Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1925 — Page 4

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William Jennings Bryan |“T“| FLAMING soul departed yesterday from |A| American life. The career of William Jennings i3ryan came to an end. As suddenly and as dramatically as he burst upon the stage of national events twenty-nine years ago he has withdrawn himself —or has been w ithdrawn by the hand that fashions human destiny. He arrived upon a storm of political passion partly s os his own creation. He departs as the ominous rumble of a religious storm, likewise in part of his own creation, is beginning to threaten the current of his country’s affairs. ’ %%■■■':'■ ' Not in this generation may a fair estimate be made of the man we called the commoner. For many years to come the opinions of men will conflict as they discuss his cereer.- Historians, at a later date, seeking from original sources for light, will find in the pewspapers and other written records more to confuse ifiau to enlighten them perhaps. He was only 35 years old when he walked out upon the platform of the Chicago contention in 1896 to end the deadlock of the politicians with a speech that set the country afire, and made himself the party’s leader. The mag-, nificent young orator of that campaign, seen by millions as their messiah, came nearer realiz-* ing then such worldly ambitions as he may have had than ever again. But in all the years that followed his was just a personal leadership of greater numbers than any other man in his party. This does not include even Woodrow Wilson, for it was Bryan’s following that made Wilson President. Whatever may be said of his wisdom, few can be found to question his character. He cherished the title given him in his first campaign. He sought always to remain the commoner. He believed himself always the champion of the common man’s good. His fight .within his party always was to keep it the common man's party. As the champion, so he conceived it, of the common man’s religion, he was about to lead another campaign—and once more with the wisdom of the world against him. He was engaged when the end came in raising issues the end of which he could not see, but whose potentialities for harm might be infinite. This newspaper with deepest admiration for the courage of Bryan, with truest appreciation of his self-less devotion to any cause that engaged his heart and head was among those that feared the consequences of the religious war he seemed bent in bringing down upon America. He was seeking to put before the American people a question that never can be answered at the ballot box. It can not be answered by mortal man. For Bryan, perhaps the answer now has been given, by the just and gentle God of his belief.

Hands Across the Pacific YyyjAY down yonder in antipodean Australia 1 W something is going on that ought to mean much for the peace and happiness of the - world. The United States fleet, in its long practice cruise, has not reached Melbourne' and Sydney and our sailors and airmen are,fraternizing with the Britons of the South Seas. “Fifteen banquets and luncheons, 39 dances, 9 smokers, 20 picture shows, 17 sports dontests and 4 theater parties are scheduled for Melbourne to keep officers and men busy and happy,” says the United Press. And, it adds: “ Sydney has arranged a similar pro- ; gram.” The Japanese are trying to make a sensation out of all this: For reasons of their own they are picturing the Australian cruise and „ enthusiastic reception of our men down there, as the first movfe toward an anti-Asiatic league. Great Britain’s Singapore naval base project is being linked up with the Australian doings, and throughout the far East they are preaching “the white peril.” The Japanese press, almost without excep- - uop. pretends to see the United States, Canada, • Australia and all Britain in an imperialistic combine against the yellow races if not the rest of the world. This is either stupidity or craft applied with a purpose. There is, to be sure, an AngloAmerican understanding, unofficial, unwritten and. to a large extent, unspoken. And somehow this is growing with the years. But such understanding as there is, is for peace and not for aggression. Wherever one may travel, particularly in the Orient, one cannot escape the feeling that mankind’s hope of peace and understanding rests largely upon the shoulders of the Englishspeaking world. And we are increasingly mindful of this, Britons and Americans everywhere. L There is no menace to Japan, nor f to <tny other nation, in this new manifestation of

Anglo-American friendship. Yokohama is 4,375 miles from Sydney, 6,711 miles from San Francisco, 4,420 miles from Honolulu and 3,039 miles from Singapore. The combined British and American navies could not wage an aggressive war against far-off Japan with any degree of certainty of getting away with it. Had we any designs on Japan whatsoever, the Washington conference would never have taken place and mightiest navy on earth that we were at that time building, today would be making the foam fly from one end of the Pacific to the other. And Guam and Cavite would now be bristling Gibraltars. To Japan we would sincerely suggest a careful reading of what the Australian Prime Minister, the distinguished young Mr. Bruce, said in his speech of welcome to the American visitors: “The great Republie-Af the United States and the commonwealth of Australia,” he declared, the same ideals and the same traditions. Facing similar problems under vastly different circumstances, both desire maintenance of the world’s peace and the limitation of the burden of armaments.” Painfully race-conscious, and frightfully sensitive, Japan, we regret to say, is too inclined to wear a chip on her shoulder. So Premier Bruce’s words were particularly applicable to her when he said: “The future prosperity and peace of all countries bordering on the Pacific is best assured by mutual intercourse, understanding and sympathy.” Let’s remember this—all of us.

