Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1925 — Page 5

MONDAY, AUG. 17, 1925

CHURCH HEADS PLAN JOURNEY TO CONVENTION Church May Send Four Delegates to Annual Meeting. Plans were under discussion today by members of the Congregational church of this city to send delegates to the Congregational Home Society which will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary of Its founding at "Washington, D. C., in October. This meeting will be held in connection with the twenty-flrst biennial session of the National Council of Congregational churches. The First Congregational church of this city of which the Rev. William I, Caughran is pastor, will probably be represented by four delegates at least. The Congregational Home Society will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of its founding at Washington, D. C. in October in connection with the twenty-flrst biennial meeting of the National Council of Congregational Churches. This society was organized in New York in 1826 under the name "The American Home Missionary Society." It w*as formed to promote churches, schools. and Sunday schools in the then pioneer country of western New York and Vermont. For some years previous to this the United Domestic Missionary Society had been carrying on work in I these sections the workers of [he Domestic Society were the first to be enrolled under the American Society. The work in the early days was supported by four denominations, the Reformed Dutch, the Associated Reformed, the Presbyterian, and the Congregational. But as the years went by the other denominations withdrew to form their own denominational bodies until by the middie of the nineteenth centu,ry it became the Congregational Agency for Home Mission and in 1893 the name was changed to the Congregational Home Mission Society. At the centennial meeting to be held in October, the history and accomplishments of the society will be reviewed. It will be brought out that -while at the beginning the society had only 169 workers, it has now 1,376; that at the beginning the workers were granted SB3 per year while today the society pays on the average $778 on the average salary received by home mission workers of $1,305. In the report of the general secretary, Dr. E. M. Halliday and Dr. F. D. Moore the secretary of missions the work of the society will be described and the needs of the future presented. In his report Dr. Haljiday says: ‘ Total expenditures of the society in the first year of its existence wre $13,984. Last year they were $1,063 149. Additions to churches duri lg ninety-nine years of (the society’' life gives a total of ‘704,674 who through the ministry of missionaries have been brought into church membership.” PRAISE OF GOI> BEST Woodsiile M. E. Pastor Says Men Crucify Those Who Disagree. “The praise of God is more to be desired and fellowship with Christ Is more endurlpg than the fellowship of the world,” said the Rev. Charles M. Reed, pastor of the Woodside M. E. Churcjj, in a sermon Sunday on ‘‘Sgns of God.” The primary functon of Christians is to reveal God to men, he said. Men are prone to praise those who agree with them and to crucify those who disagree with them, the Rev. Reed said. * LAWLESSNESS DISCUSSED Rev. Fifer Says Pardons Have Been Obtained Too Easily "The easy escape from penalities and sentences for law violations has be<m the chief cause for all this lawlessness in this land.” said the Rev. Cricn W. Fifer, pastor Central Avenue M. E. in- a sermon Sunday morning. "We do not ask justice to be cruel, but we' ask it to be honest,” said the Rev. Fifer. "Pardons have been obtained easily and emotional appeals have been stronger than evidence,” the Rev. Fifer said. “TO CORRECT MISTAKES” Former Prosecutor Lauds Church i# Sunday School Talk. ‘‘You’ve got to keep in touch with the church in order to correct mistakes of ycur life,” said Claris Adams, former county prosecutor, in an addrers Sunday morning before the Christian Men Builders class of the Third Christian Sunday school. “I think the reason there is so mfich crime in this country Is because we are living under man-made laws father than feel we are abiding by the laws laid down by God,” Adams declared. POLICE BADGE STOLEN Thief Also Takes 35 Cents From Home—Trousers in Yard. Police today are looking for the burglar who late Saturday stole 35 cents and his badge from the home of Patrolman Fred 1239 W. Thirty-Sixth St. Brennan said the prowler used a ladder, gaining entrance through an upstairs window. Four pairs of his trousers were found in the rear yard. EVOLUTION DEBATE OFF Btl RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 17.—David M. Edwards, president of Earh ham College, has declined the challence of Douglas Dobbins, Greenwood attorney, to debate evolution. BABY’S COLDS are soon “nipped in the bud* without “doling” by use of— VICKS ▼ Vapoßub Over 17 Million Jars jjmmd Yearly

