Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bn*. Mgr. Member of the Rerlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA Set-vice • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Published dally except Sunday oy Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214 220 W. Maryland St., Tndinxapolli • * • Subscription Rate*: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. K'sevbere —Twelve Cent* a Week. • * • PHONE—MA In 3500.

According to your faith be it unto you.—Matt. 9:29. Faith loves to lean on time’s destroying arm.—Holmes. . THE NEW COOLIDGE EHE inaugural address of President Coolidge is by far and away the most important public pronouncement emanatng from Washington sinue President Wilson left the White louse. Once and for all and with studied emphasis, the President las broken with the “isolationists” of his party. Henceforth, if le can have his way, the Untied States will cooperate with the ‘est of the world—will lead il, in sact —toward lasting peace. “We cannot live to ourselves alone,” said he, in the very irst paragraph of his speech from the Capitol steps. And that lecame his text as he preached a sermon on the duty of this stulendously rich and powerful country to march toward world reconstruction shoulder to shoulder with the rest of mankind. Normally, such addresses give only a few lines of foreign ■clatious. Fully half of President Coolidge ’3 4,000-word adiress was devoted to that subject. “Where great principles are involve 1” he declared, ‘where great movements are under way which promise much r or the welfare of humanity by reason of the very fact that nany other nations have given such movements their actual support, we ought not to withhold our own sanction because of my small and inessential difference.” Thus while no one expects the present administration actuilly to join the League of Nations, the President says, as plain as plain, that America’s cooperation with other nations will not je asked in vain, if he can help it. when matters of vital con>em to the world generally are at stake. “It is not the name of the action, but the result of the ac;ion, which is the chief concern,” he said. And, he added, he loped we would engage in no “sophistries and subterfuges to irgue away the undoubted duty of this country by reason of he might of its members, the power of its resources and its portion of leadership in the world ... to bear its full share >f the responsibility of a candid f i disinterested attempt at tiie jstablisbmcnt of a tribunal for the administration of even-hand-:d justice between nation and nation.” He would have uS have a military force “intensely moduli, capable of defense by sea and laid, beneath the surface and n the air,” but he also hopes to see us join the World Court and vork for “a reign not of force but of law, not by battle but by •eason.” Attempts in this direction, even though they fail, he lays, are better than no attempt at all. We see nothing of political bigotry in the President’s inauglral address. On the other hand there is much to show that he, nore than any other in high place since Wilson, has a real conxeption of America’s duty, as the earth’s greatest and most influrntial lower, to take, and use for good, the leadership which Grod has put in oiir hands.

LONG FIGHT WON IONGRESSMAN CLYDE KELLY of Pittsburgh has just __demonstrated that the old adage, “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” is as good as evefr. And several million aostal employes throughout the country today agree with him. Kelly stuck to his fight for increased wages for underpaid postal employes and, retroactive to Jan. 1, every mail carrier md every mail clerk in the United States will get an average increase of $25 a month. When their pay raise finally became a law, after traveling Dver as hard a road as any legislation ever journeyed, discouraged postal employes could hardly belieye it was true. Telegrams, letters and flowers deluged their champion on Capitol um. , When Kelly first came 1 to Congress twelve years ago he began specializing on postoffice affairs. Soon he realized the average postal employe was underpaid. He introduced a bill for nore money, but the Postoffice Department did not agree with aim, and the project lost out. In December, 1923, Kelly reintroduced his bill. This time Congress passed it with but nine negative votes. Then, just aefore adjournment, the President vetoed it because Congress had failed to provide means of raising the additional funds to meet the increase. More vicissitudes, now in the Senate, now in the House, ivelly wrote a revenue raising rheasure, to which he attached the aay bill. This bill passed the House, only to be refused by the Senate, which insisted upon its own measure, raising approximately $20,000,000 less revenue. Th 6 measure finally went to'conference, where, after a fight, he Pittsburgher’s bill was adopted with hardly a change. It pays to stick to it, Kelly says.

