Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrippe-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * • * Member of the Audit Bureau or Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Tep Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA in 3600.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print, freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. *

Taking Candy From a Child [■q“|oME people are pacifists. And some I I merely want peace. Pacifists object to armies and navies. They want us to disarm. The otheer great powers, would quickly follow our lead, they explain, and soon sweet fellowship would reign over the earth. The others, however, reply that there are times when it becomes necessary to fight for peace. So they plug for the national defense. To the pacifists we would say: Consider China. • • • China to all intents and purposes is disarmed. Yet she enjoys less of peace than any other nation in the world. China has had four major wars in as many years with at least a dozen lesser ones between provinces thrown in for cumshaw. China has a population of 400,000,000 — one-fourth the total population of the globe. And she is potentially probably the richest of nations. Yet Japan with a seventh, Britain with a ninth and France with a tenth her population, not only can lick her in her own front yard but have actually done it, each and severally, without provocation. Today everybody is boss in China but the Chinese. Foreign ringmasters crack the whip and the Chinese jump through the hoop. Du you imagine the Chinese have no resentment? They feel it about as keenly as you would. Do you think they would stand for it if they were adequately armed and knew how to use their strength? Not on your life! If you want to be treated like that, just disarm your country. • • • “Taking candy from a child.” You’ve heard the expression. Most individual adults have progressed beyond that stage. Nations have not. Among nations the candy is safe only if there is a guard about it strong enough, as the saying goes, to knock anybody who tries to take it for a goal. They are taking the candy away from China now. They would take it away from us if they thought they could get away with it.

How Wealthy Are We

Edito'fl Note: For many years Herbert Quirk, distinguished novelist and economist. had been a regular contributor to The Times. His death occurred Sunday. May 10. At that time he had completed several articles for this newspaper, one of which appears herewith. The others will appear from day to day. By Herbert Quick mN an editorial which the reader probably saw the other day it was stated that the national wealth of these United States has increased in the years since the war from 186 billion dollars to 320 billions. Whether your wealth and mine has almost doubled or not, It Is interesting to be assured that the United States as a nation has had this stupendous increase in wealth. What is wealth? It is well worth while to think of this. Wealth generally means well-being, prosperity. I do not believe that our national well-being and prosperity has almost doubled since the years before the World War. But when the statisticians announce that we have nearly iwice as much wealth rs a few years ago, they mean that we can make property statements showing that state of things. They mean wealth as economists define it. And the most generally accepted definition of wealth is our store of useful and agreeable things which have exchange value. Health is not wealth, In spite of the proverb; for it can not be exchanged. What Is Wealth? Wealth is our possessions in agreeable and useful things of certain kinds; those things which .involve labor and sacrifice In their getting, and which have exchange value—which can bo sold or traded off for other desirable things. This is the usual definition, but even this is faulty. Now what accounts for this huge growth in what the loose-thinking statisticians call "wealth?” You will find it consists in very large measure in the growth in value of monopolies of one sort or another. When a great motor car company is reorganized, and the stock doubled or trebled in amount, and a profit of millions and millions made by the promoters of the reorganization, there Is a great increase in value. But is it wealth? In the true sense it is not. Not a single machine has been added to the fac--tory. Its capacity remains the same. Not a single useful or even desirable thing has been produced by this issue of paper. Yet these figures go into such statements of our wealth as increasts. Values Are Artificial If the rai'ways, light companies, power companies and water companies were pernr itted at once to raise their rates freely, their stocks and bonds would, at once soar by billions of dollars. Huge increases would take place, but would they be Increases in wealth? No. They would be in large measure mere licenser, to

