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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
URGES EVANGELISM

A plea for individual evangelism
was made by Harry G. Rowe. Sec
rotary Indiana Council of Religious
Education, in an address before Ma.
rion County Bible school delegates
at the Central Christian Church
Monday night. The meeting was
preceded by a dinner. attended by
400. The Rev. Homer c. Boblitt,
Linwood Christian Church pastor.
also was heard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
THREE DIE IN BLAST

BO United Press
SALEM, ILL.,. March &c. M.
Robinson, engineer, Salem; C. A.
Harlow fireman, Villa Grove. and
7. e. Brute, brakeman, also OF
Villa Grove, were killed today when
a Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomo-
tive exploded two miles north OF the
Salem yards. The noise of the blast
was heard several miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
THREAT TO GOVERNOR
Attorneys Letter States He May
Bring Suit on pocket Veto"

Threats of friendly suits"
against Governor Jackson and Sec
rotary of State. Frederick Schorte-
meier, to test the legality OF the
pocket veto" employed by Jack
son in allowing thirty-two bills to
die, are contained in letters sent
them today by Attorney Merle N. A.
Walker.
The letter to Jackson asks that
he turn over to the Secretary Of
State some of the bills killed. by the
pocket veto" The communication
to Shortemeier demands that the
bills be printed in the same manner
as other regularly enacted laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
END SALES CONFERENCE

A two-day sales conference attend
ed by agents and branch managers
of the Travellers Insurance Company
came to an end at the Columbia Club
this afternoon. Those attending the
conference were guests at banquet
at the Marott Monday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
DECLARES RANKRUPTCY

Harry ID. Armstrong, locomotive
fireman Of Richmond filed volun.
tary petition for bankruptcy In Fell
eral Court here today. lie listed
s2,S31.1S liabilities and assets of
$500, claiming exemption from the
latter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
STRONG
IN D|SAPPROVAL .
OF BETTING TAX
None Among Various Levies
Has Aroused as Much
Condemnation.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, March 22.-Since its IN
PRODUCTION last November the betting
tax has caused a great storm Of in.
dignation than did the whisky tax.
beer tax, income tax. or any Of the
numerous taxes under which the
Britisher labors.
Cash transactions are allowed on
a race track. but It is illegal to call
on a bookmaker; one must speak
over a government.owned telephone.
The man in the street must not
hand a betting slip to a man he sees
on the sidewalk, but he may go TO
neighboring telephone booth and
make bets that way provided no
money passes.
The betting tax was expected Ia
bring in $4,000, 900 a year.
BooISmalers Strike
The greatest antagonists are the
booltmakers who went on strike
against 1t within few weeks OF its
inception. Some oppose II on prirl
ciple; others declare they are being
ruined by its operations, maintain
Ing that lawful betting has decreased
at least sixty per cent. Furthermore
they draw a parallel between prohi.
bition In the United States and the
bets tax over here, the obvious
sequel, according to them) being the
marked increase OF betting which is
now done by breaking the law.
Breeders of thoroughbreds are not
so unanimous in their opinions and
statements. Some maintain the tax
has already hurt the great blood
stock industry, prophesying the end
of betting and as a consequence
running both racing and the breeding
trade that depends upon II. Others
maintain that the evidence available
is all to the contrary. Taking the
record December sales as an ex.
llmple OF the ever-increaslng value of
all classes OF blood stock, the same
optimists draw attention to their
enormous demand for the services
of the leading sires in the country,
all booked up for 1927, 1928 and 1929,
according to the Racing calendar.
Favor Change
With owners, trainers, race execu-
tves and tn eracing public generally
the present tax on turnover Is UNI
popular. Many favor some aiterna-
tive scheme with the approval OF the
vast numbers Of those interested in
racing. Some alternate schemes sug-
gested are n tax only on net win
nings of layers and hackers; tax
registration scheme for both bettors
and bookmakers; or a stamp method
Of taxing all accounts.
Prominent racing folk are of thu
opinion that Churchill will not on
tempt to alter the tax in the forth.
coming budget and II the proceeds
Of the betting tax do not come up TO
expectations, 1928 may see the legal
ization Of cash betting and the In
PRODUCTION OF the pari-mutuel or the
race tracks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
WAR SCARE DWINDLES
Diplomacy Looked 10 for Settlement
Of Italo.JudgO.Slav Dispute.