Ask The Times jk and Toti can get an answer to any quesof fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bursau. 1322 New York Ave., WAshInr'.on. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stanps for reply. Medical, legal and nurtfal advice cannot be given, nor <i\ extended research be undertaken. A.U other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot Ual—-Editor let,lfir * BXI6 Coll * lJan * How nany States are represented in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol and how many statu os has each one? Twenty-nil \e States have so far ilaoed statues of their famous sons n Statuary Hall, twenty-one of these laving selected both representatives o which they are entitled. How many churches, ministers Id members are there In the Bapk, churches of the United States? The last Issue of the Year Book the churches gives 62,051 urch.ee, 62,316 ministers and B,* 8,448 members. Where is the largest clock in :he world? The one erected by Colgate A Cos., t Jersey City. The diameter of he face Is fifty feet and the dial Is isible far cut In New York harbor. Tie designer of -.he clock was Axbur F. Gordon. Do you know of anything that could be safely used In removing rust and scale from pipes? There i* no safe and effective jeans of removing this chemically. l

work would Injure the pipe if proper care was not used and would be Injurious to the user. Soda ash is sometimes used but la not recommended. Mechanical removal is the safest. What is meant by a “private subscription dance?” A dance held by an organization to raise money, tickets being sold, each one of which admits one couple. It is private in the sense that the guests are limited to the friends and acquaintances of the members of the organization giving the danoe. What is the salary of, the American Ambassadors to France, Belgium and England? $17,500 per annum. Is it true that warts are induced by handling toads? No. This is a superstition that arose probably from the' fact that toads backs are covered with nodules that look like warts, and also from the fact that, when handled, they exclude a mucous substance th£.t was supposed to be poisonous. Who was ‘‘Bloody Mary** In English history? The daughter of Henry VIII and elder half sister of Queen Elizabeth. She earned the title on account of the persecutions she carried on against the Protestants. It is said that 200 persons were burned to death in het;

AYS TEN BILLION DOLLARS OF U. S. WASTE CAN BE SAVED

Useless Expenditure Costly to Every Person in Nation, BY LARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON. March s.—America 1* facing & menace more than bolshevism or any of the other bogeys which have been held up for our awed consideration. It Is the menace of waste. Yet of the amount wasted in the United States each year at least ten billion dollars could easily be saved. This la the statement of Ray M. Hudson, the country's head waste eliminator. * Hudson's official title Is chief of the simplified practice division, United States Bureau of Standards. His organization is the Government's combat unit assigned to fighting the aforementioned menace. Here’s how he describes lt war operations: , ‘‘The waste menace Is so deeprooted that it is levying a constant tax on every man, woman and child in the United States. The tax Is placed upon us In the form of costs of articles In every-day use—costs which are passed on to us by the manufacturers Ifind distributors. “A report made by eighteen leading Industrial engineers of the country to Secretary of Commerce Hoover states that In six major Industries the waste of material, time and effort averages 50 per cent! Simplification Method "It Is this same report that declares ten billion dollars of the present waste could be recovered. "One of the methods now being used In an effort, to curb this huge loss Is simplification. This means the study of an Industry, of the variety of every-day goods If offers, of the demand for the Items. The sequel to this Is the presentation of such facts to the producers, distributors and consumers to enable them to weed out the dead wood. "Experience has shown that 80 per cent of the demand In the average Industry Is for but 20 per cent of the variety of goods. In other words, the manufacturer produces 80 per cent of his variety of goods to satisfy a 20 per cent demand—and he passes the extra cost on to the majority consumers. “The cooperative method of bringing producers, distributors and consumers to act Jointly for the interest of all Is the common sense way of correcting this condition. Already It has saved millions of dollars, and, übder a competitive system. such saving must be passed on to the ultimate consumer. Waste In Building "To Illustrate how the system has worked take the case of a man building a home. Where there were formerly thirty-nine variations In the size of face brick and forty-four sizes of common brick, there Is now but one size of each. "Hollow building tile was formerly made In thirty-nine sizes. Now It Is made in nineteen. Metal lath was formerly sold In 125 sizes. Now there are only twenty-four. “The variety of Items of yard lumber has been reduced 60 per cent, and the home builder now knows for the first time how thick a standard board is. "These reductions are of Immediate Influence on the work of the architect and the contractor as well as' the building material dealer. "These examples are but a few of many. 'More and more of the firms which have had a part In this form of waste reduction are emphasizing It in their advertising. "And as the movement goes on It will become more and more apparent to the consumer that he can help to make his own burden lighter by using his purchasing power to indorse goods which have been-simplified. "When he does that a great part of the waste tax will be removed—and the waste menaoe will be stopped In lta tracks.”

