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Vol. 62.

Jasper, Indiana, Fbiday, MAY 14, 1920.

No. 49.

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LARRY SEM ON

Larry Semon, whose recent triumphs have Impelled reviewers to style him The New Comedy Kliu: has risen to that coveted place by Ion train

ing. Kuch stage in his career acted us a stopping stone to his great achieve

ment. IVrhnns he was born under a lucky planet. Anyway, he was ror

! tunnte enough to bo the son of an actor ami received an early training in ! manic, luecllnc and acrobatics. He mastered some of these arts before he

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father and became more efHclent in the nrt of entertaining.

Then followed the period in the newspaper business as cartoonist. Tills

developed his creative ability and prepared him to write his own comedies. It also taught 1dm to forsake the well beaten path and search in the byways

for new material. A cartoonist must be original.

Thus, Ijirry Semon Is perhaps the best qualified for the title of comedy fclnr. All of hit imst experiences can be utilized upon the screen He cun

rort to thrlllinc acrobatics where the average comedian is forced to use

iapaticks. He is also adept in training animals and has a cut, monkey and alz white mice that play dlfllcult roles In his comedies. During the three years previous to 1022, Albert K. Smith, president of TitQirronh hn nrreod to outlay J3.C00.000 on Larry Semon In the production

of 36 nw comedies. "The Grocery Clerk," which is something different from

the usual run of laugh makers, was the first film to be produced uncer the new contract. "Between the Acts," "Dew Drop Inn" and "The Head Walter" re some of Larry Semon'a comedies that stand out prominent as being in a cUm by themselves.

BOOKS AS MEDICINE

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Books are frcquerUly referred to as tools and as the key to the treasure trove of knowledge. The American Library Is daily demonstrating in Ü. S. Public .Health Service Hospitals that convalescent soldiers and sailors find returning health and increasing strength in good books.

FARM DUELLERS ASK FOR BOOKS Announcement of the "Books for Everybody" Movement Brings Letter Flood.

INFORMATIVE WORKS SOUGHT

Requests for Reading Matter Range From Volume on Drainage to Collins' "Book of the Stars."

VETEnAN OF AUTO RACE GAME ENTERS CAR IN DAREDEVIL DASH FOR $50,000

An automobile race without Barney Oldfield, the veteran, would be like a balloon race without the balloons, and although the racer "who never locked fcack" has retired from actual c:c :npeftition, he has this year, as la t, entered a car in the 500-mile international sweepstakes to bo held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. May Jll. Barney spends considerable time at the track before each race proomIn his car and pilot for the Ions grind, and on the day of the race is always a familiar figure about the track and at the pits.

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Iist year Oldfield entered Koscoe Barles, who created a sensation on coast tracks early last season, but was forced out of the Indianapolis aiTair early in the race with a broken .cam shaft. But he was amonjj the leaders while he was on the track.

01h:cld has rn yet named his pilot for this year's . r!:iK to the racing fans. However, the e:ir he has entered is an "Oldfuld Special," of 182 gubic inches piston displacement manufactured by Harry Miller, of Loa Angeles.

The announcement of the entrance of the America Library Association upon the "Books for Everybody" move

ment and still later news accounts of the activities of the organization along

these lines resulted in a widespread appeal from residents of the rural districts of the country for books on fann

ing. Whether the American fanner Is

simply evidencing his ambition to do

a good Job better or '-iiethcr the better

crops of his neighbor, who has attend

ed an agricultural college or school, has spurred him on )s n matter dlfllcult to determine. But the fact remains the farmer is asking for books. The great majority of American farmers aro either without libraries und book service or they are Inadequately served. One of the points which the American Library Association In Its "Books for Everybody" movement Is strongly urging Is the extension of the county library system In states where enabling acts have been passed some twentyone in number and the proper legation In others which have not yet taken the step. The system, withy its central library and radiating lines to stations In the remotest sections of the county, assures good books to every man, woman and child who cares to reach out a hand and grasp one. Letters Show Need of Service, The American Library Association Is not giving its entire attention to the urban dweller, nor Is it neglecting the centers of population for the rural dls trlcts and communities. It is, however unquestionably enger to create a steadj flow of informative rending to rural America. That the need for such service exists and that It Is anxiously sought Is evidenced In every letter of this nature received by state library commission and by the A. I- A. A feu excerpts have been selected heraus they seem to express most truly tin needs of thousands of others. When Lydia Curlson, whose fa nils beyond Mason, Wis., asked for cople of "Productive Farm Crops," "Pro ductlve Vegetable Growing" and "Prln clples of the Practice of Poultry Bals lng" she echoed the book needs of bei neighbors. Then she revealed the facl that her eyes are not always In the furrows by asking for a copy of Collins' "Book of the Stars What Others Desired. There was a pressing need behind the letter from James Dunn, who live? ten miles from Convent, La., the nearest town, which has a population of only r00 people. He asked for a copj of "Practical Farm Drainage." The task of keeping his acres dry was beyond him. Walter Williams of Osseo, Wis., wanted to know if he ceuld make fuel alcohol from frozen potatoes nd fro lied fruits and If. hc could, vre