Bu United Press
PARIS. March 22.--The Italo.
Jugo- Slavian crisis apparently had
settled down TO an ordinary dlplo-
matte question today, with the inn
portant foreign offices OF Europe
virtually united on n policy Of set.
thing the dispute II possible WITHOUT
convoking a special meeting Of IN
League OF Nations Council.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22

the month OF April. 1927. Estimate book
will be on file at room, lat Statehouse,
from and after Monday. March 81, 1927.
By order Of BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Legal Notices

LEGAL NOTICE
The board of trustees of the Central
Indiana Hospital for Insane. will receive
sealed proposals until Friday. March %.
at 10 a. m. for furnishing supplies for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Help Wanted Female

HERE is an opportunity for a live, wide
awake, neat appearing single young lady
to start business career with definite
future in the advertising department of a
progressive concern. Must have pleasant
personality quick to understand and will
ing to work. She will have excellent train
ing and supervision. knowledge Of the
city and the ability to speak clearly and
qualifications. See Mr.. Copley at Times
Please do not phone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22

Mrs. Minnie Williams and her
husband, Clarence Hines below
are being held in the Los Angeles
county jail, charged with whole
sale buying and selling of babies,
and suspected of numbering more
than a half dozen of the infants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Farms for Sole

POULTRY FARM-S7 acres: good inn
to zoo daily; i miles s OF Scottsbarg. Cali
Ran 6O13. 1850 w. 31st St.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
ATT, WOMEN WEAR DRESSES

ALL WOMEN WEAR DRESSES.
Take orders for children's and ladys'
dresses direct to wearer: popular prices,
quick deliveries, direct from lndianapo-
no experience necessary; dignified
&asant and profitable work: representa-
y wanted in Indianapolis and nearby
JANALENE. 546 S. Meridian.
IS: full or part time; wonderful
Rsition for alert. ambitious ladies'.
Occidental Bldg.
kperienced in bakery. Cali 1852
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Card of Thanks

CARD OF THANKS-we wish. to thank
our relatives, neighbors and friends for
their sympathy and kindness shown to us
ME L. Noffhe; also the minister Rev. J.
c. Frohne. the choir, pallbearers. Bert s.
Gadd and his assistants. for their very
efficient services; we wish also to thank
all for the many beautiful flowers. HUS-
BAND. PARENTS. SISTERS AND
BROTHERS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22

FORD Truck. 1923: in good condition (:
also ice route for $500. GUS Il.
BROWN. 1850 Goodlet Ave.
FORD ton truck chassis, sI1 10 choose
from; 32x6 tires on rear: almost new
special transmissions; 1925 motors: down
payments, $S5. SMITH x MOORE. author.
lied Ford dealers. 52S South Meridian ST.
Main $3.50.
RECONDlTlONED TRUCKS, VARIOUS
KINDS AND SIZES. INTERNATIONAL
HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA.
USED TRUCK DEPARTMENT. 1883 KEN
lucky AVE. MAIN $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Death Notices

LA GRANGE, CHAS. E.--Age 10 years,
passed away city hospital, March ID.
Funeral Davenport. Iowa. March ".
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Real Estate for Exchange
Business Opporfunities

TRADE YOUR LOT-As down payment
cottage. bungalow or double. Main l576
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Miscellaneous Wanted

HOUSE cleaning; Your surplus clothing
furniture. magazines. papers will help
US TO help others. Salvation Army Indus
6622 127 W Genrgia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Lots for Sale

DREXEL AVE, north of Tenth Just two
blocks from Little Flower = Church:
S1.150 cash. Drex. 2091-J.
LOTS. two 40-foot s. front: W. 31st near
Elmira. 334 Congress Ave. e. Diet.
THREE lots on Pleasant Run Blvd. Call
at 1880 N. Capitol Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
Radio Equipment

RADIO. 4-tube. Silver Tone. built-in speak
er. includ'g. 4 tubes; cheap. Ken. 4234.
RADIO. 6-tube Kloster set Al condition:
sacrificed for cash. Belmont 1906-J.
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1927-02-15

