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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
IdoI-SmasherS

INTELLECTUAL sharps say that
Il we have made a fictitious figure
of Lincoln, that the man we VEN
crate is not the man who lived, that
no such man as we venerate could
live, that we have draped a prod
uct of imagination with impossible
virtues and called it real.
Where did We get the idea of do
iEg such a thing, assuming it to be
so? Who started the venture and
why? What is the reason the idol
smashers have not made more
Roadway? They have certainly
done work enough.
No, no? This is hardly case of
superstitious idolatry. America has
made no god of Lincoln, has clothed
him with no supernatural powers,
What America has done is en-
shrine him as man who eXempli-
fed the triumph of spirit over ma
terial difficulties, who rose by his
own efforts, who resisted the temp
tations of hate, who remained true
to his boyhood ideals, who faced the
storm with the courage Of a lion
who touched the wounds of his
bleeding fellow beings with the
tenderness of mother love.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Reason
WYE are all one family on Lin
wv coins birthday.

w coins birthday.
The quaint, kindly, just, patient,
curious, unpretending, humorous,
melancholy, struggling, persevering,
conquering quality of the man is the
one common touch of all the year.
Again and again we like to wan
der with him from first to last over
the rough way he went in the olden
time up that long hill of fifty years.
We like to see him lying on the
cabin floor, reading the Life OF
washington" by the Pickering fire.
place light; we like to see him pause
and with piece of charcoal write
upon wooden shovel some passage
which impresses him, commit 1t to
memory, then take knife and plane
the shovel clean that he may write
on it again.
We like to go with him as he walks
over the hills, fifteen miles to Boon
vile, to hear Breckenridge, the Grim
inal lawyer, speak in defense Of one
accused of murder; we like to watch
his rapt face as he thrills with from
tier eloquence, and we like to see
him as he walks back to his cabin
home, under his arm copy of the
Revised Statutes of Indiana and
in his heart an ambition to become
a lawyer.
We like to see him, the village
postmaster, reading all 'the news
papers that come to the Office, then
putting letters in his hat and de-
livering them, though he does not
have to, five miles in the country.
We like to see him thrash the bully
who uses obscene language in the
presence of the women in the coun-
try store.
We like to stand with him in the
market place in New Orleans, where
for the first time seeing a slave
auction, he turns to his companions
and says: Let US go away from
herel" We like to see him pause
and turn to the accused traffic and
declare, "If God ever gives me a
chance to hit that institution, I'll
hit it hard!"
We like to go with him as he rides
the circuit with judges and lawyers,
winning verdicts by his sfrewd
strategy Of fair play and common
sense.
We like to sit beside him in the
old frontier tavern after the court
adiourns, when his unceasing flow
Of anecdotes and his marvellous pow
ers of mimicry makes his colleagues
roar,
We like to look up to him as he
and Douglas battle in that immortal
series of debates in which the
destiny of this republic was de-
termined.
J we like to see the faces Of the
thousands as they listen ard hear
the cheers as giants clash in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Afraid Of Women

A ND of all the love affairs of
"A Robert Jayson I found my
greatest interest in his romance
with the Mexican girl, Maria, in the
frontier post. That was in the days
when Jayson worked in Abel jay
sons store.
"It was piled and cluttered with
boxes, sacks, barrels and bolts and
festooned with saddlery and harness.
Counters we're bright with knives
pots and pans, dishes and trinkets,
and rifles, muskets and shotguns
armed it's walls. 1t had a drug
counter and a liquor counter and its
air was heavy with the smell Of
whisky, new leather, raw wool,
onions, coffee and tobacco"
1t was to this delightfully."- aroma
tic retreat that Maria came to buy
a cake of scented soap. In those
day Jayson was very tirnid. In
fact, he remained timid with women
to the very end of the book. Even
after he had fought with Indians it
was women whom he feared.
"In Those Days" deals with love
and liquor, Indians and. adventure,
saloons and brotheIs, railroads and
the march of progress.
There is both color and action in
the book. But should like to ask
Harvey Ferguson a little stiffly pre-
cisely what he meant when he
wrote: Love was far back there,
faint and seldom memory of pain
and thrill, thing that left a man
weak and loosened. He was done
forever with staring at the moon.
He was nearly forty"
Copyright. 1929. for The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

Why is cotton put up in cylindri-
cal bales?
Early in the present century the
Cotton Company devel-
oped the cylindrical bale. which per-
mitted the cotton to be compressed
more tightls and therefore to occupy
less space in a freight car. A bat
or layer of cotton is formed. rolled
down very hard and wound up on
itself, or rolled together under pres
sure and tension so that it forms a
cylinder and tends to hold itself to-
gether. The cylindrical bale has the
advantage that it arrives at the cot
ton mill conveniently protected by
loagging having neither wires nor
noops. and there is less tear and
waste. It IS also cheaper to manu-
factuTe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

