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He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.—Prov. 29-1. ' A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge as a stubborn temper to happiness.—Southey. Delay Only in Oil Case “TILBERT B. FALL, charged with acceptz*. ing a bribe, and the Edward L. Dohenys, senior and junior, charged with giving a bribe, have obtained a delay of judgment in their cases. The same is true of Harry F. Sinclair, * charged with conspiracy with Fall to defraud the Government in the Teapot Dome oil leases. That is all that results from the action of Federal District Judge MoCoy’s action yesterday in quashing the indictments against Fall, the Dohenys and Sinclair. A technical objection to the indictments made by attorneys for the accused men was held valid by the judge. Attorneys Roberts and Poinerene for the Government propose to test this ruling in the higher courts. If eventually the present indictments should be found proper the case will proceed to trial. If not Roberts and Poinerene will have to seek reindietments with little doubt in anybody s mind that they will obtain them free from the technical objections now raised. Eventually the story of the little black hag will be related. Eventually, for all their power and influence, these four men charged with one of the most, damnable crimes possible in a republic, must rest their case with a jury of their peers. ’ They have not been acquitted, they have not even been tried. Repeal the Gag Law (TTIUZZLED by Washington. Cotint Michael I** * I Karolyi, former president of the Hungarian post-war republic, is leaving the United States to go gack to a freer country—the England of George V. What irony! Leaving America, founded principally hv the subjects of England as a land where free worship, free thought, free speech and a free pen might he enjoyed, to return to England there to find a freedom denied him here! Secretary of State Hughes sought to justify the gagging of Karolyi by citing a forgotten and unrepealed wartime act permitting the control of the admission of aliens “if the President shall find that the public safety requires.” Not by the wildest stretch of the imagination could it be said that “the public safety” required the silencing of Karolyi. The department denies it, but we prefer to believe the gag was applied at the request of Admiral Von Horthv, recent of the Hungarian kingdom. Otherwise it was merely a stupid insult gratis to a foreign visitor. Some seventy-five years ago Daniel Webster invited to this country, and, with the President and Congress, wined and dined another Hungarian—a real revolutionist—Louis

RED PROFS

By M. E. Tracy

i. -| B believes In communism—|r“J| throw him out! Me may 1* know a great deal about chemistry, ov English literature, hut he mustn”, he permitted to teach them in a State-supported university. That is the way some of our Legislators reason it. General Electric officials took a different attitude toward Sieinmetz, who was a Socialist. We don’t care what, your politics are. they said, but show us how to make better use of electricity. Big business is wiser and more tolerant than statecraft, even if it lines get red in the face over a strike, or a soap-box orator, at times. Speaking of soap-box orators, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln and several other of our honored fathers said things that made orthodox hair stand on end in their day. Still, they didn't wreck the country. What did the old boys establish this republic for anyway, except liberty, and of what does liberty consist, except the right to think. I am not a Communist or a Socialist, but I am for the freedom of both, so long as they obey the law, conduct themselves peaceably and go no farther than argument. I am against any man, or group of men, that preaches violence, that employs strong-arm tactics to suppress, or discourage, other men’s right to think. 1 have always feared a State-con-trolled system of education, because of the possibility that it could be used, or abused, to perpetuate the State as is and be made the vehicle for crushing Intellectual development. Education Iff not a. matter of beliefs, yet It becomes such the moment we try to repress one belief lo make room for another. Patriotism through forced doctrines never worked, and never will. We merely sow the seeds of resentment when we tell men what books they shall not read, what theories they must not consider. •* There is nothing so repugnant to