The Paving Controversy SHE eternal fight between the crushed stone and the gravel interests in Marion County and Indiana has flared up again. This time it threatens to disrupt the State highway organization. Gravel men contend that the specifications for Marion County roads are virtually closed to Marion County gravel as an aggregate in the mixing of concrete and that therefore the stdne men are given a monopoly in the business. They further contend that Marion County gravel is just as good as crushed stone for road making purposes and that it is cheaper. The stone men, having things pretty much their own way, are saying little. Complaints also are being made about specifications for streets in Indianapolis. It is charged that specifications are virtually closed to everything but asphalt for paving purposes. The difficulty with the whole affair is that engineers differ in their opinions both as to the content of concrete -for roads and as to the use of pa’ ing material for streets within the city. The present difficulty is due either to such'an honest difference of opinion or to rank favoritism. As in every case of this kind there are charges and counter-charges-—some of them of an extremely unsavory nature. In the interest of the public which must pay the bills, some responsible agency, perhaps representatives of the county commissioners, the board of works, the highway commission and the board of accounts, should go into this whole situation and straighten it out. The public is entitled to light on the subject and to identification of the senegambian in the wood pile—if one is present. The Bell Rings for Helen |R. VICE PRESIDENT GEN. DAWES has come to a funny finish in his campaign to remold the rules of the Senate nearer to his heart’s desire. Mr. President Coolidge has stepped on it. Having sputtered from the North to South and back again, and then from the East threequarters of the way to the West, the General awakened the other morning in Denver. He had made a speech there the night before, telling how he was saving the country for Coolidge and the common people—saving it from the Senate. Naturally he read that part of the morning paper given up to his speech first. Then he read a news item. The news item told him: That President Coolidge wasn’t for his campaign. That he didn’t believe in it. That he was against it. That he opposed it. That it was out. The President hadn’t used just those words. But the “President’s spokesman,” discussing the matter with the newspaper correspondents at Swampscott had made all those things perfectly clear. The correspondents were authorized to write that the President saw no need to revise Senate rules; that he believed the Dawes campaign ill advised ; that it was calculated to hinder action on taxation, the world court and other subjects in which the President is interested; that it Ivouid provoke bad feeling; that, in brief, helwas agin it. Avery rude awakening for Helen!

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FRONTIER OF SCIENCE IS TAKING TOLL OF MARTYRS

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Dr. Frederick H. Uaetjep who has sacrificed eight fingers hi X-Ray work.

A Thought Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh.—Ma tthew 25:13. * * Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be dally before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain an abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.—Epictetus:

The World Over —— By Chester H. Rowell ——

SHIS is written in MidPacific. Three miles straight down is the bottom of the ocean. A thousand miles further on, it is. still three miles deep. Out of that bottom rise the volcanic Hawaiian Islands. The process of. their making is visible and is not yet finished. On the, easternmost island, the lava is still flowing, and the island is still enlarging/ There are two forms of lava, the “pahoehoe” and the “a-a,” which the rains disintegrate, info soil at different rates. From flows' whose date is known, the rate of ■disintegration is known. The same rains gradually wear down the outlines in which the deposits are originally made. On the island next further west, the lava has stopped, but the rains have mfide only minor alterations in the forms.’ As we go on westward, the rains have done their work more and more—though these islafids are less, not more, rainy—until, on the westernmost the still volcanic soil has no volcanic outlines. The only rational explanation is that the islands were made by the process that is .still going on, in a time, that can be computed from it, and that the western' islands are

Tom Sims Says Two’s a. couple. Three means they go to a picture show. While a scientist claims man is

run by electricity, we claim he Is run by his creditors. - Women would he much nicer, people if they didn’t refuse to agree with you when you are mistaken. ... ~ —> t' When ap auto balks in the middle of a mud hole, it is merely trying to replace the mule.