Education does teaching people what they do
know It teaching them to behave they do
behave It is teaching the youth the shapes of
the and the tricks of numbers and then leaving
them their arithmetic roguery and their ltera-
ture to lust 1t means, the contrary training them
into the perfect exercise and kngy confluence of their
bodies and souls It is painful continual and difficult
work to be done by Kindness by watching by warning
by precept, and by praise but above abby example
-John Ruskin
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Grin, Death Turks in
Holy Waters of India

The hottest waters in India are man.
tied with a green and brilliant scum.
Those who would battle must break 1t,
as hardy swimmers in our colder
countries break the ice, before they
can reach the spiritually cleansing
liquid. Coming out Of the water
bathers leave behind them jagged
riffs Of blackness in the green; riffs
that gradually close, If no more pill
grims come down to battle, till the
green skin Of the lake is altogether
whole again.
There were but few bathers when
we were at Pushkar.
On days of little concourse the
bathers do not venture far out into the
lake. Death~lurks invisible under the
scum, swims nOiselessly inshOre, snaps,
drags down. We saw him basking on
a little shrine-crOwned island a hun
dred yards from land, monstrous and
scaly, grinning even in his sleep-a
crocodile. Pushkar is so holy that no
life may be taken within its waters or
on Its banks, not even the maneaters.
A dozen pilgrims disappear each year
between those enormous jaws. 1t is
considered lucky to be eaten by a
crocodile at Pushkar.-From Testing
Plate" by AldOus Huxley.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Giraffe a Figure in
Old Roman Pageunts

The wonderful, long-necked, spotted
creature, the giraffe, has an interest
ing history. biologists in deciding
Its actual species place 1t between the
deer and the hollow-horned ruminants.
The name giraffe" seems to be de-
rived from the Arabian "zerapha''
which by some is supposed to have
been a corruption Of "zoraphe" the
Egyptian for Tong neck"
In the days of imperial Rome g.
RATES. from the Libyan desert were
exhibited in the triumphs of various
emperors, and were probably shown
to the Romans during the dictatorship
of Julius Caesar.
From the period of the Roman en-
pire till the close Of the Fifteenth GEN.
fury these magnificent animals were
unknown In Europe.
In the last years of that century
Lorenzo de Medici became possessed
Of a specimen, apparently perfectly
tame, which was shown in Florence,
and as it was led through the streets
often halted, and raising its lofty head
to some high balcony, received some
dainty-fruit or confederation the
jewellers Of the house before which it
had stayed its progress.
From that date till the reign Of
George Nv no giraffe was seen In Eu-
rope until the year 1927, when Ma
hommed Ali, viceroy of Egypt, sent
one as a present to the king Of Eng
land.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Rushing Waters Meet
in Giant WITHHOLD

Just before the junction of the
Madre de Dois and the Inambari rivers
In Peru the latter divides into two
arms, with an island some two miles
long between. The right arm, which
Is usually the safer for navigation, is
at times impossible, owing to exces.
sive drought that causes the forma-
ton Of perilous rapids. Travellers
must in consequence take the wide
left arm, down which the main volume
Of the river then flows.
An enormous force of water is shot
into the Madre de Dios; the Inambari
at its left-arm junction is 800 yards
wide, perhaps 80 feet in depth, and
flows at six knots an hour. This great
mass Of water meets the Madre de
Dios, itself 400 yards wide here, at a
right angle. The current of the IMAM
bari, being faster than the Madre de
Dios, the former river cuts right across
to the farther bank. There the Imam
bari Is thrown back and surges round
In huge circle 200 yards In diameter,
to Join up again with the water flow
Ing to the bank. The whirlpool thus
formed Is probably one Of the largest
In the world. The circles of seething
water curl Inward and downward,
screw-fashion. to their center. which
appears as a great hole, at least six
feet being below the level Of the outer
rim.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Birch-Bark Canoe Not
Popular With Indians

