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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14
Board Of Trade q
Little Irked
AT This

Summertime in California. is
known az the dry season, yet dur.
ing the past July and August. in
one small locality, rainfall records
for the entire state were shattered.
The location Of this phenomenon
was the big South Sea Island set
at the United Artists Studio in
Hollywood, on which Gloria Swan
son. with RaOul Walsh as director.
produced the major portion OF her
second independent United Artists
picture. Sadie Thompson, which
is playing the Columbia for the
second week.
The set. embracing both the
interior and exterior of Joe
Horns trading place at Page
Page. was designed and con-
structed under the supervision of
william Cameron Menzies. art
director Of United Artists. Dupli-
eating the atmosphere of the
tropics to q rare degree, the set
was equipped with an elaborate
water system to reproduce the
storm effects peculiar to the
Samoan Islands.
While a rainfall OF twenty
inches during the winter season
in Los Angeles is well above
average, it was estimated that
the driving tropical rains on the
Sadie Thompson" set recorded
q total precipitation Of approx
nately thirty inches. The meters
OF the municipal water bureau
called for the payment Of several
hundred dollars for the water thus
employed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14
Plans European Trip

Patsy Ruth Miller, who is play.
ing in I'VE Americans for Uni.
versal. is planning to go to Eu.
rope this month.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14
Honeymoon Lane
Seven Days
Away

Eddie powIlng'B New York
Knickerbocker Theater musical
comedy success of eli lsst season
ssTIoneyn1oon Lane. comes 70 the
National on Monday night, Janu-
ary so. following long engage
menfs in New York. Boston and
Philadelphia, and prior to the Chi
ago run. Bowling. one Of Wash.
inrtor's favorite comedians. is the
star of honeymoon Lane. He
"a also co-autl1Or Of the book Tyr
les and music with James Han
ley. ].
The supporting cast. which 4
the original Broadway one, In
cl,ldes: Gordon Dooley, Martha
Morton. Esther Muir. Kate smith
"a washington girD, Florence
O.Denishawn Helen Ault e.
WasFlingtoniah). Bobbie Perkins,
All Sexton. Leo Beers. Wortlae
Faulkner. Bernard Randall, Harry
Robinson. George Pauncefort. ana
many others. among them q large
song and dance chorus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14
''VagabOnd King
TO Return In
IA Week

With added triumphs In its
trail, the famous operetta THE
vagabond King" returns Ia Polls
Theater for one week beginning
Monday night. January %, Just
a year has elapsed since the
washington public was first
entertained with the thrilling
story and even more thrilling
music Of this delightful success.
Francois Villon, beloved vaga
bond Of France. furnished mate
rial for Justin Huntley Me-
Carthy's celebrated tale tt !
Were King recalled by many
as the starring vehicle OF e. III.
Sothern. Based on the play. the
musical version holds true to the
story. The music. by Rudolph
F'rirnl, approaches the classic.
There are numbers that seem
destined never to be forgotten
a stirring march, Song Of the
Vagabonds' only 4 Rose, and
Tomorrow" These are touches
OF q master musician.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14

3 M
ment that one would have to go
far to equal.
Margaret Ball is the premiere
dancer, and formerly was featured
with the Duncan Sisters in "Topsy
and Eva"
Jerry and Dorcy BryOn, two
vocalists, are known to radio fans
as the Sunshine Girls. They also
scored recently In the Broadway
production, Bye, Bye, Bonnie. =
For his finale, Jack Darlington
has arranged q most beautiful
effect. The girls are revealed by
ones and two's, as the black ma
terials covering them. in separate
apertures, suddenly drop away. IT
gives the Illusion of the girls
appearing out Of thin air and pro-
vides probably the most novel
flash ever seen on either Iegfti-
ate or motion picture theater
stage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-14
On the PalaceStage
A Revue Of Big
Time CaIiber

What is probably the fastest
moving and jazziest stage show
yet routed over the Loew circuit
Il Jack Partington's production,
s.Banjomania, % which is now
playing at Loew's Palace. The
production is nicely mounted and
has : cast Of 20 people, one-haR
81 whom are speciality artists
with the other half serving as a
choral background Among the
specialists are the Thompson Sis
fers, Lottie and Nancy, well
known on the big time vaudeville
circuits, two beautiful blonde ban.
1oists who, with Morgan and
Stone, also banjoists, comprise q
quartet in this line Of entertain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
PeddlerS