Kossuth by name—until the protesting minister from imperial Hungary packed up his duds and left Washington in high dudgeon. “We’ll do what we please, say what we pleas* and entertain whom we please,” Webster told Hungary in effect. And that was that. “The papers in this case,” said Charles A. Beard, speaking before the Civil Liberties Union, “are in the State Department. A portrait of the immortal Webster hangs near by, and. as Wendell Phillips would say, I wonder that his beetling brow did not darken and his pictured lips did not rebuke the recreant Hughes pouring his patent disinfectant over the passport of the new Hungarian revolutionist.” We talk a lot about not departing from the ideals of “the founding fathers.” Why not act like we tajk? When Congress meets again one of the first things it should do is to repeal the forgotten wartime measure which serves as an excuse for the Karolyi gag and substitute therefor a plain, out-in-the-open law. Otherwise the mere whim of any State Department bureaucrat may again expose us to the scorn of free peoples everywhere Let’s Regulate Something JrTjUT in Nebraska they’re having a lot of 1 VJ| fun with “Bachelor John.” His full name is John W. Cooper. He’s a State senator and Omaha is his home town. Being chairman of the judiciary committee, he framed bills providing that there should hereafter be in Nebraska only one cause for divorce and that any home-buster of either sex should be put in jail. These two measures, known as the antidivorce hill and the anti-sheik-sheba bill, came up before the House and caused intense merriment. “I move an amendment,” said Monte Munn, bachelor representative of Lincoln. “Let every married man as well as every married woman be required to wear a wedding ring to protect the unattached.” “Unnecessary,” said Representative W. G. O’Gara, married. “Every married man bears distinguishing marks.” Another representative thought there ought to be an amendment providing that the sheik or sheba seut to jail should not be allowed to marry his or her affinity after the jail sentence was over. Others thought the affinity woul<J have been well-earned and deserved. The hardboiled O’Gara, above mentioned, said, “If he didn’t get her, his punishment would be too light.” Finally they voted the bills down, as they should have. Though they laugh at Bachelor John and tell him that’s what he gets for trying to regulate the home within from without, his bills are just another example of the craze for making people good by law. , Pretty soon we’ll have to curb this lawmaking disease. We may even have to pass a law against it.

the human mind as being forbidden to speculate with ideas. If a republic cannot stand the exhibition of Ideas In open daylight, it cannot stand at all. If our educational tenets and principles are so weak as to be threatened with a slight infiltration of radicalism, there is something woefully wrong with them. If we can’t combat anew doctrine successfully In debate and the open forum, we’d better think twice before blackjacking it with laws. Conscience By Hal Cochran I'm strong for the man who can hold his head high, and look every other man square in the eye; who fights for his rights and calls each sp&de a spado, and can honestly claim every penny he’s made. For he Is the fellow who knows how to grin, ’cause he fights his way out of the things he gets in. His road may be hard, but he plugs without fear and, when he has finished, his conscience is clear. No man can accuse him of being the cheat, who dodges his victims who pass on the street. He never has taken another man’s share, but rests on his own, ’cause he plays the game fair. , No better example for all of us lives. Consider the valuable tip that he gives. No matter how long or how tough is his grind, he hasn’t the worry of cheat on hlB mind. It pays a/ter all to treat every bian fair, and do just the things that you know on the square. You may fool your friends, but you’ll have to atone, for you’ll find that your conscience won’t let you alone. Jury Deputy Takes Office William H. Sheaffer, ’recently named Marion County grand Jury deputy to succor 1 Dan V. White, day took active sharge of his duties after receiving the oath of office from Albert H. Losche, county clerk, Friday .Jtemoon. White resigned when Governor Jackson named him special city judge. White will open his court April 15.

Tom Sims Says In the sprinp a young woman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of salads. And one might add, ir the spring

a young man's fancy lightly Iji rns away :’rom thoughts of anything. Love is something w h ich mares you sorry tnat you did kiss her or sorry that you didn’t kiss her. The only Issue decided in most arguments is who can argue the best.

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A foolish man is one who is kept from being foolish by the fear of what others would say. Nothing feels more disgusted at extreme vanity than a big foot in a little shoe. A straw hat seems to take up more room In a movie than an overcoat. When a man thinks a woman doesn’t understand him it usually is because she does understand him. Having to work is the only cure for those worries caused by not having to work. Picnics are dangerous. Opening sardines and pickle bottles may Instil the desire to become a safeblower. Keep your eyes op the stars and the world will trample on your toes. A lavender hat on a grown man makes us wish we were young enough to throw rocks again. A legislator may grow purple In the face with anger, but you never see one speechless. Le: your little boy play In the dirt ard he may be a divorce case lawyer when he grows up. (Copyright, J®26, NEA Service, Ina)