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Our idea of a bad insurance risk is a small man with a big temper. Rolling stones may not gather any moss, but you can’t sit on one". Nothing seenis to. make you fatter than worrying about being so fat. Opening an umbrella in the house or diving into a strange stream are signs of bad luclh The most attractive filling station ever built is the dining room. A fool and his money are often parted before they meet. 1 Isn’t, it funny, when you are mad at somebody and know it’s all your fault, yet can’t help it. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Ask The Times You can get an answer to an; question of fact or information by writing to The Indiaqapolia Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New” Ybrk Ave.. Wahinton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given. Hot can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What are the names of the two radio ojperators with the McMillan expedition? John L. Reinartz (chief), of, Manchester, Conn., and Paul J. McGee of Mattooh, 111. w ■ How much was paid for motor vehicle taxes in the United States in 1924? According to the United States Bureau of Public Roads, the total was approximately $5.51, . What is banana u.'l’: It is chemical compound of amyl alcohol and acetic acid having the chemical formula of C (7) H (14).

By David Dietz NEA Service “Writer SHERE are martyrs on the last frontier. Frequently the pioneem of science sacrifice health and even life itself to advance the lines of understanding a little farther into the fields of darkness that surround rnan. This Is particularly true in the fields of the X-ray and radium. Here the scientist is working with deadly mysterious forces which are only half understood. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer of Johna Hopkins Hospital has only two of his ten fingers left. He lost the other eight as the result of burns received in X-ray experimentation. “I suppose my researches will eventually kill me,” Dr. Baetjer said. “But I’ll die with my boots on.” Dr. Charles Vaillant of Paris was recently awarded the Cravat of the Legion of Honor, the Paris Gold Medal and the Carnegie Gold Medal for Heroism. Dr. Vaillant lost both arms as a result of infection Incurred in X-ray work. Radium research caused the death of Professor Emile Rergonie of Paris. Professor Bergonie was seeking to find a cure for cancer through the use of radium. His continuous exposure to the rays of radium finally caused him to contract cancer himself. • • • P‘ HOTOGRAPHY is just exactly 100 years old. It was in 1825 ■ -J that the first method of "taking” pictures was discovered. Joseph Niepce was the father of photography. He experimented with a sheet of tin covered with chemicals which were sensitive to the action of light. One of Niepce’s associates was Daguerre. Daguerre perfected the process and the pictures were subsequently called Daguerrotypes.

older and the eastern ones progressively younger. This is the testimony of the rocks, in one of the few places on earth where the process is uniform and simple, and is so visible that anyone can see and understand it. The time, to pile the islands up three miles from the bottom and other three miles to the tops of their highest peaks, and for the rains to form the soil, and erode the outlines, is enormous. The question is, do the fundamentalists deny this testimony of . the rocks, and make God a liar, merely because Moses had not seen them and had nothing to say about them? „ WHERE THE,INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT COUNT S'-”""! CORE one more for the Pacific. The Albatross expe--I___J dition found the famed Sargasso Sea, in the Atlantic, relatively poor in both animal and vegetable life, but, going into the Pacific, it found a region, teeming with specimens; plankton of every variety, from microscopic diatom to tiny crustacean; small creatures preying on these, and larger on these, up finally to the great sharks, sea lions and whales, whose carcasses, in turn, consumed by big and little, made the whole cycle over again. On the border of two currents, warm and cold, all these were concentrated, in unexampled richness. There is a strange fierceness in the sea. All the creatures in it are, cannibals, and none of them ever lives to die a natural death. Each one spends its whole life pursuing and being pursued, and only one in a million lives to have offspring. That one begets a million descendants,, so the race survives. The individual does not count. NOT MUCH IMPROVEMENT ON PRIMEVAL TIMES

Out of the sea we all came. Its salts are In our blood; our temperature is that of the primordial waters, before the earth cooled; our life is still internally aqueous, a “combustion in a moist medium;” and our most delicate mechanisms regulate our internal sea, that it may continue the conditions t,o whfbh life was originally adapted. Physically, we are of the sea. And spiritually, we have abolished of its muixierous ruthlessness not much except the waste of cannibalism. A soldier medium gives us better protection, so we can survive with less than a million offspring, and a few land species, of which man is Imperfectly’ one, have substituted gregarious cooperation for individual competition. On is founded what little approach to morality we have yet achieved. The sea is profoundly immoral. The land is imperfectly moral. , / '■ ' ' ■ Please Remit By Hal Cochran The mailman brings us messages of cheerfulness and sorrow. Like everything, the bad conies' with the good. A welcome note arrives today; the other kind tomorrow. We'd only get the former if we could. We welcome Mister Postmaij when he makes his daily call. It's mainly that we’re curious, I guess. No matter what he gives us we will ask him, "Is that all?” And yet what' does it matter—more or less? We open first the missle that’s a message from a friend, or maybe from an out-of-town relation. We j read the writing over from beginning to the end. 'Tis news about their summertime vacation. The balance of the letters hold their secrets tight within. We open them; our interest lags a bit. To think we thanked the mailman is enotigh to bring a grin. They’re bills and bills and bills—and PLEASE REMIT! / (Copyright, 1926, NEA’ Service, Inc.)

