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Evening star., 1927-03-25

sistance was reported. A large num-
ber of strikers had returned To work,
but many were still idle. The munich
pal council had issued a proclamation
requiring all residents To remain with.
in their houses between the hours of
10 pm. and am.
The foreign forces in the interna-
tional settlement and other conces-
sion areas. were at work strength
ing their positions.
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DAVIS FILES REPORT.
Describes Terrors Of Attacks OH
Foreigners I'm Nanking.

The murder of one American mis-
sionary and attempts TO slay many
others at Nanking was described in
the report of American consul John
II. Davis, which was received today
by the Navy Department.
The report, forwarded by Admiral
Williams, American Asiatic feet com.
mander. told of the escape Of Mr.,
Davis with "one officer. eleven sail.
ors, nine civilians and two children. u
The rescue of Mr.. Davis was reported
yesterday by Admiral Williams.
"On March "a, about noon, after
both the Japanese and British con
sulates had been attacked and the
consuls reported killed and after the
known cold -blooded murder Of one
American missionary and the at.
tempted murder OF many others. all
by Nationalists soldiers, the Chinese
police informed me that we would be
destroyed unless we could escape.
Consul Davis said.
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AMERICAN WOMEN ARE
MISTREATED IN NANKING,
ADMIR-. WILLIAMS REPORTS

Continued from First Psge.)
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BAND CONCERT.

by the United States Soldiers Home
Eand Orchestra, Stanley Hall. begin
ming AT 5:45 o'clock.
Evening star., 1927-03-25

Tne through train runnfng between
E:airo and Jerusalem is called "the
N1s and Honey Express "A
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Party Makes Escape.

Accordingly, our party of one Of
fcer. eleven sailors, nine civilians and
two children escaped under constant
Evening star., 1927-03-25
Wounded Still Ashore.

There are wounded ashore who
cannot receive attention and should
not be neglected further, including the
British consul general.
II believe that radical action would
preserve lives and further delay would
defeat this possibility.
"I believe that the shelling of mill
tary points, avoiding injury to the
civil populace as much as possible
would at this time have excellent
effect upon the port and along the
river.
~ have just received an evasive and
insolent reply from the local army
commander.
'I consider that if concrete action
is not taken firmly and Immediately
here the lives of the remaining Brit
ish and Americans may be lost and all
British and Americans must promptly
evacuate the Yangtze Valley in order
to save their lives. Unless otherwise
instructed and unless the situation
radically changes, I will jointly with
the British late this afternoon shell
the salient military points and mill
tary Yamen. I am sending a final
warning by a Chinese military orderly.
Doubt Ability to Control.
"Chiang Kai Shek's arrival is prob
lematical and we do not consider that
under these conditions he is strong
enough to control the situation even
if he so desires or should arrive in
time to save the remaining lives"
Immediately upon receiving this
message from Admiral Hough and
after a conference with Vice Admiral
Tyrwhitt. commanding the British
forces at Shanghai Admiral Williams
sent the following terse instruction
to his assistant at Nanking:
use your own judgment in han
ding the situation"
Admiral Tyrwhitt then sent similar
messages to the commanding officer
Of the British cruiser Emerald, at
Marking.
The outbreak of further disorders
/ was reported at Hankow in a dispatch
to the Daily Express in London. 1t
said fighting had started between
moderate Chinese Nationalists and
| red extremists and that 800 agitators,
including some foreigners. had
reached Hankow from Canton.
Butler Commands Marines.
Brig. Gen. Smedley d. Butler has
assumed command of the American
Marines in Shanghai.
The situation at Shanghai, as re
ported by Admiral Williams in "A dis
patch at 445 pm. today (Chinese
time), was that the Cantonese forces
in the city were consolidating their
| positions in the Chinese sections out
| side of the international settlement
| and the French concession.
Intermittent rife firing at points
where the Cantonese were meeting re
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to me by the British vice admiral, ap-
pears to have been that no further
warlike measures be undertaken until
he arrives at Marking and has an op-
portunity to establish order and OBJ
tain the release of the foreigners.
Admiral Williams said he had held
conference with the British vice
admiral and the Japanese rear admiral
on board the cruiser pittsburgh and
that they had sent to their subordi-
mates at Nanking messages identic
with the dispatch he had forwarded
Admiral Hough, which advised that
drastic action be avoided until Chang
reached Marking.
Replying to Admiral Williams sug
gestion that drastic action be avoid
ed, Admiral Hough gave this picture
of the Nanking situation:
81 do not believe that the details
Of the situation are completely under
stood by the commanders-in-chie
british. Japanese and American, at
ShanghaD. ] agree with the British
senior officer present tat Nanklng)
that unless our nationals are prompt
Iy released and delivered to the bund
drastic action must be taken i'll order
to save the lives of those remaining
in the city.
Evening star., 1927-03-25