If Mrs Ethereda Lewis of johannesburg had not
stopped to talk one day with a peddler there would
have been no Trader Horn" a book which has been
of the most significant successes of a decade.
Those folk who alarmed when they confront
the necessity of communing for a few minutes with
alien soul miss many fine experiences and fail to
hear many brave tale
1t has become the custom to turn the cold shoulder
upon vendors of goods who come to ones front door
There are many arguments as to why they should be
discouraged it is true; ones loyalty to home town
merchants for instance ones lack of time or ones
Discrimination to buy the things they have to sell
For every housewife knows that some of them are
veritabe pests But then, some are not A few are
extremely interesting individuals. You'd be surprised
what knowledge of life they carry about with them
These pedders who walk patiently from house to
house with books, beauty creams, floor mops furni-
ture polish or saucepanS are accustomed to having
front doors slammed in their faces that they will
often expand like rose in the sun if you will lend
them now and then.
They will tell you perchance, about their children
or about the disease that carried off husband of
some pet ambition which they cherish to make their
days more endurable, of tragic misfortune, as
poignant as any snappy story.
Mrs. Lewis, who did not want new gridiron but
whose attention arrested by the lovabe wrinked
face Of the old man who selling them, derived
from him narrative that comes straight out of the
heart of mysterious Africa tale that enthralls and
fascinates, story, moreover, that has had one of
the largest sales of any recent publication in America
All of may not be able to greet such characters
Trader Horn, but you may be sure that we often
ignore the opportunity to gain some contacts with
men and women who may not belong to our clubs,
but who are more interesting and vital and splendid
and brave than many who do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Mass Distribution

Mass production having brought America to new
heights of prosperity, mass distribution will be
adopted next says Edward A. Fene, millionaire BoS-
ton merchant.
Mr.. Filene amplifles his remarks by saying that
this means great chain department stores, similar to
chain grocery stores and chain notion stores such
as now exist
He asserts that big department store chain could
effect such huge economies in buying and in organiza
ton that it could make enormous profits and at the
same time could sell goods more cheapy than is
possible to any individual store.
1t would take skilled business observer to discuss
Mr.. Filenes prophecy ntelligently It is interesting
at all events; intagines that it will engage the
attention Of numbfr Of people in the near future
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Politics and Broadcasting

If you radio listener you will be interested in
open hearings before the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee of the Senate next week the confirmation
of two of the new members of the Federal radio COM
mission.
These hearings indicate dissatisfaction in some
quarters with the activities Of the commission during
the first ten months of its existence.
The task of the commission was to relieve the jam
in the ether which had progressed to such point
that satisfactory reception was next to impossible
More than 300 stations in the air, using eighty
nine lengths, of which fifty most desirable
The commission set about realocating wave lengths
and readjusting power assignments, under the man.
date of Congress to grant broadcastng licenses n the
public interest, necessity, convenience" A hun
dred stations were crowded off the air. the power of
many was reduced and received less desirable
wave channels. The number of stations must be still
further reduced.
There has been natural outcry from those sta
tons which have been forced to abandon privileges
which they acquired during the era Of unregulated
broadcasting Appeals were made to members of Con-
gresS to use their influence to obtain better treatment
It is not evident to what extent these complaints
have been factor in causing dissatisfaction in Con-
gress.
Nor is it clear whether the charge, sometimes
made that the big companies have been unduly
favored, be Substantiated.
1t is certain however. that politics should play
part in the issuance of broadcaSting licenses The
privilege of using the air should not be traded for
votes, and the radio commission should be free to
act without political pressure 1t must not become
the political agency of the dominant party, or Of
any clique of leaders Capitol Hill.
Congress in enacting radio legislation and in pass
ing on the fitness of members Of the commission
should keep in mind its own words-"public interest,
convenience, or necessity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Poor Britain

1t is rather hard the British Now their weather
has been Americanized. Snow, heavy snow, great
drifts Of like those western plains after
blizzard have tied up the British Isles until arpanes
have had to be used to carry food to shutn villages
and tractors have had to be turned loose the
roads. And worse, the guests of the HuntsBan have
had to detour for miles to avoid choked roads,
For some time there has been very general
complaint of the "Americanizng" of industry. Speed
ing up application of modern machinery cutting
down of workers. efficiency engineering-all that
terrible Yankee stuff. But the weather regarded
as something sacred something traditional something
which had to conform to precedent and happen more
or less as outlined in the calendar. But here Is
Dakota weather alongside the gulf stream.
Whether, Herbert Janvrn Brown claims, it is
the influence of Sun-spots and long neglected
movements, is bi-product of the World War; or
just another Of the things to be attributed to Moscow
time only will tell But suspicion points to the growing
influence of America in the meteorological well as
industrial world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Teaching Europe About Us