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Putting the Comedy Yardstick Against a New Somebody in ‘Lost —A Wife’ Film

By Walter D. Hickman Get out the comedy yardstick, the smart one. not the hokum measure, and place it up against the talents of Greta Nissen. This Nissen individual is just that. She has that continental idea of farce and comedy with sudden outbursts of wise emotion. She possesses not great beauty, but she has that "something” qiffer-

ent about her which stamps her interesting the first second she lands within the sensitive eye of the camera. Her hair looks “wild” but shows the effect of nifty hairdressers. She has a startling polish to everything that she attempts. She knows what is intended by "high lights” in comedy work. She knows how to speed a

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laugh by doing just the needed thing. This woman who Hashed across our amusement world last season on the stage in "Beggar on Horseback,” is making her American movies debut in. “Lost —A Wife,” a version of the stage farce, “Banco.” You will recall that Stuart Walker at the Murat some seasons ago, did this little play of how a wife attempted to be more stubborn than her husband. Hubby declared he would play continuously in a gambling casino as long as said wifey remained within earshot of the buzzing wheel. Here is a polite little nothing of a wise laugh that the French are supposed to enjoy so much but the American version is wise also. To put it over, a decidedly cultured comedy touch is needed and that is just what Miss Nissen owns and knows how to use. Coupled with her in her efforts at farce, we have in 'this picture the best man in the business for this sort of thing. Am speaking of Adolphe Menjou. He really is the “smartest” and most polite thing in the movie game when it comes to treating women with "highbrow” cave man stuff. He is deliriously proper in this movie. His work is delicious. As fine a piece of smart farcical comedy "Work I have seen upon the screen. The photography, splendid. Direction is just what is needed. The entire cast is just right. This picture is a delight. , . Bill includes a Charles Chase comedy, a news reel and music*. At the crfiio all week. -I- -I* -IAND THE QUESTION IS—WHAT IS WRONG IN THIS? Jack London In writing "White Fang” had a definite idea of what he was doing but the man who turned the story into a movie was not so definite. I do not mean that “White Fang” is poor entertainment, but I do Insist that the director could have made-It a better picture. The director has seen fit to weave an over amount of human romance

into the film. As a dog story, ■‘White Fang" Is strong enough to stand upon his own feet. Asa movie, this picture has several good moments. The in the wild shots at the beginning showing the female wold vampire, the first time I have seen an animal vamp r. the screen are magnificent. They breathe the spirit of London’s story • Up to the point that White Fang be-

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comes Civilized and taks on a sweetheart for a petting companion, all of the dog scenes are well haiidled. In this story, London made quite 'ado over a fight between two dogs, White Fang and a champion dog.

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

This fight has been so handled with subtitles that the strictest humane enthusiast could not object as the dogs do not actually fight. All the actual fighting is done in the subtitles. Strongheart is a wonderful dog. You expect an actor to shed tears in emotional scenes. Well, this dog sheds ’em too. The two outstanding dogs on the screen today arc Strongheart and Rin-Tln-Tin. Both are excellent, but I believe that Strongheart is the better of the two when registering sadness and rehl dog loneliness. As far as Strongheart is concerned the picture is satisfactory, but the director had it in his bean that his human actors had to earn their salt. If the director had kept the dog constantly before the camera "White Fang” would have been a much better picture. There are several good shots show ing White, Fang “eating up” on the human villain. As 1 said before "White Fang" is far from being poor entertainment, but it could have been so much better. Charles Murray is in the cast and. of course, registers even in such a small part. Bill includes a comedy, "Short Pants,” a news reel and music by the American Harmonists. At the Colonial all week. -I- -I- + IN WHICH LEWIS STONE CANNOT SAVE A PICTI’RE Have always thought that Lewis Stone could about save the poorest kind of a yarn. After seeing “The Lady Who Lied,” supposed to be an adaptation of Robert Hichen’s story, "SnakeBite,” I am convinced that such is not the case. Have never read this Hichen story, but I take the liberty, feeling that I am right, that the person who adapted his to the screen did a mighty job of It. And when I realize that this is an Edwin Carewe