Tom Sims Says Congress* deficiency bills remind us of the woman who wrote a check to cover the t amount she was overdrawn a t of England quit Bmoklng. does n’t care general demanded airplanes, But they gave SIMS him the air Instead. News from Spain. The Spaniards are getting rough. Football is taking the place of bullfights over there. General Wood’s son made a fortune in Wall Street. Now he’s broke and In trouble. A fortune was his misfortune. The paper says a movie star Is better. We say that’s good. We need some better movie stars. Atlantic City news. Drunk sentenced to buy his wife anew hat. That would stop a lot of men from drinking. Better worry over theso European troubles now. Soon be entirely too warm to worry over anything. About 20,000 new laws will be before State -Legislatures this year, there being no law against Introducing them. t Bad Illinois news. Four men on a railroad track. One had a Jug.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA ■■ By GAYLORD NELSON

THE GAS TAX GOES UP SHE House yesterday passed the Sherwood bill raising the State gasoline tax from 2 to 3 cents a gallon. The measure Is expected to be given fav' able reception In the Senate. The bill provides that 2 cents of the levy shall go to the State high-

way department, % cent to counties, and % cent to cities and towns. Perhaps that’s equitable, but about all some towns will get is a good sized tip—not enough for roads. In this State the gasoline toll has been the fair-haired child of the tax family. It’s effective without tortur-

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lng neurotit taxpayers verging on collapse from other governmental exactions. In the public mind gasoline tax and good roads have become synonymous. And as there is an Insistent demand In the State for ;he latter the former has been borne by road users with eojianimlty. However, a tax scheme is easily ridden t > dea th. A Just tax when the rate Income tilgh yields de--creased as the Federal Government has demonstrated with Income and Inheritance taxes. ' Whether the Scent gas tax will run head-on Into the law of diminishing returns and malm Itself, or will yield the fat, easy revenue expected, remains to be seen. Raising it may be putting the hatchet to the neck of the that lay* golden eggs.

CROSSING SAFETY OR DAMAGES? G*' ROVER HAWKINS and daughter were killed on Thanksgiving day, and four others of the family were Injured, when the automobile In which they were riding wu demolished by an interurban near Maywood. It was Just a grade-crossing accident. For a day it was news, then was forgotten by the public. Tuesday an echo of that tragedy was heard in Superior Court. Five suit# for damages, aggregating 183,500, were filed on behalf of the family, against the tracUon line. Another suit for SIO,OOO is yet to be died. Quite Ukely, even if damages are awarded, the amounts will be much less than the rotund flgurts claimed. Nevertheless, any awards together with the legal expenses Incurred by the defendant company would go a long way toward making that particular crossing safe. In court there is an echo of every crossing tragedy in which the victim does not, beyond shadow of doubt, maliciously commit suicide. Transportation oompanles are constantly fighting claims arising from such accidents. The cost Is a regular item of their operating expenses, on which rates are based. So, in the final analysis, the public pays for every crossing accident The promotion of safety at grade crossings deeply concerns the public. It’s more than a matter of Individual lives. Reduction in the number of crossing accidents will save the public real money. INTERURBANS SHOW DEFICIT BHE Union Traction Company, according to the President’s annual report to stockholders Tueeaday, shows a deficit of $419,682.92 for 1924 operations. The previous year It earned a surplus of $73,336.29. In a year the net revenues of this company shrank nearly; $500,000. Passenger traffic decreased about 12 per cent. This large, once-prosper-ous corporation closed the year with a receivership. A few days ago a receiver was appoin l .ed for another traction line in the northern part of the State. Other lines are tottering on the brink. Genti&l business may enjoy increased prosperity and perceive a bright future, but electric interur-