Sister Was Dumb, Brother Worse, and Mother Was a Slow Rocking Chair

By Walter D. Hitekman Or H, mercy me! Oh, mercy, Yes! Sister Gladys Gmtf was awfully dumb. Poor dear! Her brother Homer was so dumb that he never did have brains. And mother Cady! Silence the expression! Mother was so dumb that she thought Noah's Ark was an excursion beat. Oh, Yes indeed and Fathreer Cady, knotvn as Mr. Cady wore a checkered

suit, dashed cigar ashes into his tea, because he never touched the stuff with his lips. And Mr. Cady was a close friend of J a c k —rqeaning money. Father permitted Jack to work for him. Father built a house of ninetyeight rooms and three baths. He placed a chorus of waiters, butlers, maids, dancing masters and the like in the house that Jack built.

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Mrs. Cady chewed gum while she rocked herself to knitting In her home. Where Mrs. Cady went she always took her rocking chair and h“r chewing gum. Oh, mercy yes! Dear Homer Cady was so weak in tie knees that the poor old thing couldn’t wear a wrist watch larger than town clock in a tower. And his ;ie! Oh, Homer's tie was some tie. Tnere is enough cloth in Homer's tie to cover the ‘‘Covered Wagon.” t And when dear Sister Gladys was to be married, she shimmed while a doctor tied the knot to Jazz time. And the groom! Oh, mercy me the would be husband. He was dressed in a plug hat and a bathrobe. And. speaking of Gladys, her wedding veil was about four miles in length, more or less. The groom was a ooor nut of a composer who wanted to write highbrow symphonies full of kings, queens, monolight and good little fairies. His name is Neil Macßae and to escape writing Jazz music about hot potatoes and hotter gravy, Neil decided to sell himself as the husbanl to the shimmy shaking Gladys. Gladys just had to have a celebrity in the family because" her family was one ,grand mess. But before Neil "sold himself" he had a dream about this family. •I- 'l* -IHAT are you about, you whisper to me. J I will tell you. I have “The Beggar on Horseback Blues.” Am trying to about the "goofiest” and the most brilliant

photoplay evemade. It’s name is “The Beggar on Horseback.” And this picture made a mental “goof” out of me. I saw telephones actually taller than the telephone pole. I saw people actually vanish before me while they were still present—there but still missing. I saw chairs in a lavish drawing room droojr their legs

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and nearly fall to the floor and a second later these same chairs could hold up a mountain. I saw the bridegroom murderC his wife, frer father, "her mother and her brother with a big knife by "shooting” ’em dead. I saw a Judge trying the groom, not on a charge of murder, but on the charge of "attempting to write highbrow music instead of “jazz.” This same judge practiced geif while trying the case. The Jury played saxophones while hearing the evidence. This jury went to sleep when the defense introduced evidence. When the groom took an appeal to a “higher court,” the trial court pressed a button and caused his bench to be elevated a few feat in the air. "Is that high enough?” asked the court while he continued to practice golf. And it was high enough because the saxophone jury sentenced poor Neil to a jazz factory where he had to write three Jazz soi "a an hour. And his jailers were the living spirits of Mr. Cady, dear sweet Homer and terrible Gladys with Mrs. Cady present In her rocking chair. Mr. Cady started to poke Neil with a sword because he attempted to turn out highbrow music. Horrors! Then Neil woke up. It was all a dream. And then in real life Nell mrrries a poor but charming IRtle Pollyanna across the hall by the name of Cynthia who wanted Neil to write only classical music. * • • A "1 M telling you sanely that “The Beggar on Horseback” is the greatest bunch of intellectual nonsense ever turned loose upon a great public. •*" James Cruze. who directed “The Covered Wagon” has made even a, greater piece of entertainment by turning out “Beggar On Horseback”

for Paramount. This story even on the stage was the greatest mental ch’ese ever turned out and • as a movie it is the finest satire on modern love, ambition | and family life the screen has ever had. , ‘ What The Last f Laugh” was to j Europe, just so will i Beggar on HorseI back” be for the I American photoplay I producers. Here is ’ the greatest mental comedy bet 1 havjever seen. This is not lowbrow fun but