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theatrical moments into them. This story certainly does not register as movie entertainment, in spite of the fact that the cast includes Lewis Stone and Virginia Valli. If this is a careful rendering of the Hichen yarn, then something must be wrong with the author, yet I do not think so. As filmed, the story Is so theatrical that one wonders why it was ever made. I try to be reasonable in telling you of the movies, but

Movie Verdict Ohio—Mighty smart furr is reflected In "Lost—A Wife.” Menjou has a gorgeous time as a polite caveman husband. You will meet a startling movie newcomer in this one. Apollo—Lewis Stone and Alice Terry strut their regal stuff and thereby make a good picture out of "Confessions of a Queen” without too much confessing. Colonial —hTe director could have made "White Fang" a much better picture If he had not attempted to have improved upon Jack London. Strongheart, a dog, is wonderful. Circle —Failure to understand the dramatic and emotional values of ißobert Hlchens has made 2 The Lady Who Lied” pretty/'jnconvinclng stuff. The orchestra Is a wonder this week.*

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when a director and a movie writer makes a bungle of the whole Job I for or.e am going to record It. As usual, be your own Judge of "The Lady Who Ued." I think It is all applesauce. In Ensign Al Moore and his United States Orchestra, the Circle this week as a triumph In a hovelty producible organization. This orchestra goes in for scenic effects, especially In the opening and final numbers. The last riumbet* Is so inspiring thut T found several people yelling “Bravo" while all the others were applauding. These men have several good singers with them. Their comedy numbers are well selected and they know how to put them over. The acrobatic dancer Is a wonder. He stops the show any old tUne he pleases. Here is a real no%‘elty organization which so pleases an audience that It make 'eni yell out loud with Joy. At the Circle all week. •I- -I- -IIN WHICH MR. STONE SAVES A PHOTOPLAY. Lewis Stone does actually save and make a movie thl® week. Am sure you will agree with me when you see Stone and Alice Terry in "Confessiope of a Queen.” The story Is evidently patterned after the famous "queen l>edroom” brand of Elinor Glynn. In this confession. Stone Is cast as a king of a make believe! king-

production I am ready to be more jtern than ever. Here is mighty poor direction. If the director attempted realism, -he failed miserably. The desert shots look so much like studio stuff or just a few seconds from the street car that I lose all patience. In my experience with Hlchens as a novelist I have always found his backgrounds to be realistic, although he crowds tense

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the queen mast furnish an heir. She does, but rohtance enters not the palace of the king. The old boy carries on with his playmates of the wee small I hours of the morning. The Country gets fed up on their kinr? to' the extent that they plan and carry out a revolution. The queen maintains that the king has no right to sign nway the rights of the heir. So the king get/* a little manhood and runs away with the queen, tho heir and the lad who was so attentive to the queen. All very proper because the poor queep was so lonesome na all queens are supposed to be In the movies. Os course before It Is all over, the King and Queen decide to be Just folks. So they give up their rights and settle down in Paris to be real people. This thread of a story has been gorgeously acted by both Stone and Miss Terry. It’s Just light stuff but how theso two people actually make you enjoy It. Direction—competent and line. Photography—none better. Bill Includes an Our Gang comedy, music by Seidel and his orchestra and a news reel,' At tho Apollo all week. • • • Tho Isis for tho first half of tho week la offering Jack Hoxle In "tton Daro Devil.” English's for tho week Is present*, lng "The Easy Mark,” a comedy. Bonnto Reynolds Is present at the Lyric and Frank Finney Is among those present at tho Palace. Only thing you can tell by some public clocks la what time it isn't. Moths have a hard life. Imagine living in overcoats all summer and bathing suits all winter. A successful farmer Is one who has energy enough to make hla boyg go to work. It's warm enough to be a classify (lancer now.

dom. He la too polite to he grosspolite to he grossly common, so he puts his mistress into n pretty villa near the palace. He Is a kingly rotter hut being kingly and also Irotten (as the movie writers causes us to believe) he marries a beautiful and good queen, played In regal sincerity by Alice Terry. Under thn cold ethlca of the court