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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04

Earle, artist and motion picture d
rector, on cruelty grounds. Pinney did
not appear to contest the suit, but had
filed an answer denying the charges
They were married in oceanic, N. j..
in 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
Motion Picture Artist Divorced.

LOS ANGELES, January 4 R).-
Mrs. Charlotte Kristine Earle was
granted a divorce in Superior Court
Yesterday from Ferdinand PinneY
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
Old HOMESTEAD
GOES TO FORD

BOSTON. Aprn ga large ram.
bling 17.room Colonial house. once
the Charleston home Of Edward
Everett, orator diplomat. govern.
or and college president, win be
acquired BY Henry Ford in his
plan to restore many Of New Eng
lands famous hosteIries for the fu.
ture benefit Of the public.
Negotiations for the purchase Of
the property by Ford have been
under way for some time and be.
fore many months 1t is expected
that the house will be established
as q historical shrine.
The Everett homestead, situated
not too far from the famous
Bunker Hill Monument, has a his.
tory that fairly reeks with tales
Of events and personages important
in the development of this nation
It was in this house that Everett
and his bride entertained the Mar,
quise Lafayette and Daniel Web.
ster on the day that the first mon
ument on Bunker Hill was dedi
Gated.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
S { R | INDIANS
DYING OFF
By international News Service

~ A1NCA A0tAUudA NEWS 0bENlCc
NoGALEs. Arizona. April g.
within the brief span OF ten years
misfortune and disease have laid
their grip upon one of Mexico's
strongest Indian tribes threatening
absolute eradication and that with.
In the next four years II condi-
lions are not remedied for the tribe
the Seri Indians--who after pass
ing through a memorable epidemic
of influenza, Is now in the grip of
the white Observation-Disclosures
From a band OF $500 strong the
tribe has now decreased to less
than 1000 and Is now facing certain
extinction as the terrible pail of
tuberculosis takes hold of half of
the tribe.
Conditions Terrible.
This information is brought here
by an American doctor who has
just returned from Kino Bay and
Tiburon Island where the Seri
makes his reservation. This doctor
declares living conditions to be
terrible and the Indians living
like animals without permanent
shelter; half the time without food
and at all times half clad. He at.
tributes the present tubercular
plague to the 'flue epidemic OF last
year and the dilatory care given
the tribe
This doctor says the tribe Is
doomed unless the Mexican govern.
ment takes immediate steps to
remedy the present living condi.
tions and place The Indians under
medical care. This Is a problem
for the Mexican Government as the
Seri refuses to accept aid from
Mexico fearing that treachery of
years. ago will be repeated.
For years the Seri has been the
aborigine of the Americas. He has
been branded as a cannibal but
this reputation has been refuted.
1t is true that he. is America 8
most backward race; eating ais
food uncooked, providing no homes
and making no effort to support
himself by filling of tn, soil or
through prowess of hunting.
He is Mexico's nomad and like
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
Psychology Cures Boy
OF Defective Speech

PHILADELPHIA. April s.-The
cure Of defective speech. which has
baffled scientists for many years,
was shown to BE- possible through
the cooperation of surgery and
psychology by Edwin Burket Twit-
myer. professor of psychology at
the University OF Pennsylvania.
One Of the patients introduced by
the psychologist was boy Of Is,
who had suffered from Amutilated
speech due to cleft palate. This
boy is IS per cent cured" said the
professor. When he came to us
on November 10, 1926, his me-
chanisn had been repaired surgi.
cally according to our recommends
ton.
Previously, surgeons closed the
cleft in the palate and assumed
that normal speech would be re-
stored. Our study of the me-
chanism Of speech showed the neees-
sity OF moving the palate into the
back of the mouth. so that the
air passage to the nose might be
closed in the procurement of
consonants."
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
To His Death in River
SIur Makes Man Leap.