How Many Scientists? Yyy|HEN Mr. Bryan said there were only W about eleven thousand scientists in the country and rather contemptuously charged that they were trying to run all the rest of us, he was away off in his census. Astronomers in searching the heavens for the truth concerning the universe are scientists. Biologists in their search for the secrets of life are scientists. Physicians, surgeons, chemists, engineers, botanists, physicists and electrical, mining and mechanical experts —all these are scientists. But brush them all aside and get down to the vocation of the largest number of citizens --farming-—and you find they are scientists, too. Scientific methods are used to fight the boll weevil and many other pests that in the past have destroyed millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of food crops. And only through scientific research did we learn how to replenish impoverished soil with the right- fertilizer. Scientific-research helped man to fight yellow and typhoid fever, smallpox, diphtheria, diabetes and other diseases that took alarming toll of human life in the days of our ignorance. To the scientific mind we owe the wonders of electricity, of the internal combustion engine and of their many contributions to human comfort and convenience. To scientific minds we owe the sewing machine, the typewriter, the telegraph and telephone, electric light, the radio, the automobile, the steamship, the steam and electric railways, the airplane and all of the machinery that helps grow what we eat, fabricate what we wear and shelter us where we live and work. Humanity has passed through its stone, bronze, iron and steel ages; and through savagery, barbarianism and thq beginning of civilization It is now in the age of science. It doesn’t have to go back to the ignorance of savagery to hold on to religion. The more light it gets for its mind the easier humanity will find it to be both'scientific and truly religious. “They were nervous and their fingers twitched on the triggers,” said a bank robbery victim. We would prefer to be robbed by an experienced bandit any day.

steal. Yet they would go into our next statement of wealth increases. Avery large proportion of the in crease in values which are mistakenly called wealth Increases are land values in country and city and winter and summer resorts. But in so far as they are in mere land values, they are not wealth. They fire merely money expressions of the added power of some people to charge others of us for standing ground and working ground on the earth which God made for the children of men—not for some of them. They represent not a single dollar produced by the labor of those holding the lands. They would have taken place just the same if all the owners had gone to sleep. Much of the stock and bond issues of manufacturers Went up in price because we passed a tariff law shutting off foreign competition. But is this increased wealth? Not at all. It is no more wealth than was the value of the slaves in the South years ago. It is a fiscal expression of the power to exchange some wealth for more of other wealth than would have been possible if the law had not been passed. Those figures of the increase in our true wealth do not mean that we have increased in well-being and prosperity at all. We may or may not have done so. The f gures tell nothing about that. Hence they are fundamentally fraudulent. Learnin’ By Hal Cochran They’re choosin’ up sides on the old vacant lot. They’re plannin’ on baseball, no matter how hot. Keep out of the sun? Why, it’s all tommy rot. You did the same thing when a kid, like as not. Wee Willie admits he’s a pitcher supreme. He also admits he’s the head of the team. He’ll tell ya quite frankly he’s got lots of steam. When batters strike out, you should 1 see the kid beam. Three men likely face him each Inning; no more. His hurlin’ deprives them of chances to score. He’s baseball enthusiast down to the core. He knows what each move and each action is for. __ > But, say, let Wee Willie come up to the bat and, frankly, he doesn’t know where he is at. He swings very wild and his efforts fall flat. He shortly returns and"''sits down where he sat. “How come, Mister Pitcher?” I asked him one day. "When batting, your worth to your team fades away.” “I’m takin’ each thing,” he replied, "in its turn, and battin’s one thing that I’ve still got to learn.” The moral, I guess, Is, you’re smart, and not dumb, to take things and do theih up right, as they come.

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Upper—Thelma Peterson, graduate In dramatic art from the Meropolitan School of Music. Center Lorinda Cottingham, graduate from the violin departmen of the Metropolitan. Lower—Mildred Casey, graduate in public school music from the Metropolitan and Butler University. HOW WE DO BRAG "So you are from America. Do they build palaces there as high as they used to?” "Oh, yes. The last one they did, the workmen had to lie down to let the moon pass’”—Vikingen, Christiania.