In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, March s.—This city is an immense museum of human curios. The pageant of clowns, tragedians, gargoyles and masques moves unceasingly. Stop at the side of the road and watch them pass. Occasionally you'll find a smile in the spectacle, but more often it will be a tear. There’s Subway Joe who lives day upon day In the gloomy recesses of the subway, occasionally riding from one end of the line to the other, but usually slinking around several of the Brooklyn stations, sleeping on newspappers at night and eating peanuts and confections for meals. The last time the police took him in charge he said he had not been out of the subway for four Weeks. They call him “Jesus,” e man who is to be seen In the Forties Just off Fifth Ave. He is a man of great learning. Yet he never wears anew suit, always taking the castoff garments of another. He wears a beard and long hair such as the limners gave to Jesui. The last time I saw him was on a bitter cold day and his heels showed red through his shat i y shoes. Sam Is the only name I know for him. He la a little man with a high forehead and gentle manners. With dustpan and brush he goes about the lobby of one of the biggest hotels, Cleaning up rubbish. And lam told that his Investments are so great engage an fXpert ac-

bans can see nothing before them but the valley of the shadow. Os course they blame good roads, private automobiles and public motor carriers. Probably they are right. But that competition can’t be removed by garrulous complaint; it must be fought. That they realize this Is indicated by several recent Incidents. Weekend excursion rates have again appeared. This may lure back lost customers. Also a bill was passed by the Senate the other day authorizing electric railway companies to own and operate motor transportation companies. Traction .lines are too Important to Junk —yet. If they adjust themselves to changed conditions there’s still a place for them In the transportation field. Interurbans aren’t really dead, but some of them have swooned. PORKER BECOMES ARISTOCRAT EIVE HOGS brought $13.75 a hundredweight in the Indianapolis market yesterday. The price has advanced almost one dollar In the past week and is at a higher level than It has been since 1920. The humble porker has become a real aristocrat. An opulent checkbook Is required now to entice him from the butcher-shop to the family table. Though this ipward sweep of pork prices brings no Joy to city housewives hog-raisers should be gleeful. For them once more "pigs is pigs” Instead of Inclpler t fc-mlne and bankruptcy. The tendency of prices of all farm products Is upward. Wheat recently hit the celling and broke Into the headlines. It still hovers around the $2-per-bushel mark, and other grains tyave risen In sympathy. Perhaps the farmer, who was so completely.deflated as to be wellntgh erased. Is about to find the path to normalcy. AH signs point In that direction. The Blue < Valley Creamery Institute states that the average Marlon County farmer’s Income In 1924 was $1,768. That compares favorably with 1919—one of the two peak years for agriculture—when the average Indiana farmer's Income was $1,834. The Sixty-Eighth Congress that died yesterday unloved, unhonored and unsung discussed farm relief—a question that has agitated Congress for several years—hut accomplished nothing. Meanwhile agricultural conditions slowly and steadily Improve. Economics, not legislation, is curing them.

All Dressed Up, but Nowhere to Go

By N. D. COCHRAN. UR language is full of washedout words—words that by usage and a general acceptance of new meaning have lost their original significance so that there Is no common meaning in them. Two words that started out with a definite meaning and have lost It almost entirely are the words Republican and Democrat. Whatever they meant In the early days when our forefathers were building this republic, this democratic republic, nobody knows what either of them means today. Roughly, so far as .politics goes, we are divided Into Republicans and Democrats, yet all of us believe In democracy and would fight to save our republic. If you spell the words