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the combination of just plain hokum with the most intelluctual fun along the lines of satire the world has ever known. The only horse there is in this picture is in the title. The principals are few in numbers

Movie Verdict Colonial—“ Drusilla With A Million,” is one of the nation’s best and most human pictures. A treat for every living soul. Ohio—"Begger on Horseback,” is without doubt the finest satire and burlesque on love and the modern jazz family that the stage and screen has had for years. Circle —Tom Brown and his musical Minstrels, and, Ossman and Schepp, wonderful banjo players, are giving t e Circle the best musical prog -am of the summer season. “T ie Half Way Girl,” is spectacular melodrama. At times too realistic. Apollo—"Sun-Up,” is a dramatic movie which proves that the screen can present drama as it should be presented. Not to be missed.

but all the other actors are used in groups of hundreds. The principals are; Nell Moßae Edward Everett Horton Homer Cady . James Mason Cynthia Mason Esther Ralston Rice Frederic Sullivan Mr. Cndy Erwin Connelly Gladys Cady Gertrude Short Mrs. Cady Ethel Wales Warning. Don’t miss the best fun of high qualities that the movie screen has ever offered. See "The Beggar on Horseback" at the Ohio all this week. •I- -I- -ITOM BROWN KNOCKS ’EM COLD AT CIRCLE When the history of what hap pened at the Circle Sunday is written this note will be discovered: —"Tom Brown and his Musical Ministrels along with Ossman and Schepp know 'em dead. Meaning that both of these musical attractions upon the same bill stopped the show. Tom BVown is one of the best known entertainers upon the stage.

His name has been associated with the six Brown Brothers. Now Tom is going it without the "brothers.” And in that I think he is wise. Tom Brown is the best saxophone clown In the business. He does things on a "sar 1 that nobody attempts, but Tom. He has built a minstrel band around himself as his hew offering for the season. He has a corking good band and a group

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of men that aid him build up his ‘comedy climaxes. Brown first appears in “Here Comes the number in which the • musical comedian has a big chance. He then returns to aid In putting over "Oh, Kathrlna." and other new hits. The finale, a Sothern number is done with special scenic effects in fine taste. And for an encore Brown and hfs men do a singing number which causes for a regular riot of applause. From every standpoint Brown has a real winner this season. It Is made of big time ideas. Ossman and Schepp are crack banjo players. They certainly can, tease a banjo into being one of the most beloved of musical instruments. For a finish they have a novelty idea by which they suddenl/ become blackface playing old time tunes. This number is handled in great shape. From a musical standpoint, the Circle has never had a better drawing card this summer than the current musical bill. I understand that they broke summer records yesterday at the Circle. "The Half Way Girl,” with Doris Kenyon, Lloyd Hughes, Hobart Bosworth and Tully Marshall is spectacular melodrama with the big scene built about a burning ship at sea. Some wild animals are used with telling-effect. Os course this fire scene'makes the picture. I understand that it is the real article. It looks real anyway. /This picture is v ell acted and directed. • The story causes me lo think of ‘ White Cargo,” because it is concerned with white human driftwood in an Oriental setting. Some scenes are a little too realistic for me. Want to call your attention to a film oddity. "Spartan Sports,” which is an improvement upon the slow action camera. Don’t miss this novelty. At the Circle all week. -I- -I- -I----ON VIEW AT COLONIAL ONE OF NATION'S BEST IS One of the nation’s best photoplays—that’s "Drusilla With a Millien.” When the history of the American movie industry is written, I am sure that “Drusilla” will be included in the list of the very best pic-

tures ever made. Because of its simplicity, Jts charm, the human acting of Mary Carr, Priscilla Boner, Keneth Harlan and the greatest lot of babies ever assembled in a movie studio. "Drusilla With a Million” will be a picture to be remembered. This picture got right into my heart, my brain and my eyes when I saw “Drusilla." Here is a sure