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Sprmg Concert Season Is Ushered in by Series of Events Planned by Teachers

fp "I TUDKNTS erf the Metropolitan IU I ycho °l of Music will Rive a L —I recital and play “When the Sun Stayed in Bed,” at the school next Saturday afternoon, April 11, at 3 o’clock. The program is open to the public free of charge. It will be given by Claranella Coulter, Luclle Woody, Rosalie Hayes, Martha Hill. Winifred Clara Holman, Paul Wells. Maryella Julian. Mary Alice Gillium. Helen Miller. Beulah Doblin, Margaret Mattingly, Pearl Stockdale, Dorothy Ringer, Eugene Kerr, Jane Crabb, Dorothy Oatewood, i Ramona Wilson, Marjorie Carr, Vincent Haines. Josephine Smith. Dorothy Lawrence, Priscilla Pittlnger. In the cast of the play will be Blanche Wilson, Pauline Klingensmith, Emily Mae Johnson. Helen Seybold, Josephine Wilson, Jeannette Solotken, Mae Floyd Sinex, Ruth Crall, Mary Elizabeth Hindel, Louise Calvelage and Mildred Falender. • • • WHITEMAN TALKS ON VALLE OF JAZZ MUSIC I How jazz has become America’s musical message to the world Is told officially in statistics recently released by the United States Department of Commerce. These figures, together with records from London, Palis and Vienna now available, show that American music is exported to every country of the world. Indeed, according to a representative of the English Music publishing firm of Francis, Day and Hunter, who was recently in New York City, eighty per cent of all the music sold in Europe today is of American origin. This is the reverse of the situation that formerly held, for less than five years

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA Bv GAYLORD NELSON

THE SACRED PARTY LABEL mUDGE WALTER G. WALKER of the Elkhart <lnd.) city court was elected four years ago on the Democratic ticket. Yesterday he filed for the

same office on the Republican ticket. In explanation of his change of political complexion, he declared he could no longer remain a member of the Democratic party because he had become convinced that a high protective tarifT is needed. What lias the protective tariff

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got to do with dispensing justice from the municipal bench of Elkhart? It has no more real bear ing on the administration of city affairs than the Einstein theory or the nebular hypothesis. Yet. because he’ has espoused the sacred cause of high protection and abandoned the equally sacred principle of free trade, hundreds of citizens of Elkhart will be Influenced to vote for or against him. They won’t consider his record and fitness for the place, but his party label. City politicians bitterly oppose any system of municipal government that ‘ abolishes party labels. Why? Because the Impulse to “vote her straight" is the source of their power. They dread a nonpartisan election, for that requires voters to exercise Judgment, not prejudice. Party label may mean something in State and national elections. In city affairs it is aa useless as a vermiform appendix—except to politicians. SHINGLE ROOFS AND FIRES WEEK ago Indianapolis was proclaimed grand winw—l ner in the 1024 national fire waste contest conducted by the United States Chamber of Commerce. The award, off course, gratified fire department officials. But they haven’t had time to admire and fondle It. All this week they have been kept on the run answering alarms until their tongues hang out. Thirty-nine fires occurred in a period of twenty-four hours. Practically all of ftiem caused by sparks from residence alighting on dry shingle roofs. Os course these small blazes were inconsequential from a statistical standpoint, buk not to the property owners affected. It’s much nicer for the householder to have a root over his head than a fire department. Shingle roofs are notorious Are hazards. They have been responsible for many great conflagrations that have swept American cities. Consequently, many municipalities have banished them. Nevertheless, by Itself the dry wood shingle is an Inocuous creature. ‘ Only when teamed with a boisterous chimney and flying sparks does it chase families from breakfast tables and insurance policies from cover. To remove the morning chill from family altars a furnace fire is desirable at this time of the year. However, a householder who builds a quick, large fire, that spews sparks over the neighborhood. is more likely to take the roof off domestic gods than the chill. WHAT FIXES” WAGES? rrriß. OUS W. DYER, profes- ' Ijl sor of economics at VunderI bilt University, speaking in Caleb Mills Thursday night, dlfcou raged- constant agitationfor increased pay. He

