favorite breakfast dish would well
unpalatable
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
Old Masters

Why have the Mighty lived-why
have they died?
Is it ever thus with die wreck to
strew
Fields such &s thine, reraorseless
W-terloo?
Hopeless the !esso, Vainly hath
ever cried
Stern Fate to man-"So perish hu-
man pride!"
Still must the Many combat for
the Few
Still must the noblest blood fair
earth bedew:
Tyrants, slaves, freemen, nnoulder-
ing siie by side!
On such day the World was lost,
and won
BY Pompe.. at Pharc lila: such .
day
Saw glorious Hannibal 4 fugitive:
So faded meath the Macedonian
Persia's pale star: so empire passed
away
From Haroldi brow.-but He dis
dame to live
Aubrey De We're: Waterloo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
Editorial Comment
Things That Are Not Taught
pittsburgh Post Gazette)

A school Of politics" for women will be held
in New York city late this month by the Won.
ans National Republican club. The idea is
not new. Such schools" have been conducted
in many cities by both major parties. The
New York classes, however. will attempt an
exceptionally ambitious program.
Most instruction for women newly enrolled
as party workers is idealistic, academic, unreal.
Favorite topics are "Our Debt to Thomas JET
ferson," "The Party of Lincoln" and ''The
Citizens Duty to Vote the Straight Ticket"
A course Of intellectual bear meat for brave
men could be organized about one topic Of the
forthcoming New York school, It is 4How
Elections Are Won and Lost" Some Of the
chapter headings could be: "How the Pay
Roll Works On Election Day." "How to Regis
ter the Phantom Vote" "Any Platform to Get
in on" "How to Sit on the Fence Without Be
ing Bumped Off" How to Collect Campaign
Funds" and How to Spend En-
Those could be some Of the chapte. ::
but they won't be.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington, Sept. 22.-According
to the most common method OF
discriminating whether a man had q
good vacation, Calvin Coolidge did
not.
The president was away long
enough TO pick up a thick coat Of
tan on his manly features, but ap-
parently one is protected from the
syn's rays when re wears & cowboy
hat and SO tie president has little
to show for his tri
There is some w nent as to
whether Mr.. Coolidge is facter or
thinner and as to whether he looks
better or worse than when he went
away, hut the truth seems to be
that he took off perhaps something
like three pounds and that 3 waist
line circumference is slightly
shorter.
After looking the president over
at his first press conference since
his return, one also decides that he
looks a little healthier if anything.
The visit out west seems to ha e
taken a little more Yankee twang
out Of the Coolidge speech. Not
that he came back talking like q
la'nsman is supposed to talk ac-
cording to the movies, but the presi-
dent doesn't talk nearly so much
like a rural actor as when he first
came to Washington.
What impressed the correspon-
dents most Of all, however, was the
nifty suit in which the president
blossomed out to greet them. It was
: very light gray which looked as if
it might have been borrowed from
son Johns college wardrobe. Per-
haps the cut was not quite as devil
ish as that Of some Of Johns buds,
but the outfit was in vivid contrast
to the black or otherwise dark and
funeral clothes in which Washing
ton has ben accustomed tn seeing
the president.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
Trouble in the Senate
New York Tiuesl

Senator Nye Of North Dakota said the ex-
pecred thing when he outlined Progressive
Bloc and program in the senate for the coming
session. The margin between the two major
parties is very slight, and may be sl.ghter
when the Pennsylvania and Illinois cases ara
disposed Of. No time could be more Favorable
for the formation Of bloc with the triple Oh.
jectives Of Muscle Shoals. farm relief ana flooa
control. Also, the final year Of presidential
tern1-even when the executive is not candi
date for reelection-is notably year Of trou
bla and contention. White house schedules ia
such year emerge from the legislative hop
per looking as if they had been through tn :.
world war.
Mr.. Nye counts twelve steadfast Progressive
senators, with Senator Norris at the head, and
if they coalesce firmly and follow tie storm
Nehraskan they will bring many a wrinkle to
Republican brows. One gathers from the pros
pectus of the North Dakota senator that his
little band will oscillate between the aisles, its
interest not being so much in which party i.
is for the moment giving control as in how far
its maneuver is advancing one of its major
purposes. The Progressive senators may or
may not accept Republican committee allot-
ments-that is not stated; but since they are
necessary for the organization of that body ~
Senator Curtis of Kansas, it may be that they
will begin their winter campaign by demand
ing-and probably getting pretty strong COM
mittee placements.
Perhaps the Democ, ats who ride in Pat Har-
rison's light cavalry troop will see in the stu
alton temptation to organize the senate with
the aid Of the Progressives and to try to get
some chairmanships for their venerables. They
tried this once before. It is hoped that expe-
rience taught them lesson, for the political
facts are just the same The nation in both
1924 and 1926 entrusted congress to the Re-
publican party, and the Democrats should be
busy making program on which to go before
the country in 1923 instead Of making hybrid
combinations for senate patronage. There
will be plenty Of opportunity to gain recruits
from the Progressives for Democratic le9isla-
tive plans. # the senate Democrats expect
their party to be accepted a. q major political
their claims for national control
to be weighed with those Of the Republicans,
they must move as an army, not as band OF
political guerrillas.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
SAlNE A and ALI SIMMER n