Anglo American naval officers that if
the foreigners were not permitted to
leave the city, the Cantonese posi-
tions would be bombarded
Evening star., 1927-03-25

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A STATUE FOR A HEROINE

group of highly interesting bits of sculpture has
been on display in New York recently. 1t is made
up of pieces offered in competition for prize the
best portrayal of 1.-The Pioneer Woman
Among the figures submittea, as might be ex
pected are many diverse conceptions One artist
shows the pioneer woman as 1.-The sinewy girl in
flowing draperies; another as a bent, haggard old
woman, out by toll; another as buxom,
motherly sort Of goddess, serene and untroubled
We don't know which piece the judges will Sc
lect. Probably, matter which statue is selected,
lot of people will critcise it. Yet it is good
thing that the competition is being held it serves
to remind of the debt that owe to the pioneer
women of America
The pioneer woman has been neglected in our
histories Hers is the epic that has been but poorly
written, the tragedy that too often goes unsung.
We have waxed eloquent about the bearded two
listed men who crossed the great plains in the gold
rush of 40; about the brawny old adventures who
blazed the trail to Oregon and the northwest about
the gaunt woodsmen who opened up Kentucky and
the rich Middle West in the days when Washington
still lived. All of these men have been given their
due.
But when have paused to consider that the
American frontier never womaness frontier?
The men whose axes cleared away the forests
OF INDIANA and ono were doughty heroes, surely.
But they had wives; and these wives lived in bare
cabins, bore and reared big families. cultivated
gardens, made clothes and endured hunger pain and
danger without limit. The longi trek across ne
plains was heroic and magnificent, of course; but
there were women in those covered wagons as
well as men, sharing the difficulties in even greater
measure.
The pioneer woman had all the worst of it. as
matter of fact The thrills and savage joys of the
adventure were not for her; plain drudgery dreari-
ness and closely limited horizon were her lot She
gave birth to her children in rude hut usually with
out any medical attention.; she got up and resumed
her heavy daily duties few days later, uncon-
planning and persevering.
She is not the romantic heroic figure the male po-
neer is There is little of romance about a woman
grown old and haggard at 35, with bent back and
stringy gray hair and deep-ned hopeless face Yet
she deserves the high tribute of Nation none the
less.
She, as much the tall riheman in buckskin
eggngs and broadbrmmed hat, gave us our West
II prize statue will help remind us of that fact it
will be we'll.
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WHERE THE BABIES COME
FROM
BY Olson Gardner

If cities depended city-born babies to perpetuate
their populations, they would every year show de-
cline.
If industrial centers, trading and manufacturing,
replenished by ruralborn babies they would
show every year decreasing population. Not even
the increases of immigration would prevent this de-
cline.
Cities and manufacturing centers do not breed
enough humans to perpetuate themselves This is
today and has been for the past hundred of
United States history.
I'm spite of less sanitary conditions in rural and
small town regions. and the consequent increase in
death rates there the rural population shows birth
rate the proportion of children between and years
of age to women between 16 and 45), nearly third
greater than the population of the cities.
In other words, whatever the causes may be, the
cities and industrial centers the consumers of
population and enemies children.
Cities and industrial centers grow by drawing on
the humans WHO bred and raised on the farms and
in the country villages
These few of the startling facts discovered
by p. K Whelpton and in learned report just
made to the E. w. Scripps Foundation for Research
Population Problems, with headquarters ct Miami
University Oxford, Ohio
incidentally. Mr.. Whelpton reports that in 1920,
govt Of every 100 of the counrys population twenty
one we're engaged in manufacturing. In 1920 sixty
five in each 100 We're engaged In 1909 for every
500 worth of agricultural products raised there We're
SO worth OF manufactures while in 1919 for every
500 worth of agricultural products raised S121
of manufactures produced In, 1890 only 33 per
cent of the people dwet in cities towns of more
than 5000 inhabitants. Now than half are city
dwellers.
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A DRAMATIC CAREER