Speaking of Opium

By M. E.' TRACY PTUM Is an oriental product 0 and mainly consumed by orlL~J ent&is. It Is measurably the drug of the Mohammedan world. It was carried to India by the Mohammedan lnvaslop of that country which took place several centuries 8 gO, , The Mogul empire encouraged and monopolized Its production. When Clive conquered India, the opium trade had already been unified and forced on China. The British , government simply continued a time-honored program. It did this, however, more to pacify India than for any other reason. In the beginning, opium was forced on China, though never without the connivance of many of her high officials. Afterward, China became the biggest producer of oplutn, and still Is. At present, China does not Import Play By HAL, COCHRAN What do you mean when you solemnly say, "I guess that I’m getting old”? I’ll bet you’ve forgotten the secret of play, if the story were truthfully told. You can’t limp around In an old easy chair and spend all your time Just a fretting} If that’s what you do—well, It seems only fair that the age ache’s the thing you are getting. Too often we fall at Just facing the truth ’cause It’s easy to loaf life away. We know that there still Is a calling of youth if we’d only get pep up and play. Real vigor and vim will keep people In trim, though a great many years have “been tolled. When you let such things halt, well. It’s Just your own fault If you have to admit that you’re old. Come on there, young fellow, dbn’t simply be yellow, but put up an age fight that’s real. If you’ll , learn how to play, you’ll agree, when I say, that you're only as old

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Reader Questions Assembly Legality

To the Editor of The Times: t “ | ERMIT me, a citizen, to sugP I gest to you, to your readers I * I and to the sitting* members of the General Assembly in particular, what may seem to all of you who read the following questions, to say that they state a negative answer In each Instance: 1. Has Indiana a de Jure constitutional Legislature? 2. Was Indiana constitutionally redistricted for Senators and Representatives In 19217 The conclusions of facts follow: Based upon the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court In a parallel case apportioning the State Into legislative districts, as affecting

without a capital letter every mother’s son of us would claim to be both a republican and a democrat. Both words have a meaning when the capital R and D are not used, but when we use the capitals We might as well call half of us Blues aqd the other half Greens: for the names of the two old parties have no more meaning than the names of race horses or sleeping cars. Let’s see. In the United States Senate Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania calls himself a Republican, and Senator Underwood of Alabama a Democrat. Senator Norris of Nebraska is called a Republican and Senator Wheeler of Montana a Democrat. Yet there 1# no more difference between the Republlcaism of Pepper and the Republicanism of

more than a sixth or a seventh of the opium she consumes. Her annual crop is said to amount to more than 200,000 tons. We think we get quite a bit of it In this country, but as a matter of fact we only get a small fraction. Our 100,000 or more addicts represent a demand which Is Infinitesimal compared to that of the Chinese hordes. The problem of suppressing the opium trade Is obviously an oriental problem, especially If the mispressing Is to be based on curtailment of production, as the so-called American plan contemplates. Theoretically sound though such a plan may be. It has Its drawbacks. Who Is going into China and destroy the poppy fields? Who la going to make 400,000,000 people drop a habit and forget an appetite to which they have’ become wedded? If the formerly strong government of China could make no headway against opium, what can be expected of the existing wreck? The Ideal of exterminating the opium trade Is most commendable, but there are facts to be considered. The British attitude, had as it may be, is not the only or perhaps the most Important fact. It Is In China that the poppies grow, and China Is not only a big. Inscrutable place, but at present, It Is In political chaos. If western nations do not move carefully, they will leave a worse mess than they found. Money Well Spent The development of our waterways has been an established policy of the Government over a long period of time. We began years and year.i auo to' develop the rivers of the country, and every dollar that has been expended along those lines has been money well spent*— Senator Fernald (R.), Maine. Why Folks Quarrel So long as man Is governed by the j wholesome desire for gain, whether as manager or worker, differences of opinion over working conditions or compensation for service or over.ryjjyasrig

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certain named counties and groups of counties, reported and cited in 162 Ind. 668, and therein further citing many other decisions In what are known as the gerrymander cases, it would appear that the past and present Legislatures are de facto assemblies only. Said affirmatlvey decision, supra. Is emphasized by the finding and record of the Hancock Circuit Court ddring the March term, 1922, In an action therein to test the constitutionality of the current apportionment acts of 1921, under which the pretended legislatures of 1923 and 1925 were elected, then and still a mooted constitutional doubt, and wherein said court found both the