LANCASTER. April s.-Unnerved
by the taunts Of friends. Robert e.
Cogley. 4s. a matchmaker, leaped
into the Conestoga Creek near the
Eden paper mill. A note and q
will were found on the creek bank
not far from the spot where the
body drifted on a ledge Of rocks.
Il am innocent Of the charge, az
God above me. and He knows /
never did anything like thai"
Brothers Of the dead man say
that slur against Cooley made
more than week ago has been
worrying him. Cogiey is B native
Of this city and worked 30 years
at the Hamilton Watch Company
plant.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
Boys Newspaper Fire
Wrecks Three Houses

WEST CHESTER. Pa. April g.
Fire wrecked three large frame
dwellings on South Adams Street.
West Chester. with loss Of $4,000.
The buildings were owned by Mrs.
A. D. Sharpless and occupied by
the families Of Howard Proctor
Harry Evans and Mrs. Mary
Holmes.
John Rankin. a ward OF the
Proctors. started a fire in the
kitchen with newspapers while mem.
bers of the family were in an
upper room. The fire spread to the
upper floors of all three houses and
firemen were hampered because Of
no nearby water supply.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08

ing It out" at the Buzzell farm to
day over the young matron they
both want to wed. Mrs. Lettie Eos.
ter. town clerk. waited in vain for
Elmer and Mrs. Tibbetts to appear
for a marriage license.
Mr.. and Mrs Buzzell parents of
the youthful suitors, don't care
much which of the boys leads Mrs.
Tibbetts into the Buzzell family as
long as she is Ted they old
neighbors.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08

other vanished nomad races his end
is in sight as inability to clothe
and feed himself is rapidly under
mining his natural ability worn
Mexican troops or disease and
plague.
Officials Of Nogales, Sonora,
Mexico interviewed on pthe subject
say that everything possible has
been done for the ari but that
his inherent distrust of all things
Mexican makes him intractable.
His aversion to governmental help
Is held out as a reversion to animal
type. These officials say that
within the past year the state gov
eminent Of Sonora h endeavored
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
Boy, IA, Brother, IL,
Fight for Divorce

CANAAN. Me-. April S.--If Willie
Buzzell, 14-year-old farm boy Ro-
meo. can't wed Mrs. Thelma lib.
belts, his 2S-year-old DIVORCE sweet.
heart. neither will he surrender her
to his big brother. Elmer, IL.
While the Buzzell boys were "haY.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08
Boy, IL, Tells How His
Pal. z. Died to Save Him

SCRANTON, Pa. April s.--Miss-
ing for eight days, the body of
1-year-old Arthur Sailor was found
in Roaring Brook. The boy died
here trying to save Wesley Frabel,
-. in the swollen stream. Wesley
slipped from rock into the stream.
Sailor grabbed the ledge and hang
Ing from the rock yelled to Frabel
to grab his leg.
Frabel in doing so pulled Sailor
into the water but himself managed
to get out. Young Sailor disap-
peared in whirlpool.
The Washington times., 1927-04-08

The United States Department of
Agriculture has announced the de-
velopment Of new process for max.
ing newsprint paper from hard.
woods. It is believed the process
will assist materially in continuing
the newsprint supply from aspen
and birch and possibly maple in the
Northern and Northeastern region
and in development Of a newsprint
Industry in Southern States from
gumWood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