there any books on the subject The requests run the whole range of farm operations. Some wish to know how to treat scale, others desire facts on hog raising. Books giving Information on crop rotation are In demand. The American Library Association Is raising a $2,000,000 fund to finance tho "Books for Everybody" movement which during the next three years will be carried on in co-operation with existing libraries and library agencies. The money Is not being raised through the medium of an Intensive drive but through the Individual efforts of the librarians, library trustees and friends of libraries.

$76,191,929 TO BE SPENT IN AMERICA

Northern Baptists Plan Huge Sum to Be Devoted to Schools and Colleges.

Although the Northern Baptist are planning practically to double the extent of their mission work in foreign fields during the next five years as a part of the New World Movement, more than three-quarters of the $100,000,000 they purpose raising In a campaign from April 25 to May 2 will be spent on this side of tho Atlnntlc The apportionment made shows $76V 101.021) will be spent in America. Including $:K),010,000 for Baptist schools mid colleges, and $2S,S0S.071 will be devoted to the foreign work of the de nomination for the tlve-year period. The amount allotted to both home iwid foreign work Is far In excess of any previous expenditure of the de nomination In a like period and the raising of the $100,000,000 within u single week Is regarded by the Northern Baptists as the greatest financial undertaking that they have ever entered upon. The $100,000,000 budget Includes orfly the general extension work of the denomination, generally classified as Mbenevolence." und does not Include the budgets "of the local churches. In 1018 the totsil estimated value of the church property of the churches Included In the Northern Baptist Convention was $114.817,:'.00. The amount raised that year for church ex pnses and benevolence was $17,331,f2. Of this amount S13.07S.0S2 was for expenses and $3.372,542 for benevolence. It will be seen that the $100,000,000 which the Baptists are to raise this iprta for their five-year program of bentrolence means that the largest pr ct tons annual contribution of the charch for that purpose will be multl piled nearly six-fold.

Some Frenchman wants to elevate the movies to the plane of the stage. What stage?

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Last Night's Dreams What They Mean

Notable Men in 34 States Lead Churches in $100,000,000 Drive.

IS TEST OF DENOMINATION.

New World Movement Gain Momentum When the Money Will Ox

The lengthening of the dajs brings to mind the daylight we soon may be able to save.

Little Is known about the youth of Croesus, but we suppose he waa a bond messenger. The high cost of summer clothes means folks are going to spend more time In swimming.

By LUPTON WILKINSON. The eyes of the Protestants everywhere will b- directed toward JJortlern BapttstJ between Sunday, April 25, and Sixadij, 21AJ 2. The 10,0? cfanthes constituting the Northern Baptist Coovntloa noted for Independence of action have fitted themselves with Iroo-clad unity Into a temporary but non the less powerful machine. Da May 2 the machine will cease tm exist, but ta th meantime It U expected to hav raised the imposing sum of $100,000,000. Leaders say that probably never before have the laymen and laywozaen of a denomination put their shoulders

more completely to the wheel In a religious undertaking. In each of 34 ttates some man of marked abQlty has given his entire time for the post two months to the buüdlng of a campaign organization that reaches Into every local church. The gtate dlrectsrc Include such men as ex -Gov er nor Runyon of New Jersey, Smith (i, Teung, financier, of Lansing Mich.; ex-Governor William W. Stlekney of Vermont and Dr. John W Bally, president of Colorado Women's College. Denver. The lay errant ration extends down into each of 10,G06 churches. D. a Shull of Sioux City. IxLt president of the Northern Baptist Convention, summed up its challenge as follows : "Those thousands of Baptists who learned the discipline and efficiency of planned campaigning while they were serving their country during the war can now apply that knowledge in the performance of the greatest task the. Baptist denomination has ever faced as a unit Thousands of others can bring their' talents for use in a drive that will combine modernity' of method with deep spiritual realization of a world In need. 8urely it can be said with all reverence that no greater crisis has confronted evangelical Christians since those early days when, after the As ct-nslon, a band of determined men set out on the Initial effort to make faith In the Master worldwide," The great momentum which the Xew World Movement of Northern Baptists has achieved is due to many men, but to those in touch with its progress two names stand out. Dr. John T. Alt ch I son,' director of the General Board ef Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention, a man of anosua) personal magnetism and winning character, has set the Important campaign conferences on fire In every section of the country. Standing shoulder to shoulder with him Is Dr. Frank W. Padelford. bead of the Baptist Board of Ed oration. Charged with tht administration of CS schools and col leges. Dr. Padelford nevertheless found time to write the survey cn which the approaching campaign Is based and Is aiding heavily In the actual drive. The task before us," Dr. AiteMson said in a recent interview, "will stand or fall by one test. Are our people strong enough in their faith and vision to forget the old measurement of church giving? If they will realize the Christian crisis which exists, If they will bear the cell of the whole world for help, and for the supreme soul-help of the Man of Galilee, there can be no possibility of holding back.Tbe proposed 5100.000.000 fund will be used for the expansion of forty Baptist schools and colleges in the United States: the enlarrexnent ef missionary

