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Young Mr. Nye Is Seated EAVING struggled with the legal and constitutional technicalities involved for four weeks, the United States Senate has admitted to its membership Gerald P. Nye, age 33, of North Dakota. The question of his right to a scat was one that was possible of opposite construction by men equally honest and equally intelligent. It involved determining whether or not a United States Senator is a “ State ” official. The United States Supreme Court has held that he is—and it also has held that he is not. The question is just that difficult. Forty-one Senators followed one opinion of the Supreme Court and thirty-nine Senators followed the other. Mr. Nye got his seat. It will be good news to the farmers of the middle West and Northwest. They want in the Senate as many members familiar with their troubles as they can have. Nye will be one more such. It will be good news to progressives generally. Nye, on his record, is one of their own. The Politics of It SOU probably are 'surprised at the apparent readiness of the President to withdraw from the position he assumed in his Chicago speech on farm relief. You note the news from Washington that the Administration is inclined to get in line with the demand of the corn belt voters for some kind of an export corporation that will hold up the price of corn. And you wonder if the President’s convictions are so lightly held that they can thus be upset in a week. Must be some kind of politics in it, you say —and you may be right. Here’s one thing, of a general nature: The farmers are joining with their demand for an export corporation a widespread protest against the present tariff. Give us what we want, they are saying, or we will vote the tariff out of existence. Which is enough to give the President or any other New Englander real concern. Here’s another thing, of a more particular nature: Senator Cummins, member of the Republican inside organization for many years, must run for re-election in about six months. Running for office in lowa right now would be rather precarious sport for anybody indors-
■■■ 1 " WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Paris Did Not Steal Furniture From Home of Menelaos
By Walter D. Hickman ■ .*INC’IENT scandal about Paris |/\| stealing Helen, the beautiful ll!i *1 wife of Menelaos, has been dug up again. Scandal? you ask. Helen in those ancient days had her views of what scandal really is. After Helen was returned to Sparta by her husband after many years of war, Helen took it upon herself to correct the “scandal” spread about by her own daughter, Hermione. Hermione was a "careful” daughter even in those ancient days, that is careful about some matters. So she invented “scandal" about her mother’s kidnaping. At thli time of day, it probably would not matter whether Helen went freely with Paris or that Paris dragged her away with some of the household furniture of Menelaos, husband of Helen, unless John Krskine's “The Private Life of Helen of Troy” had not jumped into the best selling class of the day. When Helen again had become ac- ' customed to her home after her excursion with Paris, Helen, according to Erskine. said to her daughter: "Hermione, T find certain scandalous rumors circulating about me here in Sparta. Perhaps you can explain them.” And Hermione could do some real explaining when she so desired. • Finally, Hermione said to her mother: "There's a legend that you deserted your husband and ran away with Paris to Troy. I first heard : of it right after you went.” Helen’s Scandal And Helen, according to Ershine, had her idea of what scandal really is, a.nd she said to her daughter: “But. that’s not scandal, that’s th,e truth.” Her daughter replied in very modern fashion: “If that’s not scandal, I don’t know what it is.” “I see you don’t,” said her mother. “In scandal there’s always some falsehood, something malicious and defamatory. Scandal, to my mind, is such a story as I heard yesterday afternoon from Charitas. She says T never was at Troy at all. Paris carried me off. against my will, and some valuable furniture, too, for good measure. The winds blew us to Egypt—you know the absurd tale? Well, that’s what I call scandal. What should I be doing In Egypt? And would I have gone off with Paris If he had been a thief?” And Hermione, probably believing that Paris was a furniture mover, answered, according to Erskine- ‘ The furniture was missing and you must admit, mother, Paris, was the natural one to blame since he —well, he did—what he did.” And in the course of her answer, Helen accuses her daughter of In-
ing'thc views of his pet enemy, Senator Brookhart. Brookhart, if unseated by the Senate at the end of the contest now being considered, is certain to run against Cummins. Unless there is a violent change of sentiment in the next six months it is conceded that Brookhart can beat Cummins. If Brookhart retains his seat, however. there are are other strong contenders of the Brookhart school that Cummins must defeat. So, unless the farmers are pacified, the Administration faces the loss of Cummins’ distinguished services. And, finally, one other particular thing: Frank 0. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois, whose political strength helped cause the deadlock in the Chicago convention that enabled Harding to be nominated, has again appeared on the horizon. He has been in constant touch with the farming population the past few years, speaking in many States and assisting the development of the co-operative movement. He stands as a threat to any man who wants the next Republican nomination. So, as said at the outset, you may be right. Something Else* mOHN D. ROCKEFELLER tells the boy who caddies for him how to get rich. According to the United Press, these are his injunctions: Don’t buy anything you don’t need; save your money; he punctual; form good habits'. Excellent rules, no doubt. But if you think it was four pinch-penny phrases like that that made Rockefeller the world’s richest man, you’re off your base. It takes genius to do wfiat Rockefeller, Ford, Gary, Mellon and the rest have done. If you have it you needn’t worry about those neat copybook maxims. And if you haven’t, they’ll never make you rich alone. Lucky Boy BOSTON millionaire, dying, left his son a huge fortune— but left also SI,OOO which, he provided, should he expended in giving the boy’s bride-to-be a course in domestic science, so that she could be a good cook. And, dispatches say, she is taking the course. There was a man who had an eye for his son’s marital happiness. Say what you will, the old saw still holds good. A man doesn’t head for the divorce court very readily if he gets his bacon and eggs the way-he likes them at home.