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way to reach your heart. It will make. life a happier and a more thoughtful place. More movies, of tHis type (some will call it sentimental hokum) and the film industry would never be attacked by cen~sors and thoughless others. 6uch pictures prove to me that the producers are finding themselves and are giving* us really big human entertainment. “Drusilla” is an Associated Arts Production and is released by F. B. O. In making and releasing th.s picture, the men' concerned

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in it have turned to the right and the public will follow. Mary Carr made her great entry to fame in “Over The Hill” and in "Drusilla,” as the charity inmate of an Old Ladies' Home, Miss Carr indicts herself as one of the most human as well as one of the greatest characteA, women before the public today. Hpr "Drusilla” is not just a pitiful old woman. It is a human being lifted out of an- aged Pollyanna existence by a will. With a cold million, Drusilla does not go hunting a Remo but adopts all the abandoned children she could find. It Is this living quality of human characterization that makes "Drusilla” a picture that the nation may be proud of and attend without fear. There is another unfortunate in this story which will demand about as much attention as Drusilla and that is Sally May Ferris, placed by Priscilla Bonner. This young woman does ■ work along the lines of Lillian Gish at her best. Even in overdrawn, situations, Miss Bonner is such fine showman that she rises to great dramatic heights of suspense Suspense— what this picture has nothing but. If the cot rt room scene doesn’t make you sit on the edge of your seat becaus£ of the suspense, then I a.m no judge of pictures'. Here is the most human thing 1 have encountered foe many years. I have placed "Drusilla” in my own Hall of Fame along with "The Covered Wagon.” “He Who Gets Slapped,” “The Last Laugh" and "The Birth of a Nation.” The cast of “Drusilla” is as follows Drusilla Doane • Mary Carr Sallv May Ferri* Pnerilla Bonne* Collin Arnold Kenneth Harlan Elias Arnod Henry- Barrows John Thornton William Humphreys Daphne Thornton Claire T Ju Bray Let me urge you to see “Drusilla" at the Colonial all this week. CALUNG ATTENTION TO ‘SUN-UP’ HERE There is lot of stiff,movie competition this wtek. Asa stage play "Sun-Up” was so powerful that it caused many people to sit up and take notice. It deals with the Carolina Hills. The chief character is a strange woman who breathes hate into the soul of her son. She is “agin the law” and everything that smacks of order. Here is a big and unnatural mother role. In the hands of Lucille Laverne the character becomes so real that it caused me to sit on the edge of my seat so I would not miss any of the glorious work. To some people "S>un-Up” may be too slow because It does move slowly but I plead with you to get into the spirit of the story and relish the work of Lucille ‘Laverne. Great acting is not contained in every picture hut you will see some of the best-dramatic work of the past ten years in “Sun-Up.” "Sun-Up” is a story of hate, concerning a mother of the Carolina Hills “who sought to make a murderer out of her own son. But the son was a big American. H went to the world war and came home a big man. He did clefin, up t-te neighborhood but not with the pjatol. He his fists and then put hik victim in jail for more punishment. This womaji dominates right up to the end of the picture, and yet we see her losing ground all the time with her own boy. She Is'a poor loser but the woman In her makeup at last causes her to surrender. “Sun-Up" at times is pitiful realism, and at that it is a dramatic triumph. I ask sail of us to study this picture. It may move too slow ■at times, but do study the fine work contributed by Conrad Nagle. Pauline Starke and Lucille Laverne. They seem to be the characters they play. Here is a picture that many people wKI pass up this week in the rush of many movie events. Here is a worth while dramatic picture. It is not pleasant at times, but it is powerful, natural drama. The bill includes “Educating Buster.” a news reel, and music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. I know that "Sun-Up” will increase the public for better dramatic photoplays. * At the Apollo all week. -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: "Mother’s Millions," at English’s: "Pepper Girls.” at the Broadway; Fred Thompson in "The Wild Bull’s Lair," at the Isis; Boob Snjalzried and his rube quartet, at the Lyric, and Toby and his company, at the Palace. 1 SLATED ON SIX CHARGES Police Arrest Auto Driver After AllNight Search. j Joe Ford, living on the west side, was arrested early Sunday after an all-night search, ( Ford is alleged to have stolen an automobile from in front of 540 Fletcher Ave. He was slated on charges of drunkenness, vehicle tak ing, grand larceny, operating a motor vehicle under influence of liquor, blind tiger and transporting. TRUCK BOOM NOTED Bm Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 17. Truck business is on the boom in Anderson. Nearly 2,000 license plates have been issued, a record.