NNyHY are the Scripps-Howard newspapersf
Wv Sias Bent, well-known writer, asks this
question and undertakes to answer it, in the No
vember issue Of the Century Magazine, the news
stands today. Some of his findings are extremely
interesting.
He starts his story with Roy W. Howard an In
dianapolis product, former newsboy, chairman
Of the ScrippsHoward papers and part owner of the
news agency sitting beside President Coolidge at
the dinner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of
the founding of the United Press, and hearing the
latter organization described as world power in
fuental beyond the dream Of any of its founders"
He tells Of the growth of the United Press from
staff of twelve persons including the office boy,
into service Of seventeen languages, for newspa-
pers in thirty-eight countries with twenty weight
foreign and thirty-sx American bureaus using more
than 100000 miles Of leased wire and presenting it's
dispatches to 100000 American readers
Then, taking up his question: he says:
"The original why Of the Scrpps Howard pa
pers and of the United Press lowered as an unseen
presence behind the speaker at the banquet It was
Edward w. Scripps who with $4,000 borrowed
from elder brother, founded the newspaper from
which sprang the present twenty-six, stretching
from coast to coast; it was he who formulated for
them the aspiration and principles which, now that
he is dead, still mold their policies
Gas an Illinois farm boy sitting atop rail
fence, he had observed that his fellows worked long
and hard for very little, and seldom rose above
persistent >drudgery; he had noted too that they
were ignored and inarticulate.
"Thus the idea came to him of a newspaper for
the under dog:
"When, in 1870, he founded the Penny Press
(now the Cleveland Press), he told Bob Paine, it's
editor, that no man with pull or power or money
was to be treated better than any other man. This
was keynote
There follows the story Of how the owner soon
afterward got himself arrested for reckless driving
and found the full account in his own paper and of
how the editor, instead Of getting fred got his
salary raised.
''There was another incident of those trying
early days which had it's significance young adj
vertising man, by holding out collections embezzled
$4,000. 1t was great deal of money to the strug-
Cling paper The business manager wired Scripps
proudly that he would lose nothing; mortgage had
been taken on the home of the delinquent mother.
You will not prosecute, the angry reply, you
will cancel the mortgage at once. You will put
$4,000 in your profit and loss account due to
damned poor management +"
gSE W. SCRIPTS wrote little for his papers. He
LILO swan with his men, played penny ANTE with
hem, bossed them, quarreed with them and listened
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= As Great Writer In Century 80
Magazine Sees YOUR Newspaper

policy. Nor are they merely news merchants let
us see what some of them have done elsewhere.
t''In Knoxville, Tenn, by a vigorous campaign
against wasteful and inefficient municipal govern
ment the News succeeded in setting up city man
ager plan and enlistng in it not only the support but
the service of substantial business men.
"In Evansville, Ind. the Press has divorced
the city government from the Ku-Klux Khan, has
cleaned up the gambling joints, and there, too has
undertaken to substitute a business-lke city
ager administration for bossism.
KIN Indianapolis the fight for a city manager, in
which The Times triumphed by vote of to l,
was but minor engagement in greater battle
against the Nan.'
Bent tells at length of the part played by The
indianapolis Times in cleaning up Indiana.
''The outcome of this fight attracted national
attention" he says at conspicuous example,
take it, Of the constructive uses to which crusad
ing newspapers can be put At time when the
the>exposure of corrupt officials is none of its bust
ness instances of this sort stand out beacons 1t
is true that Stephenson might never have struggled
out his message if there had not been another fight
ing newspaper in Vncennes; it is true that the
struggle might have failed but for the assistance as
time went on of the Indiana press generally But the
fact remains that the tenacity and bravery of the
Scripps-Howard paper mainly responsible"
IT INSTANCES of this sort might be multiplied.
Those have sketched not the most remark
able; they chosen because taken together they
present fair picture. The Scripps-Howard papers
seldom quarrel with individuals; they not con-
descending or fippant editorially; they not
solemn or sanctimonious; they do not spatter
competitors with mud and they never too busy
for a hearty scrap.
"They are happy warriors.
"In long newspaper experience, have never
heard of one of them who got into fight which
WASH good fight in good cause. The instances
have cited show, think that these papers have
skill courage and power. They show that not all the
American press is indolent and fabby, as is often
charged
The relation of the local editor to the general
organization is thus explained by Bent
"In national policy the papers of this chain are
a unit. In wet New York and dry Knoxville they
advocate modification of the Vostead act. They did
this long before they acquired a New York city
newspaper Editorials on national and international
affairs are sent over leased wires from Washington
and from New York but there is no requirement that
ember of the great group of newspapers so frank
ner government than there would be without
for Scripps Howard newspapers charge them
is enduring enough to fight alone-th
,easance and nonfeasance.
ed, but triumphant. It's voice alone in the last
babble of the political market place where desi
family that, every day, reads
polls Tin
o@>
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to them, and by intimate process he instilled in
them his own definite ideas of the why of newspa
per. Fire the liar was favorite dictum. There
was long-suffering patience for the blunders OF
youth but short shrift for the deceiver "A newspa
per, Scripps wrote once, is thing of growth, and
properly conducted is everlasting. It is neither
fake nor snap for day or two, scheme to ,
bunco money out of fools pockets. reputation for
honesty and ability to give good service for money
is more necessary than reputation for virtue in
women
rT%HE belief Of E. w Scripps that high wages
would not cripple industry, but would heighten
prosperity through increased purchasing power, is
explained.
"That theory, derided at first, led many per-
sons to denounce the Scripps papers labor agta-
tors. Now it is watchword of industrial captains,
and has the public approval of Mr.. Coolidge. The
Scripps- McRae papers however and the Scripps-
Howard papers afterward were economically par
tsan and they were regarded by their conservative
neighbors rather rowdy. If the word Bolshevism
had been invented them they would have been called
Bolshevist. They had Stephen Decatur attitude
toward the union; they were for it. right or wrong
AS organized labor grew stronger, and the practices
of the capitalist group altered for the BETTER the
Scripps-Howard papers modified their policy. The
Cleveland paper uncovered corruption in the build
ing trades union, for example, and helped send two
to the penitentiary The kind OF partsanship
that had brought charge of radicalism in an early
day. lacked motivation, once the worker was strong
enough to stand on his own feet"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