venting the scandal and remarks also: “Paris didn’t sieal me, as you were about to say, I was quite willing. But if he had stolen me, I'd prefer to think he would have had no margin of Interest left for the furniture.” And there you have some of the most delicious satire and conversation ever appearing in a modern book. Youth Is Youth Mr. Erskine in “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” discovers that youth is always youth and that beauty is always beauty. Here is a book of cyclonic wit, startling and sudden in its many passages. Not dull old stuff but the language of beauty and youth as spoken by the beautiful Helen. The Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis published* this Erskine book and in this weeks “New York Herald Tribune Books,” it is listed as second among the best sellers by Brentana as being among the best six sellers in demand during Christmas week. Here is a book that many people have phoned me about. I saved the review of this gorgeous piece of witty mental food until the holiday rush is over. It is not stale history but the smartest series of dialogues supposed to have been uttered by the characters of Homer. Am telling you that you will miss the smartest treat of many a season if you do not digest “The Private Life of Helen of Troy.”
THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran
The Past
Just stop and consider the things of the past and turn the thoughts over, right well, while they last. The tasks that you know you have slighted, when mass'd, the right Sort of tip for the future will cast. \ou can’t let the dead past just bury itself, with many unfinished things left on the shelf. The person who’s willing t,o have things that way. still lives in the past, as to labor, today. The job that you face, day by day, can be met if you'll tackle the thing, ’stead of stopping to fret. To start’s not the part that is right hard to do. It's the keepin’ on goin’, and carryin’ through. So, look to the past so's to sum up your faults, and say to yourself, "Here’s where foolishness halts. The past will not hinder my chance. Never more! I'll be set for what future is holding in store.”
David L. Chambers
One of the busiest men these days at the Bobbs-Merrill Company, is David L. Chambers, who took the desk vacated by Hewitt Howland when he became editor of Century. It is Chambers who meets the authors and says the word which pleases or does not please the many authors who submit their manuscripts to this publishing house.
Sometimes the next door neighbor wonders, “Am Ia bass or a baritone?” And the answer is “No!” - * * * It's pretty tough when young lovers can't make up because neither one of them remembers what they quarreled about. • * * Humanity's bromides: "Lowe my success to early rising."—"The only education I have had. etc.”—"l don’t know art, bus I know what I want.” • * * He raised his wife at bridge one night, And, though quite on the level. When friends had gone, she raised him back. But only raised the devil. • • • Man in phone booth: “gay, I’ve been waiting for a half Vtour for my party. Get a move on, please. I'd like to get a hold of some of you girls’ necks.” Central —“I’m ringing them.”