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im MEN AND WOMAN SOUGHT \ Trainer Robbed of Money and Greyhound. A blonde, bobbed-haired Jjandit and her two male accomplices who heldup Bert Thatcher, Erlangeib Ky., and robbed him of S2O and a greyhound valued at $250 on the JS'aUonal Rd., ttvo miles east of Greenfield, Ind., Sunday, was being sought by police today. Thatcher, a dog trainer for Dr. E. N. Bennett,- of Kokomo, Ind., was en route to Erlanger to enter several dogs in a race. A colored man. posing as an officer. attempted to hold up Misses Margaret and Maries Holloway, of 715 Lafayette St. Several homes' and business places were entered during the week end. Those reported: Standard Oil filling station. Tenth St. and Senate Ave., entered and ransacked; tires and gasoline, S6O, irom garage of Mrs. Helen Eastman. 4535 Central Ave.; Hubert Powell, 1140 W. Thirty-Seventh St., $4.20; .F. L. Came. 6255 College Ave., cut glass and jewelry, SIOO. ROAD FIGHT LOOMS Garj" Men to See Jackson on Dunes Highway By Times Special GARY, Ind., Atrip. 17. —Business men and motor club officials today were planning to see Governor Jackson, who is spending his vacation in the Dunes, and seek his aid in forcing the State highway commission to eompletfe the Dunes highway. Action was spurred by the announcement by John D. Williams, director of the commission that completion of the highway had been postponed indefinitely.

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Camp Ida Wineman Active

Girls at Camp Wineman playing water balL

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— I ITTEN ball vies with water ball as a favorite pastime at Camp Ida Wineman on White River north of Broad Ripple,' where forty boys and girls

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are enjoying health-building vacation for" two weeks through the generosity of those who contributed last year to the Indianapolis Community Chest. *

‘SAMARITAN’ ATTACKED Motorist Gives Three Men Ride— Beaten. Search is being made for three men who attacked Fred Johnson of Acton, Ind., after he offered them an auto ride -Sit East and Washington Sts., early Sunday. No attempt was made to rob him, he said. Burglars obtained clothing, jewelry and money valued at S7OO after ransacking the home of M. H. Olson, 1246 W. Thirty-Fifth St., and William Hughes, 4025 N. Meridian St., early Sunday. Pickpockets obtained S3O from Miss Pauline McAtee, 516 N. Rural St., and sl4 from Mrs. Ferns King, 307 N. Senate Ave., Saturday. MANY SEE BEAUTIES -Great Crowd Attends Sunday Review At Broad Ripple Parks James M. Makin, president of Broad Ripple park, today said 20,385 persons witnessed the bathing beauty review. Sunday, hreaking all attendance records. Judges made preliminary’ selections of the winners which will be announced Saturday night at the park. A motion picture will be shown and winners presented. JESSE JAMES HELD "There’s nothing in a name,” but Jesse James, 20, of 1242 Nordyke Ave., is held today on a vehicle taking hcarge. James was arrested by Traffic Policeman Michael Long ®ter it is alleged James attempted to steal an auto from the Union Station early Sunday. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Aug. IT. —Deputy Sheriff David Moses, colored, was ’near death today from gunshot wounds, received when he was fired on while standing "in front of a restaurant. He is believed to have been shot by bootleggers.

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