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Tom Sims Says What’s become of the girl who could keep a fellow In love with her just by talking to him? There isn’t any law against a man who smokes carrying matches. A last year’s June bride tells us

she is using her fifth can opener! It’s easy to be popular with your friends. All you have to do is get rich first. The reason more people don’t stay at home is because they don’t feel at home there. Wo predict a very hard July. No man can cuss an income tax

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payment properly in hot weather. You can’t tell if a mari is working too hard or has a radio. The road to success ia fast becoming lined with advertising. If we came from monkeys we have picked up a lot of bad habits along the way. Summer makes some people stop missing booze and start missing beer. Days are longer now. It stays early much later. Fat men make the best salesmen becapse they are too lazy to get mad. A man who sells used cars would make a good fisherman or golfer. Two can live as cheaply as one until the first of the month. It Is easy to see why skirts are shorter again. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

“STOP” OR “SLOW” TRAFFIC SIGNS Gr— IREENSBURG (Ind.) city council neld one of its long- . est sessions the other night while debating whether traffic signs erected at dangerous crossings should read “stoß” or “slow.” The weighty question of statecraft was acrimoniously argued. Half of the council believed "slow" means nothing to drivers and "stop” means only to slow down. The other councilmen thought motorists would "slow” or "top” as the signs directed. Both factions were wrong. 0 To many automobile drivers traffic signs, no matter how worded, mean nothing at all. They don’t believe In signs, and conscientiously ignore them. They think they know better how to drive than an inanimate sign. "Stop, look, listen,” has been the painted appeal at railroad crossings for year®. Yet every day some heedless person flashes past the warning, without slackening speed, directly Into the path of a train. Others will drive across white lines on the pavement, past painted warnings, through safety gates and Pearly Gates. Highway authorities and traffic officials devote 'luch time and talent to perfecting safety rules and Installing safety devices on streets and highways Their efforts will never be more than partially successful until to every driver "slow” mean® slow and "stop" means stop. MORE ROOMS NEEDED C 1 ““"|HARUES L. BARRY, chairman of the finance commitI tee of the school board, stated recently that approximately $7,479,000, according to tentative estimates, will be required for the Indianapolis school budget for 1925-26. To raise that sum will take a tax rate over sl. Probably there will he much pruning and paring of estimates. The State tax commission, which gauged last year over a 96-cent school levy, might have apoplexy If confronted with a dollar levy. But tip. Indianapolis school system urgently needs 185 *o 200 more classrooms, or about twenty new buildings. During the pvst four years the school population has increased 1,500 a year over the capacity of new buildings provided. Each year the building program has fallen farther behind actual needs. Asa result present buildings are crowded from cellars to attics. Children overflow into halls, and Illy lighted, insanitary basements. The situation is an invitation to disaster. A brisk fire in one of the old congested grade schools might cause appalling loss of life. Other children are housed In ramshackle portables, which if maintained In a rural section of the State would be condemned by the State board of health. If the gap between classrooms needed and classrooms provided continues to widen year after year what will be the situation five years hence? To wipe out in one year the present shortage would require an additional 30-cent tax levy. It will cost money to provide needed new buildings. The taxpayer will be gouged. But If Indianapolis is to rehabilitate its school system and make It facilities adequate for the children of the city, a start must be made. The taxpayer might better be pinched now than completely annihilated farther up the creek. IF I WERE YOU "You have a bad tooth. I would nave It out If I were you!” "Sf would I— if I were you!"—Le Paris.

1 In New York By James W. Dean NEW YORK, June 13.—1 t Is noon. The human ants are swarming out of great honeycombed piles of brick, out of the darkness Into the soft sunlight. Pell-mell they rush to lunch counters and settle down before their food, enlarged insects devouring enlarged crumbs. Then the curbs are lined with them, basking in the sun’s warmth and comfortable with filled stomachs, looking at their watches and counting the minutes until they must return to the great brick anthills and resume the grind. There before a millinery shop are clustered female of the species, their stomachs not so full that their purses may be the fuller to purchase anew hat or some bright badge to set them off from their sisters In the throng. The age-old striving for Individuality, for petty distinction. And here in the corner is a cage of white mice. The cage spins around in a mad whirligig. Around and around it flies, the little white things, chasing each other to the end of the cage, only to find there is no end. Futility! Men and women press their faces to the window to watch the mice. They smile at the little fools in their cages, laugh at their futility. But here is one sharp-eyed, wrinkled little man In shabby clothes who does not laugh. He seems in a brown study as he peers into the window. With a sudden start he pulls out his watch and nudges the man next to him. They look at the watch and hurry away. Others glance at their watches, turn on their heels and walk away. Back they go to the piles of brick. White mice in a cage running on to an endless end. White men in their cases running their own treadmills, as unwitting as the little white mice. And so passes the noon hour for one to whom the New York looking glass reflects images of Insects and animals In the shape of huffians.