TiUfi UN DIAN AJFULitt I’JLAiUb
A Sermon for Today
Text: "Come, and let us return unto the lord.”—Hos. 6:1. "Back to God" was the keynote of a recent newspaper article by th 4 polic commissioner of New York City, discussing the question of how America’s crime problem was to be solved. “We must get back to religion,’* he said, “back to God, back to home and prayer, back to the old standards of living.” The same keynote was sounded by President Coolldge in an address recently delivered In Washington City. Our national security and prosperity, he said, depended upon the clearness and certitude of our religious faith. In one of his editorials of a few days ago Mr. Brisbane quoted a prominent bishop as saying that America was plunging into moral degradation and ruin. Not many of us perhaps feel that the conditions justify such pessimism. And yet It can scarcely be denied that we are facing an alarming uncertainty In the moral and spiritual life of the Nation. I We have been greatly concerned over the crime problem in America. We are told that crime Is still on the Increase in all parts of the country. A marked phase of this
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IN INDIANA
■By GAYLORD NELSON
A FAIR RETURN ( ■r-yi’TORNKY GENERAL. GILI LJOM told the public serv--I*7 Ice commission Tuesday, in oral argument before It, that present rates of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company are Insufficient to provide a fair return on the Investment. Current rates only give the company a return of 4.675 per cent, he said. The poor, poor telephone monopoly! Only 4.675 per cent return on its Investment. Certainly It Is entitled to rates that will give It a decent protlt. But what Is a fair return? The average retail hardware dealer’s net profit in 1924. according to figures given at \he recent National Hardware Association convention, was only .44 of 1 per cent. burvey of 545 individual groceries by the Harvard business research bureau'showed that their average net profit was one-ninth of 1 per cent. Other retail lines reveal equally low returns. A million storekeepers go broke and retire from the retail field every seven years on the average —beacuse of the small returns on their investments. No one proposes higher rates for them. A lot of merchants would like to be in the distressed telephone company's shoes and get 4.675 net profit. And better yet to crawl under the protecting wings of the public service commission and the , sympathetic Mr. Gllllom, to be regulated to insure a fair return.
EYE TESTS FOR DRIVERS FRANCIS P. BARR of I I Rochester, N. Y„ expert on ■- vision and its relation to accidents, in an address before the Indiana Association of Optometrists the otlfer night, said eye tests for motorists are an essential step in the reduction of trafflee accidents. “Between 4 and 5 per cent of the people are unable to distinguish colors,” he stated, “and are liable to drive past a red traffic signal and not know It.” Those of the color-blind fraction of the population apparently all drive autos in Indianapoliß—judging from the way our stop-and-go signals are ignored. There is sound argument for subjecting motor car drivers to vision tests—some cities have already adopted the plan. Locomotive engineers and other railroad men are frequently compelled to undergo eye tests as a matter of course, particularly for color-blindness. Whv not automobile drivers? A motor car can be as dangerous to life and Hmb as a locomotive. But colorblindness isn’t the chief visual defect that needs correction in the Interest of traffic safety. The drivers who won’t see their own speedometers are the worst menace. A speedometer that will reach out and pinch the driver's leg when he exceeds the legal speed limit will do more for safety than examination of his ability to distinguish red from green. KINGS OF A BUSTED KINGDOM mNDIANA corn kings, who recently carried off the prizes at the international show in Chicago, were honor guests at the banquet of the Indiana Corn -Growers’ Association at Purdue Monday night. There they were crowned. It was a brilliant coronation ceremony—but they are kings of a busted kingdom. Throughout the corn belt, particularly in lowa the premier corn producing State, banks are failing and farmers face financial ruin. Topping off five lean years this season’s huge corn crop won’t return agriculturists the cost of - production. Farm leaders, business organizations and economic experts have been aroused by the plight of the farmers. Governors of eight middle western States, Including Indiana, have been called to conference to consider the situation and Congress has been bombarded with appeals for relief. A movement to “eat more corn’* —corn pone, eornmeal mush, corn fritters, a corn syrup and corn sugar—is under way. An echo of the buy-a-bale-of-cotton propaganda just before the war. Certainly there is something radically wrong with this country’s economic structure when farming
-By Rev. John R. Gunn"
rising tide of criminality Is that youthful bandits are becoming more and more common. Almost every day we read In the public press of hold-ups and robberies committed by mere lads. This makes the situation all the more serious. And yet, for my part. I am not so much alarmed over this crime situation. It is a symptom and not the real disease. It is only one of many other symptoms of the same disease. Booze parties, petting parties, lascivious literature, the divorce evil, gambling and crookedness in business, are among the other symptoms. Then what is the disease? The police commissioner quoted above Indicated the nature of the disease In his plea for a return to God. So did President Coolldge In his plea for religious faith. Irreligion, irreverence for God, a materialized state of mind. Herein is the source of all the evils which are so menacing our security and peace as to create such widespread uneasiness and concern. If these evils are to be extirpated we must strike at their root source. We must get back to the Bible and God, hack to the church and religion, i “Return unto me, saith the Lord, and I will heal all thy backsliding*.” (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)
operations in the Middle West, the most fertile agricultural region of the continent, are a sure road to bankruptcy and the poorhouse. If the raisers of food go broke where does national prosperity get off? There’s something for Congress and economists to solve. The problem of the corn growers can't be solved by merely urging city folks to buy more corncob pipes and corn plasters. NO COUNCIL ATTORNEY SHE Indianapolis city council Monday night struck from its files Ordinance No. 1— proposing to create the position of attorney for the council at an annual salary of $3,000. So the scheme of a special council atterney dies abomln—and the council will wiggle through the year depending for legal advice on the existing city legal department. The action of the council in killing the proposal—whether it was the result of mature judgment or the limitations of the 1926 municipal budget—will please ordinary mine-run citizens. It may pain some plum seeker, but most people would regard employment of a special attorney for the council as an unnecessary luxury. However, such attorneys arc now quite the style. No governmental department, bureau or commission feels that It Is properly equipped to handle matters under Its jurisdiction unless it has Its own attorneys at its elbow. The school board, plan commission and such bodies, though usually having lawyers In their membership. regularly employ by the year outcide legal talent. Pe'haps it Is necessary because of fie growing complexity of governmental functions and the increasing Intricacies of the statutes. But it is a question if the govern-r-ent isn’t being lawed and attorneyed to death. Public business im t handled more satisfactorily ,n these days, when each public official has a special 'attorney at his elbow, than in the simpler days when he brought to his job only native ability and commonsense.