Americans should stop worrying about foreign
propaganda in this country and should concentrate
on spreading a little American propaganda in Europe
according to Dr. j. G. Bay, Chicago librarian in 6
speech before the American Library Institute.
Europe whole knows nothing about us and
cares nothing, says DR.. Bay A scholar searching the
average European library for material on the United
States finds very little.
All of this is interesting. Our European critics
love to speak of our provincialism and lack of
general knowledge Yet in the face of the fact that
Europe steadily slipping into second place. behind
America, in the march of the worlds affairs; in the
face of the fact that the old world has passed it's
zenith while the new world is just reaching its
hood-Europe is too provincial even to stock its IL
braries with few books about this country.
Europe a result, continues to misunderstood
us lamentably. This is usually spoken Of situa-
ton that will regret day: but it may be that
it will be Europe that will regret it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Many OathS of Office

He took the oath Of office Mon
day morning, and as one reporter
declares, "It was only the first of
many oaths with which he an
nounced his program"
"All right, you BIRDS" he roared
by way of an inaugural address
listen hard and go out and tell
your friends, the victims, where the
AK will fall. 1t will fall on the fire
chief, the solicitor, assessor, super
1ntendent of highways, board of
health's head, city messenger, over
seer of the poor, building inspector,
harbor master, tree warden, super
intendent of parks, caretaker of the
city clocks, superintendent Of gypsy
and browntail moth determination,
registrar Of voters, library director
and Sealer of weights and measures. u
Considering that Newburyport is a
city of only $4,000 people, that about
complies the list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
Success Seldom Comes
Without Hard Work,
Perseverance,, and, Above
AL Else, a Definite Oh
ject IN Life"
SAYS:

Stirred by the longest casualty
list yet received from Nicaragua
Washington orders another thou
sand marines to embark.
This hardly can be for the purpose
of depressing revolution, since we
have Washington's word for it that
all revolution was repreSsed last
summer and that this man SANDING
who continues to make life miser-
able for President Diaz and the
Devil Dogs" is nothing but a
bandit"
What a disappointment President
Diaz must be to Washington! Not
only was he unable to cope with a
political uprising, but now he is I'M
able to cope with common banditry.
One cannot help wondering just
what Washington saw in the fellow
to warrant recognizing him in the
first place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04

saved him-Clitus whom later he
would kill.
a LEXANDER marched on now
L n with an army of $4,000 men
harly enough to keep an American
city dry.
He came upon Darius at Issus
1888 B. O., and defeated him so
completely that the aged king sued
humbly for peace, offering all Asia
west Of the Euphrates to Macedon.
AleXander's councillors begged him
to accept, but he would not: were
there not still some worlds to con-
quer? 1t was a momentous decision,
and foolish one.
Courage is a great virtue, but
without intelligence it is nothing.
So Alexander marched on, de-
vouring cities every day. After re-
markable siege he captured Tyre
1882 B. c., leaving the Persian fleet
havenlesS.
Then he passed down and overran
Egypt, allured, as Caesar was to be,
by the glamor of that ancient land,
but clear-headed enough to select an
admirable site for the great city
that was to bear his name and give
its own to the ensuing age.
Turning back to the northeast he
marched straight into Persia, de-
feated DariuS again (Ht Arhe1a 331
B. g., and showed his generosity
by honoring the memory Of the as
SaSsinated monarch, and treating
his family handsomely.
1t deserves not that the three
supreme conquerors in European
history - Alexander, Caesar and
Napoleon-though they killed mag
nifcently, were always ready to for
give.
And as Caesar gave Brutus par
don, and Napoleon released the man
who had tried to take his life, so
Alexander treated with indulgent
humor pirate who had been con-
demned "for making the seas I'M
safe"
I'm the lame way" answered the
pirate "in which you make the land
unsafe. But because I do it in my
little ship I am called a robber, and
you who do it in a great fleet are
called an Emperor"
Alexander gave orders that the
man should be set free. And when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Blood in His Eve

Bad or not, "Bossyp ellis had no
idea Of going into politics, much
less running for mayor, until he
found himself serving a two months
term in jail last summer as the re-
suit of a beating which he gave the
then mayor of Newburyport when
the latter refused him a permit to
run a filling station.
II went to see the mayor about
it," says ellis. "and the interview
ended by my bouncing my fist off
his mug"
The court thought such undigni-
fled conduct was worth about sixty
days, and Mr.. ellis, though he
might have disagreed, was obliged
to defer to the courts judgment.
Instead of repenting, with two
months to think it over, he only got
mad, and came out with blood in his
eye.
PlaStering the town with circus
posters and filling his yard with
tombstones dedicated to the men,
DRY of those he intended to run out
of Office, he began such a campaign
as Newburyport never saw before
and never expects to see again, car
rying every ward except one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04