Though the birch-bark canoe is the
traditional vehicle of the Indians of
northern Canada. few are to be seen
today among those Indians frequent
ing trading posts or mining camps in
Ontario or Quebec, writes Courtney
Ryley Cooper in the Saturday Evening
Post. There Is an art in making q
birch-bark canoe that only the old
timers truly know. Then there is work
to it and IAN Indian and unnecessary
work are about as we'll mated as a
bulldog and black jaguar." Far bet
ter. If he can trap enough rats or cor
raj enough ermine skins, he owns a
chestnut canoe with an cupboard mo-
tor. with which he can scoOt along
the streams and lakes in serenity and
swiftness. while the wind waves his
hair and creases grin across his face,
comparable only to an Oklahoma Cher
okee enjoying his oil royalties and a
new motor. There's only one thing
more exciting, and that is to stand
close enough to the track to get the
ballast in his eyes as he watches the
transcOntinental go by.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Credit for "Want ADJ
Goes to Englishman

In 1872 John HoughtOn, fellow of
the Royal society, established a week
ly paper for the improvement of hus-
bandry and trade, and undertook to
educate the merchants of England in
the art Of advertising, says Worlds
Work.
First he established a bureau for
supplying servants to masters and
masters to servants, carrying on oper-
atoms through advertising. From this
he went into the advertising of
schools, houses and lodgings to let and
so forth, laying down the idea Of what
has grown into our present want ads"
He instructed the public class by
class, inducing lawyers, physicians and
farmers to use his columns and built
up a large miscellaneous patronage
for his paper. The clergy in particu-
lar found his columns an excellent
medium for securing or dispOsing of
secondhand sermons, for there were
no Monday morning papers in those
days, with ever-present reporters, and
a sermon could be preached around in
various parishes until it was worn out.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Nature Prodigal in
Gifts to the Great

The great man has usually looked
the part. Lowell said Of Emerson that
there was majesty about him be-
yond all the men l have ever known"
Washington impressed those about him
as being no ordinary man, and DR..
James Thatcher said "the strength
and proportion of his joints and mus
cles appeared to be commensurate
with the pre-eminent powers of his
mind" Goethe was likened in his
youth to an Apollo, and the ply
sician Hufeland declared that never
had he met with a man In whom
bodily and mental organization were
so perfect" Tennyson was lone of
the finest looking men In the world"
Wordsworth was, according to the art
list Hayden, "Of very fine heroic pro-
portions" Southey looked an ideal
poet, Byron was as beautiful as his
verse and was likened to "the god of
the Vatican, the Apollo Belvidere."
Leonardo da Vincf had q figure Of
beautiful proportions and noble and
engaging presence. Walter Scott was
eminently handsome, much above the
usual standard" and least In the
mold of young Hercules" with
fresh and brilliant complexion and
a countenance of great dignity
Scientific Monthly.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Historians Skip Many
Matters of Interest

An American history written in the
old-fashiOned way would never men,
ton the rise of the motion picture d.
version. The kind Of histories to which
we have been accustomed don't ap-
pear to be in the least interested in
the ordinary life of the people, which
is as much history as taking a fort
or carrying an election, a writer in
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat asserts.
Between wars there is almost
blank interregnum; and-from the his
tOry-yOu would never know that
book had been written, picture paint
ed or machine invented. We once
knew school history of the United
States that did not mention the COM
Ing Of the railroad; but every Indian
chieftain from Massasoit to Sitting
Bull was personalized.
These strange silences of formal his
tory leave us to the historical novels
for our general information of the
times - the clothing our ancestors
wore, their pastimes. their religious
faiths, their literature, their customs
and their modes Of thought.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Something to Remember

One thing they have learned In cold
Alaska is to make no attempt to clean
a silk or wooden garment in gasoline
in the winter time.
Writing in Scribner's Magazine,
Mary Lee Davis, the wife of an engi-
neer, says that two women Of her &C.
quaintance were burned to death In so
doing.
"Just the friction, "she says, "of lift
ing the material from the gasoline
bath produces such sparks in the
electrified air that an explosion almost
invariably occurs"
Although there isn't quite so much
electricity in" the air In this section
of the country, there are few indoor
sports more dangerous than washing
articles in gasoline.
If you must wash things In gasoline,
do it outdoors.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Finished