activities in all foreign fields of the de

nomination; Christian American! ration work among "new citizens' in the United States; an adequate pensioning fund for missionaries and ministers and Wndred purposes. Approximately three-fourths of the money will be spent in tjiis country.

DID YOU DREAM OF BEAUTYT

A CURIOUS fact brought to light by the study of dream psychology Is that, as a rule, the really great and profound sorrows of the day do not follow ns into the realm of sleep. In our dream of the night there Is always some experience or thoupht of the da preceding which sets the dream machinery going. It Is true. It may be something which has only incidentally been taken cognizance of by our waking consciousness and can only he traced back by a minute and careful analysis of the dream. Rut, as a rule, the great sorrow and anxiety of the day does not mingle with the dream emotions, say the scientists. This is explained on the theory that our emotions with regard to our great and real affliction have been so exhausted In our waking moments that they have not strength enough left to make themselves manifest amid the throng of other and less "used up" emotions which come trooping from their psychic lairs. IIow often," says Goethe, "have I fallen asleep In tears and beautiful forms and faces have come to give me peace and comfort In my dreams." The mystics seem to have realized

something of this long before the scientists discovered It; for they say that no matter what our waking fortune may be, to dream of beauty Is a most favorable omen. It means for the dreamer peace and plenty; success In his enterprises and the love of those dear to him. In this connection may bo mentioned tho theory of the scientists that dreams nro necessary mcr.:il relief; a sort of safety-valve to avoid the too high pressure of those unnumbered thoughts and emotions which have accumulated In the psychic "unconscious" and sire always seeing exprt s.sion. .:p-rlir:.t.)

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Comforts for Familie cf Men In Reformatory Named In 1920 Salvation Army Budget.

Tart of the $10.O0U,0u: Salvation Army home service fund which friends of the work of the Army uro plannlug to n.lce In t. natlon wido appeal May 10 to 20, ges to provide comfort for those to whom Justice demands that society should lend a helping hand -tho wives and children of prisoners of the state Institutions. Last Christmas the Army made survey of men in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville and finding that 135 men had wives and children, prepared immediately to send Christmas cheer to the prisoners families. A basket of goodies and gifts was mailed out from state headquarters to as many of the 13S as could be reached In this way, and the rest were sent checks covering the amount that had been spent in equipping the baskets. Letters of thankfulness poured In to Hrigadier Slmonson commander In charge of state headquarters, from tho unfortunate wives of the men confined In the reformatory. In several canes the Salvation Army basket was the only bit of cheer that entered the homes on Christmas day. "Names of every family helped In this way last year have been kept on nie in the state headquarters office, and efforts are made from tine to time to discover if further help is needed, and when the need Is there, the Army satisfies it' slated th lirigadler.

That .Spanish Olympic games team should win some of the sprint events, if memory la not at fault An authority says motion pictures don't hurt the eyes. o, lt'sjthe war tax that makes one blink:.

USES TELEGRAPH TO PREACH GOSPEL

PLAN LONG TRIPS TO SEE SPEEDWAY RACE That there will be a greater long distance attendance at the GOO-mile race on the Indianapolis motor speedway May 31 is indicated by reservations received from the far off Pacific and many oast coast cities as well. Tour managers are arranging parties to travel in special trains.

The telegraph preacher la tb unique title which has been girn ta Hanson of Managua, San Salvador. Tiamon won this title froza his us cf the telegraph wire to reach fellow Operator. Converted some years ago by an American Baptist woman miislonii Ramon became a railroad worker. He Is station agent at Managua. Ia the quiet hours ef the algM he sits down to his key and ticks of? gospel messages and an appeal which raaks other eperators ponder. He baa a record of msny conversions tarocja Ms unusual methods. wHU wife forcxrty ewner of three cantlnas or satooes, sold these because of her conversion. Rxttaiion ef werk in Sal Salvador and other Central American countries Is provided In the New Wertd Movcaent of Norths rn Baptists, which, between April 25 and May fi. will raba OOQtQQO to CLniQce Its mauy ncjJvttfYs,