ONLY AN INDISCRETION cuting attorney of Sullivan County, is facing a charge of operating a gambling house, as a result of a raid on a picnic of an organization of which he is a member. Other prominent Sullivan men were also arrested. When the sheriff and a Federal prohibition agent swooped down on the picnic grounds a poker

game was running joyously. Thirty bottles of mule was confiscated. It was all very e m b arrassing, of course, to the picnickers. But their distress is over being caught. Probably they don’t feel guilty of any great moral turpitude they indulged In friendly poker and social drinking. Lady Luck

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and John Barleycorn are both sternly basined by statute. Flirting with either is a high crime, as grave an offense as slitting a throat or picking a pocket. But reputable citizens who wouldn't think of committing a larceny will bet a dime here and there or take a drink without a twinge of conscience. Until in public opinion the little home game and social nip become as morally reprehensible as professional gambling and a lusty blind tiger, gambling and prohibition laws will be enforced with difficulty. In the final analysis public opinion, net the statute, defines crime. AFTER THE HORSE IS STOLEN SHE hold-up of the Sixteenth St. Bank, Thursday morning maddened city authorities. They immediately under*, took' vigorous measures to prevent repetition of such outlawry. Police officers snugly ensconced in swivel chairs have been routed out. Police have been taken from special assignments, selling tickets, leading parades, watching ball games, and put to work on crooks. To each bank In the city a policeman has been detailed as guard with orders to "shoot ’em down without words.” All of which is locking the barn after the horse Is stolen. Doubtless a police guard at each bank will effectively cow pro-spective-bank robbers. But that is an emergency measure—justified only by the seriousness of the crisis. Policemen can not be permanently detailed as special guards of premises liable to bandit visitation. If so every barbecue stand and filling station in the city must have its policeman. The bandits who are preying on Indianapolis are local talent. They are not post-graduate crooks from Chicago, New York or London, who flit in here "pull a Job" and tilt out. They do not jump from Sunday school and lives of rectitude to banditry. They are the product of local poolrooms and joints, graduating from wayward youths to full-fledged crooks practically under the eyes of patrolmen on beat. ■ Chasing bandits after a crime Is thrilling, but it doesn't suppress banditry. Thorough acquaintance with the places where they breed and surveillance of all suspicious characters all the time Is more effective. The job requires a disciplined police force, efficiently handled, plugging away day In and day out, not spurred lnjo sudden spasms.

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Mrs. Max Leckner Will Present Pupils in Recital Friday at Public Library