shirt with the blue stripe? Oh, for
Gods sake, don't cry; never in my
life saw q woman who could cry az
much as you do! I've told you /
don't want TO discuss the whole
damned business! I've lost the con-
tract, and that's ill t. ere il to It.
Oh, give you credit! You didn't
mean to gum up the works for me-,
but it was certainly pulling it Z lit
tie strong to advise q bride to leave
her husband!"
"0h, Boh!" Faiths faint cry was
charged with wounded love and In
credulcus shock. But If it moved her
husband he did not show l..
I'm going to take bath. Would
you mind seeing il you e. find the
shirt want? ! won't be in this
evening. Dinner nearly ready" He
had thrown off coet IN vest, yanked
his dressing e. vn from a hanger in
the closet, and spoke to her without
looking at he4 from the doorway.
IL was sewing button on your
shirt. ! know where it IS" she told
him duly. "Dinne- will be ready
when you are"
When at last they sat down to din
ner. Cherry alone was in bliths spir-
its. JOY. as II she sensed trouble be-
tween her adored sister and her
brother-in-law, was unusually silent.
George Pruitt is coming over this
evening, Faith. Won't it Be a relief
to see q man who hasn't forgotten
how to laugh 2" Cherry announced
gaily. with malicious little grimaee
at her stern-face brother-ir-law.
NEXT: Faith primps for George
Pruitt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22

old fellow feeding his BROOD Of doves
that come circling through the half
light in which the city lies hidden
before sun-up!
Or to 60 along the waterfront
and see Il the woman who keeps
house on an old scow is hanging .ut
her washing in the shadow Of q b0,-
000.ton liner? =. Or to wander
In the late afternoon over to Union
Square to see il the old pretzel man
has come to the end Of his daily
round. slumped into a bench. taken
off his shoes and fallen into a doze?
-. Or . Fifth Avenue bus ride,
without which Gotham is not Goth
an? Or those few minutes at
nightfall when Broadway begins 70
hide its cares behind the great lights
which, one by one. flash on? I.
Or the early hours, when taxis creep
along wet pavements like nechani-
cal silhouettes, when the all-uight
jewellers alp out Of the hide-aways.
when the fog whistles seem to be
snoring in the rivers and you catch
the sense Of universal slsep7 ..
And, thus bordering, I find n.y.
self on q slender pathway in Gen.
trail Park, mounting to the top Of
: little hill made Of several huge
boulders. It is late afternoon.
Through q crack in rain clouds to
the west the sun Is finding momen-
tary escape before setting.
Escaping. it climbs to the city's
minarets and creeps along the sky
cropping towers which, in the dis
lance. seem like zargantuan needles
waiting some giant to thread them.
:. What q gorgeous etching! And
how suggestive of hugeness and
ARCHITECTURAL conquest! !. Just for
. few moments the sunset colors it
all with Z vivid flush. giving the
sense of unreality: :.
Underfoot is q great boulder. /.
At some time In the vast faraway,
. glacier moved slowly and inexor-
ably over the spot on which stand,
hewing up the earth, tumbling up
rocks and carving rivers. =. So
long ago that a. one remembers or
tries to. Least Of all the sailor
and his sweetie who sit in the little
thatched bench place and do not
know that the sun is setting. and do
not care.
Once q giant Of ice escaped from
some Artic mooring and crept by.
=. A thing might'er even than the
city. A thing tia. could have
crushed and broken the
city as though it were
so much frosting on cake.
And from the boulder the city
seems to move down. slowly. slowly
crowding out its people. There
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-22
WASHINGTON A.
LETTER SKI

Some # the correspondents who
were west with Mr.. Coolidge claimed
to have noted that he was much
more tallSatiye than he used to b in
Washington. They say. that On trips
out Of Rapid City, notably the yell
lowstone trip, he burst into . series
Of extemporaneous speeches from
the rear platform and other want age
points which surprised everyone who
knew him.
OF course the president isn't sup
posed to do any talking at the press
conferences, but the untanned gen.
tleman in the light gray suit who
spoke for him certainly was loqua-
cious as compared with the popular
idea Of the presidential silence. As
a matter Of fact, the "Silent CAR
tradition has always been something
Of a myth anyway. Often the presi-
dent Is taciturn, but On other &C.
cssions he talks and talks.
Apparently many humorous Incl
dents which occurred 1T Rapid City
and the state game lodge o3 South
A0AOL0 IlaVCi SOS AAASV Re ASA~ wv
Of the correspondents threatens to
write a magazine story about them
under an assumed name, however.
One Of the experiences which
stands out in the minds Of the re-
turning correspondents is the five
mile climb up an almost perpen.
dicular hill to the McKelvie ranch,
when the blackboard wagon bear
ing Ex-Governor McKelvie and the
Coolidges became 80 heavy on the
horses that the president Of the
United States got out and pushed.
A ponderous movie photographer
who weighs at least twice a. much
as the president then clambered in
to the wagon to grind away ct the
ccatless, perspiring Mr.. Coolidge.
The CORRESPONDENTS, ploddins some
ten feet behind, began to tire. A
loud Argument began as to whether
the president was pulling or just
hanripp on,