Editor Times-The NejdI-Gray
old agei pension bill now pending in
the Senate is Endorsed by 10000
members Of the Fraternal Order OF
Eagles, by 10000 coal miners and
other friends and organizations too
numerous TO mention. There arc
some counties in the state that
want to give their aged dependents
better homes and happir surround
ings than the county poorhouse
affords.
Why should that privilege be de-
MED them when it does not cost
the state cent, does not create any
new Office and does not affect the
right Of other counties to decide for
themselves whether they will ADOPT
the worldwide humanitarian plan
Of maintaining the worthy poor or
continue the practice Of irnnuring
them in the poorhouse?
If your rights are respected, why
not respect the righs Of counties
that desire to make the change,
and give to them the legal protee-
ton of the state to secure them
from fraud and imposition? That
is all the bill calls for. I cannot
prevent a suspicion that there is
some sinister motive in the minds
of those who would oppose the
rights of others and try to dictate
to them in a matter that concerns
only themselves. Why not get to-
gether and give due respect to the
rights Of others as we would have
our own rights respected?
JOHN HUTCHINSON.
1107 Merchants Bank building.
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Belief in Men

"XXTITH malice toward none" he
wv said, "but charity for ALL
and Striving for the right, as God
Gives us to see the right"-what a
creed, what a philosophy, .lat a
religion!
Where are the people who can not
follow it to their own good? What
are the problems it would not help
to solve?
Everything goes back to human
hope in human capacity to grow
more decent all the while. Lincoln
was a living, breathing embodiment
Of that hope.
Lincoln believed in men. Like
Franklin, he held that it was
natural for them to want to do
right. He was always reader to for
give than condemn. In that, more
than anything else, lay his great
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Genius and Human

WE have found no yardstick
w with which to measure Lin
coins stature. He was more than
able, more than commanding, more
than courageous, something grander
than statesman, something bigger
than a president.
Possessing all the human qualities
that go with a self-made man, he
was blessed with a spark of genius
which lifted him above the type.
AS youth, he did things that chal-
lenge the admiration of the rough
est and toughest of his time. In
spite of his high, falsetto voice, he
had few equals as an orator. AS a
leader of men, he stands without a
peer.
Lincoln was great wrestler,
could life thousand pounds,
WELD an ak with the best of them,
use transit, or steer a fatboat
down the Mississippi, yet he had the
faith of child and the heart of
PHILOSOPHER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Universal Truths
PRINCIPLES can expand bl

DRINCIPLES can expand but
J. never change, the man who
learns to think in principles is not
only safe, but adaptable to any age.
That is why some men live on as
sources of wisdom and inspiration.
Socrates was one: Shakespeare was
one, Lincoln was one.
We can still learn something of
value from Socrates, though he died
more than 1000 years ago, without
even knowing that the earth was
round, or that Lindbergh would fly
the Atlantic.
Two thousand years hence, men
will be learning something of value
from Lincoln.
There are such things as univer-
sal truths and i1nmutahle laws. Lin
coin was one of the few to sense
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

ace of spades. East plays 6 of
spades which is won by South. South
now plays jack of clubs which West
covers with queen of clubs. What
card should be played from Dunn
MY?
The Error-This trick is won with
ace of clubs and then king Of clubs
is played. The remaining three
clubs are sacrificed and game is
lost thereby.
The Correct Observation-Disclosures is
certain of making the following
tricks: two in spades, two in hearts
and one in diamonds. To frame,
Declarer must make four club tricks.
BY refusing to take the first trick,
whether covered by queen or not,
the remaining four club tricks will
in all probability be established.
The PrincipIe-When holding a
suit containing ace, king and three
small cards in Dummy, and two
small cards in closed hand or vice
versa, four tricks may be made by
ducking the first trick played.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
MAKES ALL OF US
n
ONE FAMILY

subdues the outburst of an envious
advisor or turns to levity to ease
the crushing burden of a tragedy.
We like to see him turn to mercy
and save the life of one condemned
for violating the iron law of war.
u ~
One hundred twenty years ago
our Lincoln was born.
Since then hundred kings have
lived and died and been forgotten,
but this child of poverty reigns in
the universal heart.
His rise from the cabin to i'm
mortality is the romance of the re-
public and the march of his fame
around the world is the triumph of
democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