F yoW are not a
L regular Indian
GpoIiS Times sub
scriber, call the Cir
culGtioE D epGrt-
ment, Main $500,
and ask that your
neighborhood car
rier boy be instruct
ed to leaVe The
: Times at yoNr home
every day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

DoN'T miss the
~ opening IN
staUments of "The
Story of CiUilizG-
tion,'' a0ritten for
Scripps Howard
Newspapers, By DR..
VIII Durant, noted
author of "The
Story Of Phaoso-
phy." Publication
soiU begin soon IN 6
The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

SGT SHARE the prejudice of most newspaper men
against consultations mergers and chains, -
says Bent. ''That independence and competition
prerequisite to courageous press automatic
How can paper under absentee ownership, pledged
to contribute it's share to the profits of organiza
tion and subservien to editorial voice in another
city, serve it's own community competently?"
This leads him to relate the growth Of the
ScrppsHoward group in the past year, the purchase
of the New York Telegram, the mergers in Memphis
and Knoxville and the stirring events in Denver fol-
lowing the purchase of the Rocky Mountain News
and the Denver Times. Of this now classic news
paper battle, he says:
''The Scripps- Howard papers do not customariy
resort to circulation methods of this sort But they
happened at the time to be in Rome They fought fire
with fire. Elsewhere they have relied, as rule on
the United Press, the Newspaper Enterprise Associa
ton features and the Washington supplied by
the Scripps- Howard Newspaper Alliance supported
by lively local staff and fortnight editorial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

-
CUNNING up his interesting discussion, the writer
~ says:
cat the beginning of 1927 there were more than
1900 editors, reporters, copyreaders, advertising
men, compostors and other employees as stockholders
in ipps-Howard investment companies. They
owned shares with approximate value of S. OOO,-
900 and an actual value of half as much again.
'The United Press and the Newspaper Enter
prise Association (the feature servcel are operated
quite independent of the papers, and the editorin-
chief of the chain has no jurisdiction over them
"The Scripps-Howard investment companies are
pools of stock in various newspapers of the chain,
grouped as to guard against decline in dividends
when single newspaper finds itself III financial
difficulties. The plan is that such losses shall be
than offset by the success of other papers in
the group.
"The investment companies do not influence the
local policies of the papers, each of which has its dis
tinct list of directors. They merely as de-
vice to give employees stable form of investment,
and a share in the profits of the organization.
'The Scripps- Howard papers have improved the
standards and the news service in the afternoon field
beyond questions they have supplanted bulletins
with compact news coverage, and their competitors
They enter with greatest joy that community where
other newspapers lax, and they have vitalized
the press in more towns than one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

H the Scripps-Howard group we have this picture:
The dominating influence is editorial, as it should
be, and the business Office is subordinate such
private interests might call for the coloring Of
news are eliminated; financial stability and in
dependence secured by reductions in the cost Of
management and editorial content; there is local
autonomy and fighting spirit. These are heritage
from old man Scripps. And it is plain that under
the present management the legacy is not being dis
spated
''In the four years, 192O-1924 the chain In
creased its business $50 per cent and its circulation
since 1920 has risen from 100000 to than $780,,
OOO Plain speaking and hard hitting have cost dear
ly in particular places and at particular times, but
in the long run they have made Roadway.
Accuracy in news liberalism without fanati-
csm and tolerance and independence in day-to-day
journalism, appear to pay dividends"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