A travelling man put up one night in
a cheap little hotel, where the thin
partitions of range Of bedrooms, like
the stalls Of stable, stopped half
way to the ceiling. And in the Silly
watches of the night he lay awake and
listened to the finest demonstration
of plain and fancy snoring that 1t had
ever been his fate to hear. 1t was full
Of sudden and awful variations. Some
times strangulation seemed imminent !;
then, in the middle of fantasia, the
agony stopped suddenly. and there
was silence.
From a nearby room he heard a
voice exclaim YEARLY, Thank good
ness! He's deadI'
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Heaven as q Republic

DR.. James Madison, second cousin
of the President of the United States
Of that name, was elected president
of William and Mary College when he
was only twenty-eight years old. 1t
was necessary, before he could assume
Office, to suspend a statute requiring
that the head of the institution be not
less than thirty years old. The young
college president, who was ordained
in the Episcopal ministry in 1775, was
an ardent believer in the republican
form of government. 1t is said that
in his sermons he never would speak
of heaven as kingdom. He would
always refer to 1t as the great repub-
lie where there Is no distinction of
rank, and where all men are free and
equal. Magazine.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
Egyptian Spite

The childish trait Of taking It out"
on all inanimate object when one has
a fit of temper seems to have been a
serious business in ancient Egypt.
An archaeological expedition of the
Berlin museum has just returned from
Egypt with 200 pieces of pottery, frag-
ments of some so clay vessels, all
written over with the names of for
eign princes and peoples with whom
the Egyptians of about 1000 B. c.
were at war, together with number
of Egyptian names as well, pre-
sumably Of rebelliOus communities.
These names, it Is believed, were in
scribed on the vessels, which were
then shattered with suitable cere-
monials, in the belief that the foes
would thereby be injured.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
All Knowledge Not
Possessed bv Youth

Dear me, with all their superior
knowledge, how ignorant the younger
generation, one might say the young
est generation, Is about some things.
A new story came into the house and
mother essayed to read 1t aloud It
was about "gypsies." Hardly had she
begun when a chorus of small voices
asked, "What's 'gypsy'?" And it was
hard explaining about a covered wag-
on, for the next question was, whats
a 'wagon'Y' And some didn't even un-
derstand what pair Of horses" was.
Never did mother have 1t brought
home to her SO keenly that this was
an automobile age.
And there is nothing that makes q
high-school pupil feel that her mother
Is more ancient than to have that same
mother say, There were no automo-
biles in my high-school days; we al
ways went buggy riding" Instantly
the high-school maiden thinks Of her
mother, as dated some time before the
Civil war, and one high school child
had the nerve to question her mother
as to her experiences during the Rev.
dictionary war.
Mother came back at daughter bit,
though. She said casually, There
was no such thing as radio in your
life until you reached high-school age,
was there?" Daughter tried to prove
that radio only happened the other
day, as it were, but mother empha-
sized her point that inventions are
coming along faster than people are
Springfield Union.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-02-05
OUR NATIONAL BANKS

wish the attention Editor Vann of the Pittsburgh
Courier to the fact that the and operates two
AL BANKS We esteem the Courier highly among our con-
temporare for have things admire the Courier for
which it's constant endeavos it's readers line
the races business and business and COOP
Grafton all of which the Echo tries in its way to do.
the of January 18th when pointed out the great
that the Douglass National Bank of Chicago had performed
for the exsoer the making loans to them on their
adjusted compensation certificates Mr. Vann flew wide othe mark
when he said that the Douglass National the only National
had Mr. Vann overlooked the fact that THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Boey Oklahoma, the FIRST
time the ONLY National Bank owned and operated by
the
If Mr. Vann had taken the trouble to investigate he would
able learn Mr. Geo. Schuyler writer in the
Courier from consulting old copy of the Courier in which Mr.
Schuyler wrote about Boy and it's business and conditions when
he made visit to the 1000 Negro town last year.
We waited patiently for Mr. Vann to make correction but
the Courier have since the and
conspicuous correction made deem to the best interest of the
readers of the Echo to speak now
The First National Bank of Boey Oklahoma owned and con-
troed by Negroes Mr. S. King who large and prosperous
and cotton the president and is associated in
the institution with other prosperous and influential meno Boey
We granted that the Echo readers familiar with the
the financial wizard who heads the Douglass National OF
Chicago who also heads other large corporations and has d.
JAMES N SMITH.