W. E. Woodward one of the biogrsphers who
wrote new life of Washington during the past
year. is going to tackle U. S. Grant next.
Grant, says Woodward, was one of the most
dramatic of our heroes. At the age of 38 he an
obscure and beaten man, sitting silently in a country
store. His opportunities all apparently behind
him.
who would have dreamed, at the beginning Of
the Civil War; that this seedy, discouraged failure
was to become leader Of the Union armies and
President fol two terms?" .s.e<..
We don't know whether Woodward is going to
make Grants biography human" in the way he
tried to make that Of Washington. But we agree
with him that he has unusually interesting sub
ject.
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Lose by BIunderS

Our domestic policy has been
shaped on similar illogical pursuit
Of emotion. First, we worked up a
belief that whisky was the root of
all evil; then we prohibited it.
Other nations are capitalizing our
plumbers. 81.
German, French and English are
gaining prestige in Latin America be.
cause of the unreasonable course we
have pursued, while Russia is win
ming the prestige we formerly held
in South China.
To cap the climax, Ontario is
about to enact a law whereby thirs.
ty Americans can satisfy themselves
and pay a large proportion of her
running expenses.
The United States of America is
coming to cut rather ridiculous
figure in the family of nations. 1t
is mainly due to her infatuation for
isnn's. ~
Since 1914 this country has been
guided by nothing so distinctly as a
sequence of scares, fads and
fetishes.
We started out thanking God that
we were not in the war, then we
decided to save the world for
democracy, then were pudiated the
League Of Nations, and now we are
lined up with the reactionaries on
about every issue in sight.
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MAKING THENSCANDAL
NATIONAL
Little men sometimes start big things.

Little sometimes start big things.
Senator Keyes of New Hampshire, chairman of
the ADULTS and Control Committee of the Senate,
little man at the head of what is usually regarded
as a little committee-you probably never heard of
either the Senator or his committee-seems destined
to find himself in the class of those preciptate big
events.
The full effect of the regulations concerning
Pennsylvania threemillion-dolar primary has not
yet been felt.
The country suffered something of shock
when the story told and has been sympathetic
with the Senate's purpose to bar the doors OF the
primary's beneficiary, William S. Ware. The country
was bit fabbergasted when Senator David Reed
of PENNSYLVANIA succeeded in flibustering to death
resolution that would have authorized Senator
Jim Reeds committee to complete it's investigation
of the Pennsylvania election. 1t relieved when,
dspite the failure of this resolution, Senator Jim
Reed announced that his committee, under the law,
could proceed with the job of counting the Pennsyl
vania ballots.
Now Senator Keyes steps into the picture. He
notifies the Senate sergeantat-arms that he will rot
provide the necessary o. k for the expenses incl
dent to this count, Notwithstanding the money is
available.
This may prove to be incident necessary to
make the country understand that powerful forces.
perhaps the controlling forces, in the Republican
party have determined that the whole truth concern
ing Pennsylvania shall not be discovered The pic
ture heretofore has been that of the Mellon group
in Pennsylvania spending unheard of sums to nomi
nate George w. Pepper only to be defeated by Wares
expenditure of equally unheard of sums. 1t has
seemed only family fight within the Republican
party in State, dsgracefu enough, but only that
Now it appears to have become national af-
fair
William B. Wilson courageous, clean, compe-
tent, undertook to contest against William S. Ware
in the senatorial election. The count revealed that
in the State outside Philadelphia, he had
jorty of 10000 Ware. He challenged Wares
majority of 100000 inside the city and investigation
thus far made has proved Wares figures filled with
fraud. He challenged the return from Pittsburgh
and fraud already has been proved there. He now
challenges the returns from Lackawanna, Delaware
large population.
There is where Keyes stepped in. He tells the
sergeantatarms he not bring in the ballots from
these four counties to be checked.
Keyes' action may delay the desired recount
until next December; it probably do than
that. But he has succeeded, unwittingly, perhaps
identifying the national Republican organization
with the desperate effort to up the rotenness
in Pennsylvania. This will be made clearer and
clearer before the next national election.
Keyes has added one more bundle of straw to
the load that is likely to break the elephants back
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CHALIAPIN ON THE
AIR TONIGHT SURE