O 1 r~~ ~N next Friday night in Cropsey auditorium at the Public v___ Library, Mrs. Max Leckner will present her pupils in recital. Miss Christine Houseman will be the accompanist. Program follows: ‘'Sextet”—"Lucia” (left hand) Leschetizky "March of the Dwarfs" Grteg Frank Schubert Prell, Anderson. Ind. Piano Pupil of Mrs. Leckner. Aria. “The Lord Is Risen" Sullivan "The Year's at the Spring" Beach Mrs. Donald Stackhouse. "Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses" Openshaw Jimmie Burrin. Advance. Ind. "Obstination" and Fontenailles "Elegy” Massenet Mrs. Walter Myers. "Aria Scene 11.. Nedda Pagliaeci".... Leoncavallo Miss Christine Houseman. Miss Eleanor Beauchamp at the Piano. "En Courant" Godard “Spinning Song'' Mendelssohn Miss Margaret NysWander, Mooresville. Ind. Piano Pupil of Mrs. Leckner. "Swiss Echo Song" Eckert Miss Lydia Bates. "For You Alone" Qeehl “My Riches" Innis Mias Ada Brown Smith. Mitchell. Ind. "I Know a Lovely Garden"... .d’Hardelot "Stolen Wings" Willeby Mrs. Francis B&rlet. “Die Lorelei” Liszt Mrs. Louise Seide Prell. Anderson. Ind. Franz Prell at the Piano. "Oh! Moon of My Delight" (Persian Song Cycle) Lehmann Mr. Raymond Ball. “Spring Song—Natoma ’ Herbert Miss Mary- Jane Walters. "Ah! Fors'eLul La Traviata" ... Verdi “The Wren ’ Benedict Mrs. Fred Siees. Lebanon. Ind. Mr. Richard Hoberg. Flutist. "Theme and variations" Chaminade "Waltz Brilliant Op. 34 No. I"....Chopin .Miss Helen Montgomery. Piano Pupil of Mrs. Leckner. “This Is the House That Jack Built" Homer “L’Oiseleur" Lehmann Mias Sara Lauter. "Strida La Vampa Trovatore" Verdi "Home to Our Mountains Trovatore" ." Verdi Miss Eleanor Honan. Lebanon. Ind. Mr. Raymond Ball. Tenor. “On Mighty Pens" Handel Miss Jane Clift. "My Lover He Comes on the Skii". . . Clough-Leighter "Ecstacy” Runimel Miss Jeanne Jackson. • • MRS. KANOUSE TO PRESENT HER PUPILS Mrs. Frank Kapouse will present her pupils In recital at her home, ?247 N. Rurau St., on Saturday afternoon, June 20. Those taking part will be Inez Buchanan, Evelyn Ellison, Waneita Kanouse, Ruth Lackey, Marian Newmler, Martha Fry, Margaret Armstrong, Monell Davis and Anna May Nevers. • • • MONDAY NIGHT CONCERT ANNOUNCED Helen Warrum Chappell will pre-. sent her pupils In recital at the Herron Art Institute on Monday night, June 15. Helen Smith Foltz will be at the piano. Program follows; “Chinese Nursery Rhyme" Crist Helen Warrum Chappell, l II “The Walnut Tree” Schumann Mies Gertrude Gutelius, Miss Raffaela. Miss Edna McQuilian. Miss Loretta Guedelholer. violinist. "Si pphic Ode" Brahms Mrs. Charles Davis “<3c Down. Moses" Burleigh Mr. Lewis Sxu.t “Beloved" Silberta Mrs. William R. Sieber “The Answer” Terry Mrs. Louis Traugott "Swiss Yodel" Folks Song Mr. A. A. Brooks “Chanson Proven ear' Del Aqua Miss Myrtle Freeman “H est doux" (Herodiadel .. . .Massenet Miss Gladys Whiteman “April" Milligan Miss Lois Anderson "Villanelle” Del Aqua Miss Margaret Brick “Night" Rachmaninoff Mrs. John W. Hutchings "Blackbird's Song" Cyril Soott Miss Mary McCarty Miss Marguerite McCarty, accompanist "My Caravan Has Rested’ Lohr Mrs. S. E. Fenstermaker "Amour viens aider" (Samson and Delila) Saine Saeua Miss Grace Rush "Polonaise” (Mignon) Thomas Mrs. Mildred Daugherty Entry "Scene from Martha” Flotow Martha Miss Mary Ann Porter Nancy Miss Raffaela Montani Sir Tristram Mr. Lewis Scott Chorus—Misses Anderson Freeman. Gutelius McQuillan. Rush. Meadamee Hutchings. Mead. Moon. Sieber. Schneider. Traugott. Warner. • * • NEW DEPARTMENTS FOR MUSIC COLLEGE Mrs. Henry Schurmann, who has been president of the Indiana Federation of Musld Clubs for the past several years; also John Reynolds, secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, have recently become members of the board of directors of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Two new departments have been opened In the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, namely, coaching for voice students of which Berta Milller Ruick will have charge, and a department In the Dunning system of improved muulc for beginners, conducted by Una Cflayson Tal-