+ e III t blinded
himself for life.
Under no cir
C u m S t a n C e S
S h o u l d opera
glasses or field
glasses be point
ed at the sun as
blindness might
result. A tele-
scope S h 0 u ! d
Only be pointed
at the sun when
equipped W / t h
proper and ade-
quate solar or
d ark eyepieceS
and even then it
ic M wise for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE consideration that has been
u given to the human body has
taken but little account of some
of the newer discoveries in the field
of medicine.
The ultraviolet rays, sunlight, cod
liver oil, the vitamins, the calories
and similar words have become
known to all Of us because of the
tremendous publicity given to them
in recent discussions on health sub
jects.
One is tempted to insert at this
point the ancient proverb, "Be not
the first by whom the new is tried"
The progress of science is rapid and
it is almost impossible for any one
to keep abreast of all it's innova-
tons. The safe path is to be as
Sured that new methods are neces-
Sary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Wagons 10 Gas
"VXTAGONs, Indiana, Railro

XXTAGONS, Indiana, Railroads,
w Gas" are the four sections
in the Ferguson novel. He has un-
dertaken tor tell something Of the
story of the whole southwest, but
he has been Shrewd enough to re-
lieve the eye Of the reader by keep
ing one figure constantly in the
foreground.
Always we walk along with Rob-
ert Jayson. He is a full and fasci-
mating figure. His pangs and joys
are mine as 1 read the book.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
David Dietz on Scien,
Sun Rotation Startling
277

EFT US what modern astronomical meth
IL DDS have revealed about the sun. But first let
us give a word of warning to the amateur astron-
oner.
Under no circumstances should attempt to look
directly at the sun.
A Belgian physicist by the name of Plateau forced
himself to look at the for twenty seconds and as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

The fifth article of DR.. Fishbein's in
teresting series of seven articles on ''The
Human Body and Its Care" is presented
here. The series, in pamphlet form, can
be obtained from the American Library
Association. SO East Randolph street.
Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

greatest duel of brains and eloquence
this continent ever knew.
+
We like to see him in the White
House, moving among the shadows
of the mighty conflagration which
seeks to devour the household built
by Washington.
We like to see him as he calmly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution but
on request viii not be published. Let
preference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
Daily Thong hi

For / have heard the SANDER Of
many; fear was on every side;
while they took counsel together
against me, they devised to take
away my Iife.-Psalns 31:13.
TTAVE patience awhile; ISLANDERS
e are not long-lived. Truth Is
the child Of Time; ere long she shall
appear to yindicate thee. Kant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
This Date i'm
u. s. History
February IL

February IL
1733-Savannah, Ca, founded.
17a9-Ethan Allen, Revolutionary
war figure, died.
1So9-Birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12
L;ncoln's Ideal
the American people.

good thing it is that We have reminders like
the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. The Great
Emancipation he was called That was because he
was President when slavery institution was
overthrown.
But Lincoln was even more than that He was
the voice and the embodiment of that ideal toward
which country strives, the ideal of government
of the people, by the people and for the people
Those words are not trick of rhetoric.
They the simplest statement Of that principle
of democracy which gave birth to our form of gov
eminent, and which is the antthesis to the thing
called dictatorship.
Lincoln and Mussolini are the opposite poles OF
political thought.
The haowed dead of Gettysburg died. he said that
the ideal of democracy might not perish from the
earth.
Our nation is not today altogether government
Of the people, by the people, for the people. If he
alive, Lincoln would be the last to SO describe
it. But it is not government of the people by a
car or kaiser or a Mussolini.
1t is a government in which the people have a
considerable voice 1t is government in which the
ultimate power rests still in the peoples hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

Id cas- an q
opinions ga.
pressed In this
column are
those Of one
Of Am eriea's
most interest
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
out regard TO
tn cir agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tudc of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

Before Einstein reached his theory that the earth
and all are only an optical illusion, he must have
spent considerable time studying the habits and
ners of backseat drivers.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN,

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-12

We ike to look up to him as he
and Douglas battle in that immortal
series of debates in which the
destiny Of this republic was de-
ternined.
we like to see the faces Of the
thousands as they listen ard hear
the cheers as giants clash in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Rialto Opens Friday.

screen. It was directed by Paul Fejos
under the supervision Of Carl Laemmle.
jr. and was made on an elaborate
scale at cost of s1,500.000. The ac-
ton is laid in night club. the interior
of which is said to be the most strik-
ing scene of the year. with decorations
and lighting effects that have set new
standards in cinematography.
Against a bizarre and modernistic
background. q chorus Of 60 trained
dancers puts on show which. it is
claimed, has no equal in the most gilded
New York night club Of the present
or in the elaborate cabarets of the past.
The story contrasts the romance of
a boy and girl entertainer in the
pulsating rhythm of New York's pleas
ure whirl against the drama of the I'M
derworld. The love Of Roy Lane and
Billie Moore, played by Glenn Tryon
and Myrna Kennedy. is threatened by
the sinister shadow of Steve Crandall.
the liquor king" played by Robert
Ellis, and they find themselves drawn
into the vortex of gangster warfare be-
cause of Crandall's desire for the beau
tiful revue girl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Thomas Meiehan As Is.