Beginning at s o'clock, Central
Standard Time, the Victor radio
hour concert will include such artists
as Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso;
Dusolina Giannini, soprano. who re-
Gently made such a triumph at the
Academy Of Music in Indianapolis;
Harold Bauer, pianist, and the F'lon.
zaley Quartet, another organization
popular with the Maennerchor audi
ences of this city.
Program follows:
''Menuette Iop. 49," from Quartet No.
..r...4 ~ S,Minor' '......... Beethoven
Ritorna vin RiR1Sasy trSS% nar$tsHtj d. Verdi
.Dusolina Gisnnini.
Caprice" from "Alceste' .;....
'Fsntasie-impromptu' ........ Chopin
Harold Bauer;
two Sre nae ss. Heigss s:
Feodor Chaliapin..,
"Andante, un POGO .Adagio." from
Harold Bauer and Fionzaiey Quartet.
Just Wearyin' for You 49,.
Dusolina Giannini.
Song of the Volga Boatmen ....
Moscow Street Song. Arr by Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin.
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You'n get. along all right in Now
You Ask One" today. if you know
anything about the sea and ships.
The answers are printed on page So.
1. What type of sailing vessel is
shown in this picture?
2. What Harvard undergraduate
shipped as a common sailor i'll the
early part of the last century, sailed
to California and then wrote a book
on his experiences, which has be-
come classic of sea literature?
8. What name was given to the
fast sailing vessels built shortly be-
fore the Civil War for quick voyages
to China. California and India?
4. What are the trade winds?
5. What cape, far in the south
Atlantic. which had to be rounded
by ships sailing to the far east. was
famous for the hardships that 1t
nearly always held for sailors?
6. What are the horise latitudes?"
T. What name was given TO
privately-owned American vessels
which. in the war Of 1912, were COM
missioned to arm and prey on
British merchant ships?
8. What is ships ''log?"
3. What is a brig? (This does not
refer to the slang term for jaiD.
10. In the old sailing ships, what
was salt horse?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-11
ENGLAND NEEDN'T SHEER

The BARRIERS, it is announced, will seek hereafter
to be known chirotonsors," instead of as BARRIERS
The new name lends class, it seems and eevates the
profession no end
We're willing, if the rest And somehow
we don't quite for the supercilious sneers that
certain English writer's have made at the American
habit of adopting highsounding titles for very CON-
monplace trades
For at least in America don't confer knight
hood on soap manufacturers and tea merchants and
stock brokers. And that dear reader, is an old es
tabshed custom in digniied England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-11
ABOUT POLICEMEN

1t was just a little one-paragraph story in the
paper the other day. Perhaps you missed it entirely.
1t told about a policeman in an Eastern city who
reused the inmates of burning tenement called the
fire department and then Sacrificed his own life
in trying to cripple who could not save
himself.
Little items like that aren't unusual. Such things
happen in every city.
We all have our grievances at policemen, now
and then. But it doesn't hurt to remember that the
policeman must always be ready to risk his life in
our service Every and then he takes one risk
too maryland loses.
Keep that in mind the next time you start ex-
pressing yourself about the buecoats
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lection of jury to hear the contempt against
Harry F. Sinclair the big oil and Doodle man.
The proceeding outraged their common sense.
elimination from jury of every man who
has ever read any news concerning the oil scandal,
news which has occupied newspaper space for four
years now" Miss Finney writes 'leayes vitality I'M.
portant decisions to the Judgment of men obviously
unfit. Certainly no prejudiced or strongly opinioned
should sit juror. But it is just certain
that no man not intelligent enough or interested
enough to know what such about should
do so either
Miss Orr was led, by What she witnessed, to Of
fer a suggestion I'VE need a new monastical
order" she writes us. I'm some secluded mountain
retreat far from all contact with human affairs, men
would be taken into this brotherhood after passing
a severe intelligence test. They would study
Shakespeare perhaps and classical literature, ethics
Jurisprudence, and the Bible
But they would take a vow never never. never
to read a newspaper.
"They would come forth from their training to
the world professional jurors.
"They would be, in all the world, the only liter
ate, thinking human beings free from the faint of
newspaper reading. There such persons
now.
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LOOKING OVER NEW
EVENTS AT THE PALACE