INSTINCT made Alexander a war
l. rior, and kept him near to the
brute. At the age Of eight he led
the cavalry under his fathers eye
at Chaeronea, and acquitted him
self like young Mars.
Courage is a great virtue" said
Anatole France; lit has even the
right to do evil"
Alexander led his soldiers in battle
after battle, so that they implored
him to protect himself; several
times he was severely wounded;
and when he died his body was
white with scars. He mourned at
his fathers victories, saying there
would be nothing left to do.
To find new difficulties, he decid-
ed to conquer Persia. The old quar-
rel between the two rival foci of the
merchantile world in the last mil
lenium before Christ had not been
quite settled at Marathon; time and
again the Greek cities of Asia Minor
had fallen under the Persian yoke,
and Persian gold had nouriShed
many of the civil wars that tore
and ruined Greece.
One economic system was forging
into unity the Near East and the
Eastern Mediterranean; either
Persia or Greece would dominate
that unity. Darius proposed to
Alexander that they should divide
and rule; but Alexander answered,
recklessly: CAS- it would be i'm
possible for order to reign in the
world with two suns" (they say it
has million), so it is impossible
for the earth to be at peace with
two masters"
In the year 335 B. c. he crossed
the Tellespont, and set forth for
Persia's capital.
He stopped on the way at Troy
to offer sacrifice at the tomb of
ProtesilauS, the first Greek who had
put foot on Asiatic soil. At the altar
of Athena the young warrior ex-
changed his armor for suit which
legend said had been worn at the
siege of Troy.
He laid wreath on the tomb of
Achilles, and regretted that he could
not expect to have so great a biog-
rapher as that imperfect hero had
found in Homer.
These were delightful dramas
staged to appeal to the imagination
of Greece; they stamped Alexander
as a lover Of Hellenic culture and
literature, and as their romantic
defender against the eternal Orient.
Nevertheless it was against the
Greeks that the first battle of the
campaign was fought; for Darius
had sent out call for mercenaries,
and thousands of Greeks had come.
Alexander met them at the river
Granicus 1894 B. O., and destroyed
them, nearly losing his own life in
the midst of victory. Only the brave
intervention of his friend Clitus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
SANDING Crushed Once

1t was on the last July II that
our marines first came into violent
contact with SANDING.
On that occasion, and after that
was reported as a very severe en-
gagement, they were supposed to
have completely crushed him.
Three hundred of his followers
were killed, and he was represented
as fleeing to the hills with only a
few stragglers.
An admiral and a brigadier gen.
eral declared that he was through"
Since then our marines have come
into collision with him several times,
but with such uniform success as
to leave the impression that he had
not and could not become more than
nuisance.
Last weeks battle, with six dead
and twenty eight wounded, will
force not only the public, but the
State and Navy Departments to re-
wise their opinions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
Killing Off the Aged

Alex Jourdan, Chippewa Indian goes on trial
in Minnesota shortly for the murder of his mother
in-law.
To this charge Jourdan has raised unique de-
Tense. He says he killed the old woman who was 80,
blind and helpless, in accordance with ancient tribal
customs, fulfilling his duty good son-in-law.
1t is explained that the Indians felt that an ex-
tremely aged person. too enfeebed to enjoy life, and
utterly dependent others, should be killed in order
to hasten his her journey to the Happy Hunting
Grounds, where more happiness could be found than
on earth.
Before you condemn this philosophy too severely,
remember that American jury not SO long ago re-
fused to convict educated white man who killed
his invalid daughter to end her suffering. Once in
a while, tragically enough, case does arise where
it seems better for person to die than to live. 1t is
the same in civilized white America as it was among
the ancient Indians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
What's Big Idea2

Putting that question aside and
admitting that SANDING is bandit,
as the State and Navy departments
continually have asserted, what is
the big idea?
Unsuitable as it may have been to
undertake the political pacifcation
of Nicaragua, does that involve po-
Icing the country against common
criminals?
Or are the State and Navy de-
partmentS wrong, and is this man
SANDING something more than a
common criminal, something more
than the bandit" he has been de-
scribed, something more than an
outlaw preying on the community
because he can think of nothing
better to do?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-04
KOkomO Dispatch)
(DemOcratic)

More than 1900 years ago ST
Augustine, one of the greatest in
tellectS of all time, wrote:
What accusation does one bring
against war? Is it that in battle
men are killed, who must all die
some day? To utter such a re-
proach is becoming to cowardlv
men, not such as are religious
What one rightly blames in war is
this: To desire to injure, an i'm
placable spirit, the fury of re-
prisalS, the passion to dominate "
In that paragraph, st. Augustine
made very clear the difference be-
tween facing and meeting death
Tor worthy cause, and for an IN.
worthy one. The world honors
thoSe who meet death for their
1alth, or for the betterment of
mankind through science or in anv
other way. But the world is learn
Ing not to honor man who face
and meet death in war wae
cause Of "the passion to dom
1t is as powerful an arg
against war as has ever be
tered. And the world is mo
more agreeing with 1t.