SCREEN fans the country over do not
need to be told much about Thomas
Meighan as a screen star, for he has
been as popular in his day as any that
have delighted the cinema goer.
But in reintroducing him after
lapse of months in the new talking me
dunn that has taken possession OF the
modern screen, it is claimed that new
Thomas Meighan is unfolded. All TINS
is due to the fact that in THE Argyle
Case" announced as a current attrac-
ton of the week, the star OF the screen
shadow pictures is given the use OF ms
voice, and Meighan was a player OF
note on the legitimate speaking stage
before he entered the movies.
In the days before the advent OF the
screen, Meighan was seen with Mary
Pickford. Pauline Frederick. Elsie Fer
guson, Marguerite Clark, Norma Tai
madge and other noted players OF the
legitimate theater. The silent screen
presented him only in pantomime. But
1.-THE Argyle Case" his first talking pic
ture, will bring to the screen the
Thomas Meighan that was known to
the legitimate theater. And with his
voice unclaimed for use with his act
ing technique. his admirers claim ne Is
a very different Thomas Meighan and
will be found such by those who ad-
mired his work in the silent pictures.
THE Argyle Case" by the way, is
tense and thrilling drama, such as
Meighan knows well how to handle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Fred Stone in Hollywood.

FIRED STONE is one of the Broad
way stars now in Hollywood who is
not on the pay roll of any of the film
companies. He is not even on the OPP
ton list. Mr.. Stone is a guest of Will
Rogers at the Rogers home in Beverly
Hills. with Mr.. Stone are his two
daughters, Paula and Carol, Dorothy
having only recently left for the East
to fill Ruby Keeler's role in "Show Girl"
It is pretty we'll known that Rogers
rushed into the breach when Fred
Stone was badly injured in an airplane
crash over a year ago. Charles Dilling-
ham, all ready with Stones show,
Three Cheers" had no place to go
without a star. But what Is not gen.
orally known Is that after Rogers wired
Dillingham; he would pinch hit for his
old pal, Fred Stone, nothing was said
about salary. Every Saturday night
during the run of Three Cheers" Rog-
ers received a check signed by Dilling-
ham. with the amount left blank, with
instructions to fill in the amount him
self. Besides being beau gest on the
part of the urbane Mr.. Dillingham;, 1t
proved to be a real stroke OF business
genius. 1t is reported that Mr.. Rogers
never took advantage of the producer.
Rogers, however. is busy all day at
Fox Movietone city making the final
sequence of the Homer Croy story.
"They Had to See Paris" But he tries
to get home early enough for q chukker
of polo with his own team or for ride
with Stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Travel Talks Ahead.

livery year, sooner or later, gifted
travellers over the earth and to the
worlds intriguing places, visit Washing
ton with their interesting stories Of
strange people, strange customs and
strange even II attractive places, Of
which the ordinary man and woman
knows but little, if anything at all.
The first to announce his return,
after six-month jaunt in South Amer
lea and Europe, is E. M. Newman, who
has charmed many Washington audi
ences in the past.
When Mr.. Newman appears here,
after a while, he will bring for the
screen and in story his recent impress
sions of Argentina. Brazil. a complete
journey around South America and his
offerings of a recent trip along the
Rhine and to Vienna and Budapest.
The views will disclose scenes with the
smart set at Mar del Plata, an after
noon at the BuenoS Aires race track
and colorful carnival at Rio de
Janeiro.
The Rhine trip will include Hamburg,
Bremen and Lubbock, the three Han
seattle cities; HildeSheim, BraunSchweig
and GoSler, the castles of the Rhine,
Bad Nauheim, Bad Ems. Bad Homberg,
Weisbaden and other celebrated spas.
Mr.. Newman's illustrated lectures and
travel talks are given at the National
Theater in this city. but the dates have
not yet been furnished for publication.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
An Elinor Glyn Opus"

ELINoR GLYN, famous author OF
II torrid romances. in her fourth pic
ture for First National, called The
Man and the Moment" which, by the
way, is a current attraction OF the
week, is said to have set loose the fer
vor of her Imagination in way that
puts charming Billie Dove and the fer
vid Rod La ROGUE to their best en-
beavers to keep up with her.
The picture. according to advance
bits of information, not only embod1es
the Glyn characteristics, but many out
side contributions have been borrowed
to glorify the tendencies of the eccen-
trio playwright. For instance, an I'M
dersea party participated in by hun
dreds of gorgeous girls" Is one OF the
accessories. There also is said to be
introduced into the story trial mar
riage" that is entirely different" along
with a thrilling game of water polo
played in speed boats, and things ike
that.
George Fitzmaurice, who has won
much fame as screen director, shaped
the story for the silver sheet and guided
its actors
Admirers of the Glyn brand of en-
tertainment ought to find this latest
effort quite satisfying. Assurance is
given. as matter of course, that
everything is kept within bounds" a
contamination devoutly to be hoped.