MR. FIXIT Street Light Investigation Arouses Hope of Citizens in ‘Dark Corners.’
Let Mr. Fijclt solve your trouble* with city officials. He Is The Time* ' rcpresenttalve at the city hall. Write hi ji at The Times. The board of works investigation of the street lighting contract evidently has aroused hopes of citizens for lights in other longdarkened localities. DEAR MR. FIXIT: .As you have done nobly in the past for citizens of thin end, am asking you to get a corner light at W. Sixteenth and Harding Sts. It would be a splendid place for some foot-pad to slap a (Person on the jaw with a club and relieve him of his meal ticket. H. H. G. The question will be taken up at once with the new board! of works. AVouM suggest, however, that you present a petition to the board, signed by as large a number of property owners as possible. The reader who complained of being charged for parking his car on Market St., should be.interested In a board of safety ruling Tuesday that all private policemen dress In olive drab to avoid being confused with regular policemen. NOW, HONESTLY— You think your friends believe everything you say when you’re talking about yourself. Klnda like you, doncha? It seems that way, when people hear you brag. All of us like to broadcast our good points, now and then. It’s human nature. But, don’t be too dem human. ’Tis far better to let the things that you DO, not say, advertise your good points. • • • Just a friendly tip to actors who are thinking of touring whatever country the ostrich comes from: an ostrich egg from two to four pounds.
Home Town Melody Maker Turns Out Hit While Dreamin’ of His Mother and Father
By Walter D. Hickman ONGS have to “get ripe” beIJs i fore they land and this VrT J happens to the most popular of song writers. Last summer, Russell Robinson rushed to Indianapolis his home town 'all heated up over his new song, “Tomorrow Mornln’.” The second he landed, Robinson called me and told me that his fingers were "hot” and that he had turned out a prize beauty in syncopated melody. I grabbed my hat and dashed madly out to the Robinson mansion on Mill Creek Blvd. (still in Indian* apolls), and prepared myself to hear his latest song baby. It was still a “baby," because the printed copies had not as yet been manufactured. But the song, the lyrics as well as the melody was there. Robinson played it time and again in as many fashions as possible. Even Mildred Harris was on hand to tease along the syncopated lyrics. It takes time to get a song In the air. Just now "Tomorrow Mornln’ ” is getting the recognition It deserves. Okeh has Just Issued two versions of Robinson’s song, “Tomorrow Mornln’.” Both are hot. If you want It for dancing, you will find It on an Okeh as a fox trot with chorus sung by Billy Jones. The Melody Sheika furnish the syncopation. And If. you want it as a singing novelty, you will find it on another Okeh, as done by Barnum and Bailey, two singers. Both records are splendid. laist summer, or early last fall, I predicted that this song would land. And It sure has. • • • CHANNING (LI B TO OPEN ITS OWN THEATER The Channing Club of All Souls Unitarian Church will, on Friday evening. Jan. 15, celebrate the opening of Its miniature theater with a seven-act vaudeville show and a farce-comedy entitled “The Radio Baby.” Besides furnishing all the talent from the ranks of its own membership the club Is credited with having painted the scenery and installed the lighting effects. The farce-comedy, written by an Indiana author will be produced for the first time. The cast of characters is as follows: Nancy Freeheart Jean Davis Martha Snoball I.ucllle Mcßae Mrs. Watkins Ellen Mac Lean Mrs. Teetera ~. .. Vlrignta Jobe* Mr. Doodles ...Arthur Maclean Miss Hlg-hbrow. . . Flora IJeber Detective Sherlock Darrell Sndyer Detective Holmes Everett Schmidt Mob leader Lillian Pond The vaudeville acts will include Lillian Pearson, Ellen Mac Lean, Jean Davis, Virginia Jobes, Arthur Mac Lean, Charles Ingersoll, Roger Teeguarden, Jack Garrison and Herbert Mac Lean. Fred Scott Is stage manager and Betsy Jane Green mistress of properties. •I- -I- -!- NOTED ORGANIST IN CONCERT TONIGHT The recent tours of Marcel Dupre, famous French organist, aroused
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Peggy Pavsin Among these present In "Dance Carnival of 1926,” at the Lyrio this week In Peggy Pavsin.