Norrls than there is between the Republicanism of Pepper and the Democracy of Underwood. On one side of center aisle in the Senate sit Republicans and on the other Democrats; yet you have all' the variations of Republicanism as represented by Pepper, Norris. Johnson of California, Brookhart of lowa, Moses of {lew Hampshire and La Follette of Wisconsin; and all the varieties of Democrats, as Walsh of Montana, Underwood \of Alabama, Dill of Washington, Fletcher of Florida, Robinson of Arkansas, and Wheeler of Montana. All Colors Present Instead of whites on one side and blacks on the other, you And reds, bluer, greens, yellows', purples and pinks scattered all over the floor. They say they are Republicans or i Democrats, but it doesn’t mean anyI thing. There are radicals, conservatives and progressives on both sides of the aisle, but when you get down to actual analysis the conservatives are in the big majority on both sides, with mighty feW liberals on either. The word Progressive once had a meaning, but .it isn’t easy to define its meaning How that It, too, is spelled with a capital P. It has a progressive meaning in some things, but a conservative meaning in others. It certainly hasn’t much, of a liberal meaning. If there were a real alignment of conservatives and liberals most of the so-called Progressives would be found on the conservative side. That’s because the so-called Progressive States are really conservative, as distinguished from liberal. For More Government In other words there is no liberal party in this country. All of them are paternalistic and favor more rather than less government. Each section of the country wants govern- , mental aid In some manner through legislation. None id over-enthusiastic in its Interest In the constitutional rights of the individual citizen. In that respect the party of the Solid South and Thomas Jefferaon is more reactionary than either of the others, and there is more liberalism In the party of avowed conservatism and Alexander Hamilton than In either the Democrats of the South or the Progressives of the West. The Puritan disposition to make people good by law and force Is rampant among all the three parties. If this were not iVue it wouldn’t be so easy to make police regulations a part of the Constitution. And until there is 1 liberal party that really stands for the Constitution as amended by the bill of rights all efforts to attract the 50 per cent of voters who don't go to the polls will probably fall. The liberals of the republic aJe all dressed up, but nowhere to go. NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Tmurself —All Model* No Red Tepe, New Centre] Station LINCOLN GARAGE hr::;

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senatorial and representative districts as therein devised and constituted as absolutely unconstitutional and void, and said court then and there peremptorily enjoined the several election officials of, Hanook County from proceedin gto hold the election for a Senator and Representative from said county in 1922, under said pretended act, but under a preceding unchallenged act, and not constitutionally repealed by the pretended act of 1921. Said decision was promptly appealed from said Hancock court to the Supreme Court, where It was pending until October, 1922, when It was dismissed and remanded to the court for technical reasons, but mainly political, where it has since laid dormant, but awaiting a merited awakening, which, owing to the increasing taxes as levied and reckless appropriations as made generally, as a taxpayer I think should be reopened or some other appropriate legal action taken to restrain the waste of the people’s money through the flood gates as opened by this defacto legislature and so lavishly paid out by the several State officials under the blind guidance of pretended laws, and unrestrained by law, as they axe. And while the unquestioned acts of a defacto official or body, are possibly legal until Judicially determined by a proper court, It Is to call the people’s attention to the above Indisputable facts, that this article Is penned, and from the confident belief that the # good people will act once the Impelling facts are 1 known and a possible remedy Is pointed out, I Invoke the reading of the Supreme Court decision In the 162 Indiana, In support of my contentions herein, and you will find that the legislature of 1921, attempted to do what the Supremfe Court said In the above cited case TOU CANNOT AND SHALL NOT DO, ROMERS FRANCIS STUART.

The Flappers WILL ADORE CONSTANCE TALMADGE in “Learning To Love” And So Will Everybody Else It Is Connie*s Latest, Funniest , Snappiest and That*s Saying a Lot — But With Six Leading Men and Each Leading Up to the Big Question “Learning To Love” Is Bound to Satisfy. “Learning To Love” Is the Best Picture Constance Talmadge Has Made Since—Well, We Can*t Remember When. It Is a Comedy That No One Should Miss. “Learning To Love” Will Delight You A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE STARTSSONDAY CIRCLE