ago England was still keeping the American music market supplied with ballads and Vienna with dance music. Today, the ballad market has slumped and the Viennese waltz has been supplanted even on home soil by the Yankee fox trot. The Orient, South America, Mexico and Australia clamor for jazz. “Jazz is the only international music,’’ declares Paul Whiteman, orchestra leader, who will play here with his orchestra on Sunday afternoon and evening, April 19, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises in the Murat Theatre. “For many years Europe ignored all our attempts at art. Now we have given them jazz, at first despised at home hut now respected everywhere. It is the basis of some of the best compositions of Stravinsky and Milhaud.” • • • CRAMER TO GIVE PIANO RECITAL On Sundtiy, April 5, at 4 p. m., a concert will be given in the Sculpture Court of The John Herron Art Institute through the courtesy of Boniar Cramer, pianist, of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, who will give a program of four numbers.* Cramer was a pupil Pettis Pipe for three years, and also studied with Josef Shevinne. For two consecutive years he won the Juilliard Scholarship. The program follows: "Tocatta and Fugue." D minor Rach-Tauig II •'Bonata." Op. 53 iTlie Waldsteinl.. Beethoven Allegro con brio. Introduzioue. Rondo 111 "Impromptu.” F nharp Chopin "Etude," Op. 25 No. 3. ....... . .Chopin

are fixed by the law of supply and demand, not by employers. “You people who clamor for more money, do not offer to pay twice what the grocer asks for potatoes?" he queried. Perhaps it is all wrong: but if a worker does not clamor individually, and in organized groups, for higher wages the old law supply and demand has a habit of whizzing past without noticing him. Theoretically, of course, it determines the price of every commodity from horny hands to diamonds. However. It is seldom permitted to operate unrestricted. Human cupidity prods it.\ If a man controls the world's potato crop he kicks the law downstairs and charges for his product all the traffic will bear. , That's not scientific but natural. So with the worker. If he can get more than the market value for his commodity—labor—by aggressive efforts he feels that he ts a shrewd trader. If his employer can hire him for less than market value he does so without any qualms. Wages may be fixed by the law 1 of supply and demand —but only after that law has been scuffed up by collision with human nature. INDIANA BEES' ARE BUSY I RANK N. WALLACE, S*ate entomologist, reports that —1 8.00U.000 pounds of honey was produced by Indiana bees in 1924. That was approximately 1,000.000 (tounds more than the previous year. As this honey was marketed at 25 cents a pound and better, evidently Indiana bees do something besides loaf in the shade and cuss the Government. They are producers. Ifoosier farmers, in increasing numbers, treat them as friends, not enemies One bee Inserted between the farmer’s neck-band and his person may raise only bumps and blasphemy, but a few colonies of bees inserted in the orchard will raise the mortgage. Probably nothing better illustrates the present agricultural trend than the growth of beekeeping on Hoosier farms. Time was when every farmer dreamed of possessing a thousand fat acres of corn or whe> t or radishes or Canada thistles. Asa result of this one-crop frame of mind he usually experienced one season of plenty then seven years of famine when he starved and his debts fattened. Recent years have witnessed an increasing diversification. . The farmer who raises a little of everything and keeps a bee or two doesn’t get rich as corn prices in lucky yegrs nor go broke as quickly In bad seasons. In agriculture as elsewhere the difference between profit and loss is the byproducts. Danville Banker Dies Bu United Pre.ee DANVILLE. 111., April 4.—Ernest X. I^eseure,son-in-law of “Uncle" Joe Cannon, former speaker of the National House of Representatives, died here last night from heart attack. Leseure, 61, was a hanker. His wife and two daughters survive.

Meetings Here Monday Building managers. Luncheon. Lincoln. Delta Opsilon. Luncheon, Washington. C. P. A.'s. Luncheon, Lincoln. Phi Gamma Delta. Luncheon. C. of C. Scientech Club. Luncheon. C. of C. Service Club. Luncheon. Lincoln. i .■ . •• ■ i- .