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bot. Mrs. Talbot will also give private work as well as the class work. • • * MORE COMMENCEMENT EVENTS AT METROPOLITAN Commencement week at the Metropolitan School of Music will begin Monday evening with a recital by Marie Haworth, violinist, pupil of Hugh McOlbeny, assisted by Mrs. Dwight Ritter, soprano, pupil of Edward Nell. Tuesday evening Alma Miller Lentz, violinist, pupil of Hugh McGibeny, and Florence Keepers, pianist, pupil of Flora M. Hunter, will give a joint recital for graduation. Thursday evening Lorinda Cottingham, violinist, pupil of Hugh McGibeny, will play a recital, assisted by Miss Dorothy Ryker, soprano, 'pupil of Edward Nell. The public is invited. The following will be the program: Sonata in B minor Tartini Miss Cottinghem. Aria from "Romeo and Juliet"... Gounod Mias Ryker Second Concert in D minor. . .Wienlawekl - Mies Cottingham Ah. Love. But a Day Mr*. Beach Come and Trip It Carmichael Miss Ryker I.a Gitana Kreisler On Wings of Song .. . MendelMohn-Achron Caprice Vlennoia Kreisler Miss Cottingham Miss Frances Wishard and Mrs. John Kolmer will be the accompanists. For the annual thirtieth commencement, which will be held Friday evening June 19, Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood will give the address and present the diplomas. The following program will be given; Trio—Moderato. D Major Hayden Laura Docrllin Loyetto Guedelhofer Susan Woodbury Violin—Pantomine Mozart Rosary Nevin-Krelsler Tambourin Ramcau-Kreisler Martha Marie Hayworth Reading—Willamilla ....Booth Tarktnton Violin—Second Concerto in D Minor Finale ala Zingara Wieuiawski Lirmda Cottingham Trio—Allegro Scherzando. Op. 20...Gade LarghetL con moto Moder: to Florence Sherwood Marguerite 81110 Mary Lohrmaiui Violin—Sonata (Ist movement) .-Ctoessel Alma Miller Lentz Piano—Concerto. Op. 69 Hiller Andante Expressivo Alegro con fuoco FLORENCE MARTHA KEEPERS String Quartet Accompaniment Address and Presentation of Plplomas Henry Noble Sherwood All the events are open to the public free of charge. The graduates are: piano—Florence Martha Keepers, Laura Britelle Doerflin. Florence Sherwood. Violin —Lorinda Katherine Cottingham, Martha Marie Hayworth. Alma Miller Lentz. _ _ Dramatic* Art—Charlotte Brown Norma Justice. Thelma Elizabeth Peterson. Mildred George. , „ . „„. Certificates Public School Music—Mildred Morey Casey. Agnes Jean Holland. Myrtle Katbryne Klover. Certificates for Public School Muaio are presented by Butler University. • • • ANOTHER EVENT AT INDIANA COLLEGE The Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts presents Cole Watkins, pupil of Bomar Cramer, In a piano recital in the college auditorium on Monday evening, June 15, at 8:15. The public is cordially invited to atttend. The following program will be given by Mr. Watkins: “Toccata and Fugue. D Minor". . .... Bach-Tausig Capriccio. E Major" Searlatti-Tausig "Scherzo. E Major" Mendelssohn "Sphynx" Cyril Scott "Tango" Albenlz-Godowsky "Nocturne. G Minor" Chopin "Black Key Etude" '. Chopin "Etude. E Major" . Chopin "Novelette. E Major" Schumann • • • JOINT RECITAL TO BE GIVEN On Friday evening. June 19, a Joint recital will be given by Miss Martha Milliken and Miss Barbara Pffeffer. Miss Milliken will receive a teacher’s diploma in piano, and Miss Pffeffer will receive a certificate from the Dramatic Art Department of the Indiana College of Music and Arts. This recital will be held In the college auditorium and is open to the public. • • • PIANO RECITAL NEXJ TUESDAY The pupils of Naomi Gray will give a piano recital next Tuesday night at the Englewood Christian Church. The following will take part: Janet Baker, Margorie Money, Evelyn Greene, Henry Goebel, Lavon Rice, Jeraldean Brlzandine, Florence Jordan. Margaret Armstead, Marie Hart. Carrol Williams, Wendell MeKisslck, John Helman, Lois Williams, fcloiqe Carper. Dorothy Reich.