the American public as never before to the sensational wonders of the rare art of Improvisation, which Dupre’s gifts have brought to the highest possible pitch. It is not generally known, however, that improvising Is a general custom on the continent and a definite part of the training of musicians, and of organists In particular. This does not always take the same form —some organists make use of it in the church services to bridge the gaps In the ritual, others build up great symphonies on the Rpur of the mo ment on themes handed them, such as Dupre—and others, pi iter to improvise In more popular forms on themes already well known to the audience, folk songs, son-;j of the home, old familiar rnolo' 1 1 *s which bring up a train of'tender recollections and which can be followed with ease by the audience as the artist weaves it Into patterns of lovely tone. Such is the type of Improvisation which will be heard tonight at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church when Alfred Hollins, the great English organist, plays his recital In this city. Although schooled in the severer forms of musical composition, as are all well grounded musicians, Hollins prefers to make hip improvisations a sort of personal appeal to the music loving instincts of his audience. They are intermezzi in his programs—moments of melody, color and rhythm, tracing familiar lines, rather than great climaxes in his program. For that reason, when Hollins improvises, the audience becomse a part of the performance. The Johannesburg Star (South Africa) on the occasion of Hollins’ inauguration of the great
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Hown fcall organ there some years ago reported, “It Is difficult to speak of his marvelous extemporization ■* gifts without using what many seem extravagant expressions.” The Syd- I ney Morning Herald, after his Improvisation on the famous Australian organ, said, ‘‘The applause was so continuous that an encore was granted.” The Musicttl News of London, commenting upon his Improvisations before the Royal Col lege of Organists, said, “His extemporaneous performance upon a given theme more than justified his great reputation as an accomplished improvisatore.” Hollins has promised to Improvise at his recital In tills city. -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: Alma Nellson at Keith’s: "Desire Under The Elms” at English’s; "Leap 'Year” at the Palace; “infatuation” at the Circle; “His People” at the Colonial; “In China” at the Lyric. “The Eagle” at the Ohio; “The Splendid Crime” at the Apollo and “The Man from Red Gulch” at the Isis. Ask the Times You can ret an answer to any quee♦lonof fact or information by writ nr - :o The liicllat.i.oolia Time* Waehlmrton „ Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Wiiehfnrton D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents In et .mpa for truly. Medical. )ral ana marital edvlce cannot be (riyon. nor can extended research be undertaken. All other question* will receive a werfional reply. Unnlrned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. _____ "Why is the book of Job in the Biblo referred to as a drama? Because there are severnlr characters who speak In turn* These cycles of speeches are the nearest approach In Hebrew literature to our acts and scenes In a drama. Is the 'writer of "Silver Threads Among the Gold,” still living? Harriet Danks, the author of the song, died at tho ago of 82 in a rooming house In Brooklyn, N. Y. She had been prosperous In former years, but she and her husband, Who composed the music, became unhappy together and separated. He died In 1903 in a rooming house In Philadelphia with a copy of the song In his hands, op which ho had written “It’s hard to grow old alone." When was the first Diesel engine made? Can you tell me something concerning its inventor? The first Diesel engine was made in Germany and is patented there. The first engine of this type was at work in 1893 and at the Munich Exposition in 1898 various eypes were exhibited which attracted much attention. Rudolph Diesel, the Inventor, was born In Paris In 1858 of German parents. In September, 1913, he disappeared from a steam packet crossing from Antwerp to Harwich. NO further record of him is to be found. It is supposed he drowned at sea.