For the first time in months we
had the pleasure of listening to an
act containing an orchestra which
did not bore us to tears. Meaning
the act of Joe Bennett and Rose
Wynn, at the Palace the last half.
Bennett opens the act with an &C.
centric line of vocal clowning and at
tempts to put on drama. With
the help of Miss Wynn they succeed
in getting started on nothing at all,
which is funny although it may not
sound so.
The orchestra is introduced after
this. and their Offering consists of
several numbers, well done, of pres.
ent popular selections.
Miss Wynn leads off with q solo
dance in which she displays much
that is pleasing to look at. featuring
splits and back-bends. Bennett Of
fers an amusing dance, and the two
of them pair up for O. dance finale
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-11
Oh, Dear! What an Intimate Knockout
Harry Richman Is While Singing Hits

show on an Okeh. played by Mike
Markets orchestra with vocal cho-
rus by Lem Cleg. Good. On other
side, Never Without You"
Sam Lamin has made a peach of a
record out of Irving Berlin's new
song, blue Skies" The lyrics of
this number breathe Joy and hope,
probably the reason for it being an
instant hit on publication.
Lamin has a corking good orches-
ira and his arrangement of Blue
Skies" in certain parts gives it an
oriental flavor. On the other side,
Yankee Rose" quite military in
movement as it opens with drums.
SOME BURLESQUE
Dale Wimbrow and his Rubeville
Tuners have issued on Columbia two
burlesque numbers. 1T Takes A
Good Woman To Keep A Good Man
At Home" and Country Bred and
Country Fed" The two titles indi-
cate clearly the standard of the
lyrics. Melody hot. About all
can say for this one.
l wanted to tell you about some
great college and university glee
clubs just released on Brunswick,
but must wait until next week.
Today's new releases of Victor in
cludes I'm A Little Spanish Town"
played by Jesse Crawford on the or.
gan, accompanied by Carson Robin.
son, with guitar and whistling; the
Four Aristocrats doing Schultz Is
Back Again." and II Gotta Get My.
self Somebody To Love; Frank
Crumit singing High, High. High
Up In The Hills" and Crazy
Words, Crazy Tunes" Warnings
Pennsylvanians doing Collegiate, I"
and Where Do You Work.a john"
and others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-11
FLAMING YOUTH IN AFRICA

Did you think that flaming youth" is product
of modern America solely? Then think again Youth
also flames in darkest Africa.
The Presbyterian board of foreign missions re-
ports that evangeistic work in the older fields of
the West Africa mission is becoming increasingly
difficult. In the old days the boys and girls stayed
at home and obeyed the tribal laws. Now, however,
they go chasing off to other tribes while still in their
teens, and the dusky elders do not know how to
handle them.
Apparently this revolt of youth is going on in
the jungle as well as in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-11

Struggle TO Save Prick
Illustrative of Human
Kindness.
BY NJ. e. Tracy

The case of Alfred Frick is anon.
alous from more than one stand
point.
If the doctors have found a new
malady, the rest of us have found
a new example of human kindness.
Creeping paralysis becomes almost
a thing of beauty beneath the pres
sure of these sixty faithful hands.
j. Science was powerless without the
aid of friendship. 1t is reassuring
to know that friendship met the
test.
Behind the rhythmic movement
Of each hand on Tricks helpless
chest there was a thought. Can there
be doubt that thought played its
part?
A struggle with death, such as
has been passing. calls upon the
mind os we'll as the body. The will
to live is often a determining factor.
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MoIdS

Mental attitudes go far in shaping
human destiny, whether from a
mass or individual standpoint.
Fanatics often succeed where more
intellectual but less persistent men
fail.
This has always been understood
in a vague sort of way, but until
recent times little effort had been
made to study or understand it.
Quacks founded Psychology just
as they founded chemistry.
1t is curious fact that most of
our science originated in playing
with mysterious forces to scare and
bewilder ignorant people.