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Paul Rlndernect, Audron Duncan, Esther Trobaugh, James Hill, Marriet Llndeman, Roberta Fergus, James Brown, Raymond Noell, Melva Shull. Helen Donelson, Lucille McDonald, Doris Craig, Elizabeth Pringle, Helen and Robert Peacock, Opal Sullivan, William and Robert Lynch, Opal Neldigh, Sylvia Huffman, Harriet Trinkel and Bessie Blake. * • • VIOIJN RECITAL ON MONDAY NIGHT A violin recital will be given at the Nathan D. Davis Music Studios, 2237 Central Ave. on Monday night. Program follows: Trio—“Loinf I Think of Thee". . . . Kreb* Philip Kurtz, Mr*. F. B Kurtz. Dr. F. B. Kurtz "Reverie" Spaulding Richard Montieth ,‘Danoe of the Elves" Kearns ( . Burton Smith "To a Wild Rosa . . MoDowell-Hartmann Mary Sandy "La Cinquantaine" Gabricl-Marle Robert Chandler * "Humoresko" Dvorak Robert Simona "Poet and Nightingale" Oehm'er ''Away to the Woods'' Heins Laura Louise Metzger "Traumerei'' Schumann Frank Rrissner, Jr. “Serenada" Drdla Julius ’ Metz “Minuet in G" Beethoven Philip Kurtz "Concerto No. 7” (Ist move.) De Bariot Michell Levy “The Charmer" 800 Kurtz Trio e e e SENIOR PIANO RECITAL SCHEDULED The graduating class from the Academic department of Mrs. Lillian Carr Greene's private piano school will give a senior piano recital next Friday night at the studio, 1311 University Court. The class Includes Grace Buscher, Lois Dale, Ruth Shewmon and Ruth Young.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Waih- | lnton, D C. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other question* will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. For how long has the use of forks in eating been common? The common use of individual | table forks is European and comparatively modern. The Chinese and Japanese eat with chopsticks, pencilshaped objects that they hold in one hand and afield like a pair of tongs. The Greeks and the Romans ate with their fingers, as primitive and half-civilized peoples still do. During the periods of transition from fingers to forks, knives were used for eating as well as cutting and still are by the lower classes. According to the Italian priest and scholar Peter Damlani, who lived in the eleventh century, individual table forks were first Introduced into Venice by a Byzantine princess and from Venice spread through the rest of Italy. In F’ranoe, table forks appear for the first time in an inventory of Charles V dated 1379 and as late as the sixteenth century the court use of forks to eat with was satirized as a novelty. • In Frenoh and Scottish convents forks were forbidden as sinful. Into England forks are said to have been introduced by Thomas Coryate, who visited Italy in 1608 but as late as the revolution of 1688 few English noblemen owned more than a dozen. What kind of a fruit is & custard apple? This Is a common name in the West Indies and other tropical countries for several fruits of the genus Anona of the family Anonacaea. Some of the fruits of and this genus are among the most de- " liclous produced in tropical countries. The custard apple is & large dark-brown roundish fruit, sometimes from its size and appearance called "bullock’s heart." The tree is of considerable size. The custard apple family is represented in the United States (northern part) by the common papaw. To this genus also belongs the alligator apple. A number of species are now being grown to a small extent In southern Florida, and California.