THE INDIANAPOLIS proud is member the
L IN the foregoing
there there cleaner governe
than he would get otherwise for Scps
responsibility fighting behalf of the public the battle that Individual
against the battle against mafeasance
before today battle Scared but um
be heard above the babbe the
to hawk public rights.
invite YOU become member of the rapidly growing family that ev
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-24

any paper shall use every any editorial. And in
local affairs the editor has free play. He decides
for himself what his policy shall be it affects his
community He alone is responsible for the con-
sequence The chain thus represents kind of con-
federacy, with local autonomy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-12

fit swatted the devil, drank jug-fus of water and
in general gave fair return for the admission fee
Billy was male and made his main appeal to
the female. Aimee is female and her drive is on,
and for the male body, soul and wallet
TO encourage masculine hopes Aimee had her
self kidnapped, suspected of having an affair with
a radio-operator and became national figure She
employed an army of "skinners" to collect from,
those who did not who fought the devil or
how he was fought. She won and so did the devil
he is immortal and should worry. He has steady
job and if he does not get enough publicity to feed
his ego he must be an opera star
Aimee was indicted by a grand jury in Los
Angeles for doing something other to the majesty
OF the state. She attributed the grand urys action
tc the devil and got so much money out of the
population ON the strength of the charge that the
real estate operators used their influence to have
the charges quashed lest all the dough available for
the purchase of earthquakes might be diverted into
Aimee's pockets.
Having SKINNED the cream Of Los Angeles
Aimee wendell her way east wrapped in fur coat
that would make the empress of Japan look like
recruiting agent for the Volunteers Of America
She harangued thousands of people in wicked Chi
cago and three hundred Of these became converts
to the -Four Square Gospel" very likely for con-
sideration of one square meal. The rest of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-12

BE it said here that, if the promise of "pie in
the sky is somewhat elusive and cannot be defin-
itely proven, the gratitude of the capitalist, in
rewarding his deceased friends, is nevertheless
tangible. AS proof of this, wish to state that if
the choice for his grave had been left to the living
Ebert he could not have selected more beautiful
spot than the one which so generously given
to him by his captalstic friends
Laying at the top of a hillside, and overlooking
the magnificent Neekar valley amid beautiful flow
ers and shady trees, in peaceful Quetness having
for his company feudal lords and dukes, Ebert's
grave will Uverawe any follower of hero-worship
The immense size of the solid block Of marble (about
300 cubic feet) will indicate to any one, without
being told, that some renowned hero, king prince
or president has been laid to rest here. A very
appropriate inscription, with gold letters, reads:
'Das Wohl meines Volkes war mein ZieL" (The
welfare Of my people was my aim). This in spite
OF the fact that Ebert vaciIatng as a Calvin
Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-12
Aimee the Agent B. cyan gITzRE7Nol0s

A S an agent of the meek and lowly Nazerene
Aimee Mcpherson is a doubtful success But
as the impressariO of a religious circus she has
King Ben Of the House of David tearing his chin
foliage.
Aimee uses Jesus bear-hunter uses baited
trap While the sinners the suckers are getting
tckled by the evangelist's gentle trap Aimee APP
plies pressure to their funny bones as her ninble
fingers go through their pockets.
Jesus died on between two thieves
poor man. Yet more thieves have grown fat under
his auspices than there are hairs on mountain
goats hide.
Some of those thieves are organized into trusts
ike the catholics the methodists and the anglicans
Others are independent like BILLY" Sunday, King
Ben and Aimee. They fight the trusts to bring in
the spiritually i'll, just the health quacks attack
the medical trust" to attract the physically Grip
pied whose mental garrets devoid of intellectual
furniture
The catholic church peddes indulgences, enough
spnters from the sacred cross" to stock lumber
yard, sanity shinbones and occasionally walls of
Che "blood of the lamb" But they do this with
pomp and show. The customer gets something for
his money.
'Billy" Sunday hired his troupe, his elacquers
and most of his penitents. Onl-- - ~reF"nce wqs
unhred. They paid the bills. BILLY" threw good