"Etude." Op. 25 No. 5 Chopin "Scherzo.” C sharp minor Chopin IV "Serenade” Strauae-Bachaur “Bird-Son*" Palmgreu "Seguidilla” Albeniz "Etude cn forme de Val*e"... .Saint-Saene • • * TWO CONCERTS ARE TO BE GIVEN AT COLLEGE The Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present the following students in a recital in the col lege auditorium on Saturday afternoon, April 4. at 2:30: John Fowler, Dorothy Anderson, Floyd Howery, Dorothy Dona via, Floyd Bertram, Mary Pauline Phillips, Grace Potter, Herman Slutzki. Harold Worth, Martha Dean Lesher, Faye Miller, Pauline Elizabeth Slener, Marthabel Geisler, Robert Howard and Faye Boles. The above are pupils of Mrs. I.aura Craig Poland. Miss May Gorsueh, Herbert Smith, Mrs. Wilson Todd, Miss Pauline Roes, Miss Gladys Loucks, Evan Georgieflf, L R. Street and Ferdinand Schaefer. The Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present the following students in a recital on Monday night, April 6 at 8:16, in the college auditorium: lona Lamb, Pauline Becker. Louise Duncan, Mary Virginii Wallace, Geraldine Miles, Paul Fink, L. B. Van Arsdall, Norma .1. Mueller, Barbara. Pfeffer, Ted Bailey, Louise Danner, Katherine Zimmerscheld, Fred Baer and Thelma Rubusli. The above are pupils of Miss Eleanora Beauchamp, Bomar Cramer. L. R. Street, Mrs. Frances Johnson, Fred Jeffry, Glenn F*riermood, Mrs. Wilson Todd and Ferdinand Schaefer. COMBINED ORCHESTRAS TO GIVE A RECITAL A recital of the combined orchestras of the Indiana Central University and Olive Kiler’s students, assisted by Lois Brown Dorsett, soprano, head of music department of the Indiana Central University, will be given next Thursday night at Caleb Mills Hall. It will be repeated Friday night at the university. Oliver Kiler will conduct. Program follows: "Unfinished Symphony” (Fir*t Movement ) Schubert Orchestra "La Gitana” Kreiser Paulwirtli Waldo "Seventh Concerto" (First Movement) Pe Beriot Sara Katherine Him-hman Orchestral Accompaniment Brass Trio—"Oh That We Two Were Maying" J Nevin Paul Arbogast. Esther Parker. Don Klinger "Deep River” Colcridge-Taylor Iris Carroll "Tambourine Chinoia” Kreisler Helen Phippa "Dance Suite ’ TschalkofT lai "Pekoe Dance" (bt "Sambo's Holiday ’ (c) "Valse Russe" (dt “Cossack Revel*" Orchestra "Ballade et Polonaise" Vieuxtemps Muriel Wagner Orchestral Accompaniment (a) “Love and Music.” from "Tosca" Puccini (b) "Howdy Do. Mis' Springtime”. .Gulon Lot* Brown Dorsett "First Concerto” (First Movement) , . De Beriot Roberta Trent Orchestral Accompaniment "Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahma Orchestra • • • ANOTHER STirDENT RECITAL ARRANGED ■Miss Margaret E. Delameter and Miss Cecelia Weaver of the Irvington School of Music will present their pupils in "The Witch of Harmony Hill," a costume affair, *at

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On Thursday night, April 16, at Caleb Mills Hall the City Walther League will present Leon Sampaixn in a piano recital.

the Irvington Masonic Temple, Tuesday night. Those taking part will bo Bobby Vestal, David Robertson, Mary Hafer, Dorothy Wehelerman, Helen Rasener, Marion Reed, Edith Overtrees, Marie Emith, Marjory Watkins, Margaret Harrison, Reginald Holmes, Martha Jackson, Bernadine Beck. Frederick Kershner, Martha Heininger, Helen Heininger, Lillian Moore, Vernon Beck, Betty Mann, Paul Bell, Iris Boyd. Stanley Johnson. Beatrice Miller, Emm alee Thomas, Carline Smith, Mary Nuding and Gilberta Haid. SPRING CONCERT TO BE GIVEN BY BIG CHOIR The spring concert of the Mendelssohn Choir will be given Monday evening April 27 at Caleb Mills Hall. This is the seventh year of this organization. The choir is under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen. The assisting artist form this concert will be Marguerite D’Alvnrez, famous Peruvian mezzo contralto, a singer of international fame. Mile. D’Alvarez, whose father 'was ambassador from Peru to the Court of St. James, has a Parisian mother. Her coming with the Mendelssonians is her first appearance in this city. She will sing a program of songs and operatic arias and will also sing the solo part with) one of the choral numbers to be sung by the choir. Over 125 trained voices will appear in the concert under Steffen’s direction. Paul Mathews will he the accompanist for the choral numbers which are not to he sung a cappella.. Mrs. S. K. Ruick will be the accompanist for Mile. D’Alvarez. • • • Maria Carreras, pianist, will make her first Indianapolis appearance in recital at the Academy of Music Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. She will be presented by the Indianapolis Maennerchor. A joint recital will be given by Mildred Hulls, pianist .and Rudolph Reiners, violinist, at Hollenbeck Hall on April 6.

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